Far Cry 5 (Zero Punctuation) 

Fun fact! I live in a town in Montana that Ubisoft employees visited to get their locales/pictures/taste for the local folks, and one of the bases in the game is based off of a local brewery and restaurant in town. I had no idea until I came across the place in game, and it blew my mind. It was a perfect recreation, and I had fun killing the weird cult members in a place I've had dinner and beers with my family many times.

I'd say the best part about this game was when this one character keeps you captured and you have to keep doing this little speedrun section where you have to kill everyone as fast as possible. However, the last time this happens, you whip around the corner expecting to see the final enemy you've killed three times previously, but this time its the resistance leader of the area. But because you're so well acquainted with it at this point, you've already sprayed him down and killed him. It was a rather neat idea that made me feel genuinely responsible.

"as good as a Ubisoft game gets" Yahtzee 2018..... get that on the box Ubi, it wont get better

He was way nicer to that ending than I was. Though, I'm wondering if the Mass Effect interrupt system has spoiled me, because there were about nine different cutscenes where I was screaming at the screen, "I HAVE A MAGNUM! JUST GIVE HIM A THIRD NOSTRIL, YOU TWAT!"

"deport the Vikings" Finnally, a political idea I can get behind

You can heal the dog w/ belly rubs 10/10 Would Good Boy Again

"The Ubisoft Sandbox, a phrase for me that must now be said with the same tone as the Rape of Nanking." Brutal lol

For once, I would like a helicopter in a game intro to survive.

My favorite part of first playing this game in co-op mode for the first time: Going half a mile out to a river, hopping water plane, and seeing a large 'jesus' statue out in the distance.. then saying "Do we just fly over to it.. can we? I guess it is a sand box game", crashed into some people while landing and taking over the whole damn thing in the first 10 minutes of co-op mode. It only went up from there, somehow. Fun game, without a doubt.

At least we don't have to climb a tower every two seconds.

"Canada's frilly miniskirt." Don't know if that's an insult or a compliment...

This is one of the most positive FC5 reviews I have heard so far. Is Yahtzee okay?

Say what you want about this game, the coop is fucking hilarious

It's 2022... we are now at volume 6 of the Collapse of Rome...

I never understood why, after unlocking the airport, you couldn't just fly out for help.

Fun fact: You CAN get plopped back into the sandbox for post-game fuckabouts if you accept Joseph's proposition at the final encounter, getting that ending. You see the ending, and respawn at the last autosave, letting you clean up your leftovers, and reattempt the final encounter to see the other, more, err... final... ending.

I remember accidentally driving a Semi through an enemy stronghold because the marker for the mission was a few feet behind it up the side of a mountain. I didn't notice anything wrong until a bunch of people started shooting at me.

I love the far cry 5 box art, for what it's worth. The most artistic thing to come from ubisoft in a while.

Far Cry 5 is actually politically correct: Saying that man buns shouldn't be allowed anywhere near politics is correct.

I agree, the ending made me go "Well that was all for nothing..."

I always love a good positive review from Yahtzee, or at least what passes for one sometimes

I actually kinda want to play this, but two things prevent it. 1. Requires an Ubisoft account (even on Steam). 2. STILL runs DUNIVO.

"More depressing and granted that's why I seek out stories to actually feel something other than the usual background radiation of slightly aroused contempt" this hit too hard

Its actually pretty fun, but I like almost all far cry games so i guess im one of those people.

Far Cry 3.4

So it's ok, almost good even.

03:36 "That's why i seek out stories, to actually feel something other than the usual background radiation of *slightly aroused contempt"* Brilliant.

As a resident of Montana I can safely say the premise of Far Cry 5 is plausible.

What exactly was Ubisoft's idea with this game's ending? You chose to arrest the villain, the county get nuked thanks to events you had no control over while he rants about how he was right all along. You don't arrest him, you don't know if the county gets nuked by the violent brainwashing you are subject to kicks in and you start murdering people. The game talks about not solving everything with violence, but when it gives you the option to spare the villain your act of mercy backfires. Not to mention the stuff about nuclear war was is learned through exposition that is optional to listen to. You do not set up something that big in details that a player can entirely miss.

It's sad most people won't get the rise and fall of the Roman Empire joke lol

Definitely a downer. I also love being an unkillable mute Terminator in a biker outfit as I Molotov cultists while throwing knives to and fro.

