HARD RESET (Zero Punctuation)

[@SubZerosHat]

I just realised that if you take off your headphones and just watch the various images, the video becomes incredibly confusing.

[@Tlhague998]

Thats Zero Punctuation in a nutshell

[@FizzleFX]

+Thomas Hague In 25 words or less

[@Maximumdumb]

that is the case for all of the zp videos.

[@frydfish4934]

That's 95% of ALL videos.

[@Redvox57]

Admiral Lulzaru especially witht the tits on fire

[@marktaylor6491]

1:45. Four words for you Yahtzee. 'All things must Pass'. The single best piece of work by any of the Fab Four post the final break.

[@Murdrad]

Just going to throw this out there, Samurai Jack Seemed to find a good middle ground, for pg-pg13 machine violence. You make the robots look like people, and you make the wires and stuff look like (and act like) organs. So Jack would cut a bot open and oil would spew ever were. He would wind up covered in it, and it looks even cooler than if he was covered in blood, because the black sludge of oil is more artistic and interesting then crimson water. Or he would cut open a bot in a way that shows its insides, so you would see that they look kinda like organs, but it blows up before the parents have time to think too much about it. Still not as Cool as the violence from Kill Bill, Django, or Doom, but it's not bland, and its more for ever one. As not all people can stomach to much of that, like you mom, or kid sister (who shouldn't be watching anyway).

[@farjacko]

I know this comment is a month old, but that's a really valid point. Samurai Jack is just awesome

[@rocksteel9238]

calvin mcclory agreed I loved how after Samuria Jack Cut them in half they would freeze for a second then explode

[@anonymoususer3112]

I'm sorry but I couldn't read the comment properly due to all the grammar mistakes.

[@AshenRider112]

+Keegan Meerholz no one gives a fuck about YOUR comment on a video over two years old, mr."my doctor says I'm special"

[@merrittanimation7721]

And now it has blood!

[@Montesama314]

If you want a game where you can gun down scores of robots, I recommend "Binary Domain". It has a dumb B-movie plot, but the ways you can defeat the robots, including shooting off their limbs and heads, resulting in them dropping their guns, continuing to crawl at you, or causing them to shoot their own friends, has a unique sort of satisfaction.

[@Kemonokami]

0:55 - "Hello? Ordo Hereticus? I'm calling to report something…"

[@Sir_Bone-Head]

Am I the only one who loves to hear Yahtzee say 'Wheelie bins"?

[@MintMovies]

Now that you mention it..

[@monkeyskitz]

you should have seen when he invaded europe that one time in one

[@georgeharrison5643]

As a brit I feel like I'm listening to my dad tell me to take the bin out

[@Sir_Bone-Head]

@@georgeharrison5643 I guess I should've prefaced that I'm an American, so I didn't know that terminology.

[@richardmulledy3857]

Flying Wild Hog's subsequent releases have learned from Hard Reset's mistakes. Check out Shadow Warrior, which is all around a massive improvement and generally a fun return to classic shooters that even offers some commentary on them in its plot and dialogue. Also, it has the best first person melee combat I've ever seen.

[@The_Crimson_Fucker]

Also, Painkiller: Hell and Damnation. Both of those games are fun as hell!

[@MocnyBrowarek]

You didn't played Dark Messiah of Might and magic :) it's now quite old game, but still looks and plays brilliant. Mele combat is ... the same in both games. Which is great!

[@karry299]

Shadow Warrior is not a shooter. Your sword is so overpowered that there is little reason to use anything else. The only remotely useful shooty weapons are machine gun and RPG.

[@jethrowegener]

9 years and four replays later and... I still don't know what the cracking buggernuts the plot is about.

[@irl_lizard7880]

for any watching now, 'f' key switches between the 2 guns

[@luigivercotti6410]

no, 'f' key, 'u'

[@garretthaslam3869]

I really would love Yahtzee to touch on spacemarines, or any warhammer game

[@viyhexe131]

Given his past mentions of the franchise have been pretty derisive, no you really wouldn't.

