I love how in this game if you keep robbing stores they go out of business. And there's dozens of people online who are asking why stores are going out of business when they keep robbing them. True poetry.
As a Brazilian, I almost jumped off my seat with all the Jango Bravo references. It's really hard to explain how obscure this one is even for Brazilians. I'm baffled. Thank you.
I want to throw out there that I got to beta test the game forever ago and the developers actually gifted me a free copy for doing so. Lovely bunch of devs and a great first outing as an indie studio. Good video as well, Mr. Mandalore!
@@mackcollasius3690 I dunno he gets his licks in. And it seems that the Duncans had a pretty good life under Leto II. I wouldn't mind being the sole male officer in an army of Amazons. Sounds like a sweet gig to me.
So, I know a guy who used to work at golden corral, and after closing time, sometimes the manager at that location would let the crew use the chocolate fountain. So in his mad genius, he decided to get a slice of artichoke and pineapple pizza and coat it in the chocolate.
@@TheDoggyDog Well, genius did once mean something like a spirit came and invigorated you with a wild idea. And someone would have to be possessed to try that...
I always thought that it is more useful to think of "immersive Sim" as a modifier, rather than a genre. A bit like the dreaded RPG elements do not make a game an RPG, your game can either have immersive elements, or not.
I have heard enough things be called immersive sims that I'm not even sure if immersive sims are even real. I'm slowly becoming convinced it's just a term for RPG invented by pretentious nerds in the 90's.
The fact he calls the average gorger at Golden Corral "Trailer Park Oppenheimers" just goes to show how horrifyingly weird some of the stuff down in the Carolinas can get.
They named their restaurant after a construct for holding livestock. That should be red flag #1 that the golden corral isn't fit for human consumption. And yeah the Carolinas are weird. I say this as someone who's lived in North Carolina since he was 10.
@@pale6383 Yeah but Florida makes North Carolina look sane. I spent a few months in the panhandle and that place is what I would describe as the geographic equivalent of the bathroom of a divorced dad's condo.
@@wompwomp1658 @nothingincorporated True that. His Eagle Scout Camp-Out duology in particular (Embezzlement and The Scrolls) is amazing, partly due to how compelling he is as a storyteller, and partly due to how wild those Eagle Scout camp-outs got. The plight of Jimmy was a thriller, and the Giant incident was a goddamn romp. And that's not even getting into Benny, who I can't help but imagine as a fusion of Jimmy Neutron and The Annoying Fan from Oblivion.
When I was a kid there was a restaurant in a nearby city we went to a few times that was a lot like Golden Corral with one key difference: though it was still a buffet, it wasn't self-serve, there were restaurant employees staffing each area and serving up the food. This eliminated all the gross shit people do at Golden Corral as well as alleviated fears that unattended children and/or malicious and inconsiderate adults were mishandling the food when no one was looking. It closed down years ago, probably because having that many staff on the clock for every hour it was open just wasn't a viable business model, but I kinda miss it. It was a good compromise on the buffet concept.
Oh, wait, now we get it(had never heard of Golden Corral before), open buffet with no oversight, right, that sounds absolutely disgusting, how do these stay open XD
@@zanec14 From what I can tell, older folks that are too trusting. Every time I've ever been to Golden Corral like 95% of the customers appeared to be 60+. I think many people from that generation also just enjoy the all-you-can-eat aspect as well, because many of them lived through a time when food was very scarce and quantity feels impressive even if the quality isn't there.
I once went to a golden corral for thanksgiving dinner, thinking that there'd be nobody there (it was also during the middle of a move). It was the most packed I've ever seen a restaurant be. I've never been the same since.
Went for Thanksgiving with my parents some years back as their relationship started to get rockier. Simultaneously way too salty and somehow devoid of flavor. Way too packed for a holiday, too. We never went back, and it definitely didn't help things between them.
I felt the first chapter was the strongest, each one I felt less invested in to where the final one was just boring and the ending underwhelmed me. Plus I think I explored too much and uncovered too much of the map in the first chapter so I didn't have as many surprises in the later ones either.
Honestly, people need to listen to at least rhe highlight vids people put out there. You learn how much of a chaos goblin mandalore is. It adds a lot to his other content.
Once in Oblivion, I heard the sound of one of those spiked ball traps dropping, turned and managed to catch it with my grab button in time. Then I proceeded to swing it at a bandit by swinging my mouse to beat them with it. So yes, Oblivion immersive sim confirmed.
Its a shame the story and quests arent better. I was really excited to start playing this game after seeing how much freedom it gives you and it thinks about a lot of scenarios where the player can get creative. Howeve, my heart started to sink when you described the melee as being awful and even for the werewolf. I was really excited to play a werewolf in an old west setting. And story and investment in the world is what keeps me playing a lot of the time, so it's a shame that when i sat through the spoilers i didn't regret doing so, but felt like it didn't have anything i wanted.
The setting/theme were great but yeah it felt slightly empty, like the skeleton of an idea, there’s not much outside the main quest line. The game would’ve benefited greatly with some unique side quests and more character interactions. Some more unique/supernatural enemies would’ve been welcome too. Not bad tho
there are some really cool quests, like hunting and banishing a wraith who terrorizes a town. but they're locked behind rare random encounters so many people won't even know its in the game. strange design choice.
Honestly I think the description might have helped with that. I remember hearing about this game and conversating about this game a number of times within my circle but none of us picked it up. Mainly because of the topic he talked about at the beginning regarding the term Sim. Didn't look like a Sim, didn't look like it was a heavy sandbox game, kind of look like it was a RPG on a set linear path. We all Shrugged and moved along.
