Cabela's Dangerous Hunts: A Game for Nature Lovers
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- Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 challenges you to master modern warfare in a deadly campaign through Africa and Alaska where any animal larger than your watch is after your skull.
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00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Background
02:56 - Prologue
07:30 - The Hunt Begins
16:39 - Cliffhanger
19:48 - Rise of the Baboon King
28:20 - Perfect Organisms
31:40 - Luke is the Joker
36:13 - The Endurance Round
39:40 - Final Showdown
44:40 - Conclusions
45:32 - Credits
46:42 - Sane Man
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No way to link this one, game is delisted everywhere for some reason.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Caption tool is unfortunately near unresponsive on my end right now, but this'll hopefully get remedied today.
Bass Pro Shops bought Cabelas a while ago so my guess is they dont give a fuck about the games licensing.
Happy Halloween 😊
happy halloween fam
Ayo, I like the switch-up between calm and composed cold hard steel Mandalore and hot headed LESS EFFIN GO badass panicking Mandalore. 10 out of 10 voice work.
Conservationist of the species that he likes
the fact that you have a desert eagle as a sidearm in a hunting game is fucking hilarious
They actually make really great guns if you are hunting with a pistol or if you just want a big iron on your hip for those charging bears
Ain't taking no glock into bear country.
With boars taking .357 and still charging, if you can handle the recoil, it has its uses
@@grimreminder5038the point is there is no modern reason to hunt a bear. We can drone them
@@livanbard you have to use the orbital laser on it. the bear is the leader of animal-qaeda.
As a ranger, Jacob does a lot for rare species. For one thing, he keeps them rare.
Yeah. Anytime "nature conservationists" talk about hunting endangered species to save endangered species, you know they're just sadists looking for something to stroke their d@$%s over.
Is that a discworld reference
That's called ensuring job security
To be real, some hunting is required or at least permitted in the event a certain species starts to overpopulate a given area (which is ironically what Cecil the Lion technically was killed for) but I don't think that's what's happening here.
@@warbossgegguz679 Hunters will look for ANY excuse to hunt, though, and it really is incredibly hypocritical that hunters seem to have a "punish every animal except humans for human-made issues" mentality.
24:16 _"Is the game implying that the baboons are jamming me?"_ That line actually unlocked a memory of a nightmare I had as a kid of yetis cutting my house's power and phone lines before breaking in through nearly every window simultaneously.
Yetis are real. They're even in another cabelas dangerous game
That'd make a fun start to a weird survival horror game!
Yeti Team 6 do NOT mess about
congratulations, when you were a kid you had the funniest nightmare possible.
@@kungfuskullsadly, a realistic Sasquatch or Yeti horror game would have some serious design issues: the creatures as described in most encounter stories are either alone, or in small family groups, so you'd quickly kill off the threat... but if it was an Amnesia style run and hide horror game, well, just think long and hard about all the ways an 7 to 9 foot tall bipedal ape can be dangerous: they're stronger, tougher, likely faster, and probably pretty damn smart, and have hands... how do you even start to deal with that if it wants you dead?
Imagine if the game started breaking the 4th wall and questioned the player like Spec Ops: The Line did.
"How many endangered animals have you killed today?"
"Do you feel like a conservationist yet?"
Except unlike SO:TL, here it would actually fit.
Can we get a Cabellas Spec Hunts mod pack for this game
Or maybe Predators except it's just a normal jaguar
Just like Jacob, im also conservationist, to conserve humanity from verteeg. Eternal Kagawa life!
cabela's dangerous hunt: the line be like
"why you kill animal?? animal no hurt you"
There might be something to Jacob's failing grasp on reality. Driver Ed is clearly voiced by a black African male, but his character model is a white dude with ginger hair.
Final Mission: Jacob and a group of heavily armed men approach the Gorilla enclosure of the Minneapolis Zoo.
JACOB: "And remember...no sign language."
Had me laughing for a solid minute.
Underrated comment
And by "zoo" you mean the city streets.
It was the Cincinnati zoo
Pleaseee 😂
7:35 "He died before they opened it again"
I like to think that the entirety of Uganda was shut down for years because Jacob's dad just hunted down its entire ecosystem. The surviving wildlife recognizes Jacob is his son and tries to stop him before he can follow in his father's footsteps, only to accidentally give him a reason to create another mass extinction event.
This is lore for me
The deepest lore
And the sandstorm is Divine punishment. Proof that the sins of the father pass to the son.
ajajajjajajajajajajajaj
They had to recoup losses. His Dad comes in like those control burns they set every once in a while.
This game's plot can be summed up as "Men will literally kill 650 tons of biomass in Africa rather than go to therapy"
Yeah therapy doesn't work for me 😂
@@RJ28753statistically it doesn't work for a ton of people
Therapy 🏳️🌈
And it will be more effective then therapy can ever dream to be.
@@kenshy10 You know I doubt that.
"I'm a park ranger in Alaska" He said, thumbing the hammer on his hunting deagle
I honestly never played any of the Dangerous Hunts games, but seeing a Desert Eagle in a Cabela’s game feels oddly out of place
@@rrjt1011 hippos have high enough AC to warrant it
not that it does any good mind you
“The cat simply disappeared. There was no blood or cry, it just vanished.”
@@rrjt1011 It was made to be a hunting pistol but I've seen it in enough videogames and action movies it's just ridiculous seeing it in the hunting context.
@@WTFisTingispingisDesert Eagles are actually decent hunting sidearms, especially against bigger animals, like bears and moose
Worked on some of these games. I remember one day we were demoing the current build to a cabela's rep and things were going great until they saw a message that said "You've unlocked new weapons!" The rep was AGHAST. "WE DON'T SELL W E A P O N S, WE SELL FIREARMS" we had to spend the next day reviewing text in the code and sweeping the game for any instance of the word weapon and removing it.
