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@BugsyFoga

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Ibbertson It's somewhat egotistical to like your on comment.

@AlexPerrine

6 жыл бұрын

Can you do Minecraft Story Mode: The Complete History next?

@LiEv838

6 жыл бұрын

Dan, I love your channel would u consider doing Castlevania The complete history, That would be awsome. Keep up the great work 😉

@paulthomas1173

6 жыл бұрын

Surprised, really surprised, you didn’t mention Ecco being in the Burning Rangers stage of Sonic Racing Transformed. He’s in a big water tank or something. Can’t remember exactly, while since I played it, but he’s definitely in there and was confirmed (after some debate) that it was Ecco.

@IronBlockGames

6 жыл бұрын

Ecco is in sonic all stars racing. He's swimming outside one of the levels but you only see em for a very short time and it's super easy to miss em. That said I grew up with Ecco, and loved how hard the levels were. Ecco tides of time I felt meh about, as half way through the game it felt more like the dev's got lazy, a level or two feel to repeat and the flow from one level to the next loses it's well, flow, feeling rough. I mean the way you're transported to the 'bad' future makes no sense, there's no flow or methood, you go through a cave, and then bam, there you are. No time machine, no nothing. The parts were you transform into other creatures also was well.. pointless, you could skip all of them but one, a bird transformation you needed to do to get over a hill you can't jump over. Defender of the future yeah it had a little odd story, but one that also sucked you into it, having the timeline change as you slowly get back the peaces that made up your reality, and see how the world would be if one or more of those traits were missing was really amazing. The only part I wasn't to fond of was the very last fight, how you got to it had me scratching my head and the means to beat it seem a bit finicy if they want to work or not.

Great Video! I made Ecco Jr. because my daughter, who was four at the time, was terrified of all my other games. Great job on the video, Dan!

@edattwofish

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, and the name is: A N N U N Z I A T A. Not Anninziata. Please fix!

@FinalBaton

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this! That was a fun piece of trivia

@SotheX

6 жыл бұрын

Are chances for an Ecco reboot slim? I know you were not part of the last release and ownership may belong to SEGA now. Still, thought i might ask since i've got you here.

@odracircomix7359

5 жыл бұрын

ed thank you for ecco that game made my childhood so much more awesome. truly touched my life in a positive way. game made me cry joyful tears on many an occasion.

@psyvientx7407

5 жыл бұрын

ED Annunziata that’s sounds like a loving dad :) good one

I loved Ecco as a kid, but the idea creeped the hell out of me, not just the last boss but the idea of other race being so powerful it could rip the life from a planet and not really notice the life that lived there (I also played a lot of X-COM :P). As a side note, Ecco is also a huge reason I am a marine biologist

@CopiousDoinksLLC

2 ай бұрын

I would argue that Ecco the Dolphin is actually a proto-example of a survival horror game. It has all the tropes: - Incredible visuals that are clearly meant to be a selling point and deeply unsettling - Controls that are intentionally clunky in order to increase tension - Some minor resource management - Intricate storyline that keeps you playing to see how it ends

I agree that we made the ecco 1 too hard to play, and I have to defend Ed: he always pushed us to make the game easier.

@sloppynyuszi

5 жыл бұрын

Nekem bejött, és nagyon meglepő hogy magyar volt a játék. Az apu Ausztráliából küldte a játékot, és mikor Pestre költöztünk, észre vettem hogy a boltotok mellettünk volt :p

@skyrien

4 жыл бұрын

I never managed to beat it as a kid (I got it at 8) :P -- eventually, I watched a playthrough on KZread and I had one less open ended question in my life--enjoyed it nonetheless!

Being an Ecco fan, I'm somewhat surprised to see you were quite critical of the Dreamcast game. For its time it looks beautiful and still does if you use a VGA cable. In fact, I struggle to think of another game which perfected an underwater simulation as well as Ecco did at the time (and nothing came close to it for years afterwards). The draw distance is also intentionally short isn't it? You wouldn't see much more than a few feet in front of you in murky waters and so it is the case in the game itself. While the story wasn't overly brilliant, the level designs and puzzle designs in DOTF are fantastic. I was especially intrigued while visiting the "Mans Nightmare" and "Dolphins Nightmare" levels. Having to harness the power of the machines in the "Mans Nightmare" levels was really fascinating to me (and chellenging to eventually figure out properly). Levels like Hanging Waters in the "Dolphins Nightmare" levels remain as some of the greatest and most beautiful level designs in the game. I have revisited Ecco DOTF several times in recent years and still enjoy it immensely now. Also Tim Follins soundtrack is nothing short of outstanding in the game too.

