Gotham Knights (Zero Punctuation)

[@theescapist]

Watch this week's episode of Zero Punctuation on Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope - www.escapistmagazine.com/mario-rabbids-sparks-of-hope-zero-punctuation/ Unfortunately, KZbin did end up demonetizing the original version of this Gotham Knights ZP video and yes, that's a big ad revenue hit for us if we are limited on that. Sorry for the bleeps! The uncensored version is available on the website and for Patreon / KZbin Membership backers at the $2 tier.

[@Claymoresmash]

Turns out his editor does care.

[@sometwat]

Here's a good name, "slop coverd excesses of bastards forcing runoff down our throat", thank you.

[@johnking2764]

As someone who has seen both uncensored and censored, I honestly think its funnier with the censor.

[@soldier257]

it's rather funny since your other videos where Yahtzee says the C word don't get demonetized and it's just the context and place in the video its at. all hail the KZbin algorithm!!

[@P.Convenience]

I imagine it would be a big hit to your ad revenue as ZP is likely the only show on this channel that draws enough views to earn ad revenue.

[@BoatSoccerPlayer]

This is an odd tangent, but making a hardened criminal pay into a swear jar would be really quite impressive, it might even be downright intimidating.

[@takatotakasui8307]

Adam West's Batman is GOATed, I appreciate that joke Yahtz

[@kr1spness]

The captain America we deserved

[@DanTheMagic8Ball]

*smashes Penguin's head into wall* " Put it in the jar Oswald."

[@takatotakasui8307]

@@DanTheMagic8Ball Eventually the villains realize it's easier to just abide by the Batswear jar instead of being tortured into it. Gotham villains get a reputation for being the most polite in addition to the most educated

[@imageez]

Ooo, steal this plot. The superhero is a teacher from a poorly managed part of the city and every swearing villain is forced to put their money into the jar that will be used to fund solving the smaller problem of the city. And the main antagonist, a billionaire who people think never swear because he's upper class, but actually because he hate the idea of paying money to the jar. Also it'd be fun if the superhero is a badass Mary Poppins type kindergarten teacher.

[@dusksentry5836]

There is something delightfully helarious about a real actual penguin sitting behind a desk, flipping batman the bird

[@SinHurr]

t h e b i r d

[@INTERVENTIONKILLEZZZ]

Completely helarious

[@kiricappuchin]

Arknights

[@believeinmatter]

Your spelling of “hilarious” gave me some sort of illness

[@draexian530]

And it's Adam West's batman holding out a swear jar at a penguin with a human hand. I've had days of laughter from this end bit.

[@williamousley9794]

That bit about Nightwing making “non-lethal fire with bat-science” did give me a revelation of sorts: Nightwing has sticks with electricity and all that. This means there is a non-zero chance that he has accidentally killed a crook/robber/older weirdo with a weak heart/pacemaker.

[@JHawke1]

Every playable character murders people in GK anyway. There's a stealth ledge takedown that can just throw people off a 4 story building. No rope or any sort of lip service paid to their potential survival. They just drop like a sack of shit.

[@squee30000]

I mean, I doubt Two-Face gave his underlings the health insurance necessary to get a pacemaker installed in the first place

[@williamousley9794]

True, but you know Penguin’s got one

[@RacingSnails64]

I love seeing Cobblepot being represented as an actual literal penguin in a tophat reading a newspaper.

[@srbrant5391]

Why can’t we bring back the Adam West Batman and make a game out of that, ramping up the cheesiness until it’s legally considered territory of Switzerland?

[@joshuawilliams3882]

I’d play that. West Batman is underrated

[@aceskeletonne7446]

having giant WHAM and POW popups to act like stylised hit indicators would be fun, theres a lot you could do with the presentation of a game like that

[@joshuawilliams3882]

@@aceskeletonne7446 I always question why that wasn’t a feature you could do from the beginning

[@wejwyj2230]

Because DC is hardstuck on their moody, egdy and gritty phase and desaturating the fuck out of everything to match Batman's bleak ass regardless if it works for the character or not

[@joshuawilliams3882]

@@wejwyj2230 yeah I actually would love for them to just do a dc game that just the super friends

[@tsukiumika5807]

I know this isn't the first time but hearing Yahtzee censored feels....so wrong

[@stephensmith7327]

I feel it works for the joke, because there are multiple C words and you put whatever one you want. It's like from Arested Development "I'm so happy I could kiss you on the *****" "..... wait, what?!"

