I'll be doing shorts (mini-reviews of weird games that don't deserve a real video, comment responses, jokes etc). Do not be afraid of shorts.
@david21216
Жыл бұрын
Legit the only shorts I've ever found enjoyable, doing great work!
@jessefied-musicandgames2854
Жыл бұрын
Dad, I'm scared... the shorts are coming...
@chaosmorris5865
Жыл бұрын
Any chance of ever seeing a review of King of Dragon Pass or Six Ages?
@jlaw131985
Жыл бұрын
I'll watch them whenever I see them come up.
@fearofchicke
Жыл бұрын
I hate shorts
@Brimshae
Жыл бұрын
I'll give you a fun bonus: Akhmet's wife is considered an essential NPC and can't be killed. Akhmet can get unlimited hand to hand combat experience by beating his wife in between missions.
@marley7868
Жыл бұрын
oh no so they've just been powerleveling
@хле6-ц8б
Жыл бұрын
based
@andreydoronin6995
Жыл бұрын
That's how Akhmet has become so powerful warrior
@mcsmash4905
Жыл бұрын
based beyond belief
@daninquin2732
Жыл бұрын
Avarage russian be like
@JTHMsonicfan
Жыл бұрын
"The Big Fucking" Is without a doubt my favorite term for societal collapse.
@cienkitv2854
Жыл бұрын
There actually is a similar concept in Polish. The phrase "To wszystko pierdolnie" which is used to describe societal collapse, and it literally translates to "It will all fuck up".
@andreasottohansen7338
Жыл бұрын
Has similar energy to "the great fuck-up"
@elroma7712
Жыл бұрын
@@cienkitv2854 like "La gran cagada"
@HQ_Default
Жыл бұрын
"The Great Fuckening"
@hughgrection7246
Жыл бұрын
@@cienkitv2854 Kinda like the North American "Shit hits the fan"
@SAUglaz
Жыл бұрын
The fact that Ahmet derisively calls soldiers "Rambos" despite the fact that he is ex-military, maligned by prejudiced law enforcement and has to use his military experience to fight against overwhelming odds shows the degree of media literacy we are working with.
@MrAsaqe
Жыл бұрын
And with no guns either. Just reenacting a non lethal version of the most dangerous game
@MrSomebodyStrange
Жыл бұрын
Here we get into a bit of a cultural gap, so it kind of goes like this. In the ex-USSR John Rambo's image was shaped not by First Blood but First Blood Part 2 and Rambo 3 which made quite an impact because of well... understandable reasons. So Rambo in modern Russia is mainly associated not with PTSD but with an archetype of a one-man army supersoldier who spray shoots a belt-fed machinegun with one hand and embraces a vietnamese chick with another. Rambo is a bit of a common noun for an übermacho and is often used ironically.
@MrAsaqe
Жыл бұрын
@@MrSomebodyStrange Thanks for the lecture Commissar, I always was fascinated with how 80's action films shaped the minds of other countries. I only learned about the first film when I grew older and realize how Hollywood created a cultural narrative for foreigners
@marley7868
Жыл бұрын
@@MrSomebodyStrange interesting but still maybe don't rocks in that direction given how close akhmed is to being a rambo ripoff in this game
@ilya1421
Жыл бұрын
Well, it's only 1 film. In 2,3,4, films he is a member of US army, so Akhmet is right
@VESSEL105
Жыл бұрын
"Ahmet can't figure out how to shoot an RPG - The fakest muslim" CHRIST THAT GOT ME
@KingLich451
Жыл бұрын
...
@birdfromirl8467
Жыл бұрын
yeah that was in poor taste I was genuinely surprised warlockracy said that
@kesgamingbot1249
Жыл бұрын
@@birdfromirl8467 It was good taste
@Warlockracy
Жыл бұрын
Oh, come on.
@Warlockracy
Жыл бұрын
If Muslim viewers find this sort of stuff distasteful, I apologize.
@GrayFoxHound9
Жыл бұрын
This is the most "this is future the liberals want" from ru nationalist POV game i've ever seen
@antonlavrentiev5249
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely correct. But it's not entirely baseless. Russian liberals discredited themselves so much, when they were in power in 90's. I. Hakamada (in)famously advised workers, who complained that factories closed and they don't have work, to go to the forest and pick mushrooms and berries for to sell. A. Chubays was second most hated man in Russia for decades. Since first most hated man died this year, he moved to the first position.
@l0lLorenzol0l
Жыл бұрын
insanely based and fascinating
@ChucksSEADnDEAD
Жыл бұрын
@@antonlavrentiev5249 Doesn't translate well across the Atlantic. Everywhere else "liberals" are economic liberals but can be socially conservative, in America "liberals" are less economically liberal and the joke hinges on a perceived excess of social progressivism. Basically if Russia is beat by America the liberals will send blacks and gays and do nothing like 90s Russian politicians.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine
Жыл бұрын
Blind nationalism cultivates such fascinating narratives.
@icyjiub2228
Жыл бұрын
the author of this better have that sick tatoo of nicky and stalin. fucking wild
@aw2584
Жыл бұрын
"The government had collapsed. No firemen, no police, no food in stores. Electricity shortages. Gang wars. The society was falling apart." Wait, are you talking about a video game, or Eastern Europe in the 90s?
