9:58 I cannot get over that the "grenade launcher" viewmodel looks like a flamethrower nozzle... while the "flamethrower" looks like a big singular tube, kinda like a grenade launcher.
"I liked Radiaki in the end, and I know I'll be playing long after this review is finished. Its strong points hooked me, and I recommend it to all of you first-person addicts." - Matt Firme, PC Gamer February 1995 (score: 81%).
"the game's incredible graphics and tongue-in-cheek cult-film atmosphere are sure to appeal to fans of other first-person shooters" -Next Generation, 3/5 stars
I wish I could have been born in like 1972 so I could have been a game developer back when you could make a total piece of shit game in 3 months and people would still be talking about it 30 years later
This video shows the floppy disk version of the game. I personally recommend playing the CD-ROM version as it features higher quality sounds and speech samples, full voice acting in all cutscenes, and additional levels. The extra levels don't come with any new storyline, however, so you needn't worry having missed any essential developments regarding the plot. To fix the lack of strafing, I also recommend downloading Cheater's "The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki DeHacker v1.1" tool which enables strafing, higher mouse sensitivity, and limited key remapping. This should address a majority of your control concerns and provide a much smoother gameplay experience.
I loved hearing "Ay mí cabeza" (which translates to "Ouch my head"). You fucking shot those Fidel Castro clones twenty times and all they got to say when dying is something like "Oof ouchie my bones". This game was a peak pioneer in shitposting.
There actually was a real life incident where a newspaper ruined a surprise attack. During the Falklands war, the British Newspapers bragged of an impending operation to take back a territory in the islands. Completely ruining any element of surprise. However luckily for the British Army, the Argentine Army took it as a bluff and didn't reinforce the target, however the defending garrison was fully alerted to any impending attack.
Castro Soldier quotes: When die: “Ay, mi cabeza!” “Oh my head (hurts?)!” When they kill you: “Flores para los muertos.” “Flowers for the dead” When they spot you: “Cuidado!” “Watch out!”
Some of my fav things are "it's art, but shit". The movie "Rubber", the game "Shadowman" and the tv show "Legit" are all objectively "what the actual fuck" but also artistically "what the actual fuck".
Nothing has ever reminded me so much of the way the narrator describes the architecture of R'lyeh in The Call of Cthulhu as much as Civvie describing the level design of this game.
@@sydvigue824 Recently played the Xbox-exclusive coop mode of Doom 3. Extremely satisfying running up to demons with a friend and shotgunning them in a synchronized manner.
@@ultraspinalki11 I've always said that Halo 3's shotgun is worse than DOOM 3's. The latter can actually kill something, but the former... no, it just can't.
"But it's SUPPOSED to be bad!" Love it when showrunners, directors, producers, actors, and musicians say this. Especially when they just got done telling us it would be the best thing ever before the debut.
@@Shaun_Jones actually I could see making a bad game on purpose but if you're going to do that, be open about it. "I wanna make the most sadistic, unapologetically evil video game ever!" Say that and people will buy the game out of morbid curiosity to see how cruel and unusual you made that game.
@@sorrenblitz805 That reminds me of the movie "Freddy got Fingered", where they actually went out of their way to make this one of the worst movies to be ever made. Like Tom Green even brought his own red carpet to the razzies
The "water in your ears" joke at the start was genuinely funny, and that's the only good thing I can say about this game. It looks, visually, like the Zero Hour! to Cruelty Squad's Airplane!, if that statement makes any sense - like this game's visual design was a blow that could only be softened by parody.
I might be wrong here, but the fisheye effect demonstrated at 17:52 looks like it's because the game is determining the height of the walls by taking the distance between the player and the wall, and since the distance isn't constant (walls to either side are farther away than walls directly in front), walls seem to bulge out towards the center of view. Wolfenstein 3D fixed this by taking the distance projected to a camera plane perpendicular to the view direction; basically, measure the player-to-wall distance if you strafed along the wall, and use that to figure out how to render the walls. Fabien Sanglard's Game Engine Black Book describes how this is done in Chapter 4.
I remember my local game shop in the mid-90s was permanently stuck with a copy of this game. I don't think they ever got rid of it. It's probably embedded inside the walls somewhere of the sporting goods store that took over the property after they went out of business.
4:48 I literally could not see that guy until you were standing right next to him, even when you were talking about how the soldiers were blending into the background and I was specifically looking for him. That is some Grade-A shit art design
The Vertigo problem isn't the FOV, it's the fact that they are using raw, unfiltered ray casting data. ID's earliest 3-D games like hover tank 3-D Correct this fish eye effect. I know this because I programmed a similar system when I was 13 and it had the same effect.
Actually, if you do the math better, you don’t need the correction. You should not calculate actual distance and then “correct” it. Instead, you should use projection of the distance to your view vector. Which is easy, just a dot product.
I work on a FPS game and I was really afraid that my level design, weapons and overall experience would be terrible. Until now. After seeing The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki I know that my game couldn't be worse. It might still be bad but not that bad...
Playing this game is like getting kicked in the head with an army boot. If you're comparing your game to _that_ instead of a good game, then I'm really worried about your levels
@@Rizimar I always try to take lessons from the good games I played: Half-life, Doom, RTCW, Bioshock and others. That bad game was mostly a reminder for me to avoid certain mistakes. However, what I need right now is to make some decent demo and listen to the feedback. I want my levels to be good, decent at least.
