Let's hope their Robocop game next year shows even more improvement. I've been wanting to pickup this game but kept pushing it off. I probably snag it on my next paycheck. After the years of crap Terminator movies, it would be nice to have something that feels like actual heart was put into it
I know right? Rambo The Video Game was pretty bad. I say give these devs more license games like: Judge Dredd, Aliens/AVP, Starship Troopers, Die Hard, etc. Maybe try Rambo again too.
It's a weird quote because as funny and goofy as it is it sounds like he's also trying to express a genuine passion and joy he has with lifting. The way he describes it almost sounds vaguely unhealthy but I think it's understandable enough if he was just trying to explain how good it makes him feel. At the very least he's certainly passionate haha.
I think more people need to learn that last point; Games are *games,* they don't have to shake the industry. If it's fun and feels great to play that can be all it needs to be. Plenty of games get overlooked for not doing everything to revolutionize video games as a medium and that can keep you from playing a lot of fun games that might be your favorite even if they're not GOTY.
It's weird this has to be said, no doubt all of us as kids have played some junk that we still love, surely at least most of us should understand that a game doesn't have to be conventionally "great" to like or even love it
Well I had a discussion on Twitter with someone for this same reason. The guy in question stated that Horizon Zero Dawn wasn't such a great game and neither it or the sequel deserved so much praise because they didn't revolutionized videogames and that breath of the wild is a much better game. I love breath of the wild and I'm looking forward for the sequel but the statement he made is fucking stupid, I told him that Twilight Princess for example is a great game and it isn't revolutionary, quite the opposite indeed. Then even if I like how innovative BOTW is Twilight Princess is too among my favourite Zelda games and is linear and conservative as fuck but if a game is really well done it can be praised even if it is not innovative. Today people talk about games as if everyone had to be a life changing experience and I like games that expand how gaming is perceived but I also like simpler experiences and many people seems to think the same as many games are going back to 2D graphics.
@@twincherries6698 I think this misses the point a bit, it wasn't "well it could be better" thats the main thing, its "this is pretty good, not fantastic but a good time still". This is a pretty good if not impressive game. Its worth playing because of that, but many people wrote it off because what i can only describe as standards being too high for games despite the bar being at an all time low from the AAA market.
I think my favorite part of this game and one of my favorite visual storytelling moments in any game I've played is (spoilers sort of, not really) a part of the game where you come to a locked door with a note written next to it. The note says something about the person who wrote it tried everything to open it and that they believed if they ever got it to happen the war would suddenly just end. If you have a high enough lock picking skill you can open the door, and once you walk through it you turn around and realize that you could have just walked around it and the whole building is destroyed, and that there was nothing inside after all. You also get an achievement called "No hope."
This game and the DLC are fucking phenomenal, especially if you love Terminator 1 and 2. It only honors the continuity of those two movies, and it perfectly captures the atmosphere of the Future War scenes from the films.
Wait, so it's not connected to any of the other sequels? I've been avoiding this game because I thought it was a tie in with Dark Fate, but if that's not the case then I guess I'm off to buy it immediately lol. Thanks for the good news!
Yeah I agree. Just cause a game doesn’t push the envelope of what games can do or have eye bleedingly realistic visuals doesn’t mean it’s bad. There are enough good games styled after the snes era out there to prove that point.
Yup. That also goes for other media. I get how cutting edge content should be standard, I'm only saying there's enough fun to have with less "advanced" stuff too.
