Summer Game Fest 2024 | Fully Ramblomatic

[@danielcunningham7169]

Legally distinct ZP reviewing legally distinct E3

[@DoratTheKiller]

Love this comment. Dead on the money

[@Sivick314]

this is the best comment

[@CenturyBlade]

What a time to be alive

[@ShaimingLong]

Legally distinct copycats are tight!

[@Ironeagle21]

@@ShaimingLong It will be super easy, barely an inconvenience!

[@strain42]

I know obviously E3 has been dead for a few years, but there's something engaging and interesting about going from ZP videos about E3 to Fully Ramblomatic videos about Summer Game Fest. It's a fascinating transition.

[@carlosemilio5180]

Truly the pride month content we need in our lives

[@docbaker3333]

Yeah it's like poetry in motion.

[@Sonicfalcon16]

The moment E3 died I realized everyone would have their own showcase which would play around the same time instead of everyone at one place

[@TrueCrouton]

The world is always changing, but some things never truly change all that much.

[@snackplaylove]

The Infinite Review have exclusive rights to E3 now, their coverage is on KZbin

[@roboknobthesnob]

Yahtzee, of all people, complaining that brothership isn’t a real word was the most precious moment of the video

[@limehazard]

That's usually a good sign. That means he doesn't have much to complain about.

[@tahunuva4254]

What's the fan name for mario x luigi

[@somestupiddudewithayoutube4676]

@@tahunuva4254incestuous

[@roboknobthesnob]

@@tahunuva4254 I can just tell you how the Rule 34’s content will be named: Mario X Luigi: Ship

[@tahunuva4254]

@@roboknobthesnob "plumbing" bros.

[@GallowglassVT]

The Ubliette is how I'm gonna refer to Ubisoft from now.

[@MILOPETIT]

And "Star Cry" lmao this mf don't miss

[@alyxgraff9121]

Same. Yves Guilmot isn't hiding the fact that he's French Bobby Kotick at this point.

[@luckymikemadziar]

Tres bien

[@FireFox64000000]

Would someone be so kind as to explain the joke to a guy that doesn't speak a lick of French? Pretty please?

[@GallowglassVT]

@@FireFox64000000 an oubliette is a kind of pit within a dungeon with no exit save for a single opening at the top. However, because of its shape, it was impossible to climb out of, so any prisoner chucked in there had no way of escaping.

[@jcace13]

Oh the praise for Xbox while they literally would not answer why they were shutting down successful studios was the worst.

[@JPR3D]

We know why, they know why. They just don't have the balls to outright say "We are in the business of making money, not games."

[@alexlyster3459]

​@@JPR3DI mean, they have actually said that

[@daddysempaichan]

@@JPR3D To be fair, their shutdown was probably alread predestined when they bought Zenimax. They just wanted things like TES and Doom and gave the other studios a 2-3 year grace period, where Microsoft will still support them but after that, good luck with our shareholders. It's still pretty bad, as even if they still retain most of the staff of these studios, people will question why didn't they just let the devs keep their studios. All I'm saying, I believed, that their days were numbered when Microsoft bough Zenimax. Microsoft even made their tombstones with their date etched onto it. I maybe wrong, but that's the conclusion I came to.

[@superbit415]

They wouldn't even give out release dates for games they are claiming will come out this year. If they can't answer that they are not gonna answer anything else.

[@Nix-Man]

good evidence supports that they needed the extra funds to pay for Bobby's exiting package/bonus for closing the act/blizz+microsoft deal. Dude literally couldn't leave the building without breaking just a few more fine china plates.

[@adaml5241]

Thank you for the "state of the industry" reminder Microsoft fans didn't ask for but definitely needed

[@OneHumanAdmirer]

"Oh my god, those big companies and CEOs are so evil, Ill never support them again.". "Here is a new game/glory hole for you to use" "Where do I stick my mushroom?"

[@Anuthal]

Yhea the problem with those games is that you're on the giving end of the glory hole. You get your face painted white and still have to pay for it.^^

[@DogginsFroggins]

Bruh does he really think people are just gong to stop playing videogames? This is what being terminally online does, do you think the average consumer gives a shit? People are still going to play games.

[@umarthdc]

AAA is the minority of videogames... ​@@DogginsFroggins

[@apocalyptosoldier5527]

Ha, finally I can turn my inability to get over the fact that I grew up poor and and consequently unwilling to spend a lot of money on games into moral superiority. (I've never payed more than $25 for a game)

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

@@DogginsFroggins Most people who whine about AAA games don't stick by their morals and play indies. Some of us have a much better and affordible time in the indie market than AAA and would be happy for more to join us.

[@mr._zone]

Yahtzee is at his best when he's actually angry. This has been my favorite ramblomatic episode yet.

[@BartlebysCorpse]

I remember this early episode of his (maybe for Mindjack or Too Human) where he was specifically grateful to the devs for making such a terrible game he could get mad at.

