7 Times Being Enormous Let Us Crush Our Enemies, Problems
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- RARGH! SMASH! These are the games that let us be absolutely massive for a brief and wonderful moment, letting us easily crush our enemies and our problems. Thanks, video games. 💪
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I love the way the Executioner just goes slack jawed and drops his scythe.
I don't blame him.
@@finnover9781 if he hadn't spent so long gawking he could've attempted to run, only to get crushed by her fist instead
@@dr.bright6272 He could have been paralysed by attraction
@@finnover9781 or fear. He looked like he was pissing himself
" eh eh eh..."
Not the Queensland in Australia, but the scary one guarded by the unkillable executioner...
Yeah, that's still the one in Australia.
I came looking for this comment
I love how Luigi is portrayed as an emotionless murderer when given the chance, really tickles my fancy
I was surprised not to see a Katamari game on the list. Going from too tiny to do anything to literally collecting planets is so satisfying.
Well to be fair they only said "enormous" not "cosmic horror".
Technically you are always tiny in those games, only the ball gets big.
@@Bronzescorpion Uh, Phrasing? XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD
@@TeryJones I did refrain from saying katamari, which literally means lump, so I think I made the right choice.
Low hanging fruit and all
As a fellow short person, Kaiju Ellen fulfills all of our dreams of taking revenge on the tall lmao
As someone who can best be described as having a schoolboy crush on Ellen, all I can say is, "Step on me, Mommy!"
Saying”mommy”to a woman you like is weird & wrong,these are facts.
@@drizztdourden666 true
@@drizztdourden666 that, depends on the person haha, some people like it
@LiterallySomeOne 👍
Getting to ride the brumak in gears of war 2 was also a "giant" power trip. Mowing down locust and taking on tough enemies like reavers, corpsers, and seeders with ease.
It cannot be stressed enough, you're riding a god damned *brumak!*
An essential experience in this life.
That section was so damn fun!
I just did that section like a month ago
A person of culture I see. 😎. I’ve played that section many times. It’s so fun.
I remember when Luke streamed Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, being able to pilot the divine beast into your enemies was very satifying.
Btw. RIP, Luke. Ellen takes no prisoners!
The brave video game takes "mama bear" to a whole new level
Ellen can now finally get revenge on their worst enemy: shelves that are a bit too high
Punting tiny goombas in Mario 64’s Tiny Huge Island remains one of the more cathartic gaming experiences.
I loved Ellen's frustration at Cutscene Alice for returning her to normal size. Don't worry Ellen, you'll always be a giant stomping on armored playing cards in our hearts.
It’s foolish that cutscene Alice threw away the power
I love how Gears makes you massive and nearly invincible, then gives you a boss five times as big to fight. You are never that far from being wrecked in that game.
Though Gears 5 had a similar moment on a smaller scale when you could control a boss character for a little bit
Giant Clank from the Rathet and Clank games, especially gratifying considering he usually spends his time as a backpack
I’ve got another example for you. This one’s pretty niche, but in level 8 of Transformers Fall of Cybertron, you get to play as the colossal Bruticus, a giant robot that’s hundreds of feet tall, and absolutely demolish a small army of enemies as you take control of a massive airship. Not a well known game outside the Transformers community, but definitely a worthy inclusion.
Oh and don't forget Metroplex earlier in the game!
A great game (alongside War for Cybertron) hampered by licensing expirations nowadays, though.
That's a really good one honestly!
@@SmallGreenPlanetoid As in the robot form of the autobot city, or is he different in there?
@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor Yeah Metroplex in robot form shows up. If you can find a copy of the game you can play as him *very* briefly, but it's very satisfying.
Of course, Ellen would most identity with being a Giant Alice! In fact, I would imagine that this video was entirely her idea! 😂
Lol
Could be
I'm just shocked there was no mention of the giants mask from the legend of Zelda Majora's mask? That was epic!
after seeing the video i searched for majoras mask to check if i was alone -> and this comment came up
I was gonna say, yeah.
