► Why do I own... - Pound of Ground ?

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In this episode, TotalBiscuit goes through his Steam list, taking a look at Pound of Ground, a shoot'em up with red car and lots of zombies.

[@Essence_of_Flowers]

Red car you say? 10/10 Game of the Year -IGN

[@RhokuTV]

OMG YOUR STEAM LIBRARY!!!

[@powersjr7129]

I know. It gives me anxiety. Love watching these old TB videos though. Rest in peace.

[@DeafInLeftEar]

You had me at "red car" TAKE MY MONEY DAMMIT!

[@cynicalbrit]

Version that mattered (the PC one) was in 2008.

[@KyleKatarnBanthaHerder]

The music during the intro cutscene, when the monster shows up, is taken from Hitman Contracts. Specifically, the track "Sanitarium".

[@OdaSwifteye]

Judging from the dialog in this game I assume Tommy Wiseau wrote for Pound of Ground.

[@jonathanvanacker9083]

my friend bought me 2 games first Bad Rats then pound of ground

[@mrtbrix]

When I first played this game, a few years ago, I didn't think it was that bad. It was enjoyable while it lasted, as long as you kept to the action and didn't listen to the storyline, and the music wasn't that bad. I only realized how out-of-place it was when I began to build up a collection of better games.

[@Biovirulent]

Kingdom hearts 2 had an extremely slow beginning. But it was amazing.

[@gh0stmc]

kingdom sharts

[@Biovirulent]

u wot m8

[@DarkOnOneSide]

Oh my god, i'm crying right now the voice acting at the beginning is so goddamn funny.

[@Candiecane908]

I can't handle the voice acting! I fucking can't!

[@Nutmegowns1]

It's like they tried to rip off the visual style of Psychonauts but gave up halfway.

[@lucarioshows]

The voice acting is so bad that i died and now i'm a terribly animated zombie

[@elFulberto]

One piece of music is "47 Detected" by Jesper Kyd, from Hitman Contracts. Other music is most probably also "borrowed" from other sources.

[@BBagginsofBagEnd]

The real question is Why do I not own this?

[@excelatrate]

Did this game nick that track at 5:40 from Hitman Contracts?!

[@koga924]

this game actually looks somewhat amusing, probably because of games like COD: Ghosts, The War Z, Bad Rats, and Ace of spades....... I wish I never bought any of those

[@WateryFool]

It would probably help if he had a map

[@cynicalbrit]

So were Grand Theft Auto 4, Bioshock, MGS4, Super Mash Bros Brawl, Gear of War 2, Fallout 3, Rock Band 2, Mass Effect, Fable 2, Dead Space, Persona 3 FES, Burn out Paradise, The World Ends with You, GRID, Resistance 2, Sins of a Solar Empire, Valkyria Chronicles, Patapon, Soul Calibur 4, Far Cry 2, Crysis Warhead, No More Heroes, N+, Crisis Core, Battlefield Bad Company, Wipeout Pulse, Civ 4: Colonization, Condemned 2, Castle Crashers, Red Alert 3, Motorstorm, Saints Row 2 Whats your point?

[@foxman105]

This game seems to me like a ridicule of 3rd person zombie kill-it-all games. It obviously doesn't take its self seriously and the characters are deliberately bad. Heck they're even breaking the 4th wall in the beginning, saying that the hero has no idea how or why is he there and some random voice... the general just told him that he is important... I think its an interesting and amusing concept, just poorly executed. It has potential, but needs polishing.

[@johnnythm777]

It's obviously meant to be a comedy. The problem is that the jokes are painfully unfunny because of the awful writing and acting. In fact, if it WERE meant to be taken seriously, it might be easier to laugh at it, but a terrible comedy is almost like a joy vacuum.

[@TheKingOfAllfGaming]

TB should really be using Steam Roulette for this but probably not available at the time. If ever brought back, do Inside Gaming Style.

[@yogalD]

So it's got lots of zombies, that's alright and all, but the most important thing is that it's got Red Car.

[@MrSlaughterrific]

All games need 30% more Red Car

[@KerzacTransformed]

This game is still available too

[@KeyOfTwilight777]

That first cutscene. What a terrifying preview of the madness to follow.

[@cynicalbrit]

In what universe is this true. The first level of Deus Ex is one of the finest pieces of design in the history of gaming. The complete freedom to approach the target in any way you choose, the usefulness of every single skill to a greater or lesser extent, the number of secrets to find and the inherent vulnerability of an inexperienced and underequipped JC contribute to one of the most memorable openings in PC gaming history. So no, comparing the two is dumb.

[@Zadamanim]

My name is Farmer, Local Farmer.

[@RedRoomKids]

This dialogue sounds like it was run back and forth through google translate multiple times.

[@Stike96official]

ROFL that ending :D.

[@spwolftech]

RIP Legend. Its 2022 and your still missed. (I wish KZbin would stop making me change my memorial comment every 20 videos. When did they implement this new annoyance?!)

