64 BITS OF STEEL

[@GianniMatragrano]

Truly the perfect Vergil for Duke Nukem, not another bad Duke clone no, but fucking Jack The Ripper.

[@slamkam07]

Was that you on the titanic? What am I saying. Of course it was.

[@RedVagrantD]

The post credit quip got me good. Good on you, sir.

[@sweetypuss]

hey remember when you had a shitfit and quit twitter because people were calling you out for engaging in the harassment of an innocent person

[@XSniper74184]

​@@slamkam07 when I heard that I almost skipped to the credits just to check. Like I figured it had to be something Civvie wrote... but maybe it wasn't? Honestly the fact I questioned it goes to show how in character the line is and how good the impression is.

[@therasslintheatre2960]

@@slamkam07 Gianni getting paid on PREMIUM dog food this time around

[@kruinnbogdoir3661]

The scene where Duke meets jack the ripper actually is REALLY ACCURATE depiction of a place where one of the victums was murdered. IN BUILD ENGINE

[@thecandlemaker1329]

London is a city that's not difficult to depict accurately in build engine. Georgian architecture is not very exciting.

[@half_real]

@@thecandlemaker1329I think the Thames was just one big sewer level back then.

[@SMG-vx3mu]

thats actually where jack the ripper's last known victim was killed

[@kruinnbogdoir3661]

@@SMG-vx3mu yeah i forgot which it eas but i vividly remember seeing this exact alley in lemmino video

[@SMG-vx3mu]

@@kruinnbogdoir3661 i dunno why i remembered that, at least we know what caused him to stop

[@zoekm]

Can't lie, low poly Beetlejuice made me tear up.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

It truly is a thing of beauty. *[honk honk]*

[@Brawlatron]

I dunno how much work went into that gag, but I fucking love it

[@werwolfnate]

The sound effect implies if he honks his crotch 7 more times, he'll get a star.

[@levihess5752]

i second that

[@Eye_Of_Odin978]

It already had me chuckling but when he did the "Red Coin" sound from SM64 I began cackling like a maniac

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

One small clarification: In the Victorian England area, it isn't technically a sewer because those tunnels weren't used to transport sewage. They were intended for the routing of water from England's constant rain so it went out of the city to prevent flooding. They would only be used for sewage later once indoor plumbing took off. So, at the time Duke is moving through them, they're aqueducts.

[@BrochachoTheBro]

Potayto potahto

[@DSPsWifesBF]

That’s pretty cool. Love learning new facts like that

[@AngryEd99]

*Acqueduct Counter appears written in Times New Roman*

[@Novous]

I love the internet. Watch a meme video about a time travelling duke game, and you'll a rando giving historical info about old timey londans aquaducts.

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

@@Novous Well, it's more a trivia thing than anything else, but there's a whole history that goes into the Victorian era aqueducts, including the history of people who would delve into them in search of anything valuable that might have been swept into the depths, called Toshers. A lucky one might find what is called a "Tosheroon", basically a cluster of valuable items that got caught in the mud a slime, containing anything from small change to valuable jewelry that, at that level of the social strata, would be life-changing wealth. The fact that there was an actual term for all of this should be enough to tell you how common the practice was, but the fact that they were so common screams how bad poverty was in those times. In addition to Toshers, you also had Mudlarks, who did similar things but along riverbeds, looking to see what might wash up, as well as people who would pick through garbage piles, although I don't know the term used for that. You had people who staked out claims of territory and had to be willing to fight off people trying to take it from them, because the lives of people who didn't have someplace they could scavenge for something to sell was that much worse. You had, within a few miles of the mansions of the wealthy and the palace of royalty, people digging through mud and muck for anything valuable they might find so they didn't starve. A dark shadow cast by the brighter lights of the time, it's easy to forget that while the Victorian golden age might have meant relative peace and general prosperity, but there's a world of difference between terms like "relative" and "general", and the terms "actual" and "total". But it has always been like that throughout the entirety of human history, up to and including the modern age.

[@Phalgrin]

No strippers in Duke 64 but you can still tip the empty air and tell it "yeah, shake it baby"

[@TheCrewExpendable]

Duke 64 Duke has early onset dementia. It's very sad. But at least the memories he still has are happy times being a big tipper in the strip club!

