thank you all for 200k! fuckin mental stuff, I appreciate it more than you know. Remember, suggest games for this series in my twitter dms! twitter.com/RyeGamess Or, in my discord discord.gg/2duda9gyt8

Super cool that you ended up featuring Darkest Hour! Thanks for taking some time to try our game and show a little bit of our community. :) I'm glad you enjoyed it, you definitely gotta experience a full 64 player round with us sometime! Plus, we're going to be dropping the new Italian theater update in the next few months.

I was level designer on Pirates, Vikings and Knights 2 team and man do I miss those old days when people would just play silly little games and mods for fun without worries about battlepasses, ranks or progression systems.

As a isonzo veteran i thank you for showing our game to a wider audience

Urban Terror was EVERYTHING to my brother and I growing up. So glad the community is still alive - the nostalgia seeing those maps brings me is insane.

I love Isonzo. I come back to it every once in a while. In general, at least on the moments that I play, there are about two decently filled servers, which is more than enough to have a good time. Sometimes about five players on each side, with the rest bots, can give good matches as well.

Seeing people explore dead games is something that I'll never get tired of. I got started by watching Josh Strife Hayes "Otherland" series, and just recently discovered this channel with its wholesome moments and encounters, combined with the most fun, casual approach possible. I guess I'm trying to say - keep making this type of content, it's fantastic.

Verdun, Tannenberg and Isonzo are three very different games. The gunplay and such is similar but the maps are very different as they are meant to represent different styles of warfare during WWI. Verdun was really popular for a long time as it was the first but when the devs announced the sequel Tannenberg, it split the fanbase as it was a standalone game. It had some gameplay improvements but it was pretty similar so maybe it should've been DLC. Ever since Tannenberg released the games playerbase dwindled as it basically got split. I'd say Isonzo is different enough in some ways to warrant a wholely separate game but in others... not so much. I know the devs love the games though. I did beta testing on Tannenberg and the devs care the most about historical authenticity. Verdun was made because they wanted to make a fully historically accurate game about WWI, or at the very least feel like one. I dont know if it is active or not, but they had a discord server where they would regularly just talk about history. I dont think the dev team is huge. Games are great but its a shame about the playerbase size.

Easy Red 2 is mainly a single player game. as the multiplayer servers are all P2P with no dedicated hosting so it entirely depends on if players are hosting to see a server. it is far from dead especially with all the amazing workshop content and excellent dev marco. also you were playing workshop content not dev made maps in this video. that's why there was so many bugs.

So glad to see urban terror, was my first pc fps game ever and I have many great memories on it. Jump maps are so iconic too, so much nostalgia.

Tribes is my childhood along with my step father and step grandfather. those were some core memories and truly the greatest hours of my life. thanks for showing off this game Rye

Urban Terror, the very best game! Thanks for putting us in the spotlight ❤

Isonzo in European peak times, is really active. For instance,less than a week ago , there were at least 6 servers active with actual people. As someone who had started playing Verdun(since its beta days), I am so happy to see Isonzo being updated regularly!

Thanks for featuring Urban Terror!! I used to come home from school everyday and play Gun Game. Even after the lobbies stopped being full, I still would hop on to just enjoy jumping around the map. The movement is SOOOO FUUUN. Thanks for reminding me about this gem. I need to hop on and give it another shot.

Tbh Easy Red 2 isn't really a dead game, it's just that the multiplayer aspect of the game isn't really developped. Most people who have the game make custom missions with it.

i never knew about isonzo and as an italian that lives near the Piave (the river that is a map in the game) and near the Cinque Torri (another map that i saw in the video) it's crazy how good the ambientation is. i could genuinly tell where all the location in map were and it was really cool. love ya vids and keep on w/ your channel! Love frome Italy

Seeing tribes on here is a real throwback for me. I remember playing the original on dial up Internet. Those were the days

Congrats on the 200k, just before Christmas! Lovely video to have on while editing.

