Fun fact about that: I'm such a scaredy cat that I fin even Slender too scary to play, and I'm very icky and susceptible to gore. And yet one of my favorite franchises is Mortal Kombat, because the gore is so ridiculous an omnipresent that I just can't managed to stay shocked after the first ten seconds of gameplay.
Surprised he didn’t mention the meaningless ‘moral choice’ system this game has. I’m fairly certain being in Hell means you’ve already made some poor moral choices...
Zerpderp0 Fair enough, I was just a little disappointed that he didn’t mention it considering he’s reviewed many games that had moral choice systems in them.
Either that or you've just failed to convert to whichever denomination of Christianity turned out to be the "correct" one and lost the religion lottery. *tips fedora*
How *dare* you compare this *filthy* [could be better, r34's alri- no never-mind, continue on me] game to my daughter! (Honestly I'm just surprised a game ended up using the word as a title, I though I'd found something they wouldn't touch; [Clearly you were wrong] excuse me, me, I'm talking here- Oh.) (Well... I guess I'm still in character?)
Myles Harris agony wouldn't go amidst if doomguy was there, slaughtering everything on site... Also, Argent D'Nur is more fucking subtle than the level design in this game...
I wouldn't even joke about the "wanking" thing. The number of people SCREAMING FOR BLOOD on Steam forums 'cause they cut some of the nudity OUT is jaw-dropping.
"Oh, there's a hold breath button, now I understand! I'm supposed to hold my breath as I slowly move past the vagina monster so they won't- oh, it spotted me anyway and gnawed my gonads off. Nevermind!" That line coupled with that little illustration was freakin' hilarious, laughed for five minutes straight.
If you want a game similar to this but actually looks more promising, check out the upcoming Scorn. Instead of Dante's-Inferno-style Hell, it goes for something more along the lines of H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski, and is way more unsettling in my opinion.
You just made me realize those were two seperate games, I just went from 'too bad, I thought that looked interesting' to 'hang on, the interesting looking one was called scorn'.
YES! I'm so glad someone's at least mentioned Scorn! I thought Agony tried to rip it off and failed because they missed the point--or something'r other--and met their just desserts under Yahtzee's hammer.
That's a brave claim. A lot of people and backers expected Agony to be good too. But we got what we got. Until it's released or some gameplay is shown (I know it was shown, I mean pre-release). It's just people's expectations and imagination of what it will be
Why not? There are no fixed rules to speak of. You could make a setting wherein people are disembodied souls during life and when they die they get physical forms and can spend the afterlife touching things, breathing, and not being able to phase through solid objects, and that'd be just as legit and make just as much sense. Of course, that doesn't answer your question, but still.
I hadn't seen his videos in a while and I had forgotten what his voice sounded like so when I saw this video pop up and waited for it to load I tried to recall. Alas I failed to remember until suddenly it came to me as him calmy talking about repeatedly smashing his head into a wall and commiting heinous acts with a hedgehog came screaming into my mind. I cannot describe the euphoria of the nostalgia that raced through me. Almost making me forget about how my internet took so damn long to load or how my internet would be completely unusable and thus not allow me to view his content up until present but oh damn I will enjoy this when I finally get to watch it in a week!
I turned on captions just to see if there was anything there. I'm a little upset that it wasn't auto generated, but also happy that someone took it as a challenge.
I watch everything with captions/subtitles both online and tv (unless it starts to error in the center of the screen or glitch gibberish) so I found it quite humorous when he ordered someone transcribe his onomatopeias because he was already being transcribed...like a helpless character in a story where he’s aware that he’s a character being watched, 4th-wall thing, but unaware of how truly helpless he is, stuck in aforementioned story.
I'd say the game looks like the gluttony level in Dante's Inferno, where everything is covered in bloody diarrhea and you hear nothing but squishing sounds as you walk.
Tagging this game with "psychological horror" is actually wrong. This kind of horror is visceral/body horror, and it really needs to be a tag, because there is a threshold people can withstand visceral horror. There is a difference between this and gore alone. Gore is a simple presence, visceral horror is a pillar of design.
Promoting your own book/game while being upfront that it's your book/game is much different than trying to hide the fact that you're shilling for someone you know or someone paying you
ToddHaywood MUH MISOGYNY you do realize that the point was to talk about how someone fucking Zoe was willing to bring her game up in an article was a little fucked up and a bit of a conflict of interest right? People were mad because she was fucking her way up the fame ladder to get her shit pushed into the spot light, not that she was a woman making games.
