Let's not forget legendary month of TNT evolution daily shorts. That rounded up to be the best April fool's joke I have seen on all of UA-cam in years.
Fun fact: growing up poor, my family didn't get a working PC until I was maybe fifteen. I had about four copies of Chex Quest I had been holding onto because I loved corn Chex growing up. Chex Quest was my first PC game.
This video was meticulously edited by a lovely and very real person named Katie and no one, not a single soul on this planet, could convince me otherwise. That includes Civvie.
"That includes Civvie." Civvie's in prison. He's clearly awful enough to deserve that, so imagining that he'd stoop to lying about Katie's existence is completely believable imo.
On Civvies subreddit someone asked if he will ever do a vid on half life 2 whenever he hit 500k sub and his reaction was *"Oh my god shut the fuck up about Half-Life 2 already* *edit: this goes for everyone. You, me, all people reading this, games journalists, UA-camrs, Valve, literally everyone in the world needs to stop talking about Half-Life 2."* - Civvie 11 So bullying only gets you so far XD
@@demonicspire1345 yeah absolutely but when I have a good idea for it. You guys aren't going to unlock the secret Half-Life 2 video with the 1,000,000th request for it... ...OR WILL YOU?
In the first one when I had a controller connected one of the buttons would open a menu that said Episode 1: Knee Deep in the Dead. Hadn't played Doom yet so that was very confusing in a game that was selling itself on its nonviolence
I would be willing to drop this channel if Katie left, after all these years she earned that ( yes i realize a woman earning anything is sus but she's real dammit)
This is the game that finally enlarged my preteen testicles enough to play DOOM. My dad owned and played DOOM damn near religiously. I couldn't handle it at 6-7; too damn scary. Then I played Chex Quest, immediately realized it was Cereal DOOM, got used to the mechanics, and finally grew into DOOM on my own. Dad used to laugh at how scared I was, but I remember the day I proudly showed him I could get all the way to the bruiser brothers on my own. Love this game, and I love you dad.
The fact Chex game has a Level Result of a protagonist scraping guts off his boot & no other game, including Doom, Nukem, Blood, etc. shows what's wrong with our society. That is one of the most metal things I've seen it in a game.
Here's a fun fact: If you load Chex Quest as a PWAD for Doom, you'll essentially disable the total conversion and get to play Chex Quest's levels in Doom. You can also load Doom as a PWAD for Chex Quest to achieve the opposite effect.
I tried to do this, but all it did was load the "rules" differences between them, i.e. when loading CHEX.WAD as a PWAD on top of DOOM.WAD to create "The Ultimate CHEX", it was just Chex Quest 1 but the Flemoids shoot back and drop ammo when killed - no Doom levels, textures, sound effects, etc.. When loading DOOM.WAD as a PWAD on top of CHEX.WAD to create "Doom Quest", the Zombiemen do not shoot at me and don't drop ammo on death. Other than that, it's Doom 1.
The fucking "OOUGH" sound Chexman makes in this game is sampled in a song by Skism and Trampa and I feel insane for pointing it out every time the song comes on
Not that people are foaming at the mouth for Chex Quest Lore. But the version of Episode 2 in this video was actually a remastered version made with Chex Quest 3. The original Episode 2 was significantly worse. The movie theater level in particular being particularly unfinished This is also why the skyboxes and levels look like a step up in quality (for the most part) But as mentioned, Episode 2 was super rushed out, so im glad they were able to make a version they were happier with
There was also changes to episode 1 in the chex3.wad. Although mostly less dramatic. There is actually two chex3.wads floating out there online, with minor differences that make them incompatible for online play. The theater level has noticeable differences between the two versions.
This might seem like a small detail but the falling flem meteors in the background is, I think, one of the only times in a Doom game of this era where you could feel the scale of the apocalypse on the world from a first person perspective.
11:55. Here in Brazil, that's EXACTLY how Jaws is called. Shark, no more no less. Jaws, in portuguese, is a word used mostly by doctors so here it has a super-formal vibe.
I was not expecting Chex Quest 3 to be such a step-up, from the others. I was also not expecting Chex Quest 3 to be a thing at all. Also, while not a shooter, Kingdom Come: Deliverance could be considered a Czech's Quest in its own right, since it takes place in Bohemia. (come to think of it, HROT is probably a Czech's Quest too)
Should be noted that Chex Quest HD added more lore to the game. Including a whole roster of playable breakfast themed characters with their own unique voice lines.
Yeah but I mean, Chex Quest HD is so bad... I mean, maybe my expectations for it were too high, given how big a part of my childhood gaming experience Chex Quest was, but I'm pretty sure it's also just bad.
@@KamiNoBaka1 It was disappointing to me also. The amateur 3d graphics don't compare to the cel-shaded animated look of the original. The new character designs are pretty good though.
When John Oliver talked about this game, he revealed something both shocking and yet unshocking about it's development...... they hired a high school kid that was STILL IN SCHOOL to make the game unpaid, and despite this, that kid made a solid and fun doom clone that boosted the sale of chex by the MILLIONS, and he didn't get paid for any of it. That dude is a goddamn legend for not only making a solid banger of a doom cline but then after the crunched and rushed development of the secons, still had the passion and desire to spend 11 years in making the perfect final trilogy and he NAILED IT.
