One of the things that made ROTT cool for me was the enemies occasionally going down on their knees and being all "please... don't kill me!" ... and the moment you spared the dude, he'd laugh triumphantly and try to pop a cap in you.
YES!!!! This is LITERALLY the number one thing I remember from this game lol my grandmother was freaking SHOCKED when she saw that they beg for their lives on their knees and that you gotta shoot them anyway or they'll get back up and shoot you 😂
If you set off an explosion near some porridge it heats it up, and hot porridge gives you more health. Name another game with that level of detail from this era.
Games from that era sure as hell had a great deal of attention to small details and neat little minutiae. Games of this era... not so much. The Witcher 3 is the only one that springs to mind.
Tom Hall got to use some of his original ideas for Doom in this game (most notably the character select)... and they were weird. The guy seemed to have ideas that were a bit too big for a single game of the time which is why this one probably ended up being so random and bloated with unnecessarily gigantic levels. Doom and Wolfenstein 3D before it both had initial plans for more ambitious, complicated mechanics that got cut down to simple and satisfying arcade style play. Rise of the Triad on the other hand takes the opposite approach to the design ideal that less, more polished gameplay is key and is completely unfettered insanity as a result. Got an idea? Throw it in there! It's madness. Tom Hall seems like the kind of guy who has brilliant ideas but needs somebody to tell them when enough is enough. But that's fine, because the world is enriched having something as freaking weird and contradictory as Rise of the Triad. It's so unique yet so familiar. It's a typical product of its time yet it's unlike anything else of its time. It's not a classic like some of its contemporaries, but it's remembered for being the curiosity it is and it certainly is fun as well. Also fuck TekWar.
I've suffered from chronic headaches since I was a child. One of the side effects is that my memory doesn't work like for most people. I am prone to sudden flashbacks to things that may or may not have happened. One flashback I've gotten a LOT lately is of a game I played at my IT guru grandfather's house. Just a quick flash of a very particular sequence early on. I have for the past 2 years tried to figure out what game that is, and the flashback comes to me more and more frequently as time goes on, always unexpected, always unaccompanied by anything even remotely seeming like a trigger or common cause. Just sitting here, or laying in bed, or walking down the street, or picking up a pack of eggs at the local store, then BAM, I'm 8 years old, sitting in front of a CRT monitor, playing this game, then BAM, back again. The sequence lasts about 0.5 seconds, but it is so strong that it feels like more than a memory. And it has bugged me for years now, as I couldn't figure out what game it was. At 3:05 in this video, the exact sequence plays out and I realize it was Rise of the Triad I played as a kid. Thank you for confirming that I'm not crazy and that this very solid memory isn't false, like so many other flashbacks like this tends to be.
John Galt, there's a chance for you. Now, when psychedelic research is much easier, there might be drugs made out of psychedelics which would help you. Just please don't compare my words to preaching medical MJ - research took millions of dollars out of other researches (because scientific research often follow trends and MJ is now trendy) and proved nothing good so far - except a lot of pseudomedical creams and other sh.t. Psychedelics have bigger chances to be used, as they are single substance, many of them are early attempts of drug-design. And the main use of them is migraines and cluster headaches. Some drugs are already on the market - like triptan class. Also I'm sorry for your condition, morphman. But you've got an unique ability as a side effect. Being aware of false memories. Everybody has them, but most people takes their memories as something 100% sure. I know it's not very comforting, but that makes you very special person with one flaw less than most people.
I know this is kind of an old comment but this comment was really interesting to me. I used to have really bad migraines and one of the things that they used to come with were false memories. My mind would wander and I'd "remember" these squences but they wouldn't end, like reading a book missing its last page. My brain would strain to remember the next piece but it couldn't, because those things never happened, but they felt so familiar. It was a bit like déjà vu where, as it's happening, you feel so sure that this happened before but then you stop to think about it and there's no possible context in the rest of your memory for that to have happened. The migraines would last hours or days during which I was never sure if what I was remembering was true. Really nteresting to hear of someone else who might have had similar experiences.
I appreciate the Aesthetic of showing the Commander Keen box after mentioning Tom Hall, than putting the box for Rise of the Triad in front, while Doom is still visible from the left...pretty artistic.
+Lazy Game Reviews Thanks for the reply, you have a fantastic channel and since I've found out about you a couple of weeks ago I watched at least one video a day. Keep up the good work.
When being the dog you could hold the fire key and the dog would perform a super bark that killed all people around you. The sound was like: wof wooof woooof WOOOOOOOF!
Rise was the first 3d shooter I experienced back in the 90's. It was what turned me on to getting a new computer (I had been languishing with an old Leading Edge model from the late 80's) and join the Pentium revolution, so to speak. Best move I ever made, all because R.O.T.T. blew my mind. Then of course I found DOOM and later came Duke3D. Life changing games if you had a PC back in the 90's.
Fun fact: The groans your character makes while in "God Mode" are an imitation of John Romero making "god noises" when playing with cheats on in Wolf3D.
It was during Doom's development he did that, he'd select the fist and walk around a level with noclip and godmode on, making noises like that while proclaiming he was an unstoppable god to the enemies in the game.
