Card Shark & POSTAL: Brain Damaged (Zero Punctuation)
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Card Shark and POSTAL: Brain Damaged.
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Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee-hee-hee
Oh ho ho, are we talking about the infamous indie dev Robert Pelloni?
@@Thenameless1 Yessir.
huh, never heard of this guy till now. and i will probably forget about him in a few days.
Honestly, the card game in Card Shark being Yugioh would make a lot of sense overall. Everything seems to revolve around the damn game, people stake their entire lives on the outcome of a single game and cheating convincingly is a huge part of the attraction.
I’ll be honest, I have no fucking idea how Yugioh is played and the weird ass rules they present in the anime do not help.
@@Randomyoutuber-4831 Don't you know that Pot of Greed lets you draw two more cards?
@@garr_inc isn’t that card banned in tournament play?
My first thought as well
@@Randomyoutuber-4831 many of the OG cards from the anime are banned in tournaments for being totally broken.
"comes in a box" would be pretty informative these days, as I can't imagine many games that applies to.
Could you imagine buying a game on steam and it said "Thank you for your purchase, your tracking number is ********************" Wait.... What?
Not everyone has access to the internet.
You can't even imagine physical media?
Maybe that says something about your imagination
@@BigStarRealFamous The point
This guy.
@@hi5dude2 oh please elucidate me on this great point
What Card Shark needs is more scenarios that call for us to do impromptu variations of tricks like how we have to do in the last mission. DLC for this game could be amazing.
Agreed, the last mission, while really enjoyable, shed light on the missed opportunity to keep expanding. I suspect they just wanted to keep the game as accessible as possible. As much as I liked the game I don't see any reason to ever go back to it after finishing it.
Yeah I really enjoyed having to improvise on the fly in situations like going up against that other painter cheater - having to counter-cheat and detect cheating would be a great way of upping the ante in a sequel of some kind
>cheating
>contrived plot
>card battles with high stakes
this is 100% yugioh
"Who takes the piss out of furries anymore?"
Other furries, mostly.
As a Scalie, I rag on furries like its Nintendo vs Sega all over again so there is truth in this.
To this day, furry masks creep the everloving fuck out me
Kids in VR Chat for sure, if you ever see a furrie/scalie enter a public world then prepare for the chaos.
@@mikehab7453
As they should, considering the person inside the suit would most likely r*pe your dog.
@@mikehab7453 well I mean, it does looks uncanny
"I am just going to pretend its Yu-Gi-Oh." Boy, History would have been a hell of a lot more interesting if every significant event in time was triggered, decided, or solved with a magical card game. I bet Cleopatra would have slapped at it.
Hitler and Roosenvelt dueling as the final deciding factor who wins ww2
@@aaronb6379 dude imagine d-day and as everyone leaves the crafts they start playing for their life
What's funny is they made a Yugioh game where the War of the Roses was fought with cards
@@jm221 elaborate
@@skeletonking2501 It was called Duelists of the Roses for ps2 and you could side with either Yugi's Yorkists or Kaiba's Lancastrans. It didn't play like the actual card game it was more like a board game but it still used the cards
Games like Postal only worked when there were still sacred things to tear down. I feel like the internet at large has it covered by now.
And politics. Seriously, we’ve basically run out of things to satire and mock.
You can have the game be about putting a gay caharacter in a otherwise age appropriate kids cartoon, that seems to be the only thing moral guardians care about anymore.
@@nopenope2550 running with scissors is, or at least they were. It feels like they lost a bit of their bite since the good old days of postal 2.
@@nopenope2550 I would say the problem is more that the people who try to tear them down kind of suck at satire for any purpose. Whether due to corporate gutless risk-aversion playing edgy, or speaking and at best appeal to their own stagnant "radical" societal bubble (with such stagnation, radicalness, and insularity predating filters even). Lets call these 'suits' and 'fanatics' respectively.
The suits try to say as little as possible while saying as much as possible using the politician strategy to cover broad bases. Generally better off as a target but satire there has gotten stale if you were alive and aware enough to see it even half a decade ago. Rockstar's "satire" has become just a funhouse mirror of caricatures soaked in nihilism which makes everything look dingy. The sort of lazy sour grapes nihilism which is used to justify not getting off the couch to do the dishes or get a job.
The fanatics have their own niche assumptions which get outsiders staring at them instead of laughing with them. Humor is more likely to come from laughing at them or their own inadvertent absurdism to those outside the bubble. Like if you were do a satire by accountants and brokers mocking the poor general public understanding of what financial derivatives are. At worst the fanatics look like depraved loons. "Oh look at all of the heathens and heretics who need to burn!"
@@Randomyoutuber-4831 there's plenty; it's just all on the other side of the isle now.
Ironically enough, there actually IS a reference to Rebecca Black's Friday in Postal Brain Damaged.
that’s not ironic, Alannis
@@johnathonsteeel6922 that's funny because it's true
It's funny that Library of Ruina was shown at the start of the "video games are wasted just depicting cards instead of the cool fights between the cards" point, considering it actually shows the fights after you play the cards (and not just in the "static picture A rams into static picture B and one of them vanishes" sense).
