MindJack: A Game that Lowers Your Intelligence

I stream these garbage games at / oboeshoesgames
MindJack is a blue game where you shoot robot police with a pistol, submachine gun, shotgun, and assault rifle. There are mech battles sometimes but those were really boring somehow so they aren't in the video.

[@oboeshoesgames]

Decided to go with immersive PS3-quality mic audio for this vid sorry

[@jujujameson]

Please pin this I was about to yell at you for using an Xbox Kinect headset

[@blitz7819]

you should play Battlefield Hardline campaign its shit but actually pretty good at the same time

[@noaimnoskillnokill3947]

But can you check your Twitter DMs and tell me if you want the crappy game I have to offer or not?

[@xanthespace5141]

I genuinely haven't noticed the difference anyway

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

My only memory of this game is yahtzees joke “don’t mind jack he got kicked by a horse as a kid” or something like that

[@noyes4656]

He must have been a jacked child to have survived

[@ieuanhunt552]

Or the lines "a lot of people have difficulty deciding whether I recommend a game or not. "well to make things very clear to you, Mindjack is FUCKING, FUCKING, FUCKING, FUCKING, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, DON'T, DON'T, DON'T, DON'T. Play it"

[@findingfriction3576]

Oh... I thought "Mind Jack" was when Pornhub isn't an option.🤔

[@pokemonmanic3595]

Mindjack is FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING BAD BAD BAD BAD DON’T DON’T DON’T DON’T PLAY IT

[@01100101011100100111]

I remember him also making the observation that the PC also still moves and fights when you aren't controlling him and he doesn't know what "mindjacking" is when it's brought up in conversation, leading Yahtzee to theorize that maybe the PC is also mindjacked, and the player is some unknown actor controlling everything, but that's never explored. That would be cool as a late-game twist, too.

[@Abel_Unstable]

One of the characters actually summarize this whole game through the radio. "I don't know what is happen, smoke, guns, the whole world is explode. So we just running, running very fast."

[@josephhelgersonjoseph6115]

Funny enough, that’s all I remember from Angry Joe’s review of this game

[@justhere9731]

You can mind jack corpses in this game? You’re telling me that THE DEAD SPEAK?

[@gunmunz]

My only memory of it was when Two Best Friends did a playthough 'speedrun' of if it and succeeded cause like only 3 people have ever actually completed Mind Jack.

[@iddyvanzun1]

Same bro

[@aceofhearts573]

Twobestfriends is over. The friendship ended. This is the worst timeline

[@gunmunz]

@@aceofhearts573 nothing lasts forever, we should be glad we got great content from them while we did. That and Matt's latest content is still f-ing gold.

[@LylasFightclub]

I remember being hyped as fuck for this game before it came out, I had the article from the Official Playstation UK Magazine on my wall and everything, preordered, played it and it was probably the first time I ever felt despair in my life

[@AndroidFerret]

Why .whats so bad?

[@gregbrown8881]

I am genuinely sorry that happened to you.

[@theitechlab]

I wasn't even playing games at the time (other than NOVA and Modern Combat on my iPod Touch) but this game disappointed me lol. My most recent disappointment was BF 2042, so I feel your pain to some extent.

[@ShiftJay08]

That was me with Haze 😂

[@Fishdogpigsquirrel]

I had that exact same experience playing Fable 3

[@itsjustmenova]

Yeah apparently that police mech is on a fairly short timer and just kinda dies randomly even if you don’t touch it

[@TovenDo.O.Video-]

PS3 era games being considered old ass games makes me feel so old

[@Sturmensky]

Ain't that the truth? I grew up with a PS1 - heck, my first "new" console was a Nintendo 64. (At least the Atari was an actual hand-me-down)

[@JordanManfrey]

oboeshoesgames says a lot of things that make me feel very old, and i'm in my early thirties

[@alexalin9341]

PS3 games are still very good

[@NoExplosionsMcgee]

I'll say. Jeez lol

[@scarletcrusader5431]

My only memory of this game was also from Joe's review. "I don't know what is happen! Smoke, guns, the whole world is explode! So we just running, running very fast!"

