Void Bastards Review - GmanLives
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Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?
Forget everything you know about first-person shooters: Void Bastards asks you to take charge, not just point your gun and fire. Your task is to lead the rag-tag Void Bastards out of the Sargasso Nebula. You make the decisions: where to go, what to do and who to fight. And then you must carry out that strategy in the face of strange and terrible enemies.
Hey guys, you can buy the game here:store.steampowered.com/app/857980/Void_Bastards/
Hey Sonny Jim - you mentioned you're colorblind. Did you try out the glasses that filter out some bands leaving you with supposedly the same colors as you would usually see? Seems interesting. Sorry for the offtopic! Thanks for the great reviews, I appreciate your work.
I see you diss polygon, you're a pro gamer in my book
Bought it as soon as vid ended.
I try write to you on your mail adress but I have mailer-deamon,
I want ask you, maybe you make in free time, review PC games like:
Call Of Duty World At War ruclips.net/video/vMUZDdtjVi8/видео.html (you review all most all COD games but miss this )
Men of Valor - maybe best game in Vietnam, I very like games on UE2 (nice bushes and jungle maybe best on Unreal Engine 2???:
ruclips.net/video/NvmnjugZous/видео.html trailer 46s great moment ... nice music... great feelings :)
Greetings
Void Bastrds is also on the Xbox Store too
>Pressing the Interact button 50% of the time
So just like Borderlands?
Pro gamer move, also nice prof pic :]
In such games I just macro it as press 4 times a second all the time
Nope, completely different game. I played Borderland 2 just before Void Bastards. I hated Borderlands 2, I love Void Bastards! The first is shoot and loot, much like a FPS Diablo; very boring very fast to me. Void Bastards has a huge strategic element to it, planning your route, locking doors, choosing the right weapons, and when shit hits the fan - and it will - nerves of steel and find the exit when you have 15 seconds of oxygen left! Really great game ;)
@@TheDarkever Meh, I still prefer Borderlands due to the co-op functionality
@@TheDarkever bruh, the game is ok but i do not believe its nearly as good as bl2
If these guys want to make a Punisher game set in the early 80's with his classic black and white costume. Im down for it
Frosty Wasp could you imagine, Jesus Christ
They should use this art style.
Please give us a new Frank Castle game! :D
GLORIOUS
If it aint punisher max or any of thr ennis and dillon punisher its not eorth your time tbh
It ain't no Gman video without a few notable things:
-Referencing your mom
-"SHIIET!"
-Constructive criticism
8:50 oh hi, Jim Sterling
Creepy.
Dunno how GMan knew my mum's name is Slag...
Jesse H. Nice dog
SCHWAT
schwacked!
I discovered three things today: a cool game I never heard about, you think Stanley Parable is pretentious, and you are colorblind.
By the way, some times it's good to have useless weapons in a game if there is limited ammo. This forces the player to make meaningful decisions. Use shitty weapon on weak enemy to preserve good ammo.
I completed building every gun but only used 3 of them for the majority of the game. The stapler, zapper and nail gun are all you really need. Building the rest is just being a completionist.
Exactly. What's the point of only having good weapons eh? Makes them all appear rather crappy.
The artstyle is amazing, but the gameplay loop seems tedious, if it wouldve been more of a campaign style i wudve bought it right away.. now i might still get it but im debating. Good vid tho!
If they did like Isaac and added more items and craftables, secret levels/ships, and more enemies and ai behavior...this could be a really damn cool.
Its unique each play through so you can't make a campaign easily this way, it's really a blast until you've permanantly collected all the base abilities.. then new games aren't so interesting but it's a totally blast up to there, kinda like an FPS Diablo and the abilities are a blast.
getting a XIII vibe from this game
Me too especially the AI
That was my first thought
its getting a remake
@@yashkaushik6116 for real?
Damn
@@yashkaushik6116 Really? AWESOME. That game was and still is amazing. It was one of the most enjoyable single-player experiences that I've ever had as a teenager way back when. The multiplayer with bots was quite fun too. I remember a mode where you had to run around and kill this 'death' character who was the grim reaper and he didn't have any attacks except being fast and killing you instantly if he touched you. The less health he had the smaller he got until you killed him and won the game. I remember he would sing some random songs as well and say random funny things. Man I miss that game.
Really digging the frequent uploads recently, thanks for that
This game looks amazing.
