"Video game cliché #16: If the level you've designed ends up being too easy, make it a TIME TRIAL!" -Comic Book Guy (The Simpsons Game, 2007)

What about everyone's favorite, the level where it's the same as the one you just did, but now it's exploding/on fire?

@mikaroni_and_cheez

4 жыл бұрын

Infected Crossroads

@marrowyoutube

3 жыл бұрын

NieR vibes

@knives4935

3 жыл бұрын

I love that level

@jubileechambers2604

3 жыл бұрын

I had like 5 flashbacks to different games omg

@crazymonkeyj3317

3 жыл бұрын

And your going backwards

I was thinking "escort mission" level, "lose all your gear and have to retrieve it" level, "forced stealth" level, and "mandatory racing minigames" level.

@Funkopedia

5 жыл бұрын

All 4 of those are often associated with the prison break level... ok maybe not the racing

@GeneralChangFromDanang

4 жыл бұрын

The tail somebody at just the right distance level.

@kpp28

4 жыл бұрын

@@GeneralChangFromDanang every ac games ever

@nedbrown8783

3 жыл бұрын

@@eliastremusini2301 assasins creed

@nedbrown8783

3 жыл бұрын

legit rdr2

Me: "But my childhood home doesn't _have_ dead pets buried in the garden!" Jane: "Check again, mate." Me: **horrorface**

@StirrCrazy90

4 жыл бұрын

Jane: Challenge Accepted!

Im amazed ice/snow level wasnt on here "Youve been practicing your platforming skills for the whole game now one or two levels before the final one you will face the ultimate challenge of slidey controls!!!"- too many games to count

@texaspete33

6 жыл бұрын

Andy Mcp snow level was the first level I thought of.

@Stephen-Fox

6 жыл бұрын

Same.

@Thomas-sv2ez

6 жыл бұрын

DS 2's winter wonderland still gives me nightmares. Eleum Loyce can suck it.

@TheCheck999

6 жыл бұрын

+

@The23rdGamer

6 жыл бұрын

Yup. No idea why an ice level wasn't present. Maybe to justify a Commenter Edition of this video? :P

There was a prison level in ‘real life’ too. It looked cool at first but i got stuck almost immediately. It took me months to get past it.

@catskeleton2110

6 жыл бұрын

Tom de Vries i hate you for making me laugh

@ThSadomasohista

5 жыл бұрын

No no, you see there's a special way to get out of it, it only took me a few days cause I found the secret passage.

@richardwilliams6676

5 жыл бұрын

Tom de Vries That ain't a prison level. You got locked up fo real, son! I'm surprised you survived shower time.

@onetoxicmode9679

5 жыл бұрын

Richard Williams r/whoosh

@johnwestensnorris6391

5 жыл бұрын

@@onetoxicmode9679 r/whoosh

To quote the words of honest game trailers “The obligatory underwater level”

@Scott...

3 жыл бұрын

I’m currently making a video game, and not making a water level is my top priority lol

1:41 I'm no expert on when and where to use a flame thrower, but the sewer is not the place and, or time.

Interviewer: "Well, you have a great resume, your references were strong, and you have the upbeat attitude we look for here at SeaWorld." Andy: "Thank you." Interviewer: "Just one more question: you do know what fish are, right?" *long pause*

@Tukaro

6 жыл бұрын

"They're used to hold up trousers, right?"

@thraexgladiator

5 жыл бұрын

andy: " fish are birds who dont lay eggs and cant fly" interviewer: "erm i think you are a bit cockoo so imma just leave you be for a bit" andy:" no wait come back i dont like being alone"

@thraexgladiator

5 жыл бұрын

interviewer: "nope"

@dominichoughton8119

5 жыл бұрын

Interviewer: "Nooooo... fish don't have paws."

I love how Oblivion starts off with TWO of these. Start off in a prison, then break out into the sewer before finally getting free. And then there's more sewer stuff later

@MrXXAntonXx

6 жыл бұрын

The worst part is, when you have to go through the same sewer to break INTO the same prison cell to kill some dude.

@julias.4501

6 жыл бұрын

Bailey Simpson With Dishonored it's a similar thing

@bunnynohoogle

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, ES:Oblivion was a great game. I’m playing Elder Scrolls Online right now and it’s nice to feel that nostalgia since it reminds me more of Oblivion than Skyrim did

@Heartshapedbox81

6 жыл бұрын

Bailey Simpson yeah that's how Dishonored goes too, but then you spent an abnormal amount of time crawling around with rats in that game

@hepzibah4573

6 жыл бұрын

50 percent of oblivion was a cliche fest. Only mods could redeem that thing.

