You can take the "he fell off a guard tower" Holocaust joke even further, just keep inverting it: "My grandfather died in the Holocaust." "Really?" "Yeah, he fell off a guard tower" "Oh. *eye roll* ha ha ha..." "No, I'm serious, he was trying to escape" "Seriously? Damn." "from the rioting prisoners."
"TH-camrs go watch Monkey Dust, its a good show" *goes and watches it, then comes back* "...but don't watch it if you're contemplating suicide." Oh... well I'm glad that wasn't the case.
My dad doesn't miss those days of no Internet. He is involved in sports and somewhat of a public person, so he used to have random people calling him asking sports-trivia to win arguments with their friends. Usually when drunk.
Its interesting that there seems to be multiple ways of solving the puzzles (or they changed the solutions between versions). As when I played it I used to poo on the shirt to get the badge and to get the rat I had to get frozen food from the super market to brake the washing machine door.
44:00 I feel like if everyone did this when someone said something pratty or unfunny then gabriel would be on the recieving end of that bit quite a lot.
Yahtzee has said a few times now that listening to Americans try to do northern accents is the most painful thing to hear. But Between the "Curse of Enchantia" and "Operation Stealth" let's play all I have to say is another painful thing to hear is a brit trying to speak Spanish.
To answer the dangling question from Gabe no, computer screens don't need screensavers anymore. LCD monitors don't get burn-in, which was the reason screensavers existed at all.
Thank you for getting back into this, Yahtzee! I'm sure I can speak for everyone in the comments section when I say that we've all missed you and Gabriel commentate on video games together. Your conversations are always hilarious and entertaining to listen to, and I hope that you keep deciding to upload these great videos. Hope the Mana Bar's doing splendid as well!
The reason modern videogame protagonists are always competent is because noone likes being told they are incompetent and players like being happy. The reason guns are accurate is because players want combat to be based on their own skill and not random number generator in a game. players want agency. For example in STALKER games accuracity is very low, this leads to a lot of frustration where you can empty entire clips into enemies without a single hit even though you are lieing on your belly on top of a mountain aiming perfectly. Id rather it be dependent on my skills and not random aim mechanics.
Well to each their own. I see your point and I mostly agree. But I like random number generators interfering with my combat. I like a layer of uncontrollability. But most people don't so I can understand that.
Same here man. I dunno. I feel like I'm the only person in the world who appreciates things like bullet spread or random crits in video games sometimes.
Not as much as the sadist who gave their copy of this game to a Goodwill, knowing it had the chance at being unleashed upon an innocent, instead of utterly destroying it.
I had a weird speech impediment, I pronounced all my r's as w's, Elmer Fudd style. I was lucky and got a speech therapist early in my life, and she managed to turn it into a weird half-English accent and called it a day. Ironically I'm Irish-American.
Standard procedure for watching Yahtzee's Let's Play: See Yahtzee posted a video. Open video. Hit Like immediately. Hear Gabriel making an obscure reference involving a Policeman's truncheon up an arse. Rejoice in having been correct in hitting Like immediately.
47:54 I'm looking at these references and get most of them 1) Pet Shop Boys 2) Gun n Roses 3) Smashing Pumpkins 4) Bon Jovi 5) ? 6) PJ Harvey 7) Fleetwood Mac 8) Dusty Springfield 9) Snoop Doggy Dogg 10) ? Anybody get the two that I missed?
The only decent Enterprise episodes were the alternate universe episodes where they were basically aggro Klingons, going about enslaving other aliens and shooting rather than discovering.
I stepped into a yellow jacket nest (burrow?) They were underground. Went right up my pants leg and shirt. I ended up running away ripping my clothes off. Had so many stings, hurt so bad. Especially on the thighs. Ouch.
20 milion people is not enough for accent variation? My home country has less than a milion, and there are, like, 6 different accents - you can literally recognize which town the person is from. :D But, as Yahtzee stated for the England, it's heavily due to the country's tribal political history...
That Mr Hoppy reference at the start. Dear Lord I loved that show. My personal favorite was the Paedofinder General. And an interesting fact no one will probably care to hear, but my Uncle thatched Mr Blobbies house at the zoo where they filmed Noels House Party.
