"So I emailed John Romero and asked him." And he responded with about what I expected tbh. He just thought they would be cool, so he put them in. Sounds like early ID lol
Something about Ahoy's voice is just soothing. Hearing his voice makes me calm. Edit: People on Discord servers keep finding me here. I'm just saying Ahoy has a nice voice. Thats it.
The Half-Life 2 parody comic, "Concerned" explained that the game is full of explosive barrels because the main character accidentally ordered 100,000+ of them while working in the Citadel office
I've seen a real life explosive barrel. I work next to a gas station, and I travel over there almost every day for a drink and snack. Normally there a couple black waste barrels out front, but one day, a red barrel was there. Sure enough, it had the "No Flames" icon on it. "My god..." I uttered to myself, "They're real..."
I find it funny that modern barrels don't even need the "flammable" or "danger" signage anymore. We're so used to the idea of red barrel = explosion that it's become an instinct.
Doesn't even have to be a barrel in some cases. I've seen red explosive crates. Sometimes it's sci-fi-looking gadgets with red flashing lights. In some games, it's even red glowing mushrooms.
I'm fact, I don't remember in which game I played recently, I got very annoyed because barrels weren't explosive in that game no matter how much I shot at them. It's like they own me a good explosion xD
@@geomidia8998 I don't think that's actually rare, Romero has always been very open to questions and tons of fans have asked him all kinds of things over the years. He's also done stuff like appear on twitch streams and such. He's a chill guy and very approachable. It's just that for a long time it was difficult to reach out to him because Doom was made during the really early days of the internet but these days it's very easy.
i mean, thats easy, his email is public, anyone can do it, getting a reply is the hard part, although he seems like a kind person, maybe he does answer most emails
“When you are out of ammo, ideas, and time, there’s only one thing popular media and famous hero’s alike can rely on, quick, blunt, and lethal.” *que iconic arms theme* “The foldable chair.”
John Romero has had a rather impressive character arc since the fall of Ion Storm, and it has been interesting to watch him go from asshole rockstar game dev to man humbled by his fuckups.
The fact that he manages a pretty big and respected gaming channel probably has a lot to do with that. It's likely Romero has already watched his previous videos, especially since it's not the first time ha talks about Id's works.
I can’t decide if this comment is copied or not, because I saw another comment on another vid that is says the same thing, and that video is a lot older
The moment you showed the clip with the man hacks following you into the barrel room my blood froze. I never even played a Half Life game and I could feel the fear, tension, and stress that every player must've got when that happened to them. God I love barrels.
honestly my reaction was that of "...What, that's it?" because that section of the game doesn't kill the player like the rocket silo from Half Life. you can shoot the barrels, you'll be fine.
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It’s worth it the 3 months because I love the drawings and it includes more examples that any other TH-cam channel out there. This is the goto channel for weapons knowledge, mostly guns
GTA fans: are waiting more than 7 years for a new game Half life fans: waited more than 10 years for HL: Alyx Duke Nukem Fans: waited more than 15 years for Duke Nukem Forever Ahoy fans: wait a century for new videos Edit here: People, I'm not saying the videos are bad or the wait isn't worth it. I'm just making fun of the fact that the videos take some months to make. Particularly I enjoy those type of channels that take the time to make masterpieces (just like Ahoy does) and the wait just hype me up for every single upload, in the end, it was all worth it
@@mindshuffler3332 a barrel is a cilindrical container meant to store liquids or other materials in it, like Oil and such. But, what if it was meant for something else?
UpstandingCitizen when the baseline for explosive is “existing,” then nothing is particularly explosive. It would be a redundant adjective. For the Goldeneye barrels to be classified as explosive, it would have to be significantly *MORE* explosive than say, a chair. For the same reason, you don’t describe a tree as a “wooden tree” or an ocean as a “wet ocean.” You may not have realized it, but you asked a semantic questions, so you got a semantic answer.
This video is great, but it forgets one absolutely crucial historical element that sits right in the middle of the entire tangle of where video game explosive barrels came from. It's so obvious that it can be overlooked, but shouldn't ever be excluded from a discussion of video game culture, or even general modern western culture. One particular man's influence is immeasurable, and yet you forgot him. First there were the post-WW2 era action movies. One of the most iconic being Dambusters (1955). The generation of kids watching that movie grew up to be the dominant creatives of the 1970s, whose imaginations blended scenes from that film with those of heroic western/Tarzan/military/sci-fi/fantasy serials of the 1950s and 1960s. Then one fateful day in 1974, one emerging central figure amongst those inspired creatives, a certain Mr. Steven Spielberg, protested with the eternal words: "No. We CANNOT just kill the shark. We HAVE TO BLOW IT UP!" You forgot Jaws. "Smile you sonovabi*ch!" Jaws. Is why. The explosive barrels. Exist.
"If it moves - shoot it. If it _doesn't_ move - *blast* it." From the blurb of some 1980s 8-bit shoot'em up. There are so many video essays about game culture out there, but *_very_* few as well researched as on this channel. Kudos!
I feel like with his content that I should pay for this stuff. He makes great informative videos on games and real life and some videos go up to 1+ hours to make it seem like a movie or a long episode on a show. This, also mixed with slight editing and his calming voice to narrate the video makes his content stand out from the rest. So thank you (if you see this Ahoy) for making this great content for *free* for all of us to watch in our spare time and to have the the time to edit and narrate these vids is just amazing. Thank you for this!
