The theory that Lopez was just running a gold heist holds water when you consider that she tries to pass herself off as a lieutenant but never wears a uniform and salutes with her left hand.
Now that you mention it... yeah. I forget when she saluted, but especially if she saluted indoors, that's a dead giveaway she doesn't know that 1) you don't salute indoors (other than for a Board) and 2) officers aren't supposed to salute first for the enlisted ranks. Even if the salute was done outdoors, you're not supposed to salute in a warzone for fear that the enemy would be able to figure out who an officer is (source: veteran). Either that, or she's a typical dumb Red Sox fan.
the concept of a heist movie taking place in the middle of an alien attack sounds fucking amazing thou addendum: theres a reason they only leave you with a knife after passing out, she expected you to die. the gun and 6k bullets was her backup plan to clean up the aliens after they mauled you to death without equipment, theres a reason you are not in the ending cutscene, we can only asume they put a play on for john after he somehow survives the knife trap.
As long as the motivations and stakes make sense. What I mean is, there has to be a sense that the aliens can be defeated/reasoned with. Otherwise why bother with the heist? Comically large bags of cash/pallets of gold ingots etc probably won't be much help when aliens are death-raying the planet. Maybe the heist could originally be set in a secret military/industrial facility and you're initially planning to steal some data or something relatively mundane. However when the aliens invade, your character might realise having money is pointless if the world is destroyed. Then they could find some kind of bizarre technology/weapon and your gang decides they will drive off the aliens and THEN enjoy their ill gotten gains. One of the gang might not get it and tries to force you into the original plan, so you can kill them or spare them(which leads to alternate outcome late game.) Then as you start fighting the aliens, you become recognised as saviors and showered with more gifts and fortune than you ever dreamed of getting from the heist. Maybe some nosy reporter starts asking what you were doing in the secret area in the first place. However, this is swept under the rug as you and the gang go off to enjoy their lives as super famous heroes and badasses
This looks like one of those “games” you’d see in one of those “we need the kid to be playing a video game in this scene”, the kid would be holding an N64 controller and the game would be making Atari bleeps and bloops
The Animorphs TV series at least had the Transformers: Beast Wars game in it... Yeah I am not kidding, the Animorphs TV series at least had the decency to have their characters playing an actual game!
My favorite example is in Breaking Bad, where Jesse is playing a bizzaro world copy of Rage. Best part: when someone gets thrown into his bookshelf, a legit Rage game case falls out.
The fact Lopez sounds like an Eastern European VA doing a bad impression of Lani Minella doing a bad Latin accent is a whole level of meta jank I didn't know was achievable
I think she was actually a Filipina trying to sound like an American doing a Latin accent, not that that actually changes anything. They should have just made Lopez Filipina, the name even fits.
For some reason, she sounds like Renee Montoya from Batman: The Animated Series+The New Batman Adventures in my ears. Still, why not name her Panganiban, Gonzaga, Montes, or Diaz?
@@jic1 Yeah, you're absolutely right. Fun fact: The voice actors of Cpt. Jim and Lt. Lopez are actually Filipinos - mainly broadcast veterans (news anchors). Cpt. Jim Morgan is voiced by the late Sir Mike Enriquez (RIP legend) and Lt. Lopez is Ms. Vicky Morales. It's a shame that they never heard about it (like if there were interviews in the casting and stuff) after the game's release at that time (including the so-called "very good" game review on a Filipino gaming magazine). Also, Happy Holidays Civvie (and everyone else)! 🎄🎁⛄
@@TASTomusan i think the generic soldier va is another news anchor and journalist of the same tv channel station, if my fleeting memories of reading about this game from probably the same magazine could be trusted
21:20, not only does the room have an MRI machine. It also has a bunch of steel tables and computers, things you absolutely do not want next to an MRI machine :)
There's some pretty funny videos of this, sometimes when they have to decommission one they have fun with it first, chuck in a couple folding chairs or something
Bold of you to assume that was actually an MRI machine. If you look closely enough you'll notice that is in fact NOT an MRI machine, but actually a MAC 11
@@NoobwithaBaseballBatvery VERY violent magnets. They can and will remove anything magnetic from your body with zero concern for anything that's in the way, like flesh or bone.
He can be glad that the player leaves footprints. Because that means the "milk" river was shallow enough for footprints. Imagine if the river was chest deep....
The big blue ones look sped up, I wonder if there's one of those "old game ties something stupid to frame rate, so playing on modern computers makes it act weird" things is going on somehow...
