Zak Belica was born in New York,he is a game music composer.

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Games credited by him:
25 To Life (2006), Eidos Inc.
SiN Episodes: Emergence (2006), Valve Corporation
ER (2005), Legacy Interactive Inc.
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (2004), Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down - Team Sabre (2004), NovaLogic, Inc.
Half-Life: Counter-Strike (2003), Microsoft Game Studios
Star Trek: Elite Force II (2003), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Command & Conquer: Renegade (2002), Electronic Arts Inc.
Myth III: The Wolf Age (2001), Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Blair Witch, Volume III: The Elly Kedward Tale (2000), Gathering
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 (2000), Gathering of Developers
Laser Arena (2000), ValuSoft, Inc.
SiN: Wages of Sin (1999), Activision, Inc.
SiN (1998), Activision, Inc.

Drums of War
Zak Belica Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Drums of War' by these artists:

Jackson Browne Roll out the drums of war Roll up the cover of…
Tin Drum Do you remember, 20 years ago, back to "all you need…
Tindrum Do you remember, 20 years ago, back to "all you need…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Zak Belica:

Heavy Metal Fire I've been naughty lately All kinds of thoughts in my head …
What's the World Come To What′s the world come to When everything's going the way of…

The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

From the Mind of Klink

3y↑13

Holy crap, I thought I was the only one who remembered that SiN Episodes was supposed to be 9 episodes split into 3 "seasons" at 3 eps a piece.

SiN Episodes is also memorable to me for the Personal Challenge System, where the game would change certain conditions based on how well or poorly you played. Example, if you performed too many headshots, the game would start throwing enemies with helmets. Do too well and the ammo and heath pickups would reduce. It was a nice system and pre-dates the AI director in Left 4 Dead.

I did read up that initially, every developer who used Source that contributed features would have those features rolled out to everyone. Example, Half Life 2 originally didn't have multiple materials on meshes that could produce different sounds. It's why cars in the game didn't have any windows and if they did, they would all make the metallic sound. Ritual with SiN Episodes, fixed that and it was rolled out and updated to Half Life 2 and other Source games. Makes me think their Personal Challenge System was modified by Turtle Rock for L4D.

Funny you mentioned that you contacted Zak Belica. I did too but didn't get anything from him. I did manage to purchase (when it was available for a brief period of time) the official SiN Episodes soundtrack. If you'd like I can rip and upload the album for everyone to share, since I don't think it exists officially anymore.

Great video, Ross! Love me some SiN and like you said, the potential for it with SiN Episodes stings hard.

All comments from YouTube:

Owen556

3y↑964

I love the idea of a “brawny-80s style action dude” suddenly having to learn water treatment process engineering on the spot like UHHHHHHHHHHH

joeylawn

3y↑43

In "Wages of SiN", Blade shows off his computer hacking skills.

predcon1

3y↑61

Dolph Lundgren has a Masters degree in chemical engineering, can't be too far-fetched, right?

517342

3y↑37

Would have been even better if the whole thing going wrong was the intended outcome and he finally uses his brawn to just smash the thing and it works.

SH4D0W

3y↑46

Its one of the simpliest and best writing tricks
What skills does your character NOT have and how can you force them to use them

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AkosJaccik

3y↑385

"Let's poison the water supply to turn tens of thousands of people into mutant slaves ...as a diversion. "
Y'know, I like this woman.

Serephix Juniper

1y↑5

there's a reason why oppose rhymes w dispose amirite LOL

Pan Z

3y↑407

"He didn't take out a restraining order against me, meaning I didn't try hard enough" -- Ross, Paragon of Perseverance, Scott

Ethan Bolli

3y↑270

"It's the Suit's putting their hands in the soup thinking they're chefs." Ross so perfectly sums up modern game development

Sorren Blitz

1y↑1

That's what happens when something becomes an industry. You lose everything about the thing that made it grow into an industry.

TheCuza

3y↑590

In the end, they truly did out-Valve Valve.
They didn't even make Episode 2, let alone 3.

spider_slayer_69

2y↑27

I am one of the few people who really liked Emergence ha ha ha

5even5eals

3y↑96

6:25 The game was totally spot-on. At the rate we see more and more older franchises get revived nowadays, we're bound to see Barney Miller's reboot closer to 2037.

Psycho Drummer

2y↑3

Does it mean that one of the cast is going to end up in a reboot of "Firefly"?

Rainer

3y↑1.7K

i love how ross now just assumes his audience gets attacked by dogs on a regular basis

Beepmoo

3y↑115

We don't?

