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I actually love Grim Fandango.
I spent many an evening wondering if it was your bag.
Thank you for this video Civvie, i loved this game growing up and have made projects in university about game design , how this Blade Runner was the perfect movie based game. Keep up the good work man!
What about the monkey island games
Pro fandango when civvie?
Thank you, I was about to enrage. :P
Probably my favorite thing about this game is that it re-incorporates elements from the book that were either dropped entirely from the movie, or only hinted at. For instance, the reason animal murder is such a HUGE deal is that in the book, tons of species have gone extinct after a nuclear world war, so now keeping the remaining ones alive and thriving is basically a religion on Earth. If you don't take care of your own animal, you're a total loser, but they're expensive, so some people just get artificial electric ones to keep up appearances with their neighbors. Killing an animal is considered BEYOND heinous, by EVERYONE, which is why a lot of the Voight Kampf test questions involve killing, eating, or otherwise harming animals; it's also why traditionally meat-based foods like hot dogs and sushi are mentioned to be imitations made from lichen. The whole "animals are sacred" attitude is the crux of a big ironic mental conflict for book Deckard: accidentally stepping on a spider is more or less a crime against humanity, the worst thing you could do, yet destroying these thinking, feeling androids with human-level intelligence is the law, and his job. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a fucking amazing book. Go read it right now if you haven't, ESPECIALLY if you like Blade Runner. You can finish it in a day or two, it's a real page turner.
Oh, thanks, never played it, but recognised how other cops captured him and told him "theres no such cop as your boss in PD" That was right from the book
The scene where you're arrested is from the book there's a reworked version of the cut 5th replicant from the movie
I like how this game takes the "Deckard is a replicant" plot and actually adapts it to make some damn sense. For example: The technology to implant replicants with memories is very recent. Yet in the movie several characters obviously know Deckard going back years and years. Not to mention the whole four-year limited lifespan. In the game, Ray McCoy is a fresh face in the Blade Runner unit. I think in the game his boss later mentions that someone came to him with a claim that McCoy is a replicant and had some evidence to back him up, and he got to thinking, yeah, he hasn't known McCoy that long and the necessary records about him could have been faked.
An entire faith is built around it called Mercerism.
I haven't read the book yet, but my brother has. I remember him mentioning something about an owl, and Deckard trying to keep it secret that it was fake.
Still blows my mind that you could make an adventure game with randomization
What's more surprising is how smooth the graphics and fps are, they look so smooth I think a baby's bottom would be jealous
Bladerunnermania!
Oh, its possible, you just have to be a fucking ganious mad scientist when creating that decision-tree.
Telltale: am i a joke to you...?
@@acetrigger1337 This is years before Telltale.
"All you got to do is ask, Slim" Civvie11's most depressed tone of voice ever: "That's not in the dialogue options..."
I hear it's possible if you manage to clear your name in the final chapter. I've never pulled it off though...
@@NewExile Can you elaborate more?
@@AkiRa22084 You've gotta understand Civvie's run here is bog-standard and misses a lot of the more interesting stuff. Lucy disappears for the whole last couple of chapters, he never hunts down Dektora, there's a whole bunch of subplots that are never resolved. Again I've never managed to pull this off, so I always wind up having to kill Steele, but apparently if you use Bob's upgrade to hide the right things from the database, take Guza's briefcase and put that info *into* said database, and presumably leave a long trail of dead replicants in your wake, it is supposed to be possible to get an ending where you clear your name and wind up with Steele. I'm sure it's in a walkthrough somewhere if you want a more reliable source.
@@NewExile That's awesome! Thanks for replying!
@@AkiRa22084 You're welcome :) It's not often I get to talk about this old gem in any great detail ^^
"Meanwhile, at Valve..." I laughed way too hard at that one.
10:15
Fat floating Gaben
To me it looked more like a "Jimquisition" cameo XD!
@@jozinek876 "Bring me that floating fat man... The Gaben!"
DAIKATANA IS DRAWING NEAR, CV-11 You can't escape this detestable fate!
Can't wait for April's Daikatana Gameboy Color review
Snookers McFly probably on April Fools day too
its probably gonna be TNT but instead of TNT its daikatana
Or he goes and does the daikatana ai patch so it's bearable
@@snookers5123 I'd go for that. Like Wario Land for the Virtual Boy, it's a legit good little game.
