You Are Empty - The Stalingrad Chicken Emergency
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- What is the time, CV-11?
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MUSIC:
1:30 - Dan Bodan - "Gaia in Fog"
5:56 - YVEN - "Wrong"
08:15 - The 126ers - "Rage"
19:56 - The Woogie - "The Whole Other"
Credits - "How'd I Do" composed by Lee Jackson, arrangement by Speedy:
dleejackson.lb... - Lee Jackson, composer of incredible power
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The word СПИРТ is written on the jar. MC literally drinks medical alcohol the whole game.
Sounds about right
Like a real, fucking man!
that's metal
@@SpecShadow Or metil :)
Like a true russian
"You know it's not a man, it's a giant chicken"
Actually Civvie, they are featherless and biped, therefore they are men
@@_DeadEnd_ Once again a reactionary fails to tell the difference between an actual history joke and one of their favorite two jokes. You played yourself.
Joke aside, I thought the "giant chickens" actually mutated into dinosaurs. They can't be raptors as those actually did have feathers. If anything, it reminds me of the Red Dwarf season 8 episode where an old man's pet bird is accidentally de-evolved into a T-Rex with a time control gun, except this time it's played for horror instead of comedy.
*holds up a plucked chicken* behold! A man!
@@kirionDK Diogenes reference
The chickens made it feel like Serious Sam for a moment.
"That chicken is not a person" settle down there Diogenes.
Can't believe the knowledge I learned from Samonella actually apply here!
Idk dude, I think Aristoteles was right, maybe that is a human.
TÖTTÖDÖDÖÖ! Hey what's up fuckers, look at this person I found, isn't it such a human, wow, look at him! What a guy! Anyway, loved to stay and chat, but I saw some trash outside that looked delicious! See ya later, deliberator!
@@DarkOmegaMK2 bruh wasn’t that Plato who argued man was a featherless biped and Diogenes brought a featherless chicken as a way to point out how vague the definition is.
@@Barakon no
"There isn't even any gore, these guys just disappear." Yeah, that's how Stalin likes it.
I don't know, Stalin was a pretty sick and blood-thirsty bastard...
@@RipOffProductionsLLC Well, yes but he would also make you disappear in such a way nobody would know you even existed
@@RipOffProductionsLLC Stalin's regime was infamous for "photoshopping" people out of old pictures as if they were never there.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan yes, I know that was the joke they were going for, but what Stalin's regime did to those same people in real life likely wasn't quick and was probably deliberately cruel. That was my point, Stalin and his ilk might like erasing people from public history, but they also like being vindictive to those they erase. Rapid disintegration isn't the satisfaction they seek.
Absolutely ten out of ten joke, mate.
Oh hey, You are Empty! I actually played this game, I can actually share some funny story about this game. So, this game wasn't supposed to be like Half Life 2 despite what Civvie thinks, it actually wanted to be a Soviet version of Bioshock before Bioshock. The whole plot was about this scientist who possessed psychic powers and managed to brainwash Stalin to allow him to do these various projects, which created these superhumans to make USSR a super nation. His last project involved this tower where his own body and mind would be connected, but the experiment went wrong and thus everyone was driven mad and transformed into these super mutants, except the main hero who was in a comma. So, the game actually was supposed to have a lot more levels, weapons (like a Machinegun and flamethrower), two branching endings, among various types of enemies each representing a sort of model of a soviet citizen that went mad (Like you would have Butchers, Pioneers a so forth) but what happened is one of the lead developers died. So, it set the whole process way back, and to meet their deadline, the devs essentially had to remove entire levels, enemies, and weapons from the game along with huge chunks of the story.
I still really liked this game it’s like they took Stalin Subway and turned it up to 11! I live in the states and have for a long time enjoyed importing little known European titles like You are Empty and City’s WWII games
oh wowie..I feel so sad for the developer and I hope they are well at least now..especially the team as I always hope properly for other chances when companies do something that was badly made,wishing to supporting them again to help them follow their dreams properly
@@m1rock If you're into strategy games I'd recommend Knights of Honor, a Bulgarian made gem of a game that I've sunk a lot of hours into.
It's set in medieval Europe (plus some parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East).
You can play as any country on the map and it has a great soundtrack.
I didn't know the dude died, I just heard in an interview that they ran out of time and money.
@@LambdaVideos Oh ye, he died. I dunno if it's in the English version, but the Russian version at the end says how it's dedicated to him.
Civvie: Absolutely losing his tenuous grip on the slender fabric of reality.
Katie: haha camera goes zooooooooom.
I see one of them has embraced the madness.
Lmao, loved that little input.
Katie's parts always crack me up. Love that she's still down there suffering with Civvie.
Well... Not really loving it since ya know, it's awful, but glad to hear she's doing relatively okay in there.
Now I know that it is just a joke but I'm putting my serious glasses on and guessing that those zooms exist because they made the game at a 30 fps framerate and those cuts were instant in that framerate? :D bur newer computers interpolate camera movements and therefore it appears different? (To me it looks like even 30 fps would result in weird camera movements but I'm just guessing cuz I cannot accept janky)
Goggles off.