ToddHaywood continuing to ignore the point is what leaves us at the mercy of these people. If we turn a blind eye to this shit then journalists can just signal boost their friends to milk money from consumers.
ToddHaywood the overall price is not the issue. Triple A games will always have the marketing to hit a majority of people, but Indies don't have the luxury. Getting that signal boost puts it above it's competitors without displaying merit, just the business connections and that's scummy
I've found it really odd how similar this game is to another game that came out recently, called Lust For Darkness. It's a survival horror game where the protagonist also wanders through a hellish dimension, except it's a Giger-esque lust dimension, and you're only in it half the time. The other half is in a posh mansion. The plot of this (short) game is that a normal bloke (an architect) finds out his missing wife has been kidnapped for a year by a sex cult, and she manages to get him to arrive at their mansion full of sex toys and weird art pieces, on the eve of their big ritual that also happens to be a huge occult orgy. Because of course the sex cult has a huge ritual that is also an orgy, and they want to bring the onset of Sexy Apocalypse (though this game has strains of Lovecraft, so the sex dimension they want is considerably less sexy than was advertised). And so the protagonist has to pop back and forth between the mansion and Giger-land, in order to save his wife and escape the cult. Yahtzee should check it out. It will only take, like, two hours to get through the whole thing.
Casual CraftMan after playing both I can tell you Agony has a thousand thousand times more disgusting imagery than outlast 2, and is glitchy as hell (lol) too.
turned on CC after the "eurgh" segment and rewinded. pleasantly surprised by the transcribing, though i don't know if it would've made sense if i was deaf and hadn't heard it first.
The game was made for edginess sake. Like hatred. They're both shit, and they're both fuel for the twats who hate video games. Perhaps that's who made them? People who fundemantally lack understanding of what a game is, why it's fun, and what makes it good?
DarknessCalling when I first heard about it it sounded like a pretty cool horror game though. You're stuck in hell, powerless, forced to run away from all the demons and shit. Sounds like it ended up being executed poorly, but I think it deserves a little more credit than being compared to hatred.
I think you're thinking of the last 5 to 10 EA cash grabs. I actually paid for the newest Far Cry; it was OK, had no replayability, and now I'm already hearing about the next one. I feel bad for Assassin's Creed fans. :/
I think the first minute of Yahtzee's video on the game sums it up, even though the game was in development long before Trump was a presidential candidate. If you want to look deeper, you could say it's as edgy as every other game where the player gets to live out the fantasy of being the most inexplicably badass and important person in every room, something I'm sure every incel and edgelord can relate to. Edit; to answer the question I think you were asking (how is your comment relevant to the topic), my comment was aimed at the last portion of Darkness'.
Video hasn't started yet, BUT 1) I am really looking forward to this because 1b) Agony is a fascinating trainwreck Don't let me down, Bennihana Crowshaw.
Recently saw a demo video for this game's sequel, and I just can't wait for Yahtzee to review that one. His disdain will likely tear a hole in reality.
Goodness me, yet another game that thinks shock equals horror. Not only that, it doesn't even pull off the shock correctly, what with gruesome-looking things being the boring rule instead of the unexpected exception.
It's not even trying to be shocking, or horror. It's a glorified walking simulator that depicts a very old puritanical view of hell and religion's demonising of women. And as such it pulls off what it was trying to achieve quite well.
@DejaVoodooDoll Press F if you are getting lost. It will literally show where to go. I'm playing game right now and it has some terrific level design. Yahtzee is a poor gaming journalist as he often fails to give devil his due. He can only bash and often cheaply at that too.
RufusOmega yeah mon an edgy hell setting with death, boobs, gore, LABIA APPLES and women being raped in the background is not edgy it’s actually intellectual STEMlord art. Actually it’s quite downplayed! *tips fedora*
So you're saying, and please correct me if I'm wrong, they could've sincerely came here to leave a 4 word comment, doge style, to inform Yahtzee's audience of both the edginess and evul of Agony? o3o
2:10 Wikiquote actually quoted that bit on the ZP quotes page, and the "fucking transcribe that one, bitch!" sentence links to that old "challenge accepted" image macro.
