SOLDIER OF FORTUNE - MAXIMUM TACTIGHOUL
Added 2023-07-13 12:49:05 +0000 UTCGhouls?
Yes, ghouls, and don't worry, only the first minute or so has rainbow replacing this game's ridiculous gore effects. We'll see what YouTube thinks about it when I try to monetize for the public release. I'm not optimistic but damn this game was fun. I actually hadn't played it and found myself so engrossed that I couldn't pull myself away for the entire six hours it took to beat. Just a solid Raven classic that is kind of weird. If I sound like I'm having an awesome time it's because I am.
This game has everything: guns, mustaches, Deus Ex references that I know I'll regret making, discomfort at the two decades long geopolitical shift that happened since release, and did I mention ghouls?
Here's hoping it doesn't get too loud.
-Civvie
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Comments
Will we get Double Helix too? 🤤
Florian Seifert
2023-08-03 13:31:04 +0000 UTCFirst one rocks, second one is cheesy but fun
Mr. McCrunchables
2023-08-01 14:07:24 +0000 UTCYeah I did. Still making my way through it.
Civvie
2023-07-21 19:02:44 +0000 UTCThank you Civvie! I've been busy as you know, sorry for the late message. Did you get the Romero book yet? I'm on chapter five and it is very good.
Tripp Andre
2023-07-21 19:02:14 +0000 UTCsaw you got age restricted. became a patreon now. fuck youtube
Eisenhans
2023-07-16 19:33:18 +0000 UTCThis video was too good!
Para-voyeur
2023-07-16 00:06:22 +0000 UTCI bought this in the middle of the video. Shit looks too good to not play.
Alexander Zerkle
2023-07-15 20:26:04 +0000 UTCIm pretty sure this is your happiest video, even bit uncanny. Facility provided more effective pills?
Paskudne
2023-07-15 01:06:25 +0000 UTCthird one is definitely junk but its fun if you have low expectation. it also had pretty sick weapon selection
Paskudne
2023-07-15 00:59:54 +0000 UTCSir, we'd like to have this flower.....
Silentphil9
2023-07-14 12:40:05 +0000 UTCPlayed this back when I was in my teens and GENUINELY thought it was on the Quake 3 engine, until today!
Andrew J
2023-07-14 10:57:36 +0000 UTCYes, yes i am.
Dénes Hliva
2023-07-14 07:34:37 +0000 UTCThe ghoul system may have started in Soldier of Fortune, but it went to 11 in Soldier of Fortune 2. You can get dual Uzis in that game. You can literally and systematically grind down the upper body of a person, until they are just a bloody, ragged stump with legs. Then, they finally fall down. Shotgun blasts to the gut have the chance that the last moments of an enemies' life will be cradling their intestines. You start to feel bad for the enemies with the Geneva Convention violating deaths you cause in that game. It was wild back then.
Lakstoties
2023-07-14 05:52:05 +0000 UTCCivvie - would you say that this is the most heavily modded Quake 2 engine game other than Anachronox?
Ilya Popov
2023-07-14 03:49:58 +0000 UTCBig Gun! Fittingly the video has Arnie in it being ridiculous. It was on the Last Action Hero soundtrack.
Suckerpunch5000
2023-07-14 02:06:19 +0000 UTCI don't think I ever played 2 but I remember really enjoying the first one.
Suckerpunch5000
2023-07-14 01:48:40 +0000 UTC😂
Suckerpunch5000
2023-07-14 01:44:17 +0000 UTCAny love for Pandemic Studios Mercenaries 1 +2 in this forum of learned gentleman?
JD Scarbrough
2023-07-13 22:56:33 +0000 UTCYou better be doing SoF II. No idea how my parents let me get that when it came out. Where I learned human anatomy as a teenager. Entrails, entrails every where. If I remember correctly, it is severely lacking in mustache which could be a turn off for some but the tight jeans and leather jacket scale is off the charts; so about even I'd wager. Have fun with the Colombia levels - pretty sure they are like the tenth circle of hell. \m/ EDIT: Alright I got SoF II on GOG. Finished first level. I can report that it does in fact get very mustache-y while simultaneously maintaining the same level of tight jeans / leather jacket.