@@jonas8588 if you’re using those for lessons I think you’ll do fine. That fact your worried about the quality actually is something in your favor I’d say, it shows a willingness to improve and make sure you make something good And as you said, I’m sure your better then this travesty calling itself a game
@@mugwump7049 War Pigs. (Like the Black Sabbath song) But it's not anywhere publicly yet. hard rock music, fighting the distopian dictator, robots from other universe revolvers, shotguns, energy weapons... In the beginning you'll be able to choose the game mode: boomer or common.
The reverse-fisheye effect and dodgy texture mapping are actually things I battled with while writing my own line-based raycaster, it requires a bit of explanation: The way a raycast renderer works is that it fires a ray for each column of the screen, over the FOV in increments of `FOV / screen_width`, using the distance traveled before hitting a wall as the source of the height of the column of pixels on the screen. The problem, is that firing all these rays from a single point directly at a flat surface will produce a curve, where the rays firing off at an angle will produce a higher distance value than the ones towards the middle, this can be corrected after the fact by adjusting the distance value with an equation I can't remember that makes it as if all the rays were fired from points on a line rather than all from a single point. I don't remember what the problem with the texture mapping is, I just know that I fixed it in my renderer by playing about with it until it worked. It really didn't take that much effort.
Have been waiting for Civvie to slay the giant killer German baby for years. AI not programmed making them like ants with broken receptors. It's like a trash anti game which is why I thought he needed to play it. Thanks for this and sorry
@@expendableround6186 lol yeah I've heard it elsewhere too. It's up there with that one super melodramatic scream that isn't the Wilhelm but is almost as ubiquitous. I was dryly joking, I don't think they had the resources to do actual foley sfx. I've heard that sound in other games, but I'm struggling to think of examples. Worms maybe? I mean plenty of games use sample libraries for some stuff, Doom did, I think half life did too, but this is just so out of place. I laughed at the screen when I heard it. (Actually for this game it's kind of right on tone but that's not a good thing).
10:50 that 'uh huh' is just so beautiful... i cant even formulate the proper words to explain why but it had me in absolute tears and my stomach started hurting
No, but seriously; what idiot at Microsoft is still - STILL - insisting on defaulting that damn sticky keys 'on'? I'd like to know, because I want to send flowers to his relatives, because taking care of a lobotomy patient is no joke.
Civvie I gotta thank you for having not only captions on your videos, but actually good captions. Short lines, timed to the audio, and completely accurate to what's actually being said. It's really frustrating how hard these are to come by.
The camera effect that happens in the game is called Holonomy, this means that The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki takes place on a non-euclidean plane. Outstanding game design!!
I'm always surprised to see a cv11 upload. Like he probably shouldn't have survived the last 120 infested sewers and yet here he is again.. still surprised every time
But you know what the best part of my day is? It's for about ten seconds from when I open youtube until when I go to Civvie's page. Because I think maybe I'll pull up the page and he won't be there. No goodbye, no see you later, no nothin'. Just left. I don't know much, but I know that.
You know, I was playing "post void" and thinking "damn, this game is too short for a civvie video, but the migraine it induces because it's cruelty squad on LSD is something I'd love to see in Civvie's channel". Well... At least I got the migraine inducing visuals I was after
I immediately got a headache the second this one started up. Dear God I actually feel bad for you on this one, Civvie. An important lesson in video game design I think needed to be put out for the world to see, but holy Hell I am sorry you had to suffer through this.
It probably would have stuck the landing if playing it wasn't such a nauseating, migraine-inducing chore. It's profoundly stupid and goofy in tone. But no one will enjoy experiencing it, much less trying to complete it.
Y'all are trying too hard to be funny. It's a shit game to be sure but I doubt it was deliberately made shit. And there's much shittier games out there. But funny video man did hyperbole for comedy so i must take it seriously
When I first found your channel, I went "I wonder if he'll ever review that Dr. Radiaki game I used to play as a kid, since I remember it being janky AF." And now you have! Also it's nice to have vindication that the game was absolute shit. I had trouble with it back then... and now I can see why.
I wondered when you’d do this one. A mate of mine just straight up gave me his copy of this unprompted when I was at school. Didn’t take me long to figure out why. An utterly miserable little game.
I love the cheesy phrases in Spanish, understanding them makes it better "Ay mi cabeza"=owch my head "Flores...para los muertos"=flowers...for the dead
i remember seeing this in a bin at Christmas Tree Shoppe for years as a kid. along with The Journeyman Project, where you couldn't get past the copy protection because they just came in a jewel case with no manual. i never bought Dr. Radiaki because it was obviously jank, but it tempted me for years and now i can rest without having to wonder if i was missing out on a hidden gem.
@@marcellosilva9286 Same engine, actually has strafing... OP is using it as their Sunday game at present I believe? Game in question actually IS called "Nerves of Steel".
@@madmonty4761 Check their name. Its their constant channel-shilling bot presence and them being a fucking donkey for stealing my comment. But honestly I think I injured them worse with that deletion they just did to themselves. Deepfried bot is on the menu. Bon appetit!
Haha that's what it was! I've been humming it all night while listening to Civvie vids and wondering how it got in my ear... didn't notice it until you pointed it out!
I've said this before in the Patreon Discord but I'll say it here too. I *love* how animated AX3 was in this. The slight turning of the head and the blinking eyes when Civvie was talking to him, like he was contemplating what he was being asked lol. Gave him more personality. AX3 merch when?