I enjoyed the story and thought it just needed a little more fleshing out so that people who don't know The Book of Revelation (most people playing these videogames nowadays) might also get into the references. Frankly, I had to look some stuff up myself but it answered lots of the questions I was left with at the end in a rather satisfying way (Hunter of Souls, Seven Headed Beast, Tower of Babylon etc.). It was an ambitious goal of a story that a small team simply could not realize in the context of a fun game. They got caught between "story" and "fun game" and fell a little short of both. Still, I think they deserve some props for trying. It's still a cool and unusual concept on paper that beats all the shitty unoriginal AAA cash grabs that dominate the game scene today (imo)
Well, they're either talking about how Valve made a bold (if questionable) choice to ban visual novels from Steam, or the more recent decision to allow anything that does not explicitly break the law on Steam, after the backlash proved a bit bigger then Valve had expected.
HAHAHAHAHA YOU KNOW WHAT WAS ALSO AGONY? THE NEW GHOSTBUSTERS! YOU KNOW WHAT ISN'T AGONY? My mate's new game, Blue Breakfast Tech. Well made game, good gameplay, please check it out.
Harumph! The game devs ought to have known that the only way to make a world composed entirely of raspberry jam properly terrifying is by making the jam carnivorous.
It's kind of bumming be out that this is bad. It was earnest, an indie game that a lot of work went into. In the sea of micropayment live service bullshit that is the "AAA" games industry, we should get poetic justice by indie games swooping in and taking the audience that is sick of those practices. Oh well.
I think the biggest reason that people are displeased with the Agony devs is that the devs made a bunch of promises to all the people who supported them and then didn't fulfilled those promises. People in general are very forgiving of indie devs, but if the devs lie to them or sell out at their supporters expense then the response is usually quick, fierce, and hateful becuase it's a more personal betrayal than anything the corporate 'AAA' gaming industry can do.
This_is_a_Conundrum Well yeah, mainly because most consumers' level of respect for the large publishers can't possibly drop lower. It's just disappointing that a game with reasonably high production values but none of the lootbox crap flails like this. Indie games that are really good (a Hat in time, Cuphead) can be very reassuring. It gives me the feeling that we can let the AAA industry crash and burn without fear or collapsing the market. And then, stuff like Hunt down the Freeman and Mighty number Nine comes around and manages to poison the Kickstarter well for everyone. I'm not even angry, just sad that not even independent titles are safe.
the truth is this game just sucks. I bought it, and it just sucks. Can't see shit half of the time, puzzles feel like chores and the stealth mechanic is pretty shit aswel
Xander vM Yes, I don't think anyone was saying that it didn't suck. I was expressing that I hoped that it would be good. This would have been a good example to show big publishers that they can take AAA titles with lootboxes and shove them up their asses. Wasn't good though. Shame.
Turns out malpractice in game development isn't due to evil mcDevilface Big game publisher CEO loves to feat on the tears of gamers but the game market is actually fiercly competitive and it's a bit more complicated than simply deciding between 'being evil' and 'not being evil'.
"Turn things up to 11 and stay there and its just as dull as staying at 1" is a very good phrase
Fun fact about that: I'm such a scaredy cat that I fin even Slender too scary to play, and I'm very icky and susceptible to gore. And yet one of my favorite franchises is Mortal Kombat, because the gore is so ridiculous an omnipresent that I just can't managed to stay shocked after the first ten seconds of gameplay.
So… Warhammer 40k then?
@@allenhernandez3350weirdly enough, even they have a down time, it’s usually a nine, but every now and then they can bring it down to five.
Funny how Subnautica is more of a "psychological horror" then Agony with its "psychological horror" tag :)
And Subnautica takes place in fucking water
*Dives a bit too deeply* Uuuh... It's getting dark in here. *distant underwater roar* NOPENOPENOPE
Well the Last time I was in Hell 75% of the Demonic population dissapear
Subnautica below zero creeped me the fuck out and I don't know why
When?
2:10 I think that was best execution of reciting the word “bitch” I’ve ever heard
This line killed me
Transcription worked too
Surprised he didn’t mention the meaningless ‘moral choice’ system this game has.
I’m fairly certain being in Hell means you’ve already made some poor moral choices...
Well if you make even more evil choices you just might go the Hell^2
Or an incompetent creator. Take your pick.
