Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire - ProJared

[@Alexa-is1yv]

I used to point at the ugly characters in the cutscenes and say to my brother "That's you."

[@LHeyMX]

Me and you had the same childhood.

[@Cretaal]

Barbie commercial comes on "you want that toy" "NO! YOU DO!"

[@SirDavid290]

Same.

[@swishfish8858]

So did I! Except in reality, it actually turned out to be me. :(

[@JobroskiSwaqqman]

Older or younger brother?

[@drakevegas7073]

This game is so immersive that you actually feel like you're standing behind Dash while trying to aim his gun.

[@Turtle_violence]

So I was watching this video late at night in a dark room, when the comic sans poo water popped up, the light from the text was burned into my retinas. I blinked a few times and all I saw was poo water in all caps. Most hilarious and terrifying experience of my life

[@Takimeko]

Terrifying. Also, it's not Comic Sans. Dunno what the actual font is, but it ain't Comic Sans.

[@Turtle_violence]

@@Chad_Eldridge bet

[@Turtle_violence]

@@Chad_Eldridge I guess so

[@gurvmlk]

Have to admit. Reading this comment before rewatching the video (I've seen it several times over the years) somehow made that part even funnier.

[@jameslshelton]

​@@Turtle_violenceI am waiting for your video

[@jindo5]

"Remember how everyone said that the IG-88 was cool, even though it never did anything cool, but everyone said it so much that we just came to accept it?" That sounds awfully familliar... But why though? Oh yeah, Boba Fett.

[@ComboKuro]

I think he had like 5 lines in the original trilogy. Might not be 5 but something along the lines of that.

[@jindo5]

The Bacon Baker Oh yeah, he had fie lines in the trillogy, and one them was "AAAAAHH!"

[@MrKrampenDamp]

+The Bacon Baker yes yes I've seen your precious comment

[@shadeymcbones6707]

to be honest having a jetpack and a cool looking helmet makes you pretty cool in general

[@fawkesprime]

jindo5 Nice ERB reference.

[@SpaceHamsterGames]

I picked that up at Portland Retro last year. I knew it was bad... but my star wars games collection grows STRONGER.

[@WoodenFilms]

+SpaceHamster Oh, look. PBG's clone is here.

[@jamjamcamjam]

+Wooden Films well that was douchey

[@Paranoidpedantic]

you should release a new video

[@Zakor1138]

+Wooden Films Yeah, it's not like he's friends with PBG or anything...

[@Amish_Avenger]

+Wooden Films Dick.

[@fanfaretloudest]

Lol the captioning says "-" every time Jared says "Dash."

[@Vaffle_1231]

''-''

[@dstinnettmusic]

- brent darts

[@TamOBanterAndHisMagicDecanter]

This was one of the first games I ever played, back at the bright age of 4 years old. I could never beat the first stage, but I kept on trying. So for years I thought the game was just about beating your personal high score before the AT-ATs killed you. 24 years later, this video is my first experience seeing any of the game beyond that first level.

[@DrDolan2000]

That's got to hurt

[@PfizZz]

HAH! I feel you man. It was WAY too hard for me, but some of my friends were crazy enough to get to later levels so I could chow down on that great Empire soundtrack (check 8:40 in this video)

[@amgisanal]

this shit from 1996 got more content than star wars game from 2016.

[@jamimakela5540]

There wasnt any game in 2016

[@Alilem7]

Overwatch has pretty much the same amount of content if not less, let's not forget that :D

[@Alilem7]

Brunette Bird And why do we talk about another Star Wars game that has nothing to do with this?

[@ZoomingOut402]

Overwatch is an incomplete game sold by full price aaaand it has micro transactions. Do I need to say more?

[@Alilem7]

PunkLobo Oh so someone does understand how shitty Overwatch is, finally :D

[@SuperLlama42]

"Remember how everyone said that IG-88 is cool even though he's never done anything cool and everyone just said it so much that we've come to accept it?" To be fair, that's also Boba Fett in a nutshell. Everyone just latched onto him because he had a cool design and a cool ship, but all he really accomplished on-screen in the original trilogy was getting eaten by a Sarlacc.

[@DaveReturnsagain1]

+SuperLlama42 THANK YOU someone else finally agrees with me. Boba Fett is argueably the most overrated character ever to be created. He stood there and stood there and stood there and then got eaten. Badass.........?

[@Doctor-Fate]

+SuperLlama42 He's got quite the interesting story in the offscreen merchandise. The novels, games, comics and so on. He has even deeper and longer story than his father. And to top it off, he had a wife and kids, and also a grandchild, which wanted to kill him, but instead became a Mandalorian herself. The hype is from the books, not from the movies.

[@Miniike]

+SuperLlama42 This also goes for other inexplicable fan favorites like Darth Maul. If I get one other person telling me why I should like a movie character based on things that are not the movie, I'm going to puke.

[@SuperLlama42]

+Mr. Miniike Darth Maul at least killed an important character, even if his personality was "Double-bladed lightsaber."

[@Miniike]

SuperLlama42 Touche.

[@metalgearpanda7714]

Pushing the bad comments down to the bottom where they belong. Welcome back ProJared.

[@jayive34]

I never believed the accusations.

[@DrDolan2000]

It's not exactly working. I still see plenty of negative comments. It's foolish of me to think they would delete their shit posting

[@Takimeko]

@@DrDolan2000 It seems to have worked as of now.

[@KazuhiraMiller46]

Cope harder, and keep covering for a degenerate pos

[@SalvadorDolbyvsZAWARUDO]

You know the funny thing about Storm Trooper aim? They aim perfectly fine. The official explanation is that the Standard Imperial Rifle (The E-11) is complete crap with excessive recoil and a rapid fire mode that only makes it worse. So legit, the only reason Troops can't hit a thing is because they're subject to the greatest evil of all. Tight budgets, meaning all of the money was probably going into the Death Star and they couldn't afford to restock the higher quality blasters that supposedly made their aim so legendarily accurate. I can't help but find it hilarious that Vader's poor budgeting skills was ultimately the downfall of The Empire.

[@catiseith]

I remember in the movie when Luke and Obi-wan found the Sandcrawler's remains, and the later explain it couldn't had been the Sand People because only the Imperial Troopers could shoot such "precise" shots.

