Randy might be a target here, but he's only circle strafing around that for now. John Romero is still the primary target here, and I'm looking forward to all of that.
Regarding the ending, the lead designer said: "We were contacted by the band after they saw the game at a European trade show. They asked if they could use our visuals for a video. We thought this was rather strange and wonderful and said, sure but how about you let us use the video in the game itself. Our animator overlayed some of the games characters on the video and apparently that upset someone over there. I never met anyone from the band or ever heard from them again. Just a couple of ships that passed by in the night." -Nick Bruty
You as if he didn't preorder it just to boast that he played trash before everyone else did. I mean I'd have bought it if I had the change to say I got a game knowing it was going to be trash after 14 years of constantly stalled and rebooted development. It started as a quake 1 mod ffs, not counting the Duke 3D voxel version either, or the unrelated platformer
@@johnoutside84 just because context is more relevant than ever these days... I believe the other two commenters have watch a 1.5 hour video called "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3" by breadtuber & video essayist 'hbomberguy'. Hbomb... doesn't walk away thinking Tommy is a cool guy.
@@dukkemonterier3429 shiny entertainment confirm that it was "murder death kill" and intended to be a joke because its not that violent until the European software rating board told them a game with that title would be an automatic 18 rating. So it became "MDK" Its in retro gamer magazine "the story of shiny entertainment part MDK to EJ:3D" So we now have an official reason.
I always knew the name was something like that because another game from the era "KKnD" an RTS stood for "Kill Krush and Destroy" so I thought it would be the same
When the guys who made Earthworm Jim make an 'ordinary shooter' Then they decided to go insane and release Messiah: an open world stealth/shooter in which you play as a cherub who can possess people in a dystopian city trying to stop Satan from being dug up.
7:36 The attention to detail with the pause to allow the clapping sound to die down like most comedians do irl is A1. How the hell did I only find this channel today?
@@stefanm.734 EA has a history of buying up beloved smaller developers, having them pump out shitty cashgrabs from their popular franchises, running the developers reputation into the ground. and then just using them to push out some mindless, live service shit in a best case scenario... They're essentially the dark side of the force from Star Wars, and that is only the tip of the ice berg.
I always thought the reason the game ended with a 90s cover of an old French protest rock song about Vietnam was because Kurt was emotionally exhausted and mentally messed up by his experience fighting those bizarre aliens. He is after all a janitor who hasn't had previous battle experience, and he's had to save the Earth multiple times from titanic minecrawlers within only a few minutes, and he's been nearly killed and hurt pretty badly throughout that whole game. That's a lot for an average person to take in, even if Kurt is operated by a master MDK player. All in all, I love MDK for pretty much the same reasons you gave, Civvie. I'm still impressed how Shiny managed to implement all that awesome interactivity and sophisticated features within the software limitations. I recommend checking out their last game, Sacrifice. It's sort of like MDK meets StarCraft , WarCraft, and a fantasy RPG.
@@ghoulsarefree Nah, ending movie shows Kurt having a mental breakdown, and the manual sets him up as a reclusive pacifist. It's clear as day what the intention is. Kurt may have a head cannon but the story above is canon.
Same. I grew up with this game. It's still very beautiful to look at due to it's lovely and unique design as well as the colour palette. Even my father who didn't like video games just marvelled at how sleek the menu design was (Kurt jumping into the screen).
This game was literally insane when it came out was the 3d accelerator cards boom and this game using only software looked way better than 90% of the games using 3d acceleration
Um...no, this is not correct. unless you didn't have a 3dFX card like a voodoo 1 maybe. then they were probably just accelerating software rendering. 3dFX made the market explode back in the day. I still remember getting two voodoo 2's back in 1998 setting up SLI. none of my friends could spin the doughnut fast as I could. Until Robert got a voodoo 3...the bastard.
Murder Death Kill. Mission Deliver Kindness. Also Max, Doc (Hawkins), and Kurt. Thank you for covering this Civvie! One of my all time favs, please do 2 next!
Oh, I just realized that's what happened... I stared at my screen confused searching through my Discord trying to find who messaged me. Now it makes sense.
One year later, I didn't even have Discord open, and my first reaction is to open a new tab, go to Discord and check to see who just notified me. What can I say, that sound is very... distinct.
Hard to explain maybe to those that didn't experience the 90s, but there was something in the air of visual influence between various IPs in pop culture, movies, and gaming like MDK, Killer Instinct, Rise of the Robots, Spawn (Todd McFarlane in general)... maybe H R Giger? This wet, tech-organic, futuristic, post-apocalyptic vibe WAS the 90s.
This was one of the first (if not first) games that made the textures blurry up close, so when you zoomed in at a wall you wouldn't see giant pixels. It was absolutely mindblowing.
I love MDK since the day it came out. I think I'm gonna replay it soon. The music is amazing. I remember the reviews when this game came out, hailing it as one of the most innovative games ever made.
We live in sad days where shitposting in the form of a complete retail game can't be achieved anymore bc someone on Twitter will be upset about it, or something. Also, no loot crates.
You can't make a Triple A shitpost game anymore because the people in charge of your money, nation, politicians, celebrities and schools can't take a joke. "words may never hurt me" no longer applies sadly. Something tells me we'd all be a little better off if both the far left and right could laugh a little more and not take everything as seriously.
