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LUDICHRISTMAS II: THE REVENJANK

Merry Christmas, dungeoneers! I know this one took a while. Tried to make it special. I did not intend for it to be 45 minutes long, so it's the video for December, unless I've done some crazy thing where I came up with a new patron-only series of shorts that I'll start releasing to you in the near future. 

I might try another upload of this at some point because I'm not happy with what YouTube did to the video. It could be the game's color scheme that it doesn't like, which is fin...

Perilous Warp - Chasmic Thing

Did a quick video about Perilous Warp, a thing I've wanted to do for a while because I find the game fascinating. It's not a ton of stuff to talk about but the aesthetics and design of the game are strangely unique for a throwback.

This is a small episode I decided to put in before starting on the Christmas stuff. Because there aren't really good Christmas games to cover (don't link me to Elf Bowling on the GBA), Christmas video this year will be LUDICHRISTMAS II: ROTT'S REVENGE, cove...

JEDI KNIGHT: DARK FORCES 2 - THE RISE OF KATARN

There's no Star Wars this November - no movies, no shows, nothing, and if The Mouse won't step up, I will. Good lord this one was a pain to get done as you might have guessed with this one taking a little longer than usual. There's a lot of copyrighted music in this game. None of it got claimed in my test uploads but the midi version of the Star Wars theme that was originally running at the beginning did.

I didn't WANT to wait 2 years to do the sequel to Dark Forces,...

NOSFERATU: THE WRATH OF MALACHI - BAD SEED

Yes, YES! It's Halloween, it's jank, it's a breath of fresh air for me, by god it feels like it's been ages since we've dug down deep for that real shit. The janktastic, so-bad-it's-amazing, Halloween spectacular, can you all feel it? Torment, boob-stakes, hilarious faces, all of these await you in this game which was, believe it or not, requested quite a bit over the last year. It was recommended to me as "a really good horror game." Can't tell if people were lying to me, you know, in that w...

SCRATCHES - THE CURSE OF JERRY

It's October, and that means spooky stuff!

I've wanted to cover this game for the longest time. I've also wanted to do a point-and-click again for less than the longest time but still a while. The last one was Blade Runner which was in January. Of 2020.

Scratches is one of those games I still have a physical copy of. The deformed jewel case in the video is a real picture of it. It feels funny because I'm 90% sure I bought it in the same Target that I bought Evil Dead:...

THE HEDON DUOLOGY - CRYSTALPUNK ULTRAVIOLENCE

HOOOOOOOO WE GOT THE ORC GIRL HERE, we got Hedon, finally! I was gonna do a video on the first one when I played it a few months ago but then the second one was coming out at the end of August, and then it did, and that turned out to be even bigger and more complicated than I ever imagined (but in the best way.) Really brings out the bloodlust when you're on the 10th try of a room that keeps getting overrun with enemies and you remember you have a gun turret in your inventory.

This als...

HALF-LIFE: OPPOSING FORCE/BLUE SHIFT - ENTER THE GREASE

Fuck it, let's do some more Half-Life! 

Opposing Force was a blast to make a video for and Blue Shift was so goddamned boring I spent half of that segment doing whatever, you know? I know there aren't constant Randy jokes but honestly I don't know which levels he worked on so it's more difficult to bring him up.  

I'm trying to squeeze in one more video before October when I've got a couple of interesting games lined up for spooky season, a point-and-click horr...

REALMS DEEP ROUNDUP

The tide is high and the end is nigh! Hark! The boomshoot market is oversaturated and I'm a dry paper towel ready to soak up the mess! I've come here to look at some of the demos I could scrape up after the 4 and 1 half hour marathon of trailers and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of trailers! Witness the Monster Energy product placement, watching as the recently-bought 3D Realms breathes it's last gasps of free oxygen before Tim Willits turns everyone against each other (allegedly) and devou...

PRO POSTAL 4 - THURSDAY

I know, I know, people have been asking for a while for this one, and I... well, I was waiting for Thursday to be less janky. This was the wrong strategy because Thursday seemed to keep getting more jank with each patch to the point that it goes well beyond the "slightly less janky alpha" status from previous videos. Kinda sad, kinda shit, but also I got tons of material from the game being so broken. Shout out to the people who saw this yesterday right before I streamed all 4.5 hours of Real...

AMERICAN MCGEE'S ALICE - TALENT IN MADNESS

Everyone online was discussing this game recently and this video still happened by accident. It was Plan C after Plans A and B fell through. Plan A was Postal 4 Thursday, which was actually too janky for me to make a proper video on, though now it's patched so fingers crossed.

