Singularity Review

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  • @MandaloreGaming
    @MandaloreGaming  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1230

    Singularity on GOG - gog.la/sovietbioshock
    So if you saw the previous upload up for a few moments this video is nearly exactly the same except for some tiny edits I made later (I run upload tests as the video is being made to make sure TH-cam doesn't flag anything). Instead the wrong version went public at a weird time, so I deleted it and went to make the other one public...which I noticed was still refusing to process past 480p after being up overnight and the subtitles had vanished out of it. I'll need to restart that fun process so the timings don't break. But since it's already been out I figure it should just be public now. I ended up having to reupload the file which is a lot slower now that I'm no longer on fiber where I'm at.

    • @Njuman
      @Njuman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      WITNESSED

    • @iamtheforce14
      @iamtheforce14 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      I now know what happens when somebody deletes the video while you’re watching it haha

    • @ToastyCubes
      @ToastyCubes 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      You should eat more fiber it is good for you

    • @fabioriveros991
      @fabioriveros991 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      k, you are forgiven

    • @paul.1337
      @paul.1337 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was spamming F5 on my phone for fifteen minutes and my phone doesn't even have buttons.

  • @zanethezaniest274
    @zanethezaniest274 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3700

    Me : Hey wait a second why was this video uploaded a second time?
    Mandalore : All that effort to destroy the Singularity review and all I had to do was reupload it again.

    • @MandaloreGaming
      @MandaloreGaming  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1710

      Oh my god

    • @zanethezaniest274
      @zanethezaniest274 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +188

      @@MandaloreGamingwhere is the Colony Ship video Mandy? You can’t deny it from us forever!!

    • @kennuimuffins2426
      @kennuimuffins2426 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      When was the original posted? I feel like ive seen it before... happy to rewatch though.

    • @maskettaman1488
      @maskettaman1488 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      @@kennuimuffins2426 Very shortly before this one

    • @Nictator42
      @Nictator42 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      meta as hell

  • @macbrown99
    @macbrown99 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +905

    According to the developers, the reason that the magazine for the minigun is so small yet seems to carry so many rounds is that it isn't actually a magazine, it's a power cell. You aren't loading more bullets into your gun, you're just powering it so that it can manipulate time in order to fire the same bullet over and over again.

    • @tommykarrick9130
      @tommykarrick9130 หลายเดือนก่อน +169

      That is not how I expected that sentence to end, that rocks

    • @RedTail1-1
      @RedTail1-1 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Pretty sure that's not how time works... The whole "objects existing at the same time" thing... If you fire a bullet and then immediately change time to fire it again that first shot should be negated and the bullet shouldn't exist in time anymore. Like to the observer the bullet would only travel as far as it goes before the gun fires again. It might work if you were close enough to the target that the bullet strikes before disappearing from time when fired again.
      The laws of physics are pretty absolute. Energy cannot be destroyed or created, only changed. So that one bullet is all that exists. You can't sit there and fire indefinitely creating a pile of bullets, only one bullet would exist at any point in time.
      I guarantee that's not how the game works though. They just needed a way to explain how the gun works and likely designed it like a normal videogame firearm. Firing ammunition and reloading when it runs out. They also probably wanted it to have more ammunition but didn't want to increase the size of the magazine model and so this magazine is a power source mechanic just fell into their lap.
      Increasing ammo count is as simple as changing a number. Changing the size of the magazine requires a new 3D model and all the animations that go with it. Just saying "it's not a magazine and there are no bullets in it" makes it so they can have the gun fire whatever number of bullets they want without having to change anything visual at all.

    • @MapleShrimp
      @MapleShrimp หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is the stupidest shit I've ever heard in my life. I fucking love it!

    • @KioskaraTTV
      @KioskaraTTV หลายเดือนก่อน +94

      @@RedTail1-1 It's a game that already requires suspension of disbelief.

    • @squidfestMods
      @squidfestMods หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      @@RedTail1-1 This game has zombies and the magic time-wavy hand machine and you're stuck on quantum loop bullets?

  • @Sinphanius
    @Sinphanius หลายเดือนก่อน +1060

    Unironically "I just rebuilt it" is actually a great twist and I love it. It's like there's this massive mess of timeline conspiracy bullshit but no the simplest answer was the correct one. "Bro I still have all the schematics."

    • @travislyonsgary
      @travislyonsgary หลายเดือนก่อน +174

      It really feels like a proper engineering response.

    • @omgwtfcake
      @omgwtfcake หลายเดือนก่อน +125

      >Through the magic of buying two of them

    • @lucaballarati9694
      @lucaballarati9694 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      As the Villain Manual says "one of something is none of something: always have two copies of anything important"

    • @WoobooRidesAgain
      @WoobooRidesAgain หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      @@travislyonsgary Not just the proper engineering response, but the proper response for the literal ruler of the world.
      "I have the resources of the _entire planet_ at my disposal. What did you _think_ I was going to do?"

    • @chee.rah.monurB
      @chee.rah.monurB หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@travislyonsgary What was the movie clip shown at 29:99?

  • @lich109
    @lich109 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3340

    I love that Demichev builds a new singularity after you destroy the old one. It's the most obvious solution, and I'm glad they didn't conjure up a reason for why he couldn't do that.

    • @danieladamczyk4024
      @danieladamczyk4024 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +353

      Demichev have rights to rule the world with that move.

    • @LordDragox412
      @LordDragox412 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +212

      Soviet Russian engineering at it's finest.

    • @jonatanrobledo9812
      @jonatanrobledo9812 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      Brother was a Fortnite player all along.

    • @Certio0
      @Certio0 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

      Sheev ass move.

    • @Bluecho4
      @Bluecho4 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +290

      It's rather clever to present the player with an obvious Video Game-ass objective (blow up the thing), only for Reality Ensues to kick in and be presented with "oh wait, the technology is known to Demichev, so nothing is stopping him from just building a new one".
      As if the game is clicking its fingers in the face of the player who was working on autopilot, and made to actually examine the situation realistically. Very cool.

  • @vaclav4435
    @vaclav4435 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +635

    So there's an old article on Kotaku where one of the devs at Raven talks about this game. As you can imagine, there were a lot of ambitious ideas for the game, including more creative time manipulation puzzles. However, development ran into both technical problems and directives from Activision, so after two or so years the project was cancelled...only to be brought back to life and given a year-and-change deadline to get a game out. The one point the dev emphasized is that they wholly agreed with all the criticisms that the game was ripping off HL2/Bioshock and leaned too hard on audio logs; they simply didn't have the time to do anything else.
    IIRC the Singularity Let's Play on the LP Archive has a bunch of concept art of things that never made it into the final product, and the earliest teaser trailers you can find on TH-cam show that something different was going to be happening with the story.
    (EDIT: November 1, 2024) I misremembered a few things. The article in question was on Polygon, not Kotaku, and the game was cancelled for only a day before Raven was given a ten month deadline to get something out the door, a deadline that was met by a truly miraculous effort on the part of the Raven devs. (Incidentally, the dev who described their experience on _Singularity_ for the article has found a new line of work as a consultant specializing in teaching studios how to better manage themselves to avoid crunch and burnout.)

    • @GamerGuysReviews
      @GamerGuysReviews 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      I remember reading a Game Informer way back when and one of the devs said they originally considered 12 different endings, each more bats*it than the one before it.