Paladin Polecat

3y↑80

@Beepmoo Some of us face more attacks from rats.

Bone Man - Calcium Enjoyer

3y↑47

Why are you implying, that daily dog attacks aren't normal?

3NTR0PY

3y↑75

@Bone Man - Calcium Enjoyer The daily dog attacks are ENTIRELY normal. Return to your homes.

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Zorpike _

3y↑171

52:06 His ex?! ...I can honestly see Ross accidentally dating a supervillainess without realizing it. He'd just assume the mutant experiments and sniper towers were her hobbies.

JCDenton 2187

1y↑26

I thought it was funny he specified "from the neck up"

Tim Bäckman

1y↑1

Well, he DOES live in eastern Europe. 🤪

Sorren Blitz

@Tim Bäckman isn't he still married to Magda?

pentelegomenon

3y↑123

"He also said this level of control was only for episode 1, and episode 2 he was gonna have carte blanche with the music, and Blade was gonna talk a lot more." Call me crazy but I think Zak Belica and maybe some others at Ritual Entertainment were getting rolled. The idea of "saving up cool ideas for later episodes" only makes sense in the mind of a naive artist, an actual business person would only say that if they were making an empty promise.

WeNeedALadder

2y↑40

I can believe an exec would want a "safe" first episode to see if there's still interest in the game and then letting the devs actually do the game properly if the fan base is there. It's an obviously flawed system, because you won't attract the audience you actually want, but most executives I've met have no idea what's actually going on and just have these insane ideas they latch onto because they can't trust people to just do the jobs they were hired for.

Pollo DiGomma

3y↑802

Progress made by this game in Quake Engine:
- driving vehicles
- open spaces
- wobbling boobs.

T Greaux

3y↑53

I believe the technical term is "Jiggle Physics" lol

pentelegomenon

3y↑23

my only correction is that wobbling boobs wasn't first and in all caps.

FishPerson

3y↑19

It's funny how jiggle physics it's used for loads of things like hair, cloth etc but everyone (me included) immediately think boobs

glitchedgamer

2y↑6

The Iron Maidens in Quake II had some jiggle. You know, if you're into that kinda thing.

Tay Tay

2y↑6

@T Greaux There's a notable difference between jiggle and wobble.

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Deltarno

3y↑69

I like how Ross looks at old games, but I love how he will track down the people involved and contact them. It's gotta be nice to have fans contact them after so long.

Phoebe Aurum

3y↑14

It's something AVGN never did although I can't imagine anyone from LJN would have picked up.

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Tyler Tenebrae

3y↑44

-They're HOLDING my DAUGHTER HOSTAGE!
-Where is she?
-EYE! DON'T! NO!

Accursed Farms

3y↑881

An anonymous fan reached out and submitted more 44khz SiN tracks! The soundtrack link has been updated to include those.

Addicted ToRock123

3y↑12

can anyone help me please with the intro track? i've found everything i loved except the intro track. Much love for a helping hand. Which one is it?

Accursed Farms

3y↑100

@Addicted ToRock123 It's possible it's not there and only the 22khz copy from the game exists, this is a very patchwork salvation effort.

MadMaxBLD

3y↑12

How is it that these fan-submitted tracks include stereo versions of the same tracks that you got from Zak, but were mono?

Kairu Hakubi

3y↑56

@MadMaxBLD I mean.. think about it. maybe there's a reason it was anonymous.

MadMaxBLD

3y↑20

@Kairu Hakubi Oohh. I like that. Conspiracy hat on!

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I Love Bees

3y↑97

No awards!? Fine. I'll do it myself.

Audiophilia Great soundtrack that MAKES the atmosphere
Engine of Destruction Quake 2 engine pushed to the max
Moral Dilemma Most confusing civilian-casualty feedback

monk864

3y↑5

Okay thank you, I was so confused thinking that I missed them.

LPJ 22

3y↑11

you miss "death by parking lot"

Troublechuter

3y↑27

So in that underground base with the infinitely spawning bad guys, they only actually start spawning infinitely if someone manages to set off the alarm; they stop coming if you disable the alarm from one of the computer consoles.

Robert Newman

3y↑50

"April O'Neil was an accessory too"...

Ross REALLY channeled Gordon on that one.

