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Unearthing the Ashes Games
Get it here: www.moddb.com/mods/ashes-2063
Works Cited:
Announcing Ashes: Hard Reset: www.moddb.com/mods/ashes-2063/news/announcing-ashes-hard-reset
The Door Problem of Combat Design: www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-door-problem-of-combat-design
Additional Footage:
Metro Exodus - Gameplay (PC/UHD), SergiuHellDragoonHQ: ua-cam.com/video/L_LpGTtCzbw/v-deo.htmlsi=QdAvo9a8GKChnZ_n
Doom Eternal: Super Gore Nest Master Level - Ultra Nightmare, Zero Master: ua-cam.com/video/SnCw9ESwnFk/v-deo.htmlsi=qUdj_m3ZtT3hhR7
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An even split between a recommendation and a critique- hope you enjoy it.
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Відео

Making Sense of Wanted: Dead [Review]
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(Review copy provided by the publisher upon request) Sorry for the hiatus, but hopefully you enjoy this. /// Works Cited: The Wanted: Dead-Cast - ua-cam.com/video/TJMsLKL5f1c/v-deo.html Itagaki Interview - ua-cam.com/video/nJNxhwyW2CE/v-deo.html Video Clips Used: Devil's Third [14] Wii U Longplay, Mutch Games - ua-cam.com/video/euV7a98VJHI/v-deo.html Devil's Third Wii U Multiplayer Gameplay, Sn...
The Wanted: Dead-Cast
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Discussing Wanted: Dead and critically re-appraising The Devil's Third. WonderMagenta: www.youtube.com/@wondermagenta GoufyGoggs: www.youtube.com/@GoufyGoggs SpeckObst: ua-cam.com/users/speckobst GodManAntilope: GodManAntilope RedLetterDay95
Remembering Oni
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One of the few games I've covered that actually has a suplex in it, so you know it's something special. Thumbnail art is "Uppercut Melee" by Lorraine Reyes Works Cited: Nick H, [Review] Oni: ua-cam.com/video/7btzVHh_iXQ/v-deo.html Matthewmatosis, Context Sensitivity: ua-cam.com/video/pl9G4voWfDQ/v-deo.html Macnews.de interview with Doug Zartman, Translated by Harry Al-Shakarchi: oni.bungie.org/...
Recommending The Ninja Warriors: Once Again
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I think the proper name is "The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors," but that doesn't sound as cool. Anyway. Twitter: RedLetterDay95 Chapters 0:00 Spoiler-Free 7:03 Spoilers 8:01 Closing
Resident Evil Village Gameplay Critique
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It took three months to talk about May's flavor of the month. Sorry. Footage from: Making of Resident Evil Village - The Internal Struggle: ua-cam.com/video/EIS-TW1XeNg/v-deo.html Reliving the Horror: Taking Resident Evil 7 Forward by Looking Back: ua-cam.com/video/PwBDtp7R6aM/v-deo.html #ResidentEvil #RE8 #GameAnalysis
Uncharted and the Issue of Character
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I'm a man of my word. And a liar. Twitter: RedLetterDay95 Works Cited: Nolan North's Favourite Uncharted Moments: ua-cam.com/video/3CiCIoMGWZY/v-deo.html Why do we love Nathan Drake? Uncharted 4 designer explains all: www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/07/nathan-drake-uncharted-4-naughty-dog Max Payne 3 and the problem of narrative dissonance: www.theguardian.com/technology/gam...
Infinity Ward and the Power of the Ensemble
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Dedicated to anyone who had a sleepless night trying to memorize all two of their lines. Works Cited: Making of - Call of Duty 2: ua-cam.com/video/-1biRSUOf1w/v-deo.html 5YearsOfMW2: "DC Evac" Radio chatter w/subtitles: ua-cam.com/video/QV_C0G1KawU/v-deo.html Rewriting Your Legacy: Campaign Design in Titanfall 2 | Design Dive: ua-cam.com/video/ctBKMKHdHuU/v-deo.html Additional Footage: Acting S...
Notes from the Frontier: A Critique of Titanfall 2's Campaign
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It's like five dollars, go play it. Additional footage from: Designing Unforgettable Titanfall Single Player Levels with Action Blocks: ua-cam.com/video/CkHGuHd9BgU/v-deo.html The Making of Titanfall 2’s ‘Effect and Cause’, Revealed by Respawn Entertainment Senior Designer: ua-cam.com/video/hPczwsRkVGk/v-deo.html #Titanfall2 #RespawnEntertainment #CallofDuty
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The Sublime Horror of DUSK
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How should we Characterize Enemies?
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The Last of Us Part II - Gameplay Critique
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The Long Shadow of the Silent Cartographer
Blasphemous, Movements, and Metroidvanias
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Blasphemous, Movements, and Metroidvanias

