They made ANOTHER Civil War FPS...

Mine eyes have seen the glory of another Civil War FPS. Who keeps making these?
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[@gomishofu7350]

For those who don't know, "The Bluecoats" is a Belgian comic that features two union soldiers, the ones on the menu screen, having shenanigans through the theatres of the civil war. I never imagined that someone would want to make a game based on it, especially a risk tbs that features nothing from the original comics...

[@gunnargunnarsson5963]

this is like if someone make a Tintin game with elements of a cover shooter like Gears of War, and the game is consisted of 80% shooting, 20% puzzle solving

[@gooeybop]

i thought it was just a fucked up name for the union

[@intriguingfacts5434]

Old Belgian comics were amazing

[@gomishofu7350]

@@intriguingfacts5434 I fully agree with that!

[@forrestpenrod2294]

"North and South" was a 1989 NES game based on the Belgian "Bluecoats" comic series. This appears to be a remake of that game.

[@literallyme26]

*First Battle* "Wait we lost? I thought we had more!" oboe roleplaying as a Union General during First Bull Run is pretty cathartic.

[@danielomar9712]

Funnily enough the Confederates were very lucky in 1st Bull Run Many of the Rebel regiments were experienced , having fought in South America as mercenaries However , they were used to bayonet charging peasants They charged into a Union Line and was immediately shattered from a single volley

[@richardjames1812]

That is completely false. No Confederate regiments served outside the US. I think you know that? @@danielomar9712

[@SovietsbetterthanrussiaALT]

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[@AverageJoe___]

⁠@@danielomar9712please link a source for whatever BS you just made up

[@Scarfy397]

@@AverageJoe___ He has no source because it isn't true. The Confederate regiments at First Manassas were state militia regiments or recently formed volunteer units. A number of them were led by officers who'd experienced fighting in the Mexican War around 13-15 years earlier. This was true for many of the regiments on the Union side as well, as most of the US Army's regular units were still deployed in the Western Territories against the myriad Indian nations. That being said, a number of wealthy Confederates fled to South America after the war, mostly to the Kingdom of Brazil, where slavery was still legal.

[@Bruno-ec8ft]

Fun fact tunique bleu (blue coat) is a very famous belgian comic about the US civil war that has been going on since the 60's without interruption and will probably outlast us all. So if you want to read a somewhat accurate description of the New York riot with so-so historical description I'm sure you can pirate it.

[@JukaDominator]

Interesting how all the good comics with French as the original language are all from Belgium...

[@baudsp]

​@@JukaDominatorAsterix is from France, as is Valérian and Laureline

[@Mortamer1]

@@baudsp c'est un trolleur, il en a rien à secouer que la moitié des trucs parus dans Pilote soient "locaux"

[@jedrzejsmietanski9782]

MAN! North & South is literally an adaptation of "Tunique Bleu", hence the same artsyle!

[@RaveDecoy242]

@@jedrzejsmietanski9782 I mean the title screen literally has "The Bluecoats" above it, so yep!

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

Having played the original years ago It's amazing how little they chose to add or embellish. The original game had just enough content to be a fun 2 player boardgame you could play with a friend for 15 minutes, but not much else. This version had decades of advancement in the industry to draw from and all they did was add one new mechanic with the FPS segments.

[@AverageMann]

I remember playing the mobile game, it was one of my favorite ones

[@justit1074]

@@AverageMann same

[@GanymedeXD]

Remember playing it in 1989 on my Atari ST … was fun despite pretty basic!

[@michaelmartin9022]

The original had hilarious music!

[@franz83]

I'm pleased to see 30 years later they changed a lot of stuff but did nothing to make the game fun, true to the Amiga classic. Anyway you're not a real N&S OG unless the first thing you do is select the cannon, hit the fire button and blow yourself up.

[@epsilon6516]

Why would anyone make a new fps, when the perfect fps (The Conduit for Nintendo Wii 2009) already exists?