This absolutely checks out for corporate.
That is absolutely hilarious 😂
Hilarious. Corpo-fuddery at its finest.
No one tells them what fire arms do 😂
It's not a comic, dad. It's a GRAPHIC NOVEL.
I think a park ranger is like a elite animal fighting shock trooper, a conservationist refers to conserving human life, and Alaska is just another warfront in the animal war.
Big game hunters are men out on a mission, killing animals for revenge rather than for protecting humanity.
@@Irishcrossing They're the James Graysons of the Cabela's world.
This is true. Public awareness of The Emu War is because of a leak in the intelligence community’s animal information controls.
Cold Australia.
@@crypticcrustacean4499same here I cracked up laughing
"I'm a conservationist" immediately followed by mowing down hundreds of animals like a horde of zombies is peak 2013 gaming.
“I just want to be a good person”-Niko Bellic on his way to his 4 straight mow everything down that moves mission
Do you feel like a conservationist yet?
@@Rehteal No but I feel like Ted Nugent...
Clearly, he's conserving humanity.
Teddy Roosevelt was a conservationist too.
“Liam Neeson says wolves will kill all life within 30 miles of their den.”
I love the idea that Liam Neeson believes there are these 30 mile radius dead zones around wolf dens. Like wolves are some kind of devouring swarm stripping all biomass from their surroundings.
Wolves are just tyranid scout bioforms confirmed.
I think he's confusing wolves with Tyranids. Easy mistake to make, I know.
Yea lol. 3 miles would be a stretch
Crazy how early humans managed to domesticate them, as I assume that would involve coming within 30 miles at least.
That's ants.
Protagonist: *mows down enough animals in 5 minutes to last 100 hunting lifetimes*
Guide: "Alright, let's get started then!"
Good lord, it's like Detective Halligan got turned loose on Africa.
Detective Halligan, we meet again. Haven't thought of him for far too long 😅
Halligan and this guy are the two protagonists I wanna see face off.
Halligans Happy Huntin
@@michimatsch5862Halligan is a serial killer that hunts serial killers. He's the only hunter who'd make this game's protag the hunted
@@andreymontagIt isn't that cut and dried, Halligan struggled with a single pet cat. No way he'd be able to take down spec ops Jaguars
I'm honestly kind of surprised that Mandy was so confused by the story of this game, considering he's done games with far more complicated lore like Marathon. It might seem insane and nonsensical on the surface, but if we think about a few key lines and look at the story holistically, it all begins to make a lot more sense. Allow me to explain as best I can.
There’s a very important line early on (7:36 in the video) that Mandy acknowledges, but kind of glosses over: Uganda used to be Jacob and Luke’s father Ben’s favorite place to hunt when he was younger, but he died before they opened it back up for hunting. This seems like a throwaway line at first, but it’s actually the key to everything. Think about it, Jacob has followed in his father’s footsteps as a park ranger and “conservationist”, even saying it’s in their blood. But we know what that *really* means, having seen Jacob in action. Jacob is a killing machine, a mass slaughterer of the animal kingdom, just like his father before him. And when I say “kingdom”, I mean it almost literally in this case; an *empire* of animals, with an emperor to rule them. A *Lion* Emperor, whose royal lineage is denoted by their all-black fur.
This means that when Ben was younger, he journeyed to Uganda and slaughtered his way through the local wildlife, just like we later see Jacob do. Ben is *the reason* Uganda was closed for hunting. The Black Lion Emperor (BLE for short) *knew who Ben was,* and knew how much of a threat he was to its empire should he return, and further must have known how dangerous any of Ben’s potential off-spring of the Conservationist Bloodline would be should they reach maturity.
Once we understand this, the rest of the plot becomes clear: The grizzly bear and its army of wolves weren’t simply a random group of psychotically enraged animals, they were *assassins,* dispatched directly by their ruler to kill not only Ben but his children, Jacob and Luke, who the BLE had learned were being trained by their father to follow in his footsteps. This was a threat that the BLE could not ignore, and so he sent forces to attempt to kill Jacob and Luke *before* they could finish their training, but was thwarted when Ben sacrificed his own life to save his children from the assassination plot.
Ten years later, Jacob and Luke come to Uganda together, and seeing them together the BLE makes the logical conclusion that they have come to avenge their father. So he stages a new assassination attempt before they can meet, this time using a dust storm as a cover for the operation. This is why the water buffalo seem so intent on killing Jacob, because they *are.* The leopards waiting in the trees? An actual ambush, set up well in advance, knowing that their water buffalo co-conspirators (and Ed, more on that later) would drive their target directly into it. This is why every single animal is trying to kill Jacob during the stampede, they’re all in on it. Note that the rhino even makes its first play when they're near a cliff, an attempt to maximize its ambush. The Canadian geese even return to avenge their previous commander, the grizzly bear, having followed Jacob all the way across the ocean from North America, possibly even acting as the BLE's messengers between the two continents and being the ones to warn the BLE of Jacob's arrival.
After that the game is pretty straight-forward, with the BLE’s various lieutenants (the rhino, the hippo, the Baboon King, etc) each making their own attempts on Jacob and Luke’s lives. The empty ranger station infested with hyenas? Cleared in advance as an ambush. The jammed signal from Ed? A deliberate play to isolate the brothers. The snake was a bit of a lone gunman as it were, and nearly succeeded, foiled only because Luke was closer than anticipated. It’s also never made explicit, but I would posit that the Baboon King brought Jacob to its arena in order to establish itself as a real political power by killing him publicly, possibly even as a long-term scheme for the BLE’s throne, one that the leopards attempted to thwart by killing Jacob before he could reach the arena. Later on we even see lions killing baboons as punishment for their king's hubris.
