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@@yamingoat part of why halo games seem to hold up for years on end. The very slightly cartoony look does wonders. Totally separate from the wonderful art direction I mean.
@Mike Marlowe But you can't DO everything you do in games by just going outside. Like, say, shoot a lot of people in the face in slow motion in a Western environment. Then again, I wouldn't want to, and I also prefer the more stylistic approach.
@Mike Marlowe Matter of fact, I agree with nearly everything you say. I'd rather have an overly dramatic approach. That puts you off of doingit in reallife, but doesn't traumatise anyone or whatever. Like Madworld or No Ore Heroes 2 on the Wii. And I too wouldn't want to be in a virtual world that seems and feels way too real. I do appreciate a good PSVR game, even a shooter like Bloodand Truth, but t's still FAR from the point where it could have been real. I don't want that, I want to experience a story in an interactive way, and the visions of the artists behind it. Recreating reality may be an art form, but I wouldn't say it's an artistic input, it's just a copy. It's like animated movies. I much more prefer the ones where movement is shown in such a way that it definitely isn't realistic, but visualises the feeling. Like joy, or urgency. And here as well, I prefer hand drawn cartoons over realistic looking computer animation.
This game also featured some of my favorite collectibles in a shooter. Spread throughout the nooks and crannies of Gunslinger are scrolls dubbed "Nuggets of Truth" that detailed real tid-bits of info regarding the old west, such as the origins of the deadmans hand or telling the tale of a Poet who robbed trains on foot because he was terrified of horses (and also only wrote poems after committing a robbery as it was is only source of inspiration) and the bandits hideaway, a hollowed out rock at the top of a mountain that was impossible to retake if inhabited by gunman up until the mid 20th century when Helicopters were invented. Coming across them was just as memorable as the game itself and it's one of the first games I recall going out of my way to find everything within.
Gunslinger actually felt like a completely different game - different tone, different story, different art style, but you know what? That’s not a bad thing at all. It’s refreshing to have a different take in the CoJ games after such a dramatic, dreary tone for most of it. It’s like playing a John Wayne movie in a way. Legends and tall tales are an integral part of the whole wild west genre and it’s nice to see it got some recognition. And the gunplay, as you said, was killer, and the dual-wielding infinite-ammo shotguns was the best thing ever.
"because everybody in Lincoln would be dead?!" I burst out laughing in that part. At the time was the first time i've seen a game acknowledge the absurdity of fps games, to throw an entire army at you, and you kill them all with what it seems to be infinite ammo and health.
@@shinobutakumirebirth7004 Yep, and he does that originally. But as a skill it gives you the bottom one. I have no absolute idea but it just makes it faster. I am no gun specialist, neither I am a game designer. I guess they just.. did it. They just did I guess. Equally as weird as having an automatic spinning barrel kind of.
I really had no idea what I was getting into when I got this game on steam. Was a blast. I loved the combo system especially in arcade mode. The trick to getting the highest score and five stars is to get through the whole level in a single combo which is surprisingly tantalizingly possible with gunslinger and how you can shoot anything destroyable from TNT to pumpkins to keep the combo. I wasn't a fan of the duels, but if they were an improvement on the old mechanics I can live with that. Just took a lot of luck to get the dueling achievement. I would mention that the crazy story ends up having you shoot down every gunslinger in the west from Butch Cassidy to Jesse James with Nuggets of truth giving actual historic backstory as collectibles. It is just a fun game.
When the game looked at me in 2013 and said "throw dynamites and shoot them in the air ;)", that was the moment the gun combat system got me hooked. The guns were fun to shoot and satisfing to to use (the double barrel shotgun was a blast!), The bullet time sections were cool and all, but shoot enemy or mine dynamites to inflict air damage and keep the combo going? That shit is fire!
I really wish more FPS games are like this. Multiple single player modes, unique game mechanics, isn't janky, and actually knows when to end and not overstay it's welcome. FPS game publishers nowadays expect me to play a game like it's a full time job. Can anyone recommend me a game like Gunslinger? Not necessarily a western, I mean. Games that I've played that are like this: Counter Strike Global Offensive Unreal Tournament 2004 Insurgency Zombie Army Trilogy Serious Sam 3 Red Orchestra 2 Modern Warfare 3 Black Ops 2 Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Edit: thanks for the recommendations, guys. You guys are awesome.
@@SpecShadow Ehhh, stranglehold has horrible fov and it gets repetitive quickly (depending on levels, a couple of them were long) and due to the low fov you will probably die from a enemy you couldn't see. Level 2 is too fucking long and boring. Fun game, but just don't try to play it quickly, play it in short amounts.
coldwinter for ps2, it has ragdolls, light crafting, nice guns, generic but good story, nice mechanics, somewhat interactive maps, its a ps2 hidden gem
You forgot to mention that if you have trouble with duels you can just draw first, but other than that great review. I missed the original stream but I watched the vod and ended up replaying gunslinger for the Nth time while I listened.
This game is DEFINETELY a step up in quality over The Cartel, that one should have never existed, it must stay like this: Call of Juarez 1 with Billy and Reverend Ray's story and Bound in Blood with the excellent coop campaign of the McCall brothers. Add Gunslinger and you have a exquisite series of western shooters to enjoy.
I was 11 when I first played this game in 2015 and omg I loved this game so much. I'm currently 15 and tbh at this age I could strongly say this was the main reason I love western games
Good video. Good game choice. Man I remember installing and thinking ahh I’ll drink a 6 pack and play for an hr. No no. I drank most of a thirty and played the game through the night until beat. Wonderful gunplay. Cool little 1v1 high noon shootouts and just blood blood blood. Solid game.
