The Thing Remastered Review

[@MandaloreGaming]

The Thing on GOG - gog.la/TheThing2 THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo Maybe we'll get a Thing: Isolation one day, but we're still not there yet.

[@stijnhintzen]

where amnesia reviews 🦍

[@MissedTheStars]

🐟

[@saibot1246]

There's a thing among us

[@manyfails]

ich find meine steuer ID nicht und arbeite ganzen monat umsonst -.- aber dein video hilft

[@aguBert90]

Is the soul reaver remastered on your radar? i would love a video from you if you like the franchise.

[@starhalv2427]

0:58 saying "Hey, looks like your girl" and immediately vomiting is quite a burn

[@Shoutatclouds]

How will he recover.

[@XxDruidmancerxX]

Damn, the more I watch it the funnier it gets lol

[@CringelordJen]

that fucking killed me so damn much 🤣

[@InSayNayTay0137]

i'm dying of laughter from that part i can't

[@perotekku]

"Your girlfriend looks like my mom!" -Tyler, the Creator

[@Soapylemonlad845]

"hey looks just like your girl" and then proceeding to vomit, might be the funniest line in gaming,

[@rogerreger9631]

Also the best to worst insult to a person about their girlfriend ever made.

[@cjs4363]

I fkn cackled laughing at that part of the video 😂

[@libertylemonz7145]

The Thing counts as a Christmas movie because of the snow

[@secularspectator]

And the liberal use of RED!

[@getthegoons]

About as much of a Christmas movie as Die Hard. My personal favorite Christmas Movie is Goodfellas. Which counts because Christmas happens in it apparently .

[@NotFunctional-ever]

Media with snow = Christmas movie This officially makes Half-life 2 ep2 a christmas movie.

[@JoshSweetvale]

McMurdo sure agrees with ya.

[@JoshSweetvale]

​@NotFunctional-everMovies.

[@blake-81]

22 years ago, a lil' boy played this game (because it was a sequel to the first "grown up" movie his older cousin had let him watch without mom and dad's OK), and then he played it again after he finished, and again, and again, ad nauseum. Then, couple years down the line, when he was first allowed into this "internet" thing, he took the name of the game's protagonist as his internet name. 22 years later, he still bears that name.

[@MandaloreGaming]

It's this kind of thing that makes these games great.

[@shaynehughes6645]

​@@MandaloreGaming ⚠️ THING ALARM ⚠️

[@Quiltfish]

😱Who was that boy?

[@dandelionbodies]

That’s beautiful 🖤

[@omegagarry8192]

"We have an unidentified craft, it looks like a UFO" THIS UNIDENTIFIED CRAFT LOOKS LIKE AN UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT

[@KillahMate]

the floor here is made out of floor

[@JoshSweetvale]

They're research scientists and soldiers. Not english majors.

[@sanra255]

They call them UAPs now, but yea...

[@Ty2188]

LIVE FREE NC

[@nocturnal-beats_]

as i said jokingly while watching this with a friend one time (his first not mine) "well i would call it a UFO, but its not flying. so its just a UO"

[@mungologgo5526]

Carpenter is a huge troll, it's funny as hell how the ending to The Thing is still debated to this day and barely anyone knows that because Carpenter considers the game canon, we basically have had the answer for 22 years

[@iancasleton6356]

Going off just the movie I like the theory that's "Chiles" is the thing cause his breath doesn't show. I think that's how you spell his name.

[@xxArCxxWavExx]

I mean, we never actually get to interact with Childs in game and we only see his frozen body. There's the slim chance that a Childs-thing would be smart enough to let itself freeze as a survival strategy.

[@MrDanno]

@@iancasleton6356 Hasn't that been widely debunked? I'm pretty sure in specific releases of the movie, you can see his breath

[@ryanadams2610]

​@@MrDannoyour right it is. The reason we can't see his breath is a simple effect from the way the scene was shot with lighting and the camera angle

[@LB-yg2br]

Do you actually have a source for Carpenter saying that the video game is canon? It seems like an internet rumor, with lots of people referencing it but no actual evidence of when or how he said it.

[@soliduswasright678]

I'll never not be mad about the Thing prequel. Some psychotic executive walked on set, looked around at all the amazing effects and said "yeah we're trashing all of this".

[@jrlonergan6773]

Agreed

[@jeremiahvires7864]

Wait what

[@pnutz_2]

CGI Money Shots are The Future™

[@shadowrobot7708]

@@jeremiahvires7864they threw out all the practical effects to use cgi.

[@Amitlu]

Just vomited CGI over everything.

[@darkstranger9527]

There was a comment at 1:55 and I must add to it. I'm morally obligated to tell everyone that the effects team did make their own movie shortly after being cut from the remake. Unfortunately the movie is very rushed, but the effects are stellar and beautifully disgusting. The movie is called Harbinger Down, and it's a good watch if you love creature effects and sci-fi horror. Please go watch this film and show the team love, they REALLY deserve it.

