I just remembered a "bug" involving Oblivion's much-touted Radiant AI that cropped up during playtesting: In Bruma, there's a quest that involves speaking to one of the prisoners in the dungeon, but mysteriously all the testers going through would always find his cell unlocked with him dead inside. To find out what was causing the issue, they decided to reload to a point before the guy had died. Turns out, the guards in the castle didn't have a whole lot of food rations. When one of them was supposed to eat and found out that they had run out of food, he did the most logical thing he could to go get more: Went into the dungeon, unlocked the guy's cell, killed him, and stole his bread. The solution to it was really simple, just add more food to the stockpile, but I just love that things like that could happen in it.
I recall an interview where they discussed another test of the Radiant AI. They created two farm workers, A and B. A had a broom and B had a shovel. They programmed B with a task that required a broom. They were hoping that B would talk to A and they'd trade tools. In a perhaps predictable twist, B instead beat A to death and looted the broom from his body.
The best Y/N question that wouldn't let you progress if you said no was in Golden Sun, right at the start you can decline going on the quest to save the world and the game just ends with the world drifting into ruin. Made me laugh so much as a kid.
I've been watching these videos like crazy lately, and I've come to the realization that every name beginning with H, Gabe substitutes Harry in for it. Harry's Whodunit instead of Hugo's which he said in the Manhunter video I believe, Harry Osbourne instead of Harvey (also in the Manhunter video), and then here where he says Hardcore Harry, instead of Hardcore Henry.
That random DING sound in the village outdoors screens is supposed be the sound of the blacksmith hammering, I think. It has been a while since I played the dos version on win95, but I seem to recall some unhelpful faq saying that after escaping the prison you were supposed to go to the blacksmith by following the hammering noises.
That excellent moment when finally you get a question answered on a drown out and it's the first time someone pronounces your internet handle correctly without missing/replacing half the syllables. You've done me a great service, gentlemen, even if it never really impacts your lives. -Fwufikins.
that's what happens when you design the whole SFX section of your game with a General MIDI box. Not everyone has the same box on their PC, so sometimes what's meant to be a percussive element, like a dude hitting an anvil with a hammer, will be played by the sound the end user's General MIDI has in that spot. In this case, a... horn sample?
A new full-length playthrough of a classic adventure game is already great to see; I think this type of game is your guys' forte; I find it much more entertaining than anything else you guys put together.
"just goes to show how unnecessary all the aesthetic crap is when your content is good." No, it doesn't. Are you somehow unaware that Yahtzee was internet famous before he started Let's Drown Out? I'm not saying it is or isn't important, but I am saying that you have absolutely no case to say it isn't important by using Yahtzee as a basis. I mean, fuck, part of their content relies on the fact that Yahtzee is famous enough to have questions directed at him on a frequent basis. In fact, while I might agree that their content is good, I would also wager that people with a similar level of content struggle and perhaps fail because they didn't have an already internet famous host. Anyway, here's the only argument you can actually make: just goes to show how unnecessary all the aesthetic crap is when you're already famous.
***** "I'm not saying it is or isn't important, but I am saying that you have absolutely no case to say it isn't using Yahtzee as a basis." I have a problem with your argument. I do not care one way or the other about your claim. I thought I made that clear. And yes, you sure can make whatever argument you want. It's just that the one you did make was fallacious.
It's partly because this isn't anything more than two friends playing some old games and casually uploading them, which has now spun far from it's origins into a dedicated series with an 80,000 strong following
Holy shit I haven't seen this game in 20 years. I bought it with my pocket money when I was 5 or 6 and it was the first point and click I completed on my own.
I wish more RPGs did that whole thing where you don't know the name of an NPC until you start talking to them, because for some reason it just always bugged me how your character just somehow omnisciently knows who everyone is.
HOLY SHIT, ONE OF THESE OLD PRERECORDED ADVENTURE GAMES THAT I ACTUALLY REMEMBER. Or rather, the first 15 minutes of the game. I was a wimp back then. Also I didn't have a walkthrough.
Yay! Point and click! Missed these. Played this one back in the day and got nearly to the end. Another P&C I've been meaning to get back to is Kingdom O' Magic. Bizarre parody of fantasy and sci-fi tropes.