It's also just a solid card game with a good story and great music.
I recommend to play Lobotomy Corp first, as Library of Ruina is a sequel, and you most likely will not get the full story
Listen here bucko, Culdcept was an amazing goddamn series
@@joanpratsserra9350 There's no way Yahtzee would play Lobotomy Corp, it's a pathologic style game. In that part of the enjoyment of the game is suffering.
The only things I know about library of runia is that there’s a library and like, guests when defeated get turned into books which add to your power(?), and someone made a video called like “the only hod(?) I know for real” featuring a character from it along with that song from metal gear
@@yumyum366 I thought Yahtzee likes soulslikes for that exact reason though
That ending joke aged me by like... 10 years.
she's actually an r&b singer now.
I was in high school when the conventions were a thing.
I felt it
Yeah... I feel you. That one stung.
@@theBlindDeafMute not only that, she’s uh… she’s actually pretty fuckin good at it? You heard that song she did with bbno$? That one just warmed my fuckin heart tbh, glad to see she’s doing well!!
I want to make the argument that cards as a gameplay element makes sense in a shorthand form of the deckbuilder strategy genre. Most of us have played with a deck of cards before, so the idea of "You have so many abilities, you get to use a certain amount of them at a time, randomly assigned to you, and you don't get to use the ones you were already assigned a second time until you've gone through your entire stock" has a intuitive shorthand as "they're cards, you draw them from a draw pile, and put them in a discard pile when you play them, and you shuffle the discard into the play when that runs out".
I'll admit the aesthetics could perhaps be more interesting than just rectangular cards, but at the same time, it's essentially a description window of what the action you're about to take does, so cards are just the natural fit for "a expendable token which also displays what it's corresponding action is". If you want it to not be a card you'd have to take great care that whatever representation you *do* give is easily recognisable, has discernable meaning, and does not create a memory burden. And that'd basically just be hiding the "cardness" of the card.
Edit: Split the wall of text in 2
The great thing about card games is that they can do all sorts of calculations, shuffling, etc. that would turn a manual game into a slog.
Cards are also "modularized design" approach with some of the same virtues and sins as infamous quick time events and press x to do y prompts. Namely that they separate most of the visual work from the gameplay. It is no wonder that they tempt designers in team based efforts as they make the division so easy in comparison. "Make controls for a barbarian on an enraged killing rampage that is fun an engaging." is a harder problem than just "Make a system for animating a barbarian on a killing rampage that produces a good spectacle and doesn't need to be hand-tailored to every last calculation.
@@NedInYaHead Slay the Spire is making a board game version of itself and my first thought was "I hope they aren't just copying the game because having to manually calculate everything would be extremely tedious". I love StS but it works because the game can keep track of all the buffs, enemy health etc. for you.
I think the real reason it stays a card game is because we've all done this before - mario kart. It was basically a 'card' game where you randomly 'draw' cards by hitting the powerups, and do what you will with them. Doing it in realtime is cool, to a point, but it also gets to the point where it's just a party game that you know relies on RNG
The really important part is the deckbuilding itself, imo; no other game genre lets you choose your movesets so completely. Personally I like card games because I can build the deck while sober, and then play it while drunk and still do well if it's built well - success generally relies on forward planning in deckbuilding, not spur of the moment reflexes, and only a little on the strategy for any given game
@@NedInYaHead Implying card games aren't already a slog.
Ah, innocent childhood memories. My friends in primary school played the first Postal religiously. We were about 11-12yo lol. I heard from them that you abuse cats in this game - I had a cat myself, so I was disgusted by the concept and never touched it. I opted for more civilised games, like Blood.
Blood is certainly the civilised man's FPS, at points it's a bit like chess with dynamite
Picked up Blood somewhere in 2008, and boy oh boy, this game truly is ageless: it was a blast to play even with eye-scorching pixelated graphic. Never forgot how gargoyles quickly upped the level of paranoia by appearing when you thought that it was just a statue.
@@thriller2910 no juvenile irreverence and obscenity there, just cultist gentlemen and pyrotechnique aficionados having a productive exchange of ideas.
Postal 2 was the one where you can use cats as silencers.
Weaksauce
Canonically...
it could have been Yu-Gi-Oh. I'm pretty sure the premise of that show also revolved around using magic items to cheat. Also regular cheating.
That said, a game where you have to cheat to be able to beat enemies that have special powers that give them a leg up on you, would be pretty interesting.
That closing "what?" was masterfully delivered.
The Postal half of this was brutal on the commentary but fucking well done.
Still as far as boomer shooters go it plays way better than it has any right to.
Yes, as an American who agreed with every word, it hurt in a good way.
Postal 1 had a school shooting ending.
@@CERTAIND00M as another fellow American, I’ve learned to just silently take the L whenever possible.
@@TheSkaOreo To quote the Onion...
*"'No Way To Prevent This," Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens*
In the 1800's one of my ancestors was a french marquise who lost everything in card games, kicking off 2 centuries of misery and misfortune for my family. Nice to hear they made a game about my origin story.
