Let's Drown Out... Fight Club: The Game (and another thing)

[@LiquidShamanMan]

Making a Fight Club tie-in game a fighting game is like having a Big Lebowski tie-in game be a bowling video game.

[@emilynelson4747]

I feel like that makes...better sense.....But I'm willing to be proved wrong.

[@northuniverse]

My sides...

[@Komnen0s]

A bowling game based on The Big Lebowski would be wonderful as long as it still has the film's quirky humor and colorful characters. It could be set before the movie and follow the Dude, Walter, and Donny as they participate in the bowling tournament against their nemesis Jesus. It'd be extra dope if you were able to get all the actors back to do voice work, or at least get one of the Cohen brothers to write the dialogue. You could even have Sam Elliot come back as the cowboy narrator so he can be the announcer for the tournament. If the bowling mechanics are at least as functional as Wii Bowling, you'd have a pretty solid game.

[@mattcyr2022]

I would play that. Should also make a Water World game. 😁👍

[@Jrez]

I think it would be more like a Terminator 2 videogame that's actually just a motorcycle racing game. Or a Titanic videogame where you only play various card games, or is just an arm wrestling game.

[@MilitantOldLady]

Please don't let Yahtzee sing anymore. My dog started howling.

[@dennett316]

Howling with joy, surely?

[@Diggy246]

Paul Dennett Holy crap, you're here too? Should've expected that.

[@Diggy246]

***** Nah. that makes us all a big happy family!

[@Diggy246]

***** *plot twist* !

[@bubblegumgun6794]

Paul Dennett i see what you did there

[@UncoveredTruths]

"tone deaf as a seat cushion" can i get that shit plaqued?

[@UncoveredTruths]

plaqued? plaq'd? how the fuck do you even spell that.

[@ObiWK88]

The Forgotten Lies I think the word is "Commemorate".

[@D4K44R1]

The Forgotten Lies Maybe just put it on a shirt?

[@UncoveredTruths]

AND THEN PUT THAT SHIRT ON A PLAQUE GENIUS

[@MrClickity]

The Forgotten Lies Plaquorized.

[@duppi101]

a friend of mine once said "there will one day come a time when our kids ask us, who is Fred Dirst and why is he in all this stuff"

[@fangsup726]

14:55 "I don't know the funny part is, I've heard you when I go to pee and that's just "Uh. Uhhhh." " That is so god damn accurate. I mean go back to some of the very first let's plays for evidence on this matter. First time I remember Gabe filling (Young Merlin) he actually managed to fill the dead air quite effectively. Meanwhile, one of the first times I remember Yahtzee having to fill (Normality) he legit decides to just _go silent._

[@ShilohDoingThings]

How have I gone this long without noticing the 'and another thing' part of this video.

[@angusseydel9733]

I find it kinda funny that Yahtzee's talking about how egotistical it would be to release a game that featured himself, months later he released Hatfall

[@DehumanisedOnYT]

I'm so glad this has become a regular thing. Zero Punctuation is awesome and all but it's awesome to hear Yahtzee in an unscripted way. Gabe brings a hell of a lot to it too and the way they bounce off of each other is epic. The format is good too, nice to see a cross-section of semi-obscure gaming history!

[@TacComControl]

Random fun fact, the narrator referred to themselves as "Jack" in Fight Club based on a series of made-for-classroom educational videos on anatomy and biology. "I am Jack's Heart", and the like, the titular Jack being a regular guy undergoing regular daily activities and such, and the narrator being the organ in question talking about their purpose and the way Jack is slowly killing them with his poor decision making skills.

[@stanleythedoggy]

I want Yahtzee's singing as my ringtone.

[@HelloThere-ln2cb]

Yeah, he's like a foul mouthed angel. Which are the best types of angels.

[@oliverwatson4488]

+stanleythedoggy dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/kydh54vxj09dv3c/Yhatzee%20singing.mp3?dl=0 you're welcome

[@LorrdMatt]

My favourite part of Spec Ops: The Line is how the loading screen text changes. Got one towards the end of the game that just said "Do you feel like a hero yet?" or some variation like that. Just felt like I'd been told off by God himself, it was amazing.

