The Varginha Incident - Vicious Cycles

in 1996 in the city of virginia brazil it is believed that humanity came into contact with extraterrestrial beings of unknown origin and that the military seized these creatures and has been involved in a sinister cover-up ever since this event has become infamous in brazil where the strange sightings and alleged capture of alien organisms is known as the virginia incident [Applause] [Music] naturally this was turned into a video game not just a game an fps the first to ever come out of brazil selling up to 22 000 copies mostly in russia and the developers were contacted by the united states special forces who wanted to use the game to train its operatives this goes deep kids deeper than anything i've ever seen this game launched in 1998 running on dos oh oh no oh no it's hard nowadays to find worthy dos trash where do you go after the likes of capstone in island peril isle of the dead i'd rather not and i still haven't beaten that game so i went looking and a patron followed by a surprising number of others told me about this game and i will never ever forgive those people though it's technically brazilian jank not slav jank which doesn't disqualify it play the game civvy oh i'm gonna play the [ __ ] out of it officially on the record the virginia incident which is not pronounced how you think it's pronounced is brazil's first foray into the world of action games and it is uh boot up the game and you're in for some crispy 90s dos cutscenes i'm ready man let's do this [Music] foreign [Music] you started the crash site look at all these adorable et's oh [ __ ] i think we're the bad guys in this one are we the bad guys okay this is one of those games where i have to go into dos box and manually rebind the keyboard and the controls because there aren't any options for it you have the standard arrow keys to move mouse turning works but aiming up and down is page up and page down sort of like in the build engine but to jump you press home into crouch you press end which is not gonna work for me so what you're seeing here is the optimal control scheme i'm actually playing this the best that anyone has ever played it there's nothing to shoot in this level because you have no gun you have to run away jump into this water and then you'll find an mp special and the level ends when you get another the level ends when you pick that up and you get another cut scene they're taking the ship away the aliens are fleeing no get out of the way get out of the road no no why did you take your clothes off [Music] first [Music] okay okay so that means warning you must rescue the shuttle at any cost your people are not prepared to handle our technology i think that's probably true but we don't put orange text over a transparent background so we got that going for us one moment receiving life signs from a survivor proceed to the city hospital looks like i'm already there i gotta stroll in casually play it cool there's a lot of soldiers around here we'll be there yeah okay over there uh-huh that's what i thought time to go in guns blazing or gun blazing this is the mp special bound to two and three on the keyboard doesn't that look nice that's great two selects it and makes it like a semi-automatic and three is full auto as in it fires twice every time instead of once i wouldn't say that this game has ai as much as i'd say it has sprites that kind of know where you are and will kind of move in that direction and will always hit you while shooting you can stun lock one at a time there are about 500 of them in this level our player character coughs when he gets shot and after he's dead he's still got some pep in him you know he moves faster than normal this game lets you save anywhere so we're gonna be doing that a lot i know what you're thinking and yes this is exactly as bad as it looks as far as i know there's no ammo limit so you can keep picking up magazines forever the npcs react to you holding a gun but you can't get very far without doing that so don't worry about it [Music] run shoot no aliens shoot no aliens this game is called alien anarchy in certain regions but i went with the virginia incident for this video title because that's the original title and also it's easily confused with the word vagina oh what the uh you'll see some areas with 3d models in them decorations tables chairs cars and the game starts to chug whenever these are on screen i'll tell you why in a bit you'll love it i'm never entirely sure what direction gunfire is coming from and i'm almost positive that soldiers are appearing out of nowhere to shoot at me like they weren't there before right you guys are seeing the same thing that i'm seeing this is a standard fps game you pick up health armor ammo shoot soldiers lots of soldiers and at the end of this level you'll find an operating room with the alien you're looking for it's fully 3d and it's beautiful at the end of each level you get another message on your alien data pad that tells you your next objective you have to head to a military school to get a bioproc that you need for a shuttle and man i was not expecting a moving vehicle in this game for however short of time you'll notice that the floor textures don't move right which was common for early 3d engines like this one from the same year that brought us half life unreal thief blood 2 crash bandicoot 3 turok 2 banjo-kazooie apocalypse with bruce willis metal gear solid gecks enter the gecko goman's great adventure busta groove [ __ ] half-life okay so gaming in brazil in the 90s wasn't great brazil would tax imports to the point that buying a console might cost more than twice as much as the actual console itself because you'd end up paying four thousand reals or 1500 usd for a playstation 4. although the import taxes were significantly cut in the last few years are you guys ready for more [Applause] oh i hope so you'll get some grenades here which is nice they're janky and awkward but it's something great for clearing out the trenches because looking up and down right looking up it down is great and all until you realize that because the mouse also moves the character on the y-axis and when you move the character your aim re-centers you can hold a button down to mouse aim but while you're mouse aiming it still re-centers if you move so you're moving with the mouse while aiming with the i anyway have a look at these explosions they're beautiful i know these [ __ ] are shooting at me through walls but i don't know if it's intentional or not you never know if a game wants realistic bullets that can penetrate walls right you might think this game is hard it