Selaco | Fully Ramblomatic

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Ай бұрын

This week on Fully Ramblomatic, Yahtzee reviewed Selaco.
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@deathsyth8888 Ай бұрын

He said GZ Doom as "Gee Zee Doom" instead of "Gee Zed Doom". He's fully acclimated to being an American now. Full Brit Yahtzee would be turning in his grave right round if he heard that.

@vystaz Ай бұрын

australians use zee and zed interchangeably

@inventiveusername5191 Ай бұрын

We do accept the American pronunciation in the titles of things sometimes. No-one over here calls them Zed Zed Top even to take the piss.

@nothingbeast Ай бұрын

I'm an American living in Australia. Let me tell you the first time I naturally tossed out "sanga" instead of "sandwich" my whole friggin' brain brought everything to a screeching halt to assess how the hell it happened. It sure didnt take long for me to pick up on some of these words. I'm a bit more stubborn on the whole "thongs" VS "flip flops" exchange, for some reason.

@ninjacat230 Ай бұрын

we got him

@FryazinoStation Ай бұрын

Probably because only Mr. Icarus says "gee zed doom", and this pronunciation might as well be his registered trademark (unfunny joke)

@etansivad Ай бұрын

Wait until Yhatzee discovers that there's a whole Sonic game (Sonic Robo Blast 2) and Mario Kart (Ring Racers) clone made in Doom.

@DinnerForkTongue Ай бұрын

To say nothing of Ashes 2063. Now _that_ is a mod.

@just_matt214 Ай бұрын

Two kart racers actually, Ring Racers is the sequel to Sonic Robo Blast Kart 2.

@ariloulei814 Ай бұрын

Ring Racers is the more recent project of Kart Krew and it's amazing. It incorporates aspects from F Zero as well and is possibly one of the deepest Kart Racers that exists. It has 200 stages which is a bit much but it takes a long time to unlock things and the levels get increasingly more complex to the point that I now understand old complaints about motion sickness in Doom.

@badcopnodonut08 Ай бұрын

Yeah, but nobody but the most depraved cretins of the internet care about any sonic game.

@kevinthedot Ай бұрын

Inconsistent art being the result of a lot of artists hopping in and on a small project is actually the best reason nowadays. At least it's not like that cause they didn't care and just used image generation leading to inconsistent art.

@DinnerForkTongue Ай бұрын

Yea, that's not much of a thing in the Doom community. We tend to not care for AI-generated slop very much, especially because of the old map generator SLIGE.

@pondwhale Ай бұрын

sure its definitely the most honest reason for inconsistent art, but it still has the result of making the game feel inconsistent

@trainee5471 Ай бұрын

@@DinnerForkTongue That's the second time I randomly encounter SLIGE being mentioned, both times in negative light What's the drama with SLIGE?

@DinnerForkTongue Ай бұрын

@@trainee5471 It's a random map generator that spews out garbage. It works... _mostly fine_ as a baseline for mapping, but for a while plenty of hacks in the community made entire 32-map wads generated by SLIGE (or its later version, OBLIGE) and tried to pass it off as original work.

@SinaelDOverom Ай бұрын

@@trainee5471 SLIGE was the first level generator for Doom that manged to dish out decent playable levels with enough tweaking. So users started uploading a truckload of SLIGE generated wads to Doomworld archive, which inevitebly led to DoomWorld banning all SLIGE uploads (luckily it left a signature on its maps). Years wen on, SLIGE evolved into OBLIGE, then OBHACK then OBADDON then OBSIDIAN which is currently the best level generator which can provide really good levels (with some tweaking). It still leaves a signature and wads made with it are still banned on DoomWorld.

@MagusSerling Ай бұрын

I kind of want a game that has all those text logs but if you don’t read them, the main character is exactly as clueless as what they’re doing as the player is.

@Carlos-ln8fd Ай бұрын

Lol that'd be great

@Brawph Ай бұрын

Think it might run into the same player-optimization as "Skill points from "reading" random books" in elder scrolls games. Players just end up opening and closing every book they find even if they don't want to read them.

@Carlos-ln8fd Ай бұрын

@@Brawph i think it'd just end up affecting the story but not giving you any benefits as a player.

@Deadener Ай бұрын

This happens in 'Until Dawn'. If the player doesn't find certain notes, the character playing that section doesn't understand what happened in the sub plot, and they just fumble their words when they meet another character and try to tell them. One example is the story of the trapped miners in the sanitorium section. You can blaze past every note, and Mike will just go, "yeah something bad happened in that place, I dunno". You can actually miss the main explanation of the plot because of this design choice.

