Far Cry New Dawn (Zero Punctuation)

This week Yahtzee reviews Far Cry New Dawn.
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[@M92FSINOX]

"Dismantling a leather jacket with a potato peeler" That is the most perfect expression that surpasses "bullet sponge"

[@Ch50304]

Agree.

[@DrTranofEvil]

Yeah, that ‘handcuff yourself’ scene was a massive ‘I’m not this stupid... okay, I guess I HAVE to be this stupid’

[@t.milrose7914]

Even though the twins have an important NPC as a hostage, and are threatening to kill him if you don't disarm?

[@talkingbeaverthing5332]

@@t.milrose7914 Except (spoilers for 5 I guess) not only should you be able to make that choice, especially at the end of the game where not a ton of rewriting to account for that will need to happen, but Far Cry 5 also let you make basically that choice already.

[@t.milrose7914]

@@talkingbeaverthing5332 - Where in FC5 do you mean?

[@DrTranofEvil]

T. Milrose every action they performed prior to this point shows that they will likely kill both you AND the hostage. Pattern recognition says disabling yourself will likely yield them cutting their losses to make a point. If I were in their shoes, I would have just shotgunned the player character through the door as the amount of damage done to their organization was astronomical. X-/

[@t.milrose7914]

@@DrTranofEvil - Good point; that does make a lot more sense than, 'Hey! Let's play a game with this unstoppable killing machine to show them that they have no power and are doing more harm than good.'

[@th3dude00]

I'm guessing this was accidentally uploaded last week, then just put on unlisted, and is now public again.

[@duelviper9871]

I'm sad his independent channel is quite dead

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

Or it could be they uploaded it early to see if it trips the youtube copyright algorithms.

[@wuebboltc]

That final line had me in stitches. Thank you, Yatzee. You made my day.

[@grahamroberts8472]

Heh stitches

[@yellowfamilyfunny3065]

Ubisoft still can't get over vaas hey? It's been what 10 years, and they can't create a villain that's not just him with a different coat of paint. So lazy

[@CAMSLAYER13]

Just to highlight how useless they are. Vas was one of there better villains and they killed him off half way through the game and now seem to have over compensated for it ever since

[@Pandaman64]

No, I think I'd actually like vaas with a different coat of paint. These villains are just shit.

[@Former_Halo_Fan]

It's less that they're repainting Vas, and more that they're dismantling him and putting him together again, but each time they do so they accidentally misplace a part.

[@CAMSLAYER13]

@@Former_Halo_Fan and all of them have the cock firmly affixed to their forehead

[@Kris-wo4pj]

Fun fact: they didn't really made vaas. He wasn't even suppose to be in the game thus why he died mid game. They just loved his voice actor so much they created a character that revolved around his performance.

[@warandpoetry9542]

I got an in-game update about changing my outfit in the charater menu. That typo was not on my part.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

"If you didn't play Far Cry 5, you'll love New Dawn." And if you choose to kill [Spoiler], you can use the photo mode to pose your Captain in a dab over [Spoiler's] corpse, which was incredibly satisfying.

[@alexroselle]

This. I bought New Dawn only because the ending of FC5 was such a let down for not letting me defeat [Spoiler] no matter what else I did. Unfortunately the gameplay in ND is so much worse and it all feels so much cheaper that I'm not sure I care anymore.

[@theblackwidower]

What a strange name. I'm guessing it's a nickname, since I doubt any parent would name their kid 'spoiler'.

[@DrakeBarrow]

@@theblackwidower it is a strange name, with a tragic backstory. They named their child 'Spoiler' in a vain effort to gain the "A Boy Named Sue" effect for the current year. After all, it's so common to state "NO SPOILERS!", so how much greater the trauma and therefore the potential strength of your victim-spawn? They should have a rage capable of piercing the heavens by the age of 12! But it was not to be, and instead they were accepted with open arms and heart by the community. The parents were displeased.

[@dynostretch9215]

I have to admit, after spending all day having to hear obnoxious techno music on the overhead radio at my workplace, Yahtzee almost sold me on this game when he brought up replacing the stronghold's soundtracks with white dad music. Also I laughed way harder then I probably should have when he compared The Twins to Tia and Tamara Mowry.

[@no1lieksu]

Jokes on everyone who watched this last week, no new ZP for you!

[@paveldundr6390]

Guess I'm lucky I haven't made it last week in time so I get to see new ZP this week!

[@losmi45]

actually its on you, anthem review is out

[@GAPIntoTheGame]

losemi on their website, not on KZbin

[@brendanmccabe8373]

no1lieksu well I had no clue this was the actual weeks review

[@a.melanoleuca2247]

I haven't played any of the Far Cry series, but Yahtzee describing the two antagonists as smug and crazed twins immediately reminded me of Nikola Graf and Chiara Rocino from Valkyria Chronicles 4.

