The Ego Review: Age of Evil
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2015
- We hark back to the days of Duke Nukem 3D modding to look at an old unfinished mod thing from back before I had a decent mic. I was going to split the video into two before I remembered that I couldn't be arsed. Also: the return of Q&A!
- เกม
boots the video
sees Nietzche quote
sees bad ms paint graphics
I AM IN FOR A REAL TREAT AREN'T I
"bad ms paint graphics" mate
It's spelled Nietzsche, goddammit! Fucking hell, not even pretentious young Yahtzee got that right.
CRAWLING IN MY CRAWL
THESE CRAWL THEY WILL NOT CRAWL
"A breath of fresh air in the FPS genre. 9/10" - IGN
"The touching tale of a modern madman. 8/10" - Kotaku
"No FOV slider? 3/100" - TotalBiscuit
If this were Retsupurae it would go something like "Worst game ever, 7/10".
***** Actually when watching this video (not fullscreen), it made me somewhat feel sick. TB has really bad motion sickness (he get a little lil during car rides, he stated it somewhere in his newer vids I think). For me 90 FoV still gives me a slight headache I prefer 100+.
"A true spiritual successor to Citizen Kane." - David Cage
useless1997
That's not Retsupurae, that's just a trope they use. It originated from Newgrounds.com
Jrezky
I know, I've seen most of their videos.
"It's not gay if it's Chris Evans. It's just perfectly natural." - Gabe Morton
Still miles better than some of the shit available on Steam greenlight.
Lord Funface The Atomic Toaster It is pretty sad when this looks better than some of the crap people are building with the Unity engine. Especially considering that Unity is capable of doing so much more than the old Build engine could ever dream of doing.
John McMillen Hektor looks pretty good. And FoE.
44:21
_Gabe: "And because it's a ghost you can just kill it with a shotgun, like all ghosts."_
Little did he know that the way they kill the ghost in 5 Days A Stranger is with a shotgun.
Um... pretty sure that was a musket rifle right? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
@@dragonfire7354 in the 5 Days vid at 33:27, Trilby says "I'm no expert on guns, but I think that's a late-18th-century musket rifle. Standard issue of the British Army of that period."
Based on that, it's either a Brown Bess musket (standard 1722-1838) or a Baker Rifle (standard 1801-1837) according to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_rifle#United_Kingdom_&_British_Overseas_Territories)
But then again, "shotguns" as we know them didn't really become separate until rifles became more distinct. Plenty of muskets were loaded with ammunition that resembles buckshot (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun#History)
So you're right, at least technically. But it could have fired projectiles similar to a shotgun.
@@SpartanIVAlpha015 Good to know! I love learning this kind of stuff :p thanks for the tip!
@@dragonfire7354 Happy to help!
We need a continuation of this, preferably called "Age of Evil Forever".
***** Age of evil: Reeviling.
it'll take a while, go through several engine changes and developers, only to end up at Gearbox who releases it in an unsatisfactory state.
Well it has been about 20 years, so it should be on schedule to release within the next five.
Age of Evil 1.414: the root of forever
No, no... I got one, just do what most AAA developers do these days...
Age of Evil HD Remake..
Three years have passed, and I still re-watch this stuff from time to time.
Seven now, and here we are
A good place to be, I say.
Hello from the future friends
@@jakoblawrence34 Nice MF DOOM dp
My brothers
Hello 2023 sub re-watch, I'm a little ahead, I started the playlist in 2020 when I went for walks to get outside. Hope your year is going well so far.
... That assault rifle is clearly an old nokia phone with an antenna
Okay Yahtzee saying his hid in his room to watch Pokemon at 17 is just a really endearing quality.
I did the same tbh
You know, thinking on it, it's kind of nice to hear Yahtzee self-inserted himself into most of his early games, I certainly did that in my writing when I was younger.
Half a million views now. 98% me.
We used MIDIs because everyone was stuck on 14.4k modems. MP3s existed for a long while before they became popular but a 5mb download, screw that. A MIDI would be 30kb or something like that.
Exactly
I dunno Yahtzee, I remember Age of Evil being one of the most beloved duke 3d mods back in the day. I guess it was pretty popular (at least among duke 3d enthusiasts)
"Whose laughing Now!"--young Yahtzee
*awkward silence*
Henry Geoghegan all of us, young Yahtz, all of us are. You did it, friend.
