Kingpin Reloaded Is Embarrassing

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GmanLives

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@AvalancheReviews
@AvalancheReviews 9 ай бұрын
No, those distortions in close groupings of what's supposed to be straight lines, are a dead give away for AI upscaling. It's the thing's calling card.
@AvalancheReviews
@AvalancheReviews 9 ай бұрын
Why would they lie about that??? Like, we can see it.
@gamemast15r
@gamemast15r 9 ай бұрын
Going in for the kill
@mjay6245
@mjay6245 9 ай бұрын
​@@AvalancheReviewsTo try and save face among the stupid/ blind majority.
@DilbertDoubloon
@DilbertDoubloon 9 ай бұрын
@@AvalancheReviews What's crazy is that you've got free AI upscaled texture packs for other games like Half Life that actually look pretty good. Not only do I think AI should only be used for noncommercial projects like that but it looks like people making noncommercial projects are the only ones who actually do it with some semblance of competence.
@Gggmanlives
@Gggmanlives 9 ай бұрын
That's what I thought, it has that "look" of AI upscaling.
@AlphaYellow
@AlphaYellow 9 ай бұрын
They didn't even bother to rerig the animations and exporting those to a more recent version of the MD format (the wobble in models is a limitation of the MD2 format that the Quake 2 engine uses), unlike what Nightdive did in the Quake 1 and 2 remasters. A dev who worked on this "remaster" said the original source code is gone, and they had to reverse engineer the game logic and porting it to a custom engine made in Unity. Slipgate's total lack of experience in doing remasters of old 3D games, combined with doing multiple projects at once, and we got this awful thing. Like what Groove Street Games did to the GTA 3D Trilogy remasters. Atrocious af man
@lorddeecee
@lorddeecee 9 ай бұрын
Is it bad that I like this art style? Lmaooo I’ve never played or even heard of the original but this game looks so funny I want to play it the new one, the squiggly lines makes it look like if ed Edd and eddy ppl made a pc boomer shooter
@Gatorade69
@Gatorade69 9 ай бұрын
​@@lorddeeceeThe original Quake 2 engine had this same effect.
@KrazzeeKane
@KrazzeeKane 9 ай бұрын
Complete pass from me as well, I expected them to fix the hideous wobbles and they didn't even try. Nightdive at least has the skills and ability to fix it. I know some love it, and I am all for the wobbling being a toggleable option--but that wobbly crap looks awful nowadays. There's a reason the most in-demand options for PS1 emulation are dithering and wobbly texture fixes, the wobbling looks like trash lol. But then you boot up MGS1 with all the fixes and its a gorgeous piece of game now, even with the old ps1 models.
@cacomeat7385
@cacomeat7385 9 ай бұрын
I feel so fucking bad for the devs, they were NOT the right studio for this and working on it must have been miserable
@AlphaYellow
@AlphaYellow 9 ай бұрын
@@cacomeat7385 Yeah, 3DR should've given this project to Nightdive
@VietnamG
@VietnamG 9 ай бұрын
This shows how good Nightdive studios is at remastering old titles
@Gatorade69
@Gatorade69 9 ай бұрын
I find it funny how there's still people hating on Nightdive, just because.
@Tenzima
@Tenzima 9 ай бұрын
At least they actually stand behind their remasters and fix them worth a damn if they are buggy... this is made by a company that "remade" (ie. took a huge piss all over) Rise of the Triad... by making the 2013 game....
@TopCoat3076
@TopCoat3076 9 ай бұрын
Only exception as far as I can tell, was Blade Runner Enhanced Edition, and I don't know what caused Nightdive to release the state it was in along with temporarily inability to purchase the ScummVM release.
@TheDRODOR
@TheDRODOR 9 ай бұрын
Nope, they did a great job on the turok trilogy
@SuckItDown
@SuckItDown 9 ай бұрын
​@@TheDRODORpartially, T3 came without multiplayer and they charge more than usual.
@orbitaljunkie
@orbitaljunkie 9 ай бұрын
The devs apparently tried to mimic the feel of driving at night, in the rain, with an astigmatism, and every car around you being a lifted truck with LED lights. Nailed it.
@Zenstudent105
@Zenstudent105 9 ай бұрын
I like how this hits my driving experience so perfectly. Chef's kiss.
