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If you liked Champions of Norrath, then I recommend trying the sequel Champions: Return to Arms, as well as Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II with similar gameplay. In addition, there are average quality role-playing games such as Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone and Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale.
Edit for the top: Champions has a town portal, they're recall scrolls, you find them in your misc inventory tab and use them from the Start menu, selecting it again from town sends you back to where you were. The best emulation settings for Champions of Norrath now are to use the latest Nightly version of PCSX2 and make sure you run the Vulkan renderer, that's basically it. It runs almost flawlessly even on Steam Deck then. Of note, a few areas in the game just have slow down, basically anywhere with a lot of fluid effects or a lot of warping effects. It's been awhile since I played it on original hardware but I swear it did that on there too. Need to track down a controller and cables for my PS2 and find out some day. Oh, also, Champions is a Snowblind engine game, also developed by Snowblind Studios, there's a bunch of them. Snowblind themselves developed: Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Champions of Norrath Champions: Return to Arms Justice League: Heroes Other companies optioned the engine and developed: Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel The Bard's Tale Most of them are great. Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is largely hated, but it's not THAT bad, it's just not very good. I've never played Paratrooper so no clue there, didn't particularly care for Justice League either mostly for the lack of good progression systems, and The Bard's Tale is fine but more story oriented than anything and full of jank but was written and voiced by Cary Elwes, so if someone asks you to play it you should absolutely say 'as you wish'. Both Dark Alliance games and Champions games are by far the best, Dungeons & Dragons Heroes is pretty good too but very primitive compared to the others, apparently it has no level cap though so if you don't mind grinding for-literally-ever you can become an unstoppable god in it. I'm really happy the Dark Alliance games got modern re-releases, fingers crossed for Champions remasters, it COULD happen, Daybreak Studios owns the EQ franchise now and they may well be open to the idea, and the company behind the remasters has hinted on twitter that they're up for such a project, so who knows! And looking into, not sure now if Dungeons & Dragons Heroes is actually on the Snowblind engine, it feels like it is, it could be a knockoff I guess, it has the same water physics and uses the same menus as Dark Alliance 1 among other things, I'm like 99% sure it is but just got lost in the shuffle. Other games like Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel also don't mention the engine anywhere, though, supposedly that was the result of Snowblind demanding it not be associated with the game. Edit on D&D Heroes. It is NOT a snowblind engine game but the result of some wild copyright legalities and was just a blatant attempt to copy Snowblind's style. It's still pretty decent, but the garbage performance is probably explained by this. There's a very indepth video on the topic released like a week after I made my comment titled "Why D&D Ripped Off It's Own Game | Dungeons And Dragons: Heroes 2003" by a channel named "William SRD" that's worth a watch.
Wow, you had two of my favorites in here. Bionic Commando was seriously under appreciated in it’s time. No matter how I talked it up, I couldn’t get any of my friends to play. I’m happy to hear you enjoyed it :) Champions of Norrath was a blast from the past. Those two games and the two Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance games were my favorite ARPGs to play with my little brother. We beat them so many times and enjoyed trying new characters each play through. I agree how well they’ve all held up over time. What a bunch of gems!
Bionic commando is a 10 out of 10 game, provided you play on the normal difficulty. Sparse checkpoint saving and lack of mobility in the harder settings detracts from the experience.
back then bionic commando was criticized for 2 main reason: Graphics and the going back from an open world to a linear game. The gameplay is sometimes a bit cluncky, but fun and the animations were smooth even on ps3. Unfortunately devs had to deal with a very little budget...
The sequel of Champions of Norrath is Champions Return to Arms and it was my most played couch coop game when i was a teenager with my buddy. I would love to see your take on the sequel, it has quite a few upgrades and interesting classes
If you’re doing more action-adventures in this series now, I would recommend checking out Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. It’s an interesting little game that seems pretty obscure, but definitely not an RPG.
Alright, you need to try out Arx Fatalis. Its awesome RPG that came out around Morrowind and got burried by it. Also Ascension to the throne could be interesting.
