Did they ever mention how playing as a grandma doing backflips or construction worker armed with a nail gun has anything to do with hacking and stuff? I saw the trailer but I guess I was too distracted by all the cheap shock value flashing across the screen almost like the trailer itself had ADHD
I can't wait for a video game where you play like actual hackers and leave a seemingly harmless flash drive on the desk of a gormless office worker hoping he plugs it into his office computer out of curiosity allowing you to download everyone's credit card data
@@Kaunteyou almost got it there: the games draw a defined and solid line between main and side missions and communicates the style of each early on, meaning that you know exactly which is which. The games effectively separate the silly and the serious, they don't mix it.
@@inquisitorbenediktanders3142 Not exactly, the main stories have quite a few silly moments to them also. 2 has a golden castle come out of the ground with ninjas and spiketraps where you punch out a tiger. 3 has the whole Kanda fight, and in 4 or 5 you fistfight a giant bear and so on and so on. It's similar to Metal Gear where most of the time it's treated as serious but then there are intensely silly moments sprinkled in.
Ironically, Aiden actually comes closer to being an everyman than Marcus. Marcus is just a narcissitic sociopath, but at least Aiden had enough self-awareness to realize that he was not the good guy.
The death of "that guy" in the story was only worsened by the fact that, out of all the other side characters in the story, he appeared like... 3 fucking times. Once in the prologue, once when we infiltrated their workplace, and the last time when we attended the fucking Fyre Festival or whatever that mission was about. Their death was emotionless because we had no chance to get to know the character.
And also, other than Marcus getting a bit sad and a bit sweary, none of the other members of mystery inc even seemed to give a shit about him. I forgot his name and thought he'd already died at some point. THAT'S how irrelevant he was.
Just like the black guy was killed in CoD ghosts. Ajax is introduced and then killed immediately afterwards, best part is that not even the characters pretend to care they just move forward
They've made the building climbing a bit easier. Instead of climbing the whole building while playing as a human gecko, you climb half the building to reach a window-washing lift whose bottom floor is on something ridiculous like an awning.
i feel like i'm the only person that isnt sick of radio towers or assassins creed combat, both feel very satisfying to me but apparently everyone else hates it and considers them Satan's minions
Zomical Gaming Now that's just a straw man. I don't think they're Satan's minions, but they have become part of Ubisoft's formulaic and boring gameplay tropes and deserve ridicule. And no, you aren't the only person who likes them. You're not that unique
"In which case, to explore those things, how about making the hero A NORMAL FUCKING DUDE" i think it's safe to say ubisoft saw this video, legion having it so you can play as literally anyone you see ingame and all
Godammit, Ubisoft is a robot. It just listened to his advice at 2:25 and made the new game exactly like he described. lol Yatzeeh, don't you realize? You can make an hour long video describing the perfect game to their hive mind. Like Prince of Persia meets Portal in Silient Hill 2.
"WHY DID YOU MAKE ME HAVE TO DO THIS" asks the ridiculously diverse woman to her sister after humiliating her online. She's a real monster, Yahtzee is *barely* exaggerating here
Watching Yahtzee review games is like eating brownies, you eat one, then go for another, then another, then another, and before you know it you’ve eaten the whole tray.
The stun gun isn't an instant takedown on all enemies right away. Armored enemies shrug off stun rounds and you need to unlock an upgrade down the road after finding a collectible scattered in the world so they will go down. Edit: Stun gun is also a temporary sleep-aid. Enemies hit with it eventually wake up and alert everyone else.
Yeah. The stun gun won't KO all enemies instantly, and they will wake up after a while or if an enemy finds them and wakes them up. How long until they wake up can be viewed by the amount of Z's on them, like in metal gear solid 3. The less there are, the less time you have until they wake up. If you want an enemy to stay down without killing them, you'll need to perform a takedown. Not the first time Yahtzee screwed his research up...
which is weird, because I know that if I took a stun gun to the chest (or spine), I wouldn't be in any condition to get up for a good couple days. Because I'd be recovering from a heart attack.
I've found the single most amazing line in any escapist video ever, "that made me laugh so hard that my lungs inverted and flopped out of my mouth like a pair of greasy oven mitts". Yatzee, you're a gem:)
1:51 and 4:16 Super Bunnyhop has a great video explaning why this game would be much better if the violence aspect of the game was taken from the player and this game should've been a sandbox stealth game.
At the same time unrealistic and not for mainstream. The simple solution is to keep the violence in, but make it mean a bit by changing the dialogues a bit to reflect it based on the play-style. His solution is no solution at all.
Nah, he's right and you're wrong. I'd rather play a niche game that's really well polished than a game "for mainstream" that sucks because they put in half baked stealth, half baked shooting, half baked driving, and so on. YOUR solution is no solution at all because all you did is suggest they do what they've already done.
The original (accurate) usage was named after taking it apart to see out it worked, either by literally taking the pieces apart or by learning how each piece fits in with the whole thing. That's what hacking is. What we think a hacker is would be referred to as "Script Kiddies", which is a type of "hackers" that even hackers find irredeemable.
