Kingpin: Life of Crime - An Updated Review

[@pluskissantons7983]

Paid review

[@mugwump7049]

LOL! If you think 3DR has the kind of money to spend on corrupting youtubers, think again.

[@Gggmanlives]

Yeah, companies pay KZbinrs to review 30 year old games.

[@todaywasagoodday6]

@@Gggmanlives Big brain logic 😂

[@theGodfollower99]

Wait you're 30?

[@Dregomz02]

Pay me too

[@MrGrizzzlik]

Game is actually a cult legend in Russia due to infamous translation.

[@homopoluza]

ah... sweet childhood

[@olzhas1one755]

@@petermoore115 I think the translators doubled-up the amount of swearing compared to the original game. Never played the dub or the original, so not 100% sure

[@KarlMySuitcase]

Fuck, I wanna cyka blyast me through the streets now.

[@michaelmartin9022]

@@olzhas1one755 Doubled the amount of swearing? That'd be nothing but swearing.

[@olzhas1one755]

@@michaelmartin9022 Well, yeah. It pretty much is. And it's hilarous too, sometimes they make up absolutely insane lines, which are basically non-stop swearing. Really, if you know Russian, it's best to try it. I'm sure you'll have a great time with it

[@Romanian901]

There's a new doom coming out, a new half life also and 3D Realms are releasing games. feels just like 20 years ago

[@1231231232972]

no , it doesn't, just some action games with FPS and rpg elements

[@wildwest1832]

new half life? its a VR game

[@1231231232972]

@PUPPET MASTER No, I just know what FPS genre means

[@tabernaclejones6115]

How old are you lol you realize he mentioned the biggest fps developers in 1999 right?

[@markokecman1177]

@@tabernaclejones6115 I read your words that said "new half life" and I was like WAIT WHAAT?!?!? ... but then I read it's VR.... and my face went from :O to -.-

[@BlazingOwnager]

I was trying to remember, "Why did I think this game was ugly as a kid?" Then I saw the liquid wavering skin on people.. and was like "Oh yeah."

[@wieselflinkesWiesel]

@@Fergus-H-MacLeod do other quake 2 engine games have this jiggle skin too? how does this shit even happen.

[@BloodRedFox2008]

@@wieselflinkesWiesel Yes, it's a weird quirk with how the engine handles animations. You can see it in Quake 2 itself if you pay attention to certain animations your character does.

[@BlazingOwnager]

@@BloodRedFox2008 It's muuuuuuuuch less noticeable in Q2 though.

[@Th3Raz96]

You should check out a game called Paratopic, the diner scene will absolutely disgust you

[@BloodRedFox2008]

@@BlazingOwnager Part of it may be because Quake 2 didn't have cutscenes with closeups of characters like Kingpin does. it does look like some devs did manage to fix that oddity in the engine for other games, as Anachronox and Daikatana from Ion Storm along with SiN from Ritual didn't have much or any of that wobble effect.

[@Armaron06]

You have an unhealthy obsession with that one scene of the protagonist blowing away the truck driver..... I like it.

[@darkdotz2361]

Armaron piece of shit.

[@PenguinDT]

That is kind of the defining moment of the the protagonist. If you didn't know you were playing the role of an immoral bastard, you'll definitely get it with that scene.

[@wolfboy20]

That shit took me out! Lmaooo

[@dc7981]

I don't know why but it's funny Everytime I see it

[@antalgergo2699]

Piece of shit

[@badnewsbruner]

I hope they add a mode in the remaster where you can turn on the bubbling Quake 2 textures xD Kingpin wouldn't be the same if my character's face didn't look like a saucepan of boiling stew.

[@Alberto309]

That is going to remain and there will probably be no option to disable the bubbling. It's an engine limitation. The remaster will still use idTech 2 engine with "wrapping support" of Unity engine as a codebase (probably because the source code is lost).

[@lcb8333]

@@Alberto309 correct me if I'm wrong, but was the bubbling not from the lack of animation rigs? I have limited knowledge of the quake engines or any engine for that matter so I may be wrong on this one.

[@TheMC1102]

I can imagine YOU being Half-life's Gman "Rise and shine, Sonny Jim...rise and shine...or you're dead to me."

[@adr.k8676]

A right sonny Jim at the wrong difficulty can make all the difference

[@PenguinDT]

This NEEDS to become a Mod!

