I remember the time I found a victim on the landing of an apartment complex, and the police sealed it off so I couldn’t investigate it in peace. The security cam on the floor kept detecting me, and despite searching every lead that was around the victim, I still couldn’t find the killer. Eventually I realized that that same security camera must have seen the killer. I broke into the security room, rolled back the footage to the time of the victim’s death, saw his face, and went door to door asking everyone in the building if they knew the killer’s face until one of them identified him by name. This game is amazing.
@BrunoMaricFromZagreb Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile,on the other side of the gaming sphere: "HEY TIM,the vampire we put in the tutorial level says that the players will NEVER see the Sun again...But they still CAN,even before setting up their HQ & quest hub..." "FUCK OFF WILL YOU?I wasted all my time writing quippy dialouge that showcases how these vampire hunters are hipsters,& I don't have the energy to fix any bugs.Go code something that'll distract them,like 2-player coop with 4 playable characters..."
@hazukichanx408 Жыл бұрын
I think all these details are what surprised and delighted even a crusty old gamer like Yahtzee (or myself, I imagine). Diving into a game and realizing it goes to lengths we have learned not to expect. Does things most games don't, or even can't. Reacts to the player and the player's personal journey - making a little pixelly game world feel so much more real than seventeen squintillion polygons with a hyper-realistic face texture spouting the same boring filler dialogue from another triple-A cubicle slave farm's soul-sick throng of writers.
@Lucarioguild7 Жыл бұрын
@@Noobie2k7 Hit the the nail on the head with this one, AAA is so worried about graphics they forget they're supposed to make the game enjoyable or even playable nowadays
@Axius27 Жыл бұрын
**WARNING, AT THE END OF THIS COMMENT I WILL SOLVE THE CODED MESSAGE PUZZLE. DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T CRACKED IT YOURSELF** I got very stuck on one case where the only clue was a coded note with a fingerprint. Spent several hours trying every cypher algorithm I could think of, before spending more hours getting my hands on every fingerprint I could find. Finally, I just start going door to door asking anyone for information and finally, an elderly woman said she'd seen a suspicious person in the lobby at 10:10am. So I go to the security room and look up the time, and find the unknown person. After adding him to the suspect list, I started tracking the guy through the building, before suddenly realising that he was outside apartment 103 just five minutes ago! Less than three seconds later, I got notified of another murder, in apartment 103! Caught him in the lobby leaving the building, whacked him with a nightstick, and found the murder weapon on his body. Fingerprints match the coded note. After verifying the evidence in the fresh crime scene, I finally turned him in. Case closed. But one last thing. In the fresh murder scene, I found another coded message. I looked at the jumbled letters and, armed with the suspect's name, the letters rearranged themselves before my eyes and I saw the code for what it was, the name of the killer! It was just an anagram. Not any of the advanced cyphers that I immediately jumped to, just an anagram. I could have saved that second victim :/
@meateaw Жыл бұрын
@@Noobie2k7 Honestly this is why something like Unreal Engine 5 is going to fundamentally help game devs. By making true to life realistic graphics *almost* drag and drop easy, it lets people go back to spending time on actual gameplay.
@JhericFury Жыл бұрын
My favourite from this game was when i went in, searched everything, found a few good leads, went to various other locations, pinned down who it was, couldn't find them anywhere, went back to the murder scene and he was in a spare bedroom, glitched/hiding in a cabinet. 10/10, love it
@Grayvorn Жыл бұрын
Congratulations on solving the case of the cunning bedroom phantom!
@TheMightyPencil Жыл бұрын
"Ah, they always come back to the scene of the crime"
@ZephyrAnjoyo23 Жыл бұрын
This time they never left.
@tehbeernerd Жыл бұрын
Long live jank
@mitrovarr Жыл бұрын
Honestly, except for the glitching, I think I've seen a true crime instance of basically that happening. Except I think the dude was hanging out in the basement.
@some1337dude1 Жыл бұрын
I once got to a crime scene so fast the lockdown was still engaged and found the killer standing there waiting for the gate to unlock and let him out. I then dropped out of the vents, got attacked, won the fight, and had all his info before even seeing the body.
@MrObviousJester Жыл бұрын
Lol I had a similar experience where the killer hadn’t even left the apartment yet and got knocked unconscious by the police when they busted in.
@sumdude5172 Жыл бұрын
You are not Rorschach, you are Batman
@FortressWolf97 Жыл бұрын
You became the first responders. XD
@Trynt33 Жыл бұрын
@@sumdude5172 "WANT BE BATMAN!" -Yahtzee Croshaw 2015
@AegixDrakan Жыл бұрын
@@MrObviousJester You'd think that in that case, the Enforcers would actually arrest the person. XD MAN, they're so useless.
@CibraNotik Жыл бұрын
Yatzhee somehow saw Overwatch cancelling pve a week before it happened, amazing
@Adu767 Жыл бұрын
Jokes about ActiBlizz will always be relevant, but the timing on this one was mint.
@XiremaXesirin Жыл бұрын
It turns out that if you write jokes just *assuming* Actiblizz will fuck something up sometime soon, it'll pretty reliably pay off.
@lowkeyarki7091 Жыл бұрын
@XiremaXesirin hilarious really, just assume Blizzard will screw up some time in the future and wait for it to become true. Now there's a new screw up with blizzard Adding Wow tokens to Wrath Classic even tho the selling point of wow classic is that it's wow before it became insidiously monetized.