[@perryborn2777]

Is that the one with all the pink goop? I think I caught the tail end of it when my dad watched it on SYFY

[@Eshanas]

The dialogue is a bit ropey at parts but they did try and it's a fun late night movie.

[@darkstranger9527]

@@perryborn2777 there is pink goop in the film I believe, but that could have been a lot of things tbh. If it was on an icebreaker cargo ship, then yes.

[@quinnzykir]

Don’t. They use digital effects for the last half and is bad

[@Sleepy_Kitsune]

@@quinnzykir so where are you getting that info from? cus every source iv hunted down about the movie has stated digital effects were only used to erase wires and gimbals

[@omarkumar8036]

16:58 The tau game calls for you mandalore. “ It’s Quiet.”

[@MandaloreGaming]

Maybe I'd hear the calls better if half of its sound wasn't bugged.

[@omarkumar8036]

@@MandaloreGaming True true.

[@gex6692]

​@MandaloreGaming it's quiet

[@Aralaas]

@@MandaloreGaming It's quiet.

[@comradecameron3726]

@@Aralaasit's quiet.

[@DCG909]

21:50 It's a direct reference to what the doctor said in the (first) movie, a single cell can take over a living organism. In that case it wouldn't need to rip through your clothes, but slowly take over the body until it is "too late" (cut off a limb for instance). And it was also said it would wait till someone is alone to consume/copy them, so following orders and killing other things would fit that strategy.

[@nonya1366]

I wonder if it's a hivemind situation or if each part is it's own separate entity. Does The Thing believe The Thing Shooting it is a traitor?

[@natalielyric2950]

​@nonya1366 In theory, any Thing creature could give off pheromones or something similar to communicate with any other Thing creature, essentially making them a hivemind (I haven't seen anything to suggest Things have individual identities)

[@atomicanachronism8849]

each thing is an individual, but their motivations are so uniform it might as well not matter

[@Lucaintheninjatank]

@@nonya1366 I believe each piece is an individual driven by survival instincts. So a Thing will throw another one under the bus if it helps it survive or pieces of a Thing will abandon the "main" body in order to survive. It's why the blood test works, since the blood being put under damage will attempt to survive despite it dooming the larger Thing it originally came from.

[@WoobooRidesAgain]

Something else to note too that supports this idea, but it's also *SPOILERS* so I'm going to put it down a ways. So at the climax of the famous blood test scene, the Palmer-Thing grabs and mauls to death Windows, throwing his corpse aside. After the Palmer-Thing is dispatched, Windows suddenly begins to move again, and the sounds he makes as well as the melted state of his body make it clear that Windows is now a Thing. This lends itself to the idea that the infection is communicable as a contagion, rather than - as other scenes would indicate - purely a budding-type situation where the creature absorbs another creature and makes a copy of them, and while we only see this happen with corpses (and it's situational - Cooper didn't become one after having his arms bitten off and dying as a result), it'd be reasonable to assume that this can also happen with a living being.

[@NotParticularlyWitty]

The head shake animation isn't driven by fear of The Thing(s), it's because they've just remembered the events of Marathon Infinity and are struggling to comprehend it.

[@BobbinRobbin777]

*THERE IS NO ESCAPE.*

[@kabob0077]

@BobbinRobbin777 We have been granted eyes to see...

[@hungrygren]

@BobbinRobbin777 There is no withdrawal from the Garden of Banban.

[@Takanuva3000]

@BobbinRobbin777 No recall or intervention can work in this place- wait no

[@DefaultGray]

@BobbinRobbin777 You are now looking at the overhead view of the Halo map "Infinity" and seeing that it is made of two Marathon logos

[@chrislee5268]

Nothing says "homage to classic paranoia fuelled horror scenario" like gunning down hundreds of head spiders.

[@NeuroPosting88]

Then just go play Morbus on Gmod. oh wait.

[@tomtheconqerur]

It's morbin time!​@@NeuroPosting88

[@Xenomorthian]

@@NeuroPosting88 Oh Morbus I remember that... Man I haven't thought about gmod gamemodes for a while

[@ramaluminus]

Ah, The Thing, Jerma losing his mind in the staircase section truly the best thing that ever happen in gaming history.

[@jimmyjohnson501]

PSYCHO streamer kills FRIENDS and FAMILY, claims they were only THINGS

[@toaster9922]

Discombobulator ray in his face.

[@Overchure]

"If an AT-ST was a crab, this is what it would look like without the shell"

[@PrvBen]

Definitely what I will always remember this game for. Watching Jerma play this game was the hardest I've laughed in probably a decade.

[@TheNetherlandDwarf]

I completely forgot aobut this, but it must have been buried in my subconcious, bc I always found it weird that watching the movie made me think of jerma.

[@lavoroxan8114]

01:15 The norwegian guy yelling "Larsen?! Larseeen?!" was like consecutive flashbangs. To anyone else reading this, imagine if a game started with a guy yelling for Richard like "Dick?! DIIICK?!" in a southern accent. That's practically the same vibe.

