I hadn't even noticed. Well, it's also possible he enjoys just repeating "Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom" verbatim 😆

@@LocalSlasher It is a pretty fun name to say.

@@PickleJello Yes, Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom is pretty fun to say! We could all use more phrases like Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom in our lives

And also against using phrases like "purity and greatness". This really was a PSA-heavy one

That is my weekend plans ruined...

Wait WAT

3:09 Oh okay XD

PSA to Mr. Hands reference pipeline

The title is also the same as a kick-ass Judas Priest song!

Dishonestly,

The title reminds me of the swans album children of God

When it all comes down to it, are we not all children of the sun? Energized by its rays, feeding off the crops and crop-feeders that rely on it for warmth and photosynthetic nourishment, surviving off what little light and heat still reaches us in winter so we can then suffer through another boiling hot outside-is-an-oven summer while the corpo fucks and climate change denialists make ever more nervous faces at the growing mob of people about to hold them fucking responsible any year now...

Children of the Sun is actually a bloody class game on top of it all. Wonderful if short.

"I also knit you this sweater."

is that the same demo that had a virus on it that wiped your bios

@@donowa5637 I think that was Myth II: Soulblighter.

@@mrsejanoz523 and the "virus" was an uninstall button

@@mrsejanoz523 that only wiped your hard drive, the one i'm thinking of had the power to wipe your bios, completely bricking the pc and preventing you from reinstalling windows

It's a freaking delight. Already restarted the game like 5 times, the movement is just so fun.

goty for me

bought it off this review. it's genuinely great. i'm in my 30s and it's like being transported to my living room in 1996. it feels like what those platformers felt like at the time. but better.

Seems kind of thin skinned

@@Ceece20skin so thin it’s translucent

Are they acting weird towards public response? I didn't really follow this game so i don't know a thing about ir

@@alex.g7317 I get wanting to respond like a fanboy gamer would, but there is a huge difference between being a gamer and a dev.

@@gustavohuehue7460 they got a bit unlucky with it, they were throwing around wild accusations at reviewers in a private discord, but it got leaked by someone there

ew, genuine feelings. ugh. ;)

Played the demo and yeah it's the name of the central cult iirc

Maybe because "Children of the [anything]" sounds culty. There's even a movie called "Children of the Corn," and it's culty as all get out.

Honest question: was there ever any hype for it? Like I know the first game was good but I legitimately didn't hear about Phantom Fury's initial announcement and eventual release until big-name youtubers made videos on it a week later. Legit no hype for the game outside the diehard Ion Fury audience.

@@OptimusCrime1223Same here. The first one was rather good and scratched my Build Engine guilty pleasure itch really nicely, but the sequel just went under all my radars up until very release. Or it’s been a week since? Anyway, I wonder how did they massacre my girl Shelly this time. Was it even possible to screw such a solid foundation established by the first game? Unfortunately, I have zero interest to find this out for myself T_T.

@@Saint_Gerund >"Anyway, I wonder how did they massacre my girl Shelly this time" Because they keep handing the IP off to different teams. They might all be published by 3DRealms, but Bombshell was made by Interceptor, Ion Maiden was made by Voidpoint, and Phantom Fury was made by Slipgate-Ironworks. Nobody has any idea how to build off anyone else. It's the Star Wars sequel trilogy problem all over again (and I say that as someone who actually likes episodes 7 and 8)

@@TARINunit9 ex-dev who worked at interceptor/slipgate here, *some* (don't know exactly how many) people who worked on bombshell also worked on phantom fury. Interceptor basically got purchased by the *bleeps* at embracer group and that eventually got turned into Slipgate Ironworks. Cant tell you much more as I was working on an unannounced canned game.

It's certainly disappointing, since Ion Fury was actually pretty neat. Thing is, Ion Fury was made by the folks at Voidpoint, while Phantom Fury was handled by Slipgate Ironworks and 3D Realms. But while Phantom Fury likely suffers from similar problems to the ones present in Graven, it's probably a fair bit better than Graven.

I'm an old fogey, so I got it too.