Did you get it
5:33 *SCHWACKED*
I'll be your friend Gman. What's your favorite brutal death metal album?
It's cool, but it's indeed a pity that they relied so much on precedurally generated stuff. I feel like one of the main pros of System Shock 2 was the hand tailored level design that told a story by itself.
Still, looks pretty nice and fun, graphics are cool too.
I agree completely. I've spent more time replaying Duke 3d levels than I have playing randomised "endless" levels in multiple rouge-lites, quality goes much further than quantity for me. Also I was gonna complement your hedon profile pic then I saw your name. Lol I enjoyed hedon . Good work.
@@jethrobaarda7442 Hehe, thanks
10:51 that's usually referred to as target trajectory prediction. The AI takes it's target's current velocity and their projectile's velocity and calculates how far ahead they need to shoot in order to hit it. The only way to counter this is to radically change velocity immediately after they shoot or just always move in a very erratic way. It's a perfect example of why "better" AI isn't always "good" AI. 😉
How is the Stanley parable pretentious? It literally makes fun of itself the whole time...
1:35 Metroidvania intensifies...
Can't wait to compare this with incoming XIII remaster
Didnt understand the reference :( could you explain?
is there gonna be a XIII remaster?
holy shit there is. well im hyped now
@@madwolfdrawing maybe it's me but he reminds me Sans from Undertale
@@SpecShadow your auto correct messed up megalovania or whatever it is.
And I was gonna say this looks like what XIII was aiming for. I really loved that game
I want a Doom II Remake in that style
Patrick Schlicky Same here man! I would love to see a remake of both Doom games with this artstyle. (Jet Set Borderlands Doomio)
3:34. As a short person myself (5ft 2). If polygon do make that article, I'll just have to laugh in their faces.
If you can reach them
@@PerpetualSushi XD
Best part of being short: Upper cut someone in the nuts! :D
The comic cartoon rendering style does remind me of XIII (the 007 inspired French FPS game if anyone remembers) despite genre difference between the two.
Fooking XII, shame it never got a sequel. I remember it left in such a good cliffhanger
I believe Gman did a review on it.
@@Largentina. Why would it need a remaster though? Cel shading never ages?
In coming Polygon article on how problematic Gggman is
Salokin luckily Polygon hasn't been relevant in a long time
Polygon: Representation is important!
**Game has short person**
Polygon: THIS GAME IS DISCRIMINATORY!
You can’t win with these lunatics...
Most major game-focused media news/review sites are a disgrace at this point, churning out complete bullshit to get more attention which they do not deserve. And it only gets worse over time.
GManLives There's an audio pop at 3:59
THANK YOU. Surprised I had to scroll this far down to see someone hear this also. There's at least two in this video. Terrible sound.
I'm writing this before I watch the review, because regardless of how good or bad the game plays, I have to say, the 2D comic book like aesthetics are absolutely amazing. It is really fresh and cool to see in action.
If the game's artist happens to be casually stalking the comments, I tip my hat to you, because this looks great.
Use the cluster bomb kitty’s on screws when you lock him in a small room; toss like 3 or 4 and that should do the trick.
Game looks brilliant. I would love a new game in Marathon franchise made like this!
Can I just say, I'm always impressed with the quality, consistancy and speed at which you get content out.
You legit are one of the best reviewers on RUclips and while I've joked before about you being a sellout (you're not) I legit take all your reviews to heart.
Keep up the good work, Sonny Jim!
(The only other person who I've heard say that is my dad... so... are you my dad?)
Thanks!
The only time Gman replied to my comment is when i made a joke about sponsored videos and he called me a dick. I cherish the memory.
Correction: I called you a "dickhead".
"I wish there was more of a traditional campaign", sound like my review of all roguelikes.
Honestly though this looks like one of the better ones, if only for its humor and presentation.
So I got this for free recently on Epic games. I have to say I adore this games art style. I also actually really enjoy the world they have created. It's a solid 7.5/10 for me!
The germspiker and radspiker are actually kind of vital if you need to play more passively. While pretty much useless on bots and cameras, they're highly effective on enemies that run away, and the radspiker is especially vital for fighting patients.
The game sometimes forces you to play passively based on what it throws at you and what you have in stock. I often bring the spiker to conserve ammo, and I always bring radspiker if there are patients.
Agree totally. Rad Spiker is best weapon for Patients.
