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I don't know if it was the pitch of the fart being used or if it was simply much louder than every other noise in the video, but that physically hurt my ears every time it appeared.
I feel him on the Souls fatigue. As much as I can look at Elden Ring, play it, and go "Yep, this is quite possibly the best FromSouls game yet, they really outdid themselves making a proper open world and they're certainly still sadistic assholes who will suddenly teleport you into a spooky mineshaft full of centipede men with homing spine barrage attacks and really unpleasant movements, as well as some rock dudes who are mostly there to distract you while you get spined, and also the way out of the hole is DOWN and the boss is above you so your natural instincts to escape an underground prison will lead you astray... but I don't especially want to play through the whole thing at this point, I can always come back to it later anyway." And I'm still kind of waiting for the urge to do that, while having quite a lot of fun wearing shiny drake-leather pants, riding ninja doggos and running up cliffs in Monster Hunter Rise.
Yeah, he _knew_ the immediate response from a huge proportion of his audience was going to be _"NOT_ #1?! How DARE you!" and felt the need to cut them off at the pass. And I can see his point. I held off on getting Elden Ring for a long time, because I knew it would need time to fix the bugs, add a bit more content, maybe go on sale, the majority of the player base would still be there for years, and to be completely blunt, I had other things (including half a dozen other soulslikes) to play first. In fact, I only got it about a week or so ago when my friend bought it for me as a delayed Christmas present (I was then forced to repay him with a copy of Dwarf Fortress). And while I've started playing it and got a few hours in, it hasn't absolutely addicted me like it has so many others. I think it's because the combination of brutal Dark Souls difficulty combined with the open world design has resulted in me constantly shying away from the next daunting challenge to meander off in search of something easier to do- something generally impossible in the tightly-structured closed-world Souls games, where there may be another challenge but it's still going to test you, while in an open world game it's too easy to just go off somewhere else and pick flowers for hours. At time of writing I've put 7.2 hours into it and have just entered Stormview Castle because I think I've found about everything interesting I can find and reasonably deal with, which isn't actually all that impressive compared to games I've _really_ gotten into, where I can rack up 20-30 hours in about the same time because I get so involved with playing that I forget what time it is.
@@hazukichanx408 Ah the fun place...that I haven't visited yet even though I have explored the blood land with the T-Rex dogs, and the murder chickens.
@@Wiseman108 Oh HE will never let himself live this down ever. In his review for Guilty Gear: Fortissimo Overdrive (2026) he will say something like "Well of course I didn't like it, you guys know I don't care about anime, I care about games where you explore a shitty world full of ball-twisting monsters, aka DARK SOULS! And shut up about 2022 (the year Elden Ring was released)"
And he thought the weebs harassed him to review their shit anime games before now he'll see. I like to think Marty is rubbing off on him, that or Persona 5 really is that good.
Okay rip that one FNaF fan who's still in denial about how much Yahtzee hated Security Breach and defending it against negative comments to this day(check it out, they're still responding to comments about how Yahtzee didn't actually hate it) No amount of mental gymnastics is gonna hide the fact that Yahtzee HATED the shit out of this game with the climax of this video. Here's to you, abloogyboogywoo. It's Top 1 Shittiest game of 2022 and I don't think it can get any clearer than that.
I tried to find the person you're talking about in his ZP of Security Breach, but I don't see him. Did he make a post saying this or was he replying to a post?
Neon White's writing is actually genius. It's a game where the objective is to complete it as fast as possible, and the bad writing makes you actually want to do it.
As someone who likes the Five Nights at Freddy's fandom, I absolutely agree with its placement. Security Breach was such an embarrassing, buggy mess. It just screams poor planning and lack of scope. EDIT: OMG there's no Ubisoft sandbox this year.
@@abloogywoogywoo You're absolutely right. However Security Breach isn't just glitchy,it's just BAD. No amount of patches can fix the fact that it is still fundamentally broken in execution.
@@Elonyx.studios Umm, you do understand patches are meant to do just that? Why do you think people play Fallout? Because of the fanmade patches because Bethesda can't get its sh*t together
I remember the first time I played God of War... It was quite a while after the series got famous and I was taking a poke at it to see what all the fuss was about. Frankly, I kind of lost interest after about six dozen of the same fight and twenty button-mashes of Kratos stabbing a minotaur in the mouth really unpleasantly. Oh, were you expecting nostalgic enthusiasm? A-ha! Gotcha!
I'm a 22 year old who has never even had a girlfriend, and i love that game. Dadness is a nebulous state when it comes to anything other than actual parenthood
I ran across a thread all up in arms about these lists. You'd think that a video that includes "I liked it... fuck you." would have communicated that taste is subjective and this is just one person's opinion. I have come out of some scathing critiques by Yahtzee interested in a game, because I know some of the things that are deal breakers for him are bonus points for me. A genuine and consistent voice on the medium has value, being entertaining doubly so.
@A C I think it makes sense when you remember that the media they consume is often one of the first things they get to decide for themselves, as opposed to by their parents and family. When you're younger and lack experience and perspective, that naturally lends itself to integrating your love for those things as a core part of your identity.
@A C That's the thing with stupid people: when they decide they like something (often preemptively because they buy wholeheartedly into hype, and then have to go into denial when it turns out the thing they decided in advance was going to be a masterpiece is actually complete tripe, like Anthem), they treat any dissenting opinon as a personal attack. "Well _I_ say this thing is perfect, so how _dare_ you say it's not! Are you telling me I'm _wrong?!_ You're not allowed to do that! Fuck you!" Stupid assholes the lot of them.
@@timothymarks1041 Yeah. Really, people tie their identity to a LOT of things they should not, and it's not just limited to teenagers and young people. Just think of how many parents get overly-invested in things like sports teams they'll never, ever, ever play for. It's not great, but it's just a part of how our society is. Maybe it's a sign we should have our society and economy focused on the well-being of people, instead of treating profit and economic expansion as the most important.
@@IstasPumaNevada So what SHOULD people tie their identity to? Because attaching your identity to formative experiences you had as a budding adult when you first started to come into your own doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. This just sounds like "capitalism bad". I'd say the problem is rather with the nature of the attachment, because we've become unable to distinguish between on the one hand our EMOTIONAL connection to something, based on our personal experiences with it and often tied to specific times in our lives, and its more or less OBJETIVE merits as a work of art or product of entertainment. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with having an emotional connection to, say, video games; why would there be? It's important memories to us of formative years, of course there's a connection, and of course they're part of our identity. We just need to be able to separate the "objective" merits from the emotional, individual part to be able to discuss and appreciate both. This is simply a lack of verbal and intellectual tools, not a sign that we totally need to reshape society. But hey, any excuse to overthrow capitalism, right? The problem with focusing on the well-being of people rather than just their freedom of doing what they want, is that everyone has different ideas about what the well-being of people actually means. Which is why people based on your reasoning, for example, might very well ban video games and movies except those deemed acceptable until, like, 21, to avoid forming unhealthy attachments. And so on. Just, y'know, pointing out where this kind of thinking leads.
Tunic would probably be my pick for game of the year. It just felt so unique and interesting. The way it pretends to be one thing, but later reveals that an entire second kind of game was hiding in plain sight all along. I actually had to takes notes in a notebook to finish it 100%! Notes that included drawing pictures of things in the game world! Do you know how long it has been since I had to do that for a game?
Yeah for me it had that magical effect.. Its probably the charm of the booklet in-game that first sold me on that detail. Then all the little intricacies within and around the world are amazing...And yes everything was there all along. Most of my friends didnt give it a second look because they thought "zelda ripoff" when in many ways it goes far beyond it when it comes to the true nature of it's puzzling world. Enjoy for those that give it a shot!
