Ross's Game Dungeon: Eternam
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Ross delves into the epic bastard child of graphic adventure games.
You can buy Eternam here if you're interested:
af.gog.com/gam...
Manual for game:
Spanish:
www.aventurayci...
French:
www.abandonware...
English translation by Atermis Herdmann:
www.mediafire.c...
English translation by Frei Milik:
accursedfarms.c...
after Maabus, i just realised ''more on that later" was the running gag of the show XD
well done Ross, well done.
I love it when he says that :D
Is the joke that he never gets back to these things?
@@unfa00depends, sometime he does sometimes he doesn't. you never know
I like to think of Ross's Game Dungeon as Gordon Freeman playing DOS games on his lunch break working at Black Mesa.
I think of Freeman as Ross getting drunk off his ass and invading Black Mesa.
Yeah i think every time he makes a RGD video its on his lunch break it would be cool if he can get one of his friends to play Eddie and say something in the background
Pretty sure Eddie is his shady drug-dealer mate and not someone who works at black mesa
fr0ztb1te Freeman would still get him in there.
Lunch break? Freeman does this when he feels like it.
This guy's voice is so mesmerizing. He could be talking about the history of yarn for hours on end, and I'd probably still hang on to every word.
He'd sure have me on a thread.
You're fooled by a different mechanism. First of all, his voice is vaguely entertaining-sounding, but not that appealing, when one gets down to it. But that aside: the mechanism of mersmerization is simply not his voice but that one waits for him to get to the point which never comes in some of his diversions. So one is listening for 2 minutes just waiting for him to get to the relevant point of this whole diversion, which exerts a pulling effect. But it's ultimately bullshit. Or in other words: you don't see your own bullshit, so you also don't see his bullshit, and the mesmerising effect is especially strong on you.
Case in point:whatever the hell suddenly happens after the 17 minutes mark...
man you must be fun at parties
case in point: you're replying to a 5 year old comment with an opinion that nobody asked for or cares about.
@@galex3992 I'm glad someone else felt the same way. I don't use reddit and I don't usually care for those who link subreddits to excess (see also the r/whooosh crowd) but someone really ought to post this to r/iamverysmart.
@MomoTheBellyDancer Nah
17:25 Ross says "because honestly, how many people have you fought or shot today?"
17:29 Ross says "I haven't fought anyone toady"
Conclusion: Ross shot someone that week.
Hahaha I didn't even notice that
Ross constantly does reverse deduction jokes.
He didn't HAVE to shoot the grocery store clerk... but he did anyway
Well naturally. He always shoots someone at least once a week
Don't worry, even here in France we thought Infogrames was weird.
No kidding, i watch alot of "Joueur du Grenier" and Infogrammes games have a reputation, to say the least
Thank God. That's a legitimate relief.
thats why it has grams in its name, because of the drugs.
I'm English and I remember them putting out a lot of quality PlayStation stuff and some decent PC stuff as well. Maybe I was too young to actually get into the weird stuff they did.
@@Graknorke I understand French better than I speak it, but MOST of these "jokes" make no sense.
So, fun fact about the main character's name: Don jon is the term for a room in a castle. Specifically, the highest room of the tallest tower. Y'know like in Shrek. And in fact, the term "Don jon" is the precursor to "Dungeon". The don jon was frequently used a guest room for... Less than willing guests. Such as enemy knights being held for ransom.
Wow, nice fun facts!
Highest room of the tallest tower?
What is this? Shrek?
"Highest room of the tallest tower"? Weird precursor for a , which is usually the 100% opposite.
See? This is why ya check the comments after rewatching this a decade later. Y’learn something new. Don Jon. That’s awesome.
@@admiraltonydawning3847 Well, it's hard to escape from a tall tower, and for holding enemy knights and other royalty for ransom, you were typically expected to treat them fairly nicely, ergo not putting them in a damp and cold cellar where they'll get sick.
Great to see another Dungeon episode!
