The Chronicles of Riddick: Movie Adaptations That Don't Suck
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MONSTERS OF THE WEEK: THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDCK:
A Journey Through Butcher Bay (And The Dark Athena)
In the same year as the historical first person shooter Juggernauts Half-Life 2 and Doom 3, the at-the-time quite unknown Swedish developer studio Starbreeze released one of the best movie-license tie-in video games with The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, and delivered a just as great sequel with Assault on Dark Athena 5 years later; two games that are exceedingly hard to come by on PC due to being discontinued in digital stores.
This video is a close examination of those two games and my personal journey of rediscovery of two amazing FPS/RPG/Stealth/Immersive Sim hybrids from the 2000s.
Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:53 Sponsor
00:06:22 Part 1: The Year is 2004 (It Is The Future)
00:11:46 Part 2: A Journey Through Butcher Bay Correctional Facility
00:29:07 Part 3: Many Sides of Jank
00:39:25 Part 4: Radi(c)al Slices
00:58:49 Part 5: A Road Movie (Among the Stars)
01:17:36 Epilogue
01:20:48 Credits & Golden Light Gameplay
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Archive Links to Escape from Butcher Bay & Assault on Dark Athena
docs.google.com/document/d/1H...
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Get GOLDEN LIGHT on Steam:
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** Sadly the free Steam codes are already taken, so guess you gotta support the dev the traditional way **
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Listen to the Blast From the Past Podcast on old games I'm doing with Michael Saba, like this episode on Diablo:
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(I swear we'll get around to doing new episodes sometime soon)
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Credits
Copy Editing & Captions (English): Matt Cox
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Footage Recording (Credit Segment): Jordan Pijnenburg
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Sources/Gameplay Credits
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Epilogue: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay | IGN
www.ign.com/articles/2004/09/...
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Video Games shown in this video (in order of first appearance)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Fight Club, Star Wars Kinect, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Halo 2, GTA 3: San Andreas, Fable Anniversary, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, World of Warcraft, Katamari Damacy Reroll, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Far Cry, Mirror’s Edge, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, Death Stranding, Assassin’s Creed: Origins, Aliens Versus Predator 2, Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force,
Golden Light
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Movies shown in this video (in order of appearance)
Pitch Black (2000), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), G4 - The Making of Escape from Butcher Bay, G4 - The Making of Doom 3, Over the Top (1987), Pimp my Ride, Enemy at the Gates (2001), The A-Team (1983-1987), The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Gintama (2006-2016)
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Music Credits
Contains samples from
Pitch Black OST, The Chronicles of Riddick OST by Graeme Revell
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena OST by Gustaf Grefberg
Doom 3 Main Theme by Tweaker
Rock Rap by musicant
Jagged Alliance 2 Soundtrack by Kevin Manthei
The Wonderful Star's Walk Is Wonderful by Yuri Misumi
Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocture OST by Shoji Meguro, Toshiko Tasaki, Kenichi Tsuchiya
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare OST by audiomachine
Manuel - Déjà Vu
Cecil Opia - Lost, Room
The Survivor Is a Woman (Alien³) by Elliot Goldenthal
Aliens vs Predator (2010) OST by Mark Rutherford - Ігри
In the showers segment you actualy can snag a disguise in one of the lockers. So full section plays very differently, you can speak with npc, and no combat is necessary. And later, just past eye scaner is secret vent where you can take guard armor. This section whent full hitman. :)
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, holy shit, I've finished this game 4 times now and I've *never* found that.
Thanks, I know what I'm gonna spend my Sunday with.
(I honestly think this is not very well telegraphed, but it makes a lot of sense. This whole chapter always felt extremely out of place to me)
Okay! Just replayed the part with the knowledge that there's a guard uniform you can steal and hoo boy, it makes me think that the shower itself is an even more horribly designed segment than I thought before.
This time around, knowing that this is possible it took me multiple attempts to even find the uniform, and then even after putting on the people in the shower room still attack you on sight after you put it on (without being noticed doing it, even) -- so you have to put it on and then get out undetected and *then* the rest of the chapter changes drastically. It definitely is far more enjoyable like this and makes 100 times more sense - also in line with what Riddick says at the beginning of the chapter: "Better to stay low and undetected".