The second half is what put me off the game tbh I wanted a fun Zelda type game. I was essentially duped into buying and A.R.G that your strong armed into. I wanted to see all the content but I didn't enjoy walking around places id already been trying to spam teleport to find more pages. I Instead wanted more biomes with actual puzzles and bosses involving the teleport.
@@shawniscoolerthanyou don't get me wrong I like that type of storytelling too I was just a lil miffed at expecting more Zelda like gameplaye when it turned into more of a collect-a-thon
In the wise words of Yahtzee: "The worst game needn’t necessarily be the most objectively badly-made or frustrating one, but the game with the worst intentions." That's why I think Babylon's Fall deserves #1. It's like Square Enix grabbed Platinum Games sexually assaulted it in front of fans and family members then put up a charging booth then said 5 dollars a month please.
As bad as security breach is there was a chance it would have been good but Babylon fall along with final fantasy first soldier and chocobo GO were conceptually vile
Nah, it feels more like "We can make a GaaS with the most famous devs for beat them ups and it will take the throne from Mihoyo even though we are in a slump in terms of GaaS with several games we made shutting down this year) and making Platinum take the fall
Im fairly certain the only reason overwatch 2 wasn't number 1 is cause Yahtzee would rather avoid any competitive multiplayer shooter like the plague. Thus he didn't review it.
@@Guardian-of-Light137 i wouldn’t even consider it as qualified for ranking because Overwatch 2 truly is just an update to the original game, not something i’d personally consider a new release
It’s great to see tunic getting some love. I feel like the reactions I see to it always tend to range from “it’s ok” to “it’s incredible” and I’m glad to see more and more people in the latter camp, especially given how ironically difficult it is to talk about what that game truly does so well without spoilers lmao
Even beyond the want to avoid fan outcry, he actually had more nice things to say about Frontiers than any game he put in the worst list. Not a lot of things, but compliments nonetheless
To be fair, when they're actually allowed to *TRY,* even post-Dreamcast Sonic Team can put out a banger or two. Yes. I like _Unleashed._ *DEAL WITH IT.*
Regarding Security Breach, it's popular because anything associated with FNAF gets attention regardless of how well it stands on its own, and the game is buggy past the point of real playability. People just like to see (either by playing it themselves or watching their content creator of choice playing) just how ridiculously broken it gets, like Markiplier discovering the spinning Freddy bug in his true ending playthrough.
I'm a fan of FNaF, and while I "enjoy" watching the absurdity of how broken the game is, I will never argue that it's anything other than a train wreck of a game. Honestly, at a certain point, I get tried of seeing the brokenness and just feel like "Can we actually progress now?", same as the people playing it. But that's just me.
Honestly I think the game is popular because some folk unironically enjoy bad games, that's the only explanation I've got after seeing that on Steam the game has a mostly positive rating.
@@Xfushion2 back in my day, Bad Rats was the god-awful meme game that u ironically left positive steam reviews for. pretty sure security breach fills that role for kids these days
Yeah that's about where I am when it comes to security breach. It's a bizarre entry in mostly samey series, but was so broken and buggy its amusing in its own right. I've thought about buying it and playing it, but then I remembered I've seen all of it (or most of it) already. I'll just keep watching Astralspiff do weird challenge videos of it
After (ungodly number of) years of reviews and these lists, it's weird how people still want to argue about Yahtzee's picks/placement. It's his list, and his chance to champion stuff he loves and rag on things he doesn't. Criticism doesn't exist to validate your opinions, it's supposed to make you think more about the things you like or don't and why.
you dont get do decide the behaviors of others. sucking the ass of someone who will never see your ass suckery is just a waste of time and makes you look like a dick. just live your day.
The amount of non-AAA games in this list actually gives me some hopes that indies get more buzz... or maybe AAA is just getting worse. Probably that last one
As a Switch owner, they tend to rise to the top for me. Our collection is a pile of Nintendo releases (Odyssey, BotW, Metroid Dread, and a bunch of "deluxe" WiiU ports), and a rogues gallery of modern indie titles (Hades, Hollow Knight, Steam World Everything, Celeste, Cuphead, Shovel Knight, Spiritfarer, Golf Story, Ori)
Yahtzee's take on Stray and Tunic perfectly sums up why I was so baffled to see Tunic get out of the game awards with absolutely nothing For a game that was almost entirely developed by a single person, it was more than deserving of at least the Best Debut prize with how innovative its approach was and how clever its puzzles are. It is a love letter to the medium. Tunic is an incredible game on its own, so it being Andrew Shouldice's first is nothing short of astounding. But no, your typical exploration game *but as a cat* was apparently more worthy
Tbh i got tired of tunic after the halfway point when it basically became an A.R.G, I hated charting the golden path and having to find literally EVERY page as requirement that I just got bored and googled the ending
i dont think Stray was meant to be approached as an "exploration game". On its steam page no where does it say "exploration" (seriously go use the find function, its not there). Stray was a 2-5 hour story driven adventure with the occasional puzzle. It fills the same niche as something like Journey does. Tunic was just Zelda meets Fez with more challenging combat.
@@xii.olympia5019 same exact reason why Gris and Sea of Solitude made the bland lists, arty indies with minimal gameplay are fine in a vacuum if all you care about is story but Tunic is an honest to god game with unique ideas and masterful execution of its theming and mechanics, and Stray’s contextual button prompts just can’t match the catharsis of tearing the shit out of a boss’s asshole or figuring out what an obscure scribble on a page is
@@jenkinsuu and i disagree with GRIS being on that list too. Just because a game is artsy and not "extraordinarily innovative" doesn't make the game bland. I will once again refer to Journey as its widely considered one of the best indie games of the PS3 era and i feel people would try and call it bland for not being "innovative enough" despite having some of the best art direction I've ever seen. The Atmosphere some games create for their world sets them apart from others, and both stray and GRIS do that far more than tunic does. and both also masterfully execute their aesthetics and themes Also, are you actually trying to gate keep what an "honest to god game" is? its not 2016 anymore, a game doesn't have to be an action adventure to be a "real game".
@@xii.olympia5019 Hence why I said, they’re fine if all you care about is story. The gameplay is giga boring, and I don’t personally find the obvious metaphors for depressed main character a very interesting plot
the only channel that can mention 15 seperate games + predecessor/similar type games with fully realized opinions all in under 8 minutes. a man of culture who doesnt like to waste our time. love you, man. cheers.
@@scrub_jay Well he's _always_ played and reviewed all 15 games; if he hasn't done both then a game isn't eligible for the lists. He's made a joke about that a few times, most notably when he started the video by quickly reviewing Undertale to make it eligible: "Undertale is a good game."
I personally think Stray deserved an award, but "most innovative gameplay" definitely wasn't it, I feel like they just wanted to award it something but there wasn't "best depiction of a cat that only cat owners can notice" award.
@@hollandscottthomas Sadly, it's not. A generic "AAA graphics" game won best ART STYLE, a generic colour by the numbers hairy dad game won the best story, and a glorified walking sim won the most innovating gameplay. I'm starting to think people in Steam just vote for whatever game they like when they see it, regardless of the category.
Thank you for still doing what you do, Yahtz. The continuation of this series is like a fond childhood memory, except it's still ongoing. In this world of madness, the fact that ZP has remained essentially unchanged since the less-batshit era of the late '00s is a real mental anchor to a saner, better time. It's the angry internet video equivalent of mother's home cooking. I, for one, really appreciate it. If you're ever back in the UK, boyo, I'll buy you a pint some time. Cheers, and happy new year.
I predicted FNAF would be on the worst of the year list, and I'm happy that it made the top of the list. You can't not watch the review, hear Yahtzee say "I want to hurt it" and think it doesn't deserve a place here.
