Not just his voice, but everything about him. The difference between him here and DS2 is crazy. DS1 Dawson wakes up, takes painkillers that actually function, and *gets shit done*. Doesn't scoff at repelling out of his own house when the front door clearly functions fine, actually has the body strength to climb the rope back into his house easily (can't understate how difficult that is in reality at that age), is amicable with basically every person in town he meets, doesn't hesitate throwing himself into an alien world and wandering around, solves completely bullshit puzzles effortlessly, and is overall unflappable even in the final hours before his head explodes to some alien egg thing. And if you gave him a ring toss game, he'd probably win first try on his own merits. And then DS2 Dawson is a loser in every conceivable way, it's absolutely wild to call it a sequel.
@@changvasejarik62 It does man, all the stuff we grew up with is dead and long forgotten. There is nothing like Spoony or Retsupurae anymore.... I don't think anyone knows what snark or a riff is today.
@ I refuse to forgive Machinima until they upload the Steve and Larson archives. I’ve contemplated trying to fill the void but I hate working on a project alone.
@@changvasejarik62 Sadly Machinima is long dead, are there no archives of Steve and Larson anywhere, not even a mirror channel? I know what you mean, most of us can only make videos alone, sadly the chances of finding someone else to make videos with is very unlikely, we will never find the Slowbeef to our Diabeetus : (
And so Mike Dawson gave the bottle of scotch to his neighbor which proceeded to immediately gulp the whole bottle. After he finished drinking the scotch in one go, the neighbor looks at Mike and said: "Boy that's smooth, that felt like a slap on the face! Welcome back to mario galaxy 2."
*"The battery still works!"* -Mike "Triumphant" Dawson, Darkseed I _"She'd be beautiful if her flesh wasn't decaying..."_ -Mike "Did You Kill Rita" Dawson, Darkseed II WHAT HAPPENED
Well, Dawson didn't work on the second game, so he must've done something to piss the developers off. This is why you don't make yourself a character kids, because then you're owned by companies. It might be okay in fanfics, though reasonable self-inserts are few and far between they can be done, but trying to make yourself a Mary Sue often ends up backfiring.
Sir Tanky I know he didn't work on the second, it was a rhetorical question. Frankly, in my opinion, DS1 Mike Dawson was not so much a Mary Sue as a generic character just to plug in the story. In theory, he was silent until the voice clips were added to *EVERYTHING*. The game really doesn't have TOO much in the way of plot, and is more along the lines of the typical horror genre of the time. DS2, on the other hand, looks like a peice of shit (and it is) but is actually a deep psychological horror (google analysis of it for further details, it's quite interesting). Thing is, it's presented so badly that it ends up being the goofy, boring shit that we see.
DiseasedMoss Notice I said TRYING to make yourself a Mary Sue. I almost said in theory but I didn't wanna seem like I was mocking you, but it seems like he could have been an actual Mary Sue. He looks and acts like the average joe but he ends up stopping the alien invasion just because. He ends up being the Chosen One just because, but that is kinda typical so I'll let it slide. I will agree with the rest of your points though. As for DS2 being a deep psychological horror? I can believe that, there were definitely signs of what it was meant to be under the cheesy presentation. The game is about a man who lives every day of his life knowing that there's a parallel dimension with counterparts to everyone he knows, and he also knows that the Ancients could come back for revenge. The analysis sounds interesting though, I'll have to keep that in mind for later. Thanks for the response pal!
You know, if it becomes night while he's in the Dark World (Darkseed1), Mike just lays down on the floor and goes to sleep. He also dies afterwards. Darkseed 1 Dawson gives NO fucks.
I was going to say that it's crazy how much Mike talks like King Graham from King's Quest, but then I remembered that King Graham was voiced by some dude who worked on the game. And Mike in this game was also just the dude making the game.
DS1 Mike pours Scotch into a gas tank to power a spaceship. DS2 Mike needs a magnetic crossbow to win at infinite-attempt ring toss. He really came a long way.
Funny how there's definitely a good base for an amazing sequel, but instead we got Darkseed 2. Which is an masterpiece in it's own right but for all the wrong reasons.
I feel like there's a golden gem of a story hidden under all the silliness of Darkseed II. There's SOMETHING there, between Mike and Jack; the frustrating inability to 'date' Rita boiling into psychological rage; the dark world counterparts... But it just doesn't pan out.
>wake up for work >shower in my clothes >climb up into the attic and rappel down my house >"at least the lawn doesn't need mowing!" >get in my car and beep the horn >realize it's Saturday >rappel back up my house >leave out the front door to buy booze and go to the library
And here I was expecting it to be a puzzle game joke. You know, something like, "Somehow he didn't move till I went to the pet store, saved a dying bird, then got the bird to fly past Mike, which got him to move."
I actually think this and the sequel are pretty good when you interpret it as Mike just being a paranoid schizophrenic. It kind of makes the obtuse puzzles make sense in a sort of “crazy person logic” way.
