It's so funny seeing his candid, completely unscripted reactions to all this when he always keeps up such a professional, confident personality in his reviews.
13:06 that rambling and ost loop, feels like building up for that dwarf is about to get shanked, but the payoff never comes. The torcher of the Ring. Clearly a curse of sadako (the weird psychic mutant VCR smallpox version one from the OG Novels 📕 ).
@@teasot547 #Lowry really enhanced the experience. I remember someone posting his review thumbnail format on the cover and him yelling "That's not happening! That's actually never happening!"
The makers of this game claimed in promotional material (the mini-documentary featured in Mandy's vid on this game) that Ring has an amazing software engine that will give players unprecedented immersion, both visual and emotional. Keep in mind that when Ring came out in October of 1998, Final Fantasy VII was three months away from being two years old, Metal Gear Solid had come out the month before and Ocarina of Time was a month away from release. I think the amount of egg on their faces, combined with the widespread panning (outside of certain parts of Europe) is why Ring 2 is the way it is, Ring 1 was successful enough to warrant a sequel, but it fell into obscurity so quickly that they couldn't justify putting too much time, effort and money into it. The Ring games are essentially the video game equivalent what Jodorowsky's Dune would have been if it had gotten made; a butchering of a masterpiece by a pretentious, belligerent old psycho spouting complete nonsense, and coincidentally Jodorowsky tried to get Charlotte Rampling for his unmade Dune movie, but she flat-out refused after reading the script and seeing that he wanted to feature a massive scat-fetish orgy.
@@crimsondynamo615 I'm not joking. I mainly know this from watching the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune, about the failed production, in which this Chilean/French weirdo made some very weird surreal art house films like The Holy Mountain and El Topo (in both he casts himself as a god/messiah figure who literally shits gold in one of them....and in one of them his real life actual son who appears to not even be 10 years old spends the entire movie naked). Basically movies only pretentious pseudo-intellectuals or people stoned out of their minds could get any enjoyment out of, one of them caused a riot in Mexico City and he was chased out of the country. He's essentially mostly known in France and remains very obscure with small cult followings everywhere else. Essentially in 1974 when his movies got praised by John Lennon (like I said, stoned out of his mind) he was approached by a rich French businessman who wanted to enter the movie business and wanted do any project Jodorowsky wanted. He said he wanted to make a film adaptation of Dune, despite apparently having never read the novel (and leaves it ambiguous if he ever read it). The documentary is a shameless piece of hagiography that comes off like propaganda trying to sell you a cult leader...which Jodorowsky comes off as, as he calls those he roped into the project as his 'spiritual warriors' and those skeptical of him as 'soulless'. It also contains such insane anecdotes such as: Casting Salvador Dali to play the Emperor who's throne would have been a toilet that looked like two dolphins...and Dali was apparently fired off the project for supporting Spain's then dictator Franco...but was actually fired because his fee of 100,000 dollars a day was unfeasible. Orson Welles would have played Baron Harkonnen and Jodo claims he would have paid Welles with food from a certain French restaurant. Getting angry when special effects master Douglas Trumbull (special effects master behind 2001 and Close Encounters) didn't run out of the meeting he was in to meet with him, so hired then rookie effects guy and future Alien writer/Return of the Living Dead director Dan O'Bannon to do the effects because he happened to catch a showing of Dark Star that night. His eldest son would have played Paul Atreides but I suspect that's because he knew no one else would have obeyed him. He openly compared what he was going to do to the source material to rape, saying something to the effect of "You must rape it, like you must rape your bride, otherwise you will never have children." He wanted it to be fucking 14 hours long. The scat-fetish orgy I mentioned was mainly just an orgy with people shitting into some huge underground chamber pot as part of a ritual, which...yeah, is enough to turn anyone off, and given certain things in his comics and the whole shitting gold thing it's clear he has a poop fetish. The project died because no studio was willing to put up the cash for a 14 hour movie that would have cost a then-unprecedented amount of money for a movie, especially a sci-fi movie, as the genre wouldn't truly be taken seriously by the entertainment industry until Star Wars (ironic since Star Wars is more fantasy than sci-fi) and they all basically said "We want to make Dune, just not with this psycho." He, and the documentary, then goes on to claim that movies like Star Wars, Flash Gordon and even the Masters of the Universe Movie ripped off his unmade movie because a book of (admittedly quite nice) concept art had been shopped around Hollywood to sell the project. Keep in mind Star Wars began development in 1973, a year or so before Jodo began planning his Dune and Flash Gordon is based on a comic strip created back in the 30's! And if the Masters of the Universe movie is ripping off anything, it's Jack Kirby comics. He would later rework his ideas in Euro-comic book series, and hilariously attempted to sue Columbia Pictures and Luc Besson claiming that the movie The Fifth Element ripped off his comic The Incal, which was laughed out of court because the judge had to point out to him that not only did he not create or own the concept of a huge futuristic mega-city, but that the Incal's artist also worked on the film so there were bound to be similarities. Afterwards he claimed he wasn't responsible for the lawsuit, but the publisher. Sorry for the long comment, but as you can see, the French artists are a bunch of fucking weirdos, I think it's safe to say they're putting something in the water over there.
