The Quarry (Zero Punctuation)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- This week on Zero Punctuation Yahtzee reviews The Quarry.
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neon white's probably gonna be my favourite game of the year if nothing else better comes out. and i'm not just saying that because machine girl did the soundtrack shut up
edit: i have never played elden ring due to my pc not meeting system requirements, so i dont care. and xenoblade 3 is a nintendo game so i dont care either
Xenoblade chronicles 3 is out soon
"Do what would be sensible." Exactly the kinda thing every person in any horror movie or video game does not do.
Cabin in the Woods, as always, the best in the medium
and thats why theyre all trash
What a novel idea you've expressed
There's a ton of horror movies where the protagonist/s act rationally and intelligently. Alien/Aliens, Nightmare on Elm Street, It Follows, The Thing, Jaws, Silence Of the Lambs etc.
or best of both "sensible" and "why would anyone be this obnoxious" in the film version of Kings "The Mist" - except dammit i'm saving a bullet for ME in the end, grandpa can get splattered by the Silent Hill x Tentai monster
For anyone else confused:
Pierre kirillovich Bezukov, mentioned at 1:28, is the main character from Leo Tolstoy's famous book, War and peace
I’ve been meaning to read that. I already have the audiobook downloaded. Thank you for the explanation.
NEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRD!!!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
@@semanticsman5192 when I clicked read more, for a brief moment I thought you had copy posted an entire books worth of cliff notes of war and peace in. or the entire book.
then I remembered that wouldn't have fit.
I think they got the wrong idea from Until Dawn, because the reason everyone kind of disliked one another was due to a combination of factors that made sense. "Hey, we kind of sorta fucked up years ago and someone died on accident, now we're brought back together and we REALLY don't want to be."
The Quarry makes you think that all of these people just despise one another for literally zero reason, which adds to this sense of uncanny strangeness to everything occurring.
Definitely agree, the game starts with characters fighting over nothing and there's this constant feeling that you're missing something about why they interact with each other the way they do. Until dawn gave a very clear reason by comparison
Worst part is, if you're making decisions where they can be helpful or nice to others, that only works until you lose control, and in cinematics they're acting bitchy again. Granted, there are some decisions that are impacted by your interactions with others, but the whole game is such a mess that it didn't really matter in the end. After this game I went back to House of Ashes, and enjoyed that one much more. It's actually a finished product.
It's "by accident", not "on accident" :)
By accident and on purpose
I've thought Until Dawn was good and their next games were downhill from there. (House of Ashes was good though) I think it was because there seemed to be genuine thought to the story of Until Dawn. There is lore that explains the setting and the game does a good job subverting and embracing aspects clichés of slasher flicks. Meanwhile The Quarry is a run of the mill slasher story.
It's strangely realistic of those "hang out" groups who never liked each other but are always together because of peer pressure tho.
If only Supermassive had had the balls to pull a Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.
Now that I would be interested in.
I'D PLAY THE SHIT OUT OF THIS
That was my first thought when he mentioned the whole "Rednecks obviously aren't actually here to kill you but help you". I do love that movie, it's not the greatest movie ever but it has a lot of charm.
or hell, Wild Zero
Personally I'd love to see how Supermassive would proceed to fuck up the attempt at making a game with a Tucker & Dale style of story.
Y'know, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil did the "weirdo rednecks turn out to be nice guys" twist like a decade ago, and it was much better executed.
I was scrolling down hoping someone would mention this movie, as I forgot the title 👍
yeah, that's true. But also, I don't want to complain too much about something not being as good at that as tucker and Dale, because that movie did it pretty amazingly.
Yeah, they were just having a doozy of a day...
Yes... however, it was never set up for Tucker and Dale to be the bad guys. The movie was written as an entire parody and reversal of the traditional trope. The Quarry is written in a manner that presents the Hacketts as the villains, and aside from the eventual reveal (and the signs prior... which on a second playthrough they are far more obvious), are intended to be presented that way.
Plus you can't really compare Tucker and Dale vs Evil to anything... or vice versa. That movie is the prime example of lightening in a bottle.
