Fun fact: Cutscenes for Clocktower 3 was directed by Kinji Fukasaku, who was a director known in the West for Battle without Honor or Humanity (70s movie Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan of) and Battle Royale. If you watch those movies, it explains the crazy exaggerated acting of the mocap actors.
As a diehard AITD fan (yes, even the 2008 one, or maybe especially the 2008 one) I just love seeing fellow men. It's a shame really that such an iconic series is somewhat cult at best and the fanbase is criminally small.
@@iliaPayne i love the series, but the originals are so incredibly clunky and brutally difficult. I can see those 2 things keeping a lot of people out.
When AitD: TNN was in production Vin Diesel was supposed to the main voice actor. At least that’s what I read in a few magazines back at the time. That would of been cool.
Vin Diesel definitely can voice act. He was wonderful as the Iron Giant. He's not my favorite actor by any means but he can do great things in the most unexpected roles.
Countdown Vampires is absolutely the best "so bad its good" Survival Horror game to me, so log as you have a friend on guides haha. Its just so incredibly stupid but still weirdly entertaining. Ive beaten it once and the ending I just couldnt stop laughing lol.
Never even played the game and I totally agree with you. It looks like a great game to play with a friend while having a few drinks and just having a fun time. There's a special kind of fun that comes very clunky and bad old video games.
This just reminds me of this time I was at home playing resident evil and some friends came by. I just got the shotgun and I knew it had very limited ammo. But my friends being the geniuses they are, were all laughing in agreement that I'm stupid because I got a shotgun and I'm not even using it. Or my brother's narcissistic girlfriend. Who took over the playstation to play FF7. I watched for a moment and noticed her using x potions in just regular battles like it's nothing. Of course she was never able to finish the game. Common sense is not that common at all. And for some reason stupid people always think they're smarter than everyone.
@@derealized797 I know that feeling. most people think its just like some call of duty games I guess. I was playing re7 and my father told me once why I wasn't shooting at the boss and I said:I'm not able to spend so much ammo I have to shoot well xD
@@derealized797 I recommended RE2 remake to a friend when it was first released, and he said he stopped playing because he "kept getting lost and running out of ammo" it was then that I realized how the casual gamer thinks: run from one point, kill everything, and run to the next point. I tried explaining that you have to manage your resources and solve puzzles and he was like "I don't want to have to use my brain". I guess people really expect every game to be like Doom or Call of Duty lol
@@derp9193 it blows my mind. I always just kind of got it, like naturally, the things that seem so obvious. There's been so many situations like this too, i could give so many examples. And i don't think I'm that smart even i just the average person. It can be frustrating though
I also heard that resident evil 8, would have been more like RE7, at least for horror and violence or whatever. But they toned it down because they thought it was getting "too scary" for casual gamers. That's what sucks now, these big AAA developers have ethics departments and they focus on psychology in designing games, for casual gamers and it's just all down to the money. We still get some good games. But imagine how great they would be, if they just let the creative minds make the games, giving fans what they want. Instead of this corporate BS and censorship and whatever. That's why i look forward to indie games more than the big budget stuff now. That's where all the heart is.
Interesting thing about Eve is that whilst most people will love at least one of the 3 games very few will like all 3 and which one is liked will vary from person to person.
Parasite Eve 1 creates an atmosphere and immersion that i rarely found in another game since. I think it has something to do with the music but i can´t put a finger on it.
Any classic survival horror game like resident evil I’m heavily willing to see, love all these gems. Edit: I was picky with Tank Controls before saying they were crap and honestly I regret having that opinion.
I'm surprised at how I remember every single of those moments highlighted from Parasite Eve 2. Even the menu tunes and the music. I wonder what makes it so memorable for me. I have a sudden urge to replay it xD
Dude, I gotta ask. Are you going to cover the Siren series during these videos? If not, are you ever going to cover it? It's a pretty cool Survival Horror series and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Is especially like to see you cover it because it's from the creator of the Silent Hill series, and I know you're a big fan of that!
If you're looking for recommendations, Extermination for the PS2 is a great survival horror Resident Evil clone that is also heavily influenced by The Thing,. It was practically a PS2 launch title but was actually surprisingly well made and still holds up.
Parasite Eve is one of the greatest adventure games of all time. Far deeper than most survival horrors and action/adventure games from the 90's, and with some rpg's elements in it. With the fantastic squaresoft game design. It's kind of a vintage masterpiece from a 2d/3d era.
Hope you talk about Extermination for the PS2 eventually. That's a game that really grabbed me way back. In particular, I thought it was really shocking how if you get infected and don't cure it, you'll start getting disgusting growths on your body. Really cool touch that you don't see too often.
I've been aware of your channel for a few years now but never really dived deep until recently. But man your genuine and heartfelt perspective on all these awesome retro games is truly tranquil and almost meditative. A new favorite to fall asleep to
Vol. 2 popped up in my Recommended feed a couple weeks ago. I watched it and I instantly became a subscriber. Nice to see someone making quality content like this that adores this genre as much as I do. A few of the games you've talked about I've never even heard of, but I know I gotta play em now. I hope you plan on continuing this series! Keep up the great work, dude.