They must have been stolen in the midst of an INCREDIBLE CRIME WAVE. Better keep your Mike Dawson collectibles under the stones in your basement floor. [CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE]
Okay, so my problem isn't really the fact that Old Man Tuttle swallowed the clock key, rather that in the week leading up to his death that it never traveled through his digestive tract. It just stuck in his stomach until his death and wasn't found during his cremation.
Looking at Mike Dawson you can clearly tell he is rocking the look of Hall & Oates - in a majority of all their campy music videos they rotate which one of them gets to rock that sweet brown jacket (available in multiple colors when visiting the dark world). Mike Dawson believes it is the pinnacle of high fashion & to remove it to shower would be sacrilegious! I'm sure it has nothing to do with the Maneater alien in his brain.
MattsukeMinutaro Yeah, they should totally do like Cinemassacre does. But I don't think it'll happen because of the nature of the medium, and how many people they would have to negotiate with.
The change of perspective in the narrative text is jarring. "You are in the bathroom. Boy my head hurts! You clean yourself up. My head is killing me!"
Coming back to this one after binge-watching your Kings Quest series, I was curious about the originals and ended up watching a longplay of them, played by none other than Ironclaw! Swings and roundabouts
In DS1, Mike Dawson makes an alien Mjolnir - in DS2, he can't negotiate an anvil sitting atop a cooler. This was not a amicable split between Cyberdreams and the real Dawson, was it?
@@1Hol1Tiger Given how DarkSeed II was, I'm willing to say the more incompetent one is Cyberdreams. The infuriating time mechanic in DS1 aside, it's actually a pretty cool game.
@@neoqwerty Honestly I think the second game better as it's actually a wonderful deconstructive parody of the chosen hero. Especially since the Dark World doesn't exist and Mike's just a crazed incel... Which is implied but not stated in the first game "Only the Mirror itself is real, what is seen in the mirror is not."
@@1Hol1Tiger From a game development standpoint and from a puzzle logic, though, it's awful. I don't know if maybe I missed some details and hints playing DS2 or what, but DS1 gave hints as to what you needed and could intuit things, the main issue was just needing to basically note down schedules for not only each day but what changes over the days. (Also, that ONE item you need for the jail that you don't get a hint for at all unlike the other two, that was kind of a cheap shot.) DS2 suffers from what I like to call the "Phantasmagoria Problem". Good story, but the game itself is trying to make you dent your desk with your skull until you're trying to give everything to everyone because the developers didn't check if it makes sense for someone who doesn't know what they do.
You're content is pretty relaxing and entertaining to watch, but when it's coupled with the soundtrack to this game it's relaxing and nostalgic. It just reminds me of playing shitty old games like these, really late at night. When I was too young and stupid to even understand how to play them.
Real talk - when I get really sick, I tend to throw on a wrongpurae playlist and just veg out to these old videos. It's quite comforting and relaxing when you really need it.
I haven't looked up the statistics personally, but I read somewhere that property near cemeteries actually goes for slightly higher. As a point or three in their favor, cemeteries are generally rather tranquil, stately, and well-groomed. Perhaps houses near them would have even higher value if it weren't for superstition. Take that, 2014 Diabetus.
this series is going to carry me through yet another breakup, this time after 9 years. Unlike my ex, at least this video is still around to comfort me. I'm being funny about this but I'm serious
@@MahDryBread hey dude, things are a bit better now. I still got to keep my place/cats etc, she's off in a literal cult now, which is a damn shame, but I need to heal and she's not it.
To continue a Silent Hill Movie in-joke: "My instincts are screaming at me not to go into that evil alien building WELL NOTHING VENTURED NOTHING GAINED I GUESS The alien spaceship is fueling up to get the pissed-off evil aliens off my parallel world BETTER POUR SUGAR IN THEIR GAS TANK, CAN'T LET 'EM LEAVE NOW Getting messages from a good evil alien telling me how to stop the evil aliens THIS SEEMS LIKE RATIONAL ADVICE TO ME, I BETTER NOT CALL MY THERAPIST YET"
Mike Dawson seems so suave in this game because Mike is a writer and this is his written account of how things happened. Darkseed 2 Mike is what he's actually like.
Just realized, if things in the light world affect the dark world and vice versa, when he throws the stick off the bridge and the alien dog jumps after it and dies, did the light world dog also die? So he killed his neighbors dog?
Aidan Lawson Unlike the second game it seems like what you do in the light world affects the dark world but not vice-versa, which honestly makes more sense if Mike is just imagining all this.
Hey DStecks, why did you turn off the comments to your Sonichu reviews? I get that you wanna distance yourself from Chris-Chan, but does that also entail muting everyone else?
Oh man it's been a while since I have seen another playthrough of the first Darkseed. It was Darkseed 2 that gave me the best chuckles. Time to re-watch this. Thanks Retsupurae.
Just because he isn't going to do a box set doesn't mean that he might not do a tasting menu. There are plenty of great moments in the Darkseed II wrongpurae. (Outside of the beetus moment)
kristomaster4 Every moment of Darkseed II is a great moment. It is art. You could not trim a moment from that game any more than you could cut an elevator from Deep Fear.
+Kei Nanjo She's waiting for Adam to authorize her to authorize him. Mike had the power hammer and was about to hit the mirror with it before Adam got back to her. And on that day Samus learned.