[@ArnieMcStranglehold]

That's what happens when you have the parental filter on in the DOS version. I wonder if that could be hacked somehow. Maybe the sprites are still there?

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

Duke forgot his meds again

[@Flesh_Wizard]

He's got dukementia

[@Supperdude9]

Duke 64 was a decent game.

[@RegalRoyalWasTaken]

I love the implication that the reason Jack's killings just up and stopped was because fucking Duke Nukem killed him

[@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R]

The Gamestop joke is a lot funnier if you know that NBA Elite 11 is an extremely rare unreleased game that once sold for $28,000

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

I don't know what is up with your user name + pfp but they're so funny to me I just had to compliment you.

[@DSPsWifesBF]

@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426Fiji Water was a big part of the vaporwave aesthetic

[@2-Way_Intersection]

fr, i know civvie probably just used it as a random "game" to throw on screen, but i wanna believe it actually was nba elite

[@sweetypuss]

@@2-Way_Intersection nba elite 11 is WAY too specific for it to not be an intentional pick

[@2-Way_Intersection]

@@sweetypuss fair point, but i was thinking he got it intentionally for something else once and just had it on hand

[@freedantheeternal]

At least as far as my memory goes, this game is where Duke started getting more comedic and creative with his quips. For all people tend to cite Duke 3D as being so full of one-liners, outside of a few specific scripted ones, his whole vocabulary was pretty much three lines: "Eat shit and die." "Die, you son of a bitch." and "Holy shit!" Whereas this game, he has unique lines for every unique kind of enemy kill, a big pool of general ones, and a metric ton of scripted lines for every level. Like yeah, he never shuts up, but it's glorious and definitely what would carry over in his personality to Manhattan Project. Still one of my favorite Duke lines ever is the intro to the first boss, the giant pig in the tank: "I'm gonna bust you into chops!"

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

Very good point

[@The_Future_isnt_so_Bright]

I totally agree. The real issue with DNF's one liners was they all were written by women. They had an entire group of women write his one liners. Really dumb and that would explain why they were all so cringe.

[@Trevor6714]

Mmm I’ve always wanted a pair of snake skin boots

[@freedantheeternal]

@@smugplush I mean, I'll straight up say the writing of Duke Forever was intended character assassination. Randy Pitchford wants the character dead and buried, and has even bragged publicly about shooting down literally every pitch that's come his way for a new Duke Nukem game. Which is why it's actually so hilarious that just slapping Duke onto the Bulletstorm script, reading Gray's lines and personality verbatim makes a better Duke game than Forever was.

[@CarlosDiaz-fs6cv]

Lol​@@The_Future_isnt_so_Bright

[@Jomali]

"Just like the hit game Daikatana." The first and last time anyone will utter that sentence.

[@JobeStroud]

Don't talk bad about my buddy Super Fly!

[@BradenBest]

I actually played the PC version of Daikatana. It's actually pretty good if you can power through the very unpleasant first level. The N64 version is the infamously bad one.

[@retropcscotland4645]

Hearing Duke singing "My balls will go on" had me tear up. What a Legend.

[@Stonehopper1067HMG]

The 11 year old version of me wishes I could have found this and annoy my sisters with it who were in love with Titanic at that time.

[@Rickshaw94]

The guy at 24:58 is General George Armstrong Custer. Duke references him and his unit being wiped out on last stand hill at the little bighorn. Duke is a big history guy I guess lol

[@Civvie11]

It seems obvious now. I'm guessing it would have been weird to do the thing they did with Jack the Ripper, showing him doing what he's famous for.

[@MossB87]

@@Civvie11that Jack the Ripper guy was a real jerk!

[@MartKencuda]

@@Civvie11 Good thing Atari already got that covered.

[@Headbiter]

@@MossB87 At least until the Vorlons got to him.

[@TFSned]

Maybe it says a lot about what Duke played on his 2600

[@Tokumastu1]

First off how the fuck was this achieved on the build engine in the 90's?! Second hot dam that is one of the best design for the Cycloid Emperor, talk about a gem of a game.

[@LaNoLaCola]

Civvie, Duke, Beetlejuice, and making fun of The Flash movie. Just perfect for a Saturday morning

[@jooei2810]

Saturday late evening

[@coffeesoulwell217]

Nice model!

