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Dude, I had no idea Neotokyo still had a community after all these years. Same with Fortress Forever. Literally two of my favorite mods for source ever made. I don't know if you work(ed) on Neotokyo or are just part of the community, but I just want to install it again and have some fun playing it like the old days. :)
@@LordLOCSame. I used to check out so many HL1/Source mods. Remember playing both Fortress Forever because I loved the original Team Fortress. Neotokyo was also lots of fun.
This is so true 🎉❤ there’s something about it that I’m really into. Love the music choice as well. I love that it’s produced well but not OVERproduced. Everything feels organic. Including his commentary. Great voice! ❤
Me too - I love the casual approach he takes with every game he plays. Most gamers try everything to make themselves look like they're one of the best gamers there is, he doesn't give a shit 😂
Theres something special about dead games and even though the world has moved on they're holding onto the nostalgia forever. I faced this recently with Call of duty 3 and Socom 2. There was only maybe 8 people playing online and it just opened the floodgates and every little hiding spot just came back to me and then memories that i completely forgot about started to pop into my head and it was amazing!
It's not necessarily nostalgia. In the case of Neotokyo for example I never found a FPS quite like it. The closest were three freemium games that all closed, so you know.
I remember playing AVA as a kid. It was great. Always deathmatch. Sort of felt like CoD to me but i could actually play this because it was free. Sometimes i miss the era of trash f2p mmos and shooters. Companies were damn creative back then too
f2p shooters were something else in late 00s-early 10s, slightly pay2win but not gamebreaking, dev stillcares and also plays alot on the lobbies Too bad when they know they can milk in game items it all went downhill for most f2p shooters
Every comment about that chinese CS clone says the same thing "when i was a kid and had no money" literally nobody would have played it otherwise lmao "its good when theres no alternatives" is not very good
@@Rhapbus1 even if its free, if its shit noone would play it since even back then the genre was saturated as fuck, most famous korean/chinese f2p shooter were actually solid as a game itself
Imagine owning a server and suddenly you have 20 people in your lobby :) Love that Rye always finds friends and uses Undertale music. It gives me DETERMINATION
Seeing fortress forever on here put such a smile on my face! Genuinely one of the most fun games I've ever played, and the community although small is amazing
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. - John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 If are in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC. (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England. (Different from the Church of England) Online you can look up church finders for each of the groups and it will show you locations.
As someone who played AVA GLOBAL, from closed beta test, to about a few months ago. I gasped when you mentioned the game. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.
Why not make video about good and popular games that lost vast amount of players, for instance: Titanfall 2, The escapist 1/2, Worms, TABG, Mordhau and many more?
I Kickstarted Battalion 1944 when it was first announced because it had a lot of promise. Once it hit open early access the player base were so toxic to newcomers learning how to play that many new players left and never played again. If your player base starts toxic it's really difficult to build a loyal base beyond the elite few. It was doomed from early access.
Damn, that’s a right shame. I also contributed to the Kickstarter after hearing about it from Phantasy. I thought it was great, but then went to uni so didn’t game during that time… and when I logged on next, there were zero players. :( And here we really thought it could be a resurgence of the old-school shooter…
Its a shame this game went the way it did i bought the game in 2018 , it was nearly a close spiritual succesor to MOH:AA multiplayer, it was a game i had been waiting for and its ashame the devs destroyed what could have been a masterpiece
@@smiley.6534 By that you mean it didn't have DEI champions with funny quips, copy paste abilities, a battlepass with pink skins & some form of p2w with zero skill required to play?
hey! i remembering playing on Fortress Forever with you guys. thanks for including FF in this video. sucks the server crashed a bit but it was a ton of fun playing on a full server.
Neotokyo was cool with you guys, I honestly think i'll give it another go as soon as i can. Hope I'll be here again to discover some other cool forgotten games with y'all. Also quite surprised to don't see dystopia here. And i paid for battalion, it had potential but devs tried to earn money as valve did with skin cases instead of fixing the game, and it didn't worked. I'm also happy to see double action boogaloo being in the vid Ho and also, mom i'm in the video!
I find it crazy to see how much Battalion fell off. I remember playing it when it was first released and it was really enjoyable to play with a thriving community.
Hey, ex BL dev here. I wasn't in the company when B44 was released, but thanks for playing it all the same! Basically the reason it died was that the studio wasn't expecting the popularity on release. Through naivety and inexperience, the net code crashed the server when too many people tried to join at once, plus the anti-cheat logic was quite... 'easy to overcome' 🤣. Most of these issues were fixed after a week or two but it never really recovered from the negative sentiment. It was a massive learning experience for the studio. When I joined, the lessons from B44 were passed down to every new programmer - earned in blood as they say. The studio and it's employees were receiving death threats almost every day and quite a few quit as a result; crazy times and I'm glad I wasn't there!
@@Guy_6397 well you guys gave me a very nice nostalgia trip to the thousands of hours I accumulated in OG call of duty. So thanks for that, too bad it failed like it did. Would have deserved way more.
