5:10 Some programs require the Gravis Ultrasound drivers in C:\ULTRASND before they'll talk to the card, especially if they intend to play music through it as well (ULTRAMID). Others expect the card to exist in an initialized state (as if having run ULTRINIT) which DOSBox SVN and other forks don't necessarily have the card in at startup, while DOSBox-X has a dosbox.conf option to prepare the card in that state.
Oh boy! It's Doom-scent! I hear you mention the level design with all those optional objectives being cryptic and such. That just makes me want it more but I'm not the standard.
I 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 this game in the mid-nineties!! 🥰 It didn't come close to Descent, but it had its own charm with the Fake-3D engine, and it really felt like you were flying through DOOM maps in a spaceship. It was a damn fun trip through the 3 episodes and I was glad I didn't let the rather negative reviews at the time influence me. The homage in the first Radix level to E1M1 from Doom 1 was also very cool (hangar room). 😄👍 My absolute highlight, however, was the soundtrack - the music was 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗹𝘆 hard rocking and A HIT in every stage. I still like to listen to it in between. ☺
Yes! Radix time! I love how you pronounce 'Radix'. I say it completely differently! The 2.0 patch plugged into the RAD source port/engine replacement is a much smoother experience with better framerates and widescreen, making for a very entertaining shooter! Give it a go, random people reading this!
@@FezTheSpaceBiker Yup. That's sad. WinROTT and the GL version never worked for me... That Icculus port also doesn't work well here. Meanwhile, even Catacomb Abyss and Witchaven have great source ports.
Definitely "acquire" the 2.0 release if you can. Being able to move in any direction and stop makes the game much more playable. The mines will be less evil because of them too.
Great review! Glad I could contribute. Maybe the Terminal Velocity poster was a bragging thing about getting the rights to everything - both CDV copies of Radix had the same poster in it, so it definitely wasn't an unintentional inclusion by the seller. I was tempted by the Manaccom box as a piece of Aussie memorabilia, but decided two copies were enough for me! I'm both impressed and surprised you stuck with v1 for the playthrough - the v2.0 remix has so many quality-of-life improvements that I don't think I'd ever go back and stick it out with the original. It's definitely not hard to find online, and Radix auf Deutsche not upgrading to it seems like an oversight on the publisher's part more than anything else, so with a physical copy in hand I wouldn't blink at getting 2.0 anyway.
I thought about grabbing a less-than-legit 2.0 copy but decided it would make for a more interesting video if I covered the game in the state the developers originally intended people to play it in before they came to their senses. ;)
I just remembered that I have this very German boxed edition of the game around here somewhere! 😺 Also, I wasn't aware that there is an updated version! 😮 I will need to "find" it and give it a try! I really liked it back then and thought it was a very creative way of repurposing the Doom engine. Also, I actually prefer it over Descent 😊 Yes, hot take, I know, but always knowing where "up" and "down" is added so much to my enjoyment. 😅
Ah, this game. I grew up poor, so most of my time gaming was done playing shareware. Despite how many compilations of shareware demos were burned and sold, I only ever saw this on one of them. Radix is almost entirely forgotten when it comes to DOS titles.
CDV was also the original German publisher for Doom I and II. It's not all that wild considering that gaming hadn't yet reached its current state of multinational conglomeration and lots of publishing deals were still made on a territory-by-territory basis. CD Projekt was once the Polish publisher for Blizzard, Psygnosis, Interplay, Bethesda, and Activision, among many others; in Japan Imagineer handled titles from id, EA, Maxis, Sierra, Infogrames, etc. Heck, even in the U.S. you had GT releasing the registered versions of Duke Nukem 3D and Quake at retail within a few months of each other.
Oh boy, that FOV might be as low as 60. This is really a pet peeve of mine, even though I tend not to get motion sickness from it. I wonder if the 2.0 remix fixes the collision bug with the V shaped slope gaps.
