Diablo IV (Zero Punctuation)
Diablo IV (Zero Punctuation)
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This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviewed Diablo 4.
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This week’s episode of Zero Punctuation on the System Shock Remake is out now for YouTube Memberships and Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/early-access-85628552 Reminder that we’ve dropped the video player on the website and moved Zero Punctuation to be on the same schedule as the rest of our premium videos. Today’s post-zp will also be on Diablo IV now that our schedules are synced.
Hello, just an FYI, the closed captions on this episode are borked!
@CinnamonQuills If they are showing up as like one big text post, that’s on YouTube, not us.
I like how necromancers are very buggy. They now crash the game. Working as intended I guess.
I’m really surprised you liked the story of Diablo 4. Did you finish it? It’s basically just killing off 90% of the characters from the older games in feigned emotional ways with expectation that new players will have any idea who the 3rd quest giver from the starting town in Diablo 1 is, and then setting up Diablo 5 and/or an expansion pack. Nothing happens. I would say the story is a nothing burger, but burger implies there’s much there to begin with. In reality it was “Lilith is bad, stop Lilith” — to which your character says “okay” and easily dispatches her, then sets off to single-handedly take out the evil legion she was sacrificing everything to stop, like the story of every other Blizzard title.
Hello everyone. Anyway the blood of Jesus Christ against all fallen angels spirits with in any humans or by any humans who is reading this. The blood of Jesus Christ against you fallen angels heading for the lake of fire and the bottomless pit. In Jesus Christ name return to hell and return to the earth or 2nd heaven again.
I love how much humor he’s mined from being a summoner/necro main across so many different games
classic brit gettin others to do the work hahaha
@Landen Carr Fuck, now all the skellies have Polish accents in my head.
From Thinderella to here.
you could’ve said “dug up” .__.
Every now and then I wonder if Jim from Mogworld still lives in Yahtzee’s head a little
Liking it because you can listen to podcasts is the new “it’s fun with friends”.
“Fun with podcasts.” Yeah, that’ll be entering marketing speak soon.
Your mom entered marketing speak. She’s the new fun that never ends….
Temporally asynchronous friendships
That sounds worth 70$ maybe cop a battle pass or two and a couple of skins valued at higher price than the prequel and you’re gold
That was surprisingly positive, if only about the writing of the main villan.
which to be fair, most games these days fuck up very hard.
I don’t mind a Dick Dastardly type of villain, or Lord Dominator from Wander over Yonder, who are villains just because they are.
But to make them make sense, and give them valid reasons for what they do, and get some empathy from the audience, like many modern villains try to do.
Is quite hard.
Also because Evil does not exist, there is only circumstances, the Hero in your story is the villain of the victims story.
Yeah, being a co-creator of the world, Lilith makes a rather interesting villain.
@mozxz “Also because Evil does not exist, there is only circumstances” Handsome Jack from BL2 and Maligula from psychonauts 2 are good examples
@mozxz people don’t have to suffer in order to succeed, so yeah evil exists.
I mean, remember, it’s Yahzee – he’s having a good day if he doesn’t piss on the loofa in the shower xD
The game’s one of the Diablo games – it just had to *not suck as much as immortal* and, largely, did that – so it’s not surprising that he was – overall – positive
Asking simply that the world be less fucky than usual xD
“Nightmarish ritual of blood and tearing flesh” Well, I’m never going to convince my wife to have kids after that. Thanks, Yahtzee.
you could not show her the video i suppose
I’m assuming they watched it together or apart already, otherwise this wouldn’t be a problem.
blood and flesh is the least disturbing part, the amount of liquid that comes out when a baby is born is astonishing
“I came into this world naked and screaming and covered in someone else’s blood, and I aim to go out the same way.”
Well how else would you describe it? Seems pretty apt to me
The parallel between summoning a demon and childbirth worked way smoother than my brain anticipated, and now that I think about it, they are absolutely the same thing, from process to outcome
It even involves knifes half the time.
i feel like either you are delivering babies wrong or summoning demons wrong…i’m not sure which.
You are definitely fun at parties, aintcha
From other reviewers, it seems to be more dependent on the type of class and character build you go for. Certain ones will steam roll easier than others, like Sorcerer in Diablo 2, while others are like the Barbarian in every Diablo game with a Barbarian.
And just every other game with a barbarian. Prefacing this with, “easy doesn’t mean bad,” barbarian is easy to write, easy to balance, and easy to play. Not mechanically, necessarily, but conceptually. Everyone has sort of a uniform understanding of what barbarian is all about, and that’s what makes the designer-to-player connection so much easier to make. You say, “There’s a barbarian class in the game,” and I already have a pretty good picture. You say sorcerer or druid? I’m going to be asking clarifying questions. And if the designers thought sorcerer means something and players try to play it completely differently, the latter will have a bad time. Fortunately, Diablo has the benefit of a lot of hindsight to balance at least some of these, not to mention budget to throw at it, but for any new game, that’s a thing to pay attention to very carefully.
@Katherine K I enjoy the Barbarian take in Diablo 2, simply because it focused so much more on a leader or scavenger playstyle which I don’t see all to often in other games. Shouts to buff teammates to ridiculous points, and to cut down the time grinding for specific gear.
Still laughing about asking the actors on the ghost ride to wear less scary costumes.
Unfortunately your mom can’t comply, it’s not a costume 😂
I also legit laughed at that.
It’s like people asking fromsoft to add difficulty options.
@cibo I asked your mom for difficulty options from soft….
This definitely breaks my weekly habit of rewatching last week’s video on youtube and watching the new one on the website. I’ve been doing that for years! But I get the thinking behind it, and it makes sense. Best of luck to the escapist team! you have a new patreon supporter.
Thanks for the support! Don’t forget to check out the new show as well 😉
You can always rewatch the previous episode.
@Salabar naaa… not the same 🙁
As someone who only ever watches ZP on YouTube, what the hell did I miss?
@Ed Shear’emthey released ZP a week behind when it was actually made so on the escapists it was always a week ahead now it’s re synched so YouTube and the website get it on the same day and you have to pay to get the new video a week ahead
That closing gag is gold
It’s a golden shower of a gag.
Gold plated toilet you mean! 🙂
Your mom’s gag is gold 😂
I’m sure it will just be as timely 15 years from now