AMID EVIL / The Most Important FPS I've Ever Played 

Truth be told, I don't actually know when I first started getting REALLY involved in the FPS community. I played Half-life, Unreal , Halo, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Call of Duty etc. I played FPS games, but just saw them as games I guess. It wasn't until 2020 or 2021 where I played Doom Eternal and Ultrakill where I got this interest in the genre. So I think I thank Doom Eternal and Ultrakill for getting me into this genre and loving it the way I do now. I have AMID EVIL in my library and plan on playing it this year whenever.

Star of Torment is my favourite weapon; Amid Evil's super shotgun in my opinion

For a level themed around technology the forges feel the most like dark souls, which I guess is why I like those levels so much.

didnt expect a review of amid evil to bring me to near tears. that ending bit was wonderful and reminded me of what got me into games in the first place

18:40 "FUCKING PAY THE MAN!" Hahaha, great video. Subbed , coming over from Civvie's community.

Sooo... which is the better "Next Heretic" - this or Graven?

Wow, great video. Even Civvie11 video didn't inspired me to play Amid Evil...i don't enjoy the art style really, but now i think that i'll give it a try after learning how much it meant for you.

The way this game uses lighting and reflective textures is just beautiful.

the spike maze was my favorite weapon too i loooove that one. possibly one of my favorite FPS weapons of all time

The forge to me has always been one of those "the more times you play it the better it gets" type of levels. I hated it at first, but now its my favorite level

I can totally relate to what you said about games that are comforting to us in a certain inexplicable way due to our past experiences. I’ve always found it fun going back to the stuff from my childhood (Sonic Heroes) expecting it to only either be absolutely wonderful or just absolutely terrible, but instead I am left with a strange blend of both and a haunting remembrance of my first times with it.

These long videos are so so good! Thank you!

I quit gaming after the N64, where I played Doom 64, Quake 64, Turok, GoldenEye, and such... The newer consoles didn't have any of the shooters I really wanted, and I didn't have a PC capable playing the newer shooters. So I stopped gaming. My wife would bring me back into gaming, and then Doom 2016 showed what I was missing. I went then, as a lot of us did, into the modding communities of Doom and Quake; and really got neck deep again into Doom 64. There were the pre-boom boomer shooters around, but they didn't seem to capture what I enjoyed about classic FPS. It was then Amid Evil which wowed me and it was the very first game I bought in early access. What I love about Amid Evil is its balance. Each weapon is useful for every part of the game, no redundant weapons. There's no excess either, like no often useless alternate fires (soul mode is cool though!), and no upgrade systems (you're good right from the start). Plus its so graphically cohesive and not afraid to use colored lighting. There is very little jank at all either. The only excess to Amid Evil is perhaps the hub. I dont think the hub was needed, as I think the game progresses best according to the episode release dates. People dont seem to have as good of a overall game ramp, when they break that order. I do think the Forges has the best atmosphere of the game. However the Forges has pretty much all of the movement puzzles of the game in one episode. I actually dont have a problem with any of the movement puzzles on their own, but I do think it would be better if some of their movement puzzles were distributed to other episodes. You gotta give players a challenge, like this, but you also got to give them a break too. I think there is a generational divide with Amid Evil. I think you are about the same age as I am, and we all tend to love Amid Evil. But I notice people a decade or two younger than us have a harder time getting into Amid Evil. I think they enjoy the rewards of perk systems found in Doom 2016 and Eternal (and I wish they didnt have them), which Amid Evil doesnt have. Also they enjoy a bit of cute-jank, like what you would see in low resolution sprite enemies, or the rougher models in Dusk. Plus they like some of the cute looks of the demons in Doom 1 and modern Dooms too. Amid Evil is beautiful, but not cute; it's a serious presentation. Just some of my ideas on the generational divide on Amid Evil! The generational divide may not be true, but I am curious if anyone else has notice anything or has opinions on this. In my opinion, games are art, and there's no such thing as perfect art. But each game applies affects people differently based on their personality. Anyway thank you for this video! I enjoyed every minute of it, and each video I see of yours is better and better. And I cant wait to play Amid Evil in VR!

this is one of my favourite shooters ever

Oh my word... I'm 8 minutes in; and I have such a hard need to go play again; I love this game so much.

To be absolutely upfront from the beginning - I freaking adore Amid Evil, but the thing I never really understood was, why people always compare it to the first Heretic and Hexen 1 and 2. Perhaps just personal taste, but I think compared with the Serpent Rider Games, Amid Evil feels somewhat off. If I had to draw comparisons to another first person shooter, it would be the Wheel of Time. Can´t help it - but I think the feeling and atmosphere it gives off, is incredibly similar to Amid Evil. And btw - new subscriber here, stumbeled upon one of your vids about a week to 14 days ago - and damn, your channel is really underrated.

thank you for speaking my exact sentiments on the forges

I love the Forges artstyle and atmosphere but that level designs are a bit of miss for me

Love this video! Couldn’t agree more, despite loving Witcher 3. Take my humble sub, pal.

For my this game was Dusk. Made me realise that all I really wanna do is play boomer shooters and I haven't looked back since :)

since you covered this and DUSK, id love to hear your take on ULTRAKILL, the last of the New Blood FPS trilogy. i don’t exaggerate when i say it’s one of the best retro-style FPS games ive ever played.

Man, I love seeing these videos explode on YT. When you're a big-shot, don't forget the little people who were here in the early days... maybe swing your ol' buddy Andy a few hundred grand...? Just kidding man, but congrats on another 40 subs!

Did you ever get the "oh no you destroyed earth" notification?

Amid Evil is beyond great

Ashes 2063 is the most important FPS I've ever played

Would still love to see a review of Killing Time someday. A update of the Community Patch has just been released.

The patriotic bit was golden 😂

Excellent RU-vid chanel ! Can i suggest to you playing the pretty cool Arthurian Legends from Scolaro Games ?

Planet Launcher can launch Earth, you'll even get a text about it :P those pain in the ass enemies from The Forge are called Painmasters, quite fitting and you are wrong about The Forge, nah not really, most people like it the least, I like it though, the music, atmosphere, art style

Heretic, HeXen, HeXen2 and then DOOM? You went the long hard road.

Mouse is superior for aiming. Keyboard is inferior for everything, especially not getting carpal tunnel. Button vomit was not meant for gaming. Once you have to press more than 4 buttons on top of WASD and spacebar, controller wins hands down. Unless you're so bad at aiming, you need the crutch of a mouse.