Darkest of Days Review

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @MandaloreGaming
    @MandaloreGaming  4 місяці тому +807

    Darkest of Days is currently abandonware.
    THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo/
    It feels strange this doesn't have a medieval England or ancient Egypt level, but that might be Serious Sam being on the brain still.

    • @KingOfComedyXD
      @KingOfComedyXD 4 місяці тому +18

      this game is a certified hood rat classic

    • @jonathanfasd9671
      @jonathanfasd9671 4 місяці тому +5

      whats that song the one at 10 mins

    • @GammaMorser
      @GammaMorser 4 місяці тому +12

      Next: Turning Point Fall of Liberty
      Then: Legendary the Box
      End series with: Singularity
      Bonus: Frontlines: Fuel of War

    • @themostbestwizard
      @themostbestwizard 4 місяці тому +3

      Wow! This has to be the most pointless, morally bankrupt premise for a shooter I've ever seen. Literally just "shoot whoever is winning at the moment."
      I can't imagine how anyone who wasn't playing this to make a video could ever feel motivated to finish it. Time Splitters had a premise that was so much better.

    • @Dracobyte
      @Dracobyte 4 місяці тому +2

      Another great video as always!

  • @WadeGb
    @WadeGb 4 місяці тому +7926

    "that fateful day, morris when those planes hit the towers.."
    "what the fuck is a plane"

    • @MandaloreGaming
      @MandaloreGaming  4 місяці тому +3005

      Dexter got so chill with him I think he legitimately forgot how far away his time period was.

    • @turnipslop3822
      @turnipslop3822 4 місяці тому +191

      @@MandaloreGaming Do you ever see planes in the WW2 setting? Idk if that dialogue happens after that, and it's obviously a stretch but that would help I guess?

    • @Wolf_ManJack
      @Wolf_ManJack 4 місяці тому +760

      "Personally, I tried not to blame any given people for the event; sandwiched between Kraft cheese commercials and television spots, there was a story playing out that could have easily been exploited to send the populace into a manipulable state of endless paranoia. In the end, I really feel bad for _all_ of us. That's the lesson of history, Morris."
      "Y'all craft cheese in the future?"

    • @creatorsfreedom6734
      @creatorsfreedom6734 4 місяці тому

      Ironic non of these time travel gener's want too stop anything 9/11 the H C ecetera

    • @dan_loeb
      @dan_loeb 4 місяці тому +353

      ​@@Wolf_ManJack the darkest days equivalent of "shrimp fried this rice" i love it.

  • @usov656
    @usov656 4 місяці тому +1407

    "Hey, uh, try not to mangle the timeline"
    "Understood sir, switching the CIWS to direct fire mode."

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 4 місяці тому

      _Technically,_ the M61 Vulcan allows indirect fire (it's only got about a 1km/s muzzle velocity,) it's not the sort of thing anyone does on purpose with the solid slugs those typically fire. Tumbling bullets are a negative if you actually want to hit the target.

    • @fethinggakk4185
      @fethinggakk4185 4 місяці тому +50

      Completely and mentally stable mode

    • @Ohio.Gozaimasu
      @Ohio.Gozaimasu 4 місяці тому +11

      ...from fuller auto.

  • @Zoe-zl4zt
    @Zoe-zl4zt 4 місяці тому +1102

    "Who did this damn 9-11 was it the apache!?" fucking KILLED me

    • @The_Kentuckian
      @The_Kentuckian 4 місяці тому +48

      Same, add that to the list of sentences I never expected to hear.

    • @InternetHydra
      @InternetHydra 2 місяці тому +6

      I mean, with how mangled the timeline could be…

  • @thebassplayification
    @thebassplayification 4 місяці тому +1258

    "Sir that man's musket is firing 300 rounds per minute"
    "Just roll with it"

    • @awesomebears
      @awesomebears 4 місяці тому +14

      *roll

    • @r0cketm00se3
      @r0cketm00se3 4 місяці тому +52

      "What's 'rounds per minute?'"

    • @The13thRonin
      @The13thRonin 2 місяці тому +3

      Phuck it. We ball.

    • @JoshSweetvale
      @JoshSweetvale 2 місяці тому +6

      ​@@r0cketm00se3No.
      Muskets could do 3 to 6 rounds per minute, the distinction was important even then, 'cuz everyone was trying to keep up with British loading drills.

    • @egoalter1276
      @egoalter1276 2 місяці тому +1

      Gatling guns existed, the french mitreilleuse existed, repeating muskets have been around since the 1600s. Its not incomperhenaible to have an automatic weapon.

  • @ninjabot7945
    @ninjabot7945 4 місяці тому +374

    I didn't know where else to share this, but it's been in my brain for a while. During the civil war section where there is a pool of water you can just barely drown in, if you crouch down and look up while panning around you can clearly see the reflection of someones car in the water texture. I no longer wish to be the soul bearer of this knowledge. Haven't watched the video yet so I hope it shows up

    • @cdru515
      @cdru515 4 місяці тому +64

      IIRC, the skyboxes (reflected in the water) are photos, and that's the photographer's car

    • @giwake
      @giwake 4 місяці тому +78

      @@cdru515 apparently there's a moment where you can clip through the floor in the concentration camp level and you can see the full skybox photo, complete with a car that was covered up with some level geometry

    • @ninjabot7945
      @ninjabot7945 4 місяці тому +45

      @@cdru515 it was kinda neat to see an out of place car in a time travel game

    • @LadyTylerBioRodriguez
      @LadyTylerBioRodriguez 3 місяці тому +24

      There was even an achievement for drowning in water if I recall.
      Its like they wanted you to see the car.

    • @fnamelname9077
      @fnamelname9077 2 місяці тому +6

      Fly, my child, for thou art free.

  • @pedrox20000
    @pedrox20000 4 місяці тому +2410

    the line about dexter not knowing russian was probably just two different writers not checking with eachother and writing conflicting information, but the thought of him just making up stuff to you is way funnier

    • @georgedorpis4056
      @georgedorpis4056 4 місяці тому +335

      I thought it was something like Dexter actually did that mission before the one where he does understand. With all the time shenanigans he could have learned it in between those missions from his perspective and not done them in the same order as the player

    • @Stormfin
      @Stormfin 4 місяці тому +155

      @pedrox2006
      I just took it to mean that he couldn't _speak it_ , but could understand it well enough to translate.

    • @jonl.8824
      @jonl.8824 4 місяці тому +145

      Dexter just operates on vibes. What a man.

    • @sebastiannelson6355
      @sebastiannelson6355 4 місяці тому +66

      ​@@georgedorpis4056 I can't speak or understand a word of german but I know what funny Austrian Painter man said in his speeches. I think it's like that, he knows what was said because it's an important time in history and was translated at some point, but he personally doesn't understand any Russian.

    • @jacuul6735
      @jacuul6735 4 місяці тому +34

      @@georgedorpis4056it’s probably a dated reference now, but that’s a fairly big plot point in Homestuck, certain characters start having conversations out of order with each other that leads to things where other characters seem to unlearn stuff from meeting to meeting

  • @Kolbatsu
    @Kolbatsu 4 місяці тому +1560

    Okay but how many times did Dexter have to tell Morris "no we don't say that anymore." Or "no you can't call them that anymore."

    • @CatBitchNami
      @CatBitchNami 4 місяці тому +367

      Morris dropping the N-word with a hard R in the first meeting.

    • @hidalgobc
      @hidalgobc 4 місяці тому +270

      "But a Union soldier I saved gave me the pass"

    • @somekindofgold8362
      @somekindofgold8362 4 місяці тому +322

      "Wait. They're allowed to vote now?!"
      Morris, probably.

    • @marreco6347
      @marreco6347 4 місяці тому +173

      ​@@somekindofgold8362"the **** and ***** I can't kinda understand, but women too?"

    • @selamandreykum5844
      @selamandreykum5844 4 місяці тому +8

      Bro asking the real questions here!

  • @CashewChickenEnjoyer
    @CashewChickenEnjoyer 4 місяці тому +2192

    Fun fact, There are hundreds of copies of this game in Texas Half-Price Books locations in/around the Dallas and Fort worth areas. You can, and may still be able to going on four years since I lived there- be able to find a copy of this game there still. No one ever bought them, the game cases were still sealed most of the time, and generally you wouldn't be paying anything more than like 5 dollars for a copy. c:

    • @MandaloreGaming
      @MandaloreGaming  4 місяці тому +1155

      Are these being branded as educational games somehow? There was something similar where I grew up with Medal of Honor Allied Assault somehow.

    • @Zack_Wester
      @Zack_Wester 4 місяці тому +133

      Sounds like I should order like 100 of them and have them shiped to sweden for resell.

    • @cleverslim1331
      @cleverslim1331 4 місяці тому +244

      @@MandaloreGaming i got supreme commander in kindergarten from the scholastic book fair

    • @mariottbunbury1985
      @mariottbunbury1985 4 місяці тому +55

      I JUST SAW ONE LAST WEEKEND WHEN BROWSING

    • @CashewChickenEnjoyer
      @CashewChickenEnjoyer 4 місяці тому +202

      @@MandaloreGaming Nope! Just labled as a PC game and shunted off into their gaming section which is full of HOARDS of old stuff. I got a sealed copy of the orange box, some of the old collectors editions of the older rainbow six games.. Really it's just a pawn shop for nerd stuff that also sells books.

