Quake 4 - Stroggjammin' 

He was project Weapon X.

Sounds like a good SCP entry in the making right there

*ALL IS ONE ALL IS BLUM*

Absolute Cognitohazzard Steve Blum

Stevicus Blumechanus

You could even say... it rhymes...

Could say they got.... CoDdified.

@@AnotherSeeker CARLOS

Ironically the Cold War campaign was pretty fun.

@Bliss_TB Captain Price is the key to all this- if we get Price working, cuz he’s a cooler character than we’ve ever had in the games…

That's an experience!

I'm sorry for 12 year old you, but that's hilarious.

At least it was after the surgery not before.

That is metal. Brutal.

The most traumatizing surgery *so far*.

You know what’s funny is my only memory of playing quake 4 is with my Grandfather. He was normally only into flight sims but man did he fuck with quake. Hope you’re doing well

​​​@@TheLeageOfAwsome1 Hope you are doing well

Well that's just exceptionally sweet and endearing! What's more your comment stirred up a very wholesome memory of my own. That being sitting down with my maternal grandmother after she got finished with a long day of running the pub she owned and playing through levels of Wolfenstein 3D with one another on the computer she bought to do all of the pub's finances. She passed away from cancer when I was in my mid teens some twenty five or so years ago and I miss her terribly. So thank you for reminding me of a precious memory of just the two of us spending time with eachother. It's genuinely brought happysad tears to my eyes, she was a wonderful person and a brilliant grandmother. Thanks again, it actually means a lot to me.

​@@TheLeageOfAwsome156 😊p😊00⁰😊⁰

The main thing I remember of Quake 4 is just how it still wasn't a sequel to Quake.

-900 million? Who told United States Nuclear Command about my evidence against Hillary Clin- AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

-200 HP? I must've played corkscrew rules

@@qwertyqeys man, I gotta stop smokin’ this crap!

Nothing like the game giving you the exact numbers of just how hard the enemy overkilled you

That’s basically what it is, a high value will make you explode into gibs

Dude that's dark. Nice.

freakin epic badassery

i would take a strogg wife

Ouch, that's fucking brutal.

Wow, even in the future pistols can talk?

Yeah, he's changed since I last saw him. All metal and stuff.

I think somehow the game wants to mention that this Kane is the mc from Quake 2 or some sort.

Stroggporal Kane

Wait a minute, this is _the_ Corporal Kane? Thought he'd be a lot bigger.

@@White_Tiger93 Wasn't that Bitterman?

RIGHT? He was 150% setup as an obvious twist. Then just... doesn't. Idk. I kinda like it when the guy you think is evil turns out to not be evil.

To be fair what would he even have to gain? What he gets to be part of the Strogg and a mindless slave?

@@MrSadisticLlama does it matter? He was a stereotypical German in a stereotypical space marine shooter and the stereotype demands him to be a traitor

Huh? Never got the impression that any human character would betray you in this game. It's human vs Strogg here. The game was so unambigous about this that this never even occurred to me. >_>

@@Nergalsama01 Yea same here, it would make no sense at all

I think there are source ports now.

@@DinnerForkTongue please tell me they include controller support

Having issues? I did a partial playthrough recently on my current system (2600x, 1660, Win10) and the game worked fine.

Really? I have no problem on W10 with Ryzen and a GeForce 3060. Have never had a problem. You do have to run a config tweak to get the game to accept anything but low settings but that fix is pretty much everywhere online. You can even use ReShade with it and it looks pretty good.

Just make sure to disable multithreading support or whatever it's called, it makes the game crash when you kill the spider boss on a tank.

I hope Id's next project after Eternal is a Quake reboot in similar vein to DOOM 2016. I want them to lean real heavily into the cosmic horror stuff.

I want someone to make the original concept for Quake into a game. Y'know, something that isn't Diakatana.

I recall when Return to Castle Wolfenstein originally released I felt like it was a Quake 1/ Wolfenstein hybrid-esc sequel.

Does it though?

No,you got hundreds of maps to play.

It was a great call back to The Naked Gun.

@@ancavalcanti92 As someone who is 41 I was wondering if anyone watching would get it.

Do you have any idea what the game at 44:26 is?

@@cubescihist6737 Looks like a newer boomer shooter.

Just turned 40 a weeks back and Frank Drebin was part of my childhood...great seeing a few others catch this too!

If he’s gonna do Elite Force, he’s gotta have a Linkara cameo for how much that guy loves the game

Wasn't that actually a thing in a Star Trek FMV adventure game that starred Q? That is, having to become assimilated by the Borg then saved by Q to access something.