That pink haired girl is also voiced by a TV actress. It’s that goth tech from NCIS
The actress who plays Abbey? Nice.
Aye I love your channel dude.
Thought she sounded familiar
Pauley Perrette
The 2nd creepiest ending is running away with her when she's a replicant. The CREEPIEST ending is running away with her when she's human. .... I was like 14 when I played this so it didn't really register how fucked up it was, lol
Holy crap, these pre-rendered cutscenes have aged really well.
They have. I still remember seeing them back then. Blew my mind.
The things you could pull off with a SGI workstation back then were unbelievable. Its no wonder a fully kitted out system cost as much as a new Porsche.
@@KiraSlith All cinematics were rendered on DEC Alphas running Windows NT, created in 3D Studio MAX Release 1.2 and 2.0, quite plugin-heavy(MetaReyes, ClothReyes, BonesPro, etc.) A far more cost effective production...in that regard.
@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 Really? Huh, I didn''t expect that. That means the had to write much of the rendering software themselves. Impressive considering the lighting is on par with what SGI machines of the time were capable of.
@@KiraSlith As far as I know this was the standard scanline renderer of 3D Studio MAX(with all its limited, tacked-on raytracing features. note: we're not talking GI here, this is all done via individually placed lights), for the cut scenes that is. Shows the value of having an experienced TD and talented lighting & surfacing artists on the team. The in-game/realtime stuff is of course a totally custom development and I'm amazed to this day how they managed to even do some atmospheric effects on top of the voxel objects...while maintaining decent performance.
The replicants-disguised-as-cops interrogation scene was partially lifted from the film's source novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". Nice little touch. There's no doubt the developers really cared about the material they were adapting.
But it kinda lost the complete sense of paranoia and grounded surrealism in the scene in the book.
@@1r0zz i will say, the version in the book, was a bit too whack. at first your paranoid you and decker are just living a lie, then you realize you've just been lied to... in the strangest most surreal way that hardly seems possible. I love and hate it for the trippy-distrust it gives you for the rest of the book... but that sense of paranoia always fades to disappointed confusion with regards to how a handful of replicants just faked an entire police station. not to rewrite one of the greatest science fiction books ever, but just having them interrogate him on the spot, or try to kill him would have boosted the paranoia for the rest of the book as opposed to just making you doubt it ever even happened.
@@Robb1977 consider that Philip K. Dick narrative is always very paranoid and surreal, it makes “sense” that it does not make “sense”. Think about how nobody on earth even considered that the tv/radio (different broadcasts at the same time) host was obviously an android(s?) or how the fake and manufactured religion becomes “real” for Deckar.
@1r0zz i would say that it makes sense nobody questions the obvious TV android, parasocial relationships are extremely common.. people in our world assume their favorite talking head actually believes their scripted dialog. In our world, the average rube thinks "the tonight show!" Hosts write their own jokes, despite the credits listing writers. Things like that arent at all strange. At the time people related to peoples suffering on TV and radio... even fictional ones from sitcoms and dramas... so mercer and the empathy box totally makes sense. Meanwhile we today have a pretty good analog, with the sufferings of many people, even those we've never met, channeled through messanging apps and chatrooms via the internet. We may not know these people, but with any empathy, we feel pity for them, and we feel good when they overcome their challanges. Even some of phillip k dicks strangest additions "make sense" in some way. Either on a human or story level, but the androids Impersonating an entire police HQ feels like a drean sequence, which is amazing until you question it at all.
@@Robb1977 that's one of the signature Dick moves though, crashing "universe A" and "universe B" into each other so you don't know which one is real. The trick comes up fairly often (there definitely was something like that in "Flow my tears..." from what I recall off the top of my head), and the whole idea might have been picked up from The World of Null-A by Van Vogt.
"Harrison Ford isn't gonna do some video game" - He did voice acting for Star Wars Galaxies. I was devastated when I found out.
It's because Harrison Ford hates the characters he plays in film, but it pays the rent, so...
@@aiden_macleod Harrison only hates Han Solo as far as I'm concerned, mainly his popularity, but if anything he seems to enjoy Blade Runner and Deckard since he didn't phoned it in during 2049 and was very against Scotts sillier ideas for the original
Harrison Ford voiced Han Solo in Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He asks the player to get Wookiee Cookies for Chewie.
