So we actually DID get Scalebound? - Eragon (Xbox 360)

[@pundemon9659]

regarding the toughness of dragon hide mentioned at 17:49 - having read the first 2 books religiously as a child, I can confirm that Saphira's hide is supposed to be so tough that as Eragon learns to ride her, her scales cut through his pants and rub raw both of his inner thighs, to the point where book 1 talks about him struggling to walk while healing because the thigh-sized scabs would crack and he would bleed again. Later books note his inner thighs are basically all scar tissue as a result. So yeah, that hit shouldn't have done shit.

[@pundemon9659]

@CATS holy shit, I forgot that even happened! Good lord you're right XD

[@pundemon9659]

@CATS no argument here! I remember adoring book 1 as a wee bairn, and book 2 was still interesting but that was when its flaws got uncomfortable to read. I remember eagerly awaiting book 3, but I dont think we ever even bought it lmao.

[@timothymarzelli3874]

Her scales are pretty sharp yes, but Saphira and the other dragons get stabbed and slashed quite a bit in the books. Hell, it's possible to slice an entire foreleg off a dragon.

[@pundemon9659]

@@timothymarzelli3874 Now that's true! Colloquially speaking the arrow shot wouldn't have done "nothing" so much as it would have been an injury that, long term, would have been negligible with a single "waise heill". Unless I'm mistaken and the arrow is actually a lance/harpoon here? That I could see having an impact.

[@timothymarzelli3874]

@@pundemon9659 if I remember correctly, a regular arrow usually (but not always) leaves a bruise. A harpoon or a Lance would definitely have an impact though

[@rockorye]

Fun fact, Matt. The woman who played Arya in the Eragon movie is Sienna Guillory aka Jill Valentine.

[@J.Skyler]

Guillory has the best armpits in the game.

[@rockorye]

@@Exodus-sh5mq in the RE movies

[@ShaunTheCHB]

Sienna was one of the only good things about the Eragon movie. Her role didn't make the film better but she gave me a reason to watch it. Very nice on the eyes is miss Sienna.

[@sensibleGamer]

It's one of those games that there WAS passion behind despite being a mid range budget game, but the movie it was an adaptation of did _SO_ poorly it took the game down with it

[@TWoods_93]

So there’s a reason this is like the LotR games. Turns out it was made by the studio that put out the Two Towers game.

[@barcey]

Almost forgot the illegitimate child of Star Wars and How to train your Dragon was a thing.

[@Eldwinn]

it was more like he copied star wars and lord of the rings

[@zexahre8438]

This game was the shit when I was a kid, I tried to 100 percent this game and did it. Thanks for playing this matt

[@girolamoesposito6131]

Yo same!

[@ambskater97]

Eragon was circlejerked so much when I was in middle school because the author was 15 when he wrote it. Teachers always talked about it with a tone of "This kid wrote a book and his parents' publishing company released it. What have YOU done?" Needless to say, I laughed when the movie failed. The game being decent is a surprise.

[@elfin2865]

I always felt weirdly offended by the “he was only 15!” thing when these books were popular, because I was about 15 and had ALSO written my own fantasy stories, and while they were absolutely awful, at least I made an effort to make them creative and unique instead of copying the plot of Star Wars and the setting of LotR. :[

[@RafPolBon]

@@elfin2865 if it makes you feel better. More times than not success is a matter of sheer dumb luck and do whatever thing possible to be seeing. Being good and talented helps a lot, but there's a lot of examples of great works that did financially poor or was ignored and other crappy shits that is known by everyone and got a lot of financial succes (look at Star wars the last jedi. an absolute disaster of a film but got one and half a billion) Also, you said that you did something fresh, new and original. That might have been a problem because a lot of people doesn't like changes or something new. If they have to choose a known crap or a n unknown and new crap, they will ALWAYS choose the former than the latter. Jsut don't think mutch about it, you may try again like "reworking" your old books to see if this time you get some luck.

[@timothymarzelli3874]

...the movie didn't fail because the book was bad. The movie failed because the movie was bad.

[@MegaManXPoweredUp]

Can't believe I only now realized it, but Eragon's name is just Dragon with the first letter shifted by 1.

[@girolamoesposito6131]

🤯

[@Eldwinn]

brilliant writing

[@wubbawubba3396]

Shifted? What do you mean?