[@accountnotfound4209]

Comment above yours explains why this was more funny

[@dojelnotmyrealname4018]

It feels wrong cause they went with the standard beep instead of Yahtzee going "KZbin..."

[@MiaWinter98]

Members got the uncensored version last week

[@CHECKthisvid]

I mean, when Zero Punctuation was on X-Play in 2008, he was censored too.

[@nathanmarshall745]

"Lay us an egg you big chicken!" Is now my favorite way to call somebody a coward

[@charlottetill3205]

Was going to comment something very similar - lovely insult

[@AdenNak]

One of the undervalued aspects of the Arkham series is the Batman: The Animated Series voice cast reprising many of their roles. It gave so much life to those characters, and their absence is easy to feel.

[@jmckendry84]

Undervalued? It was one of the main things I'd hear being praised whenever someone was discussing the games.

[@Montesama314]

People with an accomplished career of voice acting and dramatic roles (Kevin Conroy was in the famous Juilliard school and then joined theater before becoming the Bat) vs... Who are these actors again? Honestly, it's not really the actors' fault these guys didn't leave a great impression. I think they just have terrible voice direction and an even worse script to work with. Ewan MacGregor is remembered as Obi-Wan Kenobi, but he had weak lines in the old Star Wars movies to say.

[@dunadan1995]

@@Montesama314 I mean, Elias Toufexis is The Penguin in this, that’s the guy who voiced Adam Jensen, the protagonist of new Deus Ex games and a whole bunch of other shows and games. That being said, I kinda didn’t like how he voiced Oswald, it didn’t really feel like his voice matched the character’s energy. Oh, and the VA who voiced Harley also has a bunch of credits to her name. Other than that, yeah, they really did save a bunch of money by not bringing many good VA’s for this whole thing, huh? If you check their profiles pretty much all of them are new to voice-acting, the VA who voiced Batgirl has the most credits out of all the protagonists but only has credits for the Barbie and Monster High animated TV series. The guy who voiced Batman has nothing, the guy who voiced freaking Alfred only had a secondary role in an animated tv show before. Same with Freeze. No disrespect to those guys for taking the gig, but how the fuck do you go from Conroy and Hamill to this.

[@spartanB0292]

Watch a video on the time trial races in this game. That's all you need to see for how poorly the voice actors were being used.

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

@@lasarousi anti-union in the same breath you complain about how the scabs are low quality.

[@scottgrey3337]

I love the Penguin story, you can still hear the disbelief on Yatzee’s voice from when he first processed whatever tf happened in that scene

[@falcon3792]

I gets worse too when he is bait for a trap and you just shrug it off and keep cleaning up his competitors.

[@appelofdoom8211]

I personally call them life support games because that's what they always are except there's basically no hope of them waking up so it's only a matter of time until someone pulls the plug

[@HiddenInTheTruth]

That's brilliant! I'll have to start using that around my friends, see if we can't get it normalized. Perfect description of these dumpster fires.

[@samvisser9408]

I think we have a winner.

[@ens0246]

Yeah that's definitely the best term I've heard for them! 😂

[@shawbag11]

eso. fallout 76. destiny 2. pritty much every assasins creed game from the last 6 years. the avengures game. outriders. pritty much any battle royal game. overwatch. for honnor. i could go on but lets face it as many of theses kinds of games as there are not one of them is worth playing by anyone other than a fanboy. hell id say warframe is the only one thats worth playing if u can get into it but i can understand why most people eather give up or dont even try it fact is that games new player experiance is awful

[@dantetouchdown9030]

It's canon now

[@squidrobotgamesdesign7170]

Congrats on finally getting "Spectacle Fighter" out there. I've been trying to make it a "thing" in my own circles for years

[@maninblack3410]

Kinda weird, this is actually an old term for the genre that’s going out. Used to be those games were called button mashers, then in the early 2010’s they were called spectacle fighters, now it seems like people think that’s offensive like “button mashers” was and they’re pushing to call them character fighters. Personally I’ve always liked “spectacle fighter” even if it does sound less skill based than “character fighter,” but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s like a decade old term now lol.

[@NoConsequenc3]

@@maninblack3410 button mashing has been a bad thing for decades

[@maninblack3410]

@@NoConsequenc3 I mean, yeah. “Button mashers” was definitely a dismissive title, and that’s basically why “spectacle fighter” came about… presumably from yatzhee considering what he said, but I mean does it matter? The point is, it’s been used for so long people see it as dismissive like “button mashers.”

