The Art of "Schmoovement" in Video Games

[@anders4014]

insane how many youtubers with high quality focused content will never get their time in the limelight, respect for shouting him out and love the respect for movement mechanics

[@scottydog771]

Yet in the first hour A has got double the views of the original video

[@dude10067]

Was talking about this with a friend and I referred to this era of content creation as "minimum wage KZbin"

[@Lawh]

It happens when no skill but only replication is involved. It's the same with modern music. I listened to some radio from around the world and a lot of random foreign music could be instant hits. It's an out of control inflation of useless stuff.

[@Jimmyvdpost]

Would have respect it if he didn't blatently stole the video and 'react' to it..

[@4purs]

@@dude10067 meh, people say that every year of KZbin, but then more random kids / KZbinrs blow up every year. You just have to be different, not just good production/quality. Hell look at big A he only started like a year ago lol. Even ludwig only blew up in the last two years

[@-opie-]

The emphatic announcement of each game on screen was just the touch it took to make me think he was human. Chat gpt is rubbing off on you Big A

[@goldenlazo4872]

I love tf2

[@-opie-]

@@goldenlazo4872 and tf2 loves you

[@epicgamer8738]

In the words of the famous Tyler Blevins, I'm not seeing enough movement!

[@the_sad_wallet1553]

You mean Tyler “Ninja” “Fortnite” Blevins

[@RosiePose-e]

No no he means Tyler “the blev” Blevins

[@cpmc5400]

I am in the middle of carrying a league of legends game about to close it out, and my bra-less wife brings me a sandwich (not asked for) with chips as I get a double kill bot lane. So how is your day going?

[@angelvu]

RESPRiT went from 3k subs to 17k subs and Schmovement now has 65k views. Truly an Atrioc move

[@tylorserpico2285]

Already watched this twice, definitely a classic

[@Kage-jk4pj]

Crazy that the original vid only has 8k views. Absolutely goated.

[@lotus4147]

You’re so effortlessly cool

[@SevenHunnid]

I’m just a regular hood dude that does food reviews while I’m baked on my KZbin channel g

[@baldability]

Sorry man, but I just finished my fourth watch, guess I’m just a bigger fan

[@aaaawubadugh8054]

@@baldabilityDon’t mean to one up you here but I’ve liked and subscribed as well as turned on notifications

[@RESPRiT]

mayrio

[@trixdahalt]

After years of tedious research in the Himalayan Mountains, I realised you need movement to move.

[@thebracc1835]

Big A, I’ve been subbed for a min and I honestly rarely watch ur vids, even though this was a react andy video to me it really hit home for me, I miss the fun of video games, the connections with my friends, the sense of accomplishment, I miss it all, the video this dude made really made me think about a lot of things in my personal life and in this gaming sphere, enjoy your time, make memories and have fun, because when that joy slips ways it hurts to miss it.

[@thebracc1835]

Lmao I definitely had too much to drink last night

[@dcap1998]

Quit drinking brother you’ll feel better

[@thebracc1835]

@@dcap1998 I drink on occasion, just definitely had a lil more than normal the other night lol, appreciate it tho homie

[@phoonfrags8765]

@@thebracc1835 the feeling of slide hopping through a Titanfall map at Mach 2 will never not be fun

[@thebracc1835]

@@phoonfrags8765 facts, Team Fortress 2, Titan Fall 2 and Apex will always have my favorite movement of any game

[@jrdnanitsua]

This is why I love racing games the Linear movement of cars and the different environments they can be placed in while having me control it its exhilarating to me and for some reason driving in a video game will always be my favourite way to play might be a little different and outside of the idea of movement but to me it feels in the same vain, Yes Atrioc.

[@DawnSRC]

Love to see the shoutout to such a talented small KZbinr. It's hard to get a real shot on this platform these days but you gotta just keep chuggin along.