@@matrix91234 I try not to judge people for liking what they like, but really? The graphics? Other M looks worse than Prime 1, and it was released a decade later, on a more powerful system.
*pours out some more 40 for first year anniversary of this boxset* I knew there was a reason I felt the need to watch this again today. I cant believe how long its been since you RPd these. Imagine how old shrimp baby is now! Like, a shrimp elementary schooler!
Hey, I'm thankful for the box sets. If I'm on my phone, I can't search for older videos as easily as I could if I'm on my laptop. Besides that, they usually upload things pretty regularly and it looks like they're doing about 2 or more separate series, so...
DJWaffleston Hopkins FBI isn't too long but it's goddamn hilarious. It seems like a standard mystery point and click but it gets so fucking weird so fast. You gotta watch it, probably the only one I can watch multiple times over and still enjoy.
It's a shame Mike Dawson might have been insulted at something like this, but at the same time, there is the fact that he perhaps, at least at the time of the original RP of this, couldn't converse about a trashing of it due to it possibly having a reflection on his career. Though honestly, I feel that someone who does a performance and looks back on it and says "woo yeah, that didn't age well, BUT I did learn a lot of key things from that experience" is a little more credible than someone with a spotless track record. Oh, and aside from the Xenomorph picture next to the grandfather clock, there is also a picture of Sil over the couch, which the Dark world librarian also resembles.
A lot of the art in the game is actually appropriated from existing Giger paintings, the librarian in particular is Li I, and Li II hangs on the wall near the xenomorph. Granted, it's nowhere near as bad as Darkseed II, where literally nothing is original, but they definitely made use of his back catalogue. As for Mike, it might not have been that he couldn't laugh at himself, but rather that he perceived the questions or sentiments as a direct attack. If someone's doing an lp of your game, and goes so far as to email the writer, it's natural to assume they have enough affection for it to bother spending the time on it at all. But if you shoot a guy an email that says "why did you make this stupid piece of shit?" instead of "what's up with the slow walking?" you're basically asking to be ignored. I have no idea what slowbeef said in that email, but I'm just saying from what I can tell he has an unusually mean-spirited and outright dismissive attitude about almost everything. I honestly can't imagine the guy being nice to... anyone, really. His "well he ignored me so FUCK THAT GUY" attitude in this video I think bears this theory out more so than Mike Dawson having an image of himself as infallible. And for what it's worth this game is nowhere near as awful as slowbeef and diabetus are making it out to be, but I'm going to assume that's already obvious.
***** Not to mention his ripping on sonic games when he hasn't any knowledge of anything past sonic 3. If you're gonna rip on something's core, you better fucking know about it, otherwise YOU look like the fool, especially when he was walking about NOT knowing about Amy or Shadow and thinking they were something recent.
***** Slowbeef did say he liked the game in his LP though, it's just that Retsupurae makes fun of things. I personally hope that it was just a miscommunication thing. Like I really love Darkseed and Harvester (and to an extent Darkseed 2), but they do have some really ridiculous things that happen as part of the medium and genre.
Zachary Jolene Chan Slowbeef tends to mess things up in communication at time and has often been more brash about a statement than he should have. He also has a habit of speaking as if he knows "everything" about a topic when in actuality he knows nothing about it, and that alone can make a professional turn any interaction down.
Tbh it's funny to see this debate about Slowbeef and Diabetus being unpleasant and rude in retrospect. TH-cam and Twitch creators have proven just how humble and not really attention grubbing these guys are. Honestly I miss the simplicity of Retsupurae, and their humor.
yeah, been putting on random wrongpuraes again since it's been so long since i saw most of them. somehow i missed the harvester extras video so i watched that for the first time last night, haha
Damn it, I hadn't watched this since it first went up, and when I put it on a minute ago I realized sometime between then and now I accidentally started dressing like Mike Dawson. Almost exactly like Mike Dawson. Only difference is I wear black jeans instead of blue. I think it's time to step back and do a serious evaluation of my recent life choices. EDIT: in my defense it's because of work, but I still chose it.
I'll answer a question posed by Diabetus in the video. According to what I can find online, Mike Dawson worked on exactly one game, Dark Seed... and then quit to write books about programming and teach programming _and game design._ So, yeah, he was involved in the design of one game with _glaring design flaws_ and then thought, you know, I'm qualified to teach this now. What's worse is that someone agreed enough to pay him for it.
With that kind of blind confidence, something tells me he was the sole reason the programmers of the sequel made that game a full-fledged character assassination.
Spike Rose The problem is trying to raise kids in a single-parent household. One woman simply cannot do it on her own. What the mother needs is a good, hard penis.
I looked up Mike Dawson to see if he made any other games, and while looking for that, I found out GameTrailers called this one of the 10 scariest games of all time. Are you shitting me? Just because Giger did some artwork doesn't make something scary.
I still genuinely think Dark Seed I is actually a pretty decent little game for what it's worth. Flawed, but still pretty fun. Also, Mike isn't a wimpy prick.