Im actually super surprised and thrilled to see you brought up Nocturne in this series because that game seriously does NOT get the love it deserves. I'm gonna make a pretty in depth review of it myself one of these days but I've got a few things to bring up. [Huge comment incoming!] First, those cape physics are NOT supposed to be that overdone. Playing on a Windows 98, the cloth physics actually look amazing for the time. (Playing on a 98 also prevented me from having that really annoying UI delay issue, which happens when I play on my Win10 so Im guessing that's an OS issue directly.) it's like the equivalent of us seeing really well done hair physics nowadays. Like the the cape has its own physics. It slowly sways but doesn't really move unless you run or move or something. Playing on a Windows 10, when the framerate is higher than 30 those physics get super exaggerated and look like a giant fan is blowing at it constantly and clipping through the characters. Super weird issue and doesn't really make much sense to me but it is what it is. As for the actual issues you brought up in the game, the only time I've really noticed the precise picking up issue was at the exact part you brought it up regarding the silver bullets in Doc's room. But otherwise I didn't have any other instance where it was actually a problem. Regarding some of the game design problems you had like talking multiple times to go somewhere, I never had that problem but that was probably because for me it's general instinct to talk to NPCs multiple times, cause many other games usually have them providing other pieces of information in segments. I *do* however 100% agree about the camera angles being an issue and imo that's the one thing that can genuinely hold this game down at times. Like you said those areas that look like you're supposed to go but lead to death traps. Those were probably intentional cause of something I read in the manual. But It definitely does get frustrating, and platforming really has no place in a survival horror game imo so that's kind of a crappy decision. Otherwise I think Nocturne is one of the best survival horror games I've ever played. You should keep in mind though, that Terminal Reality was primarily developing PC games throughout their life. They started off with flight sims and Nocturne was one of their earlier attempts at actually making a game, but again they were used to PC games. PC games had a really different audience so the games were designed differently to suit different players that were more accustomed to PC games. And the people that were into horror at the time were probably busy with RE and Silent Hill (playing on consoles and NOT pcs) to even know Nocturne came out, so it definitely does makes sense why it slipped past so many people, and why you were having a hard time with some of the things in it. I say give it another shot sometime down the line. Oh and also since you didn't mention it here, there were 3 Blair Witch games made on the nocturne engine with similar gameplay. The first one has you controlling Doc from Nocturne and Stranger/Spookhouse has an appearance. I'm pretty sure you'll have a good time with that one if you enjoyed Nocturne. Part 2 was kinda meh imo and suffered from some pacing issues. Part 3 got the lowest ratings and sold the worst of the 3 but I honestly that one is super cool. Reminded me alot of Alone In The Dark in a snowy town. Definitely check those out if you haven't man, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I know this is an insanely long comment so sorry about making you read a novel lol but if you did read all this then thank you very much. :) Keep pumping out the awesome vids! I actually found you through your Silent Hill videos and loved all of them. And I also think SH3 is the best game in the series and the best survival horror game out there, so really glad Im not the only one that thinks that.
great reviewn. I played nocturne for the first time two years ago, and I thinks it's a very underrated game. I loved everything in this game, the plot are so good and the puzzles. Blair Witch vol 1 is another very good game too, it is a shame that terminal reality abandoned this universe, I would love to playing as Svetlana for spookyhouse.
random thing to point out, but I love how in Nocturne the death screen is just a freezeframe that says, "You're dead. Game over." in red text at the bottom something about how blunt that is makes me chuckle
I recommended Overblood as well. It's a great game. I also recommended Doctor Hauzer, made by the same company (Riverhill Soft) Let's hope he checks them out.
@@Deniii4000 Hopefully. Overblood is a textbook RE clone and I had fun playing it back in the day. It’s more of an RE clone than some of the games he talked about. ☕️
Well, let's not forget that Silent Hill and Resident Evil 1 were clones of Alone in the Dark in the beginning, a french game by Frederic Raynal that started almost everything! Ok!
Parasite Eve 2 is one of those games 14 years later I actually beat, and it's one of my favoutite RE clones, the end boss is one of the hardest I've fought, getting that MM1 Grenade Launcher is a must on Normal and Hard difficulty.
For me that one is the best Alone in the dark. Indeed, that flashlight/lighting system was a miracle on PS1! The Game boy version is pretty impressive too, I'm looking forward to replaying it on PC
Some people squick at the thought of tank controls and that makes me squick. I don't get what's so confusing about it, I'm pretty dumb but I have no problem using tank controls.
I started playing through the RE franchise with my 5 year old daughter (call me a bad dad, she understands it isn’t real 😂) and she found them confusing to begin with, now she’s a pro. Wish we could get a classic style survival horror game again 😕
@@xxx-pliskin-sniper-xxx8538 Ah, as long as you don't make her play 4 and 5(due to gore and whatnot) I think there is nothing wrong with that. I approve, next generations should be made aware of the classics, she should play the classic tomb raiders too.
I think the general expectation nowadays is that all games should control more or less the same and people blame the controls in these old games, without taking into consideration the problem it tries to solve These games, imo, mostly play terrible if you try to force a more modern control scheme into them. I think tank controls work really well and it also feels good But I think one argument is that it leads to unrealistic movement, as the way these characters spin in place definetely doesn't look natural. I don't think a modern game with the realistic graphics of today could pull it off without looking uncanny, though maybe they could find a solution for this problem Playing these old games recently only made it realize though that they amazingly play really good, even the very first Resident Evil. You DO NOT get that experience playing a lot of its contemporary games. Even a classic like Crash Bandicoot may feel a little stiff to current standards and it only works because they compromised levels so they'd be as linear as possible
@@RodrigoDavy Excellent points, very well said, I always liked that unnaturalness and uncanniness(both with positive connotations), maybe that's one of the reasons why I like old games so much. They don't try so hard to emulate reality while modern games do, which is kind of ironic since playing games is partly for escaping reality.
Found this channel from the every RE review & now this. Gotta say great work. I got a PS & RE1 for Christmas when I was 9 & have been a RE fan ever since. Great games, great channel. I love me some Countdown Vampires too tho lol. Those were the days. RE, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, Countdown Vampires, Metal Gear Solid, still some of the best games ever.
