"First you race him, but then he cheats, so you hold a gun to his head. Then you race him again but then he cheats again so then you finally race him." This is fantastic.
@@adenowirus The F-Zero GX story approach: ANY problem can be solved with more racing. F-Zero GX is what comes to mind for me when it comes to naked ridiculousness done well.
I just happened to rewatch this vid last month, after getting hit with a weird feeling that this game wasn’t gonna make it past 2025 - but that feeling turned out to be wrong, ‘cause they’re actually killing this game before the tenth anniversary of its release. My friends who’re into driving games are *pissed*
I watch his video everytime my family and I go on a roadtrip. Learning that EA is shooting the game just...it angers me so much and, honestly, ruins this video for me even though I knew it would happen eventually. I did not want to ever play the Crew but it is sad seeing the (second) _biggest driving game world ever_ leave us.
@@Cats-TM its Ubisoft not EA. and yeah this is terrible news. I still hop on it from time to time. I tried the crew 2 and couldnt get into it. The Crew Motorfest isnt on steam, and Im not going to buy into Ubisofts store.
I just thought up a story this could have had. Have it be a story about a guy who just wants to explore the US and have fun doing some street racing along the way. As he goes, he steps on the toes of damn near every street racing club in the country, so they all think this new guy's got some crazy plan to try and unite them all or tag them all for the Feds or something. In reality though, he's the street racing equivalent of the Big Lebowski.
"Ubisoft does not have enough experience being stupid" also "Ok so here's the problem with the sun, its designed by maniacs that's the problem" and "you have respect a giant rock, well I do" ~ Ross Scott 2018
"First I'm gonna take your ride, and then I'm gonna take your girl. Be ready for that!" & "First you race him, but then he cheats so you hold a gun to his head. Then you race him again but then he cheats again, so then you finally race him." Those two quotes pretty much define racing games.
As someone who lives close to Salem Massachusetts it is basically Halloween 24/7 I see people in witch outfits and witchcraft stuff in the streets all the time
Here's my pitch for The Crew's story campaign: Alex, a down on his luck 30-something year old with no real direction in life besides committing petty crimes and street racing, recieves a package in the mail from his estranged brother. In it is a box of ashes and a letter: His brother has passed away from Unspecifieditis, and his last request is to go on "one last roadtrip" with his brother like they used to do when they were younger--with places of significance for them marked on an old roadmap--and have his ashes released into the Pacific Ocean. While Alex is reluctant at first--too broke to make a journey like that at the moment--he realizes he can use his not-inconsiderable driving skills to pay his way cross-country and fulfill his brother's last wish. The structure of the game then would be making your way across the country, winning races and doing other driving challenges to earn money, while the story would focus on Alex and his brother's relationship in the past, eventually culminating in learning why they became estranged in the first place, maybe having the occasional "flashback" story mission to further flesh out their relationship, but otherwise not be overly intrusive to the base experience of The Crew.
I'm shocked people haven't responded to this one more. That is a wonderful idea! I would love to play a game like that and I don't even play racing or driving games very often lol.
Roger Lost well not immediately, he still needs to get ad revenue from youtube. I can see how it could take up a lot of bandwidth but on the otherhand he is still hosting all those freeman's mind episodes
Instant Game Dungeon classic, thoroughly enjoyed this one! Very much echoes my own experiences with the game and then some, it's such a waste of a virtual world while also coming _this_ close to being amazing. Really hope you get the chance to dive into the Forza Horizon games someday. 2 and 3 have handily addressed my open world driving game urged post-TDU.
This is why I'm so hesitant to give this game a go. As much as I enjoy the prospect of driving across a scaled-down U.S.A., the game is just too faulty and volatile. Not to mention, my Uplay is inaccessible due to a stupid 2-step system.
@@QJ89 honestly you aren't missing much..... here's the problem with super massive worlds on one side you get a huge world, on the flip side you get boring gameplay or bad story or unimpressive visuals.... try Fallout 4 to see what I mean, big world no story or nothing you'll be interested in and repetitive gameplay.... my advice skip it, if you really need a open world racer play Forza Horizon....
@@Red_Lanterns_Rage fallout 4's world had tons of story imo. From the companions backstories ,to the giant rocket boat, or pickmans gallery. The main quest of fallout 4 is just a rehashing of Fallout 3's already shite story, but to say the world in fo4 is empty really doesnt do it justice
@@CourierSiix and again if you are trying to defend the vacant Falout 4 over a game with a story Fallout 3 you're an idiot and part of the problem, sorry but that's how I see it fallout 3 had a story, it wasn't the best but it was deeper than what F4 did and had characters you could care about cus they were well written and performed, the game starred Liam Neeson and Malcolm McDowell and still had Ron Perlman deliver the opening monologue and it was well written and performed.... F4 is boring, bland and inunspired and none of it''s features were well thought out or fully developed and "it did not just work" ir belly flopped not in sales but in story, enjoyment and lasting impact, in 10 years we'll still be here holding New Vegas up as the best Fallout, in 30 in 50 years whoever is left will still call New Vegas out as a great game but nobody will hold Fallout 4 up as anything other than trash here's an idea try playing fallout 3 before trashing on it and you'll see it's not that bad 1 it's a RPG with kinda bad shooting mechanics, not a shooter with crappy RPG elements 2 story is passable at best but has good moments and the quests were proper quests complete with story, not just go here, kill these, get loot & leave 3 the armory of weapons and armor was pretty good, you had 2 viable AR type rifles, a SMG, several shotguns, laser and plasma weapons, heavy weapons and the armor outfits were mostly good, F the wastelander rags but most everything else yeah not bad 4 you didn't have any real factions just the BOS and Encleave but you did have groups, Talon Company and Regulators, the various towns and Ghouls, Mutants, ferals and raiders among other groups BGS did the best they could on F3 and it showed, they got lazy on F4 and F76 and it shows big time I'm not saying F3 is perfect but it's better than you think or give it credit for ----- let's explore a side quest in fallout 3 The replicated Man at some point in your travels you'll find holotapes talking about the railroad and synths asking around progresses the story and eventually you're stopped by a railroad agent who asks you to keep Harkness's secret alternatively you could just talk to Zimmer after saving James from Dr Braun, you'll still get the railroad agent scene, from there you can talk to the scientist in the broken off section of Rivet City and if you pass a speech check he tells you about Harkness and and the memory wipe, at this point you have an option, make Harkness remember and confront Zimmer, kill zimmer yourself, or take the component from the railroad agent to convince Zimmer to leave claiming the synth he was after was KIA [I may have not remembered exactly how this went but basically yeah this is it] the reward for this is Harkness's plasma rifle which is a unique plasma rifle here's a typical F4 side quest go to a location, read a note, go to another location read another note maybe repeat a few times and maybe you're also killing some enemies at each location then claim loot quest over question: which sounds better to you???
What are you talking about, the game was immedately killed off. It didn't install, run, or connect to the servers for the first 5 days. There are bugs in games, but when the installer tells you to fuck off, get an immedate refund and hurt those launch numbers.
Didn't mean that in an asshole way if it came off like that. Also, The Crew is the perfect name for your original comment. As in a group of people to rip you off.
@@keith_5584 fuck off, you are talking bullshit and I know. I played the game since the day of release. the first 3 days had some small server restarts, but I already made it to the first offroad stage within these 3 days.. The game isn't as bad as people make it out to be and you are likely just trying to shit on it because it's not what you want it to be.
