I played this so that you don’t have to. The video uses music from Fallout: Sonora: nobodysnailmachine.bandcamp.com/album/dayglow-fallout-sonora-dlc-soundtrack
I know you're a video game channel, but I really love Daywatch and Nightwatch the movies, I dunno could you do a video about them I think they're american russian co pros and there's a bad video game RPG from russia based on them? I dunno I want to know more. :D
@@cheerio2298 Oh no I don't know if I'm gonna thank y'all or shake my metaphorical fist bc I can tell I'm circling the Event Horizon of that rabbit hole.
Russian racism is always more spicy than Western racism, because you need a history degree and you must cite 4 different sources to explain why your ethnicity is better than a slightly different ethnicity.
@@dimitrosskrippka2154 it's a joke about a illuminati conspiracy theory, the one that claims all world leaders are secretly lizard people disguised as humans
@@paleflame Yeah but that's not 17th century, it's 15th century. It'll be fun, but by the 17th century you have all the cool guns, full plate armour, etc
This game reminds me more of later Assassin's Creed gemes (where great and quite historical accurate surroundings designs and interesting settings go to die surrounded by crappy gameplay and cringe story)
More RPG developers should scam money from clueless government officials. The spanish version of this game would likely be set during the napolenic invasion, where we fought against a french tyrant for a *different* french tyrant. Thrilling stuff. Maybe Goya could make an appearance as a quest NPC.
First it was Canadian government-funded anarchist Fallout Tactics mod. Now we have very-mild-on-actual-propaganda government-funded Witcher-killer. Oh, just to make your day better - polish government did fund CDPR a lot to implement multiplayer in Cyberpunk.
If there is one thing in which Central-Eastern Europe, and particularly Slavs, excels in that would be mustaches. There is no region of the world that can rival it. Polish szlachta, Russian boyars, Ukrainian Cossacks, Stalin (even tho he's Georgian). Magnificent mustaches all
cant believe that the Batman Arkham Series, The Witcher, Spiderman PS4, Assassin's Creed, and The Last of Us stole the Yuri vision and tricked western audiences into thinking they put it into their games first
What I, as a Polak, find the most shocking about this is that a propaganda piece from an openly hostile country portrays Poles with more dignity than Hollywood ever did.
Truth be told, if this game makes it to the west, I'd imagine it will immediately be cannibalized by Modders for the outfits and weapons, rather than actually played. The guys working on Bannerlord Total Conversions would probably have a field day with this stuff.
@@lysergicserpent7676 he can learn Chinese. Make it a patreon ggoal like 5k/month and he will start to learn it, instead of making a videogame critic movie. Just saying.
@@8xottox8 I would love to introduce you to Catalonian Hotep: the believe that every single famous person in European history was Catalonian. Columbus? Catalonian. Leonardo Da Vinci? Catalonian. Cervantes? Not only Catalonian, but also Shakespeare (yes, they believe that Cervantes and Shakespeare are the same person). All of this has been spouted by the Institut Nova Història. Which for a while was directly funded and supported by the Catalonian government. Also. Imperial Rome and the Byzantine Empire? Believe it or not, but according to the Institut Nova Història, they were also Catalonians.
This review lacks the famous meme moment when during another combat tutorial the old mentor tells Yuri "show me your fighting skills", Yuri player simply pulls a pistol and shoots him in the face, and a cutscene immediately starts with "I see you remember what I taught you"
It's also funny, because it sounds TOO much like a dialogue from gachimuchi memes, especially the one about "Daddy telling how to not rip the skin". Also, it's sus how much people here are interested in Yuri "unsheathing his blade".
“POLES could be here,” he thought. “I’ve never been in this ancient forest before. There could be POLES anywhere.” The cool wind felt good against his armored chest. “I HATE POLES”
As a degenerate westerner, I can say that almost all of the particulars of the verbal content of this video essay could be attributed to a stroke or a benadryl induced fever dream. I had a good time, 8/10 would embrace conceptual despair again.
The evil ango-saxon Todd Howard should wish to be able to develop such a masterpiece. Alas, the eternal anglos and us, their vassals, will forever remain oblivious to the correct way of making rpgs.
Regarding animal attacks: my dad grew up in an undeveloped place in QingHai and wild dog attacks were a serious concern. This was as recent as the 1960s. Crazy
Wild dogs attacks were a common enough problem in *western* Europe pre-WW1 when bicycles were becoming huge (late 1800s, early 1900s) that there was a dedicated class of revolver known as "velodogs" (combining "velocipede", the class of vehicle bicycles belong to and a major term for bicycles in general in French, and "dog", meaning dog) for cyclists to dispatch them with. The problem largely disappeared during WW1 due to ecological damage to their habitat and rationing rules not applying to them.
38:24 fun fact: according to multiple Polish language historians, the use of the now-world-famous "koorva", was not yet established in the function of "strong emotion" or "emphasis interjection" as far back as 1612. In those times it still had predominantly only its literal meaning, which is a "prostitute". So it's unlikely that NPC would have said it in any other context than exchanging opinions about some particular fictional woman. Imagine nowadays someone saying "Prostitute! This traffic is prostitute killing me! I'm gonna be prostitute late!"
@@Poctyk 😄 something like that. I just find it funny that modern stereotypes *have* to be attached to old contexts to help the viewer navigate the old reality. Plain, unaltered, faithfully presented old reality could be too alien for us and the player could feel lost in the fog. This game tries hard to pretend to be an RPG, so our character should handle and feel like an expert inhabitant of 1612 Rus' region. If they showed us 100% true environment, including the real staroslavyanskiy language, we, as modern-brained operators, would make the character act out silly actions and conversations, stemming from our misunderstanding of what the NPC said or did. Imagine a skyrim-flexible game world where you get a quest "[justice must be upheld! bring that] korova [to me!]" - in the actual game the bracketed parts would also be in the authentic language. Korova can mean: 1. a cow 2. a woman who is clearly a mother but there is no husband in sight 3. a woman known to be promiscuous. Have fun completing the quest 😆
As a Russian myself im glad that someone outside witnessed such a majestic blunder as "Smuta". This shit should be studied as a case of how a bad vision, shitty management and even worse implementation can kill pretty interesting concept. I mean, Russian (and Eastern Slavic as a whole, actually) history and folklore is an almost untouched topic in gaming and this is a damn shame, because it is both rich and decently documented, aside a couple of black dots on the chart (and "Time of Troubles" is descisevily not one of them). They basically had two perfectly valid routs to go ("historical route" like in Kingdom Come, or "fantasy route" akin to Witcher) but somehow managed to go neither. This is quite impressive, to be honest
Those memes are an attempt of Ukrainians to relieve the subhuman accusations by russians, kinda like embracing a meme, since 2014 russians were comparing Ukrainians to pigs, it is now ingrained into Ukrainian culture. It a coping mechanism in order to relieve years of abuse, dehumanisation and belittlement by a colonial power. But in the process, russia made an enternal enemy of a country with 44 million inhabitants, so now Ukriane is taking Russia with them, and will do so until its death, or russias death. Kind like americans made enemies of the whole middle east, but without the 9/11 even, russians started doing the colonial bullshit for no apparent reason, hence antagonizing the "colony" even harder.
How about an RPG where you play as Ivan the Terrible, but instead of the olden days you get time shifted to 1970s Moscow by a brilliant Soviet scientist and the goal of the game is to get back home after the machine gets destroyed. Ripping off books from the 1600s isn't going to get them anywhere, they should rip off movies from the 70s. Those were way more fun.
It's so fucking funny: In Poland, we have a historical novelist Jacek Komuda (he worked on the first witcher game) who wrote a trilogy on the smuta time. As a typical Commonwealth enjoyer he uses exactly the same motives and arguments as seen from the characters in this government funded game. I hope so much this game is actually polish government propaganda made by our secret spies in Moscow.
There's a fun, little indie fighting game, Hellish Quart, set in this period, available in early access. It's being developed by a former CD Projekt RED employee and HEMA enthusiasts Jakub "Kubold" Kisiel. It is supposed to eventually get a story mode, written by Komuda.
That's a half-serious theory I've actually seen regarding this game, yes. The counter argument, however? "Well, if this game was made by secret Poles, it would have FUCKING GAMEPLAY".
The fun part here is that the Russians actually love also the old Deluge trilogy, by Sienkiewicz, an even more nationalist piece of literature. So, maybe it is not spies, but Russains sensitive to Polish literature. (I myself prefer 'Krzyżacy' which is like a medieval epic poem, in prose.)
