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I have a ton of wonderful core memories of gaming as a kid. Taking turns with

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the one controller our family could afford, saving up and buying a game with

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my very own money and actually owning it. Pulling my very first Allnighter to

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get that one elusive Pokémon. And whenever I compare those memories

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against modern gaming, it's pretty clear to me that video games have changed. But

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can I trust those memories? Were games really better when I was coming up? Or

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Everybody looks back nostalgically at Roller Coaster Tycoon, but the Tycoon

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games have existed since long before then. And my first exposure was Dino

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Park Tycoon. It was the very first game that I bought with my own money from the

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Scholastic book orderer pamphlet. And it was the very first game that I ever had

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to upgrade my computer for. Not a new GPU or anything like that. GPUs didn't

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exist yet. Instead, I needed a 3 and 1/2 in floppy drive instead of a 5 and 1/4

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in floppy drive so that I could read the two game discets that it came

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pre-installed on. Do you have nostalgia for this? I

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do. I know what I signed up for, but I think I'm a little older than you guys

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think. Whoa. What is it? One FPS.

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It's about the gameplay depth, not how many FPS. Sir, I like this little guy.

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Looks like he's not wearing any pants. That's gross. Does he have a tail? Oh,

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is he a dinosaur? Yeah. Oh, okay. The

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bank has approved a business loan of $5,000. Of course, back then you can use

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$5,000 to open a park. That was a lot of money back then. I'm just going to spend

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all my money. I'm broke. Sign me up. Oh, wait. What

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did I buy? You bought land, buddy. These young kids

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going to discover that gaming used to be pretty unforgiving. They are all going

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to go bankrupt. Like, well, in Minecraft, I usually build my

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houses in the plains biomes, so I'm going based on that. So,

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oh, you're buying You spent all your money. You'll probably No, no, I still

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have $1,000. We can We can make this work. Yeah, you're going to buy

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dinosaurs, food, and hire people for $1,000. Good luck, buddy. Okay, what is

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this menu? There is a fences tab on that book. Oh my god, UI has improved a lot

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in the last 20 years. But you know what hasn't is the included documentation in

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games. Dino Park Tycoon came with a manual and honestly I think games could

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use a little more of that these days. Where's the instructions? He's telling

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you what to do right there. Literally. Not that it would help people who can't

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read. Let's go with wood right now. If the dinosaurs break out, that's another

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attraction. No, that's not that.

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I don't have a lot of money, so I've got to go with one of these cheaper ones.

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So, I can get a a colossus or a

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donichious. Let's go to Donis. That's cool. Okay, we're off. Is

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that my dinosaur? Dinosaur. He's so cute. Is that him? Is that Diano? Yeah.

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How do I navigate to you? It's about as far as you can see. That's

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it. No, Diano, come back. Well, maybe

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you shouldn't have built your pen in the corner of the park, smart guy. The

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graphic of this the dinosaur is kind of funky. He just looks like a lizard. How

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old was Lionus when he played this game? Do you know? Dino Park Tycoon is what?

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1990. Hold on, don't tell me. I'm going to say 1994.

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Three. 1993. Okay. Yeah. So, I was uh I

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was seven. You know what? 9-year-old me.

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Yeah. This would be lit. This is definitely stressing me out. I don't

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like when I'm in charge of keeping things alive cuz then I feel bad. You

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don't have to feel bad if the things stay alive.

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I always kill them. Oh. Oh.

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Okay. Wow. I bring him into my family and this is how he treats me. Huh? No.

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They escaped. This game sucks. Lionus.

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Hey, look, Elijah. Think on the positive side. At least the game is preparing you

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for your life. This game is so detailed. What was I doing as a six-year-old to

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play this? Oh my god. Were you ever able to get a successful park when you were

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young? Yes. Yes, I did. I ended up making so much money that the counter

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reset to zero dollars because I just the counter wouldn't go up higher. That's

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insane. What was I doing? You're doing good. Most people have lost by now.

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Lost? How do you lose? I'm broke. Wait,

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I'm broke. Wait, how do I make money?

