ERADICATOR IS WEIRD AND CRUNCHY DOS JANK
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- You'd better Blaze through this one!
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Mergers and Acquisitions
02:03 - This is Somehow Not the Build Engine
02:50 - Boom Town in Space
08:07 - The Surface Base
14:59 - The Metal Stuff
19:54 - The Flesh Stuff
29:00 - End Credits
Links:
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Thanks papa now I can eat food (I require entertainment to eat like a ancient king)
King Henry VIII actin' ass
hail to the king, baby
You could always butt chug.
An* English, do you know it?
@@alerojas2952I’m keeping it
THE MAZRIUM MUST FLOW!
Topical.
Play the original Dune please, the original, not the Westwood genre-establishing-masterpiece, but the unknown French take, I guarantee it still holds up.
He who controls the nazrium controls the universe.
But what about Hubbardium?
@@terrylyn "Can't find any sietches... ohhhhhh, I should have had someone ride along in the ornithopter, okay, now I get it..."
And also, "Why do we have to deal with these asshole southern Fremen you sent to work here? We don't like them and they don't like us. Sincerely, northern Fremen."
Only Civvie 11 could do such an out there intro to a video and everyone is like this is all perfectly normal...
You might check out grimbeard he has some pretty odd intro's and bits
i mean yea that and we could be living in anyone of the multiverse that have been displayed on this show since i think the world has ended 2 or 3 times across all the videos i honestly don't remember
Civvie 12 could *probably* do it, but it would still be kinda weird
I skip his lore skits, personally, so all I'm getting is gameplay either way.
I mean, Grim Beard does something similar, although he leans more into goth shut-in gamer aesthetic
We need to brand a new game engine called "I can't believe it's not Build engine™".
*Unbelievable! This is not **-Butter-** Build Engine!*
"F*k Me It's Not idTech?"
@@youmukonpaku3168lmao
SHIT, IT’S NOT SOURCE!
@@orvilleredenpiller338 Not Unreal, for real?
"pass the shush" is the most I've been confused in a long time
Sounds like a KOTH YTP
press q and move along
I actually google this fakin thing. did not help
@@MrKrisstain lol
Friends today don't even say "pass the shush" anymore, they just look at you like this 🫲😒
Hey, I remember reading about that game in a video game magazine back in 1996. It was still being called "a Doom-like game" because the term "FPS" wasn't coined yet.
Hey, remember video game magazines?
I feel old.
Hey, if it makes you feel better, I'm one of those blasted _youths_ and I remember both Gameinformer and Gameinfarcer. Good times.
My best group of online friends all met on the EGM forums starting back in the early 2000s. We still hang out online, some live in the same states now. Anyways, videogame mags ruled and were such a critical piece of building the hobby and community.
I remember tuning my commodore 64 tape player lol
'member? I 'member!
The Doom-killers and the Doom-clones.
My dad actually worked on this! I appreciate the thorough review, and I'll be sure to forward it to him. I will say, the deathmatch was actually VERY fun in ways similar to Dukematch. Less about weapon mastery and more about using the toys and utilities to make more effective traps. Certainly a very different experience than your standard 90s fps deathmatch, and it wouldn't be everyone's taste.
more informations about the engine or development would be neat
Men, your dad its a legend, for the love of God, ask him what kind of ancient and Lovecraftian engine the game was programmed in.
Pretty please.
It was built in a proprietary engine that was made specifically for the game. I don't know what the actual name was, but it was referred to internally by some folks as "Froggy", because the original pitch for the game was actually about a 3rd person attempt at a Frogger-like game.
@@Volcraftcowow, thanks to answer, now I asked myself how that frogger game would have turned out XD.
I actually feel kinda bad for anyone who worked on this game only to have quake come out and completely steal the show lol.
That DOS4GW crash screen brought back a lot of repressed memories. You'll be hearing from my therapist.
It never crashed on me, on the contrary it was a sign of quality that the game had enough memory. Maybe Civvie could not afford a proper 486/Pentium and emulated the whole thing
@@terrylynMaybe it was the level editor crashing, those things were notorious back in the day. Editing along and suddenly - BAM! DOS4GW error and now you're stuck in low res text mode. The typical process was to have many different versions of your map file in case the editor crashing took one out and you lost heaps of progress.
I never played this game and this is the first time I heard the game.
But I think I were saw A LOT OF the DOS/4GW crash screens on other games back then when I had 486 machine, like 25+ years ago. Oh, good'ol memories.
Yeah. it was goddamn scary when that crash happens.
IndyCar Racing...
