Far Cry 5 (Zero Punctuation)

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[@TruthJusticeVictory]

Fun fact! I live in a town in Montana that Ubisoft employees visited to get their locales/pictures/taste for the local folks, and one of the bases in the game is based off of a local brewery and restaurant in town. I had no idea until I came across the place in game, and it blew my mind. It was a perfect recreation, and I had fun killing the weird cult members in a place I've had dinner and beers with my family many times.

[@wurfyy]

Was it the prison?

[@SC-gy4cp]

In the Midwest people are just like that

[@simonkompe2164]

Now do it in real Life American Style Fuck Yeah.

[@jackbellinger8679]

I'd say the best part about this game was when this one character keeps you captured and you have to keep doing this little speedrun section where you have to kill everyone as fast as possible. However, the last time this happens, you whip around the corner expecting to see the final enemy you've killed three times previously, but this time its the resistance leader of the area. But because you're so well acquainted with it at this point, you've already sprayed him down and killed him. It was a rather neat idea that made me feel genuinely responsible.

[@ReplicantBattyman]

i clocked it was him on the final run but theres no way to prevent it which is a shame. i just waited for the timer to run out, it reloaded me in the previous room, then glitched and halfway through beating some guy up told me id shot him and how guilty i shoudl feel.

[@mr.meloetta1939]

@@ReplicantBattyman That's sort of the issue I have with it, it only really works the first time around. Granted, that's how most twists in stories work.

[@extremetoast5723]

@@mr.meloetta1939 I guess most people won’t play the game more than once anyway

[@BOYVIRGO666]

I hated that part because it gives you no choice. It just comes across as dumb and hackneye and even in the context of the plot it makes no sense.

[@shadoeboi212]

@@BOYVIRGO666 i mean it makes sense in that you and the character get conditioned by it to do it as fast as possible it was less well done then when spec ops the line did it

[@norbertcsorba4639]

"as good as a Ubisoft game gets" Yahtzee 2018..... get that on the box Ubi, it wont get better

[@TackX22]

“Sandbox game*” Addendum desperately needs to be added.

[@jurgenshantz4273]

TackX22 yeah. R6 is reaaally good

[@norbertcsorba4639]

in hindsight that move was a surprise from Ub Tom Clancys Ghost Recon: another Ubisoft open world Tom Clancys Rainbow Six: esport shooter Tom Clancys The Division: MMO Tom Clancys Splinter Cell: what will this be?

[@TJ-bg4fw]

Norbert Csorba either A) linear stealth action game. B) Open world stealth action gAme. C) Attempt to fill the MGS void

[@Glitch_in_the_Matrix]

Norbert Csorba Zero Punctuation is sooo 2009

[@CrescentGuard]

He was way nicer to that ending than I was. Though, I'm wondering if the Mass Effect interrupt system has spoiled me, because there were about nine different cutscenes where I was screaming at the screen, "I HAVE A MAGNUM! JUST GIVE HIM A THIRD NOSTRIL, YOU TWAT!"

[@colehartel7206]

I tried putting so many Magnum rounds into the sheriff's face, but that damned pornostached fucker still kept telling me what to do.

[@010203109]

EXACTLY. That freaking cult leader was begging to die and the best we get is watching him totally lose it and recite random scripture bits as a nuke appears out of nowhere. I'm still convinced he nuked the valley himself and the game that just came out being a spinoff seems to fit that theory. Because I'm quite certain at best one nuke should be falling in the vicinity of that patch nowhere. There are tens of thousands of better targets, so given the cult's weirdly infinite resources I'm guess he built weakish homemade ones and put them everywhere and no one noticed...somehow. That would've been a fun side mission, sneaking around defusing bombs for an alternate ending, but nope.

[@chrisb5005]

@@010203109 In reality, I don't think nuclear war would ever be possible. No-one on the planet wants a nuclear war, and as such, nobody in any government would ever start one. The Nuke is just disconnected from the story, and makes everything pointless. Honestly, this game is probably the best far cry game in terms of gameplay, but the second you enter a cutscene everything just becomes stupid.

[@chrisb5005]

@Channel07 Hahaha. 'Abusive relationship' I like that. Very true.

[@tabulldog2743]

2 years later and this is still one of the best KZbin comments I've read. so relatable and so true lmaoo

[@josephfox9221]

"deport the Vikings" Finnally, a political idea I can get behind

[@Epicmonk117]

Joseph Fox Don’t forget to deport the Knights too!

[@BifronsCandle]

Make England Great Again. Elect Aelfred.

[@sernoddicusthegallant6986]

pirate supremacist!

[@inconsolablepeasant1548]

*Odin will remember that*

[@merrittanimation7721]

Abolish the Danelaw.

