Desperados III (Zero Punctuation) 

Spoiler Alert: He doesn't like it

@@OmNomRom *Gasp* really!? What next, he feels like The next Xbox system is a worse PC?

Finally!

When are you ready whit your next book?

This is where the fun begins

i would play that game.

It's called Call of Duty my man. Specially the Modern Warfare games, most missions start with stealth and then mess up, resulting in the Cockup Cascade

@@Axl4325 Now I understand why it's so popular...

Good sir/madame I must respectfully ask you to stop spying on my Hitman play sessions

Benny Hill theme might work, but let me propose: Some kind of original track that has a vibe of James Bond/Mission Impossible movie soundtrack stealth/I'm a cool spy guy sort of sound, mixed with the Spiderman 2 pizza delivery theme (funiculi, funicula), wherein the track gets faster and more frantic the bigger the cockup. The earlier in the game or the more under control the situation, you might feel more Bondian and slick as the music as a cool, slow, chill sound. but late game where the cockups are bigger and big swaths of enemies are on you, the track is fast and stressful, inducing anxiety as you try to figure out how to uncock your character. If done right, and assuming each level has a fail proof way to beat each level, with ample other ways to stumble into victory, such a game could be awesome to watch speedruns of, and hilarious to watch lets players fumble through and fail multiple times as the music puts them increasingly on edge.

mostly. in the context of the overall series story - it veers on clusterfuck side of things because it is a prequel.

Revenge was had, the farm was not... Actually, the farm is never bought up again, so we don't know.

It ends right after you headshot the final boss!

Some of the things. Bad guy died, farm was successfully defended but uncle died. There wasn't a triumphant walk into the sunset.

@@adiveler Actually it ends after you headshot the eight guys standing around the boss.

Desperados is an old series though, close to Commandos in age.

I mean, a large portion of western novels had at least 1 nighttime stealth assault, from the 200 of them I got for 10 cents each at a yard sale

@@peterbota1913 small question, why did you buy 200 novels for 10 cents?

Try Hunt: Showdown

@@prcervi Well, what else would you buy with 10 cents?

Never played that one. I was reminded quite firmly off the original one though: Commandos Behind enemy lines.

@@Bird_Dog00 There was a Robin Hood one too.

The game that originally had this type of gameplay was Commandos. Pretty good series. After that came Desperados. Shadow tactics was a spiritual successor to these games, so obviously it has similar gameplay.

I finished Shadow Tactics only days before Desperados 3 came out and I can say it’s basically a complete re-skin. And I fucking love everything they added.

*cough* commandos's 1-3 ,robin hood prince of thiefs ( or something of that nature ), There is supposedly one with samrajs with magical powers fighting demons ( god knows its name though ) as well as desperados 1-3 *cough* . It is a whole genre of oldschool stealth game with a small sqaud with unique abilities which all ended up being ballbustingly hard. Basicly don't get caught you can only fight that much off before the endless reinforcement crush your soul. The enemies isn't blind and there are ALOT of them and you are on average no more than 4-5 on average IF THAT. Ambushes or quick in quick out combat will be your bread and butter. Anything else will get you killed...and yea these titles could probably be used as IQ test because they are massive puzzles with 20+ moving pieces at times.

Desperado 1 is really hard, like Commandos 1 DLC hard, sometimes I have to build a death crossfire zone to lure tons of enemies to pass

@@liubalthsar9820 Original Desperados was harder but also kind of more realistic, guns behaved like guns and there was no voodoo in any of the levels

@@stormtrooperelite1453 Still, you could lure enemies with corpses, and they will come closer to check instead of alarming everyone!

@errrrrrrrrrwhat I remember that mission, you could stand all your dudes inside a firing range so the gunshots didnt cause any alarms.

Is "save scumming" a modern term? I know that the term has been around for some time but why is it scummy to save to not lose too much progress and then trying again? I feel like this was normal some 20 years ago and it was just called "the game being hard and I don't want to do this shit all over again". I feel like there are games where you can make an argument about save scumming (X-Com maybe, the new ones;...) but Desperados/Commando style games ain't those.

Is that .43 a in seconds or 43/100 of a minute?

Once again, I really didn't think Zero Punctuation would be your thing so it's really surprising to see you here lol

As you should

What are you? A drive thru evangelist?🤣🤣

You forgot to write least after at. Guess ya better reload and try again.

(continue the chain without looking up the lyrics) Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy She'll beat you if she's able But the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet Now it seems to me some fine things Have been laid upon your table But you only want the ones that you can't get

Entire video feels like it was built up to that one joke

original commandos wasnt that hard after all - in comparison beyond call of duty addon was one hell of a difficulty bump.