I think you were doing something fundamentally wrong then. Like having DOS set up badly or "exotic" hardware (looking at you, Soundblaster clones) with faulty drivers.
Saw the general protection fault under DOS exactly two times back in the day; once while installing something on top of a memory manager and another time caused deliberately by one of my own tools during development.
edit: three times actually, thanks to DOSBox. Emulation is always a gamble.
I can't believe Civvie blew up The Citadel without even playing it.
Not enough people know about that mystical, anime-Marathon-Wolf3D-inspired game. It's full of interesting ideas, and it even beat Total Overkill to the idea of a minigun-flamethrower hybrid weapon. Seems like it'd be just up Civvie's alley.
@@Chewberto Getting over the guro is rough and I don't blame anyone for flushing it for that (even when you can turn it off you know it's there) but the game is actually really deep mechanics wise. Also the fucking game crashes all the time lol. Beyond Citadel is looking promising tho but again that guro hurdle is there.
@@Skuttie I wouldn't really say that the game has guro, per se, it just features gory violence against anime girls. Guro implies that the violence is sexualized in some way, which I never really found to be the case. That being said, I can definitely understand why the violence ingame would be seen offputtingly close to guro.
I think the general idea that the game has guro comes from the fact that it uses an anime artstyle with extreme ultraviolence against characters who happen to be female, which often occurs in guro but isn't exclusive to that stuff. The developer himself even made a statement that it wasn't meant to be guro.
The game crashing is spot-on, though, especially in levels with the destructible environments.
@@Chewberto The weird thing is that its usually interchangeable. Not that I've wanted to see that stuff but when you browse imageboards for long enough it's interchangeable.
wtf is guro
The excitement in Civvies voice when he exclaims "Lil buddy!" is so loveable
Bubsy never goes away, I swear. Someone or something always reminds me he exists
"Watch the fuck out, citizens of Bubsy Land. Captain Bubsy's drunk as shit again and heavily armed with puns"
@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 I think Bubsy Land is next to Mobius
I'll remind you about bubsy next month
#EyesOnBubsy
Bubsy always comes back
"That's not buddy behavior!" Definite keeper.
I didn't want to believe you that it wasn't Build. But after doing my own research and finding a blog article by a guy that worked on it, it really was a different engine. They specifically mention how Duke3D had hires textures, and their engine couldn't do it. And that Duke was out like 7 or 8 months before Eradicator shipped. And by the time it shipped, the Quake MP Test was out and they couldn't compete with that either. If it had been released before Duke3D it would have been much more known I think.
Never heard of this game before, it feels like a strange mix of Rise of the Triad and Duke 3D. Just jam as many features, guns, whatever into the game.
that's crazy, I would have bet my life this was Build
I feel sorry for the devs, losing a potential lead because they released so late... and they clearly gave it a fair shot, not a crappy cash grab attempt. They did try.
it looks a lot like marathon but that was mac only back then to my knowledge
It still had a short lived life in Europe as Quake came out later for us and it worked at LAN pretty decent.
Quake ended up overtaking it pretty quickly though.
@@wearecoterminousokay, good, I'm not the only person looking at this and thinking Marathon. It was (and to my knowledge other than Aleph One still is) Mac-only, but I wonder if they used it as a starting point?
I got to 1:08 before saying "Jesus Christ", which is quite an achievement on this channel
I have been attempting to create an edit of Bubsy buffing his face off for years and now was the time to unleash it.
@@Civvie11Well, you fucking nailed it, I'm glad this is what my money goes to
@@Civvie11Based AFH 🤘
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@@Civvie11It's unironically a better edit that most analog horror shit too, good job.
Sam & Max: Hit The Road was one of my favourite games growing up. The reference and voiceline made me smile.
"Er, should I confront, pummel, and subdue the suspected perpetrator, Sam?"
"Sic 'em up, little buddy"
The comics are also pretty enjoyable.
And there are Telltale sequels that range from good to passable.
Would be fun to see him do a vid on this game and other LucasArts classics.
Passable?
This isnt the first time he has referenced SaMHtR
Is the new Sewer Count sound effect sampled from Toxic Crisis? That would be appropriate
It is a filtered arrangement of fart noises.
Like Toxic Crisis!
oh lord in heaven dont tell me hes replacing the sewer count sound for good
@@disposable_income_andy Yes he is -_-.
He doesn't like the joke and wants us to know he doesn't care.
I had somehow ended up with a copy of Eradicator (I think my grandfather had it for some reason even though he hated games and thought they were all viruses) in 96 or 97. I never got super far into it, but it always stuck with me for how weird and ambitious it was.
