Grabbed by the Ghoulies - Rare After Nintendo # 1 / MY LIFE IN GAMING
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- Try begins his journey through Rare's post Nintendo games with Grabbed by the Ghoulies for the original Xbox
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Telling someone that I got Grabbed by the Ghoulies for christmas is something I'll always remember.
I hope all these games get to come to Steam one day. Would like to play this one.
This game was a blast back in the day. It deserves some recognition.
Really great video mate!! I had never actually seen this game played (like you, Rare going to Xbox was kind of a wedge between my enjoyment of their games...) so thanks for showcasing it!
[Try4ce] I'm now wondering if Rare's perceived demise is actually all that accurate, or just a reflection of the frustration of them changing companies. With enough time for the wound to have healed, now might be the best time to give these games their fair shake.
***** Personally, when I say their Xbox exclusivity drove a wedge, it wasn't because I chose to boycott them or something, but more just a logistical thing (i.e. i didnt' own an Xbox at that time). I'm sure this happened to many others too. I'm looking forward to their Replay collection coming out anyway!!
this game is literally my childhood. i suggest anyone wanting this game to get it as its in Rare Replay.
When my friends ask why I care about box art design so much, this game is why. When I first saw this game as a kid, I thought it was a bad budget title and never bothered to buy it. Now as an adult, I'm curious if I might like it
I could just watch your videos all day long...
Hey guys, great episode! Rise to Honor (PS2) was a game that had the dual analog stick brawler battle system. Was a very interesting, though not great, game with Jet Li as the main character.
[Try4ce] Interesting! I wonder if this inspired it (assuming Ghoulies came first).
SoulEdgeSlayer963 What he said. Has some shooting elements, but this is one of the only chances you get to brawl as one of the biggest martial artists in the world.
SoulEdgeSlayer963 Stole my idea! But yeah Rise to Honor is exactly like that. I wouldn't say it's amazing but it does have nice production values. It did come around 2004, but I doubt it was inspired since it came out around 4 mounts or so, meaning maybe they were in development around the same time.
I'd say Ape Escape was a Dual Analog Brawler even before that.
Rise to Honor starring Jet Li uses a VERY similar control scheme. All of the fighting is done with the right stick in that game. It's very fun and can usually be bought for about $2.
This was uh . . . My childhood game nostalgia
I love RareWare of the 90's/early 2000's.
*The ghoulies sounds like an epic band name*
Rise To Honor on PS2 has the same game concept, where you use the right stick to attack and direct it too
*Never had an XBOX*
All I can do is mourn all that time you've wasted not playing Jet Set Radio Future.
I absolutely loved this game. I think it didn’t sell well because this was during a time that first person shooters became the craze and Grabbed by the Ghoulies was considered “kiddish.”
The trailers for the game didn’t help. I remember showing my brother a new Rare game I was excited for. I showed him the trailers and he said “what’s with all the monsters dancing?” It didn’t appeal to many who loved the Rare games from the SNES or the N64. That generation was growing up and Rare was making games that were looked at as too young for them.
Had more people tried Grabbed by the Ghoulies, they would have found the game to be fun, entertaining, and challenging at the same time. I wish more people would have given this game a chance. I think they would have ended up loving it like I did. There was a planned sequel that was canceled. I doubt it’ll ever be made now.
Holy crap, I remember seeing this demo inside a Target or Walmart and all I could remember from it to this day was the Ball Room with the dancing Zombies and Skeletons and the Grim Reaper coming after the player. Glad I finally know what I was playing all those years ago, and a Rare title at that!
I was waiting for a decent video about this game like forever. Now i have it here - not only decent - excellent in every way! Thank you!
Michał Marek [Coury] Love to hear stuff like this. We generally try to avoid covering games that have been done to death (though if we do, we try to do it differently if we can). So it makes us happy when we put out a video on a game that people feel is under appreciated - or unfairly judged, such as this one.
***** I was actually planning to do this one for Halloween, since it works with the theme, but yeah loved the video, as expected ;)
It was rough around the edges but I loved it, Too Human had a very similar combat style
Never cared to play this game until seeing this video. I decided to try it for myself last night and goddamn is it so much fun. Does it have the polish of previous rare games? No but it still feels very much like a classic rare game in how much fun it is and the overall art design. Thanks for finally getting me to check this out
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In the UK, Grabbed by the Ghoulies takes on a whole different meaning.. which I think was Rare's intention, throw in a little innuendo that the rest of the world won't get..
Never tried this game, but I might just have to. Looks pretty solid.
“And if there’s another game like this out there I want to hear about it”
No the heck you don’t (Flashes back to all of Too Human)
I remember hating on this game as a Salty Nintendo fanboy after microsoft bought out Rareware. Just recently picked up a copy as part of collecting Rareware games.