isn't right now because there's health and armor pickups everywhere each health pickup gives you 25 and each armor pickup gives you 50. so you go underground at the military school into some kind of tunnel system that's full of soldiers that's the only enemy you face so far there's a second type with a rocket launcher but he's not much of a problem i'm not sure if i saw even one of them get a shot off this whole time when you get to the surface again you need to be reminded that this is brazil so here's a soccer field i think this game tries to do realistic locations it's kind of like a build engine game in a way except i will not i will not say that this game is worse than tech war i won't do it the way the soldier ai works is that there's a lot of times where you'll round a corner and then there will be a dozen of them there but they can't seem to turn around to face you or chase you down but they're an obstacle nonetheless even after you get a rocket launcher after you've made it through the maze of tunnels and caves you'll recover the bioproc you're told to go to downtown sao paulo to rescue a deserter being hunted by g-men in the subway this is kind of cool you can't even enter the subway unless you use the correct turnstile i like the idea that you have to keep a low profile around these intimidating looking agents so i'm looking for a deserter where do i start we've got agents standing on the tracks none of the tunnels seem to go anywhere which is fine because the trains don't move so what am i supposed to do i found a locked door there are keys in this game i'm guessing i have to find an entrance into a different part of the subway so i try that for a while this is wrong no what you're supposed to do is go in and start shooting those agents like a madman because they have the key you need but not that key no it's another key you need two keys and don't you dare [ __ ] up and kill too many civilians who will wander into your line of fire don't you do it [Music] warning local police are on the way as a safety measure this device will destroy itself slaughtering innocent people is not our policy we regret having trusted this important mission to someone like you i don't like having to wash the blood of innocents off my hands don't make me do it again no civvy you're trying to be nice don't talk about tech war but seriously this has given me tech war flashbacks you have to not kill civilians get inside the station shoot all these g-men get two keys enter the tunnels in the back and then find this guy who tells you that the shuttle was transferred to a ship off the coast of rio a big vehicle level you guys are going very build engine for this you start off being shot with a rocket you gotta swim over to the other side of the boat and the game crashes as soon as i touch the stairs i reload and the game crashes as soon as i touch the stairs fine good the third time i get up the stairs and onto the ship and then i save my game so that i never have to try and climb those cursed stairs again and the game crashes so i get onto the ship again and the game crashes i restart the level and then get to the stairs and the game crashes i had a hunch as to why this was happening because at the very start of the game i'd noticed something odd my cpu cycles were set to max and dosbox and so i took falling damage every time i jumped so i thought okay let's turn the cycles down and it worked usually my emulated dos machine wasn't shitty enough for this game would have been cool to run it at a speed where polygonal models didn't make the game lag but oh well i'm playing this in dosbox and i can't show you how it would run on original hardware i can say that i've never had this much of a problem in dosbox with any game where i would have to play with the settings to get to that sweet spot where it runs but not too fast a game never crashed on me because it was running too fast even when i limited the cycles to the point where something even as shitty as island peril didn't fight with me this much when i look at the few gameplay videos that exist on youtube i can see the game behaving differently much faster and under one of those videos is a comment saying to use an older version of dosbox and i did and the crashes on this level actually stopped and i could play it and so i played through a bunch of this terrible game again set to a fixed 70 thousand cycles instead of the 35 000 i was using before and it ran basically the same except this time i decided to turn the difficulty down which you can do in the options there's a music setting too this game has music and i can't get that to work but it doesn't matter i don't think the music is gonna make this game better not only is damage basically insignificant on the easiest difficulty so you can get shot and it might take one point of your health and armor your guns use less ammo they can fire without using any ammo at all and i would suggest playing the game this way because you could just run through it or sort of stumble it's still not a good time i would suggest that but you can't beat this game on the easiest skill why well let's go back to the subway remember what a [ __ ] it was to find those two keys that the g-men dropped okay on the easiest skill one of those keys doesn't drop at all so in my quest to give this game fair shake and do my best to mitigate any crashes that i'm having due to dosbox emulation i still broke it and from what i can tell i've only fixed the crashes in the boat level and might i add that saving the game takes a strangely long time and even longer when you turn the cycles down like 10 whole seconds now i respect the ambition of this game especially with this level look at it it's not derelict from duke 3d but the sky in the water that's kind of cool you guys like crate mazes you meet some kind of new monster in this level this monkey thing i have no idea what it's doing here or what species it's supposed to be but it's fast and i hate it i'm supposed to get below deck on this ship somehow but instead i just fall into the cargo bay and run around try and find the keys that i need and it's please no more i want to get off you know i'm on the fourth level of this game and i've been playing it for almost five hours i noticed here that the enemies also seem to attack you when they're dying and also not during attack frames what task accomplished computer terminals on this base indicate that the shuttle is still in stone drone sounds like the greys didn't manage to activate it confirming stone drone location ancient city of south tomed nope not even going to try ancient city yeah cool setting but