[@Gatorade69]

​@@jooei2810Nah. Saturday MORNING. America ! AMERICA ! AMERICA !!! WHOOOOO WE THE BEST ! MAGA !

[@muffshroomh6203]

Seriously the highlight of my week

[@CitrusRev]

The Flash isnt even bad.

[@Busyroads1]

The 1888 London level had good reason to include the sewer. At the time it was a great technical marvel and something to be very proud of. After "The Great Stink" of 1858 London was in need of a way to remove sewage from the city that wasn't just dumping it in the Thames. I applaud the devs for including the nod to historical accuracy. Plus, duke kicking the rippers ass is pretty sweet.

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

I’m imagining that meeting in parliament or whatever as like that one futurama documentary about why there’s a giant ball of garbage hurtling at the earth

[@SkigBiggler]

@@thehoodedteddy1335funnily enough, they only started doing something about it once parliament could no longer be held cause of the stench. There are stories from the period that recount the stones of parliament blackening from whatever foul gasses were coming off the Thames, and wallpaper peeling as well. At the time the cesspits they used (sort of like a septic tank, but far worse) would occasionally explode as pressurised gas built up in them. The sewers built afterwards were pretty impressive though, they were built with Londons population growth in mind and didn’t need a considerable expansion for at least a hundred years if I recall correctly.

[@SnibsnBibs]

​@@SkigBiggler Imagine a shit stank so vile and evil that it disrupts national politics and changes history. "Thank you all for coming gentlemen, we will now begin deliberation on whether or not to send thousands of our young sons off to the horrors of war. But first... PEEEEE YEEEEEWWWWW WHO DROPPED THE KIDS OFF AT THE POOL AMIRIGHT LADS?!"

[@lemond2007]

I certainly wasn't expecting a reference to world-famous botanist Reginald V. Fuckpedal in this video, but I'm glad there was one.

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

Not gonna lie this made me doublecheck if he was real

[@WrightOnTarget]

​@@thehoodedteddy1335there appears to actually be a guy

[@justinl8791]

Yep, that's real real LMFAO

[@aegis6485]

Wait, that was real?

[@elijahjarman2837]

​@@aegis6485 his name wasn't Fuckpetal, but yes!

[@douglaslindee]

One really cool thing about the time machines in Zero Hour is that they look like references to the 1960 movie "The Time Machine." It looks like the exact same time machine.

[@vinniecorleone62]

The iconic remark, "Touch me again & I'll kill you!" is from the Bill Murray movie "Stripes" I saw in the theater many moons ago!

[@Keanotix]

I thought it was from The Last Boy Scout starring Bruce Willis

[@therealxoc]

@vinniecorleone62 Lighten up, Francis.

[@Scufflegrit]

“Lighten up, Francis.”

[@vinniecorleone62]

@@Scufflegrit A classic, I saw it 3 different times at the theater when first released.

[@snipes1000]

😅

[@loganxi]

The "DaAmMmm" at 31:23 still cracks me up til this day, great delivery by John St John

[@Dovoline3]

I'd have thought Civvie would stop being surprised about Dark Age game engine wizardry after the whole "TimeQuake is in True 3D" incident

[@lyokianhitchhiker]

You mean Chasm & its lack of verticality being the only giveaway to that?

[@RealLatinGeek]

I kept hearing "True 3D..." echoing in my brain whenever he said "Duke 3D" in this

[@Ghastly1]

Speaking of time travel, I'd love to see Civvie play TimeSplitters

[@budavargas]

CV-11, alone giving directions to Nightdive Studios

[@polcualquiera4338]

"Damn, I'm totally powerless to stop 9/11". Brutal.

[@edbrito-swdev]

I'm surprised this is the only comment mentioning this!

[@chewynickerson]

@@edbrito-swdevProbably because 99% of people skip the Patreon credits at the end. I only saw the 9/11 quote at the end because I was reading through the comments section.

[@TheTurtleyOne]

The part where you fight Jack the Ripper is actually a fairly close recreation of his last killing

[@jeremyabbott4537]

Eurocom being a bunch of history nerds explains why they made a time traveling Duke game

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

Did that include him being gunned down by a large muscled blonde stranger?

[@TheTurtleyOne]

@@thehoodedteddy1335 Maybe that's why they never caught him

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

@@TheTurtleyOne we’ll never know

[@theSemiChrist]

So that's why they found his corpse with shit down his neck.