What I really love about Warlockracy is the fact that he always lore dumps us with eastern european history and culture in every video realated to eastern europe, like some kind of slavic Tom Bombadil
I too am interested in English explanations about how dysfunctional Russian culture was behind disasters. Only other source of this kind of thing I know of is Paper Skies. When other history channels who sometimes cover Russia (like small arms or naval history) stumble upon Russian insanity, they're unable to comprehend it and can only underline how insane it was instead of even try to explain why.
My friend was one of the two character designers in this game. All Poles, all shish and almost all boyars were designed by him. And he was furious when he saw the finished product. a significant part of his work, as well as the work of the second designer, was never used in the game. He was also very upset that the developers had somehow changed all his fur on everything he had done. The fur was static, so it wasn't done in favor of automation, the developers just wanted a uglier fur.
Colovian fur helm was inspired by the headgear you saw in this game. Colovia was supposed to be quasi-Slavic before Toddler turned TES into the blandest generic fantasy possible.
The russian government spent 10 million on this, meanwhile the russians who made Silent Storm probably did so with a budget of 3 potatoes and a half-empty bottle of vodka
@@wander67 dunno, looks too artsy for me, in my opinion, games like Silent Storm and Men of War are the epitome of slavjank, low production values, barely functional and extremely ambitious games with deep mechanics
I'm happy that Russian government spend $10,000,000 to create this game, so we can enjoy Warlockracy new deep dive into Russian culture and lore. Truly mind melting experience.
Broke: the Russian government spent $10 mil on a shitty Witcher clone Woke: the Russian government spent $10 mil on material for a Russian history and culture lecture delivered by Warlockracy
This game became one huge meme in Russia because of lengthy and senseless dialogues with shitty voice acting. Many suspect that the game was made as a source for gachi memes which there are a lot.
It amuses me that the villains of the story have reasonable and even convincing rationalizations: that's usually very unusual in nationalist fiction, where the enemy are buglords and traitors. I suppose that makes the main character even more insane and stupid in comparison: he just does what he's told without internalizing anything he's heard.
Because the anti-Polish position is supposed to be self-evident from the modern nationalist/patriotic perspective - they are foreign invaders and therefore bad. Yuri simply acts as a vessel for this perspective and exists only to push a narrative, while the other characters act like people actually living in the world around them: a cossack from the Commonwealth isn't blindly loyal to some vague idea of "Russian Land", a powerful boyar sides with the Polish king recognized as the righful ruler by his faction etc.
@@Game_Heroit is what they are already. But not because they are mindless zombies, its even worse, its because they are so hell bent on stability that Pootin provides, that they are ready to lay waste to a country with 44 million inhabitants for that, remember, choice to invade ukraine from 2014 was made by every single russian citizen in an attempt to preserve "stabilty". Rightfully so, the second this stability is gone, current russian establishment will fly out of the window like Slobodan Milosevic did. The second sanctions and loams hit serbia in 1999, is the second conservative farmers turned against him(farmers who previously didnt criticize him for genociding bosnia, creating rape-houses with bosnian women, and acting so violently that he invoked an american bombing campaign on serbia), followed by a lightning fast mass prptest organisation, and him stepping down after election fraud. Americans are no different, but they lived through their nationalist era in 2000s, and now cover themselves from any responsibilty for destroying iraq and afghanistan, it was the "elites" who forced them to do it, and not politicians simply doing what electorate wanted in order to get votes.
i love how deranged slavic internet lore is. Your dry deliver of said exposition makes it feel like i am the intro for russian metal gear solid 3 - Vodka eater.
I've been introduced to Slavic internet recently, such as the chick who fills homeless people or the guy who turned himself into a girl after being bullied and honestly the West needs to step up their game. Chris Chan is tame compared to their internet lore.
10,000,000 given by the government to make the game means about half is stole by the very government, another half by the commision deciding who to give the money, and another half by the owner of the company. So the game likely was developed for 99.99$
In fact, prices and salaries in Russian IT are not much different from European ones, because this industry is transnational. So, in terms of salaries and other expenses during 4 years of development, this is not some exorbitant amount. The problem is that no amount of money can fix a bad developer.)
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 You know that there are different developers?) Leading devs, juniors, developing games, or banking systems... And salaries vary by skill, role and company. Also, nothing prevents a developer from working for a foreign company. So, "average developer" is for those who do not understand IT. PS "C# developer" - someone who doesn't know other languages?)
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 You know that there are different types of developers, right?) Leading devs, juniors developing games, or banking security systems... And salaries vary by skill, role and company. Also, nothing prevents a dev from working for a foreign company. So, “regular developer” is for those who do not understand anything about IT.) PS “C# developer” is someone who doesn’t know other languages? lol)
Very interesting game idea, though as a Pole I wish there was an alternative ending option where our protagonist stays on Władysław's side and Russia becomes the third country of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, so we all end up partitioned by Prussia, Austria and Sweden 200 years later
@@arturhashmi6281 That's the joke. If Russia would have become part of the Commonwealth it could partition it, but then nobody would've stopped Sweden.
26:30 was he about to say "spierdalaj"? Truly a progressive game, he spent so much time chatting to Poles in game that he started using Polish curse words (and i guess it was too liberal of an idea and someone sabotaged the sound to censor it) True story
His fragile Muscovite mind was brainwashed by the evil Polish progressive and degenerate ideals "freedom" and "reason", but he stopped and broke the spell just as he was about to say the magic word that would make him their slave forever.
1:06 for those confused as to why Russia had so many of these, "prince" was a title you could hold without necessarily being a member of the mainline royal family. It more or less occupied the space where a duke would in the hierarchy, being just below the monarchs themselves.
из князи в грязи. the problem is that some titles of russian peerage don't translate very well and this is one of them. i guess crown price would be more like великий князь?
@@uuves According to Google translate(sadly the best resource I have), the second thing you said translates to "Grand Duke". In English, "crown prince" is the heir to the throne, which I *think* would be the Tsesarevich, with what you said being the title given to the younger sons of the monarch who weren't next in line. European monarchies would often give their younger princes titles, but their rank today is usually just bundled together as "prince"
@@Noname-e9k7k weirdly thats not the term that was used historically, the 'grand duke' is sort of .. the upper bound of what they'd use during the time, as i understand.. or государь ....the term you're referring to is something that came a bit later.
Most people translate książę as prince when it should be a duke, confusing książę with królewicz and księżniczka with królewna. I assume it's the same in Russian
It is a pity that in Europe and America, when they have problems, they blame it for the propaganda of Russian bots. And here people blame their own, that's the difference...The very first ones shouted that it was Russia when they shot at Trump)))
31:38 "charakterny/charakterniak" in Polish is used to describe someone with strong morals, someone whos unbreakable, especially in the gangster/prison gang (Grypsera) population - like some tough guy who gets caught in some organised crime bust and claims he did it all by himself so his comrades can get off scot free , which kinda makes me wonder if it has anything to do with "charakternik". for context, A LOT of "grypsera" (language used by Polish prison gang "Grypserzy" which before internet was basically almost completely unintelligible to someone outside of that circle - and people within thay group were forbidden from using it outside of prison, but internet provides anonymity and it quickly became exposed to normies) comes from Russian and Ukrainian. for Poles reading this, czaj - almost a meme word, probably due to the movie Symetria and famous "Roman, czaju zaparz" - is Russian for tea, and also for "Grypserzy". It makes sense whwn you consider that in "common" Polish, the word "kozak" means someone extremely brave with zero fucks to give (but can be also used as an offensive term to describe a punk whos way over his head acting like a tough guy whilst clearly not being one). Point being, A LOT of Polish slang/prison language comes from Ukrainian and Russian so perhaps so does "charakterniak".
@@TheKrzywol I'm from Podkarpacie but have never heard this definition. Do you have any source for this? (I'm not questioning it by the way LMAO I'm just curious)
Pierwotnie charakternik oznaczał tego, kto uprawiał czary, magię, czarnoksiężnika, czarownika, kogoś, kto pisze, używając tajemnych znaków, o czym możemy się przekonać, czytając siedemnastowieczne Pamiętniki Jana Chryzostoma Paska: "Tameczni zaś Incolae [mieszkańcy] kożdy strzelec, kożdy żołnierz a do tego i charakternik" (Rok pański 1659). W takim znaczeniu rzeczownik ten został użyty przez Henryka Sienkiewicza w Potopie: "[...] boć z charakternikiem nieludzka moc! W oczach ci zginie albo kurzawą się zakręci...". From lodz university page. Just google charakternik znaczenie. Sorry for polish but i'm on the phone.
