NO WAY OUT - Starving To Death On A Public Footpath

[@kyoai]

Player characters in survival games : Starving to death in less than 10 minutes. So realistic and fun. Imagine if real humans needed food that often.

[@swishfish8858]

In defense, these games also have super short day cycles as well. We can assume that survival game worlds operate on a much faster rate of time than the real world, which would explain the need to eat so often.

[@toomanyaccounts]

except often there is no day or night cycle or it takes hours of game time for night time to come.

[@Enkabard]

Yeah, it doesn't make sense in video games, normal person could survive without food over a week, but in video game "Oh you are starving 30 minutes ? You are dead"

[@williamzou8833]

There's gonna be a lotta washroom breaks.

[@fcold9402]

The game world is faster, but still people don't starve to death in a day (i.e. if I eat a bronto egg or 3 stakes in the morning on Ark I shouldn't be starving by nightfall). Probably should lose stamina over a couple of game days or something first but still I guess you have to balance for game play and If I can build an entire building in one day (getting enough processed wood from the surroundings) I guess I can starve in one day and not complain about it.

[@panko2848]

gotta love that "Get key open door" gameplay. Truly revolutionary stuff, never before seen.

[@namkha209]

All of these innovative stuff is troubling me! What's next, "Picking up treasure to get points" in a maze-like level with only one floor? Oh good heavens!

[@thomasjenkins7506]

just a bloated "arise" knock off if you ask me.

[@Eon2641]

To be completely fair, it's not the traditional use of that trope. It's closer to a zelda game (and I can hardly believe I'm making that comparison either) where you find stuff in the environment that allows you to accesss a bunch of different locations in the overworld. Of course, in zelda you pick up a variety of items that flesh out your toolkit, where in this you just pick up boring keys, but still, same general principle behind it... it's just that one's executed way, way worse.

[@Keyfur91]

And the Legend of Zelda games are much more fun to play because there's a variety of enemies and bosses.

[@coachrenaldo]

Squiggleblorg in 1983...

[@georgesears934]

No Way Out of early access.

[@coachrenaldo]

Can we just examine the design of the game for just a minute? You start off in a massive bunker that could easily hold off any zombie apocalypse with some food around no less and its surrounded by a lake which provides a natural defense against zombies, but you refuse to clean out the zombies in it and abandon it because...Reasons? You also have to swim across said lake to get to the zombie infested city with little munitions and a pistol, nevermind the fact that the player character looks like a jogger more than a zombie survivalist. And finally, instead of, oh you know, scavenging for supplies and finding survivors to help you in the apocalypse, like any good zombie game would do, you instead have to do a stupid collect-a-thon of key cards to access different areas, because nothing says zombie apocalypse than searching for key cards and walking blank walkways void of anything, including ZOMBIES. Also, you can't use a helicopter, even though it's clearly running and probably has enough fuel to get you out of here. I R SMRT ZEMBE SEVEVER!

[@LimerickWarrior1]

Coach Renaldo Game of the year right there...

[@coachrenaldo]

Twinkle Winker huh. You got a good point.

[@dragongelf]

You know that's fair and all but... Can you fly a helicopter? If you ran into a running helicopter in the middle of the street. Could you actually pilot it? Didn't think so. Criticism invalidaded. GotY 2016. 10/10.

[@slendy9600]

once she has a nun-chuk gun she'll be set

[@coachrenaldo]

Dragongelf Well, the player character could have: Find a survivor who can pilot the helicopter Locate a book on how to pilot the helicopter Get on the Internet somehow to find a guide on flying the helicopter Try to figure out flying the helicopter on her own (though that may be unlikely) Take the fuel out of the helicopter to use on a car There are several ways that the character could learn to fly the helicopter or least be of some use. I didn't put down the reasons because it would make my original comment longer.

[@Conflict-ff5pi]

The first impressions thing is true really, I mean imagine a man who came to all his job interviews dressed like a slob and acting like an idiot. Even on the rare off chance that if you give him the job he won't act like that at all are you really going to give him the job? No? Then why would you let an early access game like this off free?

[@toomanyaccounts]

then he would come included with the machinery you bought.

