This is probably the most emotionally heavy game I've ever played. Fighters leaving their bases to scout, only to be shot down minutes later. Bombers flying over the ocean, never to return. Submarines firing their missiles before being destroyed. Dozens of ICBMs streaking over the Arctic, bound for doomed cities. The sense of relief when a nuke is knocked out by air defense, sparing millions of lives. The dread and fear when the game announces that the enemy has launched their ICBMs. The urgency to retaliate before your own silos are bombed. And finally, the horror as a swarm of nukes race towards your defenseless cities.
@BruhPK6 жыл бұрын
The MAD Scenario.
@The13Erne6 жыл бұрын
This game and This war of Mine are some of the most real war felt experiences I have ever had.
@Texan.Insomniac6 жыл бұрын
Thermonuclear War, the strangest game, where the only winning move is not to play -wonder how many people got that reference-
@Texan.Insomniac6 жыл бұрын
I think why it's so emotional is ironically how cold and unfeeling it is When a city is flattened or a battleship is sunk there is no "God save us alll" or "Why did this have to happened?!" It simply tells you that _x_ amount of people died or that you lost a ship It's so cold, like a computer programming, unable to feel empathy or emotion, just doing what its been programmed to do to the best of its ability, regardless of the consequence or aftermath doing so would bring There is no glory or honor, no right or wrong, just compete annihilation to everything that has and will be, with no regard to human emotion or will
@Jay844765 жыл бұрын
and then when it hits a city moments later it will tell you how many souls perished and you can hear the coughs of women men and children dying from radiation sickness
@flutee6162 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of a quote, "When the game is over, the king and the pawn go in the same box."
@Captainkebbles1392 Жыл бұрын
yooooo!
@KozmoDyne Жыл бұрын
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
@aliaksandrryhor5364 Жыл бұрын
but the king goes later
@Avrelianvs9 ай бұрын
Kings in the bunker, doesn't die.
@dustbegone7 ай бұрын
@@Avrelianvs long live the king of the rubble
@ThePsycho3137 жыл бұрын
And I thought Plague Inc. was depressing....
@thundersoul67956 жыл бұрын
A deadly disease from the brain-affecting branch can grant delirium so its victims will experience that weird, pleasurable, confused pain while they're dying. Nukes can't. It's just a flash - and millions are gone. There's no cure for nuclear blast, there's no confused pleasure from it, there's only express mass oblivion at the hands of those in war bunkers who deem themselves more important and worthy of survival than so many other humans.
@marianolaferte63335 жыл бұрын
@@thundersoul6795 there's no cure from radiation and the cancer that brings with it, the mutation, bleeding out from wounds that the harsh destroyed environment can cause to the human body while being outside after the bomb... looking for water, fresh water and food or if any person is alive or if the corpses are sitting there in a no man's land after the devastation
@Hyperceus5 жыл бұрын
@@thundersoul6795 Plague, diseases, bacteria, virus..etc anything biological is scarier than weapons I think.
@Texan.Insomniac5 жыл бұрын
A word that sums up this game and M.A.D. *_Omnicide (n)_*_ :The total extinction of the human species as a result of human action._
@itspurplepaw61634 жыл бұрын
And I thought First Strike zero hour was depressing....
@KAMI_245 жыл бұрын
Played this with some friends, and at Defcon 1 Nobody fired a missile for a solid 5 minutes. Once the first launch was detected you were able to hear the fear in the voices while playing. We were playing the slowest game mode, and it really felt like something bad happened once the missiles were under way. Its a great game.
@KAMI_243 жыл бұрын
@Pasquale Arcidiacono a friend that was playing as the US, we did a pretty well planned out “cold war” scenario
@finmueller78273 жыл бұрын
That's the worst time ever, you know you have too, but you don't want to be the one, since if you do, you'll be the target for everyone else, but at the same time, you know you can gain a tactical advantage by nuking airfields, radars, etc
@MiGLifeCrisis2 жыл бұрын
itwasfunny
@EnclaveSOC-1022 жыл бұрын
@Repent Repent bruh
@kinagrill2 жыл бұрын
Well that's also sorta how it'd work. one launch is detected and suddenly counter launches happen, the first nuke strikes and ICBM launches gets detected for retaliation strikes... Leaders just want that one nuke hit to lead to capitulation... but no, that's not what'd happen.
@timonisaev79228 жыл бұрын
i once played this game on a Big game settings, maxed out everything. max nukes, and controlled 3 continent's, the match lastet about 8 hours, and it was.. and experience a can't forget.. it was depressing.. and it felt like.. i was actually in charge.. sitting in the war room, leading my troops to hell.. and death... a war that wasn't meant to be won.. the experience is unexplainable.. for every city I've destroyed... i felt sad.. and not only that.. it was also for every city i couldn't defend... i even felt sorry for the pilots i send over to attack the enemy planes.. knewing that the enemy was to far away for my troops to return back and land.. knowing they died in vein.. those 8 hours.. felt like forever, and the when i send some bombers over those hellish lands i have destroyed with the nukes.. i just wanted to know.. what those pilots saw from their cockpits... looking towards major cites.. capitals.. lands.. continents.. in flames... pure hell.. and the worst part was.. even tho i won... i didn't feel like i even did anything close to winning.. only the lost everything.. both sides lost everything... and the music haunted me.. this game made me feel... something i really never felt before... play it, and you'll experience it too.. i do not regret it
@coolman89607 жыл бұрын
this game made me tear up and i barely cry at all
@timonisaev79227 жыл бұрын
i could only imagine
@whiteamericanmale73925 жыл бұрын
Gay
@beanslinger46165 жыл бұрын
White American Male U r hav le *Big Fucking Gay*
@intern10204 жыл бұрын
I already experience too Especially Greenland, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey, Philipines, every nation on oceania, New Zealand, Kazakhstan because they aren't unplayable and make me wonder why they not on player/AI control territory but suddenly i realize they will die because nuclear winter that slowly make them from normal live to experience nulcear winter And i feel like my sins crawling my back
@jackp.richardson64154 жыл бұрын
You know what the most tragic part is about using your silos to stop missiles? Even after it stops 5-10 of them, one always gets through.
