Blood | Monolith's Cult Classic | Scarfulhu
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Blood is a first person shooter developed by Monolith Productions and released in 1997, blending intense and explosive encounters with skilful movement. You play as Caleb, an undead gunslinger with a penchant for violence and horror movie references.
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MARANAX PALLAX *explosion* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Oh hey Civvie
Oh there you are civvie 😁 I was sure you were gonna come up in the video
Shogo part 2 when? You hack fraud!
BURNS! IT BURNS!
Huh. Wasn't expecting you here.
CRUDUX CRUO!
Nice
Thank You Based Gianni
it actually threw me off hearing the BLOOD music start up and not have Civvie's voice follow it
great vid m8
Agreed lol
Same here xD
Scarf: Blood 2 its not real, Blood 2 cannot hurt you
Civvie 11: *LAUGHS IN CHIKARI*
The skeleton that says "Ticket please." also says "Hey! Stop him! He didn't pay!" xD
That's the Creep, from the Creepshow
Daily reminder that if Scarfulhu reaches 50k subs, he will re-review Simon the Sorceror 3D
This is (unfortunately) true.
It's getting a Steam release in may, so ...
@@Scarfulhu Every time I see someone mention your sub count, I'm surprised it's not already much higher.
@@wesleybcrowen But why?!
I'm still astonished he's not above that. Quality videos when they're posted.
*"I live again."*
My neck broke from the force of the resurfacing memories.
Army of darkness.
reminder: if it has two heads, its NOT cerberus, its the far less famous monster called Orthrus
"Even Death May Die" is a Lovecraft reference BTW.
Indeed! I was about to break stealth from my lurking to say so, but I'm glad you beat me to it. XD
2 Words. 10 Letters. Say them and I'm yours.
*"CRUDUX CRUO!"*
"Angry little stabby goth" is probably the best description of a character I've ever heard.
Hardcore yes
Probably the g@yest description of a character, a good old fella like Caleb wouldn't approve it.
That opening deserves it's own gif.
Some quality-of-life tips for the Cabal neophytes who might get the game:
1. Crouching is essential to your survival, especially on harder difficulties, as the deadly hitscanners have a hard time hitting you when you're laying low, even when you're not behind any cover at all. Crouching barely slows you down and can be done mid-air.
2. I recommend one "hard-save" at the beginning of each level, then quick-saving your way through it. Dying means you will lose all your guns and inventory items, forcing you into a "pitchfork start". Doable, but a complete nightmare. Load your save instead, and spare yourself the frustration.
3. Try every weapon's alternate fire as soon as you get them! For each and every weapon, alt-fire either offers increased damage, or a completely different, highly effective way to use it. Effects include but are not limited to: area stuns, massive single-target damage, bouncing dymamite off walls, and even a "gun turret" you can place on the ground and pick up later. The more tactically-inclined will find that the possibilities of the weapon sandbox increase exponentially.
4. The least hidden secrets usually replenish spent resources and are almost everywhere, so it's always worth checking nooks and crannies, or something that looks as if you might be able to interact with. Some secrets are always hidden in the same manner, so pattern-recognition is important. The well-hidden secrets are so good they might trivialize encounters or even entire levels! Finding them might require you to be clairvoyant though.
5. Weapons can deal physical, fire and magic damage types. Enemies have varying degrees of weakness to each type, but you can pretty much kill everything with every weapon. Some weapons have weird quirks to them, like setting enemies on fire if you keep dps high enough, the spray canister working better when you're strafing less, the turret shooting faster the longer it's on the ground, and hitscan weapons interrupting enemies.
6. Blood is brutally difficult on a blind playthrough, so take your time to get used to the gameplay. Maybe go through the first couple of episodes on a lower difficulty before attempting playing on Well-Done. That being said, playing on harder difficulties is the only way to really grasp the playstyle and breakneck pacing the game's designed around. You might want to change the medikit default binding to something damn close to your movement cluster.