"Every single factory level is as interesting as a tour of the factory" i would love a tour on the factory in titanfall 2 where they make shifting training gound. Sry, cant say i agree, that level was just pure awesomeness!

As far as prison levels go Dishonored did really well. You start out in prison with no gear or powers which forces you to learn the raw combat &/or stealth mechanics. Down the line in the Flooded District level you’re in the same situation BUT you have your powers, which is a round about way to reward the player for exploring to collect Runes.

How about the level where you have to chase a vehicle before it goes too far? "ALL YOU HAD TO DO, WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ !!!!! "

@robertagu5533

6 жыл бұрын

Varun Chaturvedi ahh yes... I STILL hate those levels.

@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299

6 жыл бұрын

''All you had to do was shoot them off the train Smoke!!!!'' LOL

@moosemaimer

6 жыл бұрын

like MOST OF *DRIVER?!?*

@fullmetalarshole

6 жыл бұрын

Those are more missions then levels. Actually levels arent even much of a thing in games these days lol. Just mission in big open worlds. I miss linear level based games.

@fullmetalarshole

6 жыл бұрын

Varun Chaturvedi ANYWAY what im trying to say is I think they said this one in a previous video about worse mission types.

Here’s some more: 1. Snow Level 2. Alien Ruins 3. Office 4. Airport 5. Ghettos 6. Cave 7. Hospitals 8. Enemy Base 9. Starship

@rockyhorrorfreakshow5091

6 жыл бұрын

*mountain level

@lonewolffang

6 жыл бұрын

old abandoned grocery stores and forests too

@Xegethra

6 жыл бұрын

Deserts too, although I like a desert every now and then.

@bmba

6 жыл бұрын

Rainbowhawk1993 okay but like enemy base? I would say take that off the list-you might as well add your own base if you’re going to be including things like that ;/

@dallydaydream

6 жыл бұрын

And a partri-idge in a pear tree~

7:37 I was in the other room and about had a panic attack when the music started.

@canadiandee6342

4 жыл бұрын

Nasty Rex some things really stick, don’t they😜

A Graveyard/Spooky Mansion is another staple of game levels. Off the top of my head, Kirby is the only major video game protagonist that has never had to deal with undead monstrosities or long abandoned Victorian era villas.

@daviddavidson9408

5 жыл бұрын

Mass attack had a graveyard

@LadyOnikara

4 жыл бұрын

Just wait, it's probably coming. Kirby going through the cutest graveyard in history.

@turtleytea2677

2 жыл бұрын

i mean even pokemon and mario had graveyard levels

The Doom Guy gives the T2 thumbs up if he dies in the lava?! That's awesome.

@acerumble4991

6 жыл бұрын

If I ever fall into lava/molten metal I hope to be awesome enough to do that, but would probably spoil the moment by screaming and flailing instead

@lampposting

6 жыл бұрын

That is really cool

@Fools_Requiem

6 жыл бұрын

Corvo Maroto ... I know, hence "T2".

@LadyOnikara

4 жыл бұрын

That is called going out like a badass.

Cannot believe you left out the mandatory car chase sequence in every shooter where you start behind the wheel but at some point you will jump behind the wheel of some form of mounted gun to mercilessly slaughter the enemies behind you!

@kalstonii

5 жыл бұрын

eddieasmurfy or like when i played hacker...i mean watchdogs, and ended up being chased in a car....thought we were hacking shit bro 😒

The "Grind" level There is always a level that spawns more than twice the number of enemies needed to be near impossible; or requires the player to set the difficulty to easy, so that the enemies don't instantly kill you.

@11magic1man11

6 жыл бұрын

Hunter X05 k kind of feel like you don't know what grinding is.

@HunterX05

6 жыл бұрын

samuel H. it's just what i call that type of level, and i do know what a grind is.

@Mothlocks

5 жыл бұрын

I wouldnt call it a grind level. More like an intense training level. My worst level like that was vorkuta in black ops 1.

@ellieboi

5 жыл бұрын

git gud

@lenodas3567

5 жыл бұрын

I know this is old, but that's called a difficulty spike. Grinding is just where you do something repeatedly for money and/or xp

_"Dammit, water, what did I ever do to you?"_ I mean, if you've ever used a toilet...

Oh god the underwater sonic levels still keep me up at night. That music...

@timothymclean

6 жыл бұрын

Then stop playing Sonic at night.

