Context for people who did not watch this video the day it came out: The original title was "Playing Halo: Consolation Prize" and the thumbnail, description, and names of the video chapters all indicated it was a video about Halo: Combat Evolved. Also, I hope the future is treating you well, because I'm in the present and it sucks!
@@georgelincolnrockwell6248in the last three hours the front has shifted. Now the tall Grey's are using gene therapy to create hybrid animal-human warriors to combat a resistance of hobos and onlyfans girls bent on scorching the earth so nobody else can fuck with us. Godspeed to 'em I say.
I honestly got confused, because I set this video to 'Watch Later' when it was still presented as a Halo video... then when I finally got to it, saw a completely different video in it's place
I swear i saw a Snakerer's Halo video in the feed and thought "eh, no rush,it's not about gladiators, I'll watch it later" And later I've been searching for a halo video for an hour
holy shit, me and my brother just start co-op campagin of halo series 2 week ago. just finish 2 recently and in a middle of 3 your upload is in a very good timing. edit: i was hurt
The bait and switch made me go from Moderately Interested to sitting fully upright in my gamer chair thinking 'HELL YEAH JANKSHIT IS BACK ON THE MENU'. Truly the jape of a generation
This was a truly excellent game. If I remember correctly, my ending was killing Commodus in the arena when you were supposed to lose to him. This led to what seemed to be infinite opponents flooding the arena but due to being the gaming god that I am, I managed to fight them off for about an hour and got a cutscene telling me that I jumped the wall and escaped.
I remember watching a Let's Play of this game via the old Something Awful forums back around the time it came out, where the guy playing figured out that dual-wielding large shields was not only possible but extremely viable.
I remember playing this game and having an "SHIT YOU CAN DO THAT?" moment when au figured out you can pick up stuff and send it to your chest directly after a match is over. I lost a bunch of gear trying to scramble to upgrade only for the fight to end and send me in the back rooms empty handed
Oh hell yeah, a Halo review! One of my favorite Halo memories was the first time I successfully parried a weapon out of my enemies hand and it went flying up into the air, it was great.
@@TehsnakererNow I feel like you should’ve left them as-is after changing the title and thumbnail - cut out the section of the video where you talk about the vote to further confuse the hell out of people.
The title switched for me live as the line at 1:10 started holy shit lol edit: turns out that happened literally on the 'true' opening line of the video!! that timestamp is 0:00 now, oh my god
jokes aside, i'm really happy this joke happened. I am pretty confident I wouldn't have been interested enough in a random gladiator game i had never heard of to click on it. Then, after respecting the joke enough to give the video a shot, I found that this game seems way way more interesting than I was expecting. Really great video
"...a bit of a terra." Oh well done, Snake. Oh well done, indeed. I literally had to pause the video and laughed out loud after staring blankly at the screen for a second. I appreciate you puns and humor in every video. You're literally one of my favorite video maker people. I'm always very happy when I see you upload.
@@JoyKirbs I am aware of that too, that "Gaia" equals "Terra" equals "Earth", but what does "a bit of a terra" supposed to mean then? Like, it feels like "Terra" is used as a homophone for another word, but which one? "Tearer"? "Terror"?
It's a pun mate When I played EVO Gaia was a major character. I said I could have picked Gaia were she available but she wasn't an option, so I say she's "a bit of a terra", which is a play on the fact that the Romans renamed Gaia to Terra, and that she was troublesome. IE. a bit of a terror. It's a callback for those who know, while also being just a bit of wordplay and trivia for those who haven't watched everything.
We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled. But I'm all out for it, even if you'd review watching a paint dry, I'd watch it with great pleasure
In reference to the leaving items behind issues raised at 45:44 , L1+ x when you have a free hand or are out of combat to send items on the ground straight to your inventory, with this, you can rapidly gain tons of money by rapidly dealing with bronze rank opponents, winning the match, and then cleaning house after the round is over, as the cleaner will not spawn if the match has come to an end.