This is why I love Civvie. He's not just all like "It's bad because reasons". He's like "It's bad and I know it's bad because I played all of it. Here's the footage so you can suffer along.". LoL :)
Funny story about Newark, NJ. I once got a parking ticket without ever being there. I only found out after a cop pulled me over a few months after the ticket was issued and I was given a summons for driving without a license. My license was suspended for failure to pay a ticket that I never received. Turns out, when the original ticket was being issues, the police officer's handwriting was so poor, one of the license plate character was entered into the system as a B and not an 8. That one type directed the system into thinking it was my car that was parked illegally. I had to go to court to prove otherwise and get my license reinstated. But that's not the best part, even though my license was mistakenly suspended, I still had to pay the fine for driving without a license, because at the time, I did not in fact have a active license. In shore, $#@& Newark.
NPC: "You take the right corridor, I'll take the left!" (NPC immediately proceeds to take the right corridor) I almost choked on a gummy bear. You owe me an ambulance ride, Civvie.
17:26, We now have a physical representation in a game of how Terry Pratchett described the River that flows through the city of Ankh Morpork. A River that doesn't so much flow, as ooze, and in one of the Watch Books, you could even draw a chalk outline on it.
Itll be my last christmas as i have cancer. I am so happy i get to watch through all your videos. They bring me comfort. Thank you civvie and merry christmas everyone!
As someone who still owns a copy of this game, the 10 year old who got duped by the lies on the back of the box thanks you for covering this, Civvie. You certainly powered through it more than I did, since even back in the day I gave up pretty much right before the tunnels.
Okay, your retelling of the story as a heist going down in the middle of an alien invasion is honestly genius and would make an amazing story... ...you know...
One of the best in a long, long time, something I anticipate standing alongside the ranks of "The Ballad of John Chaser": The incompetence The "Star Wars Name" gag The milk tunnels Civvie's actual disdain as he practically autopsies it rather than play it I love it It SCREAMS Slav Jank, but somehow isn't. I love it. A wonderful Xmas gift to us all. Merry Christmas to Civvie too!
@@StevenJShow I'm fairly certain he thinks Halo after the first game is just the same as COD and other 7th generation military shooters. He blames the series for basically all of the military shooter gameplay mechanics and aesthetics that were popular in that era; although if you've actually played the series it's kind of hard to see why he would believe that.
Aliens are lanky hunched over humanoids with shields that produce weird visual effects when you shoot them & weird oblong pew-pew energy guns. You're accompanied by large numbers of useless NPC soldiers. This game's at least TRYING to be Halo.
I'm trying to get back to dabbling with game development, on a purely personal hobby show-nobody kind of scale. This video gives me hope and inspiration by showing me that there are games out there, games that were sold, whose extreme jank and lack of quality I could not hope to match without applying a level of half-assedness and general incompetence that I'm not even capable of. However raw my silly little games come out, they'll at least be better than this. Plus the video was great fun to watch. _10/10; Merry Xmas, Civvie!_
As a full-blooded Filipino I am proud to know that our game development history is decorated with a realistically-modeled NYC, complete with milk sewers.
I know I say this a lot… but thank you for being a good content creator/prisoner and giving us true subtitles. It honestly makes everything so much better. I don’t understand why channels 10X as large as this one just go along with automatic subtitles. The extra work you put into your content is appreciated.
I love how Civvie since 2018 said that XMAS games runs dry super fast and after ROTT and ROTT 2013, the videos from now on would not have the same magic
in addition to sergeants cuervo, jaeger and morgan, there was a cut character by the name of lance corporal everclear who was just a bottle of everclear with arms and legs
Some really fantastic line deliveries in this game, really warms my heart. That and seeing the line of aliens spawn in underground and then realizing you were carrying A THOUSAND ROUNDS for your machinegun was a DELIGHT
Oh damn, I remember seeing this back then in a Gamepro magazine and finding it interesting seeing a video game developed in the Philippines. Didn't think it was gonna be this bad.
It was awful. A Philippine magazine gave it 85/100 and called it fantastic. I remember getting suckered by this piece of shit because "it's actually a masterpiece" Huge ass nostalgia.
Don't forget leche flan, lechon, halo-halo, sinigang, tapsilog, taho, spiced bangus... and that's just foods. They got some nice clothes too, plus a knack for animation (although the latter fact is woefully mostly exported for the likes of Disney and Warner Bros.; still waiting for the day the Philippines can miraculously rival South Korea and even Japan on that sector).
@@michaelandreipalon359 But local animation for local projects looks like trash usually. To the point The Nutshack is one of the better ones unironically. Our actors are proud of our PS1 CGI and think it deserves to be on a movie cinema.
Nah he's been doing it for years now, it's gotten old. He thinks the sewer count is bad, the 'blueballing' is way worse because he actually thinks it's funny
Civvie constantly pointing out “you gave me a heal others mechanic but then won’t let me use it” makes me want a game that did. Particularly the part around 19:35. I like the idea of having these siege set pieces in a shooter where, if you were able to hold onto healing items leading up to them, you can heal wounded soldiers and have more backup for the coming fight. Get better at the normal gameplay to make the hard parts much easier.
