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Jalopy! And The Other Side of the "Maturity in Games" Conversation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2016
- This is a video exploration of the early-access road game Jalopy. It looks at how the game's focus on mundane detail and mechanical process sets it apart from the design goals of most automotive games.
when I saw jalopy on the steam recommended list, my first thought was "did noah start making games"
The car is modeled after the East German Trabant. Given your interests, I recommend you look up some documentaries about it. Because of the scarcity, the fact that it had to work several decades and that the body was hard plastic, people fixing them up did some really ingenious things with them.
In Berlin there is a "Trabant tour" - a tourist attraction where a group of people go on a sightseeing tour around the city in a bunch of restored Trabants.
You can hear them coming from fixe blocks away, and they leave behind them a cloud of dark smoke that smells like a burning oil patch, but they still run!
Hey just letting you know I watched all eleven minutes thirty six seconds of this video and it was good, thanks.
Technically 35 seconds. Just how the TH-cam player works.
Sonic 3 and knuckles bonus video when?
My friend has an old 1966 Oldsmobile 98 Coupe, he bought it at the beginning of the year and worked on it for months. He, my other friend and I replaced about half the parts in the engine along with new wheels, new shocks, new sound system etc. We took it out to the beach multiple times and cruised around town in that huge American land whale of an automobile, blasting the greatest hits of the 1960's capturing perhaps a little bit of the feeling of what it must've been like to be young in those days. It was a fantastic feeling riding in it, it truly was a car meant for the open road, to cruise endlessly into the horizon, with 5 people sitting comfortably in it's over sized seats. Unfortunately the car died at the beginning of this summer for good, now it's a wreck sitting outside my friends house, and even thought it's sad, we'll always have those memories and with a car like that, it's all you can really ask for.
5:39 I went through a checkpoint once. They looked through the window, determined we were all white and let us through. Such great border protection!
Very well crafted video, got chills down my spine. As a car enthusiast and german myself, i really liked Jalopy, the car displayed is actually a thing here, its called "Trabant" short "Trabbi", a 600cc, 25HP, 2 cylinder, 2 stroke powerhouse of a car. I worked on a few of those myself and can say that the game does a pretty good job of displaying the inner workings an functionallity of the car.
If you had so much fun with Jalopy you migth wanna take a look at "My Summer Car". Which is even more on the mechanical side of things tho a bit laking in the social department, what should i say it plays in Finland XD. Goal is it to build a car you can drive in the weekly rally, but you have to assemble it yourself, in astonishing detail. While you need to eat, drink, sleep and take the sauna in finnish fashion. It is like a car building survival game, and you migth have fun with it.
This might be my new favourite video of yours. Knowing everything I now know about your history with games, your fondness for travel and vehicle maintenance, and your financial struggles, your analysis of this game feels all the more special and personal. Thank you.
Thank you for your video and very thoughtful comments. I kinda wish people could appreciate what we call "games" for more than the title. Jalopy, like more games with a form of experience built into it, it more than a time killer. It is an experience. When I first played SimTower or Railroad Tycoon 3 I genuinely felt like I was experiencing managing a skyscraper as it was being built or managing and entire railroad across America. In Jalopy you experience "family" and the trip across the country as well as caring for a car that is not top of the line but you still depend on it. Games like Mass Effect make you take care of a physical person(s) which you get emotionally invested in. I appreciate experiences that game developers give to us. We will never afford to travel to the moon, but in a game world you can perform light speed jumps free of charge and have a stroller across a bubbling lava field. Looking at the earth from the moon is an amazing experience. I save that statement from those who actually live on the moon at present and think nothing on it. As for "fun only" games. Fun for Fun's sake is good regardless.
Thank you Noah for providing some of the most stimulating and thoughtful content I have yet to encounter in this genre of production.
this thing reminded me of the time my dad got a 2nd-hand Corona which he had to tweak almost every week, and often with our neighbor playing new wave stuff next door on full blast... yeah, my childhood right there, man...
A double feature? Noah you spoil us!
Damn, starting off with one of my favorite songs of all time.
what song is it again?
Darude - Sandst -- I mean, Gary Numan - Cars. ;)
+leon bushnell Can't say I heard that one. :P
Really like the depth you go into with every video, gives the games new layers
Keep up the good work my man! Your videos are an authentic treat to listen to.
Very nice video. Video games trying out mundane things and making them interesting is really cool. Hope to see more stuff like this in future. Maybe more war games could try having that tense downtime in-between battles that we hear about.
The only problem i ever had with your videos was the sound quality. now thats fixed. Thanks for the great content!
Great review on a game that I wouldn't have heard of if it weren't for this video.
Keep up the good content :D
Coincidence that I just watched your Half-Life videos and you just upload. Great videos btw, I loved the 8-track (and other retro media) music you play at the beginning of your videos. The scripts are well written aswell.