[@DancinDane]

Amen! 🤬👍

[@mozxz]

He was really on point in todays episode, and a lot of the jokes actually got a laugh out of me, or rather several. I still find him funny, but his content from the last 3-5 years is still the same, yet different, but not as funny, although, its nice he is one of the only KZbinrs left who does not give a damn about language and so forth

[@specificityarchives9920]

Look how much freedom they have to do their true good work now that they don't have a parent corporation breathing down their neck on behalf of game publishers.

[@Tw0sheds]

100% agree!

[@sentrysapper45]

🎵Let's all laugh at the game public who have no standards, holy shit.🎵

[@kinggrimm2700]

Morals always subside when convenience is at steak

[@mrshmuga9]

I’d make a joke about clapping at CG trailers, but the CG trailers make sense. These companies can’t be bothered to do anything less than $100 million projects, so they have nothing else to show. It’s why Nintendo can show everything coming within the next 6 months, because their games mostly take 2 or maybe 3 years to make as opposed to 5-6.

[@sentrysapper45]

@@matthewmuir8884 Yeah, it wasn't until after I posted that I realized "makes me sick" was right there as a better closing rhyme. I blame my tired brain having just come off a night shift at work.

[@mauree1618]

@@mrshmuga9 nintendo makes actual video games too, not $300 million dollar movies skinned as a video game.

[@tommydeonauth9403]

Indeed...

[@CryoJnik]

The gaming population has proven time and time again that all it takes for them to ignore controversy is to do the equivalent of jingle a shiny set of keys in front of their faces.

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

"them"

[@tylermckillop2339]

Come for the personality, stay for the phallic jokes.

[@randomguy555]

Some of us do the opposite, you know!

[@My_Naginta]

I stay for the surprise Stephen King references

[@HYpr1337time]

come for the yahtzee, stay for the cold takes.

[@Nodiee1]

It really is so disappointing seeing how quick people in games media were to jump from criticising MS for it's anti-worker practices to celebrating them for the commercials that they put out for their new products the next week. It really is a little disheartening to see how little a lot of the most visible people in games media seem to actually care about the conditions that a lot of developers and creators work in at these massive, AAA corporation. Sure, they'll pay lip service to how wrong it is that a development team can pour all of their labour, creativity, and talent into a game that is profitable and well-regarded, only to be shut down by their parent company for not being profitable enough, but as soon as that parent company's big, shiny new product is unveiled they forget all about it while slobbering over a new trailer. It's not just them either. All of the publishing companies with the worst practices are also the ones who tend to sell the most copies of their games. So much of the gaming community at large is just so utterly pathetic. They just cannot handle *not* obsessively devouring whatever big budget thing gets thrown at them regardless of the integrity or ethics of the massively profitable business selling it.

[@empath69]

It's really just an obvious illustration of the hopeless state human society is in.

[@mrshmuga9]

I agree, but at the same time if you’re to be fair what is the path of retribution if said company wanted to fix it? “Not closing studios” isn’t feasible, nor can it be measured as a goal, because what amount of time passed would be “enough”? I don’t care for Xbox so I’m largely unaffected, but to me I’d have to see quality games consistently. Their “hands-off” approach has not done anything for them in the last decade, and the constant “release and apologize” shtick has gotten old when they learn nothing. It’s why I think those studios closing is a “Bethesda/Zenimax” problem as opposed to “Xbox/Microsoft”. Sure, Xbox veto power, but I think it was Zenimax wanting to close them (maybe Starfield didn’t sell fast enough or those studios had consistently middling sales), and Xbox’s hands-off approach means they let it happen. Sure companies have too high expectations, but let’s remember they weren’t exactly all that successful either. And Xbox coming out to say Hi-Fi Rush “hit all metrics” sounds like a coverup for poor sales, because if it sold well (made money) you’ lead with that instead of hiding behind GP players. Which no one even knows what constitutes as “successful”. Doesn’t matter if existing subs are playing a game, it doesn’t increase profit, only a new sub bump will. And you never know if they would’ve unsubbed until [insert game] came along and kept them subbed.

[@mercenarygundam1487]

Any wonder why I think Gamers are a special breed of lobotomized chimpanzees?

[@Sloptopia]

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[@Beany2007FTW]

@@mrshmuga9 "And Xbox coming out to say Hi-Fi Rush “hit all metrics” sounds like a coverup for poor sales" Sales is a metric. If they hit all metrics, then there's literally no performative reason to shut them down other than "woopsy, we pissed billions away buying actiblizz (or whomever they've bought recently) and need to now show shareholders we're still making a profit - time to sack some staff to shore the numbers up"

[@jkitty542]

I have no idea what EA was thinking with that Dragon Age trailer, but they obviously thought better of it by releasing twenty minutes of game play immediately after, and then sending the game director on an interview spree when she could tell everyone who would listen that the trailer was a marketing fuck up and the game's good we promise.

