Let's Drown Out... Just Cause 2 

And *then* there is 1:05:54

​@@thenarstarDAAAANGER ZONE.

Well done, you have correctly identified History

+Nate Richards *slowly claps* Everyone's already "won the internet" thousands of times so all I can offer is this bottle cap to pin to your shirt. But wear it with pride.

+Eatmyfist you sir have earned a golf clap

Oh how right you is

This is unfortunately still relevant in 2020

The Addiction 2 Also remember that hilarious episode where celebrities where trying to steal the Prophet Muhamed's power of censorship and the one where cartman tries to get family guy off the air these were both born from the original episode muhammed was censored from

As a child watching this I used to be closer to Yahtzee and Gabe ideologically I’m now an extremist but I still sometimes listen to let’s drown out to be brought back to a simpler time when I was naive and ignorant enough to be happy

well time to get shitfaced and watch them all over :)

Dammit, good guess. The alcohol is purely incidental, I swear!

It's all ogre

ITS SO SAD! its unreal

Still sad :(

he really does.

IKR?! What I really hated was when he would be asked a simple question then he would go on this long psuedo philosophical spiel explaining the reasoning behind his answer before giving his actual answer.

@@SpydersByte i think he's very clearly unused to "public speaking" as it were, it can be annoying but it's nice they aren't too professional

The Hiphopopotamus That and the four year with with a 20 year old mum pointing to CoD on the shelf at my local Game store.

The Hiphopopotamus you are extremely, fantastically correct and I agree with you with unfiltered enthusiasm

The Hiphopopotamus i hate it when simple to understand things somehow become this evil thing just because they people trying to criticize it want the thing to have a deeper meaning no. its literally just dudes shooting other dudes. just like any other multiplayer focused game, the singleplayer campaign is nothing more than an extended tutorial mode. the real part of the game where everyone goes for is the multiplayer.

+The Hiphopopotamus Your point is pretty decent, I was a teenager when COD 4 came out but never really got hugely into it when there were games like Oblivion and Soul Reaver. Yahtzee's point still stands however if you consider changing the nationality. Would a game about a russian special forces squad invading another country sell just as well? It doesn't have to be playing as Russia invading America just Russia invading another country they claim are threatening them. I don't think it would sell even a tenth of the copies of COD4. There is a point of seeing one's own nation and going along which was why the game was a never a sell for me. If i want violence I can go quite a few places, if I want shooting mechanics I've been fine since Black on the PS2 when it was perfected. COD games have the unique selling points of Multiplayer and shooting another country's inhabitants as part of your own military if you fit the target demographic. If you go to COD you want the national military experience or you would go to something else with violence that has another unique selling point i.e. people who play Spec Op the Line go for shooting mechanics and genre deconstruction or Halo because sci fi shooting. Sure these games don't all come out at the same time but a game always has to have some reason why it won in the competition for attention. I agree with you on a lot but don't think Yahtzee was wrong

+Wilf Nelson -- See, you yourself are passing unfounded judgement by presuming (or poorly recalling?) that Modern Warfare was about the US and/or UK invading a country they claimed were threatening them. The US launch an operation in a middle eastern country where a known terrorist faction has staged a successful military coup d'etat and executes the president along with many civilians, a group whom they know will use this establishment as a base for launching more terrorist attacks. That this is a fictional country should suffice to appease anyone's sodding Political Correctness, unless they are specifically aiming to create a non-issue. Russia is involved, but again, the enemy the player fights is a rogue ultra-nationalist faction who is attempting to take power, while also having been involved in terrorist attacks against the West. Similarly to BF4, the Russian gov is assisted by the USA and UK in countering that faction. Mainly by the UK, at that. And, by the way, the USA doesn't have a glorious victory in the Middle East which shames the fictional country by showing they can't sort their shit, instead they get a nasty surprise that royally fucks them up the bum. Now, if you're gonna tell me these villains are prejudice against those cultures, you can sod off, because you're living in a dream world if you think they're entirely uncharacteristic of them. How many terrorist attacks do you know of that weren't perpetrated by muslims? And do you happen to know Putin? Russia's foreign policy since he usurped power? The war in Ukraine? Besides, similar plots based on rogue and/or corrupt elements in the USA or elsewhere in the West are also common. It's the same old fucking corridor mentality that all criticism of the whites or the West is valid, but if it's even just perceived criticism of another culture or race, it's automatically suspect. People with this mindset are just as narrow-minded as actually prejudiced conservatives. As for what demographic it appeals to, well, of course it's gotta appeal to something specific, at some level. Obviously a game where you play as an American soldier is going to generally appeal the most to American gamers with an appreciation of the military -- that said, you play most of the game as a British SAS, only one mission as an American; same for MW2. It wouldn't have made sense if the player was playing through this plot as a militant Vietnamese transexual who identifies himself as a woman. The same way that girl TV shows will typically have female protagonists and Japanese anime will 95-99% feature Japanese main characters. Drop the white guilt mindset that all bias that native Westerners have in favour of their own culture has to be wrong to some degree. It's hypocritical, self-destructive and, quite frankly, pathetic. And I mean no undue offense in saying so.