@@TheKrzywol Now i wonder how tf did it go from this to basically prison gang slang? In modern Polish i have never seen this word used in reference to any type of magic anything
Why everything made in Russia, like movies, tanks, cars and even videogames is always made ''as the answer to'' and ''in spite of'' West? Why can't they just focus on themselves and make their own, fully Russian products?
Because with this conception it's really easy to steal the money)) Plus losing in Cold War makes them to feel bad and in need to be better at something in that exact way. But, mostly the money, I think
@THEGREATATAnal yea, you're pretty right about the money laundring Part, but excuse me - where did you get this "winner/loser" bullshit about the cold war? As someone, who lived through those times i can't remember a declaration or celebration of a winner when the cold war ended... The whole "winner of cold war" narrative started when we began bombing yugoslavia while russia did nothing.
Because it isn't made that way, but rather the state uses it as propaganda (for the most part, there's plenty of state made things that are made that way so money could be laundred)
Very easy to promote. Popular thing is mentioned and there's no need of a detailed explanation about our thing, because it uses pre-conceived vibes of popular thing.
Mr friendly warlock mancer man, I havent left a nice comment in a while but wanted to let you know you’re still the Only Good TH-camr and I am still your number one fan
Russian here! Kremlin doesn't understand the concept of the videogames, because for the most of modern post-soviet high ranks (or, that's closer to the truth thieves and crooks) last experience was "Egg catcher" based on "Ну, погоди!" cartoons. So they can easily spent our taxation money for crap like Smuta if this contains propaganda narratives they need and pretty shiny graphics (they don't understand "optimization" too). Meanwhile, so many russian modders and indi-developers deserves support, but no, sorry guys, you don't have enough experience in boot licking to have a proper investment from government. I'm glad that Atomic Heart came out and was actually pretty decent
@@overlorddexter don't you get in Slovakia those weirdos that get offended when somebody says they're Eastern Europe and correct that they are, in fact, Central Europe? (implying they have nothing to do with those other barbarians and they are Western deep down please accept us)
@@Gniew2 yes that's what I thought. But that's why I don't get @BoSinnfan54 comment ? Like. Did he write in Russian initially and just copied past it wrongly ?
I love seeing things from Eastern European countries. Being in the Southwest United States it really feels like its a world away. I love learning about places the western media hasnt traditionally focused on
Dude, as a boring suburbanite kid from the Southwest US, SAME. We're so fortunate to have someone like Warlockracy, who stands at this perfect intersection between cultures, able to translate this for us.
I feel like for that 10 million, they could have made a simple 2D isometric Fallout-like with a Russian coat of paint and then made easy Bethesda-esque modding tools to allow Russian players to make their own nationalist fantasies set in the ancient Slavic world and achieved much more serious soft power.
It could still BECOME one. There is any word of fans tranlation, engine or moding? This game could essily reach mainstream with some fan work to spread it.
Conspiracy-theory no. 164: The developers themselves were responsible for the negative comments. They realized their game wasn't the propaganda-piece they were payed for, which could cause a lot of trouble. So they made it look like they were the victims of a Ukrainian/Polish attack on the game, which would show the Internet Development Institute that they definitly created something that would offend the enemy 🤫 Case closed!
Wait a second, simple streamlined RPG mechanics, no real choices to speak of, overly simplistic gameplay loop, mediocre voice acting and bad Storyline? Oh my god, this IS a Bethesda game, isn't it?
Maybe they cancelled their sub due to financial issues, sometimes you have to choose between food and a funny end-of-review joke in Warlockracy's video ._.
God this was hilarious. When you brought up FHD(ЕСД), I couldn't even remember his name but I was already was like "Oh, THAT guy!" That's some real deep russia lore there. So, any theories on how much of that budget was skimmed off by the state functionaries who ordered it?
Well, then you should add Civvie11 to the list. He made some absolutely hilarious reviews of slavjank, very worth to watch. My favorite one is "You Are Empty".
@@PiterDeVries he did upload a review of Descent 1 and 2 yesterday and his reviews of Eurojank from the Half Life 2 era are hilarious. Hoping he reviews Boiling Point someday
Man, Russophobic or not, I would play the shit out of this game if it was actually good. The representation for this cool setting is zero. Or the game based on Alexey Tolstoy's The Silver Knight set in the Ivan IV period, which preceded the Time of Troubles.
There is a Polish game Hellish Quart set in the same period. It's a fighting game, but the dev is working on a story mode as well. Funnily enough, Marina's image in Smuta (girl in a hat with a rapier) is most likely stolen from that game.
Копцев же работал в Варгейминге, разраб "Танков". Он засветился благодаря своему сыну видеоблоггеру Фирамиру, который делал серию роликов, где он ест соплю, его якобы похищают, заливают перцем, избивают на стримах, поджигают квартиру и тд.
Bc he's russian, you know?) It's a bit of a secret, so keep it... But I'll even tell you this: he was making some good&funny neonationalist right-winged content and (somewhat) propaganda in russian like 5 years ago. And even did some kind of a gamification of discource back then. It was quite spectacular, and we have some of his catchphrases still going
@@enricobianchi4499 he didn't change his mind on politics I suppose. He just saw what a shitshow is all this "russian nationalism" and what a fucking pricks those people who engaged in it.
Когда работаешь на частные деньги то тебе надо стааться чтобы их отбить, а гос бабки в принципе тратят только чтобы отчитаться и попилить. Все что связано с государством всегда будет безумным позорным трешем.
Well you see, it is no threat to show the Polish as being articulate and dignified. After, no amount of education will ordain them with Divine blessing of having been born Russian.
It is quite amusing that Władysław is referred to as a "Polish" prince, considering that he was an elected ruler from the foreign Swedish Vasa dynasty.
Well, he was born and raised in Poland, as a son of the Polish King Sigismund III (an elected monarch, who was simultaneously the hereditary King of Sweden, until being deposed by his uncle), and given a very Polish name - Władysław. Plus, his paternal grandmother was Catherine Jagiellon (Kararzyna Jagiellonka), a Polish princess. Władysław eventually did become the Polish king by winning the election upon his father's death.
I mean it's kinda typical for European monarchies. Monarchs don't like to mingle with the commoners and they want to build up relations with other kingdoms so they arrange marriages across Europe. So you get stuff like French dynasties in Hungary. In the East it was different since a monarch's legitimacy there was mostly dictated by the father's side only. So the Eastern dynasties could produce enough heirs through harems (which of course were composed of lower classes or slaves) without much reliance on marriage with foreign dynasties. Dynastical marriages did occur but they didn't carry the same significance as in the West.
I love when you make videos about Russian/Eastern European video games and culture. As a westerner, it's never something that we really get to experience
I gotta say its interesting, as interesting as most jap games here and there. Especially with the decline of entertainment in the West these days, always nice to look outside the box
They actually pitched this game to the public as a "Russian Ghost of Tsushima" Devs also stated that fight mechanic in Witcher was "horrible". They didn't elaborate which Witcher game they meant, though.
@@PiterDeVries "Devs also stated that fight mechanic in Witcher was "horrible". They didn't elaborate which Witcher game they meant, though." TBH that would apply to the whole trilogy... I loved playing those games, but none of them had good combat. Which is weird since it's a game with monster slayer doing his craft for a living.
Aw man this is legit a shame, since honestly the assets look pretty solid and I'd love there to be an actual decent historical game like this. But yeah, 5-10 mil for this kind of project? That's...nothing. At least we got another entertaining and very informative review out of it, so that's not nothing!
I played this so that you don’t have to.
The video uses music from Fallout: Sonora: nobodysnailmachine.bandcamp.com/album/dayglow-fallout-sonora-dlc-soundtrack
Google "snohachestvo" to know russians better
it is weird if i see potential in this?
I know you're a video game channel, but I really love Daywatch and Nightwatch the movies, I dunno could you do a video about them I think they're american russian co pros and there's a bad video game RPG from russia based on them? I dunno I want to know more. :D
I'm sorry but what music used at the start of the video?(particulary 3:06 - 3:12), I can't find it anywhere.
@user-dg2bp1ib3r that’s a smuta track, not sure which one
“So Yuri, how did you end up sympathizing with the rebels?”
“Well you see, back in in the Bronze Age…….”