@ANDREALEONE95
Жыл бұрын
Yes.
@Warlockracy
Жыл бұрын
It's basically a more dramatic version of the 90s, yes
@aw2584
Жыл бұрын
@@Warlockracy one of my first memories from growing up in the 90s Poland is constantly playing in this abandoned hospital in the middle of my neighbourhood, which was just a bunch of grey commie blocks with said abandoned hospital in the middle. The hospital was overrun by heroin addicts, so each time we would go there we'd ask the first junkie we encountered if its okay for us to play here, and they'd always be so nodded our they'd just, well, nod in agreement, and so we'd run around in this ruin with dirty used needles everywhere, jumping over unconscious heroin addicts, drinking stolen beers and smoking cigarettes (at the age of like 7 to 9). I thought nothing of it until I moved to UK and realised, my childhood was basically a western post apocalyptic movie but in real life
@LarryKingUndead
Жыл бұрын
California 2023.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine
Жыл бұрын
@@LarryKingUndead The Bay Area is already like this.
@bookmanjeb7238
Жыл бұрын
Getting the point of view of a 30ish slavic man on obscure eastern games and the political history behind them is invaluable to me.
@АндрейНеугодников-м6е
Жыл бұрын
HE is Slavic?
@АндрейНеугодников-м6е
Жыл бұрын
@@МаксимАсеев1 откуда он?
@satoshiyoshida7855
Жыл бұрын
@@АндрейНеугодников-м6е Он сам говорил что живёт в Москве, плюс это заметно по публичным полит взглядам автора.
@bookmanjeb7238
Жыл бұрын
@@АндрейНеугодников-м6е Some speculation on my part, but he pinned it so maybe im right? lol
@Warlockracy
Жыл бұрын
I'm a mix of 3 or 4 different Slav tribes, I'm Kwisatz Haderach of Slavs
@postpunk6947
Жыл бұрын
As a Pole, I feel a stronger bond with your work than with any other creator on KZitem, the breath of Slavism in your work is wonderfully powerful. Thank you for being here.
@Warlockracy
Жыл бұрын
Hell yeah
@postpunk6947
Жыл бұрын
@@Warlockracy and please, tell me, did Dmitry Puchkov have anything to do with the books this game was based on? I noticed a picture of him holding books in your video, and I can feel the slight Planet Alcatraz vibe here.
@Warlockracy
Жыл бұрын
He was the one who "discovered" the author, but he didn't write them.
@postpunk6947
Жыл бұрын
@@Warlockracy thank you very much, have a nice, cozy saturday evening, Warlock.
@Идущий-к-горе
Жыл бұрын
Slavism, russian narodism
@robertstenn1350
Жыл бұрын
The part where they forced the homeless man to go into the vault with mines was dark but it was amusing how right after the guy got blown up Ahmet decided to go in and defuse the mines himself. It's like why even bother with the cannon fodder in the first place? lol
@danshabash
Жыл бұрын
IIRC Ahmet calculated that they would set some traps that would be really risky to defuse. But they would not set too many due to possibly having to defuse them themselves later
@planescaped
Жыл бұрын
I think it was a creepy attempt at making Akhmet seem cool.
@DesignatedMember
Жыл бұрын
I like how Akhmet is married but doesn't seem to think about his wife at all nor even harbours any affection for her as a person and the only times she shows up in the game its because she has bothered him about something and he always prefers that she just goes away as swiftly as possible. I mean, Akhmet shows more concern and affection for his dog than he does his wife! Ehem, to clarify... I don't "like" this but it does seem depressively true to character, you know?
@danshabash
Жыл бұрын
Think he treats his wife like a car. Necessary, good, but not more important than himself
@weirdautumn
Жыл бұрын
I mean, considering that Akhmet is the embodyment of russian vatnik's power fantasy, that part of his personality feels oddly realistic (aside from all the Gary Stu cringe nonsense) which is kinda depressing
@Myuutsuu85
Жыл бұрын
And no one thinks him being musslim is in any form related to this?
@danshabash
Жыл бұрын
@@Myuutsuu85 Eh, Tatar Muslims are VERY different from Arabic ones. In fact, I think a lot of what people think of as "muslim" culture is just arab culture. I think Russian muslims used to be more traditional but Soviet secularization removed a lot of this. Plus Ahmet isn't a religious nutjob. In short, no, religion isn't a big part of this.
@weirdautumn
Жыл бұрын
@@Myuutsuu85 nah, I've met russians that are orthodox christians and they still have a lot in common with Ahmed character. That's a very specific mindset which it's not a religious, but more of a cultural thing. Them being ultra conservative reactionaries and ex-military and all that.
@DreadnoughtFiend
Жыл бұрын
So.... his power fantasy was literally just him being a dick to his neighbors? Like I know he used Americans as an excuse, but like he honestly kicked out and threated his neighbors and took their shit. Like this is the evil Raider option in Fallout.
@petrsukenik9266
Жыл бұрын
fucking owe neigbours is russian tradition, just look what they did to poles, ukrainans, fins, czechs etc
@Demicleas
Жыл бұрын
He's bassicly a brotherhood of steel member.
@DreadnoughtFiend
Жыл бұрын
@@Demicleas Bethesda's brotherhood of steel. Though at this point Brotherhood of Steel can mean like 20 things cause they just like using it for marketing
@ЕвгенийПетров-в5п
Жыл бұрын
No, his neighbors decided to rob him of the loot he had collected from bandits over the time, because they had nothing left to eat but didn't do anything about it either until that moment of agitation.