By the time the rest of the BLE’s lieutenants are dead and it is forced to take matters into its own hands, it has already identified Jacob as the far greater threat, and so abducts Luke in order to force a confrontation on what it feels is the best terrain. That’s why it repeatedly dangles Luke in front of Jacob to lure him further into the trap. With so many of its lieutenants dead, it knows that it needs to kill them *personally* in order to not look weak in front of its remaining forces. Its plan fails and Jacob slays it, putting an end to a dynasty and avenging Ben’s murder. Unfortunately, the Black Lion Emperor's worst fears are proven true when the brothers decide to continue their slaughter after its defeat, now with no cohesive forces left to oppose their genocide of what remains of its people.
Oh, and to answer Mandy’s question about what happened to the man the BLE dragged off? There never was a man, Ed was a turn-coat the entire time and made up the story to bait Luke (and by extension Jacob) into a trap. That’s why Ed drives Jacob directly into the first “stampede” ambush, gloating that he feels it will be a “very special hunt” for Jacob and his brother, and then sends Jacob off alone afterward. He even tries to trick Jacob into assassinating the leader of the elephants, a neutral party in the conflict, for their refusal to acknowledge the Black Lion Emperor (they have maintained their independence by being the only animals not to fear the black lions) and kill the Conservationists when they had the opportunity. After that fails he directs Jacob into the ambush that the hyenas have set up at the abandoned ranger station, and later is the one who tricks him into the jaguar ambush with the impala herd as bait, and then tells him to continue on through the baboon kingdom knowing what they have planned. It’s also why the signal gets jammed when Jacob is in the baboon kingdom; obviously the baboons didn’t do it, so clearly it was Ed trying to get him killed after telling him to keep moving forward into their ambush.
Honestly, it all makes sense if you think about it, there’s just some subtleties to the story-telling you might not catch on the first play. I actually really appreciate the writers for refusing to hold the audience's hand on a lot of this stuff, it's always nice when writers trust their audiences to be smart and understand the intricacies of their plots and characters without needing everything spelled out.
Fixes both the Canadian geese and the elephant plot holes. I approve.
Meds now
Jesus Christ the more I look the more it makes sense. The Bear commander was even literally Big Boss. There was a polar bear in a previous Dangerous Hunts game that was a final boss named Big Grimm, second to final because a fucking Sasquatch appears.
@@imperator_88mm92 does this also mean the resident evil baboons in the other other Cabela's Dangerous Hunts were not just failed cybernetic supersoldiers,but specifically made by the BLE's Patriots
edit: no wait the baboon supersoldiers are the baboon king (from the arena's) new generation of warriors
how does this not have more upvotes
"it's howl's moving castle doctrine" is easily one of the best one-line jokes I've heard in a hot minute
i don't get it
@@mohitonon-alco4287 castle doctrine is the idea that once someone sets foot on your property without your permission, you are within your rights to kill them in pre-emptive self-defense. castle doctrine says that trespassers forfeit their right to an expectation of safety.
Howl's Moving Castle is a movie about, among other things, a house that moves like a vehicle with legs.
the joke is twofold: it's a smart play on words for one; and for two, if someone thought castle doctrine applied to their vehicle, they would also think they had the right to kill anyone who got near it, even while driving.
“You are a conservationist, yes?” As you eliminate half the wolf population of Idaho made me lol
that's probably all of our wolf population
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Calling Jacob an "animal conservationist" is like calling the Doomslayer a "demon guardian".
Doomslayer: Biblical scholar.
He prefers Demonologist
i have a feeling that Cabela's required the developers to include certain things to make it appealing to their core demographic, deer hunters. hunting deer keeps the population at a sustainable level so there is a real conservation angle to it. i don't think the developers understood the assignment but god damn they made art.
@@LieseFury I’ve known a few, shall I say, “enthusiastic” environmental studies majors advocating for doing precisely this to white-tailed deer in the Eastern Woodlands.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormickI don’t like the air quotes around that enthusiastic.
I'm slightly disappointed that killing the Alpha Black Lion didn't cause the mountain, the whole mountain, to collapse and force you into a timed escape sequence.
With LOTS of sliding
Why have it collapse when it can suddenly turn out to be a dormant volcano and erupt?
Shame the game didnt end with a boss rush of all the Alpha animals you fought previously
Now that you say it, I'm really disappointed that it didn't end like that.
I'm convinced someone in the studio wanted to do that.
I love the idea of a game about a conservationist losing himself to bloodlust when a long lost Ancient Ugandan civilization's curse interrupts his deceased father's birthday celebration.
This game was screaming for a Condemned Criminal Origins type of twist where the constant animal attacks in massive numbers have a supernatural cause.
Thats litteraly the plot of the previous game
This is actually a stealth Warhammer game, the whole thing is just an average hunting trip on Catachan
30:46 Mandy states you kill about 80 Wolves in this section.
37:08 Mandy estimates that you kill "about a hundred" more wolves.
Mandalore says that you kill about 180 Wolves over the course of the flashback missions.
The wolf population in Alaska is estimated to be between 7,000 to 11,000.
If we call it in the middle at 9000, Jacob single-handedly killed about 2% of the total wolf population of Alaska over the course a single day back when he was a teenager.
