Wii FPS Analysis: Conduit 2 - Duke Nukem Included - JarekTheGamingDragon

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

Head to Keeps.com/Jarek to get 50% off your first order of hair loss treatment. Thanks to every one that joined me on twitch! If you want to hang out for more Wii FPS this month then give a follow! www.twitch.tv/jarek4gamingdragon

[@afd19850]

Hey Jarek! I am converting from console to PC. You seem to be able to run most games (including Cyberpunk) are you able to share your specs please? PS love the content!

[@Gruntvc]

The Nintendo Switch begs for a game like The Conduit or Timesplitters 2/Future Perfect. Switch is not great for FPS games.

[@AndroidFerret]

Thanks ..I play most of them on android..its awesome ..especially the conduit 2

[@das096]

Man we need to start a petition the get conduit 3 made some how, that endings the most "America FUCK YA!" thing iv ever seen.

[@kermitator8345]

@Kristopher Wickline if your asking is there any then yes I know theres at least 1 or 2

[@douglaslevati7030]

It's not baldness, it's excessive masculinity.

[@Thraakull]

chicks dig thick eyebrows anyway

[@radioactivetrees9626]

Hmm

[@donavan2517]

Yknow, I really like the corny story. It reminds me of that era, before every game cost a hundred zillion dollars to make and back when you could sell a video game as just a game with a little story... instead of every game ever needing to be this super serious realistic 'immersive' environment. This is a video game, and it knows it.

[@drivanradosivic1357]

the funny thing is, games had the immersive sim genre, but apparently that is too hard to make. but it is very lovely(for me) to play. agreed that "supah seriooous realiztik" gmaes are boring for they sacrifice fun for being a interactive movie.

[@thesequeltoobama7030]

@@drivanradosivic1357 I agree to a point, some games like Rainbow and EFT get the balance of arcade style gameplay with more ‘realistic’ elements like drastically lower time to kill and all that, and they still manage to stay fun. What’s the worst is when you drop into a game of ARMA tryna fuck about with your mates and you stumble across a bunch of milsim neckbeards that get angry if you break rank

[@ivansalamon7028]

@@thesequeltoobama7030 Erm, what the hell is arcadey about either of those, especially EFT? It has gamey aspects, I mean duh, its a game. But it is as realistic as they come. I disagree with you two. Realistic doesn't mean not fun. Some of the best, most gripping games I have ever played were and are realistic. And games were not necessarily unrealistic because they were older. Gamey? Sure. Worse? NAh.

[@thesequeltoobama7030]

@@ivansalamon7028 what’s arcadey about rainbow six, a hero shooter with a man so muscular that he can literally run through a wall? Or how all of the riot shield operators can sprint forever whilst holding a huge armoured shield in front of them? Is there any chance of bleeding if you get hit? I don’t know, in retrospect rainbow six now appears to me as the epitome of realism. EFT, whilst having a stronger sense of realism in damage taking/healing, resource management and more of a traditional ‘realistic’ combat system, it still doesn’t feel like a true ‘realism’ game like squad or insurgency. Now, you seem to have misunderstood my point, and this may be in part to my shoddy wording. I don’t hate games that aim for a more grounded and real feel at all, with arma 3 being one of my most played games on pc. I just think the fun is taken out of it when a huge group of a player base try and enforce this idea that if you’re not pretending you’re in the military and doing call signs and all that shit you’re just a waste of space on the server. I understand this for more high stakes games of squad or arma, but sometimes I want to be able to experience a more grounded game but also be able to talk shit to my mates without getting hounded by some nonce probably too overweight to get into the real military.

