The World's Most Technical Third-Person Shooter - Rise And Fall Of Gunz
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- Gunz: The Duel is a third-person shooter many players will remember for its technical and fast-paced gameplay.
The franchise had the makings of a competitive modern esport, but a variety of factors led to it sadly falling into the abyss of obscurity.
This is the story of Gunz, the esport that could have been.
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Have you ever played Gunz before?
No but there is a similar game called S4 leagur.Can you make a video about it?
I've played since the start of ijji gunz
it was my classic
Yea
As a kid, yeah. Damn that brings me back.
I remember spending weeks learning Buterflies, Double-Butterflies and Triple-Butterfly with my brother 10 years ago. Damn, this game brings back so many memories.
SAME BRO I used to bang some chill ass tracks while mind numbingly practicing triple butterfly. I gave up and said these dudes must be hacking this shit impossible. I was like 14 LOL
I never got the double or triple but that butterfly and kstyle.. I felt like a goddamn pro till I played in clan wars and got exposed. I quit the clan and just went back to normal attack and defense in the mansion. 😂
Yeah dudes, the game was too hard at the highest level, I could maybe do 1 tbf out of 20 tries LOL.
But the public lobbies, the 1x1 matches, the custom challenges like IK, IF, IFS... that was my jam
THE EXACT SAME THING MAN my brother taught me everything I knew in that game very little I was like 6-8 but still learning how to animation cancel or butterfly I felt like a god
I remember struggling to do double, so I said fuck it and went double pistol butterfly route and play hit and run. I was relatively on par with my clan in 1 on 1s at the time, but in 4v4, I definitely didn't have enough presence.
Man, I used to play this game all the time in ijji, I was the noob and never learnt the "butterfly" coz my fingers can't handle all those rapid key movements but I still had a great time playing it casually.
Hey! Didn't expect to see you there. How are you?
But Rong Rong is never Rong :(
Yup, was fun trying to kill the kstyle people all the same
Rong rong big dum dum
Honestly I miss those days I couldnt go back today because I’d just get owned everytime.. back then being able to K-style/Butterfly was rare there was no shame in being a “ sprayer “ playing the game as it was originally designed to ..
2:23 That was me performing triple half step! Mikeberserkr was my code name in the gunz universe. Thanks for adding me! I played this game 18 years ago.
TH-cam blocked my video but it is in dailymotion titled: "Gunz: Triple Half Step (THS) Complete K-Style Tutorial Guide - HD"
Still some of the fondest gaming memories I've had in my childhood, other games simply don't scratch that same mechanical itch the way GunZ did for me
try melee
@@elijahsalarda6497 HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
try starcraft
And of y’all sucked lol
@@elijahsalarda6497 my thought exactly
This storyline feels so much like the transition of melee to brawl and how that split the community. Even down to the developer choices
This felt like it could've been the Smash bros of third person shooters if there was enough online support / Twitch around
Was here to say this. Sounds exactly like Melee
melee's sick
Gunz's sick
Yeah smash is a pretty good "party" game
It's genuinely heartwarming to see a game experience a second life nearly 18 years after its release all because dedicated fans decided to put in the time and effort to keep it alive
Haha, Team Fortress 2 go *YATATA....*
A second life? There's not even 1,000 total players still playing. I'd love to see some big content creators start sheding light on this game. Ive tried to get friends to play with me but they just laugh at me and tell me to play [insert new oversaturated game here]
Word.
it sucks that we can't even explain how mechanically insane this game was. the number of buttons you press in 1 second, the number of hours you spent just practicing, etc. this game was my childhood and god damn was it so fucking fun
There is absolutely nothing like it
@@blacksocrates1 melee, brood war, unless you mean strictly shooters then yeah id agree
The way I describe it is like if you were playing a third person shooter that required the inputs of a fighting game, and it's as fast as quake, but also melee is fundamental, and you can fly off of walls.
This was the most competitive game I've ever played. I remember being a kid grinding hours just to upgrade my shitty machine guns to a shotgun cause the pros looked cool using them
Bruh ikr I remember like the dual smg's lmao.
it was so hard to grind... geez I loved this game.
@@EricH-ht4ib tbh the dual uzis are cooler, but the meta is meta, and If you didnt get the dual shotguns you were pretty owned
you was suppose to go on quest mode to level up bro lol - glitch for unlimited boss lol
Ever played DFO or Brawl?
