ALPHA PRIME - SMOOTHBRAIN CRIMINAL
Added 2021-02-03 15:52:13 +0000 UTCIt turns out that you can't even use the Sega Genesis version of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" in a video without YouTube catching it. Oh well. I saw someone on the patron discord (link for that is below all of this nonsense, and has been since the beginning, I don't know why I was surprised that people couldn't find it) playing this game and it spoke to me. It said all of the wrong things, but it spoke to me.
In terms of slavjank I think there needs to be some kind of sliding scale. Which looks like this:
Alpha Prime is a weird, incomprehensible mess. Soon we'll see how HROT episode 1 fairs on this chart - either next time or the time after - but I think it'll be pretty high up there between Vivisector and STALKER. As for STALKER - I don't know how to even approach it for a video, been considering a series since it's such a dense experience. We'll see. Right now I've got the HROT video and a Wolfenstein 3-D video in the pipeline where I play Wolf3D the way it was meant to be played - with a modern source port, dedicated strafe buttons, and only using the lives system instead of saves on Death Incarnate. If you've never seen suffering in text form, you can clip that last sentence as an example.
Aside from that, I've been working on a special April Fool's Day project that's sure to be interesting which will probably also come with a "behind the scenes/cut content" video that I'm going to try to make better and more involved than those have been in the past - fully scripted, with voiceovers and jokes and all that. This video had about 4 minutes cut from it because of how unreasonably long and boring the cutscenes are. I rewatched the Kreed video recently and realized how there was WAY too much cutscene stuff and it just DRAGGED, and not intentionally like that Interloper bit in the Half-Life video. Hopefully, even though this video is longer, it doesn't drag nearly as much.
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Comments
A STALKER series seems interesting. Sadly will probably be like Petty Thief, forgotten by half of the viewers. I'd watch it though, Stalker is great.
Mark Haiko
2021-03-01 02:55:48 +0000 UTCKwit winning.
2021-02-08 03:51:44 +0000 UTCHey Civvie, this was great, thanks much.
Tripp Andre
2021-02-07 06:01:13 +0000 UTCThis must have hurt to film and edit. Thank you for your suffering.
Marc Thomas
2021-02-06 14:44:37 +0000 UTCI got excited i thought you were doing alpha protocol
Kirk Mackintosh
2021-02-06 11:57:32 +0000 UTCSince 2000s fps games are the topic right now, Might I suggest the chronicles of riddick:escape from butcher bay.
2021-02-06 09:45:22 +0000 UTCFuck yes
JOE MOTHERFUCKING TREEFELNER
2021-02-05 22:33:56 +0000 UTCShould do another game with Alpha in the title. Only one that's fun and competent. How about Alpha Protocol?
Samuel Albert Mell
2021-02-05 09:00:27 +0000 UTCSTALKER is a pretty linear game if you ignore all the open worldness of it all. It's also got one of the biggest backtracks of all time that is so damn easy to miss that I'm pretty sure everyone missed it on their first playthrough and got one of the weird "bad" endings. But before you get to that, I'm pretty sure you need a palette cleanser. A good game for once, I think you're overdue...oh wait you just played HL1...uuuuh... Oh...I got it! How bout some America-Jank...YankyJank?...YankJank! Homefront! But regardless, awesome as always, CV-11!
Corhellion
2021-02-04 21:44:46 +0000 UTCits a thing beauty to watch and listen to you, thanks for the material.
2021-02-04 14:54:40 +0000 UTCgood god no please dont
2021-02-04 06:31:35 +0000 UTCJesus... It's like if Metroid: Other M was in Metroid Prime format... Poor bastard.
2021-02-04 04:33:15 +0000 UTCBummer to see they sent you down to 110, Love the ax3 animation work.
2021-02-04 02:31:19 +0000 UTCI do not do the french subtitles, I have someone for that who is very dedicated
Civvie
2021-02-04 02:04:04 +0000 UTChey civvie do you actually do the subtitles yourself? because ever since that French gag you did on the MDK video on how that you understand "some French", about roughly 80% of your vids have French subtitles in them. More than any other language that have subs for any video. Not that im complaining im learning French off you. i even learned how to say "It's fucking raw" (c'est cru, putain!)
2021-02-04 01:59:16 +0000 UTCOh fuck, I remember when this was previewed in the gaming magazines.
Merjia
2021-02-03 23:43:30 +0000 UTCWatch the Evil Dead video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3YG8oqhYMg It should cover some ground. Poor lad has been trapped in the basement ever since...