  • @guyofminimalimportance7
    @guyofminimalimportance7 4 місяці тому +278

    One thing I like about the final battle in Pompeii is how at first blush it makes sense; The Opposition is striking in full force because the whole area is going to be destroyed, so any evidence of their presence will be erased. Then you think about it a bit longer and realize the sheer scope of how much future technology and forensic evidence is being created is too much for the eruption to cover up, especially since Pompeii is iconic for preserving the things and people destroyed in the volcanic ash. Then it makes sense again when you learn The Opposition has given up on actually preserving the timeline to begin with.

  • @sleepshouter5017
    @sleepshouter5017 4 місяці тому +668

    13:04 “and then his backstory hit me like a plane”
    God damn that’s a good one lol, that’s a joke I’ll… Never forget.

    • @Ohio.Gozaimasu
      @Ohio.Gozaimasu 4 місяці тому +10

      You could say it hit you right in the twin towers and that your thoughts are with the prayers.

    • @hereniho
      @hereniho 2 місяці тому +2

      @@Ohio.Gozaimasu Trying way too hard to be funny, kid 🙄

    • @Ezekiel_Allium
      @Ezekiel_Allium Місяць тому +1

      @@hereniho Damn you destroyed him so hard something something controlled demolition

    • @Jjgm69
      @Jjgm69 Місяць тому

      One thing that no person on the planet will forget 😶

  • @Eonymia
    @Eonymia 4 місяці тому +2727

    Dexter calling in on his bluetooth headset to record his lines because the office is flooded.

    • @thatgreenfur6584
      @thatgreenfur6584 4 місяці тому +98

      Now I'm just imagining Dankpods telling his backstory instead

    • @Ash0512
      @Ash0512 4 місяці тому +70

      @@thatgreenfur6584 One time mate I was sent back in time to stop a confederate general who had a machine gun mate

    • @PoutyBun
      @PoutyBun 4 місяці тому +23

      His $10 Walmart microphone over dialup internet

    • @Fedakeen
      @Fedakeen 4 місяці тому +34

      Those were truly the darkest of days

    • @USELESSDCK
      @USELESSDCK 4 місяці тому +11

      ​@@thatgreenfur6584 Using a microphone from a headset of questionable quality and origins

  • @davidromeroblaya7920
    @davidromeroblaya7920 4 місяці тому +1316

    "Protect the past. Don't let anybody know about our existence."
    Proceeds to eradicate an urban cohort with a futuristic shotgun.

    • @kacperdrabikowski5074
      @kacperdrabikowski5074 4 місяці тому +78

      I mean... Malfeas stealth exists. A.k.a. nobody will know I was here if nobody gets out of here alive

    • @Healermain15
      @Healermain15 4 місяці тому +52

      Which would be true, except other people still exist to walk over and dig up all the stuff you left behind.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 4 місяці тому +10

      One should see Multiversal defense. Would be risky yet gnarly to see a covert aggressor squadron of Zaarin-design TIE Defenders protect the Boiling Isles from an invasion led by one Owlman, as an example.

    • @wesleyfilms
      @wesleyfilms 4 місяці тому +2

      No witnesses 🤫

    • @gimmeyourrights8292
      @gimmeyourrights8292 4 місяці тому +9

      Imagine if the last survivor of the platoon runs back to the base.
      "The entire platoon was wiped out Sir, I was the only one who escaped!"
      "What? I thought we had the numbers on our side?"
      "We did, but then this guy just showed up and.....and just had this ......cannon in his hands, which wiped out all out!"
      "Slow down son, what do you mean by 'cannon'?"

  • @Alfalfa_13
    @Alfalfa_13 4 місяці тому +628

    This game will always have a space in my brain because I remember my high school Biology teacher proudly telling us that his son was working on this game. Keep in mind that I spent 2 years living in a small rural town in Iowa, with a population so small the junior high and high school were in one building. So the sheer bizarreness of that moment kept the memory of this game alive for me decades later despite me forgetting the majority of my time there.
    My teacher told us that he would give extra credit to anyone who bought the game. The one kid who did was the only other PC gamer in my tiny school. I hope the points he got was worth it.

    • @QuintessentialWalrus
      @QuintessentialWalrus 4 місяці тому +65

      Easy there city boy, wait till you hear about the towns in Kansas that have all K-12 students plus preschool in a single building lol

    • @TheStonewall117
      @TheStonewall117 4 місяці тому +22

      @@QuintessentialWalruswait till he hears about homeschooling….

    • @EnclavegovtofficialUSA
      @EnclavegovtofficialUSA 4 місяці тому +13

      @@QuintessentialWalrus that ain't as small town as you think. down in lee high we had a school for prek-12 in the same building plus a college right behind it.
      at least.... I think it was a college...

    • @comradecommissar1945
      @comradecommissar1945 4 місяці тому

      Do you mind saying where at in Iowa?

    • @strannyisyn
      @strannyisyn 4 місяці тому

      yeah honestly its crazy that anyone from iowa moves on from jerking off corn stocks to make a living

  • @youngkhronic2243
    @youngkhronic2243 4 місяці тому +863

    “You click on the bad man to make him go away” is unironically the funniest way to explain a shooter

    • @PhrozenFox
      @PhrozenFox 4 місяці тому +27

      When you think about it, "click the bad guy to win" is the goal of many games.

    • @gamertrub
      @gamertrub 4 місяці тому +4

      I realized this like 3 years ago and now it just doesn't feel the same 💔

    • @ArcaneAzmadi
      @ArcaneAzmadi 4 місяці тому +14

      Yahtzee once described playing the Sniper in TF2 as being for people who like point-and-click adventure games, albeit ones where the only puzzle is "use Gun on Man".

    • @tjbarke6086
      @tjbarke6086 2 місяці тому

      It's like that Futurama joke on the episode with the penguins. "This here's your basic old fashioned gun, simple point and click interface."

  • @ChronoTriggerHappy
    @ChronoTriggerHappy 4 місяці тому +383

    imagine exploring an old civil war battleground or something, finding the usual pieces of history, old guns, old ball bullets, and then you find a massive pile of 20th century casings that, by all accounts, should not have been there but according to dating ARE that old....

    • @ZephImmortal
      @ZephImmortal 4 місяці тому +42

      That's part of the plot for the novel (and movie) Timeline, by Crichton.

    • @nchamp1991
      @nchamp1991 4 місяці тому +16

      Also checkout “12 Monkeys” movie with Bruce Willis if you haven’t already.

    • @unionblue21
      @unionblue21 4 місяці тому +27

      I actually don’t think they eject casings or shells. I couldn’t really see anything being ejected out of the weapons which means they use some type of caseless ammo. If so that’s a really nice detail.

    • @oldylad
      @oldylad 4 місяці тому

      To be fair if you’re a time travel organization any future guns you supplie will without a doubt use baseless ammunition and ammunition that will dissipate in some fashion so that future historians won’t find it, that’s how I thought of it anyway

    • @Ohio.Gozaimasu
      @Ohio.Gozaimasu 4 місяці тому +1

      Sounds like a premise for an episode of Outer Limits.

  • @Sigmundfries
    @Sigmundfries 4 місяці тому +1049

    Adding to the bit about Kronotek being incompetant, the World War One levels have a lot of anachronisms (tanks and mustard gas being used in 1914, and Imperial German officers sporting the Nazi eagle on their sleeves and belt buckles) which made me think.
    On one hand, those could just be goofs on the developers' part, but I like to think it might be a subtle hint that the timeline is already messed up beyond repair, and the organization is either completely unaware (because their memory of the original timeline was replaced by this new reality) or they're just banking on their time-draftees not noticing.

    • @vandeheyeric
      @vandeheyeric 4 місяці тому +345

      This was something that came to mind. Like it very obviously was a goof on the developer’s part, complete with Russians shouting about “Stalin” when he is still a Georgian Communist Bank Robber, and they should be praising the Tsar, on top of the Germans having British Mark family tanks even before the British invented them. But it would have been cool to have some explanations of it.

    • @Wolf_ManJack
      @Wolf_ManJack 4 місяці тому +390

      You drop into an ancient Aztec battlefield, one of the most ferocious peoples of all history, so terrifying to their own neighbors that the Spanish and many local tribes have banded together to finish them off. A naked man wielding a Tepoztli dashes towards you, and he shouts, blood on his mouth and unholy purpose in his eyes,
      "HEY HEY PEOPLE, TEZCTLAN HERE"

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 4 місяці тому +75

      It's also possible they took a wrong turn at the Roaring 20's. Which would be a much funnier kind of incompetence.

    • @romanfan250
      @romanfan250 4 місяці тому +161

      "The timeline isn't able to be changed! Now go save President Disney from his assassin, Frank Sinatra!"

    • @USELESSDCK
      @USELESSDCK 4 місяці тому +19

      ​@@Wolf_ManJack🔥✍️🔥✍️🔥✍️🔥✍️

  • @LObo6156
    @LObo6156 4 місяці тому +2108

    To be fair to the writers, this is probably the most realistic depiction of a time traveling corporation - we all know Apple or General Dynamics would not only inadvertently alter the timeline, but spin up a competing division just to undo their "oopsies."

