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Copy Clerk  Posts: 75 Joined: 26 Jun 2008     | |
Beat Writer  Posts: 191 Joined: 25 Jun 2008     |
Same thing really. That's what we call it here in the states because we're thick and we think "Parkour" sounds gay. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 175 Joined: 25 Nov 2008     | If he doesn't like falling so much, I wonder what he will say about the new Prince of Persia. ^_^ That's gonna be a good one. Hopefully it will come out in Australia before 2012 XD |
Beat Writer Posts: 191 Joined: 25 Jun 2008 |
Doesn't that give you some nostalgia? Remember back in the day when you could kill aliens/feds/minorities/clones/ghosts/goombas/gansters/cops with no reason to back it up? Makes me think of how racist some games were... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1054 Joined: 14 Dec 2007     | Eh, I rented it. Thought it was awesome. Never had any problems with fighting or platforming. But then again, I'm not half blind nor do I get motion sickness. Still a funny review though. |
Paperboy Posts: 16 Joined: 21 Oct 2008   | You can praise the creativity or original IP all you want but it still gets a review as "diarhea slide" whereas the high numbered sequels, although lambasted for being unoriginal and killing creativity, still frequently grab mediocre to high rating reviews. I think something really worrying just occured... |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 538 Joined: 9 Apr 2008     |
I dunno. Surely the SSX series, LOTR games, james bond games and some nfs games sure sucked ball hard didnt they? |
On the Record  Posts: 5542 Joined: 13 Aug 2008   | I'm just glad he mentioned it was an experimental game. I agree that the fact it wasnt the greatest game may be becuase of that fact. How many times did Edison fail before he creted the lightbulb? Although I will say that for a game that was supposed to be based completely on free running on the rooftops, a tunnel level hurts me. I will give them that if you are trying to avoid the police a tunnel may be a better bet than a roof, but for a free-funning game it's a bit silly. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 6 Joined: 3 Dec 2008  | i liked the review but i may still get it anyway (though it has moved down on my list of games to get) because it just looks so different as you i really want to see Gears of War 2 next because i thought this one was a lot better than the first and it was less dark overall in my opinion and the gameplay was incredibly fun |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 385 Joined: 11 Oct 2007  | *giggles* Oh I love how everyone is blaming EA for this even though they havn't got a line of code in this... and the reason I love that is because actual programmers are swedi.... ...oh crap, I just blew the secret, didn't I? Anyway... massively funny review... scores a 4˝ on the 5 grade ZP scale (MOH:AA was a 1, Bioshock a 5). As always Yahtzee shines the most when there are plenty of nitpicks to work with. :D /S |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 492 Joined: 7 May 2008  | Oh, and of course there are stonkloads of games coming out at once because it's the approach to Christmas, so it's shovelware time! |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 61 Joined: 14 Nov 2008   | Glad to know im not the only one who beat it in one day lol |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 3 Dec 2008 | Good review, awesome game nonetheless. How can you praise Portal for its brevity but bash Mirror's Edge for the same? And I thought the subtle ambiguity about whether or not you're actually a "good guy" or a "bad guy" (or girl, in this case) was kinda neat. |
Paperboy  Posts: 14 Joined: 18 Apr 2008    | great stuff |
Paperboy Posts: 34 Joined: 7 May 2008 |
Everyone finished it in one day. It's a short game.
EA didn't make the game, DICE Sweden did. I'm glad you're not the one doing the reviews. I guess you hate the Battlefield series, too, since BF1942, BF2 and BF2142 all came out of DICE Sweden ;) ? |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 888 Joined: 29 Mar 2008    |
its free running... parkour its going in a straight line from point A to point B no matter what, if you see a wall you climb it... if you see a gap, you jump over it... etc etc and free running is... free running you can take the any path to reach the end |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1632 Joined: 12 Dec 2007    | I disagree with most of Yahtzee's review. I thought the game was good, flawed but good. It was thoroughly entertaining all the way through. It's a bit like watching an action flick. I managed to complete it on the day that I got it but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It managed to keep me gripped from start till finish. There's still the harder difficulty, new paths to take and time trials mode. Also, the gameplay is fun so I can go back and play it again. [Spoiler]We do not that the government is bad as it's revealed, though not explicitly stated, that they killed off all dissidents and opposition. Also, in the first level(Also in the demo) you drop in on four police who tell you to drop the bag. If you freeze they still shoot you, which is not fair policing, in theory at least.[/spoiler] |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3096 Joined: 2 Aug 2006    | So, in a nutshell, a frustrating experiment of a game but we can thank them for attempting an experiment because otherwise we're still playing clones. No disagreement here, and the frustrating aspects of the game were indeed a fertile ground for humor as only being forced to make random jumps off skyscrapers can be. As for the EVE Online ad that followed... I'm grappling for air coming to grips with how awesome that looked yet it was completely non-representative of the real thing. The real thing being that you're just a captain of one of those ships and when your ship is destroyed you just lost credits amounting to several hundred hours of monotonous activity. Maybe they need to take the players out of the ships and have them play intergalactic news reporters instead, or perhaps just have them watch intergalactic news reporters and turn it into a non-interactive futuristic news TV simulation. Either option would be an improvement. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 4 Joined: 3 Dec 2008 | Is there a reason Yahtzee is pubic enemy number 1 as opposed to public enemy number 1? On a real note I wonder if Faith is carrying around TNT in those runner bags. Sounds like M. Night Shyamalan. "What a twist!!" |