[@akeanefellow]

small content creators GIGACHAD

[@annoy4nce648]

Ori and the will of the wisps is literally one of the shmooviest games ever, and it doesn't get the attention it deserves for it. Bash is a goddamned masterpiece of a movement ability.

[@annoy4nce648]

@@god_of_icecream I wish I could report you for stupidity

[@TSCSabre]

will of the wisps is my favorite platformer of all time and it's not close, it feels so amazing just move around in

[@annoy4nce648]

@@TSCSabre Bro, I know! I think the part where you really feel how powerful your movement has become the most is immediately after the extremely tragic event that I will not describe because I don't want to spoil it for people reading. But once you get to that part, you leave it and just start flying, and it feels so good to move like you do.

[@hundvd_7]

For real. Bash is in the running for top 10 game mechanics of all time on its own, but everything else introduced in the Will of the Wisps makes the whole movement system stand out so much

[@SnowyRNG]

Didn't play much ori 2 but used to speed run ori 1 and I could not agree more. Ori is one of the most satisfying games to speedrun and it is almost entirely due to the fact that bash is probably the best movement mechanic in gaming.

[@cooperberry7265]

Movement is also very important in Atrioc’s hairline

[@Purriah]

His hairline is pretty good at movement. Asmongold’s hairline be doing BLJs though.

[@e.d.5766]

Overwatch feels like a weird example of bad movement in video games since pretty much every character has a unique movement ability. Some of them are pretty simplistic and don't require much thought or experience, but Lucio, Doomfist, Junkrat, Winston and Pharah - who's movement goes far beyond pressing shift, including performing actual rocket jumps - all have compelling and rewarding movement systems. Doomfist was a later edition, but I remember having a lot of fun messing about with the physics of his Rocket Punch, figuring out which angled walls you can punch diagonally up, which car you need to hit to fly up to different points of the map, when you need to cancel it to travel as far as possible. Movement is really important in Overwatch, it feels strange to reduce it to one ability of one character, especially when all of that character's abilities can be used for movement.

[@albingrahn5576]

exactly. also ironically enough, pharah can rocket jump on top of all of her movement abilities, making her kit much more complex than tf2 soldier when it comes to movement.

[@CoolHandLuke196]

This is what happens when any random person can make a video on anything and they don't think things through

[@litapd311]

i stopped watching the original video because of this. it felt like he wasn't really making a point, or at least a good one because the entire premise of his argument was flawed. why watch a video about movement from a guy who doesn't even know that pharah can use her other abilities for movement?

[@gabrielpasqualini8413]

Out of your list the only one that could actually be used as an example is Lucio,Pharah's rocket jump is nothing special to achieve lol

[@Pheatan]

@@gabrielpasqualini8413 an actual rocket jump from tf2 isnt hard to achieve either. It’s about how you can utilise the tools to make movement faster and fluid. I haven’t played overwatch in years or particularly care about it but to say that it doesn’t have complexity in its movement is reductive and just wrong.

[@fewtz9446]

that's crazy that the cold opening of that video is just totally wrong lmao , Pharah can totally rocket jump and is a core part of her techs

[@frigginmanatees8616]

"shmovement" needs to be a genre or game element that you can search for, cause all I really want is sandboxy self-expression in games like that.

[@LineGraff]

Amazing, I’ve already watched this 1,500 times, definitely a classic

[@Rocknoob49]

Nothing will ever feel as incredible as capturing the enemy flag in Titanfall 2 within 10 seconds of the round on Angel City. Fuck yeah.

[@derp777_]

“wow i love super meat boy” - brandon “i will never play celeste” ewing

[@marinenukem]

As a Lucio main, I got the schmovement

[@jimmyneutron4074]

watched this 50 times already, instant classic.