[@ArachD206]

Haha, i never played this, but i remember my friend talking about that bit, thinking it was hilarious. (We're both norwegian btw.)

[@SirAsdf]

1:45 I still love how this guy tries to pistol whip the 10 foot tall flesh stealing alien parasite.

[@mjolnirmilitia569]

Norse ancestry dies hard

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

A grimdark tradition amongst Marines that would last another 38,018 more years

[@quarkbent9165]

The grey-to-blue colour grading shift was possibly the movies being used by the medium of the time for reference; the DVD of the Thing is NOT saturated in blues, and would've been available for a 2000's team, while the blu-ray release we have these days shows off the blues magnificently. It's likely to be more in line with the changing understanding of the film as access to such versions changed.

[@MrRattlebones640]

21:34 The thing was always acting that way, though the exact behaviour is debated. In the film Fuchs makes a breakthrough and makes a point that food can be contaminated so its best to eat canned stuff. Later on despite Windows being proven to not be a thing, his corpse is reanimated shortly after he was attacked during the blood test scene. So when the Doc mentions the thing "consuming" life forms its more in reference to the thing's cells consuming the cells of the host rather than literal consumption (though it does that too).

[@Takanuva3000]

Basically the only reason the Thing even goes full Meat Spaghetti Monster Mode in the movie is so that there IS a movie- Though it could be argued that the chunk of it that remained in the dog didn't remain smart enough for proper stealth, depending on if it has a mass-to-intelligence ratio thing going on like The Flood. There's a lot of questions about the Thing that remain unanswered, and that's the other half of what makes it so memorable- the other half is meat spaghetti horror.

[@Kevbo2040]

"Some called it Puke and Fuses". A Spoony reference before the review even began. This is one of the many reasons I love Mandy.

[@sensibleGamer]

"Who talks like that?" Weirdly nostalgic cameo right at the end!

[@AnomalyINC]

I'm not Norwegian, but as a Swede, I can understand Norwegians alright. And it's not just you, that line read in the beginning is wonderfully, hilariously rough. The voice actor did his best trying to give the proper inflections reading a language he doesn't speak, and I absolutely won't hold it against him. But it WAS funny.

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

If ever a game needed a ''from the ground up remake'' like the Resident Evil games it was this. Imagine a Thing game with a dynamic infection system, multiple endings depending on who survived et cetera.

[@Psytinker]

Coding the AI for that would take up majority of the development time. And you just know the beta testers will keep reporting suspicious squadmate behaviour as bugs.

[@Folcock]

Cancelled sequel had this in mind. Maybe the success of the remaster will bring good things.

[@BruhSmith-r1f]

​@Psytinker maybe do something like they did with F.E.A.R. and just have it appear smart as hell when in reality it's just clever triggers and Level Designers/devs responsible for the AI making sweet sweet love

[@DM-mi4je]

A thing RPG might also be crazy good. Maybe.

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

@@DM-mi4je Nice seeing you again. You know, there was supposed to be an Aliens rpg done by prime Obsidian but it got canceled because we can't have nice things.

[@MemberRoach]

This game is so atmospheric this time of year. The lack of insulation in my apartment building only adds to the immersion. And there's also the noises...

[@tobbsdasock]

6:10 I don’t know if this is strictly relevant but while the US phonetic alphabet goes Alpha Bravo Charlie, the UK phonetics go Alpha Beta Charlie. This could be another possible source of the Beta team slip-up as the original developer was a British company.

[@redundantfridge9764]

"It turns out, if you grow extra arms, you don't have to wait for a DD-214." There's a waiver for everything. Also your extra arm is not service related.

[@1776SolidSnake]

Camp lejeune water strikes again

[@redundantfridge9764]

@@1776SolidSnake Camp Lejeune Vs. USS Nimitz. Pick your poison.

[@GarrettF33]

Best we can do is 10% disability.

[@CriticalNobody]

On the scale of movie licensed games, The Thing is up there in terms of quality. Yeah it has issues, mostly in the second half, but it’s a game I’ve always remembered fondly. Also tiny SPOILER: Did you notice the first body you find in the US base (where you’re told about the fear system) has been changed in the remaster to Nauls? Neat touch that gives some closure to his character who just disappeared in the original film.

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

Not really closure, we could safely assume he was dead since he didn't show up after the base was destroyed. Now we have a reference in a much later product.

[@OutsiderLabs]

​@@user-zp4ge3yp2onow you don't have to assume anymore

[@Batchall_Accepted]

It's Child's, and he's mentioned by name in the dialogue, even in the original

[@ManiacYKT]

​@@Batchall_Acceptedthe hell are you talking about, Childs is outside, the body this guy is talking about is INSIDE, the "oh christ what is that" mangled corpse

[@CriticalNobody]

@@Batchall_Accepted Child’s is named. However before that, in the room with the first advanced junction box, there’s a body on a counter. The medic says “Christ! What is that!?!” and you get the fear/trust tutorial

[@Turkeyham11]

God that Spoony voice clip at the end made me feel old.