[@themark443]

"The Ubisoft Sandbox, a phrase for me that must now be said with the same tone as the Rape of Nanking." Brutal lol

[@jhonshephard921]

For once, I would like a helicopter in a game intro to survive.

[@Rebellions]

When hell freezes over

[@KingRavenfilms]

#HelicopterLivesMatter

[@peytonmac1131]

When you first start the game and talk to the cult leader, don't put the hand cuffs on him. Eventually everyone turns and goes back home and the game ends, helicopter undamaged.

[@thijsverkest3744]

don't think we're quite ready for such revolutionary design.

[@liamf2300]

Prey 2017

[@thefoxoverlord]

You can heal the dog w/ belly rubs 10/10 Would Good Boy Again

[@DatGrunt]

Sir, you have my attention.

[@DatGrunt]

But is there a pet bald eagle?

[@kennetic9196]

DatGrunt sadly no

[@DatGrunt]

I'm a little triggered.

[@manofnam]

The Fox Overlord But Totally Not A Furry am I bad person for letting him get shot up, just to give belly rubs?

[@stasia2706]

"Talking condescendingly at you like a Bay Area health-food specialist." I actually laughed out loud at that one. Good job Yahtzee

[@iamfourmana]

S H O V E L S. Why wasn't there at least a sentence about shovels? It's the most fun you can have in this damn game.

[@punished7030]

Gotta hit that american bashing quota my dude

[@diegobrando6742]

The British are just self conscious that they went from most powerful nation in the world to a country with about 30 years left of being relevant

[@stasia2706]

He makes a ton of good points, I mean anyone with a brain realizes we are following in the footsteps of the Roman Empire, specifically with terrible wealth distribution.

[@Greg-oi6vh]

Anastasia Kaschak Oh yeah, our time is over. This empire has been in crumbling free fall for quite some time.

[@AubriGryphon]

Anastasia Kaschak Right analogy, wrong government. We're following in the footsteps of the Roman REPUBLIC, currently standing just short of the assassination of Tiberius Gracchus. We haven't reached the point yet where things are so bad we would willingly accept an emperor just to fix all the problems, and I believe there's still time to halt the process.

[@justinhardt1]

My favorite part of first playing this game in co-op mode for the first time: Going half a mile out to a river, hopping water plane, and seeing a large 'jesus' statue out in the distance.. then saying "Do we just fly over to it.. can we? I guess it is a sand box game", crashed into some people while landing and taking over the whole damn thing in the first 10 minutes of co-op mode. It only went up from there, somehow. Fun game, without a doubt.

[@docpepper3999]

At least we don't have to climb a tower every two seconds.

[@joecrazy9896]

I also like how they make a joke about that early on.

[@Gordon.Pinkerton]

I guess I'm alone on this, but I actually liked climbing the towers. Likewise with the viewpoints on Assassin's Creed

[@riteasrain]

Jacob Taylor Same here.

[@riteasrain]

I actually loved the challenge of climbing towers and the way it opened up a little more of the map.

[@azzzanadra]

But I love towers, my pet cat's name is tower, I grind towers and use them as shampoo

[@StarBlaster2000]

"Canada's frilly miniskirt." Don't know if that's an insult or a compliment...

[@jonathansotelo4877]

In the era of which femboys have gotten popular and accepted, I'm pretty sure it is a compliment.

[@stanard_bearer]

@@jonathansotelo4877 which is an insult in and of itself

[@Joniathano]

This is one of the most positive FC5 reviews I have heard so far. Is Yahtzee okay?

[@TV-cv1eb]

Far cry 5 is the best open world game in existence

[@timgreen9677]

@@TV-cv1eb Have you played Witcher 3?

[@TV-cv1eb]

@@timgreen9677 yeah combat was rather boring as far as melee based gameply goes

[@Joyful_Traitor]

@@kingt0295 I'd say Just Cause 3 for dumb fun

[@WillyMacShow]

Say what you want about this game, the coop is fucking hilarious

[@obesememeproductions9073]

WillyMacShow ayyy, you watch zero punctuation, love the channel! And yeah you're right the coop can be quite funny with a good friend

[@EmmettMontanaro]

If it had 3-4 player coop it would be the best game of this year.

[@obesememeproductions9073]

Emmett Montanaro yeah that would be awesome I have two other friends with the game and I wish we could all play at the same time

[@alucard971]

Coop is best from server side. Nothing fun happens when you're host. But as soon as you join a friend, bears are plants, trucks explode for no reason, and enemies become helicopters.

[@EmmettMontanaro]

Anthony Madden Both like borderlands?

[@apolloforabetterfuture4814]

"America's up to volume 3" he he yeah I'd say half way through 4 now

[@SonofIiberty]

i know right

[@punksoab]

It's 2022... we are now at volume 6 of the Collapse of Rome...