@@xmm-cf5eg what is this "shitpost" game you speak of? someone had mentioned "shit -posting", which is literally posting crap that people don't want to see online. We need to stop enveloping EVERYTHING into politics. That's what we should do.
@gozinta82 @TheSoulHarvester Fancy that, two angry people who can't take my opinion. "Sticks and Stones" Fellas. Plenty of "shit" properties get published and funded these days, take a look at Comedy movies and the like, the Idea that a bunch of out of touch billionaires wouldn't make something dumb (like the Emoji Movie, or Pixels) to appeal to the masses is fucking laughable, because they fuckin' do that shit already. And the mindless dumbasses of the world eat that shit up. You keep calling me an idiot and a dicksucking politics jockey, but I'm not the mass-market dipshit paying into the marketing system that makes shit like Borderlands 3 or whatever the new Madea film is this week. The planet's gonna boil regardless of what I think anyway, so stop projecting your hopeless mindset onto me because getting angry at some dude named after a soviet bullet makes your sad, shriveled cock a tiny bit hard. Contact a senator or something, stage a coup, see if I fucking care. The fucking Gaul to tell me I don't know how the world works, call me "stupid," then act like a total shit eating moron because the dumb "internet commie" said people IN GENERAL should take their politics less seriously. Guess what geniuses, *I'm fuckin' sick and tired of politics too, but they're not going away any time soon, regardless of what you and I want.* If anything's fuckin' embarrassing, it's your complete misunderstanding of my original statement and your lack of any sort of ability to be calm and civil. Take a break from the internet, both of you.
Shiny Ent. games were really inventive and very ahead of their time. One of the few developer that always liked to experiment with game designs. Can't think of a bad game from them.
I think my favorite thing about Civvie that sets him apart from other TH-cam Reviewers is just- He speaks so clearly and confidently but it never loses that sort of weird "I'm dead inside and I don't care" kind of tone that you would definitely get from someone in his situation. Everything just fits together so well the more videos he releases. (So I'm glad Civvie is getting the attention he deserves as a result.)
"Sets him apart from other TH-cam reviewers" except for Plinkett, obviously, who does the same shtick in almost the exact same voice. I love Civvie but let's not start bullshitting.
I played this game maybe 10 years ago. I have NEVER forgotten it, and I love it to the point of it becoming one of those games I almost never delete from my hard drive like Doom and Quake. It is nearly impossible to explain this wonderfulness to people without showing them. I remember the box for the PS1 version when I was a kid (I never had the console at the time) and once I finally got my own computer I made sure to get this game to finally check it out and I have loved it dearly ever since. It really bums me out this never got a remaster, or remake, or a source port of some kind. It's the kind of game you never should forget.
Oh shit, I used to rent both MDK and Giants: Citizen Kabuto from the library as a kid. I never questioned it until now; somebody who worked at the library must've just had a weird taste in games lol.
This video just unlocked a memory from when I was 3. I think I saw a family member playing this game a few times but I can't find any clear memories as if it was a dream. It doesn't help that the game looks so.. well, strange and unique. So thanks Civvie, you hacked my brain to its absolute beginning.
*Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would Donny. Donny, who loved bowling. And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince.*
Hey Civvie! I just discovered your channel recently and I wanted to thank you for this review. MDK was the first game I ever played at the age of 4 and I'm really happy to see someone review it with the passion it deserves. You're the boss.
This is a game that sticks with you. I can say that confidently, as someone who finally remembers almost everything about it even more than a full decade and a half later.
All these years, finally. Thank you Civvie, I have tried to remember this game. I played this game in 3rd grade on school computers. Now I know what it's called
I loved MDK when I played it in 1997. The graphics were top notch for the time! What a great time to be a PC player: C&C Red Alert, Z (Bitmap Brothers), Duke Nukem 3D, Quake1....
Stumbled on this channel a week ago, never having heard of it before. Have now watched all videos, and this is now my favourite channel on this bloody site! Good show!
Agree. Games were more captivating and not cookie cutter. Though there was jank and learning curves, the hype and interest for each good game that came out was palpable and even all the games that I missed ( like this one!) seemed so cool in the magazines.
@@pennyisdreadful Shame it's a reboot, I was hoping to find out what the fuck happens after the cliffhanger in Aquanox, with Biont cities on the surface and shit, but instead we got melodramatic treasure hunting story.
@@ghoulsarefree MDK 2 was nothing like this game. I played it back in middle school...and while it has the humor its more of Ratchet and Clank-type adventure action game, puzzle bosses and third person platforming type stuff. MDK seems like a balls to the wall action shooter....it looks so much better haha.
@@ghoulsarefree Yeah..but those came and went. I remember getting stuck on a puzzle with the Prof or the dog. I gave up, went back to Age Of Empires 2 hahah.
"the very best [visuals] 1997 had to offer." Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee wants you to turn on location. (Ngl though this game's first level is probably the second biggest influence to my aesthetic sensibilities.)
word. Abe had, and still has imho the most cinematic graphics and mood. It's just odderworldly. Lorne touches on this in War Stories: watch?v=Y7f0YtzWBG4
The demo of this looked stunning on the old 486:s at my study place. Even better on my own later computer! I love how you could take the whole "if it sounds fun, throw it in!" attitude and still make it all fit together somehow. A unique game.