Thanks for pointing this out! I'm gonna pin this comment so anyone can avoid turning this part into shooty mayhem.
(Spoiler: The uniform is in the first or second locker on the right side of the shower room from where you enter)
RagnarRox To be fair, I haven’t tried to go through undisguised. I’ll have to try that next time I play this game, probably in 12 years.
@@RagnarRoxShow there are actually 2 guard uniforms you can acquire in that section leading up to the boss fight. There is a heavy guard outfit(the outfit that Abbot/Xibits character wears) in a backroom somewhere in those hallways under the guards quarters...... been a while since i played, cant quite remember the exact spot. I think there is a vent somewhere that allows access to it.
Brian PJ WHAT
Vin Diesel is such a strange man because he makes all of these dopey goofball action movies but genuinely 100% cares about all of them and the stories they're trying to tell.
Because he can admit he basically liked for playing this roles and don´t do it because he gets payed handsomely for doing almost no work?
I can imagine that he does this movies because he feels good about and have fun doing it.
Not sure about Johnny Depp, but he seemed like he did a lot of movies just for the money as he basically plays a role which is the Directors version of Jack Sparrow because Depp was highly praised for doing this role.
It's because he's not a typical actor, he's a nerd, he plays (or played) D&D, he's shy, and has all of the stereotypical quiet-nerd characteristics, and while he just happened to get famous as an actor, those personality traits and past don't just disappear.
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z He still actively plays DND I heard a story from a BTS of Fast and Furious where he had a whole campaign going during the filming with the cast and crew it was freaking charming as hell.
@@OthelloSilvermoon He damn near played his Dungeons and Dragons in The Last Witch Hunter I believe.
@@JnEricsonx yep. He basically played his DnD character.
I've always felt like the Riddick universe is Vin Diesel's D&D Homebrew version of the Aliens universe.
You know, my wife and I have discussed the same thought. Vin is just so deep into the setting.
Hell, I would love to play in that universe!
I hate FnF, I wish diseal would do more movies like pitch black.
@@nullakjg767 Problem is funding
@@masstv9052 problem is no originality in hollywood.
@@nullakjg767 There is originality in Hollywood, just not for Blockbusters because the Audience doesn't show up for "Original" movies, and user reviews always cry how their boring movies (if they aren't huge action blockbusters). So they respond to the market.
but for Original ideas, hollywood funds them as smaller movies for streaming or as long form tv shows on Cable or Streaming sites.
Riddick and Lord of The Rings got some of the best movie-tie-in games in history. But I've never knew how integral Vin Diesel was to the creation of the final product. The man deserves respect.
He really does.
Vin Diesel and Henry Cavill are nerds that happen to be alpha.
@@webinatic216 And built like tanks. I remember when my little brother was watching Pitch Black, and he said this, "that guy's arms are bigger than my head!"
Peter Jackson's King Kong was also a really good game adaptation from the movie
@@SnazzyPuke Too bad the hardware could not keep up with it.
Man..these old games are literally a slap in the face of current gen AAA games.
These are freaking atmospheric and despite not having modern special effects have an art style that doesn't get old.
Fantastic game.
And notice: no DLC/Microtransactions. Ahhhh. Those where the days....
@@carrotsongRPG These old games were complete with version 1 without any need for patches, dlcs, qol improvements, micro transactions etc.
Now a days, even if a game seems interesting, buying it on day/month 1 is like buying the lowest quality product at the highest price.
Kids still rush out to purchase these games and then complain that they don't work flawlessly.
Just wait it out for 6 months and get the complete edition with all patches and dlcs.......for a BIG price drop.
Don't remember a single instance of a modern game that hasn't improved over time after patches.
Being a patient gamer, in todays times, saves a crap ton of money and headache.