My dear friend bought me an Xbox Series S so we could play games together (bless him). I haven’t played Xbox since 360 (and that broke when the first Assassin’s Creed came out). I still kept my nose in Microsoft’s business and what they were up to over the years. I recall looking at launch games like “Ryse: Son of Rome” and later titles like “ReCore” thinking how quaint they came off, seeming more like the OX/GC/PS2 era in their conventions compared to that period’s (then novel) trends. Fast-forward to present; I’ve been combing through titles on Game Pass and installed those two specifically wanting to see some 1st party Xbox games (beyond Gears of War, Forza and Halo) recalling those and actually sort of fascinated that I’d relegated them to just ‘never be played’ in some sort of staunch condemnation. And you know what? I was right. They are quaint with game design of an already bygone era, with sprinklings of conventions that were to come and are here (good lord are they here). But! They were well crafted, original in their own manner and fun. My friend’s were confused that I’d bother touching these games versus what else is on offer, as they were seen as (as I previously thought as well) an “obsolete showcase” and “Failed IP”. And when asked about them, neither did I arrive from ‘On High’ to tell them, “I have found the greatest titles of all!” Nah, and they won’t be liked at all by plenty for legitimate reasons. But I could solidly recommend them as offering a good time and that they may be worth a try depending on your taste, but they aren’t going to rock your world either.
@@8Kazuja8 When a game's budget is smaller like that it lets you really see where the care was put in, especially graphically. You can tell the devs on this loved Terminator because despite everything else, all the models for stuff that was in the movie are near flawless.
@@8Kazuja8 sega had great but occasionally janky replayable games. Then they focused on the casual market... Monkey ball died, sonic got mostly terribly boring games in the 2010s, they made the game... Competent,but not fun or well designed.
Oh I've looked into the difficulties of this thing due to confusion on early reviews and how the game changed and *holy crum* it's insane. The game got a rebalance update in March of 2020 on pc (later pushed to consoles) and double check this but apparently the "improved balance of difficulty levels" change meant that *easy difficulty was now harder than the old extreme difficulty*. If true, my gosh that's an entirely different game! I have never heard of a difficulty overhaul that heavy before.
I bought the game day one, played and beat it on extreme. It needed the rebalance. The devs listened to the players, asked for feedback, and fixed the issues with the game. Not just difficulty, but spawn rates, graphical glitches, new graphics modes...they really went all out.
Yeah I played it on launch, extreme was probably where normal difficulty is now. Extreme mode now is actually really REALLY difficult, but imo the only real way to play it. terminators spot you instantly, you die in like 3 hits, and ammo and resources are scarce. It really does a great job of letting you experience the dread of post judgement day life like the first film gave us a small glimpse at.
Wow that's crazy because I played it on normal last year and remember a few sections being pretty challenging so I was a little confused but it makes sense now
Was not expecting this, great to see different games on this channel. If you have preordered a Deck it would be great to see you dig into one of those. Alotta changes to Steam Input coming and the future of PCs in general.
There's a weirdly large group of people who _still_ seem to prioritize texture fidelity over good art direction. I don't think it's a majority, but it's still way more people than I'd expect.
Watching this video I saw solid looking visuals. Beats me. Maybe they wanted top of the line CG models. Can't expect every studio to blow their budget on visuals.
Theres one very obvious issue and that is first person animations and human animations, which look dull like morrowind/oblivion. That is completely unrelated to "graphics" and directly related to budget and yes, that resemblance does make it look old.
I'd say the daytime sections are meh looking, like an older fallout game. At night though, the game looks BEAUTIFUL because this game has fantastic lighting. Foggy moonlight peering through decayed buildings, purple lasers lighting up the sky and red eyes peering at you when you look around corners, you easily forget that the texture fidelity is a little blurry or the animations are a little stiff. Robotic animations aren't a huge deal when the enemies you're fighting are all robots anyway, lol.
There's something about the synths, the smoke everywhere, the neon, and the goofy yet convincing acting that activates the nostalgia neuron, I'm a Z/Millennial cusper and I felt nostalgic watching T2, The Thing, Aliens etc. when I was 15, which by all rights Should Not Happen
I had no expectation for you to ever cover this game, and yet I'm incredibly glad you did. Too many people wrote this game off at launch, and it's a shame more people couldn't appreciate it for what it is: A very solid, very passionate middle budget title. Calling this trash is honestly idiotic.