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Can I sell my land? Well, you needed to buy dinosaurs to make money. So, you

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might have lost already. I don't know if I'm going to be able to pass the

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business down to my children, seeing the way they manage a business. Well, I

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can't hire an employee because I have no money. And I can't buy a dinosaur

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because I have no money because I spent it all on food for the one that escaped.

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I lost already. Yep. What the What is

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this game, man? If only you knew how to read. Wait, what? Wait, what do you

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mean? Wait, I can't I can't Oh, I actually lost. Lost.

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Okay. What would you uh rank this out of 10 in today's day and

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age? Like a two or three.

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The fact that you are not good at a game does not make it a two out of 10 game.

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This You know what? I'll let the I'll let the rest go. I could totally see how

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for the time and for Lionus because you know he's Lionus. This would be like a

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banger. I think that if I put a bit more time into this, I could probably do

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pretty well. Yeah, I think these games are really fun, actually. I think they're really good. I just need a

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little bit of time to figure this out again. Okay, I like him. Seven out of

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10. I don't know. I really liked it. I like games like that. I feel like if I

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started again now that I've actually clicked all the buttons, I would have a

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better understanding of what I need to do to do a bit better. But, uh, so far

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it was very discouraging, I will say. Well, I'm sorry your generation can't

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handle a little discouragement. I liked it though. That was cute. Actually,

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we're great. I love your generation. You're great. I honestly I wouldn't mind

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playing this game a little bit more. Like it's it's cute. It's fun. Yeah. No, I actually kind of want to download it

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and play it. It's Yeah. Like if they had a Switch port, I would play this in bed,

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you know? Like it's it's cute. Game sucks. Play this for fun. You suck. Do

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you see why your dad would have like this game back in the day? No.

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Just cuz you lost immediately. Get

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whatever. adjusted for inflation and

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factoring in total ownership cost, Tie Fighter is probably the most expensive

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game that I ever played. I needed a full system overhaul in order to run it and a

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new expensive peripheral in order to have a good experience, but boy was it

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ever worth it. This this one holds a very special place in my heart, and I

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probably have more hours in TIE Fighter than all the other ones here combined. I

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have a treat for you. Oh, okay. Lionus's childhood joystick. What? top gun. And

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that is the joystick I used to play it

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on. That's not actually my one from when I was a kid. I lost it when I moved, but

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I treated myself to a new one as an adult. And it was worth it. I also have

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a cheat sheet for you cuz you're going to need it. Oh, these are profiles.

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Yeah. Oh,

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how Oh, I probably just

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type. I was like half waiting for a keyboard to pop up or something and then

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like recontrol it. Oh, that hurt me a little bit. Okay,

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I feel really embarrassed now. Not as much as I'm going to hurt you if you say

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anything bad about this game, Elijah.

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Why are you going so fast? Oh, I was supposed to move it slowly. We'll hover

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over stuff.

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Oh, I thought it was booting. So, you were telling me to like move the mouse.

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Enjoy this menu. I did it. Oh, you figured it out too fast. Dang it. Yeah,

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I'm I'm what you call an intelligent being.

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Oh, dude. This is actually pretty smooth once you're in game. Interesting. Okay.

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I've never used one of these controllers anywhere but an arcade. I've never used

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one of these controllers.

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What do you think of these graphics? Um, I'm quite surprised. I'm I'm I'm loving

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it. What graphics? Okay. Like now that we're in space, the graphics are like

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like they're not great, you know, but like for being from, you know, whenever

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this game is from, they're like fine. You know what I mean? I I I personally

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don't care about graphics so much. If the game is fun and actually

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understandable, which this game is not understandable, but I'm what you call an

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intelligent being. Oh sh No, I got read.

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Oh, that was a sick shot. Elijah's Elijah's in the zone. I knew I could

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count on you, Elijah. Dude, I'm starting to like Star Wars now. This is the most

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I've liked Star Wars in the last decade. This takes an insane level of

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concentration. I need some lessons from Han Solo. There we go. Back full

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throttle. Space bar to match speeds with your target. Don't hit this. Don't hit

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it. Slow down. I don't know how to slow down. Oh, I freaking crashed. Is this

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what you thought flying a spaceship in Star Wars was like? Uh, no. I never knew

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you could crash. I can't hear you cuz I'm [ __ ] locked in.