@@main_stream_media_is_a_joke I don't generally go in for the nostalgia-laden, weren't things better in the old days, thing, but for this comment I'll make an exception. Often when I raise this kind issue in some communities, I'm skewered, the comment is taken as some kind of indictment of the game in question (which fundamentally it is I suppose) rather than of the business practices that fuel it. It baffles me how people are (edit: typo) so apathetic about this issue. People are literally spending money for no reason on games that don't warrant you cash and who will happily defend anti-consumer business practices as though they're defending a friend. It's maddening. Anyway, thanks RP, I'm with you!
@@the_elder_gamer If I am not wrong, even in mid/late 90's, PC gaming was still considered as a nerdy hobby/activity.
Most of the big companies didn't have pure MBA's running the show....there were technical people who also occupied managerial and higher positions.
With the massive boom and acceptance of gaming as a mainstream activity, you have non tech MBA's in control and the entire game development cycle has been converted into a fast food production line with predictable profits....and practically little to no risk taking with different genres (this ensuring predictable profits).
Now this is good from a shareholder, bonus tide to sales pov but this makes the entire industry extremely homogeneous and samey.
No wonder the games are turning up how they are.
The rabid fanboyism that you mentioned just seems ridiculous, with fanboys (Nvidia/AMD) etc fighting it out as if their actual lives are on the line.
Bring into this mix the "influencers" who are nothing but company payed lackeys, and kids who have little to no concept of delayed gratification, and it's better to buy shares of gaming/HW companies and watch the shit show while making money at their expense.
@@main_stream_media_is_a_joke All I can really say is thank goodness for indies. I've all but abandoned every big developer/publisher. We all need to be smarter about voting with our wallets these days. In any case, stay safe and be well.
The way that Vin Diesel just understood completly what a movie tied game should do is amazing :o
If only more people wanted to make fun, entertaining, and interactive series purely for the enjoyment factor instead of a giant corporate wheel intent on taking all of the money of their willing pay pigs, eh?
Seriously I miss the old era of gaming.
Hell, he used to have a his own game studio. He was a definitely a guy who enjoyed the games he was involved in. (Except for the latest Fast and the Furious game)
@@ootdega Passion projects made by game-loving nerds were replaced by greed-fueled videogames pumped out by evil corporations run by cunts in suits.
The Riddick games have some of the most first person feeling first person perspective. You can feel your body and arms. It's borderline vr.
That's a specific characteristic of Starbreezes first person shooters that makes me a fan of them.
One thing I think that is missing from the Riddick of the games compared to the Riddick of the movies, is that his sense of humor is way toned down. In all the movies Riddick has a dark sense of humor and is constantly subtly mocking his opponents but in the games (and especially Dark Athena) it's barely present. Instead Vin Diesel decided to lean *super* heavily on the man-of-few-words badass type personality.
That missing tone of voice he uses when joking around in Pitch Black was my only gripe with Dark Athena. That and the ulaks. Did he carry them through all of Chronicles of Riddick??
"Are you trying to get under my skin Riddick?"
"It's easier with a knife." -Riddick
@@v8matey
“Already trying to get under my skin, eh, Riddick?”
“It’be easier... if I had something sharp.”
You need to take this seriously.
It's hilarious that you called Rust a "prime rooster", because in Russian prisons "rooster" is a slang term for an inmate forced to give sexual favours.
huh, the more you know. Fascinating.
So does that make Rust, Abbott's prison bitch...
Well Abbot called Rust "rooster" in the first place. And if i remember correctly there is no slavic refferences in the whole game. Might be coincidink. Damn i need to replay this game. Now im interested if Russian localisation did dirty and translated that moment.
Just like the word Chickenhead
That's fucked up.
Bro i played the crap out of these games when I was in middle and early high school. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who remembers them.
This game still looks insanely good even today.
good lighting at work.
I love this franchise. Even Chronicles of Riddick. I know it has its flaws but I love how different the universe is so different from other sci fi universes. It’s very Heavy Metal.
Oml, thank you so much for the archival links! Me and my dad have both wanted to play these games for so long, but I've never been able to find them!
Its Lead!
Hey LeadHead. Love your content!
Worth picking up a ps3 or 360 for imo, these games are that good.
WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE THOTBOT INVASION?!?!
hi Lead!
For me personally, Escape from Butcher Bay is so good, that i consider Pitch Black as a bonus add-on.
A bot just posted this exact comment as a reply on my comment on this video; followed by multiple other bots reposting other comments.. the fuq
wtf with these bots, lol
"he's Riddick,thinks he's shit don't stink" was the first time I ever heard that expression back when the game came out,the only line I remembered from the game :)).
My girlfriend loves the Riddick series and just started going through them with me starting with this game two days ago. We're gonna finish the game and then watch your video together.
Have you finished it yet?
Synchronicity never fails to amaze. Literally just watched Pitch Black the other night and picked up the game from a pawn shop yesterday. And now this. Wtf
Just coincidence. All sorts of things happen to align once in a while, but we only notice those that we care about. If you were into cooking or piano or painting you would also notice things aligning and go “ooooh, synchonicity,” but it’s nothing special.
It’s why they say “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” The opportunities for various things are always around us, but we don’t notice because we’re into other things.
V.D. is such a dork and i love him for it. The way he talks about the media he's in and enjoys seems genuine and i find that to be pretty cool.
wtf is happening in here?
One of the most underrated games of all time. And yes, I agree, it’s THE FPS of 2004.
Agreed, I enjoyed the main campaign more than Halo 2’s or HL2’s myself though those are both great games as well. For me, EFBB has aged better than HL2, but I know that’s likely to be a controversial statement.
@@BlindBison yeah, I mean the physics ins HL2 were revolutionary I guess, but besides that I don’t remember much about it. EFBB is way more memorable.
@@The_RedVIII
Let’s not be unfair. HL2 was amazing, if you played it at launch. The level design, the oppressive atmosphere, the thrilling ride it took you on, were unprecedented. It’s great to play even now.
And so is EFBB.
@@Banzeken well said mate I hear you - I like how you articulated your points there. Yeah, I think it’s a good game certainly for it’s time, just not in the same league as HL1. EfBB holds up very well/very fun game today.
2004 was a year of HL2 and Doom 3. EFBB was considered a bit less, because of its console roots and a bit lesser technical excellence. This was first year bumpmap and dynamic lighting was used in (mainstream AAA) games. But yeah, it seemed like a start of a new great era for games. And I would say 2005-2010 did not dissapoint. Most of xbox360 AAA releases seemed like a revelation in terms of scale, production etc. Oddly enough, next decade seemed to take wrong turn somehow.
I've always been a huge fan of The Darkness, made by the same studio. I heard people say good things about these games too whenever I brought that up, but never really knew much about them before. Seems like there's even more in common between the games than just the developer and aesthetic. And hey look, the Riddick games are abandonware...
The Darkness is freakin' amazing, the Riddick games are equally good.
The Darkness fucks so hard
And I thought my reacting to Riddick's line of "Embrace the darkness," by gurgling out "JaCkiiiEEE!!" was wholly coincidental.
Escape from Butcher Bay is honestly one of the greatest games I ever played. A genuine hidden gem. So underrated and underappreciated.
It still hurts my soul that it got overlooked during its original release and the rerelease with Dark Athena. Starbreeze deserved better.
"It`s not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the bottom."
"It`s not the fall that kills you................................................................................................................................................. It's the sudden stop at the bottom."
It blows my mind that this was on the original XBox and it ran well. I mean 2004 was 17 years ago and the game holds up visually and feels great even now.
Well he notes that this footage is from the remade portion of Dark Athena from 2009 on the 360/PS3
@@98izzark69 I know, I guess I didn't explain that well. I have the original game and an original xbox still. I keep it around for a few authentic experiences like this and Ninja Gaiden because in my view they were so fundamentally tied to the hardware itself that even the creators haven't been able to replicate the magic of what just worked back then on any other platform. Dark Athena is content rich and pretty but the original is the first time that I ever really felt like I was in a fight in a game and I still have that same disc. It still holds up even though I have to use an adaptor for the display now.
Part one: How you totally botched your first year of college playing all those awesome video games with your new nerdy friends instead of attending to classes.