I remember seeing someone asking about this and you guys responding you would do it but didn't expect a video so soon
We saw this suggestion a while back and the more we looked into it, the more we realized that Gunz was an esport that could've been.
@@Akshonesports an eport* :D
@@Akshonesports could you guys also do a video about Due Process? I think this game has a lot of potential of being a great esports game! :D
@@gabriels8395 I agree, I’d love to see Due Process become a large scale esports game
@@Akshonesports I humbly urge you to look into the korean f2p shooter called S4League that released in 2007. It's a similar story of a game that suffered the same kind of fate in many ways.
And to this day it still has a very loyal core-playerbase that isn't willing to quit this unique shooter based on a concept that has never been done before and never again, working on their own solutions to keep this gem of gaming alive, whether that may be via private servers or various spiritual successors in developement by passionate long time fans, hoping to keep their favorite game concept alive.
The game is a third person shooter with anime graphics that didn't seem to have aged at all since 2007 (+ incredible Soundtrack) and it will be hard to bring across in this bubble of text, but it REALLY is unlike any other shooter, while actually sharing some similarities to GunZ in a way.
It's decorated with complex tech, consisting of animation cancels and the like, that help you maneuver around the map in the most stylish and slippery fashion possible, to go hand in hand with the main game mode called *TouchDown,* which is the very thing that makes S4 so special.
In *TouchDown* you play a symmetrical map against an opposing team, using your movement tech and sick ass weapons to grab the "ball" (a cute creature named "fumbi") in the middle of the map and reach the goal in the enemy's base to score a touchdown. Though the moment you grab the ball your stamina bar that fuels many (but not all) movement mechanics stops regenerating, meaning you'll either have to play fast and smart to outmaneuver the enemies that try to make you drop the ball by killing you, or you'll have to deal with being limited in movement, but still outplay the enemies, either by teamwork or big brain action.
Your character is allowed to carry 3 weapons, that you'll be able to swap between as much as you like within combat. And each weapon has some kind of implication for your mobility, such as additional movement tech, the lack of it and how fast you run while wielding it. That means that you'll have to decide on a set of weapons that fits your playstyle, making a healthy compromise on what you want and which characteristics and implications of a weapon you can live without. Thus many people choose to specialize their equipment either around defending one's own goal, rushing towards the ball and sprinting towards the goal, or as an option inbetween.
The game modes are either played with only melee weapons allowed, or with guns allowed as a ruleset. The latter ruleset allows all kinds of weapons and additionally you're allowed to carry an ability with you (wings, a grappling-hook, a deployable wall, etc...), though these abilities aren't as dominant within the gameplay of S4 as you'd may think from the sound of it. The gameplay is mainly driven by what you're able to do via the standard movement mechanics (sprinting, walljumps, dodging & airdodging) and what you're able to do thanks to the weapons you're using in terms of tech (there is a lot of discovered tech), leading to much variation in possible playstyles and movement / combat options.
The meta is obviously highly different depending on the ruleset (melee or with guns), melee only for example will give you the chance to outskill and outplay your opponents via your cracked out movement alone, in a way that wouldn't be possible with guns. Since if they don't manage to touch you, they won't be able to kill you and retake the ball. If you're staying out of reach, you're staying out of reach, while you'd be shot at with guns when out of melee reach. In melee only, even if you're out of stamina, leaving you with way less options, you'll always have the ability to clutch it out by playing it smarter. With guns allowed & out of stamina, your movement is slowed down and you're an easier target, regardless of how good your movement is without stamina tech, you just won't be able to dodge bullets as easily anymore. There's a bigger urgency to rush towards the goal while you still have stamina and thus are capable of dodging the bullets, upon picking up the ball. Or you're slowly progressing with your team, dying strategically close to the enemy goal, where your teammates pick it up and score. Of course there's a lot more to it than I can convey via this text though.
The one thing I didn't really touch upon though is how crazy exciting and adrenaline & dopamine fueling these matches were, there is nothing that ever could bring back the feeling me and many others get when playing S4League. Especially learning to use tech correctly to master jumps and movement options that instantly raise your level of ability as a player was so nice. With many maneuvers serving as significant shortcuts that will lead to your death if executed incorrectly ever so slightly, depending on the difficulty of the maneuver you're going for.