Merry Christmas Civvie, thanks for all of the laughs over the years and especially this year. I needed it. Also, I just found the bit you did with Huggbees and about died laughing. May your Christmas be merry and your loaves be nutritious.
Ah, Newark, New Jersey, how I miss thee...well, actually I miss all of NJ since I was born and raised there. I was reared in the backwoods hillbilly county of Sussex, the northern most of all in NJ. (At 01:30, you can see on the map that there's a star in NW NJ and the name, 'Newton'. >That< is where I call home. Always have, always will, even though I haven't been back there since before those great Towers fell on that clear, warm fateful September day) I spent my first 15 years in NJ, loving nearly every minute of it. I'd visit Newark every couple years when flying out to visit family elsewhere in the country. Getting to the airport was something of an adventure, since even though it was only a 45-60 minute drive from home, it might as well have been another part of the world entirely for the difference in landscapes there was. My home in NW NJ was wooded, forests everywhere, rural, mountainous, with winding roads and guard-railed ravines hundreds of feet down just mere skips from the asphalt along with massive dairy farms, huge lakes and many photo-of-the-year contending small, cozy towns where everyone knows everyone. As you traveled to Newark (or indeed, the NYC metro area in general) the forests and mountains gave way to flatter city blocks and six-lane highways, the smell of industry and car exhaust, traffic snarled to a stop every day at the same time in the same place. You'd have to jump from one highway to another, to another, exit onto yet another and you best be ready with those quarters because the >TOLLS< required worship for blessings if not sacrifice. Not enough coin to satiate the traffic gods? Your sacrifice would do. Not of your soul...at least not yet. No, your offering was TIME. You had to trade time for convenience. And once you made it to Newark Airport, your trial was not yet complete. The gods had one last test for you... PARKING. Hope you were paying attention to the myriad of signs along the way! Otherwise...well, you'll find out soon enough... **evil laughter** I can't wait to go home someday soon. I've been gone for 26 long years but I can't still hear the forest winds calling my name...
A left handed salute? In civilian clothes? And I'm pretty sure the tips of her fingers are touching her cheekbone rather than her brow. Either she's an alien infiltrator or the most genuine depiction of the National Guard.
As the fan who's subconscious communication that influenced you to play Prey and Quake 4, I have a request. I know the original Halo introduced the fps genre to the worst trends. But the original campaign is great, a solid story and fun gameplay with varied and smart enemy AI. I would love to see a Civvie Hate-through of Combat Evolved just to tell me why I'm wrong
Fun gameplay? Combat Evolved? Fun??? For console players of that time who wouldn't recognise a good first person shooter even if it shoot a super shotgun in their face (wish it did, so many potentially good games were ruined to appease this particular strain of human scum) - maybe. Otherwise it was a travesty. And don't even start me on the Library...
Civvie 11 : Are those poisonous? H4MM3R : No. They're technically venomous. Zoologists watching : *** Experiences happiness*** I love when Civvie does stuff to mess with the pedantic types who live to correct people.
Being Filipino myself, the VAs did a surprisingly decent job of covering native accents. Tagalog had a very distinct impact on the way people approach vowels, emphasis, and syllables. Never gonna forget grandma calling persimmons "pahr-see-MOHN"
In their defense, they do have a knack for saying even Japanese words surprisingly well, what with their anime loving side (they also love Disney stuff at most, which is a downer considering the shutdown of the likes of Disney Channel recently; really long story on that). Believe me, I've seen more Filipinos nail some names and words from that language compared to some Americans.
@@michaelandreipalon359 That probably depends upon the part of the country. I'm in Washington state. You know, naval bases, Philippines, you get the connection. I think the only reason I can find most Filipino accents intelligible is because I grew up around it. Sometimes it feels like mad libs where you get most of the sentence but there are a few words used that are so far from how they're supposed to be said, it might as well be Tagalog.
Civvie is the only guy on here who deserves to get paid for what he does. His videos are my idea of perfect and watching them legitimately improves my life. Brought to you by CommentCorpTM
The theory that Lopez was just running a gold heist holds water when you consider that she tries to pass herself off as a lieutenant but never wears a uniform and salutes with her left hand.
I noticed the salute thing too!!
Now that you mention it... yeah. I forget when she saluted, but especially if she saluted indoors, that's a dead giveaway she doesn't know that 1) you don't salute indoors (other than for a Board) and 2) officers aren't supposed to salute first for the enlisted ranks. Even if the salute was done outdoors, you're not supposed to salute in a warzone for fear that the enemy would be able to figure out who an officer is (source: veteran).
Either that, or she's a typical dumb Red Sox fan.
@@homesless The baseball joke really takes Home Plate, dude.
On an unrelated note I can’t believe lieutenant js pronounced left-tenant. Actually mind-blown. I thought it was Loo-tenant.
