The Most Insane RPG You've Never Played
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Join me on this adventure into an RPG that is as underrated as it is insane.
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*BEST GOBLINS IN ANY GAME EVER*
Creeping up and listening to the goblins and the orcs argue about who ate who's testicles is a gaming moment that will never leave me!
Personally I like the orcs and goblings in icewind dale 2 best. But this is a close 2nd.
Listening to stormtroopers banter is one of the best part of the Dark Forces series. The same principle applies other mobs of baddies.
@@dragonbeast6934 still yet to play that, I'm enjoying neverwinter nights atm on mobile so when that's ran it course I might have a go at the icewind Dale ones.
@@craigboden9455 I would skip icewind dale 1 and just go strait to Icewind dale 2. It uses D&D 3.5 I believe which adds feats which mixex up the battles a whole lot.
Story wize icewind dale ,apperantly, is crap compared to Baldurs gate 2 and so on, but I feel the story is fine and strait forward. You can build your party how you will and there are even some premade ones that has some back story to it. Your mission is simple: Break the siege of Targos as you enter the town by boat. Once that is done you get various missions that will send you on different locations. Its simple and easy to follow. Gameplay is where icewind dale 2 shines. But personally there so many cool story moments in icewind dale 2 that I cant believe how many people downplay it. Mocking Orcs in the first part of this game is so funny ive had drick pouring out of my nose at replays, I just cant get over it.
This game was made at the very end of Black Isle lifetime and was made in a hurry because of dead lines and yet the end results is imho amazing. Actually.... I think I`m am gonna install it right now :D
I would recommend checking Arx Fatalis, from the same team.
This game was so far ahead of its time its so sad it didnt get the recognition it deserves.
It was a medieval Deus Ex with the Might and Magic brand slapped on it which it had no connection with at all. Made by some ex-Thief/SystemShock/Deus Ex developers that were previously at Looking Glass and Ion Storm who then joined Arkane.
Basically everything they did back to Ultima Underworld qualifies under "didnt get the recognition it deserved". Even though the "Looking Glass" influence is now a part of nearly every single modern game that gets made regardless if the devs are aware of it or not..
this is how i feel with dragons dogma
I'm playing through dragons dogma right now, it's awesome. Took me a while to get into it though but really enjoying it now
It came out the same year oblivion did, so that didn’t help things.
@@JonathonTheAsshole > ex-Thief/SystemShock/Deus Ex developers
That explains so much!
I love Dark Messiah.
Not only have I played it, I'm also in the credits :|
What an absolute gem of a game. Shame that the sequel never got finished.
The Apostles of Might & Magic I presume? Just checked my footage and there you are. Totally agree, would love a follow up on this one.
@@MitchManix that's the one. Hopefully a sequel will be revisited sometime in the future, fingers crossed for that!
I feel that it may be a bit of a tall ask for a sequel to come out, given the overall kind of weird commercial status of the Might and Magic franchise as a whole and this game not really fitting that comfortably alongside the other games.
That being said, a spiritual successor that reinstates some of the absolutely bonkers ideas from the series would probably do really well nowadays.
I feel like the emergent gameplay and physics-based slapstick shenanigans would have made the game a hit if it were released a couple of years later when TH-cam and Twitch had hit their respective strides.
@@Oakenwarrior A fellow Estonian dev! Nice to meet you, Mr.Ozolit! Been keeping an eye on your progress for a couple of years now. Hope it goes well for Broken Alliance! Btw, didn't know you were in the biz that far back.
@@AlexGorskov Thank you! And yeah, I uhh... started out when I was 14 >_>
Imagine how much of a hit this game would have been if it was released today
It would have been as much of a hit as it was back then.
Sounds like a game worthy of a remaster/reboot.
@@remliqa 100% but the thought of what they'd do to it fills me with dread lol
@@xXturbo86Xx it definitely wouldn't have, it would have sold way better.
No. Everyone wants souls trash
Played this a couple times when it was released. Never understood why it didn't get more love from the gaming community.
Requires thinking to be truly appreciated. Bugs didn't help...