[@BlackINKim]

+TheBlackKnightGamer Is it really Vader's fault though? I mean, at the beginning of the first movie, he seems to disregard the Death Star as nothing more than a cheap toy, he did not really hit me as the kind off guy who'd put all of his money on that one spherical horse.

[@SalvadorDolbyvsZAWARUDO]

CaitSeith Probably should have conserved that ammunition.

[@SalvadorDolbyvsZAWARUDO]

Black INK.I.M If it wasn't his budgeting skills then it had to be the emperors. Either way, somewhere along the line someone wasn't supplying the better weapons.

[@ZhouTie47]

Except there is the whole point that the troopers were missing on purpose to let the main characters get away. Also referenced the fact that they destroyed the whole rebel base at Hoth.

[@levthederg]

The Wampa's always scared the absolute shit out of me. They walk so creepy and slow like a zombie in this game.

[@WampaStompa1996]

Wampa's rule!

[@hpool7772]

Paul Beenis the Parrot and the jump scare in the movie

[@Seiko180]

what about the dianogas

[@generfeld]

yes! me too, rented this game in like 1997, I was so creeped out by the wampas.......I hated going in those rooms and how they would chase you

[@OleandyrTheGreatDragonGod]

**Comes to help Jared get back to KZbin, stays for the "POO WATER!!!".** XD

[@meow_bastard]

Your mom is POO WATER

[@OleandyrTheGreatDragonGod]

@@meow_bastard LOL

[@SneedsterSpeedster]

>dick visible in PFP 🤢

[@cjhs2006]

I Guess I Missed Something,Why Isn’t he on KZbin Anymore?

[@gurvmlk]

@@cjhs2006 In case you didn't find your answer in the last 11 months, basically he was involved in a controversy which caused him to disappear for awhile, but then returned with evidence to pretty much prove his innocence in the matter.

[@HalfDemonInuyasha]

This is why I always played in first person rather than third person. It felt a lot better to control and aim. Also kept the brightness up full which helped with the darkness of things. Seeker Missiles *never* worked on bosses. Even Nintendo Power magazine's walkthrough mentions that immediately, most likely to keep bosses from becoming too easy by just spamming them with Seekers. And also...the Debug code...who didn't love just messing with virtually EVERYTHING in the game? XD Have the _WAMPA_STOMPA name on Medium difficulty or higher, pause the game and then hold... Left on the D-Pad All four C buttons L, R, and Z ...then using your freaking chin (because you'll be using all your fingers to press all those buttons and to keep holding the controller), tilt and hold the C-stick left halfway until you hear a tone, then tilt and hold it right halfway until you hear a tone, then finally back and hold it halfway left again until you hear a tone. If you did it right, you'll see a bunch of glowing purple words appear at the top of the screen and, using the D-Pad to cycle through them, you can toggle typical things like... All Weapons (including the jet pack) Invincibility Level Skipping (or returning to a previous Level) Freezing enemies (you'll hear them grunt and groan as they get shot, but they'll never move, even when they should be dead, same with Probe Droids getting destroyed, but they all instantly will as soon as you unfreeze them by toggling it again, lol) Give the Outrider 1000 missiles for its Levels (Asteroid Field and the two parts of the last level, so you can literally just hold the Z Button to spam fire them the whole stage) ...and so on, but you can also mess around with other things like... Turning the gravity up or down (using the C-Stick to adjust the amount) Turning the jumping power up or down (max jump power + minimum gravity was hilarious, followed by turning jump power down and gravity up for a hilarious-looking insta-death, lol) Toggling a Seeker Missile camera (firing a Seeker Missile puts you into the "POV" of the Seeker Missile as it travels until you turn it off or it hits something) messing with the colors, tint, fog, etc. ...just so much fun had just with the Debug stuff. And all you had to do to keep access it once you did it the first time was pause the game, hold all those buttons, and tilt the C-stick left. ....POO WATER.

[@olstar18]

Oh man I loved this game. As annoying as the controls got it was still so frickin awesome.

[@Goblin_Hands]

Beat it on my phone on medium/hard several times with many lives/weapons casually without knowledge of challenge points or using walk throughs. The only things that irked me were aiming at the AT-ST (because it was on phone), and the Swoop bike gang level...Oh, I hated that level. Save states for days...the bosses Boba Fett and Gladiator Droids were always tough...but beatable if you strafe well enough.

[@Jack_80]

yeah this is easily one of my favorite star wars games and n64 games. mostly because of the jet pack, it was such a rush as a kid flying around on that jet pack.

[@ZorotheGallade]

[Wilhelm scream] "There it is!"

[@dereknight861]

Me everytime: *points* WILHELM!!!

[@veranio5643]

It seems Jared is on a long journey to destroy our childhood.

[@nadavegulsky2854]

+Veranio Says Darth Vader

[@landonwilson1837]

First Sonic Adventure 2, now Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. What's next, Tony Hawk games?

[@0project]

+Landon Wilson don't give him ideas

[@enzolumare5680]

After sonic adventure 2?

[@xKingReyx]

+Veranio I like it. Because purists need to realize that games sucked back in the day too.

[@StevenFallsOver]

if he thinks Dash is cool, wait till he gets a load of Kyle Katarn!

[@zandernewson5044]

lobelix11397 No, wait until he meets me !

[@ninjasolidsnake]

And his pal, Kyle Katarn's beard.

[@intergalactichumanempire9759]

lobelix11397 Kyle Katarn killed 20 stormtroopers with a lightsaber. Without turning it on

[@dubo2769]

lobelix11397 Kyle katarn is a 12 on the Han Solo meter.

[@sirconstantine8329]

It was a mistake to decanonize Kyle Katarn.

[@dbabaganoosh]

"and he easily makes his way back until METAL GEAR!" Lol!

[@Ryusuta]

Hi there, comment-reader. I see you are also on the ProJared comeback tour.

[@fourfascinatingfrogs]

Thanks for the warm welcome, fellow traveler.

[@darklibraryofengland]

never hurts to watch the classics

[@fourfascinatingfrogs]

Personally, I think my favorite I've rewatched so far is Kid Klown. I love his incredulous disbelief at the utter crap that game pulled.