HAHAHAH! I had an offensive death metal band. We were called 'I Eat Babies' with such titles as 'Superior Ocean Predator', 'Side-Burnetics', 'Polish to your friends, German to your enemies' and of course our Christmas classic. 'Hoth The Ice Planet. XD
2:33 That was in the deleted scenes, Selena defeats the King's Guard with her incredible...skills. 54:00 WarCraft 3: the Frozen Throne had something like that in one campaign, as it goes on Arthas loses levels and ends piss weak though no inverse boss fight and he isn't a Demigod when he starts but it's the same general idea.
Yahtzee bringing up the enslaving people and still talking as though they weren't reminds me of recently finishing The Pitt where I freed the slaves and their dialog with each other is still the same as when they where still enslaved, it even happened in the middle of the rebellion where one asked if the other was in and them arguing about it right after gleefully slaughtering the raiders
In terms of the video game where you lose your powers a you go along, you could start finding/building items to make up for your shortcomings. Like if you lose your fireball ability, you could find a pistol or a crossbow. Better still, there would be things littered around the game that you could learn to use in different ways that mimic your powers.
I used to have this game, for the Amiga i think. I remember being amazed at the graphics and getting stuck and never getting past the wine cellar section at the end. Beaneath a Steel sky was one of my favourite games for a while. I had the non-talky version.
On the reverse RPG thing, I'd say that the final exam is how the player deals with loosing abilities and game mechanics until it becomes a game of raw player skill. Maybe have roll or block as default, I mean we don't need to do the entirety of Evoland backwards, but I think it's pretty easily do'able.
Also check out the Blackwell series, also by the same guys, and the Samorost series and Machinarium. The latter might not be to your taste, but they're quality games.
Futhermore, they're still making Broken Sword games (and the previous installments still hold up thanks to the art style and overall production quality). There's also Deponia and The Whispered World. I'd even go so far as to recommend the Sherlock Holmes games as they very much evoke the feeling of those kinds of games.
Yahtzee talking about how there's no point to having characters move when you're not there, just makes me think of 7 Days a Skeptic, where the Welding Mask guy appears coming out of the room you just left. Oh yeah, that's a competent illusion.
As far as a reverse rpg goes. Mayhap you are a hero in your waning years of your life? So all your abilities slowly drain over the course of the game. This kind of game would also really work with a time limit.
Sid Meier's Pirates! has this. Your stats decline as you age to the point that if you take too long to fight the last baddie pirate, he's practically invincible.
They kind of did in Warcraft 3 the frozen throne where Arthas' powers wane due to the lich king being under attack though I guess he does rapidly level up again in the final mission
6:55 "Symbology"? Well, now that Duffy's relinquished his King Bonehead crown, I see we have a new heir to the throne. The word I believe you're looking for is "symbolism".
Boyd Jefferson Shit... I love that movie too... how did I not catch that? THE CROWN IS MINE. My first decree is to pretend this exchange never happened.
Virgin's whitebox release of Descent 3 + Descent 3: Mercenary. The first purchase I did with my first money from my first job. Coincidentally, the best purchase I did since then.
I'm glad they've decided to revisit an old game. Hopefully they get around to Beneath a Steel Sky sooner rather than later. And I assume the lousy game audio is due to choosing a bad sound card in DOSBOX? Usually there's an option to change that.
Thank you for that. Now I don't have to go on without my weekly dose of Gabe. That sounds dirty. I did not want that to sound dirty. Why did that happen? Also, he sounds different on not-yahtzee's mic. Or it might just be him sounding less bored.
T Duke Perry Not a problem. Being able to hear him just go on his weird tangents is rather fun too. They put stuff out fairly regularly, so you can keep supplied. X3
the demi God rpg thing could work if you had a team and you had train them to counter act your loss of power. like say if you were a deity and had a religion or cult before losing power you could gather some followers to make powerful with your remaining power to keep the idea of still having power
In my view, an immersive video game world is one that gives the impression that it could go on without a game having to take place in it. The Bethesda games do this very well, and one of the things they do is having NPCs have their own lives outside of the player's experience. It makes the world feel more real as opposed to having just been constructed for the sake of a game.
