Remnant: From the Ashes (Zero Punctuation) 

as someone with combat PTSD, the dog's ever-changing PTSD related names had me genuinely laughing!

Escapist your video player is so horrible I'd rather wait a week

I was sure he was gonna do an Astral Chain review with his well known love of Platinum games

But if I watch the Blair Witch episode now then what will I watch next week? Riddle me that, gravy trumpet

Thanks but no thanks. I've been challenging myself to listen to Yahtzee at 1.5x speed for so long now that he just isn't the same without it.

Oh shit really? Was it Leto's set, the Cultist britches, or the Bandit set?

What about games that make you feel numb?

Probably why nostalgia is so valuable. It makes people feel things by association.

@@JABRIEL251 "Games that make you feel emotions, versus games that make you feel numb".

@@JABRIEL251 Pretty sure those qualify as 'numbing' games.

@@Nitrinoxus I know, just being a smart ass. lol

Wait, does that mean that there are mornings that AREN'T like that???

@@theapexsurvivor9538 In theory, anyway. I've only heard of them in stories.

Ive actually kinda wondered that when I played. One moment Im walking through the brown post apolyptic city landscape, then a giant invisible skyscraper suddenly materializes right before my eyes in explosive fashion.

@@lackusshock As somebody who sunk quite a bit of time into the game... The root is just Nature being tired of everyones shit and went on a multi dimensional genocide that makes combine look like fucking pacifists. And you´re out to stop it. The crystal made you immortal. Thats pretty much all there is to know really. Outside of the occassional Questionable choice (to put it rather fucking mildly)

letting the days go by

It's really good, but some of the bosses are kinda easy

Thing is, 'Dark Souls' was the sort of thing that electrified him and ignited his passions. If a game is merely okay, that doesn't say much of it.

@@ObsoletePerson I think it's the fact that Yahtzee considered it "merely okay" that makes it worth playing. He has always been really brutal with his reviews, but there is one for sure that he didn't have much to say bad about, that being Portal. Personally, if Yahtzee has a hard time berating a game, it is either a masterpiece, or it was so bland that he couldn't quite pin down what he wanted to berate.

Don't ever try to determine whether a game is good or bad from Zero Punctuation. He's not an actual reviewer, he makes comedy videos.

@@Darman0430 but his overall opinion seems alive compared to the corporate ladder that just makes stupid remarks that have nothing to do with the product.

Dude, that's like a 40 year old concept that's already been in several far left academic publications for ages. I still have my old college textbook on the history of game design and this distinction was already well noted since before Lord British got shanked. If you want to see discussion about it on youtube then you have to look at the libtard stuff, because the conservative position on art "Stop thinking about it, what the author said goes, there is no deeper meaning to find, no a game where the women is a trophy you have to fight over isn't sexist stop saying that" doesn't lend well to in-depth analysis of any particular media.

@@animorph17 hi anita how are you

Randal Jeffrey ... Your entire thing is a misrepresentation... of the Far-Left (it’s not what it was even 10 years ago, let alone 40), the Right (with consistently oppressed artistic expressions) and most offensively, Me. You basically assume I’m not exposed to “libtard” stuff. I don’t even use that term. It demonizes the actual original isn’t definition of Liberal (denoting liberty, freedom, individual autonomy) Having been hijacked by the Left to denote “change” even if that change means surrendering individual liberty to big government authoritarianism. Something decided un-liberal. Now, if you wanna set politics aside long enough to discuss the topic I mentioned better identified as “Escapism vs Critical Thought” sure, we can do that. I’m not unfamiliar with the idea. I just like the words he used to describe it in his video. I’m really not in the mood to discuss politics with someone who started from literally multiple bad-faith positions.

I don't even think it's unique to video games. Its something that can be applied to culture more generally and its a criticism that resurfaces in different ways in specific art forms like music every few years. Yahtzee went there first, so If we are going to get communist manifesto about it: producers find something that's valuable and reproduce it to the point where it's essentially worthless and then start over again.

@ Michael Anderson >far left isn't what it was 10 yrs ago I could be off base here, but I think maybe they're more consistent than the mainstream Left, which has moved violently in their direction. So the main change is maybe less in beliefs, more in size and broadcasting power? >the Right is artistically oppressed wait what the fuck does this even mean

@Nikos papadopoylos idk, I thought his Bloodstained review was pretty funny.

I think it’s stayed about the same, which is pretty incredible for how often this show comes out, and being made by one person.

Helps I've become an alcoholic too.

