November 15, 2023

[PREMIERE @ NOON ET] Alan Wake 2 | Fully Ramblomatic

It's finally time!

Let's get this show on the road with the premiere of Yahtzee's brand-new legally distinct show, Fully Ramblomatic.

Premieres in just over 30 minutes and it would be great if you could help share it far and wide to get the word out... Yahtzee is back!

Alan Wake 2 | Fully Ramblomatic (YouTube)

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Durant · November 22, 2023

My brother and I have been watching your show for years. No way am I prepared to let that stop now. Take my money and continue the show for when our nephews get of age to watch the archives.

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Erik · November 21, 2023

I'm so happy to finally be able to support ZP/ Fully Rambolmatic directly. It was the only reason why I had subscribed to The Escapist. I also look forward to Extra Punctuations. All the best and good luck.

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Nicholas Koceja · November 20, 2023

I'll be honest. It was you, Mr. Croshaw, that brought me joy in watching a game review. Started with seeing the review of Psychonauts at a friend's house (and promptly receiving a copy of the ps2 version from said friend), and although I've kind of dropped off of watching them on the Escapist, I'm glad to see you're back, and I'll be watching a lot more. Any show that picks you up is worth the money spent, so of course I had to support Second Wind. I hope to see many more of these. starting from the beginning :)

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onesmashedpotato · November 19, 2023

Was thinking of "patronising" the escapist. Happy to "patronise" Second Wind instead.

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Minatoet · November 17, 2023

I remember watching the first couple ZP videos when they first came out and went viral and “Fully Ramblomatic” being Yahtz’s website. That makes the name of this show such a satisfying deep cut that connects all the way back to the beginning. Very happy to support this new venture.

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Good @ Games · November 17, 2023

Worth noting that Fully Ramblomatic is *still* the name of Yahtzee's website.

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Moonwatcher13 · November 16, 2023

Heyo! Been a fan of escapist for years, so had to support this after what happened. Glad to hear this is fully employee owned and independent, its terrible that you were forced into such a position but it seems like this is really the only way to go if you don't want to end up a soulless money-printer. What always attracted me to Yahtzee is things like lack of scores and attention to detail on all the different aspects of the game, so its nice to see this hasn't changed. Quite liked the video presentation as a whole, the updated art-style gives it a feel of new while holding onto the best elements of the old. Really looking forward to seeing if/how the doggy gets incorporated! For the background colors, I liked how the transitions occurred (or at least it seemed to me) as the review transitioned sections. Started off red for initial thoughts, went beige for plot summary, green for game mechanics, blue for combat, then back to red for Finish. It seemed like a good way to introduce transitions. At the same time I would have no problems if y'all ended up going with something different or tried out different structures for the reviews over time or whatever. Since this is still a newish venture I imagine things will change up at first as everyone adjusts to the more creative freedom this affords. All in all very much looking forward to the future of all this! Super excited to see where this all ends up!

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Daniel Sandström · November 16, 2023

I find the red color a bit too agressive, otherwise it's good.

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fiend394 · November 16, 2023

I dont get all the people complaining about the change. I thought the video was good lol

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Kristian Hagberg · November 16, 2023

Been watching ZP since middle school(2009/-10-ish). Was never interested in supporting the Escapist due to it being to corporate. However now that you have gone independent I will 100% support! Love the episode!

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Maur Razimtheth · November 16, 2023

I love red but agree it does clash in ways that sound like they will be addressed. The other thing it brings to mind is that maybe the colored backgrounds should be less... random(?) and more tied to a certain mood or tone (red = mad/rant, beige = neutral/serious, blue = sardonic/joke, etc.)? Otherwise, I'm glad the intro/outro are no longer mixed to be ear-splittingly louder than the actual video. I also liked the rebellious, and sincere, PSA at the end and would love to see this (occasionally?) played with as some kind of feature/gag uniquely distinct to Fully Ramblomatic.

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Major Ward · November 16, 2023

As an avid watcher of ZP since 2007, I am so glad we still get to hear from YZ. I fully support and commend the walkout in solidarity with Nick but worried it would be the end of ZP. I was considering becoming a supporter so I could get the ZP eps with swearing uncensored but then Gamurs shat the bed so I became a patron of Second Wind instead!