There were few to were more fair to it but its rare. Majority bashed it acting like its triole a game from Sony when its kore inbetween Bethesdas outout and good retro shooters fro Rare
Its sad because bethesda just get praised and never get flask for junk in their games people just have a laugh and meme about Todd Howard for a bit and then praise somemore maybe except TES Blades but even then its not nearly as harsh even tho it deserves it in a way. This is closest thing to olden days mid budhet games from devs that grow and develop their skills with each thing they do, while most people act like they are some shovelware developers from 2008
@@soda3185 It doesnt cant ve wrong, be terribly misinformed or treat the game unfairly. I mean you can judge a smaller budget production from pretty small studio by standards of ginourmous game studios making triple AAA games. Its closer to middle tier gsmes from 2000-2013. For what they set out to do they mostly achieved ninor shortcomings arent far from level of Bethesdas effort with say Fallout 3
Terminator Resistance supports mouse movement alongside gamepad because it's an Unreal Engine game. For some reason all Unreal games seem to have it by default, Teyon didn't intentionally put it in. The button glyphs will freak out but it still works fine.
“Why Nerrel doesnt get more views/subscribers?” Because he doesnt pander to the lowest common determinator. He does what he wants. I mean, the bloke is a Majora’s Mask modder and yet makes videos like this, Edit: to be clear - love this channel.
Great game that honors the Terminator universe in a way only fans could do. FYI there is another DLC called Infiltrator where you play as a Terminator. You get one life, can’t save, and it’s on a huge map that randomly generates items, patrols, and bases. It is EXCELLENT.
The reception of this game kinda reminds of Godhand, in the sense that while _critically_ they were a failure, the niche that the respective game target to actually liked them. And I mean for the game to have had a DLC then it must have managed a good enough performance.
I've been playing Perfect Dark with M&K lately so seeing you show Perfect Dark in this video at 6:45 makes me smile. So much nostalgia from that game. It's my favorite classic shooter. I'm also glad the game supports gyro. I think Gyro should be considered a lot more with a lot of games. It never hurts to have more options.
Honestly i never really watched Terminator, i'm barely into movies to begin with and i'm sure as shit not into Fps shooters but if Nerrel uploads you know damn well i'm gonna watch the entire vid. Dude somehow makes every topic entertaining.
Absolutely loved this game. Most criminally underrated title since 2009’s Bionic Commando. Fantastic. Game needs to be played in hard mode for the proper experience, though. I agree.
it's probably because they played on normal, in which case the game is pretty mediocre, at least half of what makes the game good is exclusive to hard mode
There's many scenes in T2 that blow my mind thinking of such a recent movie taking such risks with the stunts. Especially with it's budget. Arnold did a bunch of his own stunts and a lot of what's in that movie is near impossible to do today, especially with a well known actor doing his own stunts. Granted, not all but many where you would think it's a body double.
I think there's definitely a place for "fandom games," which may not be outstanding but still cater to fans of a certain style, franchise, or genre. I played a lot of Dragon Ball Z games when I was a kid, and as an adult I recognize that they weren't very well made, but they're full of fanservice and are competent enough to still be a blast. These games seem like they fit that bill.
Exactly like the Naruto Ultimate Ninja/Storm series and Demon Slayer Hinokami Chronicles yeah they're not especially deep fighting games but they're incredible fun and perfect love letters to their respective series
Only Nerrel can make a funny and interesting video of something like terminator, and make me want to buy it on a steam sale, its already on my wishlist by now.
I'm pissed that I never got to experience that, or the back to the future ride before universal changed them. Fucking Simpsons were already way past their prime, bttf is forever
Its ridiculous we've never gotten a blu ray release of the footage or something, I know it's only like 12 minutes of footage, but if they gave us a bunch of bonus content like the clips from cyberdyne that you watch at the event it would be worth its own release, or just add it as a bonus footage for another rerelease of T2 they put out every year. It's so good
Video game critics and "professional" critics generally have a very heavy novelty bias. If something isn't "breaking new ground" they rarely engage with it fully, and it's a laughably large disconnect this class of people has with pretty much everyone else. Most people are absolutely fine with some Kraft Mac N' Cheese and don't need every meal to be some hipster cut of steak served on a shovel and covered with glitter.