@@vertigogameplay8906 Ah, that explains it, it's only while you're not fighting. In both CRTF and remix. Also, if your ITEM BOX is full, you can't send any items to it this way.
this is one of my favorite entries in the "games i saw talked about in a ps2 magazine but never actually played" genre and I say this with absolute sincerity. I was but a penniless child back then and vicariously playing games through magazine features is a weirdly cherished memory of mine.
The only Halo video essay worth watching. I dunno where all this talk about gladiators are coming from. I think UA-cam's having one of those weird moments
One note if you press L1 + X you can pick up items and send them to your chest. This works after battles and you can sell all the items you pick up. This also lets you exploit picking upon weapons when you enter the weapons tent and sell them before the first battle of the day.
2:27 Bit of a Latin lesson here: The proper way to say “Load game” as a command to the game would be _Onerā Ludum._ _Onus_ is a noun, in the nominative, meaning burden or load. The way to say load as in the verb in its conjugation as a present command to something, which would be in the second person present imperative, is _onerā._ _Ludum_ is still correct, though. It is the accusative case of _ludus_ meaning “game” and the accusative case refers to the object, something an action is done to.
If you asked me whether I'd rather watch a video on a jank gladiator game or early Halo, I probably would have said Halo. This is why algorithms chomp and humans rule.
46:17 you can pick up items with L1 + X to put them right back into storage. You can only do it after battle. I also went through this struggle, but I used the walkthrough to learn how to do so.
there's something about your storytelling that makes me want to know more about the adventures of the tabletop version of Crixus. hell, that even goes for the various player-created characters you've used for videos as well. i was recently rewatching your Brigand videos and enjoyed the care you put into the personalities of your different playthroughs' characters. it might not have a place on this channel, but for whatever it's worth, i'd tune in if you ever decided to recount some tabletop adventures.
As a young fan of the Gladiator, this game should have been in my life. But there was 1 trilogy, that still was dear to my heart: Swords and Sandals (the flash games)
I rented this game from blockbuster when I was a kid and absolutely fell in love with it. The atmosphere, the gameplay, the progression, and the jank were unlike anything I’d ever played, and it’s just as unique today as it was then. I’ve never beaten it, and I don’t think I’ve ever even gotten the hang of it, but I still love it. So glad there’s an in depth video about this one because I don’t know anyone who would know what I was talking about if I brought it up lol
Before even starting the video I see "#sorry" in the tags and detect a bit of cheek in the description. I know already that Snake is waiting around the corner to clothesline me with the unexpected, but you know what? I'm fine with it. I'm still going to hit that corner at Mach 5 and see where I end up. I relinquish the steering wheel, Snake. Off the side of the road we go.
This game looks and seems to play like what I'd MDickie's magnum opus to be... and yet he didn't make it. Great review and thanks for introducing me to such a hidden gem!
You are a godsend. For the longest time I remembered a game about running a gladiator stable and could not find what it was called for the life of me. But you not only found it, but revealed that it's no longer being sold (Dominus). Was hoping to get it but oh well, that's one question answered. Thank you!
I personally liked the PSP version of this game a lot more for it being quite concise and straight to the point. Yes, it probably got less mechanics and content, but it felt like an okay deal for me considering that I was mainly interested in the combat aspect of the gladiator fantasy. Happy for your rediscovering of this gem!
The guy who celebrated after you got defeated by the shield another guy knocked out of his hands, like he totally meant for that to happen, is the true hero of this game. I bet _his_ name was recorded in the annals of Rome.
You sidetracked me and I spent ten minutes reading the Domina/Dominus patch notes and the comments across Steam - thank you for the extra added entertainment bonus! What an odd fellow...
Boy am I glad this came up in my sub box after the title and thumbnail was changed. I would’ve been so bummed if I thought I was getting a CE video and had it taken away. I’ll watch anything you make though. Great stuff as always.
Oh yea also, if you defeat Commodus and he calls the guard you can get a special ending if you kill something like 100 guards. You get an animation of you jumping over a fence and then you dip.