[@NameAvailable]

@@lasarousi Yahtzee first used the term in 2009. It’s been around for a while now, but that’s because he first used it a long time ago

[@squidrobotgamesdesign7170]

Just wanna add, I know that *we* the Yahtzee watching public used it, but the industry at large shilly-shallied around with varying flavors of "action-adventure" for forever. Its nice to see the term officially endorsed via steam, especially when "Character Action" or "Character Fighter" seemed to be the finalbresting place for industry opinion on this. Even though its a bad name in every possible respect

[@hellsingfan89]

Poor Nick you have my sympathy, having to deal with KZbin and Yahtzee being a pain.

[@theescapist]

Yahtzee's a good pain. KZbin is just a pain.

[@meapickle]

@@theescapist yhatzee makes u lose hair your ok with losing...KZbin give aneurysms

[@MikaelMarius]

LAY US AN EGG

[@jordanj809]

Seeing this game described as DC’s answer to Avengers suddenly made everything clear. The story setup, design philosophy, and the discourse surrounding its fans and haters are all a beat for beat repeat of two years ago

[@kingsleycy3450]

More publishers need to realize a lot of players don't want to grind the same gameplay for months till end. Most of us already have a job.

[@DarkWolf-gj9ty]

If the game is made to be a farmer, like Warframe or Destiny 2, that's already better since it's advertised as such

[@MrFelblood]

But, how will we get you to Engage with our Product as a Lifestyle Brand, so you will make in-game Purchases at our Games As A Service Cash Shop? Surely you don't expect us to create a game 40+ hours of unique content, when we can just recycle the same crap!

[@TJ-vh2ps]

@@1IGG I was just about to say that. Well said!

[@Veladus]

And those of us that don't are already playing Final Fantasy XIV or World of Warcraft.

[@level3xfactor]

"riddle me this fuckface" made me laugh harder than I thought it would

[@meapickle]

The best part is that in the post zp stream, yhatzee learns it's not a live service game at all. It's simply that bland and uninspired

[@fwg1994]

Wait, it's not? Man, I completely lost interest in this game because early development made it look like a live service game. Just makes it all the more depressing that' it's not a boring, soulless game because they thought they could milk the players through a live service model, but rather because they just thought that style of gameplay is what people actually want.

[@uhobme2028]

Wasn't it originally? Then Avengers happened and they backtracked?

[@shawbag11]

It still feels like one and tbh i actuly think it was going to be one at one point but probaly when it got delayed that was them changeing it when they sore how bad the avengers game turned out.

[@rizdew2749]

@@uhobme2028 that's the rumor going around apparently and i can see why.

[@Mernom]

So they made a game as boring as a live service, without the benefit of being able to milk people for cash through the live service? Talk about getting the worse of both worlds.

[@gamepapa1211]

I urge everyone to pause at 1:16 to appreciate how much Nick had to work with when it comes to Yahtzee. We love you, Nick!

[@gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeinr]

watched streamers get paid to play it and it's the first time i've legitimately thought a game to be "soulless". it was easy to imagine how create-by-committee the entire project was.

[@Themightyfrogg]

You can make the same argument about the new GoW, but we can't say nothing about that right? Almost like these youtubers are just seeking attention, play what interests you, end of story.

[@maweitao]

Every big budget game is soulless corporate product, it's just that some hide it better. It doesn't mean that people working on bad games aren't passionate or that management teams behind good games care about anything more than profit.

[@gozzilla177]

@@maweitao Well all big games are but it's often about the Dev and how much they care about the product, I've seen some truly fantastic games but more often they are indie devs that just wanna see their dream game made.

[@jamesverner9132]

If you guys want a game with some soul I recommend frostpunk, pathologic 2, or multiverses. Yes some are old, and multiverses is a clone but they are made by people that care. And that should amount to something

[@blueninjanoname7338]

Play it, watching a game can either be much better but also much worse then actually playing it.

[@codrinpanainte]

Turns out Nick cared.

[@theescapist]

I tried! I fought KZbin on it, but the uncensored version remains with limited ads. Sucks.

[@sjp2820]

@@theescapist Now lay an egg

[@denmark1226]

@@theescapist I expected the *y o u t u b e* to make a reappearance

[@theescapist]

@@sjp2820 This is eerily similar to Alien. That doesn't end well.