@HexenStar
@HexenStar 7 ай бұрын
I think you're right. The cutscene stuttering must signify the police stopping them for inspection every quarter mile.
@phaeton01
@phaeton01 9 ай бұрын
waited ages for this, it looks worse than the original
@dwatts64
@dwatts64 9 ай бұрын
I know, isn't it great?! 😂
@wille84fin
@wille84fin 9 ай бұрын
Yep, same here. Such a shame.
@DeadSmoke813
@DeadSmoke813 9 ай бұрын
Ditto
@afd19850
@afd19850 9 ай бұрын
They should have just left the original as is and made it multi platform with modern additions.
@mranderzen
@mranderzen 9 ай бұрын
Looks, sounds and plays worse :D
@PXAbstraction
@PXAbstraction 9 ай бұрын
After sitting in development Hell for years, 3D Realms suddenly announced that this was coming out like 2 months ago, then they dropped that gods awful Phantom Fury demo, then they suddenly announced dates for a bunch of stuff they've let languish. I'm pretty sure this is because their parent company Embracer Group is going through a financial reckoning right now, and 3D Realms is trying to show they can get releases out so they don't risk getting cut back or shut down. The studio's been a mess for years, announcing more and more projects that just sit in "coming soon" state for eons. This shipping in this abhorrent state is what happens when a badly run studio is desperately trying to save itself. There's a reason Scott Miller cut ties with them.
@varyagace
@varyagace 9 ай бұрын
Oh they're owned by Embracer Group? They dead, then. They just shuttered New World Interactive, who actually had a decent game out and making money. Hell, I think we know who to blame for this now.
@Dorraj
@Dorraj 9 ай бұрын
Yeah I guess Embracer is proof that the "perfect world" everyone wants where some company buys up old and beloved properties to reboot them isn't as easy as you think. Tho they really have been just gobbling up properties the past few years, not surprised they're axing some stuff.
@djam7484
@djam7484 9 ай бұрын
not all hope is lost.. There is still Graven. i remeber playing the demo of that and really enjoying it. full release is out end of next month.
@WllKiedSnake
@WllKiedSnake 9 ай бұрын
​​@@DorrajI like Embracer Group. They brought Destroy All Humans 1&2 back from the dead. Tomb Raider is also on the way.
@PXAbstraction
@PXAbstraction 9 ай бұрын
@@djam7484 I hope it's good, but that's another title that got launched with very little content and has advanced at a snail's pace since. I hope it doesn't launch cut back.
@ripley_live
@ripley_live 9 ай бұрын
It’s always disappointing when the best way to sum up a remaster is “just play the original”
@fernandohood5657
@fernandohood5657 9 ай бұрын
Pretty much the same with most remasters, if there are fan versions def play it, if theres a "official" remaster just ignore it
@dasantihero2827
@dasantihero2827 9 ай бұрын
The biggest thing is, a game like Kingpin has such a devoted fan base you could easily find mods for it to help put it in widescreen or add QoL improvements the remaster should have had.
@HexenStar
@HexenStar 7 ай бұрын
I thought gamers would learn that by now.
@lolcat
@lolcat 9 ай бұрын
going from nightdives fantastic quake 2 remaster to this is crazy
@shaynetrimm5268
@shaynetrimm5268 9 ай бұрын
You mentioned the guy who worked on the level design and said he worked on other games and I looked at the level and went "Probably dishonored." And it was. That dude has a style and likes to stick to it.
@occularmalice
@occularmalice 9 ай бұрын
It's too bad Nightdive didn't do this. They blew it. Picking Unity as an engine might have been a bad choice as well as someone just went over the top with the post-processing.
@thewhyzer
@thewhyzer 9 ай бұрын
@@humanplayer6864 Nobody would've liked having to upgrade to a 4090 to run a "remaster" of a 90s game.
@HexenStar
@HexenStar 7 ай бұрын
In order for it to "look nice" - there would have to be tons of additional set pieces, geometry and level detailing, - and that's a lot of work. Something that these guys are evidently incapable of. Once a designer starts putting dubious engine whirligigs upfront, while actual creativity goes to the back of the bus, and then "leaves the building" - it's all over. Not even worth a look. Too many developers confuse Nvidia tick-boxes with creativity, and/or resolution with detail. Especially when it comes to "remastering" something. 🙄Basket case, basket case...