"another halo review?" I thought. I saw so many and at this point nobody can bring something new to it. But tehsnakerer outdid himself here. This is probably the best halo review ever. That insight, that wit, that humour. I'm amazed how tehsnakerer shows how it is done again and again. He is really the dark souls of content creator. No he didn't pay me. Why do you ask??????? I'd pay him if I had more money to spent!!! Did you know he has a patreon? Check out for bonus material if you generously donate some money! He needs it. He's british, you know?
Can't believe you pulled a Raiden on us! (also jesus those timestamps are evil lmao) But yeah, there's a strange but charming vibe from that experimental era, especially since a lot came from the east and had companies with very traditional hierarchies working on them, while the majority of big name experimental indies that you hear about today are (mostly) from the west, and more often than not aren't made by a typical corporate structure like before (some are solo devs, some are remote only, etc). I think one reason it kinda flew under the radar was the very generic sounding "shovelware" title/box, an easy turn-off when retail stores were still the dominant way to buy games. It needed to establish a bit more personality on store shelf imo, but the past is the past.
Really appreciate the extra effort to make the fake thumbnail. I saw it with the notification on my phone but was busy studying so I couldn’t watch it. I then got very confused when I went to look for it only to find a seemingly different review in its place. Thought I was experiencing some Mandela for a sec. It’s such a clever joke too. It’d be very funny if you just left it that way and confused everyone. Though I imagine the UA-cam algorithm would hate that.
I was legitimately thinking of playing Halo CE for the first time and trying to get into the fps genre again. It was such a coincidence you decided to cover the game. Don't think I'll be giving the genre a shot today.
this is a great video on halo, the most herculean effort I've seen covering this game I have a hunch that tehsnaker will love spikeout, currently available in the infinite wealth arcade cabinets
'Gaia has always been a bit of a terra' I hadn't watched any playing in a while because I just haven't been in the mood, I'm glad to see the puns are just as bad as they always were
Fantastic video I love it when you show us funky ps2 era brawlers that I've never heard of, there's something charming about that era of games that I cant get enough of
i was actually planning on skipping the halo video because ive been playing it so long and theres so much already out there. then i come back a week later and find a video about a game ive never heard of with a strange thumbnail and intriguing title sitting in my watch later playlist, that was the fastest ive clicked on a video in a while
I kept passing over this game on my HDD. I was actually stoked to see this video, you sold me on it and i started yesterday and its so deep. Im loving it man. Thanks for pushing me to play it!
46:18 I remember discovering as a kid that if you press R1+X (I think it is) while standing near gear after the round is over, it picks up the gear you want and sends it straight to your item box! :)
everytime i think to myself "i wonder when the next video from Tehsnakerer comes out" it somehow drops within 1-3 days. You seem to have a really good and stable workflow going on. And it was an absolutely fantastic one as always :)
I already enjoyed your content but your closing thoughts in this video gave me a new appreciation for your videos. Your point about the reception of a game and how it's judged within it's genre is a lot more insightful than a lot of the more recent long form video game analyses in their entirety.
The end portion with how you talk about those type of "weird" and "obscure" games that either end up glowing up or fading into obscurity really hit with me. I'm not sure if you've been suggested it before but: Darkest Dungeon truly feels like one of those type of games that easily could of faded from history given how so unorthodox it is in terms of design, even to the point that it can easily alienate or captivate people. (Source one of my friend's absolutely despises the gameplay while I super enjoy it) but we both can tell a lot of care and effort went into it even if it wouldn't of been successful. I'd personally recommend Darkest Dungeon for the channel as it truly scratches that itch for some being the closest experience to a dnd session that's just gone off the rails (in a good and bad way).
Great video man, my memory of this game was relegated to watching a gameplay snippet of it in a demo disc back then haha. Glad to see it after all this time. I did play through Shadow of Rome tho and loved it
I never saw the halo thumbnail and title like many others in the comments, but I was really glued in this video by this weird strange game. I find it intriguing that the best part of the story is told through gameplay itself. Many games often don't show compelling stories through combat mechanics and such. I just find it funny and a bit interesting that there's little to no tutorials in Colosseum. All in all, it makes me want to pick this game up and try playing for myself.