It might have been happening in the background and got picked up by the recorder. Either that or there are some *very* similar-sounding noises in the game. Maybe both. Who knows with 90's games?
I think their problem is they have lives outside of doing LPs and such. Unlike most LPers. I mean, Gabe's getting an education (whatever that is) and Yahtzee has several jobs going on. Understandable that in their work schedules it's hard to find time to play games and then schedule 1-4 hours to commentate over it.
Oh wow; I could definitely imagine that they'd be extremely busy then. Most LPers upload a video at least once a week or so, but that's also because they're not trying to get a formal education and manage several jobs. I'm honestly not complaining if Yahtzee and Gabriel take months to upload even a single video because when they do; it's pretty much gold. I'm just grateful that they decided to take the time to start making these videos again and plan to do more in the future :)
These videos really require two viewings: One to see the game, and one to hear whatever Yahtzee and Gabe are talking about. Lol I can't do both at the same time. XD
what he's really saying is, "I have made this entire story up." But he managed to correct himself at the time when he got to the resistance lady. I think we have stumbled across a great literary tale for the ages, filled with metaphors, deep symbolism, and a greatly woven them of how you view yourself. Why, this is comparable to Alex Kidd in High-Tech World!
Also on the subject of voice acting I can vouch that it isn't easy to do a new impression on the spot. I'm the friend who can do a metric fuck-ton of impressions but I also have to be allowed some practice time to get a voice down. It helps that my accent is mostly neutral, although I have a slight southern twang that tends to come out when I get pissed off or distracted. I've been told I do a great impression of The Merchant from RE4 though, so that's nice I suppose.
00:15 Wait, Kent hadn't composed that himself? But in the intro, he said he had. Is he lying to her, or is he lying... to himself? And about what? Clearly, the character of Kent Knutson is more deeper than we had ever thought. Perhaps he is actually delusional and so deep into building up his own fantasy world where only he can save us that he began to stop distinguishing reality from fiction. But despite his heroic tale, he still makes himself out to be a bumbling idiot (continued).
In Homefront you do have military experience...you were grabbed specifically because of your experience with flying too. Plus as much as everyone says they would want that idea to start without any skills, they would just complain when the game turns bad. Look at FarCry 3, Jason supposedly never kills and it does break the story a bit, but how much fun would it be slowly stumbling around doing nothing until he's "used" to killing? You couldn't do it in a realistic time frame that wouldn't be incredibly slow-paced.
They get sidetracked before getting into a discussion about Neuromancer and cyber culture (oh, and the other book you couldn't remember is Count Zero, Gabe), but as someone who loves the Sprawl books, let me say that most popular culture representations of "cyberpunk" have almost nothing to do with William Gibson's work, at least not the Sprawl books. The Matrix movies are often referenced as "movie versions of Gibson's work" but they are not even close really. Other than a VR called the Matrix and some of the character portrayals, they are way off the mark. Most of that 90s "cyber" pop culture stuff has more origins in stuff by Bruce Sterling and Neil Stephenson than Gibson, whose work was more a meditation on neo-noir set in a futuristic society. The film version of Johnny Mnemonic is a perfect example of putting a pop culture interpretation of Gibson's work *on top of* his actual work. Probably the closest a film has ever gotten to being an accurate trip into William Gibson's work was Strange Days.
New Rose Hotel was awful. Yeah, they tried to stay true to the nature of the short story, but the movie was just terrible. Awful writing, awful dialog, awful pacing, and the acting was just pathetic. As usual for Abel Ferrara, he decided to just let Christopher Walken act like Walken instead of an actual character in a movie and the end result is terrible. Not surprised virtually no one has ever heard of that movie.
I didn't remember that it was a TBFP video when they first started talking about it, I thought it was Yahtzee and Gabe that had already talked about it earlier in the video. Little moment of confusion there.
Most of the serious parts of Operation MindFuck where in the 1960's. Illuminatus! and the common editions of Principia Discordia where published in the mid-to-late 70's. OM started with the original five Discordians around 1962.