Yeah I'm in the same camp. Mdk2 might be a good game but it is functionally completely different than MDK1. The first one is a surreal run and gun. The second one is a mishmash of various play styles and weird design choices like completely stopping the action dead so you can solve some pixel hunting sniper puzzle. It's just a weird game.
I remember my brother playing through this back when I was younger and I didn't know it had a sense of humor and was worth playing. Later on when I was 9 I played the demo to MDK 2 and was instantly charmed with it's unique humor, art style, and gameplay mechanics. The sequel was worth a full playthrough, IMO.
Pro Oni when? It’s a western anime game, the only one of its kind besides Shogo. It’s also a third person fighting game with GUNPLAY. And made by Bungie and came out two months before Halo 1.
@@audiosurfarchive At least was better than the new Ghost In The Shell and a better "Ghost In The Shell" game than the official ones. I dig for a gameplay but I want a MDK2 one too. Idk I love those games
@@audiosurfarchive it is good just a bit empty. If you play through the first levels it gets better Could have been refined more but I've never found another game that plays like Oni but better
Civvie, the same developer who produced this joined a company called Planet Moon Studios... they made a game called Giant: Citizen Kubuto Which plays and feels like a spiritual successor to this franchise. in that it all is on Drugs. it was produced 3-4 years later. and never took off. planet moon studios is known after that for game hits like... disney's tangled... the studio sadly shut down in 2011
the sound track was also cool, buildings and style is damn close to this game. just weird Martian aliens, sniping magic using alien babes, and large canabilistic monsters. cool game give it a gander if you liked MDK
An update to 6:41, apparently Tommy Tallarico did NOT make the soundtrack, he is a compulsive liar and continually takes credit for the work his subordinates did
While I'm not here to defend Tommy, he did make the soundtrack. He did music for games mostly, including Earthworm Jim and MDK. He is actually credited for those games, as opposed to just his studio
@@twitchsopamanxx hbomberguy made a video on the roblox oof sound and, inadvertently, Timmy Talerico. Long story short: he is someone who likes to take credit for other people's work a lot and exaggerate his accomplishments.
Sometimes I rewatch this video to remind myself that yes, it is entirely possible for games to be both creative AND original and some studios are trying too hard, or in most cases, not hard enough.
Tom Hall finally revived Commander Keen. Granted it's in the form of a shambling corpse hooked up to mobile phone life support. But that counts, right?
I think the theme of the ending was this: "After the Stream Riders' invasion on Terra, what truly changed on the human homeworld? Not a damn thing." And that was proven with the prehistory of the sequel. Everything went back to normal (until the Second Stream Riders' Invasion of Terra). Even in the end of that war, everything practically went back to normal.
*Wakes up, reads notification* "Hey look, civvie uploa--HOLY SHIT MDK?!" YES! *clicks* YES! *watches 'till the end* YES EXACTLY WTF IS THIS ENDING LOL!! Tommy Tallarico's one of the best composers in videogame music history imo. I'm guessing someone else told you this already, but here we go: with the bomber that stacks quickly to 10 in the first level, you can actually destroy the ceilings of the buildings, and for every ceiling you destroy, a parachute item is deployed. Your video is gold. 👌
YES! Civvie plays MDK! i am not going crazy that game was actually released and someone knowledge it! (and MDK2 also exists but you know). To be fair i do own both but only liked the first because i am too dumb to get past the (first) doc section on MDK 2. Man imagine if he gets to play Oni at some point .)
Also worth mentioning that it was the first game of it's type that didn't use "loading" screens between levels (the tunnels connecting segments covered that), thus the player was never slowed down by the game...
"No Randy"
Not yet at least, but your time is drawing near Civvie
Rest of Colonial Marines video confirmed.
Randy might be a target here, but he's only circle strafing around that for now. John Romero is still the primary target here, and I'm looking forward to all of that.
50k visits in less than 24hs, nice
2 thousand more at my time of viewing this, about 1k views an hour average.
His CM video will be an Epic exclusive.Just watch.
Regarding the ending, the lead designer said: "We were contacted by the band after they saw the game at a European trade show. They asked if they could use our visuals for a video.
We thought this was rather strange and wonderful and said, sure but how about you let us use the video in the game itself. Our animator overlayed some of the games characters on the video and apparently that upset someone over there. I never met anyone from the band or ever heard from them again. Just a couple of ships that passed by in the night." -Nick Bruty
That's an interesting bit of trivia
hmm ,curious trivia
indeed, peculiar trivia
Love the subtle reveal you have Duke Nukem Forever downloaded
You as if he didn't preorder it just to boast that he played trash before everyone else did. I mean I'd have bought it if I had the change to say I got a game knowing it was going to be trash after 14 years of constantly stalled and rebooted development. It started as a quake 1 mod ffs, not counting the Duke 3D voxel version either, or the unrelated platformer
subtle
yeah but why is Daikatana in the something good category?
@@asterixobelix20 It's been kinda fixed since release and it's better than bad. You might even say it's good.
He allready played it and made the video hes just waiting for subscribers
It's so weird to recognise the name Tallarico. Feels like randomly hearing the name of a serial killer.
