Vangers on GOG - gog.la/WhatTheHellAmIDriving THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo The GOG version includes the soundtrack and game manual. Steam does not so if you get that version for the sake of your sanity find a manual pdf.
MandaloreGaming by the way, if you want some more hidden gems of this magical three R (Russian Racing (kinda but hard to say) Roleplaying) - there is one game series that is awesome (unless it's my nostalgia). There was game series AIM (artificial intellect, not aim), not sure if first one have an English translation, but second one have for sure and got a steam release store.steampowered.com/app/289180/AIM2_Clan_Wars/ (third game is shit, it's actually racing and it's garbage). It's about artificial intellegence that was made to test weapon systems by humans in the future. Humans left it (why - story spoilers) and artificial intelligence started their own "culture" on this planet, developing their new views on the world with free will. UPD there is a translation for the first game, there is their official forum link forum.skyriver.ru/viewforum.php?f=38 overall story of the devs is very sad, they are capable, passionate and have tools like Unreal Engine today, but they don't have resources or approval for working on the third title. And another nice RRR game is about post apocalypse store.steampowered.com/app/285500/Hard_Truck_Apocalypse__Ex_Machina/ I really have no idea why our developers were fans of vehicle roleplaying games, but I fucking loved them. And at least can say this right now about game soundtrack.
I think the Vangers along with the main character are energy beings stuck inside vehicles substitute for their bodies... Maybe, they are former human souls...
I think there might be something to this. Often, more antagonistic than the enemies: the terrain and the controls. And drinking too much (iridescent green) Monster Energy has definitely turned *me* into some kind of mutant.
@@ourDreamcatcher I love the fact the protagonist of that game chugs monster like he does, if the world doesn’t kill him his dietary habits ultimately will. The fact they are in a post apocalyptic world and yet still have monster energy drinks like some new type of taco bell from Demolition Man is also incredibly funny.
You got it all wrong -- it's actually a totally accurate russian driving simulator, you barely control your car, other drivers act like psycho lunatics, the road itself collapses under your wheels, mutated worms tell you what to do and you try your best to make your living by collecting weird substances.
the international version of perimeter is somewhat shortened in comparison to the original supposedly to not puzzle foreign gamers and that led to incoherence of it storytelling.
Yeah only it's not about human-bug war, it's far, far before that. The Cryspo don't even make any appearance in Perimeter. It's all about humans trying to survive these alien worlds, each faction in its own manner.
In an absolute weird way that makes total sense! I remember playing the yanky weird and indecipherable mess that Perimeter was waaaay back. I never ever heard of Vangers, but looking at what is here; Voxel based terrain that terraforms, bugs and humans, something about big phase gate technology, a big bug-war, an indecipherable story and plot... it's all there.
I'm pretty sure this game doesn't exist and Mandy has just lost his fucking mind. This claymation video is impressive but ultimately the equivalent of writing in blood on the walls of a padded cell. I hope you get better, Mandy!
Too many references to Russian/Soviet culture to translate. Like, the ranks: "rab" (slave), "prorab" ("foreman"). When you get the "rabbox" you wear, they cite a poem about the Young Pioneers' tie. Like "Keep it dearly, for it's color is the same as that of our Banner!" I guess the inspiration came from the Kin-Dza-Dza movie (a sci-fi classics)
Interesting, I can see the similarities with Kin Dza Dza. Unfortunately I think most of the references and wordplay were lost in the English translation. To make things worse the GOG version actually has two conflicting translations -- sometimes characters will refer to an item by one term but it has a different name in your inventory, or vehicle names in the store don't match the name in the description.
adenowirus In gaming, definitely. Excluding Tetris, Russian games seem to either be sheer nihilism and insufferably grimdark/emo nonsense, or else pure surrealism like someone let Tim Burton drop acid.
I remember playing this game back in the day, it was so bizarre, so unique and so brutal. Bigger cars with rocket launchers could come out of nowhere and take your lunch money basically... They had so many unique terms and vocabulary, I have no idea wtf they were thinking when they made it. Many bugs too, but I still liked it !
While there are Vangers ang Perimeter in the beginning of this universe, there is also Hammerfight, which tells a story about local world, where trapped humans reversed back to tribal kingdoms. And there is Highfleet (still in dev though), which basically could be considered the prequel to the said Hammerfight, as it shows what happened before. That one is a big universe, to say the least.
I unironically love slav games, they are uncaring, unfair and undocumented. So you aren't the "chosen one" in them and that makes them more interesting to finally beat them albeit the occasional frustration.
Я удивился, когда в конце услышал "Все в огонь" - классная, старая песня группы Hi-fi. Но, еще больше меня поразило огромное кол-во комментариев от американцев, узнавших эту песню. Оказывается, она является саундтреком к каким-то известным на западе порно-играм. Охренеть! Чтоооо? Впрочем, какая игра, такие и внезапные открытия. Безумие!
Holy heck! Vangers! I loved that game when I was a kid, forgot the name of it as a teenager, then rediscovered it as an adult. What a strange, weird, janky but lovable game it was. Thanks for covering it! What a trip!
Well, it is indeed lackluster, compared to the megalomaniac ham-fest that was the russian voice-over, but the surreal setting is still there, and that's the important part. UPD: for those interested, here is a little comparison (turn subtitles on) - /watch?v=o_cbeiOYRp4
The problem is not the voiceover, but the chunks of plot-related dialogue getting cut. Nomad does not exist in English version of the game. The ending is also not there. For a game where the plot is 95% talking heads it's fucking offensively bad.
There's another game series from Russia you definitely need to try out - Space Rangers series. It's a mix of space RPG, strategy , arcade and quest all in one game. Some say it's similar to Star Control games. Unfortunately there was almost no marketing for western audience and the game is well known mostly in Russian-speaking countries.
