TOP 5 GAMES OF 2012 (Zero Punctuation)
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Yahtzee counts down his favorite games of 2012.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
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5 years and I still bang on about spec ops: the line. Definitely a game for the history books, without sarcasm.
Going on 8 years now. Still one of the greatest shooters ever.
AJ Fawxe gameplay wise no, story wise yes
even 10 years down the line Yahtzee still mentions it from time to time.
I've still not played it though, Although I know what white phosphorus is.
@@mozxz Do yourself a spectacular favour and play it ASAP. You won't regret it in the slightest.
You don't beat Spec Ops, Spec Ops beats you!
Only in Russia
I wouldn't say so.
Beats you into the sand
@@Masso851 Only in America
Given how Yahtzee sneaks Velociraptors into his reviews repeatedly, perhaps he should create a series called "Does It Need Velociraptors?" In which he reviews a game without Velociraptors, and determines whether the extra feature will be an improvement or a detriment.
10/10 with rice
Geth Infiltrator it always needs velociraptors
Geth Infiltrator | First up: L.A. Noire
Am I the only one who would watch the ever-loving shit out of Does It Need Velociraptors?
FandomMan | Nope.
"I want to be living in Mad Max within 10 years."
Hey mate, I'm from the future. We're not quite there, but I assume we'll pull it off.
Imagine a 2021 even worse than 2020 and there you go.
I mean, if the fires get worse, we'll definitely be living in a desert.
Not forgeting the tribalistic politics.
seems we might just be avoiding it this time, hell of a showing it did though
Got pretty close though init
Well 2022 IS somehow worse and scarier man 2020 wasnt Even that Bad now that I think about it.
Well, we're now at a month and change remaining in this time window.
Whether it skates in under the wire or not, you sure can't say they didn't try.
Wow, that comparison to the Justice League movie really aged well.
The Synder Cut of Justice League may of killed that now.
@@hardcoreharro Nope
@@hardcoreharro Yeah, no.
Spec ops the line is so worthy of playing that even though someone spoiled the massive twist before I even bought it, I wanted to purchase it and play through it just to reward the people who made it and experience it first hand.
So you knew beforehand and you still did it. Congratulations, you're even worse that the regular unknowing player of Spec Ops. Welcome to the club...er I mean welcome to Dubai!
I love how you can hear Yahtzee run out of breath and inhale so he can make more raspberry noises at the 1st worst game.
I really liked that too, very rarely do I outright laugh at some snarky gag.
The detailed payoff like this is what makes Yahtzee a true craftsman.
Does anyone else enjoy the updated thumbnails? It's a small thing but I really like it.
It is nice, isn't it?
5:31
3 whole years before the 2016 election people.
2020 reporting in, can someone get Yahtzee on the horn to print a retraction regarding the end card gag please?
Spec Ops: The Line FTW!
Dishonored is great
Mercenary Bassist it's one of my all time favourite's.
Add the Justice League movie to the list of things that Yahtzee predicted years ago.
Let's not forget "dresses up like Hitler and does impressions of people with cerebral palsey". That sounds eerily similar to a certain country's recent presidential candidate's comments.
Spec ops the line is the best damn game i've ever played, and still sticks with me even now
+TRACE MARTIN Dat white phosforus part man...
Especially when the loading screen is the twinkle twinkle little star one . Sticks with me
thanks to this review i was compelled to search 'people who have found copies of razzle in a hedge'
Spec Ops: The Line may very well be the single best game I have ever played. I got it as a gift about 6 months after it came out, and I thought it was just a generic shooter, so I didn't play it for about another 3 months, then I popped it in one day when I got bored of BF3. I don't want to spoil the game, but I still can't play BF or CoD without felling like garbage.
I uninstalled BF3 the day after I finished SO:TL...
Or rather, after SO: TL was finished with me.
in regards to Spec Ops The Line. I actually felt Capt. Walker's battle fatigue, mainly because I also saw the ending in which he didn't get himself killed or decide to stay in Dubai. in that ending, he chose to live sure, but he won't be the same man anymore
i completed spec ops yesterday now where did i put that history book
hey don't forget the branston pickle :D
hi? wtf
wait? spec ops: the line was actualy good? i thought it was a generic shooter :O going to have another look.
