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Funny how Daikatana's marketing is obsessed with the color red, yet when you get into the game everything is submerged in sickly green lighting effects

"Superfly needs to be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine. Whenever Superfly is not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "Where's Superfly?"

"During a meeting I explained to John that I was working on the end-game cinematics with Kage . I pronounced it 'Cage.' Romero giggled. 'Who? What? What are you working on?' I said it again. Now everyone was laughing at me. Romero: 'Who? Say it again!' Me: 'Um ... Kage?' Romero: 'No, dude! It's pronounced Kah-gee!' Me: 'Um ... well, you better check the voiceover recordings, because it's 'Cage.' And suddenly Romero's face turned white. Half the audio in the game had his name pronounced wrong, and it was too late to fix." - Matthew Cox, senior artist on Daikatana

When I was playing Doom Eternal I noticed a book on a shelf titled "My Buddy Superfly" lol

“There’s an option in the patch to play without Ai companions… but I won’t…”
Can’t play without our buddy Superfly.

The two things I learned in school:
1- Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
2- I can't leave without my buddy Superfly

"There is nothing you can do for me, except find my daughter, and the Daikatana."
- Actually sounds like quite a lot that you're asking me to do. I'm sure she'll be fine.

The fact that Superfly just starts sobbing uncontrollably when you die is fucking hilarious

The best part about Daikatana - the release date:
Daikatana: 2000
Half Life: 1998

When the Half-Life 2 beta was leaked in 2003, it leaked with a lot of other content that was never meant to be released at all. One of these was a collection of maps that took the form of a retexture or remake of the hazard course from the original, with beta Alyx Vance in place of the hologram. It remains mostly faithful to the original until the player passes the crouch jump tutorial, when they are stopped from proceeding by Barney Calhoun who says something along the lines of:

"Sorry sir but I can't let you through without your buddy Superfly Johnson... Just kidding Gordon, you can go on through."

This is followed by extremely nerdy laughter.

4:23  “Leading to wars of words; a public perception that John Romero was solely responsible for Id’s success rather than an ingredient of it”

I guess you could say it was a case of




Id vs Ego

"Mikiko No!"
Pretty much sums up the game.

Edit: Came back because I forgot my buddy Superfly.

I got Romero to sign my Daikata box.
His face was a priceless mix of disgust and humor.

"You're not superstitious are you?" fucking golden. I love it.

"Superfly spoke up against all this torturing and imprisonment, So they tortured and imprisoned him. I don't know what he expected"
This is the kind of humor i dig so much

3:31 "Tom Hall went on to start his game: Anachronox, and Romero started his: Daikatana."
And silently off to the side, the New Testament was being written by Warren Spector: Deus Ex.

You know I like to imagine there's another timeline where the programming for Daikatana was ironed out so that the AI didn't huff glue and the weapons were balanced better, and in that timeline Daikatana is remembered more fondly as the giant piece of cheese it otherwise is.

Unfortunately, someone took the Daikatana itself and gave us the timeline we have now.

“John Romero appears to be a pretty cool guy these days from what I can gather.” ... dude he’s responded to ALL of my fan emails to him. Even the vodka fueled way-too-drunk ones. And his WIFE has replied to me twice on twitter. Romero is a VERY cool guy... possibly the coolest. He’s humble- and he always talked shop with me over game design aspects. He’s.... Really nice.

This is the most convoluted episode of Samurai Jack, possibly ever.