I do love the easts realistic portrayal of people. My favorite example is STALKER. Strelok, this crazy, unstoppable badass, is like 5'9' with a receding hairline.
The reason this is like this is because these games are not about some noble warriors doing things right. To make the characters handsome and attractive is just wrong.
This perfectly summarizes my time on Twitter. It was like everybody hated each other on an ethnic/cultural level but still treated each other much better than how most of the internet treated each other. Despite Twitter being the shithole it is and has done permanent damage to my mental health, I sometimes can't help but miss those Balkanites.
"a brand of russian politics that combines leftist aesthetic with far right ethics" That is honestly such a perfect way to describe Goblin to the western audience
I found an Australian on a DnD classic channel with reactionary tone (Legion of Myth specifically, but found in RPG Pundit as well). Like he had anti fa logo BUT his comments and the channel he “praised” says otherwise. Not even disdain of burgeois woke liberal type, like he get defensive even the most polite rebuke and doesn’t accept critical thoughts except for those close to his opinions.
Seeing Goblin's games as a non-Russian makes me feel like the trio from "The Terrible Old Man". I enter seeking gold, only to end up mangled on the shore
Puchkov (Goblin) was a guest lecturer at my old university this month And he was cought socializing with the furry community there The amount of memes it spawned was ungodly
@@foreng3095 To be fair, soviet cartoons had plenty of animal characters in them. And while Goblin *is* homophobic, he's likely too old to hear about the association of furries with LGBT
@@cdru515 The uni is called Innopolis University. But if you are looking for memes - they are mostly in local student chats, so you won't find them on the internet
I don't think we have any kind of "unhinged renaissance man" equivalent to Goblin in the states, that would be like if Neil Cicierega started writing books and speaking at political rallies
Neil is amazing, though I agree he doesn't qualify as our own Goblin. Someone mentioned John McAfee, which seems pretty accurate. I think here in America we have plenty of internet legends who are either extremely goofy, or extremely political, but rarely both...I wonder if that says something about Western ideals. Might be reading too hard into that, though.
love these deep dives into non-english speaking gamer culture. its strangely reassuring to learn that gamers are insular weirdos no matter their origins.
>Main plot requires we hijack a train to get to a location that isn't available otherwise >Our nemesis is a robed guy with only his mouth visible >made in Russia Wait a sec, am I watching the Fallout of Nevada review again?
>the robed nemesis meets you near train tracks with a personal army >you go into a vault Can someone contact Nevada devs and ask if this is intentional or a coincidence? Because it's a really damn huge coincidence if you ask me. @Warlockracy ?
Hello. My name is Kirill. I want you to make a 3D-action game so it would be like this: the user can play as the forest elves, the palace guard or the villain. If the user is playing the elves, the elves are in the woods, wooden houses rayd palace guards and villains. You can rob corovans... Since elfes are forest elfes then make it so the forest is really big... you can make the engine make the trees a picture when they are far away but transform into 3D trees when you come clozer. You can buy etc abilities like in Daggerfall. And the enemies are 3-dimensional, and the corpse is also 3D. You can jump etc. If you play as the palace guard, you need to obey the commander, and protect the palace from the evil guy (I haven’t come up with a name yet), spies and elf partisans, and go to raid some of those (elves, the villain...). Well if you play as the evil... that means that spies or elvish partisans attack sometimes, the user is his own boss, you can do what you want, you can order your troops to attack the palace and lead them into battle. The game has 4 main zones, 1 - zone of the humans (neutral), 2 - zone of the emperor (where the palace is), 3 - zone of the elves, 4 - zone of the villain... (in the mountains there is an old fort...) Also, in the game they don’t always kill you but they can chop your arm off and if the user is not cured they will die, also they can poke your eye out but the user may survive but just stop seeing half a screen until they acquire or buy a prosthetic, or if you lose a leg then you will either die or crawl around or roll in a wheelchair or, best case scenario... get a prosthetic. Saving is possible... P.S.I’ve been waiting for a game like this for tvwo years.
This almost sounds like Kenshi - you can buy prosthetics, there are villains in the old fort and you technically can protect the "palace". You can rob corovans too. But no jumping and no forest elfes, this is where Kenshi screwed up.
in my opinion, this is an overly flattering description of a goblin (aka “goblin”). If anyone is interested, I’ll explain: This is a rather insignificant, cowardly and arrogant person: he had never been an operative, as he recently admitted; during the Chernobyl disaster, he hid from recruitment into the liquidators while in the toilet (while he himself advocated the mobilization of young people in 22), in his videos he very often raises the topic of excrement, to such an extent that it involuntarily makes one think about his coprophilia.
They tried so hard to make the prison planet seem like a living hell but I don't think the developer knew everything he put into the game is pretty tame compared to what happens in Florida prisons. Dudes in Walton or Santa Rosa would go to that planet for vacation.
I mean people who are sent to an actual planet instead of being kept in a 4x4 box and going crazy. That's like getting a one-way ticket to pre-colonization Australia.
That's a part of author's worldview. Coming (allegedly) from the siloviki class of society, people responsible for enforcing and managing punitive system in USSR/Russia, they tend to majorly ignore, undervalue and disregard problems within it. They will mock and ridicule the victims of that system, calling any survivors of it trying speaking truth liers and antagonizing the ones that it killed. They done so and keep doing it because for them to admit the sheer scale of horrors they put many people through, innocent and not, would destroy any notion of them being "the good guys", and people always struggle to be good. So it's nothing special that common vatnik presents prison as a summer vacation for quirky people instead labor-death camp full of misery and tortures. Oh, and also because that's a satiric game.
Even if I can't understand a word that Goblin says, I can still read the body language that says how utterly self assured his is of his own rhetoric and imagined intellect.
As usual, Warlockracy remains one of the best damn channels on TH-cam. If that book actually comes out I'm ordering it through my local bookstore the moment it's available.
Small nerdy comment, but it seems like some of the firearms models are incredibly obscure, like borschardt pistols on the guy shooting through the window when describing Hartman's skills in the beginning.
something about goblin and his extensive body of video games and books is fascinating to me. thanks for showcasing yet another untranslatable russian rpg with deep background.