It's City propaganda at this point how much they underestimate and dog pile on rual areas acting like we are unkind backwater hillbillies who don't highschool education and a fucking 3000$ PC and smartphones to see their bullshit.
You know what, Yahtzee’s got a real talent for sneaking in trivia bits between knob gags, it’s no ordinary UA-cam video that fleetingly mentions the main character from War and Peace
I was wondering whether I needed to google that name or not. Thanks ;)
I find his choice of the "three recognizable celebrities" really funny because mine were Brenda Song, Skyler Gisondo, and Lin Shaye, and Brenda Song was the only one whose name I knew.
I totally thought she sounded familiar! No wonder I liked her character the most (plus she's basically the only rational one who knows how to handle most of the situations they get put in)
Did anyone else get stumped and confused for a couple seconds because of how Supergiant Games and Supermassive games sound so similar but are 2 grossly dissimilar game studios? Cause I was starting to get an aneurism thinking the same people who made games like Hades among other amazing games, was behind something like the Quarry
Yep, I got the two names confused with each other, too.
Like trying to remember if it was Jessica Alba or Biel that was in that thing... from a while ago... and she was a furry.
He talked about that in the Little Hope review, actually.
Yeah was looking for this comment lol
Maybe supermassive survived entirely on sales from confused people
Honestly watching people play this game its gold. Soilers here. The one guy just... dying in a freezer after the curse was cleared was logical but also like, why was he left in there? xD
To..... chill......
@@xxXXRAPXXxx He needed to cool off.
@@luketfer I guess they forgot about him in the -Heat- off the situation.
I haven't actually gone in there, but I did go in for my second playthrough at the very start of the game and the Jacob struggles to open the freezer and says "I'd hate to be stuck in there." Supposedly it's broken or something
@@ImBatman-dk8eh Haha well i guess it was a bad place to get stuck
There was something about how he said "Press 'X' to avoid verbal trap" that I liked.
"This better not awaken anything in me..."
I feel you there. It's as if he searched his soul for the smarmiest corner and channeled his inner Garrett.
"When the fuck did Lance Henriksen get here?" had me rolling.
4:36 I love how there really is nothing to tell you the arms are crossed but we know they are
I'm glad he mentioned Emma in particular being unsettling in terms of uncanny valley. I couldn't stop staring at her mouth, hoping she wouldn't move it, only to always get upset when she inevitably did.
Here's a fun fact regarding the idea of intentionally failing a quick-time effect:
In Indigo Prophecy -- brought to you by none other than David Cayge -- there's a scene where 2 of the protagonists cross paths and one of them is a cop investigating the other for clues. During their conversation, the cop will ask you questions and your goal is to avoid implicating yourself. But as that's going on, your character will suffer hallucinations which will trigger QTE's and doing them right will actually cause him to act fidgety and suspicious. The correct decision is to fail them on purpose in order for your character to keep his cool, but because you've been doing them so often in the game, you'd naturally assume that you HAVE to do them, especially since you have no reason to think the game would throw these at you as a red herring and make you give yourself away.
It was quite a near trick and a good way to test the player's situational awareness. But as is the rule with David Cayge, these glimpses of brilliance end up drowning in a sea of mediocrity and terrible writing.
So wait... the way to keep your cool is to just sit there involuntarily tripping balls? Like what are these QTEs that you normally have to do but if you fail don't do anything?
@@wyrmh0le Well, it makes a kind of sense. Throughout the game you have to Press X to Do Thing. So if you want to NOT do a thing, you have to... not press X. You, the player, are ignoring the hallucinations along with the character.
@@jaxelt1 But that's exactly what I don't get -- what Thing does it Do when you Press X, and why do you normally want to do it? I would think that not reacting to the things only you can see would be generally a) good if you're around other people not at Burning Man and b) the thing that takes effort. But that's apparently not the case, so what are these QTEs?