Painfully spot on.
i feel so happy that my religion is portrayed in such a positive way in this game/movie narrative and also so beautifully described in your video; because it's pretty rare that people view us, muslims, as actual people with their own culture and beliefs, we are rather some bunch of delusional and aggressive psychos in the eyes of some people.
I do not believe, but even I can see that Islam has given the world much more than religious fanatics could ever take away. Insha’Allah, truth will prevail and people will open their minds a bit more.
@@remainprofane7732 beautiful words! i absolutely agree. true believers always try to make world a better place to live in :-)
Imam was my first exposure to a Muslim in cinema, and he's arguably the heart of the surviving Pitch Black trio. I still hold that killing off Imam and Jack was a HUGE mistake of the franchise. Ideally he Riddick movies would center around Riddick, Jack and Imam, even though it's far too late to go back now :'(
@Bitch Lasagna However no where near as evil and Machiavellian as the greedy money grubbing cult of Scientology
Even if I may disagree with your religion, I will never see you as a psychotic terrorist because of the fact you practice Islam.
The lighting in this game is freaking gorgeous, reminds me a bit of FEAR
edit: IDK why but a bunch of Russian Porn Bots really liked this comment
To me, this game is the hidden gem of hidden gems. It had no business being as good as it was. I can’t believe it’s almost 20 years old.
The hell is going on here
Man, after watching this whole video, I really want nothing more than a new Riddick game with refined stealth mechanics similar to Ghost of Tsushima, like air assassinations or multi stealth kills.
dam that would be dreamlike
No.
Like Dishonored series.
like ghost of tsushima????? r u ok? this AC stile of stealth is a joke
38:50 I legit heard "waifu" and now I can't unhear it
Wait, that's not what he said? XD
Damn you!, now I can't unhear it!
When you order a new waifu but Vin Diesel turns up instead
@@Biouke He means “rifle,” pronounces it more like “waifle,” hence people hear “waifu.”
@@edgepixel8467 I know he didn't really said "waifu" (immediately went back to listen more attentively) but thanks for the explanation anyway , that's kind from you :)
I actually really appreciate Vin Diesel as a person. Until recently, I really only knew him from The Fart and The Furious franchise, and if you can't tell from that, I didn't think much of him. But if you dig deeper into his passion projects and his personal life, you realize he's actually a huge nerd, and he cares about those nerdy projects. Mad props to him. And mad props to you for reminding me of this hidden gem. I randomly got this video game for Christmas one year and didn't think it was going to be anything approaching good. I was totally blown away when I started playing.
incase anyone watching this video didn't know. Vin forfeit his paycheck when he cameoed in Tokyo drift to obtain the rights to Riddick
some actors have their Favorite roles
Kurt Russel has Snake Plisken
Harrison ford has Indiana Jones
Vin Diesel has Riddick and Dom
I was not aware of this, but knowing what I do of Vin, I am also not surprised.
Papa Ragnar releasing an hour and a half video about Riddick's Butcher Bay...yes pls!!
"It aint the fall that gets ya....It's the sudden stop at the bottom"...That line has stuck with me since I first heard it
@@ootdega is your mom Vin Diesel?
@@TheSuperuser49 Lmaoo
"Yep it's getting RIDDICKulos"
I caught it, did you?
Yeah, it's what brought me to the comment section
This game still looks insanely good even today.
@@Mia-ip6vi Bot
Literally searched for videos about the Riddick games yesterday, and now Ragnar comes up with this! 😍
I’ve done my Saturday chores while listening to this audio on my phone in my pocket without any of the video. That’s the quality of Rag’s narrative.
I love your video essays 👍🏻
I've never watched a Vin Diesel film, but I've heard tons of good things about these games. Wonder if they'll ever get a proper re-release/sequel. I know the devs are currently handling the Wolfenstein series.
they've been remastered, still extremely playable.
I swear when I finished Dying Light, I wanted to play Escape From Butcher's Bay again.
Sad we don't get movies like these anymore.
