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Quick Look: Beyond Good & Evil HD

Jeff, Vinny, and Brad see just how H BGE's D has gotten in this XBLA release.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Mar. 2 2011

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

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Beyond Good & Evil

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Edited By Lake

The game is nothing but...
 
Propaganda!

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So does the steam version have the same graphics as this?

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take it up the main canal!

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I'd like to see how H Vinny's D has gotten, ifyouknowwhatimean.

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Edited By prestonhedges

you guys can stop comparing every action-platformer-with-puzzle-solving to Zelda any time you want, you know
 
i've never played this game before and no, it doesn't remind me of Zelda
 
it reminds me of a PS2 platformer

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Here's hoping some part of this new version makes its way to PC. The current PC port has lousy keyboard support and no gamepad support.

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An amazing game. <3

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Something about that camera zoom and noise is intensely annoying.

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This looks lika a good HD remake and at 10 bucks I think I am actually gonna play this game finally.

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For some reason Enslaved always makes me think of this game

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As someone who played this game several times, it frustrates me that Jeff has forgotten how to play. You don't have to watch the slo-mo every time!

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They should remake some of clover studios games in HD. That would be cool.

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@ryanwho said:
" @crit1cal said:
" I've heard nothing but good things about this game. I guess it's time to play it. "
Clunky stealth missions are about half the game so I guess people have been avoiding telling you about half the game. "
Man, what DO you like? Any time I see you post, it's usually something negative. 
 
With regard to BG&E, it's a great game, but definitely feels its age at this point. Worth playing, but you should know going in that it's going to feel dated.
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Edited By rottendevice

Great Quick Look. 
 
It should be noted, I played BG&E on the PC a couple years ago after getting it on Steam, and the PC version is still great.  You can set the game to be whatever resolution your monitor is, and it scales beautifully. It's basically Beyond Good & Evil HD.
 
Of  course, some prefer the Xbox 360 controller to the mouse and keyboard setup, and the game came out before 360 controller support on PC came standard.  But I had no qualms with PC controls.

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Bought this on Steam Sale for next to nothing a little while back, played 3 hours in then got bored. This quick look has encouraged me to try and finish it though D: 

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Bought this as soon as it became available on the marketplace. It gives me hope that we'll ultimately see a sequel. WATCHOUT PEY'J!! :'(

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@STUVNING: There are copies of the PC game available on Steam and GOG 
Edit: The original not the HD version
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@rottendevice said:  

" Great Quick Look.  It should be noted, I played BG&E on the PC a couple years ago after getting it on Steam, and the PC version is still great.  You can set the game to be whatever resolution your monitor is, and it scales beautifully.

Only unless you have a widescreen monitor, with that that the game gives you pillarboxing and letter boxing at the same time, i.e. black bars all around the screen. It also suffers from some annoying graphical glitches in the menu and lacks gamepad support. All of those make it rather hard to enjoy the game.
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Not sure how i feel about the whole Jeff and girls of an inapropriate age joke that pops up every now and then.
 
It's funny as hell but I always get a slight creepy feeling afterwards.

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Edited By jacksukeru

I played my original PS2 copy of this game for a few hours a while back, though I didn't get this far into the story, mostly because there's a ton of side stuff that you can do for pearls in the beginning, enough to get the second ship upgrade, so I basically just did all of that.
 
It's a nice game, great soundtrack and characters, though the stealth and combat isn't all that fun. I'll be sure to pick it up on PSN, if for no other reason than that I would like to see BG&E 2 get made.

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I don't get why Brad is so anti-stealth. 

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One of the most over-rated games of all time. The story isn't even comic book good, the combat is button mashingly mind-numbing and the photography is just point and shoot.
 
Not worth 10$.

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Edited By Trejik

After the Jak II comment, went to go see Brad's video Reviews of Jak II and 3, and nostalgia hit hard. It was amazing to hear old Brad saying that the games visuals were some of the finest on the platform, and naming one of it's shortcomings "The Game is a little on the short side, with only 12 to 14 hours worth of gameplay, although it has a ton of extras".
 
I miss those days, and those games, SOOOOO MUCH. The closest thing to that good old feeling of Christmas day playing Jak 3 and being amazed by it, has probably been Arkham Asylum...
 
New video games, please make me feel like old ones used to. Thanks.