Sorren Blitz

I mean she does drive around in a stolen vehicle that she helped steal that makes her an accessory to the Grand Theft Auto they committed if not fully culpable because like do our laws apply to four anthropomorphic turtles? Can they be arrested?

marscaleb

3y↑34

I'm disappointed that you didn't mention how in that opening section, if you fail to kill all the dudes shooting rockets at you, the helicopter crashes and you start the first level from a different location. I mean dropping the billboard into the first level is cool, but this actually impacts the gameplay to a reasonable degree.
Ross, you better mention this when you get to your follow-up video. Which at the current rate will coincide with the year SiN takes places, so, bonus.

The Rogue Wolf

3y↑376

"'Chips-A-Whore'. I dunno, the packaging looks more like 'Whoreos' to me."

Just a little throwaway joke that had me laughing out loud.

Kaiser Matt Tygore

3y↑6

I was thinking of Whoredrox but Whoreos are pretty good too.

Shotgun Mongol

3y↑2

10:24

Duuqnd

3y↑373

John Carmack would absolutely cause the singularity as a programming exercise.

Throgg KingofTrolls

3y↑17

John Carnack is the real Mr. Fantastic.

KingLich

3y↑10

LabRat Knatz hahaha he has

Noah Fessenden

3y↑5

@KingLich A Carmack to surpass John Carmack!

Zigeal⛧Faust

2y↑5

@Throgg KingofTrolls I never thought of this and now I can't unthink it.
Dude will post a tweet about how he uses aerodynamic equations to get a bullseye with his crossbow then in the next go into the dangers of using a quad-number system.

Pegasus Actua

2y↑2

Resident of The Binding Between Space and Time That Holds Our Reality Together John Carmack, would totally do that.

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Vahlok142

3y↑47

The tragedy of SiN Episodes is something that feels like a fan game maker's dream, to make the sequels that never were.

Krinkels

3y↑529

Man I had it out for Elexis Sinclaire. 17 year old me wasn't ready for that.

Marcusianery

3y↑54

A lot of us had it out for Elexis.

Lucas

3y↑51

Never thought I'd see Madness Combat again, let alone finding the original animator's channel commenting on Ross' latest video.
Just want to say I appreciate your work since I was 9 or 10, and that I wish you all the best. Happy new year!

Roy Gaming

3y↑16

Don't forget that Krinkels once made a looping animation of a clown beating his dick over Jesus' head. Then he made a sequel to said video where said clown cannibalizes Jesus.

You will never live this down. Mr. Jolly >:D

Flaturiah Borborygmus

3y↑3

Ed Parker (50:07) will be turning 10 this year :)

Amalek

3y↑7

coomer

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Markus Weber

3y↑35

Fun fact: "death by parking lot" also occurs in Cyberpunk 2077. Now I know where they got it from...

Lab Matt

3y↑25

51:05 Man, you rarely see deaths like this in anime nowadays. That's nostalgic.

Midori-Fox

2y↑3

It's so sad that episodic SiN didn't work out. It could've helped the series mature both in the writing but also in the gameplay.

wizardom

3y↑524

8:10 Renaming the exe file into "quake2" for something to work is the most 90's game thing ever.

MadMaxBLD

3y↑77

It works because Nvidia has a different game profile in its drivers for Quake 2 than for Sin. The Sin profile has no OpenGL extension limit and that breaks Sin completely; it won't launch at all. You can either force the Quake 2 profile (by renaming the file) or edit the Sin profile and add an extension limit.

Pat Version

3y↑29

Same thing with Stubbs the Zombie, if it's broken just rename the exe to "CoD2SP" and it works just fine

Bit_Sean

3y↑12

It's still the best way to get source ports to work on Steam tbh

Sean Bordenkircher

3y↑11

@Pat Version Stubbs is legendary, thank you for reminding me of it's existence.

Sideswipe 1123

3y↑11

Just had this happen to Soldier of Fortune. Had to rename the exe to mohaa.

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Commander Shepard

2y↑22

When Final Fantasy 15 was near releasing, they delayed the game from September to November because they wanted to integrate the day one patch into the game without having players download it. Then when it came out in November finally, it had a day one patch anyway. You can't escape the curses of modern game development

KopperNeoman

Day one patches aren't a curse of lazy modern game development, they're a curse of the logistical limitations if retail copies.

They've existed since patches have existed: they used to come on floppies.

R3GARnator

3y↑12

Makes me want to see Ross do No One Lives Forever. That was all about doing stealth good while still over the top.

Tavi 959

2y↑5

Oh man, No One Lives Forever is a perfect candidate for the Game Dungeon. I hope Ross does it some day.

From the Mind of Klink

3y↑13

bullhammer59

I'd love to hear the intro music to the first game in CD quality, you have to rip it!

