Thanks for watching folks! I wanted to take on an easier topic before I deep dive into my next history video. I expect it to be done in 3 to 4 weeks, so in the meantime check out some of the randomizers featured here!

@ryla22

Жыл бұрын

You're like summoningsalt in the best way.

Randomizing RPGs can lead to the most broken (in a good and bad way) and funny playthroughs, i love them

This is so great! Honestly glad you didn't just make "Top 10 SquareEnix-Specifically-Final-Fantasy-JRPG Speedruns". Loved finding out about some of these other randomizers, like Quest64!? That's amazing!! Great video Doc :)

Much love to all the rando devs and communities out there keeping these games going. Another excellent synopsis Doc!

In my view, I think that it's a bit funny that Final Fantasy 1 Randomizer(FFR) and Dragon Warrior Randomizer(DWR), the 2nd and 3rd biggest RPG Rando communities that I know of(I do know that they have at least two tournaments / year with 25+ entrants) didn't even "rank in". To be fair, however, I can understand why, considering the author's criteria in that this person was looking for significant gameplay change. This, I concede, would rule out DWR, but it doesn't rule out FFR, since they are also more "open world" with more options than any other rando I know of. All that being said, the author's choice of #1 (I won't spoil it), is something I 100% agree with, in my opinion.

@gameboy9

2 жыл бұрын

Addendum: I can, also to be fair, see FFR being ruled out in that it would be 3 entries in the top 10...

@Nemo2342

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, no NES entries at all was a bit of a let down. I was expecting at least DWR if not FFR.

@Tristalmtg

2 жыл бұрын

I came here to be Mad On The Internet about those exact two omissions too. I think you'll find in DWR version 3.0 that it absolutely changes gameplay significantly. I posit it's not even possible to improve a game more via the randomizer, given how weak vanilla gameplay is.

@durdndemolition

Жыл бұрын

DWR randomizes the map itself, sort of a roguelike. Seems like a pretty significant gameplay change.

As a hardcore grinder (and obviously biased party) of FFIV Free Enterprise I love it being included on here :) Great work as always doc!

Career day ff5 is one of the best randomizers imo. Particularly because there are so many job options and combo options available.

I did not expect to have my name flash in this video when I clicked on it... Interesting but not sure how you missed FF1 and V except maybe you just didn't want too much final fantasy on the list. Else-wise opinions are opinions and I wouldn't argue over someone's rankings. Randomizers made retro gaming better and I am glad we have them.

"you could probably look right now for a livestream of free enterprise and find either someone doing a solo run or even a race" Me watching at 7am: No way someone would be playing it at this time of the morning. *checks Twitch only to find someone doing just that* That's actually wild and really cool.

Been binging FF4FE and FF6WC lately. So much fun

Great analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Worlds Collide and Beyond Chaos are very different takes on a FFVI randomizer experience. BC is much more of a play through the story of the game with a bunch of stuff changed. Worlds Collide is much more akin to Free Enterprise, find the stuff you need to fight Kefka, and characters open up various checks. Worlds Collide has a very useful series (that I made, so truth in advertising) called Moogle's First Seed that can walk you through your first playthrough. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJarsayMpc7Fg9I.html

Really enjoy your videos man! Not super new but I just love the videos on speedruns that you do and I hope you keep up the good work!

No love for the Dragon Warrior Randomizer & its ability to have a new map generated every seed.

@derektedrick9042

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great one, and a great community. Hope they get some love in a future video.

with quality like this, 100k should be a cinch. You have come so far in such a short time. Keep up the good work

To avoid spoiling anyone skipping to the comments, I'm glad to see that my all-time favorite made the top spot!

It is a bummer you didn't find and look into FF6 World's Collide randomizer before making this list. As a FF fan Free Enterprise and World's Collide are well above many of the other randomizers I have played in terms of features and how much they change the vanilla game.

I cried when you mentioned ancient cave randos. Rip doc randos

Amazing video discovering different randomizers even though I played none of these games ! Funny fact, this week I've been trying my first experience ever on Ancient Cave Randomizer in Earthbound. Having a ton of fun and clocking a 1h15 on my very first completed run with skips. (I've learned pretty much everything through watching your addiction to it)

I would have Worlds Collide FF6 ahead of the one listed. It follows the open world of the higher listed games and is a blast to play and can only take 2-3 hours

Regarding Beyond Chaos, the development of it is still ongoing with the Beyond Chaos Community Edition(which, yes, is somewhat unfortunately confusing by this point), and new updates are being made to this day(most recent being about a week ago). And as far as speedruns go, the airship mode was never really meant for speedrunning; it's more of a code for testing that was put in the official release for transparency. Instead, we have the Kefka At Narshe mode for the World of Balance, the Dragon Hunt mode for the open world, World of Ruin style run, and then there's the Racecave mode, to include the excellent Ancient Cave design within the purview of speedrunning. The bingo card option can also be used in conjunction with any of these for some extra targets. The other settings can also be used to tweak the run length, ranging from perhaps about 1 hour, to perhaps about 5 hours, depending on what the player is looking for.

