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This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee Croshaw reviews Outriders.
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Review terraria when?
Terraria
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
Bungie you say? How about Borderlands
@@macmcskullface1004 the hype around BL3 begs to differ, too bad the story was worse then outriders with a mary sue level karen as the focal point
@@mightymediocre3352 I mean, even with Borderlands 3 angling to be more like Destiny and those that followed, it's still a game you can play offline. Honestly, there's a lot of pretty big differences between Borderlands and Destiny on a structural level, and pretty much every other looter shooter that followed falls a lot closer to the Destiny end of the spectrum.
OH GOD PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK!
@@mightymediocre3352 no, Destiny definitely did it. As soon as everyone saw them make all their money back by not delivering what they promised, everyone agreed that it was the thing.
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.
He did the whole bullet pointed list and only talked about those things. He also explicitly didn't give an option on the game as a whole by the end. Market analysts would love him for following thier requirements so well.
@@ACEYGAMES I think his opinion on the game was quite obvious despite not being a X/Y score based one ^^
@@ACEYGAMES When he said he only played the game for 3/4 hours, he probably wasn't kidding. Its not enough time to come up with a comprehensive opinion for a reviewer.
@@PissedGrunty then again, the fact he was only able to play it for 3-4 hours because of the servers is itself pretty damning to the quality of service one can expect from the game.
@@user-zs5ub1ic1v Its certainly not a good thing, no.
"My opinion is currently down due to server issues" is probably the most apt review of this game
So it isnt a bad review then...
I haven't had any server issues and so far I haven't had any problems playing solo.
@@michaelo5665 Yeah but it being up for just some of the player base isn't good enough, several people are having the same issues where they are only getting a few hours of gameplay and lots more hours of just a loading screen.
@@jason2mate I guess I'm just special then? I have at least a dozen hours in the game without having any issues. Is this just the pc servers? I'm honestly asking because I haven't had an issue and none of the people I know playing it have either.
"It's amusing they think I'm capable of guilt!"
It is humorous anyone thinks that.
So that's one thing he has in common with the AAA industry.
He used up all his guilt in Spec Ops The Line.
"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!!"
Liiiiiiiive Seeeeeervice
"And we will continue to be in development for years after launch for being unfinished. I mean, will continue to add content and support the game for years to come. Live service baby!"
@@teal_m_101 I hear this in only one persons voice
Live Service = Minimum Viable Product.
Outriders is not a live service game...
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
It continues to make money to do so, so it'll continue regardless
Oh well, back the the verdant bunker of indie productions.
kinda had the same problem in Guild Wars 2.
i like playing tank, it gets me into parties easy. aoe mage is good grind-y fun too.
but then they want to break the trinity (tank, healer, DPS) and i am left sad.
@WTFViewer This 100%. I've been playing Borderlands 3 lately and Shift connecting and disconnecting makes the game run like it's trying to set my PC on fire
@@mitchellblake1475
Wait, BL3 is always online? Well there goes my wanting to play it.
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
Point is that it was optimized separately. One part of the game was singleplayer-focused, the other was multiplayer-focused. It's not like they tried to contrive a way to make both the single and multiplayer modes use the same maps and the same puzzles
yes but portal 2 still suffered from the "I know the answers" problem. Portal 2 co-op is best played as 2 people who haven't played it before, or 2 people who have. 1 new person and 1 person who's already solved all the puzzles makes it pretty boring, because person 1 knows person 2 has all the answers.
@@MarioDragon This is why every time I play Portal 2 with someone new I give it long enough that I've mostly forgotten the fine details of each puzzle, and then deliberately leave it to them to solve it at their own pace and issue me commands
1:10 Using the image of an American football for the word “football”? He’s officially been assimilated!
Ever heard of Australian football? Uses the same type of ball.
@@jimhjortsberg2990 still isn't football as almost the entire rest of the world sees it
@@jimhjortsberg2990 A rugby/gridiron ball. Australian football uses a slightly different one.
He's not the one that does the art
americ anfootball
IGN employees jobs are getting easier and easier, that even developers are writing it for them
This isn't even a new thing lol?
At this point they won't even need to plagiarize
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte this
"It has a little something for everyone. 8.8/10"
There are so many reviewers that are out there that aren't IGN and Gamespot that give honest opinion and often get them out before IGN/GS does and to be honest they are far far better too.