    • @Kez_DXX
      @Kez_DXX 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      A youtube channel called "your evil twin" did a lets play of the game but also went into the quantum physics concepts and the development of the game as well. Even added in the subtitles that the devs never had time to implement.

    • @jakespacepiratee3740
      @jakespacepiratee3740 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah but Kotaku said that so it’s not true

    • @giovannicervantes2053
      @giovannicervantes2053 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      ​@@jakespacepiratee3740ain't gotta read Kotaku to know the raven devs were given the short end of the stick when it came to time how ironic the game about time manipulation didn't have enough to work with

    • @phantomtr1
      @phantomtr1 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      why cant activision do something good for once?

  • @Red_Oliver
    @Red_Oliver หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    I'm not deaf, nor hard of hearing, but I always appreciate closed captioning, especially if it's an actual transcript and not an AI. So thank you very much to you for making sure this is not only closed captioned, but an accurate transcription, and many thanks to your closed captioner for putting in the effort to accurately caption sounds and mumblings, it honestly does mean a lot to me, so I imagine those that are hearing impaired, it can't be beat. Thanks again.

    • @diamondmetal3062
      @diamondmetal3062 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Shoutout to Val Grim

    • @zabi_aka
      @zabi_aka 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I feel the same as someone whose first language is not English, it really helps if there are words i don't understand or don't know!

  • @hqwefg
    @hqwefg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1163

    One neat thing in the "good" ending is that your partner is carrying the Soviet timeline E99 assault rifle from the rest of the game but in the original opening he had an American gun, which has weird implications.

    • @thefallencog
      @thefallencog 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +195

      If i recall right, the E99 weapons in the ingame continuity were so far ahead, that there was simply no reason to try and advance weapons research after that.
      Everything you pointed the gun at and shot were turned into super mutant gib explosions. American/Soviet weapons even up to the modern day can't do that. If the "small arms" weapons have the strength to do that to the human body, i can't imagine vehicles and armor fare much better.

    • @Biodeamon
      @Biodeamon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      not weird implications but darker implications. the implication is that the scientist was playing for a fool all along (or worse was corrupted by power) and threw a coup demichev, and from there successfully conquered America.

    • @callmeginga
      @callmeginga 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Whoever invented it sold it to America in the new timeline
      So, what would have happened anyway

    • @Temporal94
      @Temporal94 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

      @@callmeginga Not quite, you can notice that the Hueys have Soviet markings on them now in that ending

    • @Nolant.
      @Nolant. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Why would the soviets be using Vietnam war era Huey’s with all the technology they have

  • @SketchAndEtch
    @SketchAndEtch 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +560

    Little did we know, but in an alternate timeline the Singularity was perfected with enough time and no budget cuts into an absolute classic, however some time-travel meddling robbed us of that.

    • @justletmelistthese
      @justletmelistthese 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      and all they did was replacing tape recorders with floating ghost sprites :D

    • @SleepyMagii
      @SleepyMagii ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      We have the call of duty - micro transaction timeline* 😮‍💨
      I WAS THERE BEFORE SHIFT!! 🥸

  • @happymartin6778
    @happymartin6778 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +416

    34:42 I just realized a dead giveaway. When they redo the intro for the big final cutscene, look at your squadmate's weapon.
    It's certainly not an American M4.

    • @thetuguar
      @thetuguar หลายเดือนก่อน +158

      Ooooh
      Also he says "comrade" which in american english means he's definitely a communist

    • @tzeentch7118
      @tzeentch7118 หลายเดือนก่อน +140

      @@thetuguar And also hear callsigns like "Red Fleet" and "Hammer".

    • @giovannicervantes2053
      @giovannicervantes2053 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

      ​@@tzeentch7118plus the Huey that's flying with you has a red star on it

    • @The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger
      @The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      True. Could be the new timeline world communism has been established but nations still are at each other’s throats. So you have America but for the last 50 years were communist with varying relations with the Soviet Union.

    • @Nukle0n
      @Nukle0n หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@thetuguar Strange how that word has been associated with communism so much that people assume it's a russian word, and not a word meaning a brotherhood forged in arms instead of blood.

  • @user-ow1bc4sx2r
    @user-ow1bc4sx2r 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +314

    I’ve always loved the comedic timing of the “thanks for saving me “ (time bubble wipe to statues of the guy). It’s such an efficient way to establish the stakes and story.

  • @MaxDrawsStuff
    @MaxDrawsStuff 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +599

    35:45 - As a native Russian speaker, Mandalore sounds more like a Polish person here, so that timeline was really funky.

    • @SomeKindaSpy
      @SomeKindaSpy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +219

      The subtitles straight up say "in Russian but with a Polish accent"

    • @FluidExtractor
      @FluidExtractor 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      As a native Polish speaker I agree.

    • @furfixer
      @furfixer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      I couldn't understand him at all so I thought that it was just polish

    • @InternetHydra
      @InternetHydra 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Underrated comment.

    • @StrikeWarlock
      @StrikeWarlock หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      ​@@SomeKindaSpyconsidering Valgrim (who's Russian)consults with him before the transcripts go live, and the amount of Eastern Europeans he interacted with for some of his projects, it's safe to say the Polish accent is also intentional.

  • @CatsOverdrive
    @CatsOverdrive 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +195

    36:09 - welp, just like SIngularity's story, there's a bit of an offshoot, bittersweet epilogue to this; some guys from Raven Software left the team and went indie. Created Prodeus, and currently making an overhaul patch and DLC to it.

    • @torchcato4625
      @torchcato4625 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      THEY MADE PRODEUS ⁉️⁉️⁉️

    • @CatsOverdrive
      @CatsOverdrive หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@torchcato4625 Yeah. And they're currently making a DLC and update for it. They also host some mapping contests for their game from time to time, since, yeah. Prodeus comes with a very good map editor(this is coming from someone who's very familiar with the likes of Doom Builder, Hammer Editor or GTKRadiant).
      It's a warm fuzzy feeling for me, whenever a bunch of folks from an old team, branch out and manage to strike a new small thing for themselves, even if for a brief moment; Runic Games with Torchlight 1 & 2 (Diablo 1 & 2 co-creators and lead-designers), Gas Powered Games with Supreme Commander and Dungeon Siege(Cavedog regroup), Petroglyph Studios still pushing out some strategy games(ex-Westwood devs), Black Foot Studios with Ground Branch(classic Rainbow 6 designer).

    • @TrinSpin
      @TrinSpin 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@CatsOverdrive I'm sorry in advance because I know it's unnecessarily bitchy, but what about the opposite? Serellan's Takedown: Red Sabre, and Otherside's Underworld: Ascendant being the first... things that come to mind.

  • @burgertanker7970
    @burgertanker7970 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +419

    No-one gonna point out that while its copied some parts from the original BioShock, later Infinite would have the whole plot point of "fix the timeline by killing yourself"? Ironically it comes full circle

    • @TheSoulHarvester
      @TheSoulHarvester 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      This was the same upshot as Donnie Darko AND The Butterfly Effect, experimental time travel films from before those games came out. Pretty neat way to wrap up all the mess time travellers inevitably create.

    • @Antibot01
      @Antibot01 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@burgertanker7970 will the circle be unbroken?