@pferreira1983

5 жыл бұрын

This!

@hdofu

4 жыл бұрын

I'd say he was fair with his assessment

@irkendragon

3 жыл бұрын

I similarly thought the visuals were amazing at the time I first played it. I still don't think it looks that bad, at least it doesn't strike me as any worse than other games from the era. I keep wanting to replay it lately, it was definitely tough, never beat it entirely.

@JohnnyFromVirginia

2 жыл бұрын

I was so hype for this game and loved the graphics and the idea of playing as a 3D Ecco. But for me, I couldn’t get a handle on the controls and was so frustrated by the time I left the tutorial area, I wasn’t able to complete the first level. I swore I’d return to it someday but never picked it back up as other games kept my interests and attention span fulfilled. Since then, my Dreamcast has been hiding in a storage unit and I simply haven’t had the chance to fire it back up. If I ever do, Ecco is one of the very first games I’m revisiting for sure.

If Ecco is like any particular Nintendo franchise, I think it's more like Metroid than Legend of Zelda, at least from an atmospheric point of view.

@derrickhaggard

4 жыл бұрын

True and gameplay wise due to heavy emphasis on exploration.

When I was a kid, I played Ecco at my friends house. I just remember it being a cute, fun, undersea adventure. Years later I start seeing Ecco popping up on people's videos about like creepiest games or most messed up stuff in games and I was like "...what?" then after a bit of digging I realized I'd never played Ecco, only Ecco Jr. which y'know what? I still kind of enjoy. I'll take my cute fun undersea adventure.

Ecco scared the hell out of me when I first played it because of the parts of the game where you can suffocate I was in the first grade and had nightmares for a month about suffocating and the aliens still gives me shivers

You should check out Jaws on the PS2, as that's what the Dreamcast team made afterwards and is essentially Evil Ecco :D

@turtleanton6539

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@keenanerickson8041

5 жыл бұрын

Why are you commenting this on your own video

@pferreira1983

5 жыл бұрын

@@keenanerickson8041 Please tell me you're joking.

@TitoVladez115

3 жыл бұрын

@@BeakFace_ now this I’m about to check after work

I fear no video game. ...But that dolphin...it scares me. Also, Ecco versus Zelda? Shouldn't it be Ecco versus Metriod?

@TheGauges420

5 жыл бұрын

No, it should be Ecco vs Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Donkey Kong.

@TheGauges420

5 жыл бұрын

Ecco would win every time though so it isn't very fair...

@bobalinx8762

5 жыл бұрын

I ain't talking about that freak... He's not here, is he? How do I get this thing off?

@akpokemon

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was waiting for a better comparison. I didn't understand the Ecco vs Zelda comparison at all, actually. Metroid is a better one for sure

If you like Ecco I would also recommend the 32X game Kolibri, it's basically Ecco but with hummingbirds. Ed Annuizata worked on Kolibri and it was developed by Appaloosa Interactive, the same company that made Ecco.

@AkasaurusRex

6 жыл бұрын

Kolibri doesn't get enough atention just like Ecco defo the 32 x's most stand out title IMO.

@turtleanton6539

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@drunkensailor112

4 жыл бұрын

Three dirty dwarves on the Saturn is the best game appaloosa made imo.

Ecco the Dolphin a Zelda? It was more like a Metroid. Actually, Ecco the Dolphin is a Metroidvania game

@derrickhaggard

4 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@albertnortononymous9020

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah much more like Metroid than Zelda.

@SonofSethoitae

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, Symphony of the Night got its Metroid-like elements from Zelda according to Iga, so it's not entirely unfair

@robertbektas1810

3 жыл бұрын

Metroidvania means you collect permanent upgrade to progress. So no

@jamesytez6639

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertbektas1810 and what does Zelda mean?

Thanks for this. I had seen that BBC documentary you mentioned in the video from years back when it was shown on the t.v. It was a terribly sad thing for Peter to be separated like that from his kith and kin. What was even crueler was the way that Margaret Howe was vilified because of the choices she made. Strange how something quite horrific for the dolphins was turned into a video game.

