I worked for Bits Studios back in the 2000's. I remember the team talking about Vendetta and how they really tried to do some cool stuff with it. They also did their absolute best to try and get the game an 18 rating in the UK for the extra publicity it would have brought the Gamecube version (it would have been the first Gamecube game to be an 18). The studio did go on to do the Constantine video game - which in my opinion is an underrated gem.
i remember in the late 1990’s (1997, 1998, 1999) before the Die Hard Vendetta game for the GameCube, PS2, Xbox i heard a rumour Bits Studios were working on a Die Hard Nintendo 64 game was it cancelled because Nintendo weren’t happy with delays or the hardware or license expired with 20th Century Fox??
@@jasonlee7816 I never heard about that but Bits comes from a different time in gaming so wouldn't be surprised. There were stories of not being able to get dev kits for gameboy and snes so the guys just modded and reverse engineered stuff to be able to create games on those systems. Then once complete, they showed Nintendo who saw sense and released...
Die Hard Trilogy was the main reason I got the original Playstation. People don't realize how amazing that game was at the time. The variety of the gameplay for each film. The graphics were amazing as an early Playstation game in 1996! Isometric shooter with upgrades and various weapons, amazing on rail action set pieces, and Vengeance was basically the stepping stone for what GTA would eventually become. One of the best movie licensed games of the 90's outside of Goldeneye.
Had it for the Saturn. Agree it was awesome. Edit: spotting an immediate difference. I don't remember the Saturn version of Die Hard having those icons showing up to the right of the screen. Interesting.
I remember seeing it at a party right after it came out and people were oohing and aaahing about the driving game in particular. It definitely had that cool new tech feeling when it came out.
You know, I think the worst thing about Nakatomi Plaza is that I really do think there’s a good game buried under the myriad of technical and acting problems that it has. For a 1-1 recreation of a film, it’s about as close as I think you can get from around that time period, and if it had some more care put into it, it might have stacked up to other games from around the same time period. Edit: I literally had to rewrite this comment because I was half awake when I watched this and assumed this game came out before Half Life, and uhh… Yeah, it makes it even worse.
The cheat codes for the first game were amazing. DH1 has some hilarious cheats to make enemies float up to heaven when killed or they have to turn their back to McClane and shoot him between their legs. DH2 had a debug mode where you could see the "rails" you would move on and even change their direction to float around the map and look around.
The best thing also was when you went to quit the game it would go "are you sure" "ask a friend?" and when you enter your initials the people would explode and other crazy stuff would happen. You can tell the team had a mad fun time making that game 😄 has that vibe about it
I walked out of 4, it was all wrong from Justin Long to the tone of the action to even John McClain who was dressed like in cool urban outfitters clothes not normal middle-age guy stuff he wore, die hard movies are grounded even if over the top, they dont look like transformers
@@WH250398 its watchable but I remember I realized it was pg13 and kevin smiths gamer cave seemed all too far removed from the adult worlds of the first 3 and then the cgi stuff made it feel like a different franchise, and I actually like 2 a lot because I grew up watching the bad edit of it on TBS and WGN so much, it shows that if a movie is well constructed and you’re rooting for the lead character you can ignore all the plot holes, it helped that its based off another good action novel
@@jlassh in die hard 1 him having glass in his foot seemed like a big issue in 4 & 5 he can survive literally building collapses and plane crashes like they are nothing
“And the Quarterback is toast!” Line makes tons of sense. He was acting like a American Football announcer whenever a defensive player lands a big sack on the Quarterback. The hit of the rocket to the tank was like a linebacker slamming the QB for a big loss. Damn redcoats! Lol jk Edit: as I think about it, 90% of his cohort was European as well. Likely his joke fell flat on them as it did on you. Love the content.
When him and Karl are walking into the building he's talking about the NBA or NFL and you can tell Karl has no idea or simply doesn't care about what he's saying.
@@bencousins7311 I was talking to my brother about this last night. The only other heist member that knew anything about American sports(that we got to know) was the guy who pretended to be the night security guard.
I don't think any other movie fleshes out it's non-main-villian mooks quite so well, you've got the two brothers disagreeing on how to cut the phone lines, that misunderstod football line between the one American and the German guys, you've got the legendary Al Leung looking guilty for stealing a chocolate bar.. while taking part in a massive hostage-taking heist! Karl having his own revenge-driven motivation to disobey Hans...
Oh baby, Die Hard Arcade and trilogy on Saturn gave me a bunch of unforgettable gaming memories that still hold an amazing place in my mind and heart. trying to break all the glass in nakatomi in trilogy was beautiful : D
Loved Die Hard Trilogy as a kid, so many of those sound effects are burnt into my brain. I remember going over to a friends who had rented it to use with his light gun; turns out if the light gun is plugged in it loads the on rails shooter mode automatically. His mind was blown when I unplugged it and showed him that was only one third of the game.
Takes me back to when my parents bought a PSX and finding a demo disk in the box, I played the shit out of the first Die-hard trilogy and Abe's Odysee demos. Good times
Die hard trilogy holds a special place in my heart for one of the first games I played as a kid. The taxi mission still gives me anxiety with that count down.
All of those games were hard as fuck for me as a kid. Luckily, I had access to a game shark and was able to beat them all with infinite health/time lol
Yeah, Die Hard Arcade did appear on the Saturn and I believe that is the footage used in the video, since the arcade original of Dynamite Deku and the home release of Die Hard Arcade used the same specs as one another, the difference is that one of them is for the home and one of them is for Arcade, with the arcade board being known as ST-V
Die Hard Arcade was also on the SEGA Saturn, so 2 player couch coop at home happened globally. Honestly it's one of the best brawlers with its sequel, Dynamite Cop being just as awesome.