Everything Mandalore recommends is pure gold. Well except some instances where he talks about letdowns, but even Space Hulk was a pretty good time for me honestly. Between him and Sseth you will find excellent hidden and underrated gems. Grimbeard sometimes too although I am not about to play some PS2 era game ported onto PC. Like half of all Grimbeard games I would never bother playing as an adult, but his reviews are the most entertaining along with mandy and sseth.
@@j.2512 Pffft lol you actually watch mandalore's videos...and you maintain that opinion? Just what is even AAA or grifting indie games to you? Tindalos' BFGA 2 was one of the coolest games that's been made in ten years. THere's tons and tons of truly great games Mandalore's reviewed here, or go see Sseth for example. Or Darkwood, sweet Christ is that a good game, oh right Mandalore reviewed that one also. I also liked Tides of Numenera as much if not more than Planescape tbh if they both came out now, I'd find certain production values like soundtrack better but I really enjoyed the worldbuilding and writing of TToN. It's one of those rare games that I savored and wish I could play for the first time again.
i am so impressed by games like this, i really think that this level of interactivity and impact of players action should be the gold standard to aim to for a lot of video game. Like this video, i didn't like everything in this game and by the time i finished it i was ready to move on, but i still really appreciated what this game has to offer and yes, Wolfeye studio is basically the new Arkane now, and i'm going to look very closely at what they do.
Weird west honestly felt like what i wished Kenshi was in a lot of regards. A large simulated and interactive world with a lot of depth and hand-crafted narrative content where every action rings throughout the world. Kenshi gets close in a lot of regards, but I wish they went further, there are mods for example that add civil wars that break out after you kill a leader, internal factions and splinter groups and so on and this is all great. It could also really use some dialogue options and NPC quests and all that. Definitely should do a video on kenshi some day
I wish you mentioned the outro song for Weird West - "Overdrive" by Weird Wolves. That thing alone was enough to make the entire game worth my time, such an awesome way to wrap up after the game's finale.
Hey mando, i am from Brazil and "Jango Bravo" (Mad or Angry Jango) is one of the best and most unexpected references i could see in any video, even from my own country! hahaha. Cool and thank you for that.
Can you give me some background on that movie and memes associated with it? As someone who doesnt speak portugese it seems so random, yet somehow funny.
@@sssummmak The movie is 40 minutes of Jango Bravo haging around town (and killing a lot of people) basically, there's not much more than that, the movie has a certain sense of satire because everyone keeps mocking Jango despite his killing spree (multiple times people just fuck with him seconds after seeing someone being killed by him), and sometimes he kills without reason like refusing a drink that he offered, when Jango is not killing people he is just going around the town doing nothing too interesting, also, the guy who diretected and acted as Jango Bravo, João Amorim, is a musician so there's a lot of his music in the background while random clips of the town are shown, sometimes the music is so loud that ofuscates dialogue, and there's some scenes that is just João Amorim and some of his friends doing a little music clip (that consist of them just standing around singing and playing instruments), the police does nothing the whole movie right up until the end despite having a scene implying that Jango is top priority criminal to be arrested, Jango changes his ways after trying to kill a priest that reflected his bullet with a metal cross (is way dumber than it sounds) and seeing a paraplegic kid walk, he gives himself to the police but not only that, the sherif of the town is his long lost brother (this leads to nowhere, just a hug from his brother while he is being arrested), then the cops kill 3 guys that worked for Jango and arrested other one, the final scene is Jango in jail being confronted by a man that wants to kill him because he killed his brothers, Jango gives a badass speech that he will be the one that survive the upcoming fight, then the movie ends with Jango saying his iconic line "No one mocks Jango Bravo". João Amorim made other movies with the same style and genre of "brazilian western", all of them are just as bad (or just as good) as Jango Bravo, the most famous one is Obrigado a Matar (Forced to Kill) where João Amorim takes revenge on the Godói Gang that killed his wife and almost killed him in the begining of the movie, if you wanna see the most iconic meme about this movie search for "Santana acabe com ela", the translation of the scene in question is basically "Satana end her", search for the seven seconds clip. Despite all of his movies being bad in every way imaginable they can be hilarious because of its poor quality, think Who Killed Captain Alex but a western brazilian version, these movies are basically that. Sorry about my english, I hope I explained well the context behind everything.
@@CoracaoAcidental98 Wow that was detailed :) Thank you for taking time to explain it so thoroughly! Don't worry about your English it is quite good, besides its not my first language either. I ll probably go binge watch some of Joao's movies. Ninguém debocha Jango Bravo
I really hope Death Trash is on his list. It honestly seems right up Mandalore's alley and I think he'd be the ideal reviewer. It is still in EA but rapidly approaching its release with frequent updates and already is very polished. Anyone else play it yet? I'm right at that point where I love it so much that I want to wait to play it again until it is fully released.
Death Trash is an unfinished mess of a game though. Full release isn't happening anytime soon, probably ever. Devs aren't helping themselves as well with them constantly banning anyone who speaks negatively about the game on the Steam community tab, even when all they did was give some valid criticism.
I played this game last year, and I really enjoyed it. It didn't stick out too much for me, but I really did enjoy the multiple arcs, and mechanics. It's a good crpg.
I like the small re-balancing of the meet-the-engineer theme's audio when the electric guitar comes in, in order to manage the music's volume. Love the work you put into these reviews at every level.
Mandalore shouting out Your Only Move Is Hustle was not on my bingo sheet of the week, but I will absolutely take it. Very excellent review, with a very excellent shoutout
Immersive Sims always felt like more of a meta-genre. Traditionally it was confined to "Smth smth First-person with interactive in-game systems". But there is no reason it shouldn't expand beyond that
Weird West makes so much more sense in first person. The isometric view always threw me off and made my brain think the game was supposed to be something else.
