Use code secondwind at incogni.com/secondwind to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan.

@Chocomint_Queen

2 ай бұрын

Or don't, because incogni is a literal actual scam, and the fact that you guys are shilling for them is a huge disappointment. What's next, Betterhelp?

@effdiffeyeno171

2 ай бұрын

That advert at the beginning was simply beautiful. Is this going to be a Douglas Adams type trilogy?

@rocko7711

2 ай бұрын

❤️👾🎮🕹️❤️

I told Audible Yahtzee sent me and they pulled a gun on me.

@GallowglassVT

2 ай бұрын

Dude, same. They're getting real gangsta lately.

@brittb1696

2 ай бұрын

@@GallowglassVT Seems like a rational response to me. Some tells me "Yahtzee Croshaw sends his regards," and I dive for the nearest table.

@jamesrule1338

2 ай бұрын

That's just Amazon's new customer pricing plan. They're through with only getting some of your money...

@Ile333

2 ай бұрын

"How are you in my bathroom!? This is the 8th floor!"

@CommisarHood

2 ай бұрын

@@Ile333 "Because I'm Batman."

“So I selected load last inn save” the most frightening words in dragon’s dogma 2

@Zack_Wildfire

2 ай бұрын

And Dragon's Dogma 1 Who the F*** thought that was a good idea I get you want people not to save scum and live with the consequences but come on there are better ways to deal with that!

@LokeGermanLp

2 ай бұрын

@zack_wildfire which one, if i might ask? you seemed so very certain.

@woolfieMcP

2 ай бұрын

@@Zack_Wildfire I lost 3 hours in DD1 this one time because of that

@TheGrumbliestPuppy

2 ай бұрын

@@LokeGermanLp ...Which one what? Your response doesn't make sense.

@perryborn2777

2 ай бұрын

​@@Zack_Wildfire In both games savescumming is actually a game mechanic you unlock. It's called the godsbane, and you can kill yourself with it to scum your last save. It just has a cost of some of your max health in dd2

One thing I found funny about this game is that my pawns told me several times that if I do something illegal I'll go to jail after I robbed everyone's homes in broad daylight pickpocketing everyone in sight and nothing happened, even threw some people off a bridge and the guards didn't care.

@unsweetenedfruit

2 ай бұрын

It seems like the only time "arrest" came into play was when I tried to two-time a bastard merchant and screwed up by apparently walking away despite the merchant saying it would take a bit to verify something. Anyways, just killed all the guards instead of going to jail and everyone seemed fine with that even after respawns happened. There are jails in seemingly every city, but they never much come up for your character.

@cooperlittlehales6268

2 ай бұрын

But don't you dare pull out your weapon! That's a "everyone runs directly at you with weapons drawn" level offence!

@guildmastersstory2169

2 ай бұрын

@@cooperlittlehales6268 The Arisen - protects Ox cart from Griffin Random Ox cart Guard - Threatens the Arisen for having the Gaul to have their weapons unsheathed

@adamcetinkent

2 ай бұрын

Gall

@guildmastersstory2169

2 ай бұрын

@@adamcetinkent You can thank auto correct for that. Not sure what a no longer in existence region of Wester Europe had to do within the context of my post. But A.I certainly thought it was relevant.

"My sex doll has more slots than your game does" is not an insult I expected to hear, but *DAMN* if it doesn't hit like a truck!

If you want your game to work on autosaves, then your system has to be perfect. Not just really good. PERFECT. If shit breaks, that's an accident and depending on the severity might be forgivable. If shit breaks after you've made a deliberate choice that removes the ability to fix it, then there's just no excuse for it.

@Ceece20

2 ай бұрын

Yep, one thing I like about games without autosave is I have only myself to blame if I lose a big chonk of progress. It’s even better when it’s not a menu manual save but a specific place where you save (icon or area) because it’s the game giving you direct visual reminders to save. No autosave to ruin it, no having to overwrite an autosave, but wonder if it was the wrong autosave. Just manually saving.

@OldFormat

2 ай бұрын

I was playing a long game with a single auto-save slot that managed to get corrupted. When I googled the issue I found the forums full of people with the same problem and replies from the game's fanboys blaming them for failing to locate the save folder and make manual backups.

@override367

2 ай бұрын

dark souls does this by only appearing to have one save, it's actually saving every 2 seconds and has a shitload of save files, in case the last one has a problem it goes to the one before that and so on

@BFedie518

2 ай бұрын

​@@override367 You also get a separate slot for each character. From the sound of it, DD2 doesn't even give you that.

@jamiealexandermiller

2 ай бұрын

a lot of the weird save stuff is because your pawn is tied to your save while also being put into other players' games. stuff like only having one character slot is so that the number of pawns doesn't get bloated from inactive alternate save files, and the autosave system is so that you can't abuse pawn borrowing to duplicate items and stuff like that

If I wanted an adventure with only one save slot, I'd go outside. Which is why I don't.

@debbyolivier5122

Ай бұрын

good one! XD

@kordeyne

24 күн бұрын

This comment deserves to be at the top.

@ryancbarrett96

19 күн бұрын

That is a very Yahtzee thing to say. Love it.

@FritzMeowstro

16 күн бұрын

You guys are getting save slots?