[@MegaManXPoweredUp]

@@wubbawubba3396 You know those locks that use letters instead of numbers? Imagine if each dial had all the letters of the alphabet in order, and the word you had to make was six letters long. If you were to spell "Dragon", but turn the first dial down by one letter, it would spell "Eragon" instead. That's what I mean by shifting it.

[@wubbawubba3396]

@@MegaManXPoweredUp o shit, I never noticed (no sarcasm at all, I legitimately didn't know)

[@danielbird3311]

Me and my best friend used to play this game every time a new semester would be begin as a tradition We would play all the way through in a night And the whole time he would be making terrible Jeremy Irons impressions and puns

[@powergannon]

"Why did Eragon fail as a franchise? Did it not do well in theaters?" Let's just say the Eragon movie was like the Last Airbender movie was to Avatar.... except worse.

[@TwasMimsy]

@CATS Eldest was pretty good. Roran came into his own and it did a great job of raising the stakes. Empire was where it kinda fell apart. Half the book is an escort mission and the other half is generic fantasy mush.

[@TwasMimsy]

Correction: Brisingr. It's been so long since I cared about this franchise.

[@pca1987]

And Eragon the book franchise is no Avatar - the Last Airbender either. Those books are meh at best.

[@powergannon]

Leo Wiseman I agree. I liked the arc where Roran lead the village in battle a lot. Most of the other stuff going on was just kind of inconsequential a lot of the time.

[@changotv5847]

Everyone else in the world. Ghost of tsushima time! Matt plays this. Never change my dude

[@stanley1698]

Transformers: War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron are both really good licensed games

[@SamHintz]

So is Transformers Devastation

[@Godzillakuj94]

King Kong was good too

[@goodshotcam]

Never has there been a movie that I've forgotten SO hard.

[@powergannon]

Not me. I was writhing in the theater from how much I despised it.

[@KasperMcKay]

Timothy Y. I’m assuming you have just as much unresolved angst and anger from it as I do then lol

[@powergannon]

Joshua Pressley I still haven’t gotten over it tbh

[@KasperMcKay]

Timothy Y. Nice to know I’m not alone

[@TaoScribble]

I bought the dang thing back when I was a fan. Never before have I literally forgotten that I was watching a movie as I was watching it. As in, I _literally_ zoned out for a few minutes because it was so dang boring, and then was confused as to what was going on when I snapped back into reality. I remember thinking, "Wait, what is this? Did someone change the channel?" XD

[@theheromans]

You guys remember in the novels where Eragon cursed a baby?

[@Varent]

Ah yes, Platinum's hidden gem. Eragon. EDIT: Huh, it does remind me of the LOTR games, and tbh I'm digging the cinematics lol. Like it doesn't look anywhere near as bad as I was expecting lol.

[@ChaseWSanders]

I think I read somewhere that the developers for those old LOTR games worked on this game.

[@zaphero5518]

Both the Two Towers game and this Eragon game were made by Stormfront Studios. More specifically this game shares 19 people on the dev team with that game based on Mobygames. www.mobygames.com/game/windows/eragon___/credits

[@BoomerDante]

i had Eragon on DVD. i never bought it and i dont remember anyone buying it for me. Also everytime i tried to watch it, i would pass out and i cant remember a single thing about it. it was a cursed DVD

[@jacksonw453]

It’s so awful I’ve seen it once

[@godspeedyoublacknerd]

I don't know about this American remake of Drakengard, y'all

[@bafrali5561]

Yeah. I mean why cut out the incest?

[@Crazyboutpeace]

Some of these scenes feels like a friggin machinima or something, just like the framing or something really feels like a prototype meme

[@BaeCat872]

I think it’s the weird zoomed in camera shots that move way to fast

[@Zy0n7]

The cutscenes are like a fever dream what is going on lol

[@Orange_ape1125]

I like your reviews or gameplays rather because all other you tubers always seem to find the negatives and over exploit them so thank you for keeping it “if the game sucks it sucks if it’s good it’s good” it kind of kills the review when they go for that “I’m gonna trash everything even it’s decent”

[@MrSTVR]

360 era was the swansong of basically every movie with action getting a videogame tie-in. It's nice to see that bygone age with HD graphics.

[@xtatis]

NANI????!!!! A... a....a.... a Eragon licensed video game? This exists?

[@dragonriderabens9761]

It’s based on the movie

[@Endar0]

I'm surprised too. The movie wasn't that good.