@@Ninjat126 He definitely is both By the way, a detail left out about Jodorowsky: his movie El Topo has a "sex" scene in which the actress was actually r@p3d
Maybe you’re thinking of the Ring 1 part 2 vod, that’s the one that got butchered with copyright claims. That’s why there’s so little of it in this compilation, it’s all I could salvage.
I think its this. At least Omikron did some interesting things and some of the music was done by David Bowie. But I honestly can't think of anything that Ring did that was new for the time or even well done.
Omikron isn't As hard to decipher where the fuck you are. That's the only thing it doesn't at least tie with the duology. Well, that and I don't think* there's a waiting puzzle in Omikron.
Do you know if the original videos for the streams are anywhere? I saw it several times here on youtube but they have been copyright'ed to death and now 90% of the videos are just mute. It's such an amazing stream I just wanna download it to watch it on my own time.
Me coming into this video: Oh I would love some Mandalore highlights Me, when I realize what 'Ring' this is talking about: oh snap genshin impact theory time
A reminder that he wasn't able to save the game for a while, hence the encroaching madness in each of those early deaths.
Point and Click Survival Horror
@@TheTwitonmaybe the real horror are the saves we lost along the way.
Does that fully explain it?
As someone who has watched a production of the actual opera this version fucks up the story so hard it's fucking hillarious
20:54
Neuron activation
Monke moment
Good call, I laughed until I coughed.
cave men discovering fire noises
fuck slide puzzles
The monkey dies; Man is born
The primal hooting at the completion of a puzzle is so real
It's wild hearing mandy being so emotive, I'm too used to his more stoic and dry deliveries during his videos-
You should listen to him on the podcast if you haven't already
Every stream eventually devolves into madness like this if it’s long enough
Oh You have no ideaaaa
you clearly have not listened to Sauced in Chicago, fake fan
Welcome to Mandy streaming universe
wow, he wasn't exaggerating just for entertainment sake. this is madness.
4:19 "oh im him now!" Mandaloregaming said while punching the handicapped
I'm him, I continue to be him.
Alberich would absolutely drop some lines from Dracula Flow as he clowns on everyone around him.
Seek the nibelungen ring
Become the nibelungen lord
Mandy going full monke at 20:55 had me rolling
This game actually made a grown man scream, "it can't be".
“Egads!”
I love how he's calm for the most part in his videos and on PST, but this stream shows what's he's like when pushed to the brink of madness!
All his streams are descents into alcoholism and madness
He sounded like a caveman discovering fire solving that slide puzzle
immediately on the edge of weeping from the start
MINERALS FOR GLUG!
SKULLS FOR GLUG!
TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH:
Minerals for glue.
Hmm. Yeah makes more sense.
@@Rufert But there are still SKULLS FOR GLUG!
Worms for Golem!
I need a shirt that says "Minerals for Glug."