Sure it'll end up in the commenter edition 😂
I don't even remember that mask.
Yeah. That boss fight is so epic with how you first have to kill the one of the two bosses, then the way you just afterwards go crazy on the other one using the giant mask.
The 4 giant divine beasts from BOTW were also great fun to play as in the prequel: Hyrule Warriors - Age of Calamity. Just the number of enemies killed after each divine beast sequence was enough to make anyone's day.
Though warriors games in general have you slaughter actual armies on the reg.
Honestly, unless the level was short or you avoided most of the enemies, most of the games in the mainstream series (both Dynasty and Samurai) would regularly end with you having wiped out nearly a thousand enemy combatants (if not more...best I ever got was close to *two* thousand).
I believe the ability for Alice to see invisible flying pig snouts was the "Smoke Me" option, at least in the version of the book I read from that very colorful, but bad smelling, bookstore.
Hm.. wouldn't be out of place in the real book though.
Of course Psychonauts is in there, Lungfishopolis is such an amazing and memorable level :D
Oh no! Goggalor destroyed the orphanage!
@@brightorangemango "It's immune to bullets!" "And love!"
This video reminds me of the wise words of one Master Douglas: "That would be a really easy solution to my problems, like always. Why not just crush them? Why not simply crush them? They're so tiny; They're like ants! It would be so easy!" Truly, some lifechanging advice from Ox.
(From "Two Point Hospital Gameplay: THE MUMMY RETURNS", at the 57:00 mark.)
I can think of 3 more examples.
1. The surprisingly fun ent level in Lego lord of the rings.
2. The bonus level in Lego the hobbit (in which you play as stone giants).
3. The Kashyyyk mission in Jedi fallen order where you ride an AT-AT.
MGS4?
Emotions flip from "Guess I'll be fighting Liquid in his RAY..." to "Who left the keys in the ignition of this REX??" in a hurry. And it's glorious!
The times when Clank becomes massive in the Ratchet and Clank series. Really fun that Ratchet rides around on HIS back while Clank suddenly has missiles and lasers, when he usually spends most of his time as Ratchet's rucksack.
Alice Madness Returns is a 10/10 game everyone should play at least once
The first one isn't bad either, if you can stand 2000s graphics.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo yeah, and kinda...retro gameplay
it is a lot of fun! but man some of the platforming..,.,, it did frustrate me i will not lie to you
Now that we are consuming remakes and remasters like candies, they should totally do something with this Alice.
Still waiting for the embedded first game DLC of the sequel to arrive in Steam.
I'd say you left out Giant Clank, but he's for fighting giant monsters and other giant robots more than anything, so it's not entirely focused on the same thrill as the list. The tanks and helicopters you annihilate are minor players compared to the boss you have to square off against.
I’m glad someone else initially thought of Giant Clank
Clank sections have always kind of frustrated me, personally. You can't upgrade him in any way, so in challenge mode he's kind of severely nerfed.
No, I'd say Giant Clank fulfills the same niche. You're still stomping enemies that Ratchet would struggle with, and even get to destroy obstacles in your path. Unless memory fails me anyway
You can destroy buildings and stuff, yes.
In later gamesgiant clank was annoying and gimmicky but the original game version is basically the alice one, difficult enemies are suddenly simple.
How about Final Fantasy 13 when Hope gets control of a giant mech?
You are completely immune to damage, and get to just wipe the enemies in front of you with stomps and swipes. Or just walking over them!
There're quite a few games were getting into a mech is "going big".
Yes, but that was _FFXIII_ far enough into the game that everyone knew they hated (or in the jaded cases, felt apathy for) the characters (such as they were), knew the plot was stupid, and unless they absolutely loved the combat system had stopped playing the game hours earlier.
@@boobah5643 You say that like it discounts the fact it fits the list theme for a commenter's edition.
I don’t even remember that part? Was that his summon?