(edit: corrected typos)
@@Lattamonsteri There was never a 30 fps fashion in post-USSR gamedev, because it was always heavily PC oriented. It's just a junky self-written engine which interpretes camera in a strange way. This is the only ingame engine cutscene in the game, so devs probably just hid the HUD and moved the character around instead of camera.
A game where the NPCs are generally leagues more terrifying than any of the monsters.
Maybe that's why the City Council official was so despairing. He was seemingly the last normal looking person in Russia...
Just noticed the moment when Civvie completely loses it starts at almost exactly 8:10.
the fractal comedy of a broken mind, perfect from every angle
Kaw! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw!
It's jank o clock
What the hell is this?!
The city council yeah!
"Ravenholm" "In the test chamberrrr" "Rather than give you the illusion of choice"
Oh my god it's happening
It's happening!
@@waylonsherman5599 Pro Half-Life when Civvie?
Max RadishOne Not to mention the sequels, Portal and Black Mesa, and also all the Gordon Ramsey clips for Half Life Source. It would be sweet if he did a crossover with Ross's Game Dungeon and/or Freeman's Mind for those.
@From a DOOM fan Who says it can't be both? ;)
@From a DOOM fan freemans mind is infinitely funnier than ai
Fun fact: this game has a sprint button, but it was disabled for some unknown reason.
You can re-enable by editing one of the files.
I think it was for story reasons, main guy got hit by a car so he cant really run at all
There was also supposed to be an MG, flamethrower, and and two endings but they had to rush out the game, I believe
I understand why they removed the sprint. The game has 5 hours of playtime, if you could sprint it could be run through in 2. Lack of content and short play time were the scourge of eastern european shooters of that era. Usually it was resolved by physically slowing down the player, making bullet sponge enemies and spawning dozen of them behind every corner.
Actually considering your character got hit by a car and you can notice a slight limp when they walk, it was most likely for story reasons.
Jesus, that ending was ballsy, the protagonist saves the entire world and all he gets for it is a major beating and imprisonment where he'll die a slow painful death if he isn't outright executed.
You have no idea how many times I watch this, specifically at 9:30. "What the hell is this" and "the city council yea!" are frequently quoted in our household. Bless you Civvie 11.
Truely, the most slav jank moment in History!
Like a fine herring in a fur coat!
"Damned wise men..."
I get that that "wise" is supposed to be sarcastic, but there's no sarcasm in his voice at all...
"What in this jars anyway?"
It's a pure, medical 96% ethyl alcohol. Better than vodka!
@FirstName LastName I can tell you from experience that this kicks better than vodka too
not funny
@@Sven-ql3ch
Real facts are never funny, dude -_-
@@Sven-ql3ch Nobody is laughing here, it's an actual ingame piece of lore - those jars literally have the word "spirit" spelled on 'em. Spirit as rectified medical alcohol, so yeah, 96% ethanol, right. That's why those tall nurses drop it and no one else.
Wait a minute... HALLIGAN, WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?
"Non-invasive trans-orbital lobotomy"
Pretty sure sending an icepick through one's eye socket is the very definition of invasive.
Can somebody ask Trotsky how invasive that is?
@@cdcdrr Lucky duck got it in the back of the neck, instead.
@@cdcdrr you beat me to this joke by 3 months
@@fuzzydunlop7928 Technically it was a climbing axe not an ice pick.
It's less invasive than traditionally executed lobotomies.
Loved the tankie joke
Didn’t know you liked gaming serpentza haha. Big fan of the channel !
Hey it's you! I haven't been subscribed to you since last March. It wasn't me, it unsubscribed me and I forgot you existed. Time to catch up with you and C-Milk I guess!
I remember you.....
what the fu*k is up with you and China
AGREE
"Is this a debriefing or a Nirvana song" bro that was the funniest thing I heard all month no lie, thanks for the laugh
Wasn't expecting Nirvana being mentioned in a Civvie video
@@Athawolfus Not the first time they were. In the DOOM II video when he gets to the level "Nirvana" he has Teen Spirit playing at like 10x slower speed and pitchshifted down for about 5 seconds at the title card.
You may also reach...here
Something in the way....
I guess Civvie loves Nirvana
Hannibal Lector: “Draw a clock Civvie”
I wish it was something they made up for that show.
I just finished the first 2 seasons of it and thought “I know where civvie has been on Netflix lately.”
@@CollinandBri lmao, pay any attention to the Trump Biden shit and people want both of them to draw a clock at their debates just to see how brain broken they are.
@Papa Legba whining*
Kyster Sweats someone didn’t see kreed. You best get on that.
I'm sorry, did the movie theater part reveal that the cause of everything was a Russian 5G cell tower?
yes
And _way_ ahead of our time, too.
Yup
Except instead of our cities being breeding grounds for super human abominations, it just gives your kid autism or something
Nah, though I'd not be surprised if these 5G wackos think that's what the whole plan to use radio to create the ubermeinch is why they're there. And not, y'know, internet.
THE CITY COUNCIL, YEAH! is a line a I'll remember until the day I die.
It's like a beautiful mixture of Zeno Clash, The Suffering, and Painkiller, with some Stalker seasoning thrown in.
