my favourite detail about RE7 is the fact that in Japan the name of the series is Biohazard, so the name of this game over there is "Biohazard VII: Resident Evil" just a nice little touch of bringing everything full circle
@@sdbzfan1 both work perfectly well, biohazard makes sense considering Eveline and how everyone was infected. Resident Evil makes sense with the literal evil residents
Early September 2019: Now Yahtzee should know why they need all those flame grenades on the farm: Rural Americans are fighting a constant defensive war against hordes of feral wild hogs threatening their chidren
Playing RE:7 and thinking “wow, Ethan sure does get the absolute piss beaten/stabbed out of him a lot, how does he keep bouncing back? After the RE:8 twist: well I mean yeah but you think he’d have at least considered that being a possibility in the last 3 years.
I never got how that was supposed to be a twist. Ethan was constantly healing severed limbs and he didn't think that it may have something to do with the magic mold which everyone else around him was infected with and helped them also recover from fatal injuries.
@@terminalyuppie611 also means that umbrella, who were sent to prevent the spread of the mold, never bothered to check the survivors on the estate for mold before sending them to a completely different area
Well in RE7 he doesn't really get hurt a lot. but in RE8, they go out of their way to beat the shit out of him just for the twist to have some weight. Even tho they make it so obvious.
@@DigitalHeliumJumper dude he gets a hand cut off, stabbed in the cheek, nearly exploded with dynamite, chased by killer insects, falls through the floor with Mega-Jack, cocooned by mold, and that’s just off the top of my head. Ethan goes through some shit in that house.
As somebody who's lived in the Midwest through 23 winters now I can confirm that that's all we do in the winter. These property taxes are killing me but what else can I do in the winter months?
Merritt Animation That’s what we do the rest of the year, the house building in winter is essential to expand the number of floor boards for hiding bodies under.
So pretty much RE7 is like the brand new porta potty in an old row, that's fresh and actually comfortable, that's just waiting to be shit in by Capcom? ok alrighty then.
To anyone saying this game "Isn't a Resident Evil game" The greater Resident Evil franchise consists of everything from Dino Crisis, to Devil May Cry, to various in-series spinoffs. Such as Resident Evil: Survivor, an FPS. Survivor 2: Code Veronica, a short but good FPS. Dead Aim, an FPS/Third person hybrid which sucks. Gaiden, a top-down 2D game on the GBC. 0, a single-player co-op version of the previous games. Two whole rail-shooters (The Chronicles games, Umbrella and Darkside), a pair of online co-op pseudo-classic games. Umbrella Chronicles, a third-person shooter. Umbrella Corps, a first/third-person tactical shooter. The series went from fixed-camera to third-person, fixed-aiming to letting you move around like a real third-person shooter. Resident Evil has been many things. The series has no identity.
Ironically, RE1 was suppose to be a FPS game, but Mikami had to resort to FCA because of the hardware limitations at the time. RE7 is a Resident Evil game at it's core and that's further reinforced when you the play the game on Madhouse.
@@TheCyclicGamer It was very close to Remake in terms of what they were trying to achieve. So really, it is just Re but with a first person camera.....
except the grenade launcher and flamethrower were made from spare parts by lucas baker (who even though was crazy was a bit of a prodigy when it came to tinkering and computer programing)
i think having a gun throughout the game can create tension and fear atleast in the beginning because you think you have the option to defend yourself and then it is yanked away from as you flood with hopelessness
Nice to hear someone besides me calling out horror game designers for that lazy "invincible monster chases you around and there's nothing you can do about it because we can't think of another way to make a game scary" subgenre.
Dr Strangelove No i'm asking the guy who marks everything he doesn't like in a game as lazy. Like really what does he want them to change? Does he want the ability to just outright kill them any time? Does he just want them gone all together? I get why people say gamers are impossible to please now.
Having guns that can't actually kill the enemies is actually an interesting idea and would make thematic sense in a lot of the horror games that have you fighting monsters that could easily shrug off a bullet or two. Instead of using a gun as a weapon, you could use it as a tool to break structures at a distance or as a lure to make monsters go where you want them to. It might take a bit of effort to make it work, but a scene where the protagonist realizes that his gun will do nothing against the big monster and needs to find a more creative way to use it would make for a pretty cool scene.
@@Draconilian Oh, so the new Amnesia game works like that? I haven't really watched anyone play it so I wouldn't know. Maybe I'll go track down a playthrough of it. I know a few people I watch played it awhile back.
I mean, if I can re-watch my favorite horror movies until there are holes in the DVDs, I can certainly re-play RE7. It's not all about knowing the plot beats and when the scares happen. Sometimes you just want to appreciate the craftsmanship of a good ol' scary story, well told and dripping with atmosphere. No, Alien no longer scares me, but damn if I don't get a grin on my face every time those opening credits roll.
I hate it because it's quite annoying to gun down the same cunt 80 times, not bothered by the first person at all. I loved RE5, which Yahtzee shits on, and might give RE6 a shot as well. 7 just seems like something I really wouldn't enjoy, mainly because those monstrosities are missing, I've become accustomed to.
Every time the writers from RE4 hear you talk about how the went "intentionally camp" for the story... They nervously laugh, make an excuse to leave, and cry into the steering wheel on the way home. On a serious note, you always seem to assume it was intentional. I wonder if your opinion on the game would change at all if a writer from the game told you that was their best attempt at a serious complex drama narrative.
Gordon Petten I think the assumption comes from Leon cracking jokes and one liners like an action hero as opposed to RE5 or RE6’s dramatic music scenes and attempts at the characters being upset and dramatic.
@@cartoonnetworkdisneyxdsupe6864 That is so true. We could tell Re 4 was taking the piss, especially given the fact that remake had a pretty good story and so much subtlety to the game design.
