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Yeah, it's early. ligaf
I bet that's what you always say ;P
cool
oh boy! oh no...
Sees video:YESS
Now we just need a Pro Extreme Paintbrawl and all will be right with the world
"During a meeting I explained to John that I was working on the end-game cinematics with Kage . I pronounced it 'Cage.' Romero giggled. 'Who? What? What are you working on?' I said it again. Now everyone was laughing at me. Romero: 'Who? Say it again!' Me: 'Um ... Kage?' Romero: 'No, dude! It's pronounced Kah-gee!' Me: 'Um ... well, you better check the voiceover recordings, because it's 'Cage.' And suddenly Romero's face turned white. Half the audio in the game had his name pronounced wrong, and it was too late to fix." - Matthew Cox, senior artist on Daikatana
Well, Ka-gae DOES mean "shadow" in Japanese...
cool story, Bro
@@terminallygray lol for once true
Look it's dstecks the loser
They did fix it though. His name is pronounced correctly throughout.
The best part about Daikatana - the release date: Daikatana: 2000 Half Life: 1998
unreal was a thing before daikatana. and it was more unreal than unreal was.
And Deus Ex released the same year.
Deus Ex: 2000
System Shock 2: 1999 Even Kingpin, which was clearly release in a pretty ruff, raw and unbalanced state that same year, had better AI companion, who will follow you through ledges, platforms and perform actions through yes/no commands. Let that sink in for a while.
@@sparkydeltorro Quake 2 engine
Romero has said several times that Daikatana was basically his life's lesson in humility. So I like to think that there's a timeline where Daikatana was successful, but as a result Romero became part of the Hall of Gaming Corporate Pricks, right there with the likes of Randy Pitchford, Todd Howard and Chris Roberts.
I'm glad though we're in this timeline Romero, Carmack, GabeN, and the whole of RWS might save us
And Peter Molyneaux.
Todd Howard isn't a gaming corporate prick he's just playing 4d chess, tes6 will be the best thing since sliced fucking bread just you wait and see
@@jango7889 we don't have it now because eso is milking all the content from that franchise even if we do get tes 6 it won't be the tes we know and love so forgot it.
@@R1ddles93 its coming any day now just wait
I got Romero to sign my Daikata box. His face was a priceless mix of disgust and humor.
I'd love to have him sign my Daikatana N64 cartridge
Fair play dude, that takes balls.
@@IamRobotMonkey He made a face, gave me a side eye, then smiled and laughed and his biggest question was "How and why the fuck do you still have this box?" He was pretty cool about it.
@@Mooshkajoe I'd love to meet him. Ironically enough, I lived not that far from where he did in the UK as a kid. A few years before I did, mind.
@@ELEKTROSKANSEN O japierdole co ty robisz na kanale Civviego mordo
The two things I learned in school: 1- Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell 2- I can't leave without my buddy Superfly
I can't LEAVE, without my buddy SUPERFLY, Otacon! Uhhh!!!
@Zeta0001 That's not Civvie, and I'm not civvie. Who the fuck are you talking to?
@@Sheridan2LT I can't leave superfly!
@@Sheridan2LT real questions
Mitochondria are the Dark Souls of the cell.
I can’t leave a comment without my buddy Superfly.
So wait you have your buddy Superfly now? Can I see him? Which staircase is he stuck in?
Hey guys, have you seen my buddy Superfly?
I’m super high
*Superfly runs off screen into a crusher*
I can't reply to your comment without my buddy Superfly.
“There’s an option in the patch to play without Ai companions… but I won’t…” Can’t play without our buddy Superfly.
Honestly, I feel like the AI issues could be fixed to a suitable level by just.. making them teleport behind you periodically.
Jokes aside it's rather touching that he sees him as being so important considering most shooter MCs are rather crass and self centered
Funny how the 64 version has no ai but everything else is traded
The fact that Superfly just starts sobbing uncontrollably when you die is fucking hilarious
It's got some serious Finn/Poe energy where they become friends _really fast._
I like to think Romero had them as the best of friends in his head not realizing that it wouldnt translate in game.
They were homies, man. Tight as fuck. The closest of brow. El compachos
Has the same energy as Ashley in RE4R shrieking "Leon, NOOOOOO!" when he takes a hit like 30 seconds after they've met.
Historians will say they were roommates.
