“World War I was just Europe being such a flustercuck of grudges and alliances that when Serbia turned the little crank of Austria-Hungary, it set off the whole mouse trap machine of alliances and by the time the little plastic man jumped into the pool, everyone was fighting everyone else." Best summary of WWI I've ever heard.
I like how this is essentially a positive review about Valiant Hearts, with Enemy Front thrown in for more comedy. Valiant Hearts is a great game, and I hope there are more like it out there.
I love it when Yahtzee reviews two games at once. As soon as he's torn one apart, he gives it a slight break to rip into the other one and just when that first game had some time to heal, he smashes it to bits. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I certianly did. I'm not even joking, I legit bawled my eyes out, and it's because a VERY well done sad scene. It doesn't just outright announces what's gonna happen, it build up to it accompanied by sad piano music, a very telling atmosphere, and sad narration that also doesn't straight up announces what's gonna happen
+Jakira Kumahata I don't know anything about ravens, but I'm pretty sure that anyone stepping the soil of Australia is automaticaly in a life threat situation.
I'm so glad it's a recording thing. i thought my headphones were finally on the way out but instead yahtzee has at this point been replaced by a swarm of angry crows.
Few games actually attempt to, you could make me cry by playing sad music while showing a poor plant being plucked, and I still only cried a handful of times in video games.
The game was a masterpiece of historical accuracies and beautifully encapsulated the raw emotional undertones of the Great War. If you love history and haven't played that game, my God, play that game! ❤
_Dearest Marie_ Still haunts me to this day It's been 10 years and I still get goosebumps (+ They did Freddy and Anna dirty in the sequel, justice to Freddy)
arcadeassassin10193 He was actually somewhat negative about Dark Souls 2 in his Extra Punctuation column, since he had written it after finishing the game. He still thinks it's a good game, but there's a lot of wrong in it.
"the war is a monstrous background thing they have no power to avoid, like a big black dog slowly closing in on the unsupervised jaffa cakes" That was pretty funny.
+Andre Gon Well for once Ubisoft publish a game for something else then easy money, it was the occasion (the centenary of WW1) to tell a story aboot one of the most tragic history pf their country.
+MrSafior They still stapled a sequel hook to it, because you can't finish a story for good if there MIGHT be a chance, that Ubisoft can ring more cash in while boiling down a good thing.
TO THOSE WONDERING HOW THE WW1 BEGAN Look up the youtube channel Extra Credits. They have a series on how WW1 began called Extra History-World War 1: The Seminal Tragedy. It's pretty thorough and well done.
I checked out Valiant Hearts on recommendation from this review, since it sounded like my kinda thing. Finished it tonight, honestly can't remember if a game has ever made me cry like that at the end.
I'm surprised Yahtzee didn't even touch ground with the fact that Enemy Front is supposed to be impressive and all next-gen with the sparkly Cry Engine behind it, but even if there is debris flying through the air and you can hear the window clearly in your headphones, look at ANY of the trees. Go on. I'll wait. Go look. You'll laugh.
Uhm...Does anyone else hear the seagulls?...am I going mad?...I hear seagulls... *later note* I was wearing headphones with the sound on high. now on my pc I can no longer hear the birds. he must just have a really good mic
I mean to be fair it doesn't take a rocket scientist to observe a flaming bag of dogshit with a racial slur scribbled on the side in magic marker to identify it as a flaming bag of dogshit with a racial slur scribbled on the side in magic marker
This review contains the absolute best description of World War I ever. Seriously, no one thought that mess of interlocking treaties wasn't going to bite them in the ass one day?
I think that has to be the best description of how WW1 started. If i was back at school and had to do a project on WW1, i would open it with that quote.
The silence at the end of this video was really great because I could be sure there are definitely some sort of birds in the background of the recording. Like a bunch of geese or whatever disgusting aberrations pass for geese in Australia.
Did anyone else notice the cacophany of bird chirps in the background or have I finally lost what little pieces of my sanity I'd managed to tape back together after salvaging them from the dumpster?
He approaches game not in a "this game is good" or "this game is bad" way. It's just that video games are somewhat complicated chaps and have positive and negative bits and bobs going on all at once. He just endeavours to tell you what he can about the game. It is, afterall, completely up to you if you like a game or not.
The point of these videos is to be funny, not be critical. The only way you can really tell if a game is good or not if it makes it into is best/worst 5.
Ah, sir, your videos take me back to the time when as a non-native English speaker I would have to slow down or re-listen to anything moderately quickly spoken in the language. The visuals you put much wit into as well and I hate to miss anything. I guess that's the way to make people watch your stuff twice. Funny anyway, I think! I'll be in my bunk then, improving my listening skills once more.
@@alastairward2774 I imagine he moved to America for work-based reasons. Nobody who has ever lived in Australia would ever choose to live in America for the _lifestyle._
Don't worry guys I got you covered for most previous fps military shooters and future ones: AAAH FOREIGNERS! Kill 'em quick! You're a goddamn hero private McGuffin!
collin ohlinger 707 inmates per 100,000 is enough to put you at the top of the charts. You want everyone to carry guns? Fine, your country, do whatever. But at least have background checks or waiting periods or SOMETHING. .
collin ohlinger What about bans on larger weapons and high capacity magazines? The thing about whatever control you already have is that there are plenty of people who want it to go away.
collin ohlinger Well if the criminals still have so many guns you have a pretty big problem with your police force not doing their job. In Australia gun ownership is legal, but you have to prove a use for it (and self-defence doesn't count). If you're a farmer, or collector, or hunter or target-shooter, you're allowed to own a gun. But when you're not using it it has to be locked away (separate from the ammunition) in a cabinet which needs to have specific, legally defined properties. I don't worry about getting shot when I go outside because I know it's highly unlikely that anyone around me has a gun. If I go out on the street in the US I can't take comfort in that knowledge because it isn't true. You have a point, criminals will find a way to arm themselves, yes. But it will be harder for them. And you severely reduce the likelihood of a gun-owner having a mental breakdown and shooting everyone in their workplace. Since the gun laws came into effect in Australia there hasn't been a single mass shooting. Yes, you can argue culture is the real problem, and I don't disagree with that. Gun laws weren't very popular when they were first suggested here, but if anything they changed the societal considerations of guns considerably.
5th game I have ever teared up at. 1. Agros death shadow of the Colossus's 2. The boss's death MGS 3 3. Emma Emmerich's death MGS 2 4. The last of us in its entirity 5. Emile's death valient hearts
The whole "constant massacres due to no gun regulation" in the US is kind of a exaggeration due to the news. Overall school shootings and gun violence have actually been going down over the last 20 years. Europe has a fair amount of gun violence considering the number of guns they have, especially considering the USA has about the same population as ALL OF EUROPE put together (I'm going off EU statistics, so that doesn't count Russia)
+Arthas Menethil Population doesn't mean jack shit. OECD figures place America at an average of gun violence 20 times higher than the rest of the OECD nations. This is adjusted per capita mind you. The U.S has an exceptional gun problem, and it's no secret.
