Deadly Dozen Reloaded - A remake of a game no one played

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  • If a Deadly Dozen remake falls in the forest but no one is around to hear it, what does it sound like?
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Komentáře • 446

  • @minimme
    @minimme  Před 2 lety +197

    hello thank you for watching, I think technically this game is the most obscure one I've covered yet so good on ya for checking it out. Apologies for the video being a bit dark - unfortunately I'm away from home and couldn't fix it by the time I noticed. Also here's my old, ancient, you've been warned, reviews of the originals:
    Deadly Dozen: czcams.com/video/hepXPfG7rTc/video.html
    Deadly Dozen Pacific Theatre: czcams.com/video/uwJLXnhNnK0/video.html

    • @PNNYWZEPRODUCTIONS
      @PNNYWZEPRODUCTIONS Před 2 lety +2

      Hey dude, just wanna say that I'm pleased that ur becoming more successful. I've been a subscriber for a long while, I just really enjoy your reviews. Keep at it and you'll get to the top, I Kno it

    • @jakedill1304
      @jakedill1304 Před 2 lety

      Can you teach your secret magical video editing shenanigans to other game content creators? I still don't understand why people seem to stretch 4x3 to 16 by 9 but it is now occurred to me that it may be black magic even though it was common practice back when I got into video production.. you're the first person who's brought it up, so if you could spread your your knowledge throughout the internet I feel like it would be a better place in the right aspect ratio.. like seriously what is going on in this world?

    • @creativeusername7951
      @creativeusername7951 Před 2 lety

      Hey Minimme, you should really review Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb for PC!

  • @contrabandresearch8409
    @contrabandresearch8409 Před 2 lety +650

    It's good that there are companies remastering and releasing extremely obscure old games, but those remakes/releases need to be quality.

    • @rafaliciousbmx
      @rafaliciousbmx Před 2 lety +2

      Nothing beats the original!

    • @rodsgaming
      @rodsgaming Před 2 lety +8

      Yeah this same company remastered the 2 bloodrayne games and they are still very buggy but I somehow deal with it

    • @icravedeath.1200
      @icravedeath.1200 Před 2 lety +8

      Night dive studios in a nutshell.

    • @contrabandresearch8409
      @contrabandresearch8409 Před 2 lety +5

      @@icravedeath.1200 I like Night dive studios a lot. Hope they remaster games that are even more obscure.

    • @TheWolfSharp
      @TheWolfSharp Před 2 lety

      @@contrabandresearch8409 Where's your profie pic from?

  • @aprofondir
    @aprofondir Před 2 lety +278

    Some CLASSIC minimme lore content

    • @minimme
      @minimme  Před 2 lety +116

      only one step away from doing another 5 graphically impressive vid now

    • @aprofondir
      @aprofondir Před 2 lety +15

      @@minimme how about first level fridays

    • @startedtech
      @startedtech Před 2 lety +12

      @@minimme time for graphically impressive 3DO games.

    • @minimme
      @minimme  Před 2 lety +10

      @@aprofondir oh now that's going back

    • @qew_Nemo
      @qew_Nemo Před 2 lety +1

      One could even say LEGENDARY.

  • @Larry
    @Larry Před 2 lety +103

    Its a bit of an oversight of the publisher that they didn't even try and get in contact with you about the remake, let alone offer you a free code, considering you have the two highest viewed videos of the original on the internet.
    But if they're not even bothered to put in the leg work to promote the game, then they only have themselves to blame for it's failure.

  • @moomoocupcakes
    @moomoocupcakes Před 2 lety +311

    There's definitely something about enjoying the diamonds in the rough. Not everything needs to be beautiful and a "masterpiece."

  • @Sandwich1414
    @Sandwich1414 Před 2 lety +22

    One thing that immediately jumped out to me was the reflections on the water - it's absolutely insanely mirror esque. Also the default Times New Roman font, like where's that original WWII shooter typewriter font that every game at that time had?

    • @bushbabyninja
      @bushbabyninja Před 2 lety +1

      I remember playing Homefront and all puddles inside buildings reflected clouds, even if there were rooms above.

    • @kem0n0.kokomo
      @kem0n0.kokomo Před 2 lety

      Man that ain't Times New Roman!! It's a sans serif font, like Arial or something. Lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @TheSilvermk6
    @TheSilvermk6 Před 2 lety +18

    I wish I knew about this game earlier, it really reminds me of the Conflict: Desert Storm games and those are some of my favorite tactical shooters of all time. I probably put over 100 hours into Desert Storm 1 alone as a kid.

  • @DenysNathionaro
    @DenysNathionaro Před 2 lety +47

    I played the second game a lot back in the day. I found this channel because of this game.