When the Half-Life 2 beta was leaked in 2003, it leaked with a lot of other content that was never meant to be released at all. One of these was a collection of maps that took the form of a retexture or remake of the hazard course from the original, with beta Alyx Vance in place of the hologram. It remains mostly faithful to the original until the player passes the crouch jump tutorial, when they are stopped from proceeding by Barney Calhoun who says something along the lines of: "Sorry sir but I can't let you through without your buddy Superfly Johnson... Just kidding Gordon, you can go on through." This is followed by extremely nerdy laughter.
Jesus christ only now i got it
Didn’t ask
@@LixxLixx But you learned something, and that's the magical part.
@@PurpleColonel good answer 👍
@@PurpleColonel you really think i read paragraphs on youtube comments? Nah
John Romero: Drachma. Civvie: Drachma? John Romero: Yeah, drachma balls across your face, amirite?
what
Stevie Case's interview to being vice president of Monkeystone Games.
@Lord Dampnut criminally so
Its greek money
Came to check up on this comment. It made me chuckle again
"Superfly spoke up against all this torturing and imprisonment, So they tortured and imprisoned him. I don't know what he expected" This is the kind of humor i dig so much
This is how brutal dictatorships keep going in real life, I imagine. Sure, most people don't want to see torture and wrongful imprisonment... but they also don't want themselves or their loved ones wrongfully imprisoned and tortured. Especially with no guarantee that their suffering will serve as anything but a deterrent to anyone else thinking of speaking up. Of course, if everyone speaks up at once, it's a different thing, but intimidation is a potent force when you're staring it down. Still a crappy way to get people to accept you as leader, though!
@@hazukichanx408 who are you explaining this for
@SurfaceShock Must be a russian.
I know I LOL'd so hard at that part 😂
What the hell is even this comment section.
A shot gun that does rocket jumping without splash damage sounds like a force of nature
*RWBY intensifies*
Epic, seamless TF2 reference
@@DeutschesSoldat1916 _BONK!_
@@linkandshiek5522what
"Whu-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuhh!"
"Stop subscribing to this channel." But Civvie... I CANT UNSUBSCRIBE WITHOUT MY BUDDY SUPERFLY
Nu-huh, I'm subscibing this damned thing.
we didint listen... now is the time. : D
@@shardinhand1243 Didn't
40:31
Bobo “BADASS! These unsubscribers are cruisin’ for a SMACKDOWN!”
This is the most convoluted episode of Samurai Jack, possibly ever.
Gotta get back Back to the...where???
Some please call Kazuya Mishima to help urgent
I cant go back to the past without my buddy superfly!
Is it though?
Makes Season 5 look good, that’s for sure
"Mikiko No!" Pretty much sums up the game. Edit: Came back because I forgot my buddy Superfly.
A good Civvie quote may fit the situation for her. *_”You’re stupid and I hate you!”_*
hook, superfly is stuck agaaaaaiiiinnnnn
3:31 "Tom Hall went on to start his game: Anachronox, and Romero started his: Daikatana." And silently off to the side, the New Testament was being written by Warren Spector: Deus Ex.
Warren Spector, just casually about to make the best video game ever
@@DStecks Woah, wasn't expecting you here
I like how in every picture of John Romero Civvie used for b-roll, Warren is sorta just there in the background like he’s the Mike Wazowski of Ion Storm, because that’s sorta just how it happened, Deus Ex turned out the way it did because the team at Ion Storm Austin was away from the drama that came along with Daikatana. I think a convincing argument can be made that Daikatana crashed and burned so Deus Ex could become one of the greatest games of all time
Wait, Storm over Gift 3 was happening too.
Warren Spector was already an industry veteran at that time...with much, much better work ethic and discipline...and it shows.
“John Romero appears to be a pretty cool guy these days from what I can gather.” ... dude he’s responded to ALL of my fan emails to him. Even the vodka fueled way-too-drunk ones. And his WIFE has replied to me twice on twitter. Romero is a VERY cool guy... possibly the coolest. He’s humble- and he always talked shop with me over game design aspects. He’s.... Really nice.
One tends to imagine this was the game that taught him that humility. Whether it was or not though, it's nice to know that sometimes you SHOULD meet your heroes.
ReloadPsi my thoughts exactly when it comes to the last line. You just have to remember they’re people too. Most freak out over their “heroes” and dehumanize em. And yeah- some people are just douchers. I’m very happy to say that’s not the case with Romero.
