Way of the Warrior - A 3DO Review

[@ianhowe338]

I got a Panasonic 3DO for Christmas 1993. I somehow convinced my parents that my Sega CD, from the previous Christmas, as well as my Turbo Express, Genesis, GameBoy, and NES were basically obsolete. I opened my 3DO on Christmas Eve, which was how we did presents. It meant that my brother and I could stay up late playing and no one had to worry about waking up early Christmas morning. Anyway, the experience was underwhelming. A month later I asked my Mom if it could be returned. The only decent game I can remember liking was Road Rash. For some reason Babbage’s at the mall took the console and games back and gave us a full refund. Part of me wishes I’d hung onto it, as it’s one of the only retro consoles I don’t have in my collection besides the Neo Geo AES and Phillips CD-I. But as a kid I felt guilty letting my parents waste so much money on something I wasn’t really getting a lot of enjoyment out of.

[@drunkensailor112]

Great story. I think it was Christmas 94 though if you returned it within a month and played road rash, as that game was released later in 94

[@mukiex4413]

At seven hundred goddamn dollars (IIRC) only to be thoroughly bodied in a couple years by Playstation/Saturn, you honestly did the right thing. Only sadness point is that emulation really isn't there for 3DO yet, let alone an FPGA solution.

[@ricardorodriguez-mi2zv]

My friend.....you are a one of a kind human, what you did is admirable, to think about how much money your parents used (which was a waste) and then part ways with the system is admirable

[@Sly2Cooper]

Great childhood you had! I had 3DO in 1995 (trade it for my SNES without regrets) and it had a good library back then. Road Rash, NFS, Killing Time, Doom, Daedalus Encounter, Lost Eden, Po'ed, Gex, D, Starblade Alpha, Captain Quazar, Horde, Mega Race, Alone in the Dark. It was fun times when 3D ruled but developers didn't know what to do with it.

[@humphreybogart6663]

Great story. The facts are that competition was coming strong. Sad that Eternal Champions destroyed this terrible fighting game. In the end, 3DO got left in the dust not only because of the Playstation but the fact that there was no arsenal of great original developers which at the least comes from experience in the gaming industry. EA sports money wasn't gling to be enough.

[@djvoid1]

Looks like Mortal Kombat, moves like Pit Fighter

[@SegaLordX]

Well said.

[@AdamIsUrqed]

Spot on. I'm glad one of my mates focused on non Nintendo, Atari,and Sega systems. Got to experience 3D0, Neo Geo, and Turbografix through him. My parents were tapped enough feeding my SEGA addiction and everyone else was all Nintendo. This is the only game all of us were excited for, and it was a total skunk fest. His parents could have just gotten him La Sexorcisto and he would have been happier.

[@charlieg6913]

😂 That's so true lol!

[@elgatofelix8917]

MK is infinitely better than this joke of a game

[@adlorin]

Pit Fighter doesn’t deserve such shame.

[@timbrooks6538]

My friend had a 3DO growing up and we played Way of the Warrior quite a bit. We did find the game fun and over looked many of its flaws. We felt that the developers really tried to put as many of their ideas as possible in it. I don’t think it was that bad considering it was Naughty Dog’s first game. I actually own a copy today.

[@TheMalMeninga]

It wasn't their first game, I played Rings of Power back in the early 90s that was one of theirs too. That was the one with the secret joypad code to make their logo look...a bit lewd lol

[@kevincollins8620]

Wild ive played MANY games and my good friend then had a 3D0... never played this one.

[@DoubleD19788]

same.

[@kidgrebo1]

I knew no one that owned a 3do or a neo geo in the 90's. I was one of the few that had a Turbo Grafx-16 and CD player

[@kevincollins8620]

@@kidgrebo1 I had a neo geo. No turbo grafix though. Wanted one. For a brief moment.

[@J45yu456]

Your tenacity to provide great content is astounding! Thanks you SLX

[@asteelydanfan]

Adding my thanks too. Thanks SLX, you’re a gem critic and historian.