    • @hollylucianta6711
      @hollylucianta6711 4 місяці тому +415

      Imagine finding out that the timeline is irreparably broken because some dude went back in time to undo an event that caused Amazon share prices to drop by 5%

    • @Dracon7601
      @Dracon7601 4 місяці тому

      Yeah until the random white genocide using stolen genocidaltech by middle eastern scientists, pretty insane point to end on.

    • @silverhand9965
      @silverhand9965 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@@hollylucianta6711 Amazon would absolutely unravel the fabric of reality for a minuscule increase in profits

    • @dishsoap446
      @dishsoap446 4 місяці тому +384

      ⁠@@hollylucianta6711”Marketing determined that the launch of the iphone would be about 2% more profitable if Genghis Khan didn’t exist, take this grenade launcher and go wild.”

    • @h.w.4482
      @h.w.4482 4 місяці тому +63

      with how oddly normal Zuckerberg is acting lately maybe he would create the time-repairing counter task force lmao

  • @JohnnyC133
    @JohnnyC133 4 місяці тому +562

    Lol, Little Bighorn being depicted as a mountain region with forests is hilarious. Little Bighorn is a river area and the spot where Custer and his men died is literally just an open field with no cover.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 4 місяці тому +47

      Now, all it needed was a horse being the only survivor on the American side.

    • @pierrelindgren5727
      @pierrelindgren5727 4 місяці тому +146

      Time Travelers went back in time and butterflied events so badly even geological features were altered.

    • @DerLudwigVonZweihander
      @DerLudwigVonZweihander 4 місяці тому +49

      I'm glad I'm not the only person who noticed that. Pretty sure Custer didn't even really have a "last stand" so much as his unit just sort of got overrun. It's like they just heard "Montana" and decided it had to be mountains.

    • @knightofficer
      @knightofficer 4 місяці тому +27

      @@DerLudwigVonZweihander usually people think of weird nutjob militia compounds with a beautiful view of the mountains when they think montana
      they don't realize thats the main part they show because thats the only part of such a massive state thats actually interesting to look at

    • @irontemplar6222
      @irontemplar6222 4 місяці тому +19

      The native's also had better guns then them which is interesting but also ruins the image.

  • @martinnavarrete5279
    @martinnavarrete5279 4 місяці тому +138

    Dexter's audio going from profesional to early Red vs Blue episodes in quality surely feels like a joke by the developers doing a cry for help after the flood.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 4 місяці тому +13

      Gotta miss Red vs. Blue though. Hope they don't suffer "Keep Circulating the Tapes".

  • @duskdev
    @duskdev 4 місяці тому +79

    Oh man I've always loved this game. One of the only single player campaigns that lets you fight with civil war weapons, which I actually thought led to some unique combat scenarios.
    One thing worth noting about Darkest of Days is that it was effectively an indie game, made on a custom engine (which at the time was a money-saving tactic, believe it or not), and is imo quite an impressive achievement and quite a unique and imaginative game, especially compared to other FPS at the time. IIRC one of the developers went on to make Brigador too, which is pretty neat.

    • @giwake
      @giwake 4 місяці тому +10

      it was basically a tech demo that got turned into a full game, apparently the editor didn't even have an undo function! one of the level designers was an artist with no level design experience. he did a GDC talk about it: ua-cam.com/video/CTBor4rhnQs/v-deo.html

    • @zafelrede4884
      @zafelrede4884 4 місяці тому +4

      Hello David

    • @micheleraurorhi2021
      @micheleraurorhi2021 19 днів тому

      ..looking desperately this game but here in Europe seems almost non-existent(the disc version) and the digital was delisted many years ago

  • @tyrian_baal
    @tyrian_baal 4 місяці тому +496

    16:59 Fun fact: during the battle of second Bull Run, some Confederate troops of the Stonewall brigade actually ran out of ammunition. Not wanting to give up the fire, they actually started throwing Rocks at the Union soldiers attacking them

    • @JR-zi9vj
      @JR-zi9vj 4 місяці тому +77

      its all fun and games till u get ur temple caved in by johnny reb with a big rock

    • @unyieldingsarcasm2505
      @unyieldingsarcasm2505 4 місяці тому +36

      @@JR-zi9vj *laughs in sherman burning half the south down*
      oh it was still fun and games.

    • @aekole2
      @aekole2 4 місяці тому +37

      Fun fact ancient Greek warfare (You can read about this as far as the Illiad) after your spear was cracked or you lost your sword ,it was common to just pick a big rock and throw it to the enemy , or cave his head in

    • @terribleivan1475
      @terribleivan1475 4 місяці тому +28

      @@unyieldingsarcasm2505 oh man…he’s seething

    • @tyrian_baal
      @tyrian_baal 4 місяці тому +23

      @@unyieldingsarcasm2505 pov: you are a native American child about to get bodied by sherman’s great crusade

  • @goodsoup7608
    @goodsoup7608 4 місяці тому +873

    Ah I remember this game, "Try not to fuck up the timeline....buuuuut y'know if you want to go ham with a futuristic shooty bang we'll clean it up later on"

    • @elextrano7597
      @elextrano7597 4 місяці тому +61

      Oh a lesson on not changin history from the guys that is his own granpa

    • @augustday9483
      @augustday9483 4 місяці тому +32

      I like to imagine the reason the timeline is so messed up in the first place is because they were very cavalier about the idea of "oh we'll just fix that up later" and it just snowballed from there.

  • @matthewf.1328
    @matthewf.1328 4 місяці тому +3976

    I swear Mandi has got a chip or something in my brain to upload a video as soon as I start to wonder where he’s been.

    • @davyx12
      @davyx12 4 місяці тому +45

      Same LOL I was going to go rewatch a video cause I was missing his voice

    • @bunnieskitties293
      @bunnieskitties293 4 місяці тому +91

      @@davyx12 i miss his gentle caress of my innermost thigh

    • @chunkygumby443
      @chunkygumby443 4 місяці тому +20

      exactly, he always uploads at the exact time when you thing "it's been awhile since he uploaded..."

    • @burge117
      @burge117 4 місяці тому +2

      Haha. Same. I was thinking last night while trying to sleep...I hope Mandy is alright. He's not uploaded in a while.
      Next day. BAM. ❤

    • @greenplasticmoose8843
      @greenplasticmoose8843 4 місяці тому +1

      Literally just happened to me right now

  • @toasterboipencil
    @toasterboipencil 4 місяці тому +140

    Fun fact, the devs of this game are the same folks who develop and run the Marmoset toolbag, and even though they're more or less out of game development, they still find the time to answer questions regarding Darkest of Days and have said in forums and discussions that they wouldn't at all mind if someone remastered their game/made a sequel.

    • @jmjedi923
      @jmjedi923 4 місяці тому +3

      @@IWantThatKey hol up what now

    • @ScribbleVEVO
      @ScribbleVEVO 4 місяці тому +9

      ​@@IWantThatKey Bait.

    • @Kingcole6
      @Kingcole6 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@@IWantThatKey I'm sorry...I'm alergic to your bait.

    • @PewKittens
      @PewKittens 2 місяці тому

      Of any games that could use a remaster, this one sounds like it would be great. More NPCs at a time and all that.

    • @Kingcole6
      @Kingcole6 2 місяці тому

      @@PewKittens A full-fledged remake would be better as there are some points in history they've could've explored instead of mostly limiting themselves mostly to WW1 and WW2.
      I wouldn't mind a remaster, though.

  • @evanbradley6169
    @evanbradley6169 4 місяці тому +122

    9:48 Muskets aren't so much louder or deeper as they are *longer*
    They're a whole heartbeat of *boom* versus a split second of *bang* from modern guns, self-contained cartridges, and smokeless powder.

  • @teddyzorro
    @teddyzorro 4 місяці тому +297

    Hadn't expected the title 'Darkest of Days' to actually be about the gamma.

  • @IHomie1
    @IHomie1 4 місяці тому +293

    "No Latin mission" is an absolutely incredible line.
    I played this once as a kid but didnt get very far. Years later I was able to find a download for it, and I was surprised at how quickly the game ended after Pompeii. It felt like there should have been a lot more to it.

  • @AJCherenkov
    @AJCherenkov 4 місяці тому +787

    "Word is, the recruiter's girlfriend goes here too"
    fuck that's a strong line

    • @martinsriber7760
      @martinsriber7760 4 місяці тому +20

      What does it mean?

    • @AJCherenkov
      @AJCherenkov 4 місяці тому

      @@martinsriber7760 Recruiter's a pedo

    • @sonofhades57
      @sonofhades57 4 місяці тому

      @@martinsriber7760 The implication is that the army recruiter in question is dating a girl that's still in high school. It's an eerily feasible scenario, considering army recruiters are by and large predatory scum.

    • @hollylucianta6711
      @hollylucianta6711 4 місяці тому +295

      @@martinsriber7760 implies the recruiter is dating an underage high school student. recruiters are not known for their sound moral compasses

    • @martinsriber7760
      @martinsriber7760 4 місяці тому +41

      @@hollylucianta6711 I see. We don't have those here. Thanks for the explanation.

