I was a Sophomore in High School when this game came out and I absolutely loved it; so much so that I played it over and over again, neglecting to read a book for my Language Arts class which I needed to do for a book report. Long story short, I figured with an author's name on this game, my teacher wouldn't know the difference. So I cropped out the EA or whatever publisher was on the box art and wrote a book report on this game. Got an A.
Ah, man! I haven't seen this game in forever! After I left Activision, I was actually hired by Dreamworks to be a Designer on the sequel to Undying but then EA bought out the office, team, etc., cancelled Undying 2, and moved us all over to work on Medal of Honor: Frontline instead. MoH was fun, but I *really* wanted to work on a Clive Barker horror game...
That's EA for you... buy up a studio, force them to rip off something popular, blame them for the failure, shut them down and buy a new gold swimming pool.
AnimalLALA A remaster would be beautiful, especially the outdoor areas like the Lighthouse, the cliffs outside the Covenant crypt and the abandoned Island Monastery.
When I was like 7 years old I watched my grandfather play through this game. Him and my mom knew Clive Barker for his literary works, and when we went to see him in san francisco for a book signing, he signed what is now my cd copy of this game.
The 'Reaper,' Having FOUR meanings in this case - Undeath which already happened to him btw, The Undying King, Clive Barker - And EA!! : D Who's letters are in the MIDDLE of 'R-E-A-P-E-R!' (Destroy-Everything)
Ah, Clive Barker's Clive Barker's Undying by Clive Barker is my favorite Clive Barker game by Clive Barker that I can think of! It's so a fantastic game. Trivia: The guy Patrick Galloway kills in the intro, that was suppose to be the Main character for the game initially but when they brought in Clive Barker and told him about it, he supposed to have said " _Who looks like this? Who wants to look like this? Does anyone know of a man named Magnus? No, draw me a man I want to sleep with!_ ", and that's how we got Patrick Galloway instead, a sexier man for a much better story. .... By Clive Barker!
damn we need that for sure! there is an awesome video of Clive Barker reading his novella 'The Hell-bound Heart" online and his fun accent is the best.
@@suprshin He was surprised. He seemed genuinely happy someone brought in some of his more obscure work. I thanked him for his contribution to video games and he said that he wished he could work more on them. Poor guy did seem physically frail, but his mind is as sharp as ever. He mentioned more artistic work like his in video games has seen "diminishing returns" thanks to mega franchises like Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed. Which is sadly true. But at least we still have Undying, and even Jericho has some of his unique vision.
@@pedroportillo1585 Oh man that is cool and yea i wish he will return to vg , we desperatly need more games with his vision . If he also had expresed a desire then maybe some day , especially if he doesn't write books anymore (don't know for sure ) . An great dev team to work with him would be Frictional Games , Kojima Production considering what they did with P.T and what the actual sh game would have been , those are some examples , i mean yea Kojima Production is Japanese but hey From Softwere got the GOT author for their next game after all .
This game seems ahead of its time. The gun/magic with each hand reminds me of Bioshock, which didn't come out until 2007. Weapon wheels generally are a modern feature as well, although I can't think specifically of when they became popular. And the variety of spells remind me of the psi power in EYE divine cybermancy (which civvy really should do a video on)
I feel like Ratchet and Clank on the PS2 was the first time I saw a weapon wheel in a video game, but that was from 2002, and this game came out earlier, so even then it was ahead of it's time
One of the most underappreciated games of all time imo, that was ahead of its time and actually was doing new and cool things withing fps genre. And i love Barker.
CHAPTER SELECT: 0 - INTRO: 0:00 I - GALLOWAY, BLOOD DEBTS, SPOOKY BUTTONS: 2:32 II - A WALK-IN CLOSET OF DOOM: 10:10 III - THESE FUCKING SKELETONS: 14:46 IV - LIZABETH, SHE-BITCH OF THE COVENANT: 18:00 V - FULL FRONTAL INVULNERABILITY: 19:13 VI - THE KILLER PLANTS: 20:35 VII - CLIVE BARKER PRESENTS CLIVE BARKER'S CHARACTER VOICED BY CLIVE BARKER (FEATURING CLIVE BARKER): 21:41 VIII - XEN: 23:32 IX - AARON DESERVES ALL OF THE BAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO HIM: 25:32 X - XEN BUT FOR REAL THIS TIME: 27:33 XI - JEREMIAH MIGHT BE AN IDIOT: 28:41
Loved this game back in the day, scared me to death as a young lad :p Interesting note about the lightning spell and spear gun. While useless on their own, if you combine them and fire with sky overhead, the enemy gets struck by a lightning bolt that is usually a one ht kill.
For real though, this game was great back in the day. Incredibly interesting storyline, weird Barker-style horror, and amazing level design and aesthetic.
No joke, this is probably the Civvie video that most makes me want to play the respective game. And considering he’s talked about tons of classic FPS games, an entire genre I should play but just haven’t unless you count Half Life 1, that’s saying something.
Art style and aesthetics of this game just blow me away; sound design too. With the photo-realistic texturing and awesome skyboxes (handpainted, FYI), it all comes together in a very atmospheric way. The beauty of decay, you know?