[@onutrof1157]

Someone needs to make some "you're dead to me" compilation

[@XenRiddle]

Anyways, sonny Jim, this is where I fahkin' get off.

[@DenGuleBalje]

@Damian 2000 "Prepare for unforeseen consequences, just like your mum should have" *SCHWACKED*

[@Helios8170]

"...when I thought that boobs and skateboarding were the most important things in my life." They aren't?

[@EmergencyChannel]

Hell yes, nothing in life is better than tits, skateboarding and beer.

[@thebrettyouneed178]

Uuhm hello? Gaming?

[@WeAreHuman2]

Just boobs now

[@Zeon081]

boobs are just replacement for asses. nothing can beat the original! also skateboarding is gay. almost as gay as surfing.

[@SECVTOR91]

The Russian localization by Fargus is even more offensive/awesome as the cursing is tripled. Provided you speak the language that is.

[@inertia_dagger]

Yeah, as a russian this localization is just my go-to for playing this game, really adds some charm

[@Torgo1969]

Papali papali suki!

[@s0lgrynaka.vlegsmanage310]

ЪЛЯТЬ, Мои Ребра! Пиздец!

[@SECVTOR91]

@@s0lgrynaka.vlegsmanage310 kzbin.info/www/bejne/kImuXmuMoqqKnZo Братан+Карлсон

[@Mazryonh]

Is there any way to add the Russian localization to the English version on Steam? It should be real fun.

[@user-hy3bk1ct5h]

Gmanlives: "you can buy a pipe for 1$ which is a bit of a STEEL" me: *dislikes and unsubscribes*

[@bananastand-2241]

*Crowbar

[@iwanttocomplain]

There's actually a crowbar behind the wooden fence you can break down and get at the very start of the game. Save $1.

[@liamsvensson1985]

@@iwanttocomplain i only ever found ammo for the pistol back there or maybe i missed it is this at the very start of the game?

[@iwanttocomplain]

@@liamsvensson1985 As soon as you start but I'm going from memory from a very long time ago.

[@anon4932]

*Here's ya fucking dollar!* The protagonist is so resentful that he had to pay for it.

[@bitofapickle]

Man, i loved this game when i was a kid. Brings back so much nostalgia. Gonna go play it right now actually

[@SirRandom]

Me too :)

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

Yep! Kingpin was great! Ran like shit on my system when it came out

[@mtechcom4863]

I still have the game on my shelf, but I wait for the remaster from 3DRealms.

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

Maybe I can reinvigorate some of its charm. The cool thing about even just fake HDR is in ancient ass games like this that have no lighting system beyond character shadow blobs, is you can use the intensity to build a sort of shadow system, and use raytracing to bring out some more believable geometry in the scene. Now the catch is the colors arent perfect, but in the deviation I at least tried to make it match what it should present like in real life as much as possible. For instance the spectrum of most florescent lights, and flames have more red in them now.

[@TheMutantProductions]

A gem. They don’t make em like this anymore. Over that last few years we’ve seen the end of the double A game in between indie games and blockbusters. Which often was where the best games were, I hope they come back.

[@funeralmuse]

Why does everybody look like they have thousands of scarabs teeming beneath their skin

[@Netsuko]

It's one of the quirks of the Quake2 engine and how it handles animations. Animating a model caused all of the vertices (surface basically) of the model to move. It's like listening to radio, but besides the song, you also have a little bit of background noise. It's explained better here: www.reddit.com/r/AskGames/comments/5zb9eb/quake_2_has_some_really_wobbly_weapon_models/

[@funeralmuse]

@@Netsuko that's very interesting, surprised I've never noticed it before. Thanks for the explanation!

[@JohnCrichton]

@@Netsuko never noticed that before... are you sure it's not particulary worse in Kingpin?

[@camilofuentes7056]

What a pain in the ass must have been animating vertexes individually while maintaining the mass of the mesh

[@JohnCrichton]

@Jason U either it's been so long I just don't remember, thanks

[@thelastminuteman7513]

My buddy in high school: " yo i just played this game where a guy sold me a crowbar and after he sold it to me I bashed his head in and took my money back" High school me: "SWEET DUDE"

[@michaelmartin9022]

I remember telling my mate about the "amazing" AI where if an enemy has a pipe and you have a shotgun, they'll run away. (edit: Well I guess at the time it was amazing, and that pathfinding could still teach some newer games a thing or two. But today it seems a bit funny to be going crazy about something like that) Also there's a bit where there's a huge stack of money but when you pick it up you get $1. Guess the rest was fake.

