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Brilliant episode this week, your best in a while I think. | |
i ultimately didnt want to get fable, and i probably wont now. the dog sounds like it will be annoying, a lot of stuff sounds pretty pointless, and apparently its the same as the first game. also you cant kill kids, but you can kill adults. i would like to be able to kill them, not because im a psychotic who fucking hates kids, but also i think that it makes the game inconsistent with itself. and because a lot of games do this, like fallout. and what difference does it make? will they look psychotic when you can kill children? oh but apparently killing adults is perfectly ok. back on track i would love to do something in the game where i can imitate something, like a world with only adults so i can imitate children of men NO! dont take me back ill be good! please put away the big needle and funny jacket! i meant to say i wish i could kill pretty much everyone and destroy the buildings like in mercenaries and imitate the apocalypse but apparently we cant do that because thats also psychotic, or maybe because theres "not enough processing power" well mercs did it why cant you? | |
Honestly, I normally tend to more or less agree with Yahtzee but write a sort of "yeah but" as a response. This week I really can't. He's 100% spot on. I got Fable 2, it was fun for a little while, I beat the story right as it was getting really tedius, and then traded it in towards Dead Space while it was still worth something. At any rate the only real points Yahtzee misses that I can see are: #1: He didn't make any comments about re-animating the corpse of Lady Gray from the first game and then having the choice to Marry her. I mean come on Yahtzee, I expected at least one comment about this. #2: He forgets to mention that there is stuff to do in the game after you beat the game. HOWEVER, there is one important catch. At the end you get three choices that basically coorespond to good, neutral, or evil. If you don't choose neutral you don't have the dog (which Yahtzee pointed out is a furry metal detector) which makes hunting down a good bit of the potentially remaining treasure in the game pointless. So basically if you went good (like me) you pretty much screwed yourself. Oh yes, and of course Yahtzee also missed the oppertunity to comment on the fact that the greatest treasure you can unlock for beating the game is (dum dum dee dum) a potion of gender reversal. In case your wondering if your like a dude and then come home to your re-animated bride of frankenstein wife and explain you really want to try the lesbian thing, they barely even seem to notice. :) That said, Yahtzee did a good job but had enough material to extend this a good minute and it was kind of annoying to see his glaring omissions. I wanted to see some well articulated bile on these points. We need a "Zero Punctuation: Director's Cut" for this week.... or would that be "Zero Puntuation: The Lost Chapters" >>>----Therumancer---> | |
Actually, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't. Granted it's been a while since I have seen the movie, but I don't think that ever happened. What part are you thinking of? | |
Yeah, I noticed that too. Between getting head from the vacuum cleaner, the comment about none of the women being willing to show their tits while having sex, and the blacksmith having to buy the house for his "cunt wife", I'm wondering what type of women he's been hanging around and if that has anything to do with this review? All in all, hilarious review. I laughed pretty hard. | |
Oh. Well in that case, it TOTALLY makes sense. Seriously, please tell me you're kidding. Have the game writers/designers been reading too many bad Anita Blake novels or something? | |
Great review as always, I watched the ending 5 times and I'm still laughing out loud, can't wait to show my brother. Finally a truthful Fable 2 review ;) | |
Awesome. I did do some donuts on memory lane this week, although I didn't know Yahtzee did the Darkness before Fable. Anyway, fantastic way to destroy a game that's been getting way too much praise. (much like every videogame these days) | |
A great review Yahtzee, Wednesdays are always good days. I find it quite funny that people pressing refresh on the website waiting for your review creates such problems. Why can't people simply wait a few minutes before trying. | |
I'm probably thinking of a different film, but I was sure at one point a child was accidentally shot... No, I think I'm thinking of a different film, sorry. | |
You should watch the Darkness review, where do you think the imp comes from? | |
I feel the same. I found myself withdrawn from the humour in the review as I was wondering why it was so unnecessarily harsh. It is a good game, simplistic, but accessible, witty and fun. I think it's one of the more polished games I've seen with so little frustration it helps gloss over it's short-comings. | |
Hilarious as always looking forward to the review for Left for Dead | |
The way I see it is this: Yahtzee is my hero, but I still like Fable 2 and Halo 3. That's because it's his opinion. You don't have to guide your life by his ideals. He has his opinion and you have yours. | |
I love you | |
You should review your sponsor... and Gears of War 2... | |
I feel the absurd, and completely pointless need to inform each and every one of you that you replied to this video, according to the on-forum times of posts, in less time than it takes for the video itself to elapse. I dunno, call me out of my mind if you must, but don't you feel any shame in blatantly pandering to the lowest of base instincts, or metaphorically jumping up and down on this review's conference room table yelling "FIRSTS!"? Honestly, it's tiresome to say the least, and irritating as hell to be more elaborate.