Huge thank you for your video as always but more so for review of Champions of Norrath! :D I still have a copy of it and its sequel Champions Return to Arms for PS2. One of my all time favourite games from my childhood, it was especially good with 4 player co-op! Anyways keep up the good work man! 👍🏻
Champions of Norrath is one of those games my brother found in a PS2 sale bin that we both ended up loving. Very challenging (at the time at least) and the combat + class variety was surprisingly satisfying.
Thanks for another great video! Hopefully, the chances of Champions of Norrath remake may not be that slim. We've got Dark alliance 2 remaster somewhat recently, so fingers crossed
Not sure how Champions of Norrath is an obscure game. Forgotten maybe, but I at least still remember it quite a lot. and 100% agree there needs to be a remake of it and the sequel Return to Arms. Speaking of, in Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms, all the old class/races are in it, plus 2 more. Also, I think it was one of (if not the first) earliest game to feature save porting, where in you can take your character from the first game (after beating it I believe) and port it over to the sequel. Sadly, with emulation, that is often a difficult thing to do.
A game i think you haven't featured yet but would fit the series well is "Rise of the Argonauts" its Bioware-esque action adventure set in Ancient Greece.
Immortal unchained was janky as all hell but my god, i absolutely enjoyed the hell out of the game and managed to beat it & go through NG+ for a bit. I think it was the first decent attempt to mix guns & the soulslike formula together. Unfortunately its been blacklisted to purchase on consoles but i still own a digital copy of it for now. Its one of my favorite "bad" games 😅
Yup, I couldn't agree more. I can't even pinpoint why it feels really fun to play, despite all it's issues. I found a physical version for ps4, and it seems like it works in 60fps on ps5, so I'll probably get it. It's around 20 bucks in Serbia currently.
Pro tip for champions of Norrath. When creating your character you can use 20 skill points to stats you want. Use them all but dont finish the character. Back out to class select and choose that again. The 20 points return on top of what you spent. You can get every skill to 100 before you start the game. Also there is a cheat to instantly become level 20 with 1000 spell points. It just quickens your ability to use the fun spells and special moves. I loved these games
I played Immortal Unchained to completion - really enjoyed it. I saw a lot of people not enjoying it because they were stubbornly trying to play it like Dark Souls, trying to melee everything all the time etc, but if you actually let the game teach you its mechanics, it's a blast; interesting level design, unpredictable story, varied enemies...
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Damn it. Now i want to play ELEX again. That music :)
Thanks for Immortal Unchained and Bionic Commando, both underrated but mostly the second, because of Just Cause 2. Bionic Commando has one of my favorite bosses the Mohole.
3:10 At least it'll provide some phrases to paste in future videos 😂 Reminds me of ME Andromeda dialogue. Probably was written by that Bioware consultant
try champions return to arms its a masterpiece you can even load the champions of norrath save and keep leveling with that character all the way to level 80
Champions: Return to Arms is the sequel to Champions of Norrath. Highly recommend trying it out! It was my most played game on ps2 by far. So many hours spent online.
Bionic Commando is one of those games where I bought it relatively recently (last year or something) to bulk up my PS3 collection and wanted to like it. I thought for SURE I'd have your impression of it, but man, the swinging feel is SO busted. It is really, really fun-killing. Just cannot get a feel for it; it's so inconsistent. It's also stupid how guns have ammo (I mean, ffs, it's a 3D version of an old-school run-and-gun. They should all be infinite, energy-based weapons. Imagine if there was a 3D Contra with ammo...), and the way they implemented the "Death Fog" to keep you on the path in the exterior environments. I don't have a problem with that conceptually - obviously, they didn't design and build a whole city environment (though a game with a core traversal mechanic like Bionic Commando really _should've_ been built with large, open areas in mind) - but the fact that it only gives you, like, 2 seconds of warning instead of 10 or something. It's basically, "Hey you're straying too far from the mission are---- oh you're dead before we finished telling you that. Oops" GRIN just f**ked up too much of it, if you ask me. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it though because it's clear that there's a good game there somewhere, and really is a great foundation for further 3D Bionic Commando games that should've been built upon. Heck, they should've just patched up fixes for some of these issues... but they didn't. It definitely doesn't deserve the hate it so often gets, but.... I don't bemoan anyone who hates it either, lol. That too is justified. Also, you know you'll have to check out the two Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance games now, yes? It's weird that you said you were hoping for Champions of Norrath to get remastered when it was the THIRD action-RPG that Snowblind did in that style, and their first two - the DA games - DID get remastered and released on all current platforms over the past 2-3 years or something. Give those a look sometime, dude. Great video as always. Shame what happened to the Waylanders....