  • @swatcccp4673
    @swatcccp4673 4 місяці тому +44

    The fun part about russian soldiers. They shout for stalin. So the developers fucked up bad with this. It shouldve beem something like "For tsar and the fatherland!"
    (За царя и отечество)

  • @kairider1770
    @kairider1770 4 місяці тому +91

    “I was a firefighter in New York City”
    I audibly went “UH OH”

  • @BlueberryJamPie
    @BlueberryJamPie 4 місяці тому +399

    It would've been super confusing hearing Dexter's story if he went into details like driving, planes and most of all, hearing about towers. The MC would be like "Oh, I know what towers are," and then finding out it had 110 floors.

  • @Edit-nk6nb
    @Edit-nk6nb 4 місяці тому +725

    I laughed so loud at "WHO DID THIS 9/11?!" in the southern drawl that my neighbours came around to see if I was ok.

    • @marley7868
      @marley7868 4 місяці тому +59

      please let that be a joke in the sequal that probably won't happen

  • @TrinSpin
    @TrinSpin 4 місяці тому +316

    I still distinctly remember how, after beating the game, you got a level that was just a grave, where the devs celebrated finishing the game and thanked the player for buying it. IIRC that celebration/thanks was on the gravestone; and, holy shit the feels when the implication sunk in

    • @JG-zu9vw
      @JG-zu9vw 4 місяці тому +8

      I'm tired. Implications for what?

    • @Nachzehrer057
      @Nachzehrer057 4 місяці тому +95

      The implication that the dev studio was going bankrupt.

    • @walnzell9328
      @walnzell9328 4 місяці тому +1

      I never saw that level.

    • @LadyTylerBioRodriguez
      @LadyTylerBioRodriguez 3 місяці тому +6

      Oh yeah the secret final mission that only unlocks if you click hold on the door in the final cutscene. Very very odd.

  • @willliam658
    @willliam658 4 місяці тому +67

    I think my jaw unhinged when I realized what historical event Dexter was vaguely alluding to in his backstory exposition dump. Bringing up 9/11 was VERBOTEN for years in most American media and its still a pretty touchy subject even now - Obama hadn't even been in office for a full year yet when this game came out.

    • @augustokonrad3572
      @augustokonrad3572 3 місяці тому +17

      Dudes added a death camp level. They didn't give a shit lmao

  • @bojangles686
    @bojangles686 4 місяці тому +15

    17:44 for Harry getting electocuted sound. Quality work as always Mandy.

  • @Anon_Spartan
    @Anon_Spartan 4 місяці тому +831

    "What squad are you from?" "Time Squad, sir. Time Squad."

  • @joseaca1010
    @joseaca1010 4 місяці тому +678

    The archeologist who finds a roman skeleton with a 9mm wound on their skull: 🤨

    • @sowpmactavish
      @sowpmactavish 4 місяці тому +100

      Sling rocks (these were actually called "bullets") can penetrate skulls at the right distance, maybe not go through but archaeologists could chalk it up as a weirdly small, elongate, and fast-moving rock.

    • @RootVegetabIe
      @RootVegetabIe 4 місяці тому +58

      ​@@sowpmactavish It's great that you're here to give logical answers to humorous comments.

    • @DefaultGray
      @DefaultGray 4 місяці тому +31

      @@sowpmactavish also there used to be a very primitive form of head surgery called Trepanning where they'd poke/drill a hole in the skull to treat illnesses/wounds.

    • @sowpmactavish
      @sowpmactavish 4 місяці тому +14

      @@RootVegetabIe I mean its a fun fact it's not like I'm ruining the joke

    • @hazanko5875
      @hazanko5875 4 місяці тому +45

      said archeologist would shortly find himself with a similar wound, if this game is to be believed.

  • @johnthomason9980
    @johnthomason9980 4 місяці тому +170

    I'll admit, the hardest difficulty being labeled "With Chest Hair" is really funny

  • @bilalsadiq1450
    @bilalsadiq1450 4 місяці тому +21

    I'm reminded by the 'ol mandy line 'It's like having a machine gun in the boxer rebellion'.
    Finally, a game that lets me live out that fantasy.

  • @Noname-e9k7k
    @Noname-e9k7k 4 місяці тому +21

    8:35 There's a game called Kingmakers that's basically trying this exact thing. Brutal Legend-style RTS but with a third-person controllable character set in medieval times, except you've got a pickup truck with a flux capacitor and all the guns you can carry. It looks like it's either going to be the best game ever made or a spiritual sequel to this.

    • @nathanielcrosby2426
      @nathanielcrosby2426 4 місяці тому +1

      That sounds like the book 1632 meets Back to the Future: the Game.

    • @LtAlguien
      @LtAlguien 3 місяці тому

      That sounds like one of those russian isekais where a soldier timetravels into the body of Hitler, join forces with the Soviet Union and nukes America
      ...not as crazy as Original War still

    • @Noname-e9k7k
      @Noname-e9k7k 3 місяці тому

      @@LtAlguien In fairness, Original War was based on a book that was itself pretty crazy. Not quite as crazy as Original War, but they were starting from a pretty out-there place.

  • @Just.Kidding
    @Just.Kidding 4 місяці тому +254

    This is maybe the first time I've heard a videogame minigun that _actually_ sounds realistic. A real minigun shoots SO fast you cannot perceive individual bullets, it's just a very loud buzz.

    • @BaneOfXistence4
      @BaneOfXistence4 4 місяці тому +4

      I went back to Desert Storm 2 recently and forgot how meaty the gun sounds are. The bass gets so loud on some weapons that it clips the audio and makes it sound even more crunchy.

    • @Just.Kidding
      @Just.Kidding 4 місяці тому +7

      @@BaneOfXistence4 Nice! I've not played it, but I love good audio design, esp. in a genre like shoosters where it has gone so overlooked or homogenized.
      Speaking of, I can't believe _I've_ overlooked the undisputed _king_ of shooster sound design, and the possessor of one of the only other accurate minigun sounds - *_Arma 3_*

    • @SahiPie
      @SahiPie 4 місяці тому +1

      @@Just.KiddingHunt:Showdown also has immaculate sound design.

  • @CherrieBoard
    @CherrieBoard 4 місяці тому +131

    That "god's holy rifle" monologue from when the civil war soldier finds the automatic future gun is something that i say to this day when i game. Was a really big fan of this game, especially its take on alt history.

  • @LordKasadoad
    @LordKasadoad 4 місяці тому +18

    I love how every time the "time sardaukar" appear on screen Mandalore adds the Sardaukar chant.

  • @carrapato007
    @carrapato007 4 місяці тому +38

    As someone from Brazil I can say, that South American european genetic heritage map is lacking a loooot of red dots.

  • @WrightOnTarget
    @WrightOnTarget 4 місяці тому +360

    the factoid of them putting in water assets because their studio flooded is hilarious, made me think of the phrase "Emotional Support Sewer Level", which Randy Pitchford would probably have.

    • @DoveAlexa
      @DoveAlexa 4 місяці тому +44

      _counter goes up by one_

    • @net_imp
      @net_imp 4 місяці тому +43

      Now we know why Miyazaki keeps putting poison swamps in his games.

    • @solidjb
      @solidjb 4 місяці тому +10

      @@DoveAlexa *groOoan*

    • @jackknifevideoworks
      @jackknifevideoworks 4 місяці тому +2

      @@solidjb *70s computer noises*

    • @Ohio.Gozaimasu
      @Ohio.Gozaimasu 4 місяці тому

      Sewer, cave, mine and subway levels can get BENT. I'm playing Alan Wake 2 at the moment and one of the first levels takes place in a dark subway. BOOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!

  • @romanfan250
    @romanfan250 4 місяці тому +305

    "Word on the street is that the recruiters girlfriend goes here too." It took a second then I laughed so loud.

    • @HoloYosho
      @HoloYosho 4 місяці тому +15

      Yeah, I had to rewind to make sure I heard that right

    • @gae_wead_dad_6914
      @gae_wead_dad_6914 4 місяці тому +9

      ...I don't get it. Is this an American thing where recruiters are 19 years old or something?

    • @sonofhades57
      @sonofhades57 4 місяці тому +84

      @@gae_wead_dad_6914 Army recruiters are predatory in American in more ways than one.

    • @johnthomason9980
      @johnthomason9980 4 місяці тому +85

      @@gae_wead_dad_6914 No, the joke is that military recruiters tend to get a liiiiittle too personal in their relationships with high schoolers and often groom kids into relationships, despite being very firmly in the age bracket where you shouldn't be dating high schoolers

    • @BababooeyGooey
      @BababooeyGooey 4 місяці тому +25

      @@johnthomason9980 And that's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to SA in the military.

  • @Skaitania
    @Skaitania 4 місяці тому +150

    Someone saw that Civilization meme about legionnaires getting out of a Chinook, and thought that there must be a way to make that into a shooter.

  • @HamsterInMyHead
    @HamsterInMyHead 4 місяці тому +32

    "House Corrino DoorDash" - what a cursed string of words!
    Thank you!