***** yeah, but a large percentage of the gun violence is perpetrated by guns that are obtained illigally and many of the perpetrators of mass shootings are mentally unstable people that should have been involuntarily committed. The gun violence in America has less to do with the guns themselves (very little violent crime is committed with legally obtained guns) and more to do with our shitty mental health system and even shittier justice system. I have 2 relatives and a neighbor that work or have worked in different mental health facilities for over a decade each, and rhey each say that they've had to release dangerous people, usually due to be underfunded or understaffed. Ditto for prisons. Most countries with low rates of violent crimes (gun related or otherwise) also have good healthcare systems, prison systems, or both. There are plenty of countries in South America and Africa that have a tiny fraction of the guns per capita that we do but 10 times the homicides per capita, mainly due to shitty justice systems and or healthcare systems.
Arthas Menethil It's both. For every killing with an illegal gun, there are plenty of toddlers accidentally shooting themselves or someone else with daddy's gun. For every bit of gun violence there are scores of suicides committed with a personal firearm. But while you should definitely have better mental health services, it just sounds like a lazy excuse to justify gun regulations that are way too soft in the first place. Here's something that happened a couple of years ago, and why it would never happen in Australia; -Young Australian man moves to United States to play baseball. -Man goes out on the street for a jog. -Two underage teenagers steal daddy's gun and shoot said man (a person they don't even know) dead from a moving car. There is no way you can negate that, prepare for it, or defend yourself from it. People say 'ohh that's a shame' then promptly forget about it. There is literally nothing you can do to stop this without clamping down on guns as well, not everybody with a homicidal streak is just a mentally ill person who fell through the cracks. And the best part of all, is that the people who claim it's all about mental illness are the ones most readily AGAINST gun reform, and hence vote conservative to ensure nothing is ever done about that, either.
Hospitals would be a lot more cheery if everyone learned from Prof. Dance Dance revolution. "Im sorry but..... you have.. cancer.... BUT CHECK OUT MY MOVES" UHH
I'd also like to add that Valiant Hearts came out on the 100th anniversary of Archduke Fran Ferdinant's (god I hope I spelled that right) assassination. So there's that.
Seems there are a couple of WWI Early Access games in the making. Making History: The Great War, a sort of Risk-like game with statistics, diplomacy and whatnot. Verdun, a squad-based multiplayer FPS that seems similar to Red Orchestra.
I believe there was hogs of war for the playstation long ago, but in general creating an anti-war game is somewhat of a contradiction given the advertising of the gameplay is guns, explosions and 'realisim' are the selling point of any war game so it is a bit awkward to shoehorn in to be anti-war, while you promise a new feature of blowing up a nazi.
Did anyone else hear the birds in the background of the audio recording? Once it started I was so distracted I completely missed what Yahtzee was saying.
The first minute of this video is pure gold, not only in comedy but in brutally honest, completely true analysis of the way America's mindset is right now. Bravo Yahtzee.
laughed so hard during this video, epecially after playing that awesome game - Valiant Hearts. I hope there were more games like that. And it has taht advantage, that man can really talk about it with parents and other people who don't really like games.
0:33 Pyro flamethrower! 0:45 "They just kept knocking down any chance of gun legislation and effectively forced America to accept that a massacre is something it's just going to have to put up with every now and then." Oh my god. I never thought I could use a zero punctuation video to support my anti-gun argument.
I've seen and disproven that very point numerous times, but there's one thing I've never bothered to ask first: Do you *actually* believe that is a good example to support gun advocacy, or are you just ignoring the obvious flaw in the logic in order to act like you actually have a proper argument?
----)Hipster Walrus Gaming(---- "Also, can you disprove the Chicago one for me then?" Tell you what, I'll answer your question after you've answered mine.
+Ndoki Hasaki Seein' as you didn't answer his question, I'll counterpoint, sort of. I do think the licenses for guns should be harder to get; should prove you're sane and capable. However, I don't think they should be banned. If they are, all you've done is disarm the innocent, because the criminals; that's the nutters who're going to shoot at people; don't give a rip about your gun ban law. Breaking the law is kinda the definition of criminal. And on top of that, I live here in Texas. Now, Texas, as I'm sure anyone out of state will be quick to point out, is full of gun crazed cowboys. Well, I live near Houston so I don't really see that so much. But, well, seems to me that if we're all gun crazed, we wouldn't have rather low crime rates. Fun fact, number three for most violent crimes is Oakland, California. You know, the state that does try to ban guns. And here's the best part. Even if you did magically disappear all the guns, that's not gonna stop massacres and violent crimes. Criminals will just put together an explosive or something sharp. 'Cause they're criminals. If they're going to break the law of murder, what makes you think they'll care about a little weapon ban law?
***** "because the criminals; that's the nutters who're going to shoot at people; don't give a rip about your gun ban law." Well I don't know about other people but I'm arguing from a hypothetical standpoint where the guns have been banned in an isolated country. This has already been done in countries like Japan and have proven to be effective. Of course in a country like the U.S. that's already so saturated with guns it would take a VERY long time for enough to be confiscated to make a difference, but the point is eliminating the potential for said criminals to get more. "But, well, seems to me that if we're all gun crazed, we wouldn't have rather low crime rates." Compared to other states in the U.S. is hardly a fair basis in a guns vs no guns discussion. If you want a proper comparison you should be comparing your country (since a state/city is not an isolated area) with other equally isolated countries. Tell me, have you ever tried driving to Oakland? Did they search your car when you entered city limits? "Even if you did magically disappear all the guns, that's not gonna stop massacres and violent crimes." So you're one of those all-or-nothing types? Even REDUCING crime, or making it easier for people to protect themselves isn't a worthy cause if it can't eliminate ALL violence? Seriously? "what makes you think they'll care about a little weapon ban law?" I never said anything about expecting criminals to care about the law. You're attacking a strawman here. No. I would expect the people MAKING the guns to care about the law. If gun production stops, and guns are eliminated, where exactly are these criminals going to get more guns? inb4 "banning drugs didn't stop criminals from getting more"
i might as well put in my 2 cents, (protip, its gonna be a long 2 cents) there are more guns in the united states (not counting the weapons owned by the military OR that are unregistered i might add) gun control would not work because there are millions of guns already owned by citizens, and some (not all, maybe not even most, but some) of us arent just going to give them up without a fight, also there are already tens of thousands of guns already in criminal circulation in the US, if we take away guns from law-abiding citizens who use them, then we cant protect ourselves from criminals who already have them, so many more houses will be broken into, gun control in the states would definetely do more harm than good, i understand how in the UK there are fewer guns to begin with so its more difficult for criminals to get them, but in the states, itll be easy and thats why we dont want our guns banned
Here's a good question, how to keep weapons out of criminals and paranoiacs but in the way that wouldn't hurt sane, law abiding citizens? Maybe there's something in that saying that I heard some time ago: _"I have no problem with guns, it's the _*_gun owners_*_ that worry me."_
I remember a wise man once said, don't do anything to the guns. Just make the bullets 10000 times more expensive, so that nobody would use them as they're too precious.
that the US and UK have similar crime rates. They're not even slightly similar. And you can't just say people are shitty so they commit crimes. I'm sure there's more to it than that.
Yahtzee posts a video. Quick everyone we have to stand up for our beliefs in either gun control, our nationalism, or who was responsible for WWI. THE INTERNET MUST KNOW MY OPINION AS I AM THE UNDOUBTEDLY CORRECT ONE HERHERHER
"Hoist by your own petard" means you've been blown up by your own bomb. A "petard" is a kind of old-fashioned bomb, and the expression originated in a period when "hoist" meant to be propelled skyward in a general way, not just by being hauled up on a rope. That imagery would have fit the theme much better than the common misinterpretation Yahtzee applied here. On an entirely unrelated note, why am I hearing ducks in the background?
