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It was a funny review. Doesn't mean I'll stop watching though. :D | |
Reported.... FOR ROCKING TOO HARD! | |
No, you're not the only one. | |
no surprise he likes cod4 | |
So having not read all the rest of these posts i'm going to assume he wasn't paid to do this review which might also explain the lack of enthusiasm in his reviewing charm. In future time I suggest we stop whining like arrogant people and let the artist review one of his personal favorite or most hated games. Also congrats on getting a blog into PC GAMER magazine, bravo for you. I to agree the portal thing is getting old. | |
THAT was un-fucking-believable Yahtzee. Sat and watched this one fourt times with four different people and every time had to watch it a second time because we were constantly laughing. Absolutely amazing. | |
Well, this one was still worth watching. I found it funny. Very funny. It's just that ZP usually trancends humor and brings us to a cathartic higher plane of good-natured bitching. But, I can understand the reasons behind this one not being as good as the rest (resident evil:UC, for example). He still managed to squeeze out the great joke about the weasles. | |
Hannibal Lecter said: Great review XD | |
That review was awesome (the "cry mich ein river" thing was hilarious) but the comments were closed due the usual pricks starting patriot-ranting and asking "oh yatzhee, you carismatic stallion, why so much hate on the americans?" And I don't want it to happen again.... Anyway, I haven't played the multiplayer but I'm sure It sucks since it doesn't have the charisma of Team Fortress 2, best multiplayer FPS ever. | |
That was awful. | |
Didn't anyone else notice the sounds of little kids laughing as you walk through the playground. I know they where laughing, I can hear them, but you can't because their laughing at me I tell you, they know about what the government has put in my brain, well they'll pay, they'll all pay. Great review and I must admit I agree with most of his points like nearlly every other week. But I have on request, Don't do requests. CoD4 shouldn't hve been reviewed. For starters its been reviewed to death and nearly everyone knows about it (everyone being the halo fanboys who pick on its every problem and the CoD fanboys who praise every little bit of greatness). Second their are very few things to pick at. I felt like the gun reloading joke was added on to fill up the video for a little while and you didn't realise that everygame has long reload times for the big guns. So what I'm saying to yatzee (as if he bothers reading through this crap but atleast I can feel like I'm doing some good in the world) is to not bother doing what random people on the internet preasure you into doing. Chose something that you want to do and that you will be able to make a funny video of. And yes I do realise that the last sentance is preasureing him into doing something BUT SHUT UP. | |
Love for a game *and* funny with minimal wanking imagery?! Yahtzee you ol' softy, you're on a roll! Keep up the good work! :) /S | |
Wow. I may have to try out this game after all. Good to see that they don't make every situation out to be patriotic. | |
I find it funny Yahtzee gets narked on because he makes a couple statements about the American characters, but I'm not seeing anyone work themselves up into a seething bile of hatred because of his remarks about the Russians, Iraqis or Brits. :P | |
Hey does anyone have a YouTube link, I can't watch it because my PC has no sound and so I have to use my PS3. | |
Review football manager! | |
Another marvellous review! And another good selection of music as usual! *claps* | |
I loved the review...But I think the ending is perfect...It echos all of the anti war setiments dropped into the games that even if you get the job done u can breath your last breath unloved and so far away from home when you thought you were safe | |
Redpill357: As for the review: But yeah, I got CoD4 for the multiplayer and was happily surprised by a good singleplayer campaign. Unlike a certain Unreal game I know... | |
Great work! You should really consider saying something about the online gameplay. It is a huge incentive for FPS fans seeing that multiplayer is the only thing persuading us to buy it instead of just renting it. | |
I disagree, it was good he reviewed it, this is why I started watching Zero Punctuation in the first place, because he is a critical curmudgeon with high standards. Even though I generally don't like mainstream gaming culture, I suspected that there had to be SOMETHING good about a game that was loved by so many and won so many awards. However, whenever I read reviews it was as usual only about the goddamn shiny graphics, the Frames Per Second, how good it was compared to earlier games in the series, and how awesome all the pew pew pew stuff was. No mentioning of any possible gameplay flaws, no mention of whether it had any plot to speak of, something that made me suspect that it was in fact reviewed by the fanboys you mentioned earlier. Also I suspected that it would be full of flag-waving and "war is so totally cool" attitudes, something that turns me off any game or movie no matter how good it is otherwise. Yahtzee got straight to the point of all these things, and amused me in the meantime. I may actually buy this game after all, I will at least give the demo a (second, honest,) try. This even got me over the smoldering resentment I had over the hatchet job he did of the Witcher review. ;) | |