[@JaimeNyx15]

Considering they had massive layoffs a year ago, I’m surprised they had gameplay to show off at all.

[@hawkins347]

@@JaimeNyx15 I mean the game has been in development for 10 years at this point. They must've been doing something.

[@MILOPETIT]

​@@Richforce1 Was there a single mention of queerness or are you just getting triggered by the empty space you're shadowboxing?

[@MrRawrCEO]

@@Richforce1 Given how gay and successful Inquisition was I feel like people can move past criticizing game companies for identity politics and criticize them for just making trash gameplay.

[@MILOPETIT]

@@MrRawrCEO BASED

[@Dethmaster64]

Another year, another corporate event showcasing over-produced series of pre-rendered animations

[@Spazcakes]

"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee!"

[@johnbone0115]

ARMS, Labo, and Ring Fit are all pretty unique new Nintendo “ideas.” Only the last of those was highly successful though.

[@tortoiseoflegends4466]

The majority of games announced at Summer Games fest were indie games. People just focus on the big corporate presentations but Day Of The Devs, Wholesome Direct, Women Led Games and Latin American Games showcases had a shit ton of cool looking indie titles.

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

Not just prerendered but very clearly pretty fake 'gameplay' - that said it was a genuinely impressive xbox lot and Yahtzee's pedant fedora BS could really do with calmin on this one. He's always had a chip and there's a lot of people working their arses off on these games that surprisingly mostly had some real voice and an intriguing world. That shouldnt be dismissed so easily. Just cause his game stinks....

[@galactaknight1017]

The killer bean game was a highlight of the summer games fest for me

[@Dafuqinator7]

I was disappointed it didn't even get a mention. I hope he'll give it a review when it comes out.

[@somestupiddudewithayoutube4676]

Peak of media Nothing will top it

[@BigDaddyBland87]

I'm glad Yahtzee pointed out the hypocrisy. I thought I was going mad.

[@Beany2007FTW]

It's Hard Core Capital G Gamers - they're like toddlers, in every way. Quick to tantrum over nothings (And deliberately ignorant of *real* problems like the very serious abuse accusations at major studios, but quick to scream at the top of their lungs because characters are showing less tit) and then immediately distracted by a set of keys being jangled in front of them. It's pathetic, and that particular subset of 'hardcore gamers' deserve every last drop of mockery aimed at them. And no, the gaming PR....sorry, """press""", aren't much better.

[@desertbat55]

Fucking THANK YOU! I felt like I was going crazy seeing everyone forgive Microsoft Gaming's bullshit thanks to a few cgi trailers.

[@Electric0eye]

Seriously. If you still want the games that badly after everything they've done, piracy is easier than ever. Doing the right thing only costs $10 for a VPN after all.

[@Smerph]

To be fair most of the things showed at Microsoft aren't actually part of Microsoft's studios, so games like Expedition 33 and South of Midnight will be spared the Shutdown Curse when they finally release

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Same here...

[@gustavohuehue7460]

​@@Electric0eye OMG, THEY CUT NON PROFITABLE STUDIOS, THESE FUCKING CORPS, LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING... Proceeds to advocate for boycott on other games from other studios, lol

[@jkorok6357]

​@@Electric0eye No, that is just as bad as buying the game if not slightly worse than buying the game. The only thing pirating the game tells games studios is that they made a good game and they should increase their anti pirating measures. Since people still clearly want to play the thing. Pirating is never the right answer. If you want boycott, do it properly and don't play it at all. And buy games you don't feel the need to pirate.

[@parkerdixon-word6295]

From "Ubliette" to "Star Cry" in less than 30 seconds, Yahtzee coming out the gate too strong to keep up the energy this time.

[@geldonyetich]

Second Wind during Summer Game Fest coverage: Heeey, stop being so negative in the chat, guys, these games aren't terrible. Yahtzee's Fully Ramblmatic: HELLO! It's triple-A! You know, the machine that kills all creativity? Why aren't you being more negative?! You're tearing me apart, fam!

[@dr.cheeze5382]

Hey, I think that's a good thing. Means the crew didn't tragically all get infected by a sapient hivemind parasite with a surprisingly good sense of business strategy.

[@ngchloe4877]

Finally, someone else bringing up how weird it was that people just forgave Xbox after their showcase, when we really shouldn't be imo

[@alexlyster3459]

It's not so much that I've forgiven them for that, but I'm not going to spite the work of their other teams either. That's just more likely to lead to further layoffs.

[@oldred890]

@@alexlyster3459 "The beatings shall continue until morale improves" energy right there.

[@Tustin2121]

Just do like I did this year: skip all the big name events and any discussion around them and just start watching from the Wholesome Games Direct onward, to see all the hard working indie games and what they’re doing.