The game was amazing. I never played the follow up though. I always felt it was a game that was perfect in it's time and the sequel somehow didn't appeal enough. Big respect for the Jagged Alliance 2 music - that is a game I played for about a lifetime again and again.
Same, it's incredible how JA2 never seems to lose appeal for another replay
Totally Missed this games, maybe it's time to finally embark for Riddick's journey in this year.
Also, gotta really like that you also watched Pimp My Ride regularly in the past LOL
The prequel game is 100% worth it
You're not supposed to stealth your way through the guard quarters. You can disguise yourself and it becomes another hub area where you can talk to people, do side quests, etc.
The Chronicles of Riddick is a series of greek tragedies. Riddick is actually the vengeance of the gods sent to punish hubris.
Man I remember I was like 13 when I bought assault on dark Athena and escape from butcher bay, me and my brother weren't very good with videogames at that time, so I remember we tried to play if once or twice and gave up, then like a month or more later I decided to actually try and was able to push through and fell in love with both, I still remember trying to climb the rope to escape or jumping around to avoid bullets, it was one of the only times I've really put a lot of effort to finish a difficult game
Acursed Farms talked about this, sometimes pirating games can preserve abandon ware. It's sad to some abandon is really good to, and sometimes the copy write laws are complete BS.
It's like hearing an old song and time traveling mind & soul back to a special time and place. Even more so, because unlike a song, video game engagement is way deeper and more immersive. I loved these games so much - making this video so profound. Thanks!!
I remember playing this for the first time on PS3 with an HDMI cable connected to my first flat screen tv. I was like 27 at the time... god...
But i hadn't really kept up with technology so the graphics of Butcher Bay actually surprised me with how real they seemed to be. I recall walking through the opening cell block and looking in one cell, the way the light bulb just dangled from the ceiling and the room was so bare and empty reminded me of so many places i had visited in my life. There was even an echo in the cell!
The melee combat was gritty, visceral, it felt realistic. I could feel some actual weight in the punches Riddick threw.
I wish i had finished it.
Lovable mess is the BEST way to describe the Chronicles of Riddick movie, can’t wait to watch your whole video RagnarRox!
started looking for a copy after getting hyped by this video only to notice the archive links! that was a really nice touch. thank you.
as a kid pitch black was my first encounter with keith david and vin diesel, good times.
Every time Ragnar puts up video over half an hour, I always have to bring out the popcorn.
I think this is one video of yours I am addicted to. I watch it before making music, and the atmosphere is very on point.
A video dedicated to one of my favorite franchises released on my birthday. (i was a little busy yesterday, but i watch it a day later)
Thank you very much Ragnar!
One of my favorite things about this game, and im not sure it's intentional is that nasty fluorescent like artificial light that's used in real prisons in the 70's and 80's. They reproduced it in game for the prison sections and it makes the prison atmosphere as nasty and oppressing as a real prison used to be. It was an incredible aesthetic choice, if done intentionally to reproduce real prison lighting.
@danielvandusen5724 sorry for replying to an old comment, but I’m pretty much completely sure that the lighting was a very well-researched and intentional choice. My father was one of the developers for the game, and through him I know that they spent a lot of the time making sure the look and feel of the prison would be just right. There are a lot of wall textures that are made out of ceramic tiles, which might seem kind of old-fashioned in this science fiction setting, but it really works to make the prison seem more like an inhumane institution, like the walls are there to be easily hosed down by the guards if they get too bloody. The devs made research into things like old prisons and old mental hospitals. They also put effort into things like how the beds look and where they’re placed, even the different graffiti on the walls have been researched and can give hints to the story and the inmates in the different areas.
@Trassel242 I wasn't sure because I thought it might have just been the result of the lighting in the Doom Engine, but then I remembered all the scenes after like the white room with the cubicles and the halls you use the mech in. And those are lit completely different and emphasize how oppressing the prison felt. That prison captured the mood and feeling better than any other game I've ever played. Somehow, they nailed it perfectly and there hasn't been a game I've seen since that was able to reproduce that weird, uncomfortable feeling, with a type of lighting that makes you feel... icky and overbearing is the only way I can describe it.