5:14 might be the most emotion I’ve heard from Yahtzee’s reviews in a while

@williambunn4662

2 ай бұрын

Could really feel the pain on that oh no lol

@murray9807

2 ай бұрын

I'd say since his Gears of War 5 review

@hedgehoundable

2 ай бұрын

I still remember how gobsmacked he was at the pricetag of Black Ops 4 when that came out.

@flaco3462

2 ай бұрын

@@hedgehoundable his voice was so high when he said that it'd be typed in tiny text

@Breaker332

2 ай бұрын

His exasperation at no one telling him the nondescript ‘crime’ he supposedly committed in Starfield still takes the cake for me

Even the original Legend of Zelda had 3 save game files… and that was on a CARTRIDGE that needed a battery soldered on to it!

@ABronyNamedBurnie

2 ай бұрын

But hey, Pokemon gets away with it, so if you're lazy enough maybe it'll be fine

@BAMFshee

2 ай бұрын

@@ABronyNamedBurnie And at least with the Switch ones there's technically a workaround by creating new user profiles on the Switch itself.

@JediMB

2 ай бұрын

​@@ABronyNamedBurnieWith the original Pokémon games it made sense given how much data a save contained and how limited the save memory in a Game Boy cartridge was. Now I guess it's a matter of "we've always done it this way", which is a terrible reason, although not as bad as "we want to actively inconvenience the players."

Every time I end up in hospital, yahtz releases a new book So either a) thanks for making my hospital stays more tolerable b) pls stop putting me here

I love that this entire video boiled down to "Having only one save slot blows!"

@JF-um3wz

2 ай бұрын

It’s even more than that. Plenty of games have one save slot, notably pokemon being a good example. It’s the terrible save system that makes it blow PARTICULARLY hard in this instance. I can’t recall the last time I’ve heard of something so mechanically offensive occurring in a video game. But I do agree, having only one save slot blows.

@pacmonster066

2 ай бұрын

...I mean that was the complaint at the very end of the video...odd that's all you got out of the various complaints he had *before* that.

@JF-um3wz

2 ай бұрын

@@pacmonster066 mhm. I think the saving issue is just the most memorably offensive one.

@drunkenmoken

2 ай бұрын

@@pacmonster066 Oh I know there's more complaints. Hell I have them to, namely sprint on controller being both left click on the analog AND B/Circle, having no lock on so you can't tell what the hell is happening half the time (camera is also a little ass sometimes), and the archaic single save system. Will it stop me from playing? Not really but it's the most annoying in my opinion. A lot of complaints are the same for the first game as well.

@Sewblon

Ай бұрын

Correction: "Having only one save slot is inconvenient. But having only one save slot, save glitches, and autosaves blows."

Living by myself, I don't often speak much whilst in my own home. Thus I'd like to express my sincerest thanks to the patron of Second Wind that made the first word for me to say out loud today be an incredulous 'Roboknob?'. Thank you.

Well, I already have a clue what the next Semi Ramblomatic will be about.

@firered23ful

2 ай бұрын

"Why games should always have a GOOD autosave." I remember this happened with subnautica 2 in ZP but yahtzee actually wanted to finish that one

@Cryten0

2 ай бұрын

They did a firelink vodcast on this.

@cv5953

2 ай бұрын

The sex doll

@ExileHeretic

2 ай бұрын

Why Games should have as many save slots as I have storage space remaining

Capcom. A company that takes two steps forward, then five steps back and falls buttocks first into a punji pit.

@mateoreyes6921

2 ай бұрын

Crapcom being Crapcom, nothing new

@gozzilla177

2 ай бұрын

I mean game is super fun, but it's the kind of fun that was niche for a reason lol so major fans of the first love that they kept rhe formula it's more akin to classic games as well. But understandably not for everyone either lol

@SqueakyJpn

2 ай бұрын

@@gozzilla177 ah yes “classic games” that came with one save file and micro transactions

@FatherTime89

2 ай бұрын

It seemed like they were doing pretty well recently. People generally liked Street Fighter 6 and their RE remakes (haven't played any of them so I can't comment on them).

@hairyson94

2 ай бұрын

You are correct, Fathertime. Post RE2make or DMC5 whichever was first, I'd say theyve been on a roll. MH World is one of their highest selling games of all time as well

Only 1 save slot WITH auto save? I can definitely predict the disaster that will entail.

@cooperlittlehales6268

2 ай бұрын

As long as you sleep at inns regularly, it's really not that big of a deal. Never needed to save scum nor lost any progress in my playthrough

@bluemooninthedaylight8073

2 ай бұрын

@@cooperlittlehales6268 But that doesn't mean it won't be an issue for lots of other people who save sparingly. This is like saying "I didn't get any of these horrible gamebreaking bugs, so the game is fine."

@predetor911

2 ай бұрын

@@cooperlittlehales6268 but the inn save may as well be your only save, because if you ever go back like Yahtzee did, well then….

@ishakuraigami6171

2 ай бұрын

The inn sleep *is* a manual save you can load separately from your auto save, you just don't have a menu one to prevent BG3-style save scumming

@kevadu

2 ай бұрын

@@predetor911 Except that's really not true. Yahtzee didn't seem to really understand the game's mechanics but there are other ways to deal with the health loss. And it shouldn't ever save in the middle of a boss fight or something, so he didn't have to keep retrying at that time if he wasn't able to clear it.