Reading this comment section, I get an impression nobody played original Desperados. Which makes me feel like a really old hipster.

@@wahlex841 Yea me too :D But at the same time its nice the genre isnt dead and even people who never played the OG real-time tactic games love it.

@Christopher Johnson With current technology, it's arguably possible to make a more natural AI. But considering how last of us 2 still have stupid enemies who get distracted with bottle noises, maybe we will still have retarded guards for another 10 years or so

@@RRRRRRRRR33 if the guards weren't that easily distracted the stealth would not work at all (or you'd have to quickload even more).

@@RRRRRRRRR33 We'll never get rid of stupid AI in stealth games, simply because the games wouldn't work otherwise. If you made a stealth game with 100% true-to-life human guards, it'd be impossibly unfair. There's a really good reason for why fictional characters like Sam Fisher and Solid Snake are the first thing you think of when you think "infiltration", because that type of stealth simply isn't a thing in real life due to how lucky you'd need to be to pull it off. It's not very hard to guard an area, and the human senses are just too sharp for sneaking past dudes to be a reliable tactic. This is why Hitman is probably the most realistic stealth game franchise on the market right now. Any real stealthy military operation that doesn't utilize disguises ends up more like the Swat or Rainbow Six games. Edit: I'm no expert, take none of this as gospel. I've just been thinking about exactly this for a while.

@@basic5926 And I don't disagree, but... if we apply the infamous "suspension of disbelief", it's possible to imagine an infiltrator like Sam Fisher. No noise whatsoever and in complete darkness, a special agent like that is in the realm of possibility. That's why I think the revamped AI should be based on Chaos Theory, that game had some limitations and etc.. but the light and sound meter makes perfect sense depending on how you work with the scenery. Enemies will not be limited by a cone vision, instead they will notice immediately when you make noise or reveal himself into the light. And instead of them chasing the noise like idiots, they will act very carefully and methodically (not following patterns). You also have to play methodically (again, the slow pace of Chaos Theory) and if you have information about the noise/light meters you can't blame the AI or faulty gameplay, it's your own mistake. That's it, it's not rocket science. As a game designers, you just have to base your stealth on tangible concepts (camouflage and disguises also works), not only on something limited like tunnel vision or noises. A nextgen Splinter Cell with huge "sandbox" maps were you perform missions, mixing the best of MGSV and Hitman... That is my dream game. Think about a time limit, you have the entire night to perform the operation, as the sun rises the global light will change slowly, making it harder for Sam to hide. If you get caught but get away, guards will be alert the entire time, starts to use flashlights in an more aggressive way, random shifts of patrol, looking at their blind spots by surprise, etc that will force you to climb the scenario like in old Splinter Cell games and so on. And just like in Hitman, the quick save is optional, checkpoints are optional as well.

Exactly. I played the very first game 16 years ago, also loved the previous game from this developer (Shadow Tactics), so I was very hyped for this and it didn't disappoint at all. Finished all missions on normal and hard difficulty, 90% of the badges, all challenges and the DLC, and the only thing I really hated were the loading times of the console version (which admittedly suck in a save-spam game).

I loved the first game and was adequately entertained by the second one, but all the critiques of it are completely valid. It's at its best as a puzzle game, but without any exaggeration, the final confrontation of the second game was just a large room full of enemies staring at each other. As dodging vision cones was the main part of the game, it got rather silly with how heavily it came to rely on npc's metronome-like head rotations.

@@TheRenofox By "Second game" I guess you are referring to the 3rd one, right? Also, the final boss of the first game was much worst and boils down to pure RNG! At least the final act in this game goes along with the rest!

Tbf the genre has been pretty much dead for about 10-15 years. I'm glad to see its resurrection though.

@@Shyl1ght Shadow tactics blades of the shogun would like to have a word with you. Allthough the older Commando's 1-3 ( remasters made recently ), Robin hood, and desperado 1-2 is certainly older. I also recall a samraj vs demons top down tactical game as well, first level was a few samraj trying to get out of an overrun mansion fighting back with swords bows and magic. Would really like to get to know the name of it if any know of it because I sure don't recall it.

Same devs, great game

@@jonas_r Yeah, I was keeping an eye on this game, didn't realize it was already out until this video showed up though. I'll have to make time for it.

Which is unsurprising, considering they have the same developer.

I bought Shadow Tactics on deep discount last Christmas and slowly worked through it finishing just last week. I really, really liked it. When I saw they were making a cowboy sequel (never played Commandos or the original Desperado games) I was initially disappointed. It looked dreary and generic. I bought D3 a few days after release and... well, 12 hours in and I am f*cking in love with D3! I was 100% wrong to ever doubt it. So I’m gonna say get it. You’ll love it.