A lot of things were explained in manual. You see, this game was selling in box, with poster and big manual. At least that was in Russia. So cause most start information was in manual, developers decide not repeating it in game itself) Thx for covering the game btw. You get it right, this game pisses you off, but you just want to know what's next)
The American release also came with a manual that explained a lot of things, it wasn't perfect though; Maybe the translation was flawed, I don't know. It helps if you're intuitive when playing this game.
Ahhh, makes sense now. Got a copy of this game from a french PC GAMER magazine back in 1999. It obviously did not come with a manual. 12yo me was quite lost playing this. Found the CD at the bottom of a box and here I am today.
@@DarkOmegaMK2 Because kids might be reading this comment section and New Grounds should be clue enough to where most people know this music from. But since I am pasting this into any mention of the song for those who don't know this association and might be misled: 'No, the outro isn't 'from' a certain well-known flash game series. The creator of those games simply stole some music - as was usual in the early days of flash animation. This doesn't make it their property, nor should it be associated exclusively with the person who essentialy stole this music. And no, the music used in those games still isn't credited these days in case you are wondering. If you are interested in the actual origin of the song, here you go: th-cam.com/video/AjfPFKWMxHY/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Hi-Fi-Topic It's a good song, so I recommend checking it out.'
The art style and atmosphere are awesome. Being built in a voxel engine makes it look so out of this world. We need more stuff like this. PS I can't stand when people calls Minecraft a voxel game. It is not, it's a polygonal graphic engine, where polygons are used like if they were voxels, but no voxel in sight.
It's pretty impressive how they baked a claymation aesthetic into voxels. IMO, that by itself is worth the asking price... IDK how or why but the animation sort of reminds me of the original Gumby and claymation kids shows of the era. Edit: what's impressive to me aside from the above is that the devs are still actively updating it. That's awesome! We're talking the studio released the game in 98 and in 2021 they're still doing things for it.
By the grace of mighty Lipuringa you did it! You actually did it!!!! This game is legendary on so many levels it's hard to think of where to start... And now a legendary reviewer had a go at it! Bloody Glorks, it's Amazing! Just brilliant really! What a day!!! Thank you man! It was a treat for a tired soul of an old school gamer! As a native Russian speaker I really regret that some subtleties of game slang (almost entire language) and humor could have been lost in translation. And yeah I bought this game on release (in 1998 I was 16) and beat it in 2 months without Internet and walkthroughts. Those were the days...
А я еще и играл сначала в демо-версию, которая была на диске, прилагавшемся к журналу "Страна Игр" и там был только один мир - Фострал, но все игровые механики работали, вангеры ездили, стреляли, участвовали в элирекции... Боже, как же я хотел купить полную версию и попасть наконец на Глоркс! :)))
I remember the bug screen from this game. My parents bought it for me when i was around 10 i could not speak English, did not know what to do, but was somehow fascinated by this game. Even though i barely know how to even getting to the driving mechanic... Thanks for the video!
It's the most fantastic game I've ever seen. And the graphics--when all the other gamers were playing Doom looking at square pixels, Vangers already had a fully alterable and destructible landscape (many parts of it are written in assembly language, and the original code has been lost over time. Therefore, I am the proud owner of that original version, not the Steam version). It will forever be in my heart.
This looks like a game I would've played a lot as a kid if I had a PC back then. I was into really weird vehicle based action games back then. Wasted so much time on DeathDrome then.
Yep I remember playing the first DF games. Simple yet fun I would describe them. Had quite a mod/map-making community because the maps were literal kbs in size compared to other games at the time. The map files basically just instructions that the engine would generate the map from.
Well I was talking about DF1&2, Land Warrior for me was a bit of a dissapointment :/ and the engine worked fine on my Pentium 2 back then, probably because it was less advanced and used 2D pngs for weapons instead of 3D ones like in the first DF games.
DF2 is one of my favorites. "Quick Missions" in FPS games back in the day was such neat idea of byte sized gaming sessions. One of the most interesting things about it was the limited ammo management, meaning you needed to choose your fights. And yeah, the maps were HUGE! I played Land Warrior, but was still a kid back then, so I didn't got disappointed with stuff all that much.
I agree so much with you on the Quick Missions aspect of DF. There's literally no game these days in the mil-sim genre that just let's you jump-in jump-out of a session these days. Possibly the last game I experienced to be like that was SWAT 4, amazing game even today with the Elite Force mod. Loved seeing the penguins doing slides in the ice maps in Delta Force 2 =)). I understand why you probably enjoyed Land Warrior much more as a kid. Like how I did with Doom 3. As a kid I loved and played Doom 1 & 2 Everyday. So when Doom 3 came out I was in fanboy mode and thought it was the best game ever. Years later I find Doom 1 & 2 to be the most enjoyable arcade shooters ever and Doom 3 to be unbearable to play because there's so much in the way of letting you having fun.
There is a saying in Russian and it really encapsulates the process of understanding wacky games: "Без бутылки не разберешься" - "You can't figure out without a drink". Because mpst of the game really feels like you're stoned af. Gigantic green worms with faces and hands(and little tails) tell you to go between their den-garages and deliver food and shit in which said worms(called elypods) like to swim, whilst there are more than you can think of drunk drivers who take verything as a challenge, then there are the challenges which are races in which you have to deliver some type'o'shit, and it goes on, and on, and on. This mushroom explodes, those bugs can chew through your truck(?), every mechos has his own cryptic description and the whole game has incredibly wacky color scheme. On a side note, all of the worlds in Vangers are _donut-shaped._
completing tabutask is not necessery for achieving counselor's advice about slavery... before you go to Glorx, Lipky tell you 'go to Glorx AND RETURN BACK to me' when he got you key from Portal!
