CHRISTMAS RUINS CIVVIE

[@orangeboi3387]

the concept of a heist movie taking place in the middle of an alien attack sounds fucking amazing thou

[@Lucios1995]

So Army of the Dead switched with aliens!

[@ThommyofThenn]

As long as the motivations and stakes make sense. What I mean is, there has to be a sense that the aliens can be defeated/reasoned with. Otherwise why bother with the heist? Comically large bags of cash/pallets of gold ingots etc probably won't be much help when aliens are death-raying the planet. Maybe the heist could originally be set in a secret military/industrial facility and you're initially planning to steal some data or something relatively mundane. However when the aliens invade, your character might realise having money is pointless if the world is destroyed. Then they could find some kind of bizarre technology/weapon and your gang decides they will drive off the aliens and THEN enjoy their ill gotten gains. One of the gang might not get it and tries to force you into the original plan, so you can kill them or spare them(which leads to alternate outcome late game.) Then as you start fighting the aliens, you become recognised as saviors and showered with more gifts and fortune than you ever dreamed of getting from the heist. Maybe some nosy reporter starts asking what you were doing in the secret area in the first place. However, this is swept under the rug as you and the gang go off to enjoy their lives as super famous heroes and badasses

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@Lucios1995yeah but that movie was dogshit

[@ColonelSandersLite]

@@Lucios1995 Or maybe Kelly's Heroes with aliens.

[@GeorgeMonet]

The aliens were the ones from Battlefield Earth and they were in on it to cause they got promised a bar of gold.

[@evieoverride]

The fact Lopez sounds like an Eastern European VA doing a bad impression of Lani Minella doing a bad Latin accent is a whole level of meta jank I didn't know was achievable

[@oz_jones]

The Christmas Spirit of Jank.

[@jic1]

I think she was actually a Filipina trying to sound like an American doing a Latin accent, not that that actually changes anything. They should have just made Lopez Filipina, the name even fits.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

For some reason, she sounds like Renee Montoya from Batman: The Animated Series+The New Batman Adventures in my ears. Still, why not name her Panganiban, Gonzaga, Montes, or Diaz?

[@TASTomusan]

@@jic1 Yeah, you're absolutely right. Fun fact: The voice actors of Cpt. Jim and Lt. Lopez are actually Filipinos - mainly broadcast veterans (news anchors). Cpt. Jim Morgan is voiced by the late Sir Mike Enriquez (RIP legend) and Lt. Lopez is Ms. Vicky Morales. It's a shame that they never heard about it (like if there were interviews in the casting and stuff) after the game's release at that time (including the so-called "very good" game review on a Filipino gaming magazine). Also, Happy Holidays Civvie (and everyone else)! 🎄🎁⛄

[@DEO8976]

@@TASTomusan i think the generic soldier va is another news anchor and journalist of the same tv channel station, if my fleeting memories of reading about this game from probably the same magazine could be trusted

[@willelmore58]

The theory that Lopez was just running a gold heist holds water when you consider that she tries to pass herself off as a lieutenant but never wears a uniform and salutes with her left hand.

[@CodySharpe]

I noticed the salute thing too!!

[@homesless]

Now that you mention it... yeah. I forget when she saluted, but especially if she saluted indoors, that's a dead giveaway she doesn't know that 1) you don't salute indoors (other than for a Board) and 2) officers aren't supposed to salute first for the enlisted ranks. Even if the salute was done outdoors, you're not supposed to salute in a warzone for fear that the enemy would be able to figure out who an officer is (source: veteran). Either that, or she's a typical dumb Red Sox fan.

[@BlackMoonHowls]

@@homesless The baseball joke really takes Home Plate, dude.

[@zzodysseuszz]

On an unrelated note I can’t believe lieutenant js pronounced left-tenant. Actually mind-blown. I thought it was Loo-tenant.

[@Snake4985]

@@zzodysseuszz US vs. UK pronounciation

[@HugSeal42]

21:20, not only does the room have an MRI machine. It also has a bunch of steel tables and computers, things you absolutely do not want next to an MRI machine :)

[@NoobwithaBaseballBat]

To all the future people in the replies: MRI machines are basically giant magnets

[@mortenrl1946]

There's some pretty funny videos of this, sometimes when they have to decommission one they have fun with it first, chuck in a couple folding chairs or something

[@mrsidearm7026]

Bold of you to assume that was actually an MRI machine. If you look closely enough you'll notice that is in fact NOT an MRI machine, but actually a MAC 11

[@TheRealAtello]

​@@NoobwithaBaseballBatvery VERY violent magnets. They can and will remove anything magnetic from your body with zero concern for anything that's in the way, like flesh or bone.