it's a bunch of haphazardly matched together caves full of well i can't really show you much of it because my original recording of this level inexplicably came out as six hours of nothing don't want you to know about it you know what no that's fine oh hey cindy hi cancer mouse don't ask about the candle what's with the candle i hate you so much i just came to say goodbye as you may have heard i've gotten a prominent role in a show on netflix oh you back doing children's programming no i'm in netflix's biohackers jesus i hope those actors were all right that's right civvy now i'm getting a piece of the money all those filthy greeks okay katie shut it down i got the game's bfg in this level and here's a demonstration on these goons who can't even begin to pathfind it's weird it's janky i can't say for sure how it really works so it's definitely part of this game a switch through these caves opens the military base the final level and the first time i played it oh boy the crashes [Applause] oh [ __ ] come on now it's the zero health thing [Music] but now i'm dead i guess i'll reload and oh for [ __ ] i would save my game every 10 feet or so to make sure that i could make some progress meaning that the breakdown of the last level time wise was about 50 moving and 50 saving [Music] now the goal is to find the alien ship right where might that be behind one of these key doors in this big cylindrical room and this spinning thing where you have to go and get to the lower levels by assuming that there are ramps below you but also you have to go through the gauntlet of g-men soldiers monkey things in a maze of ugly hallways and some kind of vault this level took me longer than any of the other levels combined because what you have to do is try to hit some of these guys who have flawless accuracy who are above or below you or maybe they come out of the walls you know and you have to find a tiny switch which lowers a wall you can't know where that wall is it just looks like all the other ones except it's indented a little right i spend hours hours trying to find a way because as soon as you enter this area you can see the key you need but because this game hates me you can't jump across that gap you have the momentum but gravity works kind of strangely here so you fall down and that switch from before opens the wall to that key but i couldn't find the wall i couldn't do it until finally by blind luck i was able to find it so naturally i save my game and continue grab the key get killed reload and oh here we go i get it now this wall raises again if you load the game and now the only way out is to take some damage from a fall and go all the way back around to get out and the level keeps getting repopulated with enemies so no that's great this game sure is alien anarchy [Laughter] i just i need to stop for a second because i don't think i've properly discussed this game i'm not sure i can fully describe this experience every moment is suffering and confusion and regretting every choice that i have made in my life that brought me here because this is one of the worst things i've ever played even playing this game under the best of conditions with everything working it feels like i've bitten off more than i can chew you know i feel like even showing footage of this game is punishing you the viewer for the sin of wanting to be entertained by true awfulness for gazing into the abyss for finally realizing that everything isn't going to be okay and that humanity is going to destroy itself and that's probably for the best [Music] after about two dozen crashes and getting lost and killed finally i've uncovered the truth that this game has been hiding a relatively impressive kind of train ride thing underground like look at this this is actually really cool but then you have to go and get a red key and those grey aliens i was told to beware five levels ago and uh like six or seven hours ago they all have that bfg weapon that i have and i don't have any idea how that [ __ ] thing works so i just run i get the key there we got the shuttle back there's no boss you get the shuttle oh that's perfect that's wait no we're going too far this isn't what i signed up for i'm just a guy why am i going into space is this part of the story like do they think this happened does brazilian alex jones know what you just go with them and then the credits roll in comic sans you wanted dos trash i give you comic sans wait a minute this game was sold off to the special forces this can't be the game they trained on that's impossible there's only one explanation this is the game they wanted you to play not the real one i mean in 1998 this game can barely render 3d models it's just like alex jones and dan aykroyd said the real game would have told us too much there were aliens in brazil in 1996 but to discredit the sightings they made a terrible awful shitty game based on it it's a smoke screen rendered in 256 colors it is a violation of the most basic design codes we have and it is the best indication of a massive plot in virginia listen okay does your phone battery drain when you don't have the facebook app open where is that power going you think that's the aliens of course you do that's what you're supposed to think zuckerberg isn't an alien yet you'd think the anthropomorphized essence technological innovation john carmack left facebook to create artificial intelligence because he felt like it are you insane he knows zuckerberg wanted him gone but it's dangerous to try and rub him out to cover his tracks do you run out of kleenex paper towels and toilet paper at the same time i'll tell you exactly what happened in 1996 oh [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Civvie 11

Views: 526,434

Keywords: cv11, civvie11, civvie's dungeon, aliens, ufo, the varginha incident, fps, jank, retro gaming, review

Id: YU0AWYGAeKI

Length: 24min 52sec (1492 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 04 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/igorg1202]

if i'm not so crazy, this game as made by my Brazilian game design prof. , and yes this name is a problem hahahahaha

[u/MasterFanatic]

You're not thinking what I'm thinking with the name, are you?

[u/WillFuckForFijiWater]

Civvie is so underrated. The only YouTuber I’ve ever seen tackle late 90s/early 2000s FPS games. He’s covered some really interesting stuff that you’ve probably never heard of or haven’t thought of since 2002.

Link to You Are Empty. such a great video, one of my personal favorites.

[u/Kaiserhawk]

This video was a slog to get through. Not because of Civvie, but because it's an ugly game with weird motion.