I actually love this game. My main complaint is that aiming was awkward and I wish it was fps. Then the fps mode came out RIGHT AFTER I BEAT IT! Also respawning enemies made certain areas repetitive. I really enjoyed the quirky atmosphere and story though.
I'd like to just say how much i appreciate the brilliantly done captions on all your videos, especially the more descriptive parts when you are showing off a games sound. Also "Not Sam Elliot" as a descriptor for the narrator absolutely killed me 😂
About Immersive Sim - Mark Brown did a very good video on the subject. To me the name is apt, but it’s more of design philosophy that a game genre. Immersive sim is build on systems, and is immersive because of consistency of those systems. You make things granular and interactive enough, and some interesting possibilities open up.
@@pob_42 last I recall a few employees were told to either re use old expired meat/ store it next to the dumpster on certain days to hide the smell. There were a few local stories about it here and then I decided to never go back. (This was more than a few years ago.)
I really do hope more people buy this game after this video. It's the good people from Arkane that left it behind before it was too late. They need the support. Imagine how many more great titles they could put out that Arkane no longer does.
As a fellow witness to the horrors of the golden corral chocolate fountain, I thank you for bringing it’s existence to light for the rest of the world.
Wow... As a brazilian subscriber, I would never EXPECT someone outside of Brazil to know about Jango Bravo. Great video as always, btw. I might give Weird West a try.
Can confirm that Golden Corral is immensely cursed. The human equivalent of a feed lot. An unholy alter where the once proud body of culinary art languishes while the teeming masses snarl and tear its rotting flesh. Also my sister knew the kid that made the local one institute a "No meat products in the chocolate fountain" rule. They put up a sign because of him
13:15 Switching to controller alleviated a lot of the combat controls I had with the game and there is an option to lock the camera behind the character so you are always looking in the direction you are aiming. The melee still felt awkward like my character was trying to juggle while swinging a machete.
Idk what part of America your from but the Golden Carrol bit is a very deep cut and one you can only truly appreciate depending on where your located at. I felt that shit in my bones.
This game is an interesting gem. I remember just deciding to bury the dead townsfolk in a small town out of respect, and several of the citizens thanked me the next time I came through.
My favrotie cryptid is the Mothman too. But more for Ironic reasons because i hate him so much. Every "legitimate" sighting of the Mothman can be explained as "I was in the woods and I saw an Owl"
So glad to see someone cover this absolute gem! About a month after it launched I just happened to see it on sale, have always loved Westerns, and bought it based on the description alone. One of the best blind buys I've ever made. Weird West and Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin have probably been the best games I've played in the last year, and both were games I just randomly stumbled across and ended up adoring.
I like to define them as "Linear Sandbox Games." You're dropped into a setting, told how the rules work, and what you need to do. It's up to you to find the tools and information to do so in the way you want to.
I always love Alternative Wild Wests, its setting that because of the feel of the west being an endless unexplored Frontier being truly filled with the Unknown
The thing I remember so clearly for some reason is when the reveal trailer for this dropped at the Game Awards and Geoff Keighley completely flubbed the game's title; calling it "Wild West"
Mandy as always throwing whatever plans I have for the day with a new video, which makes me want to watch the older videos again, and then I realize it's 3AM and I forgot what the concept of time is
27:45 This point hit home, and it's not an issue that's exclusive to this game. Plenty of what I've played the last few years -- stuff with artistic vision, technical merit, inoffensive if not rock-solid game design, decent story beats, everything you need to knock it out of the park -- have felt like they're huddling around the same . . . void, I guess? Like, you walk away from it satisfied you've beaten the game and had a satisfying resolution to the story, but there's still something fundamentally missing from the experience. The best I can come up with is "lacking emotional depth", but even that doesn't feel like it's really getting at the meat of the problem. :/ I'd be curious to hear a more involved take.
Love hearing the Call of Juarez: Gunslinger music in the background. Mandalore knows that the mark of the true gentleman is in the details and I applaude him for it.
Well, there is Hard West, which is a Weird West themed turn based combat like XCom. What was especially fun with that game was it having a ricochet bullet mechanic. Directing a bullet to bounce off a milkcan to hit a target behind cover, or even an enemy you can’t see around a corner but you can see their shadow, never gets old.
I once saw a sick kid sneeze into the mac & cheese at Golden Corral, launching a ton of snot onto it. Somehow nobody saw him sneeze into it and were just eating that shit, even though you could see the snot if you looked at it. 10/10 would go again.
I can kind of understand why they went with Marathon as the extraction shooter. From the information they have and what I remember about Marathon, everything kind of fell into place. It seems to be set around the time of Marathon 2, after the main Pfhor battlefleet decimated the Tau Ceti colony between games, and then left to chase after Durandal. Earth's reinforcements were supposed to show up a century later or something from what I remember, so they'd show up to a decimated and long abandoned colony, filled with secret weapon caches from a plan long gone astray and anyone who knew their intended purpose long since dead. Kind of feels perfect for an extraction shooter, though an actual story, a reboot, or even just not calling it Marathon without any kind of subtitle would've been nice.
Yes, yes, YES! Finally! Arkane is in a bit of a rough shape right now. Mandy please do soothe our nerves and souls and take a look at PREY. Considering the amount of love attached to games like SS2 around these parts, it's shocking it hasn't been covered already.
it was very glitchy the first time i tried on gamepass but i persisted because it's such an unique game, and now it's more polish. Glad you cover it, deserves more recognition.
I understand your pain as a guy who used to go to Golden Chorale as a kid I literally watched a full grown man put chocolate all over his mac and cheese and eat it
I'm also curious what your thoughts on there being a NEW Marathon game. It being a PVP only title is... wild to say the least, but still holding out hope it's gonna have some brain melters in the story content.
Curious what a Weird West 2 might look like. Since the multi-PC mechanic was literally story centric, it'd be interesting what NEW reason they could cook up. And then, with the power of hindsight, what the story and system might grow into.