Boltonator SAOMD it was so meaningless that he forgot
Zerpderp0 Fair enough, I was just a little disappointed that he didn’t mention it considering he’s reviewed many games that had moral choice systems in them.
Either that or you've just failed to convert to whichever denomination of Christianity turned out to be the "correct" one and lost the religion lottery.
*tips fedora*
Props to the transcriber; I would have added a witty retort after Yahtzee's taunt.
Yahtzee's impression of a gaming journalist was so accurate I thought this was a Polygon video for a moment.
Mathmachine DAAAAAAMMMMM
I swear I was getting some Kotaku vibes there.
Mathmachine That was a shots fired moment.
Lol, look out, Yahtzee's throwing elbows.
COME DUMPSTERS. Waiting for the Kotaku hit-piece on Yahtzee any second now
We're sorry, but your Red Goddess is in another level of Hell ;)
Double Double 4G this deserves more thumbs up.
Pretty sure my Red Goddess is in Canada
Agony? I bet it was!
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Br?
Sir Lord Chris SGV BR???
How *dare* you compare this *filthy* [could be better, r34's alri- no never-mind, continue on me] game to my daughter!
(Honestly I'm just surprised a game ended up using the word as a title,
I though I'd found something they wouldn't touch; [Clearly you were wrong] excuse me, me, I'm talking here- Oh.)
(Well... I guess I'm still in character?)
An easy way to make this game more fun, give Doomguy 5 minutes and see what happens
Myles Harris agony wouldn't go amidst if doomguy was there, slaughtering everything on site... Also, Argent D'Nur is more fucking subtle than the level design in this game...
No kidding, the possibility of the doomslayer chainsawing a vagina demon would be glorious
The only mod worth having agony for. The only reason it could be fun.
Heck even Duke Nukem would make this more fun.
GBDupree seriously. The Duke would at least add some of that delicious 90's cringe I love so much.
I wouldn't even joke about the "wanking" thing. The number of people SCREAMING FOR BLOOD on Steam forums 'cause they cut some of the nudity OUT is jaw-dropping.
"Oh, there's a hold breath button, now I understand! I'm supposed to hold my breath as I slowly move past the vagina monster so they won't- oh, it spotted me anyway and gnawed my gonads off. Nevermind!"
That line coupled with that little illustration was freakin' hilarious, laughed for five minutes straight.
Please raise your hand if you predicted the "Agony? It certainly was." joke the second you saw the video.
It was like the inquisition, "I expected this, but I did not expect *THIS!* [Pre-Blaming Blam]"
"As token as the wheelchair-bound dude from the Burger King Kid's Club." I'm old and I love you, Yahtzee.
"Oh you found me, go find me again"
Basically it.
Damn, was kind of hoping this would be at least semi fun.
ha
Fulgrim2 or quarter fun
I think the first trailer that had more Gore than all the alien movies combined should have been a clue.
I can dream but oh well.
Same honestly.
"Let me take a step back, remember Dante's Inferno?" XD
2:07 I enabled CC and they transcribed it perfectly. Haha! Got ya Yatzee!
They didn't transcribe it perfectly because English text communication is unable to capture the exact inflection that gave the non-words meaning.
A world made out of jam, eh? There's a book in that.
If you want a game similar to this but actually looks more promising, check out the upcoming Scorn. Instead of Dante's-Inferno-style Hell, it goes for something more along the lines of H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski, and is way more unsettling in my opinion.
You just made me realize those were two seperate games, I just went from 'too bad, I thought that looked interesting' to 'hang on, the interesting looking one was called scorn'.
YES! I'm so glad someone's at least mentioned Scorn! I thought Agony tried to rip it off and failed because they missed the point--or something'r other--and met their just desserts under Yahtzee's hammer.
Wasn't H.R. Giger actually involved in the creation and development of Scorn ?
Abi-chan fiction fan Giger died in 2014
That's a brave claim. A lot of people and backers expected Agony to be good too. But we got what we got.
Until it's released or some gameplay is shown (I know it was shown, I mean pre-release). It's just people's expectations and imagination of what it will be
Why does a soul need to breathe?
Why not? There are no fixed rules to speak of. You could make a setting wherein people are disembodied souls during life and when they die they get physical forms and can spend the afterlife touching things, breathing, and not being able to phase through solid objects, and that'd be just as legit and make just as much sense.
Of course, that doesn't answer your question, but still.