Felt nice to do something a little different because 90% of requests are FPS games and the other 10% are cereal related FPS.

I'd only played some of Alice before making this video. I already knew it was a go...

CRUELTY SQUAD IS WONDERFUL AND DEPRAVED

What kind of game is good but can also drive you to the heights of madness?

Cruelty Squad was highly, highly requested because it's insane nonsense im-sim weirdness with just a hint of jank. A light sprinkling of jank, a whiff to acclimate the palate. I love this game, but that love didn't come easy. It required a dedication to playing through it and the knowledge that it would get better. As I started putting this video together, PC Gamer gave this game 93/100, a score that ...

HEXEN - WRATH OF THE RAILMAGE

I may have gone a little crazy with this one. Originally I'd planned to make Half-Life or Redneck Rampage a 300k special but got impatient and said to myself "eh, 300k? I'd rather wait until 500k to make another special" and then I ended up going absolutely hog wild on this video and spending a good three weeks on it to make it "special." Even if it isn't an hour long, I hope the work shines through, my dear patrons, and, as always, fuck Hexen.
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PREY (2006) - Dodging The Reaper

This one took a while. I never want a video to be 40+ minutes long, but then there's an abundance of context-necessary cutscenes, and then I had to get into all the Prey 2 stuff at the end, and Killian Samuels, due to his failure to exist in a published video game, has no legs. Thanks, Bethesda!

I really enjoy Prey. Strange, since I played it one time around when it was released and forgot about it for about 10 years, then played it again and found a new appreciation for it's cool tri...

PRO NUKEM 3D - ALIEN WORLD ORDER

Greasy Cursed Randy Episode isn't all that bad unless you're playing it the way it was released in that weird port. However, the community came together to allow it to be played in EDuke32 (with the stopgap version) and now also in the newer port, Raze, which I'm glad I got to do a video using that because it's pretty good. All these build engine ports now!

The end of the video spoils the next episode I'm doing, so I won't go into that. I would say that this was some kind of Apogee/3D...

EXTREME Rise of the Triad - You Do Not Belong Here

This video... man...

This video is cursed. Right before the edit was done, my PC nuked itself from some kind of incomprehensible driver conflict or registry corruption, which required a re-install of Windows and formatting the C Drive.

 I didn't lose anything important because the video itself (the project files, game capture, etc) were all on different drives. It set me back about 48 hours. Still pretty inconvenient. Be warned: Extreme ROTT hates you, and it hates me, and i...

BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO, PLUS HOLY SHIT 5K

Dearest patrons, I cannot thank you all enough. I was working on this extras video for the last couple days thinking I'd just put it out there and be done with it until I woke up to the notification that we'd hit 5K! 

So I guess this video can double as a 5k celebration. I decided after the last one that the next time I put one of these together I'd put a bit more effort into it than just throwing some cut content into a timeline and adding titles. You know, make it more like a rea...

REDNECK RAMPAGE DEE-LUCKS SPECIAL

Another video that took way more time than I expected. I wanted to one-shot the whole cursed series. I've never been a fan of Redneck Rampage and have no nostalgia for it. The last time I played through it was in DOSBox in like 2010, and I didn't care for it then either. Rides Again is better but.... ehhhhh... I'm glad it's over now. Some people in the discord got a sneak peak of this in it's rough cut form, a thing I occasionally do. Had to generate a new invite link for the patron discord w...

HELLRAISER - THE INFERNAL CARTRIDGE

HAPPY EARLY APRIL FOOL'S VIDEO. 

This is a thing I've been putting together on and off for about a year. I wanted to do an April Fool's video last year too but then Doom Eternal happened. Because of that, I decided to do something a little unorthodox for this one. Y'know, get weird with it. I recreated a mythical game that never existed. One that can't actually exist since the NES version was cancelled in 1990 and Wolfenstein 3-D came out in 1992. Once I knew that, all I had to do ...

PRO POSTAL 4 - WEDNESDAY

Did you know...

It's almost the 4th anniversary of the channel, and slightly past the third anniversary of anyone watching the channel! I have nothing planned. Originally, I planned to do a Capstone game at the start of every "season" - but trying to keep any kind of organization going for a YouTube show that prioritizes jokes and viewer confusion isn't going to fly. And the only Capstone games left for me are Witchaven II or another I recently unearthed - a Zorro game that's so fucking...

PRO WOLFENSTEIN 3D

Everyone keeps asking "how can you get enough material out of Wolfenstein 3D for a video?"

Well, for one, playing with a stupid self-imposed challenge helps. People don't realize that there are some tricks and traps in Wolf3D that are interesting to discuss. Some levels aren't just mazes. In fact, the more mazelike ones are in Spear of Destiny and moreso in the Spear of Destiny mission packs. And I was still very paranoid about this video being boring to the point that I hired ...