[@linkh200]

Holy cow dude, I miss that game, I literally haven't had any interaction with that game since I played it back then. My cloudy young teen nostalgic memory makes me want to play it again, but I'm sure if I did, I'd develop different opinions.

[@epsilon6516]

@@linkh200 oh its garbage. But a nostalgic kind of garbage, know what I mean?

[@linkh200]

​@@epsilon6516yes! I never owned it, but my friends that did said it was so cool so I thought it was cool by proxy. They let me borrow it, and I vaguely remember getting frustrated trying to finish the campaign, but still thought it was so cool. Same with multiplayer. Man... such nostalgic garbage.

[@epsilon6516]

@@linkh200 I had to rearrange the controls because by default you shake the nunchuck to throw grenades so I just blew myself up every I moved my left hand one millimeter

[@linkh200]

@@epsilon6516 I remember always having issues with trying to melee with thrusting the Wiimote forward. I also totally forgot they made a second one. Wanted to try it so bad haha

[@CelticAssassin]

Fun fact: the rifle you see in the fps mode is an actual rifle. Obviously this one is a cartoonified version but it is a semi-accurate depiction of the Spencer rifle. It's an early lever action that required you to manually cock the hammer after every shot unlike the Henry and its successors which used the bolt to cock the hammer for you. As shown in the game, rounds are loaded through the butt of the stock.

[@emIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII]

yes but i think it was only used for dragoons

[@Quincy_Morris]

Most guns at the time required manual cocking of the hammer

[@RealBadGaming52]

I thought it was a musket with a lever animation due to Lazy Develepors

[@garretthberne3035]

Thanks, Johnathan Ferguson.

[@Taylor_slayss]

Are you Shay before betraying the Brotherhood

[@KimJongBeIllinDaily]

Disappointed there was no sawing off a leg with no anesthesia minigame.

[@Ladyjuliet-uv5qt]

you forgot the wheel at the end that spins to determine if the patient dies of gangrene or not

[@tuskengamer7762]

I love how the battles are just rock paper scissors. Cannon beats infantry Infantry beats cav Cav beats cannon

[@user-uc4vg4rg9e]

1 cav walked backwards can beat all

[@SubidubidubiDu1]

I dont even use the cannons, they only serve as a distraction while i move in the troops and the cavalry

[@lolasdm6959]

In reality cannon beats everyone.

[@alteredizzy]

This is just actual war footage

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

This was actually painful to watch. I'm so sorry... 💀

[@CKC_Productions]

I agree, full cringe.💀

[@Somedude_jdjdi]

It’s not pain to watch because of cringe but pain to watch because of his decision, also sometimes it look like he has memory of gold fish

[@asyanimasi3d184]

I can only watch for 10 minute.. He lose again and again.. Hope he get better at gaming. Might come back and watch

[@DCPA6669]

@@Somedude_jdjdi I love oboe but he is so bad at games lmao

[@AmyCherryLMAO]

​@@DCPA6669thats kinda the fun of watching him play isnt it?

[@tinnyle2719]

Dodging health kits like the plague, classic

[@UrMom-sv6to]

Truly an analogy for the civil disorder between those with an interesting fact, and those with an important fact.

[@SHADE-EYE]

And then there're the dormant outliers with a very cool fact. "Very cool" sounds very patronizing.

[@RamielTheThunder]

​@@SHADE-EYE*dolmenant

[@UrMom-sv6to]

@@SHADE-EYE Poetic isn't it?

[@franz83]

In the original Amiga fort and train levels were crappy side scrollers, iirc you had to reach the end to swap flags/steal the gold, and instead of a rifle you had a kinfe you could throw and maybe punching? Anyway, not fun.