I only recently picked up a Xbox One a few weeks ago, and you bet I nabbed Rare Replay with it. I actually have also been looking for a good goofy/creepy Halloween game to play lately, something more in line with Costume Quest than Silent Hill. It never occurred to me to actually play through Grabbed by the Ghoulies until I stumbled upon this video now, but I totally think I will! Thanks for giving this some attention, uh, 4 years ago :P Oh well; better late to the party (for me) than never.
Btw, Jet Li's Rise to Honor and that Tekken beat'em up "Death by Degrees" (starring Nina Williams) are also games that use dual analog combat systems. Never played DbD, but I remember Jet Li's game to be pretty fun once you got used to it. Haven't looked at the rest of your channel yet to see if you reviewed them already, but I'm just throwing 'em out there in case :)
I remember playing this game when I was 7 and it was fun. However those spiders and witches freaked me the hell out. I'm surprised that not many know about this game. They sadly missed out.
I was a bit hesitant to play Grabbed by the Ghoulies when I got Rare Replay (Really there to play Banjo-Kazooie, Tooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day, classic Battletoads and OG Perfect Dark) via Game Pass on my Series X and especially since Microsoft took away Donkey Kong Racing, Kameo and Banjo-Theerie from GameCube and to add insult to injury, censored Conker Live & Reloaded's fowl language and ruined Banjo-Kazooie with Nuts and Bolts. Turns out Grabbed by the Ghoulies is a hidden gem and so is Kameo for the 360. Honestly it shows that there can be good with Microsoft owning Rare. The examples being that you get some classics backwards compatible and for some in 4K like Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark and so on. The best place to play this game is obviously Series X because it's in higher resolution and all those frame drops are all gone. If you guys ever to revisit this game then Series X should be the only option.
Good stuff. I remember telling my father in law to buy this game because "its rare!" And then seeing it and being super disappointed. However, years later he would still play it with his granddaughter and have a great time. So all in all it ended up being a really good game.
Wonder if there'll be any mention of where the core talent of Rare went after selling to Microsoft: Free Radical Design
Yeah man, ghoulies is pretty dank...and hilarious. Then again, only about 7 people have played the game, so most criticisms were by word of mouth only.
Woohooo i am one of 7!!
Looking forward to Rare Replay in a couple of weeks!
[Try4ce] Yeah that's really got me debating between choosing a 360 or an Xbox One. Depends on if the Sakaguchi RPGs get backwards compatibility. Though Jet Force Gemini could be worth it alone if they fix the framerate and modernize the controls.
Hopefully the 360 compatibility on the One is much better than the original Xbox on the 360. It's still software driven though so I have concerns. Only proper way to do it IMO is put the actual chips inside the the console to begin with.
RMGB TV Well, it's half and half from my experience. I tested it out with some games. Banjo Kazooie works ok, so did Kameo, but I played N+ on it, a game that usually runs super smooth with 60fps, but it was chugging at roughly 15fps. So, I think we might have something along the lines of the 360 to Original Xbox emulation system.
Never played the PS2 exclusive Rise to Honor starring martial arts movie legend Jet Li? That was also a twin stick brawler (and even better than this)
Twin stick brawler... as a fan of beat em ups and tight fighting controls I'm glad you mentioned this at the beginning of your retrospective, definitely passing on this one.
Its more of a challange puzzle game... puzzle in how to figure out to solve a room = using the booster
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I remember the gaming magazines giving this a terrible review when it was first released, and it made me feel okay not having an original Xbox. I, too, got mine recently, only about a year ago, because I became aware of how many great exclusives and superior ports for it are currently very cheap.
Try, Coury, did you know there's a great trick built into the Xbox? If you have the system set to at least 480p, and it's connected with component cables, when you're at the Xbox dashboard, click down the two analog sticks while holding down the L and R triggers. It will force the Xbox to output 480p as the default output. Got games that didn't have progressive scan? This fixes that issue. I myself only have one Xbox game that was 480i only, and this trick worked perfectly for it.
[Try4ce] That's interesting! I wonder if it's not perfect performance for all games, or if it has to delay input by a frame or something.
*****
Having tried it on Star Wars Republic Commando (the one 480i game I mentioned), I couldn't find a difference in input, and that game is a first person shooter, so input lag would probably be easy to feel.
great review
Im gonna have to give this game a try and maybe add it to my Rareware shelf! I also can't wait for Yooka-Laylee!
[Try4ce] I really hope there's a chance that Yooka-Laylee gets a physical release! The physical copy Kickstarter tier trend started just after it got funded. I'm also interested in A Hat in Time, which is inspired by that era of platformers, and has music from Grant Kirkhope.