Never heard of this game, but man I am highly intrigued now. Looks a bit hit and miss, sure. But these hybrid games (à la Isle of the Dead) intrigue me like crazy, and this just looks pretty awesome overall. Fine review once again, Ross!
This map at the begining of the game is totaly from Monkey Island 1!!!
Thanks! And yeah, if you're willing to put up with the rough spots, this is an amazing game.
*****
Thank you very much! Glad to hear you're enjoying and finding some use with the videos :)
chilledsanity What exactly would you say Game Dungeon is? Is it a review, because you're not applying a score. Is it a guide, because you aren't giving out all the handy tips. Is it what defines certain games? Is it a comment on the gaming industry? What label would you attach to Dungeon?
chilledsanity You make me giggle. Thanks for the content, it's genuinely good.
"I haven't fought anyone today and I'm recording this on a _Friday."_ it took years after watching this but now I can't help but feel that was a subtle Postal 2 joke.
"How many people have you fought or shot today?"
"I haven't fought anyone today."
So you HAVE shot someone today?
minor complaints
Well I fought myself to get out of bed...
‘merica.
Ross is Freeman confirmed.
"It's Sliperyyyyyyyyy!!!!"
Hold on a minute! I think I figured out the joke with the guard who's in love with the statue!
I suspect that the developers wanted you to find the guard and statue room first. Then you'd be all "What's wrong with you? Statues can't talk! You're weird!" because you'd have never found the talking statues and wouldn't know any better. That's probably why the statue with the guard doesn't talk.
Then later, you'd find the room with the talking statues and you'd be like " What!?! The statues CAN talk? The crazy guard was RIGHT! I guess I'M the weird one!"
Of course, that only makes sense if you visit these rooms in the correct order. If you visit the rooms in the opposite order, then the joke makes no sense. The guard wouldn't seem insane because you'd have met talking statues before and you'd have already accepted that the statues here are alive, and the talking statues wouldn't seem like the punchline to a joke because the joke would have no set up.
I think a better explanation is that it was supposed to be "hurr durr this guy loves a statue. Isn't that funny? People don't normally marry inanimate statues! Isn't that funny!?
WHY AREN'T YOU LAUGHING AT MY JOKE!!!!!!!!!?????"
That is every joke in this game. Rather that assuming the joke was clever and didn't land because of timing, it is better to assume it didn't land because the writer sucks at writing jokes.
@@GeorgeMonet Besides, now we know tons of people are attracted to inanimate objects, so what little of a joke there is didn't even age well.
@@ruleofoz2207 I feel the need to state It's not normal to be attracted to inanimate objects.
@@Axodus Neither is life.
I thought it was in reference to Pygmalion, a Greek myth about a sculptor who fell in love with a statue that was then brought to life.
whenever ross says "I think we'll end up more like Argentina" I remember that someone in Argentina turned a bicycle into a portable mortar shell launcher
i'm not sure whether that makes me feel better or worse about the slow-collapse hell that's coming
corona virus certainly has the potential to turn the whole word upside down. and thats not because the virus itself is super dangerous but because our system was always terribly unstable and build on a shaky foundation.
@@khoroshoorange you resumed Chile's situation pretty acurately.
@@javieraravena5345 im sorry... Keep fighting
lol
Still collapsing, Cass from 3 years ago. The frog is almost at a full boil now.
It’s amazing to see how many people who commented on this video 7 or 8 years ago still comment on Ross’s latest videos
Ross has amazing, highly re-watchable videos.
Yeah back when he was @chilledsanity.
are we just not going to address how glorious ross's voice acting is? XD
Well, it's also never a bad idea to tell your loved ones how much you love them every once in a while. :P
I honestly thought that was part of the game at the beginning...