Goddamn, I remember playing this game when I was a wee child. Somehow I got hold of it when it was still fresh, got it to work on DOS, fiddled with it, and was just struck by the eerie cult-feeling of the levels and enemies. For the longest time I forgot the name of it, and I still remember the game, trying to find just what this devilish mess was. Thanks for bringing back 20 or so year old memories, guy.
Well, it's what I enjoy above all else, as a hobby and passion of mine. It's nostalgia mixed with the pure gameplay bliss of many of these older games that just keeps me intrigued and wanting to share with people. Plus, this channel pretty much started out that way, so it's just established as such by this point.
7 лет назад+9
One of the only PC games I actually bought with my own money back in school. I still remember bringing it home from Media Play and installing it. I was so happy that the shareware episode was completely different content from anything in the full game!
I was working at an internet Cafe in the UK (one of the first outside of London) When this came out, Had it running constantly in Multiplayer mode, where this game truly shined. Something very satisfying about using these weapons at your friends.
Games not taking themselves seriously have led to some of my most memorable gaming moments. I feel the same way about music, I can appreciate a good silly song that exists just to exist.
He didn't have a problem with the violence, just that his complex lore and ideas got ignored at id in favor of the "just shoot stuff" attitude the core id folks were pursuing. As another comment here points out, this is a game where Hall's ideas went absolutely wild, to mixed effect.
I only ever played the shareware version, but I remember the best part of ROTT being the music. You don’t hear anyone else using fusion music unironically in a game.
YES! I played ROTT against friends on my high school's PC network in the mid-90's and it was awesome, far better multiplayer than Doom IMHO. Nothing gets your pulse pounding like a swarm of drunk missiles barreling toward you as you frantically try to jump-pad out of the way. Highly recommended!
In ROTT I really like how they did the sprites, e.g. the platforms that change according to perspective that make them look like 3D. I think the engine is quite clever.
As ever, great video. Your uploads are pleasant and easy to listen to; perfect background "noise" to doing homework or cleaning the house. Plus they're super nostalgic!
Fantastic review. Back in '95 this was my first introduction into FPS games. I'd never seen anything like it and we used to play it every lunch time on the college computers. Happy memories spent pausing the game just as a disembodied eyeball flies toward you :)
Loved this game back in the day. Extremely confusing, but satisfying. Oddly enough, this was also my first VR experience. They had a VR setup in the mall, and this game was one of the main demos. It was VERY weird to turn, look around and shoot with your body instead of a keyboard. Crazyness.
Kzero I've heard of VR setups with Rise Of The Triad before, I recall one description where there was some sort of malfunction, and the player's view tilted over to the side, and it was like was walking around the level with a broken neck. I'm assuming that was some kind of hardware problem with the VR headset's sensors, and not the game itself (though one wonders what they did to it exactly to let the game accept headtracking from the device), but one wonders just how suitable a game like ROTT would be for that. The game gets pretty damn wild at places, I mean can you picture Shrooms Mode in VR?
Pity it wasn't the opening level theme for the paid version. I hold up "Goin' Down the Fast Way" as a perfect example of hooking your player into the game with a bangin' opening-level tune. Like Danny B with "Disco Descent" in Crypt of the NecroDancer!
@@HayTatsuko Agreed. Though at least the recent remaster includes Begins and puts it before Dark War, so it can once again be the first song people hear. Never did understand why they didn't originally include Begins with the main game. Despite featuring enemies from all episodes, I still find it generally easier than Episode 1, which can be a ball-buster on higher difficulties.
It loved this game back in the day. I had so many games, the Doom and Duke Nukem collections, Blood, Heretic, Wolfenstein, and that's what I remember. Rise of the Triad stood out for me because of how unique it was. It was like they pulled out all the stops and instead of picking a few good ideas they just threw everything in. I remember getting lost in playing this game for hours, as well as the other games I mentioned, playing over and over harder and harder. And then having fun in my favorite areas with cheat codes and just have fun. Great review, really brought me back, as always. Keep up the great work.
I remember having a demo of one of these. It was awesome! I think there was a power-down that just shrunk you. Or they might have been that made me giant and I could get out of certain spots until I shrank back down. I loved that it felt like a platform game in first person. That really invigorated it for me
I remember playing this quite a bit with my friends, but I mostly remember playing Doom more because even back in the mid 90s 90 degree walls were getting a bit old looking. I do remember being impressed with the way you could walk under things in ROTT though. It made it feel more 3D.
The one thing that always stands out in my mind about this game was the unique (back then) thing where you shot a certain enemy and they would beg 'no, don't kill me' before suddenly trying to kill you again. Memorable game.
Amazing review, ROTT will always be one of my favorite games of all time, no doubt. The split missile was a bit clunky, but did you know that you could choose when to split them? By holding the fire button after you shoot, the missiles will fly straight foward, like a regular missile. Once you let go the button, they will split and become homing missiles. Still clunky, but it makes things a bit easier sometimes.
thanks for making all these videos about our gamingChildhood! i really appreciate all the work :) have a awesome christmas Sir LGR and all the others :) bye.
There were some fun holiday easter eggs on the load screen for ROTT too. I still remember using the -dipstick parameter to launch the game. and /EKG to turn on "Ludicrous GIBS" mode to watch the guts, arms, and eyeballs fly!