Urban Terror has been one of my favorite games for years, my older brother got me into it back when we played quake 3 heavy. Also Tribes is so sick aerial assault on ps2 was another we played heavy, there's still a community that runs ps2 servers I play on every now and then. Having 2 of my favorites that no one ever really talk about definitely got a sub :)

tis is why it is so hard and frustrating joining a multiplayer game late. You're up against tons of people who just know all the tricks and places and stuff. It needs a lot of patience to do that. Especially as someone who does not do that all the time.

I can't believe you put Darkest Hour here... played this many years ago and was like a constant player back then. I didn't like the direction it went with the base building and whatnot but it was a ton of fun especially when that game was like a light in the darkness for me.

My son and I used to have SO MUCH FUN playing Urban Terror together and I totally forgot it existed and those memories until watching this. Thank you and great series

I am so glad you covered urban terror :) one of my teenagehood game! Which also taught me mapmaking. You actually jumped on a remake I made of a famous map (3:40) we had back then, before they switched engine.

Grew up on Tribes 2 and MOHAA in middle school where we had a class where it was always packed playing LAN games. Picked up on Urban Terror in high school but had honestly forgot about it. Cool to see them come up here.

What I also love about Isonzo is the realistic voicelines. As an Austrian it surprised me to hear them yell in an Austrian dialect

I freaking love this series. It’s so entertaining! 👍🏻

I remember spending a tons of time on BST Jump on Urban Terror completing the map with the best time possible and helping other people. Such great memories.

Our boy Rye finally 200k! When I found him, I wanna say a Lil less than 100k. Proud to be here b4 he blows up and hits 1mil. Keep it up Rye! You make my night every single night!!! 🎉🎉🎉😊

Come on Rye, you should be adding chapters to your timeline ! 00:20 Urban Terror 05:38 Tribes Ascend 10:04 Isonzo 12:38 Pirates, Vikings and Knights II 15:15 Easy Red 2 17:50 Darkest Hour Europe '44-'45

Happy to see Darkest Hour here! A lot of love is put in the game and we are still working hard on new content.

I absolutely loved Tribes ascend. The movement was so fun once you got the hang of it.

kinda crazy that i'm all the way from brasil and youtube recomended your video from nowhere, and i got shocked when the first game was urban terror, my eyes literally watered from nostalgia it was the first game that i made friends back when i was like 11 years old, and the logo of the game its my steam profile picture for a long time. amazing video man

Man i started to play Darkest Hour regularly since June of this year, the mod is so good im glad that you covered it

I actually remember playing Isonzo for a fair bit of time. I also played Verdun aswell. Both great games but the biggest issue is that it just get's repetitive. When isonzo first came out with in 20-30 hours of the game I was racking up 80-100+ kills each game with the Officer or Marksman class. While being at the top of the leaderboard was fun after some time it just felt like the more experienced you got at the game the less interesting it got. But when you start fresh something about being cannon fodder and fearing for your character's life is what made the game fun from the start. but again my biggest issue is that once you learned the mechanics, artillery calling spots and how to overpower the entire team you become an overpowered killing machine which defeats the whole purpose of re-creating the horrors of WW1. Although this is technically not the developers fault I can't help but point out this is one of the reasons why I stopped playing the game.

man Urban Terror takes me right back, used to play it in Lan Nights with friends all the time in highschool.

Oh yes urban terror. I played this so much as a kid. There was a train station map and would snipe there all day long. There was some kind of castle map too .

Urban terror is still one of the best games. First found it 10 years ago and still love it

Man, I used to quite literally inhale Tribes when it released. That game gave me something that not even CS gave me. Every single kill felt satisfying and like an achievement and playing with friends made it even better. Good times. Wish a good publisher would pick up the game and do something with it. I sincerely hope that Tribe 3 can live up to my ideas of what I wish for it to be.

