Resident Evil 2 (Zero Punctuation)
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- This week Yahtzee reviews Resident Evil 2.
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I love the idea of Mr X being a socially awkward weeaboo with no sense of personal boundaries who just wants to show you his anime collection.
M'Leon.
I always had him as an MRA with poor sense of physical boundaries and a need to explain why MLP is genius in Claire's campaign. For Leon he was just trying to redpill him the whole time.
And having DMX play his theme in the background
Being a low key weeb, trying to talk to a legit weeb it really does feel like that.
*Administers herbicide*
*CRASH*
*Mr. X:* TRIGGER'S GONE DOWNHILL LATELY!
*Leon:* FUCK!
Oooh an alright from Yahtzee's high praise anywhere else
*buzz buzz*
buzz buzz
...and I shall continue. buzz buzz
BUZZ BUZZ intensifies.
*BUZZES HAPPILY*
It won't be long until Yahtzee starts reviewing remakes of games he originally reviewed here.
Spoon... Keh heh heh
I Hope he Review the Bowser Inside Story Remake that the original vídeo never was uploaded to this Channel (someone stole the vídeo and reposted on his Channel)
All we need is a remake of The Darkness, and Yahtzee's life cycle will be complete.
Waiting for the remastered of demon's soul
@@enricomarelli2022 X GON GIVE IT TO YA
“I played through Resident Evil 2... both bits of it.”
Looking at you IGN. 🙄
Well the difference between the A and B scenarios is not much so it didn't matter but people love to jump on the hate train
It's not whether they were similar it's that he claimed something without actually doing it which is bad for someone who is considered a journalist. Just because his opinion rang true doesn't mean what he did was right.
Anyone care to fill me in on what's going on with IGN2? Im not exactly understanding why people are mad at them.
@@Greendalewitch they didn't play the game but said they did and write that they what to save more people in the game
@@BadgunmusicII
Going to IGN for video game reviews is like trusting a Nigerian prince with your credit card number. IGN takes money from publishers, which means they have a conflict of interest. "7/10" is a meme because that's the lowest score IGN will give a high-profile game from a company that it takes money from, even if it deserves worse.
I never played the original, so no nostalgia glasses here, still thought it was a great game.
Its probably better without the nostalgia goggles, as that can set expectations too high.
I’m still on the fence between this or RE4 as my favorite but the only contender on my radar for the rest of the year is DMC5 for goty
Really? Apart from solid gameplay I couldn't find anything good about it - especially not the story and dialogs.
I played a little of RE2 at my friend's growing up and I have a copy of RE3 Nemesis that I'm about halfway through. The only reason I'd want a RE3 remake is to see how they implement Nemesis and his AI. Although the over the shoulder kinda makes me want to play RE2 remake because tank controls are ass. Especially in RE3 because you have to mainly turn your character to run in a direction while Nemesis can run full tilt in any given direction.
Re4 was when the series started to die, overrated trash
X its gonna give it to ya ......because you disrespected his waifu
yeah i will say it.
Tomoko is the realist wafui.
For Mr. X, it's gotta be Shion Asada from SAO 2. The only developed female character in the show apart from...
Oh, wait, he said waifu, not character.
@F.u.c.k Go.ogl.e I watched an anime once. Am I going to hell?
Something in the air tonight. Oh LORD!
@@AlmightyPolarBear And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
"lick my gritty pritt stick, viewer" has to be one of yahtzee's best, non-sweary comebacks in the history of ZP. Very visceral with a hint of double entendre.
Don't disrespect Mr. X
Or he's gonna give it to ya.
Mr. X gonna give it to ya
@Zack Smith Everyone in every re2 video comment section is making this exact joke. It's not original
@Zack Smith I wouldn't call that copying, you took the lyrics and made them fit for Yaht; they just made reference to the original lyrics.
Congrats to both ya for being funny bois.
That meme is already tired, mostly because of weak-minded parrots like you.
They made a mod for that.
"Alright" is a better rating of it than expected, glad you didn't rip your eyes out over it.
From what I've seen he normally doesn't like remakes/remasters since it's rehashing old crap. But regardless of personal feelings about the subject matter, one can't deny that the gameplay is extremely solid, the aesthetics are great, and it really sticks to the primary theme of survival-horror with it's resource management. Those three factors are things that Yahtzee tends to appreciate. Were this a completely new RE game I'd imagine he'd say it was excellent due to not being weighed down by the fact that it's a remake.
...then again I'm just some random asshole on the internet trying to pin down a critic's specific tastes. So what do I know? :3
If Capcom enforced the fixed camera and Garbage controls, he’d lynch the thing harder than those Italians when they got ahold of Mussolini
Yeah, its not stellar, as some people state it to be. 10/10 is way way too much.
Why?
Zombie HP is inconsistent. Dont care how this adds to the 'horror", its artificial difficulty. There is fun to play , and there is stupid. This is stupid. On top of that, their spawns are fixed(like in the classic)... i mean , its 2018, youd think theyd add some level of randomness at least.....
The tyrant is annoying.
Voice acting is meh.
Graphic problems and bugs , with lights and car textures etc..
Short length...(i mean, 3-4 hours at best). On top of that, the 2nd run and other campaings are not drastically different for the majority of the game(save for weapons and 20 minute segments)....
7/10. And thats being generous.
@@bakazura2442 Debatable. I hate the classic re games. They were way more clunky than anything id appreciate. They were slow, and tedious. Controls were awful. For what its worth, i did appreciate them being done with the superior play system, but in the case of remake 2, i did not appreciate the chunkiness and tediousness "true to the original".