Probably because they have to rush through games to write a review. If the game isn't noticeably stunning they'll be left underwhelmed, since they won't fully engage with a game's systems or notice smaller details.
My biggest issue with the game is the fact that it's narrative is written as it it presumes the player to be the character, we're given revelations that are "shocking" or a twist only if you, like the characters, haven't seen the movies and know exactly what's coming. Most people will know that the stranger is you literally 10 seconds (no hyperbole, literally 10 seconds) into the games opening cutscene the first time he speaks because we already know time travel and going back to protect the people of the past is part of the Terminator core narrative. Also the second revelation about the machines learning to create skin to create indistinguishable Terminators and all the hints it drops along the way (skinning prisoners for "some reason", finding the corpse of the guy they clearly based Robert Patrick's Terminator on) and again because we've seen Terminator this is not a shock at all and you expect it from the moment it's first hinted at. It made the narrative feel very flat and lacking real surprise.
Finally got the game as a birthday present a few days ago and good god I'm loving it sooooooo much the atmosphere is incredible. I just done the mission in the hospital it was so scary just seeing those Terminators patrolling the halls and then when I blew up the generator and ran outside I had a heart attack when I saw the HKs flying across the sky and then a giant unit of Terminators coming towards me to investigate this game is great ^__^
Thought I'd let you know that this video never appeared in my sub box. Today I was just wondering what Nerrel was up to, so I went directly to your channel to find this.
I'd completely recommend this game. It feels as natural as can be and it does a good few things with the setting that haven't been done but seem completely obvious. If you want a Terminator 3, it's this game. Plus the Terminator trademark is in full effect and it's actually really cool.
Playing this gem of a game for the first time now, jumped in on hard mode too. I'm a fan of the first two films/books etc. and am having such a blast slinking around this world. Ill put it up there with alien isolation for fan service and sticking to source material. Made with love and respect.
The mode where you play AS an Terminator was also fun, if a little out of place because enemies can kill you at the same rate as the main campaign. But it was fun to yet dudes into other dudes. I'm still holding out hope for a good Terminator game where you fully play as a T-800, lifting trucks above your head and tossing them and bursting through a wall duel wielding twelve gauges.
I feel like they should have released level packs for that mode, or hell make a spin off game with that basic format. It's hilariously fun picking up dudes and throwing them way up in the air, using a minigun to cut down hordes of resistance members, and destroying their food reserves lmao.
Your channel has always been one of my favorites. Did you ever play Metal Arms: Glitch in the System? Amazingly fun 3rd person shooter but it suffered from really campy dialogue and the campaign was just a bit longer than it probably needed to be, but I seriously enjoyed it.
So excited for this studio's Robocop game to come out. With Terminator, they've demonstrated a lot of skill making licensed games that are fun for all and satisfying for the fans, and with Robocop I firmly expect them to, do a perfectly serviceable job. They're gonna do just enough. They're gonna make a 6.5/7 out of 10 Robocop game. That's all I could ask for. I love that. The world needs more cute little games that are good enough.
Also, Resistance was made on a pretty tight budget, but I think it actually was somewhat of a small hit for the studio. I wouldn't be surprised of RoboCop ends up being a little higher budget and more polished than resistance. But even if its on par that means its guaranteed to be quality
I’ll take this as the third sign to play this game, which happened as following: -Civvie11’s review -Then recently with how much I was enjoying “Aliens Fireteam Elite” (wish the game got the “Aliens; Colonial Marines” title first..), which triggered my nostalgia with proper sets and sound design leading me to think about “that Terminator game Civvie covered..” and how it may give me a similar hit. Which leads us to.. -This video.. I don’t comment often, but I respect your opinion, love your pacing and enjoy your channel quite a bit. Thanks.