@@pmk198908 No. This happens before he meets Alexander, his eidolon. I'm pretty sure shortly after this event, Lightning meets hers, Odin.
I would also suggest the Kong sections from the King Kong video game, Kratos sizing up to Ares, and (although it is in no way scripted, one still can absolutely wreck house) playing as a Rancor in LEGO Star Wars (either The Force Awakens or the Skywalker Saga). Great video, as usual!
Going to mention Mechwarrior 5. You spend the entire game in a giant robot, fighting other giant robots, helicopters, and tons of tanks that are just right for stomping. As you progress the mechs get larger. In some of the missions you are tasked with destroying bases, and one of the fastest ways to do that is to literally walk through buildings.
If I remember right, the very first God of War also had you finally take on Ares as a giant Kratos. A bit of an on the nose clash of titans.
That was a fair fight tho
Personally my favourite "Become giant and crush your enemies" sequence is the last third of Giants: Citizen Kabuto. They even put it in the name of the game, just so we'd know big smashy times were a-comin!
There’s a couple of quests in WoW where you get to take control of the big bad and stomp around a bunch.
The best one though is when you get to play as one of the final bosses in the Burning Crusade, Illidan. And the specific quest actually has you battle a raid of “players” (who are just npc’s). It’s really fun and you can *almost* cause a wipe if you know what to do: kill the healers first.
You aren't that enormous there though. And you have to lose in the end.
My vote goes to The Day that Deathwing Came: The Real Story
@@Elhao That one's a lot of fun. I'm also fond of the BFA quest Fragment of the Firelands, where you take control of the elemental to utterly wipe out a bunch of goblins.
If you ever do another one of these, the Bruticus sequence from Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is an awesome example of this exact type of thing.
Maybe I missed it, but I was certain there would be an Alice joke about smashing towers "like a house of cards."
Similarly, I was waiting for a Kevin Spacey joke!
Jade Empire eventually gives you an ability that lets you transform into a Jade Golem, a teracotta warrior the size of a Battlemech carrying a pair of giant axes.
Really?i finished that game 3 times,it’s one of my favorite games of all time but I never did that,in what part of the game that happens?
@@drizztdourden666 There's a few 'styles' that transform your character into some kind of demon or another; the Jade Golem style can be found when you're fighting jade golems in the secret police HQ, IIRC.
I don't recall it actually being all that useful. But hey, where else are you going to put your skill points at that point in the game? Muskets?
@Boo Bah thanks,on my next playthrough I will check it out,in my previous 3 playthroughs I used different characters & abilities(I did all 3 endings)but even if it’s not useful I will try it since I’m curious about it.
Ayy, you guys missed the twinmold fight in majora’s mask! Using the giants mask to fight a pair of colossal flying wyrms was *so* mush fun!
There are a few moments in the EDF games where you can take control of giant mechs in order to defeat the various Godzilla-esque enemies
That's just standard air Raider gameplay
Luke's "Ho Ho Ho Ho Yes!" Was a bit too enthusiastic.
Are we sure "Evil Luke" hasn't returned? Either that or Luke has been spending a little too much time with Jane.🤔
Jane's probably the nicest, most upstanding person in the oxbox team, I don't see any evil anywhere, what are you on about?
I think the issue here is that just because there's an Evil Luke it does not necessarily imply the existence of a Good Luke. ;) (I kid, he's actually a Great Luke)
@@revolver265 that’s what she wants you to think
The first game I ever finished was SpongeBob Squarepants: Creature From the Krusty Krab on GameCube. Each level was a different character's dream and in the plankton levels he turned into a kaiju and rampaged throughout Bikini Bottom. Fun game, the Patrick levels were my favourite.
My first thought was "Taz escape from Mars". :p
The two I instantly thought of that weren't on the list are the Kong levels in Peter Jackson's King Kong, and the Kabuto levels in Giants: Citizen Kabuto.
I too instantly thought of Giants: Citizen Kabuto, guess it is too niche for these cool kids lmao
"Yes, Big Blob Smash!" Best thing I've heard from Ellen yet!
