SURVIVAL SPECIAL - RUST, STARBOUND, 7 DAYS TO DIE (Zero Punctuation)

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[@PorkpieJohnny]

I actually had a decent time in Rust. Some guy killed me and took my stuff, but, as luck would have it, I found a loaded gun and found him shortly after. So, of course, I did what any reasonable person would do. I shot the bear that was chasing him, approached him with my torch, and peacefully demanded my stuff back. He complied, so I gave him the gun I found as a sign of good will, and we went our separate ways. Also, I found a guy using fly hacks claiming to be Colonel Sanders and handing out cooked chicken to players.

[@blahthebiste7924]

+Porkpie Johnny This is the best comment I've read today

[@nephi-odandy9728]

+Porkpie Johnny i couldn't walk ten feet on that game without getting a spear shoved up my ass

[@MickleThaPickle]

+Porkpie Johnny Its been a while since I emitted audible laughter at something I saw on the internet rather than just breathing slighter faster/heavier - even at these Zero Punc episodes. But the last line of that comment made me do it. Thank you for releasing me. *Ascends to the afterlife*

[@camerontrivett3808]

Colonel sanders was all over the place

[@tehclood568]

+Porkpie Johnny Gaming Got a like for showing that not all video game players are savages. And would get another like for making me laugh, but it seems that repeatedly hitting the thumbs up button just switches on and off whether you like the comment or not.

[@thornajal1045]

7 years later, still my favorite episode. "Is that a gun?" "Yes. Is that a gun?" "Yes." "Well I guess we can be friends"

[@dellefranz]

I actually like the idea of a game that has reinvented classism without that being the intention.

[@ZeStreD]

Kevin Traberg It is an excellent psychology study/experiment that's for sure. Studying gamers in multiplayer is actually a really great medium for psych students.

[@dellefranz]

I suppose that's why there is a spectate option in many multiplayer games.

[@vengefulenigma]

well, the plague glitch in Wow displayed that exceptionally well :D

[@sweetcrosby]

Amazing what you observe when the masks are off.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

vengefulenigma: you mean this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident ?

[@Pharozos]

Al Capone - "You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word."

[@Mythricia1988]

"It's funny how many friendly people you meet when you have a gun" ain't that the fucking truth.

[@xvyperxx1]

***** As they say in any country that does not allow guns "I'm fucking happy all these idiots in my country don't have access to firearms"

[@Mythricia1988]

***** So, anywhere other than the united states? (< that's a half-joke) Armed crime is nearly unheard of in most of scandinavia. And rarely aimed at private property when it does occur, which, as I said, itself is very rare.

[@marshallscot]

Mythricia Good for Scandinavia that 95% of their population is the same exact race and they don't have to deal with things like minority tensions, gangs, or drug wars.

[@fin101m]

Levi Newell then you have never been in a room with a east german and a west german

[@RomanThuesen]

fin101m I think that counts as political tension which is similar to minority tension but scaled up.

[@robertb7230]

"Funny how many friendly people you meet when you have a gun". As Capone said--"You can get more with a kind word and a gun, than with just a kind word."

[@Dgames101]

I built a gun in rust once. Met a guy around the same level. We talked about and traded a few things only to get sniped by his friend hiding in a bush. So I guess having friends is also on the list. So I guess ill never win.

[@tomconroy5670]

its funny though cause in DayZ if you have a gun you are only friendly with new spawns. cause anyone with a gun is the enemy and might take your shit.

[@tuseroni6085]

question is: do you get more than with just a gun

[@hagamablabla]

Based on how Yahtzee's wish for more survival games turned out, if he had wished for world peace we'd probably be living in Brave New World's society right now.

[@irl_lizard7880]

Close one, then.

[@cipherclone2661]

Oh my Ford!!

[@greywalker505]

Not a very good thing.

[@SomeGuy-cn5vm]

Looks like No Man's Sky has joined the conga line "Starbound? Never heard of it. Also we have less content and are therefore different to the thing we've never heard of."

[@XellDincht]

funny i had the exact same though

[@jasper2256]

i thing it would actually go: "Starbound? Never heard of it. Also we are first person and therefore different to the thing we've never heard of."

[@makuru.42]

to be fair it made a valid efort to bring content

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

These comments are four years old

[@danielrahov6039]

Well this aged like milk

[@tipsheda]

1:20 actually, the planets loop around so that if you keep going to the right, you'll eventually reach the point you were originally at. The distance you need to travel to loop all the way around varies with the size of the planets, too.

[@ExLegendaryHero]

I want to know the server Yahtzee was on in Rust. I died more times 2 minutes in via people with guns and me armed with my dastardly rock "Neville" in my current playtime than I think I did throughout my entire first playthrough of Dark Souls.

[@colonelcorndog]

Did you join an official server by any chance?

[@ExLegendaryHero]

Yes.

[@gardenclaw6995]

Nice Soviet womble ref xD

[@LordDeathwing17]

garden claw I thought Womble’s rock friend was Clive? P.S. I know you’re talking about the Nevil, the guy he plays with.

[@joelsean1966]

"It's almost as if the NRA was right all along." Comedy Gold.

[@Shaun_Jones]

Ironic considering he's Australian.

[@Ligma.69420]

That's actually the basic concept. The beauty is in its simplicity. Although I admit as an avid gun supporter, some amendment needs to be made for people who don't care if they die. Almost like if there wasn't religious extremism and rampant mental health issues, it wouldn't be a problem.