Ahoy: farcry Me: nodding in obvious agreement Ahoy: Doom Me: OK makes sense Ahoy: mad max Me: oh. Wow Ahoy: teenage mutant ninja turtles Me: hmm. Ahoy: buster Keaton Me: hmmmmmmm. Seriously never expected him to go *that* far back. Liked
However ahoy is definitely worth the wait, knowing that he's spent at least spent 6 months on whatever new project gives me hope that it will be superb.
@@rsmith02 I found the article, and it was actually 13 years ago in 2007. v1.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/videos/zeropunctuation/2655-Yahtzee-Visits-Valve-a-Travelogue.2 I was very fitting that Erik Wolpaw was the one serving as Yahtzee's contact, host and tour guide because Erik's and Chet's work on _Old Man Murray_ are cited by Yahtzee as his greatest influences of irreverant comedy and game reviews along with Charlie Booker.
Felipemelazzi Erik Wolpaw is now taking over as the main writer of _Half-Life: Alyx_ from Marc Laidlaw although according to Erik he still asks Marc questions about the lore almost everyday to try not to contradict Marc’s timeline.
If AHOY did breakable wooden boxes next, I'd still watch it. Anything he makes is the pinnacle of quality over quantity. He could make a video about fucking anything and it'd still be worth watching 10 times out of 10.
i remember seeing the concept of exploding barrels in millipede, altough they were called "DDT Bombs" and not barrels, but still, the mechanics were the same.
Still weird to me that we can just Email the people who designed the games to which all modern games are inspired in part by. No other artistic medium has such luxuries.
Do it while you can if you have questions! We're in such a great, unique position to be able to ring up pioneers or even CEOs of multi-million dollars companies.
Well if you have over a million subs on youtube and have done a video about doom and so on with several million views, then John Romero might answer. not if Joe Schmo just writes a mail
@@BierBart12 Interesting. It's good to know that humans always frickin' loved explosions. Early cannons were basically giant exploding phallus symbols. Gotta love it.
Like in any shooting games(FPS and the likes), explosive barrels is becoming a staple inclusion these days, with some being manually deployed as traps in some. I do, for one, like that as a unofficial entry of Iconic Arms series too!
i like how this is kind of an un official entry in the NEW iconic objects series yay for typing out an entire sentence to change a few words instead of just copying and pasting to make the edit and then typing out an even longer sentence to describe the process of typing out the sentence by scratch rather than editing
You remind me always that quality is more important than quantity, even if it sacrifices more resources. You are one of the most honest content creators out there and I cannot stress how much of a great impact you have on me as a person. You're the best!
Just when you thought that he had ran out of extremely interesting video game facts, you are once again riveted to a new video about the past of video games. Thank you and keep up the great work.
In doom because of the way the game works when you shoot a barrel there's usually a monster close enough to it that you end up hitting the monster not the barrel so I hardly ever actually kill monsters with the barrels.
"Doom. Why are there barrels? Me, suddenly aware that the universe has stilled and even the gods have turned to listen . . . . ."why ARE there barrels on Mars" "Doom was originally going to be a licensed Alien game" *THUMP* Jaw. Meet Floor.
For the record, IIRC sources seem to suggest that it was something that id momentarily considered early while in the process of outlining what the game was going to be like, but they ended up deciding against it. There's no known evidence or quotes from developers that suggest that the game spent any real amount of time in development as a licensed title. Alien's influence still can be seen however, as Ahoy points out.
I love how they explain in Doom 2016 with text logs you can find why there are chainsaws on Mars. And even then, literally nobody gives a fuck why there are chainsaw there.
Love the visuals and typography for this one. Would love to see a similar historical treatment for the 'charge shot' eg hold the fire button to build power as a secondary attack. Who was the originator for that?
It's after R-Type, but Capcom used charged shots regularly from the late 80s on, e.g. the NES port of 1943 and Megaman 4. I think the NES port of Strider had a charged shot after some upgrades.
Would love to see an Ahoy video on Alternate fire modes for guns in games. Perhaps with a focus on the more interesting ones, rather than just Semi/burst/auto that are commonplace in military shooters
@@PershingDragoon Alternate fire would sure give a spotlight to Perfect Dark. Every single weapon in that game has a secondary ability, and some of them are pretty wacky, like turning the Laptop gun into a sentry, or the Dragon (I think that was its name) into a proximity mine disguised as the gun.
Shadow of The Tomb Raider has a short side mission/challenge where you need to explode these red barrels. In that instance, blowing them up offers you no real advantage over enemies as it's done outside combat zone where none are present. You however receive some XP for doing it but its funny how its just making them go boom for the sake of boom.
Your work is so incredibly well done that I don't care that it takes years to make it, watching a 20 minutes video so well written, narrated and produced pays off a lot!
Agreed. The moment at 2:22...I just felt my gut clench when that happened. It was the first game where I actually had to think twice at shooting an explosive/flammable barrel if some enemies are standing next to it.
The fact that they had a timer was very innovative. The moment you saw a flaming one being used on you, your mind immediately tells you to look out and be aware of your surroundings. When I got 2:30 in game I freaked out for a second and then thought it's fine, I should leave though...then the buzzing started...
@metalfaust19 Who Framed Roger Rabbit was my first experience with freedom in video games. I would just explore everything and ride in that cab without actually progressing anything since it's more of an adventure game and I didn't know English back then.
