Today, we're talking weak guns, strong dinosaurs,
and explicit gore and violence. It's Dino Crisis
for the PlayStation. Hello everyone, welcome
to Retro Gaming Beyond Presents Retro Game Club.
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Word of the Nerd. Get those nerds! Nerd! Nerd!
So what have you guys been doing? I'm still reading
my Walking Deads. I think I have like 15 more.
You got that far already? Yeah, bro. Damn, dude,
you're tearing through them. 15 more until you
get to what you have? No, until I'm done. oh
wow you read like 100 issues bro yeah i'm at
178 right now damn you're like on 73 in the last
they're good bro i've been liking them yeah i
do want to sit down and read them all i've been
really enjoying them so yeah i think one 193
is the last one i i can physically read them
all the ones i have now but i don't know i just
don't feel like getting them out Yeah, sometimes
it's just easier. Especially the last one. The
last one's worth not a lot of money, but a little
bit. Yeah, nice, nice. They didn't sell a lot
of the first printings, I guess, or something.
Yeah, who knows? Well, they did that weird thing
where they made up fake issues and then people
got pissed off about it. Yeah, because they paid
for them. And then Robert Kirkman's like, oh,
yeah, fuck this, I'm done. Well, he knew he was
ending at $193 and they made fake issues for
the soliciting. Yeah, yeah. And then after 193
came out, I was like, yeah, we're not making
any more. He's like, yeah, just kidding. This
is actually the last one. Everyone's like, what
the fuck, dude? And they paid for him because
they pre -ordered him and everything. Yeah. The
thing that drives me fucking crazy is he couldn't
do seven more issues. Just seven more. He couldn't
get to a cool 200 and call it in. Yeah, I know.
It would have been just... And he didn't finish
the story, right? He kind of, right? He kind
of did, I think. I don't know 100 % yet. I know
the last issue is like 10 years. It's like 20
years after the previous issue. So I don't know
what happens in 192. I just know 193 is like
20 years after that. Which is whatever. He's
kind of crazy. He just was like, yeah, I'm done.
Yeah. Yeah, bro. He's fucking popping them out.
And then he's like, yeah, whatever. I figured
at that point, they would have given it to somebody
else or something, but I guess he didn't want
to do that either. He's always kind of been that
way with things. I don't know. He's always had
a weird way of going about doing things. I don't
know. I'm surprised he made a show. Honestly.
Which, That blew up like crazy. Oh, yeah. Well,
yeah, the comic books are worth what they are
because of the show. Well, yeah, I know. But
still, it's just crazy. So I'm almost done with
them. And then I beat Doom, The Dark Ages. That
was pretty dope. I think it's the weakest one
of the three. Oh, yeah. Is it related or is it
just kind of a... It's a prequel to the first
reboot. Oh, okay. So it's like the end of that
one is the straight up beginning of the first
one. Oh, really? Oh, that's kind of cool. Yeah.
So it's good. Don't get me wrong. I think it's
definitely Doom worthy. But the only thing that's
just really different is you have a shield in
that one and you parry. And that game's very
heavy on parrying. So it's not. It's not as much
as gunplay. It's more like melee, kind of. Yeah,
yeah. Well, it's just the parrying thing. You
can parry so much shit in that game, and that's
kind of the whole combat, really. That's the
biggest part, is the parrying. Yeah. It's weird
for an FPS game. That's kind of weird. Like I
said, I didn't think it was too bad. I don't
think it was a weird direction for them to go.
That's not really a Doom thing, but I still thought
the gunplay and everything else was really good.
It still felt like Doom. It's better than 3,
right? Yeah, well, yeah. I think that was the
only thing I was kind of on the fence about,
but everything else was great. You don't have
to play it that way, right? Yeah, you kind of
have to. Do you? It's forced. Well, yeah. Because
a lot of it is if you don't parry it, it's just
going to kill you. Oh, okay. Yeah. And it makes
the game a hell of a lot easier. It can't be
bad, bro. No, it's not bad. I'm not saying it's
bad. I just thought it was an odd direction to
go to for an FPS, like Joe said. But it's still
a great fucking game. I read the reviews and
some people were like back and forth on it. Yeah.
But again, bro, I don't... You just can't read
reviews. No, I'm just saying they change the
combat system. You can, you just can't take them
serious. Yeah. This game saved my life. God gifted
me this game and then some people are like, I
fucking hate this game. I'd rather get shot in
the face. It killed my dog and my whole family
is in the hospital. It's just... Killed my bunny.
Yeah. it's just so stupid but like i said it's
it's definitely worth it especially since it's
on sale now it's 100 worth it but it is it is
very kind of a little bit different pace so yeah
all right cool as long as you know that going
into it it's not that bad yeah but like i said
everything else is fucking doom it's doom well
i've never played a doom so i wouldn't know Come
on, man. Really? You haven't played? I've never
played a single Doom, no. You know what's funny?
I've played, like, Doom mods. I've played, like,
Chex Quest. Stuff like that, but... I know what
you do. The reboots are good. Well, the reboot
and then the past are good. I do want to. I mean,
I own them. I just need to play them, but...
Yeah, dude. Those ones are awesome. They're worth
it for sure. Yeah. Other than that, I bought
DLC for Dead Island 2. I think both of them are,
like, $10. Nice. The season pass was like $10
or something. Nice. Yeah, I'm going to do it.
Yeah, I think Dead Island 2 is on sale for like
$10. I think it's fucking $5 on Steam. Is it
$5? Yeah, it's cheap. I think so, bro. It's cheap.
I know, I need to get it before it ends. That
is super worth it. For a game to be in development
hell for what, 10 years? And it's actually a
good game. I know, I have it on PS5, but if you
guys get it on PC, I kind of want to get it and
play it with you guys. Yeah, dude, it's $5 right
now. I know, yeah. And you can get the Ultimate
Edition for $7. Damn, that's with all the DLC
and shit? Yeah, I might have to do that. We might
have to play that game. Yeah. So, it's worth
it. You guys would like it. It does feel a little
bit like the old school Dead Island, but it's
obviously more modern. You'll play it and you're
like, damn, this is actually pretty good. It's
not like fucking Riptide. Fucking nuts. I don't
remember why that game was so bad, but I do remember
not liking it. I played it for like 10 minutes
and I never played it again. It just was missing
some of the charm. It just missed the charm for
some reason. I don't know what happened with
that one. Well, it was that and they had the
stupid levels in them and you like Assassin's
Creed where you had to be like a certain level
where you're fucking ass rocked. Yeah. So that
ruins that shit for me, dude. Yeah, yeah. so
the first one had levels didn't it yeah but it
wasn't i don't think it was as forced it was
well yeah but that was more progression though
yeah yeah you could um i think riptide you had
to be a not a certain level to do missions and
stuff but if you were under leveled you would
get destroyed right yeah so dead island that
never fucking happened it would it would have
gotten harder but I don't know. I hate when games
do that. If they have good side missions, maybe.
But I don't know. That's why I never beat Origins.
Or not Origins, Odyssey. I never beat Odyssey.
I was so close to beating that game. I was like
three missions off from beating the game. I got
to the water temple or whatever. Underwater temple.
And I was like, dude, fuck this. Because I wasn't
high enough level to do the next mission. This
is ridiculous. I just hate that. And Assassin's
Creed can have some pretty monotonous side missions.
Yeah, it does, yeah. I don't think it was a bad
game. I think that's just a dumb mechanic. Especially
fucking being Assassin's Creed. Yeah, it's always
been kind of stupid. I've never been a huge fan
of it, but... I hate the fact that you just can't
assassinate people. That's the biggest thing
to me. That is the biggest issue for me. Luckily,
I think... Odyssey is the only one where you
couldn't eventually get to a point where you
could do that, where you could just assassinate
everybody. So I'm pretty sure Origins and Valhalla
had it where you could eventually, like you'd
have to level up to the point, but you could
eventually assassinate everybody. Yeah, yeah.
Mirage is pretty good about it. I will give Mirage
that. Yeah, Mirage is good, but it's more like
Origins. It's pretty good about it. Yeah, it
definitely feels like one. For sure. So I think
that's why it's pretty good. Alright, who's next?
I played Dying Light the Beast. It was good.
