for low income vampires
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Footage of the Blood 2 expansion
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That’s at the lowest detail level and still barely running.
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we got daikatana patches for christmas AND the new year presumably because of my spirit bomb in the form of this thread, so im getting back to johns game soon…too busy playing elder scrolls ukraine
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its the games 23rd birthday so what better way to celebrate than with some CLASSIC daikatana shit? Updating to the latest version of the 1.3 patch broke my saves. I couldnt have planned it any better myself, so I had to nostalgically change maps to icelab with the console and give myself all my weapons and levels back to restore things to their proper state. Just like John intended.
DAIKATANA BIRTHDAY FUN FACT: windows 10 still has compatibility shit left over from 2000 that makes it so you cant alt tab if the games exe is named “daikatana.exe” !!
Welcome to the icelab. Fog comes out of EVERY VENT and it ALL hurts you. Plus if you fall in the nitrogen pits you fucking die outright. They are everywhere. They are inescapable.
Pictured: a dumbass standing way too fucking close to things that can kill him. Conveniently all the instant death pits have ladders going down into them in case you want to slowly die instead of suddenly, i mean, that’s implying the ladder works to begin with.
Using the panel to the right of this door summons security guys right on top of you to fuck you up, but this is actually one of the best opportunities to use the bouncy ball gun, so it’s fine for being a trap you can’t avoid. These big halls actually let you effectively use a lot of the AOE weapons that normally just hurt you. Also superfly doesn’t have any weapons because I had to level skip here so he’s totally useless for god knows how long
they put a dude facing the bottom of this ladder you have to go down with a nitrogen beam that makes your screen go COMPLETELY red from damage output and melts your health so your probably going to be like “AAAA FUCK” and then hiro instantly explodes into gibs before the camera clips through a wall to show you superfly ugly crying. And if you manage to kill him from above his SIX buddies can start doing the same shit at you from below thru murder holes in the wall. god I’ve missed this expert gameplay design. i could probably just fill my posts with ANATOMY OF A DAIKATANA TRAP and have enough to not talk about anything else. Also no offense to ion storm or anything but this is easily one of the ugliest rooms in the game so far.
the first secret leads you through an incredibly dark vent that drops out into a room where you fall onto a pipe surrounded by hitscan enemies and if you use, say, the shotcycler, you will immediately fall off the pipe into fucking nitrogen
luckily john invented the ion blaster for such sticky situations and I’m able to stop the nitrogen hitscanners from melting my eyes out of my head
this is the first time Superfly’s gotten stuck on a ladder but after I shot myself with the ion blaster he seemed to have been spurred into action and climbed down. They can jump across gaps and shit it’s kinda crazy for the time if you’re playing it in 2023 and this doesn’t happen 90% of the time they use a ladder.
The second secret is right after the first map change and leads to a Shockwave if you haven’t found one yet. This is probably the first secret Shockwave that’s in a level where you can regularly use it without committing suicide. Also right after this secret is an armory so superfly has the SHOTCYCLER again. which if you forgot is the shotgun that shoots 6 times at once, has such powerful recoil it pushes you backwards, and you can jump with it
This is what I’d describe as a great example of the kinds of rude skill jumps this game sometimes expects you to make.
You have to sprint up the sloped surface and then crouchjump sideways onto the pipe or you fall in the nitrogen and freeze to death instantly. It’s moderately difficult if you’re used to the games movement but I can see a lot of people having trouble with stuff like this. I don’t know if this is one of the jumps that is only on shogun difficulty.
Despite dreading the instant kill pits I actually really like icelab. Your explosives heavy arsenal really shines on this level, there’s so many angles you can take to sneak C4 into enemy ambushes that you can see coming through the mesh ceilings and take them out indirectly. And the halls are all big enough that you have room to manuever and avoid splash damage. There are hitscanners on basically every side when you step through any door on this level but you can C4 their asses super easily. If there’s anything you will have learned from this thread it’s that the C4 launcher is actually a killing machine instead of a joke weapon.
the final secret is through this very natural looking level geometry if you can believe that. It leads to the beautiful world of idtech2 animated textures.
This is the big fuck room of the level. The robot bastards of the past have all been hiding here so I busted out the shockwave on their asses and that was that. Also I learned that the multi-beam frigate looking mother fuckers are smarter than they look and will almost 100% dodge sidewinder rockets because they kill them in 1 hit but wont dodge ion projectiles because they can tank more of them and still kill you quickly. This also makes the shotcycler magdumping more useful because you can readjust mid burst when they dodge!
And now we see where Mikiko is being held. Superfly then informs us that we are getting close to the SUPERCOMPUTER COMPLEX
Superfly got stuck again he keeps trying to jump up the stairs for some fucking reason. I literally had to push him up the stairs upon which he helpfully reminded me that it’s OK, but it’s my ass later. Thanks Superfly.
We free Mikiko from the icebox…
Hiro tells her that her dad got murdered by Mishima’s assassins and she doesn’t really give a shit, only asking about the Daikatana. Superfly tells us it’s likely a part of Mishima’s hoard:
We’ll be seeing a lot more grecian urns in episode 2.
Anyway, this and the revelation that the sword is worth 4 MILLION CREDITS!!!, is enough to change Hiros mind about the sword and so we run off in search of the Daikatana. Superfly is in as well as long as he gets his cut of the loot. Mikiko helpfully reminds the party that we’ll all get what we deserve. Mikiko just can’t stop flagging her future betrayal in advance. It’s called writing, bitch. Try sucking that down.
Next time on Daikatana…THE VAULT. We finally get the big sword!
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Love that soldier of fortune with “ridiculous” spawns setting turns the game into eye divine cybermancy, with neo-nazis bursting out of literally every crevice and from every direction to get gibbed by you. every time an enemy appears 12 more spawn like they’re some kind of fucked up nazi hydra
Also it is a real smug dick waving moment of raven to start you with one of the best videogame shotguns of all time, descending a stairs, so you almost always can perfectly make the first guy in the games head explode into a shower of gore every time you start the game. Same year and engine as daikatana, though at no point in daikatana does hiro run into saddam and call him “Mr. Hussein” like john mullins in sof
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I really need to play SOF on PC. I’ve only ever played it on Dreamcast 
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Serious Sam deathmatch is a shit show but it’s been ages since we did an SS SB co-op night.
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i always marvel at the incredible number of versions of first and second encounter. too fucking many lol, who can keep up with this crap there’s like serious sam first encounter serious sam xbox serious sam hd serious sam classic serious sam fusion like holy fucking shit somebody stop’em
edit: shit i forgot serious sam VR!!!
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Oh my god serious sam in VR would be such a trip
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i can hear the approaching aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA already
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Oh hell no!
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that was the only good thing about it tbh its one of those VR games that was super hastily ported pretty early to get in when it was fresh and it shows. like, BASIC MOVEMENT is buggy
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reminding myself that I need to change my phone’s alarm to just aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA already, I bet that’ll wake me up
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2002 Computer Gaming World Enemy of the Year
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Too bad everything went backwards after serious sam 2 (after second encounter)
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If you liked what I said about Avenging Angel, it’s currently free on GOG. Worth a dick around if you like jank 90s shooters.
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