[@br2k]

@@theescapist i motion for all censor noises to be replaced with Yahtz groaning "susaannnnnnnn" with subtle differences. such as: This jimminy wabbajack is total *susaannnnnnnn* and really made the *susaannnnnnnn* explode right out of my *susaannnnnnnn*

[@IVEGOTPEEINMYEYE]

In light of recent events, that snipit at 1:16 is kinda where it all started to fall apart for the corporate overlords.

[@scifiriku7656]

Making villains put money in a swear jar would be such a comedic power move I wish would find its way into mainline titles.

[@Leaddevo]

I get the feeling that, in the original meeting someone said, "lets make it souls-like" and the mouth breather in charge thought he said "Lets make it soul-less". Easy mistake to make.

[@mattwo7]

1:42 Also for some reason Robin is Tim Drake instead of Damian Wayne, even though by this point Damian has been firmly established in extended media as the de facto Robin with Tim being Ex-Robin the Second.

[@Pineappolis]

In your defence, Tim Drake going by 'Red Robin' for at least a good while (for all I know, he still does), isn't exactly a massive rebranding exercise so a bit of confusion is probably to be expected.

[@CynicalWarlock]

Love it when Nick cameos in a ZP.

[@dexterhopkins5267]

When has it happened before? Would love to see more of that

[@CynicalWarlock]

@@dexterhopkins5267 Think it.. might have just been the first time. Took long enough.

[@Deathstorm501]

@@dexterhopkins5267 I don't know or care about any escapist guys beyond Yahtzee, but there was one review probably a decade past now where someone else did a faux ZP review before Yahtzee came back in. Could've been Nick, might not have been. Don't know or care, but it was interesting.

[@theescapist]

@@CynicalWarlock He's put me in a couple of them lol. I think I was in the No Man's Sky re-review as well.

[@psugab]

@@Deathstorm501 I think it was ... Matt? Also dropped a lot of c bombs funnily enough. The actual review was about the red headed fighter, but it was only the demo.

[@jaohonaxa]

Much as I love Batman, I gotta give Yahtzee credit for that opening description. "Dude with infinite money who's never wrong, with all the warmth and complexity of a potato in a sock" is a decent way to describe some of the more annoying "realistic" versions they've made of Batman.

[@Sean_Callahan]

That was one of the cool things about the original comic storyline, in hindsight: it started with Batman being very wrong. He investigated the Court while he was a child, and by "investigated" I mean he snuck into a disused attic he believed was their headquarters and got stuck there. Based on that rigorous "investigation" he concluded that the Court was a myth, and he held onto that belief for decades and was reluctant to give it up even after the Talons started trying to kill him.

[@Gum_Cuzzler]

@Douglas Babb Batman has always worked best in his own universe. When you bring him into the Justice League or whatever he has to to become a hyper competent godlike tactician or there’s literally no reason for him to be there cause he’s just a human in a goofy costume. I liked his depiction in the Batman alot; he fucks pretty much everything up, fails to save the city and has to actually learn and grow from his failures.

[@matane2465]

​@@Gum_Cuzzler But the Justice League was in The Batman.

[@dajokahbaby1506]

Honestly my favorite versions of Batman are always the ones where’s he is still incredibly skilled but by that same measure he’s also a dick that self-sabotaged all of his personal relationships either due to his obsession with crime-fighting or his arrogance, like the later half of the DCAU Batman. Sure it’s not the most flattering of character traits or the most inspirational/heroic but it’s way more interesting and human to me than cold robot Batman that’s always right, can do anything, is a god in a human form, etc. etc. Like people dunk on Superman but at least he has fucking emotions.

[@jaohonaxa]

@@dajokahbaby1506 I absolutely agree with your Superman point. People go on about how Batman is better because he fights crime as a “normal human”, yeah a normal human with infinite money/resources, the most advanced technology possible, and physical abilities that really stretch the bounds of normal.

[@jebroi5993]

“Key entertainment sector reinvigoration scheme” is legit one of the funniest things I’ve heard, right up there with “Richard Relocation” 🤣

[@Archibaldh1pp0]

The idea of Adam West Batman having a swear jar is amazing.

[@DEADFLIP]

Oh hey! The Jurassic Park pin I designed spotted at 4:08 :O

[@mattwo7]

0:42 Looter Pooper. We should call it Looter Pooper.

[@EvilDoresh]

And the way to make the Penguin stop telling you to piss off is to interfere with his criminal business ventures until he becomes mildly annoyed enough to humor you for a few minutes. They could've just threatened him with that instead of being so passive-aggressive about it, but I guess they don't have the spine to stand up to a guy half their size.

