@@slamkam07 when I heard that I almost skipped to the credits just to check. Like I figured it had to be something Civvie wrote... but maybe it wasn't? Honestly the fact I questioned it goes to show how in character the line is and how good the impression is.
One small clarification: In the Victorian England area, it isn't technically a sewer because those tunnels weren't used to transport sewage. They were intended for the routing of water from England's constant rain so it went out of the city to prevent flooding. They would only be used for sewage later once indoor plumbing took off. So, at the time Duke is moving through them, they're aqueducts.
I love the internet. Watch a meme video about a time travelling duke game, and you'll a rando giving historical info about old timey londans aquaducts.
@@Novous Well, it's more a trivia thing than anything else, but there's a whole history that goes into the Victorian era aqueducts, including the history of people who would delve into them in search of anything valuable that might have been swept into the depths, called Toshers. A lucky one might find what is called a "Tosheroon", basically a cluster of valuable items that got caught in the mud a slime, containing anything from small change to valuable jewelry that, at that level of the social strata, would be life-changing wealth. The fact that there was an actual term for all of this should be enough to tell you how common the practice was, but the fact that they were so common screams how bad poverty was in those times. In addition to Toshers, you also had Mudlarks, who did similar things but along riverbeds, looking to see what might wash up, as well as people who would pick through garbage piles, although I don't know the term used for that. You had people who staked out claims of territory and had to be willing to fight off people trying to take it from them, because the lives of people who didn't have someplace they could scavenge for something to sell was that much worse. You had, within a few miles of the mansions of the wealthy and the palace of royalty, people digging through mud and muck for anything valuable they might find so they didn't starve. A dark shadow cast by the brighter lights of the time, it's easy to forget that while the Victorian golden age might have meant relative peace and general prosperity, but there's a world of difference between terms like "relative" and "general", and the terms "actual" and "total". But it has always been like that throughout the entirety of human history, up to and including the modern age.
I actually played the PC version of Daikatana. It's actually pretty good if you can power through the very unpleasant first level. The N64 version is the infamously bad one.
That's what happens when you have the parental filter on in the DOS version. I wonder if that could be hacked somehow. Maybe the sprites are still there?
At least as far as my memory goes, this game is where Duke started getting more comedic and creative with his quips. For all people tend to cite Duke 3D as being so full of one-liners, outside of a few specific scripted ones, his whole vocabulary was pretty much three lines: "Eat shit and die." "Die, you son of a bitch." and "Holy shit!" Whereas this game, he has unique lines for every unique kind of enemy kill, a big pool of general ones, and a metric ton of scripted lines for every level. Like yeah, he never shuts up, but it's glorious and definitely what would carry over in his personality to Manhattan Project. Still one of my favorite Duke lines ever is the intro to the first boss, the giant pig in the tank: "I'm gonna bust you into chops!"
I totally agree. The real issue with DNF's one liners was they all were written by women. They had an entire group of women write his one liners. Really dumb and that would explain why they were all so cringe.
@@smugplush I mean, I'll straight up say the writing of Duke Forever was intended character assassination. Randy Pitchford wants the character dead and buried, and has even bragged publicly about shooting down literally every pitch that's come his way for a new Duke Nukem game. Which is why it's actually so hilarious that just slapping Duke onto the Bulletstorm script, reading Gray's lines and personality verbatim makes a better Duke game than Forever was.
The 1888 London level had good reason to include the sewer. At the time it was a great technical marvel and something to be very proud of. After "The Great Stink" of 1858 London was in need of a way to remove sewage from the city that wasn't just dumping it in the Thames. I applaud the devs for including the nod to historical accuracy. Plus, duke kicking the rippers ass is pretty sweet.
I’m imagining that meeting in parliament or whatever as like that one futurama documentary about why there’s a giant ball of garbage hurtling at the earth
@@thehoodedteddy1335funnily enough, they only started doing something about it once parliament could no longer be held cause of the stench. There are stories from the period that recount the stones of parliament blackening from whatever foul gasses were coming off the Thames, and wallpaper peeling as well. At the time the cesspits they used (sort of like a septic tank, but far worse) would occasionally explode as pressurised gas built up in them. The sewers built afterwards were pretty impressive though, they were built with Londons population growth in mind and didn’t need a considerable expansion for at least a hundred years if I recall correctly.
@@SkigBiggler Imagine a shit stank so vile and evil that it disrupts national politics and changes history. "Thank you all for coming gentlemen, we will now begin deliberation on whether or not to send thousands of our young sons off to the horrors of war. But first... PEEEEE YEEEEEWWWWW WHO DROPPED THE KIDS OFF AT THE POOL AMIRIGHT LADS?!"
The guy at 24:58 is General George Armstrong Custer. Duke references him and his unit being wiped out on last stand hill at the little bighorn. Duke is a big history guy I guess lol
One really cool thing about the time machines in Zero Hour is that they look like references to the 1960 movie "The Time Machine." It looks like the exact same time machine.
