Civvie thread (classic FPS reviews/commentary on youtube)

[HansDampf]

Can't even say hell on youtube?

 

[Caim]

Can't even say hell on youtube?

No swears in the first 30 seconds or so if you want to make money off of your videos.

 

[Caim]

No really he's going to do all of them.



According to the wiki TNT is actually 32 levels long, so it remains to be seen what he's going to do with the secret levels.

 

[Baron Dupek]

finally a long one, before finishing TNT
includes Portal of Praveus which is surprisingly linear journey contrasting with base game

 

[Bad Sector]

includes Portal of Praveus which is surprisingly linear journey contrasting with base game

It is a bit more linear than the base game but that is just in comparison to it, it isn't like you're playing Call of Duty.

I think his dislike for the enemies soured him on it, i remember playing it a few years ago and thinking it was just more Hexen 2. TBH i don't think he did that good of a presentation for the expansion (he also got the story wrong, IIRC the mage wanted to consume the souls of serpent riders instead of reviving them and the demoness, who was created by Eidolon was pissed off about it). Perhaps a consequence of him only having played the expansion once. Also i remember demoness' (default) projectile attack being very effective.

Also i remember the intro "cutscene" being amusing because it was clearly a demo playback :-P.

 

[Lyric Suite]

I'm disappointed he didn't metion the Were Jaguars were like an early Skaarj. I played Hexen II on release and was quite impressed by their moveset. They jumped, dodged, ducked, rolled, lunged and it seemed they responded to what the player did as well. Not as smart as the Skaarj but they felt like a prototype of the latter. The AI in Hexen II also had some neat pathing. I remember i chopped some mummy guy or whatever in the Egyptian area and the damn thing managed to crawl across the entire level and started hitting me in the shins out of nowhere 10 minutes later across the other side of the map.

I only made it half-way through the video but he also didn't seem to talk about how extended the destruction of the enviorment was in the game, or at least he didn't make it clear. Not Red Faction levels but still, it was the Quake 1 engine after all.

 

[Bad Sector]

He mentioned destruction for a bit but only in passing early in the video. In general he didn't seem to go deep in the game's positives, he didn't even mention that mummies have several damage "states" (he said that they keep crawling towards you but that was barely a second in the 3 seconds he spent on them).

Which is weird because he did mention he played the game multiple times so he clearly doesn't dislike it. Perhaps he thinks people would rather have him focus on the annoying parts like the puzzles? (though TBH i've also played the game several times and i never remember having issues with the plates puzzle - the only "issue" is that the first time i played the game it took me a while to find where the wall with the solution was since it was in a room accessible only via a small "lip" inside a dark chasm that otherwise teleported you to a room with respawning enemies - but that's just Hexen II)

 

[Baron Dupek]

and it's over

 

[Caim]

Just the same level twice and the final level that's like a pacificism run of an FPS.

 

[NecroLord]

Just a question out of curiosity, were Civvie and Gmanlives really beefing at some point?

 

[Bad Sector]

Just a question out of curiosity, were Civvie and Gmanlives really beefing at some point?

The only thing i remember is Civvie taking a potshot at Gmanlives in his Nightdive Blood engine remake review for not noticing the differences between the original and the engine remake. I don't remember anything else and around that time Civvie wasn't as known and Gmanlives mentioned him in his Twitter as someone to follow if you like retro FPS videos.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Not a new video, just duct taped shorts of TNT review


also bonus out of context bits


edit nevermind, new video is here

edit2 - he talks about Power Stone too, no separate video for that one

 

[Caim]

So like Rise of the Triad it's a notable improvement over Wolfenstein, but the timing was bad so it didn't go anywhere.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Another try hard contestant

 

[Caim]

It's like if Beavis & Butthead made a Build Engine game, with the CGI for the cutscenes borrowed from Blood.

 

[Baron Dupek]

as promised

enemies doesn't feel so aggresive... what's better test for walking tanks if not dangerous enemies?

 

[Caim]

Yeah, they could've gone full Serious Sam if they picked Orks instead of Chaos.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Every faction has big "are we the baddies" energy

that was quick lesson, now he have more understanding of WH40k than most people in the comment section and elsewhere

 

[Fedora Master]

Does he kvetch about how Warhammer is fascist? That seems like something Civvie would do.

 

[NecroLord]

Does he kvetch about how Warhammer is fascist? That seems like something Civvie would do.

Noah Caldwell Gervais.
But is Civvie also a leftoid?

 

[Fedora Master]

Does he kvetch about how Warhammer is fascist? That seems like something Civvie would do.

Noah Caldwell Gervais.
But is Civvie also a leftoid?

He asked people to donate to BLM.

 

[Caim]

Does he kvetch about how Warhammer is fascist? That seems like something Civvie would do.

Nah, he simply does not give a shit about the 40k lore, which is the smart thing to do.

 

[Caim]

Civvie takes a blind dive into the Zone. Part 1, more later.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Long time since he made some series.
And since he hate mods - that means no Complete Garbage 4 Teh First Playthrough.
I swear people recommending that are just as obnoxious as Anomaly/GAMMA drones...

 

[Caim]

Long time since he made some series.

Yeah, his Thief 2 series ended almost two months ago and this is his fourth video since.