I live in Russia and Blood was a big, albeit weird part of my childhood. My dad bought me a PC for my 8th birthday (1997, for context) and he remembered playing a game he called "Wolf" in Russian (obv Wolf3D) and asked for something similar from a bootleg CD vendor and they gave him Blood. Thing is, it wasn't normal sane Blood, this one was not only fully translated and dubbed into Russian, but the bootleg studio decided to... Make the main character into fucking Lenin? Like, aside from the fonts they didn't alter any of the assets, but the script and voice-overs were completely rewritten to fit into this new bizarre universe, where Caleb was the leader of the Bolsheviks and instead of dark snark he spouted bizarre 1917 revolution and communism jokes. It went completely over my head at the time, I was 8 and I was stupid and thought this was how the game was always supposed to be, so it was a big shock when I later discovered it was not, in fact, a game about Lenin. Russia in the 90s was weird.
@@vaiyt There, I found a video of it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7G3mpjxiAjo.html And it turns out I was wrong, they altered the shit out of the game.
1:00 To highlight this, one of my closest friends actually tagged Civvie in a tweet asking his advice on how to go about playing Blood on Extra Crispy. He responded with a simple word. "Don't"
A little late but I got an answer for your friend: Play Fresh Supply and use Made to Order to set every parameter to extra crispy, except one. Cultist accuracy. Turn that shit all the way down. It transformes them from pure bullshit to something more akin to DOOM hitscanners and makes the game 100% more enjoyable to play.
For anyone else wondering, definitely listen to Carl's comment. This is how I'm playing Blood atm and it's an awesome difficulty. Damage taken on high, enemy density on very high, all Cultist settings on low. They still hit hard but don't instagib you when turning corners. The game feels tough but still playable. LOVE it.
I like that Caleb is a bloodthirsty, unrepentant gunslinger ex-cultist, but he still genuinely cares about his fellow chosen and shows real emotion over their fates. And the voice acting for his scenes with them before each boss is top-notch.
"If you're not a rampaging death machine by this point (as in halfway through the second level), forget it, play on Still Kicking, 'cause you're done." One of the best descriptions of overall difficulty I've heard.
It at least makes you feel like death incarnate with it's amazing sound design. Doom 2 has Super Shotgun but the way how Blood shotgun sounds and makes cultists screech is unparalleled. Tommy gun is second best.
One of my favorite things about Blood is the unique arsenal of weapons it has. What's your melee weapon? Fists, boots? Nope, a pitchfork. Whats your starting pistol gun? A flare gun! And it's not useless! Rocket launcher? Nah man, a NAPALM LAUNCHER Or how about a voodoo doll? A 1930s gangster tommy gun? A DIY flamethrower with a lighter and can of aerosol spray? Tossing bundles of dynamite? It's so out there but one of a kind. You see those weapons and instantly, you know, it's Blood.
I never played Blood back in the day, I only really heard about it after playing things like Quake so I probably thought it looked dated and just kinda left it. Due to Civvies absolute love and enthusiasm of it in this series though I decided to finally pick it up and give it a play. I'm so glad I did, it's a fantastic game and I'm forever grateful to this channel for convincing me to go back and try it. I also wound up installing and playing Shadow Warrior too which I also credit to Civvie :)
I’m going to absolutely despise the day this video inevitably gets age restricted so I cannot watch it, I refuse to give them my credit card or phone number. I have no reason to believe it’ll get age restricted but RU-vid is dumb and they already did it to his pro postal: brain damage video
You put this on yourself by association. Before I administrator this painful reminder, I just want you to know, I love the original Alone in the Dark. I DON'T HAVE YOUR RIGHT SIDE, AND *FUCK YOU ANYWAYS* This has been a joke reminder, have a pleasant day ^^
@@LordOfTheReefer *Did they just walk away, not by refusing to comment, but by telling me that they were walking away? Someone explain to me what is happening I'm freaking the fuck out*
@@vynthiswechseln3868 Edgy RU-vid roleplayer, _just ignore him before he comes back._ You *don't* want the kind of cancer cringe radiation will give you.
I actually found it blind playing the game for the first time just the other day. XD I found barely any regular secrets yet I found all of the super secrets... except for the train, that one is nonsense.
Learning about Blood has made me appreciate Ion Fury even more. I already loved being able to duck under the crossbow attacks in Ion Fury, and Shelly's weird "These boots are made for... jumping!" quote. Little did I know she was inheriting all that from great granddaddy Caleb
@@elijahjarman2837 "You can have my dick jokes... when you pry them from my cold, dead wang!" I can't decide if it's a line so bad it's good, or so bad it goes past becoming good and ends up bad again.
