Demon's Souls (Zero Punctuation) 

Still no Hellpoint? :(

Risk of Rain 2 please? Pretty please?

I hope this series goes on for as long as Yahtzee enjoys it.

But where did he get it from? I think he committed a unforgivable sin. I think he bought it from scalpers. I think he deserves to loose his remaining organs for this.

He should have just.... Nicked it 😎

@@maelthrajaluk42 YEEEEEAH!!!!!’

@@Enchie to break the joke, someone who pre ordered two by accident sold the second one to them at a normal price

@@azzzanadra Good. I'm happy to hear that. Maybe not about how hard it is to get a refund for pre-orders.

Demon's souls was indeed, the Dark Souls of the souls games.

Your logic is logical.

personally I found it the easiest lol.

@@ramen3643 that's what I've heard from a lot of people. Which is disappointing, but not a deal breaker.

dark souls is the dark souls of dark souls

I know, sometimes it's the weird shit that gets you, like in his RE... 4? 5? (can't remember) review where he says something with a plain still of himself in his desk, then to elaborate, says "allow me to expand" and the figure of himself suddenly switches to a fat version; One slight comedic pause later, this is still my top joke from ZP. It's so stupid, I know, but that's what makes it funny.

@@luigivercotti6410 Devil may cry 4 review. I might rewatch his videos a little too much.

Death Stranding 2 new gameplay mechanic confirmed.

​@@KeithFraser82 Death Stranding does contain piss grenades. XD

Death Stranding already has this, and in a weird coincidence, so does Team Fortress 2

It was funny how he dislike Demon Souls at first then he tough it out through Dark Souls and like the series of it.

@@leowei771 Demon's Souls*

"Soul of the mind key to life ether. Soul of the lost withdrawn from it's vessel. Let strength be grant, so the world might be mended, So the world might be mended." Kinda does it for me.

So is the hardest part of the game finding a clean interpretation of that line?

Maiden in Black has been painted white by the net once more.

Yeahs that's true. Lothric and Lorian, The twin princes are a great example of this. Screw those 2

Except you can parry The Pursuer and use a balista to kill him, parry him and beat him to death, or summon. And The Dancer is super weak to dark damage, meaning the dark hand you can get shortly after beating Vordt (Meet Yoel on the bridge before the Undead Settlement, extract true strength, then suicide until you can no longer extract true strength. Then just fast travel to the shrine from the shrine and buy the dark hand from Yuria right away.) can be used to beat her easily. You can also wait and use a dark infused lothric longsword, or summon.

@@silenceundying you can also cast bleed spells and kite the dancer.

@@Minastir1 I never knew that. So you can use bleed on her as well as dark?

@@silenceundying Also the Penetrator is one of the easier bosses in Demon’s Souls.

To be fair he was advocating for taking the problem out entirely. Yeah stockpile Thomas would've been jobless bit it would've been way more convenient.

@@ForeverLaxx There's definitely the argument for keeping it as originally designed though. The convenience of just sending them back helps a lot over the original without changing the overall experience of it.

@@DWFTW But what if they just made the experience better instead? They're already changing it, and obviously it's not going to be exactly the same anyway, may as well go the extra mile and make a change that would be approved by almost everyone who isn't a strict purist.

@@ForeverLaxx The problem in Demon's Souls on PS3 was never that you could only carry a limited amount of items. The problem was that if you tried to pick an item up, but it exceeded your item burden, then it would automatically be dropped on the ground and would permanently be lost if you entered a loading screen. And since the only way to offload gear was to visit Stockpile Thomas in the Nexus _through a loading screen_ you would always lose items. That is why they made the change that they did.

