Quick Look: Zeno Clash II

some people are having a problem with it but the devs are working on a way to fix it

Tum-tee-tum, gonna check out what's on Giant Bomb, doo-dee-d-AAH! AAH!! AAH! AAH! AAAAAAAH!!!!

Welcome to every game Brad quicklooks ever. Actually, it's not just him, it's him, Patrick, and Ryan.

I totally understand when they miss some things when they're playing the games on live shows, but the fact is Brad played this off camera first and totally missed it. This happened constantly during the Chrono Trigger endurance run too, it made it pretty painful to watch at times.

It's not fun to watch people button past things and then spending ten minutes badmouthing the game for being unclear.

@homelessbird: I'm going to be fair and let him off because I totally thought that yellow bar was experience all the way up to Therium (and I did him first)

@brad these guys are from Chile. The ACE Team I mean...

it would be a funnier QL if Ryan had been on this yelling at Brad's lack of info

@gaspower: I still wish that series could be finished some day.

I just learned the FOV this game makes some people sick...

ACETEAM4LIFE. LOVEZENOCLASH.

I did not know this was already out.

Apparently, an online only release.

This looks as weird as it needs to be. The first game was nuts but left some plot holes. I'm looking forward to playing it when it comes out on consoles. Yo this PC version looks broken dawg. I know you want to show the best looking visuals but these PC captures run like shit on my monitor anyway. The UI and NPCs looked like an absolute mess. This may be one of those times that waiting for the console release might have been better for a more informative piece of game footage. Thanks for the video.

New rule: You can't be into this game while also rip on anime for their stories.

This video is making me physically ill. Maybe it's the FOV and/or the motion blur but huuurrgrblugluglhurgbrg.

The field of view in this game makes it virtually unplayable in my opinion. It is truly abominable.

FIRST PERSON PILE DRIVER!!!

In my experience melee games like this play exponential better with a keyboard and mouse. I think it would explain why Brad was having such a hard time with the controls.

it plays just fine on a controller.

And now for another installment of the FFVII Endurance Run.

Brad: "Don't worry, just because one guy's dead doesn't mean--Wait, is he picking Aeris up? What's the robot doing? And now he's picking up--Did I just die? What?!"

Patrick: "Once that started, you couldn't stop it. It's ostensibly like animation priority. See, it picked up Bartlet, and Arliss was already picked up, and since Clod was dead, the game ended. Now we have to go back and pick up that Ice Mattress we missed. Is that how you say that? Materal? Mattress?"

They also explain pretty clearly how you get skillpoints. From those totems Brad had no idea about what they do.

I don't think they explain the secondary weapons at all, but maybe I missed it because I don't have that chain one somehow.

In regards to the FOV issue, the developer promises a patch today for it.

Because yea, it's making me kinda dizzy just to watch it on video as well.

I'm like 10 hours in, loving this game! ACE Team went all out on making one of the most imaginative, surreal worlds ever in a game.

Yea it's great that somebody said yes let's fund this game.

I like Patrick. But they should have used Vinny instead. He balances out Brad nicely.

Chivalry for best melee combat, free.

That chain one is never told to you how to get it because the game's gotta reward exploration and doing its sidequests somehow! :P

You've got to meet up this dude at his shop, and he asks you to beat up Orosi to get the chain.

this game looked way better on Brad's livestream

I should love the look of this game!

But the FOV is making me feel sick & this never usually a problem for me... also this has the same problem as the last Transformers... THE IS NO EXCUSE TO HAVE PARTIAL CONTROLLER SUPPORT IF THE IS A CONSOLE VERSION.

@yesiamaduck: There is no console version out yet and that's most likely the reason for the half-finished controller support on the PC version. Even dumb "controller tooltips" need to be drawn first and they gonna have to do them for the console versions no matter what, but for a PC version stuff like that is pretty low priority. Once those are done they just gonna patch those assets into the PC version.

Or would you rather have them delay the PC version/leave out controller support until the console versions are out?

Is this how it is when you're on LSD?

There was a livestream? :o

Yeah brad livestreamed him playing the game for a little while yesterday. Was real nice looking.

The developers are aware of the controller issue, they're hoping to address it in the patch. I mentioned it to them.

@brad The moths can be collected to get some of the treasure the Moth Collector has hidden in house back in Halstedom (the house where a dude's leaning against the corner). He has 3 rooms of treasure, and the last one is hilarious when he doesn't want you to discover his...stash...

This is the Moth Collector:

And this is his house:

@assinass: his name is thiloc for the record (I just added his page on the wiki)

Someone on Twitter said you get skill points from the totems, although I feel like I've found more totems than I've gotten skill points so far.

Or you know the part where it pops up on screen saying an ally has fainted. "Maybe the pathing is bad"

Vinny cracking up in the control room at 6:50 after Brad's unintentional "flown the coop" joke is wonderful, because it was my exact reaction.

What the fuck was that? It's a beakfish with legs.

Never played the first game, this looked pretty neat. Kinda makes me wish games like Skyrim had melee combat like this now.

This needs to be played with not one but TWO Novint Falcons.

Also gotta play those tutorials!

I was pretty impressed by Brads Metamoq impression at the beginning, I think i'll get this pretty soon.

Oh and an update for people who suffer from FOV related nausea, ACE team now has now somewhat addressed the issue. You can also edit the .ini file to change all the FOV settings to your preference.

This looks fucking great. Bit of a shame Atlus just kind of sneaked it out there. I heard it's pretty buggy, especially on the co-op side which is pretty much what I'm interested in. I'll wait and see if all that gets ironed out, then I'll probably check it out.

@animasta: I didn't know you were a Zeno Clash character. Have you ever met Father-Mother in person?

Some totems are for the fast travel, I'm not sure if they give out skill points. But yeah, it's the totems that give you the skill points.

Its the tiniest minority but some people are getting a placebo effect because some YouTube douchebag keeps making a big deal about it.

@osaladin said:

There's a PS1 game called LSD. This is tame compared to that.

Yup, still horrifying.

I need to play Zeno Clash and then this.

@sarumarine: yeah that was always a letdown of this game. with how weird everything is around you, your character and his dialogue is surprisingly bland. this sequel for some reason doesnt look as fun as the first :(

That IS how you level the tribal totems give you points for you to put into skills, the game literally does not explain that which I think is ridiculous.