Its the exact opposite of that, in reality. Its one of the best games I've ever played, hands down, and a fantastic example as games being used as something other than mindless fun. Its not perfect, but in my twenty years of gaming, its one of the most profound experiences I've ever had.
Just some advice when it comes to playing it - plan, if possible, so that you can play the entire game in one session. Take a day to yourself or whatever.
Edit: Oh by the way, avoid spoilers about the game like they're the plague.
will do, cheers
woollerland If you do get Spec Ops: The Line, just expect it to be another generic shooter. Seriously. Lower your expectations and prepare to be blown away. It's a great game.
It looks like a generic shooter and plays like one but
it's an "Experience" that you have to understand and not just
a crazy fun game where you shoot out dubai residents and american "saviours" of the poor unarmed Dubai-ers.
***** Shit, you're right :P
2:36 that moment you realise "this isn't a joke. Some guy actually did that"
I doubt Microsoft is very guilty of anything regarding Steel Battalion, considering it was Capcom's choice to make it use the Kinect for damn near everything in the first place.
but to be fair, that game killed the kinect the same way E.T killed Atari.
Actually, no it did not. It didn't make it useless for games like The Gunstringer, Dance Central and a few others. Games that used the Kinect for what it is best used for.
juggos205622: Because no devs outside of Harmonix and a few indies bother to see what works best with the device versus use it for gimmick appeal. (Bethesda threw their hat in with the Dragon Shouts, and Bioware did the same with Squad Commands/Dialogue options in ME3. Load of good those did.)
In that instance, of course it'll suffer. Not for the best reasons I would argue since I've enjoyed my time with mine.
juggos205622: A racing wheel and pedals are gimmicky, but they're fine for racing games.
Plastic guitars, drums, keyboards and microphones are all gimmicky, but that didn't stop Rock Band making a killing nor Rocksmith's production.
And let's not forget the GunCon controllers, which were sold for Time Crisis/HOTD games. Those were gimmicky, but those games were on-rails shooters.
The Kinect's best use is limited to the game types that use it to the fullest. So it can be used well, despite what some like to think. Or have we forgotten the hacks that some have done with this thing?
juggos205622 : Unless what you're doing would be better suited to flailing around in said space.
Why else would Dance Central, The Gunstringer or Child of Eden do well with Kinect alone?
By the way, that "metaphor" about a bloke thinking he invented a parachute-coat and jumping of the eiffel tower? It's 100% real. Even though it happend 1912, theres actually footage of the incident.
I keep coming back to this video because it was one heck of a year when it comes to games!
That thing about "the dude who thought he'd invented the parachute coat and threw himself off the Eifel Tower" actually happened, believe it or nott.
Spec Ops: The Line can be considered an anti-Call of Duty, or anti-Spunkgarggleweewee. Every time you start to enjoy the violence, it pulls on the choke chain. Also Spec Ops is more character focused, and is a third person shooter, and engages you with its dynamic story, and I love it for that.
+John Kiezulas (SAOKirito) It made me question shooting pixels. IT MADE ME QUESTION EVERYTHING ABOUT VIDEO GAMES *cries
Fun fact: Yahtzee actually started feeling physically ill after the WP sequence, and Yager Development considers the best 'moral choice' to make afterwards is to put down the controller and turn off the game.
I love the theme song but it's great to have it abbreviated at the beginning, especially when you watch 4 or 5 ZP's at a time
you should do it when you re-post videos to youtube
This whole thread of posts is fucking hilarious. Thank you, you brightened my day.
Spec Ops: The Line deserves GOTY for every year where there has been a military FPS. The lesson to be learned from it is just too great. And this is coming from an American "warmongerer." It's just one of those games where you bypass the average gameplay mechanics and look at the incredible voice acting (coughcough Nolan North deserves a damn Oscar for this) and incredible story.
Man, this video is so old the statement "dressing up like hitler and imitating people with cerebral palsy" was considered ridiculously over-the-top offensive and not behavior actively endorsed by the president of the united states.
Its really a big step in what video games can do. Its awesome.