[@Jaytwisty23]

Why are people still using this utterly tired joke format 🤦

[@thelastminuteman7513]

@@Jaytwisty23 because we don't have a stick up our ass.

[@BlazingOwnager]

Also your younger self was right about one thing: Boobs are, in fact, one of the most important things in life.

[@Atrahasis7]

Sin deserves an updated review as well. Shame we never got more. Luv you Elexis.

[@plainlake]

Save the the whale-tails of my youth.

[@ronaldjames6067]

Such an underrated game, that !

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Atrahasis7 You do know that Sin got an episodic sequel right?

[@iAnimeDude]

@@j.a.weishaupt1748 Which was never finished, sadly.

[@alexl2475]

Was Sin remastered? I played the GoG version it's so buggy.

[@ilyalead4blade897]

just finished this game recently and I swear I've never seen such smart ai in any game before. there's a section in the game where a freight train passes by every couple of minutes. the ai enemy followed me into the tunnel where I expected her to be smashed by the coming train while I hide in the tech station. to my surprise the ai waited for the train to pass and then pursued to kill me again. I was like wow. your companions also can follow you to places that would be unreachable in other games at least at the time

[@imcharming4808]

This is one of my favorite games of all time. I have always loved atmosphere and detail in games, and I’ll never forget the first time I played this in the early 2000s. Walking into a bar and recruiting an npc. So unique. I play it once a year.

[@MrFunnyHandsInYourPants]

FYI: The first level, Skid Row, is named after the massive homeless encampment in Los Angeles. Basically you homeless and by the end of the game you are a Kingpin.... Rags to Riches. Although personally when playing this game I cannot say I felt my prestigious rising.

[@FireFoxOmicron]

Had no Idea a Remaster was being worked on! Thanks as always, GMan! :) The Art Deco mixed with Modern styles always did remind Me a bit of Batman: The Animated Series.

[@Armageddon2077]

Hopefully Kingpin: Reloaded will include more Cypress Hill songs

[@ethanmarley678]

Correction: about the soundtrack, the full vocal versions of the Cypress Hill songs are on the CD Disc, but they are gutted from the steam release

[@lasergrilleddturkey4064]

A true hidden gem! That first level back in the day felt like looking into the future. It was a small sandbox before those were even that big of a thing. Looking forward to the remaster!

[@halfbakedchannel6065]

The truck-shotgun cutscene is probably my favorite in the whole game.

[@ennessAU]

You just don't stop, pumping out excellent content consistently!

[@meathook3000]

13:47 "sub-culture"?? LOL That's pretty generous.

[@todaysgrailtomorrowsbeater]

I literally lived in this games a kid for a few weeks, it was glorious.

[@krashd]

Yeah, nostalgia is why I had to buy it on GOG.com the other day when it was about 2 quid.

[@mastergwaha]

@JD the only reason you're alive is cuz nicky wants you to remember the beatin' we give ya

[@palaiologos4441]

Ah yes, The Quake 2 Engine-back when *every moving thing* had jiggle physics (unintentionally) Good times.

[@mtechcom4863]

It was so awful!

[@StabStabStabStabby]

@@mtechcom4863 at the time I never really noticed it

[@patrickbyrne5070]

I bought Kingpin when it came out and I thought there was something wrong with my voodoo card..

[@stirpsromana]

It was fucking aesthetic

[@dadrising6464]

@@StabStabStabStabby lower resolutions and a crt hide it pretty good. its like the ps1 dithering/jiggly textures..

[@BarrowX]

That "HMG" model looks like the front of a Soviet SVT-40 rifle.

[@DootNeon]

Yes

[@SKY11211213]

To me it always looked like an FG42 but ok now you changed my mind

[@OlujaDoTokija]

@vasyan There is no such thing as a BAR Assault Rifle

[@BarrowX]

@vasyanBAR is an automatic rifle. (it's in the name). It was used in a lmg role. It was chambered in 30.06 caliber, too big to be considered an assault rifle.

[@CheezyDee]

I remember changing mags in that thing sounded like someone crushing a soda can.