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Pete3.141 · November 16, 2023

So I have watched Yahtzee's 2D stick figure, humorous critiques for longer than I care to remember and although I watched countless hours of content I was not moved to subscribe ect (I rarely do). However the way this team reacted to the circumstances, Stuck together and generally stuck it to the Cooperate 'MAN', moved me to join Patreon at the highest Tier of membership buy a founders shirt and make a comment. Keep up the good work you have more support than even the metrics would suggest...

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Blaqk .Shadow · November 16, 2023

Bum balls, wankity wank hahahha I was drinking tea sir, it spilled everywhere when you pulled into swearing from such a lively speech about your fans XD Loved this first review on the new format xx

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Jason Ho · November 16, 2023

Loving the colour pallet! Crimson and bloody!!

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Marcus Cowen · November 16, 2023

I love the background changes for transitions throughout the review. Glad you're ticking along and glad to be supporting.

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Tri Attack · November 16, 2023

Oddly enough, it took me a while to register the fact that this video had a new art style in the first place, and I mean that in the best way.

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BearNBird · November 16, 2023

Good first go everyone! I got feedback for future Fully Ramblomatic (From a guy whose been watching since the original ZP Youtube videos, if that matters) Primarily, I found a lot of the extra details on the characters and the background distracting. Stuff like the buttons on Yahtzees shirt, the gears on the background, and even just how everyone now has eyes + frames instead of just eyes. It makes the scenes more work to take in, and the sudden cuts more jarring as you have to reprocess a lot more information each time, and screws with the sort of "Flow" that ZP always had. I'm guessing that a lot of this is to make FR "resemble but legally distinct..." from ZP, in which case I'll take it as a growing pain. But if there isn't a legal reason why, is it possible to spend the first several episode experimenting with the animation and art? Side question: Is Yahtzee still doing all the animation himself, or does he have someone else do it?

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TitanicWang · November 16, 2023

Let's gooo

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Alexandra Gartley · November 16, 2023

Love all of this, trying to get better at tuning in when the prompts appear. Listened to the Twitch stream today and heard people didn’t like the red background. The beige used seems like a nice alternative to the yellow. Maybe turn it back to red when it’s a really passionate point Looking forward to Yahtzee returning to his uncensored self

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Bryce Smith · November 16, 2023

so so so excited. Thank you. And thank you for turning the music down

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Bryce Smith · November 16, 2023

new music is perfect btw

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ZanePlay64 · November 16, 2023

That was awesome, love the new Theme Song!

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Frisco Corvinus · November 16, 2023

I'll gladly pay for a man's right to swear on Youtube videos.

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T1ggles · November 15, 2023

feels very good to be back here and I am glad that the visual style remains (mostly) unchanged, I love the new dog graphic, sure hope Android doesn't rip this one off!

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Kraken · November 15, 2023

Welcome back, Yahtzee. I want to see a game where the Chuck Norris-stand-in drop-kicks the apparitions as they try to explain how they symbolize his childhood trauma about the duck pond/tangerine incident, now. The most recent iteration of Doom suggests there's a market. ...And, I seem to be absent from the credit roll. Validate my existence, gosh darn it.

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Bernard Gudowski · November 15, 2023

Order has been restored to the universe. Great work @yahtzee & crew. Windows Movie Maker doesn’t get enough credit.

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Matt88g · November 15, 2023

Sorry my name was there, I thought all the names were alphabetical, I didn’t see the names at the end, sorry

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Andrew McDonald · November 15, 2023

The Age of Imps is over. The Time of the Adorable Dog has come.

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Andre driem · November 15, 2023

I loved the first episode. I would suggest using a lighter shade of red for the background, as the current one makes the black text a bit hard to read

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Joshua Walker · November 15, 2023

Love love LOVE the first episode, guys! Been following ZP for years, and am so happy for your guys' success. I will be more than glad to support your new startup.

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Glagow gamer · November 15, 2023

If you are going to continue extra punctuation or something like it might i suggest the name RAMBLE ON

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Second Wind · November 15, 2023

Semi-Ramblomatic starts next week!