One of my favorite dead games is Kane and Lynch 2: Dog days. The multiplayer was so much fun, and unique. I know there was a discord server that would occasional host multiplayer games, but that was so so long ago, idk if it still exists or what not, but it's definitely a worthwhile and fun game to play, if you haven't already. I know it's not a free game.
Man i havent played neotokyo in over a decade, thanks for giving it a shine in the spotlight! The two albums made for the soundtrack, Neotokyo - GSDF and Neotokyo - NSF , by 0edit, are some of the coolest ambient electronic music ive ever heard and keep them in my playlists to this day. ❤
Loved the video!!! I'd also love to see you play "The hidden" at some point, which seems long, dead, and gone at this point. Super great memories of that game.
about 9 years ago, the first game i ever got on steam, was double action bogaloo, it was the MOST fun i ever had as a kid, same goes for fistful of frags, and other free games, since the economy in my country is kind of dogshit i was happy that i was able to enjoy these games at the time. i hope this video revives some of them because i want to give them a visit.
I remember when FF came out. It was developed as a reponse to the graphics style of TF2, a lot of people were unhappy with the direction valve were taking team fortress. FF is much more of a spiritual successor to TFC than TF2 is.
Everyone of these mods/games are some of my favorites in the multiplayer space. I still do play Double Action Boogaloo and Battle Grounds III from time to time. Fortress Forever and Neotokyo I haven't played in well, forever and I'm going to reinstall them now because holy hell did I love those two mods. Battalion Legacy was great when it had players, haven't played since though and I'm not sure how it might play now with the bots. But, we will see :D
So glad you covered fortress forever had a gang of regulars I used to play with everyday for like a month or 2. Good times, you really get to know everyone when your the only players 💀.
i play both fortess forever and neotokyo, thank you for keeping the servers on FF and maybe by extension the whole game alive, we genuiently thought they were gonna die :) (btw 2:28 this pronounciation actually caused "conflict" in other places before lmao)
Double Action: Boogaloo is an absolute masterpiece. Any game where you can do some Max Payne/John Woo diving and shooting action, especially in multiplayer, is peak gaming.
I have fond memories of playing and finding many friends in regiments in battlegrounds 2 and playing line battles against other regiments, such good times and the way I got into mount and blade Napoleonic wars and hold fast 😊
My favorite two free Steam games are Endless Sky and Battle for Wesnoth. Both are amazing open source passion projects that have been refined over many years.
Just finished the Intro, and I seen Double Action Boogaloo. Man I miss that game, It was just an all around classic shooter in the old Source days. Fun as hell with friends as well.
@@Dahnyulll Yeah I could see the influence. Was kind of sad there was never a The Specialists Source or anything like it since (well besides Double Action Boogaloo) that I know of.
@@Gatorade69 from what i remember, the original devs moved on to bigger and better things not long after the TS2.0 release(one of them got hired by crytek iirc) and the dev that took over, and eventually released 3.0, didnt want to start over on source. i think he did end up helping on boogaloo though, when it was clear hl1 modding was dead in the water.
The story of Battalion is really sad. It had so much potential, and when I realized they released a free to play version I got really excited... until I played it and read into the story. What a terrible way to handle a game.
As a veteran of AVA, the gameplay itself is very good as free to play game, but later on the skin gun and regular gun makes so much difference that basically is paid to win. I almost go pro playing AVA with my friends back in the day
Games or severs with a small player base will tend to be so welcoming, and as a member of a small community I can confirm I love seeing new people hop on to play.
I never got a refund on battalion 1944, Probably to late now. Shame it died, can anyone even say why? Especially with it being free maybe it could be revived, if people make it known that this great free game exists. Hard to go wrong with free, it's worth a try guns.
Wild. I actually remember playing AVA and Double Action: Boogaloo (DAB as everyone called it). I remember playing on a shitty laptop games like those and Scram and pla_toon. All weird games with barely anyone playing but they were a blast to play. I remember in either pla_toon or Scram you could actually shoot grenades on other player's sides and they would explode which I thought was super cool. Me and my friends would just aim for the grenades all the time. This dead games video was the first that brought me back to a nostalgic place. These weird small little dead games are the ones that stick in my mind so vividly. I guess because they can be absurd which, with friends, makes it 10x more hilarious than something that is more "serious" like CS:GO or something, and give you just the freedom to goof around without getting absolutely dunked on by like 30 other players trying to test stuff out with your friends
oh my god, the fact that you actually played AVA is such a nostalgia trips. AVA is really, really big in SEA and NA back then since F2P games used to be filled with only FPS games made by Korean and pretty much part of the big fives ( AVA, Counter Strike Online , Point Blank, Special Forces 2 and Blacksquad ). you should try those games since those were still exist but with such a small communites
It's awesome to see you found battlegrounds III. I've been playing the game for a number of weeks and time flies when I play it. The main public server is usually packed with about 20+ people around noon here in the US. I sometimes run into regulars who play the game far more than me. I often hop on to play "a game or two" and multiple hours go by.
