Daikatana - The Great Green Dragon

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Sextile - "Dreams"
Diamond Ortiz - "Hi Q"
"Gaia in Fog" - Dan Bodan
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[@Civvie11]

Yeah, it's early. ligaf

[@EggBastion]

I bet that's what you always say ;P

[@_John_Johnson]

cool

[@DocSpooky]

oh boy! oh no...

[@331coolguy]

Sees video:YESS

[@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames]

Now we just need a Pro Extreme Paintbrawl and all will be right with the world

[@Mooshkajoe]

I got Romero to sign my Daikata box. His face was a priceless mix of disgust and humor.

[@ELEKTROSKANSEN]

I'd love to have him sign my Daikatana N64 cartridge

[@IamRobotMonkey]

Fair play dude, that takes balls.

[@Mooshkajoe]

@@IamRobotMonkey He made a face, gave me a side eye, then smiled and laughed and his biggest question was "How and why the fuck do you still have this box?" He was pretty cool about it.

[@IamRobotMonkey]

@@Mooshkajoe I'd love to meet him. Ironically enough, I lived not that far from where he did in the UK as a kid. A few years before I did, mind.

[@CainDB]

​@@ELEKTROSKANSEN O japierdole co ty robisz na kanale Civviego mordo

[@PurpleColonel]

When the Half-Life 2 beta was leaked in 2003, it leaked with a lot of other content that was never meant to be released at all. One of these was a collection of maps that took the form of a retexture or remake of the hazard course from the original, with beta Alyx Vance in place of the hologram. It remains mostly faithful to the original until the player passes the crouch jump tutorial, when they are stopped from proceeding by Barney Calhoun who says something along the lines of: "Sorry sir but I can't let you through without your buddy Superfly Johnson... Just kidding Gordon, you can go on through." This is followed by extremely nerdy laughter.

[@cooperproductions3731]

Jesus christ only now i got it

[@LixxLixx]

Didn’t ask

[@PurpleColonel]

@@LixxLixx But you learned something, and that's the magical part.

[@sboy1024]

@@PurpleColonel good answer 👍

[@LixxLixx]

@@PurpleColonel you really think i read paragraphs on youtube comments? Nah

[@ZiroZenStudios]

“There’s an option in the patch to play without Ai companions… but I won’t…” Can’t play without our buddy Superfly.

[@SinistralEpoch]

Honestly, I feel like the AI issues could be fixed to a suitable level by just.. making them teleport behind you periodically.

[@dougneon9550]

Jokes aside it's rather touching that he sees him as being so important considering most shooter MCs are rather crass and self centered

[@matteodelapaz1698]

Funny how the 64 version has no ai but everything else is traded

[@TooMuchSascha]

The fact that Superfly just starts sobbing uncontrollably when you die is fucking hilarious

[@WTFisTingispingis]

It's got some serious Finn/Poe energy where they become friends _really fast._

[@CollegeDroputPowerpoints]

I like to think Romero had them as the best of friends in his head not realizing that it wouldnt translate in game.

[@Cthululululu]

They were homies, man. Tight as fuck. The closest of brow. El compachos

[@grahamcarpenter5135]

Has the same energy as Ashley in RE4R shrieking "Leon, NOOOOOO!" when he takes a hit like 30 seconds after they've met.

[@Elkantar_Rostorgh231]

Historians will say they were roommates.

[@mrturtletail3945]

"I don't feel good about killing innocent people, let's get them out of the way." *Looks at Civvie's Pro Postal series in the suggestions*

[@q1q2q23]

DEW IT

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

And _Pro Doom^3._

[@cavemanthog]

This can't be Daikatana, the NPC's are actually pretending to help

[@marksampson174]

MrTurtleTail possibly the greatest comment I’ve ever seen on the KZbins

[@sirp0p0]

Let's be honest, none of the NPC's in Postal are innocent people.

[@Bazhorin]

"Stop subscribing to this channel". Quit whining, Civvie. We can't go on without our buddy.

[@bravo075]

Quit weenin'

[@krullachief669]

Speaking of, found a reason to fight yet, buddy?

[@alkemyst337]

queet whenig

[@Vulgarth1]

@@krullachief669 You still alive?

[@MellowTed]

Kwit weening.

[@MezzoForte4]

"Why would my taint send ripples back in time?" That's just gold.

[@Fightin_Mongoose]

Platinum. I'm still laughing and I've watched this shit three times

[@stepheng8061]

MezzoForte4 gave my a giantess stylistic boneracus

[@OtherworldTelevision]

Stranger things have happened to Civvie.

[@papayer]

That's what we normally call t h e m a g i c

[@ripghotihook]

"Mikiko No!" Pretty much sums up the game. Edit: Came back because I forgot my buddy Superfly.

[@_V.Va_]

A good Civvie quote may fit the situation for her. *_”You’re stupid and I hate you!”_*

[@MewdyMoody]

hook, superfly is stuck agaaaaaiiiinnnnn

[@ICARUSLIV3S]

Oh god, the flashbacks, the pain... THE PAIN.

[@Dicker296]

Oh, you

[@biggusdickus1123]

Daddy icarus! can i have ur babys pwetty pwease I'll be the best mommy ever

[@Connor-dl4hq]

Biggus Dickus People like you scare me...

[@kungfuskull]

Oh hey dude :) cool to see youre a civvie fan!