And thus, Yahtzee validates my decision to avoid Enemy Front like the plague-like vanilla-flavored genericness that it is, while opting to place Valiant Hearts on my wish list of games :)
I've always thought that a game set in the English Civil War would be an interesting setting - between Oliver Cromwell and King..... erm..... Henry?? Or even a WW1 shooter!!
I heard it as well and it's definitely birds of some kind. I live sort of near Yahtzee and I hear the exact same noise all the time (in fact I'm hearing it now) and it sounds like a small murder of crows. However it's fairly suppressed so it could be any sort of bird.
You visualized "hoisted by their own petard" as somehow hanging themselves. But a petard is a really old form of explosive. Being "hoisted" by it means being blown the fuck up and launched by it.
Once again, someone has decided to speak on an issue they know nothing about. As a matter of fact, gun control in the United States has actually been shown to cause MORE violent crime. According to a Harvard study, higher gun ownership rates in the United States predict lower crime. It's just a fact. Just look at cities like D.C. (whose crime rose after their gun ban, and dropped when it was repealed), and Chicago (similar deal). And before you say "that just correlations", this study accounted for that. For example, the city of Kennesaw, Georgia actually passed a law that required households (barring those housing people not allowed to own guns) to have a gun. Did the town turn into the "wild west"? No, crimes rates dropped significantly and the town has one of the absolute lowest crime rates in the country. Now, onto "assault weapons" (either a deliberate misnomer, or woefully ignorant). Rifles OF ALL TYPES accounted for less than 3% of total gun deaths in the US from 2006 to 2010. Adding onto that, "mass shootings" (shootings of 4 or more people at a time) represent less than .2% of all gun related murders. And these "mass shootings" are the EXACT reason gun grabbers give for taking away "assault weapons", which are only even used in some of the mass shootings. That means banning "assault weapons" wouldn't even make a dent in the problem. In fact, taking them away harms people's ability to defend themselves and their homes, putting them at the mercy of the criminals who will ignore the ban. The truth is, people are slaughtered everyday by handguns in the inner city areas, but gun grabbers don't care about that. They only starting caring once a lot of suburban white kids got killed. Thirdly, guns are used far more for defensive purposes than criminal purposes (166-1000% more, according to the CDC). Furthermore, people who use guns to defend themselves have a much lower risk of injury as compared to those who use other defensive strategies. Fourth, 5 of the last six "mass shootings" in the US occured in "gun-free zones". That is because criminals don't care about the law, only we responsible, sane people do. By definition, these people are neither law-abiding nor sane. People like Feinstein, the president, and other politicians have the privilege to have armed security. But we regular people don't, so we should at least have to the right to keep our own lives. Police are called after a shooting starts. By then it is too late. The average number of people killed in a shooting rampage when it is stopped by police is 14.3. The average number when stopped by a civilian is 2.3. (Note that, if I were a typical gun grabber, I would use this point to make a strawman argument, saying "why do you support the slaughtering of innocent people, including children?") Fifth, more people are killed by hammers than rifles each year. More people are killed with bare hands than rifles. Should we take away our right to hammers as well? FAR more people are killed in car accidents involving cars going over 30 mph, why not ban all cars that can go faster than that? Hell, they aren't even a right protected by the constitution. And far more children die in swimming pools each year (well over 300) than from "assault weapons"; why not ban high capacity pools that have a “high capacity” water depth of over 2 feet? Fewer guns do not mean less homicides. In Russia, where gun ownership rates were only 4%, the murder rate was 20.5 per 100,000 people in 2002. In the same year, Finland, which had gun ownership rates of 39%, had a murder rate of less than 2 per 100,000 people. Norway has Western Europe's highest household gun ownership rate (32%), but also its lowest murder rate. Switzerland issues every adult a Sig550 military rifle and trains them how to use it: Switzerland has lowest gun-related crime rate in the civilized world. Why? Because, unlike in America and most other "civilized" nations, it actually educates people on gun use. Yes, there is a mandatory military service requirement in Switzerland. But I would venture that the deciding factor between the different rates of gun violence in Switzerland and the US is not that the Swizz are forced into forced into service, but that they are EDUCATED on how guns work and what their capabilities are. Unfortunately, the American government has made "thoughtcrime" an actually thing, by suspending and even expelling children as young as FIVE YEARS OLD for say "pew pew", making a gun shape with their fingers while playing, or biting a poptart in a way that makes it look like a gun. One five year old girl was reprimanded for "drawing a picture with a gun in it" and for making the dreaded "pew pew" sound. She was forced by the school to sign a document promising that she wouldn't COMMIT SUICIDE, and was recommended to see a PSYCHIATRIST. And why is it that everyone that is for taking guns out of the hands of the people (because why should the government fear the people? It should be the other way around, right?) conveniently dismissing the fact that the VAST majority of gun related deaths or either suicide, or gang-related violence in poor, inner city neighborhoods? Yeah, the problem isn't white people, sorry. It is apparent from this that the problem isn't the number of guns, but the education of their use by their owners. In fact, a study by Harvard found that, "(Where) firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest." At the end of the day, far more people are killed by cigarettes than guns. This includes people killed from secondhand smoke. So explain to me why you think it's okay to ban something that serves an actual role in personal defense and prevention of subjugation, but it's wrong to regulate that drug that you want because, well, you want it. Point is, the science, logic, reason, and facts are on our side. www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/with_300_children_drowning_in.html www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf www.ksl.com/?sid=26639259 www.snopes.com/politics/guns/switzerland.asp#Lgy2eOVeCRim0oJj.99 www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/06/handguns_suicides_mass_shootings_deaths_and_self_defense_findings_from_a.html www.examiner.com/article/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics investmentwatchblog.com/white-house-study-finds-guns-save-lives-consistently-lower-injury-rates-among-gun-using-crime-victims/ www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/preliminary-semiannual-uniform-crime-report-january-june-2013/tables/table_1_january_to_june_2012-2013_percent_change_by_population_group.xls
Ivan Chesnokov Sorry, I can't hear you over the fact that the USA ranks in the top ten countries in the world for gun-related deaths per capita, right between Mexico and Argentina. Meanwhile, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Australia, Norway, and Poland - COMBINED - have fewer shootings sprees between ALL 12 NATIONS over the last 10 years than the USA has had in the last 2. Must be all that gunfire ringing through American schools, universities and theaters drowning you out. You know, the gunfire that isn't ringing through every other developed nation on earth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spree_shootings_in_the_United_States and finally www.shootingtracker.com/
@Cody Hines look I'm Australian. In Australia only very few people can own or even carry guns. In Australia there's people who are disabled who still try to kill people at public places, but unlike in America these people can only carry knives or other household objects and alot of the time the bystanders take them out before the police are even involved.
We are the best off (economically) country in the world and we have the second highest population of obese people. We are just fine. Also, every American has the liberty to acquire any information available. We do not need some person living in another country to discuss THEIR OPINIONS based on how THEY THINK America is.