Yahtzee your reviews are fantastic and i must admit laughing a little to hard some wee came out.
because of this I bought Spec ops and as a musician I was joyed and as a person I was horrified. great game.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is definitely amazing. I've already beaten it once and plan on beating it again. Spec Ops: The Line is next on my list. :D
I had a lot of hope for Amy and it just ended up being so bad. :(
5:16 I wasn't ready for that inhale 😂
No, I had not checked any of his videos out at the time, but now I've seen them and know where he stands.
I loved dishonored, one of my favourite games of all time...
5:32
As an american, I'm absolutely amazed at how ZP predicted our 2016 presidential races' Republican front runner...
you.
you know what's up.
CraftKitty I'm still shitting myself over what may happen this November
+Wise Sage Bum its a scary time isn't it? but we'll get through it.
CraftKitty I certainly fucking hope so. I'm mainly afraid that if Trump does win, his followers may take it as implicit permission to be more outwardly horrible... and to top it all off, I'm an Indian guy who's constantly confused as being Hispanic, Arab, or Black.
+Wise Sage Bum yeah. he's said some terrible things. its truly worrying that people are supporting him. he goes against every single thing this nation stands for.
Rocking out to Zero's Music at the End !
thanks to the subpar 2013 lineup, we can now look forward to more episodes of zero punctuation
Not seeing any Ubisoft games in the 5 best these days
Does anyone know the choir music?
+Theodore Caesar Moseby 6:16.
Ben Ward Thanks
It's actually by Darude, the title of it is Sandstorm.
that picture fits so well...
As a big fan, i'd argue this was your harshest and best review yet.
"There's offensively bad and then there's the kind of bad that dresses up like Hitler and starts making impressions of people with cerebral palsy"
Did Yahtzee predict Trump?
YOU'RE ALL WRONG, I'M THE BESTEST, NNNYEAH!!!
Who da fuq are you?
VanguardFencer
A fuqing champion, now move, I got winning to do!
The green beast of Konoha.
I read that in Guys voice, it was amazing.
go away, fucking narushit weeaboo
I have all of the top five best as of yesterday, awesome
Glad you enjoyed it, I may stop soon, I'm no longer getting any fun reactions.
damn 2012 was a good year for gaming
Arguably the best of the decade
@@JustinCage56 According to Yahtzee's end of decade lineup, 2011 was the best year of the decade for gaming and 2012 was the worst year of the decade for gaming.
Everything's Fuuuuuuuucked VELOCIRAPTOR: The Motion Picture.
ALL MY MONEY.
Dishonored was a fantastic game with iconic gameplay that makes you want to replay it over and over again
That and the simple fact that you can pretty much power yourself up way before the end of the game. So many games have you get the best stuff only towards the end, having the ability to optionally have the best stuff as early as you want gives you infinitely more time to go badass on everything in sight.
So did Yahtzee like or dislike Dishonored?
He liked it more than the other shit he's seen. But, in his opinion, that doesn't make it a good game, so much as comparatively better than the lake of bad games he's sailed through. Kinda like the one chick who surrounds herself with ugly girls to make herself look better. You know the one.
Dishonored was entertaining, imo. The supernatural powers brought a fun dynamic to the game without being a necessity or a crutch. The morality system was a lot more fluid than in most games and the fact that there's a "don't kill anyone" challenge looming overhead was nice. Granted the story was pretty typical fair, but overall still an entertaining game. There's enough bells and whistles with ammo types, weapon types, and various other traps and such that it feels very sandbox-y without being aimless. That being said, I would have to say that it had fallen prey to the "gray/brown = realistic" illness that's overtaken the gaming industry.
***** It would be cool if they made a sandbox game within the dishonored universe.
Tell me about it, all of his reviews feel like an underhanded compliment at best, just saying. And I'm not saying they're bad, just counterintuitive at times then he actually does like something
Steve Stevenson figure it out, your smart, aren't you
"I want to be living Mad Max in ten years or less."
It's been five and Donald Trump just got elected president, so I think we're looking at Mad Max within good time, Yahtzee.
One year later still waiting on your prediction. Any day now 😂
While we are at the topic of Trump, 5:30 lmao
Well we're halfway to 28 Days Later, anyway.
Love that Yahtzee mentions here train simulators in his "not interested" pile, yet apparently has a soft spot for truck simulators as show in drown out.
