Haze: PS3 Gaming at its Yellow-est

[@BugsyFoga]

The moral is to never call your game a “Halo killer”

[@histhoryk2648]

unless you are Halo

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

Sony was the one doing this The killzone devs hated the term

[@mrporbig]

never call your game a "[insert long-running franchise] killer"

[@username1660]

I feel like labeling your product any kind of '______ Killer' is just asking for hubris to be your downfall

[@mrporbig]

@@username1660 honestly

[@olegcrysis1]

The honey part about selling data was genius.

[@HonestObserver]

Yeah good looking out for his viewers' data privacy

[@steelbear2063]

I love Oboe's jabs at sponsors

[@whatwasisaying1338]

I LOVED that call out. Lol. These companies are making money by moving that user data. 🤣

[@hazukichanx408]

I love a good fake ad. It's the one good thing that ever came out of advertising and marketers: Making fun of them.

[@Izolus]

My fave thing is SponsorBlock flagging it as an Ad. Genuinely hilarious

[@zombiekingex7911]

John Haze from Haze Rising: Vengeancest not to be confused with Jonathan Halo, protagonist of Halo the Ring

[@ncrxghost8075]

Oh I was confused by halo John 711 from the hit tv show “90% of the time my helmet is off”

[@username1660]

I heard that John Halo kills aleins and doesn't afraid of anything, What's John Haze's schtick?

[@jivasche7345]

John Dark Sector feels like a better character than John Haze to me. I feel bad when he got beaten by John Dark Souls in the John Duel and has to be reborn as John Warframe

[@NightHawk5156]

Max0r is that you?

[@matthewtownsend4804]

@@jivasche7345 idk something about John wick

[@collindrilling7727]

I think more people had this as their psn profile picture than people who actually played the game

[@TheSpongyMallard]

I remember being a teenager and seeing this game's cover art and thought it looked cool. I couldn't get the game because it was rated M. Thanks Mom and Dad for not letting me get rated M games at the time, you saved me from a crappy game.

[@shotgunnedzahee4780]

Dope

[@mobiusraptor7]

At least you could get Battlefield Bad Company, which was awesome.

[@TheSpongyMallard]

@@mobiusraptor7 I’m trying to remember what games I used to play back then besides Little Big Planet and inFAMOUS. By the time we could play rated M games I had a 360 and Halo. I didn’t play much FPS games on that generation besides Halo. I played a crap ton of Medal of Honor Rising Sun on the PS2.

[@woodman94]

@@TheSpongyMallard LBP was life. Infamous 1 and 2 were awesome games too. KILLZONE 2 was super fun

[@geepiz9597]

Only fun thing on this was finding glitches that were crazy op

[@olive6942]

haze, famous for his quote "every haze has its haze"

[@R15Sammy]

"it's always haziest before the haze"

[@asterphoenix3074]

I will be back! With more Haze.

[@membu]

*IT'S HAZIN' TIME*

[@pointlessfilmsof]

Fun fact: A developer for this game worked at Sears and repaired my refrigerator’s ice maker!

[@mundaneheavy]

is your ice yellow now

[@Operative85]

Oh that is sad.

[@comradedangerfield]

"gaming for me is a religion and haze is the shit!" -korn, 2007 probably

[@Max_Payn3]

The fact that Korn did a song for this game like almost 10 years after the height of their popularity is hilarious . Like the terrible Aerosmith game for SNES “generation x” 20 years after the height of their popularity

[@fawkes6352]

"The only thing that could kill Halo was Halo itself" Truer words have never been spoken.

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

The AI of Haze was so good that the good guys even tried to stop you from playing the game and suffer more

[@keenanjohnson231]

I genuinely want to purchase the rights to a defunct game if it isn't crazy expensive. It'd be kind of cool.

[@tindekappa9047]

Chances are the rights are gonna be expensive because companies buy these dead games for the tech. Even the worst games have salvageable tech.

[@luckyducky7819]

I'd purchase the rights to Haze if I had the money. Might be fun to mess around with the property. I'd make it more like Metro 2033 though.

[@GAMER123GAMING]

@@tindekappa9047 What? salvageable tech? WHAT?????????? i dont understand

[@tindekappa9047]

@@GAMER123GAMING Code. Like for example if it's got multiplayer, the code for the matchmaking can be used in any multiplayer game, or the engine itself can be recycled, or literally anything.