  • @CRDubU
    @CRDubU 4 місяці тому +9

    I played this game on Xbox as an annoying middle schooler obsessed with history, and I bought it and replay it probably every other year on PC today. It's ridiculous, corny, but honestly I love the concept. The idea of a time-travelling corporation that can only use the missing and forgotten shadows of people from history has promise, and to this day I've still been looking in every few years to check on who owns the rights and how much they want for it. There's plot holes and writing inconsistencies-a-plenty, no doubt, but I still have dreams of taking a few thousand dollars from my savings and buying the IP to give it another try. Between friends in game development and a team of writers really wanting to reinvigorate the concept, I feel like this could be a micro-market darling of an indie title. Something that really dives hard into both the ridiculous nature but also the fascinating potential. Thanks for covering it, I'm amazed to see that anyone else still remembers this quirky, absurd, but fun little gem of abandonware.

  • @salokin3087
    @salokin3087 4 місяці тому +742

    If ever there was a bad game that needed a remaster, a remake, and a sequel, this is it

    • @marfin4325
      @marfin4325 4 місяці тому +133

      This is the type of game that needs a remake, not old classics. This game has a lot of potential that wasn't realized at it's time and needs a second chance.

    • @Steven-cf1ty
      @Steven-cf1ty 4 місяці тому +57

      I'm just scared that if they remake it, they might not have the funny white race map

    • @davidfoldberg8004
      @davidfoldberg8004 4 місяці тому +20

      @@Steven-cf1ty More likely than not considering the current political climate.

    • @poppers7317
      @poppers7317 4 місяці тому +7

      there's Kingmakers

    • @selectionn
      @selectionn 4 місяці тому +28

      instead you will get another the last of us remaster and you WILL like it.

  • @DeadBaron
    @DeadBaron 4 місяці тому +212

    "Who did this 9/11, was it the Apache?!" BRRRT BRRRT XD

  • @theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658
    @theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 4 місяці тому +530

    The History channel at 3 AM again

    • @ZonicCeasor
      @ZonicCeasor 4 місяці тому +75

      “On tonight’s episode of ‘Alternate History’, what if the union army had a nuke?”

    • @BIacklce
      @BIacklce 4 місяці тому +67

      "we cant say if the cosmic visitors didnt give the Vandal's access to Automatic Weaponry"

    • @zombieranger3410
      @zombieranger3410 4 місяці тому

      “Did John Wilkes Booth hide the secret Nazi gold under the barn where he died? So that he can pay the aliens? The answer isn’t clear. This and much more absolute nonsense coming up next.”

    • @Healermain15
      @Healermain15 4 місяці тому +13

      What if the vesuvius was an ancient superweapon to cover up The Conspiracy?

    • @professordetective807
      @professordetective807 4 місяці тому +12

      Funnily enough, they had some licensed Civil War FPS games on shelves around the time this came out. My father was a fan of all of them.

  • @KILLRAIN42
    @KILLRAIN42 4 місяці тому +19

    The fucking apache 9/11 joke about fucking killed me, holy shit

  • @dreamthief286
    @dreamthief286 4 місяці тому +40

    "a prequel to Custer's Revenge"
    I hate that I understood that.

    • @SakuraKurosaki10
      @SakuraKurosaki10 4 місяці тому +4

      Ah, another bearer of the cursed knowledge.

  • @CriticalNobody
    @CriticalNobody 4 місяці тому +229

    Never played DoD, but I'll always know it as the game that gave you 100 gamerscore for punching a horse in the face.

  • @StrikeWarlock
    @StrikeWarlock 4 місяці тому +864

    >Its like an A-10 doing a strafing run
    I run your videos in the background while working so when it got to that moment, I had to pause and see the scene for myself because I genuinely thought you just overlaid the an Ace Combat A-10 replay or something
    Nope, it really sounds like an A-10 doing a strafing run.

    • @JohnDoe-vm5rb
      @JohnDoe-vm5rb 4 місяці тому +84

      It is, I checked my audio sample library. Definitely a GAU-8.

    • @atw3248
      @atw3248 4 місяці тому

      Silence pay pig

    • @Revan058
      @Revan058 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@JohnDoe-vm5rbWild AF.

    • @JohnDoe-vm5rb
      @JohnDoe-vm5rb 4 місяці тому +5

      @@Revan058 (shrug) it might be a lie, but it was sold as a gau-8 audio sample bank and it sounds like what you hear on soldiers recording with phones (only much clearer of course). There's audio banks for all sorts of stuff, even stuff like jars being opened.

    • @Revan058
      @Revan058 4 місяці тому +1

      @@JohnDoe-vm5rb No, I absolutely believe you. It's just funny as hell they used it.

  • @driver3899
    @driver3899 4 місяці тому +205

    I used to be a Fed until I took an arrow to the groin

  • @TehNoobiness
    @TehNoobiness 4 місяці тому +33

    The topic of "Are tragic events in history worth preserving?" reminds me of something from my own wacky writing. I've been doing a small RP campaign (with just 1 or 2 other people) set in a multiverse in which many of the main characters _know that they are in a story,_ and in fact they regularly take advantage of the way storytelling differs from reality (doing things like setting up tone and scenarios to favor their actions, or at high levels, directly writing new things into the story for tactical advantages).
    However, this leads to a bit of an unusual conflict between two major factions. You see, a story cannot exist without an audience, and that audience wants to see _conflict._ They want to see turmoil, chaos, and _eventually_ triumph--but when triumph isn't temporary, the audience loses interest. At the end of the day, in a world ruled by the rules of fiction, there is one tyranny above all: There is no happily-ever-after, because once the audience reaches happily-ever-after, the story effectively ceases to exist.
    So the primary conflict I've been running with has been between Prometheus, who has started an interdimensional smuggling ring to try and destabilize the story to such a degree that the narrative framework itself collapses, and a sort of fiction-police agency that _primarily_ does disaster relief work in worlds that are suffering supernatural disasters or wars between good and evil, but which has put together a task force to deal with Prometheus's goons occasionally importing ICBMs into a fantasy setting or magic plagues into sci-fi settings.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 4 місяці тому +1

      Brings into mind the "For Want of a Nail" trope, the puzzle adventure endings of Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, and DC Comics' Flashpoint. There's the risk of creating better worlds by changing history, but there are times where saving lives by way of doing so ends up creating worser worlds due to breaking off a necessary balance.

    • @Palmskis
      @Palmskis 4 місяці тому +1

      Really cool idea for a campaign!

    • @irishempire9811
      @irishempire9811 4 місяці тому +1

      This is the plot of a future Deadpool movie

    • @4T3hM4kr0n
      @4T3hM4kr0n 4 місяці тому

      sounds like one helluva clusterfuck

    • @UnsoberIdiot
      @UnsoberIdiot 4 місяці тому +1

      Put this into a readable format. This is an order.

  • @nachoolo
    @nachoolo 4 місяці тому +62

    Apache 9/11 sounds like a bad Turtledove book.

    • @0xcaffe
      @0xcaffe 4 місяці тому +1

      Or an awesome one

    • @LadyTylerBioRodriguez
      @LadyTylerBioRodriguez 3 місяці тому +4

      I like to think even Turtledove would go, no. I can do a decade long Confederacy wins series, but not that.

    • @tommykarrick9130
      @tommykarrick9130 Місяць тому

      It would somehow result in the confederates independently banning slavery and building a hyper advanced utopia by 1920

  • @JT-nr9vl
    @JT-nr9vl 4 місяці тому +78

    I love when you mention getting ahold of people from the original team for stories about the development. It’s cool to hear some of the background from people directly involved, and who we otherwise wouldn’t get to hear from.
    Probably also a great feeling for them to get to share with people today about what they worked on.

    • @DarkDobe
      @DarkDobe 4 місяці тому +9

      I am always surprised and pleased to see anyone even remembering this game exists - I was one of the two level designers for it.

  • @Rosencreutzzz
    @Rosencreutzzz 4 місяці тому +253

    The JDPON supervirus not coming for Belarus and half of Poland is.... interesting.

    • @3panta374
      @3panta374 4 місяці тому +124

      Also apparently no one in the Spanish empire was of "European Descent".

    • @Reac2
      @Reac2 4 місяці тому

      To be fair, who knows what kind of genetic marker the virus latched onto.
      It could be "everyone related to George Washington himself " and that's simply how they spread out over the generations until 2300. Clearly the "European descent" thing is mostly over simplification

    • @mr_jiblets
      @mr_jiblets 4 місяці тому +78

      Not to mention Ireland and Scotland being excluded, as well as New Zealand and western Australia. 😅 guess i'm safe!

    • @ghostkai8713
      @ghostkai8713 4 місяці тому +140

      Yeah, like zero disrespect to Mandy for trying to engage on it or discuss on "will how couod this ending actually mean a single damn thing", but this game just ending by staring the player in the eye and going "The Middle Easy is Gonna Make The White Death, like the Bubonic Plague but for White People", is.
      A Choice, to put lightly

    • @santiagogallego8695
      @santiagogallego8695 4 місяці тому +70

      Hans Goering head writer had no comment when asked this

  • @swempytimes
    @swempytimes 4 місяці тому +38

    I actually emailed a developer on this game to ask him some behind the scenes questions. They were very kind to respond and clearly showed love for the game, the team, and ideas that they had for a sequel. Truly one of my core memory games, despite its charming jank.

