Ross's Game Dungeon: Mage Knight Apocalypse

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  • @blakecarpenter3340
    @blakecarpenter3340 2 ปีที่แล้ว +957

    Blobman actually used his entire mana bar on that attack that killed everything in Mordor, and he didn't want you to know that he needed to go regenerate for 15 minutes.

    • @ArvelDreth
      @ArvelDreth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Excuse you, his name is Blobwing

    • @Sierra026
      @Sierra026 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Supported by his main mates, Blobthing #1 and Blobthing #2

    • @valletas
      @valletas ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@ArvelDreth oh yes blobwing previously know as blobin when he trained under blobman

    • @HQ_Default
      @HQ_Default 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I like the idea of a god-like entity needing the party's help on the basis of it being nowhere near as powerful as it says it is. But then it also has to come up with a fake reason as to why it needs the party's help so it doesn't look like an asshole.

  • @ShinyGaara65
    @ShinyGaara65 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2460

    "I'm already a master of nothing in my own life."
    -Ross Scott, TH-cam celebrity, creator of Freeman's Mind, gaming archaeologist, aspiring movie-maker, music saver, and all-around awesome guy

    • @jamesrussell2936
      @jamesrussell2936 2 ปีที่แล้ว +261

      Dang, if this guys sucks, I'm afraid of what I am.

    • @JamesTobiasStewart
      @JamesTobiasStewart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      @@jamesrussell2936 Preach it friend...

    • @lillyclarity9699
      @lillyclarity9699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      That's what I was thinking when I heard that. Dude is the best in his class in so many different classes

    • @L.L.2045
      @L.L.2045 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      legend

    • @AveSicarius
      @AveSicarius 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      @@jamesrussell2936
      Accept the suck. Let it flow through you. Be molded by it. Forged by it. Become the Dork Knight!

  • @TheMaabusAdmiral
    @TheMaabusAdmiral 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1769

    Ah, a new summer game dungeon, now things are starting to make sense. Hope everyone has a safe and fun summer!

    • @delorean8526
      @delorean8526 2 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      Will do Admiral Jefferson! Now go have fun with the family!

    • @remainprofane7732
      @remainprofane7732 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      🫡

    • @WandaThePanda
      @WandaThePanda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      *salutes*

    • @LoogyHead
      @LoogyHead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Thanks Admiral Jefferson!

    • @3isr3g3n
      @3isr3g3n 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I missed you

  • @Apollomasque
    @Apollomasque 2 ปีที่แล้ว +568

    Loving this party composition of two leggy, amazonian models wearing what can be charitably called "armoured swimwear" being led by a surly little dwarf in 60 pounds of chainmail.

    • @egoalter1276
      @egoalter1276 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The dwarf is obviously their pimp.

    • @kristoffer8609
      @kristoffer8609 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Well it's a game with three headed dragons and space blobs. Women wearing skimpy clothing is not really what I'd call out of the ordinary.

    • @Дми́трийВикторович-о3с
      @Дми́трийВикторович-о3с 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      To be fair, if you listen to Ross long enough he does creates an impression of a dwarf with a minigun. Vampire chicks are just for some contrast.

    • @cc1912
      @cc1912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      All I can think of is a Mass Effect 3 Gamerpoop: "Shepherd, wait...I can wear SWIMWEAR into battle."

    • @red_cosplay
      @red_cosplay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@cc1912 Nice.

  • @MoonMoverGaming
    @MoonMoverGaming 2 ปีที่แล้ว +397

    This game's story has the feel of a D&D campaign that's been going on for two years but you only just joined and too much has happened for the other players to possibly explain.

    • @bluerogueschannel
      @bluerogueschannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Witcher 3 had a great solution to this with it's whole "Witcher: Wild Hunt" /quietly when you're not looking/ "...three" strategy. If you never played the first or second games they don't even recap much and go "This is what pertains to here and now" and every so often when something relates to a previous event Geralt gives a brief "Yeah but back on track" and you get that brief thirst for "Wait no what was that?" but don't feel like you're lost in a miasma of fantasy deep lore.
      Tbf it's carried by Geralts tired "been there done that" attitude, but the main focus here is that they bring together a set of pertinent information and keep the spotlight on that and don't get lost in a character rambling about "THE ANCIENT WAR BETWEEN THE DRAK'THNAR AND THE OBLIKINAMOR WAS A 200 YEAR LONG STRUGGLE-"

    • @SusCalvin
      @SusCalvin ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Mage Knight was a miniatures game, it had those models where the base could be clicked around. It had promo comics and stuff.

    • @MoonMoverGaming
      @MoonMoverGaming ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@SusCalvin That actually explains quite a lot, thanks.

    • @SusCalvin
      @SusCalvin ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@MoonMoverGaming It didn't live for long. It wanted to be some kind of collectible skirmish game.
      I just recall the basic plot. Atlanteans are tyrannical slaving dudes, the invention of GUN starts a rebellion that includes a lot of the world's humans. Other groups who didn't like the atlanteans latch on and now there's two factions warring in the world.

    • @cupriferouscatalyst3708
      @cupriferouscatalyst3708 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SusCalvin so basically you're the USSR?

  • @johnoneil9188
    @johnoneil9188 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1375

    This actually reminds me of one of those DnD campaigns where you all make characters but in truth the DM just wants you to be witnesses to how aweseme and powerful this NPC that he came up with is, in this case blob guy.

    • @SomeKindaSpy
      @SomeKindaSpy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      god that's the worst

    • @nellancaster
      @nellancaster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Thankfully never had that kind of DM in my grand total of one time playing a TTRPG, but I can just imagine how painful that experience would be.

    • @varvarvarvarvarvar
      @varvarvarvarvarvar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      This whole game has very low tier DnD vibe to it.

    • @fissionphoenix4995
      @fissionphoenix4995 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      As someone who has listened to one or two did podcasts that sounds spot-on accurate.

    • @MrElath
      @MrElath 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      @@nellancaster If your group has spines it can get hilarious, the only time it happened in my group the DM couldnt understand why my Lawful Evil Warlock/Rogue who spent the entire game scheming and doing nefarious things when the rest of the party wasnt looking would convince the rest of the group to turn on his obnoxious Chaotic Good DMPC who was the only character at the table who had figured out what my character was up to how did he find out? "He just knows a criminal when he sees one."

  • @connorperrett9559
    @connorperrett9559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +351

    33:10
    The art director told the artist assigned to this character that he wanted a "happy merchant" and the artist just Googled it and drew the first result.

    • @RabbiHerschel
      @RabbiHerschel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      They are the dwarves' Greatest Ally.

    • @k96man
      @k96man 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      When I first looked at him I thought of the happy mask salesman, not the... Well you know

    • @Hellisfear
      @Hellisfear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Very based

    • @Brunosky_Inc
      @Brunosky_Inc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Alright, I'm really out of the loop on this one. What kind of racist stereotype does the merchant show off that even threw Ross off?

    • @RabbiHerschel
      @RabbiHerschel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      @@Brunosky_Inc the merchant's attire is vaguely reminiscent of that of an Ultra-Orthodox Jew. That, plus the hunched back and the clasped hands, makes the merchant look like a -completely accurate- HORRIBLY ANTISEMITIC caricature.

  • @medicindisquise4271
    @medicindisquise4271 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1213

    A quarter of the way through the video, I quickly realized exactly what was happening. This isn't actually a singleplayer game. This is actually a CO-OP GAME. That's why you suffered through the first chapter as the dwarf, because the game expected you to have at least two players. If you played as any other class, you would've gotten the dwarf there and thus a little bit of extra damage. That's why your inventory is so stifling - everybody is expected to loot, not just one guy. That's why there's a lot of cooldowns - you were asking "Where's the army?" but just like in WoW, you're expected to have 2-5 other people playing with you. That's why your player character didn't speak until chapter 2 - again, they couldn't be sure you had the dwarf until after the murderhall chapter so they couldn't risk having any player characters speak. In fact, I wonder if the Dwarf had important exposition during the murderhall chapter ala the huntress' insane rambling at the beginning of the pyramid that you unintentionally skipped by playing as him?
    This game was never meant to be played singleplayer. This is a co-op game, and all the devs probably played co-op together during playtests, assuring that singleplayer became completely unbalanced.

    • @Dr.Oofers
      @Dr.Oofers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +265

      Yeah, this is a perfect example of developers actually being able to playtest their game, yet fail to playtest all aspects so they all *work.*

    • @lyubit9841
      @lyubit9841 2 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      Yeah I realized that instantly. As soon as you see the OPTION for co-op in this kind of game alarm bells should start up, and then once MMO-based mechanics rear their head it becomes ludicrously clear that this was only ever played with at minimum two players. Even then it looks like a confusing slog because I don't know how the loot works.

