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[@mrfantastic407]

I was trying to describe the plot of this game to a friend, and the first words out of his mouth were "Ah, so it's like Fallout." My shoulders slumped and I muttered, "Yes."

[@mjc0961]

the Sententious Vaunter It's like Fallout but shit.

[@ultimateninjaboi]

+the Sententious Vaunter It has some similarities in the story department, but gameplay, not so much. Frankly, Fallout had the open world, the freedom to basically say "Screw the plot, I'm exploring." and had a lot of freeform ways to improve your character. Rage felt, to use a term i really dislike, videogame-y. It had levels. Strict progression of your character through story moments. Go here, do this. Ok, now do this. So yeah. Fallout, but shit

[@hellochimichanga7748]

the Sententious Vaunter burn that man at the stake.

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

I would've said "It's like Fallout, if they watered its identity down to the point that it just became Mad Max again but without the original herbs and spices." If I was an off day I would have said "Like Fallout, but without the rich writing, varied and interesting characters, complex role playing system, deep world building and sharp, cynical satire" but then I would realize I just described Bethesda's Fallout games and would have felt bad because even if Bethesda's fallout games do lack those things, at least they have the exploration I guess.

[@ultimateninjaboi]

I'd say you described Fallout 4, more than all the 3D ones. XP. 3 and New Vegas had a little bit of those things going for them. 3 had some great writing moments and decent world building, and I found myself falling for some of the characters in NV. And there's some good role playing opportunity in NV. But yeah. Still some lacking from the originals. This is less me arguing your point, and more me dissuading people from ignoring 3 and NV. XP. I guess I'm just playing Devil's Advocate for them, because I still found them worth playing.

[@saviorofseals5111]

You know, this "catching up to Valve" line seems to have a different connotation in 2019.

[@Arbron]

Nowadays Valve is all about sitting atop a market dominant platform while pretending to have quality standards. Back in the day they were game-developing innovators...

[@lemao2222]

this is yet another prime example of how Yahtzee's pessimistic predictions more often than not is true. Rage was a sign of things to come, alright. Games being more and more pretty and less and less filled with actual content that's not just a bucket list of inane shit to do, seems like the AAA standard, now.

[@azzzanadra]

now it means being able to make a good vr game

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

@@azzzanadra Is it wrong to expect them to make some sequels to their old stuff in their new engine? Might as well make a TF3 so the devs trying to de-bug TF2 don't commit suicide looking at that source-code. But tbh it isn't a bad niche for them to pick-up. Half-Life always represented innovation in the industry right? Without VR how do you revolutionize gaming (while stuck in the FPS genre) without some type of new tech to work with? Half-Life 3 for Nintendo Wii or Wii U coming soon.

[@lemao2222]

​@@codafett If that's what you think games are then I have nothing to say to you.

[@paulstaker8861]

"Happy little radishes." The cutest thing to come out of his mouth.

[@sailoritaly]

Quick! Savor the moment before it goes away!

[@MrPiccoloku]

Paul Staker That IS fucking adorable!!! "happy little radishes" There should be a show about happy little radishes!

[@paulstaker8861]

Sir Fur And turnips.

[@paulstaker8861]

Sailor Italy *Savoring...*

[@Frostuin]

Maybe he has an Afro togeter with the voice accelerator under his fedora

[@alexroxhissox]

If you're prepared to ignore 90% of the very valid points made in this review and play some mindless bang-bang, the shooty bits in this game are REALLY fun.

[@BIadelores]

Yeah, this game has rock solid shooting mechanics, every weapon feels powerful and satisfying to use with amazing sound effects and the seemingly infinite amount of enemy reactions. However it is very repetitive, the levels are largely unimaginative and cripplingly linear, and it doesn't feel like there's a lot of progression. I don't care about the game's story being bad since that's not what I play these games for, but the actual game itself only really has its shooting as a strong point - Everything else is mediocre, except the visuals and sound work.

[@brigidtheirish]

@@BIadelores Well, it is id. If there's one thing they do well it's awesome weaponry.

[@HarryBillyBobGeorge]

"Innovation nowadays is catching up to Valve." Well in 2019 that just means sitting on a stack of gold, publishing shit and in that regard Epic is very innovative indeed

[@LOLquendoTV]

So this game is a) very technically impressive and competently put together b) brown af and c) utterly uninspired when it comes to story and atmosphere? Yep that sounds like a game developed by John Carmack

[@bidoofismyking8962]

Brown af?

[@MattPasciuto]

​@bidoofismyking8962 I believe they're referring to the color scheme of the environments (i.e. mutrd colors & covered in dust/rust/dirt, a la every "serious" video game in the late '00s/early '10s)

[@Goddot]

six years later, and the analysis of AAA games sacrificing game content in order to look as pretty as possible proved very right.

[@sucail128]

"Funny how 'innovation' in today's society basically means catching up to Valve."

