LGR - Rise of the Triad - DOS PC Game Review

[@HayTatsuko]

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.

[@JonGee420]

I loved the creativity of the cheat codes. 86me would kill you.

[@Heffsta02]

How about the dudes that pretended to be dead? Fuck those guys.

[@nicholasryan7766]

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 😂

[@HayTatsuko]

@@JonGee420 The humour in ROTT was so over the top, and I was sooo there for it.

[@HayTatsuko]

@@nicholasryan7766 They only fooled me once~

[@Hopper983]

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.

[@miciso666]

duke nukem u shot turkey and it became 2hp instead of 1hp :D

[@deemster4249]

In Ultima Underworld you could heat corn to make popcorn lol

[@krustenhund]

Priest Porrige in the pod nine days explodes

[@kiddhkane]

Advanced porridge physics

[@planescaped]

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.

[@1111Tactical]

"Unmatched Realism" there is a powerup that turns you into an invincible dog.

[@TacticsTechniquesandProcedures]

My dog is fuckin invincible. Show some respect.

[@JaredConnell]

5:44

[@JacksonKillroy]

"letting you luxuriate in the loveliness of their logo-ness" i'm ludicrously in love with your lenghty alliterations

[@getsufuma2597]

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.

[@LGR]

Thank you! Those boxes are carefully chosen :)

[@getsufuma2597]

+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.

[@Colt45hatchback]

any plans to do reviews of the terminator games for dos/pc?

[@marcianoacuerda]

I like this comment as much as the segment referenced in it. Awesome.

[@Matt_H_26]

Ooh, Terminator Rampage. Sweet!

[@InterceptorEntertain]

As the developers of the NEW Rise of the Triad, we wholeheartedly approve of this review. Nice work, LGR!

[@coolbrotherf127]

Oh man did that turn out, interesting. At least we got Big John from it.

[@ScarecrowShoots]

I played this on an old tandy and it was the coolest shooter i never got the full game of

[@MasterSoto]

New Triad > Old Triad. Old Triad sucked.

[@loganwollf8329]

​@@MasterSoto not great option

[@Spezifischable]

Good thing nightdive is now responsible for the remake.

[@SerathDarklands]

Shrooms Mode actually highlights secret push-wall blocks, so it's not a complete loss.

[@SerathDarklands]

@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.

[@daverogers9476]

All these years playing it and I never noticed that

[@ideitbawxproductions1880]

now that's using your 3rd eye

[@CarlMahnke]

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!

[@TheAdatto]

Carl Mahnke Dog the Dragonborn

[@SoulKiller7Eternal]

Also the Excalibat could shoot baseballs.

[@keyspirits95]

Bolt before Bolt even existed!

[@morphman86]

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.

[@KrzysiuNet]

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.

[@JonGee420]

And all the memories clapped.....or did they

[@Mrdest211]

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.

[@sealinski]

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.

[@IgorAntarov]

Is it stopped after that?

[@KimKhan]

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.

[@bitwize]

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.

[@morphman86]

They were first gonna call it "The Hand of Oremor", but thought it would offend Romero before release, so they skipped that idea.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

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.

[@MondySpartan]

@@morphman86 Took until Doom Eternal for a game to finally have something named after John Romero.

[@Skulls-for-Cats]

@@MondySpartan Which is?

[@MondySpartan]

@@Skulls-for-Cats King Ormero. The first King of the Argenta.

[@justinbellotti7838]

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.

[@DigiFootageFX]

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.

[@LGR]

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.

[@LGR]

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!

[@SeekerLancer]

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.

[@daspedal2730]

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.

[@MichaelOFarrell]

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.

[@LGR]

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.

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!

[@sealinski]

Ben Goza MEDIAPLAY! I loved that place

[@CorsairSoul]

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.

[@SimoExMachina2]

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]

Isn't it just great that the majority of the game's arsenal are a bunch of rocket launchers of various flavors?

[@SimoExMachina2]

@@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.

[@ImSquiggs]

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.

[@Thequillss]

Squiggs 【Glitches - ROM Hacks - Speedruns】 Green Jellÿ - three little pigs maybe? 😏

[@lonememe]

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.

[@MaxEccli]

I've spent all my childhood playing this game! Thanks for the review! Brings back so many memories!!

[@flyabusa]

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!

[@dudeman793]

This was the first FPS game I ever played. We had a shareware CD with this on it and it was the only thing I had for computer games until I was probably 10. This unlocked some memories

[@rexbk09]

Flew under my radar for years! Maybe not the name, but the game-play. Thanks for reviewing on your channel....

[@fresita_jugosa]

"It's more entertaining for me than Wolfenstein 3D ever was, but it's still not as continuously playable as me as something like Doom." That's IS the better ever possible description of this game. You absolutely hit the nail when reviewing these old games. I love so much videos like this.

[@iaincowell9747]

Personally I prefer ROTT to Doom.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

I actually find it a very fresh experience for someone who plays a lot of Doom otherwise, because it's so very different. The whole FPS with all the arcade shmup trappings is kind of a rare animal.