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Deathloec
    @Deathloec 2 дні тому

    ashes slaps, and the new episode just blessed us

  • @NexusBaum
    @NexusBaum 3 дні тому

    I've played this game since its release basically nonstop till this day. <3

  • @caav56
    @caav56 5 днів тому

    Using Metal Wolf Chaos's "Pepper" at around 10:00? Nice taste

  • @miloszivkovic6256
    @miloszivkovic6256 9 днів тому

    Every year someone makes a video like this about the game

  • @xs.ss16
    @xs.ss16 9 днів тому

    This video deserves so much more attention i really love this video!! keep going

  • @sylwesterpastuszka5593
    @sylwesterpastuszka5593 25 днів тому

    What's great about this game is that, you're fully in control, there's no bullshit auto aim or magnetic grabbing, hitting, etc. Such a shame the sequel was abandoned. Even though the combat was great, there was still room for more.

    • @Iritscen
      @Iritscen 5 днів тому

      There's actually a very subtle auto-aim for both melee attacks and weapon fire, but they're dialed down to the point where players don't notice them consciously.

  • @NathanRuhl
    @NathanRuhl Місяць тому

    Everyone should play!

  • @SilverGaming01
    @SilverGaming01 Місяць тому

    Absolutely love this game! Still play it to this day!

  • @AnimaMik
    @AnimaMik Місяць тому

    I'm honestly surprised by how underrated your channel is. You're very well spoken and make solid points in your reviews. Subbed!

  • @MrJerseyCobra
    @MrJerseyCobra Місяць тому

    Amazing review! Loved the soundtrack used, that Big Trouble in Little China intro theme perfectly matches the theme of the Ashes games. Well done, sir. You deserve all the subs.

  • @unr8ted77
    @unr8ted77 Місяць тому

    I used to think about the killing in these games, I couldn’t figure out if it "fit" but then I realised that Nate is actually quite ruthless, despite his approachable exterior. He is genuinely dangerous if you’re his enemy and if you try to kill him or someone he cares about, he will shoot you in the head and crack a joke about it hurting in the morning, because, to him, you’re just an asshole who tried to kill him. I think the fundamental issue is not that Nate kills remorselessly, that makes sense, it’s the video game nature of the sheer number of fights that a real person could never consistently survive, and that conflicts with the realistic presentation of the characters. The gameplay seems 'video-gamey' in comparison.

  • @skittles074
    @skittles074 Місяць тому

    Found these 3 weeks ago and just finished playing all of em..... brilliant!!!! Well done guys 👏... Absolutely loved em..

  • @nmn5550
    @nmn5550 2 місяці тому

    Ashes is not just a game. It's a way of life in the Wasteland. Still want that LIVERRRR

  • @BetaToonzOfficial
    @BetaToonzOfficial 2 місяці тому

    Awesome underrated video essay!

  • @datadavis
    @datadavis 2 місяці тому

    EATIS LIVER.