The game does have one innovation I have yet to see in any game. If you fall off a cliff and your slave/pawn/pet gimp is on the ground below they will try to catch you.

@Biouke

2 ай бұрын

DD1 did this already, yet it was a very rare occurrence.

@guildmastersstory2169

2 ай бұрын

Always a treat when they miss the catch and you face-plant the ground centimetres from their outstretched arms.

@nafereuskortex9055

2 ай бұрын

@@guildmastersstory2169 and they look at you with dead eyes and say "Fire, goblins hate fire." for the thousandth time.

@thisiswhatilike54

2 ай бұрын

I never did understand why in games that give you AI teammates, you the player are the only one who can revive them - be it with a medpak, shot of adrenaline, herbs, other sorts of relatively mundane items - but the second you go down, GAME OVER.

@candrian7

2 ай бұрын

@thisiswhatilike54 There are some that do. But they either prioritise picking you up and get constantly interrupted by the enemies that killed you or they try and fail to fight off the enemies and leave you to bleed out

On the one hand glad that Yatzhee freed himself from an experience that obviously wasn’t going to improve much for him but on the other wish he’d experienced the dragon sickness where one of your pawns gets ill and when you next sleep the entire population of the town you’re in perishes, including quest important npcs because I think it’d have driven him up the wall to interesting new words for what the game to do to itself

@keltzar1

2 ай бұрын

This game sounds like it looks at the harshness of some of dark souls' weirder mechanics and went, "what if we were way worse?"

@zombiekingex7911

2 ай бұрын

@@keltzar1Actually it's a pretty easy power fantasy game about being an adventurer and has the same filtering capacity as a strainer with softball sized holes.

@Dinghys

2 ай бұрын

Holy spoiler lmao

@ReleasedHollow

2 ай бұрын

So, Covid, dragon variant. Great.

@MartsVODs

2 ай бұрын

@@zombiekingex7911 doesn't friggin sound like it from the discourse online, but I'll believe anything at this point since I refuse to buy it till it's under 30 bucks.

Yeah, that 1.5 save slot system has the potential to be a bit of a nightmare. The other night, the game autosaved the exact moment a random group of roving, super powerful NPC's decided to turn aggro on me. They would rapidly wreck me and my party, and I was usually dying with a couple seconds of reloading. And on the very rare instance that I managed to survive the opening moments of a load, they pursued me relentlessly across the map and would always eventually catch me. I thought to at least google before hitting the option to load last inn... I was really hoping it counted campsites as an inn since they basically serve the same purpose, but the internet confirmed it was literal inns..... which I hadn't used in 10+ hours because camps are free. I have no idea how I managed to finally shake that roving back of jerks after an hour, but that probably would have been my quitting point if I didn't get away. DD2 is such a weird game in general. So many intentional pain points that are just designed to add loads of friction to the experience. The 1.5 save slots. The killer water that your pawns will happily just walk straight into. The super small carrying weight where you actually start having consequences long before you get overencumbered. Things like that. There are a lot of times where it just feels like the game wants to make it hurt.

@AlexiconPrime

2 ай бұрын

The devs are proud of that too, bragging about stuff like the inconvenience of fast travel in their world and the like. I dunno, maybe I am just getting too old but a game that purposely punishes me just doesn't appeal.

@Wapfgaming

2 ай бұрын

@@AlexiconPrime The fact that it's so annoying that they think they can literally make people pay for it is ensuring I never buy a Capcom game again

@damp2269

2 ай бұрын

@@AlexiconPrime ??? fast travel being inconvenient works. a) they made a great world for people to just zip around it in fast travel and watch loading screens for 90% of the play time. b) it works within the setting, moving 4 people with all their stuff instantaneously across a continent is not something that should be cheap. c) it's advertised, DD1 works in the same way. The should absolutely brag about it. and you should have made a bit of research it that was a deal breaker.

@MrLego3160

2 ай бұрын

The killer water is annoying, but there are pawn respawn points all over. the "consequences" are incredibly minimal, and you can spread the load through your party.

@n333k333

2 ай бұрын

@@damp2269 It's funny how people complain about Ubisoft's open worlds constantly but want just that in the end right ?

5:01 you can sense the fury building 😂

5:13 I felt this in my soul

@u-mos8820

2 ай бұрын

I remember being in the exact same situation and thinking "nah, that's a trap" about the load last save at inn option. Explored all of castle town though and had some other way out. I get making games feel like they punish you for mistakes, but that one just feels cruel.

5:20 That has to be the most textured, most heartfelt "Fuck" I have ever heard from Yahtzee.

"See? First impressions do matter." You absolutely got me there Yahtz, I had literally paused the video to make a "wtf" comment about that first line to a friend. I mean I know what to expect from you, you just did such a good job of setting that up that I fell for it hook line and sinker!

DD2 took so many steps forward and back at the same time I was ready for Yahtzee to rip into it

My policy of "Dont buy day 1 games over $10" pays off yet again!

A friend of mine sent me a message out of nowhere when playing this game with just "I just kidnapped a random girl, lol". Turns out he wondered if he could pick her up. He could. He then wondered if he could leave town with her. He could. He then took her into the middle of the woods and put her down. She then just left straight back towards town as if she hadn't just been kidnapped. afaik there was no punishment for this other than me telling another few of our friends and us calling him a kidnapper.

