When you realize that John Romero saw this and still did the Interview

And so we now know that Romero watched this. And laughed.

"slightly critical"

"let's all laugh at an industry" should have more episodes and it's own playlist

The funny comes full circle when you realize that John Romero's sheer chill-ness and amazing sense of humor ended up making Yahtzee his bitch during the interview.

"...running horribly, with many issues, like a paperboy with polio" How does he come up with this stuff?

The funniest thing about daikatana I found was the fact that, despite how serious it was taking itself, it was essentially just called "big sword". It's like if dark souls was called "stabby slashy die time".

As someone with a barely-functional knowledge of Japanese, I find it hilarious that this game's name is literally "big sword".

One of my favorite jokes is one that sadly didn't survive the transition to KZfaq: In the closing credits, the first joke reads "Bye, Katana".

Can we get more Jahtzee developer interviews please? I'd pay money to watch Ben awkwardly mention that he's written some ''slightly critical things'' for their games in their faces.

Yeah, the interview WAS uncomfortable.

Who is here after watching the John ramero interview?

I'm watching this for the 100th time and "The blurb should have read " cracks me up every single time.

No word of a lie, that jingle is going to be stuck in my head for days.

I not only bought this game day one, but I even bought a book called Masters of Doom which covers the history of id and this crap stain of a game. So many wasted hours lol. :(

My god... the babies in the outlet pipes are the indie game makers!!! I GET THE JOKE!!!!

"Let's all laugh, at an industry, that never learn anything, tee hee hee..." oh, that made my cloudy day less depressing!

2:09 the "topical humor" has remained relevant longer than anyone would wish

"Contempt is the industry standard" when I hear him say this now, I think of EA saying "Don't like it, don't buy it" and calling their customers uneducated, and of course blizzard and their garbage mobile diablo.

I really miss the end credit written jokes.

I wonder if Yahtzee ever thought he would do an interview with John Romero when making this

"Let's all laugh at an industry, that never learns anything tehehe" I always laugh so hard when I hear this :D

I will never get tired of that jingle.

Daikatana was also released on the Game Boy Color as an RPG, and that version was surprisingly good.

I love how it says "Topical Humor" on a video from 6 years ago, and it's literally still topical

Watch this video with Mighty No. 9 in mind.

Holy shit this was SAVAGE from start to end. Had to pause multiple times to wipe the tears of laughter off my face. Aaaaaaand after seeing this Romero still did an interview with Yahtzee at E3. Honestly though the man has been a really good sport for the past 10 years at least. Pretty sure he learned something from the Daikatana incident and 20 years of growth as an adult. Noclip or someone did a documentary with him not too long ago.

Dear lord, I LOVE that jingle for some reason XD makes me crack up every time

"See, that's the trouble with the cutting edge: it's hard to stay on 'cause it's very thin, and it keeps moving as it hacks at your balls." Yahtzee's analogies never get old

Say what you will about John Romero. At least he knows how to rock a pair of Kamina glasses.

It bothers a little bit that no one mentions that the "John Romero is gonna make you his bitch" promotion was an answer to an Id promotion

I got kinda confused when I saw my name in the title, then I remembered John Romero is also a game developer.

U can tell he's gunna fuck uup destiny lol

"I am a monster spawned on this earth to plague the virtuous." Yahtz pretty much summed up the entire AAA gaming industry in a single sentence.

"Lets all laugh at an industry the never learns anything tehee." Catchiest theme song since Duck Tales.

Turns out that "American Police Officer" joke was not so much "topical" as "timeless"...

This makes me think of Todd Howard and his reasoning around Fallout 76. Still relevant, good job Yahtzee.

Im in love with the intro tune.

I just realized something. This series is about how the game industry never learns. But, in this case, isn't that exactly what happened? The industry learnt to never trust people with hope and dreams again, and instead safely produce the copy paste pig faeces we get today instead.

2:20 I would say something about how annoying the sidekick system is, but I can’t leave a comment without my buddy Superfly

Now begs the question what other devs have watched their games being reviewed by Yahtzee

Came back after the interview

Why are there only two episodes of this series, it's one of your best!

Greatest jingle ever! I want you to rip on more old games just to here the jingle again!

0:55 - Aw, crap, Yahtzee's got it out for me.

0:12 just the best XD

Roll up! Roll up! Everyone come and see the freak!

I love that little theme he made. Wish I had that as a ringtone.

Cyberpunk 2077 is basically today's Daikatana.

I just realized Daikatana, or 大刀, just means Big Sword. About as subtle as you'd expect, really

really hope the history doesn't repeat itself with Kojima now

i remember playing, or at least trying to play this game when ii came out. the thing that stuck with me the most was always dying then going down ladders, as if the character did not to understand the concept of gravity, and would suddenly jump off.

Anyone else reminded of the dark age of comics by Romero's mentality.

This came out the same year as Deus Ex by the same company, yeah

I still *REALLY* want that freaking jingle as a ringtone...

ah publishers having emotions imagine a world with that

The depressing thing is that, seven years later, not a goddamn thing has changed. That "lessons nobody learned" speech is just as applicable today as in 2014. Maybe even moreso.

that jingle

If (mine { Embarrassed(); } Is one if the funniest things I’ve seen on this channel

There's definitely a sad tragedy here. You've got an ambitious game developer essentially handed the keys to the kingdom, setting his sights too high, and crashing and burning. It was painful to watch. But the bigger tragedy is that it had a bad impact on the industry. For a brief shining moment, game developers were seen as rock stars and creative types, akin to the big expensive talent of the movie industry. And then it all went south. Nowadays, the only time we know about a game developer's accomplishments is when they're mentioned in an article about how they've been to subjected to 100+ hours of crunch time. A shame.