SheerSniper7

3y↑5

It's a whole new level of irony that they tried to out-valve Valve, only to have their last title be made in the Source engine

Niz

3y↑14

I just wanna appreciate how Ross edits the resolution of these games for convenience of the viewer every time it's an issue on his end.

Deaden

3y↑709

"Me and the composer are the only people on this planet who have the soundtrack to this game in their possession, because I personally wrote him after the game's launch and got it just before he was walked out the door. Anyway, here you go..."

How the fuck are you so legendary?

k96man

3y↑50

Persistence

Hectonkhyres

3y↑59

You know the whole oncoming apocalypse mentioned at length? Ross sold the world to the dark powers.

Search your feelings. You know this to be true.

DJ Soru

3y↑6

@k96man And a lot of luck. Knowing mine, I'd usually just get ignored by whoever I send anything or even blocked.

Geezer 1962

3y↑3

Walked out the door? I know nothing of this game and creator, please give some details!

RoarOfDamnation

2y↑3

The guy is just build different

Shushkin

3y↑12

I have to admit, that is good warehouse music. You can feel the existential dread in it. Exactly like working in a warehouse.

Duncan Land

2y↑23

6:23 I like how Blade's "damn!" line happened right after the Barney Miller line, it makes it sound like the skinhead really hurt his feelings

KayX291

2y↑3

meanwhile in Wages of Sin, Blade says "The Return of Barney Miller!" on kill.

4pastmidnight

3y↑10

I don't know why but I am always floored with Ross's stories about he just casually contacts composers or programmers and aks " hey, can I have some of your music?" and they just say: "yes". maybe it is because I have a tendency to be a bit starstruck, but I would be too nervous to even think about doing that.

Shogun

3y↑36

SiN couldn't have launched at a worse time honestly. No matter how good the game could have been, there was no way it would've competed with Half-Life. The fact it was a broken, poorly written mess just killed it dead all things considered.

Living Corpse

3y↑58

Today I learned Ross dated an evil corp lady.

TheHalogen131

3y↑15

Somehow it doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

demizson576

3y↑7

Elexis in SiN Episodes was modeled after a ... well, model, named Bianca Beauchamp.
- But I seriously doubt Ross dated her.

Iamnotacleverman

From the neck up, anyway.

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FrankTheCat

3y↑607

there's only one answer to Ross' insane productivity this year: the mold has replaced his neurons with a web of a mycelium-like structure that's 250% more efficient and does not require sleep for consistent performance.

Chaosvolt

3y↑19

We are The Mycus.

Rotten Poet

3y↑7

And generate food for his body

Jenna Brendler

3y↑9

Did Ross have another mold problem? Or are we still making jokes about the mold from years ago? Because either of those is fascinating in its own way 😂

HCOLIDER

3y↑9

@Chaosvolt didn't expect to see a reference to cataclysm in here. Too bad some of the people running the project have something seriously wrong with them, to the point that it's literally damaging the outcome of the project. Maybe it's just me, but maybe they should have realized that the older versions of cataclysm were popular because it was actually a game, rather than a simulationist experience?

Chaosvolt

3y↑1

@HCOLIDER And didn't expect to see someone get the reference over here. Long story on that I know all too well. As far as that goes, there's always the Bright Nights fork at least.

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Yasin Qazi

3y↑5

44:35 that sniper animation is actually really cool

MajorTom2417

3y↑20

The joys of multiverse theory, Ross: somewhere out there, there WAS a nine-episode SiN Emergence game released. Now all you have to do is figure out how to get to that universe/reality and you're set!

Cap'n Smith

3y↑7

I want Ross to play Limbo of the Lost. It's absolute insanity and I feel like Ross's style of screaming at crazy things and explaining why they're crazy would be a welcome addition to the Game Dungeon. Also to see how much Ross recognizes from other games since LotL is a frankenstein's monster stitched from other games

lolrus555

2y↑3

Anyone else come back to this video after seeing the end of the Phantom Fury trailer? After seeing Ross lament how Blade was left to dry with SiN 2, it's nice to see that the SiN series and its main character might have a chance at a comeback.

tomservo110

Man, those credits are so wholesome. Just beautiful.

Unicorn The Uniduck

3y↑910

Ross... I stop focusing on what you're saying for literally twenty seconds and then I look back and you're talking about the ninja turtles.

Accursed Farms

3y↑810

You knew the risks.