    • @montypython5521
      @montypython5521 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Which doesn't make any sense if you think about it.

    • @Tinfoiltomcat
      @Tinfoiltomcat หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I remember getting halfway through Bioshock Infinite and it hit me "This is somehow just a worse version of Singularity"

    • @GodOfOrphans
      @GodOfOrphans หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      SIngularity is unironically a better and less fusterclucked time travel story than Infinite too as at least it owns how silly it is instead of trying to badly pretend otherwise.

  • @kgbkeyboard7697
    @kgbkeyboard7697 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +629

    all the faux russian makes me feel like im having a stroke because its literal gibberish. love it

    • @delivererofdarknessshoguno1133
      @delivererofdarknessshoguno1133 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +179

      Яight, sамe heяe.

    • @Kez_DXX
      @Kez_DXX 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

      You also have the newspaper when Barisov explains what happened after you save him. The headline makes sense but the article itself is just nonsense from slapping a keyboard with enough spaces in between to make it simulate the idea of words.

    • @kgbkeyboard7697
      @kgbkeyboard7697 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +113

      @@Kez_DXXimagine being the guy who’s sole job is to do a cyrillic keysmash. now thats what i call a career

    • @Kez_DXX
      @Kez_DXX 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

      @@kgbkeyboard7697 It's arguably even better. The random letters weren't even Cyrillic but rather English so you have gibberish Cyrillic on the surface and then you find gibberish English upon digging deeper into the game

    • @Kazako83
      @Kazako83 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +134

      I love the barrels with just CCCP written on them.
      "Comrade what is inside these red barrels"
      "100% UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS COMRADE"
      "..."
      "Why is it explosive?"

  • @Brody2362
    @Brody2362 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    12:30 I have this core memory of a gameinformer mag when this game got announced about how the original idea of the game wasn't you playing as Johnathan "call of" Duty and instead you were a spy plane pilot that was sent to take photos of the island when you plane gets downed like the intro in game now. I almost guarantee you're onto something with originally being more horrory.

    • @DavidJCobb
      @DavidJCobb หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      i remember it talking about planned features like reverting a corpse with the TMD to ask him questions about his death

  • @Zacharygoldberg123
    @Zacharygoldberg123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1485

    The last Raven game before they got sent to the call of duty mines. So good... That guided bullet rifle is 10/10

    • @some-replies
      @some-replies 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +124

      This is the last glimpse of creativity before mundanity.

    • @mr-laroque9604
      @mr-laroque9604 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      Their creativity trying to claw their way out of Call of Duty with Missle Launcher Sniper rifles and Lightening shotguns.
      I need them to return and give me a gun that does more than shoot bullets.

    • @0uttaS1TE
      @0uttaS1TE 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      ​@mr-laroque9604 I think those were more from Sledgehammer than Raven. Raven handles Warzone exclusively iirc. So maps, balancing, that sort of thing. Still it does show how much CoD devs want to be doing literally anything else

    • @mastermaniac1911
      @mastermaniac1911 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      They produced so many beautiful, flawed gems.

    • @toddherink4234
      @toddherink4234 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      except even the guided bullet isn't new or creative; it's stolen from Clive Barker's Jericho. The multiplayer they made is easily my favorite part of this game though.

  • @GolemCC
    @GolemCC 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1520

    My strongest memory from playing this is that their big reveal was "wait a minute... you saved Demichev from the fire! That's why everything changed!". Something you have known since the beginning of the damn game. Something the entire premise is based on. And then at the end they pretend it's a big twist, complete with a sepia-toned flashback.
    I can't get over it. It'd be like if at the end of Half-Life 1 they pointed out the big disaster was from you putting the sample into the beam in the test chamber. Yes! I know! I was there!!

    • @slayermate07
      @slayermate07 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

      they tried to do a bioshock but almost ended up with duke nukem forever.

    • @cameronmcgurrin3724
      @cameronmcgurrin3724 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      Ya, Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation (Now Second Wind) had a similar reaction to this "Twist", and its one of the funniest moments in the video.

    • @user-ow1bc4sx2r
      @user-ow1bc4sx2r 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      It also undercuts that opening scene that was a perfect way of establishing that exact thing. Main character should have seen the changed statue, said “whoops” then murdered on his happy way

    • @slayermate07
      @slayermate07 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@cameronmcgurrin3724 uhmmm akkktually... The series is called "fully ramblomatic" and thats how yahtzee got his start actually 15 years ago before being harpooned by the Escapist magazine (of whom he explained he has been ousted).
      The channel is called Second Wind but while he is the main star there just like the aforementioned video journalist website, yahtzee shares content with multiple other guys, like a group horizontal swimming session on the bed of his local ymca of which he seems very reminiscent about. (Yes i am a yahtzee fan too and also seen this review, but was also here for his darkness and fable review, so a much bigger fan than you certainly...and as the man himself reminds us: "Fans Are Whining Complaining Dipshits Who Will Never, Ever Be Grateful For Anything You Do"

    • @maskettaman1488
      @maskettaman1488 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      Soma-tier twist. Only the main character is surprised by the reveal because they're the only one dumb enough to not understand it

  • @ValentineGrimCC
    @ValentineGrimCC หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    One thing I find funny about voice acting in this game is that they clearly had one guy who spoke good Russian, without accent, and they put him on voicing the majority of soldier callouts. Then, to mask the fact that it's the same person over and over, they have monkeyed with the pitch and maybe added other effects, so some of the soldiers sound like normal humans, and others - like they're recording a death metal album. Then, I guess, for the sake of variety, they made a non-native speaker read a few lines as well, and so, from time to time, you hear some linguistic abominations along the lines of "Zanmyat peredovitse pozitsya!", which... you ki-inda get the idea, but it's not really any proper language. And then, of course, every "Russian" character they expected you to actually understand speaks English with thick Russian accent, even just amongst themselves. Plus some of the writing in Cyrillic, where TECHNICALLY it's permissible grammar, but you can't help but think "Who would ever phrase it like that?" The usual joys of having zoo-tier Russians in media.

  • @owldiamond2108
    @owldiamond2108 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2995

    Can't believe Demichev deleted this review off TH-cam, forcing Mandalore to go through a timeloop just to reupload it back. A true comrade.
    Glory to General Secretary Barisov!

    • @necktiefox2917
      @necktiefox2917 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

      Privyet? Milisia? I have a Barisovist to report!
      Glory to General Secretary Mandalore!

    • @kendozero1861
      @kendozero1861 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      I thought i seen this review before as well.

    • @iunary
      @iunary 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      Yeah in my timeline this review was made by CV11 I think, or was it SSeth? O_o or I am just missremembering? Oh god my head hurts....

    • @SpecShadow
      @SpecShadow 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@iunary Civvie11 of course, Sseth don't cover FPS genre

    • @USELESSDCK
      @USELESSDCK 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@@SpecShadow What are you talking about? Everyone knows Sseth only plays Halo-clones!

  • @Peptuck
    @Peptuck 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +203

    Gotta appreciate that when you do the whole "go back in time to blow up the villains super doom tower that gives him all his power" plot, and then you go back to the future and... he just fucking built another one to keep giving him infinite energy. The thing gave him infinite power, of course he's going to build a replacement.

