Back 4 Blood - Angry Review

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AngryJoe, OtherJoe & Alex play another Zombie Game, this time Back 4 Blood a spiritual successor to some fantastic zombie survival games of the past, can this game recapture the magic & add new innovation? Find out!
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[@Raikujo]

Huh, never thought one of my old animations would make an appearance on your show. Glad you enjoyed it dude, this was a pleasant surprise!

[@rexconnorisacvck]

MY BOI, I LOVE YOUR ANIMATIONS

[@ksspook]

We love u

[@BOXER53]

We're still waiting when you going to make new videos dude

[@leonardocastro410]

This review of this review is 5/5 honesty points.

[@PersonaMona5264]

Holy hell, never thought I'd see you in a comment section. I love your animations.

[@TheActMan]

LOL Classic clip you threw in there!!

[@jackmorrison1752]

Act man I love you when we smoking together

[@Raps_BZRK]

No fucking way! the legend itself

[@Rollbrand370]

Act Man when are you going to review Demon's Souls or Outer Worlds?

[@C4DC]

Love ya Act Man

[@Nile-oz2go]

Two of fav youtubers collaborating? You love to see it

[@Synthgamer]

L4D characters: Serious about their survival but also have some charm. Meanwhile... B4B characters: Everyone wants to be a comedian and does not take a zombie apocalypse seriously enough.

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

Straight to the point synopsis of this mediocre game

[@saddemon2022]

And worst of all, they aren't even funny.

[@13Gangland]

@@thelordofthelostbraincells It's ok, you died alot It's fine that you suck.

[@8A8ADave]

@@13Gangland LOL looks like the L4D2 community is split and B4B is too hard for some of them 😜

[@Edward1727]

i dont disagree but with how massive zombies have been the last few years would you take a zombie apocalypse serious?? i dont think i would haha

[@Utonian21]

What I liked about the L4D games is how the level designs made you feel like you were traveling across a large distance. It was an adventure where the characters were always on the road searching for something better. That's lost in this game because they have a home base, so the entire game really takes place in one localized area, with them reusing certain areas

[@michaelbenvenuti5237]

Good point

[@drowningin]

That is true

[@jigbie7922]

MASSIVE understated point.

[@RainCloudVideos]

Yup, that area with the gas station was recycled in the campaign about 5-6 times throughout my play though, just lazy.

[@sirottovonbismarck6776]

No wonder it kinda gets boring after a while

[@DrakeBarrow]

I will say that the "HEY JOE, WANNA PLAY A ZOMBIE GAME!?" gag doesn't get old

[@hewhobattles8869]

"Jesus Christ, HOW MANY FUCKIN ZOMBIE GAMES YOU BUYIN, JOE!?"

[@DeadX2]

@@hewhobattles8869 hey Joe you wanna play a zombie game

[@timdatanuki2375]

@@DeadX2 NO I DON’T WANT TO PLAY A FUCKING ZOMBIE GAME!!

[@DeadX2]

@@timdatanuki2375 joe you wanna play a moths fuckin zombie game : D

[@yoshifan3077]

Stop it 😥

[@CovertPhilosopher]

the continuation of the "play a zombie game" meme is just the cherry on top(we knew we needed) over Angry reviews, lol

[@rzaku5536]

Just wait till Dying Light 2

[@TrickyJebus]

sad to see they havent realized its the same schtick for War Games. Should be called "play a war game" next

[@Sarnatuile]

@@TrickyJebus Because it wouldn't be as funny. AJ doesn't hate war games at all nor is tired of them. He was tired of zombie games years ago.

[@CovertPhilosopher]

@@rzaku5536 oh I'm very much waiting for that sir, the game and Joe's review are going to be a treat

[@ea09]

I love how Joe always sleeps with his Superman t-shirt and jacket.

[@JaydevRaol]

🤣

[@supermutant963]

Because he's in a time loop of Zombie games

[@easley421]

Haha, I came here to say the same thing. Id like to think when angry Joe's in review mode he eats, sleeps, and breathes in that jacket

[@MedalionDS9]

you're not seeing the blow-up Superman doll off-screen he also sleeps with

[@FalseShepherd]

*hey i'm here for the interview*

[@jefffillion981]

it really makes you realise that Valve was the reason why Left 4 Dead 2 was so good

[@xui856]

I need left 4 Dead 3 BADLY

[@zacharyfeehan832]

Valve can't count to 3

[@peterclarke7240]

Valve just took the saying "always leave them wanting more" and perfected it.

[@anthonygregory6797]

All good, Valve I'm sure will remaster both originals which kost will be ok with.

[@MajesticWaffle]

@Boneits ummm no…. if it was good? No it would not

[@MercenaryJames]

OJ's happy face always makes me smile. Like a kid who is so proud of something and is excitedly showing you what they did. In this case, it's making Joe play another Zombie game.

[@its_chaz4228]

And everyone reacts like “HE DID IT! HE DID THE THING!”

[@TheCommanderTaco]

Now all we need is to find out this zombie game is charging for blue.

[@jaythomas468]

Man, that clip of the AI-controlled teammates endlessly following each other in a circle like a conga-line of cats chasing each other’s tails made me laugh so hard.

[@FitchTV]

this says it all

[@frankylampard3931]

I appreciate this review but have to say that youtube footage is from the Beta when they were completely broken is very unfair in a final release review. Altho jittery and get stuck on things the AI is decent and makes the game ALOT easier on veteran. They have aimbot, drop ammo, ping weapons, focus fire where you ping, heal you constantly , have unlimited ammo, pipe bombs and molotovs and heal for free on health stations. In beta they were busted AF and altho still not perfect they are legit better than 90% of randoms or ppl on a controller... judging by AJ gameplay the bots would also be better than him too. All subjective criticisms completely fair but again the footage in video is the BETA bots and its kinda BS to show that and say "AI is dumb" the more you play with them you will realise they are actually pretty damn amazin.... l4d AI was still smoother and better as they didnt get stuck on everything but still, worth noting

[@Thorinbur]

@@frankylampard3931 I disagree, playing in a team of 3 plus bot. he will often refuse to heal even when you continually ping the wall medkit. Gets stuck everywhere. Loves to stand in front of a set up minigun. And will often refuse to free you while stending right next to you. Oh and a favourite place for a bot to throw a molotov is at your back agains single zombie you already killed.

[@frankylampard3931]

@@Thorinbur all your complaints are correct, them getting stuck on everything, gettin in the way etc. They are buggy as fuck I agree. Weird thing is when you have more than 1 bot , they seem to heal me alot more and trust me trying to matchmake with randoms is way worse, random ppl jsut run off and die and steal ammo they dont need, il take bots anyday. But my main point was that the clips shown was from a vid that got posted during beta and was way worse, i saw that vid months ago and thoughts its unfair to use that footage Hope they can fix them alot more but when I said amazing i meant it makes Veteran actually doable with 2 players and 2 bots just for the ammo drops and how accurate they are at killing common zombies is great, also they use the wall medkit everytime for me, not sure why they dont for you.... maybe cos they are buggy still

[@manslaughter8845]

@@frankylampard3931 If you're saying the L4D AI was "smoother and better" then B4B's AI must be the absolute worst, because the L4D AI was terrible

[@JimankyGaming]

*Players during the beta:* "The game is too easy!" *Devs inhale as they pinch the bridge of their noses:* "Challenge... accepted."

[@lokitakahashi3042]

day 1 and 2 was easy. day 3 suddenly specials were spawning in pairs around every corner. quite literally me in a full party on veteran physically didn't have enough ammo to complete a level. multiple attempts ,good aim. just too many bullet sponges.