(Starts to retell "slavic aryan vedy")
@@Victor-g mask off moment
thank you for the internet rabbit hole @@Victor-g
@@cheerio2298 Oh no I don't know if I'm gonna thank y'all or shake my metaphorical fist bc I can tell I'm circling the Event Horizon of that rabbit hole.
Russian racism is always more spicy than Western racism, because you need a history degree and you must cite 4 different sources to explain why your ethnicity is better than a slightly different ethnicity.
You know where Brexit really went wrong? We didn't create a Ministry of RPG Theory, it was always doomed to failure with such poor foresight.
you have said the actual truth
i will enter into politics and fix that
the bbc funds will finally be put to good use
@@thejuiceking2219 So long as we get a whole tv channel devoted to boomer RPGs then that sounds like a decent plan.
@@thejuiceking2219 bbc is already funded by whole separate taxation
After playing a bard's tale on xbox i know that highly british RPG can have great potential
10 russophobic lizardmen in women's dresses slain by the mighty tsar batyushka out of 10
Best comment ever! 🤣👍
Русы не против ящерок
@@dimitrosskrippka2154 it's a joke about a illuminati conspiracy theory, the one that claims all world leaders are secretly lizard people disguised as humans
Lizardmen in dresses? Where?!
@@smergthedargon8974 google “Русы не против ящерок”
Alternate title:
Russian devs find way to avoid conscription and get paid by the state for it.
When you put it like that, it's genius.
Pro gamer move
Genius move tbh
There have not been any waves of conscription since 2022
@@fokinsnipahs9823 Probably because so many fled the state over it
Kind of a shame cause a 17th century historic RPG ala Kingdom Come would slap very hard, no matter where it takes place.
Well.... we are getting a second Kingdom Come, so we are more or less good on that front.
I mean "With Fire and Sword" for Mount and Blade Warband had the right ideas, but was a bug fest. That setting is amazing.
I mean you have greedfall granted it's fantasy not historical but it's age of exploration fantasy
@@paleflame Yeah but that's not 17th century, it's 15th century. It'll be fun, but by the 17th century you have all the cool guns, full plate armour, etc
oh yeah? 17th century historic rpg ala kingdom come set on the easter islands
"The anglo saxi have been homosexing us the entire time" is an all time bar and will be eternally funny
Weekend Warrior hayyyyyyyy :3
This is legit what the Russians believe
Also true 🙃🤣
If Big Floppa says it, it must be true!
"Mama, can we get Witcher 3?"
"We have Witcher 3 at home, Misha."
This game reminds me more of later Assassin's Creed gemes (where great and quite historical accurate surroundings designs and interesting settings go to die surrounded by crappy gameplay and cringe story)
@@090giver090 IDK, it's worth it so you can fistfight the antichrist
Миша скачал The Witcher 3 с торрента. Ррррр🏴☠️
@@090giver090 Smuta but Yuri is black (and gay)
That is how they will break into the western markets
"Blyaaat"
More RPG developers should scam money from clueless government officials. The spanish version of this game would likely be set during the napolenic invasion, where we fought against a french tyrant for a *different* french tyrant. Thrilling stuff. Maybe Goya could make an appearance as a quest NPC.
I cannot agree more
Uwe Ball was truly ahead of his time.
Elex Lmao
@@UnknownPerson-cq3qv Elex was pretty decent though
First it was Canadian government-funded anarchist Fallout Tactics mod.
Now we have very-mild-on-actual-propaganda government-funded Witcher-killer.
Oh, just to make your day better - polish government did fund CDPR a lot to implement multiplayer in Cyberpunk.
This might be the widest variety of mustaches I've ever seen in a game. So this game is innovative in at least one sense.
If there is one thing in which Central-Eastern Europe, and particularly Slavs, excels in that would be mustaches. There is no region of the world that can rival it. Polish szlachta, Russian boyars, Ukrainian Cossacks, Stalin (even tho he's Georgian). Magnificent mustaches all
What about 19th century military officers?
Isonzo
cant believe that the Batman Arkham Series, The Witcher, Spiderman PS4, Assassin's Creed, and The Last of Us stole the Yuri vision and tricked western audiences into thinking they put it into their games first
he had it first!
And yet somehow they are also corrupting the youth with those ideas they stole!
Ppl who watch too much anime: "The yuri (ie lesbian) version?!! Tell us more!!!"
Don't forget Gollum, with the Gollum Vision
@@Bakecrusto Gollum! Gollum!
What I, as a Polak, find the most shocking about this is that a propaganda piece from an openly hostile country portrays Poles with more dignity than Hollywood ever did.
You're mostly right but there were positive portrayals in films like A Bridge Too Far or Battle of Britain.
@@stormedjustonce6626 those are both British movies.
Yeah. Yeeeaaahhhh... Sorry bout that.
@@KeluMocy Those Anglosaxons, so hard to tell them apart.
we doesn't hate you over there, much more thinking about you like rival brothers
Truth be told, if this game makes it to the west, I'd imagine it will immediately be cannibalized by Modders for the outfits and weapons, rather than actually played. The guys working on Bannerlord Total Conversions would probably have a field day with this stuff.
At least it's getting used
Those are pretty nice looking models.
People say most assets in this game are stock assets.
Hellish Quart devs will have easier job lol
I can’t wait to watch this video and be introduced to 7th dimensional Russian political memes and lore.
The fun part is how every country has this, but the language barrier stops us from discovering all the insanity right in the open.
I wish there was a Chinese version of Warlockracy
@@lysergicserpent7676 oh me too, there's hundreds if not thousands of chinese-only games out there already
@@lysergicserpent7676 he can learn Chinese. Make it a patreon ggoal like 5k/month and he will start to learn it, instead of making a videogame critic movie. Just saying.
@@8xottox8 I would love to introduce you to Catalonian Hotep: the believe that every single famous person in European history was Catalonian.
Columbus? Catalonian. Leonardo Da Vinci? Catalonian. Cervantes? Not only Catalonian, but also Shakespeare (yes, they believe that Cervantes and Shakespeare are the same person).
All of this has been spouted by the Institut Nova Història. Which for a while was directly funded and supported by the Catalonian government.
Also. Imperial Rome and the Byzantine Empire? Believe it or not, but according to the Institut Nova Història, they were also Catalonians.
This review lacks the famous meme moment when during another combat tutorial the old mentor tells Yuri "show me your fighting skills", Yuri player simply pulls a pistol and shoots him in the face, and a cutscene immediately starts with "I see you remember what I taught you"
Indiana Jones moment.
It's also funny, because it sounds TOO much like a dialogue from gachimuchi memes, especially the one about "Daddy telling how to not rip the skin". Also, it's sus how much people here are interested in Yuri "unsheathing his blade".
@@stardy316 I fucking hope you've seen the gachimuchi edit. It's in russian, but it's still kino
@@stardy316The heck is a gachimuchi? Is it like a shitpost or something?
@@Toonrick12 You're on youtube, man. Go on and find it yourself, ffs.
18:37 "Depths of the ancient forest were man has not gone before"
"There are Poles there"
Now that's what I call subtle writing
“POLES could be here,” he thought. “I’ve never been in this ancient forest before. There could be POLES anywhere.” The cool wind felt good against his armored chest. “I HATE POLES”
Ancient forest: "i fear no man, but those things..."
*Poles*
Ancient forest: "...they scare me"
@@youtubehasbigcringe with a horse you can go anywhere, he said aloud to himself
And here I thought "Yuri-vision" was seeing anime lesbians everywhere...
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Good point.)🤣
The game would be so much better this way...
As a degenerate westerner, I can say that almost all of the particulars of the verbal content of this video essay could be attributed to a stroke or a benadryl induced fever dream.
I had a good time, 8/10 would embrace conceptual despair again.
best comment.
@@thomasneal9291💯😩
"this game will cost 10 million to make".
"You spent 10 million on making a game?"
"That is not what I said."
actually from ~3 to 6 millions, not 10
The evil ango-saxon Todd Howard should wish to be able to develop such a masterpiece. Alas, the eternal anglos and us, their vassals, will forever remain oblivious to the correct way of making rpgs.
That’s right
Unironically
@@francesco3772 There is truth in this.
This would hit different before Starfield release...
@@francesco3772 Todd Howard is even lower than this bottom of the barrel, it says something on its own.
