Bubsy 3D and Weirdcore 

As someone who adores the bubsy series and especially bubsy 3d. Ive always found the art direction of 3d stunning because of the surrealism. Its no nice seeing someone talking about bubsy in a half positive light (even if you still dislike the series)

He calls himself Joyless, yet he finds a lot of joy in the simplest of things.

There is so much thought and effort that goes into making these videos 😍 It really is incredible!! Mad talent! 😁

Ya I was always drawn to the visual “style” of stuff like that LSD dream emulator is similar and I adore the visual style In that.

HE'S ALIVE!!

This is a masterclass in art on weird art and I absolutely loved that intro. There is something infinity captivating about bubsy 3D that ends the second I jump onto the first platform. I'm glad to see you find passion in the game because I do see the magic of it especially retrospectively as the style made a comeback. I enjoy the music because it reminds me of british street music made on fruity loops 😂

You are without a doubt one of my favorite youtubers. Your thoughts and impressions of games are almost identical to mine, and I love your ability to blend the surreal, ethereal, and unsettling with genuinely hilarious dry humor. It's a weird feeling, getting to enjoy these uncanny valley type areas in games, but it can also be very lonely and depressing, and having the humor there to lighten the mood strikes a perfect balance for me. The moment I saw you uploaded I knew the first thing I was doing once I got off work. Welcome back man. I hope to see much more from you in the future, you're still as phenomenal as you were before.

I think the only reason Bubsy 3D doesnt work is it wasnt trying to be one of the games that ended up in the "weirdcore" genre. It was trying to put Bubsy on the level of Super Mario 64.

I remember first seeing this game at a friend's house. I knew nothing of the game, he put it on to play it and show me it. My first impression seeing the game was "What the fuck? This game is weird" The music, the weird shapes and random colors, it was just weird. I never saw it as "That bad game" when first being exposed to it, but that "Weird ass, fever dream game."

Loving the daily uploads

Woah he uploaded

Holy fuck one of my favorite RU-vidrs dropping a random video after years. When I just need background noise, I come back to this channel all the time. Thanks for feeling inspired to make another, I know this site is demotivating to make content for.

Bubsy 3D walked so Paratopic could run and I won't expand on that. In all honestly though, I completely understand and agree with your point, but at the same time it feels like these 13 minutes could be summarized in one sentence.

Oh my god im so glad you're back. Instant like.

Great to have you back again dude! your music and videos have helped me through some tough times :)

I completely agree, I always liked how Busby 3D looked and how surreal and dream like everything was. It was just how cumbersome the controls are and how annoying Bubsy is that really killed this game from being a cult classic in the future I think.

We made it two minutes before reaching Godwin's law :(

Always glad to see you digging into surreal games! You do them justice, thank you.

This owned. I get what you mean. Bubsy definitely nails the weird almost vaporwave style, except it's old enough that to be legit. I still don't think that makes it fun to *play*, because the controls are just straight up...frustrating to use. But it's a cool world and setting to *experience* and *see*. Also love the uli cameo

Look what the cat dragged in Nah but for real welcome back

So glad to see you uploading videos again! I love how you deep dive into games you've known for years and steep yourself in the details. I thought that was something only I did. It really provides a neat perspective on things that people miss if they're not paying attention (or hating Bubsy).

bros dropping a video out of nowhere glad to have you back

The GOAT is back 💪💪

Crazy to think the devs of bubsy went on to make the Syphon Filter series and Days Gone

Holy shit. I kept bugging Lexx on and off for the last year telling her to tell you to please come back.

After one year, he is finally back

Dude, finally someone putting my thoughts into a video

good to see you back, man

I think the soundtrack is genuinely good

The editing and transitions in this are amazing aaaaaaaaaa!!! Really good video, the conclusion especially is so true

I'm a huge fan of your videos and glad to see you post again! Have you played pathologic? Its a game I deeply enjoyed that is heavy on atmosphere. You may like it.

So glad to have you back again. You scratch that weird itch for me that no one else really does!

THE RU-vidR OF ALL TIME COMES BACK IM CRYING

New Joyless video, let's fucking go!!! I missed your content. Like, I can only watch "Mortal Kombat's Weird Open World RPG" so many times

Babe wake up new joyless video dropped

Forgot I was subbed to you but glad to see an upload regardless :D

I nearly spit my bloody drink out when I saw you in my sub box. Ahh can’t wait for this, missed your content so much

The fade to black for dramatic/comedic effect doesn’t work when you do it every 30 seconds

Ahh finally! I've been checking your channel out every now and then to see if you posted anything new, glad I got a notification!

Welcome back Joyless.

Glad you're back!

Hey, long time no see. And it seems you're also embracing a pseudo-vaporwave aesthetic harkening to the Windows 95 days. And it's neat to see Bubsy 3D in a new light other than "game's shit"

all these years and you're still british

Hey!! Its great to see you back my guy.