[@NoobwithaBaseballBat]

@@mrsidearm7026 this comment is a mac 11

[@LaNoLaCola]

This game may have been a lump of coal, but Civvie's videos are always a gift

[@DailyCorvid]

This is the second best game ever made! Lump of coal my ass.

[@ezekieldoughlin1091]

*Actionable Pun Detected*

[@Rahnonymous]

​@@ezekieldoughlin1091yup, seems about right. **defibrillator noise**

[@lvl1krook]

A truer true has never trued.

[@DailyCorvid]

@@RahnonymousLol that bold text imaginary joke always gets me. I should have done one of those :)

[@MrCeratix]

the beetlejuice missile I think is an immaculate evolution of a classic bit. this is why Civvie is king

[@SuperMookles]

Ah yes, the well-preserved medieval fortifications of downtown New York. Castle Rockefeller truly is a national treasure.

[@llave8662]

Sounds like a Monument Mythos episode

[@AshamedPants]

It's a real place, though? Castle Clinton in Battery Park. It's also in Deus Ex.

[@homesless]

@@AshamedPants I was about to mention this lol

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Didn't the building become such in the World War Z novel, or am I misremembering?

[@woadblue]

Dude, quit winning

[@learycs]

“John over here” “John over here” Lopez is trapped in the bathroom Civvie! Save her!

[@SinaelDOverom]

"What are you doing, step-soldier?"

[@Xeltum]

That whole sequence is about dropping a soap, right?

[@Mantis47]

I cannot leave without my buddy Lopez

[@Kidd724]

"Why are you locked in the bathroom?"

[@vladyslavponomarchuk2692]

@@Kidd724 "You talking to me?"

[@holyarch-kek9451]

"Only the US would call an office building the Freedom Tower" Never change Civvie, please

[@mastercronus7190]

The thing is, no one actually calls it that.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

@@mastercronus7190 what do they call it?

[@pacman10182]

@@TheRealNormanBates WTC, same as always

[@mastercronus7190]

@@TheRealNormanBates World Trade Center or WTC

[@CptJistuce]

​@@TheRealNormanBatesWe dare not speak of it, lest we draw the tower-dwellers' gaze upon us.

[@Kidd724]

Man that alien walk animation is just magical. It looks like a vortigaunt doing the Thriller dance.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

The big blue ones look sped up, I wonder if there's one of those "old game ties something stupid to frame rate, so playing on modern computers makes it act weird" things is going on somehow...

[@tarrker]

This is why I love Civvie. He's not just all like "It's bad because reasons". He's like "It's bad and I know it's bad because I played all of it. Here's the footage so you can suffer along.". LoL :)

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

For real

[@xAxCx]

I think the existence of Capt. Morgan sums this game up pretty well.

[@timothymckane6362]

The plot twist at the end from Civvie's realization about what actually happened in the game was mind blowing!

[@kruinnbogdoir3661]

I really like how you make more interesting plot in 30 seconds before the end of the video than entire game itself

[@lymb3914]

Okay, your retelling of the story as a heist going down in the middle of an alien invasion is honestly genius and would make an amazing story... ...you know...

[@blablanobody5456]

The same thing happened on 711 but no one knows about the gold that was taken for some reason 🤔 who nose tho, its a mystery and a game theory 🙃

[@gabrielloko30000]

I love how Civvie since 2018 said that XMAS games runs dry super fast and after ROTT and ROTT 2013, the videos from now on would not have the same magic

[@MBBGun14]

You almost had me with that Deus Ex in the intro. Great video as always.

[@cassiopeia36]

This is one of the best things to come out of the Philippines alongside The Nutshack.

[@HydraSpectre1138]

And also piracy.

[@jic1]

And that weird sweet spaghetti sauce.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Don't forget leche flan, lechon, halo-halo, sinigang, tapsilog, taho, spiced bangus... and that's just foods. They got some nice clothes too, plus a knack for animation (although the latter fact is woefully mostly exported for the likes of Disney and Warner Bros.; still waiting for the day the Philippines can miraculously rival South Korea and even Japan on that sector).