What's that? Is that DLC? No, it's like an entirely
new game. It was supposed to be DLC for Dying
Light 2, but then they made it a spin -off. I
think it's probably my least favorite out of
the three. I mean, it really should have been
DLC because it doesn't... I wouldn't mind if
it was like... $40, but it's a $60 game and it
doesn't feel like it has the same amount of stuff
that the first two games have. It's a little
disappointing. I feel like the parkour system
isn't as good either. It still did though. The
second one's great. The second one's awesome.
It's really good. I feel like the game was like
a spin -off. They tried to do a money grab thing
for it. Crane in there, right? I feel like they
tried to write on that character. Try to get
some money out of it. It should have just been
DLC for the second game. It would have worked
a lot better in my opinion. I don't know why
they decided to expand it. Besides that, I also
played Silent Hill F. I actually beat it today.
It is really good. It's probably my favorite
Silent Hill now because it's just... It's so
good. Gameplay is awesome. It looks great visually.
The sound design is incredible. The story is
pretty good, too. I mean, I know it's kind of
a deviation of every other Silent Hill, but it's
really good. Have you played all of them now?
Have you played every Silent Hill? No. I haven't
played Homecoming. I think there was one. I think
it's either the one just the one before homecoming
or the one after homecoming. I forgot. Oh, okay.
I think it's for the, Oh, downpour. I never played
downpour. So never even heard of that one. I
think it's for the PS3. Oh, the PS3. Okay. You
know, F was awesome. And I still got to get the
other three endings. So I'm really looking forward
to it because my buddy told me he already 100
% the game. He said that you had to get all four
endings to really understand the story. So I'm
looking forward to it. Yeah, I do want to play
that. I do want to play Silent Hill. I think
that's on the list, right? You need to play those
games. I think so. I think you just added it,
right? I don't know, dude. I add games like every
day to that list. Yeah, I know. I know that.
As soon as I asked that question, I already knew.
I already knew the answer. No, Silent Hill is
not on here. Okay, well, it's going to be. Yeah,
I don't doubt it. Just what we need. Anything
else, Jacob? Is that all you got? I finished
the last Maze Runner book, The Death Cure. It
was good. I do like the trilogy, but it's definitely
not my favorite young adult dystopian sci -fi
stuff. I don't know. It just kind of feels a
little all over the place. It has prequels. It
has two prequel books, and I'm actually reading
one of them right now. So I'm hoping maybe my
opinion might change if I know all the backstory.
So it's good so far. The first prequel book,
I think, is about the formation of Wicked, which
is like the organization, like the big top dog
organization that's mentioned. again and again
throughout the first three books. The second
book's about the main character and how they
became the person that they are in the original
trilogy. I do like the series, but it's probably
my least favorite one that I've read so far out
of the young adult dystopian sci -fi stuff. You
gotta read Wheel of Time now, bro. Wheel of Time?
Never heard that. It's 14 books. Are you sure?
Chris mentioned it like three times. It's my
favorite series, dude. I love it so much. Oh
my God. It gets, it gets a little long in some
points, but it's such a, it's such a good read,
man. It's such a good story. The, the, the magic
is like super thought out and it's so cool how
it all works and everything. I love it, but it's
definitely an undertaking for sure. All right,
cool. Anything else? That's it. All right. We
got Eric. I went back because it's been bothering
me and finished up some games that I had on my
retro achievements that I didn't finish. Oh,
yeah? I went back and finished Paper Mario. Yeah,
I've seen that one. And beat that. And I went
back and actually I beat Rule of Rose. Rule of
Rose, yeah? Yeah. You didn't master it though,
you just beat it? No, no, I just beat the game.
I mean, you were pretty close anyway to that,
right? Yeah, I was on the last level. Oh, okay,
okay. I mean, I went back and played it. Yeah.
Are you, like, okay now? Are you okay after doing
that? No, it made me even hate it even more.
Yeah, are you mentally okay from doing it? I'm
still trying to recover. Still trying to recover.
No, I was on the last level. I was like, I got
to finish it. Yeah, you're that close. I'm surprised
you didn't just finish it before. Yeah, I don't
know. I couldn't do it. But I just, I don't know.
I hate. seeing unfinished stuff bro i know every
time i see that three four games that i haven't
mastered i'm like oh yeah yeah mastering i don't
and i'm not too worried about anymore as long
as i just yeah yeah yeah all right nice well
thanks for your service yeah no problem it was
it was uh it was rough yeah i bet but nah i just
had to do it i actually finished reading um ghosts
in the shell today nice I put it off because,
again, that's a... It's a tough read, dude. It's
a tough read, it really is. God, dude, that last
book is just insane. Yeah, that last book, I
honestly, I read it, and it wasn't that long
ago, and I honestly couldn't even tell you what
happened. Dude, I just read it today, I don't
even know what the hell was going on. Yeah, like,
I honestly could not give you the plot point.
I have no idea what happened. Yeah. It's nuts.
Like, the ending is... I don't even know what
the hell the guy's talking about half the time.
I know, I know. I don't even know what, I don't,
I don't even know what happened. I couldn't explain
a single thing to you. I don't know. They were
like trying to create a new life form and merge
with it or something. I have no idea. Yeah. I
don't know, dude. It was, it was insane. And
I'm sure part of that is because I'm sure it's
very, um, like high level, like Japanese and
then translating that into English, I'm sure
was a very hard challenge, but the story itself
is also just very convoluted. So, but the art
was cool. Yeah. It was pretty interesting. But
I picked up Trigun. I've been reading that. Yeah.
So, dude, reading that made me realize how long
-winded Ghost in the Shell is. I know. Yeah,
I know. Like, every page is like a 10 -minute
read. I know, dude. I know. That anime is just
packed with stuff. It's crazy. It's not just
the words. It's the story, the words, the art.
The manga is insane. It's insane. I read that
Trigun book in six days. Yeah. Yeah. And that's
just, you know, here and there. Yeah. I've been
working on Ghost in the Shell for like months.
It's like when you read the Divine Comedy, you
know. Dude. Yeah. That was another read. Yeah.
But. So I finished Trigun. I finished the original
book. Yeah. And then I started Maximum. Nice.
I have the manga. I haven't read it yet, but
I've seen the anime, and the anime is pretty
damn good. Yeah. The book is awesome. Yeah. I
think the anime and the book are pretty close.
From what I heard, yeah, the anime is pretty
much the book. It's good. The book was awesome.
I didn't realize how goofy it is, I guess. Yeah,
it's more of a lighthearted one for sure, yeah.
Yeah, because coming off of Berserk, I was kind
of expecting a little bit more seriousness, but
it's definitely a goofy book. But it's good.
It's funny. Yeah, what's his name? Thrash? Or
Vash? Vash, yeah. But the story is definitely
kind of dug into me, and I'm interested in it.
Nice. That character trope of, like, Vash, where
he's, like, the best, but he doesn't really,
like, give a shit and doesn't want anything to
do with anybody, that's, like, my favorite character
trope. I love that shit. It's awesome. I don't
know why, but that's always, like, my favorite
character thing. Yeah. Like, when some swordsman's,
like, the best, but he never wants to fight anybody.
Yeah, they want nothing to do with it. Yeah,
I love that dude. That's my favorite character
trope for sure. Yeah, I don't, again, I don't
really know the whole story, but he's not even
like human or something. Yeah, it's something
weird. I forget exactly what it was, but. But
yeah. No, the story's awesome. I'm really digging
into it. I just bought the other two books yesterday,
so. Nice. How many for the maximum? Is it three?
There's five. Oh, okay. So I'll have three. I
got two more to get. Okay, nice. But yeah, good,
good book. I like it. And I love, dude, I love
those Dark Horse Deluxe Edition books. Dude,
I know. They're so nice. They're nice, dude,
yeah. They are so nice. Yeah, they are. And dude,
for the fucking price. I know. I got one of those
books, I got two of those books for $16. Damn,
yeah, that's a steal, dude. I got the maximum,
the one for $16, and I got the third book for
$16. How can you argue with that? Yeah, I know.
for a nice they're not it's not real leather
but like a leather like bound book yeah yeah
nice dude and they hold up they're nice they're
the paper's thick it's got like a nice ribbon
book uh bookmark yeah yeah dude they're sick
books they're nice nice books and then the only
other thing i've been watching the uh devil may
cry has an anime so i've been watching that that's
newer right yeah i don't i think last year i
don't remember when i don't even know when it
came out And you've played, like, all the games,
haven't you? I've played every single one, I
think. Nice. Oh, damn, that's 2007? I didn't
even know that was that old. What, the anime?