Tommy used to co host a game review show called electronic playground and reviews on the run back in the late 90s. Hes a cool guy
@@johnoutside84 And his mother is very proud.
@@johnoutside84 just because context is more relevant than ever these days...
I believe the other two commenters have watch a 1.5 hour video called "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3" by breadtuber & video essayist 'hbomberguy'.
Hbomb... doesn't walk away thinking Tommy is a cool guy.
@@SoulSukkur based ass Harry, same as he ever was
If he thought the metrics would look good I'm pretty sure Tallarico would claim to have been the Zodiac or something in an interview.
I like how Civvie has to repeat himself over his own laugh track
That was a good touch
This detail got me.
"I'll be here all week."
i was at the chuckle hut that night and it was the greatest performance i've ever seen
That was a great joke
I played MDK 2 as a kid, loved it.
I played it as an adult, wtf.
I always thought it stood for Max Doc and Kurt, the characters from the game.
Actually yhere isn't any official reason for the name
@@dukkemonterier3429 shiny entertainment confirm that it was "murder death kill" and intended to be a joke because its not that violent until the European software rating board told them a game with that title would be an automatic 18 rating. So it became "MDK"
Its in retro gamer magazine "the story of shiny entertainment part MDK to EJ:3D"
So we now have an official reason.
@@medes5597 hmm interesting. thanks
I always knew the name was something like that because another game from the era "KKnD" an RTS stood for "Kill Krush and Destroy" so I thought it would be the same
the README said it's "Mother's Day Kisses". They lied to us. THEY LIED TO US!!!
When the guys who made Earthworm Jim make an 'ordinary shooter'
Then they decided to go insane and release Messiah: an open world stealth/shooter in which you play as a cherub who can possess people in a dystopian city trying to stop Satan from being dug up.
messiah was amazing. Loved that game
jokes on you the company who made this game and earth worm jim and messiah has re-merged to double helix games re-merged again to amazon orange county
And then get their sound effects stolen by the Roblox devs and accidentally change the English language.
The description of Messiah makes my heart flutter, like what the hell, how can I play it?
@@kadenstewart7761 Gog has it!
7:36
The attention to detail with the pause to allow the clapping sound to die down like most comedians do irl is A1. How the hell did I only find this channel today?
"E3 will be enveloped in our impenetrable darkness!"
"Oh, you're from EA"
That was actually pretty funny
That got me good. Oh so very good.
That was hilarious!!! 🍻
I don't actually get the joke.
@@stefanm.734 EA has a history of buying up beloved smaller developers, having them pump out shitty cashgrabs from their popular franchises, running the developers reputation into the ground. and then just using them to push out some mindless, live service shit in a best case scenario...
They're essentially the dark side of the force from Star Wars, and that is only the tip of the ice berg.
This was a Corona Virus prediction
so civvie knows some french and he used to have a job where he described music to deaf folks.
that's amazing and just a bit endearing.
@Arrow Head No kidding!
@Arrow Head Exactly!
@Arrow Head Imagine being an unfunny, bitter asshole just for the hell of it.
@@papayer props to you for rolling with it 👍
@Lagomorphen Your non-confrontational comment is more than a little bit endearing.
Thanks for the good laugh, my fuzzy friend.
Hitting us with that deep Civvie lore
God do I love MDK though. I found it by accident on GOG a few years ago and fell in love
1997 game and "a few years" ....still better than new COD?! :D
Do they have MDK 2 as well? I played that back in the day and loved it. You get to play as all three main characters from 1.
@@Sgt_Glory MDK2 was awesome!
i remember this was the best game i had on my computer at one stage way back when XD
MDK was the reason I upgraded my 486 to a pentium 100, game still looks and feels excellent.
6:41 Seems like a nice guy, I'm sure his mother is very proud of him!
I never thought I would laugh at an "EA bad" joke but that was perfectly executed man 10/10.
The James Bond bit got me, Die Another Day is one of my favorite bond films.
The self-aware laugh track wwill always make me laugh
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I always thought the reason the game ended with a 90s cover of an old French protest rock song about Vietnam was because Kurt was emotionally exhausted and mentally messed up by his experience fighting those bizarre aliens. He is after all a janitor who hasn't had previous battle experience, and he's had to save the Earth multiple times from titanic minecrawlers within only a few minutes, and he's been nearly killed and hurt pretty badly throughout that whole game. That's a lot for an average person to take in, even if Kurt is operated by a master MDK player. All in all, I love MDK for pretty much the same reasons you gave, Civvie. I'm still impressed how Shiny managed to implement all that awesome interactivity and sophisticated features within the software limitations. I recommend checking out their last game, Sacrifice. It's sort of like MDK meets StarCraft , WarCraft, and a fantasy RPG.
The word for this is "head canon" (not to be mistaken for "head cannon")
@@ghoulsarefree Nah, ending movie shows Kurt having a mental breakdown, and the manual sets him up as a reclusive pacifist. It's clear as day what the intention is. Kurt may have a head cannon but the story above is canon.
I can't believe you actually chose MDK. I love you Civvie
Same. I grew up with this game. It's still very beautiful to look at due to it's lovely and unique design as well as the colour palette. Even my father who didn't like video games just marvelled at how sleek the menu design was (Kurt jumping into the screen).
