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[@straitJacketFashion]

Doom guy isn’t faceless, it’s always at the bottom of the screen.

[@notbrian6805]

Finally, someone brings up hardcore Henry and yes, that movie captures the kinetic movement that a Doom movie needs to have

[@raymondfisheriii791]

If there’s a petition to get a DOOM movie made like Hardcore Henry, I would sign it in a fraction of a hummingbird’s heartbeat

[@lbryant2261]

Major props to Karl Urban for refusing to smile or take the helmet off at any point in the superior Dredd (2012). :)

[@Mackarious]

I like to pretend that it's the only Dredd film...

[@nickstav08]

The fact there is still not a sequel is a sin

[@agin1519]

Dredd II where tf are you? Omg so many terrible movies being made. Why not just make a good one?

[@sentineluk7]

The best part of that cheat code is that there was a rumour at the time there was a cheat code to see Lara naked, so the Devs just "happened" to make the rumoured "nude raider cheat code " be the one that causes Lara to explode...

[@jackvos8047]

Except the code existed before the rumour. Exploding Lara was the first thing A friend and I discovered the same day as getting the 2nd game. We attempted to use a cheat from the original game and went boom.

[@whyiwakeup6460]

@@jackvos8047this is implying that tomb raider 1 didn’t exist

[@thorne9790]

I went to Cambodia 8 years ago, and you’re not wrong. Just about everyone I talked to wanted to ask me about the Tomb Raider films and talk about how much the films had changed their lives, and this was well over a decade after the films had been made. Whilst there can be ethical arguments about the treatment of historical sites in film productions, the perception from what I could tell was overwhelmingly positive

[@arcadeassassin7176]

I always thought that a halo movie or tv show should have Sargent Johnson as the main character. Master Cheif would be treated more as an unstoppable superweapon who lays waste to entire armies. Verry much like Carl said someone who comes in wrecks shit up and then leaves.

[@Revan_7even]

You know when you get Marine NPCs to join you in the games and they're like "Holy shit a spartan! We're saved!"? That's how it should be in a movie or TV show.

[@arcadeassassin7176]

@@Revan_7even Exactly. In gameplay he's essentially a bulletproof John Wick with super strength who wipes out entire alien armadas by himself. So we should see that in the show. The marines should get an instant morale boost upon seeing him and the UNSC should treat him as a nuclear option.

[@SternFilm]

really enjoying the length of these episodes lately. the extended end segments add a lot to them

[@Lyander25]

7:00 Sometimes I forget that Karl once worked (?) as a bartender and that he'd best know how to put a cocktail together. Been a while since the last "opening bottles with random things" bit, hasn't it? Hah!

[@DrkestShadow]

Karl, perfect example of what you are trying to say is the great works of Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker series, that started as book, then to radio, next was TV and finally the movie all were in the flavour of his works. Not a direct carbon copy.

[@DireW0lf0]

Actually the radio series started in 1978 and the first novel was released in 1979, TV series 1981 and film 2005.

[@DrkestShadow]

@@DireW0lf0 Umm, Actually. No points for you

[@DireW0lf0]

@@DrkestShadow I was just saying as it was unusual to be that way round, which is why it stuck in my memory! I had to check the dates before I typed anything. Some stuff from the radio series didn't make it to the book like Frogstar fighters!

[@DrkestShadow]

@@DireW0lf0 Interesting

[@GRAND_YAWN]

Maybe Lara is Vampire?

[@---l---]

She can have any job

[@SilentKnight234]

I mean...has anyone seen her eat garlic?🤔

[@BeOtterMyFriend]

Perfect comment on a vid that deals with nostalgia for a large part.

[@Suerte-fl2rk]

Few words do

[@ADMNtek]

As far as I'm concerned Cyberpunk Edgerunners is the best Game adaptation. In many shots, they perfectly replicate the world of Cyberpunk 2077. I was constantly thinking oh hey I know where that is. Even the sounds and Menus you see characters interact with mostly straight from the game. But it tells its own story with its own characters. This is why if they ever actually make a Mass Effect movie they can't add Shepard if they do it will fail just like that horrible Halo TV show. it has to tell its own story.

