Ross's Game Dungeon: Veil of Darkness

[@theshoeburger]

Chuck's plane looks like an impression of a Douglas DC-2 or DC-3. Either way you're flying in the 1930s. No way it's after the Second World War if he's (presumably) American and flying over Romania. Also, it looks like he's flying without a headset on, which is insane. Making the instruments go crazy was a bad call from Dracula. So long as the magnetos keep chugging a DC-3 just simply never stops working. Chuck's gonna be flying by instruments, though, since it's dark outside, so maybe if Dracula kept up the effort Chuck would've crashed after five or ten minutes. Actually, kamikaze bats into the windscreen isn't such a good idea. So long as they don't shatter the glass and incapacitate Chuck, which they don't seem to do, then Chuck should be able to just keep on reading his instruments to navigate all the way to his destination without needing to look out of the window once. But that does also rely on having a navigator and a copilot to help zero in on non-directional beacons, and Chuck seems to be going solo, and without his headset on. It's all pretty weird. He's flying a big ship at night in a remote place without his headset on or any other crew. I think Chuck might actually be a plane jacker, or maybe he's gone AWOL from a military assignment in the Med, so he decided to gun it east in a stolen plane til sunrise. Either way, Chuck's not too smart.

[@Rehteal]

The idea that Chuck is out here because he's a plane jacker would make this entire story so much more interesting.

[@kungfuskull]

@@Rehteal it would explain the extremely casual attitude towards theft lol

[@Demiglitch]

Chuck has a bit of Indy in him. He’d definitely steal a plane.

[@purplefood1]

Plot twist: Chuck is a Soviet spy fleeing the NATO allies with top secret information via a stolen civilian plane

[@Sewblon]

@@purplefood1 That doesn't make any sense: NATO was founded in 1949. Like mramazingfuntime said, this takes place in the 30s. So the timing doesn't work out.

[@poiuytrewq11422]

Chuck is such a good name for this guy that I literally forgot that you chose his name.

[@Yusuke_Denton]

He's a real Chuck.

[@brunovega6479]

I was scouring the comments coz I felt that in my soul. I've watched this video several times and I genuinely forgot you can choose his name. Chuck just fits

[@Crowfist]

It's what Freeman calls his satchel charges, too.

[@elijahjarman2837]

​@@Crowfist "that has some subtlety to it"

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Ding.

[@dragonhunter4592]

"The Protagonist just loots him and moves on" "Outlander" Random idiot who just appears suddenly and becomes the hero of the land Is basically just fate's errand boy Sounds like a Bethesda game

[@genuineculter5640]

Don’t forget the highlighted words straight out of morrowind

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Can't forget about the weight limit.

[@Wolf_Larsen]

Wealth beyond measure, outlander.

[@MasterTankChief]

@@Wolf_Larsen Speak quickly, or go away

[@-ShiraZen-]

@@Wolf_Larsen Chase the bag. Never chase a dame.

[@MinecraftMartin]

FYI you CAN give the cup back to the barkeep! You just have to ask the monk to give the cup back after the resurrection. So Chuck is actually a swell guy if you want him to be! He apologizes and everything to the barkeep. This game has more nooks and crannies than I think we realize. I only just discovered this about the cup because of this video lol. BONUS tip: In the beginning the old guy asks you to ask Ivan for money. You get a whole sack of coins. You gotta be a little adventerous with the dialog system in this game. If you actually embrace it, it's pretty fun. Don't skim through dialog in this game.

[@MinecraftMartin]

Just finished the game a bit ago. Was a lot of fun playing again. About the holy water and vampire women, I was able to buy enough holy water to kill all the vampire women. I literally ran out of things to spend money on, and I still had a full sack of money. I also had a huge variety of herbs that I could sell for even more money. So don't worry about money guys.

[@Isaacfess]

Wow that's actually awesome! Nice to get some closure.

[@TheAzrael666death]

"This vampire had every trick in the book at his disposal, and it TOOK every trick in the book to bring him DOWN". For some reason, I love that sentence.

[@pentelegomenon1175]

It's also metaphorically accurate since they both got their tricks from an actual book.

[@nicefloweytheoverseer7632]

Lol

[@weneedaladder8384]

@@pentelegomenon1175 wouldn't that be literally accurate?

[@pentelegomenon1175]

@@weneedaladder8384 dammit

[@zigfaust]

@@weneedaladder8384 No, it would be littaturely accurate.

[@AlexIvanov]

Ross's GD videos have unlimited rewatchability potential. Not sure how, but I can re-watch them as many times as I want even despite knowing the content of each episode by heart.

[@lordfriedrick7911]

Ross said that his objective was making videos that are enjoiable evwen years after...

[@AlexIvanov]

@@lordfriedrick7911 and he managed to do that.

[@GODofTimewaste2]

I can't tell you how many nights I've slept listening to GD episodes

[@AlexIvanov]

@@GODofTimewaste2 same lol

[@DustWarden]

I just found this channel a couple of months ago and this is my second viewing of this video.

[@TheMaabusAdmiral]

Ah, a new game dungeon. Now things are starting to make sense. More later.

[@ВинниПух-х3о]

Please excuse me as I go spend time with my family.

[@ultiseth]

And that's the game!

[@kabob0077]

Admiral, I hope you've seen your wife and kid or kids.

[@planescaped]

You're doing gods work Admiral.

[@Demiglitch]

Thanks for the update Admiral.

[@cosmicguy21]

Doomguy's face pasted over Chuck's portrait when he gets cursed really got me. Good one, Ross.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

I couldn't stop laughing when he did that.

[@Dr.Oofers]

It’s such a minor detail but it gave me a good chuckle, good ol Ross.

[@lolzers7986]

the clips at 45:04 for anyone that wondered

[@greenfolder2437]

Chuck's psyche-profile says he kicks ass in ANY environment!

