Darksiders 3 (Zero Punctuation)

This week Yahtzee reviews Darksiders 3.
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[@stylianosvrikkis6974]

The way he says "and who am i to fucking argue with that" makes it the funniest thing i've heard all week

[@armorfrogentertainment]

The "you were the personification of Wrath all along" twist would have been interesting. It's almost like Yahtzee is a professional writer or something... :P

[@gibusspy8955]

Fury even have a Wrath power mode too

[@lukeoneill1529]

the actual twist is at least foreshadowed throughout the game and the design for the twist boss being an amalgum of stolen parts is honestly really cool, i will obviously not be putting the twist here

[@SherrifOfNottingham]

I like how they took the four horsemen and got it mixed up with the 7 sins.

[@Yal_Rathol]

@@SherrifOfNottingham and then added strife, which is what follows wrath and is part of war and is caused by fury. almost like it should have been famine and pestilence, huh? or they could have at least gone with kaos and conquest if they wanted to really flash their nerd cred.

[@NastyLittleBagginses]

Yeah.. or like he saw the movie Se7en.

[@M0piece]

In the beginning, the bit you talked about the plot not adding up. The Charred Council was just lying to Fury. The Council knew War didn't break the seal, but they didn't want to admit that to Fury. Since the Council set War up in the first game.

[@andromeda530]

It seems like Death and Strife were the only ones not deceived

[@MortalReaver]

​@@andromeda530 The whole 4 was "deceived", with whole Charred Council are keepers blance (or they got corrupted later), but I think Strife may be the only one to know that, at least I think he learned it, during D3, he seems like the most cunning and the wisest horseman. They scream: "Balance!!!!!!", but they let war happen to destroy mankind becase they were apparently scared of humanity's potential (D3 The Lord of Hollows dialoge), or to reveal how The Destroyer caused that war(D1+comics or just theory,? dont remember) , or perhaps both, depends how you take it.

[@DharmaLily1]

Thank you for saying so so I didn't have to.

[@Psychoangel-d23]

@@MortalReaver The destroyer caused the apocalypse (atleast he was responsible for breaking the seals but most likely got tricked by lucifer from the get go) and reforged the seal right after so that war was send in to clean up the mess which shouldnt be there to begin with.

[@BainesMkII]

@@MortalReaver Death wasn't deceived, and believed War innocent. However, for him it was ultimately irrelevant whether War was innocent, he was going to try to save War regardless. That's why his plan was to "erase the crime" by reviving humanity. But at the beginning of the game, when trying to get the Crowfather's aid, he outright says that the Crowfather should help because the Crowfather knows the truth. Which the Crowfather does confirm, and outright says they can't prove War's innocence because the Council will condemn War in order to hide the truth. So Death not only knew War was innocent, he may even have known that the Council was setting up War.

[@HJSDGCE]

I mean, War not breaking the 7th Seal is a plot point. The whole 1st game was him being framed for something he didn't do, the 2nd game was Death trying to prove War's innocence and the 3rd game was Fury laughing at War being punished for something he didn't do (but she didn't know) because she's like that.

[@lm_dccxl4078]

yeah.... dont try to teach the comment section, "how dare you to criticize yathzee" will pursue you

[@XIIIHearts]

@@KaiTenSatsuma Darksiders 1 says that War is being punished for starting the Apocalypse before the 7th Seal was broken. War knew this. Now for some reason he's being blamed for breaking the 7th Seal and War doesn't question why that is.

[@cantthinkofaname1990]

@UCPLMzy0aaJPfVNaB5B_Wm5Q @@XIIIHearts DS 2 and 3 takes place during the 100 years War was imprisoned for starting the Apocalypse early. So the timeline goes, the start of DS1 -> DS2 & 3 -> the rest of DS1

[@Art0r1a]

@The Magical Purple Narwhal Of Doom Not really. During the tutorial section Abaddon says 'The seventh seal was NOT broken' and immediately after the tutorial even the council says 'all of them intact'. So nobody says that War broke the seventh seal... all they claim is that he was the one who unleashed the apocalypse. (Although they never say how) So when in the third game the council says that War broke the seventh seal, I was WTF! If they were trying to manipulate Fury I could understand, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

[@jor4114]

How hard is it to just tell a sequential story in chronological order? It's like they're trying to pull a SAW without the talent it takes to pull it off, which is something frankly SAW didn't do either.