[@biggusdickus1123]

@@Connor-dl4hq may i ask why?

[@othertalk3313]

"There is nothing you can do for me, except find my daughter, and the Daikatana." - Actually sounds like quite a lot that you're asking me to do. I'm sure she'll be fine.

[@Laxhoop]

In an alternate timeline, this game was actually phenomenal, and sold extremely well, setting the stage for game designers to act like rock stars, rather than becoming more and more corporate with each passing year.

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

In this timeline, Romero went into politics after he eventually retired from game development. He would go on to be elected the Governor of Texas.

[@kakyointhemilfhunter4273]

@@LonelySpaceDetective I envy that parallel universe

[@fruitylerlups530]

@@LonelySpaceDetective as Reform party, becoems Vice President to Jesse Ventura. America truly becomes great again.

[@handsomebrick]

I do actually feel like there's an alternate timeline where Romero doesn't change game engines so Daikatana is completed in 1998, and it still fails but not as spectacularly, so he creates a much better game in 2000 which also saves Anachronox from obscurity, allowing Warren Spector to make a different, less dumb sequel to Deus Ex.

[@kobalos7450]

And there's that timeline where the dumb hammer ruined the game it was designed for in the first place... praise the gods of rocket jumping for the Quake we know and love

[@DStecks]

"During a meeting I explained to John that I was working on the end-game cinematics with Kage . I pronounced it 'Cage.' Romero giggled. 'Who? What? What are you working on?' I said it again. Now everyone was laughing at me. Romero: 'Who? Say it again!' Me: 'Um ... Kage?' Romero: 'No, dude! It's pronounced Kah-gee!' Me: 'Um ... well, you better check the voiceover recordings, because it's 'Cage.' And suddenly Romero's face turned white. Half the audio in the game had his name pronounced wrong, and it was too late to fix." - Matthew Cox, senior artist on Daikatana

[@Phoebe5448]

Well, Ka-gae DOES mean "shadow" in Japanese...

[@terminallygray]

cool story, Bro

[@danial5387]

@@terminallygray lol for once true

[@base21]

Look it's dstecks the loser

[@MalabarTheGreat]

They did fix it though. His name is pronounced correctly throughout.

[@Whatsuppbuddies]

I can’t leave a comment without my buddy Superfly.

[@Bikee-uh6of]

So wait you have your buddy Superfly now? Can I see him? Which staircase is he stuck in?

[@plot6520]

Hey guys, have you seen my buddy Superfly?

[@raygun26]

I’m super high

[@JK-sm7ni]

*Superfly runs off screen into a crusher*

[@sorrenblitz805]

I can't reply to your comment without my buddy Superfly.

[@Sodaholic6502]

As for Romero being a cool guy, he definitely is. Back when he had a public email address, he always answered my questions. He confirmed my suspicion that the "Star-tan" walls were actually named after Star Wars and even shared some reference images, and he also revealed who wrote the intermission texts in Doom 1 and 2; Sandy Petersen.

[@aslushymachine]

Always seemed like a chill guy to me this was cool to read

[@sketchstevens5859]

Romero was a chill guy. He was just too much of a perfectionist with his baby (Daikatana) and kept switching engines... And had his issues with Carmack which led to a bad time when it came to development. Plus he didn't come up with the "John Romero will make you his bitch" line... It was actually some chick from advertising that insisted it'd be a great idea. Dudes a good guy. A little bit of his own enemy, but a good guy

[@nikjuttun5677]

@@sketchstevens5859 I thought it was some dude who came up with that line but yeah, Romero himself wasn't happy with it at all when that advertising guy told him about it

[@sketchstevens5859]

@@nikjuttun5677 Yeah, it was some lady in advertising or some dude in advertising. They basically pressured him into agreeing to it which is kinda weird. Must have been some sort of contract BS

[@cameronwest7038]

@@sketchstevens5859 weird and not remotely plausible

[@Jesion-kv9tu]

Romero actually named Superfly Johnson after a Doomworld member going by the same nickname. He even had his own website called Superfly's Doom Abode or something like that.

[@miciso666]

yeah even referenced in unreal tournament in a secret. you must be superfly to have found this.

[@slackerdenile8836]

@@miciso666 I remember the 'pretty fly for a white guy' secret, was that in there too?

[@GentleHeretic]

No kidding? I thought it was part of some abandoned backstory for the character. Hm, cool to know.

[@Jesion-kv9tu]

@@miciso666 which one? I haven't heard of that. Also UT came out before Daikatana so I don't think there would be an easter egg.

[@oz_jones]

Thats so cool

[@KrinkelsNG]

"You're not superstitious are you?" fucking golden. I love it.

[@JimmehRulez]

Hi

[@KrinkelsNG]

@@JimmehRulez sup

[@FireTalon24]

What's funny is the way I read that line, Hiro's being tongue-in-cheek. "You're not superstitious, are you?" after all the mystical crap that they went through seems like a joke to me. But hey, I may be giving them more credit than they deserve.

[@goofywannabegamers5005]

I should've known Krinkels would be a boomer shooter fan

[@RichterTheRat]

@@FireTalon24 TBH, that's what I got from it too. The problem is the models can't emote enough to get that across. I feel like the joke would have landed better if Superfly had chuckled and called Hiro a smartass.

[@DeadPixel1105]

"Don't worry. You'll get what's coming to you." Reminds me of, "Don't worry. They'll get their product", from Doom 3.