[@dmas7749]

i was wondering why chuck had iddqd eyes on the thumb

[@onikoneko]

"AW, PERFECT! ATTABOY CHUCK!" It's impossible to not smile at Ross's sheer enthusiasm and energy

[@nosferatu5]

I’m really impressed by the quality of the art in this game.

[@JayTohab]

34:31

[@TheEmeraldSword04]

this whole game is impressive, you can get lost on what you need to do a lot, but this game is pretty solid. There's no way this game was made without at least a little love and care.

[@derealized797]

I had this game way back in the 90s, and this was one of my favorites. I was only ever able to get so far though without a walkthrough. So it wasn't until I think around 2008 i found it again and beat it, which was just awesome to me after so long. Another favorite adventure game from this time was Amazon Guardians of Eden. Unlike other adventure games, they were very aware of how confusing they can be, and they made sure to consider that throughout the game. It was fun because i was always able to progress without months of pixel hunting or confusing BS.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

This game reminds me of Ravenloft. What with the adventurer left stranded in a land surrounded by mist and ruled by a vampire.

[@HankHill11]

"divine deeds done dirt cheap", Ross you never fail to entertain

[@Bluecho4]

Sounds like a Cleric that works as a mercenary. (So, basically, every DnD Cleric, given how parties tend to operate). Or maybe a Celestial Warlock or Divine Soul Sorcerer. Whatever, you have a character who has this divine power, and they use it to do favors for petty cash.

[@starkiller4987]

good jojoke

[@AniSky759]

Holy acts at a reasonable price.

[@arnantphongsatha7906]

I have taken the first sacramental wafer!

[@guilhermeadfl]

@@starkiller4987 Not all music references are Jojokes

[@SavageArms357]

Regarding MT-32 music at 19:16, fear not, Ross! It's actually fairly easy to emulate the MT-32 quite well, it's just that the MT-32 emulation that comes with Dosbox is awful. Instead, you'll need to use MUNT, which is an external MT-32 driver that just about perfectly emulates the real deal. You'll need to find an official MT-32 ROM file on the web, do a bit of setup for Dosbox to recognize it (or use a community build of Dosbox with support already baked in), and you're good to go! There are some good video tutorials on how to set it up here on KZbin.

[@FairyRat]

Awesome, thank you!

[@salottin]

And here I was, thinking that someone could give Ross a MT-32. Thanks for this, Sheriff! You'll save music with this!

[@tiaxanderson9725]

@@salottin I mean.. I don't know if I can just *give* him one.. It's my only one and quite a few games make use of it ^^'

[@ВинниПух-х3о]

@@tiaxanderson9725 A guy "just gave" him an Oculus Rift DK1, then another guy "just gave" him an Oculus Rift DK2, then came a whole gaming PC... not that I'm trying to guilt trip you but MT-32 doesn't sound really that valuable

[@salottin]

@@tiaxanderson9725 Nah... I meant that now that there are other ways for him to get it, there's no need to give him one

[@NeonUFO]

"so many problems in society can be traced back to vampires" finally someone said it.

[@Hellisfear]

Based and Ross-pilled

[@---ox1lg]

Based and cross-pilled

[@TheXell]

Well, they don't belong in this world.

[@TheBillywitchdoctor]

In 50 years we'll classify that as racism

[@minoxiothethird]

fucking red cross

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

I have to admit, that was one hell of a finisher. Chuck really came into his own as a vampire slayer.

[@tbone9474]

The average joe becoming bad ass

[@fangorn23]

Stake thru the heart and cuts the head off like a professional. Van Helsing couldnt ask for much more. he already hit it with holy water before

[@Thecommander248]

When in doubt, use overkill.

[@JamesTobiasStewart]

@@Thecommander248 Which is exactly what Van Helsing did when he took down his first vampire. He was still working out what worked, so he tried 3 methods at once, just to be safe.

[@GeorgeMonet]

But Chuck didn't become a vampire slayer. He has no preternatural talent or ability, nothing that makes him especially and uniquely qualified. So he remained a normal Joe the entire game. I would even say the same about Van Hellsing.

[@nellancaster]

Legends say that Seth is still waiting for Chuck to return his goblet to this day.

[@ericlarrieu-let5757]

He protecc He attacc But more importantly He never give the goblet bacc

[@TheGerkuman]

He shouldn't have stolen it from the Monestary in the first place

[@chaptap8376]

Hey hey people

[@rgstever]

Nice Avatar.

[@nellancaster]

@@rgstever Hey, likewise.

[@connordarvall8482]

This made me realise how vampires and clunky adventure games were made for each other. They both have extremely specific rules that would be impossible to think of unless you consult a book written by people who have systemically found every rule. I know it was done with a guide, but combining all the objects to beat the vampire was satisfying.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

This game feels like a hybrid of Ultima and Ravenloft.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

I like the mental image of Chuck blindly stumbling around Kairn's room knocking over stuff, while Kairn looks on with vague amusement and bemusement.

[@changvasejarik62]

Normally such amusement is a thing of hubris BUT… considering how kairn makes Rasputin look like a leper made of papier-mâché it’s less hubris and more not seeing the cloves of garlic for the amusing fool.

[@acomingextinction]

what about cmusement

[@themousemage]

​@@acomingextinctiondefinitely demusement.