Same here…though mainly because it’s a great boomer shooter that’s actually been ported to consoles. So frustrating not being able to play 90% of the game Civvie makes episodes on.
@@elijahjarman2837Lo Wang was her weird uncle who had a massive cache of porn mags and kept doing racist jokes that made everyone else do an awkward pause in family meetups.
One of my top favourite games of all time! I loved the review/playthrough!Did you know that on Extra Crispy you get TWO stone gargoyles surrounded with few flesh ones! And yes, you must kill BOTH of them to complete the level. It's the hardest boss in the whole game since you don't have tesla gun or voodoo doll
Haha, yeah, I was always running out of ammo fighting two Gheoghs, So using Jumping Boots I was going to higher ground where the secret is, then crouching in the corner, and they couldn't even scratch me, so I was perforating them with a pitchfork. Very long process but it works :)
I played the shit out of this game as a kid, certainly in co-op - I vividly remember the shopping mall level with all the little figures that are just enemies that are scaled down, can't wait to see it remastered also this video was fantastic
This game does ALOT. On easier difficulties, its has some of the most visceral, fast-paced, and explosive FPS gameplay out there, honestly that's something many games of its kind have achieved; but where it truly shines is when it's played on Extra Crispy (the highest difficulty): it becomes, in my opinion; of the best survival-horror experiences out there. The gameplay suddenly feels radically different and the spike in difficulty forces you to think outside of the box and approach levels in new, cautious ways, in a way it's like I'm experiencing these levels all over again in a much more intimate, engaging way. Right now I'm savescumming through the first level and right off the bat; finding secrets, hoarding ammo, and mastering TNT trick-shots is a MUST. It blew my mind when I realized I can throw TNT through the narrow opening between the cemetary gate and the ceiling above in order to blow up that first cultist. Then you gotta alert all the zombies and the one cultist in the graveyard so you can lure them all together in a group and just blast them with the flare gun's alt-fire. Soon, after a few attempts; it becomes clear that running straight into the Chapel/Morgue is a death sentence, so you have to trick jump on grave stones until you get atop the cemetary fence, and enter through the second floor window. If you're lucky, you'll have enough flares/TNT left over to take out everyone else, and you'll have the drop on the would-be ambushers from the cremation room window. Seriously, for 1997? That is MASTERFUL level design. It's just amazing that this game can do both the run-n-gun slaughterfest experience and also the suspenseful and dangerous atmosphere of survival horror.
i have it on in the background whole emulating old pokemon games sometimes just for the random jokes and good explanations. ive since bought fresh supply too.
BUILD engine games do mirrors by duplicating and flipping part of the level inside of a room behind the mirror. You can even wander around it if you turn on noclip and walk through one. EDIT: Actually, I think that only applies to v1.3D of Duke3D (and you die if you leave the room behind the mirror). You get the hall-of-mirrors effect in v1.5, Shadow Warrior does the same (if you can find a mirror whose back-room doesn't overlap other sectors, as you tend to end up in those instead), and I don't remember Blood's cheat codes to test it for that one.
I'm a 24 year old millennial who grew up playing games like Half-Life 2, Doom3, Resident Evil 4 & F.E.A.R. and to be honest with you I've been neglecting 90s shooters until now. This channel really opening my eyes, for some reason I'm now OBSESSED with these 90s action shooter that's brimming with style, atmosphere, blood, violence and bad f*cking guns. I tried GZDOOM last night and I had a totally BLAST, it's unbelievable just how well the first DOOM game still holds up. Can't believe I'm saying it but I was actually having more fun with GZDOOM than DOOM 2016 which is a great game but with just a little too much emphasis on glory kills that got old really fast.
I’m around the same age and agree. One problem with a lot of modern action games is that the level design is too linear. Even when it’s open, they’re usually just hiding upgrades in the different paths. Because of this, there’s no reason to revisit secrets if you’re replaying the game. But with old school shooters and especially Metroidvania and horror games? You NEED to go hunting the levels for supplies. Not just to kick ass and get weapons earlier than normal but also just to survive.