[@darklibraryofengland]

@@fourfascinatingfrogs back when games didnt hold your hand

[@fourfascinatingfrogs]

Ah, a true classic.

[@bigwillyjim]

Am I the only one who misses the "I'm playing _____" Intros?

[@bobv3347]

DeepEyeContact I do

[@karnagefails333]

No

[@scottydu81]

Some of them were good (FFMQ, Rocky and Pocky, and all the Hydlides come to mind) but i can understand why he dropped them.

[@Sircreepington9th]

Me

[@MrTheil]

Me, but I feel like he stopped doing them because he felt that they’d get repetitive

[@thrillhouse_vanhouten]

I remember sitting in my basement over christmas break and just playing the Hoth levels over and over and over and over and over while listening to Jock Jams volume 2. I was an easily entertained child.

[@AndrewAnstrom]

THRILLHO that may be, but you have an amazing profile picture and name... I always found that joke hilarious.

[@loszhor]

And this is why you play SotE in the first person camera mode and always make good use of cover.

[@GetJesse]

Using first person view solves nearly all of the control issues. Third person view is a fool's errand.

[@iw2578]

I'm so glad I found this comment. I played in 1st person all the time. So much better that way...

[@ltenshu1354]

Welcome back welcome back we glad you dont smoke crack

[@generic_sauce]

I LoL'd at "SWEEET JESUS, A HERD OF WAMPAS!!" XD 3:15

[@NashTheBlade]

8:17 WHAT THE F**, ANOTHER WAMPA?!!

[@patrickharris1340]

You know it's going to be a good day when you see ProJared in your sub box.

[@saltdetected1756]

+Patrick Harris he works on valve time, so every little bit of footage is worth it

[@Loots420]

He is just so gr8

[@thermaloverload573]

+Patrick Harris ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) woops i dropped my bag of lenny

[@kuglefang]

+Patrick Harris I end up rewatching his vids a few times

[@benlink202forever]

He's a boi to everyone.

[@enviousleaf123]

I think I just loved this game because it was challenging and surviving and passing a stage felt great. such a nice trip down memory lane.

[@EVO6-]

5:17 that wasn't a Wilhem scream

[@noahschlogl4739]

+EVO6reviews More like a discount version

[@DacoTaco]

+EVO6reviews my thoughts exactly, still fun to see him make a reference to it without only those knowing of the wilhelm scream get it

[@weeseet]

+Noah Schlogl The Bill scream.

[@Kenshiro3rd]

+EVO6reviews Hence "There It Is" XD

[@onagda]

+Noah Schlogl Discount Wilhelm! *ding*

[@8-bitsarda747]

" I actually got it a few months later at Christmas, along with 3 games, Mario 64, star wars shadow of the empire, and Mortal Kombat trilogy. THAT was terrible parenting decision!" one of the best parts of the video

[@philippealexandra468]

"every time Dash turns to the side he goes into a sick Tokyo drift!" that literally killed me haha

[@ReMattch]

"Everybody said [something] was cool even if it didn't do anything cool and everybody just said it so much that we came to accept it" Boba Fett fans in a nutshell

[@spookie1024]

Well he was way cooler in the EU

[@Waltersop]

nan he did something cool

[@dmturtle2109]

he did plenty of amazing things..just only in the books. The movies made him some glorified bodyguard

[@twilightzoneseinfeld]

+døøm turtle Yeah but the reason WHY he does so many cool things in the books is because so many fans liked him in the movies

[@BenLaurence]

EkoGrande I've been saying this for so long! Boba Fett sucks, he is just greedo with a Jetpack

[@EmilyRose900]

It's funny and sad to think those cheat codes would be sold as dlc or microtransactions now. Scratch that, now that I've typed it out, It's just sad.

[@fistofthesnortstar]

+Cody Clark Was thinking the same, "pre-order now for the AT-AT DLC"

[@CurtisAlfeld]

+Jarod Helminger It still doesn't excuse how much stuff gets turned into DLC. If a game is good, it will make a shit load of money, regardless of whether or not it has DLC.

[@kenetickups6146]

nope, they just wouldn't be included you could buy the cheats for infinite life and that's it

[@k4yser]

back in the day they sold cheat codes as well. ar game genie gamebuster exploder and so on..

[@tacogaming3588]

+k4yser Right, but that was one device to gain cheats for EVERY game you owned on that console from that point on. So while you could argue that was old school dlc, it was old school dlc for your entire library at a reasonable cost. But back then many games didn't NEED a cheat device as many had cheats built into them. MANY Nes games had cheats built in. Snes had some, but not as many. But it was N64 and Playstation 1 that was a huge era for cheat codes and it was glorious. Now, every game will sell you content that could have been a cheat from the beginning. The 'games are more expensive now' argument doesn't fly. Games were still expensive to make back then. Yet companies still added fun extras at no charge for the gamers. Because companies GAVE a shit back then.

[@PokeDude011]

6:48 Oh no, it's Dragon Ball Evolution Piccolo! RUN!

[@GatorRay]

+Mutant Chandler HA!

[@maandlifting5877]

Lol

[@EmmettMarioSonicFan]

+PokeDude011 so we meet again idiot

[@EmmettMarioSonicFan]

tru

[@tannerprice2018]

Yep.

[@bluelfsuma]

"Dude. He's a jedi." A pretty ruthless firebender, too.

[@DrDolan2000]

Firebender?

[@bluelfsuma]

@@DrDolan2000 Mark Hamil, who played Luke Skywalker, voiced Firelord Ozai.

[@DrDolan2000]

+@@bluelfsuma 🤦‍♂️ Duh! My brain isn't working tonight

[@invisiblehand13]

"Why you gotta player-hate on I.G. eighty-eighty-eighty eight?"

