Let's Drown Out... Viscera Cleanup Detail

Gabriel and I finally take some god damn responsibility and clean up that mess we made in Brutal Doom. During the process we idly pass the time discussing the three elephants in the room that is E3.

[@onyxtay7246]

I love the contrast between Gabriel and Yahtzee. Gabriel is like "I'm donating as much blood as I can to help people." then Yahtzee's reply is "Your blood might save the next Hitler." I just like hearing a cynic, and an idealist talk about things.

[@MakiOfSpring]

I think it's this contrast that made this series so incredible. Yahtzee and Gabe are very similar in a lot of ways, but while Gabe has dealt with his issues, come out at the other end and is willing to believe in the good people are capable of, Yahtzee is wallowing in his issues and watching the world through a lens of misery. So while the two of them get along well, they also have points where they fundamentally differ on and are willing to fight on that. I haven't found a podcast or whatever else duo yet that has such an amazing chemistry.

[@CommanderSuberox]

@@MakiOfSpring well tbh it’s also because Australians are generally very positive people. Whereas us Brits are cynics by nature and always think that things could be a lot worse.

[@faultygasmask8340]

In space, no one can hear you clean.

[@Brandon_Powell]

Good one.

[@satans_scrilla4844]

Golf 👏

[@thelostandromedan81]

Space Quest tagline

[@retronymph]

"This corpse is annoying me" - Yahtzee 2014

[@Arexion5293]

I wonder what the commercial would be for this game: "An alien has broken into the space ship and brutally killed the crew, leaving a huge mess behind. It is now your turn to clean up the mess it left behind! Quite literally."

[@samotdengode]

that is exacly what the description for it on steam is!

[@Arexion5293]

zagonormus Oh? Cool, I can read minds!

[@creamychungus2562]

Or you just know the art of copy+paste

[@Arexion5293]

Michael McMichael I haven't even checked the steam page. And I doubt it'd be that from word to word.

[@samotdengode]

Arexion5293 well its not word to word but pretty damn close (from the steam page) Disaster! An alien invasion and subsequent infestation have decimated this facility. Many lives were lost, the facility was ruined and the aliens were unstoppable. All hope was lost until one survivor found the courage to fight back and put the aliens in their place! It was a long and horrific battle as the survivor duelled with all manner of terrifying life-forms and alien mutations, but our hero won out in the end and destroyed the alien menace! Humanity was saved! Unfortunately, the alien infestation and the heroic efforts of the courageous survivors have left rather a mess throughout the facility. As the janitor, it is your duty to get this place cleaned up. So grab your mop and roll up your sleeves, this is gonna be one messy job. Today, you're on Viscera Cleanup Detail!

[@Mr_Chimick]

You probably don't read these anymore, but if you ever play this game again, the heat gun is for the bullet holes. If you train it on the center of a bullet hole you melt the material back together.

[@DragosTheGod]

Yahtzee called it. 25:15 He said he wants Bayonetta in smash brothers. 2015 rolls around and here she is. Yahtzee for mastermind behind all things Nintendo.

[@earth9564]

Nyianhttzeenedo

[@Chaz235]

+Scoulid Scake (Icarus Nova) also that he called Xbone exclusives being release on PC and now both Dead Rising 3 and Ryse are on PC, although why anyone would want the latter on any medium is a good question to ask

[@jibbygibb5138]

I love how the conversation on the value of life ended after Yahtzee was asked to reconcile the value of his own life with his psychotic philosophy.

[@seanbean6598]

im not the only person who came to the realization that if their parents saw you playing this game they would flip shit on you because you dont like to clean in real life?

[@emzedjiklool511]

+Sean Bean If i can clean stuff while sitting comfortably on my chair with a mouse and keyboard i'd probably clean a lot more

[@glenngriffon8032]

Because cleaning IRL is tiring and exhausting and you get stains that won't come out.

[@123halofreak]

That mop has extraordinarily large cleaning noodles.

[@Mantis47]

It's a FUTURE mop

[@ohmysweetnurse]

The term "cleaning noodles" has just made my weekend.

[@carbon1255]

Justin Conquerbeard The flying spaghetti monsters has noodly appendages.

[@darcgibson5099]

There are people who genuinely do this job for trains. Like when someone gets splattered by a train, a team of depressives comes in to scoop them up with spades.

[@gorkaaustin5306]

Darc Gibson Sounds like I found my dream job.

[@PaulGrahamRetroPaul]

God, I'd thought I'd be rewatching these videos till the end of time. Then it hit me today I hadn't thought about "let's drown out" in forever. Still, nowt wrong with a nostalgic visit.

[@AlexDMC]

Technically you still haven't stopped

[@jacob4189]

I’ll go months without thinking about LDO then get the urge to watch the entire series. That’s just how it be.

[@imageeknotanerd9897]

*Blood pours out of the vending machine* Oh, bollocks. I hate when that happens. *Promptly cleans up blood without a second thought*

[@mythousandfaces]

I choose you: BLACKFRIEND "BLACK-FRIEND! BLACK-FRIEND" BLACKFRIEND used counter on RACISM It's not very effective.

[@mandowarrior123]

More like Wild ACCUSATION appeared Go, RACIST RACIST used BLACKFRIEND It's not very effective.