[@q1q2q23]

@@smugplush DEW IT

[@Maniac536]

I’m impressed you were able to digitally remove the evil purple glow that appears whenever someone takes a picture of Tom Hall

[@hauntedhotdog]

Romero is definitely at his creative best when he's not in charge.

[@wickedwitt04]

Some people are born to do, others to lead. It's actually quite rare the best "doers" also happen to be great leaders. Unfortunately, our society often promotes great doers into leadership roles, regardless of their ability or personality being conducive to leading.

[@_V.Va_]

@@wickedwitt04 We live in a society.

[@RycoreXIII]

Huge George Lucas energy

[@-Zakhiel-]

@@RycoreXIII Lucas is definitely not a good doer. He's more of a successful businessman.

[@tomasrivero6423]

just liike george lucas

[@zachflag6506]

30:45 Civvie freaking out like a parent whose kid just ran by with a dirty knife is honestly one of my Top 5 Civvie Moments

[@brandonweiss2298]

I loved the reference to this game in doom eternal. On one of the books in the Slayers man cave, it says something about my buddy superfly.

[@ScopeOperaSam]

"My Buddy Superfly" by Hiro Miyamoto, a fantastic read. I have revisited it many times up in my space castle. A buddy of mine thought the author was the CEO of Nintendo lol.

[@Archon3960]

Oh, god. I didn't think I could love Doom Eternal even more... xD

[@ZuluRomeo]

Great book. Once I started reading it, I couldn't leave "My Buddy Superfly"

[@sorrenblitz805]

@@Archon3960 Doom Eternal is amazing. I spent so much time just looking at everything in the Slayer's chill room. The retro DOS PC, using Flynn Taggart as a password to unlock Doom II on it, the books and comics and magazines everywhere I loved the guitars on the wall. Really humanizes the Slayer. He's a super nerd and an unshackled psychotic rage-god.

[@Archon3960]

@@sorrenblitz805 True. Who would've though? xD

[@RevolverRez]

I love how Hiro and Superfly seem to see each other as BFFs basically from the moment they meet. It'd be a nice and humourous touch in a game that wasn't an affront to the genre.

[@ZigealFaust]

It was like if Sonic and Mario met. Just instant vibing on two different levels.

[@Jambonneau826]

@@ZigealFaust Mario and sonic at the Olympics is a thing you know. It's a minigame series, and I recall it has a story mode.

[@ZigealFaust]

@@Jambonneau826 Dude I know but like... why the fuck do you think that means anything, no cap? That's like someone making a Batman meets The Flash joke and you just coming out the woodwork to be like 'AKSHULLY".

[@haerfgvbag7050]

Man reading "The Masters of DOOM' really gives a lot of context for this one. Really makes me wish they were able to get this one right, I'm sure Carmack had a huge smile across his face when he saw the game's release

[@theskycavedin]

Yeah after Id was already slumping and Carmack wasn't making any new interesting games

[@stormbunker6036]

“These games are getting VERY realistic”- Bill Gates

[@meyes5671]

They were

[@thatradiogeek]

At the time, it was.

[@jebohim]

Fuck that NWO BASTARD!!!

[@sergeydoronin1579]

Back then everything looked like DOOM, the God just upgrades the graphics.

[@PinkManGuy]

ACKTSHUALY, he said "REALLY realistic." I only bring up this extremely pedantic point because I initially found it jarring that he would say 'real' twice in a row like that, when 'very' would have flowed a million times better

[@CyberMetalOverlord]

Mishima "If they were to ever cross or touch in any way, the world as we know it would cease to exist" Hiro "Okay" Pulls out sidewinder and blows him away "That was easy"

[@sohamacharya171]

Ze End

[@Archon3960]

Yeah, it would go like the Doom Eternal TaG2 intro! xD

[@mrturtletail3945]

SuperFly Johnson is the greatest sidekick name of all time

[@Astaticembrace]

Superfly Johnson is the greatest sidekick name Of All Time

[@bingle6271]

SuperFly Johnson is the greatest sidekick name of all time

[@papayer]

I can't leave without the greatest sidekick name of all time, Superfly

[@DarkArtistKaiser]

"You'll get whats coming to you." Me: That sounds uh... *Betrayal Clock appears* Yeah I figured.

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

It's one of those moments when you can see where it's going, but the added gag just twists it further to the funny over the topness.

[@boxcarz]

The Betrayal Countdown was consistently the funniest thing in this video for me, no idea why.

[@Novous]

Superfly even said he wanted his CUT. which is a pun on being stabbed to death

[@dirkstrickland4494]

I have to assume Hiro and Superfly get it on during the level transitions, because for the life of me, I can't understand Hiro's absolutely unwarranted infatuation with him. We're talking several tiers below bromance. We're talking swordfighting with socks and flipflops on.

[@pentelegomenon1175]

Also Superfly cries when Hiro dies, even though they basically just met. Maybe he's just a really sensitive guy?

[@Kaarl_Mills]

"I cant orgasm without my buddy Superfly"

[@Nicole7073.]

L L I can’t nut unless it’s in my buddy superfly

[@everythingsgonnabealright8888]

I think they have a long history before the game.

[@averyterribleperson5292]

theyre buttbuddies lol

[@pietpadda593]

Basic design to overcome bad companion AI: Have the companions teleport to you if you're about 1 room's distance away... Wish they just added such a simple feature.