I really enjoyed the 3D Bionic Commando, it's underrated IMO. I never touched Immortal Unchained and it looks interesting tbh. Easily my favourite YT series, you've built such a great channel, C4G
Have a family member who worked on Bionic commando. And yes it really is. It released at a horrible time and the story was more than lacking so it just kind of dissapeared when other giant games came out at about the same time.
thanks for recommendation dude, i need more reccs for games like Gungrave Grove, Wanted Dead, Stranger of Paradise, Valkyrie Elysium, No More Heroes 3, Ishin, Evil West, and Nier Replicant, RE3 Remake basically games that played alot like sixth/seventh generation console games
Well, Champions of Norrath might make a return someday. The Dark Alliance games, which used the same engine, were both remastered recently so fingers crossed we'll get this too someday soon.
My biggest problem with Immortal Unchained was the environmental stuff like funneling you down a narrow path with traps that you literally cannot see hidden on the foliage.
Tutorials in DA worked because they all made your character look like a badass and the story was actually good, I'd have never guessed I'd care about a dwarven political drama, yet here I am considering it to be the best starting option in DA
I remember being bummed out when the first reviews dropped on Waylanders... at least we got Greedfall in this Dragon-age-on-a-budget niche, and hopefully a better sequel next year
The Waylanders was Honestly a Gigafail Originally they wanted to create a game about the North Iberian-Galician Folklore, with the addon of the celtic influence on such regions, and the rich mythos. Hell, their OR teasing where how detiled they recreated the Medieval Santiago de Compostela...and then, they fucked up all As Someone from the Galician Region, the (Teased) major cultural Influence of the developers, the just ignored a lot of our folcklore...a lot of our myths butchered or mixed in a nonsensical fast badly backed development -No reference or work over the Castrexian Subcultures (They promished it in a Game Dev Lab) -Never delivered proper creatures of our mythos, they went to use pure Anglic Celtic focus -When some of the OR collaborators called them out, they just went blackout -And the rest...well you summarized up it all very well Thank you for cover and warning people about it. I hope you play someday Drakensang The River of Time, it tops the Or easily
You checked Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance series yet? I think its the closest thing to Champions of Norrath that you can play on PC nowadays. Also, I wonder if Bionic Commando is what inspired Prototype. When I saw the gameplay footage you show for it, I was instantly reminded of Prototype.
Wait what? I'm pretty sure I can remember Bionic Commando had some quick time events. I can vaguely remember a relatively cinematic fight involving a lot of ripping and tearing mid flight that was mostly quick time events, or at least button mashing.
Would love to see your opinion of “Lord of the Rings - the Third Age” (ps2 game) and “Lord of the Rings - War in the North” (ps3 / pc) I think either of these would be perfect for your next episode!
Oh damn, it's like you're reading my mind, lol. I'm currently working on a video about LotR rpgs and action adventures. I'll cover the games you mentioned, and more!
Wasn't Ultima Online, not Everquest, the first commercially successful MMORPG? Actually, googling tells me it was Neverwinter Nights, a 1991 AOL game, not to be confused with the decade later Bioware RPG of the same name.
I hope you check out the indie game The End of Dyeus. It's admittedly light on the rpg elements, but it's a fantastic hidden gem I wish would get more exposure.
Waylanders is what happens when the delusional story script writers think that replacing 95% of the dialogue with quirky swearing is cool and a sign of highly intellegent well-written plot.