Beta HL2

whag.

don't mind Yahtzee, he's Australian and lives in California. i'm surprised he doesn't start all his vids with a "hell yeah were gonna take your guns" ala Beto

Bronze, I’ve always assumed that Yahtzee leans a lot farther left then the so-called leftists of the USA.

@@danielc4071 probably, my comment was less about about left vs right and more just the gun control bit

This game has it too, but Yahtzee thinks he's a lot smarter than he actually is, so it's the developers fault.

@@GoogleRuinsAnythingItTouches _Classic Yahtzee_

And not only that, but he even had time to take jabs at every typical commentator's video essay.

funny since they already made a system that record your every move, but only for a replay at the end of each mission.

Yea they played it really save with the game mechanics. Maybe next time there is some innovation like that.

Oh hey, Fanboy. Funny (but unsurprising) seeing you here.

But of all the world's great heroes, there's none that can compare

The Darkplace of Westerns.

But that's the charm, lol Shadow Tactics also uses all the sengoku jidai cliches imaginable

actually it pulled a lot more Sergio Leone type cliches, including the bit where it wasn't Frank who shot Papa Cooper, but it was little John himself , which was ripped straight out of that one movie I probably shouldn't spoil for the whole 3 people who haven't seen it yet

WHAT?! A western full of western cliches? nO wAy 😱 What did you expect? When has a western game or movie not been filled with cliches? It's part of the charm of the genre.

Given my appreciation for puns, I'd be guilty of aiding and abetting so much, the pun police would have a dossier on me the size of a dictionary.

I’m gonna call the pun police on you for setting up the perfect opportunity to end with a pun and then not actually paying it off with one... pun blue balls, if you will.

@@Tustin2121 Letting the pun fit the crime?

@@Tustin2121 So you want him to be.... pun-ished?

I don't quite understand this joke, why would someone explaining a genre make it not play-worthy?

He doesn’t even (and didn’t) tear it to bloody chunks, all he had to do was point out how overbearing, hypocritical, and pointlessly miserable the game is.

@@MrMetalforever5 Also how dumb it is to retroactively write a character to be homosexual. Netflix could learn a thing or two from Yahtzee.

@@CompleteAnimation what show did Netflix do it to this time?

@@CompleteAnimation Retroactively? If you're referring to Ellie she was gay in the first game.

@@GrinningMarionette tbf do they even show that once until the dlc?

Hotline miami too. Though i think this one actually makes It good due to the short levels and rapid respawns

Ironic considering how much of a Souls fanboy he is

Yeah but it is a very niche genre. maybe if you pöayed commandos back in the day, thats the same principle.

The first desperados is very nice in my opinion, the 2d graphics really hold up I feel. Not a big fan of the second one. In that one the graphics also hit the uncanny valley due to 3D being implemented while on a low budget. Many games that were originally 2D had this problem, I vividly remember how ugly Stronghold 2 was even for its days in comparison to the original.

There is a free Demo with the Tutorial and the first mission and a small glimpes. You can try it this way.

It's very good. The studios previous game Shadow Tactics was also great, pretty much the exact same gameplay, but in Edo-era Japan (and it's like 85% off right now at the steam sale). I say try the demo and if you are still unsure pick up Shadow Tactics on the sale. If you like that one you will like this one.

@@couchpotatoe91 second part was good despite its haphazard mechanics. it takes time to get used to part commandos part metal gear solid mechanics but you cant say it is boring

It's a shame all the competent candidates got taken behind the woodshed but I'm keen for season 2 of who wants to be a trump'o'nare.

Well choices right now is either Trump, or the guy the can’t speak a straight. Already know who I’m going with.

Ralph Nader

@@turtlenator6249 Because tRump knows all the best words, isn't that right?

@@matthew1882 The reasons for it are pretty complicated and messy and stupid, but basically the only way Democrats ever have a chance against the manipulative and gerrymandering Republicans is for the party to consist of "anyone who's not Republican". This means that their candidates need to have the broadest appeal possible in order for the whole party to be able to get behind them, which means that the Democratic candidate usually stands for nothing at all except "Hey, at least I'm not technically a Republican." Biden was the most moderate, plain, whitebread do-nothing jackass they could find. Despite being by far the better candidate, people like Bernie never had a chance of being selected. Their policies were too divisive in a party that also includes conservatives and bigots and people who are either themselves very wealthy, or more often just in the pockets of the wealthy.

try commandos 3 - it has time limit and no hot buttons to make things worse