Yeah. Yeah. Is it good? I like it. That's, like,
before 5, isn't it? Yeah. 5 was 20, right? Something.
2019, yeah. Damn. Oh, so did the reboot come
out before that? Of what? Devil May Cry? Where
he's, like, young Dante or whatever? Did that
come out before 5? This is even before 4. Damn.
4 came out in 2008. That was a PS3 game, 4 was?
Yeah. Hmm. Okay. When did that remake come out?
I don't know. I thought it was, like, 2015 or
something. 2013. Oh, okay. That game was awesome.
Yeah. I loved that game. I liked most of them.
They were all pretty good. Yeah, I don't know
a lot of people who don't like, like, if they
like... Devil May Cry is not really one that
nobody's like, you know, oh, that one wasn't
good, but. I think a lot of people shit on, too.
Do they? I liked all of them. I'm not crazy into
that, like, the combat system where you do, like,
those ridiculous combos. Yeah, you gotta get
the S combo, yeah. Yeah, I'm not that crazy.
Yeah, I'm liking the show. I like Dante. He's
such a, he's got that, like, suave, you know,
personality. But he kind of, like, gives a shit.
Yeah. But not up front about it. Yeah, he's,
like, pretending not to, yeah. Well, yeah, I
think it's worth a watch. It's only one season,
and I think it's, like, 12 episodes. Is it a
whole new story, or is it, like, following the
games? It's just kind of, like, side quests that
he does. Oh, okay. For, like, demon hunting.
Okay. So it basically follows the game, but just,
like, short episodes. Mm -hmm. You know, my biggest
gripe is, like, they don't animate. the fighting
a lot i think it's just for budget reasons i'm
sure yeah but i like it it's fun it's interesting
so all right that's cool that's about it for
me all right let's see what have i been doing
so i finished a game called downwell it's like
a little indie game on the vita you got you finally
beat that game yeah dude that was so tough i
know you were struggling with that one yeah trying
to get the platinum you had to beat it on a hard
mode and dude that it was tough man Yeah, I watched
you play it. It did look tough. It's a fun game.
I liked it a lot. You have like these little
gun shoes, you know, like jump on monsters and
stuff and everything, but I finally finished
that. And then, let's see, I've been listening
to, there's an Assassin's Creed Gold. It's a
radio show of Assassin's Creed, and I've been
listening to that. It's pretty good. What's that
about? It's like during, there's like a minting
thing in like England. There was, like, a bunch
of counterfeiters. I think it's, like, 1800s.
I forgot exactly when it was. But it's following
a blind assassin. Like, he's trying to help Isaac
Newton find these counterfeiters and stuff and
everything. But it's pretty good. They have,
like, the present assassin and, like, the old,
you know, like, the ancient assassin. And the
present one, it's, like, a girl. She's, like,
a, I don't know, a con artist, I guess. The dialogue's
kind of, it's a little cringy, but it's not,
like, awful. I don't know. I'm enjoying it. It's
pretty good. Is this official, like, Assassin's
Creed, or is it fan -made? No, it's Ubisoft.
Oh, okay. Yeah. Dude, Ubisoft has tried everything
with Assassin's Creed. It's nuts. Yeah. And I've
tried to listen and read it all, so. Have you
read the novels? Some of them. I haven't read
all of them. Oh, okay. There's like, what, five
or six of them? There's like 15 or 20, dude.
Of the novels? Yeah, there's a lot, yeah. And
then there's comic books. There's like three
or four comic book series. There's a lot. Yeah,
I know about the comics, but... Yeah, some of
the books are really good, actually. One of the
books, the one for Assassin's Creed 3, it actually
follows Hathem, which was Connor's dad, the one
who was the Templar. And I think that story was
actually way better than the game. Oh, really?
Yeah, it was so good, dude. The story for Haytham
was so much better. Just because he was, like,
in between both worlds, and it was, I don't know,
it was really good. I think he was just a better
character than Connor anyway, but anyway. He
seemed like that in the game anyway. Huh? He
seemed like he was a better character in the
game. Yeah, he was, dude. Like, Connor, like,
I don't hate him as much as I used to, but Connor
was just kind of a shitty character. He's such
a whiny bitch. Yeah. I don't hate him as much
like he kind of he got better by the end of the
game but yeah Hathem was I wish they'd made the
game about Hathem it was so much better but anyway
and then I'm working on a new video for the podcast
been trying to play Mission Impossible on the
PS1 I don't know if you guys ever played that
I think it's tough dude I loved that game when
I was a kid dude it's actually not a bad movie
game like it's not great don't get me wrong it's
not an incredible game but for like a movie tie
-in game it's actually not awful Yeah. Which
is an accomplishment for, for back then. But
it is tough though. It's a tough game. I mean,
that's just probably due to like game limitations
and stuff, right? Yeah. Yeah. Just the controls
are kind of muddled, but they're not, they're
not the worst. Um, but I hope to have that done
soon and have that video up. So that'd be cool.
Yeah. I actually would like to watch that one
cause I haven't played that game in so long.
Yeah. I hope to have it up soon. Oh, I started,
I got, I guess Walmart had like extended, uh,
black Friday deals. And I got God of War and
Final Fantasy 16 for like $15 each. Nice. Damn.
Yeah, I know, dude. I was like, oh, shit. And
then I started Ragnarok this week, so. Oh, yeah.
Nice. It's so good, bro. It's so good. It's kind
of been kind of slow, so I'm kind of waiting
it for it to start up. But it's, I mean, it's
good, though. It's been pretty good. yeah it
definitely is like a slow burn especially for
a god of war game yeah because i remember the
first one i like you it's immediately like you
just started like holy crap what is happening
this one's been a little bit slower but it does
pick up yeah i'm sure it will i've only played
for like five hours so but definitely not my
favorite but it is it is good yeah i think i
think i'm gonna like the first one better too
but we'll see we'll see how it goes but yeah
that is the one of the games that i platinum
and uh that I haven't done in a very long time.
What, the first one or Ragnarok? Ragnarok. Oh,
okay. Nice, yeah. Yeah, I plotted Ragnarok. Nice,
yeah. Yeah, I'm looking forward to digging into
that, so I'm sure that'll be good. Yeah, it's
worth it, dude. Definitely worth it. I still
need to play that game. Dude, I didn't like...
Well, I don't want to ruin too much, but I didn't
really like the ending too much. Oh, yeah? Okay.
Dude, every God of War game is so damn good.
They're all so good. Yeah, there hasn't been,
like, a bad one. Even the PSP ones were freaking
good. like there was an old java phone one that
was actually like for a java phone game was actually
pretty good so yeah like everything god of war
is good it's crazy what was the one that was
on the ps3 that nobody liked what was the name
of that one ascension yeah ascension yep yep
that one was that's probably the weakest one
but i still liked it for sure they changed the
parry system and it made it so convoluted and
stupid in that one i don't know what the fuck
they were thinking You have to, like, block and
then press a button for parry. Why? Yeah. Why?
Made no fucking sense. Oh, yeah, I did play that.
I played that one. Yeah. Yeah, it was all right.
Yeah. I mean, it was still good, but that kind
of ruined it. But anyway. All right. That's it
for me. So let's go ahead and jump over to the
game. We've been playing Dino Crisis for the
PlayStation. A mysterious catastrophe. Three
years ago, an award -winning research scientist,
Dr. Edward Kirk, perished in an accident during
one of his experiments. He had been working on
the development of pure energy technology, codenamed
Third Energy. The unexpected explosion occurred
soon after the government terminated funding
of the research, assessing the process as non
-productive. To most of the world, the entire
incident was just an insignificant piece of news.
Earlier this year, a military agent sent to Ibis
Island on a separate mission brought back surprising
information. It reported that Dr. Kirk was alive
and continuing his research at a military facility
in the Borginia Republic. Now Special Agent Regina
heads for the isolated island. She's accompanied
by her team, an elite task force specially trained
to handle sensitive military situations. Each
member is a specialist in a particular field.