Regarding animal attacks: my dad grew up in an undeveloped place in QingHai and wild dog attacks were a serious concern. This was as recent as the 1960s. Crazy
There is a CountDankula video about a Russian village being attacked by wolves during ww2 because all the men were gone for war
Wild dogs attacks were a common enough problem in *western* Europe pre-WW1 when bicycles were becoming huge (late 1800s, early 1900s) that there was a dedicated class of revolver known as "velodogs" (combining "velocipede", the class of vehicle bicycles belong to and a major term for bicycles in general in French, and "dog", meaning dog) for cyclists to dispatch them with. The problem largely disappeared during WW1 due to ecological damage to their habitat and rationing rules not applying to them.
Don't listen to liberals. Wolves run through major cities here on the west coast at least twice a year and frequently hunt near and in them.
Even today, nobody is prepared for an unscripted canine event
it is said rabid dogs ran rampant in baghdad after the 2003 invasion
38:24 fun fact: according to multiple Polish language historians, the use of the now-world-famous "koorva", was not yet established in the function of "strong emotion" or "emphasis interjection" as far back as 1612. In those times it still had predominantly only its literal meaning, which is a "prostitute". So it's unlikely that NPC would have said it in any other context than exchanging opinions about some particular fictional woman. Imagine nowadays someone saying "Prostitute! This traffic is prostitute killing me! I'm gonna be prostitute late!"
Are you telling me that the creators of this game weren't very deep in their research?
I am shocked.
@@Poctyk 😄 something like that. I just find it funny that modern stereotypes *have* to be attached to old contexts to help the viewer navigate the old reality. Plain, unaltered, faithfully presented old reality could be too alien for us and the player could feel lost in the fog.
This game tries hard to pretend to be an RPG, so our character should handle and feel like an expert inhabitant of 1612 Rus' region. If they showed us 100% true environment, including the real staroslavyanskiy language, we, as modern-brained operators, would make the character act out silly actions and conversations, stemming from our misunderstanding of what the NPC said or did.
Imagine a skyrim-flexible game world where you get a quest "[justice must be upheld! bring that] korova [to me!]" - in the actual game the bracketed parts would also be in the authentic language.
Korova can mean:
1. a cow
2. a woman who is clearly a mother but there is no husband in sight
3. a woman known to be promiscuous.
Have fun completing the quest 😆
@@humphreysufczynski847 Actually, sounds like a great game idea. 😀
@@Poctyk 9:30 shows they were out-researched by a mountain lion, so clearly.
There wasn't even such a thing as russian language
"Yuri vision" That's too damn funny 😂 He's just a normal man, why does he have Deus Ex Human Revolution piss vision?
Vodka
I guess lesbians have piss yellow vision.
Because he's piss drunk my friend
Sobriety is an evil western invention
You hold two empty bottle up to your eyes and squint. A weapon to surpass metal gear-alt.
Every Russian man used to be able to do it before they were homo-fied by the anglo-saxi.
I wish each country would make their own nationalist feverdream fantasy game 🙏
I'd certainly play the American version of this. Which I expect would be a sort of historical Duke Nukem.
@@momon969 Pretty sure they already have the Call of Duty franchise for that
Japan made ours in 2004, then never released it over here until an unrelated company offered to port it.
@@momon969 New Modern Warfare might be a contender considering they made the Iraqi 'road of death' done by the Russians
French came to the rescue with Assasin Creed, as they did in history
As a Russian myself im glad that someone outside witnessed such a majestic blunder as "Smuta". This shit should be studied as a case of how a bad vision, shitty management and even worse implementation can kill pretty interesting concept.
I mean, Russian (and Eastern Slavic as a whole, actually) history and folklore is an almost untouched topic in gaming and this is a damn shame, because it is both rich and decently documented, aside a couple of black dots on the chart (and "Time of Troubles" is descisevily not one of them). They basically had two perfectly valid routs to go ("historical route" like in Kingdom Come, or "fantasy route" akin to Witcher) but somehow managed to go neither. This is quite impressive, to be honest
That's very interesting. Anyway, who does Crimea belong to?
@@levishaun8334 Crimean greeks
@@levishaun8334 the people of Kimmeros Bosperos
@@VasiliyOgniov Crimea belongs to scalp-hunters ( Scythians).
@@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 actually, yeah. That's more correct
Man I wish Eastern Europe was real...
Caucasus lore goes crazy, remember that communist arc?
You mean Asia
Unfortunately there is only "not too west Europe"
Ww got only Western Asia
@@sussytail9553American moment
Every night, I lie awake imagining the Catholic-Feminist utopia Russia could have been
Same
F8ck it
No! Country is fine!
I don't mind the feminist utopia part actually
@@NeukendYeah this dead land sure is a dream...
Unfortunately being able to turn into a shadow demon knight is not a power all us Catholics posses
Can I just say that pig blowing bubbles is absolutely adorable
Ukrainian most prized intellectual asset, peak of memology
Those memes are an attempt of Ukrainians to relieve the subhuman accusations by russians, kinda like embracing a meme, since 2014 russians were comparing Ukrainians to pigs, it is now ingrained into Ukrainian culture.
It a coping mechanism in order to relieve years of abuse, dehumanisation and belittlement by a colonial power.
But in the process, russia made an enternal enemy of a country with 44 million inhabitants, so now Ukriane is taking Russia with them, and will do so until its death, or russias death.
Kind like americans made enemies of the whole middle east, but without the 9/11 even, russians started doing the colonial bullshit for no apparent reason, hence antagonizing the "colony" even harder.
Yes, if you have freedom of speach.
I am Porky
How about an RPG where you play as Ivan the Terrible, but instead of the olden days you get time shifted to 1970s Moscow by a brilliant Soviet scientist and the goal of the game is to get back home after the machine gets destroyed. Ripping off books from the 1600s isn't going to get them anywhere, they should rip off movies from the 70s. Those were way more fun.
Hey, I knew that reference.
The premium courtier costume is already the reference I think?
@@SubSub-g3r What's the reference?
@@Hell_O7 google "Иван Васильевич меняет профессию "
@Hell_O7 its a reference to the Soviet film "Иван Васильевич меняет профессию"
Gets fired for watching porn at work, lands important position at a state funded developer. I have been going about navigating my career all wrong
It's so fucking funny: In Poland, we have a historical novelist Jacek Komuda (he worked on the first witcher game) who wrote a trilogy on the smuta time. As a typical Commonwealth enjoyer he uses exactly the same motives and arguments as seen from the characters in this government funded game. I hope so much this game is actually polish government propaganda made by our secret spies in Moscow.
There's a fun, little indie fighting game, Hellish Quart, set in this period, available in early access. It's being developed by a former CD Projekt RED employee and HEMA enthusiasts Jakub "Kubold" Kisiel. It is supposed to eventually get a story mode, written by Komuda.
That's a half-serious theory I've actually seen regarding this game, yes. The counter argument, however? "Well, if this game was made by secret Poles, it would have FUCKING GAMEPLAY".
@@Thistlespawnтогда бы их раскрыли...
The fun part here is that the Russians actually love also the old Deluge trilogy, by Sienkiewicz, an even more nationalist piece of literature. So, maybe it is not spies, but Russains sensitive to Polish literature. (I myself prefer 'Krzyżacy' which is like a medieval epic poem, in prose.)
The links between this game, Komuda, CD Project Red, Hellish quart and Sienkiewicz are like an infinite loop
What I really love about Warlockracy is the fact that he always lore dumps us with eastern european history and culture in every video realated to eastern europe, like some kind of slavic Tom Bombadil
I too am interested in English explanations about how dysfunctional Russian culture was behind disasters. Only other source of this kind of thing I know of is Paper Skies. When other history channels who sometimes cover Russia (like small arms or naval history) stumble upon Russian insanity, they're unable to comprehend it and can only underline how insane it was instead of even try to explain why.
this is the man who has elucidated the masses on such gems of russian folklore as дриззтун до'урны
Is it bad to say I am significantly more engaged by that content then the actual gaming?
@@SpoOoOoOoOoOod of course not.
My friend was one of the two character designers in this game. All Poles, all shish and almost all boyars were designed by him. And he was furious when he saw the finished product. a significant part of his work, as well as the work of the second designer, was never used in the game. He was also very upset that the developers had somehow changed all his fur on everything he had done. The fur was static, so it wasn't done in favor of automation, the developers just wanted a uglier fur.
the fur physics would drop the games framerate from 20 fps to 10 and they couldnt have that
Apparently the Colovian fur helm was very popular during this time period.
This cap is Colovian fur.