@@Gruntvc It wasn't a bad game either, which was quite surprising at the time considering the general quality (or lack thereof) of movie adaptations. Not a great game by any means, but fairly decent.
The Guardian All those quotes are allusion to “The realms of the haunting” - amazing game of 90s with interesting first person action/puzzle gameplay and amazing story. So underrated.
The Haste spell temporarily increases your speed and mana regeneration rate. That's true, but also you reload weapons faster, and delay between weapon attacks (shots or melee weapons) is also much shorter, this is especially useful later in the game when you face all the Howler types at once, because they are really fast and jump on you in a heartbeat.
This is one of my most favorite horror games of all time. A shooter that was ahead of it's time, with a fantastic narrative that manages to tick all the horror trope boxes convincingly and without being contrived. A brilliant game. Thank you for putting it out there.
yea, thats what ive seen, it looks like they seriously need some playtesters for it, ill gladly get paid to kill people in creative ways and report if they dont die or something.
This is one of my favorite horror games. This felt like such a huge game when it first came out. Also the Tibetan War Cannon is one of my favorite guns in a shooter. It’s a super cool idea and I love that the dragon moves it’s mouth and tongue when you’ve got it equipped. This game does little atmospheric things so well.
I almost missed it, but I love that they animated facial expressions, because the way our man smirks, at the end of the interaction with the severed head (around 18:54)... That was wonderful.
I haven't even watched the whole video yet, but mixing footage from one of my all-time favorite movies into a review of one of my all-time favorite games? Dude. You're so awesome. And so, so, so funny.
Thank you, Civie. Sincerely. This was one of my favorite games of all time. I had no idea that you were aware of it and wanted to suggest it for a while. But you really did it justice. Couple of pro tips: - you can dispell the killer plants - you can electrically charge the crossbow BTW, you didn't mention how bullets ricochet, which was quite awesome for the time. Now go play Jericho. It has some flaws, but it also has a lot of memorable moments / set pieces... I mean, it's Barker...
@@Gruntvc I actually kinda like that game. Sure, it completely loses any semblance of being spooky and god damnit that whole story campaign is a clusterfuck, but no other game lets me gib dudes in bullet time quite like F3AR. It's the simple things in life, man.
I remember I tried to go to the catacombs first, because I figured my Club would be well suited to fighting them... (Deprived is the only class fight me) Imagine how surprised I was she the fuckers came back. Again and again and again.
@@n0denz I don't know I remember the dogs in resident evil being... Evil. And I mean the real resident evil. Back when controllers didn't have sticks on them.
I've had the stone summon a hound a couple times in my playthrough. You have to use it quite a lot, it's a pretty rare chance. Also that set piece of the statue with the heart you have to shoot while scrying was damn spooky.
Hell yes- an incredible game reviewed by one of my favorite youtubers on my birthday (and it even has a happy birthday in it!)- Thanks for making my day even better! :D
Love this game! I remember playing through it a decade back when Gamespot called it "The best game nobody ever played". Didn't know there was a shooting gallery in the beginning.
Civvie you have given me hours of entertainment, just wanted to say thank you. Not sure if you read these, but again, thanks. I found your channel randomly and listening to you ramble is S-tier level stuff on this god forsaken website
I love the fact that your channel is regularly watched by people who worked on these games. It speaks volumes about the quality of your content. You sir are as of now my favorite youtuber, and not just for all of those brilliant pop-culture references.
EA is not The Thing. They are literally the Devil. Though to be fair, Blizzard, Activision, WB Games, Ubisoft, etc are giving their best to be terrible too.
Jericho was GOOD though. It's that stupid, shitty, cliffhanger ending that sucked. (Remembers repeated bosses, enemy swarms, dull visuals in most levels) Oh no wait, Jericho sucked. The only good thing about it was GUIIIIIIDED PSYCHIC SNIIIIPER BUUUUULEEETS!
@@Gruntvc I know they did, but Jericho was the first game I played that had them. And yeah, the AI was so trash it was obvious they wanted co op multiplayer but scrapped the idea for some odd reason.
• _Undying_ was a great, very memorable game, one of my all-time favorites. I want to re-play it, but my OCD makes me do the shooting-range at the start, so I can't make any progress, so I keep putting it off for later. Regardless, it's still a great game, with great atmosphere, and felt very full and satisfying (not too long, not too short). _Jericho_ wasn't bad, it was just buried. • The spells remind me of the ter'angreal from _Wheel of Time_ (which was pretty good, but too long); also some of its maps. • 12:36 - This part reminds me of _American McGee's Alice_ . The cistern reminds me of _Tomb Raider_ , other parts remind me of some of the _Painkiller_ games, and some _Return to Castle Wolfenstein_ , and even _CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth_ . • 15:00 - This part reminds me of _Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem_ . • 18:47 - Would you still hit it? 🤔 • 20:37 - And some _Watchmaker_ and/or _Scratches_ . • 28:18 - And now _Barrow Hill_ . • 29:00 - Kraven. • 31:47 - Shame. :-\ _Undying_ is reminiscent of many games (some before it, some after), as well as some Lovecraft stuff, particularly _Dunwich Horror_ . Overall, it's extremely memorable and a fun play.