[@Morec0]

BLACKFRIEND fainted. ITSAJOKE used FRIED CHICKEN on BLACKFRIEND. BLACkFRIEND has been revived.

[@GaiaAlpha]

Fun fact, in Viscera Cleanup, The wet floor markers CAUSE the slippy bits of floor.

[@BattleUnit3]

I just spent an hour watching Yahtzee cleaning a millitary base. I have exams!

[@OckhamAsylum]

+Християн лазаров (EDF) Christ, I know that feeling...

[@pocketdialmusic]

Me too...me too

[@GreatBritishbtchoff]

i have a 500 word essay pretty sure im about to kill my self

[@Mothman1992]

Elder Goth 500 words? give me two hours and a bowl of alpha-bits and I'll shit 500 words. my last class ended with a paper that ended up at 28 pages

[@oj7442]

in the end how well did you do in the exam now that its a year later

[@Orgaya]

The reason games like these are fun is because at any time you're allowed to quit. They give you the base gratification of accomplishing something, just like in real life. Except in real life, you can't quit when you're bored, you quit when you're done.

[@Mantis47]

I can't wait for this game to get a full release so people start modding levels of actual games into it, kinda like the Shadow Warrior 'crossover'. It would be amusing to mope up the the Phobos station from Doom 3, the station from Dead Space 2... The possibilities are endless.

[@brothyr]

There would need to be a mod to add in a firehose to clean up a Dead Space level.

[@crashkobashi2]

A level based off Mortal Kombat

[@superfancyawsomeness]

Adam R

[@glenngriffon8032]

I'd like to see a levebased around stuff in system shock 2. Like cleaning up biomass goo off the walls, incinerating pieces of alien eggs and corpses of hybrids and cyborgs. Or mopping up the dead rising mall. Open a door and there's a still living zombie head attempting to bite you and you just stuff it in the incinerator.

[@HQ_Default]

"I don't believe a single human life has any inherent value." That's not depressing at all.

[@nico99nrc]

I would say it is nihilistic but not inherently depressing since it has some truth in it.

[@theninjafuckr4109]

Agreed up to the "since". Am I misunderstanding or are you saying that truth makes it less depressing? Because most things that I get depressed about are at least in some way true...

[@nico99nrc]

+TheNinjaFuckr I think the truth is less depressing because once you realize that there is no value in life you get to live more happily because you don't have the stress finding "the meaning of your own existence". You just do what you want and know that nothing of all that has a point unless you give it one.

[@HQ_Default]

I don't like the idea that one life is worthless, because then it's hard to say that a LOT of life is worth something. Nothing plus Nothing does not equal something.

[@nico99nrc]

+HQDefault I can see why you may not like that but I have a different point of view on this. I think that no life is worth anything, objectively and that on the big scale, nothing you do will ever affect something. It's a very comforting thought for me because then, I don't have to worry about anything. I can define my cause myself and be sure that even if it turns out be bad, I know that it doesn't matter. Nothing has value and therefore nothing is changed through me. It may sound scary or sad but nothing has meaning unless you give it one.

[@Lightice1]

I can't see how someone who thinks logically can have a reasonable anti-blood donation argument. Enlightened self-interest demands that you support the existence of a system that can potentially save your own life in the future. Even if you consider all the other lives saved in the process worthless for some reason, your own life should still be infinitely valuable to you and the nearly nonexistent sacrifice that you make will contribute to your own survival in the future should you be seriously injured. So even if you are a complete sociopath, it's still more beneficial for you to donate blood than not to.

[@asendimchev1996]

It is a pretty stupid point for yahtzee to make. Its kind of based on fear from the unknown. Its true that you really don't know who you could be saving with your blood, but saying that donating is overall bad is quite a petty, fearful attitude. It obviously more likely to end up helping a normal person than Hitler.

[@TheRadioSquare]

There are plenty of people that consider war as one of the ways to control population growth. I wouldn't be surprised at all if someone would think in a similar way when it comes to donating blood. After all most people that need blood, need it because of illness, injury or something else and if there's no blood for them, they will die, and no resources will be spent on treating them. That's a cynical outlook but it's not unreal. And I can kind of understand where Yahtzee is coming from if he's serious. Your blood might go to a child injured in a car crash, or it might go to some criminal that need a transfusion in order to survive to be sentenced, not everybody would be pleased with this perspective.

[@saladfingers123243]

This whole show is about 2 snooty guys bragging about how much smarter they are than everybody else.

[@isodoublet]

"Enlightened self-interest demands that you support the existence of a system that can potentially save your own life in the future." That's complete bullshit. Your single contribution is not going to save the system in a future event where you might need it. One person is just too small and insignificant to have such a dramatic effect. It's much like voting: the same guy will win regardless of who you vote for. As far as the altruism, it depends on where you are. If you're in America, it makes absolutely no fucking sense whatsoever to donate blood. Hospitals are profiting from your donation so they should really be buying it and compensating your expense and discomfort.

[@jefftheduck321]

Fear of needles?

[@David_Axelord]

Yahtzee commentating at a Thunderdome would make living in a post apocalyptic world worth it.

