Red Dead Redemption 2 (Zero Punctuation)
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- This week Yahtzee reviews Red Dead Redemption 2.
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The bit about how somebody had to model and animate the horse "plops" reminded me about how some poor guy was so excited to be working on Thor Ragnorok only to come in one day and be told he's animating the Hulk's ass.
is that true?
@@fadhil5749 indeed it is friend, indeed it is.
What about the Cyberpunk character creation coder?
@@stanstanstan2597
Fuck, how about the Cyberpunk asset artists?
The city looked gorgeous but everything beneath the facade was so dead.
Not dissimilar to the guy who missed the birth of his kid because he was was modeling Mr. Incredible’s bulge
As a true and not-entirely-shameless Rockstar fanboy, I've been eagerly awaiting your review. Did not disappoint. Honest and fair in a way only Yahtzee can be.
I don’t know why, but the guy with the spider face just standing there blankly staring at Dutch is the funniest thing to me in this video
A very impressive game engine that someone other than Rockstar surely could have done something interesting with.
A new deadspace with Rockstar's rage? engine would be cool. That's just a fantasy though.
I don't think many other developers could push the engine to the same limits Rockstar has.
That's what online will be. The single player is just a warm up for whatever the equivalent of shark coins will be in rdr2
Well, The very impressive game engine was developed none other than Rockstar themselves and they did do something great and interesting with it. Maybe others can't do what Rockstar games can.
You know, I never played RDR1, so when I heard 2 was a prequel I was like "Sweet I dont need prior knowledge lets go"
Easily 2018's Game of The Year.
sPodermen better
I never understood the appeal of this franchise. It's literally just cowboy GTA. Nothing interesting or special about it. Just no cars or rocket launchers. Fun.
Maybe you missed a few developmental milestones then
Game needs to have rocket launcher and fast car for baby brain to be happy gagagogoo give me an oppressor mk2
This is the 3 video ive watched called zero punctuation and i finally get the name
The biggest mystery of our time is trying to figure out if Yahtzee likes games, based on his reviews
Dank Potatoes usually to me if he nitpicks about one thing the whole time it means he likes it. Plus he said in the beginning it had an emotional impact
He likes them, but there are lots of channels gushing over games or vomiting up press releases verbatim. Being a bit harsh is his shtick, but rarely is his harsh without merit. So far I've found his game reviews quite accurate. Plus the videos are usually entertaining.
He doesn´t just likes games. He loves them. And he doesn´t love them, he doesn´t swall... I MEAN! And it´s pretty obvious by his reviews.
Holding X to watch a horse run is not really a game. =D
Maybe he's just fond of realistic horses, like in Skyrim...
Ah yeah, Rooty Tooty Cowboy Shootin 2, from the makers of Stealy Wheely Automobiley Five
Rotin Tootin
Rootin Tootin
with a side of salt
A fellow Redditor I see
Nice, Tootin* Automobeely* Christ
THERE'S A FAST TRAVEL MAP?!
Yes. Craft the second upgrade to your lodgings at camp and you'll get it.
Its 300 so find some treasure
@360Ragequit its not a far cry style fast travel map, its great for if you need to get from your camp to say roades,
lol like in the latest south park episode..
water is better than orange juice
"The open world only impresses me the same way I'd be impressed if you drank a liter of cooking oil - more so by the effort than the wisdom behind it."
I'm so stealing that one.
It is strangely accurate. "Wow, i can't believe they mo-capped a fire dancer for this dumb shit."
@@gibberconfirm166 The fire dancer lady was cool though!
@@Tamacat388 But were you sitting in the theater to be genuinely entertained or be kinda just impressed with what Rockstar wasted time and resources on? I'm not sure it's a design philosophy that will age well. Warcraft 3 is more playable than San Andreas, which is designed like you should constantly be impressed by the world you're exploring. It's 13 years later: I'm kinda not.
@@gibberconfirm166 I just thought of all the performances the fire lady was cool. I stopped thinking about the effort by Rockstar once I reached chapter 3 really. I just started following the story and ignoring most else by that point.
@@gibberconfirm166 Warcraft 3 is an RTS, San Andreas isn't. You cant compare two different genres from a design perspective, it isn't fair nor logical. People are still playing GTA V years after release due to it's online component.
I knew I was playing a truly great game when I went into a stable and found a dead guy with his pants around his ankles next to a calf wearing a pink bow.
And a gold wedding ring laying next to them.
well fuck
i can't believe horse bollocks are a thing but this is the first i'm hearing of this.
internet, honey, u know i love u. but i am very disappointed.
Wtf? For real?
Actually it was a sheep
“And what did you do at Rockstar, Mr. Smith?” - I was aaaaaa... Sound Designer. “I’m sorry Mr. Smith, but I have to call horse shit on that one.”
Can't wait for him to crucify Fallout 76.
I have been waiting since before horse armor for bethesda catch a train load of shit for their "innovation", "player-choice", and, most of all, the abundance of "features" that are left for modders to fix.
Naw meng, dats low hanging fruit. I don't think he'll waste his time.
Was it really THAT bad? I’m not defending it or anything, I just wanna know what your opinions on it are.