@Razumen
@Razumen 7 ай бұрын
Nothing wrong with Unity, it's just an engine, the problem is the lack of effort in porting the game over.
@ki3657
@ki3657 6 ай бұрын
Hell, I've written less messy Unity games than this. Not an engine thing. Just an incompetent development in so, so many ways.
@ManinTidyWhities
@ManinTidyWhities 9 ай бұрын
Now we understand why we haven't gotten information about the development of the game within those 3 years, and this really shows
@modernmobster
@modernmobster 9 ай бұрын
Man, what a shame. All publishers should jusy let Nightdive handle their remasters. Let them give Kingpin and XIII the proper remasters they deserve. At least Sin: Reloaded is being handled by Nightdive, so that has a much better chance at getting the treatment it deserves.
@thedeegee1601
@thedeegee1601 9 ай бұрын
Let them remaster Return to Castle Wolfenstein as well while at it ^^
@pastichiorocker
@pastichiorocker 9 ай бұрын
Blade Runner Enhanced likes to have a word.
@thedeegee1601
@thedeegee1601 9 ай бұрын
@@pastichiorocker that's just one rotten apple out of many they actually done right. Sounds like you're completely writing them off just for a point and click no one likes to play.
@anchorlightforge
@anchorlightforge 9 ай бұрын
@@pastichiorocker BR:EE was a mistake. At the end they hit a deadline and had to ship due to contractual obligations, that's the danger of doing things the legal sellable way as Night Dive specializes in. Westwood's Blade Runner is a mindnumbingly complicated game using a renderer nobody else in the industry used or ever will use, and the only documentation is the painstakingly reverse-engineered ScummVM port-- over a decade of painstaking work, which couldn't be used by NDS because it was under the GPL license making it incompatible with a console release. BR:EE sucks, it's unplayable and unfinished... but it's not lazy. They bit off way more than they could chew and got burned, and it really should have been cancelled. The fact that the ScummVM release of the game happened between its project start and its release makes it even more confusing on the outside, but Night Dive didn't have a decade to work on it. It's not indicative of their work which is otherwise top notch.
@TheL1arL1ar
@TheL1arL1ar 9 ай бұрын
@@pastichiorockerand I’ve been to prison before and now I got full custody of 4 kids and do a job most people don’t want to do….you can’t win them all…like I was saying my ex wife likes to remind people of somebody’s past….😅
@Senior666
@Senior666 9 ай бұрын
Its definitely a game that I will always remember. Heavy language, Hiring mercs, Cypress Hill doing the soundtrack and multiplayer being called "Gangbangin". Really hope this turns out better, cheers Gman 👌
@redcircuits110
@redcircuits110 9 ай бұрын
It blows my mind that the Original graphics actually do look better. WTF?
@MoonMinHo
@MoonMinHo 9 ай бұрын
This is the sheer definition of “Look how they massacred my boy” in game remastered.
@NetSraC1306
@NetSraC1306 9 ай бұрын
At this point, studios should just hire some modders who love the games they work on and give them 2-3 years full time. 100% sure we would have so much better games.
@sorryyourenotawinner2506
@sorryyourenotawinner2506 8 ай бұрын
DEMASTERED
@Alex-cd3lr
@Alex-cd3lr 9 ай бұрын
I love it that you're always early to bring the real reviews asap, instead of all that bullshit of trying not to upset any publishers
@STLMTB
@STLMTB 9 ай бұрын
This game introduced me to Cypress Hill. The tracks in the game are awesome.
@Rekettyelovag
@Rekettyelovag 9 ай бұрын
Same here. This game sold albums. :)
@miniNinja027
@miniNinja027 9 ай бұрын
The voice acting in the original was frigging hilarious.
@DilbertDoubloon
@DilbertDoubloon 9 ай бұрын
you could tell they were really excited about how they were one of the first games that had people saying "fuck" in it lmao
@ThatCarGuy1983
@ThatCarGuy1983 9 ай бұрын
​@@DilbertDoubloonThey weren't though...
@ThatCarGuy1983
@ThatCarGuy1983 9 ай бұрын
​@@DilbertDoubloonDuke nukem was swearing back in 96 and others
@NetSraC1306
@NetSraC1306 9 ай бұрын
@@DilbertDoubloon hearing "FUCKER" every 20 seconds was a special experience as a kid
@seanhall8686
@seanhall8686 5 ай бұрын
@@NetSraC1306 F-Bomb Simulator '98
@pessie83
@pessie83 9 ай бұрын
And when installing the original game, I believe you could choose from the options 'censored' (no blood, loose body parts and swearing) and 'uncensored'.