[@michaelkaufman5726]

Art direction was done by Maxx Kaufman - Victor worked for me on the title. Just FYI

[@RainMakeR_Workshop]

I remember playing this as a kid and being so blown away at the limb damage. It was part of some package that came with Sin and a couple of other games.

[@RainMakeR_Workshop]

@Damian 2000 I think that was included in the pack with Kingpin and Sin. But I don't remember it tbh.

[@dimimashgaming5561]

GmanLives I don’t know if you’re going to see this comment or what- I don’t know what you’d think, but I have been watching you for a long time now. I feel confident enough to announce I just formed a team and am now creating a video game completely inspired by classic FPS shooters and I think you’re going to absolutely love it (I hope you do at least!) So just wanted to say thank you for inspiring me, and giving me a bright idea of what a good FPS should be. I’m going to do the best I can to make this a reality. It’s going to take a lot of time for me and my team, but we have a clear heart and dedication to getting this made! I hope this message reaches you, it does mean a lot man.

[@dunka12]

I'll tell you why it's kinda obscure. I remember gathering at a friends house cause he was a professional video editor and was the only person i knew that had the GPU to run it. Most people didn't have voodoo, and this was one of the first games i remember that you couldn't play other wise. This guy had a pro Matrox card, that was out of reach for most people. Until we got to Quake 3, the game that forced everyone to finally buy a 3D accelerator, most games had the option to play it on software. Most of the people i know, played HL and Quake 1, 2 without acceleration. But Kingpin had it as a requirment, and i remember we lost our shit when we saw it running. It looked insane, we thought we're just a couple of years away from full realism in games. People still seem to live with that delusion to this day. Every generation thinks "this is it, we're nearly there". But yeah, we saw it, was amazing, yet nobody could run it, until a few years later, when other games stole our attention. I think people look back on these old games and don't realize most of the time nobody could run them at this quality. And even this looks shit to younger people :)) lol

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

It took like 5 minutes to load one level too, if you could run it :D

[@MichaelODonoghueMOD]

Quake 2 was the game that made me get a Vooodoo card. The software renderer was horrible. And then there was Unreal 1 and Forsaken that literally made my mouth drop. I don't think I ever saw Unreal using the software renderer

[@dunka12]

@@MichaelODonoghueMOD Unreal was actually amazing in software. The water effects were....unreal. :)) But yeah, and it had a weird noisy filtering that masked pixelation too. I actually think that's why it surpassed the quake engine for a while in quality. It looked decent even without 3D acceleration. Kingpin was a weird situation with the gpu requirement, cause it took several years until it really became necessary and as i said, Quake 3 didn't even run without a decent GPU, and also we got lucky cause during that time nVidia, the new comer, released their Vanta series, 16Mb of raw crazy :))) , and they were way cheaper than the competition, or their Riva TNT series who was a bit faster. Not sure why the devs opted for that, when they were using the Quake 2 engine. I suspect it's cause it's very highly modified from the standard Quake2. You can see it in the models that keep trembling, which i suspect it's cause they were trying skinning. Quake 2 was only capable of translations, meaning the body parts were separate, and you could only move, rotate and scale them, but you couldn't distort skin or body parts. Kingpin looks like they were trying way too much for the time, and i suspect that's why they weren't able to run it in software. *edit: Look up "Unreal Castle (Software Render)" on youtube. You'll be amazed how it looked without any GPU acceleration. No giant pixels, nothing.

[@MichaelODonoghueMOD]

@@dunka12 I see what you mean. Unreal was in development for a long time so maybe they had to make a decent software renderer. I don't think my AMD K6 would have liked running that by itself though!

[@dunka12]

@@MichaelODonoghueMOD I remember K6 were decent for the price, but lacked many instructions to compete with MMX on Intel Klamath series, or the Pentium 2 Pro at that time. I finished in software mode, and it was promising. No wonder they ruled the landscape of engines to this day.

[@kaankahraman9513]

the Multiplayer, specially the Bagman mode absolutely awesome

[@1q3er5]

bagman was fucking phenomenal

[@trblemayker5157]

5:28 I think the word you're looking for here is dieselpunk.

[@biggbenn8543]

Thanks for this. I had forgotten all about this game until I saw the thumbnail and had to watch for that nostalgia. I try not to give into the member berries too often, but theyve got me again with this one. -member Kingpin? -yeah, I member!