Lord Blackheart Ross can be the actor in a cartoon that does all the voices, it’d be a great one cause I’d be convinced it’s someone else
The voiced dialogue in the CD version sounds like the team never planned on doing it and was out of nowhere told by the publisher that they have to do it and that they have 5 days to wrap it up. I imagine they got the call on Monday around 2 PM and learned they need to do full voice acting for the game and deliver a gold master before Saturday. So everyone got into a conference room and started drawing straws as to who's going to become a voice actor. One of the artists knew how to record audio on his Amiga computer because he did play with that to make some guitar covers, and became the sound engineer on the project. Someone found an old cheap toy microphone in their attic and brought that in. They each went into a stuffed wardrobe and read their lines once, then the next 2 days were spent on frantic editing and implementing this into the game. It turned out the mic gain was set too hot and everything was distorted, and some takes were really bad, but they didn't have time to re-record anything so they just pushed through this, delivered the gold master on Friday 11:54 PM and went to a local bar to forget about all this as fast as possible.
"A Large Man Laughs For No Reason" was my horoscope yesterday.
I never thought i'd say this, but i love the game dungeon series more than freeman's mind. KEEP MAKIN THESE ROSS! LOVIN 'EM
I don't really see myself ever playing Eternam, but it was interesting to watch part of it.
Also: I'm a delivery driver for a Pizza Hut, and I have to agree: Greasiest pizza ever. I rarely ever eat it myself anymore, and I can get it for free.
*****
OI i like pizzahut >:(
fat
But the grease is where the flavor is XD I'm kidding of course, but I've loved Pizza Hut ever since I was a kid. Still do. It's the best pizza of any national chain we have here in the US in my opinion
@@kalligthegrey7010
You Crazy? Dominoes is Clearly the best pizza.
You seem like the kind of person who likes Freddie's fries.
I will emit Pizza Hut has the best bread sticks.
Wal-Mart's _store brand_ pizza is better than Pizza Hut, Domino's, and so many other major pizza shops. It's sad.
I completely forgot what the finger room in Elden Ring reminded me of until I rewatched this
Blur your eyes and it's uncanny!
I used to play Eternaam a loooot when I was a kid. I loved it! I was often ill, I had to stay home, so I played this all day. My English was weak though, so I could understand only the half of what was said. I remember playing with a dictionary nearby :) I never thought the game was this long! I only made it to the first castle, and I always got stuck with the swamp monster (24:10) This review brings back good memories. We sold the computer Eternam was on, so now I'm thinking about getting it for nostalgic reasons. It would be nice to play it one more time and actually being able to understand it and appreciate the humour (if I can :D )
I think the joke is that the game world is a "highly historically accurate" theme
park which the player knows to be false. Who knows what we get
wrong about history, and what future history will get wrong about us?
Well, atleast we won't get this wrong; we don't know what we know is wrong or not.
...
And that concludes episode 35 of "Stoner Questions From A Non-Stoner".
It doesn't sound like a language barrier is the biggest challenge with getting the humour. Good luck.
I don’t know if you’ll see this reply, but did you replay it? If you did, would you like this comment so I’ll get a notification if you reply? I get invested in stories like these.
21:00 i love how 600MB was a shit ton of memory back then
To be honest, it still is a shit ton of memory. If we are talking books and text. The biggest eaters of memory are movies and huge-ass game textures. I would really like to know how much space would potato version of Doom 2016 take, for example.
@@ursa_margo potato doom sounds delicious lol
@@ursa_margo The Nintendo port of DOOM is a good example of how little space a big game like that actually takes up once the graphics are scaled down
there was a computer in 96 with 32 gigs of ram the something onyx it is like twice as tall and 3 times as wide as a modern full-size tower pc it originally costed $300000 and you literally had a key to turn it on a physical key.
I remember buying a Packard Bell Legend 20 CD in the early nineties when it was a top of the line gaming rig. It had a sticker on the display model that stated in bold “WITH FOUR MEGS OF RAM! FOUR!” That seems hilarious today.
10:49 - I'm pretty sure this guy went on to overthrow the kingdom of Kyrandia, hahah.
My hobby is writing on old videos and not be noticed.
Zoom forward 8 years and thankfully Ross is exactly the same, and that's exactly what we want.
The character dialogue animations remind me of the Zelda CD-I games...
