Unfortunately, no one can be told how bad Tekwar is. You have to see it for yourself. Patreon: / civvie11 Twitter: / civvie11 E-Mail: civvie11@gmail.com
The Matrix level was what the Nazis saw when they opened the Ark of the Covenant.
@APoleYouKnow
3 жыл бұрын
The Matrix level was actually a cruel experiment done by the Nazis to troll gamers epically.
@aaaaaahhh9537
3 жыл бұрын
A Pole You Know why would they troll themselves?
@kaydencebernard7775
3 жыл бұрын
@@terriblecontent4408 jesus christ
@jake_leg
3 жыл бұрын
They saw the sheer amount of screen tearing and hurts so bad they melted
@Mazaroth
3 жыл бұрын
I got terminal autism from that matrix level, fucking capstone, rest in feces.
@LegionHimself
4 жыл бұрын
I have an explanation for the moving stationary turret. They programmed every npc with the same artificial intelligence, then set movement speed to 0 for turrets, but they did so individually and they missed the one.
@oz_jones
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@quantum174
3 жыл бұрын
@@oz_jones Totally unrelated but I watched the BionicPig Osmosis Jones video today then saw this and your name in the replies. Strange
@CopiousDoinksLLC
3 жыл бұрын
That's great but my preferred headcanon is that Capstone were so bad at coding that they somehow managed to create a turret which became self-aware and, upon doing so, immediately began searching for a way to kill itself
@UnitSe7en
2 жыл бұрын
Was OOP part of the paradigm at that time? I think it was, but it wasn't widespread. Civvie talks about it like he expects it to be structured as an object, but that's probably all he knows, and if the turret was an object, he would be right and it doesn't make sense. The only thing I can think of is that the game wasn't structured to be object-oriented, and then something like what OP said happened. It's completely believable with Capstone (and the age of the game).
@iAmCodeMonkey
2 жыл бұрын
@@UnitSe7en This sounds the most correct, along with what the OP said. Most games developed in the 1990s were written in straight C, or even assembly language. C++ and OOP didn't show up in game engines until the very modern 3D stuff.
@derworfnet
2 жыл бұрын
Agent Smith: _"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world."_ *The first Matrix:*
@lkotro21
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I'd die from that too.
@Asmallcorneroftheinternet
Жыл бұрын
Victims of the First Matrix: WHY IS EVERYTHING FLASHING FROM ZERO TO FULL BRIGHTNESS!?
@mikeoxlong1395
Жыл бұрын
@@Asmallcorneroftheinternet Victims of the first matrix: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
@landotucker
Жыл бұрын
"Entire crops were lost" that never made sense to me since why wouldn't you program it so that nothing bad happened?
@erikm12
Жыл бұрын
@@landotucker I think he meant that because it was *too* perfect and dreamlike none of the people hooked up to it thought it was real and they either died from brain damage or were liquidated. Smith goes on to say that the machines discovered humans define reality through suffering and therefore made it a simulation of human society ca. 2000 AD. Some far out social commentary there bruh.
@supernebula101
3 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling that Shatner told Capstone all the stuff he wanted in the game, and part of that would be levels where it was actually a challenge to not hit civilians, and he recorded those FMV sequences under the impression that it would make sense in context. Then Capstone half-assed it and couldn't bother with that much effort, so they made the criteria for the bad cutscene based off of how many enemies you killed, completely going against every other design decision. 'The Pinnacle of "Eh, it'll be fine."'
@kurtis2221
Жыл бұрын
Surprisingly it works as it should, but it doesn't check if you've shot a civilian. So, if even one dies, then you automatically get the bad briefing. It doesn't matter how many enemies, cops you kill though. I was experimenting with this and later checked the source code.
@jor4114
Жыл бұрын
@@kurtis2221 Jesus Christ, you played this trash?
@kurtis2221
Жыл бұрын
@@jor4114 Yeah, also made some fixes for the DOS version: modern controls, removed the flickering from the matrix and some minor adjustments.
@officialFredDurstfanclub
Жыл бұрын
@@kurtis2221 wait so if you literally kill anyone in the level, regardless of if they’re an enemy or not, you get the bad briefing?
@kurtis2221
Жыл бұрын
@@officialFredDurstfanclub No, you can kill every enemy that has a gun, even cops. Only the unarmed civilians are counted (in the later levels they have close range weapons). If you are interested in the game's mechanics I made some analysis videos about the game.
@pentelegomenon1175
3 жыл бұрын
"I've never trusted Civvie, and I never will. I could never forgive him for the death of half of LA." - Bill Shatner, aka Walter Bascom
@canman87
3 жыл бұрын
"The fucking... PINNACLE of entertainment software." The perfect delivery of that line paired with the fade-in of the Capstone logo gets me every time.
@nothingislogical
3 жыл бұрын
A conversation that probably happened at Capstone: “Hmm… What do we do for the final level?” “I don’t know. Who wants to take acid with me?”
@canman87
2 жыл бұрын
Acid is far more enjoyable than this "game" could ever hope to be, lmao. Civvie's video is the best thing that ever came out of that shit heap disaster of half-assed programming.
@wintermute8315
2 жыл бұрын
Said like someone who's never taken acid.
@Hamun002
Жыл бұрын
The only way this experience could be like acid is if you were drugged with acid and in order to facilitate a total destruction of your ego, you were strapped to a chair in a room and forced to experience essentially that Matrix level for hours on end, no break, no respite
@kurtis2221
Жыл бұрын
At least they didn't include the 2 minute time limit for it. It will abort the mission after that. The first symbol needs at least 2:30 with speedrun pace. In the source code you can re-enable this feature...
@noahfessenden6478
Жыл бұрын
It's one thing to take acid. It's an entire other thing to take acid, then code the experience into a buggy game engine that you have minimal experience and care with.
