this feels like one of those times a bunch of guys wanted to make a game even though they don't really know how, but they don't have any original ideas so they just license something recognizable and call it a day.
I actually got recommended this video and I will say. I’m not disappointed. I love how you bring up valid points about a game I didn’t know existed for the longest time
Very nicely said as I played this game fully as well. You did miss a glaring issue with it though. Whether through bugs or poor supply placement, you could get unwinnable situations. I found this out during my playthrough when despite careful fuel management, I ran out of it for the flamethrower and for whatever reason, the blowtorch just wasn't doing the job despite lowering ever Thing's health to flashing red (the weakest state). It was so bad and I loved the movie so much that I felt I NEEDED to finish it, that I decided to use a codebreaker. This helped.......... BARELY. I had the usual infinite health and ammo and went in confident.......... only to find that the fucking flamethrower and ONLY the fucking flamethrower wasn't affected by the codes while the woeful blowtorch was. So, paranoia set in where I used the flamethrower so sparingly, actual fear set in to make the game scary for the reasons I didn't expect it to be.
Great video!! I almost picked this game up a few weeks ago but decided not to. Now you've made me glad I didn't, I'd rather just rewatch the original film.
Quality content man. Keep it up. My only gripe with some of your videos is audio balancing. Some audio is super loud where others are quite. It causes headphone users to receive an unintentional jump scares lol. Other than that, perfect. Im glad i found your channel. I wish i was half as good as you lol.
Imagine a sequel like terminator 2, parasite eve and parasyte. One colony mutates into individual sentience. The protagonist is infected but maintains their identity. Themes of identity and the ship of theseus. Good thing vs cancer thing. Thousands of years later, humans evolve to coexist. Then s twist where humans are the villains seeking purity. Sounds like silly fanfiction though, but that's the theme in I'm seeing in sci fi, and in SCP.
Never played it myself, but my stepdad had it on PS2 back in the day...and at the time he said it would've been too scary for me... lol Uhhh..alrighty then. I don't think he even played it that much.. He bought it because he loved the movie..but I never saw him playing it. Very entertaining review though. Like I said.. I knew about this game existing..but didn't know anything about the actual gameplay or how much/little it related to the original movie.
Alien Isolation but in a Thing setting. Main character can get infected and the gameplay changes subtly by making the character do things that seem logical from a game perspective but narratively it doesn't make sense for the character to do to contain or destroy The Thing and only players who stay focussed on what enemy they're fighting against can figure it out. I'd also make it so you can jump between the MC (that you can create yourself) and characters you meet along the way. Once everyone has been infected, it's Game Over, but as long as there's a human around, you can still succeed. That way, if your MC gets infected, you can take control of one of the other characters and still try to finish the game.
The devs were planning a sequel and they hoped to deliver on the potential of the squad trust mechanics. Unfortunately, the game was scrapped and the dev got shut down. If you want good action horror from this generation, best to stick with RE4 or The Suffering. My favorite Carpenter film is Escape From New York, but we never got an official game based on it. Also, if you want to play a good licensed based game? Play The Chronicles of Riddick Escape From Butcher's Bay or The Punisher.
Another good licensed game that also fits nicely with Halloween is Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge for PS2. It's a Devil May Cry styled game where you play as Jack with some weird ectoplasm whip, it has most of the original VA's from the movie, and plays really well. The boss fights even have their own musical numbers to tie in more with the original movie!
This pretty much echoes my experience with the game. I'm curious to see what Nightdive do with it but so many of the issues are fundamental I cannot see them righting the ship.
Since the studio that made it was dissolved, the game itself is technically abandonware, you can get it off myabandonware for free if you don't mind playing on PC
TH-cam is a fickle beast. Chasing algo's is how you make it, and it's exhausting af lol. Then there's the problem of turning your love and hobby into a job and the sinking feeling of "sht i can't just play this, i need to make CONTENT" 24-7 invading your thoughts lol. As a passion hobby it's great. Beyond that it's madness.
There's some good news amongst all this: This was the last game the developer ever made, and Peter Wanat went on to redeem himself 2 years later by being a producer on that Chronicles of Riddick game.
