Vampyr (Zero Punctuation)
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I just love his voice when he said "what's a fucking skal!?"
You can feel the desperation in his voice.
Same, I particularly love how it breaks
Ekons is Snoke spelled backward. So there you go, he has a backstory now
I was thinking that it's only really a letter off from Ekans, so maybe that means Snoke was a Pokemon this whole time.
I noticed that.
Or, a backwards story, as one might say
Well played anon
Well played
Anon Good one.
This isn't a vampire game it's just a realistic British simulator where the main character has decided human blood is probably more tasteful than British cooking
After living for two years and a half in the UK I can say with certainty this is true
or he has a severe iron deficiency
We don't get much sun here in blighty
If you can even call it 'British Cooking.' Britain practically coined the chippy and that's just America deep-frying everything and Britain thinking 'ooh, how about I do that, but with a roast dinner?' Hence the birth of the battered sausage.
@@-arlene- deep fried Mars bars
Good Lord, the genuine pain in his voice when he said Skals.
*Hella Baguettes Yo!*
*Yeet That Croissant*
Ocean Man I'm nabbing that.
James Esteron tbh, is far as I've seen from American college students, the dialogue is pretty accurate.
Shaka brah.
Those kids do say some crazy things these days.
I wonder what a bright and colorful vampire game would look like.
Anime.
TheLoneLoony
Viewtiful Twilight.
A full pink ashtray?
Castlevania?
Lollipop crucifix?
"Its our special word for vampires, we made it up!"
"I can fuckin' tell ya did!"
Made me laugh so fuckin' hard lol
best reaction to "Ekon"
Let's all make a pact to do our very best to introduce "Hella baguettes, yo" into the common vernacular.
Verily, I was just about to go make myself a sandwich. My tongue doth look forward to succulent roast beef upon Hella Baguettes, Yo!
No. Because I have sense of self-worth and pride and I don't want that to diminish
@@mightybaloo1880 Well escargot on you, then!
What I took from this is that Yahtzee really did like this game and genuinely wants it to improve on its worst aspects to allow the best aspects to shine
1:13 This is probably my favorite Yahtzee sound bite, more for delivery than anything else.
I'm 300% using "Hella Baguettes Yo" every single day
we all believe you,kid
Mason Kemph so, how did that work out for you?
And in a few years when you're a teenager, you'll look back at how much of an insufferable tryhard you used to be.
I'm french, and I approve this message
I suspect that didn’t end well!
I'm 90% positive it was called Vampyr instead of Vampire due to branding purposes. Googling, "Vampire" will bring up thousands of unrelated things. Branding it, "Vampyr," was strictly for search result purposes.
Edit: lot of people pointing out that the spelling of vampire has changed over the years. I will agree that language is fluid, and constantly changing with those who speak it. That said, I think you're giving them too much credit.
well, having a game that people can find when they look for it IS important.
That does actually sound reasonable. It would also be impossible to claim any kind of copyright over the name "Vampire", but they can at least try with "Vampyr". Also a bit less likely to get stomped on by the guys who own White Wolf.
Vampir is the correct spelling(pronounced Vampeer),its a Serbian word originally,every other language just adopted that word from Serbian.
Plus lots of people talk about how it's misspelled all over the internet leaving a trail of awareness.
Vampyre was the FIRST ever spelling of the word, in 1819, by John Polidori's story titled "The Vampyre".
"What's a fucking skal?"
That voice break brought a smile to my face :)
I'm pretty sure that "Fatigue Medicine" is a Victorian euphemism for opium. Also female genetalia, but that's true about every word in the English language.
Doesn't opium make you more fatigued though? Especially if you use it alot
Da Komrade! Yep, depending on what you mean by the word "fatigued." Opiates/opioids are indeed downers (CNS depressants). I was thinking the same thing
Victorian medicine wasn't an exact science.
Do you know what else is a Victorian euphemism for opium? Fish and Chips.
Thats...surprisingly accurate.
"Lahn-dahn Tahn." Given how strong my Scottish roots are, this tickles me to my core.
Or how about his quote from Zombi-U: "t'prepper eh 'ot me doogs poob get'll on dout poob!"