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What? The song's bopping. The game is busting, you know? Right. Like, this

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gets five big booms if I'm being honest.

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Boom. Do not do not include that. Do

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Honestly, after playing it for a little bit, like I could definitely I could see how you could get lost in this game for

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like a bit. And yeah, this this game play is nothing like I've ever played

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before. This um controller is very

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unique. I don't I'm not into this. I'm not into this. What would you rate it

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out of 10? Uh freaking two. Relationship

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ended. I thought she was cool. I think on like it's a good game and I know

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people that would really like it. It's not my style. I think the controller is

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fun and it's fun to play for like a few minutes, but as soon as I realize how

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bad I am at it, I just want to quit. At least she got the diagnosis for why she

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didn't like it, right? This is like a seven. Nice. I'd unironically like boot

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this up and do something with it. Hit space bar to activate the tractor beam.

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Elijah completed the mission. Let's go.

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I had a 41% accuracy. I feel like that's

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pretty good actually for being out in open space. Before we get to the next

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game, if you want extra reactions and cut content, we're going to have much

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more of this nostalgia trip over at LMG.gg/flatplane. This video is already

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so long though that we had to cut some pretty good stuff. Road Rash was the

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kind of game where if my parents had any idea what I was doing on the computer, there's no way they would have let me

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play it. I mean, on the one hand, yeah, sure, it's not like super sexual like a

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Leisure Suit Larry or something like that, but on the other hand, my aunt in

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particular, who was the one who financed the computer upgrade that allowed me to

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play it, um, this was one of the other games I was playing on that same TIE

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Fighter machine. And by the way, I did play this game with a

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joystick, was not into violence. Road

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Rash is nothing but violence. Yeah. What do you think of this aesthetic? It

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bangs. How old would Lionus have been when this came out? Uh, like 911. Yeah,

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that's cool. If I were a 10-year-old boy, I'd be so into this. Dude, if I was

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four years old, this is the coolest thing in the world right now. Oh, yeah.

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Are these people all determined for me to not like them? Whoa. Elijah just said

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Road Rash would be cool if he was four. This ain't no Paw Patrol. Okay. Yeah.

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No, you're right. Vibes for days with this this like cut scene in the

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soundtrack. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, women. Yes. We all love babes. You know

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what I'm saying? and chains and explosions. They really

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threw everything in here. Dude, this is a boys game. Motorcycles, women, and

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explosions. For the boys. For the boys. Why are we street racing? Isn't that

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illegal? I can't tell if I raised them real right

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or real wrong. Space bars. Oh, I got to punch them. Yeah, you do. Oh, heck yeah.

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Oh, I'm behind. This reminds me of uh Cruising USA. I used to play that a lot

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on my N64. Cruising USA wishes it was Road Rash. Yeah, I've only like played

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games like this at the arcade. Never on my own time. I'm surprised again. I I

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love it. It's um I don't know. It's quite beautiful. And the soundtrack

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helps a lot. It kind of captures I guess the whole '9s in my view. Dude, this

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game has a banger banger soundtrack.

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What do you think of these graphics? Also equally not good. You don't think

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there's a charm to how janky they are? No. If the frame rate was higher, maybe.

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You know, one thing that's really surprising me is how s like smooth some

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of like the graphics and animations feel, but how clunky your movement

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feels. Like I feel like it's like, you know, 1 FPS to do like the switching

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lanes and leaning, but the background is like very smooth right now. It's kind of

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strange. The graphics of this game is

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popping. What do you think of that popping in the background? Like the

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background being kind of formed as you drive. Um, honestly, I don't mind it.

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Like, it's noticeable, but only when I'm like looking for it, you know, when I'm like immersed and trying not to like

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bump into anybody. Not a problem. Hey, buddy. I got something for you. Hey,

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come back. Yo.

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Damn. Oh, car. Car. Oh, no. I was doing so

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good. My leg. Got to run back to your bike.