This video made me 700% more American. And I'm English. Your idea about getting rid of the story and beefing up the local trivia was a great idea. Instead of the street racing stuff, you should play as a documentarian, travelling around the country for your documentary series on America.
Honestly, I like the idea of Alex just enjoying a road trip. His character actually IMPROVES if you take away the revenge theme. Him just being an Explorer is just a better idea in general.
You may want to give The Crew 2 a chance. It improves on a lot of the points you make, including the size of the country roads, and you'll change your mind about the planes once you do a loop around the giant cow statue. That being said, it does still have the "always online" problem.
Actually, Ross, Salem kinda IS Halloween Town all year long. It's a perfect case of a town taking its history and embracing it, as there are actual businesses that deal in "witchcraft" supplies like modern apothecaries regardless of whether or not it's October. There are tours of sites that were important during the Witch Trials, as well as an entire MUSEUM dedicated to them, but October IS the best time to visit since people will be walking around in costume, there's a pumpkin festival, haunted houses EVERYWHERE, and they play a lot of Rob Zombie music over speakers in some areas cuz Zombie is a Massachusetts native, much like myself.
Everything about the Midwest save Chicago kills me in this game. Tiny St. Louis, lack of places like Kansas City, and absolutely no mid sized cities in combo with the bs that is the dirt roads. They glossed over the central US hardcore.
I think you're right on all counts, and ironically, I also thought they probably did the best job on it compared to the other zones; except maybe the desert, but come on.
Yes the game has awful microstuttering. The frametimes are pretty awful in that game which is kind of hilarious in a driving game. The ONE THING you want to do right in a driving game, is frametimes and general smoothness, frame skips are a thing in that game too, its abysmal.
I'll give it this: it's got one *massive* draw distance. This game really makes you feel like your driving across the lower 48 states in a fully mapped world. I'll give it points for that!
Now I'm sure one person is going to go "Aw, it's just a game, get over it," when they hear that Ubisoft is selling a game that you can play for only a limited time before being permanently destroyed, so let's use an example as to why it this is shitty. Let's say that back in 2014 I bought a brand new Subaru Impreza WRX STI with a 6 speed manual and a nice Plasma Blue Silica paint job. I love that Subaru and drive it almost every day for the next 7 or 8 years. Then, after 8 years, Subaru breaks into my garage, puts my Impreza on the back of a tow truck, bring it to a junkyard, then crushes it, and when I confront them about it, they just say "Buy a new one." Paying for a product that you can only have until the manufactures of the product say otherwise is bullshit, no matter if it's video games, cars, TVs, Phones, etc, a product is a product, and bullshit is bullshit.
@@MitsyWuzHere They are though. They designed it that way from the beginning. Not out of necessity, the gameplay of The Crew does not inherently require you to be online to function. Ubisoft just chose to make it work that way when they developed the game. To make the car analogy more accurate, there was, iunno, a small bomb built into the engine, completely unable to be removed (somehow, lets just go with this) - with 8ish years on its countdown timer. That is more correctly representing The Crew. The bomb is not necessary for the car to function, inherently. They just chose to build the car with the bomb in it. So, yes, they are, in fact, factually, intentionally making it obsolete. Just because it's premeditated obsolescence, built into the very design of the product, rather than some snap decision to tow away the car and crush it 8 years after purchase, does not make it any less intentional. Any less knowing. Any less deliberate.
@@MitsyWuzHere No one on earth actually thinks that these companies are obligated to keep updating these products forever. The problem is not continuous updates, it's the intentional destruction of your product years after you purchased it, which they could prevent without an overwhelming amount of difficulty, but refuse to. Like The Crew, for example. All you'd have to do is update the game to NOT require a central server, so it can be played singleplayer. But because Ubisoft refuses to do this, the game is GOING to die, and that's it.
I think it would be funnier if people who say "aw, it's just a game, get over it" had their dinner table taken away because they had it for 5 years or so, and if they whine then they should be told "aw, it's just a table, get over it".
There's an entirely different set of priorities that you have to have in order to take that kind of anti-game position. At the end of the day, no matter what, any system that leads to games becoming permanently unplayable, when alternate systems are possible, used to exist, and are still used today, is a garbage system that should not be used. People like to argue from the perspective of how things ARE, as if describing reality justifies it. I hear that with capitalism a lot, where someone uses market economics to justify some garbage practices American corporations use. No, all you're doing then is proving that there's even larger, systemic issues in the way we do things. It drives me insane.
And unlike Ubisoft, EA actually managed to release a great product recently (the C&C remaster). To think that this is the same company that produced NFS 2015.... mind blown One more reason Ubisoft will forever hold the crown of worst publisher in the history of video games. I haven't played a single one of their titles since they forced people to use Uplay - the worst client of all time.
@@schlafanzyk NFS 2015 is good. The only bad part is always-online DRM. Origin is much worse. Uplay runs better and has a great feature where they give you coins for playing the game you can use to unlock bonus content like wallpapers and soundtracks. They also continued to sell games on Steam. They also use mainly development subsidiaries of Ubisoft, so there's less companies being killed like EA does. The Sims has been turned into microtransaction hell. Same with Plants Vs Zombies, FIFA, Madden, the newer NFS games. They released Battlefield 2 15 years ago or so and the series continues to decline. Battlefront and Battlefront 2 continue to be inferior to a version released almost 2 decades ago. Plus terrible bandwagon games like Anthem and Apex Legends. Ubisoft and EA are both awful companies, but Ubisoft manages to release a good game at least once a year.
I rewatch a lot of Game Dungeon episodes but I keep coming back to this one the most. It's like comfort food. Just 50 minutes of chilling with Ross as he talks about America.
For those wondering, the "hard rock music" in the "quarry driving game" sequence at 39:03 is Body Hammer by Fear Factory. And yes, that is Carmageddon.
I think siege is a slightly different case because with siege better or worse lighting meant a diferent balance and bad players hate spawnkillers so they didn't know if they should just make the lighting better but make it easier to see outside or change it elsewhere to keep it a mess
Well it's happening As writing today (14.12.2023) The crew can't be bought on Steam or Uplay (Ubisoft connect) and servers will be shutting down after march 31 2024.
@@aidenton1172 Autumn Aurora changes a few too many things from vanilla for my taste, though, but it's a really good introductory mod. Graphics are a definite improvement, though.
I just did a third or fourth rewatch of your Game Dungeon series and this episode is special. There’s something fun about going on a road trip with you.
I hope so, since TC2 isn't looking any better "TC2's map is but a shadow of its former self as found in TC1. It feels as though the map designer(s) quit halfway through development, leaving us with what you see today. The map as a result now feels noticably emptier and lifeless. It is bland. With TC2 you'd have hoped they would have built upon and expanded the existing map from TC1 - more cities, towns, roads, and so on. Instead, they've gone backwards.".
That Dude Plasma _is_ fire. Star plasma is generally a lot hotter than the ones in most earthbound flames however. Likely because of extra radiation and the fusion reactions.
Something about Ross saying "boink" as his car bounces off objects like it's a small toy car (or plows through them like it's a neutronium tank) is uniquely amusing.
Yeah here's the thing tho it has an offline mode hidden in the coding which means they deliberately disabled sig le player to force people to need to be online disgraceful bastards 😭😭😭
It sucks we're living in the alternate universe where Gordon Freeman initiated another resonance cascade to escape the Combine and hang out with an underground motor gang instead of sticking around for Half Life 3....