Card games appear to have hit the European nobility in the early modern era like a mass extinction event.
I don't think yahtzee ever reviewed Library of Ruina, so I'm surprised to see it brought up, even as a visual punchline
To anyone reading this comment: Play Library of Ruina it's really, really good
It was certainly a pleasant surprise, but I don't think yahtzee would enjoy it too much. Although I could see him enjoying Lobotomy Corporation
@@MantaRain it has the authentic janky charm he generally seems to be a fan of
@@kittyshippercavegirl Play Lobotomy Corporation 100% first, LoR is much more enjoyable if you know LC.
That was the last place I expected it
Wasn't expecting Yahtzee to reference Yugi-Oh!
Much less for the creator to FUCKING DIE A DAY LATER.
WHAT??
I was really surprised when Library of Ruina came out on the screen, Yahtzee really need to play that one despite of it being a card game. The worldbuilding is quite immersive and the turn-based combat is fleshed out, sometimes the old turn-based combat is the way to go if it is done right, it'll never gets old.
Brain Damaged is a prime example of why you don't put trendy memes in your game.
What do you mean the memes won't still be trendy by the time the game is done?!
Especially nowadays cause most "meme" dies within like 2 weeks
@@simjc1212 yeah, remember the grub hub memes or the mr incredible memes? And how quickly they blew right by? Memes are like the shortest lived form of culture.
@@simjc1212 I don't know, man. I made another lame Morbius joke and only got stabbed in one eye.
@@simjc1212 The lucky ones die in 2 weeks.
Project moon fans at 0:28, knowing full well the deep and dank lore hidden beneath an overly complicated card game and the monster management sim that came before it: :O
"Why don't you take the piss out of Rebecca Black while you're at it?... What?... Oh ask yer mum!"
I love this joke so much, cause on the one hand, it's extremely well written, but on the other hand, it's kinda shocking to me to realize that there's likely people who don't know her. It's kinda surreal to think about it!
That song came out TEN YEARS AGO. 🙃
Literally never heard of her, what happened?
4:10 that trifecta of a Venn diagram to describe the Postal MC is gobsmacked-Ly the accurate thing I’ve ever seen. Well done.
Criticism of the potion powerup in Postal gave me an idea for a game mechanic: Instead of picking up a bunch of different powerups you have to sort through to use, why not have one easy-to-trigger power up slot/button that's an accumulation of all the powerups you've picked up. Pop it in a pinch and everything you've picked up since its last use will all trigger at once.
I like that idea, basically a panic button for a game that recharges via collectibals.
Terraria has that. A quick buff button that just uses all your buff potions
That sounds like it could be an interesting, convenient mechanic. To me, it might be funny if after a certain point you just ended up keeling over from too many buffs at once, effectively poisoning yourself because you hoarded. That seems a bit mean without any way to prevent it without using it preemptively though, especially since trying to grant some way to dilute it would either get back into the same issue you're trying to avoid or, worse, devolve into a dreaded crafting system.
Sounds like a fast way to accidentally blow your rocket launcher you were saving for the boss.
Take a game like DOOM where more generic power ups could drop while fighting and hide more unique/powerful ones around exploration segments. It could add a little layer of decision making like do you use frequently to help with each battle, or save up to wreck a boss, or use as a movement speed boost to speed run through the exploration segments. It could be balanced around like frequent enough boss/big boy situations to force either weaker frequent boosts or delete one boss and fight the next not so powered up.
Hey can I just say that I'm thankful for Library of Ruina being shown in this video? Probably my favourite card battler because of the way it does.... everything really. From music to gameplay to it's amazing world and story. I'd kill to see you review it and Lobotomy Corp. And perhaps the 3 games we're probably going to get in the next few years. Oh and the rest of the review was good, I guess. Proper Yahtzee.
Yeah, the cameo in the video immediately gave me the "VIA BRAZIL NUMERO UNO, CAMPEO DE MUNDO" feeling
@@Hero_Puddle Every time I hear that I remember someone citing crime statistics and when Brazil was number 1 in one of them just.... "VIA BRAZIL NUMERO UNO!" But yes. That is a total mood and Library of Ruina is the best card battler I will not debate anyone on this.
@@imranicanovic1154 The meme originated from covid deaths
@@Hero_Puddle Aahh. So I misremebered, but hey good to be reminded. Tragic, yet funny.
I wholeheartedly agree that he should review the two, but I feel like he would like lobotomy more since it's probably the most unique "monster management sim" type thing I've ever seen, let alone how it does "boss fights" and the such in such an original way that totally works with the gameplay loop in a way he'd love
I think I was the human being the most excited for Card Shark on Earth. Ever since they first showed it on a Nintendo Direct OVER 2 YEARS AGO it quickly intrigued me and became my most anticipated indie game of 2021, and then 2022. Not because I was expecting anything big or revolutionary, just something short, novel and charming. And my thoughts? Yeah it was pretty fun.