Thank you so much for talking about this, it's a criminally underrated title that no one remembers. I have a lot of younger friends who didn't really get into the PC gaming scene until I met them in university and I keep telling them about how great this game was. Damn shame we're never getting a sequel.
@Rou Dabral He hid some details to lead Patrick along, sure, but being able to describe what he found and what happened is by definition a form of explanation. Of course, this is a very literal-minded way of looking at it, my comment was meant mostly as a joke.
Undying is one of the best story-driven games ever. I played it in 2002, and I still vividly remember it. It had so many firsts for me: first weapon wheel game, first dual wield game and first FPS game where guns had secondary modes, first time where your character has to warp to a mirror world with ghosts, just a great game. Scythes are awesome. "Shake it baby." - Jon St John
I have, honestly, been afraid that this channel is going to end after reaching 100k subs and doing the DNF material. Good to know Civvie isn't done with being the pinnacle of online entertainment.
Doomguy is left-handed ;) Holds his pistol in his left hand and leads with his left when unarmed. He only holds the shotgun right-handed because many left-handed soldiers still train to use rifles and shotguns that way.
That's a cool detail, but it was clearly made for gameplay reasons: if your character can dual-wield, it's better to have the left mouse button fire the weapon in your left hand (those who have played The Darkness II know what I'm talking about), and since in Undying guns are treated as a primary fire and spells as an alternate option, it made sense to have the main character be left-handed.
An awesome game. When I was younger it literally scared the shit out of me, so that I finished it almost 15 years later after rediscovering it. a true classic in horror Gaming.
I always found it funny how Patrick walked like he had two wooden legs :-) Used to watch my dad play this when I was a kid because I was too scared... Good memories
Pretty scared there when the necronomicon was tossed on camera, thought alternate universe Civvie might've summoned some weird apocalyptic creatures and doomed his world. Thank god that we got a Undying popsicle stick show instead.
@@h4724-q6j I like the slow burn better. It gets under your skin. In this game things don't tend to jump you so much as you hear them, aren't sure where they are, and even when you see them you feel tension because they tend to be stronger than you are XD
Just want to say, I stopped watching halfway through the review so I can play this game without spoilers. Civvy11, you are amazing keep up the awesome reviews.
"That scythe" is one of my favorites from any game, ever... XD You also neglected to mention the fact that it'll drink enemies' blood puddles if you get it close enough... like some sort of twisted drinking bird thing. ...and the lightning bolt spell works with the crossbow or whatever it was to make some sort of rocket launcher type thing that was supposed to be good for killing something or other.
Love this game.. despite its age it still plays pretty well - and the atmosphere in some places is VERY effective. Certain parts gives me goosebumps every time. Great video...
There's something about these old games... the graphics look more crisp than today. They also tried a lot of different things back then, not worrying about what would stick and what wouldn't sell.
It's probably not worth commenting on a 4 year old video but this is really impressive for UE 1 tech. The texturing on the low polygon count models is especially good. Really good work work within the limitations they were working with.
"Oh John Saint John, where will you turn up next?"
Postal 4 apparently.
RWS are some sneaky fuckers, aren't they?
I still don't believe it.
Epic foreshadowing.
Rather see him there than anything from Randy Pitchford.
@Kyle H when the game is complete
I was a Sophomore in High School when this game came out and I absolutely loved it; so much so that I played it over and over again, neglecting to read a book for my Language Arts class which I needed to do for a book report. Long story short, I figured with an author's name on this game, my teacher wouldn't know the difference. So I cropped out the EA or whatever publisher was on the box art and wrote a book report on this game.
Got an A.
*Nice*
Very clever! :)
I did the same thing with Metro 2033. Also, my sophomore year.
You're a goddamn *stud.*
@@colealexander7690 dude, Metro IS a book
We haven’t had an intro like that in forever
please keep it civvie
The timeline distortions imply this happened in the PAST.
SHHHHHHHHHH
@@spacehitler4537 Thank you, Space Hitler. I'm glad SOMEONE still watches this channel for the plot.
It's what I imagine the Ross' Game Dungeon would look like if remade in 3D
Maybe the voice actors went uncredited after they actually heard an Irish person speak.
Listening to American VAs do Irish accents is like listening to British VAs do American deep south accents. It's always gold. 😂
Ah, man! I haven't seen this game in forever! After I left Activision, I was actually hired by Dreamworks to be a Designer on the sequel to Undying but then EA bought out the office, team, etc., cancelled Undying 2, and moved us all over to work on Medal of Honor: Frontline instead.
MoH was fun, but I *really* wanted to work on a Clive Barker horror game...
Do you have any idea what the story of Undying 2 was/would have been? Did they have any initial stuff about plot done for it at the time?
That's EA for you... buy up a studio, force them to rip off something popular, blame them for the failure, shut them down and buy a new gold swimming pool.