Man, I love how they arrest him for the murder of his brother when the actual murderer LEAVES THE GUN HE SHOT HIM WITH RIGHT NEXT TO HIM! On top of that he wasn't even wearing gloves! Did Alex not get a lawyer or something? I think that's even less plausible than having to climb the ladder to become the leader of a street race gang.
Or for that matter if the FBI knows who the leader of the ILLEGAL RACING GANG is, why not just arrest him? This is just like the plot for Casino Royale where they knew who Le Chiffe was, knew why he was guilty, knew where he was, what he was doing. The tournament didn't make Le Chiffe any more guilty. Waiting for Le Chiffe to win or lose the tournament only did nothing more than give Le Chiffe time to get away.
@@GeorgeMonet the plan wasn't to arrest and try Le Chiffe, it was to use the poker game to get leverage to turn him against his creditors. Also he's super rich and surrounded by other rich people in a foreign country (and not in a poor country where they could just murder him like they usually do), so trying to arrest him probably wouldn't work no matter how many crimes he'd done
@@Ryusutayeah I didn't have an issue with Casino Royale because just like in reality, MI6 couldn't just arrest him because he's rich and in a different country. But they also needed a way to make it easier for him to give up information about his creditors, who were the people James Bond was really after.
Leftism will do that to a city. California passed AB 1810 a couple days ago, basically a license to kill and rape with the only penalty really being 2 years max detention (not even joking; look into it). California is a Sanctuary State and haven for MS-13. California has the highest cost of living with the highest gas prices. California has San Francisco, a literal #shithole with pounds of feces all over the streets. Terrible, terrible state. Edit: Here's AB 1810 for whoever didn't believe me. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1810
You're confused because Demonhornz is full of shit. But that should've been obvious when they led with blaming everything on "leftism" whatever the hell that even means.
Demonhornz Except none of that is remotely true, and you likely just came up with something on the spot because you can't stand that left-leaning state is massively economically successful.
Demonhornz HB 1810 doesn’t mean what you say it does, though considering you opened your rant bemoaning “leftism” (like that’s even a word) I doubt you actually have any facts to back that shit up
I don’t know why, but I always assumed Ross was from Florida. Idk, he just has a vibe that says he views alligators in the pool as the same level of mild inconvenience as I’d view groundhogs digging holes in my yard
29:50 As someone who lives outside DFW, I'm impressed. Approaching the city at sunset looks just like this. All it's missing is the packed highway of cars all going 90 mph.
Ross, the studio has to put in those long, mandatory, unskippable logos. Do you know what happens if you don't put in long, mandatory, unskippable logos? When Bobby Kotick gutted Infinity Ward after they made him two billion dollars on the release week of Modern Warfare 2, Bobby himself stated that one of the main reasons he did it was because they made the logos quick and skippable. To people like him, unskippable logos are more important than two billion dollars in revenue.
Practically every open world game Ubisoft makes can be summed up as: "You ever been to [Italy/France/USA/Chicago/Spain]? No? Well here's a theme park ride of it, and also some stupid story about revenge for your dead family or something" Reply to this message if you can put the tail on the donkey! Win a prize!
Haha yea. Modern ubisoft feels like filled with a lot of talented teams, but their taste is so basic at everything. That's why their games feel so generic to me. They even ruin Beyond Good and Evil 2 aesthetic with more edgy and realistic design, just like any other video game in the market nowadays. Why dont keep the old game's aesthetic, it's fucking fine, why change it??
Yeah, those guys at ubi really do great scale models, its commendable really, Watch Dogs 2 is so good at being that, filled with things to do and explore and all in a space that more or less exists in real life but isnt. They are mostly bad but they have their good things.
@@brandonmorel2658 The thing I hate the most about Watch Dogs 2 vs Watch Dogs 1 is that WD 2 has better gameplay but worse story and characters than WD 1, which makes the game less enjoyable for me. I wish it were possible to somehow export the gameplay improvements (especially the remote controlled tools) to WD 1.
all that talk about servers and games being killed just reminded me of Phantasy Star Universe, an ollld MMO I had on my 360 back in Highschool. The servers have been shut down for about 7 years now, which was supposed to make way for Phantasy Star Online 2, which... is only getting a release outside of Japan and Korea next year. (But I've been playing for a couple of years thanks to a fan made tweaker) So I got to searching to see if anyone had set up a private server for PSU, and they have. I might check it out at some point. So thanks, Ross, you jump started my memory on a game that held a lot of good times for me growing up, and lead me to find out that despite being dead, it has potential to be revived in a way.
You forgot the towers they make you find to uncover the map. Wouldn't be a Ubisoft game without it. Or having no open world racing against other people. Like, at all. Not even an improvised drag race that the game can keep track of. That's something NFS Underground 2 did... granted, they were NPCs, but you could race them in the open world.
I cut some stuff talking about the map since the episode was getting long. I actually drove every road in the game because I'm nuts. Figuring out how to do that got complicated. The satellites didn't bother me either way, it had zero impact of what I thought about it, so I decided to omit it.
I bought this game because of Ross. In 2021. He was dead on. It was awesome and more’s the pity there’s no Tamriel Revisited type effort because it’s online-only.
I actually spent about 6 months in Vandenberg Air force base in california for training. Not bad, saw quite a few rocket launches, and some missile launches if you are there at the right time. Vandenberg is where the air force tests their minuteman 3 Intercontinental ballistic missiles (without a nuclear payload). Funfact.
This has to be my favorite Game Dungeon so far. The road-trip feeling is so relaxing and appealing. Was excited to show it to my Chilean friend too to give him a better idea of what the US is like.
I have to thank this video for reminding me that Sleigh Bells existed. I got a ROCKIN album of theirs 9-10 years ago and thought they were going to end up HUGE, but then I only heard their music in a few disparate video games and trailers. Absolutely loved the tracks Tell 'em, Infinity Guitars, and Rill Rill
THIS. This is why I love Ross and Game Dungeon. No other review of the game would be so in-depth yet hysterical. Also, my favorite quote of the episode: “I couldn’t find Alcatraz, I guess it escaped.”
That game would be perfect for a cannonball run game mode. No guides, no breadcrumb paths to follow, just make it from New York to LA and be the first to arrive. Loved that game mode in GTA 4 back in the day where they just drop the players in the south part of the map and then you have like couple of points you need to visit as you travel way up north into the industrial area. And you could use any vehicle you found and many times people had to switch them because the competition was quite fierce.
I used the main character's resemblance to Gordon Freeman to imagine that this is a post-Combine rebuilt America, which is why the streets are so empty and the geography is smushed. That made the game more fun.
I can confirm that Test Drive Unlimited's representation of Hawaii is utterly terrible. First of all, there's only one island, and it's not even the biggest one, just the most populated. Now it's the island I actually live on, so you'd think that'd be cool, that actually just makes it worse because it makes the myriad errors even more glaring. The roads look like they were built based on a cursory glance over Google Maps without even bothering to go into street view. The airport you land at is called "Hawaii airport" and has the terminal of the airport on a completely different island... and is also in reality a small civilian airfield that does not accept commercial flights... Even though the actual airport is in the game. There are are very few land marks with their own actual models, so don't expect familiar sights. There are billboards everywhere despite them being illegal in reality. And finally, the two things that really kill it for me: The climate is completely wrong with everything on the island being uniformly lush and green regardless of location, and the entire island itself seems to have had it's height shrunk by like 50%... everything is just shorter and flatter than in reality. Those epically steep hills I always said "I wish there was a driving game set in Honolulu so I can drive down this hill at dangerous speeds." about are gone, the mountains look tiny and completely unimposing... everything just feels literally flat. That said there's this one area of roads around the stadium where three freeways meet and it's a confusing mess of spirals and nonsense, and it's the same in the game... so uh... that's cool.
lol @ the last part I actually thought that spaghetti part was the most fake thing, almost like a tumor-like addition to resolve their messed up roads.