[@TVlord5]

Yknow I'm glad Darksiders is still around. While I don't know what kind of budget went into this one, it seems like the perfect "middle shelf" game that Jim Sterling was talking about. Some people like it, some don't, but it adds a little variety to your library at least

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

Unfortunately, foremost among those who don't like it is Jim Sterling. He _hated_ the game, hated it with a passion, despite the fact, and in fact _because_ of the fact, that he'd been eagerly anticipating it beforehand because he was a big fan of the series. Which is understandable, you're more likely to get upset at something you like disappointing you than you are something that you didn't give a toss about ending up shit.

[@felliu7785]

@@ArcaneAzmadi thats all on him tho i hate people like that

[@forcedtohaveahandle]

F Felliu you hate fans of Darksiders?

[@GrimFinality]

@@forcedtohaveahandle Not sure if sarcasm but I think he meant people that hype themselves up for something and then rip on it that much harder. Objectively speaking in that situation the excess disappointment is more his (and my,in this case) fault than the developers. In addition a person is more likely to "find" things to rip on a game if they don't like it,contributed to by said disappointment,and less likely to give credit where it's due.

[@ManoredRed]

@@ArcaneAzmadi Its worth noting though that a big part of why he hated it with a passion was the fact that they radically departed from what they did in 2, which was in a decent spot, in order to ultimately make a mediocre souls-like.

[@Samson_Quardav]

"Mistress you've change! and who am i to fucking argue with that." Hahaha, nothing has made me laugh so hard for months!

[@halfastudio]

I'm just listening to old zero punctuations because I'm addicted to his voice. It's quite calming.

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

I know he said the same thing in the last darksiders review, but fury and strife are shit stand-ins for pestilence and famine.

[@Kefkaesque13]

Not to mention Pestiilence is already a stand-in for the harder-to-visualize Conquest.

[@andromeda530]

I think strife is a perfect stand-in for darksiders

[@typemasters2871]

Kefkaesque13 Well Rage could be an alright stand in for Conquest It would make more sense of rage was a stand in for war but oh well

[@GonnaDieNever]

I'm just waiting for the fifth horseman beuracracy.

[@NoOnesaidthis]

Pajamapants Jack hahhaha

[@MrSplic3r]

Am I the only one that misses the little jokes in the text of the end credits?

[@indieWellie]

MrSplic3r not a day goes by ...

[@tylerraven8574]

If you watch the videos on the escapist website you can still see them.

[@frealms]

@@tylerraven8574 Too high a price

[@Carewolf]

@@tylerraven8574 The escapist websites works again? Last I was there it could only play one video, and regardless of which video you clicked on, you got the single one. That is how I discovered I could watch ZP here.

[@tylerraven8574]

@@Carewolf It works now, yeah. Plus youget the videos a week early so bonus. Just Cause 4 is up now.

[@nightshadesalad]

I wish Yahtzee had his own channel so I could know when the new Zero Punctuation comes out without the wall of other Escapist uploads I'll never watch taking up space in my subscription feed.

[@ladamedesaraignees1764]

Makes you long for the days when Yahtzee was the only functioning part of the Escapist

[@seanurbik5158]

I don't, keeps the channel fresh.

[@deadedd3235]

@@seanurbik5158 So, you like the escapist uploading 25 - hour long videos, in the space of 40 minutes? Well at least someone's gonna watch their content

[@Fizz-Pop]

I unsubscribed after the massive video spam the other day. They have since vanished, or at least my comments have. Dunno what happened, but whatever Escapist sucks.

[@fishnutter5219]

Binge watch ZP videos and hit like on all of them, go through recommendations and do the "Do not recommend to me again" thing on the other ones from Escapist. KZbin will start automatically recommending the next one when it comes out without having to subscribe.

[@OmegaSoypreme]

I actually like the idea of each of the games playing differently and being a rip off of a different type of action game. Like that is its identity. Strife seems to be a gunman, so the fourth one would presumably be a shooter primarily. The question is, which shooter would they rip off?

[@malachiconstant7745]

superchief86 It’ll probably just rip off Blood Borne

[@TimedRevolver]

@@malachiconstant7745 No, they don't do the same style twice in a row. Darksiders was an action adventure, Darksiders 2 was a hack & slash, Darksiders 3 was a Souls-like. I'm betting Darksiders 4 will have gameplay like Resident Evil. Third person over the shoulder.

[@justinduck2953]

@@TimedRevolver maybe they will copy vanquish which is a great idea since it had some unique mechanics no other shooter has replicated

[@felliu7785]

everything is copying i love people these days

[@thaneros]

I know most people shit on the game but ReCore would be a great template to work off. That game was like a more platform heavy Darksiders 2 with guns just not as polished.

