I love this game! I remember playing it when i didn't have internet access. At first i was like "I wish i had a guide" but then i started to figure out everything on my own and i was happy i didn't have a guide. The feel of acomplishment when you try everything and finally succeed is great, i felt like a real detective!

@silentj624

4 жыл бұрын

Played it in '95. My mom said the phone bill was through the roof from calling the tip hotline. LOL

Never played the first or the second one, but the third one was the first game that my parents bought for me only, not for my older brother or my younger sister, but for me... I still got it sitting behind me in the room on a shelf in its magnificent big cardboard box starring at me, those cowboy eyes used to haunt me in my sleep as a young teenager, until I beat the game over and over again... nowadays I tried to play it one more time, but the game constantly got me stuck in a room where the glitchgremling reared its ugly head and wouldn't let me leave, started the game over, and the same thing happened.. so maybe another time on another computer :) great review, those jumping sections looked just as hard as in the third game :P keep up the good work!

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Haha, that's awesome, thanks for sharing :)

when I was a kid I had the demo for 3do and back then this game looked really good

Great video! This is the only 3DO title I have ever played! Keep up these enjoyable videos!

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Will do, thanks!

Great video! I always find it amusing when console games have options to change graphical detail, even when it's not intentional (as in this game).

Atari just released the first, second and third games onto Steam! But i'd just prefer to play Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare on the Dreamcast.

Great review!

You'll be disappointed to here that Alone In The Dark 2 (which was also released on 3DO) focuses much more on combat and less on puzzle solving. This would be fine except the game engine was not built for action and as a result, the game becomes a frustrating chore that feels very stop and start. Alone In The Dark 3 (which sadly didn't see a release on 3DO) did thankfully fix most of 2's probkems.

Its still a good game, just not the 3do version imo. It's laggy, the graphics are blurrier, it runs in a smaller bordered window, and the save file takes up like half of the 3do's save space. Just stick with the GOG version, it's a much better experience imo of course.

Funny thing is, I had this game on the 3DO a long time ago. I never played this. Excellent review!

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! As for as 3DO games go, this is pretty good, and not available on the Saturn/PSX.

I have a 3DO and a copy of this as well love survival horror yet I recall giving up pretty early on, I really got to go back and give it another shot!

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Time to knock this one off your back log Rob :)

@MaximumRD

7 жыл бұрын

I may not have been aware of the SAVE ANYWHERE feature, as you can imagine that makes a major difference.

Absolutely love the 3DO. Great content as always. Keep up the great work!

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Will do, thanks!

@EDifyer881

6 жыл бұрын

Ken Murawski yes I find it to be underrated

Excellent video!! Classic game! :)

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Really enjoy your review style, thorough, well paced and objective. Thank you for your content and work.

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Anytime, thanks for taking a moment to leave a comment :)

Found this one complete in box recently, what a way to start my 3DO collection! I was getting wrecked by the controls, since the game starts throwing a lot of shit your way right off the bat, so I decided to search for reviews to try and get a feel on the controls.

@implantgames

6 жыл бұрын

When I first played this game I get wrecked by the first enemy haha. The combat controls are terrible!

This would’ve been awesome to play. Thanks

I just loaded this up in DOS Box earlier this week & tested. Ran great. On my list to beat it someday. I finished the 2nd game in the series on the Saturn. It takes place during the day (ha! dark?) & there's pirates. Same situation though, use a FAQ as I recall one puzzle that required you to do a couple random actions across 2 floors.

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

I think at this point most folks would (rightfully) give up on some of these old adventure games if FAQs didn't exist. I have never played the sequels but I love that, Alone in the Day :D

This really looks like a mixture of Little Big Adventure and Resident Evil!

great video man, have you stopped doing your podcasts or am I missing something ?

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

I kind of ran out of things to say. While I have your attention, what did you like most about the podcast and what did you least like?

@thebat4945

7 жыл бұрын

implantgames. You always had interesting news info that other channels wouldn't provide . also really liked you're cheap games segment and enjoyed hearing you talk about games you were playing recently that weren't really new releases. It made me look through my back catalog and finish some old games I had left behind for newer ones. would love to see it come back. good luck either way with the future of you're channel I know I'll be here.

@thebat4945

7 жыл бұрын

implantgames as far as what I liked the least. nothing really sticks out in my mind . thought it was really solid overall and held my attention through the entirety

@thebat4945

7 жыл бұрын

implantgames also watching this video made me want to hear your thoughts on the ps1 series of fear effect games

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comments, appreciated!

1:48 Correction: It's Jeremy Hartwood, not Jerry Hartwood.

Ever plan on covering Alone In The Dark 2?

How do you save the game? I can't figure out a way to do so.

So overall how does the 3do version stack up against, say, the GOG version?

I preferred this version over the DOS version because of the run button. On the DOS version there was no run button, so you had to double press forward, and it was really finicky about double tapping speed.

In the part where the jump action is added to the player's list of actions, I didn't fall for any of the optical illusions with the backgrounds. Like the one which tricked you at 9:17.