[@Altobrun]

Deathwing enhanced edition is coming out shortly and he mentioned wanting to review vermentide 2 so maybe he'll touch that

[@0zeroburn]

I think of Yahtzee as more like a doctor that pokes and prods until he finds any sore spots and then pushes on them repeatedly going "does this hurt? How about now?" while secretly laughing to themselves.

[@TheTrashball]

Oh god, the Kojima-Joke killed me

[@SobiesawChabaz]

I've had a good amount of fun with Hard Reset. Certainly a lot more fun than with all the generic shooters that are coming out nowadays and I paid like 3 bucks for the damn game. It's not as fun as Painkiller or Shadow Warrior, definitely, but for a budget shooter it's pretty damn good. Oh, and it's damn gorgeous. It would probably fit on my list of top 10 shooters released since 2005

[@poisonmist13]

I have watched every single one of these videos..... Why am I still watching.....? I am still watching.... Still watching..... Wait, where did the sun go? Why is my cat dead?

[@LutherOMight]

The Kojima nanomachines part killed me XD

[@RasoKye]

I don't see it so..... NANOMACHINES SON

[@nightbeat6416]

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear?

[@AntonyCannon]

Love how he actually gave the game a plug.

[@ccleake1]

Shooter season 2011. Uploaded April 2012

[@Pattyobrien3]

As I 40k fan who enjoyed space marine, I'd still love to see a ZP of it. he's referenced his distain for the 40k franchise a couple of times before and I'd be fun to see him get into why.

[@overjoyedleaf]

Pattyobrien3 I'm exactly the same, loved space marine, want to see zp rip it to shreds.

[@NebbyXi]

Pattyobrien3 I'm just excited someone remembered the other good Warhammer 40k game.

[@harrisvercin9598]

He did an Extra Punctuation on it titled something along the lines of "Hating Warhammer 40k and Space Marine"

[@VanguardFencer]

Yahtzee should try Shadow Warrior. Its from the makers of Hard Reset & the producers of Hotline Miami. TotalBiscuit claims its the new Painkiller.

[@OCMOOO]

Have your own opinion you doof. TotalBiscuit ain't your mum

[@OCMOOO]

Yes muhaha :P

[@dragonslayerornstein2834]

Rene' Descartes Hey! Your the son of a bitch that created the Cartesian System!

[@Shours]

why did youtube decide it's so crucial for me to watch this? It's been on my feed for days!

[@spinningninja2]

Holy shit no joke I sorta like strategy games and my youtube crashed exactly at 0:25

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

Haven't played Hard Reset, but I can vouch for Space Marine, although coming from a person who's into 40k it seemed too much like a game catering for people who don't play 40k.

[@karry299]

Uh, yeah, i played that game. 5 hours of slowly stomping through boring grey levels, no weapon OR enemy variety, and an impossible to beat final boss. What a waste of money. Although, of course, as an indoctrinated GW slave boy you WILL absolutely love it, whether you want to or not.

[@osriccauldwyn]

Hard Reset is fantastic. I got it in a bundle and I feel a little guilty for having paid so little for it lol.

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

karry299 which game are we talking about? Cos I remember the final bossfight in Space Marine being actually fairly easy... unless you're talking about the Ork Warboss bossfight.

[@beezlbobdestraint6869]

x1StapleGun Both Bossfights were fine for me.

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

karry299 and what do you mean by no enemy variety? if you mean you only fight Orks or Chaos, then you'd be correct, but otherwise there is a HUGE variety. ORKS HAVE: Gretchins (the tiny ones you can execute without stun-locking) Choppa Boyz Shoota Boyz (sometimes with crude shields) Nob Leaders (the massive ones with huge maces) Tankbustas (with Rokkit Launchas) Flash Gitz (the huge ones with Kustim Shootaz) Mad Doks (the ones who can teleport) Bomb Squigs (the kamikaze pig things) CHAOS HAVE: Imperial Traitors Chaos Space Marines Aspiring Champions (who wield Power Mauls and have massive energy shields) Sorcerors (who can open Warp gates and fire bolts of Warp energy at you) Bloodletter Daemons That's quite a variety of enemies already, don't ya think? Mind you, the generic dialogue can get a bit tiresome, and I agree with you about the artwork. It seems like they made the rest of the environments fairly boring just so the blue armour of the Smurfmarines could stand out.