Playing Grimlock was definitely a highlight in Transformers: Fall of Cyberton. You just got to play as this giant robot that turns into a robot T-Rex that breathes fire on it's enemy. It is absolute carnage. Glorious glorious carnage.
There's also the times when you get to play as Bruticus, the gestalt form of the Combaticons team.
Finally found my people. Miss that game.
Kirby Planet Robobot frequently sends you through levels where you had to dodge and weave around tricky patches of enemies as a giant mecha-Kirby who can smash through practically everything. So satisfying.
In Star Wars the Old Republic, on Iokath this happens at least twice.
2nd time is "just" a large walker. In a daily mission.
1st time however, is the War Droid. Twice the height of the Walker.
the Giant Clank sections in the first three Ratchet and Clank games were awesome. Your backpack-sized robot buddy turning into a robot that wears YOU as a backpack and letting the player stomp around firing off missiles and bombs and utterly wrecking everything in his path? The best.
Dormin: oh so I was the final boss all along
Madness Returns: I am having an adult accident right now. maor crush!
I keep bringing up Automata from time to time but it almost has literally everything, including a short lived section where you get to play as Pascal, who then hijacks one of the massive factory bosses that have given you so much trouble more than once in the game, making short work of the waves of enemies coming at you. nothing depressing happens right after that, nope. nothing to throw my heart in the bin over at all
Ah, yes. The factory robots that would rather rise up than work. Named Marx and Engels, as memory serves.
I'm a little surprised they didn't mention when you could play Sauron in that Lord of the Rings game where you play as the good guys and bad guys
I just realized that Shadow of Collosus was accidently bringing back Dorman and he just gets sealed again anyway.
So in the grand scheme nothing even happened
That's not true! You destroyed sixteen ancient and, for the most part, peaceful creatures! That's hardly _nothing._
(And it probably set up ICO and The Last Guardian, but the lore's really vague.)
True. After Dormin gets sucked into the light, all that's left is a baby with tiny horns on his forehead.
At the end of ICO, when you take off the helmet on the beach you find out it's not a 'horned helmet' after all, the boy _has_ horns that go THROUGH the helmet.
My immediate thought for this one was Knight's Contract for the 360. Your super move in that game involves your partner character (a witch) growing gigantic and sitting/standing/lying down on the enemy. It's a weird game.
Huh, and I always thought I was the only person that played that game.
I feel like the Odin from Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty campaign qualifies. Giant honking mecha that first you get to stand behind and support as it absolutely levels everything in its path. Then the next mission you take direct control and destroy an entire base with it
I think it's hilarious Gears takes a break from the endless chest high wall, cover based shooting, to give you a giant robot to rampage with...and then tells you to take cover.
Honourable mention to the Jade Golem form in Jade Empire. You only get to play around with it for a few fights, but activating it during a boss fight and stepping on them to decimate their health felt very satisfying.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron has a memorable scene where you combine the Combaticons into Bruticus, and proceed to smash up a giant Autobot transport ship. Easily my favorite part of the game!😁
Oh yeah. And its sequel has a similar level with Grimlock, too!
So glad I wasn’t the only person who thought about that.
I can't believe Rampage wasn't on this list.
It's literally Giant Stomping Power Trip: the Game
I think it disqualifies itself because you're enormous for the whole game.
@@iainjames03, not the original game. Sure, you were gigantic for most of it, but take enough damage and you revert to your human form...and, if you were playing two-player, your partner/enemy could *eat* you like any normal human (and heal a bit, to boot).
There's also the part in Dante's Inferno for the PS3 where you get to ride a mountain sized demon and crush a whole level in hell!
Having Luke intro this was brilliant : )
1:58 That chuckle was perfect for the visceral happiness of kaiju smashing.
The Indy rogue game Streets Of Rogue has an item you can find called the “Giantizer” that does just that. While giant, you destroy just about anything just by running into/over it.
