Wii FPS Analysis: Conduit 2 - Duke Nukem Included - JarekTheGamingDragon
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Hey Jarek! I am converting from console to PC. You seem to be able to run most games (including Cyberpunk) are you able to share your specs please? PS love the content!
The Nintendo Switch begs for a game like The Conduit or Timesplitters 2/Future Perfect.
Switch is not great for FPS games.
Thanks ..I play most of them on android..its awesome ..especially the conduit 2
Man we need to start a petition the get conduit 3 made some how, that endings the most "America FUCK YA!" thing iv ever seen.
@Kristopher Wickline if your asking is there any then yes I know theres at least 1 or 2
It's not baldness, it's excessive masculinity.
chicks dig thick eyebrows anyway
Hmm
Yknow, I really like the corny story. It reminds me of that era, before every game cost a hundred zillion dollars to make and back when you could sell a video game as just a game with a little story... instead of every game ever needing to be this super serious realistic 'immersive' environment. This is a video game, and it knows it.
the funny thing is, games had the immersive sim genre, but apparently that is too hard to make. but it is very lovely(for me) to play.
agreed that "supah seriooous realiztik" gmaes are boring for they sacrifice fun for being a interactive movie.
@@drivanradosivic1357 I agree to a point, some games like Rainbow and EFT get the balance of arcade style gameplay with more ‘realistic’ elements like drastically lower time to kill and all that, and they still manage to stay fun. What’s the worst is when you drop into a game of ARMA tryna fuck about with your mates and you stumble across a bunch of milsim neckbeards that get angry if you break rank
@@thesequeltoobama7030 Erm, what the hell is arcadey about either of those, especially EFT? It has gamey aspects, I mean duh, its a game. But it is as realistic as they come.
I disagree with you two. Realistic doesn't mean not fun. Some of the best, most gripping games I have ever played were and are realistic. And games were not necessarily unrealistic because they were older. Gamey? Sure. Worse? NAh.
@@ivansalamon7028 what’s arcadey about rainbow six, a hero shooter with a man so muscular that he can literally run through a wall? Or how all of the riot shield operators can sprint forever whilst holding a huge armoured shield in front of them? Is there any chance of bleeding if you get hit? I don’t know, in retrospect rainbow six now appears to me as the epitome of realism. EFT, whilst having a stronger sense of realism in damage taking/healing, resource management and more of a traditional ‘realistic’ combat system, it still doesn’t feel like a true ‘realism’ game like squad or insurgency.
Now, you seem to have misunderstood my point, and this may be in part to my shoddy wording. I don’t hate games that aim for a more grounded and real feel at all, with arma 3 being one of my most played games on pc. I just think the fun is taken out of it when a huge group of a player base try and enforce this idea that if you’re not pretending you’re in the military and doing call signs and all that shit you’re just a waste of space on the server. I understand this for more high stakes games of squad or arma, but sometimes I want to be able to experience a more grounded game but also be able to talk shit to my mates without getting hounded by some nonce probably too overweight to get into the real military.
I think there's a balance where tone is the most important factor as to what does and doesn't work. If a story is trying to be serious or intense, then an immersive and realism-centric style can work incredibly. If a Game's story is supposed to be campy or outrageous than a more tongue-in-cheek tone is justified and can really help make the experience fun and exciting. Different end goals require different paths of getting there.
Case-in point. Compare The Last of Us, (the first one) and any given Devil May Cry game. Last of Us' narrative is so heavily built around genuine human emotion and realistic reactions to grief that an immersive tone is really the only way to go. If it were like DMC with a wise cracking protagonist doing somersaults over crumbling buildings and fucking around with his enemies constantly then almost none of that powerful message would have gotten through. Meanwhile if Devil May Cry had a super grounded tone where almost no fantasy elements were present and Dante was just this introspective, sad man who only ever talks about his tragic past then almost none of the series' charm would make it through. (Hell, in the case of the latter the campy tone works for the story because once the comic relief and silliness stops and more focus is put on drama it stands out to the player and makes them focus.)