He called it. What a shame. It was a good game. What a rotten way to die.
At least Crew 2 wasn't A BOMB!
You got 10 seconds to beat it before I add you to the list of Ubisoft casualties
*smacks lips*
What a shame.
It did last about 10 years, though. Considerably longer than most online-only games.
"First you race him, but then he cheats, so you hold a gun to his head. Then you race him again but then he cheats again so then you finally race him." This is fantastic.
Clearly, this is a problem that can only be solved with more racing.
I hope Ross made lotsa spaghetti!
"Just you, and me, and you, and me, and me, and a few of you"
@@adenowirus The F-Zero GX story approach: ANY problem can be solved with more racing. F-Zero GX is what comes to mind for me when it comes to naked ridiculousness done well.
So it's Speed Racer
I just happened to rewatch this vid last month, after getting hit with a weird feeling that this game wasn’t gonna make it past 2025 - but that feeling turned out to be wrong, ‘cause they’re actually killing this game before the tenth anniversary of its release. My friends who’re into driving games are *pissed*
I watch his video everytime my family and I go on a roadtrip. Learning that EA is shooting the game just...it angers me so much and, honestly, ruins this video for me even though I knew it would happen eventually.
I did not want to ever play the Crew but it is sad seeing the (second) _biggest driving game world ever_ leave us.
@@Cats-TM its Ubisoft not EA. and yeah this is terrible news. I still hop on it from time to time. I tried the crew 2 and couldnt get into it. The Crew Motorfest isnt on steam, and Im not going to buy into Ubisofts store.
Petition for Ross to release the green screen of him driving with the shades on publicly so we can all make memes.
I can probably do that.
Accursed Farms do eett
Accursed Farms the memes out here are struggling bro
We can put him with iDubbz and Franku.
Please do it for the sake of the Follow-Up episodes!
"I don't want to kill them, I just want to see them roll off my hood". You really have lived in LA, Ross
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The Arkham Knight Batmobile in a nutshell.
And he was right. Ubisoft never getting any of my money ever again.
I just thought up a story this could have had. Have it be a story about a guy who just wants to explore the US and have fun doing some street racing along the way. As he goes, he steps on the toes of damn near every street racing club in the country, so they all think this new guy's got some crazy plan to try and unite them all or tag them all for the Feds or something. In reality though, he's the street racing equivalent of the Big Lebowski.
I'm not sure an idea that good could survive Ubisoft.
If Rayman Legends could make it through the cogs of Ubisoft buggery, then this can too.
WE GOTTA MAKE IT LIKE A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE WE ALWAYS GOTTA MAKE IT LIKE A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE THATS THE PINNACLE OF ART SO GAMES MUST BE LIKE THAT ALWAYS
+AardvarkLord Ubisoft doesn't hire the good writers, duh. It's against their rules 🙃.
I have a mighty need for this plot!
You know a Game Dungeon is gonna be great when Ross says "Okay, so here's the problem with the Sun".
ROFL!
the sun is a deadly laser
Coming soon: The sun!
Coming back to this video to sadly say Ubisoft are indeed pulling the servers down and no longer access to the game in a few months.
Nobody could have seen this coming.
Luckily no one cares about this game, so nothing lost in this case.
You decided to watch this video, so you at least care about the game enough to watch a video about it.
No big surprise.
Ubisoft are the devil's shite.
So are EA, Activision, Sony... pretty much any huge corporation.
@@JayMaverick did you even watch the video you are commenting on
@@JayMaverickyou are watching a 5 year old video over this game… Ubisoft themselves also reported that there was 20 million players so….
"Ubisoft does not have enough experience being stupid"
also
"Ok so here's the problem with the sun, its designed by maniacs that's the problem"
and
"you have respect a giant rock, well I do"
~ Ross Scott 2018
"I just want to see them roll off the hood of my car".
Damn i can see Ross insulting valve like that shit man...
Dying of a (possibly sentient) mould infestation: still puts out a game dungeon 👍
You’re awesome Ross!
a FIFTY MINUTE LONG one too
goddamn the man is a machine
How do we know the mold didn't kill and replace Ross?
mould
Matt Hayward What's wrong with him?
Citizen mould infestation in his flat, effecting his health and ability to make YT videos
RIP ТНЕ СГЕШ.
You weren't the best but you were good enough and you didn't deserve that fate.
"First I'm gonna take your ride, and then I'm gonna take your girl. Be ready for that!"
&
"First you race him, but then he cheats so you hold a gun to his head. Then you race him again but then he cheats again, so then you finally race him."
Those two quotes pretty much define racing games.
Two very different kinds of equally stupid racing game plots - the legendary lovable one, and the sad forgettable one.
@@schlafanzyk which one is the stupid one?
There are more than two racing games, though
I mean it's a racing game. How else are you going to solve all your problems?
@@elFulberto quick time events, obviously
As someone who lives close to Salem Massachusetts it is basically Halloween 24/7 I see people in witch outfits and witchcraft stuff in the streets all the time
Salem is a fucking freakshow.
I know where I'm moving in a couple years! : D
@@valcliffb8558 You should at least go hang out right now! Check it out. This whole area has a ton of nice spots.
There is also a diner that serves pancakes bigger than your friggin head
You should be a travel spokesperson for salem, because now I want to live there
Here's my pitch for The Crew's story campaign: Alex, a down on his luck 30-something year old with no real direction in life besides committing petty crimes and street racing, recieves a package in the mail from his estranged brother. In it is a box of ashes and a letter: His brother has passed away from Unspecifieditis, and his last request is to go on "one last roadtrip" with his brother like they used to do when they were younger--with places of significance for them marked on an old roadmap--and have his ashes released into the Pacific Ocean. While Alex is reluctant at first--too broke to make a journey like that at the moment--he realizes he can use his not-inconsiderable driving skills to pay his way cross-country and fulfill his brother's last wish.
The structure of the game then would be making your way across the country, winning races and doing other driving challenges to earn money, while the story would focus on Alex and his brother's relationship in the past, eventually culminating in learning why they became estranged in the first place, maybe having the occasional "flashback" story mission to further flesh out their relationship, but otherwise not be overly intrusive to the base experience of The Crew.
Honestly... That'd be great!
I'm shocked people haven't responded to this one more. That is a wonderful idea! I would love to play a game like that and I don't even play racing or driving games very often lol.
Bro, that's godlike. And you're the chickengod, so it totally checks out.
You should be a writer if you're not already. That made me feel something lol
Write this campaign, learn how to mod "The Crew", then go do that. Build a donation page. Watch the money roll in.
For people complaining about the compression: blame TH-cam. The copy I uploaded was cherry.
You should make episodes of game dungeon available on your website for download like you did for freeman's mind to avoid youtube's crummy compression.
The bandwidth for that would cost a fortune.
Roger Lost well not immediately, he still needs to get ad revenue from youtube. I can see how it could take up a lot of bandwidth but on the otherhand he is still hosting all those freeman's mind episodes
Torrents! He should set up torrents with his server being one of the seeders.
cherry
Instant Game Dungeon classic, thoroughly enjoyed this one! Very much echoes my own experiences with the game and then some, it's such a waste of a virtual world while also coming _this_ close to being amazing.