@The Fat Burrito Medal of Honor Rising Sun
I'm still heartbroken that we're not gonna get at least an Undying remastered, never had the courage to dream for an Undying 2.
AnimalLALA A remaster would be beautiful, especially the outdoor areas like the Lighthouse, the cliffs outside the Covenant crypt and the abandoned Island Monastery.
"I'll go full Pinkerton on these vaguely Irish motherfuckers" omg I'm dying of laughter here
Sounds like civvie quote
24:18 "Flaming skulls work better in all situations."
Oh, so now Civvie finally appreciates the Lost Souls, while LARPing a Pain Elemental.
He has become everything he hated.
You either die a hero...
“Do Not Throw Souls!”
@Civvie 11 You should appreciate the finesse of this low blow :D
"You became the very thing you swore to destroy!"
When I was like 7 years old I watched my grandfather play through this game. Him and my mom knew Clive Barker for his literary works, and when we went to see him in san francisco for a book signing, he signed what is now my cd copy of this game.
That's bloody awesome
Petey Pebbles you still have it?
Your Grandfather was playing the game? Wow that's really cool. a video game literate Grandfather with a fantastic taste in games is a treasure
“It seems I’ve come under the watchful eye of The Reaper, my friend.”
Damn that’s a neat line.
Almost like this game was written by an absolutely banger author
The 'Reaper,' Having FOUR meanings in this case - Undeath which already happened to him btw, The Undying King, Clive Barker - And EA!! : D Who's letters are in the MIDDLE of 'R-E-A-P-E-R!' (Destroy-Everything)
Ah, Clive Barker's Clive Barker's Undying by Clive Barker is my favorite Clive Barker game by Clive Barker that I can think of! It's so a fantastic game.
Trivia: The guy Patrick Galloway kills in the intro, that was suppose to be the Main character for the game initially but when they brought in Clive Barker and told him about it, he supposed to have said " _Who looks like this? Who wants to look like this? Does anyone know of a man named Magnus? No, draw me a man I want to sleep with!_ ", and that's how we got Patrick Galloway instead, a sexier man for a much better story.
.... By Clive Barker!
Well it's a good thing Clive Barker is gay otherwise that request would have been awfully difficult to actually fulfill.
Clive Barker knew what was up.
Is Clive Barker related to Hideo Kojima?
Bro I'd love a source on the quote about the protagonist, I need it in my life.
Hey, was Clive Barker involved in this production at all?
"I already did Pro Brutal Doom!"
*shows gameplay of Trailblazer.*
Suuuuuuuuuure...
im shocked somebody else actually noticed
@@meyes5671 You know, just a mod by the best modder/team in Doom community, so unrecognizable
@@meyes5671 The different minigun was a dead giveaway.
@@doommaker4000 not everybody plays doom mods besides broodal dewm
@@doommaker4000 PillowBlaster?
That EA assimilation scene was genius.
what was it from? Looked like a good movie.
@@nintendofan707 The Thing (1982) :)
Now we can sadly add Bioware to that.... that.. THING?!?
@@walt_man sadly yes :(
Seeing Pandemic and Visceral hurt...so much lmao
“An abyss of terrifying creatures and family drama.”
Huh, weird that he said the same thing twice.
Ha.
That's just Hellraiser in a nutshell
Patrick's VA sounds like he should be reading creepypastas on youtube
damn we need that for sure! there is an awesome video of Clive Barker reading his novella 'The Hellbound Heart" online and his fun accent is the best.
damn we need that for sure! there is an awesome video of Clive Barker reading his novella 'The Hell-bound Heart" online and his fun accent is the best.
The Lighthouse Keeper has an unsettlingly high resolution texture on his face compared to everyone else...
He's quite bumpy looking.
Oh, God, I see it now. It's jarring as shit.
Lovely.
I had Clive Barker sign my copy of the game!!! I'm keeping it like a treasure.
How did he respond to it?
@@suprshin He was surprised. He seemed genuinely happy someone brought in some of his more obscure work. I thanked him for his contribution to video games and he said that he wished he could work more on them. Poor guy did seem physically frail, but his mind is as sharp as ever. He mentioned more artistic work like his in video games has seen "diminishing returns" thanks to mega franchises like Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed. Which is sadly true. But at least we still have Undying, and even Jericho has some of his unique vision.
That's bloody awesome
I hope he didn't give you AIDS dude!
@@pedroportillo1585 Oh man that is cool and yea i wish he will return to vg , we desperatly need more games with his vision . If he also had expresed a desire then maybe some day , especially if he doesn't write books anymore (don't know for sure ) . An great dev team to work with him would be Frictional Games , Kojima Production considering what they did with P.T and what the actual sh game would have been , those are some examples , i mean yea Kojima Production is Japanese but hey From Softwere got the GOT author for their next game after all .
That "The Thing" scene hurt my soul.
Westwood :'(
It would not be as sad if it was not true.
This was very chilly and creepy scene; also very sad.
Pandemic... Goddamn. I’ll never forget the fun I had in the first Mercenaries.
mercenaries was a blast
I’m legit shocked that this game did not add to the sewer level count
There actually is a sewer lvl. I'm puzzled that it was not counted.
