#mandaloregaming

[leveractionlesbian]

you know how Tumblr adores how pathetic and disgusting Harry Du Bois is. can we have that but for Detective Halligan

[volatilemask]

banban stream....

[wjbs-aus]

Wait.

Hang on.

In ULTRAKILL, the MandaloreGaming cameo fight, Mysterious Druid Knight*, is found in a pyramid.

Pyramids were used as tombs for royalty.

And what does MandaloreGaming's YouTube bio say?

You know what this means, right?

That's right.

It means that Limbo of the Lost is actually canon to ULTRAKILL!

Also that, if MDK is a canon boss, he was probably a king in Limbo or something, like how Minos was with Lust. But that's just a theory-

*and Owl.

This isn't a genuine theory, by the way. I'm being a silly li'l creature.

[just-illegal]

finally started listening to pst, had to draw mandy dancing to dancing queen in the middle of dinner at a wedding. i understand man id do that sober. whole episode is insane front to back btw

[loki-is-tired]

I have two hyperfixations that are pretty connected. Like, I see something that reminds me of one of them, which then flares that back up into an obsession, and then I fall into the other one again.

This doesn't seem that weird, but then I explain that it's Pathologic and Mystery of the Druids and suddenly people don't get it anymore.

It's because I was introduced to both of them by my older sibling through video essays very soon after each other and I rewatch the video essays one after the other pretty often?

Anyway, point is Tumblr keeps recommending me more Mystery of the Druids posts and I keep getting kicked back down the hole of hyperfixation.

And now I'm trying not to reference either of the games just in typing this lmaoooo

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

It's a weird feeling to be on the cusp of sleep whilst listening to a guy frantically attempt to explain an extremely abstract video game franchise from the 90s made by Bungie and then to suddenly be roused to full awareness because the phrase "Oh. Cortana is Curtana, obviously." has entered your mind.

[asasei-art]

The silly

[gooberinomcgee]

Ok, I know I said I was going into hiatus, but a recent discovery is making me lose my mind.

So, on Mandaloregaming's latest video, the one on Stasis: Bone Totem, this happens:

To sumarize: the guy played the Faust game. The possibility that he may make a video out of it is now non-negligeable. And if he played the entire game, he go to that scene in Tod's chapter with the Niebelungen reference, and we will NEVER be able to experience his reaction in real time. I am so upset.

[theunsubtleknife]

[talunart]

This man has been haunting me for weeks.

[spermproducingparasiteblog]

Homeworld 3 Review

[gaykarstaagforever]

They apparently made a spinoff Homeworld game in 2000 about a virus that infects spaceships and melts all the people inside and turns them into nerves to run the spaceship like a living creature, which then goes out to infect other ships. And only some downtrodden group of space miners with crappy ships can stop this thing from eating the entire universe. It is apparently a really dark and atmospheric horror game, impressive considering it is literally just ships.

I didn't even know this was a thing until today. The hell.

It was originally called Homeworld: Cataclysm, but somehow Activision copyrighted that AFTER other people had already used it on games (?, explain this, lawyers), so now GOG is selling it as Homeworld: Emergence.

It isn't a remastered version, like the big Homeworld pack release they did 8 years ago or whenever. This is just as-was because it wasn't made by Relic.

I mean fine by me, the remaster used the Homeworld 2 engine for everything and I prefer the original, with all its lo-D jank. Plus that engine inexplicably still works on Windows, sometimes. If you're lucky.

Here is Mandalore talking about it, because no one but me is interested in actually playing this in 2023:

GOG link

[hoodssery]

Recommending Video Essays #9

Okay so maybe not daily.

Recommendation: Bungie Rabbithole series by Mandalore Gaming (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfZTtT3IEdDjQTHu3NqLjOUX65d4cDG54)

I've been a massive fan of Mandalore Gaming since he introduced me to my favorite brain-worm that takes up more of my thoughts than I would like to admit, E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy. Since then I have seen every single one of his publicly available videos at least three times, in most cases more than that (I am completely serious about this), and since his video reviewing Pathologic 2 in 2019 I have watched every single one of his videos on the day of release. Some may call this psychopathic.

Mandalore is one of the few people who I think are truly instrumental in the creation of my own YouTube channel, and is someone who I greatly respect as far as video content on YouTube can go. He isn't super flashy, super analytical, or personal compared to my other biggest YouTube-ing inspirations, but, he probably has the most consistent quality of any YouTube channel around, maybe only being rivaled by Jacob Geller. He always gives just enough to be substantive and worth the decently long run times of his videos, but everything he presents is mostly no-nonsense and straight to the point with very efficient use of examples. Even more impressive to me is his use of sporadic use of humor. It's used just often enough to comfortably break the line of information he's giving you, while being short and relevant enough to keep everything moving along. Mandalore feeds just the right mix of summary, his own experience, and thoughtful commentary on the game through his videos to make them the most worthwhile reviews on the platform. All of which actually answer the question reviews are specifically for, “Is this worth my time?”

Now, I don't know who, other than Mandalore Gaming, was out there, really wondering in 2022, “Is Marathon, a first-person shooter from Bungie released during the time period first-person shooters were still called 'Doom Clones', worth my time?” This seems like an insane question. And as it so happens, Mandalore proves that it is, with this four-part video series on the precursor to Halo. Mandalore manages to make one of the most complex stories in a video game as easily digestible as you could possibly make the story of Marathon, while still leaving space for an actual review of a shooter that released just months after Doom II, and still making time mash in his own spiral in trying to link everything together. For such simple videos compared to other videos from his peers, Mandalore wonderfully captures the harrowing experience of playing and piecing together Marathon and all of it's ties to Bungie's later titles, all while still answering why you come to a video with “review” written in the title.

Spoilers: The answer is probably not.

As the opening of this recommendation probably indicated, I might be a little biased when I say you should go and watch his videos, but you probably should.

Other Recommendations:

-Dead Space Review series is a series of videos I would highly recommend you check out, with his reviews on the remake of Dead Space being a particularly interesting comparison. (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfZTtT3IEdDjShIq73vkzkvQPMUpWCg2N)

-The Callisto Protocol Review is in a similar vein compared to the Dead Space Remake Review. Given that he's made five videos on Dead Space games he's probably one of the most qualified people to make a video on how kinda bizarre The Callisto Protocol is. (https://youtu.be/yK3ePkE1Sx0)

-Pathologic Classic HD Review is one of his more popular videos, which is really funny considering how niche and off the rails Pathologic is as a game. Where as Homberguy takes a more artistic lens to Pathologic, Mandalore does what he does best and looks at it from the “is this worth playing,” lens. Despite this he has still has interesting things to say about the gameplay of both Pathologic, and it's remake/sequel. (https://youtu.be/HeK36g92zjo)

-E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy Review very briefly (for risk of going on about E.Y.E), is a beginners guide to E.Y.E. Just be warned, it's possible you might be thinking about this game for the rest of time. Don't end up like me. (https://youtu.be/AScCVzENcjs)

I've realized that I've just completely neglected to add the playlist of all the recommendations and other recommendations I've made so far to the end of these posts so here it is:

Bye

[magicmalcolm]

File this one under "Shows I'd Unironically Stan If They Were Real."