thanks to all of the top quality WADs that are around, Doom 2 is pretty much still the best fps ever made and the only singleplayer shooter I bother playing
Same I've never even heard of Blood before this video but I've been playing the Fresh Supply remake and im really surprised how throughly om enjoying it
Blood is the game that... ...has the rats that are more brutal and aggressive than those in Kingpin despite still being normal rodents. ...has probably the best train scene ever. SoF, UT 99 & 2004 are probably a somewhat close second. ...is metal as hell. ...does the lovecraftian horror (which is already rarity in and of itself) right despite lack of explicit references and complete victory of the protagonist (a nigh impossible feat, it appears, for most). ...is more metal than hell. ...has one of the best dark ambient soundtracks on par with the Fallout dilogy (as well as some other MM works, IMO), early Diablo and Stalker (I'm not doing the pointless acronym thing, sorry). ...is the most advanced of the contemporary build engine games - and it shows: to this day only the yet to be released Ion Maiden has anything on the good old Caleb. ...has one of the most robust, original and enjoyable to use arsenal of weapons complete with rather well-designed damage types system, solid main gameplay loop and formidable bestiary to boot. ...has clever level design that while is fun (both human and dwarvish type) to crawl through is also atmospheric beyond any measure, filled to the brim with interactions, sharp scripting and more allusions than should be doable in any good game (and yet here we are). ...honestly, should be used as the measure to which your typical old-school and especially new-old-school FPS should aspire. As someone who played perhaps more than it is healthy, I have this to say: this game is a masterpiece alongside with titans like *the* Deus Ex, Thief, Marathon and many others that have this "...now I have to reinstall this game" quality that is a true testament to its quality and craftsmanship behind it.
Honestly, I think Blood has far better level-design than Duke 3D does, in Blood it feels more rewarding to explore because of it's difficulty and how much every little round of ammunition or bundle of dynamite matters, and the art-style is just better in general, too.
I found myself randomly trying that while playing and thought that it was just dumb luck that it was working, lol. Turns out it really DOES help! As long as the Cultists/Fanatics are on level ground of course.
I would've recommended the unofficial strategy guide, but magazines, books and such really aren't relevant anymore. It was easy to do if you grew up with this game, but nowadays it's elusively lost and you have to know what to look for if you are going to find it. ;) Prima and Brady did a lot of these good guides back int he 90's. I think they still do today.
I appreciate the designers making a reference to the movie "Tommy Boy". Chris Farley has a line about how he gets excited about making a sale and becomes "Jo-Jo, the idiot circus boy with a pretty new pet". A truly classy reference.
Somehow after all those years of playing this game I did not notice, that when TNT explodes in your hands that there is an animation for your hands, that are burnt down. If you pause it on 3:26 you can see it.
No matter how many times I watch this series, I always love it. I'm aboslutely grabage at FPS games and watching him play this like an expert that knows his shit is always entertaining.
Same, and my fav is still . . . quake, my PC at the time had a cd-rom so i could play the soundtrack and Trent Reznor was my idol at the time. Loved NiN and when I heard my game playing his music i was blown away. Blood is still better though xD
@@ihave7sacks Oh yeah, by far the first quake is and always be my favourite...and to be honest, quakes ost has to be NiN's best unofficial album...its kinda sad how it devolved into an alien shooter...granted it was a good game too, just shouldn't have been given the quake title...
Your explanation is fast and easy to understand and, along with the gameplay and editing (maybe script too), makes this officially my favorite channel for either reviews of just for a laugh. But the best part is how natural it sounds! Great work!
I often have to come back to this series, as it was the very first one of Civvie's that I saw around the time it came out. (every now and then youtube recommendations are helpful) I remember spreading the video to all my friends who loved Blood, and always makes me happy how well Civvie is doing now. You know, being locked up in a correctional facility full of nuclear rats aside...
Oh and that moment at 17:29... my freaking god this man is la legend. That scream it's carved into my brain since I first played this masterpiece 20 years ago. SHOW YOURSELF... SHOW YOURSELF!!!
i love the single frame where Caleb's arms are flayed when he holds onto the TNT too long; they absolutely did not need to spend the time to draw that, and yet they did for a single frame that is fucking craft, my friends
12:02 I remember I was playing co-op and we cheesed the hell out of this secret, staying there until we had max ammo, health and armour. Then as soon as we stepped out the door, like 10x the cultists you'd normally see popped out, they were literally pushing each other out the windows and stuff. It was magical.
It was like one of them lost a bet and he had to got outside and throw some dynamite at you guys or something. But was too wimpy to try so the rest of push that one out. But one by one all of was push out and face your guy's wrath. Sorry for overthinking.
The carnival with its minigames and the rollercoaster log flume in the house of horrors are the best parts of episode 1. I'd love to see something like this in Ion Maiden Aftershock, especially the jet coaster.
