Game Levels with Wikipedia Pages
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Game Levels with Wikipedia Pages - A Deep Dive
In this video, we take a deep dive into a very curious category on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit! Let's take a look at every* Video Game Level with its own Wikipedia page! From iconic classics like Sonic's Green Hill Zone, to horror levels like Half-Life 2's Ravenholm, to even niche classics like Deus Ex's Liberty Island.
"Wikipedia, the Free Online Encyclopedia" clip is from WayneRadioTV!
"Completely unrelated" clip is from Lythero/TopSpintheFuzzy!
"Spy fight" clip is from Doctor Lalve!
"Huh!?" clip is from Dokibird!
I own none of the copyrighted materials used in this video.
Hey all! I was a little worried about this video coming off as me just reading a bunch of Wikipedia articles, but I've come to view it as me consolidating all of the information from the Wikipedia category into an easy to consume format. I hope y'all enjoy!
ALSO IMPORTANT EDITING NOTE: The bit at 0:26 was meant to come off as me saying "Wh-What?" and not "W". I would never call what Wikipedia tells me a "W". I apologize for that slight editing oversight!
UPDATE: A few people have expressed dissatisfaction with the "This section contains..." disclaimers that are in a few sections of this video. Truth be told, they're really only there to justify the big ol' "WARNING" at the beginning of the video, which I mainly included because of one specific section in the middle of the video (you know the one). I definitely agree that they were a bit excessive and unnecessary in places, but I also ultimately don't see the harm in a few silent, easily ignored lines of text. Either way, you have my word that I'll employ them more selectively (if at all) in later videos.
As for the "No Russian" section, the dedicated disclaimer and impartial way I wrote it was actually due to the suggestion of some friends. I really didn't want to make light of or sensationalize the subject of the level, and some friends of mine helped me write the section. Ultimately talking about that level is a lose-lose that's bound to not sit right with someone SOMEWHERE, so I hope y'all enjoy the video regardless.
I was getting mad that 1-1 wasnt on here but the minus world was.
How about 39:51 ?
@@tarekcat1 yea it was irrational lmao
It’s going in alphabetical order
Come to think of it, 1-1 itself doesn't really get constantly referred to the way Green Hill is, probably because it's a lot more generic as every "overworld" level looks the same as it with different architecture. SMB as a whole gets endless references, of course, but 1-1 itself? It was a multiplayer map in New SMB, a stage in Smash, and is the default level in the Mario Makers, but honestly... that's about it?
I feel like Opal would be the kind of person who really enjoys Wikipedia races, where you have to go from one page to another by only clicking hyperlinks and the fewest pages between goals wins
Well... who doesn't?
I've played the Wiki Game with my friends and it's pretty conceptually similar.
@@TealOpal shut up teal opal we didn’t ask you we asked opal reviews everything
Yeah.
I've done it before. Pretty enjoyable.
I am the milkman my milk is delicious
And the seas... shall run white... with his RAGE!!
Special delivery today
UA-cam didn't notify me that you uploaded.
Thats a shame, it very rarely does notify of content I actually care about and instead it notifies me of polls from people I don't even watch.
Gand dad
Sometimes i get notified of some lame asf shorts from cod youtubers desperately shilling for the latest released cod every year
Nothing interesting
Fantastic video. I really don't ever send my friends videos that aren't short memes or whatever, but I actually did send this to my friend cuz of how much I liked it.
I appreciate all the credit given to the people behind these levels, it helps the genuine vibe of your presentation.
I also love Wikipedia rabbit holes. I have fond memories going on Wikipedia articles at the public library after school
A part of me wants to suggest making a page on Brinstar from Metroid 1 (for the way it played with the trope of going right by forcing you to go left at the very start), and MAYBE the Ruins from Undertale. To be honest it's not easy to come up with these kinds of things lmao.
the water temple is honestly one of the best dungeons in ocarina of time i will literally fight every gamer on the planet for this.
and milkman conspiracy is peak gaming
Yeah more of this, please!
I would have included The Goat Puzzle
AN HFTF REFERENCE IN THE INTRO?? OH MY GOD!!! I LOVE THAT GAME!!!!