@maxlittlewood

6 жыл бұрын

Timothy McLean but...but...I gotta go fast

@ClownDollThatHasContemptForYou

6 жыл бұрын

I really hated them

@MoviesNGames007uk

6 жыл бұрын

Labyrinth oh GOD....

@DMystic101

6 жыл бұрын

I have beaten labyrinth twice. The first time Scrap Brain 3 killed me, the second time I completed the game.

What about the needlessly stressful "timed" levels in video games. There's ALWAYS a level with a count down.

@Stratelier

6 жыл бұрын

This list is about the location itself, not whatever objective (or timer) you have to satisfy while there.

@Malus1531

5 жыл бұрын

I still have some Transformers game that came with my 360 that I have literally never played once, because I heard every level is timed.

@SlyPearTree

5 жыл бұрын

I think underwater levels counts here.

@sockmonkeyenthusiast5184

4 жыл бұрын

Like the freakin podracing level in Lego Star Wars!

@absolutelyshmooie7086

4 жыл бұрын

Eve Cleroux If I made a game I wouldn’t have one. They are very unpleasant.

Mike’s nightclub rant made me smile. I’m so glad I’m not alone in the regard of “I’d like to talk, but I can’t hear a damned thing!”

@thesoundmajors9858

10 ай бұрын

Most of y'all are like that 😂

I feel like a lot of games like to include the level in which everything is dark and you have to rely on torches or a magical glowing object to explore. Sometimes the dark is just annoying to navigate without light or other times there's something in the darkness that will kill you if you stay in the dark for too long. Bonus points if you can't fight while holding whatever light source you have to bring with you. A few games with a part like this would be Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, and Kirby Triple Delux.

@johnharrison2086

6 жыл бұрын

Okami I just up the brightness on my screen....

@chrisperson3138

5 жыл бұрын

Then again the light fails at making out an important object and you miss it.

@kiwi9795

3 жыл бұрын

There’s a few levels like this in the first Crash Bandicoot, which is a platforming game, so basically it’s impossible to complete if you don’t renew the light fast enough. Doesn’t help that the levels are forward facing platforming either.

@okami6399

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnharrison2086 Only saw this two years later so sorry for the late response but while that can sometimes work (I use it a lot in games since I have problems seeing in darkness) I’m talking about games where it is literally pitch black like a filter is put over the whole screen. No amount of screen adjustments can help with that.

@okami6399

3 жыл бұрын

@@kiwi9795 That... Sounds painful.

But what about an underwater bar that doubles as a strip club, with sewer access, a dance floor situated precariously over a lava pit, with a prison in the basement for any Rowdy customers, and an adjacent factory that produces the robots that staff the bar?

@neropedon2683

6 жыл бұрын

outplayed

@jrbudoybudoy

6 жыл бұрын

MAKE THIS A GAME LEL

@KA-sx3sc

6 жыл бұрын

What, is that in New Jersey? Worth asking at least.

@LadyOnikara

4 жыл бұрын

Okay, you win.

@EclecticallyEccentric

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the Iceberg Lounge with a few upgrades.

Anyone else notice the level that basically appears in every Oxbox video? It's just a white room and an ornate chair. It even appears in oxtra content.

@franzluggin398

6 жыл бұрын

They're still in beta. There's really cool concept art for it though.

What about the poisonous swamp level seems like almost every fantasy game has them

The theme of the water temple from Ocarina of Time playing quietly in the background gave me unpleasant flashback

What about the light puzzle levels? From Darksiders to Skyrim, from hyrule to aperture science labs, there is always a level where you have to guide a beam of light through a building to open doors.

How about the obligatory (but not explicitly stated) "Stealth" levels...Spent the whole game running in and blasting Nazi's in the loudest, most violent ways possible...do the same thing and immediately get shredded by a giant Nazi mech.

@Stratelier

6 жыл бұрын

This list is about the type of _location_ you visit, not what kind of _gameplay_ objective you're asked to do there.

Bioshock has the best underwater level

@maxjolly768

2 жыл бұрын

BioShock 2 has the best underwater sections because it actually makes sense. Rapture is a city built in the middle of the ocean that already had access to the ocean outside for repairs, not to mention it was majorly crippled during the civil war and had a goddamn plane crash into it.

@alyssapeterson2004

Жыл бұрын

Bioshock IS the underwater level XD

There’s this level called getting a job Even when you choose Dunkin’ Donuts which is easy difficulty, you still face challenges

"Videogame volcanoes vary in their viciousness" well done Mike, well done.... I look forward to the bloopers for that one.

