El Paso Elsewhere and ? (Zero Punctuation) 

Welp... I guess I'm "finally" gonna stop watching ZP vids (possibly even Escapist content altogether) thanks to RU-vid's *FUCKING BULLSHIT CENSORSHIP FASCISM.* See, this's why y'all should've just kept the uncensored content on the Escapist's own separate website like you did "back when" with that one game about the mutant raccoon thingamajig, 'cause lawd knows I ain't signing up for any monthly money-bleeding schemes. Not even for you guys.

@@CaptainSeasick Agreed. Not to mention it even created traffic for their website. Seems like shooting yourself in the foot if you ask me.

Honestly been watching for years this. And im not paying monthly to watch this. Hope that your every 2023 zero punctuation will have the censoring removed then for the podcast listeners

Are the uncensored videos just through Patreon, or are they available through RU-vid memberships as well?

Honestly, just move videos back to the escapist website if these keeps happening. This micro transaction bull is slowly killing my interest in this channel.

The reverse swear jar!

​@@shannonnezul4903 A swear tip jar.

Did it in Demolition Man

Normally I'm expecting a very different experience when I pay to be sworn at.

Yeah, especially since I personally thought the made-up swears improved the experience

“Wait, we need even more people to buy it before anybody tells them it’s awful.”

@@jcace13 Pretty much that. It's why I never pre-order.

Usually the shitty games already have long embargo’s by default so hearing about an embargo needing to be extended is just really funny. It’s not enough for games to be pushed back/delayed, reviews need to be delayed to.

Apparently someone did eventually realize the game was shit.

Well that's not foreboding.

inb4 Polybius

Wow, [REDACTED] sure does sound terrible, guess I'd better not buy it for my [DATA EXPUNGED].

Certainly sounds like a cognitohazard, if a genuinely low-danger Safe one based mostly around tedium: "SCP-???? is a video game from [DATA EXPUNGED] that makes everything in one's life more tedious and boring once one has started it until its completion, with 'starting it' including to learn about multiple aspects of it in any identifiable way including its name, the company's name, its setting, or [DATA EXPUNGED]. Unfortunately the game itself is so objectively boring and repetitive that universally subjects quickly start contemplating suicide despite its low difficulty."

volgun crossover when

i feel like if the foundation wanted to scrub a cognitohazard video game off the internet then i feel like this is one of the strategy they would use yatzee: "oh hey there has been a embargo of this game that totally exist guess it in the comments, im going to tell you about the game now". just seems fishy

I play a similar game where I skip to a random point in those yearly compilations and time myself to see how fast I can guess the game. Yahtzee goes on so many tangents and game protagonists often look so generic that it can be really tricky sometimes.

I'd watch a video where that's a challenge among a panel of RU-vidrs. Bonus points if you can get Yahtzee in on it to see if he remembers what game he was talking about. Have him guess last of course so the others can lock in a guess.

Oh my god, that sounds amazing to do with friends.

I used to keep playing the old ones as background noise at work, anything from the first 5-7 years I'd have in seconds. Starts getting fuzzy shortly after Fifa13

Another idea is to watch a video on mute and try to figure out what Yahtzee is saying in general from the imagery. It’s a fun game, but I’ve seen almost all of the ones before 2023 like 50 bazillion times already, ao I can only really do this game for the newer ones.

Yeah I think this is the one.

Yeah I just looked at the game play and everything checks out including the IP.

well lets hope this delay comes with some bug fixes at the very least

@@prcerviI wouldn't get your hopes up to high lol

god I applied to work at this developer and got through several rounds of interviews before deciding I didn't like their vibe, would be crazy if it was them.

Given the little disclaimer at the start, I thought it would have been Assassin's Creed Mirage and RU-vid was having a stroke because "ASS?? TWICE??? IN THE TITEL???? HOW PROFAAAAANE!!!!!"

I hope when the new embargo date is reached the keep this video as it is.

Danganronpa joke was also did me a laugh.

The redacted box descriptions were bloody hilarious!!! "Pretend I'm Lara Croft or something"..."A game that probably doesn't want to be identified by now"...christ Yahtzee is creative!

I shouldn't've watched this while eating lunch!

It's so much easier to have them tell us how to think

@@Maltbrew naughty words bad. More war and profit pls.

​@@MaltbrewWhoa whoa. You're still thinking? You're supposed to do nothing but apologize for them, no matter how much they screw up or outright lie or literally hurt people, especially if it's a big business with shareholders. Clearly those can only care about your well-being even more. /s

HEY F#@K U I LOVE MY CORPORATE SLOP CONTENT PRODUCT COMMITTEE APPROVED AND INDUSTRY STANDARD, YES MY LIFE IS EMPTY AND POINTLESS

"Dystopia is when youtube doesn't allow me to say "fuck"."