Hey Ahoy, can you do an “Iconic Arms” on the Winchester 1894? Lever rifles in general are interesting choices, and with the advent of Red Dead 2, are popular enough to talk about again.
I was like "really? Explosive barrels? What a disappointment..." >twenty minutes pass "Wow! I never knew how interesting the history of explosive barrels is! Wait don't end!"
Thank you for a fascinating and insightful deep dive into this ubiquitous video game device. Your brief inclusion of Activision’s “Pitfall” was unexpected. I remembered those as rolling logs. (I remembered incorrectly!) Just goes to show the part imagination played in our appreciation of 8-bit games! I would like to add an honorary mention to Metal Gear Solid V-The Phantom Pain, which includes barrels of both the explosive and set dressing varieties, distinguishable by color (more easily in daylight than at night) and instantly identifiable using night vision goggles. Oddly, other volatile set pieces which do NOT fluoresce in night vision mode include high pressure gas canisters (the type your florist uses to fill Mylar balloons with helium), hurricane lamps, and (I promise I am not making this up) campfires! The game is chock full of Jerry cans, but they must all be full of water, because I have never seen one explode. 🤣
@@ethanpierce6118 I think he was trying to say that you can't beat a classic game mechanic. It makes more sense given the context, since he says "yes they are overused" and "yes they are everywhere" right before that remark.
it's certainly cause hl:a is the current year title of a franchise the dude likes. plus hl's evolution goes from "revolutionary pc shooter" to "flagship franchise of a whole new, independant tech", so seeing its abundance of barrels from 1998 to 2020 is most relevant to the strength of the convention. that's all that's interesting, nothing to do with the quality from one game to the other.
The thing about Ahoy is that, with all of the types of gaming content on this site, it's rare to find something so sophisticated and diligently produced. It's very refreshing.
"So I emailed John Romero and asked him."
And he responded with about what I expected tbh. He just thought they would be cool, so he put them in. Sounds like early ID lol
Hey dude, it's nice to see that the entity educator loves Ahoy too :D
Sounds like present ID too!
I heard he was about to make me his bitch, still waiting on that though
@@barkspawn You played Sigil yet?
Imagine explosive barrels in Gideon Meat Plany
Imagine if this was an Iconic Arms.
“The explosive barrel. Cylindrical. Death in a can. Short temper.”
I really like that quote. So good! Well done!
Imagine it was a Nick Robinson video.
"I wanted to find out where barrels came from in doom. So, I booked a trip to Texas."
Kinda thought it was when I clicked
If you don't mind me expanding on this with another quote
"The Explosive Barrel,Cylindrical,Typical, sometimes volatile always plentiful"
I'm in fact sad that this video wasn't in that style... :(
the world: going crazy
ahoy: b a r r e l
the accent is the icing on the cake
@@OfficialDJSoru its uncanny
@@KenganConnosieur Did you just... I CAN't believe you've done this.
Can't wait for Big Boxes to come out, god speed.
this comment fucking sucks
Something about Ahoy's voice is just soothing. Hearing his voice makes me calm.
Edit: People on Discord servers keep finding me here. I'm just saying Ahoy has a nice voice. Thats it.
And dont forget the intro music
Its that smooth audible chocolate
His voic for me is intimidating like he can make a doorknob deadly
He is just a handsome gun that can speak.
he's like that forensic files dude
The Half-Life 2 parody comic, "Concerned" explained that the game is full of explosive barrels because the main character accidentally ordered 100,000+ of them while working in the Citadel office
That is my headcanon actually
That's similar to how they explained chainsaws on mars for DOOM
Vito C so glad you mention the title cause I was trying to find that and all I could remember was “Quarter-life, halfway to destruction”
I’m your 300th liker! What do I get?
Armenbrine2200 nothing because nobody gives a shit!
Guard 1: Hey man, Where should i put this Barrel of Explosives?
Guard 2: Just put it near the MG nest, No one is gonna Assault our Base anyway
Make sure it's Infront of the MG
Specops
To be continued in part 2: "Assault on the Base"
Well, they need to feul the machine guns with *something*, right? They don't call them MACHINE guns for no reason
@@zeppie_ what the fuck did you just bring upon this cursed land
I love how casually "So I emailed John Romero. And he replied." gets thrown out, like that's not a fucking achievement in and of itself.
He's absurdly chill, from what I understand. It's not a tall order to get a response from him.
If you contact Romero respectfully, he's almost guaranteed to give you a response.
100%.
plus people are a lot more likely to respond to an email if you have 1+ million subscribers
I've seen a real life explosive barrel.
I work next to a gas station, and I travel over there almost every day for a drink and snack. Normally there a couple black waste barrels out front, but one day, a red barrel was there. Sure enough, it had the "No Flames" icon on it. "My god..." I uttered to myself, "They're real..."
Oh fuck.
s h o o t i t
@@palomaelegante Throw a stick on fire
I find it funny that modern barrels don't even need the "flammable" or "danger" signage anymore.
We're so used to the idea of red barrel = explosion that it's become an instinct.
Doesn't even have to be a barrel in some cases. I've seen red explosive crates. Sometimes it's sci-fi-looking gadgets with red flashing lights. In some games, it's even red glowing mushrooms.
Our reflexes have gotten used to it.So when we see it,we know what to do.
i think we have even gotten to the point that if a red barrel doesn't explode it's considered a bug.
I know right? It's almost like it was a Maojor talking point of the video or something.