@MrBazza-zi9qg Жыл бұрын
Was cuffing the murderer outside in the rain one time and one of the passersby decided to be a white knight. He pulled a gun and started shooting me, I made a mad dash through some alleys and into a building. I smashed the door in the face of another random person and soon I started a Benny Hill esque chase scene around the block all the while the murderer was kneeling in the pouring rain. Evaded the group with the ol' newspaper trick and searched the murderer to confirm the crime. Turns out she was carrying around the bloody knife with her all day. Stumbled into the station with several bullet wounds and handed in the arrest papers. I love being a morally bankrupt hobo detective.
@almightyk11 Жыл бұрын
You did the important thing that most players of Early Access don't. You stated what you didn't like, why you didn't like it, and what can be improved about it.
@MrSpartan993 Жыл бұрын
So he wasn’t an apologist like all the others are. Got it.
@notme8232 Жыл бұрын
That is the ENTIRE point of Early Access, after all.
@StrikeWarlock Жыл бұрын
Aka criticism
@TorremThonius Жыл бұрын
I think that 4:35 is the first time ZP has done a change in perspective via a close-up. What a time to be alive!
@darkpinktv6721 Жыл бұрын
What doing something for 16 years does to a mf.
@OnyDeus Жыл бұрын
There's almost an uncanny valley effect when Yahtzee posts videos on games he likes.
@BrunoMaricFromZagreb Жыл бұрын
Wait,is it really?I feel like Ben would've done close-ups before.
@TorremThonius Жыл бұрын
@@BrunoMaricFromZagreb I can’t THINK of any instances when that occurred, but I’m fully prepared to be wrong!
@johnnyburks4529 Жыл бұрын
@@TorremThonius I also can't think of any examples and I've watched every episode thrice.
@josephgarfield3363 Жыл бұрын
That Activision joke aged extremely well in a short period of time.
@philiphunt-bull5817 Жыл бұрын
How so?
@jameswinter3832 Жыл бұрын
@@philiphunt-bull5817 They just killed the pve in overwatch 2
@tomstonemale Жыл бұрын
@@philiphunt-bull5817 they just cancelled PVE on on Overwatch 2 because...Activision-Blizzard
@zigslotheon Жыл бұрын
@@tomstonemaleSO NO STORY MODE?!
@Videogamer96_ Жыл бұрын
@@zigslotheon Apparently there will be story stuff similar to the archive missions. You know, those modes you played once in OW 1 then never touched again because of how repetitive they got.
@nathanahedgehog2871 Жыл бұрын
What timing for that Blizzard joke
@philiphunt-bull5817 Жыл бұрын
Context?
@DanielFerreira-ez8qd Жыл бұрын
@@philiphunt-bull5817They just cancelled the pve mode for overwatch 2
@kevingriffith6011 Жыл бұрын
@@philiphunt-bull5817 Further context on what Daniel said: The entire stated reason overwatch 2 HAD to happen, according to blizzard, was the PvE mode. The one that just got canceled. Cancelling the PvE essentially reduced the transition from Overwatch 1 to Overwatch 2 down to a storefront update and a patch... naturally, people aren't happy.
@subtlewhatssubtle Жыл бұрын
I would just like to comment that this is a game where you can pick a lock, open the door, be rudely rebuffed by the resident on the other side, elect to kick down the door, concussing the person on the other side, and then decide you wanted to actually climb into an air vent instead... and the game will just shrug its shoulders and let you. Brilliantly made.
@edisontrent618 Жыл бұрын
LetsGameItOut?
@subtlewhatssubtle Жыл бұрын
@@edisontrent618 Indeed, my comment was inspired by our patron saint of chaotic game interaction
@edisontrent618 Жыл бұрын
@@subtlewhatssubtle Nice.
@Mandemon1990 Жыл бұрын
Don't forget about getting lost in the air vents because no, there is no handy dandy guide to tell you where to go. I swear, first time I played, I spend 30 minutes in those vents, trying to find some place to exit until I figured "fuck it" and just barged through someones home.
@Zack_Wester Жыл бұрын
@@Mandemon1990 yep I hate to navigate the airvents because currently they are whofully poorly generated. whit vents that does full loop around between two vent covers (like one was enter in appartment 1501 kitchen run into the bathroom, into the 1502 bathroom then 1503 kitchen then back to 1501 out for like 3 sec then back again and droped me off at 1501 bedroom (it whent noware and there was no other entry/exit).
@Cortaal Жыл бұрын
That sounds like a jolly fun time. Could hear the excitement in his voice as he described his scenario calling the number to figure out a name and the events that followed.
@TheFanofmanythings1 Жыл бұрын
Gives the same feeling as back in his xcom review when he bragged for 30 seconds about his plan with his heavy and sniper
@TehNoobiness Жыл бұрын
Leafing through the phone book is in fact a thing that happened in my first case. I got stumped, because I had two first names from the victim's journal but no other leads...but I *also* had a phone call that came in about an hour before TOD, so I broke into some phone switchboards, narrowed it down to the apartment, then looked over every name with the correct first initial in the directory--and found her! The next day I opened a newspaper to hide myself while I staked out that apartment...only to find news that someone else had been killed. Someone whose first name was the _other_ name the first victim had mentioned in his journal.
@TehNoobiness Жыл бұрын
@@evilsclone2499 I know, it's amazing!
@capacitatedflux Жыл бұрын
0:58 Yahtz is quick on the uptake.
@rory8182 Жыл бұрын
Just found out about it today, it is very quick
@zakanyimen Жыл бұрын
Also considering this is a week old video. (cause they are on their site first) makes the joke age like a fine wine.
@capacitatedflux Жыл бұрын
@@zakanyimen no kidding, I completely forgot about the early release of ZP. He's so quick he's seeing into the future, then.
