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Remember kids, the best time saver is to not buy the game to begin with.

TBH putting Tom Clancy and the word ghost in the same title actually makes a lot of sense

"When you charge money for something that's limitless and effortless to produce like in-game currency, that's not a service, it's the death of economics as a concept." -Yahtzee Croshaw (2019)

Do you remember when to get more in-game currency we'd insert a cheat code rather than our payment info?

Ubisoft: we went from making sandbox games to litter box games

"If I paid double price upfront would you just not give it to me at all?" You're so on point man.

Tom Clancy family: he is in a better place, he finally can rest in peace Ubisoft: NOT EVEN IN DEATH DOES DUTY END

We've reached the ghost recon: breaking point

Ubisoft getting destroyed by Yathzee is therapeutic.

All of the talk about Clancy being dead in this one - I spent most of my life in the books and writing biz and most of my friends are from those circles. One of them was one of Tom Clancy's ghost writers. Clancy only wrote the first three books published under his name. He'd write outlines, then just synopsis, and finally vague two line story ideas in emails and had an office full of writers and licensing agents writing and okaying and selling the rights to use his name. For the last ten years of his life he wasn't a creative in the least respect. The few people given credit as co-writers and ghostwriters were usually friends and often had literally zero creative input on the projects bearing their names and the real ghostwriters never given their due. They didn't even get royalties. Their work was spec - "here's $4k, you'll get another $6k on completion" type work. I liked a lot of Clancy books, and my friend wrote probably the best of the later series. But Tom treated everyone like shit and bald facedly lied about all the hard work he did and the long lonely hours spent writing. A lot of guys with easily bruised balls would hate to know how many of their favorites were written by women, too.

I closed my eyes for a second and Yahtzee's talking about the death of global economics 101

If Yahtzee’s remembering Clive Barker’s Jericho even semi-fondly, things have indeed taken a turn for shit

"Ghost Recon: Break Wind" is the perfect title to describe this absolute fart of a video game.

Ubisoft when releasing a new Tom Clancy game :"TIME TO RAID THIS CORSPE FOR THE BILLIONTH TIME "

The last part really hits home. Can't even be hopeful for the new star wars game or dragon age 4 knowing that EA is behind the game. Or any Bethesda future releases due to how much they changed for the worse. Konami taking beloved games and turning them in pachinko machines. Ubisoft and Activisions greed. Blizzard's response to the Hong Kong Protests. Games likes NBA2k20 that have gambling imagery and still gets away with an E rating cause the ESRB are sent a 2 minute video by the developers and that is supposed to justify giving the game a fair rating. Thankfully at least now there is some kick back and hopefully it continues to grow

“Has the rent on his grave gone up?!” Yahtzee have you been playing The Outer Worlds?

It was a red flag that most of the advertising I saw for this was focused on Lil’ Wayne.

5:00 Look at this dude, he’s eating beans

The credits gag reminds me of the "Sonic Sez" short where an amazing toy robot is only $10, but it won't properly function without hundreds of dollars in accessories. "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!"

_"Like venom does to Spider-Man. Or Romero does to Carmack."_ I laughed more than I should at that.

Can confirm, Missing out on the merch was when my life really took a turn.

"When you charge money for something you can produce infinitely for zero cost, like in-game currency, that's not a service. That is the fucking death of economics as a concept." That's fucking brilliant. I'm going to use that the next time some gormless corporate apologist starts spouting their usual bullshit.

When you charge money for something you can produce indefinitely at zero cost, like NFT's... that's not a service. That is the death of economics as a concept.

The microtransactions broke me

Ah Romero vs Carmack, my favorite movie.

03:29 "Le Shrug" That's all. I'm french and this expression resonate deeply with my roots. :|

Jokes on you, my life started going downhill long before this video came out 🤣🤔😔

The first time anyone has thought back to clive barkers Jericho in a positive manor. Kinda shows how creatively boring games are getting

The death of Economics as a concept. The best way to describe microtransactions I've ever heard.

I’d love a “tactical” game where enemies are smart enough to chuck a basket of grenades through the doorway at you instead of belly flopping into the pile of their dead friends.

Damn he had so much to crucify he flew past the 6 minute mark Edit: even with the plug at the start taken out he would've been a couple of seconds off the 6 min mark

Ubisoft making Tom Clancy games: *Mr. Krabs voice* Am I really going to loot this corpse for money? OF COURSE I AM

When I heard a Ghost Recon game with survival theme, I was honestly pretty excited. Then I remember it’s made by Ubbysoft.

This game was about as lively as Tom Clancy.

Why is the island of nerds Bulgaria?

The is the single most brutal, most savage, most well crafted hard lined down to earth roast of modern "AAA" gaming that I've had the pleasure of listening to. Thank you Zero Punctuation very cool!

"Started going downhill" You say that like there's any further lower to slide.

Is breakpoint an intentionally trolling title?

The very concept of Time Savers are so hilarious to me. It is literally the developer stating out loud that their game is literally less than worthless. That it is so boring or terrible that it is worth spending money to not experience it.

Yahtzee: "When you charge money for something that's limitless and effortless to produce like in-game currency, that's not a service, it's the death of economics as a concept." Banks: *Nervously looking at the fractional-reserve banking system with fiat currency*

I like is justified rage. Especially when he reacted to icons.

Kind of amazing that these videos, while generally six mins long always go by so very quickly. You are massively entertaining. I know it's unlikely you'll answer this but how long does it take you to complete a video like this with all the edits and the Jokes in general?

"the average age of retirement keeps getting later and later" well, this certainly aged well

“When you charge money for something that you can produce infinitely at zero cost, like in-game currency, that’s not a service, that is the fucking death to economics as a concept.” This quote right here, this fucking quote just summed up the current AAA game industry as a whole. Fucking genius.