Gordon Petten it'd probably change your view of the author, but i think you could still find ironic enjoyment in the work itself. at least, i could. others are more finicky with that "ruined my childhood" mentality haha
I am legitimately surprised no one has made this joke yet: “Ummm *ackshually* Jack Baker is wielding a Thatcher, they’re not even remotely the same thing.” Oh lord I felt unclean channeling that energy.
Well the people I watched screwed it up like 8 times because the one controlling was really taking his sweet time to shoot the boss and the comment section was all "wow didn't even know you could die there"
well the old man he kicked his ass ,and went back for some more and died .the final try for last old man part he one shot him . he used steriods and the old lady stomp his ass out . the final form of the old lady i think it was two trys . so there are only three bosses in this resident evil game . not counting the other verison of the old man and old lady and mia. .-.
100 % accurate review of the game. I am a long time RE fan, and agree that 4 was the best and still replay it today. 7 Was very good, but replayability is not there at all. Well done Yahtzee.
Yahtzee: "They'll probably fuck it up one of two ways: bringing back old characters..." Capcom: *looks up from their Resi Evil 3 remake* "You say something?"
+LemonKing Oddities Hey... How's that vote going for you? How does it feel to know that you elected a Russian puppet? Don't worry, though.. Seats are coming up.. You'll lose those, too.
LemonKing Oddities Let me guess... Republican? :) If the answer is yes, then I can understand how my reference would cause you pain. If the answer is no, then you need a lot more troll training, son :) Pull up a chair.
Scroll up, son. You're outnumbered :) My original statement was simply a timestamp in the video I found to be amusing. You're the one having a tantrum. My five year old does that. Like I said... Pull up a chair. You have a lot to learn
I've payed RE since RE1 came out on PS1. This is the first time in a long time that I actually felt tense playing a RE game. I had to really think about when to fight and when to run. great game!!
All your reviews are usually great but this one is probably your best one in a while. The jokes were really well crafted, i laughed non stop the whole review
The final fight with the father was rendered unchallenging seeing how I conveniently switched out the flamer for the grenade launcher I basically defeated him in seconds because of it
He has lots of games he likes. He's a soulsborne fan, he's a fan of Silent Hill 2, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, etc., he just likes putting games through the wringer because he says 'I try to be as negative as fuck about a game because I want to have game developers have high standards for themselves.'
"Farmer Shovel fuck", Yeah that's about accurate. Still scary as hell though. I really wish that Capcom un-fucks themselves and make another Resident Evil 4. I don't mean remake it, though that would make me cream my pants, I mean take what made Resident evil 4 great and expand on it in a new game.
Yahtzee has the incredible super power to come up with just the most WTF amazing similes and metaphors. "I would have been pleasantly surprised by a dead prawn in a sock"... beautiful.
2:10 THANK YOU, to me being able to fight back but finding out its completely useless to do so by conventional means is more scarier then not being able to fight at all.
The way you described your usage of the trigger bombs at the end is literally how I handled the last half of the game plant bomb wait for them to approach and boom
It wasn't the black enemies really. It was the fact that the swamp levels had literally spearchucking tribals and firebreathing shamans, which would be fine on their own but combined with the "realistic" depiction of a poor African township in the beginning comes off as really racist.
AlsikePike loads of parasites can live on or in 1 host but usually only parasitoid can, parasitoids almost always kill their host while parasites most often dont
Psycho girlfriend, texas chainsaw massacre, Shambling zombies, SAW, monster flick and possessed child. They pretty much have all the classic horror tropes in one game.
So I had this thought of a way to combine the whole outlast gameplay where you run and hide from the monsters along with the resident evil thing here you can actually fight. Make it so combat is discourage. And I don’t mean like make ammo scarce or the enemies are bullet sponges. But in where the player character can barely fight. Where he’s the average Joe who has never fired a gun is his life so when you get the gun your aim is shaky so you can barley aim. You don’t know how to dampen the recoils so depending on what weapon you have your arms are their flung back or you get thrown on your ass. And the reloads times are long since you character barley knows how to reload. So combat is an option but you can barley shoot since the protagonist doesn’t know how to use a gun. You could have some kinda progression where their A:the more you sue the gun the more the character learns and adapts. Or B: you can find instruction booklet on how to reload more effectively and proper stances. You don’t get to a point where it’s becomes and shoot fest but you can at least defend yourself just enough so you don’t get devoured.
I'm surprised he liked it at all. I hated it, there was almost no suspense, the best horror they had was jump scares, and the insane survivability of the main character made the game trivial. Not to mention everything hinged on a plot thread that made no sense (why do I care about my wife who abandoned me? Why would I choose her the murderer over the woman who has been helping me?) and also had no agency for the player. The major choice in the plot is a non choice, the game ends just about the same either way
Heretek To me Zoe withheld. vital info and the other would make that take priority. Though there still was jack shit that made that choice relevant. It was literally the final nail in the coffin for me and the game, which had numerous issues throughout it. I honestly felt like my 60 bucks was wasted. The dlc released a week afterwards is like a shit covered knife being twisted in my back.
Heretek Also yeah: I was expecting more than just atmosphere but they did nothing to capitalize on it. All those jumpscares were crap and predictable, the writing trivial, and even if I played this on Madhouse it wouldn't be better. Enemies just get tankier, faster, one hit kill you, and chase you. When I know everything is there, it gets ruined. Enemies like the Bakers can rarely be used in such small settings effectively.
Heretek 1. Because she went missing. She did not abandon you 2. Because she is your wife and did all those things while under mind control 3. It does not end the same way, though I get what your are saying. Mia either dies and all your effort have been for naught or you save her so you can go home and plow her while the dog stands in the corner and watches you.
