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But watch out for the spoiler Yahtzee casually drops about the last cutscene at 01:44, talks about nothing else about the game, and then reviews Disco Elysium. No joke. Edit: Just noticed The Escapist's very tongue-in-cheek wording there...

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@SicParvis, now who is the one giving out spoilers? 🧐

He does still enjoy games at the end of the day. 10 years ago I thought, wow, Yahtzee has a cool job. Now I'd honestly prefer a normal job to playing some of the shit he has to play.

@@UsernameInvalidTHIS I can confirm a normal job is oftentimes a lot less stressful than some of the trash Yahtzee plays through and reviews

@@UsernameInvalidTHIS lol just reminds me of him reviewing aliens colonial marines that had to be painful beyond all belief

@@heavyarms2076 That game was so broken it was funny. I'd take reviewing games like that over a "real" job. It'd be a riot.

Always be careful turning your hobby into a job. It can ruin your hobby for you real quick.

best end card ever

I'm not sure who it's aimed at.

@@DarienCaldwell probably Bethesda. The Fallout first subscription for Fallout 76 costs $100 a year

@@DarienCaldwell probably fallout first, the fallout subscription service that charges 99.99$ per year.

@@pskeifk I was thinking Apple and iPhone game development.. It works on many things.

Based on this comment I'm not too sure you've read his books.

@@MrCrow05 judging by your comment you haven't read them all.

@@woofcat9363 You tried.

@@woofcat9363 Admittedly I have not listened to the new audible book or read differently morphous.

@@MrCrow05 Hail Satan.

Isn't that just Brutal Legend?

It's kind of what Brütal Legend pretended to be before crossing its eyes and spraying RTS elements everywhere like a hippo with diarrhea.

Cyberpunk 2077 would like to know your location.

Unless your right hand man was named Elmo, we have nothing to talk about.

And the entire last battle is just a reenactment of the last scene in The Pick of Destiny

if this is a reference, i got it.

Bad Lucy!

No, that's Fallout, easy to get them mixed up admittedly.

@@doodlecrazydc Imagine how interesting the world would be if everyone had that perk. Political conversations on the internet would be way less annoying.

@@francesco8000Everyone DOES have that perk; Political conversations on the internet *ARE* yelling at enemy aliens to get them on your side

If you have a high enough skill in the various weapon skills you can cause enemies to either run away from you or to target other enemies instead of you. But its not an ability that you can activate, rather there is a percentage chance of it happening based on how high your skill is.

@@drthmik Well we either all suck with that skill or the success rate is shit because i think we both never saw someone change side after the Yelling.

Obsidian: Old, not obsolete.

You mean after Baldur's Gate I

@@aze94 it can only use growing cancer tumor as make shift crutches so long.

I'd say whatever happened to BioWare is EA's fault. They have a habit of buying and then destroying smaller studios.

@@terrylyn I don't give a damn about any feminist bullshit you may be talking about. I'm talking about whatever happened to BioWare to stop making brilliant RPGs and makinh generic open-world shooters instead.

That's why he is so smarmy

Solid gold comment love it haha

What if it is less than what you bid?

@@Darkpumpkin21 If you are both over you both lose. Who is closer doesn't matter.

I was hoping I wasn't the only person who noticed this. It was pretty clear this is what he was going for, but forgot the direction it goes in :p

Upping this. Anytime a pawn pissed me off or wouldn't stop talking, I'd chuck them into oceans, off cliffs or just any satisfyingly tall structures.

+100kg to weight limit on the other hand...

The game is so short you probably won't need engineering points beyond dialogue to be fair.

@@FortressLordJP193 Science was the good one.

I never found out what Nyoka's special bonus was, because I refused to take a trauma-inducingly ugly, alcoholic, pink-haired clown as a crew member. And I'll refuse again when I replay the game on Steam.

I did like the plot point where a battle ship crashes into the ground literally because the insurance agency contested all of their mantinence claims

@@zacharyheine4177 Couldn't the battleship just, fly over this company and use it's weapons to destroy it?

@@tomhill3248 That's not how we solve our interpersonal disputes here at Halcyon Holdings, Tom

@@zacharyheine4177 No wonder the battleship crashed. Pacifists always lose!

@M33ble Why do they even have a crew then? Just give the AI the job, robots don't require pay.

But if it were Bethesda, we'd all be rioting about how terrible they are at worldbuilding and writing, wouldn't we? Ah, the double standards of gamers. I'm not directing this passive aggressive comment towards you in particular, by the way. Just venting my frustration.