[@Legion12Centurion]

Then you have Trump that done worse and still becomes potus, so while its true its still a problematic analogy.

[@ntdonat]

unless the guy who invented it was coned and went bankrupt! now you have the machine!

[@ntdonat]

maybe you somehow ordered the rat shit not knowing any better. maybe you interview a guy and everything checks out and he still turns out to be a dud... especially if you needed him for something that turned out to be different than how you imagined it would be done.

[@swishfish8858]

I wonder how much that woman's model costs.

[@bagrym]

around three fiddy

[@Shiirow]

theres where most of the games budget went along with the disgruntled jumper sound effect.

[@smjaiteh]

He went overbudget.

[@ultraderpus]

an hundred groats

[@sophiaisbased9621]

50 Pogs

[@bowser515]

Rocking the old Goldeneye reload sounds..

[@bakedspade]

Thank you. Knew I recognized tt.

[@bowser515]

@bakedspade Yeah, I haven't played that game in years, but the memories came flooding back as soon as I heard that reload sound. Bonus points if anybody can tell us which weapon it was, assuming they didn't all use the same sound? I can't remember..

[@coachrenaldo]

bowser515 pretty much every gun in the game has the reload sound, including grenade launchers for some reason. The only weapons that don't use reload sounds are the throwing knives, the laser wristwatch, and the throwing mines.

[@bowser515]

@Coach Renaldo Yeah, I thought as much.

[@LucidTeFlon180]

bowser515 any game that uses that sound today is most likely shite.

[@kierankieran8345]

I hope we can expect a PS4 release for this.

[@AceDreamer]

After "The Life of Black Tiger" the sky is the limit. (and by sky i mean the sewers)

[@Blank3tM0nst3r]

Even the sewers are not the limit. Just look at Dark Souls; there are places much deeper than "The Depths"...

[@KamikazeCommie501]

0utta S1TE well you aren't and you should feel ashamed of beating a dead horse that is practically rotting by now. I suppose you still make 'arrow to the knee jokes' too huh?

[@thirdeyenz]

I used to make 'arrow to the knee' jokes, then I took an arrow in the knee.

[@potatotablet727]

This game can rival The Last of Us

[@WhatDoesDStandFor]

This looks like a map from Garrys Mod

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

As a video game design student.... Environmental Storytelling, this game fails at it.

[@Floydthefuckbag]

But I can tell the entire story from the environment. Zombies happened.

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

Barely. Zombies barely happened.

[@hitokijb]

as a student of nothing, this game fails at almost everything

[@Tripp426]

Almost 20 months later, this game is still in early access. Can't say I'm surprised.

[@NickPiers]

I thought that zombie at the beginning was mowing the lawn.

[@Braamberg]

360p gang. That's some dedicated viewerbase right here

[@joncross9264]

if it was 720 I'm sure it would make our eyes bleed.

[@FizzleFX]

some very lonely base that sits on his pc all day doing F5 at least try to socialite with a mmo or so?

[@Braamberg]

Was meant as a joke.... I get that you seem to be unable to get that

[@anew742]

It's 1080p now and yep can confirm that eyes are bleeding

[@dariodetresfigueroa3445]

Im actually surprised this game knows what a headshot is

[@icedcactus6882]

I haven't even watched the entire video yet and I'm starting to question Jim's life choices

[@swishfish8858]

I'm sure he wakes up every day and does that for himself.

[@Eon2641]

If it helps, Jim, I remembered where the door was for you.

[@TheArtkaw]

Is this the sequel to Perfect Dark?

[@coachrenaldo]

TheArtkaw no. It's the weird cousin no one wants to talk about.

[@MelMelodyWerner]

I think it's called Horizon Zero Dawn.

[@Geoff69420]

No, this is Patrick.

[@RubberyCat]

Cousin Itt?

[@jasonblalock4429]

Yeah, I agree with your assessment of Early Access games. I've backed a few that were clearly going good places, and inevitably, I exhaust whatever content is in the EA release and then forget about it. Hell, there are only a couple (like Slime Rancher) I'm even bothering to keep installed while waiting for more content.