[@ampersandyyy]

You forgot to mention the best mechanic in this game where you have to exit to the main menu to use upgrades.

[@Web720]

Bruh.

[@NoExplosionsMcgee]

Wut?! Lmao

[@ampersandyyy]

@@NoExplosionsMcgee For real!

[@Web720]

@@ampersandyyy Fr fr on god no cap straight bussin all fax no printer not sus full morbin' no kizzy 💯.

[@ampersandyyy]

@@Web720 frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr

[@343bungie]

That Firespray gunship joke was hysterical

[@nootrecruit]

"Top of the Tower?" "Top of the Tower." "They fly now!"

[@patriot459]

Angry joes mind jack review was legend. Oboeshoes thoughts are also legend now haha

[@Mis73rRand0m]

The Firespray Gunship reference is basically why I watch your stuff. Somehow cramming critiques of modern entertainment into short videos about old crappy videogames.

[@matthewboer8279]

This game is a bad game sure but where else can you jump into the body of a chimp with machine guns or a random civilian with a handgun?

[@daniel-zh9nj6yn6y]

There's an older game, Messiah. Same mechanic, but no chimps.

[@channel45853]

Watch Dogs legion but no chimps

[@JangoTheBlueFox]

you need to go play Geist on the Gamecube.

[@liamhop6148]

@@channel45853 both shit games tho :/

[@NA-AN]

The unrealeased, R rated version of Super Mario Odyssey.

[@nathanpalmer1568]

I distinctly remember my friend buying this game after we watched the Angry Joe video when we were 12/13 and I kept making fun of it and talking about how bad its supposed to be. About 9 years later, he's a legit crackhead now

[@FlameQwert]

you mean a jackhead eh

[@platypus5146]

So he is now Mind Cracked?

[@kirpicast]

I'm so happy that you've finally played Binary Domain.

[@strikeforce1500]

Honestly. This game was a lucid dream or something

[@jackmclean4120]

The joke about monkeys and typewriters is genuinely great

[@echodelta2172]

Real OGs will remember Angry Joe's review of this when it released. Aaaaaand he referenced it 10 seconds in

[@tendiesoffmyplate9085]

The new MGS looks great

[@LuvzToLol21]

It's weird how much this game looks like Watch Dogs Legion. That game even had a free DLC character that could mind control people.

[@Demon27248]

The problem with MindJack is that its campaign was designed to be played through in adversarial multiplayer (similar to Left 4 Dead versus mode), rather than single player or co-op, so when the servers dried up a few weeks after release, people stopped getting the complete experience.

[@tmilker]

There was no "single player or co-op", it was controlled by a module you "installed" that either allowed multiplayer or not and the joining player(s) could choose whether to be adversarial or cooperative. You could get games for years after release during prime time playing hours in the US on 360 and play against/with people in their campaigns. The issue was that if you just stomped them over and over(the part of the level restarts if the enemy wins) and the player can't progress, they would quit their game(and probably never play again). Sometimes they would figure out the hieroglyphs representing modules and turn on the one that prevented invasion but then they would never turn it back off. As the invader, you could switch sides at every section change of the game and you had to play a fine line between helping and hindering so it didn't get too repetitive for them. I really liked this part of Mindjack quite a bit.

[@kwdblade4683]

One of the best Angry Joe videos ever. I rematch it occasionally for a laugh.

[@atlas_vash]

Oh god I remember the demo for this and thinking it was fun but not super fun enough to consider getting

[@joshwhite557]

That slave 1 joke was well deserved.

[@Parambolumberienriatta]

4:45 you need at least 10 years expierience with MindJack to apply for promotion.

[@faxnight882]

This is my favorite game. It's so awful that every time I play it I just have fun.

[@drkriegkorps294]

Your channel is criminally underrated. Very good youtuber, top quality content.

[@noggage9887]

Noones buying a game for its gameplay. Dishonored stans: and I took that personally.