The reason Corney plots you're not supposed to take seriously died out is because they feel disposable. A campy, over the top narrative can still have a genuine effect on someone if there's heart behind it. Meanwhile a dramatic, thickly layered plot can draw the player into another place and resonate on an emotional level. Simple, Corney plots with no thematic consistency just feel supplementary and uninteresting.
Don't forget the Goldeneye remake, Jarek! You can't do a month of Wii shooters without it. It's really good.
it's not a remake, people really need to stop referring to it as a remake.
it's a new game based on the same movie. just like Star Wars on NES and Super Star Wars on SNES were 2 separate games based on the same movie.
it has almost nothing in common with the N64 game, not even the same Bond actor!
@@kevboard Chill, dog. I'll call it a reboot if it makes you feel better.
I'd like to see him play XBLA goldeneye. its a goldeneye remake for xbox 360. its the same game though.
I think it came out on other consoles as golden eye reloaded
@@kevboard Activision calls it a "re-imagining" better yet ?
6:44 No cap. Once you know you're hearing John St. John's voice, you can't unhear it ever again
Ok, there is one exemption. Dr. Heskel from Ion Fury is John St. John. He's starting to flex his muscles a lot more outside of the usual Duke Nukem voice, although with Postal Dude you can still tell
Main character asserts his dominance by slamming his MP5 into the fresh magazine
“These alien bastards stole my Wii wheel”
Those alien bastards broke my TV by accidentally throwing a wii remote because they did not use the safety strap.
I will always be sad that Conduit 3 was never a thing. This game was a huge part of my childhood, I remember playing survival mode with my friend who lived next door, we would go as long as we could before the game crashed after a number of waves. It was so much fun regardless of any jank and poor performance!!
Will you review the classic FPS game “Mr Krabs overdoses on ketamine and dies”
Absolute god
Yes
This kinda makes me want to get a Wii...
All you'll need is a wiimote+nunchuck and the sensor bar
Got one for a few bucks this past year and I've been having a blast, but you can always get a wiimote + nunchuck and a USB sensor bar to play on Dolphin and play with some enhancements.
Snake got that drip.
Feel it
there cool systems for homebrew
wii first person shooters were such a weird novelty. i am happy to see a whole month covering these games.
Duke voice actor and alien enemies....
So its a Duke Nukem game in disguise
My gamer PTSD was triggered hard by those armor lock clips
The mod "Reach Evolved" removes armor abilities and makes weapins feel more powerful like the first Halo.
Never liked Reach but with this mod I actually enjoyed it without the COD era jank.
Goldeneye and cod black ops I think were a lot of fun on Wii
Goldeneye Wii is what got me into shooters. Fucken classic.
I didn’t even know they had black ops on wii, I remember playing cod 2 & 3 doe
@@cameronellinger9177 I seem to remember the Wii launched with CoD 3, that game actually being on the shelves before the Wii itself was released. Every CoD game between from 3 to MW3 came to Wii, except for MW2, I believe.
Goldeneye Wii was okay, but it wasn't a faithful remake of the N64 classic.
It pretty much butchered the story from the movie too, especially for 006.
CoD on Wii is hit or miss. A level was removed from BO1 and the other ports had stuff removed too.
It wasn't until the Wii U that Nintendo got ports nearly identical to Xbox 360 like BO2.
@@Gruntvc Actually Moderm Warfare Reflex is 1 to 1, aside from no DLC pack.
Who needs hair when you have HAT
Conduit 2 is kind of a spiritual successor to Perfect Dark by looking at the weapons and few design choices !
Am I the only one that really likes that shotgun animation? It feels sooo satisfying ngl
I really wish they made a third one.
Dev is still around. Nintendo doesn't seem interested in a FPS exclusive as they were during the GameCube and Wii days.
