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This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Redfall.
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Payday 2 works great in both solo and online 4 player, however stealth is better on solo and loud is better as a team.
ill ONLY buy the book if its stenciled on a pig, that is the supreme way to read of course
Have Yahtzee play Deep Rock Galactic.
Before he plays Starship Trousers.
And make sure he gets promotion and plays a bit with some overclocks. Game gets better with overclocks.
its funny, because during one of their hype trailers I commented underneath. I hope this game is good, but it looks like it’s going to be a buggy mess and they deleted my comment. I think they knew.
The competition for Blandest Game of the Year is lukewarmer than it's ever been.
That makes me feel very neutral.
I have no real comment to say about it
Nah, given how vitriolic he was I’d say this is a candidate for Worst Game.
I have no strong opinion one way or the other.
All I know that my guts say, maybe
Redfall makes you FEEL like a Vampire Victim as it sucks all the joy from your body
10/10
Those poor souls are now raisins
10/10
"DO NOT PLAY"
Nah bruv that's dementors
I thought vampires hot
no i think being a vampire victim would be more enjoyable.
You'd think a game about vampires would have higher stakes.
🥇
It certainly isn't anything to wake the dead over.
Games this bad just seem to suck the life right out of you don't they?
Mmm, Steeeaks.
Badum-tsch.
The funny thing is that it ISN'T rebalanced for multiplayer. The biggest complaint I've heard/seen is that every friend group is just one person clapping cheeks while everyone else desperately looks for enemies.
The montage of Dunkey struggling to keep up with his friend repeating “Fluppy, can I play now? Can I play the game now? I’d like to play the game I spent money on now, Fluppy” is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen from a co-op story game
The giant wall of ocean was kinda cool
Sounds like a review from one of the slaves Moses freed
@@alldayagain Fuck, now I want to see that as a comedy film. Moses doing all his biblical stuff, but everyone around him comments on it like it's a Yelp-review.
"Yeah, he got the Pharaoh to let us go, but the lambs blood on the doorframe was really tacky. 1/5 Stars." "Why do I even bother with you people?"
@@Tzilandi "The whole thing with the plagues really jumped the shark by the time they got to shit like gnats and darkness, and once it escalated to killing the firstborn it was clear they ran out of ideas and were just going for empty shock value."
@@Tzilandi You'd like Life Of Brian
@Tzilandi "He led us through a desert for 40 years. I feel a 10% tip for this service was adequate. 3 out of 5."
"The house rules were too strict. 2 out of 5."
"Host wouldn't let my group build a gold bull. 1 out of 5."
You know, hearing Yahtzee talk about this, it's clear that there was potential in this project. It obviously was set up well in the beginning, and vampires having human minions to do the grunt work has been used on and off again since Bram Stoker's Dracula. Hell, even the idea of having to switch which weapons you're using between killing humans and vampires is an interesting idea, though a stake launcher is going to wreck a human's day pretty bad, but maybe if they'd made the human focused weapons do minimal damage to vamps or let the vamps regenerate anything except "Anti-Vampire" whereas the vamp weapons should mostly work on people but be harder to use and/or refill ammo. That could have had some interesting game play, but instead we got something so easy that a game reviewer who has to finish within a week cranked up the difficulty just to feel SOMETHING. I hope that most of this concept-drop the multiplayer-can be revisited by someone who gives a shot, because this could have been a really good way to make players feel like a modern Van Helsing.
no one is touching this concept with a 10 foot pole in the next 50 years.... bit of a shame.
Arkane - Vampires take over an island and you get stuck on it and then… zzz
That was the potential before they fell asleep at the wheel, drove off a cliff, landed on a fuel dump… and then got ate by a shark.
This is a game that should still be cancelled and blamed on work experience kids.
@@evilsclone2499 Well if your ST(DM) has some balls that 12 gauge will help you a lot less (at least *one* 12 gauge will)
A stake launcher might be good against humans and vampires alike, but that can be solved by lowering it's fire rate and range. Burn it on a human and his friends have plenty of time to counter.