I think we'd call it "Lahn-dunn toon" up in scotland though :D
Nick Craig don’t you mean me core?
Yellow Pikmin88 - Could you translate that to English for me, please? Even after seeing that line in written form I still don't know what the fuck he's trying to say.
lun din toon
"Ekons, we made it up."
"I can fuckin tell you did."
Idk why that fucking killed me
"Did they all get bussed in from Wolverhampton?" 😂
More like werewolverhampton.
idk how they got bussed in from Portugal though (it's a football reference. I know Wolverhampton is in England)
I honestly would like to see Yahtzee write a story for Doctor Who.
I think his sensibilities may fit the third doctor better
@@dchegu Nah, he and the 12th Doctor would get on like a house on fire.
Well Douglas Adams wrote for the show during the 4th Doctor's run...
Yatzhee would be hilariously overqualified, compared to the bucket of knobs that've been writing for DW since the late-Moffat era 🤔😅 .
Would watch the he'll out of a DW story written by Yatzhee 😁👌
I'm not sure you've ever made me laugh harder, Yahtzee.
That Dude I'm not sure if he has ever made me laugh
LAZYB00GiE lol no I'm not a government lover
Then...why are you even here?
Syl von Braun to get a game review same as you....duh
That Dude Fish and Chips!
Should of called him Dr. Acula..
Jan Itor says hello.
Dr. Jan Itor.. show some respect.
*counters your need for respect with a j.d. cut-away*
I was going to upvote you but you wrote "should of" instead of "should've" (or "should have") so I'm contractually obligated to despise you.
With his henchman, Renly Fields.
"Or should I say, Le-stat upgrade, uh-huhuhuhuh." 🤣🤣🤣
I really like this developer. They don't always execute brilliantly, but they have amazing ideas and that should be rewarded. More practice and experience, more funding and resources and a maintained level of innovative ideas and they could create pure art.
Is there such a thing as impure art?
Absolutely in love with the sound of pure exasperation in Yahtzee’s voice whenever the made up words rear their ugly heads
Fish and Chips!
That made me bust out laughing!
I could really go for some of that
You rummy blightah!
Apples and pears! Bully! HAHPOON
Glad I wasn't the only one to think of this. "Oi, mate. Did you just throw a bloody harpoon at me?"
That voice crack at 1:25 made that line much more hilarious
4:47
The tragic part is he isn't even exaggerating this one. After I noticed it, I started getting nervous ticks every fucking time a conversation started, because he repeats that line SO. GOD. DAMN. MUCH. I am still hearing that damn sentence in my nightmares.
Tell me more about these nightmares.
is that the first time his voice has cracked in a video? it made the delivery of the line so much more genuine
i remember one other time it was completely random and i forget which review it was in
I think this is the first time, he also cracked in the BO4 ZP video, but that one came out after this.
Also worth mentioning is that he stuttered once in the Bad Company 2 review, if you want to check it out.
@@RacingSnails64 One of the ZP episodes for Guitar Hero or Rock Band had a blatant voice crack, I think
Vampyr is how we spell vampire in danish xD
Wolfbane_41 Well, then why not set it in Denmark? It’d be a cool Vampire Hamlet. Fuck, I’d play that game.
To suck or not to suck, that is the question
Must be a rhetorical question for games like Agony
...and in Swedish and Norwegian.
But still not in French nor English
It really makes no sense
Boy, the line about people going cheerfully about their business during a global pandemic sure didn't age well
So he’s a normal doctor in the American health care system
I think you've watched Silence of the Lambs a couple times too many.
Haha nicely memed sir
BUH DUM TISS
ZING!
I think that was a joke about how US healthcare is ruinously expensive so the doctor is financially killing his friends and acquaintances
1:26 yahtzee's voice finally gives out
"Lestat upgrades." I un-died laughing at that one. I was drinking and laughed so hard milk shot out my nose-feratu. It was so God-Vamped funny. Fang you. Fang you. I'll be here all century.
I give it a 0/10 because there are no time stopping vampires in this game.
Is that a... oh wait it is.
I would give za warudo to see that...