I played A LOT of DH for a few years after it released, a lot of fun memories. Used to be really good at beaning dudes with the Kar 98 from long distance.

always good to see darkest hour

Dude. Revenant in Darkest Hour is literally famous in that tiny community. He's a bipolar lawyer who has extensive lore in the community. I've bitched him out so many times for being a miserable twat, it's really bewildering seeing him in a youtube video. His famous line is "HOW MANY HOURS DO YOU HAVE??? I'M FRIENDS WITH THE DEVELOPER AND I'M GONNA HAVE YOU BANNED."

thank you for showing off urban terror game. its beeing worked on ever since its first beta. the game has a unique combination of fast pace action and some jumping skills usage that helps the better players. it might be hard at the beginning to understand all that but after some time it comes naturally as you could experiance yourself. congratz for reaching 200k subscribers. big moment for a channel like yours =)

Oh my god, i used to play PVK II a ton a bunch of years ago, nice to see it still being around

i remember playing pirates, vikings and knight back in the day. when it was just a mod you needed to install manually. had a pretty big playerbase. just a fun silly game to sink some time in to. good to some people are still playing it, even if it is not a lot.

I have over 12k hours in easy red 2

Man, seeing urban terror just unlocked a memory I forgot I had.

one of my favorite games of all time is prolly nationstates. it has a pretty large community that have stuck with it since the very beginning in 2002. it has grown in popularity ever since and has one of the friendliest communities i have ever been apart of. i started playing in 2015 and i don't think i'll ever stop.

Hey Rye, theres a fantastic game on steam that launched back in 2019. Its called Infinity Battlescape. Its one of the best massive PvP or PvAI space shooters ever created. Unfortunately it only launched with about 300 players or so and died within a month. The most interesting fact about this game? It was originally titled Infinity: The Quest for Earth and was envisioned as a space MMO waaaayy back in 2006. This was long before Star Citizen was even an idea. So technically, people have been waiting for nearly 13-14 years for it, only to be DOA.

Except for Easy Red 2, I've put so many hours into every game in this video. Urban Terror, Tribes and PVK II are so much fun and so well made, it's such a shame they are all slowly but surely dying. I know you can find players in all of these games still (mostly) but it's getting harder and harder. I'm so glad Rye and a few other KZfaqr's are now doing videos like this, exploring amazing games/mods that either used to be big populated games or just chug along and deserve more attention.

Something I enjoyed learning is that Pirates Vikings and Knights 1 was a mod for battlefield 2 of all things

Man, UT was my childhood fps, mainly because I didn't own any CS and UT was free... I have so many vivid memories of that game, of jumping around on the Swimming Pool map (game had some swimming and underwater shooting IIRC), as well as fighting for the ski-resort gondolas and falling into the icy waters below, where people were camping to shoot you down while trying to get out of the water. I had a lot of fun, and I'm grateful to my father for introducing me to it and playing with me from time to time.

"it's all good bro, you're here" made me genuenly tear up followed by the emotional music you played esp in the insonzo part never played these games myself but many others and this kinda sparked the memories

I've been on and off of "Isonzo" since day one. I find that most new players leave because it's not fast-paced, run and gun action. It's true to WWI in that you have to rush the enemy, take massive losses, and somehow wrestle away a capture or bomb by pure grit and dedication. The officers also make a world of difference, bad officers lead to losing more often than not. And if the scouts and officers aren't working in conjunction with one another, it severely hampers the team's ability to advance, or hold a position. If people communicate like they do in "Hell Let Loose" they often find themselves absolutely overwhelming the enemy. But even if nobody is talking, it's still fun to get crazy and ruin somebody's day with a bayonet to the chest, or a climbing pick to the head. I'm about to hop back into Isonzo again for the first time in two months, I don't think I'll ever actually put the game down. I hope you and your Discord community can put together some servers and just have an absolute time of it like us veterans do.