[@JamezMorrizProjectz]

I remember seeing this is magazines and being envious of 3DO owners. I finally picked one up in my late 20s at a vintage game store back in 2006 (when game collecting was affordable) and a week later my sister picked me up a copy of this for my birthday. We sat down to play it and after about 20 minutes we both looked at each other like “we waited 15 years…15 years for THIS. Today It sits complete in its box never to be played again.

[@meanmole3212]

Marketing is hell of a drug

[@slenderxxman5243]

Me, when I cant mash random buttons and make stuff happen on screen

[@G.G.___162]

I noticed in the magazine screenshot that the Jaguar version of Doom was supposed to eventually have online multiplayer; never knew that! After looking it up, it seems that at least 1000 modems were produced for the Jaguar, but never released. I'm surprised I didn't know any of this before Would be a cool topic of discussion, perhaps in a "let's save the Jaguar" episode..!?

[@Dimensiom]

Mortal Kombat's digitized characters had digital retouches to keep them from looking as blocky and pixelated as a typical low-resolution digitized image. This also helped keep the various frames of animation from sharply contrasting, again something that can happen when using different digitized scans of the same object due to subtle variances in lighting. Almost no other game developer who tried to follow the "digitized sprites" craze used that level of care, which is why Mortal Kombat has a look that no other game pulled off.

[@michael-zg5fq]

I remember wanting a 3DO just for SSF2x but glad I waited a few years and got it for the Sega Saturn

[@UnBuenJugador]

I recommend you seek Shadow - War of Succesion. Another must-have gem for the console

[@SegaLordX]

Funny you should mention it, it's on my to do list, as well.

[@Killbomb]

I haven't had the misfortune of playing it but by most accounts, Shadow is much worse than Way of the Warrior.

[@chrislesauvage1755]

It’s by far the worst fighting game on the platform. You will pray for way of the warrior in comparison.

[@TheVoiceofTheProphetElizer]

It really does not seem that 1994 was 30 years ago. Also, I love, love, love reading everyone's comments because there's so many great stories about people's childhoods that are so fun to read about and bring back so many good memories.

[@miketrav]

Way of the Warrior, road rash, need for speed, return fire, some of my best memories of the 90s and 3do

[@lutfimakarim8258]

Glad the 3DO is getting some love this day and age

[@Sly2Cooper]

There's a great Mortal Kombat homebrew port in development for 3DO. I had my 3DO for a year and managed to play the most of its good games. That's why I only have good memories of the system. For the Way of the Warrior it was enough to watch a gameplay demo at the kiosk.

[@MKF30]

Its crazy how many MK knockoffs there were back in the 90s. 😅 AVGN did a video about it. It's hilarious.

[@4g1vn]

I had this game and loved it as a kid. There was always something charming about how cheesy it and I played it A LOT. Looking at it now, I do realize how much I forgave naughty dog for the flaws, but it was still a ton of fun for me and my friends.

[@cax1175]

I'd rather have a sequel to this than The Last of Us 2 Remastered HD Super Championship Edition honestly

[@Planag7]

Aww poor thing. You'll get your pat on the back. Still no game for you

[@AllThingsInfamous1]

Last of us caught a stray bullet

[@EnriqueStyle]

Damm, I want a Last of Us 2 Remastered HD Super Championship Edition

[@sloppynyuszi]

All they really need to do is just balance the gameplay a little, and have the graphics move smooth as it will be perfectly fine for nostalgia nerds. I liked the idea of Po’d, but the choppy gameplay kinda ruined it. The new night dive remake fixed all the issues with keeping its weird charm.

[@felix-ve8jk]

​@@AllThingsInfamous1probably the most action Last of Us has ever seen

[@JoeyJ0J0]

As a fan of White Zombie, I have always wanted to try this out

[@SegaLordX]

Unless you adjust the audio, the bad sound effects drown out the music.

[@larrythebatmanfan]

The soundtrack in the game was weak. It only had white zombie in the game. Like where's Metallica, gold finger , incubus, smile empty soul and Pantera? Com'on . Weak ass soundtrack for the game?

