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Latest update: FINALE: Chekhov's Ramp Wheelman is a sandbox GTA-ish 2009 game featuring Vin Diesel and made by Tigon Studios, a company founded by Vin Diesel, which focuses on making games featuring primarily Vin Diesel. You play as Vin Diesel who pretends to be Milo from Miami and you blow up cars by using your car as a melee weapon. Everything explodes. It's pretty cool. I'm joined by Geisha Deconstruct, the same person who helped me cover El Shaddai previously. Does this game feature Vin Diesel? Yes. What can I expect from this LP?
Is this game actually good? I am still not sure! The driving is hilarious in good ways, but the shooting is horrible in bad ways. From what I've heard, the later game devolves into too much shooting.  SPOILER POLICYThis game's story isn't particularly good, but don't spoil anything that hasn't been seen in the actual videos (including new gameplay abilities). EPISODES Part 01: Guess What I Put In My Car? Part 02: Smart About Driving Part 03: Vin Diesel Emergency Part 04: Air Diesel Part 05: Hot Potato Part 06: Off the Rails Part 07: Time to Crash Your Stocks Part 08: Anti-Diesel Force Part 09: Vin Diesel Steals Romanian Porn Part 10: Metal Gear Car Part 11: Staying Alive is a Good Idea Part 12: This Is the Worst Part 13: Truck Love Part 14: Let's Start a Gang War Part 15: Let's Continue a Gang War Part 16: He Killed Pepe! Part 17: The Fast and the Careful FINALE: Chekhov's Ramp RealSovietBear fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Nov 20, 2015 |
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Sep 14, 2015 00:24
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I was once excited for this game. I don't remember exactly why. I think I probably recently played Escape From Butcher Bay for the first time and thought "Clearly Vin Diesel is the factor that will also make this a good game." I'll give it this though - the driving isn't exactly the most well refined but it did make it pretty over the top fun for the most part, even as it takes great pains to not kill anybody by having police officers and civilians alike pop out of exploding wrecks completely unharmed. And the first game I played that had the "ram" function separate from just regular driving so there isn't ever any awkward moments of trying to damage a car by rubbing against its side. And I guess Barcelona is kind of pretty (for 2009), even if they made it completely pointless by giving you fast travel to the start of every mission.
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Sep 15, 2015 07:04
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This kinda veers between bad retarded and fun retarded depending on whether it's talking time or driving time
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Sep 15, 2015 10:35
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UPDATE: Part 02: Smart About DrivingKibayasu posted:And I guess Barcelona is kind of pretty (for 2009), even if they made it completely pointless by giving you fast travel to the start of every mission. The city design feels more like it's a playground for missions, rather than an actual place like Saint's Row or Grand Theft Auto. At least at the start when all areas are locked off.
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Sep 15, 2015 14:11
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Oh my god I had totally forgotten how amazing-dumb the dialogue actually is in this. That actually seems to come with every Vin Diesel production post Pitch Black, whether its meaningless philosophizing in anything Riddick, wanking off about family in Fast & Furious, or just incredibly hilarious comebacks to everything. I think I like this game again.
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Sep 15, 2015 20:40
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Kibayasu posted:Oh my god I had totally forgotten how amazing-dumb the dialogue actually is in this. That actually seems to come with every Vin Diesel production post Pitch Black, whether its meaningless philosophizing in anything Riddick, wanking off about family in Fast & Furious, or just incredibly hilarious comebacks to everything. I'm hoping for some horrible pulp philosophy in Wheelman about how life is like driving a car really fast.
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Sep 16, 2015 00:31
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 The licence plates don't stop with puns and references.
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Sep 18, 2015 19:58
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RealSovietBear posted:I'm hoping for some horrible pulp philosophy in Wheelman about how life is like driving a car really fast. "I live my life one mission checkpoint at a time..."
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Sep 18, 2015 21:16
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Oh my Gods. This game. Wow, this game is stupid. I don't understand why they bothered with the AirJack. Why not just have time freeze, turn Vin Diesel into a 20ft-tall flame being, then have him saunter up to the car he's chasing, burn the driver to a crisp, take over, wise-crack, then set time going again? It's obviously what they really wanted. Obviously. I spent a few months in Barca. Good place. Looks like the game city was done by working from a simplified map, and two or three photos of "Barcelona in general".
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Sep 18, 2015 21:41
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Ghostwoods posted:I don't understand why they bothered with the AirJack. Why not just have time freeze, turn Vin Diesel into a 20ft-tall flame being, then have him saunter up to the car he's chasing, burn the driver to a crisp, take over, wise-crack, then set time going again? It's obviously what they really wanted. I'm assuming that's reserved for the upcoming game based on Vin Diesel's D&D character, Melkor.
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Sep 18, 2015 22:56
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UPDATE: Part 03: Vin Diesel Emergency In this episode, cell phones are deadly and ambulances are even deadlier.
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Sep 19, 2015 20:05
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The sudden flips you do sometimes are so ridiculous and awesome. There's nothing quite as entertaining as a physics engine that gets confused at the physics part.
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Sep 19, 2015 23:21
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If you like physics engines getting confused at the most random times, then this is the game for you.
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Sep 20, 2015 00:08
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Voluntarily getting into the back of a police car does seem like a logical way to get arrested.
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Sep 20, 2015 03:35
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I like how they ramp off into the sunset after they arrested you.
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Sep 20, 2015 04:58
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Holy crap this game is bonkers I'm not even sure where to start on it's madness.