@@edbrito-swdevProbably because 99% of people skip the Patreon credits at the end. I only saw the 9/11 quote at the end because I was reading through the comments section.
First off how the fuck was this achieved on the build engine in the 90's?! Second hot dam that is one of the best design for the Cycloid Emperor, talk about a gem of a game.
One of my favorite environmental gags in this game is the Spice Girls mannequins in the first level, which dates the game as being made when Ginger Spice first left the group...
I owned this game back in the day and I played it a crap ton. One of the most memorable things were the kills and how violent they looked at least to me.
I still have it, but emulation is 100% better. And Civvie is right. Beating this game on original hardware is maddening. But in the late 90s/early 00's with 128k crap internet at best, you had time.
Same. I never properly beat it, as a kid the Victorian levels stonewalled me into using a game shark to bypass them. Wasn't until way way later on a emulator I actually got a proper playthrough finished.
Yeah i got duke 64 and.zero hour when i was like 10. Played the absolute shit.outta them, memorized all the levels and shit on dukematch with friends and those fuckin bots. Exploding shotgun shell motherfuckerrrr hahaha
The ice skating up hill part reminds me of 2 mods I had for Quake 2 as a kid. One replaced the players pain grunts with quotes from Wesley Snipes including "some MFers are always trying to ice skate up hill" and the enemy pain sounds with Cartman saying "GOD DAMMIT DON'T SHOOT ME" and "fuck you Kyle". Which was relevant to me.
finally someone is covering this, this one was a big part of my childhood and im convinced that this is very much something like a forgotten gem. No one covered this game on youtube (despite smaller n64 focused channels, ive searched a couple of times) and it got no recognition despite the big comeback of old school shooters. I think this one was pretty sick for its time and it still holds up. couldnt imagine someone better than civvie to talk about it.
Hell yeah i played the shit outta this.game.when i was a kid. Found all the secrets with no guide had alot of the levels memorized. Duke 64 too, played so much dukematch with neighbors. Stadium or piracy on a saturday afternoon 4 way split screen hell yeeeeah. Exploding shotgun shells bitches.
Wikipedia in 1925 was just a room full of smart people you could write letters to. Occasionally they would tour the country by train stopping at only the most bustling metropolises, like Toledo, St. Louis, and Baltimore.
Not that it particularly matters, as the video is fantastic, but I'll be kicking myself if I don't point out that a better joke than "'Ail to the king, guvnor" would have been "God Save the King, Baby". I'm mildly surprised we haven't had full price PC releases of Duke 64, and other spin-offs, as it would definitely make Randy more money that he could spend on coating himself in the finest high-quality grease.
Duke Nukem 64 is THE greatest Duke Nukem game period and by a mile. The added weapons, the added special ammo, the duke match on console split screen with bots, THE BANK SHOT GRENADE LAUNCHER... I cannot believe they've never put THIS version of Duke Nukem 3D as is on PC.
Used to play with a friend of mine in couch coop back in the day, we'd do us vs the bots. One time, couldn't find the bot. Searched for an hour. Found him on the mast of a pirate ship silently staring down at us. He'd been there the whole time. We were spooked. Good times.
I still have nostalgia of playing multiplayer in the football stadium level. Also, the campaign coop was pretty cool for the time considering that it came out just before goldeneye in my country
That greasy bastard should have remastered it and put it along with the other versions and expansions of Duke 3D on that cursed 20th anniversary edition. Instead that f@€% half assed everything.
I had Duke Nukem 64 and Zero Hour, there was something about playing a game on a system like that while my friends insisted the PS1 was the "adult console" but then again we also got Conquers Bad Furday, Another great video Civvie!
I loved playing this back in the day It had good music and a surprisingly good splitscreen multiplayer with unlockable characters with different speed and health values. The Terminator Duke had the most health but could only replenish it by picking up Atomic Health and he could see in green/nightvision. Good times and good show, Civvie11!
As rough as DN: Time to Kill is when it comes to controls, It remains my most beloved entry. The Land of Babes however... we don't talk about that one.
DN:TTK is actually a cool game with some flaws to it . Yeah its mid to okay-ish but i heard or catched up somewhere that this game was actually in an small development hell on its own . While DN:TTK was am alright game , Land of babes was the game that is the equivalent of driving with max Speed against the Brickwall . .
@@Snyperwolf91 I actually enjoyed Land of The Babes and still occasionally play it. Only grudge i had against it that i couldn't figure out that you were supposed to climb a fence in a first level.
I never clicked so fast in a video. What a underrated game. Also, the idea of duke figthing jack the ripper its genius. A metaphorical lady killer versus and actual lady killer.