It's a pretty good game, especially for $40! Despite the bosses constantly spawning ads, there are only a couple that come to mind that were really exhausting to deal with. Most of the ads can be taken out in a 1-3 shots, depending on your gun. At the end of the day, it's more of a challenging "souls like" game solo, but due to how co-op scaling works, it's more of a strategic traditional RPG with a full team of 3. Especially at higher difficulties, you'll start really needing players to fall into specific roles like healer, tank, DPS, as even trash mobs will be able to tank your health considerably. Levelling up seems trivial when you start the game, but as you progress through bosses and dungeons and various achievement-bound challenges, you'll gain a plethora of different traits to level up to a max of 20 points each.

@@justinreich2023 The respawning minions do feel kind of necessary as a delivery vehicle for ammo (since you're using guns and all), though it does sometimes irritate me when they won't even give me a moment to breathe.

@@TheRogueWolf those running suicide bombing gas monsters during the root brute boss fight remind me of that, I am having enough trouble dodging a giant machete wihtout needing 3 bastards with an instakill attack exploding around my ankles

@@kyotheman69 i suggest trying it. its pretty damn fun.

​@@kyotheman69 WEll it is slightly positive and that is for yahtzee like giving a 9/10. Also the comparison to dark souls is somewhat mute tbh. It is just a slightly challenging game that features Stamina and dodgerolling. Bloodborne sure has guns but it has no real gunplay. Also Remnant is a Looter Shooter. And one of the better ones at that. Saying that this game is Dark Souls with guns is like saying Tetris is the Dark souls of puzzlegames. Just cuz it's Challeging doesn't mean it is like dark souls. (The only thing this game shares with dark souls is a Stamina Meter and that is something that existed way before dark souls)

i scrolled down as soon as i heard it to see if anyone else caught it and sure enough it's the most upvoted comment

I highly recommend it. I prefer to put the bread with beans and a slice of cheese on top in the oven

ROOT YA MOOT

@@Christian-gr3gu 'Root' is aussie slang meaning nearly the same as the verb form of 'Fuck', as in 'have sex with'.

@@ministryofsillyarguments7794 "Shit, we're being overrun by the Fuck!"

In French, as God intended.

soon

Yahtzee's had to slog through enough truly bad games by now to where he'll throw a bone to the "it's okay" ones.

@@macmcskullface1004 in which case remnant is best described as a bag of really good dill flavored chips.

I think it's especially great because, despite Yahtzee's clear preference, it doesn't inherently place one above the other. I love games that make me feel things, but sometimes I've had enough of feeling things for a day and just don't have the energy, and I want a game to just help me relax. And, at the same time, the dichotomy is perfect for telling people what to expect from a game and whether it'll give them what they want, whatever that is.

Thing is, you dont know WHAT you will feel... A game could make you feel angry. The bad kind of angry

@@abrahamclarke8557 Yeah and as a lifelong gamer I prefer both at different times. After a rough day at work or a long week. I'll play something like Minecraft, Stellaris, or Skyrim where my brain can turn off. If I'm in a good mood or have energy I'll play Arma, Witcher, or try a new game

Look up Skinner's Box experiment and compare it to most games. I apologize in advance for what that realization will bring about.

I'd given the game some thought as I played through it, but one thing I realised is that the game is ONLY a horror game for the opening stretch on Earth. Once you beat Ent/Singe and reach the Labyrinth (and also get your first boss weapon) the game ceases being scary at all. Rhom and Yaesha just aren't scary, while Corsus can be at worst a bit nerve-wracking and gross. It doesn't start being a horror game again until you're back in Ward 17 for the end boss (or in Ward Prime at the start of the DLC, which plunges right down into full-blown survival horror until you reach Reisum). Frankly, the Root are terrifying enemies, post-apocalyptic Earth is a bowel-clenching environment to explore, and the first chapter of the game when you're still at your weakest is easily the hardest, but it lightens up a LOT after that. Note that this isn't a _criticism,_ just an observation. I think it's a good thing that the game has more than one string to its bow.

I was exploring the second dungeon, which was the one that actually progressed the plot, and I started getting creeped out by the noises when I knew something big was being spawned in, but couldn't actually see it yet. On my way to that second dungeon I also kept getting a bit spooked by various noises. They did nail the noise design for sure. At least we get guns to help us kill whatever scared the shit out of us, lol. I'm finally playing through it and beat my first boss last night. Goreroot or something like that. He kept spawning in those annoying exploding puffball enemies and I'd get stunlocked to death while trying to run and heal. Thankfully on the attempt that I won I got thrown a bone. I'd died by some stairs and the boss was spawned in where I died. Turns out he got stuck in place, lmao. I'd run around avoiding the puffballs when he summoned them, and then go shoot him some more with my hunter rifle that I added that fire bullet mod to. I'll take an easy win given that I'm playing solo and those puffballs were being right shits to deal with. I'm looking forward to the sequel and I like what I've seen of it so far.

