The Jackbox Party Pack 5 - Review

[@memerio1458]

Seeing Silok’s face is such a shock to my system because I just subconsciously accepted him as his avatar since he almost never shows his face, at least not on KZbin

[@SpriteXP404]

He showed his face back in sesason 1! and I am kind of glad to see it again!

[@السراقالمجهول]

bro he showed his face in his very early videos you are not a real fan of him on the other hand you watched his jack box party videos so you are a real fan good job

[@cosmicvoidtree]

Am I the only one who thinks he kind of looks like Tom Scott?

[@Alibium]

@@السراقالمجهول Just because someone hasn’t seen his real face doesn’t mean they’re not a real fan? 🤡😂

[@Alibium]

@@السراقالمجهول r/youngpeopleyoutube?

[@wiiuandmii7619]

can you personally congratulate whoever submitted “the ghoul” in Patently Stupid because I let out an actual wheeze

[@turretboi]

He won't leave

[@Magic_Ice]

Timestamp?

[@wiiuandmii7619]

@@Magic_Ice 21:53

[@hettus]

Can't wait for this comment section to be full of "where's 6" within a month

[@Kevmane_the_bird]

Where's 6

[@trash_lol]

where _is_ 6

[@TwoTwoTwane]

Its tradition

[@pungoblin9377]

*why not now*

[@theaceofspades8871]

Where's 6

[@0_Cardboard_0]

you underestimate the power of rapping for the robot it alleviates the tts entirely and everyone ive played with has been down to do it

[@FeeshUnofficial]

Yeah, I have TTS turned off by default in Mad Verse City

[@STEEZY_TREV16]

I have not once played a game of mad verse City in which I didn't laugh my ass off hysterically. Easily in my top 5 jackbox games

[@Ghostkid825]

Happy to see this, particularly because of Zeeple Dome. I'd seen the basic gameplay before, but had heard ZERO opinions on it until now. Glad to finally know why.

[@lifetake3103]

Something I don't think you're considering with patently stupid's present for me feature is streamers who aren't playing with people over discord. It lets there be some voice instead of just things showing up randomly on the screen.

[@ViddysVids]

Literally has been MULTIPLE Wednesday's and still no apology video. Expected more from you HilocSawk

[@MrGarbage52]

9:59 I wonder who made that beautiful rap?

[@CoolumGamer2005]

i play jackbox in a discord call with friends and when we play mad verse we rap the songs ourselves because we dont like the text to speech

[@ludexia5338]

Are we just gonna ignore that this is in the season 3 playlist even when the Wii tanks fan games video EXPLICITLY said that it was the season 3 finale?

[@midoriasakusa]

i am extremely distracted by how splatoon-y that music sounds

[@BrambleGaming]

Patently stupid is the best one no cap

[@STEEZY_TREV16]

Its hit and miss for me. Depends on who you play with

[@stormbreak7003]

Zeeple dome is the embodiment of "its fine for the first 5 minutes before shutting it off forever afterwards" but I do wish they that they recycle the avatar characters for a future jackbox game and obviously with a different gameplay style since I really like the design of the characters.

[@TheColdfrontCommander]

Idea for Split the Room 2, specifically audience. To slightly improve the audience, the larger it is, it gets split (pun intended) up to 3 groups which each count as one vote. This could change based on player count, audience size, etc.

[@AlphiePrime]

22:57 I think the “Present for me” button is for streaming, if you don’t have voice chat the players can’t really talk while presenting so the game needs to do it for them, pretty sure Joke Boat has the same thing for the same reason, I agree it’s not as good as presenting it yourself but you can’t really do anything about it.

[@xcross4286]

Honestly spilt the room is fascinating in it’s brilliance and terrible design on one it can be extremely fun and crazy for some prompts but for others it feels like the game is giving you the middle finger. Not just that but there’s the layer of honesty not always being in yoru favor, like if you know someone really well it’s sometimes better to answer what you know there gonna answer but there’s also the layer of questions so obvious that it’s in your best interests sometimes to intentionally lie which I don’t think was intentional but also adds more strategy to the game paradoxically?? ( also while your criticism of the time extras points thing can be true it kinda forgets other reasons people take longer to answer like rereading the question in case of bad vision or if the question was made purposely confuseing like a paradox or something). Overall I liked spilt the room a lot but I do agree that many design decisions feel counterproductive or even just bizarre (still liked your video by the way thoguh)

[@graydonsmith110]

when we play mad-verse city with my friends we always mute the audio so we can rap it ourselves

[@Tippex_Official]

Feels like party pack 5 is the one in need of sequels the most. Except zeeple dome, that one would be best being made into a standalone game.