I find it fitting that this game is called Breakpoint because I believe this is officially the breaking point for the fans of this series.

5:15 Thank you Yahtzee, very well said.

I'd like to thank Ubi for this 2019 reimagining of the adult colouring in book for anyone who's punched a wall.

As good and as relevant today. Well done. (Was trying to find this for the 'time savers' bit... Maybe a potential short?)

5:24 C A P I T A L I S M

5:13 It was after this point where I had a moment of clarity and realized just how serious Yahtzee's point was. All of this digital currency we buy is technically destroying the value of real-life currency. Is me or Yahtzee misunderstanding this, or are we actually ruining real-world economies here?

Currently reading and enjoying said audiobook Yatzhee, well done!

Pleasant surprise at 5:34 of this vid. Good to know there's still good in this world.

The Mother of all sandboxes got a son. And she made it badly..

It heartens me that the herd is finally beginning to suspect that unrestrained capitalism might not be good for their favorite entertainment medium.

just finished "will destroy the galaxy for cash." damn good book. cant wait for the next one.

Yahtzee's head will explode when he finds out that Walt Disney is still making movies.

This review is absolutely legendary. Yahtzee is telling it like it is man.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost: Recon Breakpoint

I DO remember that great ZP merch and that WAS when my life started going downhill 😭

"It would only have been more on-the-nose if there'd been an unrecognizable voiceover by a film actor slumming it." So the question is, did Yahtzee not recognize film actor Jon Bernthal because he just doesn't know who he is, or did he not recognize Jon Bernthal because the voiceover was so unrecognizable, thus proving Yahtzee's point?

i died at “ghost recon mental breakdown”

This was a particularly good episode.

I can't believe Yahtzee just said 'Clive Barker's Jericho/Clive Jericho's Barker' in a tone of fond reminiscence. We truly must be in the dark times.

I love how you say "fucking mental" xD could loop all day

4:47 You know there's tomfuckery afoot when Yahtzee's voice goes off-track.

5:20 But Yahtzee, isn't that the ultimate form of capitalism? To maximize one's profits by literally spending no costs is why machines were created, right?

I've been following you forever and never realized you were also an author. Just picked up copies of "Will Save the Galaxy for Food" and "Differently Morphous" . Excited to check em out. :)

Beautiful and funny! Keep up the great work Yahtzee!

Anyone in here remember the original Ghost Recon on PC? How i miss thee

400 Views 60 likes 0 Dislikes. Perfectly balanced as all things should be

It's funny that he mentions Clive Barker's "Clive Barker's : Jericho" by Clive Barker. It's one of my favorite reviews by him ^^.

Every time I hear this awesome theme song I'm reminded of how I followed Russ Pitts and he went insane on twitter in real time.

You misunderstood the title. It's Recon Breakpoint by Tom Clancy's Ghost.

I wonder if there's going to be a ZP on Disco Elysium.

The romero to carmack whip fucking killed me sir. Good on ya.

Picking on John Romero never gets old. It's nice he can laugh at himself, cool dude.

Jokes on you my life has already started going downhill

"When you charge money for something that's limitless and effortless to produce like in-game currency, that's not a service, it's the death of economics as a concept." Hey Yahtzee, could you please give all those crypto-bros and NFT-diots a call and explain this to them? Thanks.

I absolutely love that every single Zero Punctuation feels like it could be straight out of 2009 KZfaq

I burn through his whole book through 1/8 and a half hour shift at work is really good

Sponsored by Lil Wayne

"it's like walking up to someone in the stocks and saying give me three turnips I'll spit in your face" Welcome to late stage capitalism Yahtzee.

I recently finished a run of this game that took 200 hours just to prove a point. You can finish 90% of the game by getting in a helicopter with 3 NPCs, flying the helicopter over an enemy base and letting the NPCs shoot everything dead. I cleared every camp on the map doing this. The 10% that I was out of the helicopter was walking to a helicopter, picking up an item or being in a cutscene (for the 5 seconds I was in it before I skipped). I fired a gun maybe 10 times in the whole 200 hours. It's the first game I've played where I've barely had to PLAY the game, there's no challenge.

Man, I miss the Red Storm days. Oh well, of for my yearly replay of Ghost Recon 1 I go.

Ubisoft staff: hey how are we going to make the new ghost recon Head developer: copy and paste division 2 add some slightly realism effect, only with the healing factor, cut all bosses out make it more about technology and less about the world ending KEEP ALL THE GLITCHES. Ubistaff: BET!!!!

Go back to doing indie games. The AAA market doesn't deserve your attention anymore.

I feel like the last part of this video is describing The Outer Worlds. The plot, not the microtransactions.

It's nice to see Yatzhee put John Ramero in a positive light.

I see Jim Sterling is rubbing off on you

The only review worth watching other than Jim Sterling's drunken rant, because this game doesn't deserve anything better

The way he described "the Ubisoft swarm slapping on (the name of) another corpse" made me think of Gravelord Nito

That last plug. Lol

I'm lowkey mad that Yahtzee would rather play more of these soulless shooters than finish reviewing Fire Emblem Three Houses

Top 1 blandest game of 2019?

5:02 MingeFlap, I’m crying from laughing

The year is 2022...many of us, looking back realized just how far down hill our lives have gone because we missed out on that Yahtzee merch sale back in 2019. Who knew something that seemed so trivial would have such harsh consequences on reality as we know it...

How did we get here, Yahtz? Simple: *neoliberalism.*

That end joke is the exact same thinking I think printer manufacturers have in their heads.

This is some of the sharpest and most incisive commentary I've heard from Yahtzee, even if he's said much of it before in some form or another.