Heavy Metal Stepdad
2023-07-13 21:01:29 +0000 UTCI'm getting really fucking tired of youtube's bullshit. It's blood in a video game for fuck sake.
Anksik
2023-07-13 20:34:07 +0000 UTCaahh an airplane reference, culture.
Tore Schweer
2023-07-13 20:26:12 +0000 UTCEven worse than milk, mayo.
Dream0fSkye
2023-07-13 20:10:56 +0000 UTCI thought we were gonna get one when Halo Infinite launched to get on that SEO for Halo at the time.
TonySki
2023-07-13 20:07:30 +0000 UTCAt 14:53, what is the word that's being sung? I can't understand it.
TonySki
2023-07-13 20:06:21 +0000 UTCI'm so glad you were able to play this one. Sure, it's kind of easy -but GOD is it a lot of messy, messy fun. A few hours well spent, just killing d00ds in awful and colorful ways with seriously boomy guns.
Goth Crayon
2023-07-13 20:05:29 +0000 UTCAs per Civvie "That’s the actor playing Saddam Hussein from the movie Hot Shots: Part Deux", which reminds me I will need to watch that.
Nathaniel Dolynchuk
2023-07-13 19:17:01 +0000 UTCIs that fucking Sean Connery photo shopped to look like Saddam Hussein?!
Nathaniel Dolynchuk
2023-07-13 19:10:24 +0000 UTCIt was SO much fun!!! Getting to watch you play a game that I played as a wee boy. This game was on one of several burned pc games my cool uncle gave us when we got our first PC including (red alert 2, unreal gold, unreal tournament, diablo II, serious sam, and one or two others I cant remember) The absolute gibbage that this game had was utterly shocking. I must admit to slicing up more than my fair share of N.Y. gangsters in the game just because I could. Glad you got to have fun with something new (to you).
Mathis Blair
2023-07-13 18:19:16 +0000 UTCI spent two days staring at a screen trying to think of more to say about HROT that could make for a decent video and I came up nearly empty besides some rambling about newts and the final boss.
Civvie
2023-07-13 18:03:09 +0000 UTCThis is awesome, but uh, we ain't getting that HROT vid, are we?
Marshall Bradbury
2023-07-13 18:02:11 +0000 UTCwho else up yankin they jank
scubaghost
2023-07-13 17:37:23 +0000 UTCHELL yes
Mathis Blair
2023-07-13 17:15:58 +0000 UTCso what else is in yankjank?
Dream0fSkye
2023-07-13 17:00:48 +0000 UTCYou're not sneaking MyHouse.wad past me, civvie.
HolyJunkie
2023-07-13 16:37:47 +0000 UTCOh dude watch that anime. It's a masterpiece 🤌 to use a Civvie-ism it may be an inch deep and a mile wide but it's entertaining as hell. I watch it on the regular.
Suckerpunch5000
2023-07-13 16:22:17 +0000 UTCI would have sworn I read what GHOUL stood for in a SoF preview in PC Gamer, but I didn't keep the mag and can't find an archive. I did dig up this amazing technology break down from an old fan site, and I think the GHOUL GORE Zones image at the bottom was also in the PC Gamer article. http://web.archive.org/web/20020602082950/http://sofcenter.com/gameinfo/technology/ In this post-mortem, they claim that the lead engine dev named it Ghoul, as an extension of an earlier system called Spectre. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/postmortem-raven-software-s-i-soldier-of-fortune-i- Anyway, I've been playing SoF2 on GoG and it's amazing. Thanks for the great video Civvie, and the excuse to go digging up old game tech news!