@@rufuske I don't think so. Like yeah, it was buggy as hell but at the time no-one looked at it as an RPG because there is nothing except for lvls worthy of being an RPG. Now in 2023 when the genre was bastardized beyond all limits you could call it action-RPG. But still how many ok action games do we get every year? At least couple and when that game was released that type of action games was more popular so even more than a couple. And we also don't remember those other 'ok' but nothing insane games.
Everyone was probably too busy playing WoW
I think one of the problems was the franchise; departing starkly from a franchise's niche often puts a game under the microscope. If it was just a random game by Arkane people might have been more lenient. It's like... imagine there hadn't been a Starcraft game in years, and suddenly one comes out and it's a totally different genre. The pressure on it to be perfect in every way is way higher than if it was just a random game with a different name.
I mean, this video is the first time I'm even hearing of it. Probably didn't have the greatest marketing.
I absolutely loved this game when it came out. If only they'd make something this entertaining again. I'd even settle for a polished remake.
Honestly, most of these old games can be run in higher resolution, and you can force your GPU to run AA and anisotropic filtering to clean up the image, on top of any mods that may add a small QoL adjustment. Every old PC game has had someone try and release a tool or adjustment to fix it up on github at some point. If nothing else, there are usually guides or forums that detail how to crack open some of the files and adjust things ourself to get everything running as smooth as it felt on release.
I've been going back and playing not just the games I missed out on when I didn't have a gaming PC from 07-2015, but all the ones I missed or only ever had a Demo for (Like No One Lives Forever 2, which I now love more than I ever loved the first one). I started making new levels for quake using Arcane Dimensions and fancy texture wads. There is so much to do in classic gaming communities lately. Some communities just never died and have been making new content for their games for 20 years or more.
What I'm saying is screw remakes. The problem with games nowadays is they dont do anything new and just rely on what has already been done a million times before. Dont give companies money for rehashing a classic, play the classics again. They definitely deserve the love more than some company that found a way to score the rights to make a re-release. Except maybe Nightdive, they're actually preserving some games that need preserving.
Ah yes. I loved "The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot in the Land of Conspicuously Placed Spike Racks".
I played this more than once, in short order. Some of the most fun I've had in a first person medieval adventure.
I remember feeling disappointed in how short it was, but it gave me hope that something bigger would be on the way.
Impressive use of the Source engine too! This was also when HDR bloom was still a new thing.
That "Why?" absolutely killed me. Your personality is 100% unbeatable, never change!
It's spelled unbearable, yw. xD
Ive been playing games for about 20 years with huge passion. At this point ive played majority of "best" games from year 2004 and onward. There has been several times where i didnt know what to play and thought that maybe i just have seen it all.
This video showed me that, for one, there is games i have never heard about still, and two, there seem like they could be a lot of fun!
Thank you!
One of my favorite games! To this day I'm still hoping for a sequel or at least a spiritual successor.
There actually is what I consider a somewhat spiritual successor to it, Lichdom Battlemage.
I was so dissapointed when it came out regarding the lack of mod support.
@@altaryumzolat ewww, lichdom was hot garbo
Dishonored is a very similar but bigger game. It doesn't have the fantasy setting though.
Unlikely to ever happen, since the Might and Magic franchise as a whole fell off hard after this game was released, to the point a lot of the fanbase of the original and spinoff Heroes series actually blaming this game for killing it.
But the far likely cause is just apathy, since even the most recent release, Might and Magic 10, was all the way back in 2014, and reception can be best described as "eh." The game wasn't all that good, and as far as I can tell, no one really cares anymore, especially Ubisoft, who own the IP still.
As a teenager, I always had dreamed about a game like this. And then, suddenly, it existed. Man, I love that game. One of my best gaming memories. And it is still fun to play, even so many years later. I'm not big on replaying games, but Dark Messiah, simply because of the different "classes" you could build, and how much that changed the whole approach to combat and how you use the environment, made me play it at least 3 times.
Oh man, this is one of the first games I probably ever played on my own PC, and I had a deliriously good time with it back then. You just body-checked me back to '06 and I appreciate it!