[@Zimpfnis]

I believe this is one of your best. I don't know the franchise, let alone the game but still know what to expect and laughed out loud a few times. Never stop, please

[@nicklager1666]

Crack that whip Give the past the slip Step on a crack Break your momma's back When a problem comes along You must whip it Before the cream sits out too long You must whip it When something's going wrong You must whip it

[@azzzanadra]

Is that a shrek reference?

[@skylarsimes8]

Now whip it Whip it good

[@nicklager1666]

No its from a old disco song from the group Devo.

[@radioactiverat8751]

@@pointofnoreturn2004 ?

[@fumarc4501]

Dun dun dun dun dun whip it!

[@aoifescully122]

Thank god not an hour long re-upload of a live streaming!!!

[@kenzito101]

The triple A gaming season is dry right now so it's understandable.

[@aoifescully122]

AKILBEHINDTHECAM true but 25 videos in an hour was a bit much for me

[@KainGerc]

SO many seals were harmed during the making of these games.

[@legateelizabeth]

"It's a bit iffy in a way I can't quite get down." I find that people feel that way about the whole series - either there's something _off_ about it in a way they can't quite explain that means they're not overly fond of it, or there's some element to it they can't quite explain that acts as a kind of Gestalt factor that makes the game more enjoyable than it otherwise would be. I don't think anybody's saying that it's a flawless series or anything, but I find it really interesting that what seems to separate people who aren't uber-fans or uber-haters from liking it or not is some kind of weird X factor nobody can quite put their finger on.

[@Stroggoii]

Cult of the New gamers hate the series because it retreads from older games instead of modern games. Nostalgia and retrogamers love it because it's a new game that feels like it was made in the past. I personally loved Darksiders 1 because I hated Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, and Darksiders felt like the real heir to the N64 Zelda games with a bit of Legacy of Kain.

[@SiegeTF]

I felt the designs were very derivative of Blizzard; some of them felt like fucking asset flips from Warcraft - the Totally-Not-Dwarfs from DS2 in particular.

[@alchemicpunk1509]

Well one of the concept art directors literally is a former Blizzard concept artist.

[@GenericProtagonist118]

I absolutely love the series and even I think it's weird.

[@cantthinkofaname1990]

Going to have to be that guy, but... War was framed for arriving early breaking the Seventh Seal (though he didn't) by the Council so the apocalypse could start early, at the start of Darksiders 1. This is what Fury is referring to when visiting War in prison (during the 100 year timeskip in DS1). At this point in the story almost everybody, including Fury, thinks War broke the seal. The only person who didn't believe War broke the seal was Death, who set out to prove War's innocents (Darksiders 2). So yes, the writers are doing their job. Though you are correct about War breaking the seal at the end of DS1, but instead of summoning the 4 Horsemen to start the apocalypse, the remaining three Horsemen are summoned to help War fight the Council.

[@BainesMkII]

Couple of corrections. Death believes War is innocent, but he's not out to prove War's innocence. Death's plan is to remove the crime itself, by reviving humanity. Also, while War sets things in motion, it is technically Uriel that breaks the seal at the end of Darksiders 1. Uriel kills War, then breaks the seal to revive him, allowing him to defeat his Watcher.

[@Shadowslash1]

Actually the watcher killed War right after he killed the Destroyer. THEN Uriel broke the seal which instantly revived War who then killed the watcher. The watcher even quotes 'You should have known this was a one way trip'

[@Todie85]

You realize that this story is so unnecessarily convoluted and forced that it's more ridiculous than the Blood Omen/Soul reaver story? I was trying to explain to someone why Death wears the mask- 10 mins later, their response was "so, all of that is why he wears a mask?"

[@stanard_bearer]

@@Shadowslash1 "Nex Sacramentum, the death oath is complete." -Urial

[@Shadowslash1]

@Noricky Mephism Right, thanks for queing me to look at that cutscene again. Uriel did kill War then break the seal, I was confusing it with War's vision in the Garden of Eden at the time of commenting (where it showed everything to use in bits and pieces at a time)

[@AsianDawg46]

This brings me back to the time when games weren't trying to rob you of all your money, they were just really bad, at least according to Yahtzee.

[@flailingdragoon1072]

Uhm....she gets a sword, a spear, a mallet and a weird fire weapon. She also gets a ranged weapon. Also the Council lied to her about war breaking the seals

[@isaacaccomando435]

If by wierd fire weapon you mean a pair of flails then yes

[@homelessninja1661]

Yeah, these videos are funny but it's pretty clear the guy doesn't actually play/finish any of these games.