[@buttlord2223]

They could've just not required them to be near you when you were going to the next level. They'd probably only need to delete a couple lines.

[@kulrigalestout]

"This graveyard looks haunted, man." "You're not superstitious, are you? By the way, these staves reek of evil". okay

[@Jay_Sullivan]

Obviously, their nature is different. Superstition would still exist.

[@expendableround6186]

Never heard of sarcasm?

[@unfa00]

23:17 - I am amazed that you color-graded Palpatine to match the lighting of that shot. Such a small detail but shows the amount of work you put into these videos.

[@q1q2q23]

*Katie

[@brosephnoonan223]

@@q1q2q23 *K-T

[@oz_jones]

@@q1q2q23 *he

[@outsidewatching5746]

"you're not superstitious, are you?" "No. I'm Superfly."

[@ubermikesocal]

Surely, you're not serious. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley

[@OddlyDelta]

@@ubermikesocal -tango down in sector one alpha-

[@CaptainARR]

"I'm not superstitious but I'm a little stitious..." - Michael G. Scott

[@noecarrier5035]

I remember playing through Daikatana at the time and finding all these stupid and broken gameplay mechanics and thinking the issue was just how bad I was at playing games. John Romero gaslighted me for the whole game. I was pretty young, though.

[@CertifiedNEETClassic]

"Instead of talking in the dojo you eat, sleep, shit and train in and is watched by an artificial doorman, lets go have a chat in this dark rainy alley-- oh no I'm dead."

[@hankhill1964]

Pro-Pain when civvie?

[@channel5980]

LOL you deserve more likes for this joke.

[@BigPuddin]

bwah

[@billbobagggins99]

Pro pain and pro pain accessories

[@local_hotpotato]

Is written Payne ;)

[@Howlingd0g]

Where's the button to turn myself in??

[@lonestar6709]

The two John's really needed each other, didn't they? Carmack can program like Isaac Newton, but is about as exciting as a kipper. And Romero can craft levels like MC Escher, but couldn't program a cup of coffee. Make up already guys!

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

Romero was actually a pretty good programmer by the accounts seen in Masters of Doom. Not superstar level by any means, but he could pull his weight if he could get his head out of his ass. EDIT: I'd actually attribute for instance most of the actual gameplay/game design-concerning code in the DOS DOOM games to him, since it sounded like Carmack was mostly concerned with the graphics rendering and technology.

[@DStecks]

Over the years I've actually come to suspect that Carmack was responsible for a lot more of the design of Doom than he ever took credit for. A lot of Tom Hall and John Romero's ideas for Doom that Carmack shot down as "not doable with the tech" would later be done in the Doom engine in games like Hexen and Strife. My conspiracy theory is that Carmack essentially used his position as head programmer as a veto on design choices he personally didn't like.

[@WTFisTingispingis]

Nailed it

[@dawidvanstraaten]

​@@LonelySpaceDetectiveRomero lost to Carmack in a programming contest, but was a very good programmer.

[@Wayte13]

@@dawidvanstraaten Losing to Carmack at programming is like losing to Mike Tyson at boxing

[@DaveViner]

"No way, I can't leave without my buddy Superfly"

[@theblocksays]

"I mean he so JIVE, MAN!"

[@MrSirHenryMF]

"Chill dude, I'm coming!"

[@samnuell864]

Stando Power!

[@dlc435]

#nowayicanleave #withoutmybuddysuperfly

[@debonaire_nerd]

"Why does the character hold a sword?" - *Joe Rogan, unironically, on Daikatana*

[@cacomeat7385]

Joe Rogan is a numbskull

[@almightyfalcon]

I like Joe, but he's a total bonehead when it comes to games

[@TheMetasora]

@@almightyfalcon he talks about how he's an old man and doesn't understand games and how his kids are so good on their phones and games so I don't know what you're tripping on

[@SpacialKatana]

@@TheMetasora Look it up

[@almightyfalcon]

@@TheMetasora Look up the JRE episode with Hugo Martin, creative director of Doom Eternal; Joe just shits all over the game during that episode.

[@robertsides3626]

1:04:07 You know you've made it big when you now have to loop your credits theme because of how many Patreon supporters you now have.

[@robertsides3626]

@The Jester - Fool Of Hearts Yeah, it's a problem. Some people put in the effort worthy of their money, some don't, and some don't get paid enough for the amount of effort they give. Life sucks like that. Kinda why the Simp phenomenon (fuck, that word is a dyslexic nightmare) pisses so many people off. I think Civvie and his crew deserves more than what they are getting. I hope they can continue to grow.

[@matheusrios4223]

"Hiro Miyamoto failed at life" well, that's some mockery right there. could also be something like "player sucks at videogames" and the result would be the same.

[@PlastiGomi]

I love when game insult me like gta 3 "hehhe you need to go faster poop head"

[@gabrielwarren6955]

Nah "failed at life" is perfect. I don't think you can beat it.

[@lonestar6709]

Just call us a faggot and have done with it. Guess we were his bitch, after all!

[@doombringer3498]

Or maybe John Romero failed at game design?

[@papayer]

It was very moving of Hiro to dedicate an entire book to his buddy Superfly in Doom Eternal.

[@beetheimmortal]

Imagine if you could play this game in coop with your friends playing as Superfly and Mikiko

[@KopperNeoman]

You can, but it's classic co-op with infiniter respawns and no story.