[@Inhereflackin]

After the few digs at overwatch and how limited most of the movement is, he finally shows Lucio wall running the edge of the map having a blast. Players will always find a way to schmoove

[@bfc9467]

Ow devs allow for plenty of shmoovement. Soldier can rocket jump and then sprint mid air to reach strange places. Bastion cam throw a grenade at his feet then time a jump input to be sent flying. Wrecking ball is a wrecking ball with the insanely satisfying spiderman-esque grapple mechanic. To have that in an fps is crazy. Ow is built on shmoovement and thats a very conscious decision. To say otherwise because one specific character did not copy one specific tech from another game is honestly stupid if we were looking it it objectively. Although I know the video is meant as a joke and should not be taken seriously which is fine of course. But people defending the "overwatch bad movement take" as if it has any merit are wrong.

[@cyrus4285]

@@bfc9467 I have to agree that Ow does have some movement (soldier/bastion jump and lucio being pretty fire). But, in terms of "built on shmoovement" and "looking at it objectively" the engine that Ow runs on is more strict than almost all of the games listed in the video. If there have been some new developments in Ow movement tech regarding the engine feel free to correct me, but a lot of the shmoovement that is talked about in this video are universal concepts that the engine applies to every situation or character in the game (source engine air strafe, source engine momentum conservation, melee wave dashing), not character specific techniques that make a character move/can be slightly exploited. This isn't to say that ow doesn't have movement, just that the engine is specifically built to limit the player in certain regards.

[@XBeamChannel]

nah something like ball or doom or a lot of the other characters are awesome like i kept playing ow because the movement is so fun @@cyrus4285

[@imnphil]

The creator has optional subtitles that give context to every word and clip in the video!

[@LunaMapping_KR]

"Try it and suck, and keep sucking until one day you realize that something that used to feel hard feels kind of seamless" 😭😭

[@MrDonckers]

You can rocket jump with pharah in overwatch.. on top of jet boosting… making it more movement. 😬

[@KVWI]

I beg of you, play tf2 and then try to tell me again that pharah has "more movement" than the soldier

[@awaspow]

Lucio movement is unmatched I LOVE LUCIO SCHMOVEMENT

[@yuugael4010]

I think one of the best movement in game is warframe you can do so much especially with the added abilities. You already can parkour through any mission then you have abilities like Volt who can increase speed, or slow your movement for stealth, because at the end of the day you are ninja in space

[@jckpth]

Fun fact this youtuber is in the yoyo and melee community!! He made a great vid on the 2019 world yoyo contest and also made a great vid on aMSa! Great content.

[@realityDUBSTEP]

5:25 nah as a falco main hes def right

[@zakaryrichmond396]

Bros saw an ability that boosts her using jetpack instead of shooting a rocket at the ground ( which you can still fucking do literally as that Character) and started crying

[@monkeebunz8580]

Always erks me when they don't talk about quake engine... 1996, then 2 years later you get "goldscr" the preaccessory to source aka half life. Quake and half life were the first for movement 3D, because it's one of the first. Quake also was one of, if not the first game with rocket jumping. Personally if you went my big news from a movement expert from gaming, wait for a game/mod called "momentum". In my opinion, If they don't mess it up, momentum should be the best "movements" base game every made. That's what it's being developed for, to teach every movement tech in every game and bring into one.

[@king0vdarkness]

Man this community is lit, we got him from 3k subs to over 9k!

[@bakublader1999]

4:21 atrioc really thinking that having some of the most vanilla opinions is pandering

[@GregenOfficial]

Reminder to open the OG video in another tab on play while you watch this!

[@Wicked_Toast]

he´s completely focusing on the wrong character in overwatch though, lucio has an insanely fun schmoovement.

[@z-powered-nathan]

Classic Big A title change (with a double space)

[@BarginsGalore]

the idea of realizing a video is designed for you specifically is so funny to me

[@Big_Country_67]

9 minutes of Atrioc becoming a gnome

[@ley.470]

this is why react content is so great when one right. i love video essays, and half the channels i watch currently i would've never heard about if it weren't for these kinds of react streams/videos.

