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I always enjoy when you do a segment on the lunacy of politicians in the 2000s losing it over video games. It makes me crack up seeing how out of touch and panicked they sound when describing the content of these games.
I love Stubbs the Zombie. It's such a unique jem amongst the oversaturation of zombie games we have, even to this day. I also love its sense of humor. It's tongue-in-cheek but has a sincerity to it where the game wears its heart on its sleeve (sometimes literally) that makes it endearing as opposed to eye rolling like today's humor. Plus, it has a great soundtrack as well. The dance off is still, to this day, a personal highlight of gaming for me. BTW that response from the developers in regards to cannibalism is one of the greatest things I have ever seen in my life.
I love Stubbs, technically it's not by Bungie, but was made by those who founded and worked at Bungie. It's a reminder that before Bungie's inevitable fall, they did a lot of games.
I think the major reason that relationships between the games industry and politicians has appeared to cool since the nineties is two-fold. 1. The industry now has enough major publishers who are as-if-not-more wealthy that Hollywood studios, and now easily lobby politicians to better serve their interests. 2. Beginning with the GWBush era more government support travelled into the industry to make material that would be culturally relevant to the government's interests. This began with sweetheart deals between the Department of Defence and companies making military games to help keep The War On Terror's recruitment up. Then in the Obama era a lot of proxy organisations for the DNC got in on the act and started pushing cultural influence into the industry, particularly after OccupyWallstreet. Thus you had the bloom of identity politics in journalistic outlets around 2014, and further into the industry itself from that time onward. Politics started screwing with our hobby from the inside.
I love that RTS feeling of seeing your units overcome the enemy faction in the third person perspective. I personally had no qualms with buying this full price when the remaster came.
Fun trivia! When you turn someone into a zombie you can still damage them and tear limbs apart, if you do enough precise attacks you can reduce a zombie to nothing but a torso, the funny thing is the torso still twitches and wriggles suggesting more of a Return of the Living Dead type zombies where every part and organ of their bodies can continue "living" independently. Headless zombies are also a frequent sight especially once you start using the big guts! No idea if this is retained in the remaster, I've only played the original.
I got this game in 2023 around christmas time and i don't regret my purchase at all. this is such a funny game with all the zombie clichés and 50's music. i got a trophy from getting hit by a car as stubbs and the dude in the jeep said "that's the end of his killing spree" gleefully and i just busted out laughing.
Are they retroactively turning on it though?? As someone who’s never played Borderlands - I do own all of them though - every time I hear a random video talking about it, the cringe humour is always mentioned.
BL1 was a great concept. BL2 is a solid gold good time. BL-tPS is a extremely solid 8/10 BL3 is insufferable garbage writing interfering with 8/10 gameplay.
You might like to look at Rays the dead or Dead head Fred. For that weirdly charming and raunchy humour man those games were awesome. Those and stubbs were my funny zombie game trilogy.❤
I miss the times when developers were willing to take a risk, making games like "Stubbs the Zombie" or "Destroy all Humans". Last game I played that was quirky, goofy, with a crass sense of humor was "Saints Row 4", a title that fans despised. 😓
The early 2000s to 2010s were the golden age in my opinion. The games had personality, *SOUL* AND CAN CREATE ENTIRE PASSIONATE FOLLOWINGS AND COMMUNITIES! But Now? its all mostly micro transactions filled gacha from greedy suits that are always getting in some legal mess from "triple a" games companies, but luke i said, thats the greedy higher-ups that only care about making money instead of thinking about the employees and thw consumers.
Great video, growing up in the late 90s/early 2000s was wild. The U.S. was falling apart and all politicians did was attack heavy metal, horror movies and video games in homage to the Satanic Panic, instead of actually fixing real problems. It just made us want those even more. Games are so gentrified these days, most games don't even have split screen anymore. Playing video games used to be a social occasion, either going to your friends house or the arcade (or LAN parties). Now you just sit at home, spend your money and waste your time on games with great graphics but awful gameplay and recycled plots.
one of those games that you buy randomly when you have no better options at the stores . its uniqueness and gimmick will keep you busy for a couple of days but not very memorable or replayable
Stubbs was one of those games I remember loving on og Xbox but I never got to pick up the original pc port since it was a hot mess. Picked up the remaster day one and beat it all in one sitting. Between it and Voodoo Vince I hope Microsoft releases more of their old Xbox only titles onto other platforms through modern remasters like Brute force and Otogi.
