29:44 4 years ago Tehsnakerer couldn't get past this softlock, so he physically blocked that NPC's pathing and was the 1st to finish the English dub. Today Civvie found the exact level skip console command.
You can also edit the audio file so that the guy who interrupts Warden Avatar's speech finishes after W-A. Just add some dead air to the beginning or end of the file in Audacity or whatever. That's how I got through it.
Can we just appreciate the absolute skyrocket in voice talent between pretty much every other voiced character up to Cate who actually seems somewhat competent at the job?
I genuinely believe that they just got the original Russian voice actors to read the translated dialogue, and she was the only one of them who actually understood what she was saying
"Avatar! Call off your zealots, or I promise you won't make it to Heaven" would be such a badass line if it wasn't delivered by someone who sounds like the end result of Borat shacking up with Elmo's mom.
Seeing Neuro escape outside of a Tehsnakerer video is astounding. Great lad he is, and now he's revealed something that I don't think Civvie will be able to properly handle.
Civvie has an stomach of iron. But tehsnakerer... he played Brigand: Oaxaca twice. He played the sequel 3 times in a row. The madlad beat Hooligans. Screw it, he beat Y2K. That guy outright scares me.
@@icecold1805 And that's on top of the Xenus trilogy and most recently Brigade E5 which looks like hell to even begin to play. And despite the pain, he still analyzes them fairly, the man is literally insane and I love him for it.
This may get lost in the sauce but, Civvie, thanks for all the content you make. The laughs, the nostalgia, the learning... it has gotten me through Covid, surgery, deaths in the family, made countless work hours tolerable, and even lulled me to sleep more than once. So, yeah, I just wanted to say thanks and am proud to be a patreon supporter. You do good work.
I'm imagining it would start out with Chaser constantly calling out Jimmy for being an idiot, and over the course of the game Jimmy would slowly realize that Chaser is also an idiot.
I actually found Civvies channel because of Tehsnakerers video on Hunt down the Freeman, Civvies was just in the autoplay so I said why the hell not. Good to see it going full circle.
@@Victor-me5xt they barely speak the language, but the delivery is so emotionally honest, it makes for a fantastic contrast. Shakespear in the original Klingon...
Oh god as a tehsnakerer fan as soon as i saw the word neuro this i fucking clicked it cant wait to see the moment he figured out the gun can just stealth kill people through walls
extrarez type game mechanics needed in more vidya--I love that 🐍 segment talking about how surprisingly balanced the extrarez is despite looking busted AF.
his Brigade E5 review was amazing - almost no English videos about those janky tactical masterpieces that almost become Jagged Alliance 3 if not for the pesky publishers meddlings
Looking at it now Civvie, the gun actually IS fully modeled, but because you forced it into widescreen and raised the FOV, you are able to see what is called the "Near plane clipping", a limit on most videogame cameras on how close it can render something. This FOV hack is also the reason why you are feeling sick when moving the camera up and down, and presumably why some shots don't align properly.
"The humanity has always yearned for the stars." Twenty five seconds into this vid covering a game I'd never heard of and I immediately figured out it was slavjank.
Having seen the Tehsnakerer video several times, seeing this video pop up in my feed, that you were covering THIS, was the most hype I’ve felt in a long while.
I allowed myself to make it a little more detailed: During NECROVISION, Earth nearly fell to Satan if it wasn't for Simon who stopped the Necromancer and the Devil himself. Satan however tried again during cold war through a mad scientist who tried to create a new race of superhuman to serve Satan. After restoring the course of history in YOU ARE EMPTY, Timestrikers attacked Earth in order to revert the reverted history. Luckily, THE RIFT was closed and humanity won once again. Humans used Timestrickers' technology for genetic engineering and later for interstellar travel. We see in Vivisector that the genetic engineering is not efficent enough without clear medium, without right minerals... Some individuals, however, possess powerful NEURO abilities without any minerals, such as the main protagonist of CRYOSTASIS. Still... not poweful enough and unuseable without controllable and predictable source of energy. So the CHASE for the right minerals started. Mars was colonised but the right source for the PSI powers wasn't found there. Few centuries in the future, KREED anomaly was found and only one person was able to escape it: Daniel. He told the humanity of the powerful HUBBARDIUM mineral in the anomaly and thanks to his knowledge how to enter and escape Kreed the mining operations could begin. Later, Hubbardium was found on another planets, such as ALPHA PRIME and used for enhancing human NEURO abilities as well as creating new ones... Sorry for my english Not that it would matter, it's jank :D
The Bachelor quest where he has to kill seven goons in the warehouse with a slowly reloading revolver which can hold only six bullets... it will crush the old man. He's not ready for the Magnum Opus of the 00's russian gamedev scene.