Had to pause when you mentioned they’re making a remake of XIII. I fucking LOVED that game. By the gods, I hope they make a sequel after that, I have never seen such a cliffhanger ending in my entire 30-year life!
I was looking it up on steam and i wanted to see if it is good. Your review is really good i like your channel and i hope your channel is always like this. I'm subscribing.
Hey I know you put a lot o dedication into your videos and a lot of time to review games that some may say there don't deserve it, so I appreciate it. But also can you by any chance do a Jericho review? Played it a couple of years ago because hey IDK, but I would like a review from your part because your pretty honest about everything. Please keep it up your an amazing reviewer (Analyst)
This was the first M rated game I ever owned and thought it was the coolest thing. I played through it numerous times and went back to it often to play the arcade mode. I used the arcade mode to practice my aim and reaction time. Love this game to pieces
So fucking glad you mentioned XIII. I had forgotten about that game and it was one of my favorites on the GameCube. $6 for the classic version and the remake will be out in two weeks (November 10th, 2020) I've never been so happy to remember a game.
xii Played that on the ps2 and it was so good. It was cell shaded before borderlands and fuck it looked good. It had the bang for explosions, panels for throwing knife kills and holds up well. That's why I like cell shaded cos it ages gracefully compared to 'realistic' games from the same time. Shame there wasn't a sequel to it
Hey Jarek was wondering if we’re planning on taking a look at “dead mans hand”, “mob enforcer” or “land of the dead road to fiddlers green” I’ve heard there mediocre games so I was curious what you thought about them, there decently easy to get running since they were released on pc and the original Xbox (mob enforcer on the Xbox had some new stuff like an added multiplayer and was renamed “Chicago enforcer”)
Fun fact: Techland actually re-used models and animations of Double-barrel shotgun, Quickshooter, Six-shooter and Ranger for Dying Light The Following's revolver pistols and even the sounds of blood spraying from headshots are the same.
And if you collect the hidden cards along your journey you will be given some excellent historical facts about the Wild West and those infamous outlaws and sheriffs. I loved the Wilcox level given that, that is my family history. Cracking game ! Replayable multiple times.
This game is in my opinion a masterpiece.. one of the best fps games that I have ever played - and I played all the classics and pretty much all modern fps games
not wrong, one thing that kept me from 100% enjoying the game. even Bound in Blood got that right. I enjoyed this game about 98%, 1% due to the stupid lever action reloading and the other 1% because it had nothing to do with Call of Juarez and the story was...literally a story told in a bar
The only time I like when a franchise changes its design and roots is when you play as a new character because everybody has a different experience in life and see most things differently! Like Grand Theft Auto how some games don't have features from the ones before but it's okay because not everyone in the world likes bowling or golf etc! Gives the characters a sense of routine on what they do for there day to day life!
I still found the title odd, I do love this game though for its price I was amazed with what I got from it. Highly enjoyable and after completing it on normal went right back in for the hard completion! But its not really .... well call of Juarez ...
Hey Jarek, do you think sometime you could do a review of Warhammer 40k Space Marine? I think the Warhammer fans on your channel would love that. I know I would! lol
The connection between the original two games and this one is the cursed gold. Silas’s life went to shambles the moment he acquired one of the gold coins and it didn’t get any better his whole life because he kept the coin. He even gives it up in one of the endings.
@@justinx590 no problem. When I bought it I thoguht it was going to lag but when I started playing it never went below 60 FPS this game is amazing at every point in my opinion
I remember playing this back then , I think in 2015 when I had my $400 laptop with amd gpu 😂, surprisingly this gsmee runs just fine w/o any stutters, even w/ 2gb ram.
Dude i was watching your far cry ranking video and when it came to #1 i was like “yeah, i think primal deserves that spot” snd then i got backstabbed with blood dragon :( lmao
i remember the thing that annoyed me a bit in this game is how generic and similar all the enemies look. i mean its something if they are in an army or something. but as bandits and similar i think they should differ a bit more. body models all the same it seems. i dont know how it was in bound in blood, bc its been to long.
I love this game on the Switch, with gyro aiming. Played it many times. I also loved XIII on the Gamecube. I definitely WON'T be getting the remake IF it even still comes to Switch. They seem to have handled EVERYTHING about it completely wrong, which is actually sad because I DID want it and did thin it was a very easy game to just slightly enhance and be perfect again.
This game's great but I have no idea why it's not it's own thing instead of thrown into Call of Juarez. Juarez isn't mentioned in it at all from what I recall.
I've put an unbelievable amount of time into Gunslinger. Never really get sick of it. It just FEELS good to shoot at stuff. After unlocking everything on Xbox 360 and again on Xbone, I've started unlocking everything on PC. And honestly, the game is fun on Xbox. But the arcade is best on pc.
Most people dont know this but when The first Borderlands was showcased gameplay wise it wasn't cell shaded it actually had realistic style graphics and I thought it looked amazing for the year but then they swapped to cell shade halfway through to match the humor I guess
Everyone should be changing the shadow rez to 4096, the regular 1024 pixel shadow size is way too shimmery and low quality. Also due to probably how the engine is built or a x86 limitation for it, the game crashes with 8192 rez for the shadows, even with the "Large Adress Aware" mod. Eh.