[@poindextertunes]

@@larrythebatmanfanwhy would any of those other songs be in the game? you’re just listing bands you like 😂

[@bananonymouslastname5693]

I still have this one, and when I do play my 3D0, it rarely makes it in. A lot of 3DO games were similarly too fast. Mazer jumps to mind, having a pretty solid concept and decent control, but just goes so fast that each level can end in seconds. I admittedly play more FMV games than anything on it. I really like Psychic Detective unironically, and I love the American Laser Games light gun games like Who Shot Johnny Rock, Space Pirates, Drug Wars, etc., though those are mostly for laughs. Strahl was fun for an anime-esque Dragon's Lair clone, though.

[@Sly2Cooper]

I loved Psychic Detective and Daedalus Encounter on 3DO. Great use of FMV in gameplay and storytelling. Star Wars, D, Creature Shock, Starblade Alpha. 3DO had the best FMV capabilities before PS1.

[@SpecialNeedsLuther803]

In Las Vegas there used to be a store called Gamers that was open from the mid 90s through the early 2000s. It was the absolute best game rental store in town and you could even rent game consoles, which was wild back then. I think it was $20 for a couple days for a Neo Geo, Saturn, 3DO, etc. which of course, my parents had to rent for me as an occasional treat because I was a kid. One weekend, me and my best friend convinced my mom to rent us a 3DO with Way of the Warrior and Gex. We had a lot of fun with both games, but WotW was just so goofy and corny, but also very cool to us, that we had more fun with it than we probably should have. I remember having a GamePro or some other magazine with a bunch of cheat codes and fatalities to try out for the game and we spent a good afternoon trying to unlock the hidden stages and characters, like a dragon and a skeleton dude, and trying all the stage fatalities and what not. The moves were hard to pull off. Later, in my early 20s, I bought a 3DO and this game and didn’t have as much fun with it, but it was still nostalgiac af since Naughty Dog had become a top developer over the decades and I had a lot more appreciation for Rob Zombie 😁

[@retrojoe85]

"I am a ninja, but guys use to call me The Ninja. Nice to meet you."

[@ChadCWatson]

I loved this as a kid and still do! 3DO had some good games.

[@Killbomb]

I actually have some fond memories of this one. The controls were very stiff of course but I still played the hell out of it while waiting for the home port of MK2. The game was also my introduction to White Zombie which gives it a few more bonus points.

[@slenderxxman5243]

It amazes me how people expect to spam button combos on every fighting game ever, then get irritated because the character output is actually sporadic and overbearing.

[@Scorpion24]

This is the game your mom said " we have Mortal Kombat at home"

[@poindextertunes]

Having the $800 3DO at home must be nice

[@zombiecharger65]

I bought this game in the 90's specifically for the soundtrack. White Zombie was an amazing band, far better than Rob's solo crap.

[@shawndavis7249]

I really like Rob Zombie's solo career, and I'd encourage you to give it another chance. But holy hell, White Zombie was absolute magic. I had Way of the Warrior on my 3DO back in the day, and that soundtrack WAS the game.

[@jeffb.6642]

@@shawndavis7249 IMO Zombie's Solo career peaked with Hellbilly Deluxe and got progressively worse with each subsequent album

[@poindextertunes]

Rob Zombie’s solo stuff had a way better live show tho

[@britneyspearsvillarosa]

Universal Interactive Studios was the Publisher for Way Of The Warrior so they owned the White Zombie Albums.

[@gregandy4277]

This game made me a White Zombie fan, and the controls were not that bad. However, yes, every other fighting game has better controls. The humour and ridiculous gore was great!

[@NeoGeoNinja81]

I think WotW proved that the 3DO had the legs to produce something good in this genre, in the right hands... in the RIGHT hands 😅 The port of SSF2X was nigh on incredible at the time and was the closest to SF at the Arcade we had seen by that point. Capcom did an amazing job with that. SNKs SS1 running at 30fps... not so much, but it was decent enough.