@@Unknown-jt1jo Hello, fellow oldie.

love to see it

I think it's mainly to appease stealth players who like the idea of sneaking through a base and turning turrets against their enemies. It makes sense in that manner but it is still a very odd concept. If you were to put a terminal before the turret that say requires a password or hacking gate, players might look at it as something that NEEDS to be done even if they are not specced for it. It's hard to really to get down right, I think the closest would be the Deus Ex series but even then the usability of such placements were pretty limited.

@@Fishfish458 I think Deus Ex could make a good run at it because it had big levels filled with relatively controlled paths - a lot of urban spaces, usually with you moving to a defined destination. So you can put reasonable expectations on where the player will be coming from and what elements they'll see in what order, at least, with some probability.

I always thought it mostly made sense from an in universe perspective. It sounds obvious to place the controls for the turret behind the turrets away from the people who'd want to get past said turret. Of course if it's all automated, then there's the problem of "how do we get back inside" if something goes wrong and now the guys who are supposed to be behind the turrets are now on the wrong side of them. So having a manual bypass would make sense, and could give a justification in game play for why it's out of the way. You don't want to put it somewhere obvious so any jack hole can find it.

@@geraldposter1496 also, alternative routes

From a story sense it does make sense to put the controlpanel for the turrent behind the line the turrent defends, otherwise intruders could just turn off the turrent before it gets a chance to shoot The only time it makes sense is if ya use an alternative route, lockpicking into a controlroom or some other way of entry that doesn't invalidate the placement of the turret

What I remember from Sin: The game is extremely horny for the bad guy, but your sidekick in the 1st and only "episodic" entry was more my type. There was also a secret room in that which pointed out that they'd made it to release before DNF... twice. And that's it.

I remember Sin existing...I may have even played it. But I don't remember anything *about* it...

I remember SiN's loading times being the focus of the very first Penny Arcade webcomic. Don't remember a thing about the actual game.

Sin is most remembered for the character the game is named after and a scene you can only view through noclipping.

@@xizar0rg "Rub a dub dub..."

It's my game so I might be biased but this name is pretty dang crazy: CHIN CHINNY CHIN MOUSE CHEESE CHIN TOES

The best one was Yahtzee going back to swearing. Love a good ol' unlubed version for free.

Hasn't he reviewed Balatro?

Pacific Drive will definitely be there too. Ironically also a car game.

​@@SimpleSaemple I don't think he did, but he talked about it in a Semi Ramblomatic video.

I'm crusading for the sun coming up tomorrow! Please give me donations

Did you watch the last second wind ("windbreaker") podcast?

​@@MegaZeta I feel like you thought you were saying something clever there but for the life of me I can't imagine what.

For me, I know SiN from Internet Historian’s Expleened video

Ross is a true hero.

A retreaded N64 game is more creative than 90% of the AAA(A) games out there.

@@jamesrule1338 No, it isn't. Games of that era were, on average, just as bad, if not worse, than games of this era. Watch the video to the end.

@@MegaZeta This is a very "No, but yes" situation. Like, the PS1 and 2 had a bajillion games for example, and I love that about it. And that doesn't compare to AAA gaming.... That compares to having a sea of indie games, honestly. For two, it always depends on what games you're comparing anyway, and your own tastes. Like I replayed Rayman 2 and didn't like it as much as I used to. But I replayed Tomb Raider 1, and yeah, I WOULD play that over a LOT of AAA games, and that was AAA at the time. There are all sorts of classics that hold up. And as far as those bajillion PS1 games, that's like gambling on not high-visibility indie games, and it's really fun, and I would also play those more often than some AAA games. But not all of them. Yahtzee clearly has a more pessimistic view of some of the non-memorable games maybe, in this case PC games, and that's fine, it makes sense to feel that way. And as far as new devs retreading old games, a lot of the time they do a very good job and see the things that made it great. So no issue there. Like Corn Kidz 64 that released last year was so good.

I mean, you might like them more, but they aren't doing better by any measurable metric. Sure, sometimes one might take off in popularity and review well, but that's one in one hundred. Meanwhile, we get like 100 AAA games in a year, and most of them sell well and review at least all right. You just only see the better N64 stuff.