I tend to watch Dragon Quest and FFI randomizer a lot on Twitch, they have big tournaments with commentary.

"Peep the horror", love you swellman

i'm not sure if it was just overlooked or it's just because it's new but i definitely feel the new Paper Mario 64 Randomizer should've definitely made it on this list. They got some incredibly cool things that gives a very lock and key system while also not feeling railroaded. It's very new but it's showing to have huge potential and i'm excited to see how far it goes

I'm super surprised you left out the new Paper Mario randomizer.

I feel like not including Dragon Warrior Randomizer was a serious oversight. Aside from Pokemon, it's the highest raced Randomizer RPG on Racetime. It's one of the oldest RPG Randos on top of that, with an active community and active developers. Check it out sometime!

Great video :)

As the list progressed, I kept saying that if your number 1 was not number 1, I was going to riot! But this list is great, and there's more out there than I thought. I just wish I had to play them! Excellent breakdown. 👍🏻

As someone who absolutely has no ability to replay a game more than a second time, it's always nice seeing someone do randomizers and challenge runs of games I do love but can't seem to play over and over again

the fact that kingdom hearts 2 randomizer isn’t on here is actually criminal

Frikkin love me some Phantasy Star IV randomizer

Amazing video as usual :swellL:

Thanks!

@DoctorSwellman

2 жыл бұрын

Woah, thank you so much!

My super one wasn't sure how it worked cause that was the first one, so here's my real comment lol. I'm surprised that Bravely Default 2 has one already! I like when randomizers makes the game like an open world, but still challenges you like knowing item location placement (like chests, even if the item is random).

I really want to play Resident Evil Randomized as I've completed it so many times but don't know how.

honestly a little bit surprised that dragon warrior randomizer didn't make this list, it takes the simplicity of the first dragon warrior game and leverages it to its advantage with a randomized world map, so it turns the game into more of a meta-game of exploration, finding where all of the key items are and where the best grinding spots are. if you watch a few run throughs of it you end up picking up all the skills you need, which is mostly "when can i win", because there's a decent tracker for keeping track of what's in all of the different towns and cave areas. it also has a decent size racing community last i checked and is pretty short, i think the longest i spent was around 3 hours on my first casual runthrough after watching it for a while

A really good randomizer I feel as if needs to be mentioned is the Yune Randomizer for a large number of Fire Emblem games, which has plenty of customization. Though I’m unsure if this list is only accounting for regular turn based

This was the first time I heard about Jets of Time and I'm now mildly fixated upon it, at least for now, so thanks for that. The comment directly below this one about the FFT randomizer is also extremely enticing, though.

I'd like to mention the Paper Mario TTYD Extreme Randomizer and it's 1 Hour Challenge. It isn't exactly a speedrun, more like a rogue like mode where you're playing for points. It gets old a little quick, but it is fun while it lasts.

initially I wanted to comment, that you kind of missed Secret of Mana on your list. But then I remembered - It's an Action RPG °-°.. I assume you know about it, but the amount of options and distinct game modes (Vanilla, Ancient Cave, Open World, Chaos) is quite staggering, especially since it's developed by a single guy ^^ Neat video

I'm a huge fan of the FFT randomizer, but it takes a long time to complete

It's definitely not as crazy as some of the randomized in this list, but the Fire Emblem randomizers are really fun, since you can end up with quite a different team comp when all of your characters, their growth rates, weapons, and classes are randomized.

Once upon a time I used to race with doc at EBAC. Maybe one day we will again, not that I stand any chance because Doc is too much of a gamer.

FF4FE being first, you're good civilization. By far my favorite randomizer, followed by the Minish Cap one but no Zelda games in here as it's been stated. Also for FF4FE, the april fool's seed ALWAYS has Edward as the final boss which I find it amusing

I cant believe that cloud was the masked man all this time Is this why mother 17 hasn’t been localised yet

Chrono Trigger : Jets of Time!

I'm not surprised to see ff5 Career Day not mentioned here, given 5's lack of popularity compared to 6 or 4 especially, but if you're talking speedrun quality, putting randos that take "several sessions" feels like a slight against it. Not to mention the active racing communities of other games like dragon quest 1, which can shuffle the game's entire map.

I'm very surprised this video chose Beyond Chaos over World's Collide. I'd argue the latter takes advantage of the randomization aspects better.

I have never even heard of these they sound awesome. Now I just have to figure out how to get them.