@@AL-lh2htI play many, most games are bland retreads of things we've seen hundreds of times before today. Almost every AAA game is overmonetized and dull but pretty. Indie games are the same retro or just poor graphics with one or two interesting features. I think this game is interesting because it's from a different culture so idea pollution isn't as bad
>Planet Alcatraz 2 That's like finding out Tommy Wissue's The Room had a sequel. It raises so many questions about our species than about the artist. Warlock, everytime a goblin tangent starts I know some part of my soul will die. You introduced the ONE goblin worse than goblin slayer on internet. And I thank you for it.
@@FPoP1911There's really not much to talk about really. Sadly this box is pretty empty. So to summarize. Yeah, Tommy Wiseau did make enough money with The Room to make more movies. But they're just really unpopular. Thing is... You know how Tommy started going all "Oh yes I totally knew it was funny its all a big meme." When people laughed at him? Yeah... Unlike Neil Breen, Wiseau is self aware enough to try to improve and have fun. And that's good for him, sure, its a good mental trait. But it also means his following flicks were just mediocre enough not to be funny and had humor just stale enough to just never really land. So they were all just really, painfully boring.
@@thespanishinquisition4078 Oh no I didn't mean Tommy making more movies, I meant Tommy making The Room 2. Thanks for explaining though. Still waiting for The room 3: A room in SPPPAAACCEE
@@FPoP1911 He said "spiritual successor" because its not called The Room 2. I forgot which was the one that followed The Room's story but yeah, it just got lost in the mess. Thank god we still have Neil Breen going full schizo.
This video made me convinced that the world is not ready for a Goblin AA Baldur's gate 3 (Planet Alcatraz 3) game. but the world NEEDS it. those Alcatraz games are so surreal and weird in a good way.
I find it absolutely hilarious how planet alcatraz, despite all the racism, bigotry and homophobia, can still be considered somewhat "progressive" in the most goblin way, as it gives voice to the marginalised social class of Russian inmates and gopniks, tells the story of their hardships in a man-only society and represents the aspects of their underground culture in a videogame format.
The ability to be so dissonant with respect to recognizing the hardships of one marginalized group while actively despising another based on much of the same biases that you yourself are against is one of those things that ties Russian and American reactionaries together ideologically in a very weird way.
@@coolguyjki Nicely formulated! Although I would say, having watched (forced at gunpoint) Puchkov's content, he is, in fact, not really an avatar of reaction, but of the Russian psyche - lost and trying to find a way. Having lost two Great Powers in one century, the Russian seeks his purpose, his foundation. The government, themselves a closeted remnant of the KPSS, are very preoccupied with their paternalist oligarchy to guide the people. And so the Russian struggles, he can't find a foundation, he gets angry, and anger leads to the doom of conscious and compassion. Weird amalgams pop up - pictured here with Goblach himself - where else would you see a marrying of Soviet pride and protectionism with far-right national and ethnical concepts, if not in a diseased, lost mind who needs to be proud of something, anything. It is my hope and desire for the Russian to settle down, take a breath and return to the natural flow of history, leaving behind these feverish concepts and dreams. But for that, the start would be for the socialist remnant in the Kremlin to die away, and for the new and the caring to come in
@@LivebythecodeVJLEE No, it's a legitimately great formulation. I just thought to note that, in my view, Puchkov is not coming from a consciously reactionary standpoint with his ideals, but rather from an attempt at forging a national myth. It just turns out ultra-cringe, but hey, to Puchkov and fellas from Тупичок I am a filthy weasel who talks too much:)
thank you @Warlockracy, this channel is like a small window into the world of soviet era esoteric knowledge of politics and gaming culture. I can only hope that this information allows me to have a once off interaction with a russian where I leave them wondering how tf I know some random russian meme like the surprise bear and "corovans" or how ever you say it.
Great stuff. John Lurie, wow. Painter, actor, TV presenter, author, autodidact. The Lounge Lizards, what a band. His recent autobiography was excellent as well.
you somehow described in 13 words , described modern Russian Nationalism or whatever you want to call it better than ive heard any political or News commentator do so , another amazing video! thanks for all the great work you do
Warlockracy informing us on delicious slav jank. This is actually all I need in my dim slough of a life. Would love to read your book too. Salt the fries.
I'm jealous. Why didn't I even once think of comparing Goblin to Kojima? The hilarity of this simple oxymoronic premise made me choke. Goblin would say on what exactly because, in his limited kolkhoz NPC wisdom, that's all he can ever say.
Seriously, though, I'd be only half-joking by calling Goblin a Russian David Cage. Aside from how similar they look, they both don't understand what the word "mature" means, the innovations they try to bring to the industry come from ignorance, and they spread shit messages that end up being dumbass platitudes for morons, albeit of different flavours. All well-intended from their perspective.
TIL what "kolkhoz" is. Thanks (genuinely) - that's very cool. Russian history and culture is something I know astonishingly (to myself, at least) little about and always enjoy learning more. I love the movies Night Watch and Day Watch (for Night Watch they did some extremely cool things with the subtitles). I especially enjoy the Russian language - I even tried teaching myself Russian many years ago; I got as far as learning the alphabet (interestingly, I was heavy into SimCity BuildIt at the time and there were a lot of cities with Russian names - like, in Cyrillic - and while I couldn't actually "translate" any of them, for a brief period I was able to "pronounce" them). In fact, I actually have my phone keyboard (SwiftKey) set up so that when I swipe the space bar, it switches to a Cyrillic keyboard (I also have German integrated into the keyboard because I took 3 years of it in college - it's pretty cool, the predictive text will include German words if I start spelling something German). Anyway, that was a long-winded tangent away from my original comment which was to thank you for teaching me something.