Hello
Meanwhile, things that do NOT have Wikipedia pages:
Multiple Chainsaw Man characters including Aki and Makima
Every SPYxFAMILY character
Any character from the Xenoblade Chronicles series other than Shulk and Lin Lee (not even as a list article)
King K. Rool
Multiple highly marketed and influential Pokémon like Rayquaza, Giratina, Greninja, Blaziken and Blastoise (all of which had articles at one point)
be the change you want to see I guess
@@masterowl123 I'll try to create a Makima article if one doesn't exist by the time the Reze movie comes out
@@masterowl123 I'll try to create a Makima article if one doesn't exist by the time the Reze movie comes out
24:22 "Brian McSoda" sounds like a 90s Japanese game naming an American character
It's actually Brian Mitsoda but McSoda is funnier so I'll roll with that
@@TealOpal Yeah, I know. I surfed it after you said that, but I heard it as "McSoda" so that's how I'm going to canonize it for ever now and onwards lol
What probably actually "killed" adventure games is that with rise of 3D action adventure games, suddenly the biggest advantage of adventure games - great storytelling - pretty much vanished. After all, games like Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid or Ocarina of Time are all renowned for their storytelling while having mostly action gameplay. And that also resulted in studios that were making adventure games to shift gears - Sierra pivoted to publishing shooters like Half Life, SWAT or Alien versus Predator; while LucasArts pivoted to making almost exclusively Star Wars games. And those were the two biggest players in the genre.
someone forgot to tell that to david cage
The adventure game would rise again as Life is Strange.
they just became visual novels.
@@elio7610
Visual Novels have existed for a while though
Ocarina of Time is renowned for its storytelling...? 🤨
I'm pretty surprised E1M1 from Doom doesn't have it's own page considering how iconic it is
I tried to do that, but turns out, most of what's said about E1M1 is about the music.
Every time you pronunced 'rouge' as 'rogue', I died a little inside, and I'm not even French.
If you can pronounce "Rouge the Bat" perfectly fine, you have no excuse to mispronounce that same word in "Le serpent rouge".
@@ArendAlphaEagle Or 'Moulin Rouge'.
I apologize I mixed up "rouge" and "rogue" you'll have to forgive me I am very stupid
How the fuck did he get that wrong???
@@philiphunt-bull5817 It's because he is very stupid, did you miss his reply?
26:47 Yoshinori Kitase wasn't the composer, he only wrote the lyrics. Nobuo Uematsu was the composer, while Kitase was one of the directors. Even the Wikipedia article you're referencing notes that "Uematsu worked on the musical composition of the secene" and "The lyrics were written by Kitase".
Thank you
It's also very noteworthy in the history of game translation. The Japanese video game industry was still years away from making foreign markets a serious consideration, and the Opera House was definitely a difficulty spike in terms of effective localization. There wasn't anything else like it in the 16-bit era, and the fact that English language audiences felt affected by the sequence is impressive, especially given the standards of the day. It would be many years before game localizations would be widely expected to translate not just words but emotional and artistic impact.
Ted Woolsey made some questionable choices ("son of a submariner" comes to mind), but I think he deserves equal billing with Uemastu and Kitase for the English language version of the Opera House sequence. There's a reason he's one of the only game translators to have achieved name recognition among fans of the games he worked on.
"This is one of two call of duty levels on the list." Oh boy, i think i can guess the second 😂
Love that the alphabetised nature of the list means that probably the most iconic and influential level of all time is the last one covered. Some things just come full circle.
i am im fact one of the 2 people that never heard of this "cow level" thing, never cared about any games that were similar in any way to diablo, so thank you for telling me about it
I think I'm the other one. Never heard of this cow level thing before now.
On an unrelated note, I've never played a Blizzard game in my life.
One of you two must be lying, since I also never heard of this level, and I’m in college for Game Design.
Diablo rocks
i have also never heard of this so-called "Cow Level" before now .
When he said "Diablo Cow Level" I had no idea what he was talking about, but then he kept describing it and I was like "oh yeah, that rings a bell."
I still randomly bring up Effect and Cause with one of my friends just so we can gush over it more, it was an incredible level in an incredible game.