@Aussie_Jesus_Christ Жыл бұрын
@CapacitatedFlux yeah, he's the simpsons of snarky internet reviews
@dmitriyrasskazov8858 Жыл бұрын
Well blizzard patch out good stuff constantly
@nicklager1666 Жыл бұрын
The concept of open world and detective sounds interesting. I will keep the game as a consideration for the future as i never touch early access if i can help it.
@ShanePizzaburg Жыл бұрын
It's a very good game! I highly recommend it.
@tortoiseoflegends4466 Жыл бұрын
A good rule to follow for early access is to ask if you'd be okay if the game never got anymore updates. Some games are bare bones in early access whereas some are Factorio or Rimworld. Personally, I think the game is good enough as is to justify the relatively low price. If you go by the $1/hour of playtime rule, you'll get the value.
@PCRman Жыл бұрын
I played the demo during Steam Next Fest and absolutely loved it. But during my playthrough I did, while navigating a vent, fall through the floor into the middle of a busy diner like a Florida Man CCTV. So I am also waiting until the game leaves Early Access.
@Puzzl3man Жыл бұрын
It definitely is interesting, but suffers from performance issues rn, thats a good call.
@MrObviousJester Жыл бұрын
Good to wait on it. Game has huge potential but is suffering massively from performance issues.
@micheljavert5923 Жыл бұрын
"And every now and again, one of those data points murders one of the other data points." That sentence made me experience both satori and existential terror vis-à-vis modern society.
@Broomer52 Жыл бұрын
Honestly it sound like we’re doing ever closer to the possibility of a 3D Dwarf Fortress
@luigivercotti64109 ай бұрын
@@Broomer52The holy grail of immersive sims. realistic 3d first-person dwarf fortress. Then after that, we simulate an entire mini-universe just so we can make a goofy run with wacky hijinks. Establish new field - ludoethics. Is it immoral to create and sustain the simulated creatures only for our amusement? Realise that's basically what every parent/petperson has ever strived for. Realise complacent, mocking hedonism is still somehow more comforting a stance to the subject that perfect apathy and death, which is why people have invented the most mentally deranged figures possible to sit on the thrones of gods, because frankly, it's all just too funny
@MrSubejio Жыл бұрын
"I'm assuming they're not going to patch out the good bits" I'd like to tell you about a game I got in Early Access called "Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown". It was hugely promising, and a very early build that featured all of two characters was likewise fun, engaging, and well-acted with crisp, clear audio. Then some time passed, and a new character was added, but her audio quality (and acting quality) was MUCH worse by comparison. So what did the devs do? Did they recast the actress to someone who knew how to act? Did they perhaps ship her a mic that didn't sound like it had been found in the dumpster out back of the defunct corpse of a Radio Shack? No, silly; they DOWNGRADED the audio quality of the other two actors! I dropped the game there out of confusion and disgust, which helped mitigate the blow a little bit when they later shut off the servers to their always-online product and rendered it inoperable. Almost enough to forget that I had, in fact, originally paid money for that.
@alexahegao842 Жыл бұрын
Or Hello neighbour patching out the adaptive enemy ai
@DanVzare Жыл бұрын
While we're listing Early Access games that patched out the good bits, let's not forget to add Starbound and Subnautica: Below Zero to the list.
@Bizargh Жыл бұрын
Onward by Downpour Interactive is a often-mentioned example of this, as in their pursuit to optimise their game for Facebook's Quest VR, they utterly downgraded not only visual fidelity, but even AI, feature-sets & contents entirely for every available version in the single jump from v1.7 to v1.8 (I hear attempts to bring it back to parity have been made in subsequent updates, but I think the damage has been done, plus Downpour Interactive are now reportedly owned by Facebook/Meta/The Zuck/Whatever-They-Are-Called-These-Days).
@Dragonsamuari Жыл бұрын
Cube World had a promising premise during the alpha stage and then after years of no updates or news, the game suddenly goes gold and the gameplay was greatly changed to the point that people went back to playing the alpha version cause it was more fun.
@AuroraFirestorm Жыл бұрын
@@DanVzare What's wrong with Below Zero?
@Videogamer96_ Жыл бұрын
0:59 This joke was written and released *BEFORE* the news of OW 2 broke yesterday
@amezzeray2 Жыл бұрын
I always get a wholesome feeling when Yahtz reviews a game he loves. It's a nice change 😂 reminds me of the Obra Dinn review
@elijaminwlc6079 Жыл бұрын
How was he on the nose for Blizzard a whole week before the PvE announcement from overwatch what have they already done before?!
@Haaalp Жыл бұрын
Have you not heard of the massive betrayal they pulled on their fans for their Warcraft 3 re-release?
@leadpaintchips9461 Жыл бұрын
....lots.
@mightytoast2693 Жыл бұрын
If I may direct your eyes to a lesser known game called "World of Warcraft"...
@mightytoast2693 Жыл бұрын
@@HaaalpHonestly just a re-release like that would have gotten a halfhearted "it is what it is" if they hadn't had the audacity to make the original inaccessible legally in the process.
@Ytinasniiable Жыл бұрын
@@mightytoast2693 wayyy back when as a shaman I really enjoyed that I had a 1 in a billion chance to chain windfury procs and one shot anything Shame
@cabbiecarmvp145 Жыл бұрын
Whenever Yahtzee fully loves a game you know it’s gonna be awesome to play
@gus.smedstad Жыл бұрын
Spiritfarer wasn't. I'm not saying it was bad (except for the platforming bits, those were bad), but it was, at most, OK. From the way Yahtzee fawned over it I thought it was going to be another Portal. Well, not literally another Portal, but something equally awesome to play.