@7411y
4 жыл бұрын
"The subway takes you into a stop, that takes you into the sewer, because *sometimes my eyelids twitch when I go pee* " - Civvie, 2018
@jeremyallen492
3 жыл бұрын
Must be from all the internal ball tazing
@ThatFetcherFargoth
2 жыл бұрын
I don't understand what that means, but it still made me laugh.
@Jakepearl13
Жыл бұрын
I think he should see a doctor…well,if the facility HAS one.
@DarkSidex92
Жыл бұрын
I cant, I just cant stop laughing at this quote, lmao
@jeremyallen5974
Жыл бұрын
@@ThatFetcherFargoth in one of the earlier episodes he bitches about getting shocked from electrodes in his nut sack
@RMD00
5 жыл бұрын
There is a Doom mod called "Terrorists!" by WildWeasel that uses sprites from Tek War and is a whole lot more fun than actually playing Tek War.
@jonathanjensen189
5 жыл бұрын
I remember that guy... man, that was like 15 years ago
@DinnerForkTongue
4 жыл бұрын
@Manek Iridius Noted!
@plasmaoctopus1728
4 жыл бұрын
Can you use the same shitty weapons from Tek War? I'm a fan of the weird burst fire flamethrower that almost works!
@RMD00
4 жыл бұрын
@@plasmaoctopus1728 Sadly no. It's typical action movie arsenal (Beretta, auto shotty, Ak-47, LMG, and so on)
@plasmaoctopus1728
4 жыл бұрын
@@RMD00 To be fair, that's probably for the best.
@stefanm.734
4 жыл бұрын
The "c" on the status screen stands for "consciousness". As far as I can tell it was left over from a scrapped idea, where the player could be rendered unconscious if it hit zero. I'm not sure what effect this would have had in-game, as the game manual implies it would have been different from simply dying.
@OhNotThat
4 жыл бұрын
The pinnacle of entertainment right there folks
@LonelySpaceDetective
4 жыл бұрын
It seems like it can actually still be lowered in-game; at 11:40, it goes down when Civvie takes fall damage. Makes me wonder if it still triggers anything when emptied.
@TheCarribeanCat
3 жыл бұрын
Only thing I can think of is D&D rules, where you go unconscious at 0 and then die at -10 or whatever, giving your party a chance to save you, but I can't begin to imagine what use this'd be in a single player FPS with no companions. Maybe that's why it was cut!
@pentelegomenon1175
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheCarribeanCat Maybe it was exactly like dying except you get a unique message from William Shatner about how you lost consciousness.
@Crypted112
3 жыл бұрын
@@pentelegomenon1175 with how shit this game is yea that's probably what would happen
@SwarmBreaker
Жыл бұрын
After so many years, this is still my favorite Civvie-11 video. Just the pure mental and physical insanity he went through is commendable
@crunchbuttsteak8741
Жыл бұрын
It feels like what I remember old spoony experiment videos feeling like
@bash6353
Жыл бұрын
It's a timeless classic
@Aikisbest
11 ай бұрын
I agree, I come back to this at irregular intervals just for a pick-me-up, hah.
@modernmobster
11 ай бұрын
It is a good one, but I think Redneck Rampage is his best and most rewatchable.
@michaelgraham9774
10 ай бұрын
Nothing like watching Civvie get Shat upon for almost 30 minutes
@KrinkelsNG
4 жыл бұрын
Holy shit way to bring back some memories. I bought this goddamn thing and felt some pretty immeasurable disappointment. Typically even bad games have some really slick ideas buried in there but not this one. I can't remember what I paid but that was in 1995 money so not only was it too much, it was way too much.
@MrZillas
4 жыл бұрын
exactly my story with that game
@LocalSlav
3 жыл бұрын
SOMEWHERE IN NEVADA...
@cyberdiver7076
3 жыл бұрын
@@LocalSlav They're already filled with E.T. the video game. There is even a rumor that says there are more E.T. copies than there are sands in Nevada.
@fenrirsrage4609
3 жыл бұрын
Holy crap I am both surprised and unsurprised to see that you watch Civvie too.
@nikithegamer5165
3 жыл бұрын
hey krinkles, I just wanted to say I am a massive fan of madness combat, thanks for making it and all your other animations, I love your work
@papayer
5 жыл бұрын
'I don't know why she exploded, sometimes the pedestrians explode'. I think I'm getting the hint why you're stuck in a dungeon, civvie.
@murderousmayhem6362
4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@johnsalchichon777
4 жыл бұрын
Why Theres a furry.
@quackmasterson5128
4 жыл бұрын
@@johnsalchichon777 Believe it or not Dylan, but there are words in the comment and you CAN read them!
@johnsalchichon777
4 жыл бұрын
@@quackmasterson5128 still need the reason why.
@quackmasterson5128
4 жыл бұрын
@@johnsalchichon777 There doesn't have to be, they're here because they like the video and perhaps the rest of Civvie's content. Why are you here?
@JoeTAC
5 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry but Shatner having to remember the name of the character he played for years which made his entire career at around 19:18 is fucking hilarious.
@mentalphilanthropist35
2 жыл бұрын
He had to stop himself from saying 'me' instead of kirk.
@arandompasserby7940
2 жыл бұрын
He's not even brainy enough to realize The Nerd Crew is a parody, old age is hitting him hard
@MinscFromBaldursGate92
Жыл бұрын
But why was Kirk climbing a mountain though?
@cupriferouscatalyst3708
Жыл бұрын
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 to get to the other side
@doctorbrown5957
Жыл бұрын
@@cupriferouscatalyst3708 Bada-BING AYOOO
@jordanforbes149
2 жыл бұрын
My favorite thing about Tekwar is that literally all they had to do was stick a photo of an office behind Shatner to sell that he was a police captain at the barest possible level, but they instead felt it was more important to remind you the name of the game you're playing.
