Void Bastards - The Most British Intergalactic Roguelike FPS Ever (Jimpressions)
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
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Void Bastards has a great name, a great look, and often great gameplay... when it's not being really annoying.
For the most part it's fun and rewarding, and the British accents are employed to great effect. But when it tries to screw with the player, it really bloody screws.
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Honestly I was sold when I heard the narrator from The Stanley Parable in this game. That voice heals my soul.
...you buy a game only for a voice?
@@Zontar82 Well, isn't that why we all bought the Stanley Parable?
That guy is good but he isn't at the same level of the narrator of darkest dungeon
@@daniellison9182 you can't really compare them since both games have different atmosphere. 1 narrator is going for a more serious grimdark while the other is more wacky and comedic. Both are really good at what theyre going for though.
@@sionteemo9697 that said i want to hear a voice swap of the narrators in those games now
"The toaster can be fired through windows"
Wait, what?
Toaster's the name of the chargeable laser gun. Because it toasts people, see?
Lasse Andersen Much like how Marathon's flamethrower is called the TOZT: because all TOZTs toast toast! And barbecue alien meat.
Lol, I legit thought they were referring to a wi-fi enabled toaster that is compatible with Windows OS
Throw your toaster out the window.
When I read that, I decided to buy the game.
"You never know what you're might gonna get" - Jim Sterling, 2019
"Momma always said life is like a pack of pogs, you never know what you're might gonna get"
5:34 Is that really a quote or did you make a spelling mistake where you randomly put "are" in a sentence?
This is my son "Big Hoss"
Mmmmm, just like a bag of Revels! :P
Comic book style is possibly the only graphical style that doesn't age.
cell shaded tho
TF2's art style specifically also doesn't age.
@@thomascallaghan6444 especially with all those hats....
Cuphead’s cartoon style won’t age because it looks exactly like a cartoon.
Because it doesn't try to be realistic. It has style instead
I have been a fan of Jim F*cking Sterling Son since The Escapist. So when the game I am working on, XIII, my first game as a professional game developer even, gets casually mentioned in a video I get a little awestruck. There where also some giggles. Thank god for Jim.
The remake of the old XIII??
@@bobmcmillen5298 Yup. That one.
@@TimSkovblleHolst man I'm a huge fan of both the graphic novel and original game, I'm so hyped for your remake, thank you to you and all of your colleagues for bringing it back!
XIII was the best shooter on the gamecube. Great story campaign, too. Shame Ubisoft did’t make any sequel back then, since it ends on a cliffhanger. Thanks for remaking it.
@@teecee1827 Well it wasent totally up to us. In the end the publishers have final say on everything. Over the fan response has been overwhelming. I recently got the read the comics myself, it is amazing.
not going to lie, when i first heard the little enemies i thought you had provided voice acting for it.
I thought Jim was a voice actor in the game also
I do kinda feel sad I didn't get to do a silly British voice in a game all about silly British voices. Ah well.
@@JimSterling next time Jim
Suprise fuck face
@@JimSterling DLC, anyone?
When I first heard "Void Bastards" I thought "Is that a new Warframe update?"
Nah, too basic and crud of a name. Warframe would go for something more... Pompous, like "Dashing Renegades of the Void""
I know a certain "Void Bastard" that owns me a darn Primed Continuity >:C
@@NekoiNemo Ethereal Reprobates
Warframe plot summarised.
VOID BASTARDS!!!
Kinda synonymous with "Tenno devils", no? I can see mr potato head turned turkey spewing this from his genetically engineered monstrosity he calls a mouth.
This is one of the games I would've loved to see TB react to.
Same! I think he'd get a kick outta of this game and enjoy it ^_^
I'm here to ask answer one simple question, wtf is void bastards. God I miss that.
@@Palaquack59 Yeah me too ;-;
@@Palaquack59 Don't we all
@@Palaquack59 Indeed. Followed by 15 minutes looking at the settings menu.