[@2Scribble]

Amazing how those words still hold true lol only now everyone just wants their own steam

[@youngdanielsun3707]

Valve suck now.

[@davidlane1248]

@@2Scribble yes because steam is exactly what's wrong with valve but also what makes them money. Fuck steam. Fuck valve

[@kosmikme]

Comments That Aged Like Fine Milk™

[@lavetissene339]

@UCib3GZ-AVWTk8coqA5D1iaw NOT ANYMORE, FUCKFACE! HALF-LIFE ALYX IS THE FUCKING TOPS!

[@McRitchie87]

I'm surprised you didn't mention anything about how the game ends. You know when absolutely fuck all happens.

[@tellyg7985]

Yeah, RAGE was literally a big tech demo in hyper textures and extreme optimization. Maybe Yahtzee didn't bother going all the way to the end or he didn't want to spoil the 'grand climactic end battle' of 'Here's a BFG, go kill fifteen guys and a couple mutants with gun arms. push three buttons, and yay!'

[@McRitchie87]

Yeah, you wouldn't want to ruin that surprise for someone, after all the hard work they put in they should really feel the disappointment first hand haha.

[@12eyseandahalf]

One more reason for why Rage is just a tidy Borderlands with all the fun sucked out of it.

[@GamingPenguin4545]

12eyseandahalf So, a tidy Borderlands?

[@NBGambit]

the ending was fucking trash. I was like "Wait, what? Did I miss something when I looked at my dog for a millisecond?"

[@ThePa1riot]

4:38 What scares ME, is with the release of Titanfall and Ground Zeroes, that prophecy seems disturbingly accurate.

[@Dedfaction]

Clearly yahtzee didn't get the terrible, terrible, terrible texture pop in. Everything looked lovely....once the texture had actually loaded. Which happened about a second after you looked at it.

[@volt792000]

wow a whole second? how did you survive?

[@Dedfaction]

For every texture to load whenever you changed the direction you were facing. Strangely enough that tends to fuck with the immersion and isn't a fault you should release a game with. I'd like to see you play it without noticing a glaring cock up like that every time you see it.

[@brickman409]

The texture pop in wasn't as bad on PC

[@martyMCCHEESE]

I play it on 360 and I have not suffered pop ins.

[@Dedfaction]

Google it. The texture pop in is a known issue, at least on the PS3.

[@CraftKitty007]

fun fact: the original doom can be played on a graphing calculator or a first gen ipod :D

[@carlosbaldellou]

+CraftKitty And some modders managed to make doom run on an oscilloscope. You can't go more retro than that.

[@djordan51]

+John Oliver we can go retro-er *tries to run DOOM with rocks and sticks*

[@ethangaren7560]

+John Oliver *Beats DOOM running on absolutely nothing*

[@gcomastah]

+CraftKitty You know what's the best way to beat Doom? *Using your imagination*

[@alderbernhardt]

i beat doom on the tiger r zone

[@RegretfulDeadMan]

Wait, so the oppressive government called themselves The Authority So presumably Triple H was also cryogenicly frozen at some point

[@brainflash1]

+The Generation Extreme TGX (Game Reviews And Stuff) So if the protagonist has no personality, does that mean we're playing as Roman Reigns?

[@RegretfulDeadMan]

+brainflash1 as long as he's unlikable, and boring as a plank of wood

[@AlphaZeroX96]

That's not true.

[@maksuree]

THE GAME

[@jaxonnobles]

+Nightcaster460 I've never seen you before today but in this single day I've seen you on this video, Chilled's CaH video, and 2Snacks new PSA video.

[@DruidicVixen]

I now want all my error messages to say "Moo moo I'm a cow".

[@SonofTiamat]

The problem with Rage is something Yahtzee mentioned in his "Let's Drown out Quake II." Id Software is more of an engine company. Great gameplay engines, so-so game to go with it. Rage does have amazing graphics that constantly hum at 60fps and reactive enemy A.I. that's frankly the best I've seen in any shooter, and great gunplay to boot. The problem is that it feels like they spent more time on the engines and less on the actual game, which sucks. I don't feel very motivated when playing this. I feel like a perfectly good game engine is being left to waste on a lackluster story. People are so fond of making mods with other engines, why the hell not this?!

[@SonofTiamat]

tiakpark Fortunately, Wolfensten: The New Order uses the same engine as Rage (the Id Tech 5) and is a far superior shooter, making great use of this great engine.

[@mjc0961]

Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) You must have never played other shooters if you think this enemy AI is good. You can camp in a corner with a shotgun and watch as the dumb fucks just run up mindlessly to get their face blasted off. The AI in Rage is absolute shit.

[@Lightningfootjones]

Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) oddly enough i had the opposite experience. I got 1/3 of the way through Wolfenstein, and despite the excellent story and shooting i got so bored i hung it up. Then i tried Rage for the first time and rocked it non-stop for days.

