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Bungie in 2013: Destiny will change gaming! The world in 2014: Lol this game is trash The world in 2021: OKAY BUNGIE WE ADMIT IT, YOU CHANGED GAMING. CAN YOU PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK NOW

I love how he pointed out they gave him a literal list of bullet points to talk up and his response was to take the time to expressly piss on those bullet points.

"My opinion is currently down due to server issues" is probably the most apt review of this game

"It's amusing they think I'm capable of guilt!" It is humorous anyone thinks that.

"What do you mean a Live Service isn't the hottest industry anymore? We've been in development for years, surely the iron must still be hot!!"

IGN employees jobs are getting easier and easier, that even developers are writing it for them

Literally every word of the "stop trying to make every game cover every playstyle" rant is pure gold and God damn do I wish Yahtzee could just walk into E3, take the stage, say those words, and get the industry to stop trying to bland itself to death

Portal 2 was a good example of being able to optimize the game for both single and multiplayer by making it two different campaigns that focus on different things

1:10 Using the image of an American football for the word “football”? He’s officially been assimilated!

I'm sensing a strong candidate for "Top 5 Blandest Games of 2021".

I can hear the pain and betrayal in his voice. People Can Fly how could you?

This is the most game game ever made.

They asked Yatzhee for kindness and consideration? Really? Did they not realize who they were sending it to?

you can tell he put a lot of work into that speedrunning joke.

Outriders or How i Learned To Stop Waiting For The Server Connection Error and Realize Its Part Of The Games Features.

Yahtzee, the management game you played involved you hiring security guards to murder secret agents and building rocket bases. You haven't stopped being violent, you've just outsourced it.

Zero Punctuation metal album of the week: *Forever War On Hell World* by *Horror Planet* (tracks include *Fascists Versus Nutters* ) Zero Punctuation quirky indie rock track of the week: *Dispassionate Nihilism* by the *Judgemental Coconuts*

I think we have a contender for this Year's Blandest right here

When he yelled "pause the game," I felt it. Right here ❤

Ah yes, pause the game is back on discussion list. When AVGN said "Bottom line, have a pause button goddamn it!" Sure as shit no one saw this coming.

It seems like every time Yahtzee talks about multiplayer shooters he ends up coming back to Team Fortress 2 as the gold standard. And honestly I can’t disagree- I don’t know of any game that does what TF2 does better than TF2. After the lukewarm review he gave of it when it first came out I’m glad he’s giving it the respect it deserves.

the sheer number of games that simply do not have a pause function, purely because the game HAS multiplayer...

My vote in favor of PAUSE THE GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME.

I admit, when this game out i totally mistook for 2 other shooters before realizing it was an actual new game.

Nice to hear Yahtzee compliment TF2

Paul greengrass balancing a book on his head is my favourite line in this review and that's not easy

I think "Down due to server issues" should be a staple part of the rating system for game reviews. Says so much more than "7/10, it wasn't Call of Duty."

There should be an international law requiring the lead dev and who ever was responsible for the project at the publisher's end each doing a 20 min reaction video to the ZP review of their game while plugged into a lie detector to make sure their comments are honest. That would be equaly hillarious, iluminating and depressing.

The best thing about this game is that it had a demo I could be ejected from during the tutorial because of server issues in order to find out how bad it was. Saved me time *and* money!

What I find funny about these big games in retrospect is how quickly we move on. I was sick to death of seeing ad after ad on the lead up to its release, but had since totally forgotten about the game until this review plopped onto my feed. 😂

"Outrider Amber reporting for duty!"

I want to bring up the whole "cover-based shooter" aspect, because they do a pretty wacky thing later on in the game (I don't know how far he actually got, but here it goes). Later on, when you get to the forest level, they actually start to push you away from taking cover and instead do things a little more like Painkiller where you're constantly running around, blasting things to bits with your weapons and abilities. I actually really liked that shift because they actively encourage you to keep moving rather than sit behind a wall or a block. At some point, I stopped bothering to take cover, even when there were boatloads of chest-high blocks of wood or concrete, as I needed to dish out more damage with my abilities rather than plinking away at them from behind cover, a la Gears or Division. You quickly realize that you want to be moving as much as possible and be as close as possible to the enemy so that your abilities can heal you up and kill them quicker. Hell, there are entire levels where you're up against other human enemies and there is virtually no cover to be had, and the run-and-gun gameplay actually benefits the game a lot more, as it makes engagements more nail-biting and tense rather than feeling mundane and routine if it were strictly a cover-based shooter.

these critques actally make good points. Most of the internet has just been saying GUUUUH IT LOOKS SO UGLY GUUUH so my inner hipster was thinking "if everyone hates it, it might be good!" So thank you for this review, Yathz, I know better now