[@alexlyster3459]

​@oldred890 Never said I'm not angry still. Just that I'm not angry at their developers, just the management. Undead Labs and Playground Games for example aren't at fault, so I'm not going to hate on their work. Part of being an adult is being able to hold more nuanced opinions and emotions than a baby throwing their toys out of the pram. Anger at the closure of Tango and excitement about other work coming from other Xbox related teams are not mutually exclusive. But sure, you go ahead and be too mentally undeveloped to comprehend that.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

"Weird"? More like, "Unacceptable".

[@MILOPETIT]

"Ubliettes", "Star Cry" This mf don't miss

[@4dragons632]

"The media rolled onto its back and offered to lick the crushed brains of game developers off the industry boots" Savage, but so accurate

[@edwardnewtonLA]

THE UBLIETTE.

[@JacobSprenger]

In my mind, Starwars Outlaws is the product of a reskin of whatever they had done for Beyond Good And Evil 2 up until the point when the last person at Ubisoft who wanted that game realised had left (iirc, to evade press on his own sh*tty behaviour).

[@kadosho02]

The sad part is, it probably is true

[@uberculex]

That's my headcanon now until proven otherwise.

[@planescaped]

This is a sound theory, best screenshot the date for later bragging rights. lol

[@johnnydarling8021]

Am I the ONLY one that is happy that Metroid Prime 4 is actually happening, and doesn't look like Duke Nukem Forever?

[@uberculex]

No, lots of people are happy. This is the negativity channel. When he likes something, he still nitpicks it.

[@johnnydarling8021]

@@uberculex I know, I've followed since the ZP days. It's just that *"Metroid looks like Metroid"* is such an odd complaint.

[@uberculex]

@@johnnydarling8021 Honestly, I'd take it as a compliment to Nintendo that he didn't have much to say about it. That's just the kind of channel this is.

[@BamaTears]

@@johnnydarling8021 I guess it could be read as him being discontent that the new game looks like it plays identically to Prime 3 despite coming out two console generations later. It's still a strange thing to say, especially considering minutes earlier he challenges games that were radically different from everything that was released before them from well established franchises.

[@johnnydarling8021]

@@BamaTears I don't think he meant it looks like a Wii game. (it clearly doesn't) IDK what he meant, but it just seems like "Water is too wet, 4/10"

[@GhostOfSparta305]

The part about Xbox at 3:02 is SO true. Show the crowd something shiny and they'll totally forget about all those AAA studios you just shut down for no reason a month ago.

[@TaborlinTheGreat]

Nintendo Direct was a good 8/10 and definitely the only actually exciting presentation this year. A new Mario & Luigi game, Donkey Kong Country Returns, an Old-School Legend of Zelda game, Marvel vs Capcom coming back, Ace Attorney Investigations 2 is getting localized, A NEW KODAKA GAME. Idk how general gaming community sees nintendo direct but for a lot of people, it definitely won this year.

[@ValentinF23]

Agree, but call it by it's real name, donkey Kong country returns returns returns

[@mrshmuga9]

@@matthewmuir8884_Donkey Kong Country Returns for a Third Time_

[@lord_shadowstar8651]

@@matthewmuir8884 or, Somehow Donkey Kong country returns

[@mrshmuga9]

It’s weird after a number of years now, to see people give the “award” to Sony/Xbox. Understandable if you like specific franchises that get brought up (I like some of them), but they’re almost always a year or years away. Nintendo’s MO has consistently been 99% of games shown release within the next 6 months, and only a very select few get announced/teased/shown earlier. But that’s not the entirety of their shows.

[@JorgeLopez-qj8pu]

@@mrshmuga9 This hole winner thing is a joke, most of the time we don’t know if the games are any good. Nintendo is the worst, our announcement to our announcement about an announcement will be announcement in sometime.

[@kingsleycy3450]

That was my feeling about Doom: The Dark Age too. Could have been easily a Quake revival, but they made it Doom because it's a more recognizable IP. Surely they can both co-exist

[@richardhunter9779]

Doom 16 already plays like Quake, what does it matter what it is called? Doom has the more interesting world, it's a win.

[@RealLifeAlias]

Doom was on the exact same spot quake was before it got recontinued. Why not have 2 big ips instead of one? Remember, if this was a quake game instead of doom 3, it wouldnt have to live up to doom eternal standards, and no one wants to buy a game that is "not as good"

[@planescaped]

Yeah, I was unmoived by its reveal. Another Doom, this time with Hexen and Heretic! Can't wait for Doomguy to team up with the Trix Rabbit and face off against the evil cereal mites...

[@eetuhalonen9902]

Could've been a completely new game, not sequel to anything.

[@KingOfElectricNinjas]

@@planescaped Say what you want, Doomguy would make damn well sure that rabbit gets to have some fucking Trix.