[@sniperblast]

Eating several "food containers" and still starving to death in under 15 minutes. Why do people keep putting those meters in games?

[@Azariachan]

This is the cleanest zombie apocalypse ever. Everything is shiny and looks brand new, no broken windows, no garbage, no rust, no dead bodies in the street.

[@DeepPastry]

It automatically uses food when your hunger drops enough. You had the first "food" held in reserve for a bit of time before it was automatically used. As a bonus observation, you probably would of had way more bullets/food if you had killed 14 zombies with head shots. Since they dropped items each time you killed one. Though I totally agree both food and bullet drops give an insanely tiny amount; two whole bullets and a tenth of your hunger bar, respectively.

[@henrysu1085]

This game has "No Way Out" of early access

[@whoisbatman]

The dev had a helicopter asset lying around and thought: "You know what, I'll just use it. Don't want it to go to waste now, do I?"

[@ShadowAkatora]

2:02 - Nobody puts Jim Fucking Sterling Son in the corner!

[@umphreak9999]

surprise, it's an early build of Metal Gear Survive!

[@ZemplinTemplar]

When future generations of gamers won't believe there was once an onslaught of generic "sandbox survival" zombie games in Early Access, I'll just show them the many, many videos you've done on these, Jim. Thanks for all the hard work and suffering to document these.

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

No comment on the splooge fountain? Apparently that city delivers fresh hot boy candy right into every home, and somebody has damaged one of the hydrants which provide the emergency crews with the splooge they need to fight against outbreaks of abstinence and prudishness in the streets! An acolyte of Andrea Dworkin no doubt.

[@LapnLook]

That font they are using is HIDEOUS! Like it actually hurts me to look at that

[@Postcinct]

See that city? You can climb it.

[@russianspy5307]

As long as you have the level 50 key

[@Headywon]

4:13 you sure you aren't running with your.......JIM clothes on?! AHAHAHAHA

[@ScowlieMeerkat]

"...because soon I'm going to die and it won't matter." I hear that, bro. I hear that.

[@Joe90h]

Starving to death on a public footpath, Yodelayhee yodelayhee yodelayheehoo...

[@mudgie0205]

"It's on early access. It's got zombies in it." - I've heard enough... 😆

[@D0NU75]

i truly feel sorry for those devs who believe they are making something ground braking giving their best, when in reality they are no different than a child doing a drawing not even worth a space in the fridge's door

[@TheSwiftFalcon]

Well, at least the developer nailed how hunger works in humans. I better find something to eat soon myself, to keep me alive for the next three minutes.

[@MagikGimp]

Right. Everyone under the age of 20 needs to be banned from submitting anything to Steam.

[@1toncheese]

Question, what if theres some sort of child prodigy in game development and its Game of the year material?

[@Atarius]

The best use I've seen in games for food has been stat boosts and essentially making them an inventory item and making tradeskills somewhat useful or fun. Survival meters would work I think if they were tied to stats. For instance if you sprint everywhere your sta would overall increase because you're exercising and increase the length the sta lasts as it depletes. So it would still deplete as you use it which is annoying but as you use it it got stronger. Sorta like GTA stats etc...

[@1BergerVongSchlauigkeitHer]

I'm sure Valve will appreciate the use of their sound files.

[@TF_Tony]

Nice to see Bethesda Game Studios have put their animation assets up for sale.

[@InfernalMonsoon]

It's like a Ubisoft open world game WITHOUT towers! Holy shit!

[@HAZARDOUS88]

Yet somehow more iconic.

[@russianspy5307]

Climb the tower to unlock the level 10 key

[@trevorvogel8132]

Same gameplay as The Division... but 100% less beanies.

[@InfernalMonsoon]

ICONIC beanies :-)

[@konjus]

nah the crew had radio towers

[@IAmPattyJack]

Dear god why would anyone put a stroke around that font? It looks like something I would have made in grade four computers class.

[@MegamanXfan21xx]

Well, at least the stamina meter is okay. Lasts a while and fills up quick.

[@stueymon]

did anyone else notice that reload sound is note for note, the EXACT same reload sound from Goldeneye N64?