I was actually more driven with the first watch dogs. Sure it was an emo "I got my niece killed I'm so depressed" story, but that's still a better story than, "we're hacktivists teehee".
Battusai1984 Trans woman as in female body or female identity? If it's the latter without the former, then she's not in a lesbian relationship, since sexuality is not tied to identity, with sexuality being completely physical.
i'm from the bay area... and i actually liked all the over the top stuff about the bay area in it. I feel lit's probably something only a person from the bay area would find funny.
Yatzee: Make the gameplay about a normal fucking dude! UbiSoft-9000: Processing...Next game will allow you to recruit random people off the street, thus being "normal fucking dudes" Me: **slowly takes off glasses** My GOD YATZEE WAS RIGHT.
Yeah I enjoyed the gameplay of it, picked it up real cheap at a steam sale. Other than that it's just feminism, hbtq and anti "Trump" propaganda. Also like he say's in the video, there's no real reason for doing all this.
At the moment you hear, "laughed so hard my lungs came flopping out" you disregard all sense to not spoil yourself and do everything in your power to spoil yourself by typing that very scene Yahtzee describes into the google searchbar and preparing yourself to be enlightened. To be honest, I can't imagine him giving more than a chuckle or his classic "tee-hee." Understanding that his voice sounds like that of a man who is muffled under his t-shirt (possibly a sign of vocal distress one might see in a man who spends much of his time reviewing games) it is quite probable that any more effort into his laughter may actually cause him to regurgitate his internal organs like a star fish...... but with more fedora.
King Harkinian Too bad they cancelled it. Then again, it was supposed to be some weird multiplayer thing, so maybe it's for the best that the game isn't tarnished with a shit sequel.
2:29 ‘d’ya know how you explore those themes? By making the hero a normal fucking dude.’ Watchdogs legion: okay, let’s just get them to play everyone then
I played this entire game with the tazer and paintball(?) rifle because of the tone issues. It felt so mean otherwise, and despite being a pain in the ass to play, the narrative held up way better as "fun loving vigilantes knock people out on their quest to free us from Zuckerberg" instead of "fun loving mass shooters gun down innocent security guards and civilians in an attempt to bring down Google." Part of that may also be that the memelord 4chan edgy capital G Gamer turned mass shooter is a real thing that happens in the states.
That last joke, it's fucking perfect, and anyone who doesn't actually live in the East Bay is going to think it's just Yahtzee being silly old Yahtzee again
Well, at least there's that mission where you take the Spider robot from the first game and use it to fuck up an entire underground Area-51 sort of lab. And then there's Wrench.
UbiSuck binned the best character in Watchdogs, Mr. Jordie Chinn. They unceremoniously threw him off a bloody lighthouse for no good reason , they should have kept him and made the sequel about how now Lucky Quinn is dead, Jordie takes over Chicago South Club organisation . They should have gone with the serious tone of Deadsec and fleshed it out , there are many Ethical Hackers out there that do alot of good . They should have made a opposite hacker group similar to Decima in POI ,with a boss hacker styled on Thomas Gabriel from Diehard4.0.
Yahtzee has made a total of 443 episodes since the show started, which is 47 episodes per year for 9.4 years. That is some amazing commitment, and he's showing no sign of stopping. I like video games as much as the next guy, but I would have burned out by now if I were him.
Yahtzee, please remind your editors to balance the volume. Intro music makes me turn the volume down in a desperate attempt to stanch the blood dripping from where my eardrums used to be, the talking is the talking, then the outro music gets all edgy and makes me turn the volume *up*, wondering if the ear damage from the intro is progressing unusually quickly. As for the review, you hit on all the points I noticed. Gameplay fun but easy, cast a bunch of diverse millennials with "corporate pandering" stamped all over them, villain remarkably absent from most of the game, plot scatterbrained, and would-be moral ("Evil corporations are stealing your data and stamping all over your privacy, better fight back.") lost amid the massive number of crimes committed by the protagonists. I'm still having fun, mind you, but now that the campaign is over I'm reduced to hunting the city for the vast quantity of upgrade points I somehow missed, the occasional pop-in multiplayer romp, and starting pitched gun battles with hordes of San Francisco's finest. Speaking of "easy", the ability to summon elite gang members to scour an area of hostiles is rivaled only by the quadcopter's upgrade that lets you air-drop IEDs on enemies without breaking cover. Not that those things aren't hilarious.
50% of comments - talk about why the channel isn't just called "Zero Punctuation" 30% of comments - funny part in the video 10% of comments - reply to the 50% or 30% 9% of comments -something really dumb and/or random but can sometimes be funny 1% of comments - actually about the game. ironically, this one's under the 9% of randomness
I did the movie studio subplot before the main story and ‘guy who was gonna die first’ was mysteriously absent which means that Ubisoft in all their laziness only made one version of the cutscenes where the guy was already dead.