[@DurrDerp]

26:39 "cunning plan" + "Victorian England" - this has got to be a Blackadder reference

[@Velrisias]

I think so too

[@sparkywilson1405]

38:39: Look at the holes in those buildings. THAT'S how you know this was a Build engine game.

[@elecman748]

It was endgame

[@doomspud6302]

This game is one Egyptian pit stop away from being a Serious Sam crossover, even if it came out two years too early for that.

[@TheXell]

Civvie is talking about a Duke Nukem game made in the Build engine. Everything is alright with the world.

[@KnifeSotelo]

Fun fact, Duke Nukem 64 was not a port, it was built from the ground up for Nintendo

[@Kirkklan]

21:54 "You can't do that! That's where all my stuff is!" - The Tick

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought of that

[@lewislewis3531]

"Touch me again and I'll kill you" is a quote from The Last Boy Scout, starring Bruce Willis

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

31:21 There's something oddly endearing about how all the bravado and confidence leaves his voice when the plane breaks down.

[@ItsTheFizz]

One of my favorite environmental gags in this game is the Spice Girls mannequins in the first level, which dates the game as being made when Ginger Spice first left the group...

[@fuckiopussigetti453]

you just reminded me of that Scary Movie joke about Spice Girls

[@pokehybridtrainer]

Damn. That brings me back.

[@Barakon]

Dude this game has time travel, the palm trees on liberty island are a consequence of disrupting the timeline!

[@thelastminuteman7513]

The ice skating up hill part reminds me of 2 mods I had for Quake 2 as a kid. One replaced the players pain grunts with quotes from Wesley Snipes including "some MFers are always trying to ice skate up hill" and the enemy pain sounds with Cartman saying "GOD DAMMIT DON'T SHOOT ME" and "fuck you Kyle". Which was relevant to me.

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

Amazing

[@saloz9483]

I owned this game back in the day and I played it a crap ton. One of the most memorable things were the kills and how violent they looked at least to me.

[@dylanpelo]

I still have it, but emulation is 100% better. And Civvie is right. Beating this game on original hardware is maddening. But in the late 90s/early 00's with 128k crap internet at best, you had time.

[@sinjin8576]

Same. I never properly beat it, as a kid the Victorian levels stonewalled me into using a game shark to bypass them. Wasn't until way way later on a emulator I actually got a proper playthrough finished.

[@daniellacomb917]

Yeah i got duke 64 and.zero hour when i was like 10. Played the absolute shit.outta them, memorized all the levels and shit on dukematch with friends and those fuckin bots. Exploding shotgun shell motherfuckerrrr hahaha

[@CriticalNobody]

I remember really liking this game as a kid, minus the lack of mid-level saves. Glad to see it’s held up reasonably well

[@leoschuer6828]

finally someone is covering this, this one was a big part of my childhood and im convinced that this is very much something like a forgotten gem. No one covered this game on youtube (despite smaller n64 focused channels, ive searched a couple of times) and it got no recognition despite the big comeback of old school shooters. I think this one was pretty sick for its time and it still holds up. couldnt imagine someone better than civvie to talk about it.

[@KudoRedfox]

You may get a kick outta Revenant Evil's Duke Nukem videos

[@Vandal_Savage]

I think lgr would do a pretty good job of it

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

That hack Gman actually covered it (along with the other console Duke games) forever ago.

[@daniellacomb917]

Hell yeah i played the shit outta this.game.when i was a kid. Found all the secrets with no guide had alot of the levels memorized. Duke 64 too, played so much dukematch with neighbors. Stadium or piracy on a saturday afternoon 4 way split screen hell yeeeeah. Exploding shotgun shells bitches.

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

"The man who most definitely does _not_ save the babes" is my favorite description of Jack The Ripper.

[@segarallychampionship702]

13:57 Punk pigcops? Pigpunks? You became the very thing you swore to destroy

[@TheFancyKyle]

I had Duke Nukem 64 and Zero Hour, there was something about playing a game on a system like that while my friends insisted the PS1 was the "adult console" but then again we also got Conquers Bad Furday, Another great video Civvie!

[@quint3ssent1a]

Duke running around frozen post-apocalyptic ruins of New York is a thing i never knew I want.