*Who's
That reflection of the character early in the video does have a slight resemblance to Jeffrey Cuddletrousers.
In regards to the Douglas Adams comments, he talked later in his life about how basically he had very little interest in going past the initial trilogy of HHG2TG, but his agent and other people around him basically kept hounding him to keep writing. He admits that lot of his writing is pretty mediocre and didn't really have much passion behind it after a certain point. This is why I thought it was kind of bad form that his wife/estate basically just released crap he hadn't finished in Salmon of Doubt, and then allowed another author to continue the series based on random ideas they assumed Adams wanted to actually write. Pretty tacky.
that secret level where you're shrunk and go inside a computer was really well done.
Man dose this take me back. Hundreds of hours wasted on maps I never finished and no one ever saw. Good times.
I like the idea of a "Yahtzeeverse" where all his works take place, if only because of the thought of Rob Blanc and Chris Quinn running around in the same world as Trilby and Derek Badger...
am I the only one who gets the feeling that highschool yahtzee was a bit edgelord?
the original dank lord
He dropped out.
Who wasnt
Similar to the capable protagonist debate, Bruce Willis's performance in the original Die Hard was noteworthy because he was a vulnerable action hero. He was crying as he pulled the broken glass out of his feet. It was a nice touch that he lost in the sequels, so the sequels suck.
He does seem to get more indestructible, but the character trait that he kept that I like about him the most is talking to himself. Before jumping onto a truck or something he'll be saying "What the hell are you doing John!"
He got to wear shoes in the sequels. So he was without weakness.
I guess it's a weird thing to say watching a playthrough of a Duke Nukem mod, but, man, I look at all the things Yahtzee has accomplished and can't help but feel like I've done nothing with my life so far.
I feel the same way D: *sobs into my hands*
You've help Yahtzee feel better about his issues by watching his content here on TH-cam. Your life has now been validated. You can change someones world with a single word or even the lack of and now thanks to the glory of the information age our influence has the possibility to reach out across the eons. To simply live as good and honest a life as possible is a major achievement in itself. Worry not about one's worth, don't be blind and continue to surf....
+Sumo Sushi This comment just filled me with determination
" I smolder with generic rage"
that cracked me up
I always thought Jackie Chan was a great "overly capable" actor. A lot of his movies are played with him getting his ass kicked, and half the things he tries never working within a scuffle. He's Jackie Chan, so he always succeeds and comes out on top in the end, but as Gabe says, he does a good job acting hurt, surprised, and like he's totally shocked he survived throughout each scenario.
As he got older, I think his movies leaned more towards comedic slapstick violence instead action kung-fu carnage.
The whole "Nate is a monster" thing makes me think of an idea that maybe we could have a hero who in any other story would be the villain. So, they sacrifice other people, kill without remorse and, not enjoying killing, but still doing it. I would keep going just to see how far they would go.
It's interesting to me that Gabe & Yahtz take such pains to detail every tiny feature and trick of the early levels, and really highlight how limited the game engine is - e.g. Going underwater is actually teleporting to a different room, etc. - in the very early stages when the level design really is pedestrian.
But in episode 2 when the level design gets genuinely interesting and engaging - faking turning on a water-pipe that floods a room; having moving platforms in the middle of water so they have to be synced across rooms - not a peep.
Just Yahtz, Gabe only speaks nonsense.
"I killed my household ghost with my shotgun, but it kept yelling something about being my housemate"
This really came full circle with the “my roommate keeps complaining about the house being haunted, but I’ve lived here for 200 years and I haven’t seen anything.” meme.
Maybe Gabe actually killed a delusional ghost?
"Jackie's always OK."
-Jackie Chan after eating shit due to a failed stunt.
I will always have respect for Jackie due to the fact that he does his own stunts. The plug in his skull is testament to his desire to deliver an exciting and enjoyable viewing experience. His attention to choreography and cinematography provides some of the best action and fight sequences I have ever seen in films. I think my favorite fight sequence is the bit at the end of Drunken Master 2 where he gets his ass beat by his bodyguard before really getting "serious" and kicking it into gear.
Don't waste shotgun on Guts you guys. He'll just come after you with his giant sword.
1:45:55 wait why did Chris Quinn retain life when all the other zombies did not?