@respectableaf9061

6 жыл бұрын

In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villian by the vicissitudes of Fate...

Wait, tours of factories can be interesting, there's a whole tv show about that. Ever got sucked into a "How It's Made" marathon because you were just curious how bubblegum was made and now you're learning how they make bowling balls?

@ghostnebula8805

6 жыл бұрын

However, you cannot observe how something is made when you are too busy trying to not take a soldering iron to the gut.

@voripeter

5 жыл бұрын

And don't forget, that this kind of thing usually happens at around 3-4am.

@Funkopedia

5 жыл бұрын

Love that show. It's so bare bones... narration and video, none of that flashy stuff and 7x repeated footage.

@SixShooter14

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, I design machinery for automotive plants. How it's Made and Modern Marvels have always been favorites. I've been to many car plants and it's always interesting for the first hour or 2. Or when I take new people.

"I'm pretty sure that here in the future we're using some sort of virtual currency..." I tried swiping my credit card, but I got thrown out.

I Heart Jane.

I have to say, forced stealth levels in non-stealth games are just the worst. A pity it's not a dying breed.

@MosoKaiser

6 жыл бұрын

And especially the kind where being detected results in an instant fail and having to try again, as opposed to being able to just go less stealthily and finish the section all guns blazing.

@azzlackguhnter5635

4 жыл бұрын

Just because you can't do something easy doesn't mean that it is bad

@trevevern6788

3 жыл бұрын

@@azzlackguhnter5635 in games that have an importance in stealth, then yeah, stealth is easy, but in non-stealth related games, it can get irritating. It's like asking the player to go full beat-'em-up in a game about platforming.

I was thinking "the level where they take all of your stuff" so I guess I'll give the "prison level" partial credit.

@amyhoard1222

6 жыл бұрын

Or tutorial lvl.

"Look, all I said was that I *like* the concept of midiclorians and-" Lol, me too buddy, me too. Poorly executed it may have been, but I like the idea that there's *something* more than space magic regarding the force.

Sorry Andy but as someone who works at a sewage plant I must agree with Cole it does build your immune system. All the guys who work at the sewage plant more than 10 years never get sick Also you get used to the smell

@ThSadomasohista

5 жыл бұрын

You mean 15 years, right?

@dreadcthulhu5

5 жыл бұрын

NOT. WORTH. IT. And I'm not just saying that as a germaphobe.

@Jessie_Helms

5 жыл бұрын

FakeAcount Name true but going in once in your life the smell would be noxious and it’d be horrible for your health, wouldn’t it?

That one weird level right at the start of LITERALLY EVERY GAME where you have to press start or something to continue, I mean what the hell, developers, have a little originality

@MuffinHunterX

6 жыл бұрын

"This game uses an autosave feature. Do not turn off your console when you see this symbol." We get it already, you have no ideas of your own!

@MrCacucaca

6 жыл бұрын

Bailey Alexis Snow they are probably paying homage to dark souls Jk

@davemarx7856

6 жыл бұрын

... the title screen? 😉

@mgk-metalgearkelly5054

6 жыл бұрын

Switch to PC. You get to press any key you want.

@Teallen96

6 жыл бұрын

But you don't get to press any key you want, it tells you to "Press Any Key" to continue...WHICH ONE IS THAT??

Trippy/dream level

@prettyboyjeremy

6 жыл бұрын

Insecdroid-Games and Other Crap That’s more Ubisoft’s thing

@Williamgaming742

6 жыл бұрын

Yellow Arkham games, fallout 4, mgs 3, GTAV and a whole lot more non Ubisoft games

@jx592

6 жыл бұрын

Insecdroid-Games and Other Crap but i love shooting at endless Vaas

@kisnyirati

6 жыл бұрын

Max Payne...balancing on solid bloodtrails while listening to the echoing cry of an infant, best thing that a 9 year old me has ever experienced. No wonder that I'm so fucked up now XD

@forgetfulstranger

6 жыл бұрын

Also in Dragon Age

Dock levels you forgot docks! How many COD games have had this along with uncharted and jason borne? If there is water and a boat you have a dock level.

@pumpkinboi9441

3 жыл бұрын

say that again

Sure, the new Tomb Raider games take pleasure in showing Lara going through some sadist dying animations, but the original Tomb Raider games had a much more visually shocking drowning animation for Lara. To this day it gives me the creeps.