[@cyberneticxylem9614]

His analogies are freaking hilarious

[@leoschue8071]

I think Fallout 4 did a good job of making robot death visceral.

[@notoverwatch6991]

Too bad it's gay.

[@leoschue8071]

Clittycat Princess You're going to have to elaborate.

[@notoverwatch6991]

Bad.

[@leoschue8071]

Clittycat Princess I'm still not clear on what you're saying.

[@notoverwatch6991]

Me no like.

[@prop0042]

On the subject of fighting synthetics vs. fighting organics, either can be incredibly fun or incredibly boring to fight. Take a game like battlefield: enemies give no sense of being damaged, they just flinch a little and eventually fall over. Now take a game like Mass Effect 3: You can fire rockets at geth troopers and watch bits of polymer and mechanical components get blown over 12 square meters while on fucking *!!fire!!*.

[@phrophetsamgames]

Have you played Binary Domain? The enemy robots there really do a good job of falling apart. They limp or crawl and when you shoot them in the head they frenzy.

[@pedrobettt]

I like your Dwarf Fortress reference.

[@viyhexe131]

See also: Metal Arms, a game in which you can disassemble enemy robots until they're nothing but a jumble of limbs loosely held together by rubber bands.

[@JerkyMurky]

Damn it Yhatzee. you should at least try spacemarine. Its third person, with no cover shooting, features a chainsaw sword, the voice work of mark strong, and instead of health packs, the game forces you to get in there, and literally murder enemies with said chain saw sword(or plasma sword, or power ax, or god hammer or whatever) to gain back a slight monicrum of health. Its unforgiving, well acted, kinda predictable, but in the end i find it satisfying to murder hordes of space orcs, with a chain saw sword, and a "laze" cannon. And it was one of the last great games THQ made before their doors closed, and that in and of its self i would think is enough reason to give it some notice. It also features some pretty fun multiplayer, which is hard for me to say that because i love shooter multiplayer about as much as i love shoving rusty nails up my cock hole.

[@1337ijs]

Space Marine was a pretty fun time, but it suffered from the horrible fatal flaw that made the midgame of Prototype a similar nightmare: You don't turn invincible while you're locked in multi-second animations and QTEs. Therefore, enemies can walk up and wail on you in the middle of an execution move (or, more commonly in my case, right before the animation as a whole ends, but after I'd already regained my health), thereby having you end the execution with barely more health than you started it with. This forces you, instead of wading into a fight and killing everyone you can in slow-motion executions like the superhuman demigod of murder your supposed to be, to desperately try and separate individual enemies from massive hordes so you have the slight chance to safely regenerate your health meter. Only that's really difficult. Cause you're trying to get one enemy from a massive horde on its own so you can take several seconds to stand utterly defenseless while you hack into a orc's gut and kick its face clean off. Don't get me wrong, it was really fun, but it failed to properly build itself so that frustration would not get in the way of that fun. It also didn't help that all the enemies with giant explosive super-guns were the epitome of the term "bullet-sponges."

[@JerkyMurky]

They where indeed bullet sponges, especially when you start fighting chaos marines,(in a way it suffers from the same problem as DMC games, in that the guns are utter crap half way into the game, and the only meaningful way to murder somone is with your fisties) I however felt that the fact that i could be hit; and killed, in a QTE execution when im trying to get my health back, added to the difficulty of the game. I saw it not as a design flaw, and more as a difficulty multiplier. But i can understand where most people would be frustrated at that. and in the end perhaps it should have been something saved for the higher difficulty settings... but yeah i thought it was a great game, one of those sleeper hits that not everyone but the core fans of the universe tended to play. them and their friends, who had it suggested to them by people like me.

