Redfall (Zero Punctuation) 

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The competition for Blandest Game of the Year is lukewarmer than it's ever been.

You'd think a game about vampires would have higher stakes.

Redfall makes you FEEL like a Vampire Victim as it sucks all the joy from your body 10/10

The funny thing is that it ISN'T rebalanced for multiplayer. The biggest complaint I've heard/seen is that every friend group is just one person clapping cheeks while everyone else desperately looks for enemies.

The giant wall of ocean was kinda cool

5:36 now that you mention it, the final boss boils down to “interact with three things and push the win button”, so if that’s a boss, it ain’t much of a doozy…

You know, hearing Yahtzee talk about this, it's clear that there was potential in this project. It obviously was set up well in the beginning, and vampires having human minions to do the grunt work has been used on and off again since Bram Stoker's Dracula. Hell, even the idea of having to switch which weapons you're using between killing humans and vampires is an interesting idea, though a stake launcher is going to wreck a human's day pretty bad, but maybe if they'd made the human focused weapons do minimal damage to vamps or let the vamps regenerate anything except "Anti-Vampire" whereas the vamp weapons should mostly work on people but be harder to use and/or refill ammo. That could have had some interesting game play, but instead we got something so easy that a game reviewer who has to finish within a week cranked up the difficulty just to feel SOMETHING. I hope that most of this concept-drop the multiplayer-can be revisited by someone who gives a shot, because this could have been a really good way to make players feel like a modern Van Helsing.

And to think, this was Microsoft's first ever $70 game.

I think Arcane is hitting the same problems lots of developers go through. The talent got poached, or moved on once their creative visions were realised and they didn't retain any of the talent that produced their big hits.

To be fair chihuahuas are quite insane

I appreciate Yahtzee bringing up that you're only as good as the last thing you did because dude talks the talk and walks the walk. He's been putting out bangers consistently for years, so he clearly knows a thing or two about the creative process

Not only did some of the gamers say nope on this game even the enemies checked out in some footage i saw. Vampires that just floated in the air. I hope arkane can bounce back from this, they do make some interesting games at times.

But let's still admit that anything that requires three shotgun shells to the head to kill is still pretty strong. Just not by VG standards.

I love it when the closed captioning reveals prior versions of the script. 😏

1:08 There's only one game that i can think of that manages to jump the "meant for four players, but perfectly serviceable as a single player experience" hurdle. Yep, that's right. Let's pin another accolade on Deep Rock Galactic. A few more of those and it might collapse under the weight of all of them.

3:47 I hope we get to see more of Rambo Yahtzee in the future.

You know, if you close your eyes and pretend he got his developers confused, you can almost pretend like this is a Borderlands 3 review

It's like Carcinization but with Destiny. Every game keeps trying to become Destiny

ah, my most trusted source of game reviews, an angry british man who swears alot, god am i glad i have zero punctuation

Those last two words explain more about Yahtzee than anything from his artistic output to date.

his audiobook is good and he is a great reader he gives all the characters their own voice. its worth getting

Have a Happy Birthday Yahtzee

The one part he liked was on a boat, what a surprise.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YAHTZEE!!!🎊 🎉

To be fair, the Walrus could probably be taught to assemble a LEGO Death Star if given the right help to grab them with some tools. Training. The developers couldn't put together an airplane puzzle designed for 2 year olds!

Cant wait to see his review of Gollum! I'll be making popcorn when that one comes out!!

always a pleasure to hear yahtzee do his thing

As someone who has played his share of BAD games, I thought everyone was being dramatic when they called this the worst game of the year, but I genuinely struggle to say one good thing about it

Yatzee no longer wanting to harm marine life is peak character development

Hearing Yahtzee name drop OnlyFans feels like hearing my dad talk about VR suddenly out of nowhere

I just want to say that "Existentially Challenged" was one of my favorite Audiobooks last year. Great, funny story/mystery, and great narration by Yahtzee.

Yahtzee's mum is my stepdad? We're practically related

Loved the Stake Driver as a sprite for a gun in the video lmao

That my mum joke took me outta this world😂

Hey, Chihuahuas might look adorable, but they are, in fact, demons from hell that will not hesitate to murder you...unlike the vampires in Redfall.

Yathz didn't even shit on this as much as I'd hoped

The line about murdering baby seals in a car crusher was fucking amazing.

You got past the first jump in cup head. That makes you more skilled then most game reviewers.

That may have been the best pun one of these has ever ended on.

Happy birthday Yahtzee.

Love your books yathzee !

Whoever added the whole intro to sponsorblock, thanks man.

4:38 not sure why but laughed hard at Yahtzee's character reaction.

"You know who else can sustain that amount of hatred for that long?"

1:08 Deep rock galactic is the singular example of a game that did “four player coop shooter that’s just as good when played solo” actually well

Given what I've seen of Redfall, this review honestly felt generous.