@MagusSerling Ай бұрын

@@Brawph There's ways to mitigate that. one particular ingenious way was that in outer wilds, not reading any of the lore made figuring out what you had to do practically impossible. you NEEDED to read what the documents were about to get an inkling of what you could do to solve the greater mystery. Same thing with Obra dinn. Some people might be speedrunning in that way, sure. but that doesn't mean those games cannot function simply because that specific kind of player exists, right? We have a lot of people play undertale grinding for EXP just like any other RPG that turned out to be a trap. but few people criticize the game for that.

@hrmmmmmm Ай бұрын

"more smoke than Joan of Arc's birth canal" ....OOF

@ShadofofaMermaid Ай бұрын

I laughed so fucking hard XD

@alldayagain Ай бұрын

I'm not sure if it was an additional underhand dig at her being... "dry"? 🤔😅

@crazyjak56 Ай бұрын

@@alldayagain She was burned at the stake.

@ZincMaster Ай бұрын

I had to stop the video on that joke, it was that good of a burn pun intended scroll down to the comments and this is top

@lionocyborg6030 Ай бұрын

@@crazyjak56could be a reference to both.

@sandrinowitschM Ай бұрын

I think its a real shame when modern games dont have working mirrors.

@lika290kuk Ай бұрын

Well they have working shop with skins

@echo5827 Ай бұрын

Idk reflections are hard, can't get away with cubemaps. Raytracing solves but only for 5% of users, pip tanks frame rate, you basically have to do rtt which is annoying and it still looks weird and isn't "real"

@alldayagain Ай бұрын

@echo5827 which is funny that a lot of mirrors in games are cheating or working around the issue of programming a reflection 😅

@sandrinowitschM Ай бұрын

@@echo5827 I guess there's technical reasons and stuff but dammit if Duke Nukem 3D could do it... It just feels wrong that modern games somehow can't. I thought this was the fucking future??

@billmore6486 Ай бұрын

Do you like your frame rate? Then no reflections

@koober4281 Ай бұрын

Doom modders have the same energy as artists who make ridiculously detailed portrait in MS Paint, or bands making music with DIY instruments. They're tying to push some unwieldy tool to the absolute limits. Constraint breeds creativity.

@sovereign9645 Ай бұрын

Pretty sure the reason the there isn't much story context is because in the current build they haven't actually patched in character dialogue yet, Early Access, unfinished and all that. Also surprised he didn't mention FEAR at any point, since that is what the whole "entire scene getting filled with dust and particles effects every second" and "almost exclusively fighting flank-happy humanoid soldiers" aspects of the combat are trying to evoke, for better or worse. I for one have never been a big DOOM guy, but really loved FEAR and I'd recommend Selco for mostly the same reasons.

@actualFix Ай бұрын

The story should be coming in one of the upcoming updates, even before the other chapters

@aravindpallippara1577 Ай бұрын

The clever enemies reference made me immediately think of fear as well

@deadstroyer952 Ай бұрын

nah, i think the lack of much dialogue is intentional, dawn already has a couple tiny lines of dialogue at specific points.

@johnnydarling8021 Ай бұрын

Given how hard the devs are working to make a game like this in the DOOM engine. I think it's safe to say that they share the philosophy that the story should "be there" but not get in the way of the game. So, it's very possible that the story will remain text logs for anyone who actually cares. But I do agree that a game should be able to tell its story diegetically.

@sovereign9645 Ай бұрын

@@johnnydarling8021 Nah it definitely will have fully voiced characters. I've checked and the devs have stated that the first major content update will add full voice acting to the player character as well as other more direct story elements to the currently released episode.

@SquirellFriend Ай бұрын

"Wearing their bullets as nipple piercings" was an unexpected mental image

@gmodib Ай бұрын

I actually take this as Yahtzee liking the game. If he admitted it was enough to stand on its own as a full game and complained it’s splitting itself, that sounds like an endorsement to me

@SebastianMikulec Ай бұрын

Yahtzee not COMPLETELY ****ting on a game is the equivalent of most other reviewers fawning all over it.

@1Raptor85 Ай бұрын

@@SebastianMikulec don't disagree but even good games can have some real shit things, it's not really shitting on the game to call out the shitty parts of a decent game. The difference I think is mostly other reviewers only tend to cover the good and ignore the bad if they like the game, and only the bad if they don't, there's no in-between, everything is 10/10 or 0/10 unplayable.

@niceguyofgames9490 Ай бұрын

Definitely an endorsement, but don’t expect to see this on his top/bottom/middle 5 come end of year.

@gmodib Ай бұрын

@@SebastianMikulec He's actually talked about people holding this opinion in the past, back during ZP. He didnt agree with it & neither do I. To me, it just seems like he wanted more of what was an already acceptable game.

@GeorgeNoiseless Ай бұрын

This one of the most critical reviews Selaco will likely get. "But yeah It's fine. Now stop being fusspots and put the rest of it out". Come on.

@Gendo. Ай бұрын

Im so glad we still get to hear yahtzee each week

@JaimeNyx15 Ай бұрын

"Full of more smoke than Joan of Arc's birth canal" is going to live rent free in my head for a while.