Double Action Boogaloo was one of the first PC games I ever played. I had no money at the time and it was the begining of how I learned how to use mouse and Keyboard for shooter games. Many fond memories from back then. If I had to recommend a dead FPS game, I would say my favorite is "Sectors Edge". The servers are officially closing next month, but the small community is going to keep it alive by self hosted servers. Definitely the best small game community I have ever been a part of. RIP SE
I just appreciate the Veterans that still play these dead games or any dead games. They love it and even though its not what it used to be they still play on because they enjoy the game they have a certain nostalgia and feeling that seems to make them not let go of the game
You missed some things in Battle Grounds 3. They have realistic civil war era musket battles with a commander and your platoon standing in rows firing at the other side. It's been a few years since I've played, but from what I remember, each team would spawn on opposite sides of a large map and would have to find each other, then the shooting begins. There were set times for the community to join the server and host one of these battles. There was also another game mode that had ship warfare. It was definitely a lot broader than the experience that was shown here.
What I really like about this channel is that you dont just try to make fun of every single thing about these games, you fairly appreciate the good aspects of them and discuss the things that don't work. Many other channels similar to yours make just clowny content resulting in being annoying rather than funny
You should check out Battle for Middle earth (BFME). It's a Lord of the Rings rts game with a pretty fun campaign. There is also a small multiplayer community, but playing multiplayer requires some effort because EA shut the servers down. The game was created by EA, but because they didn't have the rights to make a Lord of the Rings game they had to shut it down. But the community has managed to make it possible to download the game online for free. They even made their own updates. I'm not sure if you even like rts games, but the game is one of my favourites, and I would like to see you check it out. Love the content!
I actually used to play A.V.A. Alliance of Valiant Arms. Which I think was the predecessor to A.V.A. Global. It was less focused on bomb planting 6v6 esports gamemodes and more focused on pushing payloads, tug-of war kinda gameplay with NPC's with a bunch of extra HP. Edit: Welp calling myself out for posting this w/o watching the whole video. The community was sick from my memory, very positive :D
Thank you for showing Battalion... I loved that game so much, the competitive scene was insane and that's where I've met 2 friends that I still talk to and play with till this day. Old Battalion players will say they miss the game, we all do, but we won't play it anymore because it's dead...
Okay...finding you randomly was a YT blessing. I know I'm gonna watch all the videos within two days and cry. But I'm very glad. You're entertaining sir and have unique channel.
I've recently started watching your video, and I think this is probably one of the most wholesome channels on YT. Most of the games I've never played but I enjoy seeing people enjoy your content and enjoy you looking at their favourite games. For me the game I started out with was probably dirty Bomb😅those we're fun times Thank you Rye for shedding some light on those forgotten games
Double Action: Boogaloo is the spiritual successor to the Half-Life mod called The Specialists. Double Action: Boogaloo is a shadow from the original mod that was inspired by the 90's action movies like Face-Off and Matrix. I played the original mod a lot and went around the maps stunting around disarming people and then killing them with their own guns. The skyscraper map is originally from TS with some modifications when they brought it to Double Action: Boogaloo. It was so much fun to play and I miss those days. Apparently you can still download the Specialists 3.0 mod if anyone really wants to see the original mod.
I’m 36 and I most definitely played the first two games . Battlegrounds use to be popping back when it was a hl2 mod and then that other game that’s called something else now use to be called the specialist and it was based off the matrix . It was so much fun, online gaming was an absolute blast back then .
I wish you could have seen what battlegrounds 1 and 2 were like. Massive regiments (clans) filled with dozens of history nerds that somehow got together and organized into cohesive line battles. Imagine revolutionary and napoleonic era style lines of 20 vs 20 with a commander on each team (sometimes two) calling movement, advance, about face, make ready, take aim, fire. It's like holdfast but the simplicity of the game made it so much... better? Every action and movement mattered so much more. We drilled so much we even had a fire by file command - it was glorious. If you're interested, i can get you in touch with some guys who've played it for almost 20 years and have some great footage. It was truly the most unique gaming experience i've ever had and I yearn for it often.
i used to play battle grounds 3 around the time it came out. it was always the same people whom you played with. the voice chats were one of the reasons i played it so much. people were hilarious. im suprised to see it still running.
NGL watching this video reminded me of playing a game called APB: Reloaded, the game that I will never forget, the in-depth character creation, making some new in-game friends and goofing around, I will never forget that time.
man double action boogaloo was actually awesome back when it had players, the car chases were some of the most intense chaotic experiences ive ever had in a game
Brings back memories... Used to play Double Action Bugaloo alot. Servers where always full. Met some great people there. I guess it's time to visit my old game again ❤
Rye, you might not see this but I appreciate you so much for playing the Temple of Time music from Maplestory at the 3 minute mark. That just made my whole day aside from the video 💙
I used to play a game called Assault Cube. I was part of some kind of squad and we would hang out in a facebook group talking about upcoming matches against other squads, we even included the squad tag in our username and when we came across other players with a tag, we would try to stomp them as hard as possible. Thanks to the weird physics (props to the , many talented mappers managed to create parkour-style maps that would challenge our skills and knowledge on these bugs. I miss the good old days.