I feel like you could make an essay or analysis of the Elden Ring fatigue that a lot of youtubers mentions, where it's fantastic but goes longer than intended. But at the same time it's played the shit out of where many dungeons are discovered and dozens of hours are put into the first playthrough. So in the end you can play for 60+ hours and get your money's worth, but not beat it. I was in a similar predicament where I had played it ssooo much early on, but then I get to Mountaintop and a part of me is kind of ready to beat it. It's almost like the game put too much content in it.
I beat Elden Ring, but the sheer size of it put my off further playthroughs. I also felt the length meant later bosses have such high stats that it discourages low level playthroughs. I can't count how many times I've played Dark Souls with different self imposed challenges
I think the quality just falls off and I would basically say it’s my number one with the same heavy sigh. I’m not sure why but I just doubt I’ll ever seriously want to beat it again.
Lol I haven't gotten that fatigue yet in Elden Ring but I definitely got there in The Witcher 3. I spent 40 hours in a couple weeks playing the game and once I got to a new island I was too fatigued to continue. I really hope that doesn't happen with Elden Ring because I am enjoying it so far.
Elden Ring for me is like an epic fantasy book of about 2000 pages. I won’t ever read it in its entirety again, but there are certain chapters and passages that I really enjoy, so I come back to those once in a while. Elden Ring for me is not replayable in its entirety, but there are certain aspects of it, certain bossfights and levels, that are so good I can’t help but want to engage with them from time to time. Once in a while I create a new character just to beat the Tree Sentinel, Agheel and Margit because I feel like it. Sometimes I just wanna fight Mohg or explore Leyndell. I don’t have to complete the game to feel satisfied, it’s a different kind of replayability.
Hardspace - Shipbreakers OST will forever be my master thesis' soundtrack. I listened to those guitars for hours during all the typing and the panic attacks...
I thought Sekiro had a great ending with the final area (Fountainhead Palace) and final boss (Sword Saint Isshin) both being amazing. Sword Saint in particular being one of the few final bosses that is great mechanically, aesthetically, and challenge-wise. DS3 also had a strong ending, imo (had a stronger 2nd half than the 1st half).
As someone who previously enjoyed Mirror's Edge, Dishonoured and Ghostrunner; Neon White has cemented the idea to me that 1st person platformers are definitely a genre in itself and it is the best game in that category.
Neon White is 1 of those games with a really simple mechanics that when they work toghether the game feels really rewarding, to make everything better is skill based so the more you play it the better you get, and i love that
I really enjoy Yahtz and his editors dedication to varying how we’ll see the ZP game awards portrayed and I think this is one of the best ones they’ve done since that one with Best games being announced with moans.
I picked up Not For Broadcast based on this and it has instantly cemented itself as one of my favourite things ever and I've only done two days so far. The game is in line with my exact sense of humour and sensibilities. I love it.
I didn’t. Had me wishing I could toggle mute on my phone instead of just quickly turning the volume down and then back up. But that’s partly because there are other people who could conceivably hear it
Ohhh how the seasons change, leaves grow, they wither, they fall, people are born and people die, but if there is one thing that will always be the same, it's "The Year's Best, Worst, and Blandest" will always be great and the best game review RUclips has to offer.
I'd suggest either slowing down or changing the intensity of the light flickering at 2:39 before the full public release of this one, or at least putting a warning beforehand.
@@E1craZ4life I'm not suggesting the part be removed from the video, instead I gave three different options to still have it in without it being a bad time for people sensitive to flashing lights
Glad to see the appreciation for Neon White. Incredible gameplay and soundtrack/ sound design in general, the story fits the game and its obvious they're going for a specific vibe (that is admittedly a bit much, but that's part of it) that I think they nailed perfectly.
Fun fact! There's a Security Breach challenge run where you try to complete the whole game 'glitchless', and if you see a glitch you have to reset. It's only doable at all because of three major concessions: 1. It's done in segments, and you only have to reset to the last major checkpoint when you see a glitch instead of resetting to the start of the game. 2. "If I didn't see it then it didn't happen", aka glitches that happen offscreen don't count. 3. Performance issues and lag don't count as glitches, since they're a result of the poor optimization strategies deliberately implemented by the developers, and are therefore not bugs but 'features'.
The sound effects are always the best in these videos. Just enough time passes for me to forget them and I get to experience them like new all over again.
I'm happy Not for Broadcast got a mention. It was nice to see an attempt to give film games a proper core gameplay loop. I loved it and I'm glad Yahtzee gave it a mention.
Nice to see Tunic in rarified air this year. I'm playing through it now, as well as at least three of my boys. The game is super charming; the incomplete comprehension of the world's language was an interesting twist, forcing players to glean clues from context; and I love the gradual assembly of an instruction book that looks straight out of an old Zelda cartridge.
I hated the combat. Way too slow and unforgiving for my tastes. It kind of ruined the experience for me, which is a shame because exploring the world and finding the pages of the instruction manual was so good.
@@erakfishfishfish I skipped everything in the demo, but then felt the pure NEED to know what is going on in the full game. Some regrets, but yeah... it can be skipped, at least that's nice of the devs, as the gameplay is bombastic.
To your point, I'd never heard of it before and am currently watching Deep Space 9 for the first time. Now I have an interest in checking out Babylon 5 because of an offhand remark about it.
@@UmJammerChelle Awesome to hear! DS9 is my favorite Star Trek series. Season 4 through 7 is when that show really finds it's legs imo. Babylon 5 has a ton of Star Trek writers and actor cameos and even regulars over it's run. Babylon 5 is right up there with DS9 on my S tier of sci-fi shows. Season 1 of B5 is slow but by season 3 it is running on all cylinders. Peaks at season 4 but thankfully there is a 1 season spin off show and several movies so there is a lot post main series content that allows you to stay in the universe longer.
Elden Ring is my GOTY. But the fact that someone has to justify not placing it at the top (I have seen some videos even apologize for placing it second), shows the underlying problem of fan culture.
Honestly the most exciting thing i always look forward in Yachtzee's lists is to hear what sounds representing each category usually Blandest sound cracking me up. On the side note, I wish more people would make "Bland" lists.
There should be a Hollywood award ceremony for the blandest of Hollywood, the way the Oscars commemorate the best of Hollywood and the Razzies commemorate the worst of Hollywood.
Absolutely loved Stray. Was sort of similar to point and click adventure games with amazing environmental story telling and a run time that never overstayed its welcome. Tremendous audio-visual design. I didn't have any expectations and simply came into the game with an open mind. It's certainly a quiet game and doesn't have much going for it in the way of mechanics, but I also didn't expect or need that when I found every other aspect absolutely delightful
This is an attitude MANY players should adopt. People usually either expect nothing from a game and just buy the next FIFA, NBA, CoD, Battlefield... or want every new game to be the next and superior Starcraft, Castlevania SotN, Zelda, Street Fighter II etc... People just don't seem to be able to appreciate a good or very good game these days. They either eat up whatever crap you serve them or want every dish to be Kobe medallions with a side of truffles.
I was on board with Yahtzee’s opinions in this video, until he said that there was no philosophical theme at the core of Peppa Pig’s Pumpkin Party. In this essay I will
My understanding of Security Breach (as someone who has never played a FNAF game and doesn't intend to) is that its primary selling point is being broken enough to make for fun and interesting speedruns.
Much as I love Stray, its place on the list is fair. I just started playing Tunic and I very much enjoy it. I love the Zelda vibes of figuring out what's going on from what I can tell from the guide pages and such. Elden Ring's place is also fair and I agree with it. Of the games that actually came out in 2022, it probably is my GOTY considering how many hours I put into the game, but I haven't actually finished it and am taking a break from it to work on Dark Souls 3 (just beat Dragonslayer Armour last night and am going to go clear the Consumed King's garden and then the optional areas after that before I get too far into the Grand Archives) and some other games.