On the "do it your way ruins all games" argument: Have you ever tried to learn hacking/programming? It is very much "do it your way". (But yes, the "fighting for the people" thing is quite negated once you start shooting/blowing stuff up)
I like the concept of do things your own way. It is just you have to actually make it possible. No freaking forced stealth sections. Or if your rpg elements you need a way to make boss fights equal out through being able to hack or through dialogue. Like if you are fighting someone as more of a sneak/hack type maybe be able to release a gas to weaken the boss down or talk someone into betrayal if you are silver tongued. This...Is a lot of work though and you have to make it consistent through out the entire game. This also leads to stuff like Skyrim where everything is so generic that it ends up always breaking down to stealth archery....or whatever the games best setup is. In Skyrim being good at conversation does not even do anything. Not like it unlocks special dialogues or lets you avoid fights. Like everyone should go back to Deus Ex and think about how to bring this to a modern game.
Gonna make a prediction; 40% will consist of gay jokes, 30% will be him taking the piss out of Japanese game devs, 15% will be bitching about the gameplay, 15% will consist about exploiting the flaws of the presentation of the narrative, and the last 5% will be the standard self-deprecating reference to give you the idea that he's a normal human being instead of a self-satsified piece of garbage shaped like a human being. There. That'll be $22.75. Cash only.
" and the last 5% will be the standard self-deprecating reference to give you the idea that he's a normal human being instead of a self-satsified piece of garbage shaped like a human being" Since when has Yathzee considered himself a "normal human being"?
Well, Escapist did get rid of many of their shows and had all kinds of conflicts with their content creators. Personally, I'm still a huge fan of Unskippable and (I can't remember the official name, but it was a physics and math based analysis of movie tropes show..) If Escapist somehow was able to keep them going, it might have a chance to be more than just Zero Punctuation, but I think they've already lost most of them (Jimquisition has its own channel, for instance)..
Speaking of tone, one of their core motivations is being against the disregard for privacy, yet in order to entice one side character to help they trade him someones sex-tape. If they want this game to be gta but with hacking, then that is totally fine, but embrace that then.
it's impossible to go on a rampage and kill everything in sight in this game too, I got bored so I just took out a grenade launcher and started blowing up everything in sight, only a couple cop cars came around then nobody gave two shits and went back to their normal, non genocide filled lives like all I did was fucking drop an empty pack of skittles
Spot on. Can't believe I paid full price AGAIN. Seriously, you'd think I'd learn. The only game I've never regretted paying full price for was the Witcher 3.
2:17 - See here's where I feel like either I missed something about Watch Dogs 1, or everyone else missed something about Watch Dogs 1, but I'm pretty sure Watch Dogs 1 wasn't about the whole government is always watching you thing. It was there and you used it to your advantage, but the game was about Aiden and his revenge story. He really didn't give a fuck about Blume or whatever their name was. Even at the end of the game, when the hackers were like "oi give us a minute so we can fuck over the government", Aiden says no. I even saw people complaining back in the day that WD1's ending doesn't fully resolve the plot, but it does. The problem was people thought the plot was about the corporation, but the plot was about Aiden's revenge, which is indeed resolved. Point is, yes a character like Aiden would be a bad way to explore the themes of data security, technological integration, and corporate control of the populace. But Aiden wasn't meant to explore those themes. He's just there for his revenge. Yes, he is that one note. As far as the obnoxious millenials go, yeah they were supposed to explore those themes and boy did that not fucking work. It worked so poorly that WD2's characters gave me newfound appreciation for a lot of WD1's characters. At least WD1 had a somewhat compelling villain in that old man, and they even use that he's old by having him taunt you about what a full life he's lead as he dies. That guy Jordi was fun whenever he was on screen. Watch Dogs 2 doesn't even have those brief examples to point to. Watch Dogs 2 has the same problem in gameplay, too. The first game wasn't brimming with variety, but it had a few different types of missions. Watch Dogs 2 throws everything out the window except for stealthing around. Every mission in WD2 is stealth and it's boring and I hate it. There were a couple of times in 2 where I found myself doing one of those driving segments from 1, where you could blow up steam vents or mess with traffic lights to crash pursuers and get away. Except none of that shit works in 2, you get the same prompt to activate some steam or hit a traffic light, and you press it, and nothing fucking happens. Booo! I fucking hate Watch Dogs 2.
CarozQH *Bay Area I feel ashamed that I even have to spell this out for you. I know you're just being a dumb-fuck for comic effect.. But the fact that I even have to spell it out is sad.
Yeah, having driven the Bay Area... you’d still be sitting in traffic during the first mission to go buy clothes if you started when the game was released...
"make the protagonist a normal dude" the robot now says that literally everyone is a protagonist in the new one
I realised that rewatching this as well! I think he was actually onto something with what he said during the Paper Mario: Origami King review!
Apparently he wrote a few lines or something for Legion too. Nothing major, but I remember he noted that his lines weren’t in the E3 demo.