I can hear the pain and betrayal in his voice. People Can Fly how could you?
Watch some of Jim Stirlings videos of Outriders, he’s downright offended by the game and surroundings of it.
Well PCF only really made Painkiller and Bulletstorm, and the latter was released 10 years ago. Otherwise its just porting help or support with original Fortnite.
Its probably very different people working at the studio.
@@termitreter6545 don't forget their gears of war prequel
@@termitreter6545 it’s like CDPR, the people who made the games that where GOOD, left ages ago.
Seems like the safest course of action in order to find good games anymore is not to follow the studios, themselves, but rather the people in them who were responsible for making good games previously. Unless something goes horribly wrong, it seems pretty safe to assume that they'll keep making generally good games, whatever studio they end up working at. (Unless it's EA, because EA are soul-sucking hacks.)
I'm sensing a strong candidate for "Top 5 Blandest Games of 2021".
Nah. No. 4 of the shittiest category. Jumpy gameplay, rushed storytelling, and garbage controls.
@@AkiRa22084
Git gud at... appreciating the storytelling and controls of Outriders?
@@AkiRa22084 anime profile pic, opinion instantly invalid
I dunno. If you can't play the game because of server problems, should it even enter?
@@AkiRa22084 anime profile pic, your opinion doesn't matter
This is the most game game ever made.
It is a very game
I this game
It reminds me of the other game
I also like gamelike mechanics while having a gamey feel.
A game inside a game? That's like four games!
Oh yeah, it's got everything. Graphics, controls, mechanics, even sound! This is without a doubt one of the games released this decade.
Game game? Game like deer, and to be shot because it's sick with server issues and much more?
Outriders or How i Learned To Stop Waiting For The Server Connection Error and Realize Its Part Of The Games Features.
They asked Yatzhee for kindness and consideration? Really? Did they not realize who they were sending it to?
To be fair he held back quite a bit on this one.
@@IveBeenWithBruma So you're saying that Yahtzee saw that list of bullet points and in recognizing a desperate plea for help, found some pity in that withered husk of heart of his?
you can tell he put a lot of work into that speedrunning joke.
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*Dispassionate Nihilism* by the *Judgemental Coconuts*
I don’t know why you keep doing this, but I appreciate it.
I think we have a contender for this Year's Blandest right here
I dont know, even if talk only about square enix balan:wonderworld is good contender for this award.
@@powerthunfischdesdonners3086 I predict Balan will be top 5 worst
@@USMC49er Indeed. Unlike the titles in the bland category, Balan Wonderland is not a generic, mediocre game. It's a game that got some anticipation because it stands out from the crowd. But then it released and it turns it has fundamental game design flaws, a rather confusing story, and performance issues.
Balan is not bland... It's bad.
Having said that... Did Yahtzee ever review Balan Wonderland? I thought that only games covered in Zero Punctuation were contenders.
Honestly, feels more like a contender for "not (a)live service game".
@@powerthunfischdesdonners3086 Balan isn’t even bland, it’s just straight up terrible in every way. Balan won’t just be forgotten immediately like most bland games, it’ll be seen as a perfect example of everything that can go wrong with a platformer for a long time
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.
Lol even Mobas have a pause button at this point. Try to keep up, looter shooters
At least you can exit out of Dark Souls at any time without losing progress, rather than being sent back to a checkpoint an hour before *cough*borderlands*cough*
@@user-bf5sc8pn8x yeah, was replaying borderlands 2 and had to give up on it, i don't have the time i had as a kid to play, so the checkpoints started to progressively get more and more dog shit as enemys become more spongee, also i forgot to disable online while on the warrior boss fight, so OFC the game fucking disconnected in the midle of it, and worst of all, made my PC go bluescreen of death on me and refused to properly boot until next day, that was the last drop for me, i ragequited and uninstall borderlands 2, a good game, but i hate GB software and Randy Pitchford, for all of the dog-rat awfull design choices in the game.
When he yelled "pause the game," I felt it. Right here ❤
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.
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.
Agreed, TF2 certainly stands the test of time.
You thought that was a lukewarm review? His only real criticism of it at the time was that there were barely any maps to choose from- which at the time, was true, the hundreds there are today all got patched in later.
Team Fortress 2 was made with passion and actual work. They made the game first, then worried about making money. Triple A is more focused on “how can we make money? Let’s make a game.” And that’s the whole process. You can’t have the reward without putting in the elbow grease. Hence TF2 being on the steam top 10 more than 12 years later
I wish Valve still cared about it.