[@TectonicImprov]

That vampire death scene was actually incredible

[@tommcewan7936]

Well, as Ross points out in the video, they're kinda supposed to be! If you're doing a vampire piece and you don't get THAT scene right... it'd be about as bad as doing a werewolf flick and having a lame transformation scene that barely even looks painful or terribly inconvenient, let alone where there's a horrific loss of humanity as a person devolves into a savage beast (the werewolf scene in this very game, for example, actually looks pretty perfunctory and kind of a let-down), or doing a Frankenstein flick and having the mad scientist *not* completely lose his shit upon realising he is the first mortal to successfully create life (although I suppose you could, with extreme care, put a neat twist on it if you went to the other extreme and the mad scientist were totally, creepily dispassionate about it...). Really, I think pretty much every "genre movie" (and definitely every exploitation movie) typically has one*, pivotal scene that, deep down in the bone, every cinema audience member knows, "THIS is what you bought your ticket to see." And every director worth his or her salt knows, during production, "we HAVE to have this, or it Just Won't Work." Some are easier to spot than others; finally beholding the queen in Aliens, for example, or the first visit to the Harkonnen home-world in David Lynch's Dune. Others are more subtle; in the original Alien, apparently it is generally held to be the infamously over-budget "space jockey" setpiece. *Sometimes several, but usually the others seem to be secondary to The Big One; sometimes they're even feints to throw the audience off-track.

[@poiuytrewq11422]

@@tommcewan7936 I think the Hammer Frankenstien films were pretty good with the whole "I'm doing this for science, not for personal reasons" angle.

[@Shogunelite]

I just love how Ross was cheering on Chuck like "GO MAN GO! OOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

[@t.adamcollins2162]

@@tommcewan7936 As that dude was obviously pointing out, games from that era usually didn't have such well done ending screens. Even Doom's is terrible.

[@Spookyhoobster]

I think that whole sequence, while a little basic, is one of the best ending sequences in an RPG I've seen. Most RPGs make the final confrontation a pretty standard "fight", it might be hard but it's nothing really different from what you're doing throughout the whole game. They really captured the feeling of "I outsmarted a god" considering the limitations at the time.

[@planescaped]

I wonder if there were unique death cutscenes for every single step of the Kairn "fight", as the prophecy says 'fail at any step and you will die' At least Ross showed us the pimp slap.

[@Ryu1ify]

There better at least be a unique one for if you forget to nail the coffin shut, considering how much of a fuss the game throws about how important that step is

[@snookers5123]

"I'm a random crazy person. Wanna buy teeth off me?" "Sure."

[@planescaped]

@Maintenance Renegade I suppose I could make a voodoo doll out of these... Haven't caused harm to any strangers this week.

[@drfathertime]

@@planescaped yet

[@greenfolder2437]

Gordon probably would have assumed "teeth" was slang for drugs.

[@lepidotos]

@@greenfolder2437 He'd have then passed them on to Eddie.

[@Nihilvale]

2:53 "Oh, and I apologize if the music is getting on your nerves [...]" **turns up sound, completely unaware that there was music at all**

[@Blisterdude123]

I've literally just noticed 'Chuck's' healthbar is how much of his body becomes a skeleton in the little coffin. That's neat.

[@stevethepocket]

_Ahoy_ calls these types of health meters "chickenometers", and this is definitely one of the better ones I've seen. Works both thematically and as a real linear meter, rather than needing a supplementary number to make sense of it like in _Doom._

[@InternetHydra]

I vaguely remember an old ass Spider-Man game that did that, like I played the original Oregon Trail on the same computer old.

[@-snek.]

"As I promised you, look within my pages and there you shall see his true name. When, at last, you two meet, speak it to him and watch him cringe." Sometimes I forget that cringe is a real word and not just internet slang for secondhand embarrassment.

[@tximistarissole]

Thought of that too lmao Wonder if someone is going to meme that

[@roadent217]

And his true name is... xXxWerewolfFursona69xXx

[@SPTX.]

It bears the same meaning in both cases though.

[@cube_incinerator426]

@@roadent217 "NOOOOO, MY OLD DEVIANTART!!! OH GOD, THE CRINGE"

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

Recoil is probably better suited to express it anyways.

[@SabbyNeko]

Wow, I really love this boss fight at the end. Just a preflight checklist of a dressing down, like if Dracula had twelve armor bars under his health bar and they were all different colours and you had to tear through them in the order of appearance, but once they're gone, the fuckers only got 1HP. Fucking beautiful.

[@adenowirus]

Guy's like Rasputin.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

Yeah man, THAT is how you deal with an Elder Vampire.

[@tommcewan7936]

Foreplay can make such a difference.

[@Extramrdo]

Not to Homestuck it up in here, but Problem Sleuth really did an amazing job with making health bars feel monumental and imposing.

[@AMacLeod426]

Good pilots like Chuck are no stranger to checklists.

[@MinecraftMartin]

I think beating this at 12 years old in the mid 90s might actually be one of my greatest accomplishment. It took months and a few ragequits if I recall. The ending scene made everything worth it though. Incredible ending.

[@thenoblepoptart]

Damn, I couldn’t even beat portal 1 when i was that age. What a gamer

[@clyax113]

How’s you figure out some of the parts the game didn’t tell you about like typing in “bullets” for the gun?

[@MinecraftMartin]

@@clyax113 Just logic, and reading other dialog. You got a gun but no bullets, its not a big leap to consider typing in "bullets" with certain npcs. Amd you know you need a silver bullet to kill the werewolf, I think another NPC even mentions it. So there's a silver smith in the game, you know you need silver bullets ... just put two and two together. What Ross doesn't show in the video is that there IS mention of these hints. Like asking for a light, so you can ignite the lantern. The guy who gives you the light tells you it doesn't make sense to give you a light because matches are rare and you don't even have a pipe to use it with. So the game is telling you to find a pipe. I might be mixing up some details, but it's definitely all in the game. You just have to pay attention to the hints from talking to everyone. It's pretty fun if you like that sort of puzzle

[@clyax113]

@@MinecraftMartin Oh. Well that makes sense then. I'm glad you were able to have fun figuring it out.

[@dirtfriend]

@@MinecraftMartin oh my god so _thats_ why you need the pipe. after years of rewatching this video it finally all makes sense.