Did they ever mention how playing as a grandma doing backflips or construction worker armed with a nail gun has anything to do with hacking and stuff? I saw the trailer but I guess I was too distracted by all the cheap shock value flashing across the screen almost like the trailer itself had ADHD
"It makes them come across like reckless idiots with no grasp of the consequences of their actions."
I mean, isn't that exactly what Hackers are?
it's almost like ubisoft watches yahtzee videos...
I can't wait for a video game where you play like actual hackers and leave a seemingly harmless flash drive on the desk of a gormless office worker hoping he plugs it into his office computer out of curiosity allowing you to download everyone's credit card data
jazaniac quadralateral cowboy
Fuc of
Rubbie duckie
But that's a crime!
How about "Hacknet"?
Yeah about that tone...
"Hey guys, we can't have Blume jacking up everyone's utility rates!"
**Steals $700 from the next five people around him**
Raptor302 And then tasering them into a drooling heap for amusement value.
You can't shift in tone from "Grand Theft Auto V" to "Dennis the Menace" between missions and expect it to feel genuine, Ubisoft.
Yakuza is somehow able to pull it off. Maybe its because they mostly relegate the silliness to the side missions
@@Kaunteyou almost got it there: the games draw a defined and solid line between main and side missions and communicates the style of each early on, meaning that you know exactly which is which. The games effectively separate the silly and the serious, they don't mix it.
@@inquisitorbenediktanders3142 Not exactly, the main stories have quite a few silly moments to them also. 2 has a golden castle come out of the ground with ninjas and spiketraps where you punch out a tiger. 3 has the whole Kanda fight, and in 4 or 5 you fistfight a giant bear and so on and so on.
It's similar to Metal Gear where most of the time it's treated as serious but then there are intensely silly moments sprinkled in.
Ironically, Aiden actually comes closer to being an everyman than Marcus. Marcus is just a narcissitic sociopath, but at least Aiden had enough self-awareness to realize that he was not the good guy.
The death of "that guy" in the story was only worsened by the fact that, out of all the other side characters in the story, he appeared like... 3 fucking times. Once in the prologue, once when we infiltrated their workplace, and the last time when we attended the fucking Fyre Festival or whatever that mission was about. Their death was emotionless because we had no chance to get to know the character.
And also, other than Marcus getting a bit sad and a bit sweary, none of the other members of mystery inc even seemed to give a shit about him. I forgot his name and thought he'd already died at some point. THAT'S how irrelevant he was.
Don't forget that he wasn't even in any of the promotional material...
Just like the black guy was killed in CoD ghosts. Ajax is introduced and then killed immediately afterwards, best part is that not even the characters pretend to care they just move forward
Wait, this game doesn't have radio towers to climb that allow you to discover more of the map?
0/10, not a true Ubisoft game
It has buildings you climb up to deface billboards. Ubisoft just couldn't help themselves.
They've made the building climbing a bit easier. Instead of climbing the whole building while playing as a human gecko, you climb half the building to reach a window-washing lift whose bottom floor is on something ridiculous like an awning.
mjc0961
That was only for one string of side missions.
Plus the last one was pretty cool tbh.
i feel like i'm the only person that isnt sick of radio towers or assassins creed combat, both feel very satisfying to me but apparently everyone else hates it and considers them Satan's minions
Zomical Gaming Now that's just a straw man. I don't think they're Satan's minions, but they have become part of Ubisoft's formulaic and boring gameplay tropes and deserve ridicule.
And no, you aren't the only person who likes them. You're not that unique
Kids these days: The Game
You just lost The Game
It has been awhile
How do you do fellow kids: the game.
Thanks to XCKD, I'm free from the clutches of The Game.
They don't have respect....
"In which case, to explore those things, how about making the hero A NORMAL FUCKING DUDE" i think it's safe to say ubisoft saw this video, legion having it so you can play as literally anyone you see ingame and all
I just got an ad from the US Army about how they can stop any cyber attack. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
B-b-b-but the Russians!!!
Kristos Jackson, No the British we are coming back for round three.
Godammit, Ubisoft is a robot. It just listened to his advice at 2:25 and made the new game exactly like he described. lol
Yatzeeh, don't you realize?
You can make an hour long video describing the perfect game to their hive mind. Like Prince of Persia meets Portal in Silient Hill 2.
"WHY DID YOU MAKE ME HAVE TO DO THIS" asks the ridiculously diverse woman to her sister after humiliating her online. She's a real monster, Yahtzee is *barely* exaggerating here
Yeah, I live in the middle of the Bay Area...the point about the traffic is 100% accurate.
Classy Glassy Gaming Pretty much any game based in Cali only has about .0001% of the traffic though.
It's why travel guides to SF do not mention BART and try to herd them to the streetcars down by the Embarcadero
Watching Yahtzee review games is like eating brownies, you eat one, then go for another, then another, then another, and before you know it you’ve eaten the whole tray.