Minor note for around 3:50 you actually can't buy fast travel consumables through the mtx. The only thing you can buy for fast travel is a single placeable waypoint, and by the time you get far enough in the game, you can find enough of those that I just kept one sitting in a random location in the wilderness in case I happened to want to go cut off a Medusa's head if it ever seemed useful. In general all the mtx items are pretty pointless to buy, because you can get them pretty easily in game. Even the character customization ticket you can buy from a shop in the main city. Not defending them, because it's stupid to have them at all, just saying that they're pointless to ever waste money on because the benefits they give you are so negligible that you might as well be burning your money. More than usual with mtx anyhow. As for the game itself, Dragon's Dogma 2 is very much like Dragon's Dogma 1, and because of that it has many things that most people aren't going to like, while having plenty of content for those of us weirdos who do like it. It's like going to a random store and finding out that it only sells BDSM equipment. Sure, for many people there's not going to be anything they care about, and they'll hate it on sight, but for the people into that kind of thing they're going to have the time of their lives.

During the sneaking portion i literally came accross The queen Dina while trying to get into her room and she looked at me then walked past me.

Both Dragon's Dogma games are single player online games masquerading as single player offline games, hence the save thing. The inn save is to update your local save with all the online data (pawns) and synch it with the servers. It's the same as the original, that's why your pawn comes back with goodies during inn saves.

I absolutely love Dragon's Dogma 2. That said, holy hell there are a lot of legitimate grievances people can have with it lol

I was most disappointed in lack of new monsters, I'm pretty sure there are even fewer creatures than the first game, and with the addition of the medusa and that's about it. Finding new and interesting things and figuring out how to kill them was one of the biggest draws.

@unsweetenedfruit

2 ай бұрын

​@DANCERcow I think my main disappointment was most of those enemies were just reskinned versions of other enemies. If you just look at the base monsters and not the various sub types, you've got like 12 dudes total.

@cooperlittlehales6268

2 ай бұрын

​@@unsweetenedfruitat least dd1's reskins were interesting, like invisible saurians or the cockatrice being basically a Griffin reskin with petrifying breath but also being different enough that you don't really notice.

@anthonybowman3423

2 ай бұрын

And the lack of new abilities. Mages have lost more spells than they've gained. Half of the reason I played the original was because the spells actually looked and felt like big fuck off battlefield destroying spells. The new one still has most of the good ones from the first game, but nothing really new or interesting.

@Evnyofdeath

2 ай бұрын

They only removed Evil Eyes, Hydras, Wyrms, and Wyverns. In their place we got Medusa, Sphinx, and Dullahan.

@ducky36F

2 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s basically the first game on a different map, but only a slightly different map

Oh god, coming back with less health is giving me DS 2 flashbacks.

@rynemurray8866

2 ай бұрын

And even DS2 mitigated it with a ring that halved the effect so you'd only drop to 75% max health at the max penalty (at the cost of an item slot, but at least then there's a strategic choice in how you want to deal with the penalty instead of just being told to eat s**t and like it)

@rynemurray8866

2 ай бұрын

Also it's clear that DS2 is at least somewhat balanced around the mechanic because having no health penalty usually feels like you have extra health instead of merely enough health, so I think the devs built most places assuming the player was stuck at 80-90% health at any given time)

@420quickscoper5

2 ай бұрын

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@Xfushion2

2 ай бұрын

It definitively not that big of a deal and he made it sound as a massive issue when it's not. The way it works is that when you take damage a small portion of your total health gets reduced, so take enough punishment and you can indeed end up with 10% of your total hp. However you get it back by simply resting at an inn, house or camping site, specially the last one since those are everywhere on the map. It's not like Dark Souls 2 in which you either had to consume a rare human effigy or kill a boss to regain max health.

@ArdentMoogle

2 ай бұрын

@@rynemurray8866 I think it would have been nice if they had reversed the mechanic though. Starting the player on low health, showing them what max health looks like, and then slowly dropping back to the start as they died (and maybe explaining the lore reason for the mechanic) would indicate that the game can be played on the lowest health, and make losing health on death feel less like a punishment for dying.

Sometimes I let my battery die, and envy it.

Ahh yes Dragons Dogma the game that at launch had characters in cities magicly appear in front of you 1 inch from you. I guess that is one way to do pop in. Still it has its moments of fun specially when you are out exploring the world.

@Vanq17

2 ай бұрын

At launch? This is still happening right now. They never fixed this. And I have a really beefy computer.

@MyScorpion42

2 ай бұрын

the game that would have you make out with the jester at the end if you talked to him too much

@arcanum3000

2 ай бұрын

They still do that in DD2.

@unsweetenedfruit

2 ай бұрын

I loved it solely gor the exploration bits. The story is weak, romance and relationships are weird, and many quests are just frustratingly vague (though a quick trip to an oracle would probably fix that). That being said, I had an absolute blast because I just treated it like a LoTR adventure where I just explored every inch of the map and worked through all the vocations while doing so. Felt good being able to finally slaughter drakes when I got high level too. Loved the combat and exploration, but the rest is finicky for sure.

@TheGrumbliestPuppy

2 ай бұрын

@@Vanq17 He means that the first game was also a giant mess at launch.

