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.
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.
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*.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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
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.
"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.
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.
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
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.
Coming out of the bunker and seeing "Defeat the Wizard" has the same vibe as coming out of your house, seeing a giant health bar appear and a text popping up saying: "DEFEAT BIBLICALLY ACCURATE ANGEL"
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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!
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
If you like 200's era bloomshooters about the horrors of war with a metaphorical and actual zombies in it, multiple downer endings, with a fast paced plot that zips between trench warfare and horde shooter, you'd LOVE shellshocked: blood trails its the PTSD 'nam shooter with a 28 days later zombie outbreak
This game looks like it was two separate games, one about WWI and the other about hell and necromancy, that were largely done that got meshed together just to make it longer. Wouldn't surprise me and would explain the voice change of the protagonist and... everything.
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.
This game is LITERALLY a fever dream to me. I moved with my parents in a new house back in 2011 and I didn't have school or internet that summer, but I had this on my hard drive... I remember the night was so hot I couldn't sleep at all and this damn game was the only thing on my mind the entire night.
It took me a while to recognize her voice, but the VA of the blue light was also in Unreal Tournament 2004, it was the voice narrating various events, such as when you must draft your team and then frag them for them to accept you as their leader.
I know in my heart of hearts that civvie will never do it but there’s still a part of me that thinks he’s doing a Penumbra game that or a Christmas game for the funnies
Hey Civvie, I want to thank you for providing me with laughs and joy over these last few years. Please tell Tiny Tim I won’t be making it home this Hallow’s Eve for I am being pursued by the disembodied ghost of Randy Pitchford and I suspect I have no aid from nigh-omnipotent universal crusader and quantum physics regulator John Carmack.
I really appreciate this game despite how jank it is, because a horror shooter set in WWI is an severely underrated idea and it’s virtually (possibly even actually) the only one that exists. Necrovision has a DLC/sequel thing called Lost Company that feels more polished and focused. I wish someone would just recognize the genius of the horror shooter in WWI concept. So far the closest we’ve gotten since Necrovision is the Origins Map from CoD Zombies and that instance takes a lot of liberties with the technology and weapons to the point that the setting feels like an afterthought.
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 loved the mid 2000s effects like bloom. They remind me a lot of the effects that were popular in music videos like soft focus. That whole era was soaked in a dreamy atmosphere that was somehow both melancholy and hopeful at the same time. I want it back in some form.
I just beat this game recently, and the second part reminded me a lot of another game with vampires and monsters, Darkwatch for PS2, this is a game that I would love to see on your channel c;
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.
from what im getting: they completely redone the game into completely different thing half-way through development, but didnt change the first half? this is a rare sight to behold and its truly insane lol
I was wondering why I failed History 3 grades in a row. I was never taught about the Nazi zombie slashing, dragon bludgeoning, Vampire vasectomy giving Brits. They were just built different cant blame the American Education system for not wanting there children to know Brits are more prone to biting your throats out then asking if you want sugar in your tea. I'm 23 and I jus found this out today.
This game was my childhood. Literally the only game I ever purchase in physical media on PC. Remember the first level where the first ever fight is a mele with someone not wanting to leave the bunker or let u leave to then, a few levels afterwards be killing deamons on hell and riding a fr dragon.
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.
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;
the WC3 font makes this game feel like a WC3 TC map, and i think contextually that idea makes this whole thing easier to swallow than this being a full studio-released game
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.
@@MrNegativecreep07 The weirdest thing is that there american volunteers in that time somehow
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.
That'd be da bomb!
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
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.
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.
@@zzodysseuszz And you only remember the nightmare in snippets so you fill in the blanks yourself
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
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
The kick being above the weapon is not a bug, he's just very flexible
Totally legit reason to remove a couple of ribs.
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*
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.
"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.
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?
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.
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.
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...
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
"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.
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.
Literally looks like the sentient Pizza from Jimmy Neutron.
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? 😎
I really like the mechanic of the Challenge Room, it would be cool if more games with story campaigns had something like that
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.
"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.
...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.
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
Finally Civvie discovers NecroVision, I absolutely loved this game! It was one of the first games going back to the classical shooters.
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?
@@ЭрикКартман-ч4ю Point taken
Really love the antartica ambience, a nice change of pace from the dank underground dungeons
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.
Coming out of the bunker and seeing "Defeat the Wizard" has the same vibe as coming out of your house, seeing a giant health bar appear and a text popping up saying: "DEFEAT BIBLICALLY ACCURATE ANGEL"
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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"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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
A classic i found out exists from mandalore. Going to enjoy this one.
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.
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.
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
Another time both Civvie and Mandalore have checked the same game. No wonder i like both channels.
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.
The floating demon head is giving me real "We're going to candy mountain" vibes.
10/10 on Castle Jankenstein
The editing on this Episode is masterful!
Oh yes, if Katie's usage of Eric Idle from Python is any indication.
If you like 200's era bloomshooters about the horrors of war with a metaphorical and actual zombies in it, multiple downer endings, with a fast paced plot that zips between trench warfare and horde shooter, you'd LOVE shellshocked: blood trails
its the PTSD 'nam shooter with a 28 days later zombie outbreak
I wish I could understand the mind of Civvie like Katie does
What makes you think Katie understands the mind of Civvie?
@@EnclaveSOC-102 Because they're the same person.