The stun gun isn't an instant takedown on all enemies right away. Armored enemies shrug off stun rounds and you need to unlock an upgrade down the road after finding a collectible scattered in the world so they will go down.
Edit: Stun gun is also a temporary sleep-aid. Enemies hit with it eventually wake up and alert everyone else.
Dan D This ZP do your research.
Yeah. The stun gun won't KO all enemies instantly, and they will wake up after a while or if an enemy finds them and wakes them up. How long until they wake up can be viewed by the amount of Z's on them, like in metal gear solid 3. The less there are, the less time you have until they wake up. If you want an enemy to stay down without killing them, you'll need to perform a takedown. Not the first time Yahtzee screwed his research up...
@@ethanedwards3357 or you can hit them with a paintball gun a certain ammount of times
It’s still a pretty op gun, and not very balanced since it’s given at the beginning of the game
which is weird, because I know that if I took a stun gun to the chest (or spine), I wouldn't be in any condition to get up for a good couple days. Because I'd be recovering from a heart attack.
Escapist should be renamed to zero punctuation (sponsored by escapist magazine)
Hilarious and Original
More like the Escapist channel sponsored by Zero Punctuation.
Uber D is that a new sitcom? i like the name Hilarious and Original, it sounds hilarious and original
Zomical Gaming kek
kekekekekekek okay i'm done
it's sad that I'm on TH-cam so much that I catch these videos before my notifications do.
Austin Warden It should have a counter for how long you've spent on TH-cam to guilt you
+Kamran Mahmood TH-cam stats
No because my notifications are fucked
Kamran Mahmood not sure I want to know how much I'm actually on here with this and Netflix being my primary entertainment
Kamran Mahmood It should be like a judgmental Nintendo game - "You've been playing for a while-why not take a break?"
I've found the single most amazing line in any escapist video ever, "that made me laugh so hard that my lungs inverted and flopped out of my mouth like a pair of greasy oven mitts". Yatzee, you're a gem:)
1:51 and 4:16
Super Bunnyhop has a great video explaning why this game would be much better if the violence aspect of the game was taken from the player and this game should've been a sandbox stealth game.
Paranoid1996 but then it would be Deus Ex game minus the trench coat.
At the same time unrealistic and not for mainstream. The simple solution is to keep the violence in, but make it mean a bit by changing the dialogues a bit to reflect it based on the play-style.
His solution is no solution at all.
... I don't see the problem.
Nah, he's right and you're wrong. I'd rather play a niche game that's really well polished than a game "for mainstream" that sucks because they put in half baked stealth, half baked shooting, half baked driving, and so on. YOUR solution is no solution at all because all you did is suggest they do what they've already done.
mjc0961 well what you're essentially saying is they could have made the game better if they were making a different game so...
I don't get the axe thing. What does hacking have to do with hacking?
the same word. i made a running joke
The original (accurate) usage was named after taking it apart to see out it worked, either by literally taking the pieces apart or by learning how each piece fits in with the whole thing. That's what hacking is. What we think a hacker is would be referred to as "Script Kiddies", which is a type of "hackers" that even hackers find irredeemable.
The technical term for swinging an axe more than once is called "hacking". That is the joke.
Artorias of the Abyss *WHOOSH*
He uses an axe to “hack” apart people
"Play as a normal fucking dude!"
PROCESSING...
PLAY AS ANY NORMAL DUDE:
*Watch dogs legion*
2:26 They're really taking the hint Yahtzee
Yeah, now you can be any random dude. Ubisoft might watch Yahtzee's videos
@@virtualcynical8515 Well they must do, since he was brought in to edit some lines for them.
I was actually more driven with the first watch dogs. Sure it was an emo "I got my niece killed I'm so depressed" story, but that's still a better story than, "we're hacktivists teehee".
"The whole diversity quota with one character" oh boy
tohaklim I thought that was the Demoman
did you just assume my gender
Rookie mistake, sorry
Like that one character in Sens8 who is a trans woman in a interracial lesbian relationship ^^
Battusai1984 Trans woman as in female body or female identity? If it's the latter without the former, then she's not in a lesbian relationship, since sexuality is not tied to identity, with sexuality being completely physical.
i'm from the bay area... and i actually liked all the over the top stuff about the bay area in it. I feel lit's probably something only a person from the bay area would find funny.
no matter how much you love the game, stuff like this is always funny.
Yatzee: Make the gameplay about a normal fucking dude!
UbiSoft-9000: Processing...Next game will allow you to recruit random people off the street, thus being "normal fucking dudes"
Me: **slowly takes off glasses** My GOD YATZEE WAS RIGHT.
Watch Dogs 2: Good gameplay, not much else.
The gameplay is even lacking in some parts.
Sounds like [PROTOTYPE]
Yeah I enjoyed the gameplay of it, picked it up real cheap at a steam sale. Other than that it's just feminism, hbtq and anti "Trump" propaganda. Also like he say's in the video, there's no real reason for doing all this.