Man this shit brought me back too. My dad, god rest his soul, loved the shit out of Die Harder in that first trilogy and we'd play it very often when I was younger. Thanks for the video, this was fun to look back into, Gman.
3:48 exactly as I feel about the game. I believe it was one of the first real 3D (polygons) games I saw (together with Tekken) and back then that was an impressive leap in "realism".
I can't believe you didn't talk about the AMAZING soundtrack to the first Die Hard Trilogy. It is a damn masterpiece. I used to just pop the game disc into my Sony Discman and listen to it on the bus to and from school.
I remember playing through Die Hard Trilogy 2 the first time when i was younger and young me liked it! Mostly cause i hadn't played many games and more die hard to me was awesome. I do however remember that vent with the bomb and got stuck there for a while cause i kept shooting the rats thinking they were somehow killing me until my dad helped me and showed me to shoot the little mine or whatever it was
Even if it was small, I'm glad ya mentioned Die Hard arcade. I remember knowing an arcade had good shit every time I saw the cabinet. I played Dynamite Deka 2 (Dynamite cop 2 or the follow up to the game Die Hard Arcade was localized from) and man. It felt nostalgic as hell.
Dynamite Cop on Dreamcast is one of the most fun couch co-op beatemups ever made. The enemies & weapons truly are batshit insane. Not to mention, once you beat the final boss, you fight each other over the president's ugly daughter 😂
I got Die Hard Trilogy for PS1 when I was a kid. One weekend my super religious aunt came over and was watching me play video games, she was in utter shock when I was running people over in first person view and McClane turns on the window wipers to wipe off the blood 🤣🤣 I will never forget it
Not your fault that your parents were incompetent idiots to raise you properly. I don't blame her in a slightest. Religion or not the thing is kids should not be exposed to such things anyway. Often people say ''I did this and that and there is nothing wrong with me'' then reality proves them wrong. Or one day they snap. A developing childs mind absorbs things like a sponge and countiosly or subcountiusly it stays there. Like the other day, a woman in her 40s said ''me and my kid watched horror movies since he was little he loved to and he is a really good kid'' meanwhile he dresses up in ragged clothing and puts smudged makeup on and doesn't have a single normal photo, he always makes some deformed exagarated, angry, frowned face expression, eyes rolled up, tounge out etc, often holding a knife or something that simulates holding a weapon of sorts, in ALL of them. Yeah... nothing wrong with you or your kid at all... I am glad you also stopped at having just one child...
@@bniy Like I said it's not your fault. People like your parents actually ''upset'' me, not you. Either way if you are sarcastic or not still thanks for the reply without dropping f bombs like most kids tend to do here...
@@fandangobrandango7864 You don't need to have level-altering destruction, even if that would be appreciated, as that changes game design aspects. You could have "microdestruction" like F.E.A.R. does.
What I enjoy about this channel is that you preserve the original presentation the games. Ever since every jackass discovered emulators, they feel the need to show us some inaccurate, upscaled, anti-aliased, widescreen-hacked abomination. No. Those aren't the games we played back then. Show us all the chunky, jagged edges, and warped, mosaic lookin' textures.
I remember in Die Harder on PSX you could spawn some sort of debug menu via cheat and actually create your own pathways and enemy locations tru levels. It was pretty cool.
So a few years back, I did a mini retrospective on Die Hard Trilogy myself. Whilst researching the game, I found to my amazement that one of the developers uploaded an unofficial behind the scenes documentary of the making of the game... and it's incredible. There's footage of the motion capture (literally done in a church hall). Multiple early builds of the game, including one which is a hybrid of Alien Trilogy and shows John running around with a colonial marine pulse rifle, as well as the original pitch to Fox. It's split over multiple parts but it's well worth a watch.
@@kamenanew9867 It's a really great watch, if the full vid is no longer on YT, there's samples of it in my old retrospective video. But it's fantastic, just because you see how this studio tried to do what was state of the art stuff on a budget. Like the motion capture footage, aside from filming it in a church hall, they didn't have dedicated motion capture suits, but they did have tape and the balls and stuck them to the actors clothes.
I remember walking into eb games shortly after Christmas in 1998 and buying the PlayStation 1 dual shock edition, Die hard trilogy and resident evil 2 dual shock. Man what a time.
Die Hard Trilogy was my First Game I got when I got the PS1 for my 10th Birthday 25 Years Ago… Never played any of these other ones. Although Nakatomi Plaza seems like a Guilty Pleasure! Thanks for going over the Series of Games. Also RIP Clarence Gilyard aka Theo…
That driving part from Die hard 3 is a guilty pleasure of mine. The controls suck but its so damn funny deactivating bombs by....setting them off and McClain yelling "Yeah! Eat this!" While civilians explode into flames. Its just so crazy weird 😂
I kinda chuckled a little when he said it would have been fun to play Die Hard Arcade at home with a buddy. The original Die Hard Arcade was a Sega Saturn (ST-V Board) and got released on the Saturn. My friends and I played the hell out of that game. I don't know if Gman didn't research enough or chose to omit this. The Die Hard Trilogy was also on Saturn too and wasn't just a Playstation experience. And before people go into defense mode, I am a Sega and Sony fan boy.