[@musicaldoge9412]

One thing ya missed ab mad verse city that often bugs my group of friends and me is the fact you can’t see what the rap is when you put down the (noun, person, place, or thing) leading to moments where you put a response down and u get butchered cause the person or rhyme you had in mind gets absolutely flipped on it head when you see what you have to work with.

[@oblongLogin]

Ydkj: full stream is strangely enough the only game without a child appropriate option in jackbox, which is a problem when younger cousins do their younger cousin thing and beg you to play the one other game.

[@CodenameBolts]

This is YDKJ we clown in this mf better take yo sensitive ahh back to Quiplash

[@theivoryguy2476]

I love Dale.

[@Terumimi]

Man, this is like the go to one for me and my friends, we all love all of the games (except for zeeple dome, duh)

[@adamajora1003]

I promise I'm not lying, but my friend's favorite Jackbox Game is Zeepledome. His family has Jackbox Party Packs 1-5, and they play regularly. In fact, one time me and my other friend played Jackbox at his house with his family, and his entire family loves Zeepledome. Listen, I don't get why, I think he said why before, but I don't remember it. I'll ask him why he loves Zeepledome when I can and i'll update this comment.

[@CinnaBox]

did you ask him yet?

[@TimTam_3]

My friends and I personally love 5. Madverde, Split the Room, and Patently Stupid are the highlights. But I get your complaints

[@JDDimensions]

This dude gonna review party pack 6 when party pack 52 comes out or when party packs end

[@nataliexists]

:)

[@JDDimensions]

@@nataliexistsYESSIR

[@spicyicedcoffee1150]

11:47 hands down my favorite game but when I play it I just go into settings and mute text to speech and let players read it

[@FeeshUnofficial]

Patently stupid really is the major reason to buy this. It's extremely funny with friends

[@FeeshUnofficial]

5 and 7 are easily my favourite packs

[@harpuavids]

Me too. I think those and 3 are my favorites.

[@nickichambers9328]

I hope Zeeple Dome's failure doesn't stop jackbox from including more true co-op games (or at least gamemodes.)

[@jordanfrater9524]

Great review video Silokhawk 😁👍

[@Dat1snivy]

Find it funny that the yellow thumbnail, which was originally shown in three was actually used in five.

[@harpuavids]

Super excited for Jackbox Party Pack 6! Arguably the most controversial party pack. I’m a fan of TMP and Role Models. Dictionarium is OK, Joke Boat is alright. And Push the Button is… Amogus

[@dogbot55]

It feels like to me that a lot of siloks problems with jackbox games is playing with people who are dumb

[@shortindividual]

You can disable tts in mad verse city’s options

[@betafurret1503]

I feel like mad verse city is more fun to watch than to play

[@aeroper2144]

Unpopular opinion but I actually really like Zeeple Dome, me and my friends actively play it a lot and have a lot of fun, it's a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of the other Jackbox games

[@HugoSoup57]

Word Spud, Earwax, and Zeeple Dome are the only Jackbox games that me and my friends actively don’t play.

[@geekmin-old]

I personally LOVE You Don’t Know Jack: Full Stream, and the entire You Don’t Know Jack series in general, though I’m willing to admit that it ISN’T perfect. In fact, while I love YDKJ, and think it’s a good game, I don’t think it’s a good *Jackbox Party Pack Game.* It’s more of a personal kind if game that wasn’t really made for most of Jackbox’s current target audience. I, like a commenter before me, think that the series should be released as a standalone one from now on in order to differentiate itself from the standard target audience of Jackbox in general.

[@TuzzaHD]

Love the jackbox series, have most of the packs, but honestly all of the trivia games are awful to play for non American's. We can play for example the trivia murder party with a group of decent pub quiz people, and they will struggle with the majority of the questions as its almost aimed specifically for American's.

[@Donchan1]

Cool, very cool

[@wanderinginterneter8203]

Lol i was wondering why so many people were joining the server

[@redsandslashgaming7513]

Hi!

[@Bonnie_2.0]

11:46 I don't like where this rap is going

[@RyderPlatinumWarpstar]

5 is kinda meh imo. I actually really like Split the Room, which may be a hot take, and I also really like Patently Stupid, but the rest are some of my least favorites in the series. 3, 4, and 6 are games where I enjoy a vast majority of the games in the package, but I only like two of the games in this one. But I’d still probably rather bring it out over Jackbox 1.

[@Hamster07]

egg

[@someonecalledeulogio2280]

Omg face reveal

[@Tredenix]

It doesn't sit right with me that two of your criticisms of Split The Room essentially boil down to 'it doesn't work properly when somebody isn't participating'. Also 'vase' is pronounced correctly.