I always wanted to rent this as a kid but my ma wouldnt let me. I finally got it for pc and now that doesnt work. Even when i got it on the low it crashes at the same point 🙃 glad i can finally watch this and find out what I was missing
I love that your opinion and style is so much like mine. Definitely has to due with halo 2 and 3 being a major part of our formative years on Xbox live with friends and your other opinions and true cry was such a fun game lmao Hilarious Clinton smh the late 90’s and early 2000’s were a wild time. Already signed btw
bro hearing OG xbox halo game chat is fucking hitting me hard. I remember this one time i was like 6-8 years old playing that shit when my older brother wasnt home. I wanted to talk shit on the mic too seeing how much it made my older brother laugh and nah they just bullied the shit out of me lmfao one of them made a scary voice and threatened me and it legitimately terrified me so bad i quickly shut off the mic and unplugged it from controller. Bro later that night my neighbours got into a screaming fight at like 2am and i thought it was that guy coming to get me i was so scared lmfao shit the fact i still remember that just goes to show how traumatic it was for a little stupid ass kid lol
What is this, dementia gaming? You literally repeat same lines and same points throughout the review multiple times like the cringe modern humour part. The review itself is perfectly fine, but i just find this kinda odd.
a completely forgettable game that didnt need a remaster. the only reason you have affection for this title is that you played it when you were young. yeah "marvel" humor sucks. but this shit is also stupid as hell and had worn out its welcome by the the time the game came out.
also its a little ridiculous to blame Destiny for the stupidity of other companies trying to access a similar model -- Destiny 2 is a great game and a blast to be a part of, its the only live service that does what it does the right way. You get what you pay for, there is no P2W and all of its systems are the best in its class. It should have stayed there -- theres a ton of things you can blame Bungie (particularly now in the wake of more layoffs) but they didnt walk into any of these studios and aim a gun to their brow with a demand that they start cranking out live service junk. Bungie didnt invent fiduciary responsibility and as a D2 enjoyer I would unsubscribe to a lesser channel for that kind of boneheaded logic.
it's amazing how many different types of creative videogames studios were making during the early to late 2000s, sad that mostly everything now is either ubisoft-type open-world slop or live service hero shooter garbage.
This is a game I got in the early days of steam. Honestly it is a bit charming and fun. I do like how eventually you turn the entire city and can see it being taken over little by little. Not many games managed that kind of feeling.
It looks super generic because many games after its publishing and since have mimicked its style, limited weapon system, and combat sections (among other things). Once your game becomes genre defining, it would make sense that after some time it would seem "generic" since many studios would draw quite some heavy inspiration from that work.
@@chrisb4131I mean, for the time local console coop was the bigger draw (PC gaming is only now beginning to be considered not niche after all) but the first 3 were popular for their story, modernizing the FPS format along with half life 1 and 2, and essentially creating a universal controller scheme that we still use today, and just being amazing single player games in their own right. A fledgling Xbox live took it to the stratosphere tho with halo 2.
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I always enjoy when you do a segment on the lunacy of politicians in the 2000s losing it over video games. It makes me crack up seeing how out of touch and panicked they sound when describing the content of these games.
Yes.
lol trump was trying to blame gun violence on video games and film literally a year ago.
I love Stubbs the Zombie. It's such a unique jem amongst the oversaturation of zombie games we have, even to this day.
I also love its sense of humor. It's tongue-in-cheek but has a sincerity to it where the game wears its heart on its sleeve (sometimes literally) that makes it endearing as opposed to eye rolling like today's humor.
Plus, it has a great soundtrack as well. The dance off is still, to this day, a personal highlight of gaming for me.