Perimeter was one of the prequel games for this made by that company? cool, I remember buying and playing it, though I was probs too young to figure out proper unit compositions and never really got far, I really dug the idea of morphing your units from type a to type b on the fly for what you need, makes for a pretty interesting concept, no clue how much that holds up still, but I remember it fondly
the parts that involve talking to the bug-human hybrids, especially the way speech was represented, gave me serious cruelty squad vibes. the art style is like something between what a child would draw and a fever dream, and its a feeling that seems to crop up every so often yet I have no idea if I should comprehend it
Thanks for the review, Mandalore! The game of lost epoch. Russian game industry was creative and daring back then, in 90s to 00s. Well, the whole gaming industry was a bit up to make it all art, not just to sell lootboxes.
Review Perimeter! (make sure to also do emperor's testament) If you can make it through Vangers and you have any enjoyment of strategy games you'll love it. I really enjoyed slowly adjusting to its particular brand of insanity.
Man I love this game, we got it on sale at a Menards of all places along with another eastern game called Earth 2140 for my father one fathersday. He played Earth 2140 a bit but my sister and I were the ones who fell in love and played the hell out of Vangers. It's just so insanely weird and deep we were obsessed and to this day if I start humming the menu music she'll start singing it at well. lol Btw yeah I was like 10 when I first played this game, I grew up to be a big fan of far out media in general. Maybe I was the right audience though cause I loved 60's music from a very early age as well. lol
Well, since we're in *that* (ie good) era of russian game devs, why don't you take a look at Vangers prequel - Perimeter? Or better yet at Space Rangers or Ex Machina?!:D
You should try out Space Rangers. I see the notion that you quite enjoy Eastern European games and this one will surely be a treat for you. I'd recommend starting from the second part, but first is also fine and dandy
Oh my god, I found this when I was like ten or so. I tried and tried but could not figure out what to do, how to do it, and my computer could barely run it. Glad it's as esoteric as I remember it being, and not that I was just oblivious.
Oh my god, this is the first game I ever played. Searching about on the internet I was never able to find it so I always just thought I was mis-remembering the name or something, turns out it was just obscure and Russian
Great stuff, keep them coming. Perimeter was a really strange strategy game but seemed very unique, still holding out for Distant Worlds one day 😀 Have you also considered Nexus The Jupiter Incident? That's quite an interesting space strategy game with a story to boot!
I remenber this game when I was 6 or 7 years old. I got it from a CD that came from cereal box (Yea, We are talking those times).. I didn't understand english at the time (Heck, prolly didn't even know it existed) and I would boot up the game and simply drive around. I remenber being able to open a portal trough pure luck once and never being able to acomplish the same feat again on other playtroughs. I remenber this game being creepy at first though I got used to it.. Thanks for the video. I had forgotten the name of the game. I will go back and run it again now that I will be able to arrive somewhere!
One overly ambitious game I loved back then but is pretty damn hard to find these days would be 'Space clash'. A older rts title that offered both a linear campaign for several factions as well as a galactic conquest mode , some banger music and interesting but sometimes strange mechanics that include diplomacy and trading, to the point of being able to buy out your enemy rather than conquer them. Submarine titans is another older rts favourite that sadly got lost as it competed against starcraft back in the day, but similarly does things in a very unique and fun way. Actually, I recommend both, especially the latter as it's more accessable and easily available, while space clash may make the more interesting game to cover on the channel.
Fun fact. In original was called Turgor, in biology it means tension inside a cell. Came from turgere (lat.) - to be full of. Low Turgor = fading. If you play the game, that makes so much sense. P.S. Sorry for my English.
I was seriously surprised that this game was related to the Perimeter games. I have been trudging through the first one for the past week now, and the only reason why I bought them was because I own an original copy of Emperor's Testament. The last thing I expected was that that sci-fi RTS would be connected with a Giger inspired racing/driving game. Then again, thinking about it, it kind of makes sense, in a way, given the story of the Perimeter games. Cheers though, for opening my eyes to this game!
"Hello Russian weird old game I've come to play with you again" Notification softly popping - Mandalore uploaded while I was sleeping And his work now branded in my brain And will remain Within the sound of UwU
If I tried to sum up the story in one sentence, it's... half-human, half-insect remnant creatures surviving in bunkers in a bizarre world while playing cargo cult to human customs and following insect instincts while understanding neither--and they hire you, a disembodied driver in a vehicle, to do stuff for them. Oh, and the money is bugs. I guess that makes it two sentences.
So good to see a review by someone who took time to actually learn the quirks and get past the wall of text and shitty preset controls at the beginning, it's a wonderfully weird game that I love seeing more people discover
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Vangers on GOG - gog.la/WhatTheHellAmIDriving
THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo
The GOG version includes the soundtrack and game manual. Steam does not so if you get that version for the sake of your sanity find a manual pdf.
MAKE A STAR CONTROL VIDEO
AquaNox 2: Revelation. It's on gog.com.
MandaloreGaming by the way, if you want some more hidden gems of this magical three R (Russian Racing (kinda but hard to say) Roleplaying) - there is one game series that is awesome (unless it's my nostalgia). There was game series AIM (artificial intellect, not aim), not sure if first one have an English translation, but second one have for sure and got a steam release store.steampowered.com/app/289180/AIM2_Clan_Wars/ (third game is shit, it's actually racing and it's garbage). It's about artificial intellegence that was made to test weapon systems by humans in the future. Humans left it (why - story spoilers) and artificial intelligence started their own "culture" on this planet, developing their new views on the world with free will. UPD there is a translation for the first game, there is their official forum link forum.skyriver.ru/viewforum.php?f=38 overall story of the devs is very sad, they are capable, passionate and have tools like Unreal Engine today, but they don't have resources or approval for working on the third title.