The SplitMissle is one a the more powerful weapons ^^ Hold the fire-key to fire both missles infront the enemies - or just release the fire-key instanly after u fired the weapon and it will "split" - also hold the fire-key when u are in dog-mode for a powerful bark ^^
I was hoping someone would mention the bark in dog mode. It destroyed everything in front of you when unleashed including glass, lamps and those collectible coins.
The Flame Wall turned the game into easy mode. After awhile, you just used that, and reflexively shooting in front of your feet to clear the entire room.
Yes, the game wasn't as good as FPS shooters using a modern shooter (it was kind of late to the game), but the killing was just so satisfying, it was very fun to play :)
sharkheadism my favorite thing was when a wall of blades would just goreify a whole bunch of enemy dudes. The flying organs and eyeballs were pretty sweet.
sharkheadism Absurd and exaggerated cartoon gore and violence like that, juxtaposed with the otherwise photorealistic digitized graphics, really lent Rise Of The Triad a great tone and charm, similar to Mortal Kombat.
At 2:50mins in, that screen with them all standing there - I bought this on CD ROM in the 90s and at Christmas time, that screen was snowing and they all had Christmas hats on.
I remember playing this back in the day - on Christmas Day and everyone had Xmas hats on and had a crazy Xmas vibe! Then the next day... gone - mind blown!!!!!!!
Oh I just recognized, that the menu layout and style is the same as apogees raptor -> you should make a video ´bout raptor, damn I loved that shoot´em up! keep up the great work! cheer from germany
I've been waiting for this, I hoped you're gonna review this sometimes. This is really a game that stuck into my mind as a little boy.. at first it was freaking weird but I couldn't stop playing, RotT will always be one of the best fps in my life.
ROTT was my jam as a kid. It was just so over the top and I loved it. I had no idea what a magic mushroom was (and wouldn't until high school), but the mode cracked me up. I loved ROTT so much.
i used to play this one with friends and it was soooooo much fun. My fav coop mode (yeah i'm not into PvP much, so no deathmatch), was the hunt game where you had to track down a triad logo moving "thing" and blast it off to get score. Or the "tag you're it" game was so incredible, when it was me, i was alwayse like "ok i follow you and maybe it's that guy over there" and when the count down was almost up, touched my friend and ran off like crazy, hoping not to be tagged.
Well, it's not out yet and I haven't played it, so I can't say with 100% certainty that it is. However, from all the footage of it I've seen so far, and hearing the devs talk about what they're doing with it, it looks to be pretty freaking fantastic. Expect my viewpoints on it after it releases.
The split missile launcher worked the way that when you release the fire button, the missiles split. So by holding the fire button you could use it as a regular rocket launcher.
I remember playing rott via dialup multi-player with my friend Justin.k back in the day from 10pm-1am when I was in elementary. We played heretic and Hexen as well during this time. I think there was command and conquer red alert or warcraft 1-2 and also dune games.. this 386-486dx era was probbaly one of the best in computer history
Agreed!!!! I was just entering high school and played this with my aunt, who got me a copy lol. I had a Dell, 486 DX 33mhz with 8mb of ram, a 250mb hd, a 512k Cirrus Logic video card that I could push to 800x600 with 16bit color on my monitor that was only rated for 640x480, and just... Being a kid at that time? Ya know!? It was a great time! Reboot!
Ah, Rise of the Triad, one of my favorites. I remember clamoring to my parents as a kid to buy the full version of this game after playing the shareware version off of my Duke Nukem 3d disc. I like the remake/new ROTT that Interceptor put out.
That was such a cool easter egg. The game read your computer's calendar and either changed the loading screen or music depending on the day. If you played it on christmas the music changed to "god rest ye merry gentleman" for the first level.
7:11 well there were those wierd call of duty (I think) levels with the dog mode somewhat in it... But yeah a full game centered around that would be pretty cool
I did play COMM-BAT games. In the 90s I worked for a certain correspondence school that had, in then recent years, advertised a lot. I was working nights and we had 486 PCs attached to a token ring network. It was occasionally possible to get a heat seeking missile into an infinite loop if there was a torch behind a central "island." Also, there were little details that I loved. For example, if you were near enough to the enemies immolated by the flamewall you'd hear quick, quiet xylophone riff as the skeleton collapsed.
Ha. It'd be so tempting, if there were a sound clip of that in the game to exploit! This one's more along the lines of my ongoing "REAL" statements from the Cyclemania review :)
i was a child when this game came out. i my dad had the shareware version of the game and this video just brought back some old memories. thanks for the video.
Oh man I used to love this game, I played it over the modem a few times with my cousin, the multiplayer was hilarious, I think there was even hotkey taunts in it, unless I'm thinking of another game. Glad to see this one reviewed!
I LOVED this game! The sound design, I LOVED! I played it with my aunt over modem back in the day. She got me so many copies of games lol. Early Warez. :P Thank you! Going back into your old vids!
There was a standing VR arcade unit with this game in it. I played it at Adventureworld (back before it became Six Flags). I was really interested in VR back then, so when I saw it, I had to play it, and then when I actually put my face into the thing I immediately recognized the game. It was pretty awesome for the time.
I used to love the crap or of this game back in the 90s. I had the shareware version of it. This was an extremely nostalgic video for me. Almost all of your videos are really. Thanks Clint!!!!