It was a fantastic experience when it came out, absolutely mind blowing. I'm glad someone brings it up today, because if any RPG fan has missed this gem, they should deffo give it a go.
This game was soooo ahead of his time it's insane. I wish all developers put that care into making games. I remember playing when it first and being completely amazed with all that had to discover. Then several years later I played it again with a guide from a magazine and be yet more amazed. Gosh, I even discovered a secret room that was not it the guide(this game is soooooo full of secret rooms it's insane). A masterpiece I wish it made it into a game series with the same kind of spirit.
One of my favourite RPGs from an age old era. Such a great soundtrack too! Good to see the adventures of Sir Kicksalot Von Deathboot alive and well.
Whatchu mean "age old era". The game is from 2006 😶🌫
@@ForacothSo there are 17 year olds who are younger than it? Not disproving the point.
I can't tell you how many times I've replayed this game. It's one of my all-time favorite games.
Dark Messiah's probably got some of the best melee combat for me. It definitely feels much more like an Action Game with RPG elements in that regard, but doesn't suffer for the obvious mix-up in genres. It's also how I actively choose to remember Arkane, as opposed to the debacle going on with Redfall.
It's been kind of one of my dreams to make a spriitual successor that mirrors this game's fun mechanics.
Two things I remember most about this game: The amazingly fun fire mechanics, and the orcs shouting "Abomination!"
One of my all time favorites. For those who are unfamiliar with the lore, the story takes place after the events of Might&Magic V and Tribes of the East, and most of the characters (including the "villain" of the game) are from that games so if you want a more "thorough" experience, I suggest playing those too.
Absolutely underrated gem :) Not much of an RPG, but a really cool melee action adventure with so many quirky and funny set pieces! Thank you for the video.
And one that shows you can actually have first person melee combat done pretty well. Not many manage to pull that off.
I found the combat hard/bad to control. The new shadow warriors control better for example
It absolutely is an rpg. RPG doesnt mean open world
@@coltonlehnen6803 But RPG does mean 'role playing' game. I only consider games with a substantial role playing element to be RPGs. The interactive dialogue choices in Dark Messiah were few and far between. Most of the game was cutting through enemy filled levels and non interactive cutscenes.
@@7dayspking But there are many, many RPGs that don't have any interactive cutscenes or dialog choices for that matter.. JRPGs rarely have any of those systems.. I mean, Dark Messiah is a light action-RPG at best but your points can't be used to describe what a RPG is made of and what makes a game truly a RPG
second video of yours i've seen and it's another gem i remember fondly, great videos too
Also I will point out that one disappointing thing about this game was that when it was initially released it was incredibly buggy. It had several game breaking bugs that could easily stop you from finishing the game. This was extremely disappointing, because it really did a lot to make its initial reception very tepid and held it back from the success it really deserved.
Oddly enough, I remember having to spam press the right arrow key or the game would get stuck in the first loading screen when starting a new game lmao
@@Rehzix Yeah one of the biggest game breaking bugs was the rope arrow, which on release didn't actually work. So it meant you were unable to progress the game at all.
I remember I was very far into the game and then my save got corrupted and I didn't want to start over
A vote should be organized to create a second part of this game
I love Dark Messiah, but I do think that it's a stretch and a half to call it a "Elder Scrolls Rival". Still a SUPER fun game with intensely fun magic and physics.
After reading this and having a think I totally agree. Have made some changes 👍 thank you for your feedback mate
It's crazy that in some respects it actually looks better than un-modded Skyrim though. I remember following this on release but never got around to playing it, maybe I didn't have a PC capable of it at the time, can't remember. Might have to have a quick playthrough.
True. Dark Messiah is way more fun than any TES game!
@@3renegade3 a friend of mine played it on a 8800 GT, I was still using a 9800 Pro and could barely run it.
Dark messiah has better art IMO than an Elder scrolls game but lower fidelity.
the Audio was exceptional in this game ... having an Soundblaster with EAX HD was truely a blast in Dark Messiah. Loved the Game so much ... its a rare gem ... like "Die by the Sword".