Not sure about the collision thing, but I don't think the FOV is THAT low. I use a variety of tricks to attempt to measure FOV, but to get really precise I kinda need to be able to stay perfectly still, which can't happen here, thus my best estimate from intentionally trying to analyze it was somewhere between 65 and 70, so it's not "terrible" but it's also not good. :P
@@Pixelmusement Fair enough. I only eyeballed it, so it probably just felt worse that it really is. Out of curiosity what tricks do you use to measure the FOV? Perhaps the 2.0 version could be used for this, since you are not moving constantly forward in it.
Good call! That let me measure it exactly and... it's EXACTLY 60 degrees! As for my methods, it depends on the game but what I typically try to do is find a straight-line point of reference of some sort which has a definite end, either a line on an automap or in the floor, centre myself over it,. then slowly turn until the other end of that line (or whatever it represents) is just touching the side of the screen, then measure the resulting angle and double it. With an automap this is easy because I can use a screenshot combined with basic vector-drawing software like Inkscape to do the job, but for references on the floor I have to get a bit more creative in calculating the angle based on the repetition of textures and such, which is how I did it for my Depth Dwellers review. :B
I've been looking for this game for years but I couldn't remember the name. Finally! I played it on a shareware collection CD ages ago on our family 486.
This always looked neat to me.... once I found out it existed, lol. I still gotta give it a try, but my stack of retro FPS titles is just too high at the moment, and it's not like I don't _really like_ games such as STRIFE or Eradicator (now _there's_ one not nearly enough people talk about! But I digress...), so I should probably get around to tackling that ol' backlog. At any rate, looking at PC game Game Boy Color Ports? Well, I know Torus Games' Duke Nukem on the GBC was pretty darn good... I guess it's a port of Duke 2. Daikatana has a great lil' GBC port, though I'm not sure Daikatana counts as DOS - still worth a look! There was definitely a Heroes of Might & Magic on the Game Boy Color, though I don't know which one. Yeah, I think your next filler video is going to be really interesting, ADG! Hope you find some real gems rather than big disappointments.
It's possible Epic MegaGames provided their developers with a music/sound library of sorts to help keep things consistent between their games, but since a lot of these libraries were picked up independently by the same developers it could also just be coincidence. :B
Epic Megagames and 3D Realms/Apogee were the most fierce rivals of the PC market back in the 90s. Epic would boast about how they had the better graphics and soundtrack and how they were more with the times, but Apogee usually had the advantage of better gameplay, and Terminal Velocity had the overall advantage over Radix when it came to pretty much all of those things. Nowadays Apogee has a lot more respect for their past and their players than Epic clearly does, with a few remasters and some indie titles inspired by the good old days of gaming (even if they seem like mostly shooters), while Epic is all about modern trends and shady practices, while having their own game client that's inferior to Steam in a lot of ways, but has inspired Valve to actually improve their service which people had been complaining about for some time. With all that said, a flyer for a 3D Realms game in a game published by Epic really is an ironic moment in game marketing, especially when it's 3D Realms main competitor for Epic's game in question.
The trick of course was that Apogee and Epic were trying to sell their games worldwide, thus had numerous third-party distributors to help handle that... and by chance, one of those distributors in Germany managed to get in with BOTH companies! :B
If Doom and Descent married and had a baby... that would be Radix! Playing the game in chase-plane view mode is more fun - you don't get the full HUD, but the overall experience is better.
@@Pixelmusement I so hope to see one here! Seamless world(s) with open and indoor areas, nice graphics with neat special effects and colored lighting (tho static but who cares), optional MMX and Glide support (tho I still prefer software for the latter)... yet - DOS! Was truly ahead of time, really underrated.
Based on the shareware version, 1.1 and 1.0 are *also* actually pretty different last I recall trying ages ago. 2.0 is a bigger overhaul to a point of also changing level design, but the differences between those are pretty notable too. I recall 1.0 actually feeling better than 1.1, and 2.0 having better level design and... honestly *also* feeling worse than 1.0 due to janky-feeling movement? Though, the level design in 2.0 more than makes up for it from what I recall. Of course, I could be remembering wrong...