I’d like to think Betus got so bored watching this game that he started drinking liquor and hence why he couldn’t stop hiccuping after the half way point
As terrible as some of the design decisions in this game are, I really like the light world/dark world mechanic. I think that having things in one affect the other could, if done properly, make a really entertaining and interesting adventure game. As it stands, though, there's just too much about this game that is unforgivable, and doesn't get a free pass because of one good idea
Funny thing, when you come back to watch this after watching the Darkseed 2 videos, Mike Dawson's voice sounds practically suave by comparison.
Id share a scotch with this version of Mike
The real twist is the irl Mike Dawson is actually Jack
Mike Dawson in Dark Seed 1 may not be Charles Bronson type of person. But in compared to Dark Seed 2 he is up there for sure.
Not just his voice, but everything about him. The difference between him here and DS2 is crazy.
DS1 Dawson wakes up, takes painkillers that actually function, and *gets shit done*. Doesn't scoff at repelling out of his own house when the front door clearly functions fine, actually has the body strength to climb the rope back into his house easily (can't understate how difficult that is in reality at that age), is amicable with basically every person in town he meets, doesn't hesitate throwing himself into an alien world and wandering around, solves completely bullshit puzzles effortlessly, and is overall unflappable even in the final hours before his head explodes to some alien egg thing. And if you gave him a ring toss game, he'd probably win first try on his own merits.
And then DS2 Dawson is a loser in every conceivable way, it's absolutely wild to call it a sequel.
DS2 Mike being hated by pretty much everyone is hilarious.
I miss this channel so much.
i miss them too bro
Retsupurae, super best friends, spoony, steve and Larson, let’s drown out.
Time hurts.
@@changvasejarik62 It does man, all the stuff we grew up with is dead and long forgotten. There is nothing like Spoony or Retsupurae anymore.... I don't think anyone knows what snark or a riff is today.
@ I refuse to forgive Machinima until they upload the Steve and Larson archives.
I’ve contemplated trying to fill the void but I hate working on a project alone.
@@changvasejarik62 Sadly Machinima is long dead, are there no archives of Steve and Larson anywhere, not even a mirror channel? I know what you mean, most of us can only make videos alone, sadly the chances of finding someone else to make videos with is very unlikely, we will never find the Slowbeef to our Diabeetus : (
This video is a like a warm, comfy blanket.
This and dark seed 2
This video will always be here for me, no matter how many years it's been.
@@LordEvilmancer
Home.
The blanket still works!
It does my heart good to see you all here
And so Mike Dawson gave the bottle of scotch to his neighbor which proceeded to immediately gulp the whole bottle. After he finished drinking the scotch in one go, the neighbor looks at Mike and said:
"Boy that's smooth, that felt like a slap on the face! Welcome back to mario galaxy 2."
*"The battery still works!"*
-Mike "Triumphant" Dawson, Darkseed I
_"She'd be beautiful if her flesh wasn't decaying..."_
-Mike "Did You Kill Rita" Dawson, Darkseed II
WHAT HAPPENED
Well, Dawson didn't work on the second game, so he must've done something to piss the developers off.
This is why you don't make yourself a character kids, because then you're owned by companies. It might be okay in fanfics, though reasonable self-inserts are few and far between they can be done, but trying to make yourself a Mary Sue often ends up backfiring.
Sir Tanky I know he didn't work on the second, it was a rhetorical question.
Frankly, in my opinion, DS1 Mike Dawson was not so much a Mary Sue as a generic character just to plug in the story. In theory, he was silent until the voice clips were added to *EVERYTHING*. The game really doesn't have TOO much in the way of plot, and is more along the lines of the typical horror genre of the time.
DS2, on the other hand, looks like a peice of shit (and it is) but is actually a deep psychological horror (google analysis of it for further details, it's quite interesting). Thing is, it's presented so badly that it ends up being the goofy, boring shit that we see.
DiseasedMoss Notice I said TRYING to make yourself a Mary Sue. I almost said in theory but I didn't wanna seem like I was mocking you, but it seems like he could have been an actual Mary Sue. He looks and acts like the average joe but he ends up stopping the alien invasion just because. He ends up being the Chosen One just because, but that is kinda typical so I'll let it slide. I will agree with the rest of your points though.
As for DS2 being a deep psychological horror? I can believe that, there were definitely signs of what it was meant to be under the cheesy presentation. The game is about a man who lives every day of his life knowing that there's a parallel dimension with counterparts to everyone he knows, and he also knows that the Ancients could come back for revenge.
The analysis sounds interesting though, I'll have to keep that in mind for later. Thanks for the response pal!
You know, if it becomes night while he's in the Dark World (Darkseed1), Mike just lays down on the floor and goes to sleep. He also dies afterwards.
Darkseed 1 Dawson gives NO fucks.
MSF soldier Alligator "I should get out of here, but fuck it. I need sleep, if these punk ass monsters kill me then so be it."
I was going to say that it's crazy how much Mike talks like King Graham from King's Quest, but then I remembered that King Graham was voiced by some dude who worked on the game. And Mike in this game was also just the dude making the game.
The voice actor for Mike in this one was the late Deem Bristow, the voice of Eggman from Sonic Adventure through Heroes.