I'm fact, I don't remember in which game I played recently, I got very annoyed because barrels weren't explosive in that game no matter how much I shot at them. It's like they own me a good explosion xD
"So I *emailed John Romero*"
You say that like its a normal thing that people do all the time.
And he got a reply from the man himself
Pretty easy to do.
@@geomidia8998 I don't think that's actually rare, Romero has always been very open to questions and tons of fans have asked him all kinds of things over the years. He's also done stuff like appear on twitch streams and such. He's a chill guy and very approachable. It's just that for a long time it was difficult to reach out to him because Doom was made during the really early days of the internet but these days it's very easy.
I've done it! Very nice dude.
i mean, thats easy, his email is public, anyone can do it, getting a reply is the hard part, although he seems like a kind person, maybe he does answer most emails
“When you are out of ammo, ideas, and time, there’s only one thing popular media and famous hero’s alike can rely on, quick, blunt, and lethal.”
*que iconic arms theme*
“The foldable chair.”
Metal
Portable
Light
"The Foldable Chair"
Scp-079 Spotted
Human, I need your help, and your need mine
*Kanji Tatsumi intensifies*
It is a high damage semi automatic weapon with a low fire rate
"Doom was the catalyst for a sudden explosion in popularity."
I see what you did there.
9:50
You know that feeling you get when a game has a red barrel that doesn't explode?
Blasphemy!
Sacrilege
It's like a giant letdown.
Fuck metal of honor frontline man
Viktor G. Lol more like heresy but yeah 😄
Ahoy: "... so I emailed John Romero"
Me: "yeah, I bet"
Ahoy: "... he replied:..."
Me: " he did what?!"
lol
John Romero has had a rather impressive character arc since the fall of Ion Storm, and it has been interesting to watch him go from asshole rockstar game dev to man humbled by his fuckups.
Thats why the video took sooo long to upload
he waited for John Romero to answer the email
The fact that he manages a pretty big and respected gaming channel probably has a lot to do with that. It's likely Romero has already watched his previous videos, especially since it's not the first time ha talks about Id's works.
The more important question is: how did he get JR's e-mail address?
This guy could literally talk about a rock and make it seem interesting
Watch his bow and arrow video, that one solidified to me that he can talk about anything and make it sound deadly, interesting and somehow new
“The rock, easy to use, and easy to get your hands on, it’s no wonder why the rock is so popular with kids”
I can’t decide if this comment is copied or not, because I saw another comment on another vid that is says the same thing, and that video is a lot older
can we get to do a vid on a rock
@@leyizh its def copied i swear ive seen the same comment on another vid
Just casually talking about how he emailed John Romero
Hi lads and lasses
Nice fake channel, dude.
@@thanosdevito I did it as a joke and can't change it in another week or so
@@rogan_. oof lmao
@@rogan_. dont change it pelican would approve
"So I emailed John Romero"
That was an unexpected turn
It sounds so simple when he says it.
The reason why we had to wait this long for another episode is because he waited for Romero to respond lol
I like how he goes full on detective mode for a couple of minutes then asks
I was amused when the answer he got back was pretty much exactly what I expected Romero to say.
The wonders of idolization, it's never occured to me John's just a guy and not a mythical figure o' gaming.
Stu literally even got a Half-Life: Alyx clip in there.
That gameplay has only been out for like 3 days.
What a man.
Research takes six months, editing it together takes about 15 minutes.
@@EvanG529 No, it does not take just 15 minutes. Maybe 5 hours, if you're extremely fast.
@@cataclystp That was a joke, Brainiac.
@@EvanG529 it isn't structured as a joke. it's a mean joke at best.
and yes, Stu really is the man
the video will age well
The moment you showed the clip with the man hacks following you into the barrel room my blood froze. I never even played a Half Life game and I could feel the fear, tension, and stress that every player must've got when that happened to them.
God I love barrels.
honestly my reaction was that of "...What, that's it?"
because that section of the game doesn't kill the player like the rocket silo from Half Life. you can shoot the barrels, you'll be fine.
@@lavetissene339 It depends. If one barrel goes off, they all go off. If you survived? You got lucky.
My monkey brain makes me shoot them in that room every time
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Sir.
@@nepnep3043 i don't know what i wad thinking then due to CoD WaW Nostalgia
@@GruntCo You certainly went *hard*
@@GruntCo shot.You/were/killed?by="an%20exploding%20barrel"
Last 3 months: Glock
Now: Barrels
This is actually a great achievement. More video game props.
next up is boxes, so you got it :D
It’s worth it the 3 months because I love the drawings and it includes more examples that any other TH-cam channel out there. This is the goto channel for weapons knowledge, mostly guns
@@KingLich451 The next video isn't about boxes IN video games - it's about video games IN boxes. The big boxes old cartridges used to come in.
He should've included the glock in the explosive barrels video
"Next up: Big boxes."
Iconic Props: Season 1
Iconic prop episode 2: Half Life 2 supply crates
First Star: Your mum
Solid Snake
Traffic cones
"Chests."