0:27
I'm very happy to see a Project Moon game in one of your videos, if only for a cameo, as well as interested in your opinion of them.
Honestly the satire in this review was spot on. The fact that Rebecca Black is a dated reference and American politicians really can't be bothered to keep another school from being shot up are shockingly relatable
Haven’t watched ZP in a while but man Yahtzee has still got it, he writes jokes better than American late night shows where they hire entire rooms of people to write jokes
@@sams7068 It's because most of those shows do the same thing AAA studios keep trying to do, appeal to the broadest possible consumer base at the cost of being actually good.
Ironically, I don't know who most of the celebrities that Yahtzee references in his videos are, but I do know who Rebecca Black is.
@@watchfulwanderer6443 why do you care if something becomes mainstream?
You can't be re-elected if you fix the problems you promised to fix when you got elected in the first place. Really feels like it should be the other way around...
I think card-game-video-games are made by people that wanted to make their own actual card game, but found out that it's cheaper to make it digital than to pay for mass production of all those cards only to find that the few people who bought it can't find anyone else to play with.
Sounds about right. It’s easier to hop online and let a computer set up the deck than gather at a friend’s house, lugging a box of cards, and set everything up yourself.
It also allows for a much broader range of mechanics that would be completely infeasible on an actual tabletop.
@@MrNoPro like what? I’m genuinely curious.
@@Randomyoutuber-4831 Its a matter or scale and convenience often. Hearthstone has decks centered around cards with semi-random outcomes, or which give you different random cards, which'd require you to get out a dice or coin to flip every time you play any card in that deck, rather than letting the computer handle it. Or cards that make a lot of duplicates of your good cards and put them on the board or shuffle them into your deck, something difficult to do unless you actually have a lot of copies of said very good cards, or you place down a blank card and ''pretend' it's duplicated, something which becomes more troublesome to keep track off the more times you duplicate various cards. Hearthstone monster cards also have dynamic hp, which having that be tracked by a computer is just such a blessing, especially with how many health buffs and damaging spells which whittle away at monster hp get thrown around throughout matches.
@@Randomyoutuber-4831 consider this, you are playing magic the gathering and your enemy plays a card that does one damage to a random enemy, the chance that you have a dice that has an equal amount to the amount of enemy cards is very low, meanwhile in an online version it just is played and the random damage is dealt
WTF? Have my prayers finally been answered? Yatzee knows about library of Ruina?? I can die a happy man.
“I’m gonna assume it’s Yugioh”
Can’t be, there were no motorcycles in pre-revolutionary France.
LIBRARY OF RUINA!
It’s fucking great and an amazing game and you should play it.
That is all I have to say.
The Postal games being described as the video game equivalent of the pissing Calvin sticker is perfect. I don’t know how this guy still writes such funny shit all these years later
I mean assuming they're playing Yu-Gi-Oh! To solve every problem is pretty accurate to the lore of said series
"I came..."
Anyone up for a childrens card game?
@@gelu_4499 IT'S TIME TO DDDDDDDDUEL
Duchess of Neice: You will never beat me in this card game!
Player: EXODIA THE FORBIDDEN ONE!
Duchess: Impossible!
So glad TFS made this exact joke already in JoJo in X Minutes. Made me laugh for like 10 minutes.
I genuinely love Postal: Brain Damaged and the Postal series as a whole, they're games that are far better treated like a season of South Park; while very satirical and is probably trying way too hard with the joke, they're still thoroughly entertaining. And the game itself is a total blast, as someone who very much enjoys the boomer shooters. That said, I do wish developers would start spacing out their boomer shooter releases from each other, as incredibly high quality and insanely fun as they are I also feel it's a matter of time before people get completely sick of them. I'd love to see them remain as a long term mainstay genre in the indie scene and not completely killed off by a dreaded return of horribly boring spunkgargleweewees.
Even with how unfunny Postal 2 and 4 can be (shame they never made a 3rd), I respect Postal for being 100%, Postal. They feel like games Running with Scissors genuinely love and giggle at, filled with over the top crass humor and in-jokes that only 18 year veterans of RWS can possibly get. As weird as it sounds, Postal is always so earnest, always trying to be exactly what it wants to be. The insanse Arizona people think peeing to put out fires and early 2000s arab sterotypes is hilarious, so by god, they are going to put them in the game come hell or high water.
Another small fact I love is that Postal 2 had that "its only as violent as you make it" shtick. You could rather easily just go to the store, wait in line, buy milk and go home. There is never a moment where violence is required. Grabbing a machete and seeing how many piles of limbs you can stack is an entirely player driven decision. The lack of that in Postal 4 is a great weakness I find. Responding to the minor inconvince of a long line with blistering violence is what makes Postal 2 so loveable to this day.
@@DACopperhead2 Exactly, it's a series that knows exactly what it is and it rolls with it, and it's all in the name of good natured fun.
It's a good stress reliever with a strong fan base and down to earth developers
@@rab1df0x It really is a good stress reliever. It helps that MOST of the NPCS area just awful and react in silly, not realistic ways to horrific violence.