[@squallsrapture]

+Shaun Jones English raised, moved to Australia, and living in the USA currently and at time of your comment.

[@MultiYoshiman]

god this is a lot more relevant now too

[@dmanx500]

Except the punchline is that they actually were right.

[@The7wc]

Actually the planets in Starbound are finite. I've circumnavigated several.

[@GamePilLP]

Well the world in all games is finite since at some point your PC will just run out of space to generate new parts. But i see what you mean. I never played Starbound but what would happen if you are stuck on a planet that has no more fuel? Are you just stuck there forever?

[@geoffreygualtieri378]

No, because pretty early in the game you get access to what is called ‘the ark’, which is basically a hub for all the story missions and different shops where you can buy various goods. One of these shops is a convenience store where you can buy fuel for money. So no, you cannot get stuck.

[@funybirbman3813]

You only need fuel for inter system travel. Interplanetary is infinite

[@White_Tiger93]

But turned out terrible in the end lmao

[@pinkiepie6443]

Yet another reason I am tempted to play rust... WHEN ITS FUCKING FINISHED.

[@Mr_T_Badger]

Did you ever get around to it?

[@pinkiepie6443]

@@Mr_T_Badger Nope

[@dafeels3085]

@@pinkiepie6443 gaming’s top 10 sad moments

[@swl1020]

@@pinkiepie6443how about now?

[@pinkiepie6443]

@@swl1020 played it, made a nail gun, got mauled by a bear and a fellow nekkit, gave up after 5 total hours, not as fun

[@shakesbeare-gaming]

In starbound, the worlds aren't infinite. they loop around so if you walk long enough, you'll come back to the place you beamed down at

[@TARINunit9]

Congratulations on being 7 days late to point this out to him, on the wrong website altogether

[@shakesbeare-gaming]

***** Does it matter if I was 7 days late? Who says I was pointing it out to him... I could very well have just been pointing it out to other KZbin only viewers like me... Think before you post good sir

[@TARINunit9]

Firake12 Considering 99% of people who watch this channel believes Yahtzee maintains it, it was a safe bet to assume you were among them

[@hautoa1513]

@@TARINunit9 sus

[@awsomeDualshock]

I do have to agree with his points on Rust, but I found it much more addicting. I think my favorite moments were finding an abandoned house, squatting in it to make sure no one owns it, then masterfully raid the shit out of the nearest rad-town.

[@MagWasTaken]

"LIVE AND LET LIVE" IN RUST? LET ME TELL YOU WHY THAT'S BULLSHIT.

[@cian104]

Why?

[@MagWasTaken]

Cian Deely About 95% of players (that number courtesy of my ass) will shoot you directly in the back/face on sight.

[@jonathanjoemama4885]

MAGTF167 How funny it is when the player you meet has a chance of killing you that time you can become best friends.

[@Wizered]

MAGTF167 I actually remember a situation where I came across a base and the two guys living there were friendly. They gave me armor a gun, all that good shit, and then a fourth guy showed up and he was also friendly, I guess I just had a better experience in Rust and got lucky.

[@MagWasTaken]

Wizered Gaming luck is about the best description I can give that.

[@muneersmith6839]

An armed society is a polite society. -Robert A. Heinlein

[@w0lfkin]

While I love Heinlein, a brief perusal of the news shows this to be untrue.

[@SimplyAnime101]

w0lfkin Depends on which news you're watching. Go check out Switzerland. A politer, well-armed society you will not find.

[@Schinshikss]

w0lfkin Welp, that's because not everyone were armed.

[@cyonemitsu]

w0lfkin it really depends on who is armed, selective corruption is necessary.

[@MrZaloski]

Come down to south side Chicago. I can show you how polite your fellow armed mates are to each other there.

[@AlexanderWeaton]

For anyone going through an archive binge, 7 Days To Die has added most of, but not quite all of, the various things listed on the big colorful graphic.

[@leon2550]

1:25 actually, each planet starts to loop after not too long.

[@TenshizakiN008]

I was expecting the two story house to be the most vital human invention, but that's Yahtzee for you, always one breathless step ahead of you. *salute*

[@SatinFoxx]

Rust is like...If DayZ didnt have jackoffs shooting you for a flashlight. "is that a flishlight mod on your gun??" 'Yah, i can craft them now, if you give me the metal pieces, and a stack of wood ill make you one' "that sounds awesome" This is a conversation i made twice in this last week, once on both sides. T'was lovely.

[@tzokke]

Thats what you get when playing on those "PvE" servers

[@SatinFoxx]

nah, i play on PVP too, but everyone would rather keep their crap than kill someone else to find, like them, they only left the house with enough 9mm bullets to kill a bear, and a set of arrows for killing zombies.

[@SatinFoxx]

Adam Jackson PvE does exist, and is on many servers, its pretty nice :) a lot more working together than lone wolf stuff

[@smellygoat]

Adam Jackson Don't put your eggs in one basket.If you don't get killed or attacked point blank for just existing, you either get told to drop stuff they dont even want or suicide hacked over and over. And then theres player servers where the owners are legit 12 year olds with egos the size of Jupiter. You kill them for killing you. instant ban.

[@Trusseck]

smellygoat I had flashbacks to the Angry German Kid just now. It was an unpleasant experience.

[@skreefgeore6983]

Now Rust isn't so friendly. You find someone else at the same position in the game as you, they gun you down, call their clan of 27 people, and they blow up your base just to screw with you.

[@gorkaaustin5306]

That's why I play DayZ.