Can't wait for Big Boxes to come out, god speed.
lightweight
wooden
sneaky
"The Box"
heh, funny that
@@arusmarko4948 i like how this reply is wrong now
GTA fans: are waiting more than 7 years for a new game
Half life fans: waited more than 10 years for HL: Alyx
Duke Nukem Fans: waited more than 15 years for Duke Nukem Forever
Ahoy fans: wait a century for new videos
Edit here: People, I'm not saying the videos are bad or the wait isn't worth it. I'm just making fun of the fact that the videos take some months to make. Particularly I enjoy those type of channels that take the time to make masterpieces (just like Ahoy does) and the wait just hype me up for every single upload, in the end, it was all worth it
*waiting for 2019 Modern Warfare weapon guides
Half life fans still wait for half life 3, not alyx
@@solace2731 I know, because I'm waiting for HL 3 too
HL3 will never be a thing because Gaben doesnt know the number 3
@@solace2731 alyx is half-life 3
*Thinks they found the first [insert object here] in gaming*
Ahoy: "We need to go deeper."
"Scour the old tape reels that might have some programs for old vaccum-tube computers over in the MIT archives! They might have a B A R R E L!"
Greek culture had pots that held oil, they might be the first barrels!
@@operatorbugman3031 But first we have to ask ourselves: What exactly is a barrel?
@@mindshuffler3332 your right, what was I thinking, I'll be back later once I find all the information I need.
@@mindshuffler3332 a barrel is a cilindrical container meant to store liquids or other materials in it, like Oil and such. But, what if it was meant for something else?
This man made a 20 minute video on explosive barrels, I'm 100% for it
MeatyMeanMemeMachine He also make many video about iconic guns too.
@@chanomjea6515 Let's be real, it's a let down, I expected at least 40min
If Ahoy made a 3 hour video on loading screens I'd watch every minute
If he makes a video about a goddamn paperclip, I'm all for watching it
The longer the better ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This guy can make a chair sound intimidating
The Chair. 4 legged. Stationary comfort. Rock solid.
This man can make a documentary about a random penny he finds on the street and I would still watch it
"Doom is to blame"... yeah I've heard that before lol
*think of the children*
@@spoiledmilk2587 kids these days running around blowing up our barrels!
Different context though
2:52 Goldeneye’s explosive barrels
No, those are just plain barrels. *EVERYTHING* explodes in Goldeneye, if you shoot it enough.
Yeah 🤣
This is a fair point.
even the fucking office chairs are rigged to blow... im not kidding, the literally use it as threat to disloyal workers :)
So what would you call a barrel that explodes if you shoot it enough?
UpstandingCitizen when the baseline for explosive is “existing,” then nothing is particularly explosive. It would be a redundant adjective. For the Goldeneye barrels to be classified as explosive, it would have to be significantly *MORE* explosive than say, a chair.
For the same reason, you don’t describe a tree as a “wooden tree” or an ocean as a “wet ocean.”
You may not have realized it, but you asked a semantic questions, so you got a semantic answer.
This video is great, but it forgets one absolutely crucial historical element that sits right in the middle of the entire tangle of where video game explosive barrels came from. It's so obvious that it can be overlooked, but shouldn't ever be excluded from a discussion of video game culture, or even general modern western culture. One particular man's influence is immeasurable, and yet you forgot him.
First there were the post-WW2 era action movies. One of the most iconic being Dambusters (1955). The generation of kids watching that movie grew up to be the dominant creatives of the 1970s, whose imaginations blended scenes from that film with those of heroic western/Tarzan/military/sci-fi/fantasy serials of the 1950s and 1960s.
Then one fateful day in 1974, one emerging central figure amongst those inspired creatives, a certain Mr. Steven Spielberg, protested with the eternal words: "No. We CANNOT just kill the shark. We HAVE TO BLOW IT UP!"
You forgot Jaws. "Smile you sonovabi*ch!"
Jaws. Is why. The explosive barrels. Exist.
S'bout video games
This type of comment is the reason comment sections exist and are good.
Yeah, list a bunch of video games that probably had zero influence, but miss something way more obvious.
Good point, although it was a tank of gas in the film, it could be where Duke Nukem 3D got the idea to use tanks of gas.
@@noop9k its almost like this is the history of video games and is unrelated to films...
Trash taste brought me here!
Me too. The barrel video did not disappoint :p
Came up in recommends after I watched the episode
Same
same
wait? on what part did the bois mention this?
major fps element exists, ahoy: "doom is to blame"
Whoaa this video was 11 minutes ago and your comment is 1 hour ago wow
hector rivera Its true though. Doom is the daddy of FPS
But they're wrong, teacher. The Dooms are to blame.
Anything at all exists
Xbox Ahoy: Doom, Doom clone, Commodore Amiga, Doom, Wolfenstein, Doom clone
@DIO Brando Nani?
"If you're in a gun war, would you hide inside a barrel of flammable liquid?
"
Vanessa Magick
Throw milk at them might work ?
When you are so early that you post your comments 2 hours before the video is released.
I mean who wouldn't hide next to barrels when your in a gun war?
i will slam you against a table
Better than hiding behind a couch for all these god damn years
The real question is, would you shoot it?
Ahoy: The only person who can talk about barrels for 20 minutes.
3:27 *Flashes back to the Nuclear Tripmine Level in Half-Life*
That’s not the best idea...
"If it moves - shoot it.
If it _doesn't_ move - *blast* it."
From the blurb of some 1980s 8-bit shoot'em up.
There are so many video essays about game culture out there, but *_very_* few as well researched as on this channel. Kudos!
I was the 666th like
Or from the Starship Troopers inspired "Outwars" game. Multiplayer announcer's start game blurb. "If it moves, shoot it. If it shoots back, dodge."