[@SonofTiamat]

Daniel Nelson I actually stopped playing Wolfenstein about 2/3 of the way and haven't gone back to it yet, but before that there were several FPS that I had played through, sometimes twice. Sometimes ennui just comes like that and I'm not always sure why.

[@magnusm4]

Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) I feel sick when I played F.E.A.R after so many years and had one of the top 3 best shooter experiences of my life with the greatest ai ever that react and plan and constantly flanking me while making obstacles and contacting each other, I loved how one asked if he saw anything and got the response: shut the fuck up! from his team mate

[@01oo011]

"Puts so much into looking nice that it sacrifices the overall experience" how prophetic.

[@TheBlarggle]

"...It seems increasingly true that AAA games are 'skipping meals' so they can 'buy the most glittery dresses'..." What a fantastic analogy.

[@joshgodawful]

I got to the abrupt ending, assuming there was going to be some sort of story turn like the people you're fighting for are the real bad guys or something, and sat there thinking "This is it, it's over already? And all I get is a few seconds of meaningless cut-scene?" You're not even given any time to give a shit about any of the characters, or for those characters to develop, it's all just "I"m a badass now go do what I tell you, oh you're done, okay go to the next town, we're done now that I've given you that single mission."

[@TheSpookiestSkeleton]

i indeed saw what you did there, "dispite all my RAGE i`m STILL JUST A RAT IN A CAGE"

[@SquirrelN]

Remember when Yahtzee made the joke about Lost Planet and Dead Space switching places, and they did. Now next gen games are taking out gameplay for prettier lights. So Yahtzee seems to be a prophetic wizard of some kind... do we worship or burn him?

[@MrBenn9955]

burning seems like the safer option.

[@t4__]

Worship the image of him burning?

[@MrBenn9955]

it's the perfect plan

[@The_Crimson_Fucker]

t4ash08gX So,basically,we should become Christians only with fire and video games?

[@squidden]

Aha, a moral choice system.

[@BGame46M]

I've played Rage myself and loved every minute of it. Though I finished it in a day. I agree, it's a pretty ride, but a short one. I wish they fleshed the story out a bit more and made the Authority more of a thorn in your ass rather than an antagonist thrown in halfway like Fable 3 did.

[@zanebrown1728]

i remember playing this game and the story wasn't a big factor for me i just wanted to go to a thing while killing things in between getting to the thing

[@noahluke3152]

zane brown Same

[@KumaNoire]

"Most companies hold some component for a good game up better than others. Now of only we could find a to bring these companies together and let do their thing on an agreed project, then we'd get the best game ever!" -myself (from about 3 years ago)

[@paulstaker8861]

Volumetric lighting is a big deal yo.

[@LinaFootpad]

So this turned out to be uncomfortably prophetic.

[@taillessboo9599]

God this game. Hardest rage (see what I did there?) I ever had. Was fooling around in a vehicle and accidently fell into a pit. No prob. Just revert last save. My last save was near the beginning of the game.

[@JoushYT]

At least it holds true to its name. (Kinda your fault for not saving, that is if you can save on your own, I would suspect so.)

[@taillessboo9599]

Well, yeah but its the fact I was so used to autosave and the game never said it autosaves.

[@JoushYT]

Tailess Boo Well then it should be a given that it doesn't autosave. *Fail on your part, we all laugh.*

[@TubbierWombat]

No Dox Many games don't really tell you that they autosave, they just do it in the background and have a thin transparent thing pop-up for 2 seconds.

[@ss33988]

Yeah they ffucked up

[@powerpc127]

0:41 For what it's worth, you *can* play Quake on corrugated cardboard with holes cut out of it, so long as it has a cell phone mounted to it with a bluetooth gamepad connected. You would even be playing it in VR.

[@psychotic17]

I'd love to get an error message saying "Moo moo I'm a cow" one day! Why can't Microsoft hire Yahtzee to inject some humor into their OS?

[@michaelkemel9711]

I've never enjoyed board games in sandbox games. It just makes me feel bad, like I'm procrastinating and putting off the interesting stuff to play checkers.

[@supereldinho]

He didn't even mention the outrageous incongruity with the game's plot. You and your rebel buddies try to dismantle The Authority's regime, yet the only time The Authority ever directly antagonizes you is in direct retaliation to you antagonizing them. There's even that one bit where they, in a rather uncharacteristic fashion, broadcast a polite and non-threatening message across the first hub town, asking residents to report any suspicious individuals they might come across -- again, in a completely polite and non-threatening tone. That alone would make anyone pause and wonder who they hell they're even fighting against. In fact, the only time they ever directly "oppress" anyone is during the second half of the game where they seize control of the second hub town and lock up its corrupt mayor, conveniently just after he sent you on an errand to supply the town with illegal power. The soldiers don't even antagonize or threaten you, merely telling you to go on about your business. This would be like watching Star Wars Episode 4 from the Empire's perspective and the movie expecting us to treat them as the protagonists even after they blew up Alderaan -- it doesn't work!