Part time!
@@Wolf_Larsen I'm not gonna cut my hair, but I'll do the fucking scene
Westwood was such a great studio. They were so versatile. They made great RPG's, they made great action adventures, they pioneered the RTS genre, they even made a platformer with the Lion King.
Westwood may be long gone, but it'll forever live on in our hearts. Although we do also have Petroglyph, which consists of some ex-Westwood staff.
KingOfMadCows The Lion King sucks very hard though
RIP Westwood, builder of my childhood. I will never forgive EA for what they did.
@@Rangernewb5550 Nor will I... but lately, I find Bethesda and Blizzard to be worse companies, not that EA is "good", but recently it's been "less bad" than some other publishers; if C&C Remastered ends up being a good game, I imagine that people will be at least a little more positive towards them! Blizzard, on the other hand, has pretty much lost most of its goodwill the past few months and has lost even more with Warcraft 3 Reforged. Bethesda needs TES 6 to succeed, plus they need to move away from the dumpster fire that is FO76, and make sure they go back to doing what they do best, or they can lose even more goodwill, and that's hard to regain... just look at how EA are percieved right now!
@@Rangernewb5550 €A wrecked so many studios. They quite early developed the habit to simply buy game studios which produced good and successful games, and then destroying both their IPs and the studios along with it by not understanding _why_ those games were so good, beloved and successful and subsequently forcing their infamous "It needs to be streamlined for a mindless mass audience!" formula onto them. . I will _never_ forgive them, for instance, for killing off 'Origin', which was behind the 'Wing Commander' games, and murdering the IP before they could make a sequel to 'Wing Commander: Prophecy', which ended with this giant cliffhanger. Oh, and did they not also kill Bullfrog?
"Do you like Civvie 11?" "Is it artificial?" "Of course it is."
"Must be expensive." "Eh, not really. He's dirt cheap, but he's a cool and respectable guy. I'm ."
I don't like him, but that's just me. If you do that's fine.
"Is this supposed to be an empathy test? Flush response, dilation of the pupils?" "It's called Voigt-Kampf, actually."
man. the weird thing about blade runner is that I've only watched it a handful of times (it's so good I don't really feel like rewatching it, don't wanna ruin the magic) and yet the rachel/deckard exchange is just burned into my brain 'cause I had like a half year period when I'd bump the soundtrack non-stop and it had clips from the movie. replicants are either a benefit or a hazard. if they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
@@SaviorAssassin1996 I dont like you
Wait, Westwood? As in Command and Conquer Westwood? THEY made this? Goddammit... Now I’m making myself sad.
1st comes sadness. Then comes anger when one remembers EA killed this amazing dev studio.
So you didn't notice that C & C Red Alert machine in the arcade then?
Rest In Peace Westwood... Rest In Peace...
Westwood, the studio that made Nox and C&C... the studio that made a lot of my childhood, then just got fucking murked by EA. God damn it EA, you scumbags.
@@heyyitsultima They made Nox too?? My goodness!! Gee Whiz EA, why do you hate us so?
It's always amazed me that there wasn't more Adventure Games that adopted this kind of randomization. Especially in the age of KZhead longplays letting you fully experience a telltale style game without spending a penny. Makes this still the best adventure game ever made.
Lets be fair, it's hard enough writing a good story for a video game, let alone writing a story with interchangeable parts selected at random, and still have it make sense.
There are scooby doo games by Learning Company that do this.
TellTale became so boring, they literally ported their Minecraft game onto Netflix. I can barely comprehend the level of suck required for that to work.
Bah, Telltale, what a bunch of pretentious impostors. When you look at it, their prized games are pretty much walking simulators with the illusion of meaningful choice. I mean, I actually enjoyed their first "Walking Dead" game... until I've finished it and realised what a dishonest crap their supposed 'meaningful choises' in that game were. . In the end the game could be boiled down to _"no matter what you do or don't do, no matter what you say or don't say, your choice will be wrong anyway, you will be fucked over anyway and all the fuckers, who let you do all the work and then berate and insult you for it, win"._ I can honestly say that there was rarely a game that made me feel so pissed-off like this one. The whole story is pretty much a scam. . I played the first episode of the second game and then stopped playing, because I could already tell exactly what will happen in the end.