@DreadnoughtFiend
Жыл бұрын
@@ЕвгенийПетров-в5п I mean yes and no. Story wise you are correct, but the writer didn't need to make it so. Its a difference between someone who hates there neighbors and some one who likes them. The writer is doing a weird revenge fantasy where his cruelty to his neighbors is justified. Could easily have made like half shit heads and the other half ones that care about him. It tells you about the person, and honestly feels like a Russian edgy teen story. Which is refreshing knowing that is still a thing no matter were you go.
@happymartin6778
Жыл бұрын
You know what I love about your content the absolute most? That I'm getting an education on the aspects of Russian culture that I never would have here in America.
@arriasinsanite4886
Жыл бұрын
not from america but it's the same for me, I came for obscure rpgs title but stayed for the rich anecdotes on eastern cultures and history
@0xlamon
Жыл бұрын
russian? yes. culture? I'd say that's debatable. Unless you count wish-fulfilment wet dreams as a part of culture.
@komb1nat
Жыл бұрын
The line about the values of the ethnic is very debatable. The mayor of Moscow is a russian equivalent of aleut, the defence minister is from northern chinese small ethnic group, the most possible next president is caucasian. It is always about money and connections. Always is and always was.
@bananamrs
Жыл бұрын
@@komb1nat ah yes, the "good russian" trying to distance from "russians"
@harley-owo
Жыл бұрын
@@komb1nat while it is true that individuals can purchase status within a social hierarchy, the statement about how the majority of people applies to general experiences, not exceptional narratives of individuals who have escaped these boundaries. barack obama was the president of the united states; the average black man kind of isn't
@Bekker215
Жыл бұрын
Can it really be described as post apocylpitic when the scenery just looks like a standard provincial Russian town
@Alexander_Kaa
Жыл бұрын
Well, it is where local apocalypse truly happened
@Warlockracy
Жыл бұрын
There are areas of Ozersk that look like Fallout 1
@Wfalen
Жыл бұрын
Later this will be turned into a Russian state sponsored movie. Starring Steven Seagal.
@adamdenton1543
Жыл бұрын
I would actually like to see it in Badcomedian review (russian Nostalgia Critic). Too bad the "famous" russian actor Aleksander Nevsky leaved RF. He would be perfect in that
@croncorcen
Жыл бұрын
It is amzing how a niche gaming channel can convey and inform about the "russian soul". And people say games are not art and a waste of time 😂
@TheAdmantArchvile
Жыл бұрын
What was it Warlock said during his Planet Alcatraz vid? "This is a rare example of bratva art being made because they hate art and basically tricked themselves into making art." Or something along those lines.
@Maggerama
Жыл бұрын
@@TheAdmantArchvile He accurately called it "Silovik Art". Almost too accurately.
@djobnoxious6407
Жыл бұрын
Fuck, didn’t Dostoievski coin that concept? Can you explain it to me?
@Maggerama
Жыл бұрын
@@djobnoxious6407 Nah, that concept couldn't be the same during his relatively lenient times. It was born on Soviet grounds, now Russian, out of sheer brutality. Basically, silovik as we know him was summoned by mass human sacrifices bolsheviks made, particularly Stalin (and what do you know, Puchkov of Planet Alcatraz' fame is a big fan). If you want to know how brutal it could be, I recommend Varlam Shalamov's "Kolyma Tales". A black pill of all black pills, non-fiction. Silovik is mostly Stalin's achievement, he fed the apparatus with millions of bodies to grind through, not exactly giving birth but undprecedentally thickening a fat layer of puffed-up representatives of Federal Penitentiary Service, military, FSB, and everything Ministry of Internal Affairs, empowering them with near-unlimited rights. Silovik is the one who dictates Russian culture of the last 20 years (that's why it's pure hell), silovik is the one even the boldest gopniks won't ever mess with. Every prisoner they guard, fuck, and torture secretly wants to be as merciless and relentlessly manly (and it leaks, oh it leaks on the naton's mentality, getiing soaked in). They are the incapable government's golden crutches, they are a buffer between the powerful and the powerless, so their well-being is defended at all costs. You can't insult them, hell, you can't even look like you're about to hurt their feelings. Suffice to say that Putin, being one and the same with that rotten crowd, kept the feeding processes going. This crowd never went away, they were the true rulers for decades. After being weakened in the 90s, they came back at full force and took over everything. Grasped it tighter than in the USSR, having better tools of mass-delusion. The results of this ignorant, dumb swine feeling extra confident because of their exploits we can all see in the world today.
@BlackMoonHowls
Жыл бұрын
@@TheAdmantArchvile That's funny.
@brianstephens8337
Жыл бұрын
Babe wake up it's time for another hour-long Warlockracy video about a Russian game I've never heard of before
@valentinaskazimieras
Жыл бұрын
"de-kulakization procedure" killed me
@yaroslavporkhun8094
Жыл бұрын
De-fisting, lol
@vorynrosethorn903
Жыл бұрын
It basically had the same meaning as it did back then, an excuse to murder and steal.