Summoner 2 was featured in the 7th installment of this series. I know this because I was one among others that also recommended it, and was surprised that it was actually featured. Neat. th-cam.com/video/5MiBh9o9hFw/w-d-xo.html
Played Champions of Norrath on the PS2, heck even dusted that thing off last year for a bit of Champions. Nice game, really wished as well they would do a remaster or heck a re-release but on PC. Then again, seeing how much they still charge for the Baldur's gate Dar Alliance games...30 euro's for such an old game, nope.
This Immortal game looks a lot like MDK I'm not knocking it I actually like the look and the peel but I do wish that it was a little bit more difficult maybe it is but it just doesn't appear that way
What happened to Bionic Commando and it's developer Grin in criminal. Those guys made excellent simple casual games. I mean I get that the original was basically a puzzle/action platformer...but that's what "Rearmed" was for. Champions of N was legendary with my group of buds. I wish I would've liked Immortal a bit more but there was something about it that annoyed me fiercely.
You should try out Dark Messiah and Arx Fatalis. Played the first and it was awesome. Never played Arx though and would like to hear your opinion about it.
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Try "Hard to be a God", it's an rpg and I would love to see your take on it.
I already covered it in this video: th-cam.com/video/jqNa0rNe1zg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=S0xBf2TIx8vVXjc1
Immortal Unchained crawled so that Remnant 1 and 2 could walk.
i played champions of Norrath in my old PS2 with a friend over the summer in 2011
If you liked Champions of Norrath, then I recommend trying the sequel Champions: Return to Arms, as well as Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II with similar gameplay. In addition, there are average quality role-playing games such as Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone and Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale.
One of my favorite series on youtube.
Champions of Norrath was such an incredible game, I still mean to play Champions Return to Arms at some point as well.
I managed to finish all 4 games (Baldurs Gate and Champions of Norrath) together with my girlfriend, on the PS 2.
return to arms is so good, both are great, but RTA adds a difficulty tier and changes a couple things, adds 2 more character classes, i love it
Bionic Commando still looks really good for a 2009 game.
Edit for the top: Champions has a town portal, they're recall scrolls, you find them in your misc inventory tab and use them from the Start menu, selecting it again from town sends you back to where you were.
The best emulation settings for Champions of Norrath now are to use the latest Nightly version of PCSX2 and make sure you run the Vulkan renderer, that's basically it. It runs almost flawlessly even on Steam Deck then.
Of note, a few areas in the game just have slow down, basically anywhere with a lot of fluid effects or a lot of warping effects. It's been awhile since I played it on original hardware but I swear it did that on there too. Need to track down a controller and cables for my PS2 and find out some day.
Oh, also, Champions is a Snowblind engine game, also developed by Snowblind Studios, there's a bunch of them.
Snowblind themselves developed:
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Champions of Norrath
Champions: Return to Arms
Justice League: Heroes
Other companies optioned the engine and developed:
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2
Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers
Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
The Bard's Tale
Most of them are great. Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is largely hated, but it's not THAT bad, it's just not very good. I've never played Paratrooper so no clue there, didn't particularly care for Justice League either mostly for the lack of good progression systems, and The Bard's Tale is fine but more story oriented than anything and full of jank but was written and voiced by Cary Elwes, so if someone asks you to play it you should absolutely say 'as you wish'.
Both Dark Alliance games and Champions games are by far the best, Dungeons & Dragons Heroes is pretty good too but very primitive compared to the others, apparently it has no level cap though so if you don't mind grinding for-literally-ever you can become an unstoppable god in it.
I'm really happy the Dark Alliance games got modern re-releases, fingers crossed for Champions remasters, it COULD happen, Daybreak Studios owns the EQ franchise now and they may well be open to the idea, and the company behind the remasters has hinted on twitter that they're up for such a project, so who knows!
And looking into, not sure now if Dungeons & Dragons Heroes is actually on the Snowblind engine, it feels like it is, it could be a knockoff I guess, it has the same water physics and uses the same menus as Dark Alliance 1 among other things, I'm like 99% sure it is but just got lost in the shuffle. Other games like Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel also don't mention the engine anywhere, though, supposedly that was the result of Snowblind demanding it not be associated with the game.