@251TheMechanizedSingfantry Жыл бұрын
I also didn't like Spiritfarer, but one of my mates loved it. However, imho Yahtzee was bang on about Obra Dinn - an awesome game I happily smashed through over two evenings.
@boilpoil Жыл бұрын
@@251TheMechanizedSingfantry I'm the opposite. While I liked Papers, Please as much as Yahtz did, Obra Dinn went completely over my head. Perhaps I'm stupid, but I was completely stuck and frustrated after around 1/3 solved. I do enjoy the usual puzzle game so I was confused, but I figured I hate it when I can stumble on guesses or solving things without understanding fully - which is the reason why I play puzzle games at all.
@lnt305 Жыл бұрын
I hate when people go on about how high standards, when it’s mostly just different standards. I have similar taste for the most part, but Subnautica didn’t do it for me at all.
@ShadowMXify Жыл бұрын
"More bugs than a foreign embassy in moscow" jesus yahtzee
@Medytacjusz Жыл бұрын
loved it! just confirming that humour is best when it's true! or close enough!
@Cenot4ph Жыл бұрын
i fail to see the controversy here..
@JCarey1988 Жыл бұрын
I literally choked on my Diet Coke and had to explain what was so funnny.
@MyrddinE Жыл бұрын
I bought this game right away. It's buggy as fuck-all, but it's also such fun. It's wonderful to have a game that doesn't lead you around like you're a dog on a leash. "Ok, good boy, now sniff this. Good player, here's a scooby snack!" It trusts the player to do their own detecting, with multiple avenues to explore. It can be a slog sometimes, but that's the (actual) life of a PI. Great premise, and once it has six to twelve more months of polish and bugfixes I think it's going to be a real jewel in the crown of immersive sims.
@Mandemon1990 Жыл бұрын
Although sometimes the leads can be quite silly. "Okay, we need to find this guy and steal a very important document. His blood type is A+, he has average build and alcoholism. Good luck!" Just a to let people know, there is no way to search for medical conditions beyond just randomly going through files of every single generated NPC.
@ArifRWinandar Жыл бұрын
2:41 has there been any other game that made Yahtzee roll on the floor giggling?
@takuansoho5836 Жыл бұрын
Seriously. My biggest slap in gaming from last years. Bought it last week, spent 50 hours on it since. Can't... stop... so... fucking... addictive... XP I really hope the devs will keep working on the optimization and things like the dialogue tree : could use a better system of interrogation like "do you know this man" => "do you know where he lives" or "where he works" "do you know if he's single", etc. I mean you could know a guy from seeing him getting out of his place but not knowing his name, etc And bugs indeed. LOTS AND LOTS of bugs, the game is playable but there's a lot of things to polish. But I don't care, it's still one of the most ambitious thing I've seen in video games since... maybe Deus Ex
@Grymbaldknight Жыл бұрын
This is the first ZP review which has tempted me to actually check out the game. This is partly because it sounds like an amazing core concept which has been well executed, but mostly because Yahtzee gushing about a game this hard - and an _early access_ game, no less - is adorable enough to seriously pique my interest. We've also found Yahtzee's second gaming comfort niche, it seems. The first is anything nautical, and the second is organic detective gameplay. No wonder he loves Obra Dinn so much.
@JCarey1988 Жыл бұрын
I literally downloaded a pirate version to try-before-buy (I've been screwed by Steam refund policy multiple times) TEN MINUTES after I saw LGIO's playthrough. Worth every damn penny and it's on sale. You will not get more fun for ~$15 anywhere in the near future. Seriously, shell out, I spent 4 hours on the tutorial mission because it was that fun. The freaking tutorial. Because you aren't railroaded and 90% of stuff isn't locked out.
@ramboacdc Жыл бұрын
The subtitles assume that there is an advert for Yatzhee's new book at the start so they are fully out of sync.
@RacingSnails64 Жыл бұрын
"There's someone in my house!" *in handcuffs kneeling on the floor* I always love your glitch stories, Yahtz.
@LunerKunai Жыл бұрын
Its not a glitch, its actually just how the AI in handcuffs works.
@Zack_Wester Жыл бұрын
@@LunerKunai to be fair I could see a AI that just woken up after been unconscious go... ohh where Im I... I hear something... hay what are you doing in my house.... shortly after going why im I cuffed.... ohh wait now I remember you smacked me (if he saw the attacker).... if not he might ask the player if he/she can unluck the cuffs.
@gamepapa1211 Жыл бұрын
I have a feeling from Yahtzee's description that this game would be something truly special when polished out. Hopefully the devs took care in perfecting the product. We sorely need a good open world detective game.
@ShockValue42 Жыл бұрын
This game is amazing because it’s the kind of thing where you can go to a crime scene, find as much pertinent data as possible, and then spin your wheels for an hour or more. You can break into the victims workplace, their partners work place, and all their friends houses all around this city, only to find out that the murder was committed by their literal next door neighbor. It’s beautiful to see the pieces of a case come together into a coherent (and occasionally fascinatingly incoherent) arc and I mean that with complete sincerity.
@Zack_Wester Жыл бұрын
I watched a let play where the literal floor was just wack. the floor had 4 apartments 301, 302, 303, 304. person gets murdered in 301, killed lived in 302, later new killer and 303 gets killed by the cop in 304.... that was the cop sent to search 301 and 303. yes the cop can be killer and the killer can be ordered to guard the crime scene.