[@1337ijs]

I'm not sure DMC is a true proper comparison to Space Marine in terms of gunplay; in Space Marine, for the most part, you're expected to use both melee and ranged weapons based on what you have and who you're fighting. I've always felt that DMC had guns more for the factor of coolness and so people who were utter masters at the game could keep combos going across entire rooms with gunfire. Space Marine's guns are clearly built to be used for sole purpose killing enemies from a distance, whereas DMC guns are more meant for utilitarian purposes, breaking up monotony and providing ways to keep a style streak going until you can get into sword range. You can easily thin down a pack of orcs with the right guns in Space Marine, but trying to kill literally anything with just guns in any DMC game on anything other than easy is an exercise in futility. Space Marine is more focused on survival/killing everything in front of you however you can, and DMC is built around pulling off the craziest series of attacks possible so you can afford upgrades, and their use of guns reflects those goals. I think Space Marine's problem was that it upped the difficulty curve just a tad too much. Or at the very least, underestimated the lethality of giant bullet-shaped grenades built to penetrate enemies before they explode. But that seems to be a common theme in 40K video games.

[@IntrovertedRenegade]

ISchulz both of you are playing round the nit and picky aspects, yest being hit in the middle of an execute is annoying, but it did once give me a very cool death sequence where I flung my axe into an orc nobz head then we both toppled end over end off a bridge, one thing that did happen whilst in execute mode was a small glitch, where if an orc picks you up and throws you to the ground you stand up at an angle, and cannot remove yourself from that angle till it happens again. Also the voice acting of the warboss and the Chaos lord guy is pretty shabby, the combo counter is a bit dull with X,X,X,Y,B being the biggest combo you can get out of it all and the final boss fight is a pile of rushed dog turd, also the story line happens in about 7 other 40K games and the price for the DLC's and the game and being able to level up your character makes it a squandering for your money because you like the franchise type of game. The gore is kind of nice and the destroying chest high walls is all good and fun, but there are too many aspects of the game that stop it from being 4/5 stars.

[@baronteapot4265]

What's a "monicrum"? The dictionary tells me it's not a real word.

[@PtolemyJones]

Ringo wasn't that bad. Had the first hit of any of the ex-Fab4 after the break out.

[@EverRusting]

you can make a rocket fly with the energy that voice actors of Metal Gear Solid series spent by saying "nanomachines", also I love Quake II more than any other FPS

[@Marcus-pt1je]

You should do Warhammer games. Because I love Warhammer games.

[@DaMaster012]

"It still makes less sense than a shouty homeless man enacting Klingon opera." Few one-liners in Zero Punctuation have made me laugh as hard as this one did.

[@Telawin]

I feel like his comment about the cleanup being done with a mop instead of a broom inspired the game "viscera cleanup detail"

[@zztosha]

Just finished this game, it was really fun, but I too had a hard-time following the plot, and still don't really know what was it about aside from overall idea of "machines invading the city and building the utlimate-supreme-Machine-Giant-God-Entity-whatever".

[@andrewtaulane9716]

Congrats sir, you just perfectly described Destiny!

[@ItsmeVel]

That Beatles comparison was great.

[@Vincerith]

I KNEW THE TOAST POPPING UP WAS DANGEROUS! 5:09

[@GoldTacoProductions]

The best thing school has ever done for me: Let zero punctuation be assessable on KZbin!

[@RaiderGamerSpice]

3:46 then you might like Yandere Simulator. There aren't any rockets, but you do have to clean up bloody messes with a mop.

[@CannonBolt112]

On the front page, next to the tick box saying; 'uploads only', you should notice a drop down menu saying 'view', click it and check if it is set highlights or everything. If highlights is selected, that may be your problem. Why KZbin made this some needlessly complicated is beyond me, but in any case, I hope this has been helpful.

[@hrnekbezucha]

2:50 oh shit that's the "gun that shoots shurikens and lightning? It could only be more awesome if it had tits and was on fire"

[@Irondrone4]

HEY! You do NOT diss Thomas the Tank Engine!