I'm surprised you didn't mention that Ecco the Dolphin Defender of the Future included a section where you played the actual original stages from the original Mega Drive game, complete with a 2D camera view, called "Passage from Genesis". Also, Ecco does make a cameo appearance in All Stars Racing. He can be seen swimming in the background in the Burning Rangers racetrack. So there's that, I suppose.

@youtubesuresuckscock

6 жыл бұрын

That's because you're an actual fan with knowledge of the games and he's a KZread shill who doesn't want to get a real job.

@Just_Zack

6 жыл бұрын

Passage from Genesis was one of the 'retro' levels you could play. The other was called Pathways From Nowhere. Not only a fan, but a former Sega Europe employee who worked on this game during its 3 months in the QA department.

@ghhn4505

5 жыл бұрын

Zack Playford Oh shit, that's cool as Hell that you had some involvement on this. Anything else you could tell us?

@pferreira1983

5 жыл бұрын

@@Just_Zack That's cool!

@Just_Zack

5 жыл бұрын

@@ghhn4505 There was an entire level that was removed from the game, and a few levels got renamed from the original Alpha and Beta builds. I also wrote a walkthrough for the game, which I've been told (many years ago) was better then the official Bradygames game companion. There's a version of my walkthrough at eccoguide.atspace.com

I have both Ecco and The Tides of Time on Sega CD. The soundtrack.... oh my goodness.... gorgeous.

Defender of the Future was my favorite Ecco game! The music was extremely atmospheric and the gameplay was challenging. I didn't see the draw distance as a negative. If anything it simulated actual water rather well since you can't always see very far in front of you depending on the clarity of the water. Still my favorite franchise by Sega and it is a shame that they haven't tried to make new games for the current gen systems.

Ecco needs to be added to the next Smash Bros. iteration... stat!

@erwinekkel9676

2 жыл бұрын

That would actually be amazing.

I am so glad I never got to complete number 1 when I was a kid, THAT ALIEN THING WOULD OF SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME

@TheKyramSingleton

3 жыл бұрын

God when I was a kid I was fighting the vortex queen and the game encountered a TERRIFYING glitch where Ecco looked black and the screen looked red and nothing was changing and I got so scared I pulled the cartridge out and threw it at the wall

@jpair205

3 ай бұрын

​@@TheKyramSingletonthis game scared the hell out of y'all like this

Thanks for all the fish. The first Ecco was one of the best games that I personally played on the Sega. I liked everything about it.

We need a new Ecco with the newesr graphics. I would literally die of joy!

@growlie2676

5 жыл бұрын

I'd love the story for Tides of Time to continue.

Thank you for covering this series man. Ecco the Dolphin was one of my favorite series ever made, and it's great to see it getting a little love!

You'll have an easier time playing Defender of the Future on the PlayStation 2. The PlayStation 2 version addressed all sorts of issues that made the Dreamcast version frustrating. Also, I'm going to strongly disagree with you regarding Defender of the Future's visuals. I thought that they were some of the strongest, both technically and artistically, on the Dreamcast, even with the murky water (which was way less murky in the PlayStation 2 version).

@skyrien

4 жыл бұрын

Agree with this entirely; and I don't even think the draw distance is bad as much as it is wrong when comparing to real ocean water

Sega advertising is the most 90s thing ever

@taffysaur

5 жыл бұрын

It’s totally radical 2 the XTREME!

See i felt the dreamcast version was very pretty at the time....

@CitroenC407

6 жыл бұрын

It was. Still is. Has aged quite well in my opinion simply because so few games really nailed a true underwater simulation like Ecco DOTF did back then. Get out the Dreamcast with a VGA cable fed into a HDMI upscaler and it still looks wonderful.

The MD Ecco games still look incredible to me. It really is some of the best pixel art of the generation! Another great video mate :)

I remember playing the original a bunch and, for a while, noping out of the thing once I couldn't deal with that octopus anymore. Got a few levels in eventually but man it's a tough one to get on with. Feels almost alien in terms of design these days. The series has real merit though. It's almost like a weird avant garde piece of art made by one of the biggest publishers around. A real good pick to cover in the Complete History series.