Your videos bring such a smooth comfort to me and I am always excited when your upload pops up in my sub box. Please keep doing it for as long as you enjoy it. ❤️
I have not long been home from surgery, rewatching all of your videos and now getting a new upload today has been awesome! Thank you for all your in-depth videos, keep up the amazing work dude! : )
It seems he went insane from his propagandist job after accepting lavish contract from ministry of culture somewhere in 2015-2016. He has curious audience, that seems to mostly consist of tsarist and communist nostalgic slice of russian society
he's a professional clown that oversaturated his personality constantly to get attention and money you know the term professional deformation? that's what happened to him sometimes method acting goes too far and you get stuck
So, in the game original name for an item is "Чёрный Квадрат" (Black Square, as like Malevich's Black Square), Warlockracy translates it as "Black Rectangle", but the game model is a fucking parallelepiped. Am I missing something? Great video as always, tho.
I feel like I should be able to guess what the most requested game on the channel might be, there's probably some essential RPG that I'm drawing a blank on right now. But I've been thirsty for a Tales of the Sword Coast BG1 followup video for so long I'm going to keep naively praying that others are also clamoring for the best expansion that Warlockracy's mom has developed.
21:55 "everyone is racist, but also aceot each other" Tell me about it. A friend of the family once told me that in a party he saw the racist withe guy chating with the black cooke. When ask they respond that they bond over being racist, he ask the black cook and he confirm being very racist, specially toward asians. Seems that both have a very "power" mentality and so respect each other for being "strong" moral wise. Like 2 guys fighting and huging after
@@floneticgetsam3120 I think they do, most just find it, justifiably, rather hypocritical and incongruent. Of course, that's stemming from an understanding of racism as being based in some personal disgust, as opposed to a deeper, systemic power dynamic, but that's just how it goes currently.
It's very interesting to see social dynamics from a different perspective especially the gamer and internet culture side of it. Thanks for being so detailed. Amazing breakdown.
It’s always interesting seeing how other people view the world. Sometimes, your horizons broaden, and you get a better understanding of your fellow humanity. Sometimes you get this.
Yes!!! Warlocky upload + it's about an obscure janky Russian game! Was thinking about watching Columbo while having dinner but this beats it!!! Have a great Friday everyone!
I recently rewatched the first one (amazing content btw., loved input on the russian socio-political structure, such a unique value!). Your timing with the second one is impeccable, oh mighty Warlock!
BTW, the OG Russian name of the game is nothing like 'Planet Alcatraz'. It can be literally translated as 'Dungeon orderlies / paramedics', more correctly as 'Dungeon cleaners'. It has this name because of the og book on Quake, and Quake was supposedly about dungeons. And also there is a proverb in Russian like 'wolves are forest cleaners'. There are so many layers to it. The game is literally untranslatable, and the OG PA1 English translation is a joke.
"The battle of Rokada IV" seems to be a reference to Echelon series of futuristic hovercraft sims. And Velian, known in the west as "Operation Matriarchy", is a traditional FPS spin-off of Echelon where you fight a bunch of militant women who were transformed by a mysterious virus into "brutal killing machines" and enslaved the local male population.
This is my favorite channel just because I love learning about crazy Russian Pop culture and media There is so many characters involved in these it’s the SlavJank MCU Long live Dimitry “Goblin” thought
I don't think they can't EVER top the absurd ethinical edgy scenes on the first game. I MEAN being honest that showed, like you stated, how little they did know how actually people are out of media. But what did not changed is how the Director of this game is the most interesting aspect of both games
I can't believe there is someone else that remember the Cenega UFO series, it is the best xcom like (from the pre-enemy unknown) game i played, one of my all time favs despite all it's flaws
I only played UFO:Aftershock, but I fondly remember how fun it was to have a cyborg with lots of speed upgrades and a katana in your squad (I even remember his name being "Vidur Mockler", which always stuck with me because it sounded so goofy). A shame that the game got significantly less interesting once the Star Ghosts(?) showed up, since by that point the enemies were mostly bullet sponges that could no longer be quickly dispatched by outflanking them with fast short-range fighters.
Hope your book is a success. Russia's association with gaming, as well the way political culture and gaming culture mix through these mediums is fascinating!
What-- what is the most requested game on this channel??? It has to be something with broad appeal, right? Is it Skyrim? Fallout 3? But dare a girl dream? Is it Disco Elysium? 🥺 Also I'm incredibly excited for the book!!!
not gonna lie, that description of the guy's design philosophy in the first few minutes gave me flashbacks to Randy Sandy and his game, Lifeweb. Takes ancestry from a specific genre/platform, then completely throws all the conventions out the window, and adds in some stuff that probably would've been better off staying in the design document.
And it also happens to have homophobia, racism, and misogyny in it, in a way that definitely reflects the author's right-wing russian views. Along with the fact that both games cover settings that are repulsive to many people ("Local Lord" technologically regressed feudal future vs russo-soviet prison planet with all the unpleasantries shown)
@@cdru515 Oh absolutely, it's definitely dragged the game down massively for me. I will say that one thing Planet Alcatraz has over lfwb is that it doesn't flash actual, real-life gore on your screen.
@@cdru515 As far as I know, when taking the drug called DOB, and when playing as the Dreamer antagonist(especially frustrating in the latter's case because the Dreamer does have some visions that are genuinely surreal and add to the feeling of the experience...interspersed with the pictures of a murderer's handiwork.)
Warlock, you showed a scene of xenus in this video,, I hope thanks to you someday one video that that would do justice to Boiling Point game comes out on youtube. It's sad how it's never seems to come up despite being prototype to the formula that became later farcry games.
Holy shit, hearing the same voice actors in this game as you do voicing literally every movie in russia is a trippy experience, ive always wondered why even corporations like google use the same 4 actors, there have to be more actors somewhere in russia
To be fair, the american voice acting industry also seems to have only a few dudes sometimes. People make fun of video games only having Troy Baker or Nolan North, for instance
So after some heavy drinking with friends and 4 hours of sleep, i am not sure if a Goblin-Game review is beneficial for my mental state... but as a slaw there is only one rule - Endure, in enduring grow strong!