You did it CV11! I somehow made it 28 years since this came out not knowing what Chex Quest actually looked like. It was 28 years of rumors, whispers, silent giggles around me as people mentioned this game's existence, but I remained ever-so-ignorant. And then on April first, I made it the whole day thinking that it was legitimately a prank, waiting for that UA-cam notification, just to open the page today. You were my first, and probably last, Chex Quest CV11.
It's really not that bad and worth a play. I miss the days where companies used to actually care a little about their consumers and go the extra mile like that. There were a handful of games we got out of cereal boxes as kids. I had some lame ones like that Captain Crunch one and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, some okay board game ports like Clue and Monopoly. The Euro crowd got lucky and had bangers like Age of Empires and Roller Coaster Park Tycoon in some of their cereals :(
@@FuzedBox I mostly just never had the opportunity or remembered to really look it up? Memes aside, I didn't really have a PC in my house for quite some time despite really liking PC gaming. I do remember there were some neat company-brand games for consoles I enjoyed as a kid. Cool Spot was actually one I remember renting a fair few times when I was a kid and thought was a fever dream until videos of people playing it surfaced online lol.
I remember getting this randomly at a Sams Club in 1997, learning about it only from the box, and somehow, brainlet seven-year old me figuring out this was a Doom mod. Given that I was banned from Doom for some time, this was a real treat for me. I'm amazed how much I remember the level design of this game.
15:30 Because one game developer from the 90s simply could not rest until the hanging plot thread from the rushed-out sequel to a naked cash grab was resolved. And I have nothing but respect for that man, because Chex 3 looks like it _slaps._
Come for the Chex Quest review, stay for the discussion of how the Chexists massacred Count Chocula’s family and the baby carriage scene from Spaceship Potemkin. You get my like Civvie 👍
His family didn't deserve what happened to them, but screw Count Chocula. He let his advisors blame minority groups instead of fixing problems, started wars that backfired, and kept making the situation worse for everyone by trying to hold onto power when everyone had enough of him. If Count Chocula didn't want to be staked, he should have been a better ruler.
Civvie is low-key one of the better comedy writers on UA-cam, and me crying about Count Chocula weighing his children down with heavy boxes of cereal just reinforces it.
@@thisismybassgun Wait, I thought the Chexists threw the Count and his family’s corpses into a well after the massacre? All in the effort to prevent the return of the Ralston Imperial throne…
Speaking of corporate shenanigans, the Chex hole actually goes deeper. You see in 96/97 when General Mills acquired the rights to the Chex "As well as Cookie Crisp and a couple odds and ends" that was just the beginning. Ralson-Purina ceased to exist as one company and split itself into 2 separate companies. The pet foods division "Purina" would be acquired by Nestle; And the cereal brands that were not acquired by General Mills "Ralston" were later built into a bulk/generic cereal manufacturer called Ralston Foods.
Why do cereal companies have such bizarre corporate shenanigans. General mills built Alvin the deep sea submersible that went to challenger deep and went to the Titanic.
@@invictus_1245right? Sounds more like a Quaker Oats move. Not just because Quakers were historically whalers but thats also the company that produces Cap'n Crunch, and you can't tell me sending a submersible into the Titanic doesn't sound like a PR stunt with "Vengence on the Soagies" written all over it.
Let's not forget that Ralston cereals usually tasted like shit. They had all the big pop culture sponsors and every time it was just dog food in different shapes you poured milk on.
11:10 Oh wow, that track is a Chex original?! I heard it in Solar Struggle first and could swear it was composed by someone in the Doom community! That's dope. 11:57 Fun fact, the title in Portuguese for Jaws is indeed "Shark" (Tubarão).
@@guilhermehank4938 There's 210-ish millions of us. It's bizarre to think of an online community that _doesn't_ feature at least one concealed Brazilian, even if he or she is on stealth mode.
Chex Quest on nightmare is honestly a bit of a riot. It makes it feel more like an actual invasion as they teleport in just aa quickly as you zorch them out Also, the rocket launcher doesnt deal splash damage to the player, but it does to the enemies. You can take several out by getting right in their snotty faces
Thank you! The AOL mention brought back memories of my parents saving each AOL 50 hour disc with the thought we could cash them all in for all the AOL time in the world!
9:29 For mid 90s/2000s kids like me, I learned what an arboretum was thanks to playing Psychonauts on Xbox in 2008. Specifically The Milkman Conspiracy level. (“The plant place. It’s like a garden but more shrubby & scientific.” Ford Cruller, 2004 or 2005) The psychonauts arboretum sucked though as it was just bunch of hedges and an annoying gate puzzle. Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness’s Bio-Research Facility, Bioshock’s Arcadia or System Shock’s groves this was not.
13:59 half a second of 'superfast jellyfish' by the gorillaz, because of the breakfast commercial spliced into that song. That's an A+, yet tiny addition to the video. Great work.
The "part of a complete breakfast" comment, referring to the "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs" cereal being supplemented by a bunch of actual nutritious foods, reminds me of an old Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin reads the same comment and Hobbes notes that it shows a guy eating a dozen bran muffins, some grapefruits, etc.
Yeah I was WAITING for the monster closet reveal and wasn't disappointed, but was still surprised at the sheer number of them. Still, since they were all melee it was fair. That could have been a lot nastier. Great design!
Damn you for making a super entertaining video about a cd that fell out of your cereal box. Minus points though for not including a gag about you accidentally eating it like Bart and the jagged metal Krusty-o.
