Let's Play Superman 64 - Stage 3 Part 2/2

[@Jon4270]

Lex Luthor: The REAL Lord of the Rings

[@Tomservo520]

I would've thought that the official strategy guide would be one page long. And on that page would be the phone number for where to get you refund.

[@Catonator]

10:36 "...but unfortunately I didn't get to capture it on film." Incredible! This LP has been going on for so long that when Jon started it, HD on KZbin was but a myth and game footage was still being recorded on film.

[@OttersDen]

Pretty sure that explosion just before you get back to the mother is the baby carriage. Kidnappable *Exploding* Babies: Infinite ;)

[@TheSuperSaiyan4Gamer]

And Titus said "Let there be rings!" And there were rings.... Lots and lots of rings....

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

Too many rings ...

[@BioMega96]

Should've dialed back on the rings

[@doomdegree2584]

1:44 I bet THAT is actually Lex Luther's real plan, he just wants to see superman fly through rings all day

[@nicywicy]

I feel bad that you had to go through that stupid ring stage again. The kid probably fell through the floor that's another glitch added to your counter!

[@ProtonJon]

@TheOverlordPlayer No idea why I said bottom when I was recording...

[@ServocityLevelsHigh]

Dude, this warms my heart . The non-stop green mist and your passion for it, and the display of in-game mechanic genius kind of hypnotizes me, letting your commentary be the sole arbiter for my sanity. Thank you.

[@MadamFoogie]

The bouncing rings actually did kind of make me motion sick. Which is strange, because I never have this problem.

[@TheGirlInFandomWorld]

It's a side effect of being near this much failure

[@zeevyehuda2501]

Kidnappable Babies: Infinite

[@weird7376]

ACHIEVEMENT GET

[@weird7376]

indeed

[@weird7376]

ye

[@personface1580]

They should make prisoners at Guantanamo beat this game if they want their dinner. Then again that would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

[@UnluckyUrsine]

Anyone else rewatching all of these 6 1/2 years later, since part 9 just came out?

[@trevorransford]

Me! Love this series, but I haven't watched it for a while. I have to re watch it to understand part nine.

[@Jekku1987]

Yup

[@tompor561]

Hi

[@terrydavis146]

I came back here when they mentioned Superman 64 in the James and Mike smash 64 episode

[@Thyyyyyyyyme]

Try 10 and a half years later, when part 10 came out lmao

[@ProtonJon]

@devilwarier9 ? Did I say I replay through the stages to count the rings by accident? I do actually just watch the videos over.

[@ProtonJon]

There's more than one of me? Yes, I'm Proton Jon and yes, I am in The Runaway Guys.

[@ProtonJon]

@ElOctopodo Holy crap I never knew that the PS1 version got so far, let alone Blue Sky was the team on it (I knew Titus bought them out but I didn't know they had their hands in it). I'm gonna contact these guys right away, thank you so much for bringing this to my attention!

[@whitesisterrom1961]

Jon: 7 MINUTES! Thats how long I'm going to play with you. Wesker: 7 minutes. 7 minutes is all I can spare to play with you.

[@regalia8717]

Hooray!!! You got the reference!

[@ProtonJon]

@Ilumiknight That's why I'm asking about speeding up the rings and the like. It's getting trickier to play the ring stages and come up with something remotely meaningful to say. Doing the rings in post and sped up will make things simpler and more enjoyable (A term that rarely applies to this game). Thanks for the feedback.

[@dogeamazed6275]

7 minutes 7 minutes is all I have time to play with you you albert wesker you will give me an egg

[@ixstave4812]

"Ahhhhh there you are!"

[@ProtonJon]

@plusle96 Not quite sure, assuming releasing too few games, games selling poorly, and expanding too quickly (They bought out Interplay, Blue Sky (They made the Vectorman games) and another two companies within the span of a few years) just all piled up at once.

[@AgentG128]

0:12 "Seven minutes. Seven minutes is all I can spare to play with you." "Your future hinges upon this fight!" "There's no point in hiding." "Found you!" "Aww, Playtime is over. How fortunate for you." *GOD DAMNIT JON!* Now you got me doing it!

[@ProtonJon]

@lazercatFTW I actually stated for this one that it would take a while because we moved to a new house right after it got posted, but then again I stated that in the SA thread and Twitter so maybe that's why it got missed.

[@DeathTheKid2100]

Lol, ever since his RE5 LP, i finally get that reference (he made me buy the game, and it is one of the best games on the ps3 generation consoles!)