And the level design is phenomenal, there's a map that is akin to de_dust2 in a way due to how iconic it is, called Station-2 and it will cause heavy nostalgia trips to any S4 Player you show it to, since that's the map that's been played 80 % of the time due to how crazy good and fun it is.
It really is a massive could-have-been eSports. Heck, if you think about it, it already was an eSports by design.
The lore of the game literally defined that S4League the game is a futuristic eSports of some sort, that people in the future played via some high tech virtual reality device.
Touchdown is as S4 as it gets and was the center of many many clanwars back in the day and tournaments, though you didn't even need that format, since the game's presentation made sure to make every game feel like you were playing grand finals at internationals.
These days everyone plays on a private server called "Xero" without p2w bullshit, and better leadership than aeria games offered, while also now supporting 144 hz and other quality of life improvements.
If you're interested in learning more about this legendary masterpiece that found it's decline due to bad business practices, I suggest visiting the Xero Discord. There will be plenty of passionate people (especially amongst the leadership) that I'm sure are willing to talk about everything surrounding S4 and the interesting history behind Xero, which will be the place to be for S4 Players going forward. They're amazing.
There also is a very VERY informative video, that went semi-viral 2 years ago, called _"What happened to S4 League (My Favorite Childhood's Game)"_ by someone named Dhoomie, he made more videos than that since and was a passionate long time S4League player since alll the way back. You'll possibly be able to get in touch with him as well.
And by all means please watch _"S4 league [Zeta]"_ it is a montage from 2010, so there are probably way better players out there these days, but it shows what S4League was back in the day, what so many fell in love with. [Zeta] is a name that many S4 Players will still recognize, it's ridiculous that that nametag left that kind of footprint.
I'd really love to see a video on this game, the story of S4 really deserves to be retold once more and with Xero still going strong, it'd be awesome to see people that are interested by the concept jump into the game that many are still playing to this day. And with the enhancements Xero offers I'd argue there never was a better time to get into S4League than now
or back when it first released, because you just had to be there :)
The graphics alone gave me nostalgia of old compute cafe I saw this game before but I never knew the name I remember his tapping his key board like crazy
The greatest PvP game in history. Nothing has ever felt good enough after GunZ.
Facts 🤝
Yeah i feel that too lol
Playd gunz 2 then warframe, now im stucked on a cheap mmo neverwinter
Those wrists disagree
Yeah, I’ll agree to that. Two dead third person shooters were my go to: GunZ and Battlefield Heroes.
Now I don’t play shooters… because I just want those two.
from 2009 to early 2011 I was the US GM for GunZ. I worked out of an ijji subsidiary office in Irvine CA. I miss GunZ, honestly one of my favorite jobs I've ever had, the community is amazing and really accepting, running clan wars was so much fun having "Fight the GM" fridays was great. HOWEVER most (like 95%) of my job was forum moderation, player interaction and hacker banning. My typical day would consist of banning somewhere between 25 and 35 hackers.
But getting to spend time with the community and watching people perfect quad-butterflys, or seeing people move from A-style (American style, aka using machine guns or auto pistols while butterflying) to K-style ( using shotguns while butterflying) or watching people learn their first or 2nd butterfly truly made that job and community special.
This game legit was my first true taste of competitive gaming. Watching people butterfly around made you want to learn, and watching someone absolutely destroy others gave you a sense of wanting. I miss those years, but might have to pick it back up.
It was so hard even when I was young, not to mention 15 years later...
It's like online dark soul with guns
first time you saw that shit, didn't you think people were hacking? I did. It was confusing because there was a lot of hackers, and some people were good enough to go toe to toe with the cheaters. I became one of those people at one point. But that flying in the air while using your sword shit just looked impossible to me. From frustration to elation.
@@nickmagrick7702 Absolutely. I miss those days of grinding and learning. Going from pure disbelief in how it's done to being able to do it and compete was an absolute rush that I have yet to capture again.
@@orbitalcasting I got a similar feeling from DFO. Really high skill cap in the PvP in that game, and gear is mostly equalized.
Or at least it was when it was out for the first several years. I still wouldn't recommend playing because NEXON is a straight up criminal organization and they might just decide to ban your account and steal all your shit one day like they did to me and many others.
Theres other decent competitive games out there, but they are few and far between.
This game really taught me to push past my comfort levels and made me believe I could learn even seemingly impossible things if I didn't give up. Very heartwarming to see this video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
That's exactly how I felt with DMC3.