"This game is a war crime." Wow that's an absolutely perfect and hilarious way to explain Men in Black. I actually had a copy of it for PC when I was a kid and had a very similar experience with the first part.
What's kind of funny about the Dino Crisis series to me, is that I only ever had 1 and Dino Stalker. So for the longest time, I never knew they were the same series.
I know I watched a recent video going over the MiB resi clone, and I was SURE it was one of the previous entries in this series xD It wasn't, just in case it wasn't clear. So far, top notch content, here! Great series, I'm loving it!
18:00 nothing wrong with needing to talk to an npc multiple times for info. i talk to npcs until i exhaust their dialogue. it rewards for playing in certain ways, sometimes.
Countdown Vampires was one my brother and I decided to play through together, and as bad/awesome as it was, the best part was all the poor text translations.
Nocturne and Blair Witch veteran here. It's not a laser sight, the developers chose this method to help you with aiming. You get the same effect when picking up a dismembered limb.
It’s nice seeing people still looking at classic survival horror and offering analysis on the genre and those that “claimed” that genre. Especially in 2021...I miss that survival horror feel.
I am so glad to hear someone mention Nocturne - bravo! I loved that game as a kid and you're spot on - for it's time the graphics were absolutely amazing and the cloth physics were just unheard of. From memory, it was split into 4 (i think?) separate chapters focusing on different beasts and locations, like a small farming town besieged by zombies, to a part of Chicago inhabited by undead gangsters or something. It was quite unique, but I remember it feeling like some of those chapters were better and more polished than others. Definitely a game of significant highs and lows as you've articulated that ended up being a bit...'meh' overall as a result.
Boy do I have a gut feeling we've got a MASSIVE Alone in the Dark Retrospective coming our way, including the 2005 UwU Boll film adaptation. Thank you, Jared from Avalanche Reviews, you're the best! Edit: What! Wikipedia just tells me there's even a second film adaptation from 2008. It'll be so much fun!
Nice! I'm glad you got around to AiTD: The New Nightmare. That game is massively underrated. Darkworks also made Cold Fear, which I heard rumor was originally supposed to be the sequel to The New Nightmare. The atmosphere in both those games in phenomenal. Good work man! I will be checking out Nocturne...
Damn man, I've been loving your videos ever since you first tackled survival horror but I straight up busted a nut when you gave A New Nightmare proper respect for its out of this world visuals. I just hope that if AITD 2008 gets covered here you of all reviewers will see that flawed game's briliant ideas and amazing atmosphere (and music by Obscure vet Olivier Derivierre) despite the general hatred it received.
DIno Crisis 2 was the first Survival-Horror game I ever liked and the first Survival-Horror Game I ever beat. The reason why is pretty obvious, because I like when Survival-Horror Games stop being Survival games. I like beating monsters, hoarding ammunition and healing items, unlocking new equipment and upgrading. I didnt beat Parasite Eve 2 when it came out but a couple years ago I purchased it and played it through several times, unlocking extra equipment for the next playthrough.
Can confirm. MIB is easily one of the worst things I've experienced. Good on you for even making it into the weather station! I don't know why I remember this, but the images for EVERYTHING on the disc was completely uncompressed. Every single static background, item you could pick up or character skin were all .jpeg files and you could open up the game files in paint and draw on the game.
Hey avalanche I know this video is a couple weeks old, but if you ever wanted to give nocturne a try again you can quicksave. Which skips having to open a menu thus avoids the long wait time. It still takes a while to load, but with this you could save whenever you wanted too.
Holy shit, Nocturne sure turned the "cloth physics" up to eleven xD I remember a tv show about games here in the netherlands and one of the guys made fun of max payne when that game came out because maxs coat was perpetualy flapping around. I wouldve loved to see his reaction to nocturne hahaha.
I always found Nocturne to be a really interesting game especially given its history with a spinoff title of the Blair Witch Project being set in the same universe as Nocturne. Then its further history of Blood Rayne supposed to originally feature the half vampire partner you team up with in Nocture. It makes for the strangest cross property trilogy that nobody knows about and it's a real shame since the ideas and setting are such a refreshing change of pace.
i love how all the cloth is just losing its shit on nocturn and no ones moving. early tech physics are so good. i remember when ragdolls would just bounce off the fucking walls and their joints would just cease to exist lol.
The really weird change on DC3 to a space tech dino scenario after DC2 isn't only for experimentation purpose, but also due to the original marketing idea. Rumor has it that DC3 was supose to be in a town that was destroyed by dinos. The original marketing posters had this in mind, but since 9/11 was too recent at the time, people were still really sensitive to this kind of imagery, something that caused the crazy change
Loving this series man, bringing back all kinds of memories from when I was young at my neighbors playing these games together. I looked through each of these videos in the series and haven't seen you mention the PSX game OverBlood and it's sequel OverBlood 2. I loved the first one and still have it in my collection. Never got to play the second game. Hoping for a 4tth installment in this video series :D
Good to know that you liked AITD The New Nightmare. I really like it too, as I think it is the closest a clone got to the RE levels of goodness. The only thing I would remark is that I wouldn't recommend the PS2 version, as it has some audio glitches that don't happen in the PS1 version, and those glitches sometimes completely break the background themes. And I didn't had success playing the PC version either, so I would strongly recommend sticking with the PS1 version.
I always loved how Dino Crisis 1 and 2 is basically Capcom and RE in a nutshell, it was like, foreshadowing the future, cause Dino 1 is SUPER survival horror, and Dino 2 is basically RE4 on the ps1, both extremely good, but super different. Tho Dino 2 deserves one of those upscale AI mods, cause, unlike 1 which was 3D environments, Dino 2 backgrounds didn't quite age well resolution-wise.