[@TMoDDD]

The Beta was broken too bro

[@_carlosamontoya_]

My experience with the Beta was very different lol I got horded by special infected every single time I played

[@anchovyinatank4006]

Legitimately don't think difficulty would've been a criticism if they axed crossplay, segregated the controller and mkb players from eachother, and then had different difficulty multipliers for both groups. Who's to say though.

[@snatcher420]

@@lokitakahashi3042 You need to grab a melee weapon and card that increases health when you use it.

[@cpncorndogg]

I love how they try to add personality to the characters with colour and accesories. The l4d characters had more personality in them than all of them put together. Hell the zombies in L4d had more personality than the characters.

[@joet7136]

The clown, the mud people, and the hazmat guys to name a few.

[@SoySalmon]

Suicide squad knockoff No.420

[@Deliveredmean42]

Despite the characters in L4D wearing regulator clothing, the way they interact with each other, their emotive expression and flavor text really sell them as memorable characters. There's something genuine about them that you enjoy. Even tho the sequel was more cheese, it was a loveable cheese that you can't fault them either.

[@solidsnakescake]

The rocks on the ground had more personality

[@yesyes-om1po]

@@Deliveredmean42 its because the B4B characters look cartoonish and stupid, like disney made them for a kid's movie, not a zombie apocalypse. They suffer from "marvel syndrome" where all the characters are cheesy and cynical, and sound like what execs think teenagers/college kids say based off focus groups

[@KazDX]

OJ must be having the time of his life tormenting AJ with zombie games, I’m highly entertained!

[@XxHUNT3RN4T0RxX]

And he’s gonna have to do it again for Dying Light 2.

[@JaydevRaol]

Yeah

[@quincyking010]

3 zombie games in 1 year booooooi

[@BeatmasterAC]

imagine OJ when Dying Light 2 drops XD

[@paulman34340]

The joke never gets old! Though I agree with AJ that the nightmare of NOT GIVING THE ZOMBIE GENRE A FUCKING REST will never DIE....just like the undead themselves (Just having Zombies isn't going to put you on "Hey Joe you want to play a Zombie Game" list. They have to be a major center point of it to count!) Also Spider-Hunter I almost forgot about Dying Light 2! Seriously if I didn't go to a gamestop often, I'd have forgotten it even exists! Right there with Dead Island 2 in if you don't talk about it, I'm going to forget!

[@icecsm16]

"Hey Joe! You want to play a zombie game?" That never gets old.

[@smallhatshatethetruth7933]

except when they stop making zombie games or when Joe dies in which case we can ask his corpse!!

[@husker4life109]

@@smallhatshatethetruth7933 he will play zombie games as a zombie

[@Foxfire_forty-nine]

Oh it will when the Fandom makes reference to it all the time.

[@brettjacobson4600]

Ngl I got a laugh when the Acting Male said "I thought you were gonna kill me" and Joe just casually says "I was... I was." Lol

[@Shadowz2704]

It's already old.

[@OrcCorp]

More like Back 4/10 Blood.

[@Hyrule409]

From the creators of Evolve.

[@MrRAGE22]

And now the developers owned by tencent 🤣 lol thanks for the lackluster games turtle Rock now your true downfall is upon you

[@task_failer8223]

Don’t call this game’s graphics better, L4D put so much love into each detail, facial animation, death animation, musical queues, character design, level design. Only *7* people who worked on L4D2 were pat off turtle rock, the rest were *all* from Valve

[@q_q123]

You're right. In terms of visual aspects like lighting and such that reflect the advancement of computer graphics in games of course B4B, a modern day game will look better. But the DESIGN of L4D2 is timeless. It's a 12 year old game and still looks good and feels great to play because it's simple and at the same time effective at telling a story just by art direction itself. Does it hell a lot better than B4B.

[@cheesestyx945]

@@q_q123 not even lighting l4d2 had gunfire light up your environment b4b doesn't.

[@legzzzzz]

Tbh, I don't really know what's going on with the graphics of B4B, it looks good in the cleaners and environment not to say that they're topnotch but it just looks good but when it comes to the zombies and infecteds they look like slimes and not to mention the over-the-top blood splatters that looks like slime. It ruines the immersion or realism for me, imagine a simple punch to them, a pint of blood already scattered around unlike in L4D, the blood are subtle and splats in a reasonable and realistic way, no blood splatters when you shove them, shotguns, lots of blood, in normal weapons, reasonable blood, melee, ofcourse, lots of blood but in a subtle way.

[@infinitesimotel]

@@q_q123 Don't forget the ambiance that L4D creates too. This game seems like an arcade shooter.

[@fentmeth2580]

Bullets actually effected zombies in left for dead 2, it felt like you were shooting them. B4b has the most generic zombie deaths and not even the bare minimum gore when you shoot em up

[@Tmal]

I found the best part for me personally was quickscoping my friends in the firing range. Did that for hours..

[@tristenatorplaysgames6833]

FUCKING SAME

[@bigchungus7050]

Seems to be a highlight for alot of people same here

[@charlez2729]

Lmfao, when the beta dropped we failed our first mission and just did 1v1 at the range with the stupidest load outs…it was the funnest shit ever!

[@AustinH7]

That’s the only fun to be had in this game

[@edwardlynch6550]

We do that a fucking lot

[@scienceteam9254]

I just realised that the card system was turtlerock's way of compenating for "the director" of l4d.

[@BucklingSwashes]

Except the director in L4D actually knew how to time waves and use enemies, ammo, and items in reasonable numbers to make things difficult without ever being frustrating. Here, even the tryhards go around telling you that you have to play with specific decks a specific way if you want to succeed on higher difficulties, because all the director A.I. knows is how to spawn poorly designed enemies in ridiculous numbers at a high rate.

[@Bentfrombeyond]

@@BucklingSwashes I feel like stalkers are the worst of this, they grapple like jockeys, except you can't rebel by shoving them in a teammates direction.

[@blmao5150]

@@BucklingSwashes “bUt dUde YoU haVE tO uSe tHesE spEciFic cArds In tHis DeCK”

[@blmao5150]

@@Bentfrombeyond Good luck finding out if it’s even a stalker if all the special infected literally look identical to each other

[@Bentfrombeyond]

@@blmao5150 True, it's mainly the stalker and stinger that look too similar, the only way to tell is if the weakspot is on the chest or the head

[@Ronaldihldo]

What made L4D2 campaign so good was the build up of tension to these set piece surprise attacks. There’s no tension in B4B it’s just constant chaos with special swarming you every corner. Also versus campaign was one of the greatest multiplayer modes in any game. You could coordinate with your friends on both sides and made for great planning and teamwork. The multiplayer in B4B just like the campaign is a chaotic mess

[@AugustBurnsRed181]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed how there is non existent pacing it’s just random chaos all over the place with no strategy no tension no nothing.

[@blaakheart8]

And no internet connection required

[@djandjb1]

I literally bought this game for the multiplayer believing (hoping) it would be like the multiplayer from L4D2…. I’m done with video games

[@christopherniceley8848]

What's wrong with "constant chaos"? I happen to like that...

[@AugustBurnsRed181]

@@djandjb1 yes welcome to the club brother lol

[@Arrowtomahknee]

Reminder that TurtleRock made Evolve. That asymmetrical hunting fps game that spawned Joe's famous rant about the color blue.

[@fattony3736]

Evolve was a good game, the microtransactions however were the worst I've ever seen.

[@leotox6423]

@@fattony3736 It wasn't "bad" but had very little actual content and also barely any real interaction between the hunters even though they were shown to have special relationships to eachother in trailers, info texts and the short scenes before they drop down in the hunting area. The mostly empty maps and very little diversity in the actual gameplay made it very repetitive in the end. Also some things were just not balanced at all. The Behemoth for example can litteraly act like heavy artillery. That completely trivialised the defender game mode because you could just shoot your lava bomb straight up in the air and hit the generator (and usually also everything around it) from the opposite side of the map because the travel distance was not limited.