@@wyrmh0le I have to assume it's something like
"*Character hallucinates there's a bat coming towards his face* Press X to block
If you press X to block a non-existent bat, the cop will be suspicious
Changing the rules in the middle of a game isn't brilliance, it's just cheating. Games are supposed to have established rules. Imagine a sports game, where "Team A" is leading the score by 10 points; when the game is about to end, Team B stops playing, just stand still waiting for the clock to run out and suddenly gets awarded 20 points for doing nothing and wins the game.
The last part about the "but then the game would be over in 2 minutes" reminds me of the Far Cry 4 "secret" ending, where (spoilers, though to be fair it is a fairly old game....)
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you just wait for the "bad guy" for a couple of minutes, he comes back, explains he's loved the character's mother, takes you to where the ashes are supposed to be spread, tells you he is the character's actual father and that you had a sister that the man you thought was the father had killed whose ashes are already on that mountain, and then offers you a grand old time shooting guns, the end, roll credits. Where that ending is, in my opinion, the best ending by FAR, no contest.
For a game supposedly all about choices, it sure felt like mine didn't matter. At one point I heard a creepy sound in the woods and was prompted to call out or wait it out. Not being a complete moron I decided not to holler into the darkness while sleep paralysis demons are patrolling the woods, then like two seconds later my guy cries out "Hey! Who's there?!" Lovely, always good to see I don't actually have control of my character. I also loved the part where I used up one of my lives in an attempt to save one of the few characters I actually liked, only for the other choice to get them killed anyway. Well, thanks for that the Quarry, I'm so glad I spent 60 bucks on a game that hates me for trying to play it...
"Press X to avoid verbal trap"
Sounds like the wet dream of many, many people
however its quick time event you also have to wiggle the analog stick weirdly and wildy
I find that rapidly waggling my joystick shuts down most conversations.
I think the rewind system just pops in after the first playtrough OR if you bought the deluxe version - because of course. Also it bugged out for poor Cohh, so the only character i liked still died in his playtrough.
the opening really nails the shame of the whole thing. videogames are actually a great medium for choose your own adventure books. like the choice of games are often excellent. because they realise the limitations of the structure and thus focus on writing and meaningful decisions.
and not on motion capture.
Definitely. Choose Your Own Adventure is effectively the entire core of the Sierra point and click adventure game genre.
I remember in one of the discord servers I'm in, this game got brought up, and one person in the chat googled how many "endings" there are to this game (to which there's like over 150 or something ridiculous) and they said something to the effect of "that's what I like to see." I didn't point out to them how over the top stupid that number was and how most of those "endings" are probably just the same endings over and over again with different characters alive.
I'm not criticising them for liking what they like, but I am seriously questioning what the average video game player looks for in a game, because I can't even begin to guess anymore.
For me, it is consistency. Controls that work consistently, a consistent artstyle for both the environment and characters, and consistent sound design and mixing. Bonus points for an intriguing plot and likeable characters. Major penalty if the plot is "it was all a dream" (with the exception of Link's Awakening).
@@chadschmaltz9790 actually, what makes link's awakening different from the rest in your opinion?
@@mrlaz9011 the way I understood Link's Awakening is that the game is set inside the dream of the Windfish not inside Link's head. So the entire adventure actually happens to Link, it's just contained in a small pocket dimension created by the Windfish. An example of the dream trope I don't like would be Super Mario Bros 2. That game occurs inside Mario's dream, but none of the characters (Luigi, Peach, or Toad) actually went on an adventure or even knew about it.
There's 1 ending with different characters dead or alive
@@AdamSmasherReal are there seriously that many characters that it ends up having that many options? Geez
I’m reminded of a video I watched on this very channel that was discussing the anatomy of horror movies. The host ended the video saying “Why don’t they call the police? They don’t call the police because that would be boring.” He said it like it was some kind of bombshell. If people have to make dumb decisions for the plot to happen, then it’s probably not a good plot
Agreed. I believe it's known as an Idiot Plot?
Nowadays, the answer to the whole "why don't they call the police" isn't 'they cut the lines' but 'we have no signal somehow' (or the whole evil police thing)
Yknow what, make them call the police.