I'm actually impressed by the lack of cereal puns. I guess they were a bit too much of a low-hanging fruit, which is also part of this delicious and nutritious breakfast.
This felt old school Civvie 11 and I liked that. Just missing a few characters but I get it. Hard to come up with a way to bring in Hammer, Cancer Mouse, and AX3 into everything.
@@plantain.1739Kelloggs. Corn flakes aren’t what most people think. The corn flakes keep you chaste and pure, unless you put sugar on them, the Frosted Flakes are the devil’s temptation cereal.
I'm being 100% serious, my son was just born yesterday and I spent our first night in the hospital with him in my arms with this playing on my phone. No better way to greet the world than some Civvie and a Doom clone.
@@alexello1189 you can play doom and doom 2 in eternal as bonus games, but they're the bfg versions so they're censored and broken. you can still swap the wads out though and play chex quest 1 and 2 in it, but because Chex quest does things like actual code edits for removing episode selection and changing text and enemy info to make some enemy types like the baron replacements not move at all as well as making the game end on level 5 and not 8, you will get a broken experience
You know that between levels screen with the chex guy scraping flemoid off his boot is pretty gnarly if you think about it, he's scraping guts off his boot in effect.
Civvie, I'm an olds; I remember Chex Quest CDs in my cereal, 9600 baud modems, Tiger Electronics games, OJ Simpson joyrides, Elion Gonzalez, all of it. Truly, the lost generation.
Chex Warrior's weapon doesn't kill them but sends them to another dimension. I guess the makers of Chex Quest studied at the Ocean Group DBZ school of censorship.
Imagine having your flesh scooped out of you at high speed is pretty violent, bootspork is potentially one of most unintendedly violent weapons in fps history
The fact that a free game from a cereal box was as good as this despite the attempts to make it feel less violent is by no means a small feat. I have fond memories of this game. Other free games from the time where on par with mine sweeper. I feel using the doom engine made it great. Honestly I still think this is probably as close as we could ever get to a cartoony, commander keen like FPS. 😊
When you lean so hard into the gimmick you actually create something special and worthy of the effort. Kudos to the semi-international cereal conglomerate formerly known as Ralston and the devs who gave a damn.
What i love about Civvie is that he clearly love those funky little games. I had more fun watching this video than i'd probably ever had booting it up on my doom emulator,and that's a big praise for a game reviewer
Broke: "Source port." Woke: "Doom emulator." Conglaturations you've permanently affected the vocabulary I will use when talking about Doom from today onwards.
I remember when Red Baron pizza did the same thing with a CD game of Flight simulator, where you were supposed to fly the red baron plane. I never got the game to run probably because it kept crashing. I am amazed that this Chex quest never crashed once. Great game review Civvie.
I don't know how many times I've played Chex Quest Episode 1, but I never gave episodes 2 and 3 a chance. But to hear that episode 3 actually made Civvie kinda sweaty means that I need to go back to Bazoik.
Against all the evil that Flemoid can conjure, all the wickedness that breakfast kind can produce. We will send unto them.. only you. Crunch and munch, until it is done.
I remember playing Chex Quest and Chex Man going "it's zorchin' time!" and zorching everywhere. Apparently Chex Quest was so good it sold a zorchillion boxes of Chex. I love tasteless corn squares too!
This must have been the first FPS I ever played, so I didn't understand mouse look, strafing, or that you could switch weapons with the number keys. I would just use my current weapon until it ran out of ammo and the game auto-selected something else, which meant that I always had to avoid picking up the Super Bootspork or I'd be stuck with it for the rest of the game. I don't even know how I beat this as a kid, lol.
yeah i was wondering when you were gonna cover this, it had no business being as fun as it was, i did giggle entirely too much when you brutaled it though
I was normally a Honey Nut Cheerios kind of kid, but I was so excited when I finally got this game. One of my dads friends from work introduced me to Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, giving me copies of both on 3.5" disks. So I couldn't wait to install a game from a CD Rom for the first time. But once I got Chex Quest installed, for some reason the dang thing just refused to run. Which was super disappointing since I knew doom would run on that PC just fine. Then I got into SimCity and forgot all about trying to get Chex Quest running. Good times.
Civvie: "I lust for Blood" Well, we knew that. Given how much he praises that game (deserved praise but still), it wouldn't surprise me if he had a Caleb bodypillow.
Games like Chex Quests and Super Noah's Ark 3D prove that graphics do matter beyond just "realism". If the gameplay is the same but instead of shooting demons you're feeding goats it really changes the way the game feels.
I remember playing this as a kid for the first time when I was holed up in the hospital my parents worked at during a hurricane. Was perfect for that. Not sure you could get away with installing a Chex-based Doom on a work computer anymore though lol
So if I remember correctly General Mills was sued for these games. Supposedly the higher ups didn’t know, but the game would install a digital bible on your computer. That’s right, a reskinned demon killing game had a secret bible that would install itself without warning on your PC
The madlad waited until April 2nd so we would know he meant it.
I mean, his April 1st videos are generally serious videos anyway. He really put the effort into a full review for that wario Land virtual boy game.
That's dedication, determination, a lack of self-preservation, everything we look for here on the Civvie 11 channel
Honestly, Brutal Doom would make for a nice April Fools lol.
Not unless you're a Patron... In that case it was the day BEFORE!
Let's not forget legendary month of TNT evolution daily shorts. That rounded up to be the best April fool's joke I have seen on all of UA-cam in years.