Surreal jank that goes down surprisingly smooth.
It's one of those videos where after watching I wished I had played it myself haha
Currently working with one of the devs who made this, a few guys from Wargaming and a guy was on a Stalker dev team. Decent developers, have some stories to tell. Not many guys stayed in gaming industry tbh, god awful hours and sub-par pay. And decent C++ developer can get much more in the enterprise sector. As for the art-direction, that dude worked at 4A if I remember correctly.
Another comment mentions they were rushed bc of the lead devs death. Don’t think it’s half bad for a rush job
Russia! Belarus! Ukraine! You need to create a new nemesis for 1C, GSC isn't getting back into shape any time soon
So that's why it reminds me of metro
@@teslashark Stalker 2 2021?
Art direction is top notch, the game is still fun despite any short comings. I am glad Civvie gave it the spot light, I hope it makes some money.
Finally a video on this unknown masterpiece.
I have a thing for these forgotten, shitty, small games. As someone who lived in Poland, with no access to the internet as child, we'd buy these game magazines in kiosk stands. Everytime they included one of these. Painkiller, Ubersoldier, Vivisector: Beast Within, all these have a special place in my heart, just like You are Empty. The boxed version had a really cool little booklet about all the weapons and enemies you encounter, plus a soundtrack disc, how cool is that!
For anyone confused about the story: The guy you meet at the end of the game (the one missing his lower half) developed psychokinetic powers during his adolescence by unintentionally controlling animals around him (the flies, the dog bashing it's dead on the glass). He uses that power and his knowledge to become some kinda scientist and (this being the soviet era) develops these implants and other stuff for the government to test on people, such as (and I quote the booklet):
- cosmetics that burned womens' faces off (the nurse)
- weird food to make chickens bigges (the hens)
- welding prosthetics and propellers (the flying welders)
- the healing soda and medical alcohol
Obviously the implants and other stuff had side effects and made people go insane. The scientist himself was connected to the device so he could in some way use his psychokinetic powers and make the people more obedient for the government and physically stronger, more fit to work, but it didnt work out in the end...or did it? The scientist is a sociopath so he might be in control of the monsters still, he did say it was a success, so you're given a choice - to either replace him and take control of everyone or go back in time and stop the scientist in his tracks. It's a really interesting story and the devs put a lot of work into it (it was just a small team of friends). Recently there's been news and even a steam page for a possible remake of the game titled ''Reminder of Empty''.
The cinematics that explain the story can be found here, they are all hand-drawn by a really talented artist: ua-cam.com/video/gZPHH55St8I/v-deo.html
This comment oughta be pinned
Yeah we had those in Croatia too
LOL same in Bulgaria. Sad really.
i got mine "you are empty" for free because they were closing the place and a copy fell on the ground.
nobody picked it up and they left.
finders keepers.
@@ryszakowy I got it for free too, but that's because I'm pretty sure this game is abandonware
19:04 - Developers actually did quite a good job when they modelled those subway trans. Here in Hungary that time had some subway trans like those and they looked the same. Even the interior of the cars was right modelled.
The song he used when he was trippin out because of the Slavjank was unironically good
found it if anyone else wants it
ua-cam.com/video/0qSCy5P96RM/v-deo.html
The 126ers | Rage
Edit: Updated with the original version. Some guy had stolen it on the previous song I linked...
Name?
“Will work for steam keys, no butt stuff.” The amount of work that goes into your videos is incredible.
i noticed this too in the captions. though the captions are worded slightly different. cracked me up. i wonder if he has "subliminal" captions throughout his videos?
How about that super shotgun in the glass? 'In case of emergency break glass'
@@drewchristopher4609 Oh My I never noticed it
I felt and saw a bit of the dark brown and felt that whatever was inside of that cabine was broken and gone.
I was also a bit tired so there is that.
Forgive me for this
This whole channel is oozing with quality..
I would absolutely watch a movie or series if civvie would make one
"I would have just said chickens" is something I want on my tombstone.
This may be the most accurately-translated piece of Slav Jank ever ... everyone else was on board for the jank but the translator was like nah, I'ma just do my job.
The DUB team, though...
@@professordetective807 I was on board the " the PC is crazy" train hence the delusions and janky people, til that ending
@@professordetective807 Those are most likely the developers. They sound like people from Eastern Europe trying to sound English, and that was the usual practice with these games. And even if it's not the developers, it's certainly not real actors.
Ever play STALKER? It's also a bit jank yet it's got a cult following.
@@cpt.shmitt7387 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is almost as much of a classic as the original Doom
That jank o’clock bit was life changing. I feel like I also lost my mind while watching it
This game could use a remake, its like Silent Hill but in the USSR and is an FPS game, I really dig the creepy atmosphere
There's Jank.
There's EuroJank
And then there's SlavJank.
But can we go deeper?
The supreme jank.