[@PoorStargazer]

I'm Boba the Fett

[@B3nKen0bi]

I'm Jabba Hutt

[@PeteSkerritt]

Indeed, it was incredibly difficult for the game to match the quality of the opening (Hoth) level. The sense of scope and immersion in that one stage alone-- especially in 1996-- is astounding. I guess the problem comes from Shadows of the Empire trying to be the Swiss Army Knife of Star Wars games. The on-foot stuff is quite flawed, the speeder bike section is miserable, and the boss fights are uneven. That said, I look at Shadows of the Empire through a late 1996 lens and I tend to shrug off the flaws. It was-- to me, at least-- very impressive for the time and was the game that really justified my Nintendo 64 hardware purchase. (Sorry, Super Mario 64.) The music and sound effects were great, this was new Star Wars material (and not a re-telling of familiar movies), and I really enjoyed the ship combat levels a lot. I appreciate your thoughts on the game, combining personal experience with a more critical (and up-to-date) viewpoint.

[@domking786]

For once, someone with an intelligent and informed opinion, ey?

[@Kylirr]

+Peter Skerritt A good, thorough comment on a KZbin video?

[@Poppedcollar]

+YahooNinja I don't even think it was good by 1996 standards. The console market just didn't have any exposure to shooters at the time and gaming on PC was a massive pain in the ass in the 90's. But if you look at what was available on PC at the time, all of N64's shooters were pretty horrible. I mean...Quake came out the day before N64 even launched in Japan. Duke Nukem 3D had been out for months. Quake II and Dark Forces II came out within a couple months of Goldeneye. A lot of people still thought Perfect Dark was pretty much what a shooter was going into 2000, but it came out a full year after Unreal Tournament, Team Fortress, Half Life and Counter Strike.

[@baigandinel7956]

+Poppedcollar This is not your typical shooter, and was never intended as such.

[@djlight2699]

+Peter Skerritt A well thought out KZbin comment? How did you get here?

[@Royboy140]

This game is my childhood! I loved it so much. I remember being 5 and not allowed to play this on my N64 but I would sneak play sessions in. Ahhh this game is amazing

[@jacobfelger5684]

+Royboy140 ..............ouch.

[@TheEeveeKing]

+Jacob Felger You thought that was bad? I had shadow the hegdehog as my game.

[@jacobfelger5684]

Wevee Remastered Yikes! I think mine was......hmm.....probably the Sonic Adventure games. Not saying they were BAD, but they have aged poorly, IMO. Still fun to play. :)

[@TheEeveeKing]

Jacob Felger And i agree with that notion. Glitches are fun to mess around with though.

[@jacobfelger5684]

Wevee Remastered Indeed, they are!

[@DreamcastGuy]

I think I remembered this gaming being more awesome then it actually is. Everyone looks like a melted barbie doll when talking lol.

[@rohankumarlal5472]

hi!DreamcastGuy

[@jamesharvey5150]

stup

[@fapl985]

+DreamcastGuy I have that same feeling with pretty much every N64 game. In my memories they had beautiful graphics, but when I go and play them after several years I'm like "dafuq..."

[@pwnt39]

+DreamcastGuy nostalgia makes games look much better than they actually are :p

[@sandbakk77]

+DreamcastGuy Sadly, that's a common problem with nostalgia. It's too easy to remember only what you want to remember. Of course, I'm not saying all old games are bad. I'm a big fan of old Sega-games, and even have a Commodore 64 in my shelf - complete with the box, a joystick and the disc-drive. But for ever truly classic retro-game, there are tons of "this wasn't as good as I remember it..."

[@PearangeProductions]

I think that this game is sometimes good, sometimes bad. If I was a video game critic, I would have given this game a 5/10, due to that it feels more “meh” than good _or_ bad. It’s honestly split _right down the middle_ for me.

[@DrDolan2000]

Better than just being bad, right?

[@mrmanjumac3454]

Damn, I mean aside from the floaty controls I thought the game was awesome. The sewer level always creeped me the fuck out

[@Kroenchkin]

1. seeker missiles could be controlled like in perfect dark or unreal tounrmanents redeemer weapons .. press the right c button 2.use ego perspective for this game ... you can AIM quiet well 3. using both and reserving your special weapons for bosses makes the whole game a cakewalk

[@Wurbel199]

He just sucked at this Game and blamed it for it.

[@manguy01]

I would give it an N64 controller out of 10. It was incredibly advanced and innovative for its time. But certain design decisions were just stupid and as a whole it's pretty awkward. I remember loving this game, but I also remember not liking a lot of it. Luckily, it had a level select. So I could pick and choose which levels to play. But most of them I never beat. I think I beat the Hoth level, the AT-ST level, the Swoop level, and the final Battle. After playing through and giving up on most of these levels, I'd just play those 4 over and over again. I also remember feeling like I should be able to beat the train one, but never even coming close. This game is a perfect example of why games like GoldenEye 007 and Ocarina of Time were masterpieces for their time. It was a good game. It just fell pray to the fact that tried and true methods for 3D controls hadn't been established yet.

[@patrickharris1340]

I will never understand why they thought the N64 controller's design was good.

[@manguy01]

Patrick Harris It's the same reason the level select in SotE was good. It allowed people who couldn't handle the control stick to just pretend it wasn't there and use the d-pad instead. Still looked completely retarded. I always thought so.

[@RetrOrigin]

+MicManGuy The N64 controller wasn't really innovative at all. Analog controllers were available since the 70s and the 1st controller to use a self centering potentiometer based stick (like pretty much any modern analog stick) was the Vectrex controller in 1983. The N64 stick on the other hand uses the same crappy optical sensors used on old computer mice (the ones with a rubber ball)

[@manguy01]

SNKega Just because technology isn't new, that doesn't mean the use of it in the video game industry isn't innovative. That's like saying Xbox Live wasn't innovative Like all video game hardware, you need software to go with it. Nintendo paved the way for creating software that benefited the more analogue your controls were. Before that, in most cases analogue controls were just a gimmick. In the end, the software almost always converted it to 4 or 8 carnal directions, so there was no reason not to just have a d-pad. Heck, even the PS1 didn't have a control stick for a long time.

[@RetrOrigin]

So you are just going to ignore 2 decades of history prior to the N64 just based on your personal experience. There are plenty of arcade and home video games from the 80's made specifically for analog controllers, just because those were 2d doesn't automacally render them less advanced than any 3d game. The N64 controller wasn't 1st, nor 2nd, nor event 5th, even the Sega Genesis had an analog controller very similar to the Saturn's 3d pad which works more closely to how modern analog controllers work. The N64 stick is actually very limited in terms of sensitivity when compared to potentiometer based sticks like the Vectrex or Genesis controllers.