Spaceship Potemkin is so outta pocket and I lost it at the baby carriage. I can't believe they put that in.
Fun fact: growing up poor, my family didn't get a working PC until I was maybe fifteen. I had about four copies of Chex Quest I had been holding onto because I loved corn Chex growing up.
Chex Quest was my first PC game.
You could have done a lot worse
It is a real good game, all things considered.
You could’ve gotten Big Rigs
This video was meticulously edited by a lovely and very real person named Katie and no one, not a single soul on this planet, could convince me otherwise. That includes Civvie.
KATIE IS REAL!
I will die on this hill.
I am a Katie Truther.
Join the movement.
You're wrong! Katie is an automaton created by intergalactic superweapon John Carmack to deceive us all!
KATIE IS REAL!
I BELIEB!
"That includes Civvie."
Civvie's in prison. He's clearly awful enough to deserve that, so imagining that he'd stoop to lying about Katie's existence is completely believable imo.
Yeah He is obviously a liar. Next He'll try to convince us that cancer mouse isn't real either
CV has now done both TNT and Chex Quest. This means that he is susceptible to bullying and *will* cover any game if demanded loudly enough.
Wonder if he would do the remake of it
On Civvies subreddit someone asked if he will ever do a vid on half life 2 whenever he hit 500k sub and his reaction was
*"Oh my god shut the fuck up about Half-Life 2 already*
*edit: this goes for everyone. You, me, all people reading this, games journalists, UA-camrs, Valve, literally everyone in the world needs to stop talking about Half-Life 2."*
- Civvie 11
So bullying only gets you so far XD
@@BlackTestament you have to remember, he's a tsundere *and* a youtuber, he's going to cover it eventually
@@demonicspire1345 yeah absolutely but when I have a good idea for it. You guys aren't going to unlock the secret Half-Life 2 video with the 1,000,000th request for it...
...OR WILL YOU?
lets bully him into playing Psychotoxic: ua-cam.com/video/RC9FSW-uC3c/v-deo.html
Episode 1: Knee Deep in the Milk
Episode 2: Thy Chex consumed
Episode 3: The Spoons of Hell
Spoons of Heck, please, this is a family friendly game.
Episode 4: Thy Breakfast Consumed
In the first one when I had a controller connected one of the buttons would open a menu that said Episode 1: Knee Deep in the Dead. Hadn't played Doom yet so that was very confusing in a game that was selling itself on its nonviolence
CHEX Eternal.
Scoop and Eat, until it is done
@@ZuluRomeo until it's full.
I'm so glad Katie is back and is definitely a real person who exists.
katie is a normal human being like you and me.
Yes, just as real and non-digital as you or I
She is very real and also 100% real.
@@godzillainspace5922I wouldn't necessarily choose me as your standard
I would be willing to drop this channel if Katie left, after all these years she earned that ( yes i realize a woman earning anything is sus but she's real dammit)
This is the game that finally enlarged my preteen testicles enough to play DOOM. My dad owned and played DOOM damn near religiously. I couldn't handle it at 6-7; too damn scary. Then I played Chex Quest, immediately realized it was Cereal DOOM, got used to the mechanics, and finally grew into DOOM on my own. Dad used to laugh at how scared I was, but I remember the day I proudly showed him I could get all the way to the bruiser brothers on my own. Love this game, and I love you dad.
The fact Chex game has a Level Result of a protagonist scraping guts off his boot & no other game, including Doom, Nukem, Blood, etc. shows what's wrong with our society. That is one of the most metal things I've seen it in a game.
And it is, nominally, a game for children. I loved it, by the way.
But it's green slime so it doesn't count as gore.
3:34 I'm pretty sure this guy was internally called "General Mills", and is a Cheerio. Deep lore here folks
yoooo that was pretty clever ngl
Also the planet episodes 2 and 3 take place on is called Ralliston.
Genuinely love the bit where he turned the Flemoids red as a play on his Hatred video.
That's the kind of deep-cut humor I come to CV-11 for.
I wondered why the fuck it seemed familiar lmfao
I missed that
My name is Zorch Important.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 And I just fucking hate these slimeballs
Can we all appreciate that the "great ball of slime" was Randy pitchford 's greasy head!?
Wait...what?...oh shit LMAO!!!
Randy is greasy, not slimy.
Here's a fun fact: If you load Chex Quest as a PWAD for Doom, you'll essentially disable the total conversion and get to play Chex Quest's levels in Doom. You can also load Doom as a PWAD for Chex Quest to achieve the opposite effect.
Zorching flemoids actually fits exceptionally well in certain Doom wads. Lost Civilization, for one.
Chex Guy easter egg in next doom pls
That's fun
I tried to do this, but all it did was load the "rules" differences between them, i.e. when loading CHEX.WAD as a PWAD on top of DOOM.WAD to create "The Ultimate CHEX", it was just Chex Quest 1 but the Flemoids shoot back and drop ammo when killed - no Doom levels, textures, sound effects, etc.. When loading DOOM.WAD as a PWAD on top of CHEX.WAD to create "Doom Quest", the Zombiemen do not shoot at me and don't drop ammo on death. Other than that, it's Doom 1.