Firguy the Foot Fetishist from 4chan

3y↑56

Not only did the Ninja Turtles jack him but Stockman had to keep working for Shredder and he eventually got mutated into a fly before he eventually ended up getting eaten by a giant spider.

valletas

3y↑27

@Accursed Farms
"But it was worth the rissssk i assure you"
Samuel hayden doom 2016

burmecian123

3y↑83

He had it worse in the 03 cartoon. Every time he failed shredder, they would literally remove parts of his body. Until he was eventually a head with little spider legs, and then a brain in a jar. Later it the show, he straight up just wanted to die.

Shit was so crazy for a fox kids cartoon that I second guessed myself on if the was just some sort of fever dream and googled it to make sure.

Accursed Farms

3y↑98

@burmecian123 That's legit horror, I may have to force myself to watch more TMNT.

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samuel

1y↑1

44:46 "Check it out! They one-shotted me in the back of the head here while I was admiring the fossilized alien skeleton"

This is one of my favorite sentences

Moritz Nehm

3y↑8

Huge thanks to you and Zak Belica for sharing these tunes. I hope his other employers didn't stifle his talent like that

Sintua

3y↑12

Fun Fact: eXistenZ had those odd capitalizations because Cronenberg's insane, AND for a diagetic reason! The IPs of the world all had strange spellings and capitalizations as a way of establishing unique "branding" and copyright.

StabbeyTheClown

3y↑9

Oh man, SiN. The helicopter and bank level was the demo, and I played that a bunch before getting the full version.

- I think there was actually a training level or so where you could walk around Hardcorps HQ a little. It at least had a target range to practice shooting, and even a sniper target range.
- In the Helicopter level, to minimize Hardcorps casualties, you need to destroy the entrance to the bank where all those rockets are coming from and blowing up cop cars.
- If you or the helicopter takes too much damage from the rockets, you start the next level on the ground outside the bank and need to go in a side entrance, which is a much tougher fight.
- In the Jungle level, there's a second optional branching path to the Geothermal plant, which you can blow up and it starts releasing lava everywhere, and you return back to the first jungle level and where there was water before, now it's all lava. It was really cool. The first time I played, I thought that is why the ATV bike level had lava and broken bridges. No, it turns out those bridges are broken even if you skipped the plant.

SiN really was painful because there's so much heart, so much ambition, and so much potential which it ALMOST lived up to, but not quite.

avfusion

3y↑13

11:30 This is due to the vertex animations being pre-computed and stored in the model data. Storing the needed floating point precision necessary to make the models not do that would have been prohibitively expensive, especially in the times of relatively limited memory. ID chose to round off those values to the lower integer. (Computer words are cheap in comparison) Nowadays we use skeletal animations which calculate those precisions in real time or at model load, avoiding the need to ship expensive amounts of data on the model itself and generating it when it's needed.

n00bleaker

3y↑91

"Anyway, I realized SiN and Ninja Turtles have a lot in common."
-Ross (2020)

Selvares

2y↑1

as someone who works in a warehouse, the music at 27:00 is actually very fitting.
captures the depressive vague feeling of having done very much wrong with your life.

eyetrauma

Man good on Zak for going above and beyond on the music front, what a lad.

predcon1

3y↑6

There's a part in Wages where if you wander too close to one of the windows in Elexis' old building near the end of the game, you get a special, one-off death cutscene. It's bad, but the way it just breaks the spine of the game's tone over its knee is pretty great.

Probably Dio

3y↑1

Sin Episodes was one of the first FPS's I ever played. It holds a special place in my heart, especially that menu music.

Cephei K

3y↑2

That breakdown of the Turtlevan's origin was not something I knew we needed, but probably something we deserved

Melvin Dukowski

3y↑104

This game both looks amazing and like shit at the same time

Asgrahim

3y↑16

Which makes it the perfect kind of game for the Game Dungeon.

Pluto

3y↑7

Schrodinger's Graphics

The lighting is good enough to make up for the low texture and model quality. But you can't blame them for that, cause it's the 90's.

Nash Knight

1y↑2

I haven't played this game when it came out as I didn't have a powerful enough PC. I watched this video, played and finished the game, and then watched the video again, and I have to say, no nostalgia involved, this game is freaking awesome! I agree with everything you've said, and probably enjoyed the game even more than you.

Secret tip: In Sinclair's mansion, if you get the hidden key and open the janitor's closet, you can find a security cam filming Elexis rubbing her boobs in the jacuzzi. It's not explicit, just goofy.

Süßy baka - KFP Avian Resources Analyst

3y↑2

As an actual water resources engineer (though not currently working on water treatment), I really appreciate how the game didn’t dumb down the complexities of operating a non automated water treatment plant. I can only assume the bad guys disabled the SCADA system, you know, just to spite Blade

Skelloman

3y↑61

Theory: This game isn't actually set in 2037, but in an alternate-timeline 1990's with more advanced technology and Bill Clinton jokes are everywhere.