But its how the developers act that sticks with me. Openly admiting that they messed up Postal 3 and pleading for people to not buy it, goign so far as to make a brand new expansion for Postal 2 afterwards. It feels like they are just having a blast with their franchise. Its funny that Postal 1 had a kind of nuanced commentary on excessive violence in games, at least the original did. Then they made Postal 2 and said "You know whats funny? Urine."
@@InfernalMonsoon Its something that I think works because it feels like the GAME thinks its funny. Yahtzee has gone after a lot of comedy games for their sterile corporate humor, and a lot of those examples feel like, yeah no one is laughing. The game isn't laughing, the devs aren't laughing, and by god you aren't. But even when Postal 2 makes me roll my eyes, I can hear the keeling laughter of Vince Desi and it feels really genuine.
There's a kind of innocence in the ridiculous edgyness of the old Postal games that's very characteristic of its time, and utterly impossible to replicate today. Those were games made for the teenager delighted by the simple act of offending "The Man" (the parents, school, the politicians...), of rebelling against "The System". But now, politics have become so polarized that this kind of innocent rebellion is impossible. You have to choose your camp, as what's offending to one side is hilarious to the other, and vice-versa. The only way to solve this dilemma is both-sides nihilism, but it's hardly what one would call "innocent", is it?
(Some people will say that good offensive would still be possible, if only people were brave enough to take on the "twitter mob". But you know who actually takes on the "twitter mob" every week? Only the most watched commentator on the most watched talk-show on the most watched cable network in the US, owned by the one of the most powerful media tycoons in the world. Not really really sticking it to the "Man" when your parents and/or Facebook boomers love the jokes your super-edgy game makes.)
I'd say it's successfully sticking it to the man if you manage to offend both sides, which wouldn't be at all hard to do if you're the type that doesn't fit into either camp. The problem is that all the high-level challengers do totally fit one side. Which makes sense, unfortunately. It's a lot easier to stand up to the might of one side when the might of the other will back you up. But that doesn't mean there aren't quiet both-side nihilists out there.
This might be more of a reflection of a change in us than in the world. "The Man" and "The System" were probably always more a product of our own childish disinterest in the intricacies of political discourse than of the various parties and factions being in agreement on things. Postal was always vaguely Anarcho-Libertarian, but benefited from its target audience caring less about ideology and more about pissing off (and on) anyone over 40.
All your talk and the replies you have received are overthinking it. The System is still the enemy, but it's all pervasive now. You can't rebel against it because they have it all... the games, the media, the social media. If you rebel, they destroy you, if not with fists and bullets then with financial ruin via social media. They have recruited the stupid via social media and manipulated it all until... yes, you can have a voice that doesn't conform, but if you dare to do so, the consequences are fatal. But not literally fatal, so it's socially acceptable.
And to you, specifically, Thomas Mulholland, what the fuck is wrong with Anarcho-Libertarian? That's a label, and as such invalid, but as labels go it's one of the few that would actually give people some dignity and agency going forward.
Isn't Brain Damaged the same thing as "not playing with a full deck"?
The Yu-Gi-Oh in Card Shark comment has a whole nother dimension to it now that the Yu-Gi-Oh creator was found dead having been eaten by a shark.
Rebecca Black actually just released a remix of Friday like last year and it’s apparently pretty good.
She collaborating with Dorian Electra did seem to make her more out there style wise. I like 'Personal'.
"Why don't you take the piss out of Rebecca Black while you're at it?"
"What?"
'Oh go ask your mum"
Not gonna lie, I thought "Who?" right as the kid imp came in.
ruclips.net/video/kfVsfOSbJY0/видео.html
Ancient RUclips lore. Fortunately one of the most benign of the 'infamous videos'
if memory serves thats the chick that made that stupid repetitive song about it being Friday and how after friday its saturday and then sunday because people dont know the order of the week or something
To elaborate, she was a teen girl whose parents paid for a producer to make a (low budget) music video starring her in 2011 that was bad in the way you would expect from an inexperienced amateur, but because she was a teen girl on the internet who went viral, everyone decided to relentlessly bully her about it, too.
Positive follow up: despite what she went through, she did end up becoming a professional music artist, even remixing the Friday music video 10 years later. The genre she does is called hyper-pop, I think, and it's not for everyone, but she looks like she's having fun.
@@seanrooney1553 I hated that song when I saw it back then but why did people bully a young teen for making a crap song? That's depressing but it's good to here she's doing better.
@@seanrooney1553 Wasn't there also a song about not being able to figure out which seat of a car to sit in? or was that part of the Friday song?
I'm going to assume Yahtzee knew exactly what he was doing when he said the card game was probably YuGiOh since YGOTAS introduced the absurdity of "I'm going to battle you for your soul in a children's card game"
A recent retrospective on Phantom Dust reminded me how much I loved that game, and how annoyed I am that nobody since has made a proper combination card game/action arena shooter. That game was fucking brilliant.
I saw that Library of Ruinia. Can't wait to play it once I finish Lobotomy Corp (though I'm on my 4th run of that because I keep picking abnormalities that are hard to manage. Seriously, first run was how I learned to never pick Nameless Fetus.)