You should review Hard to be a God by Burut CT. It's an old RPG from 2007 and is a sequel to the Strugatsky brothers novel by the same name. I had it on disk back in the day and my progress was always stopped by a game breaking bug with a main quest. Maybe if you review it I can finally see what happens next. 😂
I'm really enjoying these obscure Russian RPG videogames. they look like something I would enjoy but would never play because I can't read the language. thanks Warlockracy :* EDIT: this actually seems *kind of* good? the music at 28:00 is *beautifully* produced. unironically
Great Vid! I rly like how you add history and real world context to your videos. I can't wait for you to make something about Vitaliy Shutov's creations. Btw, what language will you publish your book in?
man you just made me unearth some kind of ancient memory by mentioning Paradise Cracked. I really ought to find a way to play it again (and actually play it). I remember it was given me by friend who has completed it several times, yet I couldn't get past first 30 min, but I am really curious to revisit it after many years.
Content warning I guess... but this is not as bad as part 1 imo. The Mutagen scene is pretty bad.
omgteenage mutant ninja gopniks
how in hell did this game got a sequel I cannot imagine
nooooooo content warnings are soy
@@gyozanomics cope
Thank you for the warning. I can't wait for your book!
I do love the easts realistic portrayal of people. My favorite example is STALKER. Strelok, this crazy, unstoppable badass, is like 5'9' with a receding hairline.
a unique gaming ecosystem full of Slavic Jason Stathams
Being especially tall is a hindrance in a firefight
@hewhodoes8073 yeah but you get to ride the good carnival rides
The reason this is like this is because these games are not about some noble warriors doing things right. To make the characters handsome and attractive is just wrong.
@@MetalGearyaTV True they want to portray heroes as the 'Every Man'.
21:54 "Everyone is very racist, but also strangely multi-ethnic" this really says a lot about society bottomtext
4chan in a nutshell
/pol/ - where multi-ethnic people call each other n-word.
This perfectly summarizes my time on Twitter. It was like everybody hated each other on an ethnic/cultural level but still treated each other much better than how most of the internet treated each other. Despite Twitter being the shithole it is and has done permanent damage to my mental health, I sometimes can't help but miss those Balkanites.
They are not racist
The average right wing friend group
"Electrical troops, to battle!"
Me: Don't you mean Shock Troops?
*Guy literally shoots electricity.*
Me: Oh...
"a brand of russian politics that combines leftist aesthetic with far right ethics"
That is honestly such a perfect way to describe Goblin to the western audience
Well that's just communists in general.
Soviet Union in a nutshell
@@ManiacYKThe's more of a fascist larping as a soviet boomer commie, to be precise
I found an Australian on a DnD classic channel with reactionary tone (Legion of Myth specifically, but found in RPG Pundit as well).
Like he had anti fa logo BUT his comments and the channel he “praised” says otherwise. Not even disdain of burgeois woke liberal type, like he get defensive even the most polite rebuke and doesn’t accept critical thoughts except for those close to his opinions.
@@powerist209 I honestly think that happens to little shut in communities who don't go outside.
6:45 - "We can run around naked as much as we want. The weather is just special effects"
That's the most Russian thing I've ever heard.
Imagine if this had like the Mass Effect thing where your choices from the previous game carried over into the sequel. 🤣
Oh no. Planet Alcatraz: A Telltale Games series.
@@foreng3095 Moral choices like:
>Dress in girl clothes.
>Don't dress in girl clothes.
@@foreng3095I don't know what is worse: Telltale's writing or Soviet boomer fantasy.
Comparing your PA2 party to an image board where “everyone is very racist but also multiethnic” is hilariously (and relatably) accurate.
No matter how diverse your group is, racists are the most racially diverse group of all.
@@mateusbazilio205racism unites the world, from Greeks and turks to slavs and turks to Serbs and turks to Arabs and turks to isrealis and turks
basically describes /pol/ or 4chan in general
it really is /pol/ tropico
@@h.w.4482 Damn Turks, they ruined Turkey!
Seeing Goblin's games as a non-Russian makes me feel like the trio from "The Terrible Old Man". I enter seeking gold, only to end up mangled on the shore
Puchkov (Goblin) was a guest lecturer at my old university this month
And he was cought socializing with the furry community there
The amount of memes it spawned was ungodly
Can you give info that would help find this?
I'm surprised he's not an antifur.
@@foreng3095 To be fair, soviet cartoons had plenty of animal characters in them. And while Goblin *is* homophobic, he's likely too old to hear about the association of furries with LGBT
@@cdru515 The uni is called Innopolis University. But if you are looking for memes - they are mostly in local student chats, so you won't find them on the internet
@@cdru515 Doesn't help that there's a far right portion of the Furry Community.
Shame we didn’t get the “Woman” video game one of the writers from the previous game wanted.
Once more we feel the creeping shadow that is the Russian Nostalgia Critic, Goblin
It is genuinely shocking to me how much he resembles the Nostalgia Critic
Now that I've seen it, I can't unsee it.
I don't think we have any kind of "unhinged renaissance man" equivalent to Goblin in the states, that would be like if Neil Cicierega started writing books and speaking at political rallies
So it's what Ben Shapiro wishes he were.
We had John MacAfee, until he won the CIA award for journalistic excellence. I think, ya know John MacAfee is more a cryptid than man.
Alex Jones? lol
He looks cretinous enough.
@@nakenmilBen Shapiro is a pathetic intellectual though and this quality disqualifies him from this question.
Neil is amazing, though I agree he doesn't qualify as our own Goblin. Someone mentioned John McAfee, which seems pretty accurate. I think here in America we have plenty of internet legends who are either extremely goofy, or extremely political, but rarely both...I wonder if that says something about Western ideals. Might be reading too hard into that, though.
love these deep dives into non-english speaking gamer culture. its strangely reassuring to learn that gamers are insular weirdos no matter their origins.
Its immersive as fuck and feels like, half fun game - half documentary :)
People like Puchkov are not considered as 'weirdos' at all. They are more like 'strong common people', 'manly men'.