[@dracothefierce119000]

a sharp critic who can see a flaw from a mile way. one of the best things on youtube.

[@RiggsEclipse]

That has got to be the most detailed plot I have EVAR heard!!!!!

[@Schlorgan]

Knights of the Old Republic's original PC release was 3 CDs. That's probably a better example.

[@Raccoonik]

weird, my copy has 4 disks

[@Schlorgan]

Yeah, it was four. My bad. Still, probably a better example than FFVII.

[@baronteapot4265]

I liked FFVII. I used to come home during lunch hour and play it on my Windows 95 machine.

[@GalanDun]

Logan Schmidt I beg to differ, FFVII is a perfect example of a good game on three discs that can last you for months.

[@GalanDun]

Logan Schmidt I beg to differ, FFVII is a perfect example of a good game on three discs that can last you for months.

[@kellenliame2674]

What pissed me off about this game, was that the weapons were fun, I got a ton of fun from the wing sticks. But the only weapon that gives you any sense of power is given to you last minute, where you barely scrape by with it. You get a sense they were just trying to end the game by that point. And the second half of the game is kinda malnourished!

[@Bigbub66]

I liked it, you're completely right about the game in your review but I did like the slightly reminiscent game play and the weapons such as the return of the double- barreled shot gun and the wing stick.

[@fatmanrock44]

yes, new ones are uploaded every wednesday on the escapist.

[@SinerAthin]

There were certain things I liked about rage, and certain things I hated about it as well. - I loved the soundtrack. Bloody amazing OST. - The graphics were amazing. - The enemy animations were a blast. Really looked like I was fighting humans. And then the bad things: - Absolutely horrible story. The authority are essentially just copy-paste Nazis set in the apocalyptic future.(just look at their banner, lol). - Boring, mute and generic main character. No attachment whatsoever. - Disappointing ending. - Paper thin crafting & economic system. - World being extremely linear.

[@SonofTiamat]

I agree. That game mechanics were awesome but everything felt kinda tacked on. If they used the same game engine and made an old style FPS it would have been awesome. Instead, it's a superb shooter with superfluous RPG elements attached.

[@Torguish]

This game also had the most satisfying throwing glaives ever. Those spinny-thingies. When you hit the neck and the head just pops off, oooh that made me all warm and fuzzy. :3

[@saliver5909]

From the looks of it, Rage 2 won't have people wearing jeans and shirts either.

[@ponyboi2192]

I’m looking forward to the second one.

[@Sahuagin]

I've only just started noticing the little joke cartoon that slowly plays at the end of yahtzee videos. this one was hilarious.

[@Gboy86ify]

1:28 Splatoon

[@IamTheFron]

You know I really liked this game. It took a bit to get ramped up and start explaining things and then started showing some cool characters and giving you some plot but then during a normal mission after killing some mutants and throwing a switch. It ended. I actually sat there waiting for the next objective to pop up until I realized that the game was over and that normal "kill stuff in enemy base: mission was the FINAL mission. Then i didn't like the game. Imagine if fallout 3 ended the second you got to megaton and you'd have what this game does. It gradually starts showing you an interesting and exciting world with a mysterious backstory and some amazing settings and then just as you think the game is about to become amazing and will wow you, it ends.

[@darkartsdabbler2407]

Mad Max crossed with Fallout and Borderlands. Good fun, but I thought it was a little claustrophobic. The open spaces for vehicle combat were really tight and the paths to the different towns seemed incredibly short. And like Yahtzee said, only two hub towns (neither of which were very big). I'd love a Rage sequel with more to it.

[@peterdietrich8810]

I love the fact that, with the release of the HTC Vive, Innovation is still catching up to Valve. What did Valve do to be 8 years in front of everyone else?

[@Last555555555]

If Rage just had a good story, it would have been an amazing game. Alas, no such luck.

[@JopetXD]

+Last555555555 Sarah from the DLC has a nice ass though. so that's something i guess.

[@Last555555555]

+Joshua Ellson I never actually played the DLC or completed the game. I got about 2/3rds of the way through and then stuff happened and I forgot about it.

[@darkartsdabbler2407]

A good story and more meat on its bones. Though I had a lot of fun with it, it did feel...small. It definitely could have used more sweet jumps and giant spider boss fights (along with a bigger game world)

[@Last555555555]

Dick Grayson I had fun with it, although I admit that I never finished it.

[@AlphaZeroX96]

The game is great.

[@cybertexx509]

I love the ending note there, "Despite all my RAGE i am still just a rat in a cage".

[@halo6534]

Agreed. Even today devs have trouble creating atmospheres as convincing as Half life 1 and 2. I still remember having my mind blown the first time i played both games. After the your walk outside for the first time in Half life 2 to see the Citadel in the background with epic scale, a gorgeous skybox, amazing lighting, npcs doing tasks. Ah it was just so fantastic. The games were released so long ago, yet still feel modern in a lot of ways.