The HUD you saw briefly when I was showing the chase cam mode can also be used with first-person controls, so you don't HAVE to use the cockpit view! ;)
@@negirno Actually, one thing I didn't point out was that you can not only resize the window but there are MULTIPLE detail settings which affects the size of the pixels, as well as an automatic detail setting which turns the detail down automatically when the framerate drops, so it's actually pretty advanced when it comes to keeping the framerate solid. :o
@@volo870 yeah there’s a ton of doom influence here. Pretty much the same arsenal, very similar enemy design, and extremely similar level design constraints with the pistol start equivalent.
@@Arivia1Also the perspective. This game has Duke 3D or Hexen/Heretic vertical distortion, not a proper 3D convergence, like in Descent. It really affects the feeling.
Gotta admit, some parts looked like the game was doing interesting things with a mid-1990s 3D engine. Whatever happens to that wall right after you begin the "Combat" section of this review for example. My guess about the hidden secondary objectives is that they were a botched attempt at having dynamic evolving missions. Definitely think I might "acquire" this...
It's hard to see in the footage, but that "wall" was actually made up of a bunch of square sectors with their floor and ceiling heights joined at various different heights, each opening up in a seemingly random sequence at high speed once I got close. The effect would be way better if it happened further away as opposed to right up close. :P
@@Pixelmusement Even so though, imagine you're a kid, its the mid-1990s and 3D is still new, and even Doom mostly just slides the doors up and down. Heck I recall people saying Hexen was impressive for having a door that swings open. So a wall that seems to gradually break down (actually it looks to me like its dissipating in some grid pattern like in some sci-fi teleportations I've seen) would look pretty cool.
Watching this review again because I love remembering the days when gaming was good, and I spotted something interesting at 7:55 when you're showing the Difficulty Selection. Look at the guy next to "I Can't Do This! I just can't do this!" He reminds me of... someone.... someone who will take me back to the past... to play the sh*tty games that suck *ss....
Such a weird game. I got 2.0 CD release a few years ago but didn't play it beyond first few levels. FOV is really killing it. About the only thing it has is tracker music.
True, but never BOTH brands at the same time from the same store! (Unless they're one of those slightly unscrupulous places reselling the "not for resale" cans/bottles from retail packages...)
I enjoy your videos, but one thing that strikes me about them is that you're focused on judging the games you cover as they were officially released. I can see the advantage of this, particularly as it can help limit scope to something more manageable, but one of the more interesting aspects of PC games is that even in their time there was a myriad of different ways that they were experienced. Different hardware setups affecting gameplay features and visuals,unofficial patches, user hacks and mods, even the cracks and warez releases are just as much a part of the games history as the original, untouched releases. Growing up in the 90s with a PC, all that ephemera was a big part of my experience. In the 90s alone I played more Doom using unofficial source ports compared to the original executable. You briefly covered the other major variation of the game to an extent (I would have liked a bit more of an in-depth comparison) I think it would be nice to also throw a bone to fan works both historic and modern in summaries like this. Not a demand or anything, it's your show! But Radix has a modern reverse engineered source port of good quality that is the "best", if not "authentic" way to play the game. For anyone interested in trying the game out, I think it'd be useful to know about it. Or maybe it could be a spinoff show :)
Why bother being legit for getting a hold of stuff? If these companies make it hard to get a hold of stuff, then steal from them. It's your duty, and what they deserve.
I don't have a problem with people going for illegitimate downloads of software that isn't actively being sold by their copyright holders anymore, it's simply irresponsible for me to advocate doing it thus I won't provide information or links in that regards in my videos.
What a quirky game. Really reminds me of Descent, but with worse controls and a lot of action going on. The fact there is no legit way to acquire... Well... It makes things less than ideal to test and play, but nothing we can do about it. 🦜🏴☠️
For the moment. Often times videos like these help spark interest in old games and their rights holders decide to put them back on the market through services like GOG or such. Part of why I make these videos is to encourage this! ;)
5:10 Some programs require the Gravis Ultrasound drivers in C:\ULTRASND before they'll talk to the card, especially if they intend to play music through it as well (ULTRAMID). Others expect the card to exist in an initialized state (as if having run ULTRINIT) which DOSBox SVN and other forks don't necessarily have the card in at startup, while DOSBox-X has a dosbox.conf option to prepare the card in that state.