@moonraven6145

6 жыл бұрын

Oh God yes, I was terrified of swimming in her Pool in case I had to see that again lol

@johnharrison2086

6 жыл бұрын

The original and best

I think it would have been really funny if the spoiler warning screen scrolled for a full 30 seconds and had a huge number of game titles on it.

@domlocke3845

6 жыл бұрын

They could have for sure, I think I spent most of the video trying to think of games that didn't have one or more of these levels, didn't come up with one.

@aardbei54

6 жыл бұрын

Dom Locke Most Zelda games don't have factory levels, so that's something. Then again, ALL of them have underwater and volcano levels.

@arcanumelite4321

6 жыл бұрын

i would argue that cities skylines.. having industry districts... technically has factory levels ;D

@TheMistyBlueLounge

6 жыл бұрын

And water levels... ever make a failed hydro dam...? Instant water level in Cities Skylines lol.

I swear these lists are just an excuse for Mike to fire up Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines again for content. What's next week? 7 games you masqueraded some vampire bloodlines......I don't know what the game involves.

@dragon-kitty

6 жыл бұрын

Thurkel of Warwick - To the Shame corner with you sir!

@thurkelofwarwick926

6 жыл бұрын

Don't I have to have left the shame corner first?

@dragon-kitty

6 жыл бұрын

Thurkel of Warwick - no! *places the hat of shame on you*

@danielgehring7437

6 жыл бұрын

Thurkel of Warwick Apparently you haven't spent enough time in the shame corner, otherwise you'd know the shame corner has it's own, smaller shame corner.

@marhawkman303

6 жыл бұрын

I'd heard it was good, but wow, that really made it sound great!

There's always the brown/gray, dusty, often partially submerged (and occasionally ironically futuristic) ruins level. Complete with incessant climbing, springtraps, nonspecific ancient architecture and the occasional Indiana Jones reference. Special mention goes to Sonic the Hedgehog, where across the series Angel Island somehow has Egyptian, Mayan AND Greek ruins up there right next to each other just waiting for Sonic to run through.

My first thought before watching this full thing “WATER LEVELS, MOST GAMES HAVE WATER LEVELS”

Right after sewers the 4th worst place to be is on a train platform waving to someone onboard and the train just never leaves! 🚉

@GameRaider3223

6 жыл бұрын

Or when you are the conducter of a train and you get locked out so the train leaves without you.

@MerlautZone

6 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with sewer levels...

base world, jungle world, water/ beach world, candy world, ice world, fire world, boss. There, that's the Mario franchise sorted....

@aardbei54

6 жыл бұрын

Dribbleondo You forgot Spooky World

@moosemaimer

6 жыл бұрын

Desert world, sky/cloud world, cave world, mountain world, racetrack world, big/small world, pipe world...

@NebulaDark

6 жыл бұрын

Everyone sing with me if you get the reverence: Grassland, Dessert, ocean, jungle, ice world, fire world, boss!

@einsUNDcolt

6 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to turn that into a funky remix

@Dribbleondo

6 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, Yahtzee

It's a little more rare recently, but there's also the "Green Field" levels. They're usually the first level.

Thankyou Subnautica for consisting almost entirely of two of the most dangerous of these levels. Well played

There is always those horrible desert levels where you have to watch literally every step you take in order to not get sucked into the quicksand. The fact that most of them have swarms of enemies like scorpions or scarab beetles doesn’t really help either.

@dreadcthulhu5

5 жыл бұрын

Or sandworms. Thanks Overlord.

deploying futuristic dub-step weapon... Do you mean the dub-step gun from Saints row iv?

Soul Reaver did a good job of combining water and lava levels. First water burns you, later you can swim in it.

Guys, I just found your show 3 days ago, and couldn't stop watching. Keep up the great work.

How could you forget asylums? Place is like a prison with all the bars and plain looks, but also filled with creepy patients and insane doctors!

@Xegethra

6 жыл бұрын

Combine that with a hospital theme too....you can have 3 in one.

@DavidJoh

6 жыл бұрын

I've never seen a game with an occupied asylum. A few abandoned mental hospitals though. Well I've never seen an asylum that is occupied by people who weren't ghosts.

@nightsong81

6 жыл бұрын

Bonus points, such a level exists in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines! So we get to see Mike's favorite game again!

@marhawkman303

6 жыл бұрын

They even did a video a while back about how videogame asylums are terrible.

@Ckoz2829

6 жыл бұрын

Cheshigrievous I distinctly remember back in the PS2 playing Bully, Psychonauts, and Second Sight consecutively, all of which had asylum levels in them and I was thinking is this some kinda trend now? Just thought that was interesting.