Jacob: "I'm A CoSeRvAtIoNsT"
Imagine if he became a hunter instead of a park ranger
2% is small
@@kingstarscream320 But all by one person? Lmao
@@kingstarscream320That’s a huge number. Although 2% can be a small number in other contexts, in this context, we’re talking 2% of ALL wolves in the population of the largest state of the U.S. slaughtered in a single day. In Alaska, there’s an estimated 1300 wolves harvested every YEAR by all hunters and trappers, which is 14.5% of the population. If we assume they only harvest within the fall months and only on weekends, we can make a conservative estimate that the entire industry harvests these 1300 wolves in only 24 days, which means they would have a dayly yield of 0.6% or about 54 wolves.
This means this ‘Jacob’ outperforms the ENTIRE industry by about 3.3 TIMES, all by his lonesome.
Let’s take this another direction. The Alaskan wilderness covers 57.5 million acres of land, or about 90 thousand square miles. Let’s assume that 80 percent of wolves live in 20 percent of this land, and that Jacob only searches that area. This would still mean he’d have to search 2.5 square miles of land per wolf, for a total of 450 square miles of land to kill every wolf he encountered. In a dense forest, you can see only about 20-30 yards in front of you before something obscures your vision, but let’s assume this absolute unit of a man can perfectly scan, sight in, and kill any creature within a quarter of a mile radius without stopping or slowing down. If this takes place within 24 hours, this ‘Jacob’ would need to run 37.5 miles per hour in order to cover the amount of area it would require to kill that many wolves. Keep in mind he’d need to carry all the necessary weapons and ammunition, not to mention that the fastest a human has ever gone on foot is about 27.8 mph.
Edit: Grammar and wording
@@Aerythraea at this point I'm sure Jacob died long ago even before the Alaska hunting trip and was replaced by some horrific eldritch doppelganger
"Let's get on with the safari" is like if at the end of Spec Ops, Walker went "Let's keep going with our mission"
I could see this ending with "Welcome to Dubai."
I am patiently waiting for the white phosphorous DLC to really show those pesky animals who is the war crime apex predator on the steppes
@@BetweenTheBorders"Gentlemen. Welcome to Uganda."
"No Walker... YOU were the Spec Ops all along!"
"Do you feel like conservationist yet?
This game feels like it was made by people who've only ever heard about hunts from those "the fish gets bigger every retelling" types.
The phrase "I saw the impala reaching" made me BURST OUT LAUGHING there was no way I was expecting that and it absolutely buckled me
Mandalore, you must understand when Jacob says he's a conservationist, they mean he conserves the human species from the never ending asymmetric animal assault.
Underrated comment lmao
Fierce fauna ferociously fighting freedom loving Americans.
@@roach9397 That thought never crossed your mind? Wow!
He's one of the Few, the Proud, the Conservationists.
He is probably a conservationist because of the damage he did to Alaska as a kid
Jacob is a true conservationists, he is aiming at vital points to conserve bullets
Take a shot every time he calls leopards "jaguars".
@@malte291 what KIND of shot, though?
He's conserving his spot in the leaderboards.
@@manboy4720
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The Cabelas: Spec Ops: The Line cover fucking killed me.
*Slow zoom over the horizon*
"After the grizzlies took Portland, we had to resort to using special tactics."
*Press F to launch White Phosphorous Strike*
Only halfway through the video I understood Cabella's is an actual hunting equipment store in North America. It's incredible
And they're owned by Bass Pro Shop. It's the same thing but a bit more fishing oriented, though they also sell guns and hunting stuff. Come to think of it Cabela's sells fishing stuff as well...
This game was one AC-130 Death From Above segment away from being the most legendary shooter of all time.
I feel like they wanted to do it, but couldn't get it past the investors.
@@svenneumann2816yeah I guess Cabelas doesnt show AC-130 gunships 😐
@@celebalert5616Bofors won't return their calls.
Maybe not AC-130 but definitely could have done a scene where you hunt a herd of boar from a helicopter
@@lawrencewu4370 A helicopter is fine, but it absolutely must have a minigun
I was absolutely not prepared for the sandstorm stampede murder spree
I don't think there is anyway for anyone to prepare for that
This scene is now my head canon for what irl hunting is like. Just one person at war with a merciless, endless nature.
I will remind you all that Australia deployed an entire infantry division armed with machine guns against an emu infestation and lost. Humanity has only gotten the upper hand on nature recently in the grand scheme of things.
Remember, no buffalo
It wasn't about deffending the car, it was about causing a global mass extinction event.
In some bizarro alternate timeline or parallel universe, the Warhammer 40K universe has no Orks or other aliens, instead the Imperium of Conservationists is beset on all sides by enemies like chaos leopards, Geesanids and the dreaded Bison WAAAAGH. In the Grimdark future, there is only hunting.
Basically Catachan
There's literally a custom guard Regiment in 8th edition Codex that's, and I'm not joking, composed by hunters because their native planet is a jungle full of eldritch horror animals due that Governor's Pets one day escaped from his zoo, moved to the jungles and breeded each other and became a threat for all life in the planet. That's the fucking plot story for another Calabela's game.
This comment is so fucking underrated
All it's missing is an AC-130 mission and you have a full on military shooter
They said they wanted the CoD audience but they overshoot so hard they ended up making a game targeting the Doom 2016 audience 3 years ahead of time. What a mindbogglingly insane beast this game is!
It's really weird to think that these games are only 3 years apart. Cabela's games feel so... intrinsically 2007-2009 ish, it is truly a strange reality to swallow that DH2013 was still on store shelves when the next generation consoles dropped lmao
@@alecferrell2620 It's so weird, yeah. This game has a strong early PS3/Xbox 360 look to it yet it came out around the same time as the PS4.
@@wallyhackenslacker Honestly thats really hard to believe. If you told me the game came out in 2008 I would be like "Yeah that seems right"
It’s really just a light gun arcade shooter. It’s not new or novel for its time. It would be right at home in an arcade and not seem weird at all.