Die Hard one of the best action movies ever made,and of course when it comes to its success they’ll always be the video game adaptations of successful movies and this is one of them.
Well he is pretty much digitized. Ironic how he was against it back in a day hence why he never was in video games since it takes away from the acting but years later he got fed up with Hollywood and the politics so with that acting became a drag too, so he gave permission to digitize him and pay him in royalties. He been in plenty of comercials and movies where he been a full CGI, or had a body double that had a faceswap of him. He would either have someone doing the voiceover too or he would record few lines. Which now also kinda became a norm. You probably heard of deepfakes tech.
This video was incredible but man, I wish you spent time talking about the Die Hard Trilogy soundtrack. The music in that game is still elite to this day. Wall Street and Church are insane.
Die Hard for the NES, while considered obtuse and kinda crap by many people, also was kind of a prototypical immersive sim. Positions of enemies are randomized around the building with each playthrough and will move around the different floors depending on what you do, you can delay the bad guys from getting into the vault by blowing certain computer systems up, John has a separate health meter for his feet that forces you to be mindful of where you move if you want to avoid losing your movement speed, etc. It had a lot of really interesting ideas that I think could work in a more modern remake.
I love hearing about a game that I not only never played, but never knew existed, yet it had a huge impact on a lot of people. It's like peering into a Mandela effect offshoot universe
My colleague Dennis was lead designer on Die Hard Trilogy. They had the first mocap studio in the UK for that project, and since they weren’t allowed to use the likeness of Bruce Willis (due to his demanded pay being quite unreasonable) they just used Dennis’ face, kinda like Sam Lake with Max Payne. He actually uploaded a seven part making of ”series”, made digital from a VHS tape he had lying around. Just search “die hard trilogy making of” and you’ll find it.
Die hard trilogy hit different easily the best one imo. One of those things that at the time was just blowing everybody's minds. It will always be hard to see what was so great looking back in time like this but man so many fond memories were made. You truly had to be there in that day and age to fully appreciate it. Everything after that though just different degrees of forgettable.
Wow, this is a nostalgia trip. I played the die hard trilogy as a wee lad. I didn’t really know how to play any of the game modes, but just watching the gameplay brings back a lot of lost memories
I'll tell you guys a story, my first computer was a windows 98 computer I got for Christmas. I remember getting it, what screensaver my parents used (They used the haunted house one so it would periodically make sound so I would be curious about what was under the blanket) When they lifted the blanket and showed me I saw the computer and all the games they got for me and my eyes lit up. It was magical to me. The games my parents got was based off the things I liked...I liked Legos so I got Lego Island and Lego Creator, I loved and I mean LOVED Die Hard, because me and my dad would play the arcade game based off it. So they got me Die Hard Trilogy...it may not look like much...because technically it isn't. But it was the most fun I've had shooting terrorist...
Die Hard Trilogy on PC was my jam. I remember my bestie in primary school had it on PS1 and I was blown away, loved the movies especially the 3rd one... We stayed up so naughtily late playing it lol
I mean, it's probably just forgetting in the moment, but there is another blatant example of auto jumping in a game working that way is most 3D Zeldas. Though it's used in a much better way so yea there's that :P As for Nakatomi Plaza my guess is that they didn't want the players who didn't know the movie to shoot at Hans in frustration and think "OMG I know it's the bad guy, why can't I kill him". Only to disregard they have complete objectives requiring knowledge of the movie to complete... Grade A game design :P I learned of Dynamite Deka/Die Hard pretty late though ! I did play Dynamite Cop, its sequel, in arcades though. It did age a bit better than the first but is unfortunately completely unrelated to Die Hard, even in Europe/USA !
I remember playing the hell out of Die Hard Trilogy as a kid. Die Hard With a Vengeance was one of my favorite movies ever back then, and it’s still awesome to this day. In hindsight the first Trilogy game wasn’t amazing or anything but with 3 different games packed in it I had a blast as a kid. I even had a light gun that looked like a real pistol so playing the second game in the trilogy was just too much fun.
Well, Die hard Arcade came out in the west on the Sega Saturn, with a Coop mode. So yeah, just go and grab a used copy. Just take a deep breath before you see the price of it. And Die Hard: Nakatomi plaza was mod turned into a retail game on a budget, which explains poor voices and animations.
Damn Diehard Trilogy. That brings back so many memories. I beat Die Hard and Die harder multiple times but I never beat Vengeance without cheats. That timer was ruthlessly short. Also if my memory is correct in Die Hard you would earn extra lives saving hostages from executions but again, the amount of time you have to find them and save them is really short.
Die Hard 3 is trash compared to the original. It’s a completely independent script called “Simon Says” with a die hard skin slapped on it. The reconciliation with his wife and anti-bureaucratic themes of the original are inverted and the whole movie’s about how great and effective the NYPD is. Die Harderer was an omen of the disaster the series would become, nothing more.
I was saving up for an N64 but cracked and bought die hard trilogy on the Saturn. After a few days had big time buyers remorse. But that opening level music for die hard 2, amazing
They should update the graphics and make this a VR game. Think about how they could have any choices you make in-game, affect the way the story plays out......and of course the endings.