@@SuperfieldCrUn load chex quest as a pwad over doom 2
The fucking "OOUGH" sound Chexman makes in this game is sampled in a song by Skism and Trampa and I feel insane for pointing it out every time the song comes on
LOL what song? I need to hear this
please share the song brother
@@hylea96 Black Hole
You are insane. But not necessarily because you know and point that out
Not that people are foaming at the mouth for Chex Quest Lore. But the version of Episode 2 in this video was actually a remastered version made with Chex Quest 3. The original Episode 2 was significantly worse. The movie theater level in particular being particularly unfinished
This is also why the skyboxes and levels look like a step up in quality (for the most part)
But as mentioned, Episode 2 was super rushed out, so im glad they were able to make a version they were happier with
It's pretty rare that a developer gets to go back to one of their old projects and fix it up like that. Thank you, Chuck Jacobi
MOAR LORE!!! MOOOAAARR!
This just makes the Battleship Potemkin parody even more insane if anything
There's also a Chex Quest comic book.
There was also changes to episode 1 in the chex3.wad. Although mostly less dramatic. There is actually two chex3.wads floating out there online, with minor differences that make them incompatible for online play. The theater level has noticeable differences between the two versions.
This might seem like a small detail but the falling flem meteors in the background is, I think, one of the only times in a Doom game of this era where you could feel the scale of the apocalypse on the world from a first person perspective.
11:55. Here in Brazil, that's EXACTLY how Jaws is called. Shark, no more no less. Jaws, in portuguese, is a word used mostly by doctors so here it has a super-formal vibe.
T U B A R Ã O
In Italy, Jaws is called Lo Squalo (The Shark)
I think the movie was called that in basically all Latin American countries.
Yeah here in Argentina is just called Tiburon lol
I was not expecting Chex Quest 3 to be such a step-up, from the others. I was also not expecting Chex Quest 3 to be a thing at all.
Also, while not a shooter, Kingdom Come: Deliverance could be considered a Czech's Quest in its own right, since it takes place in Bohemia. (come to think of it, HROT is probably a Czech's Quest too)
If he ever revisits HROT now that it’s done, I hope he subtitles the video as Czech’s Quest
Should be noted that Chex Quest HD added more lore to the game. Including a whole roster of playable breakfast themed characters with their own unique voice lines.
Yeah but I mean, Chex Quest HD is so bad...
I mean, maybe my expectations for it were too high, given how big a part of my childhood gaming experience Chex Quest was, but I'm pretty sure it's also just bad.
@@KamiNoBaka1 your expectations were astronomically high, chex hd is good.
@@midorifox No, my expectations were low, and I hated it.
@@KamiNoBaka1 It was disappointing to me also. The amateur 3d graphics don't compare to the cel-shaded animated look of the original. The new character designs are pretty good though.
When John Oliver talked about this game, he revealed something both shocking and yet unshocking about it's development...... they hired a high school kid that was STILL IN SCHOOL to make the game unpaid, and despite this, that kid made a solid and fun doom clone that boosted the sale of chex by the MILLIONS, and he didn't get paid for any of it. That dude is a goddamn legend for not only making a solid banger of a doom cline but then after the crunched and rushed development of the secons, still had the passion and desire to spend 11 years in making the perfect final trilogy and he NAILED IT.
Child labour is pretty on-brand for both the cereal and video game industry.
@@Cade_The_Squirrelindeed
Can you link that John Oliver bit?
@@javiers5599could be wrong but I’d guess its in this one ua-cam.com/video/8Kfx2fANELo/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
"hired"
"unpaid"
what
As the AVGN said, the developers took an idea that should've failed, and made it into a win.
Adult Video Game Network
@@roarbertbearatheon8565angry video game nerd
Average Video Game Neighbor
Annoying Virgin Goes Nuts
@@Xeno7373no it’s Apathetic Venom Gobba Nuts
You did it CV11! I somehow made it 28 years since this came out not knowing what Chex Quest actually looked like. It was 28 years of rumors, whispers, silent giggles around me as people mentioned this game's existence, but I remained ever-so-ignorant. And then on April first, I made it the whole day thinking that it was legitimately a prank, waiting for that UA-cam notification, just to open the page today. You were my first, and probably last, Chex Quest CV11.
It's really not that bad and worth a play. I miss the days where companies used to actually care a little about their consumers and go the extra mile like that.
There were a handful of games we got out of cereal boxes as kids. I had some lame ones like that Captain Crunch one and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, some okay board game ports like Clue and Monopoly. The Euro crowd got lucky and had bangers like Age of Empires and Roller Coaster Park Tycoon in some of their cereals :(
@@FuzedBox I mostly just never had the opportunity or remembered to really look it up? Memes aside, I didn't really have a PC in my house for quite some time despite really liking PC gaming. I do remember there were some neat company-brand games for consoles I enjoyed as a kid. Cool Spot was actually one I remember renting a fair few times when I was a kid and thought was a fever dream until videos of people playing it surfaced online lol.
"No one steals our Chiquitas... and lives" - Rex Chexem
9:39
''Zorch and spoon until it's done.''
Actionable pun detected
You're an inspiration for brand management
Rei Chiquitas
0:44 This is how we know Civvie is a poseur. That CD was glued to the box itself in a clear plastic envelope.
french poser
that's like bottom of the barrel scraping with a toothpick holy shit
I remember getting this randomly at a Sams Club in 1997, learning about it only from the box, and somehow, brainlet seven-year old me figuring out this was a Doom mod. Given that I was banned from Doom for some time, this was a real treat for me. I'm amazed how much I remember the level design of this game.