@@MetalGearyaTV He may not be considered it, but that does not mean he isn't it.
@@andreasottohansen7338 I talk about public perception.
@@MetalGearyaTV He is pure homosoveticus ahole. With a full set of twisted values that were inherent to those who liked to live in that system.
>Main plot requires we hijack a train to get to a location that isn't available otherwise
>Our nemesis is a robed guy with only his mouth visible
>made in Russia
Wait a sec, am I watching the Fallout of Nevada review again?
>the robed nemesis meets you near train tracks with a personal army
>you go into a vault
Can someone contact Nevada devs and ask if this is intentional or a coincidence? Because it's a really damn huge coincidence if you ask me. @Warlockracy ?
Can't wait to see more of the quake expanded universe.
Hello. My name is Kirill. I want you to make a 3D-action game so it would be like this: the user can play as the forest elves, the palace guard or the villain. If the user is playing the elves, the elves are in the woods, wooden houses rayd palace guards and villains. You can rob corovans... Since elfes are forest elfes then make it so the forest is really big... you can make the engine make the trees a picture when they are far away but transform into 3D trees when you come clozer. You can buy etc abilities like in Daggerfall. And the enemies are 3-dimensional, and the corpse is also 3D. You can jump etc. If you play as the palace guard, you need to obey the commander, and protect the palace from the evil guy (I haven’t come up with a name yet), spies and elf partisans, and go to raid some of those (elves, the villain...). Well if you play as the evil... that means that spies or elvish partisans attack sometimes, the user is his own boss, you can do what you want, you can order your troops to attack the palace and lead them into battle. The game has 4 main zones, 1 - zone of the humans (neutral), 2 - zone of the emperor (where the palace is), 3 - zone of the elves, 4 - zone of the villain... (in the mountains there is an old fort...)
Also, in the game they don’t always kill you but they can chop your arm off and if the user is not cured they will die, also they can poke your eye out but the user may survive but just stop seeing half a screen until they acquire or buy a prosthetic, or if you lose a leg then you will either die or crawl around or roll in a wheelchair or, best case scenario... get a prosthetic. Saving is possible...
P.S.I’ve been waiting for a game like this for tvwo years.
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This almost sounds like Kenshi - you can buy prosthetics, there are villains in the old fort and you technically can protect the "palace". You can rob corovans too. But no jumping and no forest elfes, this is where Kenshi screwed up.
@@staticallX Aren't there insect people instead? They look like ones who live close to nature.
@@HappyAspid Hmm, you're right, good catch, thanks!
@@staticallX Oh god, so that's who got the letter from Kirill
in my opinion, this is an overly flattering description of a goblin (aka “goblin”). If anyone is interested, I’ll explain: This is a rather insignificant, cowardly and arrogant person: he had never been an operative, as he recently admitted; during the Chernobyl disaster, he hid from recruitment into the liquidators while in the toilet (while he himself advocated the mobilization of young people in 22), in his videos he very often raises the topic of excrement, to such an extent that it involuntarily makes one think about his coprophilia.
Sadly, he's not insignificant, he's well-known and rather influential. And btw, he was using ghost translators for presumably 'his ' translations.
I'm not surprised at all.
They tried so hard to make the prison planet seem like a living hell but I don't think the developer knew everything he put into the game is pretty tame compared to what happens in Florida prisons. Dudes in Walton or Santa Rosa would go to that planet for vacation.
I mean people who are sent to an actual planet instead of being kept in a 4x4 box and going crazy. That's like getting a one-way ticket to pre-colonization Australia.
That's a part of author's worldview. Coming (allegedly) from the siloviki class of society, people responsible for enforcing and managing punitive system in USSR/Russia, they tend to majorly ignore, undervalue and disregard problems within it. They will mock and ridicule the victims of that system, calling any survivors of it trying speaking truth liers and antagonizing the ones that it killed. They done so and keep doing it because for them to admit the sheer scale of horrors they put many people through, innocent and not, would destroy any notion of them being "the good guys", and people always struggle to be good.
So it's nothing special that common vatnik presents prison as a summer vacation for quirky people instead labor-death camp full of misery and tortures.
Oh, and also because that's a satiric game.
@@Daniel-nf1gqBy author do you mean the game developers or Warlockracy?
@@ayyyyph2797 Commenter defenetly meant Puchkov specifically.
Ya Florida prisons are way more bizarre. In comparison, planet Alcatraz doesn't seem like much of an adventure. Saw a netflix documentary on it once.
"Everyone is very racist, but also strangely multi-ethnic"
Groupchats and discord servers be like
Even if I can't understand a word that Goblin says, I can still read the body language that says how utterly self assured his is of his own rhetoric and imagined intellect.
He's like a real man.
Actually spot on. He's got quite an ego
As usual, Warlockracy remains one of the best damn channels on TH-cam. If that book actually comes out I'm ordering it through my local bookstore the moment it's available.
mashallah.
Imagine ordering “supremacist” reading material from your local dymocks 😂
''the planet sea-men silence''
we started off strong
Named after a Russian prison.
Small nerdy comment, but it seems like some of the firearms models are incredibly obscure, like borschardt pistols on the guy shooting through the window when describing Hartman's skills in the beginning.
Huh. I did spot the WW2 machine guns in the hands of some characters, so it's funny how the planet's inhabitants make copies of old and obscure guns
something about goblin and his extensive body of video games and books is fascinating to me. thanks for showcasing yet another untranslatable russian rpg with deep background.
This seems 12x more interesting than any game made now
@@WiseOwl_1408not that impressive when the bars been dropped so low Satan implemented mandatory hard hats
@@WiseOwl_1408you don’t play many games do you?
@@AL-lh2htI play many, most games are bland retreads of things we've seen hundreds of times before today. Almost every AAA game is overmonetized and dull but pretty. Indie games are the same retro or just poor graphics with one or two interesting features. I think this game is interesting because it's from a different culture so idea pollution isn't as bad
@@HoxMousename some games that you think are good and came out in 2023 then
>Planet Alcatraz 2
That's like finding out Tommy Wissue's The Room had a sequel. It raises so many questions about our species than about the artist.