[@Pinhead64]

The act man showing up on an angry review is absolutely electric

[@brandonoliver8547]

And angry Joe showed up in his left 4 dead 2 video

[@thekleanupkrew8381]

The fact special infected have no sound cues like l4d yet are still as dangerous and require teammates to pry them off of you while doing MORE damage and spawning MORE OFTEN is the single most frustrating thing about this game IMO

[@Gohbbugohkyubbu0036]

They have listen catefully they all laught excep for the sniching

[@beachbum111111]

Don't forget how multiple of the same infected can spawn too, imagine if 4 hunters could spawn at once in Left 4 Dead 2, thats the type of shit you have to deal with.

[@Juggaliath]

boohoo baby wanna blanky?

[@thekleanupkrew8381]

@@Juggaliath actually I do yes

[@Bentfrombeyond]

I'm really confused, because all the major ridden types have unique sound cues, the tall boy variants have a very specific roar that is easily audible upon the spawn into the map, same goes for spikers, reakers, and exploders. Though to me the gurgling snoring of sleeper always made me squint when I hear it. The boss types are audible everywhere, the ogre is accompanied by rumbling and roaring at spawn, and the breaker can be heard with it's roar multiple times as well as the breaking noises as it spawns, so I'm really confused why you say the don't have cues, they do, they just aren't catchy piano stings. Their callouts are still very useful, regardless of them being not being unique and catchy.

[@kudowazzupman1878]

The Act-Man cameo was the cameo we didn't deserve but needed.

[@henrik1743]

Act man is so good, I also love the channesl of raycevick, whitetlight and neverknowbest for long analasyis videos

[@SwooshJush83]

@@henrik1743 Patrician, Salt Factory, and Joseph Anderson are also really good. Patrician made a 12 hour video on oblivion lmao

[@sirdamned9272]

I'm surprised he wasn't calling to talk about New World tbh.

[@FlyJonat]

If you watched act man's video about l4d2, you would have seen it already. It was more an angry joe cameo.

[@EdwardGutierrez90]

@@FlyJonat indeed 👌🏼

[@Razumen]

If you look at the credits for Left 4 Dead, you see that literally 99% of the people that worked on it were Valve. Pretty much all Turtle Rock did was come up with the concept. That really explains the difference in polish between the two. That said, I still enjoy the game, but without mod support, it's days are already numbered.

[@seasnow6073]

Only 9 people from turtlerock while the team that makes l4d are around 200 peoples. They really had the balls to claim they makes l4d

[@Hyrule409]

@@seasnow6073 Turtlerock was going for a dead-on-arrival speedrun by hyping their game up to the massive bar that is L4D when they had to have knew their game was shitty in comparison. Probably would've been better if they kept their mouths shut and let the game ride on its merits rather than off the back of a much better title, and in the end they wrote a check with their marketing they couldn't cash with their product.

[@chillhour6155]

It also explains that Evolve game with it's blueee cosmetics

[@Vanished584]

@@Hyrule409 Theyre probably still salty Valve took so much over a technical legality issue. L4d is Turtle Rocks, but becuase so much of TR's former employees now work at Valve, l4d belongs to Valve.

[@R3in_Ch]

@@chillhour6155 is that a blue? selling blue for 2$???

[@Strider0167]

I didn't think the beta was too easy. It was difficult af. Especially when the team takes every ammo and gun they find leaving nothing for you to use.

[@booqrdoit9138]

Man, that reminds me of L4D. That's where I learned people are even awful in a video game zombie apocalypse, nevermind a real one

[@CosmicVoid_119]

Just like what would happen in real life

[@bigchungus7050]

Recruit was super easy in the beta

[@JR-gq7rx]

I love that Joe and Act Man are friends. Excellent cameo, two of my favorite game reviewers together.

[@jjct111]

Actman is a mega sell out for one of the worse companies in the world. No thanks.

[@niallreid7664]

@@jjct111 Really? Who?

[@hardcoreLazors]

@@niallreid7664 He did a New World review sponsored by, well, New World. Quite dissappointing to be honest but we all make mistakes.

[@The_zickron]

I don’t think act man is great reviewers.

[@seb2750]

@@hardcoreLazors He went full corpo. F for Johnny Actinghand.

[@901Cardinal]

The cameo of The Act Man on AJS made my day.

[@JaydevRaol]

Yeah man 😁

[@henrik1743]

Act man is so good, I also love the channesl of raycevick, whitetlight and neverknowbest for long analasyis videos

[@mrblackhouseprez]

@@henrik1743 i love act man and neverknowsbest. I haven't heard of the others. Ill look them up. Its something about watching long form videos on gaming thats so gratifying. I listen to them like audio books at work.

[@henrik1743]

@@mrblackhouseprez Same man, they were a saviour during Covid. I watch neverknowsbest when I wanna sleep sometimes lmao

[@isla2202]

He is probably gonna try and sell you new world

[@jacobmcguire9174]

After the new patch, the veteran difficulty got even harder, and in the worst way possible(they buffed the mutation spawn numbers). If you trigger a horde accidentally on veteran or nightmare, it’s often game over no matter what cuz you’ll be fucked by a triple tallboy or crusher spawn.

[@redjaygaming9757]

I mean that should happen, i don't see the issue

[@_Paul_N]

They claim that the patch turned down special mutation spawns, but the patch literally doubled down on corruption cards. You even know that you’re screwed before leaving the safe house SMH.

[@leotox6423]

There is a reason why the director in L4D2 would not spawn more than one special of each kind at the same time. Two Hunters at once was already one of the worst possible outcomes on certain difficulties in L4D1 but it had to happen sometimes because there were 4 slots for 3 "regular" specials. Not such a big deal most of the time, but a death sentence during a horde attack or if the team has already lost a survivor. Throwing three huge ass mofos with the hp of a miniboss and fucking aoe attacks at you at the same time in a tight space is not something that should happen in a fair game.

[@kennethbrown1210]

This is a good lesson that studio in name alone is meaningless. It’s about the individuals involved.

[@funzywunzy]

nah, it's because valve kept them on track. turtle rock has amazing ideas, but can't make a game to save their lives. just look at Evolve, b4b has the same issues Evolve has

[@detenator1]

We learned that a long time ago with Bioware.

[@SomeoneStoleMyHandle911]

@@funzywunzy totally agree when valve make a game they always put alot of personality and passion on alot of aspects overlooked by others (like sounds, music, character, balance, physics ect). This feels more like a game made by an algorithm or machine to mimic what it thinks made those others successful. They could have succeeded too.

[@kona8832]

Turtle rock made a great game in their early days but i doubt its the same wide eyed developers still at the studio. they shouldn't have backed away from valve as a publisher with their creative differences and just improved on the left for dead franchise.

[@Foxfire_forty-nine]

What, CDProjekt wasn't a good enough lesson to end all lessons?

[@dontcallmenice1949]

This feels like this type of game that a lot of people really got excited about, then it released to mostly positive reviews, but people forgot about it pretty quickly. And then some guy decides to revisit it a couple of years later and concludes that it was never really that great from the very beginning.

[@ded5630]

I feel u

[@yourcucumberissoftandyourg3114]

Spot on.

[@detroid_ntr26]

@@yourcucumberissoftandyourg3114 Translate to English lol

[@dragonmaster3030]

@John Mangum or instead make it more unique, I know it has its quirks compared to L4D but to be honest it's not enough to make an identity, to give people a reason to pay 60$ for a game that's not all to different from cheaper games with a reputation and a known high player base

[@hikikomoron]

So basically Outer Worlds?