Make the police arrive and get ambushed and eaten by the horror monster.
"Why dont they call the police" "oh yeah because A) we are being chased by a deer with 3 shark heads who is chanting baby shark is believable and B) the cops will survive their first encounter with the currently hunting lulladeer sharkberus."
And then you can say the further calls are being disregarded because "sir we already dispatched a team your way, please stop calling again."
Why don't they call the police?
Because the police will stand outside the haunted quarry for an hour or two doing nothing besides listening to children get devoured by monsters, because giving a damn about human life is literally not what police are paid to do.
Considering the name "Supermassive Games" is eerily similar to Supergiant Games, it makes sense that their approach to storytelling is an evil twin of innovation and embedding present in all Supergiant products.
I don't know which one is better "The Dark Pricktease Endoscopy" or "the stock sexy girl character in particular looks like she's trying to talk through a bagel that's been hot-glued to her face".
This one had much more than 3 recognizable faces but I guess Yahtzee isn't the type to recognize someone like Brenda Song
Lady from Orville was too tall and it confused me.
@@xelthos2051 Tbh I didnt watch Modern Family after the first seasons so I didnt recognize her grown up. But yea it was a good cast. I agree with most of Yahtzee's complaints about the game tho lol
@@xelthos2051 After watching the ending to The Quarry, I went back and re-watched her Collegehumor Dora three parter. Hilarious.
well that's because his getting old af.
I only recognised Raimi and the guy that played Dewy in Scream, the rest of the cast were just a bunch of annoying uncanny valley dolls to me.
“Do what would be sensible” is interesting in the context of video game characters so I went over all of my favorite game series and this is what I think the sensible thing would’ve been:
God of War: around the second game, Kratos kills the Greek sisters of fate and gains the power to control and travel through time. Instead of using this power to go back and rescue his family from himself, he opts to attempt to murder Zeus and gathers Titans from the past to aid in that. This was hastily retconned by the developers and story writers, basically saying Kratos was too damned mad to care or notice.
Dark Souls: the Curse of the Undead literally makes you immortal. Over the games history we’ve learned that provided an Undead has something to focus on, such as the blacksmith from Dark Souls 2, they can avoid going hollow indefinitely. Estus can heal any injury including life threatening ones, and even death itself carries no penalty for an undead provided there is a bonfire nearby.
I usually play these games only when a friend wants me to and my goal is to kill all of them as fast as possible.
Turns out Quick Time Events do fuck all for that
This whole series reminds me of The Asylum movie studio:
They found one gimmick that made them a Titanic-load of money and they kept going back to the well over and over to squeeze a few more pennies from it. And each iteration only results in increasingly diminishing returns.
I imagine the ability to rewind some decisions isn't very useful when you set things on the wrong course from the very first chapter.
I remember back in the 90s when RL Stine had “Choose Your Own Adventure Books” for his Goosebump series. It was quite nice but being an adult now the only “Choose your own adventure books” games I’ve enjoyed has been “Tales From Borderlands” game, which I quite liked the soundtracks they went with.
I watched a friend playing this today. In the Prologue, literally the FIRST time the male character opens his mouth and speaks, I was like, "Ugh. That's off." It didn't get better.
I'm on Chapter 9 so I'm saving the post-spoiler bit for when I finish.
Im listening to mogworld. I play this video and hear that voice and I think “is that Yahtzee?” Then I looked it up and I was like “neat”
l think the facial motion capture was pretty on-point actually, the dialogue was pretty horrendous/generic/marvel most of the time, but for the most part l thought their faces looked pretty good/natural
Perhaps Supermassive's next game should be a Lord of the flies-style story, only all the chubby stupid 20-somethings are nazis and so you've got the perfect set-up for an "all the characters die horribly and my god was it satisfying" style horror experience
Yeah, I want the reward for keeping them alive until the end to be watching them have the horrific, poetic deaths they're all supposed to have
@@MolecularMachine honestly I would probably actually play that game.
