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Interesting...I may have to play this. I've been hoping for something a little bit more original in FPS' for a while. The fact that this coincides with what I've wanted is downright uncanny. | |
I hereby declare this your greatest pun yet. Well done, have an internet. | |
Wow. I usually don't give a damn about modern FPS games, but this review actually makes me want to play it. | |
I had the exact opposite results as you, I bought and installed the game after seeing the review, put everything on max (not a godly rig though),and it ran smooth as butter. Not a single frame rate drop at all. So id say the game is decently optimized but you seem to have a compatibility issue you can't figure out and its easy to blame it on the game. The mouse acceleration was annoying.....for the first 10 minutes until I changed my mouse settings and solved that problem. Honestly to me it sounds like you are nit picking. Yes the AI partners arn't as sharp as human allies but for AI i've dealt with worse (RE5). Actually I liked the fact ammo was scarce. It made things more tense but not in a brutal sort of way but more of a challenging. The story and gameplay meld quite well together in my opinion. I knew the objective because I listened to the characters and what was going on. Not once in playing the game for 2 hours straight did I not know what was going on or what I was doing. Maybe playing other shooter games with crap story's have made you block it out but if you let the game drag you in, it can be an intense, sad, and gripping experience. Yeah phosphorous is very blinding and that was the point. It is a very inconvenient and powerful element. You don't need to tweak your settings for every little thing the game throws at you to try and cheat your way through. | |
Sounds quite cynical and depressing. I'm intrigued. However, I will say Yahtzee is wrong in one respect. Dubai is awesome. It's the one place in the middle east I want to go back to. | |
Ah, so you ARE from Quebec. wait for it... | |
This is pretty much exactly what I thought of it. I was expecting another "America, fuck yeah" game with a multiplayer focus - then I saw pretty much all of the reviews state that the MP is perfunctory and mediocre but campaign is rich and has lots of replay value. And I was like: wow, it must be opposite day! I'll give that a try! Yep, it's pretty much true. The story is awesome. And the second my roommate gets done with it I'mma beat it again and make different choices this time. | |
Waiting for the fart at the end... Waiting for the fart at the end... ... Theeeeeere it is... | |
Actually no, but I see what you did there. | |
Any money next week's Extra Punctuation is about if the fact that games must be inherently engaging to be successful means that it undermines any tragedy in the story. That having interactivity destroys narrative because it isn't empathy but actual suffering because of having to interact and play out your conflict.If the fact it's impossible to feel guilt because whatever is creating it is mandatory and forced onto you. | |
I actually didn't expect a recommendation from this one to be fairly honest. A bit grim video,but I took it well and didn't laugh at it much(which I guess it's normal?). | |
Huh...I never even bothered watching a trailer for this game. I assumed it would be another generic "America, fuck yeah!" shooter. I guess I'll check it out after all. | |
It isn't often that Yahtzee says that the story to a first person shooter was good. The only reason FPS gameplay is getting bland is because we've all gotten used to FPS gameplay. No sense in reinventing the wheel. Now the area that many FPS can be improved is the story. | |
And I thought that was what all today's "brown-shooters" did. I hate it when games actively hate you for playing them. I get there needs to be challenge in the game and obstacles to overcome, but to be called an awful person for it just makes no sense! I'm just gonna leave this here: | |
"The turning point alone comes when Walker and the player unwittingly do a bad thing". That sentence alone made me want to pause the video and go out and buy this game. | |
Not sure what "Jam" is going to be about other then "an apocalypse... with JAM in it!" but what teh *bleep*, I'll look into it. I'd also look into this game but I can't say it sounds appealing to me, I know how bad this stuff can be I don't need a depressing game to tell me about it. Now to return to staring at the calender waiting eagerly for the day Fall of Cybertron comes out. | |
I do like it when Yahtzee has room to put on his academic hat and explores themes and thinks about them in-addition to entertaining us by pointing out video game flaws. | |
Don't overestimate the average viewer of ZP. OT: WoW. I want this game name now. Am i to understand this is the Silent hill 2 of FPS ? | |
Can a game make you feel guilty for doing something it told you to do? I have three words for you: Weighted. Companion. Cube. *Sniffle* (I wish I was cool enough to think of this on my own, but my wife brought this up.) | |
Having played the demo I was utterly bored before I finished it, but if it's a little more than shoot his face, then shoot her face, then I might get it out the bargain bin some time. | |
The funny thing is that this trope is closely tethered to the point of this game's story and is pulled off pretty well too. As to what that point is well - you have to play till the end to find out. Suffice it to say that the point certainly justifies the "You Bastard" trope being used. I'm pretty sure that if someone's going to play this game with the intent of "Ahhh, let's escape my dreary RL by shooting up some shit for teh lulz." then yeah, this game is definitely not for you and the trope mentioned is bad to you. So play some other FPS that tells you how cool you are instead and you'll have a much better time. However if you approach this game with the intent of say...finding out what it'd feel to actually fight a war without having to do so IRL - this game is pretty much for you and the trope mentioned really manages to bring that feeling up beautifully. It's all about what you expect from a game really. Thing is, there are already plenty of FPSes that tell you how cool you are for killing virtual monsters/NPCs. But this is the first FPS that seems specifically designed to get a very grim point across - one that is much more tethered to reality and does not exist to please your ego. Even if one of the game's endings, that you get to choose, does come off as insanely badass. | |
Finally, a curveball for Yahtzee, a game that surprised him so much that he had a hard time making jokes.
Wolfenstein was awesome but Brink was just annoying because every other game rips off another some way (oh it has guns doom clone), that's always been the case so it was just stupid for him to shove it down our throats. | |
well i really want to read extra punctuation next week... | |
wow an fps I am actually interested in never thought I would see the day (hat generator 2 doesn't count) also I now feel childish for laughing at the farting imps | |
And I yours. Also I was as surprised as the next guy that he seemed to give the game a positive review. | |
I'm looking forward to the Extra Punctuation that will cover this more. | |
*chuckles* ON TOPIC: Looking back as an adult, I see that the entire plot for that game was incredibly contrived and shit. | |
Well that was surprising -- I was expecting it to get butchered- - I played the demo and couldn't be bothered to finish it cause it was just so boring and repetitive - who would have thought that the story would be the saving grace of a dull third person shooter rather than its worst part. | |
I'm not a huge fan of shooters in general, and I have a very strong distaste for the modern variety, but this actually looks like something I might want to pick up on Steam sale. Crazy world. | |
Predictable, yet not entirely unlikeable. | |
Hmm, a recommendation, eh? Now that's interesting. I may have to pick this up at some point. | |
The fart noises made it. In all seriousness, halfway through this game right now and it seems interesting so far. The gameplay's completely standard, but the setpieces have been impressive and the plot seems to be developing into the whole Heart of Darkness thing talked about here. This is looking like a good one. Something to make everyone who bought it expecting another Call of Duty/Battlefield think. | |
I aims to please. ;-) | |
Yeah, PC gamer. And the steam gods are vice incarnate. | |
I ave to admit I was kinda expecting Yahtzee to rag on this. Perhaps I should give it a turn. | |
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