[@Shadowslash1]

Though technically he's not 'entirely' wrong. If you look at the weapon in the inventory, its not even a whip, her weapon is a hilt. It even says that the hilt adapts to her, thus when she goes into a form, it takes up another form and why you don't have a secondary attack in your base form. The hilt turns into the whip, flails, spear, mallet, and dual swords (that's why crossover combos are put in as well) But yes, the Council lied, cause if they told her War marched without breaking the seventh seal, Fury would question how he was able to. But you can tell Yahtzee wasn't too into the game and didn't notice a lot of the nuances. I mean, it was a 'this is ok' review else he would have noticed Fury calmed down a lot near the end (especially after Lust).

[@Jagerbomber]

Omg, the Fisher-Price Kratos. XD I haven't seen one of those toys in forever.

[@vallahdsacretor4839]

The issue with Darksiders 1 is that War is imprisoned after being framed as breaking the seventh seal. False accusation that started the war that destroyed everything and everyone

[@drakan4769]

1:15 also, yahtzee confirmed to be on "half empty" side (surprising no one)

[@CJusticeHappen21]

A strong female who wears a black form-fitting outfit, stiletto heels, has a whip, is called "mistress"... Clearly the series is just oozing with creative and original juices, because this character design has definitely not been done before.

[@Hellraiser2107]

Believe it or not, they actually made Fury's outfit less stripperific in the game than it was in the comics. In the comics, she only had two strips of fabric covering her boobs and a single diagonal strip of fabric for her stomach

[@CJusticeHappen21]

@@Hellraiser2107 Well added. Clearly my original assessment is altogether reinforced, and there's absolutely nothing both tiresomely fetishistic and repetitive about this character. Not that I have any actual investment. Haven't played the games, read the books, or purchased the waifu pillow. But I have wondered about their choice of world structure, since I have a passing familiarity with the Book of Revelations due to childhood trauma. Why is Fury "scarcity"? And why is Strife "conquest"? It would make marginally more sense to have their names reversed, as strife is an expected outcome of scarcity. Sorry if I'm ranting. I'm at work, accomplishing nothing productive, and this is the most exciting thing I've engaged with all day. Take that for what it's worth.

[@Hellraiser2107]

@@CJusticeHappen21 I'm not saying that what you said is wrong. I do agree that Fury's design is pretty fetishistic and boring. I just mean that with Fury's design being already established long before Darksiders 3 even started development, there was only so many improvements they could make while still being somewhat faithful to her original (even more atrocious) design.

[@ariloulei814]

A civil conversation where both people agree more or less but are just sharing opinions and info. I'm glad to see youtube comments can be better than their tired old cliche of stupidity and pointless arguing. I also agree Fury's character design is very cliche and uninteresting. Though I feel like all of the Darksiders protagonists can be described as such. It's like Darksiders was made as a lesser version of existing game conventions and designs hobbled together in a edgy yet strangely colorful package. Might be fun for some people but clearly a mediocre game.

[@supervamp78]

Yeah yeah we get it you hate boobs.

[@pavlotverdokhlib7627]

And yet I played this for almost 40 hours and had a ton of fun.

[@Changetheling]

Some people are that simple. And that's okay (except when "simple" means "mobile gaming").

[@kidumby7599]

"Someone said this game was bad but /I/ personally enjoyed it." Congrats, sadly we're all out of medals from awarding them to other people with remotely different tastes.

[@kidumby7599]

If anything, he doesn't hate it so much as find it inoffensively average, or at least that was my impression from watching this the previous week.

[@pavlotverdokhlib7627]

@@Changetheling it probably helps that I like the series and I haven't gotten around to Dark Souls (or any of the Soulslike games) yet in my backlog.

[@15thCrypt]

He mostly criticized the story, he was annoyed by some parts of gameplay but really more than half of the video was him talking about how the story is not exactly the best I think its mostly because the games dont follow each other, if they did we could get rid of the charred council (or have them revealed slowly as bosses) because them existing and just talking shit to each horsemen at the start the game always annoyed me because you could immediately tell they need to be disposed off. If 1 ended with War deatroying the council the other games could have been about much more interesting things

[@dastvan8002]

I actually came up with an interesting idea for a game about the 4 horse men A four player co-op game along the lines of ultimate alliance where you’re sent to cause the apocalypse and kill a *lot* of creatures from mythology including but not limited to: a massive hydra, raging Minotaurs, Cthulhu and even Beelzebub and the final boss is the physical manifestation of entropy taking place at the edge of creation itself. I also came up with a unique play style for each of the horsemen. War is a tank with a giant sword and is usually overconfident, Death is your primary melee damage dealer with a modest scythe and a handful of AOEs, pestilence is a ranged damage dealer throwing down debuffs and AOEs while famine siphons off life from your enemies and sends it back to the others while also slowing them with debuffs.