Suddenly very glad that I learned there is, in fact, an ending. Now I know I have to finish everything before moving on.

Ohh god this guy must be a really sad case to behold in real life.

I'm quite surprised he didn't mention anything about the now regenerating health as a pretty big thing in the far cry series was the ability to heal with relocating your bones bandaging wounds and popping out bullets with a stick but all that's gone and I know how much he has regenerating health in video games so yer bit of a surprise there

There most offensive thing Yahtzee has ever done is include that knockoff helicopter. Lego is purity and perfection. Scrub blocks get out.

-Sees a Trump joke in the video -Scrolls down to the comments -Grabs popcorn

yatzee is the kind of dude who COMPLAINS when videogames dont go political when it should be the other way around and he should praise em

He forgot to mention how funny it is to watch cheeseburger the bear toss people around like ragdolls

Frankly I loved the ending. Yeah it bummed me the fuck out but it was a risky move and I applaud it. Takes serious balls to have the villain win.

I think this game would have worked better if the antagonists hadn't been a religious group but rather a weirdo survivalist militia in the vein of Posse Comitatus or those guys in Oregon that held up the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Montana isn't big on that sort of fringe religious fanaticism, as much as it is on hardcore libertarians and political extremists who hate the government. If the game was set in rural Utah or Idaho, those would be better settings for a doomsday cult as you can find plenty of crackpot Mormon fundamentalists out in the sticks. The antagonists still could have had that millenarian "civilization is ending" outlook, but the religious element doesn't work and isn't that well-defined.

I never got a *insert who you think is ruining the country* vibe from it I got a major suicide cult vibe from it, kinda like Heaven's Gate or Jonestown

Yahtzee is the only real critic I've heard say it, but apparently Far Cry 5 is a good game. Granted, it's more of the same, but even with the tried and true mechanics, I've heard the story is actually pretty good.

So, here's my biggest gripe with this one, and you could probably chalk this one up to personal taste, but I'm gonna say it anyway. I wish they could've tweaked the plot progression system a little bit more. Let me explain. As Yahtzee mentions, the plot progression is based on "Resistance Points" which you acquire via story missions, outpost liberation, etc. As you gather resistance points in one of the three regions you reach a given threshold (Resistance Levels) that triggers a special story mission in which you get captured by that region's leader (John, Faith, or Jacob). Running parallel to this is the level of cult activity you see in the region. As your Resistance level goes up in a region, you see less and less supply trucks, cult VIPs, hostages to free, essentially stuff you randomly run into when wandering around. This activity makes exploring interesting, are fun to engage in, and a degree of tension to the gameplay. However, engaging in them also nets you Resistance points, not many, but they add up. When you finally get to the point where you kill the cult leader in a particular region, all the "random" cult activity just vanishes, with only unfinished side missions and outposts left. It's worth mentioning as well that a lot of story missions unlock "specialists," NPCs with different skills that you can order around, which I find to be genuinely fun to wander around and work with, therefore I would like to have all the story missions in a region sorted before I take on the side stuff. These story missions, however, earn you a ton of Resistance points, and after you kill the leader, whatever side missions or story missions you have left just don't feel believable because the atmosphere generated by the random cult activity is no longer there. My point is, as refreshingly organic as this plot progression system is, it limits, to some degree, the amount of fun I can have with the game. Blowing up roadblocks is fun. Stealing supply trucks is fun. I don't want to have to choose between the random stuff and missions. I feel like the simplest solution would be to either decrease the amount of Resistance points the random stuff gets you, so you can do more of it without worrying as much about how much of it your doing, or increasing the number of points to increase your Resistance level. Now I can understand that there was a method behind these specific design choices because that, for this system to work, a certain balance is needed to both retain the organic feel to it and let the player feel like they're making progress. I also understand such a balance can be extremely difficult for developers to get right. But as the game is, right now, this progression system brings with it a level of constraint that I personally wish wasn't there.

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I thought the ending was entirely shoddy. You spend the entire game being shown how awful each sibling is in their own right and in what ways each of them deserve a stray round and then you get to the end and you're basically told, "By the way, Joseph was right about the end of the world. He really did have god's foresight on his side and fighting him and Eden's Gate was wrong." John, Jacob, Faith, and Joseph are deliberately shown to be completely insane and their characters aren't written in any way to inspire sympathy or understanding. The "twist" at the end was entirely unearned.