This would maybe be forgotten as a random comment but.. there was a popular gamemode un A.V.A called "F3 No-semi" , that stands for Sniper Class and no semi-automatic guns. It was extremely demanding, being probable, one of the first and most competitive Sniper-based matches at the time (heavyly quickscope-based). I loved It.
just thought i'd say you wouldn't be saving money by changing your region, in fact converting the cad price to a us price, the megalodon is $110 usd ($149.50 cad)
Love the video. If you ever get a chance, give the NeoTokyo soundtrack a listen. It's criminality underrated and so good. The soundtrack appears in the game only after you type in a command into the console which is strange af.
I downloaded a free game the other day I knew nothing about. i’m currently at around 120 hours in & out of 3 terabytes worth of games, I play it more than anything else lately by far
As a new sub I just want to suggest finding a consistent naming convention for this series. I feel like I see the same title with the tiniest change over and over. I know it's not the easiest ask but it'd be a nice touch. Cheers and great work!
Battlegrounds came out originally as a mod of HL1, you didn't tried it but there are organised events called Line battles (some people like them, some of them not) and there is usually even clan matched or at least it used to happen. Regarding Antonio, I had a similar experience being a non English speaker, playing online games allowed me to have conversations in different languages, improving my speaking skills considerably compared to schools.
I stumbled upon your channel about 2 weeks ago and I've been bingeing your videos ever since, I can't get enough. Your channel is gonna go far with the awesome content!
Man double actions the best The score system rewards weaker weapon kills with more from what I remember. I used to swap to first person and use the stallion 9 handgun a ton since it reloaded like instantly so I could fire as fast as I could click turning it into a pretty competent smg. I remember me and my buddies Wes and will played it a bunch off and on and one time in particular me and Wes decided to become checkpoint guardians on a race like gamemode and basically bully will. Good good times
Oh shit, I actually "played" neotokyo once years ago after randomly finding it on steam. Fucked around on a random map a bit but left since I couldn't find anyone.
Cool video, I enjoyed the jank you went through. As someone who has played a few of these games, it was awesome to see someone else give them a bash haha
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Enjoy the vid ya legends, sorry it took so long (a LOT of issues like pc breaking... recording corrupting etc etc...) but we're good now!
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Can some people support pp airsoft I want him to upload more and he is funny
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Glad you enjoyed Neotokyo, thanks for checking us out! :)
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Dude, I had no idea Neotokyo still had a community after all these years. Same with Fortress Forever. Literally two of my favorite mods for source ever made. I don't know if you work(ed) on Neotokyo or are just part of the community, but I just want to install it again and have some fun playing it like the old days. :)
@@LordLOCSame. I used to check out so many HL1/Source mods. Remember playing both Fortress Forever because I loved the original Team Fortress. Neotokyo was also lots of fun.
They're part of the community. The original devs all moved on long ago. Though some of them can still be contacted on Steam.@@LordLOC
btw how's the community doing? They eating alright?
@@LutraLovegood Oh, hi Tenchi ;P yeah we are eating alright, same old... Still waiting on steampipe
ive been watching your videos for the last like 2 weeks at this point and i just wanted to say you make very nice content
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This is so true 🎉❤ there’s something about it that I’m really into. Love the music choice as well. I love that it’s produced well but not OVERproduced. Everything feels organic. Including his commentary. Great voice! ❤
Chill vibes all around makes me wanna buy a pc just to play something with him sometime 😂
Me too - I love the casual approach he takes with every game he plays. Most gamers try everything to make themselves look like they're one of the best gamers there is, he doesn't give a shit 😂
Same, got recommended about 2 weeks ago and have been binging through
Theres something special about dead games and even though the world has moved on they're holding onto the nostalgia forever. I faced this recently with Call of duty 3 and Socom 2. There was only maybe 8 people playing online and it just opened the floodgates and every little hiding spot just came back to me and then memories that i completely forgot about started to pop into my head and it was amazing!
It's not necessarily nostalgia. In the case of Neotokyo for example I never found a FPS quite like it. The closest were three freemium games that all closed, so you know.
I remember playing AVA as a kid. It was great.
Always deathmatch. Sort of felt like CoD to me but i could actually play this because it was free.
Sometimes i miss the era of trash f2p mmos and shooters.
Companies were damn creative back then too
f2p shooters were something else in late 00s-early 10s, slightly pay2win but not gamebreaking, dev stillcares and also plays alot on the lobbies
Too bad when they know they can milk in game items it all went downhill for most f2p shooters
I played AVA after highschool with a friend because we had no game in common. If I remember correctly, there was a knife only versus mode.
Every comment about that chinese CS clone says the same thing
"when i was a kid and had no money"
literally nobody would have played it otherwise lmao
"its good when theres no alternatives" is not very good
@@Rhapbus1 even if its free, if its shit noone would play it since even back then the genre was saturated as fuck, most famous korean/chinese f2p shooter were actually solid as a game itself
It had a fun MP7 weapon and that was my favorite gun, it looks so cool seeing it in sci fi movies. I saw the mp7 in gameplay and was like bet
Really enjoying this "dead games" series, Rye. Please keep making them!