@@liamdell6319 Well, telltale didn't do both, still anointed as someone that "revolutionize" the genre...
i love how every iteration of Blade Runner is god-teir quality, the fact that the video game and the 20 year past sequel is on par or maybe even better than the near perfect original amazes me
Oh the sequel is good? I figured since I heard no one talking about it that it was either shit or even worse, straight up forgettable
@@SahiPie No it just didn't do well box-office wise, but it is as good as the original. Moviegoers nowadays just don't appreciate movies like blade runner.
@@SahiPie A bunch of illiterate hacks talk shit about it on yt. Because it's not avengers I guess...
@@SahiPie It's actually really really good
the comics are mixed tho
Lucy is voiced by Pauley Perette of NCIS-fame, where she plays Abby. They got a lot of great actors to star in this game.
Fun Fact: CV-11 Before incarceration frequently partook in ACTUAL Blade Running. This Explains Why he did not escape when CV-18 [TERMINATED] broke free of their holding cell. this is also why he Won't play Ridge Racer; his feet can't use the PS1 Pedals -ADMINISTRATOR-
I was wondering, why do people like Civvie?
@@SaviorAssassin1996 what
@@SaviorAssassin1996 why are you here commenting a recent video anyway?
I was just asking.
CV-18 wasn't terminated - he's still chilling. Except he isn't, because that timeline doesn't exist anymore. Sounds like someone needs to take a dip into the smelting tanks of a steel factory. Also, please don't do this.
"This is like listening to Vogon poetry" classic We already knew civvie was a man of culture
Ah yes, the dark and dystopian future of 2019
Funny how prospective fiction becomes uchronia as you grow older. Though in Blade Runner's case, it's merely a case of early date, cuz that's still very much the future we're heading towards full throttle.
@@mugwump7049 Uchronia. A beautiful word I have just learned.
You'd better believe it.
@@boilerhousegarage Glad to be of some use :)
Current reality is getting there, but without all the cool stuff.
There's another way to take out Zeuban the chef. Right before he drops the pot on McCoy, quickly move the mouse to the right and click. McCoy will dive out of the way and you can chase the chef down the alley. After you corner him you can "Retire" him or spare his life. Sparing his life will give you progress in either the Replicant or Lucy ending.
Came here to say just this. This was the first time in a video game as a lad that I realised there were options other than just killing people when combat occured and that there may be other choices. I think it was an accidental right click that put my gun away as I was getting a bead on him and then we just started...talking. It was a genuine moment for me.
Ah, the Blade Runner game... It's Heavy Rain with actual gameplay
More Detroit become human
It’s a David Cage game but good
Arturo Montenegro except not shittily made by a hack with no writing skills that comes off as pretentious.
@@DrewFr33m4nn So the bunch of hacks in telltale? Or naughty dogs after kicking out the only Hood writer they ever had?
You mean Amy Henning?
So civvie likes point and clicks? Niiice can u play "i have no mouth and i must scream"
I second this motion.
@@mugwump7049 Third. He already made a reference when he talked about Captain Dilon in DNF.
blessed idea
He did a video on Starship Titanic a couple years ago
@@eduardodiaz9942 "Parrot and Stick" - Gods, the puns were strong, then.
Another world visualized primarily by the mind of Syd Mead. RIP Syd, you will be sorely missed.
He also made one of the best and most OP robots ever: the Turn A Gundam
and he inspired the design for the ATAT
Wait... *are* you a replicant??? This explains why we haven't seen a pro Duke3D: The Birth episode yet.
You weren't kidding about this being one of the best games ever, let alone one of the best point and click adventures.
"That's an urban legend. I've tried my top tier dead baby jokes..." Had I a replicant machine, I'd give you so many babes for that line.
The best part is, Gordo actually has a better sense of humour when he's a human. His first 3 jokes on stage are the same cringe-fest, but the whole part when he goes "off-script" feels so much more natural and he has some genuine back-and-forth with McCoy before running off.
I will take two my good sir. Jeremy jr & shermy ...
It's a shame Philip K Dick isn't a household name despite how a lot of interpretations of his work are. That dude was a drugged out genius.
Not a household name ? It's not like he is one of the most famous Sci Fi author of all time...
