More people watched this than actually played Bodycount.
@divecolosio49885 жыл бұрын
So what's your verdict on Bodycount? Worth giving a try?
@daneman635 жыл бұрын
+Dive Colosio it sucks major ass
@Doomreb5 жыл бұрын
@@divecolosio4988 If you haven't picked it up since this comment I recommend you try it. Especially for the price. The controls are a little different but it's not bad at all and super fun. And the destruction in it is a nice call back to when games cared about that kind of stuff. I actually wish there were people online. Haven't played it in a while though.
@turtleanton65395 жыл бұрын
Ofc
@CruelestChris4 жыл бұрын
@@Doomreb This is extreme bad advice. It's a bad game.
@azzor41344 жыл бұрын
For me Black's lack of a compelling story wasn't an issue. I was a kid back then who didn't even understand English lol
@ilyxjd3 жыл бұрын
Same lol
@MasterofGamesBr3 жыл бұрын
Nowadays the majority of those grand titles are officially shipped with subtitles (and sometimes voice acting) for multiple languages. Playing games without knowing English was much simpler and fun experience in the PS2, considering that games overwhelmed had a design that favoured gameplay over story.
@LemonRush77773 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I have yet to see a traditional military shooter whose story I give 2 fucks about aside from Spec Ops: The Line.
@reaux15603 жыл бұрын
Me too kid.
@reaux15603 жыл бұрын
@@LemonRush7777 Have you tried Titanfall 2, the story isn't as deep as 'Spec Ops: The line' but it does manage to make you care about the story and some of it's characters. I recommend you play it on hard difficulty since then you need to use the movement mechanic's which already somehow make the game fun. And when replaying it you should play it on master difficulty.
@iGingerYT3 жыл бұрын
Call of Duty: throw grenade into a room. Some debris is flung about Black: throw grenade into a room. Whole wall is blown apart. Windows shatter. Three car alarms go off. *PANAIC SCREAMS FROM ENEMIES IN THE NEXT BUILDING OVER ARE HEARD*
@MichaelVickers2007 Жыл бұрын
And note this was on the original xbox not the 360
@redline841 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like FEAR
@iGingerYT Жыл бұрын
@@redline841 I enjoyed FEAR one and two a lot. Three really didn’t catch me at all. But you are right. The combat was still madness from start to finish.
@redline841 Жыл бұрын
@@iGingerYT 1 is the best
@QuantumTelephone4 ай бұрын
@redline841 you play trepang2 yet?
@Larry5 жыл бұрын
I used to play this at launch with some of the Eurogamer staff, could never get in to it. And no one else did as I can remember stores drastically dropping the price of the game soon after release, I bought a PS3 copy when it was £3 less than a month later.
@Mambo.Canibal3 жыл бұрын
Larry Bundy Jr Really? It was quite popular when I was in high school, i remember the graphics absolute blew our minds
@Megaman543273 жыл бұрын
I read this in your voice guru Larry lol
@SalusFuturistics3 жыл бұрын
Hey good for you, Man
@goldenpun55923 жыл бұрын
HELLO YOUUU
@dylanelliott9203 жыл бұрын
@@goldenpun5592 y
@VoidTracks5 жыл бұрын
I always got Bodycount and Brink confused.
@effexon3 жыл бұрын
I mixed just now realized I was thinking Bulletstorm, and it is different than Bodycount :3
@cej39403 жыл бұрын
Same, and I played a bit of both
@Keep_3 жыл бұрын
Oh shit voidtracks. Swag
@zoinksboy37863 жыл бұрын
im witnessing a true swag moment right now oh fuck
@Keep_3 жыл бұрын
@@zoinksboy3786 huge swag sister
@SaveliySakharov5 жыл бұрын
- “Black’s co-creator Stuart Black...hue hue” Raycevick, 2018
@Excalibur015 жыл бұрын
I get it!
@DragonSpikeXIII5 жыл бұрын
Cringe mode activated
@CheeseMeeseGetCheesed5 жыл бұрын
time stamp?
@JacobDFerguson5 жыл бұрын
@@CheeseMeeseGetCheesed it's within the first 5 minutes you lazy duck
@brokengames90205 жыл бұрын
Paycheck, 2018.
@knowyoudont58873 жыл бұрын
Black was an INCREDIBLE technical achievement at the time. Genuinely I was shocked there weren't followups
@indestructible247 Жыл бұрын
very realistic Black people in Black
@hannibalburgers477 Жыл бұрын
As I would like to call it "Colored Game"
@velouris762 ай бұрын
Simple reason: About a year/18 months after Black came out on PS2…the first COD MW came out on PS3…
@illiteratethug33054 жыл бұрын
At the time, Black felt almost like having a next-gen game run on a PS2, it was staggeringly good, and I dont really like FPSs
@Magmoormaster5 жыл бұрын
Your analogies are hysterical: "Budget of a ham sandwich" "All the drama of my grocery list" "As linear as a T square"
@MisterNightfish5 жыл бұрын
I could not agree more with the sentiment that remakes should focus on polishing things that were not quite successful the first time around. There are so many good ideas that were not done quite right. I get that it's easier to cash in on something that was already successful, but so many remakes/sequels of good games just kill franchises because they fall short of the original.
