The fog of war is hard on the eyes.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
04:36 - War is Kinda Bad You Know
10:35 - I Have No Idea What's Going On
16:06 - There and Back Again
21:53 - Let's Get Ramblin'
27:17 - Challenges
28:43 - The Dragon Returns
33:17 - Infernal Bloom
36:44 - End Credits
Links:
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Noelle's (Credits composer) Channel: / @ameliedoree
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With this, we're officially one step closer for Civvie's inevitable Painkiller video and for one I cannot wait.
It's gonna be on halloween unless he reviews Nitemare 3d instead in which case fuck civvie
@@potnawroble6946 you are gonna be so mad later this month lol It's not Nitemare 3D but also not Painkiller.
@@Civvie11 based on the kidden context you left in this comment i have decoded that you're planning to review duke nukem 3d mods. clever civilus, clever
@@Civvie11you wouldn’t happen to be covering a Doom WAD featuring some guys house would you?
@@Civvie11WILL rock*
The "Horrors of War" hits a bit differently when the horror in question is written by Clive Barker. And the war part by Michael Bay.
Clive Barker presents: Clive Barker's "Jericho" featuring Clive Barker.
Clive Barker could do better than that. Even in his worst works.
@@THEGRUMPTRUCKAnd Knuckles
…no, that doesn’t do this justice. That mashup sounds positively sane by comparison.
This game gave me the most severe tonal whiplash I've ever had. It's like a 12 year old with a very hyperactive mind just going ham on a keyboard and trying to make a story about war, vampires, dragons and demons and trying to make it all work out. What a wild trip.
So ADHD, Autism, with Cannabis. I'm not bashing I just understand it.
@@otacon6566 Unfortunately no one can be told what the NecroVision is, you have to see it for yourself.
@@otacon6566You forgot the cocaine.
Clive Barker's Call of Duty: The Masquerade
thats the deep cut right there.@@Burevix
I just love the huge contrast between the message of "War is hell" and COMBO SYSTEM!
ULTRAKILL Layer 7 when?
@@geoffreyprecht2410about a month from this comment
The game starts with you fighting a gruesome trench war, and two levels later has you driving a dieselpunk mech suit into French Stonehenge against a gigantic scorpion robot piloted by a necromancer wielding a magic gauntlet created by vampires to fight demons. Just *describing* this game is a fever dream, let alone playing it. EDIT: Also worth noting is that the machine gun is the Maxim MG 08/15, a water-cooled weapon which weighs over 45 pounds fully loaded, and he's *dual wielding them*.
I've already seen a magical girl dual wielding muskets against corruptive lich entities, so the latter is a tad tame to me now.
And from Nosferatu: Wrath of Malachi we know that just one machine gun is better than holy water, cross, and stakes combined. Why didn't he just bullet-punish Mephisto into nothingness I'll never know.
@@Ivan_Zygan Good thing firearms and missile launchers aren't "weapons forged", at least according to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. No idea why hellspawn are not immune to those though.
If I had a dollar a World war themed game devolved into Dieselpunk mechs I'd have 2 dollars. Which isn't a lot but weird that it happened Twice. And the other time was a Tactical shooter with even less indication it's going to go off the rails wacky with tesla cannons. For anyone wondering I'm talking about Silent Storm.
@@NEEDbacon At least Silent Storm was a far better game in terms of content and story. Bit hard in difficulty terms though.
"Just toss some Skaven in there, nobody will notice."
The enemy is literally called 'skaven' in the game files too. They knew what they were doing.
"Oh hey, Civvie!"
@@majora4prez543 Would Cancer Mouse be a Clan Skryre supporter?
@@jtlego1 Without question.
@@majora4prez543 So you are saying Cancer Mouse was on the right side of history, as one of the few winners of WH Fantasy? Who woulda thunk it.
This game has a high degree of historical accuracy. There was a reason attacking infantry on dragonback was banned by the Geneva Convention- the inaccuracy meant a lot of civilian casualties.
I'm glad it finally told the story of all the Texans who served in the 1916 British army.
This plot of this game and it’s prequel are like the videogame equivalent of trying to explain a really sick dream you had a few days ago
Nightmare* and as you’re explaining it you keep conflating the details of your dream with a bad movie you watched weeks prior.
You know, I could totally imagine a cool survival horror game that starts in WW1 and ends up in hell. But it would not have mechs, dragons and a friggen JRR Tolkien cameo.