@reallovetrue9988
Жыл бұрын
The Goblin zoom out scene got me laughing way more than it should
@Eduard_Moraru
Жыл бұрын
What? Was I checking my phone when that scene happened? Can you give a timestamp?
@Noelis
Жыл бұрын
@@Eduard_Moraru 17:52 Dmitry Yuryevich Puchkov - his nickname is Goblin an he's like translator movie duber guy in Russia
@weirdautumn
Жыл бұрын
That made me vomit in my mouth a little, but that's okay.
@VitaliyMilonov
Жыл бұрын
I love Goblin as much as I love myself. :333
@weirdautumn
Жыл бұрын
@@nachalnik5738 if by "good" you mean "not a Z-fascist" then yeah, not terrible
@imooumoo4
Жыл бұрын
I am monumentally disappointed there was no "May Allah forgive me for uttering this" joke
@Warlockracy
Жыл бұрын
GOD DAMN
@adamdenton1543
Жыл бұрын
I am tatar myself and we are not very religious people. My muslim grandparents liked to eat pork barbeque with cognac
@someguy4512
3 ай бұрын
@@adamdenton1543 that's because of USSR.
@Poctyk
3 ай бұрын
@@someguy4512 Not necessarily. Muslims in former Russian empire were very secularized even pre USSR, especially in european part of the Russian empire For example, during 1917 All-Muslim Congress from ~900 deputees, around 100 were women, and the question of equality between men and women, and women rights were important topics of discusion.
@someguy4512
3 ай бұрын
@@Poctyk nah false Russian Empire literally massacered Muslims in Caucasus and forced them to be that way. "For example, during 1917 All-Muslim Congress from ~900 deputees, around 100 were women" ???? how the hell is that secular? Islam isnt against women Lmfao literally among first universities in arab world in Fes was made by a Woman. "and the question of equality between men and women, and women rights were important topics of discusion." you speak as if Islam doesnt provide that what the hell.
@malodemesidon1035
Жыл бұрын
I'm kinda fascinated by the surreal quality of the "setting". Like the USA invaded/occupied Russia and apparently decided to just kinda...let it rot instead of doing something with it. And they apparently engineer a plague to destroy western russia, because they want to kill russian and risk it spreading into the rest of Europe for some reason. And also want to clean a little village in the oural and need complexe scheme to make the citizen kill each other instead of like, bombing it. They also only run around with infantry and non-lethal crow control vehicule. It's just...bizzare.
@marley7868
Жыл бұрын
why did you bomb this village?"oh they were forming a violitile raiding state one guy evicted an appartment block by gun point and turned it into his own private fortress" and that's assuming anyone at all actually cared
@AnnoNymus
Жыл бұрын
The U.S. invaded iraq irl and let it rot afterwards. Get your head out of your ass.
@messeuravril540
Жыл бұрын
Defeating Russia then leaving it to rot is probably a reinterpretation of the USA's triumph in the Cold War. Everyone just relives the last big crisis.
@56bturn
Жыл бұрын
They realised that there was little of value there.
@sunshineskystar
9 ай бұрын
Most of the important Russians are located on the western side. There's literally nothing valuable on the eastern side.
@csam9167
Жыл бұрын
Honestly if i've gotten a peny everytime that you covered a weird russian game with an author self insert inspired by a book he wrote with stranger racial undertone... well i would have two penny. And that's too much for me. Ps : This game can be the official /pol/ russian edition fanfiction
@ChucksSEADnDEAD
Жыл бұрын
/pol/ Russian edition is just regular /pol/. That place is troll farm central.
@Raum2901
Жыл бұрын
@@Пальцерезка Comming from my own version of /pol/ it kind of is
@weirdautumn
Жыл бұрын
@@Пальцерезка pls go back to /pol/, bot
@baker90338
Жыл бұрын
Wait til you see /k/. Opposite problem. Ukr bots shit it up with muh ukr war shit.
@Randomlad56
Жыл бұрын
@@weirdautumnwhat did “user” say?
@tylrdadestroyer9264
Жыл бұрын
I love this game in a sick silent sadistic way. Much like when the neighbors throw rocks that stun me for 30 minutes
@bilbarcooks4681
Жыл бұрын
I can assure you many cities in the Uk look like this though the 90s, similar levels of decay.
@Alexander_Kaa
Жыл бұрын
Well, Northern Ireland even had civil war around these times
@afivey
Жыл бұрын
@@Alexander_Kaa If the GFA hadn't happened and The Troubles had lasted another decade there'd maybe be weird Northern Ireland sectarianism videogames and mods romanticising groups like the IRA on the republican side or the UDF on the loyalist side. Strange to think our fucked up timeline didn't get all the possible jank.
@Alexander_Kaa
Жыл бұрын
@@afivey there is no games or movies with IRA as protagonists? Thought there has to be something like that
@perhaps1094
Жыл бұрын
@@Alexander_Kaa theres that one episode of captain planet lol
@kenetickups6146
3 ай бұрын
Thatcher moment
@Redyqar
Жыл бұрын
I kinda hope at some point you would review one of those Russian popadantsy/isekai/accidental travel books. World needs to know what kind of peril one must go through in order of finding decent sci-fi/fantasy in this country.
@ЭрикКартман-ч4ю
Жыл бұрын
I vote for Bee-isekai.