Good to know! Might explain other times in the past when I couldn't get GUS support working. :B
Oh boy! It's Doom-scent!
I hear you mention the level design with all those optional objectives being cryptic and such. That just makes me want it more but I'm not the standard.
I 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 this game in the mid-nineties!! 🥰 It didn't come close to Descent, but it had its own charm with the Fake-3D engine, and it really felt like you were flying through DOOM maps in a spaceship. It was a damn fun trip through the 3 episodes and I was glad I didn't let the rather negative reviews at the time influence me.
The homage in the first Radix level to E1M1 from Doom 1 was also very cool (hangar room). 😄👍
My absolute highlight, however, was the soundtrack - the music was 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗹𝘆 hard rocking and A HIT in every stage. I still like to listen to it in between. ☺
Yes! Radix time! I love how you pronounce 'Radix'. I say it completely differently! The 2.0 patch plugged into the RAD source port/engine replacement is a much smoother experience with better framerates and widescreen, making for a very entertaining shooter! Give it a go, random people reading this!
I didn't think to go searching for any source ports for this one given how few people seemed to know it existed... :o
Of course this game no one remembers had better source port options than Rise of the Triad.
@@FezTheSpaceBiker Yup. That's sad. WinROTT and the GL version never worked for me... That Icculus port also doesn't work well here.
Meanwhile, even Catacomb Abyss and Witchaven have great source ports.
Definitely "acquire" the 2.0 release if you can. Being able to move in any direction and stop makes the game much more playable. The mines will be less evil because of them too.
It's worth mentioning that you can still download the patch to update to version 2.0.
Thank you for covering this game ! I wasn't even aware that there was a 2.0 patch. It changes everything, making the game way more playable. Nice !
There's also a source port that not only works with modern controls, it allows you to run the game on high resolutions and OpenGL rendering.
Seems like someone wanted to make a Descent/Terminal Velocity competitor and didn't quite hit the mark. Interesting game though.
Great review! Glad I could contribute.
Maybe the Terminal Velocity poster was a bragging thing about getting the rights to everything - both CDV copies of Radix had the same poster in it, so it definitely wasn't an unintentional inclusion by the seller. I was tempted by the Manaccom box as a piece of Aussie memorabilia, but decided two copies were enough for me!
I'm both impressed and surprised you stuck with v1 for the playthrough - the v2.0 remix has so many quality-of-life improvements that I don't think I'd ever go back and stick it out with the original. It's definitely not hard to find online, and Radix auf Deutsche not upgrading to it seems like an oversight on the publisher's part more than anything else, so with a physical copy in hand I wouldn't blink at getting 2.0 anyway.
I thought about grabbing a less-than-legit 2.0 copy but decided it would make for a more interesting video if I covered the game in the state the developers originally intended people to play it in before they came to their senses. ;)
Cool to see a review of the full game. I played a demo of this game waaay back from a Tyrian CD, which I still have.
I'd never heard of this one until now, but I immediately knew that Epic Megagames was involved just from that MOD soundtrack 😉
Descent meets Terminal Velocity greeting Hexen talking with Dark Forces about Hi-Octane.
We have Descent at home:
I just remembered that I have this very German boxed edition of the game around here somewhere! 😺
Also, I wasn't aware that there is an updated version! 😮 I will need to "find" it and give it a try!
I really liked it back then and thought it was a very creative way of repurposing the Doom engine. Also, I actually prefer it over Descent 😊 Yes, hot take, I know, but always knowing where "up" and "down" is added so much to my enjoyment. 😅
Also, despite its frustrations, I would say this game is easier than Descent. :B
Ah, this game. I grew up poor, so most of my time gaming was done playing shareware. Despite how many compilations of shareware demos were burned and sold, I only ever saw this on one of them. Radix is almost entirely forgotten when it comes to DOS titles.
mod music on a doom renderer-esque game is a mix i didn't know i wanted
yes i know in pursuit of greed also fits that description but shhh
Be sure to play Ion Fury then because it has the best mod music period and it's an excellent Duke 3D style shooter
CDV was also the original German publisher for Doom I and II. It's not all that wild considering that gaming hadn't yet reached its current state of multinational conglomeration and lots of publishing deals were still made on a territory-by-territory basis. CD Projekt was once the Polish publisher for Blizzard, Psygnosis, Interplay, Bethesda, and Activision, among many others; in Japan Imagineer handled titles from id, EA, Maxis, Sierra, Infogrames, etc. Heck, even in the U.S. you had GT releasing the registered versions of Duke Nukem 3D and Quake at retail within a few months of each other.