[@silokhawk]

My big critique with split the room was _"It's too restrictive."_ Which has nothing to do with someone not participating. That's the first thing I mentioned (5:50) and I came back to that point multiple times. I even animated an example to show how it could be improved; Needless to say, the two things you highlighted were definitely not the focus. Also _"vase"_ is pronounced in _"vays"_ in America, and any TTS based in America (even Google) pronounce it that way; Reminder that Jackbox Studios is based in Illinois and even one of the common critiques consistently given to their trivia games is that they're too America-centric due to the studio's location.

[@Alibium]

@@silokhawk ouchie slouchy

[@wyattburnett9369]

@Silokhawk where is 6?

[@jamesrgamesoffical]

Already?

[@hellhound78]

I love him trying to fix the games(^^)

[@CheesyLizzy]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about Mad Verse City. I've ran into all the problems you mentioned a lot and I just haven't really had any fun experiences with it. But a lot of other people I talk to call it one of their favorites and it just feels a bit awkward Honestly my opinion of all the games in this pack are while I don't hate them, I just don't like them that much. The only exception that I do really like in this pack is Patently Stupid because I've had a lot of fun making wacky inventions with my friends in that one ^^

[@ChezRG-YT]

19:48 >:(

[@StrangeSunset7]

You look like Nitro Rad

[@greatsageclok-roo9013]

*when talking about Split the Room* "Doing this would open the game up to way more comedy..." Uhhhhh, that's not what the game is about. It's about being divisive. If you wanted to be funny, you could just as easily play Quiplash or Job Job... or even Earwax.

[@silokhawk]

*_>Intentionally ignores the thing I said was more important immediately after_*

[@Neogears1312]

You know, why bother acronyming you don’t know jack? Like in text it makes sense but you’re saying it out loud and it’s all one syllable words. It just seems excessive is all.

[@urmomgay]

that video was a good YEEHAW out of 10.

[@Lancelot_ROK]

I think Jackbox 5 is a very solid Jackbox pack, but ONLY if you have a close-knit group for it. All of the games (minus Zeeple Dome) are extremely creative conceptually and fun on paper, but I feel like that amount of fun is heavily dependent on the group you play it with. From my experience, with randoms or strangers, it’s one of the weakest entries, but with a group of good friends, it’s one of the strongest

[@mariosin3256]

Yep

[@MrSkerpentine]

Hot Take: I think You Don’t Know Jack should be released as a standalone game from now on since apparently a bunch of the Party Pack community hates or doesn’t understand it, especially since it doesn’t really fit the vibe of the other trivia games in the series. I still think they should continue the series, just make it separate to protect its legacy. Also YDKJ: FULL STREAM isn’t the first You Don’t Know Jack game with lore or a unique non-game show theme. YDKJ 4 & 6 have an on-going storyline in between episodes (4 takes place in a dark 1000-floor construct where the player has to make it to the bottom, and 6 is hosted by a tricked pirate who has to host YDKJ to break his curse and set himself free)

[@stormbreak7003]

Not a hot take. I fully agree with you.

[@greatsageclok-roo9013]

@@stormbreak7003 Or better yet, what if they rereleased YDKJ 2011, but with the DLC episodes already added in AND compatible with mobile devices? ... Or maybe they could do an installment that uses the questions from the no-longer-available Facebook version?

[@stormbreak7003]

@@greatsageclok-roo9013 I am not a trivia guy but why bring back the 2011 specifically, out of all the other YDKJ entries or just make a new you know Jack game from scratch and add from there?

[@fixedfunshow]

if they do an International Version we might see that

[@greatsageclok-roo9013]

@@stormbreak7003 Because THAT version doesn't have the phone-based gameplay that YDKJ 2015 has. Instead, it's all local single-screen play, thereby limiting its ability to be played with friends. And given that it's fundamentally the same as 2015, there's not a lot different between the two. Except for a few question types.

[@joshmargolis1424]

Gene was a fan favorite of my friend group. If someone had really bad lines, he would do quite good on occasion. One time he won from a full vote

[@nickichambers9328]

Someone needs to get a group together where they all just give Gene the win.

[@dscrib2492]

my friend group has just made it a thing to hate gene for absolutely no reason, and it makes it really funny when we have three players, gene appears, and everyone just fucking insults him for the entire game

[@floppyfosh]

Me and my friends love Mad Verse City for one big reason: we turn off the TTS and do the raps ourselves. I totally get how playing it online with people you don’t know would be terrible however, so I agree with you there. But if you ever are playing this pack with friends, try it out sometimes

[@graydonsmith110]

that's what I always do!