Degenerates like Todd belong on a cross
There's gonna be a splash zone.
Been watching Zero Punctuation for Almost 10 Years, Been Waiting for This Episode. Keep Up The Amazing Work!
I too have been watching ZP for many years. Funny thing, I just watched one of your RDR2 videos too. Congrats to you on your growing channel :)
Hey everyone TagBackTV is an awesome channel I recommend the sub
You've been watching for 10 years, but don't realise these videos come out a week earlier on the Escapist (note: new version of the site is on a different URL)?
@@SPM0717 maybe TH-cam is the preferred platform for him? What does it matter :)
Why aren't "watching" and the "for"s capitalized? But "The" is? Even if you're going by titling rules, or reverse e.e. cummings rules, you've broken them.
No mention of the horse bollock physics, yhatz?
I think he's better than that. 😄
literally no one cares about the horse nut physics other than Rockstar "We abuse our employees because they can't unionize" Games.
That' s the 'emotional impact' bit.
I dunno, I assumed "horse plop-plops" counted
He was too preoccupied looking at their asshole going off to notice what's going on lower.
Now Yahtzee, all I'm asking for is a little faith! I have a PLAN! Just a few more reviews and we can leave this place, free men. RockStar games doesn't need to hear this constant whining and dissenting. So please, do it for me.
But what IS the plan, Harry? I can’t help but feel that every time we try to get a few more reviews, it all goes to shit. Besides, where will we be free men, Australia? Tahiti? What will we even do there?
@@meinraddreizacker5845 We'll be emu farmers. Obviously.
Read in Dutch's voice
Mr@@popefacto5945! I noticed you've stopped paying into the box! We all have to eat, Mr Facto!
@@xemnas1997 no shit
"Cowboys Getting Cross at Each Other"
Seems like a nice book. The movie adaptation should be great.
It's called the Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Yeah they made a movie about it already, it's called The Good The Bad and The Ugly
I think the word "indulgent" is the best word to describe RDR2. It's like one of those giant, overly complicated cakes people make on those reality shows.
Still a damn good cake, all things considered. I think he's totally right though.
@@kartikayysola Oh undoubtedly. I had a lot of fun with the game, but I can see how it might not be for everyone.
Do you mean like those cakes that are nothing but generic sponge cake all covered in sugar paste sculpted into things and that looks cool on the surface but has bland and boring taste when you actually cut into them?
Yeah and so much of it is pointless too.
Okay so I can vaguely realistically skin animals then I have to manually put their skin on my horse.
And then I have to manually go pick up the animal and put it on the back of my horse.
Where magical ropes will appear and tie around it.
I also just have infinite rope and can carry a mountain of weaponry.
Because it's the most realistic game ever.
But also not.
But it is and therefore it's the best game!
PROTIP: if anyone ever shoots you just make sure you have some Moonshine. Moonshine cures all.
@@kartikayysola but it would still be just as good to eat if a little less flashy.
rdr2 is prob the worst great game I've played - rly solid writing, but u wonder if the writers would rather hv an HBO series than a video game
The crunch most certainly wasn't worth it. The free from the laws of man concept doesn't mesh well at all with rockstar's mission gameplay design. Makes you dread main missions because you know you'll have zero freedom and god forbid if you try to improvise. You'll fail instantly with a very dumb reason for a fail state like: "so and so was abandoned." Really? You're telling me this big bad rootin tootin cowboy can't fend for himself for two seconds while I go loot a body or diverge from the predestined path for half a millimeter and a nano second? I thought all the hand holdy missions at the start were just tutorials and once the game progressed I would be able to choose my own method of getting the mission done. A bit like MGS V. But that time never came. And stealth in this game is so difficult to pull off. At the same time NPCs yell in close vicinity of the people we're meant to hide from. I don't know how much replay value it has either. Yeah I'm doing a second playthrough with low honor but the main missions still make you do the honorable and/or shitty thing without it affecting your honor level anyway.
I'm not quite sure yet, but I wonder if your point about crunch and the idealism of Dutchs gang might get me out of a bad spot of writers block I've been having with a paper. Thank you... I think.
@@mybrainidont Hope you get through it partner. All the best to ya
I wish rockstar would watch this review
"...goes to bed at nine and bangs on the walls for the rest to keep it down." I feel attacked.
Thank God this was posted, now I have my opinion figured out for me. Thanks Yahtzee!
Who the flip treats ZPs like actual reviews?
They're just funny anekdotes using Yahtzee's experience with a video game as a basis and that's all they have to be
I treat them as review because I can relate my taste in video games with Yahtzee's and make some very good purchases or prioritise one game to another.
@@mcyeet4206 I know he was making a joke
But he's clearly mocking the people that use these videos as a source for their opinion
I was just reiterating the absurdity of that specific mindset
Did you really think someone using the word flip instead of fuck was genuienly mad at someone?
Same. I've been following Yahtzee for a while, and now I hate games in general, with a vengeance.
@@Powl_J I'm making fun of the people who only watch Yahtzee for his opinions and parrot them incessantly. I had a group I hung out with in high school who treated this guy like a God even if they liked a game that Yahtzee hated, like BL2
Well, it's making fun of those guys and the majority of people in gaming subreddits lol
Blue poo atonement 2 review has finally arrived.