[@DarlingDeliveries]

Speaking on movies the capture the feel of the games without being remakes, so far the Sonic movies have felt like that for me, growing up as the target audience for the Sonic games ('95 baby, so sonic adventure 2 battle, sonic X, ect) I've loved the movies ability to nail the ridiculous vibes of the sonic games

[@1xivix]

One of my favorite gaming memories, is of the original tomb raider. My eldest niece, Zonia who is 30ish now, as a 5 year old coming home from school and begging me to play it. She wasn't coordinated enough to play herself. It will always bring my middle aged mind back to a time her and I shared. Love that franchise.

[@1xivix]

And yes, the massive honking tits were my fave part, the "girl power" vibe was her's.

[@darladay4766]

"It's a holiday in Cambodia"

[@terryenby2304]

My favourite moments from Lara Croft tomb raider are probably the ariel scene in the mansion, and the scene where jolie is riding the stone column like a giant swing with just a rope.

[@Raffix394]

Been at the temple 3 years ago, I didn't know that Lara Croft was Shot there but it was füll of tourists and quite expencive to enter.

[@dameanbailey9828]

I have to mention this about assassins creed and watchdogs. In the newest watchdogs watchdogs legion they have a charecter show up in a side story who is the latest ancestors of the assassin bloodline. And they actually have the assassin powers and shit. You get to play them for one mission only though and then if you wanna play them again you have to pay for them. It pissed me off because if means that yeah they kinda wanna do future assassins but they aren’t gonna actually go all in.

[@MortenWill]

I would be quite happy to see a Halo show about random unnamed dudes. With Master Chief just rocking up and going "It was low key poggers"

[@RAFMnBgaming]

That's not too far off of what Forward Unto Dawn did, the only problem being that the rest of it was basically VGHS but with halo marines.

[@_Funtime60]

24:50 As someone who's only ever watched a single play through of a single uncharted game, I quite enjoyed the movie. I honestly couldn't tell that the casting was wrong from an acting stand point. The only thing I noticed wrong was that Tom looks a lot younger than Nathan in the game I watched, but I chalked that up to a timeline difference.

[@VenomZoology]

I’d love to watch you all make movie/tv show drinks and give honest reviews

[@SgtHatred42]

Entirely agree: the Doom movie should of been Hardcore Henry+ Doom Guy face cam in the bottom center for his reaction expressions.

[@dantesfreezer]

I just looked up when those movies came out. The first was 2001 and the second was 2003, 20 years ago and now I feel old.

[@gartsur84]

This has been a very enjoyable video

[@brandonaguirre6191]

Men in Black 2 cement if Cambodia has a destination to me. “You know you can get a lobster dinner in Cambodia for like two dollars.”

[@davidpowers746]

It's like when I walk into a Portillo's and see that signed Jim Belushi headshot.

[@PzY-Reviews]

Karl not wanting to drink shouldve been oir first sign that fact fiend was close to retiring

[@SageUndead1]

I actually enjoyd both of the movies but maybe thats because i have fond memories of watching it with my dad.

[@richardorta8960]

A GTA series where the main character has a habit of killing pigeons and finding certain things on a scavenger hunt. Beats up a rival gang member. Looks up. "Oh, another package!" casually shoots a pigeon while walking away from the body. "I have to look for the next package..." fade into cutscene remake for the murder mission being accomplished.

[@FixerUK]

The highlight is Arnold J Rimmer as the butler.

[@AndrewCusworth]

Chris Barrie should not have lft red dwarf for this movie

[@Peppermint0M]

I adored the Tomb Raider films. Little Girls who liked adventure and history at the time only had whichever woman Indiana Jones wanted to get into bed with. (I wasn't allowed to watch The Mummy with Rachel Weisz yet, parents thought it was "too scary" for sprogs). Finally, a kickass character doing adventures and they are female.