    • @cdru515
      @cdru515 4 місяці тому +3

      What were the ideas for sequels?

  • @VoiceQuills
    @VoiceQuills 4 місяці тому +172

    Dexter explaining 9/11 was already a hell of a twist, but a white genocide virus developed SPECIFICALLY by "Middle Eastern" scientists sent me into the stratosphere with how targeted it was

    • @berdyderg900
      @berdyderg900 4 місяці тому +46

      Yeah this game brought you by the CIA for sure

    • @berdyderg900
      @berdyderg900 4 місяці тому +17

      At least they got better when they moved on to call of duty

    • @nathanielclaw2841
      @nathanielclaw2841 4 місяці тому

      and that somehow only killed white people on NATO countries but skipped the white people everywhere else

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 4 місяці тому +24

      @@VoiceQuills Both specifically in the sense that you need to know it was developed in one of them thar terrorist countries, and nonspecifically in the sense that they don't care about which one it was in. Which makes it really easy to analyze that particular writing choice...

    • @jimmydesouza4375
      @jimmydesouza4375 4 місяці тому +17

      @@timothymclean Nothing to analyse. There is an old bedouin proverb, that is sort of taken as one of the fundamental rules of life in the muslim world, which is
      "Me against my brother,
      My brother and I against our cousin,
      My cousin, brother and I against the stranger."
      That is why politically the countries of the middle east fight between each other fairly viciously but functionally unite at the drop of a hat against "external" threats. So if a threat originates from one of them, it tends to originate from all of them, especially if the threat is clandestine, as they all offer shelter and support to each other.

  • @thatsmeman780
    @thatsmeman780 4 місяці тому +11

    Poland and other eastern european countries not being affected by the virus on the "outage map" at 28:10 made laugh so hard, I dont know why they did that but its hilarious

    • @tommykarrick9130
      @tommykarrick9130 Місяць тому +1

      Any country where people argue about who’s more white wasn’t considered white enough by the virus

  • @Argacyan
    @Argacyan 4 місяці тому +105

    Two minor things about the game which weren't mentioned: Sometimes gun upgrades change how a gun looks, and the cover of hard copies varies. I own a hard copy of Darkest of Days and the cover art is different from a hard copy you could buy today in the US.

    • @Zack_Wester
      @Zack_Wester 4 місяці тому +10

      Pretty standard just look at ace combat 4 the US, EU, JP cover art all are different even the sub title is different.
      heck some game even had multiple cover art for each region.
      I remmber a racing game that had a diffrent cover art (anything inside brackets share) for (sweden, finland) (germany, danmark) French (it was just the eiffel tower added in the background) and so on. yes a lot of the diferensial was just that them adding the contries famus landmark to the generic city in the background.
      that is if the background was not just a forest.

    • @Argacyan
      @Argacyan 2 місяці тому

      @@Zack_Wester It's standard in some spaces and not in others - with Darkest of Days I can at least tell that a significant amount of people I have encountered only knew of the US cover art... However, beyond if it's sth unique or not, I think it's just cool to have that variation generally speaking.

  • @daverok
    @daverok 4 місяці тому +67

    fun fact : one of the skips in the speedrun of the game was found because while routing a Spanish speedrunner saw a dick drawn with triggers up in the skybox by the developer. Then Meliodas, the Russian speedrunner of this title, tried to find a good point of view to show us, the viewers on a marathon, the goodness of a blocky penis made before Minecraft by a gamedev. There was a good spot, for some reason there was a hut in the middle of nowhere slightly out of bounds of the level, reachable by an abuse of "tree-climbing" they've found earlier.He came to the hut and realized there is another trigger that can be reached and that starts up a scripted portion of a level. Probably was left there by devs for testing purposes. The hut climb cuts a long sequence of AI triggers and saves about 20 minutes time in the NG+ cata.
    Was found because of a dick in the sky.
    Thanks Mandy for bringing up a good memory.

  • @eggamer973
    @eggamer973 4 місяці тому +42

    I am so happy you looked at this game! This came out when I was still in high school, but I now work for the company that made it and work closely with a few of the people still left from that era that actually worked on this game. The lead sound person that did all of the sounds for this game still writes and composes the music and sounds for the mobile slot games we make now. Fun fact, the development of this game almost bankrupt the company when it came out, almost completely due to the marketing expenses. In the end, this is why they stepped away from making this type of game and shifted to the social casino landscape that was wide open at the time. That being said, I think they were on to something and could have made some amazing games if they had stuck to it. This was only the first attempt at a game from a small game studio in the middle of Iowa, so I still think the end result is pretty cool.

    • @DarkDobe
      @DarkDobe 4 місяці тому +3

      The owner of Phantom EFX kind of spun off 8 Monkey as a passion project that was supposed to be a civil war shooter and turned into DoD. He made his money with slot machine games before, and from the look of things keeps doing so now.
      But yes, the budget spent on marketing was something approaching what he paid us to collectively develop it.

  • @dunnoowo8828
    @dunnoowo8828 4 місяці тому +26

    this intro remanded me that trailer for that new game where it's just a medieval sim until it switches to a pov of a guy mowing knights in his car like he's God's drunkest driver also a guy in civil war finds an full auto from the future and goes JESUS GAVE ME THIS GUN!!!!!

    • @Deliveredmean42
      @Deliveredmean42 4 місяці тому +6

      Ah yes, Kingmakers! Hope that game turn out well!

    • @dunnoowo8828
      @dunnoowo8828 4 місяці тому +4

      same I laughed for few minutes after seeing the part where the guy on top of the castle just headshots the fully armored enemy commander like "parry this fucking casual"

  • @ScantilyCladPlatypus
    @ScantilyCladPlatypus 4 місяці тому +10

    every military shooter wishes they could catch the lightning in a bottle that is the battlefield 1942 theme even battlefield

  • @Breakingfasst88
    @Breakingfasst88 4 місяці тому +387

    I’ve never been this early to a Mandalore Gaming review- is that a fucking assault rifle in Ancient rome??

    • @BestCupid
      @BestCupid 4 місяці тому +59

      Welcome to Darkest Days. The game that was a badass concept but kinda really jank. I kinda wish someone would try to make a similar concept game

    • @1rez378
      @1rez378 4 місяці тому +22

      So early you landed in ancient Rome

    • @xxellviccros7054
      @xxellviccros7054 4 місяці тому

      Well...about that...look up a game called kingmakers, it might be what you're referring to. ​@@BestCupid

    • @Centurian128
      @Centurian128 4 місяці тому +12

      You got here so early it broke the space-time continuum.

  • @TheNZKiller
    @TheNZKiller 4 місяці тому +190

    For the curious, the game featured at 6:41 is Hunt: Showdown. An extraction shooter featuring guns from just after the American Civil War!

    • @hahndogg5540
      @hahndogg5540 4 місяці тому +22

      I love hunt for this very reason, the weird inbetween of old and new concepts in weaponry at that time period clashing together is very fun to play around with

    • @fordakacar
      @fordakacar 4 місяці тому +6

      is this game still alive at all? i had a ton of fun with it over covid

    • @azrael7965
      @azrael7965 4 місяці тому +9

      @@fordakacar its about to get a big update running on the new engine

    • @jacobosaldarriaga4820
      @jacobosaldarriaga4820 4 місяці тому +9

      @@fordakacar Yes, I play a ton with one of my friends and while there are some cheating issues it's very fun. There is also a pretty massive update coming this month that adds importannt mechanics like bullet drop and expanded audio detail, as well as a new Wild Boss and new map. So if you are going to play it again this is probably the best time as that update is coming pretty soon.

    • @Pimploaf_YTP
      @Pimploaf_YTP 4 місяці тому +2

      @@fordakacar it's getting a huge update. I'm hoping they focus on polish after that, though. It's a flawed game, but it's one of my favorites for just the overall feel of it. Sometimes, I enjoy just skulking around a match, not really going for kills or objectives, but maybe engaging with someone opportunistically, and a lot of that is just because I love the atmosphere.

  • @MarktheRude
    @MarktheRude 4 місяці тому +259

    28:10 "This is the official european outage atlas"
    >Finland, Mongolia or Hungary not affected at all.
    [laughs in mongolian]
    What did they mean by this?

    • @RabbitShirak
      @RabbitShirak 4 місяці тому +38

      Iceland seems pretty chill as well

    • @NaderinZim
      @NaderinZim 4 місяці тому

      Considering that ALL OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA was colonized by the Spanish/Portuguese, it's abysmal that the virus didn't kill a single person there.

    • @AB-bg7os
      @AB-bg7os 4 місяці тому +73

      TOTAL TURANIC VICTORY

    • @cdru515
      @cdru515 4 місяці тому +23

      Russia is also mostly okay

    • @leonardorossi998
      @leonardorossi998 4 місяці тому +30

      Scratch that: what about Ireland and Scotland?

  • @connordennis1381
    @connordennis1381 4 місяці тому +10

    I am a champion in any% "please god find any other weapon other than a springfield rifle." In the civil war missions.