Green Spleen Submarine
I really appreciate Yahtzee's reviews. They're not bothered with over-emphasizing if he likes the game or not. He has a great ability to describe certain elements of a game very well, and that's impressive to me. Even his jokes aren't always there for their own sake, they help to get his points across. I really do get something out of these that I won't get anywhere else.
Dropped you a like, purely for making me laugh, and for not spoiling anything. Thank you, based Yahtz.
Does this video really have NO spoilers? I'm still playing and don't want any spoilers but I want to watch this video, a reply would be appreciated :)
@@mraj8372 It really doesn't, lol.
Thats the thing about yathzee reviews sometimes he spoils plot points to make HIS point, other times the vid is spoil free, it really depends on how hes feeling
@@potatoboy6094 He usually gives spoiler warnings though, famously yelled "SPOILER WARNING SPOILER WARNING HOOT HOOT PUT IT ON MUTE".
I love going into a gang soot out, then realising that my Dead Eye core is gone and getting imediatly shot up
Is that something to do with chimney sweeps?.
@@matthewb391 incredible.
@@matthewb391 apparently I misspelled shoot out..... Red dead redemption, chimney sweep edition
@@HandmadeGoose97 I think it was the mental image of a gang of outlaw chimney sweeps having a rooftop showdown...😀
@@matthewb391 now your giving me that mental image, if Red Dead Redemption 3 takes place in old fashioned London then I'll gladly spend money on it😂
I had a similar feeling that this game had something buzzing about it when a "professional" review by one of the big companies thought it was a selling point was the horse bollocks weather physics... glad to know I wasn't being petty by noticing an unusually focus on horses taking dumps and have nuts that shrink in winter, "thank god for that because the lack of attention to such things would completely take me out of the experience".
Luke Pavitt this game has spoiled me. From now on if a game doesn’t have realistic testicle physics then I won’t play it
This game was so shit. As vast as an ocean, as deep as a puddle. It shows this massive world and then restricts you at every single fucking turn. You can't even tray 10 feet form the path during the prologue without it failing you, I failed a mission when I tried to flank an enemy and apparently strayed too far from the mission. It offers so many well designed characters and then does fuck all with them. The gameplay was awful, as proven by the multiplayer, just like the story mode but with twice the gameplay and no story, and nobody is playing it. The story itself was awful, it literally involved the same repeated steps 3 times; fail a heist, move camp, meet two warring factions, fight for each faction, plan a heist, fail the heist, start over...
You stole that straight from no Mans sky didnt you?
@@MementoMori7777 No, it's an expression, people use it to describe things they think are all show and no go, here's a post on Reddit from 2013 describing Skyrim in such a way.
www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/1gvhm3/wide_as_an_ocean_and_deep_as_a_puddle_a_rant/?st=ju1um96m&sh=c587c18d
What the fuck are you talking about the story was amazing
@@jaredulloa7861 No it wasn't. The entire story consisted of; travel to an area, find 2 warring clans, help one or both clans, fail a robbery, travel to new area, rinse and repeat, and do this 3 times.
Next week: Yahtzee apologizes to Rockstar after playing Fallout 76.
Next week it's Call of Cthulu.
Yahtzee apologize?
Yahtzee isn't that predictable though.
@@SPM0717 oof...OOF
Apologize? Lol
"Hardy Har Hoo" is the new official title of RDR2
This is the gaming equivalent of Led Zeppelin. Expansive, epic and exciting but also flabby in parts, sometimes derivative and now infamous in the media for abuse of women.
That's the best comment I've seen so far, bless you for writing this
Underrated comment
just because i abused a specific npc for hours on end doesn't make me a bad person
I don’t know...there’s so many games that give you nothing for the full price of a game. RDR2 May have things you can criticize...but it’s damn well immersive. I can give it shit for certain things, but overall...loving the game.
I think it's the oft-debated balance of gameplay vs immersion. Some games are very obviously "video gamey" for lack of a better word, but are a blast to play. Others are immersive and interactive as hell, but have mechanics based in realism that might detract from the gameplay experience for some. Whether any game does both excellently is a matter of opinion.
I mean good for you why would you care for others opinions if you like it
Gaudaloht it’s called social media. Where we speak to each other. Hence, why you bothered to comment.
@@TheSwabbyOne y u being a dick bro
John Dough no I’m not. It is social media. It’s where we all give opinions. I gave one and then was met with, “good for you if you like it. Why you have a problem with someone else’s opinion?” (Paraphrasing) uhhh...that’s kind of the point. I can be a dick and talk about how sensitive you and him are acting over a differing opinion if you like. Or I can stick to the fact that I just gave a disagreement. I like the game. It’s not a big deal to say so.
4:07 Onwards nicely sums up my issues with this game, and really, all Rockstar games.
In Rockstar games, the open world game and the game that moves the plot along are two very separate entities with very big, hard borders around each one.
One is fun, organic, reactive and full of freedom. But obviously because of that, doesn't have much purpose or direction. On the other hand, the liner sections are restrictive to a frankly infuriating fault, so much so that having them be the factor that keeps open world gameplay opportunities locked makes them feel like an imposition on the rest of the game.