How can you NOT make a great game in the setting of the French Revolution?
Be Ubisoft
It really is uncanny how their job is to make a new setting with new accents to stab people and climb in, and they fuck it up semi-routinely.
Makes me wonder why people think they should make one set in Japan with ninjas, they'd still find ways to make it boring or outright bad.
*AIRHORN*
@@vman339 yeah. If I'm a ninja assassin in Japan I'd at least expect to slit Godzilla's throat at some point. Anything less would be a disappointment.
Anything less is a step down from Shinobi on the Sega Genesis and we all know it.
@@Emigdiosback Unity had the best parkour out of all the games tho...
Holy schwazz that game has everything. It's like a cross between Daggerfall, Space Quest, Journeyman Project, Dragon's Lair, Monty Python, He-Man, 70s New Wave sci-fi meets anachronistic pseudo-medieval mindfuck, LOVELY :D
The train made sense to me. You're supposed to bring food to feed the glutton secretary. So you walk down the hall way and the train shows up.
Y'know, feeding babies? "Here comes the train!"
This starts making more sense when Ross talks about it being from a French studio and the broken jokes, it could be translation/miscommunication between development.
Terry Coyle I actually don't find the humour as weird and broken as Ross makes it out to be, but that might be simply because my own sense of humour is weird and broken so the result is I have increased resistance. Even so, I have seen a lot weirder.
Terry Coyle I think the word that applies best to the nature of these jokes is... Lame.
They are so bad, it actually makes me sad when I think of the person who wrote them, laughing at his own distasteful jokes.
@@ensuens every time i make a joke the person laughing the most is always me
4 words, and I'm all yours
"More on that later."
I WANNA SEE THE BURGER!!!!
hahaha was that from zany golf or something :D
I saw that there is a game about the french revolution coming out called "We. The Revolution," and thought to mention it to you here. Hopefully you'll see this comment and give the game a look. Based on the store description, the game will have the player become a judge of a revolutionary tribunal during the French Revolution and preside over cases over ordinary citizens, criminals, and enemies of the revolution.
Phoenix Wright + Papers, Please - 229 years.
FTFY
Yeah, I think... someone... perhaps teksnakerer?, not sure.. a decently sized channel with a British accent lol... recently did a long video on that game, it seemed like it would really be something Ross would enjoy given that it's all dialogue and choices etc... I've played a bit of it, not enough to give a verdict, but it is exactly what he's asking for, a game not only set in, but entirely about (insofar as how it affects the lives of everyday people) that time in history.
Also this is pretty tangential, but Ross or anyone else who wants to see a game set in the *Russian* Revolution (well, just before it, but you get a perspective from within the Romanov family in the palace in St. Petersburg on the public unrest etc), Shadow Hearts 2 has a whole part of the game take place in the buildup to it... and you get to recruit Anastasia into your party, fitting in sweetly with rumors of her escape or disappearance just beforehand. One of the most fun a game has ever had with history... the first Shadow Hearts has a massive section set in pre-WW1 Shanghai, which was fascinating, and the sequel also, besides going all over Europe during this period, finishes off in Japan during the period when various military factions were vying for power and starting to set the nation on course to end up at war with the West, and that being the focus of a section and cutscene, even if most of the time in Japan is more idyllic, and the depiction of a Japanese city in the process of rapid modernization during this period is really neat to see, and again, probably doesn't appear in any other game ever.
couldn't stop laughing when you wrote "smash head against tree", geez, the atention to detail is tremenduous.
Ross, what's the torture chamber for your dungeon like?
Is it an electric chair hooked up to a PC that only plays Duke Nukem Forever?
Baby, why you gotta tease me and be in the comments of nearly every video I watch? You are almost as bad as PressFartToContinue.