Nii Rubra

3y↑13

You know, I've gotten into the habit of mentally swapping future years for the release date of the fictional work, but in an alternate universe, and it often just works.

Skelloman

3y↑7

@Nii Rubra That's awesome, I think alternate timeline periods are really underused settings for fiction. I would like to see it done more often. Good luck with it! :)

ExpressNumber -

3y↑13

Fallout-style, except it’s ‘90s culture that never ended

julian facundo calabrese

3y↑8

In this timeline jesus was born 47 years early, and the ancient libraries were better protected, ww1 saw the first nuclear bomb, ww2 was so destructive that world goverments needed to cut on police expending which led to services like hardcorps. Either way the USA presidential line remained more or less the same, watergate was probably more interesting with all those mutants

Skelloman

3y↑3

@julian facundo calabrese That is COOL! I'm already fascinated by this world you present.

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Colin Martin

3y↑1

That drum-and-bass beat dropped just as I was getting into a fight in mechwarrior 5.

It was badass.

I want this game's music in mechwarrior 5 now.

Same Difference

3y↑1

What an insane story of a game that almost became what Half life did.

TheBUGjr

3y↑283

ROSS! So many game dungeons! You're a machine, man. Way to finish 2020 strong 😎

Orangy Pteco

3y↑4

No Freeman's mind though, makes me sad u.u

Orangy Pteco

3y↑3

Eduardo Lipshitz never thought about it that way, makes me feel a bit more happy. Still I get thaf many people love the game dungeons, I do too, but you gotta understand its kind of frustrating that FM gets 2 episodes every couple of months at best while GD get a consistent flow. Though I will concede that FMs take much longer to make.

Accursed Farms

3y↑85

@Orangy Pteco It's coming, I swear.

Yoshi Mario

3y↑17

@Accursed Farms Hey, just don't overwork yourself on Freeman's Mind, I can't speak for everyone but I enjoy all your content, and I began with freeman's mind. Been pretty nice having so much content, even if it is just game dungeon.

BlackMasterRoshi

3y↑13

@Orangy Pteco i kinda prefer the game dungeons at this point, even though i originally came for Freeman's mind.
I wonder if there's any chance of a Cummander Keen or Kings Quest dungeon.

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D H

3y↑5

Dude! Thanks for being such a historian and preserving the music.

J.P J

Spent countless hours playing this when I was a kid. The LAN parties were awesome

ScudX

3y↑1

Hell yes. I appreciate how much due you gave the game's visuals. A lot of those gloomy skyboxes and lightning schemes still look good today.

UthersonL

3y↑2

49% interest actually describes my attitude towards the game after watching your video. I'm at least partly intrigued, but I just know the shortcomings would bother me too much to stick with the game to the bitter end.

invisibro

If everyone was more like Ross the world would be a little better and infinitely more chaotic and I'm here for it

Void Mayonnaise

3y↑424

“I’m being nice and stretching it for you.”

- Ross

dan smith

3y↑4

Where is the ring?

rongusta11

Wide Putin?

GOOSE

3y↑2

void mayo my DUDEEEEE

Kröd Mändoon

3y↑5

That's what she said!

SolarMoth

the graphics, art design, and even the gunplay seems to really hold up well

Tomasz Sliwowski

3y↑11

"Unlike Deus Ex, a SiN successor is not a game that requires smart or educated people to make" If there is a successor that quote better be right on the box.

Signum Imperativ

3y↑18

Ah, the late 90s, when games were obligated by law to have industrial soundtracks.

Monster King Adversity666

3y↑1

I like how Ross made me feel actual fondness for a game series I originally thought looked pretty crappy. plus it has almost ZERO Internet documentation and its very kinda difficult to find a lot of info on it. The internet has no idea how to handle the titles either and mixes them up on pretty much every search lol But I actually kind of feel an odd love towards these games now that I FINALLY got to learn wtf it really is lol Thanks Ross!!! Youve taught me (not really a gamer) about a TON of weird awesome games that I prefer watching instead of playing. I don’t really play any games atm but I feel like I can enjoy games more in this form lol. And Ross’s play through reviews are always very very informative and I enjoy that lol

Bickbak

2y↑1

For some reason SiN feels like it would be followed up by a web comic.

valkarion9

3y↑94

I wish we had more games or movies where the protagonist is unironically called John Blade.