Oh boy, that FOV might be as low as 60. This is really a pet peeve of mine, even though I tend not to get motion sickness from it. I wonder if the 2.0 remix fixes the collision bug with the V shaped slope gaps.
Not sure about the collision thing, but I don't think the FOV is THAT low. I use a variety of tricks to attempt to measure FOV, but to get really precise I kinda need to be able to stay perfectly still, which can't happen here, thus my best estimate from intentionally trying to analyze it was somewhere between 65 and 70, so it's not "terrible" but it's also not good. :P
@@Pixelmusement Fair enough. I only eyeballed it, so it probably just felt worse that it really is. Out of curiosity what tricks do you use to measure the FOV? Perhaps the 2.0 version could be used for this, since you are not moving constantly forward in it.
Good call! That let me measure it exactly and... it's EXACTLY 60 degrees! As for my methods, it depends on the game but what I typically try to do is find a straight-line point of reference of some sort which has a definite end, either a line on an automap or in the floor, centre myself over it,. then slowly turn until the other end of that line (or whatever it represents) is just touching the side of the screen, then measure the resulting angle and double it. With an automap this is easy because I can use a screenshot combined with basic vector-drawing software like Inkscape to do the job, but for references on the floor I have to get a bit more creative in calculating the angle based on the repetition of textures and such, which is how I did it for my Depth Dwellers review. :B
@@Pixelmusement Thanks very cool! I'll try this trick in some game with an automap.
I've been looking for this game for years but I couldn't remember the name. Finally!
I played it on a shareware collection CD ages ago on our family 486.
I downloaded the shareware version of the game about a year ago and I got to say it’s definitely ahead of its time (:
...I'm guessing "don't loaded" is auto-correct's hip new way of saying "downloaded". ;)
@@Pixelmusement blame auto correct🥴
This actually looks pretty cool. I like hard games, although I would like to play with the updated controls
This always looked neat to me.... once I found out it existed, lol. I still gotta give it a try, but my stack of retro FPS titles is just too high at the moment, and it's not like I don't _really like_ games such as STRIFE or Eradicator (now _there's_ one not nearly enough people talk about! But I digress...), so I should probably get around to tackling that ol' backlog.
At any rate, looking at PC game Game Boy Color Ports? Well, I know Torus Games' Duke Nukem on the GBC was pretty darn good... I guess it's a port of Duke 2. Daikatana has a great lil' GBC port, though I'm not sure Daikatana counts as DOS - still worth a look! There was definitely a Heroes of Might & Magic on the Game Boy Color, though I don't know which one. Yeah, I think your next filler video is going to be really interesting, ADG! Hope you find some real gems rather than big disappointments.
The 3rd person view reminds me of Skyroads. This one defiantly fell in-between the cracks thanks for exhibit!
I had an inkling it'd be this game. Rewatching old ADG episodes FTW. XD
The music reminds me of _Mystic Towers._
It's possible Epic MegaGames provided their developers with a music/sound library of sorts to help keep things consistent between their games, but since a lot of these libraries were picked up independently by the same developers it could also just be coincidence. :B
I loved this game. Wish I had been able to find a boxed copy, but I was able to at least find a physical copy on eBay.
Game Boy ports of DOS games? Fascinating!
I had the shareware of this! I've been waiting for someone to cover it in detail one of these years!
I played the demo a few times, and I still recall the soundtrack. Or at least the music of the forst level.