Had a few problems with this one Dan, sorry. - The Sega CD soundtrack is an entirely different suite of music, *not* an upgraded version of the Megadrive/Genesis'. Spencer Nilsen was only one of three contributors to the original score, but sole composer of the Sega CD soundtrack. - Could really have done with more discussion on Tides of Time, which most consider the best entry in the series. Contrast that with the relatively huge amount of time dedicated to the almost entirely unrelated Defender Of The Future. - The Zelda comparison is a bit dodgy. This is a game in which every asset, gameplay system and entire storyline is dependant on the main character being a sea creature. It doesn't really have any more in common with Zelda than any other weird game with puzzles. - Could maybe have done with less personal stuff and more information on the games themselves. If you're going to go for a subjective take, it needs to be something you're really passionate about, and I didn't get that impression at all in this case. - Nothing about hacks, foreign versions, community work or Ed Annunziata's original plan for a trilogy. There's scope for a much deeper dive.

@nickporter4279

6 жыл бұрын

However, should add that I really liked the original adverts dotted throughout the video, they're pretty hilarious and must have been hard to dig up.

@JamesChessman

6 жыл бұрын

What is "community work?"

@nickporter4279

6 жыл бұрын

James: Hacks, research, remixes, interviews. Someone in the community modernised the PC port a couple of years ago.

@psyvientx7407

5 жыл бұрын

Ecco 1 and 2 is water deep psybient musical tracks

@yorkieratproductions

5 жыл бұрын

I agree with you nick on all your points you made 100%

Growing up, I never thought the story was that weird, I never beat the big alien head though. I think as a ten year old, explaining Sonic as a fast blue hedgehog, and Mario never doing any actual plumbing, this wasn't weird. I'm not sure what you mean about the original development team not being behind this game. The original game was developed by Novotrade in Budapest, and they got renamed to Alapalosa before they made the dreamcast game. So it's the same company. I lived next to the Novotrade studio and visited it frequently as they had a store, and I think that was the only proper place to get Sega games at the time. With Alaplosa, one of the developers from that game I actually know. He works in Ubisoft Shanghai now, and chatted to him about the game, so there is overlap between the mega drive and dream cast version of Ecco.

I love this series and you for making this video. Ecco might not be great when you consider what we have today or even what came out around that time, but this series hit a sweet spot that no other piece of media has before or since. I will always have a special place in my heart for this series because to me it'll always be worth a replay now and again. This series truly is something and I hope this video will encourage a few people to try it out and see what's in store. Thanks Daniel, what a great video to end the year!

I just realized something - I completed both of these games when I was 12 and I didn't buy either of them. I hired both games 3-4 times each from the local Blockbuster. ...Ed Annunziata must hate my stinkin' guts.

Another smash hit! it's always a nice treat to have one of your videos pop up in the subscription box.

Back then I've always envied Genesis owners because of Ecco! I only played it way later on on my pc. Anyway, love the Jacques Cousteau ad! And btw if you love Ecco you might also love Abzu! Great video and happy new year 🎆

2015: 1,864 subs This time last year: 27,401 subs This time this year: 54,309 subs (at time of watching) Great job, as usual. See you next year.

Great video as always dude. Keep 'em coming!

First of all thank you for your work, I love your Complete History videos and really hope to see a lot of them next year. Second, there's a little error in your video, the surname of Ecco's creator is Annunziata and not Anninziata. It sounded strange to me, because I'm italian, and Annunziata is an italian surname, so I checked on Wiki and it really was Annunziata. Happy new year, and, again, thank you for your work, I really like it.

I always found the music from the entire series was absolutely beautiful.

Defender of the future is a great game in my opinion.

@the-NightStar

6 жыл бұрын

It really is. I have NO idea what he's talking about, bashing it like that. In fact, he's rather way too harsh and unfair with a LOT of his criticism on much of the whole series, really.

I remember LOVING this game because it was out of the ordinary and you had to figure out how to play it by solving puzzles. And yes, my friends didn't get it. With everyone so involved in sports games, I loved being alone, playing the game, writing down the codes to continue where I left off. Great video. Brought back a lot of nostalgia.

I just bought this to play on my Retron 5 and it looks amazing. Oh and I can do save states. ;)

Happy New Year Daniel, hope this channel will continue to be as awesome in 2018 as it was in 2017!