I remember Die Hard Trilogy being really fun. I don’t think I ever beat it or remember any kind of story but it was good for picking up and having some quick fun
32:19 Who uses an extinguisher like that? I guess if he was holding the black extinguisher end only on screen someone would get it mixed up with a "your mum/mom" simulator of spraying white stuff everywhere while holding something long and black in her hands
Very sad to hear lack of skills again destory fun gameplay.. thing with the bombs on the ground. Why run over them instead of shooting them.. or standing infront of enemies that hold heavier guns than you and than complain that they kill you first.. stop blaming the game, all i heard is complaints about things
I cant believe you ACTUALLY THINK the earth is ROUND lol... next you'll tell us you believe Birds are real. Geez. Its a joke, i know we've gotten that bad as a society that i gotta lable something this absurd as a damn joke, but here we are, i guess..
I still play Die Hard Trilogy on my Saturn once a year at Christmas. I miss the days of watching a movie than playing the game. The voice acting on Die Hard 1 still makes me laugh even after 27 years of playing it. Great video btw.
Die Hard arcade is far and away the best die hard game, even though it's not really a die hard game. Second maybe to the sequel. I've never played that one.
My local Barcade has Dynamite Cop, which wikipedia says is the sequel to Die Hard Arcade. It's pretty great! I played the shit out of Die Hard Arcade back in the day and it was truly awesome.
I probably spent more time on the Die Harder light gun game on PS1 than any other game in that system. Just a joy. I loved games you could learn, like this and Time Crisis. The early levels became like an art form when you learned them all off by heart. Just magic.
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This man got into retro video scaling and now he can't stop doing reviews on real hardware. You love to see it.
It’s an addiction.
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I worked for Bits Studios back in the 2000's. I remember the team talking about Vendetta and how they really tried to do some cool stuff with it. They also did their absolute best to try and get the game an 18 rating in the UK for the extra publicity it would have brought the Gamecube version (it would have been the first Gamecube game to be an 18). The studio did go on to do the Constantine video game - which in my opinion is an underrated gem.
I remember the copious amount of swearing in the game, particularly in the prison level
@@matthewwhite4346 and yet still no 18...shocking!
i remember in the late 1990’s (1997, 1998, 1999) before the Die Hard Vendetta game for the GameCube, PS2, Xbox i heard a rumour Bits Studios were working on a Die Hard Nintendo 64 game was it cancelled because Nintendo weren’t happy with delays or the hardware or license expired with 20th Century Fox??
@@jasonlee7816 I never heard about that but Bits comes from a different time in gaming so wouldn't be surprised.
There were stories of not being able to get dev kits for gameboy and snes so the guys just modded and reverse engineered stuff to be able to create games on those systems. Then once complete, they showed Nintendo who saw sense and released...
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Die Hard Trilogy was the main reason I got the original Playstation. People don't realize how amazing that game was at the time. The variety of the gameplay for each film. The graphics were amazing as an early Playstation game in 1996! Isometric shooter with upgrades and various weapons, amazing on rail action set pieces, and Vengeance was basically the stepping stone for what GTA would eventually become. One of the best movie licensed games of the 90's outside of Goldeneye.
Had it for the Saturn. Agree it was awesome. Edit: spotting an immediate difference. I don't remember the Saturn version of Die Hard having those icons showing up to the right of the screen. Interesting.
I agree with everything you said plus the game where you play the Actual Bruce Willis in the game Apocalypse💪🏽
That and the original Driver were amazing at the time. Sigh.
I remember seeing it at a party right after it came out and people were oohing and aaahing about the driving game in particular. It definitely had that cool new tech feeling when it came out.
@@SicketMog yeah I have the Saturn one also and the ps1 game has a way better frame rate (especially on Die Hard 2)
I’ll never forget my dad playing the Die Harder 2 game and accidentally shooting a civilian then cracking up upon hearing the McClain go “Sorry pal!”
Same when me and my dad played with a vengeance and started laughing hard when he drove over multiple pedestrians XD
My favorite was “Get the hell out of here!” In Die Hard.
You know, I think the worst thing about Nakatomi Plaza is that I really do think there’s a good game buried under the myriad of technical and acting problems that it has. For a 1-1 recreation of a film, it’s about as close as I think you can get from around that time period, and if it had some more care put into it, it might have stacked up to other games from around the same time period.
Edit: I literally had to rewrite this comment because I was half awake when I watched this and assumed this game came out before Half Life, and uhh… Yeah, it makes it even worse.
To this day it's still one of the most faithful recreations of a film in video game format, imo
Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was closer..much closer
Welcome to Piranha Games. Sad to say that not much has changed over the years sadly.
@@quajay187 Chronicles of Riddick had no right to be as good as it was. By far the best movie game since GoldenEye for sure
@@quajay187 you mean TimeSplitters
The cheat codes for the first game were amazing. DH1 has some hilarious cheats to make enemies float up to heaven when killed or they have to turn their back to McClane and shoot him between their legs.
DH2 had a debug mode where you could see the "rails" you would move on and even change their direction to float around the map and look around.
The best thing also was when you went to quit the game it would go "are you sure" "ask a friend?" and when you enter your initials the people would explode and other crazy stuff would happen.
You can tell the team had a mad fun time making that game 😄 has that vibe about it
@@immitationstation3369 there was a cheat code that turned every enemy to the dev team's boss, Fergus McGovern :D
@@WanderlustZero that's hilarious 😂
You have awakened many hilarious memories. Some of those cheats were glorious.
Oh my God, the 'everyone fat' cheat 🤣
Jesus christ this brought me back dude.
Welcome back to the party pal!
Same here. Life was so different back then.
I remember being totally floored by the next gen graphics for this on the wave of the future, the Sega Dreamcast...