Manek Iridius that’s awesome, dude! Heard he was VERY good at deathmatch, etc. Do you remember anything of that experience?
Wait, does he freely give out his email though?
Jon Bourgoin ...He has an e-mail attached to his WADS and other things. Additionally, anything you want to know is generally a google search away. The selfish side of me doesn’t wanna have him be overloaded with bullshit emails though... he is in an interesting position to reply to people likely BECAUSE he isn’t inundated with a TON of emails compared to others.
Roses are red Civvie wants to die I can't leave *WITHOUT MY BUDDY SUPERFLY*
Underrated
This is comment gold.
blue romans best romans
@@NaCk210 Skippii?
@@drumyogi9281 skipiai
"You thought 'what if there was a rocket jump without the splash damage?' You were Deathmatching all day long and then you made this. Didn't ya? DIDN'T YA YOU SON OF A...". This is gold
I’m glad John Romero was able to move past his failure and learn form his mistakes. He very easily could’ve went the A-hole route and blamed it on something and became bitter, but he didn’t, instead he moved on and became humble.
There are two paths forward from failure. The path of John Romero, where you reflect on the circumstance, accept it, and learn from it. or The path of Randy Pitchford...
"Stop subscribing to this channel". Quit whining, Civvie. We can't go on without our buddy.
Quit weenin'
Speaking of, found a reason to fight yet, buddy?
queet whenig
@@krullachief669 You still alive?
Kwit weening.
In an alternate timeline, this game was actually phenomenal, and sold extremely well, setting the stage for game designers to act like rock stars, rather than becoming more and more corporate with each passing year.
In this timeline, Romero went into politics after he eventually retired from game development. He would go on to be elected the Governor of Texas.
@@LonelySpaceDetective I envy that parallel universe
@@LonelySpaceDetective as Reform party, becoems Vice President to Jesse Ventura. America truly becomes great again.
I do actually feel like there's an alternate timeline where Romero doesn't change game engines so Daikatana is completed in 1998, and it still fails but not as spectacularly, so he creates a much better game in 2000 which also saves Anachronox from obscurity, allowing Warren Spector to make a different, less dumb sequel to Deus Ex.
And there's that timeline where the dumb hammer ruined the game it was designed for in the first place... praise the gods of rocket jumping for the Quake we know and love
57:38 "If the two swords touch, absolutely nothing happens." I've apparently been in the wrong prison showers.
"When it's done" is totally a cursed phrase now.
Broke: "When it's done" Woke: "Until it is done"
probably why newblood just says SOON (tm)
*Insert that one Shigeru Miyamoto quote*
@@ijustreview Rip and tear
@@MondySpartan "A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is bad forever."
"I don't feel good about killing innocent people, let's get them out of the way." *Looks at Civvie's Pro Postal series in the suggestions*
DEW IT
And _Pro Doom^3._
This can't be Daikatana, the NPC's are actually pretending to help
MrTurtleTail possibly the greatest comment I’ve ever seen on the KZheads
Let's be honest, none of the NPC's in Postal are innocent people.
"Why would my taint send ripples back in time?" That's just gold.
Platinum. I'm still laughing and I've watched this shit three times
MezzoForte4 gave my a giantess stylistic boneracus
Stranger things have happened to Civvie.
That's what we normally call t h e m a g i c
I knew Superfly's voice sounded familiar. It's Marcus Mauldin, the voice actor for Brick in the Borderlands series.
i recognized it when he screamed "OH NOOO!!" so distinct haha
The "hey!" in "hey, there's your girl!" sounds almost identical to when he says "hey, slab!" in bl2.
I find it really wholesome just how much faith hiro has in Superfly, like they just met but hiro treats him like a brother of sorts
Romero is not egoistic, he´s just The Icon of sin.
The Icon of Pride, to be specific about the sin
The longer the Icon of Sin is on Earth the stronger it will become.
To beat the game you must kill him, *jon romeo*
i'll kill him i promise you guys and then i will finally finish doom 2 and end my collection of finished doom games
Holy hell, he's been on earth for quite some time, How powerful could he be? D:
>hiro dies >npc kills enemy >"10 years later" "oh noooo hiro got blown down"
That brick for you. He is doorman and sledge king :P lol
This isn't a Jamaican roll playing forum, >'s don't make your text different *but* *OTHER* _stuff_ -does-
RIP Hiromoot
Brother Hood “Hiro’s been bitch-slapped into oblivion!”