Because people are fucking stupid and don't realise that everything we are is just decaying organic matter
/edgy
Now that I think of it, how can a soul be affected by all the torture and suffering that Hell apperently offers?
because it is hell
@@remenencenda768 welp, now it's explained. Thanks man!
Holy crap I've never seen a better impersonation of game journos up until this point. Thank you for making my day :))
I hadn't seen his videos in a while and I had forgotten what his voice sounded like so when I saw this video pop up and waited for it to load I tried to recall. Alas I failed to remember until suddenly it came to me as him calmy talking about repeatedly smashing his head into a wall and commiting heinous acts with a hedgehog came screaming into my mind. I cannot describe the euphoria of the nostalgia that raced through me. Almost making me forget about how my internet took so damn long to load or how my internet would be completely unusable and thus not allow me to view his content up until present but oh damn I will enjoy this when I finally get to watch it in a week!
I feel like when you mentioned Jam you missed the opportunity to reference your book
Demonetized for sure lol
Let's Pretend He was monetized?
Sean Urbik I got an ad at the end
Demon-etized
Why demonitized?
Tesco Value Memes I got an ad at the beginning.
I can imagine doomguy teleporting in and solving everything in 12 minutes.
0:45 i can hear kotaku screaming already
Someone transcribed it Yahtz', took all of 7 minutes.
I turned on captions just to see if there was anything there. I'm a little upset that it wasn't auto generated, but also happy that someone took it as a challenge.
Tainted Myth0s I am glad I am not the only one that did that
I watch everything with captions/subtitles both online and tv (unless it starts to error in the center of the screen or glitch gibberish) so I found it quite humorous when he ordered someone transcribe his onomatopeias because he was already being transcribed...like a helpless character in a story where he’s aware that he’s a character being watched, 4th-wall thing, but unaware of how truly helpless he is, stuck in aforementioned story.
And it captured none of the subtext of the delivery or the inflection, you mongoloid.
What the fuck are you talking about?
I'd say the game looks like the gluttony level in Dante's Inferno, where everything is covered in bloody diarrhea and you hear nothing but squishing sounds as you walk.
4:42 Is that a mouth I spotted there for a split second?
Outrageous.
This is non-ironically one of your best reviews ever
Tagging this game with "psychological horror" is actually wrong. This kind of horror is visceral/body horror, and it really needs to be a tag, because there is a threshold people can withstand visceral horror. There is a difference between this and gore alone. Gore is a simple presence, visceral horror is a pillar of design.
God damn, that burn on games "journalists". 10/10
Which in hindsight, i think he fell under that at some point.
His usual charm, lightly touching the dicks, and then promoting his book and or game.
Promoting your own book/game while being upfront that it's your book/game is much different than trying to hide the fact that you're shilling for someone you know or someone paying you
ToddHaywood MUH MISOGYNY you do realize that the point was to talk about how someone fucking Zoe was willing to bring her game up in an article was a little fucked up and a bit of a conflict of interest right? People were mad because she was fucking her way up the fame ladder to get her shit pushed into the spot light, not that she was a woman making games.
ToddHaywood continuing to ignore the point is what leaves us at the mercy of these people. If we turn a blind eye to this shit then journalists can just signal boost their friends to milk money from consumers.
ToddHaywood the overall price is not the issue. Triple A games will always have the marketing to hit a majority of people, but Indies don't have the luxury. Getting that signal boost puts it above it's competitors without displaying merit, just the business connections and that's scummy
Honestly, I come for a game review, and I stay for the British slang.
What's that Skippy Yahtzee is reviewing a horror walking simulator well what good news
But...Never mind.
Skippy is still alive? Last I heard he had no limbs anymore
That guy with the face what's that Skippy? Limbs aren't vital organs? What good news
I like how when I type "agony zp" the first result is hunt the Freeman
Hmm I wonder why ?
After the "transcribe that" comment, did anyone else rewind and turn on Closed Captioning to see how it was actually transcribed? 😅
The guys who designed hell in agony deserve an award. The game sucks but it’s the best depiction of hell in any game.
Ha! Slough humour! I'm sure the 5 of us that understood that joke found it halarious. Much appreciated.
Too bad, I really like the disgusting gun design from the gameplay I saw.