@@Grim_Pinata they said it's the way your character perceives time due to being cryogenically frozen for 70 years. They arent actually slowing down time. It's a scifi game with weird scifi logic. Much better than releasing a game with no NPCs and expecting people to like it.

@Grim Piñata for me I think it was funny because this game doesn’t try too hard to take itself too serious and this was just an awesome way to move the story. There was something about being frozen, but when you bring it up the dude is just like “yeah that’s a thing” I think the writing around it is what makes it good. I don’t think it’s a double standard here. It’s just a part of the over all presentation 🙂 but you spend $60 on Bethesda games... please vent away ... I’m listening 😊😊

@@Grim_Pinata A major discerning factor is that Obsidian is pretty self-aware about the less than certain explanation for the time dilation power. They even pull it back into focus during a dialog for a late-ish game quest for Sublight. One throwaway line by an NPC (which I don't want to spoil) caught me off-guard and planted some serious doubt in my mind. If vagueness serves such a storytelling purpose I don't think it's right to mark it up as a fault.

@@Grim_Pinata No, we wouldn't. I don't think I was ever concerned why VATS was a thing, and the fact that they even bothered with an explanation here is just humorous.

Except this game wasn't put out by a team of ass hole pilchards :P

@@2Scribble Why are the Borderlands devs a team of asshole pilchards?

@@theviniso because they didn't care. Nobody fucking cared when creating that shit.

@Derrell Conger there both good games

The gameplay of Borderlands 3 is just as good as, if not better than, the gameplay of Borderlands 2. ie. excellent. The gameplay of Outer Worlds is just as good as (well, maybe slightly better than, but similar enough to) Bethesda's Fallout games. ie. dog shit.

Small nitpick, it resets when you're detected as hostile. If you kill a guy straight out it doesn't reset xD

@firered sk there's only one solution and it requires a can opener, a rusty spoon and more than a little patience, possibly towels. You know what to do.

The secret does seem to be hard work, yes, but it's also a kind of blind passion, an inspiration.

That's Poison Dwarf*

I would Todd if the ground didn't bug up and I fell through the map.

Isnt that a level up quote in Oblivion as well?

@Nospam Spamisham That's one of my current runs. I can kill literally everyone? Time to kill literally everyone.

Outer Worlds is simultaneously everything I wanted from a Fallout game and everything I wanted from a Mass Effect game. It's lovely. And he's not kidding about the depth of choice, even though he barely touched on it. I sentenced an honest man to almost certain death and I'm still only mostly sure it was the least wrong thing to do.

I was about to post that it was surprisingly negative!

@@harkingmadwing5112 Haven't seen much ZP? This is about as positive as he gets. XD

@@maxastro I've seen them all, I just thought he'd like this game a lot more!

@@harkingmadwing5112 Subnautica was one of his favorite games he's reviewed, IIRC, and he was barely more positive than this.

Cosmo the blue peashooter not a high bar

"better" as in it actually functions Or "better" as in people are so fucking hungry for an actual Fallout game they'll felate Obsidian and the goat fuck that is Outer Worlds, till their testicles fall off?

Better than ME:A in most area's yes but when it comes to companions and your choices for interacting with said companions I feel like ME:A is slightly better. The original Dragon age is still the king of companion interaction for me though. Honestly though, I loved The Outer Worlds and hope Obsidian has more time, money, and resources for the next one. I also hope they get off their god damn high horse about romancing in game. Yes, it is difficult to write without being cringe-y but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Especially if you create characters that people want to love.

@@UMADBRO64 Yes, and Yes

@@UMADBRO64 okay you can calm down with your Yahtzee impression.

Thank God I'm not the only one who caught that lol.

That was the check to see if people actually watch The Price Is Right

@@Flufferpup How does that work if the first contestant got the right price? Surely then bidding a dollar more or less would be the wrong price and the first contestant would win?

@@Flufferpup No. That's not at all how it works. The aim is to get as close to the price as possible without overshooting. That's why $1 is a common answer. If everyone overshoots, you win by default. There's even a clip where someone guessed $1 below the last contestant and Bob Barker asked them if they were sure they wanted to do that (since it was almost certainly a guaranteed loss.)