They TRADEMARKED "Suck It Down". Holy moly. That's so much funnier than them just using it as a tagline in an ad run. Fun to imagine the office workers handling that trademark paperwork file.
Mikiko: [kills Superfly] Hiro: "I CAN'T leave without my buddy Superfly" Hiro: [becomes a hermit] Damn, I guess Hiro really meant it after all
I can't finish this review without my buddy Superfly.
boss is a qt
Heimskr, Prophet of Talos yeah
Heimskr, Prophet of Talos Yeye, though I wish Cash Money got more attention tbh
Lmao
Jojos deference
Oh god, the flashbacks, the pain... THE PAIN.
Oh, you
Daddy icarus! can i have ur babys pwetty pwease I'll be the best mommy ever
Biggus Dickus People like you scare me...
Oh hey dude :) cool to see youre a civvie fan!
@@Connor-dl4hq may i ask why?
The two John's really needed each other, didn't they? Carmack can program like Isaac Newton, but is about as exciting as a kipper. And Romero can craft levels like MC Escher, but couldn't program a cup of coffee. Make up already guys!
Romero was actually a pretty good programmer by the accounts seen in Masters of Doom. Not superstar level by any means, but he could pull his weight if he could get his head out of his ass. EDIT: I'd actually attribute for instance most of the actual gameplay/game design-concerning code in the DOS DOOM games to him, since it sounded like Carmack was mostly concerned with the graphics rendering and technology.
Over the years I've actually come to suspect that Carmack was responsible for a lot more of the design of Doom than he ever took credit for. A lot of Tom Hall and John Romero's ideas for Doom that Carmack shot down as "not doable with the tech" would later be done in the Doom engine in games like Hexen and Strife. My conspiracy theory is that Carmack essentially used his position as head programmer as a veto on design choices he personally didn't like.
Nailed it
@@LonelySpaceDetectiveRomero lost to Carmack in a programming contest, but was a very good programmer.
@@dawidvanstraaten Losing to Carmack at programming is like losing to Mike Tyson at boxing
Basic design to overcome bad companion AI: Have the companions teleport to you if you're about 1 room's distance away... Wish they just added such a simple feature.
“Leading to wars of words; a public perception that John Romero was solely responsible for Id’s success rather than an ingredient of it” I guess you could say it was a case of Id vs ego
Nice one
This comment deserves more likes.
**shocker activates**
This is truly a smart comment
Puts on shades, Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaah!!!!!!
"When you got a job like mine you gotta get inside the mind of the people who made this." Ahhh, so thats what the helmet is for.
I always thought it was a Especial ed helmet.
@@davidgomez7882 Honestly it's a shock-therapy helmet.
No the helmet is used for the Dungeon Keepers of Civvie's dungeon to electroshock him when he's being naughty and probably read his mind. Lmoa.
@@Sheridan2LT honestly keeping up with Civvie's lore is more confusing than his serious sam review
@@Edras03 If you Google his lore there's a thread that wraps it up neatly up to a certain point
30:45 Civvie freaking out like a parent whose kid just ran by with a dirty knife is honestly one of my Top 5 Civvie Moments
Man reading "The Masters of DOOM' really gives a lot of context for this one. Really makes me wish they were able to get this one right, I'm sure Carmack had a huge smile across his face when he saw the game's release
Yeah after Id was already slumping and Carmack wasn't making any new interesting games
"Bill gates, at the time the richest man in the world" The fact this even is now a reference makes me feel old
@Bat Bat Those test tube babies can suck the batchall.
Depressing to think that the richest man in the world today got his money by selling out a whole lot of stuff out of warehouses while treating the employees like shit.
@@Crowley9 Not much different than any other plutocrat, really.
You know I like to imagine there's another timeline where the programming for Daikatana was ironed out so that the AI didn't huff glue and the weapons were balanced better, and in that timeline Daikatana is remembered more fondly as the giant piece of cheese it otherwise is. Unfortunately, someone took the Daikatana itself and gave us the timeline we have now.
As Yahtzee once said. Either John Romero would be remembered as the great artist of the gaming genre, spearheading a revolution in the story's you tell trough the game medium. Or he'll become such a big boob that even the most determined babies can't get their mouths around it. It all hinged ON daikatana not suckin.