I FOUND A PLOT HOLE!!!
The assault rifle looks like a walkie-talkie. Reminds me of the re-release of E.T., when they digitally changed guns into radios.
So wait... Yahtzee unintentionally gave birth to the Slenderman Mythos.
And Jim Sterling unintentionally gave rise to the Five Nights At Freddy's Series.
Oh My God. These guys basically made these TH-cam Lets Players Popular! (Mind Blown)
How did Sterling "give rise" to FNAF?
MCHellshit According to the rumor that has been going on... Well just watch Jim Sterling's FNAF 3 video then you'll understand.
th-cam.com/video/Hd0ulmT2qRw/w-d-xo.html
But to make a long story short:
Scott Cawthon claims that he created FNAF after critics heavily mocked one of his games while it was on Green Light. A game with Creepy Beavers. The most popular one being of Jim Sterling's video where he bashes the games horrifying character models.
This led the Creator into a deep depression before rising back up and saying "I bet I could make something scarier" So with the criticisms he received from the last games, he then went to work in making Five Night's At Freddy's.
That's rumor, I don't know how much of it is true or not, probably is a myth but even then it makes a very interesting parallel with Yahtzee :)
Dreaming Serpent thats the weakest cause and effect fucking case ive ever heard. i made shit. you told me it was shit. i made something better. there for you deserve credit.
Ohad Balash Jim's own words on it do the opposite of taking credit (except the end where he goes back into his Schtick). He actually praises the story as a triumph over tragedy. You might have picked up on it yourself if you'd bother to listen and not act like a lazy petulant little... nvm, keep being ignorant, it's more fun this way for the rest of us
ilr i didnt watch jims video at all. i was more referring to the comment you are posting on darling. where he says "Jim Sterling unintentionally gave rise to the Five Nights At Freddy's Series". but you know. enjoy being smug. im sure your farts smell lovely.
This was actually a really fun little mod to watch. Well put together, finish the mod and show us the rest if you dare.
I actually played this in High School. My favorite line was the nonplussed "Ohhh, this is gonna hurt..." when you fall down a really long way. Games in general really need more dry humor like that.
I love the Ego review! It's my Sunday watching, as it usually comes out around noon here. MOAR.
Speaking AS somebody from Manchester I can confirm most of us are twats.
Indeed. Stockport is especially bad.
Hatham Rahman
Chorlton snob looking down on you
cirian75 I'm from America, almost everyone here are twats too.
cirian75 Agreed.
CrispeeChips Scouser here. We're all car wheel stealing twats.
"The worst flaw of a work you hold close to heart" is an interesting question. What comes to mind for me is Final Fantasy 4.
SPOILERS...
FF4 is a tale of redemption. As a Black Knight, Cecil committed terrible acts. During the game, he has to redeem himself, which he proves by passing a no-one-has-succeeded test to become a Paladin.
But was it a fair test? Late in the game, it's revealed that the Paladin test was run by the spirit of Cecil's father, KluYa. So did he succeed where no one else had because he was actually the most worthy? Or did the others only fail because they weren't KluYa's son? It's a pointless twist that undermines the theme of "hold yourself to a high moral standard", just to give Cecil a bit of "Destined Hero" flavor.
DMX isn't a video format, but it IS the name of a digital communications standard used for controlling lighting rigs. I often end up humming "X Gon' Give It To Ya" when doing setup, and always feel sad that I can't share my joy since everyone I work with is 10+ years older than me.
are everyone still 10+ years older than you?
@@Plankensen I'm happy to say I left that job a long time ago, but yes, they're all still that old.
@@TheSocialSolipsist That is good,friend^_^ i hope your current job is treating you well.
this really makes me want to find my old DK modding program and try and make the last two episode.
Motorbike mod: Age of Knievel
DDR mod: Stage of Evil
Meditation for Anger Management Self Help mod: Rage of Evil
Mod about killing elderly birds: Aged Dove Evil
Escapist Mod: Cage of Evil
Japanese Salaryman Mod: Wage of Evil
Mod that replaces all the maps with cliffs: Edge of Evil
Mod teaching you how to protect your woodcrafts: Age of Weevils
Mod showing you why the new pokemon suck: Age of Greevil
Mod teaching you how to compress air: Gauge of Evil
Only weapon is bite mod: Phage of Evil
Mod about gathering and identifying herbs: Sage of Evil
Mod that adds crappy ninja weapons: Kage of Evil
Replace all weapons with middle ages weapons: Age of Medieval
EVERYONE BECOMES CELLS: Age of Primeval
yahtzee's voice has not aged a day
Lol at the "Madness" midi music.