[@1KeyJee]

My dad bought me this game when I was a kid and nobody knew about this game if I mentioned it thanks for uploading, I used to play it on my Pentium III

[@SaturnineXTS]

That gurgling when he shoots off the guy's head is probably the most rewarding death sound in a video game, right up there with the Deus Ex death scream

[@dreammfyre]

The city of beefcakes.

[@RMJ1984]

Ran into GGGmanlives mom today, she asked if i had a dollar?. Had to tell her. I Ain't go a dollar. Then she said, come back when you got a dollar...

[@freedomandwhathaveyou4062]

This is the game that got me into PC gaming when I was a kid and I'll never forget it I saved up forever the computer my grandfather then spent $3,000 on a computer for me so I could play this game and then my birthday cam when I was going to open up this big box PC game and find king pin for my step dad but it was a RTS Mafia game because he told me the Kingpin was too violent I tried as hard as possible not to cry and I acted like I wanted that game and liked it later to cry until my mom took me and bought me Kingpin and the rest is history

[@deadwinglullaby]

5:28 that gun being drawn has the exact sound effect from RTCW - I recognized it instantly

[@KevTheGalaxybender]

quake engine

[@pipinfresh]

I remember me and my friend playing this when we were like 11 and we thought it was the most badass thing ever. Didn't even matter that we had no idea how to progress in the game or anything. We just loved walking around and beating people to death with the metal pole.

[@LastOneLeft99]

I was huge into FPS when this came out but I never got into it. I had a friend who raved about it. I'll try the remaster for sure.

[@Focalors21]

The main thing that was leading up to the remaster was when someone said that they found Kingpin's source code. The rebalanced gameplay might make this game better and more accessible, in a good way, to newer players.

[@michaelmartin9022]

Did nobody do a balancing mod in the meantime? At least just tweaking enemy health, weapon damage and fire rates.

[@Focalors21]

@@michaelmartin9022 They should tweak the enemy's health, reaction time, the chances of you staggering them, your weapons (especially the pistol), and just improve the gunplay in general.

[@PenguinDT]

The real question is; is Andrew Hulshult doing work on this 3D Realms boomer-shooter remaster? Because I'd donate half my organs for him IDKFA'ing some Cypress Hill.

[@BloodRedFox2008]

Good question actually, I'd imagine after 21 years Cypress Hill will either want to charge a decent amount to re-up the music license or 3D Realms will just include new music instead.

[@mugwump7049]

@@BloodRedFox2008 I'd be pissed if it didn't include the original music. It played a big part in the game's uniqueness.

[@PenguinDT]

@@BloodRedFox2008 I don't know how Cypress Hill feel about it, but they could be aware of the cult status of the game and might even let them use the music for a nominal fee. Not all recording artists are complete dicks akin to Iron Maiden. We'll have to wait and see, I guess.

[@quiettimegaming3642]

This Korean kid that was in all of my A.P. classes in high school put me on to this game after I got into a fight with 2 kids that were picking on him. I kind of got ruffed-up a bit (allowances have to be made, though. I was 14, and there were two of them), but I held my own, and after chatting with him he invited me to play games at his place. He put on Kingpin: LoC, and said he just got it... but couldn’t progress. I figured out you needed to holster any weapons you’re holding to not get attacked by nearly everyone you see. And we played through the entire game after that. I was hooked on the possibilities of PC from then forth, as nothing even close to this existed on consoles, and I convinced my dad to get me a PC (capable of playing games like Kingpin, as ours still had Windows 3.5) that Christmas. That kid moved away right after the new year, and we lost touch, but yeah, that’s how I initially found Kingpin.

[@killazaawl]

cool, thanks for sharing

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

12:06 - Three tracks: "Checkmate (Fool)", "16 Men", and "Lightning Strikes".

[@ShrimpGaslight]

“Heavy machine gun” that is designed to fire in bursts I smell heresy

[@ShrimpGaslight]

Little CJ Over There BAR is a little vague tbh - some call it an Lmg but it is more contemporarily known as a Battle rifle due to its small mag

[@zJoriz]