  • @Redflacket
    @Redflacket 2 місяці тому

    What I like about the combat in Ashes is that you have the choice of making it hard for yourself or cheesing it, or somewhere inbetween. Using different strategies and weapons makes the combat very varied. I think Afterglow strikes a good balance between the arena fights (that the reviewer seems to love), screwing you over with ambushes and more stright forward combat. I also disagree with the reviewer that fighting mutants is boring. Mutants are more diverse combat wise than the human enemies!

  • @goonagun
    @goonagun 2 місяці тому

    This game saved me from gamer burnout

  • @killerbean4328
    @killerbean4328 2 місяці тому

    Where did you download it

  • @SEDATEDSlothRecords6083
    @SEDATEDSlothRecords6083 2 місяці тому

    Ashes is the goat. One of the best games Ive ever played

  • @AB-fr2ei
    @AB-fr2ei 2 місяці тому

    You overthinking too much Those guys tries to kill nate, nate defend himself end of the question And its not ludo-narrative dissonance Lazarevic in the end of the 2 acknowledge the fact that nate murdered entire armies Also its very badass Ans the gunplay/combat was always amazing since the 2, i would say its the best TPS gunplay/gameplay even Even the grapping weapon by the air was made in uncharted 3 first and 4 removed some features like grenade takedowns or stealth bonuses

  • @czarnakoza9697
    @czarnakoza9697 2 місяці тому

    each game in the series got worse unfortunately hard reset is a piece of shit and i hate it the 1st is my favorite

  • @undecidedmajor1664
    @undecidedmajor1664 2 місяці тому

    Infighting is a mutant solution, not a problem. The fact that it happens among the mutant enemies and not among the humans should read as a very deliberate narrative and design choice. By the time you reach the rail station in 2063, you should know that a mutant always beats a dog in a fight so you should bet on the mutant in the arena. This is a really strange review. I feel like it doesn't really get the soul of what Ashes is trying to accomplish. The footage of you deliberately exploiting map geometry to make it less fun for yourself reads less like a problem of the games design and more like a problem with how you approach games.

    • @b.j.880
      @b.j.880 Місяць тому

      I agree. Ashes' bread and butter is it's atmosphere and world-building, and despite how acclaimed DMW is, it feels the weakest on that department precisely because it favors chaining together those reviewer-approved arenas over properly made environments. To say the level design in Afterglow is weak because it allows multiple openings for exploiting the enemy AI is like saying haunted houses aren't scary because you can easily punch the actors in the face. It seems a lot of people, specially the reviewer, think Doom TCs should follow the same formulas as Doom proper. Chastising the lack of enemy variety to then dismiss *actual* variety as "filler" because they are used to tell a story instead of treating them like "things to shoot at", even lamenting special encounters like the Destroyers and Matangos weren't as common as Cannibals, as if it made any sense for elite mutant assassins to be hanging out in a random parking lot or for plant monsters to be anywhere in the grass-less concrete jungle of Atlanta.

  • @KilroyEdits-ic9fm
    @KilroyEdits-ic9fm 2 місяці тому

    10:13 Honestly, this is one of my favorite sequences in the game. The tension is insane

  • @cropathfinder
    @cropathfinder 2 місяці тому

    Honestly if u want something like dusk then "nightmare reaper" and "The citadel" is what i can recommend. The citadel in particular i think deserve more coverage as nightmare reaper is way more well known. Without going into details, a certain hypocritical very popular doom mod reviewer went after it for having a lot of blood and gore even tho he regularly praises blood and gore in other doom mods and recommends mods to increase or improve it, and that guy weaponized his audience against the solo indie dev of the citadel basically trying to get it off steam and burying it which resulted in a lot of people including other reviewer steering clear of it at the time and from what little the dev has come out since then it impacted him badly psychologically too ,tho to his credit he stayed with it finishing the game and keeping up with fixes for a few years. The dev recently announced a very ambitious sequel (whose demo was covered by the popular gmanlives preempting any campaign that guy could launch) but he is keeping it off steam for now possibly to keep it out of easy access of the haters which saddens me as its looking like a step up and he is doubling down on stuff haters went after him for as if giving a middle finger.