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

I think there's a balance where tone is the most important factor as to what does and doesn't work. If a story is trying to be serious or intense, then an immersive and realism-centric style can work incredibly. If a Game's story is supposed to be campy or outrageous than a more tongue-in-cheek tone is justified and can really help make the experience fun and exciting. Different end goals require different paths of getting there. Case-in point. Compare The Last of Us, (the first one) and any given Devil May Cry game. Last of Us' narrative is so heavily built around genuine human emotion and realistic reactions to grief that an immersive tone is really the only way to go. If it were like DMC with a wise cracking protagonist doing somersaults over crumbling buildings and fucking around with his enemies constantly then almost none of that powerful message would have gotten through. Meanwhile if Devil May Cry had a super grounded tone where almost no fantasy elements were present and Dante was just this introspective, sad man who only ever talks about his tragic past then almost none of the series' charm would make it through. (Hell, in the case of the latter the campy tone works for the story because once the comic relief and silliness stops and more focus is put on drama it stands out to the player and makes them focus.) The reason Corney plots you're not supposed to take seriously died out is because they feel disposable. A campy, over the top narrative can still have a genuine effect on someone if there's heart behind it. Meanwhile a dramatic, thickly layered plot can draw the player into another place and resonate on an emotional level. Simple, Corney plots with no thematic consistency just feel supplementary and uninteresting.

[@mageleader3699]

Don't forget the Goldeneye remake, Jarek! You can't do a month of Wii shooters without it. It's really good.

[@kevboard]

it's not a remake, people really need to stop referring to it as a remake. it's a new game based on the same movie. just like Star Wars on NES and Super Star Wars on SNES were 2 separate games based on the same movie. it has almost nothing in common with the N64 game, not even the same Bond actor!

[@mageleader3699]

@@kevboard Chill, dog. I'll call it a reboot if it makes you feel better.

[@lonergothonline]

I'd like to see him play XBLA goldeneye. its a goldeneye remake for xbox 360. its the same game though.

[@sponcthespork9352]

I think it came out on other consoles as golden eye reloaded

[@codezero7981]

@@kevboard Activision calls it a "re-imagining" better yet ?

[@SgtMjRomero]

6:44 No cap. Once you know you're hearing John St. John's voice, you can't unhear it ever again

[@SgtMjRomero]

Ok, there is one exemption. Dr. Heskel from Ion Fury is John St. John. He's starting to flex his muscles a lot more outside of the usual Duke Nukem voice, although with Postal Dude you can still tell

[@DudeOfTheRule]

I will always be sad that Conduit 3 was never a thing. This game was a huge part of my childhood, I remember playing survival mode with my friend who lived next door, we would go as long as we could before the game crashed after a number of waves. It was so much fun regardless of any jank and poor performance!!

[@faustianimperium6066]

Will you review the classic FPS game “Mr Krabs overdoses on ketamine and dies”

[@justadeer2660]

Absolute god

[@a4arick106]

Yes

[@coffee0093]

Main character asserts his dominance by slamming his MP5 into the fresh magazine

[@haarold_]

This kinda makes me want to get a Wii...

[@Carnyzzle]

All you'll need is a wiimote+nunchuck and the sensor bar

[@diegodias1998]

Got one for a few bucks this past year and I've been having a blast, but you can always get a wiimote + nunchuck and a USB sensor bar to play on Dolphin and play with some enhancements.

[@dylan8736]

Snake got that drip.

[@dirtywaterzoso8917]

Feel it

[@V1VISECT6]

there cool systems for homebrew

[@Dukelol323]

wii first person shooters were such a weird novelty. i am happy to see a whole month covering these games.

[@Mr.X---47]

Goldeneye and cod black ops I think were a lot of fun on Wii

[@themanwithnoname2538]

Goldeneye Wii is what got me into shooters. Fucken classic.

[@cameronellinger9177]

I didn’t even know they had black ops on wii, I remember playing cod 2 & 3 doe

[@samuelc6246]

@@cameronellinger9177 I seem to remember the Wii launched with CoD 3, that game actually being on the shelves before the Wii itself was released. Every CoD game between from 3 to MW3 came to Wii, except for MW2, I believe.

[@Gruntvc]

Goldeneye Wii was okay, but it wasn't a faithful remake of the N64 classic. It pretty much butchered the story from the movie too, especially for 006. CoD on Wii is hit or miss. A level was removed from BO1 and the other ports had stuff removed too. It wasn't until the Wii U that Nintendo got ports nearly identical to Xbox 360 like BO2.

[@Calvin_Coolage]

@@Gruntvc Actually Moderm Warfare Reflex is 1 to 1, aside from no DLC pack.

[@Phantron]

Conduit 2 is kind of a spiritual successor to Perfect Dark by looking at the weapons and few design choices !