This was awesome to read
I spent like 4 years playing Gunz (first IGunz then ijji, then private servers) and it's wild to see a video at almost 800k views about it. There were so many interesting aspects of the game whether it's K Style, D Style, Gladiator games, duels, clan wars, etc. Thanks for making this, the nostalgia wave was wild!
I remember the Magicians clan. Whenever we saw one of them in our pub matches, we just gave up because they would be slaughtering the entire lobby. They were insane.
our clan Back2Basics we fought Magicians and Sparta and what not daily basis and on the ijji tournaments
@@epicwarding yooo I remember B2B, I used to play on a clan called ZeroGravity I think we fought with you a couple of times and got completely obliterated
@@DJLoit also watch this
th-cam.com/video/lWexFgow3LU/w-d-xo.html
here is b2b vs magicians" . one of thousands of replays th-cam.com/video/bqML5lzkyKs/w-d-xo.html
lmao didn't know people would be so much scared of us
Yes. Yes. I love you.
THANK you for making a video on this game. This was my entire middle-school gaming life.
I remember being taught the basics of K-Style by a guy who barely spoke English and neither killed me nor let me kill him until I learned what he was trying to show me.
Crazy memories.
God, same here. A guy invited me to a game to show me combos and basically told me to learn it until I can beat him once with it.
Not to mention the goblin mode, which was super fun in of itself. Going into dungeons was AWESOME and was a great way to take a break from the competitive scene while still having fun and honing your skills.
Few people remember , but original guns actually featured Story Mode , that featured fully fledged boss battles. Something like GunZ Second Duel. And it unlike repetitive goblin dungeons, it featured great variety in mobs and bosses. Like army men, robots, and so on.
@@stanleycrowley9333 Yeah and the skulls to make boss fights and more was such a cool feature i haven't seen in a video game since
Yes, I remember this!
The last game I played with my best friend before he died was this game ; ; There was so much depth to this game that we played it every chance we could and I always just choose swords
Ow, sorry to hear that, I'm happy you got to build such fun memories with your bff! Hopefully more people can get to have moments like those
Hey, I'm Korean. Gunz was my childhood memory, and every skills that was shown in this video was done by everyone (including elementary school students). LOL We thought it was a natural thing to do. I hope you guys could cover another Korean fps called "Sudden Attack" which I believe is still one of the most ridiculous way to play fps to this day.
From 2006 to 2015 korean games like sudden attack, operation7, gunz, crossfire, or elsword were very popular in latin america. Especially Operation 7
@@plugg1160 didn't knew about that! thanks for the info, it's always good to know that there are people who have shared similar childhood memories.
@@plugg1160 i remember being obsessed with crossfire knives only matches
@@plugg1160 yea i played crossfire and gunz, idk what the others are other than elsword
Don't know how you koreans played sudden attack but when I tried it was legit one of the most boring f2p fps I ever played
If I had a large sum money I would invest it into buying the rights and reviving this game keeping all the mechanics and fixing the graphics, maps, bugs, etc. Basically executing it into a world famous game because let's be honest, can you imagine a GunZ esport? The mechanics in this game puts pretty much every game available right now in the dirt. Watching a GunZ esports would be INSANELY satisfying with all the different ways a player can move and execute. The skill cap in this game is limitless.
same applies for most dead or abused franchises, god knows I would love to buy up a while bunch of dead jrpg or fighting game rights and expand them(storywis) to hell and back like I'm trying to do my best arc sys impression.
That's if the codes still exists.
There is a game like this. Its called Warframe, top 5 f2p game on steam
@@blackhacker7689 I've been playing Warframe since release. It's not comparable to the mechanics in GunZ. Every mushroom and its daughter can bullet jump or wall-run in Warframe, because it's piss easy. Don't get me wrong, I love WF, but GunZ is on a complete different level when it comes to gameplay.
it basically reminds me of a chinese anime called king's avatar (the pvp aspect of it atleast)
This game was very popular in Brasil, there was this publisher Level Up Games and all of their games were crazy popular among high schoolers back in my day, Ragnarok Online, Combat Arms, Maple Story and The Duel, during classes it was all we talked about.
wtf we had level-up in the philippines, too. and we had all those games as well lol
is it just me but asian made games like Gunz, Ragnarok online, elsword, cross fire was very popular in latin America and the asian region?
