Rise of the Triad Ludicrous Edition Review | Is This Blast from The Past Worth Your Time?
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2023
- Greetings Indie Warriors and welcome to our Rise of the Triad Ludicrous Edition Review on Steam/PC! This retro FPS with a new coat of paint will also be coming to consoles at a later date.
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I feel like the map editor + Steam workshop support could really give this legs. It'll be interesting to see what modders with 30 extra years of map design knowledge can do with the game and its many weird quirks.
That stuff is going to be fascinating!
Fun fact: This game was supposed to be Wolfenstein 3D Part II, and uses an enhanced version of the same game engine Wolfenstein 3D used. I don't remember why it was rebranded as Rise of the Triad, but it had something to do with a rift between id Software and the studio that made this game.
Quite the history with this game and thank you for sharing this fact!
I remember something like that. That's why the the MP40 is in It and the some of the enemies look like German Officers!
Wow I remember playing this game when it came out. Was a fairly big game back then.
It sure was!
Believe it or not, I remember playing this in VR back in the summer of '97 on our trip to Canada; they had some kind of headset, and you could play this, Duke 3D, and... I forget what the third game was, but probably Quake. You'd look around to... well... look around, and there was what I remember looking kind of like a gun with a move forward button and a shoot button; the people operating the thing would switch your weapons for you. It was an interesting experience, but I never got too far with it.
That does sound quite interesting!
Yeah, I remember a similar experience I had visiting San Francisco around then. I only remember playing Duke Nuke Em, though. I think they might've had Quake as well, but I can't recall. The one I used had a headset as well as a tracking foot pad.
I remember sitting on my dad's lap and watching play the shareware RotT when I was in my single digits of age as well as other shooters from back in the subgenre's Golden Age. Several years back I looked up the gamefaqs of RotT and got the idea on how enemies and bosses are dealt with such as the robot guard only being vulnerable to explosive weaponry and the first encounter with El Oscuro not being fought with but instead letting him fire his attacks while dodging them for minutes and minutes until he tires out and runs towards the exit of the level. I love both how while in God Mode your character yawns out of boredom for lack of challenge while in said power up and Dog Mode where the cute dog your character turns into has a bark more devastating than the bite! The evening before the day of writing this comment I 100%ed RotT: LE's achievements making it my 31st and newest game on Steam to set foot on my Perfect Games list. Nice video btw and I respect your opinion where for RotT back in the day many shooter fans enjoyed and some other shooter fans not so much. We can all agree the RotT: LE is WAY better than the remake from an entire decade prior to the release of this remastered version of the 1990s cult classic!
Awesome comment what a cool memory!!
Cool. As a kid playing Wolfenstien 3D when it came out, I don’t mind old at all. But map design and things that work properly do matter. So by this video, I’m on the fence.
I’d love to pick up Hexen on my PS5, but that’s not doable. Anything akin to that?
This was the first computer game i ever bought when i was in middle school, it took me forever to install it lol
Good times! lol
Hdoomguy worked on it by the way.
One of the things that helps when I play the game is to put myself into the mindset when Rise of the Triad came out in the early 90's which in my opinion ends up making it easier to jump back into and this is coming from someone that wasn't even born in 1994 but born in 1996.
Certain people not touching certain games for being “old” is funny when many new games now are miraculously more unfinished / greedy /contentless than some older titles.
Thanks for watching!
I played any PC FPS I could get my hands on back in the mid to late 90s (console too) and I remember somehow ending up with a shareware copy of this. I think maybe it came as a bonus on another game I bought. Game is so crazy, and while it didn’t end up being one of my absolute favorites (like Doom, Duke 3D or Heretic) it definitely has its place in the list of classic boomer shooters. I’m so glad this got remastered so that younger people can check it out. 😊
Can you still switch to Roland-Music (MT-32)? That sounded much better!
Yes you can!
The ost is top tier, like Mega Man X greatness imo.
When i plays i see only 3 options for music :/ roland, soundblaster opl, Hulshult version and thats it : /
The game is in pre order sale 15.99 xbox
Just curious, could you provide examples of bad level designs?
@@the_elder_gamer Awesome explanation
@@the_elder_gamer thanks for rhe reply!
Play extreme rise of the triad. You'll soon see why... And experience a pain unlike any other.
This game uses the Wolf3D engine, and that's just the way the level design was back then. I really like that kind of design myself, because of the surreal feel. You really have to get passed Quake, into the Duke Nukem era and Goldeneye 007 era before shooter games really shifted into trying to emulate real spaces. @@the_elder_gamer
The levels are very limited and have no real verticality beside that they re 2 or 3 tiles high instead of wolf3ds 1 tiled height rooms. But rott still is the same they only made those floaty things as walkways for 2 or 4 3 tile heighted rooms, if that makes any sense.
Also because its based on the wolf3e engine all rooms are quadratic shaped i mean they are no other architecture in the levels than walls that are vertically or horizontally if u look a level on a 2d plain. Theres nothing more to it, and those mazes get pretty old pretty fast. Its annoying and boring navigating through those maze alike levels. I always hated that - just finding the way to the exit is so frustrating in such games.
The fact that the devs didnt include other "Missions" than find key/keycard or find exit always intrigued me. Even id did nothing else than that. Why? Even hovertank 3d had prisoners to rescue. I mean you could make even back in the days so much more interesting level goals than find key A. Even prisoners you save that follow your character maybe they assist you in attacking or maybe they could lead to a shortcut ( specialist that can do a thing somewhere in the level) it always bothered me that fps back then didnt include interesting npc in game or some inreresting goals.
No rott like all the wolf3d based games that operate like that are pretty boring pretty fast.
The fact that rott lets you only carry one heavy( and boring looking) weapon dont help. And the dog or the bat are just to rarely used so its a pretty boring game. And much so in modern times where we were used to entertaining fps
Where's all my console players?
So chrome to steam and bam? Or....
This was originally released before most of you were born
Ehh, you would be surprised, our audience is mostly in the 30-45 bracket.
1991 here
1984
I’m loving the recent slate of Boomer Shooters bring released. Hope this gets a physical on Switch eventually 🫶
Also, I was 69th 👍on the video!
*gigglesnort*