I uhh, think I might have understood the logic "Eradicator? This will get rid of all those darn viruses my damn grandson keeps installing!"
Finally: Marathon At Home
This is probably sacrilege but Eradicator held my attention for way longer than Marathon ever did.
@@asystole_ confirmed sacrilege but understandable because it's significantly less esoteric and cryptid-brained than Marathon was lmfao
If I had a nickel for every time I've said "that's where that Reelism sprite comes from" while watching this channel I'd have a lot of nickels
...but who was Jetpack Larry?
@@universalperson Lore Accurate Answer: Everyone called Larry has a jetpack. It says so in the bible.
Real Answer: A custom sprite edit using Duke3d bits by Captain Toenail.
@@TheKins thank you reelism maker
That gag at the beginning calling back to the copy and pasted corridors line... *chef's kiss*
If Civvie ever gets his own breakfast cereal, "Weird and Crunchy DOS Jank" would be a pretty good name.
Holy crap. I reckon I played the demo of this, because it was included on the CD for Deadlock. An obscure city-builder/4X game Accolade put out in the mid 90s that child me was absolutely obsessed with.
Yeah deadlock… that’s what I remember Accolade for in my childhood.
It was my first intro to a deep tech tree and turn based…
I think this game is a perfect demonstration why most FPS games have a limited armory: They all have a use and a place. This just seems like they thought of weapons that were 'cool' and with no rhyme or reason just tossed them in.
Y'know I'm kinda surprised there hasn't been a Bubsy FPS, at least to my knowledge.
Having "too many weapons" is not exactly a unique thing. Duke had trip bombs that had very limited uses and the freeze thrower which was your crappy Ripper Cannon alternative. Half Life had Snarks and the Hive Hand.
Granted, those games didn't go as all out as Akklaim's Eradicator.
I enjoy too many weapons and too many right-click functions but they have to be decent quality
Doom TC mod. Make it happen!
I don't mind when a game has a boat load of weapons. Just as long as I'm able to choose or reassign them as needed.
@@AB0BA_69 Hey I used the Hive Hand! \o/
I like how you were talking about the sewer count being accurate when you counted 268 twice
THE COMPUTERS PROBABLY NOT WORKING RIGHT BECAUSE YOU PLAY ALL THOSE GAMES ON IT
I think he messes it up on purpose, for the gag lol
I was always told Eradicator was made in the Build engine. My whole life is a lie. Thanks Civvie.
I just got done rewatching the entirety of the Postal videos.
Hands down my favorite channel ever in everything. Hope you know I quote your videos on a daily basis. ❤
Shit. I swear I did that last month.😮
you're supposed to hide that kind of behavior in public
Some of the organisms inhabiting a specific set of Accolade cubicals later on made Slave Zero.
Putting Gradius-style options in an fps game is pretty dope.
Civvie: *plays the level Biogen Aqueduct* "Wait, it's all sewers?"
Accolade: "Always has been."
Well, that was unexpected! I love when Civvie reviews those lesser-known 90s FPS games.
What's next?: Radix: Beyond the Void? Rebel Moon? In Pursuit of Greed? Alien Cabal (this one is fun)? Hades II?
Oh, In Pursuit of Greed would be very cool.
@@CesarGarcia-lg7nm I would love to see one for Killing Time since a guy named Tristan855 is working on porting the PC version to GZDoom that will require the original files to play and it will be moddable. It will include improvements like fading effects for the ghost FMVs like in the 3DO version, cut ambient sounds, and many other improvements.
Radix is one of those games that I tried the shareware version of and never touched again, but it is still a core memory somehow
Hope the next ones are obscure yet surprisingly good non-abandonware installments that aged like wine.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Killing Time is one of those if you ask me.
Well that was an opening
Wasn't expecting the Bubsy related spiral early on
this may or may not be a weird regional thing, but "pass the shush" means "we're testing" to me. in highschool IB courses in the midwest, the instructor would say "alright, pass the shush" before handing out exams - it meant the students had to hunt down the "quiet - we're testing" sign from wherever it was dropped before and stick it on the outside of the classroom door.
so level editor is unfinished
@@boryolmung9548 Or that they were trying to try "it's easier to work without noise". Or both.
I thought "pass the shush" was some sort of obscure drug phrase, like a regional term for sharing weed or sleeping pills because you need to chill out. It's probably because shush sounds like kush.
Im sure I'm one of the few old enough to remember but every time I hear Eradicator it reminds me of the Kids in the Hall sketch where a dude in a sqaush tournament wears a ski mask and calls himself Eradicator.