[@DeMomcalypseLive]

LorrdMatt I remember Angry Joe once saying in his Battlefield 3 review "That's what this game does perfectly, simulating war", and I play about half way through Spec Ops: The Line, just past the Phosphorus, and now I realize how shallow modern shooters have been. Leave it to a generic-looking third person shooter to create some satire about the concept of patriotic and realistic shooters. And yet we still get Battlefield 1 and Infinite Warfare, games that entirely missed the point (at least in single player)

[@NixodCreations]

Looks like we're back to Creepy Croshaw's talk-about-sex-hour.

[@paladinboyd1228]

Nixod, Oh boy, let me get the lotion. *Creepy slurping sounds* ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

[@640509Hitman]

30:45 I remember my favorite line from Spec Ops: The Line (now this sounds like bad wordplay). It was also directed at the player as well as the character. "Do you feel like a hero yet?" Brilliant.

[@Meeko1010100112]

I thought I had to save this city from the storm. I was wrong. I have to save it from you.

[@Wat0721]

imgur.com/a/js8DK

[@adrianshephard6321]

"You cannot understand, nor do you want to" By then around the time I had heard/read this quote. I had stop giving a shit about who or what was in my way after the Gate Incident...

[@mykneecapshurt]

christ, how does a tie-in for something miss the point sooooo much? they might as well make Fight Club Ikea furniture.

[@paladinboyd1228]

dan _, There was a budget issue. I think.

[@klakkat]

There was a lot more than a budget issue.

[@hanniballahr94]

Almost 10 years later and I'm still not convinced a turtle on the beach can't be a complete snowboarding experience.

[@AkodoHirozumi]

The Mechanic is the guy in the movie that tells "you" how Bob gets shot. If you watch earlier in the movie, its the same guy that picks a fight with the Preacher by spraying him with a hose.

[@TacComControl]

Secondlife didn't die because of the fetishists(It's still not technically Dead, just dead inside). It died because it was programmed using Sawdust and Cello-Tape. It was one of those grand ideas that got hamstrung by the ineptitude of their developers, with more crashes than a destructo-derby and more bugs than an african termite hill with a louse infestation.

[@bulbasaur5534]

I may buy this game so I can punch Jared Leto in the face for his silly version of the joker...

[@GalanDun]

I just watched Fight Club for the first time and decided I needed to come back and watch this Drown Out again

[@KicsiSzabi222]

I'm five years late, so the experience might not be the freshest, but how was it?

[@GalanDun]

@@KicsiSzabi222 I sorta knew what was going on, but my parents who were watching it with me didn't, so that was neat.

[@Tickerchicken]

@@GalanDun wait the film or the let’s play

[@GalanDun]

@@Tickerchicken The movie.

[@Tickerchicken]

@@GalanDun okay that makes more sense

[@fromthegamethrone]

I love yahtzee calling gabe tone deaf, whilst also being tone deaf himself.

[@Rahheemme]

I don't know if Yahtzee has a GREAT singing voice, but sure has a POWERFUL one.

[@ILikeTheThingsIDo]

He's got a decent opera voice. Did you hear his performance in the Just Cause 2 video?

[@Vic2point0]

ILikeTheThingsIDo I did! That was easily the best LDO, in my opinion.

[@Morberticus]

The banter on these videos is much more natural and interesting than on uncivil war.

[@ThorJuiceLtd]

Anybody know where Gabe got that sound file from at 10:06? The fanfare followed by "INTERNET!!" I can't find it at all!

[@IBRHEEMGT9600]

so who wants to see yahtzee in the Co-optional podcast?

[@xXTHESAGEXx]

YES

[@Dudeosaurus]

Only the animation, not the actual podcast. KZbin will lose its collective mind as they try to figure out which podcast he was in.

[@akiva2112]

Yes yes ...it would be awesome

[@ninjaprodigy640]

Plz make this happen

[@noober98704]

Yes please.