[@lacriaturadekentucky]

Someone should make a patch/mod for that. It'd prolly improve the game to an extent.

[@roberte2945]

That photo of John Romero's gormless, grinning face will always amuse me.

[@lymb3914]

"What the!? Oh NO! Hiro got blown down!" is right up there with "You were almost a Jill sandwich!" in my book.

[@francodimeola1708]

Poor civvie torturing himself to entertain us

[@zenoblues7787]

Implying he has any choice in the dungeon

[@arodreth]

as any self respecting content creator should.

[@pistool1]

OMG, I still remember the day when I bought the game in a big box and soon realised that it was a big box full of shite and utter disappointment :D I think I completed this boring game with cheats finally :) What a disaster and the most over hyped game ever.

[@Outta-hz1ej]

>entrentain

[@johnivanoplimo5172]

He goes through the shit infested sewers so you don't have to. SEWER COUNT: 144 1/2

[@DinsRune]

"Level 105, cell 11" So, Level CV, 11?

[@edwarddormer1103]

I’d always assumed Civvie’s “real” name was 107...

[@nibblrrr7124]

... incredible EDIT: aw wait, i thought it was in the game

[@audiosurfarchive]

That's a legit bigthonk you just hit me with. _Department of Special Corrections' Cinematic Universe_ truly has the deepest, darkest lore this side of the Cold Room.

[@VandalVanWilder]

105 levels below the earth....what....what did he do?

[@silverhand9965]

@@VandalVanWilder we don't talk about it

[@Kalashinator]

"A ghost opens the door for you" Prey (2006) when, Civvie?! Congrats at (almost) hitting 200k subs! We need the kind of snark you bring to the table now more than ever.

[@doommaker4000]

And the other one too!

[@Gui-San]

@@doommaker4000 ESPECIALLY, the other one, the best System Shock love letter ever written.

[@the-letter_s]

he's at 200k now

[@kingd8232]

The Ion Cannon is quite like Ion Storm. Dead in the water.

[@IDK_James]

Fun fact! Superfly is voiced by the same actor who voiced the NSF Leader you meet at the top of the Statute of Liberty in Deus Ex

[@GreenSteedaGT]

He's also Brick from Borderlands.

[@drakep.5857]

I can't hijack this week's ambrosia shipment without my buddy superfly

[@manjackson2772]

I don't believe you, do you have some numbers

[@gameaudioshaman]

Damn you right

[@bloodrunsclear]

Hiro: You're not superstitious are you? *fights third actual magic-using wizard boss wielding magic glowing sword ten seconds later*

[@Nionivek]

Look... Gorgons, Wizards, and Ghosts are just plain scientific fact.

[@zzodysseuszz]

27:50 drachma is the currency the ancient Greeks used. Charon (it’s pronounced sha-Ron) is the ferryman for the river Styx in Greek mythology, the dead need to pay Charon 2 drachma in order to pass the river Styx to the underworld. If someone is not buried with 2 drachma they cannot pass into the afterlife with Charon.

[@jond6666]

Eye: Divine Cybermancy when, civvie?

[@CptBilsn]

Ohhh I'd love that one.. One of the best shooting/movement I've seen in the shooter and a batshit crazy story and setting? Whats not to love! Mandalore's video on that is also great.

[@jackedup447]

My legs are OK

[@vertigo4236]

you gain brouzouf

[@Saved_Sinner0085]

this

[@audiosurfarchive]

My legs are OK

[@CrniWuk]

Back when game developers looked exactly like how you imagined hackers to look like.

[@murderousmayhem6362]

They're the same kind of people tbh, just chose a different path.

[@eeeertoo2597]

@the hevy lmao what are YOU on about

[@totally_not_a_skeleton-old]

@the hevy ....what?

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

@the hevy whenever I feel like a worthless dumb shit, I'll stumble on a comment like this and realize I'm not so bad.

[@dontpreorder2783]

@@JimJamTheAdmin that is the correct reaction to have

[@EnosShenk]

I was 17 when Quake came out, after playing the shit out of every id game. Seeing the sudden news break that Romero was leaving id was like our generation's version of the Beatles breaking up. And then watching both sides of the split mostly turn to junk was heart breaking. When Daikatana finally released, I was busy working and didn't have time to game. I remember seeing it within weeks dumped into clearance bins, and knowing things had finally reached the bitter conclusion.

[@maxtenu]

"Drachma balls across your face" - Karen, the boatman

[@Kpba32]

I don't quite remeber that scene playing out like that in Percy Jackson

[@adamjones8258]

Not sure if you're memeing, but it's spelt Charon, who is the ferryman of Hades.

[@kidumby7599]

Yeah I'm also not sure if the guy making the ligma-style joke is memeing

[@BusinessZeus]

@@kidumby7599 "Memeing" Should be on my tombstone

[@kingalphawerewolf]

@@BusinessZeus “Died as he lived” “Getting dabbed upon”

[@This_side_of_the_internet]

Gotta admit it, i like a Superfly's character! Can you remember how many of your followers actually cried after your death? He barely knew you, and still cry after your death. I like him.

[@saintrocketIX]

"Okay, so you've seen an Asian girl, in Kyoto." Well, when you say it that way...

