Unskippable: Damnation

[HobbesMkii]

Wait, are you on the side of the Confederacy in this game? Because, uh... they kinda didn't have a whole lot of sympathetic arguments on their side. I mean, that whole slavery thing kinda negates any "We're seceding to preserve our states' rights!"

Also, I feel bad saying this, but I've recently had a lot of trouble differentiating some of the voice overs in these cut scenes from the humorous comments. Sometimes the voice over sounds like... uh... Graham? Paul? Whoever talks first in this video. This causes a lot of problems, because often I'll laugh at what I think is a brilliant piece of ad-lib, but in fact turns out to be an actual line from the game. I don't know if that means you guys are doing a great job, or one of you could do voice-over work for videogames, or that you've done a great job selecting terrible games. Probably a combo of all three.

 

[Reinis]

I mean, really, they tried to go all futuristic, while trying to seem rustic and old at the same time. So dumb.

Guess you've never heard of steampunk [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk].

 

[PulP FictioN]

I'm pretty sure that half the white house got burnt down by canadians in 1812, but I guess its cool to think that robots did it...I guess?

 

[Tesahli]

That was the dumbest game I have ever seen. I mean, really, they tried to go all futuristic, while trying to seem rustic and old at the same time. So dumb.

Zombie General Mecha Grant. Lulz.

It's called "Steampunk". Bioshock was steampunk. Would you call that game or its art style dumb?
They (damnation) did some Steampunk elements excellently well while catastrophically failing at others. The attires are great, as are some of the machines. Jet-powered motorcycles are a no-no.

Sadly, while the setting was good (at times), the voice acting was awful and the gameplay was dull, dull, dull.

Bioshock is actually not Steampunk, it's a lesser known category known as Biopunk; so far it may be the only (or at least most well known) Biopunk game yet.

Bioshock didn't include any real steam technology, it was based in the 1960's and used mostly vacuum tubes and 1960's era computer technology. Whereas Cyberpunk may be categorized by the integration of humanity and cybernetics, or the birth of a humanized Artificial Intelligence, Biopunk is the advancing of humanity through biogenetics and the generally dystopian and subversive results that come out of it.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Believe it or not they somehow figured out a way. You can clearly see what the devs were trying to accomplish. They just missed the mark.

Yeah, I looked into it afterwards and saw it got some pretty mediocre reviews from people who played it. Not to mention slipping off into nonsense in near the ending of the video. I was disappointed.

 

[Symplify]

That was the dumbest game I have ever seen. I mean, really, they tried to go all futuristic, while trying to seem rustic and old at the same time. So dumb.

Zombie General Mecha Grant. Lulz.

It's called "Steampunk". Bioshock was steampunk. Would you call that game or its art style dumb?
They (damnation) did some Steampunk elements excellently well while catastrophically failing at others. The attires are great, as are some of the machines. Jet-powered motorcycles are a no-no.

Sadly, while the setting was good (at times), the voice acting was awful and the gameplay was dull, dull, dull.

I've never played Bioshock, but, yes, I would say the genre is dumb.

Really? Why, precisely?
(Not trolling or anything. I'm genuinely curious because I personally love Steampunk. What better than steam-powered machines, Victorian dresses (or, as TvTropes would call it "Gorgeous Period Dress", British accents and everything made out of brass, copper and wood?

Well, that's really the whole reason. The concept just seems dumb to me. It didn't happen because it was not viable. I don't really go for the genre of games where things are based on a ridiculous or unrealistic pretense, but I'm not saying that they shouldn't exist. I just wouldn't play them.

I couldn't pin one thing down and say that was why this whole style seems ridiculous to me, it's sort of a collection of things.

Also, I feel bad saying this, but I've recently had a lot of trouble differentiating some of the voice overs in these cut scenes from the humorous comments. Sometimes the voice over sounds like... uh... Graham? Paul? Whoever talks first in this video. This causes a lot of problems, because often I'll laugh at what I think is a brilliant piece of ad-lib, but in fact turns out to be an actual line from the game. I don't know if that means you guys are doing a great job, or one of you could do voice-over work for videogames, or that you've done a great job selecting terrible games. Probably a combo of all three.

I've had that issue too, and I'm inclined to believe it's a collection of all three.

 

[0p3rati0n]

Wow, I learned alot about the Civil War today.

I know me too. I now know jet motorcycles only worked in that time and not today.

"damnation...... a nation of beavers?!"

Also the civil war would be cooler if it was like that. Then just imagine what WWI would look like............... then WW2!!!!!!!

Great episode

 

[Stabby Joe]

Since this game got a real thrashing from critics, no surprise this was on the chopping board this week lol!

The concept and steampunk style of the game is cool but WHY did they screw up on everything!?

 

[Snipingkid]

"I laugh at your puny bullets and comical underboob."
Made me laugh.

 

[Tesahli]

Well, that's really the whole reason. The concept just seems dumb to me. It didn't happen because it was not viable. I don't really go for the genre of games where things are based on a ridiculous or unrealistic pretense, but I'm not saying that they shouldn't exist. I just wouldn't play them.

I couldn't pin one thing down and say that was why this whole style seems ridiculous to me, it's sort of a collection of things.

I think if you're not playing games that have ridiculous or unrealistic premises, than you must be not playing a WHOLE lot of games.

Incidentally, Steampunk was started on a fairly plausible premise with, among other things, the book "The Difference Engine" by Cyberpunk progenitor William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, the idea being that in 1822 Charles Babbage thought up a Steam Powered computer called "The Difference Engine", but never successfully built one. The plot diverges there into an alternate reality in what if he DID build it, and what if that brought the information age a century sooner. But since then it's gotten more and more fantasy mixed into it, with some fiction, movies, and games just having other steampunk powered vehicles (even giant robots), or steampunk prosthetic limbs, or even fantasy creatures.

Incidentally, a Difference Engine was completed by Babbage's design for a Museum in the 1990s, and it did work.

 

[Destroy Gundam]

"I don't think that shirt is historically accurate." "And the robots are?" "Yes." "Okay..."

"Abraham Lincoln was a ninja. Why do you think he wore that hat everywhere? There was a blade in it, like Oddjob."

Seriously, never stop doing these. Those lines had me in stitches. But what an odd-looking game that is...

 

[Smokescreen]

Well done. I'm glad I didn't have to endure this game.

 

[gamegod25]

*standing over Lincoln's body* Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology...

http://www.motifake.com/demotivational-poster/0804/robo-lincoln-demotivational-poster-1208487258.jpg

 

[Baldry]

MY god Mecha-licoln was a ninja! I mean i always knew he was part steam-bot but a ninja my god!

Also awesome episode as always, all wars would be better with steam powered bots

 

[Baldry]

God damn that was riddled with the truth behind the cival war

 

[Pharas]

"Get it on!" I LOVED the MXC reference, made me laugh a little too loudly. >_<

 

[Blackout62]

Did I miss part of that cutscene, it just seemed like generic fighting vaguely centered around a bridge. Who's the professor, why is that stripper in what seems to be a battlefield, and why do all the cowboy hats seem to be the wrong style for both the region and time period?!

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

My friend Robot Torg told me this game sucked ass. What the hell was up with that Shaman in the beginning of the cutscene?! Was that some kind of after effects of an advanced Peyote growth?! Did anyone else notice how difficult it was to tell who was on which side of that war? Very good video. If I never got a review of it from my friend I probably would have rented it and now I just might do that to get my own opinion on it.

 

[Kage Me]

Pascal isn't pound per square inch, it's newton per square meter. I'm surprised nobody pointed this out yet.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Zombie Mecha Grant would make a whole lot more sense than that mess...