I strongly second this, going ham as a giant in that game is insanely fun
Nearly every level of Titanfall 2 fits this. Whenever you hop into BT, suddenly all the soldiers and little robots that were killing you are entirely helpless to stop you, only another titan poses a threat, and even then their odds aren't good.
Controlling the Divine Beast and annihilating Gannon's hordes by the thousands in Hyrule Warriors was great fun
Might I suggest Earth Defense Force (especially 4.1 and 5) for a commenter edition ? You go from a puny but derangedly brave human facing legions of giant insects into a giant mech !
Walking fortress balam is the reason I enlisted!
You guys forgot about the Great Fairy weapon for Link in Hyrule Warriors/Zelda Musou!!! It literally puts you in control of a giant great fairy and smack the ever loving crap out of the hordes that swarm you! Also sad you guys didn’t use the version of the blob where Katamari Damaci is playing xD
The flying pig snouts were an exploratory phase of the Queen of Hearts before settling on taking heads off.
I loved Madness Returns, such a underrated game. Never did play the original, but yeah, Madness Returns was fantastic.
You do realize the original comes bundled with the game, right?
It's bundled on some otherwise rare physical copies, while the DLC is absent on the current Steam release, unfortunately.
@@user-xu2pi6vx7o Well, about a decade ago when I actually played the game, I saw that EA did that but it never allowed me to download it, so I never bothered.
@@KashouWannabe Alice: Madness Returns™ is on EA's Origin.
And McGee is far into a prequel being made as well.
The Senran Kagura series. Hibari has a special Ninja Art to make herself big, which means that, while brief, you can become big whenever you want (as long as Hibari is playable). In Estival Versus, you can control what direction the huge Hibari stomps in too.
One moment of giant superiority for me was red alert 3’s shogun executioner, which you control two times where one mission is pretty hard to fail due to its overwhelming power and the penultimate mission which is also just as easy, you just need anti air and you are good
I'm not sure if this counts, but in the Age of Mythology: The Titans expansion, you can summon a giant titan that you can send in to smash the enemy teams to bits.
God games are practically, big smashes small.
Does the werewolf transformation in Skyrim count? During the first transformation in Whiterun, I ALWAYS run to the Drunken Huntsmen inn, go up the stairs, smash Nazeem in his sleep and devour his heart. Since I was an unrecognizable werewolf, I get no bounty put on me. Now, I never need to hear about not going to the Cloud District even though I go to the Dragons Reach palace constantly.
I played Alice: Madness returns ALOT. But I never noticed the dress beeing changed once she grows big and when she gets small again. It's just a minor detail but now it bugs me.
Would you prefer the dress falling off/being torn and Alice walking around naked? :)
@@ДмитрийЗеленский-ж7х No, I'd prefer the enlarged dress beeing the same as the one when she's small. Including the possibility of having the dress from another story part be enlarged instead of the lazyness of exchanging her dress for the default one and back. Since they managed to enlarge the model of the default dress, it shouldn't be that hard to enlarge the other dresses too.
I got one- in Serious Sam 4 when you get to control the Popemobile mech. Stomping on top of enemies, shooting a barrage of missiles just hearing enemies getting squished. Soo satisfying
As someone who Ellen could reach things for... I *VERY* much understand the "He he he" in the first one...
4:37
Whoa whoa whoa, you get a breath attack?!
Have I just not played the game in a while and forgotten, or have I seriously missed that mechanic EVERY time I play SotC?
GOSH I love that game!
I know you guys don't play rts very much but Age of Mythology expansion pack " the titans " has campaigns where you get titans. And they are super satisfying in destroying buildings and units.
In peter jackson's king kong, you spend about a third of the game playing as kong, easily smashing the v-rexes that are completely invincible when playing as jack
But Luke, you are already a 60ft behemoth!
but he doesn't feel like one on the inside :(
My first thought was Ms. Marvel in Square Enix's 'Marvel's Avengers'. Not only are there levels of the campaign that let you get big and kick butt, but going big and being extra super is an ability she can use during regular gameplay.
