The Olympic Games Olympiad - Part II

Boy am I glad I watched it to the very, very end.

Calibration for an analog stick? Holy Christ, that's weird.

Thus, and the naming of the Olympic videos posted today, are confusing. Explain!

Damn, the PS1 version of Nagano is garbage. The stream was robbed of "SECOND ATTEMPT GO TO THE START"

@HoboZero: God, same here man. I'm not even into curling, but I watched enough in Vancouver to basically know how it's played, so yeah that section had me silently screaming at Ryan the whole time.

i played the shit out of nagano when it was released on the n64.

Looking forward to the next one!

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@Sweetz said:

Man Nagano looks unapproachably difficult, especially for something released in '98. Who did they think that were making that game for? What super hardcore gamer is buying Olympics games? I'd think you'd want to make these games as approachable as possible.

In any case, this feature is great. It's very cool to see the evolution of gaming through such a specific lens. Brilliant idea on Ryan's part. Can't wait till next week when the start getting into the PS2 era games.

I played the shit out of Nagano on my N64 when it came out. I was 10.

Bored Vinny is best Vinny.

@Xymox said:

My completionist OCD is now ON thanks to you skipping alpine skiing. Why skip 1 event that take's like 30 seconds long, 2 hours into the show, and having done all the other events so far? I mean, it's not like you're gonna make another one of these, so why not suck it up?

lel ur funny

Loved it!

GREAT SHOW! I'm looking forward to the second half.

Why isn't Brad playing as well, it would be much more fun to watch? Seeing all those COM1 COM2 COM3 slots is killing me. I don't know that purely looking at how the games have changed is all that interesting.

My completionist OCD is now ON thanks to you skipping alpine skiing. Why skip 1 event that take's like 30 seconds long, 2 hours into the show, and having done all the other events so far? I mean, it's not like you're gonna make another one of these, so why not suck it up?

@Sweetz said:

Man Nagano looks unapproachably difficult, especially for something released in '98. Who did they think that were making that game for? What super hardcore gamer is buying Olympics games? I'd think you'd want to make these games as approachable as possible.

In any case, this feature is great. It's very cool to see the evolution of gaming through such a specific lens. Brilliant idea on Ryan's part. Can't wait till next week when the start getting into the PS2 era games.

@KarlPilkington said:

@gladspooky said:

So, he skipped all the ones that matter? That seems kinda dumb.

What do you mean?

I don't know, skipping the NES games just seems kinda dumb.

Man Nagano looks unapproachably difficult, especially for something released in '98. Who did they think that were making that game for? What super hardcore gamer is buying Olympics games? I'd think you'd want to make these games as approachable as possible.

In any case, this feature is great. It's very cool to see the evolution of gaming through such a specific lens. Brilliant idea on Ryan's part. Can't wait till next week when the start getting into the PS2 era games.

@JokerSmilez said:

@HoboZero said:

As a Canadian, every time Ryan discusses curling and gets the mechanics completely wrong I die a little inside...

Same here. Sweep to the right to change the direction? Man...

Agreed, but at least he's taking an interest.

Great fun! I'm not a sports game fan by any means but seeing a chronolgy of these licensed games is fascinating. And of course another round of exceptional effects use, especially using the mascots for their full creepy effect. I'm excited for the next installment.

Amazed at how little they know about the winter sports, also ryans performance in curling was poor, its not a button hammer game, sweep left to curl left more, sweep right for more right curl, to smash out opponent, not button mash, more power, no sweep straight throw!

Also yes nagano on the 64 was amazing, had alot of fun with that

@HoboZero said:

As a Canadian, every time Ryan discusses curling and gets the mechanics completely wrong I die a little inside...

Same here. Sweep to the right to change the direction? Man...

Can't wait to see the continuation!

As a Canadian, every time Ryan discusses curling and gets the mechanics completely wrong I die a little inside...

I was confused with everyone saying it was four hours and then this video only being 44 minutes, but I guess it all works out.

@gladspooky said:

So, he skipped all the ones that matter? That seems kinda dumb.

What do you mean?

A Scrub League Olympics Season would be totally awesome... they'd never do that

These Olympic games would be great for a new Scrub League Tournament.

Those owls are clearly poorly drawn Batmen.

So, he skipped all the ones that matter? That seems kinda dumb.

Giant Bomb gets the gold medal for video games journalism.

@damnable_fiend said:

@vistea said:

No Nagano 64? It was a completely different game almost, way better.

someone remind ryan to get this in a year and a half, I guess. looking at that ps1 version after having played nagano 64 is painful.

I hope that if they do this again after the next olympics in 2014 they go with the alternate ports of all these games. I'm sure there were weird handheld versions too! Gameboy Color/GBA? DS? PSP?

SICKLYMPICS PART THE SECOND!

Brad's lack of knowledge about winter Olympic sports is disheartening, Winter Olympics are so much better in my opinion.

Winter>Summer

@vistea said:

No Nagano 64? It was a completely different game almost, way better.

someone remind ryan to get this in a year and a half, I guess. looking at that ps1 version after having played nagano 64 is painful.

No Nagano 64? It was a completely different game almost, way better.

The best Olympic mascot in history is Fatso the Fatarse Wombat aka "The Battlers Prince"

Beijing has the best mascots hands down. They're real things and actually look good! Goddamn fire panda!

Nagano is the only olympics game I've ever played.

though I had it for n64. the n64 version is about 100x the game the ps1 version is. it was actually a really good game.

Apperently Dave is Brad's penis head..

It would be really great if they would actually do a competition where each of the athletes would compete on various events spread throughout the various olympic video games and see who is really the greatest virtual olympic athlete.

Those owls are ridiculous.

Part 2? This must certainly be a mistake.

The audio is loud on this as opposed to quiet, I think the Twitch player is fucked.

Something something part 2

Part 1; the sequel prequel to part 2

PARTS PARTS PARTS!

HURRAY HURRAY

Where's part 1?