I almost read this as "this brought Jesus Christ back dude" and well... First one is a Christmas movie
@@smjsuperscott close, Jesus is just waiting for the next worth-while movie/video game adaptation to make his return
Part of the reason I love Gman so much is because you never know what he's gonna cover next and it's always a pleasant surprise
I will forever be heartbroken over the fact the series ended in such a bad way.
Same. Sad we won't ever get a proper sixth Die Hard film to end the series.
I walked out of 4, it was all wrong from Justin Long to the tone of the action to even John McClain who was dressed like in cool urban outfitters clothes not normal middle-age guy stuff he wore, die hard movies are grounded even if over the top, they dont look like transformers
@@jlassh Shame, I actually like 4 a lot. It's slightly better than 2 in my opinion. But 5 just feels like some shitty tv film.
@@WH250398 its watchable but I remember I realized it was pg13 and kevin smiths gamer cave seemed all too far removed from the adult worlds of the first 3 and then the cgi stuff made it feel like a different franchise, and I actually like 2 a lot because I grew up watching the bad edit of it on TBS and WGN so much, it shows that if a movie is well constructed and you’re rooting for the lead character you can ignore all the plot holes, it helped that its based off another good action novel
@@jlassh in die hard 1 him having glass in his foot seemed like a big issue in 4 & 5 he can survive literally building collapses and plane crashes like they are nothing
“And the Quarterback is toast!” Line makes tons of sense. He was acting like a American Football announcer whenever a defensive player lands a big sack on the Quarterback. The hit of the rocket to the tank was like a linebacker slamming the QB for a big loss. Damn redcoats! Lol jk
Edit: as I think about it, 90% of his cohort was European as well. Likely his joke fell flat on them as it did on you. Love the content.
When him and Karl are walking into the building he's talking about the NBA or NFL and you can tell Karl has no idea or simply doesn't care about what he's saying.
@@bencousins7311 I was talking to my brother about this last night. The only other heist member that knew anything about American sports(that we got to know) was the guy who pretended to be the night security guard.
@@jonesythegent saying he had money riding on the game was a nice touch to
he's to busy eating shrimp in the barbie with sheila and kylie minogue
I don't think any other movie fleshes out it's non-main-villian mooks quite so well, you've got the two brothers disagreeing on how to cut the phone lines, that misunderstod football line between the one American and the German guys, you've got the legendary Al Leung looking guilty for stealing a chocolate bar.. while taking part in a massive hostage-taking heist! Karl having his own revenge-driven motivation to disobey Hans...
Oh baby, Die Hard Arcade and trilogy on Saturn gave me a bunch of unforgettable gaming memories that still hold an amazing place in my mind and heart. trying to break all the glass in nakatomi in trilogy was beautiful : D
Kinda odd he didn't mention the Saturn ports of ethier of those games.
He didnt mention the original die hard arcade, the ps2 port specifically which was AMAZING
Loved Die Hard Trilogy as a kid, so many of those sound effects are burnt into my brain.
I remember going over to a friends who had rented it to use with his light gun; turns out if the light gun is plugged in it loads the on rails shooter mode automatically. His mind was blown when I unplugged it and showed him that was only one third of the game.
Not covering Die Hard on NES? Outrageous.
Die Hard Trilogy is a significant childhood memory!
Loved die hard trilogy as a kid....it looked so much better in memory 😂
Takes me back to when my parents bought a PSX and finding a demo disk in the box, I played the shit out of the first Die-hard trilogy and Abe's Odysee demos. Good times
Die hard trilogy holds a special place in my heart for one of the first games I played as a kid. The taxi mission still gives me anxiety with that count down.
Yeah I remember failing 100 times not being able to beat it.
All of those games were hard as fuck for me as a kid. Luckily, I had access to a game shark and was able to beat them all with infinite health/time lol
When the clock zooms up towards the screen and everything explodes, my kid self probably got PTSD after that 😂😂
Terrifying that explosion
The original Die Hard Arcade did get a home port outside of Japan, to the Sega Saturn. Trilogy also got a port to the Saturn.
Yeah, Die Hard Arcade did appear on the Saturn and I believe that is the footage used in the video, since the arcade original of Dynamite Deku and the home release of Die Hard Arcade used the same specs as one another, the difference is that one of them is for the home and one of them is for Arcade, with the arcade board being known as ST-V
This just made me want a Gman video on Apocalypse starring Old Bruce, such a game of the times
Just left a comment requesting the same thing! Happy to see someone else ask for it. Hopefully that'll convince him to do one.
Love that game still to this day.
Holy shit I was thinking same exact fucking thing while watching these videos.
Welcome To Paradise.
Strap one on, it's time to jam!
Die Hard Arcade was also on the SEGA Saturn, so 2 player couch coop at home happened globally. Honestly it's one of the best brawlers with its sequel, Dynamite Cop being just as awesome.
Vendetta tried to do some unconventional stuff that i appreciate i wish we could get a remaster or remake of a couple of these
Man this shit brought me back too. My dad, god rest his soul, loved the shit out of Die Harder in that first trilogy and we'd play it very often when I was younger. Thanks for the video, this was fun to look back into, Gman.
3:48 exactly as I feel about the game. I believe it was one of the first real 3D (polygons) games I saw (together with Tekken) and back then that was an impressive leap in "realism".
Holy shit, I forgot about playing these games as a kid/teen. Thanks for the excellent trip down memory lane, Gman!