[@skreefgeore6983]

Yes but that aspect makes DayZ fun, it is not such the case for Rust.

[@nothuman3083]

my experience is they they kidnap you into a slave army and use you as cannon fooder when they attack a base or gathering resources, slowly gaing status until you're leading a group of raiders collecting nakeds for your slave army,

[@SlingingHashSlasher]

0:40 - 0:44. Holy shit that was fast!

[@tejmouse6869]

thats just yatzee

[@patrik2106]

zero punctuation

[@lutherholayeahme7449]

It's amazing how many friendly people you'll meet when you got a gun. It's like the NRA was right all along .

[@CommanderM117]

are you friendly

[@lutherholayeahme7449]

CommanderM117 that depends. Do you have a gun?

[@CommanderM117]

i do do you have a gun

[@lutherholayeahme7449]

CommanderM117 I do

[@nujumkey]

in the game of course. IRL i wouldnt do that unless i was an edgy teenager

[@Secret72062]

All Hail the King of Game Reviews

[@elgatochurro]

yatzhee is more of a comedian than a fair game reviewer :/

[@Secret72062]

elgatochurro or comedian

[@THEMaverickLucky7]

More like the only harsh critic that we love to watch criticize things.

[@elgatochurro]

THEMaverickLucky7 its not a critique if you're lying.

[@Jaceblue04]

If I ever play Rust, when I meet a player with only a rock, I'll tell them, "Follow me. I'm setting up a safe haven."

[@mullent169]

Yes, you gather them all together simply to murder them all in one gigantic genocidal rage. :)

[@Jaceblue04]

tom mullen No, I give them a place to live.

[@Greenleaf_]

More like, you walk up to person with rock and say you'll be nice. You turn around for one second and he pulls a shotgun he had rammed up his ass out and blows your brains out.

[@GAMEPRO24X]

Outer Haven? are you Big Boss????!!!

[@Jaceblue04]

GamePro24X Nope

[@razorfinch2714]

Between sandbox games, multiplayer only shooters, and QTE movies it's sooooo hard to find a good game these days.

[@squeegeemcgee]

I think Starbound is great as a sandbox game. So is Minecraft. Course shooters and QTE movies are.. Well I mean that's self explanatory.

[@augustinetoth8715]

I have high doubts you will see this but you should review Starbound again. It's much more advanced and the kinks you described have been removed and replaced. Also the planets aren't infinite. They circle around so you'll end up where you started (eventually).

[@RabidPetRocks]

+Augustine Toth This! Plus the mod community is pretty great, as well. :)

[@griffinlynch482]

XS mechs ftw

[@SinfulCreature]

+Augustine Toth I agree, I love Starbound and would love to hear Yahtzee(hope I spelled that right...) point fingers and inevitably make fun of Starbound a second time. Version 1.0 is right around the corner, too!

[@augustinetoth8715]

CMS the Pyro Ooh! 1.0! I haven't actually played in weeks... WELP, TIME TO GO MINE OUT A PLANET!

[@EsbenQQQ]

In DayZ there are no conversations between people with guns. If you see a gun, you shoot the owner before they see you.

[@RecklesslyPessimistic]

If you're really good, and have a mic, you can hold people up.

[@rushnready]

i have a mic and i always shoot or be shot, every time i try and talk i get shot lol

[@TheObscurityGaming]

Really? I line up my sights, crack a one-liner then shoot. You know, scare the shit out of them.

[@rushnready]

***** I must admit the first people i met were friendly but then again they didnt have guns lol

[@ThePancaked1]

***** are blood types a thing in that game? if so that's pretty funny

[@ace22508]

With starbound now officially out with the whole game changed(not just new features they kinda rebuilt it) since when reviewed it could a second review be possible?

[@NeoSaturos123]

Yeah, I agree. Honestly, I feel the developers should have just called the new version Starbound 2 and sold their original release as Starbound 1. Would stop a lot of anti-early-access people from complaining. .

[@nieildilsonsouza4747]

he could also review system shock 1 and deus ex invisible war too.... nope.

[@LaylaSpellwind]

The game seems to have dramatically changed and even with mods it's a pain in the arse.

[@rando1090]

I love Starbound, I preordered diamond tier so my name is in the credits. There is over 500 hours of logged game time on my steam account (I share with my siblings) and I still play it with friends every week. However, this is Yahtzee, I don't think a re-review is going to happen.

[@hawkeyegough9090]

he won't

[@LuigIan2000]

In starbound, I came up with a little strategy. I just build a fort with a hole in the roof, and just shoot the UFO through the hole and fix the roof whenever the UFO bashes it. Also, the planet loops if you go far enough, so then you have to leave the planet

[@ChrisCowhig]

I did that too,except i used a village nearby,the warriors in the village fight the ufo and then you don't have to do much.

[@Thoreaux]

starbound is terraria in space? Sold.

[@Ultrasound700]

The game is great and all, but I wouldn't say it's as fun as Terraria, despite having a practically infinite galaxy to explore.

[@MostlyMilesHigh]

It's a great game and the mods really pick up where the devs have (so far) left off. It's early access though, and they've been saying after the next update, they'll start releasing constant/consistent content updates. So... Expect wacky bosses and wacky armor and shit like that relatively soon! :D

[@TyosonPlays]

Starbound is about as entertaining as playing Xbox with no TV.

[@linkno1]

Tyoson Plays playing Xbox with *a TV

[@DanTheBoogie]

Shame it does not run on old PCs contrary to what they said.