I know prey did that as well, which was also an idtech4 game

@@LonelySpaceDetective It was! Star Trek: Borg for Windows 3.1. Every time you die, Q takes you back to before you made the decision that got you killed. So deliberately getting yourself assimilated is needed to pass one puzzle as you can see the Borg access code or something just before Q snaps you back. Spoony did a review of the game back in the day. Alas, poor Spoony.

Prey had a similar thing though done different In the beggining of the game you die but you come back to life after aquiring some ghostly powers and now you have not only the ability to control your soul away from your body but you also get the ability to read and understand the alien terminals in the game

Wait what

I'm so confused. Is this a gag like in Alien where everything is written in English and Japanese?

I thought there was something odd about that wiki screenshot lmao

Maybe it was a japanese fan of the game

I think it was Gianni doing a Blum impression, but I'm not 100% certain.

@@LonelySpaceDetective you never know with that Gianni

I mean, Gianni did a meme voicing the Spike Spiegel "I'd like a woman that could just KILL me" thing

Either one I'd believe

It was Gianni. He's credited in the credits.

I was scrolling down afraid that I wouldn't find this comment because I thought the same thing lmao so thank you!

@@Vashtehstampde You are welcome!

Shit I'm surprised anyone knew the reference.

It actually made me laugh so hard when the Carmageddon gameplay appeared

My name is Sgt. Frank Drebbin, Raven Squad.

Civvie's biggest cope.

Or every time you hear “it’s not a bad game…”

I like being alive, thanks.

the outro just wanted me to see Pro-Stray now, seeing that Civvie acknowledges it existence

I spent so long racking my brain where I recongised that song from. Burried in the core of my brain.

@@ferdinand12390 I mean, the entire game is a sewer level.

@@me4pie that gun was as naked as the day it was born. Which was yesterday.

I played both Quake 1 expansion packs even and still don't understand the plot, they were just making things up as they went along and tossing random Lovecraft references in.

Quake 2 feels like one of those things nobody but those who grew up with it will really get the specific appeal of again, 90’s dark sci-fi rooted in that decade’s dramatic hopes and fears for the future which was regarded as holding endless potential. I always vaguely associated it with Terminator, same vibes of fighting out of control technology for the survival of humanity. ET:QW was pretty much dead on launch and it was such a great portrayal of the setting, just had a lot more character than 4 despite having no direct story and it perfectly understood the aesthetic. I guess we strogg fans were just always a small niche, at least they _finally_ got around to remastering 2.

@@jeffumbach I suppose it just is like 'tech' John mentioned, something like plot is meaningless in game, like it's in porn movies or something on that level. But yeah indeed, Q1 plot didn't make absolutely any sense. Setting almost even less.

I disagree. At least you can understand the goals of the Strogg, I.e, conquest, not sympathize with but at least it’s something relatably *human*. Shub-Niggurath’s goals are utterly incomprehensible, as most things relating to Elder Gods are, and the extinction of humanity may just be one step in her plan.

For reference, who did Stormare voice in this game?

​@@DinnerForkTongue he voiced strauss

@@tgbyhunjik Much appreciated 👍

it's kind of undercut by your character just going "argh oof ow" as they get a buzzsaw put through their chest though, meanwhile the guy ahead of you is screaming "aaaa oh god my legs and dick are gone please help me sweet 8lb 6oz baby jesus"

Almost as traumatizing as Fukouna Shoujo 03.

@@conelybiscuit4985 Nah, it just outlines the fact that they weren't kidding when they said your character was some sort of omegabadass from SPACE, others scream like a bitch under the knife, he just goes "OOF OW YIKES"

It's messed up that they wait till the modifications are all done before they "brainwash" you. Gotta go through all that before brain death huh, brutal.

@@GashimahironChl Having horrified pain or death screams didn't stop Caleb and Doomguy from being badass.

The blumline, some may call it

Same. Q2 was my first FPS at the ripe old age of 5, so Q4 was a lot of fun even tho it was more boring than it should have been.

@@T4nkcommander I played through all the quake 1 campaigns before q2 came out, and I had an absolute blast. But I didn't care about the story because there really wasn't an obvious one. Quake 2 changed that. While quake 2 didn't have an expertly defined story, it gave me enough imagination fodder.

indeed it was

I need to clip it. That needs to be shared with the world.

Yeah but like I'm really confused was that actually Steve Blum acting as the guy who 'blumed'?

@@Pietreszcz it was gianni. Its always gianni.