I have fond memories of Kingpin, and I'm glad you do as well. That one level where you navigate along some wharfs/docks was the most atmospheric scene I had seen in any game up to that point. The melancholic sounds helped, as well as the abundance of rats. Oh, and I'll never forget the jumpscare I received from that steampunk zeppelin monorail in the city. The fact that you have a choice to say positive/affirmative or negative things to other npcs was pretty novel for a shooter back then as well! I remember conversations with that one lady in the opening level going something like this: PATH A pc: negative comment - npc: negative comment pc: negative comment - npc [beats you to a pulp] PATH B pc: positive comment - npc: positive comment pc: positive comment - npc: positive comment pc: positive comment - npc: negative comment pc: positive comment - npc: [beats you to a pulp] The fact that this much thought was put into dialog options in a shooter had me in awe. The bullet-spungey nature of things was not great though, I admit. Especially the bosses (one of which could soak up several belts of the HMG at point blank range and the other was literally invincible because of story reasons) were a bit of a rude shock. I also found the two companions a bit too happy to charge headlong into large crossfire traps, which limited their lifespan by a considerable margin.

[@purjunka]

Pretty accurate review but it misses the most fun aspect of this game - the multiplayer. This game has an unique team based mode where each team has a money safe (on opposite sides of the map) and money bills spawn in the center at certain intervals. The goal was to collect and stash a certain amount to win the match but the catch was that you could ROB the other team's safe all the while trying to defend yours or control the money drop zone. I have lost count of how many friendships I've made and ruined because of this mode... as this game came right in the peak of LAN cafes and LAN parties it has caused a number of actual fights rivaling that of CS Beta. Boomer out

[@Martijn024]

Yes best game mode ever! Bagman, i loved it and was always on top with kills and deposits :P

[@chrisjamesgameaudio2468]

I just mentioned this in my comment. It was an awesome muiltiplayer mode. CS Beta player as well. Great times.

[@frajecz]

It's interesting to see and hear the many reused visual effects and sounds between games. The gurgling from where he kills the guy in the truck I think is also in Quake 2, but more importantly, the weapon effects and sounds are often the same in the already mentioned RtC Wolfenstein. The flamethrower effect, explosion visuals, slienced pistol sound, Thompson sound, etc.

[@deathsyth8888]

So "boobs and skateboarding" are not the most important things in life? I see your priorities have dropped then.

[@inabsentia439]

Always years late to the party, but fondly remember the multiplayer for this. Even though slow, used well, that 3 burst rifle was certain death if you met another player in narrow alleyway, so much fun!

[@1q3er5]

it was almost like a railgun with the little delay - made it a high skill weapon

[@inabsentia439]

@@1q3er5 True! So satisfying :)

[@holiggan2008]

This game is the reason why I like Cypress Hill so much! What a wicked soundtrack! And the gritty city landscapes were amazing too!

[@Mazryonh]

The members of Cypress Hill even provided some voice acting for this game!

[@ross9735]

@@Mazryonh Yeah I am pretty sure all of the guys who you pay to get into the clubs is voiced by B-Real.

[@AlignedHubSeeker]

Me and a friend would re-record the speech .wav files, so instead of the original audio, you got 2x the simpsons teenager yelling obscenities.

[@Airinas96]

This game is criminally underrated, imo.

[@1q3er5]

1 word bagman - the most FUN I ever had in an online game

[@demizson576]

" *criminally* " underrated… i see what you did there. :)

[@Airinas96]

@@demizson576 I'll see myself out :D

[@DigitalPsyche]

Kingpin LAN multiplayer was the shit back in the day.

[@jibb1451]

"Aye where's my twenty dollahs?" "Hey hole on a second lemme - -" **SPLAT** "ᵖᶦᵉᶜᵉ ᵒᶠ ˢʰᶦᵗ"

[@ronniehopper2726]

Skid row is a real place in the US, it’s one of the most dangerous sections in Los Angeles. It made Chi-Raq look like Bismarck North Dakota.

[@harrissyed1417]

Correction: Wilson Fisk/Kingpin is a Matt Murdock/Daredevil villain though he has overlap with Peter Parker/Spider-Man.

[@jdredalert]

Back in the silver and bronze age of comics, the Kingpin was almost a regular enemy in Spider Man's stories. He was also some kind of support character later, with Spidey always looking for him when he needed some info about new criminals in town.

[@harrissyed1417]

@@jdredalert True. But since the 1980s, he's associated with Daredevil a lot serving as his arch enemy though he does still fight Spider-Man every now and then. Hence why Marvel Studios/Disney and Sony/Columbia can use Kingpin in Daredevil (2015) and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).

[@NitroCorn]

As always, great video my bro. I also have good memories of this beauty!

