Sailing Era (Zero Punctuation) 

play Rimworld NOW

Thank you for the translations!

The character for shiz looks awfully familar to me. Does anyone know the pinyin of that character?

​​@@myyoutubeaccount4167opping into google translate for this one, i know its unreliable but it apparantly looks like this 吃屎 Dont know if that helps

It's kind of scary how many times in my life I've been able to rattle off some super obscure bit of trivia, and when someone asks me how I know that, the answer is always the same; I learned it in a video game.

Yes. Same, for the same reason, but as for his follow up question about why the gits in Amsterdam cared about it, I couldn't tell you. Probably some trade related reason.... but I can't say, confidently.

I only knew where it was because it's part of the Genoa trade node in EU4 and it's one of the important trade nodes. There's a few other place-names I know only because they are strategically important in EU4 or Crusader Kings. I couldn't tell you much about their actual cultural or historical significance other than maybe who owned that bit of clay in 1444 or 1066. I still sometimes have momentary confusion looking at European maps and seeing Nice as part of France.

Alright clever clogs, but why did the bounty office in Antwerp give a crap about it?

Pretty much the same reason why I know. Well, that and every other grand strategy game.

The game also has a mind numbing grinding, vertical learning curve, and rather vicious rng. Not to discredit writing, it's top notch and i enjoyed it greatly. But i doubt he'll have much patience for it.

By "situational cannibalism", is this just toenails again?

Sunless Sea 2 could be incredible. I really hope they consider it at some point. I played SS a bit when it came out but got a bit burnt, then played it relatively recently and got to some surprisingly interesting late game mechanics which really hinted at something great that could have been.

There is Sunless Skies, set in the future of Sunless Sea on space trains

@@bobemor Sunless Skies is basically Sunless Sea 2, except you pilot a flying train instead of a boat. I haven't played it, but I've heard it generally improves on Sunless Sea.

Speaking of which, I live in Minneapolis, so can you deliver my groceries from the Wal-Mart in Carson City?

@@srbrant5391 and go across the Rocky mountains? Are you daft? It'd be for more reason to ask you deliver the groceries from New Orleans. If any commodity produced in South East Asia were to enter the US, it's going to be shipped through coastal California. Or how about the fact that Philippines was for the longest time under the administration of the Spanish Viceroy in Mexico. Or that the Dutch controlled the entirety of Indonesia, while the Netherlands is on the other fucking side of the globe.

I got it right. My days of learning where all the seas in the world are, instead of kissing girls, have finally come good.

But why do so many men blame women for being in Celebes Sea?

I would have thought Surabaya or Batavia

EU4 enjoyer spotted

@@willferrous8677 at least i have an idea how obtuse that quest is now

One day we'll get Yahtzee to review EU4....somehow.

EU4's totally static trade flow system is one of the game's biggest problems tbh Still nowhere near as bad as how colonisation works now though

@@prrrromotiongiven1075 Hence why I refuse to pay for DLC. I'm not gonna spend 200 bones to recieve changes that should be in vanilla.

After the first time they tried to introduce boats into AC.

And Windwaker

Listening to this review, Sid Meier's Pirates is the only thing going through my head. Especially when he said the hexagon land expeditions.

And by god the QTE minigames are horrible. I regret replaying it just to spoil my good memories of it.

Or Uncharted Waters Online, except the land exploration is in 3d not hexagons.

@@Ozzianman CHU WAAAAONG?!

@@Ozzianman The swordfighting and dancing?

Yahtzee: "One day as a child I found an ancestor's diary while rummaging around in granddad's attic." "He was a dockworker at Kingston Upon Hull who was pressganged into serving in the Royal Navy during the War of the Third Coalition during the Napolenic Wars." "He wrote that there was a lot of rum, buggery and the lash. Scurvy was apparently not uncommon. The filthy poop deck was literally intended for that purpose. Apparently pretty much the only thing to eat was rock hard insect infected slices of bread and the only thing to drink was doses of rum or non-alcoholic beer." "No one knew how to swim and if a ship went down there was no chance of rescue anyway". "That's why when he came back to Britain and was legally able to leave the Royal Navy he moved to Rugby Warwickshire inland in the middle of the country, so that he need never again be reminded of the sea". "I read nautical adventure novels to try to discover if there was anything interesting or joyful about life in the Royal Navy during that time at all." Of course this never happened but it's be fun if it did.

there's two reasons why English are historically the best sailors, their women, and their food

@@stormtrooperelite1453 they just want to get away from it ASAP

Dark Souls ain't got shit compared to that game's dancing minigame. I abused the hell out of the pause function

"Bwenentaal! Imbriglicated!" as the Governor of Jamaica would say.

That game had so much for 2004, and was such a different concept. The world just felt alive

I heartily recommend Sid Meier’s ‘Memoir!’ for genuinely fascinating insights into how that game (and others) got made

@@Airlord3670 I've never heard of it before, but that seems like the perfect name for Sid Meier's book.

You and 4 boys stand around a biscuit. Last one to "finish" eats it. Sorry.