[@ProtonJon]

@mrdbznarutofan1 1) Scripts are written for the video intros and character bios, otherwise everything else is off the cuff/made up. 2) I'm using a USB Capture Card called a Gamebridge. The easiest capture card to find that I've seen is the Dazzle, as most Best Buy's and electronic stores seem to carry them.

[@omegapuschel]

This series has been one of the best bad-game Let's Plays I've seen. Your commentary is great

[@bowens9211]

No his commentary is like all other gamers the game itself being so bad is funny Lol kids like you are too dumb to know that lol

[@ProtonJon]

@payableondeath7 Hmmm, I see where you're coming from, but at the same time, ring stages are going to start taking upwards of a half hour from hereon out. I understand that the majority of people find them boring, hell I do and I'm the person playing the damn game, so that's why I'm thinking of speeding them up. It does change the aspect of being an LP if some parts are just sped up, but if people are just going to skip the ring videos anyways because of length why not make it easier to watch?

[@RoundenBrown]

I rented this game from Blockbuster back in the day. Never got past the first ring stage; waste of money. Though, if you think about it, the game's story is that Superman is stuck in a computer program created by Lex Luthor. Lex wants Superman to fly through rings all day as torture. So, you're basically playing a game where a man gets tortured. Yeah.

[@theboomerpride]

Well... Way of the samurai is a thing... Where a man gets tortured... REAL torture... So...

[@Robscurity]

"Whats Blockbuster?", I say ironically.

[@ProtonJon]

@lawgiver00 Woah seriously? What projects did you work on?

[@MurasakiBunny]

I like how the dev said that there are only rings on the tutorial level. Really, how many are there and what are they teaching in said tutorial?

[@ProtonJon]

@Reviewer158 I was asked to LP this game before AVGN did it, AVGN only "reviewed" one stage, and if one person reviews/LP's a game, it doesn't mean that it's off limits for everyone else.

[@hiimemily]

"Yes-No Nipples" might be my favorite phrase from this LP.

[@regalia8717]

My favorite: "IS THAT FORKLIFT HUMPING THAT ROBOT?!"

[@fsnisa9118]

Regalia I especially love "Dude, she has respawning kids!".

[@ProtonJon]

@mwathen55 Uhh... what IWBTG vids? I have never made a video of myself playing that game. It keeps crashing on my computer.

[@WhimsicottFanatic]

"Oh shit, I have to do this all over again." 'Then there's no time to waste!' "Fuck." [Epic transition. :D]

[@ProtonJon]

@ElOctopodo Was the ISO ever leaked?

[@jackg7565]

4:33 'It's falling, with style.'

[@ProtonJon]

@Fender64012 For the first Stage, I was trying to fail the first challenge on purpose by crashing into a citizen, but when I did, Superman suddenly picked up the baby carriage. So it was entirely by accident. Honestly, I thought that was the only time that I'd be able to steal a baby, so the fact that it happened again completely caught me off guard. It was supposed to be a one-off, not a recurring gag.

[@thesalsagamer396]

"Damn his hula hoop plans." *looks at the Hula Hoop bumper for TRG Direct*

[@ProtonJon]

But what if people get the joke but others don't, which was the case here?

[@heiliczer]

You want someone to count the rings? Whynot the one who counts the stats in TRG? Oh wait...

[@ProtonJon]

@captainblue50 All rings in a level, including any I missed, not counting any replaying flying through sections that I fail. I may have missed a few rings in the count though.

[@Schwarzorn]

Brady Games is garbage. My mom bought me their guide for Super Mario RPG by mistake, meaning to get the Nintendo Power guide, and it was so unhelpful. It lied to me constantly and wasn't even in color.

[@SaikTheGalvantula]

What were some of its lies, out of curiosity?

[@MrSteveHazzard]

I think Brady Games used early builds of games for their guides. I had the Brady guide for Final Fantasy VII and it was full of stuff I later found out were from the North American beta version of the game.

[@Schwarzorn]

Glaceon Ten I can't remember exactly. It was usually wrong about how to do things, or especially(!) where to find things or how to get to secret things and places.

[@Schwarzorn]

Ivan T. W. Hmm... Probably true. Low quality either way.

[@ProtonJon]

@Wolfia18 It's not that it's hard (Well I guess it is a little), it just that what they do comes out of left field. Also, the glitches are getting a little harder to find but they're still there in each video so far.

