LUDICHRISTMAS II: THE REVENJANK
Added 2021-12-16 15:53:18 +0000 UTCMerry 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 fine. A while back I started exporting at a much higher bitrate and it sure doesn't show in this one.
ROTT 2013 is a weird but immensely important game. I can't overstate its historical value when talking about the retro FPS scene. I'm confident that none of us would be here without it. My parents may have conceived me to this game despite it coming out like 25 years after I was born. It's weird though.
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Comments
Bill Hicks reference 17:45. Rewatching and just noticed it
Peter Ryder
2022-04-17 11:13:07 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas Civve11!
Brute3322
2021-12-23 03:01:57 +0000 UTCAre you a musician, Civvie, or do you just have good taste? I've noticed you emphasise the music in your videos sometimes and it just got me thinking.
Declan Boss
2021-12-21 08:06:56 +0000 UTCIs it weird that whenever you say "ROTT 2013" I immediately think you're saying "ROT13," aka that cypher where you write words using letters that are 13 places removed from their original place in the alphabet? Like this whole game is some sort of weird encrypted message... oh god...
matt
2021-12-20 00:46:32 +0000 UTCI still haven't even played ROTT 2013, I have no intentions to, and even though this video isn't changing my mind on that in the slightest, this video was still everything I hoped it'd be and more. The overall composition of the vid is A+, the joke about the gift that you can't open until Eksmas Day pays off so fucking well (don't want to spoil it for anyone who reads comments before watching the vid). I felt from first impressions watching trailers back in 2013 that this game takes itself seriously in a way that the original doesn't, and that self-irreverence (combined with gameplay that I personally find mostly very fun, even during ep4) is a huge part of why I love the original; I'm undecided on if I feel my initial impressions hold up, I'll have to rewatch this video to really decide on that, but either way, even if I don't want to play 2013, it made for an excellent video that makes the nearly-lifelong ROTT player in me very, very happy.
2021-12-17 12:29:15 +0000 UTCCan't wait to watch it, though I wonder if you'll cover Shadow Warrior at some point. It was the same year, and a damn good game in and of itself.
Liquid Pigeon
2021-12-17 02:10:03 +0000 UTCOh man, I remember Totalbiscuit's video on Wrack. One of those retro FPS games before the genre made a comeback that was just DOA.
Planescaped
2021-12-17 01:35:45 +0000 UTCYou can cheese Darian by breaking a wall in the arena you fight him in (by that this https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/600392284738577919/CD78ADA7F8BFD66B583824EA62B21B10AE9BDF98/) and standing in a certain spot (make sure you can hit him and he can't hit you) and congrats, you have cheesed another boss with geometry! Also in his 3rd phase he will just move forward towards you even when he's wall humping.
2021-12-16 23:22:28 +0000 UTCOh my God, The Room *was* where I gave up. Explicitly because I quicksaved and it turned out to break the level in like five different ways with terrain not loading and stuff. Holy fuck.
Green
2021-12-16 20:43:44 +0000 UTCThis 'It's cheese' Soundbyte will probably jump right in my head, the next time I give up on some bullshit.
Trahbox
2021-12-16 20:29:21 +0000 UTCBecause the gameplay, weapons, enemies, and levels are trying to emulate old shooters and a lot of people involved in the retro shooter revival got their start on this project. It was a deliberate attempt to recapture that style of gameplay.
Civvie
2021-12-16 20:29:16 +0000 UTCwhy do you think a remake (in a non-retro engine) is the source of the retro shooter movement? watching your video, i can't see much retro in there, maybe except the player hostile difficulty. return to castle wolfenstein had its remake in 2001 and these remakes used state of the art engines at the time. so why the retro connection?
minusf
2021-12-16 19:34:45 +0000 UTCHoo boy, that's rough... Didn't know it had roots in being a Duke remake, though, that's neat!
Valora Inverse
2021-12-16 19:17:07 +0000 UTCBack and to the left. JFK?
Silentphil9
2021-12-16 19:12:33 +0000 UTCA combination of both. I've recorded some lines to fix it because the original still was in a different position and it's a mess.
Civvie
2021-12-16 19:11:05 +0000 UTCAt 17:25 you go into the magic bullet bit saying "up and to the right". But that arrow is pointing up and to the left. That on purpose to go with the back and to the left meme or you just forgot your left from right when scripting?
TonySki
2021-12-16 18:57:06 +0000 UTCFuck yes And Merry Christmas
JOE MOTHERFUCKING TREEFELNER
2021-12-16 18:08:01 +0000 UTCThat has to be the most cursed fucking mp40 I've ever seen. It looks more like a sten gun
Hebonky
2021-12-16 18:07:20 +0000 UTCThat intro reminded me that they removed the ROTT 2013 soundtrack from Spotify, but good video!
Mark Haiko
2021-12-16 16:32:43 +0000 UTCLove the longer vidoes
Steve Downes
2021-12-16 16:28:33 +0000 UTCNot sure why but I love the long videos from Civvie. Most other YouTube videos can't really hold my attention past 25 minutes.
Michael Cazares
2021-12-16 16:08:18 +0000 UTCWhat the fuck is a blake stone? (I'm kidding, I only played Blake Stone for the first time a couple years back and I'm gonna do a video eventually I promise)
Civvie
2021-12-16 16:01:09 +0000 UTCHell yeah
2021-12-16 15:59:40 +0000 UTCPulled up Patreon literally 15 minutes ago thinking, "surely, we're due for that ROTT 2013 video soon." And here we are!
Allen Christian
2021-12-16 15:58:57 +0000 UTCHell yeah! On a side note, I really think a "Blake Stone" remake would be awesome.
Brian Rich
2021-12-16 15:55:05 +0000 UTC