Well as Americans we are used to the way we live so we don't see anything wrong with it but take someone with a different way of living and a different country and they would be able to see our flaws just as we could see theirs. America is not perfect but neither is any country.
The anger of frustrated Americans is amusing. The explosive, spoilt, squealing rage of gun-toting, conservative Americans is sheer delight. Come back to Britain, Yahtzee. We need to see you and Charlie Brooker collaborate on something glorious.
I know it's just jokes but it kinda rubs me the wrong way when foreigners bash on our constitutional rights. But hey, we make fun of them too so ya know, it's fine
Because your constitutional rights are a big of a joke really to the world. "Can't change the constitution!!" You can, it's called a fucking amendment.
I think he missed the point of Valiant Hearts. It is supposed to commemorate WWI and the personal struggles through emotion and storytelling, not game play. It is like judging a romance movie based on how many explosions it has. I usually agree with Yahtzee, but this time he was far off the target.
Then why isn't it a movie? Also, how is judging a GAME on its GAMEPLAY at all like judging a romance movie on how many explosions it has? Games are all about gameplay. Romance movies are not all about explosions.
Then judge a TellTale game based on "gameplay", they are point and click and receive some of the best rating out there. Just because the gameplay isn't actiony doesn't mean it isn't effective.
Chris Dawson I've never played a TellTale game, so I can't really judge, but I'm going to guess what little amount of gameplay there is in their games actually HELPS the story and narrative, whereas Valiant Hearts' gameplay (from what I've heard) HINDERS it, slows it down.
Chris Dawson Thing is TellTale works its gameplay into its story telling - your point about it not being actiony doesn't have anything to do with your original point I'm afraid.......
“World War I was just Europe being such a flustercuck of grudges and alliances that when Serbia turned the little crank of Austria-Hungary, it set off the whole mouse trap machine of alliances and by the time the little plastic man jumped into
the pool, everyone was fighting everyone else."
Best summary of WWI I've ever heard.
Nah, there was definitely an ostrich involved somewhere...
Giovanni Magnus
Too bad the poor ostrich died for nothing.
MURPHYCHACHO
In the first battle nonetheless...
God Bless Sgt. Struthio C. Linnaeus
It was Austria-Hungary turning Serbia's little crank, what with all that ultimatum business.
bullet leave gun then enter important guys head war start
I like how this is essentially a positive review about Valiant Hearts, with Enemy Front thrown in for more comedy. Valiant Hearts is a great game, and I hope there are more like it out there.
I love it when Yahtzee reviews two games at once. As soon as he's torn one apart, he gives it a slight break to rip into the other one and just when that first game had some time to heal, he smashes it to bits. Wash, rinse, repeat.
you... I love Crossover!!
I actually don't like it, not focused or deep enough, you could say it's spread rather thin
Are you the new PressFart?
Hay, if you make videos on avatar LOK I will subscribe to your channel
***** Take a guess.
You cried at the end of Valiant Hearts didn't you Yahtzee? Don't lie we all know!
War makes men mad
I certianly did. I'm not even joking, I legit bawled my eyes out, and it's because a VERY well done sad scene. It doesn't just outright announces what's gonna happen, it build up to it accompanied by sad piano music, a very telling atmosphere, and sad narration that also doesn't straight up announces what's gonna happen
I cried
We all did
I did but in a happy way because it was such a good game 🥹
Was Yahtzee in any danger from those horrible Australian ravens that seemed to be having a naked satanic solstice festival outside?
+Jakira Kumahata
I don't know anything about ravens, but I'm pretty sure that anyone stepping the soil of Australia is automaticaly in a life threat situation.
They're crows, not ravens.
+Jakira Kumahata I THOUGHT THEY WERE DUCKS
+Bryn Shannon You've got some annoying ducks.
We do have annoying ducks in England.
Judging from the background noise, Yahtzee must be a fan of Alfred Hitchcock.
+Seth Porter And this is what happens when you record your videos with the window open in the Brisbane CBD...
I'm so glad it's a recording thing. i thought my headphones were finally on the way out but instead yahtzee has at this point been replaced by a swarm of angry crows.
sounds to me like someone is strangling a Furby in the background....
Oh thank goodness, I'm not alone!
i thought i went insane
Did anyone else notice a slight grinding the the background auto? like when you turn the knob of a wind up toy too far.
Well its been 3 years but there Crows....
What do you mean?
He means the background noise is the sound of crows outside Yahtzees house.
*CAW*
Lockstin & Gnoggin Hey Lockstin! Is the channel still shutting down?
7 years have passed and the intro is more relevant than ever
Yagzee can see the future
Is it tho? Battlefield an cod still doing the same thing.
All jokes aside, Valiant Hearts is one of the only games to ever make me cry.
Few games actually attempt to, you could make me cry by playing sad music while showing a poor plant being plucked, and I still only cried a handful of times in video games.
That ending
The game was a masterpiece of historical accuracies and beautifully encapsulated the raw emotional undertones of the Great War. If you love history and haven't played that game, my God, play that game! ❤
The term "What for!" is one of my favorite english terms Yahtzee throws around the best one is in Doom 2016 episodes.
2:10 is the best analogy I've ever heard for WWI.
+Aki
It's not entirely accurate.
The alliance thing was just a spark on a fuse. Many other situations that occurred before are the bigger reasons behind WW1
What is not accurate about it?
At the end of valiant hearts I actually tears up a little bit, it was written so well
_Dearest Marie_
Still haunts me to this day
It's been 10 years and I still get goosebumps
(+ They did Freddy and Anna dirty in the sequel, justice to Freddy)
Wait, Yatzhee sort of not disliking a game?! That hasn't happened since Bioshock Infinite and Fallout 3!!!
Fallout 3 is good... the same with Bioshock
AntlionHD Gaming
But not with Bioshock Infinite. :P
don't forget strider he found that to be pretty good.
He wasn't too negative about Dark Souls 1 and 2 either
arcadeassassin10193
He was actually somewhat negative about Dark Souls 2 in his Extra Punctuation column, since he had written it after finishing the game. He still thinks it's a good game, but there's a lot of wrong in it.
Holy fuck I've been studying the great war for the better part of two years and Yahtzee just summed it up perfectly in like 15 seconds
my god....A war game that was praised by yahtzee....Has hell frozen over?
ikr.
You mean a war game that isn't CoD: modern warfare.
Would Spec Ops count?
MrDustyMonk Yes, but that's on the same premise as Valiant hearts: the characters hold the game rather than the gameplay.
Yes. It might be a war game, but it isn't a spangoglweewee
"the war is a monstrous background thing they have no power to avoid, like a big black dog slowly closing in on the unsupervised jaffa cakes"
That was pretty funny.
Valiant Hearts is easily one of the best world war themed games of all time. It's a work of art and I'm only sorry for it to be published by Ubishit.
+Andre Gon Well for once Ubisoft publish a game for something else then easy money, it was the occasion (the centenary of WW1) to tell a story aboot one of the most tragic history pf their country.
+MrSafior They still stapled a sequel hook to it, because you can't finish a story for good if there MIGHT be a chance, that Ubisoft can ring more cash in while boiling down a good thing.
+Blazer Ashbringer
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time?
Assassin's Creed 2, Rainbow 6, Watch Dogs 2, those were probably the other good games it's made.