[@Jabroniville]

Awesome stuff! If I'd have known this was coming, I'd have dropped some lore about the various people who played the characters. I have an old video game magazine where the creators talked about it. Here's what I've found: Shaky Jake was played by Mitch Gavin, the younger brother of Andy Gavin. Mitch was a wannabe bass player who was always experimenting with dated hairdos- it makes him look like a classic teenage wannabe rock star, with longish hair, jeans, and a vest (yes, Shaky Jake wears Mitch's actual clothing). Jake's staff and whiskey bottle also came from Mitch, who gave the staff to Andy as a gift. Hilariously, though Mitch himself doesn't have a gut, something about the way they shot one of his victory poses makes it look like he has an ample beer belly- Mitch has been embarrassed by that shot ever since :). Glory was played by Carole May, who was dating the game's designer Jason Rubin before filming started. They say she was a real sweetheart, and still came back to do the filming after they broke up! I literally still remember this story from reading it the first time all the way back in December 1994, to show you how weird memory is. Fox is played by Chris Sanford, who went to the same dojo as the guy who played Nobunaga, and was recruited that way. He was a Harvard grad who sold exotic cars and used to live in Japan- the pants were Chris's own, who wore them because people tended to be unfriendly when he went out to the bars, and so had to have pants that worked for fighting. The character has no voice because Chris went on vacation when they were doing the recordings, and they had no way to get in touch with him! Major Gaines has a HILARIOUS real-world backstory, though. The actor who plays him, "T-Mike" Gaines (a frat brother of Jason Rubin, and the only cast member not from the Boston area), is "5'8" but cut", according to the designers, yet begged them to give him a huge sprite, bigger than all the other characters. This, plus his name, give me the most TREMENDOUS vibe of "Small Man Syndrome" ever- the idea of a guy a bit below-average in height wanting to be soooooooooooo tall just bleeds of "I wish I was bigger". There's also a hilarious bit where the in-game sprite is clean-shaven, but when it came time to do the close-up photos of the cast for the Character Select Screen, he'd grown a goatee, and refused to shave off the bad "soul patch" part, because it'd taken so long to grow in. So the Character Select for Major Gaines now features this tiny lil' patch of beard, unlike the in-game version of the guy. The Dragon is played by Tae Min Kim, and a good friend of Mike Gavin, Andy's brother, who played Shaky Jake. Kim was in Aikido, and wanted a lot of his frends to get in on the action, but his buff ("Well, semi-buff", the magazine adds, snarkily) physique made him the only one chosen. He was said to be a "very mellow" guy, who never got tense even during the marathon eight-hour filming sessions under hot studio lights. The Ninja is one of two characters played by the game's co-developer, Jason Rubin, though The Ninja is humorously listed as playing "Himself" in the credits. In the behind-the-scenes info, they actually joke about how "stereotypical" a fighting game character this is, and he was the first guy created for the game, as Andy Gavin had created an engine for the game and wanted to put a character into it. Ironically, despite being so stereotypical, he was the most work to produce- they had to film him five times, once because 3DO announced the game would have a lot more memory in the released version, so the character needed to be bigger. Like The Ninja, Konotori is played by Jason Rubin, taking advantage of the masked nature of both characters. In a curious move when advertising his big game, he boasts about how cheaply this costume was made- "His leggings are Ace bandages; the uniform is a standard gi; the hat was five bucks and the fans $1.50 each; the bandanas were from Kmart". Yes, they advertised that a game made with $15,000 computers was filmed with people wearing about 20 bucks in clothing. Nobunaga is played by Steve Chan, a Ph.D. student in Biology at HARVARD UNIVERSITY, and was recognized by the game's developers when they spotted him reading a magazine on computer graphics on a plane flight. When they got to talking, he revealed his desire to get into multimedia marketing, his $15,000 Mac set-up (!!), and introduced them to the guy who played Fox in the game. Steve therefore became both a character in the game (he studied at Chris Sanford's dojo), and a worker behind the scenes, helping to process all the frames of animation. Nikki's played by what looks like a white girl named Tamara Genest, who was actually a HARVARD LAW student at the time, and was a friend of Andy Gavin's. She'd spent two years in Japan on a scholarship and ended up eloping with a guy, much to the surprise of her parents! Gulab Jamun was played by Vijay Pande, and not listed in the credits by name- so secret was he that his name was blurred. Vijay was a friend of Andy Gavin's from school- a guy who worked at Naughty Dog for years and has now worked as a Professor at Stanford University for over twenty years. Oh, Way of the Warrior.