Switch could use one for sure.
@@Gruntvc True they even help with the new saints row game and original game called Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. It's seems the conduit was a thing they did for wii and just stopped it when nintendo didn't want it no more. What a shame a third game would be cool.
The dev team was working on a game very similar to Splatoon before the Wii U came out. Unfortunately there was a leaker inside the dev team that caused Nintendo to cancel the project.
I wish High Voltage would work on original games again.
I remember the developers, after this game released, were teasing that they wanted to make a 3rd one, but instead of talking more in depth about that they instead showed off a demo they made of a port of Halo 2 to the 3DS that they wanted to make official but never got the greenlight from either Microsoft or Nintendo. It apparently was a well-done port iirc. The developers were apparently tech wizards since the Conduit 2 looks so good because they use graphical techniques from the 360 on it, basically making it a 360 game running on the Wii.
The 360 graphics thing was from previews and interviews of the game before release, whereas the Halo 2 tech demo was from one of the E3 shows at some point, but I can't remember the exact year or anything.
The flaming meathook on the super shotgun gives it a third advantage, being the most metal shit ever.
After seeing that ending i wish conduit 3 was a thing
Proof conduit 2 is a legend
No reference to the Dark Star.
I used to fuck people’s shit up with that on multiplayer
You should cover Far Cry Vengeance too lol
God no lmao
@@Jarekthegamingdragon Stream it for like an hour just to laugh at the awful cutscenes and crusty graphics. Pleaaaaaase?
@@Jarekthegamingdragon Yes please do it! Also don't forget the GoldenEye game on the wii, I heard it wasn't that terrible, just kinda meh-
@@razorstargazer No thanks on either of these things
@@Jarekthegamingdragon aw
8:36 Ok that's pretty badass tbh. Can't wait for The Conduit 3 to come out on the Wii+ or the Switch
I unfortunately think its a dead IP now
Played these games until the servers shutdown and I'm very sad it didn't move on to the Wii U/Switch. If anything I think now's a great time for it to comeback given the FPS boom on switch.
Awww you missed Jon's best voice role ever Big the Cat.
man... lots of great memories attached to this game. The gravity gun is still one of the coolest guns Ive ever used. Pretty much Half Life for console kiddos.
Glad to see a review that gives this game the credit it deserves. Not a masterpiece by any means, but the technical achievements and passion put into this game show. I bought this game when it launched and I loved every second of it.
Crazy it's been 9 fucking years!
Best ad timing ever! That beam of light shot into the sky and a corona beer ad started right on time!
John St. John also voiced Daniel Garner in painkiller hell and damnation. This concludes that any game with the duke nukem voice actor makes it SO MUCH better!
John St. John also voiced a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series: Big the Cat.
Bro, no lie...after the Conduit video I dragged out the WII I had in storage (My kids have grown and left it behind them) and bought a used copy of Conduit as well as Dead Space @ Half Priced Books and It is good. I put it on an old CRT to help the low rez problem of course!
one of your 3.8% reporting in jarek, been watching your videos since it was exclusively airsoft stuff back in the 2000s, keep up the good work dude :)
Ngl even though this is late asf the wii content is indeeeeeed super entertaining considering the limitations of the wii and the controllers. didn’t know you did a whole month of this so every time I got a wii FPS video review in my recommendation I’d click on it and I’m glad I did because I found these absolute GEMS
"Don't come into this expecting a story its about aliens and conspiracy theories" Sounds like real life brah
Man I waited for this
Hey Jared. Just wanted to say keep up the quality content man. It’s very unique gaming content and I can’t get enough of it dude 👌🏼
Conduit 2 actually is a greater improvement on the first game. And the MC actually looks badass, I don’t see what people mean when they say this sequel is worst then the first game.
The first takes a more serious tone, whilst the second is a complete flip on the personality of the games.