[@dragonriderabens9761]

Endar as it’s own standalone thing, it wasn’t bad The issue was how little it had in common with the books Was pretty much it’s own thing, and THAT is where the real issue lies People didn’t like it because it was bad They didn’t like it because it was so far from the book, it really couldn’t be called a movie adaptation The movie is actually what got me into dragons in the first place (for better or worse) It lead me to the books. Which lead me to more books. Then movies. Then video games. A little over a decade latter, and we’re here now

[@dragonriderabens9761]

sety holsety I actually still have that version

[@drewforchic9083]

Oh yeah. On a bunch of consoles. My friend had the PSP version; I had one on the DS.

[@rio923100]

I remember a little text based rpg that was based on the books, kinda like a text dnd thing. I cant remember it for the life of me since it was over 13 years ago, was pretty fun tho

[@GentlemanOrcus1]

Yeah it was on the Eragon website. At one point you had to get past Solumbum the cat or whatever the fuck

[@Nison545]

Fuck yeah, dude. Probably put close to a hundred hours of this with my friends back in the day. Shame you're not playing co-op because that's where the combo wrestling moves come out.

[@Lugbzurg]

The cinematic make me think of Crash: Mind Over Mutant or those community-animated fan animations, where multiple people collaborate to individually animate scenes in completely different art styles to add up to a complete episode of a cartoon or something.

[@GenerationWest]

Ah yes, Eragorn, the book serires schools tried pushing on me, plus a bunch of other titles, that got made into movies, then games- it was the style at tthe time. So the film was one of the worst reviewed films in 2006, making little profit in the box office, so no sequels based on the following books I like to call "the red sequel book to that blue dragon book".

[@-THE_META]

Matt the Third Age was a Final Fantasy X esque turn based rpg, that being said it still slaps. If you want some two towers return of the king mid 2000s hack and slash action, I would recommend The Revenge of the Sith PS2 game but this time play the story.

[@MattMcMuscles]

No, I know it is. I remember liking it. I just meant all three of those games, TTT, ROTK, and TTA were all under EA, so those could maybe be sold in a pack someday. Unlike the Hobbit game, or the book version of the game of Fellowship, and of course, the later LOTR titles by WB.

[@-THE_META]

@@MattMcMuscles True, they definitely need a rerelease.

[@itsallfunky4591]

This game was my childhood. I still remember fondly how the barbarians shout when you burn them because it's a goofy ass scream. Uhuuuuuuuu

[@majiira]

yesssss omg

[@sadderbythecloud]

Always thought this would get a sequel as a kid rewatching the movie now at 23 ... Yeh not so much

[@GentlemanOrcus1]

They didn't even bother putting prosthetics on the elf's ears

[@sadderbythecloud]

@@GentlemanOrcus1 legit ahah they were like nah no one will notice

[@fukurouanzu1006]

Just like golden compass lol

[@ocelot_the_dragon]

The narrator sounds like he’s about to “Khajiit watch your back.”

[@thisjustin6529]

“Is this filmed in hyper reality?” Was that a reference to a VHS tape that came with a DnD type board game in the 90’s? I think it was called Dragon Strike. I had that game. Hyper reality is tight.

[@AdamMiligan]

I'm telling my kids this was Scalebound

[@CosmicRin]

I remember enjoying the Legend of the Guardians xbox game as a kid. Dunno how well it'll hold up, though.

[@theheromans]

In the words of the immortal Adam Jensen: "I never asked for this."

[@SainEdge]

Shrek 2 was a really good licensed game. There are a lot of different levels, characters, enemies and minigames in that game, you can really tell the passion behind it. Every level feels unique, since there are so many new things that get introduced. Camera could be annoying and some minigames or parts of a level are not that fun, but overall its a good game with a lot of love put into it.

[@SPARR0E]

Strangely this game was a better adaptation of the book than the movie it's tied to

[@MYSEGAISBROKEN]

since this was an early 360 release I bought it from blockbuster with allowance money. Was not disappointed at all for the time I was a kid I think like 14 and was still happy as a pig in slop.

[@0ring0]

Not even John Malkovich could've save this movie with its 5ft tall Dwarves

[@shin_roku5696]

Wait an actual good movie tie in game!? Wow

[@Arwingmaster23]

When me and my brother were kids we played this more than we watched the movie. Such nostalgia seeing it again.

[@LambentV]

Can’t wait for Matt to play Reign of Fire.

[@mylesfrost335]

theres some really cool things about the james camerons avatar video game, they actuallly put a lot of work into it working with james cameron

[@gr1m_r34p3r]

Matt, you asked for other well made licensed games: Buffy The Vampire Slayer (only on Xbox) and Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds (on Xbox + PS2). Great games and as you loved the combat in this game, you are going to love the combat in those two games, too!