Having finally gotten around to playing this game, I agree they mostly do a good job signaling when you're supposed to stop running and fight the family members. The exception was the final time you fight Marguerite: it took me a few minutes of running around to realize there was nowhere to go and I had to fight her.
"Bringing back previous resident evil characters no one cares about" Bruh the best thing about resident evil (in my opinion) was that it stayed with familiar charters that you know and love. Resident Evil for the very beginning has also been cheesy campy horror. It was scary at times but funny at others with the bad acting and dialogue. All together I find the series very charming as long as you don't take it too seriously. I hated that 7 had nothing to do with the original characters.
Sigh... RE Classic Fans: "Meh, RE4 was okay, but was really the beginning of the end. Bring back Code:Veronica or RE Remake!" Literally everyone else: "RE4..." *fap fap fap fap fap*
I've heard a LOT of dissent about the gameplay, and the POINT of the story, as Yahtzee even noted, is that they realized their lines are cheesy and overdone, so they played into it by giving the game an action movie plot. Is it true 5 gives you an assistant who picks up every mine you lay down because she thinks she's helping?
2:08 Oooh, that's rare. A political/cultural joke that is actual true. Cultural diversity does pose a problem. Remember the greatest empire ever, that then suddenly imploded forever? Yes, Rome. An empire that fucked-up it's own currency by taking the "precious" out of the metal. But even though economic collapses are quite bad, that alone doesn't explain how an empire (or rather it's people) just refuse to continue onwards. That is because it wasn't a homogenic group of people with the same values. Due to its financial fuckery, the empire handed out citizenship en masse (because the more citizens there are, the more taxes can be collected) to people who didn't have the same values, morales and political philosophies. Buuut that's history and there is no way it would repeat itself with a modern empire like... the European Union and it's mass immigration which further "culturally enriches" an incredibly diverse folk...
I beg to differ. The strength of Rome came from its variety, and it borrowed many things from the countries it conquered. We can see this attitude since the early stages of its life, when it confronted Etruscan Samnites Latins ect... And about the end, it surely came even faster due to the anti-barbaric movements: there were plenty of tribes ready to help the Empire against the worst pillagers, just to assure themselves security, but people didn't understand how useful they could have been. The story of general Stilicho always gets me. He was the best tactician the Western Roman Empire had at the time and defended his country in many occasions, but he was also half-vandal. The emperor was persuaded to execute him, as well as many barbarian children and women made prisoners. Without his protection Rome was helpless and the Goths guided by Alaric ransacked it in 410.
Then pray tell me, how did the Roman Empire span three continents? It didn't conquer them because of its Italian soldiers, Italian tactics, and Italian generals were the best-although many of them were great. It was a Roman ideal that allowed Rome's influence to remain to this day: diversity. For example, it compensated for its legions' weaknesses (lack of cavalry) by hiring foreign soldiers as auxiliaries or mercenaries-often in reward for citizenship. Rome brought in ideas, laws, and inventions from Egypt, Greece, and Persia (modern-day Iran). As a result, the influence of Roman ideas and inventions are recognizable even today. If you want a group with homogeneous values, you better get ready to do a Stalin and shoot a couple of million people regardless of origin. Even during its republican days, Rome was seriously divided on many issues like plantations, concentration of power, and military strategy. The disagreement was in part due to how certain values like that of respecting human life (i.e. wealthy landowners not caring about plebeians) were not shared. Rome's fall was due to many more reasons than "a horde of immigrants." One such reason is an unwillingness to compromise with people with different opinions. Serious disagreements will always arise in any group, regardless of its members origins, and simply refusing to accept outside members will only cause stagnation and defeat.
beestrider I wouldn't judge an empire's greatness by its size alone (insert dick joke here), there are other things to take into account. if you have the biggest empire ever but it only lasts 20 years, and the other guy's smaller empire lasts a thousand, than its pretty hard to say yours was out right better.
Never really liked re7 I got passed the Garage and I never played it after that To me it wasn't a resident evil game It was a Outlast game with a Resident Evil slapped on the front of it
You call RE7 can outlast game yet the only thing it has in common with outlast is the first person perspective. Plus you have no right to even criticize the game if you haven't even finished it yet.
did you do a second run-through on madhouse? because they do switch things around and the molded are more terrifying when they shuffle at you with unatural speed, I was actually more scared the second time around. though the amount of damage they do is ridiculous.
A half decent story? I have seen fanfiction less boring and contrived as this. My high school creative writing class had better writing done it it. Horror? Yeah, if cheap ass and predictable jumpscares count as horror now a days. The atmosphere was hands down the best part of this but nothing capitalized on it. I am easily the most easy to scare people on the planet and this game got me a total of...1 time maybe? Maybe 2? Was not well done in my opinion so it is subjective like everything else. *dives into hateproof bunker*
Starcraftgamer97 I guess I'm one of the few that considers being chased by a monster (the only jump scare there was blasting through a wall) to be horror
I loved the game, but the most boring part of it is in the third act on the ship. That was a slog. Slowed down the pacing immensely. It was almost as if Capcom had everything planned out beforehand very well and said, "well, how do we end this thing?"
Try playing it on Madhouse mode. The Baker's run and follows you where ever you go, except the save areas. All the areas that give extra ammo give little to no ammo. The creatures are harder to kill and kill you quicker. Plus you can be killed while doing a time stopped puzzle. You also have limited saves like in Residents evil one. You will be blocking a lot more too.