[@dubo2769]

The main villain is an assassin droid. THE MAIN VILLAIN IS AN ASSASSIN DROID.

[@biraptor6205]

oh god....we need another prequel for the shit to stop smelling.

[@expansionpack4485]

I love the realization that his parents made a terrible decision giving him a Mortal Kombat game.

[@mortified0]

His main issue with the game, the aiming, is something I've never had trouble with. And this isn't even nostalgia talking, I played the game last week. Running and gunning is perfectly viable.

[@lazyzephyrus8295]

+Super Pochaco Agreed. I'd even argue that running and gunning was probably the best strategy when fighting multiple enemies at once, as they were less likely to hit you, than if you used the manual aiming. I found the manual aim to be useful against certain bosses, such as the AT-ST.

[@megatom5]

+Super Pochaco Definitely. I don't remember this game being that hard or frustrating honestly. At least no more so than other 1st wave N64 games (yes even Mario 64). Also the seekers always worked fine for me. This is actually one of the best N64 games, but in retrospect the N64 games just didn't have a lot. I mean if you wanted shooting games on the N64 you had this, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and like Winback or some shit. The N64 is a very difficult system to go back and play because it was such a growing phase for developers.

[@lazyzephyrus8295]

+megatom5 Yeah, the only level that might give people trouble the first time around is the sewer level, just because it isn't obvious where you are supposed to go at first. Definitely agree with you about the seekers. If I remember correctly, those things were so OP that you could take out pretty much all of the bosses in a matter of seconds. As far as FPS's on the N64 go, this game didn't have terrible controls. They weren't great, but there were definitely shooters that had worse controls (I'm looking at you, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter).

[@joseagustincuesta]

+Super Pochaco Dude, the fuck is up with that profile pic?

[@mortified0]

Jetto Agu It's sexy and I like the character, so here we are.

[@Coopersville]

Shadows of the Empire was a surprisingly decent spin-off of JonTron's StarCade.

[@Arcademan09]

I never thought Boba Fett was cool, even as a kid I was like, "why? he doesn't do anything" and I thought ig-88 was the name of the ship

[@catgirlgrunge]

Arcademan09 lol

[@ColtGColtG]

yeah, only reason people like Boba is becasue of the books. in the movies he does NOTHING but suck and get eaten. "oh but he lets the empire know where the falcon is heading" umm considering the falcon had a head start, vader had to have had a force intuition moment to know where they would head since they got there first. So yes the one thing you can try to credit to him... he couldn't have really done.

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

The Falcon had a head start, but its light speed drive wasn't working. It would have been fairly easy for Vader to outrun Han and Leia.

[@whoopingmuffin9700]

hey we can all agree jango wouldn't have done it any better Actually you know what would be funny a who wore it better between jango, and boba fett

[@starlimitz2]

The bounty hunter droid with the ship IG2000.... I was a Star Wars nerd back when the series got its special edition release in 1997.

[@Jrez]

This game is more of a Boba Fett/10 than IG-88/10.

[@lordgaia1812]

Jrezky boba get is cool in the books not the movies other than design

[@AAhmou]

Lord Gaia 777 That's the point... The book is cool, the game not really.

[@Goldenkitten1]

So...basically it lives up to its name SHADOWS?

[@wonderoushistoryofclassicf9193]

best thing about this game. main character isnt a freakin jedi

[@casuallycompliant3045]

That's every modern starwars game yet their not good

[@NyQuilDonut]

Play Star Wars Bounty Hunter.

[@Karkatrielle]

I mean would you rather be a space wizard or dude mcdude

[@wonderoushistoryofclassicf9193]

@@Karkatrielle I'd rather be a super space commando or a smuggler

[@padrejames7327]

LEGO Star Wars the complete saga Hoth level was AWESOME!

[@BrendanJSmith]

Padre James Rogue Squadron II’s Hoth scene was better

[@Alejandro-er7rp]

Hoth levels in general are pretty damn good tbh

[@willashwood7803]

Glad to see people getting out and supporting Projared! Glad you're back!!

[@The_Blog]

But IG-88 did cool things :( He just didn't do them in the movie.

[@Guymanbot97]

Yep, and now it's ALL non-canon.

[@The_Blog]

***** Yeah the Expanded Universe after the original trilogy was pretty great. Kyle Katarn is awesome and I liked how they continued the story after the movies. Even some of the books during the prequels were quite nice. :) Well now it's not canon anymore. I really hope they continue the original trilogy in a way that lives up to the EU. I mean not everything in the EU is great, but many things are.

[@keeganspillane1731]

+BloggingLP He gets props from me for almost killing Boba Fett (on multiple occasions, if memory serves).

[@The_Blog]

Keegan Spillane Yeah that's what my memory tells me aswell. He also had a plan to control droids through the deathstar and start a riot in the galaxy, but the plan failed when the second death star was destroyed. However he got pretty damn close to succeding.

[@CyberLance26]

Boba Fett never did anything cool in the movies and we almost never even saw him but people still loved him.

[@ericfernandorossi]

ProJared, did you ever play the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series? For me, surely are the best series of the Star Wars games, along with the Super Star Wars games, but damn, the Super series are damn hard

[@projared]

Dark Forces is awesome! I played Outcast a lot, but not Jedi Knight.

[@ericfernandorossi]

Well, are 4 games in the series, and all have Kyle Katarn as a protagonist: the first Dark Forces are a good Doom clone, the sequel, who recieved the name Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, was the first 3D Jedi game and looks much like SOTE, but are much better, the Outcast you cited was a direct sequel and was the best of the 4, and the last one, Jedi Academy, you play as a student of Jedi Academy and have Kyle as mentor.

[@DarthSinistris]

+ProJared Outcast was the first game I'd played, and the reason I bougth an xbox back in the day. I absolutely LOVED that game as well as Jedi Academy, although I thought outcast had better acting and graphics. I don't know why, I just think Academy is slightly inferiour to outcast.

[@the-operator4003]

+Eric Sanic I enjoyed Force Unleashed* for the Wii. It was very basic and a lot of fun at times.