[@tinytimtam]

i was thrown for a loop when he said "theres no game we'll pull the pack out just to play" when mad verse city is their best game theyve ever made

[@piranhagrudge7114]

69 likes NOBODY LIKE IT

[@Aver187]

“[Zeeple Dome’s] music is very Splatoon-y.” This literally sounds like it comes from Splatoon. And that’s not a bad thing, I think it’s a bop

[@LeviVoltHere]

Imo, zeeple dome is good for alone play. Its that "im bored of the other games's bs" type of game. Its pretty ok.

[@Tiquono]

Mad Verse City forcing you to be creative is part of the reason why I love it so much. I cannot tell you how much I've grown to hate Quiplash because of the low effort low brow humor that permeates it (Maybe I just need different friends to play Jackbox with 🙃). With Mad Verse City, you can still be low brow, but it's funnier if you're low brow AND you can rhyme. Forcing people who don't usually try in other Jackbox games to make jokes with at least some effort behind them is something I wish more Jackbox games could do. Of course, I understand that Jackbox is meant to be a more casual experience, and no one really wants to tryhard at a party game, but I've just grown so fatigued with low effort humor.

[@Muirotidua]

Spilt the room’s ascetics are so good they made a show about them!

[@Bravice]

Dude split and mad verse are some of my favorite jackbox games ever, everyone has good senses of humor in the streams I join

[@Modtro64]

Party Pack 5 is on of my favs, as well as some of my friends. We all like Patently Stupid, Split the Room, and we sometimes play Mad Verse City.

[@saifuusuri]

Honestly Mad Verse is a million times better when you use a mod that lets you write the whole thing yourself. It's way funnier when you have creative control.

[@2-Way_Intersection]

you can mod jackbox?

[@flying7900]

@@2-Way_Intersection yes you can

[@saifuusuri]

@@2-Way_Intersection Yeah. Though I don't know how, I just watched Twitch streams of someone who did.

[@jedisalsohere]

The TTS didn't pronounce "vase" wrong, that's just how it's pronounced here in the UK.

[@silokhawk]

Jackbox Studios is located in the U.S. tho (Chicago, Illinois)

[@FeeshUnofficial]

@@silokhawk pretty sure it's not something with Jackbox but rather with the TTS voices, which I think are public domain TTS voices

[@TheRebornILLUMINATI]

Its really interesting to see your take on Mad Verse city because I always play it by having me and my friends say the raps ourselves. So having the tts bots do it for you provides a completely different experience

[@koops8119]

You're able to change the tts volume/remove it entirely in mad verse city, definitely makes it more enjoyable 👍

[@anythingagency8516]

especially if you're in VO or in a room and decide to rap it yourself

[@maglev957]

That Mad Verse City section is probably the hottest Jackbox take I've ever seen

[@mem9959]

you can remove the tts in madverse city. honestly it's better for the player to rap than for the game to do it instead

[@THE_5050]

If you ask me YDKJ Full Stream: 6.5/10 Split The Room: 8/10 Mad Verse City: 10/10 Zeeple Dome: 0/10 Patently Stupid: 10/10

[@ghefersoncurva]

Which lore is deeper? Quatros death in 2011 Or The binjpipe cookie incident and escape the simulation special episode

[@louie.4047]

i have never had a group of people who have wanted to play YDKJ. it’s not what they’re looking for in jackbox

[@Kain128]

The best part of Mad Verse City is the Tiger Electronics game robot.

[@forgotagoodname2717]

today in English class, my friend brought his pc and the whole class played jackbox. that was fun

[@fl4re163]

Man, this pack had so much potential, but there’s just tiny little things in each one that makes it mundane. I really wish they let these games cook just a little more and gave it too us.

[@Magic_Ice]

Jackbox 10 might be out when we finish

[@TreadTheDonutDuck]

23:11 I was playing some Talking Points with a small group of friends and one of my friends refused to present in front of everyone else. It was a group of 4 total and we all knew each other very, VERY well.

[@Toejammer244]

HOT TAKE: jackbox 5 is one of my favorites other than zeepldome the games are really funny and split the room is a family favorite, patently stupid is just great, max verse city is so funny, and you don't know Jack is great for my family!