@@GreenChillZone What!? I had no idea, what a weird fun fact! I thought it was just voiced by Mike Dawson himself. Like, the game designer.
DS1 Mike pours Scotch into a gas tank to power a spaceship. DS2 Mike needs a magnetic crossbow to win at infinite-attempt ring toss. He really came a long way.
But canon DS2 , he still missed
+Joey Lamontagne look you can have your prize but i dont wanna see your face around here again
Little did Diabetus know those "hiccups" were actually an alien embryo trying to escape his throat.
He must of really wanted out of there
Well it was allergic to insulin.
And that embryo grew into MrDJB.
OptimusSledge "All is lost... All is lost..."
nice avatar, btw.
What a quaint general Wrongpurae with a little bit of everything for day to day existance.
Holding upvote!
Imagine if Paul was the protagonist of Darkseed.
"At least the lawn always needs watering."
Diabetus' Giger counter joke early on was great, an under-appreciated gem.
Mike Dawson's voice was charming pre-castration.
Funny how there's definitely a good base for an amazing sequel, but instead we got Darkseed 2. Which is an masterpiece in it's own right but for all the wrong reasons.
I feel like there's a golden gem of a story hidden under all the silliness of Darkseed II. There's SOMETHING there, between Mike and Jack; the frustrating inability to 'date' Rita boiling into psychological rage; the dark world counterparts...
But it just doesn't pan out.
This game is like a hyper focused artistic achievement compared to the plodding mess of its sequel.
>wake up for work
>shower in my clothes
>climb up into the attic and rappel down my house
>"at least the lawn doesn't need mowing!"
>get in my car and beep the horn
>realize it's Saturday
>rappel back up my house
>leave out the front door to buy booze and go to the library
i got stuck behind mike dawson in a narrow hallway yesterday, i was stuck for HOURS trying to get past him
(the joke is that he walks REALLY FUCKIN SLOWLY)
Kit Harrison
Thanks, Kit.
The best jokes are the ones you have to explain!
Kit Harrison I think most of us caught on.
And here I was expecting it to be a puzzle game joke.
You know, something like, "Somehow he didn't move till I went to the pet store, saved a dying bird, then got the bird to fly past Mike, which got him to move."
Both Darkseed and Phantasmagoria follow the "don't explore the big evil house until after you buy it" law of adventure games
And both are shit. Go figure.
Did you not listen to Lowtax? That's what you're supposed to do when you buy a house! Have you never done that before?
YouSoSpice I actually like Phantasmagoria :,D
Ruben (Snarfle) That's sad.
What is there to like?
YouSoSpice You're kidding, right? Have you not seen the dreamy hunk that is Don?
I actually think this and the sequel are pretty good when you interpret it as Mike just being a paranoid schizophrenic. It kind of makes the obtuse puzzles make sense in a sort of “crazy person logic” way.
Every second of this lets play was a classic to me
Diabetus sounds so cute when he denies being tipsy when he first starts hiccuping.
We come back to this video on bad days. It's funny every time.
The bonus features of this box set feel strangely empty and unoccupied.
I know. I was expecting a Collector's Bust of Mike Dawson. It'd have a plush embryo inside the zipper of his head-vagina and everything.
They must have been stolen in the midst of an INCREDIBLE CRIME WAVE. Better keep your Mike Dawson collectibles under the stones in your basement floor.
[CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE
CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE
CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE
CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE]
SlamminWolfgang I feel like I've been waiting two years for this joke.
but not empty of meaning.
Okay, so my problem isn't really the fact that Old Man Tuttle swallowed the clock key, rather that in the week leading up to his death that it never traveled through his digestive tract. It just stuck in his stomach until his death and wasn't found during his cremation.
Finally, someone has pointed out the greatest plot hole of the Darkseed series.
+TheNoun not that Mikes mother would explain that
I think my favorite thing about this longplay is that apparently betus doesn't know the difference between a museum and a mausoleum.
Well he's from the south...
He was drinking a lot of **hic** scotch
"This is the LP equivalent of pouring out a 40..."
As Betus did, apparently
into his mouth
Looking at Mike Dawson you can clearly tell he is rocking the look of Hall & Oates - in a majority of all their campy music videos they rotate which one of them gets to rock that sweet brown jacket (available in multiple colors when visiting the dark world). Mike Dawson believes it is the pinnacle of high fashion & to remove it to shower would be sacrilegious! I'm sure it has nothing to do with the Maneater alien in his brain.
"that's a gargoyle"
no mike, that's actually a grotesque, a gargoyle spits water.
I just love the theme of the library, a venerable repository of knowledge.
6:00 "You're listening to Earth Radio. And now, some Human Music"
I would actually pay for Retsupurae DVDs and Blu-Rays
MattsukeMinutaro Yeah, they should totally do like Cinemassacre does. But I don't think it'll happen because of the nature of the medium, and how many people they would have to negotiate with.
I'm not really sure what more you'd get out of it than just chromecasting the videos to your TV.
I like Nostalgia Critic but i think they made jokes about selling web episodes on DVDs so i doubt it
I randomly remembered this LP, so glad I did!
professor your class seems strangely empty and unoccupied
The Swedish artist from Switzerland, H.R. Giger.