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Where'd my I was so not ready to have to do

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that, dude. This block of shame, dude. Man, kids today have no idea. Like when

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Leyu or whatever he's called like comes and rescues you in Mario Kart 8, he's

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like 2 seconds, dude. No, man. I have to

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run all the way back to my bike. Well, maybe you shouldn't crash so bad. That's

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actually cool. I like that. Yeah. See, she always throws me in one direction,

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then she's like, "Never mind. I'm cool." Except about Tie Fighter. We're not good

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after that. Yeah, I think they did a really good job with their sense of

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speed and the depth, you know, like the way that the uh the roads just kind of

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bend and you're just kind of like moving with it, too. I am not getting a sense

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of speed. Definitely not just chilling. But I I am getting a sense of cool. Like

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look at this. All my buddies dapping me up, patting my back. I have a chalice.

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Dave kissing your helmet. Whoa.

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Oh boy. This was pretty cringe. I'm actually so proud of me. Winner of all

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the games that I played today, this one has made me feel the best about myself.

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Okay, that's like by far. So, you're number one. If only I was this cool. Oh,

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I won. I thought you were in second. I definitely was not in first place. Yeah,

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if you're not first, you're last. Yeah, player one finish in second place. That's not a winner game. Well, it's

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winnerish. You're a winner for thinking this game is cool enough and playing it.

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How would you rate this game out of 10? Nine out of 10 simply. Let's go. Um, I

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got to download this on my own PC. I got to play it. I give that a 10 out of 10.

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That was awesome. I loved it. I like I like this little cut scene they have. I

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like the one at the beginning. The music's cool. I think the look of the

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game is really, really good. And I like that you can see like the little

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motorcycle thing at the bottom. It's very immersive. Oh, it's worse than the

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Star Wars one. I'd give it like a five. I'd give that game a five out of 10. Do

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you do you start to feel sorry for people that lived through the '90s?

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Yeah, they deserved better. Ah, Civilization

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2: Test of Time. More like test of my childhood budget. This was the first

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game that I ever had to spend my own money to upgrade my GPU for. I brought

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it home, I installed it, and it was all like, you do not have DirectX 6 or

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whatever compatible hardware. So, knowing absolutely nothing about

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computers, I went to Bargain Bites in Mission BC and I said, "Hey, I need

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DirectX whatever and I need at least I think it was like 16 megabytes of VRAM

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and I got a GeForce something MX and that was so that I could have 3D

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rendered emissaries, which quite frankly I didn't feel added that much to the

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game. Should have just gotten the original Civ 2." What the What do I do?

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Same thing you always do, Sammy. Get good. First task is to find a suitable

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site and found your capital city. The best city sites are near rivers,

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grasslands, coastal areas, and areas near special resources. Oh, this is just

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Minecraft. I'm not going to lie, I love these graphics. See, my friends were

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into these kinds of games. I never really got into it so so much, but uh

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wo, this is crazy. I used to play a game like back in the day called Rise of

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Nations. Oh, yeah. And there used to be like a mode that you could start. It was

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like nomad mode where it wasn't the default way to start the game but that's

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ex I guess that's just how you start every civ game like where you walk

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around first and find a good place to start. I love that he's like yeah I

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played this game called like Rise of N like like we've never heard of Rise of

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Nations. Come on everyone knows Rise of Nations

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right prerequisites none already

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own tree. Dude Lionus this sucks. I'm

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sorry. I usually like to go for the the military win because I'm I have like no

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attention span, so I want to win fast as possible and with like more action.

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Discovered a friendly tribe of skilled mercenaries. Let's go. We are going.

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You've just built your first military unit. I don't even have a a place

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established yet. This UI looks more

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busy. Wow. Okay, this is a lot of information to take in. I'm not going to

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lie. I feel kind of lost right now. It hasn't shown me anything about taxes,

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luxury science, or production or food. Production of what? What am I producing?

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Yeah. Are you feeling overwhelmed? Oh, I am. And I do not have my tutorial to

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help me. This game might be worse than the dinosaur game, guys. Like, the UI is

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so bad. It's crazy cuz you don't think about like how good the UI's gotten. I

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don't even think the UI is that bad. They're all harping on the UI. I mean,

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everything you need is right there. You just have to read. Oh, cheat. Leave a

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like if you think I should cheat. Hell yeah, of course. In the top bar, enable

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enable the cheats. What does it do? Uh, it'll unlock the ability to use cheats.