I found it oddly wholesome, meself

@@isodoubIet sure, not his most impressive, but somehow the image of it really happening/existing was particularly surreal and gross. I think "boxcar full of human skin" is still my favorite though

Strictly it's a metaphor of course

nothing will ever trump "... I'd rather swallow razor wire, pull the end out of my arse, and floss myself to death". Yes, I know it's not a simile, but I don't care

"Ass as far the eye can see" "about as likable as deep-sea anglerfish wearing an SS uniform"

Or Splappy Boom Blappy

@@zuzanakomprdova9502 a true classic

Oddly enough, upon reading that I heard a very demonic, slithery/snake like Yahtzee voice say it. Instead of the stuttering "S"s

@@origrammar Indeed, although I can't remember for the life of me which game was that

@@zuzanakomprdova9502 Silent Hill The Room?

I feel a little light-headed, but I think I'll make it...

@@theescapist bah, you don't need the liver, you'll be fine.

@@espio87 agreed. Nick's not a games journalist anymore, so he doesn't need to drink as much. Then again, he does need to deal with Jack

@@faustlican5566 Tell that to all the Twitter trolls that think I'm still a traditional games journalist lol. They make me want to drink even more.

@@theescapist I would like a refund on your left kidney.

Duckborne

@@ivanmasura2371 I would buy the shit out of that game.

@@101Crock Untitled goose souls.

@@doublem1354 Now you're pushing it.

We are born of the quack, made ducks by the quack, undone by the quack....our eyes are yet to open.....Fear the Old Quack.

Its specifically named that as an ode to the game lore. There is in fact a good reason.

I always just figured it was because you get Soul's, from multiple Demon's (;

Sounds like an appropriate subreddit name

@@jb0258 roughly speaking it's because the souls already belong to a demon by the time you arrive. But also you are a "demon"...

@@Makszi Yes, but "demon-ses-souls" is impossibly irritating to speak aloud. They should have gone for something else.

Except FromSoft's experimental phase has been going on since their inception, but went completely batshit during the PS2 era. Eternal Ring and Evergrace are both head scratchingly bizarre experiments in game development. And let's not forget Metal Wolf Chaos. Demon's Souls is tame compared to some of their older shit. In reality it was just a new King's Field game in everything but name...but so was Eternal Ring, even maintaining the FPS perspective. So what i'm getting at is: you can't really call Demon's Souls an experiment in itself when it's just part of another ongoing experiment that never ended.

Especially in the original soundtrack. It is by far the weirdest and I love it.

@@smward87 Ahkchually, the Souls series was more akin to Shadow Tower **tips fedora**

Yahtzee's transformation from edgy internet snarklord to to semi-serious hairy dad is almost complete

In the words of my late grandfather: it’s not a “train set”, it’s a model railway!

Were you there too?

@@dustinp120 Yeah, his role was called "The penetrated"

@@skyguy675 if your doing it right everyone's a lil bit of everything and leaves with at least 1 regret 😉.

Bet kess is really enjoying it...

@@skyguy675 I set myself up for that.

It's like he's mentally preparing himself.

Pretty sure Nick paid for an Ocean's Eleven-like heist to steal one from a scalper probably.

@@pedropradacarciofi2517 no

The only way to catch them now is to honestly stay up really late and get them as soon as a stock drops. I followed a few subreddits and twitter users who would funnel news about stock drops and stayed up till midnight refreshing the same website, but my patience paid off and I got one!

@@ForeverLaxx Like that guy who bought all the water in his village and started selling it at outrageous prices, he got killed by a mob. In the civilized world that wouldnt happen of couse, since there are laws and stuff. So you may need to hire an assasin for that. What were we talking about?

@@Dasgath I feel like this entire thread could be solved by incredibly rich companies not artificially limiting stock on items to artificially inflate demand, as if they couldn't easily afford to produce according to the demand rather than a production model designed to make sure the most favorable voices get heard first and loudest.

He’s not really much of a fan. Dark Souls is the only FromSoftware game he really liked.

@@psychomantis183 He loves Bloodbourne too but I agree with you The only reason he started liking dark souls is because everyone pestered him to stick with it until he understood why it was good 😂 Even though I agree with Yahtzee when he says DS2 and DS3 werent as good, I feel like he never gave Sekiro enough chance to see the beauty in it.