[@pubesz]

Red Dead is fine, but may I recommend a few titles which are a bit more obscure: Outlaws, GUN, Freddy Pharkas or Dead Man's Hand - Outlaws: 1997 Lucasarts 2.5D (think Duke3D, Doom II or Blood) FPS. An arse to make it work on modern systems, requires a custom installer program and 16-bit color depth for the cut scenes, but it's a lot of fun. - GUN: 2005 western TPS. Works fine on modern systems, has sensible control scheme for mouse+keyboard. It looks like it's an open world game but it really isn't. It was a X360 launch title, but I don't know if it has out-of-the-box X360 controller support for the PC. - Freddy Pharkas - Frontier Pharmacist: Al Lowe's western point and click adventure game. Compatible with ScummVM. The puzzles are Sierra standard hard. - Dead Man's Hand: an absolutely mindless arcade FPS from Human Head Studios, who later made Prey. It's almost rail shooter level of dumb, but you can actually walk around. On the plus side you can almost finish it on an episode. It's from 2004 and runs on Unreal Engine 2.0, it even comes with the level-editor EDIT: it's not necessary to change the desktop color depth to run Outlaws. Rather explorer.exe must be killed before running. Best way to do this is with a small batch file: taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe OLWIN.exe Start explorer.exe EDIT 2: Games suggested in replies: - 'Enslaved: Odyssey to the West' by saedimic - 'The Town With No Name' by Prof. Luigi - 'The Wild Bunch' by Leyvin360 - 'Organ Trail' suggested also by Leyvin360

[@siy202]

GUN was fucking awesome but the sandbox was just boring, i need to play that game again.

[@saedimic]

why not "Enslaved" it has west in the subtitle you know.

[@garjian0]

siy202 Doesn't that make it perfect for a Drown Out?

[@siy202]

***** YES!.

[@Ficzzho]

GUN would be my pick as well. Need to play that one again.

[@connorprince9195]

Maybe just me but I love the waffling to an extent. I like when you guys talk about what you do aside from this and it is also fun to hear you bicker

[@Apaness]

I know I just started watching and there is probably some pretty good moments to be had in this video, but I gotta say: the start of the video is absolutely beautiful.

[@richardpreston7333]

I'm kinda nostalgic hearing Yahtzee and Gabe say 4chan couldn't really be "anti-feminist"

[@jaykova100]

The narrator's names were from Robert de Niro films.

[@JammyD2579]

In Cold Blood had CG cutscenes that looked like this. But better. That was a PS1 game.

[@papaskwatt-k4g]

Yatzhee should take singing lessons, he might almost be okay some day if he could avoid being a walking ball of anxious tension and learn to control his diaphragm.

[@Collywobby]

Hey, Yahtzee and Gabriel, this might sound cheesy and a wee bit mushy, but I really appreciate what you guys are doing. Listening to these Drown Outs in the background while playing games has been a fantastic way to unwind after a hard day's work. Furthermore, they've helped me take my mind off things when going through some tough times and dealing with chronic illness. Just wanted to let you know, thanks! P.s. Gabriel would make a great anthropologist.

[@randombencounter263]

To be fair to Kojima, the ending to Metal Gear Solid 4 was not his idea. He wanted it to end with Snake shooting himself in that graveyard, which would have been poignant and powerful but everybody on his team (or so the story goes) convinced him to end it on a happy note. So suddenly Snake is no longer dying, Big Boss is not only still alive but also "redeemed" in a way where it turns out that he wasn't the villain at all and in the meantime the real villain has literally been defeated by old age.

[@bastardsofnazareth]

Based on that ending, I'm glad I haven't played it.

[@brunogonz86]

Actually, from the post credits scene, Snake was still going to die in about a month, he just wasn't going to turn into a biological weapon. I think actually that the decision of letting Snake go out peacefully after years of continuous struggle was better than have him commit suicide. But other than that the ending was shit

[@FunnyFail101]

Don't let Yahtzee hear you say to be fair.

[@PhoeniksStorm]

What the fuck guys, we were not supposed to talk about fight club it it's literally the first rule

[@nobodyinparticular7828]

Let's not forget it's also the second rule.

[@Morzox]

Can I just say this is the most spot-on perspective regarding 4chan I've heard anyone but my friends have since maybe 2007? Seriously, thank you just for understanding how it works.

[@tompayne3200]

why was he NOT in Les mis

[@rodeman3]

That was actually a relatively decent rendition of empty chairs at empty tables. I applaud you sir!

[@HQ_Default]

Holy shit, Yahtzee can sing.