It was made by ubisoft too
TO THOSE WONDERING HOW THE WW1 BEGAN
Look up the youtube channel Extra Credits. They have a series on how WW1 began called Extra History-World War 1: The Seminal Tragedy. It's pretty thorough and well done.
I checked out Valiant Hearts on recommendation from this review, since it sounded like my kinda thing. Finished it tonight, honestly can't remember if a game has ever made me cry like that at the end.
I'm surprised Yahtzee didn't even touch ground with the fact that Enemy Front is supposed to be impressive and all next-gen with the sparkly Cry Engine behind it, but even if there is debris flying through the air and you can hear the window clearly in your headphones, look at ANY of the trees. Go on. I'll wait. Go look. You'll laugh.
Uhm...Does anyone else hear the seagulls?...am I going mad?...I hear seagulls...
*later note*
I was wearing headphones with the sound on high. now on my pc I can no longer hear the birds. he must just have a really good mic
+kitty kat I hear them too. And my headphones aren't turned up that loud. Maybe it's just because I'm a musician.
I guess he lives by the coast
+kitty kat I thought it was a bunch of yapping dogs lol
+kitty kat I hear something! I thought it was music being played from a TV. Yahtzee, you're background noise is making us crazy!
+kitty kat Oh thank god I'm not slowly going insane. Or rather, not because of that.
"Mmmm yes I read a book once" he says smugly. Brilliant
For a man who's lived in Britain and Australia, you sure understand United States' social dynamics
How so?
I mean to be fair it doesn't take a rocket scientist to observe a flaming bag of dogshit with a racial slur scribbled on the side in magic marker to identify it as a flaming bag of dogshit with a racial slur scribbled on the side in magic marker
Yeah...no, turn off MSM and do some of your own research, look up statistics on federal databases and non-biases resources...maybe your IQ will go up.
Yeah, no, he don’t...but whatever, dude bashes cliches and stereotypes all the fucking time but perpetrated then all the fucking same.
You lot aren't subtle
2:20 can anyone else hear the birds,
You just summarized the cause of WWI in a couple of seconds, that is pretty amazing.
This review contains the absolute best description of World War I ever.
Seriously, no one thought that mess of interlocking treaties wasn't going to bite them in the ass one day?
i wish he wholda talked about the ending for valiant hearts cuz that fuckin ending made so many feels for me, most of em were liquid
YoungGamer You pissed yourself ?
Long Dong nah, i did that when i was playing five nights at freddys
YoungGamer What's a liquid feel ?
mabeh cring
YoungGamer I'm not talking to you anymore.
I think that has to be the best description of how WW1 started. If i was back at school and had to do a project on WW1, i would open it with that quote.
Holy shit he was right. We do have to open up everything and install 8 different launchers
The silence at the end of this video was really great because I could be sure there are definitely some sort of birds in the background of the recording. Like a bunch of geese or whatever disgusting aberrations pass for geese in Australia.
Did anyone notice the background noise during the video?
THE BIRDS!
Christ, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was going mad for a moment.
Seagulls are hogging the microphone.
Did anyone else notice the cacophany of bird chirps in the background or have I finally lost what little pieces of my sanity I'd managed to tape back together after salvaging them from the dumpster?
i...i cant tell when hes saying a game is good or not
He liked Valiant Hearts, and thinks Enemy Front is as generic as all most WW2 games before it.
He approaches game not in a "this game is good" or "this game is bad" way. It's just that video games are somewhat complicated chaps and have positive and negative bits and bobs going on all at once. He just endeavours to tell you what he can about the game. It is, afterall, completely up to you if you like a game or not.
The point of these videos is to be funny, not be critical. The only way you can really tell if a game is good or not if it makes it into is best/worst 5.
He is supposed to be playing the role of some impossible to satisfy critic that doesn't think anything is good.
you've fallen under the yahtzee affect haven't you don't worry you will break out soon.
Ah, sir, your videos take me back to the time when as a non-native English speaker I would have to slow down or re-listen to anything moderately quickly spoken in the language. The visuals you put much wit into as well and I hate to miss anything. I guess that's the way to make people watch your stuff twice. Funny anyway, I think! I'll be in my bunk then, improving my listening skills once more.
lol Don't feel too bad, I'm a native English speaker and I have to listen to his videos twice to get everything.
He's actually slowed down in the last year. His older videos are so fast that not many English speaking people could get them first time.
0:42 - In which Yahtzee correctly predicts the vast majority of domestic terror incidents from 2017-2019.
And yet he moved to America to settle down.
@@alastairward2774 I imagine he moved to America for work-based reasons. Nobody who has ever lived in Australia would ever choose to live in America for the _lifestyle._
Don't worry guys I got you covered for most previous fps military shooters and future ones:
AAAH FOREIGNERS! Kill 'em quick! You're a goddamn hero private McGuffin!
You mean a shooter game involves shooting people (namely your country's enemies) and heroic acts? Shock horror!
But it's the same story over and over again. Foreigners and weapons of mass destruction
"Give me the nuclear missile bomb"... "Ok" "America has won!"
tyranidterrorist USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
You guys oughta play Fracture. It's about an east vs west American civil war!
Yahtzee I think I should clear something. You see in America more guns equals less crime, for some odd reason.
Cause it keeps thoes bastard criminals away . Knowing people are armed and ready .
And that's why you have more prisoners than any other country in the world.
collin ohlinger 707 inmates per 100,000 is enough to put you at the top of the charts. You want everyone to carry guns? Fine, your country, do whatever. But at least have background checks or waiting periods or SOMETHING. .
collin ohlinger What about bans on larger weapons and high capacity magazines? The thing about whatever control you already have is that there are plenty of people who want it to go away.
collin ohlinger Well if the criminals still have so many guns you have a pretty big problem with your police force not doing their job.
In Australia gun ownership is legal, but you have to prove a use for it (and self-defence doesn't count). If you're a farmer, or collector, or hunter or target-shooter, you're allowed to own a gun. But when you're not using it it has to be locked away (separate from the ammunition) in a cabinet which needs to have specific, legally defined properties.
I don't worry about getting shot when I go outside because I know it's highly unlikely that anyone around me has a gun. If I go out on the street in the US I can't take comfort in that knowledge because it isn't true.
You have a point, criminals will find a way to arm themselves, yes. But it will be harder for them. And you severely reduce the likelihood of a gun-owner having a mental breakdown and shooting everyone in their workplace. Since the gun laws came into effect in Australia there hasn't been a single mass shooting.
Yes, you can argue culture is the real problem, and I don't disagree with that. Gun laws weren't very popular when they were first suggested here, but if anything they changed the societal considerations of guns considerably.
having a whack-a-mole machine play ride of the Valkyries would probably be the best thing ever though
Awesome as always!
Yay, they did it! was wondering when they will do this
with crows
But Proto what are you doing here
thank you SO much for turning the intro/outro music down
5th game I have ever teared up at.
1. Agros death shadow of the Colossus's
2. The boss's death MGS 3
3. Emma Emmerich's death MGS 2
4. The last of us in its entirity
5. Emile's death valient hearts
Spoilers mate!!! Jesus!!
loungedemon sorry
Agro didn't die though.
She's very much alive in the ending cutscene.