Actually, he's probably complaining because a service that users have a reasonable expectation to function is failing. I don't think he's right in doing so, personally, but he's correct in saying it shouldn't go down, regardless of how, when, or why.
Were you even paying attention?
Game mechanics' errors are allowed in favor of most jokes. Personally, the "mono-button gameplay" thing does make "tape button down" joke at least partially funny. If that's your kind of thing, at least.
Since posts like "QFT" are disallowed, I must say, good freakin' show. Quoted for the truth of it all.
This isn't 4chan, please don't fill the boards with stuff like this. Makes things awfully untidy.
Fall-out 3, Mirror's Edge, LittleBigPlanet... There are so many games to list, it's pointless to figure out which he'll do next. Just let it run its course...
I'm naturally inclined to disagree here, Qayin. Mostly becaues Yahtzee has always made a lot of reviewing concessions in order to force humor into his "reviews." While I'll agree that it has been more common recently, it's always been a factor. Yahtzee's reviews lost integrity when they became primarily for entertainment and secondarily about reviewing the game. Humor is acceptable in a review, sure, but humor as a review has already compromised itself. Also, I do agree that Yahtzee's gotten a bit too gung-ho humor, and not nearly enough "in-game review." Rewatching his Force Unleashed "review" is proof enough of that.
Also, note that games like Fallout and GTA have always allowed the user to kill children. Except, most notably, in Fallout 3... Are we seeing a trend?
This again? Let him pick whatever game he wants... ------- Stand Alone Post Here's the thing about Yahtzee's reviews as of late. They've been primarily lacking in the... oh, what's the word? Oh yes. Review. They've been primarily lacking in the review department as of late. I'm not sure if its the obscene need to force just about any flavor of humor into a video regardless of whether or not it will fit, or if that making a strong, structured review is something that isn't terribly necessary for this, but it does seem like there was a point where Yahtzee had found a good middle-ground between humor and in-game commentary, but the quality of these "reviews" waivers more than a drunk at a sudden field sobriety test. Ultimately, it boils down to the humor seems forced, the review content isn't very content-rich, and I'm somewhat tired of wondering whether or not it'll get better. I'm beginning to wonder whether or not watching the next review will be worth the effort. Doubtedly, but I'll probably watch it anyway... I'm such a dunce. | |
If you get raped as a child you should be able to. | |
well i know what im not buying this wenedsay | |
Well, if there is one thing I can agree with Yahtzee, it's his line about love interests in the Silent Hill Review. For what reason do you need some shallow and bland romance subplot that has no connection to the actual game whatsoever and will never be mentioned again after you have comquered your love interest? I have never, ever seen a game (except the obvious Dating Sims of course) pulling this off - even in the old school (i.e.: still good) RPGs - without wondering whether this was shoehorned into the game at the last second per order of the invisible pigeon holding council because games are forced by law to have a romance sidequest or if it's just a programmers chore between "mandantory sewer level" and "arbitrary fetch quest #928372" BTW: I actually liked Fallout 3. It may forever be trapped in Limbo between the heaven of Fallout 1 + 2 and the hell of Brotherhood of Steel and Tactics but hey. If it wasn't for the buckets full of bugs, the insultingly short main quest, the insultingly stupid end and of course Bethesda's inability to write good dialog if their lifes would depend on it - it would actually be the best game I saw this year so far. | |
It's like he's already admitting defeat by doing so. | |
Good thing humor is such a subjective thing, isn't it. I'm always amazed (well, always is the wrong word. As is amazed ... at least in a positive fashion ...) about the completely redundant posts about this (which is: every) video being the best, worst, better/worse that the last one and of course finally back to his roots but the old ones, which sucked, were way better. I simply take the videos as what they are: pure comedy. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. Besides, Jesus never defined what a video game review should look like ("Thou shalt have a score up to ten and ten shalt be thy highest number") and I consider reviews as pure opinions from people I don't know and thus don't care about anyway. There are enough serious reviews out there, even on this very site. As are demented YouTube comedians and webcomic "artists" trying to ride the gamer stereotype wave into oblivion. No need to shoehorn more of either into this. | |