@cr4yv3n3 жыл бұрын
Modern ICBMs split into 100-150 "dummies" and only a few real ones. This makes defense a % game
@danielmcgillis2703 жыл бұрын
I always try and time nukes on the silos to come in a large group, that way it cant get as many. You can do this by sending out the bombers at the last 30 seconds of DECON2 and then target them for a city way in the interior. When the bomber is active you can target a nearer target and just launch. Put 6 bombers together and overwhelm the silos, after you scrub the silos and airfields use your silos on the cities.
@kinagrill2 жыл бұрын
@@cr4yv3n About 1/5th real nukes will be taken out, by estimations, from such defenses.
@cr4yv3n2 жыл бұрын
@@kinagrill that still leaves 80%....out of 17,000.
@kinagrill2 жыл бұрын
@@cr4yv3n Oh yeah I know.
@AFGuidesHD10 жыл бұрын
where's the creepy womans breathing? That makes this game from entertaining to horror
@Sizzlik9 жыл бұрын
***** indeed..and the crying kid. First time i played i felt like a President/Dictator with the finger on a big red button..and when pressed you can do nothing but watch..and ingame..hear =( Depressing but good game
@daniel-andersson4 жыл бұрын
The fuck are you doing here lad?
@k_nito79544 жыл бұрын
@@daniel-andersson bruh, this was 5 years ago
@winterwar55834 жыл бұрын
trackz bruh that was a month ago
@qwobot4 жыл бұрын
@@winterwar5583 bruh that was 1 week ago
@The_Midnight_Bear9 жыл бұрын
I like the reverse war thing during the second half of the video, with the missiles returning, and fleets retreating. Gives a nice "it doesn't have to be this way" vibe.
@joelbns8 жыл бұрын
Was it edited or is like this in-game?
@TakedaS1158 жыл бұрын
+Leon “DrixY” Erlandsson edited.
@ancylostomiasis8 жыл бұрын
+Nemerian Thank you! I didn't know!
@thymicere39113 жыл бұрын
It’s super fucking cliche.
@goodymcgood61013 жыл бұрын
@@thymicere3911 STF
@Derpleton142 жыл бұрын
It's only a game It's only a game It's only a game It's only a game
@sergeomiller42672 жыл бұрын
It's only a game. I'm right?
@battadia2 жыл бұрын
_Wargames_ would like to speak with you.
@North_Bound2 жыл бұрын
For now… Current defcon status as of March 18, 2022, Defcon 3
@battadia2 жыл бұрын
@@North_Bound The DWS is just a group with predictions, the actual DEFCON levels are classified information.
I love how Oceania just sits there doing fuck-all.
@toast76328 жыл бұрын
+Laneer its the new zealand way of life haha
@MikonyaanGurevich8 жыл бұрын
+Laneer "Meanwhile, Australia's down there like "WTF, mate?"
@nerdsoft99648 жыл бұрын
"LAUNCHES DETECTED" "Crikey!"
@coolman89607 жыл бұрын
aus for the win
@ThroneOfBhaal7 жыл бұрын
What are we meant to do? Pee on them?
@Jader77777 жыл бұрын
This game was so depressing, after completing the tutorial I turned the computer off and had to go sit down with a cup of tea looking out the window.
@DivShadow7 жыл бұрын
Jared Prymont Yeah this game makes me emotional. I'm somewhat of a war monger at heart, but this is too much. No thrill of war, no excitement, only the truth in despair. The crying woman in the ambient sound, the slowing of the music when most of the world is burned. This game bites at your soul.
@paultempleton85557 жыл бұрын
Jared Prymont yes it is... but this game teaches us a valuable lesson...hopefully this never becomes a reality
@nethur16167 жыл бұрын
This isn't really a game. This is a test.
@manictiger5 жыл бұрын
@@DivShadow It defeats the point of war if there's nothing left to conquer. No one wants to inherit ash and cinder.
@intern10204 жыл бұрын
Well that good thing. Enjoy your life until last I won this game once but suddenly i feel like watching countless people die and the soundtrack (oh god. It haunting me) really creepy because Every people you kill and every soldier, pilots, navy crew die for nothing. Somehow i quickly delete the game and forgive to god because this game haunt me forever
@GurniHallek7 жыл бұрын
This game is a unique example of a horror RTS. It does a very good job of invoking the feeling of existential dread, that unique fear not just of death, but of utter obliteration of everything you ever stood for and cared about.
@Violent2aShadow9 жыл бұрын
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
@jacobarnold25959 жыл бұрын
like Australia :D
@anandalusian96389 жыл бұрын
Jacob Arnold in the new version there is a autralian faction XD
@Angel_EU349 жыл бұрын
Violent2aShadow Do you want to play a good game of chess instead?
@jacobarnold25959 жыл бұрын
Alt´air ValKrevf like Switzerland? oh...never mind... they should make Switzerland neutral for the lols
@anandalusian96389 жыл бұрын
Jacob Arnold i think, switzerland is in the European faction in the game.