[@dr.bright6272]

I remember accidentally driving a Semi through an enemy stronghold because the marker for the mission was a few feet behind it up the side of a mountain. I didn't notice anything wrong until a bunch of people started shooting at me.

[@JABRIEL251]

I agree, the ending made me go "Well that was all for nothing..."

[@BrendanStuart]

Fun fact: You CAN get plopped back into the sandbox for post-game fuckabouts if you accept Joseph's proposition at the final encounter, getting that ending. You see the ending, and respawn at the last autosave, letting you clean up your leftovers, and reattempt the final encounter to see the other, more, err... final... ending.

[@nigelwestdickens6947]

"More depressing and granted that's why I seek out stories to actually feel something other than the usual background radiation of slightly aroused contempt" this hit too hard

[@Nyaliva]

I love the far cry 5 box art, for what it's worth. The most artistic thing to come from ubisoft in a while.

[@lyianx]

I actually kinda want to play this, but two things prevent it. 1. Requires an Ubisoft account (even on Steam). 2. STILL runs DUNIVO.

[@stephensmith7327]

I always love a good positive review from Yahtzee, or at least what passes for one sometimes

[@udhsids]

Stephen Smith what is this 'good review' you speaking of? I never heard of this on this channel before.

[@stephensmith7327]

udhsids entertaining and somewhat informative.

[@anthonycaruso1781]

udhsids watch the dark souls reviews. Just about the only 'positive' ones

[@udhsids]

Anthony Caruso (I know he have a few 'positive' video. Is just funny when he upload them.)

[@luman78]

He also enjoyed Minecraft as well.

[@brainflash1]

Far Cry 5 is actually politically correct: Saying that man buns shouldn't be allowed anywhere near politics is correct.

[@colehartel7206]

What makes a hairdo a man-bun, as opposed to being simply a bun? I'm going to guess it's sexist insecurity.

[@dragonheart1236]

@@colehartel7206 it's fairly simple. A bun on the back of the head, on someone who is traditionally male or identifies as male, is referred to as the style "man-bun"

[@Crystal_Dylan]

brainflash1 or Gun toying Republicans will kill us all with nukes

[@cretansuperbos2121]

@@Crystal_Dylan Some clearly slept through the last presidency.

[@nekrosprime8415]

@@Crystal_Dylan let's not forget that it was actually Biden who threatened to bomb the civilian populace in his comments on gun control...

[@nis5e]

03:36 "That's why i seek out stories, to actually feel something other than the usual background radiation of *slightly aroused contempt"* Brilliant.

[@waynewilliams7106]

I never understood why, after unlocking the airport, you couldn't just fly out for help.

[@TokyoKazama]

It wasn't about leaving. You're a cop ranger guy. You're trying to release the people from the tyranny of the hipster dudes.

[@waynewilliams7106]

@@TokyoKazama You're forgetting the game started and ended (depending on which ending you got) with references to getting the National Guard to help out. It would have made much more sense to fly to civilization and inform state and federal authorities about what was happening (also remember that there is a U.S. Marshal MIA). I'm not saying it was a bad game; I'm saying the access to airplanes is a huge plot hole.

[@shad8x936]

Its actually pretty fun, but I like almost all far cry games so i guess im one of those people.

[@andreiiiksavvv6054]

Shad8x without primal

[@ShubhamSharma-be5bw]

Shad8x me too

[@bobby2hands227]

I'm well aware they keep making the same game over and over. But I keep enjoying them (except primal, that was just shit)

[@shad8x936]

Yup, i agree with you fellas, Primal was just not fun.

[@peterheck2429]

Andrei Savulescu im one of you but fc primal was just pushing it

[@chetmanly6929]

One 'small hands' joke away from a Late Night TV monologue! Looks like you're settling into America well.

[@simran789654]

It almost seems like....He liked it ?

[@rosie8059]

Viewers: Did you like Far Cry 5? Yahtzee: Yyeess-ish.

[@tomstonemale]

@@rosie8059 Yahtzee's mind the good: ehhhhhh The bad: ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@SynthMusicWorld]

As a resident of Montana I can safely say the premise of Far Cry 5 is plausible.

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

Frankly I loved the ending. Yeah it bummed me the fuck out but it was a risky move and I applaud it. Takes serious balls to have the villain win.

[@Cowboycomando54]

All three endings were shit. Two of them seemed ripped from a B horror movie.

[@ernestmoreno8244]

Pajamapants Jack nukes don't explode that big people would have been often vaporized when it gone off all endings are shit

[@atomic747]

but he to invincible like he never got hurt from the helicopter crash or the truck or anything.he just like a marvel movie character just scratches here and there and only a bit dirty.