[@fromthegamethrone]

I don't think he can, interesting how we have different opinions

[@aeteno703]

Yahtzee's singing was actually pretty impressive

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

17:40 - The child and the halfwit point out that the emperor has no clothes, so that they can be punished like the scapegoats they are. The irony is lost!

[@spectolder8536]

1:11:14 Gabe literally purrs. I have a weird feeling that this is somehow important.

[@MechaDogJumper18]

0:07 wow Yahtzee sure as hell can sing

[@MechaDogJumper18]

I meant 0:38

[@user-is2zv4sc6y]

I like Gabriel as a perfectly good foil for Yahtzee, who himself is a good foil for Gabriel.

[@goonhaveanotherbikky]

Fight Club, Starship Troopers, satire rarely gets understood by those it is satirizing against. With the possible exception of Sucker Punch I suppose.

[@CombatmanV2]

I think you're stretching the definition of satire when you include Sucker Punch. That movie is far too ignorantly shallow to be called satire...

[@Offensive_Username]

It's too easy to call something satire to get away with it and legitimate violent or derogatory content.

[@Lyubimov89]

Sucker punch was Satire? Of what? And Fight Club was not satire, it was a direct criticism of consumerism.

[@ryboy344]

I've yet to meet a person who didn't understand the point of Fight Club. And I've met some stupid fucking people. And in any case, it wasn't satire.

[@Lyubimov89]

***** you are correct, i did realize nothing, but i don't feel bad at all - there was noting that showed that it was supposed to be a parody. It didn't have that Tarantino-esque "i am not even trying" kind of vibe, to me it looked just as if it tried - and failed miserably.

[@stephen19590]

"you cant have a fox penis in pshome" *plays pshome as a t-rex" "i made the right choice" :3

[@Eddy9412]

damn i get to spend the next hour and ten in bed watching two guys talk about video games dis gonna b good

[@OdinCasts]

Very nice, Drowning out my morning commute to downtown Boston with Drown Out

[@JAWZxz]

Yahtzee is actually a pretty fucking decent tenor

[@TheSikuneh]

Horray, I finally get to be one of "those people." Brace yourself Gabe... In Snowboard Kids, you know you can press B when it says "GO" to get a boost... and you ran into a lift; always jump if there's someone in the way. And you can jump to reflect weapons. Thanks for reminding me of my childhood, I still have this cartridge.

[@olavlomeland2183]

Yahtzeepedia, I need this in my life. I dont even know what it is but I feel empty without it.

[@HBOrrgg]

On the subject of good LPs I would plug Spoiler Warning. It's not a completionist LP I'd call it more of an editorial style, they have Shamus Young (writer for the Escapist) and Chris Franklin (of Errant Signal/long-form analysis fame) and mostly just have smart discussions what did and didn't work for them in the game in between screwing around and having fun.

[@Sayrden]

11:30-11:35 Gabriel: "I'm just going to keep kicking air, like this. And if any part of you should happen to fill that air, it's your own fault."

[@EmonWBKstudios]

Long live the new flesh, Gabe, not, all hail the whatever.. Also, I look forward to seeing the next Let's drown out being a one hour playthrough of Custer's revenge.

[@KDanielsS]

Question: Which video game (old/new, singular/franchise) would you like to see adapted as a saturday morning cartoon?

[@blakecj1]

Awesomenauts already kinda is one but it would be a amazing show I think

[@scottwilliams4432]

Borderlands

[@cowbiscuit4154]

Possibly.. Doom

[@D0pamineCl0ud]

Cowbiscuit Doom needs an adultswim cartoon

[@jamesreid9284]

Paper Mario

[@claycarmine7466]

The word was "slide". And they didn't think Bulletstorm?

[@CaptScapegoat]

Yahtzee's singing at the start was beautiful.... *sniff*

[@RawbeardX]

so Yathzee is socially a real life Sheldon Cooper? Gabe, you are the real MVP for sticking around ;)

[@alexandercns]

Watching this just makes me want one of you (Gabe) to give Def Jam Fight for New York a go, because that game is right there with 50 Cent Bulletproof in being a game about some rapper I didn't expect to enjoy but ended up having a good time with.

[@DILFDylF]

***** DJNY was weirdly fun.

[@alexandercns]

Mr. Big Snake Damn right it was.