Edit I’m an idiot
Pajamapants Jack not the same game, thats scorn
That's Scorn. A way better game. Agony was just an edgy hell game. Scorn is more Giger-esque and biomechanical.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who got this garbage confused with Scorn.
Hunter Oh thank god, I mixed them up too and was wondering where all the guns and actual combat went
Well there is a scorn demo you can see some people play though it is rather short.
This is one of your funniest videos in a while, well done
This review is one of your masterpieces...
The way you said bitch at 2:10...
I dont think i have ever physically recoiled at the word before, but that did it.
I've found it really odd how similar this game is to another game that came out recently, called Lust For Darkness. It's a survival horror game where the protagonist also wanders through a hellish dimension, except it's a Giger-esque lust dimension, and you're only in it half the time. The other half is in a posh mansion.
The plot of this (short) game is that a normal bloke (an architect) finds out his missing wife has been kidnapped for a year by a sex cult, and she manages to get him to arrive at their mansion full of sex toys and weird art pieces, on the eve of their big ritual that also happens to be a huge occult orgy. Because of course the sex cult has a huge ritual that is also an orgy, and they want to bring the onset of Sexy Apocalypse (though this game has strains of Lovecraft, so the sex dimension they want is considerably less sexy than was advertised). And so the protagonist has to pop back and forth between the mansion and Giger-land, in order to save his wife and escape the cult.
Yahtzee should check it out. It will only take, like, two hours to get through the whole thing.
"This doesn't seem physically possible!" -Private Burlap Sack.
So glad Yahtz finally reviewed Marriage Simulator 2018 .
marriage, am i rite, folks???? whomst else hates their wife!!! hahahhah thank you ill be here all week
nessknowsbest
Or you know, just a really old dad joke that's been around for CENTURIES.
Hadron V been around for centuries... just like sexism
The best jokes are the most offensive. Get over yourself.
Hadron V my comment seems to have offended you more than the original offended anyone. So I'll take that as high praise. Thank you.
To say this, and I'm stealing a quote from Yahtzee, Agony is bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bad, bad, bad, bad. Don't, don't, don't, don't play it.
To steal another quote: It's alright, you can swear on the internet, your mum probably isn't going to read it.
So Agony is just a 2018 version of Outlast 2.
Casual CraftMan
Multiplied by 50
Casual CraftMan after playing both I can tell you Agony has a thousand thousand times more disgusting imagery than outlast 2, and is glitchy as hell (lol) too.
Never clicked on something faster.
God of the Wind seriously lol!
God of the Wind Damn near broke my thumb.
sir swag released a video 10 seconds before, so it sadly took priority
It still feels like yesterday when it demo'ed.
Predicting the joke about the game being agony to play
That was kind of the point
turned on CC after the "eurgh" segment and rewinded. pleasantly surprised by the transcribing, though i don't know if it would've made sense if i was deaf and hadn't heard it first.
Yahtz is quite familiar with a land covered in jam.
The shade at the beginning of this made me lol
I'm still waiting for the uncesored version. I just really like the style of the game.
It actually transcribed it in a way that made sense. The miracle of modern technology. Wow.
0:47 was that a zoe quinn reference i see there?
4:42 IS THAT A MOUTH? You scared me with this shit, I wasn't prepared
Still waiting for that Vampyr Zero Punctuation review
SimpleMindedGoat I've seen plenty of other reviews. I just wanna see yahtz rip into it.
SimpleMindedGoat How do you mean "Dark Souls Lite"? Like, story-wise? Or gameplay?
SimpleMindedGoat Sounds a bit more like Bloodborne than Dark Souls. I might check it out
SimpleMindedGoat Heh =P
Alright, thanks bruv
SimpleMindedGoat Whatever. Vampyr is a failure.
Hilarious, man. Glad youre still making these.
Knowing that Yahtzee will one day review *HuniePop*
it fills me with determination!
Paradox Acres just be happy with his review of DDLC
glad to see the early youtube spirit alive and strong
Ehhh... Paradox Acres
wrong game
stop
Really? People are still saying that!?
"11 is just like 1, repatition you see." Brilliant!
Pretty much all of this applies to Scorn aswell
Every Wednesday when I come home from college, I get a new ZP episode, I LOVE IT
The game was made for edginess sake. Like hatred. They're both shit, and they're both fuel for the twats who hate video games. Perhaps that's who made them? People who fundemantally lack understanding of what a game is, why it's fun, and what makes it good?