Hi Yahtzee, not sure if you read questions on here, but was just wondering if you'd played "The Last Door" and its sequel, and if so, what you thought of them? I know you like horror games and have a long standing interest in adventure games, so thought it would be up your street. They're among the most atmospheric and creepy games I've played in ages, and have a Lovecraftian/Poe style theme that they do really well.
Agreed on the atmosphere and creepiness. It's pretty ironic that a game that is so stripped in graphical quality makes me that creeped out. Then again, it leaves so much room for the imagination that you fill all the blanks with your worst nightmares, so I shouldn't be that surprised. Also, the writing is pretty damn good, balancing masterfully the amount of information that is given to the player. Not too little to make him confused or annoyed, not too much to make them feel secure about what's waiting around the corner. Yahtzee would probably love it, seeing how The Last Door reminded me alot of his horror games and has maybe even gotten some amount of influence from them. I'd love to see his take on the series, even though it might lose some of it's atmosphere as a let's play.
Boss fight should be a final exam of all the skills you have gained and practiced with up to this point. In 'example game' you continuously lose skills throughout the play. Therefore, final boss is a test on your ability to perform with less game skills and instead your actually playing skills. Wordings a bit shit but just trying to show that that isn't actually a flaw of the concept and still works :Dx
Yahtzee, if you're ever looking for an old puzzle game to run on Dosbox, may I point you in the direction of 3 in three. An extremely solid puzzle game from 1989. Not to mention rather devious in some of the puzzles. :P
Tried playing Beneath a Steel Sky. Got out of the first building, can't figure out what to do next. I became very familiar with several early rooms of the game.
I feel like what Yahtzee isdescribing would be like some cocky god getting stripped of his power, gradually getting closer to being thrown out of the pantheon. First/Final Boss would be a trickster god who has overplayed your failures in order to make it easier to usurp the power of the pantheon's 'allfather'.
No doubt that Yahtzee is a RLM fan, those hack frauds were talking about John Carpenter this week and they mentioned that "wallpaper" thing about his music.
RLM = Reichsluftfahrtministerium was the name of the ministry of aviation for nazi Germany and they were in charge of the development and production of aircraft for civil and military purposes during that time, but was abolished after German defeat in 1945.
He's referenced them directly and indirectly many times. He cribbed a joke from Half in the Bag episodes on the Resident Evil movies for his RE6 review. The "everything-proof shield" one. In one ZP video he also makes a joke about the Padme/Anakin romance which was inspired by the Plinkett reviews. It could have been a coincidence but with the way it was phrased, most likely not.
I always enjoy these videos, but I definitely feel a special affection for the old adventure game episodes (partly because I can't stand the actual games).
What if, for the backwards rpg, the final boss was the twist villain cliche where someone that was helping you through the journey turns out to be evil, then it turns out that enemies were only getting harder because said mentor was siphoning your power the entire time.
Dear Yahtzee, How about releasing your games back catalog to raise some money for a charity? (the games you stated that you couldn't sell due to "borrowing" to much from other games). Although I don't know for certain, i'm sure no-one would be able to say much about that. 1. You do a good thing & gain notoriety. 2. A charity of your choice benefits. 3. Your fans get to play your old games. Just an idea...probably not a unique one but I thought I'd post it.
I just remembered a "bug" involving Oblivion's much-touted Radiant AI that cropped up during playtesting: In Bruma, there's a quest that involves speaking to one of the prisoners in the dungeon, but mysteriously all the testers going through would always find his cell unlocked with him dead inside. To find out what was causing the issue, they decided to reload to a point before the guy had died. Turns out, the guards in the castle didn't have a whole lot of food rations. When one of them was supposed to eat and found out that they had run out of food, he did the most logical thing he could to go get more: Went into the dungeon, unlocked the guy's cell, killed him, and stole his bread. The solution to it was really simple, just add more food to the stockpile, but I just love that things like that could happen in it.