Anonymous Source Posts: 8 Joined: 26 Aug 2008 | Man, usually Yahtzee's dead on but I thought the whole evil government/cops chasing you dynamic was obvious. The cops really do have nothing to do because the infrastructure and socialization processes are so controlling that very few crimes are committed. Runners are necessary because every other form of communication is so controlled. Hence, evil. Hence hundreds of cops chasing an unarmed girl. Hence goddammit Yahtzee, you'd have to be illiterate to not pick up on that. The rest falls into that comfortable space between completely on point and overly critical that we've all come to know and love. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 596 Joined: 15 Feb 2008   |
And BF: BC |
Paperboy Posts: 34 Joined: 7 May 2008 | Thank you. And on the cops, from someone who hasn't played the full game yet: I thought the reason they were chasing you was that you and your sister had been framed for the murder of someone? Or am I being a spoilsport now? |
Muckraker  Posts: 295 Joined: 26 Aug 2008    | For once I found the review to be very unfair - and I hope all you people are "are putting this on my do-not-play list" aren't doing this just 'cause he told you too... Rent it! It's not very expensive, and "you'll never experience anything quite like it". Who was it that said that? Oh, right, Yahtzee. The experience is unique, and you should at least be open enough to consider it even if Big Daddy Yahtzee sucks at it (in all honesty; he's not a very skilled gamer). The very shortness of it should encourage you to try it out, even if you hate it it'll be over relatively quickly. All in all, I never really expect Yahtzee to sacrifice humour for the sake of objectivity, but that's also why I watch him. He's damn funny. But he is also often somewhat unfair - this was probably one of his more unfair reviews to date. He spent most of it complaining about the story and the fact that he sucked at the game, while the gameplay itself and visual design got about a second worth of airtime. I got the view he wasn't really considering it a "real" game, in other words falling into the same mainstream trot he mocks other for. Still quite funny though... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 800 Joined: 25 Nov 2008    | More people seem to get banned or put on probation for the ZP thread than any other. |
Paperboy Posts: 34 Joined: 7 May 2008 | Agree with anti_strunt it's one of those games you should try simply because it's creative. If nothing else, download the demo, which a lot of people do admit is good.
Do not use forums for sensitive material. That's what runners are for. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 967 Joined: 7 Aug 2008  |
I didn't, I knew this game was short and I enjoyed it so I would limit myself to one level a day to try and lengthen the game and mabey that why I liked the game, I looked forward to every chance I got to shove my boot up some ones ass. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 90 Joined: 28 May 2008   | All of a sudden I'm no longer upset the pc version got delayed till jan. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3096 Joined: 2 Aug 2006 | It is interesting to see this experimental game has come out of EA. It's a fairly good sign that their tendencies to kill promising games for fear that they would compete with themselves (Ultima Online 2, Ultima X, releasing the same old crap all the time (Madden series), or all the other things gamers have grown to hate them for (destroying Origin and Westwood with tightfisted corporate policy) are successfully being curbed. Being willing to release experimental high-profile games in this day and age is just that remarkable. Fund one for release at least every 6 months until the end of time and maybe all will be forgiven. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1819 Joined: 18 Nov 2008    | Is it just me or was Zp almost optimistic in this one?!?! |
Beat Writer Posts: 186 Joined: 22 Oct 2008 |
That's one of the things I loved about Assassin's Creed, that the philosophy behind you killing the Templars was explained and fleshed out; yes, they were doing good things, but in a corrupt and evil fashion. I really do wish I'd seen more of the government actually being oppressive in Mirror's Edge, rather than them just being the bad guys you have to dodge/kill.
Immediately after watching that, I said to my roomie, "If EVE Online had some sort of weekly news broadcast or something, I would be all over that shit." Along with the events described in this thread, it makes me not so much want to play the game as to watch it happen. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 75 Joined: 26 Jun 2008 |
well yes most of ea game are fucking horrible and rip offs aswell god with how much money they make surly they can buy someones idear insted of ripping off other games :( owell ps EA FUCKING SUCK!!!!!!1 yes an 1 and what |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 538 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 |
Mirrors Edge is a great example of that isnt it. Ripping off I mean.
+1 |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 73 Joined: 10 Sep 2008 |
I'm sorry but why in Satan's rectum do people take Yahtzee's review's as 100% right, if a review burns a game don't just make up your mind based on one person's thoughts rent the game to see for your self if you like it. Also for the love of god don't post till you've seen the bloody review. |
Paperboy Posts: 29 Joined: 27 Aug 2008 | Have only played the demo but i heard it's really short. Funny stuff. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 63 Joined: 20 Mar 2008 | I really liked this one! |
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why dose EA suck so much? only games that was good was sims and c&c even tho westwood made it, but anyway ea sucks