So uh, what book you think we're up to at this point? 5? 6?

One 'small hands' joke away from a Late Night TV monologue! Looks like you're settling into America well.

My main gripe about the game is the way story missions progress. I like the idea of advancing to the next stage of the story based on how much you've disrupted the enemy; that aspect was cool. What I didn't like was that it automatically started the next main story mission as soon as you got to that stage. Just make the mission available, don't railroad me. I'll advance the plot when I'm good and ready, thank you very much.

I'm from rural Montana and I don't think they quite nailed us right. The adherents to this cult seem more like Idaho or Utah than Montana or Wyoming. Montana/Wyoming aren't really religious, they're more "get outta my yard!" isolationist types. Read "Under the Banner of Heaven" for a good look at fundamentalist cults in the Western US. I'm not upset over the characterization or anything, I just don't think of Montana that way. Utah is the place where religion really dominates. I suppose Mormons woulda been upset if you put it in Utah because it would have been a less thinly veiled jab at their fundamentalist cults.

I wish that they hired a few male and female voices actors and gave you a choose voice screen to hear your character instead of them being some bland piece of shit. The only major complaint I have with this game is how it basically drags you into story missions for the villains when you want to do literally anything else

That vat of Kool Aid joke may be the most brutal joke Yahtzee ever made.

I always loved Zero Punctuation, but this is just so political! Zero Punctuation is dead now. Oh wait, sorry. My brain was full of Swiss cheese for a moment. I almost started a flame war over someone having a different opinion than me! What a stupid thing to do!

Considering it is so racially diverse as far as characters goes that you shoot maybe the requisite line that starts every ubisoft game makes sense this time. This game has been made by a diverse group of game developers with various faiths and believes.

The Japanese headband you had the anthropomorphic game wear says 'goukaku' which is something a student would wear when trying to pass an important exam. A more appropriate choice would have been 'kamikaze' or 'hissho'.

My first Far Cry game and It's pretty good, I just wish I could decide when I want to do a main mission, not nocked unconscious over and over again to keep the plot going. I find the side quest much better than the main.

I find the endings utterly ridiculous. Spoilers Where the hell did a group of religious hillbillies get nukes? They only show in the resist ending so it's only logical that Seed is launching them. What happened to satellite radio? Why didn't the military bat an eye when ALL OF MONTANA WENT DARK? What the hell happened to border patrols? How does bliss work? Why does the effect seem temporary in the game only for the ending to completely override that and instead go for permanent mind control? Why not just shoot the last guy in the Seed family? Why didn't one of your companions do it in the resist ending? Where was Cheeseburger? Will there ever be another Testie Festie? Could this have been prevented if we just climbed more towers?

I'm gonna watch this video and leave a comment, but not necessarily in that order.

"Oh hello Raoul America!" "Hey Yahztee, how's tricks?"

I'm waiting for lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee

You can go back and finish the stuff you left in FryCry5, you just have to fast forward through the credits till the end before it'll let you.

Ah, the good old days when we were only on Volume 4

I think the thing I respect the most is in the prologue for arma 3 you take multiple helicopter trips and none of them crash.

Volume _3,_ thank you very much; 4 starts with the birth of the Empire, and we aren't *quite* there yet. We may very well be at the *end* of volume 3, but still.

I remember watching the endings/boss fights of this game and thinking: oh I cannot wait for Yahtzee to do this one.

The only game I can think of where Yatz easily could, and should, have trashed its narrative decisions, yet doesn't. No mention of kidnapping the player randomly and monologuing at them, etc.

After thermonuclear bomb, Tom Clancy's EndWar begins.

I'm pretty sure you don't read the comments Yahtzee, but i'm gonna say it anyway; i love your audiobooks, the best part is listening to you narrating and my favourite one is Will save the galaxy for food, i've listened to it 4 times already and every time i listen to it is like i'm hearing it for the first time. Thank you for being you and hope to see/hear more from you in the future. Cheers! Loads of love and support from Canada. 👍

That rape of Nanking joke fucking killed me.

The description you made of the setting and the similarity with America it's painfully accurate.