This game looks like it was two separate games, one about WWI and the other about hell and necromancy, that were largely done that got meshed together just to make it longer. Wouldn't surprise me and would explain the voice change of the protagonist and... everything.
I actually almost died on "you gotta license for that bloomin' accent"
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.
This game has two wolves inside of it:
"War is Hell...."
"War is Hell!!! 😎😎"
This game is LITERALLY a fever dream to me. I moved with my parents in a new house back in 2011 and I didn't have school or internet that summer, but I had this on my hard drive... I remember the night was so hot I couldn't sleep at all and this damn game was the only thing on my mind the entire night.
It took me a while to recognize her voice, but the VA of the blue light was also in Unreal Tournament 2004, it was the voice narrating various events, such as when you must draft your team and then frag them for them to accept you as their leader.
I knew I wasn't the only one who instantly thought it was the Unreal announcer woman
A damn shame those far superior multiplayer games are now dead and brutally trampled underfoot by *(angrily seethes)* BLOODY FORTNITE???!!!!
@@michaelandreipalon359"The future is now old man!"
@@schizofreniccunt1952 ...What does that even mean?
That the future is now, I guess... *cyberpunk 2077 music starts*
I know in my heart of hearts that civvie will never do it but there’s still a part of me that thinks he’s doing a Penumbra game that or a Christmas game for the funnies
Just when I needed a Civvie video most, he delivers!
Hey Civvie, I want to thank you for providing me with laughs and joy over these last few years. Please tell Tiny Tim I won’t be making it home this Hallow’s Eve for I am being pursued by the disembodied ghost of Randy Pitchford and I suspect I have no aid from nigh-omnipotent universal crusader and quantum physics regulator John Carmack.
I think at 13:40 is the hardest I've heard Civvie laugh non maniacally or otherwise.
Gotta love absurd shit
I really appreciate this game despite how jank it is, because a horror shooter set in WWI is an severely underrated idea and it’s virtually (possibly even actually) the only one that exists. Necrovision has a DLC/sequel thing called Lost Company that feels more polished and focused. I wish someone would just recognize the genius of the horror shooter in WWI concept. So far the closest we’ve gotten since Necrovision is the Origins Map from CoD Zombies and that instance takes a lot of liberties with the technology and weapons to the point that the setting feels like an afterthought.
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 ^^
I've tried to watch this video 4 times but I keep falling asleep half way through.
8:13 An adjustable firing rate is a feature of the Maxim gun. This one is set to "falling toolchest".
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.
The scariest thing about this video is that we got to hear what I believe is Civvie's natural laugh at 13:40
"Castle Jankenstein". Another classic added to the list.
i bet you'd have fun exploring your cycles of guilt playing EYE: Divine Cybermancy
I really do not know what I just watched but Civvie's commentary kept me sane.
I need to finally try this game out. It's in my GOG library.
Edit: Oooooh. That OMD reference still hurts.
lol, never have I seen a game where you get a worse ending for a harder difficulty. That is truly a new one.
23:03 a masterclass in tonal dissonance
The start of Armageddon being 2016 is scarily accurate
Been waiting for this one since Mandalore did it
This game took the insane to 11, I love games like this, reminds me even in war, it shouldn't stop you for having fun.
This quote should be engraved in a statue.
Cant wait for the unavoidable 5 nights at civvies
Civvie slavbear
I loved the mid 2000s effects like bloom. They remind me a lot of the effects that were popular in music videos like soft focus. That whole era was soaked in a dreamy atmosphere that was somehow both melancholy and hopeful at the same time. I want it back in some form.
This game feels like if someone took the last level from Painkiller and made an entire videogame out of it
I just beat this game recently, and the second part reminded me a lot of another game with vampires and monsters, Darkwatch for PS2, this is a game that I would love to see on your channel c;
I hope being in the frozen hellwaste of the north means you'll be doing the Thing game at some point.
You mean south.
And another great video. Also good to see the change of scenery. You can even see the sky over there
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!
from what im getting: they completely redone the game into completely different thing half-way through development, but didnt change the first half?
this is a rare sight to behold and its truly insane lol
I was wondering why I failed History 3 grades in a row. I was never taught about the Nazi zombie slashing, dragon bludgeoning, Vampire vasectomy giving Brits. They were just built different cant blame the American Education system for not wanting there children to know Brits are more prone to biting your throats out then asking if you want sugar in your tea. I'm 23 and I jus found this out today.
Sweet! I've been looking forward to Civvie's Christmas 2022 video.
Maybe the real horror was the friends we made along the way
Had to be the brain rot trying to understand it.
This game was my childhood. Literally the only game I ever purchase in physical media on PC. Remember the first level where the first ever fight is a mele with someone not wanting to leave the bunker or let u leave to then, a few levels afterwards be killing deamons on hell and riding a fr dragon.
The fact that Civvie recommends MandaloreGaming proves that he is a man of culture.
I just wanted to say that I genuinely love your channel, and that your videos keep getting better 🤘
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.
All I remembered about NecroVision were: Trenches + Gauntlet. Nothing more. And this vid shows it.
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;
Good stuff. Always a great day when Civvie uploads one of these longer-form videos.
A "History of the World, Part 1" reference?
Civvie11 out here doing God's work 😊
the WC3 font makes this game feel like a WC3 TC map, and i think contextually that idea makes this whole thing easier to swallow than this being a full studio-released game