I feel like I would enjoy the save system more if 'Last Inn save' also included a option to go back to the last camping site rest. Also the autosave feature really does take it out of ya when you see how far back the last inn save was. Also the autosave happens way too often in my experience for the manual save to really be of any actual use.

@omegaxtrigun

2 ай бұрын

The auto save happens a lot so it limits save scumming. The inn save is for if you really screw up and need to go back further. Its plenty useful.

Omg! That last comment about the 3 slots in a doll made me laugh so hard that I had to load up the video on my phone and comment! Love ya work! All the best! LOL

Only 3 slots? Clearly Yahtzee isn’t creative enough under the sheets

@Ragetiger1

2 ай бұрын

They come with three. . . you have to add the rest.

@roboknobthesnob

2 ай бұрын

@@Ragetiger1 ahhh and DIY sexual experience. Or as I like to call it “my typical sexual experience”

@dudeguy2330

2 ай бұрын

@@Ragetiger1 Generally speaking, adding slots to anything inflatable is a good way to ensure that it's not inflatable anymore.

@falleithani5411

2 ай бұрын

@@dudeguy2330 Skill issue.

@nafereuskortex9055

2 ай бұрын

It has four at most, its inflatable.

I like how all the complaints here are also just in the first Dragon's Dogma.

@dsshocktrooper7523

2 ай бұрын

Dragon plague wasn't in the first game.

@Salad-in

2 ай бұрын

@@dsshocktrooper7523 Yeah Yahzee doesn't mention that in this video.

@jamiealexandermiller

2 ай бұрын

the only one that isn't is the health loss mechanic which just improves the game massively imo

@dsshocktrooper7523

2 ай бұрын

@jamiealexandermiller didn't the first game have that as well but you can bring back lost health with items.

@jamiealexandermiller

2 ай бұрын

@@dsshocktrooper7523 yeah, it only affected healing spells which was kind of pointless because those took time to heal, whereas you could just pause the game and eat some grass to get back to max health in the middle of getting drop kicked by an ogre. in dd2 the only way to recover your max health is to rest in a bed/campsite or die and use a wakestone

Hahahahahhahaha great way to end the video LOL

@seifer447

2 ай бұрын

Yahtzee does have quite the way with words.

@FatherTime89

2 ай бұрын

Reminds me of how he ended his Halo Wars video.

My pawns kept telling me that I needed an archer on my team in order for everything to be balanced, so I recruited an archer. Then my pawns kept talking about how balanced the team is and how everyone should focus on their separate skills. Then a horde of goblins swarmed me and because I chose to be a mage in a poor attempt at having "fun", I died, and then when I reloaded it spawned me in the middle of the ambush for some reason and so I died again. After 3 more reloads I decided to reload from last inn save and ignore exploration (the thing everyone says is the whole reason to enjoy the game) and just do the story. That was around the time I started to think "Ya know, I think I'm gonna regret spending money on this game"

@_B_E

2 ай бұрын

At least you're honest about being filtered. Why did you never think to just run away?

@keithshaughnessy1730

2 ай бұрын

@@_B_E Tried that. Managed to get out of it on the last attempt but my "helpful" pawns stayed in the fight despite me spamming "To Me". Then when I got the prompt telling me that when a pawn dies it gets a permanent scar I decided it was probably best to just jump back to the inn save and just not walk that direction this time. With every load giving you less health to run away from the enemy mob with though, it's not an easy task for a mage that accidently became Heavy moments before the ambush because I picked up one too many apples.

@geert574

2 ай бұрын

u cant run away from enemies in dd2 the placement is so close u run into another pack with the previous one still chasing u. In DD1 u could always flee in this one u get to die and watch the dumb health bar shrink

@omegaxtrigun

2 ай бұрын

@@geert574No you can definitely run away just fine.

@keithshaughnessy1730

2 ай бұрын

@@geert574 so long as you run away from the enemies in a direction you've already been, you can run away fine. If you try to run past them instead of back, then maybe that's when you just run into another group of enemies, but running back should be fine... eventually, after you stop a couple of times to regain stamina causing them to catch up with you.

How the ever loving fuck a massive open world RPG gets made without someone saying "shouldnt we let the player have multiple save slots?" Is beyond me. If i had a nickel for every minute I've spent digging through the save list on skyrim, I could pay capcom to hire someone to tell them they need more save slots. (I should clarify, thats a good thing.) Hell, zelda has bad 3 save slots since 1986. Get your shit together, capcom.

“1” is not the worst number they could’ve chosen for the number of save slots. “0” would definitely have been worse.

@MrStealYoBeef

2 ай бұрын

I still love and appreciate my pokemon red cartridge that had the internal battery die, and therefore it is unable to save at all. I understand what I'm getting into at that point, I know it's a one and done deal. With one save slot that will autosave over itself and delete progress if you reload a previous save, you're being set up unknowingly for the exact situation that Yahtz found himself in. I'll take "0" over "1".

@JCNL871

2 ай бұрын

@@MrStealYoBeef I’m loving Dragon’s Dogma 2, but starting from scratch every time I boot it up would be “unpractical”😂

@dancarroll5478

2 ай бұрын

Zero is not a number.

@JCNL871

2 ай бұрын

@@dancarroll5478 what is it then, a letter? A shape…?