I dont know you and I don't want to know you
Colovian fur helm was inspired by the headgear you saw in this game. Colovia was supposed to be quasi-Slavic before Toddler turned TES into the blandest generic fantasy possible.
Mai'q the Furrier
@@thecandlemaker1329triggered Russian spotted
This is the Russian Kingdom Come, but without the Deliverance part lol.
😂😂
Without the Kingdom
The russian government spent 10 million on this, meanwhile the russians who made Silent Storm probably did so with a budget of 3 potatoes and a half-empty bottle of vodka
It always been that way
@@АндрейНеугодников-м6е theres good game talent in russia, Silent Storm is prime slavjank, great game
Wait till he learns about pathologic.
@@wander67 dunno, looks too artsy for me, in my opinion, games like Silent Storm and Men of War are the epitome of slavjank, low production values, barely functional and extremely ambitious games with deep mechanics
@@wander67 and Space Rangers.
I'm happy that Russian government spend $10,000,000 to create this game, so we can enjoy Warlockracy new deep dive into Russian culture and lore. Truly mind melting experience.
Same
Broke: the Russian government spent $10 mil on a shitty Witcher clone
Woke: the Russian government spent $10 mil on material for a Russian history and culture lecture delivered by Warlockracy
I realized this game is probably why the American government is funding a game jam… 🤦♂️
@@libertyprime2013 The US government funds a tonne of cultural things, PBS and NPR probably the most well known examples but there's plenty more.
@@Warlockracy THIS IS SO DEEP I NEED TO ASK IF YOU'RE A NATIVE SPEAKER
24:39 >removes the bar
> door opens inside
Русская смекалочка 😏
@@kkrup5395 Слушай, а ловко ты это придумал, я даже в начале не понял, молодец!
I totally missed that. Adorable!
Now I'm not sure if that's not an easter egg.
Hey, nobody said the rebels were smart.
This game became one huge meme in Russia because of lengthy and senseless dialogues with shitty voice acting. Many suspect that the game was made as a source for gachi memes which there are a lot.
It amuses me that the villains of the story have reasonable and even convincing rationalizations: that's usually very unusual in nationalist fiction, where the enemy are buglords and traitors. I suppose that makes the main character even more insane and stupid in comparison: he just does what he's told without internalizing anything he's heard.
Maybe serf genes?
Because the anti-Polish position is supposed to be self-evident from the modern nationalist/patriotic perspective - they are foreign invaders and therefore bad. Yuri simply acts as a vessel for this perspective and exists only to push a narrative, while the other characters act like people actually living in the world around them: a cossack from the Commonwealth isn't blindly loyal to some vague idea of "Russian Land", a powerful boyar sides with the Polish king recognized as the righful ruler by his faction etc.
Isn't that what the game want russians to become? Doing anything they're told without questionning, rationalizing or internalizing anything they hear?
@@Game_Heroit is what they are already. But not because they are mindless zombies, its even worse, its because they are so hell bent on stability that Pootin provides, that they are ready to lay waste to a country with 44 million inhabitants for that, remember, choice to invade ukraine from 2014 was made by every single russian citizen in an attempt to preserve "stabilty".
Rightfully so, the second this stability is gone, current russian establishment will fly out of the window like Slobodan Milosevic did. The second sanctions and loams hit serbia in 1999, is the second conservative farmers turned against him(farmers who previously didnt criticize him for genociding bosnia, creating rape-houses with bosnian women, and acting so violently that he invoked an american bombing campaign on serbia), followed by a lightning fast mass prptest organisation, and him stepping down after election fraud.
Americans are no different, but they lived through their nationalist era in 2000s, and now cover themselves from any responsibilty for destroying iraq and afghanistan, it was the "elites" who forced them to do it, and not politicians simply doing what electorate wanted in order to get votes.
@@pyrocancer8581I think the opinion that foreign invaders are bad is quite widespread around the world and across all cultures.
Медведь, медведь научи меня пердеть.
That’s right
ГОООООООООООЙДАААААААА!!!
медведь медведь, где проститутки
@@vos2693 ГОООООООООООООЛ
Now try to translate that
Dziękujemy.
i love how deranged slavic internet lore is. Your dry deliver of said exposition makes it feel like i am the intro for russian metal gear solid 3 - Vodka eater.
it's more of a heroin enema.
Kiszone Ogórki Eater
And not one Letov joke!
I've been introduced to Slavic internet recently, such as the chick who fills homeless people or the guy who turned himself into a girl after being bullied and honestly the West needs to step up their game. Chris Chan is tame compared to their internet lore.
@archbishopofthecrusades9579 can you share keywords? Not aware of this lore tbh
"Are you stupid, you were supposed to review my favourite nostalgia CRAPPEGER"
SMUTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
On the contrary, he screams first
I am not really sure what facinates me more: that someone outside of Russia actually heard of that game or that foreign people know the GOOOOAL meme.
I am sure he is Russian (at the very least, by heritage)
Well, author is russian/of russian origin. And so he's making one of the best gaming-theory and political content about games on whole TH-cam
Why would Russia even need soft power when it has skibidi toilet
Please tell me it wasn't a russian who invented this atrocious meme.
@@AikisDominator Alexey Gerasimov is the name of the author. Although he is from Georgia, Wikipedia tells me.
You just Google the surname Gerasimov.. so you will know how special that surname is.
@@cantionaleecclesiasticum5378 герасим и муму..
oh my god, son of their defense minister.
Its so over for the west, all f-16s sent to ukraine have fallen
10,000,000 given by the government to make the game means about half is stole by the very government, another half by the commision deciding who to give the money, and another half by the owner of the company. So the game likely was developed for 99.99$
Looking at it and considering the current exchange rate for the ruble... i'm guessing yeah
In fact, prices and salaries in Russian IT are not much different from European ones, because this industry is transnational.
So, in terms of salaries and other expenses during 4 years of development, this is not some exorbitant amount.
The problem is that no amount of money can fix a bad developer.)
@@artemg9753 Oh really? Do the regular C sharp developer earns the same 5000 euros he does in Lithuania?
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 You know that there are different developers?)
Leading devs, juniors, developing games, or banking systems...
And salaries vary by skill, role and company.
Also, nothing prevents a developer from working for a foreign company.
So, "average developer" is for those who do not understand IT.
PS
"C# developer" - someone who doesn't know other languages?)
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 You know that there are different types of developers, right?)
Leading devs, juniors developing games, or banking security systems...
And salaries vary by skill, role and company.
Also, nothing prevents a dev from working for a foreign company.
So, “regular developer” is for those who do not understand anything about IT.)
PS
“C# developer” is someone who doesn’t know other languages?
lol)
Very interesting game idea, though as a Pole I wish there was an alternative ending option where our protagonist stays on Władysław's side and Russia becomes the third country of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, so we all end up partitioned by Prussia, Austria and Sweden 200 years later
*Prussia, Austria and Russia
@@arturhashmi6281 That's the joke. If Russia would have become part of the Commonwealth it could partition it, but then nobody would've stopped Sweden.
26:30 was he about to say "spierdalaj"? Truly a progressive game, he spent so much time chatting to Poles in game that he started using Polish curse words (and i guess it was too liberal of an idea and someone sabotaged the sound to censor it)
True story
I guess he was intended to say "спляшем?" i.e. "let's dance?".
His fragile Muscovite mind was brainwashed by the evil Polish progressive and degenerate ideals "freedom" and "reason", but he stopped and broke the spell just as he was about to say the magic word that would make him their slave forever.
@@iYehuk no
I heard it like he said Ну что... СПИД? ( So uh... AIDS? ) and then i had burst off laugh hard ohh fukkk me
spiₜ
1:06 for those confused as to why Russia had so many of these, "prince" was a title you could hold without necessarily being a member of the mainline royal family. It more or less occupied the space where a duke would in the hierarchy, being just below the monarchs themselves.
из князи в грязи. the problem is that some titles of russian peerage don't translate very well and this is one of them. i guess crown price would be more like великий князь?
@@uuves According to Google translate(sadly the best resource I have), the second thing you said translates to "Grand Duke". In English, "crown prince" is the heir to the throne, which I *think* would be the Tsesarevich, with what you said being the title given to the younger sons of the monarch who weren't next in line. European monarchies would often give their younger princes titles, but their rank today is usually just bundled together as "prince"
@@Noname-e9k7k weirdly thats not the term that was used historically, the 'grand duke' is sort of .. the upper bound of what they'd use during the time, as i understand.. or государь ....the term you're referring to is something that came a bit later.