[@Snyperwolf91]

Yeah . This inspires to make a cool game around it . Mad max but cold and in a huge city. Thats a nice concept for a cool fresh game . ngl

[@realJimMarshall]

​@@Snyperwolf91add Christmas elements to it to make it a holiday tradition game.

[@melon-qm7ed]

@@Snyperwolf91 he's even wearing the jacket from mad max

[@TheHammersmashdave]

Duke Nukem 64 is THE greatest Duke Nukem game period and by a mile. The added weapons, the added special ammo, the duke match on console split screen with bots, THE BANK SHOT GRENADE LAUNCHER... I cannot believe they've never put THIS version of Duke Nukem 3D as is on PC.

[@Dzuno18]

True. That port is awesome.

[@Junoncross]

Used to play with a friend of mine in couch coop back in the day, we'd do us vs the bots. One time, couldn't find the bot. Searched for an hour. Found him on the mast of a pirate ship silently staring down at us. He'd been there the whole time. We were spooked. Good times.

[@me4tw]

I still have nostalgia of playing multiplayer in the football stadium level. Also, the campaign coop was pretty cool for the time considering that it came out just before goldeneye in my country

[@Bob_Chandler-1927]

That greasy bastard should have remastered it and put it along with the other versions and expansions of Duke 3D on that cursed 20th anniversary edition. Instead that f@€% half assed everything.

[@ItsTheFizz]

24:56 - I believe that's supposed to be General Custer, hence the "Last Stand" quip

[@minigunner1218]

18:54 There was definitely a missed opportunity for Duke to pull off a New York reload, where he just tosses the spent revolvers and pulls out new ones.

[@pop_ulation]

Wikipedia in 1925 was just a room full of smart people you could write letters to. Occasionally they would tour the country by train stopping at only the most bustling metropolises, like Toledo, St. Louis, and Baltimore.

[@Tinblitz]

Not that it particularly matters, as the video is fantastic, but I'll be kicking myself if I don't point out that a better joke than "'Ail to the king, guvnor" would have been "God Save the King, Baby". I'm mildly surprised we haven't had full price PC releases of Duke 64, and other spin-offs, as it would definitely make Randy more money that he could spend on coating himself in the finest high-quality grease.

[@TheJoKeR7991]

18:40 I believe that's The Last Boy Scout reference Civvie.

[@georgejones3526]

I think you’re right, when he was getting his cigarette lit. The old palm punch to the bridge of the nose.

[@drakemandirez8116]

Indeed, it is! Great movie.

[@anthroponacious]

Thank you for putting so much effort into these small snippets of time. They're endlessly rewatchable.

[@PaladinDusty]

Had to pause the damned video at the Money for Nothing Beetlejuice bit. It was the sound that got me.

[@NerfPlayeR135]

Red coin collected!

[@PaladinDusty]

Two of 'em! lol@@NerfPlayeR135

[@SchizoidApollo]

The pig cop death sound is the same death sound as the Bristleback from the Barrens in Classic WoW.I'm shook

[@Arcodus]

I loved playing this back in the day It had good music and a surprisingly good splitscreen multiplayer with unlockable characters with different speed and health values. The Terminator Duke had the most health but could only replenish it by picking up Atomic Health and he could see in green/nightvision. Good times and good show, Civvie11!

[@alphamakesstuff]

Duke 64 also has Protector Drones, now renamed to Alien Beasts, The Expander, Duke Burger and Area 51, are now secret levels accessed from Gun Crazy and Movie Set respectively, There's 4 new deathmatch maps, including one that's a portion of Babe Land, and the last deathmatch map is warp only, or only accessible via a secret entrance through Shaft in a 4 player deathmatch.

[@kabutoc4139]

I never clicked so fast in a video. What a underrated game. Also, the idea of duke figthing jack the ripper its genius. A metaphorical lady killer versus and actual lady killer.

[@Damian_1989]

31:23 that's the squeakiest, highest-pitched sound i've ever heard from Duke!

[@Alfboyz]

I love the fact that in the zeppelin level there's a warning to not fire weapons inside the gas chamber, which also means if Duke even punches the air the place goes kaboom. Really good N64 game nonetheless!