Cass Griffon but the shock of her initial death will linger forever
***** yeah
2:08 that's one of the best analogies of WWI I've seen
Valiant Hearts was such a fun game. With one of the saddest and most surprising endings I've seen.
how can jim not be a holywood actor with a preformance like that. I completely bought it
The whole "constant massacres due to no gun regulation" in the US is kind of a exaggeration due to the news. Overall school shootings and gun violence have actually been going down over the last 20 years. Europe has a fair amount of gun violence considering the number of guns they have, especially considering the USA has about the same population as ALL OF EUROPE put together (I'm going off EU statistics, so that doesn't count Russia)
+Arthas Menethil Population doesn't mean jack shit. OECD figures place America at an average of gun violence 20 times higher than the rest of the OECD nations. This is adjusted per capita mind you. The U.S has an exceptional gun problem, and it's no secret.
***** yeah, but a large percentage of the gun violence is perpetrated by guns that are obtained illigally and many of the perpetrators of mass shootings are mentally unstable people that should have been involuntarily committed. The gun violence in America has less to do with the guns themselves (very little violent crime is committed with legally obtained guns) and more to do with our shitty mental health system and even shittier justice system. I have 2 relatives and a neighbor that work or have worked in different mental health facilities for over a decade each, and rhey each say that they've had to release dangerous people, usually due to be underfunded or understaffed. Ditto for prisons. Most countries with low rates of violent crimes (gun related or otherwise) also have good healthcare systems, prison systems, or both. There are plenty of countries in South America and Africa that have a tiny fraction of the guns per capita that we do but 10 times the homicides per capita, mainly due to shitty justice systems and or healthcare systems.
Arthas Menethil It's both. For every killing with an illegal gun, there are plenty of toddlers accidentally shooting themselves or someone else with daddy's gun. For every bit of gun violence there are scores of suicides committed with a personal firearm.
But while you should definitely have better mental health services, it just sounds like a lazy excuse to justify gun regulations that are way too soft in the first place.
Here's something that happened a couple of years ago, and why it would never happen in Australia;
-Young Australian man moves to United States to play baseball.
-Man goes out on the street for a jog.
-Two underage teenagers steal daddy's gun and shoot said man (a person they don't even know) dead from a moving car.
There is no way you can negate that, prepare for it, or defend yourself from it.
People say 'ohh that's a shame' then promptly forget about it. There is literally nothing you can do to stop this without clamping down on guns as well, not everybody with a homicidal streak is just a mentally ill person who fell through the cracks. And the best part of all, is that the people who claim it's all about mental illness are the ones most readily AGAINST gun reform, and hence vote conservative to ensure nothing is ever done about that, either.
Bsh 555 Is that a serious question? You have to adjust per capita to properly be able to measure crime rates between different countries.
I liked the ominous sound of crows cawing as his background.
Anyone else hear that?
Hospitals would be a lot more cheery if everyone learned from Prof. Dance Dance revolution.
"Im sorry but..... you have.. cancer.... BUT CHECK OUT MY MOVES" UHH
Does it make me sad that I read the doctor telling the patient he has cancer in Yahtzee's voice?
I know this comment is old, but I read it as Yeto from Twilight Princess...
2:30 if you listen carefully you can hear a radio or a TV in the background
i too, enjoyed valiant hearts
I'd also like to add that Valiant Hearts came out on the 100th anniversary of Archduke Fran Ferdinant's (god I hope I spelled that right) assassination. So there's that.
As a gun owner in America that opening rustled m jimmies a bit, but because that's basically the point of many of these videos I digress
as some one who did an intense project on ww I, and that description is spot on
I think Yahtzee was in a field of crows when he recorded this one.
Just sittin here at the Escapist website waiting for more...
You know it's a good game if Yatzhee has only half as many things to complain about it than other games.
4:42: My God, you used facetious correctly! I love you.
There really needs to be more WW1 games. The only other ones I can think of are Toy Soldiers and Warfare 1917
WWI games.....you don't know what you're asking for. Sitting in trenches for days-weeks getting bombed and waiting for the enemies to make a move
Seems there are a couple of WWI Early Access games in the making.
Making History: The Great War, a sort of Risk-like game with statistics, diplomacy and whatnot.
Verdun, a squad-based multiplayer FPS that seems similar to Red Orchestra.
***** There is an artsy anti-war kind of game for WW1. It's called Valiant Hearts: The Great War, the game that he's reviewing in this video.
I believe there was hogs of war for the playstation long ago, but in general creating an anti-war game is somewhat of a contradiction given the advertising of the gameplay is guns, explosions and 'realisim' are the selling point of any war game so it is a bit awkward to shoehorn in to be anti-war, while you promise a new feature of blowing up a nazi.
Did anyone else hear the birds in the background starting around the first time he brings up Valiant Hearts?
It really stings how relevant the opening of this video still is.
I think that Whack-A-Mole machine that plays Ride of the Valkyries is actually a pretty good idea...
Ubi made Valiant hearts? That's the most shocking thing I've heard all week
This is the best explanation of World War 1 I've ever heard!
Its 2019 and every publisher/developer has its own fucking launcher. Yatz was right again.
A petard is not a posh rich-person article of clothing. It's an old-timey explosive demolition charge.
What about the seagulls in the background?
The word play is on point in this one!
This opening is still distressingly relevant
Funny after the tragic end of the afghan war recently, the beginning of this video hits home. Time is a flat circle.
Well, actually in valiant hearts there is a couple of missions where you drive a tank and shoot airplanes and stuff
What happened to the delightful text gags at the end? you know the ones that youtube's pause functions like to obscure
Why is this comment section either about gun control or what the "fuck is that noise!?"?
***** I think that noise was a flock of birds
Did anyone else hear the birds in the background of the audio recording? Once it started I was so distracted I completely missed what Yahtzee was saying.
The first minute of this video is pure gold, not only in comedy but in brutally honest, completely true analysis of the way America's mindset is right now. Bravo Yahtzee.
Christopher Sherwood 2018 AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED
"It's like tim burton not casting johnny depp in one of his movies" genuinely made me laugh.
laughed so hard during this video, epecially after playing that awesome game - Valiant Hearts. I hope there were more games like that. And it has taht advantage, that man can really talk about it with parents and other people who don't really like games.
One of your best, Mr Croshaw! Keep 'em coming!
0:33 Pyro flamethrower!
0:45 "They just kept knocking down any chance of gun legislation and effectively forced America to accept that a massacre is something it's just going to have to put up with every now and then."
Oh my god. I never thought I could use a zero punctuation video to support my anti-gun argument.
I've seen and disproven that very point numerous times, but there's one thing I've never bothered to ask first:
Do you *actually* believe that is a good example to support gun advocacy, or are you just ignoring the obvious flaw in the logic in order to act like you actually have a proper argument?
----)Hipster Walrus Gaming(----
"Also, can you disprove the Chicago one for me then?"
Tell you what, I'll answer your question after you've answered mine.
----)Hipster Walrus Gaming(----
I don't see how the source of a quote invalidates the validity of the quote itself.
+Ndoki Hasaki
Seein' as you didn't answer his question, I'll counterpoint, sort of. I do think the licenses for guns should be harder to get; should prove you're sane and capable. However, I don't think they should be banned. If they are, all you've done is disarm the innocent, because the criminals; that's the nutters who're going to shoot at people; don't give a rip about your gun ban law. Breaking the law is kinda the definition of criminal.