@thehoodedteddy1335
4 ай бұрын
Mine is the obviously placeholder eagle head on the logo they never bothered to actually replace with something that looked good
@ijustworkhere1008
3 жыл бұрын
Civvie: “Capstone had ambition. They wanted to make an open-world cyberpunk FPS game. Look at this, they had a big-name star, a fancy new engine. They were going to soar, they were going to touch the sun” CD Projekt Red: “write that down, write that down!”
@mr.froglegs
3 жыл бұрын
Shit, at least Cyberpunk is just super glichy compared to this flawed piece of shit.
@Jesse__H
3 жыл бұрын
The more things change the more they stay the same
@gladspooky9455
3 жыл бұрын
@@mr.froglegs I mean, Cyberpunk doesn't play well or have good gameplay systems at work, from the AI to the customization to the RPG choices. It's not just glitchy.
@TeemoQuinton
3 жыл бұрын
@@gladspooky9455 first I've heard this take
@LemonRush7777
3 жыл бұрын
@@mr.froglegs Glitches are not the main problem with Cyberpunk. It's the cut / half assed content.
@rorysimpson8716
5 жыл бұрын
I love to hear sentences that are likely said for the first time and, "I don't understand the Cyber punk aesthetic of floating space peanuts!" is one of the best I've heard in quite a while.
@Yodah97
3 жыл бұрын
Definetly a first in human history. What an achievement.
@BlazingOwnager
5 жыл бұрын
Oh.. my.. God. The Matrix level. It's like if Neil Breen made System Shock on Extacy
@boilerhousegarage
4 жыл бұрын
This is how Capstone would spell ecstasy!
@MinscFromBaldursGate92
2 жыл бұрын
Capstone - the pinnacle of exstasy.
@reloadpsi
2 жыл бұрын
"I can't believe you took the red pill. I _cannot believe_ you took the red pill."
@BlazingOwnager
2 жыл бұрын
@@reloadpsi You've sold me. It's definitely going to be better than anything Lana Wichowski puts out
@ChaosPootato
8 ай бұрын
Seeing the sewer count so low and not-zombified is bittersweet
@KewneRain
2 жыл бұрын
"Maximum praised TekWar's combination of action with puzzles and strategy, impressive graphics, vast free-roaming game world, and networked multiplayer. Saying that the only problem with the game is that enemies can start firing on the player character when they're too far away to make out, they concluded that "at first glance it may look like another pretty Doom clone, but look closer and you'll see TekWar has enough new angles and ideas to make it stand as a cool game in its own right." They gave it 3 out of 5 stars. A reviewer for Next Generation agreed that Tekwar stands out from other first-person shooters, but felt that the game's nonsensical mechanics outweigh its freshness. He particularly complained that though the police will fire upon the player character if he has his gun drawn in public, they show no reaction if an enemy fires upon the player character, and will actually help gang up on the player character if he tries to defend himself. Concluding that "Only fanatical fans of 'TekWar' or Bill Shatner should get this one, and even they probably won't like it", he gave it 1 out of 5 stars." - wikipedia article on the game
@Shaun_Jones
Жыл бұрын
To be fair, in late 1995 this game actually did look pretty good, for sure the Doom engine couldn’t pull this kind of stuff off; but Duke3D came out three months later and looked even better.
@tilasole3252
11 ай бұрын
So it came down to poor coding or bad player testing. Probably a little bit of both. More the coding though. What about the taser weapon though? If that was out, did the police still attack? Maybe it's been patched by now?
@kurtis2221
9 ай бұрын
@@tilasole3252 If you draw any of your weapons they won't react, only aim at you, unless you are too close. If you fire anything else than the stun gun they will open fire. If you manage to stun and kill with the weapon no one will shoot you for some reason. Unless you are being shot at, then every NPC with a weapon will shoot at you. There are also some hidden sectors that trigger every nearby NPC to ambush you. There's one in the subway restrooms. You can also complete the game or do things while you are in the pause menu. With the mouse or joystick/gamepad you can still move and shoot, only the movement keys are locked on the keyboard. It's not possible in the demo version for some reason.
@bfgfanatic1747
6 жыл бұрын
Amazing video, but did you have to take half of LA with it?
@SaladofStones
5 жыл бұрын
I agree, that still leaves half of it still left to deal with.
@icecold1805
5 жыл бұрын
Half of LA? WAS HALF OF LA INSIDE TEKWAR?
@eduardodiaz9942
5 жыл бұрын
Nice comment, but try to keep the body count lower next time
@handsomebrick
4 жыл бұрын
@@icecold1805 That's how hyperbole goes sometimes.
@OhNotThat
4 жыл бұрын
yes. He did.
@PointySuperman
5 жыл бұрын
When you made the realization about swimming up ladders earlier in the game I lost it.
@PointySuperman
5 жыл бұрын
24:07 btw
@AhoooY1
3 жыл бұрын
18:00 is literally Slayer's South of Heaven with a couple of extra notes to avoid copyright. The FUCKIN' Pinnacle of Entertainment Software
@sonikkumania6917
2 жыл бұрын
Bruh Bobby Prince took metal riffs for almost whole ost of Doom.
@AhoooY1
2 жыл бұрын
@@sonikkumania6917 the difference is that his stuff sounds good
@sonikkumania6917
2 жыл бұрын
@@AhoooY1 I agree.
@musicman243
Жыл бұрын
@@sonikkumania6917 sadly, bobby prince wasn't the composer for this game
@InternetHydra
11 ай бұрын
Capstone - The Pinnacle of Sampling
@IslamicPrivilege
2 жыл бұрын
27:08 "Capstone has ambition, take much is clear. They wanted to make open-world cyberpunk FPS game, look at this: a big named star, fancy new engine. They were gonna soar." - Civvie 11, 2018 2 years, 4 months, 23 days before Cyberpunk 2077 released that had the exact same fucking premises. I think making a cyberpunk game with all these things are just doomed to fail by some obscure ancient mayan curse casted onto Mike Pondsmith for whatever reason.