@TheOnlyVistosi5 жыл бұрын
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
@renaultft19175 жыл бұрын
"This is my die wand, prepare to death"
@NguyenMinh-vs1vm4 жыл бұрын
J. Robert Oppenheimer
@alt87914 жыл бұрын
Of all possible comments I think this one sums up DEFCON the most accurately.
@Plamkton4 жыл бұрын
I supose we all thought that, one way or another.
@ArghyadeepPal4 жыл бұрын
@@NguyenMinh-vs1vm He quoted it from the Hindu scripture, Bhagawad Gita.
@tyriqkhalil78519 жыл бұрын
NEW YORK HIT 7.2 MILLION DEAD
@Mincecroft8 жыл бұрын
+Tyriq Khalil (LambdaCore27) Genocide mode is the best, points per million kills count me in (not in the kills hopefully)
@sylvainmalfettes21148 жыл бұрын
Like in a global nuclear war one million death is actually small collateral damage...
@sylvainmalfettes21148 жыл бұрын
Fatin Marwat That's what imo is truly terrifying in this game - people ; men, women, children, families, all their memories, everything these people were, everything they ever did - everything gone, annihilated in the blink of an eye, and for the generals in the bunkers it's nothing but statistics on a strategic map...collateral damage of a war that will kill billions...
@Turtleproof5 жыл бұрын
300,000,000,000 rats killed. Oh, and also the ones that squeak and crawl around Central Park.
@Thlormby5 жыл бұрын
CAIRO HIT 10.2 MILLION DEAD
@blacksun38846 жыл бұрын
Up in the International Space Station.... Scott Tingle: Hey. Anton.... Look.... We're passing over Russia now. Anton Shkaplerov: Scott? Do you see on the Crimean Peninsula? About the southern border, 44 North and 33 East? Slightly left. That's my home. Scott: It's.... Burning. It's goddamn on fire, Anton! *Anton says nothing but tears are forming in his eyes.* Scott: Is it meaningless to say "I'm sorry", even when I'm technically your enemy? Anton: Never. In fact, it's probably the sweetest thing I've heard in a long time.
@trooperodst68805 жыл бұрын
great words and lines man :)
@Ledorovich5 жыл бұрын
No matter what nationality a person is, he is still eaten by the inner human feeling, the consciousness of values. He looks at his sweet home and realizes that the house is on fire. He looks at the lovely fields and forests... Burned and don't back in life. He cannot still react, if already to cry and worry about the lost homeland, especially native home? Relatives, friends... The ashes of this terrible dirt engulfed everyone! There is no madness human limit...
@natheria49334 жыл бұрын
It will take an act of great suffering to finally break our pride as a species, and help to unify those left standing in a peace that will hopefully this time last.
@feeler66704 жыл бұрын
"Its all on FIRE!" 🔫 "Always has been..."
@norikofu5094 жыл бұрын
Without Ideologies, Humanity is the same.
@danielduckington57897 жыл бұрын
Forget horror games. This is the most horrifying game around
@beautybrainsbrawn4 жыл бұрын
The same thing can be said about Threads.
@audiosurfarchive5 ай бұрын
TNO is also pretty up there but on a much more intimate and.. just, if you like GSGs but wish it was more politicking and story driven.. TNO is a hell scape that rivals the greats of dystopian fiction.
@dragzoonw.r.e66185 жыл бұрын
Everyone: This game show the destructive power of the human race and how we are always teetering on the edge of total annihilation. Stellaris Players: Nervously chuckles after wiping out have a galaxy and enslaving the rest.
@Nikomariko3 жыл бұрын
When a player insults you and you crack up 6 of his planets as a response :´)
@Asgardians3t3 жыл бұрын
@@Nikomariko if u get the Gigastructural Engineering mod, u can initiate a quest and find the core of the galaxy, from which u can build upon a Quasi Stellar Obliterator > a massive galactic gun that u can crack up to 10 planets at the same time anywhere on the galaxy or up to 4 whole systems with the planets and the stars and everything in it, or heck if u want u can wipe out a whole star cluster > basically it destroys a whole system and all the systems connected to it by hyperlanes including the hyperlanes :) it is quite satisfying to c the whole map blown up xD, it also triggers an event, if u are playing vs computers they form a galactic alliance, including the pirates and the fallen empires and they all attack u, it can be fun to play :)
@Nikomariko3 жыл бұрын
@@Asgardians3t gonna try this out i actually thought the etherope machine (crisis megastructure) was a system killer gun but sadly its only a galactic whiping bomb
@contingenesis51262 жыл бұрын
atleast you just kill them instead of killing people by giving them the worst and slowest death of all time radiation poisoning in defcon
@Plamkton Жыл бұрын
@@Asgardians3t and I thought ww3 was M.A.D. that's just extinction in a game.
@bigburd8756 жыл бұрын
"I know not what World War 3 will be fought with, but I know that World War 4 will be fought with sticks and rocks"
@DarkSideKyp5 жыл бұрын
I think you missed the point of the quote.
@strangelf4 жыл бұрын
The RaNd0m channle einstein*
@b_f_d_d4 жыл бұрын
*World war 3 would end the world*
@thatisfalss4 жыл бұрын
Yup the ww4 is just only using sword and bow.Modern technology like machine gun will be useless
@Bruh-hq1hx3 жыл бұрын
@@thatisfalss thats not the point the point is we will destroy our civilazation so hard we will revert back to the early middle ages
@spade37794 жыл бұрын
Thank you Petrov for sparing us...
@cringevidshub37673 жыл бұрын
Underrated
@ugheieiemmmfmfmff3 жыл бұрын
Petrov and Arkhipov
@tryhart12402 жыл бұрын
Well... As of today... This soundtrack got even more scary and ominous...
