Shovel Knight - Good NES Nostalgia (Zero Punctuation) 

You're obviously not trying hard enough. You can put a bottomless pit on anything if you're willing to put in the effort.

You have not played Sonic Rush on the DS, that game actually has a LOT of bottomless pits on the ceiliing.

Surely if it's on the ceiling then it isn't a bottomless pit. Topless pit, perhaps. Oh my.

CarozQH FUCK. ZONE. 7.

Go home Sanic you're drunk.

Holy shit, that kinda makes sense I never thought of that

@@lionocyborg6030 Water beats rock too.

So that logically means that Spike Man exists out there somewhere.

@@lionocyborg6030 true that, if you make an advanced state of the art robot I'm sure you're using good materials right? Like titanium, advanced alloys or something, not cardboard. Have you ever seen a tank bothered by spikes? Because I haven't, maybe the metal has something to do with it

@@lionocyborg6030 uhhh you do know megaman isn't designed to utilize rocks but is more a megaman rock is just his actual name

+scaper12123 There's a reason everyone is salty after Polar Knight. It's because his name is a distraction from the truth. What truth? That is not snow that he shovels around... It is the very salt he covers our spike-ridden death beds in.

+scaper12123  That is because Polar Knight is an icy devil. Fuck Polar Knight. Fuck him and his ability to create spikey death traps. Fuck him with the spikes he creates. YES I AM A BIT SALTY ABOUT POLAR KNIGHT WHY DO YOU ASK. That being said... spikes being an instant kill is kind of irritating. It would have made more sense if they, say, shaved off half you health, making the game still challenging but not nipple-twistingly frustrating after you every so slightly brush against a small mass of them... but what do I know? I'm just salty :D:D:D

Cait Durl I know Polar Knight is an icy devil. I fought him a dozen times to get all the achievements. And i've still yet to get the speedrun achievement for either character thanks to him. >:/ *saltsaltsaltsaltsaltsalt*

scaper12123 Yeah, I have sadly been there. I was enjoying New Game Plus, ya know... riiiiight up until I realised, 'Oh yes, Polar Knight. Well, I'm fucked, aren't I?'.

+scaper12123 Pfft, Polar Knight was like the easiest fight, just spam invulnerability and shovel hop on him like everyone else- What, now I have to do that 8 times in a row? And my FOO strategy is no longer sufficient? Well then guess I'll take a break and get around to dealing with this brick wall approximately probably never.

For the sake of the "I'm a trifle miffed" line, I'm willing to overlook it.

I'm overlooking it for the sake of the Red Dwarf line in this.

I'm overlooking it for the whole thing XD

Wait... I thought the "Zero Punctuation" was because he never gave points to games like other reviewers, or magazines, or websites, do when they review games.

no zero punctuation is because he reads the script with almost zero pauses, usually caused by punctuation...

Goddamnit I was rewatching this and was a year late to making this joke

i think he mightve worked on that game acftually maybe idk

like "generic shooter everyone yells at me to play for the nth time" or the classic "oversaturated indie game market"

Let's all laugh at the industry That never learns anything, tee hee hee

At least from software hasn’t disappointed me yet

Yeah. People also say that about Mega Man, but I just played it last summer!

The only "nostalgia" factor for me would be Kirby and Pokemon. Past that I never played Megaman, Earthbound, Castlevania, the old Sonic games, etc.

ff5 was better.

It's like he said near the end of the video.. a lot of people play games like this not for nostalgia, but because games like this do what other games don't do now days.

***** too true, ff5 beat out most of the others because of its HUGE class system. something i wish more rpg games did.

I feel biscuit samurai would be a little more entertaining.

+Jsidhu762 Sounds like a name for a rampaging sleep-eater.

+Jsidhu762 Im still waiting for Box Gladiator

+Jsidhu762 Dildo Spartan is 100 times better.

I prefer Garden Hose Cataphract.

the fun in holding a house of cards together with tape is finding out where to put the tape and finding tape strong enough to not fall apart but the still lets you see as much of the house as possible. oh and random jackasses cant walk into whatever room you put it in and knock it down for the lolz (as easily anyway).

stalectos If you're struggling to find tape strong enough to hold together a house of cards, your shopping abilities are obviously non-existent. You also put the tape on the edges of the short edges. But yea, your reply was a bad attempt at trying to either be; 1) funny 2) intellectual I'm unsure which you were going for...Or maybe you're just genuinely stupid and trying to give an honest tutorial on how to make a house of cards using tape.

linkno1 never made a house of cards myself and from personal experience most tape does lose sticking ability rather easily i also do now know the physics that hold a house of cards up in the first place so i wouldn't know where to place the tape for any degree of efficiency. that reply was intended to give an honest assessment of why you would tape a house of cards together and funny though it wasnt that funny i am kind of hit or miss like that usually miss and that is why i don't have a career in comedy.

stalectos Silence is golden. Duck tape is silver. Make use of both colors personally, and you'll have saved both yourself and the commentators in this section a lot of time and annoyance.:P

smashbrolink first off why do you comment on month old comments to basically tell people to shut up? and secondly because i feel like nitpicking commentator is someone who talks over a sport or e sport commenter is the word you where looking for. to help you remember commentators do commentary commenters post comments.

downphoenix Also, Punch-Out

Punch out didnt have scrolling...