Hello Justin
Hi Justin
I see you every where
"Le-Stat upgrades" may be the best pun Yahtzee's done.
Thank you very much for this Zero Punctuation Episode, Yahtzee!
The 1 second pause at 1:06 just makes my day. It's not much, but in the context of your video style it's about as startling as it gets. I laughed. It was great. Thank you.
The sequel at 1:22 just made it even better.
Yahtzee's bewildered "I beg your pardon?" is the reason I keep coming back to this episode. Anyone else... just me? Ok.
Nope, here again for that very reason. :P
I finally figured out why it's called "Vampyr", that's the danish translation of Vampire AND a reference a film of the same name (which alongside Nosferatu coded the popular iteration of vampires we know today).
You're welcome people from 2018.
I genuinely loved the ending joke.
Drinking these 12 npcs with a minimum of individuality will submerge the city into a 1000 year nightmare but eviscerating hundreds of clones that escaped from the hatchery through a hole in the local vampire hunters club is like swinging a bug zapper through a swarm of mosquitoes, barely satisfying and still slightly draining.
Fun Fact: Vampyr was one of the original names for one of DnD’s most famous classic modules: Curse of Ravenloft(Strahd Von Sarovich) in which the main villain (as you might have guessed) is a powerful Vampire
The best part about this review was the post-ZP stream with Gabetron 9000
WHAT?
Philly Cheese dunno if the link still works but 'ere ye go ruclips.net/video/Rd2FO3xJUUE/видео.html
At 3:42 he actually is correct. Maybe not Wolverhampton, but the Guard of Priwen is doing massive recruitment drives all over the country and some of the collectibles show they’re having a marked success in doing so (somehow). I think all the recruits are just being funnelled into London by the Guard’s leaders because that’s where the Skal plague is centred.
Also, another counterpoint: feeding on hostiles doesn’t give you much xp because you don’t kill them through feeding (although you can, if dedicated enough, kill a hostile exclusively with the bite attack, it only gives the xp of a regular kill) you kill them with regular attacks. I think the whole thing about macking on citizens is they give so much xp precisely because you’re taking all their blood (and possibly their soul/essence along with it). Of course they’d normally take issue with this, hence the added requirement that you need to mesmerise them in order to make sure they won’t fight back after the first bite. You don’t mesmerise the Guard’s recruits, hence the fighting back and the less xp gained (a human will typically lose consciousness at around 30-40% blood loss and die in that state without urgent medical treatment, so you’re definitely not taking all the blood the recruits have when you kill them with bites)
Managed to get around the feeling of not needing to kill people by basically playing in hard mode which made me have to embrace people to keep up with the higher level scaling enemies had.
“We’re going to victimise a goth”
I cried
"Hella baguettes, yo" does sound like a Life is Strange line
I'm tea and I found this British and now I'm drinking funny.
I like the shadows behind the eyes when someone is a vamp. Never noticed it before
I wonder if people realise how hard it is to be so funny doing a review. Well done as always. Good man
"Le stat upgrades" made me slap my forehead.
"Incredibly stiff": this vampire wouldn't voom if you put 10000 volts through it.
I laugh in a properly out loud fashion just thinking about “Lestat upgrades”
I like the idea of it being named Vampyr. The Y is kinda like a fork in the road, so it introduces the idea of branching paths.
L.A. noire is actually not an intentional "typo" but makes sense
it's supposed to be a wordplay on "la noire", as in the female version of le noir... i know english doesn't care about those, but just saying it's wrong before having an idea is not ideal ^^
Wordplay or not, he does have a point that it does come off as slightly pretentious. Not saying I disagree with you, it is kinda clever, but it does kinda give that impression.
LA is a lady, I seem to recall Sinatra saying.
Jari Heiska I thought Sinatra wanted "Luck" to be a lady...
Don't we all? But LA was his lady, too. A bit possessive of old Blue Eyes.
Yeah, except you usually would never say "la noire" in French. If you want to say "black" or even "the Black" as in "the concept of blackness" you will put it in its masculine form (le noir) and if you use it as an adjective, you would have to add what you're refferring to, as in "la chose noire" (the black thing). The only context where you would just say "la noire" would be when talking in a pretty derodatory manner about a black lady, but I seriously doubt that's what they were going for.