And another nice RRR game is about post apocalypse store.steampowered.com/app/285500/Hard_Truck_Apocalypse__Ex_Machina/
I really have no idea why our developers were fans of vehicle roleplaying games, but I fucking loved them. And at least can say this right now about game soundtrack.
How are Gabe’s added to the list
I noticed it's not on your list, but I'd like to see your thoughts on the original Killing Floor.
One of the developers of Vangers went on to make Hammerfight and HighFleet. Really makes sense in retrospect.
HIGHFLEET?
@@sebastiangorka200 Yeah?
He didn't work on vangers, but main vangers dev did create his own studio and end up publishing hammerfight.
"Hey so we got horribly combined from two different species, what should we do?
"Let's race"
It’s established that drivers are not bug people, they are a separate thing.
petrpeacekeeper What are they?
Ace Wolfgang As of now, unclear.
Well, it's basically the plot of The Zoo Race.
I think the Vangers along with the main character are energy beings stuck inside vehicles substitute for their bodies...
Maybe, they are former human souls...
The guy who made this game, Andrey “KranK” Kuzmin, died in a car crash. May he rest in peace
Why isn't this comment any higher?
@@FlameSoulisvideos 5 years old New comments tend to get less likes on older videos
@@dbearded130 Time to fix it, like his comment like crazy
@@FlameSoulis Well, do you thumbs up to a guy been ran over or thumbs down?
But really he was a real visionary, RIP!
There's some strange irony in this statement.
Holy shit... this is what kojima played before making death stranding
This was the original "strand-type" game
I think there might be something to this. Often, more antagonistic than the enemies: the terrain and the controls. And drinking too much (iridescent green) Monster Energy has definitely turned *me* into some kind of mutant.
im 666 like
@@ourDreamcatcher I love the fact the protagonist of that game chugs monster like he does, if the world doesn’t kill him his dietary habits ultimately will. The fact they are in a post apocalyptic world and yet still have monster energy drinks like some new type of taco bell from Demolition Man is also incredibly funny.
@@jackocallaghan2452 ‘Strandslike’
The Bugs Life/ Warhammer 40k spin off looks great
Ryan Braden OOOOH
Top 10 anime crossovers of all time.
But in the end it turns out it's not warhammer or bugs
It's Matrix before Matrix
You got it all wrong -- it's actually a totally accurate russian driving simulator, you barely control your car, other drivers act like psycho lunatics, the road itself collapses under your wheels, mutated worms tell you what to do and you try your best to make your living by collecting weird substances.
Underrated comment.
Ты блять прав (и даже если ты не понимаешь что тут написано, просто знай, твой коммент недооценён)
всё верно...
Как ты догадался?
@@Крокант-щ1с просто я русский и вожу машину)
ok everything makes sense except the worms
Perimiter is the PREQUEL TO THIS GAME ? I just thought it was a bit of a trippy dimension hopping game holy shit
the international version of perimeter is somewhat shortened in comparison to the original supposedly to not puzzle foreign gamers and that led to incoherence of it storytelling.
Yeah only it's not about human-bug war, it's far, far before that. The Cryspo don't even make any appearance in Perimeter. It's all about humans trying to survive these alien worlds, each faction in its own manner.
In an absolute weird way that makes total sense! I remember playing the yanky weird and indecipherable mess that Perimeter was waaaay back. I never ever heard of Vangers, but looking at what is here;
Voxel based terrain that terraforms, bugs and humans, something about big phase gate technology, a big bug-war, an indecipherable story and plot... it's all there.
Lol what are you doing in here I'm not against it just curious
that is weird , didnt the entire plot of Perimeter revolve around traveling in world of psychoreactive matter ?
When you're a Russian child in the late 90s early 2000s you have no nintendo, no playstation, no nothing. All you have is gothic, CS 1.6, and this.
And Дальнобойщики.
HoMM 3: SoD too. And Red Alert 2 with video cutscenes ripped. And D2 (also without cutscenes)
I had Ex Machina
not russian, but morrowind and CS. best games ever
Плейстейшен была уже не надо уже совсем нас закапывать. Причем пс была почти у всех моих корешей
I'm pretty sure this game doesn't exist and Mandy has just lost his fucking mind. This claymation video is impressive but ultimately the equivalent of writing in blood on the walls of a padded cell. I hope you get better, Mandy!
you sure?
im playing it right now. on my new computer.
@@Ribbons0121R121 the malady has claimed another
@@DragonWinter36 It's literally the best game I've ever seen, so...
Watch your language dude!
The Madness is spreading...
Too many references to Russian/Soviet culture to translate. Like, the ranks: "rab" (slave), "prorab" ("foreman"). When you get the "rabbox" you wear, they cite a poem about the Young Pioneers' tie. Like "Keep it dearly, for it's color is the same as that of our Banner!" I guess the inspiration came from the Kin-Dza-Dza movie (a sci-fi classics)
Interesting, I can see the similarities with Kin Dza Dza. Unfortunately I think most of the references and wordplay were lost in the English translation. To make things worse the GOG version actually has two conflicting translations -- sometimes characters will refer to an item by one term but it has a different name in your inventory, or vehicle names in the store don't match the name in the description.
@@cometkite yeah author of Vangers said that this movie influenced him a lot in interview with one popular russian youtuber
♂️Slave♂️?
*Mandalore* : "Car Racing, Bugs..."
*Me* : "Nah, this is not weird at all"
*Mandalore* : "...and Russian.."