I could not agree more. Sums up my feelings on Fable 2 perfectly. | |
Hello Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, I havent posted on here before but first off, hats off to you (no pun intended) i enjoy and wait eagerly on ur videos each week they amuse me very much, my brother first put me on to them, to my much enjoyment. Well anywho, just wanted to commend u on a super job ur little 3-5 mins of pure enjoyment fill my little hole that we call a soul full of pleasure, i walk blissfully unaware after watching them, better than watchin six hours of coloful tv with fluffy bunnies. Back to gaming but (this sounds like a love letter now so i'll stop)... i'm a moderate gamer and u kinda have an influence over me (by the power of grey skull dam u lol) but i got gears of war there, 2 days of pure enjoyment, when me and the bro were playin online, and when it got to the cut scenes we made up are dialouge as u doo!! (bit were dom, find's his girl in the drill bit from a bosch drill.... she totally turned into a koren,... well we thought it was funny.... (south park accents in tow lol) probably have to be there lol... so please give gears of war a gooden... or rip it still be funny.. havent really got a point just that i've game's in my little mind that i want hopefully get them before i see a review from u, no offence, its wat u do.... cant wait for prince of persia ... they all kept me up for days.... think school went out the window them days lol... also tomb raider is lookin shockin... fun wise prob done in about 4 hours but still good like... well thats it!!!! gggdddaaay! | |
"Why can't I marry my dog?" about made me choke. | |
Honestly, I wondering the whole god damn time how that dog was still alive, I mean shit, my dog is 16 and can barely hear and had some walking problems for a while. Then the other weird thing... is that if you have a child before you go to the spire (where the child is born the next day after you have sex), when you come out of the spire after 10 years, your kid is 9 years old. This game has no concept of time. | |
Huzzah! The adverts are back! | |
Firstly NewClassic, Secondly, Thirdly, (and by far not least) Well sorry to Yahtzee for going completely off-topic, but some people just get the worst of you sometimes, ya-know? | |
I was also excited at a potential 7 minute long edition of Zero Punctuation, only to find those god-damn adverts are back! :( Great review non the less dude! | |
i thought the game was really good but as yahtzee said it himself he does have unreasonable standards regardless that was a funny video | |
After seeing SR2 last week, I figured this would be next...and I'm glad I was right But my god that's a scarey PM head. Makes excellent comic sence, but still scarey =S | |
That was...what's the phrase I'm looking for? Public Flogging? No, not quite. A ruthless, Chaotic Evil, teabag the corpse Counter-strike style BOOM HEADSHOT total fucking massacre of Peter Molyneux's fragile sense of self-worth. That's it. And I laughed my gods-damned ass off. | |
I beat this game in 2 days, way before this review and had exactly the same thoughts. Fucking hilarious though, I wanted to kill my children but unfortunately I spawned immortals. Plus most of the quests felt like chores and god knows why I would want to save for everything if you can't do anything with it. | |
Ok review. It used to be funny to watch him hate on games, but after a while the joy ears off. The fanboys on one side of the line defending the games get annoying and the jerkholes on the other side agree with Ben...well.... So the review was funny, but by now its old. The only thing i still lol at is the rare occasion when he compliments a game because of how annoyed he sounds at having to give the game its due. It would be interesting to put the ability to kill children into the game, but then again why not let you rape people rather than seduce them? Although as i pointed out before a lot of Bens fans come across as parroting sociopaths who are at this point probably saying to themselves "Hey! I dont mind games that let you kill children! Yahtzee supports murdering children then so do I! Haha. Freedom to be a sadistic psychopath and live out my twisted fantasy! Haha."
See Exhibit A above. | |
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See above, issue is interactivity, not the content itself.
Hell, Pulp Fiction had a child being shot, but wanting to and actually shooting a child in the head yourself, is really pushing the limits.
You wouldn't want child-rape in your games, you shouldn't absolutely need to put a bullet in their head, or cut them up, either.