Now this is all incredibly nitpicky and nobody cares about it, but it's always fun to learn about language.
"Oho! A cheeky sting!"
Fuck that was a funny end.
Scurry off you rummy blighter. FISH and CHIPS!
pip pip and tally ho my good fellow, ho and NI!
"Well, they are British, Yahtzee." He has some of the best bits
"Lestat upgrades" LOL
I loved how he ended that, just "fish and chips!"
One of my favorite Zero Punctuations lol
You do have to love the fact that the game’s logo is the misspelled portion of its title
Yes, a review for this before summer sale ends. Thanks Yahtzee, actually useful reviews when we need them.
Just hearing that voice straining at the mention of “Skals” is golden.
Ekons is also a pokemon, it evolves into Arbak.
That's EkAns.
+Cynical Cthulhu yes, of course. It's Snoke backwards.
*snake
+Cynical Cthulhu I'm nat sure yaur getting the jake here mote.
Not much of a joke really.
That Interview with the Vampire pun, oh my God.
Honestly the ending where the whole city falls apart by killing to many people is my favorite everyone treats you like some kind of monster and it's the only ending where you are
Well, that was an exceptionally positive review. I haven’t heard Yahtzee be so benign to a game all year. He only ripped it one new asshole. Must be excellent.
Right?! It's dangerously close to his Shadow of the Colossus review.
Magic is often spelled with a "k" to differentiate it from stage magic. Where "magic" is about illusion and misdirection, "magick" is the actual practice of the occult. If I recall correctly, Alistair Crowley was the first to propose this distinction.
The name is due to a problem with licences, they simply weren't allowed to name it differently....
Video Game Close Up Then why not call it “Ekon”. If that’s the stupid name they were going to give their vampires, why not commit, and be consistent.
Not only does it look stupid because they spelled it funny, but because they try not to refer to their vampires as vampires, so it’s pointless.
they actualy refer to vampires as vampires, it's that ekon is a subspecies of vampire, you can call a golden retriever a dog and thats not wrong but calling him a golden retriever is not wrong either
Who the fuck owns the word Vampire?
Its because there are many vampire species: Ekons ("higher vampire"), Skals ("lesser vampire" and failed offspirngs of ekons), Vulkod ("brutes" which share an ancient common ancestor with ekons) and apparently also Nemrods (essentially vampire-hunting vampires).
The name “Vampire” is public domain, Why would they have problems licensing it?
1:23 reminds me a heavily of his and gabe's arguements back in drownout. worse yet knowing gabe was stayin over around the time he played this
You forgot to bring up the fact that there's no manual saves. It even tries to justify this by saying you must take responsibility for your choices. But when the dialog options are vague and misleading, which leads to a serious plot related outcome you may not have wanted and you can't load your game...well, let's just say Dr. Reid won't need to add any salt to his meals on this playthrough. And let's not forget that some people have lives and have to be places, like work or other appointments. Yeah, no manual saves is an inexcusable flaw in a game like this.
it auto saves reliably after everything you do so i don't see how the "i have a life" excuse works here.
life itself is vague and misleading, and we have to take responsibility for that. (standard anticipated response: I don't play games to experience shitty life again, I play to escaaaaapeeee)
Bartosz
Understanding other people can be vague and misleading, but if you are controlling the character, you should know what you are going to say when you pick a dialogue option, word for word.
Yeah you're right actually, I had the same complaint in Mass Effect and other games that compress longer statements into a single word / few words in the UI because they don't believe a player can read whole sentences. But then again I stopped caring because I realised that even if you know exactly what your char is going to say roleplaying in video games is an illusion, when it comes to dialogue systems at least.
>roleplaying in video games is an illusion, when it comes to dialogue systems at least
Have you ever played Fallout: New Vegas? Your dialogue options come from your characters stats (which you pick) and your characters past experiences in the game (which you are in control of as you write your own backstory, with the only detail the game forces being robbed and shot and left for dead).
"Lestat upgrades". 12/10. Would read again.
