SOLDIER OF FORTUNE - MAXIMUM TACTIGHOUL
🕑 Added 2023-07-13 12:49:05 +0000 UTCGhouls?
Yes, ghouls, and don't worry, only the first minute or so has rainbow replacing this game's ridiculous gore effects. We'll see what YouTube thinks about it when I try to monetize for the public release. I'm not optimistic but damn this game was fun. I actually hadn't played it and found myself so engrossed that I couldn't pull myself away for the entire six hours it took to beat. Just a solid Raven classic that is kind of weird. If I sound like I'm having an awesome time it's because I am.
This game has everything: guns, mustaches, Deus Ex references that I know I'll regret making, discomfort at the two decades long geopolitical shift that happened since release, and did I mention ghouls?
Here's hoping it doesn't get too loud.
-Civvie
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Comments
Florian Seifert
Will we get Double Helix too? 🤤
Mr. McCrunchables
First one rocks, second one is cheesy but fun
Civvie
Yeah I did. Still making my way through it.
Tripp Andre
Thank you Civvie! I've been busy as you know, sorry for the late message. Did you get the Romero book yet? I'm on chapter five and it is very good.
Eisenhans
saw you got age restricted. became a patreon now. fuck youtube
Para-voyeur
This video was too good!
Alexander Zerkle
I bought this in the middle of the video. Shit looks too good to not play.
Paskudne
Im pretty sure this is your happiest video, even bit uncanny. Facility provided more effective pills?
Paskudne
third one is definitely junk but its fun if you have low expectation. it also had pretty sick weapon selection
Silentphil9
Sir, we'd like to have this flower.....
Andrew J
Played this back when I was in my teens and GENUINELY thought it was on the Quake 3 engine, until today!
Dénes Hliva
Yes, yes i am.
Lakstoties
The ghoul system may have started in Soldier of Fortune, but it went to 11 in Soldier of Fortune 2. You can get dual Uzis in that game. You can literally and systematically grind down the upper body of a person, until they are just a bloody, ragged stump with legs. Then, they finally fall down. Shotgun blasts to the gut have the chance that the last moments of an enemies' life will be cradling their intestines. You start to feel bad for the enemies with the Geneva Convention violating deaths you cause in that game. It was wild back then.
Ilya Popov
Civvie - would you say that this is the most heavily modded Quake 2 engine game other than Anachronox?
Suckerpunch5000
Big Gun! Fittingly the video has Arnie in it being ridiculous. It was on the Last Action Hero soundtrack.
Suckerpunch5000
I don't think I ever played 2 but I remember really enjoying the first one.
Suckerpunch5000
😂
JD Scarbrough
Any love for Pandemic Studios Mercenaries 1 +2 in this forum of learned gentleman?
Heavy Metal Stepdad
You better be doing SoF II. No idea how my parents let me get that when it came out. Where I learned human anatomy as a teenager. Entrails, entrails every where. If I remember correctly, it is severely lacking in mustache which could be a turn off for some but the tight jeans and leather jacket scale is off the charts; so about even I'd wager. Have fun with the Colombia levels - pretty sure they are like the tenth circle of hell. \m/ EDIT: Alright I got SoF II on GOG. Finished first level. I can report that it does in fact get very mustache-y while simultaneously maintaining the same level of tight jeans / leather jacket.
Anksik
I'm getting really fucking tired of youtube's bullshit. It's blood in a video game for fuck sake.
Tore Schweer
aahh an airplane reference, culture.
Dream0fSkye
Even worse than milk, mayo.
TonySki
I thought we were gonna get one when Halo Infinite launched to get on that SEO for Halo at the time.
TonySki
At 14:53, what is the word that's being sung? I can't understand it.
Goth Crayon
I'm so glad you were able to play this one. Sure, it's kind of easy -but GOD is it a lot of messy, messy fun. A few hours well spent, just killing d00ds in awful and colorful ways with seriously boomy guns.
Nathaniel Dolynchuk
As per Civvie "That’s the actor playing Saddam Hussein from the movie Hot Shots: Part Deux", which reminds me I will need to watch that.
Nathaniel Dolynchuk
Is that fucking Sean Connery photo shopped to look like Saddam Hussein?!
Mathis Blair
It was SO much fun!!! Getting to watch you play a game that I played as a wee boy. This game was on one of several burned pc games my cool uncle gave us when we got our first PC including (red alert 2, unreal gold, unreal tournament, diablo II, serious sam, and one or two others I cant remember) The absolute gibbage that this game had was utterly shocking. I must admit to slicing up more than my fair share of N.Y. gangsters in the game just because I could. Glad you got to have fun with something new (to you).