@rhysfielding81712 жыл бұрын
Indeed it did. And it's only going to get worse.
@tryhart12402 жыл бұрын
@@rhysfielding8171 that worries me as well.
@fargusmaloy2 жыл бұрын
@@tryhart1240 just a friendly russian here to let you all know we are too scared shitless.
@tryhart12402 жыл бұрын
@@fargusmaloy Hi dude. I hope ur doing well! It's scary to hear about all those arrests and general unrest in russia... Best wishes for you from Germany :)
@fargusmaloy2 жыл бұрын
@@tryhart1240 thanks. Although i always kept low profile and not in any immediate danger - unlike ukrainians. My fears are probably something germans in the 30-s could relate to, while ukrainians probably feel something out of the USSR book. I see dictatorship and madness, people fleeing the country, and absolutly brainwashed neighbours, friends and relatives. What i mean is - i read V. Clemperer, about living in Third Reich and remember watching Unsere Mutter, Unsere Vater - but i never thought that i would be unlucky enough to watch that kind of shit unfolding right before me. Most oppostioner-russians thought that putin is just a thug and a thief and not really the problem for anyone but us.
@DatZortaw3 жыл бұрын
When Himmler does a gamer moment
@wawan87593 жыл бұрын
Streng geheim
@mememachine30293 жыл бұрын
Gamerstatte burger
@zacharyjones51023 жыл бұрын
There is only painn..😭😭😭😭
@Make_Fontaine_Great_Again3 жыл бұрын
There is no hope under the black sun.
@ussenterprise31563 жыл бұрын
So long
@infiniteai97688 жыл бұрын
It's unbelievable what a perfectly fit soundtrack can do awake human emotions, even in such a simple game, both conceptually and visually.
@_MarcFreund5 жыл бұрын
What is the sound of killing millions of people within a second? Well, from your subterran bunker, it's just a distant rumble.
@Noorthia2 жыл бұрын
The tactile click of the most evil button.
@tyriqkhalil78519 жыл бұрын
I think I underestimate the power of atomic warheads. It would be awful in a large city centre, crowds of panicked people rush around you, seeing a mother clutch a baby in her arms, hearing a rifle shoot in the distance, a man leaning against a wall, with a bottle of liquor in his hand, given up. In a home with an open door, an extemely eerie test tone plays as the leader says their final words to their doomed nation. You see a figure leap off the top of a large building. Then, silence. The entire city halts as everyone stares at a small flash of light. Many clutch their eyes and scream. For a second, everything around you bursts into silent flames as if it were touched by the hand of a demon. All of a sudden, your entire world explodes and is turned into nothing as atomic fire swallows you and a hundred thousand people. Every building, hundreds of years of ingenuity and creativity, are immediately vaporized. Every artist's painting, every child's scrapbook, every baby boomer's mixtape, every effort of all these people are immediately for naught. Millions of collective consciousnesses are lost, every scrap of your past, present and future existence completely obliterated, eternally buried in the depths of human hostility and error.
@StoicNatsoc8 жыл бұрын
+Tyriq Khalil (LambdaCore27) Brutal...
@tyriqkhalil78518 жыл бұрын
***** Try reading "The Road". What I'm describing has already been written.
@stevem8428 жыл бұрын
+Tyriq Khalil (LambdaCore27) Excellent novel. However after I finished it I felt like I'd been kicked in the chest. Vivid description above btw
@coolman89607 жыл бұрын
please write a book and if you do contact me somehow cause i would read that so much
@gerry7man5557 жыл бұрын
The US is immune to nukes. Ever heard of ABMs and RIM-161 SM-3?
@Ghost_of_Avalon6 жыл бұрын
That final part of Madness just tears at me every time. Usually around the time it plays in-game a woman begins to cry as she watches her world come to a violent and abrupt end from the safety of the war room's computer screen. I can only imagine the horror and sorrow she must feel knowing each blip on the radar brings forth another nail for the coffin of humanity.
@16thdemon10 жыл бұрын
Developers should have added more things, like Geiger Counter sound on areas with heavy radiation and maybe even fragments of panicked radio chatter and news before nukes hit major cities (With radio activity becoming static when bomb levels the city). + there should be something in game that would make you feel like a complete crap and war criminal if you started launching nukes first.
@AFGuidesHD9 жыл бұрын
DEFCON 2? with a campaign?
@Spooky_Cat9 жыл бұрын
@NinjaRafter: My heart sunk just seeing the nuke signs all over the map pointing that the end of the world was iminent, even if it was just a simulation...
@ericv83439 жыл бұрын
Awesome suggestions!! 16thdemon
@ok_studios9 жыл бұрын
It's more like a simulation of the people who would launch these nukes safely from their bunkers. They wouldn't care.
@ConfusionPlus29 жыл бұрын
I prefer this way, it just makes you feel so detracted... which is chilling.
@user-uu3wd4fb4k5 жыл бұрын
The darkest game I've ever seen! Let wars be only in video games. I wish you all a peaceful sky!
@alexsterling21643 жыл бұрын
You too, A peaceful sky for all.
@OCTO358 Жыл бұрын
Well, fuck.