Warlock, everytime a goblin tangent starts I know some part of my soul will die. You introduced the ONE goblin worse than goblin slayer on internet. And I thank you for it.
The room did have a sequel. Well, more like a spiritual sequel.
@@AL-lh2ht I feel like someone standing right above pandora's box, every fiber of my being tells me not to open it... and yet
@@FPoP1911There's really not much to talk about really. Sadly this box is pretty empty. So to summarize. Yeah, Tommy Wiseau did make enough money with The Room to make more movies. But they're just really unpopular.
Thing is... You know how Tommy started going all "Oh yes I totally knew it was funny its all a big meme." When people laughed at him? Yeah... Unlike Neil Breen, Wiseau is self aware enough to try to improve and have fun. And that's good for him, sure, its a good mental trait. But it also means his following flicks were just mediocre enough not to be funny and had humor just stale enough to just never really land.
So they were all just really, painfully boring.
@@thespanishinquisition4078 Oh no I didn't mean Tommy making more movies, I meant Tommy making The Room 2. Thanks for explaining though. Still waiting for The room 3: A room in SPPPAAACCEE
@@FPoP1911 He said "spiritual successor" because its not called The Room 2. I forgot which was the one that followed The Room's story but yeah, it just got lost in the mess. Thank god we still have Neil Breen going full schizo.
20:20 "Blacky, no!" is probably the most unreasonably funny line
This video made me convinced that the world is not ready for a Goblin AA Baldur's gate 3 (Planet Alcatraz 3) game. but the world NEEDS it. those Alcatraz games are so surreal and weird in a good way.
English translation of PA1 killed about 95% of its edge. It's not a translation actually, it's more like a censor's work.
Oh boy! I sure do hope Larian Studios gets to make the 3rd part of the series!
A 2 room apartment in babrujsk is my favourite sponsor
I find it absolutely hilarious how planet alcatraz, despite all the racism, bigotry and homophobia, can still be considered somewhat "progressive" in the most goblin way, as it gives voice to the marginalised social class of Russian inmates and gopniks, tells the story of their hardships in a man-only society and represents the aspects of their underground culture in a videogame format.
The ability to be so dissonant with respect to recognizing the hardships of one marginalized group while actively despising another based on much of the same biases that you yourself are against is one of those things that ties Russian and American reactionaries together ideologically in a very weird way.
@@coolguyjki Nicely formulated! Although I would say, having watched (forced at gunpoint) Puchkov's content, he is, in fact, not really an avatar of reaction, but of the Russian psyche - lost and trying to find a way. Having lost two Great Powers in one century, the Russian seeks his purpose, his foundation. The government, themselves a closeted remnant of the KPSS, are very preoccupied with their paternalist oligarchy to guide the people. And so the Russian struggles, he can't find a foundation, he gets angry, and anger leads to the doom of conscious and compassion. Weird amalgams pop up - pictured here with Goblach himself - where else would you see a marrying of Soviet pride and protectionism with far-right national and ethnical concepts, if not in a diseased, lost mind who needs to be proud of something, anything.
It is my hope and desire for the Russian to settle down, take a breath and return to the natural flow of history, leaving behind these feverish concepts and dreams. But for that, the start would be for the socialist remnant in the Kremlin to die away, and for the new and the caring to come in
I take it you were offended?
@@LivebythecodeVJLEE No, it's a legitimately great formulation. I just thought to note that, in my view, Puchkov is not coming from a consciously reactionary standpoint with his ideals, but rather from an attempt at forging a national myth. It just turns out ultra-cringe, but hey, to Puchkov and fellas from Тупичок I am a filthy weasel who talks too much:)
@@LabiaLickerglad to see the knee-jerk pants-pissing of those words aren’t just Anglo-centric
thank you @Warlockracy, this channel is like a small window into the world of soviet era esoteric knowledge of politics and gaming culture. I can only hope that this information allows me to have a once off interaction with a russian where I leave them wondering how tf I know some random russian meme like the surprise bear and "corovans" or how ever you say it.
"You know how on Civvies channel..."
Oh Warlockracy, you know me all to well. 😄
Holy crap. We got the sequel nobody wanted nor expected. I love it!
Great stuff. John Lurie, wow. Painter, actor, TV presenter, author, autodidact. The Lounge Lizards, what a band. His recent autobiography was excellent as well.
you somehow described in 13 words , described modern Russian Nationalism or whatever you want to call it better than ive heard any political or News commentator do so , another amazing video! thanks for all the great work you do
it's what he does. commentary is always so thoughtfully on point.
timestamp to specifically what you're referring to?
@@ceast5273 2:22
Man says all that but doesn't do a timestamp on a 40 minute video lol
Because he was a Russian nationalist himself
This "Goblin" guy has to be the most hilarious game developer I've ever seen.
Warlockracy informing us on delicious slav jank. This is actually all I need in my dim slough of a life.
Would love to read your book too. Salt the fries.
So anyway.... Ostriches are cool.
Lmao
But the real question is: who is the bigger badass and would win in a fight to the death? Goblin/Hartman or Berkem/Ahmet?
Thats kinda funny that you're taking modern *oral History* and putting it in book format to preserve it. That is genuinely wild.
Hell yeah!! Your one of the only content creators I can watch do a 1 hour video.
Entertaining the whole way through.
I'm jealous. Why didn't I even once think of comparing Goblin to Kojima? The hilarity of this simple oxymoronic premise made me choke. Goblin would say on what exactly because, in his limited kolkhoz NPC wisdom, that's all he can ever say.
Seriously, though, I'd be only half-joking by calling Goblin a Russian David Cage. Aside from how similar they look, they both don't understand what the word "mature" means, the innovations they try to bring to the industry come from ignorance, and they spread shit messages that end up being dumbass platitudes for morons, albeit of different flavours. All well-intended from their perspective.
You take it too serious.
It's mostly a comedy games.
@@MDD359 Also true. I only wish all these people on my friend list were crying of laughter, not because the cheap melodrama actually "touched" them.
