Civvie 11 - Retro FPS Boomer

I don't really get the joke here? His videos are YouTuber Video Essay™. It feels more like him showing contempt for the parts of his audience that don't appreciate people like hbomberguy.

The video itself I couldn't finish. I turned if off after 30mins. The whole tone seems off, it feels like he has a grudge against Valve. It's ok that he doesn't like HL 2 but all his criticisms come from a place of deep resentment and the way he presents them feel so mean-spirited. Normally his videos are at least fun in the way they take shots at "bad" games. This one feels like he is in some kind of depressive state and he wanted to lash out against something.
If he wants to lash out in a video, he should make a Halo CE review, we know that he's not a fan of the game and what it did for the genere, but i think he knows he would get backlash from his fanbase if he did it, i bet at least half of them grew up with Halo and love it, so he goes for the safer option, since people are aware of HL2s criticisms yet still like the game.
 
I watch his videos once in a while and I don't have an issue with him. As long as he keeps his politics to himself. I know civvie11 is a liberal. I really don't care as long as he doesn't start making videos full of shitty leftist political talking points he's ok with me. The day he does I will unsub and stop watching. But I haven't watched any of his videos in a while. I would rather play games than listen to someone talk about them. Especially not for 30+ minutes.
 
Stopped watching immediately after Hbomberguy showed up. "Blah blah blah i trol yu", whatever, i simply refuse to listen to another political grifter in earnest at this point, and it's a shame he would kneecap whatever point he would've made by doing so.
Yeah, libshit takes on Twitter and the like is one thing, rubbing dicks with breadtube in a video is where I draw the line.
 
Turns out he left twitter for bluesky too lmao
Reached until the end of the main game segment.

Absolute peak brainrot. This is the anti-civvie review - If he usually takes unplayable old titles/indieshit and praises it to high heaven despite massive inherent flaws, here he has one of the most agreed upon best games ever made and he forcibly uses an angry tone as if it was bad despite his arguments against being summed as:
* Being a power fantasy (as if Duke Nukem wasn't one). Power fantasies are only good if they are ironic (or <insert standard political take>) and god forbid a female character actually falls for the male protagonist.
* Recycled enemies (as if pretty much every game he reviewed, especially expansion packs, constantly reused bosses).
* Actually good level design so that you don't backtrack or start wondering aimlessly. Having play testers is bad, and you need to just make huge open areas for people to waste time finding how to progress because geniuses don't need feedback by the common man (of course he doesn't mention yellow paint because that's actually a controversial topic).
* Being easy even on hard difficulty.

I don't know if Civvie is being a Razorfist-esque contrarian, being butthurt that boomer shooters died because nobody fucking like most of them, or that Valve is now considered evil for not censoring games on its stores. Probably a collection of all three.
 
It's weird how he says he spent way too much time on this video but he does nothing but bitch and praise the game while bitching in the same breath.

I get that the gimmick is supposed to be some ironic thing, but it really wears out its welcome in this video in particular, especially when he's happily gushed about other games in the past.
 
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Eh, I think it was an okay video. To get a boomer shooter autist to admit HL2 is still cool is an achievement.

Most of his takes aren't unique though. And saying the rustling drainage pipes in Ravenholm are a result of dumbing down the game for playtesters rather than a clever way to convey incoming danger is incredibly stupid.
 
It's weird how he says he spent way too much time on this video but he does nothing but bitch and praise the game while bitching in the same breath.

I get that the gimmick is supposed to be some ironic thing, but it really wears out its welcome in this video in particular, especially when he's happily gushed about other games in the past.
It's funny because he doesn't sound this remotely butt-blasted when he was doing Half-Life 2's sister game, Doom 3. I had expected that level of meh, not this... whatever this is lol.
 
