Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse - A Remastered Review | MNTM

[@monotonallizard]

Hey everyone, I'm using this video to test KZbin's automatic subtitle option, please let me know if the captions don't match up to what's being said. Thanks!

[@Adam-xd9tr]

The captions work just fine. I didn't notice any glaring issues.

[@eveandromeda]

28:42 The callback to the Agent 47 "I need to use the bathroom" got me, lmao

[@CptMuttonchops]

There's something special about these unique one-off third person action games that come out of nowhere, add their own twist on the formula, do their thing without much pretension and disappear into the wild blue yonder: rogue trooper, marc ecko's contents under pressure, PN03, cold fear, the thing, evolva and later xcom declassified. The only thing that brings them together for me is the fact that I don't have any particularly strong feelings about them, but I have invariably played to conclusion, which is not something I usually do. Had no idea this one had been made with the Halo engine though, that's a nice bit of trivia.

[@monotonallizard]

I haven't thought about Cold Fear in years. I'll add it to the list of games I'll cover eventually.

[@romulusnuma116]

This game takes me back I remember just searching zombie game in youtube and one day finding Stubbs I still love it

[@Blinx0205]

19:20 One of the reasons why I only like to play on insane difficulty is because it increases the number of enemies in the levels and because the remaster is easier due to the possibility of being able to run whenever you want.

[@monotonallizard]

I didn't know that, that's fun!

[@patchesix5848]

you can shoot the landmines, and you can use rockets against the wall in the seige section outside the lab. also you can use the head to clear entire mine sections. these things made the game more strategically rewarding

[@monotonallizard]

Fair enough.

[@Adam-xd9tr]

8:40 I love that the rebuttal about the game somehow promoting cannibalism was as simple as "Stubbs is a zombie. Zombies eat brains." Saying Paxton Fettel had no such excuse got a good chuckle out of me. I love F.E.A.R., but I keep forgetting that there was even cannibalism in that game with how little it shows up. I would expect the media to be more in an uproar over the gun that reduces enemies to skeletons or the whole story with Alma.

[@planescaped]

They would have to actually play the game for that, and they would just look at marketing and screenshots and decide what the game is. Still happens to this day.

[@hermeso9713]

In my opinion, your videos are the staples of what all video game reviews should be like, they’re fun and engaging, they’re organized and are flown with the game’s premise and they bring up very mentionable points about every aspect of the game including overview, gameplay mechanics, background and lore I also like how you’re not afraid to cover much lesser known games Thanks for keeping up with these well crafted videos

[@monotonallizard]

Thanks!

[@RossysusejDillenberger]

kislux included, I firmly assert that unless one possesses the requisite skills, differentiating variations in the sack's appearance or metallic elements is an unachievable task.

[@bigmclargehuge8219]

Wait hold on why did the intro to the old video sound so flirty?? Incredible, love it. This video definitely made me want to play about half of Stubbs the Zombie. And from what I could tell, youtubes auto caption game has stepped up, they were fairly accurate as far as I could tell, although the lack of any punctuation could be confusing, I suppose.

[@monotonallizard]

It was a dark time.

[@Aaragoorn]

remember this game having some brutal levels. great soundtrack and gimmick

[@Fedor_Kisliakov]

This game reminds me of simpler times, when we did not watch or read countless reviews, did not know what the extent of the gameplay is. The premise or the cover art was enough to buy a game. Like "Oh, you can play as a zombie and eat people's brains? Sign me the fuck up".

[@baxterbunny4403]

you're back again

[@planescaped]

I always lumped this game in with Destroy All Humans as crass games about causing destruction. Never got around to playing Stubbs though.

[@ThisSourKraut]

Always a thumbs up from me. Great script, lovely humour and all round great fun.

[@monotonallizard]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@Kingcole6]

"EVERY PROBLEM IS A NAIL AND I'M THE HAMMER!" "TASTE MY HOT YANKEE LEAD!" Also, I remember one playthrough where Skegnis's cutscene was playing out...and an explosion went off that offed him right when he was about to get started. It fits since, honestly, he's such an afterthought that seeing him unceremoniously offed by a boom is hilarious.

[@dromendus]

28:42 oh my GOD

[@andthatswhyidontlike]

Resident evil 4 is my ultimate comfort game

[@monotonallizard]

That's a good one!