[@ThePercussionGun]

WAIT A SECOND. At 5:16. That music is from Hitman: Contracts. It's called "Sanitarium".

[@VisualBasicnerds2000]

The steam game library we wish we all had...

[@Scarfy397]

That general sounds like Ren from Ren and Stimpy.

[@andartarius]

what the ...that dialogue... those cutscene...i dont even know what is life anymore, it seems like the person who did that game deliberatly made a very confusing dialogue and cutscenes

[@JojoDigitalArtist]

Watched this video the day it came out and didn't finish it for some reason. Came back to it today and it still remembers the time I was at when I stopped. Why can't youtube do that for a video I watched 10 seconds ago.

[@ripetoad]

On an off-topic note: I am highly impressed by your extensive Steam library.

[@DaemonCaedo1]

If this game were free, it would be hilarious and possibly worth the time for that.

[@Gakusangi]

I agree entirely, you can fairly judge a game within the first half our to an hour at most. Anything that can't draw you in in that amount of time didn't come in with its best right away and therefore didn't make itself worth your time and effort and YES both of those are valuable to you. It's the same reason why I didn't care for either Duke Nukem Forever or Final Fantasy XIII, neither drew you in right away and therefore I couldn't invest in them.

[@Hellbane224]

Yikes. I'm not sure how he played this, I can barely WATCH it.

[@alexoelkers2292]

There's definitely worse games out there. At least it's playable. It's a Indy game, just needs some polishing

[@r4ndomboy]

10:40 House of the Dead: Overkill perhaps? Best zombie game music ever.

[@Kyle-McGough]

I've got to say that the death at the end of video was pretty cool. Watching all those coins spew out of you was pretty awesome.

[@ChillQuagan]

Cus that's the American way xD

[@LunarPriestessYT]

This game is cursed for real

[@GamerTheEpic]

I think the graphics are pretty fucking rad.

[@SynthLizard8]

In the briefing at the beginning, why is Hitman: Contracts music playing?

[@EbonMaster]

What you consider control and control of pace also applies to books or even a series of pictures. Its the equivalent of turning the page or moving to the next picture. You also control what order you look at the pictures and so you control "where you go". Also what determines that its a game? The fact that the word "game" is in the description on steam?

[@grashkorelite4627]

inb4 copyright strike from Centauri Productions

[@ZanraiKid]

I fell asleep mid-playthrough. No joke.

[@UngusBungus]

Oh god the mexican accent is much too overblown/overdone. It does get on the nerves quite fast.

[@SoulSolarflare]

Gotta love the logic behind unlocking the gate. "We're not gonna let you attack the lock to break it, you gotta press your activation button THEN the character will attack it himself in an unneeded cinematic scene". If it weren't for these videos I might actually own some of this crap, thanks for saving all of us some time and money TB, even if it ment you had to sacrifice some of your own.

[@organas]

Thanks for making another one was waiting for one of these for a long time

[@ronyncato7206]

This video makes me feel much better about my purchasing choices on Steam.

[@Finstaa]

looks like fallout

[@Roxfox]

JAMESTOWN! Oh god, that was driving me crazy! How can I know a song so well that I can hum along to most of it and have NO clue where it's from? Man, I feel like a genius now that I finally figured it out. Such a relief... Now I can watch the rest of the video, at last.

[@MyBeebles]

Lmao I don't know what it is, but something about Total Biscuit's sarcastic remarks and statements of the obvious always crack me up xD! Good stuff TB

[@Moffi9000]

Pound of Ground :D!? more like pound of shit

[@ChillQuagan]

Puns.... I need more...

[@benj32141]

pound of ground.. hmm... kinda like a jar of dirt?

[@suddenlycrows]

Geez this is the most annoying voice acting I've ever heard!

[@ACRaptor17]

the voice acting is absolutely awfull

[@Loafy23]

I understand that but at 3:00 when he went to install the game Steam listed that he only had 3.8gigs of space left and the install would take 1.4gigs of that. Systems with low space typically don't run as well as systems with lots of space free.

[@williamclose9351]

i would love to see TOTALBISCUIT the game or movie i mean that with all respect

[@cynicalbrit]

That's nice but since you haven't played it your opinion doesn't mean anything. Feel free to purchase it and make a video of these amazing things that you like. Let me know when you do.

[@Rehvidepaigaldus]

I think it was in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends that the little blue dude said something along the lines of "If the first 5 minutes of the movie are boring, the whole movie is boring" so its only true to judge a game the same way

[@cynicalbrit]

But since I know it's not forced and there's no justification or reasoning behind why the person in question believed it was forced (which is itself something that could be used to refine the presentation of the series), the criticism is of no value. Please understand I get enough criticism every day to cause the tragic suicide of a thousand emo teens and most of it doesn't tell me why they think that so I can't use it in any way.

