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CLASSIC DOOM MODS

Back from vacation with a video I've been thinking about for months, originally shelved around the time I decided to do Liquidator. All that time, I had footage of the Aliens TC burning a hole on my capture drive. I didn't know what else to talk about for a while. I wanted to revisit some of the weird stuff I remembered playing as a kid and yes, that includes Simpsons Doom.

Originally titled "Classic Doom WADs", I changed it because I worried people would expect me to...

CULTIC: CHAPTER 2 - BUT WAIT, THERE'S EVEN MORE!

Wish I could have gotten this out for Halloween like last time but eh oh well. We're continuing to be spooky through November. Spooky season will last until I SAY IT'S OVER, GOD DAMN IT.

Cultic rules. I have no other way to say it. Game is simply great. Top-tier boomshoot. I say it here, I say it in the video, and I will continue to say it. 3D Realms published a good FPS again!

I may be a little quiet over the next few weeks as I have a short vacation coming up. Until then, I'l...

POINTS, CLICKS, AND MISERY - I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM

HAPPY HALLOWEEN KIDS,

Get ready for adult horror. The really nasty, haunting shit that's so bad this video is going to get age-restricted. Psychologically scarring weirdness from a raving lunatic who might sue FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!

Yes, it's not just a non-fps game, but a point-and-click from the depths of the mid-90's, where there were no rules. I've wanted to do this game for a while. It's another one that's been on my "October" li...

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL: CIGARETTE BURNS

Patreon exclusive!

I'd hoped to get this out a couple days after The Thing video, but YouTube's copyright system gave me some issues. I could have probably run it with ads that paid money to Lionsgate. However, YouTube's automatic ad placement might have put a Bob's Discount Furniture commercial at six different places over a nine minute video and fuck that. I did a few re-edits and got it cleared. Just mentioning Cigarette Burns got me to watch it again. Then, I went back and...

THE THING: THE GAME: THE REMASTER

Please forgive the silent opening. YouTube decided 7 seconds of "The Thing" music was too much and I muted it to avoid having ads on this video. You'll hear it again during the chapter titles!

It's October again, kids, and that means "horror" games, like this one, which has been requested for years. Like every horror game that gets requested for years Nightdive hit this one with the Remaster treatment last December and since then I've been planning to do it. ...

LIQUIDATOR: HELL IS PERESRTOIKA

People requesting Liquidator (you know who you are) can now rest easy because HERE IT IS.
Not only that, but Liquidator 2 as well! It's a full diaper of a video, kids: DOS trash AND slavjank, mixing together to form a poisonous cocktail of bad design, ugly graphics, and gameplay so bad that it invites TekWar comparisons.

eDuke didn't help.

This mid-month release is all that will happen in September as I'm also trying to keep up the tradition of two videos during October. It ...

HERETIC+HEXEN: DOOM JUICE FOR THE ALGORITHM

Hello again, Dungeoneers! What could have been an easily skippable remaster has turned into this whole video due to the interesting expansions, continued jokes at Hexen's expense, and just having fun with everything, you know?

Heretic and Hexen: Beyond Heretic. A whole package, a fresh coat of paint and in many cases a complete texture overhaul in the Heretic levels. Nightdive continues to put the most effort into these things for better or worse.

Knowing Hexen was goin...

IT CAME FROM THE STEAM LIBRARY: BEDLAM

No, it's not the Heretic/Hexen remaster yet THAT'S NEXT TIME. I was 75% done with this video when they gave me a key for that so this video is about weirdness.

A weird, janky artifact from a time before Dusk. Bedlam is a game. It is a game that I bought long ago when it was advertised to me as a retro throwback and then I played some of it and then gave up and then remembered it existed and now that I do a show about this kind of stuff I thought "yeah this is weird and interest...

INTERSPECIES CONFLICT BOWL '01 - MONOLITH'S REIGN

After some technical difficulties and life interference, I'm happy to present a video about the gentleman's Aliens vs. Predator game. The classy one where they don't shortchange the Predator or deprive the Marine of a shotgun. Where the story campaign ties together naturally and you get to do all that cool stuff you'd want to do as an Alien or Predator. There's like... characters, and a story, and of course they don't sell it anymore because of petty stupid rights ...

PRO POSTAL: THE EDENSIN RAWDEMPTION

Been years since a proper Postal video and I'm not gonna lie - I missed it. For the likely less than 50% of my audience who care about these things, this one is for you. A mega-sized five-day crack binge that breezes through most of whatever I've already covered and focuses on the MEAT. The FUN stuff. The baffling, insane stuff that happens routinely when you go into this game now. There's gotta be something in here that surprises you and maybe something else that will turn your stom...