8:51 makes me insanely happen someone else gets excited about unusual control schemes. I had great joy messing around such unusual controls of MGS3 (original, not the updated TPS version) back in early 2010s.
I might not be remembering this correctly, but when you trigger punishment mode (100 guard survival) you can leave the arena and take the fight Into the halls where It's easier to control the crowd with the tighter spaces.
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Context for people who did not watch this video the day it came out: The original title was "Playing Halo: Consolation Prize" and the thumbnail, description, and names of the video chapters all indicated it was a video about Halo: Combat Evolved. Also, I hope the future is treating you well, because I'm in the present and it sucks!
In notifications it still says that
Hey man, it's 12 hours into the future. The war with the mole creatures continues. They ate my youngest today. Gods help us.
@@georgelincolnrockwell6248in the last three hours the front has shifted. Now the tall Grey's are using gene therapy to create hybrid animal-human warriors to combat a resistance of hobos and onlyfans girls bent on scorching the earth so nobody else can fuck with us. Godspeed to 'em I say.
@@georgelincolnrockwell6248 Nine hours into the future; the mole creatures have sent a letter thanking you for the meal.
@@nobody2996 How nice of them, maybe we can still be friends after all.
"Spoilers for Ancient Roman history throughout the video" is a good line.
Especially if you've watched the Unbiased History meme series.
"Arminius was the imposter"
gonna watch a video. better not be any gladiator shit
no. NO
As someone with Crixusophobia, I am happy to watch a safe, Halo video.
@@MadmanEpic I’m sorry you had to find out this way.
It's cool to get your perspective on Halo, but man, I really wish you'd do a video about Colosseum: Road to Freedom. That'd be awesome.
One day...
now that the video has changed, all the context for this comment has been lost lol
I honestly got confused, because I set this video to 'Watch Later' when it was still presented as a Halo video... then when I finally got to it, saw a completely different video in it's place
@@Tehsnakerer Do you plan on making a video about its multiplayer at some point ? It's where the game(s) actually shines.
@@laurentiusmcmxcvhalo or collesseum?
I swear i saw a Snakerer's Halo video in the feed and thought "eh, no rush,it's not about gladiators, I'll watch it later"
And later I've been searching for a halo video for an hour
Doesn't ring a bell
holy shit, me and my brother just start co-op campagin of halo series 2 week ago.
just finish 2 recently and in a middle of 3
your upload is in a very good timing.
edit: i was hurt
Deep stab huh, lol
Et tu, Tehsnakerer?
Finally, a Tehsnakerer video about my favorite spartan
This was the best damn Psychonauts analysis I've ever seen.
Now there's a game that'd make a good episode of playing IMO.
The bait and switch made me go from Moderately Interested to sitting fully upright in my gamer chair thinking 'HELL YEAH JANKSHIT IS BACK ON THE MENU'. Truly the jape of a generation
This was a truly excellent game. If I remember correctly, my ending was killing Commodus in the arena when you were supposed to lose to him. This led to what seemed to be infinite opponents flooding the arena but due to being the gaming god that I am, I managed to fight them off for about an hour and got a cutscene telling me that I jumped the wall and escaped.
I remember watching a Let's Play of this game via the old Something Awful forums back around the time it came out, where the guy playing figured out that dual-wielding large shields was not only possible but extremely viable.
I gotta give that a punt
I remember playing this game and having an "SHIT YOU CAN DO THAT?" moment when au figured out you can pick up stuff and send it to your chest directly after a match is over. I lost a bunch of gear trying to scramble to upgrade only for the fight to end and send me in the back rooms empty handed
Can wait to learn about the niche Eastern European shooter Halo
Man this sure was a great Halo CE video. My bones have been liquified by the quality of this XBox Exclusive Broadcast
I love Master John Chief
@@Tehsnakerer What about his cool friend Johnson Sergeant?
@@zyriantel9601 He's also ery cool
I think TehSnakerer is a pretty cool guy. He makes cool videos and not afraid of anything.