@@cactusmann5542 Well, everyone has their tastes. It has it's problems, but I still thought it was a really good game, it did a lot of things right, added an improved version of RE4's combat system, and built a pretty good atmosphere. And, if anything, randomness would be artificial difficulty, even moreso than the inconsistent health (which I didn't even notice, tbh). I'd give it an 8.5/10. The problems keep it from getting a 10 for sure, but 7 being generous? I wouldn't say so, and I'm pretty sure I'm in the majority.
Honestly, the story bits are undeniably kinda dumb, but explainable. Claire doesn’t have a cell phone, Chris had kinda fallen off the face of the earth, Umbrella is a pharmaceutical company that developed the T-Virus, they’re not a conventional weapons manufacturer, and Mr. X is a *late 90s* ultra weaboo which is a much more intense and dangerous creature than the ones of today. He bored the licker to death with talk about how Aeon Flux is actually an American animation (common misconception) and how Ninja Scroll is a cinematic masterpiece.
(Edit: The fact that over a year later so many people don’t seem to understand that the whole joke was about the Mr. X weaboo thing and NOT the plot holes in the game saddens me a little.)
Underappreciated comment.
Ninja Scroll was ALMOST Hentai. Back in the days of "Let's give this woman a large-belt like skirt and constantly ALMOST show something, but don't." Reminds me of Cinemasins somewhat in so much as "All bad guys are rapists, ding" XD
I would still like to hear his opinion on Sword Art Online II
No Claire is not law enforcement, her gun train came from her brother and she's only a college student at this point. As for the phone issue, this in 1998, phones were way less common and generally less reliable, google only became a thing the same year for context on the limits of the internet. So even if Chris had a phone to call there would be very little chance of being reached given his location and the nature of his disappearance. Calling the police station or others is also a no go do to difficulty of finding such info or that such paths would lead to the same cover Chris gave. So given all that Claire's best chance of finding Chris is to Raccoon city and try and talk to any of the star members directly since its one of the only chances for Claire to get actual information were her brother is even if some would say its under cover work.
... I’m sorry I read ninja scroll and cinematic masterpiece and almost threw up.
I believe Claire did try calling Chris.
Also just worth pointing out that the game takes places in the 90's (1998 off the top of my head, I think) and therefore well before Facebook or even brick-esque cell phones were available.
@@firedog647 that's true. without facebook or cell phones, keeping in touch with someone - especially someone like Chris who was NOT at home due to important reasons - would have been MISERABLE without eventually actually going to the city where they live and hunting them down at their home and place of work. that's a REAL problem in 1998, though it seems totally trivial now.
@@westingtyler2 Ahhhh, the good old days when freezing people out and disappearing were so much easier
But after Yahtzee started making and releasing games online, @@firedog647
Yeah, I think she said she was visiting, because she hasn't been able to reach him.
3:22 How did he kill a zombie with only one headshot? Everyone knows Resident Evil zombies need somewhere between eight and eighty headshots to die.
If you're lucky you can kill zombies is one shot. Did it once in the first sequence of re2 remake
I thought that revolver meant he was using the Lightning Hawk
I know this is insanely late. But RE2 Remake implements a Critical Hit system.
When the crosshairs close in(when you're standing still and aiming), there's a chance(rare) that the bullet will cause the zombies head to explode. One shotting them.
I've had it happen a couple of times.
@@SakuraAvalon late here too as I've only just got around to actually playing the game. There's something extremely satisfying about thinking "oh bugger, a zombie, time to shoot him in the head about 50 times" and instead he just drops like a sack of bricks, brains coating the nearest wall.
@@djdave4656 Quite. I remember the Mag changed the game a lot.
"Pretending to be dead, are you? BOOM"
Was feeling pretty confident as I cleared out the room with 5 zombies pretending to be dead, only to then walk down the hall and get jumped by two Lickers. lol
that through the fence talk with leon and claire was spot on
Still more chemistry than anyone in RE6.
Old man yells at remake of cloud
No. Save that line for the Final Fantasy 7 HD Remake
holy shit, the awkward teen meeting at the county fair is gold
Yahtzee - "it was alright"
Translation - "GOTY contender"
You did the thing he specifically called out...
Buzz buzz
Sadly, you may be right. From what I've seen of the games slated to come out this year, they're all looking pretty 'meh' at best. So for Yatzhee, 'Alright' might just be enough to make it on the Top 5 list, if only because 'meh' and 'crap' don't reach that high.
That's more a commentary on the games industry than this game's quality, sadly.
@@Darkgun231
Because FROMSOFTWARE aren't releasing anything at all this year.
You almost became a Jill sandwich
YOU'RE RIGHT, BARRY.
8 likes damn I'm early
Wait, Barry, Where's Barry? I'm sorry but he's probably.... Gun shot.
"Your right hand comes off?"
Jill's Sandwiches: So good, you'll give it 5 *_STAAAAAARRRRRRRSSSSS_*
Actually yes, she did try to phone the police station. She tried for weeks to contact Chris (also its all said in the game, not just written in some documents). And remember. this game plays 1998. Facebook and smartphones werent a thing back then in the RE Universe. But zombies and super weapons.
Really makes you think.
And hacking guns, don't forget about hacking guns!
They did have a sweet ass USB drive, though.
@@McMeatBag Twas a damn fine USB drive
@@McMeatBag I mean, USB drives were invented in 1999, about a year after the time of RE2. I realize they're an anachronism but is it really so hard to stretch our imaginations?
Mr. X is now a weeb? Good to know just throw hentai at it and leg it.
Hentai flashbangs mod FTW.
Aries TicciWork We can’t, Hentai Haven is still down.