@DiggySmash
5 жыл бұрын
So this video inspired me to try TekWar on a source port. It doesn't show up in this video, but there are guards that hang out in certain areas. There are some in a museum area in the first level. What's weird is that if they notice an enemy shooting your character they'll immediately start shooting your character too. Your gun doesn't even have to be drawn for this to happen! It's like they really want you to just murder everyone. I didn't even finish the 1st mission, I just deleted the whole thing. That's probably for the best since The Shat would probably yell at me anyways for not lowering my body count.
@MyNameIsBucket
4 жыл бұрын
As far as I know, Capstone planned this elaborate non-combative gameplay system for completing objectives but left a major game-breaking glitch in the AI. If ANY VIOLENCE AT ALL happens anywhere in the level it's your fault. An NPC might walk in front of a bus on the opposite end of the map - as a result, all the police open fire on you.
@Aldenfenris
2 жыл бұрын
@@MyNameIsBucket I mean, I can see that glitch happening, yeah, somethign takes damage, playr is guilty, wonder if that can be fixed.
@MinscFromBaldursGate92
Жыл бұрын
It's fooking RAW!
@kurtis2221
Жыл бұрын
@@Aldenfenris The NPCs won't react to random deaths. You can throw chairs or other objects on any NPC's head to kill them and no one will react. In the BUILD editor you can set a status flag to every NPC to how to react to you. Most enemies are hostile if they see you or will shoot if you are being shot in front of them. For some reason they will also turn hostile if you enter a room with a mirror.
@BurgleArsonLarceny
10 ай бұрын
@@kurtis2221the enemies: This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!
@eldritch_wh1sp3rs
5 жыл бұрын
"They wanted to make an open world cyberpunk FPS Game! Big name star, fancy new engine..." History repeats itself.
@SpikeEye
5 жыл бұрын
Weird how these things happen, isn't it.
@neal2399
4 жыл бұрын
If Keanu bitches at me for using lethal force after telling me we have a city to burn, I’m cancelling my preorder of Bill and Ted Face the Music tickets
@paz1514
4 жыл бұрын
I really hope it's good. I love CD Projekt Red
@MrTheil
4 жыл бұрын
Only difference is that CD Projekt Red isn’t full of incompetent jokers unlike Capstone
@plasmaoctopus1728
4 жыл бұрын
@@MrTheil I guess CD Projekt is may soon be the true capstone, the true pinnacle of computer software
@absolutedumbass2366
3 жыл бұрын
ain't no one gonna talk about the subtitles? lmao 6:12 *''chaotic Sci-Fi SFX, reminiscent of dying birds, or a dial-up modem, or the howling abyss of CV-11's soul''*
@ZuluRomeo
Жыл бұрын
Like the music and sound effects, it’s Ad-Lib...bed 😜
@timothymckane6362
Жыл бұрын
Every time there is that William Shatner cutscene, my left ear likes that ASMR click noise.
@scorch6208
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the rug really tied the loading room together. Shame William Shatner pissed on it
@CathrineMacNiel
5 жыл бұрын
Donny... please.
@Roach1776
5 жыл бұрын
player character: J D Crenton
@papayer
5 жыл бұрын
'such a disappointment'
@OptimisticSociopath
4 жыл бұрын
@@papayer "my view is corrupted"
@ItsRawdraft2
4 жыл бұрын
"What a bad way to die"
@juggernautx1779
4 жыл бұрын
"Damn, I'm lookin' good!!"
@alesin1992
4 жыл бұрын
"Jesus Dist, Crenton"
@simondaniel4028
8 ай бұрын
I come back to this vid like every other week for the Matrix rant. Like, I'm doing dishes or folding laundry and I think 'What could make this not awful? Oh, yes...'
@hocuspocusfocus6229
Жыл бұрын
15:18 "Loud ass door SFX ." "Even louder weapon SFX CV-11 WHAT THE FU--" Ah nothing better than re-watching videos with the captions on. It's like a bonus feature.
@ZuluRomeo
Жыл бұрын
Captions: The Pinnacle Of Civvie Entertianment
@Kallisti3
6 жыл бұрын
I keep coming back to your videos because they're hilarious. But this one...the Wrath of Khan joke at the beginning (CAAAPTSOOOOOOOONE!!!), for whatever reason, tickles me like nothing else. Great work!
@outtabubblegum7034
5 жыл бұрын
"...it's just there and always at 100%, so I'll just call it 'the crap meter'..."
@papa_hotel8502
4 жыл бұрын
I didn't get that joke until I read this comment. Thanks!
@infinimineyt9700
4 жыл бұрын
I love how an FPS game constantly has William Shatner tell you to stop shooting people who shoot you
@matthewn4896
8 ай бұрын
On the off chance thay anyone's still reading the comments, you cam actually watch the Tekwar series on youtube for free. You know, if you want to.
@Oatissi
5 жыл бұрын
Let it be known that level design on my parts in ION MAIDEN have been inspired by this wonderful game with it's marble aesthetics and future retro. Fun game, good for speedruns and nice TV show too. I'm surprised that you didn't crash the game during that train riding segment as going out of bounds puts you at -1 sector index and crashes the game. Not hard to do even with just keyboard play. Easy crash: Get crushed by the double slidedoors in the train platform :) But yes, I remember the first time playing this, you feel helpless and scared as you get hitscan from every possible direction and got no clue about anything. Jokes aside, I honestly feel like this game could've had a ton of potential had it not been rushed. Plenty of cool ideas and leftovers in the code.
@papa_hotel8502
4 жыл бұрын
A level designer from Ion Fury? My hat's off to you, sir, the level design is just incredible in that game. Well done, and thank you!