@@imranicanovic1154 You could argue he already became a boob when he let the success of Doom inflate his ego to celestial proportions. Daikatana itself was basically his own personal ego trip.
Just imagine the GBC version of Daikatana as an Octrine of Time type game but also an FPS with Gears style of AI companions. That's how it should have been...
Isn't there an unofficial community patch that fixes all this though?
@@xFluing It "fixes" the problem by turning companions off. He said at the very beginning of the video that he was using the community patch.
love how hiro says he cant leave without "my buddy superfly" but only that he "cant leave without mikiko" implying he doesnt consider mikiko his friend
Well she does betray them at the end
@@marvelousball i mean im saying that he never considered her a friend at all lol
Hiro knows its Bros before Hoes.
Actually… good subtle storytelling how about that?
Mishima "If they were to ever cross or touch in any way, the world as we know it would cease to exist" Hiro "Okay" Pulls out sidewinder and blows him away "That was easy"
Ze End
Yeah, it would go like the Doom Eternal TaG2 intro! xD
"You're not superstitious are you?" fucking golden. I love it.
Hi
@@JimmehRulez sup
What's funny is the way I read that line, Hiro's being tongue-in-cheek. "You're not superstitious, are you?" after all the mystical crap that they went through seems like a joke to me. But hey, I may be giving them more credit than they deserve.
I should've known Krinkels would be a boomer shooter fan
@@FireTalon24 TBH, that's what I got from it too. The problem is the models can't emote enough to get that across. I feel like the joke would have landed better if Superfly had chuckled and called Hiro a smartass.
Despite Romero not being in favor of the “bitch ad,” I still can’t help but feel that it would have been less infamous if the game wasn’t a failure. There’s WAY more embarrassing 90s video game ads.
“This game stinks!”
@@expendableround6186 nintendo of america marketers: "gee, let's see how we can sell our brilliant, slightly satirical yet heartwarming rpg masterpiece to Americans? I know, I have an advertisement that will make it sell millions!"
Lol they still doing it to this day. Eh "anime fans on promnight"?
@@B0risTheBlade Except that other guy gave us the Bionic Commando reboot and Emo DMC(the original non-definitive Edition) as well as all the other bad decisions made to focus more on the US market before we got to anime fans on prom night.
Like the "ingenious" ads from Acclaim.
Romero totally had unbridled talent, but in order for it to shine through needed a lot of help around his edges. He has a lot of potentional, but absolutely needs a solid team to work with him and the problem is this game just didnt have anything besides Romero. Compound that with his growing ego and a lack of bounce back due to his status he lost himself. Also, anyone else feel bad for how tiny cerberus was?
I legit thought Hiro was going to be battling a humongous hell dog the size of a two story house, I honestly felt robbed seeing that Cerberus was size of a dollhouse.
No I do not have any empathy for this "game ?" It was typical rubbish that polluted the stores in the 90's. goodbye and good riddance !!
Imagine if you could play this game in coop with your friends playing as Superfly and Mikiko
You can, but it's classic co-op with infiniter respawns and no story.
Someone should make a patch/mod for that. It'd prolly improve the game to an extent.
I can't be mad at John Romero. His decisions, however poor they may be, helped make Deus Ex and Anachronox possible.
"So we'll hate him. Because he can take it."
Civvie is right about there being something missing from Id since he left.
He made us his bitch though
I had no idea that his studio made Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows.
The Fighter , they’re pretty good now, despite the main team being gone. They have always made some good games.
“These games are getting VERY realistic”- Bill Gates
They were
At the time, it was.
Fuck that NWO BASTARD!!!
Back then everything looked like DOOM, the God just upgrades the graphics.
ACKTSHUALY, he said "REALLY realistic." I only bring up this extremely pedantic point because I initially found it jarring that he would say 'real' twice in a row like that, when 'very' would have flowed a million times better
A reminder that one of the books on the shelf in the Doom Slayer's man cave in DOOM Eternal is "My Buddy Superfly" by Hiro Miyamoto, and it sits alongside many other books that reference 90s FPSs, DOOM lore, and id's work. DOOM Eternal was 100% a work of passion and talent.
Can't forget the book with Markiplier's Dad's name on it. That was nice
@@concept5631 How To Comb Your Mustache iirc
@@zerotheero Yes that was it thank you.
"100% a work of passion and talent." ...yeah, you keep telling yourself that...
"What the!? Oh NO! Hiro got blown down!" is right up there with "You were almost a Jill sandwich!" in my book.