[@SiggyCloud]

The last line killed me XD

[@brz757]

I am laughing so freaking hard over that whole last section.

[@Ginpie777]

awesome profile pic

[@SiggyCloud]

Ginpie777 Who?

[@KongreMiners]

Rust review was pretty great :p

[@calvinclark9478]

What does Yahtzee think of Don't Starve?

[@shadowstorm9787]

7 days to die is actually balanced and fun now (6 years later lol). Ive had it for a few months and have about 200 hours in it w some friends

[@Frenchhornhero]

"Hey guess what" "I shagged the dog" "WOOF" Send help, I'm dying from laughter

[@thedarkness6256]

+Philly Cheese He's long dead mate...let him go...

[@hyperslow1233]

+Philly Cheese I can't help but imagine someone calling 911 and then 5 months later, there's a decaying corpse on the ground and the paramedics finally show up and give it CPR.

[@BFedie518]

According to the comments section, Yahtzee needs to re-review all three of these games. He's not going to do that because there are too many games he hasn't reviewed to go back and look at some games again, but people apparently want him to

[@LikeAHardcore]

1. Fuel in Starbound = Coal 2. You travel to new worlds to find things like dungeons and pirate ships, which are rare as fuck.

[@Nexus742]

and also he can make his base on the spaceship

[@lakuslhah2417]

In his defense. Coal as rocket fuel is pretty damn stupid.

[@LikeAHardcore]

But wood makes more sense?

[@lakuslhah2417]

Of course not. But coal can be pretty rare in early levels and there really isn't much else that can be considered fuel. My first few days I was looking for canisters in towns.

[@LikeAHardcore]

***** I wish they hadn't removed wood as a fuel (it was in the first version) because you could easily get 1000 wood in a few minutes. EDIT: Also, Yahtzee, if you're reading this, try making Silver Armor and a Silver Hunting Bow and THEN the distress beacon. You'll completely destroy that saucer. (BTW, everyone agrees that the tutorial quests kinda suck. You could have at least read the description for the Distress Beacon)

[@letsgoiowa]

I've found that the best part of Rust is the drama between factions. You can't defend yourself if you're asleep.

[@Ben_R4mZ]

I think of the phrase "wielder of unlicensed rocks" on an almost daily basis.

[@wp6192]

We must build a wall to keep out them damn unlicensed rocks.

[@nadroj-oz6nk]

thay took ar JOBS! ;)

[@tefnutstemple7433]

Actually, in starbound planets loop. If you travel one direction for a while youll end up on the other end. Just correcting one one-off comment from the one game i've played out of these 3.

[@Swordofswordom]

Neat.

[@Swordofswordom]

On963 Watching Who?

[@Swordofswordom]

On963 Watching Oh, It's a paper mache thing I saw on the internet. :)

[@LockeRobsta]

The Rust community is great. Only a few hours into the game I joined a server and a dude shot me with an assault rifle within 3 minutes of me spawning. Then the guy revived me, gave me an assault rifle with bullets and a shitload of wood and stone. He then said "Peace nigga" and ran off into the distance.

[@How_Is_This_A_Name]

Oh snap, Can't wait to see what angry humor Yahtzee has for Starbound!

[@coconuthead1361]

"Almost as if the NRA was right all along..."

[@jcon5698]

Steve Stevenson Well they were...

[@coconuthead1361]

titties

[@jcon5698]

Steve Stevenson I hardly think that the NRA is really just a bunch of titties.

[@coconuthead1361]

nah bro. im just thinking about titties.

[@jcon5698]

Steve Stevenson Oh me too.

[@thewotsit]

Mutual assured destruction in game form.

[@TroPy1n]

"Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised." - Niccollò Machiavelli

[@angeldeb82]

So pretty darn funny, especially when the Yahtzee avatar doesn't know how to drop a rock before the sniper shoots him dead! :D

[@ShinobuSakurazaka]

The NRA joke was funny and tragically true.

[@murmaider2]

the NRA is right. An armed society is a polite society.

[@ShinobuSakurazaka]

I agree, I just thinks it's a shame that we have to live in such a world but I am pro-gun and a proud gun owner before anyone starts calling me a bleeding-heart liberal.

[@murmaider2]

We do our best to make the world a better place. Keeping the bad guys on edge is the best way to do it.

[@AntonAdelson]

***** Or the wild west :D :D

[@gingerjoe6702]

Why do that, we can see the effects in modern day Uganda, or many other Civil States in South America/Africa

[@TheTruePhoenixAU]

Liked just for the final text comment ("I wouldn't date someone who didn't promise early access")!

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who had that same exact experience with Starbound.

[@Chaos-Devil51]

It's funny how many friendly people you meet when you have a gun. I'm adding that to my life quotes.

[@daxtergalaxy373]

"It's almost like the NRA was right all along." Ain't that the fucking truth.

[@Deadlynightshade9]

And Minecraft was all "Infiniminer? Never heard of it!"

[@TheInsomnicat]

Except Notch multiple times gave credit to Infiniminer where as the other games were like what no we thought of this game all on our own

[@killer-ws3lf]

TheInsomnicat Altough I'm pretty sure that the makers of Terraria did admit to having some inspiration from Minecraft, Notch himself even supported it.

[@BJRadianceMurphy]

TheInsomnicat Except Starbound is made by people from the Terraria team. Little bit different than the others.

[@awesomen8]

BJ Murphy False. One of the sprite makers was from Terraria and led the others to the 'feeling' of the game. As far as I know there may be one other from the Terraria team, but the Chucklefish team has 14 developers, and I have not heard of any others. You can't just say "It was made by the makers of Terraria". Massive overgeneralization.