That's a weird way of spelling Harlan Ellison, who hasn't gotten enough adaptations or attention even though he was one of the most prolific writers of the 60s and 70s.
Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Screamers. Good films. Too bad his work hasn't gotten too many video game adaptations.
@@-Zakhiel- In the sci-fi fandom, maybe. In the general public's eye, he's nowhere near as renowned as a hack like Michael Crichton or any of the bestsellers, though movies like Minority Report did help a bit.
@@mugwump7049 hum... no. Maybe in America, Crichton is more known. Not outside of it I can tell you that. Sayin' that K. Dick is not known is like sayin' Poe is not a "household name"... Yeah maybe some people don't know them. So what ? For anyone, and I mean anyone, who has already red or who wants to read Sci Fi, Philip K. Dick is probable one of the first author they're gonna hear about. As for the "general public", who cares ? "General public" doesn't mean anything. Most people, including you and me, don't know the big names of every major art forms. And that's normal. The only fact wich matters is if an old, dead, author still sells. And K. Dick still does, more than most of sci fi authors, dead or alive. Oh... And we're talkin' about litterature here... Not Sci Fi fandom.
3:56 - Actually, Civvie, he's our SECOND unexpected voice actor. Lucy in the opening scene is voiced by Pauley Perrette. Yes, _THAT_ Pauley Perrette, the one who plays Abigail Scuito on NCIS.
Just noticed, thank you
I'm just grateful there are people out there taking the time to allow for these old games to run on modern machines.
Speaking of noir-style games, I would be elated to see a vid on Max Payne.
This is very low hanging fruit but... Pro max Payne when civvie?
Serpent Mongrel king of the hill pro payne
Max Payne is so fucking underrated dude
Well Civvie's already reviewed the Max Payne movie (which is shit), so it would only be fair if he did some justice by covering the Max Payne games.
Although not the master known as Civvie, this retrospective is absolutely fantastic. He covers all three games, and you can tell he really loves them. Puts an absolute shitload of work into them. kzhead.info/sun/iJl9iparfWadjWw/bejne.html
Oh cool hes playimg snatc- Oh theres an actual blade runner game Ok
I left this video on 'watch later' for quite a long time, did two playtroughts of the game and still am amazed by how different Civvie's playtrought turned out. Absolute masterpiece.
11:31 it’s interesting how they made the lobby look like the Gold Room from THE SHINING, where the actor who played Tyrel also played Lloyd the bartender
10:16 “Meanwhile, at Valve!” That’s actually not a bad guess at what goes on in Valve’s headquarters.
Exploding skulls *would* explain HL3 delays.
Civvie and Ross Scott are the only 2 people on KZhead that I genuinely get excited when they release a new video.
"I won't be able to show it unless I upload 6 hours of game footage." Fine. I just noticed that Jeff Garland has some of the same dialogue from the ending that is also in Curb season 6, episode 3. Larry steals flowers and Jeff gets blamed for it.
Gotta love that ppl have more empathy for animals than replicants in this universe
Well, some people are like this in real life
All animals except humans are endangered. Robots on the other hand...
Probably has a bit to do with real animals being nearly extinct while replicants are being churned out in factories.
I didnt know that the reps would sometimes be human. Thats great. But you can also click to the side of the kitchen and you’ll dodge the soup and can actually catch Zuban, kill him a little early and that Gaff scene happens in the yukon where You wake up all tied. I love this game and am so excited that it got a port. I cant believe how many variations there are in this tie in adventure game
Yeah, what's even cooler is the GOG edition of the game has a "Restored Content" version that tries to include stuff buried in the game files.
Ismail oh damn thats awesome!
@@IsmailofeRegime Fake News.
@Ismail SCUMMVM port* You don't need to but it on GOG, the original version'll work too.
"Meanwhile at VALVE..." I completely pissed my pants (and haven't changed them yet out of respect). :D Greetings from Germany!
Иди падмойса, маня
My favourite point and click. Pro tip - when you try to Voigt Kampff the sushi chef, and he pushes the cauldron at you (8:52), you'll notice the mouse cursor becomes active for about a second (8:54). In that time, click the floor to the right of you (the area between the cardboard box on the floor, and the chefs bench) and see what happens.
“Skinjob” sounds like it should be something pleasurable.
It's called a massage
Bro.
I prefer the term "blow cleaning" myself.
