Why don't we throw this up on Floatplane maybe?
Nicole: Wait, Department of Employment, why is it closed?
Linus: Because you haven't opened the one employer in town yet, Nicole!
Nicole: The graphic of the dinosaur is kind of funky;
he just looks like a lizard.
Elijah: How old was Linus when he played this game? Do you know?
Linus: Back then we thought dinosaurs were lizards.
Okay.
Sammy: I lost already.
David: Yep.
Sammy: What the, what is this game man!?
David: If only you knew how to read.
Linus: You made the same joke as me, David.
David: Hahahaha.
Sammy: Wait, I can't get a better, I can't-
Oh yeah, I actually lost-lost.
David: Hahahahahaha.
Sammy: Oh my God.
Zoey: So far it was very discouraging, I will say.
David: I also have a cheat sheet for you
because you're going to need it.
Linus: F9 to adjust your lasers, F10 for shields. David: Hahahahahahahaha!
David: Why are you going so fast?
Nicole: I was supposed to move it slowly.
David: We'll hover over stuff.
Nicole: Oooooh! David: Hahahahahahaha.
Linus: Back in my day, we had a little thing called patience.
Elijah: Oh dude, this is actually pretty smooth once you're in game.
Elijah: Oh really? Oh what!?
David: Ooooh.
Linus: You were going so slow buddy.
Sammy: I can't hear you because f******, I'm locked the f****** in.
David: Hahahahahahaha.
Sammy: What!? The song's bopping, the game is bussing.
Linus: Right?
David: Haha!
Linus: No!
Elijah: I feel like that's pretty good actually
for being out in open space.
Sammy: This is fun though, I feel like.
If the joystick didn't exist, I would not play this.
Sammy: What the f-?
Sammy: It's not satisfying doing this, the concussion bomb.
Linus: You got to lock on before you fire a missile.
Linus: Aaaaaaa!
Elijah: You got it off your cart,
Elijah: like little toads running in the middle of the race track.
David: Hahahahahaha.
Deepak: I think they did a really good job
with their sense of speed and the depth, you know?
Like the way that the roads just kind of bend
and you're just kind of like moving with it too.
Jordan: No see, of all the games that I played today
this one has made me feel the best about myself.
Linus: I love the style of this game;
and these end screens are one of the best things about it.
And you got to remember that they were doing this
with fairly rudimentary image editing programs.
Elijah: If only I was this cool.
Nicole: What age was Linus when he was enjoying these games? David: He would have been...
Linus: Hold on, what year did Civ 2 come out?
I'm not going to hear the answer yet.
Linus: Civ 2, I'm going to say 1998.
David: Original is 96, Test of Time is 99.
Linus: That was close.
David: This was the first game he bought a graphics card for.
Nicole: This one?
David: Yeah-
Linus: What? What are you trying to say?
Lil Seb: It hasn't shown me anything about taxes,
luxury, science, or production, or food.
Production of what? What am I producing?
David: Yeah, are you feeling overwhelmed?
Noah: Oh, I am; and I do not have my tutorial to help me.
Sammy: This game might be worse than the dinosaur game, guys.
Sammy: Like, the UI is so bad;
it's crazy, because you don't think about like
how good the UI has gotten.
Linus: I don't think the UI is that bad;
they're all harping on the UI.
I mean, everything you need is right there.
You just have to read.
Elijah: Oh, cheat!
Elijah: Leave a like if you think I should cheat.
Deepak: Hell yeah, of course.
David: In the top bar, enable the cheats.
Sammy: What does it do?
Linus: You gave them cheaaats!?
David: It'll unlock the ability to use cheats.
Sammy: I'm good.
David: Okay, sure.
Sammy: I'm using my pure intelligence.
David: Okay, uhuh, uhuh.
Linus: He's doomed.
Lil Seb: Kill civilization?
Elijah: Holy, they just made me God.
Elijah: Hehehehehe.
Noah: We're going to get rid of all the Vikings.
Jordan: Hahaha, yeah.
