Okay, here's the thing that nobody seems to realize about the mic interaction in Lifeline: Much like Trico in The Last Guardian, it has a learning mechanic attached to it. Just like in that game where you are a child, speaking a foreign language to a non-human-speaking creature who has had zero human interaction ever, you have to work with it to get it to learn how to operate the way you want it to. What I mean by this is, the more interactions you have with Rio, not just in combat and dialogue but in the interims (which is why the game mentions the in-between conversations and word games you can play with her at the beginning), the more the game learns to recognize your voice and your commands. If you take a lot of down-time between the puzzles and action to just chat with her like a normal person and have these between-scenes interactions, you will vastly improve your experience over time. It's not perfect and it doesn't tell you this about the mechanics, but it works, and maybe because I like unconventional games, but I had a great time with Lifeline.
I still watch it when Jules is on it and I still watch from time to time except when Sai is on. I can't stand him and it seems he has taken Jules place as the main person on What Culture.
I would donate to a Kickstarter or something that would do that. The only game I've donated to help get made was Bloodstained: Ritual of The Night, so I don't have the bad taste in my mouth that people who got scammed by disasters like The Day After, so I might be overly optimistic at the prospect.
On a serious note : Dear Jules, I think I have came across WhatCulture around 2017 or 2018 and you have been the most likeable person ever since. Yeah, I do miss the "1 per list" but hey, it is called evolution, right ? You managed to make me smile while I was facing very rough times in my life and for that I just want to say : Thank you !
I saw it played/reviewed by Adam Sessler on X-Play. The only command he got to work as asked, was after he'd mostly checked out and joked, "come on, bark like a dog" and the character asked "little dog, yip yip, or big dog, woof woof?" His turn to the camera afterwards was (chef's kiss) perfection. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N8mm4iWVn14.html
I do actually know Lifeline. I remember seeing it on G4 back on the day. XPlay. Hearing Adam boredly chant "red eye" over and over somehow became a core memory and I think of it from time to time when I see games with voice recognition now-a-days.
OH MY GOD ZONE OF ENDERS THATS THE NAME!!! That game has sat on my mind for damn near 2 decades because I remember playing it at a friend’s house and having tons of fun but after that I could literally NEVER remember the name but I always remembered the action. Thank you SO much
Thank you for mentioning torins passage. I played it as a kid and have been trying to remember the name of it for years but could never find anything on it 😊
On any other person I would find Jules on-screen personality annoying but he seems such a nice, funny guy that you just gotta love him 🤩 great video like usual 👍
Super Paper Mario can end the same way as Golden Sun. If you refuse the quest a few times, you get a game over. A friend was showing me the game, and that's all the farther I got. The dialogue kept changing, and I assumed eventually the lines would start repeating, but no, the game just ends.
Me watching this: OOOH a konami game for the ps2 with survival horror that I never played!? Definitely gonna look up a rom for that later... "you control via microphone inputs on the ps2" NOPE NEVERMIND
The game Republique is kind of the same idea without the voice interactions that made for a pretty fun game. You control the camera systems and give commands to the heroine. So maybe if the mic worked Lifeline could have been fun. But it wasn't.
If you had asked me before I would have told you I had never heard of or seen the game Lifeline before. But as of a couple months ago, I kept seeing clips and videos of people playing the game, and idk why or how it just got this random resurgence. It just did. So to see it on the deep cut here as #1 was quite surprising. Also yeah Jules is super right about the accent thing. I saw a video between IronMouse and Cdawg, and Ironmouse who has a very high pitched voice with a hispanic accent said it was nearly impossible for her to play the game because it wouldnt recognize anything she said until she talked in a deeper tone which hurt her throat.
Jules you beautiful bald man! I’ve been trying to remember what point and click game I played at my Grandparents in the 90s for over a decade and could never find it. ITS TORINS PASSAGE!!!
Big Rigs 2 DID come out. It’s called Midnight Race Club, and it’s literally the exact same game but with the truck models swapped out for cars. Just the models, not the properties.
Wow. Lifeline. That is a deep cut baybeeeeee. I remember hearing about the way the game controls and passing on it on the spot. I wonder how many games ther are that let you can nope out at the beginning of the game in some form or fashion. I know there is at least one where you get back in your car and f@ck right off.
I don't think it's a secret game over screen, but it shocked me as a teenager when I first played it. When you agree to side with the main villain (only villain) in the first Dragon Warrior (aka Dragon Quest). Something they reference in Dragon Quest Builders.
I actually remember Lifeline (#1), but I never played it. Once I read the reviews in various magazines talking about how bad the voice recognition was, I said nope.
Voice command games might be pretty good these days with AI support... I mean if ChatGPT or something tied into a flexible set of commands to an animal, then can you imagine TRECO supported by AI and given more room to animal around?
Jules definitely made WhatCulture weekly videos something to look forward to. But hey! Still get some Jules for the week and his own brand! Good lookin, Jules!
I'm one of those 5 people lol got stuck at a part where I needed to tell her "molotov cocktail" but I kept saying "molotov" and it was so frustrating until I finally said it right 😂
Unfortunately Jules your solution to the final boss of Rise of the Triad isn't viable to to the lack of any Shotguns in the game. Its probably a relic of when the game was going to be Wolfenstein 3D II, and its something I wish they had corrected after the game was changed to a new IP but no such luck. I played Lifeline but the system couldn't understand my voice so it went very badly.
Huh, Jules, there IS a sequel...well reskin actually. Still ai can't win though. Also the developer went out of business. Also, you need to play more ps1 games as some have very interesting game over screens.
How about # modern video games/levels that use minimal/ black and white color? We all loved handhelds like the game boy, but then what this the gameboy color. Why why look at all colored pixels! We’ve certainly advanced from something as simple as the black and white of pong and game and watch to the neon covered worlds of Splatoon and Fall guys. Some games though, just say hold on mate. Wait a minute. I don’t all that. Nah just keep simple for me.
@@BlueGriffin20 dunno what that is but I Own a Wii and I'm looking it up right now and I'll be back to prolly gush about it with you lmao I just said gush ignore that or sumthin heh. Thanks tho definitely welcoming to like any game and music recommendations like forever lol.