You get my subscription! This was one of those videos that doesn’t make you check how much longer the video is. It would seem that zero punctuation-no breaks-doesn’t give the viewer a chance to have any other thoughts or temptations to stop watching! Great work!

Like a bay area health food specialist... That was the most Berkeley thing I've ever heard

I was so annoyed by the ending, I loved the replay value of far cry 3 and really thought far cry 5 would be the same but the ending just killed it for me.

Did I... did I hear the tiniest bit of hope in Yahtzee’s voice?

The effects of living in LA are starting to show, Benjamin.

Our miniskirt is indeed frilly.

I have a confession I didn’t get past the level of far cry 3. I got stuck in the level where you had to save some guy or escort him to some place, and burning weed plants with a flamethrower. It was my first far cry game lol

I feel like Montana might get a bad rap from this game. I live there and I can assure you it's a nice place, if a bit boring and cold. Some religious hooligans might actually spice things up, but they'd all move back to California or die in the winter.

that joke at the beggining was brutal....

I’d love to him do a special on the Labo toys, namely watching him put that stuff together.

Far Cry 5 is my first entry into the Far Cry series, and largely my first for a Ubisoft sandbox (apart from the Haytham Kenway section of AC3) and I'm glad of it. Coming in free from baggage, expectations, and fatigue has left me free to enjoy the living hell out of this game.

"Here's Wonderwall" hahaha

Did . . . Did Yahtzee just give a Ubisoft game a good review? What?

One thing I liked about the game is that when you did a fetch quest you got to keep the vehicle/pet/human instead of some money or XP. And in some cases you got to see special things **SPOILER WARNING MAYBE INBOUND????** like how if you complete the mission where you build the man’s teleporter and then go inside after you turn it on, you get to see an alien, showing that he will die as soon as he gets there. Kinda sad, he was crazy, yeah, but sad. And the fetch quest helped you liberate places so that’s fun. Yeah, there’s payment but it’s not necessary. You don't need it. You can get silver from safes so buying it is just when you run out of safes and still want to buy.

Well, I suppose we are at 'volume 5' now.

Not sure if you get this but if you do could you do a review on 'Tachyon: The Fringe', 'Starlancer' and it sort of sequel 'Freelancer'?

I liked this game. Mainly because I made it a point not to clear any of the outposts by stealth, but rather circled around them, scouted everything I could, made a hasty "attack there, get to that machine gun emplacement and hold my ground until I've wiped out all the reinforcements" plan and then just straight up assaulted them. It was actually fun.

It's kinda sad that the rural US is massively poor and desperate, which leads to them to make such horrible social decisions, which in turn leads to people ignoring their struggles.

I like how he was simultaneously slamming the game while also saying it was still good. It's really hard to do that and I respect you for that

THANK YOU. I've been saying that the US has been emulating Rome for literal _years_ and no one took me seriously. Now they'll just think I'm quoting you but at least that's something.

Bought it for less than the price of two pints and have played it for around 70 hours. Job done. Love it!

2:25 Yahtzee is enjoying living in San Fransisco I see.

I’m more partial to George Orwell’s 1984.

I must admit people narked on it but I think America is probably the most realistic setting for a far cry game yet, you don't have to explain where all the high grade weapons came from, it's one of the smaller reasons I'd never like to live there.

The fact that I live in rural America makes this game hit close to home.

I love it when people from a country where you can get thrown in jail for a Nazi joke make fun of the United States

1:03 is my favorite part. So true.

You're not wrong, yatzee

The Cat in the Hat's point about the ending is good in some ways - but without a new Game plus mode it means you don't get access to all those guns you won on community events anymore (which is kinda annoying). Though so many people have complained about that they are supposed to be patching it in some form. Besides if you are playing for giggles then being able to reset the outposts is only partly useful as it means you are just stuck animal hunting in an empty world as if you have every car and every gun there is nothing else to do than go hunting there isn't even any PEGIs (nice pun Ubisoft) to shoot at outside the outposts anymore.

No comment about the awful, unavoidable capture sequences and the absurdity of being captured so many damn times?

All things considered I'm not convinced the 'canon' ending (the one where you don't wuss out) wasn't mostly a hallucination, and it wasn't a last ditch effort to recruit the deputy by Joey.

The ending was just a cop out.