@retrorapture4079 Ай бұрын

He actually referred to this game as 'fine'. Must be a GOTY contender in his eyes.

@megabubfish Ай бұрын

And yet the dev still got their panties in a bunch on Twitter.

@patricianpenguin Ай бұрын

@@megabubfish and in the comments on this video 😂

@Axisoflords Ай бұрын

@@patricianpenguinIt's a bad, poorly researched video that includes disinformation and a misunderstanding of the game's development and you yahtzee fanboys are glazing him for it.

@emilybarclay8831 Ай бұрын

@@Axisoflordscare to share what the disinformation was?

@LewdSCP1471A Ай бұрын

@@emilybarclay8831 Something something indie games aren't allowed to be critiqued something something you're not allowed to make jokes about this dev team.

@subtlewhatssubtle Ай бұрын

You know, every time I think I've become desensitized to all the possible Yahtzee-isms he's come up with, the man then comes up with phrases like "a spectacular feat of cranium bumhole intersection" that makes me burst out laughing.

@ayebraine Ай бұрын

or that Joan of Arc joke. caught me off guard for sure

@potatodadave Ай бұрын

Wow, this might be the shortest time between an indie game release and yahtzee reviewing it.

@lionocyborg6030 Ай бұрын

I bet that modding project that got cancelled due to nap time in the ending gag was the Duke Nukem 3D mod Yahtzee made before his Zero Punctuation days. It was about someone escaping from an Asylum.

@theintern2960 Ай бұрын

After reaching Dawn's underground survival bunker I had this sudden thought that maybe WE were meant to be the terrorists, that Dawn being in the hospital was all part of some elaborate plant to have her behind enemy lines when an attack happened and the brutal authoritarian government (who may or may not be alien conquerors) started dumping its clone/mutant soldiers into the city. Then you'd find out Selaco was some kind of Truman Show-style prison where a population of humans were being studied/held captive and fed lies about Earth's destruction in order to hide the truth that Earth was either fine or that it had been attacked by aliens and destroyed, and Dawn was one of a handful of freedom fighters trying to liberate its people and expose the truth or something. I mean, there are hints at it. The video games within the game that you can play allude to asteroids being flung at earth by alien starships and even the burger flipping game has some not-so-subtle hints about some vast alien conglomerate capturing worlds and building megastructures simply to chase the illusion of perpetual profit growth. I mean stop me if I'm wrong but there's a lot of subtext about what's actually going on that I wouldn't be surprised if any or most of these ideas is revealed to be the truth. Or yeah, the story might just be "clone soldiers go wrong, go kill bang happy shooty" and really, if that's it, then fine. Game's still decent even if the bad guys skew into the annoying and the whole metroid-vania "fast travel back to areas you've already explored" bit is only for completionists looking for all the secrets and you spend hours wandering big empty corridors so devoid of anything interesting that they all blur together without the constant pressure of enemy combatants to take your mind off it.

@lendol5462 Ай бұрын

You blow up the cloning facility because as a member of Aces you know what is happening down there and how badly it's fucked up. If the aliens release those plants and infected clones into the greater Selaco you are going to have a lot of trouble even if they manage to repeal the invasion. The reason i can infer all that is that the mission objective is called "Preventive Measures". Dawn was also part of the Earth Exodus mission and even seems sad that the possibility of a second one is very low.

@MentalParadox Ай бұрын

I really doubt Nexxtic put that much thought into it. Whenever the plot is brought up, he just says "it's aliens" with no explanation why they look human, or speak English

@AlternativeFoodie Ай бұрын

@@MentalParadox i'd probably say the same thing if i had a twist like that i wanted kept hidden

@BifronsCandle Ай бұрын

@@MentalParadoxThe game is intended to be more story focused in final release so I think he put in the thought. He just isn’t going to obviously spoiler a major part of the plot if it’s there.

@jolan_tru Ай бұрын

@@MentalParadox "I really doubt they put that much thought into it." *deeeeeeeep breath * HAAAA HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAAAA!!!

@titanjakob1056 Ай бұрын

My only big issue with this game is that there isn’t a full auto shotgun Cmon I wanna turn everyone into slush confetti!

@Gojirilla Ай бұрын

Considering how much Doom is in this games DNA, I think it's safe to say that along with the base shotgun we'll likely get a Super Shotgun somewhere down the line

@aemon5497 Ай бұрын

there's an upgrade for the nailgun that turns it into one

@CalavErik Ай бұрын

@@GojirillaWouldn't count on it. The base shotgun is powerful enough and there's a double barrel upgrade already in the game.

@kyotra Ай бұрын

The problem with full-auto shotguns in FPS games is they can be _very_ hard to balance - they tend to be overpowered as hell, and any attempt to reign it in ends up making the gun feel impotent, awkward, or frustrating.