Note for PC users: Vsync is an option that removes tearing Jim mentions. Runs beautifully in 4k too (GTX 1060)
Higher refresh rates are more useful than higher resolutions though
@@fluidthought42 to each his own. I like performance for competitive mp. And graphics for sp games.
@@fluidthought42 For some games yes. I switch between 1k High Refresh or a 4k monitor depending on the game. Once you have 4k, it's hard to go back for some games and in particular, non-gaming.
Can confirm. Running 2060 at 4K. Excellent. No drops or tearing. Settings are next to highest.
what a gorgeous art style. A comic book in motion even more so than borderlands. Beautiful.
The art style of this game is truly exquisite.
absolutely agree, one of the reasons I loved the game XIII and was hoping for a sequel that never came
I keep thinking of this as an FTL FPS.
I like that the pros/cons aspect of the Char.
A wobblysauce in the wild. Hey mate. LFS forever.
That tunnel vision trait reminds me of RogueLegacy descendants, all with positve/negative buffs like....vertigo (screen is upside down), or having your controls swapped.
As much as I love Rogue Legacy, that nonsense just annoyed me. Random positive traits is one thing, random negative ones is just annoying IMO. Some were funny, I suppose.
Void Bastards
"Ya never know what ya might gonna get." - Jim Sterling
Great quote to slap on the game case.
Space is like a box of chocolates.
@@CantankerousDave LMFAO....Exactly what I thought when I read what he said. Needs a pure Alabama accent attached to it for posterity.
Feel like TotalBiscuit would've loved this :')
I was just thinking this. Hope that beautiful bastards enjoying the afterlife. Also hope heaven has a good FOV slider.jk
@Bill Hill well, unless his coffin is clear, I doubt it has an FOV slider.
Also doesn't hurt to believe in an afterlife. If there isn't one, no loss. If there is one, long as you wern't a fucking ass, your likely to enjoy it. Honestly, I don't think there is, nor care if there is one. But i also respect people who do.
Krvys what if you only get there by being a fucking ass? Or by fucking ass?
I reckon you're right, I also reckon we'd have had to sit through 15 solid minutes of TB diatribe about screen-tear.... @_@
Ya I was thinking the same tging
0:17 Ah, I see the British have adopted the secret Joestar technique.
Get a life mate
1st comment.
Gotcha bitch!!
Joestar IS British
Our Lord and saviour Justin Y. is at it again
Is that a Jo Jo reference
Totally reminds me about the game "WASTED".
Yea, that was great aswell
THAT was the game, I was getting insane trying to remember. I was sure that they were both from Adult Swim
That should be GTA's other name.
Exactly my thoughts.
Tbh I liked WASTED more. This was the first game I've ever refunded on steam.
It looks like Marathon. The game that Bungie made before Halo.
Thanks Jim. Bought this ad soon as I saw it on the Switch and I'm already obsessed. Great recommendation.
Wow the art style is gorgeous. I think I have to get this for the visuals alone!
Gives me 2000AD flash backs - if they did judge Dredd game in this style in a mega block would be great!
Pretty sure it's a ship AI of a prison transport forcing you on these missions to get itself fixed back up, not some company.
Your video sold me on the game, not disappointed so far.
You remind me of the wonderful totalbiscuit with that title.
It's one of the best FPS, and from Humble bundle they have a good start on publishing.
Picked up this game on your rec, loving it. First client after the tutorial I had died after clipping through the wall in the helm and found himself floating in the void. Really fun game.
Space Raiders crisps, that brings back memories Jim.
I'm not even from UK and I still think those look fucking awesome. I want some.
I played Everybody's Gone To The Rapture recent. Void Bastards would be a good name for that game.
That game was diabolical. My condolences
the game is amazing jim, thanks for talking about it. also very hard.
That's gross dude. Me too though
PHRASING!
It is hard indeed, my rectum is thirsty.
Im sold - love bioshock, love rogue likes, love British humor. I therefore see it as my patriotic duty to buy this game.