[@MistaMaddog247]

True story...my friend pre-order Daikatana and literally waited for years. After playing it, he booted up Doom II and noclipped to the Icon of Sin and shoved a chainsaw at John's severed head screaming "DIE ROMERO DIE!!!!!" Meanwhile I stopped following Id games and played Unreal instead sparing myself the agony....

[@Blaadiblaadiblaa]

Actually, some of the environments and sound effects in this game remind me very much of Unreal. Like, is that a Nali healing fruit plant at 9:57?

[@Minority119]

And now back to playing id games to spare the agony of no more unreal games

[@Danlovar]

Well done.

[@MistaMaddog247]

@@rorychivers8769 I bought it just for the seperate XMP mode, but played the SP before I was able to Download XMP from the college lab (only dial up at home back then). I managed to beat it, amazingly, even with my video card lagging at the very end...LOL!

[@Henners]

You avoided iD games because Ion Storm sucked? ...okay

[@CharlatanWonder]

Fun little story: A family friend of mine in game Dev was boothing at E3 as Romero was showing off Diakatana right next to him. A lot of people passed by his game to see what Romero was up to but in the end he got the last laugh when Daikatana launched.

[@slackerdenile8836]

What game was it?

[@jinkisaragi874]

@@slackerdenile8836 Diablo 2

[@CharlatanWonder]

@@jinkisaragi874 close, but nah it was the first tribes game.

[@trezle4547]

Before I watched this video, I only knew that Daikatana was like vaporware that suddenly disappeared from the history of video games at the end of the century. This is my first time seeing actual results and gameplay footage.

[@arthurbarros5189]

I only ever seen or heard about Daikatana on Civvie's channel.

[@anapia5051]

I unironically listen to this video as a substitute for sleep asmr.

[@doomsversus7778]

Oh good it’s not just me

[@staniskucharski4491]

Same almost every night. Normally asleep before superfly.

[@4-slottedtoaster130]

Same

[@drakep.5857]

@trakina I can't sleep in this area without my buddy mikiko

[@toasted2807]

based

[@SkillIncarnate]

I never understood how this games plot could be both incredibly complex, and utterly devoid of subtance at the same time. More mystifying is how the same company that made this awful game produced Deus Ex, one of the greatest and thought provoking games ever made.

[@justiceforjoggers2897]

Maybe they got all the stupid out with Daikatana

[@SkillIncarnate]

@@justiceforjoggers2897 unrelated but that username is hilarious

[@Nergalsama01]

Warren Spector probably made sure that he and his team kept a healthy distance from all the drama surrounding Daikatana.

[@SkillIncarnate]

@@Nergalsama01 It did have moments of brilliance hidden amongst the mediocrity. It was just too bug ridden for me to play however.

[@Nergalsama01]

@@SkillIncarnate Yeah, that's kind of the tragedy of it, I suppose. To this day, I haven't really played it (except when I rented it from the video store for like a day back in 2000 and didn't really like it), although I own the GOG version. One of these days, I will try to play it all the way through, just to see it all for myself.

[@kikook222]

Ironic, I was just thinking to myself 'I wonder how Civvie is doing' and I see you made a Daikatana video, it's sad to see you're not doing well :*(

[@whizwart1]

3:30 It should be noted Anachronox was a VERY underrated RPG that was very sequel worthy, and then this game killed any chance of that happening.

[@concept5631]

Oof

[@chaserofmountains7457]

“What kind of sick freaks would come up with this.”

[@Too-Be-Decided]

Civvie you're 2,000 subs too early. I ain't complaining tho

[@Ltdarku6280]

Same

[@charlesfollette9692]

They’ll be there in a day

[@zcritten]

I think this just makes me afraid what he has planned for 200k

[@tylerlackey1175]

@@zcritten bear trap sex

[@deth1634]

@@zcritten 200K is daikatana.

[@planescaped]

I can't watch this without my buddy Superfly.

[@Atoyihrs]

24:00 For the first time, I have heard genuine anger in Civvie's voice.

[@SageofSorrow]

46:34 I had this exact same reaction to Claire’s “woah...this is reeeeally creepy” line in the sewers of RE2 Remake after she spent hours navigating dank corridors trying to escape a police station overrun with Zombies and lickers while being chased by a hulking humanoid creature in a trench coat with Jason Vorhees level teleportation and other strange creatures....after all that....these sewers are creepy🤦🏿‍♂️.

[@Mattocon757]

I nearly spat my drink at "mudslide... "My Name is Musilde!" "

[@sanity000-x2r]

Oh my god the credits are so long now, look at all those Patreons he has.

[@brucelombardo]

Sanityeyes as much as I hate the discord he has, I like the fact he’s getting money for this.

[@dimsumboy22]

Bruce Lombardo nah its a chill discord

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

"I'm looking for an Asian girl" Shit man, who isn't.

[@armorhide406]

People who don't have yellow fever...

[@mrmagpie3637]

Amen my brother

[@YukiGibson]

@@armorhide406 You can only be called out on that if you are white

[@CruelestChris]

He's in bloody Japan when he says that!

[@CruelestChris]

@@PedroSardini Wow! Thing Currently In The News Man, thank goodness it only took you 10 months to get on the case!

[@StarDustTF2]

One hour of dissapointing gameplay *hell yeah*

[@StarDustTF2]

Cocaine

[@sharoyveduchi]

The multiplayer and singleplayer is better than quake3 (especially since quake 3 singleplayer is a complete joke). If game is too buggy, just install unofficial v1.3 patch.