If Mike solely made this list, the only level on here would be an exploding level. Every, single, time.

Knights of the Old Republic has most of these levels: 1. A sewer level where you explore the depths of Taris and sneak into the Sith base. 2. A night club on Taris where you can play Pazaak, gamble, and enter fighting tournaments 3. An underwater level on Manaan. 4. The Starforge is a giant factory. 5. It isn't a prison, but you do get abducted by the Sith and placed in a jail cell that you have to break out of

"ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh" that choking sound XD.

@LadyOnikara

3 жыл бұрын

The Sonic game drowning music * shudders*. I was just a kid playing Sega Genesis and I had to watch this cute blue hedgehog freaking die!

Recently, ship levels. A level taking place on some kind of oceangoing or more rarely flying ship.

My favourite example (and one I’m surprised wasn’t on this list) of dreadful underwater levels is KoToR. That bloomin’ diving suit. THEY HAVE SPACESHIPS! Surely they have diving suits that can move faster than the queue for dinner at a retirement home for snails.

@robertwebb320

6 жыл бұрын

That was the single worst moment in that entire game, I rue going to that planet lmao

The level with an enemy that roams it and if it finds you it kills you instantly, also, you can't kill them so you have to run away every time.

Mike: "in theory boomerangs come back to you.... in theory" what stick pretending to be a boomerang betrayed you mike

Best underwater level in a game? Subnautica.

@olddirtytattooedwarhorse7772

4 жыл бұрын

i think this hints at the problem with "water levels" in games in general, they're often just an afterthought, they throw it together, it's cheap and gimmicky, it's really just an oxygen timer, unless it's one of those games that lets you breathe underwater, which defeats the whole point of water in the first place, imo... they don't really care to put the time and effort into doing it right the way Subnautica had to...

Snow Levels, Jungle/Forest Levels, Sand Levels, City Levels, Castle Levels, Secret Military Base Levels, Space Levels, I feel like Chinatown levels is a thing too. That's all I got.

@AlexJones-xz8oc

4 жыл бұрын

The dark level with special light mechanics?

@Scott...

3 жыл бұрын

Oh hi NSMB

@trevevern6788

3 жыл бұрын

The "ancient temple that forces you to use boring, tedious mirror puzzles" levels.

@turtleytea2677

2 жыл бұрын

this is just super mario oddessy

@HolyHadou

2 жыл бұрын

@@turtleytea2677 Everything checks out except for Chinatown and Military Bases

those "sewer" levels quite frequently take place in what are actually storm drains. rarely do the 2 intersect with storm drains being rather more pleasant subtract any typhoons or flash floods.

Ratchet and Clank! One of my favourite series, always good to see it pop up. At least it tried to equip you well for underwater bits...

I can't remember the last Gentleman's Club level I played. Maybe I'm playing the wrong games

@curious_one1156

6 жыл бұрын

Crimson_Rogue 97 Play the Tomb Raider series, and you won't need a nightclub level...

@Xegethra

6 жыл бұрын

My earliest was Duke Nukems. I'm sure I've seen others, but yeah I can't remember too many either.

@SirStanleytheStumbler

6 жыл бұрын

Yes.... yes you are.

@PsychoMantisss

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah...more ice levels than strip clubs honestly...

@KickyFut

6 жыл бұрын

+zachf, Males are mostly a visual arousal type. When one is a teenage boy, and girls go out of their way to treat you like you don't exist or worse, treat you like you're gum on their shoe... Even if it's fake, a fantasy or an interaction with digital people can help a little better than no interaction with real people. Obviously a real interaction with people is better, but fantasy is uncomplicated.

Bethesda: kings of the opening prison escape level. Skyrim, Oblivion, and both Dishonored games begin with you escaping from capture. If it ain't broke lol

@jasperzanovich2504

6 жыл бұрын

You can add their Fallout games to that list. Vaults are kinda like prisons.

@tombrennand5480

6 жыл бұрын

Very true. Though they are all stellar games so there must be some sort of causation between opening prison levels and quality

@Xegethra

6 жыл бұрын

I think Arena did it too.

Love how they did Club levels twice. Came pretty close to doing the same with Water levels, but Sewers are different enough more often than not, so we'll let it slide. Also, lava can be found in a great many Factory levels LOL. As for me, I'd have to nominate the "Obligatory Vehicle Level", the "Obligatory Flight Level", Jungle levels, and Ice levels.

