Metroid Dread is not linear! It's not true! Metroid Dread is not linear! IT IS NOOOOT! Oh, hi Mark

This was very well done but Brenda Romero deserved much more attention. She started in the industry as a playtester for Sir-Tech on the first Wizardry game, worked with them on Wizardry games for the next 18 years, and continued working on Wizardry beyond that. I suspect she has more Wizardry credits than any other individual.

I have loved DRPGs since Might & Magic II. I asked for recommendations for other games and Wizardry 8 was the top one. I have only been playing for 2 days and im hooked! I cannot believe it took me so long to find this!

My advice with Kings Field. Don't play Kings Feild 2 (I on original hardware, the inconstant framerate makes it borderline unplayable with the game speed rapidly fluctuating in combat.

Excellent documentary 👏🏻

Trials of Mana remake was the best game of 2020 🤘

I feel the same and i am a huge souls 1 fan

I hope quester gets more attention, loves that game!

The switch remake is so ugly. 🤢 You should have used any other version for this video. But great video regardless.

I first started dungeon crawling in 1979 with Dungeons and Dragons and The Keep on the Borderlands. The closest video game experience I've had to what I felt back then is the Burial Chambers, Sunken Crypts, Ice Caves, and Infested Mines of VALHEIM. With a 1st-person mod (or not), that game scratches that itch like none other so far.

Apparently You can now Play kingsfield 1-3 on PSX with mouse and keyboard (Or duckstations and make it widescreen) with a mouse injector.

METROID PRIME 4: BEYOND IS REAL AND DROPPING 2025!!! Guess we'll have to plan for an eventual follow-up video...

I'm making my own RPG game on RPG Maker Fes for the 3DS, Its just a prototype. I haven't it yet. Its been 4years now that I been making my game.

Short answer yes

Have you tried Star Crawlers? I think you would LOVE it.

What is the sci fi dungeon crawler you are working on called

I think the reason that Metroid is still the benchmark of Metroidvanias is because Metroid games nearly always excel at every aspect of the core design. Plenty of similar games succeed in a few, or some, or even many aspects, but rarely do games put as much care and polish into every aspect as Metroid does. With very few (notable) exceptions, Metroid games are such beautifully cohesive wholes, where atmosphere, progression, character advancement, and game play all mesh perfectly and compliment each others so well.

I'm excited for Sci-fi game. Hopefully youll draw some inspiration from the aesthetic of Megaman Legends dungeons. Something about those "eye spheres" (I hope you know what I'm talking about) in the walls always gave the dungeons such mystical yet futuristic vibes.

Wizardry is such a rosetta stone for a lot of japanese games and media in general man, people are becoming more aware of it cause of videos like this but once you know you just see it everywhere, it's liek that meme ''Wait, its all Wizardry? always been.'''

I really enjoyed watching this over the past few days, thank you! Do you have anything in the works coming up that you're excited about?

Congrats on the GameSpot gig, Brendan!

58:20 The issue wasn't necessarily that she showed vulnerability. The issue was that it didn't make sense for that moment to be so debilitating for her when she had already seen and defeated Ridley so many times before that moment. Also, I'm still a little salty about how little regard the original Metroid 2 gets, even from the dedicated fan base. It's by far my favorite and, in my opinion, the most Metroid-y game in the series. It perfected the Metroid atmosphere, one thing Mercury Steam just can't seem to replicate, making the latest two installments not really feel like Metroid games to me.

okay wait. Japanese, Western, Action, Classic, Tactical/Tabletop, Massive Multiplayer Online... What's a DRPG? Ah, "Dungeon". ... ... *...so a blobber?*

This was a very comfy listen while I finished up Diablo 4. Totally agree with your takes on Persona and Vagrant Story (which I both love) and I think are the reason I love DC adjacent games that try to inject a bit more cinema into the equation. Don't get me wrong I love a good slog through a massive labyrinthe but I'm also a sucker for a good narrative to make it all feel worth it! Hope you're doing good and good luck in the new job!

2 years later a sequel to this video featuring dungeon encounters would be interesting

found this video years ago and it's the reason I subbed to this channel, and I just found it again because I was looking for a video breaking down the gameplay/mechanics of dragon quest 1 because I was planning to rip it off for my attempt at an RPG :V

This would be is, rpg games. Super Lego Logan adventures.

I'd say most of them are worth a play through. Except for Shadow Tower. Fuck, Shadow Tower.

Can you do a tutorial on how to do this in rpg maker? I’ve got some ideas I’d like to try to make come true

I just started playing the Wizardry remake which just released on Switch this morning! This retrospective on the franchise so far was very helpful for me as a new player. Thank you! I was so hyped for the remake as soon as I spotted it in Nintendo eShop that I pre-ordered it immediately. =)

I really think that you must play Shining Force III, you will love it too. And now there are good emulators and a complete translation👌

Dragon Warrior (calling it that bc I was bequeathed an NES cartridge from my mom) is probably one of the only RPG games I've ever played where I actually bothered with status effect spells like sleep, because the 1-on-1 combat meant that using those spells was actually worth it and not just a waste of mana and a turn. Actually, something similar happened with spells in general in the game- while in something like Final Fantasy (ESPECIALLY FF1, which I also have on the NES) I found I basically never used my mages outside of boss fights because I was trying to conserve my spell slots for those boss fights, so every spell used on the trek to them was a spell wasted- but in Dragon Warrior, after realizing there was no point trying to conserve MP between towns and inn trips, I let myself use spells in casual fights and the gameplay immediately clicked into place for me.

Shouts out to the VITA ❤

Holy moly, this channel is like an oasis for me! I love and miss the vibe of older RPGs SO MUCH and it's so hard to find folks who understand what I'm talking about.

Fuuuuuuuuuck, it looks terrible. Thanks for the vid though!!!

the solution is to just learn Japanese

"great video" "great video" "great video" all throughout the comments, and the script felt AI written or something in a few different spot in the in tro, a little too 'professional' lol, wth is happening to youtube! Interesting video though to watch the different games.

Shadow tower abyss is actually crazy

This was the first vid from your channel I've seen and I iked it. I did almost vomit finding out that people still consider anything past Diablo 1 to be dungeon crawling. lol. Cant wait to see more about things like path of the abyss and moonring

Own both sega minis and played through all the shining force and shining in the darkness. Fingers crossed we get a Saturn mini and this comes with it.

There is also a Wizardry anime movie, for anyone interested. That's actually how I got introduced to the series. I randomly stumbled upon it, then learned that it was based on a game series, and now here I am learning about its influence in gaming through this amazing video!

Pretty nice collection! I recently got a physical copy of Wizardry Tales of The Forsaken land - which was my first ever dungeon crawler.

I would love a fan translation of Crime Crackers and Crime Crackers 2.

FYI: All PS3s can play PS1 games

How do you go through all this effort video editing and researching, but don't know how to run a game on MS-DOS? Hell, GOG does the work for you...