All the Tentacles from all those B.O.W.S. was not a coincidence. It was by design all along!
Rather than a granade or flashbang, just put a porn/hentai magazine like in MGS to distract him
I'd assume anything you could get on physical format to throw at him is far below his taste so rare waifu figures would be more distracting.
I don’t think Facebook existed in 98
Doesn’t solve the problem of why Claire didn’t just call Chris up at work.
Or Claire’s hilarious reaction when she learns Chris is “on vacation.”
“Oh, damn, well now I have a zombie outbreak to deal with, let’s carry on.”
@@MrMetalforever5 I thought Claire did try to call Chris but all the phone lines to Raccoon City were down. Not that this explains why literally only two people show up to the place, rather than the entire national guard.
@@MrMetalforever5 How exactly is a police station with all but 3 officers dead and no communication to the outside world supposed to receive a telephone call...?
@@MrMetalforever5 She did tried to contact chris for several weeks.
Will Mellon
The person below you actually debunked that.
If Claire was trying to contact Chris for weeks, why didn’t anyone at the station answer when there wasn’t a zombie outbreak happening.
Listen, I thought this was a great game in its own right, but the writing is stupid to the point of being camp.
Ooh, an 'alright' from Yahtzee is high praise anywhere else! Buzz buzz.
"This zombie gonna eat you up"
"I know right, they're so annyoing"
I burst out laughing at the intonation here.
3:25 Swap "anime" with "point and click adventure games", and that's pretty spot on for Yahtzee himself circa 15 years ago. Some of us still remember those forum bans, mate.
Like somebody else mentioned here, nobody hates 2005 yathzee more than 2019 yathzee.
@@Deadmeat303 Oh, I know, but by his own admission, back during his Let's Drown Out era, his ego tends to get a little inflated if people don't poke at him every now and then. He really has matured a lot, though.
Does anyone have any screenshots or links? Be interesting to see how he's changed
@@_S0LUS_ watch his old drown out videos
@@Deadmeat303 Cheers
I think it's slightly unfair to complain about the lack of interesting enemies in RE2 while praising RE7 to the heavens. RE7 had literally 3 enemy types, not including the bosses.
Well, he was talking about the bosses, not so much about the normal enemies. Besides, when he talks about all the interesting bosses RE has, he says they all went to RE4, not RE7. I think the praise of RE7 comes from trying to do something different than it was done before in RE and the characters being more interesting and better "acted" than the ones in RE2.
@@TotalJebus Resident Evil 4 has perhaps some of the best monsters in the franchise and I do agree that most ideas went into that game. Resident evil 7 had Molded, Margarite, Mia and Jack as your enemies. In Resident Evil 2 Remake you had zombies, Lickers, Mr. X, William Berkin, Alligator, zombie dogs, plant 43 and even Annette Berkin acts like an enemy in Leon's scenario.
(And the final stretch of the game is kinda boring (and ends with a lame final boss))
@@mauricioblancarte4556 I mean, he also specificually complained about the lack of enemy variety in RE7 as well, so I'd say it's perfectly fair/
RE2 had zombie, dog, licker, plant zombie, G2. RE7 had molded, bladed molded, crawling molded(which is like the licker), fat molded, giant bug(pretty much the dog) and Swarm... plus the I belive 5 maybe 6 new enemies not including bosses put in the DLC... but man I wish the Baker families dog made it in the game.
"You don't need them you've got me now" best line
Idiotic Tirades it was kinda ironic and hypocritical since he says it would’ve been better if it was more of an open map style...
@@colinmurphy7589 He didn't, unless you mean his Resident Evil 7 review? (Haven't watched it yet)
I wasn't even alive when the og re2 dropped and I like the remake
Exactly. That's why people like myself thought the remake was "meh."
That's cause you're both rubbish.
@@JoesGuy I was alive for both and I think both are great. Maybe it's you
3:25 the whole Mr. X description had me rolling, to quote Leon: "jesus christ!"
Honestly I had a great time with re2. I never played it the first time around so it was a great chance to fill out my library. The dialogue was surprisingly expressive and the campy writing kept me amused. I always procrastinated with unease after I ran out of ammo and would have to run through the next area with my stockpile of health items. Plus the free additional content dropped today that could complete the whole experience and cure cancer but you'd never know.
I much prefered this to number 7. I enjoyed 7 but never felt the need to play through it again but I've played through RE2 4 times already and I'll be going back for more.
Get on my level i already beat it 7 times and have the infinite rocket launcher.......I need a hobby
I’m on playthrough #7 with all the infinite ammo guns finally unlocked. Finally gonna do an assisted no box or heal run and then rocket only run.
I would recommend running Madhouse difficulty for 7 at least once, it really switches up a lot of the game progression and is a fun challenge. All of the DLCs are pretty worthwhile too, ranging from fun repeatable (and sometimes silly, in the case of Jack's 55th Birthday) side games to competent campaigns with unique mechanics to the base game.
I think the first person Perspective on RE7 put me off wanting to play it again, I felt it was too slow and boring, the 3rd person just made me feel like it was an RE game
They talk about in files that the reason Umbrella is fast and loose with safety and seemingly basic common sense is that they are uber loaded with cash and they can basically buy their way out of any situation also the zombies and bioweapons are a gigantic source of income for them.
They really arent....they jut didn t count with the scientist dying actually infecting himself and killing them spreading the virus.
Ok, now somebody explain how highly contagious mutagenic/necrotic rabies plagues and Jason Vorhese-esque gym-bro people are a gigantic source of income for anybody?
