A Completely Apolitical Look at ZioMcCall's Brutal Wolfenstein

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  • Опубликовано: 5 янв 2025

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  • @marcuskahn3783
    @marcuskahn3783 2 года назад +69

    When Sgt Mark released BDv21 Hell On Earth I was lost for words the level of detail of some of those maps especially in Chapter 2 ( Battle Of LA) killing the demon population at the port/town, a suburban neighborhood & even a hell wrecked shopping mall w a cyber demon vs spider having at each other. I itching to get my grubby mits on ED & Brutal Fate.

  • @ZioMcCall
    @ZioMcCall 2 года назад +74

    Why do people always write my name as two words?
    Is ZioMcCall. Not Zio McCall

    • @impairedtrout6917
      @impairedtrout6917 2 года назад +6

      The legend, will you add a zandronum co-op version? It doesn't let me play the v5.0 whit zandronum, I'd love to play co-op

    • @ZioMcCall
      @ZioMcCall 2 года назад +19

      @@impairedtrout6917 I'd be honest with you:
      After seeing how zandronum barely has any peeps in it's brutal doom servers,i decided to not bother anymore with it.
      Zandronum seems to be always behind GzDoom of almost 20 versions. BW is supposed to be a single-player focused experience so i'll use any gzdoom feature that i need without having to worry that it doesn't work on Zandro. For example,i've currently reworked the slide to have it's own dedicated bind and still allow for your height to shrink during that animation so you can dodge below bullets.This uses A_SetSize function,something that zandro lacks.This is obviously just one example of the many gzdoom only features my mod now uses.

    • @timohess3909
      @timohess3909 2 года назад +4

      Damn ..You're here .awesome

    • @timohess3909
      @timohess3909 2 года назад +2

      @@ZioMcCall it's so sad that gz and zan always destroy mods through updates . I know .everyone's tells me it's the modders responsibility to update his mod .I actually disagree. Why when going forward with a program or operating system isn't it possible to let the already working programs continue to work ? Why isn't windows 12 capable of playing games from 2000 when they worked perfectly on an extremely old version of windows with waaaay less computing power ? Why doesn't the new doom versions let the stuff needed for the older mods to run where I is and build upon that ?
      I know .everyone wants new features ..but I don't get why those features destroy mods / games which worked before without them ?
      I don't habe any coding experience. But I do know that it's not a power problem .

    • @BlazingOwnager
      @BlazingOwnager 11 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for making the harder difficulties VERY VERY difficult. Playing a level over and over until you can ace it really feels almost Hotline Miami inspired with the pace of the game.
      It's why it stands out from Brutal Doom for me. I play Brutal Doom when I want to lay waste to everything, I play Brutal Wolf when I want to constantly avoid death by the skin of my teeth. Also I love the axes for this reason.. they become so vital to the strategy.

  • @aircraftcarrierwo-class
    @aircraftcarrierwo-class 2 года назад +27

    I just discovered this mod a week ago or so and it made me fall in love with Wolfenstein all over again.
    I really enjoyed the original but didn't really touch it much after Doom came out, turns out all I needed to enjoy Wolfenstein again was for it to be remade in the Doom engine with all the care and attention ZioMcCall gave it.

  • @SuperKlondike64
    @SuperKlondike64 Год назад +29

    Very weird piece of information: The guy who made this also draws Invader Zim inflation art.

    • @SuperKlondike64
      @SuperKlondike64 9 месяцев назад +4

      @lil_mcgriddle He's actually in this comments section, believe it or not.

    • @thosemerc3113
      @thosemerc3113 7 месяцев назад +2

      There's also a set of secret levels inside this mod that are based around fighting aliens from Invader Zim.

    • @SuperKlondike64
      @SuperKlondike64 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@thosemerc3113 Man must really like Invader Zim.

    • @fullauto86
      @fullauto86 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@SuperKlondike64 oh…….huh.