The "topical humour" made me cough up my drink.

I think I know game he could dissect for the series: Bubsy 3D

That "let's all laugh at an industry" jingle should be sold as a ringtone.

Poker night at Yahtz's place with him, Romero, Peter Molyneux, Swery, and Hideo Kojima would be really interesting

rewatching because of the interview just to notice that everyone did the same thing

4:50 Everyone who bought Aliens Colonial Marines. Hahahahahahahaha!

Congratz on the 500k subs!

I love videos that open with that jingle

LET'S ALL LAUGH AT AN INDUSTRY THAT NEVER LEARNED ANYTHING TEE HEE HEE

Diablo "Don't you guys have phones?" Immortal

i'm actually surprised that the opening wasn't just a joke.

It's nice to think SOME people in the industry have some form of respect for the audience...

True, the industry these days has more hubris to the point it makes Romero's harmless in comparison.

Everyone being surprised John Romero did an interview with Yahtzee even though he saw his criticism. People, I know this isn't very common anymore in this day and age but this is an aspect of "professionalism". Not taking things personally or falling into the infantile "100% for me or completely against me"-mindset.

Interestingly enough Brenda Braithwaite, John Romero’s wife, headed the development of Wizardry 8, the final game of the beloved Wizardry series (inspiration for games like Dragon Quest, Dark Souls, and Etrian Odyssey) with a failing developer, a portion of their time and budget, and an infamously troubled development around the same time as Daikatana to critical praise and awards, going so far as to write the unusually hilarious game manual herself as well.

we need more of these

Imagine if John Romero somehow made dark souls though

That opening jingle is actually really pleasant to the ears for some reason. It's like Yahtzee channeled all of his cynicism and gleeful contempt at the gaming industry and the failed hubris of Daikatana's dev that he inexplicably sounded melodiously cheerful for those brief seconds.

The huge failure seemed to humble him a little, which is good because while he still knows he’s a rock star he still does stuff like make Sigil for free just to give his fans some more DOOM.

Man, I love that jingle.

"Topical humor" yikes... still topical.

Watched this after the John Romero interview XD

It'd be nice to see a review of a game from the RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise.

Man, this makes me laugh so hard from the very beginning! :D

Yahtzee (And possibly everybody else): Could you maybe release the whole game and not leave out a whole bunch as paid DLC? EA (And possibly most companies): Could you remember our motto we said? Yahtzee: Player Firs... EA: to get squirted water in your face? OF COURSE! (proceeds to shoot water in Yahtzee's face) PLAYER FIRST!

I would say Cliffy B should have paid closer attention to the story. Big name from a studio that created popular franchise goes off to create his own studio. Declares his games will be awesome, releases a game and then has to close down the studio. Hell at least Ion Storm managed to produce some finished games before disappearing off the face of the earth to be absorbed into Edios/Square.

You really need to make another one of this.

That jingle is amazing

Wait I'm confused, did Yahtzee say something positive about the triple A gaming industry?

"One failure can prevent many future ones", that's the motto I go for. I thing that this video is way more relevan now than ever in that Daikatana managed to postpone (not completely avoid, I'll come to it in a bit) an auteur movement, where the developers of successful games go around using their credits to basically make a game they would ensure it's their _magnum opus_, and hype it to unrealistic levels. Why would that be a problem? It's simple, when Jon Romero was busy making his "art" he was completely oblivious on its problems and how bad it actually looked, he would refuse advice or criticism, so any minor or major problems the game had he was completely blind to it. Sadly, the Auteur movement is happening in Japan and it's spreading quickly. How do I know it's happening and is a bad thing? Keiji Inafune, the creator of MegaMan, is a visionary, but he is going down the same path: He kickstarted a Megaman-like project called Mighty No. 9, and everything went downhill from there, Inafune tried to use the same credit he thought he had to make a spin-off to MN9, this raised many eyebrows, then he announced a whole franchise around MN9 including sequels and an anime, all of that from a game we hadn't even played! Now here's the kicker, the demo failed to impress most people, then the game was delayed multiple times, each one losing a fraction the audience it was going for. Some people said they saw this trainwreck coming as Keiji has a bit of an attitude problem and is hard to work with. I think that Mighty No. 9 is going to have a significant impact on the Kickstarter community and the developers careers as a whole And now Hideo Kojima is heading down the same path, using his credit as the creator of Metal Gear Solid, he has a fanbase that firmly believes that anything he touches is gold and since he left Konami he has been acting a bit of a smug, by his interactions with people he used to work with and his opinions on movie and gaming.

I love the jingle so much

"Roll up, Roll up everyone come see the freak!"

Do you think Romero just watched this because it was about him, or do you think he's a fan of the show?

i want an american police shotgun,

Remero is now working on Empire of Sin, a Paradox-Published RTS game set in Prohibition-Era Chicago.

It feels weird to know that this video came out 6 years ago

Do you think you could do this on Sonic 06?

"Topical Humour".. oh boy, shitstorm incoming.

This might be the best thing Yahtzee has ever done.

I love that jingle