Civvie 11 - Retro FPS Boomer

Fun video overall. Never played anything outside of the shareware episode for ROTT so have no history with this but it sounds hellish. Seems designed to be save scummed. I kinda wish the video was longer and he spent more time on each level but I guess they're so basic and the gimmick so obvious that there's no reason to dwell on them.
 
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Fun video overall. Never played anything outside of the shareware episode for ROTT so have no history with this but it sounds hellish. Seems designed to be save scummed. I kinda wish the video was longer and he spent more time on each level but I guess they're so basic and the gimmick so obvious that there's no reason to dwell on them.
It's like with Wolfenstein 3D: the enemy variety and the level geometry are so limited there's really not much to talk about in each stage. Wolf3D at least had the gimmicky maze or swastika tesselation levels (and the mutants were annoying but fragile), Extreme ROTT doesn't even get that. It only has extremely spongy hitscanners and annoying platforming galore.
 
It's nice to see Civvie enjoying the subject of a video again. Sure, there's some bullshit (as always with Build games), and he's clearly (and righteously) butthurt about Randy, but passionate Civvie is more fun than whiny Civvie. The final boss not having the range on its flamethrower coded into the AI was a big, big whoops, though. I'm surprised we didn't get a "fuckin' raw!" meme out of that one.
 
Good video. I thought everyone hated the new maps but I never played them so what do I know. Wouldn't mind trying them after this episode.
Seeing the maps in action really makes me want to try them. Only problem is you have to buy the World Tour edition just to get your hands on the maps, which is a bit of a pain. $20 is a ridiculous price for a game like Duke Nukem 3D.
 
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Seeing the maps in action really makes me want to try them. Only problem is you have to buy the World Tour edition just to get your hands on the maps, which is a bit of a pain. $20 is a ridiculous price for a game like Duke Nukem 3D.
Just pirate it, Gearbox games deserve to be pirated.

Fuck you Randy for removing the Megaton Edition.
 
Good video. I thought everyone hated the new maps but I never played them so what do I know. Wouldn't mind trying them after this episode.
I played the episode. I thought it was pretty good. The new weapon was alright. The Serious Sam reference gave me a smile.

Just pirate it, Gearbox games deserve to be pirated.

Fuck you Randy for removing the Megaton Edition.

The bizarre thing is Randy never offered the expansions for his shitty port. That's easy money right there for Duke it Out in DC and Life's a Beach.
 
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The bizarre thing is Randy never offered the expansions for his shitty port. That's easy money right there for Duke it Out in DC and Life's a Beach.
For what i know, the third-party expansions were on a legal limbo before the Megaton Edition was released, so it's likely that Randy didn't wanted to do the paperwork to get them into his version.

That or he didn't liked the feminist elves from Nuclear Winter.
 
For what i know, the third-party expansions were on a legal limbo before the Megaton Edition was released, so it's likely that Randy didn't wanted to do the paperwork to get them into his version.

That or he didn't liked the feminist elves from Nuclear Winter.

Apparently, the other "problem" with bundling it in with World Tour was that they found content in the expansions that were borderline "sexist and racist". And we wonder why we can't have a new Duke game yet.
 

Apparently, the other "problem" with bundling it in with World Tour was that they found content in the expansions that were borderline "sexist and racist". And we wonder why we can't have a new Duke game yet.

Considering Duke Nukem's audience these days consists of boomer shooter fans, I guarantee you they wouldn't care in the slightest about the expansions being "sexist and racist." Not when they play games like Shadow Warrior that are way fucking worse.
 

Apparently, the other "problem" with bundling it in with World Tour was that they found content in the expansions that were borderline "sexist and racist". And we wonder why we can't have a new Duke game yet.
Then just fucking sell the Duke Nukem IP to someone who will make a game! But he won't do that. He'll just sit on it and collect a little royalty check from it until he dies like the cocksucker that he is.
 
I like Civvie's Doom series. I really enjoyed his enthusiasm for Doom 2016 and Eternal.

It was nice to see a reviewer enjoying a game while pointing out it's flaws without the usual its garbage memes.
 
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