[@blondbraid7986]

Those twins were easily the most annoying part of the game, whomever thought a strategy game centered on relatively grounded tank and infantry warfare needed two indestructible teenagers giggling all the time while capable of one-shotting the protagonist's tank and cause an instant game over should be fired.

[@Former_Halo_Fan]

@@blondbraid7986 Don't forget how they're always physically assaulting you and your friends to show you how tough they are, or how they say *you're* the problem just because you exist, or how the game expects you to feel sympathy for them just because they had unresolved issues with their parents.

[@seankelley9928]

If you are going to play any of them hoping for at least a decent experience, play Far Cry 3. It's pretty good. It has a few issues, but not bad overall

[@Kris-wo4pj]

Primal is decent but I'm fucking weird and hate all other far cry games. But the idea of far cry but with cave men made my day. Also ya can magically tame animals by holding your hand up and then petting them.

[@a.melanoleuca2247]

{Peter} I think this was one of SEGA's undoing. I certainly felt bad for the duo simply because they were put through atrocious conditions to become the "perfect" weapons. However, SEGA did not put enough backstory or emotions into the girls. At least with Crymaria, I felt more sympathy for her. If anything, I felt more annoyed whenever they appeared because they were so difficult to deal with.

[@jayarby8494]

This video is dedicated to all the victims of Ubisoft credit sequences.

[@Bird_Dog00]

The game reaked of a quick cash grab from the onsett. Another sandbox to drop off Ubisoft's sandbox-conveyor belt. Yet somehow it sounded even worse. "Yo look, we painted everything in bright colours, and our villains are two young biker-woman with cornrows, who talk in a way we think you young folks find cool these days - but actually from the cutsceene I watched, they sound like two spoiled middle-class teenage brats who watched to many gangsta films - aren't we 'rad', eh?" The fact that they charge what is in my book within the full price game -range for what is in essence an expansion for FC5 and put in a grindwall to boost macrotransactions (I refuse to call them microtransactions if they go into the double digits...) just makes it even sader...

[@TheKinoWolf]

I got the game for free and still feel like I got ripped off with how shitty it is.

[@TheNexDude]

They were trying so hard to make the ending of the first game make sense. We nukes the world so fuck it let's make a post apocalyptic game where we already had post apocalyptic games coming out around it....

[@ArtificialDjDAGX]

It's genuinely not classic micro-transactions if it doesn't go into double digits and beyond, into triple digits. Seriously, it stems from mobile gaming, and there you can buy in-game premium currency for like up to 300 dollars sometimes.

[@TheNexDude]

@@ArtificialDjDAGX it's trash but generally these fuck head AAA companies don't get is that in some way this games on mobile are free. Their are lucrative examples of games a lot of people don't agree with for obvious reasons (limited moves or a time limit that can be payed to decrease). But some of the games allow normal play with payment of items of currency being an option or sometimes watching an ad to comeback to life or something like that. These practices definitely don't work for a full $60 purchase.

[@MyKillerson]

@@TheKinoWolf Felt the same way about Just Cause 4

[@lpsp442]

The mental image of a man desperately prancing around a room, avoiding a flaming leaping fireball chucker, while desperately grinding a pestle and mortar - this has to rank up with the Hybercube sequence with Pickle Inspector in Problem Sleuth, and it's so *understated*. Like Yahtzee just chucks them out like cheap cigars. Maniac.

[@BlaiseArath]

The Mortar+Pestle Joke and the glitched Deer joke had me laughing so loud I'm afraid I woke my brother up.

[@Ringowasprettygood]

Man this guy really still gots it with the punchlines the endings almost always make me actually laugh in real life, alone, like a psychopath

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

two in one day? is this normal?

[@dbfan199]

I think it was an accidenr.

[@user-uh7cb3vy4v]

no

[@TheShonenJumper]

Usually they upload the Zero Punctuation videos to KZbin a week after it launches on their website. Someone fucked up and posted the new episode on KZbin too.

[@matthewharbinson6496]

@@TheShonenJumper I think it's probably not a fuck up - maybe they've finally given up on the weekly delay and this is the catchup week

[@greatgoogily7911]

Still the KZbin version though. Doesn't have the credit text jokes

[@ThrottleKitty]

I just imagine someone winning a demolition derby by jumping out and throwing bombs like that, then cheering "THEY DIDN'T SAY I COULDN'T!" over and over until the crowd gets into it.