The "David with the Head of Goliath" by Caravaggio is quite a on the nose foreshadowing of Jeremiahs death, isnt it?
There's a few art "secrets" around the estate, some more obvious than others...
I think there's a "Judith with head of Holofernes" somewhere in the mansion. Or it might be Jael with Sisera? A lot of beheading imagery for sure....
18:55 that little smirk he gives after bitch slapping Lizabeth had me rolling lmao
“Holy crap the intro is back” Hah nice touch
He’s used that on every video sine 2017?
@@ethanevenson3855 did you see the sign above the last door? I think maybe you missed it
It’s on his RAGE videos, Quake 2, the Duke 64 games. I don’t see what you’re talking about?
Ethan Evenson no the sign on the door said “holy crap the intro is back” hence the air quotes
Ethan Evenson it’s what the sign read during the intro
This game seems ahead of its time. The gun/magic with each hand reminds me of Bioshock, which didn't come out until 2007. Weapon wheels generally are a modern feature as well, although I can't think specifically of when they became popular. And the variety of spells remind me of the psi power in EYE divine cybermancy (which civvy really should do a video on)
I agree, but it'd break him too quickly
oblivion had a 'weapon wheel' per se, and bioshock didn't even have the dual wielding until bioshock 2 so even later!
Moreover, the "Invoke" spell makes living enemies kill themselves. The Possession Vigor in Bioshock Infinite does exactly the same.
I feel like Ratchet and Clank on the PS2 was the first time I saw a weapon wheel in a video game, but that was from 2002, and this game came out earlier, so even then it was ahead of it's time
I like that Patrick stands around in a daze while he waits for his enemy to perform their coup de grace. Very Mortal Kombat-ish.
I'm so sorry this game did not make money so we could've gotten a sequel. This was one of my absolute favorite games in my early teenage years.
One of the most underappreciated games of all time imo, that was ahead of its time and actually was doing new and cool things withing fps genre.
And i love Barker.
>Unless they're tossin' dynamite.
MARANAX INFERNUS!
AAAAAHHHHHH!!!
WATERMARKS AND FEAR BOOKS
CRUDUX CRUO
GERUSHTAY CUOR!!!
_Dynamite boom_
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
CHAPTER SELECT:
0 - INTRO: 0:00
I - GALLOWAY, BLOOD DEBTS, SPOOKY BUTTONS: 2:32
II - A WALK-IN CLOSET OF DOOM: 10:10
III - THESE FUCKING SKELETONS: 14:46
IV - LIZABETH, SHE-BITCH OF THE COVENANT: 18:00
V - FULL FRONTAL INVULNERABILITY: 19:13
VI - THE KILLER PLANTS: 20:35
VII - CLIVE BARKER PRESENTS CLIVE BARKER'S CHARACTER VOICED BY CLIVE BARKER (FEATURING CLIVE BARKER): 21:41
VIII - XEN: 23:32
IX - AARON DESERVES ALL OF THE BAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO HIM: 25:32
X - XEN BUT FOR REAL THIS TIME: 27:33
XI - JEREMIAH MIGHT BE AN IDIOT: 28:41
Loved this game back in the day, scared me to death as a young lad :p
Interesting note about the lightning spell and spear gun. While useless on their own, if you combine them and fire with sky overhead, the enemy gets struck by a lightning bolt that is usually a one ht kill.
neat. that is pretty cool and useful information. thanks for sharing
Why doesn't anyone else think of cool stuff like that.
For real though, this game was great back in the day. Incredibly interesting storyline, weird Barker-style horror, and amazing level design and aesthetic.
No joke, this is probably the Civvie video that most makes me want to play the respective game. And considering he’s talked about tons of classic FPS games, an entire genre I should play but just haven’t unless you count Half Life 1, that’s saying something.
Art style and aesthetics of this game just blow me away; sound design too. With the photo-realistic texturing and awesome skyboxes (handpainted, FYI), it all comes together in a very atmospheric way. The beauty of decay, you know?
You know comparing EA to The Thing, is an insult to The Thing there Civvie.
Maybe, but metaphorically being compared to the great EA acquisition chopping block of 95-06, Civvie's pretty spot on tbh... :Lc
Civvie11 could play/review The Thing video game. It was released on pc, Xbox, and PS2.
I'm honestly surprised Jim Sterling hadn't used that one, yet.
@@TheProfessor529 'Cause he's already got Unicronic Arts which is essentially the same thing on a larger scale(which is slightly more fitting).
@@Gruntvc It wasn't a bad game either, which was quite surprising at the time considering the general quality (or lack thereof) of movie adaptations. Not a great game by any means, but fairly decent.
Dude, that Thing skit had me crying. I love your content, your definitely the best gamer YTer out there. Never change, man
"jammed", "stuck", "won't budge"
hahaha oh how I missed that
Yea lol
I think you get similar quotes from the Call of Cthulhu game
The Guardian gave me silent hill flashbacks.
The Guardian Shit’s Locked: A Clive Barker Story
The Guardian All those quotes are allusion to “The realms of the haunting” - amazing game of 90s with interesting first person action/puzzle gameplay and amazing story. So underrated.