@@zzodysseuszz US vs. UK pronounciation
the concept of a heist movie taking place in the middle of an alien attack sounds fucking amazing thou
addendum: theres a reason they only leave you with a knife after passing out, she expected you to die. the gun and 6k bullets was her backup plan to clean up the aliens after they mauled you to death without equipment, theres a reason you are not in the ending cutscene, we can only asume they put a play on for john after he somehow survives the knife trap.
So Army of the Dead switched with aliens!
As long as the motivations and stakes make sense. What I mean is, there has to be a sense that the aliens can be defeated/reasoned with. Otherwise why bother with the heist? Comically large bags of cash/pallets of gold ingots etc probably won't be much help when aliens are death-raying the planet. Maybe the heist could originally be set in a secret military/industrial facility and you're initially planning to steal some data or something relatively mundane. However when the aliens invade, your character might realise having money is pointless if the world is destroyed. Then they could find some kind of bizarre technology/weapon and your gang decides they will drive off the aliens and THEN enjoy their ill gotten gains. One of the gang might not get it and tries to force you into the original plan, so you can kill them or spare them(which leads to alternate outcome late game.) Then as you start fighting the aliens, you become recognised as saviors and showered with more gifts and fortune than you ever dreamed of getting from the heist. Maybe some nosy reporter starts asking what you were doing in the secret area in the first place. However, this is swept under the rug as you and the gang go off to enjoy their lives as super famous heroes and badasses
@@Lucios1995yeah but that movie was dogshit
@@Lucios1995 Or maybe Kelly's Heroes with aliens.
The aliens were the ones from Battlefield Earth and they were in on it to cause they got promised a bar of gold.
This looks like one of those “games” you’d see in one of those “we need the kid to be playing a video game in this scene”, the kid would be holding an N64 controller and the game would be making Atari bleeps and bloops
You just made me realize someone somewhere prob has a wiki or series about fake video games in film/tv shows.
The Animorphs TV series at least had the Transformers: Beast Wars game in it... Yeah I am not kidding, the Animorphs TV series at least had the decency to have their characters playing an actual game!
My favorite example is in Breaking Bad, where Jesse is playing a bizzaro world copy of Rage. Best part: when someone gets thrown into his bookshelf, a legit Rage game case falls out.
So true.
Or one of those fake games in like Law and order
The fact Lopez sounds like an Eastern European VA doing a bad impression of Lani Minella doing a bad Latin accent is a whole level of meta jank I didn't know was achievable
The Christmas Spirit of Jank.
I think she was actually a Filipina trying to sound like an American doing a Latin accent, not that that actually changes anything. They should have just made Lopez Filipina, the name even fits.
For some reason, she sounds like Renee Montoya from Batman: The Animated Series+The New Batman Adventures in my ears.
Still, why not name her Panganiban, Gonzaga, Montes, or Diaz?
@@jic1 Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Fun fact: The voice actors of Cpt. Jim and Lt. Lopez are actually Filipinos - mainly broadcast veterans (news anchors). Cpt. Jim Morgan is voiced by the late Sir Mike Enriquez (RIP legend) and Lt. Lopez is Ms. Vicky Morales.
It's a shame that they never heard about it (like if there were interviews in the casting and stuff) after the game's release at that time (including the so-called "very good" game review on a Filipino gaming magazine).
Also, Happy Holidays Civvie (and everyone else)! 🎄🎁⛄
@@TASTomusan i think the generic soldier va is another news anchor and journalist of the same tv channel station, if my fleeting memories of reading about this game from probably the same magazine could be trusted
the beetlejuice missile I think is an immaculate evolution of a classic bit. this is why Civvie is king
“John over here”
“John over here”
Lopez is trapped in the bathroom Civvie! Save her!
"What are you doing, step-soldier?"
That whole sequence is about dropping a soap, right?
I cannot leave without my buddy Lopez
"Why are you locked in the bathroom?"
@@Kidd724 "You talking to me?"
This game may have been a lump of coal, but Civvie's videos are always a gift
This is the second best game ever made! Lump of coal my ass.
*Actionable Pun Detected*
@@ASecretToEveryone86yup, seems about right. **defibrillator noise**
A truer true has never trued.
@@RahnonymousLol that bold text imaginary joke always gets me.
I should have done one of those :)
21:20, not only does the room have an MRI machine. It also has a bunch of steel tables and computers, things you absolutely do not want next to an MRI machine :)
To all the future people in the replies: MRI machines are basically giant magnets
There's some pretty funny videos of this, sometimes when they have to decommission one they have fun with it first, chuck in a couple folding chairs or something
Bold of you to assume that was actually an MRI machine. If you look closely enough you'll notice that is in fact NOT an MRI machine, but actually a MAC 11
@@NoobwithaBaseballBatvery VERY violent magnets. They can and will remove anything magnetic from your body with zero concern for anything that's in the way, like flesh or bone.
