Friday, March 1, 2013

A Wealth Of Stealth

Yes, Gabriel and I did another LP to celebrate him not ejaculating into any more handbags since the last one. This time it's Operation Stealth, by Delphine Software, who also did the lovely Future Wars.





American viewers may be more familiar with this game under the title James Bond: The Stealth Affair, since for some reason the American version had the actual James Bond license while everywhere else got a thinly disguised version. Perhaps this only seems strange to me living in a new, internet-fueled age of globalisation. Maybe Ian Fleming's estate was planning on releasing a shitty adventure game of their own, but were planning to withhold it from the US because an American widdled on their cat.

26 comments:

  1. There needs to be more Sean Connery impressions in future lets plays, great lets play though

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  2. I remember when Channel 5 started. It was shite. Then they showed House for a bit... then they were shite again.

    It has neighbours and home and away now though.


    ...and thats 5.

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  3. Agreed on there needing to be more Sean Connery impressions. Made me unashamedly giggle like a schoolgirl. And as I'm barreling towards 30, I fully support anything that makes me feel younger.

    Also, in regard to Jam, I must congratulate you, Yahtzee, on making me care about a spider. After my initial "Kill it with fire!" reaction, I found myself cringing less and less when she was mentioned to the point of cheering for Mary at the end. My new-found arachnid affection remains within the realm of JAM, however, as the unfortunate spider who eyeballed me from my kitchen table the other day swiftly discovered.

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  4. I remember when channel 5 had porn on friday nights, those were weird days, now it's got csi and other shit I don't care about

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  5. Word up.
    I recollect you saying something about doing a Creatures Let's Play. I urge you to do this as it's the first game I can remember that depicted blood. I loved my C64.
    Also, Channel 5 wasn't all about tits. They showed Xena Warrior Princess, Fort Boyard (with Melinda Messinger), Emanuelle in Space... Perhaps they did show a few tits then...

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  6. Things I learned today: The boss at the CIA headquarters keeps Mickey Mouse on his desk, Soviet agents look kind of like Inspector Gadget, and Julia Roberts is 3/4 shark.

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  7. Great job as always, Yahtzee & Gabriel. Despite the many flaws with this game, I have to say the biggest problem I had with this game overall was the dialogue. I can tolerate a James Bond clone if they are reasonably in character and/or entertaining enough to keep me playing but all the shouting dialogue was just so jarring and distracting and the whole thing really came off as just bad fanfiction, though I suppose if they toned down all the shouting, it would have just been bland.

    Anyway, thanks for continuing to do these Let's Plays and I do hope you guys LP Leisure Suit Larry 2 someday as there's plenty of good and bad in that game to comment on and while the ending of LSL2 wasn't as insufferable to me as the third game, that hair tonic puzzle still gives me conniptions to this day...

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  9. I will be quite happy to see Yahtzee and Gabriel do commentary for I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

    I think that'd be a great riot, especially with the hammy voice acting of AM...

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  11. Best Let's Play yet, nice work. This and Future Wars have to be the worst games you've reviewed, in my opinion. Manhunter was pretty awful with its arcade sequences and overall silliness, but the clunky user interface, horrendous dialogue, and the whole "John Glames" thing takes this one to a whole new level of terrible.

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  12. Check out the game antichamber.

    antichamber is equal to if not better than portal.

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  13. I thoroughly enjoyed that.


    Yahtzee, I don't suppose you've ever heard of a game called Freelancer have you?

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  14. This was a pretty fun Lets Play.

    Hm... The reason for the licensing with the states might have to do with their weird law that allows you to use copyrighted things for parody, meaning they might not have needed a license... I'm just speculating, of course, I don't know much about their laws.

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  15. I hate to be a guy to just sit here and ask for stuff, but does anyone have a copy of the first three audio podcasts on hand? The links to soundcloud no longer work (whether they expired or were removed, I don't know,) and I wanted to listen to Gabriel's 'adventure' to Japan again.

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    1. this guy has them on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLordKacj?feature=watch

      knock yourself out :)

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  17. Yahtzee, I love when you did retro reviews of Deus Ex and Half-Life, do you ever consider doing more retro reviews? Personally, I'd love to hear your thoughts on one of my favorite PC games ever, No One Lives Forever.

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  18. Year this game was made:

    MCMXC = 1990

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  19. So have you heard of this thing called Torment: Tides of Numenera? Seems like something you might be interested in....

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  21. I think this game likely got licensed when UA wasn't doing any Bond movies at all due to business problems, and whoever did it just wanted cash money.

    There was a huge amount of legal wrangling over Bond earlier on, but I don't think it has anything to do with this game...

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  22. I think I've been spending too much time watching your videos. In the gameplay, there's the fragment about the red carnation. Instead of "You put it in your buttonhole", I first read: "You put it in your butthole"...
    Cheers from Poland!

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  23. Great lets play, can't wait for the next one

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  24. With or without Connery, this is really enjoyable.Lots of fun for everybody. I'm many like are very happy about this.

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