[@CiromBreeze]

TheInsomnicat Except they weren't. Redigit (The [only?] Terraria programmer) said a fair few times that he got inspiration from Minecraft, (not to mention that Terraria is pretty much the only reason The Ender Dragon exists, as it got made right after Notch played that game - him immediately deciding that Minecraft needs more bosses.) Starbound, on the other hand, has Tiyuri, one of the old graphics artists for Terraria. And, like the Minecraft thing, Starbound doesn't even hide that they took inspiration from Terraria, and Starbound's been advertised on the front page of Terraria Forums a fair few times, too (Pret-ty sure by Red, too!)

[@stikenir8980]

7DTD developers listened to you, guns are rare now and the game (unexpectedly) is better since you focus more on the crafting than the looting :3

[@xtrucky]

7DtD is actually great fun now that A13 is out. guns are few and afar between and also have the durability of wet tissue paper, so 90% of your combat involves hitting zombies with an axe (which requires several swings) and saving your precious precious ammo. At least until you reach late game and then you're basically a demigod

[@Creationsofmyown]

OMFG how can all these games only be 5:20

[@RobertAniFreak]

Because most of them are the same thing, Survival game with blocks, sirvival game in 2d, survival game with zombies and/OR aliens Spawn with nothing, beat some wood, craft some shit and survive... Its like asking "Whats the difference between the shooters", None you shoot things

[@SatinFoxx]

RobertAniFreak ....I absolutly adore that discription, and shall now proceed to direct people here when they ask "whats the difference between DayZ and Rust."

[@elgatochurro]

animewisher the players it seems. in DayZ, players just same to go around and kill people that aren't your friends for supplies and for fun. where as in Rust, it seems the players don't want to fight anything thats got a good chance of killing them as well.

[@purebloodedgriffin]

Rust is more crafting based

[@TherrusD]

Dat Rust experience....indeed very accurate lol...though I like to rob my neighbours at times...yaknow one might get bored with all the deer antler shotguns.

[@jackotherobot4226]

1:11 they just predicted no mans sky

[@Kelgoroad]

It is funny how all of these games have changed so vastly over the years while him mentioning DayZ which is almost the same was it was 4 years ago.

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

First of all, in Starbound all planets are finite, and there are tons of random gen dungeons.

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

***** second of all jack shit

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

***** Don't ask me what i meant to say nearly a year ago, i have no clue.

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

***** i have memory issues

[@fireryfists]

can you review don't starve on steam?

[@DevilSlayr]

i think there was a reason dont starve was drowning in the pool of blood...

[@elgatochurro]

Daniel Stevenson actually, yatzhee is more of a comedian than a fair reviewer. as for don't starve, i'd say its probably the most interesting and well polished indie game I've ever gotten my hands on. its survival in every aspect, after lots of deaths and retries (game allows you to have 4 save files and custom worlds of your choosing as well as even mods if you care for them) the most i can say is theres always more surprises in the game, theres a simple list of what and how many things you need in order to create something. the 2D flash view that affects all cash games that aren't side scrolling are fixed (you can easily turn the camera as well as zoom in/out a fair bit). its intuitive, quick to figure out how to do things yourself and completely hands free learning and exploring experience with random generating worlds. unlike minecraft, theres a constant need for food (you need an actual decently sized meal or small fewer meals or you'll die in a few days which can be harder than it seems when i say it but its because it takes a few days for the vegetation to grow back after you've gathered it. making even migrating a problem because there can be enemies), fire (for the night), etc. the "crafting" is more about having necessary resources meaning you have to travel in order to get to more environments in order to build the needed things and they're all useful and weapons and traps for different prey can be used, as well as even baits. food and weapons will lose their usefulness if not eaten and spoiling and broken meaning resources are a constant need. if you don't have food, you're going to stop whatever you're doing and go get food and the game gives you adequate time for doing so but the game also makes hogging some bushes for berries forever impossible. enemies form normal to very strong will also come looking for you at certain times of the moon, year, or they can even just be relocating, etc. imagine that, a survival game thats actual about surviving the wilderness, not just until you get the best armor/weapons and nothing can really kill you. not only that but the story and world of don't starve are so unique, interesting and just downright amazing. (yes i love this game and i think you're a dolt for not even checking it out but going to say its just another mess like terreria, even mine craft was a mess in my opinion form what I've heard and seen in quite a lot of gameplay of it)

[@DevilSlayr]

elgatochurro id agree with that, i mean the dude has like what 300-400 reviews and i can honestly only think of maybe 25 games this dudes given a good review thats a tiny amount. also just to be clear i never meant DS was bad i enjoy it greatly and find it a very challengeing but fun game. i was just pointing out that yatzhee has a reason for putting it where it was and i didnt look good.

[@DOTA2FroggyStyle]

7 Days to Die still has a lot of potential if they try to focus on the tower defense type of aspect.

[@DOTA2FroggyStyle]

Not worth the price they want for it though.

[@gingerjoe6702]

DOTA2FroggyStyle I agree, even though they reduced the price its still buggy as fuck, and needs work, but its slowly getting to be a complete game, just wish they would modernize the admin console, running a server is glitchy as fuck

[@DankLordDemaar]

I love that mouth noise he makes at 0:39

[@Kaalcite]

If you want buildings with boobs, try huffing cat piss. At least, that's what South Park taught me. But, I suppose you can't believe everything you see on television.