18:55 you can see the smug look on his face when he slaps her face, nice touch.
The Haste spell temporarily increases your speed and mana regeneration rate. That's true, but also you reload weapons faster, and delay between weapon attacks (shots or melee weapons) is also much shorter, this is especially useful later in the game when you face all the Howler types at once, because they are really fast and jump on you in a heartbeat.
So, not just speed up, but “anything that can be sped up IS sped up.” Hell yeah.
This is one of my most favorite horror games of all time. A shooter that was ahead of it's time, with a fantastic narrative that manages to tick all the horror trope boxes convincingly and without being contrived. A brilliant game. Thank you for putting it out there.
Embrace your inner boomer shooter, the early 10's were a dark times for shooters.
Remind me what we got.
@@shadowincvides Call of duties, battlefields and their countless clones.
@Stix N' Stones New Doom though, so, eh.
@@Jebsucks meh at best. No proper level design or resource management.
@@aNemetZzZ I don't know, there seems to be plenty of ressource management and the levels are plenty open in doom 2016.
If postal 2 was so good then why isn’t there a postal 4.... oh wait
Falloutboispupper420 they made a postal 4
i just saw some vids about it, seems pretty good but i think its already broken.
yea, thats what ive seen, it looks like they seriously need some playtesters for it, ill gladly get paid to kill people in creative ways and report if they dont die or something.
Shouldn't you be in a acti-blizzard game's comments section?
It's Early Access.
If you keep your upgraded Skull Storm charged long enough, the three skulls talk to each other.
This is one of my favorite horror games. This felt like such a huge game when it first came out. Also the Tibetan War Cannon is one of my favorite guns in a shooter. It’s a super cool idea and I love that the dragon moves it’s mouth and tongue when you’ve got it equipped. This game does little atmospheric things so well.
Haste with the scythe is what breaks the game, Shield just adds onto that
Just finished it today, you aint kidding. That last section was a joke with this combo
Amazing underrated gem of a game.
Yep
When you gotta squint to hear the Irish accent
It's like the VA kept forgetting what accent he was supposed to have so he had to keep correcting himself.
I'm Irish and he overshot it by a mile and went Scottish
@@iain2080 same accent
I almost missed it, but I love that they animated facial expressions, because the way our man smirks, at the end of the interaction with the severed head (around 18:54)... That was wonderful.
That part had me rolling on the ground
"I am aware of what I am. I seek-a da vengance~"
Me: "WHAT NATIONALITY ARE YOU LIZ?"
Prepare to face my spicy-a-meatball!
Ohh so Civvie is into Doom mods
...And also the Intro is back!
To this day when confronted by a locked door, the unholy word slips from my tongue...Stook
J A A M E D
WON'T BODGE
*Schtookh
POSTAL 4 Civvie
See what that Duke Nukem Forever review did to us all
That's your reward
I haven't even watched the whole video yet, but mixing footage from one of my all-time favorite movies into a review of one of my all-time favorite games? Dude. You're so awesome. And so, so, so funny.
Thank you, Civie. Sincerely. This was one of my favorite games of all time. I had no idea that you were aware of it and wanted to suggest it for a while. But you really did it justice.
Couple of pro tips:
- you can dispell the killer plants
- you can electrically charge the crossbow
BTW, you didn't mention how bullets ricochet, which was quite awesome for the time.
Now go play Jericho. It has some flaws, but it also has a lot of memorable moments / set pieces... I mean, it's Barker...
18:56 That has to be the best bitchslap I have ever witnessed in a videogame.
Patriks god damn smug face when he did that
I like when you make videos featuring your dungeon, takes me out of 2019
I'm really invested in Civvie's daily life at the department of special corrections.
The intro is here cuz he's in the past, doyou even pay attention to the lore? Sheesh
Pro F.E.A.R. WHEN CIVVIE??!?!?!?
Pro FEAR3 too?
Nah, that one sucks...
@@Gruntvc O.G. FEAR and the 2 expansions...i dont want to talk about FEAR 3..
@@Gruntvc I actually kinda like that game. Sure, it completely loses any semblance of being spooky and god damnit that whole story campaign is a clusterfuck, but no other game lets me gib dudes in bullet time quite like F3AR. It's the simple things in life, man.
"Skeletons are easy fodder in a horror game"
Visions of Dark Souls...
I remember I tried to go to the catacombs first, because I figured my Club would be well suited to fighting them... (Deprived is the only class fight me)
Imagine how surprised I was she the fuckers came back. Again and again and again.
@@The24thWight And then you get to Tomb of the Giants.
It's the same with dogs. Usually they're the easiest enemies, but in From games, they're goddamn ninjas.
@@n0denz
I don't know I remember the dogs in resident evil being...
Evil.
And I mean the real resident evil. Back when controllers didn't have sticks on them.
visions of horse but hole
I've had the stone summon a hound a couple times in my playthrough. You have to use it quite a lot, it's a pretty rare chance. Also that set piece of the statue with the heart you have to shoot while scrying was damn spooky.