    • @lord_razur
      @lord_razur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      I had the same thoughts, but now I'm just left wondering how it would actually play in co-op as intended.

    • @tnerbtnerb5136
      @tnerbtnerb5136 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      One of the many reasons I despise MMOs. ANY type of gameplay style beyond large party overlapping of player cooldowns is left to whither and die on the vine.
      Forget single player, forget fast paced and engaging coop player, forget cohesive mechanics or true real time battle mechanics,band forget realistic timers on abilities. Those just got sacrificed to the MMO god.

    • @povilzem
      @povilzem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      So it IS a mummorpager!

  • @TheJesterInYellow
    @TheJesterInYellow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +631

    The fact that you credited each individual "Will It Blend?" episode instead of just putting them all under "Will It Blend?" is why you are the true master of the internet.

    • @jaybee7892
      @jaybee7892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Indeed. He also knows his audience. We WANT to know, lol

  • @Neziavothal
    @Neziavothal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    This is from the early "brown and bloom" era of game design. Shiny new tools, can't resist using them.

    • @Trynt33
      @Trynt33 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Brown's a tool?

    • @valletas
      @valletas ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Trynt33 yes because real life is actually brown didnt you notice?

    • @AVM26
      @AVM26 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like retro games, but for that particular era I feel no nostalgia at all.

  • @VulpesHilarianus
    @VulpesHilarianus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +570

    It seems like this game was designed to be played with other players in a LAN environment, like how Unreal Tournament was. The fact that multiplayer is the second option on the menu and the first you land on is indicative of this, as is the opening narrative about five heroes working together. A lot of the other decisions seem to reinforce this, like the insane amounts of loot, non-pausing dialogue interludes that would be difficult to sync across multiple computers were they to pause the action in the game, the barriers that need to be destroyed, the specialized enemy types and unfair numbers, and the weapon cooldowns. Like you were meant to cover for the other players while they recharged or destroyed obstacles as the dwarf, inflict status effects as the vampire, do the damage and direct enemies as the amazon, and draw attacks as the elf. A hybrid support/ranged, a full support, DPS, and tank. They even screwed up class balancing.

    • @FrozEnbyWolf150
      @FrozEnbyWolf150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Was thinking the same thing, which gives me bad memories of the myriad other games that were clearly only balanced for multiplayer. The least they could have done was allow you to recruit the other characters much earlier on, like the first Dungeon Siege, so that the player is effectively controlling a party of adventurers. Give the player different formations, and allow the player to set combat stances and behaviors, like in Baldur's Gate. However, that would have required them to make the AI work better than in Daikatana.

    • @LiarraSniffles_X3
      @LiarraSniffles_X3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Correct, the singleplayer levels are literally identical to the co-op ones, which is why there is so much loot, why there are so many enemies and also why you can revive endlessly without punishment. Why they decided to drip feed you AI companions one per chapter I couldn't tell you, as the game was designed to be played with a full five party from the start.

    • @fonesrphunny7242
      @fonesrphunny7242 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The game seems kind of late-LAN / early-online era. It's probably 'okay' in MP, but given the lack of polish in other areas, it probably wasn't tested enough in SP.

    • @Kainlarsen
      @Kainlarsen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      They just rushed it out without balancing the mechanics in any way for single player, if that's the case.

    • @Sewblon
      @Sewblon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The dwarf is the hybrid support/ranged, the vampire is the full support, the amazon is the DPS, and the elf is the tank, right?

  • @InvadeNormandy
    @InvadeNormandy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +421

    I remember an ancient gamefaqs type guide for this. The unfortunate thing is even the ancient guide says "The dwarf is the hardest to play especially early on." As he's the ONLY character with the backwards rage bar/mana mechanic.
    What an introduction

    • @ParappatheRapper
      @ParappatheRapper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      A game where the Dwarf option is the worst option is by definition a bad game. This is goin' in the book.

    • @lilwyvern4
      @lilwyvern4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@ParappatheRapper It's just a fact that dwarves are superior. I don't make the rules, that's just how it is.

    • @neoneanderthal2658
      @neoneanderthal2658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@ParappatheRapper The only other game I know where the Dwarf was actively worsethan anyone else is Severance Blade of Darkness...and that game would tear you to shreds regardless of who you played as. Dedicated girl character excepted - she had a dodge roll.

    • @MinscFromBaldursGate92
      @MinscFromBaldursGate92 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      By the beard of my ancestors, this is goimg in the book!

    • @Mate397
      @Mate397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Aye, Book of Grudges it is then!

  • @fien111
    @fien111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +525

    What is it with Ross continuing to find RPGs that are nigh-unplayably hard and completely incomprehensible? Did he insult a witch and get cursed to manifest these games from the ether?

    • @varvarvarvarvarvar
      @varvarvarvarvarvar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      I think he is looking for games where you can play as a dwarf specifically, which tends to be mostly fantasy RPGs.

    • @psykomancer4420
      @psykomancer4420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      It's because even beloved RPGs have combat somewhere between complete ass and barely serviceable. So when you dig down to the bad RPGs.....

    • @tba113
      @tba113 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      You'd think he could have asked those gypsies from Veil of Darkness for help with breaking such a curse.

    • @tpd1864blake
      @tpd1864blake 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Maybe over the years he’s gone through all of the good games that he owns and has to resort to the worse ones

    • @Bacxaber
      @Bacxaber 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@tba113 Don't say the G word.

  • @Ghost_Of_SAS
    @Ghost_Of_SAS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    9:14 I have tested Crysis 2 just walking past everything on the highest difficulty and without any suit upgrades: it is possible and very easy, barring the scripted shooting sequences where you need to kill a boss to trigger the level exit.

    • @analogsamurai9576
      @analogsamurai9576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lots of speed runs sometimes the easiest solution is to just run past everything

    • @Ghost_Of_SAS
      @Ghost_Of_SAS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@analogsamurai9576 You can't run per se, because the suit energy will run out super quick (maximum speed is activated automatically when sprinting), so this is no good for speedruns, but if you take it slow and walk at normal speed, you can just walk past 99% of enemies in the game.

    • @Demiglitch
      @Demiglitch ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Ghost_Of_SAS It sounds about as fun as the game is normally.

    • @sorrenblitz805
      @sorrenblitz805 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Ghost_Of_SAS design quirks like that irritate me. Running should either be a separate meter or passive without drain. "we've developed the most ultimate combat armor suit, it can run for a shorter time than a frightened asthmatic with COPD then takes 15 minutes to recharge."

    • @Ghost_Of_SAS
      @Ghost_Of_SAS ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sorrenblitz805 Tell me about it. I did a no suit maximum difficulty run on every Crysis game, and in Crysis 1 I had to set the energy to zero via ini file just so I could sprint normally.

  • @joshuazane3210
    @joshuazane3210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    I'm consistently impressed by the amount of effort that you put into finishing awful games.

    • @do0myk
      @do0myk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      is it a good thing tho?

    • @joshuazane3210
      @joshuazane3210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@do0myk For our entertainment: certainly.
      For his sanity: probably not. 🤷‍♀️

    • @weneedaladder8384
      @weneedaladder8384 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@do0mykat the very least, it tells you just how bad games he gives up on are. He literally played through an entire game with copy-protection difficulty enabled. If he decides something isn't worth it it's really not worth it.

    • @danielsurvivor1372
      @danielsurvivor1372 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@weneedaladder8384 which episode was with copy protection?

    • @YorkShasta09
      @YorkShasta09 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think it was called The Chosen. Well of Souls, or something like that.

  • @timothycuff605
    @timothycuff605 2 ปีที่แล้ว +432

    I hope you guys enjoyed the video! Been watching the series for a while and it was a joy to edit for! Well, for the most part. Even I felt some of the game’s soul-sucking effects in the editing room :)

    • @TectonicImprov
      @TectonicImprov 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Congrats on being up to Ross's very high standards

    • @elegantcat1496
      @elegantcat1496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Thank you for giving Ross a hand, my dude.

    • @EasyTargetLP
      @EasyTargetLP 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Good job on the visuals for the Dead body hit box! That really helped put things in perspective!

    • @timothycuff605
      @timothycuff605 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@EasyTargetLP That part wasn't me, but the excellent work of Shayne Gray. But thank you for your kind words regardless!