I recall an interview where they discussed another test of the Radiant AI. They created two farm workers, A and B. A had a broom and B had a shovel. They programmed B with a task that required a broom. They were hoping that B would talk to A and they'd trade tools. In a perhaps predictable twist, B instead beat A to death and looted the broom from his body.
@@Sayrden Really paints such a bright future for AI being given free rein of anything more complex than a calculator...
@@frederickcolon3443 tbf, that speaks about bethesdas way of coding more than anything else.
In b4 the AI kills us all for making fun of master.
RETRO ADVENTURE GAMING! This is what I missed so much. I was just thinking about how I missed their old recorded adventure game talkovers.
Yes! It was just like old times.
Instablaster.
The best Y/N question that wouldn't let you progress if you said no was in Golden Sun, right at the start you can decline going on the quest to save the world and the game just ends with the world drifting into ruin. Made me laugh so much as a kid.
Thousand yard stare Pikachu Rayman 2 had a bad ending that was similar where you could retire, rich with gold on a desert island
Future viewers, skip to 34:12 immediately
I've been watching these videos like crazy lately, and I've come to the realization that every name beginning with H, Gabe substitutes Harry in for it. Harry's Whodunit instead of Hugo's which he said in the Manhunter video I believe, Harry Osbourne instead of Harvey (also in the Manhunter video), and then here where he says Hardcore Harry, instead of Hardcore Henry.
This is the kind of painstaking research that deserves a Nobel prize. You are truly doing a service to humanity.
+Borth Sampson Harry
I believe he called Hugo's Whodunit, Halloween Harry, not Harry's Whodunit. Which means his brain is even more screwed. But it is mildly funny.
Maybe he's a fan of Harry by CC cowboys
thats a look into the simple mind of gabriel morton
Ah, I see the soundtrack has a machine that goes BING!
Very good! Sure to impress the administrator!
That random DING sound in the village outdoors screens is supposed be the sound of the blacksmith hammering, I think.
It has been a while since I played the dos version on win95, but I seem to recall some unhelpful faq saying that after escaping the prison you were supposed to go to the blacksmith by following the hammering noises.
She's an evil enchantress,
And she does evil dances,
And if you look in her eyes,
She'll put you in trances
That excellent moment when finally you get a question answered on a drown out and it's the first time someone pronounces your internet handle correctly without missing/replacing half the syllables. You've done me a great service, gentlemen, even if it never really impacts your lives. -Fwufikins.
one of my favorite things to do on a Sunday morning, listen to a Brit and an Aussie talk about nonsense while playing a game.
that's what happens when you design the whole SFX section of your game with a General MIDI box. Not everyone has the same box on their PC, so sometimes what's meant to be a percussive element, like a dude hitting an anvil with a hammer, will be played by the sound the end user's General MIDI has in that spot. In this case, a... horn sample?
anyone else think its quaint that in some LDO videos you can hear yahtzee saying "Go" at the start cause he missed cutting them out?
There’s so little Temptress, they should call it “In Lieu of the Temptress”
| This guy gets it.
Yahtzee and Gabe are my favorite homosexuals on the internet
because even a dead horse is fun to beat once in a while
Or a sexual post mortem reflex... kinda looks like glue... but it's definitely not glue...
Enjoy it while you can.
It won't last for much longer :(
Why?
+紅 レッドヴァミリオン秋葉 Yahtzee is moving to America at some point and Gabe is heading out to go teaching as well. So they'll be breaking up eventually sadly.
Keiran Salisbury Ooooh, i hope they still will be doing it through Skype or something, tho
Always a pleasure to see you go back to weird retro adventure games.
A new full-length playthrough of a classic adventure game is already great to see; I think this type of game is your guys' forte; I find it much more entertaining than anything else you guys put together.
200,000 subscribers and still no profile picture.
***** Still, It's nice to have one. Standard one looks shit. If the option's there. Why not change it?
Yahtzee is very lazy. VERY.
"just goes to show how unnecessary all the aesthetic crap is when your content is good."
No, it doesn't. Are you somehow unaware that Yahtzee was internet famous before he started Let's Drown Out?
I'm not saying it is or isn't important, but I am saying that you have absolutely no case to say it isn't important by using Yahtzee as a basis.