In this day and age? No. Hell, some indie game might come out tomorrow with the name of "?".

haha naaah, i even expected him to rag on it's name for the entire thing.

@@damianbennett1214"This is worse than that time some chump named his game 'The Letter V Six Times!'"

Also thought this, I was already bitching about "I would give my game a name you can relatively easily find on the Internet".

Some semi-abstract detective game were you have to build the world from complete grayness to fully built vibrant place to understand the situation

Yo, I'm sorry but I need to vent to someone that I just really love my girlfriend bro. She's so sweet and kind and intelligent. She has an answer for just about anything I could ever want to know.

@@backupschmliff1156 Go tell her that dude

@@backupschmliff1156 Is your "girlfriend" in the room with us right now?

It could've also not been reviewed by Yahtzee.

​@backupschmliff1156 Thats not a vent. And considering youre too stupid to know what a vent is, I doubt she'll be your girlfriend for long so cherish the moment.

On either an interview or an EP I think the latter, Yahtzee answered the question of "don't the devs hate you?" with no actually, they usually agree with his criticism but didn't have time to fix it because of publisher pressure.

Yeah I think I read something from him in a Reddit AMA.

Craig Ferguson style

​@@prointernetuserdamn I miss good late night tv

gotta hammer it in so youtube will notice the change

The fact they don't fit in is the joke.

That’s how he gets ya the slowness demands my money lol

Reminds me of the Fry and Laurie sketch where they make up swearwords in protest like Cloff, Prunk and pim-hole.

Funny idea, but a more likely outcome would be that they just ban him completely

Now I'm trying to picture in what context the "haven't been fucked like this since grade school"--or was it kindergarten?--equivalent would ever come up in.

@@aukondk I bet you they don't play this song on the radio~

@@aukondk - Wow, my dad used "pimhole" all the time and I'm just finding out now where he got it from. RIP. iirc there was a comedian who did a bit where he'd say a string of bleepable swearwords that would spell out another swearword in morse code.

This is an underrated and well written comment

not annnnyyymoooorrrrreeeeeee ^_^

@@R3QV13m :(

Do you mean he days the actual name, or he literally says, "Insert Game Title Here"?

Well would you look at that. That's EXACTLY what happened. Way to go, past me!

​@@strain42"with great power comes great responsibility"

I doubt he'd call them convenient

Damnit, it checks all the boxes.... our only hope now is to cling to the fact he didnt mention the art style, and hope that mean he's talking about a more generic looking game

some creators I watch have figured out that you can't use swears or drop the f bomb in the first minute to minute and a half of a video, but after you're free, but I can not confirm the veracity for I am not a monetized channel lol

Not just around guidelines but his insult game is frighteningly worse than swearing

He did. He hid them behind a paywall.

@@brotherdaniel1524yes but he said up my @$$ at the end uncensored so I guess they don’t check the end

Yep, that looks like it's the one.

I'd forgotten that was coming out. Shame that franchise hasn't had much success with adaptions.

​@@l0stndamnedHas it really had any besides the first movie by Guillermo del Toro? Genuine question here given all the other adaptations I know, including _?_ possibly, seem terrible.

@@MusicoftheDamned I quite like the second del Toro film too (not as good as the first, but still watchable). I was more thinking that there's a load of game ideas that could be made with this IP but companies keep failing.

@@l0stndamned Ah, got you. Yeah, I didn't know if the series has had any good games since I'm not really a fan of the series despite liking the 2004 film. Sounds like it still hasn't though. Shame.

Narrator: "Face was not saved"

If the game is as bad as Yahtzee says, it's not about saving face. It's about getting as many Day One sales as possible before the reviews become common knowledge.

@@jasonblalock4429yes that's the reason they care about face being saved you have cracked the code

I'm just waiting for the official response to be something like, "We're still working on patches that will address most of the potential criticisms, and we don't want reviews to reflect this unpatched version of the game." Not that it'll help with the whole "saving of faces" thing, of course.

And this is one of Lance Reddick's last performances. A double bummer.

What game is it?

@@clamsalot2214 It may be "Hellboy: Web of Wyrd" ;-)

My fear as well, but the lack of gameplay footage wasn't promising

@@clamsalot2214 Silksong

Same. I had to pause and rewind just to enjoy it properly before moving on.

Or Lords of the Fallen. The "shitty 1 -2 enemies with same attacks, and etc" Insultingly easy. Bad kind of repetative..." But you're probably right.

God, it seems nowadays Hellboy can't catch a brea

@@OB.x LotF isn't a roguelike which is the genre specified at the start, plus from what I've seen that sentence doesn't really apply to it either but I guess we'll find out in a day or two.

