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Its cool how easy ot it has been to get used to fully ramblomatic. Like before i would click on funny game man with yellow background, now i click on funny game man with red background lol

I like when we get Fully Ramblomatic videos on games I've never heard of instead of whatever the latest AAA game to come out is.

I hate it when retro games don't give you a map because "back in my day we didn't get a map!" You absolutely got a map back in your day, Doom literally had a map button

I bought the game while it was still in early acess and once it supposedly came out I spent an entire evening marveling at how utterly weird and seemingly unfinished it obviously is. The last drop for me was that multi-headed blue ghost in that library I am not sure my shots did anything to... And then I ran out of ammo and realized I had no idea of what I was doing in there anyway.

I always thought it'd be fun to have a sewer level that literally lasts for three seconds. Like, some NPC is, "quick! he went into the sewer!" and you're like "oh god sewer level" and you go into the sewer and round a corner and there's the exit.

Guilty of being Nester Nostalgia Blinders here, 'A Door Has Opened on [Hub World Name]'. That was the text Hexen used to tell you to go back to the Hub World and check, indicating you were done on the side area you were in for now. And Hexen did have map screens. You could actually move around and shoot while you had it up even if you couldn't see the monsters. Sounds like they put a lot of effort into carving off all the good parts of Hexen and serving up what was left. - Favorite sewer level: Toxic Seahorse in Mega Man X3, a series that avoids the usual issues by increasing mobility in water, and X3 even provides a ride armor designed for use in it.

“A queefing stick insect.” My god, Yahtz, there is a wonderful war-zone between your ears.

There's a tendency to imagine and remember Hexen and Heretic (and Doom for that matter) as being very... brown. But take a look at a few screenshots of those games, and see just how much high saturation primary colour there actually is - it's way more than one would expect, especially compared to the murky brownfests of the mid 2000s. My theory is that, compared to the eye-bleeding 16 colour EGA games that were around just a little bit earlier, anything would look brown and monotone.

CULTIC's gotten two cameos in ZP/FR now and I can't decide if it'd be an honor or a nightmare to have my pride and joy dissected by Yahtzee

"Ofcourse there is no map !" Wanna know the funny fact ? I started Graven by mistake literal hour or so before it updated itself to the release version and had some time to play in its pre-release build... *AND GUESS WHAT - IT USED TO HAVE A MAP !!! IT WAS SET TO THE "M" KEY ON THE KEYBOARD, I SWEAR TO NON-EXISTENT GOD !!!*

"We haven't had a hexen like game yet." What about Amid Evil?

Conker's Bad Fur day is a fever dream I have to remind myself actually existed and was awesome

Quoth the Graven - Eat my keys.

Just like to butt in and say that Cultic is the absolute best of the Blood clones and I absolutely loved it to death

Not me cracking up at John Romero being the green/brown wilderness.

The Knightmare reference had me rolling... I feel old.

Aww, the end screen animation is so adorable

"With all the Satisfying sound and action of a queefing stick insect" Whelp, that's a new sentence if I have ever needed one

I love that little turtle on the key and must acquire.

Don't havea favorite sewer level but I do remember that part in Paper Mario TTYD where Mario shows his plumber cred and escapes being trapped in the Glitz Pit Bathrooms by going through the toilet like a warp pipe.

My favorite sewer level would be from Jak 2, where you hoverboard all the way down through the sewers while doing kickflips and killing monsters.

Not that anyone asked, but the map shown at 2:46 is for Six Flags Great Escape in Queensbury, NY and yes I have a problem.

I can't be the only one that was really disappointed with the Icon of Sin and Azegoth (or whatever Quakes last boss was). I fought a painting on a wall and a house plant

Yahtzee sounds sick in this one

There is so much snark in this FR I thought I was teleported back to 2008, i love it

My favorite sewer level is Crash Bandicoot 2's The Eel Deal. Mostly because of the soundtrack.

My favorite sewer level is the one in Ratchet and Clank 3. The one where you collect sewer crystals for the plumber and fight amoeboids.

I'm just gonna come out and say it - I'm a huge fan of not having a yellow background to Yahtzee videos anymore

I cannot wait to hear Yahtzee rip into SS:KtJL

Graven's cover art just screams "Shadow Priest Murder Gang! We love backtracking across 9 of the fuckers!"