[@F0rys47]

Dude like WTF? Already spoiling the ending? It's 3 days for an episode, 3 weeks for game/movie and 3 months for a book... that's the golden rule for not being a spoiling... person

[@billqiu4692]

Not that I disagree that him spoiling was a dick move, but I've never once heard that time rule on spoilers before.

[@Ping404]

Far Cry 3.4

[@nickstav08]

Ping 404. Wow ur the first person to comment that on a far cry 5 video, your super original

[@Ping404]

Nicholas Stavinoha Thank you!

[@MrMetalforever5]

Doesn't make it any less true, this series is as much of a line graph as Assassin's Creed.

[@jedi196]

Nicholas Stavinoha he's just making a point that is basiclly true so yeah you're gunna see comments like that quite often on Far Cry videos, it's to be expected. So calm your titties.

[@RYNOCIRATOR_V5]

but significantly worse than both

[@djtoxicdhg]

It's sad most people won't get the rise and fall of the Roman Empire joke lol

[@bread8036]

care to explain?

[@The_Viktor_Reznov]

Then explain it, Master.

[@ProjectEkerTest33]

Enlighten we mere plebs

[@KevVIII]

It... probably is referring to around the end of Pax Romana and towards the division of Roman Empire. Thay fits perfectly to the current situation, actually.

[@Nikke-nn5mn]

>2018 >Reading a book LOL, nice joke grandpa

[@starscorpia4005]

So it's ok, almost good even.

[@anthonycaruso1781]

He forgot to mention how funny it is to watch cheeseburger the bear toss people around like ragdolls

[@KillerOrca]

Suddenly very glad that I learned there is, in fact, an ending. Now I know I have to finish everything before moving on.

[@Thecuregalore94]

That vat of Kool Aid joke may be the most brutal joke Yahtzee ever made.

[@lpenrike]

yatzee is the kind of dude who COMPLAINS when videogames dont go political when it should be the other way around and he should praise em

[@MCHellshit]

His new girlfriend brought him to San Francisco and is brainwashing him thoroughly

[@E_V878]

Man I sure love my apolitical games like Spec ops the Line, Bioshock, COD: Modern Warfare, Fallout: New Vegas, The Witcher 3... Politics bad. I like it when video games don’t say anything of substance about the world (what do people think they are, art or something?)

[@crazygamelover1651]

Anyone else appreciate that Yahtzee used a jpeg of an Arisaka in the rape of Nanking bit? I do.

[@yourgameisstupid]

No comment about the awful, unavoidable capture sequences and the absurdity of being captured so many damn times?

[@unidentified51535]

I'm quite surprised he didn't mention anything about the now regenerating health as a pretty big thing in the far cry series was the ability to heal with relocating your bones bandaging wounds and popping out bullets with a stick but all that's gone and I know how much he has regenerating health in video games so yer bit of a surprise there

[@theonuss6607]

Definitely a downer. I also love being an unkillable mute Terminator in a biker outfit as I Molotov cultists while throwing knives to and fro.

[@mccarthy0096]

so when is Escapist going to be renamed Zero Punctuation :P

[@o00nemesis00o]

mccarthy00 as soon as Channel Awesome rebrands as The Nostalgia Critic. 😆😂😂

[@RacingSnails64]

mccarthy00 its still got all its old content on it so idk if they ever will

[@mrelephant2283]

I'm waiting for lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee

[@isaacargesmith8217]

Kinda sounds like they did learn some stuff with this tho

[@philips.5563]

There most offensive thing Yahtzee has ever done is include that knockoff helicopter. Lego is purity and perfection. Scrub blocks get out.

[@Slider1207]

That first sentence is almost godlike in how poorly-written it is.

[@dongjitoni2975]

Ohh god this guy must be a really sad case to behold in real life.

[@coachrenaldo]

I can't believe ZP forgot to mention you can actually have a bear companion named cheeseburger in it.

[@onsokumaru4663]

0:55 You called it Yahtz. Seems like they're approaching volume 6 at this point.

[@louissteyn6871]

I never got a *insert who you think is ruining the country* vibe from it I got a major suicide cult vibe from it, kinda like Heaven's Gate or Jonestown

[@krombopulosmichael134]

"Oh hello Raoul America!" "Hey Yahztee, how's tricks?"

[@rossmore4682]

wtf?

[@dragonstormx]

What exactly was Ubisoft's idea with this game's ending? You chose to arrest the villain, the county get nuked thanks to events you had no control over while he rants about how he was right all along. You don't arrest him, you don't know if the county gets nuked by the violent brainwashing you are subject to kicks in and you start murdering people. The game talks about not solving everything with violence, but when it gives you the option to spare the villain your act of mercy backfires. Not to mention the stuff about nuclear war was is learned through exposition that is optional to listen to. You do not set up something that big in details that a player can entirely miss.

[@louisduarte8763]

I haven't heard a peep about how it's the first game that lets you play as a woman, and all the endings turn out shitty (and maybe a tad rapey from a certain perspective).