Goblin and Kojima are the same. Both are frauds and fake icons.
TIL what "kolkhoz" is. Thanks (genuinely) - that's very cool. Russian history and culture is something I know astonishingly (to myself, at least) little about and always enjoy learning more. I love the movies Night Watch and Day Watch (for Night Watch they did some extremely cool things with the subtitles). I especially enjoy the Russian language - I even tried teaching myself Russian many years ago; I got as far as learning the alphabet (interestingly, I was heavy into SimCity BuildIt at the time and there were a lot of cities with Russian names - like, in Cyrillic - and while I couldn't actually "translate" any of them, for a brief period I was able to "pronounce" them). In fact, I actually have my phone keyboard (SwiftKey) set up so that when I swipe the space bar, it switches to a Cyrillic keyboard (I also have German integrated into the keyboard because I took 3 years of it in college - it's pretty cool, the predictive text will include German words if I start spelling something German). Anyway, that was a long-winded tangent away from my original comment which was to thank you for teaching me something.
Your videos bring such a smooth comfort to me and I am always excited when your upload pops up in my sub box. Please keep doing it for as long as you enjoy it. ❤️
Honestly these insights into Goblin and the weird gaming culture are fascinating. In an abstract painting kind of way. Love ya work Warlock
I have not long been home from surgery, rewatching all of your videos and now getting a new upload today has been awesome!
Thank you for all your in-depth videos, keep up the amazing work dude! : )
Hope your surgery went well and you feel better quickly! :)
I refuse to believe that Goblin is a real person.
It seems he went insane from his propagandist job after accepting lavish contract from ministry of culture somewhere in 2015-2016.
He has curious audience, that seems to mostly consist of tsarist and communist nostalgic slice of russian society
he's a professional clown that oversaturated his personality constantly to get attention and money
you know the term professional deformation?
that's what happened to him
sometimes method acting goes too far and you get stuck
Past couple of years has had me stop questioning 'how' something happens in slavic culture, the same way I don't ask the sea how octupi evolved.
I wish he wasn't
He is like if the nostalgia critic was a Russian nationalist.
So, in the game original name for an item is "Чёрный Квадрат" (Black Square, as like Malevich's Black Square), Warlockracy translates it as "Black Rectangle", but the game model is a fucking parallelepiped. Am I missing something? Great video as always, tho.
Yeah, Black Square is right. Idk why I said rectangle.
@@WarlockracyAll squares are rectangles, therefore you are still technically correct.
@@johnnobody3078the best kind of correct.
By the model in the game "black cube" or perhaps "black box" would be the best description for the object.
@@HappyBeezerStudios while it's true, it still was a joke based on Malevich's Black Square
I feel like I should be able to guess what the most requested game on the channel might be, there's probably some essential RPG that I'm drawing a blank on right now. But I've been thirsty for a Tales of the Sword Coast BG1 followup video for so long I'm going to keep naively praying that others are also clamoring for the best expansion that Warlockracy's mom has developed.
21:55 "everyone is racist, but also aceot each other"
Tell me about it.
A friend of the family once told me that in a party he saw the racist withe guy chating with the black cooke.
When ask they respond that they bond over being racist, he ask the black cook and he confirm being very racist, specially toward asians.
Seems that both have a very "power" mentality and so respect each other for being "strong" moral wise.
Like 2 guys fighting and huging after
Racism is a nonsense word with little meaning now.
People need to realise that's a thing.
@@floneticgetsam3120 I think they do, most just find it, justifiably, rather hypocritical and incongruent.
Of course, that's stemming from an understanding of racism as being based in some personal disgust, as opposed to a deeper, systemic power dynamic, but that's just how it goes currently.
@@thosebloodybadgers8499 That's pretty much how nearly all multicultural societies functioned before modern times
It's very interesting to see social dynamics from a different perspective especially the gamer and internet culture side of it. Thanks for being so detailed. Amazing breakdown.
It’s always interesting seeing how other people view the world. Sometimes, your horizons broaden, and you get a better understanding of your fellow humanity. Sometimes you get this.
10:31 This accent is from 'Mimino' movie. The main character supposedly speaks like this.
39:05 2508 year, the ptrds antitank rifles still in use
How do you not have more subscribers? Your videos are always a bump to my day.
The subs are coming pretty fast... I think this channel was around 20-30k when I first found it maybe a year ago.
Yes!!! Warlocky upload + it's about an obscure janky Russian game! Was thinking about watching Columbo while having dinner but this beats it!!! Have a great Friday everyone!
I recently rewatched the first one (amazing content btw., loved input on the russian socio-political structure, such a unique value!). Your timing with the second one is impeccable, oh mighty Warlock!
Iv been looking forward to this! Made my day. Thanks for doing these games!
BTW, the OG Russian name of the game is nothing like 'Planet Alcatraz'. It can be literally translated as 'Dungeon orderlies / paramedics', more correctly as 'Dungeon cleaners'. It has this name because of the og book on Quake, and Quake was supposedly about dungeons. And also there is a proverb in Russian like 'wolves are forest cleaners'. There are so many layers to it. The game is literally untranslatable, and the OG PA1 English translation is a joke.
so the naming has actually nothing in common with what's actually happening in the game. Nonetheless, it was a success.
@@MetalGearyaTVit, is reference on goblin's book that is fan fiction on Quake
I love these videos, I don't understand half of what Warlockracy is talking about, but I think that just makes it even better.
Holy shit bro writing a book is huge.
Looking forward to your book. An audio version read by you would be great.
"The battle of Rokada IV" seems to be a reference to Echelon series of futuristic hovercraft sims. And Velian, known in the west as "Operation Matriarchy", is a traditional FPS spin-off of Echelon where you fight a bunch of militant women who were transformed by a mysterious virus into "brutal killing machines" and enslaved the local male population.
This is my favorite channel just because I love learning about crazy Russian Pop culture and media
There is so many characters involved in these it’s the SlavJank MCU
Long live Dimitry “Goblin” thought
I'm always looking forward to new Warlockracy content.