And an arrow that points up
I'd get a mug with that printed on it.
@@ToastyMozartthe Glug mug
Im extremely tempted to isolate Alberich's "my dear meme" for soundboard reasons
It's so funny seeing his candid, completely unscripted reactions to all this when he always keeps up such a professional, confident personality in his reviews.
0:30 the quiver in his voice.
He sounds scared lmao
not seeing twitch chat or hearing anyone talking to him really makes his decent into madness extremely compelling
10:50 "How do I get in the right tuWHAT THE FUCK?" - Mandy 'Mandalore' Gaming, Deceased.
12:30 Lmao, dude sounds like he was yelling from the back of the room.
He really got a low voice that he has to yell for everyone to hear him
51:35 "We're 100% black" ~ MandaloreGaming
"This doesn't seen right"
The emotion in his voice just from getting the game to run and streamed is a great start
Koosh
*-Make him talk Paddington.*
-Mandy
It's interesting that this game is somehow less comprehensible than scorn
It's always interesting when art intended to be vague & disjointed ends up more cohesive than bad art trying to tell a consistent story.
13:06 that rambling and ost loop, feels like building up for that dwarf is about to get shanked, but the payoff never comes. The torcher of the Ring. Clearly a curse of sadako (the weird psychic mutant VCR smallpox version one from the OG Novels 📕 ).
1:00 I have never, EVER heard Mando being this excited about anything, and I've watched quite a few podcast eps and other vids he's in.
the only thing i can think of is when the movie switched and he realized they were making him watch bobs burgers on pondering.
the devs did NOT playtest this shit lol
To be fair, all the playtesters perished trying to play the game. I'm pretty sure at least one of them is trapped in limbo.
@@redundantfridge9764 They should ask Mandy to leave, seeing as he's the king of Limbo
@@burnttoast26he can handle it, he's made for this
The Hammer Haunt "Join us!" voiceline is a great choice for a sub sound.
After hearing it on a continuous loop in Limbo of the Lost, of course it had to be the notification sound.
I remember watching this stream live, and it was a real experience. Thank you for making this compilation.
It was incredible. And this compressed *so much* of Mandy going utterly insane in the first chapter, as he had to replay, and replay, and replay it
@@teasot547 #Lowry really enhanced the experience. I remember someone posting his review thumbnail format on the cover and him yelling "That's not happening! That's actually never happening!"
Brainrot hit different back in the day
17:10 preach girl
Still curious about what the whole plan for the TV girl was
I feel like I'm re-experiencing a fever dream
The genuine uncertainty in his voice at the start is a great opening
0:52 Title screen jumpscare
The makers of this game claimed in promotional material (the mini-documentary featured in Mandy's vid on this game) that Ring has an amazing software engine that will give players unprecedented immersion, both visual and emotional. Keep in mind that when Ring came out in October of 1998, Final Fantasy VII was three months away from being two years old, Metal Gear Solid had come out the month before and Ocarina of Time was a month away from release. I think the amount of egg on their faces, combined with the widespread panning (outside of certain parts of Europe) is why Ring 2 is the way it is, Ring 1 was successful enough to warrant a sequel, but it fell into obscurity so quickly that they couldn't justify putting too much time, effort and money into it.
The Ring games are essentially the video game equivalent what Jodorowsky's Dune would have been if it had gotten made; a butchering of a masterpiece by a pretentious, belligerent old psycho spouting complete nonsense, and coincidentally Jodorowsky tried to get Charlotte Rampling for his unmade Dune movie, but she flat-out refused after reading the script and seeing that he wanted to feature a massive scat-fetish orgy.
Jesus Christ… glad that movie wasn’t made… concept art looked cool though so that’s a plus
Fucking excuse me with that last thing?
@@crimsondynamo615 I'm not joking. I mainly know this from watching the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune, about the failed production, in which this Chilean/French weirdo made some very weird surreal art house films like The Holy Mountain and El Topo (in both he casts himself as a god/messiah figure who literally shits gold in one of them....and in one of them his real life actual son who appears to not even be 10 years old spends the entire movie naked). Basically movies only pretentious pseudo-intellectuals or people stoned out of their minds could get any enjoyment out of, one of them caused a riot in Mexico City and he was chased out of the country. He's essentially mostly known in France and remains very obscure with small cult followings everywhere else.