[@DexyD20]

The live action dora the explorer is really good and a hidden gem, they make you think it's gonna be a bad movie but then it gets amazing!! 😍🤣💜 And you say doom guy didn't have a face when he had a health-o-meter of his face😅🤣🙃💜

[@SpeedWayDre]

I will always appreciate Hardcore Henry for the reason of capturing the feel!

[@JimBob4233]

There's a marine base down our way where the bar used to have one bottle kept inside a shell casing so you couldn't see how full it was. If the optic refilled, your drink was free. If not, you paid for the whole bottle. _Assassin's_ _Creed_ doing more than one Ezio game is actually down to crunch. The stuff that became _Brotherhood_ was meant to go into Ezio's only game, but it was only half-done when they were coming up to the release date so they cut it out and span it on. That's also why they got rid of Kristen Bell's character; she'd only been contracted for three games, and she thought she had the star power to get more money when they tried to get her in for more. Also, since you were talking about retaining the character of games; the whole point of the series is that you're someone in the present looking back in time to find lost artefacts. They spell it out in the first five minutes of the first game, if you go back and start there rather than halfway through the series.

[@LordIronfist]

That again for a pound deal would be illegal where I live-You're not allowed to sell the same drink for different prices on the same night

[@ivanwilliams7413]

They did that yellow spandex bit early in the main Grant Morrison X-men series too. Between the same characters, although I believe the attitudes are opposite. Hell, it's a main point in the design pitch for the series.

[@lidular]

I quite liked the warcraft movie, and i really wanted there to be a sequel

[@foxfire-rc1rl]

Hey I remember those movies I loved them just wish they did a bit more

[@sleepingkirby]

I remember when the Tomb Raider movie was coming out, I wasn't expecting a lot. Video game movies have never been that great up to that time. And when they said Angelina Jolie, I was like "She looks like Lara Croft. Good enough." And then it showed her doing training to do the flips Lara Croft does and I'm like, "Impressive. Not bad." But then, an interviewer asked her "Have you ever play any of the Tomb Raider games?" her reply was, "Lara Croft wouldn't have play any of the Tomb Raider movies." That's when Angelina Jolie earned my respect.

[@AngelusNielson]

FYI, there was Assassin DLC for Watchdogs 2.

[@VashSpiegel]

YES, Hardcore Henry was really underappreciated.

[@spaceninja1252]

The best thing besides the fps section is that the hero is a relatively unknown actor at the time that movie pulls such a fucking twist imo. Oh its got the rock in it so obviously he's gonna be the hero. Nope fuck you it's this dude you probably never heard of. The amount of times I watched ghost ship and chronicles of Riddick before I added doom to my list of movies I own and I never noticed that's the same guy then he got to be both in DC and marvel and in the boys let's just say the doom movie restarted his career

[@ATesProductions]

There's not too many actors or things in pop culture that Cambodians can point to proudly, but we have this.

[@REDvsBLUE4E]

And then we shunned the kingsman for dealing drugs out of a temple lol

[@ATesProductions]

@Pheonix Vann I kinda cheer at first.. like hey it's cambodia!

[@Wh8teKn9ght]

I’m from Cambodia. You guys are very much welcome to visit Cambodia.

[@joelatkinson4967]

only thing about the MCU is hawkeye is never allowed to wear his comic book costume

[@nemooceansoul1137]

17:58 in the first reboot you see her get dual pistols for exactly 5 seconds. its during the final boss fight. you only get like 6 shots off before the game ends.

[@FreaKill666]

Ah the future days story of Assassin's Creed, I'm still annoyed that they dropped it this hard. I remember being excited at the end of the first game when they hinted at Desmond having the potential to actually be a proper assassin and imagining how it would work like in modern-ish setting. And then the second game came out and I thought, "alright I see what's going on here - first the templars kidnapped us and plugged us into memory machine and now assassins are essentially doing the same thing. OK, that's interesting and maybe they need some time to work up to modern setting." And by the time third game came out I was completely cold to the series because it was abundantly clear that the story will never go anywhere.