That was a 1950s double entendre, a piss fetish joke, and an old man joke all in one...thats a trifecta that deserves an award
It's kinda interesting how many females are into piss
Double entendre?? Are you talking about the song. Or something ekse
@@zakazany1945 ?
@@zakazany1945 fee-males 🤠
The fact that a game called "Murder Death Kill," was made by the guys who made Earthworm Jim is amazing.
That’s not what MDK stands for.
@@Rountree1985 then what does it stand for? anything you want is what I heard...
Max, Doctor, Kurt.
This main character looks like he'd fit perfectly in Warframe.
i guess he would MOP the competition, am i right?!?!?!
SOmehow!
I..thought of it too!
Suprisingly so! :o
It is very intriguing we had the same idea Friend!
MDK isn't horrible. What are you smoking?
@Joe Curr You played the shit console port. try playing the actual game before you cry.
@@kingcaesar3693 Im with Civvie on this one - MDK is awesome. Everytime I think about it Im back in the childhood. Or Flashback (no pun intended)
Ending a game called Murder Death Kill with an anti war song... That's just perfect.
This game was literally insane when it came out was the 3d accelerator cards boom and this game using only software looked way better than 90% of the games using 3d acceleration
Um...no, this is not correct. unless you didn't have a 3dFX card like a voodoo 1 maybe. then they were probably just accelerating software rendering. 3dFX made the market explode back in the day. I still remember getting two voodoo 2's back in 1998 setting up SLI. none of my friends could spin the doughnut fast as I could. Until Robert got a voodoo 3...the bastard.
when it came out my dads pc that I used couldnt run it. :( Later on when I could I didn't want to play it because there was just better games.
Voodoo 1 had a lower texture resolution than our software engine. So while it improved some performance it actually got more blurry.
@@TheBarser lies! There were no better games
Yeah same here... this game shows how much the right art style can do for visuals.
Looks like those guys finally finished enveloping E3 in their impenetrable darkness.
Murder Death Kill. Mission Deliver Kindness. Also Max, Doc (Hawkins), and Kurt. Thank you for covering this Civvie! One of my all time favs, please do 2 next!
Oh, so that's where Just Cause got it.
Also, I tabbed over to Discord instantly at 6:48 lol
Same here.
Oh, I just realized that's what happened... I stared at my screen confused searching through my Discord trying to find who messaged me. Now it makes sense.
honestly my first reaction:
"WHO TF DID I FORGET TO MUTE!!!!"
One year later, I didn't even have Discord open, and my first reaction is to open a new tab, go to Discord and check to see who just notified me. What can I say, that sound is very... distinct.
"E3 will be enveloped in our impenetrable darkness"
>2020
I see.
Between that and Uncle Frank's virus, maybe US Special Corrections does have a time machine...
lmao
oh no
Are we actually getting some lore? I approve.
WHITESTRIPE99 am I the only one who was unsettled by that noise at the end?
@@commandertorres No, I was kinda freaked out too.
Is this a teaser for civvie v gman dusk of Nukem forever
Hard to explain maybe to those that didn't experience the 90s, but there was something in the air of visual influence between various IPs in pop culture, movies, and gaming like MDK, Killer Instinct, Rise of the Robots, Spawn (Todd McFarlane in general)... maybe H R Giger?
This wet, tech-organic, futuristic, post-apocalyptic vibe WAS the 90s.
Damn, Holly's cameo with "Everybody's dead" is one HELL of a deep cut.
This was one of the first (if not first) games that made the textures blurry up close, so when you zoomed in at a wall you wouldn't see giant pixels. It was absolutely mindblowing.
I rented this as a kid and wasn't totaly sure i didn't just dream all of it for years after.
good times
Same thing, it stuck with me alot though! So Unique!
I love MDK since the day it came out. I think I'm gonna replay it soon. The music is amazing. I remember the reviews when this game came out, hailing it as one of the most innovative games ever made.
I was just wondering "A whole week without Civvie? Sad week"
Me too, I was fiending for some Civvie content and bam, here it is
I was about to go postal
I'm glad he's mixing it up with something..... "unique."
"Oh you're from EA"
*Airhorns*
I would like pizza served at my funeral.
CIvvie continues doing the Lord's work.
Fun Fact: Tommy Tallarico's cousin is Steven Tyler.
The lead singer of Aerosmith?!
@@gozinta82 yeah, that one.
@Mathieu Champagne Too late m8
fun fact #2: he made all of the bad Sonic music
Tommy Tallarico has such a huge ego.
"that's janitor ass" still makes me do a real laugh
Behold, the craziest game of its times. Thank you so much, Civvie. The people must know.
I still think it's one of the craziest game made not just of its time
We live in sad days where shitposting in the form of a complete retail game can't be achieved anymore bc someone on Twitter will be upset about it, or something.
Also, no loot crates.
You can't make a Triple A shitpost game anymore because the people in charge of your money, nation, politicians, celebrities and schools can't take a joke. "words may never hurt me" no longer applies sadly.
Something tells me we'd all be a little better off if both the far left and right could laugh a little more and not take everything as seriously.
@@xmm-cf5eg what is this "shitpost" game you speak of? someone had mentioned "shit -posting", which is literally posting crap that people don't want to see online. We need to stop enveloping EVERYTHING into politics. That's what we should do.
