Okay, here's the thing that nobody seems to realize about the mic interaction in Lifeline: Much like Trico in The Last Guardian, it has a learning mechanic attached to it. Just like in that game where you are a child, speaking a foreign language to a non-human-speaking creature who has had zero human interaction ever, you have to work with it to get it to learn how to operate the way you want it to. What I mean by this is, the more interactions you have with Rio, not just in combat and dialogue but in the interims (which is why the game mentions the in-between conversations and word games you can play with her at the beginning), the more the game learns to recognize your voice and your commands. If you take a lot of down-time between the puzzles and action to just chat with her like a normal person and have these between-scenes interactions, you will vastly improve your experience over time. It's not perfect and it doesn't tell you this about the mechanics, but it works, and maybe because I like unconventional games, but I had a great time with Lifeline.
On a serious note : Dear Jules, I think I have came across WhatCulture around 2017 or 2018 and you have been the most likeable person ever since. Yeah, I do miss the "1 per list" but hey, it is called evolution, right ? You managed to make me smile while I was facing very rough times in my life and for that I just want to say : Thank you !
I still watch it when Jules is on it and I still watch from time to time except when Sai is on. I can't stand him and it seems he has taken Jules place as the main person on What Culture.
I would donate to a Kickstarter or something that would do that. The only game I've donated to help get made was Bloodstained: Ritual of The Night, so I don't have the bad taste in my mouth that people who got scammed by disasters like The Day After, so I might be overly optimistic at the prospect.
I saw it played/reviewed by Adam Sessler on X-Play. The only command he got to work as asked, was after he'd mostly checked out and joked, "come on, bark like a dog" and the character asked "little dog, yip yip, or big dog, woof woof?" His turn to the camera afterwards was (chef's kiss) perfection. th-cam.com/video/N8mm4iWVn14/w-d-xo.html
I do actually know Lifeline. I remember seeing it on G4 back on the day. XPlay. Hearing Adam boredly chant "red eye" over and over somehow became a core memory and I think of it from time to time when I see games with voice recognition now-a-days.
Super Paper Mario can end the same way as Golden Sun. If you refuse the quest a few times, you get a game over. A friend was showing me the game, and that's all the farther I got. The dialogue kept changing, and I assumed eventually the lines would start repeating, but no, the game just ends.
OH MY GOD ZONE OF ENDERS THATS THE NAME!!! That game has sat on my mind for damn near 2 decades because I remember playing it at a friend’s house and having tons of fun but after that I could literally NEVER remember the name but I always remembered the action. Thank you SO much
On any other person I would find Jules on-screen personality annoying but he seems such a nice, funny guy that you just gotta love him 🤩 great video like usual 👍
Me watching this: OOOH a konami game for the ps2 with survival horror that I never played!? Definitely gonna look up a rom for that later... "you control via microphone inputs on the ps2" NOPE NEVERMIND
The game Republique is kind of the same idea without the voice interactions that made for a pretty fun game. You control the camera systems and give commands to the heroine. So maybe if the mic worked Lifeline could have been fun. But it wasn't.
If you had asked me before I would have told you I had never heard of or seen the game Lifeline before. But as of a couple months ago, I kept seeing clips and videos of people playing the game, and idk why or how it just got this random resurgence. It just did. So to see it on the deep cut here as #1 was quite surprising. Also yeah Jules is super right about the accent thing. I saw a video between IronMouse and Cdawg, and Ironmouse who has a very high pitched voice with a hispanic accent said it was nearly impossible for her to play the game because it wouldnt recognize anything she said until she talked in a deeper tone which hurt her throat.
I don't think it's a secret game over screen, but it shocked me as a teenager when I first played it. When you agree to side with the main villain (only villain) in the first Dragon Warrior (aka Dragon Quest). Something they reference in Dragon Quest Builders.
Thank you for mentioning torins passage. I played it as a kid and have been trying to remember the name of it for years but could never find anything on it 😊
Voice command games might be pretty good these days with AI support... I mean if ChatGPT or something tied into a flexible set of commands to an animal, then can you imagine TRECO supported by AI and given more room to animal around?
Big Rigs 2 DID come out. It’s called Midnight Race Club, and it’s literally the exact same game but with the truck models swapped out for cars. Just the models, not the properties.
Jules you beautiful bald man! I’ve been trying to remember what point and click game I played at my Grandparents in the 90s for over a decade and could never find it. ITS TORINS PASSAGE!!!
I actually remember Lifeline (#1), but I never played it. Once I read the reviews in various magazines talking about how bad the voice recognition was, I said nope.