    • @Cyynapse
      @Cyynapse 4 месяца назад +1

      iconic

  • @atomicpunch1990
    @atomicpunch1990 2 года назад +20

    Nice to see another Doom Mod review on your channel! I knew this video was in the making based on your tweets, lol.

  • @yamaddie
    @yamaddie 2 года назад +10

    loved the introspection at play here, really makes it stand out from "just another mod review", good job.

  • @_DarkEmperor
    @_DarkEmperor Год назад +15

    Drinking game: phrases "sociopolitical landscape".

  • @Aegis4843
    @Aegis4843 2 года назад +5

    I saw the first 10 seconds of the mod and was immediately sold on hitscans becoming actual projectiles.

  • @theceruleandolphin2829
    @theceruleandolphin2829 Год назад +8

    Great writing, seriously, keep at it.

  • @raulkyamko6825
    @raulkyamko6825 Год назад +6

    If this was the wolfesntein 3d back in the 90's, then everyone would literally feel like joy they have never felt in their LIFE. And if Project Brutality was DOOM, then it would knock off EVERY SINGLE COMPETITION, although Wolfenstein alone would topple every competitor, the alternate DOOM would feel like BEING there in real life.

  • @prosto1076
    @prosto1076 16 дней назад

    6:28 this health bonus is given in any overkill cases, not only beging guards

  • @coffeesoulwell217
    @coffeesoulwell217 4 месяца назад +1

    As someone in her 30s living through these strange times, that last line hit like a freight train! Wonderful video, btw!

  • @neutralhail4186
    @neutralhail4186 6 месяцев назад +1

    What you said was pretty damn true, man. Wolfenstein 3D did techically pioneer the FPS era, being called the grandfather of fps games, but Wolfenstein walked so Doom could run. But what i love the most is that both games are connected. ID Software confirmed that Blazkowitz is Doomguy's great grandfather. That just tells you that that's why Doomguy is so badass. Killing evil things is in his bloodline. The blood of a Blazkowitz. The most badass family in gaming history.

  • @BlazingOwnager
    @BlazingOwnager 11 месяцев назад +3

    Death Incarnate is the only way to play Brutal Wolf. It's beyond hard, it's insane, but if you play it without save scumming you'll eventually get really, really good at obliterating the level.
    It plays ironically like a first person Hotline Miami if you do that.

  • @IamRobotMonkey
    @IamRobotMonkey 2 года назад +15

    I think it's easy for people to forget just how pioneering id actually were. They're right up there with the Beatles frankly. Except even the Beatles were helped by George Martin to change music forever. id were a group of genius outsider kids.

    • @miciso666
      @miciso666 Год назад +2

      Nintendo calling out pc as inferior always makes me giggle

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Год назад +1

      ​@@miciso666I need to see this

  • @eupher2
    @eupher2 Год назад +4

    For those who want the original experience, but with the benefits of the Doom engine, there's the TC for GZDOOM. My favorite thing about the TC is you can shoot enemies from around corners, which makes some areas easier. But the enemies have the Doom AI applied to them, so they behave a little different then they normally would. But doesn't matter to much. Also the map is much better.

  • @batarnakdekosse1312
    @batarnakdekosse1312 7 месяцев назад +2

    My man you have to give Blade Of Agony a shot, you might wind up loving the shit out of it

  • @Frosted_Moontips
    @Frosted_Moontips 2 года назад +22

    Awesome vid X3
    I might be a zoomer (Well a retro-lovin zoomer with no irl friends lmao) but DAMN I love vanilla DOOM