Two others I remember and was hard as hell to get into for me was Martian Gothic and Overblood. I didn't even know Overblood had a sequel. And I forgot about T.R.A.G.
Thank you for giving PE 2 it's due. It was my favorite series growing up and it seemed like most reviewers on UA-cam bashed it... I really wished they would bring the series back 😭... Ps the music from PE 2 was "inspired" by the music from the movie They live lol
If you haven't played it yet I highly recommend nocturnes spiritual sequal 'blair witch Vol1 Rustin paer. You play as another spookhouse agent and even has the stranger and was really scary to play
Surprised you didn't take a quick look at Nocturne's pseudo sequel in Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr. The most genius way of turning a licensed game into a stealth entry in your own franchise. (Of course you might just be covering those all in sequence in another volume of this series.)
Clock tower 3 had so many missed oppurtunities to tie into clock tower properly. Replace the scissor twins with dan and bobby barrows in the barrows mansion interacting with the ghosts of jennifer's friends. Could've also made burrows inti barrows and have the evil soul that allysa's grandfatjer taps into the barrows that started the curse to begin with
I remember my PSX ""copy"" of the new nightmare having an issue right in the last few screens. I think it was with Carnby, and there was an enemy that couldn't be damaged, even with the gun you were supposed to use to kill it, and it was basically blocking off the exit on a narrow bridge you absolutely had to go through. I think we grew so tired of it we eventually ended clipping through the bridge and completing the game on, like, day 5 of trying to beat this one """""puzzle"""". The game itself is actually quite good, though, but super obscure on what to do, pun intended.
There's Blair Witch 1,2 and 3, the old trilogy on the Nocturne engine , the first one even ties into Nocturne and involves the Stranger and Doc Holiday. As for New Nightmare, one thing I love is that Aline's campaign is massively different from Carnby, this is a little bit of an exaggeration, but it's basically if Resident Evil 2's Leon campaign was the same but Claire's had roughly half of Resident Evil 3 in it, there's alot of unique areas/puzzles that are exclusive for each character, it mostly feels like each character has their own route, that said, yeah the respawning enemies the instant you return to a room is a flaw. (Infact the high amount of saves you can get, well over 50 yet basically no ammo, especially for Aline early on who gets less than 40 Revolver shots for the entire game from a single ammo pick-up, feels very unpolished.)
I dunno if it counts but Bioforge(PC) had tank controls and prerendered backgrounds and one of the most lol-inducing backflips I've ever seen. Also you fight a cyber dinosaur. Currently $1.50 on GoG for a few more days.
If possible, watch this in 1440p! The amount of compression and noise in youtube's 1080p option is crazy.
I prefer 140p
you forgot the note on ps1
I'm going to watch it in 720p. Don't tell me what to do 😎
I wish there was a patch to make the camera of Dino Crisis 3 similar to RE4.
I have alone in the dark new nightmare for Dreamcast and ps2. It's higher res on dreamcast.
Fun fact: Cutscenes for Clocktower 3 was directed by Kinji Fukasaku, who was a director known in the West for Battle without Honor or Humanity (70s movie Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan of) and Battle Royale. If you watch those movies, it explains the crazy exaggerated acting of the mocap actors.
Idk I watched battle royal and the acting never seems overdone
I can't believe I ignored this for an hour thinking it was still part 2.
Vol 3 and so soon! You spoil us sir!
I'm like the internet's uncle. It's my job to spoil you guys.
Just woke up on my day off to an avalanche video. Today’s going to be a pretty great day.
Same also a rainy day heaven
The Narrator: "It was not."
Me too lol
I hear that, just need to roll up a nice j
@@AngryPaperBoy you'll forget the video though. Ps. Don't do drugs
Came here to hear your thoughts on Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare and I’m so glad you loved it!
As a diehard AITD fan (yes, even the 2008 one, or maybe especially the 2008 one) I just love seeing fellow men. It's a shame really that such an iconic series is somewhat cult at best and the fanbase is criminally small.
@@iliaPayne i love the series, but the originals are so incredibly clunky and brutally difficult. I can see those 2 things keeping a lot of people out.
I'll see Fear Effect love here someday, but not today.
Yeah I'm excited to play Fear Effect
The games can get brutally difficult for some people, but I bet most people bought a copy back in the day of FE1 & 2.
@@somecoder3054 Are they that hard compared to Resident Evil?
Man i haven't heard Fear Effect in awhile. Damn shame. It's pretty good
@@Issac_The_Last_N7 They actually have an indie on ps4 but it looks horrible imo. The Ps1 versions I am eager to play
When AitD: TNN was in production Vin Diesel was supposed to the main voice actor. At least that’s what I read in a few magazines back at the time. That would of been cool.
Damn! That would have been cool! He has an awesomely deep voice.
Vin Diesel definitely can voice act. He was wonderful as the Iron Giant. He's not my favorite actor by any means but he can do great things in the most unexpected roles.
That would have been awesome! Plus Vin Diesel is actually huge nerd. :) He was really active, in the making of Riddick games. And he loves D&D.
Countdown Vampires is absolutely the best "so bad its good" Survival Horror game to me, so log as you have a friend on guides haha. Its just so incredibly stupid but still weirdly entertaining. Ive beaten it once and the ending I just couldnt stop laughing lol.
Never even played the game and I totally agree with you. It looks like a great game to play with a friend while having a few drinks and just having a fun time. There's a special kind of fun that comes very clunky and bad old video games.
It does make sense that Regina would demand a shit load of ammo if she knew she was fighting dinosaurs again in DC2.
This just reminds me of this time I was at home playing resident evil and some friends came by. I just got the shotgun and I knew it had very limited ammo. But my friends being the geniuses they are, were all laughing in agreement that I'm stupid because I got a shotgun and I'm not even using it.