*Me* : "TOTALLY WEIRD"
Russia is not a country, it's a state of mind.
adenowirus
In gaming, definitely. Excluding Tetris, Russian games seem to either be sheer nihilism and insufferably grimdark/emo nonsense, or else pure surrealism like someone let Tim Burton drop acid.
Hey, Space Wolves and Space Rangers are neither.
Рейнджеры так то довольно гримдарк если внимательно играть.
Adolf Tinker, текстовки особенно.
I remember playing this game back in the day, it was so bizarre, so unique and so brutal. Bigger cars with rocket launchers could come out of nowhere and take your lunch money basically... They had so many unique terms and vocabulary, I have no idea wtf they were thinking when they made it. Many bugs too, but I still liked it !
Thats... A curious choice of outro music.
Isn't that from Meet&Fuck?
Just some older Russian pop music is all.
fucking perv
but yes it is
One of the better Hi-Fi songs, to be sure. I, for one, was pleasantly surprised that Mandalore chose to select it.
Ah, I knew it sounded familiar
While there are Vangers ang Perimeter in the beginning of this universe, there is also Hammerfight, which tells a story about local world, where trapped humans reversed back to tribal kingdoms. And there is Highfleet (still in dev though), which basically could be considered the prequel to the said Hammerfight, as it shows what happened before.
That one is a big universe, to say the least.
Never knew hammerfight was somehow related to vangers universe. Or was it Kranx's influence on developer of hammerfight?
Holy fuck, Hammerfight is in the Vangers universe?
Большое спасибо, это видео легендарно!
Shammy oh shit owl man.
Классно ты нашло переводчик
Shammy nice
Нашол *
Нашел*
Don't you just love it when the outro song brings back more memories than the game itself?
What is that damn song
Other then the generic flash game Sax music
@@a.cunningham4974 th-cam.com/video/SJw8efaDgl4/w-d-xo.html
@@a.cunningham4974 It's "Vse V Ogon' (Pesnya CZarevny)" by a 90's Russian band called "Hi-Fi"
This game looks like a Giger Fever dream while he's crossfading acid and horse tranquilizer.
Thanks for everything and rest in peace, KranK.
Rest in peace, Andrey Kuzmin "KranK"
I unironically love slav games, they are uncaring, unfair and undocumented. So you aren't the "chosen one" in them and that makes them more interesting to finally beat them albeit the occasional frustration.
In western videogames you are "The Chosen One" from the start.
In slavic videogames you make yourself a chosen one
@@f1resta_r439 In capitalist America, your destiny chooses you.
In Soviet Russia, you choose your destiny.
@@quasar4780 In Vanger, your Destiny runs you over.
@@Razumen then calls you a fucking slave of money, says a lot of jargonisms and chugs you into a driving bomb
Have fun!
@@Razumenin vangers, you get enslaved and zapihan v раффу
Я удивился, когда в конце услышал "Все в огонь" - классная, старая песня группы Hi-fi.
Но, еще больше меня поразило огромное кол-во комментариев от американцев, узнавших эту песню. Оказывается, она является саундтреком к каким-то известным на западе порно-играм. Охренеть! Чтоооо? Впрочем, какая игра, такие и внезапные открытия. Безумие!
Спасибо за наводку, дружище.
Haha, I don't speak russian.
все в огонь в порноигре? ЧТО?! То-то я думаю, че за странные комменты на английском...
@@jyuts4359 есть такое. Я сам в шоке был, когда услышал её в порно игре.
А что за игра? Я что-то очень смутно вспоминаю, но хочется детали узнать.
Holy heck! Vangers! I loved that game when I was a kid, forgot the name of it as a teenager, then rediscovered it as an adult. What a strange, weird, janky but lovable game it was. Thanks for covering it! What a trip!
Andrey "KranK" Kuzmin, the creator of Vangers, died in a car accident today.
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Oh, god, i'm looking forward to that Perimeter review. That game has one of the most original and epic setting as well as game mechanics ever.
Loquacious Lobster Lapidary English localisation cuts absolutely everything that makes it a KD-LAB game.
Well, it is indeed lackluster, compared to the megalomaniac ham-fest that was the russian voice-over, but the surreal setting is still there, and that's the important part.
UPD: for those interested, here is a little comparison (turn subtitles on) - /watch?v=o_cbeiOYRp4
The problem is not the voiceover, but the chunks of plot-related dialogue getting cut.
Nomad does not exist in English version of the game.
The ending is also not there.
For a game where the plot is 95% talking heads it's fucking offensively bad.
Oh god yes
Whorus Lupercal Is there any way to experience the game properly as an English speaker?
There's another game series from Russia you definitely need to try out - Space Rangers series. It's a mix of space RPG, strategy , arcade and quest all in one game. Some say it's similar to Star Control games. Unfortunately there was almost no marketing for western audience and the game is well known mostly in Russian-speaking countries.
05/11/2022 a founder of K-D Lab studio and a lead designer of Vangers died in a car accident.
I'm always impressed with the amount of detail/depth or view distances voxel based terrain allowed for in older games.
this game is pretty
Kreal Tube oh hey kreal
Kreal Tube hey its kreal
Tex Murphy 4 when
Give me your babies Kreal.
you're pretty
A lot of things were explained in manual. You see, this game was selling in box, with poster and big manual. At least that was in Russia. So cause most start information was in manual, developers decide not repeating it in game itself)
Thx for covering the game btw. You get it right, this game pisses you off, but you just want to know what's next)
It's the reason I'm trying to get a hand on a big box version. There are EU/US big boxes of this, but they're so expensive!