Just when I was hoping for a new Warlockracy video!
I fuckin loved Planetescape Tournament. It's much better than Quake 3.
I don't think they can't EVER top the absurd ethinical edgy scenes on the first game.
I MEAN being honest that showed, like you stated, how little they did know how actually people are out of media. But what did not changed is how the Director of this game is the most interesting aspect of both games
I like that idea for a book as I’ve had interest in looking into the other gaming cultures from other parts of the world.
I can't believe there is someone else that remember the Cenega UFO series, it is the best xcom like (from the pre-enemy unknown) game i played, one of my all time favs despite all it's flaws
I only played UFO:Aftershock, but I fondly remember how fun it was to have a cyborg with lots of speed upgrades and a katana in your squad (I even remember his name being "Vidur Mockler", which always stuck with me because it sounded so goofy).
A shame that the game got significantly less interesting once the Star Ghosts(?) showed up, since by that point the enemies were mostly bullet sponges that could no longer be quickly dispatched by outflanking them with fast short-range fighters.
Mysterious Island, mysterious assets. Warcraft 3 looking boats and trees.
Been watching the hell out of your channel since the Deus Ex episode, but know I'm definitely in the right place after hearing a civvie11 mention.
Hope your book is a success. Russia's association with gaming, as well the way political culture and gaming culture mix through these mediums is fascinating!
What-- what is the most requested game on this channel??? It has to be something with broad appeal, right? Is it Skyrim? Fallout 3? But dare a girl dream? Is it Disco Elysium? 🥺
Also I'm incredibly excited for the book!!!
Oh wait no, it has to be The Witcher? It's the intersection of broad appeal and Eastern European Eurojank
planet escape tournament? hahah, that was a good one warlock. love ya.
Goddamn; I'm going to get kicked off FaceBook for being a Russian spy again, but this game looks fucking awesome.
Only Warlockracy could compel me to watch a 45 minute Russian-language only RPG.
not gonna lie, that description of the guy's design philosophy in the first few minutes gave me flashbacks to Randy Sandy and his game, Lifeweb.
Takes ancestry from a specific genre/platform, then completely throws all the conventions out the window, and adds in some stuff that probably would've been better off staying in the design document.
And it also happens to have homophobia, racism, and misogyny in it, in a way that definitely reflects the author's right-wing russian views. Along with the fact that both games cover settings that are repulsive to many people ("Local Lord" technologically regressed feudal future vs russo-soviet prison planet with all the unpleasantries shown)
@@everus8558 Well, yes, but russian prison culture took a lot from USSR
@@cdru515 Oh absolutely, it's definitely dragged the game down massively for me. I will say that one thing Planet Alcatraz has over lfwb is that it doesn't flash actual, real-life gore on your screen.
@@voidutopian Wait, when does LFWB do so?
@@cdru515 As far as I know, when taking the drug called DOB, and when playing as the Dreamer antagonist(especially frustrating in the latter's case because the Dreamer does have some visions that are genuinely surreal and add to the feeling of the experience...interspersed with the pictures of a murderer's handiwork.)
Warlock, you showed a scene of xenus in this video,, I hope thanks to you someday one video that that would do justice to Boiling Point game comes out on youtube. It's sad how it's never seems to come up despite being prototype to the formula that became later farcry games.
Tehsnakerer has a good series of videos on them if you haven't seen those.
@@HoxMouse Thanks
Boiling Point got released on Steam
Holy shit, hearing the same voice actors in this game as you do voicing literally every movie in russia is a trippy experience, ive always wondered why even corporations like google use the same 4 actors, there have to be more actors somewhere in russia
To be fair, the american voice acting industry also seems to have only a few dudes sometimes. People make fun of video games only having Troy Baker or Nolan North, for instance
@@cdru515 "Hi I'm Steve Blum"
@@cdru515Or Tara Strong voicing half the female characters in animated shows
you're defiantly at your best when explaining slav/russian games and the history behind them.
looking forward to the EYE Divine Cybermancy vid
Mandalore and Warlockracy uploading back to back. We eating good.
"Now there are two of them?! This is getting out of hand..."
So after some heavy drinking with friends and 4 hours of sleep, i am not sure if a Goblin-Game review is beneficial for my mental state... but as a slaw there is only one rule - Endure, in enduring grow strong!
Babe, new Warlockracy just dropped
Warlockracy and Mando uploading on the same day, we eatin good.
Great video, as per usual
when he floated up it really got the whole office going
Excited to buy that book
The only content creator I will drop everything to watch a video.
Oh shit I remember this game. The previous one that is. I'm gonna have to make dinner before I watch this one, this is a "special" occasion.
You should review Hard to be a God by Burut CT. It's an old RPG from 2007 and is a sequel to the Strugatsky brothers novel by the same name. I had it on disk back in the day and my progress was always stopped by a game breaking bug with a main quest. Maybe if you review it I can finally see what happens next. 😂
I watch these videos for these small snippits of deep Warlockracy lore.
Damn, I've worked at Mist-Land South on Power of Law and a little on Disciples, Alfa, JA3.. This video brings so many memories
I'm really enjoying these obscure Russian RPG videogames. they look like something I would enjoy but would never play because I can't read the language. thanks Warlockracy :*
EDIT: this actually seems *kind of* good? the music at 28:00 is *beautifully* produced. unironically
Another Warlockracy video, another jolly good day.
Great Vid! I rly like how you add history and real world context to your videos. I can't wait for you to make something about Vitaliy Shutov's creations. Btw, what language will you publish your book in?
man you just made me unearth some kind of ancient memory by mentioning Paradise Cracked. I really ought to find a way to play it again (and actually play it). I remember it was given me by friend who has completed it several times, yet I couldn't get past first 30 min, but I am really curious to revisit it after many years.
There is a free remaster FYI
I love how Fang has Mike Tyson's face tattoo, as if he's the only famous black man that Goblin is familiar with
That's a different guy in the fight club, actually. But he *is* named Tyson