The Escapist : Zero Punctuation Game Reviews

kaimera

The man made a funny. I liked it

Kinetic^

kaimera wrote: »

The man made a funny. I liked it

+1. It's a bit of humour, give over with the "oh noes he hurted my game" :rolleyes:

pixelburp

Kinetic^ wrote: »

+1. It's a bit of humour, give over with the "oh noes he hurted my game" :rolleyes:

I +1 the +1. Even if I agree with him about Eve outside of the humour, it's so counter-productive to feel angry at Yahtzee. Hey, he ripped Oblivion a new one but I still loved the review.

Seifer

pixelburp wrote:

I think people get irritated with what Yahtzee says because deep, deep down they know he's right, particularly about stuff like MMOs.

He is not right about everything, these are just his opinions. Some of them mightn't even be his opinions, he justs knows it'll be funnier to be inflammatory.
I thought the review was funny, have never played Eve though.

Bubs101

The responses from a few EVE fans earlier in the thread are clearly what Yahtzee wants. He loves infuriating gamers and his mailbag review (one of his best shows) is indicative of that. Getting your knickers in a twist over a Yahtzee review is the same as feeding a troll

silvine

MMORPG games are ripe for taking the piss out of. They all take themselves incredibly seriously and demand a lot of time and commitment from players.

Stephen

His taste in games seems to match mine pretty well - i.e. I hate all RPG's, MMO or not. Fable is a notable exception but that's more of a hack-n-slash action game than an RPG.

humanji

On Fully Ramblomatic he has a cartoon his girlfriend drew and he wrote, ripping the piss out of Ctrl+Alt+Del, for those interested (and hate web comics as much as me ). Here's the cartoon.

pixelburp

humanji wrote: »

On Fully Ramblomatic he has a cartoon his girlfriend drew and he wrote, ripping the piss out of Ctrl+Alt+Del, for those interested (and hate web comics as much as me ). Here's the cartoon.

You know what's most surprising? That he has a girlfriend

I kid, I kid. That's a spot on mimic of what the Ctrl,Alt,Delete comics are like. He really doesn't spare the knife with that comic.

thelordofcheese

humanji wrote: »

On Fully Ramblomatic he has a cartoon his girlfriend drew and he wrote, ripping the piss out of Ctrl+Alt+Del, for those interested (and hate web comics as much as me ). Here's the cartoon.

that's....that's.....beautiful

MooseJam

zp doesn't appear to be working this week

pixelburp

Naw it's working, this week's is "Too Human"

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/213-Too-Human

I know zero about the game so it was an odd one to watch

Tar.Aldarion

baldurs gait and the hammer made of ****. :pac:

johnny_ultimate

Last five seconds are made of win.
Damn escapist, the advertising is getting ridiculous (6 minutes of ad to 4 of content - urghh).

Necronomicon

You have to love when Yahtzee has nothing but contempt for a game, always makes for a golden review. I don't know anything about the game, but one of the most enjoyable reviews in a while for me.

Canape

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Damn escapist, the advertising is getting ridiculous (6 minutes of ad to 4 of content - urghh).

So? The ads begin after the review, so just leave after the good bit. :rolleyes:

BlitzKrieg

anyone else find it funny

yahtzee rips the sh*t out of every MMO, yet they advertise an mmo after his show

johnny_ultimate

Canape wrote: »

So? The ads begin after the review, so just leave after the good bit. :rolleyes:

I do, yeah. Its just a huge amount of ads for a short clip.

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

anyone else find it funny

yahtzee rips the sh*t out of every MMO, yet they advertise an mmo after his show

The most ironic was when he was reviewing EVE and the EVE ads were surrounding the video. Admittedly, any mention on Zero Puncuation is amongst the best publicity a lot of games get.

Jack Sheehan

This was a rollicking good review, fantastic gutting of this mediocre game.

Tar.Aldarion

The ad was pretty damn cool.

Jazzy

deadly review this week. love when he really delves into the developers brain to show wat twats they are.

and yes, why the f**k not make eternal darkness 2? ranks up there with Freespace 3 in sequels that should be made

Bubs101

Jazzy wrote: »

and yes, why the f**k not make eternal darkness 2? ranks up there with Freespace 3 in sequels that should be made

In fairness. it's a little rich for Yahtzee to complain that a studio didn't release a sequal when if they did he'd criticize them for not being inventive

Tar.Aldarion

Well if the sequel was inventive he wouldn't.

pixelburp

Bubs101 wrote: »

In fairness. it's a little rich for Yahtzee to complain that a studio didn't release a sequal when if they did he'd criticize them for not being inventive

Well a sequel to a game acknowledged as being inventive, creative & something beyond the norm is better than a cookie-cutter "gruff spacemarine in armour" shooter.

Kinetic^

Great review this week!!

cherryghost

it was this guys reason alone why i bought psychonauts

Shryke

cherryghost wrote: »

it was this guys reason alone why i bought psychonauts

And Beyond Good and Evil of course? Both are wonderful games.

silvine

deadly review this week. love when he really delves into the developers brain to show wat twats they are.

I disagree. Too Human is an attempt (alebeit a flawed one) by developers to create a brand new game with its own identity. The twats are the people who release lousy movie tie in games e.g. Transformers or flog a franchise to death by releasing sequel after sequel e.g. nearly every recent shooter.

RobertFoster

silvine wrote: »

or flog a franchise to death by releasing sequel after sequel

That's what Too Human was trying to achieve also. It's been billed as the first of a trilogy. Some speculate that they've held back on features in order to have a selling point for the next games. But, if this one isn't a success, it's possible the remaining parts won't come out at all.

I'm still waiting for Shenmue 3-5 tbh.

ghouldaddy07

pure class this week,he slated the game good and proper.