I must say, as much as I wouldn't call this a great or necessarily even fun game, the constant need to; manage resources, be extremely careful when doing anything, the constant never ending need to hurry up, and the looming sense of paranoia at all times really does sound like the work environment of someone trying to clean up a radioactive disaster.
The only real way you can derive fun out of this is the satisfaction of making progress through each level cluster, and having an over-the-top happy ending where you basically are the best hero ever and get all the money, sexual partners, and anything else you'd ever want. THAT's how you end a hard game.
And your reward is... radiation poisoning! Congratulations! You have successfully contained the nuclear fuel rods and prevented a China syndrome event! Due to the amount of radiation your body has absorbed, however, you yourself must be isolated from the rest of society. No returning home, visiting your family, or financial compensation, just some morphine pills to ease your way into an early grave. Oh, by the way, here's a mention in the papers for your efforts. You earned it.
@@Sierra026 but we cant let you go alone because you might tell people about other design flaws and make our country look bad so we will put you into watch 24 7 so you never ever talk to anybody for the rest of your life Sorry
As a certified welder, I can say that if they crammed a requirement for a welding cert in the game, that space station would be gone before you’d even be able to take the test.
The robot voice Ross uses here, also at the start of the Spiderbot episode sounds a lot like H3mmer I just noticed. I keep expecting him to go "Play the game, Civvie."
15:30 This is why Game Dungeon is not just my favourite thing on the internet - it's my favourite _thing_ period. Ross is able to make me angry and upset about stuff I haven't even heard of and will never affect me. I hadn't heard of Quadralien before now, and I knew within seconds of the video starting that I'd never play this game. But now I'm so furious at cheat sites copy-pasting incorrect information that I *have* to see the end of this game. Everything depends on it now. Life has meaning now. [/unpause]
I don’t usually like commenting but I have to say this is my favourite channel on RU-vid. Ross stands to be one of the most interesting people I’ve come across ever, he has an incredibly unique outlook on everything almost like he’s stared into the eye of madness and wants to share the tale. This video was uploaded as I was admitted into hospital after being operated on, it’s probably the morphine that’s encouraging me to write this but for someone with a selection of holes cut in him I couldn’t be happier
It never fails to amaze me how some old games seem to have crazy and detailed backstories for somewhat simplistic gameplay. One of my favorite examples is "Vangers". The game is basically a top-down driving/trading/fighting open world with destructible environment and freedom of action, but the story is about post-humans-insects, chains of worlds, parallel dimensions, philosophy and what not. Even the game manual is in character. Wonder if Ross has heard of it.
Well, it was localized and people have heard of "Ex Machina (Hard Truck Apocalypse)" from the same studio. But then again, some games that Ross covers are pretty obscure.
Also, on the subject of the "otherspace"... That's you breaking out of the level's area in memory and going into the rest of the game data. As you can imagine, wandering around there can cause serious issues, especially if you start giving the "level" what for with the laser. :P
Ross, you are truly insane. But the good kind of insane. The kind that's willing to go to the depths of Hell, just to get answers, and share them with the rest of the world.
I appreciate the amount of effort Ross puts into his videos, he plays the games til the end no matter how retarded or bad the design is to show us the journey and the ending.
Ross finds a completely playable and non dos game that's pretty bad in terms of story only. Ross: "Oh man, fuck no, I can't finish this"! Finds an old dos game with shitty controls, rigged gameplay and floppy saves. Ross: "Yeah, I can get this done in a week or so".
ea sells dlc for their dlc's (sims4) and now this microtrans hopefully will not be the future for gaming but it will take everyone to refuse to purchase these games that ask full price for a game and then charge for saves. / tho microtrans in ftp is ok in my book so long as its decoration(like fortnite)/ doesnt give an unfair advantage (ptw)
yeah but to be fair weve had mmo games do the exact same thing for a long ass time but virtually nobody got pissed off, and some of them were monthly payment-based subscriptions, not one-time purchases but also to be fair, fuck konami for eternity, obviously
Well, there goes people asking me where I got the username from. Come to think of it, I think some friends will say this explains a few things about me, as well. :)
This was a wonderful episode, while every Game Dungeon tends to be one of the best things on youtube, This one just felt so deeply intriguing, given the subject material.
Quadralien, Captain Zzap, Baldies, and Contraption Zack are my favorite Game Dungeons alongside Armed and Delirious. There's just something about these really obscure old PC games that really goes well with Ross's style.
Wait... You haven't seen aliens like the quadraliens... So what kinda aliens have you seen? Were they Greys? Lizard people? Space farts? Don't pull an admiral on us Ross.
I love your videos Ross! Old video and obscure video games are my crack, and watching your videos are the best way to get them. Thank you so much!! Can't wait for more
I love games like these, rare they may be. Seeing the game through the eyes of a controller who can only see a simplified/symbolic version of the world being sensed by the technology they are using. I get this same feeling from that game "Duskers" which is actually pretty similar in some ways to Quadralien, wish more devs would use this sort of visual style.
I always find it funny that even when out-of-bounds Ross still cleans up one of the radiation tiles, reality is compromised and collapsing into utter chaos, "but hey look, radiation." *cleans*.