Or my brother's narcissistic girlfriend. Who took over the playstation to play FF7. I watched for a moment and noticed her using x potions in just regular battles like it's nothing. Of course she was never able to finish the game.
Common sense is not that common at all. And for some reason stupid people always think they're smarter than everyone.
@@derealized797 I know that feeling. most people think its just like some call of duty games I guess. I was playing re7 and my father told me once why I wasn't shooting at the boss and I said:I'm not able to spend so much ammo I have to shoot well xD
@@derealized797 I recommended RE2 remake to a friend when it was first released, and he said he stopped playing because he "kept getting lost and running out of ammo" it was then that I realized how the casual gamer thinks: run from one point, kill everything, and run to the next point. I tried explaining that you have to manage your resources and solve puzzles and he was like "I don't want to have to use my brain". I guess people really expect every game to be like Doom or Call of Duty lol
@@derp9193 it blows my mind. I always just kind of got it, like naturally, the things that seem so obvious. There's been so many situations like this too, i could give so many examples. And i don't think I'm that smart even i just the average person.
It can be frustrating though
I also heard that resident evil 8, would have been more like RE7, at least for horror and violence or whatever. But they toned it down because they thought it was getting "too scary" for casual gamers. That's what sucks now, these big AAA developers have ethics departments and they focus on psychology in designing games, for casual gamers and it's just all down to the money.
We still get some good games. But imagine how great they would be, if they just let the creative minds make the games, giving fans what they want. Instead of this corporate BS and censorship and whatever.
That's why i look forward to indie games more than the big budget stuff now. That's where all the heart is.
Interesting thing about Eve is that whilst most people will love at least one of the 3 games very few will like all 3 and which one is liked will vary from person to person.
Parasite Eve 1 creates an atmosphere and immersion that i rarely found in another game since. I think it has something to do with the music but i can´t put a finger on it.
It sure as hell does! Ones of the best games ever made, in my opinion.
Man oldschool survival horror fixed camera angle games are the best. Loving the series
ah yes, I knew Parasite Eve II was going to be on the list sooner or later! Love this series, thanks for your effort on putting up a part 3 already!
I'm happy to put work into these. Very glad you guys are getting such a kick out of em!
Absolutely Love this Series so far!
Glad to hear it!
Any classic survival horror game like resident evil I’m heavily willing to see, love all these gems.
Edit: I was picky with Tank Controls before saying they were crap and honestly I regret having that opinion.
For some reason I took to tank controls naturally. I think my brain is just wired for them.
@@AvalancheReviews Yeah I guess some people like me we don’t really get them at first.
Props for not forgetting dino stalker, it's awesome with a lightgun
I'm surprised at how I remember every single of those moments highlighted from Parasite Eve 2. Even the menu tunes and the music. I wonder what makes it so memorable for me.
I have a sudden urge to replay it xD
Dude, I gotta ask. Are you going to cover the Siren series during these videos? If not, are you ever going to cover it? It's a pretty cool Survival Horror series and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Is especially like to see you cover it because it's from the creator of the Silent Hill series, and I know you're a big fan of that!
If you're looking for recommendations, Extermination for the PS2 is a great survival horror Resident Evil clone that is also heavily influenced by The Thing,. It was practically a PS2 launch title but was actually surprisingly well made and still holds up.
Parasite Eve is one of the greatest adventure games of all time. Far deeper than most survival horrors and action/adventure games from the 90's, and with some rpg's elements in it. With the fantastic squaresoft game design. It's kind of a vintage masterpiece from a 2d/3d era.
Covering Parasite Eve, Dino Crisis, and Countdown Vampires in one video?! I knew I loved this channel!!!
This series is why I because a subscriber. I've watched so many of your videos recenetly!
Glad to heart it! I think I may have another 2 video worth of these old RE clones left. So there's more coming.
YES! Finally PE gets some recognition. I found you a couple years back from your PE review, and I'm so glad you brought it back to light.
Hope you talk about Extermination for the PS2 eventually. That's a game that really grabbed me way back. In particular, I thought it was really shocking how if you get infected and don't cure it, you'll start getting disgusting growths on your body. Really cool touch that you don't see too often.
Dude I wanted the sequel they were making so bad.
I've been aware of your channel for a few years now but never really dived deep until recently. But man your genuine and heartfelt perspective on all these awesome retro games is truly tranquil and almost meditative. A new favorite to fall asleep to
When are we getting the Resident Evil Retribution retrospective?
Soon. I just need to voice the script, but I've been swamped working on these RE Clone videos lately.
Vol. 2 popped up in my Recommended feed a couple weeks ago. I watched it and I instantly became a subscriber. Nice to see someone making quality content like this that adores this genre as much as I do. A few of the games you've talked about I've never even heard of, but I know I gotta play em now. I hope you plan on continuing this series! Keep up the great work, dude.
Alone in the Dark & Dino Crisis 1 were my "resident evil" games so to speak, good times!
Im actually super surprised and thrilled to see you brought up Nocturne in this series because that game seriously does NOT get the love it deserves. I'm gonna make a pretty in depth review of it myself one of these days but I've got a few things to bring up. [Huge comment incoming!]
First, those cape physics are NOT supposed to be that overdone. Playing on a Windows 98, the cloth physics actually look amazing for the time. (Playing on a 98 also prevented me from having that really annoying UI delay issue, which happens when I play on my Win10 so Im guessing that's an OS issue directly.) it's like the equivalent of us seeing really well done hair physics nowadays. Like the the cape has its own physics. It slowly sways but doesn't really move unless you run or move or something. Playing on a Windows 10, when the framerate is higher than 30 those physics get super exaggerated and look like a giant fan is blowing at it constantly and clipping through the characters. Super weird issue and doesn't really make much sense to me but it is what it is.
