Speaking of the balance between style and substance, Bumbles' channel probably has the best blend between quality of videos and frequency of release I've ever seen. Every one has plenty of great jokes, are well-edited, and are written to be engaging enough to hold my attention the whole way through even on subject matter I'm unfamiliar with, due in no small part to Jack's wide range of energetic delivery. And when you've hit the end and are listening to that catchy outro, you can be satisfied knowing that it'll probably just be a couple weeks until he's put out something new for you to enjoy! So glad I found his channel.
this fucking game, i've finally fucking found this game. i used to watch my uncle play games when i was a kid, and specifically he'd play some of the most obscure ass ps2 games i've ever seen. this one particular game he played a few times before selling it to buy his next obscure game and for some reason it just really stuck with me. and for age's i've been trying to find out what in god's name the game was and all i could remember was edgy ps2 game with guns involved and i could never find it. But now thanks to my lord and saviour, Bumbles McFumbles, i've finally found it. this is like 20 years worth of anxiety trying to find this damn thing finally lifted off me.
As a note for anyone thinking about playing this for yourself, there is an error in Bumbles video. The game does have auto fire. In the settings on the main menu there's a setting called RAPID. Turn that on and your hand will thank you. Anyway, love your content Bumbles. I rewatch episodes literally daily. Keep up the amazing work and can't wait for the next one :>
It's honestly wild learning that this started out a game! I was always under the impression that is was another part of the 90s Anime Canon, exclusively.
Jump-shooting is such a power in Gungrave and Overdose. Also Balladbird Lee was the first one that killed me. And much like Asura's Wrath, I seem to have lucked into a good strategy for playing the system. I usually had enough Demolition Shots in the later levels.
I always get annoyed whenever a game I've played gets called "the best game I've never played" but I'm not sure whether I'm mad because I don't think it's that obscure or because it serves as a deep reminder that most people aren't into what I'm into.
I fear the day this happens to me with OnRush If you don't know what game I'm referring to, that is exactly my point. At least I remember seeing this one displayed on occasion
Honestly I just wish ninja shadow of darkness (yes, that's the name) would get mentioned once. Its platforming-focused arcadey bits were ass but it's a good game otherwise I swear!
I found your channel a little over a week ago after your Altered Beasts video was suggested to me. Since then I've been watching all of your videos, usually in the background while I'm working. My dude, you are an extremely funny guy and I'm so glad your stuff was recommended. The joke with Arbok back in the Household Pokémon video is easily one of my favorite jokes of yours
Wait, so you're telling me there's a shooting game where I can just plant myself in the middle of a room and let myself get shot at instead of panicking like a little sissy baby trying to look for cover and ragequitting when I continuously die as a result? Why was I not aware of this 20 years ago?! Was this game made specifically for me? Edit: "Yeah, I said it- fuck you, east" made me burst out laughing harder than anything else all week.
My favorite part of watching this vid is how the automatic captions try to caption the title of the game. My personal favorite “name” for it made was “gun grape”
As someone who watched the anime first, seeing this game, and knowing it came out before the anime, is surreal. The game and the anime seem to have completely different tones, but somehow it still works? Game looks fun too.
@@carso1500 From what I remember, first episode cold opens into game-accurate action madness. The rest is high-class serious gangster drama that takes its time to introduce the crazy back in (and even then it's not over the top and fits tonally). Starting people off with the second episode ensured that they wouldn't get hit with the whiplash or if they weren't doing the three-episode rule, outright quit early and miss out on a good anime. And it just flows better, especially if one is unfamiliar with the game (and pretty much everyone was back then).
i’m honestly really glad that this is how i’ve learned about this series edit: i have since dove headfirst into gungrave, and can happily say that i love it. i don’t know if you’ll read this, jack, but thank you for sharing this absolutely batshit insane series with us all.
I've heard that the developer's intent with the simplistic, pick up and play, and short nature of the game was to try and appeal to the busy working Japanese man who just got home from the office and just wants something quick and easy to relax with without requiring too much effort. They felt that games were getting more and more advanced and complex, so they wanted to return to a more simple arcadey style of game to appeal to said overworked businessman types.
So I've been playing Gungrave G.O.R.E. recently and I played most of the second game. Thoughts; Overdose is fun for what it is, and the length didn't bother me too much, but what REALLY bugged me is how damn *hard* it is. Seriously, if you ever make a followup to this video on Overdose, PLAY ON EASY. I played on normal and it was *hellish* after the midpoint. It wasn't even a fun kind of difficult, it was just frustrating. There's a reason I played 'most of' it and not the whole thing. G.O.R.E. on the other hand is what Overdose SHOULD have been. Tighter controls, faster movement without being blinding, a good middle ground between Gungrave's mindless power fantasy and Overdose's crushing difficulty(it can be challenging but only starts getting truly challenging in the last like eight stages out of 31), and by the time G.O.R.E. starts getting difficult you've gotten your hands on multiple different Demolition Shots, combos and stat upgrades, because yes, the game has an upgrade system using DNA points you get at the end of a stage. So it getting difficult is basically going "alright, you have all this gear, now show us you can use it right." Honestly, the sheer range of abilities Grave can wield by the game's end is amazing and has me convinced he'd make an amazing fighting game character. Also one of the melee combo finishers is a lethal dropkick and I think that's funny.
Watching this video, the game to me almost looks like a very particular, even more archaic style of game that was popular around the time: Rail Shooters, just in this case with you physically walking the rail line. Slow movement, simple controls, being at a stop to more effectively shoot what's on screen, it really looks like it has the feel of the arcade-style rail shooter, a humble beast now endangered to the point of practical extinction.
I gotta thank you for covering Gungrave. It's cause of this video that I went down the rabbit hole and have gotten to really enjoy the series. Recently picked up Gungrave G.O.R.E and I'm really enjoying it so far.
The timing of seeing this video pop up in my feed was perfect. I've been catching up on episodes I missed of a podcast I really like (Podquisition) and one of the hosts gave a super long speech that basically worked as a retrospective of the Gungrave series ending with his thoughts on G.O.R.E.
Gungrave is an underrated game and most people have forgotten about this game. I remember watching its anime adaptation,but never played the games on the PS2 when it was new at the time. I’ll give Gungrave Gore a try.
Riding an elevator to a Japanese garden at the top of building to fight a member of a rival faction at the top of that same building, who hextuple wields multiple fighting apperatuses and includes helicopters in the fight. Sounds a lot like MGR to me.
I played gungrave gore and I enjoyed it with the different combos and and demolitions shots,I never heard of the game before and until I looked it up and so that there was a whole franchise,and an upgrade system
One game that doesn't get anywhere near enough love is Gigabash. It came out in 2021, but I'm a huge kaiju fan and it got a godzilla collaboration in December. I wish more people would check it out
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