Uh, didn't Clive Barker make that game? Jericho or something like that? Except it's Clive Barker with unlimited budget and no producer to hold him back so ... scatological Roman pedos are an actual thing in that game ... EDIT: I was wrong, cannablistic semi-scatological Roman governors and the Priest good guy is implied to be the pedo. I blame my old memory.
Thats kinda what Amnesia: The Bunker is about. Sure, you dont go to hell, but the monsters there definitely feel like they come from there.
Conscript is the former, if it ends up in hell though I don't know since it hasn't released yet.
*vaguely gestures to Spec Ops: The Line*
@@MinalkraSorry but at what point the Priest character is implide to be a pedo?
The kick being above the weapon is not a bug, he's just very flexible
Totally legit reason to remove a couple of ribs.
I really enjoy the painkiller series. Morphine and opium were great, as well as the sequel, ketamine.
I dunno, Ketamine was a bit of a departure in the gameplay department that I couldn't get behind. The spin off game Oxy though was pretty good.
I got Benadryl on sale but I played it for too long and I woke up with a fork in my eye socket
Wait till you hear about Fentanyl
@@thousandyoungya when u play u fall out in ur chair haha 😂
@@PunishedSpindle300 Who was your fave character in Benadryl? Mine was the Hat Man.
"This level is more of a 'Hot Topic'-themed train station" is such a great line.
this video is full of great lines, it's unbelievable.
This might be one of the most out of pocket games Civvie has ever played, and he's played the Postal series.
Hey Ruby, I love your videos
@@dijjo hey, thank you so much!
Vivisector was pretty random at the time too I'm glad that finally another big channel covered this janky mish-mash rough gem of a game
You know, I thought we already went places after We are Empty/Varginha Incident/Kreed. This one went fucking EVERYWHERE.
Out of pocket ?? More like viral infection dizzyness followed by toxic hangover.
J. R. R. Tolkien and vampires in a World War 1 FPS game is not something I was expecting to see
So i assume you expected diesel-mechs and robo-scorpions? 😁
If you play Lost Company you can even see a younger version of adolf hitler as a friendly NPC too, no i'm not even kidding
Well, Christopher Lee did ask Prof. Tolkien for his autograph once...
Just want to appreciate how at 27:41 interrupting the reload with a sprint makes the character then resume it where it was left off instead of starting again, which is not something you see often.
it shouldn't even be hard either though, like you set the blending of the two animations so the reloading halts while you're sprinting
How do you think this came about: did they start wanting to make a grim WWI shooter and they fell back to a supernatural plot when that got too hard to pull off, or did they start with a story about killing the devil and WWI happened to come up?
Ask'n the real questions, honestly. And now I'm curious too.
I suspect it was the latter
shadowhand and vampire weapons are way too good to be a afterthought
Yes.
Most likely different people were coming to it with different ideas and the team never *actually* settled on a specific vision, there were just a lot of rushed compromises.
From Medal of Honor to Old World Blues in less than an hour, the tone of this game is CRAZY!
And then vermintide.
World War 1, duel wielding, zombies, mages, vampires, dragons and a battle with the devil himself. God bless the batshit crazy overambition of janky 2000's shooters.
Meanwhile the 10 billionth jrpg about killing god:😶
*dual
Ok when the face appeared in the sky I just busted out laughing. This game is like some sort of prank.
Lost Company was an interesting prequel, given that you play as the man himself - Zimmerman. Also, the collector's edition came with a wooden german grenade with the name of the game etched and burned into it. I have two, because I ordered one, then won a graphics competition on the semi-official forums. Good times.
That’s the most niche collectable I’ve ever heard of
IIRC Lost Company had a Hitler cameo in it. I know this because Mandy made a painting joke while the Hitler soldier was on-screen.
Man, I love these Slav-jank videos. The ludicrous shlock story treated as if it were a profound philosophical statement, the amusing bugs and the kernel of something actually kind of cool. Thanks for another great one.
Isnt story treated as profound philosophical statement a standard for most fantasy/scifi videogames?
I feel like both halves of NecroVision - gritty WW1 shooter, and demon-slaying Painkiller clone - were each originally planned to be the full game at one point. Then something happened during development and the two were stitched together with an insane plot. It's like the game is Frankenstein's monster, and the story is the lightning that brought life to them.
So since we’re in Antarctica, I assume the next episode will be about John Carpenters horror classic. Ghosts of Mars.