I am contractually bound by how good a game this that whenever someone mentions it, I must play it again.
What a brilliant video man,
thank you for bringing back such great memories. If any game needed an actual remake/remaster it's these! Gonna see if I can require these games!
I thoroughly enjoy listening to people talk about the games they love. Thank you for making this! You have a new sub =D
These are surprisingly amazing games, and not just because Riddick is one of my favorite character. It is a shame that we don't see him a lot more frequently.
This was my best FPS, and interactive movie experience in my life.
Just wanna say I appreciate the passion, delivery, and extensive left/right limits with regards to what you cover
Dropped just in time for my workout. You're the man!
The way you present things and the atmosphere you provide is phenomenal.
Thank you, that's a really cool compliment!!
Dude, your work is incredible. Thank you.
Hey Ragnar! Thanks for covering this sleeper hit! I can't believe it, but Butcher Bay's graphis still look awesome even today!!
I noticed the use of Jagged Alliance 2 music at the start of Part 4. Always puts a smile on my face to see tactics RPGs like Jagged Alliance and Silent Storm getting some love (even though I'm not very good at them).
I honestly didn't expected to find even one person to notice Jagged Alliance 2 OST.
Glad there are people who hadn't forgot about this game.
Yeah, always nice to meet gamers old enough to even know it
I've been subbed to you for over two years now, and it's still so amusing to me how much you enunciate like Cristoph Waltz
That's a new one
Couldn’t think of a better way to start my weekend....well better way “legally” to start my weekend. Thank you sir for this content, I can honestly say if anyone else would have recommended this game i would have laughed my ass off but you vouching for it well I wanna give it a try
When your voice starts I know I can just take a breath, relax, and drift back into an experience that educates, entertains, and reinvigorates.
I honestly hated the changes made in the Assault on Dark Athena rerelease. The melee combat lost its weight, everything looked like it was smeared with vaseline.
I had a lot of issues with it as well but was able to stomach it due to being ecstatic about being able to play Butcher Bay again. It was a flawed bonus.
@@Medieval_Dead My biggest hangup was in the mines.
In the OG release, there's a big cavern with a riot guard patrolling. You could temporarily stun him with your tranq pistol, lead him to a pad where a shipping container gets put down and picked up, and use the environment to crush him.
In the rerelease, the tranq pistol does nothing to him. ;_;
What annoyed me the most is that in original release you could sneak past the mech after getting the assault rifle and use the elevator. In Dark Athena you can only use the button after defeating the mech
I remember playing the demo on one of the demo disks that Target used to sell. That small play time was enough for me to beg my mom to buy me both games. I still have them, stashed away with my Xbox, and I need to revisit them again. Thank you for showing the new line of players what a good team of developers can achieve back in the day
I definitely didn't expect Gintama at the end, bonus points for that, and an amazing video as always!
In 2004, I was amazed that Escape From Butcher Bay looked so glorious and ran so well on my relative potato of its day. I honestly can't remember which setup I had back then, but I do remember that I never had more than a low-to-midrange video card back then, and that I thought that there was no way this game could look and perform this well on that card, when Doom 3 ran like a slideshow on the exact same rig.
I loved this game so much when it came out and I still do. It was ahead of its time.
Fantastic video on these overlooked games, I would love to see them hopefully make their way onto GOG. I adore how atmospheric Starbreeze games are. Games like The Darkness and the Riddick games are among my favorites because of their thick atmospheric vibes.
I also think a reason why the these work so well as a licensed games, is that they were made made as legitimate pieces of canon. So it builds upon the Riddick universe. While most other licensed games are beholden to big companies who are very selective with what can and can't be done. So they end up feeling like vapid rehashes of what they're based off of.
That is an incredibly interessting overall structure they came up with and thank you for sharing it!
I'm a relatively new subscriber to this channel and seeing an entire vid on one of the most slept on game adapted movies just made my night. This game remains in the top tier by comparison to so many modern AAA games with gameplay, level design, atmosphere, ect
Still love the idea and atmosphere of the first game. This is the best video so far to Riddick in games. Thanks for that. Keep up the good work!