Another fun and creative review. I'm going to record what stood out to me. 1. Chewing a broom handle. That's a funny image. 2. Piss in a letterbox. Is this a common joke? I've never heard it before. 3. The baby is dead. Good grief. Is this a reference to the horror stories from the WOW days? [Shiver] 4. Pussyfooting. Always liked that word. It's true though. You can either do mulitplayer or you can do single player, but you can't do both equally well simultaneously. They're not miscible genres. And that's all the funny stuff that i recall for a first watch. Still in awe of Yahtz and his ability to write such an entertaining and inventive review full of amusing imagery. I rib him a bit at times, but he is truly a singular voice in the video game industry. No one else can do what he does. Must be all the bodily excretion jokes that just energize ones creative faculties if told often enough.

Conceptually there might be a way to balance multiplayer and single player, it worked for Dynasty Warriors, but the games you can pull it off in probably need specific genres and lots of evaluation & iteration. Things the modern industry apparently loathes.

1:09 Woah Yahtzee has turned into an American

Jim and yatzee both having server issues but the fans will find a way to just say it’s their fault

4:25 This was quite an interesting take from old Yahtzee here. My first reaction to this was Portal 2, but it had separate single player and co-op stories both optimised for their respective number of players. My next thought was the old Lego Star Wars games. Drop-in, drop-out co-op means the gameplay is completely accessible for one player or two. Maybe there’s a different rule for couch co-op games perhaps?

"it's like playing football you know, if you let something inflate itself first, you'll have a lot more fun kicking it in the face" Jesus Christ Yathzee

As soon as I finished the demo I knew I couldn't wait for this.

I'm surprised he didn't mention that there are no microtransactions or loot boxes

I wish we had the technology to create first person shooter gameplay with the weight, mobility, and gunplay fidelity of Half-Life 1

The speedrun gags gave me a good chuckle, ty for those.

Honestly I'd kind of like to hear Yahtzee's thoughts on Warframe. There's no way he make it to the big story moments like The Second Dream, but maybe he'd at least get to see Fortuna and Cetus, maybe get ground into mulch by an Eidolon? Could be fun.

This craze of live service looter shooter drives me mad

Review guides make sense, since 90% of game reviews are just an advertising trade without any actual value

4:00 The best rant on the current state of AAA Gaming.

1:45 Finally, a protest method I can get behind

Ohoho but dont forget! You can also just randomly log in to a completely naked hero as i did just after hitting level thirty! Boy what a fun time to be alive!

“AND PAUSE THE GAAAAAME.” Thank you, Yahtz. Someone had to say it.

I've now watched so many of these that I now instinctively double tap the right arrow key on my keyboard whenever I hear the intro music

Outriders: The Game You Can't Even Play

"We don't even have to burn it, we can just piss in the letter box!" I can do you one better: Leave a flaming bag of poop on their doorstep, ring the bell and run. Nobody's done that in years, they'll never see it coming!

2:55 I wanna know where the Water Temple comes in to this doomsday scenario.

Ding! Yahtzee is at it again! This guy be telling it like it is and I would totally elaborate too, but the rest of my opinion "could not connect to server due to internet connection error." :D

It's perfectly playable solo if you pay attention to how World Tier works and set it to what's manageable instead of letting it automatically spiral out of control.

The only franchise I've ever seen pull off single and multiplayer off together effectively is Super Mario because the single players and the multiplayers are in it for the same reason, unlike the split that Yahtzee described.

Love how he never let's up in his criticism

Played Outriders as a single player game and greatly enjoyed it. I also got it on Game Pass and never had any connectivity problems so there's that.

I will say that changing your world tier level will greatly help with the bullet sponge difficulty. Mine automatically changed so that enemies were spawning in 3 levels higher and it was impossible. If you lower the world tier down so enemies are your level or one level higher, it becomes a lot more fun and manageable.

In regards to games not being able to be equally enjoyable in multiplayer and singleplayer, I've found Deep Rock Galactic to be just about the closest to achieving this that I've seen. Multiplayer definitely better IMO, but the singleplayer is still very fun and not a whole lot harder/more inconvenient.

The ending gag made me chuckle. That was a good one.

Ooh that parting quip really got me actually, that was a zinger. Nice one Yahtz

I forever appreciate your second intro that can be skipped with two finger taps. Yes bless you

I wonder how he'll review the multiplayer component in Arkane's upcoming Deathloop. It's trying to bridge that gap with multi- and single player, albeit not through co-op.

"My opinion is currently down due to server issues" Jesus Christ I would call and ambulance but I don't think they could do much.