@Mene0 Ай бұрын

2:30 "What cloning facility? Why?" Got a laugh out of me idk why

@redgeoblaze3752 Ай бұрын

I like how he threw in that little detail that they gave the review code to him. It's like he's preemptively saying "I'm not just bullying first time indies here, they asked for this."

@adamruiz3683 Ай бұрын

"I don't want to sound like I'm ragging on it." Sir, that's why we're all here.

@Leee275 Ай бұрын

The contrast between the reception here on KZfaq and Twitter is incredible

@emilybarclay8831 Ай бұрын

What happened on Twitter? I refuse to enter those particular dungeons

@Leee275 Ай бұрын

@@emilybarclay8831 One of the devs of Selaco complained about this video.

@Leee275 Ай бұрын

@@emilybarclay8831 Update, he deleted the tweet and apologized.

@MusicoftheDamned Ай бұрын

It's Twitter. It was *always* full of bitching unfortunately, even compared to how bad KZfaq can get at times.

@SvenneMEan1337 Ай бұрын

@@Leee275 he did? damn can you link it so we can revel in the misery? :D

@vinnythewebsurfer Ай бұрын

Yahtzee mentioning GoW regarding the “female sized” armor reminded me of that very GoW 4 review which has one of my favorite Yahtzee bits “it was like a Meerkat trying to infiltrate the gorilla sanctuary”.

@MoskalMedia Ай бұрын

I just went back to watch that Gears of War 4 review again and the Meerkat line made me laugh. One of his funniest bits.

@Thraim. Ай бұрын

I can respect a game that's cobbled together by 20 different people whenever they had spare time.

@robesdebah4811 Ай бұрын

There's something to be said for setting-based story telling in a dadshooter. It SHOULD be barebones. One almost wants a stray sprite or wall texture to give you pause. You end up sitting in front of it like a fellow at an impressionist art gallery trying to fit the thing into context. And when you do, if it's good, it makes the whole thing better.

@unironicallylikesranger7122 Ай бұрын

They also modded House of Leaves into Doom.

@UltimaDoombotMK1 Ай бұрын

MyHouse.wad my -beloved- much hated

@WrackPharmd Ай бұрын

That was freakin wild.

@UltimaDoombotMK1 Ай бұрын

@@ULTRAOutdoorsman Looks like someone didn't find the labyrinth in that one cupboard

@Romalac Ай бұрын

3:34 Won't spoil it for those yet to watch, but methinks this is a new high water mark for analogies. XD

@xShadowChrisx Ай бұрын

Ironic at the moment the comment above you spoils exactly that.

@t_k_blitz4837 Ай бұрын

Too late, hot plate...

@AB-fh9zh Ай бұрын

Rather impressive, even by Yahtzee's standards, I agree.

@Pratalax Ай бұрын

"full of more smoke than Joan of Arc's birth canal" ...you've still got it, Yahtz. Bloody hell xD

@AgentPothead Ай бұрын

How did the word FEAR just not be mentioned in this entire video?

@KoKey-hd4bm Ай бұрын

Easy, he don't play it 😭

@Brasswatchman Ай бұрын

Has Yahtzee played it, as far as we know?

@wearsjorge55 Ай бұрын

@Brasswatchman he's played fear. One of his older reviews

@Morgannin Ай бұрын

I suspect the fact that it was built on GZDoom just innately made him compare/lump it in with the modern trend of 90's throwback boomer shooters. I did find that comparison less apt when he mentioned the inclination to move slower and more cautiously after repeated ambushes, but he didn't seem to get that epiphany. Personally I haven't played it yet in order to know how strong the FEAR influence actually is.

@Brasswatchman Ай бұрын

@@wearsjorge55 Huh. I don't remember that one.

@Zeithri Ай бұрын

Nah. I'll never get tired of sprites.

@Alloveck Ай бұрын

I agree. ...As long as the resolution, palette, and total frames of animation aren't too low. (Add in total viewing angles not being too low as well if they're sprites in a FPS.) Quality sprites will never be unwelcome. On the other hand, I am definitely tired of low-budget and/or minimalist sprites, really old sprites limited by their really old hardware, modern sprites built to look like really old sprites made for really old hardware, and sprites made by rendering 3d models. So more accurately, I'll never get tired of high effort, not particularly retro, hand-drawn sprites. Which means that in practice, I'm unfortunately usually pretty tired of sprites.

@MusicoftheDamned Ай бұрын

Pretty sure Yahtzee is fine with sprites overall. He's just tired of them being used in 3D "boomer shooters", and even then I can see him having less issue if it wasn't yet another _Doom_ clone/mod.

@DuckoftheDraw Ай бұрын

@@MusicoftheDamned this isn't 3D. It's 2.5D. Anyone who wants a 2.5D shooter not to have sprites doesn't get an opinion on them.