@@hollandscottthomas I'm very much looking forward to it. I know all the bosses and have watched others fight them, but I don't necessarily know the specifics of each area. I'm very much enjoying myself for sure. I'm trash at parries still, so I'm not looking forward to Champion Gundyr. I know he can be parried easily, but I'm bad at it and it'll probably take me ages because he's so damn fast.
@@hollandscottthomas I have both, lol. I'm grabbing that katana pair in the Grand Archives so I have something fast to use against Friede when I get to her. I'm doing a quality build with the Hollowslayer Greatsword as my main weapon. Dragonslayer Greatbow for amy sniping when I don't feel like fighting something (the pus of man off that 1 wyvern that can be sniped from the roof above near the Dragonslayer Armour, for example). I'm also playing Bloodborne but I hit a wall in the Research Hall in the DLC, so I've been taking a break from it for a bit.
Yehtzee opening all those brackets and then never closing them has a similar, but distinct, vibe to people who say "quote unquote" together before the quote. It's just improper grammar of spoken punctuation.
I can't thank you enough for the Stanley Kubrick jizzing in my eye quip, one of my favourite moves will now be a subliminal nightmare, where once I gazed upon the monolith and questioned it's purpose I will now just see it as a potential shield to stop a wad of Stans population paste becoming a sticky contact lens...
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Blandest is Sonic Frontiers. So boring 😴 😑 😪
Yahtzee would you reconsider your opinion on Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days?
Im calling bums rush: cyberfuck as one of the names already
That fart crescendo is one of the most unsettling sounds of any Zero Punctuation year end list video
Ya it especially sucks when you have headphones lol
It starts out ok and then just gets so violent. Please mercy on us Yahtzee
i hated having to listen through that five times
I don't know if it was the pitch of the fart being used or if it was simply much louder than every other noise in the video, but that physically hurt my ears every time it appeared.
It sounds like you should be swatting at a wasp that’s divebombing your ear or a mosquito.
4:10, that *sigh* "OK hear me out" was absolute perfection. It's amazing how context can turn something so small into a damn near perfect joke.
I feel him on the Souls fatigue. As much as I can look at Elden Ring, play it, and go "Yep, this is quite possibly the best FromSouls game yet, they really outdid themselves making a proper open world and they're certainly still sadistic assholes who will suddenly teleport you into a spooky mineshaft full of centipede men with homing spine barrage attacks and really unpleasant movements, as well as some rock dudes who are mostly there to distract you while you get spined, and also the way out of the hole is DOWN and the boss is above you so your natural instincts to escape an underground prison will lead you astray... but I don't especially want to play through the whole thing at this point, I can always come back to it later anyway."
And I'm still kind of waiting for the urge to do that, while having quite a lot of fun wearing shiny drake-leather pants, riding ninja doggos and running up cliffs in Monster Hunter Rise.
@@hazukichanx408 Oh, fuck, that reminds me, I need to finish MHR.
@@hazukichanx408 I'm in this comment (and Yahtzee's), and I'm ok with it.
Yeah, he _knew_ the immediate response from a huge proportion of his audience was going to be _"NOT_ #1?! How DARE you!" and felt the need to cut them off at the pass. And I can see his point. I held off on getting Elden Ring for a long time, because I knew it would need time to fix the bugs, add a bit more content, maybe go on sale, the majority of the player base would still be there for years, and to be completely blunt, I had other things (including half a dozen other soulslikes) to play first. In fact, I only got it about a week or so ago when my friend bought it for me as a delayed Christmas present (I was then forced to repay him with a copy of Dwarf Fortress). And while I've started playing it and got a few hours in, it hasn't absolutely addicted me like it has so many others. I think it's because the combination of brutal Dark Souls difficulty combined with the open world design has resulted in me constantly shying away from the next daunting challenge to meander off in search of something easier to do- something generally impossible in the tightly-structured closed-world Souls games, where there may be another challenge but it's still going to test you, while in an open world game it's too easy to just go off somewhere else and pick flowers for hours. At time of writing I've put 7.2 hours into it and have just entered Stormview Castle because I think I've found about everything interesting I can find and reasonably deal with, which isn't actually all that impressive compared to games I've _really_ gotten into, where I can rack up 20-30 hours in about the same time because I get so involved with playing that I forget what time it is.
@@hazukichanx408 Ah the fun place...that I haven't visited yet even though I have explored the blood land with the T-Rex dogs, and the murder chickens.
An anime game beat out a fantastic Souls-like. In goddamn Yahtzee's list. This going to be a year
@@Wiseman108 Oh HE will never let himself live this down ever. In his review for Guilty Gear: Fortissimo Overdrive (2026) he will say something like "Well of course I didn't like it, you guys know I don't care about anime, I care about games where you explore a shitty world full of ball-twisting monsters, aka DARK SOULS! And shut up about 2022 (the year Elden Ring was released)"
And he thought the weebs harassed him to review their shit anime games before now he'll see. I like to think Marty is rubbing off on him, that or Persona 5 really is that good.
@@Lucarioguild7
I mean.... P5 is pretty fuckin' dope.
@@homestuck_official Heck of a subtitle, I can see Arcsys going with the idea.
@@homestuck_official "aka DARK SOULS! And shut up about 2022"" (the year where Elden Ring came out)
Okay rip that one FNaF fan who's still in denial about how much Yahtzee hated Security Breach and defending it against negative comments to this day(check it out, they're still responding to comments about how Yahtzee didn't actually hate it)
No amount of mental gymnastics is gonna hide the fact that Yahtzee HATED the shit out of this game with the climax of this video.
Here's to you, abloogyboogywoo. It's Top 1 Shittiest game of 2022 and I don't think it can get any clearer than that.
I tried to find the person you're talking about in his ZP of Security Breach, but I don't see him. Did he make a post saying this or was he replying to a post?
@@longdongsilver3267 I updated my post since I found their name
@@StrikeWarlock I don't see someone with a username abloogyboogywoo. I see someone with a username abloogywoogywoo though. Is that who you mean?
@@longdongsilver3267 oh yea it's them
Sounds like you found the sanest FNAF fan.
Neon White's writing is actually genius. It's a game where the objective is to complete it as fast as possible, and the bad writing makes you actually want to do it.
This is hilarious and somehow legitimately makes me feel better about the game
Is there a way to get neon white without any lore or cutscenes?
@@exotic1405 Yes, you can skip most cutscenes and dialogues. I did that at some point.
Cruelty squad pfp, based
Neon White has great writing and I will die on this hill.
2:57 I think this is the -first- SIXTH time in the 16 years of ZP that Yahtzee has used his own face in a video
Nah theres a full picture of him in murdered: soul suspect
It also appeared in his Top 5 of 2014 video.
And let's not forget my personal favourite appearance from him in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
@@jombilywobbily that would be LittleBigPlanet
@@jombilywobbily the QTEs one is Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
As someone who likes the Five Nights at Freddy's fandom, I absolutely agree with its placement. Security Breach was such an embarrassing, buggy mess. It just screams poor planning and lack of scope.
EDIT: OMG there's no Ubisoft sandbox this year.
Only thing I could say the game had going for it were as per usual the design of the animatronics. Freddy and Monty especially
That's not that bad.
Such first-world problems we're engulfed by.
A buggy game isn't always necessarily a horrible game.
@@abloogywoogywoo
You're absolutely right. However Security Breach isn't just glitchy,it's just BAD. No amount of patches can fix the fact that it is still fundamentally broken in execution.
The only good part about it is the absolutely hilarious speedrunning and gamebreaking that can be accomplished.