A couple years ago SBFP did a one-off of same game that was, I shit you not, Azerbaijank, and it was glorious
But the Jank could be infinite!
salvation122 do remember what name was
18:30 "These guys aren't very tankie"
That one caught me off guard, lol
"That one caught me off guard, lol" -Prague '68
@@aziztcf [laughs in ancom]
civvie confirmed juche
tank top tankie not very tanky
Imagine being a communist minarchist gang rise up
19:40 That will forever be engrained in my mind. The way he just walked out of there to just get shot. Omfg ffs
T H E C I T Y C O U N C I L Y E A H
"I guess I spoiled the experience for you"
Jokes on you I already waste all my time playing eurojank.
Déjà-vu; I've been in this jank before
But it's russian.
@@drstephenstrange897 Ukrainian*
I wonder if he's gonna play Patriot, Невский Титбит or The Hunt / Черная Метка.
Looked like good jank to me
There's no flavor of nihilistic depression like former Soviet state nihilistic depression.
It's the flavor of Borscht and grain alcohol, but for your brain.
As a Russian, I approve it
Then find way removed Putin and his business friends you be in good non violence way or beer virus his ass.
brain alcohol
@@manboy4720 lol 😁
Russian Existentialism: The Game
Beria: “Go there, quickly.”
Also Beria: **locks the doors, continues to drabble on, and fucking kills himself**
Not that far fetched of a characterization, since the real life Beria sure was one crazy a**hat.
He endured that brainwave radiation much better than everyone else though.
If you wonder, why Beria - in real history he was the curator of Soviet nuclear weapons program, which was very successful. He had STEM degree.
Sadly, he was kinda Stalin's right hand and so he was demonized along with other Stalin's men when soulless bureaucrats won fight for power. And of course Western oligarchs' propaganda demonizes every Russian politician who doesn't sell himself to them.
@@ImperativeGames You mean the Beria that propagated Stalin's purges? If so that guy was a monster.
@@strykertron232 1) No, that's what ignorant fools believe (because they were that). He became General Commissioner of State Security in 1941. Purges took place in 1936-1938. They were committed by Yagoda and Ezhov.
2) Purges were awful but their size was *greatly* exaggerated by Western propaganda and many people who got convicted were real spies, traitors and corrupt officials.
@@ImperativeGames we are talking about the Beria that raped a ton of young girls right?
I’m impressed how good the British suicide guy’s voice acting was. Didn’t sound Russian, but damn. Sold it.
Almost feels like an extract from the world of 1984.
This game was sadly rushed out due to the lead developer passing away mid-development, causing the game to be slashed in half due to time restraints and the budget getting put down. There's tons of unused content, such as unused enemies, weapons such as a LMG, a flamethrower and granades, along with entire levels and story sections. And sprinting was planned but disabled in the files as they wanted the idea of the player still dealing with his accident. Including that ending of staying behind was even cut due to time restraints.
Little fun fact also, there is no lighting, as this engine does not support shadows. All the "shadows" and "Lighting" is specific scene textures made by hand.
The game was panned in the West as well because 2007 was the year of fast-paced FPS games, and did not fit with current trends when COD4, Half Life 2 and Crysis was the shit. Also the English version had an limited release and there is an community still around this game, where they restore content that was cut and share it around.
There's also an remake called "Remind of EMPTY" in the works to make it like Stalker but no word of that for an year.
ua-cam.com/video/Xp9l80c1KOA/v-deo.html
There's also some Unity remakes around, one was made 5 months ago with an Demo.
Let's be real, the game was panned because it's still absolute garbage despite being charmingly "differently abled", to be delicate.
@@bluegum6438 Imagine comparing this to COD4, Halo 3, Crysis etc.
@@bluegum6438 Its not that bad, don't be an asshole
@@Vorteksio3 Why would you call him an asshole when it clearly sucks?
@@CAL1MBO
The game is Flawed, but it's got an charm to it. Like, it's unique. It's an garbage pile but it has some Silver hidden in it.
Oh yes Eastern European depression my favorite
Well, considering Eastern Europe and the Balkans have a history of being the playground of various empires, russian, ottoman, and austro-hungarian, it's no wonder we have a rather gloomy way of looking at things. This game is one of the many exemples 😂
Wonder if Civvie's going to check Darkwood
@@inqntrol2047 doormat people?
inqntrol neeeeeeerrrrrrrrrdddddddddd
is there any other kind?
The best kind!
“This is the Soviet Russia I know!”
This is a weird bit of the Civvie lore.
I think he's just acknowledging his knowledge of the USSR is entirely CIA propaganda.
@@TheSoulHarvester Tankie cope
@@GeneralTantzu o shit the cops
@@TheSoulHarvester well, the designers of this game are clueless about how USSR looked despite living in Russia. everything you see here is lifted from US movies and TV. doesn't surprise me since Russian TV shows either American programs, or Russian versions of these programs.
Those mutated chickens straight up look like demonic Chocobos from Final Fantasy. I don't know if it was intentional, but as Final Fantasy fan, I kind of liked it.
I'll say this, I actually LOVE the aesthetic of those cutscenes. It's like Take On Me but spookier
Take me to the Gulag?
Yeah the cutscenes were really pretty
I agree, they are really cool. The whole Soviet aesthetic in general with this game is really neat.