@IsmailofeRegime
@IsmailofeRegime 9 ай бұрын
Yeah, the censored version straight up bleeped the profanity, and the utter lack of blood just looked and felt weird.
@jackcoleman1784
@jackcoleman1784 9 ай бұрын
Jeez they made the explosions look like the explosions from Goldeneye. I remember I had a friend in 99 that was really hyped for Kingpin because of how dirty it was. Lotta memories of going over to his house to play it when we were 13. I remember him asking me if I knew who Cypress Hill was before it came out because he was hyped. And me having to show him some MP3s of Cypress Hill I got off Napster. Good times. Shame this remaster isn't representative of what Kingpin is supposed to be.
@FozzieOscar
@FozzieOscar 9 ай бұрын
it seems like the distance fog is cranked up too high, making everything look washed out Also those little icons that appear when you pick things up look like they were made in powerpoint, just with the shape tools and the gradient fill effects
@lasskinn474
@lasskinn474 9 ай бұрын
it should hit sharper like it would with lower bitdepths, you shouldn't really see far away that it's washed out, it should just be fogged out.
@cenciende9401
@cenciende9401 9 ай бұрын
I mean that's literally how all icons are made, shape tools and fill effects, usually in Illustrator.
@FozzieOscar
@FozzieOscar 9 ай бұрын
@@cenciende9401 nah this is a really specific kind of look, when i was a kid (like 7-10 years old) id make "comics" in powerpoint using its super simple shape tools and these pickup icons absolutely SCREAM the same vibe my comics would have. (Except i stopped using gradients, and swiched them out with transparent shapes id overlay on top that would act as my shadows) It's just, there's something VERY amateurish about their design
@DedAlexFive
@DedAlexFive 7 ай бұрын
@@cenciende9401 Its been a while since I've seen someone miss a point so hard
@ro25988
@ro25988 9 ай бұрын
I’m 26 but spent most of my life obsessing over old games, and I’ve legit never heard of Kingpin. It’s crazy how many innovative and interesting games are out there that you might never hear about.
@MrZillas
@MrZillas 9 ай бұрын
The same time Half-Life came out, everywhere was Half-Life.
@RustyPudder-q7c
@RustyPudder-q7c 8 ай бұрын
Well you weren’t even alive so
@Swordslinger-hb1ns
@Swordslinger-hb1ns 9 ай бұрын
They better not delist either the Steam or GOG versions of the original Kingpin Life of Crime and replace it with the defective version. Yes, I’m looking at you RockStar.
@Matt-md5yt
@Matt-md5yt 9 ай бұрын
Ikr
@cenciende9401
@cenciende9401 9 ай бұрын
For the LAST TIME. Rockstar themselves have nothing to do with it, it's always the publisher/parent company Take-Two
@fernandohood5657
@fernandohood5657 9 ай бұрын
​@@humanplayer6864supporting piracy and blatant stealing just throws your own hole argument out the window
@gucciguy3408
@gucciguy3408 9 ай бұрын
Don't forget Sega and co.
@Ohio.Gozaimasu
@Ohio.Gozaimasu 9 ай бұрын
Just pirate the original if you want to play it. Who cares? What would the creators' cut even be after 24 years?
@TheCoopsCorner
@TheCoopsCorner 9 ай бұрын
When Gman was walking to and from the radio, am I the only one who thought of the scene from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective where Ace is standing on a porch/balcony, sliding a glass door open and closed while singing?
@JorgeMartinez-dp3im
@JorgeMartinez-dp3im 9 ай бұрын
Damn. Makes you appreciate Nightdive even more.
@kibafireheart
@kibafireheart 9 ай бұрын
From what i looked up apparently the original source code was lost so the devs had to make a lot of things from scratch its another silent hill HD collection situation
@phaeton01
@phaeton01 9 ай бұрын
but 'get tha' fuck outta my foyyyeyyyy' is still a great line
@brianschwartz3407
@brianschwartz3407 9 ай бұрын
A crying shame. I was genuinely looking forward to this. Since I'm a relatively new PC gamer, I've been able to enjoy so many classic titles through their amazing remasters and overhauled versions. Too bad Kingpin won't be included - at least not this version.