BTW that response from the developers in regards to cannibalism is one of the greatest things I have ever seen in my life.
I love Stubbs, technically it's not by Bungie, but was made by those who founded and worked at Bungie. It's a reminder that before Bungie's inevitable fall, they did a lot of games.
Or....it technically was done by Bungie...glass half full situation
Well it has Halo CE engine, so there's that
"we'll grow a small zombie of armies" 5:30
absolute kino
I had to ctrl+ F when I heard that, there's no way there wasn't a comment already, lol.
I instantly paused and scrolled down looking for this exact comment.
I don't know how I didn't catch that in editing.
I think the major reason that relationships between the games industry and politicians has appeared to cool since the nineties is two-fold.
1. The industry now has enough major publishers who are as-if-not-more wealthy that Hollywood studios, and now easily lobby politicians to better serve their interests.
2. Beginning with the GWBush era more government support travelled into the industry to make material that would be culturally relevant to the government's interests. This began with sweetheart deals between the Department of Defence and companies making military games to help keep The War On Terror's recruitment up. Then in the Obama era a lot of proxy organisations for the DNC got in on the act and started pushing cultural influence into the industry, particularly after OccupyWallstreet. Thus you had the bloom of identity politics in journalistic outlets around 2014, and further into the industry itself from that time onward.
Politics started screwing with our hobby from the inside.
That's why we need to force it out.
I love that RTS feeling of seeing your units overcome the enemy faction in the third person perspective. I personally had no qualms with buying this full price when the remaster came.
The ex-Bungie staff did have experience with RTS with the Myth series.
@@BoulderPunch Yeah, I remember the early Halo prototype.
Lollipop, lollipop oooooh la la lollipop
This was what me and my wife played while she was pregnant with our daughter..... Nearly 18 years ago
I still remember the line when youre munching brains, and the victim screams
"HE'S EATING MY SOOOOOUUUUL!"
Damn good times wirh a cult classic.
Fun trivia! When you turn someone into a zombie you can still damage them and tear limbs apart, if you do enough precise attacks you can reduce a zombie to nothing but a torso, the funny thing is the torso still twitches and wriggles suggesting more of a Return of the Living Dead type zombies where every part and organ of their bodies can continue "living" independently. Headless zombies are also a frequent sight especially once you start using the big guts!
No idea if this is retained in the remaster, I've only played the original.
5:35 ahh yes, a small zombie of armies.
Damn you beat me to it
I got this game in 2023 around christmas time and i don't regret my purchase at all. this is such a funny game with all the zombie clichés and 50's music. i got a trophy from getting hit by a car as stubbs and the dude in the jeep said "that's the end of his killing spree" gleefully and i just busted out laughing.
“Growing her and Bill’s body count” love it!
Was checking the comments to see if I wasn't the only one who caught that.
5:34 zombie of armies 😂
It’s funny how the internet has retroactively turned on borderlands
Are they retroactively turning on it though?? As someone who’s never played Borderlands - I do own all of them though - every time I hear a random video talking about it, the cringe humour is always mentioned.
Borderlands was always obnoxious garbage!
I think Borderlands are great games but the humor even in the titles considered with “good writing” has aged pretty bad.
BL1 was a great concept.
BL2 is a solid gold good time.
BL-tPS is a extremely solid 8/10
BL3 is insufferable garbage writing interfering with 8/10 gameplay.
@@stanettiels7367 its mostly coz of how shit bl3 turned out and the new dogshit movie
Absurd humor and mobbing on the local populace?
Sounds like BP also needs to do a video on the Overlord series
I would love that, overlords one & two were such great games.
Overlord was such a fun game!
Nice a morning Boulder punch video
I miss the old days of Halo…I remember the excitement of lining up at the local Game Crazy waiting for the midnight release of Halo 2.
Sigh*
I still have the PC version copy of this game in it's original physical box! Loved this game!
LOVED The OST for this game. The cover of 'Earth Angel' made it onto many corny playlists as a teenager.