What are the chances?!? You have impeccable taste Sir! :D
Ah I'll cover some crap games eventually. DNF is just mediocre and disappointing, it's not specifically designed to extract pain.
chilledsanity
extreme paintbrawl
day of the zombie
KGB
the first two are shit, the third is not that bad
if you wish to review them, that is :p
+Accursed Farms Try playing Minecraft with a 6 and 7 year old.. On survival... on hard mode... Pure hell
I have an explanation: the island is a recreation of historical times based on memes.
Hear me out. So imagine that you are a future colonist that was born on an alien planet. Everything you know of Earth is in a database. Except you probably aren't speaking the language the database was made in and everything is so cross-referenced that you have no idea where to start. So you load up your Foogle Translator and try to find something that it can translate well. Which would be a more recent language. So it loads up a reenactor's manuals and archived Internet sites. Because you have no cultural references, you can't tell what is a meme and what is serious archived photos or when a reenactor is behaving in an anachronistic way. On top of that, your Foogle translator was made on the cheap, so you get translations errors like "iron fist" equaling "boxing", so people thought that french boxers were so hardcore that they just placed irons on top of their fists and broke each other's jaws.
Add to that some data restrictions on the database due to the colony ship having finite memory, several redundant and highly academic texts, lots of discussion and archived internet sites, generations after generations of bias and re-interpretation or outright rewriting of history and you get Eternam's setting, where medieval castles have electrical sockets because there is a source image of a renovated cast that was originally built in the middle ages having one.
Very clever! Thanks for your input.
Everything else is just us not understanding future-humour/the people in charge being insane, I can see that.
@@necktiefox2917 It's not so much insane, is that it's a theme park that is going for spectacle and imagination rather than historical accuracy. There are theme parks and whatnot that are like that, like lots of so-called "elaborate medieval torture devices" were actually made in the Victorian era to sell to museums by exploiting the era's bias about that era. Medieval people didn't bother making elaborate devices, but Victorians imagined that they would and thus you get stuff like the Iron Maiden.
okay but heres the thing
French KICK Boxers were VERY hardcore, they wore steel toed boots because they didn;'t want to break their toes and were fine with having broken shins instead
@@SHDW-nf2ki Damn, Glass Joe's ancestors were hardcore.
Did this game invent "lolrandom?"
6:59 Personally I was reminded of Director Bones, superhero turned head of the Department of Extranormal Operations (DEO) in the DC universe. He's a skeleton...or rather a guy who is invisible except for his skeleton. Makes me think that Bones somehow gained immortality, and spent the centuries quitting the DEO, traveling to a distant planet, hanging out in a medieval style castle, and ditching his suit to become a nudist.
As a comic book nerd, I wholeheartedly accept this as headcanon.
I just discovered this channel last week, and I honestly think this series is one of the best things I've ever found on TH-cam.
Buckle up, this series is long and awesome!
In an attempt to explain the train joke, I think it's that the carpet leading up to the dark doorway is supposed to look like railroad tracks going into a tunnel.
it was hilarious . .
24:54 wait... Capstone! Another game for civvie to play!
You know...with this game being French I feel like the voice actors for the French Island could have been chosen a little easier.
Its Ross soing the voices, its just plain text normally
I'm sure they're referring to the horrendous official CD voice actors.
Can't believe this video is 10 years old. Love your stuff Ross!
Old Ross feels so serious, so straight to the point.
I mean, in contrast to current-time Ross, who has a 30% chance per minute to start talking about the last existential crisis that some specific segment of the game induced in him.
I do prefer current-time Ross.
It's strange to hear the voice our beloved Dr. Freeman sounding.... sane.
Don Jonz may have been meant to be read as Dungeons with the CD version just messing up.