[@Scorpion-jj7fv]

NO WAY SHE HAS RESPAWNING KIDS! Kidnapped babies:infinite

[@PikaChu-by6wu]

KIDNAP ALL THE BABIES!

[@Konradix05]

+Pika Chu POWER THIRST! 400 BABIES

[@JJAB91]

Ryūko stop stealing kids.

[@ProtonJon]

@Reyalejandro13 N64 + a capture card. You can run it on an emulator, but unless you find a really good plugin, the sky will be pink.

[@shy1157]

there are in that stage 625 rings maybe 624

[@ProtonJon]

@rcnrcn927 The guide book doesn't count how many rings or show how many there are in the levels, because heaven forbid someone getting PAID to play the game do it...

[@kevmanyo]

5:11 awh shit now I have to do this all over again. "Then there's no time to waste" "Fuck"

[@ProtonJon]

@NashTheBlade I didn't go through the floor, that's just a steep hill.

[@ProtonJon]

@Twister82697 ...the OTHER Superman 64?

[@ProtonJon]

@predcon1 It's part of the stage music if you can believe it.

[@TheGoodWario]

Just listening to the audio after 8 years, I can still remember what's on the screen. Especially the "Thanks Dan"

[@TheGoodWario]

Listen to me! Stock up on Toilet Paper and Face Masks before its too late!

[@ProtonJon]

@mwathen55 I'm not UltraJMan, he's a different person altogether.

[@ProtonJon]

@omnileech Sorry man, I won't be. Don't own a copy of the game and I haven't seen any around in my travels. Only way I'd be able to do videos on it is if someone buys it for me and sends it to me, and considering that's how I ended up doing the LP of Superman, I swear no one even better think of it.

[@ProtonJon]

@omg1895632 Work mostly. Besides, it was just a half a month, and that's a lot better than 3 for the past one.

[@DragonHeartHisMajestyX]

I swear when I first saw this LP 10+ years ago, I shit myself laughing over the whole screwing around with the baby carraige and how Superman yeets in into another dimension and how the baby comes back to the mother as soon as you head back. Still makes me laugh my ass off to this day. 😭👌

[@EstradusTheDragon]

I was breifly thrown by the line "the company has been out of buisiness for a few years" because I remember it happened in like 2006 or so. I forgot that this video was over a decade old. Still very satisfying to come back to this series every now and again.

[@Foxhengeyokai]

"Whoa, dude! She has respawning kids!" Hahahaha.

[@sashajanre1664]

"Where did the baby carriage go!? Does she have respawning babies?!" I love this so much

[@psyachu]

I'll put out there that I like what you did with the ring stages by having their own video, but they have that cozy in-flight movie to keep us entertained. I hope you do eventually finish this Let's Play. I come back to watch it every now and then and get probably the most excited about this specifically being updated more than anything else.

[@ProtonJon]

@Balo657 Nope, not possible unless I quit my job.

[@ProtonJon]

@Twister82697 OH! Okay, that makes sense then.

[@Namadu7]

0:13 Thanks to your Resident Evil 5 playthrough, I now understand that quote! :D "Seven minutes. Seven minutes is all I can spare to play with you."

[@lagg1e]

This video series will be watched for generations to come.

[@ProtonJon]

@HPrototype1 1) Yup. 2) Nope.

[@CaptainViewtagonist]

"Let's Play Superman 64" otherwise known as, "the mental breakdown of a good man". He was so calm and collected in the first video, notice how he slowly goes insane with this...thing....

[@mrdbznarutofan1]

@ProtonJonSA ok i have 2 questions 1)do you write scripts or do you just make it up as you go along? 2)how do u get the image of the game to come up so clear like that,im assuming you hook the N64 to the computer, but how do u do it?I cant figure out how to do it for ANY of my councels(i really want to do a game review)

[@CrimsonPhoenixBen]

"Seven minutes, seven minutes is all I have to play with you" Nice RE5 quote, Wesker was awesome in that game.

[@Angelxtreme1985]

I give a YES for speeding the Rings sequences. I really like watching and hearing Superman 64 and your comments, so... Keep Going!!!

[@Torqegood]

Same I guess? I'm tired from running...I also love how they appeared at the top after you said the names would appear at the bottom.

[@ProtonJon]

@lazercatFTW What did I promise?

[@sreevidya7299]

DUDE SHE HAS RESPAWNING KIDS!!! -I died....

[@EndymionMkII]

the commentary is what makes the ring sections really worth of watching, keep it like it is :)

[@RaiOuArt]

I found myself moving my head along with superman. Geez man you are talented.