5:47 TMNT Arcade Game - Mousers coming in through holes in the walls 🐁

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire has a particularly oppressive sewer level that's main appeal is the relief felt after getting past it. Gun Godz by Vlambeer has a sewer level, and I don't remember having a single bad time with that game. it was wonderful.

Thank you for your work!

Yahtzee has a true gift for representing the bile that comes from hours of mild frustration

I really like John Egbert's new KZfaq channel.

Don't you worry, I never get any of the face references.

I miss the original intro/outro, but this is starting to grow on me.

Favourite sewer level has got to be Sewer Surfin' from Turtles in Time

2:13 I know that map so freaking hard

“We bless ‘em We bleed ‘em” I laughed way too hard at that 😂

"A door opened somewhere." "You have solved one of the six puzzles in the Citadel." Or, my favorite, the Flame Mask (or whatever it was called): Which, when picked up, goes in your inventory with your usable items, because it is a usable item. Except it can only be used at a specific spot to open a piece of wall, because it's really just a funny-shaped key that fits a camouflaged door and might as well have been replaced with a switch and the infamous "door somewhere" message, because that would have been a LESS obtuse design choice.

Wooo, finally, the inevitable Inverness shout-out 😁

Loving the end credit theme. Huge upgrade as far as I'm concerned!

A hexen like game with sewer levels i think Civvie11 will be all over this game soon.

I give it a like before even watching and I was never disappointed.

I know exactly what happened with the mana refills. The devs saw playtesters ignore spells. To fix this, they didn't buff spells, make them more interesting, or any normal solution. They figured the players were being stingy with their mana reserves and dumped way more on them to encourage its use, after which playtesters probably started using the spells if only to feel better about not leaving extra pickups behind when they found more mana in the next six seconds.

in terms of wizard based retro FPS games, there's also Amid Evil but that's sort of its own weird thing instead of directly being hexen/heretic from what I've seen of those games, since it's really bright and colorful instead of looking like a jpg of a swamp.

I don't mind admitting it took me a full 10 seconds to get the "gray van" joke and then burst out laughing. 😅

No! The Hexen remake was AMID EVIL! and the Thief remake will possibly be Gloomwood. what an odd spot games are in

That observation on nostalgia really hits close to home, as a self-avowed sperg who loves turn-based RPGs. A genre so massively neglected, especially by AAA, and most indie devs are only trying to ape a few particular schools of turn-based combat rather than explore the genre and do something new (even if not entirely original). And the schools of turn-based RPGs that I often see mostly covered are: the Mario RPG class of button prompts, the Chrono Trigger style of pseudo-active combat, the FF6 case of "kinda turn-based but enemies will still have their move if you're undecided".

Can confirm, did not notice Dalneigh when driving through Inverness

I love this song

PS2 memory card fucking send me Fucking glad the day of juggling several cards for different set of games is a past tense now.

Wow that Hexen cover unlocked memories

Nice to see Treguard from Knightmare in a review.

Hexen... One of those games I loved not because it was good, but because there wasn't anything better at the time. Also, it came out almost 30 years ago. Excuse me, I'm gonna check if there's any sales on coffins going on...

My favorite sewer level is all the sewer missions in Baldur's Gate 2. They've got a talking sword down there!

Thanks!

There's only two sewer levels in games I don't outright hate, and those would be the ones from Crash Bandicoot 2 and Jak II. The former for at least being colourful and having bumpin' music and the latter for being atmospheric and with some fun exploration (at least until that escort mission)

"Caring about things is dumb lol" yeah that really is at the root of a lot of stuff, isn't it.

I learned so many brand new sentences watching this

I feel personally attacked

Favorite sewer level in gaming? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, circa 1990. The thing came with its own black and white map of the secret sewer system.

Thanks again

To be honest, the dial up modem did wake me up many times in the before times.

The background did a wipe effect from green to red and I nearly died of a heart attack

This review timing is a bit funny to me since I just rewatched Yahtzee's Let's Drown Out Hexen video