[@poindextertunes]

bruh… nobody reading this tower of text 😐

[@Jabroniville]

They will if they want sweet backstory on the regular people playing awful martial artists! I’d written all this out for another project anyways so I don’t mind it going unread, haha. I’ll add spaces between each character, lol.

[@goranisacson2502]

Adding spaces and paragraph breaks would be a good idea but rest assured, I read it even if it was a solid block. This knowledge is gold, and I thank you for taking the time to write it all down.

[@Jabroniville]

@@goranisacson2502 Thanks! I already had paragraph breaks but didn't realize it needed spaces as well (especially on mobile)- I found it was cutting off the text funny on the first one but should have kept using them.

[@an0therdimensi0n99]

let's take a moment and thank god we couldnt afford a 3DO or way of the warrior in '94. we would've been pissed at ourselves

[@boredstudent]

I never had a Panasonic 3DO but I did play it once at Universal City Walk. It was a racing game.

[@charlieg6913]

What a cool video to do. This one holds a special place for me. This was one of the few games that I owned for the system. When I was about 14y/o I cashed in a bunch of savings bonds that family had given to me and combined that with birthday and Christmas money that I had saved and bought myself a 3DO. Way of the Warrior was the game I picked up the day I purchased the console. I spent so many hours playing this and Crash N Burn.

[@joshuasanderson7359]

Hey, man. I know you probably didn't intend anything malicious but "spastic" is considered a slur against people with disabilities in many places and you may want to choose other descriptors in future 🙂 I enjoyed your video on this one. I didn't know much about it before! Also fun using Kode Of Honour at the start after saying it was an MK imitator.

[@SegaLordX]

I certainly didn't mean it in any offensive way. If it's considered a slur I'll surely go in other directions in the future.

[@Metal-Josh]

I liked during the title card for way of the warrior, that you’ve got the mortal Kombat theme lol

[@stefanomazzarello4771]

PLUS... IT HAD THE YOUNG KIM JUNG AS CHARACTER... STUNNING 😂😂😂

[@elodvezer1790]

i forgot white Zombie existed before Rob Zombie! lol 😂

[@reggaerock]

The soundtrack was White Zombie and I loved it! You could even put the game in any cd player just have the soundtrack. I couldn't afford 3do when it came out, but when it was on the way out I got one and a ton of games. Also, the making of the game was just incredible. Read the wikipedia on it and be prepared to be awesteuck with how little they had to work with

[@hababacon]

It looks bad now, but I loved this game back in high school. My brother had the Goldstar (AKA LG) version of the 3DO. This along with Solar Eclipse, Sewer Shark I believe, and Madden are a few of the games I remember playing on 3DO.

[@AltimaNEO]

Lucky Goldstar!

[@Metallic-Sun]

Captain Quazar and Return Fire were good 2 player games.

[@timecop808]

This wasn't a bad game. My friends and I had a blast with this thing when it first came out, it isn't a classic but it's a fun non-serious game. The whole thing is bad shit crazy. Prior to this game our 3DO was used exclusively for Madden... Way of the Warrior was the game that finally had the Madden disc taken out of the machine.

[@projectmayhem6898]

I sometimes wonder what gaming experiences I missed by not having a 3DO. Thanks for letting me know.

[@ParsnipCelery]

Man I love the retrospective of these old games and systems.

[@nolahahnshouse3389]

I’ve had several hours with this game back in the day

[@MyFriendlyPup]

3D0 is the oceangate of video games.

[@adultmoshifan87]

You’ve been doing a good job recently of your “Let’s Save” videos, the 3DO one you did was very good! This RPG/dating sim hybrid game you came up with would make for a great game, I’d love to play such a title if it happens someday! Your idea for a 2-sided CD for the Sega Katana is a good one too, especially as I recently came up with an idea for 8K movies on records made of bamboo as a possible plastic-free video format! Any chance you’d please consider, if you do anymore “Let’s Save” videos in the future, maybe doing ones for the SNK Neo Geo Pocket and the Nintendo Gamecube? For the Gamecube, I’d give the pad more buttons, I’d use full size DVD Roms and make sure certain games like Kirby’s Tilt & Tumble 2 DO NOT get cancelled! I’d also make an attachment that allows N64 games to be played on the Cube!