Edit on D&D Heroes. It is NOT a snowblind engine game but the result of some wild copyright legalities and was just a blatant attempt to copy Snowblind's style. It's still pretty decent, but the garbage performance is probably explained by this. There's a very indepth video on the topic released like a week after I made my comment titled "Why D&D Ripped Off It's Own Game | Dungeons And Dragons: Heroes 2003" by a channel named "William SRD" that's worth a watch.
Wow, you had two of my favorites in here. Bionic Commando was seriously under appreciated in it’s time. No matter how I talked it up, I couldn’t get any of my friends to play. I’m happy to hear you enjoyed it :)
Champions of Norrath was a blast from the past. Those two games and the two Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance games were my favorite ARPGs to play with my little brother. We beat them so many times and enjoyed trying new characters each play through. I agree how well they’ve all held up over time. What a bunch of gems!
Bionic commando is a 10 out of 10 game, provided you play on the normal difficulty. Sparse checkpoint saving and lack of mobility in the harder settings detracts from the experience.
back then bionic commando was criticized for 2 main reason: Graphics and the going back from an open world to a linear game.
The gameplay is sometimes a bit cluncky, but fun and the animations were smooth even on ps3.
Unfortunately devs had to deal with a very little budget...
The sequel of Champions of Norrath is Champions Return to Arms and it was my most played couch coop game when i was a teenager with my buddy. I would love to see your take on the sequel, it has quite a few upgrades and interesting classes
Champions of Norath and the sequel Return to Arms are 2 of the greatest games ever made and they both desperately deserve a remake!
Snowblind Studio ARPGs are simple yet comfy (Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 1/2, Champions of Norrath)
Absolutely! Still have all of em and go back to em from time to time.
Both of the champions games are the absolute definition of a hidden gem
If you’re doing more action-adventures in this series now, I would recommend checking out Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. It’s an interesting little game that seems pretty obscure, but definitely not an RPG.
You can actually use town portal (recall scrolls) from the pause menu in the game. And then go back to the place you used the scroll from
Mostly games that should remain forgotten this time if I'm honest :P Still hoping you can check out Gods Lands of Infinity in one of these.
You should try Jade Empire, its a decent action-rpg by Bioware and is extremely overlooked
Alright, you need to try out Arx Fatalis. Its awesome RPG that came out around Morrowind and got burried by it. Also Ascension to the throne could be interesting.
One of my favorites. Too bad no Arx 2.
Arx Fatalis is way too good and not forgotten enough for this serie of videos :p
deserves its own video.
Found that game through mandaloregaming. One of my best finds in this app
Huge thank you for your video as always but more so for review of Champions of Norrath! :D I still have a copy of it and its sequel Champions Return to Arms for PS2. One of my all time favourite games from my childhood, it was especially good with 4 player co-op!
Anyways keep up the good work man! 👍🏻
Champions of Norrath is one of those games my brother found in a PS2 sale bin that we both ended up loving. Very challenging (at the time at least) and the combat + class variety was surprisingly satisfying.
Elex music in the background makes me so happy.
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Thanks for another great video! Hopefully, the chances of Champions of Norrath remake may not be that slim. We've got Dark alliance 2 remaster somewhat recently, so fingers crossed
yeah champions and the follow up arms is great, i will revisit them soon :) this video did encourage me even more to do so, so thx a lot :)
Not sure how Champions of Norrath is an obscure game. Forgotten maybe, but I at least still remember it quite a lot. and 100% agree there needs to be a remake of it and the sequel Return to Arms.
Speaking of, in Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms, all the old class/races are in it, plus 2 more. Also, I think it was one of (if not the first) earliest game to feature save porting, where in you can take your character from the first game (after beating it I believe) and port it over to the sequel. Sadly, with emulation, that is often a difficult thing to do.
A game i think you haven't featured yet but would fit the series well is "Rise of the Argonauts" its Bioware-esque action adventure set in Ancient Greece.
I covered it in this one bro: th-cam.com/video/jitK8J3Xc4o/w-d-xo.html
Champions of Norrath was me and my brothers favorite game to play together. Such a fun game.
