Hybrid Heaven

[Matt]

Graham and Paul go back, to the age of N64 and pointy helmet hair.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/1789-Hybrid-Heaven

[Chuckles]

Half of the people in the Escapist thread were asking what the shower scene had to do with the game.

Oh, so it's okay in Parasite Eve, but not here?

I suppose it's better than a solid half minute staring at a travel thermos THAT DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE.

[aeric90]

Agree with the credits tag-on... there is no excuse for N64 nudity *shivers* Nothing sexy about that at all.

[Evil Jim]

"The Arrival of the Train at the Station."

Obscure reference for the win! I love you guys.

Edit:
Here's an idea for game developers who want to set their games in the future but don't want them to become out of date like this one. Have the game look at the system clock & always add 20 years to the in-game storyline.

Please send thank-you checks to:

Evil Jim
c/o
LoadingReadyRun.com
The Internet

Cash accepted too. No Saddam 20s!

[aeric90]

I had to look it up... but yeah. Damn that's obscure. This one should have been in last weeks AskLRR on the pod cast.

[Evil Jim]

I have that short film on a DVD collection of ANCIENT silent films. Most are just showing off the technology by capturing everyday life. I showed it at a silent movie marathon (Shut The Fuck Up-athon) a few years ago.

[thunderkatz]

Great video, and some great nudity jokes.

So after unique-looking guy #1 died, and unique-looking guy #2 was falling, my first thought was, "Wow, is random-agent-man going to be the star of this game?"

"The Arrival of the Train at the Station."

Obscure reference for the win!

I would definitely have to agree on the obscure part. At least this way, I can call Unskippable educational, I guess :p

And still, I think this post had better flow and continuity than that cutscene.

[wartjr2373]

I don't know if it's just the mood I'm in, but I liked this episode more than usual. Lots of good jokes and cringe-worthy scenes.

[Emperor Gum]

Seriously, haw can you look at your OPENING FUCKING cutscene, the one time when you weren't pushing deadlines or running out of money, when you are trying to impress, when you haven't run of ideas, and think that's even passable. I physically cannot understand it. Uh. G&P were funny as par the course.

[Evil Jim]

Emperor Gum, do you type using a DVORAK layout on your keyboard?

[Vohn_exel]

I physically cannot understand it.

Wait how do you physically understand something anyway?

But yeah, that was great, nothing like the old days of the N64. There were some real gems on that. It's weird hearing kids today speak of it the way people my age speak of the NES, lol.

[Vaughn]

Say what you want, that game was awesome, and when you were 14 the plot was awesome too.

[Nevrmore]

So...Was Old Guile seriously killed by White T. Hawk? Does he not come back? Because if so, that is awesome. Set up one guy as the main character and then kill him off two minutes later. How Hitchcockian.

[dex-dex]

I will be honest i have never heard of this game
and i had to look it up. During the N64 era i only played rages like diddy kong racing and banjo-kazooie.
Yet, still hilarious.

[ThrashJazzAssassin]

Okay, I have never had cause to say this about any previous Unskippable, but this time I give in: what the fuck did I just watch? How can a game with that opening cutscene possibly have any plot at all, let alone a comprehensible one?

*reads Wikipedia article*

...

What the fuck did I just read?

[thadivilhimsewf]

I physically cannot understand it.

Wait how do you physically understand something anyway?

I think it's like knowing someone Biblically.

[Emperor Gum]

I physically cannot understand it.

Wait how do you physically understand something anyway?

I think it's like knowing someone Biblically.

To know someone Biblically, is a Biblical euphemism to have sex with someone. So yes, I guess I didn't have sex with this game. this game

[thadivilhimsewf]

To know someone Biblically, is a Biblical euphemism to have sex with someone. So yes, I guess I didn't have sex with this game. this game

When we old timers say we had to blow the cartridges to get them to work ... not what we meant.

[Emperor Gum]

To know someone Biblically, is a Biblical euphemism to have sex with someone. So yes, I guess I didn't have sex with this game. this game

When we old timers say we had to blow the cartridges to get them to work ... not what we meant.

Ah, I remember the days when I had to blow Magic Sword.

[Alja-Markir]

Was so stoked to see my suggestion put to such fabulous use.

Point of note, I was one of the fourteen people that played this game, and I can even say I enjoyed it. So here's some information to help out those confused.

The game doesn't clue you in to what the fuck is going on until you're about 60% of the way though it. Here's the rundown though. Aliens are trying to take over the world. Their mothership is buried beneath New York, somehow. The aliens are abducting world leaders and replacing them with clones.

Old Guile we saw in the cutscene was a clone agent. If I recall, he was a clone of one of the president's bodyguards. Diaz is the player character, except it turns out he isn't actually Diaz. He's the president's bodyguard disguised as Diaz. Thus he kills his own clone in the cutscene, while everyone thinks he is Diaz. The real Diaz is actually working with the aliens, and actually ends up being the final boss, on that same elevator, and dies falling off of it when beaten (into an explosion, instead of the hover floor).

Add to this fact that the aliens are actually not the bad guys, but are merely being manipulated by a faction of the government itself, and the entire game is just one giant plotfuck.

As for gameplay itself, it consists of third person puzzle solving and a rather curious hand-to-hand brawling system which was quite innovative and the real reason to play the game. You wander around in this giant series of underground alien spaceship corridors, research labs, cargo rooms, and more, all with trippy lights and colors, and populated by clones of humans and a number of bizarre research-gone-wrong monsters and things. You never actually fight the aliens themselves, interestingly.

~Alja~