  • @kinghoodofmousekind2906
    @kinghoodofmousekind2906 4 місяці тому +4

    02:48 the mysteries of the druids, they got such a time-travelling attitude.

  • @parokki
    @parokki 4 місяці тому +162

    I love how the dewhiteyfication virus seems to have ignored Finland. Yay for weird Uralic genes?

    • @RabbitShirak
      @RabbitShirak 4 місяці тому +33

      Torilla tavataan

    • @Wolf_ManJack
      @Wolf_ManJack 4 місяці тому +82

      I'll count the Argentinians as white long before I recognize any Finnish sound as language

    • @romanfan250
      @romanfan250 4 місяці тому

      I'm willing to bet money that disease bit the terrorists in the ass due to their own genes. 'Caucasian' is a pretty wide net that can encompass anyone from Arabs to Hispanics (seriously, Chile gets hit yet Andy. H and the Argentines are immune?).

    • @dx-ek4vr
      @dx-ek4vr 4 місяці тому +29

      Finland is not beating the Mongolian ancestry allegations

    • @hoonterofhoonters6588
      @hoonterofhoonters6588 4 місяці тому +9

      mämmi ja sauna

  • @Cityinlead
    @Cityinlead 4 місяці тому +75

    I’m surprised how every review of this game I encounter, no one has ever mentioned Harry Turtledove’s book, “Guns of the South” Arguably his most famous work simply for the cover alone, which is Robert E. Lee holding an AK-47. The plot is about a bunch of time traveling South African terrorist go back to give the Confederate Army AK-47s, truly a bizarre but good read

    • @irishempire9811
      @irishempire9811 4 місяці тому +4

      Im more of a fan of his series after GOTS, Southern Victory, a more realistic alternate history about the Confederacy winning the Civil war. Would definitely recommend reading the first book at least

    • @knightofficer
      @knightofficer 4 місяці тому +4

      that reminds me of a strategy game i saw on steam for a while in early access that eventually got abandoned, of different factions going back to kit out both factions in the civil war with future weapons, its a shame it flopped because i still love the concept

    • @jimmydesouza4375
      @jimmydesouza4375 4 місяці тому

      How much of his tankie politics does he inject into guns of the south? I was thinking of reading it, having read his World-War and Homeward Bound series, but they had about the upper limit of commie propaganda I was able to stomach and just due to the subject matter I would suspect GotS would have even more.

    • @therealchriscunningham
      @therealchriscunningham 4 місяці тому +2

      @@irishempire9811 The first trilogy (covering an alternative early 20th century) is awesome. The second and third are grimdark doomerism which never seem to know which of their own moral stories they're supposed to be telling and spend an inordinate amount of time praising the moral fortitude of people both real and imagined who would belong in a collection of history's greatest monsters. (In a hark back to this video, Custer not only not getting last-standed but being the champion of and IIRC eponym of the alt-timeline M4 Sherman was one of its lesser problems.)

    • @irishempire9811
      @irishempire9811 4 місяці тому +2

      @@therealchriscunningham i havent read the other trilogies in the series, only How Few Remain and the Grear War trilogy, and those were awesome. Idk if I'll read the other books but im fine just reading those firsr 4 for now

  • @AB-bg7os
    @AB-bg7os 4 місяці тому +220

    Man I wish some devs would create a spiritual successor, but this time it focuses on time travelers fighting each other in the past

    • @KSignalEingang
      @KSignalEingang 4 місяці тому +17

      Isn't that just TimeSplitters?

    • @AB-bg7os
      @AB-bg7os 4 місяці тому +7

      ​@@KSignalEingangwasnt the past in timesplitters sci fi as well? I never played them

    • @tyrus1235
      @tyrus1235 4 місяці тому +17

      @@AB-bg7os The "Present" in TimeSplitters was the far future, so parts of its "Past" were still sci-fi future. That said, many levels are set in the actual historical past - from World War I, Wild West, 1960's and even the 1990's.

    • @YeomanArcher
      @YeomanArcher 4 місяці тому +17

      "U.S. Patent Number 1" Is a board game about time travelers racing to be the first inventor of the time machine and set a timeline where no one else can ever invent it.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 4 місяці тому +3

      @@AB-bg7os Ah yes, temporal proxy wars.

  • @ArikGST
    @ArikGST 2 місяці тому +3

    14:20 I have actually fired and reloaded muzzle loading firearms. If you can do it THAT fast, you are now your officers favorite soldier xD It takes up to a minute.

  • @garthmarenghi9040
    @garthmarenghi9040 4 місяці тому +5

    "The word on the street is that the recruiter's girlfriend goes to this high school too"
    Wait a minute.

  • @roadent217
    @roadent217 4 місяці тому +27

    30:47 I've always been very miffed by how there are practically *no* games set in the Korean War. Almost feels like an industry-wide conspiracy at times. Fighting Russian T-34s with American Shermans and Pershings while early jets fly above would be really cool (even if I recognize that the main reason for its exclusion is probably that it's not distinct enough from either WW2 or Vietnam, sandwiched awkwardly in-between).

    • @Digolgrin
      @Digolgrin 4 місяці тому +17

      There's legal reasons for this; you can't sell any games that depict war in the Korean peninsula in brick and mortar South Korean stores. South Korea also happens to be a substantial video game market, so the Korean War is basically verboten as a setting unless you just don't want to, or don't need to, deal with that.

    • @boblately5402
      @boblately5402 4 місяці тому +17

      @@Digolgrinthere’s also the fact that the US was primarily fighting the Chinese during that conflict and big companies love the Chinese market.

    • @Digolgrin
      @Digolgrin 4 місяці тому +8

      @@boblately5402 That too, of course. That's the biggest reason today but it's largely what I've known.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 4 місяці тому +3

      Gotta miss those games where you can fly the F-86 Sabre and the MIG-15.
      Anyways, any game where you clobber the PRC is a worthwhile game to me. They're basically the Nazi Germany of the now as of the writing.

    • @BrainerVideos
      @BrainerVideos 4 місяці тому +10

      What is about as bizzare is that Russian and Ukrainian devs in their heyday (0's and early 10's) were probably the largest contributor to the WWII games out there (RTSs like Blitzkrieg and Men of War, tactics like Silent Storm, sims like IL-2 Sturmovik...) and those had the Axis as a playable side despite the particular obsession with loudly denouncing anything and all even vaguely "Nazi" in Russia in particular.
      Whereas nowadays it seems like any plans to recreate a historical period impartially for (semi-) educational purposes are gonna get hounded to no end. I am honestly worried as to what Civ VII is gonna turn out like in this day and age.

  • @windwind3170
    @windwind3170 4 місяці тому +111

    Imagine if all those missions that you're going through are the result of fuck ups caused by all the other Agents running around the timeline, and the enemies from time bubbles are other agents from even further timeline are trying to kill you to prevent your fuck ups.

    • @windwind3170
      @windwind3170 4 місяці тому +63

      Wait... that's exactly what happened... Am I so uncreative that people from a decade ago come up with that idea?

    • @Hemostat
      @Hemostat 4 місяці тому +19

      @@windwind3170 lmao i think its pretty stock time travel schenanigans. I can think of a few games where you go back and shoot yourself at start of the story

  • @giuwahdangelo102
    @giuwahdangelo102 4 місяці тому +45

    "It's a prequel to Custer's Revenge" oh boy this'll be a good vid

    • @RootVegetabIe
      @RootVegetabIe 4 місяці тому

      I wish I surprised that one of the earliest sex games was about Custer SAing an Indigenous woman.

  • @Kligor2
    @Kligor2 4 місяці тому +2

    Honestly what drove me crazy in the good way about this was being in these massive battles and feeling like a soldier on the ground even if we then transition into being the army-stomper.
    like being brought into a line battle was AWESOME imo
    I wish more FPS games did that or made you feel like part of the army not just "one of 3 protagonists and thus nobody else will ever do anything"

  • @donovian2538
    @donovian2538 4 місяці тому +186

    The plot turning out to be "9/11 Hero stops the arabic pandemic" is a surprisingly true-to-form early 2000s game, tbh

    • @Carnepiscina
      @Carnepiscina 4 місяці тому

      Civil War bum and 9/11 victim travel through time to stop The Future Arabening

  • @zzodysseuszz
    @zzodysseuszz 4 місяці тому +3

    13:04 I was not fucking expecting him to say New York 😂 hahahah I nearly spat out my food

  • @charliebeareuwu
    @charliebeareuwu 4 місяці тому +85

    21:26
    IC FIVMVS CARI DVO NOS SINE FINE SODALES NOMINA SI QVAERIS GAIVS ET AVLVS ERANT
    "Here we were, we dear pair, comrades without end. If you ask for names, they were Gaius and Aulus"
    -written above the entrance to a bar in Pompeii

    • @MandaloreGaming
      @MandaloreGaming  4 місяці тому +40

      I'm glad someone caught it

    • @Xenomorthian
      @Xenomorthian 4 місяці тому +4

      did the romans write U's with V's were they stvpid?