[@pawkisser]

Im starting to see you more

[@Kaalcite]

Filthy Did you just get glasses?

[@JackandSally4ever]

Oh how I hope he reviews Don't Starve. I feel like he'd enjoy it. But then again, he is a critic, so I will keep my hopes down.

[@MisterAleksandr]

A very sardonic critic who likes to poke fun at the flaws of everything. He does give credit where it's due in most cases though, so as long as you don't take his critique of your beloved game too personally, everybody can be happy :D

[@gingerjoe6702]

MisterAleksandr My Favorite is his review of DayZ "At most Unreasonably Cruel" Gold....

[@y.7162]

the ending with the nra friends with guns one of the funniest endings ever mate good work :)

[@formdoggie5]

Actually, it has been my experience that when everyone knows that everyone is armed they are infinitely more well mannered and respectful (6 years military [half that special forces], 4 years various forms of contract security, 3 years bouncing for clubs and private security, 2 years rent a cop variety security).

[@Deadjuice360]

I disagree with him about Starbound, but that's only because I'm the type of person that doesn't mind looking up everything on a wiki for an hour before or during play. I'd love to see Yahtzee try to play Dwarf Fortress. I don't mean that in a snarky way, I seriously would like to see him do a review on it. I fucking love that game, but it takes a half dozen trial and error campaigns and a couple hours of wiki research, just to be considered a noob. But once you get past that barrier, it become absolutely addicting, even as a noob who is still starving his dwarfs to death due to bad planning on his 12th game.

[@Portalcrafter51]

but the planets in starbound aren't infinite ....

[@gameglitchersweb]

Yeah... i know i've played it i've went right for some time and found the same dungeon that i had raided from the left side.

[@AdamArchangel]

Gage Glitchers If you keep walking in one direction you'll eventually end up back where you were. They're circles, essentially.

[@PseudoEmpathy]

People like you are the reason for all the points made in this video

[@jameskoch9567]

I found Rust to be quite fun when I played it, which was right after they mulligan'd out the zombies and made them red wildlife. Building things is fun but there was a sort of primal pleasure in ambushing a gun-wielding player with a rock. Intentionally living as a raider of sorts was fun.

[@SparksHardcoreMusic]

Loved the end of this video lmao.

[@IC-xk4gi]

Starbound is quite the game really, even a capture system a la pokemon and many more things, the boss battles are now instanced in personalized dungeons and saucer became optional, you played a really broken/unpolished version, you should try it in a few months with the 1.0 on. Terraria delves far more into action/rpg and depth than minecraft, gets quite amusing nowadays

[@leubzo1436]

got it on sale. 130 hours of gameplay for 1.99$. terraria is one hell of a great game.

[@ShadowHunter120]

Worth noting that the distress beacon thing from starbound is just removed now.

[@discipleofdeath2517]

In Starbounds defence for the UFO boss being a shock to people it does give warning signs if you read the quest text.

[@Jaceblue04]

I've got a good idea for a zombie survival game: an RPG where you have only one goal: survive. You have to create a safe-zone where zombies can't get into, and then find survivors and bring them to the safe zone. You start out with one of two weapons: a knife that won't break after a certain number of hits like most other melee weapons, or a 9mm pistol that has unlimited ammo but alerts zombies and hostile humans to your presence.

[@Jaceblue04]

***** Single player only, forgot to add that part.

[@Jaceblue04]

***** I forgot to mention, it's single player only.

[@PopeHeavy]

Jaceblue04 So, it's "State of Decay" then.

[@Jaceblue04]

Pope Heavy Never heard of it. So much for that plan, then.

[@tlb963]

I have a better Idea, I RPG with character development where you start by picking your situation such as coming home from work, being at work, or being at home which has different outcomes such as, finding weapons people and zombies faster if your in the city at work, medium of all when at home, and small amounts coming from home, zombies only die when being shot in the head, and there is around ten endings, but that's my quick rundown of my game...

[@conner4547]

I've got a good idea for a zombie game....NO MORE FUCKING ZOMBIE GAMES.

[@EllieBergeron92]

Dayz is the last one to come out legit. I hated all the others

[@adrianburt9141]

Samuel Bergeron The Last of Us is the only one I need.

[@EllieBergeron92]

Good point, should've played it. Watched a few "let's play"... Still, I prefer Dayz for the MMO perspective.

[@Fr0ns]

Rust is not a zombie game, yes it has zombies in it. However, they form no threat whatsoever and have already been replaced. The zombies were just a placeholder. So they've replaced the placeholder with another placeholder for some strange reason. Now it's a backpack wearing wildlife game I guess.

[@ortzinator]

Fr0ns They were not a placeholder. It was going to be a zombie game and they changed their minds.

[@mindfulselfindulgence]

In my opinion, the best part of star bound is the modding. Also, you get fuel from moons.

[@ContinuumOfHarmony]

I LAUGH OUT LOUD at his rust imprecision.

[@magnus800]

NRA are never wrong. A armed society is a polite society.