@fusscoopland9680
@fusscoopland9680 9 ай бұрын
Also available on Steam around $11 in Canada, so I mean there is that wherever you live, though remember Steam runs DRM. Can not pay with debit card though.
@darthcinema4262
@darthcinema4262 9 ай бұрын
Wow what a friggin mess. I wasn't a huge fan of the original but this makes the original looks like a masterpiece.
@iwanttocomplain
@iwanttocomplain 8 ай бұрын
I think this shows how difficult these conversions can actually be and how fragile a game's balancing can be to get just the right feel.
@MILDMONSTER1234
@MILDMONSTER1234 9 ай бұрын
A reference to Coppola Dracula wasn’t what I was expecting but respect
@ChrisOVEMERY
@ChrisOVEMERY 9 ай бұрын
Ahhh.... the golden era of FPS games late 90s early 2000s. Kingpin, Deus Ex, SiN, System Shock, Thief, Delta Force, AvP, Half Life, Blood2, Soldier of fortune, Unreal, Quake 3, No one lives forever, Tresspasser, Turok... the list goes on. Uhm wait either it was a golden era or just simply when I had time to play games for 6hrs a day lol
@kmvoss
@kmvoss 9 ай бұрын
I became giddy for a minute when I saw this release out of nowhere. To see the reviews crushed that. Would've been an easy buy.
@Plutonic_Blue
@Plutonic_Blue 9 ай бұрын
Fucking same. I literally just woke up, looked up Kingpin reloaded after months of forgetting about it; saw it was released and said “oh shit” and ran to my laptop to check it on Steam Saw the reviews and just went “damn” this year sucks
@ViralOutbreak89
@ViralOutbreak89 9 ай бұрын
After seeing this as a remaster and the demo for the sequel to one of my favourite throwback shooters, it makes me really optimistic for SiN and Phantom Fury... They should just let Nightdive do the remasters and give Phantom Fury to the Ion Fury guys. Slipgate just don't seem to be up to it.
@Bunch.
@Bunch. 3 ай бұрын
Even a flashlight looks like a PNG texture added on the layer above.
@portalfreak7628
@portalfreak7628 9 ай бұрын
15:41 The footstep sounds as the dude keeps waking up to and away from the radio makes it hilarious for some reason lmao
@roskelld
@roskelld 9 ай бұрын
It genuinely got a laugh out of me 😆
@gobbins8366
@gobbins8366 9 ай бұрын
There were no reverb farts in this episode.
@IISG93II
@IISG93II 9 ай бұрын
Unsubscribing. Unacceptable.
@MaxskiSynths
@MaxskiSynths 9 ай бұрын
I used to love playing through Kingpin when I was younger. It was so far ahead of it's time in a lot of aspects.
@df71091
@df71091 9 ай бұрын
Same, i had no internet and no basic english skills... The moment i found out that i have to crouch and interact with bodies to loot was such an opener😂
@ThatCarGuy1983
@ThatCarGuy1983 9 ай бұрын
Yes i was glued to my PC's in the 90s as a young teen they should have used something similar to the GHOUL damage model rendering system that soldier of fortune had for the remaster..
@blakegriplingph
@blakegriplingph 9 ай бұрын
Kingpin also had the misfortune of being released just after Columbine which caused a moral panic over violence in games. On a lighter note I find the PS1-esque vertex wobble rather peculiar. That one's quite typical of the vertex animation used in Quake 2 iirc.
@DilbertDoubloon
@DilbertDoubloon 9 ай бұрын
This game originally used the Quake 2 engine.
@df71091
@df71091 9 ай бұрын
Yes, i even found a notepad file from a developer on the cd that kinda wants to apologize for all the violence
@blakegriplingph
@blakegriplingph 9 ай бұрын
@@df71091 They went through the trouble of adding a censorship setting in the game mostly to appease watchdog groups, even after issuing a statement maintaining that the game was never meant for children at all.
@mr.pointman1930
@mr.pointman1930 9 ай бұрын
Shouldn't have just let Nightdive do the job. Now, their reputation is ruined forever. Good job, 3D realm.
@darthcinema4262
@darthcinema4262 9 ай бұрын
Wouldn't be the first time
@Indy_Bendy
@Indy_Bendy 9 ай бұрын
​@@darthcinema4262repetition?