Definitely one of the better algorhythm recommendations.
Imagine owning a server and suddenly you have 20 people in your lobby :)
Love that Rye always finds friends and uses Undertale music. It gives me DETERMINATION
Seeing fortress forever on here put such a smile on my face! Genuinely one of the most fun games I've ever played, and the community although small is amazing
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. - John 3:16
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.
-Acts 3:19
If are in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church
(These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches)
If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church.
If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC.
(Different from the Church of Scotland)
If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England.
(Different from the Church of England)
Online you can look up church finders for each of the groups and it will show you locations.
As someone who played AVA GLOBAL, from closed beta test, to about a few months ago. I gasped when you mentioned the game.
Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.
So good to see Neotokyo on here! I always loved that game. Very sad that the recordings didn't work, but I'm glad you went back in for another look.
Why not make video about good and popular games that lost vast amount of players, for instance: Titanfall 2, The escapist 1/2, Worms, TABG, Mordhau and many more?
i think he’s trying to show games taht are dead to try bring a few new players to them
Splitgate
why would he make videos on trash games. those games died for a reason
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Titanfall 💔😭
you have a fantastic way of making me feel nostalgic for experiences i never even had
I Kickstarted Battalion 1944 when it was first announced because it had a lot of promise. Once it hit open early access the player base were so toxic to newcomers learning how to play that many new players left and never played again. If your player base starts toxic it's really difficult to build a loyal base beyond the elite few. It was doomed from early access.
Damn, that’s a right shame. I also contributed to the Kickstarter after hearing about it from Phantasy. I thought it was great, but then went to uni so didn’t game during that time… and when I logged on next, there were zero players. :( And here we really thought it could be a resurgence of the old-school shooter…
Its a shame this game went the way it did i bought the game in 2018 , it was nearly a close spiritual succesor to MOH:AA multiplayer, it was a game i had been waiting for and its ashame the devs destroyed what could have been a masterpiece
Rank was just a counter strike clone
The game was also completely unimaginative
@@smiley.6534 By that you mean it didn't have DEI champions with funny quips, copy paste abilities, a battlepass with pink skins & some form of p2w with zero skill required to play?
hey! i remembering playing on Fortress Forever with you guys. thanks for including FF in this video. sucks the server crashed a bit but it was a ton of fun playing on a full server.
So happy I made it into the video! @3:29 . Had a blast playing this and for those who remember, the pink toothbrush advert still haunts me.
Neotokyo was cool with you guys, I honestly think i'll give it another go as soon as i can. Hope I'll be here again to discover some other cool forgotten games with y'all. Also quite surprised to don't see dystopia here. And i paid for battalion, it had potential but devs tried to earn money as valve did with skin cases instead of fixing the game, and it didn't worked. I'm also happy to see double action boogaloo being in the vid
Ho and also, mom i'm in the video!
I find it crazy to see how much Battalion fell off. I remember playing it when it was first released and it was really enjoyable to play with a thriving community.
Hey, ex BL dev here. I wasn't in the company when B44 was released, but thanks for playing it all the same! Basically the reason it died was that the studio wasn't expecting the popularity on release. Through naivety and inexperience, the net code crashed the server when too many people tried to join at once, plus the anti-cheat logic was quite... 'easy to overcome' 🤣.
Most of these issues were fixed after a week or two but it never really recovered from the negative sentiment. It was a massive learning experience for the studio. When I joined, the lessons from B44 were passed down to every new programmer - earned in blood as they say.
The studio and it's employees were receiving death threats almost every day and quite a few quit as a result; crazy times and I'm glad I wasn't there!
@@Guy_6397 well you guys gave me a very nice nostalgia trip to the thousands of hours I accumulated in OG call of duty. So thanks for that, too bad it failed like it did. Would have deserved way more.
One of my favorite dead games is Kane and Lynch 2: Dog days. The multiplayer was so much fun, and unique. I know there was a discord server that would occasional host multiplayer games, but that was so so long ago, idk if it still exists or what not, but it's definitely a worthwhile and fun game to play, if you haven't already. I know it's not a free game.
Kane and Lynch was one of my favorite games back in the day!
Dude I played the hell out of that multiplayer demo, unfortunately I was still in school, but omg just the online demo was fun
Man i havent played neotokyo in over a decade, thanks for giving it a shine in the spotlight!
The two albums made for the soundtrack, Neotokyo - GSDF and Neotokyo - NSF , by 0edit, are some of the coolest ambient electronic music ive ever heard and keep them in my playlists to this day. ❤
Babe, wake up. The Wendigoon of rare and lost video game is back. 😎
Loved the video!!! I'd also love to see you play "The hidden" at some point, which seems long, dead, and gone at this point. Super great memories of that game.