    • @giovannicervantes2053
      @giovannicervantes2053 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And when he's the guy in charge of course he's gonna send laborers into a bombed out tower to rebuild it he's got world domination plans to get on

    • @adrianoippolito1999
      @adrianoippolito1999 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Samuel hayden should have learned from this guy, then he wouldn't have had to worry about doomguy destroying the argent filters in DOOM 2016

    • @giovannicervantes2053
      @giovannicervantes2053 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@adrianoippolito1999 "If YoU DeStRoY tah LenSEs iT'll TaKe dEcAdes To reBuiLd" as he says to the brick shithouse that only breaks stuff

  • @Higth115
    @Higth115 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Seeing 2 tiny snippets from Resistance: Fall of Man in as many videos is giving me way too much hope in that game being covered on this channel one day.

    • @diamondmetal3062
      @diamondmetal3062 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That game was weird. It was the killer app of the PS3, effectively Sony’s Gears of War, then it just died and no one talked about it anymore.

  • @cameronmcgurrin3724
    @cameronmcgurrin3724 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +841

    "All that effort to destroy the singularly, when all I had to do is rebuild it"
    "He just built a new one..."
    The OG Star Wars trilogy in a nutshell

    • @Guymanbot97
      @Guymanbot97 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      And Sequels too

    • @justletmelistthese
      @justletmelistthese 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      Somhoew teh Singularity retuernd

    • @arkgaharandan5881
      @arkgaharandan5881 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      "somehow palpatine has returned" is worse.

    • @Snacks256
      @Snacks256 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I mean the first Death Star probably would have crippled the Rebellion, and instead they were able to buy themselves a couple years with just a few X-Wing squads. Why the Empire needs a massive space laser in the first place when they have much more military force than the rebels, well it's an adventure movie from the 1970s, don't worry about it.

  • @mariomcp
    @mariomcp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1103

    I am not sure if it is covered in the video (yet) but there is an audio log that is just a straight up screamer. It zooms in on a skeleton and just screams and it made me jump about 100 feet into the air when I was playing through the game at 1 or 2 AM. Thanks, Singularity!

    • @MandaloreGaming
      @MandaloreGaming  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +735

      I cracked up when I saw it again, but decided that'd be one of those fun things left for people playing the game. A lot of people miss the camera jumpscare already but that one's a little easier to find.

    • @fietehermans9903
      @fietehermans9903 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

      There’s also a jumpscare during the underwater sections. Plus when you find your first enemy. Designated horror sections a la Bioshock was just another idea they threw onto the pile. I kind of love it

    • @JetBalrog
      @JetBalrog 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@MandaloreGaming I think the most memorable one for me was the ONE time the vent actually had a scare. Every time I'm worried it'll happen, I keep crawling into them and waiting and expecting it, and it never comes... right up until near the end of the game. Freakin' hell they managed to get me good with that one somehow.

    • @blendernoob64
      @blendernoob64 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      As someone who hates jumpscares, I actually like jumpscare spoilers lol. Saved me from waking the neighbors

    • @fietehermans9903
      @fietehermans9903 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@blendernoob64 Me too. That’s why I immediately liked Paratopic. I saw the video, and thought “A horror walking sim that relies solely on creepy atmosphere? Sounds like my jam!”

  • @simplyspenser887
    @simplyspenser887 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Holy hell, parody on ВИD telecompany logo at the start catch me off guard:) Thank you for video, i am so missed you reviews.

    • @Noname-e9k7k
      @Noname-e9k7k หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Mandy knows Sseth, and Sseth went out of his way to learn like 20 different Slavic memes that were all onscreen in the Highfleet review for a combined total of maybe 10 seconds, so that might be where he got this from.

    • @simplyspenser887
      @simplyspenser887 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Noname-e9k7k Oh, that's true, Sseth did his research at Stalker and HoM&M review as well. Altho, Mandy walking encyclopedia himself, wouldn't be surprised if hi the one who teaching his friends about random stuff hi read:)

  • @Readysetheal
    @Readysetheal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +966

    35:44 For those struggling to get the joke in it's fullness, Mandalore says:
    "Фух, вернулся. Вроде как ничего не поменяло. Ох, блять!"
    "Phew, I'm back. Seems nothing has changed. Oh, fuck!"
    In russian, obviously. I must say, I really appreaciate all the jokes in this video, "private Suka" is now a part of my vocabulary

    • @vladislavivanov2334
      @vladislavivanov2334 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

      As a russian, I thought that was spanish lmao

    • @bezceljudzelzceljsh5799
      @bezceljudzelzceljsh5799 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@vladislavivanov2334 nothing beats Nico Belic.

    • @МаксимГригорьев-ъ7ф
      @МаксимГригорьев-ъ7ф 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      I physically recoiled in my chair when ВИD reference happened.
      So glad that Mandy is embracing the vibes.

    • @ahtu7000
      @ahtu7000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      As a russian, I thought he was speaking chinese.

    • @Kez_DXX
      @Kez_DXX 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Is Private Suka in the same unit as Private Conscriptovich?

  • @Kasaaz
    @Kasaaz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +122

    There's nothing more innocuous sounding, and yet ominous, than when Mandalore says, "More on that later."

    • @eclipserepeater2466
      @eclipserepeater2466 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Finally, things are starting to make sense! More on that later.

    • @admiraltonydawning3847
      @admiraltonydawning3847 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I feel like i've seen this comment somewhere already.
      I feel like that a lot recently, must be gamer dementia.

    • @Kasaaz
      @Kasaaz หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@admiraltonydawning3847 As someone in their 40s now, Gamer Dementia is real!

    • @diehard6953
      @diehard6953 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@admiraltonydawning3847 Ross's game dungeon on one of the best ganes ever

    • @admiraltonydawning3847
      @admiraltonydawning3847 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@diehard6953 I used to do timestamps (before "Transcript" feature arrived), i know.

  • @theotv5522
    @theotv5522 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Mandy being sick on the merry-go-round is just him catching a glimpse of Jumbo Josh in the corner of his eyes

    • @uroboros2066
      @uroboros2066 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      For April's Fools he should review BanBan in a completely serious tone.

    • @theotv5522
      @theotv5522 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@uroboros2066 He semi did that when he played it, when he was outside the racist alien bar in the latest chapter. Something about nostalgia and Banban having discrimination but was ignored by everyone.

  • @Viruxous1
    @Viruxous1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

    I can't wait for Mandalore to reveal that all of these time travel games are somehow connected to Marathon. All of these heroes were one and the same.
    Happy Halloween! 🎃

    • @niall_sanderson
      @niall_sanderson หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      That Marathon rabbit hole had me looking around every corner for Marathon connections for months

    • @Lowkeh
      @Lowkeh หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      It's funny cuz, starting the video, I immediately thought the parabolic flash bulb dish-thing on the camera would turn out to be a hidden Marathon logo...
      (at 0:01 lol)

  • @CameronWilliams-g1l
    @CameronWilliams-g1l 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +269

    one day Prey from 2017 will be old enough for Mandalore to make a video about; and when I watch that Video, I will be happy.

    • @sewerentropy5217
      @sewerentropy5217 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      god i can't wait. if there's one thing i love, it's people absolutely adoring Prey (2017) as much as i do

    • @InternetHydra
      @InternetHydra 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I'm glad you enjoyed that game that should have had a different name... but as implied I'm too filled with resentment over said name to ever try it.