@gozinta82 @TheSoulHarvester
Fancy that, two angry people who can't take my opinion. "Sticks and Stones" Fellas.
Plenty of "shit" properties get published and funded these days, take a look at Comedy movies and the like, the Idea that a bunch of out of touch billionaires wouldn't make something dumb (like the Emoji Movie, or Pixels) to appeal to the masses is fucking laughable, because they fuckin' do that shit already. And the mindless dumbasses of the world eat that shit up.
You keep calling me an idiot and a dicksucking politics jockey, but I'm not the mass-market dipshit paying into the marketing system that makes shit like Borderlands 3 or whatever the new Madea film is this week.
The planet's gonna boil regardless of what I think anyway, so stop projecting your hopeless mindset onto me because getting angry at some dude named after a soviet bullet makes your sad, shriveled cock a tiny bit hard.
Contact a senator or something, stage a coup, see if I fucking care. The fucking Gaul to tell me I don't know how the world works, call me "stupid," then act like a total shit eating moron because the dumb "internet commie" said people IN GENERAL should take their politics less seriously. Guess what geniuses, *I'm fuckin' sick and tired of politics too, but they're not going away any time soon, regardless of what you and I want.*
If anything's fuckin' embarrassing, it's your complete misunderstanding of my original statement and your lack of any sort of ability to be calm and civil.
Take a break from the internet, both of you.
The future Civvie says: "Other stuff happens too - -"
Yeah, that's certainly one way to put it.
Shiny Ent. games were really inventive and very ahead of their time. One of the few developer that always liked to experiment with game designs. Can't think of a bad game from them.
Ah Shiny, how I miss you
No one makes LSD-induced games like MDK, Messiah and Sacrifice anymore
I think my favorite thing about Civvie that sets him apart from other TH-cam Reviewers is just- He speaks so clearly and confidently but it never loses that sort of weird "I'm dead inside and I don't care" kind of tone that you would definitely get from someone in his situation.
Everything just fits together so well the more videos he releases. (So I'm glad Civvie is getting the attention he deserves as a result.)
"Sets him apart from other TH-cam reviewers" except for Plinkett, obviously, who does the same shtick in almost the exact same voice.
I love Civvie but let's not start bullshitting.
This Soul guy is pissy as fuck, lmao.
When I was a kid, I always thought MDK stood for the three main characters: Max, Doc, and Kurt
Props for mentioning the soundtrack, its one of the most memorable part of the game.
I played this game maybe 10 years ago. I have NEVER forgotten it, and I love it to the point of it becoming one of those games I almost never delete from my hard drive like Doom and Quake. It is nearly impossible to explain this wonderfulness to people without showing them. I remember the box for the PS1 version when I was a kid (I never had the console at the time) and once I finally got my own computer I made sure to get this game to finally check it out and I have loved it dearly ever since. It really bums me out this never got a remaster, or remake, or a source port of some kind. It's the kind of game you never should forget.
Civie if you're looking for another classic weird PC 3rd person shooter check out Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Too new for Civvie isn't it? I absolutely loved that game when it came out.
Yeeesssssss!!! "Timmyyyyy!!!"
Oh shit, I used to rent both MDK and Giants: Citizen Kabuto from the library as a kid. I never questioned it until now; somebody who worked at the library must've just had a weird taste in games lol.
Baron o Spirals it is.
@Baron o Spirals It's most of the same team, actually.
So it's a super fluent, innovative 3rd person shooter which is only three hours long. This was the 90's version of vanquish.
That...that makes way too much sense!
Fluid. Not fluent.
@@mrosskneyou could describe it as fluent in the 3rd person shooter genre.
@@JunkCCCP hardly.
Civvie 11: *Plays a game*
Also Civvie: "I'm about do something called a *Pro Gamer move*
This video just unlocked a memory from when I was 3. I think I saw a family member playing this game a few times but I can't find any clear memories as if it was a dream. It doesn't help that the game looks so.. well, strange and unique. So thanks Civvie, you hacked my brain to its absolute beginning.
This is spectacular-both the game and the skits. God I’ve missed a TH-cam who can do this well.
For anyone in the know on current events and curious, it's actually Todd Dennis who did the music.
MDK, oh my god. He's covering MDK!
OMG, I remember playing the demo for this on my friend's dreamcast... I thought it was a fever dream...
*Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would Donny. Donny, who loved bowling. And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince.*
What the fuck, Walter?
@@Wolf_Larsen I'm sorry, Dude......
Come on, let's go bowling
i love this game, is so strange and satisfying
Well if you even listen to what enemy npc says:
Naša svoboda... sounds weird doesnt it :D
Yeah it really sticks with you, all these years later. Something off about it but satisfying, for sure. I want a sequel.
Ludo che ci fai qui
@@inthefade mdk2 was better
@@inthefade It already has one though.
OMG im getting nostalgic...
This one blew my mind. I've finished it about 7 times. Was amazing for its age. Nothing like, even today
Hey Civvie! I just discovered your channel recently and I wanted to thank you for this review.
MDK was the first game I ever played at the age of 4 and I'm really happy to see someone review it with the passion it deserves.
You're the boss.