@Raycevick5 жыл бұрын
I'm forever imagining R6: Siege with Blizzard's polish.
@jordgoin5 жыл бұрын
@@Raycevick With all the issues I am having with overwatch I am not sure I want that lol
@Calvin_Coolage5 жыл бұрын
@@Raycevick Blizzard has polish? Have you played Overwatch recently?
@Raycevick5 жыл бұрын
@@Calvin_Coolage It's getting bugged now too?
@Calvin_Coolage5 жыл бұрын
@@Raycevick Not so much bugs as much as incompetent balancing. There was a bug recently that let you get serious airtime as Brigitte, though, but that was more an annoyance than anything gamebreaking. I think I misinterpreted what you meant by polish, I didn't think you were referring specifically to bugs.
@reaktorleak895 жыл бұрын
That's so damn scummy, I can't imagine being denied overtime pay and then being told by the studio that fired me "Pay us back or we're reporting YOU to the authorities."
@leejiugs96574 жыл бұрын
the aesthetic of black is so good, the enemies, maps, lighting, guns, i love this game
@brunomunemassa82665 жыл бұрын
I used to play Black with my stepfather. He played carefullly and smart, i played dumb and loud. Black was fun for fun's sake so thank you for giving me some closure on why it didn't have a sequel.
@benjapizarro9815 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha same here! (But with my father)
@ankngmg5 жыл бұрын
Benja Pizarro me too. Played Black with my father. He really enjoyed wrecking havoc with silver M16. Black Ops difficulty is a must to experience Black.
@2142rex5 жыл бұрын
Got it as a gift from my mother(Who mostly hated "shooters") lmao. She ended up loving the credits theme. Such a wonderful game.
@TehEpacNeurb5 жыл бұрын
My stepdad introduced me to black
@HiddenGemsReviews5 жыл бұрын
As always, your videos brighten up my subscription box...when KZbin decides they're in there, of course.
@theprisera12215 жыл бұрын
It's always good when YT forget to do so. You get an hour of high quality production
@ignacioszychowski3465 жыл бұрын
In a scale of 1 to 10, the level of fear I feel when: 1- I hear someone broke into my house 5- My sister borrowing my cellphone charger 9- Being at a haunted graveyard 20- Being at the graveyard from that particular Black mission
@mickael_guitara4 жыл бұрын
I feel the Asylum was worse
@konrad85414 жыл бұрын
The sound of that sniper man, I can still hear it in my head
@c.jarmstrong31113 жыл бұрын
Fuck that Sniper, man. Felt great once you took the nest and got to snipe waves of enemies, though
@zell1893 жыл бұрын
Bruh, the forest mission and Asylum is so bad and good
@fafafagat3 жыл бұрын
It's been so long since I've played black and your comment is starting to awaken some deep buried traumatic memories from the game.
@TH3W0LF1003 жыл бұрын
Bodycount once discussed in a GameInformer article (during development, I'm pretty sure.) that the repeated levels were originally to show off some persistent entity tech. Bullet holes, corpses, and bloodstains you left in the level previously would still be there when you revisit.
@CErra310 Жыл бұрын
That would have been sick
@Zephyrbal5 жыл бұрын
I just want a game that plays like a combination of BLACK, FEAR and Bulletstorm.
@elPominator5 жыл бұрын
@Brupcat I don't own a time machine, but I wish you all the best in your endeavour, that's got to be a hell of a mission. My time as a writer has shown me how easy it is for a passion project to get away from you just due to scale creep. If I ever finish Prodigal (my main piece, a cyberpunk thriller inspired by Deus Ex) it would probably be after my ##SHoK## universe is dead and buried.
@Raycevick5 жыл бұрын
@Brupcat I do feel like I should give you a prize for being the only person to bring up the game I talk about in this video.
@Web7205 жыл бұрын
You mean Fear and bullet storm because Fear easily beats black in almost every regard.
@jimthar175 жыл бұрын
@@Web720 Are you talking about F.E.A.R.? I just tried playing that last week and it was terrible and nowhere near as good or better than Black. Aiming sucked. Shooting sucked. Etc. Level layout was boring and pointless. Black was superior in every way.