@JustAnotherAccount83 жыл бұрын
It's like a "hand squeeze" contest (if anyone else has done that), you know the other person is going to squeeze your hand as hard as they can, and if you do nothing, it will hurt more, but if you squeeze back, the pain is less... but then no one wants to let go first
@The13Erne2 жыл бұрын
4:10 - 5:00 always sends chills down my spine
@Asukol2 жыл бұрын
Yeah this part really felt like the world was ending
@superbeary39938 жыл бұрын
There is always a disarm button on the nukes but I never click it :(
@ferbthe2gadgetguy7 жыл бұрын
Lets watch this century die
@markpetrochenko84025 жыл бұрын
No one did
@GIGATHEBOT5 жыл бұрын
i click it for fun when the radar station im trying to nuke died
@user-jt7ic1je3r2 ай бұрын
no one does in this game after all its useless
@Zelinkokitsune2 жыл бұрын
The timing of the Madness track to all the silos in synch going into launch mode is just one of those unintentionally perfect moments
@Connacht898 жыл бұрын
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
@Connacht898 жыл бұрын
Ethan, it's a quote, guess what's the meaning and the link with this game...
@josephstalin65497 жыл бұрын
Please stop.
@ferbthe2gadgetguy7 жыл бұрын
Ahh what a good movie that was. The only way to win the game(The Cold War)was not to play(not to launch nukes at the other guy)
@victorbakhuis45587 жыл бұрын
So, australia won?
@topsecret18377 жыл бұрын
Victor Bakhuis you too :3
@TheHylianJuggalo5 жыл бұрын
I grew up on RTS games. It's a shame they've fallen out of fashion, relegated to a niche market. Maybe it's always been that way - a "30yo boomer" genre. Still, when you grow up in a family with a military background, chances are, you'll feel compelled to serve your nation too. I never could - disabled on paper, unfit for service. Maybe that's why I naturally flocked to RTS. Maybe that's why I became politically aware at an early age. Command and Conquer taught me the adrenaline involved in warfare - the action, the struggle and stress for a leader to make the right decisions on a moment's notice. But still, it was very clearly a game - fictional universe, crazy tech... As I got older, I moved to 'grand strategy' - Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, and such. Here, you were taught about the logistical nightmare of war - allocating equipment, running a nation, trading, being diplomatic... Instead of putting you on the field, it put you in an administrative position - 'desk warriors' the regulars in most national militaries call them; people who've never seen combat firsthand, and are mentally disconnected from the reality on the ground and how bad it gets. In games like these, you're introduced to the SCALE of the event - millions of deaths, billions of dollars in destroyed equipment - all neatly tacked on a clipboard when it's all said and done. Disconnected as you may be, there's still a human element involved - the units talk and shout for glory, your men desert, a nation's spirit breaks as the people rise up in a civil war for freedom... This one strips it all away - the bloodrush of action, the unit feedback, the lives of the everyman... None of that shit matters. Here, you're introduced to fear. A sterile, pale blue monitor with primitive, raster-line visuals that look more at home on a late 70's. supercomputer. You don't hear anything but mild beeps and steady breathing. You don't see anything but sterile, plain graphics representing boots kn the ground - and a steadily climbing count of numbers. Who are they? Who cares. War doesn't care.
@TheHylianJuggalo4 жыл бұрын
@b0realis bruh
@dango62664 жыл бұрын
That's the saddest part about the reality of Nuclear War. This is what they'd see. The men and women calmly giving out orders to obliterate nations, while they are safe in their hideouts.
@user-ie4tt1xp7j4 жыл бұрын
_serve your nation_ Stupidest shit ever. Going to kill some people you don't even fucking know because some rich guy in government told you so? That's something maniac-tier.
@TheHylianJuggalo4 жыл бұрын
@@user-ie4tt1xp7j you misunderstand the point of the phrase.
@redzgaming68804 жыл бұрын
@@TheHylianJuggalo I feel ya there man, I was attracted to the Halo games because my Grandfather served in Vietnam and I wanted to serve America just as he did, but I have terrible seasonal alergies and suffer from asperger's syndrome, so I'd never be eligible for military service, frankly, this game makes me glad I'm not eligible for military service.
@baraodocerroazul2 жыл бұрын
Whenever I feel happy and hopeful I come to listen to this.
@jamwither98475 жыл бұрын
0:00 fear 9:23 madness 19:11 loss
@capapofa2 жыл бұрын
thank you buddy but i am very sorry to break your hopes and dreams or all the stuff but its already on the video
@North_Bound2 жыл бұрын
@@capapofa don’t you love outdated comments
@xXE4GLEyEXx9 жыл бұрын
today i put the West against the East... just to see how it would play out... wow... this game manages to put you in a very sad mood with only a few stats popping up here and there... there are no winners in nuclear warfare
@coyote477138 жыл бұрын
+xXE4GLEyEXx The goal is not to win.... It is to lose the least....
@ferbthe2gadgetguy7 жыл бұрын
But what is the point? If you lose you'll get wiped out off the face of the Earth, win but you killed millions of people and you did on what they were supposed to do to you and with that resources are lost and the most important resource of all is human life and in a blink of an eye it's all gone. What is the point to play a game of tic tack toe with two experienced players knowing both will have enough knowledge on what the enemy will do?
@Texan.Insomniac6 жыл бұрын
A strange game... _The only winning move is not to play..._ ... How about a nice game of chess?
@liamnacinovich82323 жыл бұрын
@@ferbthe2gadgetguy maybe that is the point entropy is always moving to a state of disorder i.e. the opposite of our societies and complex world. Maybe it’s almost inevitable that we destroy ourselves with one final blast to end life for good and return the universe towards its unobserved march towards darkness.
@cringelord69906 ай бұрын
"Thousands of souls extinguished, by the push of a button" - Yuri
@computergreen30725 жыл бұрын
Imagine sitting in a silo and pressing the red button, later realising that everyone is probably obliterated or is dying from cancer.
