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I hate to be That Person but Reb Brown and Cisse Cameron (Punt Speedchunk and Doctor Lady) didn't meet on the set of Space Mutiny; they'd been married since 1979 when the movie was filmed in 1988.

By pure happenstance, my ~9 year old self borrowed IG2 from a local library some 24 years ago, and I was hooked from the get go. While I wasn't good at English, it was rudimentary enough that I could somewhat understand what was happening, and it was basically my first real introduction to sci fi as a genre instead of as an adventure (Star Wars, namely). When Stellaris released, I played that too, and much like you probably did, I kept comparing everything to how IG2 handled things. Like Deus Ex and many other games from just around the turn of the millennium, IG2 was way ahead of its time in so many aspects, and it's a damm shame that there aren't more games out there that has attempted to continue in its footsteps, or even evolve the space 4X genre at all. If nothing else, we can hope that Stellaris has inspired a new generation of game developers to expand on its ideas and concepts, so that we one day might see the genre flourish. Wishful thinking, I admit!

I bought this game when it first came out when I was in highschool. I still play it a few ours a week

Holy fuck this doesn't have enough views

Yes, do you sell turquoise colored pith helmets?

Archimedean Dinasty was way beter. I would love a proper sequel.. The actual didnt cut it.

First off, great video! Second, when the Sotenbori music showed up in the Samurai Cop section, I was playing Yakuza 7 at the time and thought my game was bugged as I was both not in a battle and in Yokohama.

Haven't finished the video yet --but, if it's not mentioned, "Hobgoblins" is another great mst3k-to-rifftrax movie that's done way better by rifftrax. That's in my "canon." It was the first one I saw live, plus they kept my favorite riff about the Wisconsin Dells in the opening credits. mst3k had to cut scenes for time plus a lot of the mst3k riffs were just your standard "shut up" jokes. The Rifftrax Hobgoblins is the definitive version.

Great work. One thing though, "problematic" usually just means funny. Early rifftrax was a magical time; asking whether you should remove media is abhorrent, especially ones featuring poor lowtax.

I love the Bridget and MJ riffs, they have a mild kind of "mean girls" quality to some of them (especially towards Watson in the Sherlock Holmes movies lmao), although I also love the times when they actually seem to be getting into the movie, like Beyond Christmas. Lady Mobster is one of my favorites too, partially because my parents were big All My Children fans, so Susan Lucci was a familiar face in our house.

My impression is that Rifftrax fans tend to be older and mostly people who were already fans, or at least aware, of MST3K. And this style of sarcastic humor just might not appeal to a broad audience. I had to give up trying to get my friends into it, because they didn't really get the point of talking over the movies, even as a joke.

You may think the views/subs on Rifftrax is low, but MST3K has always been niche, had low ratings... it's probably super successful for an MST3K based entity.

Awesome. Nice work.

Finally some high quality content about rifftrax! I love some of their episodes. Thanks.

A brief explanation of Nick Nolte. . . He was a pretty big movie star in the 1980s, probably best known for megahit "48 Hours" with Eddie Murphy. He's had substance abuse issues his whole life, which damaged his career enough that he more or less disappeared by the end of the 1990s-- not that he ever stopped acting, but he was in very low-tier stuff. And he's one of the unfortunate guys who aged terribly, and quickly, from alcohol and drug use. So Nolte just became, somewhat randomly, Rifftrax's go-to guy when there's a dissipated or decrepit or drunk character to riff. Probably helped to make it a running gag that Mike does a funny voice impression of him. They could have used any actor whose career or life was (nearly) ruined by substance abuse. Like, say, Mickey Rourke (though if you don't know who Nolte is, you probably don't know who Mickey Rourke is, either!) That's really all the "lore" behind the constant Nolte references that you need to know! (Fwiw, Nolte did a guest shot on "Poker Face" a couple of years ago, and he was great in it. Haggard, yes, but great. So the running Rifftrax gag isn't what I'd call entirely "fair", making it seem like the guy lives in a garbage dumpster. . . )

Excellent video!

So happy to see a long form, in depth TH-cam video on Rifftrax-- finally! I've long wondered why no one has done this before, Rifftrax has been around forever but all I could ever find were fairly superficial "Top Ten"-type videos till now. Gotta shout out your choice of FTL music for the opening. . .. FTL just happens to be my favorite game of all time. :) This was a wonderful video. (I also really loved your video on the Netflix MST3k seasons, btw, which is what caused me to sub and get a notification for this new video right away!)

Thanks to Birdemic I now commonly reference taking a shit as "taking a Becky."

Hahahaha whoooooaaaaa recommending Rollergator out the gate bold choice

siiiiiiick!!!!

2:24 In other words, if you're Autistic enough or have ADHD, etc etc

0:15 is that Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete or Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night?

I hear okage shadow king music and I approve

Heh, that preemptive Sins 2 review by Will Borger aged predictably badly. I feel like SoaSE and Stellaris fall on either side of a nice middleground that it looks like IG2 hit, hopefully a new entry to the genre can do that to modern tastes.

regardless of your monitor, you can cap the framerate from the Nvidia control panel. im not sure if other video cards also have that.

The first RTS that I've played and have sunk thousands of hours into is Empire at War. With Thrawns Revenge and Fall of the Republic being staple mods to get once you get used to playing the base game for a bit. But I have to admit- this game does surprise me in how well it handles whst it does for the time.