[@Canadamus_Prime]

"Don't worry it's special non-lethal fire that I made with Batman science" Sure I'll buy that. Or I would but it requires one of the special Live Service currencies and I don't have any.

[@MCsonic537]

I personally think the AAA industry will start using more of Yahtzee's terminology soon. After all, they love to over state the quality of their products.

[@TheAlmightyPotato]

I would love to see an ad for a game advertised as "Spunkgargleweewee"

[@wallyhackenslacker]

Maybe if more indie studios start doing the New Blood thing of putting the most outrageous quotes from -Civvie 11- KZbin reviews in their game's description page on Steam, then AAA might pick up on it and start putting up Yhatzee quotes in marketing material unironically.

[@johnbono2384]

"...and you do" is one of the funniest lines I've heard on this show

[@BloodSinVIII]

"Andgobacktorandomcopypastedcrimes"

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

I love that the League of Shadows is a guy with Shadow the Hedgehog's head. :P

[@Catasros]

Honestly, having the swear censored makes it much funnier than just the word outright would have been

[@Zaxophone32]

Yahtzee is never censored, so the fact that he needed to be in this case makes it hit so much harder

[@stephensmith7327]

Should have censored the C too, gives us more options.

[@jamaneee]

I thhink it's funnier having watched it on the main site where he follows it up by daring youtube to censor him, and now it is on youtube censored

[@mikedawolf95]

Yeah, have you watched family guy but uncensored? It’s weird

[@yuswagukami5335]

No it's not. If this wasn't done by every youtuber under the sun because they're afraid then yeah, maybe it would have been fun. But as it stands, it's another example of cowardice.

[@zer0026]

While actual demonetizing censorship is a blight on the world, the bleeping made me laugh really hard, especially with the accompanying visual for the "and neither does my editor" bit

[@Anebrd]

It pleases me that I wasn't alone in trying to read that 1 second message at the 1.12 mark.

[@tonysoprano..-]

"Arkham's Batman would never meekly leave because the Penguin told him to piss off" *sweats in Arkham Origins Batman leaving Penguin after he locks a door and tells him to piss off*

[@Scibsj]

Made by the same studio so I think we found their humiliation kink.

[@RacingSnails64]

To be fair I think Origins Batman had gotten everything he needed in that situation, and just kicked the shit out of Deathstroke

[@RacingSnails64]

@@Scibsj *oh no*

[@Deliveredmean42]

Well same devs too, so that explains it.

[@alfredoamendez4299]

@@RacingSnails64 One of the few things Origins did better than the Arkham games made by Rocksteady it's the boss fights (the only decent one was Mr Freeze from Arkham City, everything else was subpar and underwhelming). I am so angry how Rocksteady did Deathstroke dirty in Arkham Knight, i can't believe Origins did it far better with their villains when you actually fight them.

[@BloodyAltima]

About that last credits one-liner- in actual proper Final Fantasy, specifically, FFV, we actually see the party try that. One of your party members dies soloing the big bad like a goddamn legend, fighting well past the point of hitting zero HP. The rest of the party tries desperately to revive him with everything they have after the fight, but nothing works, because he's just too dead. It's a surprisingly heartfelt sequence for a game that's overall a lot more on the deliberately silly side of things.

[@williamgreci8219]

Idea for a title for this kind of game less likely to get censored. "Goons, Grind, and Greed". Or some mix of those 3 words that can create a shorthand "Triple G" to ape the whole "Triple A" category of games.

[@EmperorSeth]

I think they should be called "Skinner Bucks." Even if we don't call the genre that, we should call all the in-game currency these games have that.

[@Fishdinner]

you're going to get someone in trouble...

[@Densoro]

@@EmperorSeth I legitimately really like that one.

[@williamgreci8219]

@@Fishdinner How so?

[@EmperorSeth]

@@Densoro Feel free to spread it around! If Metroidvania fans can hold onto the hope of renaming the genre "Search Action," why not us?