I'd like to think that RE7 is like a synthesis of various horror film subgenres. Mia/Jack Baker: Slasher Film Marguerite: Supernatural Horror Witch Film Lucas: Saw-inspired Psychological Horror VHS Tapes: Found-footage Horror Eveline: Supernatural Horror a la The Ring Jack (2nd encounter)/Eveline (final form)/The Molded: Creature/Monster Horror Richard Pearsey knows his shit.
my favourite detail about RE7 is the fact that in Japan the name of the series is Biohazard, so the name of this game over there is "Biohazard VII: Resident Evil"
just a nice little touch of bringing everything full circle
That is a way better name for the game and more accurate
On steam the official name is "resident evil 7 biohazard / BIOHAZARD resident evil 7"
@@sdbzfan1 both work perfectly well, biohazard makes sense considering Eveline and how everyone was infected. Resident Evil makes sense with the literal evil residents
@@sdbzfan1 supposedly it couldn't be sold in the west as "biohazard" because that name was already copyrighted.
Psychotic super powered republicans? I thought you were going to stop talking about Metal Gear Rising
Mitchell Blake that was psychotic super powered libertarians.
BobExcalibur The most vague of anarchists.
BobExcalibur Which basically leads to some bizarre feudalism lol.
Mitchell Blake nano machines son
There he goes predicting the future again.
I remember when I was an evil resident to my landlord, He hated me
Land lords need to crack down on residential evil
ＶＡＰＯＲ ＷＡＶＥ ＩＳ ＬＩＦＥ Sorry it's not my fault I'm an acholic
Were you the 7th one though?
Flying Swordfish No I was the sixth as in sh*ty and was rushed out
how is it not your fault?
Early September 2019: Now Yahtzee should know why they need all those flame grenades on the farm:
Rural Americans are fighting a constant defensive war against hordes of feral wild hogs threatening their chidren
First the emus now this?
Specifically 30-50 of them
I guess not many people heard about the incident a week after that where those hogs did murder a woman in her driveway
Your not entirely wrong
30-50 feral hogs are the only real reason for an AR-15
/s
Playing RE:7 and thinking “wow, Ethan sure does get the absolute piss beaten/stabbed out of him a lot, how does he keep bouncing back?
After the RE:8 twist: well I mean yeah but you think he’d have at least considered that being a possibility in the last 3 years.
I never got how that was supposed to be a twist. Ethan was constantly healing severed limbs and he didn't think that it may have something to do with the magic mold which everyone else around him was infected with and helped them also recover from fatal injuries.
@@terminalyuppie611 I and I’d assume many others thought that he was just infected, not a full on mold clone.
@@terminalyuppie611 also means that umbrella, who were sent to prevent the spread of the mold, never bothered to check the survivors on the estate for mold before sending them to a completely different area
Well in RE7 he doesn't really get hurt a lot. but in RE8, they go out of their way to beat the shit out of him just for the twist to have some weight. Even tho they make it so obvious.
@@DigitalHeliumJumper dude he gets a hand cut off, stabbed in the cheek, nearly exploded with dynamite, chased by killer insects, falls through the floor with Mega-Jack, cocooned by mold, and that’s just off the top of my head. Ethan goes through some shit in that house.
As somebody who's lived in the Midwest through 23 winters now I can confirm that that's all we do in the winter. These property taxes are killing me but what else can I do in the winter months?
Well there's always murder.
Merritt Animation That’s what we do the rest of the year, the house building in winter is essential to expand the number of floor boards for hiding bodies under.
Hoard guns to prepare for the revolution against property taxes.
Play video games?
Marry another cousin.
So pretty much RE7 is like the brand new porta potty in an old row, that's fresh and actually comfortable, that's just waiting to be shit in by Capcom? ok alrighty then.
More like crapcom, wowowowoohaha
Kek Man that's how I prefer to call them anyway hehe
Dormammu we'll see, I hope Capcom doesn't mess this up
Well that's what happens when you reach a game that you put a 7 on it's title whether or not it is in fact the seventh in the series
The ZombieMan still, it's one badass title.
To anyone saying this game "Isn't a Resident Evil game"
The greater Resident Evil franchise consists of everything from Dino Crisis, to Devil May Cry, to various in-series spinoffs. Such as Resident Evil: Survivor, an FPS. Survivor 2: Code Veronica, a short but good FPS. Dead Aim, an FPS/Third person hybrid which sucks. Gaiden, a top-down 2D game on the GBC. 0, a single-player co-op version of the previous games. Two whole rail-shooters (The Chronicles games, Umbrella and Darkside), a pair of online co-op pseudo-classic games. Umbrella Chronicles, a third-person shooter. Umbrella Corps, a first/third-person tactical shooter. The series went from fixed-camera to third-person, fixed-aiming to letting you move around like a real third-person shooter. Resident Evil has been many things. The series has no identity.
Ironically, RE1 was suppose to be a FPS game, but Mikami had to resort to FCA because of the hardware limitations at the time.
RE7 is a Resident Evil game at it's core and that's further reinforced when you the play the game on Madhouse.
@@TheCyclicGamer
It was very close to Remake in terms of what they were trying to achieve. So really, it is just Re but with a first person camera.....
Resident Evil 7 is clearly not a Resident Evil Game since throughout the series you fight basically everything but evil residents
Yes the fuck it does
*points at Umbrella logo*
@@Ricken9000 you fight an evil family in their 2.75 houses and a dank cave. Come on....
The real resident evil is Mia's facial animation.
King Megascience really? I think it’s really impressive
I think they had the one female actress try to pronounce the english lines without being a native speaker
Her hair physics transcend space and time.
God she scared me more than all the other monsters combined! That hair and the teeth...yikes
She's always smiling tho what's with that
I never did understand why or how there needed to be a big fuckoff grenade launcher on a farm.
Son was a fucked up psycho inventor before being infected, he made most of the weapons you use.
except the grenade launcher and flamethrower were made from spare parts by lucas baker (who even though was crazy was a bit of a prodigy when it came to tinkering and computer programing)
Boredom.
It's amazing what you can do once you live outside city limits
Because there are always the 'muricans who inappropriately abuse their right to bear arms.