I mean principalities existed in the rest of Europe as well so it's not unheard of.
Most people translate książę as prince when it should be a duke, confusing książę with królewicz and księżniczka with królewna. I assume it's the same in Russian
LOL Even in Russia they blame Russian bots?
ДА
Ага, кремлеботы Камикадзе Ди просмотры скручивают, да да.
And the best part about this is that the bots do actually exist and are widespread.
=ВРАЧИ СКРУТИЛИ ЛАЙКИ=
It is a pity that in Europe and America, when they have problems, they blame it for the propaganda of Russian bots. And here people blame their own, that's the difference...The very first ones shouted that it was Russia when they shot at Trump)))
31:38 "charakterny/charakterniak" in Polish is used to describe someone with strong morals, someone whos unbreakable, especially in the gangster/prison gang (Grypsera) population - like some tough guy who gets caught in some organised crime bust and claims he did it all by himself so his comrades can get off scot free , which kinda makes me wonder if it has anything to do with "charakternik". for context, A LOT of "grypsera" (language used by Polish prison gang "Grypserzy" which before internet was basically almost completely unintelligible to someone outside of that circle - and people within thay group were forbidden from using it outside of prison, but internet provides anonymity and it quickly became exposed to normies) comes from Russian and Ukrainian. for Poles reading this, czaj - almost a meme word, probably due to the movie Symetria and famous "Roman, czaju zaparz" - is Russian for tea, and also for "Grypserzy".
It makes sense whwn you consider that in "common" Polish, the word "kozak" means someone extremely brave with zero fucks to give (but can be also used as an offensive term to describe a punk whos way over his head acting like a tough guy whilst clearly not being one). Point being, A LOT of Polish slang/prison language comes from Ukrainian and Russian so perhaps so does "charakterniak".
Yup,but also kind of a delinquent,not necessarily with criminal connotations.
In XVII century Poland charakternik was actually a bad person, suspected of worshiping devil.
@@TheKrzywol I'm from Podkarpacie but have never heard this definition. Do you have any source for this? (I'm not questioning it by the way LMAO I'm just curious)
Pierwotnie charakternik oznaczał tego, kto uprawiał czary, magię, czarnoksiężnika, czarownika, kogoś, kto pisze, używając tajemnych znaków, o czym możemy się przekonać, czytając siedemnastowieczne Pamiętniki Jana Chryzostoma Paska: "Tameczni zaś Incolae [mieszkańcy] kożdy strzelec, kożdy żołnierz a do tego i charakternik" (Rok pański 1659).
W takim znaczeniu rzeczownik ten został użyty przez Henryka Sienkiewicza w Potopie: "[...] boć z charakternikiem nieludzka moc! W oczach ci zginie albo kurzawą się zakręci...".
From lodz university page. Just google charakternik znaczenie. Sorry for polish but i'm on the phone.
@@TheKrzywol Now i wonder how tf did it go from this to basically prison gang slang? In modern Polish i have never seen this word used in reference to any type of magic anything
>VTMB fans may recognize this bug.
Jesus, what a nostalgia rush.
Why everything made in Russia, like movies, tanks, cars and even videogames is always made ''as the answer to'' and ''in spite of'' West? Why can't they just focus on themselves and make their own, fully Russian products?
Because with this conception it's really easy to steal the money))
Plus losing in Cold War makes them to feel bad and in need to be better at something in that exact way.
But, mostly the money, I think
@THEGREATATAnal yea, you're pretty right about the money laundring Part, but excuse me - where did you get this "winner/loser" bullshit about the cold war? As someone, who lived through those times i can't remember a declaration or celebration of a winner when the cold war ended... The whole "winner of cold war" narrative started when we began bombing yugoslavia while russia did nothing.
Because it isn't made that way, but rather the state uses it as propaganda (for the most part, there's plenty of state made things that are made that way so money could be laundred)
@@Idoexist._. never been in russia right?^^
Very easy to promote. Popular thing is mentioned and there's no need of a detailed explanation about our thing, because it uses pre-conceived vibes of popular thing.
I'm surprised you've spared viewers the knowledge about Koptsev and specimen known as Firamir
Aha
Игра года по версии «Уярского вестника»
The studio scamming the government theory seems true. The game looks good in 5 to 10 second bursts.
Нам нужны Русские Древние свитки, с лором основанным на Славяно-Арийских Ведах и книгах Дмитрия Пучкова.
Веды признаны экстремистскими, годноты не будет(
@@DerInfanterist. Помянем
@@DerInfanterist. При этом Пучков почему-то не признан...
@@Сайтамен так он в качестве книги издаёт комментарии со своего форума. За что его признавать экстремистом?
@@DerInfanterist. ну например за призывы к геноциду...
Mr friendly warlock mancer man, I havent left a nice comment in a while but wanted to let you know you’re still the Only Good TH-camr and I am still your number one fan
😻
Username checks out
thank you internet man, that's very friendly of you
This game was so bad that kremlin believes that polish spies made it to make russia look bad lmao
That would be funny, unfortunetly god won't allow us to create bad games.
Russian here! Kremlin doesn't understand the concept of the videogames, because for the most of modern post-soviet high ranks (or, that's closer to the truth thieves and crooks) last experience was "Egg catcher" based on "Ну, погоди!" cartoons. So they can easily spent our taxation money for crap like Smuta if this contains propaganda narratives they need and pretty shiny graphics (they don't understand "optimization" too). Meanwhile, so many russian modders and indi-developers deserves support, but no, sorry guys, you don't have enough experience in boot licking to have a proper investment from government. I'm glad that Atomic Heart came out and was actually pretty decent
Электроника was awesome!
I swear to Christ every new warlock video feel more like a fever dream than the previous one.
Welcome to Eastern Europe.
@@osiris4457 I'm from Slovakia Q_Q
@@overlorddexter My condolences
@@overlorddexter don't you get in Slovakia those weirdos that get offended when somebody says they're Eastern Europe and correct that they are, in fact, Central Europe? (implying they have nothing to do with those other barbarians and they are Western deep down please accept us)
@@Medytacjusz That's more of a Czech thing in my experience. But I'm sure they do exist... unfortunately.
Those who remain in the studio will go on an incredible trip to the ZVO zone soon
@@АмантурСадиков They can become such real quick
northern military district* zone
@@BoSinnfan54 just a vocabular point : don't you mean SVO ? I thought "northern military district"* was my google translate mistranslating ?
@@gnarkgnarkgnarkgnark1933Probably because of "Z" as a symbol of militarism, making it "Zpecyalna".
@@Gniew2 yes that's what I thought. But that's why I don't get @BoSinnfan54 comment ? Like. Did he write in Russian initially and just copied past it wrongly ?
I loved the scene when Yuri met his long-lost brother, Yaoi.
I love seeing things from Eastern European countries. Being in the Southwest United States it really feels like its a world away. I love learning about places the western media hasnt traditionally focused on
Dude, as a boring suburbanite kid from the Southwest US, SAME.
We're so fortunate to have someone like Warlockracy, who stands at this perfect intersection between cultures, able to translate this for us.
Pole here. We have the same with USA. Heard that you blasting at your presidents again? Interesting. It feels like its a world away.
I feel like for that 10 million, they could have made a simple 2D isometric Fallout-like with a Russian coat of paint and then made easy Bethesda-esque modding tools to allow Russian players to make their own nationalist fantasies set in the ancient Slavic world and achieved much more serious soft power.
Yes!
Or something similar to Neverwinter Nights
Честно, зная любовь наших к фоллаутам это могло бы неиронично стрельнуть.
That would imply that the Russian government actually thinks things through instead of throwing oil money at things that look "the prettiest"
It could still BECOME one.
There is any word of fans tranlation, engine or moding?
This game could essily reach mainstream with some fan work to spread it.
Conspiracy-theory no. 164: The developers themselves were responsible for the negative comments. They realized their game wasn't the propaganda-piece they were payed for, which could cause a lot of trouble. So they made it look like they were the victims of a Ukrainian/Polish attack on the game, which would show the Internet Development Institute that they definitly created something that would offend the enemy 🤫
Case closed!
I want to believe
Glitches and propaganda aside, the art direction in this game is amazing. The characters, their clothes as well as armor and helmets looks amazing.
Yes
Very much so!
I'm pretty sure that a big chunk of it are just UE 5 assets from asset store. Character models do look somewhat pretty though, animations aside.