[@RaymanRocks822]

I like that over the course of this episode Ross starts appreciating Chuck more and more. Because it was the same for me. He's up there with ol' Sammy G for Game Dungeon protagonists.

[@PosthumanHeresy]

Chuck even looks and acts a bit like a Gordon. Ahh screw it, he's a Gordon now. Chuck Gordon.

[@Mobysimo]

@@PosthumanHeresy He is the greatest of the Gordons.

[@Sierra026]

Chuck KNOWS what it means to be a Gordon

[@dotanuki3371]

chuck walkes into an elder vampire's home equipped with nothing but a bunch of old wives' tales and still has the nerve to talk smack. gotta respect the chutzpah

[@notinspectorgadget]

@@dotanuki3371 hey, give the guy some credit. Chuck also has a winning smile and a snazzy blazer.

[@itaybron]

i thought the parsley line was a quirky joke or something but apparently there's an historic association between it and the devil

[@gazebohunter6680]

35:00 “only murderers grow parsley!” *looks at parsley growing garden* They’re on to me.

[@igorthelight]

:-)

[@Rorschach003]

It’s okay. We’re all brothers in the dungeon. We’ll help you hide the bodies

[@Soridan]

@@Rorschach003 hiding the bodies is exactly what the parsley patch is for!

[@rihardsrozans6920]

I grow parsley because it's delicious. I only murder people because it's fun.

[@planescaped]

@@rihardsrozans6920 Man's gotta eat...

[@onikoneko]

4 years on and this is still one of my most watched comfort-videos. Way to go Ross, you *nailed* the replayability factor with this one.

[@DudeMcAwesome]

This video has become a lullaby to me. I can start it up at any point and be blissfully asleep in minutes. Sadly I have to be wide awake to enjoy the full video anymore.

[@Producadv]

The darkness and 50’s horror 90’s computer adventure game really is the perfect comfy cocktail

[@isenokami7810]

Ross’s voice is somehow so engaging when awake and perfect to fall asleep to at the same time. Perfect for people like me with a spare brain channel I need to fill with background noise a lot of the time. Especially since that channel’s still paying attention.

[@LoogyHead]

Anyone else just think this is the most replayable Game Dungeon? I sure do, so does the algorithm. Every few months or so I just turn this on when I’m doing chores or things that don’t require too much thought and just listen to Ross explaining this complicated and engaging game. I’d hate to play this at the time but this is just so digestible.

[@zivzulander]

Despite Ross's misgivings, prophecy-o-meters are a sign of quality content 🧛‍♂️😁

[@eaglesblades]

Very well could be a DC-3 in flight (or modeled off of it) - 193-4X.

[@francistheodorecatte]

I mean, there's still a couple hundred DC-3's still flying...

[@R33Racer]

Agreed. They were in service from 1936 and are still in service today!

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

yeah it got the DC-3 look over it.

[@eendikschaap7547]

It's not a DC-3. The shape of the wing doesn't fit and they are too far back. Looks more like a Martin 202 or 404, except for the teardrop shapped fuselage. I don't think anybody would casually fly over Romania during WW2 and the 202 was introduced in 1947, so that would check out. The different fuselage shape might be an artistic choice to avoid straight lines. Of course there were much more aircraft manufacturers around back then, so it could be yet another airplane. It just strongly reminds me of Martin aircrafts and I'm not too far off.

[@BurgerFred1]

I'm just wondering why Chuck doesn't seem to be concerned about the loss of his $1.9m liner

[@blackidna]

This is definitely my favorite Game Dungeon. The tirade on yo-yo kid, the reactions to the game mechanics and plot, the vampire's laughter. And the ones that get me all the time: "Hi, my name is Chuck!" *ding* "Hark! Is the call of AdLib!" "Is Chuck really prophecy material? [...] I don't know, you're gonna need more than a chipper attitude." "You may think you're a big man on campus now that you have a pitchfork, Chuck, but you really have your work cut out for you."

[@MinecraftMartin]

This has become one of my favorite videos on KZbin. Grew up on the game and discovering this commentary on the game really hits the spot.

[@notinspectorgadget]

30:35 Him putting the game on time-out so he can get all of these vague, unintuitive, convoluted side quests straight is in the running for my favorite Game Dungeon reactions.

[@notinspectorgadget]

"Heyy, everything okay in here? Getting ready for bed, huh? I've done that before..."

[@A_Player]

"So you're a pilot flying over Romania." As a Romanian, I'm sold already.

[@ilovesmosh2012]

I can already feel my pocket being violated as I write this comment.

[@A_Player]

T-POSE CASINO LUIGI BOTTOM TEXT

[@LaverniusTucker2410]

Is there a joke about Romania I'm missing here?

[@ilovesmosh2012]

@@LaverniusTucker2410 It's full of thieves.

[@planescaped]

Walla walla Wallachia! Yes I know it's prounced vlach-kia

[@roadent217]

Damn. That was one of the most badass endings in videogames ever. Chuck really went all out to defeat this vampire.

[@daniladenis4899]

56 minutes? You're spoiling us, Ross. Thank you!

[@josephjames9090]

Yeah the only thing i enjoy more than a new game dungeon is a long new game dungeon

[@LSSTmusic]

@@josephjames9090 How about TWO long new game dungeons!

[@drizzletegu]

Every time a Game Dungeon comes out I stop what I'm doing, sit down, get comfy and watch from beginning to end.

[@MeowAbout]

My 10 year old son and I quote this video to each other constantly. It's our favorite.

[@Isaacfess]

That's so adorable!

[@mrsubject1]

Now you're going to go back to making candles and youre GONNA LIKE IT!!