[@DarthSinistris]

***** i read this several times, I'm not sure if I'm really really sleepy and can't understand it, or what..

[@marcievania]

Jared: Being able to jetpack around Me: at the speed of sound

[@theastrianavalizen-kun9031]

Two things: 1. Love the fact you actually said that to your dad 2. There is a retical but its so light that you'll never see it unless you have a good tv with high brightness

[@saliemallison9947]

Excuse me, despite this technically no longer being canon, IG-88 IS cool and DID do something. He became the Death Star. And started a revolution of sentient Droid that spanned the entire galaxy.

[@MabuseXX]

Saliem Allison Never happend in the movies, so it is non canon (and it is better this was......)

[@xXSupahXFlyXx]

Most of the movies suck dick. The books is where it's at and fuck Disney for ignoring the old cannon and rewriting it.

[@muisverriet]

@@xXSupahXFlyXx 99 percent of the EU sucks as well. It's mostly overglorified fan-fiction level writing with the Star Wars name slapped on it to make easy money.

[@AVGNROCKS1996]

Gosh

[@Alejandro-er7rp]

xXSupahXFlyXx You are ignoring a bunch of the really shitty EU stuff. That's more than half of the entire EU

[@Derpalon]

I remember this game being surprisingly scary as a kid because the wompas would creep up on you and suddenly give a terrifying roar before beating you into a pulp. And then there was the sewer level... OH GOD THE SEWER LEVEL. ._.

[@benlink202forever]

Yup

[@pegasusactua2985]

+Ben Link That sewer level, especially the boss fight underwater scared the living shit out of me as a kid.

[@FritangaPlays]

anyone else here glad that projared had the balls to call out the truth to this game? I mean as a kid sure i enjoyed it, but not from a critical view.... it is rather flawed im just glad somebody finally said it. Anyone else out there agree?!

[@MillerTM]

FritangaPlays Oh hi Fritanga, didn't expect to see a year old comment from you on a Pro Jared video.

[@hophoppington-hoppenhiemer2016]

lol

[@karnagefails333]

This game was trash. So was Star Wars Demolition for PS1.

[@guyrandom8235]

I mean, it's unwieldly and punishing as hell, but it's fun and everything flows better once you get used to it and know what to do, kinda like the F-Zero games. Although I'll agree there's no redeeming the IG Boss-fight or the last two on-foot levels. Fog and textures are just artificial difficulty once they realized all their bosses were just bullet (or rather, laser) sponges. But they're still very satisfying, punchy laser-sponges! They should have focussed on improving things like the earlier levels and maybe tightened up aiming enough to be more beginner-friendly, rather than just throwing bullshit at the player.

[@benjaminkeigans809]

played the pc version and it was WAY better than Jared made out to be, also was a higher resolution so the ig-88 and, boba fett fights weren't shit

[@songarakram]

Jared: Remember how everyone said IG-88 is cool even though he never does anything? IG-11: Hold my child.

[@HoundXXII]

IG-88 is one of the best Star Wars characters for these reasons: 1: He was the most deadly bounty hunter in the galaxy. 2: He planted his mind in the droid factories across the galaxy to start a droid uprising. 3: He kept 3 separate copies of himself with links to his brain wirelessly as a contingency backup plan incase his first body had been destroyed, keeping his AI alive by transferring it before the destruction. 4: He was the first AI to gain complete sentience. 5: He almost wiped out all biological(scum) lifeforms in the UNIVERSE. On the last scene where Luke destroyed the Death Star, IG-88 had complete control of the fore mentioned Death Star. He uploaded his mind in the main frame, disguised his robot clones as storm troopers and was planning on wiping out all of the biological life on board and using the death star to destroy every planet with sentient life because he believes they are evil. IG-88 was destroyed when the death star was destroyed, and if that didn't happen, every one would be dead. That's why IG-88 is badass.

[@wolfscar5557]

+Dakota Perry IG-88 was actually the 2nd best BH right behind Boba. However he was the best Assassin Droid ever made in the history of the galaxy. It was also the 2nd Death Star 88 controlled not the first.

[@linkeffect82]

+Dakota Perry wait, I think you mean when Lando destroyed the death star, because IG-88 was first shown in Empire Strikes back, not in the first movie, if I recall correctly.

[@wolfscar5557]

linkeffect82 Right hence 88 controlling the 2nd Death Star, you referred to Luke destroying the DS which 88 controlled which he didn't the 1st one but controlled the 2nd. Unless that was just an error.

[@linkeffect82]

Wolf Scar55 Dakota stated that Luke destroyed the death start which IG-88 was controlling, killing IG-88 and his robot clones... but then who was the IG-88 in Empire strikes back? So I thought he made an error and was referring to the second death star which Lando had destroyed.

[@HoundXXII]

+linkeffect82 Yeah, my mistake guys, just wanted to give IG-88 some validation

[@spooky5696]

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I like to pretend that I'm PROJARED™Ⓒ®. I crawl up in my PROJARED™Ⓒ® themed blankets and listen to the PROJARED™Ⓒ® theme song. Nothing makes me feel so very PRO™Ⓒ® like PROJARED™Ⓒ® does. I love you PROJARED™Ⓒ®.

[@MitchtheTerrariaMaster]

+You're gonna have a bad time. Ok?....

[@PizzaProblems]

The IG-88 fight always terrified me as a child.

[@rayydyuki3365]

Especially the sounds he makes O.o

[@LeoMidori]

+Pizza Problems Oh dude, look up the cutscenes with IG-88 on the PC version. His voice is terrifying. >:D

[@SpectralStar]

+Pizza Problems I remember being scared to.

[@XanderVJ]

Interesting piece of trivia: the team that made this game, Factor 5, went on to make the "Rogue Squadron" series after this. And it was awesome, specially "Rogue Leader"! Looks like they also realized the ship combat stages were the only good things about "Shadows of the Empire", so they decided to focus entirely on that. And boy, did it pay off! Too bad that they had to crush and burn with "Lair"...

[@blujay1524]

Still more effort than EA is willing to put into a game

[@StormCrownSr]

All it took was them getting Respawn to save their asses.