[@DiegoGomez-zt2jx]

Ijjj I'm

[@blackkakari]

As someone with OCD, this game looks very appealing to me.

[@hikerwolfspaine8200]

+blackkakari I pride myself by cleaning everything filling up every medkit dispenser and placing wet floor signs wherever I mop.

[@CraftKitty007]

+Hiker Wolfspaine u can put shit in the medkit dispensers?!

[@hikerwolfspaine8200]

The dispenser that gives you stuff like wet floor signs also dispenses a medkit. you grab that then it magnetically slots itself into the medkit dispensers when you hold the medical supplies just right in front of it.

[@CraftKitty007]

+Hiker Wolfspaine so I've never actually played this, does this ever fucking end? xD

[@hikerwolfspaine8200]

you clean until you think you're done then you submit your results and get graded. I have a track record of 95% cleanliness.

[@rob9052]

"A waffle has many divots" is a fucking great line, especially if it came in the moment.

[@SonofTiamat]

We already have the perfect voice-actor for Gordon Freeman, and his name is Ross Scott!

[@MultiJade]

He even looks like Freeman: x4.fjcdn.com/comments/guise+_56ac70096918c3119e48a3d68da1ee8c.jpg

[@SonofTiamat]

"Otacon" Emmerich Whoa, is that really him? He does look like him!

[@WorthlessWinner]

don't we already have a half life movie thanks to him?

[@Morec0]

AVeryConfusedMan *EXHALES COFFEE THROUGH NOSE!!!!!*

[@SonofTiamat]

By the way, has anybody seen Ross's new video? He no longer looks like Gordon Freeman; he's rockin' the Jesus look now.

[@ThatZommy]

After playing Space Station 13 as a janitor, this is extremely relatable. Also, STOP THROWING PIES YOU USELESS CLOWN!

[@ThatZommy]

282FUN Once I had a clown that covered the med bay with laggy stacks of papers. I hated him.

[@NoTimeToBehLohst]

ThatZommy One round of Space Station 13, The Admin got bored and sent a "Clown Armada" with "Honk cannons" at us. The bartender got ganged up on by clowns and murdered, while I hid in a vent planning to make the floors wet to avenge the bartender. (He gave me a free drink after I robusted the Botanist for sending him Weed.)

[@ThatZommy]

Aidan Pearce You hid in a vent? That's possible? Also, what server? I'm a Liberty man myself.

[@NoTimeToBehLohst]

ThatZommy It may have been Goonstation but I don't really remember because right after I had a much more memorable adventure on a Warhammer 40k server as a commissar.

[@sirwingman336]

ThatZommy HAIL HYDR- i mean, hippiestation

[@ChrisOfChin]

I've been waiting for this.

[@nukeclears]

Happy peasant.

[@JoshuaKenori]

Avatar Accuracy

[@JamesUnderscoreZero]

I was playing Battleblock theater in the background. I completed a level and at the same time Yahtzee mentioned that he did solo developed. The narrator then said "Good for you"! Almost pissed myself.

[@KouriRyu]

I think this would be nice with some upgrades, like a water blaster or something to break up bigger messes. The cycle of mopping like 4-5 times, rinsing in the bucket 3-4 times, then disposing of the bucket, then dragging a new bucket to the messy area seems so tedious. All I know is if I can name a character, his name will be Stanley Spadowski.

[@KouriRyu]

Or multiplayer. Having a couple other people helping you out with some voice chat would be great. Nothing like a good conversation to pass the time while doing something menial.

[@BigNeppy]

KouriRyu pretty sure the game already has multiplayer

[@KouriRyu]

MrSuperWeeGee Oh good to know. I was unaware having only watched this video in regards to the game. Haha.

[@Mantis47]

See but the game tries to be tedious on purpose, in an anti-game kind of way. Someone went and shot all the aliens and had all the gameplay-related fun, now you're the lowly grunt that has to do the tedious job of cleaning up. No fun allowed.

[@AcetheGolden]

Mantis47 I don't see it trying to be anti-game, maybe a bit tedious yes. No reason they couldn't still make it have somewhat of a variety.

[@heysimone]

Y'know, 2014 was a different time.

[@RealEnerjak]

It's obvious this game has you clean up a UAC facility on Mars.

[@WittyUsername816]

The company from DOOM.

[@MilitantOldLady]

The furnaces name is Burnie.

[@MrKennyCakemouth]

burnie burns

[@ZackRToler]

Burnie Burns ?

[@volt792000]

full name Michael Burnie Burns.

[@Kooljex12]

Burnerd.

[@TheDrCN]

Burnice. How dare you ignore the furnace's personal gender identity.

[@vicentefernandez9084]

I don't know, man. I've seen some seriously pansy people, who've never been in a fight, absolutely lose it and beat the everliving assjuice out of people twice their size... I think there's more to it than "knowing or not knowing how to fight".

[@mr.orangeaide5260]

thats untrained verses also untrained. if someones got a lot of legit combat sports experience, its jedi versus a cripple.

[@lehelisbored]

Heh heh... "assjuice"

[@SAMagic]

"Devil's run when a good man goes to war."

[@jesselindsey9760]

@@mr.orangeaide5260 Look at this chump, he thinks karate works in a real fight.