@kallemort5 жыл бұрын
No need to worry for long, the silos will be the first targets to be hit
@slipperydoorknob21734 жыл бұрын
Imagine sitting in a nuclear sub, it launched a missile, and nearly an hour later your sub is hit and your on the other side of the sub. For a split second you wish the sub will be completely destroyed so you don't have to drown to death in pitch black darkness hearing rushing water, metal crumbling, and cries of agony.
@alt87914 жыл бұрын
@@slipperydoorknob2173 I mean, the subs are probably the safest place to be, given that they're super hard to spot
@eatingshrimps2 жыл бұрын
With the current events right now.... its been nice being with y'all
@battadia Жыл бұрын
We trolled too hard.
@Miliradian4 ай бұрын
Well guess what, its even more likely
@alextankian5 жыл бұрын
this is in my top 10 games of all time. It's so simple, yet so engaging. Introversion are an amazing company. I'll never forget the games that would last 6 hours, and the pacts made that were always ultimately broken. Playing this game when I was 12 years old is probably the reason for my nihilistic outlook on the world now
@liamnacinovich82323 жыл бұрын
I know who am I to tell you but you probably shouldn’t have a nihilistic world view. Even if it logically makes the most sense you have to stray away from it if you want to maintain a healthy sense of self worth. Just pick something that you consider important and stick with that.
@canadianturfsandwich12583 жыл бұрын
This is art and this is how I judge game value. The music is genius. It deepens one's melancholia and anxiety while depriving you of any dreams resulting in the striping of the soul overshadowed by the powerlessness of the ever impending doom.
@Asgardians3t3 жыл бұрын
ikr, i didnt know this game till a few months ago, and before i played DEFCON i actually played ICBM first, and then i found out about DEFCON, and honestly, DEFCON is better, it has the atmosphere and music, builds up tension, and makes the game more competitive by limiting how many units and buildings u have, while in ICBM u can rebuild anything that gets destroyed, the music is more action type and it just seems too relaxed, i prefer the dark and dreadful atmosphere of DEFCON
@nils1919 жыл бұрын
This game is extremely depressing.
@PhysiOSQuantum8 жыл бұрын
+angydj51 I don't feel bad about the cities I destroyed I feel bad about the cities I couldn't defend
@dieglhix8 жыл бұрын
+kummerk It is a game about who commit more genocide
@reverb2max8 жыл бұрын
+kummerk "The only way to win, is not to play."
@Mincecroft8 жыл бұрын
+kummerk so is it just me that laughs maniacally when a couple of nukes break through and destroy the entire east coast of America (north and south)
@nils1918 жыл бұрын
Boris Johnson Yes.
@partyparrot8495 Жыл бұрын
Hang on, I paused the video but I could still hear the music...
@meeoo7856 Жыл бұрын
oh no oh no no no
@loslingos1232 Жыл бұрын
This will happen soon.
@eldon87124 жыл бұрын
You don't win at defcon. You only lose last.
@danielmcgillis2703 жыл бұрын
The add on sound effects, a woman crying, a woman coughing, echoing feet walking down a hallway. The ominous AUUUNK!!! of the DECON clock counting down to DEFCON 1. Then the even more ominous AUUUNK AUUUNK AUUUNK AUUUNK AUUUNK of nukes being launched, the low rumbling sound of millions of people vaporizing. Such an incredible game. Very simple, very few bells or whistles. Just nuclear devastation then the cold scorecard at the end telling you who won. This game was bloody genius. Horrifying, but genius.
@guyb6665 Жыл бұрын
I want to make an escape room where the theme/timer is preventing imminent nuclear war. A dictator of a small fictional nuclear armed country has lost support from his people and has no intention of stepping down. The participants of the game are his closest cabinet/generals/whatever, who have also lost faith in him. An argument ensued immediately before the start of the game and the dictator has escaped to his panic room, where he is capable of launching the weapons from. The whole building is locked down and you've got to break into the panic room and murder the dictator before he's able to launch missiles from. I'll steal the soundtrack and game footage from Defcon to play on a projector screen when I do
@mr.h10835 жыл бұрын
I could only picture just being in a fallout shelter with this on a giant screen, watching in silence as humanity tears itself apart.
@simonepiselli10042 жыл бұрын
Playing this in 2022 feels different... Even more terrifying
@jag0to Жыл бұрын
"There are no winners in a war. There are only losers. At both sides. And those who live on, sometimes envying those who left. Because your body may remain intact, but your soul never. War spares no one. And leaves behind not winners, but ... survivors. Crushed. Crumpled. War is not the feats that are sung in songs. Not legendary heroes who are remembered forever, and not a beautiful dance with swords. It is fear, rot, emptiness and death. And victory is not a holiday, but a time when you can throw down your weapons and dismantle the ashes left in the place of flourishing cities. To clear the land from the remains of people, animals ... states. Trying to find and collect fragments of a former life, a peaceful life, and not being able to do it..." Ridge Gambit. - Evgenia Safonova
@LauftFafa Жыл бұрын
the hymn of our future . the song of a dying world .
@meeoo7856 Жыл бұрын
Your nickname suits the comment
@LauftFafa Жыл бұрын
@@meeoo7856 how ? Its just the name of warplane from ww2 Its like being called Usaf F22
@user-hr9mp8ek2r2 жыл бұрын
We're close...
@Can-Kashi8 жыл бұрын
Probably the most haunting game soundtrack especially along with seeing "X" City Hit - X Dead.