I mean, fuck, part of their content relies on the fact that Yahtzee is famous enough to have questions directed at him on a frequent basis.
In fact, while I might agree that their content is good, I would also wager that people with a similar level of content struggle and perhaps fail because they didn't have an already internet famous host.
Anyway, here's the only argument you can actually make:
just goes to show how unnecessary all the aesthetic crap is when you're already famous.
*****
"I'm not saying it is or isn't important, but I am saying that you have absolutely no case to say it isn't using Yahtzee as a basis."
I have a problem with your argument. I do not care one way or the other about your claim. I thought I made that clear.
And yes, you sure can make whatever argument you want. It's just that the one you did make was fallacious.
It's partly because this isn't anything more than two friends playing some old games and casually uploading them, which has now spun far from it's origins into a dedicated series with an 80,000 strong following
Jumpscare orgasm would be a good shock name for a band.
If I had even the slightest bit of musical talent or ambition, I'd definitely steal that.
21:00 Kingdom come deliverance! So many times when I complete a quest at night nobody will talk to you until morning
just let me sleep
Holy shit I haven't seen this game in 20 years. I bought it with my pocket money when I was 5 or 6 and it was the first point and click I completed on my own.
Majora's mask did the independent NPC routine well. Probably the only game to actually do it right.
Another good name for this game would be Curse of Enchantia.
I wish more RPGs did that whole thing where you don't know the name of an NPC until you start talking to them, because for some reason it just always bugged me how your character just somehow omnisciently knows who everyone is.
Holy shit. I played this game as a kid...
It's nice to finally have seen the end to it, I never got to the castle.
I missed these. I'm really excited for "beneath a steal sky".
I just noticed that the gargoyle statues have no crotch or hips. Just a pair of legs attached to some abs.
Voices in Beneath a Steel Sky were not bad, it featured Jason Isaacs, one of his earlier roles.
Hello to Jason Isaacs
+Dan Mahoney and Stephen Fry, and Fairport Convention.
HOLY SHIT, ONE OF THESE OLD PRERECORDED ADVENTURE GAMES THAT I ACTUALLY REMEMBER. Or rather, the first 15 minutes of the game. I was a wimp back then. Also I didn't have a walkthrough.
Rape Culture Club - Death metal version of Karma Chameleon
I think that this is an really obscure reference to someone, and I think that I get it.
I’m glad someone did, else I might have sounded like a weirdo.
Wierdo... why not a weird p, q, r, or s, or somethin'...
+LightningNC historical reasons
Yay! Point and click! Missed these. Played this one back in the day and got nearly to the end.
Another P&C I've been meaning to get back to is Kingdom O' Magic. Bizarre parody of fantasy and sci-fi tropes.
HAHAHAH! I had an offensive death metal band. We were called 'I Eat Babies' with such titles as 'Superior Ocean Predator', 'Side-Burnetics', 'Polish to your friends, German to your enemies' and of course our Christmas classic. 'Hoth The Ice Planet. XD
The Combat reminds me of being stuck in traffic....
I liked your commentary, the two of you. It was funny and informative. A great way to enjoy an ancient adventure game like this.
Colorado mentioned in drownout. That's all I was waiting for I can die happy now
2:33 That was in the deleted scenes, Selena defeats the King's Guard with her incredible...skills.
54:00 WarCraft 3: the Frozen Throne had something like that in one campaign, as it goes on Arthas loses levels and ends piss weak though no inverse boss fight and he isn't a Demigod when he starts but it's the same general idea.
I love your adventure game playthoughs. Those are definitely my favorite videos from you guys.
i love starting my days off watching these after work, thanks guys:)
Strange, I just got a notification for this being uploaded.... 7 years late.
Better late than never
Do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't.
What's the matter? Can't stand the sight of a strong nord *woman*?
OLFRID! Patron of the great clan Battleborn. A name I'm sure you know well.
Pssst, I know who you are, Hail Sithis.
Got to thinking, maybe *I'm* the Dragonborn, and I just don't know it yet.
Don't suppose you could enchant my sword? Dull old blade can barely cut butter.