I showed my niece how to do the trick at 10:46. And now she does it all the time. She’s also only four but loves Sega. Thanks Slopes for making this vid. Much love from the USA.

Great Video as Always, happy new Year

Always love your vids. Happy New Year!

I’ve quickly fallen in love with this series. Great work man.

@slopesgameroom

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you like it

Great work on all your videos, I've really enjoyed them. Happy new year! Subscribed.

Happy New Years everyone! Thanks for this very well done and informative video! I LOVE Ecco! I have the Sega CD version of 1 and 2 and the 3DS version. The music on the Sega CD games is AMAZING! I had the Dreamcast version (before I sold my Dreamcast) and I LOVED that game as well. Still sad it never got re-released for Xbox Live. It was hard as nails but once you got the controls down, for me it became very intuitive much like the freedom you get from Mario 64. Messed up inspiration for the game.

im so glad the guys at Sega approved the premise of this game, can you imagine the board meeting? "ok so, you play as a dolphin named Ecco right?" "what like Sonic?" "no no, a real dolphin, but you accidentally trigger an alien species to come to earth and cause the mass extinction of all the marine life on the planet..." "oookkk..." "yeah so youve got to go back in time 55 million years ago to save earth, oh and you fight Xenomorphs from Aliens in a giant mechanical bio-machine and have to kill the queen" O_o ....."You lost me at Dolphin.....is this a kids game??" "We listened to A LOT of Pink Floyd on dope with this one...."

This is how you do a review of a game! Great job mate!

This game legitimately gave me nightmares as a child. The nightmares still Ecco around in my memories... ;D

Nice, but people calling defender of the future crap? I have only seen one negative review and he is pretty negative. The game is in my top 5 dreamcast games, from its music to visuals and puzzles it a game that only people with patience can enjoy like Shenmue. You need to sit down and use your thinking cap to solve hard but not water temple hard puzzles and I enjoy a good challenge like that. It makes me happy that most really enjoy the game. It should also be notes that this summer Sega and Ed met in court about Ecco and reportedly left on good terms so here's hoping for new Ecco games!

That was a great vid and I loved how much you delved into the history of this video and the other ecco video. Great work and now I'll never ever be able to see the name Ecco without thinking Earth Coincidence Control Office lol

best channel on retro gaming , thanks for the video.

Holy cow, Atlantis? Aliens? I remember my brother and I saw a guy in a shop playing this (we were probably around 11/12) and thought it looked like the coolest thing. When we bought it we must have not gotten very far. I was never a great gamer and it got too hard pretty fast. All I remember is eating fish, being hit by enemies, and drowning a lot. I guess I missed out on some creepy af stuff.

@derrickhaggard

4 жыл бұрын

Trust me this game gets creepy and disturbing in tone both level design wise and plot wise once you get to the later levels especially the final level where you're inside the Vortex Mothership basically taking the fight straight to the Vortex Queen and her minions. As for the levels like Sky Tides, and Atlantis let's just say Time Travel is a big part of the plotline.

You make some great videos, I always enjoy watching your show. One of the best retrogame channel on youtube.

@slopesgameroom

6 жыл бұрын

+Rohaldos ahhhhhhhhhh thanks xude

A great year for Slopes Game Room. I'd be willing to bet you'll hit 100k subs during 2018!

I'm sooooo glad i'm not the only person that was absolutely terrified by this game, the music, the noise ecco makes when hurt, sharks that come out of no where at the speed of light, being trapped in a cave and drowning, oh and aliens. I'm 34 now and I still struggle to watch the gameplay on youtube

Great coverage. I almost didn't watch this one because I saw the dark secrets behind Ecco video and it really hearts my heart to hear about people mistreating animals, in the name of science or anything else. I almost figured this would be more of the same, because of the 'scary game' intro. However, the Tomb Raider T-Rex fight was scary, no doubt. Also, this game was pretty tough, but strangely satisfying when you get used to it and progress. I also think the sci fi story really adds a lot of intrigue to the mysteries underwater. Also, thanks for shouting out for Ecco - Defenders of the Future. It was far from perfect production values, but it was fine for the time, and a brilliant concept. Whatever happened to the idea of evolving the platformer in 3D ? It seems, these days, Mario is the only franchise loyal to this idea. RIP Ecco the Dolphin and Spyro the Dragon.