"do you know what they did to count chocula's family?" is easily a top 5 joke on this show
that thumbnail is some of your finest work civvie
It is not. It is green and eye-searing.
All right it’s intentionally like that but still
Hop off your computer and go to bed Indei... it's 2am mate!
@@Civvie11 It does kind of hurt my eyes. Lmao
@@Civvie11It’s okay to admit you took a lot of inspiration from e1 of Daikatana for this.
We live in a timeline where Chex Quest finished its trilogy...but not Half-Life. Let that sink in
ok *lets the sink in*
9:39 "NOBODY STEALS OUR CHEX AND LIVES" was right there, Civvie!!!
- Rex Chexem
@@KittycatKyeKex Dexem
Too easy, probably.
15:30 Because one game developer from the 90s simply could not rest until the hanging plot thread from the rushed-out sequel to a naked cash grab was resolved. And I have nothing but respect for that man, because Chex 3 looks like it _slaps._
Tell me about it. Valve's got nothin' with this guy in mind.
That's dedication right here folks.
Come for the Chex Quest review, stay for the discussion of how the Chexists massacred Count Chocula’s family and the baby carriage scene from Spaceship Potemkin.
You get my like Civvie 👍
His family didn't deserve what happened to them, but screw Count Chocula. He let his advisors blame minority groups instead of fixing problems, started wars that backfired, and kept making the situation worse for everyone by trying to hold onto power when everyone had enough of him. If Count Chocula didn't want to be staked, he should have been a better ruler.
Civvie is low-key one of the better comedy writers on UA-cam, and me crying about Count Chocula weighing his children down with heavy boxes of cereal just reinforces it.
@@thisismybassgun Wait, I thought the Chexists threw the Count and his family’s corpses into a well after the massacre?
All in the effort to prevent the return of the Ralston Imperial throne…
That wasn't real Chexism!
Now I'm wondering, was "eat the rich" more of a tactic than a slogan in the chexist revolution?
12:02 - Ok, Minnesota Joe's catchphrase got me good. (Don'cha know.)
A great ball of slime - "oh hi Randy"
Who knew slime could be so greasy
I _thought_ that great ball of slime looked kind of familiar!
*sigh* hey cancer mouse
''I'm blaming you for the dickish parts.''
Civvie's big lore update in his previous video gave me the understanding that Katie isn't Katie. She's K.D.
Speaking of corporate shenanigans, the Chex hole actually goes deeper. You see in 96/97 when General Mills acquired the rights to the Chex "As well as Cookie Crisp and a couple odds and ends" that was just the beginning. Ralson-Purina ceased to exist as one company and split itself into 2 separate companies. The pet foods division "Purina" would be acquired by Nestle; And the cereal brands that were not acquired by General Mills "Ralston" were later built into a bulk/generic cereal manufacturer called Ralston Foods.
Why do cereal companies have such bizarre corporate shenanigans. General mills built Alvin the deep sea submersible that went to challenger deep and went to the Titanic.
@@invictus_1245right? Sounds more like a Quaker Oats move. Not just because Quakers were historically whalers but thats also the company that produces Cap'n Crunch, and you can't tell me sending a submersible into the Titanic doesn't sound like a PR stunt with "Vengence on the Soagies" written all over it.
@@invictus_1245 Something about Minnesota just makes them do that I guess.
Let's not forget that Ralston cereals usually tasted like shit. They had all the big pop culture sponsors and every time it was just dog food in different shapes you poured milk on.
@@gakk8658 That would make sense. They were a company who's main specialty was pet foods after all.
11:10 Oh wow, that track is a Chex original?! I heard it in Solar Struggle first and could swear it was composed by someone in the Doom community! That's dope.
11:57 Fun fact, the title in Portuguese for Jaws is indeed "Shark" (Tubarão).
And I know how to say "Shark" in Portuguese thanks to a certain game about war crimes and freelance work.
I love how many Brazilian fans Civvie have
@@guilhermehank4938 There's 210-ish millions of us. It's bizarre to think of an online community that _doesn't_ feature at least one concealed Brazilian, even if he or she is on stealth mode.
Missed chance to say "PROFESSIONAL CEREAL KILLER"
That's Brutal Chex Quest. x3
makes you think he kills cereal, but actually he IS a cereal who also happens to be a killer
The protagonist probably is a rehabilitated cereal killer after all...
Zorch and spoon until it's done.
Snap! Craaackle! Pop!
Imagine being the 90s kids who woke up one Christmas morning to unwrap Tekwar under instead of a box of Chex.
Absolutely tragic.
Chex Quest on nightmare is honestly a bit of a riot. It makes it feel more like an actual invasion as they teleport in just aa quickly as you zorch them out
Also, the rocket launcher doesnt deal splash damage to the player, but it does to the enemies. You can take several out by getting right in their snotty faces
I'll have to try that someday.
The rocket launcher thing, that's something they fixed for Chex Quest 3. Originally it worked exactly like the rocket launcher, splash damage and all.
I can't belive Civvie didn't use Smooth Chex Quest
Thank you! The AOL mention brought back memories of my parents saving each AOL 50 hour disc with the thought we could cash them all in for all the AOL time in the world!
Loved the first two when I was a kid. I remember playing them along with Doom and Duke 3D on my parents’ PC back in the day.