And on top of that, I live here in Texas. Now, Texas, as I'm sure anyone out of state will be quick to point out, is full of gun crazed cowboys. Well, I live near Houston so I don't really see that so much. But, well, seems to me that if we're all gun crazed, we wouldn't have rather low crime rates. Fun fact, number three for most violent crimes is Oakland, California. You know, the state that does try to ban guns.
And here's the best part. Even if you did magically disappear all the guns, that's not gonna stop massacres and violent crimes. Criminals will just put together an explosive or something sharp.
'Cause they're criminals. If they're going to break the law of murder, what makes you think they'll care about a little weapon ban law?
***** "because the criminals; that's the nutters who're going to shoot at people; don't give a rip about your gun ban law."
Well I don't know about other people but I'm arguing from a hypothetical standpoint where the guns have been banned in an isolated country. This has already been done in countries like Japan and have proven to be effective. Of course in a country like the U.S. that's already so saturated with guns it would take a VERY long time for enough to be confiscated to make a difference, but the point is eliminating the potential for said criminals to get more.
"But, well, seems to me that if we're all gun crazed, we wouldn't have rather low crime rates."
Compared to other states in the U.S. is hardly a fair basis in a guns vs no guns discussion. If you want a proper comparison you should be comparing your country (since a state/city is not an isolated area) with other equally isolated countries. Tell me, have you ever tried driving to Oakland? Did they search your car when you entered city limits?
"Even if you did magically disappear all the guns, that's not gonna stop massacres and violent crimes."
So you're one of those all-or-nothing types? Even REDUCING crime, or making it easier for people to protect themselves isn't a worthy cause if it can't eliminate ALL violence?
Seriously?
"what makes you think they'll care about a little weapon ban law?"
I never said anything about expecting criminals to care about the law. You're attacking a strawman here.
No. I would expect the people MAKING the guns to care about the law. If gun production stops, and guns are eliminated, where exactly are these criminals going to get more guns?
inb4 "banning drugs didn't stop criminals from getting more"
i might as well put in my 2 cents, (protip, its gonna be a long 2 cents) there are more guns in the united states (not counting the weapons owned by the military OR that are unregistered i might add) gun control would not work because there are millions of guns already owned by citizens, and some (not all, maybe not even most, but some) of us arent just going to give them up without a fight, also there are already tens of thousands of guns already in criminal circulation in the US, if we take away guns from law-abiding citizens who use them, then we cant protect ourselves from criminals who already have them, so many more houses will be broken into, gun control in the states would definetely do more harm than good, i understand how in the UK there are fewer guns to begin with so its more difficult for criminals to get them, but in the states, itll be easy and thats why we dont want our guns banned
Here's a good question, how to keep weapons out of criminals and paranoiacs but in the way that wouldn't hurt sane, law abiding citizens?
Maybe there's something in that saying that I heard some time ago: _"I have no problem with guns, it's the _*_gun owners_*_ that worry me."_
I remember a wise man once said, don't do anything to the guns. Just make the bullets 10000 times more expensive, so that nobody would use them as they're too precious.
***** lol, thats just so stupid.
that the US and UK have similar crime rates. They're not even slightly similar. And you can't just say people are shitty so they commit crimes. I'm sure there's more to it than that.
The reason why America has gun control is because they want people to brag about their police system to other countries.
When Yahtzee mentioned Jaffa Cakes, I fist-pumped so hard my elbow actually popped.
please do ''warframe zero puncuation'' that would be awesome
Enemy Front & Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Zero Punctuation) best part in the whole video
Yahtzee posts a video. Quick everyone we have to stand up for our beliefs in either gun control, our nationalism, or who was responsible for WWI. THE INTERNET MUST KNOW MY OPINION AS I AM THE UNDOUBTEDLY CORRECT ONE HERHERHER
"Hoist by your own petard" means you've been blown up by your own bomb. A "petard" is a kind of old-fashioned bomb, and the expression originated in a period when "hoist" meant to be propelled skyward in a general way, not just by being hauled up on a rope.
That imagery would have fit the theme much better than the common misinterpretation Yahtzee applied here.
On an entirely unrelated note, why am I hearing ducks in the background?
And thus, Yahtzee validates my decision to avoid Enemy Front like the plague-like vanilla-flavored genericness that it is, while opting to place Valiant Hearts on my wish list of games :)
One of the best Zero Punctions ever.
I want a revolutionary war game
What is that supposed to mean?
It's called AC 3
***** yeah because the US is the only country to ever have a revolutionary war
I've always thought that a game set in the English Civil War would be an interesting setting - between Oliver Cromwell and King..... erm..... Henry??
Or even a WW1 shooter!!
MrHaloownage is cromwell considered a hero in england?
in ireland people curse his name
Yay I loved that comparison : 3 you never cease to entertain.
Did anyone hear a Rc car or fly in the background?
LEGIT ELMO35, Sounds like someone's cobblers awls are caught in the door, hey that's rhymes.
That sound of crows horde on background
Whats that background noise?
Sea birds.
I'll take your word for it. You don't hear it much on other videos.
Yahtzee must've been recording this on the beach.
I heard it as well and it's definitely birds of some kind. I live sort of near Yahtzee and I hear the exact same noise all the time (in fact I'm hearing it now) and it sounds like a small murder of crows. However it's fairly suppressed so it could be any sort of bird.
Darude - Sandstorm
You visualized "hoisted by their own petard" as somehow hanging themselves. But a petard is a really old form of explosive. Being "hoisted" by it means being blown the fuck up and launched by it.
Once again, someone has decided to speak on an issue they know nothing about.
As a matter of fact, gun control in the United States has actually been shown to cause MORE violent crime. According to a Harvard study, higher gun ownership rates in the United States predict lower crime. It's just a fact. Just look at cities like D.C. (whose crime rose after their gun ban, and dropped when it was repealed), and Chicago (similar deal). And before you say "that just correlations", this study accounted for that. For example, the city of Kennesaw, Georgia actually passed a law that required households (barring those housing people not allowed to own guns) to have a gun. Did the town turn into the "wild west"? No, crimes rates dropped significantly and the town has one of the absolute lowest crime rates in the country.
Now, onto "assault weapons" (either a deliberate misnomer, or woefully ignorant). Rifles OF ALL TYPES accounted for less than 3% of total gun deaths in the US from 2006 to 2010. Adding onto that, "mass shootings" (shootings of 4 or more people at a time) represent less than .2% of all gun related murders. And these "mass shootings" are the EXACT reason gun grabbers give for taking away "assault weapons", which are only even used in some of the mass shootings. That means banning "assault weapons" wouldn't even make a dent in the problem. In fact, taking them away harms people's ability to defend themselves and their homes, putting them at the mercy of the criminals who will ignore the ban. The truth is, people are slaughtered everyday by handguns in the inner city areas, but gun grabbers don't care about that. They only starting caring once a lot of suburban white kids got killed.
Thirdly, guns are used far more for defensive purposes than criminal purposes (166-1000% more, according to the CDC). Furthermore, people who use guns to defend themselves have a much lower risk of injury as compared to those who use other defensive strategies.