[@yoloman3607]

@@tindekappa9047 Who the fuck wants to repurpose the source code of Haze lmao? Nobody was that desperate.

[@0uttaS1TE]

I like how you're just bargain bin diving for the most premium of early 7th gen first person action Also, the fuckin SIXAXIS screaming thing was amazing.

[@spartan2867]

WAH! AUGHAUGHAUGHHH

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

The premisse of the combat drug removing bodies etc from their vision to make war "clean" is interesting but its not really much used. The play dead mechanic is at least unique.

[@foxtrotsierraproductions8626]

Play Dead feature was in a game called Delta Force Black Hawk Down. Nothing original

[@schibleh531]

@@foxtrotsierraproductions8626 So, it was in that one game that no one ever played except for you and 5 other people. It's not original but I can't say it's overused.

[@schibleh531]

I think the game had some neat concepts. For example, they have names for every npc, even the garbage fodder ones. I can see how a better developer could've used this feature to humanize the npcs more and hammer in the "war bad" massage in a more subtle way. But alas, this game wasn't handled by subtle, or good developers.

[@steelbear2063]

@@schibleh531 Free radical is not a good developer? My guy, that is dead wrong. The publisher tho...

[@will9703]

@@schibleh531 oof you are showing your age. Delta Force was a very popular series.

[@somethingmoredecent]

Dude I remember this fucking game. I played it as a wee lad and it led me to the harsh reality: just because they sell it in the gamestore doesn't mean it's worth buying. I just hadn't thought that bad games were a thing. Oh to be young.

[@thej2241]

Haze isn’t a First Person Shooter, it’s a First Piss Shooter.

[@QuickQuips]

Even then Postal 2 did it better.

[@maskednil]

First Pissing Shooter!

[@ecg22201]

Been waiting for this one. Lotta fellas still running the haze playstation avatar two console generations later

[@SgtPnkks]

Wait... That's an option?

[@Ferri-San]

It was my avatar on ps4 for a long time and i didnt know this game even existed

[@MegaGrawp]

My account still might have it. Shame I lost my password. The very first time in my life that not using a real email bit me in the ass.

[@MrTJPAS]

I feel like the vast majority of the avatars available for PSN profiles are all 2005-2009 PS exclusive characters. Motorstorm, Resistance, Warhawk, etc.

[@chikhai]

I remember buying this at launch because, well, PS3 had no games. I'm so glad you included the ending. I nearly gave myself a stroke laughing at the "don't tell my mom" line when I first saw it. Bought, completed and refunded all in the same day. Good times. Shameful when you think this was made by Free Radical.

[@aceofhearts573]

Originally the game was multiplatform but Ubisoft made a deal with Sony so it became an exclusive. The development of this game was screwed. Free Radical could do nothing about it. RIP

[@sterkriger2572]

You’re saying that they could have done another Time Splitters and they did Haze?

[@aceofhearts573]

@@sterkriger2572 from what I read the idea of the game was from Free Radical. They had made three time splitters games so they wanted to do something else. Publishing was being handled by Ubisoft and later during development Sony talked to Ubisoft to make it an exclusive

[@ashleythomas4112]

Well by the time Haze came out PS3 had some games at least. MGS4 came like a month after this and while that certainly had it's issues it was way, way better than this.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

A war being fought by soldiers drives out of their minds, closer to child soldiers in mentality but fitting like the best route troops a first world nation can field, there's something there of only it was handled better.

[@JesterUK2]

"Gaming for me is a religion and Haze is the shit!" -Jonathan Davis

[@XpThruMac]

korn man really said this too, it's crazy

[@PianistPlayback365]

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[@Spams-the-lasers]

0:47 oboe saw through Honey 2 years ago

[@blockofland-qo2oj]

fr lol

[@MGlBlaze]

It was more of a "Free Radical" killer. Free Radical got the shaft a lot, and that upsets me greatly. There are some pretty in-depth documentaries on all the ways the devs got screwed over by their publisher on this game specifically, too. Basically nothing turned out how they wanted it to.

[@LangstonDev]

Yeah, Free Radical had such a solid track record before this and TimeSplitters was (still is) one of my favorite shooter franchises. I hope the new one under the revived studio turns out well. They deserve a win.

[@foxygrandpa5064]

That man on fires screams will haunt me all day.

[@SpartanXVII]

I love the way this man enjoys in game physics so much, so pure.