Stellaris was my first. I never played out my first ever game, ended up quitting halfway when things got too confusing, I came back and started actually trying to learn the game. My learning curve was immediately doing crisis (I pirated it at first then bought legit), powergaming and rolling the AI, then getting humbled and gameended by a fallen empire. Im still crap at the game, but I am better than I was.

This game kinda ruined 4x games for me. I always imagined what a proper, big-budget sequel to IG2 might look like and the various space 4x's we did get never did live up to that dream for me. If you want to try another old, weird space 4x, check out Ascendancy. If it's even possible to get it running these days.

With some tinkering, Archimedean Dynasty is very playable with a controller and feels modern enough. It's my favourite of the series. The story and world-building is superior to the sequel IMO. The english localization is both better and worse somehow. For the curious, look up the cutscenes on youtube, they are worth a watch. Never figured out what they were thinking with that title though, it sounds kind of cool, but is just gibberish that has no relation to the game as far as I can see.

I went from playing a bit of civilization revolution on the Xbox to playing stellaris. So in a way you could argue it both being my first and not my first

stellaris was my first 4X, period. The learning curve was difficult, but rewarding

Dropping a Anacrhonox reffrence shortly before i watch a 2 hour video on anachranox is why i live for these kind of videos Also if im being honest....its within those games deemd ''mediocre'' that one can find a eternal favorite type of game, never dimiss based on score alone

i didnt think it was that the netflix season was that bad it what help me realy get into mst3k and check out the older episodes now season 13 how ever that season is where i drew the line they found a way to make mst3k not funny at all in that season it shouldnt be possible but they found a way

1 I fuckin hated that Zeros mission it is straight up the mission that when i originally played it when i was younger it hard blocked me i just DIDNT KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING WRONG 2 i had to find out through your comment that a remaster was released and that drives me a bit crazy honestly lol

The game of my childhood. I remeber a local shop owner ran this constantly on one of his computers in his shop.

Stellaris was indeed my first game...I spent a very long time on pause

Stellaris was the first strategy game that I actually ‘learned.’ I’d played through many games but never ‘got’ them by any means, aka Distant Worlds but just existing while it played in the background. I think it helped that I started Stellaris in the old, pre-DLC days, before everything was hyper-complicated. I remember even reading in 2016 or so that if you wanted a ‘deeper’ game to get Distant Worlds but if you wanted accessible and pretty, to get Stellaris, which is crazy looking at it now.

I don't really think transforming Stellaris into a space total war game would be great. After all, having all thoses weapons with counters to counters and also being able to change the way your units acts makes the battles unique. It is quite literaly like a game of rock paper scissors and it makes having intel over your ennemies way more important than in most games. Its true that Stellaris lacks of ground battles. Stellaris being a game about space it kinda makes sens because players trying to create better ground vehicles and stuff would get frustrated if the ennemies spam orbital bombardment. May be adding a few buildings like giant railguns to make the planets a menace for small fleets would be fun tho.

FINALLY, SOMEONE MADE A VIDEO ON THIS GAME.....i havent had the time to actually play this game but every time i look at this game i just go ''how has no one made a proper video on it yet'' To this day it still boggles my mind that it had not only planetary invasion but also city building on top of things also 43 fuckin cutscenes in 4x is astounding to me, and i say this with a lot of love as i ADORE 90s cgi cutscenes in strategy games, its very specific i know (holy shit at the 300 message animations )

Modern 4x could also add something simple in HoI4 style, placing divisions on procedurally generated planets with regions etc, but at least something to visualize and control, currently they are all automatic stuff that you even forget you are invading a planet

Stellaris was almost my first 4x, but not only did I play Civ4 when I was like 9, albeit, not knowing what I did at all, and actually is more just looking at what my dad did. I also played Red Alert 2, an RTS game was also a major part of my childhood, I was also horrendous at it ofc. Even then, when I first touched Stellaris in like 2019, I was so overwhelmed that I literally could not put anything together at all, leading me to kinda not play it unless it was with friends. Until Stellaris released the very interesting mode of letting more than one person manage a singular empire, did I finally start to learn how to properly manage my systems, how to build my ships, and so on, only because I only needed to worry about a small part of the whole system. Finally I was able to enjoy the game. I was like 60hrs in without properly being able to enjoy the game.

I tried to watch, it felt too wordy and just not funny. Give me the original any day.

I actually had stellaris as my second (Victoria I was my first). It was pretty simple to learn how to play tbh. Playing well tho…. Well, that’s still a WIP

All they played was the new stuff...which lacked the old vibe from 89-99. It truly was a "gauntlet" but more painful for the viewer who wasn't left with any other option than to not view it.

I have played 700 hours of stellaris and regularly still learn something new that has a huge impact on the game. The learning curve is never ending, which I think is why its so captivating.

Yes I remember playing this (or was it the demo?!) around its launch. I remember thinking it was kind of fascinating but a bit busy. I don't recall any of the cutscenes so probably I just played the demo.

Stellaris was my first 4x game, i prefer rts (shoutout to c&c3 and aoe3), ive also played dune spice wars, i prefer the action and immersion of rts and fps so far tbh but i love the appeal of the i d e a of a vast world or conflict etc that you can control its just very impractical as a human actually trying to do that

Stellaris was my first 4x space game but I had previously played other paradox grand strategy games like europa, victoria and Hoi. Kinda interesting how once you learn one the other 4x games become easier to understand and master even though they are all very different in how they play.

Stellaris was my rts space game. The learning curve didn’t seem impossible at all, it was easy actually. I find the learning curve on games likes CK3 for example as tougher.

I always say, the IQ level needed for space games is a lot higher than shouting dragon chants