[@isaacevanoff1121]

It’s crazy that Left 4 Dead 2 still remains one of the greatest zombie games ever made, even after more than a decade

[@chris4o5]

I still play it all the time.

[@BlueBlur2003]

*The greatest zombie game ever made

[@Sir_PantsareoffYT]

YES. With dying light a close second if not tied

[@maikenpedersen9193]

I have it and i dont like it at all its just boring to me

[@maikenpedersen9193]

Honestly i love dying light 100 times more

[@CDubya.82]

Left 4 Dead will be remembered and played going on for years. Back 4 Blood will be forgotten in no time.

[@teoborges3949]

"Well let's see, I'm Francis, theres Grandpa bill and THERE'S ZOMBIE EVERYWHERE OPEN THE GOD DANM DOOR!" Francis - 2008 to 2009

[@kenjinuma]

Better safe then sorry.

[@Secret_Takodachi]

PILLS HERE

[@StarShine480]

Francis? Imma teach yo ass how to READ!

[@Rubhen925]

That arrogant you're welcome from OJ is basically what the devs are saying to you after we gave our feedback from the beta and they still didn't improve certain things. Single player campaign is utter trash. Completely pointless to do. And not able to kick useless players and trolls out is another amazing feature.....

[@Jiambo]

No game should include a kick feature unless it's in a private lobby or ranked lobby (before match starts). Vote to kick gets abused way to much. If I spend money on a game I expect to be able to play it and not be at the mercy of dickheads. It's easy enough to just back out and find a new lobby if you dont like the team (not so much in b4b admittedly, match making takes forever)

[@SneedRemembrancer]

@@Jiambo host your own game

[@Jiambo]

@@SneedRemembrancer That's what I meant by private lobby. My references for VTK abuse were mostly R6 Siege and Phasmophobia (the latter being all hosted games). Casual match making or "quick play" should be an enter at your own risk situation. Deal with the team you are dealt or back out and try again. You do have a good point but, hosting your own game doesnt guarantee people will join. Imagine paying for a plane ticket and waiting in line just to be voted off the plane before take off. Then waiting for the next plane...repeat. No thanks. Obvious apple's & oranges comparison but reinforces my point about reasonable expectations of a purchase.

[@SaintAndSinner99]

@@Jiambo Left 4 Dead has vote to kick and from the thousands of hours I put into that game, I can say I've been kicked unfairly maybe a few times, even in versus. As long as your name isn't senor dickhead, you'll be fine.

[@Stefanius058]

@@SaintAndSinner99 i played TF2 another valve game and people get kicked all.the time for just playing the game well enough. Granted, it has a hacker and bot problem. But you can still tell those 3 things easily apart from one another but most just dont care about it and just enjoy trolling

[@thelucidjoe]

13:08 Totally agree with AJ here. WTF was TRS thinking not having those musical cues. I get they wanna create tension and what not but all this does is make sure players get frustrated as hell when two Tall Boys creep up on an entire team like they were ninjas. Audio cues in L4D and Vermintide gave teams a bit of time for advanced planning and this extra layer of tactics really complements the fast paced gameplay style of these types of games. Not to mention the fact that it adds memorability to the special enemies. Like I still remember the Charger and Tank themes from L4D over 10 years later.

[@alexjenkins8657]

The worst part about musical cues is there is actually one special that does have a cue which is the hag but only on the first mission you meet one. (From what I can tell) and it works so well me and 2 friends were playing and out of nowhere the fog intensifys and a spine tingling song starts and all of us start panicking god it was so fun. Honestly I wish there were more missions like that. The only missions that got the adrenaline pumping were the boat mission, the chapel(aka the hag intro), and the bar defense(just because that song is a certified bop).

[@AzureResonance66]

music ques would've been bad imho. because the director throws multiple specials at u at the same time with them being different variants. it was easier to do them in l4d(2) because there wasn't that many + no variants/ so if u imagine multiple variants for ex of tall boy( tall boy + crusher/bruiser), and u have music ques going on at the same time for both variants as well as playing music for the stinger, then yea.. guess what happens to ur audio.

[@Juggaliath]

don't rely on a game to tell you there's danger, use your own awareness

[@theboss6616]

@Kaheeros Oh! Are you still done playing back 4 blood? This guy you commenting is left 4 dead fanboy. He was not the kid,didn’t mean to disrespectful,are you Back 4 blood fan who defending your game and going against left 4 dead ? Just saying

[@Itachi_UchihaL337]

The tank music legit made me cry as a kid, it was like the 2nd coming of christ in your headphones, with nothing but your screen shaking constantly lmao

[@niki75]

Melee attacks consuming stamina and no audio queues for the special infected were 100% dealbreakers for me.

[@ethanedwards3357]

Eh, even if you run out of stamina, you can still swing melee weapons, it's just slower. (Hell, even in L4D2, spamming shoves would eventually tire you out and prevent you from shoving for a bit)

[@TheStepmonkey]

Sameee

[@chillhour6155]

Also game developers don't do audible footsteps anymore, completely misses the point to what creates tension as well as giving the player better game sense

[@Thanasis1248]

You do get audio queues for the mutated ridden

[@joelrobinson5457]

It's starting to feel like the only thing the game has of its predacessor is the name

[@mickeyminime7556]

Joe can't do a zombie game review without other joe saying "hey joe, do you want to play another zombie game"

[@Drip1979]

Probably when dying light 2 comes out

[@tylerleft3911]

I hope one day AJ just accepts his fate and goes "....sure Joe, I'll play a zombie game"

[@blackx334gmgf7]

Never! And can't wait to see it Dying light 2

[@chasedavis9336]

Just watching reviews and how the game was marketed, it really feels like they were riding on the success of L4D/L4D2 to sell the game, and decided to be lazy in making B4B.

[@vesstig]

L4D2 had the perfect mix of quips and light hearted commentary that made it so memorable

[@Hyrule409]

But at the same time the cast is grounded and still act like they're in a life or death situation. The cast of B4B act like they're taking turns with the mic at a comedy club.

[@Malidictus]

"You don't get anything for playing solo." Welp. That's a hard pass, then. Thanks for the heads-up, Joe.

[@Budd631]

Left 4 Dead sucked solo as well.

[@oss956]

@@Budd631 L4D and B4B both contribute heavily from playing with friends. It's just that the L4D AI is better and you can actually play all of the levels by yourself without needed online players. It also had couch co-op. B4B won't let you earn anything solo, the AI is laughably bad, and no couch co-op, so you're basically forced to play online. Of course, B4B is still new, so plenty of time to make changes. As things are now, however, the game just doesn't deliver.

[@JoeyJoJoJr0]

@@Budd631 It sucked, but at least it was working

[@master-dukecuthbert5061]

@@oss956 lol the AI is better than most of the players I’ve gotten so far. I can only play through medium difficulty if I’m playing with AI... players alert every horde and waste all their resources as well.

[@MrMrboy09]

@@Budd631 Yeah and that was OVER 10 years ago. I graduated high school, joined the military and got out, got married, had a child, suckered into a mortgage lol and in all that time these developers haven’t honed their skills in game development? I’m also a victim of their game Evolve and that too had no real single player either, just like Joe said Solo Campaign is a meaningless option on the main menu.

[@mythiccmouse6214]

I just want the randomly physics back. The pipe bomb exploding the zombies everywhere was one of the things that made it fun in l4d

[@SaltyFrenchFries]

The contrast between l4d1/2 survivors and b4b survivors really reminds me how much respect is deserved for good writing and direction. It's like night and day.