[@carcosian]

The flaming meathook on the super shotgun gives it a third advantage, being the most metal shit ever.

[@scarlettNET]

I really wish they made a third one.

[@Gruntvc]

Dev is still around. Nintendo doesn't seem interested in a FPS exclusive as they were during the GameCube and Wii days. Switch could use one for sure.

[@Jak239JC]

@@Gruntvc True they even help with the new saints row game and original game called Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. It's seems the conduit was a thing they did for wii and just stopped it when nintendo didn't want it no more. What a shame a third game would be cool.

[@Mr.Foxhat]

The dev team was working on a game very similar to Splatoon before the Wii U came out. Unfortunately there was a leaker inside the dev team that caused Nintendo to cancel the project. I wish High Voltage would work on original games again.

[@GBDupree]

I remember the developers, after this game released, were teasing that they wanted to make a 3rd one, but instead of talking more in depth about that they instead showed off a demo they made of a port of Halo 2 to the 3DS that they wanted to make official but never got the greenlight from either Microsoft or Nintendo. It apparently was a well-done port iirc. The developers were apparently tech wizards since the Conduit 2 looks so good because they use graphical techniques from the 360 on it, basically making it a 360 game running on the Wii. The 360 graphics thing was from previews and interviews of the game before release, whereas the Halo 2 tech demo was from one of the E3 shows at some point, but I can't remember the exact year or anything.

[@hippie9052]

Am I the only one that really likes that shotgun animation? It feels sooo satisfying ngl

[@Evan-rv7zr]

My gamer PTSD was triggered hard by those armor lock clips

[@theFROZEX]

The mod "Reach Evolved" removes armor abilities and makes weapins feel more powerful like the first Halo. Never liked Reach but with this mod I actually enjoyed it without the COD era jank.

[@coastercordell2172]

Proof conduit 2 is a legend No reference to the Dark Star.

[@novamous777]

I used to fuck people’s shit up with that on multiplayer

[@Jayalen]

Duke voice actor and alien enemies.... So its a Duke Nukem game in disguise

[@wgreenewgreene1022]

After seeing that ending i wish conduit 3 was a thing

[@j03T3XAz]

man... lots of great memories attached to this game. The gravity gun is still one of the coolest guns Ive ever used. Pretty much Half Life for console kiddos.

[@SgtMjRomero]

8:36 Ok that's pretty badass tbh. Can't wait for The Conduit 3 to come out on the Wii+ or the Switch

[@bloodypsycho6025]

I unfortunately think its a dead IP now

[@winlover37]

Played these games until the servers shutdown and I'm very sad it didn't move on to the Wii U/Switch. If anything I think now's a great time for it to comeback given the FPS boom on switch.

[@winlover37]

Glad to see a review that gives this game the credit it deserves. Not a masterpiece by any means, but the technical achievements and passion put into this game show. I bought this game when it launched and I loved every second of it. Crazy it's been 9 fucking years!

[@jasonbenjamin401]

Bro, no lie...after the Conduit video I dragged out the WII I had in storage (My kids have grown and left it behind them) and bought a used copy of Conduit as well as Dead Space @ Half Priced Books and It is good. I put it on an old CRT to help the low rez problem of course!

[@Coccyx69]

Best ad timing ever! That beam of light shot into the sky and a corona beer ad started right on time!

[@chemergency]

You should cover Far Cry Vengeance too lol

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

God no lmao

[@chemergency]

@@Jarekthegamingdragon Stream it for like an hour just to laugh at the awful cutscenes and crusty graphics. Pleaaaaaase?

[@razorstargazer]

@@Jarekthegamingdragon Yes please do it! Also don't forget the GoldenEye game on the wii, I heard it wasn't that terrible, just kinda meh-

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

@@razorstargazer No thanks on either of these things

[@HeyItsJonny]

@@Jarekthegamingdragon aw

[@ianseara3789]

Hey Jarek, you should play Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth. It's an amazing atmospheric game, with an amazing story (even more so if you like Lovecraft) and interesting mecanics. It's the kind of game that we don't have this days. I love it. I recomend you to get the GOG version. Keep it up, dude, you're the best at this!