  • @johannlabertaler6095
    @johannlabertaler6095 Před 2 lety +70

    once again you prove to be one of my finest finds on youtube, fueling my never ending thirst for obscure games from the 2000s.

    • @johannlabertaler6095
      @johannlabertaler6095 Před 2 lety +3

      I actually knew about this game already, I keep track of new releases by looking at torrent sites and the piracy reddit (which is a surprisingly good way for that) and played the old one as well, but not for long, ditched it because I had to try out like 200 games in a row I got from abandonware sites. thx for reminding me I wanted to try this one out!

    • @roger6010
      @roger6010 Před rokem +1

      2000s were the golden age of games

    • @roger6010
      @roger6010 Před rokem +1

      @@johannlabertaler6095 if you liked this game you should try Pacific Theater- Deadly Dozen and Elite warriors Vietnam

  • @acomingextinction
    @acomingextinction Před 2 lety +22

    "They sound like programmers doing bad accents into their work-from-home microphones" is just a beautifully brutal line. Ouch.

  • @gnbman
    @gnbman Před 2 lety +51

    It is a *great* idea to remake old games that had a ton of potential but fell short, and It's something that CZcamsrs like yourself and Nitro Rad have been advocating for. However, the reason for remaking that sort of game is to get everything right the second time around. Otherwise, what's the point?

    • @victoriaevelyn3953
      @victoriaevelyn3953 Před 2 lety +3

      I once said this before and someone who said to me that it was a terrible idea but no I think it would do the original idea good adding stuff that had to be left out updating its looks new mechanics with new hardware can be taken advantage of would be better than all this corporate dribble coming out these days

    • @scottthewaterwarrior
      @scottthewaterwarrior Před 2 lety +2

      That's how I feel about movies, they keep trying to remake really good classic movies, which then rarely live up to the original. How about they take more movies that had really good potential but were poorly executed?

  • @uselesspatty3290
    @uselesspatty3290 Před 2 lety +10

    Hearing the phrase "fang it" has never made me felt more at home as an Australian on this platform

  • @teatanks6481
    @teatanks6481 Před 2 lety +38

    It's always interesting to see old games no one talks about. Mine was the Conflict Desert Storm game back in the way old days of 2004, first one did get a steam port but the second one is incredibly obscure, let alone the two spin offs. Hope one day every obscure PC game gets a remaster or remake.

    • @acewolfgang276
      @acewolfgang276 Před 2 lety +1

      Those were fun games

    • @GreenShark4
      @GreenShark4 Před 2 lety +1

      The theme song of either the first or second game on the original Xbox is still in my head to this day

    • @wadej64
      @wadej64 Před 2 lety

      Conflict Desert Storm is 4-player co-op on GameCube and it's so horrible yet so good at the same time. Despite horrendous draw distance and resolution some friends and I managed to play through the whole game in a weekend

    • @theblobconsumes4859
      @theblobconsumes4859 Před 2 lety

      Conflict Global Terror was rather good, honestly.

    • @kreevisful
      @kreevisful Před 2 lety

      So fun! My little brother's and sister we would sit around the GameCube and tube for hours on a Friday, Saturday night and play all weekend.
      Good memories. Now I'm going to go cry because I'm 27 and old while watching Conflict retrospectives.

  • @sirprovost166
    @sirprovost166 Před 2 lety +37

    I bought this title in box at a thrift shop circa 2012 solely for the sake of it looking valuable from a collectors standpoint. I was disappointed to discover it was worth nothing but after booting it up out of curiosity and playing for awhile (which took a bit a willpower to be honest), I absolutely loved it due to it’s unique gameplay. Deadly Dozen is more like a puzzle than an FPS, especially at the higher difficulties and there a few games that exist that really fit that niche. It lead me to playing “Hidden and Dangerous 2” which is one of my all time favorite titles and follows a very similar gameplay loop as this one. Love to see that this was remastered, and wonderful video my man. Gave me some nostalgia I never knew existed lol

    • @davemars89
      @davemars89 Před 8 měsíci

      Exactly the sane happened for me, I bought that game for 5 dollars in a Walmart so long algo. Also with Project edén, Mob Rules and Black Gold jaja. Bad games but cheap

  • @Haysey_Draws
    @Haysey_Draws Před 2 lety +36

    I hope the devs have the capacity to address some stuff in this, it's an absolutely great and well written review!