Immortal unchained was janky as all hell but my god, i absolutely enjoyed the hell out of the game and managed to beat it & go through NG+ for a bit. I think it was the first decent attempt to mix guns & the soulslike formula together. Unfortunately its been blacklisted to purchase on consoles but i still own a digital copy of it for now. Its one of my favorite "bad" games 😅
Yup, I couldn't agree more. I can't even pinpoint why it feels really fun to play, despite all it's issues. I found a physical version for ps4, and it seems like it works in 60fps on ps5, so I'll probably get it. It's around 20 bucks in Serbia currently.
@@click4gameplayme either! 😅 It's just something special about the game when everything clicks. Beating that game is a honor in itself I think 😂
I really liked the DLC (except for the boss) and the ending was really good as well
@@christophertheofilos1063 agreed a hidden gem for sure. Makes me wanna boot it up for ole times sake
Is that the Elex music playing in the background? xD
Pro tip for champions of Norrath. When creating your character you can use 20 skill points to stats you want. Use them all but dont finish the character. Back out to class select and choose that again. The 20 points return on top of what you spent. You can get every skill to 100 before you start the game. Also there is a cheat to instantly become level 20 with 1000 spell points. It just quickens your ability to use the fun spells and special moves. I loved these games
Champions of Norrath is still one of my favorite games after all these years. No other top down ARPG has come close to scratching that itch.
One of my favorite series on yt returns! (jos jedna sjajna epizoda)
Champions of Norrath and Return to arms are classics and by no means forgotten or obscure xD. First game i loved that had good couch coop too.
1:00-I feel like the Profanity in this game would give Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel a run for its money.
the champions games are probably the best rpg games for couch co-op ive ever played, up to 4 on ps2 with the multi tap, soooooo good
What about “Sacrifice”? Interplay & Shiny Entertainment; 2000. A mix of action RPG with strategy and total commander elements. Trully a PC hidden gem!
I played Immortal Unchained to completion - really enjoyed it. I saw a lot of people not enjoying it because they were stubbornly trying to play it like Dark Souls, trying to melee everything all the time etc, but if you actually let the game teach you its mechanics, it's a blast; interesting level design, unpredictable story, varied enemies...
Damn it. Now i want to play ELEX again. That music :)
Champions of Norrath appears to be a clone of Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance 1 & 2, both of which are available on Steam.
Thanks for Immortal Unchained and Bionic Commando, both underrated but mostly the second, because of Just Cause 2.
Bionic Commando has one of my favorite bosses the Mohole.
I remember heared that Champions of Norrath is good back in the damn.
Couple of games i immidiately thought about:
Etrom: the astral essence
Dark Sector
3:10 At least it'll provide some phrases to paste in future videos 😂 Reminds me of ME Andromeda dialogue. Probably was written by that Bioware consultant
try champions return to arms its a masterpiece you can even load the champions of norrath save and keep leveling with that character all the way to level 80
Champions: Return to Arms is the sequel to Champions of Norrath. Highly recommend trying it out! It was my most played game on ps2 by far. So many hours spent online.
Bionic Commando is one of those games where I bought it relatively recently (last year or something) to bulk up my PS3 collection and wanted to like it. I thought for SURE I'd have your impression of it, but man, the swinging feel is SO busted. It is really, really fun-killing. Just cannot get a feel for it; it's so inconsistent. It's also stupid how guns have ammo (I mean, ffs, it's a 3D version of an old-school run-and-gun. They should all be infinite, energy-based weapons. Imagine if there was a 3D Contra with ammo...), and the way they implemented the "Death Fog" to keep you on the path in the exterior environments. I don't have a problem with that conceptually - obviously, they didn't design and build a whole city environment (though a game with a core traversal mechanic like Bionic Commando really _should've_ been built with large, open areas in mind) - but the fact that it only gives you, like, 2 seconds of warning instead of 10 or something. It's basically, "Hey you're straying too far from the mission are---- oh you're dead before we finished telling you that. Oops"
GRIN just f**ked up too much of it, if you ask me. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it though because it's clear that there's a good game there somewhere, and really is a great foundation for further 3D Bionic Commando games that should've been built upon. Heck, they should've just patched up fixes for some of these issues... but they didn't. It definitely doesn't deserve the hate it so often gets, but.... I don't bemoan anyone who hates it either, lol. That too is justified.