I've played an old DOS game once called "Evasion" - it was a 3D game about escaping from alien activity. I found it on some CD-R I got from a friend two decades ago along with Blood shareware and a ton of other DOS games. The CD-R was even called something like 128 DOS Games. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure I don't have this CD-R any more. I've tried finding this game online, but there seems to be no trace of it whatsoever. The matters are worsened by the fact that ther's a modern game called "Evasion". If anyone ever stumbles upon it, please let me know. I'm curious what that was, but I was a child back then and I don't remember much of it.
Hey there! So, I’ve found a few different games that may be what you’re talking about. I’ve yet to stumble upon a game just called “Evasion”, but here’s what I HAVE found that fits your description. www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/corridor-7-alien-invasion/ www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/eradicator/ Are any of these what you’re looking for?
Here’s a few more as well. www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-game.php?abandonware=Alien+Cabal&gid=1679 www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-game.php?abandonware=Descent&gid=1237 www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-game.php?abandonware=In+Extremis&gid=976 www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-game.php?abandonware=System+Shock&gid=2522 Hope this helps you find what you’ve been looking for.
Hey Ross, I don't comment much man, but I just thought that I'd thank you for creating content for us that's always top quality and never compromising that despite what you may or may not be dealing with. I've been around these parts since Freeman's Mind's first April fools episode, and lemme tell ya (if you didn't know) but seeing this channel grow and find itself and evolve to what it is has been damn near amazing. From breaking with Machinima, to meeting self-imposed Christmas deadlines, to branching out with other content such as this, and even to content the viewers aren't even aware of yet (THE MOVIE), you've done a shitload for us. So thanks man. I also think I'm a little more self aware now where I'm comfortable saying you were among some of the select few game oriented channels I watched back in high school that cemented my decision to go to university for game development...which may seem a little random but your personality mixed with the content you provide I believe definitely was one of the contributing factors. Hope you're doing well, my guy :)
I was one of the five people in the world that played this game as a child. It was confusing as fuck and I never really made much headway, but I loved it for some reason. What a joy to relive it like this! You're the best, Ross. You might have fun with another game I played around that time called "Archipelagos."
For those wondering what the credit music is, it's part of the Quadralien soundtrack from the Amiga copy. Took a while to find, but here you go: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mh2TE8VQWZg.html
God, I love the Game Dungeon. Don't care how long each episode takes, Ross - it's always gold. You're the best; you're the only one on the internet who can find, finish and explain these bizarre little gems! Thanks for the entertainment, dude _* salutes *_
Stop me if I'm wrong, but I think that the Quadalien Queen is the kindest final boss in gaming history. Rarely do you get such a sincere apology from the FINAL BOSS. Mini-Bosses, occasionally, certain boss battle aftermaths mid-way through the game? Yes. The last boss/true boss? Rarer than Astatine. You don't even get any direct malice or scorn from her either. Just a self-aware acknowledgement of a lacklustre congratulations in text form.
There seem to be a lot of PC games where you control a robot that has to solve puzzles, sometimes they have a laser. Usually aliens are involved. Spiderbot, Maabus and this.
God damn Ross. I don't think any videos in my subscription box get me more hyped than yours. You've continually produced quality content over the course of YEARS and it always seems to only be getting better and better. These game dungeon videos are so fascinating and I love learning about these old games while listening to your unique perspective on them. Keep up the great work and thank you for the entertainment.
so the fate of the protagonist was isolation on a satellite with a few bots for friends? I hope they had some cheesey movies to keep themselves occupied...
Man... My dad's 386 had this game, and at the time I was too young to have ANY hope of ever understanding what was even going on -much less complete more than one or two tasks. I did enjoy the illustrations of the bots, and it was the first game where the time limit stressed me out.
Big ups Ross, you introduced me to a new game I've never heard of, then did all the heavy lifting of actually getting it working, and then beating it, all while making an entertaining video about it. Well done, if only the quadraliens didn't get to me first....
I can only imagine how pissed Ross is at himself after saying he wanted to release the video sunday/monday maximum and managing just today, he is one of the few content producers that honestly care for people waiting for their content to come out, and i my friend can respect that, i respect you Ross
I had this game once, but I couldn’t play it primarily because I had no idea how to use DOS at the time. (It was a VERY long time ago.) So thank you, Ross, for covering this.
How comes there aren't more views on this video and on the most recent one?? The mysteries of RU-vid again... One creates the best content ever and then nobody sees the videos in their subscription feeds (though, by "nobody" I still mean TENS of THOUSANDS of human beings).
I played Severence: Blade of Darkness the other month and I think you'd like it tough-as-nails 3d RPG from 2001 and it seems to have inspired a lot of the souls-y stuff we see today but its completely forgotten about. It's in dire need of a remake
you seem to have a knack for finding games so obscure that what little info there is out there is wrong. i'd say kudos, but it seems to mostly only frustrate you
Everybody at the start of a new Game Dungeon episode: "Yay! New upload from Ross!" Everybody at the middle of a new Game Dungeon episode: "What the fuck."
Man, this entire game looks well beyond my puzzle tolerance, but that ending is strangely satisfying in an unsatisfying way. its like "oh of COURSE everything I have been doing up until this point was for nothing." the game has been gearing you for this
Had this for the Atari 1440. Never understood the objectives, or the meaning of most of the GUI. Never progressed beyond the first level. Still have a positive memory of it, though. ...Actually, maybe it was called '1044', or something. I'm not even sure about that anymore.