At the moment you hear, "laughed so hard my lungs came flopping out" you disregard all sense to not spoil yourself and do everything in your power to spoil yourself by typing that very scene Yahtzee describes into the google searchbar and preparing yourself to be enlightened. To be honest, I can't imagine him giving more than a chuckle or his classic "tee-hee." Understanding that his voice sounds like that of a man who is muffled under his t-shirt (possibly a sign of vocal distress one might see in a man who spends much of his time reviewing games) it is quite probable that any more effort into his laughter may actually cause him to regurgitate his internal organs like a star fish...... but with more fedora.
I'd rather have Sleeping Dogs 2.
King Harkinian Too bad they cancelled it. Then again, it was supposed to be some weird multiplayer thing, so maybe it's for the best that the game isn't tarnished with a shit sequel.
What's for dinner?
Mah boi, this game is what all true warriors strive for!
How about Barking Dogs?
DABBING DOGS
2:29 ‘d’ya know how you explore those themes? By making the hero a normal fucking dude.’
Watchdogs legion: okay, let’s just get them to play everyone then
I played this entire game with the tazer and paintball(?) rifle because of the tone issues. It felt so mean otherwise, and despite being a pain in the ass to play, the narrative held up way better as "fun loving vigilantes knock people out on their quest to free us from Zuckerberg" instead of "fun loving mass shooters gun down innocent security guards and civilians in an attempt to bring down Google." Part of that may also be that the memelord 4chan edgy capital G Gamer turned mass shooter is a real thing that happens in the states.
That last joke, it's fucking perfect, and anyone who doesn't actually live in the East Bay is going to think it's just Yahtzee being silly old Yahtzee again
Catharsis involving destroying the bay area? I'm sold.
Well, at least there's that mission where you take the Spider robot from the first game and use it to fuck up an entire underground Area-51 sort of lab. And then there's Wrench.
UbiSuck binned the best character in Watchdogs, Mr. Jordie Chinn. They unceremoniously threw him off a bloody lighthouse for no good reason , they should have kept him and made the sequel about how now Lucky Quinn is dead, Jordie takes over Chicago South Club organisation . They should have gone with the serious tone of Deadsec and fleshed it out , there are many Ethical Hackers out there that do alot of good . They should have made a opposite hacker group similar to Decima in POI ,with a boss hacker styled on Thomas Gabriel from Diehard4.0.
Chinga3000 He is in the season pass as a side character in a mission.
Not worth getting the season pass till it's less than 15$ though
Chinga3000 He can't take over the organization lucky Quinn had a son and he took it over . That was the in first game's DLC bad blood.
Denzel Romero And he could die too. That's what people do in gangs. They die.
Yahtzee has made a total of 443 episodes since the show started, which is 47 episodes per year for 9.4 years. That is some amazing commitment, and he's showing no sign of stopping. I like video games as much as the next guy, but I would have burned out by now if I were him.
The graphic of the chick looks just like Sombra
RetroMarineX13 you mean Laura from street fighter 5?
well hello to you random stranger who enjoys watching yahtzee as much as I do on the you tube
Clockwork Orange Cosplay hello fellow Yahtzee viewer. I like A clockwork orange
You must of liked 0:36 part of the video
Ya dirty old soomka
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ECHHHH!!!!!
I love how legions is almost like a response to yahtzee where ubisoft just threw up there hands and said "FINE you pick who the hackers are!"
Watch_Dogs 2: where gameplay was more respected than... anything else.
Yahtzee, please remind your editors to balance the volume. Intro music makes me turn the volume down in a desperate attempt to stanch the blood dripping from where my eardrums used to be, the talking is the talking, then the outro music gets all edgy and makes me turn the volume *up*, wondering if the ear damage from the intro is progressing unusually quickly.
As for the review, you hit on all the points I noticed. Gameplay fun but easy, cast a bunch of diverse millennials with "corporate pandering" stamped all over them, villain remarkably absent from most of the game, plot scatterbrained, and would-be moral ("Evil corporations are stealing your data and stamping all over your privacy, better fight back.") lost amid the massive number of crimes committed by the protagonists.
I'm still having fun, mind you, but now that the campaign is over I'm reduced to hunting the city for the vast quantity of upgrade points I somehow missed, the occasional pop-in multiplayer romp, and starting pitched gun battles with hordes of San Francisco's finest. Speaking of "easy", the ability to summon elite gang members to scour an area of hostiles is rivaled only by the quadcopter's upgrade that lets you air-drop IEDs on enemies without breaking cover. Not that those things aren't hilarious.
I hope for bad games to come out
they make for better escapist reviews
You dont need to hope, its already happening.
:D
I enjoy it right now, it's a fun little game, and it let's me play out my power fantasies in a manner that has no consequences.
50% of comments - talk about why the channel isn't just called "Zero Punctuation"
30% of comments - funny part in the video
10% of comments - reply to the 50% or 30%
9% of comments -something really dumb and/or random but can sometimes be funny
1% of comments - actually about the game.
ironically, this one's under the 9% of randomness
Richard Vasquez we are the 99%!