[@adamjeremycapps]

I had a friend with the money to afford a 3DO & some games, and at the time I was really impressed with this game like how Rob Zombie music played while you fought. He had a racing game too & this sort of thing was really impressive back then. If all it was worth was the graphics though, they've become outdated, and I remember a time when Final Fantasy 4 was visually stunning.

[@MasaCheez]

Way of the White Zombie. I can't help but think this game would have been DOA without White Zombie. So funny this was my first exposure to Naughty Dog!

[@lalogalvan3698]

I 100% agree with Lord's perspective. This game got so many parents for hard-earned cash, as we kids back then "needed" to have this game. All it's good for now is to pop in with a couple of hardcore fighting game friends to enjoy a beer and a laugh.

[@GimpyDingo]

Rings of Power was one of my favorite rpgs (along with Phantasy Star II). Crazy that Naughty Dog made that and Way of the Warrior.

[@ThorStoneGaming]

Nice review, only thing I disagree with is Way of the Warrior being the worst fighter on 3do, that would definitely go to Shadow War of Succession.

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

The animation is absolutely missing a ton of frames. That was a major problem back then but understandable due to very low memory of those consoles. Also the frame rate itself is not good. But at least there are some nice pseudo 3d backgrounds! Reminds me of Pit Fighter, I guess the 3DO could handle a nice port.

[@M.Borjas]

I was hell bent on getting this game when it first came out. I guess I dodge a bullet then, but wish I had it now.

[@Silks]

Just calling the special move inputs "strict" is a massive understatement

[@Insertcoin22]

So many secrets in the game

[@ShelfWarmer]

there was quite a bit if drama regarding Diehard Gamefan's review at the time ;)

[@kpsk8031]

Nothing has aged worse in gaming history than digitised 32 bit-characters and their laughable key frames.

One thing that all these copycats made me realize is how good MK actually was. Despite the criticism of it being too simple compared to SF2, and relying too much on violence and shock value , it had great story, good characters, an amazing use of digitalization, and simple, but functional, and fun gameplay.

[@bigdeagle1331]

I hade the 3DO in 1994! I sold it when the PlayStation came out! The game left a lot to the imagination

[@FNHot]

The benefit to owning this when it came out would have to be talking to others about it. I only ever saw it in magazines and was so mad it was only on 3DO, that console was so expensive no one I knew had it. The pictures of WotW looked like it blew MK out of the water, and I wanted to play it so bad, but I would have settled for just talking to someone who had. I still think it looks like it should get a sequel, it has a great logo, back grounds, and a few of the characters are cool. When ever I do an Aussie accent, I tell people Im Shaky Jake.

[@Bojanglez667]

I mean this is no Shadow: War of Succession, but we can't all have winners.

[@MrSamPhoenix]

The graphics are incredible. Just look at the background’s fully detailed 3D textures. I wish they posted this game on both the Sega Saturn 🪐 and Sony PlayStation. Just so we see how the other two consoles handled the game.

[@joshuamartindale868]

American Laser Games helped out on development. They were gonna release an Arcade version of the game but it was canceled.

[@blok--head7472]

Could you imagine if Naughty Dog actually rebooted this game? Say the devs learned from other recent fighting games regarding mechanics and balancing, plus revamping all the characters so they have more going on than the 3DO version. (Possibly giving 'Ninja' his own name, with a slight redesign for example.) Maybe even adding new characters to spice up the roster. Just because this game wasn't nescisarly good, doesn't mean they can't give it another shot. And with todays technology, and with the right lead behind the project, it could be something special. I would think. Just saying I'd much rather see that than a Last of Us 3, or 'Battle Royale' mode for LOU2.