Good game
about 9 years ago, the first game i ever got on steam, was double action bogaloo, it was the MOST fun i ever had as a kid, same goes for fistful of frags, and other free games, since the economy in my country is kind of dogshit i was happy that i was able to enjoy these games at the time. i hope this video revives some of them because i want to give them a visit.
Wish you lucl body
I remember when FF came out. It was developed as a reponse to the graphics style of TF2, a lot of people were unhappy with the direction valve were taking team fortress. FF is much more of a spiritual successor to TFC than TF2 is.
Everyone of these mods/games are some of my favorites in the multiplayer space. I still do play Double Action Boogaloo and Battle Grounds III from time to time. Fortress Forever and Neotokyo I haven't played in well, forever and I'm going to reinstall them now because holy hell did I love those two mods. Battalion Legacy was great when it had players, haven't played since though and I'm not sure how it might play now with the bots. But, we will see :D
This is honestly some of the most wholesome content I've seen.
So glad you covered fortress forever had a gang of regulars I used to play with everyday for like a month or 2. Good times, you really get to know everyone when your the only players 💀.
You're an amazing person helping people out like that is a great show of brotherhood and gamer love.
i play both fortess forever and neotokyo, thank you for keeping the servers on FF and maybe by extension the whole game alive, we genuiently thought they were gonna die :)
(btw 2:28 this pronounciation actually caused "conflict" in other places before lmao)
I was on the team for Neo Tokyo and a few other mods at the time. It was personally my favorites that I got to be a part of.
what was the censored thing
@@ahlee.adult posters.
Double Action: Boogaloo is an absolute masterpiece. Any game where you can do some Max Payne/John Woo diving and shooting action, especially in multiplayer, is peak gaming.
I remember watching APL stream Batallion. Everyone was psyched for the "WW2 CSGO" and so many people wanted it to succeed. Shame the devs ruined it.
I swear you are the most underrated youtuber ever.
I have fond memories of playing and finding many friends in regiments in battlegrounds 2 and playing line battles against other regiments, such good times and the way I got into mount and blade Napoleonic wars and hold fast 😊
My favorite two free Steam games are Endless Sky and Battle for Wesnoth. Both are amazing open source passion projects that have been refined over many years.
Thanks for giving Neotokyo some fresh eyes Rye! Cheers
Happy to host the server for your NT game night :)
Just finished the Intro, and I seen Double Action Boogaloo. Man I miss that game, It was just an all around classic shooter in the old Source days. Fun as hell with friends as well.
It reminds me of The Specialists on the HL1 engine.
@@Gatorade69 its basically a TS fan game. it never recaptured the magic of TS though.
@@Dahnyulll Yeah I could see the influence. Was kind of sad there was never a The Specialists Source or anything like it since (well besides Double Action Boogaloo) that I know of.
@@Gatorade69 from what i remember, the original devs moved on to bigger and better things not long after the TS2.0 release(one of them got hired by crytek iirc) and the dev that took over, and eventually released 3.0, didnt want to start over on source. i think he did end up helping on boogaloo though, when it was clear hl1 modding was dead in the water.
I love your choice of the MapleStory OST. Thank you for tapping into my nostalgia
"Unable to comply" sent me lmao
DOUBLE ACTION is a fire game, so much memories unlockeds
The story of Battalion is really sad. It had so much potential, and when I realized they released a free to play version I got really excited... until I played it and read into the story. What a terrible way to handle a game.
As a veteran of AVA, the gameplay itself is very good as free to play game, but later on the skin gun and regular gun makes so much difference that basically is paid to win. I almost go pro playing AVA with my friends back in the day
ludwig stole this the other day that means you sir are trending hard
Games or severs with a small player base will tend to be so welcoming, and as a member of a small community I can confirm I love seeing new people hop on to play.
I started watching your videos yesterday,and got to say, the music in between games, is absolute bonkers
I never got a refund on battalion 1944, Probably to late now. Shame it died, can anyone even say why? Especially with it being free maybe it could be revived, if people make it known that this great free game exists. Hard to go wrong with free, it's worth a try guns.
They only refunded their kickstarter backers not people who actually bought it on steam which was super annoying.
Wild. I actually remember playing AVA and Double Action: Boogaloo (DAB as everyone called it). I remember playing on a shitty laptop games like those and Scram and pla_toon. All weird games with barely anyone playing but they were a blast to play. I remember in either pla_toon or Scram you could actually shoot grenades on other player's sides and they would explode which I thought was super cool. Me and my friends would just aim for the grenades all the time. This dead games video was the first that brought me back to a nostalgic place. These weird small little dead games are the ones that stick in my mind so vividly. I guess because they can be absurd which, with friends, makes it 10x more hilarious than something that is more "serious" like CS:GO or something, and give you just the freedom to goof around without getting absolutely dunked on by like 30 other players trying to test stuff out with your friends
For the sake of old youtube i have one thing to say
FIRST!
Balls
@@Soma430 someone has to do it man. If not us then who?