Linus: Oh, no; you can't-
Jordan: Yeaaaah, f*** the French.
Linus: Nooo, you can't play CIV...
Jordan and David: Hahahahahahaha.
Linus: Cheats.
Linus: Ugh.
Elijah: Hahahahahaha.
Elijah: It was so easy, it was just one button; it's just so disâ
David: Kill the other one.
Elijah: Oh my God.
Elijah: Oh, reveal map!
Deepak: Reveal map!? Should I just go for it?
David: Yeah, yeah, go for it.
Deepak: Okay, entire map; let's go.
Deepak: Yoooo! David: Woooo!
Deepak: Sheesh!
Deepak: Look at all these buffalo I can kill.
David: Hahahahaha.
Elijah: Yeah, how the hell was I going to find these guys?
Elijah: Dude, their cities suck in comparison;
like, look at that little house.
David: Stupid robot should have used cheat mode.
Elijah: I know, force government?
David: Hahahaha.
Elijah: What does that mean?
Lil Seb: Worse than the other ones.
Zoey: Personally for me it's a two, but I know the game is good Linus: You didn't even explore anything!
Zoey: and I could have fun with it if I understood it, so maybe a five.
You know? I'll give it a middle answer;
I'm not too sure how I feel about it.
Elijah: Zero.
David: Zero!?
Elijah: Yeah.
Linus: Get out.
Elijah: It's just not my type of game, though.
Linus: Get out.
Elijah: I could see someone sinking a lot of time into this game
and having a lot of fun, but for me this is like a one or a zero.
Elijah: I would never play this again.
Linus: Did you go with the French version?
David: Oh, most certainly did.
Linus: Nice!
Deepak: I do very much love these graphics.
Deepak: I think modern polygonal gaming would be actually fire.
I just, maybe I'm the only one that thinks that,
but I just think that if-
Linus: No, It's like a whole genre;
and that's totally a thing in remasters.
Linus: Including in this game, actually.
Linus: I tried to get my son to try Rome 2 Final Edition or whatever,
Total War, and he just like-
The tutorial mission was like barely even a tutorial;
it didn't like really tell you what to do and it was long.
And I'm like oh yeah, some things have definitely improved.
Lil Seb: I wish it was English.
Lil Seb: I haven't done any fights yet, so I don't know,
but this part seems... the mine could be fixed;
it's better than the other ones.
David: That's fair, what would you rate this game out of 10?
Lil Seb: Uh, probably 6 out of 10.
David: 6 out of 10? So this is the number one game?
Lil Seb: Yeah.
Elijah: I'll give it like a 3.
David: A 3!?
Elijah: Or a 4... It's not-
Again, it's not my type of game; I don't play these games.
Linus: Yeah-
Sammy: 23 years ago?
David: Yeah.
Sammy: What was I doing in 2002?
David: You weren't even born.
Linus: Crying probably.
Lil Seb: Wow; that's very good for 2002.
Lil Seb: This probably takes up
like half of the storage that the game takes.
David: Hahahahaha.
Sammy: What did I put second?
David: TIE Fighter?
Sammy: TIE Fighter, yes; and then the racing game.
Linus: At least his ranking is decent.
Sammy: The dinosaur, and the CIV.
Sammy: Because I didn't even get to play CIV, because what was I doing?
Linus: That's a fair comment.
CIV is last for him because he didn't understand it.
Linus: No offense, Sammy.
Linus: Hi, Sammy.
He's going to be the one editing this video;
so I'm literally talking right to Sammy being all like...
Yeah, get good.
Elijah: That would be Civilization 2, Warcraft 3;
I'll put the Road Rash in the middle.
The Dino Park one was the second best,
Elijah: and then the best one was the Star Wars game by far.
Linus: The best one is TIE Fighter.
Linus: They didn't even get a chance to really appreciate TIE Fighter.
TIE Fighter gets flipping hard! And the story gets intense.
Like, you do not see the story coming.
You're just a foot soldier in the Empire.
Well, flight soldier in the Empire, but you get my point.