@quizarorobzaqu8558
@quizarorobzaqu8558 9 ай бұрын
​@@Indy_Bendy*reputation*
@longlivetheking1065
@longlivetheking1065 9 ай бұрын
nightdive had nothing to do with this lol
@darthcinema4262
@darthcinema4262 9 ай бұрын
@@Indy_Bendy He meant Reputation. Typos happen
@sideaccount6198
@sideaccount6198 8 ай бұрын
This game was *the bomb* back in the day. The way they talked, the music, the theme/vibe had all my boys rollin when I played this 'Yo man, you got a dolla?"
@cartoon49
@cartoon49 9 ай бұрын
This should of been done by Nightdive Studios.
@zaxbit
@zaxbit 9 ай бұрын
This feels especially awful when you compare it to Half Life's 25th Anniversary update which just updated the codebase to be more accessible and added more multiplayer maps. Looks like that's all they had to do to give the game more life? At least now the original is on my radar.
@ThornOfSociety
@ThornOfSociety 9 ай бұрын
How the hell is this 12gb?
@JohnLloydDavis
@JohnLloydDavis 9 ай бұрын
I loved this game back in the day. What a shame they didn't respect the fans and make a half decent job of this.
@pyratehyena1312
@pyratehyena1312 9 ай бұрын
oh,oh,oh it's a near perfect example to give to people without visual hypersensitivity to explain why I have a hard time dealing with lens flares and a lot of bloom effects. thanks 3D Realms and slipgate ironworks for your heartfelt efforts to help the disabled...
@STLMTB
@STLMTB 9 ай бұрын
They screwed the pooch with this. What a shame.
@ifipaidmybartabtheu.swould9208
@ifipaidmybartabtheu.swould9208 9 ай бұрын
This is the reason i love your channel, every so often you give me a reason to dust off my old gaming shelf
@HuskySMS4
@HuskySMS4 9 ай бұрын
There's no way they can't not patch this monstrosity
@ImTheHamSandwich
@ImTheHamSandwich 9 ай бұрын
hot damn a TRIPLE negative
@devonhar
@devonhar 9 ай бұрын
Well, this is getting removed from the wishlist. Thank Gawd Sin Reloaded is being done by Nightdive
@benhillman8384
@benhillman8384 9 ай бұрын
Also when you aggro enemies when you're meant to be sneaking and then die or reload a save, it inexplicably preserves their hostile state when you load back in, leading to them trying to cross the whole map to find you.😅
@pnastysavage5510
@pnastysavage5510 9 ай бұрын
Thing that really breaks it for me is cash just flying around as a pick up, having to crouch and loot money from corpses really made you feel like a thug back in the day.
@jjforcebreaker
@jjforcebreaker 9 ай бұрын
It's a shame. They've been working on it for some time, really weird.
@DiddlyDoink
@DiddlyDoink 9 ай бұрын
I think it speaks volumes that the modern fancy effects they tried to add all look like glitches. Like I really can't tell if the lens flares are working correctly because it just looks broken and like it's going to destroy my monitor, and the flamethrower...and the flamethrower. The textures too, all of it, like when you rerelease a game the standard should be you either don't touch the visuals, just make it playable on modern systems, or you touch the visuals to the point where it doesn't look like stepped on tofu anymore
@Absolynth
@Absolynth 9 ай бұрын
Kingpin is nothing if not a total VIBE
@MasterSoto
@MasterSoto 9 ай бұрын
I would love to hear what the good people from Xatrix would have to say about this abomination. Probably something akin to Vito Corleone standing over Sonny's corpse in the first Godfather.
@dunka12
@dunka12 9 ай бұрын
Why this is such an ignored and forgotten classic is mostly due to the requirements. It's not cause of Half Life. I do remember the day when i got my hands on it at launch, and it was literally the only game i knew that required a dedicated GPU. Most people didn't have one back then, and it was hard convincing your parents to get something that had no use other than videogames. Quake 3 Arena is THE game that made everyone get a GPU, due to sheer popularity. But before that, it wasn't that common. You could play anything at that time in software mode, and that's actually how most people played HL, Quake 2, etc. I took the disk to a friend who had a Voodoo card, and our brains exploded when Kingpin started. We couldn't believe the projected shadows, and lighting it had. It's hard to describe now how that felt, and even how hearing this kind of music in a game of that time was. It felt like seeing Doom for the very first time, all over again.