[@cratchettedw]

Every story he tells about him and his wife makes me wonder how he’s married at all

[@EDoyl]

lmoa when he noticed that the entire video was made for him specifically. F it, that's marketing mondays: if a streamer spotlights small KZbin creators, make a video in your style that's exactly catering to them so they'll pick it, watch the whole thing, and like it guaranteed. EZ Promo, EZ Impressions, well played and great work RESPRiT. It's a good dang video.

[@trees8204]

Already watched this zero times this is a instant classic

[@DemonDivineX]

Insane that a tribes clip was used and someone recognized it. Fucking loved tribes

[@SuperMustache555]

Thanks for shouting him out, Big A, I found my new favorite upcoming KZbinr

[@LumpoMcBlumbo]

Mario Odyssey is my favorite game ever and its simply because i can run through New Donk City jumping around and have as much fun as the first time I played

[@youngrootv]

Movement is why Titanfall 2 will always be the best shooter that I’ve ever played and the best mechanical shooter ever made imo. There’s nothing like Titanfall 2, shame that CoD overshadowed it when it came out back in the day.

[@charredolive]

8:17 TOO REAL

[@Kayvix]

Much better title “schmoovement” for the win

[@hexcodeff6624]

I love ROARKS AOT game movement. it just feels so amazing to swing around in there

[@tksnail6837]

Already watched this 10^80 times, definitely a classic

[@sillyyup4425]

Great video, wish Defrag was brought up. The peak movement game that has been forgotten in time😭

[@dahdumbguy]

I love how the video cuts around the mentions of celeste LMAO

[@fralo1031]

Just wanted to share I had this experience in pole vaulting, from seemingly impossible to effortlessly satisfying

[@andybetz2922]

Learning snow dram for the first time or learning how to bomb launch in BoTW were so rewarding when I finally got it

[@StillTheGoat]

Hey atrioc I was just wondering if you will continue reviewing huge moments in specific esports with punch? That counter strike video was really funny. Thanks!

[@Rambonez]

I like how they brought it back to OW with the last clip

[@matteoscorsonelli892]

I’m surprised that even though they mentioned TF2 they didn’t touch on half life and portal which are arguably the pinnacle of movement and physics at least in speedrunning

[@schwinn8196]

So glad he at least ended it with an OW clip of some Lucio Schmoovement

[@jehriko7525]

Atrioc you make amazing content like It's both entertaining and educational about real world relevant topics while also touching on more niche stuff like in this video about videogame movement, which I found pretty interesting. The main thing is I never think I wasted my time when I've seen you video cause i've learned something new, so keep up the good work!

[@Quidifyy]

bro waited till the end of the video to go "oh yeah, Overwatch also has a pretty cool movement mechanic as well."

[@nathanielheron970]

Classic Big A move(ment)

[@Bon__Gripper]

I am such a turbo nerd about tf2 movement and source movement in general, this makes me happy

[@noThankyou-g5c]

i just want u to know, changing “movement” to “schmoovement” is what finally got me to click the video

[@jackdren9974]

I hate that the video didn't have a specific section for Titanfall 2, the GOAT of all movement games.

[@GapedCeiling]

Conc jumping in the OG team fortress classic is 10x the skill ceiling that rocket jumping was

[@Firestabber]

YO! Rocket jumping in TF2 is my JAM! Love to see Atrioc get to witness the raw schmovement from jumping :D

[@abooz_5713]

As i have watched the video it is a certified hood classic

[@GarxSparx]

Atrioc my beloved

[@Levinswords]

i hard agree w most of this video but Pharah would absolutely rocket jump and used it w concussive a lot to then combo into jump jet for very big height, don’t know if it remained a thing people did but at launch it was everywhere for burst movement out

[@Solid_Fuel]

Thanks for the hillarius edit Eric

[@block3d881]

The Importance of movement is even more prevalent in Demolish & Build 3 Excavator Playground! You should play some and see if this video changed your view on it!

[@telkaivokalma]

I cant believe I watched a video about movement in video games and the word "warframe" wasn't brought up once.