Sorry for reviving this, but I just saw the review and I was thinking about something along these lines. I think there might be a misinterpretation in what you said, because I believe there is a difference between games that make you feel relaxed vs games that make you numb. I'd argue that the distinction is important, and could very well be used as a stand in for quality.

I think it's more accurate to say that *everyone* can benefit from games that make them feel (reviewers and regular players alike). But regular players certainly don't mind games that make them numb, at least not to the degree that reviewers like Yahtzee hate them.

I legitimately thought that was a jab at Halo made to sound like one of Marx's metaphors

@@CallanElliott That's patently untrue, as anyone who's ever actually read any Marx, Lenin, or Trotsky knows. But dishonestly misrepresenting Marxism in order to build strawman arguments is basically all that capitalist philosophy has been able to muster up over the last 170+ years, so I guess it's par for the course.

Not an improvement.

To be fair, there really aren't many "soul like" games that really break the mold much. Sekiro shook up the formula a bit, The Surge added a novel way of acquiring weapons and armor, but Remnant honestly feels the most different. It's essentially a third person shooter with souls-like elements instead of a souls clone with minor twists.

Is it really a new genre though? Just feels like an rpg to me.

I wouldn't class soulslikes as a new genre, but it's definitely an extreme shift in the general template of RPG systems. Instead of focusing heavily on numbers and passive/active skills gained through levelling, it relies more heavily on player skill/perceptiveness whilst tying skills to item/weapon use and levelling a rather minimal (yet still very important) aspect.

I’d classify “Dark Souls clones” and “Souls-like” as a sub genre more than I would a genre. It’s apart of RPGs as a whole, but it’s its own classification of RPG.

Sekiro shook up the formula "a bit?" It plays more like a rhythm game than a souls title imo.

No!!!

I agree with thomas

This music is the only reason I don't binge watch these episodes. It is like putting 3 colons in a game title and then taking a sledgehammer to my ear.

Oh shit. Just left a comment saying the same thing and somehow yours in right below mine. Haha

@Axiom Steel26 your lips are moving but I can't hear what your saying. Yahtzee's intro has ruptured my esrdrums

Ditto

It was the communist manifesto on audiobook

@Esben M I recommend Lenin's State and Revolution as a follow-up

@@gameworkerty or the bread book

@@samk7625 Huey Newton is also very readable and approachable

You can totally solo the whole game, Co-op is a nice option, but it's not mandatory at all.

It’s not a focus though...

... To where do you run to evade the apocalypse?

@@Ackalan Off a bridge, duh.

Well the game does show you when you look at your gear score versus the area, and it's either better, on par, or, when you enter a new area, worse

Faze muzzle

Haze nuzzle

Was actually pretty easy, but then again I did it from the end to the start which kinda is cheating I guess in theory...

@@togekiss1995 The Lutece Twins would say thats all a matter of perspective. The protagonist in that story did work himself back from the end to the beginning after all.

The Greendalewitch you’re good at making people curious. I’ll have to look them up later.

It's most likely a Bloodhound Gang joke.

We don't need no water, let that wooden dragon burn!

@@TheRogueWolf Burn wooden dragon, Burn!

That's pretty accurate. It feels much less harsh, plays real fun with friends or randoms. I was like "okay... $40 isn't bad, fuck it, let's try." Now my main character is level 381 and I have most of the mods/weapons/traits. Fuckin fun.

It's like somebody played dark souls and tried to make destiny but dark souls.

@@SherrifOfNottingham that's a very accurate description as even my wife made mention of it looking a bit like destiny. Plays a bit like it too, with the bigger focus on gunplay.

not AS shit

This is triple A's new regular output along with 'magenta games', because realistic FPS's aren't selling anymore.

Anyone with a soul hates Tories

He lives in the USA now; he may not be referring to the Tories.

@@bass779 They're all the same.

Not only that. His punchline in this video hints at some Radical political interest as well. Provided that he actually listens to the communist manifesto, when playing numbing games :P

@@frederik7338 maybe he's been keeping in touch with Jim Sterling as Jim gets more and more breadpilled

Apparently he was really liking Horace up until the game started bombarding him with half-assed gameplay changes.

I thought that was Immortal unchained.

Maybe it's just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

Looter shooter isn't *really* accurate, though. All the equipment is placed, not dropped. Procedural, sure, but intentional.