3:41 - "It's no longer politically convenient to scapegoat them."
And yet they still try, god help us all...
We don't need YHWH (that shiftless, psychotic, non-existent shitrag of a deity), the corpos are more than capable of suppressing public outrage and popular sentiment by beating everyone involved with large sacks of money, like they always do.
And indie games? What's the point of a moral crusade when everyone just goes "Where can I find this awful nasty piece of filth, again? I've looked everywhere and nobody seems to have a copy, as it should be of course, but I'm not sure this is the best use of our time"
“Yo, man. Leave Me outta this.” - God
Just wait until the next school shooting happens and blame it on The Last Of Us 2
Lol who cares if some politician blames games for stuff, it’s not like anything will ever come out of it. No one will impede on the games industry and no one will ever do anything about the actual issues so just grow up and realize that
Yhatzee has to be aware just how on point Yu-Gi-Oh is to using card games to solve everyone's problems.
Since the Yu-Gi-Oh series creator's death, this comment makes me kind of sad.
That last joke was honestly one of the best I've heard in a while
Yahtzee sadly beat me to the obvious joke about Card Shark apparently taking place in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh (since all disputes are resolved via card games). But apparently having money doesn't allow you to screw the rules, so maybe it isn't the world of Yu-Gi-Oh (speaking of super special awesome old references, BROOKLYN RAGE).
Thanks for introducing me to card shark. I have written a novel in 2008 about basically that exact storyline, that has never been released. That is way too close to my story to be coincidence. Gonna call my lawyer.
LIBRARY OF RUINA SPOTTED. GOD I HOPE YAHTZEE REVIEWS IT.
I had the thoughts about Lobotomy Corp, then I remember that Lobotomy Corp is full of jank, has a dating sim style cut-scenes with a meh art style and takes it time to hit you over the head with all the meltdowns and stuff.
Then I remember that LoR's main appeal is the character and world building from Lobotomy Corp and feel like it's absolutely a shot in the dark. I'm just happy that it even crossed his mind.
@@Hero_Puddle Honestly, fair play to skip out on LobCorp for a ZP. But I do think LoR deserves a shot. Maybe for one of the release drought seasons. Here's to hoping.
@@he2875 yeah sure, the main thing about LoR is that it has been heavily de-jankified.
But even then, my eyes lit up like a christmas tree because the studio who managed to JUST make it with a game (albeit a brilliant one) now had its own art style and fancy intro music video.
I found it cool with all the sephira reveals, explorations of the abnormality and E.G.O and the greater world exploration.
I feel like the best way to get into LoR is to already love LC.
0:42 “It’s like using a vacuum cleaner to scare off the family pets while you lick the carpet clean”
Possibly the funniest thing I’ve heard you say.
Hey! Library of Ruina! Really underrated that one.
"Who the fuck makes a joke out of furry conventions any more?"
Their attendees.
what an unfortunate time for a Yu-Gi-Oh joke.
Honestly, the Furries in Postal: Brain Damaged got the best of it in terms of stereotyping, they got a super sexy wolf girl and a cute, adorable lizard boi (if you count scalies).
The weebs and geeks got it far worse with a klan-like "basement dweller" and the "Storm Pooper" which is a heavily obese guy dressed as a Storm Trooper.
Furries are exclusively weebs and nerds and we should hate on all of those
I think gunplay in Postal BD was amazing, and the game is pretty short, so fps fan will certainly enjoy it
The rebecca black line really got me. I haven't thought about her in ages and the "go ask your mum" feels so appropriate.
Postal was the OG "controversy for controversy's sake" game
Just like The Last Of Us 2
Just like The Last Of Us 2
Just like The Last Of Us 2
@@uria3679 Thanks, I got it. You didn't really need to reiterate.
@@uria3679 anime pfp says what
Yes. A Blue Eyes White Dragon DOES beat two pair, but not a Full House or a Royal Flush. For that you need THREE Blue Eyes White Dragons XD
Wow! The Yugioh reference is...timely.
Oddly enough, when I was wondering what the game Yahtz would play with Card Shark was, I thought it'd be Raft but then that'd be too predictable so it'd be, I don't know, a Postal sequel? Because Card Shark and Going Postal is vaguely related as a two-word stinger for malfeasance? And that crossing my mind before the reveal without ever having played a Postal game or knowing Brain Damaged was out has me questioning my psychic credentials.
Been playing Fights in Tight Spaces which is a fun card based beat ‘em up. I like it because it takes reflexes and timing out of the equation so it’s generally more chill compared to when I play Sifu which I also love. Seems like cards provide several things:
- include a healthy dose of random
- does not need to much explaining, concepts like “deck” and “hand” well known
- more intuitive animation options compared to just a menu system
Well the timing of this upload and Yu-Gi-Oh references was a bit eerie and sad given its creator, Kazuo Takahashi just passed away. R.I.P.
“I’m just gonna assume it’s ‘Yugioh.’” made me spit out my coffee.