I was just over here re-watching the last civvie banger when I refreshed the page and got a little surprise prezzy, hell yeah
That Katy joke about her not playing Quake was hilarious.
She can’t play quake because she’s not real
@@HC-qc5rpSHE'S REAL TO ME!!!
@@HC-qc5rp she does because Katy is Civvie
Who is this Katy? CV-9's name is Katie
@@HC-qc5rpthat's what you want to Believe.
Accolade were in the Weirdly Shaped Sega Mega Drive Cartridge Club with Codemasters and EA. So that's something.
On the same kinda subject, Accolade also made Zero Tolerance for the Mega Drive, their “other” FPS that Civvie doesn’t mention. It was ported to modern consoles recently by Qubyte. It was jank back when it came out, and the port doesn’t make it any more… tolerable.
@@TheTCDTo be fair it was kind of impressive that they pulled that game off on the Genesis.
@@Gatorade69 oh, yeah, I’m not taking anything away from them, the fact that it even works as well as it does is impressive. I just feel like they could have made it a little less clunky even back then, and the modern port does very little to help modernise it. For instance, (if I recall, I haven’t booted it up in ages) in the port you can play the cancelled sequel, and that has (janky) dual analogue controls available. But they don’t allow you to play the original game with them. It’s a bizarre choice.
Not gonna lie, the crunch is off the scale, but there's a LOT of soul here, overwhelming amounts of it.
Cannot express the joy that filled my soul as I saw a new upload while I sit in my university waiting for class to start
Woke up, looked at phone notifications, "CIVVIE11 just uploaded!", happy, sun looked brighter than yesterday's storm, Civvie suffering made happiness.
Janky 90s FPS. My favorite kind of civvie vid.
Here's an in-universe way to lay the sewer count to rest for good:
That infuriating rodent C.ancer Mouse chewed through the cord of your SewerCounter9000, and since it's obscure vintage tech from the 90s, you have no hope of acquiring a replacement while confined within your cell.
Boom! Done.
The algorithm requires engagement
I ❤ you Civvie. Your tireless work cataloguing all the sewers is beyond admirable.
Funny how this is a bit similar to a game called In Pursuit of Green when it comes to 90's sci-fi design and engine quirks
In Pursuit of Greed. The publisher only sold it for a few months in early '96 and I missed out on it until I finally bought the full version on E-bay 18 years later haha. Before that, I just played the share ware of it. I always liked that game.
Other games of that era that are similar are Cybermage and Chasm: The Rift. I'm pretty sure me, Nametag and only a few others even know of Cybermage but Chasm is a bit more known. They're all great games if you ask me.
Civvie out here with the bubsy creepypasta for the culture
I definitely get a laugh out of the character death rattle that sounds like an 85 year-old gasping his last.
This game runs on the TED Engine, that would go on to be used by the one of the early Mech Warrior games, and Tera Nova Strike Force.
The TED engine makes sense. My first thought was it looks very similar to whatever engine they built Descent on, and lo and behold, the guys who made Descent used to work for Looking Glass, who made the TED engine.
@@JburnageNo they didn’t. The two primary programmers on Descent NEVER worked for Looking Glass. I have no idea where you got that idea.
Matt Toschlog is the only person who worked at both studios & he had a limited role in developing the DOS4GW libraries for the port of the UW engine to System Shock. That’s a drastically different role than engine design or programming.
Are you sure? I don't think TED has anything in common with the Mechwarrior2/Dark Side (Activision) engine. Heavy Gear, Interstate '76 and Battlezone also used that one. It looks pretty similar though, yeah.
New year, New jank, New clown room
Pass the shush
So hyped we're finally here! Thank you Civvie for reviewing this jank game i loved playing so much back when i was younger
Love your stuff, Civvie. Keep doing what you're doing.
CV11 is by far my favorite Vtuber
I miss Quake's zombie sound in sewers counter.
OMG, I so happy I'm about 2 watch a new Civvie vid! I needed this!
Civvie you are my favorite RUclipsr thanks for the frequent uploads lately. Loved the duke video, and just recently rewatched your scratches video and sent it to some buddies. You always make the best stuff.
This is an FPS i dont mind a reboot of. i love the idea
Meh they can't find a way to micro transactions so they won't do it :(
This was a very fun and atmospheric game. And it had multiplayer, by the way. And it is not even remotely as janky and frustrating as ROTT.
When are you reviewing RedLine (game warfare: 2066) ?
The editing you add for each BGM is absolute class.
This will get me through my work day thank you
BLESSED BE THESE HOES!!!