God that takes me soool far back, arby and the chief was fantastic
Eh*
**doesn't** afraid of anything
Oh hell yeah, a Halo review! One of my favorite Halo memories was the first time I successfully parried a weapon out of my enemies hand and it went flying up into the air, it was great.
The description and chapters being about Halo is downright EVIL, Snake.
Why?
wdym? It's literally about halo?
What did you expect... Haze (2007) or something?
it's helpful to people watching who can't watch the whole thing in one go :)
@@Edward3Nigma ye ye (ye)
@@TehsnakererNow I feel like you should’ve left them as-is after changing the title and thumbnail - cut out the section of the video where you talk about the vote to further confuse the hell out of people.
I gotta admit, this is one of best Halo essays out there.
It was tough to get there so I'm honoured to accept this review, this is one of the best Halo essays out there.
I may have gotten here after the title was changed, but I can still definitively say that this is the best God of War video on the internet.
Really glad I managed to catch this video on release day because there's no way it'll keep this title nor this thumbnail.
The title switched for me live as the line at 1:10 started holy shit lol
edit: turns out that happened literally on the 'true' opening line of the video!! that timestamp is 0:00 now, oh my god
changed just 3 hours after release, im very confused lmao
@@Kirobsi SAME
I appreciate going the extra mile and having the UA-cam chapters be about Halo
jokes aside, i'm really happy this joke happened. I am pretty confident I wouldn't have been interested enough in a random gladiator game i had never heard of to click on it. Then, after respecting the joke enough to give the video a shot, I found that this game seems way way more interesting than I was expecting. Really great video
Rest in peace Halo Title & Thumbnail, your misdirection will be missed
"...a bit of a terra."
Oh well done, Snake. Oh well done, indeed. I literally had to pause the video and laughed out loud after staring blankly at the screen for a second. I appreciate you puns and humor in every video. You're literally one of my favorite video maker people. I'm always very happy when I see you upload.
I know this is a callback to those EVO games, but I don't get the pun
@@trainee5471 Terra is latin for "Earth"
@@JoyKirbs I am aware of that too, that "Gaia" equals "Terra" equals "Earth", but what does "a bit of a terra" supposed to mean then? Like, it feels like "Terra" is used as a homophone for another word, but which one? "Tearer"? "Terror"?
It's a pun mate
When I played EVO Gaia was a major character. I said I could have picked Gaia were she available but she wasn't an option, so I say she's "a bit of a terra", which is a play on the fact that the Romans renamed Gaia to Terra, and that she was troublesome. IE. a bit of a terror. It's a callback for those who know, while also being just a bit of wordplay and trivia for those who haven't watched everything.
We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled.
But I'm all out for it, even if you'd review watching a paint dry, I'd watch it with great pleasure
"Halo" is one of my favorite games from back in the day. Super hyped to have more people talk about "halo".
I forgot we did that 50/50
Truly snuck up on
In reference to the leaving items behind issues raised at 45:44 , L1+ x when you have a free hand or are out of combat to send items on the ground straight to your inventory, with this, you can rapidly gain tons of money by rapidly dealing with bronze rank opponents, winning the match, and then cleaning house after the round is over, as the cleaner will not spawn if the match has come to an end.
You can use the L1 + X with both hands full too
@laurentiusmcmxcv isn't that limited to only out of combat, though? I've never been able to do it with the character's hands full mid-match
@@vertigogameplay8906 Ah, that explains it, it's only while you're not fighting. In both CRTF and remix.
Also, if your ITEM BOX is full, you can't send any items to it this way.
Graphics sure have come a long way. You wouldn't think this was Halo looking at it today.
this is one of my favorite entries in the "games i saw talked about in a ps2 magazine but never actually played" genre and I say this with absolute sincerity. I was but a penniless child back then and vicariously playing games through magazine features is a weirdly cherished memory of mine.