[@mr.orangeaide5260]

@@jesselindsey9760 karate, no. mma/wrestling/mauythai/rugby/kickboxing when someone has trained and competed for a long enough time. yes

[@TheAxebeard]

This is already a job in the real world. Who do you think cleans up the mess after a tweaker blows his brains all over his apartment?

[@Lutranereis]

I think the game would be funnier if there was an actual FPS element to it and you played a soldier with an obsessive compulsive need to clean.

[@Hugmir]

Yes yes yes yes I'd love that kind of escalation of it. More of an "actual" game, with this cleaning duty as additional (and even dominating) layer to it. Sign me up!

[@fromthegamethrone]

Or the fight was still going on, making a mess everywhere. You're there trying to clean, tutting at soldiers

[@EmilyDNelson]

59:15: You know, it's taken a while, but I'm really starting to love Gabriel. I love his surprising optimism next to Yahtzee in this, and that particular moment just made me truly laugh out loud.

[@TheEPROM9]

I miss these, use to have them playing when I was doing uni asignment work

[@ryanfrankwilson]

This is hands down my favorite episode of LDO. This game works so well with their podcast style. A real joy to listen to.

[@jigurd]

The unused coop feature of this game made me think: a series where Yahtzee and Gabriel play coop games while talking over them might be cool. The dynamic would be a bit different, as right now the one playing can rely on the other one to keep a conversation going, but it could be interesting.

[@IGIPNP]

We'll call it... Game Grumps, 'cause they're all grumpy and shit. Yahtzee can be the grumpy one and Gabe can be the not so grumpy one.

[@dorpth]

They ended up doing "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" a year later. (hello, from 7 years in the future!)

[@MercurialStatic]

Just got home from work, this is just what I needed. Thank you Yahtzee...and you too dwarf.

[@04whim]

If they give Gordon Freeman a voice it should be a bad Jerry Lewis impression. They'll never find a voice that makes everyone happy, might as well just go for one that pisses everyone off instead.

[@andrewhickinbottom1051]

46:56 - i'm enjoying watching these older videos and hearing Yahtzee first mention news of stuff that he ended up really liking - like Bloodborne for instance.

[@TheQuyman]

Or bayonetta in smash

[@CplYakob]

We apologise for the inconvenience but Let's Drown Out will be postponed indefinitely following Gabe and Yatzhee settling their "I could kill you" disagreement. That, or the social justice crusaders will have gotten to them.

[@matthewfulghum1438]

Viscera Cleanup Detail DLC idea: Gabe's platelets get spilled all over the place.

[@laurentscasino3244]

"Let's see the lay of the land... 3:58 (Goes to next floor seeing the whole room filled with blood*) Okay we'll do that later!" XD

[@WeIsDaTyrantz]

'Yeah, Yahtzee loves power metal'. The hell are you on about, Gabe..

[@twofacetoo75]

Gabe: "So what if you needed help?" Yahtzee: *goes silent and waits for a distraction so he doesn't have to justify his hypocritical bullshit*

[@jesselindsey9760]

Yahtzee is very good at coming up with entertaining youtube videos. He is not good at philosophy, since he only gives it JUST enough thought to justify being selfish to others.

[@asteroidrules]

The reason everyone was pissed about AC Unity was because their excuse was idiotic, they claimed it was a ton of extra work when everyone who would actually have done that work said it would take just a few days at most. And actually reusing assets between male and female models is quite easy, as most of the developers who've actually done it (like Zombie studios) have stated, quite a good amount of the assets are at best transferable directly, at worst simple to adapt.

[@AntiHero36]

zombie studios made state of decay and the men and women in that game moved the exact same was in their skeleton. the way that engine was built its easy to do that because of the lack of animations in that game but assassins creed has a shit ton and its gonna be a pain when it comes to a womans scale when climbing. (sry english is my second language)

[@Mazzmaker69]

So the writing, motion capturing,voice acting, creating the skins etc etc. takes a few days? Not to mention bug testing sessions etc. Highly fucking doubt that.

[@asteroidrules]

Mazzmaker69 I never said it would, I said that the actual animators, modelers, texturers, said it would. Writing (and a decent amount of modeling) wouldn't really need to be altered at all. Not to mention AC has had female characters as NPCs, and I believe playable in at least one game, and we know they have no problem with re-using assets. Yeah it's extremely possible and extremely easy to do.

[@VanguardFencer]

If Ubisoft did do a female character and did a crappy job at it, people are gonna bitch anyway. If you're gonna hear people bitch about something, may as well take the cost-effective route.

[@Ditch901]

But did you not listen? There is only one character to the game, You will see the same model playing single player or multi player co-op. Everyone playing only views different characters running around them while always playing as the default model. At the end of the day all these games are trying to do is make money and the publisher clearly decided that it was not financially viable to develop a female character that would integrate with the co-op.

[@ironraccoon3536]

25:39: "Imagine if Kirby swallowed her and then had... Like, kind of a gimp outfit." Deviantart please no

[@tommyscott8511]

Deviantart YES

[@TheClayKnight]

"I'd love to see like, a crazy gender-queer coven make a video game because Tetris is too hetero-normative." -Gabe 38:51

[@samotdengode]

have you guys ever thought of doing some sort of q and a stuff during this?