THE MARTIAN JOB

Oh yes, kids, it's time for more of that sweet, sweet DOS TRASH.

I don't remember who linked me to this game but thank you it has been living rent free in my head for the last month. MARS 3D, The Ultimate Fighter, the game that spits in the face of intellectual property law while not even having the common decency to be any good whatsoever.

JET HUNTER had too few lines for me to ask Gianni to do a funny voice. The game ...

DOOM: THE DIVISIVE THIRD ONE

Get ready for the discourse, kids.

The inevitable "Dark Ages is bad because X" or "Dark Ages is good because Y" or "this is an affront to every Doom fan because Z." Fuck all that! Sounds like math. If I wanted to participate in the online shit-slinging I'd go back to Twitter. Unless the shit-slinging is directed at Randy Pitchford, in which case it is always justifiable because that man can't stop saying dumb, out-of-touch greasy rich asshole stuff.

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VISCERAFEST: THE UNIVERSE IS LAVA

We're back! The Boom Shoot Toob™ has erupted again, leaving everything covered in toxic pink stuff and giving me a long and rough ride through the most obscene love story since Harold and Maude. I dove a little deeper than I expected. Not everything changed in the years since I picked the game up, but lots did. More than I bargained for. Though this video is 45 minutes long because I thought highlighting deaths would be funny. And it totally is.

Next time, I'll be looking a...

PRO DOOM: THE MASTER LEVELS

It's more DOOM! And not just because there's even more DOOM coming out next month!

Truthfully, I hadn't played The Master Levels. I booted up Attack.wad one time and said "this looks boring" and then gave it up to work on something else. I should have stuck with it because there's interesting levels in there. I wish there were 21 of them, but we can't have everything.

It is fun to see what id was contracting out and who would end up where after the dust settled. A lot ...

PRO QUAKE II AI SHITPOST

I know it's been a while since a Patreon exclusive and I try to get them out but then they end up turning into bigger videos. 

Then the Quake II AI thing happened and I was playing it and then 24 hours later I woke up and this video was exported onto my hard drive. I DON'T CARE WHAT IMPLANETED CLANDESTINE AGENT FOR OUR FUTURE ROBOT OVERLORDS JOHN CARMACK SAYS --- THIS SHIT IS UGLY AND WEIRD. 

Doom 2 Master Levels video in progress and nearly done, so that should also be out this wee...

THE NIGHTMARE CHILD

Ohhhhhhhhh we got weird early 00's shooters back, kids! A rare throwback shooter that existed before Serious Sam, licensed with KISS, made by... wait, WHAT?!

The rabbit hole on this one went a bit deeper than I expected. But you can skip right to Hour One if you want, because there's so much to talk about with this one. I read comic books. 

Lithtech, Romero involvement (sort of) and Doom-ish ambitions? Yeah, I don't know why I've never played this before e...

JEDI KNIGHT II: THE WRATH OF KATARN

STAR WARS.

KATARN.

If you can't tell by the video itself, I was absolutely fucking hyped to play this again. While Academy is a little tighter in it's combat, this is the one that set the gold standard.

No, the video doesn't include Jedi Academy or Mysteries of the Sith, because damn it, this was going to be the more entertaining video. (Jaden Korr is still a dork.)

Peak Katarn. Peak Raven. I'm glad I was able to get a couple more Raven games under my belt before ta...

EPICJAZZ MEGAJACKRABBIT

BACK FROM VACATION, HERE WITH SOME JUICY DOS NAUSEA

Jazz Jackrabbit is a game. It is a technical wonder of a game. It is also a strange artifact of the past. In fact, all Jazz Jackrabbit games, except the GBA one that I don't talk about in the video, feel as if they're from an era that never existed - the era of "PC Mascot Platformers" which didn't really take off. I mean, the biggest names in PC platformers were what? Keen? Duke? Electroman?! 

This vid took a litt...

GREASE ON FILM

Oh, kids, it's been ages since we've dabbled in the lost art of the YouTube Movie Review, mostly due to the copyright bot's insistence that Fair Use is a joke and that someone could get the same experience of viewing Borderlands by watching my video. Oh, no, this thing is way less painful than watching that piece of shit.

It was even worse that I thought it would be and that's saying something.

Now that its finally been cleared for release by the copyright holder...

HALF-LIFE 2: GARDEN OF LOVE

 Welcome to the biggest video ever. It has been a long, dark time, kids.