Their assignment? Infiltrate Ibis Island, find
Dr. Kirk, and return him unharmed to the home
country. It's supposed to be just another routine
mission. Dawn of Crisis was developed and published
by Capcom for the PlayStation in 1999. It was
released two months before Resident Evil 3, so
they must have been working on it at the same
time as RE3, which is pretty cool. Yeah. Were
you guys able to complete this game? Yes. Yeah.
No. You didn't beat it? No, I didn't beat this
game. How far did you make it? Oh, I don't know.
Oh, okay. I mean, a couple of hours? Not very
far, I'm sure. Probably like two or three hours.
Oh, yeah? I beat it once. Did any of you guys
do multiple endings? Yeah, I did two out of three.
I'm trying to work on the third. Yeah, I got
one ending. I don't know. I kind of want to go
back to it again, but I don't know if I'm going
to. We'll see. I mean, it's definitely easier
the second time. Yeah, this game's not incredibly
difficult. I was struggling at first with it
a little bit because I was trying to shoot everything.
And then I didn't realize that you just kind
of, honestly, you just kind of ignore the dinosaurs,
really. You just run around them, and the game
gets so much easier that way. You play as Regina,
and you are sent on a secret mission to an island
where you are looking for a doctor who has been
presumed dead for three years. And when you get
there, you find out that he was running, of course
there's going to be spoilers when we talk about
these games, but he was running experiments looking
for like a third energy. Kind of like an unlimited
power supply. And through these experiments,
he accidentally opened up time portals and they
brought dinosaurs to the island. And so that's
kind of the... It kind of brought carnage upon
the island and now you guys are there going through
it. I kind of like this story on this game because
it's got like an 80s sci -fi movie feel to it.
And it's not like... It's not like over the top,
you know? It's actually a pretty grounded story.
Yeah, it's not... Didn't... go too crazy with
it it's you know you can understand it you can
follow it pretty easily right they didn't add
a lot of unnecessary shit into it you know yeah
it's a survival horror i guess but they call
it a panic survival or survival panic game i
think is what capcom called it which i agree
with because i don't think this game's really
that scary no no it's not scary i mean even like
the dinosaurs didn't really even scare me that
much they were just kind of cool You'd probably
shoot yourself if you're like eight years old.
Yeah, that's true. When the PS1 was at its peak,
sure. But no, definitely nothing scary. I mean,
there's really no jump scares or anything. I
mean, there's a couple, but I don't think they
really hit very well. I mean, you know something's
going to happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The thing
with survival horror games to me is that you
always are given these giant guns and... you
just feel safe with them but then they don't
do anything anyway so i don't know i feel like
guns in survival horror games is not a good idea
well this is just a very resident evil game though
with that i know yeah like well i mean granted
you are shooting a dinosaur i know i know yeah
with the freaking nine millimeter pistols like
it's not really gonna do much i know i just i
feel like i agree i agree the pistol is definitely
severely um underpowered in this game i just
feel like rule of rose kind of did it right with
that because you are a sick little child given
like a like a bat you know i don't know i just
feel like that worked better but anyway um so
you yeah so it's a survival game you come into
the island and you have to basically find your
way around you're solving puzzles you can find
ammo and other weapons and you're basically just
uh running around avoiding the dinosaurs there's
all kinds of it's not really actually i was gonna
say there's all kinds of dinosaurs but there's
really not that many There's kind of like four
or five. Yeah, it's actually kind of not a lot.
There's like two types of velociraptors, the
T -Rex, the little compies. I think that was
it, right? Was there something else? And the
theosaurus or whatever the hell they were. Oh,
the pterodonts? Or the pterodactyls? Oh, those
guys? Yep. And then, no, the really hard ones
at the end. Oh, yeah, like the other type of
velociraptors. There's like three types of velociraptors.
Well, they were called something else. Yeah,
I know. I think they're made up anyway. I don't
think they're real. Yeah. But, yeah, that was
it. That was all there really was. There really
wasn't much. I was going to say, there's really
not a lot of, like, there's not a lot of, like,
set pieces in this game, you know? There's not,
like, a lot of big moments. Like, you play, I
mean, I know it's because of the NOLA game, but
if you play, like, newer games now, there's always,
like, some kind of, like, you know, big set piece
one after the other. This one didn't really have
a lot of that. I mean, there's a couple of times
with the T -Rex and everything, which was cool,
but one of the cool things was this game had,
like, branching story paths, so you could, uh,
there was two people in your team. There's Gale
and Rick. And Gale was kind of the like the hard
punching go getter kind of guy. And then Rick
was kind of the more like planning out like,
yeah, tech savvy kind of guy. It was like, what,
three choices I think you could make where you
could either go Rick's way or Gale's way. And
the story, I don't think the story really changed,
but just kind of the gameplay and the mission
changed a little bit, depending on which one
you chose. I think there's four. What? I think
there's four decisions. Oh, four decisions. Okay,
yeah. Yeah, you're probably right. I picked Rick's
way every time the first time that I played through.
I think I'm going to go through and play Gale's
way every time next time. It's really not that
much different. I don't think it is either, yeah.
I think Rick's just have a little bit more puzzles,
right? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Rick's are like
more safe if you don't want to waste ammo or
take damage. Which, speaking of the puzzles,
what did you guys think of the puzzles in this
game? I liked them, man. I thought they were
pretty intuitive. And they did get a little hard
at some time. Yeah, I agree. Usually when I'm
playing these older survival horror games, I
need to look up a guide. Because sometimes they
just have puzzles where you don't know what the
hell is going on. But I gotta say, the puzzles
in this game were actually pretty straightforward.
I didn't actually have any trouble. I didn't
have to use a guide at all for these. Yeah, I
agree. I think they were pretty well designed.
They were made pretty well to convey what you
needed to do, but they weren't easy to figure
out. So yeah, I think they were done pretty well.
I was going to say, I didn't have to use a guide
for any of them either. I did have to use a guide
twice to figure out where the fuck I was supposed
to go. Yeah, same. I just straight up used a
guide for most of it, because I don't know. It
just didn't go that way for me, man. Yeah. There
was only two times I was just like, where the
hell do I go? And both times it's because I just
missed a stupid pixel on the wall I was supposed
to... click but yeah yeah and then i just the
uh the key codes because i didn't play for like
a week at a time i kept forgetting what yeah
like how to do them so one of the puzzles yeah
was was called the ddk which you had to get two
pieces they were like uh disk drives and you
get you had to get two pieces and it was two
parts of a code and what it was is there would
be a bunch of letters on the screen on the top
part and then the bottom part we have a bunch
of other letters or other numbers and you kind
of had to figure out how they went together so
that you could eliminate letters from the top
part and figure out the password which was it
was a pretty cool idea uh some of those later
ones got tough man i was kind of like how the
hell does this work i don't understand yeah the
later ones then they like added numbers in the
top yeah That's what I just like forgot what
I had to do with everything. Well, they weren't
always the same though. Like some of them were
different than the other ones, you know, like
some of them were like you had to add the letters.
Some of them we had to remove the letters. And
then you had to really like remove the column.
Yeah. But I thought they were pretty fun. I thought
they were intuitive. Yeah. Yeah. I thought they
were pretty good too. That's actually probably
one of the better aspects of the game. Yeah.
I think so too. Uh, the, the, um, The combat
in this game is, I don't know. I don't even know
if you call it combat because all you can do
is shoot a gun. There's no melee, right? There
was no melee? No. Yeah. So all you could do was
shoot. You had like three weapons, I think, right?
Handgun, shotgun, and the grenade launcher. Was
that it? Yeah. And you could kind of upgrade
them. Did the upgrades do anything? Yeah, I think
they made them stronger. They make them more
powerful? Mm -hmm. Okay. And then, so you would
have to aim at the dinosaur. There was kind of
like, there was kind of like auto aim in this
game, but it did not seem to work half the time.
Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. Yeah.
Especially with like with the pistol, you had
to be like right up against the dinosaur to make
sure you didn't miss. Yeah. I mean, sometimes
with the shotgun too, like you would only have
so many like darts and you'd shoot like two and
you'd miss and you're like, son of a bitch, man.
Yeah. You had to make sure you were aiming at
them. Yeah. Which is kind of hard sometimes.