Yahtzee bringing up the enslaving people and still talking as though they weren't reminds me of recently finishing The Pitt where I freed the slaves and their dialog with each other is still the same as when they where still enslaved, it even happened in the middle of the rebellion where one asked if the other was in and them arguing about it right after gleefully slaughtering the raiders
Huzzar we're back to the old shit.
Huzzah* sorry I'm a picky git
+Mark Burgess Maybe he's British, so making this phonetically accurate
In terms of the video game where you lose your powers a you go along, you could start finding/building items to make up for your shortcomings. Like if you lose your fireball ability, you could find a pistol or a crossbow. Better still, there would be things littered around the game that you could learn to use in different ways that mimic your powers.
I used to have this game, for the Amiga i think. I remember being amazed at the graphics and getting stuck and never getting past the wine cellar section at the end. Beaneath a Steel sky was one of my favourite games for a while. I had the non-talky version.
In terms of the reverse RPG, your character can be losing power which forces you to develop skills to counteract it.
I love how the combat ended up as Yahtzee repeatedly stabbing the pigmen in the dick.
On the reverse RPG thing, I'd say that the final exam is how the player deals with loosing abilities and game mechanics until it becomes a game of raw player skill. Maybe have roll or block as default, I mean we don't need to do the entirety of Evoland backwards, but I think it's pretty easily do'able.
I heard Yhartzee say "go" at the very start.
23:00 I almost spit my ice cream for "bum illuminati."
I miss games like this, I would like to see classic 2d adventure games make a return
there's a few high quality newer titles you should check out. Most prominently Primordia and Geminie Rue amongst others
AFGNCAAP the great I'll look into them, thanks
Also check out the Blackwell series, also by the same guys, and the Samorost series and Machinarium. The latter might not be to your taste, but they're quality games.
Futhermore, they're still making Broken Sword games (and the previous installments still hold up thanks to the art style and overall production quality). There's also Deponia and The Whispered World. I'd even go so far as to recommend the Sherlock Holmes games as they very much evoke the feeling of those kinds of games.
Check out Gibbous: a Cthulhu adventure
Yay a new video. This podcast series feels more like a talk show with Yahtzee and Gabriel.
This excellent video came out on my birthday.
Thank god they are playing anything other then RE4
this is what I subscribe for. good, old retro adventure games
Yahtzee talking about how there's no point to having characters move when you're not there, just makes me think of 7 Days a Skeptic, where the Welding Mask guy appears coming out of the room you just left. Oh yeah, that's a competent illusion.
1:28 i wish i had friends like yahtzee... his pet peeves always align with my own :(
Those sound effects in that combat at 54:44. Sounds like he should be asking "Ladies, do I have 5 numbers right?".
As far as a reverse rpg goes. Mayhap you are a hero in your waning years of your life? So all your abilities slowly drain over the course of the game. This kind of game would also really work with a time limit.
Sid Meier's Pirates! has this. Your stats decline as you age to the point that if you take too long to fight the last baddie pirate, he's practically invincible.
flyingspagetti
Cool, I was kind of just adapting Gun Game mode from FPS to a rpg setting.
They kind of did in Warcraft 3 the frozen throne where Arthas' powers wane due to the lich king being under attack though I guess he does rapidly level up again in the final mission
In Darklands old age saps skill
Haven't played this in a million years but my brain immediately answered "Selena rallied an inhuman `horde'". Wonder if I'm right...
I've been looking for many years for a game very similar to this one. Point and click of around this time, medieval fantasy...any names suggestions?
Quest for glory, mage's initiation , for fantasy minus medieval i'd say discworld, and zork grand inquisitor
6:55
"Symbology"? Well, now that Duffy's relinquished his King Bonehead crown, I see we have a new heir to the throne. The word I believe you're looking for is "symbolism".
It's a real word. The crown is all yours, Boyd.
It`s a quote from "Boondock Saints". I`m not insulting them, I`m referencing the movie.
Boyd Jefferson
Shit... I love that movie too... how did I not catch that? THE CROWN IS MINE.
My first decree is to pretend this exchange never happened.
haha, don`t worry about it. This has inspired me to watch it again, tonight.