[@WeAreBXC]

Saturday morning Sterling....YES!

[@xtmt1234]

It's sad that I can see a game and immediately tell which engine it was made in (Unreal Engine).

[@krillin6]

Talk about the fact that even the term 'Early Access' is manipulative. No different than Pre Owned Vehicle. It isn't unfinished, you are getting Early Access!

[@DiZZ0sevensix]

Your the only one covering this game i think. I just got this game now wanting to know how to play it thank you

[@rcblazer]

So a long path through a big empty area while your hunger meter runs out because there was no food at all to find? It's almost like the hacks who make these "Survival" "games" put in a hunger meter without thinking about how it will function in the game itself!

[@seriousspikesam7770]

Realism in surviral games: you can run infinitely but die from hunger in a few minutes. Realism in war games: you can heal from bullet wounds infinitely but can only run for a few seconds.

[@Nikke-nn5mn]

i was going to get PS4 for life of a black tiger, but now i am not sure if i should get a pc instead.

[@MocnyBrowarek]

Jim fuckin Sterling son died because of hunger.... yup :D

[@caspice]

The game got all that I need in gameplay. Open world, lot of keys and dying in less than 10 minutes. What more could you ask for.

[@TheKillerDog21]

Why do the zombies have The Slaughtering Grounds' walk animation? Is this an asset flip?

[@ArchmageOfAnarchy]

TheKillerDog21 That was the first clue you got?

[@swishfish8858]

Most assuredly! Rule of thumb, if the title screen looks like it was thrown together in paint.net and the gameplay makes you want to puke, yet the models and animations look sort of professional, it's most likely an asset flip.

[@TheKillerDog21]

Thanks for clearing that up! It's just that,for a moment, it seemed to me the dev of this game actually put in a bit of effort to make this game not blatant asset theft.

[@Alenthas]

The philosophy of this game is to show how monotonous life can be even in "high" adrenaline survival situations. You collect ammo to kill zombies to stay alive to collect keys to eat food to survive to collect ammo to kill zombies to stay alive to collect keys to eat food to survive to collect ammo to kill zombies to stay alive...

[@uselessDM]

This is the Pokemon world design if you think about it.

[@StriderAngel496]

THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING GAME I'VE EVER SEEN OMG granted i only looked in the bottom middle part of the screen, but meh...

[@loonachan]

That sounds a lot like the gun reloading sound from Goldeneye... I definitely remember it from some old game.

[@finaleve]

I expected the game to freeze up when he hit the quit button.

[@ealadubh4800]

Quick question Jim: would you count much difference between an old-school demo disk and an early-access game, other than price? Let's say they were both free to try.

[@WolfCoder]

What you said might be true for large developer studios, but if you're a relatively unknown indie dev, you're actually constantly making first impressions over time. It is very good for small indie devs to constantly improve their first impressions, and you can even relaunch down the road just fine.... But I don't see THIS game going anywhere.

[@Keyfur91]

Early Access games should NOT cost anything to play - instead, Steam developers should make their Early Access games into free to play demos, like the good old days of the Playstation One where we could buy demo discs containing samples of new upcoming video games. That is how Early Access should work; give us your WIP / prototype product for free, let us give you information to help with the final build, and charge us money for the finished version. That way, developers will HAVE to put effort in to their games if they want to get our hard earned money!

[@Keyfur91]

I'm just saying maybe offer preview samples at much cheaper costs so people don't feel ripped off in the event you try to sell them an asset flip. I'd rather have my time wasted than my money spent on nothing. And yes I know nobody wants their time wasted either, but it's the better outcome considering what a lot of developers on Steam are like these days.

[@Keyfur91]

Also, I agree. Patreon and Kickstarter (if need be) would provide better opportunities for funding, especially since you'd HAVE to give proof of your game being developed and improved, as well as letting your backers know that you're doing the job lest you want your backers to immediately pull out and you lose the potential funding.

[@johjoh4571]

swiggity swooty

[@mateuszacz]

"No way out". Finds a working helicopter within 10 minutes..... ok

[@AndyLundell]

I think a lot of devs forget that Early Access is supposed to be an opportunity to prove that a game is fun. They've just somehow decided that "Fun" can just be added to the laundry list of features that can be added later. We don't care if some of the content is place-holder, ... But if you haven't put the FUN PART in yet, what the hell do you expect us to do with it?