[@mkge7206]

But what about the unforgettable legions of muddled fodder enemies in the most laughably cliché locations you could devise? yay gods and columns and the plague and stuff, big katana

[@CourierSiix]

@@sharoyveduchi doubt

[@Dark.Shingo]

Better than me having sex. And longer.

[@shawn576]

It's actually shocking how bad the first levels are. One important lesson of psychology is to start very strong. The first episode of Quake was the best episode, in my opinion. The first episode of Doom was very good. The first episode of Wolfenstein was the best. The first episode of Duke Nukem 3D was the best. This is because the first episode is shareware, so you share it around and get people excited to buy the game. If my first impression is that the game sucks because I'm shooting green projectiles at green enemies next to a green pond, then wtf?

[@creeperhunterD]

@Roy Dabral As if Doom gets better after episode 1

[@christophe5335]

It's funny because it is actually something Romero himself recommanded, put the best levels at the beginning and at the end and put the "meh" ones in-between. He said that in an interview.

[@pilot3605]

@@christophe5335 that's smart actually. I recently replayed Ratchet and Clank 2 and I feel like Insomniac did just that ( not that the middle levels are bad there, just not as cool as the openers and enders)

[@makeitthrough_]

@@christophe5335 The Who used to structure their shows like that around the late '70s and '80s; start off with some well-known live staples, put all the new stuff in the middle and close with the biggest, most popular songs

[@okagron]

It's so weird because most games, even the best ones, start out very strong because the early portions are clearly the ones that had the most work done. It's when you start to get into the middle of the game and specially towards the end that you start seeing cut corners and clearly rushed parts because the game had to be released at some point.

[@blackout295]

"No more video games for a while." Terry Gilliam's Fear and loathing in Las Vegas review when civvie?

[@horacegentleman3296]

I vote Brazil.

[@Fyrmer]

_Mutant Chronicles_

[@ryballs4569]

*Hunter S Thompson's

[@ZacHawkins42]

@@ryballs4569 Gilliam directed it. Not sure wht Civvie would do a movie review, though.

[@TheSuperQuail]

Never played Daikatana (and I'm never going to) but I recognised several of the voice actors, mostly from Deus Ex.

[@dlc435]

JC Miyamoto, lol

[@brosephnoonan223]

What a shame

[@Micke12312]

Yeah tom hall was Simons. Great voice

[@timidhobgoblin207]

This video actually inspired me to try and play it for the first time ever so I could understand the pain of playing it for myself. It was only 69p on Steam so I felt 20 years after its release was the perfect time to dive in...that first green stage in the swamps gave me a migraine that would’ve killed a lesser man. I know it’s a retro game by todays standards but Jesus it’s so badly designed and frustrating to play I can’t even begin to imagine what was going through Romeros head when he oversaw it.

[@SerBallister]

@@timidhobgoblin207 Game development involves a whole lot more than just ironing out the gameplay, it's usually a giant clusterfuck of programming bugs, bad animations, wonky tools, bad looking art/etc. If I remember Daikatana switched engines during development, that is never a good sign.

[@scratchguns]

I can't watch this video without my buddy Superfly.

[@HundredDaysMusic]

I just want to give my endless appreciation for your use of the Pentagon Wars theme during the explanation of Daikatana's development. Class.

[@synchronizedelbow5702]

Just don't try to get inside the mind of John Carmack, Civvie...it's like a recreation of The Lawnmower Man in there.

[@b0gster]

When Beetlejuice honked his junk to Yello's Oh Yeah I lost it so hard that I cried laughing

[@ThAdversary]

The voice actor for Superfly also voiced Brick from Borderlands 2. I knew he sounded familiar

[@ablationer]

Specifically 2 ?

[@thesxex]

@@ablationer no, i assume OP hasn't played the first game

[@darrellgardner4561]

Thank you! Ive been sitting here wondering how I recognized his voice.

[@demizson576]

So 2 is better? I honestly don't know, only ever played the first. Btw, IIRC the 3 male player chars in Borderlands 1 *all* had the *same* voice actor. EDIT: OK, so according to IMDB, the player characters in Borderlands 1 were all voiced by different people... Which is kinda awkward, since I only ever heard the same male voice for Roland, Mordecai and Brick. I'm either somewhat deaf, or the game's sound design was just... not very good?, to the point where it tricked my ears.

[@planescaped]

Sounds like Smuggler from Deus Ex too.

[@AndGoatz04]

John Romero: The man Todd Howard dreams to be.

[@aceofhearts573]

Nah it's Peter Molyneux so he can be a master bs artist like him

[@roninevans6795]

And Randy Pitchford

[@TheZombieCurryKid]

You leave poor Todd alone!

[@Seth-ng5oy]

I highly doubt that lmao

[@LordDeBahs]

@@roninevans6795 no one is worse then randy pitchford

[@ThommyofThenn]

Romero walked that fine line between becoming a Pitchford and being a gamerchad legend. Im glad he chose integrity at the end of the day

[@oz_jones]

Daikatana humbled him. There is a much darker timeline where Daikatana sold like coke in an ad agency and Romero became like Randy

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@oz_jones the Deus Ex irl timeline. (I know real life already has dozens of parallels to DE but I'm using it as a relevant dystopian analogue)

[@recnepsrc]

45:50 "...here, lemme get that for you." Best gag. 10/10

[@chrispysaid]

"It's okay, a ghost opens the door for you. 𝘼 𝙜𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪." Ahhhhhh, you can hear the vitriol. Cathartic.