[@alwest4472]

That sounds badass

[@cheetarah9199]

I thought this was an actual game, because how has this not been made already! If it's not, you should totally make it!

[@cheetarah9199]

How is your Discworld awareness?

[@PunkRockMohawk]

Cthulhu isn't so much "mythology" as he is "literature." This would be like saying that Hamlet, or Oz, or Tarzan were mythological figures.

[@alchemicpunk1509]

@PunkRockMohawk Those are modern mythology though.

[@Silvershadowfire]

I don't know why but the line 'iron their pauldrons' always makes me laugh.

[@lexslate2476]

In five or six more years, I hope they do the sporntsball spinoff when the Horsemen play basketball against angels and demons. I'd call it Dunksiders.

[@oogieboogiedoogie1]

"Who am I to fucking argue with that" that shit fucking killed me lmao

[@Deathwolfasdude]

A bit of a thing about the plot: Thing is, War -thought- the Seventh Seal was broken. He rode unto earth already in war with Heaven and Hell. He is blamed for something he hasn't done, and that's where Darksiders 2 and 3 come in. Death goes bring back humanity, to absolve War of his crime. Fury does what she's ordered. Death dies at the end of Darksiders 2, but because War finds, and then breaks the Seventh Seal, Death is brought back from the dead, as are the other two. The whole time the Charred Council has set the Horsemen up for their own little scheme. That's the whole plot of Darksiders. The war starts, War's blamed for it, Death tries to save him, Fury does as she's told but then fights for Humanity, and that's all there pretty much is to it. I reckon Strife will be doing his own thing, protecting humanity as we see him do in Darksiders 3, but I think Darksiders 4 will return on that. Then I imagine we have Darksiders 5 where the Four Horsemen all ride together to end the charred council and end the war, with humanity being the victor.

[@DoctorInk20]

The '90s comic book era of writing just won't die. 😵

[@joedrumm5239]

Great video, but yeah that last bit. War was being held for 'starting the apocalypse before the seal was broken'. The whole point was the council was basically behind it the whole time, and manipulated Fury as much as they did war at first.

[@calumhood1997]

Didn't know there was a part 3 shows how much of an impact it's got.

[@pancakerzzz]

2:48 oh god that hits close to home...

[@novadselir1068]

One of my favorite games of this year.

[@andromeda530]

Same

[@Camoguy-yl3nz]

Same aswell

[@isaacaccomando435]

The whole franchise are pretty much my 3 favorite games ever

[@Mulch4321]

Finally a ZP upload that I care about instead of some 20 hours of random gameplay footage clogging my sub box

[@camzoman]

Isn't the plot of the first game that War was blamed for breaking the 7th seal, hence his punishment?

[@Codiekitty]

IIRC, he was being punished for coming to Earth before the 7th Seal was broken and the Apocalypse was officially signaled. Some angels came up with a plan where they'd break the first six, but keep the seventh intact because.... something I don't remember. After the sixth one was broken, War got a memo that the Apocalypse had started and charged in but oops, the 7th seal was still intact and Apocalypse hadn't actually started yet, and the Council imprisoned him for jumping the gun.

[@Hawk_of_Battle]

@@Codiekitty Pretty much yeah. The reason the conspirators didn't break the seventh seal is because if they did it would summon the horsemen, which would ruin their plan, which was to lure hell into an ambush on earth before earth was ready for the End War. This would allow Heaven to wipe out both Hell and humanity before either could pose a threat to it. The Charred Council knew about the plan, but couldn't get evidence of the conspirators, so when the war started, they deliberately summoned War themselves and then blamed him, knowing he would want to seek vengeance on their behalf. Oh course, we also now know the Council itself and the system they set up with the Seals were corrupt from the start and the whole End War deal was just to keep everybody appeased so the Council could maintain their own power.

[@jolyne4299]

But, the council knows that he didn’t break the seal they set him up- that’s the whole point of the 3 games that all of them are being set up

[@buzzardf3818]

Ending 2018 watching Zero Punctuation. I am at peace

[@the_dropbear4392]

I'm pretty sure they council said he broke it to manipulate fury, as they don't want her to know the truth

[@Fiddlestickz1]

As always all nails hit directly on the head, i love Zero Punctuation!