    • @brandonmorel2658
      @brandonmorel2658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You did really great emulating Ross' dry style of editing. Keep up the good work!

  • @cybermadness2503
    @cybermadness2503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    I just had the most exhausting week of my life, sitting through this unbelievable heat and I finish the day by finding a new Game Dungeon by Ross! *YEEEESSS!!!!*

    • @mistermagic4140
      @mistermagic4140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I work at UPS and it gets 100+ degrees in the warehouse. All the heat exhaustion was worth it now that Ross has invited us into his nice, cool Game Dungeon

    • @sirduggins
      @sirduggins 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nothing like running deliveries at near 100 degrees F listening to Ross. The southeast US is cooking right now

    • @gz7006
      @gz7006 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Please get more exhausting weeks if it means we get more Ross.

    • @planescaped
      @planescaped 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I might have lost 20k on the stock market and rents going up a third time... but new Game Dungeon!

    • @BobbyCampbell93
      @BobbyCampbell93 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Local Bulk tanker truck driver who spends 85% of the day out in direct sun unloading for an hour at a time. Your comment literally is exactly how I felt just now after working a 14 hour day.

  • @bearVshark100
    @bearVshark100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +594

    Sometimes it feels like Ross has more fun trying to get these busted ass games to run on his system than actually playing them.

    • @poipanda8841
      @poipanda8841 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He never checked if the other portal would work or if it just crashed the game.

    • @yakacm
      @yakacm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeah it's almost as thou if he just put together an old Win XP system then his problems would be over, lol

    • @ogdamo3167
      @ogdamo3167 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I love fixing fucking games boi

    • @pedjamigrant7189
      @pedjamigrant7189 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      this made me laugh so nice
      ty

    • @LonelySpaceDetective
      @LonelySpaceDetective 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Meanwhile, I'm just impressed at the patience he has for these really tedious-looking and boringly written Diablo clones.

  • @GamerBurgerz
    @GamerBurgerz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    The Wendigos in Dusk are an example of invisible enemy I really like. They can't be seen directly, but they can be heard, the screen flickers when they appear, they leave a slight blood trail, and they collide with world objects. There's plenty of opportunities to notice them, but it requires you to pay attention to your surroundings, and that's difficult (though still doable) in a hectic firefight. They're durable and hard-hitting, but there's not many of them, and by the time you encounter them you'll have high-damage weapons to use against them.

    • @youmukonpaku3168
      @youmukonpaku3168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      and of course, their introduction is absolutely perfect. DON'T TRUST YOUR EYES indeed!

    • @AdriftForWeeks
      @AdriftForWeeks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And if you hit them once they stay on screen:)

  • @i.m.evilhomer5084
    @i.m.evilhomer5084 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    This game actually has a connection to Another game from the Game Dungeon. That game being Hellgate: London! Both Hellgate & Mage Knight share some of the same devs.

    • @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
      @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Made by ex Blizzard devs who worked on Diablo right?

    • @Jon4270
      @Jon4270 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      41:33 Ross actually makes a reference to it, though I'm not sure he knows about the connection.

    • @GeorgeMonet
      @GeorgeMonet ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No surprise then. Diablo 2 had a lot of mechanical problems such as the constant potion chugging.

  • @wolfgangbrooks
    @wolfgangbrooks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    The reason the story is so convoluted is because it's based on a collectible prepainted miniatures game with turn-able bases that tracked stats and abilities as you take damage. Each new set added a little bit to the lore and advanced the story, and at one point they were even doing a kind of weekly in world diary of one of the human seers the Solonavi allied with to expand on ongoing plotlines/wars and give background to new expansions.
    I think it still has potential as a setting, but I doubt they'll do much with it now even though I understand the board game is popular.
    Oh, Mageknight is supposed to be like the player's title as the leader of the armies you collected if I remember right. Wizkids made a number of games based on the dial base gimmick and Heroclix is the only one that survived.

    • @Naruga
      @Naruga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have only played the board game but always wondered what the miniatures game was like.

    • @rkhale02
      @rkhale02 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I've played Heroclix, it's not bad but also kinda meh? Like finding people to actually play with is just kinda eh?

    • @fich01
      @fich01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The board game is still alive and well, though. And it's fantastic.

    • @sobremesadedota2420
      @sobremesadedota2420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i still have about 200+ painted figures from the early days of the game, MK: Rebelion, Lancers, etc... i play with my daughter when she's in the mood =p

    • @Sanguivore
      @Sanguivore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      For two seconds, I thought you were talking about heroScape and that brought back a whole flood of memories.

  • @elegantcat1496
    @elegantcat1496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    Jesus I remember Mage Knight from middle school. It was this gateway miniature game you play right before getting into Warhammer.
    It tried to be huge too, it had comics, expansions packs and apparently videogames. Man, it was such a 2000' thing
    If I remember correctly, it was about a magical world on the cusp of industrial revolution and the major conflict was between the old mages of a dispotic Atlantis and a coalition of nature magicians and non magic wielding creatures utilizing the newfound power of GUNS to overthrow the old order.

    • @PonderousEclectica4383
      @PonderousEclectica4383 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      that actually sounds pretty badass

    • @elegantcat1496
      @elegantcat1496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@PonderousEclectica4383 It had a lot of great ideas but it lacked in quality, unfortunately. The minis were these "clicks" types, you know, with the rotating dial at the base? They were not very good, the paint job sucked hard and they were made with this low quality plastic.
      The game itself was imbalanced as fuck although kinda fun for a 13 year old. Since the minis were sold as random collectables, you couldn't really put together a coherent army unless you were made out of money so most matches consisted in throwing everything you had on the battlefield disregarding army types, points or lore, it was nuts!

    • @elegantcat1496
      @elegantcat1496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@PonderousEclectica4383 Sorry for the wall of text but apparently I have A LOT to say about Mage Knight

    • @MrGrizzzlik
      @MrGrizzzlik 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@elegantcat1496 thanks for background. Never heard of it in Europe, was it just USA thing?

    • @MrCvb
      @MrCvb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@MrGrizzzlik I definitely played this in Sweden, at least.

  • @xxCAH4EZxx
    @xxCAH4EZxx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    I miss the "Award time!"
    But really, big thanks for such big video! As always it's a great work!

    • @gnarlin4964
      @gnarlin4964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Why weren't there any awards?

    • @usa_bruce4295
      @usa_bruce4295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      yeah I miss awards

    • @Dr.Oofers
      @Dr.Oofers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I don’t think he could give any rewards to this, probably didn’t think it was deserving of it or was too exhausted by the end to think of anything to give.

    • @antipsychotic451
      @antipsychotic451 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Dr.Oofers I think he's just been phasing the awards section out of his videos in general.

    • @ChronoHarvester
      @ChronoHarvester 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@antipsychotic451 Yep. I think they worked well as a wrap-up section (a bookend), but I understand why he would drop them for games as punishing as this one. Ross is a trooper, but he should not have to do the work of a whole squad when award-worthy traits are as bla Yang as this one. If Ross was to do some follow up research on the franchise as part of a sequel video, possible awards would be: “Multiplayer Looting which wasn’t adapted for Singleplayer,” “Never Beaten?,” “2000s Tabletop Game Adaptation,” “That One Armor Trope,” “Amateur Hero Bullied By Veteran NPC Hero,” and/or “Malicious Infodump.”

  • @ezekielrose5173
    @ezekielrose5173 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    So I've watched this video all the way through I think once, but I've started it and fallen asleep listening to it about 7 or 8 times now.
    Game Dungeon is one of the few things I can listen to that actually helps me sleep, and I mean that in the most positive possible way. I find Ross's delivery very relaxing and the whole vibe of GD very cozy.

    • @sorrenblitz805
      @sorrenblitz805 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I often put the whole playlist on when I go to bed.

    • @jasonjayalap
      @jasonjayalap ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We feel safe in Ross' arms.

  • @brandonmorel2658
    @brandonmorel2658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Ross really communicates well the horrid gameplay and incompetence almost every game featured exudes, not a lot of game shows make me feel grateful for the developers that include incredibly advanced Quality Of Life features such as making the game actually beatable.

  • @iunno585
    @iunno585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    Re: invisible enemies, there's a couple of times in the MGS series where they're used to pretty good effect. My favourite is in the first game, when you're in an elevator and realize there's 4 guys with cloaking devices in there with you, and so you have to flail around in a panic attacking the air

    • @dirtfriend
      @dirtfriend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yeah but there you could equip thermal goggles too

    • @BenersantheBread
      @BenersantheBread 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Though MGS invisibility is still quite visible.

