3DO Interactive Multiplayer - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)

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full of crap they can't compare to the real gaming juggernaut the 3do yeah look at that this is the real console more like a real piece of dog [ __ ] the fact they had the audacity to make a commercial calling all other systems baby toys and then put out a glorified fmv player with barely any decent games blows my mind also something i want to mention the 3do is one of the rare consoles where you have to daisy chain the controllers together i've talked a little about the system before and i never knew a single person who owned it when it came out now why is that maybe because when it launched this [ __ ] bastard cost 700 goddamn dollars yeah that's right and we're talking 700 back in 93. to compare that to prices nowadays with inflation 700.93 equates to about 1200 in 2021 money the playstation 5 costs 600 right now imagine that pitch to your parents hey dad i need 700 for a new 3do console be cheaper for them to slap you upside the head with the neogeo cartridge your parents would probably flip you off and tell you to go [ __ ] yourself the 3do would eventually be price dropped to [ __ ] and discontinued after three years on the market it was mostly marketed as a multimedia machine it had a bunch of non-game kind of [ __ ] like educational shovelware and of course a whole ass load of soft stool porn games like a lot of porn can you imagine i mean you don't want to imagine a guy in his living room with a 3do controller in one hand and is you know in the other hand just furiously beating it to plumbers don't wear ties today i'll just be focusing on the shallow end of the cesspool with some piss-poor games when the system launched there was only one game available crash and burn that's such a kick in the [ __ ] balls especially for the price imagine dropping 700 on an nes and the only game at launch was super pitfall it starts with about 15 minutes of full motion video and production logos you'll see as i go on that this becomes the [ __ ] theme of the 3do 20 minutes of fmv and about five minutes of gameplay because i end up shutting most these games off from boredom crash and burn is a futuristic fecal fart fest combat racing game made by crystal dynamics the company best known for the legacy of kane series and later the tomb raider series the game has six characters you can choose from and each one cuts to a promo when you select them i like to destroy lasers in many different ways just to keep from being bored i like this guy because he looks like blanca from street fighter became a professor or something you can also play as rod stewart if you want so you might be thinking to yourself this doesn't look all that bad but think about this if you wanted to play this back in 93 you'd have to drop about 750 dollars and that's not mentioning the fact that a complete copy can run you around 700 dollars today the combat's pretty lame the weapons feel like they do absolutely nothing and the racing is mediocre at best i guess the graphics looked impressive back in 93 but give me f-zero any day of the week because crash and burn is just plain zero if combat racing is your thing road rash on the other hand is excellent everything about this game is great from the gameplay to the rockin ass soundtrack my only real complaint is the engine sound it's awful luckily you can turn it off but if you don't all you hear is a high pitched the entire race [Music] you can choose to either race or play the big game mode this lets you earn money by racing and buy better bikes the character designs are hideous it looks like a fish-eyed acid trip real 90s style [ __ ] i usually pick slim jim because he starts off with a club hearing that clunk sound every time i cave in a rider's skull is so satisfying in between races you get these fmv cutscenes they're pretty cool overall this is probably the best game on the 3do definitely in the top five but like a lot of the other games on here it's available on the playstation or saturn and nowadays the 3do copy can cost you upwards of 80 dollars for a complete one so just get it on playstation for 20 bucks another game you could also get on the playstation is gex crystal dynamics entry into the 3do mascot contest the game uses pre-rendered 3d graphics for character sprites it reminds me of donkey kong country another game i'd much rather be playing on the internet this game gets talked about a lot but the funny thing is everyone always shows the graveyard level probably because the game is so boring everyone turns it off once they've recorded enough footage it's an okay platformer and gex was able to jump ship when the 3do died out the same can't be said for the 3do's true mascot however captain quasar this game also uses the pre-rendered sprite look but plays like an overhead shooter instead of a platformer the gameplay is fine but it's super repetitive you just run around shooting stuff the camera snaps and swings around like it's being controlled by a drunk uncle out of family reunion kinda makes me sick captain quasar is making me captain queasy sorry the best part of this game is the insane musical number at the beginning the robots are rapping and singing about crapped and quasar the animation's pretty decent but it seems like they put way more effort into this intro than the actual game here's a weird one soccer kid you play as this little [ __ ] that runs around kicking a soccer ball at people i guess the story is that some space pirates steal a soccer trophy or something then they crash and the pieces fly all over the world and you have to collect them it's animated like a dollar store bootleg dvd use your soccer ball as a weapon but without it you're just some [ __ ] kid without powers or any way to attack or defend yourself i played this game long enough to realize that i don't really like it and would rather base jump into a flea market portage on than play anymore also i don't know what this kid did but everyone in this town wants to [ __ ] kill him dogs skateboarders and especially these surly looking guys who whip wrenches at his head how [ __ ] up is that this kid's willing to travel the world to save a soccer trophy but grown adults will cave his skull in with