Which is only exacerbated by the fact that Rockstar loves to tutorial-ise the everliving bollocks off of every gameplay feature in their games, and don't even give out all their unlocks in the first third of the game but rather spread them thin over the entirety of the game. And they're not even things that massively shake up the game, they're always arbitrary quality of life improvements, like being able to carry a second side arm.
Unlike open world games like Breath of the Wild or The Witcher 3, where all facets of the game's content are made to work in tandem with all the others.
How is the Witcher any better at handling an open world than red dead
Zyron I have probably 100 hours in Vice City as a kid, and I never even touched a story mission. I would type in all the cheats, go on an hour long murder rampage until I was finally taken down, wake up at a hospital or police station, and do it all over again.
I tried Red Dead 1 a few years ago, was enjoying the scenery, then noped the fuck out after I realized I would have to sit through an arduous cutscene, and then coral cows or follow some fuck on a horse for 20 minutes every time I wanted to do ANYTHING.
And this is someone who sunk 60 hours into BotW, loving every second of it. I couldn't agree with you more. Rock Star is great at making immersive open worlds, and then they try to shove in a well-written novel with a crowbar. It fucking SUCKS.
Pokemon Have you played Bully?
RDR2 does feel like it's pulling me in two separate directions, even more than in other Rockstar games. On one hand, it's the "immersion" where you're not at the mercy of an NPC all the time, where you can go where you want to, and just admire the scenery and the details. Then there are the story missions, which don't only hold your hand, but they keep you in a stranglehold. It's often painful how little freedom or agency you have when you play them. Often you can't even stray away for 10 meters by accident without it failing the mission (even RDR1 was better in that regard). And whatever is happening, an NPC always tells you what to do, always bothering you like a nagging wife. If you don't do something in 1 second, they'll bitch at you immediately. The game might even change my weapons for me, because why not, everything else is decided for you already, and there's nothing really in there but a movie that pretends to be a game every now and then when you have to shoot 30 people from behind a cover. I got some horrible The Order 1886 flashbacks where the game just had to pretend that a cutscene is somehow playable, and the pretense only ruined the immersion further.
The story itself is alright, the voice acting is very good and there's lot to like, but damned if the game isn't kicking itself - and my immersion - in the balls by being two entirely different games at once. They're like opposing forces. I like RDR2, because some things are just so damn well executed, but I don't like it as a game. I like it more as some weird relaxing digital walkabout in some pretty forest, and sometimes as a story, but as a game it's awfully conflicted.
Completely agree. I'm glad someone talks about this. Latest Rockstar games are always divided in two - extrém linear handholding story missions and impressive but
aimless worlds.
It's interesting how that completely differs from Ubisoft's open world philosophy of creating "experience playgrounds" in which player is free to play as they want.
Rockstar=great writing and craftsmanship
Ubisoft=great gameplay
Ironic that they focused so much on the horse's balls, since that's what the horse and the player character control like.
Funny thing is, it's something you can do in about half an hour at most; code, textures, programming and all.
+brainflash1 - Oh, but it's Rockstar. If there is a weirdly ironic coincidence in or about their games, it's because they planned it, just to be ironic!
...
...Totally!
BlunderingFool
And here we have somebody with no clue about gamedesign.
With kind regards
Somebody that has a clue about programming
@@blunderingfool Not siding with anyone on this but you'd have to 3d-model two pairs of horse testicles. One large, one small. You'd have to texture them which does take quite a while. You can't just make "brown texture" and slap it on there. All horses sort of have different color fur so they'd have to make different color textures. Then they'd need to make sure these textures go well with the 3d properties of horse balls. Next they would put it on there and then they'd need to code it in so that it reacts to the weather system. It's not that easy honestly.
+domino2515 - Quite so, and then there would be the inevitable glitches and movement realism issues and things like that, which take a while any time they pop up... and might pop back up after a code optimization, for instance, as I understand it. Depending on how you go about it, I guess, but programmers working on a video game tend to have a lot to do, so they might not always do everything perfectly (being human, after all). In closing, I strongly agree that it's not a simple thing; in cutting-edge big budget game development, I dare say very few things are simple or quick... even small things can be deceptively time-consuming, which is why we see all the delays and/or vague release dates on things. As they said at college, these things all tend to take longer than anyone planned for.
You know he brings up a good point I never thought about. At the most basic level the point of the game is to feel open. But the missions are super linear and tight. I wonder if there were anyway the missions could have been more open. Like maybe you have to search for a missing person or a bounty and you have to gather clues or use the hunting mechanics. (which that type of thing is in the game but I mean in the story missions)
NakeyJakey did a vid all about the game's design. I recommend checking it out.
@@SPM0717 I actually did after watching this funny enough.
@@gabeslist They definitely need to look into it going forward, but I can't see them changing now. They like strict control on their narratives, but as Yahtzee says there's already dissonance between story and gameplay when Niko is using old ladies as car ramps, and Artur is tying old ladies to train tracks.
Generally, the rule for sandbox games has always been: Linear main-quest, open side-quests and activities. I don't really see a reason to change the formula. Yahtzee complains about this because he only plays story missions for his reviews, so the linearity makes him feel confined, I guess.