[@lifegrain6092]

at least after AC3 they could've just ditched gameplay and major storyline involving the future i'm ok with AC unity co-op briefing cutscene, since there's also up to 4 arno in a single space and the multiplayer missions on AC unity do have bits of story and a sense of "unity" being an assassin working with other assassins to complete a mission i can't recall if syndicate has the future sections beyond a voice doing exposition as to why we're playing as the frye twins the atlantis cutscene with your odyssey protagonist handing off the staff of hermes trismegistus doesn't feel like you're pulled out of the game.... because the assassin of the game is in it, and it felt like that it's the ending to their story not future days story forcefully hooked into the assassin of the game's story

[@JimBob4233]

The story nearly went somewhere, but then in the switchover between _Syndicate_ and _Origins_ they took all that built up work and dumped it in the comics

[@foxfire-rc1rl]

Hey I actually like the future stuff in assassins creed and I missed it when they cut it out... personally I think it was a mistake to kill off Desmond it would have been much cooler to go with the buildup and had assassing creed in the modern world where you play as Desmond... now the newer games are fine but I really want to see them do more out of Animas play I want to see what's happened to the world actually get to know the new characters and have them actually get to know some of the characters from the previous games that are still around

[@duttery9068]

I met Karl in a sheffield McDonald's the day this video was uploaded

[@J-Vasa]

My fav lara croft moment is the lucozade adverts lol legit got me into lucozade

[@thecamandersoap2745]

as an avid halo fan, I don't mind chief taking off his helmet but I think it should have been saved for episode 3 or 4

[@samuelflynn9521]

Super weird. I am watching this at 2:00 on a tuesday. I noticed right after he said that.

[@jackvos8047]

The exploding Lara code first appeared in Tomb Raider 2 and was exactly the same as an op cheat code from the first game.

[@atjatkatkaktark]

The rock is great in Be Cool, and very mich playing a different character.

[@sidrat2009]

They YT magic doesn't often bring your videos to my attention. Am I the only one to miss the brick wall and green screen? Still as always great story telling.

[@Adamosullivan75]

That time, Lara Croft worked In her local bar collecting glasses! Rhona Mitra, who was the original Lara was a glass girl in Shanagolden Co. Limerick!

[@ThatGuyW3s]

Wasn't Doom Guy's face in the bottom center of the screen?

[@andrewjames9132]

Dredd, the remake was phenomenal

[@Trustyfilms]

It's a shame the guy didn't call the cocktail the 'Flaming Lara'.

[@mulltit.assking]

Doom 2 on netflix uk? Can't find it

[@darladay4766]

I respected Tomb Raider bc "strong" women in a leading role wasn't something I saw growing up. It was one if the 1st movies I saw where the lead woman wasn't a Mary Sue or fragile and was an actual bad b.

[@jaymarshbank3862]

She double backflip flourishes her guns after she reloads.....Those are Dealges. She must have the strongest fucking trigger fingers in all of existence.

[@samcoote9653]

Theyre USP Match Pistols. Not Deagles

[@kamoto031283]

"The Doom movie should have been Hardcore Henry." Exactly 👍

[@alexanderbarrera3255]

Watch Dogs is literally the modern-day assassin's creed. I'm the new one "legion" you can get an assassin's outfit and the hidden blade

[@electraelpindrai1964]

Thirsty patron: "how much is a pint of coke?" Barman "£2.4" Thirty patron: "can i have a round of 1 half coke, oh wait can i double it?" Barman: "sure that's £2.20" Thirsty patron "hehe suckers"

[@alexfranz817]

I actually like that stupid Doom movie. It's also the only one that actually tried to moreless remember the lure. Late at one point it was considered Canon that each of their protagonist or related to each other going all the way back to William blazkowicz from Wolfenstein the family changing the name Commander Keen and eventually doomguy

[@thrahxvaug6430]

I find it amazing when people talk about live action Halo stuff they don't ever talk about Forward Unto Dawn. It's not the greatest thing of all time. But it honestly did such a good job of being what it needed to be and feels like Halo. I love it a ton and recommend people watch it just because they got someone big enough to be Chief in full practical costume.

[@unkodemo6515]

awesome.