  • @dylanrobinson4658
    @dylanrobinson4658 Před 2 lety +12

    I love how you always gush about how much fun you’re having with a game and then just go off about how much it’s sucks. That twist never fails to entertain me lol

    • @DELTARYZ
      @DELTARYZ Před 2 lety +6

      there are some games that just really nail a particular gameplay loop or mechanic, something about it just scratches a very specific itch that nothing else does
      sometimes they are objectively terrible games

    • @floatinghamstick
      @floatinghamstick Před 2 lety +4

      Me: "oh wow, this game sounds great. How have I never heard it before? I should buy it"
      Minimme: "however.." proceeds to destroy the games life

  • @kirpicast
    @kirpicast Před 2 lety +26

    I haven't played this one but Line of Sight: Vietnam, from the same team, was my jam back when I was in middle school. I bought it from Steam years later and while it was a bit unfair and frustrating at times, reliving the nostalgia was nice. I wonder if they're planning to remake that aswell lol.

    • @roger6010
      @roger6010 Před rokem

      If you like Vietnam themed games try out elite warriors vietnan
      Its similarly great

  • @boghinovel
    @boghinovel Před 2 lety +6

    also dd2 has multiplayer witch works via lan / vpn and also it has an editor if you search and document how to make custom maps with cool scenery as i made a test one on moddb so have fun for those that still checks it out

  • @dumb-angel
    @dumb-angel Před 2 lety +11

    this sounds a great game to put on the online for people to form a 12 players team and see how far they can make it
    thank you for this discovery I’m surprised I never heard of it, i feel like it’s unscripted nature should be the future of gaming, this is where some aaa games could be relevant again see gta 6 in its missions mode at least

  • @sagewaterdragon
    @sagewaterdragon Před 2 lety +6

    I first heard about Ziggurat Games when I saw that they bought the rights to Advent Rising (hey, that's a game that could be interesting to cover on this channel). I'm one of the, like, seven Advent Rising fans, so seeing the game get updated on Steam and GOG to support the latest fan improvements to the game pretty quickly after the Ziggurat purchase was really nice. I'd be really picky about them making any changes in a remake, so I definitely understand the desire to see something kind of obscure that you love get revived in a thoughtful way. Ziggurat definitely seems to have their hearts in the right place and I hope their business is a success so they're able to continue to improve these efforts.

    • @ArcaedionLight
      @ArcaedionLight Před 2 lety +1

      Advent Rising is still one of my all time favorite Xbox games even if its quite a flawed game at times. I would love to see a touched up version that play nicely with modern PCs as the current version of it is less than desirable for several reasons

  • @JetfireGaming
    @JetfireGaming Před 2 lety +7

    I adore your content, your passion for games really shines through. I could sit and talk for hours about obscure titles like this that are mostly forgotten but have a lasting impact on a small minority. Looking forward to the next one

  • @richardvlasek2445
    @richardvlasek2445 Před 2 lety +242

    there is something rather painful about the hidden & dangerous bargain bin ripoff getting a remake before the game it's very shamelessly copying, even if the remake sucks balls

    • @lasskinn474
      @lasskinn474 Před 2 lety +22

      That IP is deemed worth something so harder to acquire

  • @CobiahMarrinerCove
    @CobiahMarrinerCove Před 2 lety +9

    I love watching people gush about games they love. I know exactly how it feels, one of my favorite games ever is a PS2/GameCube game called Gladius, and I've yet to meet a soul that's played it, or even heard of it.

    • @frog_prime
      @frog_prime Před 2 lety +4

      I LOVED gladius, I spent so much time playing it with my brother. we'd pass the controller back and forth, I would play ursula and he would play urlan, then bicker over which other unit 'belonged' to who. the game that got me into tactics rpgs!! thanks for making me relive those memories :)

    • @DELTARYZ
      @DELTARYZ Před 2 lety +2

      @@frog_prime blessed interaction

  • @spoonman4024
    @spoonman4024 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Wow, so awesome to find other people who actually enjoyed this game. I bought it discount when I was a kid as we didn't have much money to spend on casual purchases and fell-in love with it; quirks and all. Absolutely wild to see it got a remake. Even if it's rough, it makes me happy that small companies see value in titles like these. So thankful for GoG and the culture they perpetuate in bringing old games back to life.

  • @yellowbat79
    @yellowbat79 Před 2 lety +12

    "Loving a game that apparently no one else appreciates" is honestly amazing. You kinda form an emotional connection with the game because you can see the diamond in-between the rough.
    I'm the same with Mafia 3 and Driver San Francisco

    • @scottthewaterwarrior
      @scottthewaterwarrior Před 2 lety

      I wouldn't put Driver San Francisco in the same category as this. Pretty well known game from a large studio. Driv3r could be considered "a game no one else appreciates" but it too is still a well known game from a big studio.