    • @weneedaladder8384
      @weneedaladder8384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Man, that scene where you realize the elevator is over the weight limit because of extra, invisible people is so good. I played that game like ten years ago and it's still burned into my memory.

    • @Lucifronz
      @Lucifronz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@weneedaladder8384 Otacon pushing his face close to the camera is fried into my brain because of how silly he looks while panicking.

    • @primethread
      @primethread 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also Doom, Halo, Iconoclasts, etc.

  • @Johnwalter1044
    @Johnwalter1044 2 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    In the darkest moments, our hero presents his finest of works! Thank you Ross for your videos!

  • @Darkspace.
    @Darkspace. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Despite this game's problems, I think we can all agree those Dwarvish tanks are badass looking.

    • @EminemLovesGrapes
      @EminemLovesGrapes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      And it gets the female NPCs right. Having them all look like Sylvanas is pretty awesome to me.

    • @tenyokensekia8088
      @tenyokensekia8088 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I’ve yet to see a Dwarven tank that doesn’t look badass to be honest. I’m sure lame ones exist, but it’s hard to to not make multiple tons of dwarven metal and ingenuity not seem cool!

    • @MinscFromBaldursGate92
      @MinscFromBaldursGate92 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can never go wrong with fine Dawi craftmanship.

  • @tpd1864blake
    @tpd1864blake 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    34:18 I thought the assassins in Half-Life were pretty fun to play against on hard mode. Also, there’s a free mod for HL2 called Hidden Source or something, where a bunch of players with guns fight against a single invisible player with a melee weapon that can instantly kill people from behind, that was insanely fun. And finally, there’s some aliens in the Halo series that are invisible, although if you pay close attention you can barely see their cloak texture and identify them, but the best invisible enemy segment from Halo would be the new Infinite game in the tower where you have to use a tracking device to identify a completely invisible enemy when they’re within its range. Lot of examples I could give but these are my favorite

    • @thefallofhousedenari
      @thefallofhousedenari 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      The Hidden was the HL2 mod. It was great. It boggles my mind no one has, to my knowledge anyway, replicated the idea for a game. I think it could do alright.

    • @awakeandwatching953
      @awakeandwatching953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      the stealth enemy's in fear were pretty good

    • @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
      @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thefallofhousedenari _Predator: Hunting Grounds_ reminds me of the Hidden mixed with the Batman: Arkham Origins multiplayer.

    • @Frostiken
      @Frostiken 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@thefallofhousedenari I played a Tribes 2 mod a couple decades ago called the Great Tribal War. It was set on a huge landmass, each time had a piece of equipment that, when assembled and powered, would allow them to respawn. The goal was to use the full arsenal of vehicles, weapons, terrain, scouting, etc. to destroy the enemy's respawn generator. We would play games that lasted 4+ hours long. It was intense. No idea how that game concept has never been used, either.

    • @kanucks9
      @kanucks9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Frostiken PlanetSide 2 does that, right?

  • @unlimitedshrimp
    @unlimitedshrimp ปีที่แล้ว +15

    this game is PAINFULLY world of warcraft and you can tell it was made by a group of friends who played it and had their own expectations of the game and their own personal headcanons. the night elf warrior wanted to be a paladin so bad, the human hunter wanted to get rid of their pet, the undead rogue wanted to be a vampire, the troll mage picked troll because its the closest he could get to being a dragon, and the dwarf hunter wanted to main being an engineer. its like a lens into the chokehold wow had on fantasy games at the time and it was weirdly wistful to watch some of this stuff

    • @ElvenSonic
      @ElvenSonic ปีที่แล้ว +4

      this explains a LOT. I’be only found a couple developer interviews from the era and this definitely tracks with how the producer talked about the game. I really wish there were more postmortem interviews or info on the devs to hear more about this.

  • @DACopperhead2
    @DACopperhead2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    I can't believe it. This is set in the same universe as Mage Knight, er, the wargame. I've never played the minis game, but my brothers adored the board game which was like flying a fighter jet. Cool in theory, but a whole lot of technical jargon and very detailed instructions to follow. Sadly, the boardgame also had no gunpowder toting dwarves, which is probably why I don't like it. I find it surreal that a game as freakishly complex as Mage Knight where even the "warrior" characters are fully magic users,, can have a hack 'n slash tie-in that rewards you for being a non-mage.
    The Dragon appears to be the major connecting character, he sucks in the boardgame too.

    • @Accursed_Farms
      @Accursed_Farms  2 ปีที่แล้ว +191

      Wow, I had no idea, I'll have to look this up for a follow-up.

    • @matthewgagnon9426
      @matthewgagnon9426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@Accursed_Farms Mage Knight had a few different iterations of being a wargame or board game. I still have most of my old Mage Knight minis that were the precursor to Heroclix. I liked it, but the game never caught on and it eventually died.

    • @DACopperhead2
      @DACopperhead2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@Accursed_Farms From what little i've found. Mage Knight began life as a Heroclix game. Heroclix being somthing that was the bane of my childhood. Take cool minis, then stick a tacky plastic chunk to the bottom of the mini in lieu of stats. That was in 2000, and it got some expansions. It looks like the factions in the video game are in the actual minis game but it almost feels like they aren't following their actual design. According to the Wiki, the Atlantiens are very high tech and magic focused, not just bandit slavers. Its like someone made a Warhammer 40K without knowing what 40K was.
      Sadly the board game came out in 2011, so long after this game. The original minis game seems really simple, so it makes more sense as a hack 'n slash. But even the orginal game was mix of wargame, RPG and card game. Raising armies might be a lot more fun than just praying for hours on end, or waiting for guns to cool down. I don't even like cards in games, but they could have used that as well. A baffling experience all around.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Accursed_Farms Mage Knight was the first Clix game I remember asking my parents to buy me hundreds of the things without even knowing the rules.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@DACopperhead2 Heroclix was a successor of Mage Knight's systems.

  • @ShinyGaara65
    @ShinyGaara65 2 ปีที่แล้ว +466

    Awards time!
    First award: Doesn't Respect Your Time. Self-explanatory, really. When you need to cheat to not have a soul-sucking experience, the game is wrong.
    Second award: Nerf Guns. There's guns in this game and they do piddly-ass damage AND they have a cooldown meter.
    And the final award: Napping In Class. Even when you're paying attention, the game just says things that mean nothing to you and expects you to be able to react to plot revelations that have no setup whatsoever.

    • @KairuHakubi
      @KairuHakubi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      hahaha, perfectly put
      I was expecting him to say that, all along, it turned out this was one of those games that detects when it's been pirated (or THINKS it has been) and makes things impossibly hard or tedious.

    • @benbot0733
      @benbot0733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      pictures for the awards:
      Doesn't Respect Your Time: the same old grim reaper picture it's always been
      Nerf Guns: a png of a Nerf maverick
      Napping In Class: probably some clipart of a kid sleeping on a desk

    • @silverlight6074
      @silverlight6074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I would have made the last one "Someone Cared"
      You can see the amount of dialogue, *hear the amount of voice acting* put into this, the amount of lore and effort put into the world and characters is significant. It's quite possible that multiple people cared, from the looks of it. You don't have to create a backstory about multiple factions of dwarves and dwarf slavery to have an excuse to give dwarves guns, but they did it anyway.

    • @Isaacfess
      @Isaacfess 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Thanks for the awards! I've been missing them.

    • @maskedmustelid1415
      @maskedmustelid1415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FailBerryI3Not quite a respec, but certainly a re-roll after realising how non-viable practically any of the characters are.

  • @gepettogreco
    @gepettogreco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    Jesus, I'm not the one who had to play through this and I don't think I'm even beginning to feel the iceberg of tedious boredom you had to go through.
    Hopefully the next one is going to be gentler on you, Ross.

    • @voidnoodle8911
      @voidnoodle8911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I looked it up and apparently it's intended for group play, despite having a singleplayer function. It really does have Warcraft DNA- you're expected to play it multiplayer.

    • @Dr.Oofers
      @Dr.Oofers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’s probably why he didn’t give any awards. Too bored to care about that or so bored by the end he just wanted nothing else to do with it.

    • @LazyBuddyBan
      @LazyBuddyBan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      why it doesn't give you all npc companions at the start when the difficulty doesn't scale is beyond me

    • @SimplyGun
      @SimplyGun 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You finished it without cheats? Is it possible?

