Great video, just came from the B&W 2 one, love the way you structured these and how you showed how YOU played the game too, not just other people and reviewers' opinions... Good job, and even better job on the B&W2 vid
Thank you so much. I appreciate it. I always think it’s important when you’re looking at the history of any peace of media is to not only contextualize its reputation at the time but to analyze it with fresh eyes because things unrelated to the game itself may shape that reputation. We see it even more now with how politicized user reviews can be or how one even negative quote or fake or true story can take a game down fairly and unfairly. I try to avoid participating in that muck and try to find the value of the game itself. I hope I can continue to improve because it’s a lot of fun.
I love the music from Black&White games, they always felt impactful and "godly" Still morn that closing of Lionshead, and the downfall of the company, their games always felt like a unique and breath of fresh air amongst all the games that was so similar to one another. Even with its faults in each game, I always felt like I could overlook them, because the fun I had playing them made them feel so minimal and not game breaking, or take me out of the immersion I had while playing the games
I agree it’s very easy to get caught up in promises and expectations and have that affect how we view media. Especially when you’re an adult and you only have so much time. It’s basically why I never play a game at release so I can play the game outside of the initial wave of opinions and can enjoy it on its own merit. Lionheads games are a good example of this. You see people say “I never heard what Peter said and I loved it”
@@erikmcswain I saw his vague promises, and how Peter hyped up games, but I knew to not trust everything he said. And tried to stay away from all those videos, which helped me quite a lot indeed
I wonder if the Source and the gauntlets were supposed to have some connection with the P5 VR glove? I know the original base game was going to have a lot of integration with that thing, to the extent that there's a mini game which (if I remember correctly) is unplayable because it depends on the P5 glove's haptic feedback.
I know the source guide you're talking about. I actually tried all of those things long ago (e.g. get pop to 1000, get gauntlets, then Sable will come and teach your creature to use the source) - it doesn't work, it just doesn't - I agree it's mostly a scam. Also, not sure if Lionhead realized but after you get a new Tyke, the old one is basically abandoned and it will become an aggressive creature on the realm that you can't do much about. Pretty horrible if you ask me. But probably just one of many oversights.
I'm hoping you cover B&W 2. I remember just not liking it and feeling like it became too much of a generic RTS. What made the first game great was that it was something of a sandbox experience, back before those were commonplace. It was one of the things which differentiated it from other titles at the time; I think they took the cries of "BUT WHERE'S THE GAME PART?!" from critics too seriously.
Editing the B&W 2 video as we speak. I agree that the sandbox experience was the best part especially land 2 I do think after that point in the campaign they focus too much on trying to gamify the objectives and the way B&W 1 was designed didn’t work for that and the rest of the game after suffered.
Great video! I love the black & white series. I have so many fond memories of this game and it just brings me enormous joy!
Great video, just came from the B&W 2 one, love the way you structured these and how you showed how YOU played the game too, not just other people and reviewers' opinions... Good job, and even better job on the B&W2 vid
Thank you so much. I appreciate it. I always think it’s important when you’re looking at the history of any peace of media is to not only contextualize its reputation at the time but to analyze it with fresh eyes because things unrelated to the game itself may shape that reputation. We see it even more now with how politicized user reviews can be or how one even negative quote or fake or true story can take a game down fairly and unfairly. I try to avoid participating in that muck and try to find the value of the game itself. I hope I can continue to improve because it’s a lot of fun.
@@erikmcswain can't wait to see more of your content!!
I love the music from Black&White games, they always felt impactful and "godly"
Still morn that closing of Lionshead, and the downfall of the company, their games always felt like a unique and breath of fresh air amongst all the games that was so similar to one another.
Even with its faults in each game, I always felt like I could overlook them, because the fun I had playing them made them feel so minimal and not game breaking, or take me out of the immersion I had while playing the games
I agree it’s very easy to get caught up in promises and expectations and have that affect how we view media. Especially when you’re an adult and you only have so much time. It’s basically why I never play a game at release so I can play the game outside of the initial wave of opinions and can enjoy it on its own merit. Lionheads games are a good example of this. You see people say “I never heard what Peter said and I loved it”
@@erikmcswain
I saw his vague promises, and how Peter hyped up games, but I knew to not trust everything he said. And tried to stay away from all those videos, which helped me quite a lot indeed
This video is amazing you are gonna be a amazing content creator
Thank you so much! :)
i remember saving up for it as a kid because i was a huge fan of populus, i remember how i felt let down :(
I wonder if the Source and the gauntlets were supposed to have some connection with the P5 VR glove? I know the original base game was going to have a lot of integration with that thing, to the extent that there's a mini game which (if I remember correctly) is unplayable because it depends on the P5 glove's haptic feedback.
I know the source guide you're talking about. I actually tried all of those things long ago (e.g. get pop to 1000, get gauntlets, then Sable will come and teach your creature to use the source) - it doesn't work, it just doesn't - I agree it's mostly a scam.
Also, not sure if Lionhead realized but after you get a new Tyke, the old one is basically abandoned and it will become an aggressive creature on the realm that you can't do much about. Pretty horrible if you ask me. But probably just one of many oversights.
I never noticed that lmao. Poor chicken tyke.
I think creature isle needs more soccer
love Lionhead, are you planning on going through other games in their library?
Yes I am!
I'm hoping you cover B&W 2. I remember just not liking it and feeling like it became too much of a generic RTS. What made the first game great was that it was something of a sandbox experience, back before those were commonplace. It was one of the things which differentiated it from other titles at the time; I think they took the cries of "BUT WHERE'S THE GAME PART?!" from critics too seriously.
Editing the B&W 2 video as we speak. I agree that the sandbox experience was the best part especially land 2 I do think after that point in the campaign they focus too much on trying to gamify the objectives and the way B&W 1 was designed didn’t work for that and the rest of the game after suffered.
You should do one on the movies the game
I’m on it!
Your audio seem kinda off this time.
Haha Yeah I was watching the first two videos the other day and I’ve definitely come a long way in learning to record and edit audio.
Both this one and your black and white video are great, pls do keep making content
Thank you so much!
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