Really hope you get the chance to dive into the Forza Horizon games someday. 2 and 3 have handily addressed my open world driving game urged post-TDU.
Cliiiiiiint when are you two going to do a collab
Hey Clint! Awesome to see you pop up! Big fan.
I KNEW you was going to watch this in your vacations Clint :)
Ross is in Clint's "How to play old DOS games" video (and it's a sweet appearance, too!)
LGR love lgr
"Why all this criticism of the game when the scale is so impressive?"
"I made a chart of when the game was playable."
The Duality of Man
This is why I'm so hesitant to give this game a go. As much as I enjoy the prospect of driving across a scaled-down U.S.A., the game is just too faulty and volatile. Not to mention, my Uplay is inaccessible due to a stupid 2-step system.
@@QJ89 honestly you aren't missing much.....
here's the problem with super massive worlds on one side you get a huge world, on the flip side you get boring gameplay or bad story or unimpressive visuals....
try Fallout 4 to see what I mean, big world no story or nothing you'll be interested in and repetitive gameplay....
my advice skip it, if you really need a open world racer play Forza Horizon....
@@Red_Lanterns_Rage fallout 4's world had tons of story imo. From the companions backstories ,to the giant rocket boat, or pickmans gallery. The main quest of fallout 4 is just a rehashing of Fallout 3's already shite story, but to say the world in fo4 is empty really doesnt do it justice
@@CourierSiix and again if you are trying to defend the vacant Falout 4 over a game with a story Fallout 3 you're an idiot and part of the problem, sorry but that's how I see it
fallout 3 had a story, it wasn't the best but it was deeper than what F4 did and had characters you could care about cus they were well written and performed, the game starred Liam Neeson and Malcolm McDowell and still had Ron Perlman deliver the opening monologue and it was well written and performed....
F4 is boring, bland and inunspired and none of it''s features were well thought out or fully developed and "it did not just work" ir belly flopped not in sales but in story, enjoyment and lasting impact, in 10 years we'll still be here holding New Vegas up as the best Fallout, in 30 in 50 years whoever is left will still call New Vegas out as a great game but nobody will hold Fallout 4 up as anything other than trash
here's an idea try playing fallout 3 before trashing on it and you'll see it's not that bad
1 it's a RPG with kinda bad shooting mechanics, not a shooter with crappy RPG elements
2 story is passable at best but has good moments and the quests were proper quests complete with story, not just go here, kill these, get loot & leave
3 the armory of weapons and armor was pretty good, you had 2 viable AR type rifles, a SMG, several shotguns, laser and plasma weapons, heavy weapons and the armor outfits were mostly good, F the wastelander rags but most everything else yeah not bad
4 you didn't have any real factions just the BOS and Encleave but you did have groups, Talon Company and Regulators, the various towns and Ghouls, Mutants, ferals and raiders among other groups
BGS did the best they could on F3 and it showed, they got lazy on F4 and F76 and it shows big time
I'm not saying F3 is perfect but it's better than you think or give it credit for
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let's explore a side quest in fallout 3
The replicated Man
at some point in your travels you'll find holotapes talking about the railroad and synths
asking around progresses the story and eventually you're stopped by a railroad agent who asks you to keep Harkness's secret
alternatively you could just talk to Zimmer after saving James from Dr Braun, you'll still get the railroad agent scene, from there you can talk to the scientist in the broken off section of Rivet City and if you pass a speech check he tells you about Harkness and and the memory wipe, at this point you have an option, make Harkness remember and confront Zimmer, kill zimmer yourself, or take the component from the railroad agent to convince Zimmer to leave claiming the synth he was after was KIA
[I may have not remembered exactly how this went but basically yeah this is it]
the reward for this is Harkness's plasma rifle which is a unique plasma rifle
here's a typical F4 side quest
go to a location, read a note, go to another location read another note maybe repeat a few times and maybe you're also killing some enemies at each location then claim loot quest over
question: which sounds better to you???
"And here's St. Louis! We have the Arch! ...Yeah!"
Yeah, that's how we feel about it, too.
Yup, it's there alright
CJGeterix WHAT’S THAT I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER ALL THE ROAD WORK THAT NEVER SEEMS TO STOP NOR DOES IT SEEM TO ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Fun fact, ever since 1973, when Mayor Wilmore enacted this law, every single commerical airliner has to fly under that famous St. Louis arch.
awws saw this comment after i made the same xD theres not too much else in missouri is there
@CJGeterix Watch Out! Darren from Cheshire West Council is here to prove that -Gaping Gill- The Roads of St. Louis -is- are under 50mm deep!
Ross screaming "pick your own corn" and flying off the road never fails to make me laugh
can i just say how nice it was of him at 13:40 to invert the colours of the spreadsheet as to not blind us after looking at dark gameplay
He probably blinded himself and realized he had to change it lol
That is the greatest thumbnail ever
TGX Game Reviews this is the most accurate thing I've ever read
Lack of flying hair is disappointing
img.th-cam.com/users/vi8KZwcHOSRgQ/maxresdefault.jpg for anyone who wants this masterpiece.
I keep seeing Ross as more of chopper motorcycle guy for some reason...
True Biker !
“Hell. Yes.”
-Ross, along with all of his viewers, 2018
The main character looks like bootleg gordon freeman
Or a young Walter White
No. Bootleg Walter White before the cancer when he was still washing the car wheels of his students.
@@GeorgeMonet ah, of course
Kinda looked like Aron Paul from need for speed movie yet looks my like meth addled aron Paul from breaking bad instead.
That sounds like Ross
"I wanna see them roll off my hood" *uncomfortable silence* "But let's see DC!"
When the central server is finally killed off, the people who bought this shortly prior can enjoy the game of The Screw.
F
The Ubisoft ARG
What are you talking about, the game was immedately killed off. It didn't install, run, or connect to the servers for the first 5 days. There are bugs in games, but when the installer tells you to fuck off, get an immedate refund and hurt those launch numbers.
Didn't mean that in an asshole way if it came off like that. Also, The Crew is the perfect name for your original comment. As in a group of people to rip you off.
@@keith_5584 fuck off, you are talking bullshit and I know. I played the game since the day of release. the first 3 days had some small server restarts, but I already made it to the first offroad stage within these 3 days.. The game isn't as bad as people make it out to be and you are likely just trying to shit on it because it's not what you want it to be.
Ross!!! The Crew's been delisted and the servers will shut down soon!!
This video made me 700% more American. And I'm English.
Your idea about getting rid of the story and beefing up the local trivia was a great idea. Instead of the street racing stuff, you should play as a documentarian, travelling around the country for your documentary series on America.
Wannabe_Baby does your country have a gaint Sheep statue? If not someone needs to get on that. England already have cross walks for sheep so why not?
I'll bet Wales has a giant sheep statue.
Yeah man, I mean, look at "Discovery Tour by Assassin’s Creed: Ancient Egypt." Something like that but driving would be awesome.
A really badass documentarian with a modified supercar going at 200 mph in a police chase at least once an hour
I would buy that game day one.
"Welcome to Detroit, I haven't confirmed if Robocop comes out at night."
Honestly, I like the idea of Alex just enjoying a road trip. His character actually IMPROVES if you take away the revenge theme. Him just being an Explorer is just a better idea in general.