    • @yellowbat79
      @yellowbat79 Před 2 lety +1

      @@scottthewaterwarrior you are absolutely correct.
      And I should have clarified I felt this way because Driver was *really* not well-known in my region. I remember having to go prretty far to find a copy.
      Overall though it's a AAA game. Internationally, even if it "flopped" (which I don't think it did) it still would have sold about a million copies which is wild by itself

  • @GameMaster136
    @GameMaster136 Před 2 lety +14

    My favorite game that wasn't well regarded and more or less forgotten is a somewhat eurojank FPS/RPG made in 2005 called Boiling Point: Road to Hell.
    It was made by a small Ukrainian company called Deep Shadows and published by Atari. It has you playing as a guy trying to find his daughter who's been kidnapped in some South American country.
    It has a bunch of interesting little mechanics to it that help make for some interesting RPG elements like how the faction system works and how you can go about completing some quests. The game unfortunately ended up a bit rushed so some stuff ended up unfinished or lacking good polish to it.
    Other than that I think it's a cool game that was punching quite above its weight for the time it came out. I think if it got a modern remake that fixed up some of the flaws it had it would be a pretty fun time.
    There's a pretty good vid about it made by TehSnakerer that I would recommend if this game sounds interesting to anyone.

    • @emulation2369
      @emulation2369 Před 2 lety +2

      Lol, that game was amazing tons of role-play, huge world I like it more than stalker or far cry games, bc it came before em

    • @bigdrippy4104
      @bigdrippy4104 Před 2 lety +3

      Boiling point always looked really cool. I feel like far cry knockoffs (if i had to be reductive and give it a genre) were really interesting at the time, i wish the new ones were as interesting as the older ones

    • @GameMaster136
      @GameMaster136 Před 2 lety +3

      @@bigdrippy4104 It's interesting to think that Boiling Point was basically a Far Cry game before the modern Far Cry games we have today.

  • @Brainles5
    @Brainles5 Před 2 lety +16

    Its so crazy when remakes are made by people who seemingly didnt understand why the original game worked. Removing permadeath is so obviously removing the whole point of the game, how they arrived at that decision is beyond me.

    • @horusreloaded6387
      @horusreloaded6387 Před 2 lety +1

      Since it has 3 devs, I guess one of them really hated it.

    • @scottthewaterwarrior
      @scottthewaterwarrior Před 2 lety +6

      @@horusreloaded6387 Or it was mandated by the publisher. TBH I dislike perma death, though might be nice in a game like this, should have just made it a menu option rather than removing it entirely.

  • @Cyklopz007
    @Cyklopz007 Před 2 lety +12

    I will totally get this on Switch! I love your crazy epic war stories from these games lol.

    • @PokeKaza
      @PokeKaza Před 2 lety +3

      13 days ago? mans from the future

    • @Cyklopz007
      @Cyklopz007 Před 2 lety +2

      If you support the channel on Patreon, you get early access to videos. You can give any amount and it's really easy. Definitely worth the investment. Love this channel!

  • @Crispman_777
    @Crispman_777 Před 2 lety +2

    In the spirit of the opening of this video, I'd like to recommend the 2002 third-person stealth video game Prisoner of War. I think it's a blast.

    • @minimme
      @minimme  Před 2 lety +2

      I'll add it to my to play list cheers

  • @Mr3Machine
    @Mr3Machine Před 2 lety +4

    I remember that demo disk so well, some great times...
    Excellent video!

  • @cakeneq_ww
    @cakeneq_ww Před 2 lety +4

    World War II COMBAT: Road to Berlin is my "I'm pretty sure no one else has heard of it, but I loved it" game. Super budget shooter with shockingly fun multiplayer and surprisingly good sound design.

  • @GeZz.
    @GeZz. Před 2 lety +4

    nice review man, is so amazing when a game that you love is remake, even if is not that good, but seeing coming back to life, im sure it feels so nostalgic and heart warming. Congrats for the vid man. i'm subscribed to you for almost 2 years and all ur vids are amazing , keep it up

  • @RadJordy
    @RadJordy Před 2 lety +10

    Have you considered looking at Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb? It's one of my favorites! I'd love to see you cover it one of these days. It's waaaay better than Staff of Kings.

    • @georgeoldsterd8994
      @georgeoldsterd8994 Před 2 lety

      Damn, i remember that one! A bit slow to start, but really fun, despite some really annoying boss "fights".

    • @creativeusername7951
      @creativeusername7951 Před 2 lety

      Yes! Either minimme or Nitro Rad need to review Emperor's Tomb! "You'll need more than your gun once you're inside Chen's tomb...there are things...worse than Nazis." 😀

  • @vyl-za
    @vyl-za Před 2 lety +1

    Wooow Deadly Dozen.. I played that a bunch back in the day, and as you experienced.. whenever I brought it up, no one knew wtf I was talking about

  • @ricardoludwig4787
    @ricardoludwig4787 Před 2 lety +2

    Minimme is so good at making me care about all of these obscure titles I've never even heard of and appreciate all of their qualities that went unnoticed

  • @SuperNuclearUnicorn
    @SuperNuclearUnicorn Před 2 lety +1

    Oh mate don't even get me started on Easter show showbags and the random gems you'd get. I remember my parents would always get us the Bertie Beetle bag because it was like $2, then let us get whatever other bag we wanted and I'd inevitably go for whatever had a cap gun, whatever had something spy related, or whatever had a video game in it.
    I also remember getting Rollercoaster Tycoon for free from a box of Froot Loops

    • @minimme
      @minimme  Před 2 lety

      they were such good times. The Matt Hoffman/Tony Hawk/Skatepark Tycoon kellogs combo was elite too. and of course age of empires

  • @SebaZavaK
    @SebaZavaK Před 2 lety +5

    Always excited to watch a new video of yours! (Especially if it's such an obscure title).