  • @NostalgiaChan
    @NostalgiaChan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    58:50 So I don't know if this was visible anywhere else, but this was certainly the first point I noticed:
    The Dwarf doesn't actually have a beard. He has the world's longest moustache instead. Like, you can plainly see there's not even a texture to make it kinda look like the beard's attached properly, his chin is totally bare. It's just like a fabric model strapped to his face.

  • @sourhour3403
    @sourhour3403 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    There is an invisible enemy I really enjoyed fighting, the Replica Assassins from FEAR 1. The atmosphere of the game and the precedent that the enemies are intelligent (even though as it turns out it's basically smoke and mirrors) gave them way more fear factor, pun intended. Them not being 100% invisible but shimmering faintly against your flashlight was also a great touch.

    • @bigdaddydons6241
      @bigdaddydons6241 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was about to comment the same thing, and even then, they're fast as hell But the slow motion power balances that out beautifully if you can get headshots, I only played the game for the first time a few months ago and I absolutely loved it

    • @thehoodedteddy1335
      @thehoodedteddy1335 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Do the Wendigos from DUSK count? They are only invisible until you hit them

    • @sourhour3403
      @sourhour3403 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@thehoodedteddy1335 sure! Got to love dusk

  • @Magaruis
    @Magaruis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I played the collectible miniature game at a high level, almost won the nationals championship and I didn't know this stuff existed.
    Amazing.

    • @Sara3346
      @Sara3346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What this was derived from a board game?

    • @Magaruis
      @Magaruis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Sara3346 A collectible miniature game called mageknight. They had booster boxes with 4 or 5 miniatures in it. It was horrible looking back at it.

    • @corsaircarl9582
      @corsaircarl9582 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I ended up with rare Atlantean Storm Golem in a booster pack at one point.

  • @Zerphses
    @Zerphses 2 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    About 3 days ago I checked the channel and thought to myself “Damn, hasn’t been a new Game Dungeon in awhile…”
    Seeing the length of this’un it’s no wonder it took so long! Excited to dive in.

  • @Poroner
    @Poroner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    34:00 Stalker has the bloodsuckers. Definitely the best implementation of invisible enemies in any game.

    • @AdamBorseti
      @AdamBorseti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fuckin' A.

    • @cpi3267
      @cpi3267 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      they're not "invisible" though, your flashlight still cast shadows on it and if you manage to shoot it, the blood marks him

    • @Poroner
      @Poroner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@cpi3267 that's what makes it a good implementation

    • @AdamBorseti
      @AdamBorseti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Poroner That, and when you see splashes/footsteps through the water and that unholy breathing sound? Chills me every time!

    • @vantuz8264
      @vantuz8264 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      In Clear Sky they were completely immune to all damage while they're cloaked. That makes me suspicious that all that "track them while they're hidden" was not how developers intended players to fight them.
      Best game design decision ever! (not)

  • @peppers515
    @peppers515 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I had this amazing sense of excitement when I was 40 minutes in to this episode and I had another half of the episode to enjoy

  • @Tigerseye41
    @Tigerseye41 2 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    At this point I kind of want to make a game that involves a compilation of every mechanic Ross says is the worst he's seen in his life.

    • @ghostoflazlo
      @ghostoflazlo ปีที่แล้ว +6

      What's stopping you?

    • @MalO.ver1.0.x
      @MalO.ver1.0.x ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ghostoflazlo Probably time and know-how (which leads back to time since you'll need that to learn to make a game of any kind).

    • @Numdenu
      @Numdenu ปีที่แล้ว +16

      a turn-based maze that has a color filter?

    • @excessemail2344
      @excessemail2344 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Don't forget looting, and puzzles with randomized elements.

    • @Guruc13
      @Guruc13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@excessemail2344
      1. Don't forget pixel hunting.
      2. Clicking the same non-obvious thing several times in a row with almost no changes in description in order to solve a puzzle.
      3. Puzzles that require you to go to Google to solve them.
      4. Forcing you to stand still and waste real-life time in order to meagerly charge your health bar.
      5. Bullets that have a pitiful effect on enemies, so that you feel impotent. Any kind of game where your attacks take forever and are nerfed to hell, really.
      6. Trying to figure out what you're supposed to do next and where you're supposed to go IS ITSELF a puzzle.
      7. Character creation menus at the beginning of a game that have huge effects on your character later on, but you're forced to make decisions on them *right now* with little to no information.
      8. A timer.
      9. The timer from Quarantine - a way of incurring debt where each failed mission requires you to do two more missions successfully in order to advance, but by failing several times in a row you quickly dig a hole you can never get out of, until you eventually game over.

  • @Baron_Blue_Max
    @Baron_Blue_Max 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Mage Knight the board game is phenomenal. I had no idea there was a video game, which appears to be... less than phenomenal. Awesome to see some a new Game Dungeon!

    • @CartmanTuttle
      @CartmanTuttle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was surprised to see a Video Game of Mage Knight as well, and I was even more surprised that it's just bad.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Board game apparently came out in 2011? But was a sequel to the very first Clix game that started in the 90 or early 2000s and became Heroclix with superhero licenses (By one of the Battletech creators who actually got Battletech rights at least for a while after FASA fell apart and he made the absolutely terrible Clix/Dark Age era of Battletech on a similar rule basis.)

  • @TheFrogspawnedOne
    @TheFrogspawnedOne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    "I'm already a master of nothing in my real life!"
    Man, I felt that.

    • @totaleNonale
      @totaleNonale 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The full quote is actually "a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." so don't let that get you down

  • @LuciferSamChannel
    @LuciferSamChannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Ross: "Are you ready for Mage Knight Apocalypse?"
    Me: "I hope, so"
    Ross: "I'm not"
    Me: "Oh, this will be an instant Ross classic video"

  • @BaronPraxis8492
    @BaronPraxis8492 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    It was nice how Morrowind allowed you to dispose of corpses. That would be a nice fix for the overlapping body hitbox issue.

    • @0neDoomedSpaceMarine
      @0neDoomedSpaceMarine ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It also had contingencies for overflow, if there suddenly was too many items in one location, it would use an error handler called "Overflowing Lootbag", which was a sack container that would spawn on the ground or floor, which would take and hold all the excess items lying around freely in that exterior cell or interior cell.
      I believe it would trigger at 128 items on XBox, and 256 items on PC. It has been a frustration for some players over the years, especially ones which like picking a place as their house and then lavishly decorating it with interesting items and piles of treasure.
      There's means to modify the behavior on PC (raising the number), either by using a plug-in mod, an engine mod/hack, or altering an .ini/.cfg value, I don't quite recall.

    • @sorrenblitz805
      @sorrenblitz805 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@0neDoomedSpaceMarine now that's a game that needs a gameplay fix. Spending hours not hitting anything with a sword when it's my highest combat skill was less than irritating especially when I'm looking straight up the dude's nostrils.

    • @miguelbranquinho7235
      @miguelbranquinho7235 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sorrenblitz805Use magic, it's way funner.

  • @lukesnyder4183
    @lukesnyder4183 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Ross's girlfriend shows off her new lingerie:
    "This is not good orc fighting gear."

    • @dontspikemydrink9382
      @dontspikemydrink9382 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      eh,..... he has been married, do you know something we don't?

  • @moonmelons
    @moonmelons 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I think Resident Evil 4 actually handled invisible enemies well.
    But a large reason is that those weren't truly "invisible". They had a distortion effect where they were and if you kept your eye out and spotted them you could just shoot them.
    It also helped that they spit acid and have a pretty metal game over where they will melt Leon's face off.

    • @EminemLovesGrapes
      @EminemLovesGrapes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That's the joke ross is trying to make. The only truly fun invisible enemy aren't invisible like elites from halo.

    • @MariaIsabellaZNN
      @MariaIsabellaZNN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What about Resident Evil Revelations 2 which had invisible enemies that only the autistic girl could see so you constantly had to switch?

  • @neoquegon
    @neoquegon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I had this back in the day and found that the vampire was the best class, she has both a health drain and a mana drain ability both of which can be trained early on to super high levels and carry you through the whole game.

    • @SuperMookles
      @SuperMookles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Why would you want to go through the whole game, though?

    • @huru2guru
      @huru2guru 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ahem, specific well built vampire assets? ;P

  • @deatharsenal6311
    @deatharsenal6311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    In terms of invisible enemies: The only one that I've enjoyed has been the Wendigos in Dusk, mainly because you get sounds and bloody tracks to tell where they're at, then they become visible once attacked.

    • @cupriferouscatalyst3708
      @cupriferouscatalyst3708 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Those were honestly some of my least favorite enemies in Dusk, but that's just me. Around the point of their introduction it felt like the game was becoming more of a horror game than an action game. It's well-made and the Wendigos certainly felt spooky without being cheap, but I was expecting something closer to Quake.