"i just wanna see them roll off my hood..."
i love just how psychopathic that sounds, and yet i totally agree with you.
You may want to give The Crew 2 a chance. It improves on a lot of the points you make, including the size of the country roads, and you'll change your mind about the planes once you do a loop around the giant cow statue. That being said, it does still have the "always online" problem.
An the "will eventually be killed so you wasted your money" problem.
Oh hey Threadbare! Haven't checked out your latest LP but Bioshock, LA Noire, and Deus Ex were fantastic. Your book's pretty damn good too!
Plus, Photo Mode in it is incredible
Thanks.
49mozzer Is it a waste if you enjoyed it until it dies 30 years later
Aaaand now The Crew is gone. Ross is always right about online games. Always.
Actually, Ross, Salem kinda IS Halloween Town all year long. It's a perfect case of a town taking its history and embracing it, as there are actual businesses that deal in "witchcraft" supplies like modern apothecaries regardless of whether or not it's October. There are tours of sites that were important during the Witch Trials, as well as an entire MUSEUM dedicated to them, but October IS the best time to visit since people will be walking around in costume, there's a pumpkin festival, haunted houses EVERYWHERE, and they play a lot of Rob Zombie music over speakers in some areas cuz Zombie is a Massachusetts native, much like myself.
Everything about the Midwest save Chicago kills me in this game. Tiny St. Louis, lack of places like Kansas City, and absolutely no mid sized cities in combo with the bs that is the dirt roads. They glossed over the central US hardcore.
I think you're right on all counts, and ironically, I also thought they probably did the best job on it compared to the other zones; except maybe the desert, but come on.
*GO KANSAS CITY CHIEFS!* -With love Saint Louis.
As someone from chicago, whats a st louis?
to be fair, everyone in general glosses over the midwest.
They took "Flyover Country" a bit too literally.
"Pick your own corn! Oh boy!"
(tears into open cornfield)
Yes the game has awful microstuttering. The frametimes are pretty awful in that game which is kind of hilarious in a driving game. The ONE THING you want to do right in a driving game, is frametimes and general smoothness, frame skips are a thing in that game too, its abysmal.
ProjectiluvOP But, you get to drive through the ENTIRE UNITED STATES! Man, Ross was right, that is the perfect argument for this game.
what game too?
RAN smooth as hell for me when I played it.
@@ShogunMongol Actually you don't. The map isn't that big at all
@@TheDyingScotsman yeah, but you can drive through the ENTIRE UNITED STATES!
Fun road trip.
yeah, it just kinda feels right that you of all youtubers would watch rosses game dungeon.
sark/ross cross over, if there is a god
Oh Howdy!
I'll give it this: it's got one *massive* draw distance. This game really makes you feel like your driving across the lower 48 states in a fully mapped world. I'll give it points for that!
The Crew is going to die on March 31st, 2024.
If you see this, play it while you still can.
Now I'm sure one person is going to go "Aw, it's just a game, get over it," when they hear that Ubisoft is selling a game that you can play for only a limited time before being permanently destroyed, so let's use an example as to why it this is shitty. Let's say that back in 2014 I bought a brand new Subaru Impreza WRX STI with a 6 speed manual and a nice Plasma Blue Silica paint job. I love that Subaru and drive it almost every day for the next 7 or 8 years. Then, after 8 years, Subaru breaks into my garage, puts my Impreza on the back of a tow truck, bring it to a junkyard, then crushes it, and when I confront them about it, they just say "Buy a new one." Paying for a product that you can only have until the manufactures of the product say otherwise is bullshit, no matter if it's video games, cars, TVs, Phones, etc, a product is a product, and bullshit is bullshit.
@@MitsyWuzHere They are though. They designed it that way from the beginning. Not out of necessity, the gameplay of The Crew does not inherently require you to be online to function. Ubisoft just chose to make it work that way when they developed the game.
To make the car analogy more accurate, there was, iunno, a small bomb built into the engine, completely unable to be removed (somehow, lets just go with this) - with 8ish years on its countdown timer. That is more correctly representing The Crew. The bomb is not necessary for the car to function, inherently. They just chose to build the car with the bomb in it.
So, yes, they are, in fact, factually, intentionally making it obsolete. Just because it's premeditated obsolescence, built into the very design of the product, rather than some snap decision to tow away the car and crush it 8 years after purchase, does not make it any less intentional. Any less knowing. Any less deliberate.
@@MitsyWuzHere No one on earth actually thinks that these companies are obligated to keep updating these products forever. The problem is not continuous updates, it's the intentional destruction of your product years after you purchased it, which they could prevent without an overwhelming amount of difficulty, but refuse to.
Like The Crew, for example. All you'd have to do is update the game to NOT require a central server, so it can be played singleplayer. But because Ubisoft refuses to do this, the game is GOING to die, and that's it.
I think it would be funnier if people who say "aw, it's just a game, get over it" had their dinner table taken away because they had it for 5 years or so, and if they whine then they should be told "aw, it's just a table, get over it".
There's an entirely different set of priorities that you have to have in order to take that kind of anti-game position. At the end of the day, no matter what, any system that leads to games becoming permanently unplayable, when alternate systems are possible, used to exist, and are still used today, is a garbage system that should not be used. People like to argue from the perspective of how things ARE, as if describing reality justifies it. I hear that with capitalism a lot, where someone uses market economics to justify some garbage practices American corporations use. No, all you're doing then is proving that there's even larger, systemic issues in the way we do things. It drives me insane.
This is the most accurate metaphor ever created; I'm stealing this.
This reminds me a still very actual joke: - Why is EA the worst company in America? - Because Ubisoft is French :D
My sides
And unlike Ubisoft, EA actually managed to release a great product recently (the C&C remaster).
To think that this is the same company that produced NFS 2015.... mind blown
One more reason Ubisoft will forever hold the crown of worst publisher in the history of video games. I haven't played a single one of their titles since they forced people to use Uplay - the worst client of all time.
@@schlafanzyk NFS 2015 is good. The only bad part is always-online DRM. Origin is much worse. Uplay runs better and has a great feature where they give you coins for playing the game you can use to unlock bonus content like wallpapers and soundtracks. They also continued to sell games on Steam. They also use mainly development subsidiaries of Ubisoft, so there's less companies being killed like EA does. The Sims has been turned into microtransaction hell. Same with Plants Vs Zombies, FIFA, Madden, the newer NFS games. They released Battlefield 2 15 years ago or so and the series continues to decline. Battlefront and Battlefront 2 continue to be inferior to a version released almost 2 decades ago. Plus terrible bandwagon games like Anthem and Apex Legends. Ubisoft and EA are both awful companies, but Ubisoft manages to release a good game at least once a year.
@@Demiglitch I wouldn't call it a "Great' feature. They are about the same, especially since EA has released quite a few of its games onto steam.
Are you German?
I rewatch a lot of Game Dungeon episodes but I keep coming back to this one the most. It's like comfort food. Just 50 minutes of chilling with Ross as he talks about America.
Same, and i live in the Netherlands!
For those wondering, the "hard rock music" in the "quarry driving game" sequence at 39:03 is Body Hammer by Fear Factory. And yes, that is Carmageddon.
Is it me, or does Alex look just like Gordon Freeman?
AGrayPhantom Gordon lived a rough life before getting a gig at Black Mesa.
AGrayPhantom or Adam jenson
*Drive, Dr. Freeman!*
I was just about to type that. This must be the Half-Life Kart Racing Spin-Off.
