Yeah, it's early. ligaf

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

"Stop subscribing to this channel." But Civvie... I CANT UNSUBSCRIBE WITHOUT MY BUDDY SUPERFLY

Romero has said several times that Daikatana was basically his life's lesson in humility. So I like to think that there's a timeline where Daikatana was successful, but as a result Romero became part of the Hall of Gaming Corporate Pricks, right there with the likes of Randy Pitchford, Todd Howard and Chris Roberts.

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

“John Romero appears to be a pretty cool guy these days from what I can gather.” ... dude he’s responded to ALL of my fan emails to him. Even the vodka fueled way-too-drunk ones. And his WIFE has replied to me twice on twitter. Romero is a VERY cool guy... possibly the coolest. He’s humble- and he always talked shop with me over game design aspects. He’s.... Really nice.

The two things I learned in school: 1- Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell 2- I can't leave without my buddy Superfly

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

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

The best part about Daikatana - the release date: Daikatana: 2000 Half Life: 1998

John Romero: Drachma. Civvie: Drachma? John Romero: Yeah, drachma balls across your face, amirite?

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

"Superfly spoke up against all this torturing and imprisonment, So they tortured and imprisoned him. I don't know what he expected" This is the kind of humor i dig so much

This is the most convoluted episode of Samurai Jack, possibly ever.

Roses are red Civvie wants to die I can't leave *WITHOUT MY BUDDY SUPERFLY*

A shot gun that does rocket jumping without splash damage sounds like a force of nature

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

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

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

3:31 "Tom Hall went on to start his game: Anachronox, and Romero started his: Daikatana." And silently off to the side, the New Testament was being written by Warren Spector: Deus Ex.

I’m glad John Romero was able to move past his failure and learn form his mistakes. He very easily could’ve went the A-hole route and blamed it on something and became bitter, but he didn’t, instead he moved on and became humble.

>hiro dies >npc kills enemy >"10 years later" "oh noooo hiro got blown down"

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

"You thought 'what if there was a rocket jump without the splash damage?' You were Deathmatching all day long and then you made this. Didn't ya? DIDN'T YA YOU SON OF A...". This is gold

57:38 "If the two swords touch, absolutely nothing happens." I've apparently been in the wrong prison showers.

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

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

"When it's done" is totally a cursed phrase now.

I find it really wholesome just how much faith hiro has in Superfly, like they just met but hiro treats him like a brother of sorts

Romero is not egoistic, he´s just The Icon of sin.

“Leading to wars of words; a public perception that John Romero was solely responsible for Id’s success rather than an ingredient of it” I guess you could say it was a case of Id vs ego

I knew Superfly's voice sounded familiar. It's Marcus Mauldin, the voice actor for Brick in the Borderlands series.

Mikiko: [kills Superfly] Hiro: "I CAN'T leave without my buddy Superfly" Hiro: [becomes a hermit] Damn, I guess Hiro really meant it after all

Civvie: Let me see what you have! Mikiko: A snake staff! Civvie: NO!!

I can't be mad at John Romero. His decisions, however poor they may be, helped make Deus Ex and Anachronox possible.

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

They TRADEMARKED "Suck It Down". Holy moly. That's so much funnier than them just using it as a tagline in an ad run. Fun to imagine the office workers handling that trademark paperwork file.

I can't finish this review without my buddy Superfly.

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

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

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

“Hey, homeslice.” ~My buddy, Superfly

Despite Romero not being in favor of the “bitch ad,” I still can’t help but feel that it would have been less infamous if the game wasn’t a failure. There’s WAY more embarrassing 90s video game ads.

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

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

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

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

A reminder that one of the books on the shelf in the Doom Slayer's man cave in DOOM Eternal is "My Buddy Superfly" by Hiro Miyamoto, and it sits alongside many other books that reference 90s FPSs, DOOM lore, and id's work. DOOM Eternal was 100% a work of passion and talent.