@@soulslikefan6760 That partly comes down to marketing budget and visibility. An indie game typically has no budget to run ads or sponsor videos, so they only get discovered by chance for the most part and can't really turn a profit. Meanwhile most AAA games spend enough on marketing that they could fund 1000 indie games with money left over, and that in turn means that even poor quality AAA games still tend to make quite a bit of money, and get a lot of attention from reviewers and youtubers. Not to mention that most review sites are kind of corrupt and review AAA games more leniently than they do other games, because they're afraid companies will stop sending them review copies or inviting them to press events. It's not really a question of whether they're better games or actually more well received by people on the whole, so much as just a question of being able to reach a much larger audience due to money. Don't get me wrong, there's also a lot of shitty indie games out there that someone clearly just spent half an hour building and tried to make money off of. It's just that there are also a lot of good ones as well with a lot of heart, that people will never find because they don't have money for marketing and didn't happen to catch the right person's eye.

Yeah it's a deep cut. Possibly too deep.

No, it wasn't

@@MegaZeta Oh, I see, we've got a captain contrarian here!

Soldier of Fortune was _fantastic_ and _iconic_ and I will _not_ abide this egregious slander! (Says the guy who liked the game so much that he worked for GameSpy's Planet Soldier of Fortune back in the early naughts.)

Is the game good?

Lucky ducky. I’m still waiting for my delayed physical Switch copy-and *attempting* to be patient.

That's the Not!Suikoden one, right? I'm curious about that one, even though I only played 3 of the original series.

Thanks for the update, KZfaq user Strike-nz5gy

I'll probably come back to that and give a fair shake to the team recruiting/ town-populating part. Initially though I was really disappointed that the combat is somehow a step backwards from the smaller prologue game.

trashed on it less than i expected tbh. but i honestly think the boomshoot people who say its completely unplayable are pushing it a bit, it needs a fair bit of polish but otherwise its defo better than how graven turned out -.-

@@noblish Graven was such a goddamn shame how it turned out. It had potential, it had a really really great atmosphere, but it also had bugs. However the combat and gunplay design is the biggest problem with that game, I have no idea what the hell they were thinking with that spellbook, making it a utility "weapon" was a mistake.

​​@@starstorm9198Slipgate Ironworks has absolutely lost their touch man Trying to balance too many plates at once. They should have consolidated and focused on one or two major projects, rather than going for quantity. And Graven was a huge letdown. I'm annoyed I paid money for it in EA

Solidarity, brother! (Honestly, though, it's incredible that it's taken this many Yahtzee videos before he attacked something I hold dear!)

Oh...

The need for the Bobbitt joke to be explained makes me feel old as hell. Thank you.

This would not be the end of JW Bobbit's fame, however, as he would later come to the rescue of Val Venis on WWF Raw, where Wally Yamaguchi attempted to castrate Val, only for the lights to go out, enabling Val to get away. John Wayne Bobbit had turned them out, informing Val that no one should have to go through what he did.

UPDATE THE GAME IS INCREDIBLE

Last time I was early it had the same name but mildly worse audio

DUNE

The first one of these that's gotten me. Congrats?

this show has never had any other names and we have always been at war with Eurasia

Wasn’t it called something like Minimal Grammar?

Even after getting some notoriety they named the latest very obvious Penumbra game "Amnesia: The Bunker" because is a more recognizable IP

I feel like I should remember Sin but I don't.

Never played it, but does remembering the advertising count? I was a young lad around that time so...I remember the ads.

Nope

SiN certainly has enough of a cult following to warrant Nightdive making a full visual upgrade, despite already having released a sort of remaster in SiN:Gold. But what I'm getting from the reviews is that the appeal is not so much in the gameplay as in the setting. Which is fair enough, but something fans should probably be mindful of when trying to sell a modern gamer on it.

It would've honestly been way better if it hadn't been so rushed. As it stands, it got overshadowed by Half-Life anyway and we got a buggy, unbalanced mess of a game.

If it came out in the 80s it would have been awesome.

@@djoakeydoakey1076 Well, yeah, people in the '80s probably _would_ have had their minds blown by a fully 3D-modeled game. Kind of a given, innit?

Okay, you're a masochist.

I donno, man - he called Soldier of Fortune "forgettable" in the same category as Sin and I am _indignant_ !

You and me both, brother! Never forget!