[@Brunosky_Inc]

I hope your son is called Chuck, so you can go all *ATTABOY, CHUCK!*

[@maxhill7065]

"Oh god, a ghost hit me and I aged 40 years" was the funniest thing I've heard all week

[@Ozymandias2x]

49:10 Ross's vampire laugh, paired with the animation, gives me life.

[@ColonelEviscerator]

Plane looks to be a DC-3. First produced in the 1930s, but that doesn't narrow it down much since it's still in use. Good design.

[@MotherChucker-k4o]

ColonelEviscerator I was going to say that lol. You’ve got about a 90 year window with DC-3s

[@eendikschaap7547]

Nope ... wrong wing shape and position. Martin 202 or 404 is a closer match

[@dirtfriend]

@@eendikschaap7547 planes are the same

[@TheEmeraldSword04]

@@dirtfriend that's like saying guns are the same when they're not, the Glock series is black, square, and tightly engineered, while the M1911 is heavy, dark silver, thin, and packs a punch. people that know nothing about guns will glance at the two and think it's the exact same pistol.

[@Bacony_Cakes]

@@dirtfriend nope

[@RaymanRocks822]

"Welcome to the Halloween episode." A sentence I have been waiting for all month.

[@ShogunMongol]

All month?! More like all YEAR for me!

[@planescaped]

@@ShogunMongol I've been waiting 16 months for this...

[@UpToSpeedOnJaguar]

Veil of darkness has a strong D&D: Ravenloft background and setup.

[@dylancarpenter5986]

Oddly enough right after they made this game they made an actual Ravenloft game. They might have been in development at the same time? This game came out in 1993 and Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession was in 1994. I'm not sure how quick these games dev cycles where but i expect there was overlap.

[@bioticninja2170]

It kind of reminds me of how one studio made a game that TOTALLY wasn’t Warhammer 40,000 (E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy), then went on to make an ACTUAL 40K game (Deathwing)

[@DonCarmolo]

I'm currently playing the 5e version, "Curse of Stradh". It's pretty much the same setting and plot.

[@UpToSpeedOnJaguar]

Dylan Carpenter 1983 was the first year a ravenloft setting released, while the campaign setting I own released in 1990. I’m thinking the devs had a strong liking for the setting.

[@SpecShadow]

@@bioticninja2170 Streum On? Good catch, their games are amazing, EYE is.... weird. but shooting is better than most shooters provide in the last decade with wet farts.

[@UnitSe7en]

"You equip the weapon in your hand, then you thrust and have a cooldown." Yeah, sounds about right.

[@Thoray]

"cutting off the head is the one thing that almost always holds true. that covers 99% of all vampire problems" DIO is the 1%

[@johnnywins7031]

That checks out.

[@danieladamczyk4024]

Cuting that head was the surce of the problem.

[@badflamer]

also alucard. Anime seems t like giving their vampires a little extra

[@adenowirus]

I vaguely remember a work of fiction where a vampire was basically an eldritch abomination and attempting to kill it would usually only make things worse. Unfortunately I can't recall what it was.

[@chillhour6155]

Funny how many more weaknesses vampires have on almost any other living beings

[@theintellectualrabbit6828]

"Divine deeds done dirt cheap!" Sounds like a store that I need to visit.

[@Magitek1112]

Divine Acts At A Reasonable Price.

[@greenfolder2437]

You can find it right next to Grenadier Gordon's Grenade Emporium.

[@Tony_Goat]

_sniff sniff sniff_ *I smell Jojo!*

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

@@Tony_Goat you mean you smell classic rock?

[@Morec0]

@@Magitek1112 Holy Acts At A Reasonable Price*

[@MrChuckTestificate]

I love how you swapped doom guys face onto the protagonist portrait when you got cursed. It's the little touches like that make me love this channel

[@JediEdi]

This game actually has some pretty innovative mechanics, like how you type in what you want to say to people (albeit it being cryptic at times about what you need to say), the way you dual wield not only weapons, but items as well to perform certain tasks, and the "prophecy meter" is good at telling the player, whether they are actually doing progress. This game was ahead of its time, even though it had its fair share of the usual bullshit present in other games of the same era.

[@pavlotverdokhlib7627]

Typing stuff in was an old CRPG trope. Ultima games have been doing it since the 80s. Dual-wielding items to combine them is pretty cool concept. SSI had a bunch of their old games hit GOG recently. Hoping this one makes it as well.

[@private2132]

that prophecy meter, despite being made fun of here, is a great idea to hide the quest log.

[@JediEdi]

@@private2132 Yeah. Usually having a quest log and stuff like that rips you out of the game and makes you focus more on the UI, but less on the game.

[@derealized797]

I had this game back in 94, and i loved it back then. My parents didn't care much for video games so i was mostly on my own getting them. So being like 14, in a small suburban town. It was either get copies of games from friends or try my luck with bargain bins at radio shack. Anyway this is one of the games i found, and i didn't have much to go on other than the box, i just knew i liked adventure games. It turned out to be somewhat of a favorite. The other game i found, which i really liked. Was Amazon Guardians of Eden. It stood out from the others because they had hints and made sure you were able to get through the game. Because without internet or walkthroughs you always got stuck. And with Veil of Darkness, i didn't actually beat the game until around 2006 or 07. I found it, redownloaded it, and finally saw the end.

[@MinecraftMartin]

@@derealized797 Never seen someone with as-similar of a childhood as you. I didn't have my own console until about 1995. Until then I was playing whatever I could get my hands on that would install on my mom's computer. Honestly the bargain baskets with obscure PC games were a lot of fun to rummage through. I got Veil of Darkness for five dollars at ... Home Depot? Was some kind of store like that, I remeember they had no business selling PC games, so this big bin of cheap PC games was very out of place. There's a few other games I got from there, but I can't for the life of me remember what they were called. Veil of Darkness was probably the best find out of those few years of rummaging. After I got an SNES and then PS1, kind of slowed down on PC gaming for better or worse. Anyway yeah getting through this game without internet guides as a 11 - 12 year old ... it took me a very long time to crawl my way to the end. Did beat it though eventually. One of the best endings in a game to date, personally.