9:29 For mid 90s/2000s kids like me, I learned what an arboretum was thanks to playing Psychonauts on Xbox in 2008. Specifically The Milkman Conspiracy level. (“The plant place. It’s like a garden but more shrubby & scientific.” Ford Cruller, 2004 or 2005)
The psychonauts arboretum sucked though as it was just bunch of hedges and an annoying gate puzzle. Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness’s Bio-Research Facility, Bioshock’s Arcadia or System Shock’s groves this was not.
13:59 half a second of 'superfast jellyfish' by the gorillaz, because of the breakfast commercial spliced into that song. That's an A+, yet tiny addition to the video. Great work.
Its amazing that the devs went this hard for a cereal game for Chex of all things FREAKING CHEX.
The "part of a complete breakfast" comment, referring to the "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs" cereal being supplemented by a bunch of actual nutritious foods, reminds me of an old Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin reads the same comment and Hobbes notes that it shows a guy eating a dozen bran muffins, some grapefruits, etc.
"Know why you shake like that? Vitamin deficiency, that's why!"
4:40 donut man? That’s obviously a Cheerio, Civvie
God Tier David Lynch soundbyte
20:58 - 22:11 pure romero-esque design
Too right that was a Romero moment. I know I went "JESUS!" just like I did in the worst jumpscare moments of Sigil 1.
Yeah I was WAITING for the monster closet reveal and wasn't disappointed, but was still surprised at the sheer number of them. Still, since they were all melee it was fair. That could have been a lot nastier. Great design!
Surprise!
Love to see it
I’m shocked that we didn’t get a Romero face fade-in for it, but I also understand why too.
Damn you for making a super entertaining video about a cd that fell out of your cereal box. Minus points though for not including a gag about you accidentally eating it like Bart and the jagged metal Krusty-o.
I'm actually impressed by the lack of cereal puns. I guess they were a bit too much of a low-hanging fruit, which is also part of this delicious and nutritious breakfast.
We're running a super cereal show here... No place for low hanging jokes
Mans can only take that much intestinal high voltage punishment
It's best we don't milk a running gag
Obviously, he doesn't want to get electrocuted.
@RKroese just cuz he can't pun doesn't mean we can't. Way to ruin the joke
This felt old school Civvie 11 and I liked that. Just missing a few characters but I get it. Hard to come up with a way to bring in Hammer, Cancer Mouse, and AX3 into everything.
"cereal marxist-leninism" is not a phrase i expected to hear today. Or ever.
12:08
Was there a cereal Khmar Rouge?
@@plantain.1739yes.
Digestical Chexist-Leninism will guide us to victory!
@@plantain.1739Kelloggs. Corn flakes aren’t what most people think.
The corn flakes keep you chaste and pure, unless you put sugar on them, the Frosted Flakes are the devil’s temptation cereal.
Moments like the unhinged rambling about cereal Leninism are always unexpected but they’re pure civvie charm
That third chapter has more care put into it than most current AAA games.
A certified labor of love.
I'm being 100% serious, my son was just born yesterday and I spent our first night in the hospital with him in my arms with this playing on my phone. No better way to greet the world than some Civvie and a Doom clone.
Fun Fact, you can actually play chex quest in Doom Eternal if you swap out the wad file.
….elaborate? I can’t understand how that’s technology possible. Does enternal have a whole retro mode with sprite rendering? How do enemies look??
@@alexello1189 You can unlock the original Doom and Doom 2 in Doom Eternal on a computer in Doomguy's lair.
@@alexello1189 you can play doom and doom 2 in eternal as bonus games, but they're the bfg versions so they're censored and broken. you can still swap the wads out though and play chex quest 1 and 2 in it, but because Chex quest does things like actual code edits for removing episode selection and changing text and enemy info to make some enemy types like the baron replacements not move at all as well as making the game end on level 5 and not 8, you will get a broken experience
@@alexello1189 You can play DOOM and DOOM 2 in Eternal, on a computer in the Fortress of Doom
I love that one of the devs stepped up to make the final game of the trilogy
absolutely based!
He sure helped Finish the Fight. Not many otherwise good games have this luxury.
You know that between levels screen with the chex guy scraping flemoid off his boot is pretty gnarly if you think about it, he's scraping guts off his boot in effect.
Civvie, I'm an olds; I remember Chex Quest CDs in my cereal, 9600 baud modems, Tiger Electronics games, OJ Simpson joyrides, Elion Gonzalez, all of it. Truly, the lost generation.
As someone once said:
"Nobody steals our cereal, and lives!"
I believe the line is: "Nobody steals our Chex...and lives!"
Chex Warrior's weapon doesn't kill them but sends them to another dimension.
I guess the makers of Chex Quest studied at the Ocean Group DBZ school of censorship.
I've got bowls of steel!
@@stainless_steel_saint Username checks out.
Was it Fred Flinstone?
Imagine having your flesh scooped out of you at high speed is pretty violent, bootspork is potentially one of most unintendedly violent weapons in fps history
12:25 Oh, that's the Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture outside the Walker in Minneapolis. Neat.
SPOOON!
The fact that a free game from a cereal box was as good as this despite the attempts to make it feel less violent is by no means a small feat. I have fond memories of this game. Other free games from the time where on par with mine sweeper. I feel using the doom engine made it great. Honestly I still think this is probably as close as we could ever get to a cartoony, commander keen like FPS. 😊
Let's appreciate Civvi's ability to abstain himself from Czechoslovakia puns throughout comunism segment
When you lean so hard into the gimmick you actually create something special and worthy of the effort. Kudos to the semi-international cereal conglomerate formerly known as Ralston and the devs who gave a damn.