Yeah, the piss power-ups were a really unnecessary addition. Yahtzee was right to call the flame piss power-up useless, but it is the only one that provides any meaningful assistance in combat -- enemies thaw out too quickly from the frozen piss and the rest will swarm you if you try to eliminate the popsicles, and enemies deal only slight damage to each other when you insight in-fighting with confusion piss.
The flame piss will only light hostiles on fire and make them explode, plain and simple. But it's beyond me why they thought it was a good idea to get yourself killed by those explosions; makes it more unwieldy than it already is.
But the normal piss mechanic is already pretty good albeit incredibly situational. You can use its split-second stun effect to close distances with ranged enemies and stagger melee enemies. It just makes melee more viable and overall more fun.
There's also a technique called "Piss Switching", in which you press the piss button right after you fire to skip the animation, making you fire shotguns and rocket launchers ridiculously fast.
FINE, I WILL ASK MY MUM ABOUT IT. Problem is my parents are separated so I won't see my mum until Friday, Friday...
I adore that ending gag.
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Point One; drawing a card is cheaper and efficient than sculpting and animating anything.
Point Two; Card games are still popular
05:00
Well, Flashgit keeps making Furries vs UltraMarines animations, to the point it almost seems they are a closet furry in denial.
This is the closest will have to something like YuGiOh, a world where card games matter. I love it.
About card games: If you look at it from the point of wanting to see dragons, sure, it doesn't make sense. If you look at it from the point on playing a game about resource management, turn-based, and with built-in and easy to understand randomization, it makes more sense. It's a mechanical choice, not a production choice.
I love how Yahtzee points out the super contrived reasons for the characters to play cards and then goes on to assume they're all playing Yu-Gi-Oh! as if he didn't just describe how the plot works in the adjacent anime series.
Good lord Friday by Rebecca Black came out 10 years ago... A 10 year old could have stumbled on this video and genuinely not gotten the joke
I just saw Blobby and Voltaire in the same video, my life is complete.
I laughed at the Rebecca Black reference...
R.I.P Kazuki Takahashi
YuGiOh would make the most sense with the whole 'you can get out of any problem by winning in a card game' setting.
The first 2 postals we're rather interesting. The first being a top down shooter with horror elements and an intriguing hidden story of the postal guy's mental state and his relationship to the town.
The second is a parody game that if anyone complains about the violence they can just say "you don't have to partake in any of it" and it's probably a more challenging experience if you choose to play it that way.
Postal 3. We don't talk about that.
Postal 4. I've heard it's meh.
Postal 4 is pretty good, they actually did a thing where they brought all the voice actors from the previous games and the movies and recorded all of the Postal Dude’s lines with each of them so the player could select what they sound like. Which is pretty cool.
Postal 4 is just not there yet despite being considered out of early access. But the devs seem to be doing good work and have a promising future for that game.
@@Ender-im5ez considering they brought back all the original voice actors from previous postal installments (Rick Hunter, Corey Cruise, and Zack Ward) and re-recorded the postal dude’s lines with each of them purely so the player can select what the dude sounds like. It’s clear the devs put their fans first, so there is indeed hope.
Best wishes and a speedy recovery Yahtzee!
What happened to him?
@@iris_ofthestorm4260 covid
@@-neurasthenie- - Oh. Thanks for the clarification!
Yugioh reference so soon when Kazuki Takahashi sadly passes away is uncanny. RIP Takahashi
Mr. Blobby as a famous historical figure in 18th century France? That deserves an honest to God laugh out loud, Sir.
I got up to wash a cup and heard "I'm just gonna assume it's Yu-gi-oh" and went immediately back to rewind thinking "tell me he put Yugi's hair on one of those little minion things."
I was not dissapointed.
I got the Rebecca Black reference. That has to be the most creative way someone has made me feel old...
Ugh, the Rebecca Black comment made me feel old. Not because I remember her, but because I’m apparently too old to remember her and Yahtzee just told everyone to ask their Mom who she was.
That last "go ask yer mum" hurt.
Rebecca Black wasn't that long ago! It's only been *checks Google* ten years?!!!
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock goes the clock
From minute to hour to day
The sands of time are slipping away
Tick tock, thats the sound
Pretty soon you'll be in the ground
No effort can stall or save
Your fate from cradle is to enter your grave.
Cells degrade, fade, and then unmade
Your mind dulls, your muscles wither
The Spirit of Death beckons you hither
Muted then the tocks and ticks
Your soul is sent along the Styx
To heaven, hell or just a void
Entropy demands all be destroyed
The Sun and stars that drift in space
The planets that orbit, they will erase
In the end it matters not
How you use the time you got
Tick Tock
Tick Tock
Tick Tock goes the clock
as someone who grew up in the ps3 era I can never see anyone actually being nostalgic for the ps3 look cover shooters.
I heard "Halfway between paper's please and wario ware" and was immediately sold.
That roundabout on cards >> games >> cards was so perfectly unpackaged
That Rebecca Black reference has me feeling old and jaded
What day am I watching this? It's Friday, Friday, Friday, and I'm looking forward to the weekend.