Not an rpg randomizer, but Hollow Knight randomizer breathes SO much more replayability into the game, and crazy randomizer speedruns are now my favorite way to play

a new swelly? and i just seen it...............GOTTA RING THAT BELL!

Surprised that KH2FM isn't on the list. Turns the Garden of Assemblage (The data org boss hub) into a world hub where you can progress through the worlds in whatever order you want finding 3 proofs to fight Xemnes. Leads to fun and creative strategies to make it through, and also a key item that lets you skip right to Xemnes too.

@DoctorSwellman

2 жыл бұрын

Since it was an action RPG, I didn’t include it. If I make another video on ARPG randomizers, it’ll probably be on there!

@Orpheolus

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoctorSwellman makes sense, ARPGs are different from turn, and could make a good follow up later on. I thought in the rules action games were more Zelda and less KH (I don't see Zelda as an RPG)

@felipe8511

Жыл бұрын

its rare to find a good arpg randomizer that works like in traditional rpgs or metroidvanias, im only aware of ALTTP and kh2fm, and the FFXII is still on beta, i know about OoT/majoras mask/wind waker but not really my thing

Aw, no honorable mention of the FFIV: Lunarian Shuffle, but I guess that is a bit underground (but has some amazing features which I've yet to see in any other randomizer, such as randomly switching your party member with the people you've met per the story progress after every battle, making it a true shuffle, forcing the player to think things through carefully.) But I was overjoyed to see FFIV:Free Enterprise top the list. What a labor of love that creation is, but there's a lot on this list which is worth looking into. It's great to see Quest 64 now referred to as a "cult classic" instead of "just plain bad". It has a great foundation, and it's wonderful to see modders try to play to that system to make a better game all around.

It’s a new one but Elden rings randomizer has to be one of the best randomizer games I’ve ever played

i cheered when free enterprise was number one on the list lol

Do this again in another year or two and Worlds Collide will supplant BC quite easily as the FF6 Rando of choice and go shooting up this list. It's amazing in most of the same ways as FF4FE with a variety of ways to play the game, and is based on the superior game in FF6 (personal bias obvious). It's got a growing community, with the Ultros League launching this weekend with over 50 participants signed up and it's even going to be at GDQ this year! And it's an Action RPG so it wouldn't make this list, but I'd like to shout out the Kingdom Hearts II Garden of Assembly Randomizer, which is an incredibly well-done open universe item hunt (item randomizer, of course) that uses the Garden of Assembly zone to make doors to teleport to all the Disney Worlds to track down the necessary items. The recent GDQ run of that rando was a bit too chaotic and really didn't do it justice, but the fact that it made it shows the kind of popularity it's garnered.

Painsong needs to make a comeback!

Parasite Eve's Out of Phase in the video? How do I like and subscribe twice?

How was dragon warrior not included?

I feel like the new Paper Mario 64 randomizer belongs on this list

It took me looking at the title 3 times before I stopped wondering why Ori isnt there 😅

Have you thought about uploading your twitch VODs / playthroughs to KZread? (maybe another channel) You have a voice that kind of gives into the "good videos to fall asleep to". I'm serious and in no way do I mean to insult you.

@DoctorSwellman

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! I actually have a playlist of over 100 randomizer videos that are unlisted but still on this channel. I do however have plans on working in a VOD channel soon!

I have never played super Mario RPG, does people here (including you Doctor) think that I can start with the rando and still have a good time?

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Is Final Fantasy VI and Phantasy Star 4 supposed to be merged together?

I'm surprised paper mario 64 isn't on the list I know it's fairly new but it's amazing so far and I've been enjoying it

RatJAM parasite eve Ost ❤️❤️❤️

FFV's open world randomizer is way better than FF4's.

156 songs and 447 variations... both numbers are ALREADY out of date

wait, is this an April Fools joke?

@sigurdtheblue

2 жыл бұрын

The 100k subscriber goal was, I imagine.

Crazy that Bravely Default 2 would already have one. And I never thought about how there could have been randomizers/randomizer developers specifically based on Ancient Cave. Looks like I have been missing out, especially with that Earthbound one.

"We're gonna reach 100k subscribers this year." Bold claim. I'll unsub if you don't. Good luck.

Includes about every Final Fantasy out there Doesn't include KH2 Feels bad man

@Billy.gen-X

2 жыл бұрын

He said no action/adventure, no zelda= no kh

Speedrunning is exclusively for homosexuals

Ugh, you said the N-word! I've blocked so many channels for jumping on that particular Pokémon bandwagon. It's not great: it's just trendy.

@sigurdtheblue

2 жыл бұрын

LOTAD

Quest 64 was a terrible game. If your going to put it above those others you need a better reason then that. You didn't even really show off any features or anything.