Yup, make it an inverse, where you try to pick the options that result in them dying, and failing results in an ending where some or all of them live.
@@Nyghtking "Ha! I lived! Suck one, Karma! I'm gonna go deep-fry a kitten for lunch!"
@@wesleythomas7125 "Come on gang, lets go set a homeless person on fire to celebrate!"
So King Bowserman did the Mario movie because he had bills to pay. His children, upon seeing the movie, said "we didn't need shoes that bad, Dad." Or so the apocrypha goes.
Now I'm really intrigued by Yahtzees take on Tolstoi?!
I do agree with him, but there is something magical about playing a game like this with Family, friends or significant other and having them make the choices and seeing their reaction. It’s makes the game even more enjoyable because everyone participates and gets suprised by the result. Not to mention getting yelled at for missing a button
Yahtzee wasn’t joking about the facial animations especially for the character Emma. Her mouth was so distractingly huge it reminded me of a door on the back of a garbage truck which was appropriate b/c every time she opened her massive maw verbal garbage would spill out. It was like listening to the combined inane ramblings of 3-4 self-proclaimed, self-absorbed “influencer”-types that pollute social media.
TRUE
When I played my only goal was keeping Ted Raimi’s character alive he’s the only one I cared about
Lance Henriksen met his second wife on the set of Super Mario Bros. so depending on your perspective...maybe?
"When your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground."
Or something like that. From Serenity, the Firefly movie
I'm a little surprised that you didn't mention the game barely has an ending. There is practically no falling action or anything, it almost jumps straight from climax to credits. I kinda liked most of the game but the ending was really unsatisfying.
"Press X to avoid verbal trap." So many times in life I could have used that kind of prompt.
0:33 Actually, 6. People know Ariel Winter from Modern Family, Brenda Song from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, & Justice Smith from Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom & Detective Pikachu.
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was like 20 years ago, how OLD are you?!?
@@charlottecorday8494 It’s still one of the most popular shows from Disney Channel & still remembered fondly, especially when the main leads are still in the spotlight.
"Do you think Lance Henriksen regrets doing the Super Mario Bros movie"
Being that his role in that movie was minor (and being that he's been in a lot of crap), probably not. At least, not to the same extent as Dennis Hopper.
Also, Yahtzee's description of the plot sounds similar to Tucker & Dale vs Evil
The fact you’ve kept the quality of this early to mid 2000s style of video consistent the last decade + is honestly so impressive.
This episode had me actually chuckling out load rather than in my head.
Chastise the wombat is my new favourite euphemism. What does it mean? Whatever the situation calls for.
You can tell Yahtzee still hasn't played House Of Ashes, Salim is definitely the most likable character to come out of a SM game in a while. WE STAN SALIM!
I feel like House of Ashes was the best Supermassive game since Until Dawn. It more than made up for the horrendous disappointment that Little Hope was.
@@GmodPlusWoW I enjoyed little hope
@@jakobkopeszki1741 Thing is, I enjoyed what it was trying to do up until the end, when it pulled the rug out from under us by abusing the "all in his head" trope, violently souring the whole experience. I say it abused the trope, since even though there were vague hints of that being what could be happening, the overall execution of the twist went against what the game had been setting up with its intriguing witch trial plot.
Sometimes you don't need a disappointing Scooby-Doo reveal. Sometimes it's ok to let the fantastical goings-on be fantastical goings-on, which House of Ashes understood (and why it fucking ruled). Little Hope threw all of its cool fantastical stuff out of the window, and didn't properly get into the whole "working through your shit" angle it tossed in at the end.
But let me clear things up: I'm not entirely opposed to stories all being in someone's head/all being a dream. After all, I loved Psychonauts and Inception, along with Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass. It's when you don't properly capitalize on the nuances, or reveal it right at the end, when it feels like a shitty hack-writing cop-out. Even if you don't set it up right from the start, I reckon you could still introduce the concept before the half-way point. Though the earlier you introduce it, the more game-time you have to truly explore it and do cool stuff with it.
