Blade Runner Videogames Special Minisode

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[00:00:12] Indulge me, friend of the dead.

[00:02:06] Re-edited. Sometimes we get so deep into conversation that we have separate segments worthy of their own place in the sun. Here is a reshuffled mini-episode. The awesome video game that Westwood Studios made. I love that video game. Yeah, it's almost like a point-and-click adventure. Yeah.

[00:02:35] With graphics. That sounds like a good beginning point, because, I mean, that was 97, so, you know, almost more than 15 years after the movie, and that was keeping the fandom alive in the comic book post-pre-internet age. I actually played that. It was a PC game. And you played as, like, a different detective, I think, so it kind of expanded that kind of... It wasn't an RPG, but it was kind of like a world expansion kind of... Yeah, and we got to do the old enhanced thing with the photograph or something. Oh, sweet. I think, remember, that was part of the game.

[00:03:05] It was. And did it at least have more cantina scenes like Star Wars, or was it more just going around the streets? Oh, I haven't played it in 20 years, I couldn't say. It's set in the same year as the original Flameruiders set, and you play a detective named Ray McCoy, and he's solving a mystery involving all these animals, these android animals that are being brutally killed.

[00:03:35] And it goes into these replicants who are killing them off and doing other things. He's trying to solve the mystery of this, and it brings back the original voice actors of Sean Young and Joe Turkle are in this as well. And Westwood Studios... Now, this was at the beginning of when 3D video games was becoming a big thing. And what Westwood Studios did is that they applied a 2D approach to it as well.

[00:04:04] So it wasn't all 3D, it was a mixture of 2D and 3D. And the set design for this game was very cool. The composer... It was set in 2019. Yeah, 2018. History repeats itself. It does sometimes. Someone was paying attention. Being the fact that the people who were making the game, like the composer of the game, could not get the original Vancella score. He had to just learn it by ear. And it's a really great score. It's got a great atmosphere.

[00:04:34] But yeah, overall, it feels like you are in Blade Runner of the 80s games. For a CD-ROM, that's great. It was like a Telltale game. Yeah. The story was so rich and just... I always saw sometimes just some sites reselling it and everything. And I never got the chance, unfortunately. Was it like a typical CD-ROM where the actors would interact with you and it was kind of timed?

[00:05:03] Yeah, but not like a Red Alert type actors. Not at beginning level. It wasn't like that. It will be. Yeah, Westwood Studios. I have not heard that name in forever. That was the big, big Vegas place. And I know Electronic Arts acquired it, I think. No free. Or no, they acquired it in 92 and then it stopped producing in Ofree. That's when it was fun. Yeah. As they're wanting to.

[00:05:31] Did you get to fly in the space cars? Yeah. You could say, you know... But you don't get to fly the spinners. The spinners just teach you from location to location. So you just click on, I want to go to the Trial Corporation. And he's in a whole transition. It's like a point of adventure game. Like, there's not a lot of... But it doesn't feel like it. You know? Okay. You get to do, like, real detective work.

[00:05:58] And based on the clues you find and the way you interact with the suspects, it'll have a different engine. So you can play the game multiple times. It'll have, like, different engines. Oh, sweet. And the people in the game that you interact with, they will change each gameplay. So at one gameplay, the replicants. And then other gameplays, they're not.

[00:06:23] So you don't know exactly what you'll get at the end when you... There we go, man. That's a hell of a game. Yeah. It's too bad they don't have, like, a more updated version of that. I think they do. They do? I was looking at some updated thing for, like, PS5 or some shit. Okay. Well, very slick. It's like $50. Wasn't that the game... Was that the game that was teased in Blade Runner 2049 on the Blu-ray?

[00:06:54] When is that coming out? I keep... Yeah. I saw that trailer, too. And I'm like, yeah, that would be very cool. But I just never heard anything about it since then. Uh, 2033 Labyrinth is the upcoming one. Oh, I thought you meant I had to wait until 2033 before I played the game. That wouldn't be ironic. It's called Labyrinth, so there you go. Bungie's gonna put it out. So we know it'll be by then. Oh, this one says Alcon. Interactive. Wow. Okay.

[00:07:24] Shoot. I think the one you're thinking of, Will, is Rogue. It's like for the iOS. Then there was Revelations for 2018. Maybe that's it. They did an Expan... Oh, wow. They're the ones behind the Expanse video game. Holy shit. It all comes together. Wait. All right. It's all part of the same stuff. Oh, crap. I need to get a PS5 now.

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