[@kristoffer8609]

Made me feel successful for some reason. Almost like he draws all un-success to himself. Truly a scientific phenomena.

[@Bluecho4]

I know, right? I was thinking about Spoony the whole video. But actually hearing his voice? That's something else.

[@VioletteZero]

I am still a huge fan of Spoony despite everything. Dude was a master at his craft.

[@Annonith]

@@VioletteZero Same man I miss him so much his vids are still entertaining despite their age.

[@WordoftheElderGods]

The good old days

[@juxstapo]

"if you start growing extra arms you don't have to wait for DD-214" hit me just right .. as a proud owner of a DD-214

[@satanxarxes]

Same bro, does an extra arm give me a VA disability percentage or take away from my overall claim?

[@juxstapo]

@satanxarxes send it back for review everytime a new limb pops, I swear they're all service related

[@LivingDeadVideos]

@@satanxarxes We have determined that your organic symbiosis with an alien lifeform is a PRE-EXISTING condition, thus the service connection from ALIEN ORGANIC SYMBIOSIS AND MUTATION is denied. The condition neither started in military service nor was caused by it. Medical records are silent for complaints. The buddy statement was found to be inadequate to grant a nexus. Favorable findings: We have determined that a condition may have started during your service. You have been diagnosed with a disability, VA C&P exam, ALIEN ORGANIC SYMBIOSIS AND MUTATION and UNSPECIFIED ANXIETY DISORDER.

[@jadenlilly6113]

Let's hope I get mine the normal way 🤣

[@Kris451]

The amount of Spoony call backs in the video are amazing. Thanks for making me feel old, Mandy. 😊

[@mementomori771]

Whats a spoony and why are half the commants mentioning it

[@SunnyAznable]

@@mementomori771it’s an irrelevance now, that some of us Olds have some embers of nostalgia for, but he turned out to be a shitty conman and trashed his career by yelling at his fans, making off with a lot of money for a movie he never made and also rape jokes on Twitter.

[@Kris451]

@mementomori771 You may be too young. I'm sorry. 🙃🙃 If you want to know and check him out, look up "The Spoony Experiment" then look for his The Thing review.

[@Henskelion]

@@mementomori771 Spoony was a guy who made game/movie reviews on early KZbin (although he mostly posted them to his own website). One of his more famous videos was covering this game.

[@Daedalus117]

​@@SunnyAznabledude's got a very serious mental illness. It sucks what happened to him, he really lost his mind.

[@OPTIMUSL1ME]

Mandalore should just put the Goosebumps theme at the start of every video at this point

[@HelloChief117]

30:49 Ha, I was almost going to be disappointed with the lack of references to Spoony's review of the original game.

[@Spooky_Spookerson]

Glad there was a reference to it. Miss his reviews before he went off the deep end.

[@galactor123]

Yeah, I was waiting the entire time for something like a singular "fusebox count" joke or something just as a quick and easy callback. I have to admit, wasn't expecting a full on vocal cameo (however short) at the end but it did pop me.

[@Nikkibuh]

@@Spooky_Spookerson Deep end? what happened to him?

[@Halovex]

@@Nikkibuhhe’s struggled with issues from bipolar and depression without getting the help he needed. He’s doing better, but he’s living with his family again.

[@nemescontent]

I’m still surprised there was no fuse box counter

[@Marcara081]

I always thought 'The Thing' was a terrible name until I learned that the technical name for substances used to create dyes are called, 'dyestuff'.

[@Anon-te6uq]

Its a shapeshifter, so an exact name is hard to pin down.

[@user-gj7lp5iz6k]

wait until you learn about foodstuff

[@hollylucianta6711]

there is a theoretical form of dark matter called "fuzzy cold dark matter" Sometimes people are really good at naming stuff and sometimes not so much

[@DoveAlexa]

@@user-gj7lp5iz6k Wait till they learn about the entire German language

[@DeoMachina]

There are a group of subatomic particles called quarks because of a poem so bad nobody is exactly sure what the author meant by quark

[@johannmosin]

Speaking of old interesting games that no one remembers: Judge Dredd had an FPS based on the original comics. It has surprisingly amazing art and music and the main gun is faithfully recreated with all ammo types. Its available on GOG, but needs some finagling to run without issues on modern systems. I think it would be prime content for your channel, but it has a lot of vampires in it, so maybe best left until next October

[@nundulan]

What's it called?

[@johannmosin]

@@nundulan Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death

[@johannmosin]

For anyone wanting to try it out, there is a PC Gaming Wiki page with a program to enable high resolution and FOV. Also the game needs to be locked at 60 fps or jumping won't work. I tried capping fps with Nvidia drivers, but it didn't help. The fastest solution was using Bandicam

[@olo9127]

0:11 After watching grimbeard's video on the game like 10 times, it really threw me off when he only said "colonel" once

[@michimatsch5862]

Real

[@operator8014]

I figured he'd say it twice. Where does he GET these gags?