[@michaelk9080]

MURRICAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@Dreamerx47]

Michael Kaminski you beat me to it :P

[@zackeryblackwell4349]

POST-APOCALYPTIC FALLOUT NEW VEGAS MURRICAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

[@Duplex39]

lol cause all those shootings in America didn't involve people having access guns that shouldn't of had access to them in the first place ... I don't get americans they have more random shoots than anywhere else yet they still think giving more guns out will stop it lol, that's like theres a drug problem, ok if we give drugs to all the kids in schools that will solve the problem, if everyone has drugs then there wont be the problem of people that don't do drugs getting hurt

[@Andrewza1]

Duplex39 those shooting occure when the victims do not have guns though. if every one had a gun what do you think would happen

[@ColonelMcboot]

I have learned that Mr Croshaw is horrible at Starbound :-3

[@autorobo1000]

You know... The whole "Live and let live" statement is quite accurate for most games with survival in them. Sure a sniper in DayZ will kill you no problem, but if someone has a shotgun, and you have an assault rifle, you both will be too busy watching out for the other to kill each other. More often then not, I made long lasting alliances because I had a shotgun, and was always within the "Insta-death" range for it.

[@NQPG]

Just one thought. the planets in Starbound are actually pretty small. you can walk in one direction for 10 minutes and you will have gone around the entire planet.

[@CoiledMTG]

starbound , terraria both acknowledged each other and minecraft but not following the devs i guess wouldn't know that

[@CoiledMTG]

also saying they didn't adknowldge each other but you didn't pull yours of thos similar games and used it in starbound. hmm .... thats kinda odd dont you think?

[@Techhunter_Talon]

Coilean Terraria was inspired by Minecraft. This is even more soldified by the inclusion of the Creeper Costume. Though using that bit of logic then it's inspired by Portal because the Devs wanting to add a Portal Gun item into the game as the next big...ish update was the Lunar Update.

[@EightBall099]

***** I believe that both games were inspired and borrowed from each other with later updates. Believe it or not Terraria came out six or so months before Minecraft. Go figure right?

[@CoiledMTG]

Kodiak Eaton are you looking at like release date after it got out of beta? Cause I'm pretty sure that's like as wrong as it could be

[@EightBall099]

I'm talking about the day one PC release. And I could be mistaken (the info is from wiki after all) But according to the games respective pages, Terraria came out months before minecraft.

[@abbygaleforcewind]

Rust is an entirely different game now

[@TheOmegaDMM]

Considering how enjoyable these videos are I must say this one was a cut above the rest for me.

[@HaplessNerd]

this was great! I'd love to see some "lets drown out" on these games. Also "more compilation of similar games" reviews (provided we could get them rather frequently...say two a week along with the normal review) but I understand that would be a lot of work.

[@MandaPanda3100]

Lol. 6 years later and 7 Days to Die is still in early access.

[@AmorDeae]

But I'm still dissappointed at this guy's inability to find out anything about a game before shitting on it. 7 days to die gives so, so many options. It's even easy go into the game files and customize the recipes. But he decided to put it on easiest difficulty, loot on 200% and cry about it being too easy.

[@MandaPanda3100]

@@AmorDeae I've been playing 7 Days for years and it's one of my favorite games so I tend to agree. Plus I actually don't mind the fact that it's still in early access because the devs are improving it with every update (have you played Alpha 19 yet?).

[@AmorDeae]

@@MandaPanda3100 No, I haven't yet, I've been busy lately (says in the comment section of a 4 year old youtube video), but I will soon

[@MandaPanda3100]

@@AmorDeae Lol. It's great. The new zombie textures are awesome.

[@chikenbone2]

i love you

[@gavinmahoney5402]

" How fortunate this community must be to have a watchman so dedicated to enforcing the laws against unlicensed rocks" I lost it then

[@arturkarlov3000]

you should revisit some of these (Starbound), cause time passed and changes were made.

[@AtemiRaven]

Make this game: 1. Zombies/ other pack-like scary creature. Preferably fast and zerg-like 2. Not an infinite world, but a highly detailed and MASSIVE world that is at least 75X75 miles large. 3. Multiple factions to facilitate PVP while not making it impossible for newbies. 4. NPC for new players to get started with, or harder ones for group play. 5. Resource system that is scarce to cause an economy to form, but not so scarce you never find anything. Have points of interest that randomly spawn for factions to contest over 6. Make night time a good idea by making the creatures more common and dangerous but increasing the chance of rare item finds. 7. First person shooter RPG that isn't entirely dependent on levels and everyone is dangerous. 8. Have faction zones that are relatively safe, neutral zones to be contested over, and enemy zones to invade. 9. All in one server. 10. Crafting system that is highly detailed, and equipment system with maintence required. 11. Skill system based on actually using the skill and it improving slowly over time. Bam, just combined: Minecraft, Eve, Seven days to die, Planetside, Borderlands, Skyrim and many others in one super game. Make that game and you can have all of my money.

[@Rebellions]