SteelyGaze
2021-02-03 23:03:17 +0000 UTCMan, Pariah is underrated. Had some great levels and satisfying explosions
Slendamann
2021-02-03 22:28:58 +0000 UTCPRO LEISURE SUIT LARRY WHEN CIVVIE
LaserfaceJones
2021-02-03 20:47:23 +0000 UTCI think the game this reminds me of, most of all, is Pariah. I'm not sure you can even still get it anywhere, but man, it's one of those games that only makes sense if you assume the protagonist is suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia from the first cutscene onwards.
Green
2021-02-03 20:43:50 +0000 UTCHey, if you are ever looking for more weird jank for a video, Iron Storm, Alien Rage, Action Alien and Legendary might be up your alley. They're all on steam too. Awesome video as always!
LordLudicrous
2021-02-03 19:48:46 +0000 UTCPro Grezzo 2 when Civvie?
Jae L. Mora
2021-02-03 19:45:30 +0000 UTCOh man, I've played this! Not to completion because... eeeh 😆
LoveSack
2021-02-03 19:23:35 +0000 UTCIt's kind of a shame you thought Kreed dragged on because that was one of my favorite episodes. Then again, Kreed's cutscenes were completely weird while it seems like Alpha Prime's are just boring.
2021-02-03 18:52:44 +0000 UTCLove the video, Civvie. Great stuff, as always. Question for the room: when did Civvie get possessed? Is this another case of Civvie having plot happen off camera/out of nowhere, or did I just miss something?
Nicholas Kratzer
2021-02-03 18:51:39 +0000 UTCPro F.E.A.R. when Civvie? XD
Steve Downes
2021-02-03 18:35:28 +0000 UTC"I rewatched the Kreed video recently and realized how there was WAY too much cutscene stuff and it just DRAGGED" Yeah gotta say I think Kreed is the one video of yours I don't rewatch because it drags so much. Way too much focus on "look at this insanity" but the insanity is too slow to be engrossing more than once. You haven't really done that since then, You Are Empty was a better go at it even if I think the earlier bits were a little overreact-y, so it's been good since then.
QuetzaDrake
2021-02-03 18:19:31 +0000 UTCSo after slav-jank "F.E.A.R." why not cleanse your pallet with the real thing? I still say the second game was not only the best in the series but one of my favorite FPS of all time.
Brian Rich
2021-02-03 18:05:54 +0000 UTChonkhonkrawsewercount
gill
2021-02-03 17:55:20 +0000 UTCWorry not Civvie, your suffering is not without cause. It amuses me more than sufficiently to stay on as a faithful pay pig ;) Looking forward to STALKER when it eventually hits. But maybe you'll want to try some Dyson Sphere Program to wash that "slavjanker" taste out the mouth.
Zerofuchs
2021-02-03 17:48:13 +0000 UTCYEAH! I am just happy that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is on the table. We might get Pro Half-Life 2 before STALKER, but at least it isn't written off.
Corn Husky
2021-02-03 17:45:06 +0000 UTCThe most disappointing part of the game is that they clearly chose the name Hubbard out of a hat and had no connection to the man or his... "Teachings"... I went in praying for Doom 3 Scientology Edition
James Collinge
2021-02-03 17:33:34 +0000 UTCI actually enjoy how much i have learned about FPS history watching this show.
2021-02-03 17:23:09 +0000 UTCExcellent and fun to watch! Pro Strife when Civvie?
2021-02-03 17:03:29 +0000 UTCCoral snakes may be differentiated from milk snakes using the following handy saying, or one of its variants: Red touches yellow; kill a fellow Red touches black; venom lack
The Dread Carpet
2021-02-03 16:58:15 +0000 UTCIt's a nice feeling seeing one's own hubbardium going into a Civvie video.
Dinna
2021-02-03 16:47:48 +0000 UTCHave you tried changing the pitch/transposing the Michael Jackson tune to see if that works? Also that Mega Drive soindtrack is a beast! Maybe a poor choice of words now, depending on your view.
2021-02-03 16:26:18 +0000 UTCI'd love to do that, then I remember King of Bahston took 6 months to make and I only knew how it was going to end when I nuked the Institute.
Civvie
2021-02-03 16:21:07 +0000 UTCWell that was quick. Wolf3D is interesting, looking forward to that. Stalker is an anomaly for a format like yours. It'd be like making a video on New Vegas, there's way too much for a single video, but a series would take ages to make and even watch. Maybe a shorter, self contained story like King of Bahston would be the best way to approach it?
Momoiro Akane
2021-02-03 16:10:57 +0000 UTCI'm so sorry
Civvie
2021-02-03 15:57:19 +0000 UTCI covered this game a while ago myself. It's interesting but... yeah, it embodies slavjank lol
Alyxx the Rat
2021-02-03 15:56:31 +0000 UTC