The only Halo video essay worth watching. I dunno where all this talk about gladiators are coming from. I think UA-cam's having one of those weird moments
I swear, this is my favorite game from the ps2. It feels like no one else played this game, so it was so cool to see you cover this!
Crixus is my favourite character in Halo
There's probably a Brute named that in some Halo book somewhere, since they all have Latin names
@@Calvin_Coolage Crixus the brute that killed John Halo with a flail and a buckler
(clueless) hmm today im gonna watch a halo video essay
The 1 million silver really is the 10 billion yen of its day huh?
It disappeared from the Roto Bank
TEN YEARS IN THE COLISEUM TURNED YOU INTO A FUCKIN' SLAVE
It's not silver, but asis the roman copper coin or s.c as its says on the back
@@CzarwrenI prefer to think it's full sesterces, because that makes the price so much funnier.
@@skynyrdjesus isn't that the double denarii
One note if you press L1 + X you can pick up items and send them to your chest. This works after battles and you can sell all the items you pick up. This also lets you exploit picking upon weapons when you enter the weapons tent and sell them before the first battle of the day.
2:27 Bit of a Latin lesson here:
The proper way to say “Load game” as a command to the game would be _Onerā Ludum._
_Onus_ is a noun, in the nominative, meaning burden or load.
The way to say load as in the verb in its conjugation as a present command to something, which would be in the second person present imperative, is _onerā._
_Ludum_ is still correct, though. It is the accusative case of _ludus_ meaning “game” and the accusative case refers to the object, something an action is done to.
“Welcome, dead man.” goes unbelievably hard
Is this the prequel to Sopranos: Road to Respect?
This is actually Tony's great great great great great (a few more) grandfather.
If you asked me whether I'd rather watch a video on a jank gladiator game or early Halo, I probably would have said Halo.
This is why algorithms chomp and humans rule.
46:17 you can pick up items with L1 + X to put them right back into storage. You can only do it after battle. I also went through this struggle, but I used the walkthrough to learn how to do so.
there's something about your storytelling that makes me want to know more about the adventures of the tabletop version of Crixus. hell, that even goes for the various player-created characters you've used for videos as well. i was recently rewatching your Brigand videos and enjoyed the care you put into the personalities of your different playthroughs' characters.
it might not have a place on this channel, but for whatever it's worth, i'd tune in if you ever decided to recount some tabletop adventures.
As a young fan of the Gladiator, this game should have been in my life. But there was 1 trilogy, that still was dear to my heart: Swords and Sandals (the flash games)
I rented this game from blockbuster when I was a kid and absolutely fell in love with it. The atmosphere, the gameplay, the progression, and the jank were unlike anything I’d ever played, and it’s just as unique today as it was then. I’ve never beaten it, and I don’t think I’ve ever even gotten the hang of it, but I still love it. So glad there’s an in depth video about this one because I don’t know anyone who would know what I was talking about if I brought it up lol
Your most obscure, euro-jank PC game to date.
This isn't Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop
Videos like these is what I love to see most
A thoughtful spotlight on the weird and forgotten
Not that i wouldn't wanna hear your thoughts on Halo but when you revealed youre talking about a weird forgotten brawler i actually smiled
Halo: Colosseum Evolved is one of my favorite ARPGs. Thanks for covering this hidden gem!
Before even starting the video I see "#sorry" in the tags and detect a bit of cheek in the description.
I know already that Snake is waiting around the corner to clothesline me with the unexpected, but you know what? I'm fine with it. I'm still going to hit that corner at Mach 5 and see where I end up.
I relinquish the steering wheel, Snake. Off the side of the road we go.
It's so nice of you to upload a video just as I start revisiting all your other ones
This game looks and seems to play like what I'd MDickie's magnum opus to be... and yet he didn't make it. Great review and thanks for introducing me to such a hidden gem!
I have never been so gaslit before that I actually gaslit myself, but here we are
You are a godsend. For the longest time I remembered a game about running a gladiator stable and could not find what it was called for the life of me. But you not only found it, but revealed that it's no longer being sold (Dominus). Was hoping to get it but oh well, that's one question answered. Thank you!