The change of perspective in the narrative text is jarring. "You are in the bathroom. Boy my head hurts! You clean yourself up. My head is killing me!"
Take the medicine or it’ll never stop
Coming back to this one after binge-watching your Kings Quest series, I was curious about the originals and ended up watching a longplay of them, played by none other than Ironclaw!
Swings and roundabouts
In DS1, Mike Dawson makes an alien Mjolnir - in DS2, he can't negotiate an anvil sitting atop a cooler. This was not a amicable split between Cyberdreams and the real Dawson, was it?
....I doubt it, and to be fair it's hard to tell which of them was the incompetent one if you study Cyberdreams' history
@@1Hol1Tiger Given how DarkSeed II was, I'm willing to say the more incompetent one is Cyberdreams. The infuriating time mechanic in DS1 aside, it's actually a pretty cool game.
@@neoqwerty Honestly I think the second game better as it's actually a wonderful deconstructive parody of the chosen hero. Especially since the Dark World doesn't exist and Mike's just a crazed incel... Which is implied but not stated in the first game "Only the Mirror itself is real, what is seen in the mirror is not."
@@1Hol1Tiger From a game development standpoint and from a puzzle logic, though, it's awful. I don't know if maybe I missed some details and hints playing DS2 or what, but DS1 gave hints as to what you needed and could intuit things, the main issue was just needing to basically note down schedules for not only each day but what changes over the days. (Also, that ONE item you need for the jail that you don't get a hint for at all unlike the other two, that was kind of a cheap shot.)
DS2 suffers from what I like to call the "Phantasmagoria Problem". Good story, but the game itself is trying to make you dent your desk with your skull until you're trying to give everything to everyone because the developers didn't check if it makes sense for someone who doesn't know what they do.
@@1Hol1Tiger "Especially since the Dark World doesn't exist and Mike's just a crazed"
Citation needed.
Ah, cool! This was uploaded on my birthday today! This is quite a gift. A gift that would be remembered for years to come!
Crashinator oddly enough this comment sounds exactly like mike dawson
41:55 "There's head explosion in the second game, but not the first"
"Oh wait, spoilers?"
You're content is pretty relaxing and entertaining to watch, but when it's coupled with the soundtrack to this game it's relaxing and nostalgic. It just reminds me of playing shitty old games like these, really late at night. When I was too young and stupid to even understand how to play them.
Real talk - when I get really sick, I tend to throw on a wrongpurae playlist and just veg out to these old videos. It's quite comforting and relaxing when you really need it.
I haven't looked up the statistics personally, but I read somewhere that property near cemeteries actually goes for slightly higher.
As a point or three in their favor, cemeteries are generally rather tranquil, stately, and well-groomed. Perhaps houses near them would have even higher value if it weren't for superstition.
Take that, 2014 Diabetus.
"This town is unnaturally quiet!" *degenerative music kicks in*
I really miss this
Same
this series is going to carry me through yet another breakup, this time after 9 years. Unlike my ex, at least this video is still around to comfort me.
I'm being funny about this but I'm serious
I'm sorry man
@@MahDryBread hey dude, things are a bit better now. I still got to keep my place/cats etc, she's off in a literal cult now, which is a damn shame, but I need to heal and she's not it.
A lawyer who likes to drink? Man, this is a crazy game.
To continue a Silent Hill Movie in-joke:
"My instincts are screaming at me not to go into that evil alien building WELL NOTHING VENTURED NOTHING GAINED I GUESS
The alien spaceship is fueling up to get the pissed-off evil aliens off my parallel world BETTER POUR SUGAR IN THEIR GAS TANK, CAN'T LET 'EM LEAVE NOW
Getting messages from a good evil alien telling me how to stop the evil aliens THIS SEEMS LIKE RATIONAL ADVICE TO ME, I BETTER NOT CALL MY THERAPIST YET"
Beetus was really on top throughout this whole thing.
Aliens vs Movers sounds like a much better game.
Mike Dawson seems so suave in this game because Mike is a writer and this is his written account of how things happened. Darkseed 2 Mike is what he's actually like.
Just realized, if things in the light world affect the dark world and vice versa, when he throws the stick off the bridge and the alien dog jumps after it and dies, did the light world dog also die? So he killed his neighbors dog?
Aidan Lawson Unlike the second game it seems like what you do in the light world affects the dark world but not vice-versa, which honestly makes more sense if Mike is just imagining all this.
It's appropriate that Mike Dawson is a professor now because Dark Seed comes off like a student project that got a budget.
Hey DStecks, why did you turn off the comments to your Sonichu reviews? I get that you wanna distance yourself from Chris-Chan, but does that also entail muting everyone else?
Oh man it's been a while since I have seen another playthrough of the first Darkseed. It was Darkseed 2 that gave me the best chuckles. Time to re-watch this. Thanks Retsupurae.
My thoughts exactly.....are u alien?
This made my head spin.
42:35 the mailman is later re-used in the dark seek 2 game for when the keeper sends mike a ticket to the traveling carnival
I have a feeling that the Dark Seed II "taster" is going to be as long as this.