The guy on the right in your avatar looks like Ted Bundy
RIP Westwood. You were my favorite RTS developers in the 90s-00s.
Hey Civvie, I think Jim Sterling watched your Terminator: Resistance video. He forgot to mention you though, and no link in the description. But at least he followed your suggestion to shout out dev's who care.
While I thought the same, Jim's tweet about the game actually went up before Civvies video as he pointed out on reddit. I think it's just a coincidence, probably because the game has been on offer on a few store fronts.
Im just surprised people still watch Jim Sterling for some reason
@@DarranKern us anti capitalist communist gamers need something to watch on a Monday.
@@medes5597 Eh. It's good to get your info from multiple sources. Never trust one person, or even one group. Get input from all sides
@@medes5597 Oh, i see. That makes sense. It just seemed odd that they both made such similar points. After i made the above comment I wondered if perhaps both of them were responding to some kind of buzz about the game in the independent review community.
I friggin love this game. One of the best games Westwood made, and amazingly atmospheric. The multiple endings was a great touch too.
I remember renting this from out local library as a kid. I was too young to really get the game back then (let alone the movie), but I still really had fun with it. Only fond memories.
Too young? You are probably a replicant from the future, and not a true 80's baby. Games were played as they came out, not by what rating they had.
@@jong2359 I think he meant "get" as in "understand", not "obtain".
@@JeanMarceaux I must have been drunk when I read that... his meaning is pretty obvious in retrospect.
@@jong2359 it's okay.
Aw yiss, new Civvie video. Are you thinking of making Duke 3D: Ep 4, or is that one getting skipped?
I have to eventually since I have the footage recorded.
Nice.
@@Civvie11 Pro Caribbean when
Wait, Runciter Zoological is the name of the place in the opening scene? I guess they must have had some Phillip K Dick fans on the staff, not just Blade Runner fans.
@Lil' Connor Peterson Runciter isn't in Androids though AFAIK, but in Ubik.
And Runciter looks like Robert A. Heinlein
I think the Venn Diagram of those two is just a circle
9:39 Did he just dab
no he didn't, check your eyesight nerd
why do you have to show up on every KZheadr's comment section? or maybe we just both have the same taste? well, TF2 is pretty much just a cartoony boomer shooter anyways
Ha, they have a C&C Red Alert arcade cab. Awesome. 19:20
Pro renegade when
Warden: adventure games! In my dungeon! In this timeline! Being played right now on your computer? Civvie 11: Yes Warden: may i play it? Civvie 11: no.
Gog is the best thing the Internet ever made
Praise GOG with their no Drm games 👏 (Edited because I forgot to put "no")
@@acewolfgang276 Are you familiar with their FCK DRM Initiative?
@@bloodrunsclear Let's say I'm not familiar with it, would you explain it to me?
@@fuzzydunlop7928 'DRM-free approach in games has been at the heart of GOG.COM from day one. We strongly believe that if you buy a game, it should be yours, and you can play it the way it’s convenient for you, and not how others want you to use it.'
@@bloodrunsclear So "Ace Walfgang" here invented a reason to dislike GOG, that goes against what seems like one of the core tenets of their business approach? Do people fact-check themselves anymore?
19:51 Just click at the end point, and Ray McCoy runs through the maze at lightspeed.
Accidentally did this today and thought 'what was the point?'
24:05 a "Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy" reference? Nice.
this game does look really fun! I love bladerunner but it aint just bias. the fact that each playthrough can be different really tells how much effort and love went into it. also tons of references from the book
This was the first ever game i actually finished as a kid and i remember bursting into tears because it was ending. There was no more to play. Then i kinda forgot about it for the next 20 years, always in the back of my mind, "what was that game with the detective and the dog in the apartment and the strip club". I tried to find it based on what little i remembered only to finally find it again 1 year ago. Instantly bought it on GoG. The feels when i got play it again after 20 ish years. Still as amazing as i remembered it, definitely the best game of my childhood. (besides Doom, of course). Fuck it, im booting it up right now.
pro snatcher when civvie no seriously if you love point-and-click ish adventure games with blade runner themed environments snatcher is right up your alley AND it's a kojima game from when he was good still
Policenauts too? Pretty much outer space Lethal Weapon.
"When he was still good." Oof. Big oof. But true: Death Stranding turned out to be disappointing.
