The Escapist : Zero Punctuation Game Reviews

Ciaran500 · 21-05-2008 7:29pm

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/57-Painkiller

Theres the latest one, site is having problems though

MooseJam · 21-05-2008 8:08pm

that was cool, I have painkiller might give it a go again

BlitzKrieg · 21-05-2008 10:22pm

I really liked that one, its him back on form clearly.

im...LOST · 21-05-2008 11:52pm

Really worth the wait. Very funny this week.

dazftw · 22-05-2008 2:48am

kill some d00ds!!!

kaimera · 22-05-2008 5:00am

v. good review.

Huzzah, shurikens & lightning!

pixelburp · 22-05-2008 9:09am

See? "Jump the Shark" indeed; that was very funny & shows that Yahtzee's best when he gets to review what he really wants to

BlitzKrieg · 22-05-2008 10:03am

my only worry is that it says at the end he's been sitting on that review for four months...maybe this review was before the *shark*

Necronomicon · 25-05-2008 12:40pm

I love reading the text bits at the end.

"Keep going on about Mario Kart mother****ers, it only strengthens my resolve"

MooseJam · 28-05-2008 12:02am

well I loaded up painkiller and it is a pretty kickass game, just completed the first 3 levels and will defo play through it all, have to say the box is way cool though -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pkbox.jpg there it is there, it opens up to reveal three disks each with a cool pick of a baddie on each disk and behind each disk, it's defo one of the best boxes I have, don't know why others don't put as much effort into the box.

kaimera · 28-05-2008 5:15pm

today

pixelburp · 28-05-2008 5:20pm

Yahtzee?

Reviewing a JRPG?

Has the world gone MAD? :eek:

johnny_ultimate · 28-05-2008 6:11pm

Good schtuff. Challenge Anneka! And love the sub in the credits "Hang on haven't we used this somewhere before"

And I still think I will be ordering the game very soon.

dazftw · 29-05-2008 2:41am

I find it funny even though I never heard of the game

Jazzy · 29-05-2008 4:31am

yeah good review. he always manages to hit the nail on the head whether ppl like it or not

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 04-06-2008 5:33pm

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/75-Oblivion

Stephen · 04-06-2008 6:16pm

Ooh. I hated Oblivion (and every other RPG ever made).

Mr E · 04-06-2008 6:40pm

Very funny stuff... just started Oblivion and agree with alot of his comments.

Necronomicon · 04-06-2008 7:14pm

Very good, much better than last week's which I wasn't too gone on. Pretty much agreed with his sentiments as well, which doesn't always happen (even though I usually laugh my ass off anyway).

I loved the paragraph on immersion.

johnny_ultimate · 04-06-2008 7:23pm

Yeah theres plenty to rant about in Oblivion and Yhatzee does a fine job. Spent many hours with that game (too many) but its insanely flawed: damn voice actors.

Plus

The Kinks.

MooseJam · 04-06-2008 8:31pm

good review, not too fond of oblivion myself

silvine · 04-06-2008 8:51pm

Disclaimer: I liked Oblivion.

His review doesn't really say anything that any of the other legit reviews didn't point out in the first place. Yes it is a little bland in places and they should have hired more actors etc but then we knew that.

Oblivion gets real good towards the end. It's fiendishly addictive, has a great score and combat system and offers more customisation than you can shake a stick at. And then there's the add-ons, side quests etc. All in all it's a deep game.

Dyr · 04-06-2008 10:20pm

tbh i got sick of the main quest in oblivion very quickly and the NPCs did my head in by and large, especially the extras. i cracked up when i saw that f***in crab conversation show up in yahtzees review, that did my head in.

*roots out oblivion disc again all the same*

pixelburp · 04-06-2008 10:39pm

Yeah I liked Oblivion as well, but most of Yahtzee's criticisms are fair. Good video & his usual funny self (I liked the Thief reference

). It should be interesting, with those criticisms in mind, how Fallout 3 will stack up considering it's by the same crowd (with the same engine by the looks of things)

Jilm · 05-06-2008 3:16am

Many of his criticisms of Oblivion are valid but it doesn't sound like he played the game to any great depth. He did the same with The Witcher, fobbed it off after playing it for a short spell.

Still he is here to entertain first and succeeds for the most part. Though he is spot on about JRPGs ...they usually are generic and shite.

dazftw · 05-06-2008 4:05am

Couldn't get into oblivion.. theres just to much. As always though it had me laughing!!

kaimera · 05-06-2008 5:13am

Barely started oblivion myself but great review

Kiith · 05-06-2008 5:28am

I personally loved Oblivion. Played it all night the first day i got it, with a friend playing it as well in the next room. There was so much to do, and the graphics were flippin amazing. Looking forward to hearing what he has to say later.