I think you can still get it on the devs website, it's just no longer on Steam. So if you want it it's still out there.
I personally liked the PSP version of this game a lot more for it being quite concise and straight to the point. Yes, it probably got less mechanics and content, but it felt like an okay deal for me considering that I was mainly interested in the combat aspect of the gladiator fantasy. Happy for your rediscovering of this gem!
The guy who celebrated after you got defeated by the shield another guy knocked out of his hands, like he totally meant for that to happen, is the true hero of this game.
I bet _his_ name was recorded in the annals of Rome.
Must be awkward to write about how he defeated "some guy" with a shield whacked from a mates hand
You sidetracked me and I spent ten minutes reading the Domina/Dominus patch notes and the comments across Steam - thank you for the extra added entertainment bonus! What an odd fellow...
Would absolutely love to see a vid on Gladius, it's a childhood favourite of mine. Excellent vid as always Snake!
Boy am I glad this came up in my sub box after the title and thumbnail was changed. I would’ve been so bummed if I thought I was getting a CE video and had it taken away. I’ll watch anything you make though. Great stuff as always.
Oh yea also, if you defeat Commodus and he calls the guard you can get a special ending if you kill something like 100 guards. You get an animation of you jumping over a fence and then you dip.
We're ABSOLUTELY NOT playin Halo in this one 🗣🔥❗
They don’t call him snake for nothing
This was so much more interesting than I first thought it'd be. Combat evolved indeed.
just wanna say i've been watching you for awhile and you're just my favorite reviewer
"another halo review?" I thought. I saw so many and at this point nobody can bring something new to it.
But tehsnakerer outdid himself here. This is probably the best halo review ever. That insight, that wit, that humour. I'm amazed how tehsnakerer shows how it is done again and again. He is really the dark souls of content creator.
No he didn't pay me. Why do you ask??????? I'd pay him if I had more money to spent!!! Did you know he has a patreon? Check out for bonus material if you generously donate some money! He needs it. He's british, you know?
The joke is if you listened to one of the Bullet Time podcast you would have been clued in that snake has been playing Halo for a while.
Ruining bits for the real fans
Can't believe you pulled a Raiden on us! (also jesus those timestamps are evil lmao)
But yeah, there's a strange but charming vibe from that experimental era, especially since a lot came from the east and had companies with very traditional hierarchies working on them, while the majority of big name experimental indies that you hear about today are (mostly) from the west, and more often than not aren't made by a typical corporate structure like before (some are solo devs, some are remote only, etc).
I think one reason it kinda flew under the radar was the very generic sounding "shovelware" title/box, an easy turn-off when retail stores were still the dominant way to buy games. It needed to establish a bit more personality on store shelf imo, but the past is the past.
Really appreciate the extra effort to make the fake thumbnail. I saw it with the notification on my phone but was busy studying so I couldn’t watch it. I then got very confused when I went to look for it only to find a seemingly different review in its place. Thought I was experiencing some Mandela for a sec.
It’s such a clever joke too. It’d be very funny if you just left it that way and confused everyone. Though I imagine the UA-cam algorithm would hate that.
I was legitimately thinking of playing Halo CE for the first time and trying to get into the fps genre again. It was such a coincidence you decided to cover the game. Don't think I'll be giving the genre a shot today.
I do however wanna check out gladiator games all of the sudden. I'm sure I'll find appreciation for the fps genre somewhere someday lol.
this is a great video on halo, the most herculean effort I've seen covering this game
I have a hunch that tehsnaker will love spikeout, currently available in the infinite wealth arcade cabinets
'Gaia has always been a bit of a terra'
I hadn't watched any playing in a while because I just haven't been in the mood, I'm glad to see the puns are just as bad as they always were
I'd like to think I've gotten better at making them worse
I like how gaming videos with “forgotten” in the title will range from actual forgotten games like this to a 4 year old Cod game
I mean I can't remember what COD came out 4 years ago
I literally never saw a single mention of CoD BlOps 5, so probably that one.