I watched his other Half-Life videos(Hunt Down the Freeman, Half-Life, Opposing Force and Blue Shift) the other day for reference as to what kind of video I should expect. Didn't watch Half-Life 2 episode yet so I can't comment on it, however I will say that I miss old Civvie, like the one that made the Hunt Down the Freeman video. He still didn't know where he wanted to take his channel, so instead of his forced character and gags he actually tried to be both funny and critical of the games he reviewed, instead of...whatever the fuck he's become, where he either fakes the rage or tongues the asshole of any indie game he plays.
 
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A bit Civvie-related (since he keeps bringing up the game on almost every video), someone claiming to have worked on Phantom Fury spilled the beans on why the game was terrible on Civvie's thread at Knockout Forums.
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TL;DR: Bad management (he only mentions Embracer, no mention of Fred, or any of the badly made games they made before Embracer bought them), and making excuses for the gameplay (playing like a crackhead to find the fun).

Also since we are talking about Civvie's politics, i also found this comment on the same thread, confirming Civvie being a leftie, friends with hsexpestguy, yet still has time to complain about Civvie liking the Postal series despite being a good leftie™.
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Also since we are talking about Civvie's politics, i also found this comment on the same thread, confirming Civvie being a leftie, friends with hsexpestguy, yet still has time to complain about Civvie liking the Postal series despite being a good leftie™.
Every leftist forum is the same. It happened all the time on SA once it started down the purity spiral. Anyone who was previously popular with the pre-troon invasion center-left libertarian goon mindset was slowly unpersoned because they were "problematic" and if tankies are anything they're slimy fags who enjoy throwing people under the bus to climb that gay forum social power ladder that all leftists social groups eventually degenerate into.

You could run a homeless shelter for trannies that gives them free dildos, weed, abortions, taco bell, and porn and you'd get publicly hanged if you admitted to something that someone decided was bad 10 years in the future. I once saw someone get piled on because they disagreed with the circlejerk about Snake and Otacon in MGS actually being gay lovers.

Death to tankies, basically.
 
It's really sad to see. Do those people actually think they are clever when they write cringe stuff like "muskrat"? It hurts how toddler-level dumb those people sound while wanking their superiority complex.
No, it's a way to demean and devalue a human being to justify hurting them, it's part of the process of making them equal to a disease or vermin carrying disease. They're actually being Nazis.
 
It's really sad to see. Do those people actually think they are clever when they write cringe stuff like "muskrat"? It hurts how toddler-level dumb those people sound while wanking their superiority complex.
It's because these intellectually deficient people, for them any kind of strong insult or slur is a big no-no. So saying degenerate shit like " Muskrat" Is a-okay for 'em retards.

Adolph would've cry a tear before throwing them into the gas chambers.
 
I do respect him for being rather ballsy and not suck HL2's dick and make it clear he enjoys HL1 more. That doesnt mean I AGREE (I think both entries are masterpieces for what they try to do) but I respect different opinions. Tho he really is trying to make it clear he doesnt like HL2 that much...like, a lot.

I honestly think Civvie is running out of boomer stuff to talk about (that isnt retro indie ), at least that has an interesting story behind its creation and gameplay worth dissecting over. It has indeed been a long ride with that said...
Civvie is a massive faggot and his massive faggotry has been readily apparent since way back during the early months of covid and the mostly peaceful summer of kangz which followed when he was openly and regularly spazzing on Twitter about muzzling up, getting quadrupleduplededudple max-vaxxed, trusting the soyence and enthusastically bending over and spreading cheeks for BLM.

I did call him out for that on this very thread but that was back then so people neg-rated me quite a lot. I would find the post but im a bit too lazy atm.
With that said...to quote myself from the STALKER thread (because who fucking called out that the sequel would be garbage? Me)

 
I honestly think Civvie is running out of boomer stuff to talk about (that isnt retro indie ), at least that has an interesting story behind its creation and gameplay worth dissecting over. It has indeed been a long ride with that said...
He's probably close to coming out of the closet and becoming yet another youtube essay channel or a breadtuber that does the occasional "boomer shooter video" for the fans. It's very telling he went out of the way to get hbomberguy instead of someone like Ross or a seasoned Half-Life youtuber or content creator. As I said, he will hide behind contrarianism and "humor" but it's telling where his heart is.
 