This video was what really sold me on Game Dungeon
I can't emphasize enough how grateful I am that you are. That is that you're doing this and how good you are at it. So that you know there really are people like me who would be scared by the obscurity of games like this and therefore I could never enjoy it in the first place. There you are to ease the stress, make magnificient guide through this insanity providing utmost amusing perception. A short episode of condensed fun extracted from those bizzare pieces at its best in a way that is not mocking occasionally smuggling in an unexpected minizode from another game... I could not imagine better introduction and demonstration of the title than your presentation. And then you put those obscured next to serious immersive titles like Deus Ex while keeping the same approach of critique pointing out the obscure. I like that! Keep going! Seeing someone who's so knowledgable about Strife or Deus Ex and bringing quality of this level on a yt channel makes me highly intrigued. Here are some titles you would definitely enjoy to make and I will definitely enjoy seeing them from your production as you are totally bringing some added value.... Vampire the masquerade: Bloodlines, System Shock 1, 2, Rex Nebular, lost the train of thought. gotta run now.
is it just me or are you a giant in this game
It's just you
Yeah the camera is really high up and the sprites are really small....perspective is all off.
It's like someone mixed Dragon's Lair and LSD Dream Simulator O_o
EMULATOR
OH MY GOD..
I've been trying to remember what this game was called FOR YEARS!! I used to play this on an old 486 with a VGA monitor that made me feel pretty cool for being 8 and playing this in 1993.. Anyways, dude, Thank you so much Accursed Farms for helping me piece together one of the most memorable games of my childhood.. even if I had NO clue what was going on and I just had fun walking around.
Holy shit this game actually existed. For decades I couldn't remember if this was a game I played or some kind of fever dream I had. God I love this series.
Yeaaah, about that revolution. Ubisoft listened.
19:48 "Puzzles like that are not about good logic or deduction skills, but rather about trying to figure out what blend of weed the developers were smoking that particular day"
Flawless description.
Yay, a new Game Dungeon! I'm glad you've decided to keep making these, they're really good! I'm learning about a lot of interesting games to try through this.
What a nice gift Ross! Thank you for your time and hard work you put into this episode
After 8 years I gave this comment it’s first like and comment
I think the original System Shock would be an awesome addition to your series.
Everyone knows about the game though.
Doctor Thaddeus Bodog Sivana System Shock 2 is very popular (in my opinion, it's one of the best games ever made). However, very few people bother with the first System Shock.
that would be GREAT, just to hear ross talk about on one of my favorite games ever, or maybe the original Thief games.
"smash head against tree" - killed me)))
Watching back through these videos for about the third time, I keep finding quotes that should be on shirts. This one's quote would be "When you have _this_ many muscles, all shirts do is slow you down." I tried looking up "Shirts just slow me down" and couldn't find anything. And before anyone questions my shirt-quoting ideas, I had an idea that actually _become_ a reality. It was just a coincidence, but I had the same idea.
Great and entertaining episode, the perfect Christmas gift! I like this episode most out of all of the previous ones you have done. Looking forward to the next one, please do keep them coming.
I did some random research about this game, and I found out it was published by Capstone Entertainment. Is it a good time to say "Pro Eternam when, Civvie?"
Alex I'd watch that too. It would be like the time the AVGN found the only LJN game that didn't suck (I can't remember what that was though). That, or the time Civvie covered Duke Nukem 3D episode 4 and felt unwell after admitting that Randy Pitchford did a good job on episode 4 (except the Queen).
Not sure if you knew this, but this game borrows heavily on gags seen in old Looney Tunes cartoons like the dog getting beat or the guy boxing with the iron on his glove.
Xsore Probably animation bought in an art package.
The guards make me think of the guards in Skyrim: "let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll?"
this is the best series on youtube. i love eating to this or just fucking around (not literally yet)
Les miserables fighting game for the dream cast. French Revolution game.
Kafei Aizawa Did Jean wield a lead pipe and a lightsabre? (This only works if you are familiar with System Shock)
Isn't that the one with Robo-Jean in it?
11:12 is the inspiration for Elden Ring
I love watching this series but I think I need to limit myself to only watch before I go to bed, something about Ross’s narration lulls me to sleep.
Just thought I'd say how much I'm enjoying this series. Although I don't have the patience to find, get working and play old obscure games, I still find them incredibly fascinating.
I also love the fact that you do full, in depth looks at them, this video was a good 30 minutes. A lot of people looking at obscure games usually only do 5-10 minutes tops.