[@PonianYouTube]

"Mom, can we have War of Rights?" "We have War of Rights at home" War of Rights at home:

[@megarigged]

War of Rights doesn't have Spencer rifle train missions

[@Just_Adrian_]

There is something which is similar to a read dead extraction shooter, it's called "Hunt: Showdown", tho it's technically more of a undead nightmare extraction shooter since it has zombies and stuff

[@fredricksteinwolf475]

Interesting Your cute :3

[@schizofreniccunt1952]

Undead Nigtmare 2

[@ThatOneMan830]

Me watching Oboe completely ignore the health pickup several times during the fort battle

[@samuelcooper9880]

My great great great grandfather died on a civil war surgeons table clutching his Amiga.

[@matthewrascoe8690]

Never thought I’d see “The Bluecoats” getting adapted for gaming audiences, but it’s awesome to see Belgian comics get some love.

[@GanymedeXD]

It already was in 1989 … this is an inflated version of the good old Amiga/Atari ST game!

[@mystershow]

Wow nice ! C'est "Les Tuniques Bleues" ! It's "The Bluecoats", a bandes dessinées (franco-belgian comics books) from my childhood. I didn't know it was a game ! I'll propably buy it now :D and Ben Quadinaros as a profile pic rofl

[@GanymedeXD]

It is an improved version if the 1989 game … was absolute cult back then!

[@RamielTheThunder]

Battlefield 2042 but better

[@WildFungus]

I played North and South on NES it was a game I was initially disappointed with but then it turned out to be pretty fun.

[@TranscribeYT]

Its painful to watch you play the FPS mode, so many times you walk past the ammo on the ground THAT HAS ANIMATIONS, and you refused to melee so many times just getting obliterated.

[@mud4309]

This guy seems chill enough but he is so aggravatingly terrible at the FPS portion AND the RTS portion, at one point he misses THREE point blank shots on a dude, gets hit twice by him, and then when he FINALLY shows enough patience to take the necessary half a second needed to aim- instead of continuing to just spam attack- when he has a PERFECT headshot, he instead turns around and runs away And dont even get me started on how he basically sacrifices his units to cannons, and how it took him more than half the game to realize “oh so, if the enemy cavalry is in the middle of my musketeers, then I should back up BEFORE firing, or else I just shoot past the cavalry and one horse just cuts my whole platoon in half as I do nothing but (yet again) spam attack” Theres a ton more but omg, Im not one to hate on people for not knowing everything there is to know about a game or being a pro at it, but considering this is SUPPOSED to be a strategy game, he didnt put much effort in to any real strategy or common sense, and it was kinda painful at times to watch

[@derrickwhipp1613]

I have no idea why, but this dude yellin “I’m union, I’m union” while blasting ppl point blank in the face has had me laughing for literal days. I also say “he’s 1 horse” for anyone actin a fool now

[@Tux-rs7rp]

The level of competency this man has sometimes is shocking

[@Liam-yk7ym]

Had this on the nes, absolutely loved it then, especially robbing the trains and racing the boot on the fort

[@chrisbailey8362]

Yes! We played this a heck of a lot on NES. We figured out you could spread out the ground troops using the rock on the battlefield. And the sleeping Mexican that would randomly wake up and kill a unit.

[@nowkent]

Ya, I LOVED this game on the NES!! So cool to see it revitalized!

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

The stab from behind mechanic is pretty game breaking.

[@tykobes4132]

I remember playing the Original North vs South on Super Nintendo. I still hear that song when you get reinforcements 😂 And the part just before the battle where one side shoots a cannon ball over the other army to signify the start of the battle.

[@redtheyiffer]

Honestly not a terrible concept for a game, the idea of risk, with a bit of resource management like the gold, and more involved combat in the form on micro rts and fps segments.

[@Geek_with_a_HAT]

They look like extras from the Garfield show.