7. STAY AWAY FROM POST-MORTEM unless you're masochistic, or in need of motivation to smash your rig with a sledgehammer lmao
If you enjoyed some aspects of Blood but feel the level and encounter design spoil the experience, you've got to try Blood: Death Wish before you give up on the game. Available on ModB, Death Wish is a fan-made expansion that's so good Nightdive literally said they were making Fresh Supply with Death Wish compatibility in mind. It deserves every bit of praise it gets. Death Wish is as long as the base game, unbelievably made with in-game assets only by one guy who's been working on it for over a decade now. Everything works exactly the same as the base game, however:
Hitscanners are used in less cheap ways;
Encounter design is such that other types of enemies are actually threatening, instead of fodder or absolute jokes;
Difficulty levels scale much better. Extra Crispy is still as brutal as the base game, but the expansion offers a much more curated encounter design on lower difficulties;
It develops the style from the original levels really well, while remaining thematically cohesive.
All in all, it feels more modern game-design wise, cementing itself as an essential experience for anyone who plays Blood. I even know people that play Death Wish only instead of the original levels. I'm sure the Scarf-man will be very impressed, too.
Is it a bad sign that I actually really enjoyed Post Mortem? It hurts so good!
😅
No, but it means you might be prone to developing some... *ahem* minor psycho tendencies 😅
My first reaction to the title was "I've never heard about this JRPG before..."
Then I realized Monolith and Monolith Soft are different studios. >_>
You want to hear something to really bake your noodle? This Monolith *did* make a JRPG. Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator, 1999, kind of like Final Fantasy VII mashed together with Fallout. Has music by Marty O'Donnell, as well as voice acting from Master Chief himself. It's a weird game.
The hand in the original Blood was a real pain to kill. There was a glitch where it kept strangling you to death and you could do nothing about it...
And the funniest thing of all is that it’s remedied by literally just setting your screen resolution higher
You are missing out on the blood multiplayer. The voice of Tchernobog constantly comments on the deaths. My favorites are "Scrotal separation!", "Anal Justice!", "Disemboweled!", "Rectal Redemption", and the pedestrian "Reamed".
I love the non stop movie references from Evil Dead and he even sings somewhere over the rainbow at one point.
For those who are curious, yes, Blood got the Brutal Doom treatment, it’s a mod called Extra Crispy
The intro to this game looks like Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Satan™
I remember getting a shareware copy of blood around 1997ish and installing it at midnight on a pc in the front room on normal difficulty. An hour later I was mesmerized by the game. It always bothered me that I never finished the game due to difficulty as a kid.
A few years ago I grabbed a copy of the game but the mood wasn't perfect. So I decided to wait to make my first time beating Blood special. A few months later the perfect mood hit me, I stocked up on all my favorite snacks and soda. Took some time off work. Turned out all my lights. Turned on some light cricket noises in background and waited till midnight to recreate that first time I played the shareware.
I played the whole thing thru on "well done" almost nonstop the whole weekend using a sourceport.
It was absolutely magical. I kept cycling between a sense of contentment and frustration until the very end when I finished the game.
At the end when it was all over I felt a little depressed, until I learned about Deathwish...
I've been waiting on the perfect mood. 😅
@@kanetombs1275 Love this.
Ngl seeing you move in the game without view bobbing makes me feel like Caleb is ice-skating through the whole game.
I think I might have just forgotten to turn that back on. I turned it off for something a while back, though I don't remember why.
@@Scarfulhu it's okay, the mental image was worth it.
Life leech is best used on alt-fire, where it becomes a turret that automatically fires at enemies with infinite ammo. This is best used against the bosses
Just realized how much the crudely animated/mo-capped FMV cutscenes of this game remind me of the uncanny rotoscoped cutscenes in the FAITH trilogy
Playing with the weapon wheel
thought i could trust you
i'm sorry sophie ;-;
I discovered Blood thanks to Civvie11 and it's one of the best classic FPS ever made. Too bad monolith doesn't own the IP anymore
Yeah,, Atari owns it now and outside of finally letting Night Dive make Fresh Supply due to the high demand for it it looks like Atari really doesn't give a damn about the IP (hell apparently Night Dive did want to keep working on patches for Fresh Supply to fix what few bugs remain but Atari didn't want to keep putting money into the IP). It's a shame too as one thing I would have loved to see is Blood finally getting a console port so it can reach a wider audience, since the Kex Engine Fresh Supply runs on is great for porting remasters of old games to consoles like the Switch (like Doom 64, Turok 1 and 2, Strife, and Shadow Man).