The camera angles are actually not that bad in
this game. They're not awful. They're pretty
forgiving. Yeah. But some of them are kind of
a pain. Yeah, so that's another thing. This game
has fixed camera angles. So sometimes you would
walk into a room, you would hear the dinosaur,
but he'd be in another part of the camera angle
that you couldn't necessarily see. And I think
that's why they had the auto -aiming, because
you would... aim at the dinosaur but you still
sometimes had to wait for them to come into the
camera view before you would shoot because you
would miss otherwise yeah um which like you said
it wasn't it wasn't awful but it's still it was
still annoying for sure compared to like resident
evil this was way better yeah i've never played
definitely yeah i it's been a long time but yeah
i think they went more with like a you know artistic
camera angle i know in this in resident evil
they used uh pre -rendered backgrounds this does
not this has a complete 3d object uh backgrounds
on this one so i mean gameplay wise i don't think
that really changes much but there was also another
thing another mechanic to this game where you
could pick up items so you know you had your
health they had resuscitations which would like
just bring you back to life um and then they
had these mixer things like aids and and uh i
forgot the other one's called but you could like
mix stuff together and make like stronger and
newer items which that system was actually pretty
complicated i was looking at so i decided when
i want to look stuff up now for games i'm going
to start using like the prima guides you guys
remember the prima guides no okay they were just
like official like you know guidebooks for games
back in the 90s and 2000s so oh yeah yeah yeah
so i'm going to start looking those up when i
need help i'm not going to like look on like
you know like wikis and stuff i'm gonna try and
use like the stuff that was available back then
so that's that's a good idea yeah i'm gonna start
doing that so i used the prima guide for this
one and they had like a full chart of all the
mixing stuff and it was actually pretty complicated
what you could do in there yeah um i didn't really
use it that much i honestly i only really used
it when i needed room in my inventory yeah dude
because you can't get rid of stuff yeah that
was weird right you can't drop shit so weird
The only way you can is you unlock those boxes
on the wall. Yeah. And then that was the other
thing too. Yeah. So they had boxes throughout
the station where you had to use plugs to open
them and then you could get like, um, ammo and,
and, uh, health. And there was another one of
just like, was it just the AIDS and stuff? Yeah.
Okay. But yeah, that was weird. You couldn't,
you only had like what? 12 slots. I think it
was. I don't remember. Yeah. Something like that.
But yeah, you couldn't drop stuff. You couldn't
like. and there's some things you couldn't use
unless you mix them so yeah it was weird and
the amount of age you get in this game dude yeah
there's so many i think they did it on purpose
to take up space probably yeah yeah because i
needed health more than i needed that shit and
yeah the health of this game is is slim pickings
it is a little bit once you start opening up
those boxes it helps a lot but yeah yeah well
again once I'm terrible with that once I don't
want to use them. I think I only opened two boxes
in the entire game. Yeah, I made it towards the
end. I'm like, I'm going to start using this
stuff. Yeah, it's like 20 plugs. Yeah, the mixing
is... I didn't really mess with it too much.
Yeah, I didn't either. I don't know if Eric or
Ryan or Jacob and Ryan, if you guys ever even
used it. What, the plugs to open the boxes? No,
the mixing. Did you mix anything? Oh. Yeah, if
I'm being honest, I only used it a few times,
and the reason I did that was to upgrade my med
kits. I was just like, eh, I don't have to care
about this. I got my ammo, but that's about it.
But you don't get the health aids that much.
Yeah. The anesthetic ones don't really do anything
for the med packs. Right, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've
only used it like once or twice just to figure
it out. And then I was like, this is not worth
it. Yeah. That's all I cared about was the health.
Right. You can actually make the poison darts
stronger. You have to use resuscitation. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, then you can also
make the sleeping darts stronger, too. Mm -hmm.
Yeah. Also, this game has continues, which is
really weird to me. It has a limited set of continues
in this game. And then once you run out of them,
then you just go back to your save. It's weird.
I don't really understand the point of them.
I don't either because I never used them. I don't
know why they did that. Yeah, it's really weird.
Me and Jacob were looking at this game too. The
Japanese version has like 20 continues. They
changed it to five. Wow, that's kind of rare
that the American version is harder than the
Japanese version. Usually it was the other way
around, but okay. I think I read too that they
added more dinosaurs to the American version.
I think I read that somewhere too. Yeah. Yeah.
Which I find odd because there's really not that
many to begin with. Yeah, I know, right? Yeah.
Which, you know, with the continues, I did like
that this game, instead of giving you an item
to make you save, they just made an entire room
a save point. So anytime you left that room,
it would ask you if you wanted to save. I really
liked that design. I think that was pretty cool.
I think I struggled with that a little bit in
the beginning. But then I kind of realized that
I can just kind of run back. Yeah, you can just
go back to the room and save it anytime. I was
just trying to learn the map and find out where
it is. Which this map is, it's not that big.
No. But when you don't know where the hell you're
going. Well, that's why you open the map open.
Well, that map, that in -game minute, it's not
really that helpful. it's a little confusing
because it doesn't, it'll tell you what room
you're in, but it doesn't tell you what direction
or anything. Yeah. Yeah. You have to go to the
direction of your face or something. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, in that vein, I mean, the game actually
gave you a pretty good direction on, on where
to go. I mean, I don't think I ever felt like,
I don't think I ever felt when I was playing
this game. Well, just like, what the fuck do
I do now? You know what I mean? Like I always
knew what I needed to do. I just didn't always
necessarily know where exactly to go, but I don't
think there was ever a point where I was like,
I don't know what the fuck I need to do right
now. I always knew like I needed to go find the
door for this key or I need to go find this room
or I need to go get this item. So I feel like
the game had a pretty good set of direction for
that, you know? Yeah. The ending is definitely
a little bit more confusing, but. Oh yeah. Like
at the end where you're trying to find the stuff.
You did Rick's method for the. the uh two things
that you had to make yes i did that one yeah
yeah that one's yeah it's a little complicated
yeah yeah yeah actually that one puzzle with
the noises i actually i actually just brute force
that one yeah and i got it pretty quickly did
you find the thing on the wall after i after
i found the passcode yeah yeah yeah i got lucky
dude i was just like oh let me try this and i
i guessed it before i got the uh the item but
Okay. Yeah, that one's a little difficult. It
is. Yeah, it's tough. But, I mean, you know,
this game, like we said, this game's not too
hard. And honestly, it's kind of short, really.
I think without really trying, I beat it in under
six hours. Yeah, I think my first run was seven.
Just under seven. And then my second one, I think
I did it under, like, I think it was just under
three hours. yeah it's what it's pretty easy
it's really not that bad no it's not and that
was because i was doing achievement stuff too
yeah yeah yeah some of the little things that
i like the little details i actually like too
because i don't know if you notice but when you're
talking to the com thing that's on your hand
like it changes from green to red whether you're
talking or listening yeah yeah that was cool
i thought that was kind of cool just a nice little
touch and then it had things like we're like
sometimes the dinosaurs will actually knock the
weapons out of your hand Yeah. Which was annoying.
And then you got to go and grab your weapon.
Yeah. Yeah. And then equip it again. Yeah. Yeah.
That's another thing too. That was one thing
I did not like about this game. Yeah. Your items.
Sometimes you could just press X and the door
would unlock. Sometimes you had to open up the
menu and manually use the item. Yeah. Manually
use the key or something. I don't understand
why they just didn't make it all automatic or
make it all manually use it. It made no sense
to me. Yeah. And there's no rhyme or reason to
it. That was just an odd choice. I don't know
if it's something they just didn't code right
or what. I don't know. That was weird. Yeah,
it's got to be do something with the game mechanics.
Yeah, I don't know. It was strange. But sometimes
you're like, why is this not working? It's like,
oh, because it has to actually open up the menu.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah, it was weird. I don't know.
It made no sense. No. I did like, like, again,
there's just like a lot of little details, like
the blood handprints on the wall. All the computers
and stuff to look at. There's a lot of little
details. One last thing I'd like to mention is
I did like the fingerprint coder machine. I thought
that was pretty cool how you had to find the
corpses and then find the matching number for
them and then you could recode ID cards and stuff.
I thought that was pretty cool. Like I said,
the puzzles are actually fun in this game. A
little difficult sometimes, but I think this
is more like a puzzle game than a horror game.