I remember playing this game from combing through Steam to find new Boom Shoots to play. When I got to Nightdive Studios' backlog they had this is their library but not as a remake but just a port using DOSBOX.
But I gotta say for how freaking weird this game is, it was a lot of fun and ran well in DOSBOX surprisingly
This is one of those games that I never saw in a store, but played the demo for thanks to those CDs that came with gaming magazines back then.
Love your videos Civvie keep up the good work brother
I remember this game running so smoothly on my pentium 100. As well as Star Wars Dark Forces.
Just resurrected my old Pentium 75
It's all about the Pentiums baby!
Civvie, I am shocked at your lack of knowledge about Eradicator (1996, Accolade) and the Bubsy jokes? Come on, man, the show used to be better than this. I think
Maaan this game was one of the few full release games i had on my old computer as a kid. This video was some next level nostalgia trip for me. Thanks civvie.
HE LIVES!!!
its stinks. learn some vector math. oh an dev versions are not yet final polished versions. functionality not guaranteed at all. beta test only. best effort nothing guaranteed. play some omf. not battlegrounds. thats jank controls too. hey 320x240 resolution is true cpu only mode. like descent is originally. try vga resolution ray tracing, that 320x240. very build engine. that could be rotten engine too. naa, build it is.
I had a comment asking to elaborate and then deleted it and then you edited to elaborate so thank you.
9 month baby after duke 3d. also looks like system shock engine.
era dictated, shovel ware jank, its called premonition, pre-money freedom
idk if this was any model for serious sam, feels the same
Now this is a game I haven't seen in ages! Nice video!
That Universal Mining Guild logo goes hard
I thought the same. I love the intro when that shows up and then the mechanical doors shut close.
Omg, the "crash" at 28:56 gave me an instant nostalgia shot! When treating the Duke3D Build editor badly, this was what happened. ❤
The nightdive are the true modern necromancers.
holy shit. this is the game from my childhood i've been looking for but never found no matter what i searched. Thanks dude
Thanks for doing this video! I fondly remember playing the demo on a PC Gamer demo disc when I was little
Truly it is a blessed day, another cursed civvie video
Yes! We're getting closer to CyClones, Disruptor, In Pursuit Of Greed and Marathon!
The floating orbs that add extra projectiles to your shooting are likely taken straight from Gradius's Options, a recurring weapon throughout that series
Had this game in my Steam library since forever and finally got to play it just to enjoy watching your video after it. It was a weird but enjoyable experience xD
21:12
Bungie "hold my beer"
"Oh, thank god it's you!"
Frog blast the vent core!
Cybermage: Darklight Awakening.
Great comic. Okay game.
DW Bradley had a lot of potential, sadly vanished from the industry after dropping Dungeon Lords, a ToP 5 worst RPGs in the history...
His Wizardry games are fire, Wizards&Warriors ain't too shabby either
1:30 "- the lucrative Bubsy the Bobcat franchise".
That's good stuff, Civ. Good vid.
Well, to bring some French context, Bruno Bonnell is a human being with a level of greasiness between 8 and 9 on the Randy Pitchford scale. He's mostly known for his shitty adaptations of belgian-french comic games, a lot of toxic relationships with famous French game developers, and almost killing the French VG channel Game One in the early 2000's.
This is a masterpiece. How have I not heard of it before? It's literally everything a dos fps could want.
I remember playing a demo and being unconvinced of this back in the 1990’s! Thanks Civvie
Never heard of this game before, but I can't hear or see the word "eradicator" without thinking of that Kids in the Hall sketch. Eradicator!
I remember playing this game through ages ago. Haven't thought about it since then but instantly remembered it .
I come to this channel everytime I feel too old thanks civvie for playing stuff that came out decades before my parents got married
I have tried watching this video like a dozen times but keep falling asleep.
Yay! Civvie’s descending into an analogue nightmare!
Played this a lot back in the day. Got it from a friend on a burned disc that had various games on it and among those was this one as well. Weird is a good way to describe it for sure.
I refuse to believe there is only 1 layer of separation between Bubsy 3d and Days Gone.
Really enjoyed this one Blippi
Wooow this unlocked some nostalgia!
Ooh, been waiting for this one!
every time you drop a video is like a breath of fresh air :) never stop never stopping hahaha
i've started admonishing my dog with "that's not buddy behavior"
First time commenting civvie 11 don’t stop doing videos, I love ya vids and your sense of humour cracks me up. Thanks dude!
mmm good stuff civvie, one of the most underrated creators out their
I've never played a Metroid game that didn't give you a health meter without a number next to it. Or both in Prime's case.
Also.
Play Dismantled, Civvie 11.