Tribes was legitimately a great game series, and I had a blast playing it growing up. I still have the Tribes 2 disk from way back!

Very Happy to see Urban terror. It is fantastic and the community was always kind and inviting.

i genuinely love these videos i just turned 16 and whenever i was 11-14 me and my friends would play tf2 old csgo because its all our computers could handle and thats all i really did through ym young teen years and recentley ive been feeling like ive wasted them these videos are nostalgic and sad to me at the same time and it really reminds me that even though all i did was play hose old dead games i was still with the people i cared about and thats never a wast thank you rye

ive been binging this series. You have me saving for another pc and getting back into touch with people i used to play these games with, i appreicate it

the "exploring dead games" series is so underrated. you are doing a great job rye and deserve more subs.

I love when your videos pop up in my feed! Not only do I get to explore games I've never even heard of with still active communities, I also get to listen to the Undertale soundtrack again which is a real treat. Absolutely fantastic content, I'm so glad I found your channel!

revenant is always making DH matches fun lol hes kinda annoying sometimes, but the community loves him

I love this series and your editing. Simplistic and not full of nonsense reminds me of old KZfaq! Cheers bro

I love how you give these games justice. You give them a genuine try and try to see why they were popular, and even try to find extra info about them. There are real people who spent hundreds or thousands of hours of their life on those games, and it's definitely worth it to try and see why. I would suggest you try Tribes 1 and 2, Enemy Territory Legacy, Quake Wars, and Renegade X, as well, for the next games.

Love that you covered pirates Vikings & knights, such a good game. shame it takes awhile to get a decent server with some players. Love you vid as usual man a lot of good games you covered there.

It breaks my heart that Izonso doesn't have a larger community, it's truly fantastic.

Yo, big ups for covering urban terror. Most servers are empty, but there are at least 2 ctf servers that are constantly full, and many other servers which fill and empty throughout the day either by chance or by pre-scheduled play times. The recent tourney you mentioned had over 4k games played in it. 5.0 Is coming. The devs are an all volunteer staff with all the usual other commitments, so it's slow going, but the game is currently in closed alpha testing. Also the jumping you mentioned is just the tip of the iceberg for UrT movement. It's the movement that has kept me playing all these years, the more you progress at learning the deeper the gameplay goes.

hey, these are my favorite videos since the last few weeks. The music and your commentary are so icocnic and amusing. Thank you and keep it up.❤

It was really nice to see Tribes Ascend. Tribes was an amazing series. My favorite of all time. I made a few life-long friends playing those games.

DAMN I remember playing old urban terror movement maps, what a sick game

There’s a really cool game called ‘’memories of mars’’, it’s unfortunately completely dead but it’s a weird survival game on mars. It looks good and plays alright, it’s a shame it’s been dead for years. You should give it a try.

Hey cool, I was the guy that stood on your head in PVK2. The one day I decided to try playing after almost a year of inactivity. If only I knew you were up to. I was a beta tester for 3 years and took some of the screenshots on the store page. Cool of you to give the game attention.

Oh I remember Tribes Ascend. Dude the gameplay was soooo good. I really loved how the Play button was grayed out just right to keep you waiting in anticipation of maybe possibly pressing it one day. I uninstalled shortly after and forgot the game existed.

i love your dead game series 😭

In PVK2 you get the treasure chests and take them to your base, then the number on top goes up slowly until you get a certain point and it will determine the win. The more chests you have the faster the number goes up.

Pirates, Vikings and Knights 2... I used to play it all the time. I think one of the problems is that the updates to it just came out too slow. When it launched there was only 1 player type for each faction with more promised... Then those updates never really came and people stoped playing. Then those updates did come but I think too late, I went back in to check things out but even then themplayer count was very low and not like when the game first launched. It had a lot going for it and a unique idea... Also I'll say it again, you should check out Return to castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. I have no idea if people play it anymore...