The American release also came with a manual that explained a lot of things, it wasn't perfect though; Maybe the translation was flawed, I don't know. It helps if you're intuitive when playing this game.
The GoG version also has a manual!
This has to be the most Russian comment I have read so far
Ahhh, makes sense now. Got a copy of this game from a french PC GAMER magazine back in 1999. It obviously did not come with a manual. 12yo me was quite lost playing this. Found the CD at the bottom of a box and here I am today.
You have excellent taste in music Mandalore
@ArmyAnts Studios no, not that one
ArmyAnts Studios he meant the outro song...
@@PelinalWhitestrake36 let's not talk about that
@@raven75257 why not?
@@DarkOmegaMK2 Because kids might be reading this comment section and New Grounds should be clue enough to where most people know this music from.
But since I am pasting this into any mention of the song for those who don't know this association and might be misled:
'No, the outro isn't 'from' a certain well-known flash game series. The creator of those games simply stole some music - as was usual in the early days of flash animation. This doesn't make it their property, nor should it be associated exclusively with the person who essentialy stole this music. And no, the music used in those games still isn't credited these days in case you are wondering. If you are interested in the actual origin of the song, here you go: th-cam.com/video/AjfPFKWMxHY/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Hi-Fi-Topic
It's a good song, so I recommend checking it out.'
The art style and atmosphere are awesome. Being built in a voxel engine makes it look so out of this world. We need more stuff like this.
PS I can't stand when people calls Minecraft a voxel game. It is not, it's a polygonal graphic engine, where polygons are used like if they were voxels, but no voxel in sight.
That outro music just made an entire generation of internet users awkwardly adjust their pants
Chesty La Rue
Tfw you don't know the song.
I *HATE* that I instantly recognized it
nah all cool its good song
A series of games called Meet & F: _Insert relevant subtitle here_
Paul A. Oh shit. So that's where I've heard it before.
It's pretty impressive how they baked a claymation aesthetic into voxels. IMO, that by itself is worth the asking price... IDK how or why but the animation sort of reminds me of the original Gumby and claymation kids shows of the era.
Edit: what's impressive to me aside from the above is that the devs are still actively updating it. That's awesome! We're talking the studio released the game in 98 and in 2021 they're still doing things for it.
By the grace of mighty Lipuringa you did it! You actually did it!!!!
This game is legendary on so many levels it's hard to think of where to start...
And now a legendary reviewer had a go at it! Bloody Glorks, it's Amazing! Just brilliant really!
What a day!!!
Thank you man!
It was a treat for a tired soul of an old school gamer!
As a native Russian speaker I really regret that some subtleties of game slang (almost entire language) and humor could have been lost in translation.
And yeah I bought this game on release (in 1998 I was 16) and beat it in 2 months without Internet and walkthroughts. Those were the days...
А я еще и играл сначала в демо-версию, которая была на диске, прилагавшемся к журналу "Страна Игр" и там был только один мир - Фострал, но все игровые механики работали, вангеры ездили, стреляли, участвовали в элирекции... Боже, как же я хотел купить полную версию и попасть наконец на Глоркс! :)))
THAT ENDING SONG!
Hemang Chauhan ikr
What is it?
You're either too young, or too "clean" to not know it. :^ )
I've played Meet&Fuck. I'm asking for a name. It's a good song.
The song's All The Fire by HiFi
What's up with the meet&fck music at the end of the video? Lol hahaha I still love that pick. Keep it up man!
I remember the bug screen from this game. My parents bought it for me when i was around 10 i could not speak English, did not know what to do, but was somehow fascinated by this game. Even though i barely know how to even getting to the driving mechanic... Thanks for the video!
Listening to this video again in December 2019, it sounds a hell of alot like Death Stranding.... just more interesting.
This is to Death Stranding what Metal Gear is to Metal Gear Solid
When you smuggle heroine. That is, the larva that sings heroic songs.
What an accurate depiction of current day Turkey.
Mah nigga
Wdym?
Really? Why's that?
Galahad don't know
You mean Germany
Even just watching the video, the visuals, really pull you in and trap you into this world. Very interesting.
It's the most fantastic game I've ever seen. And the graphics--when all the other gamers were playing Doom looking at square pixels, Vangers already had a fully alterable and destructible landscape (many parts of it are written in assembly language, and the original code has been lost over time. Therefore, I am the proud owner of that original version, not the Steam version). It will forever be in my heart.
You absolutely should check out Perimeter. It's an absolute blast, a bit weired but really good!
Probably the last game i would expect to see reviewed in 2018, good job!
This looks like a game I would've played a lot as a kid if I had a PC back then. I was into really weird vehicle based action games back then. Wasted so much time on DeathDrome then.
For more Voxel based games, I suggest
* *Thunder Brigade*
* *Early Delta Force games (esp. DF 1,2, Land Warrior)*
Yep I remember playing the first DF games.
Simple yet fun I would describe them.
Had quite a mod/map-making community because the maps were literal kbs in size compared to other games at the time.
The map files basically just instructions that the engine would generate the map from.
Yeah.
Land Warrior was quite advanced for it's time, and it stomped our then ancient PCs.
Well I was talking about DF1&2, Land Warrior for me was a bit of a dissapointment :/ and the engine worked fine on my Pentium 2 back then, probably because it was less advanced and used 2D pngs for weapons instead of 3D ones like in the first DF games.
DF2 is one of my favorites. "Quick Missions" in FPS games back in the day was such neat idea of byte sized gaming sessions.
One of the most interesting things about it was the limited ammo management, meaning you needed to choose your fights.
And yeah, the maps were HUGE!
I played Land Warrior, but was still a kid back then, so I didn't got disappointed with stuff all that much.
I agree so much with you on the Quick Missions aspect of DF.