When I play mega drive classics I can't believe I finished some of those games when they came out originally. But I remember finishing Ecco. Blood sweat and tears

@krisfrederick5001

4 жыл бұрын

Our younger selves will kick our older selves asses in just about every game I've noticed among friends.

It's nice to see someone mention emulation without shitting all over it.

I was 9 when first got the game and beaten it within few weeks and saved passwords in a note book lol. Its hard but rewarding and beaten tides of time some time after that game came out. The music really engraves in memory.

Thanks for this Video! I love this Game!

I grew up playing Ecco and Ecco 2: Tides of Time and played LOTS of other games since, but these two still remain near the top of my list of best games ever. Hats off to the creators, timeless masterpieces.

I really wish they'd make a 3DS version of the second game with super dolphin mode.

Heh, as a kid I had Defender of the Future myself, and I was so bad at it that I spent more time watching the demo reels than I did finishing the first level. But I plan to hook up my Dreamcast and make a real attempt to beat it as an adult

Great video mate.

@slopesgameroom

6 жыл бұрын

+No1.OriginalTrilogyStarWarsFan cheers bud

Ecco was the most cryptic game I had ever played at the time. I still just sit down and swim for an hour.

Another great video, Dan. There are just some things I want to ask. Why'd you used the term remaster when you were talking about the music for the Mega CD versions of the games? Those versions have a completely different soundtrack to the original Mega Drive versions. Also, when you mentioned the PC port of the game, why didn't you talk about that a bit more? That version, if memory serves me right, had the option to play with either the Mega Drive or Mega CD soundtracks and had FMVs put into the game.

This series changed my life. I loved these games!

Excellent Video Slopes. My best friend should love this video. I wish you the best Great Video. Think I’ll play some Ecco on the Wii Virtual Console

So long and thanks for all the fish

I grew up with and absolutely loved Defender of the Future! I played it a couple of years ago and yeah the story is outlandish but hasn't it always? For such a disjointed development, it's fantastic to me. Dan, at least PLEASE get to the second alternate universe with the Clan and the Outcasts, it's the best part of the game!

Happy New Year Slopes

I love the game TV spots you showcased. 👍what a great time to be a kid

My issue with Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future was that I loved it!... and because it was the first game to have underwater graphics that realistic it taught me I have Thalassophobia and by the time I left the tutorial level I was in a panic attack.

Ecco: Defender of the Future is my favorite Ecco game. I loved the feeling of exploration and the soundtrack. I hated the difficulty and the draw distance, but I still really enjoyed it. I had no clue about the negative reaction about the title. I hated the first one because of how difficult it was. I had NO clue what I was doing.

I didn’t know you were such a youngin! I knew dolphins were magic or whatever before the game anyway 🐬 but surely a strange series! Great vid

I think Ecco stands the test of time (pardon the pun) because it came out at the perfect time. The technology was advanced enough to allow for immersive underwater visuals and amazing music on a home console, while the video game industry was still in its experimental phase. Ecco wasn't a focus-group-tested, homogenized corporate product. It has a really unique feel that still makes it stand out 30+ years later.

Completed Ecco 1 and 2 on the Mega Drive over twenty years ago, quite enjoyed them. They were pretty tough games, maybe even tougher today.

@heilong79

6 жыл бұрын

They were not really hard at all, only one or two bosses were an issue IMO.

@ReinaHW

6 жыл бұрын

I have very poor hand eye coordination due to disabilities, for me they were tough games.

@heilong79

6 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear you stuck with it and overcame your hardships..

@ReinaHW

6 жыл бұрын

I didn't manage to overcome my handicaps, I never do sadly, I just keep pushing as hard as I can to do as well as I can while being in constant pain as always. Hate being disabled.

Will watch this in 2018 properly! Thanks Slopes!

I loved Ecco since i was a kid and i still love every pixel and the music and sounds of this game. But i was never able to beat the "welcome to the machine" level without savestates

Ecco is one of the best series ever! (didn't know about the 3D one) but i do hope for a new game!

I thought Defender of The Future was amazing to look at when it came out and the atmosphere was more creepy then most horror games that came out at that time.

Excellent vid! I expected nothing less! I wonder, have you ever considered a Complete History of the Legacy of Kain? Might be an excuse to chat with Amy Hennig? C'mon. You know you want to... Vae Victus!