@@haldir108 Similar to playing black jack where you want to be as close to 21 but not go over but guessing random store item prices such as a washing machine instead. Guessing $1 dollar less is the same as playing black jack and one player has a 18 so you go for 17. Be guaranteed to lose. Should be $1 more. This always makes you closer to the actual price with out much risk or skill if it is under the actual price with the least chance of going over.

Strongly, strongly disagree. KOTR 2 is inferior to its predecessor in every department other than cool coats.

@@DoctorLazers Kreia is easily my favorite Star Wars Legends character. Also, Atton Rand is way more likeable than Carth "I need to talk about my feelings but I don't want to" Onasi.

@@DoctorLazers They were both good as far as writing is concerned (after all Bioware still had it's actual talents working for them back in the day), but KOTOR 2 wasn't only buggy but released unfinished, so part one pretty much wins by default.

@@DoctorLazers It certainly has significant structural faults forced upon it by its rushed release, although the fanpatch fixes many of them. It's biggest advantage is narrative- it has an actual theme! A semi-focused story with a mostly-consistent tone! One of the most memorable characters in a Star-Wars game in Kreia! It also has the slight advantage of fixing my biggest gripe with the original, where you want to play as little of the game as possible until you become a Jedi to avoid those basic bitch non-Jedi levels.

@@BloodyAltima My main issue with 2 is its complete lack of memorability. I cannot really recount anything that happens in the story with anything more than vague, half memories. KOTR 1 on the other hand, every character, location and major scene are iconic and permanently burned into my mind. KOTR 2 is just flat.

Right, or just one dollar. One dollar below would be a horrible strategy

@@ralden2691 It would make someone incredible smug if it worked though.

@@tomhill3248 that's a madlad strat right there

@@TypicallyThomas That is an incredibly rare event that no one plays for without being clairvoyant. And wouldn't be what assholes do as prescient to his joke. Usually, if someone bets 300 dollars... the asshole will bid 301. Thus freezing that person out entirely as, what everyone agrees to be, a "dick move". Their bid would only count for a min/max difference of 99 cents. Which makes it *very* unlikely for them to win that bid. Thus that person would think that you're a big jerk for doing that to them. Do you get it yet? So if you bid 1 dollar lower... you're giving *yourself* only a 99 cent min/max difference. You'd basically have to already know the answer to do that to yourself. And people wouldn't think you're a jerk... they'd think you're a joke.

​@@TypicallyThomas But yet you felt compelled to respond, in full demonstration of your willful ignorance, to my off-handed remark about an unimportant part of his video. How does that saying go? "Silence is the virtue of those who are not wise." You would've done *much better* to have not said anything at all.

Actually, it won't be on Steam for a year, not six months. That said, it's actually not an EGS exclusive, as you can buy it on the Microsoft Store and it's part of Microsoft's PC Game Pass.

@@Fir7shadow You are correct, didn't have all my facts straight. Regardless, it's still being held from Steam

I think they kind of see it as using Epic for the instant cash to make the game better, then abandoning them for Microsoft first chance they get. Still not seeing how that meshes with the anti corporation thing. Even if the relationship is more hands off like Activision and Blizzard in the early days, look how far Blizzard has fallen recently.

@@biscuitboi9478 Then that more proves it is anti-corporation, have you ever tried getting a refund from Steam?

Fallon Star I tried getting a refund from steam. It was automatically processed in like, less than a day.

He definitely only did one playthrough of the game and judged the entirety on that. It's evident by some of the misinformation in this Review like TTD being useless for melee, which is just the opposite, or his complete lack of understanding of how the skill system ACTUALLY works in the game. Persuasion and Intimidate, for example, have VERY real impact on combat scenarios when leveled to even 20 or 40 (AKA Novice and Competent ranks).

Mikey Stones I had that too! I loaded an earlier save and it didn’t happen again. I have no idea why that happened. She was literally in my party but ‘dead’ in my journal.

Onii-chan what are we gonna do on the rocket? -I'm sorry-

@@panzsan5963 Don't be, the joke was necessary at some point, even if it means you've condemned us all to hell

Right, stop that. Silly. And a bit suspect, I think.

How else am I suppose to keep them fresh?

@@ShermTank7272 Been forever since I've heard a Monty Python reference

It’s New Vegas-ish.

@@EnolaGay15 [cannibal] eat the baby.