[@Gollypon]

as soon as the explosion wave blows out at 39:02 a huge gust of wind hit the side of my house and it was like being in an imax theatre for a second

[@lplumptree]

28:45 I think it's really cool but also a little creepy that they actually modelled this boss arena around one of the real crime scenes. Amazing touch by the devs.

[@Mikrak1]

That was EPIC, Hail to the King, baby!

[@1247theGreatest]

6:10 OMG its MAN

[@cane6074]

I love this era of gaming, plot wise games did not take them selves to seriously and were willing to have fun with themselves. The 1990's were a fun, laid back time for entrainment.

[@TheRandomLurker]

God dammit, Civvie, I was not expecting a low poly "NICE FUCKIN' MODEL"

[@alexandredevert4935]

Maybe the maps are using the Build Engine format, but the rendering is custom made ? Build Engine uses portals for its map ie. 2d polygons connected together. This is was a common representation for that era, it suited well the resources available. Using the Build Engine format, they didn't have to roll out their own map editor from scratch. The N64 had hardware polygon rendering, while on PC the Build Engine used 2d raycasting and billboards ie. software rendering. The N64 had quite strong limitations in term of polygon textures, which would explains the rather bland environment textures.

[@erikreber3695]

Pigcop... roughly translates to pigpig or copcop. Depending on your local area. Also... You haven't seen Waterworld??? It's a classic... A gem of its time! The first time I ever watched it was with some buddies in high-school and they were surprised I had never seen it... It's not that bad. 😢

[@thekleanupkrew8381]

Getting home from a miserable Saturday before superbowl at a retail job and seeing that I was blessed by papa Civvie has improved this day

[@grenoh8440]

As rough as DN: Time to Kill is when it comes to controls, It remains my most beloved entry. The Land of Babes however... we don't talk about that one.

[@kingbaby8761]

I got a soft spot for DN64. First game i ever played death match and co-op on, before Quake and Goldeneye even.

[@Snyperwolf91]

DN:TTK is actually a cool game with some flaws to it . Yeah its mid to okay-ish but i heard or catched up somewhere that this game was actually in an small development hell on its own . While DN:TTK was am alright game , Land of babes was the game that is the equivalent of driving with max Speed against the Brickwall . .

[@ФедорСоболев-ы9е]

@@Snyperwolf91 I actually enjoyed Land of The Babes and still occasionally play it. Only grudge i had against it that i couldn't figure out that you were supposed to climb a fence in a first level.

[@Snyperwolf91]

@@ФедорСоболев-ы9е It has its qualities , no doubt . But it had its glaring flaws too that made this game rather very hard to enjoy .

[@GGigabiteM]

7:21 - "This game has a lot of build engine like qualities" That's because it *IS* using the build engine, or at least a modified version of it to allow for some 3D model use. If you look at the world carefully, you'll see all of the signs of it being the Build engine. The most obvious is the "2.5D" nature of the world. You'll never see sloped walls, inverted or otherwise. All "floating" areas with space under them like catwalks are made from carefully placed oriented sprites, which is why things like grates are flat planes with no depth. You can see fake sloped walls, which use floor or ceiling sectors at angles to simulate them, but they have the limit that nothing can be above them (ceilings) or below them (floors). You'll also never see rooms over rooms in the same PVS, which is a limitation of the Build engine. This is why there are no windows to see inside buildings with multiple floors, due to the way the engine handles two separate areas in the same physical space. Shadow Warrior is the exception, the Build engine was heavily modified for that game to pull off some crazy effects not otherwise possible. The second level of the game "liberty or death" really gives it away if you have debug mode on. If you go out of bounds behind the metal fence and behind the statue of liberty, you'll see the default ugly brown brick texture on the back wall. Anyone that's done any mapping on Duke Nukem 3D on the PC will know this texture well, it's the default wall, ceiling and floor texture when you create a new map in the Build map editor. The next is if you break the vent grate and use the debug fly mode to slowly descend, you'll see the bottom of the vent shaft before the teleport trigger moves you to another area of the map for the lower levels. If you teleport and then go up, you'll see the ceiling of the vent shaft before being teleported outside again. This is another Build engine feature to simulate areas above or below other areas, as well as being used for water. The teleportation is used to move the player mostly seamlessly between different parts of the physical map to make the map look contiguous. Finally, if you have god mode on, you can find the last piece of evidence. If you go behind the Statue of Liberty again and go all the way to the skybox on the far side opposite of where you spawn, you'll be squished into an infinitely small space. This is how 3D skyboxes are faked in the Build engine. You apply a parallax sky texture to the ceiling and floor of a sector surrounding the play area and then lower the ceiling sector all the way to the floor (or vice versa.) This then makes the sector look like the parallax sky. Since Eurocom made both Duke 64 and Duke Zero Hour, I suspect that they reused the Build engine ported for Duke 64 and just modified it for the additional effects and such needed for Zero Hour.