The way it designs puzzles is so good. Most other games would put some sort of penalty on the mechanic, but it actively encourages you to use it.
Plus narratively it loops into itself as you're doing it: The test fire that ruins the campus and allows Time Travel wasn't meant to happen, except some random person started teleporting everywhere, which lead them to panic test the weapon, which disrupted time and allowed time travel, which-
very surprised to not see E1M1 on this list
You know, I tried that once, but most of the time people only talked about the song.
Its level design isn't particularly interesting
btw i think saying that ff7's midgar is "the game's entire setting" is completely wrong. sure ff7r1 takes place completely in midgar but the original midgar is only around the first two hours of the original on ps1
Yeah, you couldn't even really call it the whole of act 1.
While true it’s only the first few hours of the game, I’d say calling it a single level isn’t right either, considering how many different locales you visit that could be considered their own levels before it’s over. Plus, you return there later in the game.
Yeah I dunno how so many people forget about the other 90% of the game that doesn't take place in Midgar
fun fact: Dishonored 2 features a level with the exact same gimmick as Effect and Cause, with an even more complex and layered environment, and released within a few months of titanfall 2! so if you wanna scratch that itch, go play that game, too.
Most shocking thing I learned in this video is that The Witcher 3 had a switch port?? My god that little machine really is doing it's absolute best :')
I’m surprised the first level of Goldeneye wasn’t here, I think that one definitely deserves a Wikipedia page
Which level is that?
The first one
Love that level
@@frexion8374 Oh damn
@@abryn6864 yeah now you get it
Honestly one of the most interesting videos I've seen. Turns out that Wikipedia summary video can be pretty cool if they just own it. Wikipedia is a pretty interesting place.
Psychonauts AND Half Life 2? 2 of my favorites
You a real one.
This video has some insane whiplast. From going into a level as controversial as No Russian to the comfortable bing bing wahoo World 1-1, it's a bit of a rollarcoaster.
I find it funny that a whole Wikipedia page is dedicated to an oval in a video game.
There's no way people are actually still anti water temple right? It's literally one of the best dungeons in the game imo, only inexcusable part for me is the boots system
And how samey everything looks - I dont think anyone really complains about the 3DS version - which fixes these two issues
Unfortunately, I think the most well-known portion of Mass Effect as a series would be the terrible ending of Mass Effect 3.
finally, raven on the holm.
Ravenholm no place to settle
Headcrabs come to meddle
@@tarekcat1
headshots with my winchester
never accidental, uh
I think The Gate from Spec Ops the Line deserves its own wikipedia article. If you know, you know.
I've never played it, but if I remember talks about the game, that must be the war crimes level, right?
@@JAMllostthegame The white phosphorus level, specifically.
No Hangar from Doom, though?
That weird stage of youtube popularity whete you get scary, strange comments.
What comments ?
I'm surprised White Phosphorus from Spec Ops: The Line doesn't have its own page. I thought you didn't include it because it's not a "level" but it's not even a link on the spec ops the line wikipedia page. Kinda shocked actually, it's so harrowing
You had to use doki for the mass effect 2 mission. Unintentional dark comedy ig.
I'll have you know I got stuck while trying to beat the Water Temple in the OoT 3DS remake, and I only cried for 10 minutes
Cycle nuts...
Chucklenuts
@@tarekcat1 think fast psychonauts [flashbang]
I have 0 problems with UA-camrs reading Wikipedia pages, and I don't think Wikipedia would either. They're just enriching the text in a very open source way
OMg I love Deus Ex. It's literally the greatest game of all time. I played it for the first time last year and honestly nothing comes close. You have so much freedom, it's so much fun, it's kinda cheesy but is still amazing and the early 2000's charm is perfect. Everyone should play it.
I clicked on this video solely because of the Psychonauts reference in the thumbnail
3:17 yup, that's definitely bloodborne
Before even starting the video, these are the ones off the top of my head I feel like deserve a Wikipedia article:
25m
E1M1: Hangar
Green Hill Zone
Minus World
No Russian
Pac-Man's Maze
Scarecrow's Glitch Nightmare
The Pit
Turbo Tunnel
World 1-1
I guess this is a kind of prediction, so we'll see how accurate I am, but any missing from the list absolutely need to be added.