  • @jimmy12347654
    @jimmy12347654 Před 2 lety +2

    The deadly dozen sequel set in the Pacific was awesome!

  • @ryanbentley8475
    @ryanbentley8475 Před rokem +1

    My game i love that nobody ever talks about anymore is Primal on the PS2.Primal even got a HD re release on the ps4 but nobody ever mentions it but I think it it's on the level of Legacy & Kain Soul reaver,a game I also love.

  • @bagelfan6
    @bagelfan6 Před 2 lety +7

    This looks real cool! I also feel like getting some donuts rn lol

  • @MrRagnarxx
    @MrRagnarxx Před 2 lety +1

    omg. i just unlocked a hidden memory - my dad played this when i was small. the only thing i remember from the game is a minefield. wow

  • @daisybutinhertennisoutfit

    I was a big budget games kid, so a lot of the titles I played were more obscure. I was always more interested in sims and rpgs. One of my favorites was Magician’s Quest: Mysterious Times. It’s not quite as obscure as deadly dozen; the highest viewed video from what I’m seeing is PBG’s gameplay video, with a little over 100k views. It’s very animal-crossing like but had a pretty surprising amount of the side things and magician content thrown in. Different events during “magic time,” which would change the appearance of the world and make different bugs and fish available; the ability to cast spells whenever; and VERY funky looking “villagers”. Like some are penguins and foxes, others are imps or cupcake people. Only one game from the series ever made it to the US, so the English version of that title is listed for $200 just for the cartridge.
    Love your videos as always, obscure and/or bizarre video games are my favorite to learn about. :•)

  • @Armstrong84
    @Armstrong84 Před 2 lety +2

    How you feel about this is how I feel about Project IGI 2. I'm the only person irl that's played and loved it.

  • @victoriaevelyn3953
    @victoriaevelyn3953 Před 2 lety +5

    I personally love hearing about hidden games like this even if they're totally crap still fun to see what can be put into a game
    Edit: I think I would like this game I love games like veitcong purple haze and the mechanics of the game really sound nice to me other WWII shooters of that age could have done a much more polished version of that I'd have loved to have seen it

  • @iGrado7VK
    @iGrado7VK Před 2 lety +2

    For me the game that I played that I felt no one I knew like was called advent rising

    • @sagewaterdragon
      @sagewaterdragon Před 2 lety +1

      Fun fact: the company that bought the rights to Deadly Dozen and made this, Ziggurat, also bought the rights to Advent Rising!

    • @iGrado7VK
      @iGrado7VK Před 2 lety

      @@sagewaterdragon that’s crazy was this recent or a long time ago

    • @sagewaterdragon
      @sagewaterdragon Před 2 lety +1

      @@iGrado7VK It was about a year ago, they went ahead and integrated a fan patch into the Steam and GOG versions of the game to make it better on modern PCs but otherwise I don't think they've done anything with it yet.

    • @iGrado7VK
      @iGrado7VK Před 2 lety +2

      @@sagewaterdragon I had no Idea it was on of you just made my day thanks

  • @jimperry4108
    @jimperry4108 Před rokem

    The waving grass in the original version with rolling hill just blew me away. GREAT game. Far more fun that H&D 1/2 which I never completed.

  • @bw5260
    @bw5260 Před 4 měsíci

    I loved the original game too... there are dozens of us! (pun intended)
    But what's funny is that I played the sequel first, The Pacific Theater. One thing that I really loved was all the wacky cheat codes, like "Flight Mode," "God Mode," and "Enemy Field Of View" where lines would show up through the entire map leading back to each enemies face, lol.

  • @andreidmny
    @andreidmny Před 2 lety +1

    It was my first ever WW2 FPS and I have struggled for years to remember its name. Seeing this remaster come out of nowhere made me very happy. It's a shame that the remaster isn't superior in every way, but I'll take it over the original as a way to re-experience my childhood memories.

  • @117johnpar
    @117johnpar Před rokem +2

    The twitter post about the permadeath being removed is such a bizarre admission that they have no idea what value it had in the original.
    They say it as if it was some antiquated feature from its own time and that its a net positive that its no longer a thing.
    All that work for such an obscure title and they missed the point entirely.