@Dionysus24779 Жыл бұрын
Shadows of Doubt is an excellent EA game, lots of fun can be had right away. Feels really satisfying to connect the dots and solve cases. Really deserves more attention too. However, imo, the two biggest issues in EA right now is that the economy is incredibly unbalanced, money actually isn't tight at all. A single solved case gives you enough money to never again worry about food, drinks or lock picks, which are your only real expenses besides saving up for a big (useless) apartment. The other is performance, because this game really turns your computer into an effective room heater. The fog coming from some (construction?) places when outside can also obliterate your framerate and you can't turn that down or off. Still, fantastic potential and already very fun.
@gingerinajacket8519 Жыл бұрын
For other confused readers, Dio here means "Early Access" not "Electronic Arts" as you might be quick to assume. The publisher's name is Fireshine Games.
@Dionysus24779 Жыл бұрын
@@gingerinajacket8519 Electronic Arts and their microtransaction-stores are so far off my mind that I didn't even think about them. But I can see how it can be confusing.
@gingerinajacket8519 Жыл бұрын
@@Dionysus24779 you're fine, I just was clarifying because I needed it.
@jakinbandw Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't call an apartment useless. You can kit it out as a one stop shop for food, drink, status cleansers, and tools. If you put a case tray in it, you can even sit at home until a murder happens, grab the case file from the tray without needing to go to city hall. I got an apartment on the 16th floor and with the No Fall upgrade I have great fun grabbing my case files, then going to the roof and jumping off like I'm pretending to be batman. I do think I've sunk almost 50k into kitting out my apartment though.
@Malsypoo Жыл бұрын
@@jakinbandw truly the world's greatest detective
@StrikeWarlock Жыл бұрын
This is shaping up to be his #1 GotY contender already, never heard him this positive since Neon White.
@burnsyburger Жыл бұрын
Ehhhh, at least Top 5. Probably 2 or 3 at most depending on how the rest of the year rolls out. Don't forget, Hifi Rush came out earlier and Yahtz couldn't stop beaming about it and that was a finished game
@StrikeWarlock Жыл бұрын
@@burnsyburger This is still gonna be top 1 IMO since Hifi Rush is great in a general audience sense, whereas Shadows of Doubt actually feels like a game specific for Yahtzee similar to Obra Dinn and Hardspace Shipbreaker.
@Denizu Жыл бұрын
I'm fuming over the fact the Activision Blizzard joke is seemingly what got the most attention rather than the contents of both this really interesting and unique game as well as the sheer hilarity of the review. Probably some of Yahtzee's best work!
@davyspark3435 Жыл бұрын
This sounds like a spiritual successor to Sid Meyers Covert Action. On the wishlist, it goes.
@MoogieSRO Жыл бұрын
I'm very happy to see someone else who remembers Covert Action. That was a fantastic little game for its time.
@psinjo Жыл бұрын
I haven't gotten to play the game much myself. But one of my favorite things is that you can literally make a 'crazy conspiracy board' in your head, complete with all the red string you could ever want!
@WolfHreda Жыл бұрын
"Lurk nearby until the cops have finished taping off the crime scene and have pissed off back to their cars to compare Punisher decals." So good. 😂
@Dethmaster64 Жыл бұрын
Hearing Yahtzee pronounce Rorschach as “roar shark” gave me whiplash
@LofferLogge Жыл бұрын
What's the correct pronunciation?
@jetspalt9550 Жыл бұрын
Rorscharch
@Epicmonk117 Жыл бұрын
A quick Google search reveals it to be pronounced “roar shack,” so I’m gonna blame the extra r sound on Yahtzee’s accent.
@joevenespineli6389 Жыл бұрын
Its weird I swear he said it before but differently
@mylittledashie7419 Жыл бұрын
It's not really that he's saying "shark" it's that in his accent the long A sound in "schach" is the same as an A followed by and R. It's a non-rhotic accent so that means they don't really pronounce R's (in certain parts of words anyway) they just modify the vowel that precedes it.
@ToastyKen Жыл бұрын
Oooo! A procedurally-generated detective game is an idea I had like 20 years ago but never put any effort into realizing. Glad to see someone is finally doing it! :D
@jorgenjorgensen2739 Жыл бұрын
I forgot the last time i heard this much excitement about the gameplay of a video game. I'll keepy eyes out
@SimonClarkstone Жыл бұрын
Perhaps the time ZP reviewed Obra Dinn? He loved that one too.
@jorgenjorgensen2739 Жыл бұрын
@@SimonClarkstone oh yeah that was a very positive one too... great game too.
@DrunkCat1337 Жыл бұрын
3:30 This is why Holmes did opium.
@Superman2890 Жыл бұрын
Holmes did cocaine
@sator_project Жыл бұрын
What Shadow of Doubt realizes is the ultimate detective fantasy isn't Sherlock Holmes, but Columbo.
@SumptuousMeat Жыл бұрын
OMG the 'Punisher decals' bit had me in tears. The irony! Hahahahhahahhahah
@geldonyetich Жыл бұрын
Looking forward to the Post-ZP on this one. Sounds like the intrigue-riddled procedural sandbox life simulator I've always wanted ever since I had grown so bored of peaceful Animal Crossing village life as to fantasize what it would be like to dig for a fossil only to find a neighbor's recently-murdered corpse.
@kikakuvr4198 Жыл бұрын
What makes me so happy is not just that Yahtzee and Josh from lgio both reviewed the same game the same week but also that they both enjoyed the game and they both enjoyed the game *because* it allowed them to be maximally and gleefully chaotic while occasionally solving a crime...i look forward to playing SoD
@oddmott7653 Жыл бұрын
I just heard about this yesterday from "Let's Game it Out," and the first thing i thought while watching his latest vid is "I bet Yahtzee would be all about this." Then lo & behold, the very next day, he's reviewing the game & audibly excited to be doing so. Glad you like it Yahtz; it's good to hear you happy to play a game from time to time!