If he had a goatee instead of a full beard and goatee then yeah, totally
Somehow, Ubisoft always seems to mess up the lighting in their games. Siege was the same. Took them ages to fix it.
GoogleyGareth Like no seriously, daylight in that game is like having a floodlight pointed directly at your face.
I think siege is a slightly different case because with siege better or worse lighting meant a diferent balance and bad players hate spawnkillers so they didn't know if they should just make the lighting better but make it easier to see outside or change it elsewhere to keep it a mess
Well it's happening
As writing today (14.12.2023) The crew can't be bought on Steam or Uplay (Ubisoft connect) and servers will be shutting down after march 31 2024.
I need to see S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl in Game Dungeon.
Yes please
Fuck it, he should do ALL three of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games.
@@JohnnyJohnJohnson Right??
Shadow of Chernobyl with Autumn Aurora 2.1 - Vanilla game experience with fixed bugs and enhanced climatic graphics - highly recommend
@@aidenton1172 Autumn Aurora changes a few too many things from vanilla for my taste, though, but it's a really good introductory mod. Graphics are a definite improvement, though.
I just did a third or fourth rewatch of your Game Dungeon series and this episode is special. There’s something fun about going on a road trip with you.
I agree hopefully he does more driving games that you can do trips, american truck simulator lol
Speaking from 2023, the Crew is still alive! Here's to another four years of this cardboard king
I hope so, since TC2 isn't looking any better "TC2's map is but a shadow of its former self as found in TC1. It feels as though the map designer(s) quit halfway through development, leaving us with what you see today. The map as a result now feels noticably emptier and lifeless. It is bland. With TC2 you'd have hoped they would have built upon and expanded the existing map from TC1 - more cities, towns, roads, and so on. Instead, they've gone backwards.".
I still play, it's my favorite game of all time
You spoke too soon :(
Execution has been officially scheduled to March 2024. Ah well. 🙁
Aaaaaand it's dead
Here is the problem with the sun: It's a deadly laser.
it's on fire
aah!
actually, it's plasma. a big fucking huge plasma grenade that kills us all in some billions of years
Not anymore, there's a blanket!
That Dude Plasma _is_ fire. Star plasma is generally a lot hotter than the ones in most earthbound flames however. Likely because of extra radiation and the fusion reactions.
Something about Ross saying "boink" as his car bounces off objects like it's a small toy car (or plows through them like it's a neutronium tank) is uniquely amusing.
Ubisoft just announced that the servers are only going to stay up until the end of March. Stop buying always-online games.
Yeah here's the thing tho it has an offline mode hidden in the coding which means they deliberately disabled sig le player to force people to need to be online disgraceful bastards 😭😭😭
One of the best of this series, good job! (plz don't die from mold)
WHERE "SD THe GTA SA SPEEDRUNS BOI?
did u get da royal flush yet
So as you here. Where is new true 100%+?
welcome to the family son
It sucks we're living in the alternate universe where Gordon Freeman initiated another resonance cascade to escape the Combine and hang out with an underground motor gang instead of sticking around for Half Life 3....
@Doom Guy Hello there.
@@noblevi3623 General Noble! You are a bold one.
@@noahfessenden6478 You fool! I've been trained by Navy Officers in your ONI Arts!
Man, I love how they arrest him for the murder of his brother when the actual murderer LEAVES THE GUN HE SHOT HIM WITH RIGHT NEXT TO HIM! On top of that he wasn't even wearing gloves! Did Alex not get a lawyer or something? I think that's even less plausible than having to climb the ladder to become the leader of a street race gang.
Or for that matter if the FBI knows who the leader of the ILLEGAL RACING GANG is, why not just arrest him? This is just like the plot for Casino Royale where they knew who Le Chiffe was, knew why he was guilty, knew where he was, what he was doing. The tournament didn't make Le Chiffe any more guilty. Waiting for Le Chiffe to win or lose the tournament only did nothing more than give Le Chiffe time to get away.
@@GeorgeMonet the plan wasn't to arrest and try Le Chiffe, it was to use the poker game to get leverage to turn him against his creditors.
Also he's super rich and surrounded by other rich people in a foreign country (and not in a poor country where they could just murder him like they usually do), so trying to arrest him probably wouldn't work no matter how many crimes he'd done
@@asamushroomcloud That is... PAINFULLY accurate to reality, sadly...
@@Ryusutayeah I didn't have an issue with Casino Royale because just like in reality, MI6 couldn't just arrest him because he's rich and in a different country. But they also needed a way to make it easier for him to give up information about his creditors, who were the people James Bond was really after.
As someone from LA, I will attest that we are suffering for everyone else's safety and well-being. Please don't come here.
Leftism will do that to a city.
California passed AB 1810 a couple days ago, basically a license to kill and rape with the only penalty really being 2 years max detention (not even joking; look into it). California is a Sanctuary State and haven for MS-13. California has the highest cost of living with the highest gas prices. California has San Francisco, a literal #shithole with pounds of feces all over the streets.
Terrible, terrible state.
Edit: Here's AB 1810 for whoever didn't believe me. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1810
Only wanna go to LA to see the star of somebody I adore, drop a rose on the star and then leave LA forever.
You're confused because Demonhornz is full of shit. But that should've been obvious when they led with blaming everything on "leftism" whatever the hell that even means.
Demonhornz Except none of that is remotely true, and you likely just came up with something on the spot because you can't stand that left-leaning state is massively economically successful.
Demonhornz HB 1810 doesn’t mean what you say it does, though considering you opened your rant bemoaning “leftism” (like that’s even a word) I doubt you actually have any facts to back that shit up
He HAS to make THE MOVIE
based game.
I don’t know why, but I always assumed Ross was from Florida. Idk, he just has a vibe that says he views alligators in the pool as the same level of mild inconvenience as I’d view groundhogs digging holes in my yard
>I'm sure realestate prices reflect that
Right you are Ross
42:57 Is that deer controlled by another player?
I cant stop rewatching this episode.
29:50
As someone who lives outside DFW, I'm impressed. Approaching the city at sunset looks just like this. All it's missing is the packed highway of cars all going 90 mph.
Also: Dallas is in a grassland, not a desert (arguably more boring, but still).
I wonder if Forest Bus connects with Desert Bus
It’s a part of the desert bus expanded universe.
rip crew
Ross, the studio has to put in those long, mandatory, unskippable logos. Do you know what happens if you don't put in long, mandatory, unskippable logos? When Bobby Kotick gutted Infinity Ward after they made him two billion dollars on the release week of Modern Warfare 2, Bobby himself stated that one of the main reasons he did it was because they made the logos quick and skippable. To people like him, unskippable logos are more important than two billion dollars in revenue.
Practically every open world game Ubisoft makes can be summed up as:
"You ever been to [Italy/France/USA/Chicago/Spain]? No? Well here's a theme park ride of it, and also some stupid story about revenge for your dead family or something"
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OH UBISOFT!
Haha yea. Modern ubisoft feels like filled with a lot of talented teams, but their taste is so basic at everything. That's why their games feel so generic to me. They even ruin Beyond Good and Evil 2 aesthetic with more edgy and realistic design, just like any other video game in the market nowadays. Why dont keep the old game's aesthetic, it's fucking fine, why change it??
Yeah, those guys at ubi really do great scale models, its commendable really, Watch Dogs 2 is so good at being that, filled with things to do and explore and all in a space that more or less exists in real life but isnt. They are mostly bad but they have their good things.