Die Hard Trilogy was my shit. Even when I couldn't finish it back then the soundtrack still stands today
“Which is about as rare as pictures of your mom with clothes on” this may be my favorite and line oat
Yippee-Ki-Yay Sonny Jim.
If Gman himself says Die Hard is a Christmas movie then it’s official.
I can't believe you didn't talk about the AMAZING soundtrack to the first Die Hard Trilogy. It is a damn masterpiece. I used to just pop the game disc into my Sony Discman and listen to it on the bus to and from school.
Central Park and Wall Street from the driving game sound sooo good
I remember playing through Die Hard Trilogy 2 the first time when i was younger and young me liked it! Mostly cause i hadn't played many games and more die hard to me was awesome. I do however remember that vent with the bomb and got stuck there for a while cause i kept shooting the rats thinking they were somehow killing me until my dad helped me and showed me to shoot the little mine or whatever it was
Even if it was small, I'm glad ya mentioned Die Hard arcade. I remember knowing an arcade had good shit every time I saw the cabinet. I played Dynamite Deka 2 (Dynamite cop 2 or the follow up to the game Die Hard Arcade was localized from) and man. It felt nostalgic as hell.
Dynamite Cop on Dreamcast is one of the most fun couch co-op beatemups ever made. The enemies & weapons truly are batshit insane. Not to mention, once you beat the final boss, you fight each other over the president's ugly daughter 😂
Ah, Die Hard Trilogy for the PSOne!! A certified BADASS classic!! I still have the one I bought back in 96 and do replay it from time to time!!
I got Die Hard Trilogy for PS1 when I was a kid. One weekend my super religious aunt came over and was watching me play video games, she was in utter shock when I was running people over in first person view and McClane turns on the window wipers to wipe off the blood 🤣🤣 I will never forget it
Hahaha that sounds hilarious now, I can't imagine your aunt calling the game the "devil" or some nonsense 🤣🤣
Not your fault that your parents were incompetent idiots to raise you properly. I don't blame her in a slightest. Religion or not the thing is kids should not be exposed to such things anyway. Often people say ''I did this and that and there is nothing wrong with me'' then reality proves them wrong. Or one day they snap. A developing childs mind absorbs things like a sponge and countiosly or subcountiusly it stays there.
Like the other day, a woman in her 40s said ''me and my kid watched horror movies since he was little he loved to and he is a really good kid'' meanwhile he dresses up in ragged clothing and puts smudged makeup on and doesn't have a single normal photo, he always makes some deformed exagarated, angry, frowned face expression, eyes rolled up, tounge out etc, often holding a knife or something that simulates holding a weapon of sorts, in ALL of them.
Yeah... nothing wrong with you or your kid at all... I am glad you also stopped at having just one child...
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy I apologize for upsetting you. I wish you a well day
@@bniy Like I said it's not your fault. People like your parents actually ''upset'' me, not you. Either way if you are sarcastic or not still thanks for the reply without dropping f bombs like most kids tend to do here...
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy you are more deranged than any child that plays video games lol
It blows my mind how you consistently come up with interesting and entertaining videos in such a short amount of time.
Australia loves video games/movies
The joke comparisons always get me but the bee joke at 21:36 killed me off😂
It's funny to see THIS KIND of level of destructibility back in the days. Mostly because not all games can do that in 2023 lol :D
Why would they need to?
@@cenciende9401 Because for all technological advancements, most games use them for graphics rather than making their environments more interactive.
@@theblobconsumes4859 destructability doesn't always work well with regards to level design
@@fandangobrandango7864 You don't need to have level-altering destruction, even if that would be appreciated, as that changes game design aspects. You could have "microdestruction" like F.E.A.R. does.
What I enjoy about this channel is that you preserve the original presentation the games. Ever since every jackass discovered emulators, they feel the need to show us some inaccurate, upscaled, anti-aliased, widescreen-hacked abomination. No. Those aren't the games we played back then. Show us all the chunky, jagged edges, and warped, mosaic lookin' textures.
I remember in Die Harder on PSX you could spawn some sort of debug menu via cheat and actually create your own pathways and enemy locations tru levels. It was pretty cool.
You can't deny that they're the best Christmas games ever made
So a few years back, I did a mini retrospective on Die Hard Trilogy myself. Whilst researching the game, I found to my amazement that one of the developers uploaded an unofficial behind the scenes documentary of the making of the game... and it's incredible.
There's footage of the motion capture (literally done in a church hall).
Multiple early builds of the game, including one which is a hybrid of Alien Trilogy and shows John running around with a colonial marine pulse rifle, as well as the original pitch to Fox.
It's split over multiple parts but it's well worth a watch.
That sounds great, I'll have to find that, thanks
@@kamenanew9867 It's a really great watch, if the full vid is no longer on YT, there's samples of it in my old retrospective video.
But it's fantastic, just because you see how this studio tried to do what was state of the art stuff on a budget.
Like the motion capture footage, aside from filming it in a church hall, they didn't have dedicated motion capture suits, but they did have tape and the balls and stuck them to the actors clothes.
I remember walking into eb games shortly after Christmas in 1998 and buying the PlayStation 1 dual shock edition, Die hard trilogy and resident evil 2 dual shock. Man what a time.
The way the fire extinguisher is used at 32:16 really had me laughing.
Even Edward Carnby doesn't use a fire extinguisher like a dumb dumb.
Medal of Honor Rising Sun had you hold an extinguisher the same way.