Boyd Jefferson
Me too. :D
'the bum illuminati' sounds like a wonderful family film :)
Around 53m, the door-opening noise makes me think it's about to break out into "Hanging Around" by the Stranglers
Virgin did publish a lot of good games back in the day! One of my faves was Robocop vs Terminator on the Master System!
hell yeah I had Robocop VS Terminator for the mega drive and it was amazing, i still remember the cheat codes today haha
They had their "whitebox" re-releases, that's how I got The 7th Guest for example.
Virgin's whitebox release of Descent 3 + Descent 3: Mercenary. The first purchase I did with my first money from my first job. Coincidentally, the best purchase I did since then.
+Jim R. Didriksen ah memories, I got X Wing on the white label, on 6 odd floppies.
I'm glad they've decided to revisit an old game. Hopefully they get around to Beneath a Steel Sky sooner rather than later. And I assume the lousy game audio is due to choosing a bad sound card in DOSBOX? Usually there's an option to change that.
who are these other people gabe makes videos with that yahtzee cant seem to mention without sounding all jelous of?
Look up "KeepEtClassy". I personally enjoy watching and listening to Gabe. The channel is a lot smaller than this one.
Auron Fox thanks man i've been trying to find that since yahtzee first mentioned it.
Not a problem. Also, the beautiful thing is they use Gabe's face as an outro in some videos and he just stares into your soul.
Thank you for that. Now I don't have to go on without my weekly dose of Gabe.
That sounds dirty. I did not want that to sound dirty. Why did that happen?
Also, he sounds different on not-yahtzee's mic. Or it might just be him sounding less bored.
T Duke Perry
Not a problem. Being able to hear him just go on his weird tangents is rather fun too. They put stuff out fairly regularly, so you can keep supplied. X3
genial el video, gracias por subirlo, te quedo de lo mejor
sigue asi :3
I am Lrrr of the planet Temptress.
It's hard to believe Yahtzee played WoW for any length of time on Horde if he thinks the orcs had cockney accents.
Dermot isn't an English name, it's the anglicised version of the Irish name Diarmaid.
the demi God rpg thing could work if you had a team and you had train them to counter act your loss of power. like say if you were a deity and had a religion or cult before losing power you could gather some followers to make powerful with your remaining power to keep the idea of still having power
In my view, an immersive video game world is one that gives the impression that it could go on without a game having to take place in it. The Bethesda games do this very well, and one of the things they do is having NPCs have their own lives outside of the player's experience. It makes the world feel more real as opposed to having just been constructed for the sake of a game.
In the Mouth of Madness was the first movie I ever watched as a kid that really scared the shit out of me.
Hi Yahtzee, not sure if you read questions on here, but was just wondering if you'd played "The Last Door" and its sequel, and if so, what you thought of them? I know you like horror games and have a long standing interest in adventure games, so thought it would be up your street. They're among the most atmospheric and creepy games I've played in ages, and have a Lovecraftian/Poe style theme that they do really well.
Agreed on the atmosphere and creepiness. It's pretty ironic that a game that is so stripped in graphical quality makes me that creeped out. Then again, it leaves so much room for the imagination that you fill all the blanks with your worst nightmares, so I shouldn't be that surprised.
Also, the writing is pretty damn good, balancing masterfully the amount of information that is given to the player. Not too little to make him confused or annoyed, not too much to make them feel secure about what's waiting around the corner.
Yahtzee would probably love it, seeing how The Last Door reminded me alot of his horror games and has maybe even gotten some amount of influence from them. I'd love to see his take on the series, even though it might lose some of it's atmosphere as a let's play.
if you want to ask yahtzee a question then your best bet would be to go to the /letsdrownout subreddit
Let's PLAY, huh? That's new...
New? Are you being ironic or just ignorant of the content of this channel?
It's new because the videos usually say "Let's Drown Out." Are you being ironic or just ignorant of the content of this channel?
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Did you ever look up what videos where posted BEFORE the "Let's Drown Out" started?
Oh, you mean the stuff he doesn't really do anymore? Sure.
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Sooo... you just want to argue for the sake of an argument or what?