You missed this comment, too, the "we're gonna comment on other loser comments" type
1:13
Hey, me and Yahtzee have the exact same thought process when it came to that guy
I did the movie studio subplot before the main story and ‘guy who was gonna die first’ was mysteriously absent which means that Ubisoft in all their laziness only made one version of the cutscenes where the guy was already dead.
I like to watch dogs.
fuck
Lord Funface The Atomic Toaster I like to watch dogs 2.
Random Guy and who the bloody hell do you think you are I'm the only random guy on the youtubes
Random Guy F-father? Is that you?
Random Guy yes my son, now go! go out into the world of the interwebs and spread my randomness
3:20 And then, of course, this character continues to post on the in-game social media.
Every time this man makes a joke about Bay Area traffic, it's fucking perfect.
Inspector Morse is legitimately great though.
On the "do it your way ruins all games" argument: Have you ever tried to learn hacking/programming? It is very much "do it your way". (But yes, the "fighting for the people" thing is quite negated once you start shooting/blowing stuff up)
Ive learnt that if Yahtzee mentions anything positive about the core gameplay or story, then it's worth playing.
As much as ZP is supposed to be satire this one was just plain accurate on almost all levels.
That cheek muscles joke murdered me
I like the concept of do things your own way. It is just you have to actually make it possible. No freaking forced stealth sections. Or if your rpg elements you need a way to make boss fights equal out through being able to hack or through dialogue. Like if you are fighting someone as more of a sneak/hack type maybe be able to release a gas to weaken the boss down or talk someone into betrayal if you are silver tongued. This...Is a lot of work though and you have to make it consistent through out the entire game. This also leads to stuff like Skyrim where everything is so generic that it ends up always breaking down to stealth archery....or whatever the games best setup is. In Skyrim being good at conversation does not even do anything. Not like it unlocks special dialogues or lets you avoid fights. Like everyone should go back to Deus Ex and think about how to bring this to a modern game.
Oh no not the Thatcher gang, I still owe them some big money..
0:53 So it seems Yahtzee has been to imgur.
*snort*
Gianinni Vieira where'd you get the cocaine?
Gianinni Vieira To man you hook me up with some snow.
Writing in games is hit and miss. Overall, it's a damned fun game. Also, Hackers is my favorite bad movie.
honestly the game story made me think more of mister robot. but yeah hackers the movie is def in there to.
The last non-Yahtzee video on the Escapist was last posted 7 months ago and was about a mobile game.
Huh.
Did Yahtzee just fucking predict the civilian mechanic in Watch Dogs Legion?
2:33 -> this got fed into the calculating machine and out popped Watch Dogs Legion
as a resident of the bay area that last line is probably the number 1 reason why i purchased this game
2:51 is that Sombra?
IVIaskerade *Sitara
yes
She hacked her way in
Pretty much
This channel is just pure genius 😀👍🏻
The thought of Ubi Soft making a game that offers a challenge is quite humorous.
Can't wait to hear your thoughts on FFXV, Yahtzee.
He'll tell the dreams he had of when he fell asleep after 30 minutes of gameplay.
Gonna make a prediction; 40% will consist of gay jokes, 30% will be him taking the piss out of Japanese game devs, 15% will be bitching about the gameplay, 15% will consist about exploiting the flaws of the presentation of the narrative, and the last 5% will be the standard self-deprecating reference to give you the idea that he's a normal human being instead of a self-satsified piece of garbage shaped like a human being.
There. That'll be $22.75. Cash only.
He made a Zero Punctuation review of FFXV on The Escapist website.
" and the last 5% will be the standard self-deprecating reference to give
you the idea that he's a normal human being instead of a self-satsified
piece of garbage shaped like a human being"
Since when has Yathzee considered himself a "normal human being"?
Add up the percentages and you'll understand
only 90s kids remember when this channel had more than zero punctuation
Patrick Dolph hey, they also have Judging by the Cover...
Well, Escapist did get rid of many of their shows and had all kinds of conflicts with their content creators. Personally, I'm still a huge fan of Unskippable and (I can't remember the official name, but it was a physics and math based analysis of movie tropes show..) If Escapist somehow was able to keep them going, it might have a chance to be more than just Zero Punctuation, but I think they've already lost most of them (Jimquisition has its own channel, for instance)..
It was a joke. Judging by the Cover is also done by Yahzee, meaning that all Escapist video content is 100% Yahzee
1991 here. I don't remember.
The term 90s kids refer to people who were "kids" (9-10 years-old give or take) during the 90s, not born during them.
Speaking of tone, one of their core motivations is being against the disregard for privacy, yet in order to entice one side character to help they trade him someones sex-tape.
If they want this game to be gta but with hacking, then that is totally fine, but embrace that then.