    • @Minisoderr
      @Minisoderr 4 місяці тому +5

      @@Xenomorthianthey did

    • @charliebeareuwu
      @charliebeareuwu 4 місяці тому +9

      @@Xenomorthian Yes. In fact, the pronunciation of the letter V as a "vvv" sound was introduced much later during the Middle Ages, and in classical Latin the letter V acted as both the letters U and W.
      In other words, it's pronounced "Weni, Widi, Wici", "Wersus" and "Werbum" (where we get the modern English "Word")

    • @charliebeareuwu
      @charliebeareuwu 4 місяці тому +9

      @@MandaloreGaming honestly learning about that specific piece of Roman graffiti has changed forever how I view history and life in general

  • @HER3411
    @HER3411 4 місяці тому +62

    My mouth was agape thinking Morris got Time Napped away from fucking 9/11 for a second

    • @lilwyvern4
      @lilwyvern4 4 місяці тому +4

      Wait, that's not what happened?

    • @grahamcarpenter691
      @grahamcarpenter691 4 місяці тому +36

      No you were right the first time, that's exactly what they seem to be implying.

    • @DisgruntledPeasant
      @DisgruntledPeasant 4 місяці тому +11

      Which is super weird when they're specifically looking for soldiers.
      Sure firefighters are brave but you'd have to give that guy so much more additional training. There is no shortage of soldiers they could time-nap.
      Or maybe this is just more evidence of their incompetence, meybe they really are running out of soldiers to steal.

    • @dx-ek4vr
      @dx-ek4vr 4 місяці тому +17

      @@DisgruntledPeasant I guess if they spent a little more time worldbuilding, they could’ve implied Dexter used to serve in the Gulf War before retiring and becoming a firefighter.
      Yeah, the premise of this game is one of the best I’ve ever heard, but needed a developer with better resources to handle

    • @troglodyte-kc2sl
      @troglodyte-kc2sl 4 місяці тому

      ​@@DisgruntledPeasant Considering they go for the white genocide future horror (... Why is Chile the only country in Latin America that's white? What the fuck?) I'm pretty sure it's for shock value. Or the writers bad brain damage. Or both.

  • @alxsblv6164
    @alxsblv6164 4 місяці тому +83

    15:04 - Ah, yes. Famous Russian "БАЯЯДСUDA" which means - "for the love of god, please, find ONE Russian person to do you Russian texts! Voice acting sounds normal. Wtf happened with texts?".

    • @alexanderkoenig9058
      @alexanderkoenig9058 4 місяці тому +11

      "Bayayadcuda" lol. In actuality, I imagine it was because audiences familiar with the Latin Alphabet mostly use the Cyrillic Alphabet for style and not for substance.

    • @alxsblv6164
      @alxsblv6164 4 місяці тому +8

      @@alexanderkoenig9058 it is! Also - "Bayayadcuda" probably supposed to be BARRACUDA.

    • @alexanderkoenig9058
      @alexanderkoenig9058 4 місяці тому +4

      @@alxsblv6164 I concur, but it's weird how they weren't consistent with all of the As being represented with Д. But again, style points over all.

    • @AlphaGarg
      @AlphaGarg 4 місяці тому +5

      @@alexanderkoenig9058 Worse - bayayad*s*uda

    • @overtrolbmaerty9164
      @overtrolbmaerty9164 4 місяці тому +15

      Russians in this game sound normal until the moment you hear "For Motherland! For Stalin!"
      During the WWI))

  • @ericsteenbergen9470
    @ericsteenbergen9470 4 місяці тому +2

    Hey Mandy I can explain why older guns and modern ones sound different!
    Either way its a supersonic boom; but modern guns the powder burns slower and that boom occurs outside the barrel at the muzzle.
    Black powder detonates faster, so you are hearing that same boom but from inside the gun and directed down the barrel!
    Ultimately still a bang or a boom but with a different sound character because of the underlying physics.

  • @predator7192
    @predator7192 4 місяці тому +1

    Funny thing about the game,
    The mission where you have to mark targets for Dexter to blow them up that Mandalore talks about being too long doesnt appear for many people.
    I distinctly remember playing that mission years ago, after watching the video i went back to the same copy i had to replay the game and it didnt appear for me. I came back to this video to recheck and sure enough there is footage of that mission especially at 22:30
    It just skips the mission if you pick one side.
    The name of the mission is eye of the competition.

  • @cal.3626
    @cal.3626 4 місяці тому +102

    The minigun sounds like a 40k titan stubbed its toe

    • @R3GARnator
      @R3GARnator 4 місяці тому +10

      It's literally just an A10 Warthog.

    • @martinnavarrete5279
      @martinnavarrete5279 4 місяці тому +3

      Or a Covenant Scarab tank staring mildly upset at a tank before blowing it up.

  • @aldraone-mu5yg
    @aldraone-mu5yg 4 місяці тому +38

    17:04 Well that explains veteran difficulty in World At War.

  • @TheArklyte
    @TheArklyte 4 місяці тому +4

    Underused period in european history would be The Deluge and connected to it wars that shaped european history.
    But overall I'd say that you can point at any point of history of any nation in Asia and see it underrepresented. I don't recall any game or media that touches Indonesia or Malaysia at all for example.

  • @JoshSweetvale
    @JoshSweetvale 4 місяці тому +3

    18:40 Oh look, the time police form the 2Xth century is policing the time police of the 22nd century :D
    This game is actually well thought-out, I like it.

  • @GrannyDryden
    @GrannyDryden 4 місяці тому +103

    The plot twist towards the end, reminds me the way i felt in Deus Ex, when you wake up in a cell in Majestics 12 hideout and have to escape, only to realize that when to do, you exit into the UNATCO Facility. and that sudden realization that both are the same Organization.

    • @ignotumperignotius630
      @ignotumperignotius630 4 місяці тому +7

      SPOILERS lmao

    • @badgermcbadger1968
      @badgermcbadger1968 4 місяці тому +2

      Yay you just spoiled deus ex for me

    • @hawkshot867
      @hawkshot867 4 місяці тому +30

      It's a 24 year old game....

    • @Comkill117
      @Comkill117 4 місяці тому +12

      People say spoilers but like, that’s still *Act 1* of the game when that’s revealed. Not even close to the craziest thing there by a long shot.

    • @SaladofStones
      @SaladofStones 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@badgermcbadger1968 You literally learn this in the opening cutscene

  • @ReviewLover
    @ReviewLover 4 місяці тому +55

    While the twist with the Opposition was pretty interesting, I think it would've been equally interesting if the reason for them showing up when you kill too many of the blue guys is because they're from some alternate "evil" future that's tracked you down and wants to stop you from possibly changing things further that they get away from their future.

    • @damoclesecoe7184
      @damoclesecoe7184 4 місяці тому +32

      Now that you mention it, it is a bit strange they show up for shooting the blue guys when the reveal at the end of the game implies they would want the blue guys to die anyways.

    • @davidfoldberg8004
      @davidfoldberg8004 4 місяці тому +1

      @@damoclesecoe7184 No, they only want to get rid of the orange guys because they are the ancestors of the scientists. The blue guys are influential, but they didn't directly lead to this, and removing them may have severe unforeseen consequences.

    • @GoldScale57
      @GoldScale57 4 місяці тому

      @@damoclesecoe7184 Maybe I'm just biased but I get the vibe that picking up the guy who would've died in 9/11 to save the white race from "The Middle East" was in no way a coincidence. Especially when the other guy they pick up was literally in the middle of killing Apaches. Also funny that World War 2 happens and they're all like "sorry, it is what it is". And they seem to hang around Pompeii a lot...for some reason.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 4 місяці тому +1

      In other words, the game needed Multiverse Theory. Time travel surprisingly can lead to such events, as we see in the countless different universes out there featuring the Terminator war against Skynet.

  • @Kaiserhawk
    @Kaiserhawk 4 місяці тому +49

    I could be misunderstanding, but why do the time Sardukaur come out when you kill a historically significant person only to reveal that they are trying to prevent what the descendants of people are trying to develop.

    • @GG_1318
      @GG_1318 4 місяці тому +2

      maybe its a third faction

    • @vandeheyeric
      @vandeheyeric 4 місяці тому +49

      They go after you if you kill other important, background people, not the main targets. Put it this way: Orange Glow people are your main objectives and the ones who are ancestors of the scientist that help with the super DNA sequencer. Them dying ends the mission and you have to reboot. Blue Glows are people who are importanr for other things, but won’t bork the mission if they die beyond cutting down on your upgrade points. The Opposition shows up if you go on a Blue Glow killing spree endangering God only knows who and what else, but they do not protect the Orange Glows. On the contrary they outright try and kill them from time to time.

  • @walnzell9328
    @walnzell9328 4 місяці тому +2

    16:22 Muskets from this era were far more accurate than they had been 100 years prior. The effective range was greatly increased from new barrel rifling techniques and special bullets had been made by then that also had characteristics that allowed rifled muskets to be more accurate. The accuracy of the Civil War muskets is accurate to history.

  • @smeminem1258
    @smeminem1258 4 місяці тому +4

    You pull of a tempkral pincer to save yourself thus pulling off a temporal tempiral pincer that gives Cristopher Nolan the idea of of a temporal pincer