I got one for you. One day in geography class! Teacher: ...And that's why continental drift is the main theory of how Pangaea split apart. Idiot: How do you know that! Teacher: Well you se... Idiot: How do you know the dinosaurs didn't strap big chains to the land and pull it apart I'm not making this up. This actually happened.
I genuinely didn't watch most of this, I just listened to it because their voices are so soothing. Which is weird when what they're saying is usually highly disturbing
It's like how some people talk about being vigilantes, except actually plausible. No costumes, no ostentatious plans, no over-the-top gadgets. Just you, your fists, and a criminal's face. Kicking them is optional, most people have long since forgotten about how useful kicking can be when done properly, after all our legs are much stronger than our arms normally.
The term trolling comes from the fishing term of the same name, where you drag your bait through the water to get the fish to come to your boat. Same concept, really.
I miss these two.
Me too 😢
You can take the "he fell off a guard tower" Holocaust joke even further, just keep inverting it:
"My grandfather died in the Holocaust."
"Really?"
"Yeah, he fell off a guard tower"
"Oh. *eye roll* ha ha ha..."
"No, I'm serious, he was trying to escape"
"Seriously? Damn."
"from the rioting prisoners."
"TH-camrs go watch Monkey Dust, its a good show"
*goes and watches it, then comes back*
"...but don't watch it if you're contemplating suicide."
Oh... well I'm glad that wasn't the case.
"My names bucket, Mother didn't like me very much"
To this day I name my character Bucket in RPGs and give them the lowest possible INT stat.
"All the least important things, are the most important" Thats going straight on my Facebook..
39:15
"Sweet meaty Jesus! Sweet, pulsating Spider Christ!"
I lost it
I quote that all the damn time
I loved the Van Graff Bouncer Mission
46:25 Gabe yelling SADNESS ENGAGED! SOB! SOB! SADNESS COMPLETED! will be my new ringtone since I work around lots of sad machines
I was about to type a Mr Hoppy reference and Gabe went and did it himself.
Thank you Gabe for continuing to be awesome.
My dad doesn't miss those days of no Internet.
He is involved in sports and somewhat of a public person, so he used to have random people calling him asking sports-trivia to win arguments with their friends. Usually when drunk.
"fate: consumed by the shadow beings"
consuming shadow? sounds familiar....
That Elizabethan joke threw me for a moment put then i realised it's a pun on the ruffled clothes. :P
"They're life experience away from having anything meaningful to say" - Gabe the professional student.
Its interesting that there seems to be multiple ways of solving the puzzles (or they changed the solutions between versions).
As when I played it I used to poo on the shirt to get the badge and to get the rat I had to get frozen food from the super market to brake the washing machine door.
He said there were multiple solutions.
44:00 I feel like if everyone did this when someone said something pratty or unfunny then gabriel would be on the recieving end of that bit quite a lot.
Both of them really
@@mistrzbajerycesarzpodrywu7652 nah
17:10 They managed to impersonate Jordan B Peterson before Jordan B Peterson ever uploaded his first lecture.
Kane from "Kane and Lynch" is a modern day "fuck up" character.
Thing to keep in mind (2:34) "We are a pacifist group."
This is going to go horribly wrong, won't it?
Well they certainly pacify a few people
3 years later i still watch these, should I be ashamed?
Mistrz Bajery Cesarz Podrywu I Hope not 😉
Yahtzee has said a few times now that listening to Americans try to do northern accents is the most painful thing to hear. But Between the "Curse of Enchantia" and "Operation Stealth" let's play all I have to say is another painful thing to hear is a brit trying to speak Spanish.
Both sound far happier than they do in 2015...
GeneralLotz it's called massive amounts of caffeine.
+GeneralLotz Yahtzee's irrational hatred of Gabe's every action seems either lesser or completely absent here.
+GeneralLotz This is why i think they should take the piss out of more old adventure games. Leisure Suit Larry 3 was like that too.
I read this just as I heard 5:52
I still agree
This was the honeymoon phase
To answer the dangling question from Gabe no, computer screens don't need screensavers anymore. LCD monitors don't get burn-in, which was the reason screensavers existed at all.