Ik right? As innacurate as this game is for hunting, it makes up by having a FPS dodge roll. Looks fun as hell.
In this universe, a conservationist is probably like being the Warden of Nature, but warden in the sense of being in charge of a jail where every single inmate is a serial killer who has knives for fingers
I'm a conservationist.
No wait, i meant preservist.
Got quite good at taxidermy.
I mean, i had a lot of stuff to practice with.....
In this universe, someone beamed the Unabomber's manifesto straight into the brains of every animal on Earth.
A conservationist in this universe is there to conserve humanity from the beast onslaught.
@@robbert-janmerk6783 You'd think after all of his killstreaking, Jake would get a Nuke to help him!
@@HelghastStalker never. The nuke would put The Vehicle at risk!
I noticed Jamison Price was the voice of the dad, so as far as I'm concerned, Shadow the Hedgehog's biological father is Lu Bu.
turns out this entire thing was a Nier prequel/Drakengard sequel
I’m too distracted by Luke being Patrick Seitz, a man known for many many roles, but the one you’d probably recognize off the bat is Dio Brando
@@scrungobeepis5443 DIIIIIIIIIO!
And Cole is a voice actor I recognise from Fallout New Vegas, specifically the casino owner you sell a sexbot to.
He's also the VA for a couple Barry Burton renditions around RE5, so that BOW comment is really on point...
Today I learned that there are actually at least two insane Cabela's Dangerous Hunt games. I thought this video was going to be for the 2011 release, which is somehow even more ballistic. It basically has the same plot as well - hunters in Alaska, family tragedy, mass animal slaughter in Africa - except it also involves shadow wolves with glowing red eyes, brush fires, betrayal, possible werehyenas, and THE NIGHTFALL PROGRAM. If you enjoyed (?) this game, you'll probably like that one too.
Also instead of the dad dying the brother dies, which makes me think these games take place in parallel timelines.
@@WTFisTingispingisIt's the father from this. Uganda was closed off due to his hunting spree after his brother died.
If you look at just the cutscenes, it's a touching story about two brothers overcoming their shared trauma of losing their father to a maneater. If you look at just the gameplay, it's DOOM 2016 if you pissed off a druid instead of satan. Combined, it's just batshit crazy
..... mystery of the druids sequel anyone?
@@ravenpentaghast8830 THROUGH THE MAGIC OF THE DRUIDS
That doom comparison is great lmao
lmao
@@danieltobin4498that voice line lives rent free in my head for all time
Jacob being shown as an inexperienced young hunter only for it to be revealed he was Cabela-verse’s Doomguy is top tier story telling. Truly one of the hunting games of all time.
So it isn't global warming that is killing biodiversity, it's Jacob!
Can someone dub this with like...the doom OST or meshuggah or something?
The reason why he was out of ammo in the first scene is because he used it on the wolves
cool profile pic
I need to start seeing this man in those crossover SFMs that have Doomguy, Master Chief, and Gordon and stuff.
A DLC where Jacob's thirst for more challenging prey pushes him to hunt Osama wouldn't have surprised me
problem with that is the dude died in the 90s
@@honeybadger6275Is that so?
All this does is makes me want a fantasy hunting game. Like imagine FPS Monster Hunter, but you have the health of a fly. You got set up your traps, stalk targets, carry away kills, etc all while only having the tools you brought so you have to avoid blowing through ammo and medical supplies.
That's actually a really good idea.
People have made things like that, remember all those janky monster hunting games from a few years ago, like the Bigfoot one?
A hunting game but it's set in the modern era of the Warhammer Fantasy world and you hunt Beastmen for sport.
"Like I said, nature is cruel, Jacob! And I'm very in touch with my inner monkey."
-Baboon King
He's monking invincible!
When the wind blow sand and the floor is not the waits vulture to get fucking shot
@@heakhaeklmfao
The previous two Dangerous Hunts games were bonkers, too. One ended with a showdown against a yeti, and another was all about hunting a cryptid that was mind-controlling the local wildlife. There was even a Farcry: Instincts laboratory where there was an ill-fated scientific effort to understand and replicate the creature’s powers.
WTF? The one I played was just about hunting, TF is up with Cabela?
you are lying... you have to be lying. i refuse to belive its that stupid.
please tell me you are lying
So Mandalore was right, there IS deep lore he was missing out on.
The cryptid one is incredible because at one point you get into a firefight with chimps
This is a death world in 40k I refuse to believe otherwise.
I can only presume that the constant falling down from ledges is a homage/steal/echo of Spec Ops, with the constant descending into Dubai. That would mean Luke was already dead, explaining the lack of answer over the radio, and the whole thing wasn't flashbacks to the bear, but Jacob's fantasies of vengeance as he sits freezing in the snow by his family's cooling bodies.
Gentleman, welcome to Alaska.
that makes sense honestly
glad to see someone else still remembers Spec Ops
@@TheTber123 Such a good game. It shot into my top ten as soon as I had played it. "You're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not..."
@@mikedrew604 "... a hero."
This game is basically what goes through my head when I see dinosaurs treated like a horde enemy in video games. The idea that seeing swarms of raptors attacking us alongside triceratops and ankylosaurus while being backed up by a flock of pterosaurs is the same kind of madness as the Jeep chance/everything must die sequence
The way he pulls out the freaking deagle at 10:10 with such smooth finesse in such a chaotic situation can only be explained by his background as a conservationist.
genuinely lost my mind when i saw that what the fuck is going on
Not even extreme gunplay in motherkriffing anime like Puella Magi Madoka Magica felt this wild.