3:37 Quickest but still accurate summary of the Kinect so far. :-D
But you can't expect that tech progression to happen overnight, so I do applaud them for taking the next [awkward] step.
Spec ops the line is AWESOME!!!! any1 ho didnt play it go do it now you wont regret it ;)
Aww, don't knock down RTS!
Which makes it more amazing.
wow , I'm almost flattered
And on this Stop of the Zero Punctuation/Yahtzee Chronological Bingefest, we see him coin the term "Spunkgargleweewee", a term he comes to use just often enough to bother remembering it and what it means.
Spunkgargleweewee, (n) Spuhnk-Gahr-gull-wee-wee A term used to define modern military shooters with little to no originality, see: Call of Duty, Battlefield, Medal of Honor.
"If you've never played Ultima Underworld, System Shock 2 or Arx Fatalis but have played Skyrim and think the world of it, you're not a hardcore gamer; you've no idea of the past history of similar games"
You know, you could just let each player decide for themselves if they're "hardcore" or "casual" instead of creating an arbitury standard that you slap on every gamer wholesale.
Just a suggestion.
I like making my distinction between hardcore and casual as leaning towards almost every player is casual. I define the casual crowd (of which I am one 90% of the time) as people who play games for fun. This is not a bad thing.
Meanwhile, I define a "hardcore gamer" as someone playing for something greater than just the fun. This "greater" thing could be competition, such as professional League of Legends or Counter Strike, or it could be seeking an emotional experience outside of standard gaming such as with Specs OPs: The Line.
Part of the problem with actually dividing gamers into 2 groups the way most people want to is that it makes one group seem lesser, like they aren't as good as the "hardcore". I feel dividing players into interest groups helps smooth that out, as games are primarily a source of enjoyment. This also allows players to bounce back and forth between groups as they wish. For example, LoL pro-player TheOddOne will stream other games at times; things like Osu and CIV 5 and CS:GO. These are games he is not taking seriously and is just playing for fun (IE: casually). Compare that to his high-level play in League of Legends and you can see two fairly different players. Hell, he's not even 100% serious playing LoL all the time in solo-queue.
It seems that to be considered a 'hardcore gamer' one has to have played and liked every game I've played and liked or to make it simple, every game...
Is it that hard people!?
Aw, are you severely butthurt over the fact that I'd actually do something as horrifying and mind-blowing as calling to reason ON THE INTERNET???? There there, mommy will kiss it and make it all better.
Christoph Brinkmann You didn't understand Tom was enacting the "Hardcore gamer".
Well he's really, really horrible at projecting his intent, then. Especially since he didn't say a single thing about mocking the hardcore gamers in his post, instead it's just some juvenile personal attack that takes the imagination and creativity of a 3 year old to create.
dishonored really was a great game, the decision making factor made it compelling enough for me to play through twice and it stayed interesting because of both the achievements (play through the game without killing anyone, play through the game without being seen, etc) and the ways you can combine both weapons and magic for interesting kills
I like you ^^ we need more people like you in these youtube comments sections.
They should make more new games.. Less sequels!! And don't tell me it's hard, give me an afternoon and I'll have a new game for you.. I doubt it'll be the best but it'll be something else damnit!!
How to know if a "hardcore" gamer is a hypocrite.
-If they like the new Zelda games.
-If they think the new elder scrolls are bad.
-If they thought rage wasn't a fallout 3 ripoff.
-If they saved Jane and shot Kenny in the walking dead game.
-If they don't believe final fantasy is out of ideas.
-If they believe sonic and mario will survive this console generation.
-If they use a mac for gaming.
-If they believe the new CoD is even remotely as good as the old.
i will never understand how somebody would shot kenny and save jane ...
btw ... you are not a gamer if you use a mac .
ikr.
***** jane's just some random lesbo,kenny has a history with you.
*sigh*
Kenny was a loose cannon/ ticking time bomb waiting to explode if Clem killed the baby on accident, like he thought Jane did, then what? He'd either shut down and shun her or flip the fuck out and beat her ass and/or kill her. He has shown he can't operate in groups pretty much the whole time you've known him and he's a generally a dick to most people. Honestly I killed him out of pity because no one deserves to suffer as much as he has and will continue to suffer. And, yeah, Jane fucked up with the whole dead baby scheme but she really did care about Clem and is emotionally stable enough to continue surviving and take care of the baby.