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@STUVNING said:
" Will this be getting a PC release at some point? "
yes, its called its already on pc via anything. theres absolutely nothing new about this port. just play the steam version or if you have the disk's install it.
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@MooseyMcMan: Brad's comment about Secundo's accent annoyed me as well. Not to be too harsh on him, but that sounded like a troll-ish comment. Secundo is hilarious! 
 
However, a great Quick Look. I look forward to playing through BG&E again. Glad to see that people are interested in the game still. I hope that this will be enough to finally see a BG&E 2 at some point.
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@Grumbel said:
" @rottendevice said:  

" Great Quick Look.  It should be noted, I played BG&E on the PC a couple years ago after getting it on Steam, and the PC version is still great.  You can set the game to be whatever resolution your monitor is, and it scales beautifully.

Only unless you have a widescreen monitor, with that that the game gives you pillarboxing and letter boxing at the same time, i.e. black bars all around the screen. It also suffers from some annoying graphical glitches in the menu and lacks gamepad support. All of those make it rather hard to enjoy the game. "
I can't remember any letterboxing or  graphical glitches in the interface using my (fairly modern) ATi card.  Though my PC is currently being repaired, so I can't double check right now.
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@locolukah said:

" One of the most over-rated games of all time. The story isn't even comic book good, the photography is just point and shoot.  Not worth 10$. "

Yeah because I mean, comic books are ALWAYS bad at telling stories, right? And yeah I mean, it's not like literally every first-person anything in a game is a matter of "point and shoot".
 
Also Brad, Psychonauts would be a PERFECT candidate for this exact treatment.
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@gladspooky: The thing is, though, the game is mad Zelda.  This is not a bad thing, and it's less Zelda than Darksiders, but it's pretty damn Zelda.
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  • never finished the game. I guess I couldn't deal with speaking pigs. It's too much of a kid-game for my taste.
  • I understand, many people praise this game highly.
  • you can get the not HD PC version for cheap (but running on 64-bit Windows on gog.com & other places - btw)
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I want an HD Remake of The Simpsons Hit and Run.
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@angelfan91 said:
" I want an HD Remake of The Simpsons Hit and Run. "
Yes!
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Well, the loading times were way shorter on the Gamecube version, just like every other multiplatform game.

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@animateria said:
" This reminds me to beat the PC version I bought ages ago on a Steam sale. "
Same here. Bought this in a Steam sale but never installed it.
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@MooseyMcMan said:
" I don't get why Brad is so anti-stealth.  "
Me neither, actually i enjoy stealth in games.
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@Trejik: Yeah.  I remember Jak 2 and 3, specifically, Jak 2 since I found it pretty hard at points - that one mission where you had to run away from the Crimson Guard(?) in the water slums w/o touching the water - was a hard one back in the day.   
 
Anyway, I'm actually playing this right now on the PS2, and compared to the last time I played it on the GameCube, the framerate is pretty bad compared to that last one.  It's still pretty enjoyable, however, I'm not getting much of an emotional attachment to any of the characters (not sure if I did back when this came out, either).  
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I'm going to buy this, even though I have the PS2 version, in the hopes Ubi Soft gets off their asses and says something about BG&E2.

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I'm down to play it again. I don't think I ever actually finished it, this would be the perfect time.

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I'm glad to see some GB love for this game. It was definitely ahead of its time, as evidenced by how well it has aged.

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Jeff missed taking a picture of the boss monster he had to fight.  
 
And this game is so good and fun to play. I beat it a few years ago and the story was fun and most of the game was as well. I really hope this sells well as I would love to see the sequel.

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...Candygram.

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Other games from this era: Psychonauts HD?
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Never played this game back in the day, so really tempted to check this out.  
 
HD upgrade looks great. 

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Blue's Clues, huh, Jeff. Blue's Clues.

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God Brad, STFU. Constant Zelda references got plain old after the 1st one. I don't really even see it, its an action adventure game like others that came out at the time. Not just Zelda. 
 
And the WindWaker Boat to Hovercraft was a mighty stretch. 

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Damn, now I want to play this. Waiting for a PSN version!

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Brad: "Ladies don't wear eye patches."  
  

  
 
Brad, you haven't actually seen Twin Peaks, have you? "Best Twin Peaks impression of any game ever" indeed.
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I'm sure they didn't "Upscale" the old console games guys.. I'm sure they downscaled the PC version that is still awesome and better looking than this.

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I wonder why they chose to name a location "Black Isle"