DarknessCalling when I first heard about it it sounded like a pretty cool horror game though. You're stuck in hell, powerless, forced to run away from all the demons and shit. Sounds like it ended up being executed poorly, but I think it deserves a little more credit than being compared to hatred.
How was this made just for the sake of edginess? Explain.
Hatred was quite clearly taking the piss though while Agony wasn't. Just read some of the billboards ingame and you'll understand.
I think you're thinking of the last 5 to 10 EA cash grabs. I actually paid for the newest Far Cry; it was OK, had no replayability, and now I'm already hearing about the next one. I feel bad for Assassin's Creed fans. :/
I think the first minute of Yahtzee's video on the game sums it up, even though the game was in development long before Trump was a presidential candidate.
If you want to look deeper, you could say it's as edgy as every other game where the player gets to live out the fantasy of being the most inexplicably badass and important person in every room, something I'm sure every incel and edgelord can relate to.
Edit; to answer the question I think you were asking (how is your comment relevant to the topic), my comment was aimed at the last portion of Darkness'.
Video hasn't started yet, BUT
1) I am really looking forward to this because
1b) Agony is a fascinating trainwreck
Don't let me down, Bennihana Crowshaw.
Is it me or is there much more punctuation these days?
We all get older...
Im glad my friend showed me this channel.
This review had more gore than the game
they did transcribe it and it was great.
This game looked really interesting during the reveal trailer. Shame it went tits up. HAH!
Recently saw a demo video for this game's sequel, and I just can't wait for Yahtzee to review that one. His disdain will likely tear a hole in reality.
wait there is a sequel in the work?
It's not that psychological, more just, eww
Which apparently passes for psychology today in games.
"Eww" is technically a psychological response. :V
If you keep thinking about it after playing it, it's psychological horror.
(Well, if you aren't laughing at it that is.)
I really have no interest in video games, but I love watching your videos because they crack me up. Good work!
Goodness me, yet another game that thinks shock equals horror. Not only that, it doesn't even pull off the shock correctly, what with gruesome-looking things being the boring rule instead of the unexpected exception.
It's not even trying to be shocking, or horror. It's a glorified walking simulator that depicts a very old puritanical view of hell and religion's demonising of women. And as such it pulls off what it was trying to achieve quite well.
@DejaVoodooDoll Press F if you are getting lost. It will literally show where to go. I'm playing game right now and it has some terrific level design. Yahtzee is a poor gaming journalist as he often fails to give devil his due. He can only bash and often cheaply at that too.
The part regarding stealth mechanics made my day.
Such edgy, so evul
How is it edgy? Explain please.
Rufus - Look up "Woosh" and consider the grammar and spelling in the comment :B
Just because he was being a little memelord doesn't mean the content of the comment wasn't sincere.
RufusOmega yeah mon an edgy hell setting with death, boobs, gore, LABIA APPLES and women being raped in the background is not edgy it’s actually intellectual STEMlord art. Actually it’s quite downplayed! *tips fedora*
So you're saying, and please correct me if I'm wrong, they could've sincerely came here to leave a 4 word comment, doge style, to inform Yahtzee's audience of both the edginess and evul of Agony? o3o
Ok, I stopped at 0:24 to see a portion of your Steam library. No regrets.
There is only one Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Don't deny it:
2:10 Wikiquote actually quoted that bit on the ZP quotes page, and the "fucking transcribe that one, bitch!" sentence links to that old "challenge accepted" image macro.
S W A G O N Y
No
This game should've stayed with the Adults Only rating.
That description of games journalism, wew lad.
Literally your best video
I enjoyed the story and thought it just needed a little more fleshing out so that people who don't know The Book of Revelation (most people playing these videogames nowadays) might also get into the references. Frankly, I had to look some stuff up myself but it answered lots of the questions I was left with at the end in a rather satisfying way (Hunter of Souls, Seven Headed Beast, Tower of Babylon etc.). It was an ambitious goal of a story that a small team simply could not realize in the context of a fun game. They got caught between "story" and "fun game" and fell a little short of both. Still, I think they deserve some props for trying. It's still a cool and unusual concept on paper that beats all the shitty unoriginal AAA cash grabs that dominate the game scene today (imo)
Heh,
Fleshing out
Thank you for being alive
"Agony: The Whore of Babylon" coming soon.