[@LambentV]

The co-op aspect and gameplay reminds me a lot of that one Pirates of the Caribbean game on the PS2.

[@somebaker2613]

Thrilled that one of my favorite childhood games didn't get absolutely fucking roasted lol and that it still holds up fairly well

[@gabrielpalma1687]

Oh man, I really loved this game when I was a kid, I played it in PS2 and I remember it was kind of hard to beat. I also really liked the movie lmao so that may had to do with how much I enjoyed this game

[@nickroberts8011]

10:54 great Skyrim vampire impression

[@Egalia_1]

Amazing books, terrible movie, and an interesting interpretation of a game. I’d love to see the latter 2 get remade cause the series definitely has potential gold with a great game adaptation

[@lfr8666]

"Nooo, Sapphire! Maserati! Whatever your name is!" [cut] "She'll be fine!" I love it. If you continue to play this, I'll watch :) Glad to find this game is so impressive. The story is whizzing by, or is that your edited playthrough? Surprised they didn't have a cut scene of the egg hatching and farmboy meeting his dragon. Hope someone tries to adapt that story again. Maybe straight to video game, like the Witcher.

[@timothymarzelli3874]

I think a Witcher-styled Eragon game is probably the only way to do Eragon any sort of justice. They've tried just about every style only for all of them to be bad.

[@EvolAndBros]

This was my favorite co op game fucking ever, i loved this game to death, thank you for playing this

[@lugialover09]

Eragon was a really fun read, and, despite what some people say, I actually really enjoyed the sequels...except for the ending. I think the movie did the same shit as The Last Airbender did. Sure, they generally addressed primary plot points, but it was done in a very poor way that essentially guaranteed the impossibility of a sequel. E.g. Eragon receives a wound from the villain that tried to take the egg from Arya at the beginning, and it becomes an actually important detail in the sequel, Eldest, because now he's effectively partly crippled and can't train correctly. This sours some of the Elves' perceptions of him because he's supposed to be their big weapon against the emperor, but now he's busted. If I recall, he gets out of the fight basically totally fine in the movie. Also, Saphira has feathers in the movie for....no apparent reason.

[@JasynSuin]

The only thing I remember about the movie was falling asleep in a near-empty theater when I went to see it with my boyfriend at the time.

[@zeroslashj]

"Bottom-shelf Voldemort." I lol'd hard

[@WolfbytesIT]

The most amount of work put into any movie game

[@baylorbarnett3667]

From what I remember, i liked the movie a bit more than the book. Also the DS version was tons of fun at the time as it was super close to launch and was weirdly competent for a 3D DS game

[@parnash]

I saw the movie after reading the books and, well. 'Poopy' is putting the movie lightly.

[@baibinsheesaivinshee599]

i remember watching a fantasy movie named eragon years ago i think only thing i remember is a dragon named eragon gave half of his heart to a prince to save his life after his parents came to him begging him to save their sons life i think i only remember the plot thread of a dragon giving half his heart to save a young boys life after his parents begged him to

[@ivy9302]

the live action hand at 11:17 is so weird, its kind of creepy to see a hand ass hand in a 360 game especially with smoothface eragon just frowning in the background.

[@GentlemanOrcus1]

The original novel and it's sequel were briefly like my Star Wars or LOTR growing up. Then it served as the perfect example of how NOT to write fiction

[@Apple-ka]

I've only played the gba Eragon game and I remember that also being quite good

[@Teh10Sorrow]

I loved the books, i hate the movie and......the game..........looks...........ehm......Yaaaaa

[@Endar0]

Agreed

[@dollenrm]

Books were so good dude. As far as young adult literature goes anyway

[@Alastor343]

aw jeez, i remember this game. i played it from start to finish in coop on ps2 at a friends house. i remember we had fun in the prison level making our swords bounce of the guard's armor but thats about all i could remember until now

[@654jimbob654]

The book series was a pretty shameless rip-off of Star Wars with the setting of Lord of the Rings. They were pretty entertaining reads for a teen but I doubt they'd hold up well if I read them again now. The film was atrocious though and even if it did do well at the box office (it didn't), it would have been hard to make a sequel because it killed off some characters that play a pretty major role in the later books.

[@Crocogator]

you can't call the dragon paizuri, matt.