Also, you know you'll have to check out the two Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance games now, yes? It's weird that you said you were hoping for Champions of Norrath to get remastered when it was the THIRD action-RPG that Snowblind did in that style, and their first two - the DA games - DID get remastered and released on all current platforms over the past 2-3 years or something. Give those a look sometime, dude.
Great video as always. Shame what happened to the Waylanders....
Great video Marko! I will have to check some of these out. Very proud to be one of your members! Always great content
This is a good series. Give audience knowledge which games you should play or not. And cheap too considering its not popular games
I really enjoyed the 3D Bionic Commando, it's underrated IMO. I never touched Immortal Unchained and it looks interesting tbh. Easily my favourite YT series, you've built such a great channel, C4G
Have a family member who worked on Bionic commando. And yes it really is. It released at a horrible time and the story was more than lacking so it just kind of dissapeared when other giant games came out at about the same time.
thanks for recommendation dude, i need more reccs for games like Gungrave Grove, Wanted Dead, Stranger of Paradise, Valkyrie Elysium, No More Heroes 3, Ishin, Evil West, and Nier Replicant, RE3 Remake basically games that played alot like sixth/seventh generation console games
Thanks for recommendation, I'll check this Champions of Norrath, looks neat.
Well, Champions of Norrath might make a return someday. The Dark Alliance games, which used the same engine, were both remastered recently so fingers crossed we'll get this too someday soon.
One can hope
My biggest problem with Immortal Unchained was the environmental stuff like funneling you down a narrow path with traps that you literally cannot see hidden on the foliage.
Immortal Unchained gives a lot of Soul Reaver vibes with the calm combats.
Tutorials in DA worked because they all made your character look like a badass and the story was actually good, I'd have never guessed I'd care about a dwarven political drama, yet here I am considering it to be the best starting option in DA
for champions never saw use scroll from the pause menu for returning to town on a dime and right back to your exact location????
I remember being bummed out when the first reviews dropped on Waylanders... at least we got Greedfall in this Dragon-age-on-a-budget niche, and hopefully a better sequel next year
The Waylanders was Honestly a Gigafail
Originally they wanted to create a game about the North Iberian-Galician Folklore, with the addon of the celtic influence on such regions, and the rich mythos. Hell, their OR teasing where how detiled they recreated the Medieval Santiago de Compostela...and then, they fucked up all
As Someone from the Galician Region, the (Teased) major cultural Influence of the developers, the just ignored a lot of our folcklore...a lot of our myths butchered or mixed in a nonsensical fast badly backed development
-No reference or work over the Castrexian Subcultures (They promished it in a Game Dev Lab)
-Never delivered proper creatures of our mythos, they went to use pure Anglic Celtic focus
-When some of the OR collaborators called them out, they just went blackout
-And the rest...well you summarized up it all very well
Thank you for cover and warning people about it.
I hope you play someday Drakensang The River of Time, it tops the Or easily
Great video. Thanks!
The Waylanders is still being sold on steam for $55!
You checked Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance series yet?
I think its the closest thing to Champions of Norrath that you can play on PC nowadays.
Also, I wonder if Bionic Commando is what inspired Prototype. When I saw the gameplay footage you show for it, I was instantly reminded of Prototype.
You definitely need to try "dungeons of dredmor " small indie overlocked GEM buried in steam games.
Wait what? I'm pretty sure I can remember Bionic Commando had some quick time events. I can vaguely remember a relatively cinematic fight involving a lot of ripping and tearing mid flight that was mostly quick time events, or at least button mashing.
That happened only at the very end
Never played the original but I loved Champions Of Norrath: Return to Arms. I even replayed it and still thought it was quite good.
Bionic Commando was pretty cool. Imagine what Capcom could do with it on RE Engine.
Champions of Norrath reminds me of PSP Dungeon Siege game. Same vibes.
Would love to see your opinion of “Lord of the Rings - the Third Age” (ps2 game) and “Lord of the Rings - War in the North” (ps3 / pc)
I think either of these would be perfect for your next episode!