If you look at the walls up close and look to the side, the wall doesn't go out of your vision in a normal way, like it doesn't "move to the side" instead in this game when you look to the side, the wall "turns 90 degrees" until it's out of your vision, it's extremely surreal.
I have to ask, now that Civvie has played a few 3rd-person shooters, do think he would be up for playing The Punisher and Manhunt 1-2 on the channel? I feel that would be fun, especially considering their shared history of controversy and banning with Postal.
Speaking of 3rd person, I'm wondering if he'll ever play heavy metal fakk2 because quake3 engine completionism. Edit: and because the mosquitos in that game would be ideal for the conditions of his captor's experiment. Excruciating insects and blatant sexualization of the the main character aside, I recall the dual wielding ranged+melee combos made for fun and interesting combat. And some of the world design is pretty cool. I'm also pretty sure the second mission is a sewer level, too. And there's an appropriately terrible swamp section.
@@0v_x0 Ah, that's right. He said he was skipping Mysteries of the Sith. Eh, don't blame him. Even as someone who liked the base game, I thought only the first and last sections (the Katarn part and the Sith Temple part) were really worth playing. All the middle stuff was kinda boring.
As someone who has been working on a Wolfenstein 3-D remake for the past two years, the part where you follow the enemy who hasn't detected you yet doesn't appear broken to me. He's in patrol mode and you haven't fired your weapon or stepped into his sight cone yet, so he hasn't detected you. Working as intended.
The thing is that enemy lacks vision outside of...whatever the fov of this game is. Like doom enemies can at least see you to their right and left, but this guy doesnt.
I love this channel so much I'll watch every video multiple times. Even the old stuff Civvie's ashamed of now, I think is better gaming content than I've seen anywhere else. This is the only place I've gone and felt nostalgia for shit I've never played. I might even watch TV like an old person if this dude was on there. Thanks for keeping me sane for a little while longer!
This "Uuuh-huh!" after reading out "Masters of imagination" absolutely *KILLS* me every time, without fail. And I can't even explain why. It's the Civvie Charme, I reckon.
Thank you for making this video, Civvie. I saw cheap CD versions of this game as a kid at flea markets and yard sales and have always wondered about it. The gaming press at the time said positive things about the humor and stuff and I liked the enemy designs (I always thought that Dr. Radiaki looked pretty cool), but it looks like such a fucking painful slog to get through that I'm glad I never tried it.
Boy this is like an evil alternate universe version of ROTT. They both came out after Doom 2 but had a more primitive engine, they both have a bat and similar aesthetics along with militia type human enemies. ROTT has height, but no angles other than 90 degrees, This game has angles, but no height. ROTT has infintie ammo guns, this game has reloading. Where ROTT is manageable jank this is just unfiltered chaos.
Ok, so NO SHIT I saw this game for 6 dollars at a Value Village yesterday and thought "gee, I don't have a Twitter or I would tell Civvie to play this, fucking coward that he is". And here we go
Even the footage of this game hurts to look at. I started getting a headache at 9:29 and had to start taking breaks. How the hell did the developers manage to work through all this?
The most impressive thing about Civvie in this videos, is that he didnt spoke about the terrible sound of the game (Or the lack of it it seems). The sound effects and the sound in general was so bad that civvie didnt even bother talk about it.
Came across your channel almost a yr ago and I love the hell out of it. Anything "id" or 3D Realms related being my favorite. And being a Doom fan but not knowing all of its little details like behind the scenes or how something was done to have the game(s) work being explained is super awesome. I just bought OG Doom and Doom 2 for Switch and PS4. I was wondering, will you ever do videos on these add ons like Earthless: Prelude, Double Impact or No Rest For The Living? Either way, keep up the great work man. Salute.
I had this game as a kid. Thought it was kind of cool back then. Never made it anywhere. Bought a big box copy of it again a few years back for the collection. Decided to fire it up on one of my retro PCs last year. Holy crap.. this thing is nearly unplayable.
Hey there, I just found your channel about a week ago and I’ve just been on a binge! I love the games you cover, method of covering said games and engaging commentary. Shits permo, thank you!
I know exactly what causes this curving effect, when i programmed a raycasting system there was fisheye distortion because the rays moved at the exact same distance, but when you rotate them, you get this sem-circle instead of a straight line, the formula to compensate this is extremely simple and it would havd taken them 10 minutes to fix this
13:15 i like how the character who is NOT restricted to tank controls, and can strafe... is the robot, who is on tank treads. good job game.
and even some tanks have a rotating turret, which can be used for strafing. 🤭 This is bulldozer/snowplow controls.
I would like the comment but I want to keep it at 69.
@@walrus_boiler2646 here it looks like it's above 80 now so go ahead.
@@walrus_boiler2646 This never works.
@@mugwump7049 you’re right. Darn
9:58 I cannot get over that the "grenade launcher" viewmodel looks like a flamethrower nozzle... while the "flamethrower" looks like a big singular tube, kinda like a grenade launcher.
"it does everything wrong"
@@RipOffProductionsLLC The man wasnt lying.
Fun fact: This game was made by the same developers that went on to make the glorious FMV nightmare known as Harvester.
That takes me back to the Retsupurae days
That game has the perfect amount of based 90s edge. It's a time capsule and I love it.
harvester was awesome though. they knew they couldn't do an fps so they went to adventure games
That game is fucking insane civvie needs to make a vid about it
You can't live without a spinal cord, son. Nothing unnatural about that.