[@MrQwertysystem]

Thank you! I've been trying to remeber who's video about the OG game I've watched ages ago and thanks to you realised that ofcourse it was Grimbeard.

[@jurtheorc8117]

@@operator8014 From the gag aisle in the bondage store. Or the gag aisle in the Second-Hand Cartoon Jokes store. Double meanings, man. They trip you up somethin' fierce on where to go.

[@jacob_swaggerz]

He deleted his Harvester video 😢

[@RolandTheJabberwocky]

28:08 That "breathe deep Blake" log actually sent a chill down my spine ngl.

[@Courier-number-6]

yeah, it would be pretty cool to explore the alien's personality like that. shame that they didn't do more of it.

[@Rebelnutt]

Even calling him by name is practically targeting Blake out of everyone else.

[@Vulgarth1]

Just a slight correction around 21:50, because it sounds like a very vague complaint - it's established in the film that The Thing isn't just absorbing and replicating, but can assimilate you on the cellular level. Wilford Brimley makes a point of it when he runs a test on a cell sample with human blood. The Thing cells replace the blood entirely and then turn back into a mimicry of blood cells. So the game having people become "infected" like a zombie virus is entirely feasible!

[@Luis519RS]

If anything I feel it could have a darkest dungeon setup for the trust and stress. A place where you leave your party, to relax, heal, and turn into horrible space abominations while you were off doing something else. Maybe even sending them in parties to do critical objectives that need to be done within a timeframe or lose, that build trust as you trusted them enough to do it without you keeping an eye on them, or based on traits, mistrust you as they lost track of you. And then boom, spiced up troop system with ptsd and mistrust.

[@TinyGladiator]

Jesus, with all the blood they're losing during Thing-testing™ and the constant vomiting, I'm surprised the Thing even has anything left to infect. Guys are gonna end up looking like the Cryptmaster by the end of this.

[@CatCraine]

Man, I still remember Spoony's review of The Thing in the early KZbin era. Glad to see Mandalore does too.

[@slimjim2584]

Now there is a name i have not heard in a long, long time...

[@Superstorm22]

Seeing this pop up made me thing of that and go back and watch it. Damn made me feel old lol

[@samzilla567]

Fuse Box #36

[@vinesauceobscurities]

Dammit, Collins, this is the second time you pulled this stunt! Knock it off!

[@WordoftheElderGods]

@@samzilla567 I had that sweatshirt.

[@Rufert]

Urgh I had the misfortune of playing the PC version of this a couple of years back. My most vivid memory is the "escape the exploding base" section, in that if you came into that level from the ballache that was the previous with less than (I think) 40 or so health you were softlocked due to mandatory damage. It also wasn't just immediately obvious. Smaller explosions would poke at you as you tried to run the gauntlet, I'd eventually die, try again from the awful auto save, trying to figure out if there is a path through or at least some health to pick up. But to the best of my efforts I didn't find it. Luckily I had a save. And it was back to the previous level of things being hurled at you while your auto aim decided it wanted to shoot things further away and try to make it through that one taking less damage.

[@WarLore]

yeah that game was insanely mid as hell

[@alexeyeliseev6322]

I have overall good memories of the game, except for that same exact level

[@imjustsomeguy5048]

That's the part where I stopped playing: fun game, but I couldn't be asked to go back two levels because I didn't have enough health to survive the scripted damage

[@Jimbo55151]

LOTR games with new skin would be fun” Does that mean we are getting an Eragon the game review Mandy?

[@mwroberson9084]

Please Mandy I absolutely loved this game as a kid I’d kill to be able to play it

[@igorthelight]

@@mwroberson9084 I can help with playing it ;-) * Google "Eragon My Abandonware" and download it * Google "Eragon PC Gaming wiki" and read how to fix potential problems

[@JoshSweetvale]

19:18: "Frog blast the vent core!"

[@lordfriedrick7911]

Nightdive is like that new little kid on the block that no one knows personally, but always brings gifts for everyone Even if those gifts are stuff you already own, you can see that he wrapped thinking about you And everyone loves him for it

[@elijahjarman2837]

Love the QUARANTINE pfp man

[@YouTubePremiumDude]

Everyone in the comments doing their best mandalore impressions

[@carlpotter1926]

How do I get him to re-release Syndicate Wars? All I have in the ideas box is, 'Burn the words Syndicate Wars into his lawn with weedkiller', or 'Seduce his mother (Muffdive) and attempt to win his affection despite not being his real dad'. Either way....I want Syndicate Wars goddamnit!