[@shawklan27]

Plus the general atmosphere is something to note too

[@kanebravo953]

Gotta disagree. I love the Cleaners. Molly is great, Mom is great, I love the fact they interact differently depending on which characters are in the party. I think a lot of people are seeing L4D through rose tinted glasses. The L4D survivors, while great, got super repetitive. Each level they said the same things, at the exact same moments. Ellis tells the same stories every time, and while funny the first few times, the 10th time it really starts to grate.

[@dingisdungus1798]

@@kanebravo953 Won't the Back 4 Blood characters run into that same problem though?

[@murasaika2776]

run or shoot..? "..." RUN OR SHOOT?!? "BOTH!"

[@nezo1813]

@@kanebravo953 Holly* man character can't be that good if you can't remember her name

[@vertigomaniac]

LOLOL! Joe gluing attachments onto the guns was just comedy gold

[@_Samm]

I was waiting for the "Hey Joe, you wanna play a Zombie game?" joke, i was not disappointed XD

[@oblivion1971uesp]

Why

[@Trillion_Dollar_Extreme]

They all suck at games bro

[@_Samm]

@@oblivion1971uesp because I find it funny

[@Jardin777]

Same!! I was so happy to see it 😂

[@beatsarebroken]

Man, AJ really hit the nail on the head. Playing B4B (see, I used it Devs), it's clear the game isn't a bug filled mess thankfully. Instead, it's plagued by some really, really bonehead design decisions that AJ has captured in this review. While TRS could fix many of these in post-launch updates, I'm not so convinced that they are actually listening to their community.

[@yaago]

They don't care about the community. Dropping attachments is something we've been requesting since the closed alpha and now they decided to lock that feature behind a card nobody's gonna use instead of making it default.

[@beatsarebroken]

@@yaago My guess is that 3 months from now TRS will be wondering why the game doesn't have the longevity of the L4D games if they don't listen and respond to player feedback quickly. I doubt I'll play through the game more than a handful of times, unfortunately.

[@Cheddar_Wizard]

Look what they did with Evolve. They base their games around microtransactions and a business model meant to leach players of money.

[@dolanmindo5545]

@@beatsarebroken Actually right now the game has the same numbers as L4D2 and L4D2 is 12 years fucking old. The peak player count of B4B didn't even match L4D2's peak, infact it didn't even reach half of L4D2's. The game currently has lost 60% of the peak players it had in launch week. The game ISN'T even a month old. It's not even 20 days old yet at the time of me typing this. For context, L4D2 has supported 10-20k players for 12 years. B4B 17 days old, has dropped massively to 10-20k players from 60k in a mere 17 fucking days

[@anchovyinatank4006]

@@dolanmindo5545 Oof.

[@N0TCMPunk]

So glad you brought up the terrible bot AI. In one of the levels where you had to defend the bar, one of my bots was running in place on top of the jukebox and lending zero support while we had to defend the location for like 5 minutes straight. What a nightmare.

[@jake51515]

Man tell me about it. Bots are STUPID glitchy! I cannot beat the last 3 levels on normal the difficulty spike is too high. I hope they patch this.

[@xevious21]

Wish they compared the L4D1/2 AI bots. Which never let me get kills cause they had Neo like reflexes, swapped for better weapons, always came to my rescue, and never got lost...sad really.

[@skryze6381]

The bots were useless in the beta but not to bad now…atleast they drop unlimited ammo and heal you lol. The difficulty also scales down a lot the more bots you have

[@eternalfps3124]

Bots are stupid. They can just get stuck doing jumping animations, one of my bots was just holding a health pack the entire match didn’t heal anyone and was walking up to specials with the health pack and getting KO’d over and over again.

[@lordmolag45000]

It's even worse when it's the same developers of Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, which has some of the best a.i. I've ever seen. Back 4 Blood's a.i. is pathetic in comparison.

[@CStrike9969]

They hyped up this game as being made by the l4d creators when it was less than 5% of the original crew..

[@michaelmonstar4276]

I think the vast majority of people, including reviewers and the creators of these games themselves, seem to miss is that the "Left 4 Dead" games were kind of built on a movie-concept. - The idea was that you're playing through like a movie or series or scenarios anyway, to the point that each campaign or chapter also had a chapter name, even its own poster (the loading screen and actual posters you could buy (RIP Valve Store)), and then ending with an actual credit-roll that showed the statistics of the gameplay in it. - And it's not like the game NEEDED that, in fact I've always felt like they could've done a little more with it or not bothered. However, the point is, that's what gave the game character, that was the theme (besides being horror/apocalypse), it created the settings, characters, ambience, and so forth. - This is what "Back 4 Bleh" did away with, whether it was intentional to either not bother or not do the same thing as their own "Left 4 Dead", or because of ignorance and overlooking the essences of those games. - This is why "B4B" lacks character and some immersion.

[@smashmyheadagainst]

Exactly! And that's also why calling the game AI manager "Director" doesn't make sense either in this game ! While it perfectly made sense in the L4D world.

[@chewyuanqiang]

Back 4 bludd seems to still be built on movie concepts, however they're based on today's terrible, generic and forgettable movies full of garbage tropes. It's like playing in the worst of Netflix or too many seasons of the Walking Dead. Nothing new and they take it too seriously when they shouldn't. It's not even a funny parody like Dead Rising, or Lollipop Chainsaw.

[@codysonic1]

So basically its killing floor

[@hamndv]

If gamers want the same game then go play the old ones

[@molin1310]

@@hamndv Yes, but it would have been nice if b4b had come out with something new, instead of just a deck of cards. Or at least improve upon l4d. It didn't do either. The fact that theres no versus campaign is the worst thing about this game. That arena style versus sucks, so why would I come back to the game after I'm done with the campaign?

[@shpoogly]

I can recount one time where I was playing with randoms, I had a Vector SMG kitted out with some of the best attachments in the game, and sweet load of copper to spend during each round. It was a satisfying feeling of achievement, but I had a random who was constantly shooting birds, cars, and triggering door alarms at every opportunity to start a horde and waste our ammo. Because there was no kick option, I had no other choice but the end the run and start another one, completely losing all of the good weapons and attachments I managed to get during the run. It was one of the most rage-inducing things I think I've ever experience in a shooter.

[@absolutelypro4612]

Put a mic in. Man up. Tell him to quit. Not that hard

[@disappointedfather5218]

@@absolutelypro4612 Ah yes, I'm going to quit if the guys that I'm trying to piss off actually do get pissed off and tell me to leave.

[@VulKus117]

@@absolutelypro4612 Do you play video games? People who purposefully fuck with your game do it *SPECIFICALLY* to piss you off and make you get angry for the amusement. Plugging the mic in and engaging them is *exactly* what they want you to do, giving them a reaction eggs them on is what makes it worth it for them.

[@delitatactics6721]

Well dont play on recruit and if he does that. Just blast his ass and leave him crying on the ground

[@TheSuspectOnFoot]

In L4D the kick option worked because gamers were more laidback and casual but if B4B had it, then you'd see people getting kicked for the slightest mistake or even for looking new with no cosmetics and that would immedietly drive away the actual new players as well. In a four-player co-op it's unavoidable that sometimes you get bad players that ruin your run.

[@bobthebuilder6521]

Funnily enough Joe its the opposite when you said "They must've gotten brutal feedback for the difficulty". Everyone in Beta pretty much agreed the difficulty transition from Easy > Normal/Hard was way too insane. Easy was a cake walk, but then normal was akin to being slapped around silly with how stupid the game director would be. Hard difficulty was just blatantly unfair. Its like they took our feedback and did nothing with it. Its just not fun when the game director decides to spawn 3 tallboys that can sprint faster than you and 1 shot you, and also become bullet sponges all in the first 5 minutes of the first level.

