I live in Russia and Blood was a big, albeit weird part of my childhood. My dad bought me a PC for my 8th birthday (1997, for context) and he remembered playing a game he called "Wolf" in Russian (obv Wolf3D) and asked for something similar from a bootleg CD vendor and they gave him Blood. Thing is, it wasn't normal sane Blood, this one was not only fully translated and dubbed into Russian, but the bootleg studio decided to... Make the main character into fucking Lenin? Like, aside from the fonts they didn't alter any of the assets, but the script and voice-overs were completely rewritten to fit into this new bizarre universe, where Caleb was the leader of the Bolsheviks and instead of dark snark he spouted bizarre 1917 revolution and communism jokes. It went completely over my head at the time, I was 8 and I was stupid and thought this was how the game was always supposed to be, so it was a big shock when I later discovered it was not, in fact, a game about Lenin. Russia in the 90s was weird.
1:00 To highlight this, one of my closest friends actually tagged Civvie in a tweet asking his advice on how to go about playing Blood on Extra Crispy. He responded with a simple word. "Don't"
A little late but I got an answer for your friend: Play Fresh Supply and use Made to Order to set every parameter to extra crispy, except one. Cultist accuracy. Turn that shit all the way down. It transformes them from pure bullshit to something more akin to DOOM hitscanners and makes the game 100% more enjoyable to play.
For anyone else wondering, definitely listen to Carl's comment. This is how I'm playing Blood atm and it's an awesome difficulty. Damage taken on high, enemy density on very high, all Cultist settings on low. They still hit hard but don't instagib you when turning corners. The game feels tough but still playable. LOVE it.
"If you're not a rampaging death machine by this point (as in halfway through the second level), forget it, play on Still Kicking, 'cause you're done." One of the best descriptions of overall difficulty I've heard.
It at least makes you feel like death incarnate with it's amazing sound design. Doom 2 has Super Shotgun but the way how Blood shotgun sounds and makes cultists screech is unparalleled. Tommy gun is second best.
I like that Caleb is a bloodthirsty, unrepentant gunslinger ex-cultist, but he still genuinely cares about his fellow chosen and shows real emotion over their fates. And the voice acting for his scenes with them before each boss is top-notch.
One of my top favourite games of all time! I loved the review/playthrough!Did you know that on Extra Crispy you get TWO stone gargoyles surrounded with few flesh ones! And yes, you must kill BOTH of them to complete the level. It's the hardest boss in the whole game since you don't have tesla gun or voodoo doll
Haha, yeah, I was always running out of ammo fighting two Gheoghs, So using Jumping Boots I was going to higher ground where the secret is, then crouching in the corner, and they couldn't even scratch me, so I was perforating them with a pitchfork. Very long process but it works :)
I never played Blood back in the day, I only really heard about it after playing things like Quake so I probably thought it looked dated and just kinda left it. Due to Civvies absolute love and enthusiasm of it in this series though I decided to finally pick it up and give it a play. I'm so glad I did, it's a fantastic game and I'm forever grateful to this channel for convincing me to go back and try it. I also wound up installing and playing Shadow Warrior too which I also credit to Civvie :)
I’m going to absolutely despise the day this video inevitably gets age restricted so I cannot watch it, I refuse to give them my credit card or phone number. I have no reason to believe it’ll get age restricted but UA-cam is dumb and they already did it to his pro postal: brain damage video
Learning about Blood has made me appreciate Ion Fury even more. I already loved being able to duck under the crossbow attacks in Ion Fury, and Shelly's weird "These boots are made for... jumping!" quote. Little did I know she was inheriting all that from great granddaddy Caleb
@@elijahjarman2837 "You can have my dick jokes... when you pry them from my cold, dead wang!" I can't decide if it's a line so bad it's good, or so bad it goes past becoming good and ends up bad again.
Same here…though mainly because it’s a great boomer shooter that’s actually been ported to consoles. So frustrating not being able to play 90% of the game Civvie makes episodes on.
@@elijahjarman2837Lo Wang was her weird uncle who had a massive cache of porn mags and kept doing racist jokes that made everyone else do an awkward pause in family meetups.
One of my favorite things about Blood is the unique arsenal of weapons it has. What's your melee weapon? Fists, boots? Nope, a pitchfork. Whats your starting pistol gun? A flare gun! And it's not useless! Rocket launcher? Nah man, a NAPALM LAUNCHER Or how about a voodoo doll? A 1930s gangster tommy gun? A DIY flamethrower with a lighter and can of aerosol spray? Tossing bundles of dynamite? It's so out there but one of a kind. You see those weapons and instantly, you know, it's Blood.
I played the shit out of this game as a kid, certainly in co-op - I vividly remember the shopping mall level with all the little figures that are just enemies that are scaled down, can't wait to see it remastered also this video was fantastic
This game does ALOT. On easier difficulties, its has some of the most visceral, fast-paced, and explosive FPS gameplay out there, honestly that's something many games of its kind have achieved; but where it truly shines is when it's played on Extra Crispy (the highest difficulty): it becomes, in my opinion; of the best survival-horror experiences out there. The gameplay suddenly feels radically different and the spike in difficulty forces you to think outside of the box and approach levels in new, cautious ways, in a way it's like I'm experiencing these levels all over again in a much more intimate, engaging way. Right now I'm savescumming through the first level and right off the bat; finding secrets, hoarding ammo, and mastering TNT trick-shots is a MUST. It blew my mind when I realized I can throw TNT through the narrow opening between the cemetary gate and the ceiling above in order to blow up that first cultist. Then you gotta alert all the zombies and the one cultist in the graveyard so you can lure them all together in a group and just blast them with the flare gun's alt-fire. Soon, after a few attempts; it becomes clear that running straight into the Chapel/Morgue is a death sentence, so you have to trick jump on grave stones until you get atop the cemetary fence, and enter through the second floor window. If you're lucky, you'll have enough flares/TNT left over to take out everyone else, and you'll have the drop on the would-be ambushers from the cremation room window. Seriously, for 1997? That is MASTERFUL level design. It's just amazing that this game can do both the run-n-gun slaughterfest experience and also the suspenseful and dangerous atmosphere of survival horror.
You put this on yourself by association. Before I administrator this painful reminder, I just want you to know, I love the original Alone in the Dark. I DON'T HAVE YOUR RIGHT SIDE, AND *FUCK YOU ANYWAYS* This has been a joke reminder, have a pleasant day ^^
@@LordOfTheReefer *Did they just walk away, not by refusing to comment, but by telling me that they were walking away? Someone explain to me what is happening I'm freaking the fuck out*
@@vynthiswechseln3868 Edgy UA-cam roleplayer, _just ignore him before he comes back._ You *don't* want the kind of cancer cringe radiation will give you.
Blood is the game that... ...has the rats that are more brutal and aggressive than those in Kingpin despite still being normal rodents. ...has probably the best train scene ever. SoF, UT 99 & 2004 are probably a somewhat close second. ...is metal as hell. ...does the lovecraftian horror (which is already rarity in and of itself) right despite lack of explicit references and complete victory of the protagonist (a nigh impossible feat, it appears, for most). ...is more metal than hell. ...has one of the best dark ambient soundtracks on par with the Fallout dilogy (as well as some other MM works, IMO), early Diablo and Stalker (I'm not doing the pointless acronym thing, sorry). ...is the most advanced of the contemporary build engine games - and it shows: to this day only the yet to be released Ion Maiden has anything on the good old Caleb. ...has one of the most robust, original and enjoyable to use arsenal of weapons complete with rather well-designed damage types system, solid main gameplay loop and formidable bestiary to boot. ...has clever level design that while is fun (both human and dwarvish type) to crawl through is also atmospheric beyond any measure, filled to the brim with interactions, sharp scripting and more allusions than should be doable in any good game (and yet here we are). ...honestly, should be used as the measure to which your typical old-school and especially new-old-school FPS should aspire. As someone who played perhaps more than it is healthy, I have this to say: this game is a masterpiece alongside with titans like *the* Deus Ex, Thief, Marathon and many others that have this "...now I have to reinstall this game" quality that is a true testament to its quality and craftsmanship behind it.
Honestly, I think Blood has far better level-design than Duke 3D does, in Blood it feels more rewarding to explore because of it's difficulty and how much every little round of ammunition or bundle of dynamite matters, and the art-style is just better in general, too.
I actually found it blind playing the game for the first time just the other day. XD I found barely any regular secrets yet I found all of the super secrets... except for the train, that one is nonsense.
BUILD engine games do mirrors by duplicating and flipping part of the level inside of a room behind the mirror. You can even wander around it if you turn on noclip and walk through one. EDIT: Actually, I think that only applies to v1.3D of Duke3D (and you die if you leave the room behind the mirror). You get the hall-of-mirrors effect in v1.5, Shadow Warrior does the same (if you can find a mirror whose back-room doesn't overlap other sectors, as you tend to end up in those instead), and I don't remember Blood's cheat codes to test it for that one.
i have it on in the background whole emulating old pokemon games sometimes just for the random jokes and good explanations. ive since bought fresh supply too.
I found myself randomly trying that while playing and thought that it was just dumb luck that it was working, lol. Turns out it really DOES help! As long as the Cultists/Fanatics are on level ground of course.
I would've recommended the unofficial strategy guide, but magazines, books and such really aren't relevant anymore. It was easy to do if you grew up with this game, but nowadays it's elusively lost and you have to know what to look for if you are going to find it. ;) Prima and Brady did a lot of these good guides back int he 90's. I think they still do today.
I'm a 24 year old millennial who grew up playing games like Half-Life 2, Doom3, Resident Evil 4 & F.E.A.R. and to be honest with you I've been neglecting 90s shooters until now. This channel really opening my eyes, for some reason I'm now OBSESSED with these 90s action shooter that's brimming with style, atmosphere, blood, violence and bad f*cking guns. I tried GZDOOM last night and I had a totally BLAST, it's unbelievable just how well the first DOOM game still holds up. Can't believe I'm saying it but I was actually having more fun with GZDOOM than DOOM 2016 which is a great game but with just a little too much emphasis on glory kills that got old really fast.
I’m around the same age and agree. One problem with a lot of modern action games is that the level design is too linear. Even when it’s open, they’re usually just hiding upgrades in the different paths. Because of this, there’s no reason to revisit secrets if you’re replaying the game. But with old school shooters and especially Metroidvania and horror games? You NEED to go hunting the levels for supplies. Not just to kick ass and get weapons earlier than normal but also just to survive.
thanks to all of the top quality WADs that are around, Doom 2 is pretty much still the best fps ever made and the only singleplayer shooter I bother playing
Same I've never even heard of Blood before this video but I've been playing the Fresh Supply remake and im really surprised how throughly om enjoying it
A cousin of mine bought this game when it was new, told me to come over and check it out. Still to this day, it’s my favorite game of all time. I’m so sad for the people who have never experienced this game....
Somehow after all those years of playing this game I did not notice, that when TNT explodes in your hands that there is an animation for your hands, that are burnt down. If you pause it on 3:26 you can see it.
I just -- like within the last 2 weeks -- got Blood GDX going. Your introductory comments are so dead on. I was hitting myself for not having played this sooner. It's the real deal folks. It's immensely fun to play today, and it is far and away the best Build Engine game. If Iron Maiden can even approach Blood, it will be a stunning success. It is one of the best executions of a theme I have ever seen in a game, and in my opinion, it is the absolute perfect Halloween season shooter (not that you shouldn't play it all year round). Despite its age, it is still just buckets of fun, and blowing things up with dynamite or setting things on fire or letting loose with both barrels of the shotgun or spraying with the tommy gun, *all of it,* just never gets old.
Considering Ion Maiden has actual headshot mechanics and a massively overpowered Pistol weapon (just like Blood does), I'd say it's off to a hot start!
Same, and my fav is still . . . quake, my PC at the time had a cd-rom so i could play the soundtrack and Trent Reznor was my idol at the time. Loved NiN and when I heard my game playing his music i was blown away. Blood is still better though xD
@@ihave7sacks Oh yeah, by far the first quake is and always be my favourite...and to be honest, quakes ost has to be NiN's best unofficial album...its kinda sad how it devolved into an alien shooter...granted it was a good game too, just shouldn't have been given the quake title...
Your explanation is fast and easy to understand and, along with the gameplay and editing (maybe script too), makes this officially my favorite channel for either reviews of just for a laugh. But the best part is how natural it sounds! Great work!
God I love this game. One of the most under-appreciated games of all time. Anyone who hasn't played it yet needs to try it out right now. This is one of the few games that is worth the trouble of setting up Dos Box.
12:02 I remember I was playing co-op and we cheesed the hell out of this secret, staying there until we had max ammo, health and armour. Then as soon as we stepped out the door, like 10x the cultists you'd normally see popped out, they were literally pushing each other out the windows and stuff. It was magical.
It was like one of them lost a bet and he had to got outside and throw some dynamite at you guys or something. But was too wimpy to try so the rest of push that one out. But one by one all of was push out and face your guy's wrath. Sorry for overthinking.
Oh and that moment at 17:29... my freaking god this man is la legend. That scream it's carved into my brain since I first played this masterpiece 20 years ago. SHOW YOURSELF... SHOW YOURSELF!!!
No matter how many times I watch this series, I always love it. I'm aboslutely grabage at FPS games and watching him play this like an expert that knows his shit is always entertaining.
DooM 1 and 2016 might be my favorite games, but Caleb from blood is my favorite character in any game lol Try the Deathwish mod with BloodGDX, also please review it lol Deathwish is a fan made sequel to Blood 1 that means it's a good Blood 2 in a way. I love your shit thanks!
Blood is the best FPS ever created. Extra Crispy is the best difficulty because you need to utilize everything this game offers you (weapons, secrets, enemy position). I even beat this game on Extra Crispy without saves (I was without a HDD [crashed] for a year so I have to run this game from CD-ROM with MS-DOS on Floppy disk). Good times!
The only thing I don't like about Extra Crispy is that there's not enough ammo to kill the 2 bosses at the end of episode 1, so you end up having to pitchfork the second one for an eternity.
@@atrocity3010 Yeah, it was pain in the ass. Pitchforking the last remaining Cheogh to death was not a pleasant experience. But that was (as far as I remember) the only weird part of the whole EC difficulty.
The carnival with its minigames and the rollercoaster log flume in the house of horrors are the best parts of episode 1. I'd love to see something like this in Ion Maiden Aftershock, especially the jet coaster.
That train map has to be one of the most memorable maps I've ever played. Blew my mind as a kid so I spent forever trying to recreate it in Duke. Good times!
Blood is the one and only reason I want a PC. Almost every PC game has a console version in some way, but Blood? Nah, you gotta be part of the PC master race for this shit
I appreciate the designers making a reference to the movie "Tommy Boy". Chris Farley has a line about how he gets excited about making a sale and becomes "Jo-Jo, the idiot circus boy with a pretty new pet". A truly classy reference.
I often have to come back to this series, as it was the very first one of Civvie's that I saw around the time it came out. (every now and then youtube recommendations are helpful) I remember spreading the video to all my friends who loved Blood, and always makes me happy how well Civvie is doing now. You know, being locked up in a correctional facility full of nuclear rats aside...
Ayy i just did that with fresh supply for nostalgia sake! To be honest i feel that extra crispy was easier in fresh supply than it was back in vanilla blood. Cerberus was my only problem as well, until i lodged myself up in one of the pillars in his arena, and proceeded to pepper him with explosives without him even doing a thing.
I've finished the games twice and I still love it, though some of the design choices (hitscan enemies, rats, bullet sponges, impossible to find secrets) were really driving me crazy. But the atmosphere and the weapons (I too, in fact, love dynamite, it's super satisfying) are still top notch, even today.
Only explanation I have for the save game difficulty swapping, is its inverted on an odd number, and it implies the value corresponds to negative an positive numbers, and when loading it swaps a negative to a positive and vice versa. Therefore the reason 'lightly broiled' stays the same'. If in order from least to most hard, the difficulty is stores as either a -2, - 1, 0, 1 or 2, then the inverse chart of difficulty makes sense if the game is glitching and switching a negative to a positive. And zero is neither which is why lightly broiled would be unaffected by said glitch
Love how if you die to the dynamite in your hands going off, you get 3 frames of Caleb's hands being almost entirely skeletal as his flesh is completely torn from them by the blast. You can see it even without frame-hunting at 3:27 if you look close enough.
Insane how fucking good this game is, nice to see that you do it justice! The music, the art, the level design, the sounds...WAY MORE than merely parodying horror tropes as other critics often put it. This game breathes horror, you even get to go to a hospital - fucking savage!
After hearing the intro to this video I thought: "This man know's what he's talking about!" Then you gained a subscriber. Blood IS the best Build Engine game.
i dont even care this game is hard....i used to play this when i was around 8 years old and now i get shivers when i hear those cultists scream in pain ,the nostalgia shivers
You can restore the Blood Alpha weapons with the Weapon Mod! It also adds very thematic optional replacements. They even have a BuildGDX version but sadly its missing some things. Great addition for me. It helps keep the game interesting and varied.
Thanks for the excellent video! Such a great shooter, one of the best in 1990s, but for some reason quite underrated and unknown! Maybe there were more famous and better marketed alternatives on the FPS market back then on its release year? The sequel, Blood 2 - The Chosen, was uninteresting and just crappy fps game in my opinion. It is true that the original Blood was pretty unforgiven on higher difficulty settings in the expansion episodes 5 & 6 - especially the first levels were very hard to complete as solo on the highest difficulty setting. Otherwise it wasn’t so difficult game to play or beat in general, just a challenging gaming experience even for an adept FPS player. I think I never actually had time/perseverance to start & finish the last expansion episode (#6) on the highest skill; I was out of ammo all the time. I never found all of the secrets or super secrets of every single level in the whole game neither. Actually, after watching your excellent video I started to have some vague memories of the super-secret concept in the Blood game. Blood's gameplay, shooting mechanics and atmosphere are authentic even in 2018. Level design can be complex and sometimes frustrating even for experienced fps players in some later episodes of the game. Still, most of the level design is good or excellent - and levels are full of traps and nasty surprises & easter eggs and allusions to popular culture, literature and films. I will always remember the map E4M7: In The Flesh which takes places in the human body. I bet there's no other so peculiar level like that in any fps game or will ever be :D And yes... there are some annoying enemies such as rats, spiders, all underwater enemies, walking palms and those flying spectres that disappears when you shoot them and then appear again randomly after a couple of seconds for the next hit (and you have to repeat this like three times before the spectre finally checks out). The pinpoint accuracy of the ranged enemies is a pain in the ass, too! So sad that they don't create fps games anymore that could be such authentic and unique as Blood is.
Your videos are the kind you prepare a mountain of snacks to marathon and enjoy but also the perfect background stuff for work or just to chill. It fits so much I love it. But your deep analysis of the game from it's history to story, physics, engine it's all makes you worthy of calling this PRO BLOOD but sadly puts everyone else's videos to shame. Even those who are long time fans and dedicated to a franchise yet fail some minor details in reviews. Even Caddicarus and Nitrorad may miss something but you got the damn game down to it's cut content. And you're not afraid of swearing or crude language but not over the top. A fine balance of actual comedy. Too good.
The alt fire with dynamites is great. Normal dynamites: -- Apart from what you've covered, if you press alt-fire and alt-fire again Caleb drops the ignited dynamite on the ground (good if something is chasing you) Other dynamites are also dropped with alt-fire, but then subsequent alt-fires load the next dynamite, so you can drop more than one.
Blood GDX has that beautiful custom difficulty feature that lets you mix the enemy counts of Extra Crispy with Well Done's damage values - my favorite way to play. Also, the feel of throwing dynamite in Blood is unsurpassed. I can always throw it exactly where it needs to go.
Ooh I need to try that. I just dont find Well Done any fun because the machine gun cultists suck the life out of you by looking at you. I dont mind insane challenge difficulties but Well Done's damage model is a little too much. Ive still never tried the new Made to Order difficulty in Fresh Supply, but honestly I think I get the point.
Here's a funny story for anyone reading the comments and finding mine. I never played Blood when i was still a kid, but Civvie's enthusiasm for it made me buy the steam version which is "Blood: Fresh supply." I then decided to go in the hardest difficulty intended for single player, like Civvie. Except for the steam version, they made an extra difficulty which is "made to order" (or maybe it's custom renamed?) but anyway, i distinctly remembered Civvie playing the difficulty above the hardest, so i picked the same. And yeah, you guessed it, in the steam version it's *drum roll* Extra Crispy. I still managed to make it to E1M4 by cheesing every encounters, making ennemies see me, go behind a corner, wait for them to come and pitchfork them to death. Like Civvie said, i would NOT recommend. I started the game again in "Well Done" and oh god is it more manageable. Don't play on Extra Crispy, ever...
More Civvie! Also I believe his name is pronounced "CHEE-AUG" Also I second Kek, you really should do a review of Deathwish when you get through Pro-Blooding. Death Wish is arguably one of the best BUILD engine mods ever made. Right up there with AMC TC, WGREALMS, and DNF 2013.
This series brought Blood to my attention (nice series btw). Just recently played through the first 4 acts on Lightly Broiled and now I'm doing it over again on Well Done, and holy fuck nuts the difference is day and night. A couple extra enemies in most encounters, the hitscanners having faster reaction times and doing more damage, everything having more health, and the cultists throwing TNT bundles instead of sticks - it's fucked. When you mentioned the bar-car on the train being difficult, I thought maybe you were exaggerating because it wasn't that bad. It is on Well Done. I have to actually quick save now, and I retried the bar-car probably 15 times. Extra Crispy can't be anything other than ridiculous and I refuse to find out.
It makes me feel better that you mentioned it's difficulty. Today I REALLY tried to get into Blood, the atmosphere and art direction are top notch and the gameplay looked fun. But that game kicked my ass on lightly broiled lmao. Hitscanners are brutally quick and deadly, and health and ammo are scarce.
Hey Civvie, I don't often comment on videos, but wanted to say thank you for your PRO BLOOD series for getting me into Blood (which is now one of my favorite FPS's) but also for introducing me to VYEN's music. Love Inhale.
I love this channel because I get to see all these obscure games. I honestly have learned so much about old school FPSes. This channel inspired me to replay the original Doom....and now I want to play Blood
This video reminds me...I should get get back to playing Blood! Finished the first episode; can't exactly remember why I dropped it. Edit: playing Blood again, I now remember why I dropped it. P.S. Throwing dynamite into a bunch of enemies is more fun than sex. You can trust me, for I have most definitely had sex.
does anybody know where the wiki got the numbers for Cheog's health from? as far as i know, we don't have access to blood's source code, and it seems like it would be pretty hard to get that information without it.
For me it's the other way around. This vid made me look out for the remaster. Now I have Blood multiple times. And neither is Blood2 :) I did complete Blood2 back in the day but... not going to search for that to buy it on Steam or GoG or anything :)
God as my witness, I will never tire of the wonderful screams that the cultists make while they're being burned/shot/skewered/generally ground down into a fine, snort-able powder.
Thank you! If it wasn't for your video on this game I wouldn't have found this masterpiece, it's a fantastic game, a testament to the brilliance of these kinds of games in the 90s, even if I only discovered it thanks to your video this month, but I was playing Duke Nukem 3D since then, and I played the new Shadow Warrior, not as good as the original, but when is anything as good as the original, thanks again.
I live in Russia and Blood was a big, albeit weird part of my childhood.
My dad bought me a PC for my 8th birthday (1997, for context) and he remembered playing a game he called "Wolf" in Russian (obv Wolf3D) and asked for something similar from a bootleg CD vendor and they gave him Blood.
Thing is, it wasn't normal sane Blood, this one was not only fully translated and dubbed into Russian, but the bootleg studio decided to... Make the main character into fucking Lenin? Like, aside from the fonts they didn't alter any of the assets, but the script and voice-overs were completely rewritten to fit into this new bizarre universe, where Caleb was the leader of the Bolsheviks and instead of dark snark he spouted bizarre 1917 revolution and communism jokes. It went completely over my head at the time, I was 8 and I was stupid and thought this was how the game was always supposed to be, so it was a big shock when I later discovered it was not, in fact, a game about Lenin.
Russia in the 90s was weird.
Looks like the game the Russian Overkill Doom mod wishes it was.
@@vaiyt There, I found a video of it! ua-cam.com/video/7G3mpjxiAjo/v-deo.html
And it turns out I was wrong, they altered the shit out of the game.
Good old 90s
Ha that's pretty fucking cool, thanks for the link Goronian.
That's so fucking cool. What an interesting little oddity!
1:00 To highlight this, one of my closest friends actually tagged Civvie in a tweet asking his advice on how to go about playing Blood on Extra Crispy. He responded with a simple word.
"Don't"
Sound advice
A little late but I got an answer for your friend: Play Fresh Supply and use Made to Order to set every parameter to extra crispy, except one. Cultist accuracy. Turn that shit all the way down.
It transformes them from pure bullshit to something more akin to DOOM hitscanners and makes the game 100% more enjoyable to play.
@@carljohan9265 THIS
@@carljohan9265cowardice. Genius and I’m 100% going to try this, but cowardice none the less.
For anyone else wondering, definitely listen to Carl's comment. This is how I'm playing Blood atm and it's an awesome difficulty. Damage taken on high, enemy density on very high, all Cultist settings on low. They still hit hard but don't instagib you when turning corners. The game feels tough but still playable. LOVE it.
11:26 reminds me of when Robert Englund dressed as Freddy fell asleep on set. Then spooked himself after he woke up and walking past a mirror.
Might be a reference to that
Stephen Weyte does such an amazing job voicing Caleb. It's like smooth venom. Every time I hear it I try to impersonate it... poorly.
And he also did a cat pirate which it is made by the same company who made Blood
i like south park too
Better than john wick
now he delivers judgement as a weird blue ghost
I can actually do it pretty good, but I'm not Stephen Weyte.
"If you're not a rampaging death machine by this point (as in halfway through the second level), forget it, play on Still Kicking, 'cause you're done."
One of the best descriptions of overall difficulty I've heard.
weirdly, well done on DOSBOX blood is WAY easier than still kicking.
@@aardwolfismymiddlename988 i wouldnt say its easier, having bigger low teir crowds with more potential for drops helps though
When he said that it's like a coach on the football team saying you are get booted to b team
@@aardwolfismymiddlename988 got that weird save glitch in DOS
It at least makes you feel like death incarnate with it's amazing sound design. Doom 2 has Super Shotgun but the way how Blood shotgun sounds and makes cultists screech is unparalleled. Tommy gun is second best.
I like that Caleb is a bloodthirsty, unrepentant gunslinger ex-cultist, but he still genuinely cares about his fellow chosen and shows real emotion over their fates. And the voice acting for his scenes with them before each boss is top-notch.
One of my top favourite games of all time! I loved the review/playthrough!Did you know that on Extra Crispy you get TWO stone gargoyles surrounded with few flesh ones! And yes, you must kill BOTH of them to complete the level. It's the hardest boss in the whole game since you don't have tesla gun or voodoo doll
What kind of sadistic garbage is that? The good old days of classic FPS game design
Haha, yeah, I was always running out of ammo fighting two Gheoghs, So using Jumping Boots I was going to higher ground where the secret is, then crouching in the corner, and they couldn't even scratch me, so I was perforating them with a pitchfork. Very long process but it works :)
@@ChallengerV8 stone gargoyles cant get you if you crouch its a bug with the ai or something anyway you can cheese him
@@daveinthemicrowave yeah lol
That is until you discover his greatest weakness: crouching. He just flys around and can’t hit you. It’s hilarious.
I keep coming back to these blood videos. There is something so good hearing civvie talk about something he loves
Same here. It's better than watching him get angry as shitty DOS games for sure
I never played Blood back in the day, I only really heard about it after playing things like Quake so I probably thought it looked dated and just kinda left it. Due to Civvies absolute love and enthusiasm of it in this series though I decided to finally pick it up and give it a play. I'm so glad I did, it's a fantastic game and I'm forever grateful to this channel for convincing me to go back and try it. I also wound up installing and playing Shadow Warrior too which I also credit to Civvie :)
I’m going to absolutely despise the day this video inevitably gets age restricted so I cannot watch it, I refuse to give them my credit card or phone number. I have no reason to believe it’ll get age restricted but UA-cam is dumb and they already did it to his pro postal: brain damage video
Learning about Blood has made me appreciate Ion Fury even more. I already loved being able to duck under the crossbow attacks in Ion Fury, and Shelly's weird "These boots are made for... jumping!" quote. Little did I know she was inheriting all that from great granddaddy Caleb
I like to imagine caleb, wang, and duke like adoptive fathers to her, raising Shelly to be a badass, but Lo Wang giving her cringy one-liners
@@elijahjarman2837 "You can have my dick jokes... when you pry them from my cold, dead wang!"
I can't decide if it's a line so bad it's good, or so bad it goes past becoming good and ends up bad again.
Same here…though mainly because it’s a great boomer shooter that’s actually been ported to consoles. So frustrating not being able to play 90% of the game Civvie makes episodes on.
These boots are made for walking is a famous Nancy Sinatra song
@@elijahjarman2837Lo Wang was her weird uncle who had a massive cache of porn mags and kept doing racist jokes that made everyone else do an awkward pause in family meetups.
One of my favorite things about Blood is the unique arsenal of weapons it has.
What's your melee weapon? Fists, boots? Nope, a pitchfork.
Whats your starting pistol gun? A flare gun! And it's not useless!
Rocket launcher? Nah man, a NAPALM LAUNCHER
Or how about a voodoo doll? A 1930s gangster tommy gun? A DIY flamethrower with a lighter and can of aerosol spray? Tossing bundles of dynamite?
It's so out there but one of a kind. You see those weapons and instantly, you know, it's Blood.
the only issue is how hard it is to replicate,
especially when trying to stay somewhat grounded,
though it may just be a me problem.
Its the way the games arsenal works that also sets it apart from dukenukem and shadow warrior.
I dare say that the Dynamite is the signature weapon, it's soo satisfying to use and how it sends the enemy sprites flying.
Best part of Blood's arsenal is how little is actually completely useless. Blood and Shadow Warrior narrowed FPS weapon design to a T.
I played the shit out of this game as a kid, certainly in co-op - I vividly remember the shopping mall level with all the little figures that are just enemies that are scaled down, can't wait to see it remastered
also this video was fantastic
BloodWaifus next?
Huh?
I do have to say that Blood seems nice. :)
Blood Souls?
[on way to post a souls joke in comments] Darn it! Indeimaus beat me to it!
11:25 The only thing Caleb is scared of: himself.
the only thing you fear... is... you? the fuck?
RELATABLE
@@aardwolfismymiddlename988 Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods p2
I still can't belive how underrated this channel is.
It's because everyone is too busy jerking off to low quality fortnite streamers and "life hack" channels
@@Gootogoguy oof, the Boomer energy is strong with this one.
@@lividsphincter4098 I'm 15
@singular on1 So it's a bad thing that I have good taste... Since when??
@@Gootogoguy people like things I don't!? Fucking normies get off my stream. Reeeeeeeeeeeee!
This game does ALOT. On easier difficulties, its has some of the most visceral, fast-paced, and explosive FPS gameplay out there, honestly that's something many games of its kind have achieved; but where it truly shines is when it's played on Extra Crispy (the highest difficulty): it becomes, in my opinion; of the best survival-horror experiences out there. The gameplay suddenly feels radically different and the spike in difficulty forces you to think outside of the box and approach levels in new, cautious ways, in a way it's like I'm experiencing these levels all over again in a much more intimate, engaging way. Right now I'm savescumming through the first level and right off the bat; finding secrets, hoarding ammo, and mastering TNT trick-shots is a MUST. It blew my mind when I realized I can throw TNT through the narrow opening between the cemetary gate and the ceiling above in order to blow up that first cultist. Then you gotta alert all the zombies and the one cultist in the graveyard so you can lure them all together in a group and just blast them with the flare gun's alt-fire. Soon, after a few attempts; it becomes clear that running straight into the Chapel/Morgue is a death sentence, so you have to trick jump on grave stones until you get atop the cemetary fence, and enter through the second floor window. If you're lucky, you'll have enough flares/TNT left over to take out everyone else, and you'll have the drop on the would-be ambushers from the cremation room window. Seriously, for 1997? That is MASTERFUL level design. It's just amazing that this game can do both the run-n-gun slaughterfest experience and also the suspenseful and dangerous atmosphere of survival horror.
The only thing I hate about Extra Crispy is that cultists can eat an entire flare now and that specfically just pisses me off for no reason.
I've beaten it on Well Done. The doctors say one day I might get the feeling back in my right side.
You put this on yourself by association. Before I administrator this painful reminder, I just want you to know, I love the original Alone in the Dark.
I DON'T HAVE YOUR RIGHT SIDE, AND *FUCK YOU ANYWAYS*
This has been a joke reminder, have a pleasant day ^^
@@LordOfTheReefer says the high, high and mighty "Lord" of reefer. Pathetic.
@@vynthiswechseln3868 pfff, whatever kid... *walks away*
@@LordOfTheReefer *Did they just walk away, not by refusing to comment, but by telling me that they were walking away? Someone explain to me what is happening I'm freaking the fuck out*
@@vynthiswechseln3868 Edgy UA-cam roleplayer, _just ignore him before he comes back._ You *don't* want the kind of cancer cringe radiation will give you.
3:25 that single frame of Caleb's burnt/skinless hands...
So fucking cool
Lmao the attention to detail
Gnarly
There you go
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@@speed4414 You are a fucking hero
Blood is the game that...
...has the rats that are more brutal and aggressive than those in Kingpin despite still being normal rodents.
...has probably the best train scene ever. SoF, UT 99 & 2004 are probably a somewhat close second.
...is metal as hell.
...does the lovecraftian horror (which is already rarity in and of itself) right despite lack of explicit references and complete victory of the protagonist (a nigh impossible feat, it appears, for most).
...is more metal than hell.
...has one of the best dark ambient soundtracks on par with the Fallout dilogy
(as well as some other MM works, IMO), early Diablo and Stalker (I'm not doing the pointless acronym thing, sorry).
...is the most advanced of the contemporary build engine games - and it shows: to this day only the yet to be released Ion Maiden has anything on the good old Caleb.
...has one of the most robust, original and enjoyable to use arsenal of weapons complete with rather well-designed damage types system, solid main gameplay loop and formidable bestiary to boot.
...has clever level design that while is fun (both human and dwarvish type) to crawl through is also atmospheric beyond any measure, filled to the brim with interactions, sharp scripting and more allusions than should be doable in any good game (and yet here we are).
...honestly, should be used as the measure to which your typical old-school and especially new-old-school FPS should aspire.
As someone who played perhaps more than it is healthy, I have this to say: this game is a masterpiece alongside with titans like *the* Deus Ex, Thief, Marathon and many others that have this "...now I have to reinstall this game" quality that is a true testament to its quality and craftsmanship behind it.
@@nikital.6523 Words can not describe Kingpin.. Those protmen aren't just muscle and anger. .. I wanted to describe it but again . no words :D
Honestly, I think Blood has far better level-design than Duke 3D does, in Blood it feels more rewarding to explore because of it's difficulty and how much every little round of ammunition or bundle of dynamite matters, and the art-style is just better in general, too.
You're counting Convoy as a train?
Dusk inherited the annoying rats. Though Blood rats are a little faster I think and the game throws more of them at you.
Nikita L. I rarely hear about Marathon
Caleb: "I live...again"
Civvie: "Not for long."
Got me laughing loud here
нихера не понял да и хер с ним)) эпичная игрулина
@@hduyt65 9
@@mrkingbox а так ли оно верно с твоей точки зрения? мб ты не правильную точку зрения выбрал?
at 3:53 you managed to get a zombie head perfectly up on that fence railing. incredible.
金多mvdokon Holy shit, I didn’t notice that. That was actually pretty cool.
“I live again...”
*Seconds later*
* D O A A R R G H *
"I can't believe you've found this!"
"Yeah! I've been playing this game for only twenty years."
A subscribe well earned.
I actually found it blind playing the game for the first time just the other day. XD
I found barely any regular secrets yet I found all of the super secrets... except for the train, that one is nonsense.
planescaped no you didn’t
Rountree1985 I doubt he did too
planescaped wha???
I like his fart jokes.
A subscribe well earned 👌
"You might notice how low I am on health, that's normal"
Love that.
I love how caleb startled himself in the mirror. And also how fluid the mirror is showing the player and npc's actions.
BUILD engine games do mirrors by duplicating and flipping part of the level inside of a room behind the mirror. You can even wander around it if you turn on noclip and walk through one. EDIT: Actually, I think that only applies to v1.3D of Duke3D (and you die if you leave the room behind the mirror). You get the hall-of-mirrors effect in v1.5, Shadow Warrior does the same (if you can find a mirror whose back-room doesn't overlap other sectors, as you tend to end up in those instead), and I don't remember Blood's cheat codes to test it for that one.
You know, since I've found this channel I've watched the "Blood" series Civvi does like twice a month. I just like the way he explains the game.
same here, bro
i have it on in the background whole emulating old pokemon games sometimes just for the random jokes and good explanations. ive since bought fresh supply too.
Ducking helps with hitscan enemies? Oh my god where were you half a year ago, where that information could have prevented a lot of agony for me!?
Playing near 20 years as well and I never knew that.
I found myself randomly trying that while playing and thought that it was just dumb luck that it was working, lol. Turns out it really DOES help! As long as the Cultists/Fanatics are on level ground of course.
FFS! I never knew this!
The damn cultists are the most annoying enemies.
@@bravo075 actually the only reason why this game was hard were poorly balanced cultists who had 0.3 reaction with their hitscans lol
I would've recommended the unofficial strategy guide, but magazines, books and such really aren't relevant anymore. It was easy to do if you grew up with this game, but nowadays it's elusively lost and you have to know what to look for if you are going to find it. ;)
Prima and Brady did a lot of these good guides back int he 90's. I think they still do today.
I'm a 24 year old millennial who grew up playing games like Half-Life 2, Doom3, Resident Evil 4 & F.E.A.R. and to be honest with you I've been neglecting 90s shooters until now. This channel really opening my eyes, for some reason I'm now OBSESSED with these 90s action shooter that's brimming with style, atmosphere, blood, violence and bad f*cking guns. I tried GZDOOM last night and I had a totally BLAST, it's unbelievable just how well the first DOOM game still holds up. Can't believe I'm saying it but I was actually having more fun with GZDOOM than DOOM 2016 which is a great game but with just a little too much emphasis on glory kills that got old really fast.
I’m around the same age and agree. One problem with a lot of modern action games is that the level design is too linear. Even when it’s open, they’re usually just hiding upgrades in the different paths. Because of this, there’s no reason to revisit secrets if you’re replaying the game. But with old school shooters and especially Metroidvania and horror games? You NEED to go hunting the levels for supplies. Not just to kick ass and get weapons earlier than normal but also just to survive.
thanks to all of the top quality WADs that are around, Doom 2 is pretty much still the best fps ever made and the only singleplayer shooter I bother playing
Same I've never even heard of Blood before this video but I've been playing the Fresh Supply remake and im really surprised how throughly om enjoying it
Also yeah i bought doom eternal and throughly enjoyed it but I seem to have more hours in doom 64 then eternal
Same here
Guys, help. I ran out of Civvie videos to watch and now I'm just rewatching everything on a neverending nightmare binge
Same here.....
Some say he is still on that rewatch binge to this day
"This can't be good for me but I feel great!"
I'm now carrying this torch. I can't get enough.
I reached the end of youtube once or twice and always find myself back here.
13:13
the gargoyles have an even bigger weakness. if they enter water deep enough to swim in they die instantly. Comes in real handy in episode 2
A cousin of mine bought this game when it was new, told me to come over and check it out. Still to this day, it’s my favorite game of all time. I’m so sad for the people who have never experienced this game....
Somehow after all those years of playing this game I did not notice, that when TNT explodes in your hands that there is an animation for your hands, that are burnt down. If you pause it on 3:26 you can see it.
I just -- like within the last 2 weeks -- got Blood GDX going. Your introductory comments are so dead on. I was hitting myself for not having played this sooner. It's the real deal folks. It's immensely fun to play today, and it is far and away the best Build Engine game. If Iron Maiden can even approach Blood, it will be a stunning success. It is one of the best executions of a theme I have ever seen in a game, and in my opinion, it is the absolute perfect Halloween season shooter (not that you shouldn't play it all year round). Despite its age, it is still just buckets of fun, and blowing things up with dynamite or setting things on fire or letting loose with both barrels of the shotgun or spraying with the tommy gun, *all of it,* just never gets old.
Considering Ion Maiden has actual headshot mechanics and a massively overpowered Pistol weapon (just like Blood does), I'd say it's off to a hot start!
This game help shaped my childhood...doom, Duke, and quake...
Legends
Same, and my fav is still . . . quake, my PC at the time had a cd-rom so i could play the soundtrack and Trent Reznor was my idol at the time. Loved NiN and when I heard my game playing his music i was blown away.
Blood is still better though xD
@@ihave7sacks
Oh yeah, by far the first quake is and always be my favourite...and to be honest, quakes ost has to be NiN's best unofficial album...its kinda sad how it devolved into an alien shooter...granted it was a good game too, just shouldn't have been given the quake title...
Your explanation is fast and easy to understand and, along with the gameplay and editing (maybe script too), makes this officially my favorite channel for either reviews of just for a laugh. But the best part is how natural it sounds! Great work!
God I love this game. One of the most under-appreciated games of all time. Anyone who hasn't played it yet needs to try it out right now. This is one of the few games that is worth the trouble of setting up Dos Box.
Man, these videos are like a cross between a condensed let's play and a review. Not a bad combo. Good stuff mate.
12:02 I remember I was playing co-op and we cheesed the hell out of this secret, staying there until we had max ammo, health and armour. Then as soon as we stepped out the door, like 10x the cultists you'd normally see popped out, they were literally pushing each other out the windows and stuff. It was magical.
It was like one of them lost a bet and he had to got outside and throw some dynamite at you guys or something. But was too wimpy to try so the rest of push that one out. But one by one all of was push out and face your guy's wrath.
Sorry for overthinking.
Now that I read my own comment, it sounds like a 70s-early 80s cartoon animatic of some kind.
Oh and that moment at 17:29... my freaking god this man is la legend. That scream it's carved into my brain since I first played this masterpiece 20 years ago.
SHOW YOURSELF... SHOW YOURSELF!!!
No matter how many times I watch this series, I always love it. I'm aboslutely grabage at FPS games and watching him play this like an expert that knows his shit is always entertaining.
DooM 1 and 2016 might be my favorite games, but Caleb from blood is my favorite character in any game lol
Try the Deathwish mod with BloodGDX, also please review it lol
Deathwish is a fan made sequel to Blood 1 that means it's a good Blood 2 in a way.
I love your shit thanks!
top kek up vote plus one
This needs to be seen by civvie
I've played Death Wish. Awesome stuff. It's a way better Blood 2.
Well, to be fair from what i have saw - blood 2d (platformer game, made from original sprites and tiles) is better than blood 2
@@Civvie11 OMG Civvie is noticing me :3
jk but please do a Pro Deathwish!
I love how Caleb goes from low and raspy to bird calls when he dies
Blood is the best FPS ever created. Extra Crispy is the best difficulty because you need to utilize everything this game offers you (weapons, secrets, enemy position). I even beat this game on Extra Crispy without saves (I was without a HDD [crashed] for a year so I have to run this game from CD-ROM with MS-DOS on Floppy disk). Good times!
Now THAT is a feat.
The only thing I don't like about Extra Crispy is that there's not enough ammo to kill the 2 bosses at the end of episode 1, so you end up having to pitchfork the second one for an eternity.
@@atrocity3010 Yeah, it was pain in the ass. Pitchforking the last remaining Cheogh to death was not a pleasant experience. But that was (as far as I remember) the only weird part of the whole EC difficulty.
The carnival with its minigames and the rollercoaster log flume in the house of horrors are the best parts of episode 1. I'd love to see something like this in Ion Maiden Aftershock, especially the jet coaster.
That train map has to be one of the most memorable maps I've ever played. Blew my mind as a kid so I spent forever trying to recreate it in Duke.
Good times!
Blood is the one and only reason I want a PC. Almost every PC game has a console version in some way, but Blood? Nah, you gotta be part of the PC master race for this shit
I appreciate the designers making a reference to the movie "Tommy Boy". Chris Farley has a line about how he gets excited about making a sale and becomes "Jo-Jo, the idiot circus boy with a pretty new pet". A truly classy reference.
I often have to come back to this series, as it was the very first one of Civvie's that I saw around the time it came out. (every now and then youtube recommendations are helpful) I remember spreading the video to all my friends who loved Blood, and always makes me happy how well Civvie is doing now.
You know, being locked up in a correctional facility full of nuclear rats aside...
I've watched this video countless times now, such a classic
I'm so happy this video exists. Blood has become one of my all time favorites.
I beat the whole game on extra crispy once. I'm never doing it again.
How?
I’m running through it now and i think it’s kinda fun Cerebus is being a bitch to fight I’m stuck on him atm
Ayy i just did that with fresh supply for nostalgia sake! To be honest i feel that extra crispy was easier in fresh supply than it was back in vanilla blood. Cerberus was my only problem as well, until i lodged myself up in one of the pillars in his arena, and proceeded to pepper him with explosives without him even doing a thing.
Im doing extra crispy now, any tips?
@@tanekheath5323 dont die nuff said
T W O P O R T A L S L E A D T O C E R T A I N D E-
*Runs through the correct door without stopping*
Crudux Cruo! Cruento Paashaeximus! AAHHHHH!
PEROSHAY BEBOX MALLAX
VORAX ESCO MARANA!
Maranax Pallex!
En maranax ovos nava cruematos!
Blood Souls
This channel has made me want to start playing dos games
I've finished the games twice and I still love it, though some of the design choices (hitscan enemies, rats, bullet sponges, impossible to find secrets) were really driving me crazy. But the atmosphere and the weapons (I too, in fact, love dynamite, it's super satisfying) are still top notch, even today.
Extra crispy screams while Caleb dies is just hilarious 😂
one of the best random youtube recommendations i've gotten tbh
same lol
You are the ENTIRE reason I bought blood, and I can’t thank you enough.
Only explanation I have for the save game difficulty swapping, is its inverted on an odd number, and it implies the value corresponds to negative an positive numbers, and when loading it swaps a negative to a positive and vice versa. Therefore the reason 'lightly broiled' stays the same'. If in order from least to most hard, the difficulty is stores as either a -2, - 1, 0, 1 or 2, then the inverse chart of difficulty makes sense if the game is glitching and switching a negative to a positive. And zero is neither which is why lightly broiled would be unaffected by said glitch
Love how if you die to the dynamite in your hands going off, you get 3 frames of Caleb's hands being almost entirely skeletal as his flesh is completely torn from them by the blast. You can see it even without frame-hunting at 3:27 if you look close enough.
"Is that gasoline I smell" - Caleb The Deadliest Gun in Western Texas
Insane how fucking good this game is, nice to see that you do it justice! The music, the art, the level design, the sounds...WAY MORE than merely parodying horror tropes as other critics often put it. This game breathes horror, you even get to go to a hospital - fucking savage!
After hearing the intro to this video I thought: "This man know's what he's talking about!" Then you gained a subscriber. Blood IS the best Build Engine game.
i dont even care this game is hard....i used to play this when i was around 8 years old and now i get shivers when i hear those cultists scream in pain ,the nostalgia shivers
17:30 So, Essentially what you're saying is what Caleb says has more Weyte than what Duke Nukem says?
Arcterezion What I don’t ge-. Ohhhhh ohhhhhh OHHHHHHHHHHH I GET IT
@@dominicesquivel3901 I was wondering if my undeniably highly sophisticated jest would receive a response.
@Bodybag Dotzip That is somewhat depressing in a sense, but unfortunately not surprising.
Weyte-ist character.
Get out
Fun Fact: Blood alpha build has a single stick of dynamite as a weapon, on the release it only got a bundle.
You can restore the Blood Alpha weapons with the Weapon Mod! It also adds very thematic optional replacements. They even have a BuildGDX version but sadly its missing some things. Great addition for me. It helps keep the game interesting and varied.
Thanks for the excellent video!
Such a great shooter, one of the best in 1990s, but for some reason quite underrated and unknown! Maybe there were more famous and better marketed alternatives on the FPS market back then on its release year? The sequel, Blood 2 - The Chosen, was uninteresting and just crappy fps game in my opinion.
It is true that the original Blood was pretty unforgiven on higher difficulty settings in the expansion episodes 5 & 6 - especially the first levels were very hard to complete as solo on the highest difficulty setting. Otherwise it wasn’t so difficult game to play or beat in general, just a challenging gaming experience even for an adept FPS player.
I think I never actually had time/perseverance to start & finish the last expansion episode (#6) on the highest skill; I was out of ammo all the time. I never found all of the secrets or super secrets of every single level in the whole game neither. Actually, after watching your excellent video I started to have some vague memories of the super-secret concept in the Blood game.
Blood's gameplay, shooting mechanics and atmosphere are authentic even in 2018. Level design can be complex and sometimes frustrating even for experienced fps players in some later episodes of the game. Still, most of the level design is good or excellent - and levels are full of traps and nasty surprises & easter eggs and allusions to popular culture, literature and films. I will always remember the map E4M7: In The Flesh which takes places in the human body. I bet there's no other so peculiar level like that in any fps game or will ever be :D
And yes... there are some annoying enemies such as rats, spiders, all underwater enemies, walking palms and those flying spectres that disappears when you shoot them and then appear again randomly after a couple of seconds for the next hit (and you have to repeat this like three times before the spectre finally checks out). The pinpoint accuracy of the ranged enemies is a pain in the ass, too!
So sad that they don't create fps games anymore that could be such authentic and unique as Blood is.
Your videos are the kind you prepare a mountain of snacks to marathon and enjoy but also the perfect background stuff for work or just to chill.
It fits so much I love it. But your deep analysis of the game from it's history to story, physics, engine it's all makes you worthy of calling this PRO BLOOD but sadly puts everyone else's videos to shame. Even those who are long time fans and dedicated to a franchise yet fail some minor details in reviews. Even Caddicarus and Nitrorad may miss something but you got the damn game down to it's cut content.
And you're not afraid of swearing or crude language but not over the top. A fine balance of actual comedy. Too good.
I'm replaying Blood now and I agree 100% with everything Civvie said
The alt fire with dynamites is great.
Normal dynamites:
-- Apart from what you've covered, if you press alt-fire and alt-fire again Caleb drops the ignited dynamite on the ground (good if something is chasing you)
Other dynamites are also dropped with alt-fire, but then subsequent alt-fires load the next dynamite, so you can drop more than one.
you're a saint, civvie.
Why do I keep coming back to this series to rewatch?
True
Cause it’s made with love?
14:22 I could watch that on a loop for hours.
"I LIVE... AGAIN."
'Not for long.'
Might as well be the tagline.
Blood GDX has that beautiful custom difficulty feature that lets you mix the enemy counts of Extra Crispy with Well Done's damage values - my favorite way to play.
Also, the feel of throwing dynamite in Blood is unsurpassed. I can always throw it exactly where it needs to go.
Ooh I need to try that. I just dont find Well Done any fun because the machine gun cultists suck the life out of you by looking at you. I dont mind insane challenge difficulties but Well Done's damage model is a little too much. Ive still never tried the new Made to Order difficulty in Fresh Supply, but honestly I think I get the point.
Here's a funny story for anyone reading the comments and finding mine. I never played Blood when i was still a kid, but Civvie's enthusiasm for it made me buy the steam version which is "Blood: Fresh supply." I then decided to go in the hardest difficulty intended for single player, like Civvie. Except for the steam version, they made an extra difficulty which is "made to order" (or maybe it's custom renamed?) but anyway, i distinctly remembered Civvie playing the difficulty above the hardest, so i picked the same. And yeah, you guessed it, in the steam version it's *drum roll* Extra Crispy. I still managed to make it to E1M4 by cheesing every encounters, making ennemies see me, go behind a corner, wait for them to come and pitchfork them to death. Like Civvie said, i would NOT recommend.
I started the game again in "Well Done" and oh god is it more manageable.
Don't play on Extra Crispy, ever...
esse jogo merece um remake, fez parte da minha infância. Um dos melhores jogos de PC na época.
"Fucking Hitscanners" I shit myself laughing every time he mentions them 😂😂😂😂😂
More Civvie!
Also I believe his name is pronounced "CHEE-AUG"
Also I second Kek, you really should do a review of Deathwish when you get through Pro-Blooding. Death Wish is arguably one of the best BUILD engine mods ever made. Right up there with AMC TC, WGREALMS, and DNF 2013.
I would agree. Death Wish is great.
One of the best fps ever made, I played it when just come out, the gameplay is light years ahead of current fps.
This series brought Blood to my attention (nice series btw).
Just recently played through the first 4 acts on Lightly Broiled and now I'm doing it over again on Well Done, and holy fuck nuts the difference is day and night. A couple extra enemies in most encounters, the hitscanners having faster reaction times and doing more damage, everything having more health, and the cultists throwing TNT bundles instead of sticks - it's fucked. When you mentioned the bar-car on the train being difficult, I thought maybe you were exaggerating because it wasn't that bad. It is on Well Done. I have to actually quick save now, and I retried the bar-car probably 15 times.
Extra Crispy can't be anything other than ridiculous and I refuse to find out.
It makes me feel better that you mentioned it's difficulty. Today I REALLY tried to get into Blood, the atmosphere and art direction are top notch and the gameplay looked fun. But that game kicked my ass on lightly broiled lmao. Hitscanners are brutally quick and deadly, and health and ammo are scarce.
Agree with everything said in this video. By the gods i want a new Blood game.
Hey Civvie, I don't often comment on videos, but wanted to say thank you for your PRO BLOOD series for getting me into Blood (which is now one of my favorite FPS's) but also for introducing me to VYEN's music. Love Inhale.
The way he wasted that zombie at 5:12 hilarious
I love this channel because I get to see all these obscure games. I honestly have learned so much about old school FPSes. This channel inspired me to replay the original Doom....and now I want to play Blood
I want JoJo! I want JoJo! JOJO! *JOJO!*
Plot twist: She's a woman
So Jolyne then?
Jooooooooooooooo-JO!!!
GOODBYE JOJO
Is that a Jojo reference?
You persuaded me to buy Blood... so far I'm loving it. The learning curve is tricky at first but once I got used to it it is super fun.
This video reminds me...I should get get back to playing Blood! Finished the first episode; can't exactly remember why I dropped it.
Edit: playing Blood again, I now remember why I dropped it.
P.S. Throwing dynamite into a bunch of enemies is more fun than sex. You can trust me, for I have most definitely had sex.
Why, then?
@@mugwump7049 ikr im so intrigued
@@mugwump7049 Why did I stop playing? If you watched the video you should know. You *did* watch it, right? At least up to 00:54?
How bad were the partners you had coitus with? LOL joking.
does anybody know where the wiki got the numbers for Cheog's health from? as far as i know, we don't have access to blood's source code, and it seems like it would be pretty hard to get that information without it.
Who else is here thanks to the “Fresh Supply” rerelease?
I know I am!
For me it's the other way around. This vid made me look out for the remaster. Now I have Blood multiple times. And neither is Blood2 :)
I did complete Blood2 back in the day but... not going to search for that to buy it on Steam or GoG or anything :)
I have both versions on Steam, no idea why I bought 2 though. "Blood: One Unit Whole Blood" and "Blood: Fresh Supply", but I play "Fresh Supply"
no joke, i bought Blood earlier today cause i was bored as shit, and these videos kept running through my mind.
Good shit, Civvie
"Waaah! Ooh... it's just me."
God, I love this game.
Best FPS imo, amazing atmosphere, great soundtrack, excellent voice acting and all around hard as hell but rewarding to play.
This is one of the best videos on the internet.
I just love re-watching Civvies Blood series. I've never even played Blood but he just puts so much passion into it
0:20 "Blood was better"
You have my rapt attention and subscription.
Proceed......
unpopular opinion: shadow warrior is better
@@greybayles7955 I'm curious, what precisely makes you say that?
@@caesarfrompersona3fes731 One is better, probably.
@@ladyhm.6748 They were both awesome FPS' made by Monolith. 'Nuff said.
@@FoxAzureOfficial Was just curious for the reason for their preference.
God as my witness, I will never tire of the wonderful screams that the cultists make while they're being burned/shot/skewered/generally ground down into a fine, snort-able powder.
7:41 all we had to do was follow the damn train cj
Thank you! If it wasn't for your video on this game I wouldn't have found this masterpiece, it's a fantastic game, a testament to the brilliance of these kinds of games in the 90s, even if I only discovered it thanks to your video this month, but I was playing Duke Nukem 3D since then, and I played the new Shadow Warrior, not as good as the original, but when is anything as good as the original, thanks again.
I remember playing this as a kid, ah this is where my fear of the ocean came from. Ya know that water level where you spawn in a boat? Terrifying.
Your video convinced me to finally sit down and play through this one. Just beat Episode 1 and this shit is amazing.