Reminds me a little bit ofThis War Is Mine too
@@JillLulamoon There is no Soviet aesthetic here))) All the hospital and other stuff is lifted from American movies and games. That's not how it looked in USSR or in Russia. The developers were too lazy. Doesn't surprise me since everything in Russia and Ukraine is an copy of America. Most young people are clueless about how things looked in 1980s, let along 1940s.
I liked this game when it came out. It's like Silent Hill, Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth and Half Life 2 had a soviet, deformed baby that also suffers from severe dementia and crippling depression.
Edit: love how Tim Curry tries not to laugh in that C&C cinematic
I heard it took him a bunch of takes because he kept laughing hysterically after wards. The C&C cutscene that we see was the best take apparently.
@@RMD00 Can't blame him, that quote is hilarious
@@RMD00 That's true.Supposedly there's like 7 takes and that was one of the last.
So you think it's like Call of Cuthulu... Did I miss the anti-semitism again?
@@sirhonkalot Go and read Lovecraft. You are missing out. Not just on xenophobia and racism.
If I am wrong and you actually read Lovecraft's story: Please tell me where there is anti-semitism in Call of Cthulhu? Xenophobia and ressentiment towards non-western cultures: sure. But anti-semitism? I am aware Lovecraft held anti-semitic views but I can't remember them being present in many of his stories.
Also the comment you replied to mentioned Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth which is a more modern video-game take on Lovecraft. I seriously doubt there is much anti-semitism in that game.
It's way deeper from a slav perspective. Our farmers use a lot of pesticides and breed farm animals in total enclosure at all times - something I have noticed doesn't happen in the west.
Chickens part is a parabole to how full of steroids they pump our chickens at one point they give them too much and GIGA CHICKENS happen.
Vast majority of chickens in the West are grown by corporations and they are restrained in big buildings, in cells.
If you are talking about individual people having chickens - they have special building for them, where they are locked for a night, especially in colder climate. Just like in Russia.
9:30 is the best dialogue section I’ve ever seen in a video game. It just brings me such joy listening to, “the city council, yeah!”
"City Council" is probably an over-literal translation of "Soviet", i.e. the word Russian word for council-- the basic 'building block' of the Union of SOVIET Socialist Republics' governance, the political entities that Lenin was calling to give ultimate authority to in the phrase 'All power to the Soviets!'.
So it's less like the panicking guy was trying to get you to go the guys who set parking ordinances for help combatting the zombie plague, and more like he was telling you to go to The Big Politics Guys In Charge In This Area (Governor if this was an American movie, idk)
Mmm, yes and no. It is somewhat literally translated from Russian but overall it's accurate: he does say you should go to the "city council" (горсовет) building for "what to do now" pointers, but it's more because of him thinking the disease came "from the city" (as most troubles in general soviet farmer's mind usually did, the divide between cities and countryside was, and in many post-soviet places remains still, massive), and thus trying to make an appeal to some kind of adminstrative institution.
So, the "Big Brother is responsible for all this" angle is somewhat there, but rather as a tangential connection to the more familiar for this type of character "those out-of-touch city idiots must have screwed up again, go get them to clean their mess up".
@@Digijester I stand corrected! Thanks for the info, I was really going off of a hunch fleshed out with some tangential history knowledge
@@13thRegen No probs, the impossibility for translators to 100% relay soviet linguistic compounds combined with lost cultural nuances can change the listener's perception. After comparing Russian and English versions side-by-side I think your take is entirely valid if one has only the latter at hand. It is just obvious to a native speaker that Russian version was the basis for English translation, and this effect is its unintentional by-product.
Thanks dude, I kinda figured.
Fact: The game has 0 lighting.
It's all textures.
EDIT, 2 years later lol:
It has lighting/shadows, but judging by the way the game looks/works it's only on non-static models. It migh've been a miss-remembering from back then since I didn't really pay too much attention
I knew something looked off, like a Source engine game without the shine these games usually have. Almost like a comic look. If it's true that there are no lightmaps, then they did a *very* good job.
Although looking at the footage again, there definitely are lightmaps in it, even if only a few ones.
@@MadMaxBLD I heard this long ago, the textures are drawn/made in that sense but lighting on guns remains there. I guess?
@@MadMaxBLD Wouldn't it be the opposite? If there are no lights and only textures, then all "lightning" comes from lightmaps, not shaders.
there’s probably some lighting unless the devs were just that talented at masking it. It doesn’t look washed out enough like most games do if you removed all of the lightmaps within them (or source game maps within the hammer editor)
@@nicolaslandau4692 I don't think that they're actually lightmaps. They look like full-bright textures to me. I don't see specular reflections. It's either no lightmaps, or it's quake-like lightmaps.
This was my first Civvie video, and here I am almost 3 years later and still loving the content.
Never change, Civvie
The jank o' clock bit from the setup to the punchline, the effects, the timing. You fucking nailed it. I'm laughing so hard I'm in tears. Solid hannibal reference.
"this might be the citizen kane of slavjank"
That would be pathologic 2.
Casa Blanca of Slavjank then?
This can be the 'Come and See' of Slavjank.