I am so excited that Riven is included on here! The only people that I know you have played it remain among my family member. We even had it in the several CD format, where every time you went to a different area you had to swap out the CD in your computer, that sure was tedious. Now I have it on Steam and that works a lot better.

You could make this list for exclusively the Zelda games. They constantly reuse level themes. Forest, lava/fire, water/ice, dark/shadow, sky. Usually in that order

@aardbei54

6 жыл бұрын

James Chamblee You just perfectly described Wind Waker and Twilight Princess OoT, SS, and possibly ALbW too

@vanessap8477

6 жыл бұрын

Never Change a running system! I personally really enjoy this whole from soft and harmonic calm forest to the dangerous fire temples and to the ethereal sky or eerie dark levels. I like this whole whimsical routine. It may be the same, but it's a good same :D

@AlphaOrion98

6 жыл бұрын

Vanessa - I love it too. It’s awesome

@iamthefifthhorseman8994

6 жыл бұрын

James Chamblee it's a good series but yeah is almost all exactly the same. Still won't stop me from playing but I wish they're have a new original idea.

You guys (and girls) are one of the few channels I really enjoy. Many list videos feature so much crap and stupid jokes, but you are genuinely funny =)

Just gotta say... It's been just shy of 2 years since I sold my consoles and effectively stopped gaming (and watching OX's videos along with all other channels), and 6 months since I moved countries and have begun a new life for myself, but upon seeing this video suddenly popping up on my homepage I've just finished watching it and am so happy that I've seen and heard these amazing, hilarious, and talented individuals again after far, far too long. The OX team has always been the best team in my eyes.

Is no one going to mention how sad Luke looked? Someone give him a hug!

Hmm, where are all the “abandoned/forgot” location? Most of which would be ancient tombs, giant space rings, mountains strapped to the backs of titans, “lost” native civilizations, and anything classified as ruins.

@ShadowSuperWolf

6 жыл бұрын

To be honest a large number of games revolve around this trope. Be it you are slashing through demons in what now is a collapsing city, killing alien zombies out in space, and so on.

@willhuey4891

5 жыл бұрын

or accidentally unleashing some long slumbering evil after finding the ruins.

Actually Mike, you can't swim in lava at all. Lava has the density of around 2-3000 kg per cubic meter, or roughly twice that of honey, and three times that of water. Factor in the viscousity, and...well, you'd never be able to move, let alone swim. Trust me, Jane's tested it already. *Extensively*.

@nightsong81

6 жыл бұрын

So you wouldn't even really sink. You'd just be stuck to the surface of a squishy, sticky thing that's also rapidly burning you. Kinda disappointing, that.

@ashtherion

6 жыл бұрын

Like being lathered in honey. Only you know. On fire.

In reply to Jane's mention of prison levels stripping back a game... One of my strongest memories of a level in a game was from Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2. Up to this point the game has drip fed you with an arsenal of hyper-advanced tech, gadgets and support giving you the edge in firefights. Then your convoy is ambushed and you are there, a single solider with your rifle and nothing else. It was a massive change of pace in the game and sticks with me as a highlight to this day

nothing jane, nothing always nice to see that you enjoy your Job :) Oh and i really don't mind Underwater level except for Subnautica that one still gives me Nightmares..and prevents me from going swimming at the beach ..any beach.

A lot of games also include flashback levels with important information to/for someone. I still have flashbacks from some games with flashback sequences

@smileyn7377

6 жыл бұрын

hakim Especially games with amnesia main protagonists.

Omg guys it’s a Jane episode!

Legend of Zelda Franchise is guilty of all of these except the clubs.

@LadyOnikara

4 жыл бұрын

If only the Milk Bar in Majora's Mask was more lively....

rewatching this video just for the heck of it, and i can't help but suddenly realize just how accurate this is to the game series i'm also replaying, the Devil May Cry seris (DMC Devil May Cry included even though it's stand-alone). Across the game altogether, in the first game alone you have the sewer, underwater, and lava levels. In DMC (the alternate universe one) there's a sewer, night club, prison, and factory level. Now that i think of it further, there always seems to be a sewer level in Devil May Cry games....guess it just means devils always dwell on the lowest levels, lol

No circus/fairground level come on guys you must be clowning around!?!?!

@rockyhorrorfreakshow5091

6 жыл бұрын

*Sigh*

@danielgehring7437

6 жыл бұрын

Your pun was full of evil.. in-tent.

@Wykesidefruitmachine

6 жыл бұрын

Surely you jest?

@marhawkman303

6 жыл бұрын

Nope, no harlequins here, but i wouldn't mime one or two.