Keep up the good work!
The train make a lot of sense. You need to think in "coyote vs beepbeep" type of joke. Hanna & Barbera Cartoon type of joke. In the context, the joke works, but unfortunately that context may be missing so many years later.
Woah. Pizza Hutt pizzas in America looks way different from the ones in Australia... They look Awesome here.
American Pizza Hut: Not a pizza, but an incredible simulation! Darn, now I want an Australian Pizza Hut pizza; what kind of weird toppings do they have?
I live in Japan and Pizza Hut does a lot of strange things here.
I'm from New York though, where only little kids eat that stuff--there's too many places that actually make good pizza.
Why the F would a PH branch even exist in New York? I've been to the city, and I have to agree with you, Tzadeck; even a so-so place beats that . . . stuff.
20:56 I love how this aged. This is the definition of cyberpunk right here. High tech enough to have a memory implant. Low tech enough that they thought 600 megabytes was a lot of space.
This was the first episode of the game dungeon that i watched when it was brand new back when i was like
Almost 10
This episode holds a special place in my heart
I bet Ross would be pretty happy to know that the new Assassins Creed game takes place in the French Revolutionary war!
Fable 2 was by far the best of the three, IMO you're not missing anything but artificial guilt trips and the illusion of choice with 3.
Yeah i loved Fable 2,1 was pretty good aswell and 3 isn't horrible but it isn't as good as 1 or 2 for sure.
This and many other game of the late 80s and 90s had this weird vibe. I chalk it up to video games were niche af in the day and most of the programmers back then had much less money BUT more freedom (this is all pre ESRB ratings and multi million dollars budgets). Especially in Europe, you had these studios that were putting out games that were wacky as hell. And I loved every minute of it. Nowadays it's rare to find quirky games that don't fit the mold.
Thanks for posting this! I got a CD copy of this game as a kid but I think I had some problem getting it to run. So I just looked through the manual a lot imagining what it was like to play. I have to say this is very different from what I imagined! But it seems pretty experimental and fresh. Next time I'm at my parents house I'll look to see if my old copy is still there, if so I can share a scan of the manual.
The voice-overs sound like they couldn't find a microphone so they just plugged in some headphones to the microphone jack.
I remember playing this in the mid-90s. I was way into Sierra and LucasArts adventure games despite the fact that I was a young child with a rather basic understanding of English. Which didn't help with this game, I guess, it was simply incomprehensible to me.
lol a small child with poor English skills trying to understand a game that already doesn't make sense.
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy the Ross’s Game Dungeon series. Seriously terrific entertainment on several levels. Just discovered it recently and it feels like I unearthed a treasure chest of nostalgia paired with occasional social commentary. It’s perfect!
"I might have what you want. It's er, reserved for a discerning client. Not exactly completely legal you see NO SKIN OFF MY NOSE"
Well now Ross...Adventure Games haven't died yet.
If the Tex Murphy series can get a Kickstarter going and come back with plenty of the original actors from back in the day, they definitely haven't died yet. I am so looking forward to The Tesla Effect coming out next year, being a fan of Under a Killing Moon thanks to Good Old Games.
It's weird how I've connected this voice to the character. I feel like I'm watching Gordon Freeman do a lets play.
Oi Ross, idk if you may have heard of it since this video debuted but there actually is a "social survival horror" game set during the French Revolution that casts you as a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal. It's called We. The Revolution, and it seems right up your alley.
"Smash head against tree" fucking great. Some times I feel like Ross's little details are the funniest part, then the dude talks. Best corner of the internet hands down
Oh my god, Ross is so fantastic when your high.
my high what?
Seems to me like the same kind of "lost in translation" issue that Asterix and Obelix had, only without a superb team of translators to rewrite all the jokes so they actually made puns.
Love this video! It's wild to check out videos of this game. The overworld engine, down to the sounds used, are the same as in the PC version of Drakkhen, a game most well known for its SNES release. They even reference Drakkhen! It's one of the books on the shelves in the castle, in the room with the guy who vacuums forever.