@@mrsidearm7026 this comment is a mac 11
Ah yes, the well-preserved medieval fortifications of downtown New York. Castle Rockefeller truly is a national treasure.
Sounds like a Monument Mythos episode
It's a real place, though? Castle Clinton in Battery Park. It's also in Deus Ex.
@@AshamedPants I was about to mention this lol
Didn't the building become such in the World War Z novel, or am I misremembering?
Dude, quit winning
8:15 The fact you put an actual MAC-11 in there instead of an Uzi breaks my heart. IMAGINE the engagement.
I too would have wanted to see the YakUZI!
The stalactite shadows are actually like, from nuclear testing.. Leaving shadow imprints.. So it’s actually like, really haunting and cautionary.
My god... the brightness of the nuclear flare burnt the _souls_ of those stalactites into the very cave walls... how horrifying.
@@hazukichanx408It's real. Look up the nuclear shadows of Hiroshima
Like commas that follow likes. Like, a comma that comes after a like. Like...
LISTEN TO THE WORDS MAAAAAAAN
the sheer cognitive dissonance of this particular detail contrasted against the WHITE liquid shader in the sewer...
Glad to see "quit winning" back. One of the unintentionally funny lines of all time
The pinnacle of slavjank expressions.
Definitely one of the best, I just wish that we could get a recurring "what the hell is this?!" from You Are Empty.
@@bennwardhaugh3013 ask the city council, yes
@@HappyBeezerStudios 🤣
"Only the US would call an office building the Freedom Tower"
Never change Civvie, please
The thing is, no one actually calls it that.
@@mastercronus7190 what do they call it?
@@TheRealNormanBates WTC, same as always
@@TheRealNormanBates World Trade Center or WTC
@@TheRealNormanBatesWe dare not speak of it, lest we draw the tower-dwellers' gaze upon us.
The subtle camera turns when Civvie realizes hes been leaving footprints and what kind of sewer he's in was fucking hilarious
Honestly the white sewer water seems like a fucked shader they never fixed
He can be glad that the player leaves footprints. Because that means the "milk" river was shallow enough for footprints.
Imagine if the river was chest deep....
Man that alien walk animation is just magical. It looks like a vortigaunt doing the Thriller dance.
The big blue ones look sped up, I wonder if there's one of those "old game ties something stupid to frame rate, so playing on modern computers makes it act weird" things is going on somehow...
This is why I love Civvie. He's not just all like "It's bad because reasons". He's like "It's bad and I know it's bad because I played all of it. Here's the footage so you can suffer along.". LoL :)
For real
Funny story about Newark, NJ. I once got a parking ticket without ever being there. I only found out after a cop pulled me over a few months after the ticket was issued and I was given a summons for driving without a license. My license was suspended for failure to pay a ticket that I never received. Turns out, when the original ticket was being issues, the police officer's handwriting was so poor, one of the license plate character was entered into the system as a B and not an 8. That one type directed the system into thinking it was my car that was parked illegally. I had to go to court to prove otherwise and get my license reinstated. But that's not the best part, even though my license was mistakenly suspended, I still had to pay the fine for driving without a license, because at the time, I did not in fact have a active license. In shore, $#@& Newark.
Sounds about right for NY in general.
laughing so hard as a snake owner because my brain was literally stating "they're technically venomous" in perfect sync with the robot
NPC: "You take the right corridor, I'll take the left!"
(NPC immediately proceeds to take the right corridor)
I almost choked on a gummy bear. You owe me an ambulance ride, Civvie.
The ingame subtitles actually said "you take the left corridor, I'll take the right!" at that moment. Guess they didn't care for second takes
"You go that way, I'll go home"
Never trust a woman when they say left or right. Civvie did the right thing, wait for her to go her way, and then go the other way.
@@NEEDbacon One!
Of us!
Is wearing!
A push-up bra!
17:26, We now have a physical representation in a game of how Terry Pratchett described the River that flows through the city of Ankh Morpork. A River that doesn't so much flow, as ooze, and in one of the Watch Books, you could even draw a chalk outline on it.
It's also a river that can sometimes catch fire.
@@MisterHalt Like the Ohio River did!
Didn’t expect to read a Guards! Guards! Comparison here
Itll be my last christmas as i have cancer. I am so happy i get to watch through all your videos. They bring me comfort. Thank you civvie and merry christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas friend.
Merry Christmas!
Merry christmas
Merry Christmas friend!
Merry Christmas, friend!
The plot twist at the end from Civvie's realization about what actually happened in the game was mind blowing!
As someone who still owns a copy of this game, the 10 year old who got duped by the lies on the back of the box thanks you for covering this, Civvie. You certainly powered through it more than I did, since even back in the day I gave up pretty much right before the tunnels.