13:30 The Swarm aren't aliens. Considering they're mutated native inhabitants of the planet which the entire game takes place on. Heck you could even argue most of the swarm is human since the Locust in Gears 1-3 are mutated humans and the human-like Swarm are just further mutated Locust.
It's really cool how they used forced perspective at the end to make it seem like Luke had a chance!
Alice growing big is amazing 🤩 💕
Don’t forget when you get to ride Treebeard in LEGO Lord of the Rings. Gotta love the bit when you just tear through Isengard
Hilarious! Especially the ending! 😂😂👌🏾
The mega mushroom also appears in some of the Mario Kart games, and believe me squishing your competitors and taking first place is so, so satisfying
Does the "Rolling Thunder" part of _Halo: Combat Evolved_ count? Most of the time, you're a large amount of metal with limited flexibility and speed but impressive resilience and firepower, smashing your way through the Covenant like a stoat through an army of rats, and then you get a Scorpion tank and suddenly you're a huge amount of metal with limited flexibility and speed but impressive resilience and firepower, smashing your way through the Covenant like a honey badger through an army of three-legged rats.
Nice gun turret you've parked rather too close to the cliff edge there. Buh-bye, now.
For the Halo series, I would have gone for the mantis and damn stomping on ghosts is fun.
The Mario and Luigi RPG series has 2 examples. In Bowser’s Inside Story, Bowser can grow to kaiju proportions to fight certain bosses. And Dream Team has Dreamy Luigi doing the same thing.
Woah, I'm not just big. I'm WAY BIG!
HOW DARE YOU MAKE A CLASSIC BEN 10 REFERENCE! now im mad about the reboot again
Did not expect a ben 10 reference in the comments section, a surprise, but a welcome one to be sure.
That was one of the coolest aliens in his Omnitrix
1:23 “Queensland. No, not the one in Australia, the scary one…” so Australia? “guarded by the unkillable executioner” ah.
So... we're back to Australia.
Where are all the comments about wanting Giant Alice to step on them?
Ikr?
All I can think of is the King Kong video game which so rightly summed it up on the back of the box: "Survive as Jack.... RULE AS KONG!"
What about getting a titan in titanfall one and two? While it’s not as fun as wall running around as a pilot, you can still crush the pesky imc grunts in the most satisfying way!
I certainly hope that when you do the commentor's edition of this video you include the part from the original Ratchet and Clank where you get to go all Iron Giant.
We need a new Alice game!!!
The creator of the series is well into the process of a prequel called Alice : Asylum.
The entire Grimlock segment of Fall of Cybertron is a massive power trip. Then you get to transform and find out that’s where they were hiding the real juice. RAWRRRRR!
Another great video! For suggestions, why not the Darksiders series? All of the horsemen have forms that make you want to say "Me big! Me Smash!" especially War
Chronicles of Riddick stomping through the base in the security mech. What a rampage.
The bulletstorm amusement park monster when gray turns into a giddy child with a new toy.
In Warhammer 40k Space Marine getting to play as a Dreadnought in the Dreadnought multiplayer mode is always a blast :)
One thing that couldve been added to this list is the Dreadnought scene from Final Fantasy XIII during chapter 4. Being able to just push away those pulsework soldiers and make them fly off is always satisfying.
I put forth Ganon's Fury AKA Ganon Mode in Hyrule Warriors. It's one of the challenge modes you can do which lets you play as the titular character. Not only are you able to squish and easily defeat many regular enemies, but now even the giant bosses which gave the other smaller playable characters much trouble are much easier to deal with.
In Breath of the Wild, Guardians, and Lynels are feared creatures that became mere dust to push over in the Hyrule Warrior: Age of Calamity, especially when you are playing as the divine beasts
My favorite one is giant Alice too, for different reasons.
Ok
I had to think of the Attack On Titan Game on PS4, where you can actually turn into a Titan and punt around the smaller titans like footballs. Fun times.