I loved this game when it came out. I had a VHS cassette with a preview of several games (MDK, Turok, others...) and watched it over and over again :D
This is a game that sticks with you. I can say that confidently, as someone who finally remembers almost everything about it even more than a full decade and a half later.
That Commander Keen scene is hilarious! :D
It still hurts me.
we have no idea if the soundtrack was actually tommy. probably wasn’t. probably was joey.
Do Giants: Citizen Kabuto! That game blew my mind for when it came out. Beautiful, huge and funny as hell. Do it! :D
yeah, and Armed And Dangerous!
That game was awesome
Wasn't it made by the same people that made MDK as well? No wonder both games are so good.
I'd lose my shit if civvie ever made a video on giants citizen kabuto, such an underrated gem
Strong agree on GCK. There was a game that took some fucking chances.
All these years, finally. Thank you Civvie, I have tried to remember this game. I played this game in 3rd grade on school computers. Now I know what it's called
Uncle Frank rules beneath Dusk. Calling it now.
I can neither confirm nor deny Myself and Uncle Frank's involvement in the C.A.R. nor the Congo.
Dave Oshry will see it and make it canon, careful.
Who did you expect at the end of this God the Devil perhaps, no it’s just me
I loved MDK when I played it in 1997. The graphics were top notch for the time! What a great time to be a PC player: C&C Red Alert, Z (Bitmap Brothers), Duke Nukem 3D, Quake1....
Quake II and Carmageddon were in ‘97
Dude thanks a ton for covering MDK! One of my fav games ever, glad to see it covered by one of my fav youtubers!
6:40 "The soundtrack's by a man named Tommy Tallarico, and it's awesome"
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The art of mdk reminds me a lot of Giger works
The part where you do the wtf segment should have just been the entire game. Love your videos civvie keep it up
wtf?
Stumbled on this channel a week ago, never having heard of it before. Have now watched all videos, and this is now my favourite channel on this bloody site! Good show!
Welcome to the Dungeon, enjoy your stay.
6:40 huh, the music in this game is really good, i bet the composer´s mother is very proud
I love this era of games, it will never be as crazy as the late 90s. I still have tons of good memories of Messiah, Anachronox, Giants. many others.
Agree. Games were more captivating and not cookie cutter. Though there was jank and learning curves, the hype and interest for each good game that came out was palpable and even all the games that I missed ( like this one!) seemed so cool in the magazines.
“The music is by some guy named Tommy Tallarico”
*DOUBT*
Do MDK2, please, it was one of my favorite games ever as a kid, along with Aquanox
My dude. aquanox is amazing and it's a crime that so many people slept on it. The new one might be cool
@@pennyisdreadful
Shame it's a reboot, I was hoping to find out what the fuck happens after the cliffhanger in Aquanox, with Biont cities on the surface and shit, but instead we got melodramatic treasure hunting story.
It's a game where you can quad-wield gatling guns. That alone excuses the jankiness and puzzle sections.
@@pleaserespond3984
YOU GET TO SHOOT PLASMA MACHINE GUN
UNDERWATER
And the setting is just unique
I had to look up Aquanox, it looks like descent but with submarines instead of a space ship.
i love this game. in MDK 2 i never finish the second level. GG epic game.
MDK2 was great. Not as cool and edgy as MDK but still funny.
What is the difference? They both look like complete nonsense it's hard to tell
@@ghoulsarefree MDK 2 was nothing like this game. I played it back in middle school...and while it has the humor its more of Ratchet and Clank-type adventure action game, puzzle bosses and third person platforming type stuff. MDK seems like a balls to the wall action shooter....it looks so much better haha.
@@jessehenderson2967 MDK2 was really bad! But this game looks exactly like the Kirk levels from that game, which were also bad!
@@ghoulsarefree Yeah..but those came and went. I remember getting stuck on a puzzle with the Prof or the dog. I gave up, went back to Age Of Empires 2 hahah.
"the very best [visuals] 1997 had to offer."
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee wants you to turn on location.
(Ngl though this game's first level is probably the second biggest influence to my aesthetic sensibilities.)
word. Abe had, and still has imho the most cinematic graphics and mood. It's just odderworldly. Lorne touches on this in War Stories: watch?v=Y7f0YtzWBG4
The demo of this looked stunning on the old 486:s at my study place. Even better on my own later computer! I love how you could take the whole "if it sounds fun, throw it in!" attitude and still make it all fit together somehow. A unique game.
well, I guess this is the last episode of Civvy's Dungeon.
Pack it up, kids. it's over. it's all Pro (game) episodes from here on out.
I'll miss the skits with cancer mouse and the gang.
I'm from the future, no it is not
I've played MDK in the originally intended format in french on the Dreamcast and you just bring me way back there buddy!
Yeah I'm in the same camp. Mdk2 might be a good game but it is functionally completely different than MDK1. The first one is a surreal run and gun. The second one is a mishmash of various play styles and weird design choices like completely stopping the action dead so you can solve some pixel hunting sniper puzzle. It's just a weird game.
Holy shit Civvie, you are killing this. Best Randy Pitchford Roast channel on youtube.
Everything about this game is a masterpiece, but especially the soundtrack. Blasting the CD version regularly, good stuff.