Man that was so nostalgic, i 'd spent like almost a full year to learn every thing i need just to be competitive on the game. It was one of the most joyfull experience i ever had
I loved this game when I was young!! I remember learning to triple butterfly and half step and being so hyped lol. Man this music is nostalgic as fuck.
i can still only dbf because i dont understand the timing for tbf
@@titoepfx4272 it’s really fucking weird I agree. I can manage it if I rebound block to right mouse click, but then my movement gets all fucked up.
I can’t do it with Block on shift.
@@filippkhan3935 i cant do it with block on right click especially while moving
lol now that you typed it i remember the words half step lol....FUCKING 07, 08 & 09 SUMMER WAS THE SHIT!!!!Not gonna lie i used to be scared of Abyss & Magician clan when i see them go up in the 'searching for opponents' lol
I remember I didn't think I could do it. Until one day I could, and then I was actually better than the majority of the people out there. It was a pretty huge rush. I loved doing that slide dodge into the butterfly to gain speed, into a wall and then doing the like sideways flip thing in the air with the combo to jump back and fourth between the buildings and just never touching the ground in most maps. Felt like a god damn anime super hero.
the memories of every afternoon after schools, GUNZ is all you do.
Until hackers ruined the game fighting p2w is much easier compared to those people inside the wall and shooting rockets like its an smg.
Ikr 😭
and all the broken keyboards/mouse
if you were a weirdo yes, normal kids play cod
@@Kiba114 you mean noob kids played cod.
Compared to gunz, I could play cod blindfolded. When I played cod I was solo killing everyone cause they were so slow compared to aiming in gunz that had to be done in lightening speed
Cool video man, I had a few friends who always talked about/loved Gunz but nevefr so much as looked at it, this was a great video, sparked a bit of nostalgia about people i hadn't thought about in many many years!
i remember spending weeks at a time trying to learn butterfly/d-butterfly and d-style tech, and the music is so, so, so memorable. this game will always have a special place in my heart for sure
Maaaan I used to play this all the time. It was super ahead of its time. I loved all the tech you could do 😍
Somehow I’m not surprised to see u here
Post a video mlord 🥲
I almost forgot about this game till now! I went from spray and pray to butterfly shotgun master 😎
hey i know u, hope ur doin well
For sure, used to play it a lot. Even with my bad dial up connection I still had a good time playing with K-Style, which was extremely fun
Oh damn, i didn't really expected you're gonna talk about this
The nostalgia of this game rocks me hard. I recall coming home from school itching to jump on Gunz. The world seemed so right at the time. Childhood..
God I miss this game. I still remember skipping school just to play this game at the local computer cafe and smashing their keyboards.
go eat pag pag pign oise
International Gunz, Freestyle Gunz and Universe Gamers Gunz are still up until now, you can play it without errors.
same bro! Me and my friends went to the PC Cafe just to play this game every day.
I'm Brazillian and I remember how much I loved playing that game waaay back. Alongside Ragnarok online it was a popular korean game here!
i play ragnarok online to this day!
Man this brings back so many memories. I remember I got to master D-style and was pretty good at it. This game was one of those that was really intense all the time and hard to play on pvp, but dayum, that adrenaline rush. I'll start playing again and see what happens!
Nostalgia hits hard man i used to late dash tbf and all that stuff back in the day still the OST makes me feel like im on my pc on a day off from school and the day is all mine to enjoy the best game ive ever seen in my entire life hope yall r ok and doing good in your lives gunz friends :)
Sounds like the melee of 3rd Person Shooters sounds cool :)
Yup!!
Exactly what it was. Game was legendary
Thanks for the feature and showing more gamers the amazing old school experience that is GunZ!
Thank you for the help and taking the time to speak with us!
Exploiting unintended mechanics to make the skill ceiling sky high? Just like Super Smash Bros. Melee! I love it when players can make games better with new tech!
IVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER WHAT THIS GAME WAS FOREVER! I had such a blast sinking hours into this fast paced game
Back in my days, the moment a lawnmower man joins in, everyone logs out
Oh man yeah the hackers with the constant charged attack
It’s funny because you don’t even get anything out of it it’s not like an mmorpg, I always wondered why dudes would just roll in like that lmao
This game was a big part of my life as a kid. I remember playing casually then suddenly see someone doing the "butterfly" I was amazed and shock at the same time, I still remember this feel, I quickly searched the internet on how to do it. and started practicing.