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Weird West on GOG - gog.la/yeehaw
Ninguém debocha Jango Bravo.
shadowrun should have been remade like this instead of the shitty Turn Based
Have you ever considered making a warhammer: Mark of Chaos review?
Mandalore brazilian confirmed?
Thank goodness for the English translation system... but are they as iconic as Jango Fett?
Jango bravo é uma lenda, todo mundo viu pelo menos um filme desse cara uma vez na vida
I love how in this game if you keep robbing stores they go out of business. And there's dozens of people online who are asking why stores are going out of business when they keep robbing them. True poetry.
Chicago simulator
Baltimore immersive sim
@@MiguelAngel-fw4sk Copying is not theft.
@@fus132If you were a true pirate you’d embrace the criminal nature of your profession.
They must be young aspiring doctors and astronauts from the big cities.
As a Brazilian, I almost jumped off my seat with all the Jango Bravo references. It's really hard to explain how obscure this one is even for Brazilians.
I'm baffled. Thank you.
I din`t know about this movie, and i am brazilian too.
It is definitely weird to discover Jango Bravo in a game review in english.
wish i could find english subtitles for it. 😢
I stopped thinking after that,had to take a breather...never thought I'd see a reference to our lovely "SANTANA,ACABE COM ELA".
Bro, I had the exact same reaction lmao
I didn't think anyone knew about this movie, since João Amorim's most famous movie is Obrigado A Matar
I like how Mandy still has the fear of horses after that Loco Incident all those years ago.
Deep lore
Also the time when a horse farted so hard it burned his nostrils XD
"Mandy" huh?
@@AshleysBrother It's a nickname used by their friends on podcasts and streams
And the time he realized that Cookie was a murderer.
I want to throw out there that I got to beta test the game forever ago and the developers actually gifted me a free copy for doing so. Lovely bunch of devs and a great first outing as an indie studio. Good video as well, Mr. Mandalore!
_"It's like if the Bene Gesserit were formed in the same zip code as a Buc-ee's."_
This line broke something in me.
I can always count on MandaloreGaming to make the weirdest fucking references. I love it!
After reading all the books I 100% get why Idaho fucking hates the Bene Gesserit.
And does not trust Jessica.
Witches be crazy.
@@ieuanhunt552 man books 4 to 6 really are just our boy Duncan getting strung the hell around huh?
@@mackcollasius3690 I dunno he gets his licks in. And it seems that the Duncans had a pretty good life under Leto II.
I wouldn't mind being the sole male officer in an army of Amazons. Sounds like a sweet gig to me.
Hey, as a damn Yankee, Buc-ees is incredible.
The werewolf ritual was pretty cool to learn because you can actually do that with all the characters.
Wild Wolf Gang here I come.
@@jetex1911 I felt really bad when I learned that because I sold all the herb needed for the ritual in my first run
Do they all turn into the same werewolf or do they have different features?
@@kameronbelcher it’s been a while since I played but I believe the same
These "Brazilian portuguese jumpscare" moments have been becoming more common and I dont know how to feel about them.
Santana, finish him her!
Y'all get to share the horror the slavs get when he shows scenes from the Green Elephant
So, I know a guy who used to work at golden corral, and after closing time, sometimes the manager at that location would let the crew use the chocolate fountain. So in his mad genius, he decided to get a slice of artichoke and pineapple pizza and coat it in the chocolate.
That is beyond foul
I think the word “genius” shouldn’t be put anywhere near this story.
@@TheDoggyDog Well, genius did once mean something like a spirit came and invigorated you with a wild idea.
And someone would have to be possessed to try that...
This whole chocolate fountain thing reminds me of the "double dipping" sketch in Seinfeld. It sounds very unsanitary.
It has to be destroyed.
I really love how you still keep the marv home alone scream going, please never stop putting it randomly into the vids
The marv scream comp is what got me into watching this channel.
I always thought that it is more useful to think of "immersive Sim" as a modifier, rather than a genre. A bit like the dreaded RPG elements do not make a game an RPG, your game can either have immersive elements, or not.
Immersive is a word that has taken a lot of abuse in the context of video games over the past several years….
How about "interactive Sim"?
i like your reasoning, Designator
I have heard enough things be called immersive sims that I'm not even sure if immersive sims are even real. I'm slowly becoming convinced it's just a term for RPG invented by pretentious nerds in the 90's.
@@dudewheresmycar4203 thats what it is
The fact he calls the average gorger at Golden Corral "Trailer Park Oppenheimers" just goes to show how horrifyingly weird some of the stuff down in the Carolinas can get.
I can confirm as a Carolina resident that 99% of the people here are eldritch horrors wearing flesh suits to walk among the humans
They named their restaurant after a construct for holding livestock. That should be red flag #1 that the golden corral isn't fit for human consumption.
And yeah the Carolinas are weird. I say this as someone who's lived in North Carolina since he was 10.
@@HelghastStalker Atleast it's not South Carolina
Born in North Carolina, Raised in SC myself, yeah its sorta Florida Lite down here
@@pale6383 Yeah but Florida makes North Carolina look sane. I spent a few months in the panhandle and that place is what I would describe as the geographic equivalent of the bathroom of a divorced dad's condo.
That chocolate fountain rant felt like the closest Mandalore has come to breaking character!
I'd recommend listening to his stories on the please stop talking podcast if you'd really like to hear him lose it lol
@@wompwomp1658 @nothingincorporated True that. His Eagle Scout Camp-Out duology in particular (Embezzlement and The Scrolls) is amazing, partly due to how compelling he is as a storyteller, and partly due to how wild those Eagle Scout camp-outs got. The plight of Jimmy was a thriller, and the Giant incident was a goddamn romp. And that's not even getting into Benny, who I can't help but imagine as a fusion of Jimmy Neutron and The Annoying Fan from Oblivion.