[@OdaSwifteye]

They said that they can't do a Livestream thing because Australia just doesn't have the power to hold a connection like that. It would be cool if they did an AMA thing on Reddit where you ask a bunch of questions and they pull up that for a drown out instead of a topic list.

[@samotdengode]

Oda Swifteye i dont mean a livestream. just taking questions from the comments and answering them in the next drown out

[@Billbill80s]

Comments are far too varied to really fairly do that.

[@samotdengode]

Billbill80s eh... i guess you are right.. oh well

[@caffeinatedcanine-2644]

The dramatic irony of reading this comment thread at the current date... I just chuckled a bit.

[@sirderpington7704]

“you damn doom guy....shooting up the place blowing everything up~ and who gets to clean it up~ me! me the cleaner has to clean up all the stuff~” "clean the organs~Jack" "you got to get that promotion Jack or I am leaving you to go living on mars" "why do you use yellow gloves Jack~" (30 min later) "finally cleaned up this section" "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

[@04whim]

The bit that I find really gets me about the "Ahh, there's no women in Assassin's Creed" thing, beyond all the things mentioned here, is the fact that well... Aveline exists. If you really want a female Assassin, go play Liberation.

[@gray007nl]

But it's not very good...

[@stevemega]

I don't think 'there are spinoffs and handheld games for women and minorities!' is the best defense... It's sort of much worse.

[@asendimchev1996]

Johan Hoekstra then play multiplayer.

[@paperbackwriter1111]

Isn't the problem, that there isn't a skin in coop? Cause why would anybody bitch about singleplayer?

[@Tamacat388]

Yeah, go play the AC game that was so shit we allowed the player to be a lady.

[@SeditiousSpyke]

God i love putting these on to warble in the background while i mindlessly doing mmo dailies. Cheers Yahtzee

[@ChitterChatterD]

39:40 Point well fucking made. I'm really sick of others trying to control content being made in a game because it doesn't fit in their own narrow point of view. If a group feels under represented, then there is no reason why they can't make their own. "If you don't like my casserole, fuck off and make your own."

[@Minib34ts]

A good example would be Anita Sarkeesian actually using all of that kickstarter money to make a game with a strong female lead instead of criticising Fallout 4 for it's crafting system's main use being to make weapons to kill shit, or Doom's extravagantly gore filled clusterfuck of bits and blood, amongst other things.

[@eldritchhrempf3395]

How is complaining about a games representation of your group identity so different from game reviews?

[@Minib34ts]

Eldritch Hrempf There's a difference between a review and attempted content control. "Female protagonist would be better in X instance" is an example of that, "Less violence in Y instance" is also an attempt of that. If you don't like the game, find a game that you like. Or, as I stated before, you can always learn how to make a game, and make the games you want in the market.

[@JaytheOstrich]

That's my new life motto now.. "A waffle has many divots". I wonder what it means.

[@tommyscott8511]

You know, on the Brutal DOOM front, why doesn't someone mod this so it has the new DOOM maps?

[@CaitiVoltaire]

This really is Gabe at his most insufferably arrogant towards the end. You don't truly know what someone is capable of until you put their life on the line, and a lot more people would surprise him than he seems to think.

[@MrKennyCakemouth]

this has a lot of potential to be a scary game

[@StOoPiDU]

There's enough of those.

[@DrEdward]

That would be missing the point of the game entirely.

[@RaiohTheHunter]

Adamdre OH GOD WHO SHIT IN THE SHOWERS?!

[@SonOfMeme]

Ian Asman 8scary64me

[@DemienC.]

Ian Asman Now THIS is a horror. MrKennyCakemouth Another horror game? (or how some people call them - "pewdie baits"). If you didn't notice dismembered bodies do not induce fear anymore... which is horror already.

[@Vic2point0]

IMO, *the* reason Unity should've had a female protagonist is not for the representation of women... It's the existence of *Aveline,* one of the best AC protagonists ever designed, and the fact that she could've easily been added to the game because she was an assassin living in that precise time period!

[@Rocklobsta_]

I'm playing Viscera while watching this

[@lordcommissarspartan]

Goes up the elevator... and Immediately comes right back down.

[@SheepPatrol67]

I like to think of Yahtzee and Gabe as the voices in the Janitor's head. It's more funny and interesting that way

[@pablorodriguezcabrera6231]

This is how an employer of the UAC feels every time his bosses fucked it up.

[@ruekurei88]

Assassin's Creed has lots of female models actually they can use as a base. As for animations and costume sets, yeah you can use the male ones, which is what Dark Souls and other games do. You can have some exclusive female costume sets that would require additional artwork and modeling, or change the walk and idle stance animations. Only difficult thing would be the voice. That would depend entirely on the script and what it requires..

[@Crowz]

You would be surprised how hard things can be to do when you actually go to do them. Take separating U238 from U235, you know you need to spin it in Centrifuges but when you actually go to do it things break down, there is more you need to know and more problems to be solved. Iran ran into these problems which seemed so easily solved by the US and other nations. Likewise unless you are actually on the development team It would be difficult for you to know how easy it would be to do the things you are saying. I work at Microsoft on large software projects, and you would be supprised how much work it can take to add something as simple as a start menu back into Windows, because there are issues on a large project(in my case localization and performance) that can take longer than you expect.