Ha, technically. But I meant a full game dedicated to tearing dudes up as a *dog*, not an over-intelligent science experiment canine that has six legs and smokes cigars ;)
I love the Excalibat, and how if you're in an outdoors level you can run up to the fatass soldiers, swing it, and send them flying up into the air. The normal soldiers usually gib immediately.
I played HUNT Begins a lot in the mid 90s. I liked also that shout "Zweis", which is missing in full version (and I was surprised that Darkwar levels were different, until I noticed WAD file with HUNT Begins).
The split missile launcher actually has a feature that as long as you keep pressing down the fire button, the two missiles will fly straight ahead. It is only when you release the button that they separate and start turning. This was handy for shooting missiles around corners.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I think it is even more cool that all the lead spitting weapons had infinite ammo and dual wielding pistols was just so John Woo.
I know this is a SUPER late comment. But, beforehand. I just wanted to say, I love your channel! I’ve seen you grow from just a handful of subscribers to 1m now! Just wanted to congratulate you on the super good job you do with this channel! Anywho, there’s a mod called wolfenstein 3D rise of the triad edition I believe that’s what it’s called. I’ve played it, and it’s awesome! All the ROTT Arsenal is present, plus some of the enemies. It’s been a minute since I played it. Like I mentioned earlier, I know this comment is old, but if your reading this, please do a review! But much love to your channel! Thanks for keeping me and your fans entertained for all these years! Keep it up my friend!
I can still remember exactly when I bought the full version of the game from us in Germany in 95, I was totally happy. Because 1 month later the game was indexed in Germany, and since I was 15 at the time, I could not have bought it. You had Doom1 & 2 and Wolfenstein anyway and besides Blakestone these were the shooters that I ran on my Msdos at the time. When Darforces came out it was really exciting again
I had a version of the Hunt Begins, think it was a Lasersoft deluxe edition, that came in a cardboard box with two pogs you could poke out. Wish I still had them. Very 90s...
One of the things that made ROTT cool for me was the enemies occasionally going down on their knees and being all "please... don't kill me!" ... and the moment you spared the dude, he'd laugh triumphantly and try to pop a cap in you.
I loved the creativity of the cheat codes. 86me would kill you.
How about the dudes that pretended to be dead? Fuck those guys.
YES!!!! This is LITERALLY the number one thing I remember from this game lol my grandmother was freaking SHOCKED when she saw that they beg for their lives on their knees and that you gotta shoot them anyway or they'll get back up and shoot you 😂
@@JonGee420 The humour in ROTT was so over the top, and I was sooo there for it.
@@nicholasryan7766 They only fooled me once~
If you set off an explosion near some porridge it heats it up, and hot porridge gives you more health. Name another game with that level of detail from this era.
duke nukem u shot turkey and it became 2hp instead of 1hp :D
In Ultima Underworld you could heat corn to make popcorn lol
Priest Porrige in the pod nine days explodes
Advanced porridge physics
Games from that era sure as hell had a great deal of attention to small details and neat little minutiae.
Games of this era... not so much. The Witcher 3 is the only one that springs to mind.
As the developers of the NEW Rise of the Triad, we wholeheartedly approve of this review. Nice work, LGR!
Oh man did that turn out, interesting. At least we got Big John from it.
I played this on an old tandy and it was the coolest shooter i never got the full game of
New Triad > Old Triad. Old Triad sucked.
@@MasterSoto not great option
Good thing nightdive is now responsible for the remake.
"letting you luxuriate in the loveliness of their logo-ness" i'm ludicrously in love with your lenghty alliterations
"Unmatched Realism" there is a powerup that turns you into an invincible dog.
My dog is fuckin invincible. Show some respect.
5:44
Shrooms Mode actually highlights secret push-wall blocks, so it's not a complete loss.
@Bowwen I use this profile pic for two reasons - one, it's really easy to spot when scrolling through comments, and two, I love the colors.
All these years playing it and I never noticed that
now that's using your 3rd eye
Tom Hall got to use some of his original ideas for Doom in this game (most notably the character select)... and they were weird.
The guy seemed to have ideas that were a bit too big for a single game of the time which is why this one probably ended up being so random and bloated with unnecessarily gigantic levels. Doom and Wolfenstein 3D before it both had initial plans for more ambitious, complicated mechanics that got cut down to simple and satisfying arcade style play.
Rise of the Triad on the other hand takes the opposite approach to the design ideal that less, more polished gameplay is key and is completely unfettered insanity as a result. Got an idea? Throw it in there! It's madness. Tom Hall seems like the kind of guy who has brilliant ideas but needs somebody to tell them when enough is enough.
But that's fine, because the world is enriched having something as freaking weird and contradictory as Rise of the Triad. It's so unique yet so familiar. It's a typical product of its time yet it's unlike anything else of its time. It's not a classic like some of its contemporaries, but it's remembered for being the curiosity it is and it certainly is fun as well.
Also fuck TekWar.
I've suffered from chronic headaches since I was a child. One of the side effects is that my memory doesn't work like for most people.
I am prone to sudden flashbacks to things that may or may not have happened.
One flashback I've gotten a LOT lately is of a game I played at my IT guru grandfather's house. Just a quick flash of a very particular sequence early on.