[@pikasnipe1]

Dude we had 8 Tallboys plus spitters and the hoard, on recruit! So yea....

[@CptVein]

Truth is, ya'll just bad. I've been running the Campaign on Veteran with only 1 friend and we are doing it farily easy. Sure, we only completed act 1 on veteran and act 2 is way harder but it's doable. Learn the game. Build some decks. Have a healer. Play smart. Get those team upgrades. Etc. Tons of ways. Melee is super broken. I can 1 or 2 shot ARMORED tallboys on veteran.

[@Dutchmaster707]

@@CptVein go outside and find some friends bud you can do it

[@Merlithemimic]

I have beaten all of Veteran mode with a friend and it's stupid hard some runs but other's are quite easy. Used a melee build while my friend used a scavenger build, having a lot of ammo and copper helps a lot. Someone who can do a lot of crit damage can also help and melee builds nullify all the tallboys and the breaker since hitting a weakspot with melee stuns. I wished there was an option between vet and recruit so I can have a more casual time instead of constantly worrying that I'd die from a random special infected.

[@FUB23]

Yea me and my friend played and were completely murdered barely after act 1 level 2

[@inactiveuser5952]

I think they did amazing replicating a modern gaming troll and putting it into an A.I.

[@Smaxx]

Well, can't even say you'd have a better time with bots, who'd run in circles, too…

[@Absane8]

19:48 Alex’s height makes this way funnier than it should be

[@kevinmillerwaynejr5852]

I mean the Dude is 6’5 Or Something

[@mandalorianroby2542]

lol he barely fits in the screen

[@deathsyth8888]

To be fair, Joe and OJ aren't very tall either.

[@BloodyBobJr]

Alex is a giant hunk of man. Not just tall..but thick AF. Wouldn't wanna be tackled by him, I'd be out of commission for a week

[@axelstone3131]

@@BloodyBobJr haha he should join. The wwe

[@spacemanspliff7844]

There’s an insane difficulty spike between easy and normal and it just kills the fun. I played with 3 other competent players, and we could barely make it to the first ogre in Act 1…just feels like shit.

[@springtrapnibba]

afew questions, did u have good team comp, decks, play smart etc because vet and nightmare difficulty arent casual by any means, my current deck basically lets me melee fight ogres so idk what u mean ogre is hard

[@bennycostello2472]

Your supposed to have a full build for veteran but the other builds dont even work right now. The melee abilities work but the shotgun and assualt rifle ones dont

[@rabbyd542]

You just need to get better at the game and also build a better deck. I'm almost done with Act 3 on Veteran. I felt exactly the same way as you when I first tried it. A lot of cheap deaths will occur though, namely to Tallboys or corruption cards that spawn crows everywhere.

[@Mrpwn3]

It doesn't help that Recruit feels like a boring cakewalk while veteran feels impossible. So I'm forced to grind out the boring braindead easy campaign to unlock cards to even try the veteran campaign.

[@bombomos]

Also a difficulty spike when not having a bot on your team AND each Act gets harder, not because there are more zombies, but because there is less loot, less weapons, less heals..... That is unless you play with bots.

[@noahjester8471]

OJ's smile when Joe snatches the box out of his hand is so wholesome.

[@MrEvan1932]

OJ's username in that boat mission "Imtryingbro311" was just too perfect for that clip

[@emilovesyou3005]

I didn’t get it?

[@benmasta5814]

Remember, you could have "fun with friends" just sitting in a pile of garbage, throwing it at each other. For how long could you imagine having fun doing that alone? lol

[@kamiya4700]

20:00 AJ: “This one's nailed on” OJ: “You’re welcome “ Damn it I can’t stop laughing lmao

[@yinsanga642]

That intro was top tier XD I love that AJS had been going long enough to have so many 'in' jokes.

[@larrypoppins6273]

Since joe and act man know each other, here's hoping we can get a collab review someday.

[@cujo1882]

Yeah when half life 3 decides to show face probably

[@nerochromatic]

The left 4 dead characters felt more alive because they were trying to *survive* the apocalypse, not just *fight* it.

[@tmerchant96]

It. L4D also had better writing and voice actors 😞

[@josephzs1208]

People battling the zombie apocalypse instead of merely surviving it was a new one for me. I don't think I've ever seen that in fiction.

[@bananaskunk7020]

@@joeyondakeys "hmmmm I wonder what this doc character does" or "hmm I wonder what this guy littered with hunter references is all about"

[@Qballiz2kool]

That’s a really good point, also about the characters, I love Holly to death but she probably has some of the most cringe worthy dialogue in the whole game.

[@Hsiao329]

Honestly I never cared for the story, just hopped in levels and shot zombies with the homies, I feel people seems to be putting too much emphasis on it. But hey if your into the lore I ain’t gonna put you down. Between me and my homies, we have not a clue wtf is happening in b4b or l4d lol, we just shoot stuff and get from point A to B

[@No_Throne_King]

Needs a split screen co-op mode like L4D man, I would have immediately brought this if that was the case, regardless of the flaws

[@seancouger007]

the game is free on gamepass

[@wrath231]

Exactly we need MORE couch coop games

[@LouSassol69er]

I think we can see here Valve acted as a quality buffer for the L4D games. Turtle rock here are decent but they don't know how to bring their game over the line to be great.

[@lutherheggs451]

@@wrath231 Your not getting couch coop anymore in anything more complicated than a Lego game....People don't get to cry about how games should be 45,00k and 120,000fps, photo realistic and then cry about couch coop. The game has to render everything twice and when its graphically intense thats not going to happen.. They can't even manage it in Halo infinite and its a F2P SNES game.

[@lutherheggs451]

@@seancouger007 Gamepass is a cancer and its going to be hilarious when it kills gaming because games stop selling...MS isn't paying what the publisher could make on sales of the game, games make most of their money in the first month. But not when the trash welfare gamers get to get them "free" on gamepass. Good thing 90% of RE Village sales were on PS consoles otherwise RE wouldn't have sold shit.

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

“From the creators of Evolve.”

[@williammoore1030]

I could have swore when I replaced an attachment the old one fell on the floor and was able to be put on a different gun. I only played for like an hour though so I could be wrong.

[@Firefwexx]

Yes. Thats absolutely true, attachments dont dissapear, they drop on the ground.

[@CardboardBoxGod]

Joe has a bad history of not really sitting down and actually learning the game especially if it’s one he’s not genuinely excited to play you can see this in his reviews a lot.

[@2006v4]

Clutch comment tbf

[@bennycostello2472]

When you REPLACE it yes but you cant take off one without replacing it

[@2006v4]

@@bennycostello2472 true...i guess you need the luck of draw of a replacement attachment in the shop to buy so you drop the attachment you want to equip on your new gun...

[@lxsaglr8704]

Just a thought when I was in culinary school, instructors would always tell us whenever we have a practical exam to always keep our dishes simple. It's good to try and make complex things/techniques BUT the best way to express skill and technique is on a simple well put together dish. It reminds me of left 4 dead. The design is so simple, yet the gameplay regarding how players tackle the map/infected/special infected is varied and complex.

[@vivid8979]

As a fellow cook from a culinary school I agree much in this and also want to add.. "Learn when to stop".. Sometimes your pursuit to this perfect good looking dish can eventually overthrow the beauty of it because you tried to put too many stuff on it that it ruins the flavor and the presentation.. I know innovating from this generic co-op zombie horde shooter can be quite tough but throwing all the things in the sink and hoping something will stick can also hurt the game.. More movement options can be a good start, ala Dying light..