[@DesertRainReads]

I'd welcome a reboot for sure. This game looks like total cheese but you're right, with modern tech and better writers, it could become something worthwhile. Also, I would rather see anything other than TLOU3 as I refuse to touch that franchise with a ten foot pole ever again.

[@basedfrosti]

@@DesertRainReads It wont happen. The game bombed.

[@blok--head7472]

​​@@DesertRainReadsLast of Us should've stayed as a singe game. imo. Had a perfect ending, and didn't insult the intelligence of their fanbase. Plus the multiplayer mode was pretty fun. If Niel Druckman wasn't so preoccupied in huffing his own farts, maybe LOU2 wouldn't have been such a disaster. Yet here we are.

[@aloiivwizard]

the man doesn’t mince words, that’s for sure

[@ZEKESPILLEDINKMUSIC]

Despite its overall presentation, Way of the Warrior isn't the worst game on the 3DO. That would have to go to Plumbers Don't Wear Ties: a sorry excuse for a game meant for adults that plays more like a hastily-made slide show. It also punishes players for making bad decisions, even though the "game" clearly wants them to with each raunchy situation.

[@avalond1193]

Ugh...bad memories..we owned a 3do back then and desperate for games and spend over 40$ for plumbers don't wear ties.. couldn't find any 3do games..horrible weekend

[@ZEKESPILLEDINKMUSIC]

AVGN did an entire episode about Plumbers Don't Wear Ties years ago. His exaggerated character aside, he found the whole experience disturbing.

[@AskDrannik]

Look up a game called "Shadow: War of Succession" sometime. That's one of the worst fighting games ever made, and it was a 3DO title.

[@SPac316]

I remember reading about this game in EGM back then and I thought it looked cool. But it was very unlikely that we would get to try it because the 3DO at the time was very expensive for an average family. But then I saw the review and I guess I wasn't missing much after all. But I suppose it would be a funny game to laugh at for a few sessions. I'm sure Naughty Dog put their heart into this and did their best with what was given to them. But it still doesn't give it a pass for how much of a mess it turned out to be. Good review! Can't wait to see your feelings about Shadow: WoS as I heard that it was even worst than WotW.

[@otterpopdotorg]

Adjusted for inflation the cost of a 3DO and this game is over $1100. Truly we live in a much better time for gaming.

[@LelandReview]

I still have this game. Liked it so much saved it in storage.

[@BHGMediaGroup]

Thanks for this, i had never played this, but I take one of my 3DO's to the PGX Game convention for people to play, i usually have Gex or Star Blade and i was going to buy this for people to play, but now i think it would just turn people away.

[@lukasjozef1774]

I remember Way of the Warrior, the magazines said it was one of the worst games for the 3DO but at that time i was already awaiting for the PSX.

[@monsterman7721]

I remember the TV promotions for the 3do where you were able to get it in payments at the time 700 bucks was Hella expensive I remember the game they would show was mad dog and the dungeon one.

[@zilla66]

If I remember right it was $700 at launch and I bought it…. I was so pissed at Trip for this. I did have some fun but man, what could have been.

[@ridiculous_gaming]

I loved how quickly Trip jumped ship and ported everything decent to PS1 and Saturn. Yeah, "we got it and they don't".

[@Meowmixery]

Thanks for the video Sega aside from Armymen series never took a deep dive into 3d0, gex too. They cant even say 3d wasn't around at the time since PlayStation was already out along with PC beginning to get cheaper.

[@K0RP53]

I had a few magazines with Way of the Warrior in them. I thought it really looked cool. I wanted it. Boy, did I dodge a bullet. Sucks to because some of the visuals looked pretty cool to me. Good thing the 3do was overpriced to the point of me never actually seeing one. They weren't sold in stores where I lived. No friends I had owned one.

[@AmazingArnoldVoice]

At the time, it’s was cool as s*** and music/graphics was above everything out. You were cool if you had this regardless of stiffness. We loved it, another great was twisted to play with friends

[@japangamejunk]

Honestly loved this game so much as a teen and played for hours and hours and hours. Got used to the control style and thought it was so fun. Even now I love to play it and the 3DO continues to be my all time favorite system.