[@DontDriveFast07]

Def Jam really lost something when they couldn't use the Aki engine. I miss the days when I could make Ice T put crazy submission holds on Joe Budden

[@alexandercns]

James Sonesen Gotta agree with you. The following had some neat mechanics and shit, but overall it just wasn't the same.

[@RonanMvideos]

The Mechanic was a character in the book, important enough to the story. Strange they have him in here

[@BrightSpark]

0:37 - 1:06 * applauds wildly * *ENCORE! ENCORE!*

[@CubedGamersRobin]

So when are Gabe and Yahtzee releasing their duet album?

[@FrostyKlondike]

I would like to think the protagonist's name from the Fight Club movie is Tyler, since other characters refer to him as Tyler, never Jack or other names.

[@sperrin]

I think there could be a great game made of Fight Club. It could be an open world game were you play as a new recruit doing Project Mayhem jobs for Tyler. Working you way up the ranks, etc. Obviously making a fighting game is missing the point of Fight Club.

[@CrazyMonkeyMinecraft]

for anyone wondering, the support group names were originally going to be named after Robert De Niro charachters from the 70s and 80s (Travis and Rupert) but then the names Cornelius and Lenny were added so there wasn't really a theme.

[@Bunnellius]

Loved the impression @ 16:03. :) Gabe and Yahtzee are the best old-married-couple.

[@GoblinInventor]

The song Yahtzee sings is from Les Miserables "Empty Chairs At Empty Tables" for anyone who's interested

[@zombieplasticclock]

52:30 Personally I feel Space Dandy is also a good example of a status-quo style show. Each episode is it's own canon (usually) and the writers generally go nuts with it.

[@DeMomcalypseLive]

zombieplasticclock I like how some episodes have their own animation style too, based on (I think?) what planet they visit

[@ArmyOfSickness]

Did anyone else notice that the cutscenes were done by Blur Studio? Wow. How far they've come.

[@dumpstercast-refuseradio8429]

I usually put on these videos to go to sleep and I couldn't even make it through the loading screens without passing out. I was so tired.

[@qwicy]

There's a game to be made with the fight club story - it's from the viewpoint of Mara and it's a total mindfuck by the end

[@ImOblivious]

For let's plays, I really only watch ones that I know that I'll never have an interest in playing, but still am intrigued by it, like Resident Evil 6.

[@paladinboyd1228]

Bloody hell, he can sing.

[@TrollOfReason]

If Yahtzee ever went "BOOORIIING!" during a conversation with me and we were alone, I'd punch him in the face. Or headbutt him. Depends on how close I am; either way, the conversation would likely end, as per his wishes. If I was with other people, however, it would require a bit of gauging the room. If people aren't grinning, then conversation is over, if they are, then go right back to talking. Social interaction is hard like that.

[@AzureKite]

Is this episode the seeds of Judging by the Cover? It sounds like it.

[@MrEvans555]

No Postal 2 again? Okay.

[@Wandergirl108]

You know, Yahtz, you do actually have a pretty good singing voice…and since I want to settle down in Australia (for SO many reasons), maybe someday, you and my boyfriend will sing a duet and make millions and you won't have to review games anymore. XD

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

Gabe, if you want to see the ultimate adaptation of a book into a movie, watch 1962's _To Kill a Mockingbird_, with Gregory Peck.

[@darezzi97]

I love Soul Calibur's custom character builder. I don't think I'll ever laugh as much as I did when I saw a fight between Bob Kelso and Perry Cox.

[@Draygarth]

Edward Norton is credited as "the narrator" in the actual movie. I remember, because it wasn't till the credits that I realized he had no name.

[@GalanDun]

Yahtzee, in your circle of two friends is Gabriel the blank-faced man or the evil imp?

[@juggos205622]

I like these Kojima opinions from Yahtzee a lot more than what he's said in Zero Punctuation because these are reasonable criticisms of things that have happened and in ZP I've always viewed as a bit skewed and unfairly harsh. MGS3 showed that he can do a relatively well done, convoluted plot involving The Boss even some in Peace Walker but then you have MGS4 which for most cutscenes is a story-based train wreck involving nostalgia wank characters that have lived in the game that make zero impact or sense

[@KristianKumpula]

Any game with "the game" as the subtitle is bound to be crap.