Also, spoilers. oops
- Never really found Zelda interesting.
- Elder Scrolls series has overall bad combat mechanics, so meh.
- I think Rage was more of a game made by people with writer's block.
- Haven't played Walking Dead, and I'm not interested enough to try it.
- Final Fantasy isn't out of ideas. But no one said those ideas were good either..
- Judging by the sales of Mario 3D World, I'm pretty sure he is doing fine. Sonic.. well, the team survived Sonic 06, so I wouldn't really bet on anything.
- Who would even own a Mac in the first place?
- Wait.. are we assuming CoD has been good at some point?
"It's only when you try to do something interesting that you crash and burn in the most spectacular way." Sounds like a pretty good description of the "Warcraft" movie. Oh, and also, that "parachuting off the Eiffel Tower" guy really existed. His name was Franz Reichelt, if you care to know.
"There's offensively bad, and then there's the kind of bad that dresses up like Hitler and starts doing impressions of people with cerebral palsy." So . . . "Amy" is Donald Trump?
good choices couldn't have said it better myself
You, sir, deserve a cookie.
He mentioned it at the start of his Quantum Conundrum review.
i loved both xcom and the walking dead but for me it was spec ops i loved the choices in the game because they were completely implemented through the mchanics and always had another option that most players probably wouldnt think of for example when you had to choose between shooting the civilian that stole water or the soldeir that killed his family i actually shot the snipers, i didnt menaged to save neither but it felt really apprecieated the authenticity in that game
holy cow, now that was a "show reply" clicking adventure! I'm not sure what to think of that 5 minutesof my life,lol
i have cerebral palsy so the final joke is hilarious
Oh, and even though this is 8-bit, Lone Survivor's also pretty scary but in a way that doesn't just make you scream but make you wonder
I have largely upgraded my arsenal since Christmas. :)
Good job
What sound clip did you use for the best games? I rather liked it
Well that's a nice way to put it :)
i loved that game! tho i remember the problems, like i killed someone holding key to next area, key fell down a hole i couldnt get into as i didnt have the key. happened a few times
At first i did not knew why the line was first then after playing the white phosphorous I thought you were a masochist but after ending it I praise your judgement over good games
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Check out the beginning of his Quantum Conundrum review
Spec Ops is actually my favorite too for 2012.
I feel so fucking special for choosing Dishonored and X-com randomly as my two games to buy this year. X-com literally had me throughout, loved it so much.
Amazing
loving the trolling
Spec ops the line is finally given some of the justice it deserves...
He said a long time ago that quick-time events aren't as bad when they are a core part of the gameplay, where you should expect them at any moment. The way quick time events are done wrong is when they pop up unexpectedly during more organic gameplay and elevating the chance of you missing it because you have to switch from one gameplay style to another..
It's just part of his usual song, which can be found in full by doing a CZcams search for "Zero Punctuation Theme" or going to: escapistmagazine . com/content/music.php
That's almost exactly what Yahtzee said about it, so... congratz on sharing his opinion.
Agreed; Spec Ops definitely dragged me kicking and screaming through the deepest recesses of the darkest areas of the human heart. But to glance at it...it's just a third person cover-based shooter.
I can kind of agree with you on that, I had to put the game down on the lowest difficulty to enjoy it, because I died at one part at least thirty times. But even after that, I'm still feeling the depressing affects this game gave me two months after playing it.
What's the name of the choir music that Yahtzee uses during the best list?
just googled it, and there are 2 meanings: verbal, which, in a nutshell is sarcasm, and situational which directly means: "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result."
Those are my two favourite games.
At the end? It's on youtube, just lookup Zero Punctation Credits Tune
You know that "does impressions of people with cerebral palsy" was supposed to be the most tasteless hypothetical thing he could imagine...
you mean next to all the forgotten flame war threads
I'm sure you see this a lot, yet, I must say it: Damn your icon! This is the third time this week on YT I raised my hand to squash something then pausing a second later to realize it wasn't real....and then at one point finding a small arachnid chilling on my escape button. Well done sir.
Well played.