[@MunkeyChips]

These villains are the least threatening villains I can recall from the history of videogames. Seriously, Dr. Cortex from Crash is more threatening. I would imagine Plankton from Spongebob would make a more threatening game villain.

[@MunkeyChips]

@Joe Bennett *buh-dump tsss

[@tylerulfmann4586]

CharlieBrown20XD6 no one saying single mothers don’t try to take care of their kids but if your saying whites have the same average of single mothers as blacks your just fucking wrong and stupid it’s the majority 60-70 percent whites have about 20-40 percent bro it’s a major problem in black culture for fathers to either go to prison get killed or fuck off to do stupid shit compared to whites you blame what you want but that’s the reality

[@CAMSLAYER13]

@@CharlieBrown20XD6 that was obviously a joke about silly stereotypes.

[@CAMSLAYER13]

@@tylerulfmann4586 jeez man, I know the first guy couldn't take a joke but was this really nessecery?

[@CAMSLAYER13]

@B S they are both as bad as each other and probably both right

[@JohnMahon]

A quilt made of squirrels? I'll take one of your finest Squilts please yahtzee

[@darkphoenix2]

That final analogy was so good

[@Slowbb]

By the gods are we finally getting same day videos on KZbin. Good looks Escapist

[@Silverlance24]

I freaking love Yahtzee! His reviews are very refreshing i find!

[@TheGreatAmarant72]

I believe it is called a squilt.

[@sailoritaly]

Two Zero Punctuations?! Has Christmas come early this year?!

[@jacobfreeman5444]

I wish I could say I didn't agree. Tried this as the installment to try and get into farcry...and so far I have barely gotten past the tutorial and have to make up reasons why I should continue on. When your rationale is "well, maybe I am not giving it enough time to grow on me" maybe something is off. After all mold also needs time to grow on you and yet nobody wants to do that either.

[@adamwoodley5514]

If you can, pick up Far Cry 3! :) You won't regret it.

[@darkdogzstudioz]

Youre using a side game to get into the series? Go play 3 or 4. They were great. This game is trash.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

@@jimemmonstein847 It isn't a lack of skill, but a lack of enjoyment. I could keep going...but I don't have enough enthusiasm to care. Just...isn't fun.

[@michaelryan1767]

You want to know the best thing about New Dawn? How the teaser trailer for it spoiled the ending for Farcry 5 less than 3 months after Farcry 5's release, which also coincided with the time that I actually started playing it. Haven't picked it up since because I don't see the point.

[@leguan278]

2 episodes? in 1 day? what is this, a special escapist holliday?

[@mikydicy2565]

Not to forget the Healthbars they implemented in New Dawn.

[@samadams8533]

Wait why didn’t this show up in my subscription feed?

[@dairen9580]

Sam Adams I’m pretty sure because it was uploaded a week ago they just unlisted or hid the video. Then when today rolled around they just undid that so it never showed up in the sub feed.The Escapist KZbin channel has been very annoying as of late with this and the like 4 dozen live-streams one after the other.

[@Aquelll]

It is some kind of conspiracy that Ubisoft so often seems to get away with their ridiculous monetization schemes where other publishers don't. And I also wonder when people start really noticing that they are releasing the same game over and over to a ridiculous extent...

[@Tvdiet]

4:05 yeah that’s what I did except I just shotgun every time they drove past which I found more fun

[@NothingbutDust734]

I'll just be thankful for the double zero punctuation :D thanks yahtz.

[@BJWeNeedUDefendingUsWithZeMG42]

Car Fry Dew Nawn is the video game equivalent of making a photocopy of a photocopy. If the photocopier were 10 years old and were pushed off of the roof of a 100 ft building.

[@brainflash1]

They should've called THIS game "Zero Dawn".

[@SarahAndreaRoycesChannel]

Why insult a good game by naming a bland one almost the same?

[@86themadhatter27]

I'm actually really liking the game but i'm sure playing coop helps a lot since the actual AI guns for hire seem all over the shop in terms of reliability. But i like it. I like gathering resources and tbh within the first 2 or 3 hours, i pretty much had everything upgraded and owned elite weapons. After that you really don't need to grind too much for loot unless you want to upgrade your weapons more (which doesn't seem that important even on hardest difficulty). Didn't even mention Expeditions which i thought were a cool addon

[@MrNlce30]

I wish to see the quilt.

[@Mernom]

You may want to check out Touhou Luna Night, yatzee. It's a metroidvenia, and I get the impression that you like them.

[@MavicAVF]

This one went over my head

[@Ed6026]

Yahtz, are you going to do a retro review for ac rogue?