"I liked Radiaki in the end, and I know I'll be playing long after this review is finished. Its strong points hooked me, and I recommend it to all of you first-person addicts." - Matt Firme, PC Gamer February 1995 (score: 81%).
"the game's incredible graphics and tongue-in-cheek cult-film atmosphere are sure to appeal to fans of other first-person shooters"
-Next Generation, 3/5 stars
"This game fucked my wife. Modern day masterpiece." John Smallcock, Mega awesome super games 1995. (9/10)
I wish I could have been born in like 1972 so I could have been a game developer back when you could make a total piece of shit game in 3 months and people would still be talking about it 30 years later
It's a seven, seven and a half kind of game
@@doihatd4595 which would've been fine for a Radiaki game
"I'm here for the full contact delivery... of a beatdown." Okay, I wanna hear that in Duke Nukem's voice.
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Yes fax..
This should be in a hopefully not jank/shit Duke revival game.
Gianni exists 👀
Said in Nukem's voice, but directed at Randy Pitchford.
@@recitationtohear yes garbage music that even your spam wouldn't save.
"Every gun is the Doom 3 Shotgun."
I have never heard of a more horrifying experience in any video game.
*Far-off Aussie Screeching*
@gensokyo boyz Okay so TO BE FAIR, Paul Reubens and Al Pacino are legit good reasons to watch Jack and Jill ONCE.
JUST ONCE.
@@ZigealFaust Still not worth it.
@@BigPuddin It is doe. Maybe you can find a compilation of just Al and Paul's parts online.
It's like the setup for a Twilight Zone episode
The Fortress of Dr. Radaiki is what would happen if Wolfenstein 3D and Rise of the Triad had a radioactive deformed baby that was raised by Capstone.
god, that's apt
The Pinnacle of Boomer Shooter OB-GYN Entertainment™
Holy piss. My brother and I in played this game back in the day, and you couldn't be more right
Civvie feels a lot calmer in this video than he was in the other DOS trash videos. He's at peace with his fate now. He's one with the trash.
Just like Oscar the Grouch, he loves trash.
This video shows the floppy disk version of the game. I personally recommend playing the CD-ROM version as it features higher quality sounds and speech samples, full voice acting in all cutscenes, and additional levels. The extra levels don't come with any new storyline, however, so you needn't worry having missed any essential developments regarding the plot.
To fix the lack of strafing, I also recommend downloading Cheater's "The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki DeHacker v1.1" tool which enables strafing, higher mouse sensitivity, and limited key remapping. This should address a majority of your control concerns and provide a much smoother gameplay experience.
It’s like you exist in another realm and you are summoned to perform black magic to make older games more accessible
When one has to mod a game for it to be bearable it's unavoidable to start wondering if it's even worth playing in the first place.
I remember there being a hack back in the 90s to add strafing. And I used it to play this.
There are mods...for this?
What parallel dimension are you from?
As far as I'm concerned everything you just said is made up but it's you saying it so I believe it
I loved hearing "Ay mí cabeza" (which translates to "Ouch my head"). You fucking shot those Fidel Castro clones twenty times and all they got to say when dying is something like "Oof ouchie my bones". This game was a peak pioneer in shitposting.
Reminds me when you bisect foes in no more heroes and they go "my spleen"
Not gonna lie I thought they were saying "I need a cerveza."
@@pickelsvx that would be even more bizarre lol
Ay carumba!
My leg!
There actually was a real life incident where a newspaper ruined a surprise attack.
During the Falklands war, the British Newspapers bragged of an impending operation to take back a territory in the islands. Completely ruining any element of surprise.
However luckily for the British Army, the Argentine Army took it as a bluff and didn't reinforce the target, however the defending garrison was fully alerted to any impending attack.
Have the British papers ever considered trying to not act like cartoonish villains?
@@christopherwall2121 i mean...they ARE british
Castro Soldier quotes:
When die: “Ay, mi cabeza!” “Oh my head (hurts?)!”
When they kill you: “Flores para los muertos.” “Flowers for the dead”
When they spot you: “Cuidado!” “Watch out!”
They scream "Ow, my head!" after being shot 12 times in the head. That checks out.
Unironically, "This is art, but it's still shit" is a sentiment that needs to come up more in any sort of cultural criticism.
"You made a point but you did it with your own poo"
Some of my fav things are "it's art, but shit".
The movie "Rubber", the game "Shadowman" and the tv show "Legit" are all objectively "what the actual fuck" but also artistically "what the actual fuck".
@@ZigealFaust That is disturbingly accurate.
@@ZigealFaust It warmed my heart that, somehow, Shadowman got a remaster.
@@DrDestructo Same. I was so hyped when I found out I brought it on steam FROM MY PHONE at work.
Nothing has ever reminded me so much of the way the narrator describes the architecture of R'lyeh in The Call of Cthulhu as much as Civvie describing the level design of this game.
...jesus. Oh no, oh god, you're right...
That is not good which is eternal trash, and with stranger devs DOS may never die
I genuinely got chills down my spine when I read "EVERY GUN IS THE DOOM 3 SHOTGUN" because I instantly knew what it meant in my head.
That had better delivery than the full contact delivery line
They don't even have the D3 shotgun's *_one_* redeeming quality; its stupid damage per shot.
@@expendableround6186 that's it's one upside. Once you stuff it up the nose of whatever demon you're facing, it's going to die
@@sydvigue824 Recently played the Xbox-exclusive coop mode of Doom 3. Extremely satisfying running up to demons with a friend and shotgunning them in a synchronized manner.