Genome Soldat oh definitely. I gotta play policenauts still one of these days.
@singularon1 he's good when he's not allowed to go completely bonkers. Death stranding was his first project unrestrained so I guess it's not exactly his fault. Sure the game was hyped way too much but it was alright I guess. When it's working it's fun but when it's not it's frustrating.
@@danialyousaf6456 So, basically just George Lucas with Star Wars then?
1:27 That's one way to give me a stroke
I actually love Grim Fandango though
You get strokes from jokes? Weird pal
@@screamsinrussian5773 Different strokes for different folks.
My folks always give my throat the chokes
I knew the game had alternative storylines, but damn, yours was completely different from mine. Didn't know the makers went that far.
Westwood usually went far and beyond. Rip in pasta sauce, my sweet prince :(
I remember my dad got a new PC to play this game. I got the old one, and his let us play all the newest games. He was a big blade runner fan, and this was the best game for a book/movie ever.
A big misconception with this game is that theres rng involved when it comes to whos a replicant and the different story endings. But it all depends on how you approach each character and how well you look for clues.
There's definitely RNG involved, it's just that various clues will be different depending on the playthrough. For example McCoy will observe that Sadik is either an amateur or expert bomber and mention that he's staggered by punches depending on whether he's a human or replicant in that particular playthrough. Sadik, Dektora, Lucy and Gordo Frizz all vary.
I love you for loving this game. I was absolutely enraptured by it when I was like 13 years old. It's one of those rare few games that showed me what the medium was capable of achieving.
Descent would be a great idea, civvie. The “old, but gold” type of game.
Pro Republic Commando when Civvie?
They really need to re-release Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds on GOG.
Honestly I wouldn’t mind a 6 hour play through from you. It would be fun to watch.
I'm curious what else happened, this was a pretty crazy series of randomizations.
I remember playing this on my 486 PC...back when I wasn't going bald and didn't need reading glasses lol. Great review Civvie!
Carly Patrick You were way behind the times if you still had a 486 in 97. And if you WERE running this on a 486 you must have upgraded the ram considerably to get this running.
@@thefonzkiss A Pentium maybe? All I know is it was slow as F*** and had a giant 13" CRT display that probably weighed about 40 pounds...
Cute dog tho
That rat plank man, every time.
In a game that has very few puzzles, they were like "hey, I know, let's have the player take into account the weight of a plank of wood relative to a dead rat!"
New Civvie 11 video? Good man, kind man, absolute lad.
Really nice to see you do non-FPS games from way back. Keep up the variety!
Pro Dark Forces 2 and Jedi Outcast when civvie? Best lightsaber combat NA
Jedi academy
@@screamsinrussian5773 That one too
Wow. You may have actually gotten me to buy this.
@@SaviorAssassin1996 The fuck is "own will"? Someone shares something with them and they like it so they get it. They DID make the decision themselves in the end.
Do it. ESPECIALLY if you enjoy adventure games and/or Dick. Philip Dick that is
@@SaviorAssassin1996 he still gets the game out of his own will, you fat oaf
@@SaviorAssassin1996 I'd imagine there's tons of people who either aren't aware a Blade Runner game was made back in the 90s, or aren't aware if it's any good. Hence the importance of Civvie's video.
My comment was a mistake. I'm sorry. You can forget about it. By the way, there's videos of this game around.
These are extremely rare animals of the highest quality. What a coincidence, so am i.
Set in the dystonian future of 2019.
Well its 2020, and san fran is on its way.
@@berniekatzroy I mean people have been mocking San Francisco for decades.
So, yeah. I saw this review and bought it. The 1990s were my video game drought thanks to parenthood and career, so I totally missed this until the other day. In case you're curious, the drought ended when my sons were old enough to play Sven Co-op and some other multiplayer maps that I forget how we found them -- you know, 8 and 10. I set up an ethernet for three low-level Pentium machines and we killed each other over and over and over... They are both productive members of society, something they got from their mom.
Ah damn,hoped for the Lucy ending just for the sheer wtfness of it. Oh well,didnt know they finally put the thing on GoG,time to go collect some bottles.
RIP Westwood, from a different time when pride in quality output mattered more.
that's a blast for the past, I still have the CD case with the disks never a better time to replay i guess!