If anything, Little Hope squandering that missed potential makes the "all in his head" twist even more of an unpleasant titty-twister. Which is why Little Hope is the worst Supermassive adventure, and why House of Ashes blew it out of the fucking water. Because House of Ashes turned into a fun sci-fi horror romp, and didn't toss out all the fun stuff with a shitty twist reveal.
I wonder why that is the only one he didn't review, maybe because it was just fine enough to not be interested for a review
While I don't hate The Quarry, I do kinda wish that Supermassive branched out into proper survival horror, whether it be in the Silent Hill style or the Resident Evil style. Hell, with their focus on character rosters, they could probably make it party-based a'la Sweet Home.
So the teens are the same ones from Tucker & Dale vs. Evil?
Only this time theyre the protagonists
3:43 shoulda given him white blood.
I don’t see the point in a movie mode when you’re already spend more time watching than actually playing
If there's one thing low budget cheesy movies have taught me, it's that if even Lance Henriksen can't be bothered to be in your production for very long, you've got a serious problem.
I played this game and was put in a dumb situation that is peak random. Theres a scene where you steal a gun from someone to escape them. Do the quick time events perfectly and you get away without trouble. I failed them on purpose to see if I'd be beaten senselessly and escape another way, but i tried that and instead shot the guy. Another character asked what I wanted to do and I was forces to leave him there to bleed in a cage insread of helping him, which led to another situation where I could make choices that meant buggar all anyway.
I was hoping last year we would get a house of ashes review cause I thought it was the only one since that got nearly as good as until dawn with a fresh premise. I thought the writing was okay but the setting and some characters really were cool
Quarry seems a lot similar to until dawn but still fun
Zero Punctuation prog rock track of the week:
*Spend A Life To Take Back A Choice* by *Supermassive: The Eternal Counterpoint*
Friends streamed these games and we got drunk which made them ridiculously enjoyable, but aside from the Iraq Invasion one (where an Iraqi Republican Guard is the best character, Salim) I can only imagine how miserable they are to play straight-faced. Every choice and line of dialogue are so laughable that you'd think they'd just lay into the humor aspect, but no, verrrry serious are Dark Pictures games... to the developers.
What Yahtzee said about the characters from Until Dawn made me look back a little more fondly on that game. The characters were just likable enough, in a schlocky, cheesy B-Movie sort of way, that gives you just enough incentive to save them all.
On the other hand, they are also all terrible and annoying, so it also gives you incentive to enjoy watching them all get brutally picked off one by one. Even the Hayden Panettiere character, who is supposed to be the “pure” character, isn’t a good person. Instead of stopping the prank that sets the story in motion, she effectively says “you guys are mean! Anyway, have fun emotionally scaring our good friend! I’m going to take a bath!”
I actually really like that balance for a horror/slasher style game. It’s only good for about 2 play-throughs, though.
Hey Yahtzee, I just finished "Will Save The Galaxy For Food". It was one of very few books that made me laugh out loud. Gonna try "Differently Morphous" now
Thanks Nate, glad you enjoyed it! I think you'll really like my next book!
Only thing I found mildly neat about the quarry was that narrator was abit more involved in the plot than until dawns at least
Was that a War and peace reference at 1.29 ?
No
Soo... they went from campy horror movie choose your own adventure, with some grim out of your hand surprises. To arcade moon logic, the lives we gave you means nothing adventure. Great...
It's worse because they're not really improving their process in any way that makes the games better, nor are they changing the story beats enough to make them unpredictable.
Was the comment in the credits about Lance Henriksen and the Super Mario Bros film a troll? 😂
I don't know if Lance Henriksen regrets being in the Mario Bros movie... but I'm pretty sure he regrets saying 'no' to playing Frank in the OG Hellraiser.
Now, if you don't mind, I'm off to commiserate the vole.
i thought that was kevin spacey on the box. did make sense but looked like him on the thumbnail
What's even better is that "misanthropic individual/group of people we seriously fear turns out to be on our side trying to help and protect us" was also a twist in HOME ALONE! Like talk about old hat!