[@tomharcourt143]

"Some of the environments could take the breath away from even the most jaded mountain goat." LOL I love witty humor, and some times his is priceless!

[@guguigugu]

i really expected more from this game. it was a mixup between borderlands and fallout, both of which i loved, so i was looking forward to playing and then suddenly i realized - wait, this is the final mission? but i just got started...

[@ianwalker2205]

This game was incredible. Still looks good if not better than current gen console games. It had a fallout esque concept going without ever feeling like fallout, but the story was.... Wait there was a story?? They might as well have taken you out of your vault and told you to kill the authority.... oh wait they pretty much did! Story was short with no detail and the ending was bollocks! I did enjoy it though

[@admiraladmirable420]

+Ian Walker Your comment is pretty hilariously disjointed and inconsistent, I did enjoy it.

[@AwwwchyeahGamers]

I always like how this guy seems to enjoy the same things I do. His rage for games reminds me of our rage...but he talks in a cool, collective voice and we...well...typically scream. Good vid.

[@TopNotchCrotch]

I was referring to the console version. It ran at a solid 60fps with no framerate drops on the 360's hardware. That's fucking impressive.

[@Montesama314]

Yeah, I never understood the whole "post-apocalyptic clothing" theme. I thought of what a 20-years-later setting would look like, and I realize it would look pretty much like now... with uglier smartphones, I guess.

[@camerontrivett3808]

Maybe dues ex stuff

[@Namezzzzzzz]

the idea is that they make their own leather and the only thing left from the past are metallic objects

[@adambell5781]

I sort of get it, like as soon as the generic disaster hits people will still wear regular clothes, but as they run out and the materials to make them run out, people make their own. Plus there's the whole 'kill or be killed' philosophy, so they want to intimidate people by attaching the things they've killed onto themselves (hence the skulls) and making themselves more aggressive (hence the spikes, etc.) Plus, if generic disaster happened, your loved ones would most likely die, and society would crumble causing madness, so there's that to factor in

[@danielevans545]

I enjoyed rage quite a bit. Shame about the ruined orgasm of an ending though.

[@creepis11]

I heard ID is making a Rage 2 after Doom 4 is released. Hopefully the ending will be less shit.

[@urbium]

+creepis11 *id!

[@catiseith]

+creepis11 I would be really funny if the game started exectly where the first one ended.

[@jackgebhardt2932]

Lā hauʻoli Rage 2 just got a gameplay trailer.

[@fnkyron]

Rage 2 was also a fart.

[@travelingspartan2035]

"Funny how innovation in today's industry basically means 'catching up to Valve'". That might be my favorite Yahtzee quote, not sure why.

[@simonblackwell3576]

I like how enemies try to retreat when you kill enough of them, one will stay to provide cover fire but if you shoot at the door the others run to they turn around again and go back to cover

[@JesusKrispies]

Huh. Considering the shameful amount of time and effort I spent failing to enjoy Borderlands, this relatively negative review just sold me on this game.

[@TheStahleyParable]

I think people forgot that when Doom and Quake came out they were only good because AT THAT TIME shooters were just being shot out of the womb and no cared about story. Fast forward to 15 years later and id still doesn't know what story is, so they tried their best and that's what they came up with... so... A for Effort? I guess?

[@Quikie93]

first doom is still good though. Games today just simply don't have that kind of map design and secret exploring - it just doesnt bloody happen. Doom might be outdated by todays standard but even then it does things better than most games today.

[@applepie231]

Look up Brutal Doom then have more fun with that than you can with the new CoD

[@V-Jes]

applepie231 or cry of anger because ur health don't regenerate and u cant use scopes like in cod and complain that it's graphics aren't even 3D

[@baronteapot4265]

'Wolfenstein 3D' brought us a new era of 3D shooters. 'Doom' brought us incredibly fun shooters that everybody basically loved. 'Quake' brought us 3D texture-mapped polygonal worlds, enemies and guns, where sprites had once sufficed. 'Rage' should've pushed the envelope, but unfortunately, in the past the technological advances were coupled with fun gameplay, 'cause it was nothing we'd really seen before. The gameplay in 'Rage' was enjoyable, if a little repetitive, but the story is what let the title down. They are world-class engine programmers, but Yahtzee is right when he says they can't engage, because the story is poorly written.

[@VGamingJunkieVT]

The reason the game requires so much storage is the same reason Doom 2016 is massive in file size, itself. id uses Megatextures, basically every surface has its own texture rather than being repeated from one image. It's one supremely massive image that streams in all of the game's data. Unfortunately, it's also absurdly huge. In Doom 2016's case, tens of gigabytes huge.

[@ryanbarham8464]

Am I the only one who thinks Yahtzee is being strangely prophetic in this one? With the whole "pretty graphics" thing?

[@AnonJuggerbot]

Cough cough no mans sky

[@WhnNinjasAttack]

But No Mans Sky doesn't even look good.