a wrench to stop him this game is [ __ ] up battle chest is a game i remember thinking was an awesome idea that is until i actually played it it's possibly the slowest game of chess i've ever witnessed yeah each time a piece moves you have to watch it walk to the spot and these characters walk slower than compacted [ __ ] out of sloth's [ __ ] shoot i was playing this [ __ ] for almost 10 minutes before anything actually happened eventually i just started sacrificing pieces just to see the kill animations which i'll admit are [ __ ] stupendous i love the monty python reference with the knight but that's all it is it's the world's slowest chess simulator i'd be fine if the pieces didn't need to slowly saunter over to each space i can't believe they made a video game that's actually slower and more boring than an actual chess game you'd have a better time watching a dog turd turn white and yes real chess is awesome it's the intellectual [ __ ] man the horde is a game that's usually praised as one of the best games on the system it's fine you play as kirk cameron swinging around a giant sword yes you actually play as kirk cameron there's an intro cut scene that of course goes on for like 10 minutes kirk saves a king from choking to death and return is given his own plot of land and a big-ass sword you spend your time building traps planting trees and raising cattle so you can pay your taxes in between building phases your town gets attacked by trolls so kirk runs around swinging his sword like a maniac and slashing the trolls into puddles of liquid it's a decent game but i can't imagine playing this for long periods of time there's nothing super wrong with the game it just gets old pretty quick another decent game for the 3do is super street fighter 2 turbo well it would be decent in fact it could have been the best home console incarnation of the street fighter 2 lineage that existed back in the day but there's one problem one huge problem the 3do controller has only three buttons that ain't gonna work everyone knows you need six so i got the pro pad which has the same button configuration as a super nintendo controller and we all know street fighter worked great on the super nintendo four buttons on the front two on the top there's your six you're all set but this controller you wouldn't believe the bottom button x is actually the start button and it can't even be changed in the option menu you can reassign all the other buttons except start so when you're trying to fight you're gonna keep accidentally pausing the game that [ __ ] sucks and this thing was made by std you'd be better off getting a real std than getting this [ __ ] so what you really need to get is the weird ass capcom fight pads that you had to send away for they're one of the dumbest shaped controllers i've ever seen though surprisingly comfortable also the music in the game is awesome it's an arranged version of the original and sounds great so this one is good as long as you get the right controller but you want to see some [ __ ] right well check out way of the warrior this game was developed by naughty dog before they made hits like crash bandicoot imagine mortal kombat if nobody gave two flying shits about it the ninja character in the game is just named ninja a ninja named ninja you can't get any lazier than that [ __ ] also what in the [ __ ] hell is a shaky jake each character plays like cheap chump [ __ ] they jump like 40 feet in the air and you can get caught in infinite downward attacks until you're [ __ ] dead in 10 seconds the special attacks are more like [ __ ] spectacles and don't even get me started on the fatalities because they are just confusing as all hell i see your heart beats for me an honorable mention is the soundtrack that just plays an endless string of white zombie songs i'm pretty sure that's where the entire budget went because the game is programmed like someone wrote the code with their ball sacks anyway the game sucks next virtuoso this is a rare kind of game that makes you question the very meaning of [ __ ] i don't even know where to begin first off i can't get over the music just listen to it sounds like they hired the band that got last place in the battle of the bands at the east [ __ ] community center all the musics by a band called thai died spelled t-h-a-i hmm i tried to look them up on google but all i got was articles on people in thailand who died well that's pretty depressing guessing that band name didn't go very far you play as a leathery long-haired dirt bag with dual shotguns and shoot the [ __ ] out of seagulls weird faceless dudes wasps and ed209s you could either get your ass to mars the beach or boo haunted house the haunted house level makes no sense either it's just a snow field with a bunch of giant snowmen rolling their balls at you you can move up against the walls but the controls get [ __ ] if you come across a copy of virtuoso somewhere throw it in the old trashuoso alone the dark one and two are a couple games that are known for their influence for the resident evil series they're basically resident evil if every character was played by a diseased muppet the tank controls are far worse than resident evil if you can believe it everything moves at a snail's pace the graphics i'm sure at the time were decent but everything looks like a pulsating mass of polygonal and pixelated poopoo anything in the distance looks like a blob of geometry jism and i can't get anywhere in the game without dying being the first of its kind is a tough deal basically this game walked so resident evil could run but right now these games are giving me the runs siberia is a baffling mess it looks like another resident evil type game but if resident evil has tank controls siberia has septic tank controls basically you point the character in the direction you want to go and a video of him walking plays the best part of this game is the death animations you also die from the stupidest [ __ ] possible he dies from slipping in a puddle and also from touching this hot barrel he's probably the most inept hero i've ever seen in a video game eventually you get to a part where you're defending the base from a bunch of pictures of aircrafts and boats i don't know if this is the rest of the game but it goes on forever it's like if top