Congrats welcome to the most unimportant club on the internet ;)
@@terrynixon2758 ayy a clubs better than no club glad to be part of it!
oh my god, the fact that you actually played AVA is such a nostalgia trips. AVA is really, really big in SEA and NA back then since F2P games used to be filled with only FPS games made by Korean and pretty much part of the big fives ( AVA, Counter Strike Online , Point Blank, Special Forces 2 and Blacksquad ). you should try those games since those were still exist but with such a small communites
It's awesome to see you found battlegrounds III. I've been playing the game for a number of weeks and time flies when I play it. The main public server is usually packed with about 20+ people around noon here in the US. I sometimes run into regulars who play the game far more than me. I often hop on to play "a game or two" and multiple hours go by.
you are one of the best youtube channel i've found recently
Double Action Boogaloo was one of the first PC games I ever played. I had no money at the time and it was the begining of how I learned how to use mouse and Keyboard for shooter games. Many fond memories from back then.
If I had to recommend a dead FPS game, I would say my favorite is "Sectors Edge". The servers are officially closing next month, but the small community is going to keep it alive by self hosted servers. Definitely the best small game community I have ever been a part of. RIP SE
it was so fun to be a part of this! great job on the video, its great to see how much you've improved!
natural selection 2 is a game that i love, there is usual enough people to play at any hours but it will never received new update
I just appreciate the Veterans that still play these dead games or any dead games. They love it and even though its not what it used to be they still play on because they enjoy the game they have a certain nostalgia and feeling that seems to make them not let go of the game
Hi Rye. I'm addicted to your videos. Please stop making them so I can finally focus on my work. Thanks!
PS: NEVER STOP MAKING VIDEOS
I used to play double action: Boogaloo all the time in the early 2010s. Glad to see it's still being played.
You missed some things in Battle Grounds 3. They have realistic civil war era musket battles with a commander and your platoon standing in rows firing at the other side. It's been a few years since I've played, but from what I remember, each team would spawn on opposite sides of a large map and would have to find each other, then the shooting begins. There were set times for the community to join the server and host one of these battles. There was also another game mode that had ship warfare. It was definitely a lot broader than the experience that was shown here.
What I really like about this channel is that you dont just try to make fun of every single thing about these games, you fairly appreciate the good aspects of them and discuss the things that don't work. Many other channels similar to yours make just clowny content resulting in being annoying rather than funny
You should check out Battle for Middle earth (BFME). It's a Lord of the Rings rts game with a pretty fun campaign. There is also a small multiplayer community, but playing multiplayer requires some effort because EA shut the servers down.
The game was created by EA, but because they didn't have the rights to make a Lord of the Rings game they had to shut it down.
But the community has managed to make it possible to download the game online for free. They even made their own updates.
I'm not sure if you even like rts games, but the game is one of my favourites, and I would like to see you check it out.
Love the content!
I actually used to play A.V.A. Alliance of Valiant Arms. Which I think was the predecessor to A.V.A. Global. It was less focused on bomb planting 6v6 esports gamemodes and more focused on pushing payloads, tug-of war kinda gameplay with NPC's with a bunch of extra HP.
Edit: Welp calling myself out for posting this w/o watching the whole video. The community was sick from my memory, very positive :D
Thank you for showing Battalion... I loved that game so much, the competitive scene was insane and that's where I've met 2 friends that I still talk to and play with till this day. Old Battalion players will say they miss the game, we all do, but we won't play it anymore because it's dead...
Okay...finding you randomly was a YT blessing. I know I'm gonna watch all the videos within two days and cry. But I'm very glad. You're entertaining sir and have unique channel.
I've recently started watching your video, and I think this is probably one of the most wholesome channels on YT. Most of the games I've never played but I enjoy seeing people enjoy your content and enjoy you looking at their favourite games. For me the game I started out with was probably dirty Bomb😅those we're fun times
Thank you Rye for shedding some light on those forgotten games
Double Action: Boogaloo is the spiritual successor to the Half-Life mod called The Specialists. Double Action: Boogaloo is a shadow from the original mod that was inspired by the 90's action movies like Face-Off and Matrix. I played the original mod a lot and went around the maps stunting around disarming people and then killing them with their own guns. The skyscraper map is originally from TS with some modifications when they brought it to Double Action: Boogaloo. It was so much fun to play and I miss those days. Apparently you can still download the Specialists 3.0 mod if anyone really wants to see the original mod.
I’m 36 and I most definitely played the first two games . Battlegrounds use to be popping back when it was a hl2 mod and then that other game that’s called something else now use to be called the specialist and it was based off the matrix . It was so much fun, online gaming was an absolute blast back then .
I wish you could have seen what battlegrounds 1 and 2 were like. Massive regiments (clans) filled with dozens of history nerds that somehow got together and organized into cohesive line battles. Imagine revolutionary and napoleonic era style lines of 20 vs 20 with a commander on each team (sometimes two) calling movement, advance, about face, make ready, take aim, fire. It's like holdfast but the simplicity of the game made it so much... better? Every action and movement mattered so much more. We drilled so much we even had a fire by file command - it was glorious. If you're interested, i can get you in touch with some guys who've played it for almost 20 years and have some great footage. It was truly the most unique gaming experience i've ever had and I yearn for it often.
that maplestory BGM got me feeling SUPER nostalgic. was not expecting that in this video
Double Action is truly a gem of a game, I've had such a blast playing it throughout the past 6-7 years. pretty active community as well.
i used to play battle grounds 3 around the time it came out. it was always the same people whom you played with. the voice chats were one of the reasons i played it so much. people were hilarious. im suprised to see it still running.