This whole thing is like some sort of brutalist punishment- from the game to the video itself. It's like we're being punished for our hubris in thinking that we were somehow free from the nihilistic agony of Slavjank; like the Department of Special Corrections, and by extension the writer(s) of this story are enacting some sort of mass-subjugation onto Us, the ignorant viewer, for holding the delusion that our existence was undeserving of pain, that it could not reach us. Through Civvie is our sentence served, time again, and surely we will return once again to extract our sweet suffering - for we are judge, jury, and executed in our own trial, resigned to a cycle of misery, for deep down we know that this is the only ruling that we can consider "fair" in such an apathetic, cruel world. This rambling has been brought to you by the Cancer King.
I've really noticed something because of watching Civvie play slavjank. It's got me wondering. Some of these games come from places where you can't freely express yourself openly and are much deeper than just a game.
I am convinced that the English version of this game had the voices done by skinwalkers or some convincingly human sounding text-to-speech program that is having a "minor" stroke every microsecond with a weird accent.
There’s something oddly endearing about James’ voice actor giving it his all despite it being very clear to both him AND the player that it’s just out of his wheelhouse enough that it starts looping back into awesome again
Game development in early 2000's Russia was bizarre, with it's absolutely ridiculous lows and highs. People started to jump into a new world of ever-growing video games industry, new universities with video games studying and education, dozens of new developers and publishers showed up with insane money to throw around, some already experienced folks decided to leave 90's void of chaotic piracy and bootlegs market for official business, big worldwide publishers took an interest in Russia and CIS video games industry and markets while their own local expos and events were hitting hard even on international levels. Unfortunately, majority of those publishers and developers ended up making a complete garbage and wasting too much money that leads to their bankruptcy, while others are still around and there's a big chance you know and love some of their indie, free to play games or AA-AAA games they made together with some well known brands around the world.
2008 usa crisis killed the whole industry. not just CIS, europe, bharat, zhongguo, middle east all felt it you can see before and after, we had great games, and there's only lootboxes indie garbage and mobile trash afterwards
Also, the best game developers in the Soviet Union were actually Ukranian. RIP Action Forms, got their one notable hit series basically bought out from them before they even really had a chance to go anywhere with it and got slowly bled out in the aughts.
22:41 The voice actor singing the line had me rolling on the floor in hysterics for half an hour! There's no way the English Dub wasn't bad on purpose. you can't convince me.
The most fun part about Neuro is the story of it's development. The developer started making an abitious 3D FPS game because that's what you do when you have no budget and no prior exprience and, surprisingly, that ended up in a development hell. But at the same time one of the engineers working on the game was also making an engine for a free fan-made game B5:IFH - which was used for a spin-off game (released before the main game) Homeplanet which was jank as hell (obviously) but also extremelly hard (because it was made on B5:IFH engine and allied AI was brain-dead and you aren't playing a super-hero there) that actually sold pretty well (for a jank quickly-made game) - mostly because of how underserved was the market of hardcore space-sims. So well, that they actually made a DLC that also sold pretty well. But instead of continuing that direction and actually improving they went back to the FPS game (Neuro) which was released after the developer went bankrupt.
I think the funniest part is when that airship steered to the left, trying to act like it lost power crashing it self, when it literally looks like the driver is the one who killed himself!
Metal arms glitch in the system, It's a third person shooter by swinging ape studios and uses it's own custom game engine.. that I cant find any information on. You play as a small robot that is in fact a killing machine. The hardest difficulty is also the funnest, not overly unfair, just honest. It forces you to use all your tools strategically to make it through. Truly a hidden gem of a game.
I love how every time there's a new plot development in the civvie metaverse his reaction to it falls somewhere between bland indifference and naked contempt.
Funny thing about this game's insane amount of lore: It's actually a sequel to Homeplanet - a 2003 space-sim from the same developer, though that game takes place in 369 (you play as a Troyden cadet-pilot during the mentioned exile and fight for clan's survival while trying to find a new home, hence the name of the game) so I guess Neuro is technically a prequel. In fact the whole "pre-history" from the manual is actually introductory text-crawl from Homeplanet almost word for word except for the last added paragraph. The story of development of these games is a fun one too: they originally started working on Neuro back in 2001 (maybe earlier? Articles about Neuro being worked on prior to Homeplanet mention 2002, but archive of dev's site has an announcement of Homeplanet development in November 2001 with no mention of Neuro at that time), but at some point it turned out that one of their developers Oleg Petrov made a space-sim engine, so they decided to make that first.