I dunno. I enjoyed playing the demo. I picked Blue and spent my time teleporting around the map with a shotgun and time bubbles, constantly getting shot but healing fast enough to not die from it. It was nice to play a shooter where your abilities were actually a significant part of the gameplay. Looking at you, borderlands. I'll probably pick the game up when it goes on sale and the servers aren't as swamped. If the ability-modifying gear at the end of the demo is a non-trivial part of the full game it'll probably be good fun.

“It’s amusing that they think I’m capable of guilt.” Yeah I think for most if not all of us, in terms of nerd culture, have hit that point.

Actually what AAA doesn't seem to get is this idea that perhaps you have difference health and damage amounts for when the player is alone. DS1/DeS did this WELL over ten years ago!

The game was pretty fun and enjoyable to run through in single player with the adjustable world tiers... once the servers were patched. Also, the price was right on Gamepass :)

Damn that football inflation analogy was next level clever lmao

Just for you yahtzee! I sure hope that Starbucks didnt have cameras pointed at the letterbox.🤔

As someone that chose technomancer class, the cover based shooting makes more sense since they can heal by doing any damage, not just using abilities

OMG That final line was brilliant.

A rule I live by, is that any game can be made more fun by playing it in multiplayer. It might not be playable, but it will always be more fun. So if you want to make a fun game, make it for singleplayer, then just shoehorn in that second player without a second thought. It might completely break the game, but trust me, it will be fun. Of course this means that any multiplayer game that's played in singleplayer, will be less fun. And since games are usually made to just barely be fun, that means multiplayer games when played in singeplayer, aren't fun at all.

I like how he included "water temple" on the speedrun list xD

Another awesome video....and on my birthday. Best birthday ever!

My favorite description on the steam store is that it calls itself a "Deep RPG"

5:00 This might be my new favorite joke

Whats funny is that Yaztee's complain about multiplayer is how mario lart was originally designed! They first tested the maps in multiplayer to make sure it was fun with friends THEN tested the single player mode to give solo sully something to do beyond balancing eggs near faulty wirings

Worth noting that People Can Fly is no longer People Can Fly, it is a brand new indie studio wearing PCF's mask. Safe to consider The Astronauts as PCF under a new name.

great review...have a fun sized Twix

Dunno if I can agree with the whole "impossible to make a game equally fun for single and multiplayer" statement. It seems very easy to make both no fun for anyone after all.

I had server issues for the first 24 hours after launch. It's been stable since. I played non-stop the last few days and the only problem I had was a hard crash when I tried to open a reward in the middle of a fight. I'm also playing it single player, and while it's clear it's optimized for multiple players, I've only had to abandon 1 sidequest so far, and that's right after hitting world level 9 against a boss. I came back to once my equipment scaled up properly and was able to take him out on the first try.

02:54 water temple 😂

That sucks the server cut out again right at the end of the review, I wanted to hear final thoughts. Glowing praise, I assume?

There once was a man named Smittoris Who chewed on a great length of licorice I'm trying to think Of a lewd final link But I'm sadly incredibly shit at this

1:20 you can try that but you're going to be swarmed by mobs of enemies as from what I've seen there is no adjustment

I was surprised to see this game get a fair amount of coverage on gaming websites. Given the cover I didn't think it was anything even remotely notable. But hearing it's a looter shooter, it all makes sense now.

Thoughts about the Monster Hunter franchise’s ability to balance single and multiplayer?

Lose track of Yahtzee for a few years ReDiscover him and it gets just better and better and better now with the ability to binge watch him

"It is not possible for any game to be equally enjoyable in both single and multiplayer. You can optimize the experience for one or the other but never both. And the sooner you stop trying to cover all possible audiences at once with the same great big money making hat the better." Absolutely! Now if we can just get AAA publishers to understand the same damn thing when it comes to PvE vs PvP and Hardcore vs Casual that would be just f'n peachy. Maybe great games like SWG, TSW, and Wildstar would still be alive.

"and I didn't stomp it to death" picture of yahtz with a stick that has big boot on end of it lol

The behind the scenes look of the industry combined with the no fucks attitude... I love these reviews

Brah I wish I had sever issues I couldn't even play the game black screen when you interact with first character at the intro.

Apparently all the low walls are meant to be cover for the enemies, not the players, & it's the enemies that are playing the cover shooter as you run about massacring them. In practice, it's still a cover shooter but every so often you get to kill 1-3 enemies at once despite the cover element.. If it doesn't crash or disconnect or glitch out.

Outsiders being developed by People can fly is definitely the most interesting thing about the game to me.

“I wonder why they made it a cover based shooter” me too yatz, me too. Most annoying part of the game, they made the game somehow terrible for being in cover and out of it

"AND FUCKING PAUSE THE GAAAAAME!" Damn that voice came out of nowhere.