@@aqueelkadri8371 He honestly isn't that into Bloodborne compared to Dark Souls 1 either.

@@aqueelkadri8371 Sekiro has a lot less good in it than Dark Souls 1 and is closer DS2 and 3 in terms of quality.

@@ZodiacEntertainment2 Well that is your opinion. To me Sekiro has the deepest gameplay mechanics (iceberg levels of deep) which is unmatched compared to any of the other FromSoftware titles whereas the other games feel expansive horizontally. Sekiro feels more stylish when mastered than titles that claim to be stylish combat games like the Devil May Cry and Bayonetta. It has more replayability just in terms of sheer fun that you can have with the mechanics of the game. I could keep going but the bottom line is that in my opinion Sekiro was a piece of art that was created with a lot of care and thought and shouldn't be compared to the half heartedly formulaic creations that were DS2 and DS3. (Even tho I like both those game as well cuz I like the formula) Its just a difference in opinion. Have a great day

Ha, he doesn't want the Xbox so I'll just have to sacrifice whatever I have left over for the RTX 30 cards.

Oh have you not seen his Silent Hill reviews where he mentions 2?

Portal 1 is the game he, to this day, has absolutely *zero* complaints about. Edit: I didn't realize I made a sort of pun with bolding the word zero.

I dunno, not only has he breathlessly talked about how he'd marry Silent Hill 2, but I'm pretty sure he'd get into bed with Saint's Row 2 as well. He's actually got a couple of games he likes to harp on about

He finished it: That alone is worthy of a recommendation.

@@shaesullivan listen, I am a big SoulsBorne fan, I get it, I liked playing through Demon's Souls, but he brought up some good points about how it was a bit like a "Dark Souls we got at home" meme, in that it was a much less refined version of the experience. It wouldn't be something I'd hold against the original, but since the remaster came out so much later, I'd expected that they would rework a bit more than just the graphics. But all in all, I still liked it, even if it's through all the bias in the world

"I liked it, but Dark Souls is obviously better" is a better tl;dr

All just to hear him say "Hey remember that game I didn't like very much? Well now I like it a lot more and yet I still don't like it very much"

Demon's souls

He ran away, he deserves it. Also, they may be witches? Somebody fact check that please.

@@Dasgath Him running could be attributed to his uselessness. Also, why did his soul get trapped in the Nexus, but his family didn't? You meet Yuria the Witch (who's friendly, by the way) and not only do you not kill her but she eventually comes back to the Nexus, right? So witches aren't inherently evil.

It's implied his wife/daughter was a witch due to one of the corpses having the same armor set as Yuria, but without the hat. He's not trapped in the nexus, he's hiding because it's the only safe place currently.

Even as new Soulsborne games come out from From and other devs, the original 5 that the term is referencing hold a special place in my heart because of how none of them are really the same thing. Despite extreme similarities in core game mechanics, they each tackle the gameplay loop and world design in slightly different ways, for better or worse you certainly couldn’t get any one of them confused with another. Taking Dark Souls as the baseline, Demon’s Souls is more prototypical, oddly linear with a hub world design. Dark Souls 2 is less consistent as a world and has a ton of ‘cheaper’ ways to die, Bloodborne is fast-paced and uses guns instead of shields, and Dark Souls 3 takes that gameplay and ports it back into medieval fantasy. Altogether the five feel like the “complete package” to me even as new games come up with further refinements or interpretations on the core formula.

If you got to his personal channel, he has a series where he played through the entire series with his friend

Man you are in for a TREAT if you just found Yahtzee now, spoken as another old fan of the Chzo Mythos :D checkout all his newer games too, he never stopped making them on the side

He knows, but he dislikes the need for an additional button press to do it; he would've preferred the items automatically being sent to storage.

He really likes Persona 5. Persona 4 he's more ambivalent. I have to admit I like the Personas despite not liking JRPGs in general too.

@@Potidaon That was more an april fool's joke backfiring

Not sure if he actually reviewed the steam release or talked about it in another one.