I never played this game and probably never will, because I'm really bad at fast pacing games, but seeing how people are still so passionate and invested on it, makes me hope for the best for this community. May you guys make this game big and have fun playing for many years to come.
Oh man this game do bring back memories, I remember only peaking at top 100 clan and the best I could do were DBF, HS and SS
and I loved the classic map and the stairs one because flying around was fun as hell
I loved this game. Our internet cafe stocked up on spare keyboards just to have replacements anytime.
where you from ?
This is the only game that brought one of my keyboards to its end of life on key presses.
I finally understood why I was so bad at this game back in the day; I didn't knew about the animation cancel combos and key input combination. I just... shot and sliced people.
Same I thought I was pretty good but never used any "cheats"
I feel you, I was too young and amazed with the basic wall-running and somersault moves that I never really cared about the more advanced moves lmao. After seeing this I finally understand why I get wrecked in public lobbies by players who are more advanced and those who are spending actual money 😂
you really had to know somebody who would sit down and teach you kstyle on arena lmao
this video overstates how prevalent k style was. There was a massive portion of the population just playing gunz like a normal game, which also spawned its own variant, e style.
I was playing aware of kstyle, butterfly etc.and they wreck face but I have slow hands so I never tried despite clanmates want to teach me. Still tho, as sprayer with 2 rifles and 7(9?) grenades, jumprolling to wazoo, dropping nades like mines, I still manage to contribute, piss off enemies and most importantly have fun(made friends thru the game).
I thank Matrix for this game 😆
Played this a lot. There was an "Against monsters" mode as well where you beat cool bosses in the end and you could do it with friends. Nothing else like it out there. Wish you showed the NPC part as well. Quit because of hackers.
Wolfenstein enemy territory should be remade as well, another game with different kind of multiplayer you dont see today.
What I like about Gunz is that it captures, or kinda, the things I want in a game. The character design and uniforms kinda dope, the techniques and martial arts is a chef's kiss (if I say it in context correctly), the maps is vastly unique and beautifully aesthetic, and the music kinda hits hard you know. That's why I wanna play Gunz 2 but no people really play it.
i remember playing this in my teens. godamn it was an intense game. Trying to learn butterfly and slash-dashing to fly around everywhere was such a pain and a joy.
This gives me so much nostalgia.
This game still has the highest skill ceiling of any other game I have played so far, and it's so odd to think that Maiet's (the game's developer) incompetente made both this game great and awful at the same time.
Great because it made k-style possible, basically it was just a style based on animation cancelling everything + some other stuff, and awful because they were just terrible at fixing the game's problems, and the netcode is basically the worst I have seen, there was no lag compensation. The connection was P2P and you had to guess where your opponent would be based on his latency to you, and then shoot there, which was super hard considering how fast paced this game was.
I watched an interview with a Level Up Games employee (the game's publisher in Brazil), and he really highlighted how much of a crap developer Maiet was.
Onde consigo ver essa entrevista???!!!
th-cam.com/video/xQ1gHl1lmTs/w-d-xo.html
Essa é a parte que ele fala sobre gunz, mas tem a entrevista inteira tbm
@@brunot5551 Valeu! Onde encontro toda a entrevista?
Seeing videos like these about gunz.. makes my heart flutter a bit.. god how i miss this game and this type of experience. The long nights in gladiator with some booze where everyone was practicing their shit xD
oh my god i remember spending countless of hours in net cafe on this game just to master it and show it off to my friend, and even opts to tone down the graphic so much so it make your opponent easier to track, god dang this brings back so many fond memories... And oh by the way, after the game closes we found a replacement game which is almost as technical as Gunz, It's called S4 League, it's a 3rd person shooter game just like GunZ and control are almost the same and the moveset is interuptable and exploitable to make you move faster too, that game has closed too but me and my friends still plays on it's private server Xero
This gameplay and technicality and developer/game history reminds me of S4 League
S4 League also had the potential to get a good Esport title
actually its almost a low res s4league lol xd
Here it is. I was looking for the S4 League comment.
So many years of playing that game.
@@KeksDieb As a Korean 2000's kid, I remember both of these games and S4 league came out later than gunZ. S4 league is more anime styled version of gunZ
S4 was technical but unbalanced as fuck tbh.