[@chris92945]

Civvie and Duke like bread and butter (low poly Beetlejuice is just *chef's kiss*).

[@dirtedeuce5936]

Freakin A

[@Dzuno18]

Duke Nukem Zero Hour is one of my favorite games of all time. Had a great time playing this game growing up. Definitely consider this N64 spinoff superior over the other two Playstation spinoffs. Only wish this game gets remastered in the future.

[@Cade_Squirrel]

Interesting tidbit, this game uses assets from Duke Nukem Forever, the soldiers say the same lines that they say in the leaked build.

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

I would assume it to be the other way around; DNF reusing assets from this game as placeholders. In fact, isn't there an odd monologue about time travel you hear from one of the strippers that turned out to be a reused voice clip from Land of the Babes?

[@lancebaylis3169]

The fact this is running on a heavily modified Build engine is fascinating and makes so much sense. In retrospect, Duke 64 and Duke Zero Hour feel like their own self contained Duke Nukem sub-series, in the same way Doom PS1 and Doom 64 kind of do. (Yes, I know Doom 64 is considered quasi-canon these days lol)

[@1mariomaniac]

I don't even think it's "quasi-canon" I think it's pretty much been accepted as the "real Doom 3." Which is made even funnier by the fact that Doom 3 isn't canon lmao.

[@certafan]

Civvie setting up that reveal at the beginning is a fantastic attention to detail when paired with a time travel plot.

[@patricksimmons3431]

The "touch me again, and I'll kill you" line, like a lot of Duke's, is a movie quote - Bruce Willis says it in The Last Boy Scout. A guy punches him, he says the line, the guy punches him again, and Willis headbutts the guy's nose into his brain.

[@captainteutonica5474]

Yes. Oh yes. So much yes. Thank you Civvie zero hour was one of my favorite games as a kid.

[@giguyjoe]

13:02 Well if we're pulling this again then I'm going to pull a Jonathan Ferguson and say it looks more like an MP5K like in the Matrix. Or a Spectre M4 (A.K.A the Phantom) like in Goldeneye.

[@D00M_Tuber]

Thanks for doing this!! I still have this and just did a recent play through on OG hardware. We need a Nightdive re-release but that’s a pipe dream.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Yeah, would take a bloody miracle to get past the bloody Randy Pitchfork blockade and reach the shores of Zoom Platform, where all the oldie and goodie Duke Nukem games are currently kept.

[@D00M_Tuber]

@@michaelandreipalon359 you’re right. It’s a damn shame that Randy got the rights to the IP. He has all the potential to be a great guy but he won’t do it

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@D00M_Tuber He'll only be great when he gets the President Garfield treatment.

[@Swordsmage]

I grew up on Duke 64, one of my favorite mods for EDuke32 is a conversion mod to bring over the changes. The paired back greasy elements (and better voice acting because of rerecorded lines) make Duke a much more likable action hero rather than a parody of one. Always wanted to try this game but could never find it and never thought to emulate. Absolutely blown away that this is the Build Engine. Actually doesn't even look like a bad game, with a decent story. Maybe Eurocom should've kept the rights to Nukem, at least then Randy wouldn't have gotten them.

[@hopefulwarrior4953]

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour was my first Duke Nukem game that picked up from Blockbuster as a kid, I still have a copy and I love the game to this day.

[@87Ranger4x4]

31:27 Not duke holding a FUCKING MG 08-15 like a mac 10, what a chad

[@caedenide8721]

Civvie including a What We Do In The Shadows reference is legendary.

[@ranger135xp]

The line "touch me again and I'll kill you" is from the movie The Last Boy Scout with Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans. C'mon Civvie, you know where these games get their material! Also, the final boss, while drawing comparison with the cycloid emperor, is not him. His name is Zero.