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William Alexander · November 15, 2023

Love the new redesign and look! Thanks Yahtzee!

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Keir Thompson · November 15, 2023

I’ve been a fan of ZP for years but today is the first time I’ve begun donating - really respect what you guys are doing - and great first ep - here’s to many more!

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noarch · November 15, 2023

Red does tend to further eye bleeding, but the other colors were fine. Got to admit, Pawlow kicked in and I expected the usual outro. :D

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BackPack Bunny : Game · November 15, 2023

Really enjoyed the new graphics and music!

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Tom Acton · November 15, 2023

Fuck yellow. Welcome Red! Didn't skip a beat!

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Emily Webb · November 15, 2023

Wanted to share that I like the red branding (both title and credit screens) but not the red background during the video--the more muted background shifts were when I found gags easier to see.

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Second Wind · November 15, 2023

Yup, we're going to make the red lighter in the video. We had a previous shade, but updated to be closer to branding. It'll be fixed for next week!

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Brandon Emerich(Brandroid) · November 15, 2023

even better than before!

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Mike E · November 15, 2023

We went full Persona 5 with the art style and it looks great.

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Hozi · November 15, 2023

More unnecessary swearing 🤬 please 😎

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Mad Stanners · November 15, 2023

I’m glad the yellow’s gone

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Patrick · November 15, 2023

Cheers guys. Best of luck

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Chestnut · November 15, 2023

I guess the Imp wobbled its last 2007 sprite now that you dont have the rights anymore

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Chestnut · November 15, 2023

So glad I procrastinated supporting you guys on Patreon back on the Escapist that it went full circle and you now benefit from it even more

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Matthew Shaffer · November 15, 2023

Excellent!!!

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ma_er233 · November 15, 2023

Glad to see Toffee officially joining the "Yahtzee's short form animated game review" universe!

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James Davie · November 15, 2023

Honestly I was expecting a Second Wind fart joke.

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Miepasie · November 15, 2023

Fantastic start I'd say, very excited for the future of Second Wind

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skeletonpower · November 15, 2023

What a great start! Congrats!

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Slade B. Kenney · November 15, 2023

The grand return of my favorite writer! So good to hear you agin Yahtzee!

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Larry Fix · November 15, 2023

The best kind of DOOM 2016 vibes to the music, big fan of the new series

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ryan evans · November 15, 2023

So good to have the old sweary Yahtzee back, no more bleeping for YouTube bullshit.

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Howard Flett · November 15, 2023

That was an amazing first episode Yahtzee! Also really loving the new music. Apparently the composer is a big Mick Gordon fan. And I'm entirely down with that lol

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Glagow gamer · November 15, 2023

While ill miss the style of the old videos it really listening to yahtzee that makes me come back week after week. That and the knob gags

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Sinnicle · November 15, 2023

It was perfect! So glad to tune into Yahtzee again.

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creativitofu · November 15, 2023

Really like the new intros, both for Second Wind and for Fully Ramblomatic

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creativitofu · November 15, 2023

Does Yahtz have any plans to redo the Sonic or Spider-Man episodes of [REDACTED] or will they just become some sort of myth?

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User1joja · November 15, 2023

Yay

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The Pod is Coming From Inside the Cast! · November 15, 2023

Hooray! What good fun that was.

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Owen Loeb · November 15, 2023

Hype!!

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Mark Musante · November 15, 2023

directly into my veins

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Kristo G · November 15, 2023

Yeah baby

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I'm not your Guy, Buddy · November 15, 2023

Now with a new hat. Seriously can't wait.

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Sir Douchbag · November 15, 2023

It's kinda unfortunate Spider-man 2 (ps5) got away needed Yathzee to piss all over it

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Ruxandra Mindru · November 15, 2023

It's back!!!!!! 💜💜💜

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Mark Siwek · November 15, 2023

So excited!

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MDO · November 15, 2023

Brand new? I remember when Fully Ramblomatic first came out! I’ve been waiting to find out what Twing Twang really was.

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Sir Douchbag · November 15, 2023

I think u should ask Ninja Theory 🤣

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Chris Morris · November 15, 2023

The hat stays!