@@noxteryn Its more the issue of conflicting design philosophies that completely divide the game in half and honestly feels like you are playing 2 games.
The story missions involve no skill other than: *Follow Instructions > Beat Game*
The writing in this one is hilarious, it actually made me laugh out loud. Now I know how that feels, thanks mate!
150gb??? Does each horse turd have a unique texture?
I am wearing a button up shirt over a regular t shirt like a cape and I am now a wizard
With only one button done
that hot ohhhhhhhhhhhh
with a fashion sense like that, you'll make it to sage in no time.
@Thomas Corley im gay
@Thomas Corley thank you and i agree 1000%
This one is gonna be hilarious so fallout 76 soon XD
Sorry but probably won't happen, besides everyone has already shit on that game and we all know yatzee doesn't like to beat on a dead horse
I believe he's the king of post mortem equidae spanking.
@@michaelwesten4624: Fallout 76 can hardly be called a "multiplayer game." More like taking a half-assed attempt at making an already soulless single player DLC, then rapidly cramming a shitty multiplayer element into it, and to top the cake off then Bethesda proceeded to sell it at full price.
@@michaelwesten4624 Quarter? Try only 1/5th as good as 4.
@@astrodreamer946 Did anyone in this comment thread actually PLAY Fallout 76? It's not nearly as bad as the press would have you believe.
I always find I'm more impressed by Rockstar games than I find them particularly fun. The moment I finish all the scripted content being the moment the game gets uninstalled and I never even contemplate playing it again.
Say what you will about Far Cry and Assassin's Creed, but I enjoyed the core gameplay enough that I'd fire them up again.
Actually I can play GTA for hundreds of hours without doing the story
@Ronin Martinez I'm a side content junkie, but I'm talking more about basic game mechanics. I find Rockstar's combat mechanics to be serviceable. It gets the job done, but it's nothing special. So I'm not mucking about in the open world like I do in Saint's Row where I habitually cause random mayhem because there's so many ways to go about it. I don't need scripted content to stay engaged.
"All right, Rockstar, I know your sandbox games tend to have somewhat sprawling plots, but just give us a quick summary of RDR2, and don't be too confusing."
"Well... RDR2 takes place before RDR1-"
"Oh, you fucked it up already, Rockstar..."
That cooking oil analogy is actually perfect
This isn't Animaphonics
Nexo good
Yeah, why else would we come to the channel?
Lmao
Please don't encourage them... 😅
Uh, it's pronounced "Animorphs" , and it was a very overrated book series...
“Game where the horse does plop-plops” is what I’m calling the game from now on
Indulgent really is the best word to describe this game. There is so much to see, to explore, but not many reasons for it. You can hunt, fish, collect cards, complete challenges, explore remote locations, but all you get is 10 bucks and a very long ride home. After reaching 30% completion, I started to do just the marked missions, because it all felt very unfulfilling.
You could say the legendary animal quests give you some reward I guess cause hunting them allows you to craft trinkets that give you perks at least
@@vanderz1012 Yeah, but the game isn't challenging enough that those trinkets would actually be needed and make that much of a difference
A brit missed the chance to say BOLLOCKS!? .... cmon!
Might be wrong but isn't he Australian
GavyGaming No, he’s British. He did live in Australia for some time before moving to America.
@@gravynavy516 , besides... He loves this word. Watch Sims review...
alright thanks for clearing it out for me
This game really makes you feel like horse crap
Yep, played the whole thing...scoured the entire map. Looked under every rock and cranny and I still couldn't find the "Redemption" part anywhere.
Stealth is a vital part of metal gear online for all players.
@@drakenfist I mean, the fact that Arthur redeemed himself of his criminal past by saving John and his whole family. And if you play the stranger missions around the end of the game and literally give like all your money away to the family you wronged in the debt collection game around the begining, and help the nuns and monks in Saint Denise. I saw a pretty good amount of redemption and a pile of big ol regret lol
@@ianforsure For the most part it was meant as a joke. but, call me a romantic, I would love if we played as at least one character who at least got a heroic, walk in the sunset type ending. I mean John sort of does in RDR2 but we all know what happens to him!. I agree with you though, I did most of what you mentioned and that was quite beautiful, I really liked a lot of chapter six.
@@drakenfist Lol I apologize if I came off a little serious. Alot of the comments on this video are pretty dumb, and ive been seeing some who said what you said, but were actually fully serious lol. I agree, it would be kinda cool to see a more heroic, rather than tragic story outta the rdr franchise. I think though, that would ruin the feeling they are definitely going for across the games. While GTA satirizes the modern era, RDR is going for a flipping the western on its head, showing the brutality and tragedy of what we consider the last true freedom of the new world
Good stuff, Yahtzee. I can only imagine the scathing review Fallout 76 is going to get.
Probably something a lot like this one: th-cam.com/video/d7umrS6owXs/w-d-xo.html
@@edisontrent618 I dont think he's gonna bother with F76. Its been doing so bad recently that I dont think he's gonna do it.
@@slameradon165
Yeah, probably just a brief mention while doing some other game, if anything.