After mentioning the combat being largely depending on punching the other chaps in the face and being too easy (I mean, if IGN calls a game in their preview "easy", it must be appropriate for toddlers as a lullaby), I feel you're quite right. And being scheduled for OCT 18th release, it can perfectly still be under the embargo. Shame, this IP is really getting a super short stick recently...

@@SuperNeilAdams Yeah was trying to think of it without googling it or anything. I was wrong lol. The only game I could think of is this game, because the previous was so boring and repetative to me. I thought did they make it a rougelike?

read the end lines @ 6:33

@@kr4ftt I still hope he keeps redacting it just to twist the knife. Put it in the credits or the description but don't give them the satisfaction of calling it out by name.

@@MarkERoth hm that's a good idea, I think he will not do it though, because it will confuse the hell out of someone who didn't watch this episode

@kr4ftt that's a very fair point but he did do a callback of his joke for Duke Nukem forever in that years review so there is a possibility

I love that static over "REDACTED" too. Imagine having that show up and then the real reveal.

Player first!

An equivalent of Blood Pack from the Total War series, I suppose

Before he said that it was because it was embargoed, I legit thought it was some pretentious artsy indie game called ?

I made the mistake of watching a Hellboy movie once. Never again.

@@iambicpentakill blasphemy, the two del toro Hellboy movies are great

tragic if so, visually at least it looked pretty good

I’m really curious. It sounds like a licensed game, since Yahtz mentions IP.

other comments suggest hellboy web of wyrd, which makes sense cause he mentioned that it's an established franchise already

I think it is about a red demon... 👀

It’s a roguelike releasing right around now, based on an existing IP. With a fantasy theme, and a focus of melee combat. My biggest fear is that it might be Hellboy: Web of Wyrd.

@@tnarwhal 3rd person camera beat 'em up, licensed game, not quite out yet, rogue-like, even the flimsy context provided by the credits gag? I think this might be the winner.

Considering Yahtz is his own editor for ZP and is probably the highest paid employee behind Nick, yes

Yahtzee said he enjoyed making the funny censor word voices.

War crimes galore, now with MINORS just as Sundowner intended

its most likely hellboy: web of wyrd, not ac6

...in a very loose sense, it kind of is, though, isn't it? Inasmuch as the progression depends on incremental upgrades and equipment which are earned and retained from previous runs? (I might be wrong about this. Honestly, I'd never even heard of the series until WritingonGames mentioned it a few months back. No idea how it managed to fly under my radar all these years, but here we are.)

@@Thrillhou Nah, AC6 is a mission based 3rd person action shooter. Death simply means restarting at a checkpoint or at worst restarting the mission. Nothing is randomized either. Upgrades are bought with cash earned in missions.

@CycFlame fair points! My mistake. The randomness up upgrades is something I hadn't taken into account at all, but I'm glad you brought it up. Much appreciated.

likely hellboy web of wyrd

battletoads

v spooky 🥹

went to the steam page to watch a trailer and died right there with you

To be fair, Max Payne did very much the same thing. Not to say the voice was exactly the same, but both the voice and dialogue were very intentionally overdone, and the voiceover monologues were absolutely rubbing your face in it.

I mean, if you’re gonna be self indulgent, you should at least be fun at the same time. Being genuinely fun to play seems so rare in mainstream games these days that honestly, they deserve a bit of self indulgence. At least they’re indulging something tasty

@emilybarclay8831 excellent way to put it boss.

Same. I thought it was going to be a _Hell Pie_ situation where he excoriated something for being too edgy in its style to its own detriment. Somehow the embargo reason is worse.

@@negativezero8174 I think 30+-year-olds can handle it.

@Solastique tell that to RU-vid. I'm not advocating the censoring, but also know i can't change the decision. So I can only hope Yatz censors himself in a way that's equally comedic.

@negativezero8174 bro I'm in my late 20's XD.

@@negativezero8174 Thank you for the advice I will stop saying the fuck word

@@TheRedneckRoman16 I've always been bad at guessing ages, especially since people of all ages love MLP. xD

I didn’t know that was a thing. Thank you.

At least he's getting his wish: no one's going to be comparing this to BG3

Thanks for that, I was wondering.

hellboy web of wyrd fits those categories i believe

What game is it?

@@monsterhunter66 Hellboy: Web of Wyrd, which is the closest answer of a guess.

R.I.P. then? If it's actually what you think it is, then it's like that franchise can't catch a break since--*checks date*--2008.

@@蔡登宇-k6b If how unintentionally hilarious the Steam trailer is is anything to go by, I'd say you're right on the money.

It for sure is the Hellboy game, if you check the 3 minute review done by someone else, gheh mention that the Embargo for the hellboy game was pushed back

Didn't ZP do it first with the review of Void Bastards and something else I forgot?

Especially if it's Hellboy, as that comic series is genuine cool.

Please please PLEASE don't give them ideas...