I mean, really, yeah. Like I said, honestly,
once you get to a point where you kind of get
comfortable and you can just run around the dinosaurs.
I mean, honestly, dude, I think in my playthrough,
I didn't shoot more than like 10 times. Yeah.
Like I would just run past the dinosaurs. You
can play the entire game without firing a single
shot. Yeah, I mean, pretty much. Other than like
the one boss fight with a T -Rex or whatever.
You don't even have to shoot at him. Oh, really?
Yeah, that one achievement is you can't even
aim. Okay, nice. You can beat the game without
even shooting your gun. That's crazy. I guess
you could do that. Could you do that in Resident
Evil 2? I'm assuming so, right? Dude, it's been
a long time since I played one. That was the
only one I really played. I thought it was kind
of cool the door sizes actually change based
off how big they were. When you go through the
hangar, doors are freaking huge. Oh yeah, it
changes your model size. yeah and like the doors
actually open different with different ways and
stuff right yeah yeah so i thought that was cool
it's cool left same with design from resident
evil yeah like it's just things are different
so i also like whether if you're hurt or not
you like stumble across the stairs yeah that
was the other thing there's no there was no hud
right there's nothing on the screen i don't think
so no no yeah so there your health bar was just
like regina would be uh She would be somewhat
hunched over, or she'd be really hunched over,
and that's how you knew how close to death you
were. Kind of like rule of the roads, I guess.
Yeah, a little bit, yeah. I just like whether
you're going up the stairs and you're hurt, you're
hobbling really bad. Yeah, you're actually slower.
And then you could also be bleeding, too, which
would slowly bring your life down, but then you're
leaving puddles of blood behind you and everything.
Yeah. I think there's a lot of little details
in this game. Yeah, I think that was all done
pretty well, yeah. And then one last thing to
mention is that once you beat the game in under,
what is it, five and a half hours, I think it
is, you get an extra mode. What's it called?
Beast mode or something? Operation Wipeout. Operation
Wipeout. That's what it's called. Beast mode?
I don't know where that came from. I don't know.
I don't know where that came from. So I didn't
actually unlock it. I haven't played it. I think,
Eric, you're the only one who's actually played
it, right? Yeah. Jacob, did you play that? Yeah,
I played a little. I think I played like the
first two missions or so, but that's Voda. I
know you were here watching me play it. Yeah,
yeah. You guys want to explain what that is real
quick? So basically they just kind of like put
you in one part of the area of the map and you
have to eliminate a certain amount of dinosaurs
within a certain amount of time with like a certain
amount of ammunition. And then when you kill
all the dinosaurs, you have to run all the way
back to the beginning of the level. Oh, okay.
So it's kind of like a challenge mode, I guess.
Basically, yeah. Oh, okay. I mean, that's pretty
cool that they added that. Yeah, it was fun.
I actually kind of enjoy doing it. Yeah. But
there's only like three, right? Mm -hmm. But
you can't play two or three unless you beat one
and then beat two. Right, right. Yeah. But I
thought it was fun. A nice little addition, you
know? Yeah. A little reward for beating the game
quick, yeah. Yeah. And then, yeah, also you get
costumes once you beat the game. Yep, yep. Once.
And then if you beat the game twice, you get
another costume. They don't actually do anything,
though, right? I think they're just costumes.
The last costume, it'll change your gun. Yeah,
I've seen that. They make it, like, caveman -like
or whatever, yeah. Yeah, it looks like a bone.
Yeah, yeah. And then the grenade launcher's a
fish. That's so stupid. Yeah, it's... They're
kind of goofy, but... Yeah. Again, it's... I
kind of miss that stuff with new games. Yeah,
I know. They don't do that much anymore. All
right. Anything else about gameplay, guys? Controls,
anything like that? I mean, I guess we can mention
controls real quick. Yeah. This has like a...
It's like a pseudo tank control. It's not like
full tank control. I was going to say, for tank
controls, they're actually pretty damn good.
Yeah, they're not awful. They feel pretty good.
I think the big difference in this, like... actual
tank controls you cannot move left and right
when you're moving forward and in this one you
can move left and right while also moving forward
in this game so yeah yeah but like because i
think in like the old resident evil if you want
to go to the left you have to stop turn to the
left and then walk forward you know um so this
one i think they finally really like got the
got it down a little bit better i mean you still
can't like turn like fully around if you want
to go back you have to hold down back but Yeah.
I mean, if you press the trigger, you do a 180.
Right, you can immediately turn around and stuff.
Yeah, so that's a nice addition. So it's definitely
one of the better control schemes of this time,
but it's still not, like, modernized, you know.
If you're not used to those older controls, you're
still going to struggle a little bit. Yeah, it
took me a little bit to get used to them, but
once I did, I... Yeah, it's not bad at all. Oh,
they had those, like... pre -rendered videos
for the dinosaur cutscenes and stuff yeah there's
only there's two right two cutscenes two or three
yeah something like that and then i think the
ending yeah yeah yeah they did not look that
great i mean they were decent the problem with
the ps1 is that they're all so compressed yeah
but they weren't awful i mean the characters
were okay their mouths moved like they were decent
um yeah i don't know i had stuff upscaled and
i didn't think it looked that great oh yeah okay
Again, that was probably designed for a CRT TV.
Yeah, and dude, there is no video on the PS1
that's going to look good, period. They were
just so compressed. But I mean, the animation,
I feel like the animation and everything was
fine. Speaking of though, so let's jump over
to graphics. I actually liked the in -game cutscenes.
We've been talking about graphics, haven't we?
No, I thought that was all gameplay. I actually
liked... the in -game cutscenes, they actually
transitioned straight into the gameplay pretty
well. There was a couple of them that ended and
they were right where the cutscene ended, which
for the time was a pretty big deal. So I thought
they did pretty good with that. Yeah, I mean,
the graphics in the game, they're decent. I mean,
they're PS1 graphics. They didn't age incredibly
well, but the dinosaurs look pretty cool. I think
they look pretty great. Dinosaurs look good,
yeah. Yeah, the characters. The character model's
a little... little polygon -y but they're a little
stiff but they're they're not bad um hands hands
are yeah hands were tough on the ps1 and they're
interesting it's like old ai yeah it's uh just
a block with some lines yeah oh the worst is
final fantasy 7 but yeah but like the the environments
were pretty sweet like you said they cut the
loading screens with the doors and everything
that was all really cool But, yeah, I thought,
like, the machine, the final machine that you
start and everything, that was, like, the room
was just really cool and everything. So I thought
the graphics were fine. I think they look pretty
good for a PS1 game. Yeah, not bad. Not a bad
-looking game in any means. It's actually, like,
a lot of the problems with these games is they
get very drab colors, but I thought the colors
were pretty decent in this game and everything,
too. Yeah, everything changed nicely, you know?
Yeah, yeah. And then when you went to a new room,
you knew what was going on. Yeah. And then with
Regina, with her red hair, it actually helped
a lot because she stuck out from a lot of stuff.
I'm sure that was intentional. Probably. Yeah.
Yeah. But I mean, it worked. It worked pretty
well. For sure. And then we can go over. Let's
see. What about the sound? The soundtrack was
it's OK. It's more of like a it's definitely
more of like a background soundtrack, like an
ambient noise one. To me, it sounded like it
had a lot like synths. Like, a lot of jarring
notes and stuff. It gave me, like, old, like,
80s, like, B -movie vibe kind of stuff, you know?
Yeah, yeah. Like, John Carpenter. But, I mean,
it fit the game pretty well, you know? I didn't
really notice too much music while playing the
game. Yeah, it's, like I said, it's very, like,
background type of music. It's much more like,
I don't know what you'd call it. Like, it was
more set, like, to the action of the scene than,
like, actually being music, you know? like ambiance
i guess yeah yeah but but i mean i did like though
like when you're in the save room you can it's
got that little that little track yeah yeah it's
got that little like reverb noise to it yeah
yeah i actually and and i actually like the voice
acting in this game i was gonna say dude the
vo is actually not bad in this game it's pretty
i thought it was awesome yeah PS1 had some bad
voice acting. Oh, dude, I know. But I thought
it was pretty good. Like, just the first Resident
Evil has some freaking crazy voice acting. Yeah.
But I actually like Regina, too, because... Oh,
my bad. I actually like Regina because I think
she's pretty funny. Yeah, like, yeah, some of
the humor was pretty good. Like, the writing...