[@FatrickAteman]

You can diss EVERYTHING but wane you talk bad to Thomas the motherfucking tank engine YOU HAVE GONE TO FAR!

[@XionTheSylveon]

Exactly.

[@nerdsoft9964]

And stay the fuck away from Putt Putt.

[@Huvpalto]

+Irondrone4 SPARKLE SPARKLE SPARKLE!!!

[@MrKingkez]

+Alex Thomson fuck yah SPARKLE SPARKLE SPARKLE!!!

[@FirstDukeOfGaming]

He also seemed favorable to the infamous series. Which made me happy because I'm fond of the series as well.

[@gumbo821]

I liked space marine. The first go around was fun, the orks were goofy and had a sort of charm. The quality steered off a bit though, when chaos came in and traitor guardsman started spamming grenades like it was black friday at the military surplus shop.

[@HSL_Blackleaf]

Yes give this man a medal!

[@teal_m_101]

I love Klingon Opera. It's so passionate

[@blitzburn2871]

It is a shame Yahtzhee passed up on Space Marine, because it did do a pretty good job on the points where Hard Reset dissapointed when compared to Painkiller.

[@invghost]

He does. And he also does Let's Plays of old games. I love them but he needs to release the next one :x

[@luckypucklee]

No sarcasm. I'm proud of you.

[@AxiomofDiscord]

I am glad to see that Quake II has fans.

[@Wandergirl108]

Personally, when /I/ fire a rocket at a horde of enemies in a game, I'd much rather there not be any mopping involved. I don't know, I just don't enjoy gore in games. Not because I'm squeamish or give a single fuck about who else might see the same game I'm playing regardless of their age, I just don't like it. I like the violence, but not the gore. And before you say anything about how violence with a lack of gore is violence with a lack of realism, we're talking about VIDEO GAMES, the sole purpose of which is to provide a means of ESCAPING reality. I don't WANT to play a realistic game, I want to play a game where I can blow up a mountain of grotesque monstrosities with a handheld nuke and have the subsequent rain of dead monsters consist of sparkles and in-game currency instead of blood and guts. Why? That's just what I like. I'm not promoting censorship because I'm worried about corrupting kids who are so incredibly innocent and pure, I just want to play a game in which I can be having the most amount of fun with what I personally enjoy. Okay? Okay.

[@ASpaceOstrich]

I see your "more fun fighting people than robots" and raise you MASS EFFECT FUCKING TWO!

[@theBlindDeafMute]

HA HA HA! THAT JOKE IS SO ORIGINAL. YOU ARE JUST A PIECE OF BRILLIANCE.

[@j.schmitt220]

awww... I would watch the Space Marine one...

[@GregaMeglic]

Its the top class commercial stuff selling for round 50 to 60 bucks. Basically anything with a budget the size of a cinema movie or higher.

[@HendrikRombach]

you forgot painkiller which seems to be one of his favourites of all times

[@hannahwhitmore8919]

Toaster of death at the end

[@Hiyonai]

Hard to believe shooter season 2011 was almost 11 years ago

[@PureSniperWolf]

>_>...I knew toasters were out to get us...Thanks for letting me know I'm not along ZP!

[@ilLmaonadel]

to add on to that list: Infamous, Shadow of the Colossus, Silent Hill 2, Bastion damn he likes a lot of games huh

[@TheHeik]

The irony is that Yahtzee might have enjoy Space Marine. No chest high walls, tight controls, you have to learn how to deal with very big and powerful hordes pretty much by yourself, and for 40K it's surprisingly less dark than the setting usually is. All things considered it seems like it would be right up his alley.....

[@thechubbycreeperplays2350]

I paused the video right at 2:58, and now all I can think about is "quake 2 was a game."

[@SleepyForestShaman]

I hope he does Space Marine, that game is brutally satisfying and it kind of inspired a lot of things like the Lancer from Gears of War

[@EcksFacktur]

he also used the painkiller cover art in the thumbnail. perhaps he's trying to say he felt this game had a connection to it?