I didn't expect the short samles of game soundtrack in this video still give me chills

This is one of those games that I really did not appreciate when I was younger. I ended up playing it on a collection disc for Genesis games during the Xbox 360 / PS3 era and very much enjoyed it.

The Sega CD versions of Ecco 1 and 2 had exceptional music. It was so good it overshadows the game itself.

Please make another vid where you look into The Big Blue. It's a posterboy for how to NOT make a kickstarter. No concept art or game footage (just those godawful screensaver pics stolen from somewhere), promise you'll get to play as EVERY creature imaginable, and my personal favorite, CREATURE CARDS! Because Lootboxes weren't enough... idk. I think it would be cool to see a more indepth (lol) analysis of it.

Great video, great game, very hard game and very frustrating game.... Also the depressing dystopic underwater atmosphere scared the shit out of me....

You, sir, have a new subscriber :)

I hope ed gets to make a new ecco game we have had so many franchises come back, we got toejam and earl, we got crash and spyro, we even got bubsy , just imagine a new ecco game on the nintendo switch with beautiful hd graphics, a beautiful soundtrack along with more creepy aliens, if ecco does come back I think a sequel to tides of time would be cool

@derrickhaggard

4 жыл бұрын

Or maybe a reboot/remake of the first game only with better graphics, and better controls a more coherent way of telling the plot. But with a difficulty that less Dark Souls, and more modern Ninja Gaiden Reboot trilogy aka it's tough but fair. Also don't change the plot as it's one of the best plots ever.

I do think these were actually the creepiest 16 bit games. Especially those levels where it's really dark, and also the ones where you can get trapped under the ice, slowly running out of air... Oh, and I do genuinely believe they had the best soundtracks of any 16 bit games. EDIT: Ha, I was one of those 850 or so backers that put in money for Ed Annunziata's Big Blue on Kickstarter. Was kind of disappointing how incredibly short of its goal it ended up.

Thanks Daniel ! You rock !

Hmm... somwhere around in Budapest (funny that you didn't mentioned a single time during the whole video that Novotrade International / Appaloosa Interactive were behind everything: programming, design and even the soundtrack as well. It is noted being the very few and successful game developer companies out from Hungary) I have a friend who has a bigass collection of games from all consoles from pong consoles to X360, he told me (and I can confirm it is real and I tried it), that he has the Defender of the Future Dreamcast prototype in his hands, which has quite some major differences compared to the released version. Also programmers note: NTSC-U and PAL versions of Defender of the Future is broken due to the fact that one of the bonus games are unwinnable. This was only fixed in japanese versions of the game.

Ahh, Ecco; defender of my youth. I was a pre-teen in 1992, saddled with social rejection due to undiagnosed Autism, and severe, undiagnosed ADHD eviscerating my every waking moment with the dread of "what did I do wrong this time?", "Do I have enough time to do this homework before class starts?" ect. I lived with raw, unfiltered hatred of anything that couldn't capture my interest right away, and I drowned in emotions amplified far beyond what a typical human brain can experience or process safely; Ecco was an escape into a world which COULD hold my attention. A world where the deep dark waters and mesmerizing music held me in a holding pattern-which gave my battered brain a chance to filter out the world and recover, even if for only a few hours. A world that didn't need a Player 2. I played and played, learned the controls, solved the puzzles, and got pulled deeper into the story. Ecco was and still is a beloved special interest; the music still takes my mind back to the calm, steely nerves and precise hand-eye control necessary to guide Ecco to safety...unless it's a water tube level. Those levels are essentially crapshoots; maybe you get through, maybe you don't.

One of my all time favourite games as a kid and wow what a story.

@slopesgameroom

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate... really proud of this video

I beat the 1st two as a kid and still have my copies. They were ridiculously hard at points but I always was mesmerized by the atmosphere and music. They were absolute masterpieces of their time and just hearing the music bring me right back to that time in front of a 27" Sylvania in my moms family room.

Happy new year love your videos please make a video about the punisher games since the tv show came out

As strange as it would be, I’d love to see Ecco in Project X Zone 3

I loved the Dreamcast Ecco game. It was beautiful and just fun as hell to play.

I may be alone on this, but I was never much of a fan of Zelda (the exception being A Link To The Past on SNES); so the Ecco The Dolphin games are a clear win in my book.