Dan cruz I think he's referring to the scenes where you are jogging and your manager is on the bike. That does have parallax.

Oh but you arent playing

Dan cruz it's still an effect used in that bit. It isn't prerendered, it is running in real time on the game.

I’ve been saying this for years. Realistic graphics don’t equal fun. It just looks more real when you’re being bored. I’d wager maybe two of my top ten games of all time have (or had for the time) realistic graphics. Only ones that pop into mind are Metroid prime and mass effect 2.

half life is older than the domgraphic for games today and yet such a good game the only thing showing its age is its appearance in fact id love to play it but the resolution issues prevent me from opening an options menu to amke the screen menus not so small they clip past the tiny window

Yes, but "good" has no inherently quantifiable value. It is ENTIRELY subjective. I suspect there was probably a lot of shit on display during what we call the retro-era of gaming. Maybe not as much as today because the industry hadn't yet found its money-making rut to fall into and the economy as a whole was better, both of which contributed to an era with more exploration, risk-taking, and innovation, because in a new market EVERYTHING is exploratory, innovative, and risky. The stuff that did well we remember, the stuff that didn't...we don't. Even back then, though, you have shitty games (I've got some NES and SNES cartridges at my parents' house of games I either never think about or only think about and go "oh man, we had some fun with that shit show, didn't we?") and the games that might be good on their own, but are points in a line of a bland, repetitive franchise. Sure, they weren't bland or repetitive at the time the first installment came out, but how many times can you reiterate the same formula before you admit it's a formula? (personally, I say twice. You can't call something new or innovative when you, personally, are doing it for a third time). So, I think it's going to go like any media industry. You have a lot of weird, exploratory stuff at the beginning, then it falls into a rut, people get sick of the rut and then it comes out of the rut, probably never as much as it did originally, and then it falls back into the next generation's rut. Subject, of course, to local economies. The US plays a big part in the industry and our economy is shit, so developers aren't going to spend money on risky endeavors. Every new, innovative idea, usually follows the same pattern. Someone makes a janky, original release with it which does poorly, then someone else comes along and tries it again with a better understanding of the successes and failures of the first one. This second one does much better, financially (sometimes it takes a few attempts to reach this point) and that sparks a legion of copy-cats. Doom, Minecraft, Final Fantasy, Mario, Warcraft, even Fortnight. They are all refinements of an original concept that made it big and now we see their genres as tired and hackneyed because they've been cloned so many times. I think the only difference is that the video games industry, today, has a much larger budget and has more chefs in the kitchen. You get more shitty and/or copycat games because you have more people involved making games as a means to make a living. While you probably have more genuinely passionate, innovative creators as well, the ratio is probably about the same, but you can only be exposed to so many things within a finite period of time and since the odds are that any game chosen at random (and the AAA industry does its best to ensure the games you are exposed to are NOT chosen at random. Their marketing strategies have also improved) is higher that you'll get an uninspired "paycheck" game, it feels like there's more shit games now than there was then.

Pffft! Fridge Viking or GTFO >.

well atleast something tells me that if biscuit samurai was a thing it would have an FoV slider.

i think the 'Ninja bread man' game will have to suffice

I would totally hate biscuit samurai if it didn't have an FOV slider :3

Daniel Bryant Agreed... plus it should run min. 60FPS.

For fucks sake, didn't even realise that...

I've been watching Yahtzee for years. Never realised this. WE MUST TELL THE PEOPLE!

The people already know; the village idiots have just now come to the painfully obvious realization and the people can do naught but look on in pity.

He also does play through series' on his own channel called "drown out...gametitle" they're pretty good.

Not anymore, unfortunately. I'm starting to miss Gabe.

There was also a Batman game on NES that had parallax scrolling iirc

Loren Helgeson That wasn't actual paralax scrolling. They used backgrounds with animated objects to simulate the effect, while Shovel Knight does have legitimate paralax scrolling

Point taken. It's a very convincing display on the NES game developers' part, though.

Loren Helgeson Yeah, it's pretty impressive when a developer managed to do it on such limited hardware

+Matt Broadhurst plus there are the challenges that involve the use of the phase bracelet and good timing to walk over spikes

as would i. i absolutely love dawn of sorrow and portrait of ruin haven't played the other ds one i think it's order of ecclesia or something like that is it not

Your profile pic says it all!

Sniper elite 3 is the same game as sniper elite, except with a 3 in the title.