Ah monkey dust. The gambling addict father was the most heartwrenching segment in my opinion.
I'd never heard of it before, but on your recommendation, I just watched some episodes of Monkey Dust.... I haven't laughed so hard in ages!!
Yahtzee's war general voice kinda sounds like British Nixon...
I say, gents, I believe I feel a jowl movement coming on! Aaaaarrooooooo!
"Hello my name is ruptured Elvis, my guitar dosn't go all the way to the end"
Raiden in the MK universe is a good for "Protagonist who always fucks up". He's a god too, so double points.
Thank you for getting back into this, Yahtzee! I'm sure I can speak for everyone in the comments section when I say that we've all missed you and Gabriel commentate on video games together. Your conversations are always hilarious and entertaining to listen to, and I hope that you keep deciding to upload these great videos. Hope the Mana Bar's doing splendid as well!
The reason modern videogame protagonists are always competent is because noone likes being told they are incompetent and players like being happy. The reason guns are accurate is because players want combat to be based on their own skill and not random number generator in a game. players want agency. For example in STALKER games accuracity is very low, this leads to a lot of frustration where you can empty entire clips into enemies without a single hit even though you are lieing on your belly on top of a mountain aiming perfectly. Id rather it be dependent on my skills and not random aim mechanics.
Well to each their own. I see your point and I mostly agree. But I like random number generators interfering with my combat. I like a layer of uncontrollability. But most people don't so I can understand that.
Same here man. I dunno. I feel like I'm the only person in the world who appreciates things like bullet spread or random crits in video games sometimes.
I'm one of the 3 TH-camrs who get's the "Mr. Hoppy" reference. YAAY!!
I only done it so they would take the electrodes of me nipples.
i guess i'm the third?
Zilexion M. I inexplicably some how lost all memory of the reference so I guess so.
Found this game at Goodwill and bought it based on this play through. What is wrong with me?
Not as much as the sadist who gave their copy of this game to a Goodwill, knowing it had the chance at being unleashed upon an innocent, instead of utterly destroying it.
GAH! I almost soiled myself when the Flashing Pumpkins just blared out at the end there!
I had a weird speech impediment, I pronounced all my r's as w's, Elmer Fudd style. I was lucky and got a speech therapist early in my life, and she managed to turn it into a weird half-English accent and called it a day.
Ironically I'm Irish-American.
So basically you sound like Michael Palin's character in Life of Brian
Standard procedure for watching Yahtzee's Let's Play:
See Yahtzee posted a video.
Open video.
Hit Like immediately.
Hear Gabriel making an obscure reference involving a Policeman's truncheon up an arse.
Rejoice in having been correct in hitting Like immediately.
Voyager gave us 7 of 9 though.
"sweet, pulsating spider Christ" has made my week.
That description. I think I laughed harder than I should've.
47:54 I'm looking at these references and get most of them
1) Pet Shop Boys
2) Gun n Roses
3) Smashing Pumpkins
4) Bon Jovi
5) ?
6) PJ Harvey
7) Fleetwood Mac
8) Dusty Springfield
9) Snoop Doggy Dogg
10) ?
Anybody get the two that I missed?
one of the first games i ever played on the PC when i was a kid thankyou for reliving my childhood yahtzee :) i love this game
The only decent Enterprise episodes were the alternate universe episodes where they were basically aggro Klingons, going about enslaving other aliens and shooting rather than discovering.
Gabriel's wasp story made me choke on my tea. ^^
I stepped into a yellow jacket nest (burrow?) They were underground. Went right up my pants leg and shirt. I ended up running away ripping my clothes off. Had so many stings, hurt so bad. Especially on the thighs. Ouch.
20 milion people is not enough for accent variation? My home country has less than a milion, and there are, like, 6 different accents - you can literally recognize which town the person is from. :D But, as Yahtzee stated for the England, it's heavily due to the country's tribal political history...
"Hanlon's Razor - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
I think I've found my new favorite razor.
My new motto: "Purpose, and a handful of poo."
I'll never get sick of hearing Bullet with Butterfly Wings at the end of these...fucking awesome. And great video, as always.