@СергейМалышев-ю8щ
Жыл бұрын
@@ЭрикКартман-ч4ю Ah, fellow Rybachenko's fan! But isn't an awful LitRPG stuff more preferrable than a 100 similiar stories of "X against Hitler"? The System came to your world!
@ЭрикКартман-ч4ю
Жыл бұрын
@@СергейМалышев-ю8щ это в любом случае перспектива на очень далекое будущее. Ему пока есть что обозревать. Та же братва и кольцо как-минимум.
@Karton142
Жыл бұрын
@@ЭрикКартман-ч4ю помню был обзор бэбэя в английском на братву и кольцо
@genericbit677
Жыл бұрын
@@ЭрикКартман-ч4ю "Bratva I Koltzo" - Agh!, The numbers! I hear the numbers! What do they mean!? Where's Reznov!? Seriously though. That thing existing on top of the movie "translations" is something I really hoped I had forgotten.
@SarahHxC
Жыл бұрын
Am I.... Am I partly responsible for this? Haven't had the time to watch the full review but I hope you didn't suffer much
@SarahHxC
Жыл бұрын
Definitely getting my semințe (sunflower seeds) out for this one
@Warlockracy
Жыл бұрын
Yes u r and it turned out to be not as bad as Planet Alcatraz
@koghs
Жыл бұрын
@@Warlockracy well that's just weird
@Erreul
Жыл бұрын
@@Warlockracy Planet Alcatraz, lmao.
@АндрейНеугодников-м6е
Жыл бұрын
Semechki*
@krmey5150
Жыл бұрын
This truly is the Dantes Inferno of Russian Isekai-style Novels! I cannot wait for the next entry in Russian fringe politik exposes inbetween gameplay
@marekjurko4548
Жыл бұрын
I always remember Russian games (mostly 1C ones) in the bargain bin part of the Polish games market in the late '00s, sold along with some of the low-effort local products (like City Interactive shooters). They were sold in newsagents, to take advantage of lower VAT on press releases. They mostly cost ~20 PLN, so just a bit more than a cinema ticket or a small pizza. While you were better off getting a budget release of a classic, it was not the worst way to get an expendable game for a few hours' worth of enjoyment - if you could stand the jank. I wondered why their RPG's almost never appeared here, because they were sometimes mentioned by the press. It turns out that what I missed is pure madness, stuff like Stalin Subway, Death to Spies or You Are Empty is not only competent but very tame compared to those games. Are there vatnik FPS, RTS and tactical games? Or - God forbid - vatnik graphic adventures?
@090giver090
Жыл бұрын
You can call "Syrian Warfare" a vatnik RTS in some way.
@liquidgoose1518
Жыл бұрын
There was a RTS franchise named Sudden Strike, particulary a game called Sudden Strike 2 which was widely sucessful at Russian market and had a modding community. At one point Red Ice Software, a Russian game developer bought rights for the games engine and developed a series of true vatnik RTS games about 2008 war in Georgia and hypothetical NATO invasion of Russia in 2015. No idea how they were called in English but in Russian they were Противостояние Принуждение к миру and Противостояние Европа 2015.
@pavelskrylnikov9658
Жыл бұрын
YAE is from Ukraine, DTS IIRC has actually good story inspired by actually good WWII books and Stalin Subway has the most original setting i ever saw - 1953 powerplay around Stalin's death. Shame that Stalin Subway 3 never got made, it was going to be set in 60s or 70s and some footage of it exists. >Are there vatnik FPS, RTS and tactical games? Or - God forbid - vatnik graphic adventures? FPS: Instinct, Paragraph 78 and SOBR Warrior. RTS and tactics: Syrian Warfare, Принуждение к миру (a Sudden Strike II mod with shadowy license, there were heaps of them here in the 00s). Graphic adventures - not to my knowledge but there were many really trashy point'n'click adventures, some with corresponding themes. Styrlitz comes to mind. There was even a vatnik mech arcade, 2025: Battle for Fatherland.
@johnathanmcdoe
Жыл бұрын
Since you mentioned 1C, I've been very interested in this one ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C_(%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0) It's the Silent Storm engine, but otherwise wholly impenetrable for someone not speaking the language.
@SpecShadow
Жыл бұрын
I remember about games from the east being a gamble thanks to StarForce DRM which can work like a virus, no joke
@coiler3927
2 ай бұрын
"Conscripts who look like they haven't eaten in weeks" -So, uh, accurate? :P
@blobbem
Жыл бұрын
There's just something about, what I can only describe as "propaganda", that's produced nowadays that I find oddly interesting to look at. It's like a morbid curiosity. Stuff like this gives us a brief glimpse of what some people believe about how others think or act.
@morriganlefay5438
Жыл бұрын
I love these vatnik RPG videos, it's like looking into the mind of an alien
@Bloodycupcake54
Жыл бұрын
Commentator gave me an education on Russian slurs and rated the character on an ethnic hierarchy 11/10 review
@Lolm3ist3r
Жыл бұрын
A Russian officer hesitating to shoot his own people is where I draw the line, this game is just too unrealistic.