[@KainGerc]

Me literally when seeing that Metroid Prime 4 trailer: "yep, it sure does look like a Metroid Prime game"

[@Bizargh]

Sounds like one too. I didn't think I'd hear that signature style of music coming out of a new game ever again, but there it was and it was beautiful! Something tells me that Nintendo is going to leave it's customers and/or enthusiasts to deliver a soundtrack release, as usual. And then promptly fight the demand rather than even attempt to satisfy it for themselves, as bloody usual.

[@steamtasticvagabond474]

@@Bizargh”how fucking dare you peasants ask to play our game! Ye shall receive no internet rations this week” -Nintendo

[@copycat2696]

Considering the sheer amount of indie led events at the SGF, I'm kinda bummed that we only see the big corporate event talked about here... Especially considering the big critique here seem to be "should we really give that much of our attention to those corporations again?"

[@armelior4610]

this not-E3 episode is only for the "laugh at an industry tee hee hee", no point talking about more interesting stuff

[@FlukeyM]

I thought of Painkiller as soon as I saw the stake gun in that trailer. I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers that game

[@Kinos141]

I was about to watch a two hour event for this, but Yatzhee summed it up perfectly.

[@a_level_70_elite_raccoon]

It was rather disorienting when critics and journalists who had, not even two weeks beforehand, railed against Xbox/Microsoft and their bullshit to turn around and say "The Xbox showcase was sweet, that's how you do a showcase!" Like, what?

[@ISawABear]

I mean as a linear narrative is disorienting. But the reality is both statements can be true

[@mrshmuga9]

Which is an absurd claim because most of those big games don’t even release this year, or for multiple years. It’s yet another “next year” Xbox show. Indiana Jones will release this year, and maybe Avowed but we’re already halfway through and it doesn’t even have a date/window, so I’m betting it gets pushed to 2025.

[@alexlyster3459]

​@@mrshmuga9Avowed, Indiana Jones, Age of Mythology, Stalker 2 and Flight Sim 2024 are all this year alongside numerous of the other 3rd party announcements and major DLC/Expansions for ESO, Starfield, FO76, Sea of Thieves and Diablo. That's hardly nothing releasing this year. As for 2025 there were a fair few as well. Fable, DOOM, South of Midnight, Expedition 33 etc.. with State of Decay and Gears E-Day both rumoured to also make that year. Xbox are just shy about announcing dates after the lockdown years. I mean, we hadn't even see anything of Indiana Jones until the start of this year and set to launch this year, so it's hardly unfeasible that SoD3 or Gears might get a 2025 launch window come January's Developer Direct. I think we've just got to accept that we'll be getting dates closer to launch than we used to.

[@mrshmuga9]

@@alexlyster3459 People aren’t going apesh*t because of FlightSim, Age of Mythology, and Stalker 2. It’s from Gears, Fable, and Perfect Dark which aren’t coming this year or anytime soon. Those are the big games I and they are talking about. Indiana Jones counts towards that, and I’d say Avowed but I think whether that releases this year is shaky, but it could happen. DLC is fine, but it’s not the same as getting new games.

[@alexlyster3459]

@mrshmuga9 A) Eome people are. I for one am VERY excited for Age of Mythology, loved the original as a kid. Stalker 2 is a big one for alot of people as well B) Fable is literally slated for 2025, and Gears likely is as well. Perfect Dark is probably the one aiming for lage 2026. But either way, even if AoM and Stalker 2 etc.. aren't the biggest, that's 5 full game launches and major DLC. Literally what more do you want from them in a 6 month period, as I highly doubt Avowed is getting delayed out of 2024.

[@Jarakin]

Yahtzee once again shows his talent for naming things. I’m definitely going to be using Star Cry

[@Pholadis]

blessed seeing the imp again

[@MilkshakeVA]

The hat... oh... the hat...

[@MissSallyB1]

the imp is dead, long live the imp

[@axelprino]

When a tradition is so entrenched that even the death of E3 and ZP can't stop Yahtzee's yearly June video about taking the piss of the games industry's announcement season

[@martymcfly5528]

I love that you can feel Yahtzee's seething hatred for major studios through every line in this 😂

[@MILOPETIT]

​@@Richforce1 Or maybe something with a well designed gameplay loop and immersive narrative. Who knows

[@flaco3462]

I'm guessing he can't muster much for Nintendo given how his comments on that were less than a minute long but I fugre that's more apathy and not much to complain about in general there he ain't attached to their games after all or maybe Nintendo just isn't pulling as egregious much bullshit as the other two are in comparison i dunno

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563]

​@@flaco3462 It's hard to get your hate stiffy up for a megacorp that produces tolerable games and doesn't engage in suppervillainesque business practices. Not defending Nintendo, just saying that "Nintendo pumps out another mediocre game, enforces their property rights" isn't exactly non-slow news day material, and we haven't had a slow news day in the gaming community in a while.