[@silkdust8069]

​@@carlpotter1926"no man you got it wrong. I fucked your mom because I wanted to get along with you"

[@lich109]

The original had a lot of problems, not the least being the part where your companions will always transform at key points. This is exactly the kind of Remaster I love to see, regardless of whether or not the end result is great: a poor game received an update that was desperately needed to fix key issues.

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

I got it on release and that was the point I stopped playing, when I did a blood test on someone, walked down the corridor. and he instantly turned.

[@darkman7009]

Especially the flamethrower was bad in original. The auto target keep forcing player shot the floor near the thing rather than straight forward on it. Making difficult nas had to use fps aiming

[@Batchall_Accepted]

Honestly fixing the scripted transformations was the #1 thing I wanted from the remaster, because it rendered all the trust and fear mechanics pretty much irrelevant. Everything else after that is just a bonus.

[@johnny5805]

It IS weird how they able to obtain the rights for the movie from Universal Pictures, but NOT Ennio Morricone's score, which you'd think would have been part of the deal because it IS part of the film. Morricone has his own page on Universal Music Publishing, with a button to inquire about licenses. Morricone also famously reclaimed copyrights on several of his other film scores under the 35 year rule of the 1976 Copyright Act. So maybe he did that with The Thing ? But then, Morricone's own website doesn't even list The Thing under his score-ography ! It's all abit strange !

[@KingThrillgore]

The Thing score and most of the Morricone library is owned by Kobalt, not Universal.

[@Azf12]

Nightdive just casually dropping The Thing Remastered after the System Shock remake is a baller move

[@DinoDave150]

28:06 That is actually pretty creepy, I won't lie. Also, I think it's pretty safe to say The Thing had malicious intent considering the fact that since it's capable of speech it could've just told eveyone it encountered it wanted to leave instead of becoming immediately violent the second it's ratted out.

[@UnsoberIdiot]

Yes, clearly, the very alien alien is not only capable of knowing, but understanding and communicating with us. What we saw was mimickry- it copied/overrode the subject. Perhaps all it knew was how the original would act, and that it made sound X to get effect Y. Assuming that it understood what it was saying- or even the concept of speech- is going too far. For all we know, it's not even intelligent or sentient, and is running on pure instincts, or whatever its equivalent would be.

[@Rebelnutt]

I think the second it consumed someone it learned our language which was applied in the movie. The general whoever is clearly in control however I'm guessing the original thing is trying to escape and send blake that message. It already knows that a government will experiment on it and attempt so an apocalypse by the general it wouldn't mind at all.

[@setlerking]

I love the idea of a brick building in antarctica 1:08. like imagine a bunch of union bricklayers being shipped out there to build a research station like it's a new york brownstone or something

[@OHYisWatching]

Just what the doctor prescribed, a mandalore vid to end the year

[@diamondmetal3062]

Wait, you’re telling me the Thing wasn’t a plague? Cuz like, we see it acting on a cellular level in the movie, and that guy who got mauled by one of them during the blood test began to turn into one.

[@shytheguy3004]

Ah… Just in time for the Holidays.

[@_oBSOLEte_]

Game's been out for more than twenty years bro.

[@haru9709]

"Game over "->awkward "on fire" animation that suddenly stops->"I don't think so." This scene from the original STILL makes me smile due to the voice acting and scene. Also loved the Spoony throwbacks.

[@toaster9922]

All I remember about this game is when Jerma played it and had a laugh attack after being shown a photoshopped capture of his webcam

[@TheMilitia2012]

You had me wondering with the Riverdance joke, but the post credits sealed it for me and I love you all the more for it Mandalore. Great video

[@aldraone-mu5yg]

Watching Jerma and Spoony both losing their minds trying to play the original is one of my fondest internet memories.

[@Aurelian0131]

You got a link to that video? I haven't seen it in years.

[@CMYK_COLOR_MODE]

I don't think Spoony lost his mind because of that game.

[@lauravoss4936]

"BULLSHIT! I tested him! He was FINE!" Good stuff.

[@SpecShadow]

@@Aurelian0131 might look it yourself - Spoony might delete it and you can't paste links in YT comments anyway

[@gex6692]

Jerma moment

[@powervidsful]

The reason blake is a action movie hammy along with the game characters is because it's based on John carpenter the guy who more or less defined it. They probably figured since it's an action game might as well. Remember these aren't the smart scientists, it's the escape from new york types.

[@connorsimpson503]

I like Blake, I thought he was a bad ass. He was a good protagonist imo.

[@KingThrillgore]

"Welcome to the alien race"

[@sukamadik5983]

I'm just glad so many people are having fun playing with their Thing for Christmas. Whether it's your first time or you're doing it many years later out of nostalgia I hope y'all enjoy this experience and Merry Christmas to all 🎉🎄🎁

[@lilacorkindheart8325]

Thank You, and a Merry Christmas to you as well! I have good memories of this game from my teenage years: My Uncle brought this game for us one day. I think it was somewhere around November. It was a pleasent suprise. We loved the game and didn't mind the bugs that happend. I simply accepted them as they were and moved, enjoying the game more and forgetting about the bugs. Ah... Such good times.