Death Wish is legit amazing and is the real Blood 2 as far as I'm concerned
Sorry, just stopping by in the first minute of the video to say the word "Death Wish".
Play it on Extra Crispy if you haven't already. You'll only slightly regret it.
(P.S. My favorite cooking of steak is "Still Kicking")
Post-video edit: Pleased to see it got your notice. If you're this much of a fan of Blood, Death Wish is definitely up your alley.
As great as Blood is, I don't think the devs fully grasped what they had on their hands. Death Wish takes every asset the game provides and not only repurposes it into some of the most gorgeous setpieces ever created on the Build Engine, but refines the level design and enemy encounters to a mirror sheen. You could play this pack on Extra Crispy and it would kick your ass, but it would never feel unreasonable about it like the first game could. Everything is telegraphed beautifully. People aren't joking when they say that Death Wish is the real Blood 2.
First time seeing such an accurate assessment of Bloods combat.
Fresh Supply is already worth to play only for surround sound support and true 3D rendering.
My first time playing this game and I jumped straight into extra crispy, then when blood fresh supply came out I brought my friends into extra crispy first time too...
The Draven gravestone is probably a also a reference to Eric Draven aka The Crow
P.S. A two-headed dog in greek mythology is a Orthrus
Yeah, the emblem on the grave is the same one Eric Draven leaves in the flames. Also, that grave is noticeably empty, indicating that Eric has risen from it to seek vengeance. Definitely more Crow than Poe.
DUDE THANK YOU FOR A BLOOD VIDEO IVE BEEN OBSESSED WITH THIS GAME
Yes you forgot to mention the most horrifying boss in the game, THE BEAST.
Seeing a Scarfulhu video pop up in my sub feed is always a really pleasant surprise.
Blood's CGI intro is pure nightmare fuel XD
I grew up with this and the other buold engine games. I remember getting Duke 3D for Christmas one year, and blood for the next, if im not mistaken. I had books on map building and i meased with rhe map editor. Mannnnn so mucg nostalgia, and the in game graphics really hold up.
that beginning edit tho lmao
This one leaned into the memes a bit heavily. Not that I'm complaining of course. You've really got a way of making this stuff entertaining. I really got a laugh out of "Angry little stabby goth".
Death Wish is a masterpiece, play it. It feels official.
As a fan of both Blood and Missy Elliot, gotta respect that intro.
I only played Blood like... late last year, I think? It's a top 3 game for me. The Cultists are buggers but nothing even comes close to the satisfaction of overcoming them - ducking and weaving behind cover, or launching a stick of dynamite around a corner and seeing their corpse rocket through the doorway? Pure satisfaction. Excellent video mate!
The damage threshold system for zombies is pretty fascinating. Too little damage, they'll stay up and you can chip them away till they're dead. Just enough damage, they get knocked down. Too much damage, it'll exceed their total HP and they die right away. Fun to think of how they went about coding that.
My guess is each zombie keeps a tally of total damage taken and that value continuously ticks down, separate from their HP. If the damage you deal can't outpace it beyond a certain value, they stay up for as long as their HP lasts. A single shotgun shell at close range is just enough to enter that knockdown window. That's a really unusual level of detail for such a simple enemy in a game like this.
Whoa, i never noticed he hits his thumb with the needle. I thought like if theres no target, he was the target. Really nice detail.
Also, aside from not being very useful, the life leech just looks awesome.
Yeees. I love this game. Great video too 💚. And I mean, do the sequel as an Instagram story of just the briefest Thing. Like the sequel.