Your videos always feel so professional.
Fascinating video!! Keep up the good work!
Great stuff as always Noah. I'm going to catch up on your recent videos, and it's of to a good start. I like the 'stache and beard mate. Suits you.
I just love your channel.
Never heard of this game in my life but I just bought it and started playing it lol.
Forgot about this game ... I'm buying it today. I am from around those parts and driving junkers in a DIY spirit was ours ... well, my parents' everyday. This will bring back memories!
Not my sort of thing but it's good things like this exist for a very specific audience.
Wonderful video, thank you Noah.
Runescape taught me so much as a dumb little kid in 6th grade - 2006. About socializing. People. Dangers in every day life. Economics. Specifically supply and demand. Hard work. Fruits of your labor. The basics ya know. And then some! Like cooking ingredients & other cultural foods. Lmao.
I feel you wholeheartedly, for me it Guild Wars at that exact time. I was made an officer in a guild I knew no one in thru networking and helping out and it really taught me a lot about putting your best foot forward.
Great narration Noah.
Thank you for bringing this game to my attention!
Two videos in one day? Awesome
Awesome video. I can feel your nostalgia threw my monitor. Ever consider playing and reviewing Age of Empires 1-3 along with its spin off titles??
This game looks so interesting.
Love your videos, bud. Keep at it! :)
Do you consider making overview of Prince of Persia, Silent Hill or Hitman series?
The visuals are giving me weird flashbacks of Interstate 76
wow 2 videos in one day awesome
Huh! So I have actually been playing Fallout 4, and I have been looking around for games that focus on the same feelings of keeping your power armor working. This looks like a fantastic version of that, and I may want to check it out.
I'd love this, either for Fallout or perhaps a Mechwarrior: Mercenaries type of setting
To paraphrase Toni Morrison, if there is a game you want to play that doesn't exist yet then you must make it. Looks like I don't need to make this game anymore.
This reminds me of Street Rod, a PC game released in 1989 and set in the 1960s in which you buy old cars from newspaper listings, fix them up, customize them and use them to participate in drag races. What's interesting, though, is that Street Rod wasn't an indie game. It wasn't exactly the most high-profile release of its day but it was still considered to be as "mainstream" as any other computer game of the era and sold well enough to warrant a sequel two years later.
While the current situation in the games market is certainly an improvement over how things were 5-10 years ago when any game that didn't revolve around ultra-violent power fantasies was practically non-existent the fact that a game like this can still only exist as an obscure, indie "art" game shows how far we still have to go to just bring the industry back to where it once was, much less surpassing it.
Certainly an interesting concept.
Loved this.
Kind of reminds me of Desert Bus. The point in both games is to present the reality of driving. It's just that there is more challenge in Jalopy beyond endurance.
took me awhile, but i finally played Jalopy.
to be honest... it barely looks finished, but it was a fun Roguelike.
Wow never heard of this before! It's the ultimate driving sim!
Great premise, both on a technical and setting/story level. :-) Would you recommend the game as a "road movie" experience, in addition to the "car management sim" aspect ?
Hah! Looks like Noah found a game that was tailor made for him.
I'm a little worried that Tyranny is gonna suck. I've gone through the dev diaries and other promos now, and it doesn't seem like the people making it found the same parts of Pillars of Eternity to be good as I did.
God I hope it doesn't suck.. The premise sounds cool as hell. "Evil Won"... cm'on, that has to be good.
Well Tyranny is a game made by different people which started development before the final build of Pillars of Eternity. It is trying to be itself and not Pillars of Tyranny.
Different people? I mean, its the same dev and pub, so I hardly think most of the staff working on the game are really going to be different - but I suppose the creative director is different and doesn't want to make PoE2.
BINARYGOD Literally everyone is different. They have a few teams Pathfinder Adventures team, Tim Cains soon to be team, PoE team, and Armored Warfare team.
I come from the future, It's cool. A little short and meandering, but genuinely fun!
jalopy and my summer car are close reference to me on the element of dealing with not having the best but you have to make it as good as you can, with may be why i like em as much as top-gears old cheap car challenge they did across the world
Thank you for this
Hi Noah. Long time watcher/donor, first time caller. I'd love it if you to made a video about SOMA. I've recently completed it and enjoyed the story immensely. Love to hear your thoughts on it.
Great video as always. When can we expect the Baldurs Gate video?
Hopefully soon. I did both of today's videos as pitches for other websites, but when they got shuffled off the schedule, they were kind enough to just let me go ahead and self-publish. I'm strongly working towards end of month for the Baldur's Gate video.
Are these the only videos you've done for other websites?