@@ultraspinalki11
I've always said that Halo 3's shotgun is worse than DOOM 3's. The latter can actually kill something, but the former... no, it just can't.
"But it's SUPPOSED to be bad!"
Love it when showrunners, directors, producers, actors, and musicians say this. Especially when they just got done telling us it would be the best thing ever before the debut.
If you want to make a bad game joke, make it a throwaway gag on an in-game console, not the entire goddamn thing!
@@Shaun_Jones actually I could see making a bad game on purpose but if you're going to do that, be open about it. "I wanna make the most sadistic, unapologetically evil video game ever!" Say that and people will buy the game out of morbid curiosity to see how cruel and unusual you made that game.
@@sorrenblitz805 That reminds me of the movie "Freddy got Fingered", where they actually went out of their way to make this one of the worst movies to be ever made. Like Tom Green even brought his own red carpet to the razzies
So Getting Over it With Bennet Foddy. Or QWOP. Or the Penn & Teller NES game.@@sorrenblitz805
@@sink4807 Tom Green is a true auteur
The "water in your ears" joke at the start was genuinely funny, and that's the only good thing I can say about this game. It looks, visually, like the Zero Hour! to Cruelty Squad's Airplane!, if that statement makes any sense - like this game's visual design was a blow that could only be softened by parody.
I might be wrong here, but the fisheye effect demonstrated at 17:52 looks like it's because the game is determining the height of the walls by taking the distance between the player and the wall, and since the distance isn't constant (walls to either side are farther away than walls directly in front), walls seem to bulge out towards the center of view. Wolfenstein 3D fixed this by taking the distance projected to a camera plane perpendicular to the view direction; basically, measure the player-to-wall distance if you strafed along the wall, and use that to figure out how to render the walls. Fabien Sanglard's Game Engine Black Book describes how this is done in Chapter 4.
I remember my local game shop in the mid-90s was permanently stuck with a copy of this game. I don't think they ever got rid of it. It's probably embedded inside the walls somewhere of the sporting goods store that took over the property after they went out of business.
Okay you got me good with the "is Mexico gone?" line.
Actual dad joke chuckle, ten on ten.
4:48 I literally could not see that guy until you were standing right next to him, even when you were talking about how the soldiers were blending into the background and I was specifically looking for him. That is some Grade-A shit art design
I geniunely thought the enemy was just invisible and glitched out or something lmao.
At least it was a realistic depiction of how a proper disguise works lmao
yep, insane
That's some good camo uniform
Actually this is how it usually goes when I play outdoors lasertag/airsoft.
The Vertigo problem isn't the FOV, it's the fact that they are using raw, unfiltered ray casting data. ID's earliest 3-D games like hover tank 3-D Correct this fish eye effect. I know this because I programmed a similar system when I was 13 and it had the same effect.
Actually, if you do the math better, you don’t need the correction. You should not calculate actual distance and then “correct” it. Instead, you should use projection of the distance to your view vector. Which is easy, just a dot product.
@@noop9k "It does everything wrong"
@@shaynehughes6645 This is not the only wolf3d-like game with this mistake.
@@noop9k the good ones typically fix it, though
@@shaynehughes6645 clumsily via lookup table
10:26 Add that to the list of John Carmack names. Plus that last part in the end was brilliant.
That was the best Carmack namedrop yet.
"Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!!!" - Capstone probably
Fairly certain H4MMER and AX3 were designed by Dr. Radiaki in a timeline where he's basically Steve Jobs
He's right though, Radiaki and Radiation start with the same letters... THAT CAN'T BE A COINCIDENCE!!!
I work on a FPS game and I was really afraid that my level design, weapons and overall experience would be terrible.
Until now.
After seeing The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki I know that my game couldn't be worse.
It might still be bad but not that bad...
Playing this game is like getting kicked in the head with an army boot. If you're comparing your game to _that_ instead of a good game, then I'm really worried about your levels
@@Rizimar I always try to take lessons from the good games I played: Half-life, Doom, RTCW, Bioshock and others.
That bad game was mostly a reminder for me to avoid certain mistakes.
However, what I need right now is to make some decent demo and listen to the feedback.
I want my levels to be good, decent at least.
@@jonas8588 if you’re using those for lessons I think you’ll do fine. That fact your worried about the quality actually is something in your favor I’d say, it shows a willingness to improve and make sure you make something good
And as you said, I’m sure your better then this travesty calling itself a game
What's the name of your project?
@@mugwump7049 War Pigs. (Like the Black Sabbath song) But it's not anywhere publicly yet.
hard rock music, fighting the distopian dictator, robots from other universe
revolvers, shotguns, energy weapons...
In the beginning you'll be able to choose the game mode: boomer or common.
Civvie pro-tip: If you hit CTRL + F1 in DosBox you can remap your keyboard layout and so swap CTRL, SPACE, and SHIFT the way you like them to be.
Since this game ignores everything DOOM did, that means it may have been more closely inspired by the Ultima series.
Says a lot
crazy to realize how influential the strafing mechanic was in games that came after
What's a paladin?
The reverse-fisheye effect and dodgy texture mapping are actually things I battled with while writing my own line-based raycaster, it requires a bit of explanation:
The way a raycast renderer works is that it fires a ray for each column of the screen, over the FOV in increments of `FOV / screen_width`, using the distance traveled before hitting a wall as the source of the height of the column of pixels on the screen. The problem, is that firing all these rays from a single point directly at a flat surface will produce a curve, where the rays firing off at an angle will produce a higher distance value than the ones towards the middle, this can be corrected after the fact by adjusting the distance value with an equation I can't remember that makes it as if all the rays were fired from points on a line rather than all from a single point.