These videos are gold. You are going to blow up! The best part of these old games are the communities
I actually enjoyed my time playing FF with the Discord server, being no stranger to TF2 and TF2C. Great game.
LIL RETRO!!! I played double action boogaloo with him before, I love double action sm
There’s a Half Life mod called The Specialists
Which is the ancestor of Double Action Bugaloo
NGL watching this video reminded me of playing a game called APB: Reloaded, the game that I will never forget, the in-depth character creation, making some new in-game friends and goofing around, I will never forget that time.
man double action boogaloo was actually awesome back when it had players, the car chases were some of the most intense chaotic experiences ive ever had in a game
Once you commit some time into double action the movement in the game is actually great, lots of fun memories playing it with friends.
Brings back memories... Used to play Double Action Bugaloo alot.
Servers where always full. Met some great people there.
I guess it's time to visit my old game again ❤
Rye, you might not see this but I appreciate you so much for playing the Temple of Time music from Maplestory at the 3 minute mark. That just made my whole day aside from the video 💙
I used to play a game called Assault Cube. I was part of some kind of squad and we would hang out in a facebook group talking about upcoming matches against other squads, we even included the squad tag in our username and when we came across other players with a tag, we would try to stomp them as hard as possible. Thanks to the weird physics (props to the , many talented mappers managed to create parkour-style maps that would challenge our skills and knowledge on these bugs. I miss the good old days.
ah man i got chills when the neotokyo segment started. many confused teen years in there, soundtrack by ed harrison still holds up to this day.
This would maybe be forgotten as a random comment but.. there was a popular gamemode un A.V.A called "F3 No-semi" , that stands for Sniper Class and no semi-automatic guns. It was extremely demanding, being probable, one of the first and most competitive Sniper-based matches at the time (heavyly quickscope-based). I loved It.
just thought i'd say you wouldn't be saving money by changing your region, in fact converting the cad price to a us price, the megalodon is $110 usd ($149.50 cad)
Love the video.
If you ever get a chance, give the NeoTokyo soundtrack a listen. It's criminality underrated and so good.
The soundtrack appears in the game only after you type in a command into the console which is strange af.
i've just recently started watching your videos about dead games, it's great content, relaxing and wholesome in a way. Keep it up
Next time you forget to record audio you're obligated to dub it over with a vocalized re-enactment. I'm holding you to this.
I downloaded a free game the other day I knew nothing about. i’m currently at around 120 hours in & out of 3 terabytes worth of games, I play it more than anything else lately by far
As a new sub I just want to suggest finding a consistent naming convention for this series. I feel like I see the same title with the tiniest change over and over. I know it's not the easiest ask but it'd be a nice touch. Cheers and great work!
Oh my God I played SO much Battlegrounds 2 as a child. Not 3, but 2, and it was so amazing. It's a huge part of why I'm a history nerd today
appreciate you checking out AVA man ❣
Alliance of Valiant Arms takes me back to those Combat Arms and Battlefield Play4Free days. YOUR EFFORTS ARE COMMENDED
I remember playing Battalion and Double Action Boogaloo back in highschool. Double Action was peak, like max payne 2 multiplayer
Battlegrounds came out originally as a mod of HL1, you didn't tried it but there are organised events called Line battles (some people like them, some of them not) and there is usually even clan matched or at least it used to happen.
Regarding Antonio, I had a similar experience being a non English speaker, playing online games allowed me to have conversations in different languages, improving my speaking skills considerably compared to schools.
I stumbled upon your channel about 2 weeks ago and I've been bingeing your videos ever since, I can't get enough. Your channel is gonna go far with the awesome content!
Man double actions the best
The score system rewards weaker weapon kills with more from what I remember. I used to swap to first person and use the stallion 9 handgun a ton since it reloaded like instantly so I could fire as fast as I could click turning it into a pretty competent smg.
I remember me and my buddies Wes and will played it a bunch off and on and one time in particular me and Wes decided to become checkpoint guardians on a race like gamemode and basically bully will. Good good times
Oh shit, I actually "played" neotokyo once years ago after randomly finding it on steam. Fucked around on a random map a bit but left since I couldn't find anyone.
The moment you said the words ,'double action boogaloo' I audibly gasped, got fond memories of that with friends about 7 years ago
AVA was the first PC I ever played, back when people like Skadoodle played.
This video gave me so much nostalgia.
Im so thankful more people are talking about neotokyo. I miss left leaning being SO BROKEN
Cool video, I enjoyed the jank you went through. As someone who has played a few of these games, it was awesome to see someone else give them a bash haha