Jules definitely made WhatCulture weekly videos something to look forward to. But hey! Still get some Jules for the week and his own brand! Good lookin, Jules!
Wow. Lifeline. That is a deep cut baybeeeeee. I remember hearing about the way the game controls and passing on it on the spot. I wonder how many games ther are that let you can nope out at the beginning of the game in some form or fashion. I know there is at least one where you get back in your car and f@ck right off.
I'm one of those 5 people lol got stuck at a part where I needed to tell her "molotov cocktail" but I kept saying "molotov" and it was so frustrating until I finally said it right 😂
Unfortunately Jules your solution to the final boss of Rise of the Triad isn't viable to to the lack of any Shotguns in the game. Its probably a relic of when the game was going to be Wolfenstein 3D II, and its something I wish they had corrected after the game was changed to a new IP but no such luck. I played Lifeline but the system couldn't understand my voice so it went very badly.
Huh, Jules, there IS a sequel...well reskin actually. Still ai can't win though. Also the developer went out of business. Also, you need to play more ps1 games as some have very interesting game over screens.
How about # modern video games/levels that use minimal/ black and white color? We all loved handhelds like the game boy, but then what this the gameboy color. Why why look at all colored pixels! We’ve certainly advanced from something as simple as the black and white of pong and game and watch to the neon covered worlds of Splatoon and Fall guys. Some games though, just say hold on mate. Wait a minute. I don’t all that. Nah just keep simple for me.
@@BlueGriffin20 dunno what that is but I Own a Wii and I'm looking it up right now and I'll be back to prolly gush about it with you lmao I just said gush ignore that or sumthin heh. Thanks tho definitely welcoming to like any game and music recommendations like forever lol.
Okay, here's the thing that nobody seems to realize about the mic interaction in Lifeline:
Much like Trico in The Last Guardian, it has a learning mechanic attached to it. Just like in that game where you are a child, speaking a foreign language to a non-human-speaking creature who has had zero human interaction ever, you have to work with it to get it to learn how to operate the way you want it to.
What I mean by this is, the more interactions you have with Rio, not just in combat and dialogue but in the interims (which is why the game mentions the in-between conversations and word games you can play with her at the beginning), the more the game learns to recognize your voice and your commands.
If you take a lot of down-time between the puzzles and action to just chat with her like a normal person and have these between-scenes interactions, you will vastly improve your experience over time.
It's not perfect and it doesn't tell you this about the mechanics, but it works, and maybe because I like unconventional games, but I had a great time with Lifeline.
On a serious note : Dear Jules, I think I have came across WhatCulture around 2017 or 2018 and you have been the most likeable person ever since. Yeah, I do miss the "1 per list" but hey, it is called evolution, right ? You managed to make me smile while I was facing very rough times in my life and for that I just want to say : Thank you !
I just realized I haven't watched any whatculture since Jules left. Not a boycott, just a lack of interest without him.
I still watch it when Jules is on it and I still watch from time to time except when Sai is on. I can't stand him and it seems he has taken Jules place as the main person on What Culture.
Same here. Jules has a unique style of story telling which is hard to go without
Yerp, Jules And Ash were my two favorites. Sooo glad for FGS and PlayStation Access.
Jules is a special guy.
He still does his Tuesday video on whatcluture
I propose this: Jules becomes the face of a new studio founded by one of us and we reboot all the solid AF games from 1999-2010
I would donate to a Kickstarter or something that would do that. The only game I've donated to help get made was Bloodstained: Ritual of The Night, so I don't have the bad taste in my mouth that people who got scammed by disasters like The Day After, so I might be overly optimistic at the prospect.
I've never played LEGO Island, but now I want to because I feel like it'll make me feel like a kid again. The voice acting did it for me.
I absolutely loved Lego Island as a kid.
Jules was the best thing what culture ever had. Still love that channel, but I'll follow Jules around anywhere!
Lifeline was an exercise in frustration. The mic only worked slightly better than the one from Hey You Pikachu on the N64
yep
I saw it played/reviewed by Adam Sessler on X-Play. The only command he got to work as asked, was after he'd mostly checked out and joked, "come on, bark like a dog" and the character asked "little dog, yip yip, or big dog, woof woof?"
His turn to the camera afterwards was (chef's kiss) perfection.
th-cam.com/video/N8mm4iWVn14/w-d-xo.html
Not only did I play Lifeline, but I also got the Red Fang reference. Wires is an amazing music video of stuff I would want to do with a wad of cash
"Are you happy now?" Yes, I am.