A bit Civvie-related (since he keeps bringing up the game on almost every video), someone claiming to have worked on Phantom Fury spilled the beans on why the game was terrible on Civvie's thread at Knockout Forums.
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TL;DR: Bad management (he only mentions Embracer, no mention of Fred, or any of the badly made games they made before Embracer bought them), and making excuses for the gameplay (playing like a crackhead to find the fun).

Also since we are talking about Civvie's politics, i also found this comment on the same thread, confirming Civvie being a leftie, friends with hsexpestguy, yet still has time to complain about Civvie liking the Postal series despite being a good leftie™.
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Also why are people acting surprised Civvie is a leftist when the mf literally made a character that was meant to parody the alt-right?

Which kind of backfired because Cancer Mouse is kind of a funny character with a catchy theme song so wouldnt surprise me that C.M's popularity triggered Civvie and thus he almost never uses the character anymore (and when he does, its very sparringly and to the point)

It seems to be a pattern where leftists make a character you are suppose to hate but end up being fan favorites and they go "NOOO!! YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO HATE HIM!!!"

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And they either kill said character off, completely destroy what people liked about them, make them go through a humiliation ritual or just completely erase the character from future appearances.

But hey, thats just what happens when you have the "noticer" perk in your brain, making you notice shit before others do.
 
The worst part of the new video is the amount of time I waited for a blue-ray release of “Meet the feebles”, and it being taped by this hairless faggot.
Then I Skipped the beginning, since bomberfag needs to kill himself.
Surprisingly I do agree with his views on the ending in HL2 and episode 2 being peak. But that’s an absolute so broad shared opinion, why make the video?
 
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A bit Civvie-related (since he keeps bringing up the game on almost every video), someone claiming to have worked on Phantom Fury spilled the beans on why the game was terrible on Civvie's thread at Knockout Forums.
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TL;DR: Bad management (he only mentions Embracer, no mention of Fred, or any of the badly made games they made before Embracer bought them), and making excuses for the gameplay (playing like a crackhead to find the fun).
I hate modern programmers so much. You make a product to sell people, you don't get to cry about how you are being judged too harshly for a bad product. Not to mention it's an adult that should be able to handle being told he sucks and needs to find a new line of work.
I honestly think Civvie is running out of boomer stuff to talk about (that isnt retro indie )
That's true for at least a year now. Even the pool of user mods is running out.
 
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Which kind of backfired because Cancer Mouse is kind of a funny character with a catchy theme song so wouldnt surprise me that C.M's popularity triggered Civvie and thus he almost never uses the character anymore (and when he does, its very sparringly and to the point)
Cancer mouse was supposed to be a parody of the right? But I remember him talking about the plight of the indigenous people, etc. I got the impression he was just supposed to be a funny character that's really tone deaf.

Civvie is a massive faggot and his massive faggotry has been readily apparent since way back during the early months of covid and the mostly peaceful summer of kangz which followed when he was openly and regularly spazzing on Twitter about muzzling up, getting quadrupleduplededudple max-vaxxed, trusting the soyence and enthusastically bending over and spreading cheeks for BLM.
That's nice, but I don't understand why that would be a concern.
It was always pretty easy to tell he at least leaned left, and I've always been worried that he'll eventually snap, but up to this point he's done a pretty good job compartmentalizing. He doesn't express serious political hostility or act like if you're conservative he hopes you're miserable and choke to death.

Granted, this is somewhat on creators too because because nobody needs to hear your opinions monkey, but I really can't understand people who ruin stuff for themselves by interfacing with people on other platforms. If they have enough respect to keep their opinions out of their product, I don't see a reason to go digging.
 
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