That train map has to be one of the most memorable maps I've ever played. Blew my mind as a kid so I spent forever trying to recreate it in Duke. Good times!
A cousin of mine bought this game when it was new, told me to come over and check it out. Still to this day, it’s my favorite game of all time. I’m so sad for the people who have never experienced this game....
Blood is the one and only reason I want a PC. Almost every PC game has a console version in some way, but Blood? Nah, you gotta be part of the PC master race for this shit
Love how if you die to the dynamite in your hands going off, you get 3 frames of Caleb's hands being almost entirely skeletal as his flesh is completely torn from them by the blast. You can see it even without frame-hunting at 3:27 if you look close enough.
God I love this game. One of the most under-appreciated games of all time. Anyone who hasn't played it yet needs to try it out right now. This is one of the few games that is worth the trouble of setting up Dos Box.
From watching the intro, what civvie said as a fighting game player to me is this. This game is the King of Fighters 94/95/Fatal Fury 3 of boomer shooters. Make a mistake on normal and you get reduced to nothing
I just -- like within the last 2 weeks -- got Blood GDX going. Your introductory comments are so dead on. I was hitting myself for not having played this sooner. It's the real deal folks. It's immensely fun to play today, and it is far and away the best Build Engine game. If Iron Maiden can even approach Blood, it will be a stunning success. It is one of the best executions of a theme I have ever seen in a game, and in my opinion, it is the absolute perfect Halloween season shooter (not that you shouldn't play it all year round). Despite its age, it is still just buckets of fun, and blowing things up with dynamite or setting things on fire or letting loose with both barrels of the shotgun or spraying with the tommy gun, *all of it,* just never gets old.
Considering Ion Maiden has actual headshot mechanics and a massively overpowered Pistol weapon (just like Blood does), I'd say it's off to a hot start!
Your videos are the kind you prepare a mountain of snacks to marathon and enjoy but also the perfect background stuff for work or just to chill. It fits so much I love it. But your deep analysis of the game from it's history to story, physics, engine it's all makes you worthy of calling this PRO BLOOD but sadly puts everyone else's videos to shame. Even those who are long time fans and dedicated to a franchise yet fail some minor details in reviews. Even Caddicarus and Nitrorad may miss something but you got the damn game down to it's cut content. And you're not afraid of swearing or crude language but not over the top. A fine balance of actual comedy. Too good.
DooM 1 and 2016 might be my favorite games, but Caleb from blood is my favorite character in any game lol Try the Deathwish mod with BloodGDX, also please review it lol Deathwish is a fan made sequel to Blood 1 that means it's a good Blood 2 in a way. I love your shit thanks!
Ayy i just did that with fresh supply for nostalgia sake! To be honest i feel that extra crispy was easier in fresh supply than it was back in vanilla blood. Cerberus was my only problem as well, until i lodged myself up in one of the pillars in his arena, and proceeded to pepper him with explosives without him even doing a thing.
God as my witness, I will never tire of the wonderful screams that the cultists make while they're being burned/shot/skewered/generally ground down into a fine, snort-able powder.
Here's a funny story for anyone reading the comments and finding mine. I never played Blood when i was still a kid, but Civvie's enthusiasm for it made me buy the steam version which is "Blood: Fresh supply." I then decided to go in the hardest difficulty intended for single player, like Civvie. Except for the steam version, they made an extra difficulty which is "made to order" (or maybe it's custom renamed?) but anyway, i distinctly remembered Civvie playing the difficulty above the hardest, so i picked the same. And yeah, you guessed it, in the steam version it's *drum roll* Extra Crispy. I still managed to make it to E1M4 by cheesing every encounters, making ennemies see me, go behind a corner, wait for them to come and pitchfork them to death. Like Civvie said, i would NOT recommend. I started the game again in "Well Done" and oh god is it more manageable. Don't play on Extra Crispy, ever...
i dont even care this game is hard....i used to play this when i was around 8 years old and now i get shivers when i hear those cultists scream in pain ,the nostalgia shivers
The alt fire with dynamites is great. Normal dynamites: -- Apart from what you've covered, if you press alt-fire and alt-fire again Caleb drops the ignited dynamite on the ground (good if something is chasing you) Other dynamites are also dropped with alt-fire, but then subsequent alt-fires load the next dynamite, so you can drop more than one.
Insane how fucking good this game is, nice to see that you do it justice! The music, the art, the level design, the sounds...WAY MORE than merely parodying horror tropes as other critics often put it. This game breathes horror, you even get to go to a hospital - fucking savage!
