Video Games made in Germany
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2024
- Germany is known for many things, some good, some... not so good. What about our games though? What are some classics and what are some underrated titles that the rest of the world should know? I just wanted to show some of them off and I hope you may check them out! Maybe you will even think, wait, that game was made in Germany?!
#gaming - เกม
5:40 I did play blobby volley at work once, where our task was the make a working RJ45 cable.
If you got it working, your reward was to play that game (or trackmania, whatever is preferred)
Finally the Vanser Homeland gaming time
Maybe I'm actually Austrian, pretending to be German...
@@Vanserchan with that accent?
As if!
Darn, really great video about something that is really close to my heart, as I'm from a neighbouring country and most of the games popular in (and from) Germany were really popular here too. Gothic series has INCREDIBLY big following and is considered a true classic (both for its memetic aspects and pretty much the rest of it). It's a really great series, and the third installment (even when it... wasn't what the predecessors were) was considered a rival to The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
...you know, "work" simulator video games (like the forklift simulator you mentions) coming from Germany is such a meme here in Poland. You know, you come back from your work and to relax you... do the same thing you are relaxing from. Fitting for a nation that is considered to be so hard working. ...then again, Thief Simulator was created by a Polish studio, so maybe there's some truth to the stereotypes (at least it's not "Car thief simulator", haha)... We enjoy these type of games, too. Truck driving simulations were REALLY popular in my childhood years.
Signalis was such an amazing experience... that I don't know what other to say. It touched me deeply.
I was wondering if you will talk about Moorhuhn (finally I have official confirmation that my pronunciation of it was correct all along!), but then again... it would be REALLY weird if you didn't, no? It was a phenomenon after all. They were fun little distraction (most of them even included "boss key" - if you pressed it, the game "mimicked" Word (or some other utility program, depending on the game) to save you from being fired. My biggest issue with them was the fact that each one of them consisted only of a single screen. Sure, there were MANY secrets, but still, only a single screen and that was all. We had our own series - "Kurka Wodna" (Polish name for a subspecies of... well... moorhen. Bit... on the nose, and I love it), also known for its Wii version of the second game in the series- Chicken Shot. While the first game was a SHAMELESS ripoff of Moorhuhn, second and third ones greatly expanded on it. ...and was BEAUTIFULY hand drawn and animated. ...I couldn't believe it when, while browsing Amazon, I found PHYSICAL VERSIONS of Moorhuhn for PS5. I had to buy them all. It was just... too funny. I respect their hustle.
...ze Germans also made A LOT OF great strategy games. The original pre-UbiSoft "Die Siedler" (or "The Settlers) were OUTSTANDING. ...my favorite economic strategy, Pizza Connection 2, was also made in Germany.
Also... Technomage. It was... interesting, but the artstyle really bothered me back then.
Yup. Germans are THE KING of Eurojank. And I love it.
...what's funny is the fact that you touched on multiple themes that I plan to make videos of (mainly the "moorhuhn" series and "work" games) Thanks for reminding me that.
It was a great video to enjoy my coffee too!
The saddest thing is that Piranha Bytes is kinda in financial troubles and it would be tragic if they ever get shut down, even if they may have never reached the heights of Gothic 2 again. Almost as sad as what became of the Gothic franchise itself with that fourth game that just had the name plastered on it or the announced remake that has almost no real gameplay shown so far but hey, they already announced a 200€ Collector's Edition for it at least...
I actually own Thief Simulator on the Switch because it was on sale for like 99 cents once but actually playing it on the Switch fills me with dread because I'm pretty sure it will run like poop... It's also kinda weird how simulator games like that changed in the last couple of years. Back in the day they felt like "real" games but now there's tons of those simulator games that feel more like they're just made to be a bit funny and memey so TH-camrs/Streamers can play and make them big, like that recent Supermarket Simulator which is really lacking as an actual simulation. There's a simulator anything nowadays!
The funniest thing about Moorhuhn is that it started as some kind of marketing campaign for an alcohol brand but just became its own thing so most people never even knew about the alcohol stuff so in one way they failed their mission but also succeeded at the same time!
I actually played Chicken Shoot for my Wii video where I tried out the worst rated games on it because it had a Metacritic score of 27... (I talk really badly about it, sorry my Polish friends...)
Sadly I just never got into games such as Die Siedler or the whole Pizza Tycoon, Pizza Connection, Dönermafia kind of games (They overwork my brain too much). And I think I got a bit tired of them since every single PC gaming magazine had those kind of games over and over on their DVDs and it made me mad they didn't put games that I personally would enjoy on them. How dare they put free games that other people enjoy onto their discs instead of only catering to me? >:(
@@Vanserchan As for Piranha Bytes... being part of THQ Nordic/Embracer is a bit like a kiss of death. To be honest, the studio wasn't what it was since the release of the Night of the Raven. Still... it's a bit sad to see them go. At least we still have the originals, no? They're quite fun, even on Switch.
Yeah, "Simulators" are a bit of a meme genre lately. I still admire the creativity of people making them! More often than not these aren't GREAT games... but at least its something new/novel, no? And hey, once in a while we get something like PowerWash Simulator, which is surprisingly great.
I mean, porting Chicken Shot 2 to Wii was... a really curious decision, tbh. I haven't watch the video YET, but I've heard nightmare stories about its controls. ...its a precision (and quite tough) game made strictly for mouse-controls, so I can imagine it being pretty horrid. Nobody will take offense when the game is actually shit. ...they also made GBA port, which also is quite terrible, but was... weirdly ambitious TBH. I LOVE such unnecessary weird things.
Strategy games were a dime-and-dozen back then and their licenses were probably pretty cheap. I liked them quite much though. Made me feel smarter than I actually was.
...and damn, I forgot to write about CrossCode! Such an amazing gem of a game. I didn't knew it was made in Germany! Nice to see that indie-game scene is still really strong there.
@@Hodyna I used the Switch Remaster trailer for the video and when I watched it I saw that you can actually swing and shake the Joycons to do the combat with and that somehow really made me wanna play it, just to see if it works fine or... not so fine. I will also never forgive Embracer for giving me hopes of a new Timesplitters game just to crush that tiny bit of hope again by firing people and cancelling it...
I mostly complained about the price of Chicken Shoot in the video, which also counts for Moorhuhn. As a freeware game they're pretty fun for a tiny bit but having to pay more than like 10 bucks for them? I would rather just spend it on... candy or something! Playing such a precise game on the GBA sound like a nightmare...
I was also surprised when I learned about that it was made in Germany but it all made sense to me because only Germans could make a German character such as Lukas in the game!
This video was just an excuse to draw Nia in a Dirndl and sport shortshorts, wasn't it?
Yes! I approb!👍
Aeria Games brought over loads of Free to Play games from the east which I played many of during my youth. Games like Shin Megami Tensei Imagine and Shaiya filled much of my highschool freetime.
@@Smothtiger Nuh uh, me wanting to draw Nia in a Dirndl totally wasn't the reason why I made the video, I swear...
I remember playing SMT Imagine for like 2 hours with a friend because we always tried out every single F2P MMO possible that we saw on MMOHut back in the day without even knowing what SMT is... (We kinda hated it but as a fan of the franchise it was probably great)
I checked the other games they published here and saw S4 League and now I wanna go back in time because I miss that game so much, even if it was full of hackers. Would have included them if they actually made the games themselves!
Nice Nia art, I want her to serve me beer!
Don't order too many beers though!
Hope you talk about Drakensang: The Dark Eye and River of Time
You sound soooo German
I'm gonna learn a Scottish accent next...........