[@corrodan2995]

Remember seeing this in my game informer magazine and wanting it

[@zixise]

2 years later, he was 100% right about honey btw

[@boryolmung9548]

Nope, He thought honey maje money by selling users data when in reality they make money by much more evil ways.

[@StriderOwO]

I remember in like middle school there was a kid in my class that talked constantly about this game and how "cool" it was. I completely forgot about it until a couple years back when I found a video on it deeming it one of the worst games for the PS3.

[@MyLzTurn2Dubz]

had a similar experience, once at a game store a older kid pointed the game out to me and said don’t buy that, it’s trash… he walked away and my rebel self thought nahhh imma buy it fuck it… learnt my lesson then, some strangers are actually good people lmao.. little 7 year old me thought he was lying lol

[@ScreechingPossum]

I've never played Haze, but after all of these years, I still remember my promise to Merino

[@jonbaxter2254]

That Honey "advert"... woof, that is a thing Honey does.

[@williamgregg6459]

That guy screaming about apes and food and being a meat eater clearly is prophesizing Alex Jones.

[@laurentiusmcmxcv]

Haze's burning voice clip is PERFECT

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

I would argue that Deus Ex Human Revolution is PS3 gaming at its yellow-est.

[@KVROACEGG]

More like Golden-est TBH

[@I_Am_Wasabi_Man]

at least that does something aesthetically nice with yellow. haze is just borderline a grey shooter, but slightly yellow

[@karanvirsingh7829]

Deus Ex HR had some really unique visuals. It's one of the only games that had a filter on it that actually worked for the aesthetic.

[@overphoenix2394]

This video aged like wine

[@NetNeelsie]

In the PS3 era I found there to be only two ways to shake the six axis controller. 1. Hold it between the index finger and the thumb, rotating back and forth. 2. Tilting your wrists forward. It was truly rubbish controls.

[@WillWork4Cheese]

The Honey segment aged like fine wine.

[@Dr.Gamboa]

This game holds a special place in my heart. It was my first FPS game on the PS3 and I remember playing multiplayer all night. It was fun tbh.

[@aceofhearts573]

Sad thing. A lot of the PS3 2nd party studios went under after making exclusives for Sony. Free Radical made this and went under, Game Republic made Genjo and Folklore and went under. Factor 5 the legendary studio that made Rogue Squadron made Lair for the PS3 and went under. PS3 was cursed.

[@ashleythomas4112]

Thankfully many of the Sony first party studios still made some great exclusives on PS3.

[@TylerJMacDonald]

This game is so 7th gen shooter, I thought you already did a video on it

[@SturmgeschuetzIV]

I was pretty sure he did.... or didnt he?

[@username1660]

pretty sure we're all getting Mandela'd by Bionicle Boi 'cause I could've sworn he already did a Haze video up until an hour ago.

[@DETHMOKIL]

They were so confident in Haze, that they actually released a demo of the game. Yeah, I uninstalled that pretty quick lol

[@slyapbg]

They put out a demo, becuase that was the form of advertising back then. They didn't put it out, because they thought they had made a masterpiece.

[@otceeee]

This videogame looks like that one videogame that could have been shown in the movie while the character plays it.

[@rhinodogg6523]

Oboe should play another nostalgic trip of a game call "Dead To Rights: Retribution" hopefully it's as good as I remember (p.s. you get to play as a dog)

[@mrsadfoot6723]

ill be honest, i read that as ride to hell: retribution at first, whoops

[@leandrosalexsandrovich179]

I gotta give credit when it’s due. I feel like this game had a good idea like a bunch of juiced up, gung-ho ass soldiers go to war against a guerrilla faction and one soldier (you) realises that maybe were the bad guys and goes to destroy the entire military industrial complex and you lead the fight. just the execution was bad and I’m drunk so have patience w me. Thank you

[@hedgehog3180]

It's basically the failed version of Spec Ops: The Line, similar idea but Haze lacked the writing and design to make it work. Like Spec Ops: The Line worked because they managed to incorporate both gameplay and the general design of the game into the plot, with it being set in the destroyed ruins of a decadent metropolis where the catastrophe have made the underlying corruption come up to the surface.

[@JacobTyler1776]

Maybe the game would have been better if they had named the protagonist Smedley Butler.

[@Max_Payn3]

@@hedgehog3180 I always thought it was a shitty version of Crysis

[@csaba9285]

Man, it's so weird looking back on the PS3/XB360 days, when linear single player shooters were being released left and right. They really didn't age well, I don't even know why we loved these so much.

