ParaWorld: The 3rd Best German Game of 2006

[@jauwn]

Thanks for watching! Have you ever played ParaWorld? Was this a "childhood gem" of yours? Let me know what obscure early 2000s game I should play next! Subscribe: kzbin.info/door/-nIhxjNqjcm8EmpPWBg3wA Buy me a Coffee: ko-fi.com/jauwn Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/Jauwnio

[@NenionVidi]

Hey Jauwn, I do have a very obscure German game from my childhood, but I am not sure it'd be up your alley: Desperabis. It was released in 2000, but not commercially, no, this is a freeware first person action adventure created by one or two guys on a custom engine - for MS-DOS. It was the type of game you'd find on those CDs that came with gaming magazines around that time. As far as late 90s/early 2000s freeware games went this one had a lot content for such a small team. I last tried to play it ages ago, but DosBox never wants to use the right speed. There are videos of someone playing it normally however so it should be possible. Also: there is no English translation. Keep up the good work! It's always nice to see someone shine a light on games that kinda came and went or where never really noticed at all!

[@rocketrooster2410]

Less obscure, but my absolute favorite childhood game was Heroes of might and magic 2

[@deadly-lama]

While you are on a sort of streak looking at german RTS games, I’ll pitch in both the settlers series as well as SpellForce (the latter being a true childhood classic of mine) Edit: I’ll also add Earth 2160, the factions in that one were super cool back in the day

[@MigoKazan]

I personally recommend Goblin Commander : Unleash the Horde! It's a fairly obscure console action/RTS hybrid with a lot of jank, but also a lot of charm :)

[@planescaped]

Paraworld looks like a game I'd have loved back in the day. Gives me real Age of Mythology vibes. And Startopia would be my suggestion. Or Republic The Revolution (A political/revolution sim set in a post USSR hellhole from the makers of Evil Genius). Still never seen anyone cover that game.

[@DarkOmegaMK2]

RTS games have gravitated from "some of the greater games there are available" to "at least it's not Warcraft 3: Reforged"

[@jauwn]

There's a really cool indie RTS that came out recently I like called Against the Storm, but other than that I really have only been playing Age of Empires 2 and Starcraft 2. D.O.R.F looks awesome too but that's not out yet

[@Gatorade69]

​​@@jauwnI forget the name but there's one being developed currently that looks like a spiritual successor to Command and Conquer. Ok, looked it up it's Tempest Rising. Looks pretty cool.

[@2stroke438]

​@@jauwn I came to comment about DORF.

[@Hisnitch]

Hey, Sins 2 is finally a thing!

[@jauwn]

@@2stroke438 yeah DORF is also on my wishlist, looks sick

[@nonamesorry7135]

I feel bad for SEK, I didn't even know their games existed until now but they all seem so cool and original and it feels like they deserved more praise.

[@isenokami7810]

Diggles deserves no praise, but the concept maybe did.

[@skrufff]

I'm sure you've grappled with what to do once NFT games stop being interesting to talk about, and I think you've definitely found your stride with these deep-dive essays on obscure foreign games. The amount of work you put in is impressive. Thank you for the great entertainment Jauwnathan

[@MassiveSwordAndCards]

Bro, i have waited 20 years for someone to mention paraworld to me. This game was my life for a summer and I regret nothing. "Moooooooove it!"

[@kallmannkallmann]

You German?

[@MassiveSwordAndCards]

@@kallmannkallmann nope

[@mitchv.7492]

Everyone's playing PalWorld but my boy Jauwn is playing ParaWorld 😂

[@jauwn]

Wait, I thought this was what everyone was talking about?

[@mitchv.7492]

@@jauwn Thanks for the reply mate, I found your channel not long ago and I'm glad the algorithm pushed me some quality for once. Cheers !

[@pressedv3017]

I got this game, so far the tutorial is a bit slow, can be managed a bit.

[@starleaf-luna]

ohh, THAT'S the joke!​@@jauwn

[@planescaped]

Ah the classic 00's dilemma... Blond hot girl with exposed mid drift, or exotic hot girl with exposed mid drift.