For me that would be Boiling Point
@Wolter Woltolvsky What a random collection of games! Bloodlines may be unfinished, but it's also of a really high quality in most areas. Moreso than most games actually. Also, it's simply not from a russian/ukraininan company if I'm not completely mistaken. :D And does Alpha Prime actually have any redeeming qualities? I admittedly couldn't stand it for long. Definitely not in the same league with games like Vivisector and You are empty. Even Chaser with all its issues is definitely better.
@Wolter Woltolvsky I mean, on your statement you say, and I quote "it's MOSTLY action FPS games", so clearly it's FPS nature isn't an excluding criteria. As such, for example, I would argue Vangers is slavjank.
I think the key components of SlavJank is that it has to be Slav, obviously, and jank, which I think it's the most complicated part. Games that are straight-up bad are usually not treated as slav jank, so clearly jank doesn't mean bad. I think the key component for this games is... to not feel western. To feel alien and odd for us, perhaps because it's story isn't clear, or it's mechanics seem odd for what we are used to in our gameplays, or other elements just feel like uncommon in videogames. This alien nature, perhaps a better word may be exotic, is what makes Slav Jank, and what makes it also a good experience.
the ONE place that has not been CORRUPTED by CAPITALISM
*barely controlled laughter*
SPAAAAACE!
Listen Red Alert 2 was my childhood but Red Alert 3 has the best memes hands down.
If TIM CURRY is having trouble avoiding laughter during a scene, you know that scene is quite something
Eduardo Díaz There's also Jon St Jon's Star Trek NG reference outtakes for PS1 Duke Nukem where he can't stop laughing at his line as Captain Picard.
*Elon Musk has entered the chat*
My head canon is that the protagonist is just completely batshit crazy and hallucinates, killing everyone on his path and eventually becoming so deranged that his madness travels back through time and makes him kill a completely innocent scientist.
That scene with the puppy was a blow to the feels.
"shoutout to the five people who got that joke"
love ya civvie
I felt like a golden boy when heard that
me and my baby in sixty-eiiiight, ohhhhh
Heh
just to let everyone know civve said tankie, not tanky. Means different things.
lololololol
"For Soviets, these guys aren't very Tankie" I hope more than 5 people got that Civvie
Of course I'd get it - it's me
Looks like at least 4 of us! lol
@ILikeDoomAndBlood aka Mr Wolfy 2.0 no. Not literal tanks. The authoritarian left is sometimes referred to as 'tankies'
T-34's everywhere, son.
@@gewuerzwanze5627 yeah specifically the kind of people who are big USSR fanboys, talking about "Daddy Stalin" and stuff.
So... Kinda noticed no one cared to point out a few obvious things civie misinterpreted. The guys civie named as "miners" are actually street cleaners(pretty sure those pickaxes are meant for breaking ice on the road in winter), helicopter guys are welders, and the healing salves are actually pure medical alchohol flasks(fitting ain't it?). Also i am pretty sure those "sane" npc were meant to be a little off, that was probably meant to represent that they are a little imperfect, warped if you like, and they were probably referred to as "new people" when the tower guy named MC the leader of those.
the exposed steam pipes inflicted more damage than both barrels of the shotgun.
Exceptional
I'd played this horrifying FPS about 8 years ago and the last scene's message was so impressive. The protagonist had sacrificed himself to save his homeland and people against a brainless autocrat's desire and a reckless scientist's madness. If the developer studio would try another newest version for gamers recently, it might have been darkhorse from game sales markets.
Pathologic?
@@PontusPontus pathologic isnt really an fps or anything standard for that matter
You are empty could be soviet half life, but it would need much polish
@@PontusPontus
Pathologic sold well enough
It has wrong messages. Science and communism is the only way forward.
Otherwise growing wasteful consumption will launch real, palpable climate change process in the next 50 years.
Also, capitalism with AI/robots means 0.1% will live like gods and the rest of humanity will be homeless and jobless.
Putin would make a great videogame villain.
"I say that like I understand what's going on."
My daily battlecry.
The chicken bit always makes me laugh my ass off
"It's a person, a human person!"
I don't know if that's a callback to Vivisector but even if it isn't, i love that.
I figured it was a Bill Wurtz reference.
Okay I’m pretty early in the video so I don’t know if he’ll mention it later, but the nurses and the other enemies aren’t actually taller than you. The player character is physically hunched and hobbled from the car crash. I love that little touch because it makes the player feel depowered while providing a reason for enemies to be larger than you furthering that sense of danger
19:33 whoever programmed the animations here deserves something
Not every day you see a game this jank that still shows signs of being made with a lot of love
19:23 That guy looks like the Chad from the Virgin vs Chad memes.
Ouch!
A very flamboyant Chad, I might add.
It IS the chad from the memes
I thought I recognized that bulge.
I think he's based on Mikhail Baryshnikov
its pure alcohol in the jars C2H5OH
Makes sense, considering Russia and all...
I'm not a chemist, but I'm pretty sure you can't have pure alcohol unless it's vacuum sealed. I think it absorbs moisture from the air or someshit like that and becomes diluted on its own, something in very high 95% percentages
@@DesolateFields you can have pure alcohol with no difficulties *once you get it there.* However, it requires trickery to turn normal sources of alcohol, which generally result in ethanol mixed with water, into pure ethanol with no water, because beyond a concentration of 96.5%ish they boil off together and condense together.