Fantastic video
I love it when you show us funky ps2 era brawlers that I've never heard of, there's something charming about that era of games that I cant get enough of
i was actually planning on skipping the halo video because ive been playing it so long and theres so much already out there. then i come back a week later and find a video about a game ive never heard of with a strange thumbnail and intriguing title sitting in my watch later playlist, that was the fastest ive clicked on a video in a while
It’s always a good day when Snake uploads a new video.
Happy to see another video from you, always a delight when they drop.
hes giving the covenant back their bomb
I loved this and Shadow of Rome as a kid.
I kept passing over this game on my HDD.
I was actually stoked to see this video, you sold me on it and i started yesterday and its so deep.
Im loving it man. Thanks for pushing me to play it!
The prequel Gladiator Begins for psp was fun
Thanks for the heart
46:18 I remember discovering as a kid that if you press R1+X (I think it is) while standing near gear after the round is over, it picks up the gear you want and sends it straight to your item box! :)
everytime i think to myself "i wonder when the next video from Tehsnakerer comes out" it somehow drops within 1-3 days. You seem to have a really good and stable workflow going on. And it was an absolutely fantastic one as always :)
I already enjoyed your content but your closing thoughts in this video gave me a new appreciation for your videos. Your point about the reception of a game and how it's judged within it's genre is a lot more insightful than a lot of the more recent long form video game analyses in their entirety.
Im so happy to see a new video! Thanks for the continuing excellent content, tehsnakerer
The end portion with how you talk about those type of "weird" and "obscure" games that either end up glowing up or fading into obscurity really hit with me. I'm not sure if you've been suggested it before but: Darkest Dungeon truly feels like one of those type of games that easily could of faded from history given how so unorthodox it is in terms of design, even to the point that it can easily alienate or captivate people. (Source one of my friend's absolutely despises the gameplay while I super enjoy it) but we both can tell a lot of care and effort went into it even if it wouldn't of been successful. I'd personally recommend Darkest Dungeon for the channel as it truly scratches that itch for some being the closest experience to a dnd session that's just gone off the rails (in a good and bad way).
I for one love the unpredictable nature of what you tend to cover, nothing you show feels like the other, which gives me joy.
Great video man, my memory of this game was relegated to watching a gameplay snippet of it in a demo disc back then haha. Glad to see it after all this time. I did play through Shadow of Rome tho and loved it
Once again, 2005 was a truly magical time for video gaming.
I never saw the halo thumbnail and title like many others in the comments, but I was really glued in this video by this weird strange game. I find it intriguing that the best part of the story is told through gameplay itself. Many games often don't show compelling stories through combat mechanics and such. I just find it funny and a bit interesting that there's little to no tutorials in Colosseum. All in all, it makes me want to pick this game up and try playing for myself.
Thank you for doing this I have been waiting a minute for someone to do a retrospective of this game it's one of my all time favorites.
"This is why you shouldn't learn history people, it can spoil video games" is such a true statement it has ruined so many video games for me.
Domina is still one of the funniest meltdowns I've ever had the privilege of witnessing
8:51 makes me insanely happen someone else gets excited about unusual control schemes.
I had great joy messing around such unusual controls of MGS3 (original, not the updated TPS version) back in early 2010s.
Insanely *happy
I was genuinely surprised by the title, then doubly surprised by how much I want to play this game for myself someday, great stuff as usual!
I just wanted to say your videos are so absurdly high quality and I adore the effort in each one. I hope to one day get to your level.
I might not be remembering this correctly, but when you trigger punishment mode (100 guard survival) you can leave the arena and take the fight Into the halls where It's easier to control the crowd with the tighter spaces.
Yep, you can even head right out to the cart, I couldn't cut it though. Leaves a challenge for the audience at least
Gladius is one of my favorite childhood games! Love hearing the bits of its soundtrack scattered throughout!
god damn it snake that was downright EVIL, you got me
Is always good to see your fav youtube playing a game you love and still play.
Grunts are gladiators too!
Tehsnakerer is my personal roman empire
I hope I'm not my own commodus