[@arthurdurham]

Arkham Asylum came out at a time where superhero video games were basically considered discount bin shlock. There was some decent gems but nothing groundbreaking outside small victories. But then a Batman movie tie in game was cancelled and the Batman IP got passed around and threw it at a small but talented studio. A lot of budget and pre production was already set so may as well still make a game. So Eidos and Warner basically just let Rocksteady do what they want; since the game was basically budgeted out already. And Rocksteady were eager to do it so it wasn't a huge financial cost. This was also before super hero movies took over the world, it wasn't very mainstream yet to put superheroes in everything. I don't think a lot of execs really knew how groundbreaking it be. So Rocksteady basically had a golden ticket. They had little public expectations to live up to and a freedom to do what they wanted since there was no set framework by publisher or fan. A mid tier release would have probably been fine for them. And Rocksteady could have released something half assed and it would have done decently just with everything involved (esp getting the beloved Batman TAS talent on it, which also helped marketing). But also, there was nothing to lose by actually trying; not as many execs telling them to do or not do a thing bc of this or that market. They took the challenge and created arguably the first real superhero game. Spiderman 2 may have created the first one that had semblances of feeling like the hero but The Arkham Games had it in every aspect. It wasn't just in one mechanic it was built into the foundation of its design. Now flash forward to 2022. The Arkham games have made superhero games to be top tier. Marvel is basically synonymous with media entertainment and it's been proven you can basically put these characters on anything and it'll do decently enough. There is no heart to it anymore and there may never be. There isn't a small passionate team showing homage to a character and world they love. It's just Superhero Brand Product™️. Even the good ones are basically built off the Arkham games. Publishers do not want them to try new things bc it's risky. If it's too out there it may off put people; bc they're afraid of lost sales than risking better ones. So better making a product that's an homage to something better but is actually just like every other game than try to reinvent the wheel when dealing with a popular IP Even the Spiderman games, which are really great, are using huge cheat sheets from Arkham, Spiderman 2, and open world games in general. They're just the most polished they could be in their unoriginality. No way they'd let Insomniac try to reinvent web swinging in a way that not everyone can enjoy it right away for instance. They even changed a more comic looking Peter to look more like Tom Holland to be more like the movies. And when it is truly bad, you'll still get defenders of this kind of trash. Even if it literally tells you to go screw yourself, bc people can't help themselves. It's really sad.

[@BJWeNeedUDefendingUsWithZeMG42]

"Bottom Shites" inexplicably had me rolling!

[@MatthewCSnow]

The idea of Batman (Adam West in particular) beating up the ever living shit out of a dude till they put a coin in the swear jar is something I would pay money to see

[@iivvrryy]

Been a while since I've watched but it's good to see that the intro is still as ear-bleedingly loud as ever

[@Herrikias]

Funnily enough, I am in the midst of playing Arkham Origins. In it, the Penguin makes you piss off by locking himself behind an impenetrable door with two ladies who are way out of his league. I tried to linger outside the door to hear what they were up to, but after 20 minutes all I heard was the penguin repeating lines for me to go away. As fun as it was to give him performance anxiety, I eventually acquiesced.

[@GabrielOnuris]

I love it that in the escapist magazine site this video is uncensored.

[@theedwardian]

I love how Yahtzees intro and style hasn't changed in 15 years

[@MrBleachfreak247]

The pause frame gag is "Nick, Dunno if this joke still works with the censoring Maybe stick the uncensored version on the Patreon and let viewers decide? -YZ PS. LAY US AN EGG YOU BIG CHICKEN" You're welcome

[@Marconius6]

Ah yes, just what Arkham games needed: granular stat-based equipment progression.

[@i5aled123]

Being a Potato in A Sock is Better Than inspired By A Potato in A Sock 😂

[@gabbycotto4024]

Glad to see “Spectacle Fighter” catch on, as it’s a really good descriptor. I hope the next nickname for a game genre to do so is “Mud Genre” for Obligatory Sandbox/Survival Crafting games.

[@sacta]

I think Lyle in his latest episode came up with the perfect name for "Live Service" games during the intro spoofing Halloween scary stories: Werejobs.

[@TheShadowNetwork.]

It's some IRONIC bullshit that WB would release a game about Batman dying and his team trying to fill his boots literal weeks before Kevin Conroy passed away. The universe has a twisted sense of humour. This could have been so Meta and great if done right

[@sintaribat9350]

Got to the penguin scene you mentioned.... and I felt it then as I felt it watching this vid... "wtf? Why did red hood not unalive the flightless dodo"..

[@AardvarkPaysOff]

ZP really just described Tower of Fantasy entirely in the opening rant, bravo

[@GinkgoBalboa142]

I was calling them spectacle fighters before I started watching ZP (heard it from my brother who watched ZP and played a lot of DMC) so it makes sense that the term would become standard. Everyone I know uses the term and I don't think half of them even know about the show. Good term is good :3

[@li-limandragon9287]

The most shocking thing about this video was learning Yahtzee has a editor.