When you model the extinguisher without rigging an arm to the nozzle 😂
Die Hard Trilogy was my First Game I got when I got the PS1 for my 10th Birthday 25 Years Ago… Never played any of these other ones. Although Nakatomi Plaza seems like a Guilty Pleasure! Thanks for going over the Series of Games. Also RIP Clarence Gilyard aka Theo…
I appriciate that you played the third Part of Die Hard Trilogy that long. I never got that far!!
That driving part from Die hard 3 is a guilty pleasure of mine. The controls suck but its so damn funny deactivating bombs by....setting them off and McClain yelling "Yeah! Eat this!" While civilians explode into flames. Its just so crazy weird 😂
I kinda chuckled a little when he said it would have been fun to play Die Hard Arcade at home with a buddy. The original Die Hard Arcade was a Sega Saturn (ST-V Board) and got released on the Saturn. My friends and I played the hell out of that game. I don't know if Gman didn't research enough or chose to omit this. The Die Hard Trilogy was also on Saturn too and wasn't just a Playstation experience. And before people go into defense mode, I am a Sega and Sony fan boy.
Die Hard one of the best action movies ever made,and of course when it comes to its success they’ll always be the video game adaptations of successful movies and this is one of them.
@ 25:19 gotta love the Elvis impersonator just casually walking around while a shootout is happening.
knowing what happened to bruce willias has me depressed. we need to digitize the man! he is an american treasure.... :( thanks for the vid Gman!!
Well he is pretty much digitized. Ironic how he was against it back in a day hence why he never was in video games since it takes away from the acting but years later he got fed up with Hollywood and the politics so with that acting became a drag too, so he gave permission to digitize him and pay him in royalties.
He been in plenty of comercials and movies where he been a full CGI, or had a body double that had a faceswap of him. He would either have someone doing the voiceover too or he would record few lines.
Which now also kinda became a norm. You probably heard of deepfakes tech.
This video was incredible but man, I wish you spent time talking about the Die Hard Trilogy soundtrack. The music in that game is still elite to this day. Wall Street and Church are insane.
Die Hard for the NES, while considered obtuse and kinda crap by many people, also was kind of a prototypical immersive sim. Positions of enemies are randomized around the building with each playthrough and will move around the different floors depending on what you do, you can delay the bad guys from getting into the vault by blowing certain computer systems up, John has a separate health meter for his feet that forces you to be mindful of where you move if you want to avoid losing your movement speed, etc. It had a lot of really interesting ideas that I think could work in a more modern remake.
@39:55 "comfort of his beer, fart, and semen stained couch" my head hurts i was laughing so hard.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't forget about Dynamite Cop. It's not technically a "Die Hard" game but, it is the official spiritual successor to Die Hard Arcade.
Thank you! I was trying to remember the name of the game series it became.
The PS1 Game was awesome when it came out. Specially the Die Hard 3 portion of the game.
I love hearing about a game that I not only never played, but never knew existed, yet it had a huge impact on a lot of people. It's like peering into a Mandela effect offshoot universe
Im surprised Gman can even stomach watching the film with all the violence in it
Gman, you're an absolute gigachad for making these long videos!
WTF why would you call him a loser (chad) for making long videos?
My colleague Dennis was lead designer on Die Hard Trilogy. They had the first mocap studio in the UK for that project, and since they weren’t allowed to use the likeness of Bruce Willis (due to his demanded pay being quite unreasonable) they just used Dennis’ face, kinda like Sam Lake with Max Payne. He actually uploaded a seven part making of ”series”, made digital from a VHS tape he had lying around. Just search “die hard trilogy making of” and you’ll find it.
Based and die hard pilled
Die hard trilogy hit different easily the best one imo. One of those things that at the time was just blowing everybody's minds. It will always be hard to see what was so great looking back in time like this but man so many fond memories were made. You truly had to be there in that day and age to fully appreciate it. Everything after that though just different degrees of forgettable.
Gman is positively right, Die Hard is a Christmas movie
FUCKING YES LETS GO. The nostalgia I felt watching this is insane, taking me back to my childhood.
Trilogy 2 really scarred me as a kid, dont know why but I'm pretty sure I had nightmares from it. The rat level OST burned in my mind aswell.
Wow, this is a nostalgia trip. I played the die hard trilogy as a wee lad. I didn’t really know how to play any of the game modes, but just watching the gameplay brings back a lot of lost memories
Off topic, but a syphon filter video where you review every game in the series would be pretty cool.
I'll tell you guys a story, my first computer was a windows 98 computer I got for Christmas. I remember getting it, what screensaver my parents used (They used the haunted house one so it would periodically make sound so I would be curious about what was under the blanket) When they lifted the blanket and showed me I saw the computer and all the games they got for me and my eyes lit up. It was magical to me. The games my parents got was based off the things I liked...I liked Legos so I got Lego Island and Lego Creator, I loved and I mean LOVED Die Hard, because me and my dad would play the arcade game based off it. So they got me Die Hard Trilogy...it may not look like much...because technically it isn't. But it was the most fun I've had shooting terrorist...
Die Hard Trilogy will always be one of the first I mention when someone brings up the ps1. Absolutely loved it
Die Hard Trilogy on PC was my jam. I remember my bestie in primary school had it on PS1 and I was blown away, loved the movies especially the 3rd one... We stayed up so naughtily late playing it lol
I mean, it's probably just forgetting in the moment, but there is another blatant example of auto jumping in a game working that way is most 3D Zeldas. Though it's used in a much better way so yea there's that :P
As for Nakatomi Plaza my guess is that they didn't want the players who didn't know the movie to shoot at Hans in frustration and think "OMG I know it's the bad guy, why can't I kill him". Only to disregard they have complete objectives requiring knowledge of the movie to complete... Grade A game design :P
I learned of Dynamite Deka/Die Hard pretty late though ! I did play Dynamite Cop, its sequel, in arcades though. It did age a bit better than the first but is unfortunately completely unrelated to Die Hard, even in Europe/USA !