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I'm good. Okay, I'm using my pure intelligence. Okay. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I

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know what an adjective is. He's doomed. Kill civilization. Holy. They just made

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me god. Uh, we're gonna get rid of all the

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Vikings. Oh, no. You can't. No, you

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can't place him to cheat. Yeah, the

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French. It was so easy. It was just one

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button. So, just Oh, reveal map. Should

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I just go for it? Yeah. Yeah, go for it. Okay. Entire map. Let's go. Yo, sheesh.

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Look at all these buffalo I can kill. Yeah. How the hell was I going to find

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these guys? Dude, their cities suck comparison. Like look at that little

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house. Stupid robot should have used cheat mode. I know. Force

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government. What does that mean?

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Oh god. Depending on which one I pick, the comments are going to be really mad.

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What would uh what would you rate this game out of 10? Two. Do you think this

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is the worst game you've played today? Worse than the other ones. You know what's funny is I think it's less about

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how good this game is and more about just how lost these guys are in the UI

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and not having an instruction manual and also having so many other forms of

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entertainment that are so much more instantly gratifying. Like you couldn't

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enjoy Civ until you had invested probably a solid 5 to 6 hours in it

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realistically, right? While I find modern game frustrating in that you have

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to fight with obtuse controls or play through six separate tutorials before

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you can enter an online match, in a lot of ways it's not really any different.

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Personally for me, it's a two. You

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didn't even explore anything. But I know the game is good and I could have fun

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with it if I understood it. So maybe a five. You know, I'll give it a middle

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answer. I'm not too sure how I feel about it. I don't mind older games in

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the sense that like, you know, I do like the challenge of like just kind of

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mcking about and figuring it out. You know, if if I were just sitting at home

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playing this on my own or if this had just come out, I don't think that I

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would have minded like taking some time and just being bad at the game for like

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an hour or two or three until I, you

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know, I I had it working enough, you know, zero. Get out. Zero. Yeah. It's

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just not my type of game, though. I could see someone sinking a lot of time

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into this game, but for me, this is like a one or a zero. I would never play this

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again. Now, I wasn't sure which Warcraft to go with for this. Foundationally, for

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me as a gamer, Warcraft 2 probably would have been the answer. I spent so many

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hours in Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal playing through the

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single player campaigns. I also literally had to learn how to do virtual

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private networking so that I could play multiplayer with my friend. But the one

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that I played the absolute crap out of and the one that I think is a more important piece of gaming history given

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that it gave rise to, you know, I don't know, Dota, not to mention popularized

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tower defense for an entire generation of gamers, has got to be Warcraft 3.

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It's also the one that I played exclusively in French for the first

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couple of months that I had it because I happens to be at a homeay where the

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family was French. Not bad. Looking pretty good. That's pretty nice. This

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was 2002. 2002, baby. Dude, this is

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crazy. This right here is why people thought the Warcraft movie was going to

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be good. Wow, that's very good for 2002.

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This probably takes up like half of the storage that the game takes. It's almost

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like a movie trailer from my 2025 eyes. I'm quite impressed with how it looks

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right now. It honestly looks really good. Like his wing is

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shaking. You can see the feathers on it. Wow. I'm not going to lie. I think this

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is pretty nice. Looks like Blizzard had a pretty nice budget even before the

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acquisition. This pretty good. Wait, they're cooking. Dude, Blizzard

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should just stop making games and just make movies at this point. Yeah, the

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Warcraft movie was really good. Well, okay. Yeah, we'll ignore the Warcraft

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movie. But, can you believe they made it live action? What were they thinking?

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I remember being online uh cuz I you know I didn't get a gaming computer that

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could play real games until much later. But I just remember being on like forums

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of people joking about how you know you had like graphics like this and they're

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so beautiful and like so nice and then you get into like the actual game and it's like like a like a PowerPoint

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slideshow kind of thing. And I think this is like a great kind of like

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example of that, you know, like wait

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what? This is sick. You can see his

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hair. It looks soft. It looks so good. There's a lot of games that come out now

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that you wish looked this good. At least the cut scenes. I mean, it's obviously

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like you can tell it's from like back then, but like this is like good from

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back then. I don't know what to say cuz I'm just I'm actually blown away. No,

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sorry. I do remember this. I don't know why, but it like threw me back. I have

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played something. It might have been this one. Like unlocked a memory kind of

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feeling. Yeah, it did. Like the moment I saw the icons, I was like, "Wo, I know

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this." Like I know how this looks.