@MusicoftheDamned Ай бұрын

@@DuckoftheDraw Sigh. "2.5D" is still above the standard 2D that sprites originated from, so it's effectively 3D or at least not 2D. I have no opinion otherwise one way or the other becaue I personally *really* don't care.

@Zeithri Ай бұрын

@@Alloveck Your reply perplexes me a bit. I don't quite understand, do you just mean bad sprite work or do you mean retro games in general? Because I love the latter myself so I'd disagree there. But overall bad sprites that doesn't appeal to me, yeah sure I can understand that.

@satans_scrilla4844 Ай бұрын

Geez, based off Xitter, I thought Yahtzee commited a war crime against an indie dev. I watched some game play, and then Yahtzee's review and thought yeah, I'd play it.

@uroboros2066 Ай бұрын

@@CartRay-gf2tp As if he'd pushed them off a cliff. People were incredibly defensive, which is funny, considering how relatively kid he was in this review

@docdoom1987 Ай бұрын

It's just the dev. Nexxtic has a track record of going on rants whenever someone criticizes or disagrees with their perspective. People that have known them for years know this and knew it wouldn't take long to do something exactly like that once someone reviewed the game. Funny how they recently told some of the 3DR staff not to engage in negative reviews as if offering sagely advice and yet here we are just a couple months later. It's really unfair on the rest of the team but hey, what can you do when the lead is a manchild?

@uroboros2066 Ай бұрын

@@docdoom1987 Christ, that's pathetic... and sad.

@satans_scrilla4844 Ай бұрын

@@docdoom1987 Specifically I was thinking GmanLives Xitter post. There was some weird hate from people for Yahtzee and this video, specifically about Yahtzee joking the artists not responding to emails because their mom told them to get a real job. I didn't even see what the lead dev posted, he'd already deleted his angy post and apologized.

@eneco3965 Ай бұрын

What the hell is xitter?

@nicklager1666 Ай бұрын

Ahh yes Selaco i remember this from a Civvie11 video. Not sure what his sewer count was up to at the time. It pleases me that boomer shooters get some love.

@DeputyDexin Ай бұрын

Free civvie

@poiumty Ай бұрын

Civvie has an elaborate secret all to himself in this game. It makes one of your guns very silly.

@WrackPharmd Ай бұрын

Civvie has a Selaco review coming out soon. It’s already been released to Patreon. There’s a very notable surprise in it.

@EGV88 Ай бұрын

So glad to see all these patrons! You deserve all the money you can get!

@CntrazZombie4 Ай бұрын

I'm super excited for Selaco, I just wish my PC wasn't in the shop.

@geoffreyprecht2410 Ай бұрын

This episode had more zippy one-liners than I've seen in ages from Yahtzee! Weird to see him review something in early access though. Still looking forward to the Ultrakill review!

@dal_bhat Ай бұрын

Been watching Yahtzee since about 2009. "It's fine" is grand praise.

@t_k_blitz4837 Ай бұрын

"Bum-centric" ...what a wonderful phrase!

@Kwyjor Ай бұрын

"Bum-centric!" Aint' no passing craze!

@AlmightyPolarBear Ай бұрын

@@Kwyjor It's a bum heavyyyyy, philosophyyyyy!

@boomzy9532 Ай бұрын

People who think this review is unusually critical from Yahtzee have never watched ANY other video from him.

@TheKeeperofChaos Ай бұрын

The fact Yahtzee was slightly positive in this review (with criticisms) and the dev still complained on Twitter about this being a bad review is very amusing.

@lmao_nope Ай бұрын

I am a bit curious how is Escapist doing, now that the only reason anyone visited the channel quit half a year ago. Not enough to actually _check,_ but I am curious.

@dodderythedromedary6890 Ай бұрын

They hired new people and they release a few vids here and then

@root_squash Ай бұрын

Can you slow down the end funnies a little? I didn't used to need to pause them during zp. Also the eagle falling on dog gag was hilarious.

@McBeelzebub Ай бұрын

This is a classic example of Yahtzee actually kind of liking a game while expressing this by pretty much entirely trashing it.

@knightoftheblackrose89 Ай бұрын

"Full of more smoke than Joan of Arc's birth canal", that fucking killed me.

@InjuredPelican Ай бұрын

Some wild zingers in this one even for Yahtzee.

@dillontoombs5577 Ай бұрын

That was really surreal when you mentioned Lexapro because I JUST got on it.

@vidmuncher Ай бұрын

"You're not a charcuterie board" Damn

@blueharvest144 Ай бұрын

the game looks really cool tbh. Didn't know it existed. definitely playing it.

@jdswong Ай бұрын

The graphic of Einstein blue-faced, combined with the description, almost literally (and I'm not using hyperbole) made me lose a mouthful of my lunch with a bark of laughter. Thanks Yahtzee. I needed that.