Nah, it's a bit too pristine for early 17th century. It's heading in a right direction but it still needs some polish (hehe)
I love the twodee screens with the expanding paint blots. I also love the game's logo.
Wait a second, simple streamlined RPG mechanics, no real choices to speak of, overly simplistic gameplay loop, mediocre voice acting and bad Storyline? Oh my god, this IS a Bethesda game, isn't it?
Bethesda games at least have good exploration (we don't talk about Starfield)
But you can only choose the "middle path'
Bethesda games at least have true open worlds (or at least they did…)
No gay couples, so no.
It reminds me more of Assassin's Creed, to be honest, but without the open world
'...there was a world before STALKER and a world after...', these words speak to my soul.
"Stalker" will not repeat the mistake, he will not come out
This game is lucky Starfield release last year, it would've been a great battle between them.
Ah, its that time of the month to learn that Russia is a real place.
No we're not.
@@Feuerhamster HYPERBORERUSSIA
We are Fantasy world...in time we have dark age...
RUSSIA NUMBER 1
NATO NUMBER 0
you know it pride month, that differant then lust month, greed, aravice, gluttony month, and the rest.
Make Moscow Polish-Lithuanian Again
what happened to my favourite patreon "my next video will be on eye divine cybermancy"?
He broke a Cycle of Guilt and become a better person
or just lost hope that review ever show up
Maybe they cancelled their sub due to financial issues, sometimes you have to choose between food and a funny end-of-review joke in Warlockracy's video ._.
I took 4 years of Russian in HS so I could read that t-shirt
YA RUSSKIY it is
God this was hilarious. When you brought up FHD(ЕСД), I couldn't even remember his name but I was already was like "Oh, THAT guy!" That's some real deep russia lore there.
So, any theories on how much of that budget was skimmed off by the state functionaries who ordered it?
I've been blessed with Mandaloregaming and Warlockacy uploading the same day. Can't wait to see some obscure Eastern Euro jankfest RPG today
After what happened with homeworld 3, yea.....
I NEED THAT EUROJANK
Well, then you should add Civvie11 to the list. He made some absolutely hilarious reviews of slavjank, very worth to watch. My favorite one is "You Are Empty".
@@PiterDeVries he did upload a review of Descent 1 and 2 yesterday and his reviews of Eurojank from the Half Life 2 era are hilarious. Hoping he reviews Boiling Point someday
@@PiterDeVries I love CIVVIE11!
@@PiterDeVries Let us not forget tehsnakerer, another great eurojanker reviewer.
ГОООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООЛ Смартфон vivo
ГООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООООЛ
ГООООООООЛ!!!
Man, Russophobic or not, I would play the shit out of this game if it was actually good. The representation for this cool setting is zero. Or the game based on Alexey Tolstoy's The Silver Knight set in the Ivan IV period, which preceded the Time of Troubles.
There is a Polish game Hellish Quart set in the same period. It's a fighting game, but the dev is working on a story mode as well. Funnily enough, Marina's image in Smuta (girl in a hat with a rapier) is most likely stolen from that game.
@@umartdagnir Absolutely shameless 😂
Play Atomic Heart instead
Whatever, ГООООООООООООЛ!!!!!!
СВЕТЛАЯ ПАМЯТЬ ОЛЕГУ БИЛИБИНУ
"im putin together a team" ...I see what you did there
I am from Poland and wished this to be good. Shame we can't have more decent historical rpgs.
Great video.
No idea what all these references to obscure russian politics and people are about.
Love it.
yep
"Freedom is your punishment"
Uhh... what
LOOOOOL
That's the idea the rushists are pushing?
NOOO PLEASE NOT FREEDOM
I think he meant that being left free & alive (and in turn captured by someone, I guess?) was a fate worse than death
That introduction to Yegor F.H.D. was flawless.
No explanations!
Копцев же работал в Варгейминге, разраб "Танков". Он засветился благодаря своему сыну видеоблоггеру Фирамиру, который делал серию роликов, где он ест соплю, его якобы похищают, заливают перцем, избивают на стримах, поджигают квартиру и тд.
Ну вообще-то, в него тогда вселился злой дух, но слава богу, все прошло
Работа разные бывают. Так же как и методы работы. Работа в крупной и знаменитой компании это не показатель
Одна история охуительнее другой просто!
Holy shit, despite this video being in english, it's more russian, than a good chunk of russian youtube. Like, using lurkmore as a source? My man!
Bc he's russian, you know?)
It's a bit of a secret, so keep it... But I'll even tell you this: he was making some good&funny neonationalist right-winged content and (somewhat) propaganda in russian like 5 years ago.
And even did some kind of a gamification of discource back then.
It was quite spectacular, and we have some of his catchphrases still going
@@frfrough7088huh, why did he change his mind then?
@@enricobianchi4499 he didn't change his mind on politics I suppose. He just saw what a shitshow is all this "russian nationalism" and what a fucking pricks those people who engaged in it.
It's a bootleg Lurkmore though.
Приходит Уяр в геймдев, а он им как раз
Идет Уяр по лесу. Видит Смута горит. Сел в нее и получил $10 млн
То чувство, когда даже Гоблин без гос бабок игру лучше сделал
Когда работаешь на частные деньги то тебе надо стааться чтобы их отбить, а гос бабки в принципе тратят только чтобы отчитаться и попилить. Все что связано с государством всегда будет безумным позорным трешем.
Well you see, it is no threat to show the Polish as being articulate and dignified. After, no amount of education will ordain them with Divine blessing of having been born Russian.
It is quite amusing that Władysław is referred to as a "Polish" prince, considering that he was an elected ruler from the foreign Swedish Vasa dynasty.
Well, he was born and raised in Poland, as a son of the Polish King Sigismund III (an elected monarch, who was simultaneously the hereditary King of Sweden, until being deposed by his uncle), and given a very Polish name - Władysław. Plus, his paternal grandmother was Catherine Jagiellon (Kararzyna Jagiellonka), a Polish princess.
Władysław eventually did become the Polish king by winning the election upon his father's death.
I mean it's kinda typical for European monarchies. Monarchs don't like to mingle with the commoners and they want to build up relations with other kingdoms so they arrange marriages across Europe. So you get stuff like French dynasties in Hungary.
In the East it was different since a monarch's legitimacy there was mostly dictated by the father's side only. So the Eastern dynasties could produce enough heirs through harems (which of course were composed of lower classes or slaves) without much reliance on marriage with foreign dynasties. Dynastical marriages did occur but they didn't carry the same significance as in the West.
He was supported by the poles
It's authentic. He is a Polish ruler and is remembered in Russia as a Pole
I love when you make videos about Russian/Eastern European video games and culture. As a westerner, it's never something that we really get to experience
I gotta say its interesting, as interesting as most jap games here and there. Especially with the decline of entertainment in the West these days, always nice to look outside the box
This channel is really one of the best at explaining Russian culture and society.
О нет, вестерны узнали про Смуту 😭😭😭 Теперь весь К̶и̶т̶а̶й̶ запад знает о нашем позоре!
I... I get the feeling that it is like a bootleg Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
It does
That's a bit of an insult to Kingdom Come: Delivarence
This game was AIMING to be a bootleg of that
They actually pitched this game to the public as a "Russian Ghost of Tsushima"
Devs also stated that fight mechanic in Witcher was "horrible". They didn't elaborate which Witcher game they meant, though.
@@PiterDeVries To be fair if it was the first one they have a point. xd
@@PiterDeVries "Devs also stated that fight mechanic in Witcher was "horrible". They didn't elaborate which Witcher game they meant, though."
TBH that would apply to the whole trilogy... I loved playing those games, but none of them had good combat. Which is weird since it's a game with monster slayer doing his craft for a living.
Aw man this is legit a shame, since honestly the assets look pretty solid and I'd love there to be an actual decent historical game like this. But yeah, 5-10 mil for this kind of project? That's...nothing.
At least we got another entertaining and very informative review out of it, so that's not nothing!
> In the previous two chapters, the game was dangerously close to being FUN, so we are back to fetch quests
I love your narration.
The talking faces are so strange they look so good that they look bad if that makes any sense?
Yeah, that's called "Uncanny valley"
They have expressive facial animations and detailed textures but the models themselves are something from Half Life 2
Gotta give Hotep Communism some cred super saiyan Stalin & Hitler fighting is pure cinema
25 minutes in and I'm starting to think this isn't set in 20th Century Northern Ireland