@papayer
4 жыл бұрын
Yes fun is the word that springs to mind when I think back to the matrix portion of this game
@tprime2702
4 жыл бұрын
Why did you design so many fucking sewers and warehouse levels?
@WA_Stokins
4 жыл бұрын
fuck ion maden and fuck you yall transphobic asshats
@_plg
4 жыл бұрын
Jesus christ dude that was one guy on the development team who was """""""transphobic"""""""""""
@SeekerLancer
5 жыл бұрын
This game is such a wonderful disaster. Capstone tried to make something they weren't even close to qualified enough to make and these are the results. I actually had this game as a kid and I don't think I played it long enough to kill a single one of the level bosses. As such, I've never seen the matrix level so thanks for that. I love Capstone, they're so fascinatingly bad. It often feels like they were trying to make a good game (except in the case of Operation Body Count) but they didn't know how.
@BigPuddin
3 жыл бұрын
They fuck up in such interesting ways. It's actually pretty impressive how terrible they are. Were.
@zdude0127
3 жыл бұрын
Taking a look at this game, I feel like it has more appeal than Island Peril.
@majormalfunction0071
3 жыл бұрын
I figured out why their hit reg is so shit. They don't recursive into neighbouring sectors, so bullets collide with portals, which are invisible "windows" into neighbouring *visible* regions. Capstone wasn't qualified to make anything.This is stuff that's in the literature on portal rendering, that they didn't read. They needed to brush up on programming. They were completely incompetent. It's actually kind of fascinating.
@WoobooRidesAgain
2 жыл бұрын
Say what you will about Capstone, they had some pretty lofty ambitions. You get the feeling that they were at least trying to make something good and interesting, throwing some new and in some ways fairly ahead-of-their time ideas. It's just that their ambitions (and likely their egos - "The Pinnacle of Entertainment Software" and all) didn't match up. So, kudos for at least trying to make a good product even if their skills weren't up to snuff. Unlike, say, Island Peril, a game that was obviously made as nothing more than a half-baked cash grab by a softcore porn studio looking to diversify their profits.
@isenokami7810
2 жыл бұрын
Would be interesting to see someone more qualified try to fix this game. It’s painfully obvious what Capstone wanted to do and just failed to, after all. You can never make this game good. You can at least make it not complete garbage.
@ThommyofThenn
Жыл бұрын
19:17 the best part is Shatner acting like he has to remember Kirk's name. His most well known role, after playing the character for like four years on TOS and after five movies. Very Capstone style acting decision.
@thehoodedteddy1335
6 ай бұрын
More like he had to stop himself from saying “I” instead of “Kirk”
@ThommyofThenn
6 ай бұрын
@@thehoodedteddy1335 That's probably more the case! Thanks
@addi543
3 жыл бұрын
I remember Tekwar being one of the only books taught at Springfield Elementary. Principal Skinner said that kids needed to learn about it someday
@acetrigger1337
5 жыл бұрын
i love how Shatner is clearing staring at the script, and not the camera on those " cutscenes ".
@maledikt
6 жыл бұрын
Speaking of Capstone, do you know that there is a fan remake/sequel of Operation Body Count on the Doom engine? Would you believe that it's actually good and fun (if only a bit easy)?
@Civvie11
6 жыл бұрын
I just downloaded it and played the first couple of missions and had a blast. Solid levels and the weapons feel great. I would question why there's a railgun but I love railguns.
@maledikt
6 жыл бұрын
Good to know!
@OpenMawProductions
4 жыл бұрын
Gotta make those Eraser references, where the modern man-portable railgun originated.
@LordofSadFac
4 жыл бұрын
@@Civvie11 when Pro Operation Body Count 2?
@Revan058
2 жыл бұрын
@@Civvie11 >I would question why there's a railgun but I love railguns. MY MAN
@youngarchaeotech189
3 жыл бұрын
“Shorts out their nervous system” Seizures until unconscious at best, brain damage/death likely, actual death very possible.
@LAVATORR
3 жыл бұрын
9:45 I love how much pre-9/11 games downplayed killing civilians. It was good if you could avoid it, but not that big a deal if you do. But if you do it indiscriminately and recreationally your superior will just shake their head and be like "indulge your hobbies on your own time mister, this is WORK!"
@arandompasserby7940
Жыл бұрын
I'd say it's less "pre-9/11" and more "pre-GTA3".
@JonathanFont
5 жыл бұрын
I did read "Tek War" the book was not that bad... I enjoyed it, and REALLY wanted this game... but with it being the 90's, there was no steam... and my house ran on Dial-up... BUT I WANTED THIS GAME SO BAD!! I looked every where. Then I found it on a clearance rack for $5, bought it, got it home... and it wouldn't run on my windows PC--- :( sounds like the ONE time that windows saved me some time.....
@boilerhousegarage
4 жыл бұрын
Why didn't you shut down Windows and run in DOS mode? All 90s Windows were just DOS shells.
@Rountree1985
2 жыл бұрын
@@boilerhousegarage because people just give up after trying once. I can’t imagine doing that.
@skeletorment
2 жыл бұрын
So, you didn't get to experience the technology of tomorrow, today?
@tilasole3252
11 ай бұрын
Even if there was Steam back then, no guarantee "now" the game would run. Steam does not have the best track record for older games unfortunately.
@pmchad
11 ай бұрын
@@tilasole3252really depends on the game though, running with scissors still sells the original 1997 Postal and they've fixed it up and made sure it could run on modern computers. Whoever ported shadow of the empire on N64 to steam really didn't give much of a shit though
@unfa00
6 жыл бұрын
Wow. They made a shooting game where you're being constantly reprimanded for shooting people. They know how to make the players feel good, don't they.
@ghoulhellbilly2528
5 жыл бұрын
Its hotline miami before hotline miami
@Karmy.