I think the existence of Capt. Morgan sums this game up pretty well.
I really like how you make more interesting plot in 30 seconds before the end of the video than entire game itself
You know a game is bad when the sewer level is the best level in the game.
Cum Sewer sounds a lot like Connoisseur when Civvie says it.
@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 Well, there are certainly people that are one group regarding the other group.
This is so funny. My now wife was a Filipino med school student from NYC when she bought me this game as a gift when it first came out.
The Beetlejuice attack drone is one of the best things I've ever seen. Thanks for the good laugh, Civvie. Hope you have a Merry Christmas!
Okay, your retelling of the story as a heist going down in the middle of an alien invasion is honestly genius and would make an amazing story...
...you know...
The same thing happened on 711 but no one knows about the gold that was taken for some reason 🤔 who nose tho, its a mystery and a game theory 🙃
One of the best in a long, long time, something I anticipate standing alongside the ranks of "The Ballad of John Chaser":
The incompetence
The "Star Wars Name" gag
The milk tunnels
Civvie's actual disdain as he practically autopsies it rather than play it
I love it
It SCREAMS Slav Jank, but somehow isn't. I love it.
A wonderful Xmas gift to us all.
Merry Christmas to Civvie too!
It's from the jankippine region.
Of course it isn't slavjank.
It's FILIJANK!! (Filipino Jank)
Indo-Pacific jank
The man behind civvie's gotta have a background in Writing. Modern day TH-cam doesn't deserve some of this material.
Pinoyjank
3:36 This is the first time I hear Civvie being kind with Halo without a "but".
It was implied lol.
Him immediately drawing the comparison when the game starts on a static turret section makes me think he may not have actually ever played halo...
@@guyofminimalimportance7 Aside of it having aliens, I honestly don't see how this has any similarities to Halo.
@@StevenJShow I'm fairly certain he thinks Halo after the first game is just the same as COD and other 7th generation military shooters.
He blames the series for basically all of the military shooter gameplay mechanics and aesthetics that were popular in that era; although if you've actually played the series it's kind of hard to see why he would believe that.
Aliens are lanky hunched over humanoids with shields that produce weird visual effects when you shoot them & weird oblong pew-pew energy guns. You're accompanied by large numbers of useless NPC soldiers.
This game's at least TRYING to be Halo.
Civvie, I sincerely, unironically, love you. Please keep doing your thing.
Using "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (a reference to Die Hard With a Vengeance) during the Wall Street bit is just absolute perfection.
Funny, I thought it was a nod to either Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail or Girls und Panzer der Film.
@@michaelandreipalon359 That's cause you have a case of anime brain
@@kingalphawerewolf Not that that's something to be ashamed. Jank would be being a fan of, say, Rambo sequels.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Nothin' wrong with it yeah! Just amusing.
while Civvie was playing Invasion, Lopes was playing gold chess.
She pulled an Simon Gruber on everyone including Civvie!
@@noahletwinski6955
Oh god, she's working FOR Simon Gruber!
You almost had me with that Deus Ex in the intro. Great video as always.
I'm trying to get back to dabbling with game development, on a purely personal hobby show-nobody kind of scale. This video gives me hope and inspiration by showing me that there are games out there, games that were sold, whose extreme jank and lack of quality I could not hope to match without applying a level of half-assedness and general incompetence that I'm not even capable of. However raw my silly little games come out, they'll at least be better than this. Plus the video was great fun to watch. _10/10; Merry Xmas, Civvie!_
Always nice to get an early Christmas gift from Civvie. Merry Christmas everyone.
As a full-blooded Filipino I am proud to know that our game development history is decorated with a realistically-modeled NYC, complete with milk sewers.
I know I say this a lot… but thank you for being a good content creator/prisoner and giving us true subtitles.
It honestly makes everything so much better. I don’t understand why channels 10X as large as this one just go along with automatic subtitles.
The extra work you put into your content is appreciated.
👍
the end gag was amazing. thanks civvie, merry holiday season or whatever!
Seeing green crystals in that cave section made me immediately think to myself: holy shit, they added Tiberium into this game from Command & Conquer!
Tiberium will set us free!
The twist ending made me literally choke on my coffee.
I love how Civvie since 2018 said that XMAS games runs dry super fast and after ROTT and ROTT 2013, the videos from now on would not have the same magic
Every time I feel like I have reached the limit of my ability to love Civvie he then says “Fuck the Yankees” and I love him all over again.
Bedlam is the crossover between pure chaos and insanity, and Civvie's gameplay/commentary makes it 10x better.
in addition to sergeants cuervo, jaeger and morgan, there was a cut character by the name of lance corporal everclear who was just a bottle of everclear with arms and legs
A new Civvie video is all the Christmas gift I could possibly need
Gotta love the elevator where you pull the button off the wall to call the car. 🤣
This is a damn fine Christmas present. Thank you Civvie
Some really fantastic line deliveries in this game, really warms my heart.