[@Axolotlian]

Away down South in the land of traitors Rattlesnakes and alligators Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Where cotton's king and men are chattels Union boys will win the battles Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away (come away) We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie I wish I was in Baltimore I'd make secession traitors roar Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away (come away) We'll put the traitors all to route I'll bet my boots we'll whip 'em out Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away (come away) We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie! Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie Oh, may our Stars and Stripes still wave Forever o'er the fee and brave Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away (come away) And let our motto ever be Forever Union and for liberty Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Ride away (ride away) Come away (come away) We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie

[@oatjuice5921]

why are they fighting over a country when we could use their help against the reapers?

[@TheAngel_of_Death]

They should give you a Gatling Gun for the defense modes

[@TheNordus]

Since you're a civil war FPS afficionado, are you going to play the Gods and Generals PC game? I think it would be a pretty good fit for your channel.

[@DobbsyLondon]

I'd usually ask for more space blart at this point, but I've got spacefieldman on my laptop pc game station now. Sarah forced me to meet her mum. 😢

[@NateTheScot]

holy shit i played North % South at my m8s house as kids. I always remembered thinking the cannons were really cool. What a weird game to remake. LMAO why would you not bother reading the instructions? You got fucking DEMOLISHED at both the strategy and the battle parts just like i did because i had no idea how to play as a kid on the megadrive, and my buddy refused to tell me how it worked so that he could beat me every time lol. He was an asshole.

[@bilgerat225]

I think I missed the history class where the union learned to counter the confederates by riding their horses in reverse

[@PerN1660]

Great great great great grandfather here. I had that game on the Amiga, its actually quite similar to this, except much uglier.

[@Xx_SweetTooth_xX]

just a battlefront 2 galactic conquest reskin

[@alexanderkidonakis9185]

Get back at me when they make a revolutionary war fps game or a French Revolution fps The civil war is wayyyy to modern for me

[@nationeer]

I love old Belgian and French comedy comics. The comics are fun, why can't they make the game fun :"

[@GanymedeXD]

The original 1989 game was mega fun!

[@ZETAPLUSA70]

The art design make this look like an education game😂

[@OddlyDelta]

Holy crap, i used to play the original version of this game on my old laptop years ago. Never knew the name

[@sloop6405]

I clicked on this out of curiosity and i watched about an hour in, I don't usually make hate comments but I am ASTOUNDED that this guy has 100k subscribers and that he gets this many views with the content he makes. He repeats things 10 times because he thinks thats funny, when he kept saying i'm union and cut em down over and over it was just annoying.

[@TheMastroAntonio]

I love how clueless Oboeshoes is at all these games 😂

[@DefeatedRoyalist]

Oboe out here acknowledging other global shit happened in the 1860’s besides the US Civil War… You cultured gentleman. Speaking of the 1860’s, oboe should definitely consider playing SGS Taiping. You know that other civil war. The civil war whose death toll goes into the tens of millions… The games a little janky but pretty fun :)

[@chrismath149]

Am I imagining it or is the Confederate soldier black? That would be confusing for many reasons.

[@SubidubidubiDu1]

I have played a remake (before this game came out) on the ios which makes this a remake of a remake, but this one is much better, I gotta get this game.

[@jst1606]

I really liked when he said cut em down and then he cut em down

[@draculastraphouse7863]

As a southerner, I'm still salty about the war, our schools thaught us about the Union oppressing the South and taking advantage of us smh

[@madeofgrease9220]

The Bluecoats was such a fire comic and were a really good showing of the two types of soldiers in the civil war and don’t forget the disorder of it too.

[@Balevolt]

Ohio is a tiny on the map dispite deploying the third most troops

[@chuckn4851]

Ohio gang-gang

[@sedeuphadude80]

@@chuckn4851 shut up child

[@rahulchatterjee5828]

Now oboe has served 35 tours in the civil war.

[@jamesweir139]

"The cavalry always gets through"

[@teecee1827]

Ho I remember those comic books.

[@Karebear9001]

i played this game on the NES when i was a kid

[@rodrikofharlaw6848]

Train fight for the NES port was such a pain. The defender player had tons of slightly weaker lives while you had one and had to do pinpoint inputs to survive through it. Kind of sad to see the sidescrolling bit of that replaced with a weak unity looking FPS.