[@Gruntvc]

I wish they'd HD remaster it or at least fix the broken Steam version. Most Cthulhu games since are often walking simulators now. Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem was great too. Stuck on GameCube sadly.

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

Huh, looks interesting. I'll keep it in mind.

[@KurokishiOcelot]

Who needs hair when you have HAT

[@kaos-vi7mf]

Ngl even though this is late asf the wii content is indeeeeeed super entertaining considering the limitations of the wii and the controllers. didn’t know you did a whole month of this so every time I got a wii FPS video review in my recommendation I’d click on it and I’m glad I did because I found these absolute GEMS

[@0tteru]

one of your 3.8% reporting in jarek, been watching your videos since it was exclusively airsoft stuff back in the 2000s, keep up the good work dude :)

[@honestlynotanazi6063]

John St. John also voiced Daniel Garner in painkiller hell and damnation. This concludes that any game with the duke nukem voice actor makes it SO MUCH better!

[@GBDupree]

John St. John also voiced a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series: Big the Cat.

[@nihilisticnerd]

I loved playing Conduit 2. I remember inviting my friends over in highschool and we just screwed around on the multiplayer mode. Good times.

[@mannyvelizofficial]

Man I waited for this

[@brianblankenship1568]

Glad to see these under appreciated games getting some love. I really enjoyed both.

[@samz8691]

Reminds me a bit of Codename:STEAM with that ending.

[@samuelc6246]

Really underappreciated game...

[@wonphi]

Conduit 3 would be awesome. Loved playing this game on the Wii, I agree, it was a fun shooter, great to pick up and play.

[@ultraoverloadx9333]

Conduit 2 actually is a greater improvement on the first game. And the MC actually looks badass, I don’t see what people mean when they say this sequel is worst then the first game.

[@danielsinferno5733]

The first takes a more serious tone, whilst the second is a complete flip on the personality of the games.

[@novamous777]

The multiplayer for this game was honestly a whole ton of fun! I wish the servers were still on because I remember spending way too much time playing it when I was little

[@just-some-random-homie-0185]

Awww you missed Jon's best voice role ever Big the Cat.

[@residentkrockhead]

This series was the first shooter series I ever experienced. I loved both and fully admit that I look through both games with as rosy tinted glasses as you could imagine. Years later when I played duke Nukem I knew the voice sounded familiar! Love these two games and will most likely be getting a wiimote, nunchuck and sensor bar to relive the beginning of my love of shooters.

[@k9strike931]

8:44 George Washington was behind him too lol

[@acewolfgang276]

Great video :)

[@phazeflux7900]

It would be cool if they made a third one for the switch

[@samuelc6246]

And a third Red Steel.

[@nicholasdellipaoli226]

Or maybe a VR remake

[@WllKiedSnake]

Just port them over to Switch and make them 1080p 60fps.

[@lordfist111]

I'm so happy you're covering these games. I played and beat the first one like several years ago at my dad's. And I wasn't able to play the second one. And dude don't @ me. My hair is starting to fail me haha.

[@tylertheshark2494]

Hey Jared. Just wanted to say keep up the quality content man. It’s very unique gaming content and I can’t get enough of it dude 👌🏼

[@Matt-md5yt]

I really liked this game and I was a Jr/Sr in high School when it came out. still have some memories of it

[@JBWFILMS]

Hey great vid man. I just wanna say thank you for doing these reviews, they always help me know what games to get and not to get. Because of you I’ve gotten into the Half Life series, and now it’s pretty much one of my favorite FPS franchises of all time. Just finished the entirety of HL2 including the episodes. On my way to finish HL 1, OPF, and Blue Shift. Thanks again for the reviews and even playing these fun little Wii shooters. Edit: I’m 16 years old, just as old as HL2. These games are old, yet I like them much better then the newer games we get these days like Apex, Valorent, Overwatch, Fortnite, etc. Those games can’t even compete.

[@OblivionTanks]

Man the DarkStar was the most broken and OP weapon , especially when you have the upgrades maxed out. You can just spam Homing blackholes and if it doesn't have a target. It chases after you which was funny. The auto cannon is meant for getting out of bounds on some levels. If you know what I mean.