On well done this game becomes more like a damn survival horror with how often you run out of ammo. If your not careful you can up up in situations of being seemingly unwinnable fights by running out of...everything.
Blood is the best FPS ever created. Extra Crispy is the best difficulty because you need to utilize everything this game offers you (weapons, secrets, enemy position). I even beat this game on Extra Crispy without saves (I was without a HDD [crashed] for a year so I have to run this game from CD-ROM with MS-DOS on Floppy disk). Good times!
The only thing I don't like about Extra Crispy is that there's not enough ammo to kill the 2 bosses at the end of episode 1, so you end up having to pitchfork the second one for an eternity.
@@atrocity3010 Yeah, it was pain in the ass. Pitchforking the last remaining Cheogh to death was not a pleasant experience. But that was (as far as I remember) the only weird part of the whole EC difficulty.
I just bought fresh supply and i have to say for a first time blood player....the game is fun as hell but man is it hard on well done. I played doom duke and some of quake back in the day but blood is a whole new level of hard for me. I got a lot to learn :)
Only explanation I have for the save game difficulty swapping, is its inverted on an odd number, and it implies the value corresponds to negative an positive numbers, and when loading it swaps a negative to a positive and vice versa. Therefore the reason 'lightly broiled' stays the same'. If in order from least to most hard, the difficulty is stores as either a -2, - 1, 0, 1 or 2, then the inverse chart of difficulty makes sense if the game is glitching and switching a negative to a positive. And zero is neither which is why lightly broiled would be unaffected by said glitch
You can restore the Blood Alpha weapons with the Weapon Mod! It also adds very thematic optional replacements. They even have a BuildGDX version but sadly its missing some things. Great addition for me. It helps keep the game interesting and varied.
After hearing the intro to this video I thought: "This man know's what he's talking about!" Then you gained a subscriber. Blood IS the best Build Engine game.
dunno if I've mentioned it before, but there's a reflective orb in the dining car - if you have sufficient health going in to grab it, it's a cakewalk from thereon out.
This series brought Blood to my attention (nice series btw). Just recently played through the first 4 acts on Lightly Broiled and now I'm doing it over again on Well Done, and holy fuck nuts the difference is day and night. A couple extra enemies in most encounters, the hitscanners having faster reaction times and doing more damage, everything having more health, and the cultists throwing TNT bundles instead of sticks - it's fucked. When you mentioned the bar-car on the train being difficult, I thought maybe you were exaggerating because it wasn't that bad. It is on Well Done. I have to actually quick save now, and I retried the bar-car probably 15 times. Extra Crispy can't be anything other than ridiculous and I refuse to find out.
I've finished the games twice and I still love it, though some of the design choices (hitscan enemies, rats, bullet sponges, impossible to find secrets) were really driving me crazy. But the atmosphere and the weapons (I too, in fact, love dynamite, it's super satisfying) are still top notch, even today.
I still believe in once moment the skies will open and world will see a "Blood" high quality remake "Blood" forever in my heart, please don't get lost in time!
personally i feel if you use a sourceport and whatever mods you get the remake it deserves and tailored to you. modernizing the look or mechanics too much would rob Blood of its classic feel. i dont want this version of blood but with 4k textures or bloom or whatever. but i love adding mods and custom maps. however a new Blood game with the right effort could be great!
@@deadeyezayuh I'm agree with you. Easy to make bad stuff if developers try to do remake/reboot/remaster if they didn't love it like true fans and not imbued with the atmosphere. It's hard to understanding, but for great and epic Blood remake, need to play it in the past time, in 1997, when it published. Only true emotions save it. P.s: Some many many days ago, I saw the one interesting modification for Blood (link here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5RMiv2eKQiY.html). It looks absolutely amazing. But is very sad moment - modification no longer developing
Doom is like an 80's action hero spray'n'pray power fantasy movie whereas Blood is more of a stylish John Woo-esque gun-fu flick. It requires way more strategic thinking and near surgical levels of precision sometimes, but once you've mastered it absolutely soars above Doom in terms of fun-factor
I was way into this game when I was a kid. I was in middleschool, and we were making book covers out of paper bags to cover our textbooks. I wrote the blood logo all over my bookcover and the next thing I know my parents are being called in to talk to the principal, who was telling him I was involved in a gang called The Bloods.
Man!!! I wholeheartedly agree with you. It’s the best game ever. Me and my cousin have been playing this game since 1999 and we aren’t bored of it, nor will we ever get bored of it.