LMAO @ Polygon...it is the sad truth
schwacked
yeah my favorite was when they wrote an article about rogue legacy and it being problematic in its depiction of disabilities.
/s
Despite the fact that I think the articles came first they're kind of destroying the reputation of their RUclips channel.
I'll never tire of hearing Gman saying "Vhoid Aahc".
The slot machine sound effects are the exact same as in the Woody Woodpecker 3d platformer on PS2.
Its also in Rachet and Clank and many of the Looney Toons games
@@UnbornDecay I was actually going to ask in that comment, is that some classic wilhelm-scream-like sound at this point, or just a really generic one that's found in every cheap sound library?
It sounds like every slot machine ever
Your favorite part of System/Bioshock was exploring and looting...that, my friend, is what we call "Theif-itis". Makes sense, too, given that many of the same devs worked on all these games or with others who had.
3:26
Wait a second.....WHAT!?
I don't know why, but knowing that a guy who's game reviews I've been watching for years now is colorblind is kinda mindboggling for some reason!
It's very common. It's like 1 out of every 12 white men.
@@joebobjrjr
Holy crap! That I didn't know, now I'm wondering when and how they find out that they're colorblind.
I liked the Stanley Parable...
Yeah, I don't see how someone could think it's pretentious.
I liked it too
Guess what: you're allowed to.
You're allowed to like the Stanley Parable. Just like I'm allowed to think it's pretentious.
@@Gggmanlives Yeah, it didn't even have any guns smh
Hunie Pop when?
stanley parable? pretentious? LMAO what
I'll be your friend, Gman....
Been hooked to your videos. I mean ALL of 'em. And being a cutesy platformer guy, you've shown me a whole other side of gaming Sonny G. Looking forward to trying Blood.
Please play BLOOD, it's one of the best fps games of all time.....NVM you've more than likely watched his video on it lol. But yeah, it's definitely a great experience!
DOOM 2016 has enemies track your movement when they fire projectiles, the imps and the barons definitely do. The thing is, they throw very few projectiles with lots of damage behind each fireball and you always have open arenas or looping corridors with multiple entrances. So you know every attack that's coming if you're paying attention, and you just start zig zagging out in the open.
Extremely tight claustrophobic corridors with projectile spamming enemies is not a good mix. Hitscan enemies actually work much better in those environments, like Wolfenstein Old Blood.
That is so true about pirates boarding a ship your on. Enemies in every game should always have faction settings to allow for them to wage war with each other throwing so much random fun into battles and changing them drastically. It makes the game much more dynamic too. Days Gone was a very recent game that did this so well! Even some zombies fought each other sometimes.
Gman is color blind? I never know about that
Partial or fully?
I always though full color blind is like 80 TVs, black & white
Partial.
I love that jab you made at polygon.
So the clusterfluck is the fully bouncer from the ratchet and clank ps2 games got it
YESSS! Really miss those darn games my childhood right there 😢
Maybe the first few characters you get are the same for everyone. I had the same characters in the same order when I started.
I've been playing it on Xbox, goddamn it's so fun and it actually has a bit of a challenge to it
Never knew our sunny jim was color blind
Watching this quite late and after a several day Void Bastards binge..so maybe here some thoughts for others watching this very late.
-Spike weapons have the benefit of not alerting enemies, when you hit them with a shot, allowing for you to go pretty stealthy. Extremely useful for bosses or thougher bois. And they upgrade pretty fast once you are at a point when you really need them.
They are kind of distinct so a combination might see obvious at first, but really isnt the best idea imho. Rad damages robotics, goes trough shields, can "infect" others and leaves behind radiation if you miss a shot. Also its one of the only viable options to kill the clusters of small floating heads in 1 shot. It doesnt stack.
Poison doesnt affect robotics, stacks very nasty, doest go trough shields and doesnt leave dangerous radiation behind.
-clusterflack is meant to be used like this: have enemies in a small room( maybe even place them in there via teleporter), thow bomb in, close door and lock it, kill even some of the thougher enemies with minimal ammo consumption
Some of the more useless items really get new meaning when you play on the harder difficulties or even ironman/challenge modes.
It makes me sad that they put all this effort into making this, then by not going the extra mile and making a proper single player campaign.