Fallout 76: (pay 1000 atoms) spawn the baby (pay 9000 atoms) spawn lake (pay 100$ to start the quest) Game crashes and now you are an indentured labourer for godd howard

@@shahood8116 plot twist: There's no baby

-the outer world -I will save the baby baby -I will save the baby but I want more money -good bye

If you bid one dollar less would get it, because you would be the only one not over bidding

@@pygmalion0451 then he got a really lucky guess. The optimal play is $1 higher. If the first guess is lower than the real price your +1 guess will win. If over everyone guesses again in the same order and you repeat the tactic. Thats why it's considered a dick move

people that think the other person bid too high, only bid 1 dollar, because if the other person is over, than the person who bids 1 dollar wins

Yeah pretty much. Bidding one dollar under would literally be you guessing the price exactly. The only way you could win in that situation is if the person you bid a dollar less than actually guessed a price that’s only $1 higher than the actual price. Otherwise you’re both over the price and it resets or youre both under and the person who guessed $1 higher than you is closer to the actual price. The two cheeky plays are bidding a dollar HIGHER or just bidding $1 or some other obviously low price because you think the prior guesses are all too high.

fyi it's "Jacques McKeown"

But they are largely superficial. They do not help/harm you in a conversation, and unlike a Bioware game, your companions will never threat to leave you, then actually do, because you are going against their moral/ethical code. There is a point in the late game where one of your companions threatens to not make them choose between them and their people, but then does absolutely nothing before or after mass murdering her people.

@@LostToys I know for sure its possible to make Ellie leave

@@LostToys Companions will leave if you kill certain people though. Spoilers: Ellie's parents for example, or Parvati's girlfriend.

@@sephy26946 The only time I had a companion leave was when I pressed the wrong button to end a conversation and told them to get lost. Otherwise, in all other cases, no matter what I did, whom I talked to, and whatever ending I was after, all of my companions stayed by my side.

@@BradTheAmerican Both of those are extreme cases that no one would normally pick, particularly on their first playthrough. The more classic examples come late-game with Parvati and Felix if you decided to side with The Board. Parvati should be totally against it since you eliminate all of Edgewater (at least in my playthrough since I had Reed replaced) and Felix should be against it since he was looking to be part of a rebellion and was against the corporations.

I thought it was a S&W M&P myself.

It's a valid criticism. Party members who have no independence or plot relevance tend to feel less like characters and more like window dressing. But I feel the complete lack of romance options breaks that trend somewhat, allow me to explain. Typically in games like these we're given options for romance of some description with the characters. When Parvati is introduced, what did you anticipate? I was under the impression that she was the first option and I only had that impression because I'd been conditioned by these RPGs to expect it. Instead she tells you shes not even into that stuff, and also she likes this other person who- when you meet them- you learn is just a better person than you no matter what you've chosen up to this point. Junlei dedicated everything to keeping a whole community alive and all you did was shoot some people and irreparably interfere with the lives of strangers. This leans into the flaws Yahtzee stated, namely the constant shooting and murdering you're kinda just expected to do. It uses the tropes of similar games in a way I'd liken to parody. Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, and Knights of the Old Republic all did this. It's just sort of a given. The reason stated here is just that the world is such a harsh place that you're just required to be armed- essentially the same excuse as Fallout, and it's just that: an excuse. But it's an excuse to provide a style of gameplay that we've grown accustomed to. It would be hard to make an anti-capitalist Fallout parody and then remove the Fallout-like combat style. At that point the parody is gone, and so is it's appeal to Fallout's huge audience.

@Rafael Lopez It's not shitty AI, it was HIS mistake!

Rafael Lopez there is exactly a mini menu to control companions tho.

Rafael Lopez you can change behaviors whenever you want!

@@ShadowCoH316 "also she likes this other person who- when you meet them- you learn is just a better person than you no matter what you've chosen up to this point. Junlei dedicated everything to keeping a whole community alive and all you did was shoot some people and irreparably interfere with the lives of strangers." That's a very big assumption, especially considering the player's potential ambitions at that point. If they are motivated by saving the colonists and undermining the corporation there's no definitive way to say that Junlei is a better person than you. Especially if you then proceed to help her save her own ship for the time being. Not to mention Parvati doesn't fall for her because of that. Junlei is sweet, flirtatious, persistent and shares a hobby with her. That's why she likes her. The game never gives the player a chance to be those things with her so I dunno, it feels like a raw example for me.

Don't forget the peer approved list of acceptable people, i mean objects, to test with.

Guillotines are only useful for executions once one has gained control. They do not allow one to obtain control. For that, you need like, a gun.