Hi there from the future, Yahtzee just named Resident Evil 7 his 5th Best Game of the Decade
i think having a gun throughout the game can create tension and fear atleast in the beginning because you think you have the option to defend yourself and then it is yanked away from as you flood with hopelessness
Nice to hear someone besides me calling out horror game designers for that lazy "invincible monster chases you around and there's nothing you can do about it because we can't think of another way to make a game scary" subgenre.
The Metal One I'm happy this game is mostly original and does something different
Can i ask, what exactly do you want in a horror game other than just "Make it different or it's lazy!"?
Jordan Ricketts You asking me, The comment glitch is happening again where it doesn't show who you're tagging
Jordan Ricketts I don't know about everyone else but I wouldn't mind if a free pizza came with it.
Dr Strangelove No i'm asking the guy who marks everything he doesn't like in a game as lazy. Like really what does he want them to change? Does he want the ability to just outright kill them any time? Does he just want them gone all together?
I get why people say gamers are impossible to please now.
Mad House difficulty is easily the best way to play RE7. The limited saves and the other little surprises make it even more unnerving.
Limited saves don't mean much when cassettes are as abundant as ammunition
Alan Wake
They aren't.
+HellChuggapri1 they kind of are, you always get least 3 cassette tapes near a save spot.
+ Th35h1tf1nn15h Yeah but I wish there was a regular hard mode for when I want to play the game on hard but also not that hard
I've just started Madhouse. I'm already regretting my decision vs. Chainsaw Mia.
Resident Evil 8 will have Chris Redfield and cultists. Hmmmm
Boy that comment aged like a fine wine didn't it? 🤣
Hi, I'm from the future. Turns out Resident Evil 8 decided to be Castlevania now.
@@NeoSaturos123 brilliant comment. That's exactly what I thought too.
@@NeoSaturos123 twist again: Resident Evil 8 was just bloodborne. But dumb
Kind of. More or less like a weird mishmash of RE4 and Bloodborne if it was an FPS.
Having guns that can't actually kill the enemies is actually an interesting idea and would make thematic sense in a lot of the horror games that have you fighting monsters that could easily shrug off a bullet or two. Instead of using a gun as a weapon, you could use it as a tool to break structures at a distance or as a lure to make monsters go where you want them to. It might take a bit of effort to make it work, but a scene where the protagonist realizes that his gun will do nothing against the big monster and needs to find a more creative way to use it would make for a pretty cool scene.
No idea if you will see this but that game exists and it is called amnesia the bunker
@@Draconilian Oh, so the new Amnesia game works like that? I haven't really watched anyone play it so I wouldn't know. Maybe I'll go track down a playthrough of it. I know a few people I watch played it awhile back.
long time watcher, just wanted to say cheers as I really like this series
cheers all 'round m8.
Cheers to the series' 10th anniversary this year
Cheers lads!
Raise a glass for jim sterling
Kek Man or don't, he is awful.
I mean, if I can re-watch my favorite horror movies until there are holes in the DVDs, I can certainly re-play RE7. It's not all about knowing the plot beats and when the scares happen. Sometimes you just want to appreciate the craftsmanship of a good ol' scary story, well told and dripping with atmosphere. No, Alien no longer scares me, but damn if I don't get a grin on my face every time those opening credits roll.
Glad to see yatzee likes the game. It's an actual great game if people stop focusing on it being first person
Mohamed Nur people really hate it and I don't know why
I hate it because it's quite annoying to gun down the same cunt 80 times, not bothered by the first person at all. I loved RE5, which Yahtzee shits on, and might give RE6 a shot as well. 7 just seems like something I really wouldn't enjoy, mainly because those monstrosities are missing, I've become accustomed to.
Angel Fetus While yea, enemy variety is lacking it doesn't make the game bad
Opinions differ on that, as it would seem. I'll stay clear of it, have fun with it yourself, though.
Angel Fetus thanks for being respectful man!
4:55 I swear Yahtzee can predict the future
It's not as impressive a trick as it might have been if Capcom hadn't done the exact same thing in the same series already.
Character: gets six stab wounds in his lungs.
Also character: nothing a little gloop juice won’t fix.
Back then: herh funny
Now: fuck me sideways
Also character: gets their literal heart ripped out of their chest: eh I'll walk it off
I think Yahtzee reviews how he has sex too
Blake Griffins fast but satisfying?
Cynical, often criticised but still wildly popular?
Starts fast and sometimes climaxes when you don't expect it?
Blake Griffins hell of a mess and not worth the effort like making a nice delicious sandwich but putting a turd on it
Exaggerating every last flaw ever but still fair?
Every time the writers from RE4 hear you talk about how the went "intentionally camp" for the story... They nervously laugh, make an excuse to leave, and cry into the steering wheel on the way home.
On a serious note, you always seem to assume it was intentional. I wonder if your opinion on the game would change at all if a writer from the game told you that was their best attempt at a serious complex drama narrative.
Gordon Petten I think the assumption comes from Leon cracking jokes and one liners like an action hero as opposed to RE5 or RE6’s dramatic music scenes and attempts at the characters being upset and dramatic.
"Your right hand comes off?"
@@cartoonnetworkdisneyxdsupe6864
That is so true. We could tell Re 4 was taking the piss, especially given the fact that remake had a pretty good story and so much subtlety to the game design.
Gordon Petten
it'd probably change your view of the author, but i think you could still find ironic enjoyment in the work itself. at least, i could. others are more finicky with that "ruined my childhood" mentality haha
I'm glad to hear Yathzee gotten over his fear of theme-park mascots
"They got someone else to do it!"
ROFL!
I am legitimately surprised no one has made this joke yet:
“Ummm *ackshually* Jack Baker is wielding a Thatcher, they’re not even remotely the same thing.”
Oh lord I felt unclean channeling that energy.