This channel is GOLD!
So many good recommendations. Thanks for your hard work!
Mitch you are, and I honestly mean this, a TRULY UNDERRATED TH-camr!!!
Also you're legitimately funny. A lot of people THINK they're funny or TRY to be funny but naturally funny people are few and far between. There's a fine line between a joke being "forced" or "cringe" and a joke being hilarious. Timing and delivery is IMO something you can work on but you still really need a natural talent for it which you have. Love all your content and it's just a matter of time before you really blow up, even though I've seen dramatic increases in your views since I started watching your videos around the time of the original SWTOR "movie". Keep it up and thanks for the great content.
Really appreciate that, thank you
This is amazing. Modern rpgs need to step it up to create such fun gameplay again.
They won’t unless they let go of their open-world obsession
@@coltonlehnen6803pen world isnt an issue trying to make a large open world game quickly is the problem. They need to take their time or make smaller games. They also need to stop watering down every fkin genre for smoothbrains.
@@MV-ri7zu but smooth brains are the majority, hence why so many people still preorder broken-on-release buggy games based solely on pretty, misleading trailers, "realistic" graphics yadda yadda
@@wallacesousuke1433The same smooth brains who have an aneurysm when you criticise THE MESSAGE.
The Might and Magic series holds a special place in my heart. Love this series.
This was one of my ultimate favorite games, and the multiplayer changed my life. There's never been a similar more visceral multiplayer game where you can level up and spec into different talent trees during the match.
Is there still a multiplayer scene alive somewhere? I never got to play it multiplayer so I'm curious what that would be like.
One of my favorite RPGs of old times, getting played again. I like to see this.
I absolutely loved this game. It's criminal that the series didn't continue.
maybe because you destroy the world at the end of the game XD
“Back foul temptress!”… oh I have new fun nickname to adopt.
I had no idea going into this, that one of my favorite games was made by what would become one of my favorite studios (and I'm not actually a big dishonored fan lol).
God this game was great.
man...2000s were incredible...every year, hardware games were changing so rapidly, you had to upgrade your pc very often to keep up...300mhz processor in 2000 became 1ghz like a year later...just incredible times
Played this a bunch in my youth, loved it. Sadly it didn't get enough sales for the sequel they planned on.
I remember reading the previews on this EGM or GamePro back in the day. It's really amazing that they were able to make these systems so functional back then. I'm thoroughly impressed!
I really like the level design in this game. Returning to it after playing their later games, it feels like they had a very similar approach, building most of the levels to feel like real places, with the main difference being that they just had the player go through most of them in a straight line in Dark Messiah. Even when the level was clearly and obviously linear, I would often feel like I was just trying to find a path through a real place rather than walking in a straight line.
This is one of my favourite games of all time. I'm still waiting for a game that has first person melee combat this good.
Damn, back in the day, during school holidays, a friend went to his home country Belarus and came back with a cracked copy of the game. Didn't understand anything, the text was cyrillic, the voice English. But I had so much fun with the game 🤣 ah yeah good old times..
Dark Messiah has been on my "to play" list for oh-so-many years... Along with Messiah! Will I ever get around to playing either game? Who can say?
I have been looking for this game title for years, best game I ever played, the nostalgia is real
As I love this game I'd like to mention that it is in the same world as Heroes of might and magic 5, 6 and 7. SO if you played HOMM V you will see some familiar faces :D
Dude, Your intro for the game had me pop over to the Game store to pick it up. Thanks!
I miss this game. It was one of my favorites.
Demon lady is so sexy.
It's on steam if you're looking to play it again
@@owlbear4928 Yeah, I own it. But I can only beat it so many times lol.
I played this game the year it came out. I had saved up enough money from my first couple jobs to buy my first gaming pc and was so psyched to try this. And dang i loved it. I remember just being in awe of the visuals and physics at the time, and the big twist in the story had just enough foreshadowing that it made me feel clever to realize it juuuuust before the characters did. The undead were creepy, the beds of nails duct taped to every wall were always put to good use, and it was all around a good time!