Tally ho, old bean! - Once more into the space breach! o>
My SO and I have been a huge Void Bastards kick lately so I decided to come back and give this video another watch (the first time I saw it when it was new I hadn't yet played the game). She actually came up with a neat strategy that I love: subvert a gunpoint so it's on your side then pick it up with the rifter and drop it when ever you get into a tough fight or inside a room you want cleared. It works great!
I love Blue Manchu's amazing artstyle and humour. I used to played Card Hunter a lot and I fell in love with them.
I was a bit surprised when I stood on an enemy's head and discovered they're actually forward facing sprites.
Also it's not hard to get enough extra food and fuel to skip difficult levels, as much as your instinct is to clear all of it.
If you see a level full of screws or with a deal breaking modifier you can just leave. Jet on over to the next wreck.
Hold the phone.. XIII is being remastered?
I liked that game. Didn't think it was popular enough to be remembered. Let alone remastered.
Hopefully it will sell enough so the sequel will finally get made.
Sadly it was over shadowed by GTA but as hype for GTA died down XIII gained quite a following
It had a great success in France, where it came from, and another French studio is remaking it.
I don't think it's a remaster, more like a complete remake. I'm looking forward to it, XIII is my favourite fps.
Good game.
Some of the enemy NPC dialogue was quite funny.
Having played this quite a bit more now, good review Jim.
Jim's channel is possibly the most quintessentially British video game channel on YT.
Hey Jim the bushwackers work good for spooks if you know the general area of one, pop a bushwacker down and leg it. The spook usually sets it off when it reappears.
You can stun them with the zapper too
I had a ship full with screws with a story relevant item but because the condition was that one monster type is friendly it was a cakewalk, even with advanced defenses
"Void Bastards? Sounds interesting...I guess" "The Toaster can be fired through windows" -SOLD!
Wow, a random whale encounter just kills you in travel mode. That's brutal.
If you have a torpedo the whales get taken out instantly though. I played though the game and never once got killed by a whale.
@@fireaza I see. So it's not instant, helpless death. That's not so brutal. Thanks for the info!
Quite frankly I'm sold on the title alone! Love the graphic novel artwork and look too.
I’ll be checking this out as soon as I get home and back to my Xbox next week
Completed this earlier, and very much agree with the minor annoyances. Those security cameras are hard to see due to the FOV, and bad enemy combos can cause un-fun problems, and don't even get me started on excessive radiation in the late game. Still recommend it though.
Love system shock 2 and love this game...
Made by the same guys is mind blown
This looks kind of cool. I saw footage of it in one of your other videos and thought “That looks like a first-person Space Quest, done right”. Which left me thinking “Why can’t we have a first person Space Quest (done right)?”
Looks super interesting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and some gameplay footage.
I’ve been so hooked on this game it’s pissing me off I want to play other stuff but I can’t!
Edit: damn I watched your video and now I just want to play it more...
Funny how ur getting pissed off about playing a game u really love. XD
@@cortezbaldur413 Addiction is like that lmao. You want to stop but it's really hard to do so!
@@kilderok
Well yeah I can't say otherwise
This really looks cool. Very interesting visual style. I'll check it out. Thanx Jim.
this game is super underrated. thanks for making a vid about it x
The easiest way to deal with Spooks? Use the Spiker. Even when they are invisible, you will see the poison debuff effect on them before they appear. This gives you a moment to see where they're going to warp in and get in some shots before they can attack you.
Jim showcasing a good game for a change? TAKE MY LIKE AND COMMENT!!!! Screw the haters!
The last few jimpressions have been fairly positive
Very interesting look, might grab this when I get the chance!
This looks alot like borderlands mixed with old marvel comics.
We need marvel graphics games. That would be rad.
I think the dangerous situations (like more hazards or challenging enemy types) are outlined before you go in because the game wants you to make sacrifices and skip ships even though you may want or need a material. I’m pretty sure all of the materials will continuously repeat so it’s you never actually NEED to enter a ship. The DNA scramblers, pirate ships, void whales etc. also reinforce this gameplay decision, and that is also why you get more and more upgrades that encourage you to stack fuel and food.
edit: I agree that the dark ships with the tunnel vision are inexplicably anti-fun and shouldn’t be in the game at all. The rest are manageable if you prepare I think. I love the review! Thanks for bringing positive awareness towards such a great game!