Just wanna say thank you for providing links to source the games. I've always wanted to replay them again but never had the means to.
This dude actually picks every of my favorite games. Highly recommended
What the hell I just sat through a 1 hour 24 min game documentary. Great vid. Loved this game. They later released like a dev commentary version which I played through as well, where there were little interactive speakers in game that played dev commentary as you played.
glad i found your channel :D now Im binge watching all videos
Doom 3 was amazing in almost every way. Mind-shaping experience that affected me deeply, infinitely more than half life 2, and remains by far my best horror experience. And later in the game, it turned into Doom in the perfect way.
Aaaaaaaah i am so happy you decided to cover those games : i am a big fan of the film series and hadn't managed to get my hands on those at the time because i thought i wouldn't like the FPS aspect, it so cool to have your analysis and run down of the story \o/
Ah, yes, thank you for such a detailed and loving tribute to both of these games. I had an original Xbox and played Butcher Bay back in 2004, then had to sell it all the next year due to financial difficulties. A couple years later, when I'd gotten back on my feet and gotten a 360, I was sad to find out that EfBB wasn't one of the titles that the 360 had backwards compatibility for. Then Dark Athena came out, and that it included the EfBB remaster was so lovely, because I could revisit the old love and also experience the new joy.
That said, one nitpick: Isn't the super-jank wobble-cam during the mech fight portion of Butcher Bay specifically explained as that Riddick was only able to find an unoccupied mech because it was in for repairs to fix a busted gyro-stabilizer on one side? Granted, they could've written in some other challenge-inducing malfunction that didn't bounce you around like that, but it's not like we're supposed to assume those mechs in general were that bad.
I forget, does Dark Athena ever cover just how Johns escaped? You show how he gets captured and disappears from the narrative, but I don't remember if we're ever shown/told that he'd gotten himself out or if Riddick retrieved him for some reason or what.
I love Riddick badass character. I just bought the games on ebay for my ps3. This and The Darkness 1 and Darkness 2 never get old
The prayer mats just being markings in the concrete is so depressing and such a subtle detail that adds a lot.
So happy my parents got me the Dark Athena and Butcher Bay package as a kid. I vividly remember struggling through Butcher Bay in the mid 2000s. Too bad it's nearly impossible to play on PC
I remember these games being even better than the films
EFBB was.
It seems to me that Swedish game developers are pretty adept at making rather decent games out of movie franchises. Another example that I quite enjoyed was the game Mad Max by Avalanche Studios from 2015.
The story of the game is pretty "basic" in that way you'd expect from anything related to Mad Max. But the gameplay and the renditions of the enviroments and the brutal combat are all quite top notch.
I normally avoid games based on movie franchises due to the reasons given in the video, but after I saw a gameplay video of Mad Max I immediately felt compelled to try it out and I was not disappointed at all.
So it's very curious to find out that Escape from Butcher Bay was also developed by a Swedish studio.
Great stuff as always ;) thanks!
The Percy Jackson King Kong game was also one of those amazing games!
Big Riddick fan, ive always said he'd be great DLC for MK yet nobody thinks of Riddick for some reason, he'd fit right in plus even has powers with his Furian background.
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Oh god, I love those old engine style so much. Hard shadows, normal maps on everything - F.E.A.R. and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games also really nailed that aesthetic, I miss this. So glad you talked about normal maps
3:30 Why couldn't everyone think like this? That would make all forms of media so much better man. Experimentation with things not necessarily having been in the original. Of course, this is much easier to achieve in gaming, though.
Massive shout out to Vin's involvement with this project and your expert coverage and review on it. You already know that your research, narration and editing skills are top-tier. Keep it up man, take care!
Thank you Rang. Keep on keeping on
The Jagged Alliance music brings back memories...
Loved all 3 films, both games, the animated film and the motion comics, been patiently waiting for Riddick 4-Furya for a while, hope it comes out, this series is great.
Been waiting on a retrospective for this game series for A WHILE
Great vid. It's an underappreciated game in a affable sci-fi series. Played it many a time. Also, nice use of music from Under Siege