I think _nearly everyone_ regrets the Super Mario Brothers movie; the actors, the director, the studios that financed it, the fans of the franchise, the non-fans who watched it...
Everyone except youtubers who get to point out weird and/or terrible media for a living.
Choose your own adventure...with training wheels. Yeah that sounds about right.
*Supergiant > Supermassive*
3:04 most likely is to you can try for the "best" ending without having to play through the whole thing again, not like it stops me from going to youtube once I get one ending.
Now I really want a game about a bunch of corrupt russian generals on a wilderness retreat being picked off one by one by a vodyanoi or something.
I was about to give up on The Quarry, but pushed through since I only had 3 more chapters left. What a lovely surprise when a few wrong decisions got my last 3 survivors left killed off and I ended early in chapter 10. Game has 100+ endings but hell if I sit through the annoying early chapters to go for any more of those. Game ended early for me so I feel like I got the good ending.
Game does not have 100+ ending and thats my problem with it. It has two endings you kill the monster with the predetermined characters at the end and the ones you kept alive live or you dont and everyone dies only difference is you have to restart the whole game to try again or chapter select. Its like the joke endings in nier automata yeah its technically AN ending but its not the end of the game. Really wish there were more then two endings ;/
there's a few distinctly different endings (or scenes that require conditions met) but most of that 100+ is just combinations of who lives or dies (or remains infected/cursed)
Zero punctuation of inscryption
"Do you think Lance Henriksen regrets doing the Super Mario Bros movie" What??
I actually really liked Until Dawn a lot as the writing was a little better, the characters had more going on (especially the actors' performances of those characters), and the lore in the game was far more interesting.
I bought The Quarry hoping it would be better but it's far worse for all the reasons Yahtzee mentions. Characters and writing are insufferable, the lore is really shallow and dumb, and the plot twists are so painfully obvious from the get go. I wasn't invested in any character nor the plot, so I couldn't care less when anyone died.
Also annoying and not mentioned is the fact that this time around, choices were so utterly random and came out of the blue so you rarely knew when you were even making an important decision or not. Even the tarot card thing was useless most of the time (but that could be by design given the story).
Wait, Lance Henriksen was in the Super Mario Bros. movie?
I am inordinately happy to see someone else who does not particularly respect this weird blandness. Honestly, I really don't know why we keep pretending the slasher movie is relevant, or why it's somehow supposed to be fun to keep bastards alive.
imagine they actually had a sensible option in and the game would end before it started like Far Cry 4
I've always liked your reviews and I feel like they're getting better by each episode. Especially the last few were so funny that I rewatched the jokes because they were so funny to me.
Great work.
At this point, I would prefer a stealth game where you play as the Slasher, hunting down a bunch of stock teen characters. Hitman-style where you get more points for the more elaborate methods of jump scaring them or leading them into obvious traps. The cornier the better.
Supermassive games are essentially a choose your own adventure Dragon's Lair hybrid
Exactly
I wish Yahtzee had reviewed house of ashes it was by far the best of the dark pictures
Oh really ? I have it but didn,t do it yet. I heard it was pretty bad but you are giving me hope.
@@Filux4 It's vastly better than the previous two, for one thing it doesn't do the "this was all a hallucination!" thing. The threat is 100% real, and the characters are all professional military people rather than teenagers.
@@thomasjoychild4962 I quite liked the twist in Man of Medan but yeah in the second one it was badly delivered
@@Filux4 yes, having two in a row with similar twists was the most damaging part for little hope. There is no twist ending in House of Ashes. The pacing is consistent as the characters are in constant danger with a goal. There is a conspiracy theory element as they are looking for WMD in Iraq 2003, it also has as well, some of the most powerful existential horror moments that made MY blood run cold anyway 😂 just the most well written by far. It feels different to the other dark pictures ones, beside the curator guy.
@@wagdog6979 and it's got a great bromance that leads to some characters (mostly one character, though) overcoming their prejudices and realising they're not so different after all, because shitty commanding officers are an experience that unites all soldiers. :P
Sounds like this game could have really benefited from a Tuck and Dale vs. Evil kinda approach.