    • @nellancaster
      @nellancaster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      To me, the (distinct!) sound cues are the thing that elevates them from "annoying" to "tough but tolerable".
      Honorable mention to the fact that when they're visible, they _remain_ visible until they die.

    • @marcellosilva9286
      @marcellosilva9286 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@cupriferouscatalyst3708 Oh yeah, it sure does feel like a horror game, with all that ammo lying around, hundreds of enemies to fight, and with the main character sprinting around at Mach 5.
      Dusk is the best survival horror game I've ever played!

    • @cupriferouscatalyst3708
      @cupriferouscatalyst3708 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@marcellosilva9286 more of a horror game, didn't say it felt like a horror game, it's just some of the pacing

  • @BlazeHedgehog
    @BlazeHedgehog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    At times like this, I like to think about how Steam surfaces achievement statistics, sometimes allowing you to track just how far in to a game most players get. And if you look, most players who start any given game never even make it 25% through the content before giving up. It is almost guaranteed that on a game like Mage Knight Apocalypse that Ross is among the 0.1% of players to ever make it this far. Depending on how well it sold, he could be among ten people on earth to see that Zombie Queen boss. Or less!

    • @valletas
      @valletas ปีที่แล้ว

      Statistically only 80% of players get the first achivement on average with is usually finishing the first mission or tutorial
      If this game had such achivement for finishing the first area i would be surprised if 50% of players got it

  • @korstmahler
    @korstmahler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    When you said 'Gatling gun that only fires in bursts' my brain recalled Starcraft's Terran Marines.
    Those guys would take the time to line up a burst, then go back to rest position between bursts the exact same way.

    • @0neDoomedSpaceMarine
      @0neDoomedSpaceMarine ปีที่แล้ว

      They'd keep their guns pointed, would they not? That's how I recall it.

    • @Superschokokeks
      @Superschokokeks ปีที่แล้ว

      @@0neDoomedSpaceMarine you may be doomed but you remember it wrong. They go back to the idle pose before firing again

    • @0neDoomedSpaceMarine
      @0neDoomedSpaceMarine ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Superschokokeks They'll actually do both, at different times, if you go and look at some footage. Not sure if there's any kind of conditions which decide that animation, or if it's just random.
      Maybe they changed this in the HD Remaster or something, haven't touched that one.

    • @Superschokokeks
      @Superschokokeks ปีที่แล้ว

      @@0neDoomedSpaceMarine you're right. Haven't played the remaster.
      I thought it was a bug, but I don't know really. They mainly shoot and go back to idle like most units do. But then again I remember hydras stay sometimes in the "aim" pose

    • @0neDoomedSpaceMarine
      @0neDoomedSpaceMarine ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Superschokokeks I haven't actually sat down and played it in ages and ages, but vague memory suggests that maybe when they were shooting a lot in a certain period, such as maybe shooting at a building or something else resilient, they keep their guns pointed for the most part.
      If that's the case, I'm not sure if that would be an intentional behavior, or if it's maybe some sort of memory limitation, but sometimes the game could end up doing little weird things like that in really big maps with a lot of units, such as the Hydralisks doing that thing.
      The Terran Valkyries could be very finicky with that actually, where because there's too much other stuff in the game's memory, they outright don't fire at all, which I remember making me not quite trust those units. I think that's because they fire off a lot of rockets in a short time, and those rockets all have little smoke trails, so a group of Valkyries add up to a lot of extra sprites on screen.

  • @JacksGameShack
    @JacksGameShack 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Game: "It was almost the end..."
    Ross: "Oh No!"
    Good start so far.

  • @Aredein
    @Aredein 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    31:15 I think I know why this music ending abruptly.
    If you watched hardware company logos, you can notice that game presents one of the sound systems. It appears the game was too much hard coded into that now likely gone sound card, or something. Sadly we'll never know. Who knows, if there are a more soundtracks.
    Sadly, the soundtrack is in the encrypted file system, so we won't know.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Never broken or leaked eh?

    • @Morec0
      @Morec0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      THEY'RE KILLING VIDEO GAMES SOUNDTRACKS!

    • @reesetorwad8346
      @reesetorwad8346 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "...we'll never know." Challenge NOT accepted, thx

  • @Amero2323
    @Amero2323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I find myself just cracking up multiple times an episode with Game Dungeon. In my opinion it's some of the funniest stuff on the internet

  • @Bluecho4
    @Bluecho4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Near the end of the video, it occurred to me that I'd heard the title "Mage Knight" before. It's a collectable miniatures game/board game made by WizKids. With Mage Knight: Apocalypse being a video game tie in, along with a game for the Nintendo DS called Mage Knight: Destiny's Soldier. That is, if Wikipedia is any indication.
    So if it seems like there's a lot of Lore that's being thrown at the player at once, it's probably because it's an existing property. Still doesn't excuse how terribly the story is told.

    • @jazz8000
      @jazz8000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think i recall someone giving me an hour and a half tutorial for the boardgame on tabletop simulator

    • @0neDoomedSpaceMarine
      @0neDoomedSpaceMarine ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jazz8000 Was it any good?

    • @jazz8000
      @jazz8000 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@0neDoomedSpaceMarine i fell asleep but yes

  • @Otto-Toth
    @Otto-Toth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love this channel so much. It actually makes me happy. Thank you, Ross.

  • @78sixelA
    @78sixelA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Oh this game... I don't think I've ever met someone else that actually knew it existed before. I remember being mesmerized by how bad this game was back in the day, and playing through all of it despite myself. I played through it as the dragon mage, and distinctly remember three bugs:
    Your companions break if they die, and stop being able to use any abilities. Only fixed by reloading/restarting. The game is soooo much easier when they go into the full lightshow that is all companions spamming abilities. I played through more than half the game before I noticed...
    One of the mage fire abilities does not require line of sight and is instant cast. The AI does NOT handle this well. I cheesed through a lot of the game with this.
    Oh, and alchemy ingredients do not stack on pickup. Fun times.

  • @Godzeller3143
    @Godzeller3143 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    10/10 introduction. Everything I love about Ross distilled down to a perfect ten seconds.

  • @TheSmatislav
    @TheSmatislav 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    3:14 That swedish chef made me laugh harder than I care to admit.

  • @crisis8v88
    @crisis8v88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I hope that your computer is alright after the Faustian bargain you made for this episode. As far as the design for looting everything, maybe the developers were really forgetful and wanted to make a realistic "where did I leave my car keys?" simulator, right down to the wanton manslaughter so that they could search not just their own pockets, but everyone else's too.

    • @brandonmorel2658
      @brandonmorel2658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The faustian deal you mention reminded me of downloading games from untrustworthy piracy sites in general. Its really a gamble sometimes.

  • @bradencampbell464
    @bradencampbell464 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I got this one for $10 a couple years after it came out. I played through with all 5 characters, and actually bothered to chart how to optimize the characters. Different abilities increase different stats when used, and by different amounts depending on the character.
    The lizard and dwarf were glass cannons - good damage, but it was best to engage from a distance and kite.
    The elf paladin was a reasonably solid choice, decent tankage and could self heal.
    The ladies were the two that actually shined.
    Thong girl has a drain life attack at range, which has fairly low damage relative to other attacks, but using it grows her maximum health heavily, which meant she actually got the highest health pool of my playthroughs, making for an interesting ranged tank build.
    The huntress was broken powerful. She has a lot of passive abilities across her skill trees. Spend a little time with her ranged attacks and you can unlock a bonus to criticals and accuracy. Spend some time with her bear aspect (I think that was what it was called) and you can gain some passive for health an armor bonus.
    But my favorite was that she had a dual wield tree, meaning the offensive gains were applied twice, and there were ways to increase your damage (and attack speed if I remember correctly).
    In summary, play the dwarf or lizard if you want to do some decent ranged damage and are okay with hit and run game play.
    Play the elf fighter if you want to be a cleric using healing spells.
    Play "thong girl" if you want to be a beastly tank with relatively weak offence.
    Play huntress if you want to mow down mobs of enemies with two weapons while laughing maniacally.
    I will give the game that the mechanic around "mana" was unique to each character (the dwarf had heat instead, for example) but it was broken in terms.s of gameplay design.
    The part that frustrated me is that the multi-player (which was the only way to export your character and play them again) stopped working when they shut down the servers. Even the LAN mode won't work - for any multi-player mode, it has to find the central server or you can't continue. A minor oversight that actually became a huge pain to me - again, it was the closest to "new game +" this title offered if I ran a LAN game with just me.