@lotuscat31735 жыл бұрын
Gimme 3
@chaffXgrenade5 жыл бұрын
BLACK holds a special place in my heart, being the first FPS I ever truly enjoyed. Up until then, I had only dabbled in a bit of Halo at a relative's house once or twice at the most, but BLACK was the first one I really sank my teeth into, on my own time. I liked how short and sweet it was, in spite of it not having much depth, more focused on the "gun porn" aesthetic--it was cathartic. Point and shoot and everything explodes. How that game managed to keep a steady frame rate 98% of the time (toss enough grenades around and it might actually dip a little) is beyond me. I vaguely remember playing the PS3 demo of Bodycount and not really liking it. Among other things, having to stand still in order to aim didn't sit too well with me. And I don't think I'm "dangerously curious" enough to try the full game.
@georgeparkinson13145 жыл бұрын
chaffXgrenade this comment pretty much explains my relationship to the game. Total hidden gems my friends didn’t even know about. I was astounded as a kid seeing these effects on a ps2. I knew body count was the spiritual successor to black and also played the demo only to be disappointed as well.
@NASIRUB15 жыл бұрын
I liked Black back on the PS2, I wish they would make an HD remake or a remastered version of Black with better A.I. and better graphics.
@divecolosio49885 жыл бұрын
More firearms too.
@Fat_Rucker4 жыл бұрын
All i want is to play em on other platform tbh
@ersguteratze4 жыл бұрын
@@Fat_Rucker you can Play it on Xbox one
@badreedinedjellali13284 жыл бұрын
ya this game was amazing good times
@tacopizzaisgood36684 жыл бұрын
I just want to play every level with infinite ammo one more time :(
@henrym49974 жыл бұрын
Hi, i'm a little late to the video, but my dad actually wrote the storyline and directed the voiceovers for Black. (Guy Miller, he was never actually credited with either of those roles though) EA actually flew him out to the set of '24' to direct the actors. I asked him about the production for Black, and he told me that Alex Ward called him in to do those things AFTER the game was finished, and so the storyline was completely separate to the gameplay. My dad also said Alex Ward was not a great guy (i've changed the wording on that)
@davidlaush1804 жыл бұрын
Damn, not to say that I don't believe you but if what you're saying is true...then screw Criterion lol. How in the world were you unable to make your gameplay and story around the same time at all? At least games like Halo and Call of Duty evolved their stories at or around the same time as their gameplay mechanics improved. But big s/o to your dad for what he contributed. Hope you are both in good health!
@novikovPrinciple5 жыл бұрын
Oh, Raycevick posted... "The Spiritual Successor to... *Black* ?" I have never clicked on a video faster.
@alexcondie61665 жыл бұрын
I haven't played black, body count, or like half the other games raycevick covers but he's so damn entertaining that I watch all of them.
@lotuscat31735 жыл бұрын
*_NUTTED_*
@KorianHUN5 жыл бұрын
Black was one of the most fun and entertaining games back when i had a PS2! I absolutely LOVED the guns in it, so action-movie-like! I haven't managed to progress too far in it tho, it was not an easy game for a new gamer.
@dirtyharry01915 жыл бұрын
Black had the best gun sound effects ever
@2142rex5 жыл бұрын
Black was the best thing you could play with the ps2, as a Fps. It was a nice gift lol... This is how a game stands well, when there's a particular element to work with. In this case, guns. Guns with Michael Bay effects. Loved all of them, in sound, visuals and power. You could repeat the game, changing your gun pack. In Black mode the gameplay becomes wonderful. Spamming the grenade launcher from the m16 was the best thing evar. The IA was kinda dumb, I admit it.. But fun and dangerous enough to make you think how to play through.
@Alex-jz5yw5 жыл бұрын
I could not care less about these games, I've never heard of them. But man, Ray just pulls you in. These are like short documentaries. Total engrossment.
@DaDualityofMan5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Raycevick is the only channel where I watch videos for games I don't care about.
@deathbykoala17145 жыл бұрын
Hes very similiar to ahoy
@bpcgos5 жыл бұрын
If you like it, then Ahoy and GVMERS should be your next stop ...
@deathbykoala17145 жыл бұрын
@@bpcgos i also really enjoyed gamemakers toolkit
@bpcgos5 жыл бұрын
@The Shadow Mortician white light..? Never heard of him/her, thanks for the lead. Gonna check it now...
@quinnmarchese63135 жыл бұрын
the fact that Bodycount's crosshair is so low on screen pisses me off
@kricku3 жыл бұрын
Wait until you hear about this little game called Halo
@quinnmarchese63133 жыл бұрын
@@kricku i have the MCC, not to mention still own the original 2 for my old ass xbox. as far as i can tell, the crosshairs are dead center my dude, if their off, its not egregious like in bodycount
@doublevendetta5 ай бұрын
@@quinnmarchese6313 default Crosshair placement in the original Halo games was lowered. However if you've only ever experienced it RECENTLY on MCC then you've probably experienced it with the default setting being centered. Addendum: Very similar Crosshair placement to Black and Bodycount.