[@lukaschin1038]

You know it's really good when the video's 9 minutes long and the react is 9 minutes long

[@Vex319]

Movement in games really is so underrated the best I’ve ever been at games was when I was comfortable, confident, and conditioned.

[@typoko]

As an TFC player, I find it funny how Overwatch was the dumbed down version of TF2 when TF2 was the dumbed down version of TFC.

[@happytoberu]

I completely agree, been working on making better and better content and am getting less views on long format videos than EVER before. Crazy how much more difficult KZbin has become in terms of competition and how much you need to do to break out… but also the amount you earn for HOURS of work is cents (for most creators) which doesn’t make sense for anyone - especially in today’s economy

[@Charlie-hv3dh]

The guy even captioned his own video. insane.

[@vybez3078]

watched 78629168 times, definitely a certified hood classic

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

Can't wait for a zoomer to use his "youtuber serious mode documentary" voice and tell me how important FOMO is to my vape vibe levels.

[@Hoobastank13]

Hate to argue in defense of Overwatch but Pharahs Shift is to prevent utilizing all the fuel on takeoff. She still has rocket hopping at the cost of taking damage.

[@orinblank2056]

Damn I thought his name looked Emile and realized I'm subscribed. He did a really awesome video about a yoyoer that I really like that was super detailed and well-made. I reforms the video, because it's a really good look into an awesome hobby

[@HawaiianHercules]

Chat loves celeste so much ,im suprised Atrioc wont play it on stream

[@tal5404]

so glad i watched that vid before him, i still love tf2 so it pops on the reccomends still

[@LimabeanStudios]

Assuming this was a self promotion, can't even be mad cuz he delivered.

[@jupiin9633]

already watched this six hundred and eighty times. Absolute classic.

[@porkypine602]

Kinda sad Spider-Man ps4 wasn’t mentioned. There would be times I would just swing around not doing anything just because how free it was

[@Taylor-bw4zg]

5:36 I actually get what he's saying there haha

[@ten_cents]

this guy's content immediately reminded me of bash (cod ytber) who is currently sitting at 150k subs, despite only having 7 vids and starting a year ago. In making videos, quality > quantity anytime.

[@flamehazardaoz3648]

Pharah as a counter example is a bit silly as while jump jet is one of her abilities her movement is very in depth and has a very high skill cap cause of her e knocking you back and the fact you can actually rocket jump with her rockets and fuel management.

[@TheJan]

someone reply me what that platform is that atrioc is using when selecting this vid in the first seconds of the vid ?

[@leorainard2731]

what is that game at 5:38 he shows after melee? Looks like a 2D melee clone or something

[@Death13Horseman]

I'm probably one of the few idiots who still plays Assassin's Creed Unity just for the movement. It's janky at times, it doesn't always respond to my controls or what i want to do, but when it works, the feeling you get when you do a successful parkour run is just pure adrenaline rush.

[@Uri6060]

Right there is why I wish css was still played competitively. I'm too young to remember the days people played it comp, and I have mainly played CSGO. But css is just so smooth, where honestly CSGO feels as if it's getting more and more clunky for balance sake.

[@Mirtual]

already watched this one, what a classic

[@luisinallcaps5100]

Melee is the gold standard “when it comes to 2D platformers” notice how he didn’t say fighting games

[@josephspurgis7782]

I only have a couple of bandage world levels to complete in super meat boi

[@jackthompson336]

thanks atrioc i no longer have depression

[@sethobester9331]

Rocket league is a great example, I wouldn’t call it shmovement but they gave you a jump, flip and boost and there are still new insane tricks being found

[@shiftypz5558]

Just waiting for the day somebody comes out with a game with schmovement like gunz comes out. Such a goated game for its time as a movement fps

[@hurka.design]

@InternetPitstop is another example of underappreciated KZbin gold.

[@StaneDaynus]

The funny thing is the entirety of Mario 64 is the same file size as 2 seconds of video talking about it As fast as you record yourself saying “Mario 64”, you’ve exceeded it 😅