And the evidence mechanic was totally pointless. I thought there was an aftermath with the police and you have to explain yourself why all are dead and you are covered in their blood. "No Mr. Officer, I didn`t do it. Here is a picture of a monster." but no. Just a podcast in the end credit scene.
Another great job, Yahtzee
House of Ashe was their best work since UD. The Quarry was a bit average.
I would never enjoy hearing "the media is biased against conservatives" in my games either, along side "hey listen!" And anything Duke in Duke Nukem Forever says.
Woah, a callback to the Brunching Shuttlecock's depleted-uranium beholder statue. Bravo.
I do not understand, that House of Ashes was clearly doing something right, I thought they were learning and improving...
but this one's one of the bad ones...
It's like that one lead writer went out for the length it took to made House of Ashes, and that was nice. He then kicks down the door and says "I got an idea." and everyone repeats the plot word for word and He goes "how did you know?". They all look at him in utter disappointment.
@@Rendo86 Agreed, the House of Ashes is good because it was so over the top so unreasonable that it became endearing. The Quarry was largely a rather serious one, which will never surpass Until Dawn as that 'first time' experience and things really got predictable as you said...hopefully the next one's funny enough.
Did not like Until Dawn.
Playing through Dark Pictures Anthology now, played for 5 mins trying to understand story, 5 more mins and I wanted everyone dead.
Haven't gotten to The Quarry but I'm sure I'll hate it, I already hate it before watch this because it's 70-fucking-dollars.
Wait. How is this $70? 🤦 Jeez I'm sorry.
Hope you get your money back
@@kadosho02 haven't bought don't want to until it goes on sale for at least $40.
I'm on console. I know pc is $60.
Yet no one wants to talk about prices anymore.
@@phantasydragon696 totally understand, price can be a major deal breaker. With a game like this. Definitely would wait for a sale if interested
Did they just rip off Tucker and Dale VS Evil?
Haunted quarry is also a synonym for wicked garden
Is Ted Raimi really 'recognizable'?
I still can't believe these games get so much attention
Supermassive still haven't made a good game since until dawn. They tried soooo hard with this but it honestly fell flat on its face cause literally none of them had redeeming qualities, the facial captures continually bugged out /weren't synced properly and like Yahtzee said the game was like "Oh no this person is totally evil better try and murder them!" Too often
I actually loved House Of Ashes.
I think these supermassive games could be much better if they focused on character growth with a more nuanced cast. The horror aspect of these games just doesn't work for me when the characters in them are such jerks. There's no tension from potential death and instead the horror feels more like a bunch of jumpscares as a result. I know the slasher movie influence is why the characters are generally such horrible people, but it doesn't translate well to video games unless you're playing as the killer imo.
Sounds to me like your time would be better spent watching Tucker and Dale vs Evil.
1:37 This is caused by the fact that
1) as humans we are all _very_ well subconsciously trained in looking at human faces and spotting anything even _slightly_ unusual, such as a slight blush or a tiny side glance, and
2) while they kind of approximate it, video games don't _actually_ have realistic lighting, not even close, and our brains pick this up on faces quicker than anywhere else.
What Yahtzee is talking about is the fact that badly faked light occlusion inside the mouth (and probably badly faked subsurface scattering on the lips) make the brightness look all wrong. It's not the game's fault - it's hard to make it look better and run in real time. But your brain notices that something is off around the mouth.
This is actually going to improve sometime in the not-so-distant future, when GPUs become fast enough to - drum roll please - globally illuminate the faces 😁 No but seriously, check out Unity's 'Enemies' tech demo teaser to see how that can look when running real-time on a high end GPU.
While I do agree with Yahtzee's opinions about filling the entire cast of a fictional work with unlikable people, it's a little bit hypocritical of him to say so when I tried to read his novel 'JAM' and gave up halfway through because of the same problem. Everyone seemed to be either an ahole, an idiot, or both.