And later when he picks it up from the ground and it looks absolutely tiny.
Switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading.
@@phyllotaxisYES! He's CONSERVING ammo! He must be a conservationist!
It's like the main character once heard the phrase "man versus nature" and decided to end the war for good.
Jacob - “I’m a conservationist”
*Proceeds to take a trip to Uganda and drives several species of animals to complete extinction*
Including eradicating a previously undocumented species of black lions
"Howl's moving castle doctrine" might well be the funniest four words I've ever heard, thank you Mandalore
I 100% thought this was gonna end with the brother turning evil and becoming the final boss like some twisted version of The Most Dangerous Game.
Ah man if only it did become like that. That would be awesome.
I thought he might fuse with the Emperor Black Lion.
@@MandaloreGaming This isn't a Japanese game! Although now I am trying to imagine how much more deranged it would be if it were. Him fusing with the black lion to become a new god of hunting fits. Jacob would actually be 13 in the story but look the exact same.
I was hoping to god that he would be on the bull elephant.
"You forgot the lesson Jacob: ALWAYS SHOOT FIRST!" - The Ancient One, Black Lion Man Emperor
Jacob being a conservationist feels like a retired assassin becoming a doctor - or, more applicably, an assassin lying about being a doctor
Paging Dr. Reiper. Paging Dr. Tobias Reiper.
@@atomichobbit7358 Someone seriously needs to do a dark comedy with a 47 style character... it's awesome how he can answer any question with a murder innuendo...
Hunters generally are conservationists.
Jacob is a conservationist - he protects and preserves humanity from the onslaught of nature's hordes
See, some animal conservation actually does rely on hunting and hunting licenses. Parks will let some people hunt a single animal, and then use the money made to protect even more animals. This is, from every conservationist and park ranger I’ve talked to, seen as either a necessary evil or ineffectual. But a conservationist who likes hunting? I don’t doubt they exist, and I wonder how they rationalize it to themselves because every conservationist I’ve met has loved animals and nature more than anything, and would only consider killing an animal as self defense
I remember playing CDH in 2005 and thinking “damn these animals have absolutely no chill!” The original CDH games were closer to hunting simulators. You’d spend 30 minutes stalking deer just to accidentally scare them off. There was no aim assist, no hud, no tracking help, and only skill and luck would allow you to make the kill. Then the next game you were no-scoping packs of wolves and emptying rifle magazines at alligators. And the final boss was a Yeti after sniping wild boars. I played the game over again just to laugh at it.
Endless quick-time events and High School Musical haircuts.
This game definitely is a testament to the late 2000s
just needs a slipknot/linkin park song
It's also always worth remembering that the final boss of Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2 is a Yeti
I'm surprised they were restrained enough to not make it a dinosaur.
They arent the last boss, but theyre there.
@@Super-px6xrYes, it was the last boss, and you could kill it with a tree branch if you wanted.
@@Mgauge that to avoid the Carnivores/Turok lawsuits
I just remember the yeti falling into a hole and hitting it with a stick till it was unalived.
I feel light-headed watching this. If you told me this video did not exist and there was a chemical leak in my house I would believe you without question
Oh hi noodle :)
This video doesn't exist, there is in fact a chemical leak in your house.
Thanks, checkmark
Well do I have good news for you! *wakes you up from chemical indused coma*
The chemicals don't exist. I'm taking a leak in your house
This video is a once in a lifetime experience.
You can watch it again, but neither the story, nor the jokes will hit you like they did the first time watching the video.
I've been chasing the high ever since.
@@DiagonalByte Me too, man. Me too.
"He may have hammered deep enough into the buffalo gene pool to change their fate as a species"
This had me dying.
The key part of the story that Mandalore missed out on, was that Jacob was actually the physical manifestation of Death itself, and that all animals instinctively attacked him as his mere presence caused them all to act in self defense and try to save the rest of the animal kingdom from the Harvest of the Grim Reaper. The Sandstorm was a divine act, but it was caused by Jacob to trap the animals with him.
Given the fact the previous Cabela games ended with a showdown between a yeti and a were hyena I believe it.
I can't fucking tell if this is true or not for this fucking hunting game
@jaydeleon8094 Oh I have absolutely no idea if that's true, but considering Jacob basically depopulated the region, it may as well be.
The moment Jacob was born into that world, all of nature knew their days were numbered
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 Matthew 6:5 "“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward."
The wild shooting into the trees and leopards falling out is too much. this game is insane
The hyenas coming through the walls in the haunted basement is where I really lost it, but the leopard sprouting trees is where I completely lost my mind.
Going to wonder how strong are these tree to support the weigh of so much big cat laying on their branches.
"Howl's Moving Castle Doctrine" line of the decade that has already tattooed itself on my brain
I remember playing the story mode through with my Grandpa. I was like seven and I Thought it was the greatest story I had ever witnessed
It is the greatest story
9:07 I actually burst out laughing when Mandy started to gun down the animals so prolifically, even the ones that weren't a threat, while he nervously narrates the genocide.
I just KNOW he was having the time of his life and didn’t want to show it 😂
Instincts kicked in while the mind was still questioning.
"It's Howl's Moving Castle Doctrine"
You could replace all the animals with zombies and it would look like a normal game
@@modernmusic52 which would honestly make it less insane
"It's hard to figure out the exact hierarchy of the bear's forces..."
man that line caught me off guard
“Give me back my legions.”
I am sure the one with the red back is the leader.
I love how the side arm is just a Desert Eagle
"Cecill the lion might have had aoe attacks and multiple phases, idk"
*hunter takes aim at cecil*
*cecil turns his head towards the scope and his eyes turn red*
"Cmon then, lets dance!!!"