@@IndustrialBonecraft Bio-terrorists might be interested but I doubt the US government would want anything to do with it
@IndustrialBonecraft terrorist organizations would pay good money for a weapon that could destroy entire cities but aren t regulated like nukes. And a super soldier is always wellcome in any army.
I actually don't think Umbrella ever finished their bioweapons enough to sell them. They came really close with the Mr. X Tyrants, and controllable Hunters like Wesker used in CV. But then they accidentally a whole US city, and that was kind of a big mess up for any company to recover from. Thing is even the Tyrants would still lose to the average armies tanks. Now Nemesis could have been useful since he was a Tyrant that could use conventional weapons but I don't think they could mass produce him yet.
I loved this remake. Amazingly well done for new and old fans :)
because its the same game :)
Same in some ways but also different in quite a few, at its heart RE2 was an exploration game, few enemies, generous ammo, lots of jumpscares. The Remake removes a lot of the more tedious puzzles, increases enemy numbers and resilience, does away with a lot of the jumpscares, and makes ammo far more scarce. Basically it's the difference between Resident Evil and the Remake on GameCube, and I'm glad they didn't add the Crimson Heads, screw those things!
@@weedspagon4522 Only someone who hadn't played it would say that.
@@weedspagon4522 clearly have not played it lmao
That’s a lot of Anime references Yahtzee you ok?
It's either this or he goes back to the bestiality metaphors
@F.u.c.k Go.ogl.e ... you're using the English alphabet, but... I'm not sure any of those words mean what you think they mean.
F.u.c.k Go.ogl.e you ok man? Lol I bet a weeb stole your girl? That’s cool man happens to us all.
Pretty sure fcuk Google is an ironic shitposter, which makes me sad that his comments are apparently gone so I cannot observe how he got this comment chain's knickers in a twist.
I agree with the dialogue portion, but as someone who grew up starting on re 4, I found 2 remake better than 7. Frankly 7 was too action focused and every complaint Yahtzee has with Mr. X is worse with Jack...
Jack, on the normal difficulty, shows up to patrol two hallways and their associated rooms and that's it. He pursues you only if he sees you, can be outran, and doesn't home in on the sound of you sprinting you for a second.
@@ZxiferKatsura Mr X isn't too good at hearing sprinting actually, it's theorised that he actually moves at the same pace towards you sprinting as he does if he's lost track of you, stopping to listen in the same way and losing track if you stop sprinting (but being closer than before so you may wander into him by accident). Some people have timed it and it can take upwards of a minute for him to track you down if you are sprinting non-stop in one room. It's only if you start shooting that he books it for you.
@@vc180191 It's actually 10 minutes for him to find you if you stand completely still,4-5 minutes if you run and 40 seconds if you shoot. This was just one youtubers test mind you.
*Mr. X stomps up to you*
“WHATS YOUR FAVORITE JOJO OP, I PERSONALLY THINK CHASE IS HIGHLY UNDERRATED AND IS WAY BETTER THAN FIGHTING GOLD. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED JOJO YET, WHAT ARE YOU GAY”
End of ZE WORDO is obviously the best
Greatu Days is best opening
This is why nobody likes Diamonds Droog.
It’s Bloody Stream, christ people
I lost it at your take on the fence-meeting xD
Awesome vid, as always! Love your channel.
Did yahtzee just say sword art online 2?! Guess I have to show him my entire blu ray anime and manga collection.
If you call yourself an anime fan and you actually spent money on Sword Art Online, you're doing it wrong.
BluDragon don't forget to put on your fedora and trench coat.
@@ZelkiiroAs a guy who on some level likes SAO, you are not wrong. There is only one character I liked as a full character, and she isn't even around until the second season.
Time for a seven paragraph comment about how log horizon is better
@@sernoddicusthegallant6986
Being better than absolute shit isn't much to brag about.
Man the voice acting, jokes and personality in this episode where great, hope to see more of that later on.
The square cube law!
2:28 It's like this game takes place 1998
Yep, 1998 was a time when people weren't spending their life with their nose pressed up against a phone 'nudging' each other. A concerned sister might actually have wanted to see if her brother was OK in person.
@F.u.c.k Go.ogl.e you're pretty cringy yourself.
@@darkman4204 No man, I got absolutely DESTROYED by facts and logic. Will never recover from this
I love your PFP! Nice Comment! I agree!
@@2slowpoke929: No, you're wrong. You got DESTROYED by FACTS and LOGIC. Proper use of all-caps is essential!
They made a mod that plays X Gon Give It to You when he chases you.
wooooow who saw that coming?
maybe now, capcom will finally take like 5 hours to port outbreak 1 & 2 to PC since they also have quite a bit of RE2 references to go along with the current RE2 hype
maybe?
capcom pls :c
I think Capcom has givin up on Online. They can't do it right. Even with their fighting games
I would love a version of Outbreak on a console that can actually do online. Because the original was a good idea done about 5 to 10 years waaaay too soon. I'm actually surprised it HASN'T been remade, or got a spiritual sequel.
If you want to play re outbreak you can do it thanks to fans, and pcsx2 upscaling really makes the game look good
Outbreak was a series of games that I loved that I never got to experience online, one because no one had ps2 network adapters and 2 it was shut down by the time I got to play them, I wonder if theres a way to get it working with emulators or something
@@Qwackin604 There is a was of playing it online on your PC, just loot up RE Outbreak Online, but do try to find people to play if first, as I'm not sure if you can find open public lobby's.
That dinner plate thing made me laugh so hard 😂
Good to see yahtzee does indeed see his comment section
All of the "problems" with Mr X apply just as much to Jack and Marguerite Baker from Resident Evil 7
How so? The Baker family had different personalities and operated differently(not even bringing up their backstory) Mr.X is just a giant mute that stomps towards the player. You can kite X around the table in the Library,Jack Baker would just smash the table, make fun of you for such a stupid idea then he kills you.