Hell yes- an incredible game reviewed by one of my favorite youtubers on my birthday (and it even has a happy birthday in it!)- Thanks for making my day even better! :D
Happy birthday, dawg!
@@HughMansonMD Thanks man! Appreciate it! :D
Happy birthday!
Love this game! I remember playing through it a decade back when Gamespot called it "The best game nobody ever played". Didn't know there was a shooting gallery in the beginning.
Postal 4 just released on Steam in early access, with Jon St. John... I'm sorry for 90% of your comment section being about that
I mean, I reminded him an hour ago but yeah.
@Stix N' Stones I have some problems too, but it's a first build alpha, gotta expect that to happen
Civvie you have given me hours of entertainment, just wanted to say thank you. Not sure if you read these, but again, thanks. I found your channel randomly and listening to you ramble is S-tier level stuff on this god forsaken website
I love the fact that your channel is regularly watched by people who worked on these games. It speaks volumes about the quality of your content.
You sir are as of now my favorite youtuber, and not just for all of those brilliant pop-culture references.
E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy When
Somebody give this man brouzouf.
Fix his legs while you're at it
You. I like you.
Yes please
@@rolandsodakin2354 His legs are ok.
omg that assimilation is so true :(
EA is the Thing confirmed.
EA is not The Thing. They are literally the Devil.
Though to be fair, Blizzard, Activision, WB Games, Ubisoft, etc are giving their best to be terrible too.
I thought EA fired their acquisitions after they were done with em.
🅱️estwood 😭
Once he gets into Jericho, it will be like DNF all over again.
Jericho was GOOD though. It's that stupid, shitty, cliffhanger ending that sucked.
(Remembers repeated bosses, enemy swarms, dull visuals in most levels)
Oh no wait, Jericho sucked. The only good thing about it was GUIIIIIIDED PSYCHIC SNIIIIPER BUUUUULEEETS!
Jericho at 200k subscribers then?
@pkleaf, Both Singularity and Bulletstorm did guided bullets too. And both were a lot better than Jericho.
That teammate AI...
@@Gruntvc I know they did, but Jericho was the first game I played that had them. And yeah, the AI was so trash it was obvious they wanted co op multiplayer but scrapped the idea for some odd reason.
@@zigfaust
Snipers underbarrel 40mm good too
Are we just not going to talk about Civvie's hand reveal
gnaw right? It just so lewd
leon ik I nutted
Wait, what? I’ve seen this video a couple times, and I don’t know what you’re talking about. Do you have a time stamp for it?
@@dealerman5955 32:00
@@papayer Yeah, never mentally occured to me that that's civvie's hand. thanks
"id still hit it"
-Civvie 11
• _Undying_ was a great, very memorable game, one of my all-time favorites. I want to re-play it, but my OCD makes me do the shooting-range at the start, so I can't make any progress, so I keep putting it off for later. Regardless, it's still a great game, with great atmosphere, and felt very full and satisfying (not too long, not too short). _Jericho_ wasn't bad, it was just buried.
• The spells remind me of the ter'angreal from _Wheel of Time_ (which was pretty good, but too long); also some of its maps.
• 12:36 - This part reminds me of _American McGee's Alice_ . The cistern reminds me of _Tomb Raider_ , other parts remind me of some of the _Painkiller_ games, and some _Return to Castle Wolfenstein_ , and even _CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth_ .
• 15:00 - This part reminds me of _Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem_ .
• 18:47 - Would you still hit it? 🤔
• 20:37 - And some _Watchmaker_ and/or _Scratches_ .
• 28:18 - And now _Barrow Hill_ .
• 29:00 - Kraven.
• 31:47 - Shame. :-\
_Undying_ is reminiscent of many games (some before it, some after), as well as some Lovecraft stuff, particularly _Dunwich Horror_ . Overall, it's extremely memorable and a fun play.
Also remember dual wielding on bioshock 2, this seems like the progenitor to it
Thank you so much for talking about this, it's a criminally underrated title that no one remembers. I have a lot of younger friends who didn't really get into the PC gaming scene until I met them in university and I keep telling them about how great this game was. Damn shame we're never getting a sequel.
> "When I was a boy, I encountered something I can't quite explain"
> Proceeds to explain
@Rou Dabral He hid some details to lead Patrick along, sure, but being able to describe what he found and what happened is by definition a form of explanation. Of course, this is a very literal-minded way of looking at it, my comment was meant mostly as a joke.
@Rou Dabral Ah, I see. Couldn't tell!
Undying is one of the best story-driven games ever. I played it in 2002, and I still vividly remember it. It had so many firsts for me: first weapon wheel game, first dual wield game and first FPS game where guns had secondary modes, first time where your character has to warp to a mirror world with ghosts, just a great game. Scythes are awesome.
"Shake it baby." - Jon St John
I love using Invoke on all of the Trsanti. Especially the ones with dynamite. They give it a nice, big hug.
I have, honestly, been afraid that this channel is going to end after reaching 100k subs and doing the DNF material.
Good to know Civvie isn't done with being the pinnacle of online entertainment.
They extended his sentence.