2:00 Well, that sums up Evil Dead 2013 in a nutshell.
I hope Agony 2 is better, it has the potential
にゃあエイリアンMeowAlien I, an intellectual, am waiting for agony 2 remastered
Fuckin' near anything can be said to "have potential"
Props to the transcriber. Good job.
Agony, that was what i felt while playing this game.
So you decided to make that joke even after watching a video that made fun of people who would make that joke?
MrSamulai yeah I couldn't help it
Anyone else turn on CC just to see what the subtitles said when he poked fun at them?
Why does Yahtzee strike me as the game journalist who would be in favor of what steam just did?
Well, they're either talking about how Valve made a bold (if questionable) choice to ban visual novels from Steam, or the more recent decision to allow anything that does not explicitly break the law on Steam, after the backlash proved a bit bigger then Valve had expected.
+S.Agent
(excuse the pirate accent)
I thinks it be the latter, land lubber.
censored gaming refute this news ua-cam.com/video/MTxIbNR_3oU/v-deo.html
That closing line!
What a fitting name, people are in agony while playing this horrible game.
HAHAHAHAHA YOU KNOW WHAT WAS ALSO AGONY?
THE NEW GHOSTBUSTERS!
YOU KNOW WHAT ISN'T AGONY?
My mate's new game, Blue Breakfast Tech. Well made game, good gameplay, please check it out.
It wasn't *that* bad.
I mean, it's not like it's Skyrim's intro sequence or anything.
(I can't even try to make a new character anymore. [shudders])
I've been playing Skyrim (legendary Edition) exclusively on Xbox (360), since I don't have it on PC...
At least it wasn't fallout 3's terrible intro.
Harumph! The game devs ought to have known that the only way to make a world composed entirely of raspberry jam properly terrifying is by making the jam carnivorous.
8 views, 19 likes. Ok can you do a Zero Punctuation on UA-cam please?
what?
bloodstone ore ... oops
What.
Its not youtube's fault that Yahtzee is just that amazing
I was saying that UA-cam is broken because of the view to like ratio.
It was meant as a joke
Like a real doll, smeared with ground beef... Awesome
It's kind of bumming be out that this is bad. It was earnest, an indie game that a lot of work went into. In the sea of micropayment live service bullshit that is the "AAA" games industry, we should get poetic justice by indie games swooping in and taking the audience that is sick of those practices.
Oh well.
I think the biggest reason that people are displeased with the Agony devs is that the devs made a bunch of promises to all the people who supported them and then didn't fulfilled those promises. People in general are very forgiving of indie devs, but if the devs lie to them or sell out at their supporters expense then the response is usually quick, fierce, and hateful becuase it's a more personal betrayal than anything the corporate 'AAA' gaming industry can do.
This_is_a_Conundrum Well yeah, mainly because most consumers' level of respect for the large publishers can't possibly drop lower.
It's just disappointing that a game with reasonably high production values but none of the lootbox crap flails like this. Indie games that are really good (a Hat in time, Cuphead) can be very reassuring. It gives me the feeling that we can let the AAA industry crash and burn without fear or collapsing the market. And then, stuff like Hunt down the Freeman and Mighty number Nine comes around and manages to poison the Kickstarter well for everyone. I'm not even angry, just sad that not even independent titles are safe.
the truth is this game just sucks. I bought it, and it just sucks. Can't see shit half of the time, puzzles feel like chores and the stealth mechanic is pretty shit aswel
Xander vM Yes, I don't think anyone was saying that it didn't suck. I was expressing that I hoped that it would be good. This would have been a good example to show big publishers that they can take AAA titles with lootboxes and shove them up their asses.
Wasn't good though. Shame.
Turns out malpractice in game development isn't due to evil mcDevilface Big game publisher CEO loves to feat on the tears of gamers but the game market is actually fiercly competitive and it's a bit more complicated than simply deciding between 'being evil' and 'not being evil'.
When Agony was making rounds through games news, I figured it would end up being just this. Glad I was right.
*9 views*
*17 likes*
Boy, that's nothing. I got 11 views and 162 likes.
Gotta pump those numbers up boys!
I wanna see 2 views and 1k likes, by tomorrow!
Heresy!
[Blam]
Wait a minute, why am I here.
I'm a heretic! [Self Blam]
The virgin agony vs the chad scorn