@kaijuking5971 Жыл бұрын
I now go to bed every night wondering if I'll live to see the light of tomorrow
@mathiash.13797 жыл бұрын
no other game can ever make us feel the madness of a nuklear, war like Defcon
@rektaldischarge74964 жыл бұрын
Defcon, the game where there are no winners, only those who lost slightly less.
@Haddley3335 жыл бұрын
I just discovered this game and I love it. The soundtrack and design...what a gem.
@danielharris78097 жыл бұрын
"How about a nice game of chess?"
@hornedgoddess81915 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile, in the real world: It's two minutes to midnight.
@onceuponaban4 жыл бұрын
Make that 100 seconds.
@user-dz7iz3lg6v2 жыл бұрын
2 seconds now
@user-fh3im9xe9u8 ай бұрын
Make that 90 seconds now. (Edit: I just want to say that this is the closest we've ever come to midnight in the history of the Clock.)
@mr.h10835 жыл бұрын
Such a simple game... Yet, the most realistic simulation of humanity’s darkest nature...
@statelyelms2 жыл бұрын
Horror games always lack that personal touch. That universal fear. But this.. this is like making the victim of domestic violence play the game of hiding from a spouse who wants to murder you. Only it's everyone. Everyone has a personal element in this because everyone is always under the threat of nuclear annihilation by human fallacy. There will never be a feeling of complete safety again.
@TheWanderer10000006 жыл бұрын
It's beautiful how the video halfway reversed everything. Like it never happened. Instead of nuking the world. You're saving it.
@keyb3 жыл бұрын
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas
@IrequireRocknRoll7 ай бұрын
This is slowly becoming a reality
@nothingbutnegativity74957 ай бұрын
I read 1984 along with this soundtrack, and it made the book even more depressing
@z3r0ko0L9 жыл бұрын
Imagine if a fullscale Nuclear war to happen in this day and age...
@howtogrease21819 жыл бұрын
Spooky
@Cobretsov20223 жыл бұрын
Conventional warfare will be the first result of modern warefare. After that the ICBMs. Then if the war is still raging on hot. The nukes.
@ajaxaceofaces3 жыл бұрын
@@Cobretsov2022 ICBMS carry nukes. The conflict would start conventional. Then there would be an exchange of tactical battlefield nuclear weapons. Perhaps a few short range salvos, all aimed at strictly military targets. But if things don’t temper down within a few hours, it’ll be an all out nuclear war killing well over a billion people in the first few hours. Even scarier is the idea of an accidental nuclear exchange. It’s almost happened already. One system glitch, one terrorist hacker, one rouge general, one misinterpretation of intel and the world ends. That is most likely what will happen.
@Cobretsov20223 жыл бұрын
@@ajaxaceofaces possibilities are endless for a nuke to go off. Rouge nuke compound disobeys the high command and launch’s a nuke. Therefor starting the third global war. But for the rouge general. I think it is a tad bit unrealistic. As a nuke order is a presidential order. No matter the nation even if he was rouge. Although there is still a possibility.
Goes great while watching the John Hopkins Coronavirus Map
@jlc56394 жыл бұрын
heheh :)
@loneneotank.5687 Жыл бұрын
You dont win, you just lose less.
@paultempleton85557 жыл бұрын
This soundtrack is definitely appropriate for this game...fits the mood well
@the-letter_s4 жыл бұрын
THERE IS NO HOPE UNDER THE BLACK SUN- wait wrong game
@puzzlepuddles67123 ай бұрын
what fascinates me is how we went from battles in plains with swords, to intercontinental front lines spanning thousands of kilometers. during the cuban missile crisis, kennedy and khruschev both thought of politics as a game of chess, only to realize later on that they were merely throwing dice with the amount of screw-ups that happened. october 27th 1962, nicknamed the "black saturday" is the single day the world came closest to nuclear annihilation with the US defense condition at DEFCON 2, the infamous doomsday clock could've nearly counted down to zero. the craziest part about this game is that the world map given to you is a featureless war room style map. you're hidden in a bunker, all the while not seeing what you're actually hitting in person. you get to see your country burn
@nicha1129 жыл бұрын
So fucking eerie.
@peterrobertson55594 жыл бұрын
A very intense game indeed. The soundtrack only adds to the game perfectly. Creepy and scary, it even seems to go into slow-mo play, making it sound very eerie.
@DREWVIX19927 жыл бұрын
After playing this game, I like to play Fallout to see the aftermath up close.
@nonuvurbeeznus7959 жыл бұрын
My reaction: :(
@youruncle97803 жыл бұрын
Also your profile pic
@loslingos1232 Жыл бұрын
True
@SadatEverything Жыл бұрын
"Map games are not scary"
@TakedaS1158 жыл бұрын
This game makes me cry.
@McuThar5 жыл бұрын
Why?
@kaloyandraganov94624 жыл бұрын
Then I guess you've been way too sheltered
@warhawk6384 жыл бұрын
You know, the game really becomes an absolute smash blast when you put energetic music to it.
@redzgaming68803 жыл бұрын
I always change the music when I play Speed Defcon, I dunno, Speed defcon just vibes different than normal defcon. Normal defcon is slower, depressing and suspenseful, and the music accompanying it fits all of those criteria, whereas speed defcon is faster and a lot more brutal, forcing you to make your decisions ASAFP instead of being nailbiting like normal Defcon. I like to play Speed Defcon to music like this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2OUdohmg9Khg7c
@keithburch85822 жыл бұрын
LMAO
@teoborges39493 жыл бұрын
"They said it's the end of the world... it happen's, none of us are prepared, none of us, known this could happen, we did everything we can to not let that happen, but it happens.... Year's of peace ended when the politicians cares about power, money and prestige, they ended the world with a single button, i don't care who started this button, what i care is to know i still alive, i lost my family, my friend's, my beautiful wife and my son in this world... i am alone with my daugther & son, i can not make them like how my wife did, all i know... is another bloody chapter of the world." **Notes of a Survivor unknown**
@AmariFukui2 жыл бұрын
This track is oddly comforting to me when I listen to it alone
@Fullmetalballsz4 күн бұрын
Same except for this part 2:45 that makes me sad
@PrincessUndertaker10 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this! :) the Defcon soundtrack is awesome!