[@TheSpongyMallard]

My first Far Cry game and It's pretty good, I just wish I could decide when I want to do a main mission, not nocked unconscious over and over again to keep the plot going. I find the side quest much better than the main.

[@liamf2300]

The Spongy Mallard far cry 2 is the best

[@azurebookllet9216]

Nope, 2 is shit.

[@DoctorBatmanMD]

It's not bad as far as a Far Cry games go. Although, oddly I kinda missed FC4 at times. Pagan Min was fiercely underrated.

[@feldspar1000]

Pagan Min is fantastic. Just a shame he could only be bothered to show up maybe three times during the story. I guess this is why FC5 has the player character get abducted by the bad guys a comedic number of times.

[@OutOfTheShadows1]

Robert Neville 2 and 1 were wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy bettttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttter

[@12ealDealOfficial]

Yahtzee is the only real critic I've heard say it, but apparently Far Cry 5 is a good game. Granted, it's more of the same, but even with the tried and true mechanics, I've heard the story is actually pretty good.

[@philipmatthewdisalvo5207]

You get my subscription! This was one of those videos that doesn’t make you check how much longer the video is. It would seem that zero punctuation-no breaks-doesn’t give the viewer a chance to have any other thoughts or temptations to stop watching! Great work!

[@JJroks543]

"Here's Wonderwall" hahaha

[@danieljames1868]

Volume _3,_ thank you very much; 4 starts with the birth of the Empire, and we aren't *quite* there yet. We may very well be at the *end* of volume 3, but still.

[@Spleen2ween]

ZP fans are the most educated group, damn

[@JonahLoeb]

You think the US...hasn't yet started being an empire? For real?

[@danieljames1868]

@@JonahLoeb in my defense, two years ago I a) didn't actually understand what an empire was, and b) was still buying the propaganda that we're a democracy not an oligarchy.

[@JonahLoeb]

@@danieljames1868 lol no sweat, we all get radicalized at different times. welcome to the party, pal

[@Tausami]

Ah, the good old days when we were only on Volume 4

[@davidevans8527]

Did I... did I hear the tiniest bit of hope in Yahtzee’s voice?

[@JynxLMS]

You can go back and finish the stuff you left in FryCry5, you just have to fast forward through the credits till the end before it'll let you.

[@RangerOfTheOrder]

I'd argue that Far Cry 5 is the ultimate "right-wing gun wank fantasy" game. Assembling a rag tag resistance to fight tyrannical loonies threatening your way of life sounds fucking awesome.

[@mrduck5182]

"Assembling a rag tag resistant to fight tyrannical loonies threatening your way of life" literally describes every numbered farcry game since 3

[@MMOSimca]

This was a pretty positive review for Yahtzee. Kind of surprising. Also, to the people upset about the political jokes - it's Yahtzee. If you have a personal subject that you can't stand other people to joke about, then watching his content will always be a risk to you.

[@raspherion]

Not that I don't mind the political, anti trump, joke but why does he never go after the left? It just seems repetitive because, if he can make a political joke, we will know what coming. It funnier when he plays with our expectations

[@Comrade-Gandalf]

In Yahtzee's defense, the Right at this current point in time (July 12 2019) are doing things that can only be described as "things a video game bad guy would think are good ideas." Maybe when the Right stops being so laughable, and they start y'know not obstructing the government from governing, then maybe we can throw jabs at the left for being bleeding hearts. Frankly, its difficult to call the left bleeding hearts right now considering the whole increase of national debt, the lack of anything going on in Congress, and (of course) the children in cages

[@JetInAJar]

Jacob Domosh Way to take everything at face value and skim the headlines of editorials

[@Bryndleson]

@Chaz Hagen Antifa are generally comprised of left anarchists which is literally almost as far as you can possible be on the political compass from fascism. In fact their name is literally just a shortened version of the word anti-fascist. Maybe learn political theory before speaking about politics so you don't just think fascism means "when somebody does political violence"

[@Garnerc071]

@@Bryndleson doesn't matter what they call themselves when their actions are the opposite. Just because someone says their spirit is a wolf, doesn't make it true. Antifa employs facistic tactics to combat who they deem to be nazis, which seen as they are communists, is everyone who isn't them.

[@Komnen0s]

I think this game would have worked better if the antagonists hadn't been a religious group but rather a weirdo survivalist militia in the vein of Posse Comitatus or those guys in Oregon that held up the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Montana isn't big on that sort of fringe religious fanaticism, as much as it is on hardcore libertarians and political extremists who hate the government. If the game was set in rural Utah or Idaho, those would be better settings for a doomsday cult as you can find plenty of crackpot Mormon fundamentalists out in the sticks. The antagonists still could have had that millenarian "civilization is ending" outlook, but the religious element doesn't work and isn't that well-defined.