Essentially in 1974 when his movies got praised by John Lennon (like I said, stoned out of his mind) he was approached by a rich French businessman who wanted to enter the movie business and wanted do any project Jodorowsky wanted. He said he wanted to make a film adaptation of Dune, despite apparently having never read the novel (and leaves it ambiguous if he ever read it).
The documentary is a shameless piece of hagiography that comes off like propaganda trying to sell you a cult leader...which Jodorowsky comes off as, as he calls those he roped into the project as his 'spiritual warriors' and those skeptical of him as 'soulless'.
It also contains such insane anecdotes such as: Casting Salvador Dali to play the Emperor who's throne would have been a toilet that looked like two dolphins...and Dali was apparently fired off the project for supporting Spain's then dictator Franco...but was actually fired because his fee of 100,000 dollars a day was unfeasible.
Orson Welles would have played Baron Harkonnen and Jodo claims he would have paid Welles with food from a certain French restaurant.
Getting angry when special effects master Douglas Trumbull (special effects master behind 2001 and Close Encounters) didn't run out of the meeting he was in to meet with him, so hired then rookie effects guy and future Alien writer/Return of the Living Dead director Dan O'Bannon to do the effects because he happened to catch a showing of Dark Star that night.
His eldest son would have played Paul Atreides but I suspect that's because he knew no one else would have obeyed him.
He openly compared what he was going to do to the source material to rape, saying something to the effect of "You must rape it, like you must rape your bride, otherwise you will never have children."
He wanted it to be fucking 14 hours long.
The scat-fetish orgy I mentioned was mainly just an orgy with people shitting into some huge underground chamber pot as part of a ritual, which...yeah, is enough to turn anyone off, and given certain things in his comics and the whole shitting gold thing it's clear he has a poop fetish.
The project died because no studio was willing to put up the cash for a 14 hour movie that would have cost a then-unprecedented amount of money for a movie, especially a sci-fi movie, as the genre wouldn't truly be taken seriously by the entertainment industry until Star Wars (ironic since Star Wars is more fantasy than sci-fi) and they all basically said "We want to make Dune, just not with this psycho."
He, and the documentary, then goes on to claim that movies like Star Wars, Flash Gordon and even the Masters of the Universe Movie ripped off his unmade movie because a book of (admittedly quite nice) concept art had been shopped around Hollywood to sell the project.
Keep in mind Star Wars began development in 1973, a year or so before Jodo began planning his Dune and Flash Gordon is based on a comic strip created back in the 30's! And if the Masters of the Universe movie is ripping off anything, it's Jack Kirby comics.
He would later rework his ideas in Euro-comic book series, and hilariously attempted to sue Columbia Pictures and Luc Besson claiming that the movie The Fifth Element ripped off his comic The Incal, which was laughed out of court because the judge had to point out to him that not only did he not create or own the concept of a huge futuristic mega-city, but that the Incal's artist also worked on the film so there were bound to be similarities. Afterwards he claimed he wasn't responsible for the lawsuit, but the publisher.
Sorry for the long comment, but as you can see, the French artists are a bunch of fucking weirdos, I think it's safe to say they're putting something in the water over there.
Appreciate the essay. Don't know if I'd call it pretentious, maybe "deranged" is a better word?
@@Ninjat126 He definitely is both
By the way, a detail left out about Jodorowsky: his movie El Topo has a "sex" scene in which the actress was actually r@p3d
Thank you for this comp. I'm gonna be frank I was too scared to watch the entire thing
I totally agree with you since the Druids vod was so amazingly schizo
dude I seriously thought this game was just a fever dream I had 20 years ago, it's insane to see someone randomly playing it again.
This game and stream was an actual fever dream.