Not like for real, where something bad has happened to me personally, more in the sense that I've been hopelessly plugging away at this massive thing after many months of prep-work, game capture, outlines, ideas, and attempting to think of a way to make a Half-Life 2 video that isn't just another Half-Life 2 video. I may have failed but I took some big swings.

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DUKE NUKEM SHOVELWARE SHOWDOWN

AND WE'RE BACK...

Man, I missed that Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project rendition of "Grabbag."

This is the "What's Civvie Playing" video that spiraled completely out of control into what you see now. Finding a copy of Duke!Zone II on my hard drive, seemingly out of nowhere, and then booting up god knows how many different levels to get footage, plus the Simply Silly connection, plus Plug 'N' Pray.

Ok, it wasn't "out ...

CASTLEVANIA: SYMPHONY OF A BROKEN MAN

Halloween is nearly upon us. Instead of doing a game with one monster, I've done a game with every monster ever. I only dropped one hint per video since around August, peppering them with references and even a clip from this playthrough. Apologies to everyone asking for Killing Time, as it only just came out. I was hoping The Thing Remastered would hit a little earlier too. Oh, well. I'd rather take a chance on something different.

I...

CONDEMNED: THE KILLER GRINDSET

Spooky season is here! Today, we're looking at the #1 requested game from that time I did a F.E.A.R. video. One of those games that never grabbed me when I first played it, Condemned was a bit better this time around. Forgive some of the more egregious close-ups in this one - it turns out that turning the FOV up does this. For some reason. (Lithjank)

As a story, Condemned is a bit weak. As a horror game? Well, going back into it after so long made me realize how influential this game ma...

Exophobia: Pew Pew and Boom Boom

A little treat before I'm locked in on October videos, Exophobia was a fairly recent release (the end of July is recent?) that I wanted to look at because it's sort of in the wheelhouse of this channel while being something a bit different. You can only play the latest Doom/Quake/Ultrakill riffs so many times before something garishly pixelated and extra-retro catches your attention. And with Boomstock happening right now on Steam it seems more important than ever to highlight one of...

PRO DOOM: LEGACY OF RUST

After fighting Adobe Premiere tooth-and-nail for the last 24 hours, I am proud to finally present the longest and likely most blood-soaked episode of Pro Doom ever.

Adobe Premiere, unlike most other software I've used, decided that when I press "CTRL+S" and it said that it saved the project, it did not, in fact, save anything, which set me back about 24 hours. The video itself takes 5-6 hours to properly render because I was dumb and put a bunch of effects that ...

NEURO POWER BROS

IT'S JANK O'CLOCK AGAIN, KIDS.

I'm sure I'll get to that new Doom expansion that just came out because Bethesda saw that I was a day away from Patreon release and had 3 months of videos planned out and said "fuck that guy."   

Neuro is another special export from Russia that sat on my hard drive for a while as "the next video on weird trash" before I fully played it and experienced the true beauty of a story so pessim...

A DEATH BY GOONING - FALLEN ACES #1

I was thinking of skipping this one, knowing that I'd more or less committed myself to another two episodes of this series, and then I remembered I can just not do that if they end up being boring. I'm not sure they will. Also, that's a problem I'd have to tackle like a year from now because New Blood, im-sim curse, etc. etc.

What convinced me of the viability of this as a video was when I knocked a man out cold with a red swingline stapler. Then the whole exercise turne...

NORSE MYTHOLOGY WITH GUNS

Good news! I have not gotten a cease and desist from B&M! Also, a Max Payne video! Sure, 10% of it is shitting on the clip that came out from the upcoming box office disappointment "Borderlands" from Lionsgate, Eli Roth, the guy whose name I forgot who worked on Deadpool, and an uncredited script doctor who had to write the words "Claptrap continues to shit bullets."

It seemed like a perfect opportunity to talk about bad action without having to risk a copyright claim o...

SELACO IS MAGIC

Despite what this video says, I'm actually on my third playthrough of Selaco, started as this one's production was winding down. I have an unhealthy amount of love for this game. I wholeheartedly shill it for reasons I hope I've explained well enough in this video. I couldn't possibly ignore it. When I first got a review code, I played it well into the night, marveling at just how ridiculously cool it was. And that was before another update that changed the balance of the game, ...

DESCENT DOUBLE HEADER

I was not prepared.

Not just for Descent, but for the simple madness that researching Descent would bring. From the studio closures to the boomer-ass references, I only knew I was going to suffer as soon as I hit level 6. I hope the video doesn't induce too much nausea. I tried to keep the spinning to a minimum. As I say in the video I don't get motion sickness a lot from games. I mention Overload in VR being the worst offender, but I also experienced it when I played Quake 2 in VR. Sp...