Even then the Bakers were just minor bumps in the road compared to X which honestly started to piss me off when I started speed running it.
“It’s alright”.
As a fan of the RE 2 Remake, I would have to say
That’s completely understandable. Given your previous opinions stated on early Resident Evil, that IS somewhat akin to high praise, and it’s not like you not loving it is gonna make the experience any worse for me. Good video!
aiden doherty Nah, it’s alright, I’m gay.
Playing this game was like watching a perfect swan dive - they *nailed* it. I loved the original back in the day, but the remake is objectively better by every margin, and is the most sheer, pants-pissing fun I've had with a videogame in years.
Well... not EVERY margin. I do miss how the original could be played 2 entirely different ways, depending on which character's disc you played through first, creating two similar but distinct stories. Which characters fight which bosses, how certain characters die, what happens with Ada and Sherry etc. But then again, the series has a more concrete canon now than it did back when there were only 2 games. That'd be about it as far as complaints go.
1:33 Yahtzee said the game is alright! This is high praise coming from him!
"And Ethan was just a pair of wrists that occasionally swore."
"Stop taking his reviews so seriously, it's just a personality."
Counter-point: 1:33
Yahtzee often goes on about how shitty AAA games are insulting to their audience. He's not gonna get away with it just because he can string vulgarities together in a British accent.
Oh wait, he will.
@@jackthompson7125 You said it best.
Do we get the Ace Combat 7 review next ?
No it's Kingdom Hearts 3.
www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/02/13/kingdom-hearts-3/
Here's the ace combat review-
Single player: *Beeping noises* Missile-missile- MACHINES CANNOT REPLACE HUMANS IN THE COCKPIT missile-missile-missile *beeping noises* -missile~
Multiplayer: *Beeping noises* Missile-missi- *explodes*
@@alfredwinchesterjr That's one more game mode than Yahtzee would have done.
@@alfredwinchesterjr I can confirm this is a review for every Ace Combat (except Assault Horizon)
Beastwolf1 turning in circles: the game
The beginning part is so fucking gold i love that sm
LOLed at the plate jokes, some bits of it, the "ehhhhhhhhhhhhh" parts, the stomping ZP version of the New Tyrant, and the muscleman imp and imp versions of giant creatures! XD
"why didn't they make RE2 not be RE2 and instead be a different game entirely" ~Yahtzee, 2019
"giant neckbeard in a fedora and trenchcoat following you from room to room trying to show you anime" ~Yahtzee 2019
"None of you understand the complex themes and connecting elements in my games!" Yahtzee 2005, after his second or third ban from AGS game maker forums, while wearing a trenchcoat and trilby.
@@passingrando6457 Nobody hates 2005 Yahtzee more than 2019 Yahtzee does
@@AzureKite Yes, but until he understands that 2033 Yahtzee will hate 2019 Yahtzee just the same, he won't understand how ridiculous this kind of self-hatred truly is.
@@AzureKite Oh, I'm well aware. He matured fantastically. I just find it hilarious, and enjoy painting a picture of Yahtzee as Mr. X but with indie games. Plus, anyone will get a big head if you don't take the piss out of them occasionally, and good Mr. Croshaw here is no exception.
@@WillRobinson I would pay good money to see a movie, book, or game about time-travelling Yahtzees coming from different eras to kill each other for being insufferable in each's own opinion.
Like the hunger games, but with one irascible Britstraliamerican and his doppelgangers calling each other wankers.
All those anime name drops. Looks like we know what Yahtzee's been watching.
@Rodrigo He could just be referencing stuff he’s heard about without having seen, given that everything he mentioned is a juggernaut of a franchise. It’s not like he mentioned, say, Fune wo Amu.
@@MW-pb2gf yahtzee is weeabo confirmed sit your ass down
Can't wait to show him my entire Blu-ray collection...
@Peter Heck as a weeb myself... does it really matter if yahtzee is a weeb or not? like... if he’s not, who cares...?
@@MW-pb2gf is only joke man.
I've been trying to find that 'dinner plate' gag again on and off for months now because of how damn funny it was the first time around.
It did not disappoint second time around.
Funniest review I've seen on here in quite some time, I love it!
Facebook was around in the 90s? Damn you learn something everyday.
That analogy of 2 awkward teenagers at a state fair was brilliant Yhatzee!
The dinner plate bit came full circle
I'm no, fan Yahtzee, so if I'm correcting you on RE lore, it's just sad.
1. Yes, Claire did try to call her brother. If you happen across the in-game document "Chris' Diary", he's gone to Europe on a secret mission, and decided not to tell her because he didn't want her in danger. So she headed to the last place she knew he was. Idiot ball: Chris.
2. Yeah, this wasn't an official Umbrella Corporation op. Birkin, the researcher who developed the G-virus, was showing signs of mental disturbance, so Umbrella tried to phase him out. Problem was, the guy was paranoid, so he contacted the military and offered a bioweapon package deal of G and T. Umbrella got wind of it and sent their security forces to retrieve the virus from Birkin, only to find that he'd contaminated most of the high-security facilities they had in the area, meaning they were now spread really thin. They shot him and got the samples, but he used the thing on himself -- good old Mad Science 101 -- and then killed them all, breaking open a lot of the vials in the process, which is how this whole mess got started. Idiot ball: Passed back and forth between Umbrella and Birkin.
3. They're not trying to make bioweapons. They're _trying_ to create an immortality serum. Problem is, they keep winding up with zombie plagues, this being the second virus to go south on them in such a fashion. That said, they're willing to sell the failures to anyone, and they keep the smarter monsters around on security. Idiot ball: Umbrella.