Gunz gameplay mechanics looks way more crisp and smooth than S4 which looks like the week version of gunz
now i just want an actual remake of this game that still keeps all of the mechanics
that's not much of the problem. The real problem is the latency and the player amount.
@@tyrannical3579 What latency? You think technology is still the same now compared to 10-15 years ago?
@@edenassos I think you entirely missed what he's saying
This video and game bring back so much memory. I don't even remember for how many years and countless hours I played this game. From Offical Level Up Games to those fun Private servers.
damn. this brings back so many memories. Used to play under Halogen, Describe, Hypermax - clan hopped everywhere but mostly spent time in HeavenHell with SweeneyTodd. Was in Sparta/Ocean/portNews (with KingKorey lol) and some others i dont remember.
I just remember feeling cool using the knife to hang on walls when right clicking and always trying my best to have all those colored indicators above you at the same time.
I’ve never heard of this game but now I wanna play it. What a good vid
you can play Uggunz, International Gunz and Freestyle as much as you want.
Same
I just started its so fun fr
i recommend iGunz cause it has all the weapons and cosmetics available from the start
This game was SO SICK. I would love to see a game inspired by this but simplified a little bit by maybe equipping a small combination of skills or gear to equip to facilitate or lock some actions, or if it emphasized more individual power sets like Dungeon Fighter Online.
I miss this game so fucking much 😔😔
Too many good memories playing this and Soldier Front in grade school circa ~2007-2008
Looks like the Matrix PvP game we always deserved
Dude, it was more than that. That game was FILLED with potential. There was a PVE mode that was a blast to play, since you move so fast, you can weave between dozens of creatures, from all kinds of directions. But Maya was a really poor developer, relatively small studio that ditched the game early rather fleshing out the many different facets of the game, or make the movement system of the game more accessible to new players so it has more mass appeal.
@@FFXfever …so the Matrix pvp/pve we always deserved?
Look up "The Specialists" mod for Half Life.
@@Vidyadude The Specialist now that was some good times, hell so many HL1 mods were so damn good.
seems more like "the fall and rise" since it's on the way back up
Is it? Know where I can find the website and support it?
@@camquyen8893 private servers... igunz ... Fgunz
I never play gunz but i remenber watching people play and was so fun to watch. Glad to see it live again
This video made me very nostalgic. Probably the best game I've ever played so far - spent a lot of days and nights playing this masterpiece in my childhood! Thank you for posting this
Recently downloaded one of the few private servers out there and started playing.
I've missed this game a lot, my hands did not.
If they bring back gunz it would explode in twitch, the game is too cool to watch
All they would have to do really is take the source code, keep the control bindings on it, keep the rankings, and just slap a new coat of paint with graphics and animations. Then it would explode on the eSport scene and Twitch.
@@jasongibson1225 Exactly they don't even need the title Gunz any Indie company that can perfectly replicate the gameplay and use a more modern game engine for graphics plus continued developer support like new maps being added and more skins and it will sell like hot cakes.
Thanks for letting everyone know about that old masterpiece, will forever be missed.
There was nothing more satisfying than hearing the _beep_ after perfectly hitting a slash-shot
I used to play this. It was totally awesome and unique experience, would play again!
I was just thinking about this and gunbound.
Both really fun games
I loved this game more than words could express. I spent my preteen years playing this and S4 league.
Hehe. S4 league. That's a game I have not heard in years
S4 league was the shit too
this was one of my favorite game as a kid, now after spending some time playing competitively on other esports games I can say, gunz could and would of been a big esports title. I really do hope this game can come back to life with developer support.
I agree. Its really a shame that this game was too early for its time. If someone made a spiritual successor now, I bet it would become one of the most popular esports.
Imagine if Gunz had just a little more diversity in its melee weapons. Like imagine if they actually balanced the game around the combo styles, so if you used a 2hand sword it required a completely different combo style and play style, because the movements are slower, the damage is higher, and blocking is different.
What if everyone started with the same basic gun, and you had to earn stronger guns by fighting over areas of the map where better guns respawn similar to quake?