[@Linkforlife199]

You missed a glitch counter I happened to notice after rewatching this again. It happened after the challenge mission where you destroy the 3 ground robots with rocket guys on the wall. After destroying the final robot, Superman went to pick it up after it was destroyed just before the screen faded.

[@randomaccountforstuf]

wow thats alot of rings.. question when u x2 the speed for rings will there be post commentary? or will we just be watching u go through rings?

[@SchrodingerDCatte]

So I figured I'd ask about the ring counters at the end. Is that the count of the amount of rings in the level, or is this also counting all the rings you flew through multiple times for failing a minigame?

[@markieman64]

Haha. Think you raised a good point in an earlier video. He does move like a car. I'm loving the glitch-count! Been years since I've played it.

[@waxzillatheepic]

This series of LP is your best work yet. Great commentary mixed with wonderful comedy and Adlib clips and randomness. Hopefully you'll find the cartridge and continue soon!! Long Live Canadia eh

[@KetwunsGamingPad]

There are interviews that suggest there was a beta which had a much more...proper game developed, and they got rushed in the last month to actually stuff in these ring stages. Also there were much more elaborate details in missions, and controls were improved. So yeah...the more you know.

[@PhenomBuster13]

It's so refreshing to actually hear Jon say "fuck" for the first time since TKO.

[@C3POtheDragonSlayer]

Did you hear? They're making a faithful remake of this game for the 3DS, in full glorious 3D! Now players will be able to enjoy this game that dazzled many once again, with full stereoscopic 3D effects. Plus, they've added a feature that makes it so you control Superman by actually moving and tilting the 3DS using its gyroscope, adding a whole new level of immersion to the experience!

[@Phucketmcsucket]

Gotta give the devs credit. It takes some serious balls to make a game where you can not only kidnap babies but also throw them

[@Sorences]

I love it at 10:53 when Superman is just floating there looking at the rings. All I could think of is "Well fuck."

[@Reyalejandro13]

Did you hook an N64 up to a Capture card thing, or are you playing on an emulator? Because I was thingking of putting this onto an emulator, and I was wondering if the controls are any worse there.

[@1ofour50ismissing]

"so now we've got our beyblade pit here" Priceless commentary.

[@SherlockHomie718]

My favorite quote: "Dude, she has respawning kids!!!!!!" I laughed for about a minute when i first heard that.

[@shovel0cake]

I'd like to point out that there is a way to explore the city. If i recall correctly, there is a "practice mode" or something to that effect, and it lets you roam around.

[@AGrayPhantom]

Also thanks for sharing all your research on Titus with us. I had no idea that they made Earthworm Jim. I feel warm and educated :).

[@jollyscape]

@ProtonJonSA no need to rush with moving I moved recently too and it took forever to find my stuff...

[@MachanicalChicken]

This is the best superman themed ring simulator I've ever seen.

[@Mig0103]

A Superman game where the most important aspect is flying through rings. Hell. Yeah.

[@Noisymouseproduction]

what editing software do you use because it makes Superman 64 look playable

[@HyperAndroid]

So the next stage starts EXACTLY where the game begins. Lovely.

[@EmpireChief]

Keep them as seperate videos, speed the rings up, but maybe slow it down for glitches, funny stuff, etc. By the way, are the rings count for all the rings or only the ones you passed through?

[@TANMAC43]

Believe it or not I'm walkin on air! I never thought I could feel so free!

[@LittleMac96]

Just out of curiosity why would you have to play through these stages a couple times? Why not just watch the video that you recorded and count the rings from there?

[@TeamBrigand]

I really enjoy the commentary that you have on your videos and that's one of the main reasons why I started watching and subbing you. I'd like to see ring videos and just random banter during the videos but I'm probably in the minority on it.

[@Mockingdragon]

oh geez. you HAVE to update more of this game. All of it. My friend laughed so hard at the infinite babies that his contact lens fell out.

[@CylonOven]

Can't wait for the next installment! As for having rings in the other videos or not. If your going to have a nice voice over keep them in with the other levels, but sped up of course maybe three or four times the speed.

[@Dice12K]

Serious question: Do you think it would be better if the rings weren't necessary to get? I mean it this way: You start off with 3 minutes for a 7 minute ride section and every ring you get adds 2 seconds to the clock. Still not what I'd be looking for in a game, but wouldn't it be more tolerable that this? Only allowed to miss 3 rings? @.@;