[@MariktheGunslinger]

The fact that Ion Storm would go on to release _Deus Ex_ is proof that the universe has a sense of humor.

[@friendlytalbot4050]

Can't get over Hiro's voice is so similar to Deus Ex's J.C. Denton.

[@MadIvano]

His voice is augmented.

[@deejaymalta]

Superfly was "Drug Dealer" and Rook in Deus Ex, he sounded real familiar too. Wow and Mishima was Joseph Manderley / Jock / Tracer Tong Lots of voice actors in both Daikatana and Deus Ex

[@BlazingShadowSword]

Hiro, there's a bomb! A bomb!? But I can't leave without my buddy Superfly.

[@smallik81]

Hiro's voice actor (J. Paul Slavens) isn't the same as J.C Denton (Jay Anthony Franke)... Jay did voice Buzzkill though in Daikatana

[@friendlytalbot4050]

@@smallik81 I didn't know that. My hearing must be bad, but they do sound very similar.

[@thilinasandanayake2902]

30:50 "Mikiko, NO!!!!" That's it... that's the game. Also I actually love the completely deliberate, hair-brained but applicable shotgun jump without splash damage though it eats through the shells.

[@drakep.5857]

The shotgun is a decent idea, but man the way it shoots so many times is just stupid

[@thilinasandanayake2902]

@@drakep.5857 @drakep.5857 a shotgun's basic task is to terminate with extreme prejudice at close range using one or both barrels. But Romero being the absolute legendary madman instead, chose this. A belt fed shotgun with a kick to launch you into the troposphere. Romero is trolling us as he always does by making us waste all the ammo for the ol' reliable.

[@ayyyyph2797]

​@@thilinasandanayake2902 Personally there should probably be a happy medium Maybe one can fire it single barrel or fire all or rest of the belt before reloading

[@Leatherbubba]

1:56 The Linkara defense.

[@lightskinnedlarry728]

Linkara the great Linkara

[@theycallmejojo6090]

Great work ethic

[@rexl.6323]

This is Civvie's Mr. Plinkett Phantom Menace review

[@oz_jones]

Oh man, need to rewatch those again at some point.

[@TheAlmightyLoli]

@@oz_jones Hey, what's that over there? Is that the script?

[@Jarumo76]

"Who's f*cking with my medicine ?"

[@MisterDragelof]

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE

[@vengeance5537]

40:30 is the most wonderful scene I ever saw.

[@MrBenMcLean]

I think "You're not superstitious, are you?" might have been intended as ironic and funny. Or maybe I'm reaching and the game isn't self-aware enough for that.

[@giguyjoe]

14:27 Holy shit we found the influence for TF2's Force-a-Nature's air propulsion mechanic.

[@shodan2002]

Ah yes it was a good weapon before it got nerfed

[@terminallygray]

I absolutely love that cutscene "Your trust in your companions loyalty to your cause is misplaced, Hiro" Camera pans to Mikkiko staning around absolutely bored with the countdown clock ticking away. Priceless stuff from Civvie 11. I also enjoyed " We're not mystical warriors. Superfly used to round up torture victums and Mikkiko is about to betray me" My thoughts and prayers to your haunted PC but, What can you do ? I have also played and finished this "game ?" except my version crashed a lot more often than this one did. I didn't know they released it for N64 or gameboy, it goes to show - you learn something new everyday even if it's useless trivia like that.

[@gobokinje9183]

I love how one of the others in containment is a bodypillow lmao Thank you for this, Civie. It brightens my day to see hilarious content like that

[@ShadesMan]

40:27 - OH MY GOD - what's wrong with your faaAAAAaaaace!?!?

[@q1q2q23]

Ah, I see you're a man of Plinkett as well

[@RaSkipper]

I UNDERSTOOD THAT REFERENCE AND I CLAAAAAPPPEEDDD

[@katherynj7263]

NICE FUCKIN' MODEL.

[@beezy5628]

Very cool! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@nibelsnarf4302]

I’m glad superfly lives in the end, he’s a good dude

[@brotmeister9559]

But does that also mean he won't remember being your buddy? :_(

[@ZorotheGallade]

We can't end the game without our buddy Superfly.

[@VhinyDude1993]

53:20 : I feel like Mikiko's AI is programed along the floor for some reasons... She was squeezed up by the elevator, but couln't move foward until you sent the elevator back. To explain what I mean; Imagine that under Mikiko's model, there's a square tile, like a piece of paper. The AI can only slide across the terrain, can jump small ledges and her model will folow it around. Now, slide that piece of paper under the elevator. The model can jump over the small ledge, because it recognize there's one there, but cant proceed because she's technicly "Under the elevator" and couln't move until you sent the elevator back. That might sound stupid because it could just pass through, But lots of early 3D cameras in games, specialy 3rd person games were physical, So why not the AI in that case? it's either that or the AI fails to update the model's location when she's inbetween two objects and get stuck in a programing loop to try to reposition itself. Gota love rushed coding. :B

[@jonbourgoin182]

I honestly couldn’t tell if some of these sound fx were from the actual game or your masterful editing, hilarious either way.

[@brosephnoonan223]

*K-T