When Redfall was announced and I realised Arkane were the developers, I was soooo freaking excited. Then I played it and some how got syphilis from the wet fart.

The game wasn't amde by Arkane France, it was made by Arkane Austin and probably co developed with devs from the French studio.

Count Dooku: I've been looking forward to this...

I guarantee you this was a project that Austin was working on in the margins of all the other games they have been working on; like this was never meant to be a game, it just sort of happened, where the side-work reached critical mass, then they said, "Hey, can we put the finishing touches on this thing?" they got told "no" and then it was taken and sold as a finished product.

Happy birthday to the best video game critic in these dreadful times!

Fun fact, the multiplayer for Redfall only gives the host story progression, mraning even the "intended" 4 player experience wasn't designed correctly.

Mums can indeed hold grudges. I think that’s how Mummy’s are made. Great Stuff, as always.

I'll add it to the bucket list

0:56 "... Should I leave?" Oh no, just stay and listen... you'll want to be next in line!

“First impressions were good” Well of course they were, Yahtzee was on a boat.

Existentially Challenged is my favorite book of Yahtzee's I've read by far. So good.

My guess is that there was a different game that was actually being made and some monkey in a suit scrapped it and demanded Arkane make something to fill a slot in the release window in 10 months using what they had from the scrapped project.

Remember kids: Arkane was forced to make Redfall after the live service multiplayer model was seen to be "profitable" a few years ago.

"or the one who can jump quite high" bro leave Luigi alone 😂

I used to watch Yahtzee over 10 years ago, im surprised he is still at it and holy hell nothings changed! Remember when he got into a fight with Pure Pwnage? Crazy

Added the book to my audible wishlist. Gotta wait for my Amazon EBT Credits to re-up

As the only game reviewer I watch you are never late on a review for me.

We've definitely got a contender for a game on this year's Top 5 Blandest/Worst

Anybody here played that in Multiplayer? If so, how was it compared to what Yahtzee said.

Great vid

Man. I so look forward to him doing Gollum. I know Yahtz' isn't, but I sure am.

saw existentially challenged in waterstones a few weeks ago, I wanted to grab it but given it was a sequel I figured I should pick up the first one which they did not have. This reminded me to go order it, so cheers!

Wow, he went pretty gentle on Redfall. If it was me I'd have been a lot harsher. He didn't even point out the myriad bugs and glitches.

Then it must not only be optimized for multiplayer but also for cloud gaming, because the enemies were plentiful and frustratingly competent, when I played this on my last-gen console. The world seemed empty, until I tried to *go* anywhere, there were squads of five or six guys on every path and vampires would pop out of nowhere when I aggroed them, and then I couldn't get a shot in with three or four vampires blinking about, enough to make me think my game was crashing.

Love this

My favorite reading medium, stenciled pig.

My guess is that Arkane Austin was offered a multi-game contract and they phoned this one in.

Thanks again

Thanks

When things like this happens, I wonder were all that effort went. Did something happen behind the scenes that led to this?

Loving the slight difference between subtitles and spoken-word content there. The Subtitle Person In-Charge clearly had grievances to air, and I for one feel you, Subtitle Person.

When a game tanks, you know the ZP is gonna be brutal

Thought for sure the video would make a Redwall reference. Oh well, still an enjoyable review to watch.

Jiminy Cockthroat. I haven't heard that one in a while. Good one, Yahtzee.

I forgot about this game 2 minutes after it came out

0:31 it's prey 2017!

Yahtzee, is the book available as one of those posters that looks like a drawing of the author or a character but is actually just the text of the entire novel, it's the only way i read nowadays :)

You say that there is now co-op cage that works Singleplayer but I believe Barony achieves just that

Script notes making into the animation with the tinfoil bit lol

Arkane fell really far from Prey 2017. I assume all the staff taht worked on that jumped ship.

Oooooh…..I have been waiting for this one :)

Bravo.

I'm imagining Yahtzee and his Chihuahua having a moment over food he should really take from the lil blender

I think we all felt a gear shift in Yatzee's voice after the awkward Redfall dinner scene lol

I honestly didn't even learn that Redfall had a singleplayer campaign until well after launch. All the trailers I saw made it look like a vamped-up Left 4 Dead. Or that Arkane was making it. A mercy, really. If I had known that "Arkane is making an Immersive Sim RPG with Co-Op", the disappointment would have been immeasurable.

Why is the URL for Yahtzee's homepage at the end of the video when the webpage is gone?

Yahtzee never loses his spark. Feels just as vintage as when I first started watching him.

Look at that, two Early Access game reviews in a row.

I'm left with only one question! From which game are those skeleton minis?

You went full muscle man

You got to slowly move out of the way? When I tried to fight that first vampire it just ran upstairs and got lost.

The clearest and simplest answer to the problem with Redfall is that they hired Colin Robinson as Game Director Which means that this game was actually an overwhelming success... for Colin Robinson

So Yahtzee last spoke to his mum in 2011?