As for the actual issues you brought up in the game, the only time I've really noticed the precise picking up issue was at the exact part you brought it up regarding the silver bullets in Doc's room. But otherwise I didn't have any other instance where it was actually a problem. Regarding some of the game design problems you had like talking multiple times to go somewhere, I never had that problem but that was probably because for me it's general instinct to talk to NPCs multiple times, cause many other games usually have them providing other pieces of information in segments. I *do* however 100% agree about the camera angles being an issue and imo that's the one thing that can genuinely hold this game down at times. Like you said those areas that look like you're supposed to go but lead to death traps. Those were probably intentional cause of something I read in the manual. But It definitely does get frustrating, and platforming really has no place in a survival horror game imo so that's kind of a crappy decision. Otherwise I think Nocturne is one of the best survival horror games I've ever played. You should keep in mind though, that Terminal Reality was primarily developing PC games throughout their life. They started off with flight sims and Nocturne was one of their earlier attempts at actually making a game, but again they were used to PC games. PC games had a really different audience so the games were designed differently to suit different players that were more accustomed to PC games. And the people that were into horror at the time were probably busy with RE and Silent Hill (playing on consoles and NOT pcs) to even know Nocturne came out, so it definitely does makes sense why it slipped past so many people, and why you were having a hard time with some of the things in it. I say give it another shot sometime down the line.
Oh and also since you didn't mention it here, there were 3 Blair Witch games made on the nocturne engine with similar gameplay. The first one has you controlling Doc from Nocturne and Stranger/Spookhouse has an appearance. I'm pretty sure you'll have a good time with that one if you enjoyed Nocturne. Part 2 was kinda meh imo and suffered from some pacing issues. Part 3 got the lowest ratings and sold the worst of the 3 but I honestly that one is super cool. Reminded me alot of Alone In The Dark in a snowy town. Definitely check those out if you haven't man, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I know this is an insanely long comment so sorry about making you read a novel lol but if you did read all this then thank you very much. :) Keep pumping out the awesome vids! I actually found you through your Silent Hill videos and loved all of them. And I also think SH3 is the best game in the series and the best survival horror game out there, so really glad Im not the only one that thinks that.
great reviewn. I played nocturne for the first time two years ago, and I thinks it's a very underrated game. I loved everything in this game, the plot are so good and the puzzles. Blair Witch vol 1 is another very good game too, it is a shame that terminal reality abandoned this universe, I would love to playing as Svetlana for spookyhouse.
The video is longer than its been up available to watch and you have 70+ upvote on it. Let that sink in. Success!
Heh, you said "longer"
That's pretty damn cool!
random thing to point out, but I love how in Nocturne the death screen is just a freezeframe that says, "You're dead. Game over." in red text at the bottom
something about how blunt that is makes me chuckle
I hope Overblood made this one.
I recommended Overblood as well. It's a great game.
I also recommended Doctor Hauzer, made by the same company (Riverhill Soft)
Let's hope he checks them out.
@@Deniii4000 Hopefully. Overblood is a textbook RE clone and I had fun playing it back in the day. It’s more of an RE clone than some of the games he talked about. ☕️
Low key obsessed with these videos
Well, let's not forget that Silent Hill and Resident Evil 1 were clones of Alone in the Dark in the beginning, a french game by Frederic Raynal that started almost everything! Ok!
I am truly impressed by that flashlight effect on the alone in the dark game too
Right!?!?!? Like, it's really fucking cool!
Just what I needed to finish the work day!
Here's to a semi productive work day!
Parasite Eve 2 is one of those games 14 years later I actually beat, and it's one of my favoutite RE clones, the end boss is one of the hardest I've fought, getting that MM1 Grenade Launcher is a must on Normal and Hard difficulty.
For me that one is the best Alone in the dark. Indeed, that flashlight/lighting system was a miracle on PS1! The Game boy version is pretty impressive too, I'm looking forward to replaying it on PC
I think I need to make a full video on TNN. Just as an excuse to feature all the ports, including the GBC one.
I played Dino Crisis 2 month ago and had blast. This game felt very modern in terms of pacing and set pieces, it easily could exist on 7 gen.
The music used during the games descriptions is spot on greatness, the best that could of been used. Awesome 3 Part watch!
Some people squick at the thought of tank controls and that makes me squick. I don't get what's so confusing about it, I'm pretty dumb but I have no problem using tank controls.
I couldn't have said it better myself........... Except I've never heard anyone say squick before. That's a new one. HA!
I started playing through the RE franchise with my 5 year old daughter (call me a bad dad, she understands it isn’t real 😂) and she found them confusing to begin with, now she’s a pro. Wish we could get a classic style survival horror game again 😕
@@xxx-pliskin-sniper-xxx8538 Ah, as long as you don't make her play 4 and 5(due to gore and whatnot) I think there is nothing wrong with that. I approve, next generations should be made aware of the classics, she should play the classic tomb raiders too.
I think the general expectation nowadays is that all games should control more or less the same and people blame the controls in these old games, without taking into consideration the problem it tries to solve
These games, imo, mostly play terrible if you try to force a more modern control scheme into them. I think tank controls work really well and it also feels good
But I think one argument is that it leads to unrealistic movement, as the way these characters spin in place definetely doesn't look natural. I don't think a modern game with the realistic graphics of today could pull it off without looking uncanny, though maybe they could find a solution for this problem
Playing these old games recently only made it realize though that they amazingly play really good, even the very first Resident Evil. You DO NOT get that experience playing a lot of its contemporary games. Even a classic like Crash Bandicoot may feel a little stiff to current standards and it only works because they compromised levels so they'd be as linear as possible
@@RodrigoDavy Excellent points, very well said, I always liked that unnaturalness and uncanniness(both with positive connotations), maybe that's one of the reasons why I like old games so much. They don't try so hard to emulate reality while modern games do, which is kind of ironic since playing games is partly for escaping reality.