[@JizzburnGigaqueer]

That sequence of vampire slaying at the end is so fucking incredible, oh my god.

[@TheSquizzlet]

This is probably one of my favorite episodes. it's just so incredibly cozy. I feel like I could spend hours and hours on this game wandering in circles trying to figure things out and just lose myself in the atmosphere.

[@iamthechanceman]

Ross's Game Dungeon is my favorite Halloween tradition

[@paulandreotti1639]

FINALLY! I'm not an addict.

[@kenshy10]

BUT I AM! :D

[@KingLich451]

MORE ROSSSS!!! ALL HAILL!! ALL HAIL!!!! me neither :p

[@rtji0]

i'm not ashamed to admit it

[@Mekaniac]

Hi, I’m anon and I’m hooked on weird videos starring a hairy expat dude who lives in Poland.

[@patrickbastos1267]

I watched all Game Dungeons more than I'm willing to admit.

[@bloodrunsclear]

Always a good sign when the HUD has a picture of the hero...IN A COFFIN

[@stardust6984]

You know, when you think about it, Chuck spend the whole game fighting hordes of demonic, ghostly and undead nightmares, so it makes sense to see him pull those kind of moves to finish Karin in the final battle, he has tons of legit evil-fighting experience, even if he doesn't look like it

[@kungfuskull]

We do never find out why he was flying over that area in the first place: maybe he had just come back from a Wolfenstein-like mission? 🤷‍♂️

[@hershloodu8925]

@@kungfuskullWe have a new concept for veil of darkness 2

[@MythlyInari]

That kill at the end with the build up and all the steps felt intense, and sooo worth the payoff with you voicing it. I love it.

[@HLRaven]

Ross's Game Dungeon, Freeman's mind and literally every other series All of them soo good!

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Ross is a gold mine of entertaining content.

[@FilmsNerf2]

Ross could make ANYTHING sound interesting. I love the man's voice.

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

@@FilmsNerf2 It's more how he actually works and researches the topics he talks about. I didn't expect him to give voices to each character, for example, but he did it and it was just the right amount of dumb to fit along with his serious take on how the vampire is a powerhouse here instead of a paper villain for the hero to tear up.

[@FilmsNerf2]

@@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180 He's not one of my favorite content creators for nothing. I don't care if I have to wait a few months for an upload, the wait is totally worth the quality.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

I don't care what anyone says, Moon Gaming was Lit!

[@Palmieres]

I have a pizza in the oven, my feet are up and there's a one hour long Game Dungeon video in my notifications. Nice.

[@admiraltonydawning3847]

RIP pizza.

[@Palmieres]

@@admiraltonydawning3847 It died a good, honorable death.

[@shortpotato26]

I got all cozy feelin' just reading that 👍

[@malonemalo]

Ross's Game Dungeon appears in my feed. It's more than 30 minutes... IT'S ACTUALLY ALMOST AN HOUR! You made my night, sir!

[@michaelbuehler3897]

2:19 Dracula does not tolerate incursions into his air space.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

well the historical Vlad the Impaler got that epitaph due how seriously he took defending his nation's borders, if aircraft had existed back then I'm sure he would have treated any who did not have his personal permission to fly over his lands with the utmost predigest.

[@Kasigil0]

@Maintenance Renegade yeah what you miss off screen to the left is draculas radio equipment where he waits with bated breath for budding aeronautical enthusiasts to make contact

[@patchwurk6652]

@@Kasigil0 I could see that. I mean Vlad's been around for centuries, seeing the progression of technology (or lack thereof, depending on exactly how strict he is about outsiders). Planes would probably be the coolest thing he's ever seen.

[@enfisu586]

I come back to watch this periodically just for the ending segment. Everything about it is just pitch perfect.

[@huismands]

Ross, your Peter Lorre impression is on friggin point man. Hats off!

[@roadent217]

Gave me flashbacks to Strife.

[@rattles8789]

You keep feeding my addiction with these Game Dungeon uploads, Ross.

[@Beriorn]

Special shoutouts to the Runescape damage notifications getting work in this game before Runescape became a thing.

[@gostchiken]

For some reason the algorithm keeps recommending this to me late in the evenings, so for about the last week or so I've been falling asleep to the adventures of Chuck; hasn't affected my dreams yet but we'll see.

[@Qwerbey]

55:13 "So many problems in society can be traced back to vampires[.]" - Karl Marx, 1848

[@orthochronicity6428]

I know a Brit who studies the classics who was actually just opining that the European vampire genre exists as a story of class conflict: so much of European history is the rich, either in feudal or capitalistic Europe, destroying the lives of the peasants for their own power... This was given following a find of some ca 1900 socialist propaganda cartoons depicting capitalism as a vampire. No idea if he's even halfway correct about this, but I can't stop thinking about it, wonder if you're joke quote is way more correct than we suspect, and that Karl Marx as a vampire slayer needs to be a thing.

[@fus132]

@@dorklymorkly3290 Doesn't make him look any better, but to be precise, he was a self-hating jew. As he wrote: "The jew only knows one god, and what god is money..." and so on.

[@PredatoryQQmber]

@@fus132 Is "Self-hating" your label for NOT being an indoctrinated jingoist or something ? Kind of like propagating obscurantism as virtue and harassing non-conformant minorities is "protecting traditional values" ? And he, as any reformist, never needed to "look better", he needed to be right.

[@biscuithammer00]

Holy shit what is with this comment section and jews?

[@fus132]

@@PredatoryQQmber I am not debating with anti-semites, sorry.

[@voidmayonnaise]

“Then you thrust, and have a cool-down.” It’s called a refractory period.