[@bahlivern1054]

Man i remember playing the OG in like 2010 and it was already a struggle back then so no wonder it got harder to run on more modern PCs. I also remember quitting at the dam level because the game got REALLY tedious

[@anthonymaslow798]

This a good channel. Bumping the algo

[@monotonallizard]

Thanks!

[@fpspwny995]

As someone who played a lot of Destroy All Humans as a kid, I was always curious about Stubbs The Zombie. Perhaps it's finally time to give it a crack!

[@KalakauaGodHimself]

yoooo Stubbs the Zombie awesome

[@bigmclargehuge8219]

THE SHEEP ARE ADORABLE IT ISN'T THEIR FAULT THEY WERE SQUASHED.

[@3lizatube]

Since you didn't mention it, I think you must have been too young to pick up what a big deal the Stubbs soundtrack was intended to be at the time. They got HUGE indie bands. Cake?!??! The Dandy Warhols, Death Cab For Cutie, The Flaming Lips!!! It was supposed to be a huge deal. I always assumed they must have spent a significant chunk of the budget on getting these artists, and the covers are incredible. But as far as I know the soundtrack never got much attention. I was working in games journalism around the time this game came out, or right afterwards, and Stubbs just was never a big deal in any capacity in the scene, and I always wondered why because it was such a massive design effort for such a unique product. Even as soon afterwards as 2007 or 08, around when I started working, people just didn't talk about it anymore. I think it really suffered from its own aspirational weirdness, and the fact that gamers are and always have been incredible aesthetically conservative in their tastes and understandings of wider cultural contexts, and back then it was worse in most ways because the indie golden age really hadn't started. People used to get mad in the comment section of my articles for covering anything even remotely "weird", all they wanted was franchise crap. My experience at the time was that in 2005 people who were "mainstream gamers"would already have been too far out from the release of Back to the Future to understand the 50s futurism that the game was referring to aesthetically. Not that Stubbs is overall a great game or anything, but even at the time, it wasn't appreciated even for its strengths (like the soundtrack). I haven't finished the video yet so I bet you'll mention it, but when the movie Fido came out a few years later I was always struck with the incredible similarities between it and Stubbs, similarities which, again, went unremarked-upon because the audiences just didn't overlap at all.

[@polygonvvitch]

My comfort game is absolutely Kerbal Space Program

[@DecayingReverie]

I love the weird games that come out of nowhere. They tend to have unique mechanics that kind of work, but ultimately make everything feel a bit janky. My most obscure comfort game would be Saints of Virtue (which I did two-hour video essay about on my channel). It is a first-person shooter in the vein of Doom or Quake but it was designed as a Christian game and has some nutty design. It was one of the first games I ever played when I was like five or six. The original Red Dead Revolver (not Redemption) is a game I've beat probably 100 times. The music of that game along with the strange decisions of Capcom as a Japanese company trying to make a game in the Old West (Rockstar just bought it and published it) make it a blast. The first three Carnivores games were also great fun. They weren't really weird, just some of those old games that make me feel all fuzzy inside. I don't like playing them, but I feel cozy whenever I watch a Fahrenheit or Omikron: The Nomad Soul just because David Cage is actually one of his androids from Detroit: Become Human.

[@monotonallizard]

I have never heard of Saints of Virtue but it sounds insane. David Cage can be great fun with friends.

[@SerJateReino]

Feels somewhat wasted potential that this was made for the original Xbox since the next generation with it's vastly expanded maximum actor count could have been golden for a zombie game.

[@AlexanderKlotzbach]

good

[@HYDEinallcaps]

17:04 Holy false equivalence. Eating brains in Stubbs isn't anything like Glory Kills in nuDoom, the former is actually well-paced on the grounds that enemies aren't given bloated HP to make you do the aforementioned epic bazinga moment kills. Hell, literally the only thing Stubbs and nuDoom have in common is that Stubbs runs on the Halo Combat Evolved engine, and nuDoom plays like Halo, rather than Doom. Other than that, comparing an actual game like Stubbs to Bethesda slop is - to put it lightly - weird as fuck.

[@irritablerodent]

codsp? Huh. I assume that makes the video driver think you are playing call of duty and enables some compatibility flags or something.

[@MrNinjaBurger]

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