I have for the past 2 years tried to figure out what game that is, and the flashback comes to me more and more frequently as time goes on, always unexpected, always unaccompanied by anything even remotely seeming like a trigger or common cause. Just sitting here, or laying in bed, or walking down the street, or picking up a pack of eggs at the local store, then BAM, I'm 8 years old, sitting in front of a CRT monitor, playing this game, then BAM, back again.
The sequence lasts about 0.5 seconds, but it is so strong that it feels like more than a memory.
And it has bugged me for years now, as I couldn't figure out what game it was.
At 3:05 in this video, the exact sequence plays out and I realize it was Rise of the Triad I played as a kid.
Thank you for confirming that I'm not crazy and that this very solid memory isn't false, like so many other flashbacks like this tends to be.
John Galt, there's a chance for you. Now, when psychedelic research is much easier, there might be drugs made out of psychedelics which would help you. Just please don't compare my words to preaching medical MJ - research took millions of dollars out of other researches (because scientific research often follow trends and MJ is now trendy) and proved nothing good so far - except a lot of pseudomedical creams and other sh.t. Psychedelics have bigger chances to be used, as they are single substance, many of them are early attempts of drug-design. And the main use of them is migraines and cluster headaches. Some drugs are already on the market - like triptan class.
Also I'm sorry for your condition, morphman. But you've got an unique ability as a side effect. Being aware of false memories. Everybody has them, but most people takes their memories as something 100% sure. I know it's not very comforting, but that makes you very special person with one flaw less than most people.
And all the memories clapped.....or did they
I know this is kind of an old comment but this comment was really interesting to me. I used to have really bad migraines and one of the things that they used to come with were false memories. My mind would wander and I'd "remember" these squences but they wouldn't end, like reading a book missing its last page. My brain would strain to remember the next piece but it couldn't, because those things never happened, but they felt so familiar. It was a bit like déjà vu where, as it's happening, you feel so sure that this happened before but then you stop to think about it and there's no possible context in the rest of your memory for that to have happened. The migraines would last hours or days during which I was never sure if what I was remembering was true. Really nteresting to hear of someone else who might have had similar experiences.
It's like a word on the tip of your tongue that comes to you later on out of nowhere. This seems like that, the universe seems to work that way.
Is it stopped after that?
I appreciate the Aesthetic of showing the Commander Keen box after mentioning Tom Hall, than putting the box for Rise of the Triad in front, while Doom is still visible from the left...pretty artistic.
Thank you! Those boxes are carefully chosen :)
+Lazy Game Reviews Thanks for the reply, you have a fantastic channel and since I've found out about you a couple of weeks ago I watched at least one video a day. Keep up the good work.
any plans to do reviews of the terminator games for dos/pc?
I like this comment as much as the segment referenced in it. Awesome.
Ooh, Terminator Rampage. Sweet!
When being the dog you could hold the fire key and the dog would perform a super bark that killed all people around you. The sound was like: wof wooof woooof WOOOOOOOF!
Carl Mahnke Dog the Dragonborn
Also the Excalibat could shoot baseballs.
Bolt before Bolt even existed!
Rise was the first 3d shooter I experienced back in the 90's. It was what turned me on to getting a new computer (I had been languishing with an old Leading Edge model from the late 80's) and join the Pentium revolution, so to speak. Best move I ever made, all because R.O.T.T. blew my mind. Then of course I found DOOM and later came Duke3D. Life changing games if you had a PC back in the 90's.
Fun fact: The groans your character makes while in "God Mode" are an imitation of John Romero making "god noises" when playing with cheats on in Wolf3D.
They were first gonna call it "The Hand of Oremor", but thought it would offend Romero before release, so they skipped that idea.
It was during Doom's development he did that, he'd select the fist and walk around a level with noclip and godmode on, making noises like that while proclaiming he was an unstoppable god to the enemies in the game.
@@morphman86 Took until Doom Eternal for a game to finally have something named after John Romero.
@@MondySpartan Which is?
@@Original_Katros King Ormero. The first King of the Argenta.
Goddamn, I remember playing this game when I was a wee child. Somehow I got hold of it when it was still fresh, got it to work on DOS, fiddled with it, and was just struck by the eerie cult-feeling of the levels and enemies. For the longest time I forgot the name of it, and I still remember the game, trying to find just what this devilish mess was.
Thanks for bringing back 20 or so year old memories, guy.
Well, it's what I enjoy above all else, as a hobby and passion of mine. It's nostalgia mixed with the pure gameplay bliss of many of these older games that just keeps me intrigued and wanting to share with people. Plus, this channel pretty much started out that way, so it's just established as such by this point.
One of the only PC games I actually bought with my own money back in school. I still remember bringing it home from Media Play and installing it. I was so happy that the shareware episode was completely different content from anything in the full game!
Ben Goza MEDIAPLAY! I loved that place
I was working at an internet Cafe in the UK (one of the first outside of London) When this came out, Had it running constantly in Multiplayer mode, where this game truly shined. Something very satisfying about using these weapons at your friends.
fun fact, in the Death Row level of Duke Nukem 3d, the hanging monk in the chapel is from this game
Hmm, that's one doomed space marine! :)
This game was, and still is, one of my favorite "Old School" PC shooters, I also love Wolfenstien 3D, and Blake Stone.
Ian Paul Freeley...I miss the 90s.