Haven't watched Monkey Dust in years!
i think the level of 'talking over each other' is just fine.. keeps the conversation flowing..
That Mr Hoppy reference at the start. Dear Lord I loved that show. My personal favorite was the Paedofinder General. And an interesting fact no one will probably care to hear, but my Uncle thatched Mr Blobbies house at the zoo where they filmed Noels House Party.
these two are so fun to listen to, they could do a video with 2 girls 1 cup in the background and everyone would still watch it.
o-o
Why do I keep hearing random Facebook sounds in this video and the last?
And windows sounds too xD
It might have been happening in the background and got picked up by the recorder.
Either that or there are some *very* similar-sounding noises in the game. Maybe both. Who knows with 90's games?
They published Body Harvest, a very important game indeed.
I think their problem is they have lives outside of doing LPs and such. Unlike most LPers.
I mean, Gabe's getting an education (whatever that is) and Yahtzee has several jobs going on. Understandable that in their work schedules it's hard to find time to play games and then schedule 1-4 hours to commentate over it.
I"m not even watching this video. I'm just listening to Yahtzee and Gabe talking.
I love how your videos are a lot like podcasts
Gremlin Interactive also made Realms of the Haunting.
Heh, love the black books reference. Roweeeennnnaaa. Roweeennnnnaaaa.
Oh wow; I could definitely imagine that they'd be extremely busy then. Most LPers upload a video at least once a week or so, but that's also because they're not trying to get a formal education and manage several jobs. I'm honestly not complaining if Yahtzee and Gabriel take months to upload even a single video because when they do; it's pretty much gold. I'm just grateful that they decided to take the time to start making these videos again and plan to do more in the future :)
The story with the wasps and the fat kid was just amazing.
These videos really require two viewings: One to see the game, and one to hear whatever Yahtzee and Gabe are talking about. Lol I can't do both at the same time. XD
My right headphone broke, now it sounds like Gabe is trying to talk to me from across my room
Glad to see people spreading misinformation, and having the audacity to feign intelligence from the event.
Same, except in the sense that it's been on my hard drive for months and I've neglected to get around to the 'viewing' part.
Pet shop boys is one of my favorite bands and I'm not from the UK ;)
The beginning of this video reminds me of the Bohemians of the We Will Rock You musical.
what he's really saying is, "I have made this entire story up." But he managed to correct himself at the time when he got to the resistance lady.
I think we have stumbled across a great literary tale for the ages, filled with metaphors, deep symbolism, and a greatly woven them of how you view yourself. Why, this is comparable to Alex Kidd in High-Tech World!
33:18 "So that's ow you spell No Aroony!" :D
Also on the subject of voice acting I can vouch that it isn't easy to do a new impression on the spot. I'm the friend who can do a metric fuck-ton of impressions but I also have to be allowed some practice time to get a voice down. It helps that my accent is mostly neutral, although I have a slight southern twang that tends to come out when I get pissed off or distracted. I've been told I do a great impression of The Merchant from RE4 though, so that's nice I suppose.
00:15
Wait, Kent hadn't composed that himself? But in the intro, he said he had. Is he lying to her, or is he lying... to himself? And about what?
Clearly, the character of Kent Knutson is more deeper than we had ever thought. Perhaps he is actually delusional and so deep into building up his own fantasy world where only he can save us that he began to stop distinguishing reality from fiction. But despite his heroic tale, he still makes himself out to be a bumbling idiot (continued).
i remember Monty Mole and Thing on a Spring! I miss Commodore64...
DS9 was way better than Enterprise, but Enterprise gave me faith! OF THE HEART!
Wasn't the dude in Homefront a former Air Force pilot or something?
Yeah, he was actually ex military
well as funny as that is... just imagine the rest of your life going " be vewy vewy quiet" that is hilarious in both directions though
I agree, these two are great but they do talk over each other and interrupt each other a lot
i do like how Gabriel is talking in one ear and Yahtzee the other. Some good and bad conscience shit going on there.