That's a big problem fighting vampires in most media. they seem to make them a hyperbolically more of a threat than they are. Yeah sure a stake will knock one down, but the real problem is they get up eventually. Killing a Vampire is a bit more involved and the only surefire way is to cut off the head. The Bram Stoker novel even the say(it does not happen....funny that).
5:36 now that you mention it, the final boss boils down to “interact with three things and push the win button”, so if that’s a boss, it ain’t much of a doozy…
At least it actually requires you to move around, unlike the Hollow Man and Bloody Tom boss fights, which boiled down to "hide behind thing, shoot gun, hide behind thing again".
The Nintendo Model of “Do a thing 3 times then win”
@@onhold1706 I thought Hollowman was the best boss fight in the game. yeah at the start it's Hide and Shoot, but then he unleashes the butterflys that circle the arena and you can't do that anymore.
the last bossfight was a joke. you have two characters that basically completely invalidate the entire fight, I played the lady with the robot and you can just tell the robot to distract everyone in the area while you push the button.
my friend played the stealth guy and he had the same experience.
but even if you didn't play either of those characters you've already had that bossfight dozens of times because the boss fight is just a slightly harder vamp nest where they throw in that lightning chump you've been ganking for half the game.
@@Catheidan In my case, even on the highest difficulty, all I had to do was stay behind the pillar and just move forward/backward depending on the direction the butterflies were coming. I liked the Miss Whisper boss fight the best because that had a bit more variety, even if it was easy.
Strong Quake energy in the boss design!
And to think, this was Microsoft's first ever $70 game.
Just proof why games shouldn't be priced the way they are. A lot of games nowadays aren't even worth 50 much less 70.
That's why it's always best to buy the previous generation consoles. Because nothing has changed gen to gen, and the games are priced what they actually deserve to be (60% off)
I'll have you know that games cost about $120 in Australia, it sucks
@@RaxusXeronos Yeah it should be $1 for the first quarter of a game, and $69 for the rest of it.
90 bucks in Canada
Edit: Usually 80, this steamer is 90 for some reason.
I think Arcane is hitting the same problems lots of developers go through. The talent got poached, or moved on once their creative visions were realised and they didn't retain any of the talent that produced their big hits.
They're different studios, and this is Arkane Austin's first game so I'm not sure how closely involved the original talent was for this game, hopefully not a lot lol.
Most of Arkane's staff is still intact. There has only been like 3 key people who have left the studio.
The creative directors for this game were the creative directors/leads for Deus Ex 1 and 2, Dishonored 1 + DLCs, Dishonored 2 and Prey + DLCs. The art director was the lead level architect from Prey. Many of the level designers are also from the Deus Ex and Bioshock teams and have been working on Arkane projects since Dishonored.
I think Arkane Austin will be back in shape for their next game as this project seems to be Bethesda's "let's make multiplayer" project. First was Wolfenstein Youngblood, then Fallout 76 and now, Redfall.
@@AmbientView3000 This is Arkane Austin's third game (second if you are only counting solo involvement). Dishonored 1 was made by both Austin and Lyon, it's DLCs were made in the Austin Branch. Then they worked on Prey'17 + DLCs which was a solo production of only the Austin team working on it.
I disagree. Honestly I think their recent batch of mid is an attempt to recoup costs. Dishonored and Prey are acclaimed games, but not very commercially successful.
So Deathloop and this are attempts to retain their flavor of shooter while being commercial and they aren’t working that well.
I never cared about Dishonored in the first place (and Prey 2017 didn't feel like it had much staying power or character) so I didn't have any stakes with Arkane. Then I saw what a nothingburger Deathloop was and immediately chucked them in the "marketers, not game designers" category. This pretty much confirms that.