Miss this game. 2007-2011 good memories
Thank you for showing love to GunZ! This game can be an E-sports game, just needs the support. :)
Glad to see GunZ coming in the spotlight, otherwise I'd never found this amazing game
I was about 8 when the game got its international release, and I was a console kid growing up instead of PC so I never played it. My brother however did, and I'd always wondered about that cool wallrunning shooter he played when I was young was until the Kadai video finally gave me my answer. I still haven't played it but I love the concept for the game and have a strong hope that a full blown esport scene around the game can develop, cause it's so fun to watch and I have nostalgia for it despite never playing.
It's been 12 years since I last touched this thing. Searched it on a whim. Love to see the evolution
A similar third person shooter from korea that was bought by an EU company was S4 League. You got to cover that as well, it was pretty much next thing to GunZ from our childhood. Two games were my favorite. Thanks for posting this!
Ah man, I remember reaching the level cap in this and then giving up soon after when the feeling of progress and accomplishment faded. It was never as much fun as when I was a noob and so was everyone else. But I loved the recklessness, aesthetics and balls to the walls learning curve - the game deserved far, far more than the developers gave it. A proper sequel, even.
Gunz was one of my favorite games, I just recently picked it back up and its still an addictive game and one of my favorites i wish more people played it again.
It's so unique. Icant think of any game that does fast paced 3rd person combat quite like this.
my only contact withthat kind of gameplay was S4 League, which probably was a Gunz ripoff.
I'll never forget the spacebars I broke when playing this game, so nostalgic
Nostalgia. Gaming shops and in Asia go crazy on this before. 100s of computers in 1 shop playing at the same time.
When I learned the movement in this game, it is SO satisfying to hit it and you feel absolutely great!
ahh the nostalgia... you earned a new subscriber just for covering this!! Can you cover rise and fall of S4 league too?
Cant believe this game is still alive! I love it when i was young and hope more people enjoy it
Thank you for this video, I didn't know about this game at all! It's very unique, that's for sure
I remember playing this along many other games on Ijji. I almost forgot about these memories I made with my friends. I miss them so much.
Wow, haven't thought about this game in forever. I actually seem to remember the community being super welcoming, especially for how competitive the game felt. At least, the folks I ran into when I played this were all pretty nice.
Great video!
I love games with crazy accidentally mechanics. I remember in an interview, warframe said when players found and popularized a movement bug early on, instead of slapping them on the hand and saying bad, they took a note that players like cool movement and made bullet jumping. More games should do this.
Naah fuck DE they kill cónclave 1.0 because ppl can find it "too hard to learn "
@@-Krosis yeah for sure they had good philosophy in the beginning but then they started throwing it out the window
This game holds so many memories for me 🥺🥺 first game I ever tried and be competitive in and man was it hard and a ton of hours. But so so so fun! Is the igunz thing still a thing? Cause hoping back on for nostalgia seeing if I can still dbf and tbf would be awesome.
This game was way ahead of its time. Brings me so much happiness reminiscing on old times with this game as a kid
A video on S4 League would be awesome ! I also remember playing GunZ when I was younger and it was awfully hard
That's a name that I almost had forgotten. I played S4 in the beta and a long while after. The only shooter I ever got into.
@@DerpyLaron S4 was good until they put time limits on clothing items, fucking dumbest thing I ever saw
Wow, I remember this here in Brazil, we loved it!
I JUST FIND OUT THAT THERE ARE STILL SERVERS FOR THIS GAME AND I'M GOING CRAZY, I HAVE NOT PLAYED IT FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS AND IT WAS MY FAVORITE GAME DURING MY TEENAGE
God damn, ive been busy since the pandemic so ive only watched it now, but yeah i do miss playing gunz again i was really active around 2009-13 were ive been jumping from private servers around 2010-2013, when you learn to master the gameplay you hunger for it more which is one of the reasons that kept old players going which now seems it finally bear fruit, i do which that gunz will have a mainstream successor that wont botch the kind of gameplay that made long time players endure and kept the game alive today
It looks like a cool game to watch even though my hands couldnt handle playing it anymore. If the production quality was good i would love to watch some matches
if you’re bored of fortnite give this game a try it’s way more fun only problem is the servers go down sometimes
Where would you download without fucking your computer with malware?
@@coldcoffeegaming2798 igunz has no malware lol other servers like ugg and private servers has
still remember the first time I saw someone play it in a gaming house. I will never forget the feeling of the 1st time I got to play it after waiting in queue for 20 minutes. It was just, awesome
Bruh, just the music in this video brings back the best memories. I played from childhood all the way to it's death.