[@jaohonaxa]

I remember watching the endings/boss fights of this game and thinking: oh I cannot wait for Yahtzee to do this one.

[@jakem72]

I'm from rural Montana and I don't think they quite nailed us right. The adherents to this cult seem more like Idaho or Utah than Montana or Wyoming. Montana/Wyoming aren't really religious, they're more "get outta my yard!" isolationist types. Read "Under the Banner of Heaven" for a good look at fundamentalist cults in the Western US. I'm not upset over the characterization or anything, I just don't think of Montana that way. Utah is the place where religion really dominates. I suppose Mormons woulda been upset if you put it in Utah because it would have been a less thinly veiled jab at their fundamentalist cults.

[@jakem72]

That's true, but they were more doomsday preppers than religious. An anti-government, anti-corporate terrorist cell of non-religious doomsday preppers would have been way more Montana than a religion.

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

*rolls eyes*

[@Rangaisia]

There's only about 20000-60000 fundamentalist Mormons in the US, though. Also, Mormons in general don't strike me as particularly militant, especially when compared to Conservative Evangelicals. I've actually met and spoken with some American Mormons, and they were very nice and polite people. Some of my relatives are also Mormons, and they're fairly moderate folk, especially when compared to most Pentecostals and Jehova's Witnesses. I'm not American, but to me Texas would strike as an appropriate state for this kind of thing, given that David Koresh and Marshall Applewhite (founder of Heaven's Gate) were both Texans.

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

Yes, when I think of cults Waco, Heaven's Gate and Jonestown are the ones that come to mind. Mormons when compared to FLDS Mormons are far too easy going and polite to ever form such a thing and certainly would never engage in violence or consider a mass suicide pact. And they are definitely pretty mellow compared to Evangelicals and Jehovah's Witnesses.

[@jakem72]

I narrowed my suggestions to the Rocky Mountain West because the setting of Far Cry 5 is there. Texas has a pretty different climate and geography (although you wouldn't know that playing Red Dead Redemption). But otherwise I agree about evangelicals and Texas. Montana is sometimes lumped into "The Unchurched Belt" with Oregon and Washington because it has one of the lowest per capita religiosity in the country. You can search Wikipedia for "List of U.S. states and territories by religiosity" and find that Montana was 7th LEAST religious state. I suggest "Under the Banner of Heaven" if you want to learn about fundamentalist Mormonism. It is quite militant.

[@blake7297]

I'm actually in the middle of replaying this game for the first time in months of the infamous New game plus difficulty... I'd have to say I am thoroughly enjoying it. it's not a masterpiece but there is a lot of interesting content here between the main villains the locations the support characters and the free DLC weapons.

[@Limubi1]

That rape of Nanking joke fucking killed me.

[@MrClickity]

My main gripe about the game is the way story missions progress. I like the idea of advancing to the next stage of the story based on how much you've disrupted the enemy; that aspect was cool. What I didn't like was that it automatically started the next main story mission as soon as you got to that stage. Just make the mission available, don't railroad me. I'll advance the plot when I'm good and ready, thank you very much.

[@gargaj]

If you mean the "YOU GONNA GET FUCKED NOW" interruptions where it just literally teleports you out mid-gameplay, yeah, that irritating at first and got progressively worse - all that to watch a bunch of cutscenes...

[@nicklager1666]

Considering it is so racially diverse as far as characters goes that you shoot maybe the requisite line that starts every ubisoft game makes sense this time. This game has been made by a diverse group of game developers with various faiths and believes.

[@atlas8827]

woah

[@alimahil1881]

Nick Lager Well.. that reveals a lot...

[@DatGrunt]

And genders. Don't forget genders. They make sure to tell you when you start their games now :D

[@dwarfie24]

Isnt this that political correctness so many people on the net seems to be so riled up about?

[@Kaarl_Mills]

Not really, all the cultists Ive seen look like a neanderthal who hasnt bathed or cut his hair in 10 years, so no not racially diverse

[@Fresh_Pants]

I'm gonna watch this video and leave a comment, but not necessarily in that order.

[@normg7428]

The Japanese headband you had the anthropomorphic game wear says 'goukaku' which is something a student would wear when trying to pass an important exam. A more appropriate choice would have been 'kamikaze' or 'hissho'.

[@misscristalnana8230]

I'm pretty sure you don't read the comments Yahtzee, but i'm gonna say it anyway; i love your audiobooks, the best part is listening to you narrating and my favourite one is Will save the galaxy for food, i've listened to it 4 times already and every time i listen to it is like i'm hearing it for the first time. Thank you for being you and hope to see/hear more from you in the future. Cheers! Loads of love and support from Canada. 👍

[@eduardoqquina1261]

The description you made of the setting and the similarity with America it's painfully accurate.