[@Paul939]

Too true. Companies nowadays are obsessed with MOAR GRAPHICS and seem to consider gameplay and story as DLCs.

[@harrysilver6898]

We already used to say that more than ten years ago. It's hardly prophetic to repeat this rhetoric nowadays. I think since the once 'next-gen' graphics became reality (~XBox 360 times), it became easier and easier to get lost in between all the fancy graphics advancements, which were supposed to make the gaming experience more immersive, not replace it.

[@joshuasteele3520]

He's just doing his job. He reviews a lot, so he sees trends.

[@Centuries_of_Nope]

Titan Fall Evolve Battlefront Just to name the ones off the top of my head. Pretty to hide the poor overall system and mechanics long enough for a profit to be made. Crap games that look outstanding. It is now a modern gaming business practice. Yahtzee was right!

[@rocksteel9238]

+701468392523816070046289411368222507496286869371438642749038614J Then fallout 4 came out and don't get me wrong its definitly flawed but I love how its very large sales numbers demonstrate how people are willing to overlook dated graphic quality proving graphics aren't that important

[@Centuries_of_Nope]

+Rock Steel It's also reassuring that the more videos and reviews I see, people are recognizing games like this. Fallouts success proved, once again to developers, that people want a quality game. Not just a pretty game. Pretty is good but gamers are not as dumb as developers think they are. I am a concerned fan of Mirror's Edge. Dice made and headed by EA. I hope it doesn't go down this path.

[@demonfireofhell]

The games you listed were extremely mechanically sound games, just lacking on content.

[@Centuries_of_Nope]

demonfireofhell Great point. Never thought of it that way. Though I still feel there is something wrong with what has been done. Since it's something I feel is wrong, I'm starting to enter emotional response territory, which makes for a terrible argument. Definitely going to look into it more. What do you think about this?

[@demonfireofhell]

701468392523816070046289411368222507496286869371438642749038614J I completely agree the games weren't worthy of a 60 dollar price tag.

[@hanktrill8897]

I like these and respect that he's a cynic not a reviewer, but plenty of his criticisms are easily explained away.

[@MrCorgifan2]

Un-fun gameplay that can be explained away is still un-fun gameplay. Just my two cents

[@richardface4504]

rage's intro left a very strong impression on me. i liked it a lot

[@SabertoothSeal]

The "Good Shooter" at 4:22 is actually a *movie* called "Shooter." I guess Yahtzee couldn't find any good shooters -- because there aren't any!

[@sucail128]

The Doom series, Quake series, Half-Life series, Counter-Strike series, and TF2 are/were all great and FEAR was pretty fun. Those are just ones from my Steam library; there are too many to list. What are you talking about?

[@SabertoothSeal]

Sorry for offending your delicate sensibilities, I thought Yahtzee's fans were all intelligent enough to recognize a joke (albeit a terrible one, I'll admit). Oh, by the way: calling Portal a "shooter" is like calling the Just Cause 2 Multiplayer Mod an MMORPG.

[@sucail128]

Sorry, I didn't know you were joking, as your comment is in text and sarcasm is hard to detect in text (most of the time). Your perfect spelling and grammar, seriousness, etc. made it seem as if you were just a stuck-up dumbass.

[@RobertAniFreak]

This is what I mostly say about games this days, If your game looks polished and pretty with high graphics where you can see every mans bloody wrinkles its pretty pointless if the game does not have art-style or at least some charm Take Naruto Shuppuden UNS3 for example, it looks pretty, it has waterfalls and treets, and some fancy areas and its a good game I'm getting the felling that they are only pushing high graphics is so they can force us to buy new hardware and waste MORE money rather then make a half way decent game 60$, Game that lasts 4h, looks pretty but gliches like bloody hell every few minutes Or 15$ get hours of playtime, pretty artwork and design, runs smooth and rewarding ((AKA Dusk: An Elysian Tail )) Quite Ironic the one good game with fair price we see is made by a single person in 4y who programed and did artwork alone

[@kazumazu3632]

I've been seeing that too in games for the past, i dunno few maybe 5 years. We need to fight back man we got to take them down!

[@RobertAniFreak]

Caius Marius We could, If people stopped being such bloody fanboys and buying every game that comes out You have idiots who were with Xbox One from the start and wanted the always online thing and were making a petition.... For fuck sakes a idiot bought a CoD game for 7000$ Thats how mankind is fucked if the one thing that entertains them this days is Dubstep, Twerking and horrible movies

[@RobertAniFreak]

Dapper Changeling THATS THE POINT!!! Its Ironic how Indi devs or Kickstarters are doing a better job at making a decent game... Then huge billion dollar companies that are suppose to make games I mean Capcom was screwing their fans for years over, not giving a single fuck.... Then wonder why they are going bankrupt slowly, Its because nobody trusts them

[@samuelcherilus6004]

RobertAniFreak The sad part is that it`s greed that kills game like dead space and cod are best examples of profit at all costs where they`ll just repaint the game and sell it as new.