    • @dylansepper
      @dylansepper 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Love that game, but hate the bait and switch over the name. If they would have named it anything else it would have been perfect.

    • @sewerentropy5217
      @sewerentropy5217 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@dylansepper apparently Bethesda pushed Arkane to name it Prey because they had the rights to it. Prey (2017) is almost perfect to me and i'm not going to blame the devs for something they had no control over

    • @gimok2k5
      @gimok2k5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@sewerentropy5217 It's also not an unfitting name for the game, but they could have given it a subtitle at least. Even if it would have just been "Prey: Typhons"

  • @CoAndCoLaptopAccount
    @CoAndCoLaptopAccount 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I loved this game as a kid and am so excited to see you review this! I had to double check you were actually reviewing the one I remembered from my childhood on google.

  • @sergeitokarev2467
    @sergeitokarev2467 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +541

    00:17 ВИД moment is outstanding!!!

    • @UshankaMaster
      @UshankaMaster 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      absolute ВИД material

    • @XDemonR
      @XDemonR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      МандалорВИД!

    • @deadzoneresident
      @deadzoneresident 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      I was wondering if anyone saw that. Glad to see this is one of the top comments :)

    • @hargos4060
      @hargos4060 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      For anyone wondering: th-cam.com/video/nsyKdgmUzQE/w-d-xo.html

    • @XDemonR
      @XDemonR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@hargos4060 I watched it as a kid. He's not scary 🙂

  • @addoweird
    @addoweird 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

    I know it’s not the same, but Raven was lead dev for the Black Ops: Cold War campaign, which, while hurt by the pandemic, was really interesting, with a semi-branching narrative and some really creative missions. They’re also lead devs for the upcoming Black Ops 6 campaign, so the singleplayer Raven that once was is still somewhat alive, though still trapped in the CoD mines.

    • @Esitaro3670
      @Esitaro3670 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      They are alive still doing great Single Players Campaigns but at what cost...

    • @jimijenkins2548
      @jimijenkins2548 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@Esitaro3670 The cost of thirty dollar skins.

    • @agimb2381
      @agimb2381 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      A cost at having one of the most stable development jobs ever, they are also not in California they are in Wisconsin, and frankly they near main development status on cod.
      But nooooo they need to make yet another single player flop that’s a hidden gem. Their Quake 4 killed Quake, Their Wolfenstein reboot killed Wolfenstein for a bit too

    • @TheSoulHarvester
      @TheSoulHarvester 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@agimb2381 enjoy your slop

  • @ih8people
    @ih8people 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The faux ВИД logo in the beginning is just icing on the cake. Well done mate

  • @chastermief839
    @chastermief839 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    I was grinning ear to ear throughout this review. Singularity is one of my favorite "underrated gem" games from this era, and you peppered the script with all kinds of little jokes and references to stuff like the denver airport, "big and round", and my personal favorite line: "instead of glowing libertarian sea world, it's rusting, communist action park". You've really honed your script writing skills to the point where the jokes don't even stand out as jokes anymore, it all just flows so naturally. It entertaining and delivered in your trademark style without being distracting at all. I also really like how seamlessly you moved from point to point about the visuals. Springing off that Action Park joke to talk about "wet & wild" shaders and rain effects, to then talk about the effective decrepit "ugly" aesthetics, to then move on to the actually ugly low-res textures. That's really good stuff, man.

  • @mercy9487
    @mercy9487 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +259

    22:07 "THERE IS NO WITHDRAWAL FROM THE GARDEN OF THE TICK"

    • @genhald6964
      @genhald6964 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I went looking for this comment

    • @PatientRefuge
      @PatientRefuge 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      People of taste

    • @svenneumann2816
      @svenneumann2816 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nice.

  • @soren86x
    @soren86x หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Adding the Halo CE Flood music for the tick-pit part gave me a good laugh.

  • @nikoslav
    @nikoslav 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1053

    >SiGULARITY
    >ЯЕЦIЕШ
    I'm gonna be honest with ya chief wtf is YAYETZEEYESH

    • @Lobosatirico
      @Lobosatirico 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      It means "you eat" in bielorussian

    • @ivanselesnev4139
      @ivanselesnev4139 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

      @@Lobosatiricokek, it does not

    • @sergeitokarev2467
      @sergeitokarev2467 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      It's Review in Russian Reversal

    • @haroldshea3282
      @haroldshea3282 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      it means EAT BALLS!

    • @happybean9135
      @happybean9135 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Ревью - review.

  • @clan741
    @clan741 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    I love how Dimechev surviving plothole could of easily been solved if it was just a random soviet officer you shot when doing the time jump, there was no reason Dimechev had to be there in person, but nah Dimechev survived several bullets to the cranium and falling several stories. What a madlad.

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The cooler way to resolve it would be if he then was a crazy soviet tech cyborg in the future

  • @tommykarrick9130
    @tommykarrick9130 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Something about the delivery of “will someone go back to the 50s and warn Khrushchev that corn isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?
    We will see~”
    SLAYS me every time I hear it.

  • @Rehteal
    @Rehteal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +537

    I was really hoping the second helicopter ride would include
    "WAIT, THIS ISN'T RIGHT!"
    "Well it's too late now!"
    "No, I mean we've done this already!"

    • @fus132
      @fus132 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

      It's the same voice actor too if my ears don't deceive me.

    • @DSFARGEG00
      @DSFARGEG00 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I was expecting that, lol.

    • @empty2892
      @empty2892 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Where is this quote from? I am sure I heard it, but can't remember. Is it Spec Ops?

    • @DrableVideos
      @DrableVideos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      @@empty2892 Spec Ops: The Line. Nolan North plays both Walker and Call of Duty's partner.

    • @0uttaS1TE
      @0uttaS1TE 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      "Konrad did this. All of it."

  • @kenshy10
    @kenshy10 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +472

    Mandalor *posts new video*
    Me "LETS GO!"
    Mandalor *takes video down before I can click the notification*
    Me "NO!"
    Mandalor *posts the video again*
    Me "we are so back!"

  • @fancyultrafresh3264
    @fancyultrafresh3264 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ok so the fact you’re back AND you used your best intro theme brought me more joy than it rightly should. A like for you good sir. Welcome back.

  • @ObiJohnKenobi67
    @ObiJohnKenobi67 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +462

    I love how unlike Bioshock there is no good ending, just a difference on who runs the world. In all of them the characters are too selfish to give up the power E-99 offers them.

    • @tsegorah
      @tsegorah 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      in the video mandalore didn't explain why those scientists are bad, so 2 of 3 endings are not obviously good or bad

    • @thefallencog
      @thefallencog 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

      @@tsegorah I think he explained it good enough near the end.
      The scientist is a morally (debatable) good person, but is just extremely patriotic towards the soviet union. And unless you were actually paying any sort of attention, his level of patriotism whizzed by your head outside of that one sepia filter film.
      I believe what the scientists ending implies is that the scientist is effectively the greatest hero/new age tsar of the soviet union, but because he was grateful to the player for actually trying to fix things, he perhaps ensured that other countries were allowed to continue existing (almost like in the new Wolfenstein games) but under their own autonomy. At least thats my headcannon anyways.
      Whats more likely, is the scientist basically tipped the balance of world power in the soviets favor, Russia became the new dominant global superpower, and history continues largely the same way as before. Only the marine thats in the helicopter is pulling your leg with the comrade joke to drill in the "make of it what you will" style open ending.
      The fact this game never got a continuation is still criminal honestly. And hopefully when the call of duty mine collapses outside of the black ops franchise, hopefully someone will convince raven to pick this up again. because im pretty sure raven staff before have said they were interested in picking this franchise back up if they were ever done with cod

    • @Antibot01
      @Antibot01 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      @@thefallencog I suppose the scientist's ending is morally good and implies the whole world accepted communism as its ideology but the nations remain (the MC's companion carries a Soviet assault rifle but still has American decorations and speaks English).