I would say you are a genius, and I appreciate the amount of time it must have taken for you to dream this up, unfortunately because i'm a pessimist, I will now go over every point you stated and counter-argue for why it wouldn't work. 1. I noted that you said "PREFERABLY" but if it turns out fast and zerg like this contradicts point number 3 by making the standard enemies able to swarm and kick the shit out of newbies in an instant (Taking into consideration that you wanted a horde of fast moving enemies and there is no leveling) 2. If there is only ONE server, there will not be enough room considering that EVERYONE who owns a computer would play it, so it would at least have to be half the size of planet earth in scale, which I don't think the latest and greatest PC's could run so point 9 makes this impractical. 3. PVP has not and will never be easy to balance out, especially in a game that is based entirely on skill, while still keeping it accessible to new players. Also each faction would have to have a specific purpose within the world or it would conflict with the whole "RPG" aspect of Point 7. 4. You need to elaborate here because I do not understand your meaning, NPC for new players? 5. Resources cannot be scare yet not scarce at the same time if everyone is on one server, which would lead to either a resource-abundant game world that caused no conflict OR a world so scarce for resources that anyone who got anything worthwhile would hold onto it for about 6 seconds before being beaten to death by EVERYONE for the next 20 miles over. 6. Thanks to point number 5, this would heavily conflict with point number 3 of leaving it accessible to newbies because nightime would be your best chance of finding anything outside of the bare-basics and will lead to many a pointless deaths to the cheap zerg-rush hordes. 7. This point I could agree on, if you didn't contradict yourself in point 11 as a skill system that levels as you use it more often is the exact same as just having a leveling system, its just thinly disguised and will still lead to the standard "Getting ganked by an asshole because he's 10 levels higher than you" only this time it will be "Getting ganked by an asshole because all his skills are maxed and yours aren't" essentially making it an impossible fight and traces back to my issue with PVP being impossible to balance while still leaving it open to new players. 8. Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of an open-world survival game where anything can happen if there are areas that are completely safe? 9. What about Veterans that want to do a sort of hardcore "No-respawns" mode Al-La minecraft? Or players who want to roleplay without constantly having their characters broken by the millions who AREN'T roleplaying all around them. What about people who only want PVE elements with no PVP business because it frustrates them, do they just get to eat shit? 10. to quote Yahtzee "You have 1 second to name any game in which weapon degradation has ever been a good idea" as for crafting, I don't see it as being that detailed considering that because of point 5, resources are either too easy to come by, or too hard to find to make crafting tenable. 11. As much sense as that makes as I already stated, Skill levels are the exact same as character levels its just alot more numbers for the micromanagement lovers who want their builds to be PRECISELY as they envision it, only without a regular leveling system there is no skill cap and with everything being on one server you will have 3 million people with maxed out EVERYTHING being allowed to freely bully new players that haven't even figured out what the skill tree does yet. Don't get me wrong, I think the game is a great idea and sounds great on paper, but then again, MANY things sound good on paper that in practice are essentially impossible, plus in order to make it not suck you would have to have many rival companies that design MMOS and other such games to work together for longer than 5 minutes and share profits, which would detract from their own MMO's profits which would in the end, make them less money, at least in their eyes since it is being split amongst so many "Rival" companies. So yeah I may be a dreamcrusher here but I don't think this will ever work in practice. Go ahead and dispute me if you can see workarounds for this, but I can't see companies like Blizzard, Valve, or EA working together for longer than 5 minutes on something like this.

[@abc.6223]

Jack Ream Well you both put a lot of time and effort into that one, wow.

[@AtemiRaven]

Jack Ream Dang it, someone crushing my dreams again T.T

[@Flire544]

I don't think 7 and 11 are compatible. Why would you level skills if a newbie with no skills is equaly dangerous as you?. About the number 5, have you tried Dead Frontier?. In that game, the economy is enterely held by players: gun are expensive, doctors gain money, cool clothing is f*cking expensive, etc. I think is close to what you want to say.

[@Rebellions]

Nabael Yeah I'm sorry bout that, i'm just a pessimist out to ruin peoples dreams. I really do think the concept is cool, but even if you could solve all of the technical issues I stated, I can't see all the companies with the skills required working together to do it. Though I hope that my criticisms helped flesh out your idea a little better at least.

[@masterofthelag8414]

Aww, poor ol' yahtzee. Should've tried fueling your spaceship with coal. How you'd know coal could power a spaceship is beyond me but it seems to work.

[@captainsalt9575]

A classic rookie mistake eh?

[@masterofthelag8414]

Ahh, nope. not really. I tried it thinking it was ridiculous... then it worked. -_- Unfortunately I never got far in that game, I beat the ufo first time through a combination of sheer luck and bandages but just never got into it like terraria

[@captainsalt9575]

I just sat in a cobblestone bunker with a hole in the roof, also ever since i got a mod that gave me a much larger ship i have been mainly exploring from there.

[@MD-ug7qm]

Masterof thelag you should try the new update, it's a lot better now

[@SergeantSarcasm1]

I gotta admit, the first time I played Starbound it was like 4am on Christmas Day (oh how cliche) and I couldn't even get wood from my planet without being pinned down and noshed on by the local wildlife. Starbound is fun once you get past the initial difficulty and manage to get a weapon and something better than a Matter Manipulator. And you can go into battle pantsless, so this game is always gonna be an 11/10 for me.

[@NAGleader]

I can't press the like button enough. This was wonderful.

[@cediddi]

Awesome review!

[@ZenodudeMC]

Thank god they changed starbound bosses

[@stanisawwisniewski5867]

Yeah, now you get sent to some sort of sci-fi environment where you can't mine or place anything, even though thats *the entire point of the game*!

[@PopCar]

Stanisław Wiśniewski ...What are you talking about? that's a base you visit for two minutes picking up quests and then leaving back to your planet...

[@stanisawwisniewski5867]

Ahmed Nassef I meant the boss missions.

[@PopCar]

Stanisław Wiśniewski adventuring, killing monsters, and looting is the base of the game. Mining is only to get resources. You want to go get resources on a mission?

[@stanisawwisniewski5867]

Ahmed Nassef Yeah because combat is such a complex system in Starbound

[@TheCubePortal]

the planets in starbound actually do have borders, if you keep going right you'll end up back where you started because it loops.

[@ImFangzBro]

Just a heads up, My experience with Starbound went more or less the same as yours, but being a survival wilderness game vet, I decided to use coal for fuel and that worked. everything else was the same. Down to the UFO asploding my house.