I do actually know Lifeline. I remember seeing it on G4 back on the day. XPlay. Hearing Adam boredly chant "red eye" over and over somehow became a core memory and I think of it from time to time when I see games with voice recognition now-a-days.
I own Lifeline. The protagonist constantly chides me for my language because it can pick that up, but not the actual commands I'm trying to give it
I only remember Lifeline from its review on X-Play back in the day. Watching Sessler make Rio bark like a dog was CLASSIC!
Super Paper Mario can end the same way as Golden Sun. If you refuse the quest a few times, you get a game over. A friend was showing me the game, and that's all the farther I got. The dialogue kept changing, and I assumed eventually the lines would start repeating, but no, the game just ends.
Damn, I haven't seen "Ludicrous Gibbs" on a screen in longer than I'd care to mention
OH MY GOD ZONE OF ENDERS THATS THE NAME!!! That game has sat on my mind for damn near 2 decades because I remember playing it at a friend’s house and having tons of fun but after that I could literally NEVER remember the name but I always remembered the action. Thank you SO much
On any other person I would find Jules on-screen personality annoying but he seems such a nice, funny guy that you just gotta love him 🤩 great video like usual 👍
I've never heard of Lifeline but now I kinda want to forget it exists. That sounds unfulfilling as a game.
Me watching this: OOOH a konami game for the ps2 with survival horror that I never played!? Definitely gonna look up a rom for that later... "you control via microphone inputs on the ps2" NOPE NEVERMIND
The game Republique is kind of the same idea without the voice interactions that made for a pretty fun game. You control the camera systems and give commands to the heroine. So maybe if the mic worked Lifeline could have been fun. But it wasn't.
I visited Lego Island so much in my youth that I could have got dual citizenship. Thanks for showing love on here
I never thought I'd see torin's passage in any video I didn't think that anyone else had heard of it
If you had asked me before I would have told you I had never heard of or seen the game Lifeline before. But as of a couple months ago, I kept seeing clips and videos of people playing the game, and idk why or how it just got this random resurgence. It just did. So to see it on the deep cut here as #1 was quite surprising. Also yeah Jules is super right about the accent thing. I saw a video between IronMouse and Cdawg, and Ironmouse who has a very high pitched voice with a hispanic accent said it was nearly impossible for her to play the game because it wouldnt recognize anything she said until she talked in a deeper tone which hurt her throat.
"Yes! I can hear you Clem Fandango!" awesome
I don't think it's a secret game over screen, but it shocked me as a teenager when I first played it. When you agree to side with the main villain (only villain) in the first Dragon Warrior (aka Dragon Quest). Something they reference in Dragon Quest Builders.
Torrin's Passage was one of my favourite fans as a kid.
Just when I thought I couldn't love ya more, you bust out Toast of London! 🤣👍
Thank you for mentioning torins passage. I played it as a kid and have been trying to remember the name of it for years but could never find anything on it 😊
I actually own 2 of the games on this list, BloodRayne and Golden Sun. A personal FGS best! Golden Sun needs a remake.
Remembering zone of enders is painful. I'd beat it back in the day and traded it in at gamestop. A week later, I saw it for sale at $95.
Voice command games might be pretty good these days with AI support... I mean if ChatGPT or something tied into a flexible set of commands to an animal, then can you imagine TRECO supported by AI and given more room to animal around?
Big Rigs 2 DID come out. It’s called Midnight Race Club, and it’s literally the exact same game but with the truck models swapped out for cars. Just the models, not the properties.
Conker's Bad Fur Day had an epic gameover scene if you've never seen it lol
I remember hearing about lifeline though xplay. Never played it
I saw Red Fang (band) years ago with Mos Generator, respect for the wild music reference..
Jules you beautiful bald man! I’ve been trying to remember what point and click game I played at my Grandparents in the 90s for over a decade and could never find it. ITS TORINS PASSAGE!!!
You're winner, I'm winner, everyone's winner ! In love....Big Rig and his Over The Road Racing.
Red Fang reference. You earned a thumbs up.
Omg I forgot about Lego island! What a throwback
I actually remember Lifeline (#1), but I never played it. Once I read the reviews in various magazines talking about how bad the voice recognition was, I said nope.
I have watched Lifeline get played, but never played it myself.
Lifeline is a game that I feel idea wise was ahead of its time and is very much let down by it's era's shoddy mic's.
I remember seeing lifeline’s box to rent but it never interested me so I always just overlooked it
Toast of london is a deep cut all on its own!