How did you not include stuck on a 20 hour flight next to a screaming toddler on the list of least pleasant places to spend time

@TheHutchy01

6 жыл бұрын

Because that's not a place it's an aspect of Satan.

@jackbloor8524

6 жыл бұрын

Damn that needs to be a game, I’ve got a title. How does “I wish this plane would crash simulator 2018” sound?

@Teallen96

6 жыл бұрын

Yes! And you can go around the plane finding as many different ways to crash the plane as possible! Each one unlocks you a supply drop that gives you access to the next few ways to crash the plane...or A RESKIN FOR THE TODDLER!

@jackbloor8524

6 жыл бұрын

Teallen96 how about you can unlock different planes, like you start on regular plane then to 1st class up all the way until like spaceship, military aircraft or even ufo

@coffeepoweredkatie6290

6 жыл бұрын

It's worse when they're *behind* you kicking your seat the entire journey, maybe that's just me.

I noticed that other common levels include forests, cities, and really high places (including mountains) that are a really bad place to fall from.

I've designed one game where you actually start out in a prison, but the reason you don't really have any equipment is because... well, the game just started. You have your default weapon in hand (literally, as it's a magic ring). Also, there's no need to figure out how to get out of the prison per se... it's the same concept as finishing any other level in the game. Your cell is unlocked by default and you can just stroll out at your leisure. This is because, as described in the SKIPPABLE story that precedes the first level, one of the Minions Of The Big Bad Guy (tm) turned face and unlocked your cell.

The worst level of all. Occurring in almost every video game. Often unskippable. Stripping the player of their basic controls. One so bad the gaming community have given it its own harrowing name... The Tutorial!

@robertlehto4667

6 жыл бұрын

How else are you supposed to know that the analog stick that controls movement in every game also controls movement in your game?

@william1877

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Lehto Too right. Good man. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

@cookiebombcasualemail5284

6 жыл бұрын

and also the boss fight

@JaelinBezel

6 жыл бұрын

This was me playing a rented copy of The Witcher 3 a few days ago. "Hmm I wonder how many healing items I have left." (Opens Inventory and tries to move cursor) "...why is nothing happening? The hell? Did the game freeze?" (notices the white message in the bottom right) "Oh goddamnit, JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

@william1877

6 жыл бұрын

A rented PC game? Hmmm....

What about the travelling on a speeding thing (train, bus, car, transport) trying to fight enemies whilst not falling off / speeding thing being blown up level... it's hard enough to do that on a normal train without the fighting enemies part!

Nice to see Riven getting some love on one of your lists.

I agree with Varun Chaturvedi and Respectable AF in that a train level is fairly ubiquitous. I guess this is for the designers to show you how they can make scenery move past whilst you're essentially staying put; and also to provide a claustrophobic environment which involves you going from one end of the damn thing to the other. I can remember that one of the Tomb Raider games, Silent Hill 2, an early Final Fantasy (in which you ended up fighting it!) and a much later Final Fantasy game (in which the train was frozen) used this mechanic. Probably many, many more.

ice levels with christmassy music are the literal worst, especially if they have slippy slidey Ice Physics that never work like they should.

...damn, Jane’s hair.

These are 100% true and good picks. I'd also add some sort of a lab as being a very common level and also some type of structure like a palace or machine in the skies.

The rescue level also known as the level where you either infiltrate stealthily/break in and help someone escape or the level where someone breaks you out themself COD WAW, COD AW, Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain etc

The Variable Gravity level. Not only is it a cliche but it's prone to poor design choices like if your character inverts so do your controls leading to a good 5 minutes of you *relearning* the control scheme...in reverse.

Sees Title of the video. Makes a joke and says : *TUTORIAL LEVELS*

@DemonicaaD14

6 жыл бұрын

Stage Media well you are not wrong xD

@amyhoard1222

6 жыл бұрын

That's should be #1 on everyone's list >

@bunnynohoogle

6 жыл бұрын

I’m surprised they didn’t combine the two club levels and list the tutorial level.

@zami8827

6 жыл бұрын

Well from software games doesnt have any tutorial levels.

@recklessabandon5678

6 жыл бұрын

Same

Swapping the controller for a plush toy is the most kinesthetically pleasing idea for underwater levels

I would like to add some kind of tomb level. No matter what you're playing, there's always a chance that the game will, at some point, lead you into a moldy old barrow where you have walk among moldy, desiccated corpses, maybe contend with some undead and/or booby traps. Alternatively, you have graveyard-levels.