@LunamrathP

2 ай бұрын

@@JCNL871 An integer, technically. When people say that zero isn't a number, they mean it's not a "natural number." This confusion happens basically every time somebody says something about the number 0 because math nerds.

I immediately recognized the "Reload at last inn save" for the trap it is. Unfortunately that meant I played long enough to discover that quite a few of the side quests subscribe to the 90s point-and-click adventure game philosophy of obtuse, cryptic, poorly signposted, and sometimes buggy and/or nonsensical design.

@MrLego3160

2 ай бұрын

And then you can just recruit a pawn that knows how to do the quest.

@arcanum3000

2 ай бұрын

@@MrLego3160 That only works if the solution is "go to $location and talk to $person", it still may not work if $person hasn't spawned because of a bug or dependency, and it can lead to three in-game day, hour and a half of real time cross country treks that could've been a waystone transit. Also, even when it works it's little more than a quest marker with extra steps, and it's a copout to avoid doing the hard work of putting in actual signposting.

Glad to hear about the novel. It is a wonderful series. Thank you for bringing it into existence.

Dragon's Dogma II not loading your inn save from the inn save reload option is the peak of the game clowning itself

@iskierka8399

2 ай бұрын

It almost certainly did, but he forgot how far back it is. You have to sleep at the inn, which costs money, not just visit it. It is not unusual to go many more hours than he did without an inn save.

@mr.sinjin-smyth

Ай бұрын

Is it too hard for Capcom to design the game with 2 save files... one exclusively for Autosave and another for MANUAL? That's the one thing never liked from the first game, and I never liked any game that's exclusively autosave in general.... especially in an RPG. I've always like my games with manual saving and multiple slots.

@iskierka8399

Ай бұрын

@@mr.sinjin-smyth That's literally what it has. You manually save at an inn, and it will maintain a continuous autosave of more recent files.

@mr.sinjin-smyth

Ай бұрын

@@iskierka8399 You mean the manual save is separate and won't get touched, overwritten by any triggered checkpoints?

@iskierka8399

Ай бұрын

@@mr.sinjin-smyth Nope, the only way to trigger it is sleeping in an inn or your house.

I really wanted to like Dragon's Dogma 2. The first game was good but needed improvement and that was what I was hoping for in a sequel I never thought we'd get. And now here I am feeling we shouldn't have gotten one cause not only does it feel like Capcom would like everyone to forget there ever was a first one but also have you pay more for possibly making your experience easier. I mean from the start you have less attack options for each class (save warrior) compared to the first game. Everything seems to cost a lot more while gold opportunities feel a lot less. No more board assignments for extra cash and gear (unless they are hidden somewhere I missed). Super easy to miss side quests now if the game decides to bug and not play the interactions. And also healing items don't fully heal like in the previous game. At the end of the day it feels like it could have been great but then greed got in the way. That is my take.

To be fair, they *didn't* forget to add the 2 on the title screen. There's a whole meta thing with it they do.

@Haos51

2 ай бұрын

If anything I feel that should of been reversed. Have the two at the start then disappear during the unmoored world. ​@@DANCERcow

@cooperlittlehales6268

2 ай бұрын

​@@Haos51the whole point of there not being a 2 throughout the whole game is to be like "look the main plot is basically dragons dogma 1 again right?" And then you kill the dragon and something entirely new happens, which is why it's dd2

@CooroSnowFox

2 ай бұрын

Although yahtzee plays critical path for the reviewing part of it... so its maybe one you need to have within that... and depends if that's within the realms of what yahtzee played

@R3GARnator

2 ай бұрын

Basically, you know that Battlestar Galctica thing “All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.” That's how Dragon's Dogma universe works.

@CooroSnowFox

2 ай бұрын

@@aam2457 but that's become the nature of his job, the games are too big to fit into the turnaround time so he plays the straight forward path and goes off that

Oh you think that is bad? If you die in the postgame, you don't even get to reload! You get a bad ending cutscene and have to start it over!

0:55 Aha, the foreshadowing hanging above you like the proverbial Sword of Damocles. smirk smirk, smug smug

"1 is the loneliest number that you'll ever do 🎶 🎵 " Three Dog Night

@empath69

2 ай бұрын

*Harry Nlisson (quoting a song lyric attributes the *songwriter*; not the cover band that made the song famous)

You aught to prepare for aught of the aughts

Thanks for keeping the outro music during the ad! I appreciate it!

I spit out my drink at that last joke😂

This is the only show where I try to skip the intro, go 2 seconds too far, and am already in such desperate need of context that I need to rewind.

The first impression may have been important, but the last line was even better.😂

That auto save line came from a true place of pain

3:56 They don't sell ferrystones in the microtransaction store. You could buy one (1) single portcrystal, but you'd still need ferrystones to use it.

@chungusumungus4004

2 ай бұрын

​@@aam2457 Yeah, it kinda shows in a lot of reviews when he nitpicks on certain game elements of what the game is actually about or the major issues with it. Or back when he reviewed MH Tri years ago and didn't even play past the tutorial.

@RavielUriaHamon

2 ай бұрын

@@aam2457 Well, he clearly played a lot more than that or he wouldn't have been so mad about losing several hours to an autosave.

@fluorideinthechat7606

2 ай бұрын

Oh, so it’s not even a time-saving micro transaction it’s a “Haha dumbass you still need to do this” micro transaction.