[@removalofrem8034]

Psst, Dark Souls actually has specific female animations and such. I don't know how people miss all the extra butt waggling.

[@ruekurei88]

Removalof Rem Mstly the same animations though, specifically attack animations, unless I miss something and they are actually different.

[@Louibitz6666]

I ended up buying this game immediately after watching this video. I can't get over how engrossing it is for such a dull concept XD

[@SibirianBlue]

I don't agree with the AC thing. It looks like you are just a random dude, not an existing historical figure. If the story was based on a historical figure, I wouldn't have qualms about it. In fact, I don't really, I would prefer to play a as a girl but hey. It's just the excuse they give "oooh it's extra work to put a woman in" whilst wrenching in multiplayer (yes, those are different aspects, granted) is just pathetic.

[@noLimitkillED]

That's because it's an assassins creed game, they're telling a story, using a historical figure would just lead to limiting what they can do. Plus the fact that a good assassin, shouldn't be known or in history, because a good assassin doesn't go public. Yeah some people might like to play as a girl, but that does not mean game companies should be forced to pander to every single individual want or be called sexist or racist. Things like this shouldn't be game ruining things to people actually interested in the story and gameplay. And yes putting in another playable character, hell Yahtzee mentioned it all in the video, it is quite a bit of extra work to do and they do have deadlines. Also the story is tailored to the character you get now, to make a woman character also playable would be far more work than you'd care to realize.

[@SibirianBlue]

They shouldn't be called sexist, I agree. Lazy? Yes. But it's a bad sort of laziness. They do have deadlines, yes, but if a female character was included in the conception of the game, the deadlines would include that time. My point is, the character is new, he is just some guy who is rising through the assassin's ranks, and I don't see why it can't be a girl. If the story hinged on Dorian being a man, specifically, I'd have no problem with that. But it often doesn't. Replace Desmond as a woman, and s/he'll still be just as bland. If they said "you know, we really thought about this, and we just can't create a convincing woman/ this Dorian guy is super special to the story", that would also be ok. The excuse is "too much like hard work." This is a personal opinion, I did not say it would ruin the game for me, AC3 already soured the taste. Companies should not be forced to pander, sure. But, at the same time they are promising an immersive experience, and you know what, I genuinely want to listen to the story they want to tell, I just wish I could as a girl character.

[@noLimitkillED]

The thing is, as bland as some characters may seem like Desmond, they're not purposefully making them bland. I mean that's speculation on my part, but I think they are trying to go for well fleshed out characters and you can't just assume it would be easy to swap the character out for the opposite gender because that would mean the story would not be bland by fault but because it wouldn't work in any other way. And I think anyone would agree, only having a single main character would be much better than forcing a bland story in a series trying to use story to set itself apart.

[@SibirianBlue]

Edgy Armando I'm not saying the stories are bland, I'm saying that Desmond is bland as a character: you can replace him by any other guy or girl, the character would still be uninteresting. All his back story is "my dad was tough so I ran away (to work as a barman, not to for example...a circus), and then got into templars, and now I'm here". Having tough fathers and running away can happen to a girl too, that's all I'm saying. I *didn't* say that I think the story would be bland if they just put male characters in, Ezio was amazing, and hey, Edward wasn't bad either. And with Unity they are promising customisation and multiplayer features. Customisation, that's the key word. Like I said, if they presented Dorian's character as integral to the game, the plot, it would be fine. BUT they did not. You can have essentially 4 different looking characters, depending on what you want. So, if looks don't matter in the overall plot of the game, why should gender? It doesn't, but the difference is there's work to be done about it. Like you said, we wouldn't know what a good assassin would look like or who they are. And supposedly, that's the character we are playing. Why can't it be a girl? Again, because it's laziness on Ubisoft's part, but it's the bad kind.

[@purebloodedgriffin]

***** but its useless effort cause they bacicly use the same animation between games

[@holydiver233]

"I don't believe that a single human life has any inherent value." Jesus, Yahtzee.

[@user-is2zv4sc6y]

The only voice Gordon Freeman needs is Ross Scott's Freeman's Mind.

[@haku_haku_haku]

This was always my favourite episode, it's so satisfying watching them clean up.

[@LambdaObjection]

Gabriel says, "white men are in no position to accurately convey the experiences of women and non-white people." This appears to have been misconstrued as "only white men's experiences matter." His point is quite sound. You don't ask a mathematician to teach a literature course, nor does that situation suggest any exclusive superiority about literature just because some people are not apt to discuss it, We should have people of all sexes, creeds, colours, religions etc. telling their own stories, rather than demanding somebody who is not you cater to your specific wishes about representation. It is your responsibility to tell your story, because anybody else attempting to do so will do the subject matter a disservice through their ignorance.

[@halfpintgamescast]

Yahtzee: "Do you think you could take Bum-Biter?" Grunthos the Leg-Flayer: "Aaaaggh!" Yahtzee: "Well... um... Well you can hear about that and lots of other insights in your new autobiography, I believe. What's that called?" Grunthos: "Erm... A Man's mission. It's also available as an audio book." Yahtzee: "Woah, man. You got articulate fucking fast." Grunthos: "Hehehe. I had split brain surgery" etc. Cracked me up so hard.