I got some good sewer levels that are actually fun for once not counting Conker’s great example: Residue Processing in Half Life, especially the Black Mesa version Pit Worm’s Nest in Half Life Opposing Force. Imagine Conker’s one without the comedy nor opera singing Lud’s Gate in Tomb Raider 3 Louvre Storm Drains in Tomb Raider 6 The Cistern & Tomb of Tihocan in Tomb Raider 1, especially the TRAE (cancelled Core Design remake) versions, Alpha build or not Route Kanal in Half Life 2. Dark Interval & Raising the Bar Redux’s counterparts aren’t bad either Jacknife in Mirror’s Edge The Sewers in Dying Light 1, like a cross between the two aforementioned ME & HL2 ones Every level with sewage in it (not strict a sewer level) in Marathon 2: Durandal & Marathon Infinity Defend THIS, Couch Fishing & No Artificial Colors in Marathon Redux Streptococcal Pfhorignutus (or however the fuck you spell it) in Marathon Eternal 1 or 2 sewers in the Dungeon course & the Singapore Market Course sewer in an old Minecraft adventure map called T3C Parkour. Bonus points for entering those areas requires flushing yourself down a toilet and swimming out of another one, with the market sewer being required to finish the “level”. Area 51 in Duke Nukem Forever 2011’s DLC, The Doctor Who Cloned Me. Similar to the Singapore Market in Minecraft complete with coming out of a john in a row of cubicles except the sewage is a realistic pipe as opposed to an Aberdeen/Edinburgh/London/New York/Tokyo style underground poo canal. There’s even floating turds and used tampons someone flushed away. The water treatment plant in Ion Maiden (forgot its name. No, it’s not Power Up as the one I mean comes after the Sonic Adventure 2 Inclinator section & abandoned hospital) The Watercourse & Sewers levels in Puddle, an obscure liquid physics puzzle game

The glasses.

First, two really good sewer levels are the Dunwall Sewers from the opening mission of Dishonored, and Route Canal from Half-Life 2. Secondly, is it just me, or does the intro music for Fully Ramblomatic sound vaguely like the music from the opening cinematic from Thief : The Dark Project ? Not complaining, just a personals observation. Third and final, at 0:17 , is that David Bowie's face?

I am happy this are still a thing

Looks Interesting for sure

Scat fetish Lego enthusiasts is so incredibly specific xD

I loved the unique enemy designs in Heretic/Hexen. in Graven they all seem to be the same dull looking zombie-ish thing.

I do miss the "old" tune... but the new one is growing on me, I like that it reminds me of DOOM music, which is pretty fitting for z... Fully Ramblomatic!

Good choice with Conker's Bad Fur Day.

I still just love that weird grungey atmosphere.

After seeing positive reviews/vids being sponsored by this game, I kept thinking "I hope Yahtzee reviews this so I can get a proper analysis of it"

I tried Hexen when it came out, I tried Hexen just a few years ago, and both times it was a big pain in the ass.

Nice ending statement

I see Yahtz is going back to his faster-speaking phase, and I'm *here* for it. (also please take care of your wonderful voice and drink plenty of honey & lemon tea, you handsome bastard)

Amid Evil is the game to play if you want Hexen like combat.

Just wanted to give a big shot out to Amid Evil. Played that and a little bit of hexen 2 and I can whole heartedly promote Amid Evil!!!

Yahtzee sounds sick. I hope he feels better soon.

Huh, i didnt expect to see this here!

Thanks, now I have to go play Hexen

Ooh, the Doors!

It's fun to remember all the good things we had back in the past. But actually living through it again you'd quickly remember all the bad things. There were so damn many too. You just lived with it because, well that was life then, it was all we had so you made the best of it.

I like the sewer level in Crash Team Racing :D

Y Halo Thar Treguard Dunshelm, nice to see you cling onto relevance

Speaking of classic 90s games, when are we finally getting a retro review of Duke Nukem 3D?!!!

You're telling _me_ there's a lot of retro shooters these days; it took me a quick check of my browsing history to confirm that this isn't even the same _Hexen_ clone that came out recently that I'm already aware of.

I’m slightly fascinated by the show’s characters all wearing glasses now, I presume for copyright takedown evasion reasons. It’s an extra quirk to the presentation that my brain has been surprisingly quick to accept

2:19 I'm such a Doom nerd that I got distracted looking at the maps trying to guess what the levels were... So far I recognise Entryway, E1M1 (Hangar), Refuelling Base but I can't seem to recognise the one in the top left and the bottom right.

Hexen did have a map, and it did help, but not enough not to get hard-stuck on the second level anyway. Seven Portals get really confusing about the time you open the fourth or fifth of the buggers.

Edgey yahztee is back and I'm here for it

Anyone else want to see him Yahtzee bash Silent Hill: The Short Message?

I came straight to the comments for the Knightmare reference. Ooooh, nasty

The only thing I remember about Hexen is that I rented it when I was a little kid and couldn’t figure out how to get through the menu and start the game.