"My dear Meme" is lile perfect delivery
The utter dumbstruck sound of his voice when he hears the other voice of Alberich
Not the same without visits to the Lowry
I want to see someone draw Alberich coming to see Lohk who is of course floating off a chair.
His server invite is still dead, I've been without Lowry for too long :(
28:10 you didn't need to do that man :(. i can't unsee it now
Thats a top tier joke
lol
25:40 Me every morning.
He finds some of the best video game art pieces.
Oh thank you algorithm gods for alerting me of THIS gem of a video! 👀
The game really makes you feel like the ring
Oh hey, unslaughtered footage of Ring 2. Dunno why but doucares full stream vod got a shitton of the audio cut. I think it was copyright fuckery?
Maybe you’re thinking of the Ring 1 part 2 vod, that’s the one that got butchered with copyright claims. That’s why there’s so little of it in this compilation, it’s all I could salvage.
@@LittleWeevilif I remember right, vod of part 2 on twitch was muted only in slide puzzle section. It still a shame, but not fatal
I jumped when he started screaming about the game working
28:45
Why “What is this Big Daddy-Iron Lung?” sounds like a “What the sigma?”
Do you not wish to come?
What did you just say to me right now?
Nice one! You should make a Lowry comp as well, these moments are always so funny
32:10 the non-stop French "coming"
Ring 2 looks like Highlander for the Atari Jaguar
I had an incredibly shit day at work and this was just what I needed. Thanks.
Is Mandy playing the Ring for the first time here?
Yes, for both Ring 1 and 2.
Why would anyone play this more than once?
@@noahhamilton9004 Limit test
minerals for glug!
WALsuuun
Erda now wants you to find a piece of the norns thread.
its kind of amazing how understandable his video made this game seem
Whats worse this or Omikron
I think its this. At least Omikron did some interesting things and some of the music was done by David Bowie. But I honestly can't think of anything that Ring did that was new for the time or even well done.
@@evinbraley yeah but omikron has a limited save resource.... Unforgivable game design imo. I'd say ring 2 is definitely the worst of the three though
@@napalmpudding Oh god, i completely forgot about that. And the "hint" system that takes limited save rings to use.
@@evinbraley 5 fucking rings... Just for it to say: No Advice
Omikron isn't As hard to decipher where the fuck you are. That's the only thing it doesn't at least tie with the duology.
Well, that and I don't think* there's a waiting puzzle in Omikron.
Had to stop at 14 minutes because this gave me a headache lol
This game was hand-crafted to drive mortal minds insane
Ive seen this stream plus Mandy's video on the game more than 5 times now, and i still have no idea what is happening...
wtf happened to Alberich?
VALSUNG
_VALSUNG_ _!_
I only made it 18 minutes in. Can’t handle it.
23:55 game devs have gone INSANE
Man, I could only imagine how insane it'll be if Avery was also there with him all the way through.
Poor Mandy...
51:29 is the same sound effect for Fable 1's bow draw
holy shit i think it might be lmao
2:59 This feels like a Monty Python sketch.
6:01 WA-
Do you know if the original videos for the streams are anywhere? I saw it several times here on youtube but they have been copyright'ed to death and now 90% of the videos are just mute. It's such an amazing stream I just wanna download it to watch it on my own time.
They're on his Twitch channel, MandaloreGaming.
13:05 This is where hell begins
I started laughing during Meme’s endless rambling, I think I’ve lost it
Where was this streamed?
www.twitch.tv/mandaloregaming
hold up he streams???
I feel that if they made this shit game into a comic book, it'd do great.
*MINERALS FOR GLUG*
24:00 Strawberry Magic btw
6:55 me omw to steal your glug
Oh hell yes
~~Valsūūūūūnnggg
Völsung
Me coming into this video: Oh I would love some Mandalore highlights
Me, when I realize what 'Ring' this is talking about: oh snap genshin impact theory time
Bioware at 16:27 saw this and created the volus
Do you remember the time when Mandalore threw Vinny under the bus for no reason?
do you remember the time that anyone asked
@@kaninekodiak people don't usually ask others to ask questions lol