@@GmodPlusWoWBenny getting outplayed by a schizo titan was something else
And the Deodorizer
@@StrikeWarlock "It wasn't MY god! It wasn't MY god!"
When I was a kid there was a restaurant in a nearby city we went to a few times that was a lot like Golden Corral with one key difference: though it was still a buffet, it wasn't self-serve, there were restaurant employees staffing each area and serving up the food. This eliminated all the gross shit people do at Golden Corral as well as alleviated fears that unattended children and/or malicious and inconsiderate adults were mishandling the food when no one was looking. It closed down years ago, probably because having that many staff on the clock for every hour it was open just wasn't a viable business model, but I kinda miss it. It was a good compromise on the buffet concept.
Oh, wait, now we get it(had never heard of Golden Corral before), open buffet with no oversight, right, that sounds absolutely disgusting, how do these stay open XD
@@zanec14 From what I can tell, older folks that are too trusting. Every time I've ever been to Golden Corral like 95% of the customers appeared to be 60+. I think many people from that generation also just enjoy the all-you-can-eat aspect as well, because many of them lived through a time when food was very scarce and quantity feels impressive even if the quality isn't there.
Furr's or Luby's maybe?
Ive been to a chuck wagon in Utah that was very nice.
@@jasoncook6608 could also be Ryan's, depending on location, most of these places ended up being owned by the same company before they shut down.
I once went to a golden corral for thanksgiving dinner, thinking that there'd be nobody there (it was also during the middle of a move). It was the most packed I've ever seen a restaurant be. I've never been the same since.
Line around the building. I've witnessed it myself.
Went for Thanksgiving with my parents some years back as their relationship started to get rockier. Simultaneously way too salty and somehow devoid of flavor. Way too packed for a holiday, too.
We never went back, and it definitely didn't help things between them.
I hear American grandparents make their way to the Golden Corral every Thanksgiving, like Muslims traveling to mecca
you had me at "use your son's bones to beat up coyotes"
Detective Halligan would be proud
@@BoromirBv Until he realizes he NEEDS THAT BONE.
reverse cubone
The Bones are their DOLLARS
TBF that probably happened at some point in reality
I dropped this game after beating the first chapter. It just didn't latch onto me. But thanks to this I understand why. Thanks for covering it man 😁
I felt the first chapter was the strongest, each one I felt less invested in to where the final one was just boring and the ending underwhelmed me. Plus I think I explored too much and uncovered too much of the map in the first chapter so I didn't have as many surprises in the later ones either.
15:48
See Mandalore's story about a horse absolutely going mental over a butterfly.
What’s the reference?
@@HeightofMediocrity See PST Podcast Episode: The THOD @ 33 minutes.
Don't forget his cameo on 8bit Brody's channel with the Horse PSA
Honestly, people need to listen to at least rhe highlight vids people put out there.
You learn how much of a chaos goblin mandalore is. It adds a lot to his other content.
@@michimatsch5862 you get to realize "Mandalore being Sseth on meds" is actually Sseth taking an insanity accelerant.
Once in Oblivion, I heard the sound of one of those spiked ball traps dropping, turned and managed to catch it with my grab button in time.
Then I proceeded to swing it at a bandit by swinging my mouse to beat them with it.
So yes, Oblivion immersive sim confirmed.
Its a shame the story and quests arent better. I was really excited to start playing this game after seeing how much freedom it gives you and it thinks about a lot of scenarios where the player can get creative.
Howeve, my heart started to sink when you described the melee as being awful and even for the werewolf. I was really excited to play a werewolf in an old west setting. And story and investment in the world is what keeps me playing a lot of the time, so it's a shame that when i sat through the spoilers i didn't regret doing so, but felt like it didn't have anything i wanted.
You couldn't have said it better, pal. Those were my same thoughts!
The setting/theme were great but yeah it felt slightly empty, like the skeleton of an idea, there’s not much outside the main quest line. The game would’ve benefited greatly with some unique side quests and more character interactions. Some more unique/supernatural enemies would’ve been welcome too. Not bad tho
I will say tho that player-world interaction was well implemented
there are some really cool quests, like hunting and banishing a wraith who terrorizes a town. but they're locked behind rare random encounters so many people won't even know its in the game. strange design choice.
The first minute of this has been my personal hell since 2019.
Is Minecraft an ImSim?
@@MandaloreGaming well you can stack stuff in it, ironically just not the boxes. Unclear.
I first heard about immersiv sims in your video about them, I thought the whole thing was your idea lol.
Weird West is an underrated gem, so glad to see you covering it!
Honestly I think the description might have helped with that. I remember hearing about this game and conversating about this game a number of times within my circle but none of us picked it up. Mainly because of the topic he talked about at the beginning regarding the term Sim. Didn't look like a Sim, didn't look like it was a heavy sandbox game, kind of look like it was a RPG on a set linear path. We all Shrugged and moved along.
Everything Mandalore recommends is pure gold. Well except some instances where he talks about letdowns, but even Space Hulk was a pretty good time for me honestly. Between him and Sseth you will find excellent hidden and underrated gems. Grimbeard sometimes too although I am not about to play some PS2 era game ported onto PC. Like half of all Grimbeard games I would never bother playing as an adult, but his reviews are the most entertaining along with mandy and sseth.
@@pandemicneetbux2110 those ps2 games are honestly better than most AAA crap now and the grifting indie "spiritual successors"
I heard it described as "the best game no one will play" once
@@j.2512 Pffft lol you actually watch mandalore's videos...and you maintain that opinion? Just what is even AAA or grifting indie games to you? Tindalos' BFGA 2 was one of the coolest games that's been made in ten years. THere's tons and tons of truly great games Mandalore's reviewed here, or go see Sseth for example. Or Darkwood, sweet Christ is that a good game, oh right Mandalore reviewed that one also.