[@kermitator8345]

It's nice the wii isn't forgotten

[@NTXLV]

Multiplayer slapped hard . I miss it

[@JJ-Schmidt]

I loved this game. I played tf outa it and played the online pvp mode til the servers died. One of my favorite games from my childhood

[@No-sr5fb]

"Don't come into this expecting a story its about aliens and conspiracy theories" Sounds like real life brah

[@maxxmillion2562]

Saddens me we never got a 3rd game and probably ever won't. This was the first FPS on Wii I owned and it was an absolute blast to play, both Single player and Multiplayer. High Voltage Software (the developers) I remember we're really serious about making more games for the hardcore audience on the Wii, as they genuinely loved the console. They were even going to make a spiritual successor to Hunter the Reckoning called The Grinder, which was in sort of a beta phase, so you may be able to still find clips of it online. Still don't know why that never released. Nevertheless, thanks for covering the Conduit games. Good memories.

[@HQ_Default]

0:14 _Look Ma, there I am!_

[@Alpha117]

I was waiting for this. thanks man

[@anabsolutedegenerate8780]

Im glad people liked these games to this day,i though Jarek would never make videos about Conduit or Wii in general.I might make a mod for conduit or heck even maybe just new maps for conduit 2.Hopefully Conduit 1 and 2 is moddable for PC.

[@aureliusthegunsmith7203]

Came here cuz of your comment in the Souls of black rerecording. Glad to see you're still around

[@almightygod87]

Still has a legendary ending to this very day

[@jltroxell278]

This is one of my favorite games ever. I don't know why, it just is. I've played the campaign so many times.

[@lmncarlson]

I'd love to see you cover Goldeneye Wii at some point

[@ThommyofThenn]

It makes so much sense the viewers here wanted a full wii month

[@brendenpage3078]

THE ENDING WHAT

[@dr.wolfstar1765]

I really really really want Conduit 3

[@ptbunz2501]

Looking forward to the next video! You're right, now I can never unhear John St. John again 🤯

[@kevinbuchanan67]

I can't believe it looks this good. I beat it when it came out but forgot how good it looks. I wanna play it again

[@GBDupree]

If I remember correctly, the developers managed to get rendering effects thought only possible on the HD consoles to work in Conduit 2. So, it might literally be the best-looking Wii game because it's basically a 360 game in low resolution.

[@Oh_oh_its_Magic]

I didn't vocalize this in the first one but I very much do like the idea of a wii month tbh There quiet a few underrated titles on the Wii that most people don't even know about or aren't aware of because of the console's reputation.

[@mr.morningstar8350]

I think it's really cool that you're covering wii shooters

[@knowtheplan472]

What was it with older FPS games always having specifically a Spas 12 with a folded stock?

[@devindalton4688]

Area 51 let you dual wield a double barrel version of a Spas-12, one of my favorite shotguns in games

[@mr.apsylone9191]

The automatic turret was make for the wave game mode, and the wall rifle too. I past to many hours and this game with friends on the wave game mode xD

[@realMrPockets]

Abe Lincoln also voiced by Raiden. Love it.

[@frodosfrostbite]

Have you heard John st Jon’s covid 19 pick up lines?? 😂😂

[@aarbocc]

This was honestly one of my favorite games on the wii.

[@YaoiStick]

Lmao, still remember how mindblown I got when I learned that Jon St John voiced Big in Sonic Heroes going around screaming "FROGGY"

[@YaoiStick]

@@OniLinkBrazil1993 Aaah yes true, keep on forgetting that the Sonic Adventure games share most of the cast into Sonic Heroes. Sonic Heroes was my first Sonic game as kid so guess why that game first come into my brain now :^)

[@WllKiedSnake]

Brother in Arms did come to Wii by the way. Maybe worth a quick look?

[@KorotasGeckoGamingCorner]

You forgot one other voice people connect to John Saint John often, Big The Cat

[@jaysanj152]

Bad level aside,I think the Siberia level felt like the devs intentionally pulls a punch and makes fun of the infamous Library Level from Halo cus of how Deja vu and annoying it is so they included their version of it in this game..again just to poke fun at the Players and Halo.