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Sep 20, 2015 06:00
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Kibayasu posted:Voluntarily getting into the back of a police car does seem like a logical way to get arrested. Actually, it was the side passenger seat and I thought (naively) he would just kick the policeman out. Then again, I'm not sure if that would work in GTA either.
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Sep 20, 2015 15:51
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UPDATE Part 04 - Air Diesel We show off a few more side missions than usual here, but we still progress the dramatic and important plot.
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Sep 23, 2015 00:31
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When a game gives you Vin Diesel and a tiny European scooter, you put Vin Diesel on that scooter and you leave him there 
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Sep 23, 2015 05:52
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I promise that I will use every opportunity to put Vin Diesel into tiny pink bugs and on tiny European scooters for the rest of this LP.
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Sep 23, 2015 08:19
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I just realized you said that this game focuses on gunplay heavily in the later part of the game didn't Sleeping Dogs do that as well?
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Sep 23, 2015 11:02
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Hrvstmn31 posted:I just realized you said that this game focuses on gunplay heavily in the later part of the game didn't Sleeping Dogs do that as well? Yeah I noticed that too. This game honestly strikes me a a prototype Sleeping Dogs.
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Sep 23, 2015 18:49
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Hrvstmn31 posted:I just realized you said that this game focuses on gunplay heavily in the later part of the game didn't Sleeping Dogs do that as well? This is only what I've been told. There are more shooting sections as the game goes on and I've had a few outstay their welcome. The next episode introduces it, so you'll see how uninspired it is compared to the actual fun driving mechanics.
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Sep 23, 2015 22:47
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I'm only 3 minutes in and already your delightful accents have sold me, can't wait to catch up on the action!
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Sep 24, 2015 06:56
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My gods, this game is hideous.
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Sep 25, 2015 12:33
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UPDATE: Part 05: Hot Potato We find a gun, meet Mini Vin and realize that the streets of Barcelona are actually haunted in this new action-packed update! Lacedaemonius posted:I'm only 3 minutes in and already your delightful accents have sold me, can't wait to catch up on the action! Aww, thanks!
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Sep 25, 2015 19:26
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This LP is wonderful so far. The game is completely nuts. Mini-Vin is hilarious. It's impossible not to love this. Hopefully the shooting mechanics won't show up TOO often. OldManMarsh fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Sep 26, 2015 |
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Sep 26, 2015 02:08
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Aimed Shot and Cyclone are exactly the kind of ridiculousness more games need to do. And while I'm not going to sing the praises of the shooting because as I recall it never becomes more interesting than exactly what we just saw I am a kind of weird fan of that kind of lock-on shooting. I don't know, it kind of made things more tolerable.
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Sep 26, 2015 02:45
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Wow, I remember playing the demo for this ages ago. My favorite part by far is the police getting up and walking away after being hurled into a wall at 60 mph. Vin Diesel doesn't kill.
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Sep 26, 2015 04:48
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I love the motorcycles that can get slammed over and over again by a full-sized car with no apparent ill effects, at least not until the whole motorcycle just explodes.
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Sep 26, 2015 18:58
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Sindai posted:My favorite part by far is the police getting up and walking away after being hurled into a wall at 60 mph. Vin Diesel doesn't kill. This becomes relevant in a future episode in the worst possible way.
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Sep 26, 2015 21:55
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That's just great that the muzzle climb just lets you tko enemies almost instantly. So we have one more episode left are you planning on continuing this series or moving on to less gasoline fumed pastures?
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Sep 27, 2015 05:51
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Hrvstmn31 posted:That's just great that the muzzle climb just lets you tko enemies almost instantly. So we have one more episode left are you planning on continuing this series or moving on to less gasoline fumed pastures? Oh yeah, we're seeing this through to the end now, unless I encounter some horrible show-stopping glitch.
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Sep 27, 2015 10:39
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UPDATE: Part 06: Off the Rails Remember Miguel? Mr. Tribal's Are In Good Taste? I hope you're ready for the first of many missions where we have to gently caress with Miguel.
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Sep 28, 2015 20:07
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It seems that Felipe and Miguel are essentially the same character. Small-time hoods who have family ties to big-time hoods which give them delusions of grandeur. Milo is going to have his hands full babysitting these two until he can get close to their more important and more competent relatives.
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Sep 29, 2015 00:45
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Quiet Python posted:It seems that Felipe and Miguel are essentially the same character. Small-time hoods who have family ties to big-time hoods which give them delusions of grandeur. Yeah, at least the Romanians don't have one of those. ...Wait, the guy we're dealing with there is the second-in-command. Maybe we just haven't seen the hat trick yet. 
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Sep 29, 2015 01:54
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UPDATE: Part 07: Time to Crash Your Stocks The game branches off and we get to choose between working with Paulo or working with Che. We'll start with our favorite classical music fan.
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Oct 1, 2015 20:17
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Wait. So "the broker's" plan was to ambush Vin Diesel with a bunch of "his men" who would then proceed to shoot the car he was sitting in without attempting to get out of the line of fire or anything? Wait, that doesn't make sense anyway, unless he already knew where Vin Diesel was going to take him and ... never mind. Clearly I'm thinking too much about this game's plot. Although the guy's men shooting up the car as he's sitting in it chilling was kind of hilarious.
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Xenoveritas posted:Clearly I'm thinking too much about this game's plot. All we need is a car and a place to go. I don't think it's healthy to dig deeper into this game's plot.
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