  • @Ahov
    @Ahov 2 місяці тому

    Ashes Afterglow is as good as single-player gaming gets

    • @DoomnDust
      @DoomnDust 2 місяці тому

      Afterglow is easily the best of the 3.

  • @Gontz_Csst
    @Gontz_Csst 2 місяці тому

    Ashes 2063 is a better take on 3D fallout than both fallout 3 and 4

  • @armedready1
    @armedready1 2 місяці тому

    Ashes is the best doom tc I've played & a really good ost too.

  • @kyledodson2992
    @kyledodson2992 2 місяці тому

    This guy would lose his mind if he played an actual horror game lol i mean, i love dusk as much as anyone over the age of 30 but Silent hill 1-4, eternal darkness, siren, fatal frame, clock tower etc do all described in this video.

  • @ryanmussell739
    @ryanmussell739 2 місяці тому

    I first found out about 1:46 this classic from a trailer on a PC gamer disc.

  • @thememan1387
    @thememan1387 2 місяці тому

    im gonna make a vid on that TC ive been absolutely in love with it

  • @AndroidFerret
    @AndroidFerret 2 місяці тому

    Ashes, retro zone and apocalyptic vibes - all 3 being absolutely INSANE total conversions for doom all stalker/fallout themed

  • @JonathanRSalcedo
    @JonathanRSalcedo 2 місяці тому

    Absolutely awesome video!

  • @yulog
    @yulog 2 місяці тому

    i dont know why but this thing bored the hell out of me , stopped playing after an hour or so

  • @CorpusD.Rector
    @CorpusD.Rector 2 місяці тому

    "While there are certainly problems worth discussing..." Me: oh you _better_ "discuss" these "problems." You have my full, rapt, and undivided attention now.

    • @CorpusD.Rector
      @CorpusD.Rector 2 місяці тому

      A FeW SecOndS lAtEr ... ok that's fair. Carry on, sir.

  • @atomicpunch1990
    @atomicpunch1990 2 місяці тому

    ASHES HARD RESEST CAME OUT. JUST FINISHED IT. FUCKING AMAZING

  • @517342
    @517342 2 місяці тому

    The complaints about being able to funnel the enemies into killzones are exactly what I liked though. If you want the Quake experience, go in guns blazing. I'm gonna play it like Half-Life. I like that you have the option. You don't need to play the dull method if it takes the fun out of it, even if it's arguably more efficient.

  • @vostyok6030
    @vostyok6030 2 місяці тому

    Awesome review. Has given me a lot of thoughts on improvement!

    • @redletterday95
      @redletterday95 2 місяці тому

      Thank you! And congratulations to you and the rest of the Ashes team on the release of Hard Reset- it's an excellent addition to the series.

    • @nofuture6009
      @nofuture6009 Місяць тому

      The GOAT of mods himself. Absolutely amazing games man, you fully deserve steam backing your project or something. Seriously what an experience.

    • @ogristorid162
      @ogristorid162 18 днів тому

      thank you for your team hardworking. i'm really enjoyed playing ashes series on my pc and my phone via delta touch. and especially you make a sterilize map for custom monster and weapon.

  • @IDontNeedThisOK
    @IDontNeedThisOK 2 місяці тому

    Like you, I thought DMW was ultra hard... until Hard Reset happened.

    • @viktorborisov1246
      @viktorborisov1246 2 місяці тому

      Hard Reset is more frightering and immersive then actually "hard"