HROT Episode 1 - CZ Meltdown

If you're looking for the Patreon discord link it's in this post, and all update posts, below me rambling about stuff. Why not do the integration? Because it's weird and buggy and I don't like to tie patreon discord membership to current patrons only. If you paid, you're in. 

Took a little longer to get this out than I'd planned. It's a short video, but Civvie did a dumb thing and upgraded all of his audio equipment (new mic, preamp and headphones) in an earnest attempt to incr...

ALPHA PRIME - SMOOTHBRAIN CRIMINAL

It turns out that you can't even use the Sega Genesis version of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" in a video without YouTube catching it. Oh well. I saw someone on the patron discord (link for that is below all of this nonsense, and has been since the beginning, I don't know why I was surprised that people couldn't find it) playing this game and it spoke to me. It said all of the wrong things, but it spoke to me. 

In terms of slavjank I think there needs to be some kind of slidi...

HALF-LIFE - A LINEAR SEQUENCE OF SCARES

FINALLY CIVVIE DID THE THING. THE HALF-LIFE VIDEO. 

This one did take a while because, uh, well it's an hour, has a cameo, and I spent a lot of time tweaking it to try to make it as concise and to-the-point as possible. That does mean that I don't spend 20 minutes shitting on Xen, but I think I get my point across. Fuck Xen.

I have a way of making videos where I will keep working on it until I am tired of looking at it, then I'll probably spend another day going through it, a...

CHRISTMAS GRABBAG 2: GRAB HARDER

2020 has been a bitch of a year, and while I wanted to end it with a super special episode that wasn't basic Christmas stuff, life/holidays/all that stuff happened (and continues to happen as I type this), but I'm still pretty happy with how this one turned out.  Originally it was going to be nothing but Steam trash, but there just isn't enough Steam trash. Then I found... well, you'll see.

Happy holidays, kids. Might be a little while before I can do another upload (a month at mos...

THROWBACK ROUNDUP

This video took a little longer than I wanted due to some technical issues. 

With the ever-expanding Boomer Shooter Bubble, the number of these games coming out or getting updated has gotten out of control. Just in this video - Nightmare Reaper Episode 2, The HROT Demo, Project Warlock (finally), Viscerafest, and Prodeus - all games that I enjoy and I'm dreading when I have to pan one of these things for being dogshit, an eventuality we grow closer to every day. My bet is on Hyperg...

PETTY THIEF #5

This Thief series had a pretty rough start. No night vision, less behind the scenes stuff. And no night vision.

I thought Thief would make for a longer series than this until I was playing through it again and realized that the game falls apart after Return to the Cathedral. Then I remembered why I like Thief II so much better. 

This game goes to shit fast and dies an embarrassing death after it's climactic mission - which I do get to after the blooper map, a thing that was t...

PRO POSTAL 4 - TUESDAY

It's that time again. 

Where I do one of those Postal videos, which are, unquestionably, the most fun videos to work on and not just because I can personally pester people at RWS to annoy the shit out of them with bugs like how the vomit footsteps don't work right. They come together almost effortlessly because there's always some weird thing happening - intentional by the developers or otherwise - that throws a wrench into any kind of plan I might have for what I want the video to...

EVIL DEAD: REGENERATION - TURN OF THE SCREWHEAD

HALLOWEEN, the scariest time of a normal year, bringing us back to a horror franchise that drops out video game tie-ins every now and then. This particular episode took a long time to put together. You'll understand why - it's juggling a few things that have been rattling around for a while. 

Along with that, I've got another quick "Deleted Scenes/Behind the Scenes" video. I've been saving up cut content since the last one along with other stuff people might find interesting. There...

DEATH WISH

It's about time I did more Blood. Death Wish has been in the pipeline for a while and what better time to do it than October? Death Wish is more horror than OG Blood was, especially in episode 3.  What a ride this one was. Pure, uncut joy, enough to break my "no mods" rule and open the floodgates to people requesting all sorts of things. What have I done? 

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PROFESSIONAL HERESY

Ready thy Tome of Power, it's time for Medieval DOOM, Raven's first in the Serpent Rider trilogy, where the points don't matter and the projectiles fly faster than you do. 

Been working on this one for a while. Decided to play on the hardest difficulty, Black Plague Possesses Thee, because monsters don't respawn. It wasn't that much of a problem until maybe halfway through Episode 3. Previously, I'd only gone through on Smite-Meister, Ultra-Violence, and this was only a slightly mo...