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

You know I like to imagine there's another timeline where the programming for Daikatana was ironed out so that the AI didn't huff glue and the weapons were balanced better, and in that timeline Daikatana is remembered more fondly as the giant piece of cheese it otherwise is. Unfortunately, someone took the Daikatana itself and gave us the timeline we have now.

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

I watch this video every night to fall asleep. Not because it’s boring. Because I love it. It’s so cosy. But just as I fall asleep I always forget I can’t go to sleep without my buddy Superfly.

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

"When you got a job like mine you gotta get inside the mind of the people who made this." Ahhh, so thats what the helmet is for.

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

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

"Why would my taint send ripples back in time?" Believe in yourself, Civvie. Don't sell yourself short.

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

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

It's amazing that just showing unedited clips of the game works pretty well as comedy

love how hiro says he cant leave without "my buddy superfly" but only that he "cant leave without mikiko" implying he doesnt consider mikiko his friend

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

"my buddy, Superfly" is so wholesome.

Every time I see this video and hear the line "We can avoid the electric floor. Mikiko will not avoid the electric floor by herself. Superfly didn't come in with us because he's a goddamn moron," I am forced to laugh and wheeze uncontrollably.

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

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

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

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

Romero totally had unbridled talent, but in order for it to shine through needed a lot of help around his edges. He has a lot of potentional, but absolutely needs a solid team to work with him and the problem is this game just didnt have anything besides Romero. Compound that with his growing ego and a lack of bounce back due to his status he lost himself. Also, anyone else feel bad for how tiny cerberus was?

“These games are getting VERY realistic”- Bill Gates

SuperFly Johnson is the greatest sidekick name of all time

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

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

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

"Bill gates, at the time the richest man in the world" The fact this even is now a reference makes me feel old

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

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

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

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

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

Came here to say "who's here in 2020" but then saw that the video was released in 2020 and that's how long 2020 has been.

20:19 Superfly is still the only AI companion in gaming history that cares enough about the player-character _to openly sob_ if the latter gets himself killed.

Poor civvie torturing himself to entertain us

Oh man, I had this game as a little kid. My father played it while I watched. I remember it was super fun for me - gore, gibs, lasers, monsters, guns, etc. Now I'm afraid my father didn't enjoy it quite like me...

Jesus Christ, that first act is as if John Romero looked up sensory overload and actively tried to incorporate it into the act. Nothing says immersion like audible death!

"Why would my taint send ripples back in time?" top 10 questions science still can't answer

Romero's been a frustrating guy to watch. I was on Hall's team for the last few months of Anachronox, and while I'd say Hall was cooler to work for (dude has a such a wild imagination and weird sense of humor you can't help liking him) Romero was really cool to sit down and talk with. We had a few break room chats about retro gaming about stuff we agreed or disagreed about, but he never approached it with the arrogant "Well I'm John Romero that invented Doom so I know better" attitude you might expect. He was just another nerd talking nerd shit with you. But his work ethic was definitely destroyed after leaving id, and I later saw him turn in to one of the industry types whining and banging on about piracy instead of just making good games. The id days were lightning in a bottle for him, unfortunately. Ion Storm was started with the best of intentions and was a great idea, but I think Romero's over estimation of his leadership abilities cost him in the end. Too bad too. It really had a unique opportunity to do exactly what he said. It was just his partners realizing the dream instead of him.

I cannot overstate how great the editing is in your videos and how it feels like Katy is a fully developed character despite her not having an active voice most of the time. This channel would not be the same without her.

I feel like Miyazaki played the first level and went “I can make a better poison swamp”

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

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

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

"n64 version is a quarter of the size of the pc version." wouldnt having to play through only 1/4th of daikatana make it an improvement?

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

"Hiro Miyamoto failed at life." You and me both, pal.

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

Huh, Is Supahfly Johnson voiced by the same dude who voices Brick from Borderlands 2 and 3? *checks Imdb* Oh my gawd it is him. Marcus M. Mauldin

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

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

Civvie's descriptions of John Carmack will never not be funny