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The Viewer constantly breaking into Yahtzee's home and annoying him is one of my favorite running gags.

"Nice legally distinct names" seems to be the whole plan for the creation of this game

I'm surprised that Yatzhee hasn't created a name for games that are "thinly disguised remake of games made by creators that don't own the rights of the original anymore".

I remember X-COM: Enemy Unknown, where the first time you see a Zombie made from a Chryssalid killing some poor civilian that spawned on the other side of the map, Dr. Vahlen would just say "it seems he has become...a zombie." You can tell the hesitation in her voice, that she wants to call him something else, but has to face the reality that this is an animated dead body shambling around and knows the soldiers are gonna call it a zombie too. If a tactical strategy game about aliens, which has every reason to call it an "infected" or "reanimated body", calls it a zombie, why can't anything in the modern day just call them fuckin' zombies?

The name takes on an extra special bit of "legally distinct enough to not be sued" when you know that the original name for L4D2 was intended to be "Back 4 More"

Okay, that ending was pretty clever. Lol "Surely."

Best ending in a long time.

Just like all the greatest writers of yore, Yahtzee puts immense meaning and beauty into even the first and last words of his reviews, the last being "breasts" and the first being "oh".

I feel like we have to stop saying Turtle Rock made Left 4 Dead. Crowbcat did a fantastic video detailing how Valve carried that game, instead we should say Back 4 Blood is from those who made Evolve.

That's all I need, a sound clip of Yahtzee just saying "Surely" and "Yahtzee" over and over.

"Say something Yahtzee." "Um...breasts" Oh, it must be Yank O' Clock in Yahtzee's schedule

The way Yahtzee says "deck building element" has me feeling some kind of way.

This episode’s ending was somehow even more terrifying than that one of Little Big Planet review.

Always loved how he represented AI bots as Terminators. Makes them look unnerving (yet hilariously incompetent).

The deckbuilding ending gag made me laugh more loudly than I care to admit

I predict that Back 4 Blood will be in the Top 5 Bland Games List at the end of the Year!

There's going to be blood shed at this year's blandest list final 5

"I'm with stupid" "Hello" Made me laugh a lot more than it really should have.

I've never understood the fascination with making something zombie related, and then calling them basically anything other than zombies. At this point, unless the fictional universe is from some time in the past before the word was common knowledge, everyone and their undead grandma would be calling them zombies at the first sight of the shambling hoard.

The ending of this video felt kinda surreal and I'm not sure why.

I'm so used to Yahtz going off harder than gender reveals in dry forests the calm ending to this absolutely broke me. Almost deafened my wife's entire conference call with laughter

I'd read a comic where the Riddler causes the apocalypse by being incredibly confounding

This was the hardest I've laughed at a Zero Punctuation in a while. Listening to the perfect monotone of the insane fan who broke into Yahtzee's house just to pester him as he slowly slips into a coma was perfection.

4:55 I want Yahtzee saying my name in this exact tone for my alarm clock. It's so smooth and comforting.

This week's episode: Yahtzee experiences ego death at the thought of cards

“Serious Man With Beard” made me laugh way more than it had any right to.

4:57 I need a 10-minute loop of this. Yahtzee warmly calling his own name, making me uncomfortably comfortable.

Correction.. there’s no new valve made content being made sure, but the endless amount of fan made mods/dlc over the last 10 years sure helps the life span

> What are you gonna do, play Left 4 Dead? Actually, yes, i will do that, since unlike all other "spiritual successors", this one's originator is still readily available to buy online (at least on all gaming platforms that matter), and has online and very populated servers. With FREE skins from workshop, no microtransactions, and no grinding for points to get cards so i can build my deck... I'm bored of this sentence already.

The way you ended their was making me laugh so hard, the dead pan “surely Yahtzee, Yahtzee, surely”

"this is the only new L4D you're getting, and you're stuck with it" I started playing Deep Rock Galactic again, it gets frequent updates. Bought Vermintide 2 as well because it was on sale. L4D2's players the last few days have also been higher than B4B's, so... New? Yes. Only one with new content? No. Stuck with? Absolutely not.