I never expected to see CAKE in a boulder punch video, ir any video in fact haha
Edit: and a second after saying that i see Nine Inch Nails lmfao
Thanks for getting the Night Trap theme stuck in my head again
This game was NUTS. We need more wacky games in our lives.
you just unlocked a memory for me omfg
I played this game to a nearly obsessive extent as a kid, and it helped to imbue me with an appreciation for the music that my parents listen to!
Now do Veutiful Joe and you'll officially make me feel old.
As a Pennsylvanian...this game speaks for all of us. Especially in kensington pa.
Based Boulder
nostalgia (for simpler times)
I remember playing this game in uni and being struck by fun and unique it was. REALLY underrated gem.
Ah yes, I remember the 2000's with politicians blaming video games for the world's problems lol
came expecting a fun video about a zombie game, came out with a history lesson. great stuff.
You might like to look at Rays the dead or Dead head Fred. For that weirdly charming and raunchy humour man those games were awesome. Those and stubbs were my funny zombie game trilogy.❤
I always wanted to play this but never got the chance to, it's good to see what I've been missing lol
What a neat post op of the halo series with a bonus stubbs review
Taking note of Chief Masters after that Halo rant/tangent (which I wholeheartedly agree with) made me chuckle.
I miss the times when developers were willing to take a risk, making games like "Stubbs the Zombie" or "Destroy all Humans".
Last game I played that was quirky, goofy, with a crass sense of humor was "Saints Row 4", a title that fans despised. 😓
The early 2000s to 2010s were the golden age in my opinion.
The games had personality, *SOUL* AND CAN CREATE ENTIRE PASSIONATE FOLLOWINGS AND COMMUNITIES!
But Now? its all mostly micro transactions filled gacha from greedy suits that are always getting in some legal mess from "triple a" games companies, but luke i said, thats the greedy higher-ups that only care about making money instead of thinking about the employees and thw consumers.
I can finally say that I've seen it all now.
My favorrite game which is to my suprise still unique and no one in 20 years made something similar
Saw this game on ps2 at my local game shop. Ima get it next time I'm there
Great video, growing up in the late 90s/early 2000s was wild. The U.S. was falling apart and all politicians did was attack heavy metal, horror movies and video games in homage to the Satanic Panic, instead of actually fixing real problems. It just made us want those even more.
Games are so gentrified these days, most games don't even have split screen anymore. Playing video games used to be a social occasion, either going to your friends house or the arcade (or LAN parties). Now you just sit at home, spend your money and waste your time on games with great graphics but awful gameplay and recycled plots.
This is sooooo Dreamcast vibes.
I've seen this game a few times. I've never wanted to play it, but your video has me considering it.
Developers don't make games like these anymore. I never played this and it looked fun.
why fav was when you ripped a guy's arm of and he yells "HOW WILL I JUGGLE"
Always love this game! Played it so many times as a kid
i was the guy that was team killing everyone at the beginning of the match in halo 2
An all time favorite.
one of those games that you buy randomly when you have no better options at the stores . its uniqueness and gimmick will keep you busy for a couple of days but not very memorable or replayable
Stubbs was one of those games I remember loving on og Xbox but I never got to pick up the original pc port since it was a hot mess. Picked up the remaster day one and beat it all in one sitting. Between it and Voodoo Vince I hope Microsoft releases more of their old Xbox only titles onto other platforms through modern remasters like Brute force and Otogi.
I always wanted to rent this as a kid but my ma wouldnt let me. I finally got it for pc and now that doesnt work. Even when i got it on the low it crashes at the same point 🙃 glad i can finally watch this and find out what I was missing
Looks like a really fun game. Thanks for another great video :)
I love that your opinion and style is so much like mine. Definitely has to due with halo 2 and 3 being a major part of our formative years on Xbox live with friends and your other opinions and true cry was such a fun game lmao
Hilarious Clinton smh the late 90’s and early 2000’s were a wild time.
Already signed btw
There's tangent threads in game review scripts and then there's this, which...