I was like "Hey freako did house of the rising sun recently.", look through the comments and I see your mug
Freako it doesn't matter what you do or say, I'll just always see you and say "Hey, it's the porn guy."
WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF FUN, DO DO DO DO DOOO
God fucking damn it...O_O Don't get any ideas of what I just said! That is not a commission!
Rabid Pixel Oh yeah, it's the porn guy!
"Who's Larfing now!"- Young Yahtzee
Don't wanna get chewed-out for this but after thinking for a minute, "Age of Evel Knievel".
You'd probably be pleased to know, my Lord Yahtzee, that your mod has been included in collections by the Duke Nukem community. It's been included in an add-on pack with a fanmade DOSbox installer for Duke 3D, and an add-on collection for the recent update for Eduke... And yes, I can hear the soundtrack you chose for your game. I commend you for doing MIDI versions of Disco Inferno, Don't Fear the Reaper, Ticket to Ride, and Spirit in the Sky.
My favorite Richard Griffiths character was in Superman II as Terrorist #3.
Episode 2's secret level is really creative. I especially liked the Pacman bit!
"OOH! Is it WaterWorld?"
"No"
"Shit!"
I miss Drown out.
Gabriel shows up for a couple of episodes of Post Zero Punctuation. They are the Vampyr and Jurassic World episodes, which are unlisted, so just scroll through the playlist that should show up in search function.
1:45:40 Oh my God, Lord Dreadgrave dropped by to read that. xD
Had to quickly fast forward to this to hear, good ear.
hey look, a verified popular youtuber trying to farm likes!
You caught me. I read through all of Mogworld, and then watched 2 hours of video, just so I could get 20 thumbs up on a TH-cam comment. You've seen through my brilliant scheme.
@@SOG12341 dim
@@SOG12341 how dumb can you be
For some reason i kept thinking the character sprite looked a little bit like Ryan from Dreamweb.
That airport visual gag was actually really fucking funny, for as stupid as it was
Correction for Yahtzee: It's not his job, but a good player can be offensive with demoman's pipe bombs. they deal huge amounts of damage if you hit someone with it before it hits the ground once. Playing that kind of Demoman is fun when you get the hang of the aiming. :D
Also, if you bring a shield instead of a mine layer, your job is 100% offense.
IS THAT AN 8-BIT VERSION OF "HOUSE OF FUN" BY THE BRITISH BAND "MADNESS" I DO DETECT WITH MY EARS?!?!
Croshaw, you ol' rascal!
"Viscera means
Classic Gabe-Yahtzee interchange.
i just discovered this mod on my computer in my eduke32 add on pack! yahtzee was in my computer all along...
Wow, the pinball level is clever! I found a map where you can run around on a pool table, into the holes, but it wasn't as fun as this.
"Age of Evel Knievel"
in case anyone doesn't know what he was referencing with the motorbike joke.
Did the dead trench coat image draw any attention? Columbine was right around then right?
Yeah but trench coats/dusters were popular around then because Matrix, not Columbine
"You're in an insane asylum" Suddenly i get his problem with these shitty horror games doing it
"I used to watch Pokémon with the volume down really low so no one could tell I was watching it" - Yahtzee
Quarantined glad these are still up
I'm 7 seconds in.
"Gays into the abyss quote" lol
Questions again? Sweet I have a few!!!
1. What do you imagine is your typical viewer is like on this channel/ZP?
2. What is your ideal fan?
3. How would you two react should you see Let's Drown Out videos from other people?
4. Who is your favorite superhero?
5. What are your opinions on Crossovers?
6. What is your favorite triple A game on the market?
Love this channel you two, keep it up!
I always had a warm spot for your adventure games. Since I tried creating my own and ducked right at the start in creating walking sprites. You did a better job on that.