"Surely, Surely, Surely" Yahtzee: 'Don't call me Shirley!'

Back 4 Blood was a game me and my old L4D crew played for 30 minutes before booting up L4D2 again and reminiscing about the times when we all hung out every night. That was a good 6 hour play session.

We all know Valve doesn't want to continue left 4 dead because the next entry would probably need a 3 in the title.

That ending was probably one of the best things I've ever seen on KZfaq. Well done 👏🏽

4:33 Yatzee forgot at this moment about the colossal pool of mods and custom maps, didnt he?

That end gag was disturbing, if only because I can't remember the last time there was any amount of silence in a ZP video.

Well, the folks, who made Vermintide, will release a left for dead equivalent set in 40k. In a year or so, I think.

Remember how LFD(2) was highly replayable without leveled weapons, weapon mods, grindy unlocks, enemy weakspots or a "deck-building mechanic"? With memorable characters who had group chemistry and deeply immersive atmosphere and even with simpler mechanics was still regularly thrilling and you wanted to play it over and over again? Yeah.

To be fair, if I actually saw a police with his hat on backwards, I'd be 99% sure it's just some guy in a Halloween costume or something. Cops just don't seem like the type of guys to do that.

Is the title *"7 ate 9"* already taken?

It's rare you get a lot of dead air in Yahtzee's videos but times like that when they show up are incredibly funny

holy shit that bit at the end about the deck building

More alt b4b names: "Zombies 8 my wallet!" "See ya l8ter" "I played this game and all I got was 6 stamina upgrade cards!" "4 bland characters vs the world" And of course "Evolved 2: deader on arrival boogaloo"

I don't know why, but the "Extremely Alarmed Door" had me laughing my ass off. Excellent work, as always.

“Batman’s most confounding villain.” There’s something soft and adorable about the way Yahtzee says this 😂

That ending sounded a whole lot like punctuation. Thin fucking ice.

Surely "zombie" is in the public domain, or at least an eponym.

4:29 Acctually there is a lot of good campain mods for Left4Dead and geez ,how much time until someone rip out the assets from Back4Blood and remakes the whole game inside Left4Dead 2?

That ending is such gold..

5+ years and these never get old 🥰 Love ya!

"Surely, Yahtzee?" "Stop calling me Shirley!"

It’s funny how “ridden” and “riddled” can actually mean basically the same thing in this context

The sheer despair in Yahtzee's voice at the end there says more than enough about how he feels about that mechanic. That was beautiful. XD

yahtzee that's probably gonna be a 10 hour loop yahtzee.... surely yahtzee

Deck Building is mainly there for you to do silly things like crank your Accuracy up to 100% and never Aim Down Sight again, or get a stamina meter as long as the screen.

that deck building element joke was so good well played Yahtzee well played...

Has he ever used those lil terminator imps for bots before? They're adorable

that ending was great hahaha great videos

Best end video gag of them all 😆

Imagine making an entire pointless and convoluted card system to force replay-ability instead of just making... fun levels

the worst thing a game can do is be "not interesting".

Best content on KZfaq, I get excited whenever I see a new zero punctuation episode is released.

Yahtzee doing his best Keith Santagato impression at the end there

That ending was very nostalgic, reminded me of when Yahtzee had to talk about Borderlands 3

TBH the card building aspect of the game is the best thing it actually does lol.

The ending bit got me good

I gotta say it was quite freaky to hear Yatzy speak like that in a ZP vid

Man I haven't watched one of these in a long time, still hasn't lost its charm

Shocked and confused, that man at the end was definitely using full stops

Thanks to James Stephanie Sterling, I recognized that boglin reference!

1:11 Even in Left 4 Dead, the voice clips for most characters and the messages you find on walls called the infected Zombies.

My biggest problem with Back 4 Blood is the special infected, and how the game seems keen on throwing like 30 of them at you at any one given moment. They aren't even fun to take down; they're just obnoxious, as opposed to L4D2's cast of interesting monsters designed to split up the group. Back 4 Blood feels like a chore to play compared to the games that inspired it.