@ReverendTed5 жыл бұрын
I misinterpreted the title of this video as suggesting that a game called "Raycevick" was going to be a spiritual successor to Black and got excited. I was disappointed to learn I was mistaken on that count, but ultimately NOT disappointed to have watched the entire video. Great job!
@rizzismoovthe2nd7575 жыл бұрын
That crosshair's really damn low. I think it's even lower than Halo's.
@vinnisvidya5 жыл бұрын
god I can't watch this video because of it the god awful camera is actually hurting my eyes
@ptg66164 жыл бұрын
TheBlackDrag0n there’s a reason for lowered crosshairs. It creates and illusion of the environment being larger than it really is and helps make vertical combat easier. Look into why Halo does it, very interesting.
@whatisfzeroanymore2nd4 жыл бұрын
It doesnt even need to be. Halo's justification is that a lot of fights are semi-airborne On top of this, bungie used it to effect with it's large visual spaces made directly around it. This is a generic FPS that would've done just fine without it lmao.
@akosv964 жыл бұрын
Yeah but in Halo there is reason you want to look up like spaceships and things attacking from sky. In Bodycount however there is no reason to give player focus on the empty sky. It's plain annoying.
@Dorraj4 жыл бұрын
@@akosv96 Except you can just... look up, if you want to look up. I seriously despised this argument, cause it makes 0 sense. In order to put more stuff on the screen, you shouldn't be messing with the UI, you should change the FoV. If Bungie wanted people to be able to see platforms above them while in combat, then they should have changed the FoV, not forced you to stare at the sky when shooting enemies.
@hanniffydinn60195 жыл бұрын
Usual story no passion and original creators leave, too much crunch and employees pissed off. Jesus. Nobody learns.
@wizkidgamer99425 жыл бұрын
Welcome to humanity. Here's your sign.
@johnarmstrong55335 жыл бұрын
Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee
@hanniffydinn60195 жыл бұрын
@@johnarmstrong5533 most recent one in media is telltale games.... ironically companies that fix the wages and creative freedom -valve- end up with the same issues cannot agree jack shit and half life gets shelved! seems like any game co. doing really cool shit only has one game in them and then people leave.......
@salsamancer5 жыл бұрын
@@hanniffydinn6019 Valve puts out regular nearly daily updates for their only actual remaining piece of software (Steam)
@geoffreywilson70085 жыл бұрын
Learning implies someone at the top feels a need for growth. Unless we're talking profit margins, argument irrelevant, back to churning out safe sequels and chasing trends. /s
@CallanElliott5 жыл бұрын
I ain't gonna lie, single player killstreaks is something I only just realised I wanted...
@WarriorPleb4 жыл бұрын
Black was my favourite game on the old consoles, the damage in the levels just amazed my tiny little brain back then
@glyph20115 жыл бұрын
Thank you so for much this video. I adore BLACK and was so excited for bodycount, what with Stuart's many appearances promoting the game. When the awful reviews started hitting I always wondered what went wrong. Now I know! :-)
@xmm-cf5eg5 жыл бұрын
Happy to see Examined Life of Gaming get his reference too. (BLACK's gun models are ugly!)
@lalooganesan79925 жыл бұрын
10:50 Allows you to lean in any erection?!
@deans.wright66325 жыл бұрын
I heard that too, thought I was crazy
@dan_loeb5 жыл бұрын
Yes. lean into them.
@kruinnbogdoir36615 жыл бұрын
In words of Generel Grivous "A fine addition to my erection"
@wafflebunny15 жыл бұрын
Tighten the weapon's spread?
@MJSpiderman71165 жыл бұрын
Lmao was hoping someone else noticed this. He totally said erection
@jukeofearl5 жыл бұрын
Black was so good. Still one of my favorites.
@podhditalia4 жыл бұрын
i will always love criterion as a development house. the burnout series and black, both masterpieces in wildly different genres
@DHC0002 жыл бұрын
They couldn’t be more different and still super fun. Burnout Paradise was a game I played so much
@Spoggi99YT5 жыл бұрын
Here we go, a new Raycevick video was uploaded. Grab your popcorn guys!
@TheBoxNasty5 жыл бұрын
Spoggi99 cringe
@Pensive_1175 жыл бұрын
@@TheBoxNasty You are cancer, girl.
@yipperdeyip5 жыл бұрын
AND an interesting topic! Love Black!
@dirtybongwater57515 жыл бұрын
Cringe
@Pensive_1175 жыл бұрын
@@dirtybongwater5751 You suck, Dirty Bong Water.