[@FlameQwert]

these recent videos have really reminded me how absolutely dire and dreadful the majority of this era of games were (as is the case for all eras of games). all that effort and money wasted on chasing a trend that was run into the ground years ago

[@drakenxll9863]

hey I'm not sure if this game is well known or not but it was the game that got me into gaming its called WET the music for it was so good to me and to this day it's still one of my favorites you should give it a shot if you can

[@MerlautJones]

Yesss, I love WET!

[@Cesly-mo3uf]

I bought this game when it came out. 5 of my friends were suppose to buy it with me. Nobody did. I still had fun with this broken piece of crap. And you forgot to mention you could invade other player's games and curbstomp them.

[@kqwell9702]

this game still haunts my dreams to this day and each time i mention it, it's like it never existed outside from my mind

[@Nick-hm9rh]

a series you need to check out is Lost planet. its some future shooter where you kill monsters. i have a very nice memory of it playing it as a child on a 360 but idk if they were actually good.

[@lucianograff6512]

Lost planet is an OK game

[@empathetic4100]

The first two games were amazing, the third one was meh though. They really messed it up

[@MerlautJones]

@@empathetic4100 Agreed! I'm disappointed Capcom won't revive the series. Just disregard Lost Planet 3 and go back to basics.

[@AgentHeroic]

Watching how everyone just gets baffled at the twist of the game is seriously funny. Who wrote this crap?

[@shutendoji470]

"When I woke up i was one of the good guys" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣

[@TheOriginalElkstone]

(Side note mind controlling civilians using technology to fight for you I think was a Syndicate thing, the 1993 Bullfrog game)

[@QuadratusTiberium]

If mindjack was so good….where’s mindjohn?

[@jaymeporrazzo1305]

Dang, I haven't heard that name since I watched Angry Joe's video on it. Very nostalgic- thanks for the video!

[@Grgrqr]

I can’t believe I’ve actually heard of this game before watching this video

[@CrispyTurtl3]

That snark remark about being host of a lobby must have flown over 90% of everybody's heads lol

[@mryesgaming]

This game reminds of the body swap mechanic from superhot that apears later in the game

[@hexadecimal973]

This severely lowered my intelligence, I couldn't go past 4 minutes and 7 seconds.

[@thewillofsam]

2:50 space station 14 moment

[@pavlotretiakov2130]

Моя теория, что автор смотрит "разбор полётов" на стопгейме с каждым видосом все больше кажется реальностью

[@hay_den2]

havent even watched the video yet but bless up AngryJoe

[@park5782]

Love these vids

[@Insanemembrane93]

Thank you for sacrifice

[@dan3odst]

got this game because of you, i regret it.

[@0bx136]

good one oboeshoesgames

[@Gunpowderpatron]

Never thought I'd see a Maris Brood reference A+

[@pfitz9346]

Lmao the Angry Joe bit was ALSO my only impression of this game

[@onthehunt420]

Why is there a kill feed lmaoooo

[@cyber_xiii3786]

Cause one of the other main gimmicks of the game is that players could invade your game at any point or something and take over the enemies you were fighting But the game's been dead since a week after it released probably so no PvP here

[@exactinmidget92]

this is the first game ive never seen or heard of.

[@mrsmithplays5444]

The little kid in me was quite happy with the maris brood reference

[@Jormyyy]

Oh boy another ps3 era action shooter where we get to play as a generic caucasion male (who surprisingly is NOT named Jack?!)with some kind of oddly specific combat ability that is the core to the gameplay loop!

[@quint3ssent1a]

Uh yeah, if the protag of this game was George Floyd expy and health pickups were kfc wings and watermelons, sure it'll be less bad (no, it wouldn't.) The problem of this game wasn't that the protagonist was white, it's gameplay was dogshit.

[@Jormyyy]

@@quint3ssent1a Holy fucking racism batman lmfao relax killer

[@Jormyyy]

@@quint3ssent1a the reason I pointed out protag's race and sex is to call out how terribly boring and generic his character is. He's only there to virtue signal/ pander to the white male majority in the gaming community. There are legit dozens upon dozens if not hundreds of these kinds of protagonists from the past 20+ years of gaming.