I also liked Tides of Numenera as much if not more than Planescape tbh if they both came out now, I'd find certain production values like soundtrack better but I really enjoyed the worldbuilding and writing of TToN. It's one of those rare games that I savored and wish I could play for the first time again.
i am so impressed by games like this, i really think that this level of interactivity and impact of players action should be the gold standard to aim to for a lot of video game. Like this video, i didn't like everything in this game and by the time i finished it i was ready to move on, but i still really appreciated what this game has to offer and yes, Wolfeye studio is basically the new Arkane now, and i'm going to look very closely at what they do.
I 100%ed the game and dont regret anything. A true gem. Thanks gamepass, without it i would have never played it.
If its on gamepass I will definitely give it a spin. Thank you 😊
@@burge117 dont know if its still on there tho, played it a few Months ago. I'd say its worth the money anyways
@@EmberTheShark I'll take a look.
It's still on gamepass and it just got a series x update as well 👍
@@rofflesvanwagon Excellent
Thanks for introducing Jango Bravo into my life. I know what movie I'll be watching soon.
Can someone bless me with an English sub link?
@@alexandercleary6335 were you able to find one?
@alexandercleary6335 you dare disrespect the beautiful language of Brazilian portugese by translating it to English? 😬 disgusting
I didn't expect an MST3K style riff on Golden Corral. I honestly had no idea they still existed lol
Unfortunately they do...
Which is why as part of my campaign platform for 2024 I will be waging war on the Golden Corral restaurant chain if elected!
Weird west honestly felt like what i wished Kenshi was in a lot of regards. A large simulated and interactive world with a lot of depth and hand-crafted narrative content where every action rings throughout the world. Kenshi gets close in a lot of regards, but I wish they went further, there are mods for example that add civil wars that break out after you kill a leader, internal factions and splinter groups and so on and this is all great. It could also really use some dialogue options and NPC quests and all that.
Definitely should do a video on kenshi some day
I wish you mentioned the outro song for Weird West - "Overdrive" by Weird Wolves. That thing alone was enough to make the entire game worth my time, such an awesome way to wrap up after the game's finale.
"Ninguém debocha Jango Bravo!"
"Mas você tomou o conhaque!"
Loved the Brazilian memes, keep up the good work
Even in terms of Brazilian memes, Jango Bravo is obscure as fuck
After this video, It isn't now
Hey mando, i am from Brazil and "Jango Bravo" (Mad or Angry Jango) is one of the best and most unexpected references i could see in any video, even from my own country! hahaha. Cool and thank you for that.
any idea where I can watch it with english subtitles?
@@wojciechcioroch9595 Sorry man, apart from the auto translate that youtube does, there is any other place to watch in english sub =/
Can you give me some background on that movie and memes associated with it? As someone who doesnt speak portugese it seems so random, yet somehow funny.
@@sssummmak The movie is 40 minutes of Jango Bravo haging around town (and killing a lot of people) basically, there's not much more than that, the movie has a certain sense of satire because everyone keeps mocking Jango despite his killing spree (multiple times people just fuck with him seconds after seeing someone being killed by him), and sometimes he kills without reason like refusing a drink that he offered, when Jango is not killing people he is just going around the town doing nothing too interesting, also, the guy who diretected and acted as Jango Bravo, João Amorim, is a musician so there's a lot of his music in the background while random clips of the town are shown, sometimes the music is so loud that ofuscates dialogue, and there's some scenes that is just João Amorim and some of his friends doing a little music clip (that consist of them just standing around singing and playing instruments), the police does nothing the whole movie right up until the end despite having a scene implying that Jango is top priority criminal to be arrested, Jango changes his ways after trying to kill a priest that reflected his bullet with a metal cross (is way dumber than it sounds) and seeing a paraplegic kid walk, he gives himself to the police but not only that, the sherif of the town is his long lost brother (this leads to nowhere, just a hug from his brother while he is being arrested), then the cops kill 3 guys that worked for Jango and arrested other one, the final scene is Jango in jail being confronted by a man that wants to kill him because he killed his brothers, Jango gives a badass speech that he will be the one that survive the upcoming fight, then the movie ends with Jango saying his iconic line "No one mocks Jango Bravo".
João Amorim made other movies with the same style and genre of "brazilian western", all of them are just as bad (or just as good) as Jango Bravo, the most famous one is Obrigado a Matar (Forced to Kill) where João Amorim takes revenge on the Godói Gang that killed his wife and almost killed him in the begining of the movie, if you wanna see the most iconic meme about this movie search for "Santana acabe com ela", the translation of the scene in question is basically "Satana end her", search for the seven seconds clip. Despite all of his movies being bad in every way imaginable they can be hilarious because of its poor quality, think Who Killed Captain Alex but a western brazilian version, these movies are basically that.
Sorry about my english, I hope I explained well the context behind everything.
@@CoracaoAcidental98 Wow that was detailed :) Thank you for taking time to explain it so thoroughly!
Don't worry about your English it is quite good, besides its not my first language either.
I ll probably go binge watch some of Joao's movies. Ninguém debocha Jango Bravo
It feels like this has been a year of Halloween videos and it's amazing
It feels like this has been a lifetime of cycle of grief videos and it's horrifying
@@jiaan100 this year is just Mando repeating the cycles of guilt
I really hope Death Trash is on his list. It honestly seems right up Mandalore's alley and I think he'd be the ideal reviewer. It is still in EA but rapidly approaching its release with frequent updates and already is very polished. Anyone else play it yet? I'm right at that point where I love it so much that I want to wait to play it again until it is fully released.