4 жыл бұрын
It's Postal 3 16 years before Postal 3
@qty1315
4 жыл бұрын
You're supposed to holster your gun so that they don't shoot you...
@sweetypuss
4 жыл бұрын
@@Karmy. at least Postal 3 made it abundantly clear that you're not supposed to murder civilians
@3dmaster205
4 жыл бұрын
If there were clear differences between enemies and civilians and the civilians didn't shoot you for no reason, it wouldn't be so bad.
@cmoor8616
3 жыл бұрын
I think I remember something! from when the hype was trying to sell this bullshit. TEK was a drug that had few side affects, but built up in your system. If it got to a critical level it could cause the user to explode, which is why those pedestrians blew up :D
@r3v4n21
4 жыл бұрын
This is really surreal when you know that Tekk (or Tech) is also a slang term for Codeine
@katiacritten9975
6 жыл бұрын
Dear Civvie. You are my favorite games/movie reviewer. Your deadpan and sarcastic delivery of every line warms my heart. If I may suggest a game, Big Rigs Over The Road Racing. It makes Capstone look competent.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine
5 жыл бұрын
I don't think there'd be a lot to even say about Big Rigs, it's a racing game that's not even remotely finished. AVGN already did the most you could with it, somehow, and I didn't even think that was possible.
@handsomebrick
4 жыл бұрын
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine That reviewer who made a video of himself screaming at the heavens in frustration at Big Rigs pretty much summed it up.
@fonesrphunny7242
4 жыл бұрын
The truck is glued to the ground. Collision doesn't exist. Enemy AI doesn't exist. The win screen says "You are winner". There is no speedcap when driving in reverse. Road textures are sometimes rotated 90°. One level doesn't even work. There, I just summarized the entire game. What else you wanna hear? Capstone games might be terrible, but at least they are playable games you can talk about.
@bigpurpleflower2185
4 жыл бұрын
@@fonesrphunny7242 You necroposted just to defend Tekwar, let that sink in.
@fonesrphunny7242
4 жыл бұрын
@@bigpurpleflower2185 Really? Where do I even mention Tekwar? And no, I didn't defend Capstone games either.
@DiggySmash
5 жыл бұрын
TekWar's only contribution to video games was the fact that Wild Weasel ripped a lot of the sprites from the game for their "Police Brutality" zdoom mod.
@OperatorVanta
5 жыл бұрын
DiggySmash Yep, Good ole WW-terrorists
@fuzzydunlop7928
Жыл бұрын
CD Project Red had ambition. They were gonna make a fancy new FPS game set in a Cyberpunk universe. They had a big-name star. A fancy engine. They were gonna SOAR!
@gentooboy1337
Жыл бұрын
"I don't understand the Cyberpunk aesthetics of floating peanuts.". I love it! :D
@spyMic158
6 жыл бұрын
18:01 Isn't that South of Heaven by Slayer?
@Civvie11
6 жыл бұрын
They were probably trying to rip off the Doom track that ripped off South of Heaven.
@ghoulhellbilly2528
5 жыл бұрын
Capstone wanted to have their equivalent of Bobby Prince, but they only managed to pull off only "iconic metal riffs references" part. Capstone, the pinnacle of half-assery
@sf3testvids
5 жыл бұрын
Jesus and it is... that shameful XD
@southofheck
5 жыл бұрын
Its more likely they were ripping off Doom, which ripped off that riff from Slayer. Though in Doom its more of a "homage", while here its basically just unapolagetic theft
@0x8badf00d
5 жыл бұрын
And somehow they made it sound like shit!
@Chaingun
5 жыл бұрын
confession, when I saw TekWar game for the first time in 1995 I was blown away by the graphics of the people running around and to me it was as close to real life as possible... always had a soft spot for Capstone, grew up playing Body Count, Corridor 7 and Witchaven 1+2. To me I always felt Witchaven was as good as HeXen and Heretic, it wasn't until yeaaars later when I rediscovered it and realized how wonky and clunky it was. I remember it came out around Halloween and during the season where it gets dark early and would play it in pitch darkness and it just had this awesome mood to it. As for TekWar, it hasn't aged well at all and I've been putting off getting back into playing it again for years, I don't think I ever will, that weird virus level where you go inside the computer also makes me shudder
@teranokitty
5 жыл бұрын
Same here, in regards to how impressive TekWar looked in 1995. I remember playing it on a demo computer in CompUSA when I was 11 in 1995, and it honestly seemed like a realistic life simulation. I remember being wowed by the subway, and when I managed to find my way outside, I caught a glimpse of what seemed like a real city with real people. Then a few seconds later, I was unceremoniously run over by a car and we had to leave 😀
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine
5 жыл бұрын
Most people I ask seem to say that Witchaven was Capstone's best games, and actually not bad.
@ScopeOperaSam
2 жыл бұрын
I buy that. Never had the pleasure of playing this as a kid but I can definitely see the novelty you felt with it. That's awesome. I get the same feeling going back to the old side scrolling Duke Nukem games.
@RedXiongmao
10 ай бұрын
Oh my god the audio peaks every time he starts a sentence, they couldn't even get that right
@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786
4 жыл бұрын
"I seen you on the Twitter acting your age" THIS AGED MAGNIFICENTLY
@miaouew
5 жыл бұрын
The matrix looks like a restless, brain melting withdrawal fever nightmare.
@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00
3 жыл бұрын
Like the last thing you'd see before a brain aneurysm killed you.
@bpansky
3 жыл бұрын
as it should
@SkullHeroLord
6 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or is the main character actually like half the size of the enemies and NPCs? Its as if he is not even as tall as their crotch. (see 7:23)
@Civvie11
6 жыл бұрын
Just like Chris Kattan.... hmm...
@kurtis2221
Жыл бұрын
The camera is set too low for some reason. At 4:27 you can see it's not at head level.