  • @UberShyGuy
    @UberShyGuy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    real talk, after learning so much about how game development works, it's blatantly obvious that this was *meant* to be a solid diablo-like rpg and had a lot of effort put into it, but all the hard work in the world can't save a project with bad direction, and something clearly went terribly wrong with this project's direction and the end result wound up being a sonic 06-level chaotic mess

    • @GeorgeMonet
      @GeorgeMonet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It went wrong right from the start. That gameplay is horrendous and it is so openly obviously horrendous that there is no way that was anything but intentional.

    • @517342
      @517342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It reminds me a lot of that Avatar movie tie-in game where the game-designer in charge had no actual clue about game design but really wanted the game to feel like WoW because he liked it so much so his team had to add in quest givers to appease him.

    • @skylordguy6861
      @skylordguy6861 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The funny thing this game is an tie in for a board game called mage knight

    • @fy8798
      @fy8798 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@GeorgeMonet I don't think so. It's from 2006. it's almost directly copying WoW, including how the cooldowns work. I think they thought this was good.

    • @W4iteFlame
      @W4iteFlame 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sonic 06 was better in my opinion...and it was unfinished and unpolished, not just made terrible from the start

  • @amshermansen
    @amshermansen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    27:05 - Without taking any responsibility here. If most of the "virus" results are "generic" and "game hack", then you can pretty much dismiss these as being false positives that just boil down to RAM hooking.

    • @Sewblon
      @Sewblon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What is RAM hooking? I ask because wikipedia has an entry on hooking, but all the links are dead except for one link to a blog post by someone whom I have never heard of.

    • @amshermansen
      @amshermansen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Generally it is frowned upon to read the RAM that other applications are using - And actively EDITING it is even worse.
      And that is exactly what a trainer or tools like cheat engine does to change values in a game while it's running.

  • @Ryusuta
    @Ryusuta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Dude, if the Mage Knight Apocalypse involves a kickass rave with a bunch of lizard people, hell YEAH I'm ready for it.

    • @tenyokensekia8088
      @tenyokensekia8088 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      While that does sound cool, where was the rave? Did I miss it in the video? Also, was Ross’s character just drunk on dwarven brew and mentioned gnolls to make it sound like he was paying attention?

    • @adenowirus
      @adenowirus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tenyokensekia8088 I think it happened during the not-mordor part. Look here 1:13:08

    • @tenyokensekia8088
      @tenyokensekia8088 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adenowirus I sill can't see it. I'll have to just rewatch the whole video sometime. Not a problem, I enjoyed this episode anyway.

    • @adenowirus
      @adenowirus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tenyokensekia8088 You can see the same enemy type but not the scene itself.

    • @Ryusuta
      @Ryusuta ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tenyokensekia8088 The very beginning of the video. (Sorry for the late reply. I thought I'd answered this before.)

  • @Oilyoxygen
    @Oilyoxygen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    This is the kind of story-telling I like to call "Noun Soup", which makes up like 98% of fantasy games. (And Doom Eternal)
    Everyone is constantly referring to people, things, and places with dumb names like " Queen Ruthgold lead the charge In The Battle for the Cinthamon Crown in the The Woodlands of Garthok" and they're made out to be super important and a big part of the world and plot, but it's never really evident from your perspective as to why and the game doesn't care to write something that would explain it.

    • @PasserMontanus
      @PasserMontanus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Lore isn't story. Same disease plagues the Elder Scrolls games.

    • @kloa4219
      @kloa4219 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The appeal with Warcraft was that it combined the darkest parts of history with a fantasy flavor, but those were retconned and watered down after WoW.

    • @lasskinn474
      @lasskinn474 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it's even worse if the writers don't have their own stash of notes so it's consistent. although in this case i guess some of it is referencing the franchise

    • @SinaelDOverom
      @SinaelDOverom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@PasserMontanus In Elder Scrolls you can dive into the lore and via books and all the other bits and pieces make everything come together. Morrowind's entire plot revolves around piecing together a a few tidbits of lore, which you can't understand at the start, but it forms a full picture in the end.

    • @aprofondir
      @aprofondir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's like Destiny. 90% setting 10% plot

  • @herpderp9774
    @herpderp9774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I can only imagine the amount of pain and frustration you go through when you play games like this for our entertainment.
    Thank you Ross but maybe every now and again, play a game that is fun to make a video from as a reward to yourself for all the hard work you put in :)

  • @Kai-tn4yx
    @Kai-tn4yx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The invisible enemies in FEAR 1 are great. They add creatly to the atmosphere and you can still handle them well.

    • @nuzitu
      @nuzitu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stalker too

  • @Toanon
    @Toanon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    "You know, I finally got to see Hellraiser 2, and I'm seeing some similarities between this level design and a literal interpretation of Hell."
    Also I think about more modern MMOs that were inspired by WoW like FFXIV, and the dev teams of those going "Okay what does WoW does that's bad and we shouldn't do" and the answer they eventually come to is "everything"

    • @zyler9462
      @zyler9462 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Pretty much yeah. Most of the mechanics in the original World of Warcraft on release were due to the technical limitations of having a massively multiplayer game with a massive open world in 2006. The loot being tied to the bodies instead of appearing on the floor like Diablo was due to memory limitations. The slow, almost turn-based, attacking was to deal with the inevitable internet lag of 2006 dial-up internet. And the long text dump expositions in quests were due to the fact that it would’ve been impossibly expensive to animate proper cutscenes for thousands of individual quests across a massive open world. There’s absolutely no reason for a single-player action RPG to copy these mechanics and there’s a reason even modern WOW has been slowly moving away from them.

  • @julianfacundocalabrese1176
    @julianfacundocalabrese1176 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    2:50 my bet is that the portrait is in a different layer than the name and the HUD and it was placed precisely so that in the correct ratio it would appear in that circle, which is a transparency of the HUD to that layer, but when the ratio was changed the portrait is still there but now the circle is not aligned with it and it's currently showing the default color for the layer, white.

    • @PandoraSystem
      @PandoraSystem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      except it's still a white circle in the correct aspect ratio.

    • @julianfacundocalabrese1176
      @julianfacundocalabrese1176 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@PandoraSystem didn't notice that, you're right, maybe white is the default for that space in the HUD and the animation wouldn't load in newer systems?

    • @Toaster278
      @Toaster278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Probably just some wierd thing to do with render targets, those are one of the first things that tends to go bad with compatability

  • @KalteLanze
    @KalteLanze 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If I could choose only one channel/type of video to watch for the rest of my life, it'd be Ross's Game Dungeon episodes. Even at the leisurely pace in which they grace my eyes, I could be entirely satisfied by these videos and nothing more. Thanks again for another entertaining trip through a game I've never played, but looks like many I tried or passed on when I was a kid.

  • @thatrealycoolguy
    @thatrealycoolguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    One thing Ross either forgot to mention or is not aware of is that in WoW if you run around and kill 50 murlocs, and they all have loot, you can pick up the majority of it but right clinking a single murloc. And if you hold shift when you right click, it autoloots all of it. It’s based on how close together they are, but you can loot dozens of mobs at once it with one click. The only thing you can’t do is skin multiple at the same time (Unless you’re doing legacy content and can using the throwing skinning knife)

    • @Sithmaster0
      @Sithmaster0 ปีที่แล้ว

      In his defense that is something that was not implemented initially. That was added in later expansions, so a game from the same era I can see not implementing it, especially if they were just copying WoW to that extent.

    • @cupriferouscatalyst3708
      @cupriferouscatalyst3708 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Sithmaster0 yeah it can't have been added before Cata because I definitely would've remembered that :0 Holding shift to auto-loot was around much earlier I'm pretty sure, but idk if it was always a thing.

  • @Umberman
    @Umberman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    man, games just like this remind me of early PC gaming days, they're like pulling teeth singleplayer, the devs SO want you to play MP they just completely forget to balance the game for SP

  • @cupriferouscatalyst3708
    @cupriferouscatalyst3708 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    This, along with some other Game Dungeon episodes, really makes me realize just how many strange half-baked fantasy RPGs trying to ride the WoW wave there were. And nearly all of them fail to realize how pointless cooldowns and recharge timers are outside of MMOs.

    • @HYDRAdude
      @HYDRAdude 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's a co-op game so no the CDs and recharge timers are not pointless.