not played it yet not my gametype but its in my cue list. As for his comments over the army people...he's making humor people you don't have to dissect every lil comment. | |
Yes, you are :) One thing could have been improved however. The short image where you see that line, comparing the greatness of CoD 4 to Jesus and Portal, I think that instead of "CoD4-Portal-Jesus" it should have been "CoD4-Jesus-Portal", I thought that that would have been funnier. | |
no he's not | |
Great review, thanks. | |
the only thing that buggs me about this review is that yatzee dosnt seem to understand that the war in unspecifiedstan is a diversion so the yanks are to busy to help the "good" russians in their little civalwar. so the game is really about russia and not the middle-east. | |
Not everyone likes the same things in games, I'm sure Yahtzee felt this was a refreshing change from the usual nigh-unkillable characters in FPS games, as well as the message which you found so offensive. (although admittedly, anyone who doesn't know that nuclear weapons are generally undesirable and cause long-term harm and damage even to survivors is probably too stupid to own a computer) Also, 30 seconds, in terms of a whole game, cannot reasonably be described as "a ridiculous, ham-handed, pointless waste of gamer time". Compared to the godawful platformer section in Max Payne where you follow a trail of blood with a looped soundtrack of a baby crying, or indeed, any of the fetch object X from location Y to numpty NPC Z missions in RPGs, it's a miniscule amount of time, vaguely equivalent to a cutscene. As for the jingoism thing and your spirited defence of your countrymen in the military, maybe the reason I feel these words are hollow bleating, roughly equivalent to the labelling of rational, critical thought about the actions of your government being considered "unpatriotic" is that I'm British too, and we have a long history of Americans coming into a war late, or dragging us into a war, which our leaders allowed through some sense of misguided loyalty or an expectation of some kind of quid pro quo, or blowing us up because of bad intel and twitchy trigger fingers AND THEN ACTING AS IF THEY WON ALL BY THEMSELVES. The USMC and other branches of the US Armed Forces are no doubt brave and patriotic individuals, but they have been involved in some proper Charlie Foxtrots in the past, with the tendency to approach wars by throwing resources (money, tech, ammunition, young impressionable men and women) at a problem until it disappears. Since the end of WWII, when Britain was damn-near bankrupt, our Armed forces have had to make the best of the resources they have. The SAS are world-renowned amongst the world's special forces for precisely this reason. They also tend to be comparatively quiet individuals, unlike the hoo-rah marines. People don't dislike America because they're insecure, or because they hate your freedom. There are dozens of good reasons, economic, cultural and political, for which someone might want to see you all perish. I don't, because I know enough Americans to know they aren't all mouth-breathing SUV driving 'tards who love guns and fake tits. | |
It seems that for the more "political" reviews, everyone pulls out their historian hat and proceeds to lecture the rest of the internet on how stuff really went down. I can't say it's not tempting, but can't we all just hold hands with the triple-****ed hooker, sing Kumbaya and get along? | |
As long as Yahtzee is an "aussie" with a "british" accent who reviews games with american soldiers in it? Forget it! All the trigger happy guys crawl out of their holes and cry conspiracy! ;) | |
very funny review for a good game... now review Final Fantasy :P we should all ask Y to review a JRPG, it will probably be very funny =D | |
It's possible that while replying to liberalfascism I've made my self look more of a prick than I actually am (wish to appear). Apparently Benny Blanco has better grasp of rhetorics, but I'd like to note that not so many A-haters would like to see USA actually "perish" from the face of the earth. Most even agree that America has a few nice things too *sarcasm*
Hey it's not just some [finger quotes]british accent[/finger quotes], it's quite authentic.
You just like to see people getting pissy over trivial matters, don't you? | |
That review was hilarious Yahtzee is always funny.Next time why dont review Devil May Cry 4? | |
Amen. Also, at the risk of impalement, No More Heroes? | |
In Reply to xithrix: And I thought Yatzee made it clear in this review that he doesn't like to be told how to do his job, obviously you didn't listened... It was better when he reviewed the games he wanted to review, I think that Yatzee was not even happy when he was making this review. But oh well, people will ignore this post and they will still post what games Yatzee should review till he accepts... | |
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You have got to be joking me. Compared to the pathetic FPS offerings we have been reciving since Duke Nukem left us, this game was just one of the best FPS's Since well duke left... What can I say it had me wanting to play it over and over just to bomb the poor little idiots running out of the church. It has the most varied, aww inspiring, OMFG gameplay I have ever seen in a FPS. Yes the mulityplayer is no Halo killer, but the Single player story line beats Halo (I dont care which one you pick) all to hell. I played this thing on my brand new custom built PC, and belive me it has to be one of my most played games (1/4 the load time of 360 :P ).