Midgard is like just the first 10 hours...
I never knew that No russian is banned in Russia. We still had played that level and mostly liked it.
I never found the Bloody Baron all that profound and I mostly thought it was just funny that the Baron carries around a goblin baby like it has a dirty diaper.
Hitman 2016 Sapienza and Hokkaido absolutely deserved their own segment they were not standalone releases. Yes, they could have been purchased individually, BUT if you purchase the standard edition of the game they are included.
Sapienza is a stellar escapists level of an idyllic coastal village in Italy with very strong detail throughout an extremely large environment. (reused several times for dlc missions with significant environment retooling)
Hokkaido is the same sort of deal, but with the catch that players are forced to work with doors that only unlock when appropriate disguises are worn.
Surprised that Effect and Cause from Titanfall 2 had its own page
Great video. This made me fall down a rabbit hole of video game weapons with individual Wikipedia articles (can be found here: "Category:Video game objects"). The application of Wikipedia rules seems super inconsistent on this topic. The M6D Pistol from Halo has an article but the arguably more iconic Energy Sword does not. The various Keyblades central to the story of Kingdom Hearts had an article which no longer exists, but Zelda's Master Sword is allowed to have an article. Maybe to their respective series they are relevant, but the Lancer Assault Rifle from Gears of War nor the Smart Pistol from Titanfall are anywhere near as iconic as Cloud's Buster Sword from FF7, which does not have an article.
I think the infamy of the water temple mostly comes from the fact that everyone has played Ocarina of Time so everyone has gotten stuck on it. Long time Zelda fans would know that there are many other levels in other games just as tedious if not more tedious.
For instance, in A Link to the Past, there's a dungeon made completely of ice that causes you to slip into enemies and cracks all throughout the dungeon, while in Majora's Mask there's another water temple similar to the one in Ocarina of Time, but with a time limit.
Levels I'm surprised DON'T have articles are Surface Tension from Half Life, Tranquility Lane from Fallout 3, Veni Vidi Vici from VVVVVV, and of course Children of Taronne Tenement from Swat 4
Yoshinori Kitase is the writer for final fantasy 6. The composer is Nobuo Uematsu.
what an interesting idea for a video
I do think boiling down sapienza and hokkaido from hitman as "standalone expansions" doesnt feel right. Sapienza is the second level in the reboot. Hokkaido is the finale of the first reboot-game. There are 3 levels between them that do not have their own wikipedia page that would very much count as "standalone expansion" by the same definition. These 2 are just exceptionally well designed levels and the most iconic and memorable part of the hitman reboot
Yeah, the guy doesn’t have a mustache, but you don’t otherwise look anything like the guy, and the ridiculous mustache draws attention away from the rest of the face.
This one sorta counts for the list but not fully.
The Goat Puzzle from Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.
Now this is more of a singular puzzle rather then a full level but it does have its own page on Wikipedia
First time I ever played the Suicide Mission of Mass Effect 2 is one of my all-time favorite gaming memories.
I remember as a kid I thought the Chernobyl-Desaster was a fictional event that only happened in Call of Duty because of that Level.
22:12 it was in 2009's Modern Warfare 2, which is a bit funny because you correctly identified it earlier in your discussion of it.
do need to note that midgar is Not the primary setting of ff7, only the first remake game. midgar is only like half of the first disc of the original release. yes this is pedantic
3:04 isn’t the Normandy just the ship? I feel like Hub Levels should count if they aren’t including the levels you go to via that hub
i feel like bob omb battlefield should have its own page, it's basically the world 1-1 of 3d games. e1m1 from doom as well. some other levels. also the great plateau from breath of the wild should have its own page
absolutely banger video, loved it so much. please do more stuff like this!
Oh hey I found another fan of just simply browsing Wikipedia
Interesting video. I will watch your progress with great interest
21:30 ITS A VIDEO GAME
ITS FICTION
WHAT IS THERE TO SENSATIONALIZE
This video was fantastic and I would love multiple follow ups honestly
I was at the keyboard with anticipation, to see if the opera level part includes the Undertale part, good job
Papu's Pyramid. If you know, you know.