Wow that flashlight thing in Alone in the Dark blew me away. Such a simple but effective way of doing it
Found this channel from the every RE review & now this. Gotta say great work. I got a PS & RE1 for Christmas when I was 9 & have been a RE fan ever since. Great games, great channel. I love me some Countdown Vampires too tho lol. Those were the days. RE, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, Countdown Vampires, Metal Gear Solid, still some of the best games ever.
"This game is a war crime." Wow that's an absolutely perfect and hilarious way to explain Men in Black. I actually had a copy of it for PC when I was a kid and had a very similar experience with the first part.
I was blown away at how bad it was. Like......it broke me.
What's kind of funny about the Dino Crisis series to me, is that I only ever had 1 and Dino Stalker. So for the longest time, I never knew they were the same series.
I know I watched a recent video going over the MiB resi clone, and I was SURE it was one of the previous entries in this series xD It wasn't, just in case it wasn't clear.
So far, top notch content, here! Great series, I'm loving it!
19:18- Nocturne is interesting.
23:14- I didn't know that this Men In Black game was like that.
48:24- The first Kanji says "Den" for "Electricity".
this dude has a calming voice, yet you want to listen what he has to say it's crazy!
I recently found this channel and have been watching it like crazy. So much good content on classic horror games. Great video!
yay this is my favourite series - I want to try them all
18:00 nothing wrong with needing to talk to an npc multiple times for info. i talk to npcs until i exhaust their dialogue. it rewards for playing in certain ways, sometimes.
Countdown Vampires was one my brother and I decided to play through together, and as bad/awesome as it was, the best part was all the poor text translations.
Your Presentation is AWSOME!!! Just wanted to tell you that. May you live for ever, man!!!
Nocturne and Blair Witch veteran here. It's not a laser sight, the developers chose this method to help you with aiming. You get the same effect when picking up a dismembered limb.
It’s nice seeing people still looking at classic survival horror and offering analysis on the genre and those that “claimed” that genre. Especially in 2021...I miss that survival horror feel.
I am so glad to hear someone mention Nocturne - bravo! I loved that game as a kid and you're spot on - for it's time the graphics were absolutely amazing and the cloth physics were just unheard of. From memory, it was split into 4 (i think?) separate chapters focusing on different beasts and locations, like a small farming town besieged by zombies, to a part of Chicago inhabited by undead gangsters or something. It was quite unique, but I remember it feeling like some of those chapters were better and more polished than others. Definitely a game of significant highs and lows as you've articulated that ended up being a bit...'meh' overall as a result.
Boy do I have a gut feeling we've got a MASSIVE Alone in the Dark Retrospective coming our way, including the 2005 UwU Boll film adaptation.
Thank you, Jared from Avalanche Reviews, you're the best!
Edit: What! Wikipedia just tells me there's even a second film adaptation from 2008. It'll be so much fun!
Nice! I'm glad you got around to AiTD: The New Nightmare. That game is massively underrated. Darkworks also made Cold Fear, which I heard rumor was originally supposed to be the sequel to The New Nightmare. The atmosphere in both those games in phenomenal. Good work man! I will be checking out Nocturne...
Damn man, I've been loving your videos ever since you first tackled survival horror but I straight up busted a nut when you gave A New Nightmare proper respect for its out of this world visuals.
I just hope that if AITD 2008 gets covered here you of all reviewers will see that flawed game's briliant ideas and amazing atmosphere (and music by Obscure vet Olivier Derivierre) despite the general hatred it received.
Janky as it is, I'm impressed at the cloth simulation (or whatever tech term applies) in Nocturne.
Clock Tower 3 was one of the weirdest but fun horror games I've ever played growing up
Oh fuck, I still haven't finished the second one.
DIno Crisis 2 was the first Survival-Horror game I ever liked and the first Survival-Horror Game I ever beat. The reason why is pretty obvious, because I like when Survival-Horror Games stop being Survival games. I like beating monsters, hoarding ammunition and healing items, unlocking new equipment and upgrading. I didnt beat Parasite Eve 2 when it came out but a couple years ago I purchased it and played it through several times, unlocking extra equipment for the next playthrough.
Your videos just keep getting better and better! Dude thanks for your content!
The shadows in Nocture looks really impressive! Blood effect not bad also. Game design itself seems very off though.
dino crisis 2 and parasite even 2 i played to death when i was younger. simply amazing and fun games
Can confirm. MIB is easily one of the worst things I've experienced. Good on you for even making it into the weather station!
I don't know why I remember this, but the images for EVERYTHING on the disc was completely uncompressed. Every single static background, item you could pick up or character skin were all .jpeg files and you could open up the game files in paint and draw on the game.
Hey avalanche I know this video is a couple weeks old, but if you ever wanted to give nocturne a try again you can quicksave. Which skips having to open a menu thus avoids the long wait time. It still takes a while to load, but with this you could save whenever you wanted too.
This was among the most interesting series you’ve done man. I feel I got a much deeper appreciation of the genre.
Finally New Nightmare gets respect.
I like that game.
I got it on release and thought it was fucking awesome
Holy shit, Nocturne sure turned the "cloth physics" up to eleven xD
I remember a tv show about games here in the netherlands and one of the guys made fun of max payne when that game came out because maxs coat was perpetualy flapping around. I wouldve loved to see his reaction to nocturne hahaha.