[@HydraSpectre1138]

@@michaelandreipalon359 But local animation for local projects looks like trash usually. To the point The Nutshack is one of the better ones unironically. Our actors are proud of our PS1 CGI and think it deserves to be on a movie cinema.

[@ExValeFor]

@@michaelandreipalon359 no, do forget them actually, it's all complete dogshit

Bedlam is the crossover between pure chaos and insanity, and Civvie's gameplay/commentary makes it 10x better.

[@RadarLuv100]

This is so funny. My now wife was a Filipino med school student from NYC when she bought me this game as a gift when it first came out.

[@W3irdWombat]

I know I say this a lot… but thank you for being a good content creator/prisoner and giving us true subtitles. It honestly makes everything so much better. I don’t understand why channels 10X as large as this one just go along with automatic subtitles. The extra work you put into your content is appreciated.

[@AliaImmortalis]

👍

[@sunnyd1722]

I just realized the muzzle flash changes colors because you add the alien genetic code to it to upgrade it.

[@abhinandanil7775]

The festive season's never fun without the annual Civvie Christmas special

[@michaelkalin2209]

the end gag was amazing. thanks civvie, merry holiday season or whatever!

[@mandeadd]

This is a damn fine Christmas present. Thank you Civvie

[@BlazingOwnager]

The twist ending made me literally choke on my coffee.

[@whiz8569]

Man, to think this game has such a surprising twist at the end. Eat your heart out Spec Ops: The Line.

[@phydeux]

Gotta love the elevator where you pull the button off the wall to call the car. 🤣

[@arturbb]

Civvie, I sincerely, unironically, love you. Please keep doing your thing.

[@benajminlong6226]

Every time I feel like I have reached the limit of my ability to love Civvie he then says “Fuck the Yankees” and I love him all over again.

[@isenokami7810]

Civvie constantly pointing out “you gave me a heal others mechanic but then won’t let me use it” makes me want a game that did. Particularly the part around 19:35. I like the idea of having these siege set pieces in a shooter where, if you were able to hold onto healing items leading up to them, you can heal wounded soldiers and have more backup for the coming fight. Get better at the normal gameplay to make the hard parts much easier.

[@TheHalogen131]

That last heist realisation immediately made me think of Ross Scott.

[@paulividergamer7727]

I did not see that coming! Wonderful Christmas Present Civvie!

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Nothing quite like watching Civvie play some RAW slavjank games during Christmas.

[@theeeldeal8470]

"I'm here to shit all over New York" Couldn't agree more civvie 😂

[@planescaped]

If there is one thing I have learned in my job, it's that most New Yorkers are really belligerent and weird, lol.

[@SnakePlisskenist]

What an awesome episode.. This is truly what Christmas is about.

[@TheDECKFISH]

Merry Christmas Civvie!! Love ya work!

[@PXAbstraction]

Merry Christmas Civvie and all the Dungeoneers. 🌲

[@WingmanImd]

As someone who played this a looong time ago and both hated and liked, I'm in for a nostalgia trip with this one :)

[@fonkyfesh-old]

The Beetlejuice Weaponization Project has paid off it seems

[@The_Wandering_Nerd]

The real Dr. Mayer was the jank we met along the way

[@deananderson6896]

Merry Christmas to you and yours Civvie 11. Thank you for another fun video. 😊🎄

[@Tinblitz]

Oh, also, Merry Christmas, Civvie and Katie. Thanks for another year of great content.

[@MaraIndigoJade]