I appreciate Yahtzee bringing up that you're only as good as the last thing you did because dude talks the talk and walks the walk. He's been putting out bangers consistently for years, so he clearly knows a thing or two about the creative process
Specially with videogames, as nowadays games take at least 4 years to develop on the AAA sphere, and even then they take so little time cus most studios crunch their workers to near death
Especially since the people behind dishonored and prey left arkane a while back. The arkane that made deathloop and redfall is not the same group as the arkane everyone thinks of
@@jackmesrel4933 the recent EA star wars games got made in 2.5 though
2 minimum, 4 average, sometimes 6/7 years
Eh. He occasionally misses, like in his REmake 4 review. He is the only person I've ever heard remember 03 unprompted and respond with anything other than contempt. And there's only a hand full of people who remember 03 at all, the more common response is "Who?" Fallowed by "oh yeah, that boss." with no elaboration positive or negative.
@@TheRealXrayDoc ah, this might be their version of The Clash's Cut the Crap.
To be fair chihuahuas are quite insane
Fiesty lil bastards I’ll tell ya what
Not only did some of the gamers say nope on this game even the enemies checked out in some footage i saw. Vampires that just floated in the air. I hope arkane can bounce back from this, they do make some interesting games at times.
After losing some core members, I don' think that's going to happen.
The good members left after the disastrous launch of Prey 2017 due to bethesda meddling in the game development
@@titanjakob1056 I thought everyone liked prey 2017 and was a success?
@@philosophicalpatriot1883 it was great and everyone who played it liked it. Problem is, almost no one actually did play it. So it didn't make that much money, which is the main criterion sadly.
@@philosophicalpatriot1883no it failed spectacularly due to
-the name prey which had nothing to do with the Original one developed which btw Arkane didn’t want at all confirmed by the leaked emails and game director confirmed it the only reason Bethesda did it wa s to keep the ip as it was gonna be given back to human head who were the original devs and we’re gonna make one of the most hyped games called prey 2 which were mistreated at the point of bankruptcy by Bethesda because they didn’t want to sell their studio so the game was cancelled and when it was revealed this game called prey was not even close to the original angered thousands upon thousands of players which caused a boycotting of it
-Bethesda threatening indie devs over the word prey such cases are Prey to the gods now forced to be named praey to the gods which caused an already big boycott to a massive one
Because of these two reasons the game sold 60% less than dishonoured 2 which already sold poorly
But let's still admit that anything that requires three shotgun shells to the head to kill is still pretty strong. Just not by VG standards.
Unfortunately, video games aren't real.
@@BobbyKotick69420 So this is what you're doing now, Mr. Kotick. Never thought I'd see you here.
@@BobbyKotick69420 So you mean I can't be eaten by a zombie from Dying Light? But that was my dream...
A bear might take a few depending where you hit it
3:47 I hope we get to see more of Rambo Yahtzee in the future.
I love it when the closed captioning reveals prior versions of the script. 😏
ah, my most trusted source of game reviews, an angry british man who swears alot, god am i glad i have zero punctuation
Yeah, shame we don't have Total Biscuit anymore. He is missed.
@@braith117 Oh no! Don't make me sad
no you have three whole commas *hahahahaha*
He's Australian though
@@DUSTKILLL is he from Australia or did he move to Australia?
1:08 There's only one game that i can think of that manages to jump the "meant for four players, but perfectly serviceable as a single player experience" hurdle. Yep, that's right. Let's pin another accolade on Deep Rock Galactic. A few more of those and it might collapse under the weight of all of them.
Borderlands 2 works solo really well
For rock and stone!
Yeah, yeah, Rock and Stone!
Left 4 Dead is fine solo. It's certainly not bad.
@@acoupleofschoes It's fine, for sure, but the solution of "Add AI Teammates" can get annoying when you're all drawing from the same resource pools, and when you have to drag stupid AI characters out of the fire. To be fair you'd have to do the same with other humans, but it *feels* better when it's humans making human mistakes, rather than robots making robot mistakes.
It's like Carcinization but with Destiny. Every game keeps trying to become Destiny
You might say that deny it all they want, it is their... Destiny.
Oh man, Destiny IS the new WoW, isn't it?
@@Hoobastomp Have your angry upvote.
@@awesome7067 always has been sadly
@@awesome7067 it’s been that way since it came out, and it only got worse with the sequel. Every game company has been chasing that dragon and it never works. Even Destiny doesn’t work for most people anymore because of how bad it got.