Me. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
Maybe it's me, but I get a sorta Zombies ate my neighbors vibe in 3D.
Fun game, but starting their xbox partnership with a new IP was the worst decision Rare ever made...
Does everyone just forget that before the Super Nintendo Rare's games were horrible with one exception and even it's broken? I mean come on people these people made Taboo!
Their pinball games were excellent. And Slalom is a black box Nes game with dignity.
Every developer has to start somewhere. Nintendo’s video games were pretty crap before Donkey Kong and Nintendo is probably the great game developer of all time.
You can play this game on Xbox one with rare replay
Honestly, I didn't like the way the game controls, but then again, I played a demo of it and I was kind of an X-Box hater back in the day. Maybe now I'll change my tone.
MoonSpiritExp I used to be too, but now that I own the system, I like it a whole lot more. I just don't like the black and white buttons and wish they were bumpers :P
The S controller is actually fairly comfortable to hold, but I don't like the position of start and select either.
This game seemed dumb when I was a kid. Wow, was I wrong. -Matt
we ve got this on RARE REPLAY FOR THE XBOX ONE! To night im gonna get high and give it a chance... seems like a easy going and fun experience
the video still can not be loaded
miketitlan I'm not quite sure what the issue could be - have you tried it on different devices? You're the only person having issues and the video has been watched over 2000 times.
***** maybe it must be something that youtube did because i can watch your other videos but it happens the same with other video channel that i used to watch, it just can not be loaded or maybe its becuase i am from mexico, who knows
Wait this was made by rare? Wow, this game sure was a sign they lost it after going to Microsoft
This game was originally for GameCube sooo.....
@@thawkade Resident Evil 0 was origionally for N64! It was considerably better for Game Cube
@@robertwallen1582 I don't think you got what I was saying.
I meant that this game was going to exist had Rare left Nintendo or not.
THE VIDEO DOESN'T LOAD
Rare is a developer with outdated skills. Most of their games don't hold up.
Terrible opinion
@@UnknownReturn2024 everything post n64 is trash. Even peter Moore when he was head of MS said the industry had passed them by.
@@hollywood21639The irony of you calling Rare "outdated" and then basing it off of a quote from 16 years ago is too much lol
Besides, it doesn't even make any sense to call them outdated when their post-Nintendo stuff has been anything but. In fact, the reason why they get so much hate these days is because they make games that are too different from their older games. You can't tell me that you look at a game like Sea of Thieves and think it's outdated lol
@@datruballin1780 they made no good games post Xbox purchase. Everything was mid tier at best. Sea of thieves was stripped down and terrible at launch with minimal features. Oh it got better 3 years later? Bfd
@@hollywood21639 Okay, but that has nothing to do with Rare being "outdated". You don't like their Xbox games. That's fine. Everyone has their own opinion. Their Microsoft work is very very different from their Nintendo work whether you like the games or not. Unless you're using some other metric to consider them outdated.
I already reached to the dislike button after you say that Ghoulies' way of storytelling is "part of time and budget restraints behind shift in management ". I bet the person who directed the game was insulted. It's Rare and Microsoft's game, not yours!
[Try4ce] That statement shouldn't be interpreted as an indictment against the game or Rare's team. It's the opposite, in fact! If they had the time or budget to make elaborate cutscenes, of course they would have, but they didn't. Creative choices are made with time/budget/resource contraints in mind, and I think they likely did the best they could in that case with that in mind. Not every game ends up being the perfect vision of what the team wished it could be, but you just gotta do the best you can with what you have and move on. In other words, by saying why I think a certain element seemed not quite all that it could be, I'm giving Rare credit for doing what they could, rather than just saying something was bad. Recognizing context of why things are the way they are in a game is all part of appreciating it. I love this game and was overall a lot more positive on it than probably most people are.
@@mylifeingaming Outside of you saying that the game is good, the rest I disagree! Again, pretty disrespectful that you assume that the unique cutscenes are part of budget and shit! Please respect the creator's vision next time and not make assumptions!
@@mylifeingaming Irony that you gave Rare's earlier games like Banjo-Kazooie, yet nitpick it for Ghoulies is truly insulting!
[Try4ce] I'm not saying it's not creative. Creativity often works best under constraints, which can include budget, time, and any multitude of circumstances. The developers should be commended for coming up with the solutions that they did, working under circumstances that couldn't have been perfect - change in management is hard - not to mention changing the development platform - and acclimating to that no doubt took time away from the project. Yet they made a finished product all the same. The director made the necessary and appropriate decisions to get them to the finish line. That's creativity at work. I'm on the devs' side and I respect what they did.
@@mylifeingaming This video is what got me into playing this game. Try4ce is about as non-partial as you can get. There is nothing about this video that denigrates the games or developers.