My vote in favor of PAUSE THE GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME.
Meanwhile, in Warframe...
@@user-bf5sc8pn8x lol can't even pause in solo
@@NeostormXLMAX wait really? Did they change that? I remember you can pause if you set to solo
the sheer number of games that simply do not have a pause function, purely because the game HAS multiplayer...
Ikr?
The only game that is excused from that bullshit is Dark Souls. The lack of pause actually aids that game's experience.
@@utisti4976 dark souls does not throw a fit if you need to step away and acknowledge the real world for a bit though, most online nonsense will have an AFK timer even if you are playing by yourself.
@@utisti4976 No it's fucking dumb in Dark Souls too. If they wanted the inventory to not pause the game for tension that's fine, but there could be a pause button separate from the inventory.
@@utisti4976 Dark Souls has a pause button. It just comes in the form of standing still in a safe area - near a bonfire, or someplace you've cleared of patrolling enemies. Alternatively you can save-and-quit to resume wherever you were. Making it a literal button to press instead wouldn't change much; just save people time when they need to deal with real life stuff, as un-hardcore as I'm sure that is. Possibly deny the occasional invader a cheap kill if you get unlucky with the PvP stuff enabled (in those instalments that have the option to switch it on or off without physically disconnecting your internet).
There should be some kind of fuckin' law that if you have single player, that you have to put in god damned pause functionality for the single player portion. You can ook and eek about "muh experience" all you want, but at the end of the day, its just sheer fucking laziness. I am playing alone, let me get up and have a piss without the fear of getting ground into paste. That whole "BUT DARK SOULS DID IT" thing can fuck right off, too. That was an outright fuck-up on the part of From Software. It added nothing, it never adds anything, and it never fuckin' will. Let me pause or piss off.
I admit, when this game out i totally mistook for 2 other shooters before realizing it was an actual new game.
They do all kind of blur together at this point, don't they... with their blandy titles and their looting and shooting, some token super powers that somehow manage not to feel special in any significant way, their functional story that explains the need to shoot lots of dudes and monsters and stuff. Microtransactions, daily timesinks, fancy editions to toss money at.
I watched someone else play for about an hour and thought 'man, I haven't seen a single thing here that wasn't done just as well by any other game of the genre for at least the last three years'
Doesn't help it was one letter off from being a lawsuit.
I watched my brother play Outriders for a full five minutes before realising he wasn't playing Remnant.
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.
The cover is for your enemies. Not for you. With that said. The sheer durability and sheer number of most of the enemies does not make run and gun a viable stratagem in a lot of cases. Also cool downs on powers take way too long.
@@Hillthugsta You clearly haven't touched Expeditions at all. Run-and-gun is _the_ strat for getting the best gear, since you're timed and need to complete them as fast as possible. Taking cover and slowing down is the last thing you can do, since you slow yourself down and aren't doing anything.
Also, cooldowns take too long? I've seen cooldowns below 10 seconds. Hell, I've seen them go as low as 6 seconds. How exactly are those long?
I feel like a big complaint with that in mind is that the push doesn’t happen soon enough. Having only played an hour or so (I know, I know), and from what friends have said, the first few hours are a slog of cutscenes and cover shooting. If they did good with the run and gun, why even slow us down to begin with, right? :/
@@Starfall1026 THIS. Outriders has one of the worst first impressions of a game in a long time. I actually respect their "teach the gamer slowly" mentality but their training section in the beginning of the game is not representative of HOW to play the game and have fun with it.
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.
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. 😂
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."
Nice to hear Yahtzee compliment TF2
He's made similar comparisons before when he critiqued Brink; his issue being that if you're gonna have multiple classes/types of units, make them stand out from each other. TF2 does this via the silhouettes of each character, making them visually distinct from each other.
@@GreekDudeYiannis TF2 is a masterclass in creating distinct characters without any icons floating above heads
TF2 was great, maybe I should dip back in one of these days.
@Alurine Melduene I always preferred community servers anyway. Thanks!
because tf2 is one of the goats of gaming
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.