@fullauto86
@fullauto86 9 ай бұрын
Oh fuck man, I played this as a kid and have been waiting for this re release for so long. Fuck man
@ebestul84
@ebestul84 9 ай бұрын
Props for putting "Daytonaaaaaa!" at the beginning. That soundtrack is amazing.
@bmFbr
@bmFbr 9 ай бұрын
It took them this long because they had to remake the game completely in Unity. But still they probably had to rush this out of the door because of fear of Embracer closing its studios left and right.
@CubeSeal
@CubeSeal 9 ай бұрын
11:56 I can tell you this isn't a lag issue. As a person that has animated in 3D, I am 100% sure this is because they didn't bother changing the animation curve. Which makes it not loop properly. Which mean yes, this remaster was made with no passion or effort.
@TVGGAMEZCO
@TVGGAMEZCO 9 ай бұрын
wow, that "remastered" label should be erased. how embarrassing
@DyaMetR
@DyaMetR 9 ай бұрын
A remake, is one thing. But remasters are one of the easiest things to do, just fix what's broken, compile it for modern hardware, and if you feel adventurous, update the graphics. However companies still find ways to screw it up in the worst ways possible.
@kirilnikolovski81
@kirilnikolovski81 9 ай бұрын
The bugs have been enhanced. All in all Gman, you're correct, the original graphics, lighting etc looks so much better.
@maymayman0
@maymayman0 9 ай бұрын
That ambient occlusion is absolutely horrendous
@Serpens6
@Serpens6 9 ай бұрын
This remaster has “NightDive, hire this man” energy
@number1enemyoftheuseless985
@number1enemyoftheuseless985 9 ай бұрын
The original was awesome I had that on my voodoo 3 Windows 98 PC from gateway.... Kingpin and soldier of Fortune or great first person shooters...
@jackcoleman1784
@jackcoleman1784 9 ай бұрын
Duuuude I still have my box my Voodoo 3 came in because I thought the cover was bitchin when I was 13. Remember that shit with the persons face covered in glow in the dark tribal paint? Good times.
@number1enemyoftheuseless985
@number1enemyoftheuseless985 9 ай бұрын
@@jackcoleman1784 baldur's gate 1 and 2, thief dark project, Half-Life.... Good times
@sickm535
@sickm535 9 ай бұрын
Its like civiee said you can take staff from 3d realms but you cant take 3d realms from staff
@liamwynne566
@liamwynne566 9 ай бұрын
This game is quite the clowns luncheon, it seems
@CaptToilet
@CaptToilet 9 ай бұрын
I got super scared when I saw this pop up and thought "How Did Nightdive go from the excellent Turok 3 remaster to this?". That pistol sound effect though gives me massive dirty harry vibes.
@hughie522
@hughie522 9 ай бұрын
One of the conspiracy theories I sometimes hear is that the big gaming companies are deliberately screwing up these remasters so that their new, janky games look better (or at least equal) by comparison XD.
@marts4169
@marts4169 9 ай бұрын
That´s a fun theory. It would explain the state the XIII remake released in. But it falls apart in prominent cases such as GTA definitive edition or Warcraft reforged, where the publisher had the originals be delisted from stores.
@ichigokurosaki1081
@ichigokurosaki1081 9 ай бұрын
Bro this man made me feel old AF for recognizing the OG Daytona USA theme.
@hewhoeatscheese
@hewhoeatscheese 9 ай бұрын
A remaster for a game most have forgotten about.
@modernmobster
@modernmobster 9 ай бұрын
Bad remasters make it stay that way, too. If Nightdive had worked on this, the game could've potentially reached a wider audience, but people just look at remasters like this and assume the games were always bad.
@SacredNutrino
@SacredNutrino 9 ай бұрын
the gore in kingpin when i was a kid blew my little mind
@VergilHiltsLT
@VergilHiltsLT 9 ай бұрын
Goodness gracious! What have they done to my childhood!
@nickduracell4364
@nickduracell4364 9 ай бұрын
I wanted to buy this, but I waited for the gman review first.