That and seeing the line of aliens spawn in underground and then realizing you were carrying A THOUSAND ROUNDS for your machinegun was a DELIGHT
Oh damn, I remember seeing this back then in a Gamepro magazine and finding it interesting seeing a video game developed in the Philippines. Didn't think it was gonna be this bad.
It was awful. A Philippine magazine gave it 85/100 and called it fantastic.
I remember getting suckered by this piece of shit because "it's actually a masterpiece"
Huge ass nostalgia.
Filipino entertainment is sorely wanting a lot of things, judging from personal experience living there.
So this is Philippino kreed
Philippines mentioned 🤑🤑🤑
This is one of the best things to come out of the Philippines alongside The Nutshack.
And also piracy.
And that weird sweet spaghetti sauce.
Don't forget leche flan, lechon, halo-halo, sinigang, tapsilog, taho, spiced bangus... and that's just foods. They got some nice clothes too, plus a knack for animation (although the latter fact is woefully mostly exported for the likes of Disney and Warner Bros.; still waiting for the day the Philippines can miraculously rival South Korea and even Japan on that sector).
@@michaelandreipalon359 But local animation for local projects looks like trash usually. To the point The Nutshack is one of the better ones unironically.
Our actors are proud of our PS1 CGI and think it deserves to be on a movie cinema.
@@michaelandreipalon359 no, do forget them actually, it's all complete dogshit
Bro, I've been looking for this game for years. I am so thankful you made this video
Y'know what, you're a day late, but I will accept this video as a belated birthday present. Thanks, Civvie!
civvie’s denial kink for some of the constantly requested games is pretty fun imo since it can get annoying
I get that but I think it might just be that if he does do what gets requested hourly then he'll get ten fold the requests
Nah he's been doing it for years now, it's gotten old. He thinks the sewer count is bad, the 'blueballing' is way worse because he actually thinks it's funny
Where's Giants: Citizen Kabuto Civvie?
@@ExValeFornerd lol
The sewer count is great.@@ExValeFor
I did not see that coming! Wonderful Christmas Present Civvie!
The festive season's never fun without the annual Civvie Christmas special
"What's the texture like ?"
Gave me a good chuckle... :)
Civvie constantly pointing out “you gave me a heal others mechanic but then won’t let me use it” makes me want a game that did. Particularly the part around 19:35. I like the idea of having these siege set pieces in a shooter where, if you were able to hold onto healing items leading up to them, you can heal wounded soldiers and have more backup for the coming fight. Get better at the normal gameplay to make the hard parts much easier.
What an awesome episode.. This is truly what Christmas is about.
Merry Christmas Civvie, thanks for all of the laughs over the years and especially this year. I needed it. Also, I just found the bit you did with Huggbees and about died laughing. May your Christmas be merry and your loaves be nutritious.
I must say, this was one of the best in a LONG while
such a christmas delicacy.
Man, to think this game has such a surprising twist at the end. Eat your heart out Spec Ops: The Line.
I just realized the muzzle flash changes colors because you add the alien genetic code to it to upgrade it.
Merry Christmas Civvie!! Love ya work!
Aliens want out gold?
John Travolta and the Psychlos have turned Earth into a Battlefield!
Nothing quite like watching Civvie play some RAW slavjank games during Christmas.
Merry Christmas Civvie. Thanks for all youve done this year!
Feliz natal do Brasil, Civvie! ❤
Merry Christmas Civvie , thank you for all the rad videos and the work your team puts in.
I see that Lopez was wearing the most appropriate of military wear against an alien invasion: a tank top, jeans, running shoes and an ammo belt.
Oh, also, Merry Christmas, Civvie and Katie. Thanks for another year of great content.
That last heist realisation immediately made me think of Ross Scott.
Merry Christmas to you and yours Civvie 11. Thank you for another fun video. 😊🎄
Merry civviemas. Hoping for more sewers in 2024 and hopefully christmas sewers!
♪♫ ..dreaming of a whiiiiiite ... sewer .. ♪♫
Merry Christmas, Civvie. This was a wonderful present.
Happy Christmas Civvie!🎅
Merry Christmas Civvie and all the Dungeoneers. 🌲
As someone who played this a looong time ago and both hated and liked, I'm in for a nostalgia trip with this one :)
Ah, Newark, New Jersey, how I miss thee...well, actually I miss all of NJ since I was born and raised there. I was reared in the backwoods hillbilly county of Sussex, the northern most of all in NJ. (At 01:30, you can see on the map that there's a star in NW NJ and the name, 'Newton'. >That< is where I call home. Always have, always will, even though I haven't been back there since before those great Towers fell on that clear, warm fateful September day) I spent my first 15 years in NJ, loving nearly every minute of it.