24:54 You have incurred the wrath of Civvie11 with that cover, Ross.
The pinnacle of incurring Civvie11's wrath.
i would bet money that dog being beaten was traced from a 1940s cartoon
It looked like something taken from Tom and Jerry.
@@tyrranide8708 i think its a foghorn leghorn cartoon?
I'd love to see Ross do an old rpg.
I've been listening to Ross Scott for too long and I haven't slept yet. I'm now reading things in Ross's voice and hearing my own thoughts IN Ross's voice.
HELP
Ross, I was having a fairly crappy Christmas, then I saw this and my day brightened. Thank you for putting out another quality video..
Good news, it looks like the next Assassin's Creed game is set in the French Revolution! Looks like you called it, Ross!
well, how i see this game is that hmmn well imagine what people like 200, 500 or 1000 years in the future will think about our current time, about the middle age, about roman time - lot of stuff will be lost by then and they try to recreate how they think these various times were, but because they don't know, oft stuff mixed up - actual stuff with fiction, creating bizarre stuff, like the skeleton or the train and all the other weird shit, the planet is after all meant to be a amusement park like world, recreating various timeliness...
for me...
that explains a big part of this game...
I love the point you made about comparing GAG's and RPG's. A lot of people seem to think they're the same thing, but you compared them beautifully.
2:23: "I don't want to scare you." O_O Too late, you already scared the shit out of me.
I'm Argentinian and I'm curious about what you meant by USA ending up like Argentina. And I mean truly curious. From here it seems Argentina is either not known at all by people from USA or seen as some tropical chaotic narco country who sheltered nazis. Pretty much ALL the references to Argentina I've seen in shows/movies are pretty dumb to say the least.
Like in X men, where they show villa gesell as a german/swiss like mountain town when is actually a beach city (0 research).
Btw, in 2001 we didn't have a revolution, but close... kinda... it's complicated xD
I think he's referring to the state of their currency.
where do you get that? in what way? sweeden's currency is worth practically the same as ours and our economic situations are very different, I don't see how the currency state has anything to do with the french revolution and the conditions which led to it... or the conditions to which Ross seems to be referring to at least.
+Camilo Etcheverry Ríos más arriba contestó Ross, dijo q por deciones políticas q tomaron su mejor predicción fue q terminen como nosotros, claramente no sabe nada acerca el populismo y corrupción de los.gobiernos Perónistas, no te lo tomes.tan a la defensiva, lo de X-men es un error pelotudo de una película de mierda, habrán querido decir Bariloche, hubo una sola referencia rarísima a la Argentina, una en how I met your mother, q robin va a Arg y.vuelve re hippie.(?)
+Camilo Etcheverry Ríos quise decir q yo.sólo vi una sola referencia rarísima a la Argentina y es esa q nombre
no estoy a la defensiva, precisamente me gustaria saber más xD
The finger room got remade in elden ring.
in french Don Jonz sounds like donjon, Dungeon, so that might be the origin of the protagonist name
This genre is still very much alive. I think the game that came closest to the same vibe as this one is Paradigm.
I felt kinda dirty watching that guy beat the shit out of that dog.
I hope so...
In regards to games about the French Revolution, they just recently (by which I mean within the last year or so) made the first one I'd ever heard of with Assassin's Creed: Unity. But the less said about that broken mess of a game, the better.
Also, in regards to 15:57, I don't particularly remember Pizza Hut being any greasier than any other pizza chain I've sampled. If you want REALLY greasy pizza, try the ones they serve in the food court at Costco. One time there was so much damn grease on my slice that _the cheese literally slid off the crust_ and landed on my plate. I'm not the healthiest eater on earth and I happily eat normal-greasy pizza, but JESUS, PEOPLE, MODERATION!!!
I'm so happy you didn't give up on the Game Dungeon!
I wouldn't call myself a traditional gamer by any sense of the phrase, but you sure make these old games interesting to learn about! Keep it up sir!