@@DesolateFields no you can get pure 100% ethanol, you can buy it for like 30$ for a pint over the internet.
ethanol is just hygroscopic, you can have 100% ethanol in special bottles that are used to seal acids (which would otherwise fume) for example, so they're airtight
This game would look amazing with FEAR's lighting.
I actually laughed hard at that Tankie joke, bravo comrade.
They need to make a sequel "You Are Full"
"We Are Empty"
Iam Full
16:48 This is a soda machine. They were everywhere and cheap as all hell. The problem was that they used actual glasses. They were rinsed between use, but nowa days it suspected that a lot of people caught god knows what by using them.
Oh and I was also told that the soda was really good.
I've seen them in a Polish newsreel from back in the day. Basically they installed a couple of them in Warsaw to replace earlier manual machines, but people quickly stole all glasses and jammed the coin slots with buttons and other junk. As for hygiene, people used to joke that the manual soda mashines give you tuberculosis, but it stemmed mostly from them using unboiled tap water which wasn't considered very clean.
It was, indeed, really good.
@@hiddenshadow2105 does anyone still make it?
@@39Chevy Not sure - I think they tried a bottled revival in mid-2000 but I don't know how it went or if it was even a true.
10:04 that stutter was so genuine and perfect
The "What is the time?" bit is, for some reason, very unsettling and forcing me to have existentialism conversations with myself. Well done.
I love that clip of Tim Curry almost cracking during that beautiful line.
Lol it's so well timed and used. Goddamn I love Civvie.
almost?
Fun fact: that clip is from comand and conquer: red alert 3
I need him in that role again before I die, some just over the top thing where he fights with full on meme units and tactics against that guy with mind control powers who took over Russia in c&c would be dope.
"OH GOD LOOK OUT HE'S FROM JERSEY"
How dare you
If your from Jersey... you know its true... I do... I don't miss New Jersey... LOL.
@@marlboromike2100 yeah, you're not wrong...
LOL was that Big Paulie??
Jersey is trash, but anyone who says it's the worst state has never been to half the states in the midwest.
@@bigboysdotcom745 I feel like you're confusing "worst" and "most boring". Granted, the worst is either Florida or Arizona, so either way Jersey ain't it.
1:44 that's the funniest death sound in the history of games. "EEGH [thump]"
its like something out of a cartoon.
also 18:31 for the people who don't get that since i like explaining shit; "Tankie" is a derogatory term originating in response to british communists who defended the USSR sending tanks to quash the Hungarian uprising of 1956. Modern day usage of the term, depending on the person using it, can either mean commies in general or commies who emphatically deny the obvious faults in their ideology, usually through denying that failed communist states were truely communist or even outright saying they were fully functional paradises that only failed cuz of evil capitalists.
Personally I would have tazed civvie for that joke but hey ho.
you know a game is good when you can't tell what's jank and what's intentional
"See a lot of these comments are copied and pasted. Whole references, memes, so it gets a little confusing"
It's all spiraling back, I don't think Civvie ever TRULY came back from the Kreed
What if it's all the Kreed?
Quit winning!
You think a man could ever retain his sanity after experiencing something like that
oh shit
No one has ever escaped the Kreed.... no one.
13:56 - That's actually a quote from the novel "1984", specifically from the novel-within-a-novel "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" that explains how exactly the dystopian world works.
Came down here to point this out! Went over my head on the first viewing but was listening to the book again recently, as soon as I heard him say it I knew I'd heard it before. How controlling of them to make us read that in highschool, literally 1984.
The atomic heart beta looks great.
Edit: something I noticed when Civvie smacked the guy in the back of the head with the wrench is that the SMG gunners are dressed like early Soviet paratroopers.
3:45 C96 was a relic even in 1955.
Why is the Mauser common in yae
I love slav games like this, they remind me so much of Looking Glass titles in a way. How they go out of their way to add stuff in literally just because they want to. The fact that wheelchairs roll from certain directions, the different sounds for each item hitting different surfaces, the heavy ragdolls, the pickups tracking where they should be on physics objects, it's beautiful jank: a true labor of love the likes of which we'll never see again in this business juggernaut gaming's become.
This actually reminded me a LOT of Painkiller. Except a little more creepy and a lot less fun.
Soulless and passionless most games have become now. Many existing only to be glorified gambling schemes.
We finally got a peak at what "Katie" looks like.
Katie is just another one of Civvie's personalities.
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM
And she seems to be wearing an orange jumpsuit. Fitting, I suppose.
@@s3dchr Civvie also wears an orange jumpsuit.
This is kinda like nettie talking in serious Sam
1:07 the pro postal callback is gold
This is my personal favorite editing wise on this channel.
will you sue me if i make PRO FEAR
Do it bitch
No balls
Indei, it's past midnight in Aus - what the fuck are you still doing watching UA-cam?
I uh...probably shouldn't judge, actually.
@@indeimaus You better play the expansions too!
Indei get out of here. I see you everywhere
Silly Civvie, we eastern european countries sure have a way of bringing out all the vibrant colors of grey!