Chris Andrews
2023-07-13 16:12:31 +0000 UTCHoly Hot Snapping Crap this looks good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonTXTZqE-Q
Nathaniel Dolynchuk
2023-07-13 15:58:09 +0000 UTCI played this in my 20s and I really enjoyed it. (I might be older than Civvie.) But then I bought Medal of Honor (1999) and hated FPS' for awhile.
CasualKitty
2023-07-13 15:33:42 +0000 UTCAbsolute banger - my nostalgia prefers SoF2 but watching this through I think I'm dearly wrong
Oven Chips
2023-07-13 15:29:11 +0000 UTCAt this point I feel that if Halo ever gets a video it would be a love and hate video.
Beers
2023-07-13 15:00:43 +0000 UTCOne of my defining memories from this era is going to my friend Steve's house and watching him play the demo of this. It's the train level from the start and when the helicopter came along he said "Watch this", zoomed in on the helicopter with the sniper rifle, domed the pilot and watched it crash and explode. I had never seen anything like it.
Thom Venables-Gordon
2023-07-13 14:35:04 +0000 UTCNew to me and mechanically it obviously looks cool but oh GOD that's aged like milk. That chapter 8 goof was A+.
Valora Inverse
2023-07-13 14:23:56 +0000 UTCAre you talking about Redline the anime? If so I love the adventures of Sweet JP and Cherry Boy Hunter.
Suckerpunch5000
2023-07-13 14:03:31 +0000 UTCI've heard "amerijank" before, mostly to describe Postal 2, but "yankjank" sounds so much better.
Civvie
2023-07-13 13:51:58 +0000 UTCWith the discussion about no UN and no NATO from Dekker there, it almost feels like slavjank but american. Yankjank?
NerdyOgre254
2023-07-13 13:44:18 +0000 UTCTIL that game my older cousin kept talking about like 2 decades ago was a Raven joint
ArkSeaside
2023-07-13 13:40:52 +0000 UTCFuck yes
JOE MOTHERFUCKING TREEFELNER
2023-07-13 13:32:00 +0000 UTCOh that first game I played as a kid on my dreamcast, the reaction of enemies depending where you shot them at blew my tiny mind. Also by using a knife on dead body made it blow up eventually and would show cuts on different part
Gleb Belyaev
2023-07-13 13:25:06 +0000 UTCBless you too commenter, I’ll check it out ♥️♥️♥️
Nic Bergstrom
2023-07-13 13:21:55 +0000 UTCThis is a series that really needs to come back. …we don’t talk about the third one though.
Tronguy93
2023-07-13 13:20:51 +0000 UTCYou should watch REDLINE, its my go-to when im sick, and you can pretty much just DL the fan-remaster because its all but an abandoned IP at this point. Its gorgeous, its OST rival's that of ROTT or DOOM's in terms of quality, its the best thing ever, and i cannot express how much i love it Edit: If you're reading this, reply when you watched the movie
Dénes Hliva
2023-07-13 13:20:35 +0000 UTCIt is a blessed day. I am a walking corpse of illness and this just me a little light in the dark. God bless you Civvie, keep up the fantastic work. ♥️
Nic Bergstrom
2023-07-13 13:14:05 +0000 UTCHell yeah! Loved soldier of fortune when I played it in college, can’t wait to see what Civvie thinks!
LordLudicrous
2023-07-13 13:05:32 +0000 UTCAnother one I haven't played in years but I loved it back in the day. I can't wait to watch this. Thanks Civ! 🤘🤘
Suckerpunch5000
2023-07-13 12:56:54 +0000 UTCSoF is a blast, that's for damn sure.
RTheren
2023-07-13 12:56:48 +0000 UTCHell yes 👍
Raul Campos
2023-07-13 12:54:32 +0000 UTCLots of happy surprises lately. Great stuff!
Korcks
2023-07-13 12:52:07 +0000 UTCThanks again Civvie
Seed of Power
2023-07-13 12:51:05 +0000 UTCYes. YESSSSS! Let’s goooooooo!!!!
Thom Venables-Gordon
2023-07-13 12:50:10 +0000 UTC