I always found Nocturne to be a really interesting game especially given its history with a spinoff title of the Blair Witch Project being set in the same universe as Nocturne. Then its further history of Blood Rayne supposed to originally feature the half vampire partner you team up with in Nocture.
It makes for the strangest cross property trilogy that nobody knows about and it's a real shame since the ideas and setting are such a refreshing change of pace.
I noticed that music 20:00 too in a different game. The PS2 game bouncer also has that in a cutscene where the ship is taken off near the end.
Was starting to think I had played MIB in a bad dream many years ago thanks 👍
i love how all the cloth is just losing its shit on nocturn and no ones moving. early tech physics are so good. i remember when ragdolls would just bounce off the fucking walls and their joints would just cease to exist lol.
The flashlight on AitD was really something
The really weird change on DC3 to a space tech dino scenario after DC2 isn't only for experimentation purpose, but also due to the original marketing idea. Rumor has it that DC3 was supose to be in a town that was destroyed by dinos. The original marketing posters had this in mind, but since 9/11 was too recent at the time, people were still really sensitive to this kind of imagery, something that caused the crazy change
Loving this series man, bringing back all kinds of memories from when I was young at my neighbors playing these games together. I looked through each of these videos in the series and haven't seen you mention the PSX game OverBlood and it's sequel OverBlood 2. I loved the first one and still have it in my collection. Never got to play the second game. Hoping for a 4tth installment in this video series :D
That Men in Black game was actually released here in North America, for the PC. I remember playing it for a little bit.
Good to know that you liked AITD The New Nightmare. I really like it too, as I think it is the closest a clone got to the RE levels of goodness.
The only thing I would remark is that I wouldn't recommend the PS2 version, as it has some audio glitches that don't happen in the PS1 version, and those glitches sometimes completely break the background themes. And I didn't had success playing the PC version either, so I would strongly recommend sticking with the PS1 version.
I always loved how Dino Crisis 1 and 2 is basically Capcom and RE in a nutshell, it was like, foreshadowing the future, cause Dino 1 is SUPER survival horror, and Dino 2 is basically RE4 on the ps1, both extremely good, but super different.
Tho Dino 2 deserves one of those upscale AI mods, cause, unlike 1 which was 3D environments, Dino 2 backgrounds didn't quite age well resolution-wise.
Two others I remember and was hard as hell to get into for me was Martian Gothic and Overblood. I didn't even know Overblood had a sequel. And I forgot about T.R.A.G.
Good to see Parisite eve in there, you are indeed a man of your word
Really loving this series
I strongly recommend this channel’s review of Clock Tower 3 and CarcinogenSDAs no damage run.
Dino Crisis 2 and Parasite Eve 2 ftw
Thank you for giving PE 2 it's due. It was my favorite series growing up and it seemed like most reviewers on UA-cam bashed it... I really wished they would bring the series back 😭... Ps the music from PE 2 was "inspired" by the music from the movie They live lol
If you haven't played it yet I highly recommend nocturnes spiritual sequal 'blair witch Vol1 Rustin paer. You play as another spookhouse agent and even has the stranger and was really scary to play
Got my like and sub bro! And I'm staying tuned for more! As a RE and RE Clones fan, you reminded me some gems of my childhood.
Surprised you didn't take a quick look at Nocturne's pseudo sequel in Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr. The most genius way of turning a licensed game into a stealth entry in your own franchise. (Of course you might just be covering those all in sequence in another volume of this series.)
Clock tower 3 had so many missed oppurtunities to tie into clock tower properly. Replace the scissor twins with dan and bobby barrows in the barrows mansion interacting with the ghosts of jennifer's friends.
Could've also made burrows inti barrows and have the evil soul that allysa's grandfatjer taps into the barrows that started the curse to begin with
I'd say you spoil us, but knowing you, these games were binged non-stop.
You know me well
@@AvalancheReviews Some addictions you shouldn't get rid of.
:D
FUN FACT:
The vampire sidekick in nocturne ended up being an early model for the lead character in vampire masquerade.
I don't understand how you're pumping these out so frequently while keeping them so long and high quality. You probably deserve a break soon!
I remember my PSX ""copy"" of the new nightmare having an issue right in the last few screens. I think it was with Carnby, and there was an enemy that couldn't be damaged, even with the gun you were supposed to use to kill it, and it was basically blocking off the exit on a narrow bridge you absolutely had to go through. I think we grew so tired of it we eventually ended clipping through the bridge and completing the game on, like, day 5 of trying to beat this one """""puzzle"""". The game itself is actually quite good, though, but super obscure on what to do, pun intended.
There's Blair Witch 1,2 and 3, the old trilogy on the Nocturne engine , the first one even ties into Nocturne and involves the Stranger and Doc Holiday.
As for New Nightmare, one thing I love is that Aline's campaign is massively different from Carnby, this is a little bit of an exaggeration, but it's basically if Resident Evil 2's Leon campaign was the same but Claire's had roughly half of Resident Evil 3 in it, there's alot of unique areas/puzzles that are exclusive for each character, it mostly feels like each character has their own route, that said, yeah the respawning enemies the instant you return to a room is a flaw. (Infact the high amount of saves you can get, well over 50 yet basically no ammo, especially for Aline early on who gets less than 40 Revolver shots for the entire game from a single ammo pick-up, feels very unpolished.)
The Men in Black game was released in the US, but only for PC. I had the game because I was obsessed with MiB as a kid.
I dunno if it counts but Bioforge(PC) had tank controls and prerendered backgrounds and one of the most lol-inducing backflips I've ever seen. Also you fight a cyber dinosaur. Currently $1.50 on GoG for a few more days.
Loving your videos! These games are nostalgic. Keep up the good work.