[@Mathmachine]

Given how much Yahtzee liked Blood Dragon I'm sure this is gonna feel like such wasted potential.

[@The_Mantimoose]

"Well haha!" That was me when I watched this

[@MrHankf16]

reminds me of the twins from borderlands3 2:00

[@heavenlygazer2741]

I said the same thing and I love you did this

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

I will rush to the defence of ASScreed rouge since it was a underrated game since it came out at the same time as unity which was a mess and it has great ship combat and a grenade lanucher thing that was fun

[@Nightofnostars11]

I'd go as far to say Rouge was one of my favorites in the series.

[@A-Disappointed-Horse]

Rogue didn't get the attention it deserved, both on audience and development side. Could've been the best in the series by a mile but the story was so rushed. It felt like half the story and all the character moments had been cut because Unity was the star of the hour. The game just abuptly skips years and major plot moments happen off screen. Still worth the time though!

[@marcuswalters8093]

Somehow I was never able to find the entrance to the destruction derby and had to do it all on foot.

[@jimjimm3281]

I genuinely didn’t even know this existed or remember when it was

[@samtime2711]

In other words it's a standalone expansion like you use to see like years ago or named games in armored core.

[@PikminandOatchi]

The expeditions were pretty fun.

[@garlicfries85]

Thought this was coming out next week. On youtube that is

[@vladimirgolosin4699]

Those ending jokes are gold

[@classyglassy2035]

I’ve been playing New Dawn recently and it’ll probably be the first game I ever trade in after beating. It is an incredibly hollow experience. The game has no substance-at least FC5 had me feeling like what I did was relevant.

[@giteshgunjal747]

"Ohh how lovely you shouldn't have" - I am dying

[@MomijiSour]

This video is the first hint I had that they were making another Far Cry

[@gabrielfirewing]

Would you ever consider making a video for Darkest Dungeon? Before the 2nd game is released?

[@AllCanadiaReject]

Yahtzee really is the hero we need these days.

[@sweatbot5000]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that got out the car during the demo derby and just exploded everyone.

[@blackfiredragonthe13th43]

I quite like new dawn and the twins. Granted it might be because I love die antwoord and the twins showed up playing “fatty boom boom”.

[@theonuss6607]

Definitely not as fun as 3 or 5. But I do enjoy a few of the changes. Like I didn't know I wanted bayonets until I stabbed a whole camp with one.

[@isaacturner9306]

I'm surprised he didn't utter the words "fallout clone", because that's what new dawn smacks of to me.

[@nortonthedestroyer]

There might be a joke about both games being released the same day...

[@TheNexDude]

I said it before but they really were trying so hard to make any kind of sense with the outlandish ending. I also think they were probably trying to rush it out before other post apocalyptic games like Metro Exodus.

[@jacopobertolotti5025]

"Confessions of a window cleaner" :-D

[@Montesama314]

In retrospect, maybe casting Tia and Tamera Mowry (not gonna look up their married names) as the Twins could have somehow been a selling point.

[@steran5311]

It's out! Praise Yahtzee

[@blimeyjoe253]

Watching this video a week before it's supposed to come to youtube? Have I travelled to the future?

[@blimeyjoe253]

happy now vladthetransilvanian?

[@VivaMidnight]

Confessions of a Window Cleaner starred Cherie Blair's dad.

[@benbenben123ben]

“A car getting stuck on the curvature of the earth.” How do you think of this stuff.

[@TheArchanjel]

I can always count on ZP for the goods. P.S. Dedicated Zeropunc channel?

[@pyroAdapt]

This guy is so well spoken

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

Who else here owned a "town" rug as a small child like the one showed at 0:45?

[@MrTexaspreacher]

Wonder if Yahtzee is going to cover Kenshi.

[@hanacodaiko]

3:25 for that reason Game Trainers exist.

[@josephgarfield3363]

Yeaaah!

[@sigmagentleman921]

i enjoyed new dawn but i never played far cry 5 i just new the plot which made it much better i think

[@jotabeas22]

So... Mismanagement again, huh? Wrong upload, unlisted, then back again. God damn it Escapist. I can't wait for the day Ben goes solo.

[@hazukichanx408]

Hear hear. I don't like their new site, particularly the way it doesn't seem to have any of Unskippable, Critical Miss or what-have-ye, nor most of Yahtzee's ZP library... so I'll happily get my Yahtzee on KZbin until such time as he, I dunno, establishes YahtzTube or something.

[@samt3412]

Almost nobody watches Escapist for anything other than ZP. They didn't bother uploading their other stuff to YT until 6 months ago because even they knew they weren't interesting at all.

[@phyozinoo1389]

Two uploads from escapist that isn't from fucking bob? Woooyahhh.

