Tear Jerker / Civvie 11

• While most of the Duke Nukem Forever video is comedic gold, the Alien Hive level is not. Especially once Civvie reaches the Holsom twins who are captured, tortured and trussed up in grossly sexualised ways, about to die from alien embryos and begging Duke for help, and Duke, normally the savior of babes the universe over, replies with a needlessly cruel "Looks like you're... fucked." Civvie just... loses it, repeatedly looping footage of that with earlier footage of a raging Duke vowing to make the aliens pay for kidnapping his babes. The footage loops and mixes again and again and again. After all's said and done, Civvie just... sounds both angry and heartbroken, ranting and lambasting everyone involved in said scene, including "totally woke" Randy Pitchford, who had to have seen the segment and signed off on it just fine. It's pretty terrible hearing Civvie just sound so disgusted with a game, not the usual "comedy reviewer angry" type but legitimately "both angry and disappointed."
• After Civvie has Katie use the "Raw" clip in his Redneck Rampage (not that it's entirely undeserved), Katie protests, and then it cuts to her viewpoint, with her watching Hell's Kitchen and audibly sobbing. Poor girl deserves a break.
• While it is kinda funny how he chooses the bad ending option at first, Civvie just... sounds so beaten and broken when trying to defeat the final boss of Rise of the Triad (2013). Its jank as hell, the boss is absurdly overpowered and the arena itself can kill Civvie. If it weren't for that cheese, that episode would have had a straight up Downer Ending.
  Civvie: You wanna see where I gave up? I'd been fighting him for half an hour, and he rips me out from behind a wall and one-hits me. Now I know what some of you are saying: "Get good, Civvie." It's not really an issue of "good", it's an issue of "This is cheap bullshit and I'm not gonna waste my time on it." I'm fine taking the L, I don't care... god help me I DO care and it hurts y'know? Letting some jank-ass game get the better of you, just because they designed it to be intentionally frustrating and cheap, and I know some of you really like that shit, but that's not why I personally play video games despite all evidence on this channel to the contrary. I like video games, I like when they're fun, and there's a special kind of connection you can have between the audience and the designer, a kind of communication, between art and artist in an interactive way. And this right here, is the artist telling me to go fuck myself. What're you gonna do? I tried...
• Civvie starts his Unreal review by a deceived rant against Epic Games for delisting their Unreal games from online stores, making disappear what made them the respected game studio they became today for poorly justified reasons. You can feel he breaks out of his character and expresses genuine concern for these games' legacy.
• During his 3D REALMS VIBE CHECK video, Civvie starts off with his usual persona up until the halfway mark where he verbally addresses he's going to break character hard and stop doing the bit, at first to tell his audience directly about how much of the show is meant to be fun at the end of the day, all as a preamble about not "wanting to be that guy to indie developers" before having to begrudgingly state all of his frustrations and worries over the states of Phantom Fury and Graven after playing their demos for the remainder of the video, seeing two promising games being ruined by directionless overambition. By the end of the video beneath the snark he levels at each criticism he levels at them, you can tell he's pissed he has to be so harsh but also deeply saddened by their states that it's hard not to share his feelings.