-guitar riff plays-
“How did we survive as a species before guns?” is the best reaction to the wildlife portrayed in this game 😂
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@karemkarabeyoglu5923 The same reason lions run away from tribal Africans armed with only wooden spears and shields in 2023 🤣🤣
How do we survive as a species before guns? It's simple spears and sweating lad
@@Downtrodden_cat Don't forget bows.
@@Downtrodden_catAnd numbers, lots of em'
"They don't get it! Jacob wil glass all of Africa to defend this vehicle!" Fucking killed me
And as we see from the rest of the game, he is right to do so.
"I would've glassed the entire planet had it not been for Ed's counsel!"
- Jacob, probably
@@Mobius_118 Were it so easy...
"Sir, the rabid cheetas outnumber us 3 to 1..."
"Then it is an even fight"
I love the idea of the lions attempting to set traps but they have no thumbs so they have to work together to do it "damnit frank, get your paw out of the way, he's gonna be here in like a minute"
The best way to make a game on a boring topic interesting is to add a schizophrenic amount of lore to it
"Jacob's vacation is turning into a scientific incident"
My favorite line by far
The late Jakeocene mass extinction event. There's more bullet casings than bones in that strata.
@@higgsbonbon We know why plushies of extinct animals exist in Dead Space and why life was so crappy...the Late Jakeocene Mass Extinction Event really did a lot of damage on Earth's biodiversity!
@@higgsbonbon ha.
@@HelghastStalker the carbon footprint in gunpowder alone raised global temperature by 0.5°C.
I don't know if it's connected lorewise at all, but Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai has you stranded in the Alaskan wilderness while fighting a hyper intelligent genetically engineered super bear that pursues you like Nemesis.
Do you kill that bear in the end? If so, he might be the same bear. Or a bear in the same secret order.
That's actually a fun idea
I finally understand what a revisionist masterpiece is. Can't believe people hated this on release, it's a masterpiece of pure insanity deserving a proper remaster
I am astonished with how Mando keeps finding these absolutely bizarre games in the most unexpected places. Like I'm not big with hunting games. I never would've expected to find such a specimen on those grounds. Which makes me wonder which kind of weirdness I've missed and feel immensely thankful for Mando's devotion and delivery.
"I saw the impala reaching" was low-key gold
Lemme see your hooves.
I guess it wasn't a Tame Impala
Imma head off now in a Chevy Impala
Gonna meet up with Vlad The Impaler
@@mohammadsyazwigeoffrey7325 I curse your name for making me read "impaler" with that inflection
I love how Mando calmly navigates through Ring and Limbo of the Lost with clinical detachment, but it's the stampede scene of Dangerous Hunts that allows us to hear his descent into madness in real-time.
At least those games were clearly supposed to be nonsense, in that there's no other way they could've been made that way.
I need to rewatch the limbo of the lost video, that feels like sanity after this
He sure didn’t sound like he was retaining sanity in his stream of Ring.
Limbo is like a crazy madman's project, you have at least some expectations going in.
But a licensed Bass Pro Shops game that plays like DOOM for some reason would just hit different.
He even fell into chaos' influence on the way. ^^
I half expected Jacob to start punching boulders and suplexing lions.
Dude, last night i was watching this before trying to sleep.
I barely slept, had a fever and an awful cough, I was cooking in my own skin, and I swear to god, I had this never ending fever dream of all the combat clips spliced together, it was a special kind of hell all night.
Finally awake now.
Great video, as always Mandalore.
11:43 "maybe Cecil the Lion had AOE attacks and multiple phases" probably the greatest sentence ever uttered in gaming journalism
...Is that Canderous?
Hey don't compare Mandy to a journo that is just insulting to him.
Dude maybe Harambe was about to Potemkin Buster that kid and that zoo keeper saved his life who knows
The fact that all three of the main voice actors in this game went on to act in Vinland Saga just goes to show how powerful and far reaching Cabela’s truly is
Jacob is just askeladd's descendant and you can't convince me otherwise.
Dad didn't die, he faked his death and traveled to Shibuya, Japan to open a curry and coffee shop
Who else has Luke's VA voiced?
I know Jacob and Dad's played Don Patch and Jelly Jiggler from Bobobobobobo (among other things lol)
@@chrisdaughen5257ranga the blood edge in blazblue and dio brando in jojos
@@chrisdaughen5257based bobobo enjoyer
You're taking a leisurely stroll through the Alaskan mountains with your brother and father when all of a sudden. 36:36 You hear him cry out. Goku.
This game treats wild animals like John Wick treats random thugs. Call Jacob Colonialism the way he's driving those bovine species to extinction.
"Is there lore I'm missing from a previous Cabela's game" - Apparently one of the Dangerous Hunts games had a demonic, paranormal animal monster as a villain that made other animals go insane.
So that's why this game didn't have that be the explanation.
the WHAT
I believe it’s the the second or first dangerous hunt game, has a section where your forced to hunt a yeti down in Russia
@@dabubba4603I can't believe this wasn't a joke.
@@dabubba4603It was DH2. The first had no story, and was a far more simple game. The second one...was wild.
Nothing screams "conservationist" like a guy taking out his childhood trauma on every animal he encounters like some sort of alaskan Batman dispensing vigilante justice on wildlife.
"Sir, might I ask why you're here, killing hundreds and hundreds of animals?"
"Well you see a grizzly rammed my father to death"
"I see, well that certainly makes it all very morally okay and understandable, if I do say so"
There is a point to be made about big game hunting actually being good for conservation if done right.
But this ain't it chief.
Maybe hes a tree conservationist. Thats why hes taking out all those big cats that are hiding up in the trees. Theyre putting too much strain on their branches.