[@Brandon_Powell]

4:57 I really don't know which one I like more. Oh how lovely you shouldn't have or Thanks I hate it.

[@2Scribble]

2:07 - basically all the villains EXCEPT for Joseph in Far Cry 5 lol

[@srbrant5391]

"Can I borrow a cup of violence?"

[@somenerdsomewhere5914]

Do a review for Kenshi 👏👏👏

[@ezrabarry4038]

Can anyone get me an image of those smug smiley faces he used for the twins?

[@01oo011]

Two at once?! What madness is this?!

[@fumarc4501]

Should have had more mutant people. That way the asset flips wouldn’t be so insulting with less then half of what they had available. Anyone else miss the Yeti skeleton?

[@grsimpson3957]

Why did I expect the Highwaymen to be lead by Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jenning, and Kris Kristofferson?

[@magnusm4]

Remember back when games could solely be about story telling and be so original and batshit insane and yet make perfect sense? Like Pajama Sam where you go to the world of darkness through your wardrobe, win a quit game run by two doors, help a carrot liberate his friends who rebel to be part of the main course in dining, use a lunch box to capture darkness and learn wisdom from a giant mouse dressed as a clown. Or having good stories solely based on the premise and nothing else? Blood being about a gunslinger in a cult who gets betrayed along with his friends and returns from his grave to seek revenge. It's a simple story but the craziness is all it needs plus Caleb's amazing voice actor laughing at the right moments. What's the story here? Two olsen twins run around fucking up for decent people in a landscape fertilized with LSD. And that's the interpretation of if, the actual plot is less than that. What was from with Far Cry 1 where you had mutants that later became intelligent mutants and you traversed the island seeing soldiers and Tyrant from RE 3 streaking fighting each other and it's the only game in any game where you're actually vulnerable in your fucking car even with guns, the moment you see Tyrant's balls flashing off the moonlight you immediately do a U turn and fuck off become he fucks you off the road with his rocket launcher

[@cybertramon0012]

You know, it’s never a good sign when the only reason your main villains are threatening is because we get railroaded into acting like a complete idiot. It reminds me of those Call of Duty villains who get taken down, and Yahtzee asks why didn’t we do this earlier.

[@LaszloIvanyi]

The handcuff sequence was stupid deterministic way to "advance the story", the same way as it was in FC5. There if you had to participate in a story sequence it didn't matter where you were. Once I was sniped out of a closed container, and from skydiving on height limit. I though this was the stupidest way to tell a story, but to be honest I can't remember any better way to do it off the bat. FC5 and ND are strong in open world and I had no problem with (ND) releasing captured strongholds mechanic, however the storytelling in both are horrible. Both the story is horrible and how they present it it also stupid due to this determined sequences.

[@Dirvinator]

Why did this come out last week but only showing up for some people today?

[@blueberryshake333]

I already forgot this game came out.

[@Mr.Korzack]

Bloody hell this Blood Dragon remake went south in a hurry

[@BJWeNeedUDefendingUsWithZeMG42]

"Hey guys, it Scarce here, and today is going to be a double upload."

[@AdamBorseti]

LMAO! Just picture some fuckin' guy crawling out from his basement, swinging the bulkhead doors open, beer in one hand, and the stereotypical red baseball cap. "Gosh, that was a pisser!" BAAAAAAH HAAA HAAAAA what a jagoff!

[@BugsyFoga]

This is feels like FARCRY from other post apocalypse games with just colorful it is .😁👌

[@Sean_Lightning_OBrien]

I got it for like 50% off so I dont think it was a bad buy. But I dont like the whole gun leveling system. Once you get the top tier guns there is no longer a challenge and you can just run and gun without a single fuck to give.

[@anazron805811]

Yay! If ZPs are being uploaded to youtube, I never have to visit the escapist again!

[@MoonShadowWolfe]

Don't bother; they stopped updating his page after the Spiderman review.

[@vedantjoshi6475]

Can you do an Uncharted 4 one Yahtzee?

[@moviemakermagicman97]

The micropayments point is unfair, because while it does exist, you certainly don't need it. My brother and I blasted through New Dawn and are doing all the side bits currently, and we are swimming in resources. It's all about upgrading smartly, pick weapons and health before vehicles so you can take out the stronger dudes

[@Chronos146]

We need a blood dragon sequel

[@tonraqkorr230]

Blood dragon sequel is what i want

[@darkdogzstudioz]

They started making blood dragon 3: vietnam war 2. But for some reason it got cancelled half way through.

[@dangreuceanu]

Ahhahahahhaah you are crazy fun :))). "Aw you shouldn't have..."