[@Veladus]

How much you suppose *that* guy drinks?

[@doughaid3778]

As a longtime ZP and Nightwing fan. Thank you. 🤣😭

[@ornn2528]

"fisty, smashy, obliterating testicles" a golden quote

[@KotaTheGreatest]

Mr. Freeze was in it. I really enjoyed his like 6 missions also clayface was in it again liked his missions. And I teared up a couple times playing this.

[@TrueTgirl]

Well shit. I was looking forward to an Arkham-style game in which you get to see and play as a few members of the rest of the family, considering they're easily the best part of Batman related media (and it's a damn shame we never got to see them and bats together because they give infinitely more depth to HIS character by proxy because that's how paragons WORK but I digress) but I guess it was not to be. Ah well.

[@sirbobulous]

Wayne Family Adventures, for example, is the best Batman Comic in ages for exactly this reason.

[@tortoiseoflegends4466]

I had fun with it, but in large part because I'm a fanboy for the Robins. It's definitely a solid 5/10 game. On the bright side, we still have Arkham Knight mods that let you play as Batgirl, Red Hood, Nightwing and Robin in that open world!

[@Haverlock]

@@sirbobulous Batman has long evolved beyond the need for a lone brooding terror of the night because he's now a slightly intimidating father figure who struggles to balance work and family

[@TrueTgirl]

@@sirbobulous You. You understand.

[@TrueTgirl]

@@Haverlock Which gets especially hard when, well, it's a family business at this point. Not to mention it just adds some welcome levity when Bruce or really any of them do the "Batman, creature of fear" bit bc gotta keep that reputation up and then seeing them interact with one another later like, well, a family would.

[@picamanplays]

Oh yesssss!!! A rare sighting of the elusive but hilarious "spunkgargleweewee"!! I remember nearly spraying cola out of my nose the first time I heard Yahtzee say this back in 2012. I think it was in the Medal of Honor: Warfighter Zero Punctuation (Oh my gawd, have I been following every single ZP for the past 10+ year? That says something about the quality of ZP or something about my inability to show personal growth... both? lol). Yahtzee uses "spunkgargleweewee" sparingly, and so it never loses its impact and kills me every time ☠☠☠. Well done, good sir... well done indeed.

[@kincaidnichols2517]

Oh shit! After all these years, Spectacle Fighter wins over.. Character Action Games

[@fakeusers2]

Yahtzee really embracing his inner Australia today.

[@Veladus]

Naw. That word is basically a term of endearment in Australia. He's using it as "the most hateful word I can find that's not a racial slur".

[@adpbobcat]

Just heard Nick's interview with Colin om Sacred Symbols, just want to say I loved it, and I'll be watching more escapist videos when I can. 👍

[@TheTNTPVP]

I cheered when you mentioned the Penny Plunderer!

[@SoulStrikes]

After seeing unedited version,The beeps make it better somehow

[@Montesama314]

The sidekicks being Batman's harem seems like such an obvious doujin idea I'm surprised I've never seen it. I must be on the wrong websites...

[@eagonten]

It's like the developers looked at that train wreck that was the Avengers game and thought "hot damn thats an amazing idea let's copy it".

[@giloguy101]

The irony is that the theory going round is this game likely was meant to be a live service game like the avengers, but after that game flopped they got cold feat and just retooled it into this boring mess

[@alexandermutsaers2693]

Well, Avengers made it to the top of the year-end bland list. I suspect a similar fate for Gotham Knights.

[@Graknorke]

it was topping best seller charts for weeks and presumably made a ton of money, why wouldn't they imitate it? because it's a bad game? who cares

[@kr1spness]

I was so excited for a bat family story, sad they tried to make it live service and rush it for holidays a year before Suicide Squad eclipsed it. This game had potential and it seems someone decided to put their manpower behind cosmetics when they could make more money off of Arkham City but fun.

[@I_am_ENSanity]

Personally, if they made it Alfred losing it after Bruce's death and took the super human pill I'd have thrown money at them. To this day Alfred vs Superman is my 2nd favorite moment in the comics. The 1st is Batman vs Predator.

[@CodingItWrong]

I'm a fan of all archaeological strata of ZP, but something about the comedic timing of this episode in particular clicks even better.