@paufernandezboj5517
2 ай бұрын
That's Because its vatnik propaganda, its fake as fuck when you have a minority as a protagonist that loves russia, when all The minorities of The russian federation didnt give a shit about The federation even they live like if they are independent 😂
@19Ronnie10
Жыл бұрын
Never played Marauder... but i truly recommend it precedensors : - Brigade E5 (with mod Immortal Badass) - and 7.62: High Calibre (with Mercapocalypse/Give Everybody Guns) Very similar in gameplay. Mercapocalypse mod fixes a lot of game shortcomings and add enormous amount types of guns :D
@Farencio
Жыл бұрын
and the mod 7.62 hard life just to suffer.
@GingerWritings
Жыл бұрын
The fact that the author and game maker think they can predict Americans, when we Americans cannot predict Americans, shows that these lads have never been around Americans. To simulate this feeling, ask yourself why something is wrong, and either answer you don't know, or insist it isn't a problem, and you got us down pat.
@marley7868
Жыл бұрын
that is unironically our battle stratedgy to paraphase a soviet "americans are infuriating to predict as there battle doctrine is to disregard the battle doctrine if you feel like it"
@arandompasserby7940
Жыл бұрын
@@marley7868 The Germans in WW2 also said the same thing about us, that we Americans practiced "Chaos".
@marley7868
Жыл бұрын
@@arandompasserby7940 yup and to paraphrase westpoint's thoughts no this topic "if we don't know exactly what we're doing they enemy can't either"
@Samm815
Жыл бұрын
Riding by the seat of our pants has been a tradition since before the British left us. The soul of Andrew "I AM THE LAW" Jackson lives on in us all.
@lukabajic9729
Жыл бұрын
I mean Americans can be predicted, as their low average intelligence makes their beliefs really predictable
@KarlRosner
Жыл бұрын
Supporting this channel on Pateron is the best investment I've made in 2022. Is that sad? No it's not and you should too probably. Why? Well so Warlockracy can move to a better country (Canada lamo) where police don't "ask politely" that you sign documents that say they wont speak your mind. :) As for this game, it's so totally crazy and I kind of love it. It's so crazy it comes off as parody. I think this game might be real art, and that's super weird considering how absurd it is. Then again Americans have been making "the US gets invaded by Russians" games for like 40 years so it's actually not that strange. When people believe in totally janky easily disproven political theories and then go make art about them it's often looks like a surreal parody to anyone who isn't jank-pilled. The funny thing is all of these types of art are full of commonalities with one another. Like they always see them selves as victims and every one else as utterly hostile, refusing to recognize their humanity in order to widen the separation between the groups. What makes this game interesting is that the main character is part of a real minority group that people are really racist too. Every thing gets really fuzzy with this one which is another reason it's so interesting. A fantastic video, thanks!
@andreymontag
Жыл бұрын
The amount of Russia specific references is incredibly high. I fear a lot is lost on English speakers
@Mortablunt
Жыл бұрын
It’s lost even on us foreigners who learned Russian.
@weirdautumn
Жыл бұрын
The weird russian lore is truly deep in this one.
@BadlanderOutsider
Жыл бұрын
I remember reading this game's LP back about a decade ago. The extra cultural narrative is welcome. Context is important after all.
@HellishSpoon
Жыл бұрын
"Russian man dreams of big muscular black men with massive explodsive guns blasting him in the face"
@paufernandezboj5517
2 ай бұрын
Or probably The russian man IS racist and he wants The black man as slaves IDKN 🤔
@williaminder4176
Жыл бұрын
You’re my favorite KZitemr. Keep it up. Always look forward to your videos and watch them over and over. Love the obscure games and insight into Soviet civil life and explaining alien Russian cultural elements. Big love from Tulsa Oklahoma!
@JakobPientko
Жыл бұрын
He’s reviewing Fallout the Frontier, may god help his soul
@cccPKR3W
Жыл бұрын
I have learner more about Russian and eastern euro culture from this and your other videos than the last 30 years of my life. Honestly, thanks a tonne for demystifying Russia a little.
@nottactical6988
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for being such a AAA grade slavic cultural media interpreter. You're easily one of the best gaming channels on YT because your work is every bit as educational as it is intriguing and entertaining. Don't let the turkeys get you down and keep it up
@m.streicher8286
3 ай бұрын
"if only the CIA was that based" I've said this unironically
@lucasrodillo6739
Жыл бұрын
Post apocalyptic? That just looks like Russia
@Spheronic
2 ай бұрын
This is hilarious because this is EXACTLY the opposite of how it would go. Americans would make sure american programs were on TV, american clothes were all around, that the russian government only bought american military hardware (or any nato stuff really), american food would be on every shelf in every store from irkutsk to moscow. Russia would be making money hand over foot. All it would cost is "national dignity" and not being a world power. Although you could argue that already killed those two things by themselves.
@Usual_User
Жыл бұрын
Watching you as a Ukrainian is just so much fun) You trying to explain all the fucked up and whacky world view of vatnic's is just gold) Love your video's man.
@yaroslavporkhun8094
Жыл бұрын
Lol, same feeling.
@christiangezledelacruz5972
Жыл бұрын
I love how you weave together references from other videos. Never stop expanding the cinematic universe!
@uptown710
Жыл бұрын
Lmaooo you can’t make this shit up. As always, I appreciate your taking the time to do these videos. They’re amazing.
@ajensen-zx1tu
Жыл бұрын
Ахмет - российский ответ на Джоэла из Last of Us
@rock1145
Жыл бұрын
My cat very intently watched this video until Akmet started shooting the Housewives. I guess she's too patriotic for this game.