@@catuluj4385 scary how Gino is becoming more Blum I have a feeling he might be the next great voice actor is just matter of time.

The Algorithm demands engagement!

@GenshinImpactOff As a fan of classic FPS games i am truly interested in this genshin impact bot post, thank you!

When you think about it, WE are his captors. The algorithm requires engagement.

Finally i can loearn more about the Strogg.

Captors? He is clearly there willingly and there is nothing suspicious going on.

Hey, not all of us Linux users are assholes! Just 80% or so.

Don't call us out like that. 🤣

I use Arch btw

not surprising the Bill Gates propaganda holds sway here. you are all beholden to Microsoft

"You can't expect the distro to hold your hand. You have to make an effort" I was just asking for help with the command line, you dick. There's an a-hole like that on every linux forum.

it's shows their massive commitment and appreciation for the audience. CIvvie and Katie are GOAT tier youtubers.

Also thanks (I assume) Katie for actually spelling and grammar checking them so my eyes don't melt every time I watch a video.

@@st0nedpenguin It's not Katie doing the captions. @linventor8829 & @skuarf You're welcome. 👍

@@AliaImmortalis Well many thanks to whoever it was.

@@st0nedpenguin There's a mention for the captioner at the start of the end credits.

Ngl I was waiting for a Green Goblin-like voice

It fits so well, it's impossible not to use.

damn right

@@LazyBuddyBan Damn.

The fact that I remember Michael Mack so well from Oblivion makes it so much better

Nice fucking model is my favorite

As long as it's not Yuri Lowenthal

@@julietkilo9716what’s wrong with Yuri Lowenthal?

Other voice actors are obsolete now, there is only gianni.

Gianni is the first blum'd . Gianni is Patient Zero. Probably.

Gianni has become sort of like a niche version of Nolan North.

When is it not Gianni anymore, getting old fast

Who else?

Naked Gun?

That was tight.

Quake 4! In color!

@@bunny2687 The Naked Gun movies were spun off from a short-lived 1982 TV show called "Police Squad", hence the first Naked Gun film which has "From the files of Police Squad" in the title.

Before my time... the more you know

I'm dying to know what happened to the Cougar Squad.

I'm just dying POV i was captured by stroggs

They are amazing.

wario land 4. aria of sorrow. minish cap. those are like my top 3 games to so i was kinda suprised.

That's what love is

Hey I still play the shit out of Lords of Magic so you are all good man.

It's a guilty pleasure, sure, but it's one you shouldn't feel any shame about.

Thats just what being a Quake 4 fan is like.

I'm in that boat with the second Deus Ex. Rationale doesn't even enter the equation.

yeah...but you best not use it as a source of trauma. people your age do that a lot

@@karlpuetz8352 Okay boomer.

​@@yopiumtrader222 im 25 does that class me as a boomer? no. I just think your lot is insane in trying to make everything so fucking dramatic. (ugh help a video game scene of dismemberment is my first memory im dAmAgEd!)

I'm going to be real with you, dude, we're in the same age bracket as each other. Buddy at no point said that this was a "traumatic experience" for him. It's a funny story. The only one here being dramatic is you.

@@yopiumtrader222 yeh that's fair I'm drunk. The paradigm however isn't wrong. Contextually I'm wrong and that's OK, because we're on the internet. Have fun

It was ripped off from fallout: the frontier tho. Not cool.

@@papalegba6796 I'd forgotten The Frontier existed. You made me remember it. I need several dozen shots to forget again.

@@papalegba6796 I'm glad the only thing I know about frontier is everyone talking about how bad it is.

@@DisorientedWanderer Wasn't the story dogshit?

@@ChaseMC215 I got no clue. I've heard various things about frontier ranging from the story being trash to them ripping off stuff and supposedly something about the dude sprinkling in a bit of furry into it. I've never really looked into it.

Nah, that's just her way of getting back at him for all the Gordon Ramsey clips she has to go through among other things.

shes incarcerated in the same facility as civvie, what about her could be innocent and wholesome?!

While i find a lot of its aspects to be kinda dull, I have to 100% agree that they absolutely nailed the stroggs, the atmosphere overall is what keeps me thinking about this game even years later.

Given recent disappointments in modern body horror games like Scorn and Callisto Protocol that very much just don't deliver on either gameplay or visual design, Quake 4 oddly stands out a bit in retrospect.

I just wish they'd adapted and modernized the Quake 2 designs rather than make these more generic ones. Like the Berserker, it was a great overhaul.