I was keeping my distance from this game and since Yahtzee nailed the reasons other Rockstar games felt like a chore for me, I'm going to assume he nailed this one too
Did you ever play it?
@@connorweir1993 I did! I may revisit it one day but it wasn't really for me.
I love how the epilogue is longer than most single player campaigns nowadays!
Having played (but not beaten and still playing) this game, this review is spot on. It's really a shame too, cause like he said, the game is beautiful but it's all for naught. The crafting system is completely pointless, especially for what you have to do for it. Side missions are almost equally pointless. But I have no motivation to do any of this stuff that you can tell took a lot of effort to make. The game is just wasted effort which really puts a damper on it. 7/10 at best unfortunately. Still a great game, but just so much wasted effort...
It's also pointless to take baths but it's an option.
I do not think so, I don't think the effort was wasted. I don't think every mechanic should have a reward or should be connected to the main story. It's for you to engage have fun with it or do not engage if you don't want to. Some people might like something in the game that you didn't like. I think the effort payed off.
"Every story mission plays like a tutorial for a game play mechanic you're never going to use again." That perfectly sums up all of GTA V. Half way through the game I thought it was going to be the most robust game of all time, then I realized Rockstar was sort of just saying "weeee look what you can do ONCE in our game".
Hunting in first person in this game was so enjoyable. That you can see every little hair on a fox or a squirrel, the level of detail was mind blowing.
-"So honey, how was work today?"
-"I was coding horse shit. Literally."
HAS ANYONE SEEN MY FRIEND GAVIN?
Burninator 1130 Always looking for his mate Gavin.
*GAVIN!*
A special ed kid once flooded the school file system with about a thousand pirated copies of this game and went down forever as a legend. I think it also took weeks of staff time to get rid of it also
That's awesome
it always makes me happy when a AAA game winds up being a generic pile of tropes because then i won't have to add it to my backlog
Games are becoming such long chores nowadays. Devs need to start focusing on well-paced under-20-hours experiences.
It's the definition of an inch deep and a mile wide. That being said, I did genuinely enjoy my time with it, and while the visuals are unnecessarily decadent, I won't lie that I felt something the first time I saw every new environment. It is very beautiful, shame it's not a very good game
I think you might have missed the entire game other than the story missions
I know it's all based on opinions, but how do you manage to say that the game is "an inch deep" when even maintaining your weapons changes the experience. Do you only play overwatch and dota 2 and expect the story and depth to be presented on cards while you shoot things?
@@nonautemrexchristus5637 are you serious? Like, I don't even understand the origin of this line of questioning. I did literally everything in the game. And I do mean literally, I was very very meticulous. It's got a great World, Rockstar is excellent at world-building, but for the most part the gameplay is utterly generic. The shooting is exactly the same as it has been in every single Rockstar game for as long as I can remember. the stealth is only useful in an extremely limited number of scenarios. The survival elements aren't expanded enough upon, and even if they were that's still not anything original or new or exciting. Other than that the gameplay consists of hunting, which is mostly random chance, unless you're going after legendaries then it's just follow the waypoints. A bunch of mini games, and that's pretty much it. other than that, it's spending hours on a horse enjoying some very gorgeous scenery, and exploring this very Well realize world. But a game is supposed to be a game before anything else. And Red Dead Redemption 2 is a cinematic experience before it is a game.
@@nonautemrexchristus5637 and I have literally never played OverWatch or DotA
@@nonautemrexchristus5637 what do you mean by maintaining your weapons changes the experience? Like... Barely. Only to the point that it's an annoyance. I can play the entire game after smashing one of my thumbs with a hammer and it would change the experience, doesn't make it positive
@@lilianahudler4378 it's a small detail, that's the point I'm making. They put a lot of effort into the game even into small details, but you dismiss them as annoying and not worth it?
It's weird how Yahtzee never brings this up as an example of a game that has faith in its world and doesn't force the player to see everything. Maybe it's because as a dev he sympathizes with how the development drove its devs to near suicide.
THis was a good review and rather funny. Now for the comments section. The hype has died, and now comes the backlash to the high praises as the best game ever becomes the worst game ever that got everything wrong. I will wait a year until some rational discussions have been reached on what this game actually was. Cause the hype is always wrong, and the backlash is always wrong.
Everyone wants to be cool for hating on the new things
What did you find then, boss?
I almost never fast travel just because I enjoy the long horse rides between places. The world and Arthur's journey just resonate with me. I'm here for every moment of it.
You sound like you never played a game before
Same
@@unclexbox85 how.
Not only the only honest game journalist one the internet but one of the only honest JOURNALISTS on the internet. I still get a sense that he genuinely likes the game but he doesn’t blindly ignore its faults like everyone else. Love your videos Yahtz, keep up the good work!
I am gonna give my thanks to Yahtzee for pointing out the attention to detail that I thought about too. Indeed, people are so fascinated by it and it is impressive, but I made a comment of it on Jim Sterling's video of attention to detail that to me, that much attention is pointless unless it is for story reasons. And it makes me happy to hear that Yahtzee also see's that attention isn't really needed either.
"Better clean the shit and mud off my Borchardt C-93 pistol I should have no realistic way of acquiring!"