Fourth, 5 of the last six "mass shootings" in the US occured in "gun-free zones". That is because criminals don't care about the law, only we responsible, sane people do. By definition, these people are neither law-abiding nor sane. People like Feinstein, the president, and other politicians have the privilege to have armed security. But we regular people don't, so we should at least have to the right to keep our own lives. Police are called after a shooting starts. By then it is too late. The average number of people killed in a shooting rampage when it is stopped by police is 14.3. The average number when stopped by a civilian is 2.3. (Note that, if I were a typical gun grabber, I would use this point to make a strawman argument, saying "why do you support the slaughtering of innocent people, including children?")
Fifth, more people are killed by hammers than rifles each year. More people are killed with bare hands than rifles. Should we take away our right to hammers as well? FAR more people are killed in car accidents involving cars going over 30 mph, why not ban all cars that can go faster than that? Hell, they aren't even a right protected by the constitution. And far more children die in swimming pools each year (well over 300) than from "assault weapons"; why not ban high capacity pools that have a “high capacity” water depth of over 2 feet?
Fewer guns do not mean less homicides. In Russia, where gun ownership rates were only 4%, the murder rate was 20.5 per 100,000 people in 2002. In the same year, Finland, which had gun ownership rates of 39%, had a murder rate of less than 2 per 100,000 people. Norway has Western Europe's highest household gun ownership rate (32%), but also its lowest murder rate. Switzerland issues every adult a Sig550 military rifle and trains them how to use it: Switzerland has lowest gun-related crime rate in the civilized world. Why? Because, unlike in America and most other "civilized" nations, it actually educates people on gun use. Yes, there is a mandatory military service requirement in Switzerland. But I would venture that the deciding factor between the different rates of gun violence in Switzerland and the US is not that the Swizz are forced into forced into service, but that they are EDUCATED on how guns work and what their capabilities are. Unfortunately, the American government has made "thoughtcrime" an actually thing, by suspending and even expelling children as young as FIVE YEARS OLD for say "pew pew", making a gun shape with their fingers while playing, or biting a poptart in a way that makes it look like a gun. One five year old girl was reprimanded for "drawing a picture with a gun in it" and for making the dreaded "pew pew" sound. She was forced by the school to sign a document promising that she wouldn't COMMIT SUICIDE, and was recommended to see a PSYCHIATRIST.
And why is it that everyone that is for taking guns out of the hands of the people (because why should the government fear the people? It should be the other way around, right?) conveniently dismissing the fact that the VAST majority of gun related deaths or either suicide, or gang-related violence in poor, inner city neighborhoods? Yeah, the problem isn't white people, sorry. It is apparent from this that the problem isn't the number of guns, but the education of their use by their owners. In fact, a study by Harvard found that, "(Where) firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest."
At the end of the day, far more people are killed by cigarettes than guns. This includes people killed from secondhand smoke. So explain to me why you think it's okay to ban something that serves an actual role in personal defense and prevention of subjugation, but it's wrong to regulate that drug that you want because, well, you want it.
Point is, the science, logic, reason, and facts are on our side.
www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/with_300_children_drowning_in.html
www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf
www.ksl.com/?sid=26639259
www.snopes.com/politics/guns/switzerland.asp#Lgy2eOVeCRim0oJj.99
www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/06/handguns_suicides_mass_shootings_deaths_and_self_defense_findings_from_a.html
www.examiner.com/article/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics
investmentwatchblog.com/white-house-study-finds-guns-save-lives-consistently-lower-injury-rates-among-gun-using-crime-victims/
www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/preliminary-semiannual-uniform-crime-report-january-june-2013/tables/table_1_january_to_june_2012-2013_percent_change_by_population_group.xls
I love how no one is wiling to respond as soon as you actually argue with statistics and facts. Nice one man, keep it up! ^-^
Ivan Chesnokov
Sorry, I can't hear you over the fact that the USA ranks in the top ten countries in the world for gun-related deaths per capita, right between Mexico and Argentina.
Meanwhile, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Australia, Norway, and Poland - COMBINED - have fewer shootings sprees between ALL 12 NATIONS over the last 10 years than the USA has had in the last 2.
Must be all that gunfire ringing through American schools, universities and theaters drowning you out. You know, the gunfire that isn't ringing through every other developed nation on earth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spree_shootings_in_the_United_States
and finally
www.shootingtracker.com/
@TheChosenOne Most people just can't be bothered to read through all that pro-gun bs
@Cody Hines look I'm Australian. In Australia only very few people can own or even carry guns. In Australia there's people who are disabled who still try to kill people at public places, but unlike in America these people can only carry knives or other household objects and alot of the time the bystanders take them out before the police are even involved.
To the original poster: Love your comment.
I may like Yahtzee, but I can't agree with him on this. I like how you broke it down AND provided sources
the most apt description of WWI i've ever heard
Keep your opinions on American politics to yourself if you aren't American.
People can talk about things they are not a part of, you do realize this right?
I don't want people that don't even live in the U.S. Pretending that they know everything about our issues and politics.
Sometimes it takes an outside source to see the trouble within.
We are the best off (economically) country in the world and we have the second highest population of obese people. We are just fine. Also, every American has the liberty to acquire any information available. We do not need some person living in another country to discuss THEIR OPINIONS based on how THEY THINK America is.
Well as Americans we are used to the way we live so we don't see anything wrong with it but take someone with a different way of living and a different country and they would be able to see our flaws just as we could see theirs. America is not perfect but neither is any country.
I'm listening to this with headphones on and I swear I can hear what sounds like a very distant murder of crows in the background...
The anger of frustrated Americans is amusing. The explosive, spoilt, squealing rage of gun-toting, conservative Americans is sheer delight. Come back to Britain, Yahtzee. We need to see you and Charlie Brooker collaborate on something glorious.
wheres the end credits with the funny quips and stuff? those were one of my favorite things in your videos!! :(
I feel like Im the only American who doesn't get butthurt when Yatzee rips on America.
I know it's just jokes but it kinda rubs me the wrong way when foreigners bash on our constitutional rights. But hey, we make fun of them too so ya know, it's fine
Because your constitutional rights are a big of a joke really to the world.
"Can't change the constitution!!"
You can, it's called a fucking amendment.
To be fair, a Whack-a-Mole machine that plays Ride of the Valkyries sounds pretty fun.
I think he missed the point of Valiant Hearts. It is supposed to commemorate WWI and the personal struggles through emotion and storytelling, not game play. It is like judging a romance movie based on how many explosions it has. I usually agree with Yahtzee, but this time he was far off the target.
Then why isn't it a movie? Also, how is judging a GAME on its GAMEPLAY at all like judging a romance movie on how many explosions it has? Games are all about gameplay. Romance movies are not all about explosions.
Then judge a TellTale game based on "gameplay", they are point and click and receive some of the best rating out there. Just because the gameplay isn't actiony doesn't mean it isn't effective.
Chris Dawson I've never played a TellTale game, so I can't really judge, but I'm going to guess what little amount of gameplay there is in their games actually HELPS the story and narrative, whereas Valiant Hearts' gameplay (from what I've heard) HINDERS it, slows it down.
Chris Dawson
Thing is TellTale works its gameplay into its story telling - your point about it not being actiony doesn't have anything to do with your original point I'm afraid.......
***** Oh, definitely. Especially if some of the romantic interests were the ones to explode.