[@kmysamaXX]

Conduit 2 was so good, at least I remember it being so good and I like the theme so much. But I believe while the tech used for the game evolved nicely from the first game, the late game wasn't as good as I thought. And the cliffhanger was dumb, not that I wouldn't have played it, hell I was a fan of High Voltage Software and was all over their news. Remember that demo or tech demo The Grinder that was supposed to be a terror or horror shooter?? Oh I wanted that game to happen so bad.... Then the WiiU happened and they got to work on Fortnite and seems like they won't do anything different than Fortnite.

[@Mr.Foxhat]

HVS also got bought out by Keyword Studios. That's a developer who mostly acts as a contractor for other studios (examples being The Last of Us Part 2, Fortnite, and others.)

[@dimmabek2132]

Yesss red steel 1 review is gonna be amazing, i hope...

[@Whiffly001]

Hope this and Conduit 1 get remastered someday.

[@Mr.Foxhat]

I would buy 5 copies of it if that happened. 3 so other people can have a copy, 1 for me to play the game, and the last for me to put on display with my Conduit memorabilia.

[@julienandrus4169]

maybe a conduit 3 on switch someday... we can only hope

[@misfit4816]

Wii paved the way for home VR

[@samuelc6246]

I think it's just that The Conduit was very hyped up, and even got a sort of limited release with a nice sleeve and an art book and such, and the second one just kind of... Happened. It felt cheaper when I got it day one, but I soon saw it was indeed a much better game in almost every way. Maybe to some other people the initial impression was stronger. I played it a lot, I played Duke Nukem a lot, but I actually cn't remember ever noticing it's the same guy, which is weird, since you pointing it out with those voice clips made it seem so ridiculously obvious. Wii was my main console, and I got nearly all somewhat worthwhile releases on it back then. Best console for shooters when treated with respect, a good gyro-aim enabled shooter on Switch in handheld as a close second (only outdone by a single 3DS game, Resident Evil Revelations with gyro on, on a New 3DS with the adjusting 3D angle)

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

Best console for shooters is quite easily 360. Nothing else really comes remotely close if you don't include PC.

[@uox179]

"The ending cant be that weird, can it?" HOLY FU-

[@banzaicroc9227]

Conduit 2 mp was the best mp on the wii. Oh yeah there was a glitch in the first where you could have a scar that would shoot rockets

[@milkapeismilky5464]

Great idea for a series!!!!

[@koba3824]

The AI that the main character talks to sounds really close to vega, from DOOM

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

I think the reason so many people said the sequel was worse ironically was the ending. (Stupidly long rant bc I was bored ahead.) Corney plots you can't takes seriously may not bug everyone, especially classic game fans who grew up with almost storyless games; but this was just around the time when serious storytelling in videogames was starting to take off. This came out in 2011, the same year as Portal 2, Arkham city, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Uncharted 3, and many other story driven titles. Additionally this was years after Halo had proven that a story driven trilogy could work with videogames, years after Half-Life 2's ultra immersive style cemented it as one of the greatest games of all time, and midway through the Mass Effect Trilogy, which proved that videogames have unique storytelling opportunities other forms of media don't. In the first video the concept of the Wii having no "Hardcore" games in its lineup alienating a big audience was brought up, and I feel like the story decisions of Conduit 2 are precisely what ejected the game from this market. This was a time when players were starting to take pride in games being seen as a legitimate storytelling device, since only a few years previously they were seen exclusively as the least intelligent, least artistically credible form of media. This "Hardcore" movement was a big part of what changed the stigma and made detailed or interesting game plots mainstream. But beyond the quality of these stories, the tone and intent was arguably the most important part. Cartoonish styles with minimal plot or consistency were starting to be seen as obsolete and lazy. It was hard to argue that a game's story having no interesting themes or characters was better than games which put in the effort to have both. To be seen as part of this "Hardcore" movement a game needed to at least feel like it was trying to be mature and interesting. in retrospect, many games from this era were claiming to have more substance then they really did; but it's that promise of something more which convinced people to make a purchase. The Conduit 1's plot was poorly communicated, but it still dealt with "Hardcore" themes and story beats like genetic experimentation, government coverups, and terrorism. It had the image of a hardcore game with a serious story; it just needed to do a better job making use of cutscenes and gameplay rather than exposition dumps. Conduit 2 on the other hand has a silly plot which feels like it knows how hard it is to take seriously and does not care. Ending the story with American presidents traveling through time in power armor to fight aliens is hilarious, but it doesn't feel "Hardcore" at all. At this time in the industry, this felt like another low effort, no inspiration story written with the "It's a videogame, no one cares" mentality players were desperately trying to distance themselves from at this point.This hurts especially bad for Wii players who saw the first game as validation that they were still part of this new movement. That being said; it's not that a campy plot like this was doomed to fail, but coming after a more serious one, and feeling like it was only silly for silliness sake ruined its chances at being received well. Borderlands came out during this time frame too, and it was very campy. So were most big Japanese games on the market. The difference however, is that these games still had heart to their stories; underneath their silly exteriors there were still emotional plots which gave them credibility. you didn't need to be edgy or realistic to be seen as valid, but you did need to feel like there was effort applied. Conduit 2's ending being so insane and unexpected is really funny and entertaining at face value; but it plays directly into the stigma players didn't want to be associated with. This was not a game proving that it was as valid a form of entertainment as film, it was the undesired silliness this community wanted nothing to do with anymore. (TL;DR That ending, along with a generally sillier atmosphere throughout the game gave a lot of players a bad impression because this was the time when everyone was pushing to prove that games actually could have good stories.)