For the sake of immersion I want as much detail as possible. It's crazy to think about all the work they put into the little things like horse poop, but it's also those little things that can suck you in and make you forget you're playing a game. This is one of the few games that actually surprised me with the level of detail, most games I wonder "will this be like real life" and the answer will be no, but with this game the answer has been yes almost every time. For example, I threw a body on my camp fire not really expecting anything to happen, but the body caught fire and the fire slowly spread until the body was burnt. Another example, an escaped convict approached me as I was riding along asking for me to shoot his shackles off, but I wanted to see what would happen if I hogtied him an brought him into town. I took him to the sheriff and he actually paid me for my trouble! This game is truly a masterpiece, I don't care what anyone says.
I think the attention to detail paid off in spades. I've never felt more in tune with an open world.
I'm so glad yachtzee remembers Red Dead Revolver. On f my favorites. I'm surprised he hasn't done a retro review of it yet.
I can back up the claim that it deserves a retro review
Meh... it's not that good. Great presentation, but stupid and irritating gameplay. How about 10 body hits to a single bad guy and they get back up and get a head shot? How about a kick attack that doesn't knock down? How about spotty collision detection that allows a bad guy to stand slightly above you while every round you have goes straight through him? Ultimately there's just too many faults. Even the story is so forgettable as it's completely disjointed. I got half way through and gave up.
I have played rdr2 4 times with all side missions and i still fuckin discover new things. Someone get me out of this loop hell. I can't stop
I'm surprised this is already completed. You worked with a fire under your butt on this one. GG.
I want a ten hour loop of Yahtzee going either just "ploplop" or "horse going ploplop". I had to stop the video every. single. time.
I wonder what birthing a foal in that one mission would’ve been like if they had actually shown the whole process and took the time to animate it, lol
Yahtzee, I don't get how you can go on and on about how much you care about a story, but can gloss over this one. Yes, there's not much to do in the world beyond hunting for fur and treasure or just freekilling (hunting is tons of fun though) but the story, the writing, the quantity, the quality, everything it has to say about society and America as an ideal, the slow encroaching city on the last vestiges of untouched frontier, what it does to people... Lots to chew on and I hope your cynicism is more a character and not actually indicative of how you approached this game cause man did it deliver.
Yahtzee is first and foremost a game critic, it doesnt matter how well written rdr2 is if it cant reconcile that story with the fact that its a videogame
@M 195 i like the game, go fuck yourself
@M 195 you were already smugly condescending to me from the jump because I expressed admiration for a game. I don't have to prove my intellect to you as if you matter. Are you the smug douche that shits on games and gamers and is too good for the medium in genre, but still comments on youtube videos about video games?
What about the guy that made the horse's balls descend in hot weather and retract in the chilly mountains? Did he spend his time well enough?
01:00 The delivery really nails this joke
Did this guy just call Arthur Morgan generic?
I wish I watched this review before spending the full price on the game. It's a beautiful and boring open world.
Boring?
@@MementoMori7777 He's another casual who expected GTA V with a cowboy filter, nothing new.
Most immersive game I've ever played to the point that the only thing I have left to do is win 3 hands of poker in a row, yet I still enjoy just going around the map, doing random encounters, robbing shit etc.
If you have a game in mind that is better, more immersive, amazing etc please let me know... (I'm about to start on kingdom come deliverance)
This is gonna sound kinda vaguely worded, but I'm getting really tired of open world games where the plot amounts to "do whatever anyone else tells you to do." Games like RDR1 where the protagonist is just going blithely along with whatever the quest-giver says, while often actively holding them in contempt, make me have trouble relating to the character, since they come off as stupid or shiftless, not willing to take control of their situation or their actions. I disassociate from the story and just go through the quests to get them done, not because I care about the outcomes or story.
Damn, your review of the first red dead redemption was the first video of yours I ever watched. Still here 8 years later and have all your books.
I keep getting the same political ad on this video like dog I want to watch the video about the Yeehaw shoot shoot game
I play the games to have fun, not to watch horse balls shrink when it's cold. And gameplay of RDR2 is not fun. I'd rather watch it as a western TV series.
First time I slow video on YT (to 0,75) :D
I feel exactly the same - beautiful world, but nothing interesting to do in it.
You lost me the moment you Called Arthur Morgan a generic cowboy. He's by far one of the best protagonists Rockstar has ever created.
Why though? I stopped in chapter 3? (didn't have fun with the game) and I don't recall anything that made Arthur cool or unique.
harmennl21 I'm not calling you an idiot. And I'm also not trying to be mean. But you just answered your own question. Of course you don't recall anything cool or unique, cause you fucking stopped in chapter 3. You have to play through the entire game, and you'll go through this pretty damn amazing Journey with Arthur. And you get to see what kind of man he is, and how he changes. He is by far one of the most compelling protagonists that Rockstar has ever created. This game obviously isn't meant for you. And that's fine, people have different preferences when it comes to games.
+The Troll Killer that's kinda of problem. if the story is not interesting then why bother seeing the end. it's bad writing that forgets the basics.