[@LGR]

Thank you very much, 'tis an honor! Highly anticipating the new game, looks ludicrously good so far.

[@reignick1133]

glas to see ya back reviewing great old games, perfect timing too on RoTT. Keep up the awesome work, we missed ya!

[@ryanamberger]

You have the greatest commentary voice I've ever heard man. Love your videos.

[@yanholing]

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!

[@DanielleWhite]

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.

[@P5ychoFox]

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 :)

[@LGR]

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.

[@Jus7Lucky]

This game was, and still is, one of my favorite "Old School" PC shooters, I also love Wolfenstien 3D, and Blake Stone.

[@bloodrunsclear]

Ian Paul Freeley...I miss the 90s.

[@badobson]

Wow. Thank you. I’ve not thought about this game in such a long time. Great video.

[@SiliconClassics]

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!

[@oliverakadjrunnerspoint5742]

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

[@sh4d0wleader]

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.

[@samblakeley6924]

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!

[@IntrinsicPalomides]

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!

[@LGR]

I'm not sure if I'll do a full review of it, but I'll certainly do an LGR Plays.

[@sharkheadism]

Best part of this game was roasting people alive, then the xylophone noise plays as their charred skeleton collapses into a heap

[@alanp3334]

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.

[@Dawwwg]

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 :)

[@lookoutforchris]

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.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

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.

[@archubiclub5736]

Clint, I love this casual reviews about not-so-great games. I'd love to see more of this! Greetings :)

[@BenieTheDragon]

Ahh... my childhood. I remember getting this game at a local computer expo, where GPUs were called VGA Video Cards.

[@ars731]

fun fact, in the Death Row level of Duke Nukem 3d, the hanging monk in the chapel is from this game

[@ryandevan2793]

Hmm, that's one doomed space marine! :)

[@KyleRuggles]

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!

[@BrolyTheLSS2]

I played this all the time as a kid, glad you reviewed it. Love your vids LGR.

[@singleproppilot]

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.

[@sk8erbiscut]

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!!!!

[@monkeyskatan]

Played this at a friend's place around 1996. Never played it again. Forgot the name. Finally figured it out 25 years later. Thanx

[@VanguardX]

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.

[@GreatFox42]

"Goin' Down the Fast Way" is still one of my favorite level themes ever.

[@runningeagle1826]

Hello there

[@HayTatsuko]

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!

[@GreatFox42]

@@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.

[@Maccat]

Awesome review mate! This was loaded onto the class room PC when I was in year 2!

[@LGR]

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.

[@yeetusdeletus2023]

I walked by a bin (trash can) at school and noticed a cd-rom of the shareware version of this game. Being a kid in the early 90s, I grabbed it. Behold, it was one of the coolest games my friends and I had played. Good times.

[@tauntprogressiv36]

Remember the eyeball and the sound you made in God mode. Fantastic game back then.

[@garyleigh]

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.

[@diamondsmasher]

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.....

[@brianbarker2551]

And there was Cinqo de Mayo mode. You changed the date on the PC to May 5, and they wore fancy sombreros and played mariachi music.

[@soul2take]

@LGR - The PC game "Heretic" also comes to mind during the 1990's (it was more of an challenge to complete than any Doom game for me back then).

[@thatssoderek2188]

I played this game so much as a child. the sound effects are seared into my brain.

[@bonesbrigader]

I remember playing this game on my aunts computer in 96 or 97 i think it was. I also remember her yelling at me many times "ED, GET IN THE SHOWER" bless you aunt phyl

[@igot2muchfreetime]

We had A ROT tournament my junior year of high school. This really brings back memories. The multiplayer mode was truly great.

[@mikosoft]

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.

[@micah9639]

What I find kind of cool and interesting about games like this is they came on multiple floppy discs because the floppy discs couldn't hold as much data as a CD-ROM so that is why CD-ROMs replaced them and the same thing started to happen around the time Steam started because games like Age of Empires 3 and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic had a lot of data so the game came on multiple CD-ROMs. CD-ROMs fell into the same problem they originally were used to solve

[@DaVince21]

Actually, there was another transition from CD-ROMs to DVD-ROMs and then at some point multiple DVD-ROMs started being required. But that transition lasted shorter because Steam did arrive around that time and slowly started growing.

[@soyreeng8864]

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

[@KyleRuggles]

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!

[@datasilouk1995]

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.

[@LGR]

Gotta love a game that turns a known bug into a silly easter egg :D

[@erobwen]

In the early doom multiplayer mode there was only 4 players allowed. ROT allowed 12, and I still remember some awsome crazy ROT multi player session at our schoool back in the days.

[@LGR]

Because the rights to Blood are tied up in legal crap with Atari.

[@corkbulb2895]

Wow. Props for mentioning Tekwar! That game is SO obscure I couldn't even find a strategy guide or walkthrough *anywhere*. Some dude did a 100% run on KZbin. I had to use that, or would have been stuck forever! Fun fact: comm-bat had AI controlled bots, so you could play the modes single player or fill up levels with opponents with just a few friends. AI bots didn't become popular in multiplayer games until the early 2000s. Quake 3 not withstanding.

[@idaten1]

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!