Civvie
I spent two days staring at a screen trying to think of more to say about HROT that could make for a decent video and I came up nearly empty besides some rambling about newts and the final boss.
Marshall Bradbury
This is awesome, but uh, we ain't getting that HROT vid, are we?
scubaghost
who else up yankin they jank
Mathis Blair
HELL yes
Dream0fSkye
so what else is in yankjank?
HolyJunkie
You're not sneaking MyHouse.wad past me, civvie.
Suckerpunch5000
Oh dude watch that anime. It's a masterpiece 🤌 to use a Civvie-ism it may be an inch deep and a mile wide but it's entertaining as hell. I watch it on the regular.
Chris Andrews
I would have sworn I read what GHOUL stood for in a SoF preview in PC Gamer, but I didn't keep the mag and can't find an archive. I did dig up this amazing technology break down from an old fan site, and I think the GHOUL GORE Zones image at the bottom was also in the PC Gamer article. http://web.archive.org/web/20020602082950/http://sofcenter.com/gameinfo/technology/ In this post-mortem, they claim that the lead engine dev named it Ghoul, as an extension of an earlier system called Spectre. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/postmortem-raven-software-s-i-soldier-of-fortune-i- Anyway, I've been playing SoF2 on GoG and it's amazing. Thanks for the great video Civvie, and the excuse to go digging up old game tech news!
Nathaniel Dolynchuk
Holy Hot Snapping Crap this looks good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonTXTZqE-Q
CasualKitty
I played this in my 20s and I really enjoyed it. (I might be older than Civvie.) But then I bought Medal of Honor (1999) and hated FPS' for awhile.
Oven Chips
Absolute banger - my nostalgia prefers SoF2 but watching this through I think I'm dearly wrong
Beers
At this point I feel that if Halo ever gets a video it would be a love and hate video.
Thom Venables-Gordon
One of my defining memories from this era is going to my friend Steve's house and watching him play the demo of this. It's the train level from the start and when the helicopter came along he said "Watch this", zoomed in on the helicopter with the sniper rifle, domed the pilot and watched it crash and explode. I had never seen anything like it.
Valora Inverse
New to me and mechanically it obviously looks cool but oh GOD that's aged like milk. That chapter 8 goof was A+.
Suckerpunch5000
Are you talking about Redline the anime? If so I love the adventures of Sweet JP and Cherry Boy Hunter.
Civvie
I've heard "amerijank" before, mostly to describe Postal 2, but "yankjank" sounds so much better.
NerdyOgre254
With the discussion about no UN and no NATO from Dekker there, it almost feels like slavjank but american. Yankjank?
ArkSeaside
TIL that game my older cousin kept talking about like 2 decades ago was a Raven joint
JOE MOTHERFUCKING TREEFELNER
Fuck yes
Gleb Belyaev
Oh that first game I played as a kid on my dreamcast, the reaction of enemies depending where you shot them at blew my tiny mind. Also by using a knife on dead body made it blow up eventually and would show cuts on different part
Nic Bergstrom
Bless you too commenter, I’ll check it out ♥️♥️♥️
Tronguy93
This is a series that really needs to come back. …we don’t talk about the third one though.
Dénes Hliva
You should watch REDLINE, its my go-to when im sick, and you can pretty much just DL the fan-remaster because its all but an abandoned IP at this point. Its gorgeous, its OST rival's that of ROTT or DOOM's in terms of quality, its the best thing ever, and i cannot express how much i love it Edit: If you're reading this, reply when you watched the movie
Nic Bergstrom
It is a blessed day. I am a walking corpse of illness and this just me a little light in the dark. God bless you Civvie, keep up the fantastic work. ♥️
LordLudicrous
Hell yeah! Loved soldier of fortune when I played it in college, can’t wait to see what Civvie thinks!
Suckerpunch5000
Another one I haven't played in years but I loved it back in the day. I can't wait to watch this. Thanks Civ! 🤘🤘
RTheren
SoF is a blast, that's for damn sure.
Raul Campos
Hell yes 👍
Korcks
Lots of happy surprises lately. Great stuff!
Seed of Power
Thanks again Civvie
Thom Venables-Gordon
Yes. YESSSSS! Let’s goooooooo!!!!