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Even the dialogues in French. I wasn't ready. I don't know what I expected.

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What are you saying? Oh, come on. It wasn't a nightmare, young leader. It was

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a vision. Follow me. I will reveal what the future holds. I don't know what any

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of this means, but I'm ready to go all the way. Heyo. Yeah, these graphics are

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way better than the other ones. This game still looks good. I do very much

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love these graphics. I think modern uh

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polygonal gaming would be actually fire. I just uh maybe I'm the only one that

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thinks that, but I just think that if games were able to toggle, that would be

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kind of cool. That's totally a thing in remasters, including in this game,

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actually. Position attack can be like, uh, this is

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your town. You Oh, okay. Sorry, animals.

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I'm not going to lie to you. Part of the reason why I went and attacked that is I'm just so used to like, I don't know,

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games where it's like, oh, you attack this thing, you kill it, you get some meat. You know what I mean?

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But I guess that's not really the move here, right? Like you're not going to

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get random items from just innocent animals sitting around.

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Dude, the computer definitely got louder. It is struggling to render this.

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Are we going to really attack a sleeping person?

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Absolutely. Sorry, buddy. It's either you or us. It's Track. He's got two

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heads. That's crazy. That's crazy. He's

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already dead. I don't need any more guys. I'm as tough as I can be. I feel

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like this is probably one of the easier ones that I've played today. This is

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very difficult when I don't know what everything says. The coolest thing about

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when I picked up this game was that it gave me an experience that I otherwise

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never would have been able to have and made it a little bit easier for me to

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relate to all the people who, you know, literally will pick up a language like

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English or Japanese because a gaming experience or a community that they want

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to participate in is unaccessible or not

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big enough in their native tongue. And I think that's one of the reasons that I

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was so drawn to including it, even though obviously it's going to be a bit

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of a struggle for these guys. Oh, I could totally see why kids would be like

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mad into World of Warcraft if I didn't have other things to do and I just

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wanted to waste time with my friends. World of Warcraft. This is not World of

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Warcraft. You included that on purpose. I'd give it a 6 out of 10. A 7 out of

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10. Yeah, probably a seven. It's fun. I like it. I like the look of it

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especially. And the controls are fun. I like the setup at the bottom. I like the

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map. It seems very easy to understand,

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but there's just not a whole lot to do. So, um I'm kind of bored. Okay, they

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you've only done a tutorial mission so far. So, but I got to say the pacing of

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the tutorial compared to modern tutorials. It's pretty slow. I could see

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people getting disengaged with it. I wish it was English. I haven't done any

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fights yet, so I don't know. But it's better than the other ones. That's fair.

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What would you rate this game out of 10? Uh, probably six out of 10. Six out of

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10. So, this is the number one game. Yeah, I'll give it like a three. A three

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or a four. It's not again, it's not my type of game. I don't play these games.

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Yeah, it's a little cerebral for you. Having watched all that, my rosecolored

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glasses are a little cracked for some of

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the games, but for others, honestly, are pretty much unshattered. And I think

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there's two major things that kind of hold younger people back from enjoying

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these games. Number one is how good they have it today in terms of the quality

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and the creature comforts available in modern games. It's true that a game like

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Road Rash really doesn't have a ton of depth and replay-ability compared to a

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lot of what you can get today. As for the ones that did have the depth,

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whether it's Dino Park Tycoon or Civ or Tie Fighter, it's clear to me that

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there's nothing to really draw them in and force them to invest the hours into

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it to reach that point of enjoyment. And when I say force them, obviously nobody,

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you know, had their hands on our head making us look at our computer screens

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when I was a kid, but we didn't have as many games. They were so expensive per

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title and there just weren't as many of them. So what we did have, dang it, we

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tried to ring whatever fun was in them out of them. And so for that reason,

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because I had the experience playing them, I would have no trouble going back

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and enjoying some of them, if not all.

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Let's do it. So, there's nothing to like That's it.