Great video :)
Hey Jarek, you should play Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth. It's an amazing atmospheric game, with an amazing story (even more so if you like Lovecraft) and interesting mecanics. It's the kind of game that we don't have this days. I love it. I recomend you to get the GOG version. Keep it up, dude, you're the best at this!
I wish they'd HD remaster it or at least fix the broken Steam version.
Most Cthulhu games since are often walking simulators now.
Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem was great too. Stuck on GameCube sadly.
Huh, looks interesting. I'll keep it in mind.
Glad to see these under appreciated games getting some love. I really enjoyed both.
This series was the first shooter series I ever experienced. I loved both and fully admit that I look through both games with as rosy tinted glasses as you could imagine. Years later when I played duke Nukem I knew the voice sounded familiar! Love these two games and will most likely be getting a wiimote, nunchuck and sensor bar to relive the beginning of my love of shooters.
The amount of keeps ads I've seen, and now im losing hair. Dangit XD
I loved playing Conduit 2. I remember inviting my friends over in highschool and we just screwed around on the multiplayer mode. Good times.
Reminds me a bit of Codename:STEAM with that ending.
Really underappreciated game...
Came here cuz of your comment in the Souls of black rerecording. Glad to see you're still around
I'm so happy you're covering these games. I played and beat the first one like several years ago at my dad's. And I wasn't able to play the second one.
And dude don't @ me. My hair is starting to fail me haha.
It would be cool if they made a third one for the switch
And a third Red Steel.
Or maybe a VR remake
Just port them over to Switch and make them 1080p 60fps.
The multiplayer for this game was honestly a whole ton of fun! I wish the servers were still on because I remember spending way too much time playing it when I was little
Hey great vid man. I just wanna say thank you for doing these reviews, they always help me know what games to get and not to get. Because of you I’ve gotten into the Half Life series, and now it’s pretty much one of my favorite FPS franchises of all time. Just finished the entirety of HL2 including the episodes. On my way to finish HL 1, OPF, and Blue Shift. Thanks again for the reviews and even playing these fun little Wii shooters.
Edit: I’m 16 years old, just as old as HL2. These games are old, yet I like them much better then the newer games we get these days like Apex, Valorent, Overwatch, Fortnite, etc. Those games can’t even compete.
Have you heard John st Jon’s covid 19 pick up lines?? 😂😂
Conduit 3 would be awesome. Loved playing this game on the Wii, I agree, it was a fun shooter, great to pick up and play.
It makes so much sense the viewers here wanted a full wii month
I think it's really cool that you're covering wii shooters
Looking forward to the next video! You're right, now I can never unhear John St. John again 🤯
0:14 _Look Ma, there I am!_
I loved this game. I played tf outa it and played the online pvp mode til the servers died. One of my favorite games from my childhood
I really liked this game and I was a Jr/Sr in high School when it came out. still have some memories of it
I'd love to see you cover Goldeneye Wii at some point
What was it with older FPS games always having specifically a Spas 12 with a folded stock?
Area 51 let you dual wield a double barrel version of a Spas-12, one of my favorite shotguns in games
I was waiting for this. thanks man
Hello, which version of dolphin did you run the conduit 2 on? can you provide a link? Thx
Still has a legendary ending to this very day
Does this game support the gamecube controller? Want to give it a shot on dolphin but feel like it would be awkward with the Dualshock 4 gyro
Lmao, still remember how mindblown I got when I learned that Jon St John voiced Big in Sonic Heroes going around screaming "FROGGY"
@@OniLinkBrazil1993 Aaah yes true, keep on forgetting that the Sonic Adventure games share most of the cast into Sonic Heroes. Sonic Heroes was my first Sonic game as kid so guess why that game first come into my brain now :^)
This is one of my favorite games ever. I don't know why, it just is. I've played the campaign so many times.
Man the DarkStar was the most broken and OP weapon , especially when you have the upgrades maxed out. You can just spam Homing blackholes and if it doesn't have a target. It chases after you which was funny. The auto cannon is meant for getting out of bounds on some levels. If you know what I mean.