I think you mean the best John Carpenter film: Vampires, featuring America's sweetheart James Woods.
Ice cube, jason statham
"Ghosts? On Mars? What the _ffffff-FAHKIN_ shit is that all about?! How can there be...GHOSTS.. on MARS when no one's ever been there to die leaving a ghost?!" -David Lynch, I guess
Haha you got me lolz
@@Kidd724"Hey Padre, let me ask you something. When I was kicking your ass back there, did you get a little wood? 😎
...and in this video, Civvie sees the sun again for the first time in at least six years.
I mean, that door opens to the "outside world", they couldn't risk him actually escaping so I assume that's all just some underground biodome like the NERV HQ.
You know it's a good day when Civvie uploads an almost 40 minute long video.
Merry Christmas.
I knew there was a reason I felt bad today. It happens with concerning frequency that Civvie uploads on days where I'm sick, slept terribly, or am otherwise not feeling the day.
Good choice. I was thinking you should cover this. Strange fact: American’s joined up voluntarily to assist the British before America officially joined the war. Bonus fact: the battle of the Somme is the most brutal battles of all time. Historians also haven’t been able to establish if it any appreciable outcome on the war, and the strategic value of capturing one side of the Somme over the other.
I literally rewatched Mandalore gaming's old Necrovision video yesterday and thought to myself, "I'd like to see civvie play through necrovision and see how he feels about this crazy coked up ww1 shooter." I don't know what kind of pre-cognitive power I tapped into but it scares me. Tbh, i'd love to see you do a video on Platinum games Vanquish too. But great content as always Civvie!
In all likelihood, it's probably not a precognitive power, but some sort of clairvoyant ability. Precognition is much rarer than clairvoyance.
From WW1 shooter that shifts between Medal of Honor then to COD Zombies then to Wolfenstein that transforms into Edgelord FPS where you play as Spawn riding a dragon is wild.
Finally, now I can see if this game is good after 14 years
It's actually not bad
@@wolfy6815 Good concept, poor execution. He should one day play Damnation as well.
There's also Mandalore's coverage of it.
Necrovision, Shellshock 2 and Cryostasis are games from that period that I always intended to play but didn't.
@@Lord_Deimos Play only Cyrostasis, i beg you, that game is awesome.
i remember playing this when it came out, i actually didn't hate it. it was weird and janky but in a kinda charming way
exactly!!! i didnt love it.... i didnt hate it . with a bit more budget and time.... it could have been an AMAZING well known game but that may have removed some of the charm.... idk
I actually like this game a lot; and Lost Company was even better. It had it's issues, but there's such a shortage of WWI games; let alone the _WWI horror_ subgenre, that I can forgive a lot. It also manages to be eerie and atmospheric in many areas, and they really did a good job in portraying the grimy chaos of trenches; with realistic weapon models and some honestly good map design. It's too bad the last third or so went off the rails, ditched all that, and turned into a generic sci-fi shooter out of nowhere. The total shift in setting, tone, enemies and weapons felt like I was playing two completely different games mashed together. Not good. Lost Company didn't make that mistake at least.
@@J.DeLaPoer i think i played the launch version of the game before LC released, this has definitely made me want to go back to replay it
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"Oh yes please, give me more one liners" There's a dedicated button for that, Civvie. Kinda surprised he didn't run into the "softlock" with the second mech section.
This has to be the new gold standard of Jank, even beating out You Are Empty for sheer inexplicable twists
Well, YAE never touched vampire-hellish themes, it was relatively as sci-fi as Half-life 2, or so i remember
Nah, nothing can beat the insanity of You Are Empty. But this one gets a good second place.
THE CITY COUNCIL YEAH!
I still remember getting YAE from a best buy when I was a kid for twenty dollars. Took forever to get it to work properly so I spent more time flipping through the manual and seeing all the enemies and their descriptions
Ahh a new civvie11 video perfect thing to watch while I cough up my lungs with a chest infection
Noro virus here. Peace friend
Good thing it was a good video, then. Get well soon.
*snorts your lung chunks* gotta catch them all
Papa Nurgle loves you
Out with the bad, in with the good
God, I’m just as excited to share this with my friends now that it’s off the Patreon episode. The algorithm requires engagement after all.
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10/10 on Castle Jankenstein
Love the genuine shocked laugh from Civvie after he got a combo from that guy unaliving himself
He didn't unalive himself, Civvie killed him to prevent having an on-screen suicide. Because youtube is absurd like that.