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
Great review, I agree. I'm not a game critic, I'm just a poor boy. But I know why I don't like the game without playing it. It's brown. 100 shades of brown. Mud everywhere. Call me whatever you want, but I enjoyed AC games in short sessions, cause they're colorful. Is there something wrong with me? Maybe. But I'm not down for so much brown, no no no
If I might make a suggestion, never go to Yahtzee for a real review. These are comedy shows. If you really want to see what the game is life, go watch some gameplay, or better yet for this one, play the demo.
I was on vacation for a week as this released, and I kind of felt in the mood for a shooter so I picked it up. It has been fun, but not nearly worth the full price. And I completely agree with the assessment that this is not optimized for single player, which is how I play games. I'd recommend it if you have friends and on a half price sale.
@@SilortheBlade Yeah. I picked it up... Its...fine. I mean, its not going to win any awards, but the story is at least interesting, and the gameplay has some satisfying elements.
@@SilortheBlade You said not to trust Yahtzee for reviews, and then validated his review.
@@Chris_Sizemore Those aren't really mutually exclusive. Sure the reviewer could be right but you should still make an effort to form your own opinion whether it lines up with theirs or not, especially when the reviewer in question might exaggerate positive or negative aspects for the sake of comedy.
Paul greengrass balancing a book on his head is my favourite line in this review and that's not easy
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!
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.
"Outrider Amber reporting for duty!"
A superior outrider.
1:09 Woah Yahtzee has turned into an American
Well, he's been living in the States for a little bit now, so it makes sense that we'd start corrupting his mind at some point.
@@mcblaggart8565 He and Gabe called it soccer in Let's Drown Out.
@@mcblaggart8565 How bloody dare you
@@mcblaggart8565 According to google yes Australia does call it soccer as well.
@@ninetailedfox579121
Yeah, we have our own football. He didn't use the Australian football though, so he's definitely being assimilated.
"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
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?
Well the thing about Lego games is that they’re puzzle games more than action games. Because of this, you don’t necessarily need to rely on a partner and just keep switching to whoever you need to complete the puzzle at the time. But big action games (this also applies to Portal) need to separate their single and multiplayer into different modes, with entirely different design philosophies. It’s when you try and make it all one mode where you can play through a map with just one player or multiple players that the problems ensue, since in games like Outriders the levels are always designed with the philosophy that you may or may not have help, meaning it has to be feasibly playable either or, creating an experience with no real focus or specialization on specific mechanics or even enemy types that you learn to counter with your special abilities. Because every special ability needs to do more or less the same job of killing enemies. Because what if it’s just you? A healing ability you can do only to allies becomes practically worthless. So every level is built on the idea that anyone can accomplish any job and thus creating a bland middle ground that doesn’t really please anyone outside of those with the lowest possible standards.
Jim and yatzee both having server issues but the fans will find a way to just say it’s their fault
Those two reviews are all I know about this game. Apparently, you can't play it when you buy it. No thanks.
I mean Jim has been getting shit on since he released his opinion on the game for this very reason, still a bloody joke that it's somehow their faults instead of the game developers.
Well people often feel that _them_ not having the same issues means that the criticism is invalid. Maybe not everyone will have those issues but if enough people have them that it's a problem, then it's a problem. But these sycophants never see it that way.
I suppose the thought process is "Ah, well, the servers aren't fully up and running since it's still in the pre-release period; they'll have it smoothed out by the time _I_ get the game". Which is just a desperate delusion, kind of like how people think that any and all complaints brought up in a game's demo will be ironed out by release _(cough Balan Wonderworld cough)_
@@ShermTank7272 I mean we have seen that slippery slope so much recently that it's not funny, so i'm not sure why so many people still defend games, Fallout 76, Anthem etc.
The list goes on so long that it's hard to see how anyone still argues that it's ok and that the game will be ok when they get it, depending on the game, it might not ever even be fixed.
As soon as I finished the demo I knew I couldn't wait for this.
You couldn't wait for the game or the review?
I wish we had the technology to create first person shooter gameplay with the weight, mobility, and gunplay fidelity of Half-Life 1
You're asking for a damn miracle lol
@@BigGayIncorporated It's like when you find an "ancient" technology that turns out to be Sci-fi.
You need to trash the gamepad first.
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.
Warframe is probably the best made of the Looter Shooters. Lots of great free content. I 2nd your recommendation.
I'd love to see him do it and in fact have asked, multiple times, for him to review it. So far no good, but I'm still hoping for it one day!
I would too...unfortunately I think he'd probably get hung up on how much there is (intimidating for new players), how well it's all explained (not well enough if you're not reaching out to other players or guides), and that the key to getting almost all of it for free is time and patience.