This was honestly one of my favorite games on the wii.
8:44 George Washington was behind him too lol
Is that song during the ad from Chex Quest 2?
It's nice the wii isn't forgotten
maybe a conduit 3 on switch someday... we can only hope
I’m looking forward to you doing red steel I loved playing them when I was younger
THE ENDING WHAT
Great idea for a series!!!!
Saddens me we never got a 3rd game and probably ever won't. This was the first FPS on Wii I owned and it was an absolute blast to play, both Single player and Multiplayer. High Voltage Software (the developers) I remember we're really serious about making more games for the hardcore audience on the Wii, as they genuinely loved the console. They were even going to make a spiritual successor to Hunter the Reckoning called The Grinder, which was in sort of a beta phase, so you may be able to still find clips of it online. Still don't know why that never released. Nevertheless, thanks for covering the Conduit games. Good memories.
Multiplayer slapped hard . I miss it
The automatic turret was make for the wave game mode, and the wall rifle too. I past to many hours and this game with friends on the wave game mode xD
I can't believe it looks this good. I beat it when it came out but forgot how good it looks. I wanna play it again
If I remember correctly, the developers managed to get rendering effects thought only possible on the HD consoles to work in Conduit 2. So, it might literally be the best-looking Wii game because it's basically a 360 game in low resolution.
Im glad people liked these games to this day,i though Jarek would never make videos about Conduit or Wii in general.I might make a mod for conduit or heck even maybe just new maps for conduit 2.Hopefully Conduit 1 and 2 is moddable for PC.
YESSSS GIVE US MORE WII REVIEWS
What's the outro song??
You forgot one other voice people connect to John Saint John often, Big The Cat
Thanks for this videos. Im gonna try to play them :)
Yesss red steel 1 review is gonna be amazing, i hope...
Can someone tell me the song that Jarek always use in the Outro?
Great video btw Jarek
Wii paved the way for home VR
i might be late but just watched pervious vidoe and now seeing this yes yes yes month of wii here we come :D
The Deatomizer Mk4 aka the future looking vector in "the conduit" if you charge it, it sounds like the charge sound from metroid prime its very cool i guess lol
"The ending cant be that weird, can it?" HOLY FU-
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Hope this and Conduit 1 get remastered someday.
I would buy 5 copies of it if that happened. 3 so other people can have a copy, 1 for me to play the game, and the last for me to put on display with my Conduit memorabilia.
Brother in Arms did come to Wii by the way. Maybe worth a quick look?
I didn't vocalize this in the first one but I very much do like the idea of a wii month tbh
There quiet a few underrated titles on the Wii that most people don't even know about or aren't aware of because of the console's reputation.
Can you do the Dead Space FPS/gun games? Extraction, Downfall etc.?
The AI that the main character talks to sounds really close to vega, from DOOM
Great review Jarek. :)
I have a question
Will you ever release your wallpaper? It's beautiful! And I've never found it online :(
It was an image I commissioned of my character. It's not really something I want floating around outside of specific places.
I fuckin missed you Jarek
Hell yeah wii reviews
My hope is maybe one day High Voltage could port both games to modern platforms like the Switch (maybe with help from a company like Engine Software, who did the HD remasters of the first two No More Heroes games) and this could reignite interest in seeing the series become a trilogy. If No More Heroes can finally get a third mainline entry after so long then I'm sure Conduit could too.
In fact here's a quick addendum to this comment, I just found out Conduit 1 got an HD version for Android devices in 2013 that ran on Tegra, the same chipset the Switch uses, so there's already a version of the first that could be ported to Switch probably without too much hassle.
I second this notion
They were bringing it to PS3 at some point. Hopefully they carry their work from that over.
holy shit buddy the conduit 2 shotgun would do Gmanlives proud
Dis gon be gooooood
Abe Lincoln also voiced by Raiden. Love it.