    • @dimas3829
      @dimas3829 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@thefallencog cleptocracies pretending to be democracies good, unapologetic authoritarianism which is great for the people bad, I got you.

    • @maallos334mi8
      @maallos334mi8 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      I find it more railroady, if only because killing Demichev only resets the scene.
      It shows they either didn’t think about the possibility or have time to implement a secret 4th ending that closes the loop.

  • @jrsdef
    @jrsdef 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

    Seems like the Barisov statue would imply a "better" or at least similar but slightly more advanced future, namely because of the way he's depicted and posed, it communicates less "Grand Imperious Leader" and more "In memorium of the visionary that brought the world into a new age and the site at which he did it" since his face is more one of wonder and contemplation, putting the tech on his arm front and center with realistic if smoothed proportions, more the hand of someone else idolizing him than him idolizing himself, a commemorative statue more than a place of near religious reverence to a cult of personality

    • @Noname-e9k7k
      @Noname-e9k7k หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      That's one way to see it ig, but the clips of him saying he wants the USSR to defeat the West would imply that the future he wanted was just the Khrushchev to Demichev's Stalin-instead of overtly brutal and genocidal tyranny("the people must be subservient to us!"), a more comparatively restrained(meaning show trials that only lead to decades in prison instead of mass executions) and convinced-of-its-own-benevolence tyranny("we're doing this for the people's own good.")

    • @Hesstig
      @Hesstig หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Noname-e9k7k With the re-do of the helicopter scene having the helicopters' callsigns be "Hammer", reporting to Red Fleet, and your buddy holding an AK and calling you "comrade", it seems the Berisov timeline has fully indoctrinated America into the Soviet system.

    • @StrikeWarlock
      @StrikeWarlock หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      He basically realized his dream to convert the entire world to Communism under the dominance of E99. The way your partner talks about his monument with reverence implies that he was at least a benevolent Russian leader.

  • @CorwinWolf
    @CorwinWolf หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You pointing out Russian Steve Blum is already my favorite part of the video. Thank you for all the work you do for these videos. Keep up the great work!

  • @kapu1492
    @kapu1492 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +199

    The smashcon joke was so quick and unexpected I had to rewatch to make sure I heard it right. Great video as always Mandy.

    • @WordoftheElderGods
      @WordoftheElderGods 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Best one yet, I'd say.

    • @EnviedShadow
      @EnviedShadow 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I don't know what it's referencing, but from context I assume pedophilia?

    • @argetlam05
      @argetlam05 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      Smashcon taking strays from 1950s Russia is crazy

    • @WildcardActual
      @WildcardActual 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@@EnviedShadowYep. You can age them forwards, but not backwards...

    • @chrislee5268
      @chrislee5268 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​Just generalizing an entire community as pedophiles. ​@@EnviedShadow

  • @MegaHellstrike
    @MegaHellstrike 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    My favorite thing about the endings is the *secret* ending: if you wait too long and kill neither of them Demichev reaches for his gun and shoots you. They could have just let you have the awkward pause while you ponder which side to choose but no, they punish you for it and I love it.

    • @tzeentch7118
      @tzeentch7118 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Like in Wolfenstein: TNO, if you stall too much during the sadistic choice at the end of prologue, everyone including you gets killed.

  • @MrDrfallout
    @MrDrfallout 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I always remember an enemy that was cut from the game, right after you get the spike rail rifle with the thermal optics an enemy pounces on you when you head up some metal stairs, if you still have that weapon, you can see that enemy following you in the thermals but he’s invisible

  • @CriticalNobody
    @CriticalNobody 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +384

    It’s kinda funny that the player might believe Nolan North is yelling at them not to save bad man from the fire, but in reality it’s Troy Baker. There’s something poetic about that given what big names both are

    • @thestickystudio6331
      @thestickystudio6331 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      holy shit it's splinter cell guy

    • @admiraltonydawning3847
      @admiraltonydawning3847 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@thestickystudio6331 These days more known as NFT guy.

    • @anafalina4221
      @anafalina4221 หลายเดือนก่อน

      U commented that 5 years ago

    • @Noname-e9k7k
      @Noname-e9k7k หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Huh, Troy Baker voiced Call of Duty(the protagonist)? I guess you could say that him trying to shoot Demichev in the end instead of his past self was him getting too Greedy.

  • @jameslatham1110
    @jameslatham1110 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +128

    "Call of duty and his freinds" got me good

  • @DEDManGamingWins
    @DEDManGamingWins 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude, I just wanna say how refreshing your channel is. You aren't trying to boost the algorithm or trying to cover every new thing that comes out. You just (presumably) make whatever you want out of passion, and I dig that. I've been a fan of yours for years and have tried out new games I probably wouldn't have if it weren't for your reviews.
    Keep on doing your fantastic work dude!

  • @elnacho657
    @elnacho657 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +174

    Karen S´Jet: "Hey, can i borrow that TMD for a second?"
    Renko: "Uh, sure."
    Meanwhile Imogen S´Jet: *Starts fading into nothingness* "OH MY GOD WHAT IS GOING O-"
    *Cue post credit cutscene where the Statue from the intro is depicting Haze Stratos heroically holding a blender*

    • @gleibeffrime2528
      @gleibeffrime2528 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Smoothie time...line

    • @Mahrooby
      @Mahrooby 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      giant statue of lowry using e99 to levitate

    • @elnacho657
      @elnacho657 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@gleibeffrime2528
      This is the timeline that Durandal wanted to eradicate: The Smoothie Timeline.

    • @Bloodlyshiva
      @Bloodlyshiva หลายเดือนก่อน

      So what would Karan want with the TMD?

    • @CameronKilgore
      @CameronKilgore หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Meanwhile in Randy Pitchford's goon cave: "WHY AM I DISAPPEARING!?!?!"

  • @redstonemonster5769
    @redstonemonster5769 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    Playing as the ticks in the multyplayer was the best,
    climbing on the sealing, longjumping on a soldier on the other team to take over there body, and pretending that you where a friendly teammate, just to shoot them in the back. a realy unique mechanic

    • @UltraGreatsword
      @UltraGreatsword 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I'll always remember playing as the puker and healing a Tick teammate next to me by throwing up on them.

    • @darkmasterm193
      @darkmasterm193 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@UltraGreatsword Ah, the Natural Selection 2 Experience™

  • @Ellohir
    @Ellohir 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I absolutely love this period in gaming with relatively short, experimental FPS games.