@woadblue
4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Will says "I'm William Shatner, sometimes known as "What a bastard""
@Dilo22
2 жыл бұрын
That clicking sound in my right ear during all the cutscenes drives me mad
@Piotwor
6 жыл бұрын
Oh Jesus, I thought you were exaggerating about that matrix level. I think it gave me eye cancer. Also, am I the only one hearing this weird popping sound whenever Shatner's speaking?
@ryoshenron
5 жыл бұрын
I heard it coming from my right speaker, and it made me look around trying to see if a fan was exploding in my PC or something. :-/
@xCynder
5 жыл бұрын
That popping sound hurts
@TheJayson8899
5 жыл бұрын
Piotwor yep your video is different from everyone else’s
@TooMuchSascha
5 жыл бұрын
Capstone: the pinnacle of audio mixing
@somedude1331
5 жыл бұрын
I can hear that.
@JVerschueren
5 жыл бұрын
Just me or does anyone else get the feeling they told WS a very different story in order to motivate his 'acting', with regard to the actual game?
@CathrineMacNiel
5 жыл бұрын
Probably but it would be strange as he wrote the Tek books.
@brewedjuice494
4 жыл бұрын
Kirrim Kerman “ghostwritten” he didnt write shit.
@mentalphilanthropist35
2 жыл бұрын
@@brewedjuice494 I hate to be that guy but shit is what he wrote. Now his spoken word work, par excellence.
@The_Kentuckian
2 жыл бұрын
That Matrix level has to be in violation of some part of the Geneva Convention.
@mattyzigzag
Жыл бұрын
“They wanted to make an open world cyberpunk fps game. Look at this, a big name star, a fancy new engine. They were going to soar”
@cancer4cure483
6 жыл бұрын
ITS FUUUUUUCKKKKING RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Moshm4n
5 жыл бұрын
LEVL DESINE.
@Africa893
3 жыл бұрын
"they wanted to make an open world cyberpunk FPS game, look at this a big name star, a fancy new engine" oh. well shit at least that never happened again
@brandonmorel2658
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, " we dont repeat the mistakes of the past" thats the slogan of video game industry.
@SerathDarklands
9 ай бұрын
26:45 - Yeah, he's high Civvie. He's on Tek.
@commandertorres
5 жыл бұрын
Oh god. Not even a second into the matrix levels and i have migranes
@rootbeer666
5 жыл бұрын
I tried this back in the 90s and couldn't figure out what's going on. Having mostly played Doom and Heretic I found the environments and even the crappy digitized sprites rather exciting. Can't say I made any progress in the game but I sure did enjoy exploring the levels. This was released 3 months before Duke 3D, and Build engine was still under heavy development at the time of the release of Duke 3D, so that may explain some of the more technical shortcomings of TekWar. Like for example, Duke was supposed to have more voxel stuff like in Shadow Warrior and Blood, but it was ready too late. I don't think the pool balls are voxel either.
@IsmailofeRegime
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, as strange as it may seem now, TekWar was viewed as graphically impressive at the time. But when compared to Duke Nukem 3D's environments, TekWar looks like it came out a lot earlier than three months prior. Just goes to show how fast technology can improve.... and how Capstone sucked at making this game.
@cs512tr
11 ай бұрын
"the blue cube maze, fuck the blue cube maze." hahahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i can hear Civvie's breaking point getting close
@Tws5515
Жыл бұрын
"I've seen you on twitter acting your age." Christ. You wrecked my childhood hero in the first thirty seconds of the show lmao.
@lionocyborg6030
5 жыл бұрын
The Matrix of Tekwar is basically Cyberspace from System Shock 1 on LSD and contaminated crack but shit. System Shock gives us color blinking wireframes and fun combat in 6DOF and a pretty intense if weak SHODAN boss at the end, whereas Tekwar gives us a worse version of the Ultra Reality from Fran Bow.
@AdamBartholomew
4 жыл бұрын
That's funny, I thought of that too
@DGneoseeker1
5 жыл бұрын
Wait... I just looked up Tekwar. Tek isn't even "tech" as in technology. It's just a drug. Correction: Some kind of computer chip that acts like one.
@everythingsgonnabealright8888
4 жыл бұрын
DGneoseeker1, was kinda obvious from Shat defending everyone from Tek and the bum promising to work for it. Never even heard of this universe - and now I won’t even consider reading it X)
@OpenMawProductions
4 жыл бұрын
@Faithslayer you're actually missing out. It's not bad. I used to watch the TV show growing up because im a huge Shatner fan. It wasn't bad. Not the greatest, but not bad.
@kinggimpy
4 жыл бұрын
@@everythingsgonnabealright8888 I read a few of the books as a kid, they're decently fun sci-fi. The world isn't bad so much as Capstone are awful and would have made any IP they licensed look like this.
@HappyBeezerStudios
4 жыл бұрын
That rant in the "Matrix" is AVGN level is rage. Nice!
@tinotormed
2 жыл бұрын
10:57 G R A P H I C D E S I G N I S M Y P A S S I O N
@unfa00
5 жыл бұрын
3:38 "Quick! I just saw Mighty Dollar"!
@MarcelVincent
5 жыл бұрын
capstones first game was a "trump casino" game
@DJ_Macphisto
4 жыл бұрын
Wait, what?
@papa_hotel8502
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, "Trump Castle: The Ultimate Casino Gambling Simulation". The wiki page for Capstone is just hilarious. Other favourites of mine are "Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars", "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Lots-O-$lot$".
@kylehyde215CA
4 жыл бұрын
@@papa_hotel8502 I'm going to pretend like that Terminator game is a game where you play chess with Arnie.
@IsmailofeRegime
3 жыл бұрын
@@papa_hotel8502 Imagine being a kid in the early 90s, opening a gift, seeing "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" on it and getting all excited only to realize the rest says "Chess Wars." Between that and fans of the TekWar books/TV show, Capstone seem to be pinnacles of disappointment.