[@sunslap]

I was wondering why some of the level design looked so familiar. It does have sort of a City 17 feeling to it.

[@TheRealFaceyNeck]

Although it's creepy, for whatever reason, the jiggly character models from the Quake II Engine look alright to me. They kinda give more life to the pixels I guess. I like my women the way I like my graphics; outdated, jiggly and never leaving my office. EDIT: That pathfinding! Holy tennis balls. I'm gonna need to give this a playthrough someday.

[@Mak10z]

you gotta dolla'? i'll sell you a crowbah for a dolla' a line that lives rent free in my head at all times. also.. dat flamethrower! was the best looking flame thrower for a long time

[@Mazryonh]

Does the player character's response to the crowbar seller also live rent-free in your head? "Here's your fucking dollar."

[@constantin5509]

This channel has been a Gold mine of good FPS games I would've otherwise overlooked. Thanks for all the content, Sonny Jim.

[@k3llogg428]

Phew! I was a tester on this game! Lol fun times :D Interplay 96' - 2000.

[@MiniMackeroni]

Huh. I never thought of how well done the start of the game is. It drops you in an area without direct enemies similar to Half-life, though you're free to punch anyone you like. You explore, talk to NPCs and eventually come across an area that's "gated", AKA the football fan Thugs. That's a very solid introduction that lets the player learn how to move around, get a feel of the game's atmosphere and the different mechanics.

[@Megaspartan23]

I miss the days when i could get a game on holiday and read the manual. I miss reading videogame magazines as well.

[@DevTech23]

Holy shit. Did you just reach into the void of my mind for this video? I remember watching my older cousin play this game when I was a kid and thinking about how bad I wanted to play it.

[@yasink21]

always love the old school game reviews

[@norwegianblue2017]

I remember absolutely loving this game for its graphics and content. Definitely ahead of its time.

[@ravenbeast8639]

This game was damn demanding graphic wise. That's one of the reasons it was overlooked.

[@urbangangsta101]

The pistol may fire slow, but feels really powerful with the magnum mod. Just something about the sound effects and the slow fire rate that feels meaty as fuck.

[@HrvojeGrahovac]

3D Realms is doing a remaster of this?! Bring it :)

[@Scotty-2-Shotty]

The editing in this video is better than usual and I really enjoyed it. I want you to know that most of these games you review I've never even heard of but I come here often and for two reasons, 1 - to learn the fabled history of father's shooters and 2 - to enjoy a sophisticated Australians professional opinion of said games. Thank you.

[@salokin3087]

Your Kingping video was one of the first i watched of yours when ya had like 600 sonny jims

[@cerlecky]

This game changed my life, i remember playing demo at least 100times and than full game was realeased. Playing online with 200+ ping.Best soundtrack and voices..

[@ЧешуйчатаяЯщерица]

What demo did you play?

[@bastardtubeuser]

And it is quite amusing how the dialogue was edgy for the time but nowadays we are hearing profanity in a professional review of the game.

[@churibman]

Gotta say some of those particle effects look pretty impressive to this day, especially the explosions

[@midnightunderground]

My uncle had a copy, his mom wouldn't allow him to play due to Columbine. Literally Columbine had such an impact here in the us.

[@Citykid1982]

This game attributed my body dysmorphia, even the homeless guy is mr olympia level

[@notturok7841]

I'm one of the few people that love this type of graphics. just that 90's era

[@inmatejason]

Haha I had a friend who did the same thing, he brought the quake manual to school to show off the game when i was in grade 9. I remember wishing i had a computer to play it. Anyway Kingpin will forever hold a place in my favourite games list. When i was a teen we had 2 guys in there 30s who lived in are basement and made porn sites for a living. one night after watching the movie very bad things they show me kingpin life of crime, and omg i loved it! The violence, the gore, the swearing, and awesome graphics blew my teenage mind. I bought a bootleg copy a couple weeks later and played it from beginning to end in one night and loved every fucking minute. Whenever i play kingpin it brings me right back to my teenage years and i cant help but wonder what happened to those two guys both named mike who lived in are basement. Ill be buying that remake first day thats for sure.

[@TheSpacey52]

I'm pretty sure that the tommy gun uses the same firing sound as the MP40 from RTCW

[@1q3er5]

if they are remaking this game I really hope they have the online bagman mode - that was BY FAR the most hilarious online Team based game mode I've ever played. It was just too much fun and very unique.