[@stampede274]

She walks like she's afraid her tuck's coming out. Personal experience, here.

[@yotamshitrit6820]

Man the new Ubisoft open world game sure is something

[@Fenrakk101]

How much do these developers eat by the hour if they think someone's gonna starve to death in four minutes without a banquet?

[@thomasjenkins7506]

given the size of her ass, she'd be fine for a few days without food.

[@PlayThenSay]

Jim whats your view on stamina meters i find them lazy. rather they just animated the character to show fatigue.

[@swishfish8858]

He's made his view clear many times, even detailed in a Jimquisition episode a while back. But the jist is that he agrees with you, and that it's become part of the "survival game" checklist despite the fact that the only meter any major survival game ever needed was health.

[@thomasjenkins7506]

the stamina bar in this game isn't bad. it's actually a pretty good one. the bad ones are the kind that run out after 2 seconds of sprinting and take 2 minutes to refill. you can get a good 30-60 secs out of this one and it refills in about 10 secs.

[@soaringspoon]

It's the one thing I am super dreading for BoTW >.> fucking hate stamina meters

[@PlayThenSay]

Im getting old so im sorry if this is a misthought but in GTA games do you not just get tired? Whats the need for a meter unless its a really long time like hunger in minecraft? Wasnt just talking about early survival games that are obv shit, demense I think has been the best of those so far. Also even Health bars, so many games your health doesn't effect your character just seems that a health bar is lazy and doesn't create immersion you should show rather then tell?

[@timothymckane6362]

So many level keys to find. So little time to search 'em all.

[@NoharaLoco]

I have to say I agree with Jim on first impressions. You only get one and when I get a game that isn't complete or is seriously broken I don't go back to it. I don't care how much they patch it I'm done, they didn't give their all and released an unfinished product with the "early access" excuse. Fuck that, especially if you are charging for it. There are a lot of developers and programmers making games that don't resort to that shit, and you can't use the excuse of "needing feedback" for a broken game. I counter that with Yandere simulator, the guy is adamant that it isn't sold yet as it isn't finished, but it isn't broken or released as something to just play with (even though you can) he actually did it because he wanted help about bug testing as well as some feedback on mechanics. And he doesn't charge you for that! I am waiting for that to finish as I am not spoiling the game, and I believe that one will finish as it is a labor of passion and not of money unlike garbage like this game which is shat out to make a quick buck never to actually be finished. Stop supporting the half assed bullshit of shitty devs. The public acceptance of garbage until the shit level reached their eyebrows is what caused the 80's game crash, and frankly were up the same river inundated with trash.

[@G00N3R7883]

Totally agree with Jim's views on early access and first impressions. For the last 3-4 years I'm averaging buying around 35 new games a year (and yes I do play them all). We know last year there were over 4,200 new games released on Steam. I currently have 64 games on my wishlist and I'm already looking at some and thinking "I don't really have time to play that". If your game's first release is crap, I'm not going to wait around on the off chance that in 3 years it *might* be good. I'm going to hit not interested, and now Steam doesn't show those games in your personalised store anymore, I'll never see your game again.

[@toomanyaccounts]

try to pick some games that may be fast to complete. there are two hour games that can often be more fun then a 40 hour game.

[@G00N3R7883]

I play a mix of stuff from the 75 hours Witcher 3 to the 5 hours Oxenfree. I play what I think will be interesting regardless of length. Most singleplayer games are in the 8-12 hour range anyway. Those epic scale RPGs only come around a couple of times a year. But what I'm saying is, taking No Way Out as an example, even if that game is only 2 hours long, its clearly shit, so I've got better things to do.

[@jamesmason3734]

"We must be part Argonian." Implied Human/Argonain sexy time is the best thing about this game.

[@cypher9000]

Seeing the quality of recent PS4 games (Tiger Something and the other horrendous game) I wouldn't be surprised if this soon ends up on the PS4 Store.