Yay, another joyless video!

yknow you bring a lotta happiness uploading for someone named "Joyless" ',:/

I was just recently rewatching some of these, a new one is always amazing

Yay you're back!

You aren't wierdo. You just build differently.

1:14 ive never heard a more MasterJay line in my life

I never got into bubsy 3d but I used to unironically like the sega genesis games

i read magazines made of actual paper when i was younger- and even they would joke about how bad Bubsy 3D is. i only ever saw it as a very early, clunky, yet somewhat admirable (Tomb Raider doesn't look THAT much better, does it?) first attempt at making a 3D platformer. i mean it didn't like erase memory cards, or cause your PSX to catch fire.

I get this, too. Like with Hitman 1 and 2. The maps feel naked and empty, but the atmospheric music furnishes it all with an atmosphere that I can't quite define. I was reminded of that in your GTA 3 video. Bubsy 3D has some of that, too. And it cemented its own little spot in my head after the ulillillia walkthroughs. But it's always just out of my reach to define it properly. Feelings can be obscure that way.

Well well well, the guy who made that really cool Mortal Kombat open world video is back again. Happy to see you again, with another quality video. #1: I see where you're coming from. There's something about the world in Bubsy 3D (not BUNDY 3D autocorrect, Jesus Christ) that's uniquely peculiar that, if channeled into a work intentionally, could be very effective. The distorted nightmare world of Bubsy 3D is kinda neat, actually. #2: I recognize TenNapel, as the Nazi (because yes, the guy who made Earthworm Jim and The Neverhood is a theocratic fascist) and of course Tony Tarantella, but who's the Rapist? I didn't recognize him from the picture.

hell yeah, to everything youre saying here - bubsy 3d has the same appeal to me as jaguar games, captivating in ways I can barely begin to describe

For the time I still reckon the game looks bad by the normal means of judging... But are right... when looking at it from a different angle the graphics can kinda look nice. They remind me of those funky animated screensavers that came with Windows 95/98.

I played Bubsy 3D several times and it isn't that bad. For the 90's it was the only game for PS1 which was 3D openworld platformer. The controlls aren't that good cuz Bubsy's turning sensitivity isn't the best. The controlls (as many youtubers say) are the worst because Bubsy is using 'tank controlls' but it was the only way how to control Bubsy in 1996 because the first PS1 controller with analog sticks was made in 1998. In my point of view is Bubsy 3D a great game. Sometimes better than Crash Bandicoot.

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I’m glad I’m not the only one who finally got around to playing bubsy 3D and didn’t hate it, I mean how could I? Games release every single day on steam or gamejolt and are sometimes worse, uglier, more janky, the works. Not to mention games like Cruelty Squad where the soul purpose is to be disgusting to look at and hard to play, it’s literally the bubsy 3D of fps games lmao. I do kinda appreciate how this game looks tho, it has a very unique style for its time, intentional or not. If you look at the other games in the series, the art style is SO bland, all the characters are generic looking would be looney toons, and all the levels are trying so hard to be sonic. Whilst bubsy 3D has nothing that comes as close to it, despite Mario 64 also having a sense of abstract surrealism, “but hey at least mario 64 is textured!!”

Man, you should play yo noid 2: enter the void.

There is a quality of early 3D games that I don't feel can ever be properly matched purely because of the abstract/ eeriness of them is by pure accident. It's not that modern recreations can't capture this, there are some modern games imitating this era that pull off this feeling quite well, but to me, nothing can quite match the early 3D days when no one knew what they were doing, tried their best, and accidently made artistic masterpieces that are absolutely abhorrent games, but still have plenty of qualities to appreciate outside of that. Sidenote, really enjoy the maturing of your content. I personally think most of your old videos hold up well, but I enjoy your modern presentation and editing style much more. Or maybe I'm biased because the topics of dissociative eeriness appeals to me more lol. It's genuinely an interesting topic that is fairly common to be interested in, but I think you have a much more unique perspective and really see the art in everything, so to speak (which yes, means most people will see you as a weirdo, but I really think it can be a compliment sometimes) Also have you heard of Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective?

I can't believe this guy called the creator of Earth Worm Jim a "rapist or nazi". I think I've fallen into the mentally ill part of RU-vid again

Video about bubsy 3d Mentions rapists and nazis out of nowhere What

Love your videos dude but you really need to find a way to fix your channel. Trying to recommend your channel to others or hell just clicking your username on this very video will take me to a totally different channel of someone call "Jay 420" instead of you. You could likely been getting a lot more subs, views and general word of mouth if youtube wasn't treating your channel poorly. Please look into that for your own sake. As for the video itself, while not as long as your other videos I feel it said all it wanted to say and I respect that. If you want to make more shorter videos in the future like how you did this one I'll be down to watch whatever show up.

Yeah you lost me calling l Doug TenNapel a "Nazi" because he doesn't agree with your gendered politics. Good grief get over yourself

Whatever happened to you? Been forever.