Jules definitely made WhatCulture weekly videos something to look forward to. But hey! Still get some Jules for the week and his own brand! Good lookin, Jules!
I still have the CD my dad burned for me of Lego island for windows 95/98
Zoe 1, 2 were awesome games! We need a 3rd!!❤
I remember Lifeline... if it had worked properly, I would have been something worth remembering.... but I'd forgotten.
I played Lifeline through a demo disc from OPM. Yeah, that didn't control well at all.
Subscribed purely for more of Jule's good vibes. Nice to see you thriving, the biggest of eggs 😊
I remember the Lego Island bad ending, as a young child it was terrifying. 😬
Wow. Lifeline. That is a deep cut baybeeeeee. I remember hearing about the way the game controls and passing on it on the spot. I wonder how many games ther are that let you can nope out at the beginning of the game in some form or fashion. I know there is at least one where you get back in your car and f@ck right off.
I'm one of those 5 people lol got stuck at a part where I needed to tell her "molotov cocktail" but I kept saying "molotov" and it was so frustrating until I finally said it right 😂
Got the Z.O.E. ending.
I've heard of, but never played the last game.
I'm a prehistoric dog of war too, Jules. 😉
Happy New Year Jules.
Jules needs to bring back the one a video ya mamma jokes.
Wow! Always a surprise when Lifeline makes a ln appearance in a video nowadays! 😂😂😅
Unfortunately Jules your solution to the final boss of Rise of the Triad isn't viable to to the lack of any Shotguns in the game. Its probably a relic of when the game was going to be Wolfenstein 3D II, and its something I wish they had corrected after the game was changed to a new IP but no such luck.
I played Lifeline but the system couldn't understand my voice so it went very badly.
I understand it isn't a deep cut, but I'm surprised there wasn't at least a nod to Nier: Automata Potato Potata.
Lifeline would work now, the concept is cool, as it was, less responsive than caution:seaman. Long live dreamcast
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Rre Lifeline: I havnt played it but a friend of mine streamed it for awhile. it was comical
You crack me up every time I watch you keep it up 😃
I have heard of LIfeline, that's as far it goes.
Yeees! Lifeline was hillarious...if you could get past the tutorial with the Mic...ahahaha...ha...Welp
What about "But the future refused to change" from Chrono Trigger?
I subscribe for Jules.
More Toast of London references!
Petition for a. Lego island remake
ya me and my friend tried that lifeline game and ya it was a buggy mess with the voice we ended up trading it in after a week or so lol
I have heard about Lifeline as Funhaus did a playthrough of it and it demonstrated how awful the voice commands are
Huh, Jules, there IS a sequel...well reskin actually. Still ai can't win though. Also the developer went out of business. Also, you need to play more ps1 games as some have very interesting game over screens.
Red Fang reference?!
4:24 Funteen
WhatCulture? I don't seem to remember who you're referring to..
Just saw I was unsubscribed for some reason. I thought that was a myth! Resubscribed!
Im curious can we still make video request?
I owned lifeline back in the day. I only bought it cuz i thought the voice command was a cool gimmick, but yeah, it's crap.
I still get the Lego Island theme song stuck in my head sometimes! 🧱
How about # modern video games/levels that use minimal/ black and white color?
We all loved handhelds like the game boy, but then what this the gameboy color. Why why look at all colored pixels! We’ve certainly advanced from something as simple as the black and white of pong and game and watch to the neon covered worlds of Splatoon and Fall guys.
Some games though, just say hold on mate. Wait a minute. I don’t all that. Nah just keep simple for me.
Newt one is a nice example of both.
@@kamenanew9867 I like Madworld for the Wii. Black white and red.
@@BlueGriffin20 dunno what that is but I Own a Wii and I'm looking it up right now and I'll be back to prolly gush about it with you lmao I just said gush ignore that or sumthin heh. Thanks tho definitely welcoming to like any game and music recommendations like forever lol.
@@kamenanew9867 Cool. If you want something closer to Newt, try De Blob (on Wii or Steam at least.) Starts out grayscale, then goes full color.
AAA is the modern shiddy seal of disapproval
Ps2 voice command... I was playing socom 2 campaign.... till i was playing socom 2 online because the voice commands were awful
Is the music and audio out of sync for anyone else?
Bloodrayne was perfect for its time. I actually got that game over.
Physical games dying out
First video of the year ❌ first comment of the year
Do you get a prize, or...?
@@devinfaucette yeah I did
Hmmm never met a right wing socialist... Nazis were socialists.... That's a pretty far left ideology...