@JCarey1988 Жыл бұрын
Hello fellow LGIO fan! That's how I found this gem as well!
@Drogmir Жыл бұрын
I love how the game makes you feel smart within the context of its own system. Had a case where I managed to find one single print in the entire crime scene that wasn’t the victim’s. Went to the victims place of employment and found the fingerprint on a employee wall list with Polaroid photos and got going that way. Eventually found the killer in bed with another employee from the same workplace. And I love how it was never elaborated on just like a hey, this is happening. Also got to beat them down before they call the cops on me as I arrest the real killer.
@KaiserHitoshi Жыл бұрын
Oooh, that ActiBlizz burn is suddenly very topical. 😂
@jamesverner9132 Жыл бұрын
Anything that makes Yahtzee happy can only be taken as a good omen
@ShadowLibrarian Жыл бұрын
Shows of doubt does sound amazing. I have literally always wanted a game that allowed me to fully explore every building I have seen. Also love detective stories.
@JCarey1988 Жыл бұрын
I spent 2 hours goofing around in the apartment building i spawned in, practicing stealing and stealth, roleplaying that I was fed the F up with having almost nothing to eat and I was gonna fridge-raid the entire complex. And i. had. fun. doing it. 20% sale until August 10th. Go get 'em.
@CB0Otz Жыл бұрын
The idea of somebody "spotting" you while you've already cuffed them and probably given them several concussions feels like the kind of thing they really should keep as a feature tbh. That sounds too hilarious to be a bug.
@tristanbaker355 Жыл бұрын
Was in a suspect's home, trying to find out where he worked. The lights came on and the suspect came home as I was drinking his milk. Chucked the milk at him before knocking him out with a club. I got such a kick out of the image of arresting someone with a milk mustache.
@Dribbleondo Жыл бұрын
That Acti-Blizz joke aged incredibly well Yahtz.
@MnemonicHack Жыл бұрын
What Iove about it is that it's a playground for the toolbox that is your mind. It gives you a problem, simply tells you to find the right person, and lets you take whatever method you want to get there. Just find the person and find some scrap of evidence. If you're the problem solving kind of person with a lot of mental tools, you're gonna have a great time. If you don't have so many tools, well you might still enjoy it but take a bit longer
@Sergeantmajormario Жыл бұрын
4:35 is a new favourite ZP moment
@Aussie_Jesus_Christ Жыл бұрын
Nothing sells me on a game like a positive zp about it
@JCarey1988 Жыл бұрын
It's on sale, 20% off. Go get it.
@donavenhollow5709 Жыл бұрын
I got it full price right before that sale and I'm not even mad. This game is worth the 20 dollars, easily.
@sassytabasco5 ай бұрын
Y'know what's funny, is they added an update where restaurants and bars do get mad at you for loitering, and it might be because of this video lol
@counterfeitsaint7479 Жыл бұрын
The two cops going to compare Punisher decals is just *chefs kiss*. Also very sad and disturbing.
@keithadams7619 Жыл бұрын
2:39 I can't stop laughing imagining Yahtz rolling on the floor giggling like a schoolgirl irl
@Jetiko27 Жыл бұрын
Yatzee should try Pathologic 2. The procedural aspect isn't there, but you're also a professional (doctor) who has to steal and sneak and lie on the side to get by.
@jackmesrel4933 Жыл бұрын
It can also be boring as hell till the game clics with your brain, so I doubt he will play it anytime soon
@elizabethmcwhorter3445 Жыл бұрын
he already tried pathologic 2 and didn't like it. described it as dreary and inscrutable, don't remember the episode
@jackmesrel4933 Жыл бұрын
@@elizabethmcwhorter3445 You're right, it was in the Mechwarrior 5/Watam one. Fair point, the game IS dreary and inscrutable at first, and stays dreary till the end
@zomgl2pnoobffs Жыл бұрын
Back in the late 1970s I played a procedural detective simulator written in BASIC on a CP/M machine. It cooked up a different Cluedo-like Agatha Christie situation on every run, and you'd have to wander around in a sort of text adventure looking for stuff and questioning people before gathering them together in the drawing room. If often wondered why I haven't seen an up-to-date game like that. Well, now I have!
@squee30000 Жыл бұрын
My favorite "It's an Early Access game" experience with this game was when the victim was killed on the landing to their apartment rather than in the apartment itself. The problem came when the police cordoned off the whole floor from entry and gunned down anyone who set foot there, including the people who lived there. What made it worse (better) is that NPCs don't use the elevators, so anyone who lived *above* that floor was also briefly trespassing. I passed by the floor a few in game days later, and every unit on that floor was marked off as the person inside being dead. Good times
@BadAnalogy91 Жыл бұрын
0:58 Yahtzee’s occasional displays of clairvoyance can be quite disturbing.
@ripleyg420 Жыл бұрын
My favorite part is knocking on the door, waiting for the NPC to start opening it, then barge through it, tossing them across their apartment. Then I proceed to steal all their info, money, and paper clips
@wilsonkierankitsune Жыл бұрын
Doesn't sound like my kind of game but it does sound entertaining. This was one of the best ZP reviews I've seen in a while
@orcslayer890 Жыл бұрын
That Punisher decal joke got me good rofl
@El-Burrito Жыл бұрын
I saw a few streamers playing this game, but this review is what convinced me to try the game myself and it is so addictive. I spent so many late nights playing until the sun comes up just doing one more case, or following up one more lead on a case. I can't get enough of it and I can't wait to see where this game goes in the future.