Did anyone think of using the Unreal Engine to make a spoof or homage of Age of Evil? lol, that would be a strange idea. Yahtzee would probably hate it.
build engine games with their perspective fakery regularly make me quite motion sick
Dark Souls actually presents a very believable explanation for all the game areas, as long as you pay attention to the NPCs and item descriptions, especially the boss souls. The only issue about them is that they're very small even when they're supposed to be entire cities or even countries, mashed together in extremely close proximity from one another..
I don't think entire countries are mashed into the game,at least not in DS1. You play within the kingdom of Lordran. I think the areas in the game exist within believable distances of each other, but I agree that there is a lot of shit compacted into the area you play in.
Compare that to Dark Souls 2 where you go up the elevator in a poison infested tower only to end up in a molten metal sunken castle somehow on top of the tower even though you could see its peak and the sorrounding area suddenly turned from a cesspool of poison into lava, there is suspension of disbelief and then there is Dark Souls 2
Suwat Saksri yeah, their use of impossible space in that game is a little exorbitant.
Mr.Beast Rebel of the Hellscape
Well, the Kingdom of Oolacile exists within what is essentially a park in the present day Lordran. New Londo was an autonomous city state and the Lost Izalith was a civilisation unto itself.
Lightice1 I guess that is kind of bullshit
it's so weird hearing Yahtzee talk at 10:00 about a trick that'd show up in My House.wad, so many years later.
How could Yahtzee not get the 'Cow level' reference? :O
That second secret level was fantastic.
The most modification I did to Duke3D was to raise the damage that kick can do. It was a lot of fun seeing the monsters fling across the room when you kicked them. I also wanted to add explosion but it was more than just changing a number :)
My favourite 2.5D game is Blood
That game is mack. I just wish the source code for it wasn't lost in limbo.
blood was amazing. great, unique style and setting.
James Stone you can play a "sort-of sourceport" called bloodcm. its a duke3d tc with modern settings
DMX is a lighting control protocol for stage light shows and whatnot.
Those secret levels were pretty great
I am kinda glad the Q&As are back.
Yay, 2 hours of Gabe and Yahtzee! I wish you couldn't be arsed to split videos in two more often!
You know... That's a really good point about flaws making characters more appealing.
I didn't really think about it until now, but... I really liked the characters in KonoSuba, but all of the main characters are intentionally written to be awful people. Be it Aqua's overconfidence that basically always backfires on her or Megumin's delusions of grandeur and immaturity that create no end of problems or Darkness's inability to hit anything and humiliation fetish...but, despite that, they are all so incredibly interesting to watch form episode to episode.
When you mentioned meet the feebles i went ahead and watched the whole thing. That was fucking mental, in a good way.
So did any of you ever make War By Moonlight and Cleaning Up?
There is no cow level!
This kicks ass in so many ways.
Flaw of a work I hold dear? The plastic bag scene in American Beauty. Specifically the line "Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it."
Question: What could be added to the formula of shooting games to refresh the material, as well as give it a unique spin?
18:20
'Murican here; I feel the need to point out that fireworks on Thanksgiving is kind of unusual. From Yahtzee's description, Guy Fawkes day sounds more like the Fourth of July.
You know I think one of the most interesting things I've seen so far is that Yahtzee basically knows how the game is built
My most enduring positive memory of school was piling into the IT Room after last lesson and playing Duke 3D multiplayer until the IT guy got fed up and kicked us all out. Good times.
I thought I recognized the voice when I played this mod whilst skimming through a large DukeNukem mod pack a few weeks back but couldn't place it. I didn't play for long but was impressed by a mod having different sprites for once.
know, Yahtzee populating his early games with himself makes me feel better about my early-adolescent fanfiction that was basically populated with different OC mes.
49:00 I have never heard Gabe laugh so hard.
That boss fight reminded me of the mechassault 2 boss, "we couldn't make the thing too big or detailed so you're gonna fight a half complete version with the equivalent of paper armor and a laser pointer"
Alexander Stanfield He had God mode on
sniper sucks to play as in Australia. irony.
I like that Yahtzee mentioned BBC Chris Evans, I listen to him during the daily commute.
welcome to the house of fun! great mod
DosBox can be switched to NOLFB video mode to prevent flickering in Build games.
wait... is that house of fun playing as background music at the start?
Well this gave me somewhat of an insight to my husband's young teenage years, just with less Nine Inch Nails :P
...Age of Knievel!
41:44 "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil