History Channel at 3 AM : The Game
Вставка
- Опубліковано 13 жов 2021
- Cod Vanguard cursed guns have nothing on this. The game is Darkest of Days and I am not responsible if you get a virus trying to download it.
Come watch me play such "amazing" games at twitch.tv/oboeshoesgames - Ігри
I made a video about this game a few months ago, and I actually interviewed the director. It turns out, he had a huge hollywood deal lined up for a movie, and they were getting offers from publishers like Activision and THQ. Then the financial crash hit and everyone pulled out, so they just kinda went "ahh shit, release what we have", and that's how we got Darkest of Days. It's more or less a demo that they put together in order to get publisher's attention, not the product they ever intended to release. As for why it got taken down, he kind of implied he forgot the game was even available in the first place, so it probably has something to do with the old company not really existing anymore.
That would make sense, I figured this was a shoestring budget game someone made in a dingy basement, but it being something of an Alpha-stage game makes sense.
Man, I wish they could've kept their funding so we could see this game at its full potential rather than the half baked (and hilarious) mess we got.
Hey, thanks. I'll check out your video.
300
Even as a half-baked mess, it's really quite a nice concept and execution. Nothing revolutionary, but conceptually quite cool
A FPS in Pompeii is something I thought I would NEVER see.
Glad I did though
I wonder why they chose Pompei in 79 AD. As if people back then weren't miserable enough with the volcano erupting.
reminds me of Serious Sam
sounds like Will Rock
I love to poop.
I did find the game cool
The Union guy with the fully automatic rifle is such a fucking meme worthy thing
There's potential for Sherman's March memes for sure
Imagine the Henry rifle, except instead of "loading on Sunday and shooting all week" you load it in the morning and wipe out the entire Confederate Army by sundown.
If Mad Dog from Time Crisis fought in the Civil War.
We really need a transcript of the whole epic speech he gave too
aaawwaayy ddoowwnn wiitthh tthhee ttrraaiittoorrss
"I'm not thanking you!"
Gets a futuristic weapon.
"I'd like to thank you for this opportunity."
Harry Turtledove wrote a novel about racist time travelers going back in time to give the Confederate army AK-47s. I liked it and it's not a long novel.
@@user-uy1rg8td1v Lol that sounds awesome
Darkest of Days occupies that same space as Necrovision for being “World War I game conceptualized via a game of telephone.”
You can also add Iron Storm to that list
God I wish people would make more good WW1 FPS story campaigns lol, seems like everything is some weird alt-history nonsense from the early 2000s, or painfully mediocre.
@@LordVader1094 bf1 was pretty good
@Herr Goober still good
@@bravo6959 the campaign in bf1 wasn't good
Here is the difference between Darkest of Days and Call of duty Vanguard: One of these games shouldn’t have customization that isn’t historically accurate, the other has time travel so it makes sense using a gun that looks like it’s in 2089 while being part of the revolutionary war
The guns in darkest of days somehow still make more sense though.
@@JonatasAdoM yeah lol, it is like the designers had knowledge about firearms, unlike the designers who made the Sten with a closed bolt that doesn't even reach the chamber
Agree, I have to ignore the existence of AAA World war 2 games on principle for the sheer irreverence shown. I have three grandfathers that served.
The guns are the least thing I hate about vanguard.
its almost like the customization is for multiplayer where it dosent matter. funny
"Sir. It seems as if the corpses all have munition injuries."
"Nonsense. It was metal fragments from the volcano."
"But sir: the rounds were found in and around the body with empty metal casings."
"Volcanic metal tends to do that, Jennings. It's never in one place."
"Sir. It's LITERALLY stamped 45 ACP. You can still see the markings -"
"Jennings if you want to make a paper about time-travel and bullets you can do so on your own time."
45 ACP or .40 S&W* the round you named doesn’t exist yet i’m afraid
@@ontheperkys It Exists In The Future So He's Right
@@ontheperkys Did he originally say .45 S&W? That was actually an alternative name for .45 Schofield.
@@jic1If i remember correctly he accidentally said 40 ACP at first. But that’s interesting I didn’t know that
@@ontheperkys did he time travel and change the comment
If I remember right the Studio lost most of their data when a flood destroyed their office. This is what they were able to salvage and cobble together in like 2-3 months to meet their deadline. Despite the rough around the edges I loved the concept and liked the game at the time.
Someone must have time travelled because the game was too good to be released.
that would explain why the ending felt like it was just the halfway point in the game.
what a load of bs lmfao. This is an alpha that was never meant to be released. The 'flood' story you are saying is that of 'Hello Games' Devs
@@singularityraptor4022 that so called story could happen to any company and dev team.
This game was pretty good
Wasn't this game's price permanently hardlocked at $30 when it was available to buy on Steam?
I think I got it for like $9.
Well worth the money
Yes.
Its still available?
@@messier8379 it was taken down everywhere i think, only way to play the game is to pirate it
I remember buying this game on steam way back when it came out and thinking it was awesome (especially the Rome level) but looking back on it now that I'm older it's hilarious.
The reason why it's so weird is Because the studio lost all their data in an office flood and had to basically remake the game in 2 months to finish the deadline
@@rexjolles ive heard that story before and im pretty sure it was a different game studio
@@zhankazest idk it's happened to like 13 million game studios
@@rexjolles fake
@@BrumEldar shut
Darkest of Days is one of the last games from an era of video games where developers didn’t give a fuck and were bold enough to try weird ass concepts and roll with it.
back when studios had to purpose new ideas instead of just copy the big thing
I feel like you exclusively play AAA games.
Yeah, this game definitely was not the best, but it made up for its flaws with its crazy scenarios and sheer novelty.
@@thepenisgenius take a loook at shooters bro
@@JuliaJvn_6 Shit like CoD and Battlefield. Yeah, of course. But what about shit like Ultrakill, Deus Ex, Y'know?
Imagine you're sitting in a WW1 trench, when suddenly you hear the unmistakable sound of a Honeywell AGT1500C multi-fuel turbine engine driving closer towards your current location.
I dont believe a lot of people in the comments would know what your talking about let alone soldiers in WW1.
Abrams woooooh
You're just trying to give poor Jonathan Ferguson nightmares aren't you?
I was looking for this comment 😂
Pause there 😁
Don't mind me, just putting this game in his suggestion box....
Next Saturday I want him to review this game I'm gonna lose my 😂
Oh man what a fun concept that was. I wish we got a sequel that improved on everything
There was one planned at one point, but the project fell through
I'd buy it
Warfare has some of those elements I think
Teach me how to pee!!!
@@imweird.6147 That will cost you $25/hr.
Awwwwww you left out the part where the sergeant guy gets upset that the enemy is killing random civilians in Pompeii literal minutes after telling you you can just go ham and murder random civilians for fun because they're gonna die anyway
This feels like one of those bargain bin shooters from GameStop’s weird corner that’s somehow actually good
Testicles
No joke, I got sniper elite on the original on pc in one of those corners lol
The funniest thing about this game was the blue-glow enemies indicating historical generational importance, implying everyone without a blue glow is just a useless sack of meat throughout their entire lineage.
Is this game a fever dream? Is this video a content that slipped through an alternate universe? Am I seeing all of this correctly? Because this game looks and feels like a fever dream to me
It isn't, I am one of the few people to own a physical copy of the PC and Xbox 360 version
Nah, is just history channel at 3am
@@elbolainas4174 History Channel at 3 AM also feels like a fever dream
2:14 I feel like the people who made these games never actually owned or wore a gas mask in real life. Yes, your vision can be impaired but how the game represents this is beyond absurd.
true the vision obscure is even worse than a real life balistic face mask
Gas Mask from WW1
@@Fulcrox the inside of the mask is clearly not from a ww1 gasmask.
@@Zipotricks touche
Oh so thats the line you draw for realism...Interesting :D
I remember going to PAX and they had a booth where you could pose with prop guns from all different eras while gameplay played in the background and they had a person there to talk about the "historical accuracy" of the game. This game's marketing was something else.
We have to girl who was in my your own home you face.
@@imweird.6147 are you high?
@@ScarFail No, sir.
Wow, a Nazi concentration camp level. I'm sure this game will handle this in a sensitive and appropriate manner.
Let’s be honest a lot of genocides are not handled with sensitivity or in a appropriate manner
Stalaglufts were POW camps, not concentration camps. The game visually screws this up of course but if you had to choose which to be in the Stalagluft would be your choice each time. Think Hogan's Heroes, not Dachau.
@@MrArgus11111
Well...
If you remember, that hogans heroes is a bunch of bs, your Statement stand pretty much correct.
Especially in 1941
@@lukeeszeha5381 I was trying to bring up something relatable the OP might know about. I would rather be in an air force prison than in a concentration camp. People still confuse the two to this day.
@@MrArgus11111 agreed
Weird thing to notice in this insanity, but it looks like the saving icon is not just a floppy disc, but a 5 1/4" floppy instead of the usual 3.5".
time travel is ram-intensive
I remember first watching this as a let's play in 2009, buying and playing it in 2014. Now I am watching a retrospective review on UA-cam in 2021. The world is dope sometimes.
I know, right?
This game still holds a special place in my heart. You probably already know this, but you can access a secret level by going over to the wooden door in your base after that Russian guy shoots Dr Koell and hold the action button to unlock it and you go there after Dexter asks what to do. In addition, by jumping on the heads of the prisoners at the German Prison camp, you can jump onto the train car and escape the boundaries where you can fall off the world and reveal the skybox is actually the picture of a suburu by a field.
I have a baseball bat stuck up my ass. ☹️
Lol I accidentally explored the camp map by going uphills and found that car picture
Everyone who wants this game: I serve the soviet union
ok?
Would you be so kind and share our game comrade?
you must share my friend, its stalin's ghosts will
The soviet union didn't exist until after WWI lol
This game was part of my childhood, i need a link, i am unreasonably sad that there's no longer a way to play it
Man. The TVA been really quiet since this vid came out
“I’ve got a shotgun from the future that’s just aching to give old Adolf a makeover” that is now my favorite quote on UA-cam
Still have my physical copy of this with the shiny case and everything. Still enjoy playing it from time to time and it sucks that it never got a sequel. I may not be a -good- game but it was definitely enjoyable. There is also a secret level if you interact with the door (the one with the light shining beneath it) during the final "cutscene" before the credits roll.
This seriously reminds me of Singulairty
Except Singularity is mostly good
Only a lot less budget and a lot more insane.
Yeah I see where you're coming from
I enjoyed Darkest of Days so much more than Singularity.
@@milanvondrich9749 I mean, that's great and I can see the appeal of it (much more historical varity for one), but it's hard to deny that Singularity was a more polished and focused game.
The Zepplin mission, where you're stuck in a postage stamp throwing ordanance of the side and getting shredded by machine guns in the process. I really need to find my copy of this.
Also, the point of the organization that you work for in this game is to CORRECT history along it's true path, not go back and change it, hence the aura enemies you aren't supposed to kill.
4:18 remember, No Cherokee.
This game is like a Goddamn fever dream everything's so confusing
1:12 POV:You're an enemy soldier in Call of duty WaW
Modern History Channel in a nut shell
1990s: General Grant outplayed Lee in the war
2020s: Grant had super soldiers with a atomic missed Launcher with time travel capabilities because the Aliens brought the pyramids
I wish this game had a mod that replaced Dexter with Tsoukalos.
I remember playing this demo, wondering when it would come out. Then, there was no word on it anywhere. No store ever held it that I could find, and eventually, I just forgot that it existed.
I REMEMBER THIS GAME I always wondered what it was called cause I had forgot and it's legit a fever dream 😭
SAME! I remember watching a literal 1-2 mins of it when I was younger and falling in love with it because of possibility to travel and visit different battles (I didn't see the future-weapons-in-a-historical-battle part so I thought this was a cool historically accurate game) and only now I see that this game is trashy lol. The dissapointment.
“Maybe in WWI their eyes worked different”. Idk why that was so funny but it got me.
I bought this game when it came out. I went to my local Best Buy and the guy working the video game department had no idea what I was talking about, but he went in the back and brought it out. He had no clue they even had it in stock. The game was truly awful, but it had lot some really interesting elements and some fun levels.
3:44 "Let's see the fricking Gamespot weapons expert review this one" I can't wait until that happens lmao
This had so many fun ideas too bad a sequel never happened
Darkest of Days is amazing! I love it :) it's the right amount of silly "what the fuck" camp and self-serious that just...meshes really well
I love it so much
I remember playing this, and I specifically remember the last level..
and slaughtering the innocent civilians of Pompeii. On another note I’d love to see this game get a sequel or a reboot.
5:50 okay wasant expecting that line at all lmao he just kept going saying nonsense after nonsense 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Okay that "Greek fire" joke was aces.
This is not me, this is the volcano that does.
"Roman candle" would have been better
this game is simply the best videogame every created
0:50 You're telling me future armor can't survive a musket round?
Got hit at the neck
Even if the ball doesn't go through the armor the kinetic energy may still kill you. It's also likely since 1850s and 1860s US Army rifles were 58 caliber.
Those musket rounds are big as fuck.
Man from future: "you'll thank me later"
Him: "No I won't"
Man from future: "Gives advanced machine gun"
Him: "Oooh thanks"
I wanted this game so bad when I was younger. Thanks for reminding me of it lol
I think I remember watching someone play it on youtube
I just found your channel through your Force Unleashed DLC vid. I can tell I'm going to enjoy your content
5:50 has me 💀
Shitballs
I used to say that when I was younger and forgot where I got it from. Hearing him say it kinda shocked me
"thank me later"
"im not gonna thank you"
**hands over modern gun**
"well thank you"
I demand a full cover of 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'!
Oh my god I remember this game! A friend and I played the demo back in the day. I'm pretty sure he downloaded it initially because all the screenshots showed the civil war levels and he had always wanted to play a civil war shooter. We were very surprised when the time travel stuff started happening.
HOLY SHIT I USED TO PLAY THIS WHEN I WAS A KID!!!! Nostalgia man….
this was my introduction to the oboeshoes games yt channel. it had me in stitches i laughed so hard. this vid sold me on the OBSG YT channel. i’ve been a subscriber ever since. love this vid and love oboeshoes. ❤
i played this game like 800 times about 8 years ago. i loved every second of this game.
Day 485 of trying to get Oboe to do a Skyrim Sigurd RP
Why does Oboe already know about these games
"i actually been to this church and asked the tour guide about this level and he didnt know what i was talking about" perfect sentence
I remember in MGSV when you could glitch crazy weapon combos, that was so fun. I made a silent sniper grenade launcher that was just a hitscan explosion maker, good times
All things considered this game was actually really fun from what I can remember. I hope a sequel will be made one day with more funding
I'm glad this game is remembered.
The singing at the end is why I subscribed.
No but seriously.
Getting a virus over this is worth it.
These videos are not just entertaining but its nice to see these obscure games that only I seem to remember be brought to the spotlight by you
I loved that game it's amazing that cliffhanger sucked
4:25
Remember
No Yankee
Thank you for unlocking a core memory in gaming for me
I could not stop giggling the entire time, you've earned yourself a subscriber my dude
Of course! The battle of Antietam! What a great place to have a modern fps mission!
War of Rights enters the chat
10/10 oboes, very shoes
@oboeshoesgames I'm subscribing just because of the title and your rendition of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
Somehow this ended up on my recommended at 3 AM and I’m not disappointed at all.
7:09 MP-18 with the firepower of an MG-42
1:05 “no offense to my German viewers, but die”
German viewers: “The what?”
Lol
I love this, subbed instantly.
I liked the video enough on its own but the song at the end made me subscribe. Masterpiece
7:46 LMAOO
Ah this game I remember playing the demo as a kid, also you can change fov and post processing you just have to mess with a file.
I played this game when it first came out, and honestly. I loved it. It was so different and out there that I just couldn’t get enough. Would love to see this game get a reboot honestly
1:48 “c’mere Johnny reb.”
Atun shei has entered the chat
Remember, no Navajo
I remember being a broke kid replaying the demo of this over and over. I literally never thought anyone would make a video about it.
Darkest of Days will forever be one of my favorite video games to play...I remember buying a rare hard disc copy at a Gamestop about 4 years ago now and every once in awhile I'll pop it in to play...it may not be the best game ever but it's still a good one-
This is the best thing the UA-cam algorithm has ever given me. Instant sub
All these whacky combat scenarios and they don't include the greatest sharpshooter of all time? Yeah that's right, I'm talking about Cyber Quincy because nothing gets past his bow.
I got this game last year on steam and I still love it. Like I’ve had it for years before I got the steam version. It holds a special place in my heart despite the historical inaccuracies. Like so many. But hey I play when I have a bad day. I still want a sequal
I wanted to let you know I subscribed just for that song at the end.
Thanks for bringing back this gem, at the most appropriate of times.
need more people to seed this
4:05 he said it
I played this back in the day and I swear I thought I suffered through one of the weirdest of fever-dreams trying to remember this game. I had it on my Halo Reach Edition XBox 360.
OH MY GOD! I’ve played this game. I downloaded the demo on the Xbox 360 and played the civil war mission over and over again. I didn’t know I could be so nostalgic for something like this.
4:54 I haven't played the game, but my understanding is that there's bad guys trying to change history and good guys making sure things happen the way they're supposed to,
1:48 Is that the same revolver sound with the one from Black Mesa
yes it is
I remember being awake at like 3am browsing the Xbox live arcade back in like 2010 and downloading this game or the demo I think. And about an hour later I played it. I remember looking up seeing sunlight then passing out of exhaustion. I had been up for 23 hours straight
Love the title “history channel at 3am”. So flippen accurate lmao 🤣
There's a novel called 'Guns of South' that's about time-travelers who equip the Confederacy with AKs.
2:55 Only a greenhorn would hold a levergun cockeyed (or take the stock off their shoulder) while working the lever.
3:29 The Germans, who were the first to use poison gas in warfare (edit/note: They weren't the first, but they did use it extensively.), complained to the Geneva Convention to get shotguns banned for military use since they saw them as barbaric weapons that only maniacs would use in warfare. American G.I.s were like, "Yeah, that's why we use them." *};-P*
6:50 Suspenders form either an "X" shape or a "Y" shape on the back. Video games have been getting that wrong since 'Soldier of Fortune' (possibly before that).
ok
The first use of chemical weapons was by the French, it was tear gas. The Germans were the first to refine and then deploy deadly chemical weapons, but for the most part it was a 50/50 of it blowing back right on their trenches and forcing them to retreat.
Best case scenario, the wind blew towards the enemies and they retreated off their trenches but the germans couldn't quite take it either. Then we have the Eastern Front, where the Russians charged out of a fort while pieces of their flesh fell off them, the infamous attack of the undead.
That is why even Hitler was opposed to using chemical weapons in battle. Obviously, he had no moral qualms about killing innocents with it, but he was well aware how volatile those weapons are.
@@LuizAlexPhoenix Combat shotguns are still all-American, though.
Well... The result of that debate was that the germans declared that any enemy caught using a shotgun would be executed and the americans then issued a counter-declaration about flamethrowers.
Dunno if anything ever really became of it, but if yes, then that was probably a decent enough trade for the germans, since trench guns were a lot more common than flamethrowers.
And the germans did sorta have a point: Bullet wounds are usually a pretty clear-cut case: You got a single big wound and either you die pretty much instantly, or you have good odds of recovering with medical aid. Shot on the other hand... it has pretty high odds of not killing you outright but leaving you in a state that cannot really be treated (not by 1918 field surgeons, anyways) so you just end up dying slowly from sepsis or blood loss.
@@darthplagueis13 Sepsis! Ugh! Better to just be put outta yer misery-go-nuts!
When the game has inaccurate history!!! 😳😳😳
“This is for lincoln” killed me 🤣🤣🤣
ive talked about this game for years and forgot about it this was a cool find to watch