[@flaco3462]

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563 Yeah you got a good point besides Yahtzee doesn't have any emotional attachment to their game series as I've mentioned so he's got even less to say there

[@MILOPETIT]

@@Richforce1 Well no it's all art wether we like it or not

[@specificityarchives9920]

I love how Yahtzee and crew are no longer tied down by corporate partnership anymore. Good job Second Wind team, you all helped give actual journalism a much-needed jump start.

[@ScootsMcDootson]

If we can't have Peter Molyneux breathlessly and earnestly telling us everything that the game will have, that it will inevitably not have or at best an extremely watered down variation, then what is even the point of a new Fable.

[@keijimadarame]

The skull shrapnel launcher was the best part of the whole thing Yahtz. You have been slapped in the face with fun and have failed to recognize it.

[@AirshipPilot]

I bet you like Marvel movies.

[@kingt34]

My logic is that the state of gaming is so depressing at the moment, those who actually followed the news just wanted some respite and to be excited again about the future of gaming. But it's still depressing AF we'll never get a Hi-Fi Rush 2.

[@Electric0eye]

Gaming is arguably better than ever, but AAA is a dead, lifeless corpse and it's really starting to smell. If indie isn't the future of gaming then it doesn't have one.

[@JeskidoYT]

just unplug from the news media outlets, look at your game collection, and just enjoy a variety of games you've never played before.

[@TheJohhnyE]

What's more depressing is all the people who would have never bought hi fi rush 2. None of you bought the first game until the studio closed, and you just bought it to complain in the review section. 😂

[@kingt34]

@@TheJohhnyE I played it Day 1 on Gamepass and loved it, and will buy it on PS5 the day it gets delisted on Gamepass. But no, please, do go on making assumptions about me 😂

[@alexlyster3459]

​@@kingt34He's not making assumptions about you, but people in general. The fact is that it just didn't sell that well despite being fantastic. Theoretically that's not the be all end all for a 1st party Xbox game on GP, but I have to imagine it also didn't get high enough engagement their either to warrant the cost of a higher budget sequel they were pitching. Between that the industry wide contraction, and Tango being their only team in Japan and thus in a weird spot logistically, it seems like a case of them being unluckily the right team, but in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

The whole "What's Star Wars the Old Republic to you Ubisoft!?" reminds me of the advertising campaign for a movie called "Righteous Kill" starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino. The marketing played up the billing of the two and said that the were "together for the first time"... despite being together in the Godfather movies and Heat. I don't know what was going on in the heads of various employees at Overture Films...

[@thefierypaladin126]

I forgot how much I missed the old Yahtzee E3 destruction.

[@jifgamingcorner]

These annual roundups where Yahtzee widdles all over the hype machine and the summer trailers are some of my favorites. Glad to see the tradition continues!

[@Captain1nsaneo]

I choose to believe Doom Eternal is a Saturday Morning Cartoon in the Doom 2016 universe that's canon the same way the Battletech TV show is canon. I find this solves nearly all of Eternal's plot issues.

[@massdefection]

While I'm hopeful Fable might actually amount to something under new developmental management, I can't help feeling like it's doomed to meet the same fate it always does: trying too hard to show both the "funny" and "serious" aspects but never letting them play off each other in meaningful ways. Least it hasn't overpromised anything yet.

[@tyrus1235]

Without Peter Molyneux to overpromise it, it doesn't really feel like Fable anymore...

[@Degalon]

From what i saw before, it gives off very big "saints row reboot" vibes, in that its not clear who the hell the game is even FOR, because the older fans of the original are gonna hate this attempt to appeal to a more modern audience, and the "more modern" audience wont even give the time of day to this 20 year old brand theyve never heard of, to begin with. On its own, the focus on looking more realistic is already a red flag, the cartoony character designs were a big part of fable's identity in the oriignal games, gave it a storybook feel to it.

[@tjpeluso]

I was waiting for him to say "and practice shooting my Electrodriver" at the end there for all of us who still have nostalgia for the days he found Painkiller in the discount bin at Gametraders Robina.

[@BenCormier]

The “Ubiliette” my god

[@gdehms]

Astro Bot looks kind of cool though..

[@bobalinx8762]

Objectively the most interesting thing from the State of Play.

[@JeskidoYT]

it's planned to be Sony's best selling game this whole year.

[@Evanz111]

One of the first proper complements of the post ZP world - we are better off, and kudos for your recovery from it o7

[@freval2493]

This video is Yahtzee beating Microsoft to a pulp like Omni-man and telling off all amnesiac gamers, I love it

[@maninthemists2299]

And for those of us with an actual functioning memory, it was like Omni-Man beating Homelander to a whimpering pulp.