@@Elonyx.studios Umm, you do understand patches are meant to do just that? Why do you think people play Fallout? Because of the fanmade patches because Bethesda can't get its sh*t together
Preemptively telling the rabid Sonic and GOW fans to piss off at the beginning of the vid is kinder than I expected from Yahtzee
I remember the first time I played God of War...
It was quite a while after the series got famous and I was taking a poke at it to see what all the fuss was about. Frankly, I kind of lost interest after about six dozen of the same fight and twenty button-mashes of Kratos stabbing a minotaur in the mouth really unpleasantly.
Oh, were you expecting nostalgic enthusiasm? A-ha! Gotcha!
Can you imagine GoW fans when he announced number 2?
He's mellowing now he's a father.
To "Kindly piss off".
God of war shoulve absolutely been on the best list from the triple A games of the year it was most definitely 1 or 2 best
I remember when Yathzee joked that only dads play in slow meditative games and here we are he liked one of them 2:00, how fast time flies...
I mean... He is a dad now. Comes with the territory, I guess.
He was also 25 or so when he started ZP back in 2007. 16 years later and he's somewhere in his early 40s now.
Am a dad, can confirm... although I still love Elden Ring
His full review of Tart Base Boat Cracker will better explain, go check it out.
I'm a 22 year old who has never even had a girlfriend, and i love that game. Dadness is a nebulous state when it comes to anything other than actual parenthood
I ran across a thread all up in arms about these lists. You'd think that a video that includes "I liked it... fuck you." would have communicated that taste is subjective and this is just one person's opinion.
I have come out of some scathing critiques by Yahtzee interested in a game, because I know some of the things that are deal breakers for him are bonus points for me. A genuine and consistent voice on the medium has value, being entertaining doubly so.
@A C I think it makes sense when you remember that the media they consume is often one of the first things they get to decide for themselves, as opposed to by their parents and family. When you're younger and lack experience and perspective, that naturally lends itself to integrating your love for those things as a core part of your identity.
@A C That's the thing with stupid people: when they decide they like something (often preemptively because they buy wholeheartedly into hype, and then have to go into denial when it turns out the thing they decided in advance was going to be a masterpiece is actually complete tripe, like Anthem), they treat any dissenting opinon as a personal attack. "Well _I_ say this thing is perfect, so how _dare_ you say it's not! Are you telling me I'm _wrong?!_ You're not allowed to do that! Fuck you!" Stupid assholes the lot of them.
@@timothymarks1041 Yeah. Really, people tie their identity to a LOT of things they should not, and it's not just limited to teenagers and young people. Just think of how many parents get overly-invested in things like sports teams they'll never, ever, ever play for.
It's not great, but it's just a part of how our society is.
Maybe it's a sign we should have our society and economy focused on the well-being of people, instead of treating profit and economic expansion as the most important.
@@IstasPumaNevada Well-being over profit? That's cOmMuNiZm!! REEEEEEEE
@@IstasPumaNevada So what SHOULD people tie their identity to? Because attaching your identity to formative experiences you had as a budding adult when you first started to come into your own doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. This just sounds like "capitalism bad".
I'd say the problem is rather with the nature of the attachment, because we've become unable to distinguish between on the one hand our EMOTIONAL connection to something, based on our personal experiences with it and often tied to specific times in our lives, and its more or less OBJETIVE merits as a work of art or product of entertainment. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with having an emotional connection to, say, video games; why would there be? It's important memories to us of formative years, of course there's a connection, and of course they're part of our identity.
We just need to be able to separate the "objective" merits from the emotional, individual part to be able to discuss and appreciate both. This is simply a lack of verbal and intellectual tools, not a sign that we totally need to reshape society. But hey, any excuse to overthrow capitalism, right?
The problem with focusing on the well-being of people rather than just their freedom of doing what they want, is that everyone has different ideas about what the well-being of people actually means. Which is why people based on your reasoning, for example, might very well ban video games and movies except those deemed acceptable until, like, 21, to avoid forming unhealthy attachments. And so on. Just, y'know, pointing out where this kind of thinking leads.
the light flicking sequence was the most animated zero punctuation has been in years
Imagine how cursed it would be to have a fully animated ZP episode
Remember when we had that one cross fade? Oh man, crazy animation budget, Yahtz. You might want to slow down.
@@nickolas78gr24 Those do exist as a fan animation and it was animated quite well no less.
@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire I still remember when a flashlight in one episode clicked when he turned it on in the slideshow
I think Yahtzee's gonna need a new "dry heave" sound effect for the open brackets thing.
are we moving towards an entire vocalization-based programming syntax here?
@@swedneck If we're not then what are we doing with our lives?!!
I nominate "pronouncing the year in a pretentious Shakespearian overactor voice". Like, Doom, TWENT-ah six TEEEEEEEEEEEEN.
That lost metaphor joke complete with Yahtzee going "What the fuck?" at his computer is the best damn joke in the whole video.
Tunic would probably be my pick for game of the year. It just felt so unique and interesting. The way it pretends to be one thing, but later reveals that an entire second kind of game was hiding in plain sight all along. I actually had to takes notes in a notebook to finish it 100%! Notes that included drawing pictures of things in the game world! Do you know how long it has been since I had to do that for a game?
This sounds a little spoiler-ish, but more importantly very intriguing so thanks for the remark. I will get it once it has a deep discount on Switch.
Yeah for me it had that magical effect.. Its probably the charm of the booklet in-game that first sold me on that detail. Then all the little intricacies within and around the world are amazing...And yes everything was there all along.
Most of my friends didnt give it a second look because they thought "zelda ripoff" when in many ways it goes far beyond it when it comes to the true nature of it's puzzling world.
Enjoy for those that give it a shot!
The second half is what put me off the game tbh I wanted a fun Zelda type game. I was essentially duped into buying and A.R.G that your strong armed into. I wanted to see all the content but I didn't enjoy walking around places id already been trying to spam teleport to find more pages. I Instead wanted more biomes with actual puzzles and bosses involving the teleport.
I like that it doesn't spoon-feed you the whole story.
@@shawniscoolerthanyou don't get me wrong I like that type of storytelling too I was just a lil miffed at expecting more Zelda like gameplaye when it turned into more of a collect-a-thon
In the wise words of Yahtzee:
"The worst game needn’t necessarily be the most objectively badly-made or frustrating one, but the game with the worst intentions."
That's why I think Babylon's Fall deserves #1. It's like Square Enix grabbed Platinum Games sexually assaulted it in front of fans and family members then put up a charging booth then said 5 dollars a month please.
As bad as security breach is there was a chance it would have been good but Babylon fall along with final fantasy first soldier and chocobo GO were conceptually vile
Nah, it feels more like "We can make a GaaS with the most famous devs for beat them ups and it will take the throne from Mihoyo even though we are in a slump in terms of GaaS with several games we made shutting down this year) and making Platinum take the fall
Im fairly certain the only reason overwatch 2 wasn't number 1 is cause Yahtzee would rather avoid any competitive multiplayer shooter like the plague. Thus he didn't review it.
I should clarify I mean on the worst games list.
@@Guardian-of-Light137 i wouldn’t even consider it as qualified for ranking because Overwatch 2 truly is just an update to the original game, not something i’d personally consider a new release
It’s great to see tunic getting some love. I feel like the reactions I see to it always tend to range from “it’s ok” to “it’s incredible” and I’m glad to see more and more people in the latter camp, especially given how ironically difficult it is to talk about what that game truly does so well without spoilers lmao
What a strange time where an 3D Sonic game that he reviewed isn’t on the worst list
Even beyond the want to avoid fan outcry, he actually had more nice things to say about Frontiers than any game he put in the worst list. Not a lot of things, but compliments nonetheless
@@sunlitsonata6853 Thats true I guess
To be fair, when they're actually allowed to *TRY,* even post-Dreamcast Sonic Team can put out a banger or two.