I love this game so much and I still can't believe it didn't do better.
I still remember the first time I saw an article on this game in game informer magazine when i was kid. Got unbelievably hyped for this game back then.
God I love your content mitch, I played this game when it first came out and I fell in love with it. Though I never got to be able to play the multiplayer it still was an amazing game. It really was something so new unlike any game before and after that. I mean I've not played a game like it and I kinda miss it you know? Anyways THANK YOU for the content and keep on being brilliant mate!.
Bro i saw this in one of TotalBiscuits videos (RIP) over a decade ago and I could not for the life of me find it, thank you!
This was a fun game to play back in Uni. Ah the memories.
Xana was my childhood crush and definitely sparked my love for corruption storylines.
Loved this from start to finish! A very memorable game with some fun mechanics.
When that came out, I played through it once for every class and a few more times revisiting it a couple of years later. At the time I was very impressed with it, and couldn’t understand why it wasn’t more popular, with expansions following it.
Hey hey people
this video unlocked the memory of playing this as a kid and gave me the name to the memories, thank you
Back when games were good and not just turds in shiny wrappers. This game was awesome, it even have different endings according to your choices. For me it was 10/10. 😁
It is usally just nostalgia. Imo there are actually more good games now than in that time cause of the indie game scene being much bigger now.
@@juanserra1720 Yer take those nostalgia goggles off. Just because there's a few bad games now doesn't mean they all are. There were PLENTY of awful games back then too. Stop acting like you're some superior being because you liked games from a certain era.
@@craigtrish2011Okay, I took my nostalgia goggles off. I still can't see the Diversity, Inclusion, Equity statements of 2006 companies.
Can't find Sweet Baby Inc. either. Did find the World Economic Forum, but everyone called me mad.
Ah one of my favourites from my childhood! I have played and replayed this one so much. I never quite found another game like it.
Don’t forget the multiplayer, it was a ton of fun
One of my favorite games ever, i remember playing the demo for hours on end just goofing around with the awesome fight system. Completed the game sooo many times on hardest difficulty.
The bigegst drawback of having played this game so much is that sooo many later games (like skyrim for example) have felt completely lackluster in their combat systems...
This is hands down, one of the most important games in PC gaming history.
You have no idea how advanced the aspects of this game are. To do so many things years before any other game is a monumental feat.
For all the memories i have of this game, the one thing I will never forget is eavesdropping on pack of goblins and realizing they were speaking Swedish.
why is there more physics in this 2006 game then most games now?
Lol "he's being flirtatious don't you know what trouble that could cause in this day and age?" love it. Makes me want to play it.
This is an old favourite of mine and I just replayed it recently and still enjoy it just as much. Definitely one of the most underrated games ever made I think. And definitely the best combat for any game ever. I mean could imagine Oblivion and Skyrim having DM's combat? That would be amazing.
I never been convinced to play this older of a title but this video did a pretty good job of that, gonna give it a try.
eeeeeh it's a great game and still holds up, but it's pretty unique, certainly not a traditional bethesda rpg. i think the title is a bit unfortunate, more like a physics based first person action game. now that i think on it, it feels closer to doom 2016 or halflife than any actual rpg. anyway cheers.
This game is in my top 5 favorite games of all time. I picked it up blind from a bargain bin only a year after its release. It has been one of my favorites ever since.
best game ever played. way too short. the multiplayer was amazing. there never will be games like this again. the new generations have devolved.
Is there still multiplayer?
return to monke
I played dark messiah years ago, and it became one of my favorite games. To this day, I still go back every year or few months, and have a blast kicking ass in this game. It's truly a fucking masterpiece, and it's a shame it didn't get more popular, because I would have loved to see this kind of creative gameplay in more games
Thanks for recommending this! I really did miss out on this banger, I didn't have my PS3 during 2006 and was still pretty young and mostly playing Wii. As of today, there is a steam sale, and it was 2.49 so absolute steal.