[@kwarra-an]

Midriff

[@thomasvleminckx]

a dilemma I miss having

[@jakel2837]

​@4nn4h but mid drift is way funnier

[@jakel2837]

The funny part of this is that, at least in real world fashion, crop tops are just as popular again as they were during that time

[@planescaped]

@@jakel2837 -my knowledge of fashion terms showing, lol- Totally intentional malapropism on my part.

[@Crazy_Borg]

ParaWorld was a great title. I remember game journals back then lamenting that the game as prone to fail because the RTS genre was as good as dead back then. If I am correct, it was the most expensive german videogame back then.

[@jauwn]

Yes you are correct, it was the most expensive game ever made in Germany at the time, costing 8 million Euro!

[@cbhlde]

And meanwhile we pay Til Schweiger with way more tax money to make his... "movies". :) @@jauwn

[@MarcoMaurice]

@@cbhldewait does he actually get our hard earned money? I don't want my tax euros be spent on trash movies

[@cbhlde]

Yes, he does. "Filmförderung" take a look at Google. :) @@MarcoMaurice

[@poppers7317]

@@cbhlde but with his movies he's usually able to pay the money back.

[@dad_hoc]

If you're on a "weird RTS with innovative stuff that is actually just okay overall" streak, I would LOVE to see a video on LEGO Rock Raiders (or its fan remake, Manic Miners)

[@jauwn]

that game was my childhood :)

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

That's a very confusing title because I'd immediately think it was a remake/sequel for Manic Minor on the ZX Spectrum, rather than having any connections with the Lego game

[@TheShoeSalesman]

Man, what a blast from the past. I thought I misread the title and thumbnail first, but no, it was actually ParaWorld. One of my most beloved games of all time because of how unique it was and sadly still is. We need more dinosaurs! (And bring back Dino Crisis, Capcom!) Also, even as a German myself I never realized it was actually developed here until the studio had announced their closure back then, shattering all my hopes of a sequel to it.

[@Bobothefish13]

It cannot be understated how high quality these review videos are. It’s remarkable for these videos to be this good given Jauwn hasn’t even been making them for too long. They remind me of Mandalore Gaming videos.

[@jauwn]

thank you :)

[@SmolPotatowo]

@@tsartomato That's kinda just how a lot of old games are.

[@SmolPotatowo]

@@tsartomato It might not all be his footage. It was just for the intro clips idk I don't think it's a big deal.

[@Greatdictator]

Basing this on info from another review. The unit management system was so good apperantly that the founder of the ESL (a german gaming Esport organization) left a quote on it stating that they knew what makes a EXCELLENT Esports title "The creators of ParaWorld have understood what ingredients you need for an excellent eSports-title" Also there are apperantly still people that play it, you just gotta search for them, a video creator by the name Doped Bones did a review where he coverd the game and talked about the mod side of it and included instructions how to help play the Multiplayer if someone here would be interested. With that said im glad to see this game has some attention thrown its way, speaking as someone who had a poster of this game hang on his wall for at least a decade with that Glorious Trex hanging above my bed. Thanks for covering it.

[@benmanperelsztein]

Paraworld was one of my favorite games growing up in Germany. This video is unlocking a lot of memories

[@aconstantstateofbladerunne5251]

I loved this game as a kid! I think my dad got it for me out of the Best Buy bargain bin and I got way more than his money’s worth out of it.

[@gyaszmadar]

24:50 Actually you can queue construction and attack targets by using CTRL instead of Shift and you can even combine them. Just throwing it out here.

[@jauwn]

dude WHAT?!?! I tried so many times to figure it out, I even read the whole manual looking for that and swear I couldn't find anything explaining how to do it. I guess i gotta re-do the video now lol

[@gyaszmadar]

@@jauwn Glad I could help even if I am a beginner at this game.

[@EvilDrHousegaming]

I do like the OG style of the Jauwn vidoes but Im also enjoying the newer game reviewers/video essay videos! Keep it up!

[@jauwn]

Gotta branch out, ya know. NFT games won't be around forever (plus they're getting old)

[@Radnugget]

@@jauwnI mean you branched out right, doing obscure retro games.