I was hoping this was going to be a more story oriented title. A half life, bioshock, prey sort of thing where combat isn't all you do
I came to RUclips to make sure each character doesn’t have their own special but actually is a defect. Thank you ✌️
So, basically, somebody felt insulted because the game portraied short people as... short. Yeah. Do I have to ask for more?
That art style is awesome!
"An enemy in game called me a dickbag"
This looks exactly like WASTED. Im surprised you never reviewed it, its basically the same aesthetic and gameplay loop.
All the people remeniscing over XIII feels so good. The internet made it seem like only me a 2 other people actually enjoyed what it tried for.
@@Jayalen i'm from the future, don't get your hopes up for anything.. except maybe Ultrakill and The Ancient Gods
Really loved this one as a system shock fanboy. It’s admittedly grindy/repetitive at times and has some issues and missed opportunities but it’s probably one of the most unique visually and gameplay wise games I’ve played in awhile
It’s supposed to be inspired by System Shock and Bioshock but all I think of when i see this is Borderlands
Getting lots of Marathon vibes from this game.
So I've got this game now and I can't stop playing it. Probly one of the best games I've bought this year so far. I love everything about it! I feel like it's a game I've been waiting for, for ages. I mean the only downside of this game is you see the same types of ships quite often, but it's easily ignored. This game is the shit!
Free on Epic next week.
Anyone else in quarantine going back and watching these videos. I don't know what it is about this game I feel like I would enjoy playing this in VR.
"It's only a matter of time before Polygon writes an article about this on how it discriminates against short people..."
Going to keep an eye out for that now. Start the countdown timers.
The gameplay loop would have been tedious, if it wasn’t for new characters with new traits every time you die. It’s a brilliant game
2:02 was this guy who narrated wisecrack's those philosophy videos few years ago?
I actually thought the multi nad was super duper weapon. For stationary enemies the time delay isnt an issue and for other uses. The most useful I had with it was to take out huge groups of enemies that were closing in. You herd them towards you, make sure you have enough time for a door hack, throw one close to that door, go past and lock it. Wait and since the timer is a bit more. The enemies can get closer before it all goes boom and they are gone... :)
I am colorblind too, but there are all different types of color blind. There is a rare type that DOES make everything black and white. It is very rare.
I’m starting to think Gman doesn’t like my mother very much
She's a nice lady.
What I imagine Futurama The Video Game would look like if it were made in 2021
Being colour blind do you find that most games you wish to play that don’t support a colour blind mode are fine to play still? Is it more say puzzle type games that causes the difficulty? I’ll have to look through your older vids before I started following to see if you have a piece on your condition and how and if it affects gameplay. I’d be intrigued if you decided to make such a video. I know a few people who are colour blind and they don’t play video games. I wonder if they may find it difficult.
Anyway. I hope I’m not being insensitive and if I’ve stepped over the line I sincerely apologise. I just thought it would be a cool video for gamers who are colour blind like yourself to watch and what the experience is like and how games that give you a colour blind option helps
It's mostly multiplayer shooters, sometimes I have trouble identifying enemies because of the icon colors.
GmanLives Oh yeah that would be super annoying. Well I’m glad more and more games have colour blind options in them. Hopefully all games will eventually!
>enemies leading their attacks is misleading
kek
Maybe I just had an unlucky run but I found that I barely got any ammo from ships so avoiding combat entirely was the best way to get through it. When the best way to finish the game is to avoid the gameplay, something’s gone wrong :/
Awesome review but I would say the artstyle is 2000AD-inspired, more than Marvel/DC 70s/80s.
i like it when video game devs explore different art style than the generic realistic looking ones that are usually lackluster and substanceless, thats why borderlands despite its cartoony looks, it has its own unique charm.
I'm just gonna ask; how is enemies leading their shots a bad thing? It's something we do in games all the time when the weapons aren't hitscan and have a low projectile speed.
Hitscan can be done in a non stupid way. Look at quake 4. The hitscanning enemies have this slight delay before they fire at your position. Its a simple thing but it means if you keep moving you barely take any hitscan damage
Do the difficulty settings determine loot and stuff? does it feel fair or cheaply done when setting it on high difficulty? like they make it stupid with you dealing less damage and shit like that?
Nice to see another game with this kind of art style. Killer 7 and XIII can't be the only prolific names with stuff like that. We need more of them.
Comic jumper?