Watchdogs legion took your normal dude suggestion a bit too seriously
algorithm robot at it again
It's like they watched this and designed the entire game around that line lol
'Like they are, I don't know some sort of game designers' Ha!
please take your time to read the credits joke at 0:17
2:30 a normal fucking dude... they obviously took Yahtzee's advice for legion.
I forgot this game existed. I thought the one where you can play as all the NPCs was the second watch dogs game.
...I love you too Yahtzee
yatzee reviews a lot of recent games while joe does let's plays and movie and video game reactions
Thes are not reviews, they're more comedy pieces with bits of useful information scattered in them
Well he does get the main points across and gives a fair enough listing of the games faults and good points. Useful if you know what you like.
Angelo Luna Yahtzee has a routine, he has to make a review every week. Joe is not obligated to make reviews.
I like this stick figure, he's better than the other stick figures and less sticky.
Words.
Stanzas
Verses
paragraphs
measures
lyrics
In the game’s defence, it did introduce me to the band Dual Core.
I gotta admit, I'd rather play as a man driven by vengeance than some Yolo swag fuccboi.
Most of Ubi's games nowadays literally are "dumb fun" and I love it for some reason
No matter what people say , this game is fun to play , that's what matters
It would seem that the algorityhm robot has seen this video, considering Watch_Dogs Legion.
it's impossible to go on a rampage and kill everything in sight in this game too, I got bored so I just took out a grenade launcher and started blowing up everything in sight, only a couple cop cars came around then nobody gave two shits and went back to their normal, non genocide filled lives like all I did was fucking drop an empty pack of skittles
BurntBacon The cops on this game are WAY WAY harder than in GTA wtf are you talking about? We're you playing on easy mode?
I don't even know mate, it's been ages since I've actually played because I got bored of it
Spot on. Can't believe I paid full price AGAIN.
Seriously, you'd think I'd learn. The only game I've never regretted paying full price for was the Witcher 3.
thank god the person who made the subtitles
2:17 - See here's where I feel like either I missed something about Watch Dogs 1, or everyone else missed something about Watch Dogs 1, but I'm pretty sure Watch Dogs 1 wasn't about the whole government is always watching you thing. It was there and you used it to your advantage, but the game was about Aiden and his revenge story. He really didn't give a fuck about Blume or whatever their name was. Even at the end of the game, when the hackers were like "oi give us a minute so we can fuck over the government", Aiden says no. I even saw people complaining back in the day that WD1's ending doesn't fully resolve the plot, but it does. The problem was people thought the plot was about the corporation, but the plot was about Aiden's revenge, which is indeed resolved. Point is, yes a character like Aiden would be a bad way to explore the themes of data security, technological integration, and corporate control of the populace. But Aiden wasn't meant to explore those themes. He's just there for his revenge. Yes, he is that one note.
As far as the obnoxious millenials go, yeah they were supposed to explore those themes and boy did that not fucking work. It worked so poorly that WD2's characters gave me newfound appreciation for a lot of WD1's characters. At least WD1 had a somewhat compelling villain in that old man, and they even use that he's old by having him taunt you about what a full life he's lead as he dies. That guy Jordi was fun whenever he was on screen. Watch Dogs 2 doesn't even have those brief examples to point to.
Watch Dogs 2 has the same problem in gameplay, too. The first game wasn't brimming with variety, but it had a few different types of missions. Watch Dogs 2 throws everything out the window except for stealthing around. Every mission in WD2 is stealth and it's boring and I hate it. There were a couple of times in 2 where I found myself doing one of those driving segments from 1, where you could blow up steam vents or mess with traffic lights to crash pursuers and get away. Except none of that shit works in 2, you get the same prompt to activate some steam or hit a traffic light, and you press it, and nothing fucking happens. Booo! I fucking hate Watch Dogs 2.
Calculating Machine has decided next game will be create your own character so you can make your "normal dude"
Wait... *I* have frustrations I want to take out on the Bag Area... THIS IS MY GAME!!!
You live in a bag?
CarozQH *Bay Area
I feel ashamed that I even have to spell this out for you. I know you're just being a dumb-fuck for comic effect.. But the fact that I even have to spell it out is sad.
I'm a delivery driver in Oakland and can confirm that traffic in the bay area is the bane of my existence.
Lol I actually live in the Bay Area so this could be good for some anger management. Brilliant review as always!
honestly i love this game, but i agree
never leave. the internet needs you.
"Make the protagonist a normal fucking dude".
Watch Dogs Legion: hold my every normal fucking dude in London
Yeah, having driven the Bay Area... you’d still be sitting in traffic during the first mission to go buy clothes if you started when the game was released...
gosh I loved that Hackers movie :) and I love Yahtzee for being old enough to reference it
You made my ears perk up when referencing Hackers. I wasn't interested, though I kind of am now.
Finally! Somebody still remembers Inspector Morse.
I'm kinda pleased to know that Yahtzee has probably seen Revenge of the Nerds.
This game really got him tight you can hear it in his voice yo 😂👏🏼