Yes. I like _Unleashed._ *DEAL WITH IT.*
@@sunlitsonata6853 too good for bland, not good enough for best?
Not [...] that [...] bad!
- Yahtzee, regarding Sonic Frontiers
Regarding Security Breach, it's popular because anything associated with FNAF gets attention regardless of how well it stands on its own, and the game is buggy past the point of real playability. People just like to see (either by playing it themselves or watching their content creator of choice playing) just how ridiculously broken it gets, like Markiplier discovering the spinning Freddy bug in his true ending playthrough.
I'm a fan of FNaF, and while I "enjoy" watching the absurdity of how broken the game is, I will never argue that it's anything other than a train wreck of a game. Honestly, at a certain point, I get tried of seeing the brokenness and just feel like "Can we actually progress now?", same as the people playing it. But that's just me.
Honestly I think the game is popular because some folk unironically enjoy bad games, that's the only explanation I've got after seeing that on Steam the game has a mostly positive rating.
@@Xfushion2 back in my day, Bad Rats was the god-awful meme game that u ironically left positive steam reviews for. pretty sure security breach fills that role for kids these days
Dude, Markiplier must have been so happy to be finished with that game.
Yeah that's about where I am when it comes to security breach. It's a bizarre entry in mostly samey series, but was so broken and buggy its amusing in its own right. I've thought about buying it and playing it, but then I remembered I've seen all of it (or most of it) already.
I'll just keep watching Astralspiff do weird challenge videos of it
After (ungodly number of) years of reviews and these lists, it's weird how people still want to argue about Yahtzee's picks/placement. It's his list, and his chance to champion stuff he loves and rag on things he doesn't. Criticism doesn't exist to validate your opinions, it's supposed to make you think more about the things you like or don't and why.
That's why lists are made, though. It's fun to argue and debate. The whole reason to do something like this is to spur a discussion.
You watch I to see how brutal he is. Its a harsh as dick opinion piece, that's all
Don't always agree with yahtzee, but I cherish his feedback. He's a gem 💎 ✨ 💖
you dont get do decide the behaviors of others. sucking the ass of someone who will never see your ass suckery is just a waste of time and makes you look like a dick. just live your day.
Yeah IGN and all the other gaming sites get shit too for their lists. People cant seem tp handle different opinions.
The amount of non-AAA games in this list actually gives me some hopes that indies get more buzz... or maybe AAA is just getting worse.
Probably that last one
The latter is leading to the former I believe.
Hopefully both
When 3D Sonic is seen as among the *best* of the year? I wouldn't hold your breath...
As a Switch owner, they tend to rise to the top for me. Our collection is a pile of Nintendo releases (Odyssey, BotW, Metroid Dread, and a bunch of "deluxe" WiiU ports), and a rogues gallery of modern indie titles (Hades, Hollow Knight, Steam World Everything, Celeste, Cuphead, Shovel Knight, Spiritfarer, Golf Story, Ori)
Not worse, just not worth the words to complain or praise
Yahtzee's take on Stray and Tunic perfectly sums up why I was so baffled to see Tunic get out of the game awards with absolutely nothing
For a game that was almost entirely developed by a single person, it was more than deserving of at least the Best Debut prize with how innovative its approach was and how clever its puzzles are. It is a love letter to the medium.
Tunic is an incredible game on its own, so it being Andrew Shouldice's first is nothing short of astounding.
But no, your typical exploration game *but as a cat* was apparently more worthy
Tbh i got tired of tunic after the halfway point when it basically became an A.R.G, I hated charting the golden path and having to find literally EVERY page as requirement that I just got bored and googled the ending
i dont think Stray was meant to be approached as an "exploration game". On its steam page no where does it say "exploration" (seriously go use the find function, its not there). Stray was a 2-5 hour story driven adventure with the occasional puzzle. It fills the same niche as something like Journey does. Tunic was just Zelda meets Fez with more challenging combat.
@@xii.olympia5019 same exact reason why Gris and Sea of Solitude made the bland lists, arty indies with minimal gameplay are fine in a vacuum if all you care about is story but Tunic is an honest to god game with unique ideas and masterful execution of its theming and mechanics, and Stray’s contextual button prompts just can’t match the catharsis of tearing the shit out of a boss’s asshole or figuring out what an obscure scribble on a page is
@@jenkinsuu and i disagree with GRIS being on that list too. Just because a game is artsy and not "extraordinarily innovative" doesn't make the game bland. I will once again refer to Journey as its widely considered one of the best indie games of the PS3 era and i feel people would try and call it bland for not being "innovative enough" despite having some of the best art direction I've ever seen. The Atmosphere some games create for their world sets them apart from others, and both stray and GRIS do that far more than tunic does. and both also masterfully execute their aesthetics and themes
Also, are you actually trying to gate keep what an "honest to god game" is? its not 2016 anymore, a game doesn't have to be an action adventure to be a "real game".
@@xii.olympia5019 Hence why I said, they’re fine if all you care about is story. The gameplay is giga boring, and I don’t personally find the obvious metaphors for depressed main character a very interesting plot
My favourite game was Tunic, it had so many Eureka moments for me and solving the puzzles felt very satisfying and never unfair.
the only channel that can mention 15 seperate games + predecessor/similar type games with fully realized opinions all in under 8 minutes. a man of culture who doesnt like to waste our time. love you, man. cheers.
That's why it's called _Zero Punctuation._
Well it helps that he already reviewed most of if not all 15, his ideas are already crystallized
@@scrub_jay Well he's _always_ played and reviewed all 15 games; if he hasn't done both then a game isn't eligible for the lists. He's made a joke about that a few times, most notably when he started the video by quickly reviewing Undertale to make it eligible: "Undertale is a good game."
Remember, Stray won the Steam award for "Most Innovative Gameplay"
and it hurts, mainly because the awards are already decided as soon as they're down to 5 decisions
I personally think Stray deserved an award, but "most innovative gameplay" definitely wasn't it, I feel like they just wanted to award it something but there wasn't "best depiction of a cat that only cat owners can notice" award.
Well, you do have a dedicated meow button
That has to be a joke. It's a fine enough game but it is absolutely not innovative, ESPECIALLY squared up against the other releasees of the year.
@@hollandscottthomas Sadly, it's not. A generic "AAA graphics" game won best ART STYLE, a generic colour by the numbers hairy dad game won the best story, and a glorified walking sim won the most innovating gameplay. I'm starting to think people in Steam just vote for whatever game they like when they see it, regardless of the category.
Honestly putting Elden Ring at number 2 was the best way to do this list because it gets people excited for 1.
Thank you for still doing what you do, Yahtz. The continuation of this series is like a fond childhood memory, except it's still ongoing.
In this world of madness, the fact that ZP has remained essentially unchanged since the less-batshit era of the late '00s is a real mental anchor to a saner, better time. It's the angry internet video equivalent of mother's home cooking. I, for one, really appreciate it.
If you're ever back in the UK, boyo, I'll buy you a pint some time. Cheers, and happy new year.
Little did we know this would be the last ever Best Worst and Blandest Games of the year video from Zero Punctuation 😭💛
I predicted FNAF would be on the worst of the year list, and I'm happy that it made the top of the list. You can't not watch the review, hear Yahtzee say "I want to hurt it" and think it doesn't deserve a place here.
It's such a good-bad game. It's broken, and enjoyable for its mess, but also frustrating. Like Moon-Man.