@PillzSufrie5 жыл бұрын
2:55 I'd recognise the Operation Metro theme anywhere
@borismuller865 жыл бұрын
PillzSufrie love that map 😍
@Buuster19995 жыл бұрын
More like operation grenadespam
@washingmachine9695 жыл бұрын
Operation GRENADE GET DOWN*
@i-never-look-at-replies-lol5 жыл бұрын
My SAIGA with frag rounds misses those days...
@ChadVulpes5 жыл бұрын
It's called "Frostbite Pillars."
@frostsoul41993 жыл бұрын
my main pet peeve with Black was how anatomically innacurate the guns were to their real world counter parts. such as the G36 and Uzi having two charging handles.
@Barbaroossa4 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I miss Black. I thought the plot was so cool, it had a Tom Clancy vibe to it. Plus the actor for the main character was great.
@emmyekko5 жыл бұрын
Black was my first FPS experience on my newly bought PS2 Slim back in 2006, many years later it still stands as my favourite console FPS alongside TimeSplitters 2. (which I really wish that THQ Nordic would hurry up and remaster the TS games already)
@Masismake5 жыл бұрын
How does that make OP an idiot?
@valravnsshadow94225 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure THQ is closed and has claimed bankruptcy years ago.
@9Joel95 жыл бұрын
omg timesplitters, getting moist just hearing that title again
@SHADOSTRYKR5 жыл бұрын
Rockstars 100hour weeks have brought light to the norm for game devs. They have been facing bullshit conditions pretty much since video games have existed
@MelMelodyWerner5 жыл бұрын
Every couple of years, crunch goes through the news again. Pretty fucked up that things still haven't been changed over decades of these stories.
@Bollibompa5 жыл бұрын
@SHADOSTRYKR It has its roots in the time when people actually cared about their product and consisted of a small number of people. For companies to expand this idea to hundreds of employees in modern times is just an excuse to save money.
@Sorain15 жыл бұрын
The difference is that back in the day, those work weeks were self motivated. The developers wanted to make it better and put their time in for it. In the modern world, the 'motivation' is pressure from the outside. It went from passion to abuse.
@PoisoningShadow6715 жыл бұрын
2:34 Sweet Jesus, never thought I'd see project: Snowblind
@x000x2025 жыл бұрын
2007:Black 2018: Escape From Tarkov
@GreedAndSelfishness5 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was thinking of Tarkov as well but didnt know why...I guess because both are gun porn?
@gaussminigun4 жыл бұрын
no destructible environments and guns aren't fun to shoot because you die before getting a chance to use them
@elijah41684 жыл бұрын
@@gaussminigun git gud
@gaussminigun4 жыл бұрын
@@elijah4168 HAY! :(
@mehrdad57674 жыл бұрын
2005*
@jeremydonnelly13745 жыл бұрын
Man, I discovered you about a week ago and ended up binging your videos. First new subscription in a long time and your videos are up there with Super Bunnyhop for me. Keep it up, dude!
@Raycevick5 жыл бұрын
Will try to, Jeremy. Thank you for your kind words.
@InfernalMonsoon5 жыл бұрын
I was one of those weirdos that kinda enjoyed Bodycount - I like weird shit and love collecting it. It's a game where it clearly had passion put behind it but the further you play through the game, the more you realise that passion kept dwindling and eventually died just to push it out with only a mere fraction of it's true vision. A real shame honestly because it's art style was great, the mix of run and gun and rooting yourself like Time Crisis and shoot around corners was a nice touch and it clearly wanted to be ridiculous but eventually just became stale, by the numbers and hopped onto trends like regenerating health in the hopes that it would sell. Like it's REALLY fucking sad because it really would have been bloody good, a cult classic even if things just worked out.
@matthewellis65165 жыл бұрын
WOW arnt you awesome you like shity things so cool
@MerlautJones5 жыл бұрын
How does that make you a weirdo? I enjoyed Bodycount too.
@victoriomartinez31175 жыл бұрын
I liked bodycount, but it's one of these games that I would complete and never play again, maybe sometimes for nostalgia.
@Sentient6ix2 жыл бұрын
Not even close to finished this video, i just hope he mentions the fact that the sound for the MP5 in this game was lifted directly from Die Hard as a deliberate reference to the sheer LOUDNESS of the guns in that movie. A pure spectacle of gunplay from the '80s
@mannishgambino5 жыл бұрын
I cannot tell you how many times I have gone back and watched your Halo 2 video dude these things are all put together so well
@lmao-ev6nz5 жыл бұрын
Funny how both of theses companies are mostly known for their racing games (Criterion: Burnout Series) (Codemasters: Dirt Series, F1 Series)
@princewellidk2 жыл бұрын
Codemasters is now owned by EA
@killroy8145 жыл бұрын
Man you go deep with finding out things, or at least further than I could be bothered with. There's this PSP fps game called Coded Arms, and it was supposed to get a sequel on PS3 but it died off. The first was fun, apparently there was a second subtitled Contagion which had a plot but I never knew about it, but the would be 3rd was looking good and I was excited for it.