Friendly reminder that this channel is so good, that you can enjoy a 20 minute explanation about barrels
And so good, that it uploads every 3 months.
a s h i a p just like oversimplified
@@friun.6824 Good stuff always comes in small doses
@@dfp982 Yes, always like that.
Quality over quantity man.
I feel like with his content that I should pay for this stuff. He makes great informative videos on games and real life and some videos go up to 1+ hours to make it seem like a movie or a long episode on a show. This, also mixed with slight editing and his calming voice to narrate the video makes his content stand out from the rest. So thank you (if you see this Ahoy) for making this great content for *free* for all of us to watch in our spare time and to have the the time to edit and narrate these vids is just amazing. Thank you for this!
You can't do HL2DM to this day without the explosive barrels.
Custom maps sometimes use their own skins for barrels too.
"You might think DOOM... and you'd be right"
Best line.
Ahoy: farcry
Me: nodding in obvious agreement
Ahoy: Doom
Me: OK makes sense
Ahoy: mad max
Me: oh. Wow
Ahoy: teenage mutant ninja turtles
Me: hmm.
Ahoy: buster Keaton
Me: hmmmmmmm.
Seriously never expected him to go *that* far back. Liked
idek buster keaton am i a child ?
welcome to ahoy's channel. this man goes above and beyond to record video game history
Seku Tard Watch Every frame a painting’s video about him, it’s short but gives a solid intro on what made his work unique.
Should have watch the first video game
Seku Tard nah dude, buster keaton was a moviestar from 20s silent films. Not knowing him definitely doesn’t make you a child
Jontron fans: Jontron takes months to upload.
Me, an Ahoy fan: You. Have. No. Idea.
@bubbedy head both of them are quality over quantity
At least ahoy also isnt racist. ;)
@@rreprah9515 Baaaaaa I'm a sheep
@@rreprah9515
Lol sensitive pussy
However ahoy is definitely worth the wait, knowing that he's spent at least spent 6 months on whatever new project gives me hope that it will be superb.
After binging this series for an entire afternoon, I can confidently say you could make me watch a 2 hour documentary about anything
When Yahtzee visited Valve’s old offices about 10 years ago, he found it hilarious they were right across from a Crate and Barrel.
Now that is funny!
@@rsmith02 I found the article, and it was actually 13 years ago in 2007.
v1.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/videos/zeropunctuation/2655-Yahtzee-Visits-Valve-a-Travelogue.2
I was very fitting that Erik Wolpaw was the one serving as Yahtzee's contact, host and tour guide because Erik's and Chet's work on _Old Man Murray_ are cited by Yahtzee as his greatest influences of irreverant comedy and game reviews along with Charlie Booker.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive I don't want to be that guy, but that was from 21 November 2007, so it was just 12 years ago (and 3 months, and 18 days)
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
A hundred thousand thank you for this and the Old Man Murray info
Felipemelazzi Erik Wolpaw is now taking over as the main writer of _Half-Life: Alyx_ from Marc Laidlaw although according to Erik he still asks Marc questions about the lore almost everyday to try not to contradict Marc’s timeline.
If AHOY did breakable wooden boxes next, I'd still watch it. Anything he makes is the pinnacle of quality over quantity.
He could make a video about fucking anything and it'd still be worth watching 10 times out of 10.
The video description literally says: "Next up: big boxes."
Not entirely sure what that means, but I am certain I will enjoy that video as well.
@@janb.3600 Could be about big box computer games.
"Its just you and your trusty crowbar. Time to... break some boxes."
Fairly sure it'll be 'crates'
@@Calvin_Coolage Calvin was right folks
came from Trash Taste :)
i remember seeing the concept of exploding barrels in millipede, altough they were called "DDT Bombs" and not barrels, but still, the mechanics were the same.
"Barrels are pretty great..."
No, Ahoy. You're pretty great.
You're breathtaking!
No you are pretty great
Im your 420th like
Barrels are cool too, I guess.
Still weird to me that we can just Email the people who designed the games to which all modern games are inspired in part by. No other artistic medium has such luxuries.
Do it while you can if you have questions! We're in such a great, unique position to be able to ring up pioneers or even CEOs of multi-million dollars companies.
I know it's really cool when you sit back and think about it
Well, XboxAhoy can, idk about me or you lol.
Well if you have over a million subs on youtube and have done a video about doom and so on with several million views, then John Romero might answer.
not if Joe Schmo just writes a mail
Your editing is Phenomenal, sir!
Actually, your whole production is stunning. And I love your sense of timing.
I don't even play games, but Trash Taste took me here.
Fellow weeb ahhh
Explosive Barrels: *exists*
My brain: Shoot it
Me: Why?
My brain: You gotta
Player after smoking doom disk one too many times: how bout I sit on top of it and shoot it
do not question the "you gotta" x'D
To be honest, humans have always had an inherent joy in blowing things up. Sort of "fireworks" already existed before ancient rome.
@@BierBart12 Interesting. It's good to know that humans always frickin' loved explosions. Early cannons were basically giant exploding phallus symbols. Gotta love it.
@@TuRmIx96 If you're going to blow your load, might as well take out half of the enemy armada as well.
I like how this is kind of an unofficial entry in the Iconic Arms series.