[@BlaringSIREN]

The soundtrack for this game is pretty fantastic as well

[@5uberpwn2]

Ah yes, the Eragon game. Does anyone remember that the GBA version of this is just an RPG? It's literally just an RPG (It's kind of a guilty pleasure of mine). Also there's a PSP version of the game that's JUST playing as the Dragon(s), if I recall correctly (don't ask me why I know all this information, I had a very boring childhood).

[@varrenkimbold]

well since you mentioned, Lord of the RIngs Return of the King is what I'd consider a surprisingly good licenced game so that would be fun to see you play.

[@DudesPlayingVidGames]

The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe was pretty good.

[@xfieran]

You should try Drakan: The Ancient Gates. Childhood favorite of mine.

[@ExKiwi-yw8er]

you should play the ds version too, i LOVE the jank seeping out of that thing.

[@brandonloaiza8595]

I lost it when you yelled Mendoza lol

[@GamerBurgerz]

ohhhhhh man I used to play this game with my mom a bunch back in grade school. It was on the PS2, which might be why I don't remember the cutscenes having so many photoshop filters on them.

[@SupermewX300]

Sorry Matt, the Andross fight is in the 4th book, and only the 1st got adapted into a movie.

[@roguedeeps1361]

Only read the first book but i remember it being okay. then the movie and game cam out and welll... you know

[@greengamma569]

I remember playing this as a kid and loving it

[@Dawubbz]

The PSP game of this was pretty neat too. Except it was all about the dragon riding.

[@legenddarybroly1905]

This is not the game we asked for but it’s the game that we all needed to witness its greatness. Thanks Matt this video has made my day ✊

[@aaaron7481]

I remember the movie of this

[@levant1668]

10:55 it's cinemassacre's monster madness! seriously what are these cutscenes it's NUTS

[@Scoobywoo7447]

Amazing game, I remember doing this and loving it

[@dollenrm]

Is this eragon like the dragon sapphira eragon? The books?

[@greeneggzandcam]

Have you played Wanted: Weapons of Fate? I remember enjoying that one quite a bit back when it came out

[@strategyx123]

I saw the movie because I had a friend who was really into the books, but after we saw the movie I never heard about it again

[@benlohmer5703]

I remember playing this at my friend's house alongside Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 and other OG xbox games. Always remembered it being fun. I also remember Teen Titans PS2 being good if you want to keep checking out games from my childhood lol

[@Idgf15]

This video brings me memories when I was 12yrd, I play and finish the DS version was really fun at the time, the good old days

[@EmpressStacyTheEternal]

paizuri sounds more like a dragon maid's name

[@michaelwolfe9496]

I didn't know there was so much hate for this franchise until scrolling through these comments. I knew the movie was bad, but I don't understand all the bashing the books are getting. Granted I read them 8 years ago so maybe I'm not remembering too well, but I thought they were great at the time. And I just read the spinoff/continuation and liked it. I just don't understand all this negativity.

[@ejihajwilhelm4604]

First game I had ever gotten for the 360 way back in the day, was not disappointed

[@goast_cuard]

Hmm, quite the dragon name you came up with.

[@jackcoleman4718]

Wow I completely forgot about this game use to play a lot with my brother along with the return of the king game on the PS2. Also use to play the PS2 Narnia game of the Disney film Lion the witch and the wardrobe which was also goo.

[@goodknight2676]

The incredibles video game from 2004

[@LawgSkrak]

Is this game just the movie in game form or does it tell an original story? Or maybe a combination of movie adaptation and original stuff?

[@OutOfTheGameLetsPlay]

Okay you gotta follow this up with the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian game on Xbox 360. Its not as "good" as this but its better than it should be.

[@pancholopez8829]

Well, now I want this game. Closes thing to Scalebound, so why not. Also, from reading the comments, I'll try to get the books too.

[@MrGrave111]

A cousin and I, went all the way through this game in the original Xbox it was awesome

[@majiira]

I fucking loved this game as a kid. played it every day during summer break

[@alanambrister381]

These are the best cutscenes I’ve ever seen and a Kung Pow reference.

[@WarhammerGeek]

My memory of this movie is I think I saw it on TV but can't fully remember if it was the actual movie or just a commercial. The game doesn't look terrible though. Especially for a movie tie in.

[@mrbronzeskull5801]

this game kicks all kind of ass, loved playing it with my mate when i was a kid

[@theheromans]

Also I'm super angry that Matt missed the guy screaming I regret nothing.