[@Fulgrim2]

I’d love to him do a special on the Labo toys, namely watching him put that stuff together.

[@IncertusetNescio]

So uh, what book you think we're up to at this point? 5? 6?

[@occono3543]

5

[@SonofIiberty]

5 getting closer to 6

[@DarkBagel006]

Like a bay area health food specialist... That was the most Berkeley thing I've ever heard

[@jmlkinc]

I always loved Zero Punctuation, but this is just so political! Zero Punctuation is dead now. Oh wait, sorry. My brain was full of Swiss cheese for a moment. I almost started a flame war over someone having a different opinion than me! What a stupid thing to do!

[@datlad35960]

Right? All these whiny americans crying about having to think about something for once in their damn lives. It's all for a laugh anyway.

[@Hero_Puddle]

I don't see how it gets in the way, I can see why some people would think it's incessant in this video but it's not like he derails the video, The episode still maintains flow and given the nontroversy around a handful people trying to call the game out as SJW because it was set in America it is somewhat fitting.

[@Satsaru]

I agree with that sentiment. However, I also have a sneaking suspicion you wouldn't if the direction of the joke were reversed.

[@DatGrunt]

Jokira Almost no Americans complained about the game. It was mostly left leaning journalists complaining about the game not being heavily political. Please get off your high horse Mr.1000IQ.

[@atlas8827]

DatGrunt, Jokira is talking about zero punctuation, not the game.

[@thatcanuck5670]

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the ending was kinda shit.

[@DreamyWoIf]

Yeah, it's a middle finger to all your effort throughout the game.

[@ernestmoreno8244]

DreamyWolf not the good kind of middle finger as well

[@bobbybologna3029]

to be fair they were all more or less pretty shitty so it shouldn't come as a surprise

[@punished7030]

I liked it

[@alucard971]

Spoiler Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alright. So, I dont understand. They could have made room for some Kefka Esque ending. The world is destroyed, it's you and the father. Well, there are about 5 thousand bunkers. Someone should have survived. How about make it so you have to watch the new order grow. Either join him or rebuild a resistance. Now you have to go to all the bunkers you were just in and recruit people. Something. Just being tied to the bed for poop hole pleasures is kinda... lame. Give us some reason to go and get all the perks and money. I like the nukes... but pepper it up. Give us some Metal Gear battle where you and the father have a shirtless punch match on a mech. Idk. I feel empty.

[@therealsulaco]

Far Cry 5 is my first entry into the Far Cry series, and largely my first for a Ubisoft sandbox (apart from the Haytham Kenway section of AC3) and I'm glad of it. Coming in free from baggage, expectations, and fatigue has left me free to enjoy the living hell out of this game.

[@grand_tourist46]

So, here's my biggest gripe with this one, and you could probably chalk this one up to personal taste, but I'm gonna say it anyway. I wish they could've tweaked the plot progression system a little bit more. Let me explain. As Yahtzee mentions, the plot progression is based on "Resistance Points" which you acquire via story missions, outpost liberation, etc. As you gather resistance points in one of the three regions you reach a given threshold (Resistance Levels) that triggers a special story mission in which you get captured by that region's leader (John, Faith, or Jacob). Running parallel to this is the level of cult activity you see in the region. As your Resistance level goes up in a region, you see less and less supply trucks, cult VIPs, hostages to free, essentially stuff you randomly run into when wandering around. This activity makes exploring interesting, are fun to engage in, and a degree of tension to the gameplay. However, engaging in them also nets you Resistance points, not many, but they add up. When you finally get to the point where you kill the cult leader in a particular region, all the "random" cult activity just vanishes, with only unfinished side missions and outposts left. It's worth mentioning as well that a lot of story missions unlock "specialists," NPCs with different skills that you can order around, which I find to be genuinely fun to wander around and work with, therefore I would like to have all the story missions in a region sorted before I take on the side stuff. These story missions, however, earn you a ton of Resistance points, and after you kill the leader, whatever side missions or story missions you have left just don't feel believable because the atmosphere generated by the random cult activity is no longer there. My point is, as refreshingly organic as this plot progression system is, it limits, to some degree, the amount of fun I can have with the game. Blowing up roadblocks is fun. Stealing supply trucks is fun. I don't want to have to choose between the random stuff and missions. I feel like the simplest solution would be to either decrease the amount of Resistance points the random stuff gets you, so you can do more of it without worrying as much about how much of it your doing, or increasing the number of points to increase your Resistance level. Now I can understand that there was a method behind these specific design choices because that, for this system to work, a certain balance is needed to both retain the organic feel to it and let the player feel like they're making progress. I also understand such a balance can be extremely difficult for developers to get right. But as the game is, right now, this progression system brings with it a level of constraint that I personally wish wasn't there.