[@michaelmonstar4276]

This is probably the philosophy over at Valve. They are very experimental and open there, as far as I could tell, yet they're also very concise when it comes to making decisions. - If you look at their games as well; It's all about very clear gameplay-mechanics and getting players to use them and play the game properly. - It seems Turtle Rock either didn't learn from their time with Valve or just forgot about it. - Because all this modernized crap they've shoved into it like "XP" or "currency" and "cards and all that crap has no place in this kind of game. - It should be way more about the use of the weapons and tactics, as it's about humans fending off aggressive undead. And whether you win or not depends on how you approach the game with the tools that it provides to you. And those tools shouldn't be everything and the kitchen sink, it should be a limited amount of things, making you have to choose wisely and play accordingly.

[@BWMagus]

The cards and attachments seem cool, but with some poor implementation and just too many cards (either over power, overly specific, or on the opposite end, too generic and forgettable). I love RPGs but too many games are trying to add RPG-like elements that just don't jive well, like Dying Light and Assassin's Creed.

[@MinersLoveGames]

The first two, three minutes of this video might be a new contender for "best opening to an Angry Joe Review".

[@jeffn4836]

For me, the best opening is still Mass Effect Andromeda. Those damn googly eyes get me every time.

[@damn6039]

For me the best opening is the ghost recon brekpoint one, where Billy Mays shows up to ask if you're an idiot

[@The_Pink_Hammer]

I think we all forgetting about the Battlefield 1 opening

[@ramiel7666]

The gfuel promotion?

[@jeffn4836]

@@damn6039 That’s a great one as well. Alex as Billy Mays is perfect serendipity.

[@KageRyuu6]

Yeah, Crowbcat showed at the end of his Back 4 Blood vid that out of the 180 some odd devs from LFD2, only like 6 of them are still working for Turtle Rock. So don't trust the company, trust the talent, and clearly those six weren't it.

[@rx0-rx]

veteran was already extremely hard in beta, they got feedback the easy difficulty was too easy and bumped all of them up

[@grindcoreninja6527]

Love the name and profile picture.

[@RogueTitan457]

When I played Left 4 Dead 2 as a kid, I was thoroughly enjoying it, I was investing so much time into it and was begging for more, the replayability is almost infinite and I still love it to this day. This game however, doesn't give me that same feeling, I played it for 2 hours and I was already bored from it

[@K95-r8t]

I played 3runs and was bored asf never touched it since

[@juniorTheDog1]

Versus mode with friends is something else

[@q_q123]

I've been playing l4d2 for 10 years and it's still as fun as 10 years ago. The polish of this game gives it huge replayability value. Every match feels different. I've played B4b for about 10 or 20 hours and feel so bored of it already. Maps are boring as hell and the game just has no charm and personality overall.

[@Nobbie248]

Watch crobcat video and you will know why

[@Megajaybreaker4]

@@K95-r8t l4d or b4b?

[@TurbidTG1]

I really hope Far Cry 6 isn’t a rapid fire review!

[@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger]

Personally I like 6 but to be fair I only played FC2 and 3 so the jump in change was massive compared to people who played every single one

[@sandyk9300]

its the same far cry with a different villain......i dont know what he can add on a 30 min review....also hey turbid

[@ivvan497]

It's literally copy paste since FC3

[@LeadMe2TheBliss]

@@sandyk9300 It's much different though! It's better than Far Cry 3! Sure, most FC games are similar but you can say that about pretty much all zombie games, all sports games, all Sonic games, they're all pretty much the same game over and over again! B4B is just another zombies shooter too and I haven't even played it yet but it's EXACTLY like Left For Dead!

[@chasep86]

Agree. Joe picking apart all the issues with Far Cry 6 might be better than playing the game.

[@fuzzythoughts8020]

"made by the developers of Left 4 Dead" They mean 7. 7 developers from Left 4 Dead. Out of dozens.

[@pepsicola4718]

If the entire campaign of Back 4 blood was like the tail end of act 3 and act 4 then it might have been an actual worthwhile experience. I'm not saying those parts are good mind you, just something different. And different is really all you need when it comes to a zombie game usually.

[@ItsShatter]

Maybe review Metroid Dread? It’s a short/ manageable game that won’t take a ton of your time and I think it’s great!

[@g3neralcross911]

Yea but honestly I think Joe doesn’t have the skills to beat the game deadass.

[@-kold]

They haven't reviewed a nintendo game since breath of the wild i think

[@EthdanTV]

@@-kold they reviewed Ultimate Alliance 3 I think

[@-kold]

@@EthdanTV oh yea, but thats barely a nintendo game, its just exclusive to switch

[@NB-wt9kf]

Angry Joe doesn't review Nintendo Games anymore I believe,because he always gets claimed by Nintendo, and or they take the video down.

[@timeless_sauce8841]

Angry joe is timeless, I’ve been watching since 09 and it’s the same good ol joe. Love you guys vids 🤙🏽💪🏽💯

[@ToxicAvengerCleanYourMind]

Yeah, Angry Joe is a KZbin staple

[@talharehman3664]

09 seems like a month ago to me. How did we age so fast

[@rodrigofreitas3288]

I was just 11 and remember those days like yesterday... crazy.

[@xaayer]

@@rodrigofreitas3288 Jeez I'm old... I was a junior in high school in 09

[@toshineon]

@@talharehman3664 Same here, I was 17 back then, and it really doesn't feel like it was all that long ago. But still, the world has changed so much, too much.

[@protonjones54]

One of the many bullshit things behind this game was the marketing. Everywhere you see them proclaim "FROM THE CREATORS FROM LEFT 4 DEAD," and you compare the actual credits, and you see that out of the hundred+ people who worked on the left 4 dead games, only like FIVE of them are still at Turtle Rock for back 4 blood, and they weren't even important developers. Just five nobodies out of a hundred, and they're trying to manufacture this epic comeback by repeating "FROM THE CREATORS OF LEFT 4 DEAD-" like fuck off

[@RockTheDragon]

I loved L4D and L4D2 when they first came out. I remember the witch used to scare the hell out of me. Joe is right about sound, the witch's musical cue really creeped me out.

[@swallowedinthesea11]

The only solution is to start a room and remain idle until everyone insults you and leaves the lobby. This then adds in the bots where you can play to earn SP.

[@alexdietrich7975]

Only 4 minutes into this review and it reminds me of older AJS videos, a lot of effort and time came into this one Joe and Co. Skits have me laughing and feeling engaged

[@MooselessCanada]

Bro he obv didnt put enough time into actually playing the game because a few of the gripes he has are just not true. You can change yoyr deck literally whenever you want. Attachments dont magically disappear. Joe didnt want to play the game very much thats ok but at least check what youre gonna say is true

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen5152]

@@MooselessCanada doesn’t change the fact the game has 0 replay ability

[@ipacklunches]

On the point of memorable lines, Louis's "Get to the roof" is something I'll probably never forget. It's why I pronounce "room" and "roof" as "rum" and "ruff".

[@Jilktube]

30-35 minutes is the perfect length for an Angry Review.

[@MassiveHappyClapper]

I wish they were shorter sometimes, they can go on a bit.

[@Largentina.]

@@MassiveHappyClapper He has those Rapid Fire Reviews for people exactly like you.

[@MassiveHappyClapper]

@@Largentina. yeah I prefer those. They are more concise and less bloated.

[@goofball1_134]

I must be a bloat fiend then, I always love 1-2hour reviews they often cover everything I thought was positive and negative and stuff I didn't even think about to add to those catagories to help finalize my opinion. Heck I like them so much I will just listen to joe rant in the background while I work/go walking

[@MassiveHappyClapper]

@@goofball1_134 good for you

[@Backstabmacro]

“No split-screen” Well fuck, that’s the only way I’d buy it is to play couch co-op with my wife. She and I still play L4D2 together to this day. She was looking forward to this release, too…

[@kanseidorito5287]

MARRY HER

[@Backstabmacro]

@@kanseidorito5287 I did almost 12 years ago, lmao. Got her into gaming with me, still working on her trying Warhammer or Malifaux…D&D was a success though!