Like in any shooting games(FPS and the likes), explosive barrels is becoming a staple inclusion these days, with some being manually deployed as traps in some. I do, for one, like that as a unofficial entry of Iconic Arms series too!
i like how this is kind of an un official entry in the NEW iconic objects series
yay for typing out an entire sentence to change a few words instead of just copying and pasting to make the edit and then typing out an even longer sentence to describe the process of typing out the sentence by scratch rather than editing
and just when the world needed him the most, he disappeared
The barrels feel like Iconic Arms to me tbh. You use them for combat
“Hey, let’s leave highly flammable and explosive barrels of fuel around the compound. Surely nothing bad will happen”
-Bossman
Twelve minutes later: something bad happens
You remind me always that quality is more important than quantity, even if it sacrifices more resources. You are one of the most honest content creators out there and I cannot stress how much of a great impact you have on me as a person. You're the best!
For real. Anything Ahoy uploads, I'd watch it IMMEDIATELY.
All of his videos are worthy of a short documentary
Stuart, your docs are unparalleled. Thank you so much for all the effort put into this. It shows.
I can’t emphasise enough how much I really love your videos. Such competent storytelling and impeccably constructed.
The Just Cause series is basically "Explosive Barrels: The Game." Still satisfies.
I always thought it was Tying Things to Vehicles: The Game
@@CrizzyEyes Tying Explosive Barrels to Vehicles: The Game?
@@innoclarke7435 Where can I give you money to make this?
How about? *The* *Game*
Anything:
Ahoy: How does this tie back to Doom
@K W ditch the calendars, or just rip and tear them up?
To be fair, everything post Doom ties back to Doom
Just when you thought that he had ran out of extremely interesting video game facts, you are once again riveted to a new video about the past of video games. Thank you and keep up the great work.
In doom because of the way the game works when you shoot a barrel there's usually a monster close enough to it that you end up hitting the monster not the barrel so I hardly ever actually kill monsters with the barrels.
1:50 That sound is just instantly recognizable
Indeed.
I have no idea what it’s from
@@dreadlordhg360 It's from Half-Life 2
It is the sound of despair.
@Crushenator500
Is that game good? I’ve heard a lot about it
"Doom. Why are there barrels?
Me, suddenly aware that the universe has stilled and even the gods have turned to listen . . . . ."why ARE there barrels on Mars"
"Doom was originally going to be a licensed Alien game"
*THUMP* Jaw. Meet Floor.
For the record, IIRC sources seem to suggest that it was something that id momentarily considered early while in the process of outlining what the game was going to be like, but they ended up deciding against it.
There's no known evidence or quotes from developers that suggest that the game spent any real amount of time in development as a licensed title. Alien's influence still can be seen however, as Ahoy points out.
I love how they explain in Doom 2016 with text logs you can find why there are chainsaws on Mars.
And even then, literally nobody gives a fuck why there are chainsaw there.
@@The_Viktor_Reznov same with doom 3 they said it was mistake as there shipped to the wrong place
"Uhhhg red barrels explode?"
Yes, as they do in real life. There's a REASON combustible materials are color-coded red.
As always astonishing work in all departments, especially in the graphic one!
Ahoy is the kid that never stopped asking, "But Why?"
but instead waiting answer,he search it
Nah he’s the kid that helps the class understand the lesson
@Thpical oh criticism
ahoy be the kid everyone wants in their group to get good grades
Ahoy (Stuart Brown) is that guy who looked like Mark Strong when he was in school, but got all the girls because he SOUNDED like Mark Strong.
Love the visuals and typography for this one.
Would love to see a similar historical treatment for the 'charge shot' eg hold the fire button to build power as a secondary attack. Who was the originator for that?
I'd like to say R-Type popularized it, but it was likely that someone else created it.
It's after R-Type, but Capcom used charged shots regularly from the late 80s on, e.g. the NES port of 1943 and Megaman 4. I think the NES port of Strider had a charged shot after some upgrades.
Would love to see an Ahoy video on Alternate fire modes for guns in games. Perhaps with a focus on the more interesting ones, rather than just Semi/burst/auto that are commonplace in military shooters
@@PershingDragoon Alternate fire would sure give a spotlight to Perfect Dark. Every single weapon in that game has a secondary ability, and some of them are pretty wacky, like turning the Laptop gun into a sentry, or the Dragon (I think that was its name) into a proximity mine disguised as the gun.
@@Brunosky_Inc I think that the Jedi Knight series (maybe dark forces, never played that one) would also shine in that regard.
I genuinely hope another video come out soon as these are some of the best on the platform
The quality of these videos is amazing! Also, great voice!
Shadow of The Tomb Raider has a short side mission/challenge where you need to explode these red barrels. In that instance, blowing them up offers you no real advantage over enemies as it's done outside combat zone where none are present. You however receive some XP for doing it but its funny how its just making them go boom for the sake of boom.
“Alright, enough procrastinating, I’ve got to work on my history project-“
*_Ahoy uploads_*
“I guess I have a bit more free time.”
What do you mean? This is history. How cool would it be if your history teacher talked like this with that music in the background.
FINISH YOUR PROJECT YOU GODDAMN APPLIANCE
@@brandoncrabb7195 lmao
Use it as a source.
Is it the black scientist history project by chance?
Your work is so incredibly well done that I don't care that it takes years to make it, watching a 20 minutes video so well written, narrated and produced pays off a lot!
So well put together. Thank you so much for taking the time to make videos.
red barrel: *exists*
brain: Shoot it right now!
Here we go, Half-Life 2 time. Those accursed barrels... Giving me nightmares.