Games not taking themselves seriously have led to some of my most memorable gaming moments. I feel the same way about music, I can appreciate a good silly song that exists just to exist.
Squiggs 【Glitches - ROM Hacks - Speedruns】 Green Jellÿ - three little pigs maybe? 😏
Tom Hall left ID because he did not like the more violent direction DOOM was taking and he leaves only to later work on RotT.
Go figure...
He didn't have a problem with the violence, just that his complex lore and ideas got ignored at id in favor of the "just shoot stuff" attitude the core id folks were pursuing.
As another comment here points out, this is a game where Hall's ideas went absolutely wild, to mixed effect.
Ahh... my childhood. I remember getting this game at a local computer expo, where GPUs were called VGA Video Cards.
We played this over the LAN at work, some of the best stupid FPS fun i've ever had, who doesn't love drunk missiles!
I only ever played the shareware version, but I remember the best part of ROTT being the music. You don’t hear anyone else using fusion music unironically in a game.
YES! I played ROTT against friends on my high school's PC network in the mid-90's and it was awesome, far better multiplayer than Doom IMHO. Nothing gets your pulse pounding like a swarm of drunk missiles barreling toward you as you frantically try to jump-pad out of the way. Highly recommended!
In ROTT I really like how they did the sprites, e.g. the platforms that change according to perspective that make them look like 3D. I think the engine is quite clever.
As ever, great video. Your uploads are pleasant and easy to listen to; perfect background "noise" to doing homework or cleaning the house. Plus they're super nostalgic!
I've spent all my childhood playing this game! Thanks for the review! Brings back so many memories!!
I played this game many times back in the 90's, yet didn't realize all the ceilings actually do have the same height until you pointed it out.....
Fantastic review. Back in '95 this was my first introduction into FPS games. I'd never seen anything like it and we used to play it every lunch time on the college computers. Happy memories spent pausing the game just as a disembodied eyeball flies toward you :)
Loved this game back in the day. Extremely confusing, but satisfying. Oddly enough, this was also my first VR experience. They had a VR setup in the mall, and this game was one of the main demos. It was VERY weird to turn, look around and shoot with your body instead of a keyboard. Crazyness.
Kzero I've heard of VR setups with Rise Of The Triad before, I recall one description where there was some sort of malfunction, and the player's view tilted over to the side, and it was like was walking around the level with a broken neck.
I'm assuming that was some kind of hardware problem with the VR headset's sensors, and not the game itself (though one wonders what they did to it exactly to let the game accept headtracking from the device), but one wonders just how suitable a game like ROTT would be for that. The game gets pretty damn wild at places, I mean can you picture Shrooms Mode in VR?
Crazy they had VR sets back then. How did they read your body?
@@sealinski Google for VFX 1. It was a dream to own one.
There is, I just don't know when I'll get around to it. It's a big game, and getting it out in one week would be tough.
glas to see ya back reviewing great old games, perfect timing too on RoTT. Keep up the awesome work, we missed ya!
"Goin' Down the Fast Way" is still one of my favorite level themes ever.
Hello there
Pity it wasn't the opening level theme for the paid version. I hold up "Goin' Down the Fast Way" as a perfect example of hooking your player into the game with a bangin' opening-level tune. Like Danny B with "Disco Descent" in Crypt of the NecroDancer!
@@HayTatsuko Agreed. Though at least the recent remaster includes Begins and puts it before Dark War, so it can once again be the first song people hear.
Never did understand why they didn't originally include Begins with the main game. Despite featuring enemies from all episodes, I still find it generally easier than Episode 1, which can be a ball-buster on higher difficulties.
It loved this game back in the day. I had so many games, the Doom and Duke Nukem collections, Blood, Heretic, Wolfenstein, and that's what I remember. Rise of the Triad stood out for me because of how unique it was. It was like they pulled out all the stops and instead of picking a few good ideas they just threw everything in. I remember getting lost in playing this game for hours, as well as the other games I mentioned, playing over and over harder and harder. And then having fun in my favorite areas with cheat codes and just have fun. Great review, really brought me back, as always. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! All of those are on my "want to do someday" list, along with so very many others, so we shall see what the future brings.
What are your reasons? Because other than a few minor technical issues, I think the remake is fantastic and I'm having a ton of fun with it!
Thank you very much, 'tis an honor!
Highly anticipating the new game, looks ludicrously good so far.
I remember having a demo of one of these. It was awesome! I think there was a power-down that just shrunk you. Or they might have been that made me giant and I could get out of certain spots until I shrank back down. I loved that it felt like a platform game in first person. That really invigorated it for me
I remember playing this quite a bit with my friends, but I mostly remember playing Doom more because even back in the mid 90s 90 degree walls were getting a bit old looking. I do remember being impressed with the way you could walk under things in ROTT though. It made it feel more 3D.
The one thing that always stands out in my mind about this game was the unique (back then) thing where you shot a certain enemy and they would beg 'no, don't kill me' before suddenly trying to kill you again. Memorable game.
Gotta love a game that turns a known bug into a silly easter egg :D
Amazing review, ROTT will always be one of my favorite games of all time, no doubt.
The split missile was a bit clunky, but did you know that you could choose when to split them? By holding the fire button after you shoot, the missiles will fly straight foward, like a regular missile. Once you let go the button, they will split and become homing missiles. Still clunky, but it makes things a bit easier sometimes.