  • @marcuswalters8093
    @marcuswalters8093 Před 2 lety +1

    "Everyone has one game they love that no one has heard of."
    FutureCop LAPD?

  • @clementineshetheyfae8312
    @clementineshetheyfae8312 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I can not believe I’m about to buy a 20 year old game to get the type of tactical shooter experience I crave especially with it having a remake

  • @temporaryscars
    @temporaryscars Před 2 lety

    Played this back on the day! Never finished it though. I seem to remember getting fed up of being sniped in the fog with no recourse.

  • @key099able
    @key099able Před 2 lety +5

    'Title pending' lol.

    • @minimme
      @minimme  Před 2 lety +2

      whoops lmao bit of an error, gotta figure something out for this one!

  • @Bottymonster
    @Bottymonster Před 2 lety +3

    Love your videos mate ;)

  • @icarusgaming6269
    @icarusgaming6269 Před 2 lety +2

    First Ziggurat rescues American Hero from the depths of abandonware hell, then they remake a cult tactical shooter for all 12 of its fans? This might be my new favorite game company

  • @tobykassulke2385
    @tobykassulke2385 Před 2 lety

    One obscure game i seem to only remember is the Crusty Demons ps2 game. I cant find many things online about it either. From what i remember it was really fun, it was like tony hawks pro skater's arcade style where youre in an area doing tricks to get a high score + Burnout's crash mechanics but with motorbikes. It had a neat x ray feature when you crash, you'd see your bones break. I think it also increased your score.

  • @MadManNick931
    @MadManNick931 Před 2 lety +1

    You actually got me interested in playing this... As soon as it launches on the switch, I'll give it a try.

  • @Xanifur
    @Xanifur Před 2 lety

    I remember playing the demo way back in the day off of gamespy, then bought it off some sketch website. It is a good game (in my 12 year old mind). It's always been there as that one really cool hard world war 2 game. I remember being able to slect your dudes and equip them however you wanted and that was awesome. A stepping stone to me getting into Rainbow six, then SWAT, and now Ready or Not. Thank you Deadly Dozen.

  • @hamstel4540
    @hamstel4540 Před 2 lety +3

    I never knew there was gonna be a Remake as a hugh fan of the original and the Pacific I am stoked but also sad that there wasnt much marketing for it!

  • @kyrridas1573
    @kyrridas1573 Před 2 lety

    oh wow, i remember that game. a million years ago, when i was a kid, i found it in a bargain bin while my mother was dragging me around TJ Maxx. id forgotten this thing ever existed

  • @RWSCOTT
    @RWSCOTT Před 2 lety

    I can dig the sandbox intensity, here. I feel a similar sentimentality for Ring Of Red on PS2. I pick it up & play it every few years & still love it's dieselpunk grit.

  • @ahmakki
    @ahmakki Před 2 lety +1

    I always get exited to know your new video is coming!

  • @LoneWanderer4k
    @LoneWanderer4k Před 2 lety +2

    great video! feels like a wasted opportunity, since most of the cons you listed couldn't be easily fixed by 1 person in a week at most (well, except for the ui). hopefully some modder can pick it up

  • @mp3545
    @mp3545 Před 2 lety

    We need more games like this. The mainstream can keep their Call of Battlefields, but the best FPS games for me are all of the ones that went all in on immersion and semi-realistic depictions of combat. I do believe that there is a bigger market for old-school style tactical shooters than a lot of people seem to think as well.

  • @MrGrimm-gy1mu
    @MrGrimm-gy1mu Před rokem

    The grandfather 2 always been a guilty pleasure to me, very underrated

  • @DCGMatthew1
    @DCGMatthew1 Před 2 lety +16

    I saw this remaster/remake before it came out, was excited for it as well, didn't end up buying it when it did release just because it seemed to have way too many problems, and the price, as much as I love the game, was way too high for what I was seeing, which wasn't much because the only video I could find at the time was from the developers. But I actually looked at it again a few days before you said you were doing this video, seeing it was still the same apparently. But I can't wait to see if you think it's bad or not. I've been continuously debating since it's release if I want to get it or not. I've been thr same with the Toy Soldiers HD/Remaster.

  • @don-valley-parkway
    @don-valley-parkway Před 2 lety +1

    i watched this with some really sad music in the background and almost cried, 10/10

  • @SuprSmash
    @SuprSmash Před 2 lety

    That was funky. I'm playing TBC classic while watching this and the gun noise in the Deadly Dozen remake is the same as my hunter's gun!