A great video that covers pretty much all the problems I had with the game back when it was released all those years ago. The Thing is my favourite movie of all time and so for the game of it to turn out being such a generic shooter was disappointing to say the least. I actually found that the game Extermination, also on the PS2, was a much better Thing game although it too focused mainly on action although it was a lot better done with more detailed creature designs and set pieces than anything that The Thing had to offer in my opinion. The whole squad trust mechanic in The Thing game, which was front and centre of advertisements and previews of the game at the time, was utterly pointless when you could just give squad mates a weapon to have them trust you. Testing a squad mate and seeing that they are human only to have them transform into the Thing moments later because the script demanded it rendered the whole blood testing pointless. Also, as it was scripted why did the developers not have random transformations for each one instead of having the NPC drop their weapon, the last thing The Thing would have done, and have the exact same slow transformation each time? It was just lazy. The game had some good ideas but absolutely none of them were properly implemented or developed. I remember working to save some squad mates in the underground tunnel and getting them all onto the elevator safe and sound at the end of that level only for it to load the next part of the game and show that they had all disappeared when the elevator doors opened again! I read that an early version of the game was a lot more random and unfocused with unscripted stuff in it but I think that would have been better than the brainless shooter that became the finished game. Speaking of brainless, perhaps the biggest crime in all of this is that it totally fails to capture the intelligence of The Thing itself. In the movie the creature was often two steps ahead of everyone else and yet in this game it shows no intelligence at all. There is never any real sense of the creature from the movie which is perhaps the greatest movie monster of all time. The game for me should not be seen as a forgotten gem but a wasted opportunity that could and should have been something really special.
Dec 5th, 2024 The Thing: Remastered is released Over 300 users exposed and reviewed the game as... Very Positive. A new outbreak has begun, with untold millions at risk of being converted.
I heard about that - seems like such a weird choice, tbh. If they do a faithful true to form graphics update and that's it, there's basically no point since the core game is such a mess. Guess we'll see how it turns out, I've enjoyed many of their other remasters.
@@uglyfish7292 Yeah, it's the weirdest game to remaster, they tend to remaster niche cult following games and the Thing game is certainly a cult following game. I've seen more people go in detail as to why the game is bad then people going into detail as to why it's good. The people calling it "good" just call it that and end it there.
I mean remaking this game from a passionate studio and having it be just like the movie would be so cool. I guess the closest thing we have is fucking among us which is better than nothing
This reminds me of Spoony's review I watched years ago minus the manchild rage and tantrums. You seem to echo the same stuff he did. I sort of want to play this game for myself but this game seems like those "cult classics" that get mislabeled as such like Extermination which is a game I can't stand. When it comes to surivial horror, the majority tends to be right a lot of the time. Resident Evil 0, Silent Hill 4, Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water and Dino Crisis 1 are all games that just bore me so it seems like this is no different.
The "my mom" slow pan fucking got me
The in-game vending machines were the tensest part of this video. "Cold Drinks..." what's with the ellipsis? What did they mean bros?
Ellipsus
this feels like one of those times a bunch of guys wanted to make a game even though they don't really know how, but they don't have any original ideas so they just license something recognizable and call it a day.
12:37 and you are funny!! Man don't give up. You could be really really big on here. I truly believe that.
I actually got recommended this video and I will say. I’m not disappointed. I love how you bring up valid points about a game I didn’t know existed for the longest time
Grimbeard did a video on this game a while back. It's neat how my favorite channels cover the same things sometimes
Fantastic video, bud. I've never played this and videos like this keep reaffirming why.
Very nicely said as I played this game fully as well. You did miss a glaring issue with it though. Whether through bugs or poor supply placement, you could get unwinnable situations. I found this out during my playthrough when despite careful fuel management, I ran out of it for the flamethrower and for whatever reason, the blowtorch just wasn't doing the job despite lowering ever Thing's health to flashing red (the weakest state). It was so bad and I loved the movie so much that I felt I NEEDED to finish it, that I decided to use a codebreaker. This helped.......... BARELY. I had the usual infinite health and ammo and went in confident.......... only to find that the fucking flamethrower and ONLY the fucking flamethrower wasn't affected by the codes while the woeful blowtorch was. So, paranoia set in where I used the flamethrower so sparingly, actual fear set in to make the game scary for the reasons I didn't expect it to be.
the real hidden gem is your channel, good stuff man
Kino Content as always Mr. Fish
Great video!! I almost picked this game up a few weeks ago but decided not to. Now you've made me glad I didn't, I'd rather just rewatch the original film.