4. They really wish the square-cube law would sit up and take notice of these things. It would be so much easier to defeat them, then.
You’re correct. Whenever you begin to whimper and whine about “lore”, you are indeed a pathetic little loser.
@@egotisticalegg5282 what does that make you?
Wow, everyone on this comment thread is an asshole.
Even the characters got tired of Mr. X. Clair said, "You again?" In an almost bored way.
Fascinating...I had to google the square cube law and I never even thought about what that meant for creatures in games or zombies.
Honestly, I think creating matter from nothing (how they got bigger in the first place) is more of a problem than how they lived when they were that big.
@@Rush2201 Mmm well its one of those things we have to ignore or are not aware of. I mean If they got bigger as they consumed things it would at least make a little more sense. I always wanted to know why they never ate each other...I mean meat is meat and they are brain dead.
Basically every sci fi monster from the beginning of the genre flagrantly violates those laws of biology. The Xenomorphs from Aliens are still the biggest offenders, but any zombie not propelled by magic would be unable to move an hour after creation and would be a pile of angry smelly jello within a week. Just sit back and enjoy watching the uptight biology majors cry in a corner.
@@lordfrostwind3151 Heh I still would enjoy pondering how it would happen much like every engineer enjoys a good perpetual motion device.
I love that mouth full of dinner plates bit since I have been there before lol
YOU SIR! YOU! YES, YOU!
Been a big fan for 10 or so years, and FINALLY picked up one of your books on Audible. "Will Save The Galaxy for Food" was an absolute smashing fun read! Please keep the books coming!!!
While I will always respect your shilling defense force for RE7, I’m not really seeing how this is much of a step down from that game. It’s simply a different direction which makes sense since it’s reimagining an earlier entry in the series. I actually do prefer the characters in 7 though. They felt more believable in their situations while still retaining that crucial campiness and tongue in cheek charm. I don’t think it’s really going to affect the direction of 8 at all, especially since they’re different teams afaik. Pretty sure 7’s crew is already working on the next mainline entry.
@nazarene RE7 is kinda meh though, it's boring as fuck has few enemies or challenge.
I didn't like the characters at all in RE7, the writer just recycled materials from older titles he wrote for. And of course Silent Hill 2...
Since RE5 I've hoped Capcom would reboot the Resident Evil franchise and that's pretty much what RE2 Reimagining has done.
Yeah gameplay wise RE 2 is way better, story wise RE 7 is much better. I thought he would have liked that that the remake Leon is more like his RE 4 counterpart quips and all.
@@Gruntvc but re2 remake hasn't rebooted shit.
Genome Soldat RE4 was trash and is the reason the series went to shit
Wait, it's 1998 facebook wasn't invented until 2004
It was a fucking joke
@@zainsalah3741 when the guy in the video says this, it comes across like him not understanding shit, rather than like a joke. a joke must be OBVIOUSLY a joke, or it just comes across as honest ignorance. Vid guy needed to take it further, to a point of absurdity, to read as a joke. Like "why didn't she just poke him on facebook, or skype him, or get on TikTok on her iphone 9?" but then he'd need to say "oh, right. 1998. but still." It's tough explaining why a joke doesn't "read" but in this case it really didn't, imo.
westingtyler you didn’t know ben yahtzee well and you didn’t watch his videos that obvious he is amazing writer and critic and Creative person and there is a lot of thinking put in his videos so it’s impossible that saying facebook in that moment isn’t a joke
westingtyler when you go that further in the joke it becomes bad and dull it’s better to be short and good it has to be not so obvious that is his way and that is the right way to tell a joke and requires some thinking to understand
Is this like, a kind of disease or something? What would make someone say something so dumb?
sooo funny Leon and Claire at the fence.
Yahtzee's preference for 7 yet again reveals his love of walking simulators. While REmake 2 requires some real strategy and on the fly decision making with disposing of enemies and which routes you will take, I felt 7 was constantly shoving me down a narrow corridor of set pieces with the constant objective: "shoot it in the head until it dies". I also don't know where he gets the idea that 7's story is any more compelling or nuanced than the campy fun that it and 2 really are.
Ol' Yahtzee-shaw has definitely had that "awkward teenagers meeting through a fence" conversation before. Come to think of what he does for a living I'm pretty certain all of his human interaction was likely through a fence.
3:30 I feel personally attacked...
Then maybe it's time to rethink your life? How about watching something where emotions are expressed by something other than odd gasping noises.
Don't worry, that is also a fairly accurate descriptor of Yahtzee about 15 years ago if you substitute point and click adventure games for anime. Complete with "you can't understand the genius" rant after his third ban from the AGS forums.
He's grown up a lot since then.
Claire does try to phone the station. It’s at the beginning of Claire’s cutscene. Not to mention that it was the 90s and they didn’t have mobile phones at all. So going to the police station seems reasonable at this time period. Also umbrella are making biological weapons which can be even worse than bombs. Also those Serums that make people big and strong can be used to make soldiers in uses of war.
Mobile phones have been with us since the 70s
Casey C He does no doubt about it. It’s just he’s trying to find out how to poke fun at the game without criticizing it.
@@FobosUroboros Omfg these Wikipedia kids. Yeah, they existed, they were not common. This is like getting pissy at a character in a game taking place in 2018 not having a netflix account.
50% of the fandom saying the new one ruined it, 50% saying it's the greatest thing ever, but you forgot something Yahtzee:
Nearly 100% going *Mr. X GONNA GIVE IT TO YAH*
Jokes on you, I never played any of the RE games before 4. So I’m gonna enjoy RE 2 once I get it.