Ah, Newark, New Jersey, how I miss thee...well, actually I miss all of NJ since I was born and raised there. I was reared in the backwoods hillbilly county of Sussex, the northern most of all in NJ. (At 01:30, you can see on the map that there's a star in NW NJ and the name, 'Newton'. >That< is where I call home. Always have, always will, even though I haven't been back there since before those great Towers fell on that clear, warm fateful September day) I spent my first 15 years in NJ, loving nearly every minute of it. I'd visit Newark every couple years when flying out to visit family elsewhere in the country. Getting to the airport was something of an adventure, since even though it was only a 45-60 minute drive from home, it might as well have been another part of the world entirely for the difference in landscapes there was. My home in NW NJ was wooded, forests everywhere, rural, mountainous, with winding roads and guard-railed ravines hundreds of feet down just mere skips from the asphalt along with massive dairy farms, huge lakes and many photo-of-the-year contending small, cozy towns where everyone knows everyone. As you traveled to Newark (or indeed, the NYC metro area in general) the forests and mountains gave way to flatter city blocks and six-lane highways, the smell of industry and car exhaust, traffic snarled to a stop every day at the same time in the same place. You'd have to jump from one highway to another, to another, exit onto yet another and you best be ready with those quarters because the >TOLLS< required worship for blessings if not sacrifice. Not enough coin to satiate the traffic gods? Your sacrifice would do. Not of your soul...at least not yet. No, your offering was TIME. You had to trade time for convenience. And once you made it to Newark Airport, your trial was not yet complete. The gods had one last test for you... PARKING. Hope you were paying attention to the myriad of signs along the way! Otherwise...well, you'll find out soon enough... **evil laughter** I can't wait to go home someday soon. I've been gone for 26 long years but I can't still hear the forest winds calling my name...

[@alexandru-cristiansandu1016]

Happy Christmas Civvie!🎅

[@chillhour6155]

With all those invisible walls, lack of collision and questionable hit boxes, you would think this game was made using Unreal

[@yukich6957]

AVGN+Civvie videos in one day Yeah, I can believe in Christmas now

[@dabluflcn]

A new Civie video before Christmas is the perfect gift.

[@FiauraTheTankGirlGamer]

Hey Civvie, Halo is over 20 years old now. It technically counts as a retro shooter.

[@isaacsalume6287]

12:45 The flashlight looks like it's not actually a directional light, it looks like it just sets a spotlight over a spot on the ground a few meters in front of the direction the player is looking.

[@ChaseMC215]

Basically the same as Half Life's flashlight, but worse?

[@ImpendingRiot83]

15:28 Mike Stoklasa got in the machine from The Fly with Rich Evans and this is the result

[@oz_jones]

All I can see is Ashens.

[@portalfreak7628]

Imagine if, in BioShock Infinite, every time Elizabeth threw you ammo or health she went, "Booker, over here!" over and over and over again

[@dinitroacetylen]

17:07 -- this monologue that delivers what's already on everyone's mind is nothing short of immaculate.

[@retrorapture4079]

This is the first Pinojank game I've ever seen, and from the looks of it, they could give even the best Slavjank devs a run for their money.

[@tr3vk4m]

Civvie is the only guy on here who deserves to get paid for what he does. His videos are my idea of perfect and watching them legitimately improves my life. Brought to you by CommentCorpTM

[@psychedeliccarrie5921]

I love that you can spot the LithTech engine from an AU away.

[@darthgiorgi4990]

At this point I'm convinced that MandaloreGaming and Civvie coordinate their releases together

[@captainnurbles9169]

One of these days we'll get our Mandy x Civvie collab.

[@bees5803]

@@captainnurbles9169civvie did some voice work in one of mandalores marathon reviews I think

[@darthgiorgi4990]

@@captainnurbles9169 we kinda got a smidgen of it in Mando's Marathon infinity review

[@syfrax9725]

Didn't civvie cameo in the marathon infinity review?​@@captainnurbles9169

[@Revan058]

​@@captainnurbles9169 We technically did! Marathon Infinity got _weird_

[@jonguy8860]

26:20 The room with urinals all bunched together was designed by psychopaths.

[@KrytzKryptASMR]

Oh the greatest of Christmas gifts, a video from Civvie. Happy Holidays.

[@badkite8279]

CHRISTMAS = SEWER LEVEL.

[@Destroyah5000]

Imagine him starting a Christmas reference count.

[@Junoncross]

Lopez told you verbally to take the right corridor, but the text said left. Then she went right. Wow.

[@f1rxf1y]

With all the KZbin drama going on, when do we enter the era of Civvie hiring ScreenWave to manage the channel and hearing about how he’s too busy for videos because of his kids?

[@novarat4089]

"Halo has better level design" is indeed a scary phrase. 39:08 that is THE Halo sniper sound.

[@endplanets]

Aliens want out gold? John Travolta and the Psychlos have turned Earth into a Battlefield!

[@user-cp9id1mj8b]

Smoke weed with me Civvie

[@dacknostrum]

I’ll be blunt, I’m always extra happy when a video by Civvie starts where he’s happy! #FreeCivvie!