  • @Belisaur
    @Belisaur 8 месяцев назад +3

    Video essays were a mistake

  • @deathcold_longplaysua4846
    @deathcold_longplaysua4846 2 года назад +11

    To be honest, despite the fact that i like Brutal Wolfenstein, it still lacks some variety in gameplay. I played the whole game, beat all of the episodes and even messed around with cheats in this mod, but those the same looking corridors gives me headache. Thus, in my opinion, this mod still needs some improvements. Also, it is more like "Survival" Wolfenstein than "Brutal". Cause by saying "Brutal" in comparison to Brutal Doom, you mean that you playing like a ultimate killing machine, who can kill all enemies with no problem and finish his gole. But in Brutal Wolfenstein, you don't have armor, you don't have that many health, enemies kill you in few shots and most of the time you don't have enough ammo. Thus, the only way you can beat this game, is not easiest difficulty, if you really wanted to enjoy this game. If not, and if you wanted to try to survive in that strange Wolfenstein world, then set your difficulty high and give it a try.

    • @robowisanveithasung6022
      @robowisanveithasung6022 2 года назад +7

      to be fair, it's only called brutal wolfenstein because it follows 2 principles that Brutal Doom has: lots of blood and gore, and improvements to the gameplay

    • @deathcold_longplaysua4846
      @deathcold_longplaysua4846 2 года назад +4

      @@robowisanveithasung6022 I agree about blood and gore but there is not enough improvements to make it feel better.

    • @robowisanveithasung6022
      @robowisanveithasung6022 2 года назад +1

      @@deathcold_longplaysua4846 yeah.. i respect your opinion though

    • @robowisanveithasung6022
      @robowisanveithasung6022 2 года назад +1

      i do not understand the lack of improvements though. Zio has already remade Episode 6 and made it into a good episode. there are a lot of weapons and even funny easter eggs. are these not enough for you?

    • @deathcold_longplaysua4846
      @deathcold_longplaysua4846 2 года назад +1

      @@robowisanveithasung6022 I was not talking about weapons and easter eggs. I was talking about everything else. The levels are still just a corridors. Sure, they look different than in original game, but still, it is just a corridors. And like i said before, it is not so much brutal, cause you can be killed in few shots if you are not careful. It is not like that in Brutal Doom, where you can be unstopable. But here, if you rush forward, then you are basically dead.

  • @mushroomHEADBANGERS
    @mushroomHEADBANGERS Год назад +4

    So little said with so many words.

  • @r2dezki
    @r2dezki Год назад +42

    "A completely apolitical look" Sus

    • @teresazbikowska7094
      @teresazbikowska7094 Год назад +2

      I reccomend QUESTIONING THE HOLOCAUST: WHY WE BELIEVED [DOCUMENTARY BY ERIC HUNT]
      .

  • @Brouzouf_Jones
    @Brouzouf_Jones 2 года назад +10

    _Get Psyched!_

  • @blaiseuriarte8296
    @blaiseuriarte8296 2 года назад +9

    Someone should make a mod where BJ infiltrates communist Russia post WW2

    • @the_bane_of_all_anti_furry
      @the_bane_of_all_anti_furry Год назад +5

      true it would be great see something like that.
      i bet they gonna call it bearszki or bearstein or something.

    • @itsmegoat2
      @itsmegoat2 9 месяцев назад

      Well there is project welturgang but its a bit hard even on easy​@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry

  • @mr.pavone9719
    @mr.pavone9719 4 месяца назад

    Brutal Wolfenstein is what I always wished Wolfenstein 3d was.
    We got Doom in 1993 and I said, "OK, this is good enough."
    Then along came Brutal Doom and I said, "OK, this is better."
    Then I found Brutal Wolfenstein and I said, "Ahhh, FINALLY!"

  • @cubeflinger
    @cubeflinger 2 года назад +2

    Ok so this looks great but I'm not going back from blade of agony.

  • @Nobody-Nowhere
    @Nobody-Nowhere Год назад +2

    Pleasure principle is not the same as ID. Pleasure principle is a theory, while ID is one part of the 3 part construct of the mind : ID, EGO & Superego.

  • @gianpyres3
    @gianpyres3 Год назад

    Great video man, when it comes to playing Wolfenstein, the Blade Of Agony mod is mostly my go to.