Epic Megagames and 3D Realms/Apogee were the most fierce rivals of the PC market back in the 90s. Epic would boast about how they had the better graphics and soundtrack and how they were more with the times, but Apogee usually had the advantage of better gameplay, and Terminal Velocity had the overall advantage over Radix when it came to pretty much all of those things. Nowadays Apogee has a lot more respect for their past and their players than Epic clearly does, with a few remasters and some indie titles inspired by the good old days of gaming (even if they seem like mostly shooters), while Epic is all about modern trends and shady practices, while having their own game client that's inferior to Steam in a lot of ways, but has inspired Valve to actually improve their service which people had been complaining about for some time.
With all that said, a flyer for a 3D Realms game in a game published by Epic really is an ironic moment in game marketing, especially when it's 3D Realms main competitor for Epic's game in question.
The trick of course was that Apogee and Epic were trying to sell their games worldwide, thus had numerous third-party distributors to help handle that... and by chance, one of those distributors in Germany managed to get in with BOTH companies! :B
I don't know if Duke Nukem and Commander Keen Game Boy Color games are neccessarily ports. The levels and assets are all new to my knowledge.
Yeah they are quite different
If Doom and Descent married and had a baby... that would be Radix!
Playing the game in chase-plane view mode is more fun - you don't get the full HUD, but the overall experience is better.
1:05 - Blue Byte with Extreme Assault (1997): "Hold our beer!"
Which is indeed a DOS game so maybe it'll show up on here someday! ;)
@@Pixelmusement I so hope to see one here! Seamless world(s) with open and indoor areas, nice graphics with neat special effects and colored lighting (tho static but who cares), optional MMX and Glide support (tho I still prefer software for the latter)... yet - DOS! Was truly ahead of time, really underrated.
I don't get an aircraft feel looking at the video, more a doom with a jet pack feel. The level design doesn't seem to be working out.
wow episode 311, I watched your channel years ago but lost track, didn;t know you were still going
A lot of these early 3D flight combat games really just turned out to be FPSes but you can also move up and down. Dig the music though!
Based on the shareware version, 1.1 and 1.0 are *also* actually pretty different last I recall trying ages ago. 2.0 is a bigger overhaul to a point of also changing level design, but the differences between those are pretty notable too. I recall 1.0 actually feeling better than 1.1, and 2.0 having better level design and... honestly *also* feeling worse than 1.0 due to janky-feeling movement? Though, the level design in 2.0 more than makes up for it from what I recall.
Of course, I could be remembering wrong...
Oh boy, do I love games where the hud takes up over 50% of the screen.
The HUD you saw briefly when I was showing the chase cam mode can also be used with first-person controls, so you don't HAVE to use the cockpit view! ;)
I guess it's the default view so the game has a decent frame rate on all kinds of PCs.
@@negirno Actually, one thing I didn't point out was that you can not only resize the window but there are MULTIPLE detail settings which affects the size of the pixels, as well as an automatic detail setting which turns the detail down automatically when the framerate drops, so it's actually pretty advanced when it comes to keeping the framerate solid. :o
@@Pixelmusement pleasant surprise to see how sophisticated it is. Nice!
17:00 - it can remove 10%? ;)
Yes... multiple times per hit! :P
This looks like a worse version of Descent.
Credit where it's due, the music seems more hype than Descent's.
Pretty fair assessment. It's 2.5Dscent, with slightly less vertigo and polish.
It doesn't feel like Descent. It is more like a Doom-clone, while being constantly pushed on the back.
@@volo870 yeah there’s a ton of doom influence here. Pretty much the same arsenal, very similar enemy design, and extremely similar level design constraints with the pistol start equivalent.
@@Arivia1Also the perspective. This game has Duke 3D or Hexen/Heretic vertical distortion, not a proper 3D convergence, like in Descent. It really affects the feeling.
Seeing the thumb I legit thought it was another Doom wad showcase. 😁 But i must say, it looks like a fairly fun game for what it is.
Gotta admit, some parts looked like the game was doing interesting things with a mid-1990s 3D engine. Whatever happens to that wall right after you begin the "Combat" section of this review for example.
My guess about the hidden secondary objectives is that they were a botched attempt at having dynamic evolving missions.
Definitely think I might "acquire" this...