gun on the nes barfed into the where did you learn to fly woman's mouth so we've covered a bunch of games so far horror games combat racing platformers fighters and whatever the ever loving [ __ ] virtuoso is but now let's get into the premiere genre of the 90s the first person shooters first up is poed no actually it's pode this game is just weird ass [ __ ] you play as an intergalactic chef who's the last living member of his ship's crew you fight evil alien asses and other ugly as sin monsters with a frying pan the movement of this game gives me severe motion sickness i've played a lot of early first person shooters but this one just moves like you're ice skating after downing a bottle of ipac syrup i have the urge to violently projectile vomit after a few minutes of this and not just because it kind of sucks but here we go the granddaddy of [ __ ] first person shooters on the 3do doom and i know you're wondering how could you have the audacity to spray steamy foamy diarrhea on doom but hear me out doom on the 3do is not doom it's a sad excuse for doom doom on a ti-83 graphic calculator would play better than this i want to be known this game was ported over by one person tasked with making this game happen and only equipped with two [ __ ] sticks to rub together in just 10 weeks what you get is doom running at about the frame rate of a view master seriously this game at the lowest setting runs at almost single digit frame rates and plays like a [ __ ] lawn chair there's actually a code for larger screen sizes but it's way worse it's almost hard to believe this would be allowed to be released at retail but it was the 90s look at all the broken-ass [ __ ] that was allowed to pass elsewhere this was the system that brought you such gems as plumbers don't wear ties and shadow war of succession on to the next game you can't mention the 3do without mentioning demolition man the thing that stuns me about this game is the amount of actual stallone that is in the game you don't just get movie clips like you would with most games you get sylvester stallone running around fake backgrounds on a green screen it's incredible the game skirts the line between a light gun shooter and a first person shooter imagine doom if you just stood still while enemies popped up around you oh and don't forget the mortal kombat style boss fights this game is definitely a product of its time maybe i'll get into it more another day because i suck ass at the fighting scenes speaking of games with known actors in it check out hell which has dennis hopper it's a cyberpunk fmv game but all you need to know it's called hell and has dennis [ __ ] hopper on to the mother lode of 3d oh [ __ ] american laser games so this company put out a bunch of awful shit-stained light gun games their most notable ones were the mad dog mccree games but they also made the crime patrol series the mad dog mccree games are spaghetti western type light gun shooters that use interactive full motion videos they're fun as a novelty but considering the price of the light gun and the games plus the actual 3do you'd be spending around 900 to play them back in 93. plus nowadays the gun is super rare and can go for almost the price of the 3do console is it worth it well not the [ __ ] really especially since you need a crt to play with but if all you had was one of these new hd tv things well then you're gonna have to use the regular 3do controller or the mouse yeah the mouse you have to be rich as [ __ ] to collect 3do games or just happen to have a family member that owned a panasonic store in the 90s special thanks to my buddy rob for letting me borrow all his expensive [ __ ] so i can rip it apart with criticism 30 years later the first mad dog mccree game can only be played with the gun or the controller with the controller it's impossible you have to move the cursor down to the bottom of the screen to reload and it moves super slow by the time you reload and move it back up you're already dead mad dog mccree 2 lets you use the mouse but it sucks balls you start off shooting [ __ ] with this old dude and then come across a guy that's riddled with arrows like god damn that dude should be dead as [ __ ] before you even talk to him then it's a miracle if you get past the first group of dudes shooting at you the hitbox is not only small as [ __ ] but it's timed if you don't shoot the extremely small target before it expires you're dead it's the same in crime patrol some of the enemies aren't able to hit right away then you have a split second when they're able to be shot to get them if not you get made fun of for dying you'll never make sergeant sorry partner you just don't know beans about shooting down here we just got shooting like that bad you're dead that's not good is it yeah you think that's normal for a cop or sheriff to make fun of their dead partner for getting killed these people are [ __ ] up beyond all recognition fubar if you will sometimes it's hard to even see where the enemies are like in a dark room they're just pixels how am i supposed to hit them without the gun these games are pig [ __ ] in the wind even with the mouse they're just weird to play i can't stop dying over and over it's sad because the sequel to crime patrol drug wars is hilarious it opens with this dude doing the world's worst tony montana impression i am lopez i have the mansion i have the money i have the drugs i have the power then you're working with officer hillbilly running you down all the drug operations in this hick [ __ ] town wherever they film this but even with the gun these games seem insanely difficult unless you know every single thing that's about to come at you they're definitely interesting with their mix of live action video and gameplay maybe i'll do an episode on american laser games in the future maybe but for now these games can [ __ ] off so i've gone through a pretty big list of games and while i can't play every 3do game there is one i have left that's haunted me since 2007. now we got corpse killer unfortunately i can't even show you much about this game because it keeps freezing i actually had a lot to say about this one but right now it's not [ __ ] working corpse killer consider yourself lucky that's right [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Cinemassacre