517342

3y↑9

I remember that the Ubersoldier games had a German protagonist called Karl Stolz.
As a German that name sounds exactly like a German version of the stereotypical power hero kind of name.

Megafang

3y↑1

Man I love watching Ross' videos as it's not uncommon that he gives us interesting history lessons about the not so distant past.

Max Rush

I love how much I learn about the industry watching these videos.
Very little of it is reassuring, but it's still good to know.

Maxie122

3y↑1

Always awesome to see you go above and beyond in things like putting together old games' awesome tracks for everyone to discover

Stoob

3y↑85

SiN came in an era when devs at least tried new things - Omikron: Nomad Soul, SiN, Half Life, Unreal, System Shock 2, etc, etc. Halcion days indeed.

Spikeelsucko

3y↑12

thanks, now that you've spoken the True Name of the Abyssal Software, you've awoken David Cage and he now walks the earth sowing madness and pain once again.

Paulius Paškevičius

Omikron..., that game was damn immersive for that time

Matt1384

I remember 90s reviews: "Sin is the Half Life n 1 competitor". haha such a great period. Unreal, SS2 ... even Turok 2 was superior to Sin LOL

Ismail

2y↑5

@Paulius Paškevičius Omikron seems like the sort of game Ross will eventually review. There's definitely enough to talk about between the weirdness, ambition, and wonky gameplay.

BecauseIWasBored

1y↑2

The world DOES need more SiN.
And it looks like 3D Realms agrees, because as the trailer implies, John Blade will appear and possibly be playable in the upcoming sequel to Ion Fury.

Thacobell

3y↑51

Baxter was probably little Thaco's first complex character in media. Down on his luck guy who gets taken advantage of, and victimized, by the one person willing to reach out to him, and THEN demonized by the heroes. Only to later become an actual monster. One of the classic tragedies of children's media. Seeing that at such an early age, his arc still sticks in my head to this day. Probably why I appreciate villains and "villains" like him to this day.

Kairu Hakubi

3y↑10

It was really interesting finding out that this small-time guy was pretty important in the old comics (and the good tv series), was a successful and flat-out evil scientist, was april's boss, and was just randomly a black dude without any issue being made of it, because some people are just black. I'm not sure which is a better concept really: that a guy invented very impractical and silly pest-control robots and they got co-opted by a local crime lord who dresses like a hardware store threw up, or that a guy working in a real-ass lab decided to patent a desirable invention and then use it to break into banks to make him some money on the side to fund more inventions. Like they are both pretty neat.
Either way, turning into a fly and turning into a cyborg are also both pretty neat.

Thacobell

3y↑9

@Kairu Hakubi I'd love to see a movie or series with the full on goofiness of a saturday morning cartoon (crazy inventions, villains, etc.) but with actual writing behind it.

Stuart

I remember Levelord being a legend back in the early days of FPS mapping. He was really good.

Sorren Blitz

3y↑2

The first game I've ever seen have a moving train in it was Outlaws from Lucas Arts. You fight through the train cars as a whole level.

C7RL_ALT

Life's been tough. Having the gift of an *hour long video*, about SIN, AS WELL as giving the gift of %85 off a DRM free version of the game has made this year a bit easier. Keep being awesome.

djdjukic

3y↑1

Hey Ross, thanks for obtaining and sharing these rare soundtracks. You always seem to have a treasure from the past stashed away for us!

Kevin Hudson

3y↑6

Okay I lost it at “the squeaking represents the fighting spirit of the mutant” I can’t stop laughing now. Also I think Ross has to review a castlvainia game now

Wolf Warrior

3y↑70

You know a game is dead in the water when it announces itself as episodic

MadMaxBLD

3y↑2

Well, Sin Episodes was the very first one to try it, so...

WhiteFlame

3y↑6

But usually there are at least Episode Two...

Guymanbot

3y↑4

I still don't know why the episodic is still used in gaming.

Kairu Hakubi

3y↑4

@Guymanbot People are pretty demanding now about game length being worth the money, so it's a way to excuse yourself pre-emptively. like yeah this is short, but there's more coming!
It's not an inherently bad idea at all, especially since so many games have issues with... wanting to make a longrunning series, but.. gaming is just not set up for that. old games become impossible to play, or unpleasant to play if you didn't play them when they came out because your sensibilities have changed. and they take so damn long to come out.