@minerkey682
@minerkey682 9 ай бұрын
Not gonna excuse it, but what does contribute is that the game's original source code was lost. Kingpin had to essentially be reprogrammed from scratch in Unity, which likely contributed to it both taking so long and still looking different
@leeartlee915
@leeartlee915 9 ай бұрын
I remember Kingpin: Life of Crime. It had its issues but it was really underrated. Too bad this remake (or whatever it is) didn’t pan out better.
@FlymanMS
@FlymanMS 9 ай бұрын
Russian voice over of this game is glorious, even if you don't speak or understand the language you should look it up. The voices are super memorable and it arguably has even more profanity than the original game.
@oothatguyoo7643
@oothatguyoo7643 9 ай бұрын
As someone who had oxyclean in the eyes (small amount, didn't actually blind me), I can confirm the flamethrower is a close second
@AskDrannik
@AskDrannik 9 ай бұрын
The game looks like onions and flowers, what with all that damn bloom. I remember some old Flash game on Newgrounds that used a lot of audio samples from Kingpin.
@j.e.8401
@j.e.8401 9 ай бұрын
am I stoned or are these 3D character models made out of water bed
@mistersc2tt
@mistersc2tt 9 ай бұрын
17:25 took the words right out of my mouth
@jonf2009
@jonf2009 9 ай бұрын
As someone who messed with level editors for shooters in that era of games the biggest problem with the reloaded version of graphics is the volumetric fog. Its almost like the reloaded version added zonewide fog to every room, i understand they had no source code or art and ended up redoing everything but using fog and distance blur effects to hide the lack of original textures is kind of crap.
@bebopovskyandtheorkestrypo489
@bebopovskyandtheorkestrypo489 9 ай бұрын
One little addition to your words - they cut off multiplayer game from remaster.
@IsmailofeRegime
@IsmailofeRegime 9 ай бұрын
Yeah while watching the video and seeing the "remastered" main menu I couldn't help but notice there was no multiplayer option.
@chrise229
@chrise229 5 ай бұрын
3 months after its release, this game is still a complete mess And it looks like they abandoned it altogether. Wtf were they doing for 3 years?
@ukasz3245
@ukasz3245 9 ай бұрын
I’m surprised I haven’t found your channel sooner, I’m on a nostalgia trip each time I watch your videos 😊
@dracothegolden
@dracothegolden 9 ай бұрын
Hey gman this game is pretty violent. You should seek therapy cause it might make you do horrible things.
@jackmehoffe9372
@jackmehoffe9372 8 ай бұрын
There used to be a .wav file with all the swear words. Those were fun times maaaaate
@GorFrag
@GorFrag 9 ай бұрын
its a bethesda game, what did you expect?
@pistol0grip0pump
@pistol0grip0pump 5 ай бұрын
Slipgate ironworks just consistantly fuck up great IP's
@DawnOfTheOzz
@DawnOfTheOzz 9 ай бұрын
I bet Civvie is gonna have a field day tearing this "remaster" apart.
@timur7381
@timur7381 9 ай бұрын
interesting stylistic decision to make the textures move all the time like the protagonist is having an acid trip.
@df71091
@df71091 9 ай бұрын
Noo!! one of my most beloved games.... It must have been really something special back in 1999, so innovative, even compared to half life 1. It was way ahead of its time and only went under the radar because of hl1.
@Achilieswargod
@Achilieswargod 9 ай бұрын
That Total Recall clip caught me off guard 😂😂😂
@dmitriygryaznov9210
@dmitriygryaznov9210 9 ай бұрын
3:02 - you know it's bad when a non-Morrowind game gives cliffracer flashbacks
@eadghe
@eadghe 9 ай бұрын
8:22 That shadow looks like a giant...
@leonardovisioli3869
@leonardovisioli3869 9 ай бұрын
what a shame i was looking forward to this given the recent excellent remasters. guess ill just play the original
@RSNTM3NT
@RSNTM3NT 9 ай бұрын
Nightdive should have chosen this Remaster, over Rise of the Triad Ludicrous.
@ViolentHabits
@ViolentHabits 9 ай бұрын
Kingpin Life of Crime was one of the first PC games that I bought. I still have the original CD rom in the box. I'm extremely disappointed that this version didn't get the proper love it deserves. My friends and I played the campaign for a couple months, while we messed around with the Gangbang multiplayer modes after school. The custom skins they had for your multiplayer character was hilarious and insane. Everything from Beavis and Butthead to David Letterman. Good times!
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