[@Don-ds3dy]

It's sad, most of the best Civil War games aren't Civil War games. The Empire Total War mod, Darkest of Days, Call of Juarez, we do have War of Rights.

[@l.s.9095]

But there are also "Ultimate General: Gettysburg" and "Ultimate General: Civil War", which is probably the best Civil War tactical game.

[@forrestpenrod2294]

For those who don't know "North and South" was originally a 1989 NES game based on the Belgian "Bluecoats" comic series. This appears to be a remake of that game.

[@GanymedeXD]

It was an Amiga & Atari ST game in 1989 … NES came a year later.

[@Duck_Man4]

I bought it, for some reasonn.

[@zombiedeutsch]

I played something very similar on nes, but i forgot its name. I swear it was almost this exact game.

[@user-uc4vg4rg9e]

i believe there was something like that probably the same game

[@GanymedeXD]

It was North & South … originally on Amiga & ST the NES version came a year later!

[@jakeywakey_ow]

Union gaming

[@captaindookey]

I smell Flippingdingdong

[@shinobi99w]

They look like characters from Mortadelo y Filemón a famous Spanish slapstick comedy comic book series

[@AverageMann]

Hey i remember playing a similar game in my tablet, it was really fun

[@rcmcccstuff645]

Oh, funk i am just old because me and my friends played n&s at? Amiga 500 for hours and hours in the 90s 😂😂😂

[@thecanilianempirelopsidedt3893]

*GAAASSSSPPPP* The game cover has THE flag on it- CANCEL IT!!!!!! AHHHH IT BURNSSSS -Likely some liberal in 2023-24

[@johnkarlsson]

Omg listening to your brain just to watch the gameplay. And such a wimp move with backing horses. I hope developers fix that. You would never have won the old Amiga game with those skills. I guess that answers your question why they had to do a remake!

[@KoalaBrendan77]

Forts Win wars squidward

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

The dude forgot the USA lagged behind weapon delvopment the French tried to sell repeating rifles during the American civil war. USA refused. the Confederacy was poor to buy them and US generals refused to adopt let’s us mention the USA was techually at this point in its history a minor power. globally and major power in America’s. the musket repeater was invented in 1261 and first bullet was invented in 5 to 7 years prior My dates could be off most likely are. but the bullets are rear loading was a thing. richer Union soldiers sometimes bought better rifles then the standard issue musket which USA made on mass because they were easier. Remember the USA was a titan great power till the years leading up to ww2

[@rempseaheinamies9414]

Very easy mode and bland version of game that was pretty easy before and much better. Try the old and get millenialized.

[@johnkarlsson]

"Who needs an army corps these day?" What? Anyone at war I believe. Ukraine and Russia for example. Yeah.

[@RoyalKnightVIII]

Oh it's European. That explains a lot. The "Indians" attacking randomly s very strange and somewhat racist. Native American nations were heavily involved in the war. The Cherokee for example had their own civil war result as part of joining the US civil war and other tribes had their own reasons for supporting either the north or the South. So they weren't like random orcs attacking the Yankees.

[@farrelanggaraksa2299]

I remember playing this game from my phone...

[@GanymedeXD]

That was a remake of the 1989 game!

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

That history channel fps was great despite some missions being a royal pain it was still super fun

[@alisamartinez7645]

Yo,Dude! In the fort qonquest you must take the maid kits ( white boxen with the green cross sighnt too! Its healing boxes for you healt Bar.. otherwise you dies to fast!!😂😅😅

[@pteroid11]

God I remember the Freelance Astronauts screwing around in North & South like over a decade ago, one of them put on this absurd 'Southern Gentleman' voice the whole time, too.

[@esmeecampbell7396]

3:00 unless I really didn't pay attention in one class I don't remember a Union or Confederate Army passing through Texas and getting attacked by the Mexicans...