[@xSomeRandomGamer]

Lewtable Games are losing more and more content because we think it's okay for them to do so and accept it. If you people actually did something instead of complaining (stop buying their games) maybe we'd see some change. If as little as 10k people chose not to buy a new release of Battlefield 4, for instance, we'd see a drastic change and a much more polished game than the disaster that was upon release. Not that I experienced it myself, I've lost trust for EA long ago and don't dare even think about pre-ordering any of their games. Also a lot of the time game developers are huge gamers themselves. If not they're inspired by other artwork or art that motivates them to make a game of equal caliber/feel. Saying that "corporations have teams with different ideas, different opinions and need to catter it to appeal the largest audience" is bullshit when you have modern AAA games like Metro or Alan Wake on the market. Some of the best (while lower budget) games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. were inspired by different forms of art. Stalker was inspired by the movie, stalker and holds up well for so. While sadly the most successful games are just milked from the same formula, it's not the developer's fault, but rather the publisher and consumers who buy the same shit year after year. As long as this goes on we won't see any change

[@MindOfGenius]

It was a great game...half of a great game. When I beat it, I felt awkward, I wasn't expecting it to end so soon, there was so much possibility for cool stuff to do or have! Man, those voice actors, the look, the side stuff...half of a game of the year.

[@Contergen]

It's good to see one of your lesser kinds recognizing his superiors. Quite refreshing. :)

[@sleepychickadee4087]

Remember when Valve did stuff?

[@beep-beep]

1r0zz What you seem to not get here, is that this game has MANY similarities to Fallout 3 besides the post-apocolyptic setting. First off, you are locked underground to save yourself from said cataclysm. Secondly, the many lawless raiders and baddies of the new dusty world have strapped silly gasmask and cow-skull pieces to their body like it's supposed to be some sort of armor to save them from someone with OCD. Thirdly, all the denizens of post-apocalyptia that don't want to rape your skull with bullets refer to any and all land outside shanty city-walls made out of tin sheets as "The Wasteland". Finally, you must join up with the local rag-tag resistance group to fight off the (for a lack of a better word) authoritative super-armored bad guys who want to conquer "The Wasteland" and have their oppressive dictatorship in it's place (see Enclave from FO3). Slap the Borderlands art style and shittly controlled vehicles in there and you've got Rage. Don't be in denial, the comparisons of Rage and Fallout are impossible to avoid.

[@scourge7373]

And you realize fallout borrowed HEAVILY from Mad Max right? If anything fallout is just as bad for copying.

[@Slyguy846]

This is so incredibly true. Half Life 2 and Half Life are pretty average now, but at the time they were released, they had some of the most vibrant worlds at the time, filled with constant activity and setpieces.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

I havent seen a ZP video that made me want a game more than this except Just Cause 2.

[@cringelord9568]

I think its a good game, i liked it

[@DiegoAlanTorres96]

for any fps lover, yes, for anyone else it's one of those games you have to hate to be "cool"

[@darkartsdabbler2407]

So did Yahtzee

[@derekarneson4140]

lol Yahtzee should review Hatred. I'd love to see that. Anyone else?

[@claycarmine7466]

I'm on board.

[@98seko]

Derek Arneson But why post it under a video of the year 2012?

[@leongotget4157]

98seko because zp vids have no order

[@sailoritaly]

To make a long story short: too late

[@MrPiccoloku]

Derek Arneson He did.

[@MowMan7]

Why are these so addicting to watch

[@PSIHedgehogChris]

>"Just once I'd like to see a post-apocalyptic setting where people wear jeans and t-shirts" Well...there's My Time at Portia, that's about the closest I can think of.

[@Murdrad]

ID has never been huge on narrative, not real fair to expect it of them.

[@cantorlok2815]

you're new here aren't you

[@Murdrad]

Not really, been here a while. Just don't think Y-man has to judge everything by story, has he as stated that a game is supposed to be fun, before meaningful.

[@SquirrelN]

calvin mcclory Even porn has to have some story or context for him or he won't enjoy it. Doesn't matter if it's fair or not it's just how he does it.

[@Murdrad]

Eatmyfist​ oh yea. I remember him explaining that.

[@98seko]

calvin mcclory The fact that ID has never been huge on narrative isn't reay an excuse for a bad storyline...

[@wanderingexo8689]

Welp I’m so late rage 2 is almost out

[@MegaSim3]

Pauldrons make you more important The order is no hat < helmet < hat < pauldrons and no hat < pauldrons and helmet < pauldrons and hat

[@clicheusername7182]

And we can't forget Painkiller and the early 90s shooter genre in general.

[@TheSpearkan]

Id's problem in a nutshell. Makes great games with not so great storylines.

[@hassanihsan6863]

luckily they learned from Rage that they shouldn't try their hand at writing, alas we have Nu Doom.