[@panchitoTJMX]

@@Backstabmacro How do you do that sensei?

[@AlejoConejo-vb8ln]

Split screen is the biggest selling point for me for every game. Without split screen, you can be 80% sure I won't buy it.

[@Backstabmacro]

@@AlejoConejo-vb8ln Same, I want to be able to play with my wife who doesn’t want her own console or PC, she just wants to share with me. @Francisco Galvan Turns out she likes zombie games, lol. She was so into L4D2 at one point that I would come home from work and hear the game blaring from my living room window before I even got in the house, her screaming for help from the AI characters the whole time, hehe.

[@Tennindo]

"Hey Joe wanna play a Zombie game" I swear that will never get old

[@avoo6069]

The smile afterwards kills me lol

[@niceshotd9130]

@@avoo6069 and the Glowing eyes tho every time man

[@oblivion1971uesp]

It got old pretty fast

[@Gibson343088]

That troll that intentionally ruined the mission just to be a dick is the reason I HAAAAAATE online only games. Well made, balanced bots with good commands is always better unless you have a dedicated group

[@chillhour6155]

Yep, same happens in raids sometimes, spend hours doing them and the host just to quits

[@randomhiphop5055]

I was that guy a lot of the time lmfao i loved screwing people right at the end and shutting the door

[@h2ojr1]

19:28 It's more like they are attached to the guns with Super magnets. Since the only way to remove an attachment is by using another attachment to replace it, then the old one will just fall off.

[@Ralathar44]

He says in the review exactly why they are attached like that. You find a billion attachments both on their own and already on guns you find/buy, if you could replace them at will everyone would have purple attachments by like 3-4 maps in. To balance out freely changable attachments they'd have to majority nerf their drop rates. It's like a Borderlands player wanting to build their own gun. Ok fine, you built the perfect gun, you're more powerful than any of your current content and the search for better guns is over. Congrats. Also, people would spend so much time fiddling with each gun each time. TRS' solution to this is they are going to implement a card to change attachments and I suspect it'll be limited, something like 1 attachment per 60s or something.

[@ironlunatic1]

Coach would yell, " ReGodamm Loading" while reloading his gun as hoards of zombies sounded him.

[@Persephone01]

Left4dead series and the dead rising games were my addiction back in the day with zombie games. Just seems really and seems like more of a chore than a fun game. The left4dead 2 animation though was awesome.

[@XRavenHunt]

1:25 is the reason why I am looking forward to Dying Light 2 review.

[@kanslo4908]

The game itself was a let down because of the expectations it had. the L4D franchise is a masterpiece and nothing will ever compare. However , I love that almost everybody that plays had a mic and you can have fun playing with friends .

[@datfroggy5362]

To be fair every game is fun with friends

[@evrimenustun9548]

Nah, some things do compare. Vermintide and DRG are 10 times better than L4D.

[@LordVader1094]

@@evrimenustun9548 Very true. This game simply isn't very good even without the legacy of L4D.

[@merasmus9992]

@@LordVader1094 B4B everything valve didn’t want in L4D put into a game

[@TheNameCannotBeFound]

14:57 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the order in which your cards appear during selection is the order in which you put them in your deck. You immediately get your top card, then they start appearing in order from top to bottom of your deck. Basically, put your cards in order of what you want most at first. I always have Cross Trainers or that Cardio card in slot 3 and 4 to always get my stam boosts early on. I obviously have Knife and Melee Heal on slot 1 and 2. It was like that for me when I played in the Beta. Also, once you start getting the simple ''+10% Stam, +10% Ammo, +5 health, etc'', it means that your deck is out of cards. Once out, you get to choose one of those generic cards until the end, I think? Edit: Words

[@40proofbleach81]

This is true, same thing with the attachments "breaking" when removed

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

@@40proofbleach81 what about the attachments?

[@thraymn6996]

I think he was referring to how you unlock the cards in the first place rather than when the cards appear when you're playing through the levels. It is pretty unclear, though.

[@pushyrummble8625]

he might mean how to get the card you spend all your points first to get the good ones and need to play the game all over again to get more points to get the good cards.

[@michaelmonstar4276]

"Cards" don't belong in this game, period.

[@damienlee1165]

My biggest problem is this game was 60 at launch when I have a feeling it'll be like 30 by black Friday/Christmas

[@lordmolag45000]

Even then, Left 4 Dead 2 is cheaper and better, as well as having an active community both on PC and consoles.

[@Drstrange3000]

I'm playing on GamePass. I don't think I would pay a full $60 for this. It is really fun though.

[@VGSpoonium]

@@lordmolag45000 now that's a bold assumption

[@isaacdiaz4611]

It will most likely

[@zyenull]

@@VGSpoonium it still has thousands of players every day especially on Steam with Workshop support, thats how great the game is

[@bethelscrubs2549]

"You can shoot from this way AND that way!" - OJ Had me rolling haha

[@DiktatrSquid]

So what I'm getting from this is that it's basically Left 4 Dead, except for arbitrary, needless additions and with the charm sucked out. Sounds like a great example of "if it ain't broken, don't try to fix it"

[@Armaron06]

You can solo through a proper co-op mode if no one joins your game. Eventually if it doesn't find a game or no other players, it will start the game regardless and the game tends to be a hell of a lot more easier when spawns are less frequent and bots are more effective when there's only one real life player playing. And you will get tons of supply points and achievements will unlock.

[@BombTikTick]

Some missions are impossible with bots as they cannot do the objectives.

[@bennycostello2472]

True but why do the devs hate solo mode so much lol they act like your cheating by playing it. You can play solo mode but cant unlock anything lol have fun!

[@bombomos]

And I've noticed it gives you way more supplies than with a full team of players

[@Rnerdy197]

I played through most of the game on solo but act 3 got way to difficult to keep doing that and what was funny to me was some actual players were worse than buggy bots like how the hell did you make it so far being this bad

[@bluevsred415]

You can make a coop game and set it to friends only or private and it'll start right away

[@MrAnimeFan4Eva]

I fucking love that everytime he wakes up in the bed hes already in uniform

[@dagda1180]

The animations feel way more janky, too. For instance in 11:45, with Joe's character getting 'webbed' or whatever, it just looks jankier than I'd expect. Also when the bootleg Jockey drags players, it doesn't feel right.

[@blackmagician7645]

🤗You got to be proud of other Joe in waiting patiently for Joe to wake from his night terrors before asking to play more zombie games.

[@t8mb]

This only just goes to show that Valve played the biggest role in making Left 4 Dead the game it is today.

[@BlackMageLozi]

I think people forgot these guys did Evolve xd

[@Aduubo]

This comment is so underrated

[@TipppedScales1015]

@@BlackMageLozi Hold on, the same fuck wits that made B4B made evolve the most micro transaction heavy, monster shooter of all time that was awful and boring?

[@linhza501]

@@TipppedScales1015 Yes

[@Largentina.]

@@TipppedScales1015 Yup. It wasn't a secret.

[@chopperdeath]

For years Joe has slept in his jacket.

[@moodyowlproductions4287]

I know right

[@human_person549]

Its insane how hard the fanboys defended this shitty game. I'll never understand how they just ignored all the flaws.

[@omegachungus4847]

I know right but now the game is left 4 dead

[@Juju-cm7ge]

@@omegachungus4847😂

[@3InchesofLove]

I’m so ready for this. Time to watch Joe play another zombie game :)