The last boss is easy? I can't wait for Pat to screw that up.
he will still talk like he knows what he's doing and will still be wrong
Well the people I watched screwed it up like 8 times because the one controlling was really taking his sweet time to shoot the boss and the comment section was all "wow didn't even know you could die there"
"Don't SHTCREW it up!"
well the old man he kicked his ass ,and went back for some more and died .the final try for last old man part he one shot him .
he used steriods and the old lady stomp his ass out . the final form of the old lady i think it was two trys .
so there are only three bosses in this resident evil game . not counting the other verison of the old man and old lady and mia.
.-.
Best friends PLay?
100 % accurate review of the game. I am a long time RE fan, and agree that 4 was the best and still replay it today. 7 Was very good, but replayability is not there at all. Well done Yahtzee.
At least SOMEBODY in the GOP followed through on their chants of "lock her up"
But it turns out they got the wrong 'her'.
brainflash1 rip in pizza
michael flynn's career
ding dong the wicked witch is going to fucking prison
Ha pizza
Yahtzee: "They'll probably fuck it up one of two ways: bringing back old characters..."
Capcom: *looks up from their Resi Evil 3 remake* "You say something?"
Remake 2 was a good game, remake 3, well.... Is that even considered close to survival horror anymore?
Well they did bring back old characters in the dlc...
@@demonintellect9834 Not to mention the two entire ass remakes that came out after this
@@DrFrankenMax he said characters nobody cares about.
@@MrGamelover23 You give a shit about Lara Whats-Her-Tits the STAR example of someone who doesn't know how to do their fucking job??
Resident Evil 8 asks if you want a recap
Most people : yes
Me, an intellectual : Yahtzee
So.. He didn't get to the ending where knock-off Chris Redfield saves you in an Umbrella helicopter?
1:22 - "Haha, that's a good one, Yahtz."
1:34 - "Hey! Uh... actually... yeah, fair cop."
You gotta do the DLC where you the the crazy uncle who just punches everything and eats bugs
Diversity is good, it must be because politicians say it all the time.
Whatever4690
And MTV. Music Television.
Have you gained a spine in seven years?
For those new here: He really liked it.
1:21 - 'Psychotic, super powered Republicans' LMFAO
+LemonKing Oddities Hey... How's that vote going for you? How does it feel to know that you elected a Russian puppet?
Don't worry, though.. Seats are coming up.. You'll lose those, too.
LemonKing Oddities #Triggered
Welcome to the Internet. If you talk shit you'll get it back. :)
LemonKing Oddities Let me guess... Republican? :)
If the answer is yes, then I can understand how my reference would cause you pain. If the answer is no, then you need a lot more troll training, son :)
Pull up a chair.
Scroll up, son. You're outnumbered :)
My original statement was simply a timestamp in the video I found to be amusing. You're the one having a tantrum. My five year old does that.
Like I said... Pull up a chair. You have a lot to learn
got a picture of his comments I want to see them. he deleted them...
I've payed RE since RE1 came out on PS1. This is the first time in a long time that I actually felt tense playing a RE game. I had to really think about when to fight and when to run. great game!!
It was like the lovechild of silent hill 2 + texas chainsaw massacre + Last of us.
With a sprinkle of Evil Dead.
Your videos are always extraordinarily spot on.
All your reviews are usually great but this one is probably your best one in a while. The jokes were really well crafted, i laughed non stop the whole review
Hello, just a friendly reminder that the shows name, 'Zero Punctuation', is a reference to how fast Yahtzee talks.
Actually, the only permanent damage to Ethan was that boot to the face.
The final fight with the father was rendered unchallenging seeing how I conveniently switched out the flamer for the grenade launcher I basically defeated him in seconds because of it
Glad to hear even Yahtzee things the game was worthwhile!
He has lots of games he likes. He's a soulsborne fan, he's a fan of Silent Hill 2, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, etc., he just likes putting games through the wringer because he says 'I try to be as negative as fuck about a game because I want to have game developers have high standards for themselves.'
I love how positive this review was. Goes to show how good the game is.
Considering a guy named Redfield shows up by the end of the game, I think we all know how they're going to fuck it up again.
Side note- I think this Robert Hadenfield ad is the ONLY TH-cam ad I’ve watched from start to finish every time it’s on
This is what british people think rural america has, and it's what rural america wishes it had
"Farmer Shovel fuck", Yeah that's about accurate. Still scary as hell though.
I really wish that Capcom un-fucks themselves and make another Resident Evil 4. I don't mean remake it, though that would make me cream my pants, I mean take what made Resident evil 4 great and expand on it in a new game.
Lol they did screw the series up by bringing Chris back... lol
Yahtzee has the incredible super power to come up with just the most WTF amazing similes and metaphors. "I would have been pleasantly surprised by a dead prawn in a sock"... beautiful.
How to erase any sort of horror from any game:
Have Yahtzee butcher it.
2:10 THANK YOU, to me being able to fight back but finding out its completely useless to do so by conventional means is more scarier then not being able to fight at all.
"Skinny lady who shits wasps" I'm sorry, *what?*
The way you described your usage of the trigger bombs at the end is literally how I handled the last half of the game plant bomb wait for them to approach and boom
You aren't going to believe who is awesome!!!
First 2 words
well I guess that's one way to change it up
Are you from 2010? Probably the last time I saw that format used
Dead meme.
dead meme but managed to get revived just like re series
Finally something fucking original.
You sort of predicted what would happen. All hail Yahtzee.
RE 4 is the best... of course it is!
Farmer Shovel-Fuck
3:11
God forbid an action game set in Africa had a predominant amount of black enemies.
PopulateTheMoon should've done what MGSV did then and just give everyone machine guns and walker mechs. boom, no more racism allegations.