John Carmack confirmed easterneuropean slav, how else you can explain color variety in Quake?
@@SpecShadow Pathologic is closer to that sweet sweet slavic grey joy! But yeah Quake is pretty much a what if Lovecraft was a slav... And into death metal.
Oh... so the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s are actually an abomination?
I see... XD
@@two-eyedRoy Not abomination! An anomaly!
„I said come in, don’t stand there!”.
whenever im sad i just play the mutated chicken part and feel better instantly
The "sub" in submachinegun is in refrence to it's caliber. So it is still a machinegun!
9:29 it sort of sounds like "IHateEverything" trying to hide his accent while speaking in a slightly higher vocal range.
He did the English dub for this game
It is him.
@@Gwestytears How do you know this? I can't find any info about that online. The North American release, which I take was dubbed English, came out in 2007. That would make IHE ~17 years old. A little young to voice an old... whatever that guy is.
@@aBrainParasite 17 In human or dog years
@@Gwestytears yes
I never in my life would've thought I'd see Civvie tackle the dementia clock test.
Well.. here it is
This could be are argued that this is the second Hannibal reference.
23:46 “A man chooses, a slave obeys”
Another fun fact: reflections in the water are made by placing the same object upside down under the ground and makin it visible through the water.
Also, it's pure ethanol in the jars. It's written on them in russian.
Tbh playing around with the whole "New Soviet Man" phylosophy that Stalin at one point tried to push through it kinda interesting.
when the scientist says "You are the best of humanity" he means your character is the Ubermench /overhuman from Friedrich Nietzsche's ramblings. i have actually herd of this game before you know, can you belive this jank ass half life clone prompted me to learn more about Nietzschitzleian philosophy?
@Dave Johnson It's not surprising since Stalin himself is a romantic who was fearful of what science could bring. And there's no science romantics hate more than the sciences that fascism embraces. That said, there's no way there weren't also a bunch of Nietzschian nerds in his administration who would have taken his New Soviet Man idea to mean making an ubermensch, preparing for the day he passes away.
I mean 'New Soviet Man' wasn't some ubermensch nonsense but rather seen as a new person defined by their liberation, free from capitalism and its grasp on human concepts and psyche. Ironically the New Soviet Man was largely emblemized by women freed from the social obligation of house life and free to become their own people recognized in their work.
Che and Stalin's "New Men" had nothing to do with nietzche petit burgoise ramblings...please.
You can't conciliate Marxism and nihilism, they're antagonists.
@@gui_stf This is the truth. That said, just to play Devil's Advocate, from what I understand a lot of what is now considered Nietzche's most parroted tripe was actually written by his sister. Specifically the stuff the Nazis would really grab hold of in their formative phases.
Someone more knowledgeable about the subject would have to fact-check me, as my thoughts on the matter could best be summed up by Rust Cohle from True Detective, "What is that? Nietzsche!? Shut the fuck up!"
What fucking 'what is the time' thing, yes, more of that. Very cool.
Never thought I’d see you here
If you've seen the hannibal series it was a scene where Will Graham was being diagnosed to test if he had suffered swelling of the brain. I forget the name of the condition but it jumbles your balance and if you tried to draw a clock it would come up all on one side because of your developing insanity
krank
@@Grayfox354 Encephalitis
KRINKELS! madness combat 2021 when?
The intro is secretly leaked footage of the Soviet viersion of "Take on me"...It's called, "Give to us, Comrade"
These cutscenes are fantastic!
Holy shit I can't believe someone else played this glorious jankfest, let alone made a video on it. I bought it because I liked the title and the box art, then ended up playing this vodka fueled fever dream to it's finish. It was weird enough to be interesting, jank enough to be endearing, but not jank enough to be unplayable. I hope this causes a resurgence and everyone buys it.
The game and engine reminds me of the old classic: Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth from 2005. The year before this was released.
@Chris Handsome This game actually used to be on steam before it was removed.
This game reminds me of STALKER, Singularity, Cryostasis, Half-Life, Silent Hill, Call of Cthulhu and Bioshock in no particular order.
I'd play it, even if Civvie spoiled it for me.
Cryostasis. Thats some CPU melting shit from backwhen. Could be good on this channel.
And Pathologic. And Cry of Fear.
oldgamesdownload.com/you-are-empty/
I'd like to see civvie talk about call of cthulhu dark corners of the earth.
I was fully expecting a "they look like monsters to you?" moment right up until the end of the video...
This honestly doesn't look too bad.
Graphicwise, it has a charming athmosphere, but ... scripted. You pick up smt, the enemies shows up right away, and you can tell it, because it freezes a bit - like the game drops certain enemies right away. Also most enemies are pretty stupid, and the ammo for the so-called "energy weapon" (what is a Tesla cannon/eletric gun) is pretty rare, sadly.
Katie never change your humor, that part with the zooming was perfect.
I don't think Katie exists. It's just a constuct
@@entitythephantom2363 then who edits the videos?
@@shaynehughes6645 Civvie 11 in a wig
@@entitythephantom2363 pfft, impossible. If that were true, then we would only get a episode once every months.