Honestly a lot of people who Played the origional also like this one too. It's why it's selling better than 7 at the moment pace wise
Yahtzee really needs to stop hating on the original RE trilogy... Trust me the game is way scarier than he makes it out to be.
RE2 still creeps me out from beginning to end due to its atmosphere.
The remake has its moments, and that's about it. Never cared about the acting/leon-claire-relationship in either campaign.
Am I the only one who found RE 7 better than RE 2? I find RE 2 more focused on action than horror, which I found to be disappointing. Depends on personal taste I guess.
@@Greendalewitch Your not wrong. RE2 was and is more action than horror.
I really wouldn’t mind a retro review of the original RE trilogy from Yahtzee and get a proper idea about why he’s so against them compared to RE4
He found them to be cheesy stories that played it straight with a gameplay system which he felt did not or could not have a proper balance between horror and action. Compared to RE4 which winked at its audience and did horror better despite being action-oriented
Watch the other RE reviews. He always drops hints as to what he thinks of them. Especially in the RE5 review.
@@Edras03 I can't see how anyone could consider RE4 a better horror game past the first encounter.
While I don’t dislike the original three RE games as much as Yahtzee, I can see where he’s coming from. While they were good games for their time and they do survival horror reasonably well, they are horribly dated. The graphics are hideous, the tank controls are irritating, the combat is awkward to the point of being more annoying then scary, and as Yahtzee has pointed out, the overarching story makes no goddamn sense.
On top of that, the Silent Hill Games did survival horror so much better, and by comparison the original three RE games don’t hold up very well. RE4 switched from survival horror to action horror, and did it extremely well.
I'd suggest taking Yahtzee's opinion on the RE games with a pinch of salt. He's more of the psychological Silent Hill 2 horror type of guy, which Resident Evil is absolutely not. Which explains why the only RE games he enjoyed were RE4 and RE7 for their cheesy tongue-in-cheek self awareness. Not for the horror.
You use typewriters to save your game. It's a clear indication that phones in this universe's timeline exist only as landlines and are probably closed circuit. Maybe that's what Umbrella was originally experimenting on; improve carrier pigeons to deliver messages lightning fast and modify their vocal chords to deliver the message verbatim.
Love the Mana Bar reference.
This is the best review in a while- Yahtzee sounds so invested into the franchise, that I hear honest concern and emotion, the way you're concerned for your brother who looks like he's gonna take up drinking again.
1:59
Me: *Wait there was Resident Evil 9?!*
My one intelligent brain cell: shut up
Me: k
Been waiting for this!!!!
This is the review I've been waiting for
Yahtzee: It's fine
Also Yahtzee: It's the 4th best game of the year
I think that might say more about the year than it does about the game.
@@sayeshi1 Pretty much this. It was early in 2019, so an "alright" early on can turn into a top 5 spot just because the year produced nothing but bland and boring tosh that isn't even worth talking about.
Anyone besides me wanted Marvin Branagh in the Ghost survivors DLC over one of the crappy characters Capcom shown us?
So many years and you still got it Ben!
"I quite enjoyed Your Name."
A nearly cried when I read that reference. It's sooooo hard to find people who have watched it - even among my nerdy otaku friends. It's so, so, so good.
And what's that? I didn't get it, I only know so many animes and I usually avoid the most weird ones
"Hey"
"Hey"
"Whatchu doin?"
"Not much"
"You look pretty"
"Thanks, uh that zombies going to kill you'
"I know right they're so annoying"
LMAO
Ethan Winters
PERSONALITY!?
Somehow Yatz has got on nostalgia blinders for a 2 year old game.
At least those pair of disembodied hands reacted to situations somewhat dramatically. And with good voice acting.
Leon and Claire in this game are charming but only because they’re complete idiots that both refuse to take things seriously and become intensely melodramatic for people they’ve just barely met.
I played Leon's campaign in the old RE2. I actually enjoyed the story (seeing it more as a fun adventure), but there are one or two pieces of voice acting that stick out to me - like how they weirdly kept emphasizing the word 'boyfriend,' or Leon's 'AI-DA!' when Ada falls to her (not) death.
Itch-HeSay
Alright, for the sake of argument, what makes Leon and Claire stand out as characters?
@@MrMetalforever5 growth
Chance Kimber Nothing really... it essentially Yahtzee comparing Apples to oranges and saying “the oranges are better because it my favourite colour”
I will, in fact, take this as a glowing review from Yahtzee.
I was waiting for this
Yahtzee the game did take place in the 90s so there’s no dm.
Claire couldn’t phone the police station because communications had been cut off prior to the outbreak, and she couldn’t give him a “Facebook nudge” because Facebook wasn’t invented until 6 years after the game takes place.
Zzz...zzz...zzz...bore off
Absolutly bloody brilliant 😂 good review yahtz!
That Manabar easter egg was so high level that I didn't catch it until a month after this came out.
"I'm at your office in mortal peril lol"
Watching this, I can't wait for a zombie apocalypse and all the unforgettable sms it'll give us !
"hy mark, found ur son he's still a little bitter but really tasty LMAOOOO see u at the ammo point XOXO"
in conclusion, all RE monstrosities should have BEARDS.
I agree.
4:46-4:58 Strangely enough in a recent interview with the guy who played Leon he pretty much said that's what they were going for.
Seems like Yahtzee has some 'anti-nostalgia goggles' for this game.
Like nostalgia goggles, except instead of covering up everything bad and forcing him to see it positively, they're covering up all the colors and successes and accentuating the flaws.