“Hey, homeslice.” ~My buddy, Superfly
Wasup, home skillet!
My homefry and I would like to join your possum.
You seen any jive turkey's around? Me and my buddy are hosting a thanksgiving banquet.
"my buddy, Superfly" is so wholesome.
Our Our buddy superfly, may his soul rest in peace
Definitely heckin wholesome Keanu kinda phrase.
Say fucking. You're an adult.
@@Jason-eo1rh that's h*ckin not okay, sweaty watch your tone, smol boi
@@bigboysdotcom745 IT SURE IS A HOT ONE TODAY HUH, WALLY?
Every time I see this video and hear the line "We can avoid the electric floor. Mikiko will not avoid the electric floor by herself. Superfly didn't come in with us because he's a goddamn moron," I am forced to laugh and wheeze uncontrollably.
I unironically listen to this video as a substitute for sleep asmr.
Oh good it’s not just me
Same almost every night. Normally asleep before superfly.
Same
@trakina I can't sleep in this area without my buddy mikiko
based
Romero actually named Superfly Johnson after a Doomworld member going by the same nickname. He even had his own website called Superfly's Doom Abode or something like that.
yeah even referenced in unreal tournament in a secret. you must be superfly to have found this.
@@miciso666 I remember the 'pretty fly for a white guy' secret, was that in there too?
No kidding? I thought it was part of some abandoned backstory for the character. Hm, cool to know.
@@miciso666 which one? I haven't heard of that. Also UT came out before Daikatana so I don't think there would be an easter egg.
Thats so cool
"you're not superstitious, are you?" "No. I'm Superfly."
Surely, you're not serious. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley
@@ubermikesocal -tango down in sector one alpha-
"I'm not superstitious but I'm a little stitious..." - Michael G. Scott
I watch this video every night to fall asleep. Not because it’s boring. Because I love it. It’s so cosy. But just as I fall asleep I always forget I can’t go to sleep without my buddy Superfly.
"Why would my taint send ripples back in time?" Believe in yourself, Civvie. Don't sell yourself short.
"Drachma balls across your face" - Karen, the boatman
I don't quite remeber that scene playing out like that in Percy Jackson
Not sure if you're memeing, but it's spelt Charon, who is the ferryman of Hades.
Yeah I'm also not sure if the guy making the ligma-style joke is memeing
@@kidumby7599 "Memeing" Should be on my tombstone
@@BusinessZeus “Died as he lived” “Getting dabbed upon”
I love how Hiro and Superfly seem to see each other as BFFs basically from the moment they meet. It'd be a nice and humourous touch in a game that wasn't an affront to the genre.
It was like if Sonic and Mario met. Just instant vibing on two different levels.
@@ZigealFaust Mario and sonic at the Olympics is a thing you know. It's a minigame series, and I recall it has a story mode.
@@Jambonneau826 Dude I know but like... why the fuck do you think that means anything, no cap? That's like someone making a Batman meets The Flash joke and you just coming out the woodwork to be like 'AKSHULLY".
It's actually shocking how bad the first levels are. One important lesson of psychology is to start very strong. The first episode of Quake was the best episode, in my opinion. The first episode of Doom was very good. The first episode of Wolfenstein was the best. The first episode of Duke Nukem 3D was the best. This is because the first episode is shareware, so you share it around and get people excited to buy the game. If my first impression is that the game sucks because I'm shooting green projectiles at green enemies next to a green pond, then wtf?
@Roy Dabral As if Doom gets better after episode 1
It's funny because it is actually something Romero himself recommanded, put the best levels at the beginning and at the end and put the "meh" ones in-between. He said that in an interview.
@@christophe5335 that's smart actually. I recently replayed Ratchet and Clank 2 and I feel like Insomniac did just that ( not that the middle levels are bad there, just not as cool as the openers and enders)
@@christophe5335 The Who used to structure their shows like that around the late '70s and '80s; start off with some well-known live staples, put all the new stuff in the middle and close with the biggest, most popular songs
It's so weird because most games, even the best ones, start out very strong because the early portions are clearly the ones that had the most work done. It's when you start to get into the middle of the game and specially towards the end that you start seeing cut corners and clearly rushed parts because the game had to be released at some point.