@justbored5785
Жыл бұрын
Dude I would love a video where you just explain Russian and Eastern European culture it puts a lot into perspective
@federicocalvo7660
Жыл бұрын
I think it's done best when said culture is put in practice as in the videogames he shows.
@petrsukenik9266
Жыл бұрын
eastern european culture and russian culture are pretty differen thing tho
@VKTouchdown
Жыл бұрын
the sudden VTM LaCroix statement annihilated me, excellent video and incredibly insightful. Always love your work.
@JellyJman
Жыл бұрын
Interesting ending, basically achmet says “man destroying the Americans was actually pretty easy since Allah willed it, should had just done this sooner.” Then also creates the Russian mujahideen, so wonder what the real end goal would have been, the US either will eventually stop Achmet or they’ll just lose interest and leave like ever other country lol. I would like to see a sequel where Achmet goes and solos the entire US army and restores the Soviet Union 😂
@Superschokokeks
Жыл бұрын
Somehow this reminds me of "The Fall: Last days of gaia" or something. A german take on post apocalypse squad roleplaying game. Well. not really a german take since there's little "german" in the game, but developed by germans. Darkseed, a german metal band wrote the OST (or at least some songs). Some of those songs they released on their album. It's janky, but it's fine. Very slow paced, if not boring between locals (big maps with a lot of walking/driving) I'd say check it out, it sounds like something you would enjoy - If you get a copy
@samz8691
Жыл бұрын
The Fall is something I'm keen to check out, the devs also made "Soldiers of Anarchy" another Post-Apocalypse game but an RTS with more of a focus on combat including vehicle combat.
@dgfgable
Жыл бұрын
if you know Russian his translation of dialogs becomes funnier
@Shenaldrac
Жыл бұрын
So when I saw this at the end of your previous review I was super hyped for this. What a neat setup for a game, the Cold War ending not in war but through bribing the Party. And the drawn cutscene bits looked really cool. I figured this would be an interesting political visual novel. I uh, I was rather crestfallen when you explicitly said that wasn't the case near the start of this video! This certainly was not what I expected. Still a very enjoyable view, but yeah I was expecting something like The Last Express.
@kuntuzik5985
Жыл бұрын
Well it basically happend irl, all former USSR citizens saw almost all of the shit portrayed in the game, without the nato and Ahmed part ofc
@DionysusFOX
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for being a widow into the wild world of the Russian far right
@amarjamakovic1297
Жыл бұрын
@5:19 I haven't laughed as much in a long time. Those are literally the exact same words my late grandfather used for my cousin Ahmet during his university graduation ceremony. God bless his soul. :D
@Tgungen
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like something my Turkish grandfather would say as a joke, he passed away two weeks ago, god bless his soul
@weirdautumn
Жыл бұрын
As psychotic as the plot of this game is, somehow it captures the paranoid worldview and insecurities of "vatniks" (russian ultra-nationalists) perfectly.
@genericusername9934
Жыл бұрын
hey warlockracy, just came here to comment that you're one of my favorite youtubers, love everything you've done and have been watching since the beginning, keep covering these bizzare games its amazing
@taliban_skate_vids
Жыл бұрын
amazing game, 10/10, the weak liberal western mind cannot comprihend the greatness of Vatnik Quest I mean Marauder
@Poctyk
Жыл бұрын
14:02 IMO you are missing T0 in where you are from graph - Moscow. It always was in its own league even compared to the Russian core of Tver and St. Petersburg and whatever.
@MrSirHenryMF
Жыл бұрын
I can't explain why but your videos always make me feel a strange kind of nostalgia, like I'm watching an old documentary.
@Locust5000
Жыл бұрын
I laughed so hard I had to pause the video when I heard the mercenary Warlock's signature catch phrase. Nice callback!
@Maykenzie
Жыл бұрын
Another great video. Its legit fascinating to learn about all that deep Russian lore conveyed through the lens of janky crackpot games. I can't wait for the Fallout Frontier video. That mod is just something else, even without getting into drama dumpster fire that followed its release.
@EPWillard
Жыл бұрын
this is like the russian version of red dawn
@desolane900
Жыл бұрын
You literally never disappoint. Never stop doing these videos my dude.
@Irongaze86
3 ай бұрын
31:07 It's true, Pindos (or Pindus) is a mountain range in Greece and has been a city, a principality, and a character in Greek Mythology over the centuries of Greece's existence. Currently it's a municipality in Greece. If I had to come up with an explanation for why the name of a Greek mountain range ended up being an American derogatory term then it'd probably be because of the Greek Civil war in the late 40s. The Americans and British both had a part to play in that war, funding and sending military detachments to aid the anti-communists. I imagine most Russians (especially the propagandists and leaders) probably wouldn't be happy about a western nation intervening in a civil war against socialist groups, especially since it was the first major time that America had done something like that. That's not a guarantee of what happened but that's the only way I could explain something so strange.
@Usual_User
Жыл бұрын
Oh no, he is gonna scare himself with Frontier, please someone stop him!
@prebuilt713
Жыл бұрын
As someone who played the Frontier and knows just what it is, I'm scared of the next video. Great video!
@prestonrobinson4424
Жыл бұрын
This is so interesting to me, kind of like the parallel universe version of Red Dwan.