An authentic remake of this game would be pretty fresh but they always try to make it modern day and have Carnby be a 'cool' gritty character 🙄 It should be almost exactly this but with better, more fleshed out gameplay. 1920's Louisiana, Carnby is a sophisticated mustachiod ginger, spooky mansion monsters, etc. Just take what works and bring it forward, then flesh it all out into like a 20hr game or so.

I loved the 3DO! and this game!

Not sure how I missed these videos! Cool stuff, this one always felt very archaic to me and frustrating. I think I burned it on 3DO at one point. =)

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

And here I thought you didn't like me anymore ;)

I think around 1997 this could've came out on the superintendent

Think the series deserves a remaster treatment. Similar to the Resident evil 1 remaster. Improve the controls and gameplay and sharpen up the graphics.

Even back in the day the gameplay was rough, technically brilliant but unforgiving and cryptic.

How much did it cost for you to get a 3DO?

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

My first one was $35 but than was in 2001 or so. My current one was $80 I think? The shop owner tossed in some loose games as well (Star Wars, Road Rash, Need for Speed, among others) so that really skews the value.

Jerry Hardwood? xD

I found a sealed not for resale copy on 3do i ended up trading off

Just bought this for 3d0

Short answer: yes

Yes, it is still good.

could be a 32x version? I thinking the 32x is better in polígons

@tomaspostorivo

7 жыл бұрын

davidvfx mmm, there isn't a version for it. I think 3DO is more powerful, compare need for speed for 3DO with any 32x game

@SeGa32xXx1

7 жыл бұрын

Mr Objection The 3DO is absolutely NOT more powerful than the 32x. I mean just look at DOOM on the 3DO, it's a complete unplayable MESS with a frame rate that might as well have been a literal slide show you played with a controller. I know the 32x inside and out, and Virtua Racing Deluxe is definitely a greater technical achievement than The Need For Speed, playing at a MUCH more impressive frame rate. Although left largely unexplored aside from perhaps Afterburner II, Space Harrier, and especially Cosmic Carnage, the 32x's scaling abilities is also much better than the 3DOs. This is all also considering that the 32x was also barely pushed to its limits, and with the developers of DarXide stating that with more time they believed they could've gotten more out of the 32x than anyone would have expected, despite the impressive polygon count, texture mapping, and frame rate they had already achieved on the incredibly rushed development time and shoestring budget they were allotted says alot.

@arzak1

7 жыл бұрын

SeGa32xXx1, i'm sorry but i think you're wrong. First of all i'm a Sega fan, but we can see clearly that the 32X is a weaker machine than the 3DO, even if it was released one year later. Doom on 3DO is an horrible port, but it's not for lack of power. It was given to a single developer (Rebecca Heineman) and was clearly rushed (she had only two months). You're right when you are saying that the 32X wasn't pushed to it's limits, but we can clearly say that also for the 3DO. Darxide is probably the only game with full textured polygons support on 32X (and when the ships enters or goes out of the mothership you can see that the system is working hard). All other 3D games are presented with flat-shaded polygons,. Some of them are impressive (Virtua Racing Deluxe and Virtua Fighter), as well as all super scaler games. 3DO, on the other hand, could run games likes Starfighter which were impossibile on 32X.

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Woah this escalated quickly. Regardless of which machine is more powerful, the 32x should have no problem with a game like this. Hell, it's possible the Sega CD had enough juice for the primitive polygons on display here. Racing Aces might be a good baseline for the Sega CD's polygon capabilities.

@SeGa32xXx1

7 жыл бұрын

arzak1 The only real advantage that the 3DO had on the 32x was its use of CDs as the game storage medium allowing for larger games, as well as more storage room for textures, audio, and the like. When you compare what the 32x achieved with its version of Doom on a 4 MEGABYTE cartridge to the 3DOs joke of a version with over 600mb to play with it's game, set, and match right there, no contest. Games like Metal Head, DarXide, Virtua Racing Deluxe, Virtua Fighter, T-MEK, Shadow Squadron, all developed with a rudimentary knowledge of how to push the hardware is enough in itself for one to see the 32x can outperform the 3DO. You say that the 3DO wasn't pushed either, when it's fairly common knowledge that it had relatively easy to use development tools for the time, and it's architecture is definitely not as complicated as the 32x's was. Claiming Starfighter isn't possible on it is total hearsay, and is probably only true with consideration to the storage limits once again. This has nothing to do with being a fan of Sega either, and besides MetalHead also had texture mapping and runs smoothly, and if you wanna fall back on the 3DOOM's development hell then we can look at FIFA 96, which also runs better on the 32x in full 3D. I'm sorry man, but you're just incorrect on this one, the 3DO technically speaking is simply not more powerful than the 32x. Add fully explored SegaCD32x functionality, and it's not even worth discussing.

All the horror fades as soon as the player lays eyes on the pathetic looking enemies. I'll never understand how one can defend the first part over the second.

@drunkensailor112

Жыл бұрын

Because it is a much better game. Who cares about how horrifying they look?

@agahnimous

Жыл бұрын

@@drunkensailor112 That's your opinion which is just as subjective as mine. To me part two is the better game, period. And ridiculous looking monsters do play a huge part in dragging down the score of a supposed horror game, believe it or not 😉

Ofcourse it is

I ended the first 2 AITD games on my pc as a kid... trust me you can figure every puzzle by yourself. No need of guides.