You should make a game, would love to see how many mistakes you would or would not make.
bro hearing OG xbox halo game chat is fucking hitting me hard. I remember this one time i was like 6-8 years old playing that shit when my older brother wasnt home. I wanted to talk shit on the mic too seeing how much it made my older brother laugh and nah they just bullied the shit out of me lmfao one of them made a scary voice and threatened me and it legitimately terrified me so bad i quickly shut off the mic and unplugged it from controller.
Bro later that night my neighbours got into a screaming fight at like 2am and i thought it was that guy coming to get me i was so scared lmfao shit the fact i still remember that just goes to show how traumatic it was for a little stupid ass kid lol
I feel personally attacked by that last comment
Hey Joe, you wanna play a zombie game?
24:36 Ouchies. Body count.
I question if Ted is the guy Stubbs first kill?
The models in this game are lacking individuality.
The Borderlands franchise had some of the worst writing in gaming history. They were still better videogames than Stubbs The Zombie.
halo is unknown outside of usa
GOATed game
Stubbs Vs Krypto
Great zinger with the Clinton body count! Haha! I knew you were cool
Does anyone remember the halo odst total conversion mod that was using this game as its base?
what fov are you even playing on with fallow???? 10?
Repeating points three times throughout a video is unbearably tedious
he does that a lot though:3c often verbatim
Yeah, it sucks. We get it, you love Grandma’s Boy.
Nice
You really need to cut down on sidetracked yapping, I didn't need to hear about Halos current state of affair
Dead Rising but where you play as the dead rising 😅👌 get it??? Okay, I'll leave now.
1 min ago vid. yay
What is this, dementia gaming? You literally repeat same lines and same points throughout the review multiple times like the cringe modern humour part. The review itself is perfectly fine, but i just find this kinda odd.
Lotta waxing poetic about politics, society, and perceived good-ol-days, for a game review. Maybe separate the soapbox preaching for its own video.
a completely forgettable game that didnt need a remaster. the only reason you have affection for this title is that you played it when you were young. yeah "marvel" humor sucks. but this shit is also stupid as hell and had worn out its welcome by the the time the game came out.
Right wing dems from the 90s and 2000s were so awful tbh
also its a little ridiculous to blame Destiny for the stupidity of other companies trying to access a similar model -- Destiny 2 is a great game and a blast to be a part of, its the only live service that does what it does the right way. You get what you pay for, there is no P2W and all of its systems are the best in its class. It should have stayed there -- theres a ton of things you can blame Bungie (particularly now in the wake of more layoffs) but they didnt walk into any of these studios and aim a gun to their brow with a demand that they start cranking out live service junk. Bungie didnt invent fiduciary responsibility and as a D2 enjoyer I would unsubscribe to a lesser channel for that kind of boneheaded logic.
Chill, shill!
I have this game it sucks and it's boring
no you
it's amazing how many different types of creative videogames studios were making during the early to late 2000s, sad that mostly everything now is either ubisoft-type open-world slop or live service hero shooter garbage.
Punchbowl... BoulderPunch... hmmmm......
It's like poetry, it rhymes. Literally in this case.
This is a game I got in the early days of steam. Honestly it is a bit charming and fun. I do like how eventually you turn the entire city and can see it being taken over little by little. Not many games managed that kind of feeling.
So happy you reviewed this game! Stubbs was my childhood
Never understood Halo. Just looked super generic to me.
It changed the entire video game landscape. Have you ever played it?
I used to play many hours at LAN parties. I think that was the major draw.
It looks super generic because many games after its publishing and since have mimicked its style, limited weapon system, and combat sections (among other things). Once your game becomes genre defining, it would make sense that after some time it would seem "generic" since many studios would draw quite some heavy inspiration from that work.
Tell me you're a cringe zoomer without saying youre a cringe zoomer 😂
What a take my guy.
@@chrisb4131I mean, for the time local console coop was the bigger draw (PC gaming is only now beginning to be considered not niche after all) but the first 3 were popular for their story, modernizing the FPS format along with half life 1 and 2, and essentially creating a universal controller scheme that we still use today, and just being amazing single player games in their own right. A fledgling Xbox live took it to the stratosphere tho with halo 2.