[@arashiiku417]

In the first game War was framed for breaking it by one of the asshole angels. But what the Angel did was break the 7th and then remake it (as far as i can remember or some other trick) And then went to earth to start the Apocalypse where he rages about (this is the Tutorial for the first game, and it is then followed by him getting captured. where he gets put in a pillory and then you pick up with wrath.

[@DinsRune]

Famine I don't blame them for edging out, but Pestilence would've been cool for a spellcaster-type character. I'm picturing a guy with a strong venom/acid theme, and it's a good theme.

[@oscarchavez8527]

The plot is as follows: Darksiders I prologue -> Darksiders 3 -> Darksiders 2 -> Darksider 1 main campaign. There is one glaring plot hole in the whole series and that is that War doesn't remember interacting with Fury before he is send back to Earth. For an immortal creature such as the Horsemen, its hard to believe that he would forget talking to his sis', regardless if it was 100 years before. But yeah, when he returns to Earth, he no remembah. Beyond that, its pretty airtight, which is a feat, given how convoluted the plot is.

[@Lastkoss]

Not to be that guy but she does get other weapons Ywatz. She gets them with her hollows.

[@GameLoot]

"War has been put in the time out chair from breaking the seventh seal without approval from upper management." - LMAO! XD Oh one thing though... Fury does have a sword by the end of the game (and a hammer, and dual chain blades, and a spear, oh and a crossblade...).

[@GalliadII]

war did not break the seven seals but was accused of having done it. that was the plot hook for Darksiders 1. In the end he learns his masters knew full well he did not do it and used his desire to redeem himself to kill whoever did it, because (and I don't know why the gods need such a lame excuse) they could not just have killed them.

[@Wolfrich666]

Yahtzee plz make your own channel, i dont want to stand escapist videos when you are the only reason im still subscribed to this channel

[@iceman00265]

4 Horsemen = Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson and Tully Blanchard

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

That would make a great game- four 80s wrestling legends battling the legions of heaven and hell. Maybe The Undertaker and Kane could have cameos. Make that game for me.

[@darkark101]

Thank you for including the original Horsemen not the shite 90s version. 👍

[@mastegoh7139]

Dark siders timeline: War gets to earth (6 seals are broken at this point) . War gets framed for breaking the seventh seal and causing the apocalypse. Death tries to prove War innocent. Meanwhile Fury has to capture the seven sins. Death dies. Fury gets away with humans. Fast forward to War breaking the seventh seal thus bringing Death back to life(irony I guess?). So now War is at war (pun intended) with the heaven, charred council and hell.

[@SirRadington]

In the context of a hack and slash not having famine and plague makes sense because those two wouldn’t realy be all to good at hacking and slashing. But fury and strife realy weren’t great options for alternatives as they’re basically war but tweaked. They could have done something like destruction, or disaster, or chaos or literally anything but what they went with

[@justindunbar9476]

He's ACCUSED of breaking the seal too early, and the councul doesn't give a fuck about if he ACTUALLY did or not, they are consistant.

[@Stevedawhoop]

2:38 another way of saying "touch that lil' dangly thing that swing in the back of my throat"

[@isaacaccomando435]

Fury has a glowing red bladed whip because she is particularly based on the three furies from Greek mythology who had fiery thorn whips

[@LucanVaris]

To be fair, Pestilence isn't actually one of the original four horsemen. The first of the four horsemen is actually Conquest (which can likewise be interpreted as Strife), although since that seems too similar to War, people in modern culture came up with Pestilence as an alternative. I guess a way of stating this is, due to Strongman A looking too similar to Strongman B, they replaced him with a guy suffering from a severe case of the flu, and maybe a few STDs and plagues along the side.

[@NoobLord9001]

I always mentally associate Conquest with Colonialism and War with just plain ol’ violence. Fuck pestilence.

[@leonidasjuniorjohnson6681]

Well,for me it's still a better option than buying a PS4 and the God Of War ports,because the Darksiders trilogy is on PC

[@doctorleak5312]

Yeah I still wanna play this.

[@anonymous6705]

Pestilence isn't a Horseman of the Apocalypse, Conquest is.

[@boringcanadianamv1042]

Always gold, even if I have no desire to play the game, can't wait for the year end video, always my favorite

[@drakhoon]

i think the charred council telling fury war broke the 7th seal is supposed to be a sign of how far gone they are, if you have played the first game you go wait a moment, somethings up thats not true, its a hint the charred council are manipulating fury for their own ends not the balance.