The editing was excellent and the whole show just... flowed. In terms of execution, this is one of your tightest episodes ever.
PRO SHADOW WARRIOR 2013 WHEN CIVVIE?
when there is patch/mod to make it decent
God I love that game. I beat it 3 times and I'm kina itching to play it again now.
@@cyberdiver7076 Same here, love both games, although for different reasons.
@@SpecShadow You're confusing it with Shadow Warrior 2.
@@mugwump7049 shadow warrior 2 was fun with friends that's about it
I spent so much time playing this in my teens, great to see you covered it. Feels like it's been forgotten by time
Also this game has like a dozen endings and I always found it weird one of them was driving away from the city with a 14 year old girl, like you're playing cyberpunk Outrun.
Specially creepy If she really is a 14 year old human girl!
That makes them both less then 5 years old.
It's fine if she's a replicant in your playthrough, though.
If cyberpunk 2077 comes close to at least half the atmosphere and storytelling shown here , I'll be a happy man .
>Sips drink
To me, trailers failed to do that, so far. Which is odd and disturbing given it's a company that got famous by nailing the atmosphere and storytelling in another game.
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You know what got me? When you chase the chef and corner him succesfully McCoy *Pulls out his gun automatically*. It took me 5 playthroughs to realise you can put your gun away and talk him down. Course you need the foreknowledge of getting souped to avoid it...
A masterpiece, and a big part of my childhood, hours and hours through it. Various ways in how to progress the story, the different endings, and they absolutely nailed the atmosphere.
I’m so happy this game is on GoG! Almost done with my first playthru and very glad to see you doing a video for it!
7:12 whenever I hear Lucky Strikes I always think of Don Draper from Mad Men smoking them lol
I think of a commercial the Ink Spots did on Jack Benny's radio programme where they sang out some ad for them in the tune "If I Didn't Care," if I remember correctly. Ads from the '40s could be strange sometimes.
my dad used to own this game. he died back in 04 and this is honestly kind of an insight into his life for me. I've never been much of a fan of point and click games but im going to play through this without a doubt.
Thanks for making awesome stuff Civvie. Can't tell you how much you've helped me make it through bad days and you always make my work day go by so much quicker.
THIS!...THIS IS WHAT A GREAT GAME GRAPHICS SHOULD LIKE! Man this game looks gourgeous, I have to play it now! :D
It's prerendered tho
this one of the best movie game adaptations ever.
Civve, I've had a really hard run lately. I just discovered your channel and I love it. It's really helping me out. Please keep it up. As soon as I'm able I'll join your patreon as well.
6:11 I've watched this too many times, it makes me laugh way more than it should.
Still have a original big boxed copy on my shelf. Such a beautiful game- but i never thought i'd see it here. o:
The brochure at 11:02 tells you who is a replicant on that play through.
Oh lord it’s been such a treat watching you play FPSs but when I saw you had a video on Blade Runner it was instawatch. That anticipation of installing it off of four bloody CDs. As a kid it was a gripping experience. I would get stuck in some parts and it was a little over my head at times but considering the time and technology it was really fun and immersive. Rare is the adventure game where the world is fleshed out enough that you don’t mind hanging around even without solving the puzzles or moving the narrative but blade runner was that type of game. Thanks Civvie 💙
I saw the title of your video and bought the game. Came back after playing and watched your video. Our stories were so drastically different. Seriously this game has so many moving parts. One of my favorites
Saw this in December and bought it a week ago myself and i am still pissed at myself i sold my big box on Ebay like 15 years ago with so many other gems like Indiana Jones talkie and the whole X-Wing TIE Fighter Series and so forth. Actually this was the reason to create an GOG account after so many years and now it already holds 80 games, thx to Lunar Sale. :-)
Well for a 1997 game the graphics looked amazing. Even the cutscenes
I recently found your channel via a friend and binged the crap out of it, one of the only channels I've ever turned on notifications for. This is *great* stuff. If there was any one game I'd love to see you take a crack at I think it'd be System Shock 2. Maybe not on Impossible though, that shit is not okay.
This game blew my mind as a kid, because I sucked at it, so I would just replay it over and over until I got to where I couldn't progress anymore. One time in the starting area I found a pixel sized bullet and it unlocked a whole side quest about ballistics and buying a second hand scanner.