When I got into PC gaming back around 2011 I remember hearing about tribes and how good it was. I tried Ascend around when it came out but being a noob to PC gaming a family computer that couldn't really "run" the game so much as show me slideshows of this game called Tribes. Of course I dropped it then and there but it's always sat at the back of my mind knowing how beloved the game was and how unique of a role it played in the FPS scene. I'm glad to hear that there's a new game coming out for all of the fans who stuck around.

PVK2 is insanely good game. More people should try it.

Rafterman is my family’s nickname for me. That actually caught me off guard.

Great video!!! I would suggest u a game called S4 League. It got taken down and the community revived the game and called is S4 Xero. S4 League came out in 2007. It even had eSport.

My game..... Tribes.... Seeing you play that is actually so heartwarming.

You should show Quake Champions in one of these videos! It's almost dead, and it's basically the last Arena FPS in which you can still find games without going on Discord (though it takes a while). The game was kind of sabotaged by id and Bethesda, but it was a passion project made by og Quake devs, and it's really good, it uses the Hero Shooter framework in order to have old style Quake but with the movement types of a bunch of different Arena Shooters (including Quake World, Quake 3A, Quake 3 CPMA, Quake 4, and sort-of Unreal Tournament)

Love these! It's fun to think of these worlds people created years ago still being visited today.

I love the Sound between the games it already gives me goosebombs

There's something beautiful about this series of videos

I'm really glad you checked out Darkest Hour, it's a great mod. but again, Fifth attempt : you should check out red orchestra 1 & 2 along with Rising Storm 1&2 If you liked Darkest Hour You might also like the ones I mentioned above.

I used to play OS RuneScape with the sole intention of helping newer, younger players. Wholesome communities pull my heartstrings 😊

Oh man, randomly clicked this & seeing Tribes Ascend really sent me back. It somehow feels like it was older than 2012, but that's mostly because 2012 was a special year in its own way, where a lot of my time was filled between WoW & Tribes. Good times :')

Looking on these games and people who play in them I'm feeling a strong sense of hopelessness, these games feel like a limbo for dead souls. But on the other side that looks kinda wholesome how people are able to enjoy games that no one knows about

Hopefully people start playing urban terror more.

7:44 that guy def loves that game so much. You can feel the loneliness and happiness in those words.

Seeing Isonzo, or technically the entire WW1 series here, makes me very sad. The playerbase is incredibly dedicated, but also so small...

honestly love the vibe of that forest in darkest hour, very atmospheric

I dunno why but talking about old games over undertale music warms my heart.

"3 manbear compliments" probably been the most important thing that evening :D

My old man's been a regular Tribes 2 player for the past couple decades and is still playing it to this day. Only game he's really had a knack for.

Pirates, Vikings and Knights II (PVK II) is a great game. I've played it basically since it came out and before that there was a short-lived original PVK. The player base sort of goes in cycles. Some years back we had a "french invasion" where some French dude apparently made the game popular for a while and we reached the all-time high of an average of 60 active players most of the day. It was quite chaotic. Otherwise it often depends on new updates which will draw in some of the old-timers who've drifted off and possibly some newcomers if they're told about it. Occasionally it's been revived a bit by tournaments or even clan deathmatches. If you log in at the right time you might find a server with around 24 active people still.

7:38 Tribes: *Gets encouragement* Other games: "Skill issue"

hey, these are my favorite videos since the last few weeks. The music and your commentary are so icocnic and amusing. Thank you and keep it up.

Cool highlight of lesser known games! I really like the format of exploring less known or "dead" games. Two things to point out, you wrote Isonzo was released in 2000 in the intro title card, but it should be 2022 and the timeline reads "aanso" instead of "Isonzo" :D

I adored Tribes Ascend when it first came out. It was so fun, and after not playing for a few years I went back only to find the game dead. I really miss it.

I've always watched your vids but realized that I've never subscribed so time to do that great videos btw its very entertaining (congrats on 200k)