[@therealkzero]

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.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

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?

[@sealinski]

Crazy they had VR sets back then. How did they read your body?

[@IgorAntarov]

@@sealinski Google for VFX 1. It was a dream to own one.

[@ace942]

I remember playing this back in the day. It was a lot of fun. Hoping that the remake is made at some point for the Mac.

[@robertwarf3316]

Man I remember wanting to play this game for years when we were kids. Parents never bought it since we had doom, wolfenstein, and an ass load of games anyways. But then it was sold in a compilation pack with two other games, iirc. So dad broke down and bought it

[@KyleHarrisonRedacted]

When i was a young kid, a city named Kelowna had one of the first few public "VR" cafe's, and my grandmother handed me a voucher for a free visit. My mother and father came with me to the cafe to use it. The game in question? Rise of the Triad. I'd never played it before, I didn't own a proper computer prior to that and never played an Action FPS like Wolf3D or Duke Nukem. The game absolutely changed me from a timid no-violence-is-good-violence entertainment loving kid, to a gore hound. BUT NOT BEFORE FIRST traumatising the fuck out of me. The Hand of God and the Firewall launcher especially completely blew my young mind, to the point of feeling genuinely terrible both in my naieve conscience but also my stomache. The very last thing I saw before ripping the set off my head, was an eyeball flying towards me, and then my dad took over. HERE'S THE THING. I couldn't, for the LONGEST time, remember what game it was. Years of searching uncovered RotT for sure, but no gameplay clips I could find would match at all the level of violence and carnage I saw in the VR cafe. I even played an hour or so of it myself not too long ago, and proceeded to write it off as "this.. really doesn't seem to be it". This video, confirmed everything. On a whim. 8:46 especially, completely shattered my search by confirming that what I saw wasn't my young mind making it up. Thank you LGR, thank you so much.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

Another cool thing they did with this game is that if you played this game on holidays like Christmas or Easter, the game became holiday themed. It was the first game I ever encountered that did this and it surprised the hell out of me back then. I remember on, I think Christmas, begging my friend who had the game to take time away from the family crap that was going on to start the game and play it.

[@RotorRian]

+BlackburnBigdragon I was wondering if anyone else noticed. I think it had one on independence day as well from memory

[@timothystevenhoward]

I love that RoTT box! Ludicrous! The COMMBAT mode was a lot of fun. This game is a masterpiece.

[@LGR]

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 :)

[@Bigoto]

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.

[@livetodiebythesword]

I played this game just after it came out multiplayer over 56.6k modem with my friend, the taunting system F1-F12 was amazing by itself. Behind Ya!

[@txcforever]

Rise of the Triad: The hunt begins was one of my first PC games and still holds a special place in my heart. As LGR, I still like playing it from time to time but some of the later stages are just too convoluted to enjoy. Can't wait for the new one though.

[@TheNintendhoe]

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...

[@DuckReconMajor]

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.

[@n0rbert79]

Addition to Dog mode: If you keep fire pressed down long enough, your character howls so loud, that it blows away almost everyone around, also doing damage to things in the suurounding as well, like to coins. So avoid using that if you are just aiming to a "25" coin in the near. One more thing: Heretic and Hexen had the optional animal mode: In Heretic you could turn enemies into a chicken, or you could be turn to one; in Hexen it was the same, but with a pig.

[@ChexGuy]

The thing about the split missile is that it only splits when you release the fire button. Holding it down keeps it as a single missile.

[@TeaAndFloppyDisks]

As an on-and-off Wolf3d player, I'm really intrigued by Rise of the Triad, so will definitely check it out. Awesome review, as always! Even your older videos are still well documented and written and always enjoyable to watch. And rewatch. Ahem! That dog mode sounds pretty cool! But seriously now... is the priest porridge made with real priests? And even more seriously... the last character's initials are pretty much I P Freeley. You're right, the game really doesn't take itself too seriously and I think that's pretty cool!

[@1ex1uger-prank-calls]

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.

[@thisismyname5657]

It's crazy the amount of customization and content these old 90s FPS games had.

[@DirtyKameSennin]

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.

[@LGR]

Balls yeah, man. Time to give a warm welcome to the next-gen Excalibat in all its bump-mapped, gib-inducing glory.

[@maxlefou]

2:50 you did the recording of this part a 4th july, did you. :p

[@UserNameMandatory]

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

[@Slammy555]

RotT wasn't much of a single player game but was one of the best death match games at the time. The deaths were very cinematic with eyeballs sliding down the screen when you were hit by rockets, my favorite was the weapon that incinerated your opponent to a skeleton that would fall into a pile of bones. It also had a taunt button that would lose you friends, it would throw out different taunts but the only one I remember was "you suck" which created a rule with a friend that I wasn't allowed to use the taunt button.

[@ANJIN79SAMMA]

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!!!!!!!

[@AdamGothCroc]

Hey LGR. When using the split missile launcher, Hold the fire button it shoots a straight forward rocket like a bazooka when you let go of the fire button? it splits the missile. making it unique and awesome to use if you split a missile just right for a double kill :3

[@LGR]

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 ;)