Dragon's Dogma has always been equal parts absolutely visionary and absolutely mental. I'll do what I did with the first one, wait for the enhanced edition that fixes most of the issues.

@omegaxtrigun

2 ай бұрын

the only thing DDDA “fixed” was giving you infinite ferry stone, which definitely doesnt fix anything so much as it makes traveling inconsequential and boring.

@chungusumungus4004

2 ай бұрын

​@@omegaxtrigunIt added like five Portcrystals in key locations too. The original release only had 1 portable one. Though 1's open world isn't that interesting to explore, unfortunately.

The misinfo on this game microtransactions is legendary. Capcom really messed up there.

@bladedude40

2 ай бұрын

What trips me up is they had worse ones on their other games and yet this is the one to stir up the hornets nest.

@herebejamz

Ай бұрын

I think part of it is the $70 price tag, and all the other problems with the game. DMC 5 has the benifit of being nearly the best DMC game in the series, and Monster Hunter World FEELS more like a typical multiplayer experience with a cash shop. You couple that with the game director's comments on fast travel AND the shop does TECHNICALLY contain ONE item that is fast travel related, it feels icky.

This reminded me of the good old days where I made dozens of save files. A really cool boss? Make a new save. Unsure about a big purchase or modification? New save. Not sure if you're ready for this dungeon yet? New save. Think the game might just bug the hell out if you reload here? New save. Good times.

5:36 might be the best closing gag in ZP history

Been looking forwards to this

@jackmanson2719

2 ай бұрын

The review or book lol

@patrickleonard1114

2 ай бұрын

@@jackmanson2719 The review, but the book is fun too

No one does alliteration quite like Yahtzee. "Single Save-Slotted Slattern" is something that is going to stick in my head for a very long time

That slot joke was beautiful.

Because I am late, I'm sure at least one person has mentioned it, but IRT the title screen, it changes to actually say Dragon's Dogma 2 when you go into the... secret ending? True ending? I'm not sure what we're actually calling it. lol

I told em Yahtzee sent me. They in fact did not care.

@CooroSnowFox

2 ай бұрын

A party streamer went off in the far distance?

@Shorty_Lickens

2 ай бұрын

@@CooroSnowFox BAHAHAHAHAHAAA!! mother fucker you just made me laugh! Good lord am I still drunk from last night?

Came for the roast, and was pleased with the service. I kept mishearing "pawn" as "porn" so I was extra in the zone XD

That's gotta be one of the best outro gags he's done.

Havent had much issues with saves (yet). However i have had issues with the fact that its easy to get stunlocked and spend several seconds unable to do anything but take damage and get knocked down again as you start to get up all the while your pawns stare off into space. Im starting to think they secretly resent the arisen, because for being so allegedly dedicated to them they do seem to enjoy watching the arisen get repeatedly kicked while down.

@Windmelodie

2 ай бұрын

I do believe some of these issues can be alleviated by having 1. Pawns with the matching inclinations (for example a straightforward mage is not going to accomplish much) and 2. making use of the command prompts correctly (and 3. armour and augments that make it harder to be knocked down). The game isn't always super clear on explaining that, though at least the inclinations have been simplified, compared to DD1. I've personally had some pawns who were pretty meh, but others who were actually really helpful in battle because they happened to have the perfect combo of skills, vocation and inclination. Doesn't excuse the mechanic itself, but it can be made much more bearable and even pretty fun :)

@geraldposter1496

2 ай бұрын

@Windmelodie not saying I'm not having fun. Its more of a make it fun for yourself kinda game for me. Those little rage moments of "stop casting anodyne, im at near full health just pick me up you idiot!" make for decent stories. Or how whenever I go to the inn I chuck all my pawns to their deaths, have a pleasant sleep, and then summon more. Which I jokingly use to justify them not helping me. The know what I'll do to them the second I want to sleep in an actual bed.

@drsmallwood

2 ай бұрын

Preach it brother! I'm literally dead and choose to use a wakestone only to find out the horde is still agro to me. What? Death not good enough? Got to kick the cadaver? Infuriating.

5:20 - Same thing happened to me. I lost 8 hours the first day.

0:55 In the business, we call this foreshadowing.

"No no no no" segment made me spill the drink 🤣

I slight correction you cant buy fast travel items with money. i know half the internet is saying you can and half the internet is wrong.

@thedrunkshinobi

2 ай бұрын

I don't understand why so many people are so pissed off about something they obviously have done no research into. It would help if they would just read the list of micro's and look at what the things they are selling actually did. But they rather just get mad about what some other miss informed person said.

@KevinShmelvin

2 ай бұрын

@@thedrunkshinobi Because they just heard what every content creator said and never bothered to check what was sold. A lot of content creators were also farming views by fanning the flames with misinformation they heard from somewhere else. when i spoke to one of these creators they just told me: "I heard from this guy or i read this article title" Basically a game of broken telephone played by the whole internet.

@herebejamz

Ай бұрын

The fact Capcom sold a Portcrystal is enough for me, but that's were they fckd up. It's real easy to spin misinformation when it's at least CLOSE to true, and you can't just magick away the fact that a Portcrystal IS fast travel related. Capcom AFAIK has never bothered to clarify this publicly either.

At least Yathzee didn't have to experience the pain that is Dragonblight. Which is only the second worse thing to happen next to the singular save slot.