[@maxcowley4353]

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I thought the ending was entirely shoddy. You spend the entire game being shown how awful each sibling is in their own right and in what ways each of them deserve a stray round and then you get to the end and you're basically told, "By the way, Joseph was right about the end of the world. He really did have god's foresight on his side and fighting him and Eden's Gate was wrong." John, Jacob, Faith, and Joseph are deliberately shown to be completely insane and their characters aren't written in any way to inspire sympathy or understanding. The "twist" at the end was entirely unearned.

[@dillondelaney4347]

It was Joseph himself that caused doomsday

[@JustinCage56]

-Sees a Trump joke in the video -Scrolls down to the comments -Grabs popcorn

[@ElDrHouse2010]

yeah it's beautiful how they complain how "SJWs" are so easily butthurt when they have even less amount of tolerance.

[@lynarisevershadeshadowfall1684]

@@ElDrHouse2010 Yeah....I mean just look at all those butthurt "protests" -riots- in 2008 and 2012 in comparison to the jeez, I dunno, "peaceful demonstrations" -RIOTS- in 2016. *cough cough*

[@robertdolcetti450]

This guy know what's up.

[@c.b780]

@Joe Bennett - sees comments about how trump supporters get triggered easily - *"Ill show them! Watch how triggered I can get!"*

[@Eatinbritches]

@Joe Bennett Dude. Close your mouth and use your brain. You're being mocked.

[@lokisg3]

After thermonuclear bomb, Tom Clancy's EndWar begins.

[@ladyrest8455]

Rural America:ayy Yahtzee..sit down a spell

[@navnnavn3475]

Well, I suppose we are at 'volume 5' now.

[@RenaissanceMan1993]

The effects of living in LA are starting to show, Benjamin.

[@bibniebt]

RenaissanceMan1993 He hasn’t changed

[@spencerbevan9621]

The King of the Penguins he’s gotten a little more vocal about how left he leans now

[@bertiehinkley495]

He’s made political jokes in other reviews also, but I suppose they were a bit rarer. Then again, when the American political system is as big of a joke as it ever has been I suppose it’s going to lead to more people poking fun at it more blatantly.

[@MrGryph78]

It's not left leaning, it's taking the low hanging obvious fruit of how idiotic you'd have to be to support Trump, guns and or religion. The cousin fucking is pretty factual too.

[@SuperRetroBoy64]

Gryppen Nice bait.

[@fantasticalfckface9480]

I like how he was simultaneously slamming the game while also saying it was still good. It's really hard to do that and I respect you for that

[@ajorsomething4935]

I think the thing I respect the most is in the prologue for arma 3 you take multiple helicopter trips and none of them crash.

[@oobndroobw]

2:25 Yahtzee is enjoying living in San Fransisco I see.

[@KaleSerpent]

natsfan1137 hed love germany

[@Epicmonk117]

5:20 Perfect description of Republican leadership right there, Yahtzee

[@ThePhantomSephiroth]

that joke at the beggining was brutal....

[@zylaaeria2627]

1:03 is my favorite part. So true.

[@concinnus]

The only game I can think of where Yatz easily could, and should, have trashed its narrative decisions, yet doesn't. No mention of kidnapping the player randomly and monologuing at them, etc.

[@johnyamahm1634]

I'm actually surprised at how positive this review was. I thought Origins was a FAR better reboot of AC than FarCry 5 was of FarCry. Then again, I've taken to watching these reviews more for fun and less as a serious review.

[@karelmclean1164]

Not sure if you get this but if you do could you do a review on 'Tachyon: The Fringe', 'Starlancer' and it sort of sequel 'Freelancer'?

[@FhargaZ]

That stupid laser dart that got me even in a fucking helicopter and being captured and escape like the fucking 20 time already.

[@paulsullivan6946]

Did . . . Did Yahtzee just give a Ubisoft game a good review? What?

[@fettuccinealfredo4393]

Whoa whoa settle down now, let's not talk crazy here

[@pusspen15]

We can all agree at least he tolerates this one. Less can be said about other ubisoft titles Yahtzee has torn to shreds to my never ending entertainment :)

[@Groovyskull-un8bn]

He also liked Far Cry 3

[@ISo404]

Vaas was in Far Cry 3, what is there not to like... also at the time when FC3 came out the open world sandbox genre was not as saturated as it is now. But still Far Cry 3 is the best Far Cry... because Vaas

[@thatoneguy050]

Paul Sullivan I'd say it's more accurate to say he gave it a mediocre review. Not amazing, not terrible, just kind of passes the time.

[@glacioursus]

You're not wrong, yatzee

[@ejail001]

That fall of the Roman Empire bit really hit home...

[@spork8655]

I liked your analogy about the joke on climbing towers.