Can't wait for the Wesley Snipes DLC
You'll probably never read this Yahtzee, but you've made me laugh in times when I've really needed joy. I want to thank you for Zero Punctuation and especially Jam.
"Vampyr" is an archaic English spelling. It was more popular than the modern spelling at one time, "vampire" was an exceedingly rare word prior to modern pop-culture though so this is somewhat difficult to track. It's also how vampire is spelled in most Scandinavian languages.
Trust me, I would know about this subject.
I've seen quite a few critics of vampyr so far and something that they always seem to forget to mention is that you can't actually go full evil and start eating NPCs. Victims are locked behind hypnosis levels and you can only eat those that are at your level or lower. And these levels are unlocked by story progression so most of the possible victims are actually locked until you're close to finishing the game. And the few victims that are available in the first chapters give so few XP rewards that aren't really worth the effort. So playing an evil vampire is basically an impossibility.
With all due respect...in this game there's an option to eat his own mom.
''hella Baguette yo'' had me
YOU RUMMY BLIGHTER! FISH AND CHIPS! and god save the queen yahtz
These reviews never get old! Hilarious and informative as always.
I just wish I could like/add them all to a playlist with a single click
You could add the compilations to a playlist
Damn. A brutally gothic vampire drama would’ve been a refreshing morsel in this barren games release drought. Shame they fucked it up.
It's not unplayably bad if you like the concept
David Dalmatian But unplayably bad isn’t the only kind of bad.
I'm pretty much done with vampires. Or zombies. Or all the other completely overused and glorified monsters.
I've heard some sorta praising the game, so I guess opinions vary. If you generally agree with Yahtzee, then it probably isnt for you.
Hell yes with the zombies, but I find vampires more interesting, especially if they are dont correctly, something that is about as common as the Tasmanian Tiger nowadays, sadly.
" did they get bused in from Wolverhampton" fuck that I'm not fighting no vampires no thanks
Thank you good sir for finally identifying Wolverhampton's greatest strength and bringing it to the world: let's go and victimise some goths
Jif Macmiioder Saturdays by the statue, good times, good times!
I gotta work the phrase "Hella baguettes yo!" Into my daily life more often
LANDAN *THAAAN*
GioStoryTeller ...You know the H is supposed to be next to the N: "AAAHN"
That playing doctor for a set number of named characters thing reminds me of Pathologic
Dammit Yahtz, now I want fish and chips.
Yahtzees exasperation when he's talking about the skals is golden.
"Stat upgrades or perhaps I should day Le Stat upgrades". That caught me off guard.
THATS A GHOUL! WE CALL IT A SKAL!!!
lol wut?
Yahtzee, I truly hope you never go away. You make RUclips brighter and a better place
I'll have haddock and small chips please, don't forget to ask if they can put the haddock in before you queue up, cheers. No salt and vinegar either, I'll do that myself later
From Wolverhampton, can confirm the city is full of vampire hunters, so it's possible that's where they came from
Ekons is just Snoke backwards. Why is that? What does a 19th century vampire game have to do with Star Wars?
Skals is slacks backwards, phonetically. I'm not sure which is worse.
NIGHT (B)EKONS!
What does a 2017 incoherent sci-fi mess have to do with Star Wars though?
yarpen26 Touché.
Wait, they made more Star Wars movies after the prequels and the animated Clone Wars movie/series? Never heard of them.
Vampyr is a term derived from the Greek word "vrykolakas", which is the archaic and original spelling of "Vampire", in the John Polidori story, in 1819, titled "The Vampyre". It's almost as if you could research this stuff with Google or something. Hmmmm odd, eh?
Vampyr is the swedish word for vampire. You're welcome
I'm glad you could easily see the pointlessness of drinking any blood as I did. There's no point if the combat is too easy, and you still get plenty of XP by doing side quests and the main story.
Excellent content as usual mate
None of my friends understand why I love this channel so much. Videos like this one, that’s the reason. 😂
I treat Vampyr the way I treat all Dontnod games, really--lots of interesting ideas and innovative concepts but the execution may be shoddy. Look past all that and you'll still find a very enjoyable game, if one quite rough around the edges.
That "what's a fucking skal?!" Was so raw and genuine, it absolutely made my day