Scarfulhu... lives again!
I LOVE the little jingle from Doom's Tricks and Traps level's track when you say tricks and traps, fantastic touch lmao
That's the kind of joke I put in to make myself laugh while editing - I'm glad others appreciate them also!
Blood 2 is Inevitable. You have been Chosen for it.
But really, I very much enjoyed this video! Thanks a bunch!
... I'd put forth Booker DeWitt as a pick for Best FPS Protagonist.
Alright just for fun lemme showcase all old first person shooters of the 90s to very early 2000s:
- Doom- You know it, you love it!
- Quake - Same as above!
- Duke Nukem - Time to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum...and I'm all outta gum.
- Wolfenstein
- One Unit Whole Blood
- Daikatana
- Shadow Warrior - Fear the Wang!
- Rise of the Triad
- Heretic/Hexen
- Powerslave
- RN Rampage
- Strife
- Killing Time
- Unreal
- No One Lives Forever
- Soldier of Fortune
- Deus Ex
- Half Life
- Chasm the Rift
- Chex Quest
- Blake Stone
As for new ones:
Apocryph, Dusk, Prodeus, Project Warlock, Intrude, Merger 3D, Doom mods, Shrine, Amid Evil.
> Daikatana
what is blud doing here 😭 bro thought he was on the team
The superb editing (E1M1 furnace Transition!) and the subtle music Choice (Tricks & traps!) - dude you have some serious skills! Sub well earned.
This game has a fantastic atmosphere
Ahh the real best build game
This is the second video of Master Scarfington's that I've watched, ever (the first one was his BloodRayne review), and six seconds in, I don't think I've hammered Subscribe that hard in a long time.
We got Civvie making the ROTT enforcers dancing and you make the Blood cultists do...whatever they were doing at the start.
Love it already.
Here to save Scarfulhu the pain of Blood 2... Watch Civvie 11's video on it. His suffering is hilarious.
Also, Watch RagnaRox. Video essayist of amazing quality with an incredibly soothing voice.
Speaking of references in Blood, one of the more important ones to mention is Phantasm -- not only is the first level of the game based on that film, it's also where the look of the cultists comes from.
It was a great discovery for me when I finally watched the film many years later. Which is something of a general trend, actually. When I first played Blood I was unfamiliar with most (if not all) of the works referenced in it, so my exploration of horror genre largely felt like finding out sources of inspiration for my favorite shooter.
That intro, I already know this video will be amazing but that intro...
It's definitely gives this the seal of quality *chefs kiss*
Also mentioning TekWar in the intro? Then talking about Death Wish Mod and the Expansions?
You spoil us Scarf.
Blood by today is the most underrated game in the Classic Build Engine Trinity! Two nights from now will be the five month anniversary that I made Blood: Fresh Supply a Perfect Game on my Steam library and the third game on Steam that I made a Perfect Game of my currently existing eight Perfect Games on Steam! Great video! Please do a review of both expansion pack episodes too!
Not even a few months after I first heard of Blood and there's a Scarfulhu vid of it. My life is now complete.
Love seeing another video from you! Awesome LOL the game looks so wild! I've never been good at shooters, but I still enjoy them...
9:10 The train announcer kind of sounds like the narrated voice sample of the Wikipedia article about Bhutanese Passports. They give me the same vibes.
Very specific I know, but just look it up on yt and you'll understand what I mean
M O N K E M O D E is B E S T M O D E *I am here cause of Civvie and CaseyExplosion and I am digging your style!*
How the fuck did I miss this video?! Gonna be watching this shit right NOW!
Edit: Video watched, pretty great! Never knew you were into Retro FPSes, Scarf. Keep 'em coming!
I haven't watched the video yet but just seeing it made me feel better.
I love you Mr Fulu
i didn't recognise this game BUT i did recognise the studio - bizarrely i played claw as a kid! they came out in the same year! love your stuff, keep it up!
13:50 by the gods...fear the bouncy thing, Laurence...