[@marcos1719]

Shoutout to haloid

[@nathanbrady2704]

I think the best video game movie is Crank 1 and 2. It is just a shame noone actually made the games

[@nosville22]

the thing is: Doom Guy does show his gmface in Eternal

[@leonidasxix4200]

First Tomb Raider movie was released in 2001.

[@MrVashthestamped]

Halo forward onto dawn was a good live action Halo series

[@Start3rPack]

Think I disagree with the Master Chief requiring a face in a different medium. His face can be his helmet, that's how we know him. Mandalorian was that way for a bit and so is Judge Dredd. Mando did it right because we identify the actor with the character. Then compare that shit with Stallone being Stallone in the 95 Dredd movie.

[@xygo6038]

The doom guy mention didn’t make sense since we have known what his face looks like since the first game

[@ryanewald9740]

But you do see doom guy's face. It's at the bottom of the screen looking around.

[@leoncoy1264]

Omg, the coming out the animus shot in those games makes me sick

[@theyakkoman]

Favourite video game adaptation? One word; Arcane. Okay, I haven't played LoL so I dunno how well it captures the feel of the game. But the world-building, the animation, the action-scenes and the characters. Oh, the characters. It's one of the best shows I ever watched, animated or otherwise and it is great.

[@AirLancer]

The show and the game might as well have nothing to do with each other besides the looks of the characters and aspects of the setting. It would be like if they made a really good action-drama in the vein of 24 and it just happened to be "based on" Counter-Strike.

[@maxmm235]

i think the last of us show was good, and it did good focusing on very emotionally charged things but it would’ve been nice if joel and ellie had more of their “sweet” scenes included. in the show it really was just like they only liked one another because they traveled across the US together.. totally get time constraints and whatnot though

[@purelitenite]

My home town is full of Cambodians, the older ones have some heartbreaking stories. Now they have taken over the doughnut industry.

[@theothertonydutch]

Cambonuts

[@purelitenite]

@@theothertonydutch No that is a Cambodian in space.

[@matthewhippie]

I think Castlevania was the best video game adaptation so far

[@netapel2625]

I absolutely agree with the Assassin's Creed take. Origins was such a good game too. If they made an AC game without the future part of the story it would probably be the best in the series for a while. Nobody really cares about the animus and the modern day characters.

[@Delta1nToo]

I am horrified to be in cambodia. I was there for one hour. And over the course of that 1 hour i heard gunshots 5 times. Not only that but you can pay your way through the border to and from vietnam. So as long as you have the cash you don't even need the right papers. They just let you through. Plus there's soldiers guarding the place basically 24/7. I'm sure it's a nice place but i am horrified of being anywhere in that country.

[@FionaDanger.]

While I was there around a decade ago we were on a great quadbike tour and stopped by a shooting range where you could pay to fire guns, one of the options was to fire an RPG at a live cow for a large but surprisingly cheap amount of money. We fired some assault rifles and moved on. The terrifying part though was that the range with the RPGs? One large empty field between it and an airfield with planes coming and going....

[@bradleylurry4761]

No one‘s probably gonna see this, but there is actually a good halo movie. I think it was , frontier halo or something

[@jessiewescott4076]

Imagine a doom movie where the whole thing is filmed like hardcore Henry following the new Games doom slayer who is basically a man turned god killing demons and currupted gods over the space marine b.s I would be so happy to see another movie made like h.h. it was literally just the doom movie fps scene on crack

[@flashvash7543]

Forward unto dawn was good

[@deadwingjockey7642]

The 1st Tomb Raider came out in 2001.

[@alexorth8152]

The assassins creed future twist with Desmond reliving Ezio's memories to learn the skills was cool and fun but after that it just got more and more stale and boring. Assassins creed 4 was the best/worst game. loved the open seas and the story of Edward but hated the future story is was so bad

[@sushi99999]

It wasn't until near the end that I figured out that Edward Kenway was portrayed by Constantine. I knew him as Constantine before I played AC4.