We might not find out. slowbeef said he's not doing the box set for dark seed 2. That probably rules out the tasting menu
Considering the full thing is 6+ hours, it wouldn't surprise me.
Just because he isn't going to do a box set doesn't mean that he might not do a tasting menu. There are plenty of great moments in the Darkseed II wrongpurae. (Outside of the beetus moment)
kristomaster4
Every moment of Darkseed II is a great moment. It is art. You could not trim a moment from that game any more than you could cut an elevator from Deep Fear.
OptimusSledge true true...
Holy shit, they got Samus to read the Dark World narration?
CapnLexCrunch Did she give Mike authorization to enter?
+Kei Nanjo
She's waiting for Adam to authorize her to authorize him.
Mike had the power hammer and was about to hit the mirror with it before Adam got back to her.
And on that day Samus learned.
Is it wrong that i liked Metroid Other M? I mean the story was a bit odd but the game graphics was cool
@@matrix91234 I try not to judge people for liking what they like, but really? The graphics? Other M looks worse than Prime 1, and it was released a decade later, on a more powerful system.
@@targetbuddy5 I had issues with Prime 1 due to the bad controls. But Prime 2 seems to work better on GameCube that i am playing on
*pours out some more 40 for first year anniversary of this boxset* I knew there was a reason I felt the need to watch this again today. I cant believe how long its been since you RPd these. Imagine how old shrimp baby is now! Like, a shrimp elementary schooler!
yeesh, this must be what getting old feels like. these videos were so long ago, but I remember what it was like when they were new.
This game would probably take 30 minutes or less to complete if you didn't need to walk agonizingly slowly everywhere.
Hey, I'm thankful for the box sets. If I'm on my phone, I can't search for older videos as easily as I could if I'm on my laptop.
Besides that, they usually upload things pretty regularly and it looks like they're doing about 2 or more separate series, so...
The battery still works!
The series that got me into you guys, Love it!
This, Last Alert and King's Quest V are the top 3 Retsupuraes for me.
Also, is it more of does it look like Mike isn't wearing any shoes?
DJWaffleston How can you forget Harvester or Hopkins FBI?
Holygiant How could I forget Harvester indeed. Didn't watch Hopkins FBI Wrongupurae though.
DJWaffleston Hopkins FBI isn't too long but it's goddamn hilarious. It seems like a standard mystery point and click but it gets so fucking weird so fast. You gotta watch it, probably the only one I can watch multiple times over and still enjoy.
+DJWaffleston How can one forget DON from Phantasmagoria?
Joey Lamontagne DAMMIT, you're right!
Now it's even tougher to make a top 3, so I'll extend it to Top 5.
oh man another box set to fill my afternoon -- good thing my lawn doesn't need mowing
But does it need watering?
***** ... shit
You've done it now. The grass is real thirsty.
***** well, I finished the video, so now it's time to pay off the water bill for the next 3 months and get to work
***** Trust us, his lawn can wait.
DarkSeed: The ballad of Diahiccup.
Never stop neverstopping.
It's a shame Mike Dawson might have been insulted at something like this, but at the same time, there is the fact that he perhaps, at least at the time of the original RP of this, couldn't converse about a trashing of it due to it possibly having a reflection on his career.
Though honestly, I feel that someone who does a performance and looks back on it and says "woo yeah, that didn't age well, BUT I did learn a lot of key things from that experience" is a little more credible than someone with a spotless track record.
Oh, and aside from the Xenomorph picture next to the grandfather clock, there is also a picture of Sil over the couch, which the Dark world librarian also resembles.
A lot of the art in the game is actually appropriated from existing Giger paintings, the librarian in particular is Li I, and Li II hangs on the wall near the xenomorph.
Granted, it's nowhere near as bad as Darkseed II, where literally nothing is original, but they definitely made use of his back catalogue.
As for Mike, it might not have been that he couldn't laugh at himself, but rather that he perceived the questions or sentiments as a direct attack. If someone's doing an lp of your game, and goes so far as to email the writer, it's natural to assume they have enough affection for it to bother spending the time on it at all. But if you shoot a guy an email that says "why did you make this stupid piece of shit?" instead of "what's up with the slow walking?" you're basically asking to be ignored.
I have no idea what slowbeef said in that email, but I'm just saying from what I can tell he has an unusually mean-spirited and outright dismissive attitude about almost everything. I honestly can't imagine the guy being nice to... anyone, really. His "well he ignored me so FUCK THAT GUY" attitude in this video I think bears this theory out more so than Mike Dawson having an image of himself as infallible.
And for what it's worth this game is nowhere near as awful as slowbeef and diabetus are making it out to be, but I'm going to assume that's already obvious.
*****
Not to mention his ripping on sonic games when he hasn't any knowledge of anything past sonic 3. If you're gonna rip on something's core, you better fucking know about it, otherwise YOU look like the fool, especially when he was walking about NOT knowing about Amy or Shadow and thinking they were something recent.
***** Slowbeef did say he liked the game in his LP though, it's just that Retsupurae makes fun of things. I personally hope that it was just a miscommunication thing.