  • @ucipitalmapilary
    @ucipitalmapilary 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    "Мандалорфильм" in the intro put a huge smile on my face) looks cool!
    Love your channel

  • @Themeir
    @Themeir 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +130

    YAY IT'S BACK AGAIN, I LOVE YOU ARMOUR MAN

  • @DrunkenCoward1
    @DrunkenCoward1 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow, this story is fascinating.
    I have listened to this review three times and I still have new theories coming to my mind every time.
    For the ending I like to think that Barisov survived AND became a Soviet Leader, but *nothing* about the future changed, except that the word "comrade" became part of the casual vernacular.

  • @ЭдвардИванов-ю9ч
    @ЭдвардИванов-ю9ч 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +187

    "There is no withdrawal from the tick pit" - killed me

    • @MrViscious
      @MrViscious 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I called it quits on that one. No ammo no shotty. I raged on that part.

    • @bruhSaintJohn
      @bruhSaintJohn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The Garten lives on

  • @DwarfioHax
    @DwarfioHax 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

    1:21 All the years I've spent avoiding saying "'swooce right in" during casual conversation because absolutely no one would get the reference, and this man just pulls it out like it's an everyday saying for him. Amazing.

    • @swempytimes
      @swempytimes 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Me too, I can't believe he said it 🤣

    • @Artersa
      @Artersa 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ayyy I just commented too. Big up the skooks crew.

    • @exodus9001
      @exodus9001 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Pfft me and my one buddy were always on that.
      My fave one to break out as a non sequitur is 'what iii wanna know is wheeeeeeeres the caveman?'
      or 'stroNg mAN?'

    • @swempytimes
      @swempytimes 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@exodus9001 "I'm glad that he's frozen in there and that we're out and that we're frozen in there and that HE'S THE SHERIFF and I JUST REMEMBERED, we're out here"

    • @SuicidalChocolateSK
      @SuicidalChocolateSK 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      fuckin same.

  • @itslullas
    @itslullas หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm so happy you're covering this game! 🎉

  • @weareharbinger914
    @weareharbinger914 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    "As far as evil endings go, this one rules." Honestly, its nice that happens, usually you get 'and everything was shit, because you were evil.' Or its left ambiguous, like Armored Core 4 where you become the greatest mass murderer in history, then defeat the people trying to assassinate you.

    • @Noname-e9k7k
      @Noname-e9k7k หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      How is that ambiguous?

    • @Br-Al-De
      @Br-Al-De หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I feel like someone has to mention the possibly even eviler ending. If you take too long to shoot either guy, Demichev pulls out a second gun and kills CoD and Barry, then rules the world with an iron fist. I'm not sure if it counts as a proper ending since it's just the player getting killed, but why not, we are time travelling.

    • @AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange
      @AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Noname-e9k7kIf you play ending C, it leaves it as "you are the worst killer ever" but it says that because you downed one Cradle set and the top LYNXes basically ever. The next game shows what happened potentially from ending C, potentially from ending A, but the point is that you dont know just what level of evil you get up to afterwards. Its not as ambiguous as he said, but when your kill count can be 2 BILLION after you disappear like danny phantom over the artery's walls, you can interpret it in a LOT of ways

  • @coldrunhershel604
    @coldrunhershel604 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That intro studio VID style is just such a nice cultural touch 🤯

  • @toaster9922
    @toaster9922 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    Big fan of Mandalore’s time travel phase rn.

  • @skyefox
    @skyefox 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Every time I wonder "damn, I wonder when Mandalore's gonna have a new video" within a day he drops one. What a blessed time.

    • @Helios8170
      @Helios8170 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Do us all a favor and think that a little more 😂

  • @sindri.
    @sindri. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When the Goosebumps intro hits, I know I'm in for some classic Mandy goodness
    Also referring to the lead guy as Call of Duty the whole time hahaha

  • @anondescriptbullet
    @anondescriptbullet 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    "This was the golden age of blind enemy tunnel. I'm not showing Colonial Marines footage."
    The amount of shame I felt when my mind _immediately_ went to that specific game is indescribable.

  • @arctik2928
    @arctik2928 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Funny thing I noticed after playing this game time and time again before, Kathryn gives you a radio saying it's a "two-way communicator," except that this functionality is completely wasted on you as your character never speaks to her or Barisov throughout the game.

  • @Xevios
    @Xevios 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    OHHH МАНДАЛОРФИЛЬМ ПРОСТО ШИКАРЕН! Респект
    MandalorFilm Forever in my heart and my personal best for now. Gz!

  • @DarkPotatoRus
    @DarkPotatoRus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    мандалорфильм joke was amazing xD

  • @salamander4668
    @salamander4668 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    00:17
    Браво! Это было гениально.

  • @mothwings8795
    @mothwings8795 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "[sounds of a box coming to you]" is probably the best caption I've seen on TH-cam. Great work, Val

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

    In Soviet Russia you don’t travel through time, time travel through you!

    • @karry299
      @karry299 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It's more of a USian Russia, though. There's almost no Soviet anything in it.

    • @Lamadon_Pyreus
      @Lamadon_Pyreus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      DOSH DOSH DOSH "YOU DON'T COME TO RUSSIA ; RUSSIA COME TO YOU ; WHEN RUSSIAN MAN SAYS FOLLOW ME, DO AS RUSSIAN DO!" lmao ... I get it

  • @Malrottian
    @Malrottian 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I do love that there is canonically at least one more loop that we never get to see because a few of the messages don't line up with any of the established ones. That air of mystery helps sell me on the generally bland paint by numbers shooter. Also, shame on you Mandalore for not covering the ship.

  • @sturmander
    @sturmander หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That "The Whale" reference at 28:59 got me good. Little things like that every video keep me coming back for every video.

  • @tabaccotantony
    @tabaccotantony 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    We are so back, October Mandy vids are always the best

  • @seeinred
    @seeinred 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    I still have this game. On disk. In a box.
    Glad to see you're back, Mandalore. Thank you for this, and have a great day!

    • @jamesrule1338
      @jamesrule1338 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      "Tony Stark was able to play this game in a cave, with a box of disks!"

    • @seeinred
      @seeinred 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jamesrule1338 I'm missing the reference D:

    • @jamesrule1338
      @jamesrule1338 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@seeinred line from the first Iron Man movie, adapted.

    • @Rymeths
      @Rymeths 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ...
      He was never gone?

    • @1woozy
      @1woozy หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Rymeths didn't upload for a while

  • @nobungagames69
    @nobungagames69 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    God damn that "Вид" parody at the start almost killed me with childhood trauma.
    Awesome as always, Mandalore!

  • @cereskerrigan
    @cereskerrigan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +267

    Find yourself, starting back.

    • @KingThrillgore
      @KingThrillgore 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      We are on the fifth timeline.

    • @EnterpriseKnight
      @EnterpriseKnight 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      We don't have time for that

    • @nitrobw1
      @nitrobw1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      The waves.

    • @KingThrillgore
      @KingThrillgore 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@nitrobw1 This is MIDA country!

    • @BeefMeisterSupreme
      @BeefMeisterSupreme 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      The earth defense force 7 starts now

  • @justintaylor8701
    @justintaylor8701 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I love the ugh I don't feel good gonna lie down recordings in video games. Because bro really either had the whole recording device on him and pulled it out or made his way over to one and thought to hit record.

  • @Afrafasti
    @Afrafasti 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Caught the Gardens of Kadesh reference.
    Oh shit! I didn't even remember this game until The Splash screen you showed with the Ticks theme.