I loved Resistance, there are so many great references and like you said so much heart. I liked the term some people used for it, "fallout 3 light." I could easily play another of these games and somehow I had no idea there was a paid DLC in addition to the free one the dropped not long ago!
For the record, their follow up project, Robocop Rogue City was pretty good too. I found Terminator Resistance right after Dark Fate dropped...and, well, let's just say there's a reason I go back to games that are bugged or rough edged, like STALKER, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth and Deus Ex over most of the shit that's pumped out these days...because the people who made it actually gave a shit.
Honestly I feel the focus on more and more realistic graphics has come to the detriment of other areas of video-game development. I'll get this game if I it's on sale.
I think there is a lot of guys like me (not old, but old school), when Nerrel talk about the small details you can sense he's right, because he is considering the factor TIME (or nostalgia). I've been playing Resistance, and yes, it's not polished, its not the best action game, its not the game you can expect to change industry, but i still want it to play it, because you get that emtoion about surviving.
I have not given a damn about Terminator in years, but it's Nerrel so I'm tuning in. Nerrel could explain how to do your taxes and I would still click.
>Not every game you play has to be a game of the year winner I wish more people had this view because hell, look its perfectly okay to have a game that's just pretty good and doesn't push any real boundaries, it's just fun and you'll probably beat it in a weekend and enjoy yourself but not some genre innovator or anything. Just something that's perfectly functional, not a high budget super polished game, it's just fun and you can tell the developers weren't trying to make a quick buck or something. People get way too prissy over graphics or gameplay that doesn't adhere to what this year's current AAA games do. God forbid your shooter doesn't have a sprint button or something.
I recommend the first two. I think the third one is good but flawed. Salvation wanted to show the future war, but got caught up in trying to make unnecessary changes to its detriment. The rest are garbage.
I would say T1 and T2 are some of the best movies ever made. A lot of people hate T3 but it's actually a pretty good action movie, one of the last classic action movies with arnie that we'd ever get, but as a terminator sequel it is sort of a poor mans T2. Salvation is good but not really a good terminator movie. the last 2 are probably some of the worst movies of the last decade
Always glad to see more from you Nerral! And please, don’t sleep on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Even after all the sequels, I still consider it the true continuation of T1/T2. So many incredible episode premises and executions. Even the titles rock The Demon Hand What He Beheld Samson and Delilah The Tower is Tall but the Fall is Short Allison from Palmdale Self Made Man Today is the Day
I never heard of this game until now. But it seems pretty neat because I am a big fan of the first two films. If I could more or less experience the original third movie that we never got then this game is fully worth playing for me. This seems kind of like how the Ghostbusters video game is the unofficial third movie that we never got for that series as well.
It basically is the third movie we never got. It's a prequel that sets up the first two movies, and your actions can even affect the outcome (killing mack before he can reprogram the infiltrator chip means no arnie in T2 to be sent back, lmao)
I loved "Resistance" and have played it 10 times through, so far. It has its quirks and cringe moments, but the fan service does it far more justice than it's given credit for, as do the DLCs.
I didn't mind the dialogue or close-up camera when talking to NPCs. I knew it was jank. I bought the game after Gmanlives reviewed it and i'm glad I did. I also bought Annihilation line on principle. I have yet to play it, but i'm happy to vote with my wallet in this case.
i pirated this game when it came out cuz I didn't have much money, beat it, loved it enough to buy it on steam afterwards on sale just to support the devs
Thanks for bringing this game to my attention put it on my steam wishlist and may pick it up on a sale. Seems like Terminater Resistance suffered the same fate as Alien Isolation, A good game tainted by bad IGN reviews.
Yeah Alien Isolation is the closest I can think of to this game. Very faithful to the source material, and understands what was great about it. The stealth sections are actually pretty similar too, playing on the hardest difficulty with hud options turned off is very tense