[@geminielectro]

Yes, it's the same studio that made Uncharted... 😂

[@mxggo9046]

I haven't watched this video/episode yet...but I can already hear SLX saying "this steamy pile of garbage" !

[@lhfirex]

I'm pretty sure I've only seen this one in Fatality compilation videos. Funny to see an early Naughty Dog game like this.

[@robbvanderstoel7725]

Looking forward to this one.

[@wugenius]

No lie. In EGM screenshots the game looked incredible and I wanted to try it. But yeah the 3do was way outta our price range.

[@retrobear9367]

I remember drooling over this game in middle school. Seeing it in magazines like EGM got me excited to play. Well, I finally got it last year. Omg, what a let down.

[@williamwright9079]

I remember this in the magazines. Envy and lust turned to disgust!

[@TrusteftRetroWeekend]

That annoying bell!

[@brynwhitlock62]

Hey mate, I wanted to know if you will making a new video covering the recently announced Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection coming out later on this year? And if so, when will you be covering all of these Capcom classics into a compilation video please. Thank you for covering this game as well, it's a good thing that I don't have a 3DO during the 90's. Back when I was little, I never even heard of this game at all. I'm really glad that I missed this one entirely and instead, I totally just remember Naughty Dog for reason alone and I guess you already know that answer well: Crash Bandicoot series of games, not fighting games. Thanks Sega Lord X, you really made my day 5 days ago with this awesome video! Keep up the extremely excellent work with ALL your videos!! 👍😎

[@VBrancoPT]

From Way of the Warrior to The Last of Us. Man, Naughty Dog sure came a long way, huh?

[@viciousvictortee1298]

The fact that Rubin and Gabin literally made this in between College classes Is actually Impressive. Not that it was good but very much infact a bad fighter. Also...they weren't even at the same colleges. The true accomplishment was it was actually made. I do believe it could have been "the way"! had they attempted it at the time Crash was afterwards. But would anyone trade what has become the Naughty Dog we know thereafter and today for the errors learned from "THAT ONE" game!

[@jamesburchill7522]

I have a 3DO. Having also had a Philips CDI, I can tell you that it's not the worst, as people will have you believe

[@C3phoe]

The performance is amazing!

[@Monhamd1000]

I could imagine a Dreamcast remaster of this game.

[@duwanbradley8329]

Really good review thanks for the info! 👍🏾

[@DieselJT]

I still own my tip loader Panasonic 3do and this was the 1st game II ever picked up for it! There was some silly fun to be had there. But itsndidnt compare to the likes of the Sam Sho or Street Fighter ports I also ended up owning on the console.

[@pedrosvlog1183]

They need to release this on xbox series x, PS5 , and Switch.

[@whipwreck69]

Ironically, this was the game that saved Naughty Dog

[@mjdf122]

Sega Lord X and Way of Warrior time

[@stephenschenider4007]

0:15 So that's why my Mother told me to get a job at 7 when asked for one. Makes sense.

[@Planag7]

And I was just wondering what the hell that was figured it was like a fake Mortal Kombat. Yeah that's the extent of my actual seeing it. I do appreciate when you do talk about anything during this era c:

[@JuanGil221]

Whoa! I remember when 3DO came out. $500 back then was crazy. How have you been able to play all these systems when they came out? Maybe you're older and had a real paying job back then...but damn, 3DO was just too much $$$.

[@digitalworms]

Man I played a 3DO at circuit city and wanted one really bad! Man they was 600 bucks back then if I was right about price! Only time I got to play one was the demo!

[@SonnyBone]

"Worst fighting game on the 3DO" Tell me you didn't play Shadow without telling me you didn't play Shadow

[@SegaLordX]

Played it(own it) and preferred it to this.

[@Aki_Lesbrinco]

"When viewing pictures of the game it was gorgeous", really? I remember looking at the pictures in magazines when I was a kid and thinking "This looks terrible, why can't a $700 system look better than Mortal Kombat?"

[@garykwan360]

at the time, 3do had sf 2x as exclusive title, naked titles and different variants of the consoles.