@@jimthorne1233 But the story is fantastic. And that's not just me saying that. That's been almost everyone who's played it. And that's not an over exaggeration, that's a fact. Also "bad writing"? Where are you getting this bullshit from? This isn't the call of duty. It's Rockstar and the writing is top notch as ever. I don't know who's telling you that garbage, but it couldn't be more bullshit.
@@MisterUnknown707 but I remember being immediately intrigued by Michael and franlin in gta 5. Cj in gta sa was an Intresting character from the get go. Tommy verceti had an Intresting back story and I was immediately intrigued by him. I didn't have that with Arthur.
Maybe as you say I just didn't give it enough time. I didn't stop because of the story. I stopped because the game felt to slow. I suppose if you (as you clearly do) do enjoy the gameplay the fact that the story takes its time wouldn't be a bother because the game was fun enough to keep you entertained untill the point that Arthur story pays off. I unfortunately couldn't get myself to keep going.
Ps. I borrowed the game from my little brother. Maybe I would have played further if I had bought it myself but as it stands now I was bored with the game and didn't feel the need to justify the purchase to myself.
What a shock, another popular game has come out and Yahtzee doesn't like it. It absolutely blows my mind that anyone can possibly think Ben Croshaw 'reviews' anything, when 99% of every review is like this. "This game came out and is super popular and everyone fucking loves it because of how amazing it is, better put out a five minute video complaining about horses shitting".
Zero Punctuation is so low-effort at this point it makes AVGN look fresh.
This game is SO wank & overrated. Great review.
It would seem he likes it.
There’s nothing wrong with a game being indulgent, so long as that game doesn’t unnecessarily force you to go through any stuff that you deem pointless in the first place. It’s nice to go through some background stuff once in a while for pacing.
What would've been better if we had Tom Hanks voice everyone.
Teal Marjira
Replace all the interactions with
*GAHH* !
*I'm gonna kick your ass*
*Propane*
*Dammit Bobby*
Wrong Hanks
*WRONG HANKS*
@@angeryboi873 *dammit Angery Boi*
@@angeryboi873 God Hanks
There is a snake in my boot.
I do like this game, and there is reality. Trying to invoke Skyrim level horses won't work, and they'll slide down, and even start falling if they slide too long. Arthur can swim, though, thankfully, though "not well", so if you happen to fall into the water, you can get out, but get out soon, or you'll be fish food. Also, depending on how fat (or skinny) you are, it'll effect your stats, like in GTA San Andreas. Being overweight decreases your stamina, but raises your health, and being underweight increases stamina, but lowers health.
Whenever I feel like the whole world's gone mad, Yahtzee is there to feed my confirmation bias. Thank you, for always giving plop plops out to those who deserve it, when no one else would.
Don't worry Yatz. They're still milking gta online for everything it's got.
Old Town Road Is both Country and Trap.
And this is how you review RDR2. No BS, just real honest brutality ;p lol
Starfals Honestly,that’s how anything should be reviewed
Jeez does this guy like any games? If I took this reviewers advice on whether to buy a game or not I'd have spent nearly £400 on a ps4 to play dark souls and that's it... As that's the only game I've ever heard him praise apart from some indie rubbish on steam. Red Dead 2 was one of the finest gaming experiences I've ever had. In the top 5 for me with The Last of Us, Batman: Arkham City, Grand Theft Auto IV and The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
You must be new here.
There's a Steam list with all the games he recomends. I get what you're saying though. If you really loved RDR2 you two seem to have different taste.
You have a normie taste
And what makes those indie game’s rubbish? Did you play them?
@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421 or more specifically... Horror games
Wait, the game where the horse does plop plops is not MG: V?
How is it that you can summarize a game so perfectly?
Metal Gear Solid V was The Game Where The Horse Does Plop Plops
Red Dead Redemption is therefore The Game Where The Horse Does Plop Plops 2
#NotHelping
Also the horse plop plops in MGSV actually had gameplay value, although how plop plops makes a car spin out is a mystery to me. What's Snake feeding that horse?!
Sounds like you’re saying Har Dee Har 2
Actually Yahtzi someone didn't actually have to spend any time creating the sounds for it or even doing much more than generating a simple animation that someone decided with a few lines of code would be in the game. All in all the horse going plop plop probably took up about 15 minutes of planning and 5 minutes to generate. That 5 minutes being spent actually making the horse crap look like crap from a distance (an asset that they might have just taken from their previous game and slapped onto this one because its easier to be lazy with things that don't really matter)
I respect why people love this game, but I don't think it's really something that appeals to me. The focus on realism seems to far for this one, and Rockstar games have always controlled poorly and been meh to me anyways. I get why it is getting such good reviews, but it just a type of game I have trouble really enjoying
Thanks for not being an asshole about it, hats off to you my friend
Its getting such good reviews because mainstream critics don't dare go against a dev like rockstar. Member jeff gertsman?
@Jumbo Jango want sone unrealistic stuff? Just cause is the game for you. I enjoy ganes that are pretty realistic like RDR2 but I also like games like Just Cause.
hepzibah its getting good reviews because people enjoy it. Theres not some reviewer conspiracy...
@@hepzibah4573 Or maybe people just enjoy it?
Should I be concerned about the amount of attention he draws to the horse going plop-plops?
@Anonymous Person Fair enough