They'll make more....you'll see :'(

@@misterwishart no they won’t you obviously never learned why lol

@@misterwishart Yes they will.....In never land!

Haha, I always found it funny how everyone in that game talked with the same American accent no matter what country the game said they were from.

In the enemy within expansion you make them speak in several different langauges, like german or french.

Jimpiedepimpie Oh ok. Well that's better I suppose XD

Robot death squads speaking nothing but Deutsch are the best type of psychological warfare.

You mean Halo and Mass Effect?

This game legit looks better than battlefield 2042

Ajit Pai

Easier to destroy.

A game that fully realizes this idea would most likely be decried as apologia, with Wehrmacht soldiers depicted as Just Following Orders and all. I would like a simple change in perspective, going away from the standard Central European theatre to show other battle zones of the war. All the films and games that concentrated on the classic thing lead to the world believing fascism is a purely German thing, never mind that Austria, fascist Italy and fascist Spain joined the Axis voluntarily. If Pan's Labyrinth could make solid villains out of Franco's henchmen, why not games?

I'd just want to see any WW2 shooter now because it's been years since any decent one has been released and MW shooters are just terrible now.

Doyle Harken Remember friend, Spain may have become a Fascist state, however they did not participate in the actual war, With the old explanation... "Churchill pays under the table to keep Spain out of War"

Agreed, but sadly mainstream America doesn't want deep or thought-provoking, they want jingoism and circle-jerking.

I always preferred the idea of a Vietnam War game from the perspective of the Vietcong. That would also have great survival and trap-based gameplay.

Heh, it's like in a mission in the arctic circle and you're playing a guy who has to wear heavy winter gear and has to find shelter every several minutes to not die from hypothermia, and the Canadian guys just wonder around the frozen death landscape in their regular uniform like it wasn't a big deal.

Modern Warfare: Canadian Bacon

I'm Canadian and I want to see that really badly, since there's no real way to antagonize us. We're so nice and peaceful with our terrifying winters and Tim Hortons

Frankly I'm insulted we haven't been made a villain yet. C'mon America we burnt your White house down in the war of 1812. you can try for some payback.

I want to see a modern warfare game where America is the villain... kinda like Ghosts except nobody hijacks the space-laser and it's just every other country in the world going: "You built WHAT?! No, we're putting a stop to that". Causing America to become invaded by every single other country on the planet simultaneously.

Also the most exciting moment in all of lets drown out

Where was it referenced outside this video?

@@Metal_Auditor they mentioned it in the hulk episode of let's drown out, outside of that I don't really know.

My brother told me to watch this video and I'm guessing it was because of this moment. It was so lackluster. He didn't do anything but pull up. Very disappointed at the hype he built it up as. You know what I did? I was at the final boss of Just Cause 4 yesterday. I scaled the outside of the skyscraper and was outside on the balcony when I thought "I should resupply". So I called an air drop of this really awesome grenade launcher. ... ... Wait a minute.... I opened the supply drop menu and called in a tank. That's right! I air dropped a tank on the balcony of this building and just drove it into the final boss. I just drove this tank into an office on the top floor of a building and beat the final boss gauntlet rush in about a minute. That was awesome. Dodging a missile while not actually doing much to dodge it? Not so much.

@Ireinirz You have 69 likes at this point in time, late June, 2022. This might change in the future, but for now, I just wanted to say "nice"! Also, for the commenter above me, Ryder Draconis, who pissed in your oatmeal?

◊ BLACK PHILANTHROPY ◊ _That's_ a high bar.

I can't find anything else as good. And I don't care that this comment is six years old.

i will check back in a month. i better see you here damn it!

@@gravysamich here I am.

Spike Rose The thing is that a standard simulator usually fall short on both graphics and game play

Spike Rose Exactly. I mean, personally, I still think PS2, and early PS3 looks fine. There's even some later PS1 games that look fine. There's no need to blow your entire budget on high quality 1080p HD graphics, when your game sucks. It reminds me of arguments between PC and consoles, or between previous gen and next gen consoles. Everyone's always all "Oh but the graphics are SO much better! It's 1080 instead of 720! The textures are slightly larger!" Like..who cares? Is 1080 THAT much better than 720? No, no it's not. It's better, sure, but not by enough that I'm gonna buy a whole new game platform for. I mean honestly, I can't even tell the difference most of the time between 1080 and 720. They both look HD to me. The only graphical upgrade I'll tolerate hearing about, is 60fps over 30fps. Me and my brother used to be really into Battlefield 4. We played it on 360 quite a lot. Then he bought an Xbone and the game on that. We played it. He was acting like it was the best thing ever. I didn't notice a huge difference between the two versions really. The only thing I noticed was the FPS. Everything else graphically looked close enough that I didn't really care. I wasn't gonna buy an Xbone just for the very slight graphical upgrade when the game plays pretty much the same.

Spike Rose Every single game made with Unreal Engine 4 on Gamejolt

Spike Rose Do Early Access Survival games count?

i think that was around when i came

I think your profile pick shows that quite nicely.