That is exactly how I feel about deck building mechanics in my FPS.

2:55 The BBC IPlayer is no longer a thing? Granted that i've not used it since the premiere of the previous Doctor Who series, mainly cos it lags a lot on my crappy internet.

That ending was slightly chilling..!

I remember the level in L4D with the corn field way better than I remember the B4B level with the corn field and one of those games I played last week and the other I haven't played for years.

Hands down my favorite Yahtzee x Viewer discussion. Love this.

1:06 The way he said Ridden, hilarious.

"Ridden" just makes it sound like they've got an STD. ... which on reflection does make zombies more horrifying.

There's a great video called: Back 4 Blood proves Valve carried Left 4 Dead. And it shows everything why Back 4 Blood is like comparing GTA5 to a Unity asset game. The L4D commentary shown also tells you why. professional stuntman animating multiple ways for the zombies to die and stumble. Different weapons and directions give different animations. -B4B just ragdolls. Sound effects for each special infected for how the player feels in the situation. -B4B uses one stock sound effects and it's not half as exciting. Depth to character personalities and design along with reactions and facial animations. -Bland basic movement with no care at all. Waves upon waves of infected and balanced to always add something to keep it going. -None of that. The tank was found to be too easy to kill from afar so they added it's rock throw and car push ability. -No range attacks so you can just stand and shoot it. Destructive environments and enemies placed to recreate that great moment they tested when a boomer exploded in a caffe filled with props. -Everything is stock stiff models. Attention to infected looking different and added different blood effects cause players couldn't tell them apart. And they place different infected in fitting areas such as clowns at a park or the wed couple at their wedding. -Stock basic zombies. L4D is a masterpiece of detail and care. B4B is just a cash in on recognition alone and nothing else.

Whats that Skippy? Your bleeding out outside the saferoom under a pile of Zombies, and the AI bot companions are stuck on invisible walls and cant heal you? What good news.

Ryvita Seatbelt is my new favourite simile.

1:45 seeing the whites of Yahtzee’s eyes is one of the most cursed things I’ve seen in a while

Haha - loved the ending! I appreciated the Boglins reference too - the 2nd time in a week i was reminded of them on this channel! They were (sort of) in that toy game Jesse and KC played in the last Hidden Gems stream too.

Best end gag in awhile

That 3 AM CVS Christmas gift run hits a little too close to home.

0:42 my theory is that Gaben has triptahobia

Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought ‘ridden’ is a stupid word for zombie. Still, not as bad as ‘freakers’ in Days Gone.

The ending might be one of the best bits you’ve ever had. Brilliant.

It was still fun when I played it with my friends and it is funny when get a magnum with a scope so you got a pocket sniper

1:51 my mom has that exact shirt.

The difficulty is definitely tighter than Left 4 Dead, particularly in Veteran and Nightmare, requiring game familiarity (despite Veteran's generalized in-game description for any FPS vet), and solid card decks (which takes farming Recruit a bit and unlocking them via supply lines). And likely voice chat. Corruption cards can also make your life more difficult if you don't have an endgame deck, which you won't starting out.

I don’t know, I found the bots to be more helpful. They have infinite supplies, auto aim that doesn’t hurt you, and will never accidentally start a horde.

I love how that ending is the first time in the 10+ years he’s been doing this that there has even been a modicum of punctuation.

the end joke got me good.

B4B is in that weird space of not innovating enough to be distinct while simultaneously being too different to measure up to the original. It's just... meh. I got maybe two whole playthroughs out of all 4 acts before my eyes glazed over.

Deep Rock Galactic scratches my L4D itch perfectly. It has those peaks and valleys missing from this game, but the multi-tasking element of it keeps it engaging and the polished traversal mechanics makes every level a slightly different kind of navigation puzzle. Rock n stone.

Right out of the gate, I was either listening to podcasts or music whenever I played this game