[@ShineyRcus0103]

Does Yahtzee have Anti-Social Personality disorder? I mean good lord, that statement he made about not a single life having an inherent value... Deep, and yet creepy.

[@Cajaquarius]

Based on his commentary in these videos and elsewhere, I am guessing he cares more for people than he lets on but is or tends to get very depressed. I have had other friends from Britain and most of them are similarly dour and pessimistic. It makes me wonder if depression is a pathological neurology linked to being British, genetically.

[@PhilosopherGaming]

He's cleaning up people's mashed up bodies and blood. I'm a cleaner myself so I can attest to the fact that it dulls your view of the world some what.

[@drsteiner12]

Cajaquarius That is actually part of the reason. The Britain region usually is gloomy and rainy (weather wise) so peoples emotions are usually pessimistic and depressed. But, Yahtzee lives in Australia I believe.

[@PhilosopherGaming]

drsteiner12 speaking as an Englishman that's a bit of a false stereo type you're peddling there. Generally we're no more depressed emotionally than any other nation, we are infact quite cheery. Pessimistic on the other hand, well, I'll give you that. That can't be denied considering this is the only country I know of where a book called "crap towns" was released, and they had to release a second book, "crap towns 2" because too many people wrote in to complain that their town hadn't made the first one.

[@drsteiner12]

I'm sorry if I offended you; but I myself lived in London for some time and it is quite rainy there (well compared to other countries - maybe except canada) And I know it doesnt apply to all british people, but I'm saying that many british people are pessimistic and depressed due to the weather- This is scientifically proven. This also applies to another town I lived in Canada where suicide rates were high (also very rainy place)

[@liampendergast8670]

The strangest announcement I saw at E3 was Dead Island 2. Because the developer was Yager (Spec Ops: The Line). I just sat there and thought "This is a quite a change in tone from the developer."

[@Vic2point0]

Gabe: "Don't try to prove you're not racist by collecting a black friend as if they're some sort of Pokemon." The media now: "Gabriel Morton tells his followers 'Don't befriend black people'"

[@mitchhamilton64]

Vic2point0: "All these made up arguments in my head help keep the demons at bay."

[@lawrencenickerson8649]

Mopping it up while we're goooooooing down

[@BigBossIsBack]

Paris DLC when?

[@wujia8239]

lmao

[@ImortalZeus13]

+BigBossIsBack OH MY FUCKING GOD

[@emzedjiklool511]

Can't believe i laughed at this.

[@ryansample6016]

+BigBossIsBack tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrossesTheLineTwice

[@Diinify]

+BigBossIsBack _fuck_

[@dsagent]

This game is disturbingly addictive.

[@MattSpaul]

Needs co-op

[@abonomini9908]

It already does.

[@MattSpaul]

I'm definitely buying this then

[@abonomini9908]

It is a little finicky and glitchy, though. What would one expect of an alpha build though?

[@dik4316]

A Bonomini How much griefing is involved? Because the potential to screw someone up is astounding.

[@abonomini9908]

Di, k The co-op is local only, and you should only play multiplayer with friends, as strangers can quickly screw up your janitorial ventures.

[@Mokujo]

Just bought this because of this video. Yahtzee is the best advertisement ever.

[@TheGaluMoD]

I wish yahtzee would have replied to gabes "What if you needed help?" at 12:21. But at least him stating that his stance on this whole thing is abit psychotic indicates that there is some self-awareness there. Still, not cool

[@jesselindsey9760]

Seriously. When your personal philosophy leads you to ask questions like "why would you ever lift a finger to save a dying human, unless you're being paid for it", you need to take a step back and reevaluate your life.

[@SherrifOfNottingham]

"For all we know this could be a load screen and that means... shit." "Ooh kay, we'll take care of that later then." Prolly one of my favorite drown out moments.

[@Rycluse]

When you talk about Yahtzee's hair being "Yug-grade" are you talking about that guy Yug that was in Game Damage with Yahtzee?

[@kienesel7]

If you ask me, a well made open world game is Fallout: New Vegas. It is technically open world but it has a clear direction and pacing that you can still buck if you feel like it.

[@pieoverlord]

Yahtzee says Bayonetta wouldn't be in Smash for a million+ years + Bayonetta is added to Smash in noticeably less time = Yahtzee predicted that Bayonetta would be in Smash? Christ, do you people listen to yourselves?

[@shady4091]

+pieoverlord It's a fun observation, no one is saying that he literally predicted it, are you really that bitter?

[@spencerleeb6763]

Gabe's gladiator bit at the end is why I love him. That was flawlessly done.

[@Enigmaticmuffin27]

I can never have intelligent and/or philosophical conversations with my friends similar to the ones had in these videos mostly due to the fact that they're just not that kind of person. All the more reason for me to want to meet yhatzee.

[@ImortalZeus13]

Jessica Mus ... What?

[@MultiJade]

Friends? What is the meaning of that strange word?