Six of these levels are ones I made :u
I may just have to make more articles to make this video outdated
this is such an interesting vid topic im loving on this video ngl
i am fuck
Great video - good job algorithm
Silent Cartographer makes sense considering it was the demo.
water temple is goated simply git gud
OPERA HOUSE MENTIONED 🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Man what a fascinating video!
Add one to the list of "things developers have apologized for adding", right alongside the Sonic 3 barrel.
I would have guessed mario 4-2 over 1-1. Maybe I watch too many speed runs.
Either I didn’t catch it or it was added after this was made but Hokkaido from Hitman 2016 is missing
Durring the serrious parts of the video, the TF2 fonts broke the tone so badly
The Bloody Baron quest in Witcher 3 was some of my favorite storytelling in an rpg. Granted, I have not played a lot of rpgs, and my favorite storytelling game goes to Red Dead Redemption 2, but Blood Baron’s quest was the point that made me see what the hype was when it came to Witcher 3. Absolutely phenomenal game and I’m very glad I got around to completing all of it including the dlcs earlier this year.
i am a simple person, i see psychonauts in the thumbnail, i click
Two levels from the soulsborne series? Seems like Wikipedia has a bias
Hell, there are two puzzles from the same Gabriel Knight game on Wikipedia, talk about bias
@@abryn6864 I know what an atrocity, our society is truly crumbling
@@AidanDrotzur-uz5sz Yea
I wrote both of them...
😈
@@abryn6864 HOW COULD YOU!!!
@@AidanDrotzur-uz5sz Some people just want to watch the world burn.
23:04 the problem is that it gives you the option to participate it gives the wrong idea and if you didn’t know you could skip it you’re likely going to shoot in the shooter game.
Like the idea is sound and I admire the intention but it undermined itself by it not being a cutscene
I'm definitely inclined to agree. I wanted to be impartial in the video but I unfortunately think that it's a mission which has only progressively aged worse as time has gone on.
Wouldnt that take away from the interactive storytelling?
@@maydaymemer4660 not if you set the actual gameplay after the massacre
"You're likely going to shoot in the shooter game" well, You're completly right about that i can't disagree, but what made the mission special is that You're shooting damn civilians
And thus, Spec Ops The Line was born
i could never beat ultros in that section.
this is a weird weapon subcategory
This is a great list!
YOU USED THE WORD INFAMOUS WRONG
good vid tho
Looks like he picked like 40 of his favorite games then thought about the best levels for the game, then looked at “best levels of all times” lists then added what he thinks should be on there based on his own opinion. That’s just what it looks like to me.
Your nervous rambling during the No Russian part was annoying and dragged down the video. No one is going to accuse you of supporting mass murder because you talk about it in a video game. you're acting like the exact same old people that made it controversial in the first place
This is unintentionally hilarious.
Explain
Why
What are you talking about
The fuck you mean "the escapist was less impressed"? I remember watching jm8's vid on stormveil and he was praising the level for almost the entire video.
why are you shitting on that for no fuckin reason?
This video feels ai
No one actually still thinks the Water Temple was bad.
I don't even relate to the complaining about needing to bring up the menus every time you add or remove the iron Boots, doing that never bothered me even once.
Who's "No one" ?
It is bad, especially the softlock when you open locked doors in a wrong order, And as for the iron boots, it was tedious thing and ruins the pace of the game
Good thing they fixed those two issues in the 3DS version
@@tarekcat1 Tedium doesn't bother me.
@@tarekcat1there never was a softlock. People just never found the passage hidden beneath a floating block that lead to a key.
why so many disclaimers, you don't need to clarify why half life isnt your fav game man. And unless this video is also targeted to little kids or people who never played videogames the trigger warnings for every bit of violent content when you don't even go into details about them is a bit excessive
The Half-Life one was mainly a joke. I run a TF2 channel (the one I'm commenting with right now) so it was mainly a tongue and cheek thing for the people who know I'm a Valve-head.
As for the other ones, I kind of just like to cover my bases. I think there's only four(?) disclaimers in this video, but I probably did overdo it. I appreciate the feedback!
@@TealOpal Nah, you're good.
@@TealOpal op was being a bitch, you're good