@redlister2934

2 ай бұрын

It gives me WoW plaguesblood incident flashbacks.

Holy shit, didn't miss once. What an episode

that was a beautiful setup and dunk right there, holy crap xD

Best closing gag of the year so far.

Game with no waypoints, a figure it out approach to quests, and the ability to litterally pick up escort targets like the potatoes they are, but autosave shenanigans makes Yahtzee rage quit. Love it.

@danilooliveira6580

2 ай бұрын

generally it just takes one thing to completely ruin an experience. the one save slot is a fair reason to rage quit, he doesn't have time to deal with losing hours of gameplay.

@DycuswasHere

2 ай бұрын

Thing is, all that tedious stuff could be fun but even then the caveat would be you could go load a previous save if you screw up. So yeah, autosave would make me rage quit too

@arcanum3000

2 ай бұрын

Setting aside the autosave shenanigans, it does the figure it out approach to quests poorly. When it doesn't give you a convenient quest marker, it also usually fails to give you effective environmental or NPC conversation signposting.

@MrLego3160

2 ай бұрын

@@DycuswasHere if you screw up and your escort dies, you can revive them from death.

@BilingualHobo

2 ай бұрын

@arcanum3000 yeah a lot of them are too obtuse and for the others the pawns basically guide you straight to it. I haven't done many that are the right difficulty to hint mix.

That last line was brilliant.

5:47 So thoughtful of Incogni to sponsor a short classics lesson from Yahtzee.

This is why I don't trust autosave. As long as you remember, you can exploit manual saves.

@MrLego3160

2 ай бұрын

then exploit them. the inn is a manual, seperate save.

You ought to reload at the last inn at thine own peril, o wanderer

Always love the endings 😂 Best reviewer out there.

I've felt that ending, every last word of it in other games. It hurts so much.

Been waiting for this one.

The quests are basic af, but the combat is fun and chaotic (especially if you play solo or with one pawn)

Oh hell yeah! I've been waiting for another novel. Gunna snag it on audible now. Can't wait to see how Frobisher is doing and all that.

Anyone else have trouble hearing him say the word "pawn" without giggling a bit?

"The most powerful phrase in the English language is "I don't know." It is the starting point of all education, all self-improvement, all science" needs to be engraved in giant, glowing letters somewhere, but I don't know where.

We follow for yahtzee 😁 so happy this series carried on!

@scar6822

2 ай бұрын

Shame we’ll never see the Imps again. I miss those little guys.

Loved the audiobook!

I to appreciate the phrase "I don't know." I'd rather not BS a response that I don't have enough information on

I would give dd2 more of a leash if it wasn't 80 fucking dollars.

@vcom741

2 ай бұрын

80? It's 70 isn't it? 80 dollars is to buy artbook and soundtrack. You still have a point tho lol. The stealth missions made me pause the game and go back to Armored core.

@irecordwithaphone1856

2 ай бұрын

@@vcom741 It's amazing how many people don't realize you can wear disguises for stealth missions

@vcom741

2 ай бұрын

@@irecordwithaphone1856 Oh I know. THe reaction of: “Wow pretty cool!” Quickly faded because I then got lost in the castle. Yeah yeah, skill issue, still not fun, still no reason for there to be 2 of the bloody things in regards to infiltrating the castle.

I really hoped they would fix a lot of what bored me about the first game. I see I’ll just stick with the mods and the first game instead of bothering with the sequel.

Shadows of Doubt, the procedurally generated investigation game just got an update, and one of the new feature is that you have to buy stuff at diners and restaurants if you stay in them for too long, or else the staff will tell you to leave. Now if you'll recall, this is what Yathzee did when he played the game even though that feature wasn't in, just for the sake of roleplay. So did the devs pick up on the idea, or are his psychic powers flaring up again ? :)

Trying to be quiet, watching this at work. But damn that last line made everyone look up at my laugh at loud moment.

Todd Howard out here encouraging everyone to buy Skyrim 10 more times over more than a decade, and somehow devs still forgot the reasons why multiple save slots are important if you're playing an open world action RPG.

@blairfujin

2 ай бұрын

not every game is so broken that you can easily brick one of the first quests by talking to an npc too soon (how my giving skyrim a second chance ended) or keep on getting stuck in terrain (fallout 3) I really don't know how people can play bethesda's games on consoles without access to console commands and noclip

This video has as more views in one hour than the Dragons Dogma review on the old channel has in total

I mean he’s movin back up in the world with those three slots!

I've heard the "One save slot" thing was due to the saves being on a server hosted by the devs and limited to one to save space and easily share pawns, though it might have been better if the player could just have multiple saves on Steam cloud or something and just swap them in the player's slot in the game server. Just a thought.

I'm pretty sure Dragon's Dogma II is not a direct sequel from the first game, especially since the soldier guy actually mentions right at the beginning, that a NEW arisen appeared (I didn't say arose on purpose) and they now finally have a new sovereign..

@koheikyouji

2 ай бұрын

About to give a huge spoiler, so dont read on unless you really dont care. ... It is a direct sequel, though they dont really draw attention to it. In the 'true ending' route, the game finally gets its title 'Dragons Dogma 2' and the ruins you walk around (where all the water used to be) is Gran Soren from the first game.