+Noah Caldwell-Gervais what are some of the sites you've work for
Here are two reviews I did for Polygon:
www.polygon.com/2016/6/7/11871410/dangerous-golf-review-pc-windows-ps4-xbox-one
www.polygon.com/2016/6/22/11997290/breached-review
And I also wrote a small featurette about Far Harbor for the second issue of the Glixel newsletter, but I can't find the link.
Thank you so much!
love the new beard and mustache
That's the engine bay of 6-Cyl Mercedes W124! (at the beginning of the video)
good as always
another video within a few hours? good God man, don't outpace yourself
Hey Noah have you thought about doing a retrospective for all the Batman Arkham games? that would be amazing!.
your intros are like..what MTV felt like in the early 90s
If only he could have clips of him in looking like Max Headroom!
You look like the fifth member of the Beatles with that mustache, great video as usual though.
Dunno if you could make a video out of it but you should consider looking at My summer car!
Nice goatee, Noah.
Can we get a record collection video? what you have, why you have it and what got you into them in the first place?
I love this game to death and I always will
I'm pretty sure Laika is a made-up name for it and that's actually a Trabant. You can still see a couple ones here in Hungary, mostly in villages though.
Also...are you considering doing a Thorough Look at Assassin's Creed video?
I hope you end up becoming the new SF Debris x) great two videos, even the political points were less Errant Signal and more you..more competent, more fair, presentation I wish more professors and politicians used. Great work Noah, as usual
I wonder if Noah listens to new school Gary Numan or just this one song. Pure and Jagged are his two best albums imo.
Nice stache you've got there, when did you grow it out?
Oh, you have a new mic? Great!
What a nice little game.
You should list the songs you are using in the description :)
Feels like a postapocalypse game.
Check the game called My summer car. It will blow your mind as its an upgrade to jalopy.
Nice video! Curious if there's a chance you'd do a dark souls video? Well if you haven't played them you should!
*****
I mean the is literally 2d dark souls, but whats wrong with that? Dark souls games really arent that hard anyway.
Noah, if you're reading this I'd like to suggest a video on the role video games are playing in preserving the historic memory of life in the Soviet Union.
Is that a Frida Kahlo poster?
yes
Any chance for reviewingf the Witcher franchise?
im curious as to what your opinion on the max payne franchise is.
Have you played "My Summer Car" yet?
Wish they would add a shifting feature
Well, I'm buying this game now.
There is also similar game about being a regular Finn.
Nice choice of intro music. The benefits of patreon.
The benefits of using physical audio media to bypass the copyright robots.
Wait, that works?!
It's actually legal to use an ambient recording of the recording playing in your room. In fact, in some cases, these reproductions themselves can have copyright protection!
(I'm not a lawyer.. yada yada)
The more ya know.
Facial hair looks good man.
If you love Jalopy, Id have you try My Summer Car.
A+
If you disable the shadowplay FPS counter it won't show up in the footage it records ;)
This made me wish I was a car person.
Now do one on my summer car haha
you look much different than the last time we saw you
"Thank you for listening to my video on fixing virtual junkers, please sign up for my patron so i can afford new piston rings for my real life junker" :P
Someone should make a Pokemon Go emulator. Not like the original games at all, just walking around the realish representation of our world going after Pokemon. Like walking around in GTA, without guns, well maybe some guns depending on the city you are emulating.
The perfect game for those "Go Trabi Go" roleplayers. :P
I'm hearing the "PUH" in your Ps pretty loudly. Are you not using a pop filter?
I can give this game to anyone who wants it.
that's a very clever gameplay.. well maybe not clever, but original ! And nice critic too !
Shared with all your recent content on the french webzine TuYaTroJoueY facebook.com/tuyatrojouey/
very curious about your next video/subject ! (No Man's Sky and all the drama/debacle sourrounding it ?), maybe Deus Ex coming very soon ? Maybe the funny "internal war" at EA between TitanFall 2 and Battlefield 1 ! Doing back to back the same kind if livestream @ gamescom, today, doing the same open beta tech test one just after the other (there is literally less than 24h between the end of the 2nd TF2 week test, and the beginning of the BF1 one :pp)... maybe VR oriented ? damn, it's such a great time to be a gamer and a game analyst/critic ;) See Ya !
The inner hipster shines, lol. X-D
Gary Numan!
Noah, I love your videos, but what the actual fuck is going on with our facial hair? :)
This game is the Ulysses of indygames
Two Noah Gervais videos in one day? I've died and gone to heaven. Thank you. :0)
I'm sorry... what...? I had to spend most of the last few days fixing several broken and malfunctioning components on my car. It wasn't pleasant. It wasn't something I want to do over and over again. That isn't immaturity, it's just someone not wanting to do something unpleasant. I'm sure there are also intimate plumbing simmulators, but I wouldn't play them either since repairing toilets sounds just as pleasant.