Truly

+John Smith Yeah mate

I feel like being as this is the guy who does Zero Punctuation, I shouldn't be surprised, but I was.

He should perform some Gilbert and Sullivan

pepsifizznation I might actually join RU-vid Red for that.

I know this is a 4 year old comment but eh here's my two sense , I agree all countries unless they are like iceland with no borders and very little strategic value need some military as a deter-ant but I believe america is beyond the point of diminishing returns and its obsessively funding military at this point , and I believe it's better for the long term nation pride if they do more to improve the well being of citizens

I'm glad to see another man of noble birth on this putrid site, where do your holdings lie, Lord Scumbag? Perhaps we could exchange peasants, mine are getting quite annoying.

Ah, good day to you two gents. Lovely weather we're having isn't it, mi'lords? I do so love the smell of napalm and other various weaponry of chemical warfare in the morning, or afternoon, really it doesn't matter when, does it? It's for a just cause as you both are well aware, shall I send some of my regiment to tend to any matters you may have that require a more, how should I put it? "Tanky" approach? Oh I do love a good pun, don't you chaps? Well I should be off, "Sir Tanky shall slay the beast and its hordes" and all of that sort of thing, I obtained my name for a reason after all.

Then go, brave knight, protect my lands and you shall feast at my table.

Very well then, I shall lead my men into battle, as always. I've managed to keep my men loyal to me this long because I never pitted them against any foe I wouldn't battle myself. ALLONSY LADS!

This doesn't really work as well now that Google made me change my name...

You got Germany wrong. It's West vs. East (former DDR/GDR) Germany: East Germany, especially the state Brandenburg (cities like Cottbus)

***** New England: The weirdo's with the accent. You can't determine someone stupid or dropped on their head for one stupid statistic. That, Ikgrid, is called ignorance.

The Dutch have Belgium, and I'm pretty sure it goes the other way as well.

That's futuristic not modern

@@Shillicity7009 I assumed he meant Modern Warfare as in the Call of Duty subserise.

He is getting kinda into the habit of bragging about his talent of late. Did a girl compliment him or something? I mean, it is great. But how come it took *insert number* years before the internet found out about this gift?

***** consider that zero punctuation is basically an exercise of verbal/vocal acrobatics, and its not that unusual to think that yahtzee might have some nice pipes

I think lots of people sing better than they think, but Zero Punctuation is more a resume builder for rapping than singing. In my semi-educated opinion. ;-) I mean, have you seen him and Jim's slam poetry?

How so?

@@battlefront1987 a lot of the stuff they're talking about either Yahtzee doesn't really believe anymore (or at least has more nuanced takes than before) or was only relevant at the time. Things have changed quite a bit in the seven or eight years since these have gone up, including Ben and Gabe.

If you read catch-22 they explain that it's a pledge that you do for no reason so you are subconsciously loyal to whatever you are pledging/agreeing to. Psychological and all that. I think it came around during the early 40's. While WW2 was going on.

"The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of fealty to the federal flag and the republic of the United States of America." Basically saying, I will be loyal to the country and I will be a good citizen. The same kind of thing that's been going on since the beginning of organized civilization.

***** That's the state of America these days.

JDLENL I almost commented telling you that America isn't a state. I need to go to bed.

Mike we wanted an explanation, not a definition.

it is okay to have gratitude for the good your country does, but it is also still idiotic to blindly follow them into war just because you were born there. the problem with patriotism is that it is nothing more than cult behavior at a certain point. you become justified in horrible actions because some greater power is watching over you as you work for it.

@@gravysamich Seems to me that's not a problem with patriotism itself, but a problem with going too far with it (as you say, "at a certain point"). And pretty much everything is dangerous in that way.

@@Vic2point0"Im gonna ignore your point and point at everything else!" is what you just said. you seem to ignore that americans do it way more than any other country. no other country has a creepy pledge of allegiance every morning for schools or waves the flag around like theyd forget what itd look like if we didnt.

@@mitchhamilton64 On the contrary, I *addressed* what they had said and made a counterargument. The problem isn't patriotism itself but going too far with it. And I think *some* Americans do it way more than your typical person in other countries, but there is overlap.

kill3456 It's more the fact that when people say "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!" they generally mean "blindly follow our leaders into a pointless bloody war" rather than anything that actually looks after veterans.

I don't mean Americans in general. I mean some of the more war-mongering people and media outletsoutlets (such as ones that rhyme with "box") say to hush any criticism of war.

Indeed

I just wish he would realize that one shitty game company does not somehow represent the homogenous opinion of an entire country, and that they really don't put that much thought into those spunkgargleweewee shooters anyway.

Bad example, since everyone HATED the Xcom FPS.

GSSAGE7 But... But I thought it was fun.

Mr. Big Snake I thought it was okay. The only thing is that XCOM: Enemy Unknown was such a pile of pure beautiful awesomeness that The Bureau looked pathetic by comparison

Jesus Christ Oh yes, god yes. Completely in agreement on that.

Hey, JC!