Awesome review mate! This was loaded onto the class room PC when I was in year 2!
thanks for making all these videos about our gamingChildhood!
i really appreciate all the work :)
have a awesome christmas Sir LGR and all the others :)
bye.
wow! back to my heyday. Remember only ever having played the shareware version of this. blood n guts and eyeballs flying all over the screen.
It's crazy the amount of customization and content these old 90s FPS games had.
There were some fun holiday easter eggs on the load screen for ROTT too. I still remember using the -dipstick parameter to launch the game. and /EKG to turn on "Ludicrous GIBS" mode to watch the guts, arms, and eyeballs fly!
I'm not sure if I'll do a full review of it, but I'll certainly do an LGR Plays.
The SplitMissle is one a the more powerful weapons ^^ Hold the fire-key to fire both missles infront the enemies - or just release the fire-key instanly after u fired the weapon and it will "split" - also hold the fire-key when u are in dog-mode for a powerful bark ^^
I was hoping someone would mention the bark in dog mode. It destroyed everything in front of you when unleashed including glass, lamps and those collectible coins.
Best part of this game was roasting people alive, then the xylophone noise plays as their charred skeleton collapses into a heap
The Flame Wall turned the game into easy mode. After awhile, you just used that, and reflexively shooting in front of your feet to clear the entire room.
Yes, the game wasn't as good as FPS shooters using a modern shooter (it was kind of late to the game), but the killing was just so satisfying, it was very fun to play :)
sharkheadism my favorite thing was when a wall of blades would just goreify a whole bunch of enemy dudes. The flying organs and eyeballs were pretty sweet.
sharkheadism Absurd and exaggerated cartoon gore and violence like that, juxtaposed with the otherwise photorealistic digitized graphics, really lent Rise Of The Triad a great tone and charm, similar to Mortal Kombat.
You forgot about the Fish Polka. That was the best music of any game, PERIOD!!!! :D
At 2:50mins in, that screen with them all standing there - I bought this on CD ROM in the 90s and at Christmas time, that screen was snowing and they all had Christmas hats on.
I remember playing this back in the day - on Christmas Day and everyone had Xmas hats on and had a crazy Xmas vibe! Then the next day... gone - mind blown!!!!!!!
Oh I just recognized, that the menu layout and style is the same as apogees raptor -> you should make a video ´bout raptor, damn I loved that shoot´em up! keep up the great work! cheer from germany
I've been waiting for this, I hoped you're gonna review this sometimes. This is really a game that stuck into my mind as a little boy.. at first it was freaking weird but I couldn't stop playing, RotT will always be one of the best fps in my life.
ROTT was my jam as a kid. It was just so over the top and I loved it. I had no idea what a magic mushroom was (and wouldn't until high school), but the mode cracked me up. I loved ROTT so much.
i used to play this one with friends and it was soooooo much fun. My fav coop mode (yeah i'm not into PvP much, so no deathmatch), was the hunt game where you had to track down a triad logo moving "thing" and blast it off to get score.
Or the "tag you're it" game was so incredible, when it was me, i was alwayse like "ok i follow you and maybe it's that guy over there" and when the count down was almost up, touched my friend and ran off like crazy, hoping not to be tagged.
I must have played this game to death back in the 90's!
Ahhh , the good old days !
Well, it's not out yet and I haven't played it, so I can't say with 100% certainty that it is. However, from all the footage of it I've seen so far, and hearing the devs talk about what they're doing with it, it looks to be pretty freaking fantastic. Expect my viewpoints on it after it releases.
The split missile launcher worked the way that when you release the fire button, the missiles split. So by holding the fire button you could use it as a regular rocket launcher.
I remember playing rott via dialup multi-player with my friend Justin.k back in the day from 10pm-1am when I was in elementary. We played heretic and Hexen as well during this time. I think there was command and conquer red alert or warcraft 1-2 and also dune games.. this 386-486dx era was probbaly one of the best in computer history
Agreed!!!! I was just entering high school and played this with my aunt, who got me a copy lol. I had a Dell, 486 DX 33mhz with 8mb of ram, a 250mb hd, a 512k Cirrus Logic video card that I could push to 800x600 with 16bit color on my monitor that was only rated for 640x480, and just... Being a kid at that time? Ya know!? It was a great time!
Reboot!
We had A ROT tournament my junior year of high school. This really brings back memories. The multiplayer mode was truly great.
Flew under my radar for years! Maybe not the name, but the game-play. Thanks for reviewing on your channel....
Ah, Rise of the Triad, one of my favorites. I remember clamoring to my parents as a kid to buy the full version of this game after playing the shareware version off of my Duke Nukem 3d disc. I like the remake/new ROTT that Interceptor put out.
2:50 You got the 4th of July loading screen! :)
That was such a cool easter egg. The game read your computer's calendar and either changed the loading screen or music depending on the day. If you played it on christmas the music changed to "god rest ye merry gentleman" for the first level.
Yup and enemies had christmas hats on
@@Trpa047 And Cinqo de Mayo mode!
Balls yeah, man. Time to give a warm welcome to the next-gen Excalibat in all its bump-mapped, gib-inducing glory.