[@robertbenoit1466]

Would love to see a review of Signalis. I feel like it would be right up Yahtzee’s alley. Plus I just always want to know what he thinks about indie games doing cool stuff in the survival horror genre. Signalis is awesome and deserves more attention.

[@sykomaniax187]

>Starts video >gets ready for banging intro >met with soft lofi goodness "A surprise to be sure but a welcome one"

[@Ohsnapkline]

Been a long time watcher of your content, good to hear your voice again and see your still making these video's!

[@bobroberto95]

1:16 what it says:"nick, dunnoif this joke still works with the censoring. maybe stick the uncensored version on the patreon and let viewers decide? -YZ. P.s: lay us an egg you big chicken" KEKW

[@GrimDMasterMind]

Yahtzee really went all In on this game... He ran it raw. It was a beautiful thing to see.

[@Anthony-pz7tl]

“PS LAY US AN EGG YOU BIG CHICKEN” 😂😂😂😂

[@BloodWraith777]

0:22 Hell yeah, dude! Spectacle Fighter! I've always loved that term of yours. Always used it since for games like Devil May Cry, God of War, Metal Gear Rising, Bayonetta, etc. The game I'm going to (eventually, probably) create is more or less going to be an ARPG Spectacle Fighter. Maybe afterwards I'll make a joke Spectacle Fighter game, where you literally fight googly eyed sentient Spectacles (Glasses, Monocles, etc) bent on world destruction. Called Spectacle Fighter.

[@EspressoStalinist]

I like how Yahtzee's new intro music is so 2019-2022 but his original intro music after is still back in 2009.

[@VanceReviews]

Maybe I’ll pick this up when it’s on sale for $10. Great review!

[@MsAlliwannadoisdance]

Angry swearing Yahtzee is the best Yahtzee, especially when the game deserves it as much as Scrotum Blights does.

[@vapid6311]

I'm a massive fan of the bat sidekicks, I think there have been wonderful takes on them, especially nightwing, but even the token joke about nightwing's arse felt hollow.

[@greatheightsu]

What a fucking review. I haven't heard you eviscerate something so well in a long time. It was awesome.

[@elhazthorn918]

I know Yahtzee said he was considering talking about Omori, since he played it... Will that be a thing? I'm genuinely curious as to what he thought of it, as a fan of horror. It wasn't a perfect game, but it was definitely interesting.

[@20thoughts]

The swear jar got a guffaw out of me. He absolutely would.

[@benjaminshinar9509]

I'm holding out for the superman version, where you can play as kid superman, alien superman, robot superman and black dude with a hammer uperman.

[@aaronwebb1548]

1:00 "We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares. "But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us. "This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right." From "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" by Neil Postman.

[@aaronwebb1548]

"Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our modes of transportation. Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerrilla resistance. "Here is ideology, pure if not serene. Here is ideology without words, and all the more powerful for their absence. All that is required to make it stick is a population that devoutly believes in the inevitability of progress. And in this sense, all Americans are Marxists, for we believe nothing if not that history is moving us toward some preordained paradise and that technology is the force behind that movement." From "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" by Neil Postman.

[@Marquis-wz2hi]

I like to think Yahtzee’s a lot of American peoples introduction to contemporary British politics

[@diegofloor]

1:13 this part had me in tears. EDIT: laughing tears, just to clarify.

[@chrisjags]

Someone should make a game where the 10,000,000 Batman/Robin knockoffs face off against the 10,000,000 Spiderman knockoffs and they all annihilate each other and are never seen from again.

[@Chasetopher33]

Funny you mention Penny Plunderer. He was never mentioned in any of the Arkham games but actually *does* get an easter egg in GK, oddly enough.

[@Ancor_Vantian]

I've been calling games like Gotham Knight "Lite services" because that's essentially what they are, a Live service without the live part, so *Lite*. Seems fitting.

[@dabigcheese99]

It wasn't until I went back to an old Zero Punctuation from four years ago that I realised the volume mixing on newer videos is bad. Why is the music at the beginning and the end so loud relative to everything else?

[@Revenkin]

Yahtzee's time living in Australia is showing a bit

[@0ctothorp]

MAKE THE CENSORSHIP SOUND LOUDER, I HAVEN'T GONE DEAF YET.

[@noizepusher7594]

At this point I’m convinced that Yahtzee has named half of the things on the internet

[@FrabascooSauce]

didnt even notice there was reason to celebrate. so many years later and spectacle fighter just feels so right

[@rockarola55]

My last comment/watch on the old ZP, simply because I want to tell everyone to head to Second Wind.