And unlike a certain other pinnacle, he’s earned that title.
This episode made me feel, and I quote:
"Holy crap, the intro is back."
Okay, that The Thing clip needs its own video.
The most underrated horror game ever released.
This game is so good i replay it every two years.
Same but the BioShock saga.
Same!
It's been 2 years. Play it again!
@@gamebond6248 installing it now
@@gamebond6248 finished it was a bit busy with work!
Legit one of my favorite games ever. Nice to see this old gem getting some love. Now how about a remaster and a sequel?
Remaster maybe; I think Unicronic Arts killed all hope of a sequel though.
8:30 I just realized; Patrick is LEFT HANDED! That's gotta be a first in FPS history!
Maybe, but I remember that the terrorists in counter strike are left handed.
Doomguy is left-handed ;) Holds his pistol in his left hand and leads with his left when unarmed.
He only holds the shotgun right-handed because many left-handed soldiers still train to use rifles and shotguns that way.
Is he? Or does magic require more dexterity, which is why he uses his right hand?
I thought, "Samus Aran," but that was obviously after this. Just figured I'd mention her.
That's a cool detail, but it was clearly made for gameplay reasons: if your character can dual-wield, it's better to have the left mouse button fire the weapon in your left hand (those who have played The Darkness II know what I'm talking about), and since in Undying guns are treated as a primary fire and spells as an alternate option, it made sense to have the main character be left-handed.
I genuinely felt a twinge in my chest seeing all the logos. RIP games companies, gone but never forgotten.
An awesome game. When I was younger it literally scared the shit out of me, so that I finished it almost 15 years later after rediscovering it. a true classic in horror Gaming.
I always found it funny how Patrick walked like he had two wooden legs :-)
Used to watch my dad play this when I was a kid because I was too scared...
Good memories
“Where will Jon St. John show up next?”
Postal 4 surprisingly.
When will this comment appear again?
FuNnY yOu ShOuLd SaY tHaT
CallOfCody lol yeah!
Pretty scared there when the necronomicon was tossed on camera, thought alternate universe Civvie might've summoned some weird apocalyptic creatures and doomed his world. Thank god that we got a Undying popsicle stick show instead.
I love this game! It's not so much 'scary' as it is atmospheric, and it actually kind of has that unsettling atmosphere thanks to the janky graphics
Honestly "scary" for games usually either means atmospheric or obnoxious jumpscares. I know which one I prefer.
@@h4724-q6j I like the slow burn better. It gets under your skin. In this game things don't tend to jump you so much as you hear them, aren't sure where they are, and even when you see them you feel tension because they tend to be stronger than you are XD
@@bloodrunsclear yeah I prefer that too.
Deserves a solid remaster by Nightdive Studios. This and Soldier of Fortune.
@@Gruntvc A remake would be interesting, looking a bit like Evil Within maybe?
The smugness after giving the slap on 18:55 is priceless LMAO
This is one of my favorite FPS games of all time. Everything was perfect in this.
Just want to say, I stopped watching halfway through the review so I can play this game without spoilers. Civvy11, you are amazing keep up the awesome reviews.
"That scythe" is one of my favorites from any game, ever... XD You also neglected to mention the fact that it'll drink enemies' blood puddles if you get it close enough... like some sort of twisted drinking bird thing.
...and the lightning bolt spell works with the crossbow or whatever it was to make some sort of rocket launcher type thing that was supposed to be good for killing something or other.
Oh my fucking God!!! I loved this game when playing it so long ago with my brother, now seeing you playing it is making my day so much better
Just watched Grim Beard's review of this game from three years ago and now you cover Undying too. What a great time to be alive
Love this game.. despite its age it still plays pretty well - and the atmosphere in some places is VERY effective. Certain parts gives me goosebumps every time. Great video...
Civvie when:
Chex Quest
Chex Quest 2
Chex Quest 3
Chex Quest pro
Chex Quest brutal?
Pro Chex when civvie
Pro Chex Quest HD when?
(aka the CQ1 remake)
Even avgn did them. Even brutal chex
Your request has more or less been fulfilled ig.
@@doge-of-venice indeed it has
"pro brutal doom"
*shows trailblazer gameplay*
Trailblazer is definitely one of my favorite mods for Doom. It's just so cool
Trailblazer? You mean alternate timeline brutal doom?
You mean Alien Vendetta
this is the best channel ever, you have influenced my buys more than any other channel. i always have to go out and buy these games lol
There's something about these old games... the graphics look more crisp than today. They also tried a lot of different things back then, not worrying about what would stick and what wouldn't sell.
It's probably not worth commenting on a 4 year old video but this is really impressive for UE 1 tech. The texturing on the low polygon count models is especially good. Really good work work within the limitations they were working with.
Don't know why, but it just pleases me to no end that he's a leftie with a left handed revolver.
Lizabeth is giving me some Mileena flashbacks that I don't mind a bit.
Oh Civvie's Dungeon how I've missed you!
One of my favorite spooky games. I'm glad you're giving it the love and attention it deserves.
I love lore rich games & this was a treat to watch, thanks Civvie11