[@zebradare16]

Absolutely lost my shit at the continuous screaming and “this 2D honey comb crap ain’t cutting it!” 😂😂

[@majorearl12]

I played this on the PS3 back in the day. I love the Mantel Corporation's soldiers and the plot sounded great, but the execution was horrible. The mechanics of the Nectar and Playing Dead carried into multiplayer and i wasnt able to try it out but im sure the Mantel Soldiers had a huge advantage (when i tried online once, there was ONE other person lol)

[@brat_brat00]

I remember when Korn made a song for this game.

[@spinxtercell]

I was watching this with my blue light filter on and I was like, "Damn, that is yellow."

[@BerkSonmez69]

Guys am I freaking out or is this his second time covering this game??? The scenes seem to be different too or am I just dumb lol. Still loved it!!!

[@NorthKoreaUncovered]

Gotta love taking Gmanlives's "The only thing that could kill Halo was Halo itself" quote from literally the same game where he said it.

[@yesbutnotreallyy3294]

I remember literally everyone having the cover art as their profile pic on the ps3

[@overlordpichu5577]

reading a synopsis of the plot, it does sound kinda interesting in the sense of tackling the exploitation of young men in the name of war, propaganda and its uses in establishing false precedents for geopolitical objectives, the broken foreign intervention policies of the early 0ds, and the repetitive cycles of violence that often emerge from these conflicts. i think it either needed a tighter script or to really lean into its ideas more heavily, cause from the sounds of it a lot of the ingredients are certainly there for an interesting story.

[@Majorwindy]

It definitely had potential, but was seriously undercooked.

[@sealake7935]

I’ll never forget this game. My dad got it and I watched him play it. In like 30 minutes, he said “This game sucks.” and he turned it off... Then we just played Cod 4 XD

[@christopherdempsey3878]

Good on him.

[@sealake7935]

Yepp. We were incredibly disappointed

[@remyrichardson8614]

@@sealake7935god that’s the worst feeling, happened to me with eso where I got hyped about getting it, played it, and got sad when it sucked…but it’s a modern Bethesda elder scrolls so what did I expect?

[@CharlesDantonio3]

Guys it’s like HALO…. But Yellow.

[@xout0ft0astx4]

'Totally marketable quality, trust us ya'll won't even be able to tell the difference'

[@CharlesDantonio3]

@@xout0ft0astx4 We already have a partnership with pee companies

[@Albert_EGGsker]

“Halo killers” were given a objective they weren’t originally trying to achieve.

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

I was wondering why the video contained a total of zero "REMEMBER YOUR PROMISE TO MERINO", then I reached the end.

[@AkaThePistachio]

I remember playing the demo as a kid and wanting to buy the game but being too broke. Glad i was broke.

[@10Adragon]

If they really wanted to make a game that would kill Halo they should've worked in making Halo 5

[@ghostlegit]

Halo 5 isn't even bad.

[@MarlboroFed]

@@ghostlegit extremely mediocre compared to the other halos

[@AydarBMSTU]

Well it didn't really kill halo so

[@thegrouchization]

@@MarlboroFed Campaign was bad but from what I've heard the MP was some of the best in the series.

[@MarlboroFed]

@@thegrouchization I've heard the same

[@ThatsMySkill]

to this day i had no idea what kind of game haze was but it somehow has one of the most memorable cover arts in my eyes. i remember seeing it in a store very often

[@Quicksilvir]

Fun fact: Grant Kirkhope did some audio work for this game. There was supposed to be a Haze radio feature that was cut. Grant had the leftovers as a download on his site, but I haven't checked in a while if it's still there.

[@deathlock9979]

Is it?

[@randomperson2797]

Day 660 of trying to get Oboe to play through skyrim as sigurd. My favorite part about halo is that the enemies are all generic army guys and not colorful aliens who are easy to distinguish, so I’m glad Haze understood that

[@grandejalapeno2401]

Honestly the water barrel section was pretty good

[@arbiter1er]

The best part of this game was the in-lore website they put up. It was fun to read through.

[@jonwaardenburg5842]

Thankfully i was quite young when i picked up Haze. So i didnt hear anything about the game supposedly being the halo killer. I had nothing to compare it to before going in, and i think thats why i enjoyed it so much.