Honestly I prefer the lovecraftian quake over the strogg. Quake 2 just felt like Halo except Halo did it right and came out after Q2

Quake 2 remains a favorite to this day, so I was excited for Quake 4 when it first came out. I agree with all being said, but it was surprisingly boring despite how cool it should have been.

Fun for the whole family.

In my opinion definitely one of the more horrifying types of aliens/machines

you can also see heavily sedated modified humans that are used as memory processors for the strogg

@@yosefyonin6824 Just like the Hyron AI in Deus Ex Human Revolution, except the human components aren’t screaming.

Oh you mean what we've seen in Quake 2 with Marines going "Make it stop"?

Shadow the hedgehog

Solid Snake in the VR training missions

Idtech 4 did it's best work with darkness and shadows. Helped take the edge off the somewhat disturbing model rendering.

​@@sorrenblitz805 man, modders were onto something when they made the Dark Mod

Q4 gets more shit than it deserves really. It falls on it's face with the bland generic story but the visuals and gameplay always felt solid for me. It's not really worth going back and playing again, but I remember feeling like I got my money's worth when I played it on the Xbox back in the day.

@@estefencosta1835 Way more indeed. I think it was very enjoyable game and something Doom3 should've been. To think of it more Q4 and D3 mixed correctly could be recipe for awesome game. D3 story and background level of plot setting, gameplay speed and guns from Q4. Actually seeing characters like Q4 to give bit more depth etc. Yeah it could work really with careful refining.

between raycevick as the blum virus here and "JUST GET TO THE FUCKING GUNS ALREADY" on the syndicate gunplay vid we're already 2/2 on banger raycevick cameos

That ain't Raycevik, it's Gianni

@@AlphaCarinae Reykjavik

​@@fauxcuss2 I guess you could say we've reached an..."accord" as it being Gianni.

Queet wheenin'

Give elites same regen shields to look like a mirror of the protagonist.

​@@georgethompson913 lorewise it's the opposite. In Halo Canon, the Spartans didn't get shields until the Fall of Reach, and it was reverse engineered from the jackal shield gauntlets. We gave Spartans Shields to even the playing field with the Elites cause the Covenant was kicking our ass.

This is the line that made me wonder if--after killing the Makron and Brain Boss and receiving the grateful applause of his human comrades--Civvie/Kane might not just pull a Mt. Doom heel-turn, metaphorically claim the One Ring, and assume command of all the Strogg for himself.

What about being able to survive a uranium slug going at the speed of go fuck yourself?

@@babapambazuka2845 Emanuel Makron?

@@babapambazuka2845 If they make a sequel to Q4, that could be a very nice plot twist.

@@babapambazuka2845 writers can pull whatever out of their asses, but giving that Kane isn't even has his brain implant functioning, and the thing that was a comm relay to strogg was just destroyed (by Kane himself, no less!)... I highly doubt so.

Reminds me of the quad damage mod in skyrim. Every fight was fast paced and actually tense, lol

The word is "increased". Not "upped".

I modded the game myself at the time, but mostly just tweaked the weapons. Tripled the damge of the railgun so it was satisfying, upped the firing rate of a few things, the like. Never knew there was a revamp mod though, now I wanna play the game again.

This always seemed to me to be what the game needed

@@mrosskne neeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd

I like the Strog but the Lovecraftian quake stuff is better & more unique. I can name plenty of cyborg body horror in games but Lovecraftian shooters far less so. It has many problems but I appreciate Quake champions putting more focus on the Lovecraftian side of the lore.

The final level of Prodeus reminds me of Quake 1

@Smalls One could argue Quake died in the making of Quake 1, since that was the demise of what Quake was intended to be, which was then distilled into a Doom clone, followed by a sequel that was really a different game that Id decided to slap the Quake name onto, which was followed by "Hey, let's make Quake entirely multiplayer focused", followed by "Hey, let's make Quake 4 as a Doom 3 clone" But yeah, it'd be nice of them to bring back the Lovecraftian elements of the first game, since that at least stands out, as opposed to Generic Sci Fi Shooter #4872

@ハンス shit opinion, the single player is good

@@dp055 Quake's original concept was a hell of a lot more ambitious than the game that was released, featuring things like time travel and RPG elements. A lot of the ideas from it were recycled in Daikatana. As for Quake itself: even at the time, people saw it as largely an advancement of Doom. Story-wise, it's a space marine alone in a hostile environment fighting demonic enemies, going level by level through fantastical environments. Gameplay-wise, you've got health and armor, fast movement, a lot of the same power-ups, and a pretty similar arsenal of weapons, with only the grenade launcher and lightning gun being truly Quake-original. It does have its own feel and identity, such as toning down the sci-fi in favor of a Lovecraftian vibe and reaping the benefits of an actual 3D engine, but it was definitely trying to play it safe.