@@NoConsequenc3 and to be clear, everyone is finishing on the biscuit. Thus why it is soggy.

@@Darkflamecrusader And I thought waffle stomp was bad.

@@NoConsequenc3 Honestly, is there anyone who ever played that? Or even knew people who did it? I knew the term, and we have something similar in Germany that was features often in 90s pubescent sex comedies. But I never knew anyone who really thought that circle jerking on a cookie is a great idea... (never even knew soneone who knew soneone...)

I bet this comment will make Yahtzee depressed and proud, to know that he's at this long enough to get fans young enough to not know what a Soggy Biscuit is from the top of their heads but also that he's still appealing to a younger generation.

*Cough cough* Sea of Thieves *cough cough* Sorry, I have a terrible case of sleep aids.

He mentioned Silent Hill 2 and that one is even older, my guess is he could only be bothered to mention so many examples.

@@axelprino he’s literally described Silent Hill 2 as his equivalent to religion. He’d go into withdrawal if he didn’t mention once a month. That game doesn’t count

...Says the man with the ass creed logo in his PFP

@@lavetissene339 okay?

That's one reason why I loved Sunless Sea. It conveys the feeling of exploring strange, unfamiliar and unsettling places, and every time you die, those places switch locations, making you explore all over again.

the people that made this game seem genuinely enthusiastic about history, that's probably why they picked that setting. also very sid meiers pirates homage-y

Sadly, already debunked by his reviews of Sid Meier's Pirates, Sea of Thieves, etc.

@@seraphonica Also, that one arty game about sailing around metaphors for depression.

@@robertgrosse4904 Huh?

@@notsaying7838 Unfortunately, I don't remember the name any more. I was hoping someone else would.

Yet Pirates and this are great games.

Perhaps this was a thing with older ZP's so like before he got married but he was pretty open about watching a lot of porn

Im more alarmed by his constant mention of heroin

Or Disneyland

It's kink, heroin, and Disneyland combined that are the problem

Don't forget dolphins.

Honestly the game has been described by a few others as Sid Meier's Uncharted Waters, it kinda grabs a bit of both, and just.. doesn't work with it too much. At least as far in as I am in the game, which isn't too far notably.

This is actually an Uncharted Waters fan game, like Taiwu is a Taiko Risshiden fan game.

As do I; the sailing was a lot of fun. Then again, I also liked the train travel in Spirit Tracks, so I might not be the best judge of what should be considered good overworld transportation in a video game.

The budget for this one is unmistakable

@@crackedemerald4930 but how can he afford it with all the inflation? More African Sandwich Runs?

Use Google like everyone else!

Holy shit, congrats!

do you dream of yellow backgrounds and stick figures?

Yes well done and all that, let's see.. I have a note here I am supposed to read.. aw here it is *Welcome to the present, we understand you have had a very long and strenuous journey and would like to take the time to congratulate you on making it this far, keep in mind that this is not the end as there will be many, many more videos to come although they will be easier to digest now that you have reached..* bla bla bla.. let's see.. Here is your cookie for your time and effort, 🍪 you will not be getting anymore

Hey now, that battery acid has a purpose. The Admiralty says it helps stop scurvy. Probably. Maybe.

Noticed this, but now I'm wondering what a hexadecimal exploration system would look like...

@@glittalogik machine code probably

@@glittalogik What would a decimal exploration system look like? I'm no navigator, but I can't see how you could make an exploration system based off of a numerical base.

Probably he’ll forget this game existed by the time he does the list. And as we learned with Anthem, that’s how you gain the edge in a mediocrity contest.

@@ridergilwin1494 third place let's goooooo

I disagree, I think its traits are less blandness, and more confusion and poor translation.

@@LemonGrinder I wonder about the poor translation bit. there was like two pages in the menu with some untranslated ui, but beyond that, I can say having read millions of translated english words, hundreds of works, this is easily the most competent translation of all of them.. like, some of the visual novel parts are legit good literary prose. did the review version he got have placeholder translation? Idk.

If you like Rimworld or Dwarf Fortress, I suggest giving Amazing Cultivator Simulator a go. And, like the aforementioned examples, have the wiki open in another tab. More intuitive if you understand cultivation and feng shui.

@@Elvan-Lady If you ignore the fact that it's half-finished and the devs are never going back to put the rest of it in becsuse they started making a sequel a month after releasing it, Amazing Cultivator Simulator is actually pretty decent and it drew me in significantly more than Rimworld did.

@@Elvan-Lady ACS is fine until you realize the entire point of the game is learning how to more effectively grind so you can grind harder to do more grinding. I can't wait for the sequel since that seems to have more actual gameplay.

If you like turn based strategy there's a game called Legion War.

Tryl Eastern exorcist

In Thousand Years Door you can turn into a boat.

Honestly, it scratches exactly that itch for me. the developers are still updating it to make it easier to play and more understandable. They have a demo. try it

@@dnoname8108 It's made by Uncharted Waters fans, basically

I was about to recommend it. It makes Hornblower's level of character development look like The Famous Five.

And Windwaker