[@PedroKing19]

who up playing witht their thing

[@bonejuice4280]

I love playing with my thing every day

[@hack212]

God, that entire Colins section, the end of the video and a couple other moments sent me back in time to more happier times. I haven't heard Spoony in years. What the hell even is time?

[@NeuronicPlague]

I love the tiny nod to Spoony at the end. Hope he's doing OK...

[@CatCraine]

He had an interview with the actor from Phantasmagoria 2 a while back and he looked alot better. Not sure he could keep up the energy afterwards.

[@lawfulstupid643]

@@CatCraine He appears fairly frequently as a co-commentator in that guy's adventure game streams now. Seems he's still better than he's been for a fair while.

[@kristoffer8609]

I don't.

[@jimbob3332]

He infrequenly streams on KZbin

[@Sassy_Witch]

what happened?

[@hotshooter31]

13:09 has to be a reference to the Jerma freakout. Love to see it

[@johnvalid]

The delivery of "Larsen" (a name) is actually not too far off and they seem to actually have tried to say it correctly. The response of "Vegard" (another name) is someone who didn't try very hard. That being said these are both very in line with the 1982 movie where the crazy Norwegian guy they come across in the beginning who yells "IDIOTER. Det er ikke en hund. Det er en slags ting. Den bare imiterer" (Idiots, it's not a dog, it's a thing. It just imitates) aside from spoiling the movie for native Norwegian speakers is also very obviously not a native speaker either.

[@pierluigiadreani2159]

I understand that the middle sentences may be hard to understand for an english speaking person but "idioter and "den bare imiterer" can be understood even without knowing norwegian.

[@SuperHansimann]

The intro of both this game and the movie will always be silly and funny to me. Especially the movie. The guy sounds like an american speaking Norwegian. It's good it is in the beginning because it would have thrown me off if it happened in the middle of the movie. The prequel/remake uses Norwegian actors which is cool. Suck that the movie isn't more original.

[@UnsoberIdiot]

@@pierluigiadreani2159 More or less all of it can be understood. Sure, you may not know "ikke", "slags", or "bare", but you should be able to piece it together. Then again, many people are very silly, and simply go "this is not my language".

[@mollylong3571]

​@pierluigiadreani2159 also how much can it really "spoil" the movie haha, it's a horror movie called The Thing and the dog acts very sinister immediately like. Not too difficult to figure out the dog is a thing.

[@shouphf]

Always a good time for an unexpected Mandalore video. I'll forever remember this game from watching the Spoony series on it.

[@RiPerils]

HA! That Spoonyone bit at the end was a nice touch.

[@mark19800]

Love your reviews and wish you uploaded every week. Your channel is amazing.👍

[@The_Haruspex]

6:02 "Alright CO, what squad am I leading?" "We're putting you in charge of Beta Squad." "...you mean Bravo?" "Nope. Beta. You're in charge of the Betas." "F-"

[@falldownpit]

*sees the clip of Macready on PC with clips of the Staircase bit* "I like where this is going..."

[@ThomasMurch]

0:38 - A joke THAT good, THIS EARLY in the video? See, that's why I click on MG's thumbnails as soon as I see 'em.

[@fry1231256]

Do you know what game that is? I can’t figure it out

[@ThomasMurch]

@@fry1231256 I think the three games shown in this bit are Bee Movie Game, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

[@fry1231256]

@@ThomasMurch thank you

[@dante666jt]

Obviously it was the thing

[@Laxhoop]

Could you imagine if this game had been a legit survival horror, with similar mechanics to the Blade Runner Point and Click, where each new game would randomly decide which of your own teammates would be infected, meaning that you could never fully trust the people helping you shoot at the rest of the enemies?

[@zerosnakemyth7274]

I did not know you where involved with hooded horse. I have been keeping my eye on them for some time and have been blown away with their games. I have almost all the titles they publish. Might just be my niche. But there is something about the games they find and publish that has me hooked and waiting for more. I really hope they continue to have succes. We need more like them.

[@VoiceOfEscape]

That final second of Spoony audio flashed me back to my childhood of endlessly rewatching his Ultima reviews, glad to know Mandalore has knowledge of those treasures.

[@gasmonkey1000]

Man Im getting Spoony flashbacks. Need that Fusebox Counter

[@DoodsUnited]

So glad the Riverdancing was referenced!

[@Finlandcitizen]

*Ding*

[@johnnydoe6325]

So was Mandalore,judging by the stinger 😉

[@Sylocat]

I think that was the first video of Spoony's I ever watched.

[@KingThrillgore]

Hearing Marv return a few times after his absence from the last few reviews makes me very happy.

[@boombox8118]

Literally checked the channel just to see if mandy uploaded earlier today, now a few hours later and lo and behold

[@RandomStreamArchives]

This game was also supposed to be canon to the movie. Spoony in his review at the time did point out how ridiculous that was.