I feel like you could make an essay or analysis of the Elden Ring fatigue that a lot of youtubers mentions, where it's fantastic but goes longer than intended. But at the same time it's played the shit out of where many dungeons are discovered and dozens of hours are put into the first playthrough. So in the end you can play for 60+ hours and get your money's worth, but not beat it. I was in a similar predicament where I had played it ssooo much early on, but then I get to Mountaintop and a part of me is kind of ready to beat it. It's almost like the game put too much content in it.
I beat Elden Ring, but the sheer size of it put my off further playthroughs. I also felt the length meant later bosses have such high stats that it discourages low level playthroughs.
I can't count how many times I've played Dark Souls with different self imposed challenges
60? I did not finish after playing 200, and after I quit, I couldn't play anything else for about a month!
I think the quality just falls off and I would basically say it’s my number one with the same heavy sigh. I’m not sure why but I just doubt I’ll ever seriously want to beat it again.
Lol I haven't gotten that fatigue yet in Elden Ring but I definitely got there in The Witcher 3. I spent 40 hours in a couple weeks playing the game and once I got to a new island I was too fatigued to continue. I really hope that doesn't happen with Elden Ring because I am enjoying it so far.
Elden Ring for me is like an epic fantasy book of about 2000 pages. I won’t ever read it in its entirety again, but there are certain chapters and passages that I really enjoy, so I come back to those once in a while.
Elden Ring for me is not replayable in its entirety, but there are certain aspects of it, certain bossfights and levels, that are so good I can’t help but want to engage with them from time to time. Once in a while I create a new character just to beat the Tree Sentinel, Agheel and Margit because I feel like it. Sometimes I just wanna fight Mohg or explore Leyndell. I don’t have to complete the game to feel satisfied, it’s a different kind of replayability.
The Child grabbing his hand at 4:22 with hungry caterpillar was a very relatable experience
Hardspace - Shipbreakers OST will forever be my master thesis' soundtrack.
I listened to those guitars for hours during all the typing and the panic attacks...
I thought Sekiro had a great ending with the final area (Fountainhead Palace) and final boss (Sword Saint Isshin) both being amazing. Sword Saint in particular being one of the few final bosses that is great mechanically, aesthetically, and challenge-wise. DS3 also had a strong ending, imo (had a stronger 2nd half than the 1st half).
people forget Sekiro is a fromsoft game, probably because its so different from other fromsoft games.
I still fight Isshin every day for funsies, but I haven't touched Elden Ring since I rolled credits.
Unfortunately yahtzee never got past genichiro so he doesnt know about how banger the ending is
Given Benjamin's general capacity for things, I highly doubt he beat Sekiro.
Hahahahaha! The 7 minutes of free time and the kiddo shouting "boooooook!" spoke to me so much. XD
As a fellow kid-haver, I have to say: Dad Yathzee is best Yathzee.
I was JUST rewatching his Neon White review yesterday and thinking "Wow maybe I should try it."
Now that he gave it his #1 spot I HAVE to try it.
It is a great game, high recommend
As someone who previously enjoyed Mirror's Edge, Dishonoured and Ghostrunner; Neon White has cemented the idea to me that 1st person platformers are definitely a genre in itself and it is the best game in that category.
Neon White is 1 of those games with a really simple mechanics that when they work toghether the game feels really rewarding, to make everything better is skill based so the more you play it the better you get, and i love that
it's SO good!
neon white and ultra kill are huge recommendations
I really enjoy Yahtz and his editors dedication to varying how we’ll see the ZP game awards portrayed and I think this is one of the best ones they’ve done since that one with Best games being announced with moans.
My brain retroactively blocked that out and I don't think I'll replay this video to confirm.
I genuinely don't remember this one and am DESPERATE to see it, if not only to crumple into a ball of disgust/cringe at hearing it
2014 is the one with moans for the best games. I think this years worst games sound is the most disturbing sound effect for the lists so far.
I miss the 5 blandest.
I appreciate Yahtzee’s slow descent into the trappings and challenges of fatherhood as described by his ZP episodes.
I picked up Not For Broadcast based on this and it has instantly cemented itself as one of my favourite things ever and I've only done two days so far. The game is in line with my exact sense of humour and sensibilities. I love it.
I appreciate how aggressively loud the fart sound effect is
Yeah, I love it!
Bring it back next year too!
I didn’t. Had me wishing I could toggle mute on my phone instead of just quickly turning the volume down and then back up.
But that’s partly because there are other people who could conceivably hear it
@@drdca8263 Couldn't agree more. Honestly it was hard to watch this video hearing that obnoxious prolonged sound acting like he could do better
Yahtz ending his play through of Elden Ring at the Godskin duo is very, very understandable.
I was happy to see Tunic up there, I liked that game a lot.
Suggestions for next year’s sound effects:
Best - trumpet fanfare
Blandest - crickets chirping
Worst - glass shattering
Ahahaha. That sound effect for that worst is fantastic. You think it's going to end, and then it just goes harder.
Something I always look forward to in the Best/Worst/Blandest videos is the visual aid Yahtzee uses to announce the games.
Daw, Yahtzee reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar to his kid must be very wholesome.
Ohhh how the seasons change, leaves grow, they wither, they fall, people are born and people die, but if there is one thing that will always be the same, it's "The Year's Best, Worst, and Blandest" will always be great and the best game review RUclips has to offer.
My personal favorite Worst Game intro is "worst game worst game worst game not good"
I'd suggest either slowing down or changing the intensity of the light flickering at 2:39 before the full public release of this one, or at least putting a warning beforehand.
true, better safe than sorry
How would he illustrate the point he was trying to make, then?
@@E1craZ4life I'm not suggesting the part be removed from the video, instead I gave three different options to still have it in without it being a bad time for people sensitive to flashing lights
I loved tunic so much. It has so much cool stuff that i can't even talk about
Glad to see the appreciation for Neon White. Incredible gameplay and soundtrack/ sound design in general, the story fits the game and its obvious they're going for a specific vibe (that is admittedly a bit much, but that's part of it) that I think they nailed perfectly.
More people need to play Pentiment. Easily the best game of the year for me. An actual masterpiece.
Fun fact! There's a Security Breach challenge run where you try to complete the whole game 'glitchless', and if you see a glitch you have to reset.
It's only doable at all because of three major concessions:
1. It's done in segments, and you only have to reset to the last major checkpoint when you see a glitch instead of resetting to the start of the game.
2. "If I didn't see it then it didn't happen", aka glitches that happen offscreen don't count.
3. Performance issues and lag don't count as glitches, since they're a result of the poor optimization strategies deliberately implemented by the developers, and are therefore not bugs but 'features'.
THAT RAMPING SHITTING SOUND EFFECT IS SO LOUD AND ABRASIVE BY THE END well done
The sound effects are always the best in these videos. Just enough time passes for me to forget them and I get to experience them like new all over again.
Tunic was so incredibly underrated. Thank you for this.
Neon White’s entire marketing is reviewers raving about it.
Yahtzee's sheer *delight* at Bomb Rush Cyberfunk's name brings me so much joy
I'm happy Not for Broadcast got a mention. It was nice to see an attempt to give film games a proper core gameplay loop.
I loved it and I'm glad Yahtzee gave it a mention.
Tunic was delightful, I felt so clever playing it
Ahhh, seeing the Best, Worst, and Blandest video released is like second Christmas.
Have you ever noticed that for many of us, 2013 was the very first year of our entire lives where all four numbers were different?
I was born in the 80s, so, no.
@@hollandscottthomas So was I. I was born in 1988. I was 24 when that happened.
Nice to see Tunic in rarified air this year. I'm playing through it now, as well as at least three of my boys. The game is super charming; the incomplete comprehension of the world's language was an interesting twist, forcing players to glean clues from context; and I love the gradual assembly of an instruction book that looks straight out of an old Zelda cartridge.