Wolf Among Us was made by the same guys as Walking Dead and a very similar game system. Yahtzee found it okay but disliked how often he had to destroy his 'q' key.

How about Transistor?

Thezamary Have you played it? They actually fix most of the things he complained about in his video for V2. Lightscribe225 It was one of GOTYs, he didn't just "find it okay".

Okay, it's a patch for the price of a retail game.

Alex Bro, DSfix and Xbox controller. Works like a charm, and 60 FPS!

darezzi97 Exactly. If the port was half-decent you wouldn't need third-party software to make it playable.

Alex I'm not saying it's a good port. I'm saying putting that into the game will make it fulfilling. You'll still sweat, though, sorry.

+darezzi97 wanted to play it again... but on my PC. thanks for the tip sunbro

Do it. It's a great game with fair challenge and awesome music. Seriously, it's worth $14

Maybe its just me, but it almost seems like whenever Yahtzee gives a positive (or rather, not absolutely soul-crushing) review of a game, it turns out to not actually be that great. This, however, happens to be one of the exceptions to that rule. Go for it.

Shamus TheKnight Don't forget Silent Hill 2, Portal 2, and Shadow of the Colossus.

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon also got a good review, as did Wind Waker HD.

STALKER,Clear Sky ("weirdly compelling" & "hurts us 'cause it loves us".) & Metro,Last Light ("I'd say there's enough to recommend about Metro LL") That's 'glowing reviews' from Yahtzee !

The SNES managed way more colours, a different resolution and a monster of a sound chip. (that couldn't read NSF files, which was the format in which Shovel Knight's music was made), so no. Your impressions are wrong. Shovel Knight was created as if a NES title would have come out on 2014. That was the intention of Yatch CLub Games, as stated in their KS campaign and website. And as Yahtzee says, it shows.

Drellistenstomusic It would? Was that in the books because I've only seen the show?

Targaryens wed brother to sister for hundreds of years to "keep the blood of the dragon pure". They mention it a few times in the show but it's blink and you miss it

Drellistenstomusic Okay, thanks :)

+Drellistenstomusic Yea, but the key word is "Blink and you will miss it." You cant' really miss the Lannister incest storyline. Heck, I just found about it myself, and i'm working on my second watch through.

+Drellistenstomusic Yes, it's a blink and you miss it, which is why it's better to go with the much widely known reference towards the Lannisters because it's much more relevent in the internet culture

I believe he has a written review of them, so it's actually pretty likely that he will review them in video format.

A classic for sure.

+Zikschive I loved that game when I was 5 or 6

If he enjoyed the game then he enjoyed it. If you want him to be negative on all levels watch his reviews on Haze or any EA published title or Too Human.

Wow. He enjoyed a game so he got paid for it. Sure man.

Indie developers paying for good reviews? What

Shamus TheKnight everyone's entitled to their opinions, but if you wan't to find the absolute worst of the worst, you must continue searching.

RawPowerGamer Can't detect sarcasm?

We remember those game's from loooooooong ago they were great

+Coffera Are you sure? Parallax Scrolling is when a part of the backstage moves at a different pace than the rest of the stage. Also, is that Nujabes in your profile picture?

Games like: Castleian, Kirby's adventure, Totally Rad, Mega Man 6, Bucky O' Hare etc. Yeah it is

Coffera You're right.

It could do an effect called linescroll, where one or several lines in the background can scroll at a different rate than the rest of the background. the limitation is that you can't have any overlapping parts in the background, so it's not very flexible.

Whilst it did one of the devs wrote in his blog on the game that the parallax scrolling they used wasn't possible on a NES. Google 'breaking the nes for shovel knight' if you want to read more about it.

this vid *is* a week old...

And? He can read comments, can't he?

Zilexion M. You might wanna look at that date again, just a thought.

DoomDogDan666 strange... this is not the comment i put that reply on... yet it appears to be on this comment... did i mess up somehow, or is youtube having a heart attack?

Pokemon Trainer James You might want to check the Escapist website once in a while, just a thought.

Quick, some one add it to the list!

sage11x It is a very short list. Lol

sage11x Don't you mean start a list ;)

2dumd2live There are some games he actually likes. That includes Spec Ops, Call of Duty 4, Minecraft and some others. :]

***** Fantasy World Dizzy, Dark Souls, Portal and to a lesser extent, Portal 2, and a few others.

Oh man Metal Storm is awesome. It's brutal, but awesome.

Infinite warfare is just duty calls slightly advanced warfare with robots.

In the context of video, the answer is no, it is not nostalgia because he didn't have a memory of it. Nostalgia needs a rememberance of the past to be Nostalgia.

The NES didn't support it, though. You could sorta-kinda-do-it with tricks, which came with some heavy limitations, just like how you could sorta-kinda-do scrolling on systems which didn't support scrolling. Shovel Knight has more complex parallax than even any of the 16-bit systems could do.

a review of an unfinished game, *AS IF!*