Completely understandable. Game basically handed him a joke on a silver platter, simply unbeatable
This is one of those games that occupies that exact grey area of being well-known enough that I've heard other youtubers talk about it, but obscure enough that I never would have expected Civvie to do a video on it. The result? Pleasant surprise.
It's a slav FPS, a Polish shooter of the time period when they've mostly figured that out. Why haven't you expected it?
@@user-ct8dm7ez4r Point taken
I really like the mechanic of the Challenge Room, it would be cool if more games with story campaigns had something like that
A lot of games have the gun take up like 1/4 of the screen Its impressive to find a magazine that thakes up almost 1/3.
I think it's supposed to be a Bergmann MP18, which actually had snail mags like that, along with the smaller but more conventional stick variant.
This game missed the opportunity to make Hell a sewer level. Besides that the dragon, mechs, vampire beasts, wizards and J.R.R. Tolkien writing about Middle Earth in a German prison were fairly historically accurate for the Great War.
New to the Channel and I don't play video games much but I've watched almost every episode, the commentary cracks me up and the editing is top notch.
Really love the antartica ambience, a nice change of pace from the dank underground dungeons
This game has two wolves inside of it: "War is Hell...." "War is Hell!!! 😎😎"
I actually almost died on "you gotta license for that bloomin' accent"
A classic i found out exists from mandalore. Going to enjoy this one.
Great choice for Halloween! I was about to make my annual complaints about you not playing Jericho, but this is great too!
We're just under 3 weeks until Halloween. There's still time.
@@ASpooneyBard He likes Clive Barker, so I don't know why he hasn't done Jericho yet. It's horrible jank and bloomy as heck, but Civvie is at his best when he's suffering. He gets to play entirely too many good games. I miss the Capstone stuff, especially TEKWAR!
Clive Barker's "Clive Barker's Jericho"...by Clive Barker.
@@ZOMGItsDAF This is the same Clive Barker who had the idea to direct a movie and cast a far superior director as the villain in it.
@@100ServingsIf I win the lotto, I'll buy Capstone's dessicated corpse and start them making games again.
4:22 I wonder if there would be any Blackadder Goes Forth jokes. 11:44 DAMN YOU MERASMUS! YOU'RE THE WORST ROOMMATE 19:05 The lobotomite has reached the forbidden zone, I guess. P.s. nope, no Blackadder
No room for Blackadder when you've got Python beatings to fit in.
I first played this game inspired by Civvie to try weird jank, and now, here he is, 74 years later, to play it. Circle of life, man.
It’s a shame that World War One isn’t a popular setting for video games. The setting is so fucked up that anything from action shooters to full horror games would fit perfectly
Amnesia The Bunker is pretty good.
Yes, I agree. For example I love that "Conscript" is a very promising WWI survival horror game that can be unnerving just by having to fight in the trenches against two or more enemies.
Another time both Civvie and Mandalore have checked the same game. No wonder i like both channels.
"Castle Jankenstein" I love you. This is one of the most wild and crazy things you've made in a while, I just love everything about this. I don't have any dumb joke comments I just really love this one a lot, it's awesome and hilarious and great.
Omg, that Xmas intro nearly gutted me! Now THAT was a jump scare! 😅 also, I think the second half of the game is trying to be Warhammer, what with that “my guns never tire” quote and the flamethrower rats.
The editing on this Episode is masterful!
Oh yes, if Katie's usage of Eric Idle from Python is any indication.
Just when I needed a Civvie video most, he delivers!
23:03 a masterclass in tonal dissonance
I just wanted to say that I genuinely love your channel, and that your videos keep getting better 🤘
I wish I could understand the mind of Civvie like Katie does
What makes you think Katie understands the mind of Civvie?
The timing! I was literally playing this for my wwi themed halloween this year! with all the new wwi horror games this felt right at home ^^
Finally Civvie discovers NecroVision, I absolutely loved this game! It was one of the first games going back to the classical shooters.
Sweet! I've been looking forward to Civvie's Christmas 2022 video.
I think at 13:40 is the hardest I've heard Civvie laugh non maniacally or otherwise. Gotta love absurd shit
This game feels like if someone took the last level from Painkiller and made an entire videogame out of it
Good stuff. Always a great day when Civvie uploads one of these longer-form videos.
An interesting fact that is probably unintentional: Mephisto is also the name of a German A7V tank, one of only 20 built during WWI, which was captured and is now the only one in existence, being on display in the Australian War Museum.