[@ElLoGGe]

Perfect birthday treat. Thanks civvie for uploading a video today!

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Hope it heralds a wonderful year for you --- happy birthday, stranger! Have a good one.

[@asphaltape]

Im surprised growing up with an n64 in its era and still having one today that ive literally never seen or heard of this game. Shame none of those time machines go back and fix duke nukem forever

[@kamenrangerzeo8251]

Watching Civvie playing the Duke is always a great way to start off the Saturday morning seen the satire that goes along with it. Case and point right here 10:41 Agent 069 in Golden Guy (The names Nukem, Duke Nukem), 14:16, 17:55, 18:38 (Mask of Zorro), 20:23, 24:54, 27:01 (Michael Jackson Thriller), 28:36 The Duke Vs The Ripper, 30:24, 35:32, 38:08

[@capncoolio]

"For a Fistful of Balls" and "My Balls Will Go On" absolutely SENT me 🤣🤣

[@lucamckenn5932]

Civvie11 and his classic, iconic, patented cnb torture is easily my favorite Saturday morning cartoon.

[@zubz451]

I was laughing too hard to even realize Beetlejuice 64 made a Mario 64 noise.

[@Jadriam]

This was the second Duke game I managed to play after Duke 3D, and the crushing ceiling bit was my failure point. I cleared that section exactly once, but the evil sniper-Duke was the last thing i could handle. I'm just glad Civvie covered it at last.

[@williamroeben]

Oh my gosh, the last 15 seconds of the video and I laughed out loud

[@GunRunner106]

so many hidden eastereggs in this game. every level. even the multiplayer. to unlock playable charas for it which all had their unique quirks. like running faster, breathing under water, high melee dmg or unique starting wpns etc...

[@HQ_Default]

12:59 Oh boy, it's my turn to be the gun pedant! Mostly because I happened to have recently seen a Forgotten Weapons video showcasing the gun this SMG was based on, which is called (I shit you not) the SMG II. It _might_ be a UMP since it does look pretty similar and also uses a straight mag like in the game, but I don't know if that was publicly revealed by the time this game came out. Plus the details look a little closer to the SMG II, such as having two buttons above the pistol grip, the generally stubbier design, and the weird diagonal inset near the ejection port. I just felt compelled to point that out because I did not expect to randomly see a prototype firearm that I learned about a week ago show up in a Duke Nukem game.

[@AARONSHEERN]

I think he was referring to the MAC-10 Kurt Russell used in "Escape from New York".

[@HQ_Default]

@@AARONSHEERN Nah, the MAC-11 punchline is a reference to the fact that A: Civvie used to call instances of either a MAC-10 or 11 an Uzi and people would pedantically correct him on it. And B: The MAC-10 and 11 look exactly the same, and people who say "actually its a MAC-11" when you call something a MAC-10 are the most smug mfs alive. I'm not trying to correct anyone on anything, I just saw a connection and thought it was neat.

[@ShouOokami]

Glad to see a childhood favorite Duke game has the Civvie honk of approval!

[@colbybradbury870]

37:15 Wait was Shadows of the Empire also made on this kitbashed build engine too? This is straight up just the plasma weapons from it sound effects and visuals and all lol

[@613aristocrat]

11:05 I admire your thorough attention to this gag.

[@TurokSeed]

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour is my favorite, as it has a wide variety of enemies, weapons and scenarios, as well as the soundtrack, which is also very good.

[@WavelengthCJS]

This game gives me Timesplitters: Future Perfect vibes, and I love it!

[@mkwells123]

I have fond memories of this game. The hours of splitscreen with my brothers. Good times

[@imthecaraleo]

I remember really liking this one at the time, Time To Kill (the first ps1 tomb raider styled one) was ok but less focused on action, more on jumps and exploration, now, the following one (land of the babes?) that's the true stinker Great video !

[@Jordankewl]

YES this was one of my favourite Duke games. spent ludicrous amounts of time exploring this one

[@wcs792]

Low-Poly Beetlejuice doing the red coin sound from SM64 made me fucking cackle

[@tommysmalls6158]

the area where you fight jack is modeled after the area where the last attributed victim of jack was found even the missing door might be a homage to it since the police actually had to break it down to get inside.