I hated the combat. Way too slow and unforgiving for my tastes. It kind of ruined the experience for me, which is a shame because exploring the world and finding the pages of the instruction manual was so good.
Neon White becomes one of the greatest games ever once you discover the "skip this torturous cutscene" feature.
I hated every line of dialogue in that game, but god help me, I was too compelled to learn what happened.
@@erakfishfishfish I skipped everything in the demo, but then felt the pure NEED to know what is going on in the full game.
Some regrets, but yeah... it can be skipped, at least that's nice of the devs, as the gameplay is bombastic.
As much as I love Steve foreverasSpike Blum, I am so thankful for that skip button.
Never mind the games, I like to hear the sounds he uses on these lists. 😆
You probably won't read this yahtzee but just in case: just use sleep bombs on the godskin duo, unfair bosses require unfair tactics
quickfire snoozy crossbow bolts, hack away, rinse, repeat
*unfair bosses require tactics
Ftfy
Stray is a meme game.
All it has is the power of the memes.
Memes may be powerful, but they're not synonym of quality.
As a Babylon 5 fanboi, I am happy any time it gets referenced anywhere. No publicity is bad publicity.
Plus we know he's wrong (discounting season 5)
To your point, I'd never heard of it before and am currently watching Deep Space 9 for the first time. Now I have an interest in checking out Babylon 5 because of an offhand remark about it.
@@UmJammerChelle Awesome to hear! DS9 is my favorite Star Trek series. Season 4 through 7 is when that show really finds it's legs imo.
Babylon 5 has a ton of Star Trek writers and actor cameos and even regulars over it's run.
Babylon 5 is right up there with DS9 on my S tier of sci-fi shows. Season 1 of B5 is slow but by season 3 it is running on all cylinders. Peaks at season 4 but thankfully there is a 1 season spin off show and several movies so there is a lot post main series content that allows you to stay in the universe longer.
I like the image of him practicing his, "worst of," sound over and over until he found the perfect version of it.
Elden Ring is my GOTY. But the fact that someone has to justify not placing it at the top (I have seen some videos even apologize for placing it second), shows the underlying problem of fan culture.
That's a problem with the reviewers being too spinless to stick by their opinions without needing to justify it.
the fart sound for worst game had my cat jerking his head in my direction every time and sent me into hysterics.
It's a real testament to sonic frontiers' quality that it didn't show up here. Good job!
Damning with faint praise
Agreed!
...Now keep it that way, dammit.
6:39 and me being a long time fan of the Fnaf series, I was kind of betrayed by security breach
Honestly the most exciting thing i always look forward in Yachtzee's lists is to hear what sounds representing each category usually Blandest sound cracking me up.
On the side note, I wish more people would make "Bland" lists.
There should be a Hollywood award ceremony for the blandest of Hollywood, the way the Oscars commemorate the best of Hollywood and the Razzies commemorate the worst of Hollywood.
Thanks!
Absolutely loved Stray. Was sort of similar to point and click adventure games with amazing environmental story telling and a run time that never overstayed its welcome. Tremendous audio-visual design.
I didn't have any expectations and simply came into the game with an open mind. It's certainly a quiet game and doesn't have much going for it in the way of mechanics, but I also didn't expect or need that when I found every other aspect absolutely delightful
This is an attitude MANY players should adopt. People usually either expect nothing from a game and just buy the next FIFA, NBA, CoD, Battlefield... or want every new game to be the next and superior Starcraft, Castlevania SotN, Zelda, Street Fighter II etc... People just don't seem to be able to appreciate a good or very good game these days. They either eat up whatever crap you serve them or want every dish to be Kobe medallions with a side of truffles.
I was on board with Yahtzee’s opinions in this video, until he said that there was no philosophical theme at the core of Peppa Pig’s Pumpkin Party.
In this essay I will
6:24 i was not surprised that security breach was on the worst list.
My understanding of Security Breach (as someone who has never played a FNAF game and doesn't intend to) is that its primary selling point is being broken enough to make for fun and interesting speedruns.
Much as I love Stray, its place on the list is fair. I just started playing Tunic and I very much enjoy it. I love the Zelda vibes of figuring out what's going on from what I can tell from the guide pages and such. Elden Ring's place is also fair and I agree with it. Of the games that actually came out in 2022, it probably is my GOTY considering how many hours I put into the game, but I haven't actually finished it and am taking a break from it to work on Dark Souls 3 (just beat Dragonslayer Armour last night and am going to go clear the Consumed King's garden and then the optional areas after that before I get too far into the Grand Archives) and some other games.
DS3 rules, and you still have some super cool stuff to find /fight!
@@hollandscottthomas I'm very much looking forward to it. I know all the bosses and have watched others fight them, but I don't necessarily know the specifics of each area. I'm very much enjoying myself for sure. I'm trash at parries still, so I'm not looking forward to Champion Gundyr. I know he can be parried easily, but I'm bad at it and it'll probably take me ages because he's so damn fast.
@@SolaScientia Make sure you get into the DLC too! It's among the very best Souls content there is!
@@hollandscottthomas I have both, lol. I'm grabbing that katana pair in the Grand Archives so I have something fast to use against Friede when I get to her. I'm doing a quality build with the Hollowslayer Greatsword as my main weapon. Dragonslayer Greatbow for amy sniping when I don't feel like fighting something (the pus of man off that 1 wyvern that can be sniped from the roof above near the Dragonslayer Armour, for example). I'm also playing Bloodborne but I hit a wall in the Research Hall in the DLC, so I've been taking a break from it for a bit.
@@SolaScientia Research Hall is pretty far! Nice work!
Finally, someone that sees God of War and Stray as "not the best fucking things in the entire fucking universe"
No joke, Babylon 5 is my favorite sci-fi show.
“… had some shoes to fill, and proceeded to fill them with porridge and watery custard” 😂
Woot! So glad Not for Broadcast gets a mention. I totally agree. So much love went into it and the mechanics have that Papers Please satisfaction.
Thank you for recognizing how fucking bland Stray is. Saw it got nominated for "innovative gameplay" in the Steam awards and was flabbergasted
How can anyone complain about the ending of a video game when they haven't even gotten to the ending?
6:02 I really dont know why but this bit made me laugh a bit
My dog REALLY hates the fart sound on the start of each of the worst games
"I quit the game before beating it"
"Anyway I hope the next game has a good ending"
Never change yatz.
Yehtzee opening all those brackets and then never closing them has a similar, but distinct, vibe to people who say "quote unquote" together before the quote. It's just improper grammar of spoken punctuation.
Chad Yahtzee snubbing Elden Ring for Neon White. That's like the most based opinion I've heard from him in years.
Pepe pigs pumpkin party is probably the most satisfying name I've ever pronounced
Hardspace Shipbreaker was really good, you can easily justify it on this list.
Too bad the "keep politics out of my game" audience spoils the reward ceremony
"My mind races at the possibilities i can get three swears in there easy" hahahaha
I admit...
I forgot that Security Breach came out this year.
It might be because I'm exhausted, but "I was raised by a sponge " had me crying with laughter. Thanks Yahtzee
The last round up of ZP...
I’m sad that he didn’t even mention Kirby
What do you expect, he *HATES* Nintendo and everything they've done since the wii
I'm always impressed by the sound design that goes into the end of year countdown.
I can't thank you enough for the Stanley Kubrick jizzing in my eye quip, one of my favourite moves will now be a subliminal nightmare, where once I gazed upon the monolith and questioned it's purpose I will now just see it as a potential shield to stop a wad of Stans population paste becoming a sticky contact lens...
Kirby made me really happy this year (not many games manage to that)