EDIT: 3:33 You're a real one for plugging him. 🥰 TehSnakerer smiles upon you. His video is incredible if anyone wants more indepth Neuro-pilled, and no disrespect to CV-11 but 🐍 pengame is incredible. Stoked to watch this! EDIT²: If you don't like long videos, give him a chance, but if you just ain't got the time or attention span.. that saddens me but I'd understand.
@@marceelino I never understood that take. Sure, the new ones aren't good but the original 3 are pretty solid. Never heard a good argument against those 3.
“Tehsnakerer” is another very underrated gaming channel, That puts out content in a similar vein to Civvie. Which Id describe as; Long Form(1 to 3+ hours long) highly edited & fully narrated lets-play styled (start to finish)play-through reviews. He plays lots of obscurely interesting, highly Janky 1st/3rd-person type games of various Genre. Ive been subscribed and watching his channel for many years, & find myself routinely returning to catchup on any new content being released. Him & his channel definitely need more love than he gets. An Underrated 💎
I’m somewhat shocked at the relative silence from Civvie on the whole Randy Pitchford/gearbox games situation that is currently unfolding before our very eyes. I for one would very much like to know what Civvie thinks of the monumental failure of the borderlands “movie”. I use air quotes, because in order to be called a movie it must actually contain a plot, directing, and acting, and the borderlands movie had none of that 🙃
26:30 I love that this simpsons joke popped up right as I was thinking "you know the last random stranger Jimmy met who talked to him like this had sex with him by the end of the conversation"
I was shocked to hear this game is russian. I am russian, i've seen some all-time bad first person shooters (Kreed, Antikiller, Paragraph 77, Nevskiy Titbit, "Cleaner" (Chistiltchick), fucking Gulmen), but THIS 1 i've never heard about. Few cool ideas but horrible execution. Now i hope Civvie will play Psy Ops. 3rd person shooter with all of these psychic powers done well.
If was great - even HD (heck and dam nation) had nice DLCs but most of the games (not made by original team) STINKS like good lord what is this unbalanced mess and mods - a bunch and all of them unbalanced hardknorr challenges
I think in some video (I really don't remember which one, sorry) he said that he would've done it, but the gameplay loop is somewhat repetitive throughout the entire game, which doesn't mean that the game's bad, it's just that there wouldn't be much to really talk about, aside from a couple of words about levels, objectives and enemies. I think if he decides to review all Painkiller games, then there might be decent enough material for a full video. Shame that, from what I've heard, other Painkiller games, aside from the 1st one, aren't as great or even good
Watching the gunplay in this game reminds me of playing old laser tag systems where you only get one shot every 2 seconds and the sensors don't register hits reliably so it devolves into shooting and trying to dodge the other guy while you wait to get your next shot. 😆
In the first Metro book Artyom is basically like Jimmy here. Weak, fumbling through the metro, being helped by others and dumb luck (possibly the Dark Ones). Not saying that the book is bad or anything, just that I don't think that kind of character would work in a video-game environment. Jimmy here proves it.
The book (Metro 2033) is a fucking trashfire. I could see it even as a then-middle schooler who routinely devoured 300-350 pages of garbage sci-fi and fantasy *per day* almost every day. I can not comprehend how did it get as popular as it did.
@@mazanakaUA I'm not as read as you, so I guess that could be a factor for many others as well. I was curious because of the games, so I only read the first one. I would also argue that it can't be a trash fire if it spread as much as it did, there's obviously some good parts to it.
Recently I've read novel "t" by Viktor Pelevin. It begins as a steampunk-ish action thriller but soon its protagonist, Count T. (who for legal reasons is kinda, but not really Leo Tolstoi) learns that he is actually a character in a shlocky novel that is being written by a team of trendy hacks, and he has to cope with the fact that his entire life is created as marketable product and even his thoughts are being written by a parody of Pelevin himself and most likely will be thrown out in the final version. Anyway, at one point the whole project is put on ice and one of the authors gets to work on a post-apocalyptic shooter about Dostoevsky, so he reuses count T. as a boss encounter. One of the first things T. does in the game is he enters a manhole, hears someone give an antisemitic rant, and is immediately passed by a pack of rats that glow green. Obviously this combination of slavjank, sewers, racism and glowing rodents is most likely an accident, but still it's completely in-character for Pelevin to predict Civvie in 2009.