There's literally no game these days in the mil-sim genre that just let's you jump-in jump-out of a session these days.
Possibly the last game I experienced to be like that was SWAT 4, amazing game even today with the Elite Force mod.
Loved seeing the penguins doing slides in the ice maps in Delta Force 2 =)).
I understand why you probably enjoyed Land Warrior much more as a kid.
Like how I did with Doom 3. As a kid I loved and played Doom 1 & 2 Everyday.
So when Doom 3 came out I was in fanboy mode and thought it was the best game ever.
Years later I find Doom 1 & 2 to be the most enjoyable arcade shooters ever and Doom 3 to be unbearable to play because there's so much in the way of letting you having fun.
That outro music...
MandaLOOOORE! You got some explainin to do!
I really like the plasticine style it has as well as the customisation options available to you. Looks like a fun game.
If you like that, you might want to look into Ice Pick Lodge. They're Russian guys who make artsy games, with Pathologic being the most widely known.
I know it's unlikely but I hope this is the comment that made Mandalore look at Pathologic.
I hope he makes a Tension video!!
YOU AINT SLICK MANDALORE
I KNOW THE TYPE OF FLASH GAMES THAT ENDING TUNE IS FROM
YOU AINT CLEVER
I knew it was from somewhere, I just couldn't remember.
Quite the explicit flash game lol
which flash game?
i think lots of us do xD
names I need names, related to Newgrounds I presume?
There is a saying in Russian and it really encapsulates the process of understanding wacky games: "Без бутылки не разберешься" - "You can't figure out without a drink".
Because mpst of the game really feels like you're stoned af. Gigantic green worms with faces and hands(and little tails) tell you to go between their den-garages and deliver food and shit in which said worms(called elypods) like to swim, whilst there are more than you can think of drunk drivers who take verything as a challenge, then there are the challenges which are races in which you have to deliver some type'o'shit, and it goes on, and on, and on. This mushroom explodes, those bugs can chew through your truck(?), every mechos has his own cryptic description and the whole game has incredibly wacky color scheme.
On a side note, all of the worlds in Vangers are _donut-shaped._
not all. Fostral is, but I'm not sure about others
if you complete tabutasks counselors do tell you about dissolving wall and how to avoid slavery
completing tabutask is not necessery for achieving counselor's advice about slavery... before you go to Glorx, Lipky tell you 'go to Glorx AND RETURN BACK to me' when he got you key from Portal!
The gachimuchi inserts is what I truly love you for, Mandalore.
Perimeter was one of the prequel games for this made by that company? cool, I remember buying and playing it, though I was probs too young to figure out proper unit compositions and never really got far, I really dug the idea of morphing your units from type a to type b on the fly for what you need, makes for a pretty interesting concept, no clue how much that holds up still, but I remember it fondly
А мне больше нравиться 2ая часть франшизы Периметр, к сожалению бОльшинство людей не разделяет моих чувств к ней хД
Love that you're coming out with more videos after your well-deserved break. Honest you're my favorite TH-camr so keep up the good work!
Thanks for explaining voxels. Ever since command and conquer I've wondered about those things. This game graphics are astonishing
hearing that ending music instinctively made me check to see if someone was coming into my room. damn you mandelore
0:53 *F 24*
Just tap F12 twice.
Finally, a game I can play with my terminal Model M keyboard!
BINGO!
And Stephen King thought F13 is scary.
My keyboard has a F24 key. It is functionally CTRL+F12
www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UB40B5A
the parts that involve talking to the bug-human hybrids, especially the way speech was represented, gave me serious cruelty squad vibes. the art style is like something between what a child would draw and a fever dream, and its a feeling that seems to crop up every so often yet I have no idea if I should comprehend it
I forgot you were back and my day has been made
man that ending song sucker punched me. nice video mandalore.
Been more than 20 years since I saw this on a screen.
Glad I wasn't alone in almost understanding it.
But did you gained brouzouf?
your legs are ok
Turns out the bugs and humans had a slightly diffrent idea of what a "race war" was
Thanks for the review, Mandalore! The game of lost epoch. Russian game industry was creative and daring back then, in 90s to 00s. Well, the whole gaming industry was a bit up to make it all art, not just to sell lootboxes.
because back then you could afford to make a fun game with 2 people. Grow up
You sure many of the methods of old can't be re-applied in this day and age?
That Vigilante8 music when talking about the cars... man, so much nostalgia, maybe you could review Vigilante8 1 and 2
The music at the end sent me back to some old memories, and I know you know what memories
A review about a Legacy of Kain Video game would be cool.
Really glad you're back always like seeing the game reviews.
I love the use of the guardsmen and the tyranids for the explanation
Review Perimeter! (make sure to also do emperor's testament) If you can make it through Vangers and you have any enjoyment of strategy games you'll love it. I really enjoyed slowly adjusting to its particular brand of insanity.
This is a Ross' Game Dungeon kinda game.
Mandalore is 80% Errant Signal and 20% Bob Ross and honestly, better than both!
@@tukkek there aint noone better than Ross Scott :P
Knowing him, he'd want a map of the entire alien world.
@@DevilsAdvocateofnazareth You mean there aint noone more boring than Ross Scott
@@MrSottho now i want a dungeon episode on this game just so we can see that map
I used to play Perimeter when I was 9 and I never knew it was a prequel to this!
Truly the first strand-type game...