[@paladinboyd1228]

Spearka, Like Bethesda games which were good before being brought by Bethesda and are made more buggy than a bug house with the good guys from fallout 3 becoming nazis and the supposedly bad guys turning out be humanity last and only chance. Yeah try and work that out.

[@jagcubyugi9]

Paladin Boyd despite bugs I still find fallout to being an enjoyable series better then 99% of games released and yeah the Fallout 3 story made sense to me.. the enclave are power hungry people who want to control technology and kill anyone who is in any way tainted with radiation because they believe it's the only way to restart humanity through a pure human race. Not that hard to figure out..

[@paladinboyd1228]

Osairi'el Naijuuk-Shiiragn, I'm about fallout 4 how the Nobel brotherhood to which I chose my online name in respect of them went full nazi in fallout 4 while the ones who lurk in the shadows turn out to be good.

[@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786]

@@jagcubyugi9 No, that was just the insane robot president who went rogue; the rest of the Enclave just want to give free water to the Wasteland so everyone would like them better, which means the final showdown was basically two sets of retards in power armour fighting over who got to push the button to "save the Wasteland." It's utterly ridiculous.

[@themightiestofbooshes9443]

Headbob and FoV was my biggest beef with this game. Made me absolutely nauseous, and there's no way to turn it off in the menus. You have to go into the launch parametres and turn headbob off yourself, and to alter FoV you have to add to your current, which was about 65 degrees of sight; absolutely awful. Volumetric lighting in it was awful, graphics not overly impressive, gameplay okay, story absolutely awful. I feel like I was herded around like a fucking sheep, "YOU do this, YOU do that". I fucking hate it and regret buying it for 20 fucking American dollars.

[@deaderdeadbpu]

If you listen closely, you can hear all the fucks the interenets doesn't give with your hate filled post of an awesome game :(

[@blarpie]

''awesome game''. Fuck off t q, it was a fucking terrible game.

[@MagpieDynamics]

t q Awesome? Nah, underwhelming is more like it, but you're entitled to your opinion.

[@blarpie]

epicsauceness100 Yeah everyone's entitled to their own opinion... UNLESS THAT OPINION IS WRONG.

[@MagpieDynamics]

ｎｅｒｄ That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it.

[@Yodelinghero1]

His game would be a non linear stealth based game with elements of horror decision making where you could have a middle road option. Missions themselves gave you a choice of which way you start or finish the mission. Oh and pretty sure Tim Shafer would be involved. There'd need to be something done about health, and no cover based shooting.

[@jackoneill45]

Don't forget the Thief series (though maybe not 3), and Spider-Man 2 which he references either directly or by an occasional picture

[@FortressTortoise]

I guess I'm dumb because I thought it was alright. I don't really like shooters but I did like how perfectly the shooting was executed. Plus, the wingsticks were undeniably fun to use.

[@ellentheeducator]

also, you realize that his bile is so much fun

[@sedertful]

Despite all my rage I'm still just a rage in a rage.

[@mitchell2719]

"Still just a rat in a cage" I see what you did there

[@BaasRed]

he also likes silent hill 2, driver san francisco, dead rising 2, Just Cause 2, Arkham Asylum, Prince of Persia and more

[@tjock18]

I'm not a moron. I just know so many things that sometimes I confuse the meanings of one term with that of another. Being a moron would imply ignorance, not confusion.

[@Axisoflords]

It's called ID Tech5 Engine. Doom 4 is also being built on top of it. But I honestly do agree with you

[@Pooky1991]

It also feels like games are focusing more on graphics, dlc, and microtransactions rather than actual gameplay and replayability that doesn't require dlc or microtransactions.

[@MakinUsernamesSuck]

He said he was young, and something about how heliked how the overall story arc could be summerized easy, or something. It's in his FF13 review

[@YoungDaggerDick12]

well looks like the naming community ice stone........HASN'T MELTED

[@AlexH089]

He's a critic, his job is to critisize things and that's what he does, extremely well.

[@333hab]

I can increase the speed of this video......... I can make Yahtzee talk twice as fast as usual..... My life is now complete......

[@fg09403]

in all fairness I'd say that amayzing lighting is really the only reason that the stalker series is still relevant.

[@Bondytheecliff]

He actually talks about the visuals and says it looks very nice if you watched the video properly. And he doesn't 'ALWAYS' give a negative review. There are games he likes and there's a reason why he's been able to list his top 5 of each year, because these are usually games that he enjoyed and his reviews often portray this. You obviously have not seen enough of this videos to have realised this.

[@Uberriffic]

Actually, when I was playing RAGE, one of my first thoughts were "Holy shit, two disks and It took that long to beat it?" Yes, it was seriously over that fast.

[@MrQwertysystem]

I was honestly expecting something more to happen up until the credits starting to scroll at wichpoint I just put down my controller and stared at the screen in disbelief.