@@fizzpeakgamer1318 never heard of it and I see why. I didn't have an Xbox 360 back then
It reminds me of the game XIII because during a shootout you see the words if something is hit or if a weapon is fired. For example 'BOOOM' when something is exploding.
Glad to see another reviewer is colorblind
What’s with the mobs having absolutely no animations?
Actual friends? Who needs those when you've got beer
Why is youtube unsubscribing my favorite youtube channels w/o my permission?
You should start linking the game's store page on the description. It'd be appreciated
Sorry, you're right.
@@Gggmanlives Really good review though! Great in depth analysis of it and made me really interested on the game. Keep up with great videos!
I just got this game for free on Epic, so the 2-3 hours I've enjoyed has already made it a worthy "purchase".
Fantastic, compelling art style that hooks you right away. Spot on sound design, intriguing mix of planning and fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants moment to moment action that requires adaptability and split second decision making. Great voice acting, bare bones story that only exists to serve the gameplay (my preference for a game like this), and easy to understand - yet highly addicting - gameplay loop. I can see it getting arduous in the endgame, but for now, it's consistently fresh and keeps me starting new characters even when I have work in 4 hours and I haven't slept.
I'm excited to try the highest difficulty; I started on Hard mode but I think it's more akin to what the devs wanted the player to experience. I want to feel unsafe everywhere I dock, I want to count every bullet and bushwacker, plan every miniscule movement to conserve O2, and fight for my life against the simplest of enemies.
All in all, I don't think I could give it a score yet, as I feel as though I'm yet to experience the true game, but I'm extremely excited to get back to it and see just how deep I can go.
Something that impressed me was how angry I DIDN'T get when I was killed. I had 2 pirates follow me through a wormhole, and we landed on top of ANOTHER pirate when we came out the other side. It was quite literally a death sentence with my remaining loadout, but that 1% chance of survival was an intriguing challenge more than a frustrating soft lock on the deeper space areas.
That's the cleanest cell shading i've ever seen.
Why did I miss this game? Now that I've played PREY, System Shock 2 and Bioshock I will be playing this one too. This is the type of game I love.
I think the designers were onto something with this game concept. Random generation doesn't work for every game, and I think it only worked for Diablo in my experience. There needs to be more creative and playful takes on games in the System Shock, Bioshock, or Deus Ex vein. This game looks fun, though based on your observations, My Lord Gggmanlives, you would've served quite well as an advisor on how Void Bastards could've been improved. You need quality focus for out-there, intriguing indie games, particular one like this.
I wishlisted this when I saw it on GOG but then Game Pass on XBLG offered it as a limited offer. I played it there and I gotta say, I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it.
It's not a bad game at all, I was totally hooked for about a week. But then I beat it and it lost all it's charm.
Do yourself a favor; play this game but don't pay full price for it. It gets really repetitive fast. It's fun and tense while you're booking back to the exit with a sliver of life and no oxygen. But after you've shot a million of those juvies, you've raided the engine room for fuel and you've completed building every thing on the workbench it just turns into work.
This game is so goddamn underrated
Fair play. I wish more reviews were this thorough. Didn't think it'd be my thing but that sounds pretty up my street!
Looks cool, but what happened to that Turok 3 review you were gonna put out?
It's coming.
@@Gggmanlives my body is ready :)
Sweet! New vid, thanks!
EDIT: Any chance you'll review Rad Rodgers? The 3D Realms/Apogee/John Romero's spiritual successor to Commander Keen
Probably not.
This review introduced me to the game and after a long break this review is getting me to install and play it again :D
Why are all the enemies floating around in what are essentially t-pose variations? Do any actually have animations?
There was a bit of DLC for the game that came out last year added a new enemy type, a new weapon and a couple of new environments. I had a great time with the game, the visuals are super stylish and occasionally unsettling, and the music is good too
You're not the only one GMan when it comes to colorblindness! As I tell people, "I see colors fine, it just that some get mixed up."
I've been enjoying the game immensely. It hit a point where it clicked and I have not wanted to stop playing.
As far as the spikes. I use them in conjunction with the zapper. Usually my target is dead by the end of the zap stun due to the DOT damage.
Interesting, it seems the problems you were having with this game is that you played it like an FPS game with RPG elements, whereas from what you described it sounds more like an RPG game with FPS elements (the high HP, unavoidable hits from enemies, craftable and upgradable weapons/, the scaling difficulty, dying and rerolling...). It errs more on the RPG side of things