@paufernandezboj5517
2 ай бұрын
Its The vatnik versión of red dawn only with more ridicule things
@ВдымВдымов
Ай бұрын
Как интересно читать комментарии иностранцев)). Раскрываются их мысли и думы, как о России, так и о состоянии мира, всякие тенденции и течения политики и культуры. Warlockracy еще молод, возможно жизнь еще расширит его знания и понимание происходившего и происходящего. Спасибо Warlockracy за продвижение российских игр и возможность читать комментарии! Обязательно почитаю комментарии к Санитарам подземелий))) И да люблю пошаговые РПГ, особо в постапок мирах.
@TornadoADV
4 ай бұрын
"The Big Fucking" is the name of my punk band.
@Maggerama
Жыл бұрын
God, that voice acting is such a classic. No one could defeat Russia on the front of tackiness. Ever.
@ElectrolfRaul
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting always such great videos, you are the best!
@markymark7247
Жыл бұрын
My God this is just the vatnik Turner Diaries except marginally less racist.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine
Жыл бұрын
Rounding up a bunch of hobos and using them for 'clearing' mines is just so delightfully sociopathic. Makes it difficult to empathize with Ahmet.
@TisMeBc
Жыл бұрын
What a perfect game to review, love your stuff man thanks for keeping up what seems like an insane schedule
@ВладленШапарев
Жыл бұрын
Author makes for explaining russian and slavic culture more than whole ministry of culture in Russian government. Thank you for this, we'll need it after this trouble times will be over.
@hedgehog3180
8 ай бұрын
I love how the game starts out by describing the American invasion as some sort of coup and then later is just like “oh yeah the government had collapsed”, like surely that would be the reason there was no organized resistance? It honestly makes the American invasion in hindsight sound like a humanitarian intervention.
@manolispiperias7608
Жыл бұрын
“Pindos” is a mountain in Greece, so pindosi would mean “the folk from Pindos”.
@Tgungen
Жыл бұрын
One thing I really admire about this game is how they depicted the Russian oligarchs at 0:09 as smug assholes that think they are better than anyone else just because they bought the right stock in 1992
@romulusnuma116
Жыл бұрын
Achmed goes out to get some fish comes back a nuclear power
@cliftoncline3372
Жыл бұрын
I love your cultural lessons about Russia in your videos, one of the things that keeps me coming back
@ashnhx
Жыл бұрын
It would've been cool if they leaned more into a post apocalyptic dungeon keeper type of game.
@Warlockracy
Жыл бұрын
That's what RimWorld is for!!
@TheFreshSorcerer
Жыл бұрын
The Frontier... I thought I'd escaped...
@midnightbrooklyn8736
Жыл бұрын
I just wanna say that you're probably my favorite KZitemr period. Your content always is extremely entertaining and you do a great job showcasing not only the classics I grew up on but also bringing to light games I would've never heard of otherwise. Keep up the great work!
@shamvnblood
Жыл бұрын
so wholesome 🐱
@angushughes5371
Жыл бұрын
As an American, I apologize for the people that made Fallout: The Frontier. But I am putting a good chunk of the blame on the Soviet Union. Here's hoping you're playing the day one release, not that I would know. Haven't played New Vegas for a couple of years.
@Danil_Antipov_
Жыл бұрын
These are all games that my father was playing while i was young and watching over his shoulder. Fallout, JA, Planet Alcatraz , E5 762 and Marauder. Good times...
@wolfgod6443
Жыл бұрын
17:55 Recognizing that face puts me in an existential crisis.
@djwoody1649
Жыл бұрын
Only in Russia can coming up with an interesting IP and a small fictional universe launch your career as a political extremist and militia leader.
@kylepettis4571
Жыл бұрын
I have had this game 10 years and could not for the life of me get past the jank in the first couple levels. So safe to say I am so thankful you made it through the game thank you for your dedication!
@ЕвгенийПетров-в5п
Жыл бұрын
Use cheats. The game is too bugged to finish. All the games 1C made are impossible to enjoy playing. I am unlucky and played only those as they're cheaper than many other pirated games in the store :D
@BulgarskiFilm
Жыл бұрын
21:23 GREAT VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE BLOODLINES REFERENCE ! Really appreciate it man !
@Ciretako
Жыл бұрын
I love the silent revelation at 17:55 that the -Marauder novels- Russian Turner Diaries come with the Goblin seal of approval.
@B0nezee
9 ай бұрын
When I was a kid I consumed a lot of American and or European produced content, but I always thought it was funny how in a lot of it Russia or China was the "bad guy". It makes me happy to see that they were literally doing the same thing by making The United States the enemy of their content as well. We are so different, yet, so similar in a lot of ways.
@marko9005
Жыл бұрын
hey man i love the content! keep it up! put your vids in the back while im cutting up onions (making food) so i cry everytime i see a eurojank mechanic in an obscure forgotten game your playing lol
@matt92hun
3 ай бұрын
We already have Red Dawn at home.
@skullead3774
Жыл бұрын
Oh God you're actually going to cover Fallout the Frontier. Those about to Sneed we salute you.
@FancyHat
Жыл бұрын
When the neighbors attacked the apartment in my playthrough I didn't have the saiga and got overwhelmed. I finally backed myself up into the bathroom and when they poured into the apartment the wife started attacking them all and killing them as they were ignoring her as a target.
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