@theinquisitor81123 жыл бұрын
As terrifying as this game is, a "modern" nuclear war wouldn't be nearly so apocalyptic in that it'd kill us all and destroy civilization entirely. We have far fewer nukes than we did in 1980 (some 17,000 total compared to 60,000+), and no modern nuke is gonna be dozens of megatons in strength. Most won't even go higher than "just" one megaton. It'd still be terrible, and the death toll would be much higher than WW2's highest estimates, but humanity and most modern nations would continue to exist and would likely recover in a couple decades. Take heart in the fact that if the missiles start flying, the world will go on no matter what.
@thomasvleminckx2 жыл бұрын
Congrats on being the only educated comment in this comment section.
@rayennouira76762 жыл бұрын
If anything wouldn't that make nuclear war more likely? The fact that we could recover. The reason why nuclear warfare has not happened yet is because of the idea of a mutually assured destruction. Without MAD, a nuclear warfare would just be another war, only difference are radiation and higher death counts. Therefore, this new amount would be far more deadly than the larger cold war amount since it can be used without causing an "apocalypse" while the cold war amount could never be employed due to MAD. After all, we will go on no matter what.
@loslingos1232 Жыл бұрын
This is true. It’s not like the movies. Yes, it will be obviously extremely dangerous but, countries will recover eventually. We won’t all die. I’m convinced some states in the USA will not even be touched by a nuke.
@user-fh3im9xe9u8 ай бұрын
@@rayennouira7676 Well, thing is, mutually assured destruction is still there. It's entirely possible that several superpowers have nuclear weapons ranging from 15-50 megatons stored away and are just saying they don't. And with today's technology, it's completely possible that there are 100 megaton bombs, or even 200 megaton bombs. After all, the Tsar Bomba was designed to be a 100 megaton nuclear weapon, but the people preparing it feared it so much they only half fueled it, and yet that was enough to be the largest nuclear detonation ever, also taking the title of the largest man made detonation to ever occur.
@theinquisitor81126 күн бұрын
@@rayennouira7676 Well, we as a SPECIES could recover - modern civilization could and would recover, eventually. But the US would not longer be a great power, nor would any nuclear state or their allies.
@Koronuru9 ай бұрын
What disturbs me like all we can see is just a digital screen of real time war but we would be always wondering what is actually going on in the actual war.
@nothingbutnegativity74952 ай бұрын
And what kind of chaos it would be on the streets with all the panic
@nadwislan18882 жыл бұрын
Now we are playing defcon irl
@loslingos1232 Жыл бұрын
DEFCON 1 soon
@coronavirus85893 жыл бұрын
there's something very relaxing to this music
@Kuuk99 Жыл бұрын
You a physcopath or something?
@T0m0zuki2 жыл бұрын
Is it appropriate to listen to that now?
@sukhoisu-24fencer34 жыл бұрын
"A strange game, The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"-Wargames.
@derubermanns12104 жыл бұрын
This music is so calming yet so chaotic
@campo202_6 Жыл бұрын
At 15:00 it’s extremely frightening. The deafening silence of the world after multiple Nuclear explosions sends chills down my spine. Deaths in the billions, globe enters a deep famine and nations torn apart. There’s nothing… nothing.
@Andrew_Bezryadin2 жыл бұрын
25.03.2022 defcon 3
@cyrolocker1229 Жыл бұрын
We do a little to much trolling
@rich_rich9011 ай бұрын
The music is actually genius. Disturbing but also relaxing & beautiful.
@tastyactual54912 жыл бұрын
Anyone else listening as Russia invades Ukraine? scary times. Scary times.
@allthenamesiwantedweretaken4 жыл бұрын
as someone with intense depression and existential nightmares, i regret ever discovering this game.
@alecmueller32994 жыл бұрын
15:30 Probably the best music in the game. Gloomy, and makes you think that's what may happen in the future if SHTF
@ForsakenOnYoutube6 жыл бұрын
Humanity is so beautiful...Yet so disgustingly destructive...
@NicCagetheDickMage10 жыл бұрын
defcon sequel when
@ehzade8 жыл бұрын
+Nic Cage the Dick Mage There can be no sequel after a Nuclear War..
@DjRHaro8 жыл бұрын
fallout :P
@KrinkelsNG6 жыл бұрын
Comment of the year, right here
@SrMaximus5 жыл бұрын
@@KrinkelsNG What are you doing here Mr. Krunks? :0
@ricko17474 жыл бұрын
@@DjRHaro Metro 2033
@howtogrease21819 жыл бұрын
Did anyone notice London getting hit 4 times in a row?
@VladiSSius5 жыл бұрын
someone really hates London XD
@imlethalangel4 жыл бұрын
the London bridge is falling down The London bridge is falling down The London bridge is falling down! THE LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN
@YataTheFifteenth3 жыл бұрын
"If we're going down, I want to make sure the Brits go down far, far, lower."
@themememachine83842 жыл бұрын
Damn bri ish
@lucaschiribao1697 Жыл бұрын
This is the Game that every World Power Leader has to play and think 2 times before unleashing Exterminatus