Your thoughts on this game basically sum up my complaints with Conan Exiles really.
Quality content man. Keep it up. My only gripe with some of your videos is audio balancing. Some audio is super loud where others are quite. It causes headphone users to receive an unintentional jump scares lol. Other than that, perfect. Im glad i found your channel. I wish i was half as good as you lol.
Imagine a sequel like terminator 2, parasite eve and parasyte. One colony mutates into individual sentience. The protagonist is infected but maintains their identity. Themes of identity and the ship of theseus. Good thing vs cancer thing. Thousands of years later, humans evolve to coexist. Then s twist where humans are the villains seeking purity. Sounds like silly fanfiction though, but that's the theme in I'm seeing in sci fi, and in SCP.
Never played it myself, but my stepdad had it on PS2 back in the day...and at the time he said it would've been too scary for me... lol Uhhh..alrighty then. I don't think he even played it that much.. He bought it because he loved the movie..but I never saw him playing it. Very entertaining review though. Like I said.. I knew about this game existing..but didn't know anything about the actual gameplay or how much/little it related to the original movie.
Alien Isolation but in a Thing setting. Main character can get infected and the gameplay changes subtly by making the character do things that seem logical from a game perspective but narratively it doesn't make sense for the character to do to contain or destroy The Thing and only players who stay focussed on what enemy they're fighting against can figure it out.
I'd also make it so you can jump between the MC (that you can create yourself) and characters you meet along the way. Once everyone has been infected, it's Game Over, but as long as there's a human around, you can still succeed. That way, if your MC gets infected, you can take control of one of the other characters and still try to finish the game.
imagine if we got a reboot/remake of this made like the Dead Space and RE 4 remakes did.
would be pog af.
If the game actually had the features in place, maybe it could be good......maybe?
The devs were planning a sequel and they hoped to deliver on the potential of the squad trust mechanics. Unfortunately, the game was scrapped and the dev got shut down. If you want good action horror from this generation, best to stick with RE4 or The Suffering.
My favorite Carpenter film is Escape From New York, but we never got an official game based on it.
Also, if you want to play a good licensed based game? Play The Chronicles of Riddick Escape From Butcher's Bay or The Punisher.
Another good licensed game that also fits nicely with Halloween is Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge for PS2. It's a Devil May Cry styled game where you play as Jack with some weird ectoplasm whip, it has most of the original VA's from the movie, and plays really well. The boss fights even have their own musical numbers to tie in more with the original movie!
There's better licensed games than Butcher Bay all though Punisher is pretty good.
Really wish your buddies turning into a thing was dynamic
This pretty much echoes my experience with the game. I'm curious to see what Nightdive do with it but so many of the issues are fundamental I cannot see them righting the ship.
Really good video.
One of my biggest regrets is selling this game thinking it would go digital eventually.
Since the studio that made it was dissolved, the game itself is technically abandonware, you can get it off myabandonware for free if you don't mind playing on PC
@@uglyfish7292 I don't have a PC, but this might be the reason for me to get one. It was so fun and terrifying!
Dino Crisis mentioned. 10/10, best video
I just noticed that you stopped uploading. I hope you havnt give up. Id kill to be where you are on youtube lol
TH-cam is a fickle beast. Chasing algo's is how you make it, and it's exhausting af lol. Then there's the problem of turning your love and hobby into a job and the sinking feeling of "sht i can't just play this, i need to make CONTENT" 24-7 invading your thoughts lol. As a passion hobby it's great. Beyond that it's madness.
There's some good news amongst all this: This was the last game the developer ever made, and Peter Wanat went on to redeem himself 2 years later by being a producer on that Chronicles of Riddick game.
Yeah, who calls this "forgotten"?
It's one of the best movie tie ins ever in gaming history and well known in the horror community.
You have any plans to cover ps1's Martain Gothic Unification?