5uspect · 05-06-2008 8:45am

I also found Oblivion a bit meh. It just felt clunky and boring. If it had the combat of Dark Messiah without the bugs it would have been better.

Jip · 05-06-2008 8:46am

I thought I was the only one who couldn't get into that game, out of the 18 months I have it I've only played about 3 or 4 hours on a wet winters day and couldn't stick with it anymore. I think that's his whole point about immersion, it felt like a chore to do anything in the game.

Spunge · 05-06-2008 10:08am

Having never played morrowind when i got oblivion i was amazed by the big, totally free-to-roam world and ended up playing for about 200 hours(still wasnt finished), with an fx5200 (lol). I loved it so much.

But after i got a new gfx card i went back to replay it and although it looked great id done it all before so i just stopped playing.

he brings up vaild points such about the npc dialogue and the world seeming very copy+paste after a while. like it didnt feel like a real world.

Sarky · 05-06-2008 2:46pm

He's right, you know, Oblivion was just too much effort for too little reward. Every now and again I start it up just to see if it catches me this time, but I always end up getting bored and quitting. Whereas with Morrowind I start up, play for a while, and suddenly it's 6am.

Jack Sheehan · 11-06-2008 8:55pm

A repeat this week of the console rundown from a few months ago. If you're hungry for Yahtzee (that sounded less gay in my head) check out the second australain gamer podcast to feature Yahtzee:
http://www.australiangamerpodcast.com/mp3/Australian_Gamer_Podcast_123.mp3

He's just as funny as in ZP.

Dyr · 17-06-2008 11:15pm

ZP t-shirts /yay

http://www.splitreason.com/product/582

MooseJam · 17-06-2008 11:50pm

out of stock, must be popular

ciano1 · 18-06-2008 5:06pm

This week --- HAZE

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/93-Haze

Mr E · 18-06-2008 5:14pm

Very funny.

That Unforgotten Realms thing at the end was dreadful though.

humanji · 18-06-2008 6:21pm

It was pretty good. I don't get the things they have at the end. I think it changes everytime you play it, but everyone of them is ****e.

Jip · 19-06-2008 8:56am

I don't know, I got a thing called "Drawn by Pain" which was pretty cool.

pixelburp · 19-06-2008 9:23am

They're just random other video articles that the site seems to produce. I guess someone's possibly getting a tad fed up with Yahtzee getting all the plaudits and attention!

As for the latest ZP production, it was quite funny; though my self-imposed ignorance of this game left me cold to his various jokes

Mark Hamill · 25-06-2008 5:16pm

New Zero Punctuation today: Metal Gear Solid 4

kaimera · 26-06-2008 8:30am

Excellent review

Not a fan per se of MGS but doesn't detract from the review. Bang on form!

madrab · 26-06-2008 8:33am

yeah one of his better ones, full of vitriol

pixelburp · 26-06-2008 8:48am

Very funny stuff, and no doubt is well prepared for the backlash from Kojima apologists; that man is in serious need of an editor as Yahtzee mentions

Higgins113 · 26-06-2008 4:01pm

Man that MGS$ one was teh funnehs:pac:

humanji · 26-06-2008 4:42pm

That was a pretty good one. It's nice to see my sentiments of the game in animated form

BlitzKrieg · 26-06-2008 4:55pm

kaimera wrote: »

Excellent review

Not a fan per se of MGS but doesn't detract from the review. Bang on form!

I am a fan of the MGS games, and even by my standards MGS4 is stretching it in alot of areas that yahtzee hit bang on (review pending completion)

andgoodbye · 27-06-2008 1:27pm

I was too lazy to look through the 15+ pages of crap here so I'll just chip in with my contribution:
"I, being White enough to afford all of the consoles..."

Ahhh, political incorrectness to the highest degree

Ri_Nollaig · 27-06-2008 9:17pm

andgoodbye wrote: »

I was too lazy to look through the 15+ pages of crap here so I'll just chip in with my contribution:
"I, being White enough to afford all of the consoles..."

Ahhh, political incorrectness to the highest degree

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_collar

although id imagine it was done to get just the reaction you made

MooseJam · 27-06-2008 9:37pm

good review, I guess I won't be rushing out to buy a ps3 to play this

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