[@PangolinMontanari]

The prophecometer seems like a decent idea for a hint system, even if prophecies are a lame narrative convention.

[@JayTohab]

Broke: a new quest has been added to your quest log! Woke: _A Prophecy has Awakened_

[@lurksnitchtongue8986]

Prophecies are only lame if they're written by hacks. GRRM does prophecy well because he deconstructs the entire notion of them with his "What is the point of visions if you can't change the future" conversation.

[@valletas]

@@lurksnitchtongue8986 i dunno i feel thats also so lame I have yet to see a prophecy story done well

[@lurksnitchtongue8986]

@@valletas Have you read what's been released in ASoIaF? Because it's anything but lame

[@valletas]

@@lurksnitchtongue8986 im talking about the trope itself not the story

[@SystemDryfter]

That "Avatar" jab made me legitimately laugh out loud. Thank you for that!

[@stylesrj]

Don't people say that the arrows worked later on because they were hitting them from above at a much higher speed than quick shots from the ground?

[@SystemDryfter]

@@stylesrj I'll be honest, I saw that movie once, in theaters, so you are probably 100% right. However having that explanation makes a little more action scholcky because they have to fly on the backs of birds to shoot through the windows of the future tech high grade interstellar military helicopters. I love it to be honest. No sarcasm. Legit.

[@stylesrj]

@@SystemDryfter Ehh I only saw the movie once as well. I just read the explanations people gave as to how it worked and I was like "Sure... I guess"

[@thatdude3938]

@@stylesrj There is no way an arrow could penetrate an armoured vehicle glass. It's just lazy writing. See "battle of Endor" from SW for more adequate "tribal vs modern" fight

[@stylesrj]

@@thatdude3938 We are talking people the twice your size wielding longbows, riding on nosediving animals at high speed, lobbing kinetic missiles at your cockpit... The movie could have explained it better though like the hero guy says "Alright, so those aircraft are reinforced against your attacks... so we're going to strike from above at high speed. You over there fletching the bows! Put the special metal tips we've been working on earlier off camera! Now if we strike just about right, it should break the glass! Now aim carefully as you need to hit the pilot in the head..." BAM, issue solved, right? :D

[@MadGameBoy]

I have an infection in my mouth where every waking moment I'm in pain, so I'm filled to the brim with meds to make me sleep, but God damn it, after falling asleep four times half way through, I finally stayed awake long enough to fully enjoy your video...

[@marcellofunhouse1234]

Hope your doing better

[@moserfugger6363]

I can't really explain it, but I absolutely love the art style of this game. Would have been great if there were more games looking like this. Maybe with a slightly higher resolution and screen size, but everything else is just beautiful, especially the cut scenes, location design and character drawings. Greetings from Germany! :-)

[@bahshas]

it is very well made

[@obi-wankeknobi8413]

Well , the names were pretty spot on for Romania. But we barely have an sinkholes around here. The only major holes are in the roads

[@adenowirus]

This reminds me, in Poland people used to joke that when you're driving on a hole you need to be careful not to hit a road. It got a little better over time.

[@obi-wankeknobi8413]

@@adenowirus Ahh that's a classic one

[@KommissarBanx]

>Up 2 minutes and already hundreds of views Absolutely beautiful, also Ross kinda slipped into Ren Hoek when he was doing the bartending voice and I lost it

[@hobbified]

Ren's voice is, per the creator, "a bad imitation of Peter Lorre", which is a pretty fair description of what Ross is giving us :)

[@handsomebrick]

@@hobbified I was gonna say, I wonder how many people will mistake that Peter Lorre voice for Ren Hoek (much like Edward G. Robinson impressions get confused with Chief Wiggum's, and so on).

[@ratheonhudson3311]

"I don't care about candles!" "shut up kid, my names Chuck" *ting

[@Sparrow-VA]

The talking chair bit at 17:56 absolutely killed me 😂 it feels so much like my girlfriend's dad's kind of humor, right down to the voice and it just caught me so off-guard lmfao

[@lukeemberson4951]

Honestly, this one of the better old games you've played. I'm so glad you played through this so I can enjoy the story! You are right, it does vampires extremely well! Thanks for another awesome game dungeon!

[@ChocorocK]

"The minstrel has been murdered!" Well its fine, he wasn't someone useful. He was basically just a bard.

[@joshuahopkins8747]

Hey, I'll take a bard over disgraceful, lying, pumpkin bomb-less farmers!

[@PregnantOrc]

And there was much rejoicing.

[@greenfolder2437]

// Dwarf Warrior: "GET THE HELL OUT OF MY TOWN!!"

[@slavkei]

"So it;'s off to Karin's fortress" I did not notice until JUST NOW that you replaced Chuck's portrait with the Doom Guy's portrait for this segment. Fuckin' brilliant. You put so much love into these videos, man, it's awesome.

[@SheaM_DVE]

*cracks beer* *sits down in old man rocking chair* *starts rocking with a big ol' smile*

[@TheMrTangamandapio]

COACO vibes, all around

[@Lt.Commander_Data]

Christ, you literally described just what I did when I saw Ross uploaded another GD. Only replace beer with a ham and turkey sandwich. Time to get comfy boys

[@SheaM_DVE]

Honestly I lied It's a glider, all the comfort with less effort!

[@RexcorJ]

For me, it's almost 2 A.M., I'm in bed motionless getting this video ready. I feel dead tired after a few hours at my job followed by house cleaning, but I can't fall asleep until I satiate my want to watch the latest GD. For the hour, everything feels just right.

[@cougar2k720]

Meanwhile, Ross working on next episode and eating nothing but slightly more expensive brand of beans and avoid sugar all together, lol

[@ince55ant]

so weird they would program the whole "there is nothing behind this door" tutorial message and mechanic, rather than you know... just not put a door there

[@JayTohab]

“This door is decor.”