[@bhlaab]

13:26 Kingpin mostly got controversy because it came out shortly after Columbine

[@vinnie245]

A big part in why it bombed as well since most stores in the US refused to sell it.

[@metanumia]

It was, and still is, very common for right-wing media outlets to immediately blame real-world gun violence on video games whenever a mass shooting occurs. The 1990's to early 2000's was filled with talking heads on TV criticizing video game violence and talking out of their asses about the "connection" between violent videogame playing by children and real gun violence. It's crazy, but hardly surprising, that they're still blaming video games today whenever a mass shooting occurs because media companies like Fox 'News' are always trying to defend the firearms industry and so they use violent video games as a scapegoat to distract people who are concerned about real violence and prevent them from supporting common sense firearms regulations (like universal background checks to obtain a firearm, legislation that ~90% of Americans support). Numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies, including longitudinal studies and meta-analyses have continually shown *no* causal link between playing violent video games and causing real-world violence, including mass shootings. The real problem is that firearms are far too easy to obtain in America and there's too many loopholes allowing basically anyone to purchase a firearm, despite their mental health or documented history of abusive or violent behavior.

[@StratumPress]

@@metanumia You're a fucking idiot.

[@Edimonde]

I remember playing this with some friends over LAN back in the day. IIRC, it had a button you could press and your character would sling insults at the other players.

[@arhickernell]

"My Man" - Denzel Washington voice

[@MichaelODonoghueMOD]

The HMG is one of my favourite weapons in an FPS. Absolutely lethal in multiplayer. I loved this game. So atmospheric, and some of the bosses were hilarious. Loved The Jesus from the Big Lebowski and his army of dogs

[@borisdg]

Xatrix never became Treyarch. Xatrix became Grey Matter at the time, and than were MERGED into Treyatch.

[@FinalLuigi]

Gray Matter also ported True Crime to PC while they were working for Activision. A pretty ambitious console-to-PC port which added many new exclusive features (such as an online mode) and improved visuals, but strangely features no controller support; it controls rather awkwardly on KB/M but it's better than most. Nowadays PC ports are lucky to be on par with the console versions!

[@borisdg]

@@FinalLuigi That was LTI Gray Matter which is completely other company. www.mobygames.com/company/lti-gray-matter

[@FinalLuigi]

@@borisdg oh really? It doesn't really make matters better when LTI made a lot of games for Activision.

[@borisdg]

@@FinalLuigi Yes really :) I gave you link.

[@FinalLuigi]

@@borisdg yes, I read it. A good number of the games listed were Activision games, Shrek, Tony hawk, Spiderman, and true crime among others. Confusion with the other Gray Matter who got bought by Activision ought to be justified.

[@dmitrijolejnitsch3313]

Th game really was rocking back in these days, and the multiplayer in KingPin at GameSpy was real fun, hot and not boring stuff, played a much back in 2000/01/02s. - I'm also waited for the remake and finally it will be out.

[@TheColdest247]

The single player was a bit of a let down to me but the multi-player was all that and then some..

[@Twisted9]

I love old school style shooters, there’s something about the simplistic style.

[@ultgamercw6759]

Could you do a review of legendary? I played that game a few months back because it was cheep and two other fps youtubers recommended it. People need to be warned of it's low quality.

[@GTFour]

Path finding was next level. I actually like the music too, feel it sets the atmosphere.

[@kingcronecker]

KIngpin is a brilliant movie! That's worth an updated review.

[@ObliviousNaga]

My favorite game manual was the KKND manual. It was full of so many jokes and a self aware one in the FAQ

[@Mazryonh]

What does KKND stand for again?

[@lmrst2]

@@Mazryonh Krush, Kill 'n Destroy

[@Daladari]

"In the test chamberrrrrrrrrrr"

[@derPetunientopf]

Pro: + good leveldesign + smart AI + Pulp Fiction references + open levels without loading screens Con: - does look pretty bad compared to games like Half Life from the same era. Everything is so brown on black with red sprinkles that you wonder a bit if youre colorblind - the story is pretty irrelevant - the "hero" is an immoral asshole without anything going for him - a cliffhanger ending that im still mad about

[@wullahblack6452]

Man you gimme somethin to drink, I'll tell ya somethin good! "Here's some whiskey" The combination to the safe is 36, 26, 36! Left right left!