I don't remember what the problem with the texture mapping is, I just know that I fixed it in my renderer by playing about with it until it worked. It really didn't take that much effort.
This is the 'hardest to look at' game I've ever seen. The whole thing is FUCKING RAW!
This and Island Peril are comparably hard to look at for me.
It's not even up to the lofty ambition of being raw. The chef just plated a dead and rotting cow.
It an't even raw. The beast is still alive, abit barely.
I actually got a little sick just watching the footage, cant imagine how it must be in game.
It's un-fucking-believable!
Whew. Hearing Lo Wang took me by surprise and then sad since there were news about John William Galt's death just yesterday
For real this time?
@@kyon813 Seems like it. 3D Realms tweeted about it as well.
Aww crap, now Civvie has to put up another disclaimer on his Pro Wang videos…
Lo Wang's original VA is dead?!
*F U C K !*
Have been waiting for Civvie to slay the giant killer German baby for years. AI not programmed making them like ants with broken receptors.
It's like a trash anti game which is why I thought he needed to play it.
Thanks for this and sorry
Wait... so the episode "Holo Deck Boy" from American Dad with the giant nazi baby was... A HOMAGE?
@@ZigealFaust it has to be a coincidence. It simply must be.
That grenade launcher sounds like the sound effect of getting something stuck in a vacuum cleaner.
That's probably what they did to make the sound
It's a fucking stock sound effect. I couldn't believe it when I heard it.
@@expendableround6186 lol yeah I've heard it elsewhere too. It's up there with that one super melodramatic scream that isn't the Wilhelm but is almost as ubiquitous. I was dryly joking, I don't think they had the resources to do actual foley sfx. I've heard that sound in other games, but I'm struggling to think of examples. Worms maybe? I mean plenty of games use sample libraries for some stuff, Doom did, I think half life did too, but this is just so out of place. I laughed at the screen when I heard it. (Actually for this game it's kind of right on tone but that's not a good thing).
civvie has this thing he does where once ive given up after a few days of refreshing he drops a video within 10 min of me checking
Same. It was the first video in my subs when I checked this afternoon, having given up looking for new civvie vids over the prior few days.
I second that motion.
Always makes me sad.
Then delighted!
Then suspicious.....
10:50 that 'uh huh' is just so beautiful... i cant even formulate the proper words to explain why but it had me in absolute tears and my stomach started hurting
No, but seriously; what idiot at Microsoft is still - STILL - insisting on defaulting that damn sticky keys 'on'? I'd like to know, because I want to send flowers to his relatives, because taking care of a lobotomy patient is no joke.
First thing I turn off on every PC I touch
Probably to ensure that the people who need sticky keys know it's an option for them.
Same idiot decided that holding left shift and left alt together should switch input languages
It's called people with hand control disorders. They DO exist. it doesn't make it any less annoying for people with functioning hands.
@@DoomRater and how is it easy for them?
Civvie I gotta thank you for having not only captions on your videos, but actually good captions. Short lines, timed to the audio, and completely accurate to what's actually being said. It's really frustrating how hard these are to come by.
No problem. I take my job very seriously.
Katie works hard.
@@AliaImmortalisyou’re awesome
@@ThisBirdHasFlown 👍
This game has the same sense of humor as that guy you went to high school with that watched Monty Python and then made it his whole personality.
I’m young enough that I didn’t ever meet one of those cretins
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The camera effect that happens in the game is called Holonomy, this means that The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki takes place on a non-euclidean plane. Outstanding game design!!
I'm always surprised to see a cv11 upload. Like he probably shouldn't have survived the last 120 infested sewers and yet here he is again.. still surprised every time
It's like... oh, yeah, that guy is still alive. Might as well see what fresh new hell he has to show off.
He can't stop untill Postal 4 gets a full release or untill he reviews the entire Gex franchise.
Whatever happens first.
But you know what the best part of my day is? It's for about ten seconds from when I open youtube until when I go to Civvie's page. Because I think maybe I'll pull up the page and he won't be there. No goodbye, no see you later, no nothin'. Just left. I don't know much, but I know that.
Ok, the water in your ears joke WAS actually pretty good to be fair
I wish the rest of the game was anywhere near that funny
@@yurifairy2969 Oh yeah same.
I was so certain the joke was gonna be that he was surrounded by water (what with being on the beach), that it actually got me.
I like the surprise attack announced in newspaper as well.
You know, I was playing "post void" and thinking "damn, this game is too short for a civvie video, but the migraine it induces because it's cruelty squad on LSD is something I'd love to see in Civvie's channel". Well... At least I got the migraine inducing visuals I was after
I immediately got a headache the second this one started up. Dear God I actually feel bad for you on this one, Civvie.
An important lesson in video game design I think needed to be put out for the world to see, but holy Hell I am sorry you had to suffer through this.
This game tries so hard to reach that "so bad, it's good" status, yet it fails so miserably it's almost funny. Almost.
It's like it reached "So bad it's good status" and then fucking _kept going_ so now it's just bad again.
If it was funny, it would come full circle.
Ohhhh, but if only it could do that...
It probably would have stuck the landing if playing it wasn't such a nauseating, migraine-inducing chore. It's profoundly stupid and goofy in tone. But no one will enjoy experiencing it, much less trying to complete it.