[@fiestaskull1540]

I thought to myself today 'I really don't like video's that discuss the Party pack games anymore, given how many youtubers seem to just copy and paste the same opinion almost as if it's a fact. And just as I was 'boutta give up I saw this AMAZING review. You made some great points on each of the games, even mentioning small things I felt really giddy about hearing from you, seeing someone talking more in-depth about why Zeeple Dome blows instead of the usual 'it bad cuz it different' point everyone seems to make. I absolutely adore your content and even to this day it never feels stale listening to your voice and your analysis's. Keep up the great work lad!

[@andersonluttrell6913]

Hot Take: Zeeple Dome rocks! People judge it based on what it should be, a party game like drawing and other such things. I love playing one player. Yes, it has it’s flaws, and multiplayer makes it harder, but as a solo player of this game, it is amazing to play when you treat it as it would be. A video game. I love playing this as a more mobile style game. It’s supposed to be a video game. I don’t enjoy it as much when I play it with other people, but I love playing it solo. It feels like a mobile game, not a jackbox game, and it should be appreciated for that. The devils and the details is a great blend of jackbox and zeeple dome.

[@toxagen1144]

I think what would've been kind of fun for Patently Stupid is where you make a solution to your problem like normal, but then all of the index cards get swapped around. So now you have to present on how your solution will somehow work for this thing. I think what could also be interesting is some sort of voting or giving money to the invention that you believe was made for the original problem before they got mixed up. I think that this would be a fun idea if everyone responded to the first problem honestly and made a solution for that problem, that way you then have to improv on how your solution that was not meant for this problem is supposed to fix this problem. However, I could see a lot of people just doing something very vague or super simple so that it basically works for any situation it works for, so it could be very boring. It would be a round that you have to play with specific people who are going to follow the rules and try not to cheat them in order to have the best shot at winning.

[@funkymunky6647]

23:45 Does anyone know the music playing in the background?

[@TheApoke]

For mad verse city, there's a setting that lets you mute the robots and you can rap yourself

[@Blizzard199X]

I personally like Split The Room but I definitely recognize its flaws and why some people don’t like it

[@smollmoth6376]

I'd love to see a sequel of split the room, I really like the graphics and premise but it is rough. Like a cats tounge heheh

[@Alibium]

Another reason to not join the official jackbox server is that the moderators are the worst

[@thepurplemudkip9998]

14:44 found the guilty gear fan

[@jasonwalton9553]

Finally, now I have more arguments in favor of wanting Jackbox to make Split The Room 2 besides "I want to see more of the funny Rod Serling cat, and if he's Cookie's pet cat Mayonnaise, I really want to see Owen Watson anthro-ify his other cat, Poopsie"!

[@LiamWins]

I am VERY surprised that you just let the TTS do the rapping in Mad Verse City. It is immensely more fun if you get everyone to sing their own raps instead.

[@ShockMicro]

Dude, I've just gone back to watch this. Mad Verse is genuinely my favorite Jackbox game (at least when my friends aren't ripping me to shreds, haha). I think I can attribute it to the fact that we always turn off the text-to-speech and rap it ourselves. Leads to some funny moments where one of us flubs a line, or when someone couldn't finish in time and forgot what they were gonna say. "Its fleece was white as snow" was the funniest non-rhyme in that whole game, and it was in our first game. The way he said it, too, impeccable. For my friend group, anonymity would ruin the whole point. This game calls back to the old days when we would literally do "Minecraft Rap Battles" at the lunch table, coming up with Minecraft-y insults to a beat. This game was made for us. Edit: Also, Gene is very fun to do a purposefully shitty voice for on his turn. Sometimes I fight against him and end up just rapping both sides, haha. Edit Edit: Oops. Didn't finish the section. For the record, I mostly agree except for the TTS complaints.

[@lrgogo1517]

Not a giant fan of the editing choice to start each review segment with a snap zoom in on a part of the main menu

[@FeeshUnofficial]

Friendly reminder that all of these are SilokHawk's *opinions*, and not a personal attack to you

[@Siennarchist]

Split the room is intriguing, but ultimately neither works as a competitive game, nor a funny game

[@kimi1522]

Did Dale fail or succeed 👀

[@Tippex_Official]

Is this a face reveal?

[@nickythehickey]

i feel like patently stupid having the option not to present yourself is an instance of the game trying to accommodate for people playing on stream that aren’t in a voice chat with each other

[@Lynyx1120]

Happy to be a part of this one!

[@labproductions06]

yooooo crazy elf

[@Lynyx1120]

@@labproductions06 wasup

[@brothadarkness84]

JackBox games needs a updated MVc2 . Idk why they haven’t. It’s like one of the most played on twitch that I’ve seen . With those fixes it could be best game on pack

[@IAmUnderscore]

We play Mad averse without TTS and actually rap the verses ourselves, makes it actually super fun!