[@camwyn256]

oubliette Translates to "place of forgetting" And a pretty evil torture/imprisonment

[@geeshta]

The imagery is so perfect I had to pause each scene just to check every detail

[@lordrobertus]

There is one good thing for me happening cause of this summers showcases: Hearing about a lot of intresting indie titles i probably else wouldnt have heard about

[@Chajos]

Fully Ramblomatic, as always, goes for the jugular. Gotta love yahtzee.

[@lizzykayOT7]

The problem is a lot of game reviewers just avoid talking about the corporate shilling and evil because they want to get paid and "avoid drama". As if that ever went well historically. It's not like there isn't a market for these products, consumers are all exhausted and open to mindless indulges, even if it's not entertaining cause they've been bred to accept it.

[@probablypragmatic6893]

"and I guess...call the police", I don't know why that delivery hit me so hard but I laughed myself out of oxygen. Thanks for almost killing me, Yahtzee (again).

[@dorianhinkle5595]

Ahhhhh, here's the unmitigated vitriol I was missing.

[@DigiMatt52]

That, deer Yahtzee, is an Axolotl and it is adorbs.

[@shinimekekemee5828]

hey if we can get ubi to put out a lovecraft soulslike so that sony puts bloodborne on pc and ubi takes hit to the finances id call that a winwin, and i assume some of that bb money would go to fromsoft? which im basically ok with?

[@HaragothNAR]

Felt the same way, all of the other influencers I follow were all going on about how, "Microsoft won," and this was, "Exactly what Microsoft needed." Pisses me off how quickly everyone forgets, the trailers weren't even that nostalgic, it wasn't like we haven't all grown accustomed to these marketing tricks after a couple of years of the same strategy, I'd think people would have grown wise to this stuff by now, you'd think.

[@Axwage]

Appreciate the Leisure Suit Larry 4 reference. That was always my favorite game in the series.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

to show how little I care about E3, I did not even know it existed until about 2010, and I also did not know it died in 2021. And based on the vids I've seen, it was no great loss.

[@chrisjones5949]

"The Ub-liette" is probably one of the most clever jokes Yahtzee has ever written, and that's a high bar.

[@befayedocrimes4751]

I would argue that "just another Metroid Prime game" can only be a good thing and critically I think most publications would agree, but I get that after 7 years of cocktease, some people were expecting earth-shattering innovation. I guess us Metroid fans are just used to the wait by now. All that being said "The Ubliette" is sheer genius and I wheezed.

[@iambicpentakill971]

"The Ubliette" is brilliant and I love you for it

[@lenapawlek7295]

So true - the gaming industry's practices are like torture

[@Myrddin_Nebelstein]

1:41 Old Republic mentioned, i didn't expect this

[@ashuggtube]

U-bliette was •chef's kiss•

[@merman1974]

Ah, the snark is strong in this one. "Ubliette" was perfection, as was "drive off the pier into Prequel Bay".

[@pavlotverdokhlib7627]

The real not-E3 was all the SteamNextFest demos we played along the way. Albeit nearly all of them were of the AA variety, such as Steel Seed, Dustborn, Flintlock, Creatures of Ava, Project Tower, Hungry, Caravan SandWitch, Dungeons of Hintenberg, and probably a bunch of other's I'm forgetting. As for the big shows... Ionno, South of Midnight looked all right. And I did like the glow-up WuChang got, since it's previous gameplay trailer literally used FromSoft's combat sounds as placeholder. Now that 505 is publishing this "we have Middle-Ages Bloodborne at home" hopefully it'll hit the same way that Lies of P did. It was a really lean year on new exciting announcements overall, tbh. But that's... Okay? Because my wishlist is bursting from all the AA goodness coming this year anyway. And so much of it got demos, which only confirmed my desire to buy and play these games.

[@cameronpage8108]

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[@IndustrialBonecraft]

Doom's power fantasy being a digitally manifest midlife crisis - holy shit, yes.

[@empath69]

there's a reason we call the genre that this IP's initial entry spawned 'Boomer shooters'...

[@Mysticgamer]

​@empath69 I remember when fps were called doom clones. I think it stopped after halo but then they tried to be halo killers.

[@1Raptor85]

@@Mysticgamer that stopped WAY before halo, halo didn't even exist until the 2000s, quake, half-life, team fortress, etc were all well established by that time and FPS was already the common term. don't forget halo came out AFTER the big "golden age" of pc online FPS games.

[@paulbraley7179]

@@IndustrialBonecraft that was the only part of the video I didn’t like. I distinctly remember yahtzee praising the gameplay power fantasy stuff of doom 2016 and eternal. What makes this one gun so egregious?

[@TheCreepypro]

everything old is new again and nothing new is old we promise!

[@olo9127]

0:54 - "Bland, Overpriced shite" and shows Prey 2017. Damn, Yahtzee really has something against that game for some reason! it is an absolute banger though- one of the best immersive sims ever made. Go play it if you haven't.

[@bkgrila]

I was rather surprised to see that. Those are much much harsher words than he used in that Extra Punctuation episode. I guess I now have an easy answer if anyone ever asks me what Yahtzee opinion I disagree with.