Y'all are trying too hard to be funny. It's a shit game to be sure but I doubt it was deliberately made shit. And there's much shittier games out there. But funny video man did hyperbole for comedy so i must take it seriously
@@huleyn135
Wow cool listen to smartest guy in the room here
When I first found your channel, I went "I wonder if he'll ever review that Dr. Radiaki game I used to play as a kid, since I remember it being janky AF." And now you have!
Also it's nice to have vindication that the game was absolute shit. I had trouble with it back then... and now I can see why.
I wondered when you’d do this one. A mate of mine just straight up gave me his copy of this unprompted when I was at school. Didn’t take me long to figure out why. An utterly miserable little game.
This video served as a metaphoric hammer smashing a flood gate of repressed memories of my childhood over the course of 25 minutes. Very cathartic.
I love the cheesy phrases in Spanish, understanding them makes it better
"Ay mi cabeza"=owch my head
"Flores...para los muertos"=flowers...for the dead
Reminds me of the phrases ganados (zombies) in RE4 say funny stuff in spanish
@@Guitar-Dog my favorite is "cogelo, cogelo"...it means "catch him", but it can also be interpreted as "f*uck him"
i remember seeing this in a bin at Christmas Tree Shoppe for years as a kid. along with The Journeyman Project, where you couldn't get past the copy protection because they just came in a jewel case with no manual. i never bought Dr. Radiaki because it was obviously jank, but it tempted me for years and now i can rest without having to wonder if i was missing out on a hidden gem.
Now Civvie needs to do the other game using the graphics routines from this one... Does Civvie have *NERVES OF STEEL* ?
@Just Dope Miss deez
@@papayer did someone miss..... Deez nuts xd
@@Aliceintraining "Actionable pun detected."
Which game is it? And by graphics routines, does that mean it's on the same engine?
@@marcellosilva9286 Same engine, actually has strafing... OP is using it as their Sunday game at present I believe?
Game in question actually IS called "Nerves of Steel".
You can't hide from Witchaven II forever Civvie
Maybe I'm too easily amused, but the game's writing did get a smile out of me.
That smile vanished the moment I saw the gameplay though.
“I imagine this game is what seeing the world with head trauma is like” I’m fuckin dying LOL
You prob are after the head trauma
LOL
"This 💩 is frickin' raw. Not even a glutton would eat it."
- Rordon Gamsey, the Angry Videogame Chef
@I JUST NEED 285 SUBS Piss off.
@@v.emiltheii-nd.8094 What injured you
Its FUCKING RAW
@@madmonty4761 Check their name. Its their constant channel-shilling bot presence and them being a fucking donkey for stealing my comment.
But honestly I think I injured them worse with that deletion they just did to themselves. Deepfried bot is on the menu. Bon appetit!
9:28 I love how you keep using Shot in the Dark when discussing guns.
Fuuuuck, that is Shot in the Dark. I knew it was familiar and I could never place it.
Haha that's what it was! I've been humming it all night while listening to Civvie vids and wondering how it got in my ear... didn't notice it until you pointed it out!
When you are a big enough fan that you smell when John Carmack is coming; I am definately gonna be a patreon member now.
I've said this before in the Patreon Discord but I'll say it here too. I *love* how animated AX3 was in this. The slight turning of the head and the blinking eyes when Civvie was talking to him, like he was contemplating what he was being asked lol. Gave him more personality.
AX3 merch when?
I know right? I really liked those animations on AX3 too. Hopefully it becomes more recurrent.
I love it when Civvie reviews an early FPS-you know an entertaining Carmack reference is in there somewhere, and Civvie never disappoints.
If you look at the walls up close and look to the side, the wall doesn't go out of your vision in a normal way, like it doesn't "move to the side" instead in this game when you look to the side, the wall "turns 90 degrees" until it's out of your vision, it's extremely surreal.
I have to ask, now that Civvie has played a few 3rd-person shooters, do think he would be up for playing The Punisher and Manhunt 1-2 on the channel? I feel that would be fun, especially considering their shared history of controversy and banning with Postal.
Second
RE4 should be a must
Speaking of 3rd person, I'm wondering if he'll ever play heavy metal fakk2 because quake3 engine completionism. Edit: and because the mosquitos in that game would be ideal for the conditions of his captor's experiment. Excruciating insects and blatant sexualization of the the main character aside, I recall the dual wielding ranged+melee combos made for fun and interesting combat. And some of the world design is pretty cool. I'm also pretty sure the second mission is a sewer level, too. And there's an appropriately terrible swamp section.
Also waiting on Jedi outcast, hopefully with dismemberment mode enabled. It should be sometime this year, he did dark forces 2 not long ago.
@@0v_x0 Ah, that's right. He said he was skipping Mysteries of the Sith. Eh, don't blame him. Even as someone who liked the base game, I thought only the first and last sections (the Katarn part and the Sith Temple part) were really worth playing. All the middle stuff was kinda boring.
Damn I just realized. Shot in the dark by Ozzy is being played in the background when he talks about the guns.(instrumental of course)
Everytime I hear it, I instantly think of Doom 3's shotgun.
That moment when you realized that your life's been empty for some reason and Civvie drops a new video and all's right with the world.
Yeah
I was literally looking for a new civvie video this morning and behold I have been rewarded .
Oddly the same feeling.
That tapeworm line? Pure gold. Thank you for existing, Civvie.