Views: 2,348,469

Keywords: avgn, 3DO, angry video game nerd, avgn 3DO, angry video game nerd 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, avgn episode 191, avgn 191, panasonic 3do, angry video game nerd 191, 3do review, 3do game review, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer review

Id: YPoBMzAkZZM

Length: 21min 28sec (1288 seconds)

Published: Fri May 14 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/MemeBoy1645]

I like this episode my favourite avgn episodes are always the console ones like the sega 32x atari5200 sega cd etc and this one didn't dissapoint me I liked the jokes and I found it interesting

[u/lazygenius999]

Nice. Hyped for the Corpse Killer episode

[u/diamondedges]

Oh hell yeah i've been waiting many years for a 3DO retrospective from James and he did not disappoint one bit, some of those FMV games like Blonde Justice, Space Hulk, Space Pirates and Snow Job(one of the better ones)seem pretty cool, but definitely not worth spending 700 dollars on a console.

Also that teaser at the end got me all excited, I was wondering when James would finally getting around to talking about Corpse Killer again, can't wait!

[u/therealrazacosmica]

Good episode

[u/Nas160]

Oh hell yeah, new console AVGN fresh off the market

[u/Blastoise_FTW]

Holy shit, corpse killer. I was literally watching the Sega CD ep yesterday and was wondering if he'd ever go back to corpse killer.

[u/AutisticDaveMeltzer]

No time to watch

[u/Natalia_Groznaya]

Good episode, looking forward to Corpse Killer! :)

[u/NeoMegaRyuMKII]

What's funny is that for as many problems as there were with the 3DO console. the company that made it (The 3DO Company) is also responsible for (by which I mean published, not developed) my absolute favorite game of all time: Heroes of Might and Magic 3. (if you haven't played it, definitely do. It's a PC game from the late 90s, and you can get it for like $10 on GOG).