Played the demo and I was hooked and bought the game ASAP, one day I will enjoy the full game :P
Death Trash is an unfinished mess of a game though. Full release isn't happening anytime soon, probably ever. Devs aren't helping themselves as well with them constantly banning anyone who speaks negatively about the game on the Steam community tab, even when all they did was give some valid criticism.
Dude. Your description of Golden Corral was spot on.
That liquid chocolate fountain is horrifying.
Love this game, devs gifted it to playtesters as a token of appreciation
I played this game last year, and I really enjoyed it. It didn't stick out too much for me, but I really did enjoy the multiple arcs, and mechanics. It's a good crpg.
No one mocks Jango Bravo
It's only a good crpg if you don't actively play crpgs
It isn't a crpg
I like the small re-balancing of the meet-the-engineer theme's audio when the electric guitar comes in, in order to manage the music's volume.
Love the work you put into these reviews at every level.
Mandalore shouting out Your Only Move Is Hustle was not on my bingo sheet of the week, but I will absolutely take it. Very excellent review, with a very excellent shoutout
Anyone thinking that having a saloon next to a temple hasn't been to a rural Irish town! (or any Irish town for that matter! )
Immersive Sims always felt like more of a meta-genre. Traditionally it was confined to "Smth smth First-person with interactive in-game systems". But there is no reason it shouldn't expand beyond that
The new Zelda games are immersive sims in my opinion.
Weird West makes so much more sense in first person. The isometric view always threw me off and made my brain think the game was supposed to be something else.
I actually love this game. My main complaint is that aiming was awkward and I wish it was fps. Then the fps mode came out RIGHT AFTER I BEAT IT! Also respawning enemies made certain areas repetitive. I really enjoyed the quirky atmosphere and story though.
I'd like to just say how much i appreciate the brilliantly done captions on all your videos, especially the more descriptive parts when you are showing off a games sound.
Also "Not Sam Elliot" as a descriptor for the narrator absolutely killed me 😂
About Immersive Sim - Mark Brown did a very good video on the subject.
To me the name is apt, but it’s more of design philosophy that a game genre. Immersive sim is build on systems, and is immersive because of consistency of those systems. You make things granular and interactive enough, and some interesting possibilities open up.
It's great to have this niche gem reviewed by you. It's far from perfect but definitely has a lot of potential
Yay new Mandalore review. Thanks so much for the effort and work you (and others/editors?) put in to these videos, it's really appreciated.
Let's be honest, this was really a metaphor commentary about Mandy's feelings on Golden Corral.
Wait til he discovers Chang's Mongolian Grill.
I love how like 95% of the games Mandalore reviews are actually good games and games that I'd play or have played. Excellent taste m8
I really wasn't ready to be reminded of the Eldritch horror that is Golden Corral. (Their meat storage still haunts me to this day.)
Do tell.
@@pob_42 last I recall a few employees were told to either re use old expired meat/ store it next to the dumpster on certain days to hide the smell. There were a few local stories about it here and then I decided to never go back. (This was more than a few years ago.)
I really do hope more people buy this game after this video. It's the good people from Arkane that left it behind before it was too late. They need the support. Imagine how many more great titles they could put out that Arkane no longer does.
This first person mod is so dope that I feel like I missed out playing in the intended view
I never heard of that game. it looks amazing. Thanks for your review. Always a pleasure to listen to your videos
As a fellow witness to the horrors of the golden corral chocolate fountain, I thank you for bringing it’s existence to light for the rest of the world.
For a moment, I so thought it was a Deadlands video game !!!
Thanks for clearing things up, Sir Mandalore…
Wow... As a brazilian subscriber, I would never EXPECT someone outside of Brazil to know about Jango Bravo.
Great video as always, btw. I might give Weird West a try.
Can confirm that Golden Corral is immensely cursed. The human equivalent of a feed lot. An unholy alter where the once proud body of culinary art languishes while the teeming masses snarl and tear its rotting flesh.
Also my sister knew the kid that made the local one institute a "No meat products in the chocolate fountain" rule. They put up a sign because of him
13:15 Switching to controller alleviated a lot of the combat controls I had with the game and there is an option to lock the camera behind the character so you are always looking in the direction you are aiming. The melee still felt awkward like my character was trying to juggle while swinging a machete.
Idk what part of America your from but the Golden Carrol bit is a very deep cut and one you can only truly appreciate depending on where your located at. I felt that shit in my bones.
Got me fucking cackling, one time after I went to one my appendix burst and had to get it removed in the emergency room. Take that as you will.
Mandy's from North Carolina
This game is an interesting gem. I remember just deciding to bury the dead townsfolk in a small town out of respect, and several of the citizens thanked me the next time I came through.
My favrotie cryptid is the Mothman too. But more for Ironic reasons because i hate him so much. Every "legitimate" sighting of the Mothman can be explained as "I was in the woods and I saw an Owl"
"These can make the fights wild; like Across Rivers gets good at putting people 'Beneath Ground' with that tornado" I appreciate this line
"It's like if the Bene Gesserit were formed in the same zip code as a Buc-ee's"
I lost it at that line
So glad to see someone cover this absolute gem! About a month after it launched I just happened to see it on sale, have always loved Westerns, and bought it based on the description alone. One of the best blind buys I've ever made.
Weird West and Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin have probably been the best games I've played in the last year, and both were games I just randomly stumbled across and ended up adoring.
Never before has there been a game where I despertly wanted a sequel to tighten up mechanics and make a deeper story.
Your longer form reviews and game selection is absolutely on point. Keep up the great work and look forward to more videos from you!
LETS GO NEW MANDY UPLOAD
I like to define them as "Linear Sandbox Games."
You're dropped into a setting, told how the rules work, and what you need to do.
It's up to you to find the tools and information to do so in the way you want to.