  • @LyrisTheCat
    @LyrisTheCat Před 2 lety +3

    a game i would *love* to see properly finished in a remake was the very last game by the "studio?" from the original turok, the game went into dev hell because atari went bankrupt midproduction then the game got revived YEARS later by a very budget publishers.
    The Red Star, a couch co op beat em up bullet-hell. yes bullet hell while also being a top down beat-em-up, i had never ever found another game like that again.
    me being a big fan of it and finding that there were leaked builds of the game out there made me discover they canned very little things from the original alphas to the finished game and a LOT of the effects kind of stuff on the game are still masterful for an ps2 game, specially the shader that was a literal portal on the TUTORIAL mission where the portal would go left and right while the ship would stick its parts out to shoot at you.
    those dudes literally created THE portal before portal and thats quite fucking insane bro, even more on a freacking ps2 it was SUCH a damn flex, that specific effect still tanks the performance of the ps2 emulator till this day i don't think they ever found a fix for that.
    the game is insanely well paced but the extra unlockable char feels half finished lacking moves and when i played the prototype it had even less, maybe they just never had the time to add more and instead just polished out what was already half finished.
    i hope you do end up seeing that game someday you can find the leaked builds (even an XBOX build apparently with better graphics i need to check) on WebArchive or the cutting room floor which them redirects you to the other builds.
    god i miss that game so much, it was one of the games i also got on a bargain bin simply by the cover and is still to this day one of the very few games on my ps2 that i have the most memories playing.

  • @natejoe9924
    @natejoe9924 Před 2 lety

    Here you're right I never heard of it but I'm glad you can play it again

  • @dandepasquale2611
    @dandepasquale2611 Před 2 lety

    Holy shit, when I was younger me and one of my friend played both the original and sequel for hours.
    When one of us would die we would then play as another one of the squad Mates and just pass the paddle.
    I had no idea anyone else had ever even heard of this game

  • @liamwynne566
    @liamwynne566 Před 2 lety

    The level around the 16 minute mark reminds me a lot of Home front: The Revolution. You can die easily and any loot you collect disappears if you die so anytime you complete a mission you end up running from soldiers through dense streets filled with wrecked buildings, trying your best to sneak past drones and snipers as you make your way back to your hideout which you usually end up at with only a handful of bullets and a slither of health left. It's proper heart in the mouth gameplay as you feel incredibly vulnerable, but at the same time due to the map being quite small, but dense, there's always somewhere close by to check out for materials, an enemy radio to sabotage, an armoury to raid etc that you always feel tempted to risk everything before going back to base.
    That game got shat on by so many people but I honestly can't remember the last time a game gave me an experience like that. Just make sure to get the patches.

  • @emoboy2008
    @emoboy2008 Před 2 lety

    I keep forgetting how I found out about your channel. Turns out it was DD2 review. I got this game as a kid in a random fashion and couldn't play through it without resorting to cheats. I loved the maps though, hope to revisit it someday and finally check out the original.

  • @rhysm.5915
    @rhysm.5915 Před 2 lety

    I fucking love you, man. Your videos are always a breath of fresh air.

  • @slodekslod9337
    @slodekslod9337 Před 2 lety +1

    great thumbnail and title brother keep up the good work love u

  • @milklordnomadic
    @milklordnomadic Před rokem +2

    When you're a creative and introspective person, there are few TOTALLY bad games if we're being honest. That's why your videos are some of the most interesting gaming related content on YT. I had a few games like this when I was a kid too.

  • @MrDrCthulhu
    @MrDrCthulhu Před 2 lety

    That enemy firing a rocket point-blank just to kill your soldier is such bullshit that I can't help but laugh.

  • @Mezurashii5
    @Mezurashii5 Před 2 lety

    A cool way to de-hardcore-ify the original permadeath system would be to have a timeline of levels, so you could replay a level from the beginning of the game even if you're in the back half of it already to re-attempt beating it with more guys staying alive.
    Maybe the game could force you to keep the soldiers you used for other levels alive, which would allow the timeline to make more sense and add challenge to replaying levels.

  • @flippedoutkyrii
    @flippedoutkyrii Před 2 lety +1

    I still remember getting this cheap back when I was 10 and pronouncing it as "Deadly DOH-Zen". Got it running on my laptop these days so it's a real treat to see you talking about it in any capacity! Shame about the "Remake", though D:

  • @JefOliveira90
    @JefOliveira90 Před rokem

    I played Deadly Dozen (the original) a lot back in the day. I guess this makes 3 of us in the entire world; we should start a convention.