I would say if you want a good, accurate source port Raze is a relatively new port that lets you play most of the Build engine games while using a lot of features from GZDoom.
I am so happy this video came out, and even happier with that intro
The second chapter's title probably refers to a quote from Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulu:
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."
And the gillbeasts might well be inspired by Lovecraft's Innsmouth inhabitants, but I do not know what they are doing so far away from Massachusets
Out of the Holy Trinity of build engine games this is the one I kept missing cuz I could never get to work and although Jericho cross is always going to be my undead gunslinger I can't deny how awesome blood
looks and how badass Caleb is
Oh Scarf dear boy, you are going to LOVE Deathwish.
The cutscenes may be raw as fuck but you can't deny they a had a nice cinematic atmosphere. I enjoy them and hope that one day someone remakes them
11:55 I believe that's actually supposed to be Eric Draven's open grave from the movie The Crow. And Caleb saying, "Nevermore" is in reference to Eric quoting that poem in the movie.
12:03 The reason for Duke's hanging corpse is because 3D Realms was originally going to make the game, but gave it to Monolith, so they could finish Shadow Warrior on time. It's also a reference to the Doom Marine's body being hidden in Duke 3D.
"Oh jesus christ" was correct, as Kaleb just quoted the bible in that clip ahahah
The secondary fire of the LifeLeech is very useful on higher difficulties, especially on Extra Crispy. VS Cheogh(s): Drop it even if you have no ammo for it (the self damage is minimal), use the crouch toggle of fresh supply and go make a sandwich or take a break or something. It'll take time but it WILL kill the Cheogh(s). Great when you are low on health/ammo/patience.
(It won't run out of ammo ever in turret mode, ever)
I live again.
Not for long.
I never thought I'd get mentioned here back when I was watching videos for Loom and King's Quest :3
You will be mentioned anywhere Blood is. You made a true master piece, not less.
Played Blood last year the first time and really loved it!
Pro Blood 2 when Scarfulhu?
Oh wait no, no, no wait wrong channel.
Thanks for making this scarfulhu
I actually love the cutscenes in Blood
They do have some charm, but it is an ugly charm.
@@Scarfulhu that's why I love em so much and I loved the video, keep up the great work
the first time the voodoo doll shows up in a secret in the first level of episode 2 actually
bloody pulp fiction is another amazing fan blood mod
Crouching Caleb, Stabby Boi
Nice review lol have my like 👍
I have Blood to run on NBlood and never get tired of it , classic 90s shooters are something else , so charming yet addicting .
When I was a kid my dad used to pirate a bunch of stuff off usenet and he burned Blood 2 onto a CD that was red on the part that you write the data on instead of silver. That was the first game I ever played on PC and it wasn't until decades later that I played the first Blood.
Scarfulhu the home of shoot and/or click
My childhood in a shellnut.
It would be cool if you went back and covered the Death Wish mod for Blood! It's really good.
Thank you for explaining the inevitable end to all things Uncle Scar :3, now I can let go of this mortal body in peace.
From caddicarus to here, howdy. I enjoyed your content but I guess I just never watched it a lot. I got a random thought of “oh yeah, that cool dude exists”
I appreciate using Fresh Supply to support good ol Nightdive. They're doing gods work helping bring these old games back. Now if only the people holding the Blood IP hostage would stop being dickheads.
Blood always felt very unpolished and my least favorite of the Big Three Source games, but it is still super fun with a great aesthetic and hope it makes a comeback someday... Preferably like Lo Wang's return and not Duke Nukem's.
Y E S!
I love the outro has one of the Blood Alpha songs
My most hated enemy was the hands because I didn't know you can take them off so every time they got me I treated it as a game over and restarted.
Hurrah!
This kind of video is great. Any retro PC game review, keep doing it. Blood was oke of my favorites.
this game is great
Those are some Twisted Metal 4 CGI FMVs right there.
Pitch fork with a Tome of Power.
Scarfy! Always a good day to see ya, mate. Good on ya.
Finna Life Nut