[@percher4824]

@@Radnugget More specifically, obscure retro PC games. There are way more of them than console games, and the vast majority of them have been forgotten. It's nice to see another channel cover games that people most likely have never seen or heard of before.

[@jauwn]

@@percher4824 yep, PC games is my niche. I never had a console growing up until the PS2 and my dad had a “gaming” PC in the late 90s early 2000s when I was young so I really only knew PC gaming

[@feivelynart2604]

That timing is impeccable. I just finished a 4 day 100% playthrough of the campaign on hard difficulty yesterday, and have been giving Mirage mod a shot now that CEP mod has been discontinued for about 10 years already, been playing around with the map editor again, took me right back to my childhood. It is a very janky rts compared to the likes of SC2 but still holds a special place in my heart til this day.

[@enterthekraken]

Nitpick: seventy year old bones aren’t fossils, they’re just bones. Fossils are bones that have been fossilised - replaced with stone.

[@AlexOlsenpang]

The gay might have called them fossils

[@gord3588]

@@AlexOlsenpangwhat

[@brayonyx14]

@@gord3588 maybe he meant game?

[@gord3588]

@@brayonyx14 that would make sense lol

[@Dilettante15]

"Sees the SEAS attempting to seize the seas" made this whole thing worth it, incredible

[@jauwn]

SeeS

[@bambjr1221]

20:49

[@OswaldoVonSchnoobenstein]

I still have this game. Haven't tried playing it in a really long time, but the CD sits in my collection. I remember it being a good game.

[@Dracapane]

I think I might be one of the few people on earth who had some pre-release hype for this game. My friends and I played a lot of Warcraft 3 and Age of Mythology from 2003 to 2006, and we all bought the game roughly around release. Turns out my laptop who could run 2002 games fine couldn't handle the game, so I played the game mostly at my friends house using his dad's pc. When I finally got a real desktop pc in 2008, I finally played the campaign the whole way through (I believe I had to buy the special edition because my first game got the disk scratched). The special edition was interesting (not in a good way). The manual was bound together wrong, with pages missing and other duplicated. The game had 3 additional campaign missions that were way harder and had less voiceover, in retrospect you could clearly see the financial porblems after release.

[@jauwn]

I think there was actually a lot of hype for the game. I don't remember seeing any of it so I don't have any personal anecdotes but I did find a ton of articles / forum discussions online from 2005 hyping the game up

[@generalgremlin3811]

From what I know, the expantion works only in german and polish, but there is a dedicated community on discord keeping the game alive, both with multiplayer and patches, of which I'm a proud member. This is still one of my favourite games of all time, even after playing over 1000 games from different genres. This game may be a relic forgotten by most, but it still lives on in it's full glory with us, the players

[@novelezra]

Oh! That's Richard Epcar! Voice of Bato from Ghost in the Shell, Ace from the Nonary Games and Ansem from Kingdom Hearts. Always love when he shows up, one of my favorite VA's

[@jauwn]

Instantly recognizable! Some really notable people did the English voices for the game. My favorite being Neil Kaplan as the narrator / Mentor. For some reason he sounds a whole lot like the narrator for How It's Made

[@novelezra]

@@jauwn I really miss a lot of these late 90s/mid 2000s voice actors. One of my all time favorites is Mona Marshall who did the voice of Izzy in Digimon (happy 25th birthday), Kite in dot.hack (RIP) and Junior in XenoSaga (which Richard Epcar is also in as Ziggy). I know it's probably just nostalgia but I miss when games used mostly anime voice actors. I literally cannot play XenoBlade Chronicles because of the British voice actors (and that's coming from someone who is British)

[@neobscura]

I remember reading an article about this game with pretty impressive screenshots of dino textures. If I remember correctly they were amazed at bump mapping on each unit (that was before normal mapping was a thing). I was curious about it. And then completely forgot about it.