And then like... s*** gets real; it's pretty cool.
Elijah: Because the joystick really helped sell the Star Wars one though,
I think if I had to play with like keyboard and mouse or something,
that would probably be second or third.
Linus: Nah you canât play that with Keyboard and Mouse David: Is there any games you played today that you're like,
I wish we had games like this today?
Nicole: I wouldn't say there was any that like we don't have.
Nicole: I think, I think-
Linus: I don't know if we have a TIE Fighter.
Linus: Like a super arcadey, just for fun, like flight game;
it feels like a lot of the flight games are really like intense.
Like you actually want to you know,
see the damage report on the enemy plane or helicopter,
or whatever to see where the bullet pierced the fuel tank or whatever.
Freelancer was probably the closest thing that I ever found to TIE Fighter
and I enjoyed the crap out of that game;
and Star Citizen is supposed to be kind of like a spiritual successor to that,
but like, it's got some work to do.
David: Do you not play Rogue Squadron?
Linus: Sorry?
David: Did you not play Rogue Squadron?
Linus: No, I actually did never get into Rogue Squadron; I meant to,
but didn't it start out as console exclusive or something?
David: Yeah.
Linus: Yeah, and I-
David: But there's the new one, I don't know what that's called.
Linus: Okay, I'll have to check out the new Rogue Squadron.
Nicole: Is there any today that-
There's like a bunch of Civilization games
and they're much more refined for sure, today.
Nicole: What else did we play?
Nicole: Oh, you know what? I do kind of miss the joysticks;
maybe that can come back.
Linus: Yeah.
David: That's a fair point,
David: it's annoying that joysticks aren't as common anymore. Linus: Let's bring back joysticks.
Nicole: Yeah, yeah.
But I mean, there's a bunch of controllers for things now.
Like, I like rhythm games so I play Guitar Hero;
and to have a whole controller just to play one game,
whatever, at least a joystick you can kind of play with like any,
like, flight simulator and it's still kind of relevant. David: That's fair.
David: Is there things from these games
that you'd like to see in modern games?
Sammy: I wanna see this come back, man.
Sammy: But like, at a like a more-
Actually, maybe just me; maybe you can get it, but I just don't know.
Linus: They're just kind of a niche item.
Linus: There's like garbage tier stuff that honestly
is not even worth manufacturing; and then there's like expensive stuff.
And it feels like the middle of the road,
decently built joystick is kind of a thing of the past.
Microsoft and Logitech used to be heavy into joysticks back in the day.
And there were other like Cytec, Rustmaster, like all these guys.
And now it's like, how many of them are even left?
Sammy: That's not a lot, right? That support like-
David: It's not nearly as common.
Sammy: Yeah, I'm assuming it's just like money wise;
it just doesn't make sense to make a whole game for a whole new controller.
Sammy: Like, what is it? Like Rockband 3? Like those games died?
David: Uugh.
Sammy: Great game, but like it didn't make sense to like-
Linus: Sammy you just upset like a whole generation of gamers.
David: Hahahaha.
Linus: Not because anything you said was untrue,
but just because it still hurts.
David: So if you were to play any of the games you played today at home,
which one do you think you'd most likely want to play?
Zoey: Honestly, probably the Dino one.
Zoey: I really enjoyed that, I thought it was fun. Linus: Yeah, Dino Park.
Zoey: I've been thinking about it this whole time.
I want to see if I can create a whole Dino Park.
I want to make some epic money, I want to get the most customers.
Linus: I was really tempted to throw Anno at them.
Linus: I probably spent hours before I learned
how to trade with the free traders and get enough tools
to even like get my city going;
so there's no way they would have been able to get anything done.
Linus: I'm talking original Anno, 1602.
David: You wanted to do it, I stopped it
Linus: Oh, did you veto it?
David: I vetoed it.
Linus: Oh, okay; I couldn't remember how it didn't end up.
David: Hahahahahahahaha. Linus: But you made the right call,
because they wouldn't have gotten anything done in it.
Linus: Alright.
Linus: That's it, that's all.