[@MerlautJones]

Inversion certainly falls in this category, but I still feel that game doesn't get enough recognition. Lol

[@Jormyyy]

@@MerlautJones Oboe did a video on that game and I somehow remember nothing about it

[@gloomball9128]

Mindjacking off

[@fluffywolfo3663]

My only memory of this game is Yahtzee giving up and not finishing the review cause he hated it so

[@mintpalmer]

It's telling that there's only five minutes of usable footage from your playthrough of this game.

[@JacobGriffin]

This man has to do NeverDead

[@xavierthename]

Fighting the damn Combine and metal gears

[@anthonyshanaman5637]

My only memory of this game is I don’t remember it

[@joaquizzletwizzle]

I knew there was something up with my step-dad when he said this game was good. He is no longer my step-dad.

[@zyrkugilgamesh]

More like Mind Jelqing

[@basedsneedclave175]

My miiiiiiiiiind j-j-jack

[@ashhermosillo1384]

Don't fight with the police or they'll bring their metal gear

[@omarabe26]

Ah, more simpler, sillier times.

[@TyrannicalCannibal]

ok it was always called the firespray, since the lucasarts games era and star wars: bounty hunter. the name people take exception with is “boba fett’s starship”

[@kenjikune2565]

Top of the tower.

[@Probst_Wyatt_III_1928]

Top Of The Tower!

[@ogfreddisideshow]

Fat princess is a PS3 exclusive underrated classic

[@bluespider-gimente83-56]

You don't kept the giant mecha gorilla, I'm a little bit disappointed

[@shem7gemzizlord386]

Mind Jack Similar to Psi Ops In some extreems.

[@superbn0va]

This is a true hidden gem in my books. square enix trying a western 3rd person shooter is gold imo 💎 This is for hardcore gamers that love the ps2, dreamcast era games ❤️

[@DuckGod9000]

Did I hurt your feelings with my 2 yo comment? 😂😂😂😂

[@goodchap4537]

My memory of this game is getting it from blockbuster when it shutdown and monkey or something

[@HugoMcSuave]

The man behind the farts

[@xbigwormx]

Just bought this for $6 USD on Ebay for that price it's worth it but for the full $50-$60 price when it 1st came out? NO WAY.

[@quickscopeoneeighty9158]

I like the janky Halo font they chose for their game logo

[@provokator-provocateur7603]

MindJack is the best and only good game ever made

[@henryjensen2849]

Wow, I should buy this game.

[@HandleMSR25SudahDiambil]

Top of the tower

[@grxveyard5304]

holy hell that man got decked 5:05

[@MrGhats0]

I do enjoy blue

[@vahlok1426]

I remember the stream by the Super Best Friends, "Shitty Games Done Slow" where they played this.

[@steviegordon2685]

Played 2 hours of this and legit quit because I was so confused

[@ricolopez8253]

You gotta do one for time splinter my dude

[@chernobylthing3932]

This man should legit play Defiance for the PS3

[@MDR1161]

Somehow this game only makes me want to play The 3rd Birthday, and that's saying quite a lot

[@greatheightsu]

Grey/blueish the video game.

[@dylansterling9128]

Mindjackin me off?

[@GingyFPS]

I used to love a game called winback, like absolutely loved it as a kid but I’d love to hear you roast it so please play it and do a review 🥺

[@BrownEyePinch]

Jack Mayhoffer

[@DuckGod9000]

I don't know why but as a kid all the crappy shooters from the ps3 and Xbox 360 Era seemed really fun and good to me. Until I watch videos like these and think man, how the hell did I find this fun

[@superbn0va]

You lack taste and own opinions?

[@ArmyStrongGangflu]

Wish I could mind jack

[@adahyde4705]

you GOTTA play vanquish

[@DamonLaRiche]

I played this a few months ago with my friends and the best part was the monkeys!!!! 😂😂😂

[@soggyturbo7758]

yea there's no way you just named Maris Brood from the force unleashed off the top of your head lol

[@altosforteaquax5083]

Faze clan, perfect name. Their popularity was a faze.

[@SmolTerribleTornado]

nathan... look again

[@ZKP314]

Ah yes, the game whose central twist was pulled off better in the XCOM Shooter of all games.