Those last two words explain more about Yahtzee than anything from his artistic output to date.
Have a Happy Birthday Yahtzee
his audiobook is good and he is a great reader he gives all the characters their own voice. its worth getting
He's done like 5-10 audiobooks
@@Kaunte Really?
@@BrunoMaricFromZagreb I listen to it on my phone through Audible
@@Delightfully_Bitchy Which book?
He can't do sequels well at all I noticed. He completely ignores all the cliffhanger questions of the previous book and then makes the equivalent of an filler episode or side story that doesn't advance the plot at all.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YAHTZEE!!!🎊 🎉
You know, if you close your eyes and pretend he got his developers confused, you can almost pretend like this is a Borderlands 3 review
To be fair, the Walrus could probably be taught to assemble a LEGO Death Star if given the right help to grab them with some tools. Training.
The developers couldn't put together an airplane puzzle designed for 2 year olds!
The one part he liked was on a boat, what a surprise.
Cant wait to see his review of Gollum! I'll be making popcorn when that one comes out!!
I just want to say that "Existentially Challenged" was one of my favorite Audiobooks last year. Great, funny story/mystery, and great narration by Yahtzee.
always a pleasure to hear yahtzee do his thing
Yatzee no longer wanting to harm marine life is peak character development
Happy birthday Yahtzee.
Love your books yathzee !
As someone who has played his share of BAD games, I thought everyone was being dramatic when they called this the worst game of the year, but I genuinely struggle to say one good thing about it
The fact that Arkane made this makes it even worse.
And the year isn't even halfway over yet
Hearing Yahtzee name drop OnlyFans feels like hearing my dad talk about VR suddenly out of nowhere
Yahtzee's mum is my stepdad? We're practically related
Loved the Stake Driver as a sprite for a gun in the video lmao
You got past the first jump in cup head. That makes you more skilled then most game reviewers.
That my mum joke took me outta this world😂
Yathz didn't even shit on this as much as I'd hoped
Usually thats even worse since it means that it didnt leave any impression on him. People will remember horrible 2/10 games, but 5/10 ones will disappear like a faint fart in the wind.
I think he gets annoyed when everyone TELLS him to shit on a game. You know, the easy targets like this and Balan and whatnot. I imagine he resents the obligation of it all. Plus, when everyone has already insulted a game, it's harder to come up with your own jokes for it.
4:38 not sure why but laughed hard at Yahtzee's character reaction.
Mr Expressionless jumpscare
That may have been the best pun one of these has ever ended on.
Hey, Chihuahuas might look adorable, but they are, in fact, demons from hell that will not hesitate to murder you...unlike the vampires in Redfall.
Mums can indeed hold grudges. I think that’s how Mummy’s are made.
Great Stuff, as always.
I'll add it to the bucket list
Whoever added the whole intro to sponsorblock, thanks man.
0:56
"... Should I leave?"
Oh no, just stay and listen... you'll want to be next in line!
I guarantee you this was a project that Austin was working on in the margins of all the other games they have been working on; like this was never meant to be a game, it just sort of happened, where the side-work reached critical mass, then they said, "Hey, can we put the finishing touches on this thing?" they got told "no" and then it was taken and sold as a finished product.
Existentially Challenged is my favorite book of Yahtzee's I've read by far. So good.
The line about murdering baby seals in a car crusher was fucking amazing.
Had to pause until I stopped laughing at that one
saw existentially challenged in waterstones a few weeks ago, I wanted to grab it but given it was a sequel I figured I should pick up the first one which they did not have. This reminded me to go order it, so cheers!
When Redfall was announced and I realised Arkane were the developers, I was soooo freaking excited. Then I played it and some how got syphilis from the wet fart.
Whew I thought I was the only one.
The game wasn't amde by Arkane France, it was made by Arkane Austin and probably co developed with devs from the French studio.
Given what I've seen of Redfall, this review honestly felt generous.