@@brandonmorel2658 The thing I hate the most about Watch Dogs 2 vs Watch Dogs 1 is that WD 2 has better gameplay but worse story and characters than WD 1, which makes the game less enjoyable for me.
I wish it were possible to somehow export the gameplay improvements (especially the remote controlled tools) to WD 1.
all that talk about servers and games being killed just reminded me of Phantasy Star Universe, an ollld MMO I had on my 360 back in Highschool.
The servers have been shut down for about 7 years now, which was supposed to make way for Phantasy Star Online 2, which... is only getting a release outside of Japan and Korea next year. (But I've been playing for a couple of years thanks to a fan made tweaker)
So I got to searching to see if anyone had set up a private server for PSU, and they have. I might check it out at some point.
So thanks, Ross, you jump started my memory on a game that held a lot of good times for me growing up, and lead me to find out that despite being dead, it has potential to be revived in a way.
23:30 TIP IT OVER!! TIP IT OVER!!
Also, if that game was moddable, I would totally do a war of the worlds conversion.
You forgot the towers they make you find to uncover the map. Wouldn't be a Ubisoft game without it. Or having no open world racing against other people. Like, at all. Not even an improvised drag race that the game can keep track of. That's something NFS Underground 2 did... granted, they were NPCs, but you could race them in the open world.
unacomn By God, you’ll discover this great nation just as our forefathers did before you: by climbing a giant tower every few miles.
I cut some stuff talking about the map since the episode was getting long. I actually drove every road in the game because I'm nuts. Figuring out how to do that got complicated. The satellites didn't bother me either way, it had zero impact of what I thought about it, so I decided to omit it.
That is a level of dedication that I truly admire.
Accursed Farms was it an issue of driving horizontally or driving vertically most of the time on the map?
NFS U2 had online, i personally raced many real people on on my ps2 back then
I bought this game because of Ross. In 2021. He was dead on. It was awesome and more’s the pity there’s no Tamriel Revisited type effort because it’s online-only.
Our legend has returned! Rejoice!
I actually spent about 6 months in Vandenberg Air force base in california for training. Not bad, saw quite a few rocket launches, and some missile launches if you are there at the right time. Vandenberg is where the air force tests their minuteman 3 Intercontinental ballistic missiles (without a nuclear payload). Funfact.
This is one of the most enjoyable, chill and listen to Ross episodes.
This has to be my favorite Game Dungeon so far. The road-trip feeling is so relaxing and appealing. Was excited to show it to my Chilean friend too to give him a better idea of what the US is like.
Thanks, yeah, I wouldn't say it's just like USA, but it has plenty of USA-ish moments.
"And here's St. Louis. We have the arch."
I live in St. Louis and I think this is just how I'm going to describe it to other people from now on.
Reptilian as someone who has lived in STL my whole life it was a pretty accurate city-visiting-experience.
I have to thank this video for reminding me that Sleigh Bells existed. I got a ROCKIN album of theirs 9-10 years ago and thought they were going to end up HUGE, but then I only heard their music in a few disparate video games and trailers. Absolutely loved the tracks Tell 'em, Infinity Guitars, and Rill Rill
tragically under-appreciated. Demons & Riot Rhythm are songs to murder to.
THIS. This is why I love Ross and Game Dungeon. No other review of the game would be so in-depth yet hysterical. Also, my favorite quote of the episode: “I couldn’t find Alcatraz, I guess it escaped.”
45:35
Talking about dead games while passing a graveyard. Knowing Ross, this subtlety might have been intentional.
I would love to play this game again. Simply because just driving from one side from the USA to the other one is so relaxing.
That game would be perfect for a cannonball run game mode. No guides, no breadcrumb paths to follow, just make it from New York to LA and be the first to arrive. Loved that game mode in GTA 4 back in the day where they just drop the players in the south part of the map and then you have like couple of points you need to visit as you travel way up north into the industrial area. And you could use any vehicle you found and many times people had to switch them because the competition was quite fierce.
I used the main character's resemblance to Gordon Freeman to imagine that this is a post-Combine rebuilt America, which is why the streets are so empty and the geography is smushed. That made the game more fun.
probably my favourite series on youtube at the moment tbh, I've seen all of these multiple times
The amount of city traffic in this game is much more realistic today...
So is the commentary on LA.
"No-one is memorable...it is like there was no vision at all." The Assassin's Creed franchise in a nutshell
There's something very comfy about this episode.
I can confirm that Test Drive Unlimited's representation of Hawaii is utterly terrible. First of all, there's only one island, and it's not even the biggest one, just the most populated. Now it's the island I actually live on, so you'd think that'd be cool, that actually just makes it worse because it makes the myriad errors even more glaring. The roads look like they were built based on a cursory glance over Google Maps without even bothering to go into street view. The airport you land at is called "Hawaii airport" and has the terminal of the airport on a completely different island... and is also in reality a small civilian airfield that does not accept commercial flights... Even though the actual airport is in the game. There are are very few land marks with their own actual models, so don't expect familiar sights. There are billboards everywhere despite them being illegal in reality. And finally, the two things that really kill it for me: The climate is completely wrong with everything on the island being uniformly lush and green regardless of location, and the entire island itself seems to have had it's height shrunk by like 50%... everything is just shorter and flatter than in reality. Those epically steep hills I always said "I wish there was a driving game set in Honolulu so I can drive down this hill at dangerous speeds." about are gone, the mountains look tiny and completely unimposing... everything just feels literally flat.
That said there's this one area of roads around the stadium where three freeways meet and it's a confusing mess of spirals and nonsense, and it's the same in the game... so uh... that's cool.
lol @ the last part
I actually thought that spaghetti part was the most fake thing, almost like a tumor-like addition to resolve their messed up roads.
About the Google maps thing
The devs confirmed in a interview that they made the game based on satelity picture's aka Google maps
Been to the Big Island plenty, I can certainly attest to the need for more islands if a game is covering Hawaii.
@@toakovika Lol, it's not set on the Big Island. Was that the joke?
I love this long review format that gets into the user experience. You are a hero and deserve more followers. We need deep reviews like this!
"Freeman doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional"
15:15 (approx): The quote about the sun being designed by maniacs would be a great part of any "zero context accursed farms" compilation.
"That right there is the Sun. Now let's talk about the Sun. Can we talk about the Sun please, Mac? I've been dying to talk about the Sun."
As a French person, I want to apologize for the existence of Ubisoft
I refer to them as Ubilol.
ubi made siege so its all gucci.
as an American i would like to apologize for the existence of EA.
you gave us Rayman and a bunch of root words for English. we good
And Ubioft published Child of Eden, so there's that.
Pick your own corn?! OH BOY! *crashes through fence at top speed off the highway, and does donuts in the field.
oh God I can't breathe
"this game had three art directors. I think someone should have been fired. " the way you deliver that line is gold
I feel the red car is a better protagonist than Alex.
Well, it has more personality at least
The deer we see for 25 ms has more personality. The car beats Alex by lightyears.
You mean the Miata? You can just say what car it is. "The red car", lol
Eatinbritches that modern thing doesn't deserve the mx5 miata name
The part when Ross starts talking about the music is always my best part. 31:24
"Here's the problem with the sun. It was designed by maniacs, that's the problem." Best out-of-context quote.
The level of excitement I have when I see a new accursed farms video scares my wife
The "pick your own corn" part absolutely killed me
Just found your channel. So good! Watching your entire back catalogue
almost an hour of ross.
thank you.