[@andromeda530]

I enjoyed darksiders 3

[@shimmyking4]

same

[@andromeda530]

@@HighLanderPonyYT it's not because I'm easily entertained, I genuinely enjoy reading and playing darksiders

[@TheMenarch]

@@andromeda530 don't feed the trolls

[@vukakovic7787]

Never will I ever understand the popularity of Darksiders 1. The more fitting description would be: "like GoW, but inferior in every feasable way"

[@ssjichigo666]

"so can you say its the dark souls of dark si..." me: *slaps* no, stop it

[@jeffsmith3550]

Thank Christ you're back. The Escapist upload spam had me worried.

[@djSchauberger]

depicting someone with crossed arms without drawing any arms is kinda cool

[@stephenskinner7207]

Fury and Strife? That's part of Ares' entourage in the Iliad, not the four horsemen of the apocolypse.

[@witchBoi_Connor]

I unsubbed a couple of days ago when a shit tonne of videos got posted within an hour of each other for some reason. Glad an actually good video was posted and that spam got cleaned up. Anyone know what was up with that?

[@BainesMkII]

I nearly unsubscribed for the same reason.

[@mdb45424]

Think they hired on a bunch of new people to revive the channal

[@DefendingTheGame]

@@DarranKern Imagine the subs count if everyone subbed for Yahtzee. Also only here for Yahtzee :)

[@squidward8261]

They have no idea how to run a KZbin channel

[@7OwlsWithALaptop]

@@DarranKern who's bob chipman and wut did he do?

[@ShadowCthulhu]

Darksiders 1 - Devil May Cry meets Zelda Darksiders 2 - God of War meets Prince of Persia Darksiders 3 - Castlevania meets Zelda I do hope they complete the story though.

[@BainesMkII]

War doesn't even break the seal at the end of Darksiders 1. Uriel kills War and uses that distraction to break the seal, all to revive War at his full power, allowing him to kill his Watcher. (This also allowed Uriel to fulfill her made-in-anger to-the-death battle oath.)

[@donald347]

Yahtzee has been carrying The Escapist for many years now. I refuse to subscribe but I always come back for his reviews.

[@darkartsdabbler2407]

Well that's stupid

[@grandobsidian]

Im somewhat surprised Yahtzee didnt say anything about how weird it is when Fury talks to the one other character with noticeable amounts of hair its weirdly jarring how his beard doesn't actually look like its made of hair while Fury's long flowing locks wave and crackle with elemental energy or that the sub weapons in the game are based around the four elements of fire, lightning, force and stasis. It's like they meant to do fire, earth, ice, and lightning but either someone pointed out lightning isnt actually one of the four elements or the earth weapon and the earth obstacles looked too much like poop so they rightly changed to bright purple as the color which does make things very noticeable but is rather confusing when I have to hit the green button on my Xbox controller to activate my purple weapon while the other three weapons are nicely color coded

[@MarionKimble]

okay so I've played exactly enough darksiders 1 to answer your quandary at the end. War is accused of breaking the seal. He rides into battle thinking the seal has been broken and the gods are like "bro, we didn't tell you to break the seal" and he's like "BRUH I heard the goddamn horns so I went to battle" and then they shackle war with that little demon as punishment.

[@Ethanyount]

*sees video is uploaded* me: “okay... how fine was this game”

[@justjuniorjaw]

Hoping Strife can be unique and fun. Strife can have quite an interesting mechanic for being that one guy who mainly don't get in and swinging some kind of instrument on their enemies. Also he looks like a Warframe. I wonder if space can become a potential location for Darksiders 4.

[@ethantaylor1866]

Makes me pretty darn happy to see a reference to Warhammer 40k every now and again :D

[@WaddleDee45]

There's actually a Force Respawn option hidden away in the options menu so you don't actually have to go get your fine booty paddled by an enemy to get your estus flasks back. Instead you can just have Fury get so mad she pops, I guess.

[@ymi1565]

The main mechanic for gaining charges for the respite is killing enemies. Same source of health as in the other two games. I guess it being labled as an estus flask kind of glossed over that in most people's minds, when they shut their eyes, blocked their ears and shouted "DARK SOULS RIP OFF!" Also you can buy charges from Vulgrim now :)

[@anotherfool9278]

Yeah the whole story is a bit confusing but that’s cuz they want to tell the story from the different perspectives. I hope there are 5 total. 1 more seeing what Strife was up to and the last one where they all come together and we can jump between the characters like a bad ass

[@theaether3124]

So this game has to a degree some freedom, I went about them in the wrong order somehow, the lock on is very iffy as well but you do get more than the whip. The flask also fills up if you kill enemies

[@Deathclaw-lh5tl]

Still getting it for Christmas Yatz. Thanks for trying to talk me out of it though. I liked Death between him and War though, he had a _bone_ dry sense of humor.