[@-Raylight]

Heard that they added some details where the character missing in the movie is explained here, that's cool Home Alone, LotR, and The Thing are perfect for Christmas xD

[@XShadoWPaws]

I was waiting the whole video for a Spoony reference. You didn't disappoint at the end.

[@rank10ygo]

0:34 grrr hop off Bee Movie The Game......

[@perryborn2777]

That's what I'm sayin', pretty sure I 100%ed it on the PS2

[@vos2693]

Just bee urself

[@Unknown-hb3id]

Thank you! Literally thought the same thing

[@protophase]

I always love how you use the Goosebumps music for your intros

[@ConnyBaby]

Thank you Mandy. It’s been a hard week so seeing you upload rlly brightened my day

[@commentymccommentface9748]

Seeing Mando review a game that’s been in the back of my mind for over a decade thanks to the night dive rerelease really make a bummer of a day much better

[@jimbob3332]

I replied with "who talks like that?" on instinct only for Spoon-dog himself to say it.

[@_..--]

No one talks about it.. but as a kid.. I loved how the fucked up situations I put my companions in had them committing sewer slide. I was an edgy 15 year old, I probably made AMV's to that end theme song... and MSI.

[@StirringDead]

You should check out the short story 'The Things' by Peter Watts. Its a short story written from the Thing's point of view, and kinda leans into the concept of exploring it's motivations from beginning to end. It also happens to be very good, and you can find it online.

[@argonaut999]

These poor savage things will never embrace salvation...

[@sir.mannington]

I think I found out that staircase in the original had spawn triggers by walking in certain areas, so you backing up spawned more enemies behind you, so you just hd to push forward or get caught in an endless spawn loop.

[@mimicry5713]

I watch The Thing a few days ago. Encounter new mand vid. It’s about The Thing game. Not that unlikely in the grand scheme of things but still a neat coincidence

[@Taurevanime]

I am glad you got one little Spoony reference in the video. I was asking the Nightdive devs if they could add in a fusebox counter, but they ignored me.

[@Shoutatclouds]

The thing with the thing is that things are doing their thing

[@LE0NSKA]

you're the best at this. moments like these (around 8:05) where you just gameplay happen - supperb editing and clip choices. every time.

[@MahDryBread]

I had absolutely no idea that a "The Thing video game" remake was in the works, then suddenly it's here! I feel like that's the kind of thing I would have known about. I love weirdly ambitious games that constantly fall on their face

[@thefez-cat]

Love the callbacks to The Spoony One's review of this. I can't help but think of the Riverdance gag every time I see this game.

[@olo9127]

I watched jerma play this, and maybe it was just him, but the game seemed to wildly swing between masterful tension and ridiculous farce minute to minute

[@drakenel]

I forget who pointed it out, but the blood test system is borked beyond even what you think. It's not actually a straight test if infected y/n. What it does is roll a 1/3 chance (or maybe 1/4, I don't remember) for the squadmate to be infected. Completely regardless if they've been hit or anything that would be considered 'infected'. So someone completely clean could have multiple blood tests done on them and the third one in a row would show they're infected and they'll change. As always, best option is to only use them on yourself.

[@sheets75]

Although it isn't clear in the movie, the original John W. Campbell story does make it clear that the creature is extremely malevolent. Along with other interesting tidbits, such as how the things aren't aware of each other and have no problem killing another one to keep hidden, or that it replicates human behavior so exactly that people infected never realize they're infected and will assume they're perfectly fine until the very moment the thing emerges from them. I have the original game for the Xbox and thought it was kind of alright but disappointing. It seems that until Night Dive gets big enough to start roping in licenses for bigger titles, their niche is going to be doing these loving remasters of odd and flawed old games.

[@therideneverends1697]

Honestly though setting it up so that you team *Could* break out into a paniced mess of friendly fire would be pretty awsome though. like everyone just looses their mind thinking the other person is infact, not a person and it just devolves into half your squad gunning eachother down while you frantically try to calm things.

[@GrizzlyClawss]

I remember seeing Jerma play it. Probably the most fun I’ve ever had watching someone play a game.

[@Mordewolt]

"thigs can get Polished up" said Mando, while holding a flamethrower

[@tabaccotantony]

I really want a game with the squad/transformation mechanics in the style of Dead Space or Parasyte Eve

[@crazytim8256]

20:02 is so slick and brilliant. Never stop supplying us with high-brow history memes, Mandy.

[@Garl_Vinland]

Seeing the B Movie game footage overlapping “2002” gave me an existential crisis

[@PsychoWolf14]

MANDY THE SPOONY BIT MANDALORE WHAWT THE FUCK I WAS LIKE "AWH YEAH IM READY TO HEAR ABOUT THIS CRAZY GAME AGAIN, KINDA MISS THAT PSYCHO SPOONY." AND THEN THE SPOONY AUDIO CLIP. Thank you Sir Mandalore, thank you.