  • @SegaMario
    @SegaMario Год назад +1

    I'm curious what you think of the mod now that it recently released its final version.

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Год назад +1

      What is it like now?

    • @SegaMario
      @SegaMario Год назад +1

      @@concept5631 Look it up.

  • @fecalunfunny7109
    @fecalunfunny7109 Месяц назад

    2:28 had to go and look at when the video came out

  • @BlazingOwnager
    @BlazingOwnager 11 месяцев назад

    I feel like Wolfenstein 2D doesn't get enough love. It was a very important game to the evolution of the stealth genre, action genre, etc. that has been massively overshadowed by Wolf3D's success. Just thought it was worth noting, there were tons of different ports and versions of it.

  • @timbertam7668
    @timbertam7668 Год назад

    Why is NO ONE talking about the ending of the mod? I don't want to spoil it, but i consider it to be one of the best parts.

  • @concept5631
    @concept5631 Год назад +4

    I'm curious as to how much of Wolfenstein's playerbase is Jewish.

    • @jrmatthee111
      @jrmatthee111 9 месяцев назад +1

      John Romero said they loved the game in an interview.

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 9 месяцев назад

      @@jrmatthee111 He's Jewish?

  • @michaelwestmoreland2530
    @michaelwestmoreland2530 Год назад +1

    It is the harsest evidence possible that the algorithm is a piece of 🔥 🗑, that your videos have earned you less than 800 subscribers in over a year.
    In old RUclips yoid be on the front recommended page, absolutely.
    Unlock Super Thanks. You deserve donation for discussions this deep and articulate, and fuck AdTube's refusal to push you as much as your quality deserves.
    Also 10:44
    Do you happen to know which graphical mods were in play here? Ive never played a single version with that beautifully immersive flashing yellow caution light.

    • @lambda-m1676
      @lambda-m1676 Год назад +2

      It's in BD itself. Map enhancement script

  • @maltsutty
    @maltsutty 2 года назад

    Great video , I’ve played the hell out of doom mods but never tried a wolf3d mod. Might have to give this a try !

  • @samusaran7319
    @samusaran7319 2 года назад

    Master piece video !

  • @AmyStrikesBack
    @AmyStrikesBack 2 года назад +3

    My only problem with brutal Wolfenstein is that the Hitler buzzsaw is a Lot slower that irl

    • @robowisanveithasung6022
      @robowisanveithasung6022 2 года назад +1

      it's on purpose the minigun exists and Zio wants the MG42 to be more ammo efficient but harder to control

    • @AmyStrikesBack
      @AmyStrikesBack 2 года назад

      @@robowisanveithasung6022 ik, is more like me finding hair in eggs

    • @ZioMcCall
      @ZioMcCall 2 года назад +2

      i actually increased the rate of fire for v6.0.Should be closer to the original now without being faster than the gatling gun.

    • @AmyStrikesBack
      @AmyStrikesBack 2 года назад +1

      @@ZioMcCall yes, i Really I appreciated the update, at the point of making a stand alone to play It with out opening zdl

    • @AmyStrikesBack
      @AmyStrikesBack 2 года назад

      @@ZioMcCall Really good work

  • @rsklinge
    @rsklinge Год назад +1

    I get the whole “nobody wants to shoot dogs that’s why the nazis are horrible” angle, but I would 100% would rather play a version where the dogs get replaced with more Nazis to shoot. In fact shooting the dogs is in all honesty making me shy away from playing this myself.

    • @RugsterClaps
      @RugsterClaps Год назад +10

      Probably not the genre for you then. Of all the horrors of ww2 it's the dogs that get to you? Lol you ever been viciously attacked by a large dog?

    • @rsklinge
      @rsklinge Год назад +3

      @@RugsterClaps I have Great Danes. I grew up with them, I have two of them, I had one have a heart attack and die in my arms when he was only 3 years old just last year. I'm not saying it's rational, but somewhere in my brain is the point that the human nazis make the choice but dogs don't. Dogs aren't vicious beasts until humans make them vicious beasts.