@BasementMinions5 жыл бұрын
Man I appreciate how much work you put into these videos, it makes every time I see an upload from you an absolute thrill.
@eldacian72645 жыл бұрын
When i got my first ps2 this was my 2nd game i got with it, not even knowing what this game was all about, and i ended up playing the game for days and my go to game when i got home from school. Thanks for the video, made me pull up my ps2 and go for a game run. GG
@subatomiccc3005 жыл бұрын
it's so hard to pull myself away from the screen on ANY of your videos, they're so well written and presented that they never lose my attention; and having someone with adhd *willingly* sit through a 30 minute video on a game he's never even heard of before is pretty impressive.
@EladAmon035 жыл бұрын
An interesting video would be “Wasted Potential”, there are so many games, especially in the 7th gen, atleast in my experience.
@juancarlosmartinez28765 жыл бұрын
Bladestorm and LOTR: Conquest. Great ideas, poor execution. Not that I haven't played them an almost embarrassing number of hours.
@tomstonemale5 жыл бұрын
I consider Bulletstorm to be wasted potential, despite being actually good. The gameplay belongs to an Arena shooter but the levels are mostly corridors? WTF?
@MerlautJones5 жыл бұрын
@@tomstonemale Disagreee
@tomstonemale5 жыл бұрын
@@MerlautJones You disagree on the game being good or the small and linear level design? Because those guys used to make arena shooters. The only part in the entire game that's even remotely like the games the used to make was a hall with a broken staircase, that adds some verticality. The rest have some more open areas but some idiot thought that putting more ruins or garbage in the way was actual good environmental design.
@vicx055 жыл бұрын
you make me realise how the current generation is the least fun I've ever had, so much originality in previous generations compared to today :(
@UltravioletRabbit5 жыл бұрын
I love how you make me care and engage so much about obscure titles I never heard about before. Keep up the great work.
@Fire13ringer10125 жыл бұрын
Duuuude i looove your videos man keep it up.
@user-ll3gt8jj3c5 жыл бұрын
I befriended a co-worker while working in retail over 10 years ago. Ended up chilling with him and his friends at their digs quite often, smoking pot playing PS2 and just talking shit. That's where I played Black, never got the chance anywhere else but damn those are some great memories. Thanks for this blast from the past!
@Vge21x5 жыл бұрын
I'll admit that little piece of DiRT Rally footage made me really want a Raycevick CMR video, maybe, possibly, sometime, please?
@charmingeskimo19025 жыл бұрын
This is really my favorite KZbin channel! Keep up the amazing work and I hope that the channel blows up even more
@blug79155 жыл бұрын
Amazing video and very interesting story. Thanks for your work!
@kruinnbogdoir36615 жыл бұрын
i think you should look at Brink and it's successor Dirty Bomb, damn whole Splash Damage saga will be interesting
@shonjones72315 жыл бұрын
Heck yeah
@Raycevick5 жыл бұрын
Hmm, I do really like Dirty Bomb.
@valravnsshadow94225 жыл бұрын
I loved Brink. That game was so awesome.
@MerlautJones5 жыл бұрын
Wow I have Brink, but knew nothing of Dirty Bomb. I see that it's multiplayer & pc-only so I'll pass.
@Largentina.5 жыл бұрын
Artuurs Z. Why is he a piece of shit? Because he doesn't own a PC? Are you that dense?
@Ueberdoziz5 жыл бұрын
Raycevick and GVMERS should have at least 3 million subs for all their work, effort, and love put in their videos...
@kevinwalter26744 жыл бұрын
Black was one of the most amazing games I had ever played at the time... and the entire reason for that was because I had a 5.1 surround sound system when I played it, and the audio design for the game was absolutely incredible.
@chaseg22115 жыл бұрын
Your choice of music for everyone of your videos is amazing.
@rafaelapari5 жыл бұрын
HAPPY 300K :)) YOU EARNED IT
@Drakefance55 жыл бұрын
Congrats on 300k.
@RAGERPLAYS4 жыл бұрын
awesome vid and thanks for the song list lad, shit saves me sooooo much time when i hear something cool. but hardly see em elsewhere!
@g4vg4v_5 жыл бұрын
I studied game design in college and one of my lecturer was a QA tester for bodycount. He told many stories on how the game was a train wreck. One of them was the story of DAve, on how DAve spelled his name. The QA testers constantly reported it as a bug but the devs said that was how he actually spelt his name. In the end, when they sent it for review for PlayStation, it was reported as a bug
@Bondon45ify5 жыл бұрын
Raycevick, why are your essays so good?