Thank you for doing this review! This game is my new obsession for the next week
You never have to go on a ship. If you miss or skip a ship with a progression macguffin then you can either craft it from scrap or another ship with the same macguffin will spawn a little later on.
Avoid killing Screws as they are just bullet sponges to waste ammo. The Rifter gun is great for Screws, Zeks, and Boomturrets. Lock off a room rift a mob and you can shoot them through the door to be locked inside. Use the Zapper on turrets, Spooks, and anything else you need to lock down to kill. Upgrade the zapper and they get stunned for a long time. Also one really good tip. Use the Spikers. One is radiation and it works amazingly well on the multihead patients. 1 shot can kill them all after a few secs instead of shooting them over and over with pistol or wasting staples on a weak enemy. There is an authorization terminal on the ships that can remove status effects and also can make you immune to all hazards if you have the credits as well. All in all it's a really fun game i would def recommend if you like roguelikes.
I bet TotalBiscuit would loved this game
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Would be great to hear some of the British examples, since you have mentioned them on multiple occaZiOns ;)
The prisoner in space working is a lot like the Netflix show Final Space. excellent show.
Don't know if you knew... Season 2 is coming soon
@@OverlordZephyros Can't come soon enough loved Final Space... 'I hate you so much KVN, that it gives me Strength. lol
God I love the art style of this game. Especially the guns.
Lovely looking game. Took me a while to realise those weapons are 2D sprites rather than 3D models.
I just completed this game and the only thing I find annoying and kind of unbalance are the enemy Zec's
They have a constant shield barrier blocking the front but they can still shoot at you, the only way to kill them is with explosive or the rocket launcher but if you run out ammo or haven't got any explosive weapons. You better start running.
you cannot hug around their shield barrier to sneak a shot in because the Zec will rotate perfectly blocking all normal firing weapons......but other then that this game is a BLAST and hope they will do future updates
Just a note about character traits, they are not locked in for the entire run. I think the game will call it gene editing but some ships will have a station where you can add more traits and you can essentially do so until traits you dont like get cycled out.
Bought it, thanks to you.... You bloody bastard, luv you! Thank god for Jim!
This is 100% my jam and I cannot wait for the XIII remaster. Thanks for showing this off.
I'm enjoying "Void Bastards" a lot, I especially like the Importance of Weapon Choice, before entering a ship, when to use the needle gun or the bushwrecker, the Void Gun or the Zapper... 4 out of 5 Zapper... - The Level or Ship design as well as the SpaceMap teaches you sooo much, the more attention you pay.
Also, Space Garbage is hella trippy. I'm glad I bought this, instead of Rage 2.
I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen more survival type games do split the action/combat/first person wandering sections and the resource management survival aspects like this game seems to have. It seems like a great way to get rid of the "oh hey, you're getting hungry" every 5 minutes and still keep the resource management aspect in tact. Also means you can still have the world be "empty" without making the player slog through desolation doing nothing for an hour before reaching where they were going.
This game art style reminds me of the FPS game XIII, I'm excited to play again this game and I want to try Void Bastards.
Use the shocker on the spooks to stop them disappearing and teleporting. Makes them so easy to kill
7:12 wow that's funny because Vinny from Vinesauce said that those guys are the "Large Fathers" or as someone from his chat then said, "Colossal Papas."
This isn't Bioshock in roguelike form. It's System Shock in roguelike form, and I love it.
This looks really similar to WASTED (A Postapocalyptic Pub Crawler) to me... which is a good thing.
"It's also been compared to Bioshock"
System Shock 1 and 2: "am I a joke to you?"
Logan Stromberg done by the same guys who did those games
That intro song... almost sounded like the theme-tune from BloodDebts...