  • @AceStrife
    @AceStrife 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    9:00 One of the best things about games around this era is Steve Blum.
    I literally played games I wouldn't have otherwise simply because he was voicing a character. Absolute god tier voice.

    • @tzeentch7118
      @tzeentch7118 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You must have loved Quake 4 then.

  • @pajamapantsjack5874
    @pajamapantsjack5874 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    The blessed childhood I had growing up with this and metro as a kid.

  • @voxsdungeon
    @voxsdungeon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You're not wrong about that merry go round, felt something twitch.
    Great work as always dude :)

  • @AndroidPhoenix
    @AndroidPhoenix 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    Hopefully this was recorded in THE HALL OF HORSE

    • @MandaloreGaming
      @MandaloreGaming  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Not yet.

    • @isiffrin
      @isiffrin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@MandaloreGaming Access to the HALL OF HORSE is denied, administrating horse punishment tone.

    • @Thebearabides
      @Thebearabides 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Only by escaping the cycles of guilt can one enter the hall of horse.
      Shatter the seals, break the wheel, and let us neigh forever.

    • @fietehermans9903
      @fietehermans9903 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AndroidPhoenix Is that a reference to his weird house? I know he used to love with people that would do strange witch chants

    • @Mahrooby
      @Mahrooby 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fietehermans9903 he did a marketing video for hooded horse

  • @grantsrants665
    @grantsrants665 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    You know, some of those loopholes could make a killer game concept. Imagine a time travel game where you get sent back to do something, but come back to a changed future (because of your actions). Then, you have to convince the people you worked with that you know them and that they need to follow ______ plan or whatever. You could have another layer with people betraying you for reasons you caused. Maybe even warnings or clues from yourself. I dunno, probably stupid, but it could work.

    • @pnutz_2
      @pnutz_2 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "window of opportunity" but there are consequences between the loops
      *edit* I'm thinkg of that other game where you had to go back and save everyone from various deaths on the frozen ship

    • @Zack_Wester
      @Zack_Wester 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@pnutz_2 now two time points (present and past) or do we go deeper (past, Present and future).
      or (present, past and even further back).
      ....
      maybe its easier to just stick to two time points.

  • @Tyr-qz2lo
    @Tyr-qz2lo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Mandalore has completed the “Mostly forgotten time travel games” trilogy.

  • @Jynx_Splatoon
    @Jynx_Splatoon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    If Mandy keep looking up old games from the 2000s era, I hope he ends up doing an Oddworld video (Particularly Strangers Wrath, that game is peak)

    • @nitrobw1
      @nitrobw1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yeah, Oddworld is amazing and I wish more people knew about it. I think it was probably an early inspiration for the indie game scene in the late 2000s and early 2010s, partly because it’s so unique and, well, odd, but also because they were some of the most beautifully designed and envelope-pushing games of their time. New and Tasty and Soulstorm were a great revival and I’m glad it happened but I would love a properly new installment, a brand new Oddysee.

    • @tsartomato
      @tsartomato 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      strangers is the most game out of them. the earlier ones are either outdated repetitive puzzles with god world or outdated repetitive collectathon with good world
      stranger is cooming the coom of dinosaurs out of 10
      gameplay storytelling writing design absolute game

    • @Geothesponge111
      @Geothesponge111 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@tsartomato Abe's Exoddus was amazing and I will not hear a word against it.

  • @supersarge24
    @supersarge24 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +173

    Singularity
    Yaetsiesh
    (Я = ya, Ц = ts, Ш = sh)
    It is always funny to see russian letters used as English ones tbh. And I'm not even Russian.

    • @scrooglemcdoogle
      @scrooglemcdoogle 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      It hurts my soul, I see an ammo brand sometimes called "Red Army Standard" with random letters replaced with Cyrillic and it short circuits my bilingual potato brain.

    • @Obamalover88
      @Obamalover88 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      ​@@scrooglemcdoogle my favorite is when the R's are replaced with Я's, especially when flanked by two other vowels.

    • @Kutikyla
      @Kutikyla 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Obamalover88 Seeegylyaitu best game ever

    • @thephilifluffy1838
      @thephilifluffy1838 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      agreed, im bulgarian and it hurts every time i see it

    • @LordDragox412
      @LordDragox412 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@scrooglemcdoogle Why is that even an ammo brand? Do they just send you an empty box of ammo?

  • @TheAsobi
    @TheAsobi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am sooo happy you're doing a Review of this. It's one of my guilty pleasure games that I feel barely anyone knows about.
    Same with "Legendary" which now that I think about it is actually pretty similar in some ways.

  • @Old_Machine_Spirit
    @Old_Machine_Spirit 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    Katorga and Einsteinium: [exists]
    Andrew Ryan: "...............Pathetic, look at how they try to match my power."

  • @sparklive
    @sparklive 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Damn, that VID reference. Nice one, comrade!

  • @thecosmic8248
    @thecosmic8248 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was just wondering when a new review would come out like an hour before this came out lol. Great video!

  • @saphyr7868
    @saphyr7868 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Since "You moved and immediatly got hit by a Hurricane" does this mean you are now Florida Man?

    • @jormilos
      @jormilos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The greatest State. But Florida pride aside, he could've also moved to South Carolina or Georgia and been hit by the one just before Milton

    • @baker90338
      @baker90338 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jormilos or east tennesee.

    • @jormilos
      @jormilos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@baker90338 oh true. I hope their recovery's been going well. I had heard the most out of SC since Asheville was literally underwater, but I didn't hear a lot from the other States that were hit

  • @burkhan6004
    @burkhan6004 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    The music of the TV company VID at the beginning made my eye twitch...

  • @gojiradestructor
    @gojiradestructor 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always love the touches you put on these videos.
    Also, bro really pulled a Second Death Star. "I built a new one!"

  • @roach9397
    @roach9397 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Ayyy thank you for uploading on my birthday! You’re one of my favorite channels and your Halloween season reviews are always legendary

    • @Shoutatclouds
      @Shoutatclouds 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Happy birthday

    • @KCUROV
      @KCUROV 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      happy birthday!!!

  • @ArthurHLI
    @ArthurHLI 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Mandalore back with Singularity?! Hell yeah!
    Awesome use of that shocking sound effects

  • @Sunprayer
    @Sunprayer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Happy to have you back Mandy!

  • @imarobobot8795
    @imarobobot8795 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    I love how you find beauty in obscure games. Since I've started watching your channel years ago, I've started to appreciate older, more obscure games. I've found some gems I'd have never touched before thanks to you. Keep up the great work 👍

    • @kanabis134
      @kanabis134 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      In no way is this game obscure

    • @awsomebot1
      @awsomebot1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Check out Accursed Farms. He mostly does obscure games, sometimes so much so that by seeking out the game in the first place he ends up saving it from extinction (Helious 2, BipBop 3).

    • @blob22201
      @blob22201 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kanabis134 I've never heard of it.

    • @Chas_Korolya
      @Chas_Korolya 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@blob22201 You have a narrow outlook on games then. This game is well known and has been reviewed on youtube 100 times, is published by Activision, made by Raven, has a wikipedia article in 17 languages. Not even close to being obscure. Mandy did review some obscure stuff and Singularity isn't even close to being among it.