The scariest thing about this video is that we got to hear what I believe is Civvie's natural laugh at 13:40
Maybe the real horror was the friends we made along the way
Had to be the brain rot trying to understand it.
Happy this video came out on my birthday, Thanks Civvi!!
The floating demon head is giving me real "We're going to candy mountain" vibes.
Been waiting for this one since Mandalore did it
Cant wait for the unavoidable 5 nights at civvies
Civvie slavbear
And another great video. Also good to see the change of scenery. You can even see the sky over there
only civvie can perfectly describe and commentate something as insane as this, great video
I need to finally try this game out. It's in my GOG library. Edit: Oooooh. That OMD reference still hurts.
i bet you'd have fun exploring your cycles of guilt playing EYE: Divine Cybermancy
3:27 has to be one of the best bits in a Civvie video I've seen in a while. You know you're onto something truly special when the game looks truly nauseating through horrendous bloom.
Every video you put out is pure gold!
I hope being in the frozen hellwaste of the north means you'll be doing the Thing game at some point.
You mean south.
The fact that Civvie recommends MandaloreGaming proves that he is a man of culture.
I feel like this game was a collective fever dream we all had and subsequently forgot.
Way to put yourself through the wringer for us! Thank you, Civvie!
I remember buying this when it first came out. I was so pumped for a horror game set in WW1! Then I saw the combo system and realized that I had made a terrible purchasing decision.
You've got no class, man. The combo system is EXACTLY what this WW1 horror with vampires, gas, trenches, mechs and dragons needed!
Only Civvie wishes merry Christmas on Spooktober, absolute mad lad
ah Civvie back in full form - these kinds of videos of his are my favourites - pretty much laughed my ass off non-stop
“Damn”😂😂😂 gets me every time. Another great vid Civvie11
This game still takes war more seriously than the recent CoD and BF titles.
A "History of the World, Part 1" reference? Civvie11 out here doing God's work 😊
Your videos are getting better. already 10/10
As a huge NecroVisioN fan and master of the game engine and glitches I found it disappointing you didn't find the slamfire glitch, the ammo save on finisher glitch (or at least didn't show case it) and of course the infamous, flying and out of bound glitch, that can be used to showcase what happens after checkpoint to the world behind you, and boy is it scary and pretty at the same time. A shame you decided to not bother with NVN: Lost Company, it's better than original, includes more guns, more combos, more enemies, but I guess if you don't want to touch painkiller, you wouldn't probably want to touch the prequel. Suffice to say as a game made by Polish company, most of the good dialogue and jokes were top to mid at best in polish, however some of the knack and fun got lost in translation. I don't want to go into the detail of Serious Uncle Sam final challenge as it's both hard, but also a very satisfying show of combat, especially if you know what to do and knew a variety of combos to go through, as a reward you get a cool Shadowhand mechanic that grants you the powers from the trailer / first chapter video with the barbed wire shadow hand and acid rain spell, those are top tier fun. Anyway, good vid an all;
putting J.R Token in this game is one of the weirdest take they've ever made by these guys. I know that the guy served during WW1, but never thought he'll be in world filled with monsters in the trenches during that time period.
It might just be because I'm a big Tolkien fan, but I kind of wish they leaned more into it. Have Tolkien be a recurring character, name the dragon "Smaug," and have the main character's middle name be "Baggins" or something.
While probably a bit too slow-paced for Civvie to do a video, I did enjoy Farm 51's "Deadfall Adventures," which is basically a first-person Indiana Jones simulator. Quite a nice little B-game, and I hadn't even heard of it until I stumbled onto it a few months ago.
YEES, I love this game. One of those games that always deserved more attention.
And i am the one with bad taste in FPS games.
@@DrundeFPS Who are you?
An FPS straight from the "Realistic is Brown" era. Living through that time is part of why I enjoy boomer shooters.
0:25 - You cannot stop us Civvie! All too soon our plans and soon the first day of the holidays will be Independence day. At long last it will finally be Christmas in July.
I did not expect a One More Day reference in a Civvie video! Wow!
I've tried to watch this video 4 times but I keep falling asleep half way through.
Love the little snippets of history there, Civvie.
A new Civvie video?! Christmas did come early! XD
I just bought Necrovision yesterday and Civvie put out another blessing
I really do not know what I just watched but Civvie's commentary kept me sane.
Man I love this channel so damn much.