Complains about the use of 'trolling' and 'lol'
Immediately says 'my bad'
God love you Gabby :D
In Homefront you do have military experience...you were grabbed specifically because of your experience with flying too. Plus as much as everyone says they would want that idea to start without any skills, they would just complain when the game turns bad. Look at FarCry 3, Jason supposedly never kills and it does break the story a bit, but how much fun would it be slowly stumbling around doing nothing until he's "used" to killing? You couldn't do it in a realistic time frame that wouldn't be incredibly slow-paced.
I just wanted to say Thank you Yahtzee and Gabe for enlightening me on Ivan and Mr. Hoppy.
I just noticed that the potted plant is labelled "pot plant."
They get sidetracked before getting into a discussion about Neuromancer and cyber culture (oh, and the other book you couldn't remember is Count Zero, Gabe), but as someone who loves the Sprawl books, let me say that most popular culture representations of "cyberpunk" have almost nothing to do with William Gibson's work, at least not the Sprawl books. The Matrix movies are often referenced as "movie versions of Gibson's work" but they are not even close really. Other than a VR called the Matrix and some of the character portrayals, they are way off the mark. Most of that 90s "cyber" pop culture stuff has more origins in stuff by Bruce Sterling and Neil Stephenson than Gibson, whose work was more a meditation on neo-noir set in a futuristic society. The film version of Johnny Mnemonic is a perfect example of putting a pop culture interpretation of Gibson's work *on top of* his actual work. Probably the closest a film has ever gotten to being an accurate trip into William Gibson's work was Strange Days.
What about the film version of New Rose Hotel?
New Rose Hotel was awful. Yeah, they tried to stay true to the nature of the short story, but the movie was just terrible. Awful writing, awful dialog, awful pacing, and the acting was just pathetic. As usual for Abel Ferrara, he decided to just let Christopher Walken act like Walken instead of an actual character in a movie and the end result is terrible. Not surprised virtually no one has ever heard of that movie.
I'm sorry, but is Bullet With Butterfly Wings the only song Yahtzee knows?
Like, I'm not complaining, but...
I looked up Ivan And Mr. Hoppy.
I am not disappointed.
That dog has the best animation loop
Yay! I'm one of the three people.
i dont even watch the video, i just love listening to ben and gabe talk xD
I didn't remember that it was a TBFP video when they first started talking about it, I thought it was Yahtzee and Gabe that had already talked about it earlier in the video. Little moment of confusion there.
Most of the serious parts of Operation MindFuck where in the 1960's. Illuminatus! and the common editions of Principia Discordia where published in the mid-to-late 70's. OM started with the original five Discordians around 1962.
I got one for you. One day in geography class!
Teacher: ...And that's why continental drift is the main theory of how Pangaea split apart.
Idiot: How do you know that!
Teacher: Well you se...
Idiot: How do you know the dinosaurs didn't strap big chains to the land and pull it apart
I'm not making this up. This actually happened.
Is that music shop a PJ Harvey spoof on the board at #6?
I genuinely didn't watch most of this, I just listened to it because their voices are so soothing. Which is weird when what they're saying is usually highly disturbing
i was actually having a good laugh during the 'LOL out loud' bit :D
It's like how some people talk about being vigilantes, except actually plausible. No costumes, no ostentatious plans, no over-the-top gadgets. Just you, your fists, and a criminal's face. Kicking them is optional, most people have long since forgotten about how useful kicking can be when done properly, after all our legs are much stronger than our arms normally.
DS9 had lots of sex. There was a whole episode where the B Plot was to scan Kiera for someone to make a sex program.
The term trolling comes from the fishing term of the same name, where you drag your bait through the water to get the fish to come to your boat. Same concept, really.
the sob sob part had me in stitches
that was the most intelligent conversation about bureaucracy i have ever heard, sandwiched gently between several masturbation jokes
Gabe is the only person in the universe that I know that would defend Enterprise which is really cool.
Yahtzee laughing is the scariest thing I've ever heard.
The guy who corrected Obama's grammar goes to my school. He was on our school's advisory TV channel.
I wonder if they'll do a game like SCI's Kingdom O Magic or Adeline's Little Big Adventure one of these days.
The only part of the 'Enterprise' defence that I can't understand is "deep canon"...
Now I want to be a freelance shoplifter-stopper. Trachea punch!