Like I said, dude, the writing in this game is
actually good. Yeah. Like, I think this game...
Like if it didn't work out as a game, they could
have turned this into a movie and it would have
been like a pretty decent movie. True. Yeah.
Yeah. I was impressed with the VO for this actually.
Like some of it was a little stiff for sure.
Like it's not perfect, but. Yeah. There was like
one really odd interaction that I was like, what
the hell was that all about? Which one was that?
Do you remember? You run into Gail when you're
looking for Dr. Kirk. Yeah. And you're in that
one room and he just. you haven't seen him in
like, you know, a long time. And he's like, I
got to get out of here or something. I don't
know. It was something weird. Oh yeah. When he's,
he's just like, well, he's not in this room and
then just like runs out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That
was like, I haven't seen you forever. And then
he just, he just runs away. It's like, he doesn't
want to be around you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So,
which I guess there is some secret thing going
on. I actually haven't got that ending yet. Oh
yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's like a secret. There's
like a, a real reason why you're there. Alternative
reason, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but you don't know.
Yep. But yeah, that wasn't on interaction. I'm
like, what was that all about? Yeah. I thought
Regina was funny. Like that beginning where you
see that dude like torn apart. She's like, that's
gross. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like I said, it was
all pretty good. And then the dinosaur sounds
were pretty good too. The T -Rex sounded pretty
sweet. Oh, that was something else we didn't
mention either. Um, there were like, I don't
know what you call them. They're not really quick
time events, but there were times when like the
dinosaurs would like grab you and you had to
literally mash all of the buttons on the controller
to like escape. Yeah. Which is weird. Yeah. Like
all of the buttons. Really? Okay. Like you literally
just mash your controller. I didn't know that
because I was trying to mash, like, one button
in the beginning and I kept getting hurt. I'm
like, what the hell? I know. But I guess it says
it in the manual. That's what Jacob said. It
does, yeah. Yeah, I never read it. But it's just
such a weird thing, I don't know. And then, oh,
that was another thing, too, is that there was
no subtitles in this game. That was kind of annoying.
Oh, really? I didn't even notice that. Yeah,
there's no subtitles for the game. Which, I mean,
you know, for an older game like that, it's not
a big deal. But the other thing, too, is, like...
You can see there was a lot of Jurassic Park
influence there. You're stuck in an island with
a bunch of dinosaurs. They indirectly mention
it in the game, don't they? I'm pretty sure Rick
says it's just like that one movie. He also mentions
Barney, too. Barney? The dinosaur? The purple
dinosaur? Yeah. I must have missed that. That's
funny. Okay, let's jump over to the achievements.
Dino Crisis has 65 achievements worth 565 points.
What did you guys think of these achievements?
At first glance, they look overwhelming, but
they're actually not that bad. Yeah, I can agree
with that. I think it's a decent set. It's just
beating a game multiple times is always kind
of a pain, but at least this one, you're actually
getting different endings every time. Yeah, I
agree. Beating a game multiple times is a pain
in the ass. Also, like you said too, this game's
pretty short. You can get through it in a couple
hours. And there is some replay, like you said,
with the different endings and stuff. Yeah, different
paths and stuff. When you first look at these,
because some of the achievements look like they're
very specific, but they're actually really not
that bad. I wish the description didn't have
that infinite grenade thing. They should have
just said that in the... Yeah. comments or something
and just took that out of there that's so because
that is yeah very it does add to the description
yeah it's it's too much but what do you mean
what is that i actually didn't look into it you
can unlock a uh there's like it's not like a
cheat but when you beat the game three or four
times you get infinite grenades for the grenade
launcher Oh, okay. So you can just run through
the game, but they don't want you to be able
to do that for the achievements, which makes
sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I don't know.
Is there something? Because it says glitch. Maybe
you can get it then, like, before. Maybe there's
a way to glitch it, too. I don't know. I don't
care. No, it just says it's a legitimate way
to unlock it. Yeah. I don't know why they put
glitch. I'm not sure. But they shouldn't have
put it in the description. Like I said, they
should have put it in the comments or something
somewhere else. or maybe like put it on the first
one and said it was for all of them, you know?
Yeah. Whatever. Anyway. I agree. Yeah. Some of
them look kind of tough. I don't know. It's like
not getting hit by the T -Rex ones. Are those
tough? Some of them are. Yeah. I mean, they take,
I mean, they take a couple of tries, but yeah,
they do get a little infuriating, but then nowhere
close to some of the achievements that I put
time into. Okay. So I don't think nobody's mastered
it yet. I think, Eric, you're the closest. Are
you going to master this game? Yeah, I only have
four more left. Okay. And I think I can get three
of them and one more playthrough. Yeah. That
last one's probably the toughest one, right?
You have to beat the game with no continues and
no other weapons. Can't pick up any weapons.
You can't shoot. Yeah, you can't use continues.
No additional weapons. And yeah, that's it. Yeah,
that sounds like a challenge for sure. Not at
this point. I just run through the game pretty
quick. You have to beat the Operation Wipeout
in under 8 minutes and 30 seconds. Again, not
the hardest achievement I've ever done, but it
took me quite a bit of tries. But again, I thought
it was kind of fun. It challenged me a little
bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like achievements that
push you a little bit. yeah yeah you know to
try to learn the game mechanisms and stuff like
that yeah like like you said i think this is
a decent set i think it does make you kind of
um you know see most of the game and it kind
of makes you do it a little bit differently than
you normally would which is what i like when
the the achievements do so yeah yeah i like these
achievements where they make me see everything
in the game right yep yep i hate the achievements
that add no nothing they just beat the boss without
getting hit for no reason you know what i mean
like yeah yeah that that adds nothing to the
game right well i don't i don't hate those ones
i just hate them on certain whatever we've talked
about this well whatever it is it's like do a
backflip four times yeah sure the boss three
times stick your thumb in your ass yeah yeah
that's usually how i play but well yeah yeah
well how else would you keep it greased yeah
exactly anyway you don't have to put that like
the infinite grenade glitch i'm just Assume that's
what you have to do. Right, yeah, yeah. But yeah.
No, I do plan on mastering it. Yeah, I'm 50 -50.
We'll see. It depends how motivated I want to
be. I don't think it's that difficult. It's not
about difficulty, bro. It's just about wanting
to play this game anymore. I can't. Well, I guess
we'll save that for the verdict. I was thinking
about Baroque, but then they added a bunch of
shit, so that's not happening. Dude, I am so
pissed about that. I mastered that game, and
they fucking added so much shit. I am so pissed.
There's so much dumb shit, too. There's not even
good ones. This is like a fucking niche game
that nobody needed more shit for. Of course,
it's one of the one games that I mastered. Come
on, man. They added like 15 achievements. All
right. Anyway. I spent so much time on that game.
Let's before Eric blows his top, let's go and
jump over to the final verdict. Okay, as always,
we don't do any kind of scoring or anything here.
We just do a quick, did you enjoy it and would
you recommend it? And since this was Eric's game,
he's the one who picked this one. We're going
to make him go last today. So who wants to go
first? Let Jacob go first. All right, Jacob,
go ahead. See what he's got to say. I'm always
interested, Jacob, so to speak. Yeah, I enjoyed
this game. It wasn't too hard. And I think the
number one thing I liked about it was I could
do every single puzzle without having to look
up a guy. I don't know why I do not like using
a guide. I like figuring out stuff for myself.
So, and this is also like a survival horror game
from the late nineties. Usually I had to use
a guide for these kinds of games because they
only give you so many clues sometimes, but I
feel like the puzzles in this game were pretty
straightforward. And it's like, you know, one
of the major aspects of this game that you're
going to have to deal with. So yeah, I. I definitely
enjoyed it. The survival part, or you know, surviving
from the, not dying from dinosaurs, it was alright.
You know, the guns aren't that powerful, at least
the pistol isn't. But you can also just run past
most of the dinosaurs anyway. Would you recommend
it? Yeah, I would. I haven't played any of the
PS1 Resident Evils. The closest thing I can compare
this to is Silent Hill for the PS1. But in any
case, I feel like it's still pretty unique enough
from the Resident Evil games, the early Resident
Evil games and Silent Hill. It still has its
own feel. Its story is, you know, pretty unique.