Captain Doomsday they're Japanese creators, so apparently yeah
Eh hum. "Sheva"
Maybe if they didn't try to kill you with spears
It wasn't the black enemies really. It was the fact that the swamp levels had literally spearchucking tribals and firebreathing shamans, which would be fine on their own but combined with the "realistic" depiction of a poor African township in the beginning comes off as really racist.
I described this game to my dad as the thing meets deliverance
just pointing its, its parasitoid wasps not parasitic wasps, theres a difference
What's the difference?
AlsikePike loads of parasites can live on or in 1 host but usually only parasitoid can, parasitoids almost always kill their host while parasites most often dont
A dead prawn in a sock is my favourite game so far this year
At least it didn't have any quick time events.
Dylan Breheny Or a season pass!
well they did bring back Chris for village
I can't wait to see what he's going to punch this time
Psycho girlfriend, texas chainsaw massacre, Shambling zombies, SAW, monster flick and possessed child. They pretty much have all the classic horror tropes in one game.
Making fun of both sides of the political aisle.
*Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.*
So I had this thought of a way to combine the whole outlast gameplay where you run and hide from the monsters along with the resident evil thing here you can actually fight. Make it so combat is discourage. And I don’t mean like make ammo scarce or the enemies are bullet sponges. But in where the player character can barely fight. Where he’s the average Joe who has never fired a gun is his life so when you get the gun your aim is shaky so you can barley aim. You don’t know how to dampen the recoils so depending on what weapon you have your arms are their flung back or you get thrown on your ass. And the reloads times are long since you character barley knows how to reload. So combat is an option but you can barley shoot since the protagonist doesn’t know how to use a gun. You could have some kinda progression where their A:the more you sue the gun the more the character learns and adapts. Or B: you can find instruction booklet on how to reload more effectively and proper stances. You don’t get to a point where it’s becomes and shoot fest but you can at least defend yourself just enough so you don’t get devoured.
I'm surprised he liked it at all. I hated it, there was almost no suspense, the best horror they had was jump scares, and the insane survivability of the main character made the game trivial. Not to mention everything hinged on a plot thread that made no sense (why do I care about my wife who abandoned me? Why would I choose her the murderer over the woman who has been helping me?) and also had no agency for the player. The major choice in the plot is a non choice, the game ends just about the same either way
Heretek To me Zoe withheld. vital info and the other would make that take priority. Though there still was jack shit that made that choice relevant. It was literally the final nail in the coffin for me and the game, which had numerous issues throughout it. I honestly felt like my 60 bucks was wasted. The dlc released a week afterwards is like a shit covered knife being twisted in my back.
Heretek Also yeah: I was expecting more than just atmosphere but they did nothing to capitalize on it. All those jumpscares were crap and predictable, the writing trivial, and even if I played this on Madhouse it wouldn't be better. Enemies just get tankier, faster, one hit kill you, and chase you. When I know everything is there, it gets ruined. Enemies like the Bakers can rarely be used in such small settings effectively.
Heretek 1. Because she went missing. She did not abandon you
2. Because she is your wife and did all those things while under mind control
3. It does not end the same way, though I get what your are saying. Mia either dies and all your effort have been for naught or you save her so you can go home and plow her while the dog stands in the corner and watches you.
Madhouse mode Jack is "evade the scary hillbilly" on steroids. He follows you everywhere and patrols everywhere.
Is Nioh also getting reviewed?
It's dark souls in Japan, of course he's going to review it
Gaiamatt No it is Japan's Dark Souls in Japan! I mean Japan-Japan, you understand!
Silius Black so it's like ninja gaiden
Having finally gotten around to playing this game, I agree they mostly do a good job signaling when you're supposed to stop running and fight the family members. The exception was the final time you fight Marguerite: it took me a few minutes of running around to realize there was nowhere to go and I had to fight her.
"Bringing back previous resident evil characters no one cares about" Bruh the best thing about resident evil (in my opinion) was that it stayed with familiar charters that you know and love. Resident Evil for the very beginning has also been cheesy campy horror. It was scary at times but funny at others with the bad acting and dialogue. All together I find the series very charming as long as you don't take it too seriously. I hated that 7 had nothing to do with the original characters.
amarantine1323 who cares, the old characters sucked anyways
No homo man, but I seriously fucking love your reviews and your videos. You're one of only two people I actually respect as a reviewer.
Sigh...
RE Classic Fans: "Meh, RE4 was okay, but was really the beginning of the end. Bring back Code:Veronica or RE Remake!"
Literally everyone else: "RE4..." *fap fap fap fap fap*
pls tell me you are joking? They did it back in 2012 or so on PS3 AND 360...
There are two types of people: Those who've played RE4, and assholes.
I've heard a LOT of dissent about the gameplay, and the POINT of the story, as Yahtzee even noted, is that they realized their lines are cheesy and overdone, so they played into it by giving the game an action movie plot.
Is it true 5 gives you an assistant who picks up every mine you lay down because she thinks she's helping?
A wonderful review as always! :))
That's it folks, see you next week !
dragonstormer115 Yakuza 0
2:08 Oooh, that's rare. A political/cultural joke that is actual true.
Cultural diversity does pose a problem.
Remember the greatest empire ever, that then suddenly imploded forever? Yes, Rome. An empire that fucked-up it's own currency by taking the "precious" out of the metal.
But even though economic collapses are quite bad, that alone doesn't explain how an empire (or rather it's people) just refuse to continue onwards.
That is because it wasn't a homogenic group of people with the same values. Due to its financial fuckery, the empire handed out citizenship en masse (because the more citizens there are, the more taxes can be collected) to people who didn't have the same values, morales and political philosophies.
Buuut that's history and there is no way it would repeat itself with a modern empire like... the European Union and it's mass immigration which further "culturally enriches" an incredibly diverse folk...