@HUNbullseye Ай бұрын

I hoped it's just misspelled Sulaco, and we're shooting xenomorphs. Maybe in the sequel...

@MathewHaswell Ай бұрын

I assume the title is a nod to Doom being heavily inspired by the Alien franchise.

@EnormousKingCrab Ай бұрын

The flashlight turns off on it's own because of a gzDoom limitation. If the light stays on for too long it hogs all the resources and lags the game.

@DinnerForkTongue Ай бұрын

Nnnnnot really. The resource consumption comes from the flashlight's range (and how many linedefs it crosses), not from time spent active. I've spent hours in maps with the DarkDoomZ and Flashlight++ mods' lights turned on, and the time never caused the performance to dip, only scenery detailing does.

@EnormousKingCrab Ай бұрын

@@DinnerForkTongue Well, thats what the devs said anyway

@DinnerForkTongue Ай бұрын

@@EnormousKingCrab Unless they rewrote the lighting engine and gave the game assets a memory for whatever reason, they must have misspoken.

@Dark.Shingo Ай бұрын

3:56 This was such a Looney Tunes moment I couldn't stop laughing.

@calthepal312 Ай бұрын

"now there's an entire game on the doom engine" total chaos would like a word

@MathewHaswell Ай бұрын

Don't forget Supplice.

@MathewHaswell Ай бұрын

@@ULTRAOutdoorsman There was a Chex Quest 2 back in the day, distributed from the Chex site as a WAD that required the base game. The lead mapmaker later made Chex Quest 3, a fully-fledged ZDoom game with the aforementioned 2 episodes plus a third.

@MathewHaswell Ай бұрын

@@ULTRAOutdoorsman Not seen Chex Quest 3? Chex Quest, Chex Quest 2 - originally distributed via the Chex site as a wad that required the Chex Quest disc - and a new episode. Made by the advergame's orignal map-maker.

@MathewHaswell Ай бұрын

With the now seemingly-forgotten Chex Quest 3 - from Chex Quest mapper Charles Jacobi - it became 15 levels, spread across 3 episodes.

@piedpiper1185 Ай бұрын

"Filled with more smoke than Joan of Arc's birth canal." That right there is the quality content I watch Yahtzee for.

@arendvandermerwe3309 Ай бұрын

1:20 i used to make assets for the Skyrim mod comunity so this hit a little too close to home 😂😂😂

@MentalParadox Ай бұрын

Really? This is it? I came from Twitter where everyone including the devs are losing their minds over this video. They need thicker skin, damn

@LewdSCP1471A Ай бұрын

@@ULTRAOutdoorsman If this game is 8 years of work then frankly that's more embarassing than their public meltdown

@garlicbread1107 Ай бұрын

@@CartRay-gf2tpWhat?

@user-hs9rd9ym4n Ай бұрын

@@LewdSCP1471A what actually happens to be embarrassing is you posting here with that name god damn

@Exigentable Ай бұрын

I bought it. I love the way they've bent the engine to their will and wanted to support that kind of creativity.

@M4ruta Ай бұрын

"More full of smoke than Joanna d'Arcs birth canal." That was one of the most ungodly cold-blooded pieces of visual language I've cost across in my life so far. Never change, Yathzee!

@KravenLupei Ай бұрын

Meanwhile they already modded the shield from the new game into doom too...

@ronin84 Ай бұрын

I swear you're the first person to mention the ridiculous protagonist art being different in every piece of media lol

@MaskedMammal Ай бұрын

It almost feels like these sorts of mods/games come out as a way to show off "we can do this" instead of making a compelling case for why we *should* do this. IMO, it's the simplicity of the Doom engine that lends it its uniqueness - not just the simple and easy to read visuals alongside very identifiable enemy designs with (mostly) unique characteristics, but the fact that so many taken-for-granted features in modern shooters aren't present. No tight hitboxes, lightning-fast projectiles, highly advanced enemy AI where a single baddie can pose a threat alone. You add those things into the engine and you're just making a modern shooter that's painted "retro". People see it as a novel feature that you found some way to have enemies react differently depending on where you shoot them in such an "old" engine, but when there's hardly a single shooter out there that doesn't vastly reward you for headshots these days, you're putting in extra effort just to make the game stand out less mechanically. Not to say Selaco is bad, but it's getting an insane amount of constant positive coverage/mentions/attention/praise except in comment sections. It seems fine, even great for what it is, but it's weird to see a game almost intentionally doing everything different from Doom, for better or worse, seemingly just because they can, while making the engine a key selling point.

@macas4255 Ай бұрын

Just because they can isn't even close to the reason. They wanted a fear like game, they made exactly that. Just to make the game stand out less mechanically? ARE YOU KIDDING? This is a really stupid comment. It deserves the insane praise.