REmake2 isn't a perfect game. Claire's mocap could have used some touching up, and Leon's voice actor clearly wasn't trying as hard as everyone else. Not to mention the B scenarios being little more than abridged versions of their A ones, which alone brought the game from a 10 to a 9 for me.
I'm honestly kind of disappointed in Yahtzee. Not because he didn't like it, but for the way he reviewed it.
It came across that he wanted to dislike it from the start. He's always seen every RE game prior to RE4 to be beneath him, and he knew that everyone else and their dog would be praising the game, so he went in with the intention of ruthlessly tearing at every thread he could get a grip on. That kind of mindset ensured that 'lukewarm' was pretty much the best feeling he could ever get out of it.
It came across as just lazy. His rant at the end about 'idiot plots' was especially grating. He said that the plot falls apart if you think about it for a few seconds. Except you could easily put that plot back together if you think about it for a few more seconds, making him kind of guilty of what he accused the game of doing.
"Why wouldn't she just call up her brother?" Maybe because it's 1998 and communication isn't quite as sophisticated?
She tried ringing him up. He didn't pick up the phone. So the next option was to go to his workplace.
She didn't exactly KNOW there was a zombie apocalypse going on until she was already in Racoon City. That's a bit of a hard thing to predict. Obviously, if she knew the trip would be as dangerous as it turned out being, she probably would have waited for news.
"Why would these evil scientists prefer zombie viruses over, say, bombs?" Maybe because zombies aren't their end goal?
In all the lore prior to RE4, zombies are always seen as the unfortunate byproduct of some rich, amoral executives trying to become immortal. Zombies are never even once used as a bioweapon, every outbreak prior to 4 was accidental. It was 4 onward when the plot started getting messy and convoluted with the villains' motivations. If they were only interested in making weapons, they'd be making weapons.
"Why don't we see anybody else going into Racoon City?" Maybe because the story isn't about those people?
The story is about Leon and Claire. Not the truck driver we see at the beginning. Presumably there were other people who wandered into the city. They probably got eaten; I mean, the main characters were almost murdered before they even got properly into the city.
I wouldn't think about it too much with Yahtzee. If you took Zero Punctuation as an actual indicator of the games he enjoys, he'd only like about five games.
True though, he does seem pretty hostile towards old-style Resident Evil games. I like 4 as much as anyone else, but I wouldn't call it the pinnacle of the series. I honestly thought he might like this one since it takes what was good from 4 and somehow melds it with the atmosphere and mechanics of the original games.
He is however an outlier though. I've only really seen high praise for this remake everywhere else, with even people that had no prior experience with the series enjoying the hell out of it. Far from wallowing in old ideas, it feels very fresh to me despite having played the original.
I mean if anything, I'd have said it was 7 that lifted old formulas, since it's a first person horror game in a confined space where your enemies are very powerful and you are very limited in how you can defend yourself. That's been done to death in loads of games, it just hadn't been done in Resident Evil yet.
Some of the complaints he had were rather odd like with the ones you pointed out. Funny how the act of breaking laws was something he jokingly implied Umbrella never considered when it was something they excelled at quite a bit. Paying off hands and controlling their work areas are what they do best alongside finding any loophole to be used to their advantage such as being a pharmaceutical company that is "researching" viruses for medical purposes. The bioweapon application and market is a nice funding aspect for their progress.
Jesus Christ. Dial down the spectrum a bit. Yeah, Yahtzee phoned this one in and was a bit of a coward on this one. But damn. Took him a bit too seriously here.
Just wanna point out that Raccoon City was supposed to be barricaded and quarantined before RE2 starts. It's been a point of contention since the original how Leon and Claire just waltz in to what should be a very highly secured city border.
Also a longtime point of contension is why Claire didn't just leave after seeing the city trashed and learning her brother wasn't there. She had no obligations to stay any longer and get caught up in the whole Umbrella situation. Leon barely had a reason. It was his first day, and the local police were already mostly dead. He might have had a strong sense to help others, and was manipulated by Ada, but still it's always been a bit of a stretch for him to stick through all that and not just "NOPE" the heck outta there.
Gotta agree, just because we didn't see more people wander into Raccoon City doesn't mean there weren't. Hell, RE3 was set in Raccoon City a day or two prior to the start of RE2. Also, Claire uses a fucking PAYPHONE at the start of the game, who uses those anymore?? Clearly communication was a bit more difficult back in the 90s without smartphones or social media.
Ethan Winters has more personality than Claire and Leon in the RE2 Remake? Wtf? You're drunk, Yatzee.
He kind of does.
Krystal Myth Yahtzee is kinda drunk? I mean, I agree with that
@@Krystalmyth No he doesn't.
Ethan has no remarkable features at all. He is just there to rescue his wife. Or can you tell me even two defining characteristics? ;)
Coconut Chriss Ethan needs a hand with that.
"A mouthful of dinnerplate."
There's one I haven't heard anywhere else.
Thought Yahtz was going for a 2001: A Space Oddysey joke with his voice rising in pitch with each "errrr"
So never played re2 or the original re2 but watch it. Didn't Claire tried calling Chris but wasn't able to get through to him or the police station because the city went dark, so no one from both sides could talk to each other. Since this is 1998, there's no other way to talk to each other. Also, the plot hole of Leon and Claire getting inside the city was that umbrella forgot or missed that road? Also umbrella making bioweapons is way better than nukes lol
Also didn't re3 make Jill go through the city at the same time as Leon and Claire but she gets out a day after them, when the city gets nuke???
RE3 starts a few days before the events of RE2, but it ends a day afterwards since she collapses after her fight with Nemesis outside the clocktower and is forced to rest.