[@LordDeathwing17]

I only just now realized that War has a WARship on his head.

[@InnocentDoodles]

3:01 Those are some street smart enemies

[@Enntro]

Darksiders 3 had a reference to Yahtzie's darksiders 2 review, where he complained about everything being 3. Too bad i could finish listening to it because i died and i died because i was listening to it. For the record i heard some people complain about the dialogue, but i liked it, too bad sometimes i can't finish listening to it.

[@SolidBobert]

The spamfest is over it seems. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

[@FellaGuy2]

What?

[@SolidBobert]

@@FellaGuy2 a day or two ago escapist posted 20 or so videos of hour-long lets plays simultaneously, flooding everyones sub box with trash. If they do it again I'll probably unsubscribe and beg yahtzee to go rogue.

[@viljamtheninja]

@@LetterNumber How do you make up for posting a bunch of videos? By promising to post fewer videos in the future?

[@FellaGuy2]

@@SolidBobert oh wow, I had no idea. What the hell was up with that?

[@SolidBobert]

I dont have a twitter because I think it's a terrible place, but from reading theirs it seems the reason this happened is because they were trying to migrate some content from elsewhere over to KZbin but they made a mistake in the upload settings causing the videos to populate en masse, which is a huge relief because I was concerned that this would be the norm from now on. Thanks for the heads up.

[@silentassason]

Captain Morgan is good but I prefer going on a Sailor Jerry binge myself

[@Daniel_C_Griffin]

Kraken is where it's at.

[@josoffat7649]

Nothing better than a good padded envelope 👍🤣

[@ryokkeno]

You actually don't fight the bosses in a completely linear manner(as i originally thought would happen) The first and the last may always be the same, but Sloth actually appears to be a random position(I fought him before wrath but after everyone else). Also, time slowing down a bit when you dodge is a lot like Bayonetta(But...), getting the timing down for when to dodge fighting multiple opponents... ugh, what a pain.

[@ymi1565]

After the first Wrath encounter you get the option to hunt down either Sloth, Avarice, or Lust. If you go after Lust first, I believe you can also get all the way to gluttony before having to get the storm hollow from Avarice. Having all Hollows unlocks the second Wrath encounter, leaving Sloth potentially to be the last Sin before fighting Pride. I suppose most people assume it's linear, because they just follow the closest Sin shown to them instead of wondering what those other dots on the radar might lead to.

[@jcace13]

This is one of those series with multiple games but I’ve never heard anyone recommend.

[@nejinaji]

this is practically high praise for a darksiders game for him. i might have to take a look at it.

[@Montesama314]

Judging by the comments below, War DIDN'T break the seal, Fury was tricked into believing he broke the seal by the Horsemen's bosses "The Council", then he DID break the seal to create legal pretext to... wreck more shit as he'd already been doing. So... it's the Judeo-Chrstian mythological version of a corporate cover-up? That's messed up.

[@intergalactichumanempire9759]

I don’t remember ever seeing this video before now

[@ty_teynium]

“Tax Avoidance” so true

[@drakonorkan1372]

4:36 oh thank god. i thought i was the only one. thank you.

[@brandonn6099]

Best combat in the series. She has several different weapons and elements to use. Sure, it's not as varied as the whole of Dark Souls, but you can change on the fly when you want to, so the combat is no less varied than Dark Souls. Also, people overhype the comparison. Comparing it to Bayonetta is much more appropriate though Bayo is far more challenging.

[@darylchiu9030]

1:56 Yahtzee's most accurate descriptions of the Darksiders franchise. :v

[@maldoran9150]

The only reason I'm still subscribed!

[@ClumsyReaper]

I rather liked Darksiders, though I will admit that they felt.. uncontrolled somehow.

[@AlexanderForsman]

If they changed so that the target button also centered the camera, it would have been so much better

[@Sinewmire]

See pestilence could have been a very different, interesting game where you infect enemies with melee attacks and deliberately let some of them go to infect others, kinda like Shadow of Mordor's orc management game but with more snot.

[@Luke-cu1hk]

Finally, some good fucking content

[@AlexanderForsman]

0:20 Famine and Conquest*

[@tmauntler]

I've loved every Darksiders game lmao The plots aren't nearly as crazy or swiss cheesy as he thinks. You just have to care enough to pay attention during the cutscenes. Still love these vids though.

[@TheSpearkan]

My bet on the "but" element for Darksiders 4 based on what I've seen from Strife will be "Like God of War but L.A Noire"