[@fictionalbiscuits]

6:56 me when i get mad and insult my teacher

[@SomeGuyOutside]

The haze face has been my PlayStation profile picture for like 12 years, today I learned that’s where it came from and I won’t forgive you for that

[@Peterthewalrus]

"oh boy, big backup on the ladder today." I'm still laughing from that one.

[@chimpout]

Been looking forward to an Oboe upload just in time

[@Significantpower]

Only thing I remember about this game was the Ads being EVERYWHERE at launch. And then it came out and it all vanished.

[@Turfy2]

"Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee with a automatic rifle" sun tzu

[@luiza1635]

I had fun playing this game lots of times back on the ps3

[@LyaksandraB]

Haze, the game in which you spend the entire time enveloped in a yellow haze.

[@Helmotz.]

I love how on youtube vanced the honey part is marked as a real sponsored part lol

[@Robocopnik]

If your pee is that color, you might want to drink more water.

[@YouTubeViolates1A]

"Gaming at it's yellow-est" Spot on

[@ha-ey9ec]

How Many halo killers did we get before halo killed itself?

[@danielsgamerprofile4067]

I actually loved this game as a kid had a lot of fun playing it

[@SJRinne]

I'm actually dead right now when writing this com... BOOM fooled you right there, I was alive all along!

[@gigabytegallery7305]

Dev Team: "Hey Sir, what do you think the primary color scheme be for our new Haze game be?" "Black & Yellow! Black & YELLOW!! BLACK & YELLOW!!!"

[@xtremecheeseproblem]

yes my favourite game i never played but begged my mum to buy for me as a kid

[@davis3138]

"FREAKIN' LIBERAL!" - Halo Killer

[@blueshit199]

they could have kept the nectar mechanic until at least halfway through the game. they could have made joining the good guys an option, or a whole another campaign altogether, so you could see the same missions differently. when you switch sides, they could have made it so that you still have to take the nectar from time to time because of addiction, so you'd have to harvest it from fallen enemies. they could have made the neon lights on the enemies their weak spots. they could have set more missions in the futuristic jungle setting. they could have done something with this premise.

[@Stephen_the_Sunman]

“How can we make our game unique?” “YELLOW”

[@mataeria]

Love how you’re making me realize that all these games I used to enjoy so much are just some weird poorly developed concepts lol (apart from singularity which was actually amazing) you should try playing Fractured next, that one really stood out for me, hope it still holds up today.

[@thetatn1113]

Was wondering where that ps network avatar comes from lmao

[@JerryBear712]

"Remember your promise to Merino"

[@wokinstorm2]

the line : " this game is writing by Joe Rogan " had me just crying XD

[@ThatGuy-mh4kw]

Man, this brings me back. I remember this being my first ever FPS that my cousin had. It was so cool and I thought it was so hardcore. It was only 5 years later when I visited him again that I realized how wrong I was.

[@Rrgr5]

Dude, that nectar stuff seems a lot like a water sports analogy... lol

[@micahwhoward8316]

I have a visceral memory of when my local blockbuster closed and they were liquidating everything. Towards the end, there were like entire aisles of the game section that were nothing but Haze and I always wondered why. Now I know.

[@baudsp]

lol at the honey comment. It wasn't selling user data, it was something worse

[@hemangchauhan2864]

That honey segment was excellent

[@ORLY911]

Free Radical just reformed, it took nearly 15 years but we're getting new Timesplitters stuff

[@Lonzobngz]

This was my whole childhood game I’d get off school and play everyday and weekend I ain’t have WiFi back or internet back then so I would just play all games offline this was dope though who’s selling a ps3 I want my childhood gaming experience back 🥺🥺

[@xXSupahXFlyXx]

Hey oboeshoesgames can you look into bulletstorm?

[@zurlac9548]

still to this day i have my psn picture the haze photo because i think it looks cool after 10 years lol

[@cattibingo]

That ad segue was too smooth

[@kawsara5366]

I feel like mr Oboe played every game that I did

[@tedstapleton5561]

You know I dont think I've actually seen any gameplay footage of this game prior to watching this video.

[@NotThatJonesShow]

I don't think you were using a controller with sixaxis

[@HQ_Default]

3:50 This is just the Jerma "THERE'S BLOOD IN THE BOX" joke

[@Ben-kg4hj]

2:05 "Enrique Diaz: [Various Spanish Ramblings]" lol

[@hussarzwei6223]

My favorite part was when Haze said it’s Hazin and Hazed all over the place.