Oh damn, it's like you're reading my mind, lol. I'm currently working on a video about LotR rpgs and action adventures. I'll cover the games you mentioned, and more!
You're the MAN and then some! I can't wait to see the video!@@click4gameplay
Wasn't Ultima Online, not Everquest, the first commercially successful MMORPG? Actually, googling tells me it was Neverwinter Nights, a 1991 AOL game, not to be confused with the decade later Bioware RPG of the same name.
Bionic Commando is so good!
I hope you check out the indie game The End of Dyeus. It's admittedly light on the rpg elements, but it's a fantastic hidden gem I wish would get more exposure.
one day, silver from 1999
Nice. How about Lionheart, Fallout 1 & 2 and Jade Empire?
Fallout 1 and 2 are not obscure games by any means.
@@garmfilf2789 But are definitely getting forgotten
seriosly fallout 1 &2 like obscure and forgotten games
@@gR1zzLyG4ming Nope.
i dont know if you featured it already but id recommand septera core, its on GOG for 4,99€ or on sale for like 3,29€
I don't know if you have featured it yet but I think code vein would be a nice game to review
I don't know if u covered them, but there are two diablo like rpgs i like, van helsing and heroes of ruin (for the 3ds). I think u'll like them 😊
Waylanders is what happens when the delusional story script writers think that replacing 95% of the dialogue with quirky swearing is cool and a sign of highly intellegent well-written plot.
Immortal unchained..i loved it, deserve a remastered version for current gen
Fallout brotherhood of steel would be nice to have an opinion on as it tends to be hated on for what I remember.
Just remembered Wild West & Wizards exists
You should play the 2nd game: Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms
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Why does that sound so much like MandaloreGaming?
here's some suggestions:
drakan the ancients gates
summoner 2
hard to be a god
mdk 1&2
enclave
giants citizen kabuto
Summoner 2 was featured in the 7th installment of this series. I know this because I was one among others that also recommended it, and was surprised that it was actually featured. Neat.
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Is this the same guy that does RPG Division? They sound exactly the same.
Is that 'Champions of Norrath' in the intro?
Haven’t watched your videos in a bit , your English has really progressed
Played Champions of Norrath on the PS2, heck even dusted that thing off last year for a bit of Champions. Nice game, really wished as well they would do a remaster or heck a re-release but on PC. Then again, seeing how much they still charge for the Baldur's gate Dar Alliance games...30 euro's for such an old game, nope.
This Immortal game looks a lot like MDK I'm not knocking it I actually like the look and the peel but I do wish that it was a little bit more difficult maybe it is but it just doesn't appear that way
If they rerelease champions of norrath 1 and 2 in a bundle and add trophies id pay 70 bucks for it.
What happened to Bionic Commando and it's developer Grin in criminal.
Those guys made excellent simple casual games. I mean I get that the original was basically a puzzle/action platformer...but that's what "Rearmed" was for.
Champions of N was legendary with my group of buds.
I wish I would've liked Immortal a bit more but there was something about it that annoyed me fiercely.
so bionic commando had a grappling hook in 2009 but horizon zero dawn couldn't have one in 2017....
You should try out Dark Messiah and Arx Fatalis.
Played the first and it was awesome. Never played Arx though and would like to hear your opinion about it.
I sorta remember Bionic Commando and Immortal Unchained
bionic commando is voiced by faith no more singer
Avil, I hear Elex music.
bionic commando is hela fun if you get into the controlls
Really hope champions of norrath gets a remaster!
I played Champions of Norrath 1+2 a lot on PS2 in co-op (still have it).
I think they surpass Baldur'sGate: Dark Alliance EASILY.
Champions of Norrath goated childhood memories, turning enemies into arrow pin cushions was heaven
i wasted soo many hours playing bionic commando as a kid loved it so much
Love this channel
I wonder if he would cover Zenonia
Champions of norrath and Return to Arms need remake for current gen🔥
Massively hated the ending in Bionic Commando.
After all that, you get shot...
will you ever review chronicles of myrtana archolos ?