[@dottyorb]

Doomguy literally has a face in the games, but Master Chief's isn't ever shown. Also it's a crime that anyone other than Nathan Fillion was Nathan Drake.

[@chairiot]

when the hell are we gonna get a hitman movie thats just final destination but death is a person

[@junkie2100]

id go there just because of tomb raider, same way id go to the island they modeled arma 3 after if i wasnt afraid theyd arrest me for being a spy lol

[@sidrat2009]

Video games eh. I would love to WATCH a cinematic story of Assassins Creed. Set in modern day times it could be a grounded version of Doctor Who. Dr Who is a fictional alien who travels through time with a human companion so that the viewer can relate. Assassins Creed is set in modern times with non-superhero humans being able to experience the lives their ancestors actually lived. Doctor Who was made for children's education and entertainment. Which of course made the scary stuff to be pretty much mandatory. A children story doesn't get done without some conflict or threat. i.e Paw Patrol. Pups saving people but don't worry about the trauma if you think about it too deeply because children story. In this final paragraph I now have mixed feelings about what an Assassins Creed film could or should be. I love the parkour from the first three games. The sense of duty and familial protection from the historically based events was the highpoint of the series. The Templars vs Assassins was a villain story that didn't need to happen as it could go nowhere. The Apple of Eden and precursor history made it more open. The story could be a great film in its own right as long as no one expects it to be a multi-year game series for more than a decade. Interactive stories can be done well in a linear format. The Elite series of novels are mostly great, they add flavour to the open world choose your own adventure lack of narrative. That was from the early 90's. The boxed Amiga Frontier 2: Elite came with lots of written background material, short stories and lore based adverts. Twenty years later there are full length novels set in the time line. Same with Star Wars, Star Trek & Doctor Who novels. TellTale Games are great at producing a narrative driven interactive story. Can we end the open world smorgasboard and go back to telling stories?

[@badgerchillsky535]

How about the Super Mario movie? 😂 that thing is a mess

[@SaltNBattery]

You know what else you can do in Cambodia? Fire RPGs and grenade launchers ai some of their shooting ranges. For like not a lot of money.

[@dumdawgpro]

yea doom annihilation was... rough.

[@walroarheroesbloos6273]

Love it

[@pgonzalez1678]

Always had a soft spot for the Mortal Combat movie, even though there's things that could be substantially improved about it... haven't seen the new one, though, apparently it's not bad? Meanwhile, I keep hearing people saying good things about Detective Pikachu and the Sonic movie, which makes me wonder if the reason you have a poor opinion of videogame movies is that you are out of the target audience of the good ones?

[@foxfire-rc1rl]

I actually don't care that Stallone had his helmet off when playing judge dread... he has to take it off at some point it makes no sense to keep it on all the time... same thing with master chief from halo... the mandalorian I understand never taking it off but it also mechanically doesn't make sense for a person who is basically human to wear it all the time... you have to bathe wearing the helmet doing that would make it entirely pointless... yeah he can kinda eat with it on but just take it off your alone eat normally the overall creed to never take your helmet off is dumb there are situations where you wouldn't be able to do that no matter what taking a bath being one otherwise he would smell really bad especially the helmet if he never took it off

[@jocax188723]

I have a real bone to pick with Resident Evil and Monster Hunter, which are excellent and brilliant series with horrendously shit adaptations. By the same person. You'd think Capcom would learn from Paul W S Anderson (and wife) fucking Resident Evil over, but no, they had to ruin Monster Hunter as well... Kicking him in the nads is a bucket list entry of mine.

[@AirLancer]

I doubt Capcom really cares as long as those movies make money. That's why they stuck with Anderson for so long, despite how shitty those RE movies were they kept making a profit. The movies are just a minor side-gig for Capcom. Considering Monster Hunter was a box office failure, I'd imagine if they ever make another one they'd go in a different direction.

[@darladay4766]

The Uncharted movie was pretty great

[@adamruff7013]

Do they still do that double round for a pound? I think I'm about to take the most seemingly boring on paper vacation ever lol. Just gotta round up the homies

[@_9_9_9_]

Lol