@IBETHISNAMEISTAKEN
4 жыл бұрын
I think this is my favorite Civvie video. It's just so comfy (apart from the Matrix bit, that shit's intense). The earnest yet terrible quality of the game. The way Civvie eviscerates and slogs his way through it. It all comes together.
@isenokami7810
2 жыл бұрын
You kidding? The Matrix part is the best bit. A nice comfy video with a side of Civvie losing his mind.
@matttyree1002
Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing an ad for this on a shareware disk that came with Wing Commander 3, but then never hearing anything else about it ever again.
@goldcandy6496
6 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy your content civvie you can tell you put a lot of work into your videos and make them interesting it’s unfortunate that you don’t have as much popularity as you deserve as you do make content that puts a lot of youtubers to shame and I mean it seriously when I saw your videos I couldn’t stop watching you make your videos so professionally it’s crazy anyway thanks for making good content for us and have a good one love your content love you bye.
@judgebigmansion3492
4 жыл бұрын
CAPStone couldn't figure out how CAPS lock works. Christ.
@shamefulbrainbot4742
3 жыл бұрын
Who celebrating William Shatner's 90th birthday with his greatest role in all media?
@Blackgriffonphoenixg
Жыл бұрын
I feel like this game is an early early ancestor to Cruelty Squad
@Thedarkcarnival2
6 жыл бұрын
How do you only have 1.8k subs Another amazing video. Keep it up bud
@Llyander
4 жыл бұрын
"Sometimes the pedestrians explode". The greatest line ever uttered in a videogame review.
@bloodrunsclear
4 жыл бұрын
The irony is that's actually VERY faithful to the TekWar series (yes, I watched it) Sometimes assassin droids resembling people would run at targets and explode, leading to a hilariously weird moment where a little girl in a dress bullrushes a scientist and then takes out a city block.
@fonesrphunny7242
4 жыл бұрын
@@bloodrunsclear Thank you very much for the explanation! But now I'm kinda disappointed. I thought it was some hilarious programing error like that moving ceiling turret. Please don't tell me the series actually had moving ceiling turrets as well.
@tilasole3252
11 ай бұрын
@@bloodrunsclear I need you to make this comment on the front page for a thread, so people may not bash the game as hard as they do.
@DeathAngel-ft8oz
4 жыл бұрын
19:45 "But the last time I checked, killing was a bad thing." 20:18
@Westonator5000
3 ай бұрын
this needs a nightdive remaster
@matumblackmetal
6 жыл бұрын
17:56 Sounds like they "borrowed" the opening riff of South of Heaven by Slayer. Capstone: The pinnacle of entertainment software.. and music
@ThePageofCups
5 жыл бұрын
To be entirely fair, Doom is sort of infamous for doing that. Of all of the things this game is guilty of, that's awfully minor.
@calebplerry9664
5 жыл бұрын
@@ThePageofCups Yeah, Doom stole like a motherfucker.
@MatiasPalacios2
5 жыл бұрын
@@ThePageofCups Infamous? One of the best things about DooM its the music
@nicolaslandau4692
5 жыл бұрын
@@ThePageofCups Doom version at least sound badass. This one is just shit
@Violet51000
5 жыл бұрын
@@calebplerry9664 They at least did make some actually good original music as well as making midi covers of slayer songs. Also in Doom's defense... Tek War probably stole the midi from doom. lol
@pronoydutta614
5 жыл бұрын
I heard... I'm William Shatner, sometimes known as Wall Tabasco...
@nathanwolf7418
Жыл бұрын
18:02 Hold the fuck on here did these clowns just snag the riff from Slayers South of Heaven for fucking Tekwar Pinnacle of entertainment
@oz_jones
3 ай бұрын
Thank god Bobby Prince never did that
@thefinalphantasm
Жыл бұрын
You know there was some level designer who, at the end of development, looked back at the matrix level and said *"This makes sense."*
@kurtis2221
9 ай бұрын
Most of the levels are not possible in a normal 3D space. Like the city, beach or park maps. In the city every building's interior is bigger. Beach's underground section is flipped and would overlap with the surface if not for the teleport. Park has a hallway that overlaps with the outside in the main building.
@thefinalphantasm
9 ай бұрын
@@kurtis2221 don't praise it, it's fucking TekWar
@jond6666
6 жыл бұрын
I just got to the Iron Maiden bit and I already know this is going to be great
@miciso666
5 жыл бұрын
Ion not iron.
@wanicki3575
4 жыл бұрын
Miciso there’s a part where iron maiden music plays you dummy
@bjorntantau194
5 жыл бұрын
Oh, god, I got this game with a shitty VR-headset back in the day. If you think aiming with the keyboard is hard, try doing it with your head.
@Slash0mega
2 жыл бұрын
i want to know more about this early vr headset honestly
@ThompsonExpress
3 жыл бұрын
i love that retrogaming youtuber have their video game compagny nemesis. AVGN has LJN Gamer's Attic has infogramme Civvie has Capstone.
@Morningstar91939
3 ай бұрын
Jarek the Gaming Dragon has Cauldron.
@captaingr00vy40
3 жыл бұрын
this is one of my favorite of your videos so far, I always find myself coming back to it.
@jco_sfm
5 жыл бұрын
You gotta give them credit, the train smoothly stops. Games need more easing.
@moserfugger6363
5 жыл бұрын
I nearly forgot TekWar. This video made me realize why. Love your stuff, Civvie! :-) Greetings from Germany!
@AC-hj9tv
Жыл бұрын
Halló
@jiaan100
Жыл бұрын
Everything about this game slides out of my brain the second I turn this video off. A blessing pray emoji.
@DawnOfTheOzz
7 ай бұрын
"I don't understand the cyberpunk aesthetic of floating peanuts!"
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