You have the greatest commentary voice I've ever heard man. Love your videos.
It's getting a rerelease from New Blood that includes the 2013 OST.
And it will be on the Switch too.
I have this as a demo on my Duke 3D disc. Along with Wacky Wheels and some others.
This game is one of my favorite FPS games of all time ( I missed so many hours at school because of this gem :P) Duke is naturally my number one ;)
7:11 well there were those wierd call of duty (I think) levels with the dog mode somewhat in it... But yeah a full game centered around that would be pretty cool
I did play COMM-BAT games. In the 90s I worked for a certain correspondence school that had, in then recent years, advertised a lot. I was working nights and we had 486 PCs attached to a token ring network. It was occasionally possible to get a heat seeking missile into an infinite loop if there was a torch behind a central "island."
Also, there were little details that I loved. For example, if you were near enough to the enemies immolated by the flamewall you'd hear quick, quiet xylophone riff as the skeleton collapsed.
Ha. It'd be so tempting, if there were a sound clip of that in the game to exploit! This one's more along the lines of my ongoing "REAL" statements from the Cyclemania review :)
I played this all the time as a kid, glad you reviewed it. Love your vids LGR.
I think you forgot to tell about really cool explosions ...
i was a child when this game came out. i my dad had the shareware version of the game and this video just brought back some old memories. thanks for the video.
I love the old-school ROTT music that the video ends with, although I remember that tune sounding way better on my Win 95 rig.
I fondly remember this when it came out, was great. I actually own this on many floppy discs but don't have a floppy drive anymore lol.
Oh man I used to love this game, I played it over the modem a few times with my cousin, the multiplayer was hilarious, I think there was even hotkey taunts in it, unless I'm thinking of another game. Glad to see this one reviewed!
I LOVED this game! The sound design, I LOVED! I played it with my aunt over modem back in the day. She got me so many copies of games lol. Early Warez. :P
Thank you! Going back into your old vids!
That's an FPS with a playable dog in it, not an FPS where the sole purpose is to fully play as a dog, as I was describing. There's a difference!
Played this at a friend's place around 1996. Never played it again. Forgot the name. Finally figured it out 25 years later. Thanx
There was a standing VR arcade unit with this game in it. I played it at Adventureworld (back before it became Six Flags). I was really interested in VR back then, so when I saw it, I had to play it, and then when I actually put my face into the thing I immediately recognized the game. It was pretty awesome for the time.
Wow. Thank you. I’ve not thought about this game in such a long time. Great video.
I used to love the crap or of this game back in the 90s. I had the shareware version of it. This was an extremely nostalgic video for me. Almost all of your videos are really. Thanks Clint!!!!
Ha, technically. But I meant a full game dedicated to tearing dudes up as a *dog*, not an over-intelligent science experiment canine that has six legs and smokes cigars ;)
This had one of my fav FPS weapon. The Excalibat.
I love the Excalibat, and how if you're in an outdoors level you can run up to the fatass soldiers, swing it, and send them flying up into the air.
The normal soldiers usually gib immediately.
I played HUNT Begins a lot in the mid 90s. I liked also that shout "Zweis", which is missing in full version (and I was surprised that Darkwar levels were different, until I noticed WAD file with HUNT Begins).
Clint, I love this casual reviews about not-so-great games. I'd love to see more of this! Greetings :)
Rise or the triad was a fantastic game. I still have the original disks here somewhere. At one time I played it almost non stop.
The split missile launcher actually has a feature that as long as you keep pressing down the fire button, the two missiles will fly straight ahead. It is only when you release the button that they separate and start turning. This was handy for shooting missiles around corners.
Isn't it just great that the majority of the game's arsenal are a bunch of rocket launchers of various flavors?
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I think it is even more cool that all the lead spitting weapons had infinite ammo and dual wielding pistols was just so John Woo.
I know this is a SUPER late comment. But, beforehand. I just wanted to say, I love your channel! I’ve seen you grow from just a handful of subscribers to 1m now! Just wanted to congratulate you on the super good job you do with this channel! Anywho, there’s a mod called wolfenstein 3D rise of the triad edition I believe that’s what it’s called. I’ve played it, and it’s awesome! All the ROTT Arsenal is present, plus some of the enemies. It’s been a minute since I played it. Like I mentioned earlier, I know this comment is old, but if your reading this, please do a review! But much love to your channel! Thanks for keeping me and your fans entertained for all these years! Keep it up my friend!
I can still remember exactly when I bought the full version of the game from us in Germany in 95, I was totally happy. Because 1 month later the game was indexed in Germany, and since I was 15 at the time, I could not have bought it. You had Doom1 & 2 and Wolfenstein anyway and besides Blakestone these were the shooters that I ran on my Msdos at the time. When Darforces came out it was really exciting again
What I remember most is having to make the screen as small as possible to run well, and getting a message on-screen: “buy a 486”.
i remember playing this game, only thing that scared me was the camera zooming in when you died.
I had a version of the Hunt Begins, think it was a Lasersoft deluxe edition, that came in a cardboard box with two pogs you could poke out. Wish I still had them. Very 90s...
I remember driving to every single game store in NY when this came out and finally seeing that GLORIOUS BIG WHITE BOX at FUNCOLAND of all places.
Great video! Only one question When are we going to have a Trek War video?