I got screwed that year at Christmas; my aunt bought me Duke64 instead of what I had asked for for Xmas that year (Diddy Kong Racing) and bought Diddy Kong Racing for her boyfriend's son. I was so heated, I thought I would never got over it but it was a better version of Duke (to me, at the time) than what I could get working on my Compaq Pressario 166. Ultimately, she died of an overdose a few years later and I learned to forgive. Life is hell. EDIT: This is not about Duke64, heyo. edit 2: he said "how civvy learned to wire plastique"
I love the fact that in the zeppelin level there's a warning to not fire weapons inside the gas chamber, which also means if Duke even punches the air the place goes kaboom. Really good N64 game nonetheless!
The fact this is running on a heavily modified Build engine is fascinating and makes so much sense. In retrospect, Duke 64 and Duke Zero Hour feel like their own self contained Duke Nukem sub-series, in the same way Doom PS1 and Doom 64 kind of do. (Yes, I know Doom 64 is considered quasi-canon these days lol)
I don't even think it's "quasi-canon" I think it's pretty much been accepted as the "real Doom 3." Which is made even funnier by the fact that Doom 3 isn't canon lmao.
Im surprised growing up with an n64 in its era and still having one today that ive literally never seen or heard of this game. Shame none of those time machines go back and fix duke nukem forever
I would assume it to be the other way around; DNF reusing assets from this game as placeholders. In fact, isn't there an odd monologue about time travel you hear from one of the strippers that turned out to be a reused voice clip from Land of the Babes?
18:54 There was definitely a missed opportunity for Duke to pull off a New York reload, where he just tosses the spent revolvers and pulls out new ones.
I had this game as a kid. Everyone was going on about Goldeneye and I was like naw man play Zero Hour. I don’t know why but the Duke line I remember most was “Book ‘em, Danno” and Civvie I love you man but it breaks my heart you left that out.
That Jack the Ripper scene is great but makes me laugh cause people were around and heard jack shit but her singing, and here's Duke just blasting and cappin the fucker. Oh and that was the last 'canonical' murder, Civvie, but maybe he went on to kil more so hey. It's still neat.
the area where you fight jack is modeled after the area where the last attributed victim of jack was found even the missing door might be a homage to it since the police actually had to break it down to get inside.
Pigcop... roughly translates to pigpig or copcop. Depending on your local area. Also... You haven't seen Waterworld??? It's a classic... A gem of its time! The first time I ever watched it was with some buddies in high-school and they were surprised I had never seen it... It's not that bad. 😢
Duke Nukem Zero Hour is one of my favorite games of all time. Had a great time playing this game growing up. Definitely consider this N64 spinoff superior over the other two Playstation spinoffs. Only wish this game gets remastered in the future.
The "touch me again, and I'll kill you" line, like a lot of Duke's, is a movie quote - Bruce Willis says it in The Last Boy Scout. A guy punches him, he says the line, the guy punches him again, and Willis headbutts the guy's nose into his brain.
Because Civvie was born sometime in the 90s, he thinks this was "the first era of 3D." Nah, take a look at actual 3D polygons on Amiga and Atari ST in the late 80s and early 90s. Not wireframe ala Elite or 2.5d made popular by Doom, but true texture-shaded polygonal graphics in games like Hunter, Midwinter, Armour Geddon, Robocop 3 (which has first person shooter levels). See those, then ask how rough this is in comparison.
28:45 I think it's really cool but also a little creepy that they actually modelled this boss arena around one of the real crime scenes. Amazing touch by the devs.
Watching Civvie playing the Duke is always a great way to start off the Saturday morning seen the satire that goes along with it. Case and point right here 10:41 Agent 069 in Golden Guy (The names Nukem, Duke Nukem), 14:16, 17:55, 18:38 (Mask of Zorro), 20:23, 24:54, 27:01 (Michael Jackson Thriller), 28:36 The Duke Vs The Ripper, 30:24, 35:32, 38:08
Time to Kill is my fav Duke game. Lots of exploring, babes, time travel, different weapons, costumes, great multi player, and an awsome intro. No clue why the hate for it.
OK so Historical Figures that Duke has killed/caused to kill themselves at this time includes the following: Hitler (Killed himself rather than fight Duke) Colonel Custer Jack the Ripper (With EXTREME Prejudice)
All time favorite game was Zero: Hour. What's worse is that I know the opening cutscene where Duke talks to himself in the past word for word. Literally sat here saying it out loud 😂. Oh and one thing I wanna point out is that during the opening when you get into the parking lot with the soldiers; it's best to kill them and take their guns (shotguns) for another starting weapon. Worst part is you can do it with no penalty from the game 😂😂😂 I always killed them at the beginning if aliens didn't in the opening for a shotgun and ammo 😂😂
Yeah, would take a bloody miracle to get past the bloody Randy Pitchfork blockade and reach the shores of Zoom Platform, where all the oldie and goodie Duke Nukem games are currently kept.
@@michaelandreipalon359 you’re right. It’s a damn shame that Randy got the rights to the IP. He has all the potential to be a great guy but he won’t do it