I always love Alternative Wild Wests, its setting that because of the feel of the west being an endless unexplored Frontier being truly filled with the Unknown
The fact you compared the voices to Paratopic makes me believe this way of doing voice acting needs to be it's own genre
I am now convinced you can semi accurately predict what games Mandy will predict next by looking at what Rimmy was playing a few years back
Looks like their souls might've been bonded before in some arcane ritual
The diatribe about Golden Corral was unexpected, but humorous. I haven't been to one in years.
I’m hoping you do more reviews on obscure titles and crpgs.
The thing I remember so clearly for some reason is when the reveal trailer for this dropped at the Game Awards and Geoff Keighley completely flubbed the game's title; calling it "Wild West"
Mandy as always throwing whatever plans I have for the day with a new video, which makes me want to watch the older videos again, and then I realize it's 3AM and I forgot what the concept of time is
27:45 This point hit home, and it's not an issue that's exclusive to this game. Plenty of what I've played the last few years -- stuff with artistic vision, technical merit, inoffensive if not rock-solid game design, decent story beats, everything you need to knock it out of the park -- have felt like they're huddling around the same . . . void, I guess? Like, you walk away from it satisfied you've beaten the game and had a satisfying resolution to the story, but there's still something fundamentally missing from the experience.
The best I can come up with is "lacking emotional depth", but even that doesn't feel like it's really getting at the meat of the problem. :/ I'd be curious to hear a more involved take.
We are growing man. It's just harder to find something that hits that close to home
Love hearing the Call of Juarez: Gunslinger music in the background. Mandalore knows that the mark of the true gentleman is in the details and I applaude him for it.
Mandalore bringing up random, obscure media in the middle of a review is part of the reason why I love this channel.
That, and the marv skeleton scream.
Almost hurt myself laughing at "trailer park Oppenheimer" and the whole Golden Corral rant
Heard about this game a lot since it came out. This whole time, I honestly thought this game had turn based combat like Xcom.
Well, there is Hard West, which is a Weird West themed turn based combat like XCom.
What was especially fun with that game was it having a ricochet bullet mechanic. Directing a bullet to bounce off a milkcan to hit a target behind cover, or even an enemy you can’t see around a corner but you can see their shadow, never gets old.
Combat is so chaotic (especially with companions), that I wanted to switch to turn based system... oops it doesn't have one :)
I once saw a sick kid sneeze into the mac & cheese at Golden Corral, launching a ton of snot onto it. Somehow nobody saw him sneeze into it and were just eating that shit, even though you could see the snot if you looked at it. 10/10 would go again.
I can kind of understand why they went with Marathon as the extraction shooter. From the information they have and what I remember about Marathon, everything kind of fell into place. It seems to be set around the time of Marathon 2, after the main Pfhor battlefleet decimated the Tau Ceti colony between games, and then left to chase after Durandal. Earth's reinforcements were supposed to show up a century later or something from what I remember, so they'd show up to a decimated and long abandoned colony, filled with secret weapon caches from a plan long gone astray and anyone who knew their intended purpose long since dead. Kind of feels perfect for an extraction shooter, though an actual story, a reboot, or even just not calling it Marathon without any kind of subtitle would've been nice.
so now we need stories about what other horrors mandalore has seen at golden corale
Yes, yes, YES! Finally!
Arkane is in a bit of a rough shape right now. Mandy please do soothe our nerves and souls and take a look at PREY. Considering the amount of love attached to games like SS2 around these parts, it's shocking it hasn't been covered already.
Wait, which Prey?
@@michaelandreipalon359Preyshock, made by Arkane
@@nundulan Ah, Prey 2017, I see.
"NeuralShock", in my eyes.
@@michaelandreipalon359 also a good name for it (arguably a better term) but can confuse people without the Prey term in it
Bought it. Thanks for discount Mando! I was interested in this title since announcement
I kinda wish that we got to create our own character in this. Hopefully they'll do that in a future game. I did enjoy it a lot tho
nunca imaginei que o mandalore iria meter um meme BR do NADA! genial
Bought this on steam sale and only just started getting into it and I'm having a blast sniping skinwalkers and digging for gold
I like how the guy in charge of Dark Messiah has an eight-pack
treating any mandalore vid like heroin rn. shooting that stuff straight into the veins at any opportunity
Agreed. You are not alone in your addiction.
it was very glitchy the first time i tried on gamepass but i persisted because it's such an unique game, and now it's more polish. Glad you cover it, deserves more recognition.
as a brazillian i did not expect to see Jango Bravo, absolutely love this, thanks for the representation Mando
mandalor gaming, ssethTzeentach and warlockracy are like the holly trinity of video game reviews imo
I'd add Civvie as the fourth saint and Ross as the almighty just rambling about obscure shit too
I love Golden Corral. You haven't lived until you've had a chocolate covered Cheeseburger Salad. Sounds like you're scared of freedom.
Mando referencing various restaurants and other stores I’ve never heard of or know little about will never get old
One of the best games I played last year. Despite it having some issues at launch, the quality of the game made me see past those quirks.
"It's like if the Bene Gesserit were founded in the same zip code as a buc-ee's"
gold
I glad more people are taking notice of how good this game is!!
I understand your pain as a guy who used to go to Golden Chorale as a kid I literally watched a full grown man put chocolate all over his mac and cheese and eat it
I'm also curious what your thoughts on there being a NEW Marathon game. It being a PVP only title is... wild to say the least, but still holding out hope it's gonna have some brain melters in the story content.
Curious what a Weird West 2 might look like. Since the multi-PC mechanic was literally story centric, it'd be interesting what NEW reason they could cook up. And then, with the power of hindsight, what the story and system might grow into.
I love this game. Gorgeous artstyle and so many ways to replay the game.