[@DutchBlackMantha]

It's the old choice between only stuff existing the you need and spending four times as much development time. This way it actually looks like a large mansion, corridors of blank walls would look odd.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

I've seen the concept done better; Blade Of Agony is a Wolfenstein fangame where doors you cannot open or interact with are always of a particular design, typical interior wooden doors which you can open are a brown color, and their inert counterparts are gray, and are placed only for realistic detail. Might suck for colorblind players though, and I know a few.

[@JayTohab]

@uNnHkP8mza You win. I don't know what, but you win.

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

As someone whose designing a game, I can't decide if that's breaking immersion, or a good feature to have.

[@Archangelm127]

"Hark! It's the call of Adlib!" I just about died.

[@RomanBraixen]

Ross scared me the other month when he said he was taking a break from game dungeon. Glad we got one for Halloween!

[@justwindflow4083]

Ross ,I think the plane is a DC-3 ,atleast looks that way. And you're were spot on for the year (around 1930s-40s)

[@qtheplatypus]

Just WindFlow agreed it looks like a dc3 to me as well.

[@KamiKaZantA]

To be fair, there are still DC-3s flying around in commercial use here and there in the world, so it could be anytime from the 30s to the 90s.

[@medicindisquise4271]

Refrigerators started being mass-produced in 1918, so Veil of Darkness is actually perfectly reasonable in terms of technology as well.

[@Raterheim]

weren't those famous for being in commercial use up until the seventies or so?

[@ElijahDarts]

@@Raterheim There's still some flying in very austere conditions, which is perfect for isolated little villages to happen.

[@KillerFox9000]

For those who don't know: that song from Metroid is called Brinstar Underground Depths

[@JakTheLombax]

BJ! WE NEED YOU DEFENDING US WITH THE MT-32!

[@greenfolder2437]

"RAMIREZ! GET TO THE BURGER TOWN!!"

[@themousemage]

Actually made me laugh out loud 😆 thank you for this!

[@kahlilbee-ameegie]

In the end, Chuck was a perfect name for the protag

[@MeowAbout]

P.S. Last night we learned something: you CAN return the goblet to the barkeep: Talk to the monk, type "cup" or "goblet". He will get mad, then compose himself after a little chat, and say you can have it back after another donation of 3 silver. We did that, and gave the cup back to the barkeep. We'll see if this screws us later.

[@Isaacfess]

Awesome find!

[@JamesTobiasStewart]

Please can you confirm, did it screw you or does the game let Chuck keep his word?

[@themousemage]

Another commenter said it turns out fine.

[@tba113]

Don't feel too bad about not returning the goblet to Seth. I mean, it turned out to be a holy relic that had just recently gone missing from the monastery where it had been kept for ages, and it just sort of... turned up in the personal collection of an inkeeper/bartender who sees his guests getting randomly murdered by supernatural monsters as no big deal. Yeah, nothing suspicious there, I'm totally sure Seth came by the goblet honestly, and he absolutely doesn't have a basement full of dead monks who turned up looking for it. Leaving the goblet at the monastery is probably for the best.

[@Pyro-Moloch]

Another masterpiece video, that I'm gonna be rewatching for years to come

[@freXampl]

"My name's Chuck." *smiles like a psychopath*

[@Crowley9]

Regarding the pipe: You ask the bartender for a light (to get a match for your lamp), he notes you don't even have anything to smoke. You can make the logical leap and ask the shopkeeper for a pipe, and he says he doesn't have any, but he's sold some to your host previously. So you can learn this stuff yourself.

[@clochard4074]

"Ah, the fight is easy" he said, before being mauled by ghosts.

[@adenowirus]

From the footage they seem to go down pretty easily. It's just that they age Chuck if they do manage to get a hit in.

[@chrisg3193]

17:18 Ross’ acting range is so convincing I thought I was overhearing a talking tree about to be set ablaze 😭

[@TheBluePretender]

“Cutting off the head is the one thing that almost always holds true. That covers 99% of any vampire problems you’ll ever run into.” *Laughs in Dio

[@valettashepard909]

Yeah, Ross, Dio Brando would like to have a word with you. He somehow beheaded his adoptive brother then transplanted himself onto his brother’s body, all as a severed head. At the bottom of the Atlantic mind you.

[@Tony_Goat]

@@valettashepard909 In a coffin that Erina was shown escaping in at the end of Part 1 *thonk*

[@jonathanlivingstonseagull3062]

And Alucard.

[@bioticninja2170]

NeuralNet Dio is the exception that proves the rule. There’s probably others, but that’s still a minority.

[@mcblaggart8565]

Being resurrected after being beheaded is fairly typical, but the actual beheading will put them down at least temporarily.

[@WolfChildRusk]

I have seen this so many times by now, it never gets old

[@faverodefavero]

I really love when PC RPGs actually show the dice rolls, we need more classic RPGs like that now a days...

[@daemonofdecay]

Hey Ross, I just want you to know that seeing this video pop up in my feed brought a huge smile to my face. We appreciate all the hard work you do, and I just wanted to say it in case you saw this comment - and maybe it could make you smile too. :)

[@Kevbo2040]

I was saving this episode for Halloween, because I thought it WAS the Halloween episode. Imagine my surprise when another episode popped up, of Phantasmagoria 2. You fucking rule, Ross.

[@bigrigjoe5130]

"Look into my eyes and embrace the GAYS" is my go-to pick up line at the bar

[@illusionofhatred5433]

9:16 Oh so that's the hint to he kid's mother being a werewolf!

[@JayTohab]

Ohh!

[@DutchBlackMantha]

Except that's the candle-maker's kid, and it was the farmer's wife.

[@technobatman1991]

This is one of my favorites. I always watch your Halloween episodes before sleep. Love the vampire laughs