I remember my brother playing through this back when I was younger and I didn't know it had a sense of humor and was worth playing. Later on when I was 9 I played the demo to MDK 2 and was instantly charmed with it's unique humor, art style, and gameplay mechanics. The sequel was worth a full playthrough, IMO.
Pro Oni when? It’s a western anime game, the only one of its kind besides Shogo. It’s also a third person fighting game with GUNPLAY. And made by Bungie and came out two months before Halo 1.
Oni isn't good. I'm sorry.
@@audiosurfarchive At least was better than the new Ghost In The Shell and a better "Ghost In The Shell" game than the official ones. I dig for a gameplay but I want a MDK2 one too. Idk I love those games
@@audiosurfarchive it is good just a bit empty. If you play through the first levels it gets better
Could have been refined more but I've never found another game that plays like Oni but better
Well civvie covers all types of classic games from doom all the way down to Shatner
@@dukkemonterier3429 the PS1 GitS game is great though.
Civvie, the same developer who produced this joined a company called Planet Moon Studios... they made a game called Giant: Citizen Kubuto Which plays and feels like a spiritual successor to this franchise. in that it all is on Drugs. it was produced 3-4 years later. and never took off. planet moon studios is known after that for game hits like... disney's tangled... the studio sadly shut down in 2011
the sound track was also cool, buildings and style is damn close to this game. just weird Martian aliens, sniping magic using alien babes, and large canabilistic monsters. cool game give it a gander if you liked MDK
Are you serious? Mdk? Wow nice one civvie. Next one Mdk2 pls!
Some of the first and weirdest games I played with my Pentium 90MHz in the nineties as a kid :D
We don't talk about MDK2
@@excitableboy7031 mdk2 is awesome
@Blazdur
nice AFGHAN profile picture.
@@xmm-cf5eg nice Soviet calibre my dude
Played this many, many years ago.
Been trying to recall it - all it took was your thumbnail.
Many thanks.
Oh my god, you just taught me how to fix this thing. Thank you. :D
5:07 for anyone who needs to know how to patch this game.
An update to 6:41, apparently Tommy Tallarico did NOT make the soundtrack, he is a compulsive liar and continually takes credit for the work his subordinates did
While I'm not here to defend Tommy, he did make the soundtrack. He did music for games mostly, including Earthworm Jim and MDK. He is actually credited for those games, as opposed to just his studio
Best
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on TH-cam.
This is probably still one of my top favorite games I have ever played.
Knowing the story of Tommy Talerico now, Civvie's line at 6:38 hits differently
But at least his mother is proud of him, very proud.
Did Tommy T do something messed up?
@@twitchsopamanxx hbomberguy made a video on the roblox oof sound and, inadvertently, Timmy Talerico. Long story short: he is someone who likes to take credit for other people's work a lot and exaggerate his accomplishments.
@@TheKrazybomb my favorite part of the hbomberguy's video is the fact he accidentally got some of tommy t's guinness records removed.
Sometimes I rewatch this video to remind myself that yes, it is entirely possible for games to be both creative AND original and some studios are trying too hard, or in most cases, not hard enough.
The Suffering, Civvie. Do it....please
Fun fact, the ice level is in Kirkcaldy where I was born, surprisingly though its not a arctic wasteland in real life, just a regular one.
Aye, Kirkcaldy is a wasteland, but at least it's not Larkhall.
At least we got this out of Kirkcaldy:
th-cam.com/video/LyX_jIxVJuY/w-d-xo.html
@@ReverendPuffin Oh aye, or worse yet, Methil
Tom Hall finally revived Commander Keen.
Granted it's in the form of a shambling corpse hooked up to mobile phone life support.
But that counts, right?
More like reanimated
I think the theme of the ending was this:
"After the Stream Riders' invasion on Terra, what truly changed on the human homeworld? Not a damn thing."
And that was proven with the prehistory of the sequel. Everything went back to normal (until the Second Stream Riders' Invasion of Terra). Even in the end of that war, everything practically went back to normal.
*Wakes up, reads notification*
"Hey look, civvie uploa--HOLY SHIT MDK?!"
YES! *clicks* YES! *watches 'till the end* YES EXACTLY WTF IS THIS ENDING LOL!!
Tommy Tallarico's one of the best composers in videogame music history imo.
I'm guessing someone else told you this already, but here we go: with the bomber that stacks quickly to 10 in the first level, you can actually destroy the ceilings of the buildings, and for every ceiling you destroy, a parachute item is deployed.
Your video is gold. 👌
'WTF does any of this have to do with Vietnam?' I loved that Big Lebowsky refference xD
YES!
Civvie plays MDK!
i am not going crazy that game was actually released and someone knowledge it! (and MDK2 also exists but you know). To be fair i do own both but only liked the first because i am too dumb to get past the (first) doc section on MDK 2.
Man imagine if he gets to play Oni at some point .)
Thanks for covering MDK! Love your channel.
I'm a bit late to the party but hearing "Tommy Talarico" at 6:40 gave me war flashbacks from the Hbomberguy video on the origin of the oof sound
Also worth mentioning that it was the first game of it's type that didn't use "loading" screens between levels (the tunnels connecting segments covered that), thus the player was never slowed down by the game...
More games seriously need to utilise that more often. It's such a genius design choice