Bilateralrope

3y↑5

@Kairu Hakubi The problem with episodic gaming is that so many attempts at it have failed to produce all the episodes. Usually because they run out of money, but sometimes there is no clear reason. Or the game takes a nosedive in quality in later episodes. So you get people deciding to wait until all the episodes are out before they touch them, which only makes it harder for the first episode to fund the second.

How many companies managed to make the episodic format work ?
Valve could have had it working. They definitely had the money to make episode 3, and it would have been profitable. But they didn't.
Telltale had it working for a while. Until they fell apart.

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Notthross

3y↑5

Thank you so much for this video! For YEARS I have tried to figure out what game my middle brother had let me play as a wee child so many years ago, and that first level brought it all back.

As a slightly creepy story, as a young teenager, I had found a trimmed bamboo shoot on the side of the road and used it as a sword, as young boys often do. After a while, I noticed that it had SiN's logo etched onto it. I still knew of the game back then and its logo, but had no idea it was the game I was searching for. Looking back, it feels as though the Universe was trying to tell me. If only I had listened. I still have that shoot somewhere...

Now I just need to find that one game I played back on DOS with a silver guy running down a wireframe path dodging obstacles...

Orange Black

2y↑1

this one was so much fun in multiplayer back then

Lancer Actual

Magnificent ross, Every once in a while you just Blow me away with these episodes, This was definitely one of the, Thanks for being a Wonderful part of my life and creating such awesome stuff, Much love :)

LeFruFru

I remember the stealth level being one of the first games I tried to find a walk through online for because the concept of a stealth game was so alien to child me.

mattshuey1

3y↑1

This is the 3rd, maybe 4th time Ross has saved a video game soundtrack in some form. I love your channel Ross, but I LOVE your dedication to your craft. No one else walks their talk like you do!

The Admiral

3y↑349

Ah, a new game dungeon. Now things are starting to make sense. More later.

JamesTobiasStewart

3y↑40

Always good to see you again Admiral, hope you had a Merry Christmas with your family.

The Admiral

3y↑45

@JamesTobiasStewart The Admiral is currently in Ft Myers, Florida enjoying some sunshine

JamesTobiasStewart

3y↑20

@The Admiral Enjoy it Admiral, I figure you've earned it.

the man the legend the cab driver

3y↑27

@The Admiral obviously spending time with your family before the island blows up to start off 2021 right.

Narclump

3y↑11

Oh there you are.

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Mister S.

This is one of the most interesting episodes of the show. SiN seems like a franchise that had a lot of potential. Such a shame SiN Episodes got cancelled. Now I want to try out these games myself.
Still don't understand why they make you kill those secretaries though.

LarryInc64

3y↑2

I was messing with the mono tracks you posted in audacity, and I think there may be some way to make some kind of stereo mix of them using the tracks from the game.
You can overlay 2 audio waves, invert one of them, and it will cancel out similarities between the 2 tracks (such as doing it to the L and R tracks of a song will cancel out anything center panned.)

In theory you can use the in-game tracks to isolate parts panned left and right, and then mix it with the mono track again to make a semi-stereo mix.
Unfortunately I tried it with track 10, and they run at ever so slightly different speeds so they get desynced, and it seems the CD versions are cut up differently then the in-game.

With a bunch of work you can prob do something with these tracks though.

Suparockr

3y↑134

Awards:

Deadliest parking lot

User Hostile Interface

Out Valve'd Valve (in that it only made it to episode 1 before cancelling the sequels)

marscaleb

3y↑17

Yeah where were the awards? The awards are my favorite piece!

Johnathan Egbert

Not to mention the whole "22 valves" thing!

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James

This is the game I've been thinking of for a YEAR. I played it back in the day, but for the life of me I couldn't remember.

Insane to finally see a video on it.

pagb666

The mission objectives actually matter A LOT. Their accomplishment (or lack of) can get you to visit new levels (or skip some), or even get a radically altered version of level.

Zalseon

3y↑23

I think we can all agree that the 90's and early 00's did something to the brains of composers that MUST be studied.

pentelegomenon

3y↑2

I'm more interested in what made their brains the way that they were before that.

Parabellum

Sampler CDs

Unknow0059

54:35 I love these behind the scenes parts of the videos. Always so very interesting, and it is here, too.

Erik Lindskoug

3y↑3

I remember having a demo disk with the SiN demo on it. It was the first helicopter level. If you let enough rockets hit the chopper you will crash infront of the main entrance and start the next level there instead. Pretty neat for its time

Dandy Lion

3y↑6

I just saw a meme about youtubers 'apologising' in videos for not uploading sooner etc. I love this channel because he simply creates content whenever he does it. Makes it fucking special when it pops up.

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