I'm glad I came across your video. I remembered I've played this before but forgot about it after so many years. Thanks for the reminder! 👍👍😄😄
I remember seeing this game in a gamer magazine that my high school English teacher used to have in his classroom. My first look into the fantasy RPG genre. I remember wanting this so bad, but then I found Oblivion, which thoroughly scratched the itch 😂
Have this sitting for the longest time in my wishlist on steam, I think this video finally convinced me in playing it.
Thank you for reminding me of that gem. Loved to play it at the time because of those chaotic fights and rather unique gameplay back then. Might wana give it another try 😁
Love this game, come back every few years for a play through and always have a great time. The only mod I tend to use while playing is one for equipping my current sword when I shield. The amount of times you click the shield and they grab the blacksmith hammer is maddening
Never heard of this game but you totally sold me on it. To my wishlist it goes so I can check it out as soon as I have some time.
While playing this game, when we entered the ruins, we encountered goblins, sometimes they were hiding in the doorways and setting traps, I was so surprised while playing it, it is an excellent game.
One of the most advanced physx gameplay of all time , quite buggy but very fun also , indeed a gem of a game which truly deserves a sequel.
This video just made me want to go back and reinstall Dark Messiah and play it again. Played it years ago and loved it! Fantastic video and this game deserves a well done sequel!
I played the 360 version of this game and loved it! The prologue is a completely different one, where Sareth retrieves the Shantiri crystal from a temple in a stoney valley and the tutorial area from the pc verion is a part of the early main story. But there is no blood, beheading and bodies disappear after killing an enemy. And I think the stealth kill mechanic and some weapons are missing. But Ioooved it!
The fact that the same studio now made Redfall (though I guess very few of the original developers remain) is a good summary of the current state of western video games
I felt in love with this game, played with full music. Those games makes bois Real Man
I played the shit out of this game when it came out. I actually played the demo before it was released. Amazing. Oh the good ol days.. when all games had their own personalities.
Played this when it came out . Way ahead of its time. Def one of my favorites from my past. Needs a remake
I loved this when it came out (aside from the bugs) and converted many of my fellow gamers at lan sessions where this became an absolute staple. You would level up your skills in each game which still had an rpg feel even in pvp. Great fun and have never seen anything like it since
Best game ever made, I wish Skyrim had combat like that. My advice use cheat codes max all out get katana and play on hardest difficulty. Insane experience.
one of the coolest thing is the rope bow, and being able to shoot anywhere and use the rope to climb up
Dark Messiah was a riot.
Killing all your enemies by kicking them into physics traps is awesome.
I don't think I've had more fun with any other 3rd person RPG. This as an open world would be incredible (or at least as a non linear RPG).
Omg this game! I played the free demo when I was about 14 and wanted the full game so bad but had no money! The mechanics and style was enthralling so much fun with the bow on the ledges shooting the little creepy goblins down. Thank you for bringing this game back to light
Holy shit. The source engine physics used for humour is incredible. Imagine if more games were like this today rather than stiff galleries to look at
Played it and icing the mountain path and watching the monsters fly off the mountain was the best!
This has been and forever will be, my favorite game. There's no other game right now that uses magic in such a dynamic and strategic way...
Instead of... you know... ice turns you bluish and slows you down... fire adds some flame effects on you and takes damage over time, etc.
Thanks! Your channel only recently found me and I am digging in - Wishlisted this game - there is actually a demo on Steam😃
props on triple alliteration: "frequently flinging foes" GOLD STAR
i remember playing this as a demo back on the 360 when i was like 8, i was absolutely obsessed with the game but never actually got to play the game, the game randomly came across my mind yesterday for the first time in a decade at least, and now this video gets recommended to me today, i think its time to give it a try if i can find it
fun fact: this is the first of TWO games, arcane studios worked on and which are named after an IP that the game actually has nothing to do with:
- Dark Messiah of **MIGHT AND MAGIC**
- **PREY**
IIRC, the kick was originally going to be like a guard break or something, but it was coded with way too much force. The devs found it so hilarious they changed the game to make use of it instead of "fixing" it
You had me at john wick and Mcallister, match made in heaven