@MaskedMammal Ай бұрын

@@macas4255 I want to say "found the dev" but I respect them too much to assume they'd handle criticism with such a poor response.

@macas4255 Ай бұрын

@@MaskedMammal lmao no you found literally any one with a brain that played the game. It has such positive reviews for a reason.

@Tukaro Ай бұрын

The "Dunce" hat should have been modified to "Doomce"

@KernelLeak Ай бұрын

But even Mtpain27, I mean the Dean of Doom, got over it...

@carcosian Ай бұрын

I know the game is made in GZDoom and all, but it very obviously isn't trying to recreate the gameplay of OG Doom. It's very much more in the vein of FEAR (arenas with multiple routes, squads of smart enemies, environments reacting to gunfire, decent movement and melee abilities). It's lacking the bullet time and the horror, sure, but the skeleton is very much there.

@cameronpage8108 Ай бұрын

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@estefencosta1835 Ай бұрын

The algorithm demands engagement. Fuck you Civvie you're only profitable because of the demon. Wait what channel am I in again?

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@nilocmirror Ай бұрын

The fact this man tosses the line "more smoke than Joan of Acres birth canal" in a game review shows what a talented writer he is. He didn't save that for a novel nope just a throw away line in a game review. Damn he goes hard.

@Condor_ Ай бұрын

I'm going to wait for the game to be more complete, but I'm certainly interested. I too am also very distracted by how each piece of art of the protagonist is clearly done by different pairs of hands. Not to slight the artists that did put in the work before but maybe now that there's some money in the pocket from the Early Access sales, the devs can commission an artist to redo the art in a more unified style?

@fraustpunk Ай бұрын

Dude....the Joan of Ark comment...It's been a long time since someone made a joke that would cause me to not stand next to them at a party for a couple minutes. hahahah

@MeizrRoeni Ай бұрын

There is a striking difference between the response on Twitter and this page on KZfaq.

@armoredchimp Ай бұрын

Can't really tell how much he liked it, but man I am enjoying this game so much so far, my GOTY currently by a mile. I didn't even know it was only Chapter 1 as well, there's already way more content than your average boomer shooter

@MajorCooke2 Ай бұрын

As the person who owns Doom 4 For Doom, that comment about "spectacular cranium bumhole interaction" is hilarious.

@LanEXHikari Ай бұрын

No ending rambling? Bummer (shooter) but anyway, it's still nice that it got a review, let's look forward to an update once it's final chapter is released perhaps?

@Raida7 Ай бұрын

Sounds like a fun game, glad Yahtzee did the tennis since I'd never heard of before today!

@alexander0125 Ай бұрын

that old testament joke ha ha I bit my tongue laughing at that. that was good

@Hjorth87 Ай бұрын

Loved it. BTW, it's fun to hear Yathz teach Frost and Marty about French pronunciation in SW and now butcher the Sharkutery board 😅

@mrrd4444 Ай бұрын

This was a wonderfully positive review. Giving constructive criticisms, wanting more, saying the game's got a lot to offer despite being early access... It's clear Yahtzee believes this game can be better and is also anticipating the next segment. 😊 Which might not be immediately apparent if you're not used to his style or ready to hear about smoked birth canals 😅

@Minjoph Ай бұрын

I don't see why the game's creator took such issue with this review. He seemed pretty positive towards the game.

@LihimSidhe Ай бұрын

"invest in precious metals." I feel attacked.

@chronicbrightside8757 Ай бұрын

Was intrigued to check out the drama but I guess the devs deleted their comments already

@DinnerForkTongue Ай бұрын

So one takeaway that not many may have noticed: Selaco doesn't enable X/Y sprite billboarding by default? For shame! That is essentially *_THE_* fix for making your sprites look like more than cardboard cutouts, and it's been available as a base option in GZDoom for more than 5 years.

@josebarros582 Ай бұрын

good old lexapro

@chadjones1266 Ай бұрын

Thanks again

@beansnrice321 Ай бұрын

Hole $shit, the closing line about the charcuterie board. XD

@saravis Ай бұрын

As much as I love 90s shooters, I keep hoping for a resurgence of 00s shooters. A time when shooters were actually trying to evolve the genre, before SpunkGargleWeeWee (CoD4) overtook the market.

@Mechsrule1 Ай бұрын

Didn't Zahtzee's Duke Nukem mod start with the protagonist waking up in a hospital bed?

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Ай бұрын

Yeah. He's made many mods and games, and he's pretty open about how most of them aren't actually very good. If you look up his Let's Drown Out videos, some of them are about his own games, and he and his pal riff them, mostly mercilessly.

@Mechsrule1 Ай бұрын

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I'm familiar, it's just been a while, so I wasn't sure about the start of Age of Evil.

@roadtoau Ай бұрын

Aw, I was hoping Yahtzee would do Animal Well.