[@PandoraSystem]

Now that you said that, I'm going to make it my life's goal to create a deep, flowing, enjoyable, game with detailed and believable characters and an engaging plot with the subtitle "The Game".

[@KristianKumpula]

SchrodingersWaffle Good luck with that

[@dumpstercast-refuseradio8429]

Sausage Making simulator 2016: The Game

[@flyingspaghetti]

+Kristian Kumpula Spiderman 2: *The Game* was actually a PS2 masterpiece. It is actually the best spiderman game to date (counting the new ones too)

[@TheAtomicGoliath]

+Kristian Kumpula Same goes with anything called "The Movie" the only exception I know of is the Spongebob movie that came out fucking years ago!

[@PupShepardRubberized]

Of all the games you have played what few in your view had the best musical score? In your view how would you implement a musical score to best compliment a game?

[@littledorgan]

While I didn't actually watch most of this movie, I had it on in the background while I was doing other things and I have to say it is one of my favorites in the series. I don't have much else to contribute apart from I was sincerely hoping that "slide" may lead to an SSX title, and I don't recall hearing any cheesy references to the Goo Goo Dolls song.

[@357infusion]

This game's cutscenes remind me heavily of really early Garry's Mod "movies"

[@sseinfeld95]

In case nobody's pointed this out yet, the "Windows Movie Maker/3D Movie Maker Discussion" can be found in the Normality playthrough.

[@OCMOOO]

That opening number by Yahtzee was blood-curdling, yet hypnotic

[@Quiltfish]

Please, for the love of retro, tell me you'll be playing that old Lucasarts "classic" Outlaw for next time :D

[@tsriftsal7431]

The sandboard kids exchange is the greatest moment of this series Facts

[@mirtorande]

Do they always pre-record? Because at times I got the impression they didn't and they were the times I enjoyed the most.

[@Namfooodle]

I think this was the first pre-recorded in a long time.

[@Bullitthiphop]

Nah, they are mostly live. I think they did it this time due to the game suffering performance issues.

[@BirdKingJay]

In past videos Gabe has mentioned that he usually prerecords the gameplay whenever it's his turn to play the game.

[@ErikBernhardt]

Pretty good pair a' lungs Yahtzee's got there.Think he did musical theater back in the day?

[@bobbaganooch2843]

Who would you like to see fight each other in terms of super heroes or video game characters

[@Vic2point0]

"'Let's Drown Out' is our own thing; do not steal." Too late, some other guy on KZbin has already started calling his videos "Let's Drown Out" (sigh). Gabriel, Yahtzee didn't say he *hoped* Destiny would be shit; he said it probably would be, and he's explained that attitude about games in general. Assume they're shit until they prove otherwise. No hype, no disappointment.

[@Vic2point0]

***** I can't recall the specifics. I'd imagine it's still up though.

[@99sonder]

What are your favorite Zero punctuation videos to look back on?

[@Rufert]

I had a neighbor who had the same idea of how to sing well as Yahtzee Crewshack, she just yelled all the lyrics and assumed that sounded good.

[@rhorybader4054]

Let's be fair here. If Second Life hadn't become a haven for furry sex, it would have become a haven for 4channers or proto-tumblrites or some other ungodly obnoxious internet subgroup. Too tantalizing an environment for ONE of them not to completely ruin it.

[@OdaSwifteye]

Rhory Bader I remember its original purpose. It was just a business tool for people to make deals in virtual spaces. It was anachronistic when it was designed. Virtual hub be it Second Life or Habbo Hotel they are all excuses to roleplay and where roleplay goes sex roleplay follows. No matter how cringey or awkward. Basically Second Life was screwed but honestly its fulfilling its destiny. Its very perverted destiny.

[@larrshinshin7606]

27:01 How will you ever show you face on 4chan?

[@MrVintag33]

Think he will random Homeworld 2 soon?

[@blazinbongfire]

my cat howled when yahtzee started singing.

[@TheRealColBosch]

The quote from Spec Ops: The Line that most stood out to me - and I did go into it expecting a same-y shooter, as all I knew about it was what was on the box - was a late-game loading screen splash: "Do you feel like a hero now?" Brilliant, just brilliant, and it absolutely ruined modern-style shooters for me.