@ummmhelp Жыл бұрын
post dad games really are the best hardspace ship breaker, ss13, and carrier command 2 are probably some of my favorites
@Vaultaiire Жыл бұрын
This is both the most chaotic and positive video of yours in recent memory. it's also encouraged me more to play a game than any since obra din!
@LordMort-jk8gq Жыл бұрын
Yahtzee: goes to a bar in-game and orders the cheapest drink every once in a while for immersion only Letsgameitout: throws kettles out of windows, knocks on doors only to barge them down when someone’s on the other side, and gives himself a year long coma in game for no reason
@Magmafrost13 Жыл бұрын
Its always nice to hear a premise for a game and think "wow that sounds super interesting" and then find out that its also really good
@lexslate2476 Жыл бұрын
We are reminded once again of a feature that critics seem to share: They like novelty. They experience so much of their chosen media type that seeing something they've seen a thousand times before merely executed well isn't all that impressive to them. New and interesting ideas, that gets their attention. This is why Ubisoft's tradition of making the same sodding game with minor tweaks ever fucking year goes over so poorly with Yahtz.
@RivkahSong Жыл бұрын
I freaking love this game. I once got a job to find and steal an envelope of confidential info but only had a height, shoe size, and a photograph to go off of. So I went to all the restaurants one by one and the showed the employees there the photo until one of them recognized them. I then asked the patrons the same question and one mentioned a nearby apartment building they saw her in. So I broke into the security room and checked the tenant files until I found one that matched the photo and was able to sneak in while she was at work and steal the info. I did a similar thing when I was looking for someone and I only had their first name and the ridiculously small yearly salary to go off of. I figured for that small money she had to be a barista or something and found her on the employee board of the 2nd diner I checked.
@archon_maenad Жыл бұрын
I'm usually an audio-only follower of ZP but I'm glad I watched this episode because the visuals are just *chefs kiss* Seriously, the sprite of Yahtz laying on his back swinging his feet in glee is perfect.
@KapnRich Жыл бұрын
This game is awesome, and there's so much that could be built off it e.g. serial killers, suspicious suicides, variations of corporate espionage etc.
@FakeEnema Жыл бұрын
I’m pretty sure the devs said that in the final game there will be some kind of longform serial killer investigation you do as a main story case while also doing all the sandbox stuff.
@EvilPikachu Жыл бұрын
Are you sure you can afford that chocolate biscuit image, Yahtz? They're like £5.39 here in the UK right now.
@DanielFerreira-ez8qd Жыл бұрын
He's not THAT broke.
@legosiw Жыл бұрын
Yahtzee's powers of clairvoyance has once again leveled up i see. He's able to reach a week into the future now. Soon he will be unstoppable in tearing apart spunk-gargle-weewee and funk-marble-teehee games before they ever reach shelves. Not even game companies will be safe. And I'll be making popcorn for just such an occasion.
@IndieJT Жыл бұрын
This is the first time I was harsher on a game than Yahtzee. I think the world was very well built and the missions led to some organic moments, but the gameplay got so excruciatingly hard for even easy side gigs that I walked away feeling eminently frustrated. After 10 hours of gameplay I was absurdly rich from robbing diamonds safes and pawning then even though I had solved a mere fraction of the cases I picked. I think SOD has excellent potential, the grim bladerunner-y world and and well build sandbox will be great if they make it slightly more accessible with a story to reward our painstaking efforts. On a side note, my favorite part of this was tracking down a humiliation target through their business card in their house, showing up to their work at queensworth and associates, tossing a chicken sandwich and photographing the distraught office worker, then bailing out of a newly broken window I created, surviving the 7 story fall with my cybernetic legs, and casually walking off into the city’s eternal night.
@JCarey1988 Жыл бұрын
Yeah they need more loot variations and penalties for pawning too much (decoy loot, cops searching your apartment, the fence saying "I can't move any more for awhile").
@OhZordan Жыл бұрын
Maybe the game is so realistic that the guy you handcuffed and beat, had a brain injury and just forgot you were in his house.
@foxlerfox2810 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if Yahtzee likes Rorschach because they have similar taste in hats...
@darktetsuya Жыл бұрын
'... a shovel or a paralyzed cat' had me dead. XD I may have to look this one up, sounds like it ticks some of the boxes off of cyberpunk 2077 and I loved that game to death!!
@andrewduhan Жыл бұрын
> the cops had pissed off to their cars to compare punisher decals dammit man i cannot exhale through my nose any harder
@OmniFarious4312 Жыл бұрын
Games great even in early access. In one of my playthroughs, I was a hygiene inspector for restaurants (there is a sync disk that pays for that) During on of my routine inspections, a murder happened right across the road, I could even hear the gunshots. I finished my Inspection, located the scene, and ate lunch while waiting for the cops to exit the building. I went in the building, located the cadaver, found ID, work rota and fingerprint, attempted to locate computer passcode but Instead found the murder weapon, a pistol. Inspected the weapon and Found the murderers finger print. Then, I found the cadavers partners ID, I went to the city hall and printed there details out, they worked at a bar. Went to the bar, found the suspect, and stalked them, I ordered some drinks, sat down and watched them while reading the newspaper. They exited the building, I followed. After two whole days of stalking (yes, I was very patient) I witnessed the murder from afar. I arrested the perpetrator, got the murder weapon, and the case was solved. Then I went back to inspecting restaurant kitchens.
@Animefreak242 Жыл бұрын
True. Your feedback is valued and necessary
@james.d.fowler Жыл бұрын
I love the "more bugged than an embassy in Moscow" joke for more reasons than probably intended.