@heymelon Ай бұрын

True boomer review of a good enough boomer shooter. 4/5

@MPC-0251-D Ай бұрын

So are the purple-bleeding guys the aliens they referenced in the data logs? Are they a new civilization from the destroyed Earth? I really had no idea who this invading force was and what their goals were. I feel that needs to be fleshed out a bit.

@MentalParadox Ай бұрын

Yes, the devs have stated multiple times they are aliens. From where? Who knows Why are they attacking? Who knows Why are they human? Who knows Why do they speak English? Who knows

@bryalogicalgaming5817 Ай бұрын

00:17 Fun fact: No Frills is a discount brand of grocery stores in Canada. Be very careful about the types of oil purchased there going into your car. 😅

@probably-aquarion Ай бұрын

And now the fetted reanimated remains of ID can mod Quake into Doom 2016 and call it Doom: The Dark Ages, so the cycle can continue.

@DualStupidity Ай бұрын

Mr. Croshaw, I've appreciated your writing abilities since before Mogworld (I still adore that book). I hope this question doesn't come up too much, but have you ever thought about bringing back Trilby and Chzo, maybe even translating them into literature?

@lokiswager Ай бұрын

Oh boy do I have a book series for you! You should read Yahtzee's DEDA Files series. A certain fedora-festooned hero that's mentioned in the second book, and there's lots more Ancients than just good ol' Chzo now. It's not exactly a sequel to the Chzo Mythos, but there's quite a few bones thrown our way in that regard.

@DualStupidity Ай бұрын

@@lokiswager Thank you for the recommendation! I'll definitely look into it! Dang, I hadn't realized how much I'd lost track of his stuff over the years.

@emilybarclay8831 Ай бұрын

@@lokiswagerhis DEDA files series is legitimately so good. As a Brit who struggles with American humour in novels, Yahtzee’s British writing style was such a breath of fresh air and made the whole thing so much more relatable

@lokiswager Ай бұрын

@@emilybarclay8831 I was devastated when he said that he's not even working on the third DEDA book yet a few months ago. It's going to be at least another couple years before we get more, which makes me very sad. I'm American but I've been a fan of British Tv shows and books since I was a teen and those books make me feel very cozy + want to visit London in person someday.

@emilybarclay8831 Ай бұрын

@@lokiswager when/where did he say that? I’ve been intermittently keeping up with his writing and I haven’t seen that yet

@goldenfiberwheat238 Ай бұрын

1:47 they’re working on fallout 2 as well

@thygrrr Ай бұрын

The Joan of Arc one was dark.

@TheCreepypro Ай бұрын

seems worth checking out!

@Balasca Ай бұрын

I keep reading that as Sulaco.

@thatcoolblue3492 Ай бұрын

1:53 Maybe one day, Yahtzee will look at SRB2 Kart/Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers too.

@scottwatrous Ай бұрын

There are something like 3 boomer shooters on early access being made in GZDoom (or made to look it) that all have a similar enough sci-fi future cyberpunk-ish "fight in the Corpo building" setting to the point I have a hard time remembering which stuff was from which game I played, and which ones I'm waiting for to release in full. And I'm not even counting Ion Fury among them cuz that's obviously BUILD. But what I remember distinctly from Selaco was that it was fun, with well detailed gritty environments, good weapons animations and movement, and I wanted to know more about the setting. It wasn't quite an Immersive Sim, but it was on its way there, at least for a GZDoom engine game. The best GZDoom project Ive played that apparently came from a similar 3 chapter release schedule, and is actually complete now, is Blade of Agony. A bootleg Wolfenstein that happens to also be a bootleg MoH, CoD, Indiana Jones, Iron Sky, and does a better job with those themes than most of the originals. I can't wait to have like a month of free time to go replay that all the way through.

@Calvin_Coolage Ай бұрын

Do you mean Blade of Agony? That's what comes up when I seach Sword of Agony.

@scottwatrous Ай бұрын

@@Calvin_Coolage yeah correct I'll fix that. But yes that game was awesome. I went in expecting a quick little experience but it had an insane campaign.

@DinnerForkTongue Ай бұрын

You should also try the Ashes 2063 series. Especially now that Hard Reset just launched.

@scottwatrous Ай бұрын

@@DinnerForkTongue that does look good!

@DinnerForkTongue Ай бұрын

@@scottwatrous If you ask me, it's _the_ best thing to have come out on the GZDoom engine since ages ago.

@borederlands5387 Ай бұрын

Damn this was one of the harsher videos in recent months and he liked the game

@prjndigo Ай бұрын

I think you hit the prostate on the head with the Doom Modder comment.

@FryazinoStation Ай бұрын

Well akshewally it's a fork of GZDoom, and it's a very bloody important distinction. We're not saying that, I dunno, Titanfall 2 runs on a Quake engine.