Awesome, I love steel sky. I can't wait to see you guys play it :)
Yahtzee, do you have family blood line to the Blackadder lineage?
I really liked the visuals in this game and you could solve a couple of puzzles but didn't get really far. I played this on the Amiga 500.
Also "wer-" is an indo-germanic root word for "man", not specifically old English (the Latin loan word "virile" comes from the same root).
Boss fight should be a final exam of all the skills you have gained and practiced with up to this point.
In 'example game' you continuously lose skills throughout the play.
Therefore, final boss is a test on your ability to perform with less game skills and instead your actually playing skills.
Wordings a bit shit but just trying to show that that isn't actually a flaw of the concept and still works :Dx
Steel Sky sounds interesting. Good questions this time around too.
Is the axe made out of car horns? Or did the sound guy fall asleep on his keyboard?
Yahtzee, if you're ever looking for an old puzzle game to run on Dosbox, may I point you in the direction of 3 in three. An extremely solid puzzle game from 1989. Not to mention rather devious in some of the puzzles. :P
Add inhuman sandwich to the list of band names from yahtzee's stuff
Nice start to the film - Yatzee going "guh".
It's to improve immersion and to make the world feel more real. Games like Fallout and Skyrim have immersion as one of their main appealing factors.
That idea of a reverse RPG sounds really interesting.
Damn, I forgot how much the intro theme sounds like a movement from the Conan the Barbarian sountrack
Tried playing Beneath a Steel Sky. Got out of the first building, can't figure out what to do next. I became very familiar with several early rooms of the game.
I feel like what Yahtzee isdescribing would be like some cocky god getting stripped of his power, gradually getting closer to being thrown out of the pantheon. First/Final Boss would be a trickster god who has overplayed your failures in order to make it easier to usurp the power of the pantheon's 'allfather'.
Moral of the story? Stay humble, and know you can beat someone's ass even without gadgets.
No doubt that Yahtzee is a RLM fan, those hack frauds were talking about John Carpenter this week and they mentioned that "wallpaper" thing about his music.
Without a doubt, it's not the first time Yahtzee mentioned something from a fresh RLM video in his LDO.
RLM = Reichsluftfahrtministerium was the name of the ministry of aviation for nazi Germany and they were in charge of the development and production of aircraft for civil and military purposes during that time, but was abolished after German defeat in 1945.
Red Letter Media. IIRC Yahtzee actually hung out with them during an expo he went to working for The Escapist, back when the Escapist wasn't tripe.
He's referenced them directly and indirectly many times. He cribbed a joke from Half in the Bag episodes on the Resident Evil movies for his RE6 review. The "everything-proof shield" one.
In one ZP video he also makes a joke about the Padme/Anakin romance which was inspired by the Plinkett reviews. It could have been a coincidence but with the way it was phrased, most likely not.
Real Lives Matter?
Queensland was out of my mouth for the worst place in Australia before Gabe even finished reading the question.
57:20 How about "Traumatic reverse Childbirth"? Now THAT'S a Band name! :D
That’s not an abrasive noise, THIS is an abrasive noise! UGHHHHGHHHHHHHHH
So unnecessary but so funny
I always enjoy these videos, but I definitely feel a special affection for the old adventure game episodes (partly because I can't stand the actual games).
What if, for the backwards rpg, the final boss was the twist villain cliche where someone that was helping you through the journey turns out to be evil, then it turns out that enemies were only getting harder because said mentor was siphoning your power the entire time.
Dear Yahtzee,
How about releasing your games back catalog to raise some money for a charity? (the games you stated that you couldn't sell due to "borrowing" to much from other games). Although I don't know for certain, i'm sure no-one would be able to say much about that.
1. You do a good thing & gain notoriety.
2. A charity of your choice benefits.
3. Your fans get to play your old games.
Just an idea...probably not a unique one but I thought I'd post it.
FUCKING AMAZING; WE GET 90's GAMES AGAIN!
1:25 modern problems. On CRT monitors and tv's this was beautiful. Also, Amiga music.
I'm curious Yahtzee what are the podcasts you listen to while playing mindless games
They should have played the Amiga version. The sounds are so much better!