@travosk86685 жыл бұрын
Bondon45 I feel like Newrdwriter's are much better
@moanguspickard2495 жыл бұрын
@@travosk8668 nerdwritter makes
@harish.g.l.k5 жыл бұрын
Because he plays the game
@Godzilla-se8in5 жыл бұрын
His mom is a professional writer, so he sometimes sends his scripts to her to proofread.
@Godzilla-se8in5 жыл бұрын
@@travosk8668 Nerdwriter makes like 10 min. videos where he talks about nothing, and you learn nothing, for the duration of the vid . . .
@nickshulga70855 жыл бұрын
You coud've also mention that CI Games "Enemy Front" initally was developed with Stuart Black as another "Black Spiritual Successor " in WW2 but he later left them and game was remade to what it is today.
@Raycevick5 жыл бұрын
I wanted to, but couldn't find a way to elegantly segue into it without the script sounding repetitive. Maybe I'll discuss it in a future video.
@CErra3105 жыл бұрын
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan It really is absolute trash City Interactive, or CI Games, is an awful developer
@OldMemesDieHard5 жыл бұрын
The minute I finish this job hunt I’m gonna support the hell out of your patreon I swear
@creggriley72475 жыл бұрын
Always a good day with a new vid from Raycevick!
@dcdanger75972 жыл бұрын
Yeah black feels great but the m16 stuffing 100 rounds into a mag that only fits 20 will probably give any gun guy an aneurysm
@machielste15 жыл бұрын
The way the gunmodel almost covers the crosshair in focus mode looks very annoying as well in Bodycount.
@Raycevick5 жыл бұрын
It definitely is.
@dentistguba5 жыл бұрын
Not as bad as battlefield 3 where the zone capture icon almost covered the ironsights lol.
@egoalter1276 Жыл бұрын
Holy shit. That cocking of a nonexistent bolt handle on the left side of the AK right as you are talking about leaving the inaccuracies for someone else to pick apart is some seriously subtle humour.
@MrMagooeygoo5 жыл бұрын
Awesome video as always. That story about the employees having to give back money is insane.
@lucignolo83335 жыл бұрын
This is still one of my favorite fps of all time, i keep replaying it annually on the hardest difficulty on the x360, it's really a shame no real sequel was ever produced
@aftsten63015 жыл бұрын
I guess it's time to go to sleep. *Notification pops up from Raycevick* I guess not.
@rjhicks93535 жыл бұрын
i really like your channel you can take games people don't care about or never heard of and make entertaining reviews with them
@asclepius29k5 жыл бұрын
Congrats on 3k, my dude
@markfeher24935 жыл бұрын
Man, black was so ahead of its time... Such an underrated game.
@pp3k3jamail5 жыл бұрын
A head of it's time as far as what? Black didn't do anything different or innovative.
@channe30494 жыл бұрын
@@pp3k3jamail Black achieved what big shooters such as CoD MW and Crysis first, destrutible environment, large immersive of firing weaponry, one of the first FPS to featured a dynamic screen & motion effects on gameplay, amazing sound design etc. Again Black was first came out in 6th gen console platforms which were had a large limitation of hardware for the FPS genre, compare to CoD MW and Crysis which were 7th gen console shooters.
@jarg85 жыл бұрын
Wow what a great video. I love Black so much and I was always bummed that no one knew it existed, but also that no sequel was ever made. And I remember how Bodycount kind of just came out without much of an acknowledgement from anyone. Crazy to know the reasons behind why that game was what it was, as opposed to what it could be. Thanks for resolving a long standing personal disappointment I've had with this game for years.
@Raycevick5 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, 117.
@FreakinShane5 жыл бұрын
Congrats on hitting 300k subs! The content has been excellent through and through and I always look forward to seeing what the next video will be.
@eatmyshorts20245 жыл бұрын
Yes!! We've been waiting BROOOO
@Andrew_Price5 жыл бұрын
10:50 - "lean in any erection" Good stuff.
@narcspector4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, was looking for this
@MasterControl90original5 жыл бұрын
Omg I hate that not centered cross air! How the hell people like it? It is so distracting! Every single time I see one I imagine the player running around and shooting looking at the sky... Herp derp look ma i shoot.
@MasterControl90original5 жыл бұрын
@E115 I know right? Why most games doesn't have an option to choose the position? I think I saw this just once.... Lately I bough and completed PREY and had this retarded cross air, it took 20 seconds to fix it by change a value in the main cfg file, was it too difficult to implement an option in the menu?