[@KeithFraser82]

Fully Ramblomatic "quirky" indie rock track of the week: *Dream Crushing Machine* by *Organic Snark Farm*

[@viliussmproductions]

I'm actually really glad Yahtzee's been able to cover more smaller games lately.

[@AVoiceForRadio]

I remember over a decade ago when I was in highschool and loving the A Sassy Creedo games, I was joking with some friends that "No seriously, I bet the next game is going to be in feudal Japan. They're running out of eras where they can justify having conveniently placed piles of hay everywhere." I'm genuinely impressed they managed to wait this long to get to it.

[@teeboh99]

Probably some of your best work yet

[@planescaped]

_Beep-boop Please insert Ubi-soft product for consumption_

[@datalphalion]

Capcom is the unofficial winner of non-E3 2024: Terry and Mai in SF6, Marvel vs Capcom collection, and the Miles Edgeworth games all coming this year. Sweet.

[@selfcontrol316]

Legitimately angry Yahtzee always gets an upvote from me.

[@Ryvucz]

I didn't even look into Perfect Dark, saw the title and figured something wrong had been done with it.

[@GrimmerPl]

Holy shit, this episode was just straight fire from the start till the very end.

[@masterofdoom5000]

Yes I'm glad "gum" is in consideration to describe many AAA slop games, something you chew on past the flavour being present just to have something in your mouth to grind.

[@bandicootsauce4569]

I know I say this all the time, but you haven't lost your touch, Yahtzee. (:

[@bibliofowl]

You can tell this script was written before episode 5 of The Acolyte. People will definitely remember that.

[@onthedre]

Calling that Astro Bot game mid is the biggest crime here. It looks so fresh and interesting.

[@torcheddreadnought899]

Just finished the Jacques mckeown audio books. Great job Yahtzee!

[@Galgamos]

Thank you very much; this was very well scripted and fun to watch. :)

[@skyfall7819]

Well that aged pretty well you would think Yahtzee has seen a thing out 2 by now

[@angeldeb82]

LOLed at the Ubisoft Cow and the dog doing funny stuff! LOLed at some bits here and there.

[@eatit8262]

"Am I the only one who reacted to the gun that shoots ground up skulls of your enemies with "Oh come the fuck on." Yes you are alone there dude. Everyone else thought it was rad.

[@thenixer209]

The only game I was interested in at all was Wanderstop, a game which hilariously tricked everyone into going "OH GOD NOT ANOTHER BORING FARMING GAME" only to then have that last bit of actual f--king pathos and compelling emotion right at the end and _then_ had the reveal it was being made by the guy who did Stanley Parable and The Beginner's Guide. except I _forgot it was even in this showcase_ because it felt completely out of place, making me wonder if they were so lacking for games to show this year that they nicked it from the Wholesome Direct show, considering I believe it (and another game I can't remember the name of; the one about angrily struggling to climb a rock) was _also_ in both the SGF and Wholesome Direct showcases.

[@ninjachicken8939]

Fully Ramblomatic always serves up your weekly minute of headbanging fresh off of watching Yahtzee bang his head.

[@ArmoredChocoboLPs]

Not even a minute in and Yahtzee goes for the throat

[@VascovanZeller]

the transition between "boo microsoft closing studios" and "weee shiny new games, one day, maybe" game whiplash. Glad someone points this out.

[@syaieya]

If there's two things that really kept me tepid about this year's Not E3 it's that 1, every time I tried to call it Not E3 in conversation people wouldn't catch on that the phrase with talk of video games following wasn't some sequel they hadn't heard of called "Naughty 3" And 2, with all the biggest of names still able to parade their own wares, it made it harder than ever for smaller, niche titles to actually stand out. Even if you actively looked for Xseed's presentation going on simultaneously to Summer game fest or the Cozy Fest presentation that blended together as hard as when Nintendo had 5 farming rpgs in a single direct.

[@JorgeLopez-qj8pu]

"Nintendo had 5 farming rpgs in a single direct." Videogamedunkey: "maybe people should get a real spouse, then they don’t have play these terrible games anymore”

[@happymartin6778]

Ok I think I know why the intro pissed me off so much. Cognative Dissonance between "Shame the industry for being bad" and "I want to still consume and enjoy video games, and watch these dumb conferences with friends to laugh and moan at the bad stuff and coo at the stuff that DOES grab my attention." Also it feels like I SHOULD do something, but I don't know what you can do anymore that's actually fungible beyond just calling AAA a bunch of assholes and hoping maybe the rest of the normies can join in. But at this point it feels like utter futility.

[@rast29]

the magenta light diffusers they built into the street in seattle to illuminate the subternatian city are quite charming. I actually went then just after watching the VTMB2 gameplay trailer; wonder if that will ever be out. this post is entierly because you said magenta.