[@luddadarlington8887]

@@StormCrownSr crazy how they've only worked on fps games before

[@mostafaahmedibrahim2541]

This aged poorly

[@ToprakSezginFromTurkey]

Battlefront games are masterpieces, and Rebel Assault 1+2 are underrated. Great video Jared!

[@LeoMidori]

+Toprak “the Bum” Sezgin Battlefront is quite good, though the space sections against the capital ships are just okay if you ask me (though still fun and playable!) I only played Rebel Assault II and enjoyed it, but they do stick out as being very limited in terms of player input. They're fun rail shooters, though some of the flying sections leave a lot to be desired when they feel so floaty, though I only gave the PSX version a chance.

[@ToprakSezginFromTurkey]

Leo Howler I guess I am soft on rail shooters. I like 'em.

[@LeoMidori]

Toprak Sezgin I like them a lot too! They're certainly becoming something of a lost genre with the dissapearance of the arcade scene, but there's a lot of good ones out there. Gunblade NY and LA Machineguns were pretty neat, and the goofiness of the House of the Dead series of course.

[@ToprakSezginFromTurkey]

Leo Howler Agreed. Same goes for Rambo Video Game. It was panned but it is a good enough rail shooter.

[@LeoMidori]

Toprak Sezgin Will look this up. Thank you. :3

[@GreatWorkBoss]

any one else notice that Dash Rendar's ship just looked like a different version of the Millennium Falcon?

[@timothycreed3452]

That's because it is. Both Han Solo's Millennium Falcon and Dash Rendar's Outrider are YT-Freighters, just different models. Dash's Outrider actually beat the Falcon in a race. Making the Outrider, not the Falcon, the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.

[@mywhychromosome]

Dash and his ship are just complete ripoffs of Han and the Millenium Falcon. It's like they didn't even try

[@Official_Switchel]

I’ve been waiting for the remake of this for years, i love the story and characters.

[@BlackishButler]

Confirmed: Jared has a black dad.

[@transorm987]

that is not his dad

[@benlink202forever]

Where? Oh yeah.......

[@promoxie6942]

That would explain his exceptional sass.

[@DX115FALCON]

+Blackish Butler If his dad is black, how does Jared know him?

[@cruelcumber5317]

+Transform987 Do you not understand sarcasm?

[@GMMReviews]

Jared, you need to play the Dark Forces and Jedi Knight series. I'd really like to see you review that series. It's honestly amazing

[@SlitherLament]

My marathon of rewatching, liking, and commenting on every Jared video continues. Video 31

[@Kjajo]

I lpve the fact that youre actually doin this. Keep it

[@SlitherLament]

@@Kjajo I figure if it draws even a fraction of attention back to my dudes channel, worth every minute. :D

[@Kjajo]

@@SlitherLament absolutely

[@shadowstalker1515]

Thank you

[@drakematsen4978]

15:52 Where have I heard the name Golden Eye? This game reminds me a lot of that, actually. We all have fond memories, but it doesn't hold up at all. And the cheat codes are great!

[@Telonelemon3]

Why the name Projared: is he a professional at being named Jared?

[@KingAssRipper69]

+Alpha Cube hes a pro named Jared

[@modgad6954]

+Alpha Cube He probably is! I mean, he's been a Jared all his life.

[@CurtisAlfeld]

+Lax the Kobold I've been a Curtis my whole life, and I'm not a professional Curtis.

[@LazyIllusionist]

+Alpha Cube He's in favor of Jareds

[@SolidSnake684]

+Alpha Cube It was his nickname when he was at Screwattack, and he made this channel while he was still there

[@kottadragon]

1:04 didn't know you were half black

[@Konradix05]

+kottadragon " What's the matter GIRLfriend" xd

[@kottadragon]

***** i don't get it

[@Konradix05]

kottadragon I tried to reference the moment in his Mortal Kombat Kartoon video, where he said "Jax, well... Jax is black" and then Jax said the line. I didn't expect anyone to get it :P

[@kottadragon]

***** k

[@TaijituTaikyokuzu]

+kottadragon What do you mean "half?"

[@frightening_volleyball1231]

they should make a remastered version of this game for pc/xboxone and ps4

[@stephenobrien6983]

+ginga bang 2 I think it would fit the 3ds pretty well. The hoth section in 3d would look badass

[@JOGAR_THE_GREAT]

+Stephen O'Brien no it wouldn't

[@stephenobrien6983]

David Wingrove I dunno, If it was cleaned up like the other N64 remakes on the console I think it would. There are plenty of 3ds games out there already so its not like it would dilute the library either. I'd love if the 3ds was home to more of the N64 library. F-Zero X would look great on it too, yes I would prefer a new one but since that doesn't seem to be Nintendo's focus at the moment a remaster would at least be something & it wouldn't be too costly either. Now imagine a track creator program with online functionality... Shadows of the empire has that same potentiality.

[@chimkinNuggz]

not PC tho cause it will always crash

[@aflhabalafhabab]

+ginga bang 2 Pay $4.99 to get X/wing.

[@OpenMawProductions]

It is great. This was one of the first games I got for the N64 and I was up all night playing it. We've had a billion Star Wars games since. Times have changed. That doesn't mean that it wasn't great at the time.

[@Dante-nc8zn]

Star Wars: Revenge of The Jared

[@dylangladysz]

No, RETURN of the Jared - remember, Jareds don't get revenge ;)

[@DrDolan2000]

+@@dylangladysz Revenge would be... treason

[@yungtown]

Just finished the video, and as always solid review. I've always held this game in the same light, but I suppose I'll have to play it again to make sure I'm not crazy. But that "DAD YOU DUMBASS" killed me.

[@THE_BATLORD]

Is there a romhack of shadows of the empire that fixes the aiming and the movement?

[@ThunderDragonRandy]

+THE BATLORD - I don't know, but there are two other revisions on Emuparadise (the original release (v1.0), Rev A (assumingly v1.1), and Rev B (assumingly 1.2)). I don't know if the newer updates/revisions fixes the movement or what changes were made in the updated versions. And there is a PC version of Shadows of the Empire. Maybe that's the best version for playing this game.

[@JwopDk]

+THE BATLORD I might be able to do something. If not, I know a guy who definitely could.

[@Slim-Fandango]

+THE BATLORD you can literally play in 1st person the whole way through and it's a zillion times easier to aim-- also, the seekers DO heat seek, quite well.