  • @KingDumbSlap
    @KingDumbSlap Před 2 lety

    minimme damn I’ve been watching you for so long and you’ve always brought the quality content

  • @elizanieman5576
    @elizanieman5576 Před 2 lety +2

    best videos on the website

  • @RyansFiles
    @RyansFiles Před 2 lety +1

    Damn, watching this has made me wish I had the conflict: desert storm and global storm games remade. I loved those

    • @swebber5
      @swebber5 Před 2 lety

      glad im not alone! those are some of my all time favourite games

  • @herekongato
    @herekongato Před 2 lety +1

    Man how i missed a shooter like this for xbox, thanks for sharing! I totally missed the release of the remake

  • @V4R1TUS
    @V4R1TUS Před 2 lety

    I'm glad i just found this channel, I am a very anxious person, but watching your videos, Calms my brain aha

  • @DannysHauntedJourney
    @DannysHauntedJourney Před 2 lety

    So, I know I have a physical copy of the original game somewhere.
    I remember picking this up in a bargain bin in Fry's Electronics or something. I actually really liked it, but now you're getting to buy this remaster.
    I don't even care if it's bad. I'm down.

  • @luigimaster111
    @luigimaster111 Před 2 lety

    Speaking of old obscure games that nobody else seems to like, somebody ought to polish up that Starship Troopers FPS. The later bits of the game need some major restructuring, but it has more than just potential even in its current state. It did a wonderful job at getting across the intensity of the bug threat with horde sizes that hadn't been topped until that World War Z game from 2019, yet with every bug being a credible threat if you weren't attentive. It was like wading through a jungle with a machete. With no way to get rid of all of them it was all about getting rid of enough to make a path to the next objective.

  • @Nrjs17
    @Nrjs17 Před rokem

    I remember buying this game at a Menards discount rack, when my dad said he'd buy me 1 thing. The intro is pretty cool, I never finished it though.

  • @martinsand1768
    @martinsand1768 Před 2 lety

    Weird thing is, there is a market for every type of game, I’ve been through some weird games in the past when I was a kid. I remember in kid’s school we all played a Donald Duck game bundled with the comic book. We kids played that game for over a year. It was sort of like a Temple Run/Subway Surfer kind of game. It’s all about your enjoyment of what’s happening on screen. Timesplitters series deserve a remake!

  • @Sergito800
    @Sergito800 Před 2 lety

    I played so much of the second game, me and my brother loved the jungle feel of it

  • @Sparcsmi
    @Sparcsmi Před 2 lety +1

    I can see how this game does have a open ended charm about it, even if the remake didn't stretch it out to it's full potential. I have a similar nostalgic fondness towards Medal of Honor European Assault and endlessly playing with the "new to me" ragdoll physics while literally in multiplayer maps alone. Though given EA's current state a remaster of that game isn't desirable at the moment...

  • @Rudeljaeger
    @Rudeljaeger Před rokem

    When you talk whats fun about Deadly Dozen (the perma-death mechanic, growing attached to your soldiers), I was like THATS LITERALLY THE REASON I LOVE HIDDEN & DANGEROUS! H&D 2 seems to be like "Deadly Dozen - The Good Version"

  • @maxelling2739
    @maxelling2739 Před 2 lety

    Would love to see you cover Commandos: Strike Force, an all but forgotten WW2 squad shooter that if I remember correctly is amazingly well crafted and criminally underrated. Another WW2 game I haven’t seen much coverage on is death to spies. An obscure hitman esque world war 2 stealth game... As a younger gamer having played hitman at far too young of an age, I was intrigued by the structure and concept of death to spies. There are multiple games in the series if I recall correctly, could possibly produce a fun video essay

  • @neganmessias6940
    @neganmessias6940 Před 2 lety

    I played it and I loved it. "Deadly Dozen", "Deadly Dozen: Pacific Theater" and they are a 3. One from the same Studio - "Line of Sight: Vietnam".
    A have a great time with this Games

  • @b4krr
    @b4krr Před 2 lety

    @13:53 glad you included this and I feel way less weird for doing similiar things in games. My refusal to glitch launch a nuke in FO76 comes to mind

  • @tadakatsufury9984
    @tadakatsufury9984 Před 2 lety

    Really glad this channel still doing well keep up!

  • @spyczech
    @spyczech Před 2 lety

    One of my first videos of yours I saw was the original, love to see the update and story arc

  • @slightlyjim5590
    @slightlyjim5590 Před 2 lety +3

    I hope the devs do see this video as the majority of the issues could be easily fixed with updates adding preference options. The UI doesn't look like it would take much to improve. Permadeath would be easy to add.

  • @ScorIsHere
    @ScorIsHere Před rokem

    Clive Barker undying is the same for me, but it was a masterpiece honestly, no flaws, original. So damn underrated.

  • @revalution1965
    @revalution1965 Před 2 lety

    This is becoming my absolute favorite game channel dude you cover games I’ve never heard of in a passionate and introspective way that makes me forget my hatred for the mainstream gaming industry until I finish the video and then remember all the bullshit that’s ruined gaming for me again 😂 either way your vids are awesome keep it up 🤝