Like I really love Darkseed and Harvester (and to an extent Darkseed 2), but they do have some really ridiculous things that happen as part of the medium and genre.
Zachary Jolene Chan Slowbeef tends to mess things up in communication at time and has often been more brash about a statement than he should have. He also has a habit of speaking as if he knows "everything" about a topic when in actuality he knows nothing about it, and that alone can make a professional turn any interaction down.
Tbh it's funny to see this debate about Slowbeef and Diabetus being unpleasant and rude in retrospect. TH-cam and Twitch creators have proven just how humble and not really attention grubbing these guys are. Honestly I miss the simplicity of Retsupurae, and their humor.
I've been waiting for this :D
Alternate title: Darkseed Drives Diabetus to Drink
Hate to be that guy but anyone else watching old retsuprae videos in 2020 during the quarantine?
The "you can never enter the barbershop" definitely made me think of this.
yeah, been putting on random wrongpuraes again since it's been so long since i saw most of them. somehow i missed the harvester extras video so i watched that for the first time last night, haha
Yep this channel is gold
2021
I'm still here
Betus's hiccups are adorable.
Damn it, I hadn't watched this since it first went up, and when I put it on a minute ago I realized sometime between then and now I accidentally started dressing like Mike Dawson. Almost exactly like Mike Dawson. Only difference is I wear black jeans instead of blue.
I think it's time to step back and do a serious evaluation of my recent life choices.
EDIT: in my defense it's because of work, but I still chose it.
BOOP
How could anyone possibly figure out any of this without a guide?
Do you think the real estate agent who sold Mike Dawson his house is the same as the one in Phantasmagoria?
ThePirateKing2 I think it was Wallfish that sold those houses.
RIP in Peace, HR Giger.
Yeah, he did.
Yeah, he did.
I'll answer a question posed by Diabetus in the video. According to what I can find online, Mike Dawson worked on exactly one game, Dark Seed... and then quit to write books about programming and teach programming _and game design._ So, yeah, he was involved in the design of one game with _glaring design flaws_ and then thought, you know, I'm qualified to teach this now. What's worse is that someone agreed enough to pay him for it.
With that kind of blind confidence, something tells me he was the sole reason the programmers of the sequel made that game a full-fledged character assassination.
#1 of a dynasty.
Harvester box set?
The videos will be bigger, meatier...Speaking of which, have you asked your father about...*the meat?*
Star-Spangled Shazam A healthy interest in meat should keep those darn kids from scratching my Tucker!
Spike Rose The problem is trying to raise kids in a single-parent household. One woman simply cannot do it on her own. What the mother needs is a good, hard penis.
You always were a kidder, Cameron.
+darklighter765 BYE
I looked up Mike Dawson to see if he made any other games, and while looking for that, I found out GameTrailers called this one of the 10 scariest games of all time. Are you shitting me? Just because Giger did some artwork doesn't make something scary.
retsupurae, your upload schedule seems strangely empty and unoccupied.
I missed watching this!
Mike "Mike Dawson" Dawson, everybody! This lp is second only to Darkseed II :)
Could you imagine....Being in the pique of that original Era when peices like THIS were on the shelves...
Im back 10 years later again wutsup? 👽
I still genuinely think Dark Seed I is actually a pretty decent little game for what it's worth. Flawed, but still pretty fun. Also, Mike isn't a wimpy prick.
It’s a fine game. They’re clowning on it and it does have some ridiculous gameplay, but the high production values for the time shine through.
Nah, it's pretty bad.
The box set is empty, but not empty of meaning.
39:15 for hiccups
I’d like to think Betus got so bored watching this game that he started drinking liquor and hence why he couldn’t stop hiccuping after the half way point
Am I to expect a Darkseed 2 Box Set?
Don't get too excited now or your head will spin.
YouSoSpice I'd rather have my head explode, if you know what I mean.
***** I've marathoned it before.
Slowbeef said he's not doing one for either Dark Seed 2 nor Cobra.
Efz713 Well, I hope I can get a best of for them, at least.
36:30 "So that's where my gun went, your going to rot for a few *BLAM*"
Problem solved.
I think Billy MC deserves a box set
I got a monster headache myself from just watching this game
“Welcome to classic rock”
Squirtin' 'n' Brain Hurtin': The Game
24:36 , "Uh-oh de doorbell..." If that's not a baby SlowBeef I don't know what is.
Good God, at least King Graham walks fast.
The binoculars imply that the prev owner was there in the dark world and left it there
what is it with retsupurae and get-out-of-jail-free cards?
As terrible as some of the design decisions in this game are, I really like the light world/dark world mechanic. I think that having things in one affect the other could, if done properly, make a really entertaining and interesting adventure game. As it stands, though, there's just too much about this game that is unforgivable, and doesn't get a free pass because of one good idea
Why is there no death reel, is there really only 1 death
Two box sets in a row? Next week must be filled with Crystal boy. Lol, I guess Ill try to actually finish this series this time.
And after finally watching this it was not worth it as I predicted
Rita... who could have do--- oops, wrong game.
Would have been cool to include what happens when you run out of time and the alien hatches!