I beg to differ. The strength of Rome came from its variety, and it borrowed many things from the countries it conquered. We can see this attitude since the early stages of its life, when it confronted Etruscan Samnites Latins ect...
And about the end, it surely came even faster due to the anti-barbaric movements: there were plenty of tribes ready to help the Empire against the worst pillagers, just to assure themselves security, but people didn't understand how useful they could have been.
The story of general Stilicho always gets me. He was the best tactician the Western Roman Empire had at the time and defended his country in many occasions, but he was also half-vandal. The emperor was persuaded to execute him, as well as many barbarian children and women made prisoners. Without his protection Rome was helpless and the Goths guided by Alaric ransacked it in 410.
Then pray tell me, how did the Roman Empire span three continents? It didn't conquer them because of its Italian soldiers, Italian tactics, and Italian generals were the best-although many of them were great. It was a Roman ideal that allowed Rome's influence to remain to this day: diversity. For example, it compensated for its legions' weaknesses (lack of cavalry) by hiring foreign soldiers as auxiliaries or mercenaries-often in reward for citizenship. Rome brought in ideas, laws, and inventions from Egypt, Greece, and Persia (modern-day Iran). As a result, the influence of Roman ideas and inventions are recognizable even today.
If you want a group with homogeneous values, you better get ready to do a Stalin and shoot a couple of million people regardless of origin. Even during its republican days, Rome was seriously divided on many issues like plantations, concentration of power, and military strategy. The disagreement was in part due to how certain values like that of respecting human life (i.e. wealthy landowners not caring about plebeians) were not shared.
Rome's fall was due to many more reasons than "a horde of immigrants." One such reason is an unwillingness to compromise with people with different opinions. Serious disagreements will always arise in any group, regardless of its members origins, and simply refusing to accept outside members will only cause stagnation and defeat.
rome wasn't even the greatest empire lol. britain and the mongols were larger. your entire comment is just bad.
beestrider I wouldn't judge an empire's greatness by its size alone (insert dick joke here), there are other things to take into account. if you have the biggest empire ever but it only lasts 20 years, and the other guy's smaller empire lasts a thousand, than its pretty hard to say yours was out right better.
SashaSexyfur umm no rome fell because they put lead in the water pipes and went through emperors like Bill Clinton with under age sex slaves
RE5 wasn't racist at all though.
after watching hours of Yatzee's game reviews I have to speed up every other video on the internet. I love it.
Well well well, they did fuck it up with Village so they better rereboot the whole thing with the next one 😛
Not fucked up
Nah Village is fun, Yahtzee just is picky over particular elements he likes about RE and the previous characters are not among his favourites.
finish work, put youtube on and this is in my newsfeed been waiting for this review for awhile nice one yahtzee well worth the wait
nut
Coconut
Brazil nuts and bolts.
Shack
Nice memes everyone
gonna put me down,
oooooh you're nut gonna put me doooooooooooooown.
Wow, this one was exceptionally good! Great job!
Never really liked re7
I got passed the Garage and I never played it after that
To me it wasn't a resident evil game
It was a Outlast game with a Resident Evil slapped on the front of it
You call RE7 can outlast game yet the only thing it has in common with outlast is the first person perspective. Plus you have no right to even criticize the game if you haven't even finished it yet.
did you do a second run-through on madhouse? because they do switch things around and the molded are more terrifying when they shuffle at you with unatural speed, I was actually more scared the second time around. though the amount of damage they do is ridiculous.
A half decent story? I have seen fanfiction less boring and contrived as this. My high school creative writing class had better writing done it it. Horror? Yeah, if cheap ass and predictable jumpscares count as horror now a days. The atmosphere was hands down the best part of this but nothing capitalized on it. I am easily the most easy to scare people on the planet and this game got me a total of...1 time maybe? Maybe 2?
Was not well done in my opinion so it is subjective like everything else.
*dives into hateproof bunker*
In less you're Edgar Allen Poe then please take a seat.
Starcraftgamer97 I guess I'm one of the few that considers being chased by a monster (the only jump scare there was blasting through a wall) to be horror
Unpopular opinion: Jumpscares are as legitimate a horror technique as anything else.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR TOO LONG, Time to watch.
MAGA
An impeachment would do that right away.
The real resident evil is the friends we made in the journey along the way.
I loved the game, but the most boring part of it is in the third act on the ship. That was a slog. Slowed down the pacing immensely. It was almost as if Capcom had everything planned out beforehand very well and said, "well, how do we end this thing?"
I absolutely love this man!!!! I just came across his videos and I'm in love!
Try playing it on Madhouse mode. The Baker's run and follows you where ever you go, except the save areas. All the areas that give extra ammo give little to no ammo. The creatures are harder to kill and kill you quicker. Plus you can be killed while doing a time stopped puzzle. You also have limited saves like in Residents evil one. You will be blocking a lot more too.
I'd like to think that RE7 is like a synthesis of various horror film subgenres.
Mia/Jack Baker: Slasher Film
Marguerite: Supernatural Horror Witch Film
Lucas: Saw-inspired Psychological Horror
VHS Tapes: Found-footage Horror
Eveline: Supernatural Horror a la The Ring
Jack (2nd encounter)/Eveline (final form)/The Molded: Creature/Monster Horror
Richard Pearsey knows his shit.
I think everything has a base somewhere, I think they did a god job bringing these elements together.
1:28 - Thank you.
Doughboy123x
Gotta be bipartisan
quality video lad, been waiting on this one
the person that wrote the story for Resident Evil 7 was the same person that wrote the story for fear 1 and spec Ops the Line
Don't worry, they didn't bring in racism. They just brought in old characters no one cares about in the next one.
I wish there were more trap bombs, they were my favourite type of weapon and I would have definitely needed some more for those last 2 fat molded.
Oh man I can't wait for the RE8 review...