I wish more devs would try to recreate movies in games.
I remember playing the hell out of Die Hard Trilogy as a kid. Die Hard With a Vengeance was one of my favorite movies ever back then, and it’s still awesome to this day. In hindsight the first Trilogy game wasn’t amazing or anything but with 3 different games packed in it I had a blast as a kid. I even had a light gun that looked like a real pistol so playing the second game in the trilogy was just too much fun.
Well, Die hard Arcade came out in the west on the Sega Saturn, with a Coop mode.
So yeah, just go and grab a used copy. Just take a deep breath before you see the price of it.
And Die Hard: Nakatomi plaza was mod turned into a retail game on a budget, which explains poor voices and animations.
Damn Diehard Trilogy. That brings back so many memories. I beat Die Hard and Die harder multiple times but I never beat Vengeance without cheats. That timer was ruthlessly short. Also if my memory is correct in Die Hard you would earn extra lives saving hostages from executions but again, the amount of time you have to find them and save them is really short.
Die Hard 3 is trash compared to the original. It’s a completely independent script called “Simon Says” with a die hard skin slapped on it.
The reconciliation with his wife and anti-bureaucratic themes of the original are inverted and the whole movie’s about how great and effective the NYPD is. Die Harderer was an omen of the disaster the series would become, nothing more.
I was saving up for an N64 but cracked and bought die hard trilogy on the Saturn.
After a few days had big time buyers remorse.
But that opening level music for die hard 2, amazing
They should update the graphics and make this a VR game. Think about how they could have any choices you make in-game, affect the way the story plays out......and of course the endings.
I remember Die Hard Trilogy being really fun. I don’t think I ever beat it or remember any kind of story but it was good for picking up and having some quick fun
32:19
Who uses an extinguisher like that?
I guess if he was holding the black extinguisher end only on screen someone would get it mixed up with a "your mum/mom" simulator of spraying white stuff everywhere while holding something long and black in her hands
Very sad to hear lack of skills again destory fun gameplay.. thing with the bombs on the ground. Why run over them instead of shooting them.. or standing infront of enemies that hold heavier guns than you and than complain that they kill you first.. stop blaming the game, all i heard is complaints about things
I cant believe you ACTUALLY THINK the earth is ROUND lol... next you'll tell us you believe Birds are real. Geez.
Its a joke, i know we've gotten that bad as a society that i gotta lable something this absurd as a damn joke, but here we are, i guess..
Die Hard Arcade is available for the Sega Saturn. Dynamite Cop/Deka 2 is available on the Dreamcast. Hope this info is helpful
I still play Die Hard Trilogy on my Saturn once a year at Christmas. I miss the days of watching a movie than playing the game. The voice acting on Die Hard 1 still makes me laugh even after 27 years of playing it. Great video btw.
Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1/Sega Saturn is the best game, no contest. I completed it without dying once on the Saturn 👌🏻
original DIe Hard Trilogy also has by far the best soundtrack - Airport, Snowmobile chase and Harlem all slap
25:12 ngl that phrase of the “City that never sleeps” was for New York but now you can just chalk it up to, “One Of the Cities that doesn’t sleep”
I love the Die Hard movies. Except the 5th one.
Die Hard arcade is far and away the best die hard game, even though it's not really a die hard game. Second maybe to the sequel. I've never played that one.
My local Barcade has Dynamite Cop, which wikipedia says is the sequel to Die Hard Arcade. It's pretty great! I played the shit out of Die Hard Arcade back in the day and it was truly awesome.
I remember having a cheat book for the PS1 version including screaming plants whenever you shoot them lol
Bruno is Bruce Willis' nickname for himself - like how one of his music albums is called the return of Bruno and his cartoon was called Bruno the kid
Cant believe you forgot die hard arcade (Sega Saturn)
Srsly disappointed
25:05 Dude, "the city that never sleeps" is New York City. Las Vegas is "the City of Sin".
The dude who voices John McClain in Die Hard Trilogy sounds like Matt Stone or Trey Parker doing one of their South Park voices
I remember playing it on sega saturn and it was not a good port. I played the proper ps1 version years later and its night and day.
In American football when the quarterback is "sacked", is what that line refers to
I probably spent more time on the Die Harder light gun game on PS1 than any other game in that system. Just a joy. I loved games you could learn, like this and Time Crisis. The early levels became like an art form when you learned them all off by heart. Just magic.
I think this is why I have a love for house of the dead and time crisis too imo
Still surprised that only Die Hard Trilogy & Syphon Filter have the visual information of “enemy crosshairs on you” mechanic
I remember playing Die Hart trilogy with my brother, what a bunch of yank but we still loved it lol
Missing the most essential and most accurate Die Hard game on NES? Wow.
That nakatomi plaza game is baffling. Why even recreate the lines in the first place.
I still play DIe Hard trilogy to this day. Yeah it's not perfect but it is a lot of fun.
Where did so many bosses come from and they look nothing like any from the 3 films
"about as rare as photos of your mom with her clothes on"
ima tell her you said that. ..she crazy