FLAMMABLE
There's a mod to reskin the Left 4 Dead explosive barrels with the HL2 texture. I saw that and instantly got it for myself.
Agreed. The moment at 2:22...I just felt my gut clench when that happened. It was the first game where I actually had to think twice at shooting an explosive/flammable barrel if some enemies are standing next to it.
The fact that they had a timer was very innovative. The moment you saw a flaming one being used on you, your mind immediately tells you to look out and be aware of your surroundings.
When I got 2:30 in game I freaked out for a second and then thought it's fine, I should leave though...then the buzzing started...
@@MightyElo was that stray shrapnel?!
It’s about time bois, 5 months there’s gotta be another vid in the next month or two
Gunpowder kegs were barrels of sort and definitely exploded so maybe that’s the inspiration
Xboxahoy in 2012: “welcome to my black ops 2 weapon guide. In this episode, the AN94.”
Xboxahoy in 2020: *B A R R E L S*
You could say he was really scraping the bottom of the barrel for this one.
Fun fact: speed rumbler is probably the first "GTA" game too, where you can get in and get out of the car at free will.
@metalfaust19 god damnit
@@BackwardSabotage I bet this is how Ahoy feels when he thinks he's found the earliest example of something.
Been trying to find the name of that game for over a decade, I can finally rest.
@metalfaust19 Dick Tracy for the NES also does that, released in 1990.
@metalfaust19 Who Framed Roger Rabbit was my first experience with freedom in video games. I would just explore everything and ride in that cab without actually progressing anything since it's more of an adventure game and I didn't know English back then.
This is my favorite Ahoy video.
Please make more like this.
I'm really happy to see something new from him. I haven't watched this channel since he was XboxAhoy
me: expecting a episode on a gun
Ahoy: *so anyway I started blasting*
Me: Ayt I'ma sleep
Ahoy: *Barrels*
12:10 AM +8GMT
Me: Guess I ain't sleeping
you and me both
same timezone here, guess what I'll do
same
damn you sleep early
EXACTLY
Fucken excellent!! I cant imagine the amount of reasearch done to get this together! Great job... you got a new fan today
Hey Ahoy, can you do an “Iconic Arms” on the Winchester 1894? Lever rifles in general are interesting choices, and with the advent of Red Dead 2, are popular enough to talk about again.
I was like "really? Explosive barrels? What a disappointment..."
>twenty minutes pass
"Wow! I never knew how interesting the history of explosive barrels is! Wait don't end!"
He can make a video about gravel interesting
never doubt a Ahoy vid, mate
@@uronthefbiwatchlist341 episode 1: barrels, episode 2: boxes: episode 3 chests episode 4: gravel episode 5.... demonic dogs?
You doubted an Ahoy video. You are not worthy of his majesty.
@@channel5980 Won't happen ever again!
19:46 he even added the new HL:A gameplay
Description:
Next up: big boxes
wut
not boxes you find inside video games, but boxes you find video games inside
Thank you for a fascinating and insightful deep dive into this ubiquitous video game device. Your brief inclusion of Activision’s “Pitfall” was unexpected. I remembered those as rolling logs. (I remembered incorrectly!) Just goes to show the part imagination played in our appreciation of 8-bit games!
I would like to add an honorary mention to Metal Gear Solid V-The Phantom Pain, which includes barrels of both the explosive and set dressing varieties, distinguishable by color (more easily in daylight than at night) and instantly identifiable using night vision goggles. Oddly, other volatile set pieces which do NOT fluoresce in night vision mode include high pressure gas canisters (the type your florist uses to fill Mylar balloons with helium), hurricane lamps, and (I promise I am not making this up) campfires! The game is chock full of Jerry cans, but they must all be full of water, because I have never seen one explode. 🤣
I liked how you managed to squeeze Half Life: Alyx in there at the end. Last minute change, I suppose?
Yeah it's a good nod to the series
Well as the clip showed he said "even today, you can't beat a classic". Maybe he means that Half Life: Alyx will never be as good as Half-life 1/2
@@ethanpierce6118 I think he was trying to say that you can't beat a classic game mechanic. It makes more sense given the context, since he says "yes they are overused" and "yes they are everywhere" right before that remark.
@@amelveladzic You're probably, right. It was just a thought I wanted to throw out there
it's certainly cause hl:a is the current year title of a franchise the dude likes.
plus hl's evolution goes from "revolutionary pc shooter" to "flagship franchise of a whole new, independant tech", so seeing its abundance of barrels from 1998 to 2020 is most relevant to the strength of the convention. that's all that's interesting, nothing to do with the quality from one game to the other.
The thing about Ahoy is that, with all of the types of gaming content on this site, it's rare to find something so sophisticated and diligently produced.
It's very refreshing.
Something that I never thought about becomes a topic for a fascinating video. Thoroughly enjoyed that!
Please do more of these. Your voice is super pleasant to listen to, and your storytelling is on point.
In fact, I bet you'd make an incredible dungeon master.
"Our coastal defenses are too weak and full of barrels!" - Some guy (Mental Omega Epsilon Mission 19: Dance of Blood)
Nevermore2790 Is that really in Mental Omega?
@@serraramayfield9230 Yes
9:57 that would be a nice wallpaper right there.
barrels are perfect for video games. they are round very easy for early 3d effects and any real army base is full of them
4:03 "Doom is an action RPG at it's core"
You had cracked the code this far back!