[@jauwn]

The game had some seriously impressive texturing and modeling, especially in that intro cinematic. I saw a lot of articles from during the game's pre-production hyping that up

[@Di.Re.Daniel]

RTS games went from one of my most played, most beloved game genres to the one I straight up won't play anymore because I've had more than enough of them for the rest of my life. I wish I'd played this one back in the day though, it looks like fun

[@jauwn]

Yeah, like I said in the video, the strict adherence to the "RTS formula" means that basically every variation of the genre had already been done by 2010. Plus with how complicated they are to make, it seems that most devs moved their resources to other more popular genres

[@M0butu]

​@@jauwnThe future of RTS is in hybrids. Either grand scale like TW, or small scale combined with tower defense and meta progression as Rogue-like.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

I stopped playing them because they didn't evolved. I wish the 90's mindset would be still here where developers would care less about money and more about creating something what doesn't exist yet.

[@1Helloimhere]

idk how you showed up in my recommended but dont ever leave

[@IratutheGreyKnigh]

So nice to see some one play this game. I still have the box copy of it and it holds a place in my heart.

[@cattrucker8257]

I'm glad this game is getting a bit more attention because for freaking years I felt like I was the only one who even knew of it and wondered if I hadn't dreamt it all up or something. Never forgot the badass pulp-style movie soundtrack either.

[@delicioustoast123]

i liked the "i fucking love dinosaurs" turning into "i love fucking dinosaurs"

[@jauwn]

You’re the first to notice that

[@Captain_Willlow]

Why the fuck would the "heroes' want to leave the Parawolrd when they're fucking immortal there???

[@jauwn]

haha, exactly the story does not make much sense if you think too critically

[@TemperedMedia]

Indoor plumbing?? ...ladies????

[@thomasvleminckx]

and why are the "bad" guys "bad" for wanting the benefits of no longer aging + wanting to do science in peace?

[@TemperedMedia]

@@thomasvleminckx something something world domination

[@jwm109]

@@thomasvleminckx they pretty much capitalised on the indigenous people of paraworld, they were like the American colonisers enslaving the inhabitants and destructing their ecosystem

[@SeriouslyNotASpy]

I love your deep dives into obscure, old, games.

[@WeebishSwed]

The art style is so beautiful, I really love the colors.

[@the_neuron]

The soundtrack slander is insane here.

[@lucynamarzec8000]

The paraworld OST is a gem. It has those orchestral Jurassic World'ish vibes. And the menu theme is an absolute BANGER I will not tolerate slander against my boi 😠

[@jauwn]

Haha it’s a good soundtrack I just think it’s way too epic for how silly the game is

[@lucynamarzec8000]

​​​​​@@jauwnLooking at it from the eyes of a grown man, It's silly and funny. But from the eyes of a 10 yo/early teen, Dinosaurs fighting vikings was unironically epic and cool, so the soundtrack was a good fit in that context. But, fair enough. I can see your point about the vibe missmatch between game and music.

[@Masilya111]

Yep it's genuinely one of my favorite OST of all times. This game had a big production even with music.

[@redpandur3221]

The music is a real banger. So epic it slaps even harder in the cutscenes xD One of my greatest childhood games. Music always brings me back and now I want to listen to it for hours straight again 🥲

[@EnormousApplePie]

I always thought a remake of this game would make for a rather solid game in the current day, if you flesh out the story and polish up everything, you honestly have a very grasping theme: Cool asf dinosaur combat

[@vfxninja5503]

Man the intro sequence hits hard

[@jauwn]

thanks bro its one of my favorite

[@RealRushinRussian]

45:07 "The 12th chapter, Sea Battles, sees the SEAS attempting to seize the seas" freaking brilliant.

[@dangerkoopa64]

I want to see one of these endings where the bad guy jumps into the lava in the end with their cocky speech but then starts screaming with anguish and horror as they realize lava is FUCKING PAINFUL

[@kamaunyoike9243]

These retro game deep dives are great! Keep'em coming!

[@gyiusnoname8422]

That's Richard Epcar as the voice actor for Cole. He's a fairly prolific voice actor, and the voice he's using here is very similar to his role as Daisuke Jigen in Lupin the third.

[@P__114]

You put a lot of effort into your videos and it shows. Thanks.

[@channelcatfish7862]

This is my childhood game 10/10 wrote a massive fan fiction over it too when I was 12

[@jauwn]

Haha that's awesome

[@Pyromaniac77777]

Honestly this game was so charming

[@dylan_kelly]

Wow, what a shocker to see anyone cover this! My mom bought me a boxed copy of this from Big Lots years ago (I'm sure it was super cheap) and I didn't get super far as a kid but I loved dinosaurs and it always stuck with me

[@Caelan1963]

Really interesting video again! I love people talking about (obscure -ish) video games, especially if it's in a way that someone who doesn't know anything about the game can still follow along. While I found this channel for the Crypto/NFT content, I can only take so much of that crap (NFT, not ur videos) so these deep dives are very welcome. And yeah, German games kinda seem to be ... special usually. I don't know why. I'm pretty sure there are also tons of "english" (ie language of the country) games that are... interesting. But somehow these german games are wild (and these videos def unlock some memories of weird games i played as a kid). (also thank u for adding the video to the all-videos-playlist already!)

[@alexkaltenthaler1418]

24:30 minor correction: shift-queueing villager actions in AOE was not in the original release. It was added in DE alongside a bunch of other QoL features

[@jauwn]

Yeah someone else said that. But apparently you actually CAN shift queue in paraworld, it’s just Ctrl, and it is never explained or listed in the controls 😂

[@aonir2030]

These kind of videos are my favorite from you

[@MilitaryHistoryVisualized]

1:14 Ironically, if one goes by the proper meaning of strategy, Hearts of Iron is the only real-time strategy game on this chart, all the others would be real-time tactics games, but the genre has a broken name, so I agree that it does not really fit in there.

[@jauwn]

Exactly, RTS to me really basically means “command and conquer inspired”. I guess that’s why they had to invent “grand strategy” to mean that those games are the true strategy game, or whatever 😂

[@MilitaryHistoryVisualized]

@@jauwn Yeah, makes perfect sense. Grand strategy is the layer above strategy, so it is also correct or actually more correct for Hearts of Iron. From smallest (time/space) to largest it is: tactics, operations, strategy & grand strategy. Hearts of Iron IV, basically covers all 4, since one also shuffles around single divisions.

[@PerennialSash]

Glorious algorithm, thank you for sending me to this "childhood gem" - I'll never forget seeing this game box sitting on the discount shelf and whipping open the cover to see... age of empires but with dinosaurs. I, of course, was sold immediately, although the game proved too difficult for me to beat until I revisited it when I was older. I went and played it again with my own old CD key more recently and had a blast. The multiplayer isn't half bad, either. I really miss these kinds of creative RTS games - derivative in a few obvious ways for the sake of genre convention, sure, but there was a lot of heart to this game.

[@otokbarleyfoot]

Subbed after reading the video title - this is the kind of content I need in my life

[@Xevonarin]

Damn, Frank Reynolds really does turn up in the damndest places...

[@TheSpartan451]

I love an RTS with building animations. I think Dawn of War was my first game with those. Loved seeing how each faction got things done, like the grots swimming through the pile of guns that served as the Ork research building.

[@Dajudge06]

OH SHIT, another Jauwn video. Enjoying the content my dude, even if it isn't shitting on NFT "games".

[@SpaceKnight105]

16:12 getting Starcraft 2 and Warcraft 3 vibes from this

[@electricnezumi]

Loved the YTP-like edits in this video. If you ever released a YTP I would eat that shit up

[@tartalachiasse3183]

I liked the dreamscape remix in intro

[@kyles8587]

These retrospectives have been really cool! I'm glad you branched out.

[@DerOrk]

Reeeally enjoyed that game back in the day. Thanks for covering it.

[@EleonMythos]

Yoooo 0:40 Machines: Wired for War from Akklaim. I loved that game as a kid!

[@Tepid24]

Such an amazing trip down nostalgia lane. This was by far and away my favourite game for many, many years. For a kid in its early teens and really into dinosaurs, with a love for strategy games, but limited access to them, this was basically crack. Just hearing some of the lines or parts of the OST feels amazing. Speaking of, I get the point on the OST, but I have to disagree. Looking at the individual tracks, it's really cool to see that some of the themes have different versions for each faction, using slightly different instruments and changing other elements, depending on what faction you play. I feel it makes them more immersive and it also gives an uncanny ability to evoke associations with a specific player facton, enemy faction or campaign map, just based on what song you're hearing. Anyway, me coping aside, great video that paints an accurate picture of this hidden gem.

[@JacobTyler1776]

I remember playing this game the year I graduated High School. I remember it being both fun and unlike any other RTS I'd played to date. Tried to look it up again for nostalgia sake awhile back, and couldn't find it anywhere, so thank you for this. Personally, I play most games for the setting and storyline. It not having a bunch of new and/or original aspects to its gameplay loop is seldom if ever enough to ruin the experience for me. Also, if you don't consume literally every single game in a genre, sometimes the lack of originality isn't even a factor for me. Paraworld's visuals and the presence of dinosaurs was enough to capture my interest. With Rise of Legends the DaVinci aesthetic. With Empire Earth, the fact that I could build mechs and larp as the prophet Elijah. Most of the time, when I watch videos like this and people cite an issue that a lot of people might have with the game, it's news to me. Maybe I'm different from a lot of other players out there though...?

[@andriana5311]

Oh my god this game was my childhood! As a kid I would stare at the disk cover for hours, and I definitely based my whole personality from Ada Loven❤ Thank you for covering this game, I am so excited to watch!

[@feist__]

came for the crypto scams, stayed for the game reviews!

[@mushrooms5757]

A gem of my childhood, I wish it was more popular

[@damianea103]

Jauwn, i just want to say. I really enjoy these videos of yours, where you go in-depth and make a long-form video on some obscure ass game. Keep up the great work

[@tiefensucht]

I think it failed because it came out in the wrong time. PC gaming was in decline, consoles became much more popular and there was a huge pirating scene. Today with the existence of steam, it might have been a success.

[@Tidbitfrosty]

Pretty crazy that Richard Epcar voiced Cole before becoming the voice of Joesph Joestar. That dude is an awesome va.

[@Razsor97]

One of my first and favorite video games ever. Whenever my friends and I weren't playing WoW, we would play against each other on this. So many memories are coming back.

[@homoe7976]

Early 2000s RTS games have a special place in my heart. One that I still think about a lot is Warlords Battlecry 3, which worked with what little it had and managed to create a singleplayer campaign that could easily rival contenders like DoW Dark Crusade.

[@z1no3n]

great video! love you deep diving into old wonderfull games.

[@StrOyeR-]

Though I was never able to play Paraworld ever, I have always watched it as a kid and it was my literal dream to play it. Well, until now I still didn't get to play it, but obviously I get 3am flashbacks. I was so addicted to Paraworld while not being able to play it, I imagined playing it on a literal piece of paper in a drawing book. Looking back at it now, it still won't get out of my head. Since then I have never heard of that game for a long long time, but thanks AI I was finally able to find the forgotten game in my heart.

[@davidmatlock3149]

Something about this game gives me major Impossible Creatures vibes Now THAT was a strange fever dream of a game

[@XandimOQ]

This game is such a hidden gem, I loved when I was a child. Other super underrated RTS from that time is Impossible Creatures by Relic, never saw anyone talking about it.

[@XxMeatShakexX]

Gives me lots of Impossible Creatures vibes from the cutscene and setting.

[@thefirehawk8520]

I adored this game and played it a ton back when I was a kid and still play it occassionally. Absolutely loved the story of the campaign as well, it's a genuinely good and interesting plot

[@mnk9073]

I got this game on the free DVD of a PC magazine (yes an actually printed one) and spent a summer vacation going jurassic. Good times.

[@johnathan8241]

I just love your videos. They're like therapy for me

[@eins2001]

Maybe the real Palworld was the Paraworlds we made along the way

[@eightbitdungeon]

More obscure RTS games please!

[@dr.saladkey8629]

I’m loving the older game series!

[@annieshavingthoughtsagain]

The deep dive I didn't know I needed.

[@TRex276]

Always nice to see someone discovering this game, not an easy task :D. I just wanted to give my opinion about the slow speed you were talking about. It's definitely not a fast game, mostly the slow unit movement. But the economy is actually quite fast, you made the mistake of building not enough workers and not upgrading there resource gathering abilities (for dust riders in the main building, other factions in the resource gather buildings), these upgrades double the amount of resources you gather. So you want all 25 slots in tier 1 filled with workers and all the resource upgrades asap in each epoch. Also I have seen you level up a lot of infantry and "small (relatively i guess :D)" cavalry units to t3 and above. This locks you out from building the actually good units which require a minimum of tier 3 to produce. This of course made the missions a lot harder, because you essentially fought missions that expect high tier units with low tier units. One last advice, you can speed up the game with the + and - buttons on your numpad. If you're still interested in this game and want to see how it could like, you can skip trough some of my old videos. I did a complete play trough of the campaign 10 years ago and spent a lot of time on this game back in the day.

[@DondarfSnowbonk]

The transition from "I FUCKING LOVE DINOSAURS" to "I LOVE FUCKING DINOSAURS" in the intro was a piece of art.

[@limcw6092]

Seeing the credits really made me sad, seeing those kind of credits in obsecure games hurt because these are their hopes and dreams that most will never see. But great video, I really like your obsecure game reviews. They don’t feel too forced with the comedy, someone mentioned that you are like mandalore gaming but I disagree, a lot of video game reviewers try too hard to set up jokes that end up flat. I really hope you stay the same Jauwn!

[@jauwn]

Thanks for the kind words! I do strive to be careful with my comedy in these videos. I think it’s needed to “keep your attention”, but it should be used sparingly as not everyone is going to find you funny and when it’s not funny it’s just annoying

[@samuelschwager]

I remember watching the 1999 tv series Lost World, so this game would have been right up my alley. But somehow I completely missed it at the time. Will have to give it a try :)

[@Gandingas]

I always enjoy your videos especially these longer ones, very detailed and insightful, I am confident when I say you are better at videogame journalism than the entire IGN team combined, amazing work as always.

[@BEAThatesyou]

I can't believe Danny Devito is in this game.

[@PraetorDragoon]

I remember this one. Didn't play it much, but I should play it again. Campaign looks like some good dumb fun. And to be fair, its hard to go wrong with "Age of Empires with Dinosaurs". Other fun RTS games from that same time period are Spellforce (order of dawn), Rise of Legends, and Warlords Battlecry.

[@nox5555]

Spellforce would fit well since its also an obscure german game.

[@gangstaboy9387]

I've only watched a few minutes but I can already sense that this is going to be good content!

[@Xorkuss]

Always fun to find a video and go "Hey, I had that game! I forgot about it, but I remember now!"

[@steelbear2063]

Finally some recognition for this gem. BTW each faction has different tier 1 types. Norsemen have warriors as tier 1, nomads have spearmen (or rather spearwomen) and the Dragon Clan has archers as their tier 1. And there's a highlight option for units so that you can see them through trees or behind buildings. Overall good video, even with the mistakes

[@andrearossi6564]

A Jaun video about a retro game I've never heard? Sign me up!

[@Failomate5000]

I did not expect a Word-mixing KZbin Poop in this game review xD

[@Arenumberg]

That smart worker system immediately made me recall it being a thing in Rise of Nations, glad it got used in other games in that 2000's era - its always nice to see good ideas propagate across the genre.

[@Glibbers]

For another obscure RTS game, Metal Fatigue might also be up your alley.

[@SecretSquidSpy]

I always love hearing the SS1 elevator music at the end of your videos :)

[@Rumpelpumpel3]

I loved that game! Explains why I havent heard of it from anywhere else, didnt know before the game was German too :D

[@gttswiafr7728]

thank you papa jauwn for making more obscure video game essays

[@nameredacted1157]

12:35 "it dwarfs Diggles in comparison" I see what you did there.

[@Skye3337]

Funny hearing Richard Epcar's voice coming from this pretty obscure videogame when the man voices characters such as Raiden from Mortal Kombat and Joseph Joestar in the english dub of Jojo's (and my favorite role of his, Gaius van Baelsar from FFXIV)