Random PC Game: Ripper

@swiftoid: Got some serious dejavu during the nextlander stream. I can't believe this was almost 10 years ago.

@unreal999: I knew the guys had played this before at some point!

Watching this again over at nextlander. This crew was more fun!

"un-fucking believable"

Truth

FM-Vinny streams never get old.

Artie Buco!

It's the guy from the 10th kingdom.

Few games I really, TRULY wish they'd gone back to like this one. It's this and that weird Toon Town one with Christopher Lloyd.

DIS GUY IS UN-FUCKIN-BELIEVABLE

Thanks, Virtual Herald!

I absolutely can't watch this video at work anymore.

Artie

What really freaked me out is in the Library puzzle part is says Rigas@NYPL.774

. . . Does mean this game is really my future.

BOOOOOKS!!!

YA BLOODY RIPPAH

Jeff's skeleton laugh never fails to crack me up.

Oh man dave's christopher walken made me cry. This membership is allready more than worth it!

Instant classic, solid gold.

Virtual Herald kills me every time.

This is atleast the 25th time ive watched the first 30 minutes of this. It's gold!

one of the best random PC games they did, would be awesome if they went back to this.

I loved the video like everyone else did, but the game was TOO SLOW and plodding. It took several seconds for a walk animation to play out everytime they clicked. I could hear it in their voice and started feeling it myself near the end of the video. I very much do not expect them to come back to this game

My jimblies are jumbled by the fact that they never came back to this game.

Finally got to see some more of this besides that brilliant bar scene...and hot daymn, that was good! I'm kinda glad that the only FMV game I ever played was Toonstruck. That wasnt' half-bad.

They need to come back and finish this game

"It looks like a homeless, older Patrick." 
 
BOOM! BAM!

Man, this game would be amazing if only if moved quicker

I'd fuck the chocolate diva.

@AMReese said:

@Lucien_Lachance said:

Remember when people yelled at Spoony when he was going to LP Deadly Premonition? I think we can call it even, now.

Spoony is nothing compared to Giant Bomb, so there's no real comparison.

Yeah, I'll have to disagree with you there. When it comes to ripping (lol pun) on games, Spoony is superior. He's funnier and has more first hand experience with the games he talks about. Not to mention that he's a one-man outfit. His videos are very impressive considering he does all of the writing, production, and editing. Obviously GiantBomb has much, much more content, so they can't put as much time into each video. But that doesn't take away from the fact that Spoony has some of the best quality gaming videos on the internet.

@Romination said:

@Undeadpool: ...you got some kinda problem with Boom Blox?

I think someone wrote a good article recently on why screenwriters being attached to games isn't necessarily a good thing. But I think I found it in last week's "worth reading" so you can probably just go look for that.

Not especially, but it was definitely a gross example of "OH PLEASE, MR MOVIEMAN! We've only been doing it for thirty years! SHOW US HOW IT'S DONE RIGHT!"

And we got a game that...if you removed Spielberg's name from that game, would you ever GUESS he had any part of it?

@Undeadpool: ...you got some kinda problem with Boom Blox?

I think someone wrote a good article recently on why screenwriters being attached to games isn't necessarily a good thing. But I think I found it in last week's "worth reading" so you can probably just go look for that.

@Romination said:

Definitely agree with Jeff here, I never found this to be acceptable. It's just a great example of poor implementation of new technology (Multimedia!) because everyone was so into the idea of new stuff they just wanted to force you to accept it.

It was more than that. I remember a time in my life when I, like all the bullshit hype artists wanted and a TON of the industry expected, that these kinds of games were ABSOLUTELY the future. They're live-action! JUST LIKE MOVIES!! It's only now that I realize that videogames chasing movies is like the Model-T chasing boat technology: they're somewhat similar things with radically different goals. But videogames STILL feel a massive inferiority complex to movies (any time some bigshot movie director signs on, it's like "OH PLEASE MR MOVIE MAN! Show us lowly game players how it's done!" And the games generally turn out underwhelming or even AWFUL. (See: Boom Blox, Avatar: The Videogame)

05:07 - Man Jeff should do the voice for the Rabbids in their next game

I love how sad Jeff sounded when he said "bye" at the end.

This video was the first of GB's in a long time to make me laugh out loud. Repeatedly. Please bring this sublime quartet of comedy back.

God, I lost my shit when Jeff started narrating the skull cursor.

Definitely agree with Jeff here, I never found this to be acceptable. It's just a great example of poor implementation of new technology (Multimedia!) because everyone was so into the idea of new stuff they just wanted to force you to accept it.

OH MAN. the choice of people on this is amazing. Absolutely hilarious. I would ask this team show up on these more often. If anything, Jeff is a must, along side Vinny and Dave. Ryan is the best fourth on possible, nobody can beat him out.

Boom mic at 17:00 something. Love watching this stuff; especially when they're full motion video and terri-bad.

@PXAbstraction said:

This has probably been pointed out elsewhere in the thread but did anyone notice one of the headlines in the Virtual Herald was a stab at how delayed BattleCruiser 3000 was? Take-Two was one of Derek Smart's first publishers. :)

Should also be noted that BC3000AD was considered vaporware at the time - it was announced in 1989 and didn't get released until 1996 (2 years after Ripper), and was in such unfinished state at release that it took another year until a working version was released (for free, as an apology to those who bought the broken game).

Alright, I am five minutes in to this and I´m already loving it. Jeff is fucking killing it.

I made it all the way through this video and now I want to die.

The internet is a creepy place in the future.

This is amazing. I want more Jeff and Ryan in future Random PC Game!

@tophernav: I'm going to have to disagree with you there.

Spoony does nothing but nit-pick and scream about every single thing in the games he is playing. If he's not complaining about a game feature, he's complaining about a small bit of design that is inconsequential to the game. I also hate the fact that he seeks every manner possible to profit off of his fans, including taking videos that they created off YouTube and putting them on his account on blip.tv and putting a stupid little intro video on there as if that makes up for the fact that he's using them to get money.

Let's also not forget the blowup he had after the Mashables a few years back. Yeah, there's no going back from that.

I have not laughed that hard a LONG time. Loved having all four of them (though if the games aren't overtly funny, I think Dave/Vinny is still gonna work best).

This game is a fucking TRAINWRECK. It was made in an era where padding="longer" gameplay, and that was the rule, not the exception. I mean those puzzles aren't "difficult," they require leaps that Evel Knievel wouldn't dare to attempt.

"He's like an older, homeless Patrick."

Dammit. That was hilarious.

A bunch of the team being here for this was fantastic. Even better than simply the normal duo. :)

After looking through the entire list of comments, no one as talked about so it's now MY JOB!

After watching the first few mins. (mainly after the mention of the SNL skit), I had a "phenix down" moment about the weird connection to the that skit. So I looked it up & found out that Ripper pre-dates the SNL skit by about 4 years, Will Ferrell is the one who wrote it, & so that pretty much means that it's just a happy coincides.

Now time to watch the rest...

@selbie said:

Vinny: "He looks like a homeless older Patrick". Quote of the goddamn week.

Man that cracked me up.