1:08 Deep rock galactic is the singular example of a game that did “four player coop shooter that’s just as good when played solo” actually well
Added the book to my audible wishlist. Gotta wait for my Amazon EBT Credits to re-up
"You know who else can sustain that amount of hatred for that long?"
I used to watch Yahtzee over 10 years ago, im surprised he is still at it and holy hell nothings changed! Remember when he got into a fight with Pure Pwnage? Crazy
Count Dooku: I've been looking forward to this...
Fun fact, the multiplayer for Redfall only gives the host story progression, mraning even the "intended" 4 player experience wasn't designed correctly.
My guess is that there was a different game that was actually being made and some monkey in a suit scrapped it and demanded Arkane make something to fill a slot in the release window in 10 months using what they had from the scrapped project.
Happy birthday to the best video game critic in these dreadful times!
As the only game reviewer I watch you are never late on a review for me.
Man. I so look forward to him doing Gollum. I know Yahtz' isn't, but I sure am.
Great vid
We've definitely got a contender for a game on this year's Top 5 Blandest/Worst
Thought for sure the video would make a Redwall reference. Oh well, still an enjoyable review to watch.
Jiminy Cockthroat. I haven't heard that one in a while. Good one, Yahtzee.
Loving the slight difference between subtitles and spoken-word content there. The Subtitle Person In-Charge clearly had grievances to air, and I for one feel you, Subtitle Person.
Then it must not only be optimized for multiplayer but also for cloud gaming, because the enemies were plentiful and frustratingly competent, when I played this on my last-gen console. The world seemed empty, until I tried to *go* anywhere, there were squads of five or six guys on every path and vampires would pop out of nowhere when I aggroed them, and then I couldn't get a shot in with three or four vampires blinking about, enough to make me think my game was crashing.
"or the one who can jump quite high" bro leave Luigi alone 😂
Yahtzee, is the book available as one of those posters that looks like a drawing of the author or a character but is actually just the text of the entire novel, it's the only way i read nowadays :)
“First impressions were good”
Well of course they were, Yahtzee was on a boat.
When things like this happens, I wonder were all that effort went. Did something happen behind the scenes that led to this?
Wow, he went pretty gentle on Redfall. If it was me I'd have been a lot harsher. He didn't even point out the myriad bugs and glitches.
I think we all felt a gear shift in Yatzee's voice after the awkward Redfall dinner scene lol
My guess is that Arkane Austin was offered a multi-game contract and they phoned this one in.
You say that there is now co-op cage that works Singleplayer but I believe Barony achieves just that
Love this
Yahtzee never loses his spark. Feels just as vintage as when I first started watching him.
Thanks again
0:31 it's prey 2017!
I'm imagining Yahtzee and his Chihuahua having a moment over food he should really take from the lil blender
Oooooh…..I have been waiting for this one :)
Anybody here played that in Multiplayer? If so, how was it compared to what Yahtzee said.
Thanks
Script notes making into the animation with the tinfoil bit lol
When a game tanks, you know the ZP is gonna be brutal
Remember kids: Arkane was forced to make Redfall after the live service multiplayer model was seen to be "profitable" a few years ago.
I forgot about this game 2 minutes after it came out
You went full muscle man
Why is the URL for Yahtzee's homepage at the end of the video when the webpage is gone?
I swear, the entire idea for this game must have just spawned from “wooden stake as a bayonet"
I know next week's, but I wonder if he'll ever do a review of Fear and hunger.
I'm left with only one question! From which game are those skeleton minis?
I honestly didn't even learn that Redfall had a singleplayer campaign until well after launch.
All the trailers I saw made it look like a vamped-up Left 4 Dead. Or that Arkane was making it.
A mercy, really. If I had known that "Arkane is making an Immersive Sim RPG with Co-Op", the disappointment would have been immeasurable.
Arkane fell really far from Prey 2017. I assume all the staff taht worked on that jumped ship.
My favorite reading medium, stenciled pig.
Bravo.
God I love Prey (2016).
Can't wait to see what the good devs are up to this time around...
Oh
Look at that, two Early Access game reviews in a row.