It's hard to see in the footage, but that "wall" was actually made up of a bunch of square sectors with their floor and ceiling heights joined at various different heights, each opening up in a seemingly random sequence at high speed once I got close. The effect would be way better if it happened further away as opposed to right up close. :P
@@Pixelmusement Even so though, imagine you're a kid, its the mid-1990s and 3D is still new, and even Doom mostly just slides the doors up and down. Heck I recall people saying Hexen was impressive for having a door that swings open. So a wall that seems to gradually break down (actually it looks to me like its dissipating in some grid pattern like in some sci-fi teleportations I've seen) would look pretty cool.
Neat concept that seems let down by implementation!
Banging soundtrack
Finding full CD version to download seems laughably easy. I found 2 valid links in my first search.
I don't doubt it, but they're not going to be legitimate downloads of the game authorized by their rights holders, thus why I can't link to them. :P
Watching this review again because I love remembering the days when gaming was good, and I spotted something interesting at 7:55 when you're showing the Difficulty Selection.
Look at the guy next to "I Can't Do This! I just can't do this!" He reminds me of... someone.... someone who will take me back to the past... to play the sh*tty games that suck *ss....
I mean... the entire "costume" of the AVGN is based around a stereotypical nerd, so that's not really an unexpected familiarity. :P
@@Pixelmusement True, plus his revisit to Jekyll and Hyde recently revealed he could time travel ;)
We need a cocktail recipe with both coke and pepsi in it. Just because.
I mean... I once made a video where I tried out a whole matrix of soda pop combinations... It is one of my most downvoted videos ever. XD
Such a weird game. I got 2.0 CD release a few years ago but didn't play it beyond first few levels. FOV is really killing it. About the only thing it has is tracker music.
This one looks like a mix between Doom, Descent and Rise of the Triad.
some fast places in some food courts have the other pop brand
True, but never BOTH brands at the same time from the same store! (Unless they're one of those slightly unscrupulous places reselling the "not for resale" cans/bottles from retail packages...)
Obscure Descent clone that does not look too bad
I played this game back in the day and liked to compare and contrast it to Descent. Overall a flawed hidden gem.
I always wrote this off as a kind of "Poor man's Descent" and it sort of is.
17:00 "decimate your shields and armor" ? So it's pretty weak then ? 10% seems like a negligible amount.
I enjoy your videos, but one thing that strikes me about them is that you're focused on judging the games you cover as they were officially released. I can see the advantage of this, particularly as it can help limit scope to something more manageable, but one of the more interesting aspects of PC games is that even in their time there was a myriad of different ways that they were experienced. Different hardware setups affecting gameplay features and visuals,unofficial patches, user hacks and mods, even the cracks and warez releases are just as much a part of the games history as the original, untouched releases. Growing up in the 90s with a PC, all that ephemera was a big part of my experience. In the 90s alone I played more Doom using unofficial source ports compared to the original executable.
You briefly covered the other major variation of the game to an extent (I would have liked a bit more of an in-depth comparison) I think it would be nice to also throw a bone to fan works both historic and modern in summaries like this. Not a demand or anything, it's your show! But Radix has a modern reverse engineered source port of good quality that is the "best", if not "authentic" way to play the game. For anyone interested in trying the game out, I think it'd be useful to know about it.
Or maybe it could be a spinoff show :)
16:55 10% shield reduction isn't that bad.
Bananoid????
The FOV in this is very poor.
Why bother being legit for getting a hold of stuff? If these companies make it hard to get a hold of stuff, then steal from them. It's your duty, and what they deserve.
I don't have a problem with people going for illegitimate downloads of software that isn't actively being sold by their copyright holders anymore, it's simply irresponsible for me to advocate doing it thus I won't provide information or links in that regards in my videos.
What a quirky game. Really reminds me of Descent, but with worse controls and a lot of action going on. The fact there is no legit way to acquire... Well... It makes things less than ideal to test and play, but nothing we can do about it. 🦜🏴☠️
For the moment. Often times videos like these help spark interest in old games and their rights holders decide to put them back on the market through services like GOG or such. Part of why I make these videos is to encourage this! ;)