[@Gator159]

This was a good way to start my Saturday morning while eating breakfast. Merry Christmas 🎄

[@alexjohnson6069]

Civvie, you bring joy to my existence. Have a merry Christmas. I hope your live scorpions were well seasoned.

[@simonwoods2169]

Merry Christmas to Civvie and to all the Kids.

[@Zusse]

The brink of janky old school gameplay 👌 civvie you have yet again brought us another great video and also those death animations are some weird shit they just fucking flail around like they are swatting bees

[@chris92945]

I feel like this is not a video game interpretation this is just how New York actually looks like on certain days. Merry Christmas Civvie!

[@Slamraptor]

That credits scene with the bullet holes in the shot out windows broke me... This is peak game design... The pinnacle of gaming one might say. Awesome episode of a gem I didn't know. Happy uhm sorry to see you suffer Civvie. Great episode though!

[@Dolfa_LPH]

Hey Civvie, just wanted to say thanks for working so hard. Everyone says "take a breather," but you should take a vacation.

[@mantha6912]

Civvie is gonna have to break the 2 hour run-time mark if he does a Deus Ex video. That game has never been more relevant, especially when I played it back in 2020. What a ride.

[@GrayMatter337]

hope everyones havin a merry christmas, especially you civvie. Id wager you need it after them scorpions

[@johnplayer420]

New York's all right if you like saxophones.

[@TheAussieBlue]

I feel like there's a really clever joke there that I'm too stupid to understand.

[@ChaseMC215]

​@@TheAussieBlue Look at their subway systems, there's like a few Saxophone players down there as people enter and leave the trains

[@TheAussieBlue]

@@ChaseMC215 Thank you,

[@vae7009]

we should all commend amanda lopez for attempting her best christopher walken impression

[@tobiyoarcangel]

You cannot tell me this wasn't the main inspiration for Hunt Down The Freeman

[@HoundofDarkness]

I was expecting the christmas video to end with God Rest Ye Deadly Gentlemen

[@aruan7sp]

18:30 I loved those aliens with OCD opening and closing the windows every time they shoot.

[@barahng]

This might be one of your best intros yet.

[@AntonyCannon]

Merry Christmas, inmate.

[@EpicJasonX9000]

Awesome review as always Civvie, and Merry Christmas! ^-^

[@Jollyman2117]

How did civvie miss that alien going back to his home planet at 20:54

[@ChaseMC215]

That warrants the Gordon Ramsey clip right there

[@joshuarolle6040]

I won't need a Christmas meal because this is some Prime Rib jank. Merry Christmas in whatever hell you live in Civvie!

[@BaraScrae]

I love that the wind up noise on the rifle is clearly the same stock sound as the doors in Doom

[@andresbravo2003]

Merry Christmas Civvie.

[@KnoxCarbon]

Merry Christmas, Civvie

[@cobalfrostwyrm]

I swear that the "ugh, i'm hit, we need help" at 28:04 is somehow lifted from Beachhead II on the Amiga or C64. That or they used the same sample source.

[@ELLOHELLWAT]

Excuse me! Die Hard III is a Christmas movie. Right before John McClane and Zeus steal bikes from kids, those kids say, "It's Christmas, you could steal city hall!"

[@rebd00mer93]

Duke Nukem Nuclear Winter and Freezeezy peak are the 2 winter games that i play every single christmas without fail. I've played Nuclear winter every christmas since 1998 except for maybe like 5 or 6 years when i didn't have a computer and wasn't gaming much.

[@samlay9588]

"I can't defeat this boss without my buddy Lopez's extra rockets."

[@capncoolio]

Some of your best work yet mate, merry Christmas!

[@z.s.7992]

I always remembered the air smelling weird driving through newark

[@forestfranklin74]

another solid year of solid civvie 11 laughs and cringe, also your turbo overkill vidoes still amazing

[@omcomphonetapes1315]

Sewer this, sewer that, sewer or later you're going to be promoted from inmate to plumber. Couldn't think of a more fitting punishment.

[@Skidjit]

Remember when Civie's Christmas episode predicted The Plague of 2020? I 'member.

[@slaughterchainsaw]

José Cuervo is definitely Civvie's favourite spirit

[@marinbah2401]

I love you Civvie Merry Christmas man

[@Jjgm69]

The circle is complete because now a small studio is making a War of the Worlds RTS game and this time... we are the aliens.