[@Aziraphale686]

Yes me lord? Helps to have a map.

[@frel314]

I overall agree. If you ask for money then have a product. Any criticism for it is fair games. Beta used to be free (gosh some got even paid to do beta-testing). Early access is just an alternate pre-order -- a new way to grab cash before the game is really a game -- and for that consumers deserve fair judgement before considering buying.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

Ideal, an early access game is solid if even if there were no further updates, you could still get your money's worth.

[@jordanneave4342]

Honestly, I mistook Jim's add-on to the title for the title itself and thought that "Starving to Death on a Public Footpath" was a very interesting name for a game.

[@dollors1]

My guess is they try to make you use up your hour or whatever so you can't return it, just keep you engaged and doing god knows what just long enough so they can make their buck.

[@mrbroofgames]

A big fucking map with nothing in it. WHOO!

[@russianspy5307]

Its the next ubisoft title

[@scarrantsandreviews]

So it's a zombie game called "No Way Out" just like the very popular issue of The Walking Dead and is releasing shortly after that issue was adapted for the TV series with the exact same title used for that episode? I'm not saying they even stole the title since it hardly takes a genius to think up "No Way Out", I'm just saying it wouldn't surprise me.

[@Harpoquondrax]

Hahaha, great ending. Great video, thanks.

[@DevilDo99Gaming]

Looks like a game i would do a Arnold brawenswagger parody with on my channel

[@RGBeanie]

One day, someone WILL make a zombie survival game that's MMO and DOESN'T suck or is boring. All we want it to live the walking dead series and the like. It shouldn't be too hard really, I'd try if I could!

[@Gigaheart]

Jim is 100% correct. You've released. You released an unfinished product and wasted your first impression. There ain't no going back.

[@easyvnie6496]

When is the PS4 version coming out?

[@mjc0961]

Everyone should be harsh on Early Access. Those games cost money just like any other product. If the developers want to avoid criticism they can finish their game before charging money. And yes, a game has launched even if they start unfinished in Early Access. Launch is when you put it out there for money. Again, if developers want to avoid this, they can wait until they finish the game.

[@headbreakable]

I'm going to keep mention this, rainbow six siege has a bad first impression too, but now, it's diffrent.

[@loonachan]

I'm not sure if all the Early Access stuff is true, the media was pretty generous to Starbound after it "officially" launched, despite it already being up for years. For anyone considering doing something like this, Starbound is a great model. I'm not sure how many Early Access games have actually gone on to be successes, something tells me you can count them on two hands.

[@toomanyaccounts]

or launch when they were 90% complete as opposed to a beta state or often as is the case an alpha test state. one game I am in that is a closed beta they are only doing early access when it is 90% done at a lower price and only a few months before release at full price. guess what the beta testers of the game get. they get the game when it goes on the store for free since. most of these early access devs treat early access as freaking beta testing that you the consumer have to pay for instead of the other way around.

[@Bleenderhead]

no way out of early access

[@AmaranthOriginal]

It's bad when I look at this and think "huh, looks better than a lot of Early Access games," right?

[@PallasRil]

I loved the part where he made the woman walk.

[@kalackninja]

did anyone catch the shotgun pumping noise when the pistol reloaded?

[@al_reet]

The character model kinda reminds me of the movie 'Run Lola Run'

[@caboosemacs]

Half moldy survival elements at this stage of development add litch-rally... 0.

[@samerm8657]

"Would have helped to have a map"

[@switchbladestefan6867]

I think the title just perfectly symbolizes the fucking state we're in when it comes to quality control. There is no way out, is there? Just a never-ending barrage of barely working and insipid shovelware pushed by 'developers' abusing the trading card system to make a few bucks.

[@sensibleGamer]

WHY did you not JUMP when you were standing under the helicopter blades?

[@Trigg3rHippie]

So many of those 'games'. It should've been called the Early Excess.

[@Disasterclese]

What the game didn't explain is that the protagonist has hyper-metabolic diabetes, and that if she doesn't eat something every 3 minutes, her body starts eating itself and she passes out. That's my explanation anyways.

[@Curt.dammit]

I love watching the zombones fall from the sky around 12:25