I feel like this type of game could work as a 2D survival kind of thing, like the game cult of the lamb
When's the next conan upload?
Why is your channel so under exposed? Not trying to sound bad but the content is higher quality than expected from a small channel
I'm a psychology student and my brain does the same exact thing when I hear cbt 🤣🤣 then I have to remember where I am and the context clues.
A great video that covers pretty much all the problems I had with the game back when it was released all those years ago. The Thing is my favourite movie of all time and so for the game of it to turn out being such a generic shooter was disappointing to say the least. I actually found that the game Extermination, also on the PS2, was a much better Thing game although it too focused mainly on action although it was a lot better done with more detailed creature designs and set pieces than anything that The Thing had to offer in my opinion.
The whole squad trust mechanic in The Thing game, which was front and centre of advertisements and previews of the game at the time, was utterly pointless when you could just give squad mates a weapon to have them trust you. Testing a squad mate and seeing that they are human only to have them transform into the Thing moments later because the script demanded it rendered the whole blood testing pointless. Also, as it was scripted why did the developers not have random transformations for each one instead of having the NPC drop their weapon, the last thing The Thing would have done, and have the exact same slow transformation each time? It was just lazy. The game had some good ideas but absolutely none of them were properly implemented or developed. I remember working to save some squad mates in the underground tunnel and getting them all onto the elevator safe and sound at the end of that level only for it to load the next part of the game and show that they had all disappeared when the elevator doors opened again! I read that an early version of the game was a lot more random and unfocused with unscripted stuff in it but I think that would have been better than the brainless shooter that became the finished game.
Speaking of brainless, perhaps the biggest crime in all of this is that it totally fails to capture the intelligence of The Thing itself. In the movie the creature was often two steps ahead of everyone else and yet in this game it shows no intelligence at all. There is never any real sense of the creature from the movie which is perhaps the greatest movie monster of all time.
The game for me should not be seen as a forgotten gem but a wasted opportunity that could and should have been something really special.
The profit margins!! XD
I am definitely subbing
Imagine if this was the kind of ark below zero went for. Been binging subnatica waiting for 2 and just finnished his below zero video 😅
They should make an online game kind of like among us where you have to survive the thing and one of the players is the thing and they don't know who
Changeling rounds on Space Station 13
Dec 5th, 2024
The Thing: Remastered is released
Over 300 users exposed and reviewed the game as... Very Positive.
A new outbreak has begun, with untold millions at risk of being converted.
Now the game is getting a Nightdive remaster.
I heard about that - seems like such a weird choice, tbh. If they do a faithful true to form graphics update and that's it, there's basically no point since the core game is such a mess. Guess we'll see how it turns out, I've enjoyed many of their other remasters.
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Yeah, it's the weirdest game to remaster, they tend to remaster niche cult following games and the Thing game is certainly a cult following game. I've seen more people go in detail as to why the game is bad then people going into detail as to why it's good.
The people calling it "good" just call it that and end it there.
Had this on Xbox. F'ing awesome game!
It's remastered version is on steam since the start of this month
The thing was the best I saw in years
I mean remaking this game from a passionate studio and having it be just like the movie would be so cool. I guess the closest thing we have is fucking among us which is better than nothing
Do a review on the lego ninjago series
you should do transformers Armada ps2. it was also underrated
Not exactly a forgotten game, but good video!
Where’s the Conan exiles review!!!!!!!!!
This should have been a tell tale game god domot!
calling it a hidden gem is being VERY generous hahahaha
This reminds me of Spoony's review I watched years ago minus the manchild rage and tantrums. You seem to echo the same stuff he did.
I sort of want to play this game for myself but this game seems like those "cult classics" that get mislabeled as such like Extermination which is a game I can't stand.
When it comes to surivial horror, the majority tends to be right a lot of the time. Resident Evil 0, Silent Hill 4, Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water and Dino Crisis 1 are all games that just bore me so it seems like this is no different.
I honestly feel among us, unironically, makes a better 'the thing' game then this
The fanboyism over the 1rst The Thing movie is completely warranted.
Imagine getting this mad over a game from 2004 that was pretty damn innovative for the time
bogus review if you think this game is bad