Go on... you know you want to ruclips.net/video/TvkvOfm5Vo0/видео.html
those sprites with that 3D camera and simple geometry remind me of Hexen i wonder if this game is mod-able if the gun models are centered and the comicbook margins around sides of the screen are removed and a good chunk of UI is put at the bottom of the screen and the level design is entirely redone to be more open with secrets and hidden rooms and ambushs and teleports and red yellow and blue keys then we could have worthy classic FPS successor
Jim, since KF2 got a number of updates recently that changed how the game played fundamentally, I was wondering if a revisit would be on the table. Notably the upgrade system, which encourages keeping one gun around for long periods of time by making it do much better damage and sell for much more as well.
The new season of Archer is lookin' extra crisp here, gotta say.
Something to remember, if there's a ship with a part that you need but has overpowered hazards, you can skip it and the part will move to a different ship further up. Also, I get no screen tearing on PC, though I often do with other games, so I'm guessing this is more of an issue with XB1.
The cell shading on this is so much more well done than Borderlands
Finally a reason to play my xbox. Thanks Jim
@Bill Hill I don't play well with others
I've been playing this game the last couple of days, and I love it.
Definitely agree with it being quintessentially British. And that's bloody brilliant. As a Brit myself, I would love to see more games with that smarmy attitude. Like your ship AI telling you to get an item, then when you use it something goes wrong because it wasn't registered, and it just telling you "Oh, sorry, didn't I mention that?".
I'm playing on PC (have a decent rig) and there's absolutely no performance issues that I can see. The game runs perfectly, no tearing or anything. So the PC version would probably be more enjoyable for those who get tweaked by graphical bugs.
As for the negative traits, I agree that some of them can be a royal pain. Often if it's a REALLY bad one, if I don't find a ship with a trait machine (that lets you get rid of bad traits as well as pick up new ones) really early, I usually just suicide that character. :p
With ships that have really bad setups, I try to avoid them as best I can. Sometimes of course you'll have no choice. But that's what those warp items are great for, as they let you jump anywhere you can see, so saving those to get past troublesome ships can be a lifesaver.
Another video with Sonic music being played. The man has good taste.
I really like that art style.
The random nature of the game is a blessing and a curse. I've had runs where I've gone really far with one life but then the next I've not even made it through one level. I had a run earlier today for example where I felt confident because one of the conditions was "out to lunch". This means that enemies aren't around but they can return depending on a trigger. What ended up happening was that I was spotted by a camera but then an infinite number of spooks (enemies that phase in and out) spawned and during alerts, the power is cut so I couldn't just run to my ship to escape. That felt like a huge fuck you.
Yeah, you can do a bunch of interesting stuff just with the (often overlooked) door locking capability
about the "have to visit a story-ship" thing - you don't. the parts you need are on multiple ships, if you pass by the one that's marked, a new ship will be marked instead.
Oh My God....it's gorgeous. I love the cartoon style So Much!!!!
Fun game based on what I played of it yesterday. It reminds me of XIII, Hellboy and Red Dwarf.
looks like a comic come to life. really well executed aesthetic
Space Raiders! I used to cut out the characters and profiles from the carboard boxes the packets came in... I had Star Wars toys. I WASN'T A SCRUBBER!
Use the zapper on the spooks, makes them much easier to deal with
Space Raiders!! The pickled onion ones! Yum!
Not relevant to the video but oh boy the interlopers animation that Jim VAs as himself is just amazing and he was a brutal badass in it. Will not give spoilers but thank God for Jim.
played it, it reminds me about doom 93' mainly how you hold the gun
for some reason I've got an entire WTF Is.. of this in my head
Have you ever looked at Sunless Sea/Skies? I think you’d like both of them, but especially Sunless Skies
This game really reminds me of an old Ps2/xbox game called XIII. Anyone remember that good old game?
Wasn't that game cell shaded and had offline bots too?
Screen tearing can be eliminated by going to options, Display, then turning Frame skipping to 1. Sets the game to 30 fps with no stutters.
Getting serious 2000AD vibes from this.
The actual game really does give off that 2000AD vibe (when they're being humourous)