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

So what I'm understanding is that gamers were insecure and wanted to be accepted by people that didn't even play video games.

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

@@Jarekthegamingdragon That's definitely a way to put it, lol. Great work on the videos btw.

[@WllKiedSnake]

@@Jarekthegamingdragon I'll have to look through my draw filled with Wii FPS games to suggest some to play. There are some obscure ones I forget. Are you not counting out Third Person Shooters?

[@dannyreed7600]

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[@LordFlaggy]

YESSSS GIVE US MORE WII REVIEWS

[@BushBumperBaker]

I know the Wii controls are what made this game stand out more, but honestly I would kill for a PC Conduit 3.

[@NEPHALEM4751]

The Deatomizer Mk4 aka the future looking vector in "the conduit" if you charge it, it sounds like the charge sound from metroid prime its very cool i guess lol

[@AnonEMus-cp2mn]

I remember my disappointment when this game was delayed a year before its eventual release, but quickly forgotten about due to the release of Call of Duty MW2, and other FPS games through the following years. Ironic because I originally got the first Conduit game because the store didn't have a copy of Call of Duty MW.

[@Tucher97]

I always find the concept of sprinting for 20 seconds and suddenly they are winded, I am someoen who walks to and from work, a 30 minute walk to and back, I run for roughly 30 seconds (maybe a little more) before I need to chug down water to stop my lungs feeling dry.

[@PlumbDrumb]

I always thought the Wiimote would be good for FPS, but unfortunately the main audience for the Wii was everyone BUT fps players.

[@JagGentlemann]

I remember buying the first Conduit along with the Orange Box (just for Team Fortress 2, I don't like Half Life). I played it a bit but I spend the entire summer in TF2. I bought Conduit 2 a year or so ago and haven't played it yet. Considering your reviews, I'll probably skip the first one and play this instead. I look forward to the Red Steel reviews. I don't have bad memories of the first one, but that was when the Wii was released and I didn't finish it. I remeber enemies spamming voices though. I got the second one also a year or so, played it for a bit, it was okay, didn't finish it. I have to go back to it someday.

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

You lost me at "I don't like half-life"

[@thegaspoweredmidget117]

I’m looking forward to you doing red steel I loved playing them when I was younger

[@LovelessDogg1]

I loved the first game, but I never played the Second. I think it came out at a time where I wasn’t particularly in a position of spending money. Lol

[@LEGEON29RUS]

So... it is VEGA and Duke, epic

[@lightberricsHDHD]

i might be late but just watched pervious vidoe and now seeing this yes yes yes month of wii here we come :D

[@jgzzv1697]

God I remember playing this with my brother for hours

[@NobleS1236]

We need a Conduit 3! I must see Abe Lincoln killing stuff in a mech!