    • @IDontNeedThisOK
      @IDontNeedThisOK 2 місяці тому

      @@viktorborisov1246 The difference between them is huge on apoc difficulty, and what makes them hard is also quite different. The HR enemies [non-humans] are bullet sponges and some of them are melee based and also quite powerful. Fighting multiple quick tanky melee enemies in tight spaces is hell, not to mention that enemies are numerous on apoc. Also, unlike AG ammo can become a problem on certain levels in HR so you'll have to pick your battles or you'll end up running dry [Withered takes 4 direct shotgun hits & Wendigo takes 5-6 to put down] but luckily certain parts allow you to sneak by enemies to avoid blowing your entire ammo pool. The last fight on the first level is still messed up tho. Most of DMW's enemies are humanoids and its difficulty lies in the well placed enemies and their firepower[dimly lit areas makes it harder]. Also, having gunfights in vast open spaces on DMW maps is an intersting idea because you'll have to make use of the limited obstacles as cover or they'll turn you into swiss cheese. I hope we can see the FAL again in later entries. As for AG, enemies are quite easy to handle. The way players can get carried by the weapon upgrades made things a bit too dull in mid-late game. A player who's average at FPS games shouldn't have any problem clearing it on apoc. If you sell all med-kits for 60 scraps you can get most of the upgrades done even in early game. There's just too much scraps in the game for the players to pick up, you don't even have to choose what to upgrade. I think the devs noticed that and that's why we have less this time around. I feel like 2063's difficulty is in between DMW and AG, it's solid but it doesn't exactly stand out much. However, the soundtrack on 2063 is still the best imo.

  • @sneedseedandfeed
    @sneedseedandfeed 2 місяці тому

    Fantastic work on this, and just in time for the release of Ashes: Hard Reset! Completely agree with this critique. Also great hearing Carpenter Brut’s “Obituary” in the outro 👌

  • @Mr_D_OG
    @Mr_D_OG 2 місяці тому

    you should have waited for hard reset to release man.

  • @Rumit279
    @Rumit279 3 місяці тому

    11:10 WHO THE FUCK IS THAT GUY? It's my second or third walkthrough through first and second episode and i don't remember him. Where can i find him? P.S. nice video though

    • @redletterday95
      @redletterday95 3 місяці тому

      In the second hub area in Afterglow, once you get access to the part of the city where the Mayor is- he's gaming inside a trailer stacked on a bunch of tires.

    • @Rumit279
      @Rumit279 2 місяці тому

      @@redletterday95 thanks

  • @sounds_wellingston
    @sounds_wellingston 3 місяці тому

    You're a little late with the release of the new addition: Hard Reset.

  • @karry299
    @karry299 3 місяці тому

    TLDR : you like slaughter wads where projectiles fly every which way. Newsflash : most people do not like slaughter wads.

  • @karry299
    @karry299 3 місяці тому

    You are chewing your words far too much, i literally miss every third word you say. Maybe work on your diction ?

    • @redletterday95
      @redletterday95 3 місяці тому

      💯 definitely something I need to be more conscious of going forward

  • @adammartin5809
    @adammartin5809 3 місяці тому

    It is a fantastic GZDOOM game series.

  • @reggiereg2064
    @reggiereg2064 3 місяці тому

    Doom has alot of really good action horror experiences but nothing quite like ashes

  • @thousandyoung
    @thousandyoung 3 місяці тому

    Btw i recommend you check out Selaco. It's Extremely Good. Some of the Best Enemy A.I. and Gunplay i've seen in a Retro Shooter and it's still in EA.

  • @thousandyoung
    @thousandyoung 3 місяці тому

    It's one of the Coolest TC in Years.

  • @jcdenton6427
    @jcdenton6427 3 місяці тому

    That's is the best Ashes review I've seen out of many! And has some valid criticism too, but I love this game anyway so it's not too big of a deal.

    • @redletterday95
      @redletterday95 3 місяці тому

      Thank you!

    • @jcdenton6427
      @jcdenton6427 3 місяці тому

      BTW if you want some more a new prequel chapter will be released on June 10th. A linear prequel taking place 3 years before first episode, and you playing as a different character. Edit: I'm dumb and blind, should go sleep. Insomnia strikes again.

  • @redletterday95
    @redletterday95 3 місяці тому

    Took so long for me to make this that another episode is almost out. Keep an eye on it here: ua-cam.com/video/HFf65H8q1lg/v-deo.html