[@Enigmaticmuffin27]

sieben where the hell do you live, because the people there sound much more tolerable than the ones here

[@jesselindsey9760]

You want to meet the antisocial nutjob who said "I can't understand why anybody donates blood"? Loser.

[@Neverhoodian]

I've played this game on and off for months now, and it never occurred to me to use a spilled bucket as a smaller trash bin. Genius!

[@graidstinHitlerRants]

If yahtzee really believes that a human life has "no inherent value" why doesn't he become a hired killer, I can only assume that it make a lot better money than an internet video game critic.

[@feloniousbutterfly]

Because he's just another opinionated drone. It's easy to be apathetic, and he doesn't get that.

[@Samagachi]

Probably because it's illegal

[@leowulf5280]

Also being a hired killer is a lot of work. Hell his whole thing is that a human life doesn't have value until it earns it. He likely believes people like doctors, construction workers, police officers, etc. do have value because they contribute something to society.

[@pikistikman]

Yahtzee doesn't have any of the required skills.

[@Roronoa2zoro]

I wonder how Yahtzee feels about this "inherent value and potential" discussion now after becoming a parent.

[@komrookmetmy465]

He's a father now?!

[@Roronoa2zoro]

@@komrookmetmy465 That was like 3-4 years ago now, but yeah he's definitely got one kid. No idea if they had more since those first news broke.

[@Arretey]

Spanish accent for a German doctor, meh why not

[@kellyrajczak1087]

22:07. Hearing this comment from back then and knowledge from today just makes me just about bust a nut laughing so hard!!🤣🤣 But knowing also that he seems to truly enjoy and love his kids does make it more the sweeter.👍😚✨ Seems we all have come a long way.✨💖👍

[@tabula_rosa]

people aren't mad at Ubisoft for not having a female playable character, they're mad for their stupid lie excuse

[@kobalt_ren01]

Blood in an elevator, dirtying up when you're going down.

[@ErrEff]

So here is my impression of the AC: Unity issue: You always play as Arno, a male assassin. When you join up with other players, they are depicted as blank, generic assassins that are not Arno but are meant to exist as part of the game world. The problem is not that Ubisoft explicitly wants to tell a story of a male character (which I don't object to) but that the non-Arno co-op player characters could not have a 50/50 random chance of being either male or female - they are always male. I think that it is a bit strange for a major publisher like Ubisoft to do, seeing as how they are notorious for wanting to make their games appeal to a wide audience and willing to make compromises in order to put their games in front of everyone (see: Watch Dogs as a cross-generation title and not releasing Rayman: Legends for the Wii U until they had the PS3 and 360 ports completed as well). Anyway, that's my two centimes. I eagerly await the "Go play AC:Liberation" and "You know nothing about game design" retorts, as if they somehow void all criticism.

[@Probably_Infected]

Go play liberation and I'm certain you know nothing about game design

[@mayhemarts]

"Blood in an elevator..." Still is f*cking hilarious, 9 years later..

[@Ryomha11251]

The problem is honestly a self-fulfilling prophecy. The disparity of men to woman in the industry coupled by tons of sexism and fear of "fake gamer girls" makes it a horrible industry to be a woman in. The female assassin is a valid complaint, because a majority of the stories Ubi writes are about men. Gabe kinda makes the point that they should write their stories, but as Yahtzee has expressed several times, the trite safeness of the series shows a more willingness to slop some shit and make a million. You guys don't understand day-to-day woman things? Then maybe it'd grow you a little to actually do some research and interviews to understand how woman work. Write a story out of your comfort zone, that's much more effort than Ubi probably puts in their yearly re-hash.

[@Mazzmaker69]

Or how about you do it yourself and let other people write stories or make game about what they want. Other people don't give a flying fuck about what you want, so either wait until someone with a similar taste to yours makes something worth while or do it yourself.

[@Ryomha11251]

But dismissing criticism because your scared to write outside of your comfort zone is doing less for you artistically in all aspects. Sorry bud.

[@Laughing_Chinaman]

all four coop characters are the same person in the story. if there was an option to pay as a woman your gender would magically change everytime you did a coop mission

[@Ryomha11251]

That's fine

[@FLUTTERNINJA]

its called marketing

[@TsucasaElkGSI]

Somebody should tell Gabriel about that absolutely enormous custom map on the steam workshop for this game. It's called "Sewer Cleanup" or something and it's a gigantic terrible mess that I spent several hours cleaning up while listening to podcasts. I used the "killnearestmess" console command once or twice because there were some things that got stuck behind the mapping architecture, but that's not so bad.

[@Killzillastudios]

OCD simulator 2014

[@TheTelenation]

I love that they discuss donating blood while mopping up copious amounts of it.

[@NotAnAustralianEngineer]

Drown out... War Thunder

[@halfhalo33]

Let's Drown Out... Witcher 2: Assassin's of Kings. Cause according to Yahtzee, its a boring game.

[@vermanshane]

Only allowed to do Test flight.

[@skyrimpro117]

They would have to do bombing in sb for it to be boring. even then, not really.

[@NotAnAustralianEngineer]

Just a suggestion.

[@Lancaster604]

They don't do multiplayer games

[@ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

Yahtzee could always kick you in the nads Gabe, he could always kick you in the nads.