That little brief background clip of 'superfast jellyfish' at 20:54 killed me, excellent choice.
Welcome to the world of the plastic beach!
Is that Superfast jellyfish?
Also holy shit that out of character moment was nice
I appreciate the step back and letting us see your point of view
All jokes aside, hell of a game to get in a cereal box.
The fact that this game even exists is fascinating to me. Imagine getting a PS5 game in your box of Wheaties. It's just nuts.
What i love about Civvie is that he clearly love those funky little games. I had more fun watching this video than i'd probably ever had booting it up on my doom emulator,and that's a big praise for a game reviewer
Broke: "Source port."
Woke: "Doom emulator."
Conglaturations you've permanently affected the vocabulary I will use when talking about Doom from today onwards.
@@princessmaly ahah i'm happy my abysmal knowledge of computer-related vocabulary will be passed on
I remember when Red Baron pizza did the same thing with a CD game of Flight simulator, where you were supposed to fly the red baron plane.
I never got the game to run probably because it kept crashing. I am amazed that this Chex quest never crashed once. Great game review Civvie.
I vaguely remember getting a coupon for a Red Baron pizza when I bought Red Baron 3-D.
I remember playing the floppy version on DOS. Don't remember having any issues with it.
18:02 that stage is giving me vibes of the crazy hard Courthouse in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.
At least this game made it so that it's real. Wolfenstein II just had to make theirs a fantasy sequence just because.
I don't know how many times I've played Chex Quest Episode 1, but I never gave episodes 2 and 3 a chance. But to hear that episode 3 actually made Civvie kinda sweaty means that I need to go back to Bazoik.
The Plastic Beach (specifically Superfast Jellyfish) references that accompany the Supercharged Breakfasts gave me _life._
I wasn't fully paying attention and had to double back to make sure I heard that correctly. Loved it!
Lmao. Thats amazing. Totally forgot about chex quest xD
i caught that 2 secs of gorrillaz, now i have to listen to Plastic Beach... Thanks Civvie!
Against all the evil that Flemoid can conjure, all the wickedness that breakfast kind can produce. We will send unto them.. only you. Crunch and munch, until it is done.
You can tell the devs had a blast making this.
(Making a doom wad)
I remember playing Chex Quest and Chex Man going "it's zorchin' time!" and zorching everywhere. Apparently Chex Quest was so good it sold a zorchillion boxes of Chex. I love tasteless corn squares too!
Thanks for the blast from the past with the Hoboken Chicken Emergency. 🐔
Whoa, didn't expect to get this stoked about a cereal video game, but this is a gem. Apparently a modern reboot happened a few years ago as well. :O
"Those Flemoid bastards are gonna pay for sliming up my ride!" - Rex Chexem
Thank you Mr. Civvie. I needed some good laughs tonight.. A lot.
This must have been the first FPS I ever played, so I didn't understand mouse look, strafing, or that you could switch weapons with the number keys. I would just use my current weapon until it ran out of ammo and the game auto-selected something else, which meant that I always had to avoid picking up the Super Bootspork or I'd be stuck with it for the rest of the game. I don't even know how I beat this as a kid, lol.
I cannot get enough of that introductory video lmao
"Some people hunger for Chex, *but I lust for blood.*"
Chex might not contain any meat but that line is raw
the fact that there was a 10-year timeskip both in and out-of-game is beautiful stuff
4:51 Perhaps you could say Chexguy's war is...Eternal
Just wanna point out the "Chex Quest 2: Chex-men United" joke that might have fallen under the radar because it's a good one.
Civvie upload days are my favorite days.
yeah i was wondering when you were gonna cover this, it had no business being as fun as it was, i did giggle entirely too much when you brutaled it though
Cereal man is my favorite Ultramarine from Doom Nukem: Apocalypse Weekend…. 3
I was normally a Honey Nut Cheerios kind of kid, but I was so excited when I finally got this game. One of my dads friends from work introduced me to Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, giving me copies of both on 3.5" disks. So I couldn't wait to install a game from a CD Rom for the first time. But once I got Chex Quest installed, for some reason the dang thing just refused to run. Which was super disappointing since I knew doom would run on that PC just fine. Then I got into SimCity and forgot all about trying to get Chex Quest running. Good times.
Honestly, this show is 10x weirder now that Civvie's opened up to us.
I have no idea how to handle this.
Civvie: "I lust for Blood"
Well, we knew that. Given how much he praises that game (deserved praise but still), it wouldn't surprise me if he had a Caleb bodypillow.
Games like Chex Quests and Super Noah's Ark 3D prove that graphics do matter beyond just "realism". If the gameplay is the same but instead of shooting demons you're feeding goats it really changes the way the game feels.
I remember playing this as a kid for the first time when I was holed up in the hospital my parents worked at during a hurricane. Was perfect for that. Not sure you could get away with installing a Chex-based Doom on a work computer anymore though lol
So if I remember correctly General Mills was sued for these games. Supposedly the higher ups didn’t know, but the game would install a digital bible on your computer. That’s right, a reskinned demon killing game had a secret bible that would install itself without warning on your PC
Probably the greatest Cereal prize of all time. I remember as a little kid all the kids talking about it and wanting to play. It was kinda huge.