I was 17 when Quake came out, after playing the shit out of every id game. Seeing the sudden news break that Romero was leaving id was like our generation's version of the Beatles breaking up. And then watching both sides of the split mostly turn to junk was heart breaking. When Daikatana finally released, I was busy working and didn't have time to game. I remember seeing it within weeks dumped into clearance bins, and knowing things had finally reached the bitter conclusion.
20:19 Superfly is still the only AI companion in gaming history that cares enough about the player-character _to openly sob_ if the latter gets himself killed.
I'd cry if I lost my murder bro, too.
@@ZigealFaust We thrill together, we kill together.
What about Halo tho?
Otacon and Campbell they care too
False!
"There is nothing you can do for me, except find my daughter, and the Daikatana." - Actually sounds like quite a lot that you're asking me to do. I'm sure she'll be fine.
27:50 drachma is the currency the ancient Greeks used. Charon (it’s pronounced sha-Ron) is the ferryman for the river Styx in Greek mythology, the dead need to pay Charon 2 drachma in order to pass the river Styx to the underworld. If someone is not buried with 2 drachma they cannot pass into the afterlife with Charon.
It's amazing that just showing unedited clips of the game works pretty well as comedy
Civvie: Let me see what you have! Mikiko: A snake staff! Civvie: NO!!
As for Romero being a cool guy, he definitely is. Back when he had a public email address, he always answered my questions. He confirmed my suspicion that the "Star-tan" walls were actually named after Star Wars and even shared some reference images, and he also revealed who wrote the intermission texts in Doom 1 and 2; Sandy Petersen.
Always seemed like a chill guy to me this was cool to read
Romero was a chill guy. He was just too much of a perfectionist with his baby (Daikatana) and kept switching engines... And had his issues with Carmack which led to a bad time when it came to development. Plus he didn't come up with the "John Romero will make you his bitch" line... It was actually some chick from advertising that insisted it'd be a great idea. Dudes a good guy. A little bit of his own enemy, but a good guy
@@sketchstevens5859 I thought it was some dude who came up with that line but yeah, Romero himself wasn't happy with it at all when that advertising guy told him about it
@@nikjuttun5677 Yeah, it was some lady in advertising or some dude in advertising. They basically pressured him into agreeing to it which is kinda weird. Must have been some sort of contract BS
@@sketchstevens5859 weird and not remotely plausible
Fun fact! Superfly is voiced by the same actor who voiced the NSF Leader you meet at the top of the Statute of Liberty in Deus Ex
He's also Brick from Borderlands.
I can't hijack this week's ambrosia shipment without my buddy superfly
I don't believe you, do you have some numbers
Before I watched this video, I only knew that Daikatana was like vaporware that suddenly disappeared from the history of video games at the end of the century. This is my first time seeing actual results and gameplay footage.
I only ever seen or heard about Daikatana on Civvie's channel.
"I'm looking for an Asian girl" Shit man, who isn't.
People who don't have yellow fever...
Amen my brother
@@armorhide406 You can only be called out on that if you are white
He's in bloody Japan when he says that!
@@PedroSardini Wow! Thing Currently In The News Man, thank goodness it only took you 10 months to get on the case!
Romero is definitely at his creative best when he's not in charge.
Some people are born to do, others to lead. It's actually quite rare the best "doers" also happen to be great leaders. Unfortunately, our society often promotes great doers into leadership roles, regardless of their ability or personality being conducive to leading.
@@wickedwitt04 We live in a society.
Huge George Lucas energy
@@RycoreXIII Lucas is definitely not a good doer. He's more of a successful businessman.
just liike george lucas
3:30 It should be noted Anachronox was a VERY underrated RPG that was very sequel worthy, and then this game killed any chance of that happening.
Oof
46:34 I had this exact same reaction to Claire’s “woah...this is reeeeally creepy” line in the sewers of RE2 Remake after she spent hours navigating dank corridors trying to escape a police station overrun with Zombies and lickers while being chased by a hulking humanoid creature in a trench coat with Jason Vorhees level teleportation and other strange creatures....after all that....these sewers are creepy🤦🏿♂️.
SuperFly Johnson is the greatest sidekick name of all time
Superfly Johnson is the greatest sidekick name Of All Time
SuperFly Johnson is the greatest sidekick name of all time
I can't leave without the greatest sidekick name of all time, Superfly
It was very moving of Hiro to dedicate an entire book to his buddy Superfly in Doom Eternal.