    • @RugsterClaps
      @RugsterClaps Год назад +12

      @rsklinge sorry about your pet. My point is, this is a mod about a real war and deadly dog attacks are a very real thing. Believe me, when getting attacked by a 90 lb dog that's doing its best to kill you, you aren't considering the poor heckin doggo that had bad owners. Again. Probably not a mod for you

    • @robowisanveithasung6022
      @robowisanveithasung6022 Год назад +5

      it’s because it’s for consistency, ZioMcCall (creator of brutal Wolfenstein) had to make a choice and I think he made the right one

    • @JDoe-gf5oz
      @JDoe-gf5oz Год назад +1

      Just pretend they're pitbulls.

  • @GanonGhidorah
    @GanonGhidorah 11 месяцев назад

    I've been a fan of Brutal Doom for a little over ten years now. I only discovered this mod existed about a week ago. I have always wanted to play Wolfenstein 3D once I discovered it, but fear that it might be too limited compared to even the original doom, much less a modded experience like Brutal Doom.
    So my question is; would you recommend players to try the original Wolfenstein 3D out before playing Brutal Wolfenstein, or is this a case where you can see going straight to the Mod?
    Cause I gotta say, I think Brutal Doom _is_ an immersive experience. As much as I loved the original Doom, before I knew what the story was, if you hadn't told me that the games took place on a space-station on the Moons of Mars, I'd have never known. The environments looked rather bland, and despite the doors and gigantic computer rooms, the levels didn't seem all that _futuristic_ nor efficient like you'd expect from a scientific research station.
    Brutal Doom adds so much to the levels of the original game - from flashing lights and sirens, updated textures, and gives a much more convincing _vibe_ to it. Not to mention, the sky-box actually has Mars in it, thus confirming that you are on one of its Moons. Or how about in Inferno where the first level actually has the building featured on the Map. I love stuff like that.

    • @VinceSteel
      @VinceSteel  11 месяцев назад

      It depends because I still really like the original Wolf3D, but if you aren't an old man like me there are a lot of modalities about its design that were outdated the moment DOOm came out, much less on 2024. I'd say Brutal Wolf is probably going to have the best user experience for a new player who has never played a game like it before.

  • @malicant123
    @malicant123 Год назад +2

    Brutal Doom is a beast of a mod. I don't care about the personal politics or proclivities of the creator.

    • @VinceSteel
      @VinceSteel  Год назад

      Yeah. The title is sardonic.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607
    @nehemiahpouncey3607 6 месяцев назад

    We need more brutal versions of
    Games.
    Brutal quake?

    • @MarktheMat
      @MarktheMat 6 месяцев назад

      Quake 1.5? I mean it's close to brutal quake l

  • @necrosteel5013
    @necrosteel5013 2 года назад

    I strongly prefer brutal Wolfenstein over brutal doom. Paying attention to dodging with all the sound, explosions and gore is mentally draining, in vietdoom and brutal Wolfenstein that dodging aspect isn't part of the gameplay, so it's a lot more fun IMO.

  • @thepolarphantasm2319
    @thepolarphantasm2319 9 месяцев назад +1

    America: proud Antifa nation since 1942

  • @JDoe-gf5oz
    @JDoe-gf5oz Год назад +5

    Why would someone have to mention politics? I don't get it.

    • @woopdashoop9860
      @woopdashoop9860 4 месяца назад +1

      People like to compare people they don't like to the funni german party

  • @z0h33y
    @z0h33y 10 месяцев назад +6

    I think this video is good, but it tries making this deeper point about politics and America that just feel out of place, or insignificant to the rest of the video. Comes off as being made by someone deep in the trenches of a college university when you constantly feel the need to inject philosophy and topics like existentialism.