Man I love this game, we got it on sale at a Menards of all places along with another eastern game called Earth 2140 for my father one fathersday. He played Earth 2140 a bit but my sister and I were the ones who fell in love and played the hell out of Vangers. It's just so insanely weird and deep we were obsessed and to this day if I start humming the menu music she'll start singing it at well. lol Btw yeah I was like 10 when I first played this game, I grew up to be a big fan of far out media in general. Maybe I was the right audience though cause I loved 60's music from a very early age as well. lol
Well, since we're in *that* (ie good) era of russian game devs, why don't you take a look at Vangers prequel - Perimeter? Or better yet at Space Rangers or Ex Machina?!:D
TheArklyte SPACE RANGERS IS THE SHIT
Speaking of old russian games, do you know Parkan? Is it any good?
adenowirus
never played it, however it seems to have had good reception. I was more of an RTS fan when I was a child. Такие дела ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think the sequel had some RTS elements, similar to Battlezone remake or Uprising series.
I second Space Rangers.
That ending music made me literally jump because I know where that's widely used.
its kinda sad the feature generations wont share in that same primordial fear. RIP flash o7
You should try out Space Rangers. I see the notion that you quite enjoy Eastern European games and this one will surely be a treat for you. I'd recommend starting from the second part, but first is also fine and dandy
Yeah, just do whatever the latest HD release it, it'll have all the stuff from the first one anyway.
Oh my god, I found this when I was like ten or so. I tried and tried but could not figure out what to do, how to do it, and my computer could barely run it. Glad it's as esoteric as I remember it being, and not that I was just oblivious.
14:05 Is that song what i think it is?
Yeah, just the intro ripped (or buyed) from russian pop band Hi-Fi.
yes, it is. It's the classic russian pop song 'Все в огонь' by Hi-Fi. Here ya go: th-cam.com/video/AjfPFKWMxHY/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Hi-Fi-Topic
How did I miss this for an entire week?!
Always excited to see new content.
Limbo of the lost is up next, considering it involves stealing things from other games.
What the fuck, you were right
Aw man! You used a track from Jazz Jackrabbit 2 in the middle of the video, that made me glad for some reason.
Oh my god, this is the first game I ever played. Searching about on the internet I was never able to find it so I always just thought I was mis-remembering the name or something, turns out it was just obscure and Russian
I think you are the only person who can make reviews of games like these interesting.
Great stuff, keep them coming. Perimeter was a really strange strategy game but seemed very unique, still holding out for Distant Worlds one day 😀
Have you also considered Nexus The Jupiter Incident? That's quite an interesting space strategy game with a story to boot!
hey mandy the credits music on this video was really chill and cool, almost nostalgic. thanks!
I remenber this game when I was 6 or 7 years old.
I got it from a CD that came from cereal box (Yea, We are talking those times)..
I didn't understand english at the time (Heck, prolly didn't even know it existed) and I would boot up the game and simply drive around. I remenber being able to open a portal trough pure luck once and never being able to acomplish the same feat again on other playtroughs.
I remenber this game being creepy at first though I got used to it..
Thanks for the video. I had forgotten the name of the game. I will go back and run it again now that I will be able to arrive somewhere!
In your country games like this have been in cereal boxes? Now i want to wisit that country!
One overly ambitious game I loved back then but is pretty damn hard to find these days would be 'Space clash'. A older rts title that offered both a linear campaign for several factions as well as a galactic conquest mode , some banger music and interesting but sometimes strange mechanics that include diplomacy and trading, to the point of being able to buy out your enemy rather than conquer them.
Submarine titans is another older rts favourite that sadly got lost as it competed against starcraft back in the day, but similarly does things in a very unique and fun way.
Actually, I recommend both, especially the latter as it's more accessable and easily available, while space clash may make the more interesting game to cover on the channel.
DO "THE VOID" (tension in the russian version). It's one of my favs and it's amazing and interesting. Perfect fit for this channel imo.
Fun fact. In original was called Turgor, in biology it means tension inside a cell. Came from turgere (lat.) - to be full of. Low Turgor = fading. If you play the game, that makes so much sense.
P.S. Sorry for my English.
ahh, the boob lady tree waifu game. a fever dream of an experience to rival Vengers.
I was seriously surprised that this game was related to the Perimeter games. I have been trudging through the first one for the past week now, and the only reason why I bought them was because I own an original copy of Emperor's Testament. The last thing I expected was that that sci-fi RTS would be connected with a Giger inspired racing/driving game. Then again, thinking about it, it kind of makes sense, in a way, given the story of the Perimeter games. Cheers though, for opening my eyes to this game!
"Hello Russian weird old game
I've come to play with you again"
Notification softly popping -
Mandalore uploaded while I was sleeping
And his work now branded in my brain
And will remain
Within the sound of UwU
UwU 4 u my nonrussian friend
oh my lord, Vigilante's 8 second offense music at 2:38 I hope mandalore will grace us with a review of it soon :D
I love how some '90s games could get seriously alien. Nowadays games don't tend to get that wild and out there.
Oh, please. For every Vangers, there were like two dozen Doom or Legend of Zelda ripoffs.
@@notinspectorgadget Obviously not every '90s game was like this, lol. Just meant you saw more of this kind of thing back then.
that fucking end credit music god damn it mandalore
MANDALORE I LOVE YOU
Man, I used to love playing this game as a kid. I remember making Vanger cars out of Legos too. Gotta reinstall it
If I tried to sum up the story in one sentence, it's... half-human, half-insect remnant creatures surviving in bunkers in a bizarre world while playing cargo cult to human customs and following insect instincts while understanding neither--and they hire you, a disembodied driver in a vehicle, to do stuff for them. Oh, and the money is bugs. I guess that makes it two sentences.
So good to see a review by someone who took time to actually learn the quirks and get past the wall of text and shitty preset controls at the beginning, it's a wonderfully weird game that I love seeing more people discover
>tfw Russians created a strand game before Kojima thought of it and did it better