[@flyingteeshirts]

Got Hard Reset for $2.24 because STEAM!

[@jackdrive223]

long live the old school fps!

[@deafweasel99]

Thank you! at least somone remembers!

[@Raven_Frame]

Space Marine is very underrated all things considered.

[@TheTrueMerrio]

The plot of Hard Reset? "Robotic shit happens. Clean it up with your shotgun."

[@jammothyjimmothy6999]

try watching without sound

[@luckypucklee]

Hooray! The second best kind of cake!

[@kara0211]

Metal Arms made shooting robots fun.

[@RuNNoLa]

So worth it to wait for

[@luckypucklee]

Nevermind. I will never doubt you again.

[@wandererwerewolf477]

I'd like to say that the story issues were resolved by a free DLC pack, _Exile_ . I'd like to say it, but I'd be lying. It adds a little more story, but that's about it.

[@kennethsharp2037]

Hey man, George Harrison had the best post-Beatles album of them all with "All Things Must Pass." Carry on.

[@GoldCheeze]

Damn, my cat ate the cookies again. Damn, damn damn.

[@MoreNimrod]

He's not a reviewer. He's a critic. It's his job to poke fun at the flaws in games.

[@robotsnake9374]

The cleaning up with a mop thing could be resolved by using oil as blood.

[@S_t_r_e_s_s]

The algorithm blesses.

[@Crowbars357]

hard reset's plot: stuff happens. do i win?

[@Pivoteer435]

He usually uploads on The Escapist website.

[@Feenecks]

3:48 Then he would love Earth Defense Force 2017!

[@inevitablext]

The weapon system is great, and the setting is a cyberpunk city setting, was he expecting there to be a snow level, a lava level and a forest level? I love Painkiller and that game had a gigantic variety in environments but I had no problem with a continuous city environment in Hard Reset, and the recent update brings some interesting areas as well. I say the weapon system is great because it's essentially almost 20 weapons in 2, 5 modes each and some of the modes having two firing modes.

[@iwatchyardsalecrap]

yes best bday present ever

[@AdurianJ]

These reviews are even funnier when you're tired :)

[@zeitgeistindustries1792]

This didn't come out in 2011!

[@superlukey3]

Also Infamous, Prototype, Xcom, Prince of Persia sands of time, Call of Juarez Bound in Blood, Skyrim (I think), Dead Rising 2, and Killer 7.

[@saoirseoceallaigh3387]

I really wish Yahtzee reviewed Space Marine because that game was all about making the janitor clean up the mess with a mop.

[@demonmurphy]

Spider-Man 2 and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time are favorites of his too

[@dragonkingofthestars]

you know, I don't know why he never did space marine. He dislikes cover, space marine does not have that, it's grey and brown admitly but the ultramarines blue does give a contrast more then a lot of games have, the game play is varied between blade and bullet and your actively wants to be aggressive and not camp with the whole "your enemy has a health pack in his guts!" thing.

[@TheStargateNerd]

IIRC he dislikes Warhammer 40k, so I think that's why. I also wanted him to do a Space Marine video, but alas.

[@Colleywoodstudios]

i love shooters and RTS

[@TheRealZen00]

Do you plan on re-reviewing this now that the definitive absolute extended directors cut edition is out?

[@D8W2P4]

They will never stop.

[@colinburke8389]

I do hope he gives space marine a try, it has a few mechanics he might find refreshing.

[@InstaPickles]

I love this game. I got it on a indie royale bundle.

[@alexgregory365]

anyone else stuck in a loop of Yahtzee/Zero punctuation?

[@ElizaE-y5k]

I recently picked up Hard Reset Redux. He's right about everything, but it is fun, in a brain-dead sort of way. Nice to have a game where you can really switch off once in a while.

[@jackford9111]

Wait, head in a bucket of crabs...Head Crabs...Yatzee...what are you trying to tell us?

[@andrearovenski]

Hey! Quake II is awesome!

[@FatherTime89]

The infamous games, especially the second one.

[@guardingdark2860]

2:50 Does that gun shoot shurikens and lighting?