It is always a blessing(?) to find out that Civvie 11 has uploaded a new episode/video and watching it ASAP.
11:50
Amazing. It seems like Bethesda shamelessly stole the stealth system from this game.
As someone who has been working on a Wolfenstein 3-D remake for the past two years, the part where you follow the enemy who hasn't detected you yet doesn't appear broken to me. He's in patrol mode and you haven't fired your weapon or stepped into his sight cone yet, so he hasn't detected you. Working as intended.
The thing is that enemy lacks vision outside of...whatever the fov of this game is. Like doom enemies can at least see you to their right and left, but this guy doesnt.
I love this channel so much I'll watch every video multiple times. Even the old stuff Civvie's ashamed of now, I think is better gaming content than I've seen anywhere else.
This is the only place I've gone and felt nostalgia for shit I've never played. I might even watch TV like an old person if this dude was on there.
Thanks for keeping me sane for a little while longer!
This "Uuuh-huh!" after reading out "Masters of imagination" absolutely *KILLS* me every time, without fail. And I can't even explain why.
It's the Civvie Charme, I reckon.
Thank you for making this video, Civvie. I saw cheap CD versions of this game as a kid at flea markets and yard sales and have always wondered about it. The gaming press at the time said positive things about the humor and stuff and I liked the enemy designs (I always thought that Dr. Radiaki looked pretty cool), but it looks like such a fucking painful slog to get through that I'm glad I never tried it.
Civvie, you always brighten my week
He makes your whole week, huh?
Boy this is like an evil alternate universe version of ROTT. They both came out after Doom 2 but had a more primitive engine, they both have a bat and similar aesthetics along with militia type human enemies. ROTT has height, but no angles other than 90 degrees, This game has angles, but no height. ROTT has infintie ammo guns, this game has reloading. Where ROTT is manageable jank this is just unfiltered chaos.
Thank you Hammer. That sketch was pure mindrot.
This is one of those rare games that can actually make you physically sick
So like Persona 5?
Seriously,
*_F U C K_*
that UI.
That post-credits read just made my week lol
Who was the VA who did the read?
@@mkozachek Sounds like Gianni Matragrano but I could be wrong.
It is Gianni. He was the person that announced The Script™, and he’s listed in the credits.
10:47 I love this unimpressed “uh huh” soundbyte
Ok, so NO SHIT I saw this game for 6 dollars at a Value Village yesterday and thought "gee, I don't have a Twitter or I would tell Civvie to play this, fucking coward that he is". And here we go
“HAZE level, I uhh…” lmao sometimes your best moments are when you don’t point out the obvious - an under appreciated quality to your videos.
Even the footage of this game hurts to look at. I started getting a headache at 9:29 and had to start taking breaks. How the hell did the developers manage to work through all this?
I made it like 30 seconds into the level and my eye started to strain lol
Maybe the devs were on heroin? 🤷♂️
did...did Civvie just make reference to Marathon? I never thought I'd see the day! Marathon video, please!
The most impressive thing about Civvie in this videos, is that he didnt spoke about the terrible sound of the game (Or the lack of it it seems). The sound effects and the sound in general was so bad that civvie didnt even bother talk about it.
"Ay mi cabeza" says the dude with 4 - 7 bullet holes
I think I see a Half-in-the-Bag style progression of the sketch content and I'm okay with that
I was *just* thinking “It’s about that time when civvie should upload.”
Came across your channel almost a yr ago and I love the hell out of it. Anything "id" or 3D Realms related being my favorite. And being a Doom fan but not knowing all of its little details like behind the scenes or how something was done to have the game(s) work being explained is super awesome.
I just bought OG Doom and Doom 2 for Switch and PS4. I was wondering, will you ever do videos on these add ons like Earthless: Prelude, Double Impact or No Rest For The Living?
Either way, keep up the great work man. Salute.
I had this game as a kid. Thought it was kind of cool back then. Never made it anywhere. Bought a big box copy of it again a few years back for the collection. Decided to fire it up on one of my retro PCs last year. Holy crap.. this thing is nearly unplayable.
Watching this reminds you how a marvel for it's time Doom was, those short clips that compare the games look so beautifull
Hey Civvie have you ever thought of bringing Grezzo 2 on the channel? It's pretty much all that’s wrong in the world done in doom engine
Shoutout to the awesome person preparing subtitles.
You're welcome. 👍
This game is mood lol, sewer level at 2nd level too
That ending though, even Gianni regretted doing stuffs with Civvie xD
You can sometimes see a smiley face in the cloud skyboxes.
I just had three filling and am SO ready for some DOS TRASH LETS GO
1:52, the bit about the tapeworm is just pure poetry gold. I googled it, and nothing comes up. Great original poetry right there.
What a wonderful birthday present to receive.
Hey there, I just found your channel about a week ago and I’ve just been on a binge! I love the games you cover, method of covering said games and engaging commentary. Shits permo, thank you!
2:50 can someone please tell me what film are these flashing scenes from?
I know exactly what causes this curving effect, when i programmed a raycasting system there was fisheye distortion because the rays moved at the exact same distance, but when you rotate them, you get this sem-circle instead of a straight line, the formula to compensate this is extremely simple and it would havd taken them 10 minutes to fix this
That opening skit was the funniest Big Bang Theory episode I've ever watched
The 'Shot in the Dark' MIDI music is amazing lmao
For the love of god… #FreeCivvie
3:45
I thought the joke was that the UN planned an attack in the first place