There's a lot of content and mechanics to play with and explore but it can be pretty daunting and esoteric to figure out completely alone.
Funny, if he put out on social media that he was trying it out, I'm sure he'd have clans and veterans clamoring to show him the cool stuff and get him through the neat story content, but you know he doesn't want to play with others 😂
@@jguns3738 I also think the game doesn't really kick it into gear until Second Dream and all the big story expansions. Up until that point it feels like a fairly repetitive loop of going to nodes on planets, shooting stuff for 5-10 minutes, and then moving on to the next node. I tolerated it because I enjoyed the feel of the gameplay and combat, but I suspect Yahtzee wouldn't be so forgiving
@@jguns3738 no he'll give it shit for having blatant predatory price inducing frustrations, such as 3 day wait times for crafting things, and making you pay real money for slots, making the game literally not fun or not playable unless you spend 24/7 trading or spending hundreds of real money.
not the mention the horrible tutorial.
I'm surprised he didn't mention that there are no microtransactions or loot boxes
Maybe it's just assumed at this point
Doing the bare minimum isn't cause for celebration
@@Kaunte True
Why? And have another crash team racing scenario on our hands?
The speedrun gags gave me a good chuckle, ty for those.
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!
Like, all your loot disappeared?
Yup, nothing better than a looter shooter with a bug that takes away your loot. Such a failure of a game in terms of polish. Hope you didn’t grind for certain perk combos cause you won’t get them back
"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!
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 have noticed the only group of people not annoyed or out right raging over this game are the people playing on a Microsoft platform. Self included. Lack of pause and always online are the only deal breakers here.
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.
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.
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.
1:45 Finally, a protest method I can get behind
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.
Also monster hunter, playing with friends is awesome but the sense of acomplishment you get for doing the solo campaign is equally good.
“AND PAUSE THE GAAAAAME.”
Thank you, Yahtz. Someone had to say it.
This craze of live service looter shooter drives me mad
Love how he never let's up in his criticism
2:55 I wanna know where the Water Temple comes in to this doomsday scenario.
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
Painfully accurate
NEVER FORGET, gamers
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
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.
And it's a great example of an FPS with different classes that complement each other as well
I must say this is the most enjoyable ZP I've seen in a while. Not that the previous ones were bad, they weren't, but this one seems to much better writing. Plus I really that Yahtzee actually talks about the game a bit before talking about it's flaws and doesn't harp on about one particular aspect for too long. Maybe Yahtzee really has reached a higher plan of existence. Love you week Yahtz, keep it up
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
I forever appreciate your second intro that can be skipped with two finger taps. Yes bless you
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!
“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.
"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.
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.
Just for you yahtzee! I sure hope that Starbucks didnt have cameras pointed at the letterbox.🤔
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 :)
OMG That final line was brilliant.
I like how he included "water temple" on the speedrun list xD
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
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.
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.
When Yahtzee went off on how the dudes on the chest high walls all look the same but do different things, I said to myself "how is this still a problem in shooters? Valve solved this shit in 2007!"
This is why I rarely get anything out of Shooters, since at a distance and/or a glance, you can't really tell very well what you're looking at and then I'm dead.
Says a lot about how good TF2's core design is when even Yahtzee holds it in high view.
that is until the hats ruined the silhouettes for a major part
02:54 water temple 😂
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"
Damn that football inflation analogy was next level clever lmao
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.
Game sucks, play better games
@@gargleff2691 If you don't like it, that's perfectly fine. Shitting on others because they like something makes you seem like a pretty pathetic person, however.
5:00 This might be my new favorite joke
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.
great review...have a fun sized Twix
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.
That sucks the server cut out again right at the end of the review, I wanted to hear final thoughts. Glowing praise, I assume?
gonna give a shout out to nioh 2 for adding more and varing type of enemies depending on how many players are with you on mission so that it works both co-op and single player
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.
The behind the scenes look of the industry combined with the no fucks attitude... I love these reviews
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.
Damn, speaking of being stuck in 2012, good to see Yahtzee is still at it
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
"and I didn't stomp it to death" picture of yahtz with a stick that has big boot on end of it lol
“[Bosses with] health bars like we’re chewing on broom handles” is brilliant. Well done, Yacht Z!
(Joke name notwithstanding, praise is sincere)