[@brotmeister9559]

The original was not only available on Amiga, but also on NES. 44:01: The fort battles back then were sidescrolling bits, where you had to get to the flag at the end of the fort without dying. I was so bad at that.

[@Calbeck]

I actually remember this game, and it was shallow as hell but with great animation for the time. Everyone enjoyed it for the cutscenes and not much else. Going with the 3D animation makes it look like a downgrade.

[@thenorseguy2495]

I remember I loved to play North and South on my brothers Amiga 500. I had no idea they made a new game on PS4. I’m gonna have to get it now

[@roguerifter9724]

I doubt there are any FPS elements in this. I played the NEs port of the original many times, and the PC version of this port many times with no FPS mode.. Edit: Apparently they changed the train raid, or maybe the train raid in the remake was always like this and I was remembering the NES game's train raid. The Natives and Mexicans wipe out random armies.

[@calanon534]

The NES version of this from back in the day, was interesting, but the battles were impossible to control with a regular controller vs. the AI. You could only control one unit at a time, the CPU controlled all three at once. Yes, they would have the infantry advancing at the same time as their cavalry was charging and the cannon firing. Your best bet was to ignore your own artillery, and try to do everything with your infantry. Unless you had a three-stack army, you didn't stand much of a chance. I see very little has changed. Sad. They could have done so much with the basic premise.

[@BaronVonMott]

I remember playing the mobile version of this game a few years back, and it would seem this edition has changed basically nothing. It's a neat little title to mess around with for while, but there's basically no real depth to it at all.

[@UnreasonableArticulo]

Amiga was still around when I was a kid, so it's not like it's THAT old. I find it both interesting and sad that they had this incredibly great OS for the time, and better looking and playing games than anybody, and yet failed and lost out to inferior products.

[@JacobTyler1776]

"Vey ineffective commanders here in Union land..." Don't feel bad, all of the actual Union Generals didn't do any better than you for most of the war. And even with U.S. Gant, he is only celebrated because he was the best of a long line of horrible commanders. In his time he was called "Butcher Grant" even by Northern newspapers because of the cataclysmic casualty count in most of the battles he won. Most of his victories were pyrrhic ones at best.

[@flemishgiantrabbitlove2869]

Ion ironically grew up playing this game and I'm scared I didn't know what happened to it I thought it was some fever dream but I guess it wasn't

[@randomperson2797]

“No mom, I only play south because Rey have a better starting location, I swear!”

[@RonaldJohnald2007]

Did you know there is an even better FPS out there called borderlands 2?! You haven't played it in a while.

[@terencepaul7475]

idk man, a little more polish, and i think it can be a pretty neat game, right now im open to playing it in its current state, need more games around the civil war era or just the musket era tbh, so I can play as a line infantry xD

[@JacobTyler1776]

This looks kind of fun for an hour or so, but the caricatures of the happy go lucky Yankee soldier and the ape-like confederate is pretty juvenile and telling about the devs.

[@arcadeprime]

This is better than war of rights! All because a black man was the confederate soldier. Very diverse

[@alisamartinez7645]

Aid-kits ,sorry !! Autocorrection/ translation in youtube really sucks!!😅🙄

[@SuperMrHiggins]

"Who knows what demyelinating means anyway?" Alright, I am not the target demographic....

[@RealBadGaming52]

If it was an FPS Only id buy it, History channels civil war game was awsome

[@Alte.Kameraden]

Hmm reminds me of History Channel the Civil War which was Turn Based Strategy game.

[@Kaisermormof9646]

You lose the game once you have neither Armies nor income, because you can't buy any more Armies.

[@billul1]

This game have a lot of mechanics for something so mediocre

[@donjulio5045]

*Im convinced Apex players study this game cause they dont know how to fight from cover*

[@Mike14264]

I can't even say it's a very good looking game either... the models look pretty bad, very little likeness to the comics.