So I recommend it. All right, cool. All right,
I guess I'll go next. Yeah, I enjoyed this game.
I feel like the gameplay is pretty good. honestly
combat's kind of useless but the rest of the
game is pretty good enough to keep you entertained
like like we said the puzzles are challenging
but they're not difficult and they're actually
pretty fun i actually enjoyed trying to figure
them out and everything so and i felt like the
story was enough interesting enough to you know
make you want to push forward and figure out
what the hell is going on and the characters
were good like i just liked everything about
the game i thought it was pretty good And then,
you know, the dinosaurs were cool. I wish there'd
been more of them. I felt like that was, honestly,
for a game called Dino Crisis, I feel like the
dinos were the most underutilized thing in the
game. It was kind of crazy. Yeah, otherwise,
it was a fun game. I enjoyed it. And I would
recommend it. I think this game is, like Jacob
said, it sets out enough from the other survival
horror games that it's worth checking out. And
like we said, this one actually has some of the
better controls for the time. So I don't feel
like you would be really frustrated trying to
figure that stuff out and everything. So, yeah,
I think it's a pretty good, fun game, and I think
most people would enjoy it. All right, Ryan,
what do you got? Not much. I would take my review
with a grain of salt. But I just couldn't get
into this game, dude. I don't know. Yeah, I mean,
I'll say that, Ryan, it definitely took me a
few hours before I was like, oh, okay, all right.
Yeah, I mean, I probably gave up on it too soon.
I might go back and play it and give it another
chance, but it just seemed too Resident Evil
for me. And it just, in my opinion, it wasn't
much different. So I was like, if I want to play
this kind of game, I'll just go play Resident
Evil. I don't know. And even then, I just hate
having guns and they're just fucking useless.
I hate that. I always have. That's why I don't
really like the older Resident Evils that much.
So, I mean, it's a cool concept and everything.
I don't know. Maybe I'll change my mind. I'll
play it again. I'll give it another chance. Too
late. I don't know. No, maybe. It might happen.
But just, I don't know. Nothing in this game
just sticked out to me. I don't know. Stuck out
to me. I would only recommend it if you like
Resident Evil games or I guess the Resident Evil
games yeah but that's I don't know I don't think
I would but I'm going to be the only one so that's
fine bro sometimes that's how it goes yeah alright
okay let's see what the person who picked this
game thinks what does he think I think a lot
Really? You sure about that? No. That's still
thinking, isn't it? No, dude. I love this game.
I enjoyed every bit of it. This game's been on
my radar to play for a very long time. So I'm
glad I got to get to it. Like you guys said,
I think it's different enough. It's its own game.
It's its own entity. I think it's worth playing.
But like you said, it's definitely more, you
know, not really a survival horror somewhat.
Some of the elements are there, but I don't think
that's its main focus. And I think that selling
point is not what it's supposed to be for this
game. But the puzzles are fun. The gameplay is
fun. Like you said, the controls are good enough
to where you're not going to get annoyed with
them and give up. for a PS1 game. I don't know.
I loved it. The dinosaurs are awesome. I thought
it was cool. But yeah, I agree. They're definitely
not relevant enough. I don't know. I enjoyed
it. I liked all the little details in the game.
So I had fun. Would you recommend it? Yeah, I
would. Just in general, even if you don't like
Resident Evil, I think it's different enough.
that you can play it on its own. Yeah, I agree.
Alright, does this change anybody's least or
most favorites? I don't know if it's my most
favorite, but it's definitely at the top now.
I really did like this game. Yeah, I liked it
more than I thought I was going to, for sure.
Like I said, when I first started, I kind of
was like, son of a bitch, but I eventually figured
out that you can just kind of how to play the
game, and I enjoyed it much more. Yeah, I agree.
It does take a minute to get into, but what you
do, I think it has its own charm. Yeah, true.
I mean, they did make two other games. Yeah,
well, apparently the second one's even more action
-oriented, and the third one, the third one's
like a light gun game or something, or I can't
remember. I don't know anything about the third
one. Yeah, it gets crazy. But that's only on
Xbox, isn't it? Yeah, it's an Xbox exclusive.
That sucks. All right, that's it for Dawn of
Crisis. What did you guys think? Let us know.
Did you enjoy it? Would you recommend it? And
let's hear from you guys. So now let's jump over
to our next game, which I don't know if any of
us is going to like. I'm sure one of us will.
Yeah. We are playing Germs for the PlayStation.
So we're staying on the PlayStation and we're
going to play a Japanese only game called Germs.
So let's go ahead and take a look at the front
of the box art. I mean, do we have to look at
this? This is crazy. I'm not sure what the point
of this is. What I think we're looking at is
a bunch of naked bodies being merged together.
There's a lot of pubis mondus going on here.
Maybe it's a reference to germ cells. Maybe.
If you read the back of the thing, you'll figure
it out. Makes more sense? Okay. Yeah. A game
like this has never been seen before. I'm sure
that's not wrong. I'm still trying to figure
this front out here, bro. This is wild. What
does it say on the front? Earth Invasion Psychological
Adventure. That's what the front says? That's
what it says. A game like this has never been
seen before. It says Earth Invasion Psychological
Adventure. Earth invasion, okay. So, aliens?
Maybe this is like, what's that movie called?
Human Centipede? Oh, God. They've done it before.
They've done it before. There'd be like four
of those. Don't keep up with that. Okay, let's
jump to the back of this thing here. I sent you
the picture. Yeah, I got it. So, this is Google
translated, so it may not be 100%, but we got...
experience a new 3d gaming space with fully real
-time rendering the setting is a provincial city
about 2 .5 kilometers square surrounded by mountains
on three sides east west north and south that's
four sides and the seas on the south this is
the town that serves as the setting the town
once thrived on coal mining over time the mines
were closed and the town fell into disrepair
the player takes on the role of a newspaper reporter
he lived in the city until high school After
20 years, he is transferred to a small branch
office in his hometown. Through a computer in
the newspaper office, he notices something strange
happening in the city. A mysterious enemy has
begun to invade the city. They fuse with people
and multiply by utilizing the intelligence and
abilities of their hosts. The townspeople gradually
begin to transform into strange figures. Okay,
I guess that did make... The front of the game
makes a little bit more sense. Why are they all
naked? I still have many questions. They eat
clothes. Why did they get the clothes eating
aliens? Maybe they only attack you when you're
naked. They feed off a cloth. Yeah, they're afraid
of cotton. Cotton is their food source. Yeah,
I don't know about this game, man. It looks odd.
It's going to be a strange game. I'm sure once
we play this game... Yeah, that's true. It fits.
Fits the bill. This is Jacob's game, by the way.
He decided to pick this one. Is this the same
year? 99? I don't know. Same year as Dino Crisis.
Who's going to be the winner of 1999? Dino Crisis.
I feel like this is the type of game that deserves
to be forgotten. Nah. I just have a feeling.
We'll see. There's a reason why nobody played
this game. We'll see. What are you thinking,
Jacob? What are you thinking? 192 people did.
I think I'm going to... I don't know. I think
I'm going to like it. I mean, there's something
about the strangeness of this game that I see
in screenshots that just appeals to me. I don't
know why. It kind of reminds me... The visuals
kind of remind me of... LSD simulator. Yeah,
this definitely looks like one of those weird
Steam games. I'm fooling around a little bit.
I am interested. I'm interested to see what this
is. It's interesting. I'll give it that. It looks
interesting. But that's just because it could
be fucking anything. Yeah, I wonder what kind
of game this is. Because the LSD simulator is
not even really a game. Yeah. So we'll see what
kind of game this is. I mean, I'm interested.
I'm willing to sit down. I mean, I'll play anything,
so we'll figure it out. All right. Cool. That's
it for this episode. Let us know what you guys
think about this game. If you really like that
cover art, don't text us. Yeah. We've got nothing
for you. Yeah. Otherwise, we'll see you for the
next one. So, peace. I just wanted to say, man,
thanks for a good year. This is our last episode
of the year. You couldn't do that before I said
peace? Yeah. We should redo that. You said peace
really fast, bro. Go ahead and do that real quick
then. I already did it. I'm not cutting any of
that. I'm not cutting any of that. We'll see
you all, guys. Jesus Christ. We'll see you all
for the next one again. Peace.