    • @cupriferouscatalyst3708
      @cupriferouscatalyst3708 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HYDRAdude I guess not then

    • @cupriferouscatalyst3708
      @cupriferouscatalyst3708 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wait no that's not a good reason actually, co-op games shouldn't need cooldown timers. I thought they were basically just a way to get any form of action-ish combat with so many players to work at all on crappy 90s internet.

  • @nekkowe
    @nekkowe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    34:15 I can think of exactly one game where invisible enemies are fun!
    In Killer7, enemies are invisible by default, but you can hear them laugh when they spot you.
    Then you can reveal them by standing still and aiming their way. Maybe the key is just that a game has to give you actual options for dealing with the invisibility.

  • @KWCHope
    @KWCHope 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Never stop being you, this is the one channel that makes me smile every time I watch

  • @Momentanius
    @Momentanius 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Didn't expect to see Haunted Castle 3 being used as an example to anything, but here we are. xD
    Great vid Ross!

    • @marcellosilva9286
      @marcellosilva9286 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Não tava esperando ver você por aqui, Master.

  • @royalbandit8106
    @royalbandit8106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I appreciate the effort you put in just to make the games you play easier for us to watch 👍 rock on dude!

  • @dinitroacetylen
    @dinitroacetylen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "I am already a master of nothing in my real life!"
    Many quotes from Freeman's Mind were fighting in my head for the title of the Ultimate Quote, and now they all got annihilated by this unexpected newcomer.

  • @thoughtguardian
    @thoughtguardian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Glad to see a new video, thanks Ross! I was not ready for the apocalypse.
    Hope you’re doing great.
    If you’re ever feeling up to it, I would love a video on Zeno clash. You mentioned it in this one and it dreggend up some nearly forgotten memories of me playing the demo after spending all day downloading to my laptop over my parents super slow internet. I had convinced myself that that game wasn’t even real until you mentioned the title and I looked it up.

    • @monoglyph
      @monoglyph 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      +1 for a Zeno Clash video. That game had really interesting lore and what I'm convinced is still the best take on first-person brawler gameplay 12 years later. Zeno Clash 2's weird open world RPG-lite mechanics felt like a step back by comparison.

  • @iamme2739
    @iamme2739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like how you always try your very best to play through the game, even if it is almost impossible.

  • @Jacketx
    @Jacketx ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this game scratches an itch i never knew i had, who knew singleplayer world of warcraft could look so fun,

    • @sorrenblitz805
      @sorrenblitz805 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Isn't that what Diablo 3 is?

  • @vulture8298
    @vulture8298 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Man, I'm glad that we've left the Bloomcalypse behind. Those were bright times.

  • @psykomancer4420
    @psykomancer4420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The shooter Dusk had a good invisible enemy. You'd be alerted to its presence by its heavy breathing and footsteps, it's pretty freaky when you notice it.

  • @thrackerzod6097
    @thrackerzod6097 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Dusk's Wendigos where a fun invisible enemy. Mainly because they have a lot of audio ques, their path is predictable, and once they're hit once their invisibility is gone forever. Rare example of an invisible enemy done right, they make things more tense, but are fair.

  • @hoomstucked
    @hoomstucked 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I Love the way he describes these janky games he truly suffers for us and it always entertains me throughout ily ross

  • @tacarish9837
    @tacarish9837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Game Dungeon is fascinating to me because of how timeless it is. I can watch any Game Dungeon video and I will have 0 idea when it was made.

  • @maurobrunosolavergara5041
    @maurobrunosolavergara5041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    omg, I woke up this morning thinking about Ross and how long it was since the last Game Dungeon and Voila, a couple of hours later we're blessed again by your presence! Life is good man

  • @CallumBradbury
    @CallumBradbury 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Unexpected Zeno Clash reference was appreciated my dude

  • @Tailmonsterfriend
    @Tailmonsterfriend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Not just the combat pacing itself, but also the strategy of peeling off enemies one by one from a larger group is ALSO very much like classic World of Warcraft.

    • @jorge69696
      @jorge69696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A testament to how good the progression and engagement mechanics in WoW are. Otherwise people wouldn't tolerate the same shitty combat for decades.

    • @MinscFromBaldursGate92
      @MinscFromBaldursGate92 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I like Warhammer Fantasy more than Warcraft to be honest.

  • @atherium3351
    @atherium3351 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The fabled Ross Scott has blessed us with another episode of game dungeon!

  • @Morrow1158
    @Morrow1158 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    The full phrase is “a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.” It was a compliment

    • @voxlknight2155
      @voxlknight2155 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Plus, a Jack is right under a King and Queen, so it means you're really good at everything, just not the best at all of them individually. So it's doubly a compliment.

    • @boarfaceswinejaw4516
      @boarfaceswinejaw4516 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      that last part was added later, and was not part of the original quote.
      its good to be well versed in many things, but you'll get stomped by people who are significantly better than you are at things. so get good at something.

  • @GlemWalker
    @GlemWalker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Feels so good seeing a new Game Dungeon in my sub box, keep it up Ross you're a saint for suffering through theses ^^

    • @Conservative4
      @Conservative4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I feel like he shouldn’t have to suffer quite so much for these though. He’s working himself into an early grave.

  • @Jeffyd133
    @Jeffyd133 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    An hour and a half of ross!?
    I'm gonna quote Ross here and say "Hellllllllll yeah"

  • @BangaRangan
    @BangaRangan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ross, I would wait a year for one episode. The game dungeon is the best series on TH-cam. I was at an arcade bar a few weeks ago and saw Carnevil, had to play it in your memory. It was rad!

    • @Yusuke_Denton
      @Yusuke_Denton 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Remember to take a picture of the cabinet and send it to him, because he requested everyone to send him their Carnevil pics!

  • @seanbordenkircher7854
    @seanbordenkircher7854 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The only thing I can think of for the avatar is that when the HUD got stretched, the avatar's position didn't change. It's probably set as just an overlay that can plug in which ever avatar it needs, but it's position bound to the screen. I don't know how you would fix that, though.

  • @FlaminBurrito101
    @FlaminBurrito101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God bless you and your family Ross, been watching your content since I was a kid. Was 13 eating cough drops when I was sick and watched freemans mind and got hyped for every episode. Im 24 and a cowboy now and I do A.I, I can't say enough how much I appreciate your content and as I grew as a person your videos were always a treat. Still waiting for you to make your movie, but I'll wait as long as it takes, "When it's done". Thanks for everything Ross, good vibes. 👍

  • @Glibbers
    @Glibbers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Damn, this is probably one of the best game dungeons yet! Really enjoyed seeing you try every character, and also managing to go to the end.

  • @LoogyHead
    @LoogyHead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Oh man this was fun. I was really hoping for Awards Time in this one.

    • @1manorgy
      @1manorgy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yeah I miss those

  • @RandomPerson964
    @RandomPerson964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    6:56 I agree with this. It is super silly. Although I wouldn't mind that sort of clothing as an unlockable joke costume. Like in Valkyria Chronicles 4, there's an optional mission where you can unlock swimsuits for the main cast. It's silly to watch them trudge through snow in bikinis and swim trunks, but it's something you can choose to do.

    • @boarfaceswinejaw4516
      @boarfaceswinejaw4516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@WyattStrange its realistic armor by pictish barbarian standards.

    • @iwatchyoutubealot
      @iwatchyoutubealot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It would bother me more if the rest of armor in generic fantasy settings weren't similarly unrealistic, giant cartoony looking chunks of metal that would seem more at home on some kind of mecha than a person.

    • @Web720
      @Web720 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's fantasy, it's not supposed to be ultra realistic 🤷‍♂️
      If this was a historic game or a game grounded in reality, I agree.

    • @dirtfriend
      @dirtfriend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Web720 it's not even about realism, it just cheapens the experience. like yeah we all know the super good and fun joke of "har har stabbed in the exposed midriff" but it just takes me out of a setting when the developer doesn't even attempt to give a shit about their worldbuilding beyond omg boobies

    • @Atrahasis7
      @Atrahasis7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There is nothing wrong with bikini armor, it just depends on the setting, for me there are two types of fantasy, NO bikini armor, or all in on it and it must include dinosaurs. If the game has no bikini armor but has some fan service its also fine again it depends.

  • @starcraft2own
    @starcraft2own ปีที่แล้ว +2

    43:00 Is such a masterclass in subtle joke writing. Props for the perfect comedic timing and tone.

  • @footbroke
    @footbroke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The invisible enemies in RE4 were good. They weren't completely undetectable and since the game was a TPS, you could still shoot first before they got you if you were vigilant. And since the game was a horror game, it was a really good tense section. It's one of the more memorable sections of that game.