I'd visit Newark every couple years when flying out to visit family elsewhere in the country. Getting to the airport was something of an adventure, since even though it was only a 45-60 minute drive from home, it might as well have been another part of the world entirely for the difference in landscapes there was. My home in NW NJ was wooded, forests everywhere, rural, mountainous, with winding roads and guard-railed ravines hundreds of feet down just mere skips from the asphalt along with massive dairy farms, huge lakes and many photo-of-the-year contending small, cozy towns where everyone knows everyone. As you traveled to Newark (or indeed, the NYC metro area in general) the forests and mountains gave way to flatter city blocks and six-lane highways, the smell of industry and car exhaust, traffic snarled to a stop every day at the same time in the same place. You'd have to jump from one highway to another, to another, exit onto yet another and you best be ready with those quarters because the >TOLLS< required worship for blessings if not sacrifice. Not enough coin to satiate the traffic gods? Your sacrifice would do. Not of your soul...at least not yet. No, your offering was TIME. You had to trade time for convenience. And once you made it to Newark Airport, your trial was not yet complete. The gods had one last test for you...
PARKING. Hope you were paying attention to the myriad of signs along the way! Otherwise...well, you'll find out soon enough... **evil laughter**
I can't wait to go home someday soon. I've been gone for 26 long years but I can't still hear the forest winds calling my name...
"I'm here to shit all over New York"
Couldn't agree more civvie 😂
If there is one thing I have learned in my job, it's that most New Yorkers are really belligerent and weird, lol.
A new Civie video before Christmas is the perfect gift.
Merry Christmas Civvie!
New Civvie 11 Video, 22 Seconds ago, I click. Simple as.
> plays When Johnny Comes Marching Home/Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye when the gold vault happens
This is a certified Simon Gruber classic.
AVGN+Civvie videos in one day
Yeah, I can believe in Christmas now
17:07 -- this monologue that delivers what's already on everyone's mind is nothing short of immaculate.
A left handed salute? In civilian clothes? And I'm pretty sure the tips of her fingers are touching her cheekbone rather than her brow. Either she's an alien infiltrator or the most genuine depiction of the National Guard.
Or a civilian pulling one of the most gigabrain heists of all time.
As the fan who's subconscious communication that influenced you to play Prey and Quake 4, I have a request.
I know the original Halo introduced the fps genre to the worst trends. But the original campaign is great, a solid story and fun gameplay with varied and smart enemy AI.
I would love to see a Civvie Hate-through of Combat Evolved just to tell me why I'm wrong
Fun gameplay? Combat Evolved? Fun???
For console players of that time who wouldn't recognise a good first person shooter even if it shoot a super shotgun in their face (wish it did, so many potentially good games were ruined to appease this particular strain of human scum) - maybe. Otherwise it was a travesty. And don't even start me on the Library...
Civvie 11 : Are those poisonous?
H4MM3R : No. They're technically venomous.
Zoologists watching : *** Experiences happiness***
I love when Civvie does stuff to mess with the pedantic types who live to correct people.
Merry christmas, thanks for the content. Always fun seeing you rip into some uber jank
Being Filipino myself, the VAs did a surprisingly decent job of covering native accents. Tagalog had a very distinct impact on the way people approach vowels, emphasis, and syllables. Never gonna forget grandma calling persimmons "pahr-see-MOHN"
Funny how they're both familiar news casters
In their defense, they do have a knack for saying even Japanese words surprisingly well, what with their anime loving side (they also love Disney stuff at most, which is a downer considering the shutdown of the likes of Disney Channel recently; really long story on that). Believe me, I've seen more Filipinos nail some names and words from that language compared to some Americans.
@@michaelandreipalon359 That probably depends upon the part of the country. I'm in Washington state. You know, naval bases, Philippines, you get the connection. I think the only reason I can find most Filipino accents intelligible is because I grew up around it. Sometimes it feels like mad libs where you get most of the sentence but there are a few words used that are so far from how they're supposed to be said, it might as well be Tagalog.
I can agree.
I’ll be blunt, I’m always extra happy when a video by Civvie starts where he’s happy!
#FreeCivvie!
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Oh the greatest of Christmas gifts, a video from Civvie. Happy Holidays.
Imagine if, in BioShock Infinite, every time Elizabeth threw you ammo or health she went, "Booker, over here!" over and over and over again
The Beetlejuice drone strike did me in. Thank you for saving Christmas. ❤️
CHRISTMAS = SEWER LEVEL.
Imagine him starting a Christmas reference count.
During the "sewer" level
"Look at me, I'm the captain now"
Merry Christmas everyone 🎄
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Top-tier episode. The Beetlejuice missiles had me consistently laughing.