[@EveHawthorne]

Best voice acting and dialog in any game ever

[@cynicalbrit]

Cynicalbrit works too, plus y'know the big banner at the start of every video is a dead giveaway

[@godfather12m]

I wonder how they were able to use music from Hitman Contracts in the game.

[@MisanthropeMurphy]

Just out of curiosity, do you ever plan to do PS3 games? I always have enjoyed first impressions of games even if I already know the game since usually a bit of insight comes along with it and was wondering if you had checked out Playstation All Stars Battle Royale.

[@Calvinosaur]

What WEREN'T the typos? They were in every subtitle and every tutorial box. The one that I remember in particular is "steering whee."

[@TheBrokenEclipse]

what sort of "stuff" was so amazing or had any sort of promise that it would become better later on?

[@OffhandDelivery]

I can't stop thinking that general is going to pull a zipper and Ren from Ren & Stimpy is going to jump out of a costume and reveal himself.

[@AnkoTime]

Does anyone know the name of the song that plays at the beginning? It's beautiful.

[@ChronoZerom]

really digging the "Why do I own" series

[@augyal]

DAM TB u got a whole collection of games in steam! I wish I had your account :D Btw gj keep up the good work in your wtf is (own, have) series!

[@FF18Cloud]

Wait... is that from Jamestown? that piano song? If not, is it from Final Fantast 12?

[@GoblikonBox]

I definitely would like more of this series, even if you had to re think the formula.

[@Calvinosaur]

Since the first "Why do I own ..." video was about Bad Rats, it really shouldn't come as a surprise.

[@bengalcat34]

Oh my god, Total biscut read my mind. Right when he said "I hope the driving in this game is good" I thought about brutal legend aswell but my copy of it got stolen.

[@samgamgi]

Thanks for the heads-up. I played the first mission of Deux Ex and I kind of share your opinion, and, because of that, I just thought "a lot of people told me this game was good, oh well, I guess this game isn't for me", and just left it to rot. I'll continue it whenever I can.

[@kolega281]

Yeah, casual bowling FTW I think we can all agree we want a 24hr livestream of zombie bowl-o-rama

[@SLiDEnl]

I think TB know's best how to provide entertainment for his own bloody videos, after all he's the one who's build it up from the ground down, and made it into a success. Just by doing what he thought was best, or funny.

[@STEPHENDANERD]

Seeing the wallpaper at the bottom of the page at start makes me want to know what it is because it looks interesting... I always have aero off so I never see mine, everything runs so much better with it off

[@Fiery891]

He said 607 in the Bad Rats video, and that's 3 months old now so I'm guessing he's in the ~620 area by now

[@XFrozenAshX]

This game seriously looks like something one of my Tutors would chuck together for us to test when we were just learning to games test...

[@X4ZID]

Excuse me Mr Biscuit, but could you tell me how many games are in your steam library?

[@LeonKakashi]

What music are you using? :) It's awesome!

[@TigerKirby215]

"This is where the game becomes a really good version of *Brutal Legend* right?" Ech... I think... I think that was my heart... I couldn't deal with remembering... that...

[@R4Z0R98]

Notice how none of the pictures TB clicked on after reading the description showed the promised "red car" or "lots of zombies"

[@MiloticMaster]

The classical music in the beginning makes me crack up every time.

[@swagmasterjeff8184]

that general will win an oscar before decaprio

[@scarekrow8]

He doesn't want us to know that he secretly enjoyed it and has put many hours into it ever since :P

[@nickfila2208]

question do you relies that car wasn't fully functional it was missing its wheels

[@cynicalbrit]

I'm not sure why you'd come to a channel called Cynicalbrit and be worried that sarcasm might happen there.

[@lazerus42]

that music...is that a piano version of the final level of jamestown?

[@Aranneas]

this is like the best dialogue I've seen

[@ThePhoenixWylde]

Did the game crash between 03:13 and 03:15 therefore needing the edit?

[@Shamalishus]

I think the comment on the 'forced' delivery of the video was more talking about you going into the game with the mindset it will be terrible (I'm not arguing that you are wrong) but perhaps going into the game a bit more open-minded might be an improvement but then that kinda defeats the purpose of the series. In my opinion i think people might just be taking this series of "Why do i own..." a little bit too seriously considering its just a bit of fun. :) Keep up the good work TB

[@gogolplex74]

5:13 That music sounds familiar

[@FellowLee]

How does a game of this quality become available for purchase on Steam?

[@payhemseht]

Battlestar Galactica got really started after a few epidoes, yet it's become my favorite series... I know, a show is different from a game, but you have to give more time to really slow burners. You might be missing out on a really good thing. I almost gave up on the show because of how slow it was at the beginning, yet it became my fave thing afterwards

[@TengouX]

Holy shit, the list of your steam games starting with the letter A is almost as big as my entire library.

[@SuperBeanSquad]

Right, well some would argue the version that "mattered" was the original or it may never had been on the PC. But I suppose you are correct in your original statement... so you win.