@stevepeters6034 Жыл бұрын
I want you to know i only got half way through this review before deciding i wanted to discover it myself and went off to buy it. Great job.
@stevezpj Жыл бұрын
In the tutorial I set off the machine gun alarm system by mistake but it missed me and shot someone standing behind me. At this the building went into lockdown mode and every single person in the building starting panicking over this, running around setting off more alarms and getting gunned down by the security system while I sat still in an air vent. By the time it was finished, every single floor was covered in blood and bodies and I estimated around 25% of the city had been slaughtered by the security system.
@JCarey1988 Жыл бұрын
That sounds disturbingly possible for a corporatist hellhole where OSHA and safety regulations don't exist.
@sid6645 Жыл бұрын
The cool thing is that you can break into the city hall and get the details of EVERY npc! Makes cases easy but its a risk and reward thing!
@MrLego3160 Жыл бұрын
or you can just find a pc thats in a public area of the city hall and use that.
@gv1784 Жыл бұрын
It genuinely warms my heart that Yahtzee enjoyed this game as much as he did. Hopefully the game only improves during development!
@ObnoxiousCaterer Жыл бұрын
I love that one of the implanta has two upgrade paths, one gives you extra inventory spaces, while the other pass gets you immunity to cold, the n to stinky and tiredness after some upgrades. Just the idea that the next step to cold immunity is stinky immunity tickles me.
@Rebar77_real Жыл бұрын
Going for replayability with a deep background simulation sounds interesting. Speaking of Ted Lasso, I bet Yahtzee makes all kinds of cookies and/or biscuits these days.
@edisontrent618 Жыл бұрын
I've heard another youtuber saying this is basically "Dwarf Fortress, but for puzzles instead of management." If it actually goes all the way with that process, especially if mods get involved for voice stuff and such, it would be amazing.
@TheNiceNix Жыл бұрын
I sat on a bench in front of an appartment building for 10 hours waiting for a 6 foot green haired lady to walk past so I could follow her to work and steal some incriminating evidence she had in her desk. Never has sitting there doing nothing for such a long time been so entertaining!
@user-he1ff9fs9n Жыл бұрын
the bit about the cops comparing punisher decals my word lmao
@JCarey1988 Жыл бұрын
Yahtzee never misses a chance to dial the LULZ up to 11.
@LonelyAncient Жыл бұрын
that blizzard burn is surprisingly timely for us peasant week old watchers considering they just decided that PvE wasn't coming to OW2.
@JCarey1988 Жыл бұрын
And sh!t like this is why I've given up entirely on MMO's. I got run off Warthunder after 2 years because the grind for repair costs alone was an unpaid job instead of a game.
@danielhale1 Жыл бұрын
I've seen this game played and it looks like the way I tend to play Deus Ex: Human Revolution, where I'd break into a house, loot everything, and solve crimes on the way. Sometimes I was somewhat ambiguous on exactly which motive had me entering the house. I'm delighted that this game lets you break into a murderer's house, eat their food, enjoy a lovely fully-clothed shower, throw their possessions out the window, and when they arrive you punch them unconscious and hand them over to the police. That's pure, fresh madness and I love it. Instant add to my wishlist, assuming I ever finish Tears of the Kingdom (aka Bokoblin Abuse Simulator).
@dmr2044 Жыл бұрын
My favourite moment in this game by far was coming to a crime scene only for the entire apartment to have about 32 full milk cartons scattered about. The best part? The only fingerprints on them were the murder victim's. They just inexplicably set milk everywhere and then got murdered.
@JakePetrolhead Жыл бұрын
Honestly, this game is the most fun I've had with a game in a very, very long time. A lot of rough edges, but the concept is so cool, and the execution is good enough, that I am happy supporting it to see where it goes.
@lax9586 Жыл бұрын
I love seeing Yahztee truly praise a game for having a game play loop that can keep him invested. I really think we are getting to the point where fans of gaming are eating really well as far as content goes.
@mrblack5145 Жыл бұрын
I watched Josh from LetsGameItOut play this, it looked awesome.
@Blitzwaffen Жыл бұрын
That was an entertaining video but also an excellent example of why Josh should NEVER be a detective
@sunbro197 Жыл бұрын
@@Blitzwaffen Honestly, Josh shouldn't be any worker, except testing something. He is only good at breaking stuff. Which is hillarios to watch.
@Blitzwaffen Жыл бұрын
@@sunbro197 Last time he testing something in hydroneer he set off over a hundred nukes. The guy just needs to be in a sensory deprivation chamber in solitary confinement. It's safer for everyone.
@subtlewhatssubtle Жыл бұрын
@@Blitzwaffen Our patron saint of chaotic game interaction cannot be contained, he would find a way to clip through the bottom of the chamber and proceed to terminally overflow the floor with water.
@Blitzwaffen Жыл бұрын
@@subtlewhatssubtle I dunno, of there's anything Josh is great at ots spending a long time doing something mindless beyond what a reasonable person would do. He made ght treat the time in such containment as a 'Hold Please'.
@steveiest Жыл бұрын
I literally could not have explained this game any better. Love it.
@timothy80 Жыл бұрын
4:50 Funny enough, I've encountered something similar to what he's suggesting. There was a killer that brought his gun back to his apartment. Managed to find him but sadly he ran off WITH said gun. So looks like the logic is there and I agree with this.
@officialtibby Жыл бұрын
1:30 missed opportunity for a "seven ate nine" joke
@Saint_Gerund Жыл бұрын
I’m Russian and my favourite gag is a bugged embassy gag. Yahtzee, you’re the best.