Jesus Christ, that first act is as if John Romero looked up sensory overload and actively tried to incorporate it into the act. Nothing says immersion like audible death!
I cannot overstate how great the editing is in your videos and how it feels like Katy is a fully developed character despite her not having an active voice most of the time. This channel would not be the same without her.
"Instead of talking in the dojo you eat, sleep, shit and train in and is watched by an artificial doorman, lets go have a chat in this dark rainy alley-- oh no I'm dead."
"No way, I can't leave without my buddy Superfly"
"I mean he so JIVE, MAN!"
"Chill dude, I'm coming!"
Stando Power!
#nowayicanleave #withoutmybuddysuperfly
I feel like Miyazaki played the first level and went “I can make a better poison swamp”
30:50 "Mikiko, NO!!!!" That's it... that's the game. Also I actually love the completely deliberate, hair-brained but applicable shotgun jump without splash damage though it eats through the shells.
The shotgun is a decent idea, but man the way it shoots so many times is just stupid
@@drakep.5857 @drakep.5857 a shotgun's basic task is to terminate with extreme prejudice at close range using one or both barrels. But Romero being the absolute legendary madman instead, chose this. A belt fed shotgun with a kick to launch you into the troposphere. Romero is trolling us as he always does by making us waste all the ammo for the ol' reliable.
@@thilinasandanayake2902 Personally there should probably be a happy medium Maybe one can fire it single barrel or fire all or rest of the belt before reloading
"You'll get whats coming to you." Me: That sounds uh... *Betrayal Clock appears* Yeah I figured.
It's one of those moments when you can see where it's going, but the added gag just twists it further to the funny over the topness.
The Betrayal Countdown was consistently the funniest thing in this video for me, no idea why.
Superfly even said he wanted his CUT. which is a pun on being stabbed to death
"Don't worry. You'll get what's coming to you." Reminds me of, "Don't worry. They'll get their product", from Doom 3.
@Bat Bat Dr.Palpatine, UAC Scientist
@@smugplush DEW IT
Oh man, I had this game as a little kid. My father played it while I watched. I remember it was super fun for me - gore, gibs, lasers, monsters, guns, etc. Now I'm afraid my father didn't enjoy it quite like me...
I just want to give my endless appreciation for your use of the Pentagon Wars theme during the explanation of Daikatana's development. Class.
Poor civvie torturing himself to entertain us
Implying he has any choice in the dungeon
as any self respecting content creator should.
OMG, I still remember the day when I bought the game in a big box and soon realised that it was a big box full of shite and utter disappointment :D I think I completed this boring game with cheats finally :) What a disaster and the most over hyped game ever.
>entrentain
He goes through the shit infested sewers so you don't have to. SEWER COUNT: 144 1/2
"Why would my taint send ripples back in time?" top 10 questions science still can't answer
Which one is about where Superfly is?
"yeah, you've seen an Asian girl in Kyoto" lol
Huh, Is Supahfly Johnson voiced by the same dude who voices Brick from Borderlands 2 and 3? *checks Imdb* Oh my gawd it is him. Marcus M. Mauldin
Cool info bro
Well thanks now I can't unhear it.
no wonder Superfly is awesome.
he's also the NSF leader in Deus Ex
Pro-Pain when civvie?
LOL you deserve more likes for this joke.
bwah
Pro pain and pro pain accessories
Is written Payne ;)
Where's the button to turn myself in??
I’m impressed you were able to digitally remove the evil purple glow that appears whenever someone takes a picture of Tom Hall
That "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" reference was pure fire.
You remember Rockappela vs. Color Me Badd in star search?
My blood pressure spikes every time these sidekicks are MIA.
"Why does the character hold a sword?" - *Joe Rogan, unironically, on Daikatana*
Joe Rogan is a numbskull
I like Joe, but he's a total bonehead when it comes to games
@@almightyfalcon he talks about how he's an old man and doesn't understand games and how his kids are so good on their phones and games so I don't know what you're tripping on
@@TheMetasora Look it up
@@TheMetasora Look up the JRE episode with Hugo Martin, creative director of Doom Eternal; Joe just shits all over the game during that episode.
"This graveyard looks haunted, man." "You're not superstitious, are you? By the way, these staves reek of evil". okay
Obviously, their nature is different. Superstition would still exist.
Never heard of sarcasm?
"n64 version is a quarter of the size of the pc version." wouldnt having to play through only 1/4th of daikatana make it an improvement?