  • @radscorpion8
    @radscorpion8 2 года назад +10

    okay...you know what I can respect that you have your deeply philosophical and maybe excessively verbose views on how wolfenstein is more relatable and relevant to your life than doom. But on a personal level I have to say it feels beyond silly to me. I don't feel anything playing wolfenstein, or doom for that matter. They are equally empty of meaning. They are just video games, with lots of exciting gunfire, both set in entirely fictional universes that I can't relate to at all. Maybe if I was an 80 year old survivor of the holocaust, but I'm really not. Nazis have been "bad guys" in movies for a long time. And I don't get what being alienated by the "sociopolitical landscape of modern america" has to do with it either. The point of video games is escapism, unless you're playing one of those video games that tries hard to inject real-world politics into itself.
    You're just shooting up a bunch of bad guys...nothing more lol. But like I said, if you get some crazy deep sense of meaning out of it that's cool too :). Actually the only game that I find really absorbing is 2016 doom, with modern graphics and gameplay, because it feels like you actually have to be a master at the game, and it actually gets your adrenaline pumping to make it through some of the levels.

    • @guidadiehl9176
      @guidadiehl9176 5 месяцев назад +1

      I had to laugh when he described Wolfenstein as "implying explicit antifascist themes." The 'Nazis' in Wolfenstein (and in most US pop culture, tbh) are just cartoon bad guys. A character having some kind of 'Nazi' aesthetic or identity is just an easy (often lazy) archetypal way of signifying that they're a villain, an amoral 'Baddie', like depicting a robber as a guy wearing a black domino mask & black-striped sweater, and carrying a sack labelled 'SWAG'. It's a simple and inherently brainless stereotype; there's no real political element involved, unless you think the message 'Nazi = Villain' is some kind of mindblowing political critique. Wolfenstein (and again, most US pop culture) doesn't grapple with the concept of 'fascism' on any deeper level than that, which means it's essentially not grappling with it at all. You could switch out the NS imagery in the game for cannibal tribesmen or vampires and the game's underlying 'message' would be essentially unchanged: "Bad Guys do bad things. You oppose Bad Guys. Defeat them to escape and win."

  • @theletterm1787
    @theletterm1787 2 года назад +2

    M

  • @concept5631
    @concept5631 Год назад

    I think I stumbled on content gold.
    Hope you aren't like your idol Carmack though ideology wise.

    • @VinceSteel
      @VinceSteel  Год назад +1

      Neither of the Johns is my idol, but I appreciate the kind sentiment.
      And no, we are not ideologically the same.

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Год назад

      @@VinceSteel Then, as the young and hip kids say, you are based and poggerspilled.
      -Jesus Christ I'm 20-

  • @GTA_500
    @GTA_500 2 года назад +3

    You know what this reminds me of is all those Nazis that were pissed because or the new Wolfenstein game about like five or six years ago.

    • @thepolarphantasm2319
      @thepolarphantasm2319 Год назад +1

      I'm just glad BJ is still on the clock
      He's the original Antifa super soldier 😂

  • @creationzikaz4836
    @creationzikaz4836 Год назад

    I like your videos and you have a promising career on RUclips. You really swear a lot though which I find off-putting. Yes, swearing is cool I suppose but it can be overdone to the point that it seems emblematic of a lack vocabulary. It gets tiresome after a while which is detrimental to really deep and interesting content.

    • @VinceSteel
      @VinceSteel  Год назад

      Yeah. Though I don't really know if or when I'll make content again (really no time with my actual career), I had toned it down considerably. This video is really the result of a lot of frustration.
      I do agree, though. And a lot of my old videos are worse.

  • @ИванШл
    @ИванШл 2 года назад +5

    moon man is better

  • @timohess3909
    @timohess3909 2 года назад +3

    Doom mod REVIEWS ??? got you DEFINITELY a sub..
    Could you take a look at discontinued bu really amazing projects like ixhoz ?
    It's a doom mod in completely 3d . Action RPG with physical based combat ,weapon handling with actual weight
    It's still available somewhere on the web and a guy called androidferret made a video about it lately