[@THE_BATLORD]

Based King Potato if you do you'll be doing god's work

[@KronosSupreme]

+THE BATLORD PLAY THE 10 TIMES BETTER PC VERSION MAYBE?!

[@williamk52]

SOOOOO much nostalgia, my heart started pounding when the swoop came into view

[@Raybro16]

The sewers in this game terrified me. it still does :'3

[@MysticalBacon23]

Anyone else on a binge of old Jared videos?

[@ellnats]

the wampa parts always scared me as a kid

[@Mincecroft]

yep i would either sprint by them or shoot them from a mile away

[@ellnats]

I think I broke my controller tapping on the button trying to blast em

[@ralphh4131]

Love the back ground music at the start Jared

[@brycevo]

This game is so cool. I hope we get a modern rendition

[@n64glennplant]

Man the memories of this the day I got my n64 :-)

[@pegasusactua2985]

Awesome channel bro. When are you going to review Conkers Bad Fur Day?

[@FallouFitness_NattyEdition]

+N64 Glenn Plant Love your show man

[@TheSpyt67]

If you press C Right once then it goes first person, makes it feel like goldeneye, and reduces the spread

[@65willb]

NCC-1701 that's how I played. I hate 3rd person perspective shooters

[@junelangley2800]

To be fair, the LEGO Star Wars game which I grew up with, is amazing, and has a brilliant Hoth level. Great graphics, fun gameplay, decent difficulty, fun puzzles, and something about tying an AT-AT up and seeing it fall onto its knees, only then to blow up into a giant pile of lego bricks when you fling a bomb at it. It's really satisfying.

[@hoodoowilliams5187]

I was never subbed before the fiasco. So I'm glad I can contribute to the comeback.

[@TombstoneActual42]

Same here tbh

[@alyssabrown3145]

Dash will always be canon in my heart. lmao

[@LiveNiceness14]

The greatest thing about this game is that it’s all canon.

[@DownFromTheDoorWhereItBegan]

They tried to tear my man Jared down, but he’s still standing

[@bluelfsuma]

Someone should count how many times Jared said something sucks in this video. Not me. I'm a lazy fuck.

[@Zippyd00da132]

I could never beat IG-88 because the clanking metal scared the absolute living shit out of me. I could barely build up enough courage to fight the AT-ST.

[@alexninten8818]

the best star wars game ever

[@transorm987]

star wars battlefront two

[@benlink202forever]

+Transform987 I agree.

[@alexninten8818]

he should of used first person mode

[@Frellyouall]

+Alex Ninten Did you not watch the video?

[@kamekadvance]

I can't come up with a favorite Star Wars game. I've played so many good ones. My favorites are: - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002 GameCube Version) - Star Wars: Republic Commando - Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (PC Edition) - Star Wars: Jedi Outcast 2 - Star Wars: Battlefront 1 (I prefer the first one over the second one) - Star Wars: The New Droid Army - Star Wars Bounty Hunter

[@TomFoxArts]

"It isn't Star Wars unless you destroy something from the inside." Like the Sequel Trilogy

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

I always see the IG-88 fight through the eyes of a kid who wasn't allowed to have a Resident Evil game (because religion is stupid and it brainwashes good parents into making silly decisions). For me, that whole fight had the same intensity and terror that I got to experience in a tiny portion the one time I got to play a Resident Evil game at a friend's house. The controls, the atmosphere, the situation, it was all just perfect. It's impossible for me to remember that fight as anything but one of the most awesomely intense gaming moments of my past. Hell, the fun I had immersed in this game in general actually made me buy and read the book it was based on. Some day I'd like to hack/mod this game to add in tighter controls, quicker aiming, and the crosshairs, maybe some other slight improvements. An option to optimize it for FPS play would be great, for some reason I remember being able to get a lot of enjoyment out of the first person mode in some sections.

[@RetrOrigin]

Your final "score" pretty much sums up the entirety of the N64. A system a lot of people forced themselves to believe it's cooler than it actually is when it actually is a system with a horribly small and limited library lacking in several key genres like RPGs and fighting games. It has it's moments with some great classic titles but that's about it.

[@shadowbird25]

+Agent 005 Yeah if you were into platformers and adventure games...N64 was the jam.

[@sup209]

Gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8 m/8.

[@RetrOrigin]

***** I'm also not into RPGs to be honest (at least not turn based JRPGs) but it's popular genre that was neglected on the N64 for some reason. I don't exactly dislike the N64, I just feel like some people like to ignore the fact that the library was indeed small and limited.

[@dhLord64]

+SNKega I think the quality of N64 games was higher than PS1. Better exclusives anyway. PS1 has some good games no doubt but also has a lot of crap on it.

[@TheDeathwhish]

+SNKega Nintendo didn't neglect RPGs, if you knew what happened back then you would know that it was because Nintendo didn't implement CD technology in their console that Square Soft left Nintendo, the biggest RPG developers at the time (They still are but ATLUS is as big), when Square moved to Sony, most RPG developers moved with them aswell. The issue was that due to Nintendo lack of support of CDs back in the day games like FFVII and the like (Chrono Cross, etc) were impossible to make due to the limited space that Cartridges had back then, funny enough the reason why Nintendo didn't implement their own CD console was related to Sony to begin with.

[@guilmon182]

Was that a joke about the Bothans? What did he mean by "you can look it up"?

[@projared]

"Many Bothans died" directly because of Dash's actions during that mission.

[@21StaticXXSaint13]

+ProJared Please! Add me in Xcom!

[@aenlleinj]

+kaedan henderson he won't, he hates you

[@thedarius2751]

+guilmon182 In the movies the death star 2 plans are stolen by Bothan spys. Here Dash steals them. Shooting everyone. Including the spys! It's a joke about the Star Wars quote: "Many Bothans died to bring us this information."

[@Tank207]

+guilmon182 In the book this is where the Bothans died getting the plans for the second Death Star. Although if I remember correctly Dash never actually enters the station, he's flying the Outrider during a space battle. It's been probably 15 years since I read the book so my memory isn't the best.

[@grahamkelly5341]

Proajared's classic content like this and the FF SerieES... its like comfort food.