@@TheSpearkan Zoos are good, too.
We honestly need a zoos vs. trophy hunting debate to see what’s better for conservation, overall.
Everybody bitches about Harambe, but notice nobody’s advocating for “legal” or “sustainable” gorilla hunting.
@@Kaikaifilu1994 I feel like zoos play a different role in conservation, at least from the arguments Ive heard for big game hunting in the past
In Aztec Myth, it's said that the world ended multiple times. One of those ends was caused by Jaguars flooding the world. I like to think Jacob lives in that world. Explains this game.
I love how insane this is. It’s like House of the dead/arcade shooter pretending to be a hunting sim. 10/10 video
“I saw the impala reaching” has to be your best line yet.
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I dunno. "Howl's Moving Castle Doctrine" though.
There's so many good lines in this one.
Out of morbid curiosity, I decided to do a rough count of all the animals that died to Shadow's gun on-screen. Mandy, across this entire terrifying campaign, from the first dead deer at 4:09 till the death of the Lion Emperor at 43:35, there were 45 wolves, 3 deer, 67 african buffalo, 27 leopards, 4 antelope, 28 normal lions, 9 birds, 18 hyenas, 25 baboons, 11 mountain lions, one Rhino/bat/moose/hippo/warthog, and about 28 black lions (about 21 of which were dead within the first minute after you properly encountered one). I don't think it's reasonably possible to estimate the countless animals slain off-screen. I'm pretty sure that this hunt would count as a warcrime in some jurisdictions. Congrats.
well it was definatley a war
That puts his total at 267 animals, or less than 0.1% of the 274,899 that Franz Ferdinand shot during his lifetime.
@@braith117 damn
Playing with some friends in 2014 we actually did try to count back then (without a doubt missing some since the shotgun sometimes downs two buffalos in the car chase) but the total was nearly 600.
Mandy has personally altered the ecology of earth forever.
The Cabela's game were some of my favorites as a kid. The morality never dawned on me, I thought the animals were cool enemies. I even had their more simulator focused games as well. This unlocked a core memory.
I genuinely don't think that whatever storm of ideas that lead to this game could ever be done again and be more entertaining than it is. It's completely insane, but not only the best kind of insane, it's also completely sincere in its insanity.
To be fair, he is legitimately acting as a conservationist in the context of the world he finds himself in: when you find yourself in a region with 20-30 ravenous leopards per each acre of woodland, you're gonna need to cull that predator population for the good of the ecosystem.😅
The idea that the Cabela's-verse has conservationists being a spec op military force to deal with the hundreds of predators is absolutely amazing.
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@@randomintrovertedspider7510the Cabelas-verse 🤣
@@randomintrovertedspider7510Cabelas spec op military forces are the only reason i dont get mauled my mountain lions when i walk my dogs.
Youre such a fool
If you befriend the baboon king you unlock a secret ending where Jacob takes antipsychotics and realizes he’s been in a mental asylum for years trapped in a cycle of guilt after killing his father in a hunting accident
honestly that seems like the actual plot of the game
I feel like if you toned down the goofiness and focused more on the violence, a series of endless, violent hunts where every animal wants the hunter dead ending with him finally giving up the fight and realizing that could be a pretty fantastic horror thriller plot.
@@pidgeonpatrol861 although he could solve that just by moving to the suburbs or something
@@circleinforthecube5170until the racoons smother him in his sleep.
"It is true I may have killed my father, but I am not his murderer."
As soon as I realised that Jacob was voiced by Yujiro Hanma my experience watching this was changed entirely.
I think this might be the best game I have never played.
Then you’ll love the fact Luke is Dio Brando
@@scrungobeepis5443 Greatest game ever made. There is no other possible outcome.
I want this to be the inspiration for a WH40k hunting game where you're a Catachan protecting his village from the rest of the planet. It would be perfect. Maybe add in a tyrranid invasion as a mid-game speedbump / easy mode.
I'm not joking when I say you that we have our own Calabela's 2013 in 40k lore. Check up "Indigan Praefects"
You’ve clearly never played Cabela's Original Sins, where Jacob accidentally destroys a totem of nature, forever marking him as an enemy to all life in Uganda.
The thing is, after this video I had to look that up to make sure it wasn’t real.
@@Ir0nFrogwas it real?
@@ErisApplebottomGoogle tells me 'no' so far
He is conserving humanities dominance over the animals. There is no way the dev team was not laughing their asses off at how ridiculous this game was the whole time. They had to have known it was the last one.
This was the last one because after this there were no more digital animals left to kill.
humanity's*
"Don't kid yourself Jimmy, if a cow ever got the chance he'd eat you and everyone you care about"
@@adamofblastworks1517No one cares.
🤓
He's a conservationist of extinction. Making sure extinction doesn't go extinct.
As someone who's been at multiple Cabela's, multiple times,
*I can confirm I've seen at least 1 Eldritch baboon*
"Howl's Moving Castle Doctrine" was a brilliant line 😂
"He's hunting you"
This is it, that's the line that broke me.
The stampede shootout, the bamboo bamboozle, all precursors to the most outrageous line coming from the protagonists brother being taken hostage by a mythical black lion to the top of an unknown civilisations ancient arena.
I just can't.
After reading some of the comments about the other Dangerous Hunts games, I have come to a conclusion
The people who made the games were fucking high
This is truly one of the videogames of all time
@@eagercadet4059No amount of marijuana could produce this level of insanity though. This is more in the DMT mixed with crack-cocaine end of the spectrum.
The cabela's games are surprising when it comes to voice actors: Troy Baker, Robin Atkin Downes, Patrick Seitz, and Laura Bailey