@@drdca8263 Have you ever seen a gillotine used in combat? Jesus, I still remember the screaming.

@@drdca8263 Torches and pitchforks are all you need to overthrow a government.

Vinícius Oliveira Ok, yeah I suppose that the proportion of support that you have influences what weapons would be effective. But if you have a large enough amount of support, why not just rewrite the constitution through the “states can vote to hold a constitutional convention” thing. If you just mean, like, taking over the local city or state govt., then yeah, you can do that, and then subsequently get quashed by the fedgov military.

One of the most positive Ive seen actually

/s

Still I believe one of his less "positive review in disguise" is the one from DOOM, but seems that everybody is happy with this "I just want an old fashioned regular rpg-centered game".

@@nathanharrison8901 Portal was the most positive and he couldn't find a single flaw in it, also Nier:Automata, Persona 5, Obra Dinn, actually quite many others.

@@pliubumas Minecraft as well*

Same even though kotor did it way better. And in truth you're not wrong kotor was extremely successful and was recognised as the best game and mass effect copied kotor and every other rpg did the same.

@Java Monsoon Exactly! I'm on the first planet atm, my companions are a cute mechanic girl and a church shepherd with violent tendencies. Now just need Inara to join my camp!

@Java Monsoon Oh man, Wash... That young man fills me with hope. Plus some other emotions which are weird and deeply confusing!

@Java Monsoon Thankfully, at least, they remembered to added Kaylee, Shepherd, Simon, Zoe, and HK-47.

@Nospam Spamisham Are you in the wrong thread? Nobody is talking about Andromeda here.

@Java Monsoon you can even get those fluffy cows in the back of the ship and everything

They were rushed and cheated on both KOTOR 2 and New Vegas, goes to show how capable they are.

Kotor 1 is recognized as the best of the two and of the time and in my opinion of all time. It makes this game look bad

It's only spectacular by comparison with the absolute state of gaming today. In years past, this would have been a solid 7.5, maybe 8/10. Good in a mediocre sort of way. It's just that it's one of the only current games that hasn't sawed a leg off in an attempt to sell it to you later that makes it look so good, as well as direct comparison against absolute trainwrecks of games in Andromeda and 76.

I like Yahtzee as an entertainer, but I think he's a terrible reviewer. Not because I feel he has bad taste in games, but because his praise is so slight you can assume that _anything_ he reviews is going to come off looking middling at best. A reviewer who only gives bad reviews is equally as useful as a reviewer who only gives good reviews. Reviews are supposed to be subjective. This way you can find a reviewer who's tastes align with your own, and be informed about what you'd probably like. I don't think Yahtzee dislikes all games, but I think he's trapped because his audience expects a very cynical tone all the time.

@@RisqueBisquet does anyone really come here expecting a review? I come here to watch someone smack around a game for 5 minutes :P

@@RisqueBisquet his dark souls review is pretty positive. He's done positive reviews before. So it shows he isn't just giving everything a bad review, he has his taste but also throws in objective criticism as well. I'd say he is a fair and good reviewer but not one that goes into great depth, which isnt the style of his reviews. His reviews are entertaining regardless.

@@rayserrano1865 Yup! I remember that one! In 2011. I'm not saying he _never_ gives a good review, but they're bloody rare. I guess I can't say he's not "fair" in the same way an avalanche is fair. But not a Good reviewer. My standard for a reviewer being good is I have a reasonable feel for what I'd expect that reviewer to enjoy, and they deliver that perspective eloquently. Yahtzee is eloquent, but I have no idea what he enjoys because I see it so little.

He did better than me. I really enjoy the game, get maybe a quarter of the way through, put it down for a bit, and then start again over and over again.

He also said the n-word (three times! (with a hard R!)) on his PUBG review!

Ninjartist 36 do you know how to spell the woman’s name he mentioned along with it? Trying to look her up

I love how there are one set of rules for media-owned leftists like Yahtzee and another set of rules for the rest of us.

+zimriel Welcome To Conservatism & Reality!

Oh my god, somebody ask Joss if he wants to write some dlc. And write in certain characters. Or, screw it, just get obsidian and Joss whedon to make a firefly RPG. Then, just like hitchhiker's, just tell the story again, but this time as a game with changes.

James Neave Firefly?

James Neave Yes. It was very heavily inspired by Firefly. Even the Unreliable’s design is an homage to Firefly.