You’re calling Indy 4 the Bad One? I’ve heard some people prefer it over Temple of Doom. Not me, though, I really loved Temple of Doom.

@@HydraSpectre1138 Temple of Doom has good bits! 4 meanwhile is just...cartoony and not the good kind.

@@HydraSpectre1138 who do you know that ranks Indy 4 anywhere near the top of any list? It's not even egregiously bad enough to be a bad movie, it's just not a good movie and not a good Indie installment. It's barely even less racist than Temple of Doom considering how much later it came out.

@@JimJamTheAdmin Not the top of the list but at least better than Temple of Doom. Most people still prefer Raiders and Last Crusade.

@@HydraSpectre1138 I think raiders and crusade had the best balance between lighthearted adventure and just enough grit and danger to make you invested, I feel. Hell I'm amazed Raiders got a PG rating because of the squibs and the Nazis exploding

As in: "Oh, fuck. I hope that the Strogg don't decide to jam a huge syringe of steroids into me, cut off my legs and anchor a bunch of cybernetic components into my body while I'm still very conscious and screaming. Because that would be the worst experience of my life. Oh hey, I can read and understand Strogg, now. I guess that's cool."

As in, probably the part that Willits had no hand in designing?

the only thing i remember is just frustration from being bored, and the conversion which was cool and is even today. Q1 was the best

38:19 This one?

I don't really care about the strogg, but I'm still curious what happens next weirdly enough. Maybe because I like Raven?

No, you don't. No one cares.

@@BigPuddin oh, so _you_ care?

Fancy meeting you here 😂😂

@@NapoleonBlownapartMMA Hi there! 😀I am a fan of old school shooters and Civvie11's style of humor.

@@rcblazer Same!!! 😁😁

More people would care at all about the strogg if ETQW didn't get the axe, that game was pretty damn good.

There's not much to them in each game they showed up in, but I still liked them as well, and that vagueness/simplicity leaves A LOT of room for growth or expansion on their story, without it being needed.

I mean, who else should we are about when it comes to a Quake title? Not that any other stuff we fight is elaborated upon enough.

They can be pretty sexy...

@@Annokh wha...?

Same! It's not a perfect game but it'll always rest in my heart as the only FPS game my mom both played and beat on her own.

Haven't watched the video, but the campaign was just meh for me personally.

​@@UnbrokenEclipsehaha that's awesome! Was gonna say wholesome then I remembered what game we're talking about lol

It's really good. I don't know, it has something, it's not perfect but I personally love it.

@Merry Christmas 🌲 This was a very good game that got hit from a lot of bad reviews.

Day of the dead reference, great movie and content

Hope we get a Pro Descent series. Maybe even Pro FreeSpace or Pro TIE Fighter, if he's also good at space flight combat sims.

Descent, both are REALLY good and reasons I kept my joysticks

@@michaelandreipalon359 Pro Freespace would be the shit...Descent is my go to, but it isnt much content to play off of.

​@@InvestmentBankr Descent 1+2 get a 15-20 minute segment, just to introduce the 6DOF FPS genre, go over mechanics and complain about the 'advanced' AI of Class A Drillers and his later cousins. Then we get to Descent 3. Ugly cutscenes, some actual story, mission objectives, some goofy stuff and the expansion even has a sewer level. I could certainly fill an hour talking about these games, and that's without talking about the "Doom killer" marketing of D1 or development hell of D3.

I think thats Overload in the credits, but its made by a bunch of the original Descent guys so it may as well be a Descent game

Guess this is like the Unreal engine look in some games during the xbox 360 era, so this is a similar case for this ID tech 4 games.

Even the strogifacation and abduction.

@@KraptainKrunCh Good point.

Prey 2: Pocahontas vs the Strogg.

True. But visually, level design and overall imagination, Prey is hilariously so beyond anything in Doom 3 and Quake 4.

There are two theories for why things explode and catch on fire in ATHF, other than rule of funny of course. One that Master Shake has that as a "super power" or that the things have been cloned from the cloning machine so much and to such a large degree that the molecular structure of those things would combust when hit with a hard enough force.

@@deathsyth8888canonically, it’s supposed to be the second one. Shake keeps ruining everything they have, so Frylock has to constantly clone household objects.