Papers Please and Warioware combined is such a great description. I can instantly visualize what the gameplay is like.
Really hope Yahtzee reviews Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate while he's in indie mode.
I would watch a Yu-Gi-Oh that took the structure of Card Shark. Honestly if you changed the French themes to Egyptian themes it really fit, and watching the latest spikey hard protagonist use the power of friendship to cheat in a variety of ways would probably be more interesting than their usual attempts to make pulling a rectangle of cardboard out of a thing and placing it somewhere else look dramatic!
did we ever get a library of runia review? cuz i would love that
Now I'm hearing Friday on a Wednesday, thanks Yahtzee
The Card Shark game sounds interesting and like something they could turn into a mini-game (despite being a full game here) in another game. I mean I've noticed various MMOs and regular RPGs such like "Final Fantasy" try and have things like collectible card games in them, and the ability to say have card sharking as an option to liven that up, especially if your playing against the computer, would probably make it a little more interesting as well as opening some ways of perhaps do side-plots around it. I mean I know Elder Scrolls Online just added a card game thing with the expansion before this one, and BDO has this "Yar!" thing, and I see no point to either unless your literally forced to do it once in a while as part of some event or mandatory quest chain so they don't waste the assets.
As far as "Postal" it's been a long time since I played anything connected to that, and perhaps I am remembering it through rose colored glasses, but as I seem to remember part of the entire point was a sort of implication that despite all of the horrendous ultra-violence the so called "Postal Guy" was basically right, and it was a scathing commentary on society and where it was going. People who were offended tended to mostly be those stuck so far off the bum that they didn't see the point of why people might find brutalizing them a form of justice. Outright saying "The Postal Guy" is brain damaged in the title sort of undermines the point and the whole "sometimes when society is this bad the guy who would traditionally be insane actually becomes the hero".
From the description it sounds badly dated because it's afraid of actually targeting the aspects of modern society that annoy normal people given their tendency to rally on social media with their "allies" many of whom happen to be bots run by the same weirdos and act like they represent a real force just because they have intimidated the mainstream media. If you look at less regulated media you can sort of see what most people think, sort of like what made MTV edgy when Postal was first becoming a thing.
See the modern version of Postal would be to say have "The Postal Guy" forced to work a side job in retail due to cuts to his mail route or anything to reference the economy. While working at say grocery store in the tutorial he'd have some obnoxious transexual walk up and start aggressively lecturing his co-worker about pro-nouns after getting it wrong and becoming increasingly more aggressive as they became intimidated. This would lead to the tutorial having you grab the handgun under the counter and shoot the tranny in the head, while people cheer, but then some obnoxiously bigoted "Karen" would come out of the crowd and be just as bad in the other direction so the game would encourage you to shoot her too, as to be honest both sides of the extreme socio-political spectrum would be annoying.
Then from there Postal would have you go on your violence filled quest to fight the current annoyances that fill the role of the same kinds of societal forces from previous games. Some will hate me for portraying things this way, but part of the point of Postal is to really not care now isn't it? That's why it generally gets widely circulated and massively played, but the media gets upset over all it's sacred cows being murdered for entertainment value and tries to project people might really do this, but yet it never happens, because most people can tell the difference between violence being used for purposes of social commentary and actually advocating doing this stuff, especially when it's camped up like Postal.
So basically the modern postal would involve say an exagerrated world of leftist stereotypes, being oppressed by right wing stereotypes where the police are all as bad as your average BLM piece, and the "gun toting loon" is the also "the only sane man" in a world where nobody looks good except with the guy with the gun violently proclaiming "I am just so sick of all this crap on every side" which is pretty much where I think most people actually are right now.
I mean for example nobody really wants to oppress gay people and force them out of society or murder them or anything, but people also don't want to be lectured about pronouns and constantly preached at an told to alter society for a handfull of people. Likewise nobody likes police brutality against anyone, or obnoxious entitled people who insist on screaming for management if they don't get their way on every little thing or whatever. Postal done right is an extreme response to pretty much everything, and shouldn't have a side other than "current society is really screwed up, and it's sort of fun to tear a lot of the obnoxious stereotypes down, isn't it?"
That Rebecca Black joke was a swift punch in the gut
I was not ready for that Rebecca black reference from left field
By halfway through the last Steam Sale's worth of Discovery Queues, I was asking myself that same question about Indie games and cards. Same goes for Indie and roguelites/likes as well. One after another, game after game demonstrating that as usual, the Indie sphere has its finger directly on the pulse of... I don't know who, but someone who sure isn't me. You'd think the indie scene would be all about filling the niches AAA doesn't, and it sure isn't like AAA doesn't give them plenty of openings, but nope. Big and small gaming may have different choices of focus, but they both like to really focus in the most on what I don't particularly want.
And yeah, I totally agree that abstracting and simplifying gameplay into cards seems like a nonsensical, counterproductive step backwards, regardless of it being the current indie obsession of choice.
Team Four Star made the same gag about two pairs versus a Yugioh card. But they did it with Exodia the Forbidden One.