@NickGeo255 жыл бұрын
You just ruined it for me. I loved uncentered cross hairs and now I keep thinking about the character looking at the sky. :(
@MasterControl90original5 жыл бұрын
@@NickGeo25 man, look how nice is aiming in black compared to that spiritual successor. HERP DERP HERP DERP shooting people while singing Mr blue sky
@InfernalMonsoon5 жыл бұрын
I thought I was the only one where that trend is constantly driving me nuts. I don't understand why developers do that - it's just baffling to me. Probably the worst is that rubbish GoldenEye remake or whatever it was that had a crosshair so high up the screen you're literally licking the floor.
@MasterControl90original5 жыл бұрын
@@InfernalMonsoon licking the floor ahahaha... Brilliant!
@volvodoto40535 жыл бұрын
One of the most entertaining and informative shows on youtube. Could easily go big during prime time on tv.
@ianhenry68745 жыл бұрын
You always be coming in with the heat, Ray!!!!! Much respek
@EchotheAndroidNeko5 жыл бұрын
God the lower third reticle placement has always been a design decision that I never understood. It feels like I'm playing ArmA with my Track IR and I've got my head craned up the entire session. Incredibly uncomfortable, even just to watch. It forces most of your attention to be somewhere that cuts off a bunch of your lower peripheral vision and coincidentally makes the games feel more claustrophobic, especially since most other games teach you to have the resting/primary location of your focus to be where you shoot. It doesn't help that I instinctively move my head in footage of FPS games to mimic the correlating TrackIR input but that's just me being weird.
@talion40335 жыл бұрын
Black - The game with the world’s best videogame shotgun
@dirtybongwater57515 жыл бұрын
FEAR
@Largentina.5 жыл бұрын
Talion Blacktear You spelled F.E.A.R. wrong.
@MKKINVKR5 жыл бұрын
Halo CE
@kjj26k5 жыл бұрын
That's not how you spell Combat Evolved. (Seriously tho, everyone here is right)
@MKKINVKR5 жыл бұрын
@@kjj26k i know kkkk
@criseist97865 жыл бұрын
Black is the first game I have ever played, and this video gave me a nostalgia trip like no other. Thank you so much man
@antoniomota24945 жыл бұрын
Love your videos man! You could talk about the riddick game sometime, or even the shutdown of Visceral.
@yeolddinglechalk48934 жыл бұрын
Black was a game ahead of its time. one of my top 3 games of all time.
@frvo Жыл бұрын
Yes!!! I bought my PS2 in 2007 (way too late, I know) and I got Black. I fell in love with this game immediately.
@wymanrtaylor5 жыл бұрын
OMG I am so glad I watched the whole video.. I am playing “Black” right now for the first time and I am quite enjoying it. I almost ordered “Bodyvount” 10 minutes in... fortunately I finished the vid
@pavelplanzo74605 жыл бұрын
Man, I love you. Keep up the good work.
@alispeed50955 жыл бұрын
True gaming journalism!! You and nerdslayer truly embody this, pliz keep it up.
@ep1cn3ss25 жыл бұрын
Battlefield 3 background music, i love you
@acetrigger13375 жыл бұрын
"Making a game where you kill to progress is easier than one that you are encouraged to be non-lethal." ...the phrase that killed way too many "Cop Games" in their concept stages.
@assaultspoon49255 жыл бұрын
I miss SWAT
@acetrigger13375 жыл бұрын
@@assaultspoon4925 "Ready or Not" is promising a Return to the "SWAT 4" format of Tactical Police Shooter.
@assaultspoon49255 жыл бұрын
@@acetrigger1337 If they don't let me ruthlessly spray civilians with pepper spray and tear gas grenades, I'm walking
@acetrigger13375 жыл бұрын
@@assaultspoon4925 I allways prefered to introducing the Buttstock to my fellow civilians... but sometimes they need to look at it CLOSER.
@assaultspoon49255 жыл бұрын
@@acetrigger1337 The Elite Force mod let me fullfill my dreams of ditching armor, grenades, and headgear so that I could hold enough rubber ammo to break every bone in the level
@frydaddy15355 жыл бұрын
Subscribed, just discovered your channel, you sir are incredible. Thorough, fair, and cover legendary games. Consider me a fan
@BradCynical5 жыл бұрын
great content as usual. keep up the good work
@sweeneezy5 жыл бұрын
the low reticule is driving me insane
@Wampwamp124 жыл бұрын
I never knew this game “bodycount” existed till I watched this video see the box art and remembered I actually rented it back in the day on its release date and played it once and took it back to the store😂.. now that’s bad when u actually played it (being only once) but still totally forgetting it existed.
@thereorayshow5 жыл бұрын
I still remember walking into my used game store to pick up Black and the thing that everyone told me while I was in there talking about it was, of course: "This game has some of the best sound effects in any shooter". And I was not disappointed.