Recent content by LarsWestergren

"Besides, nobody likes the French". I like the French. Perpetuating animosity and stereotyping caused by stale centuries old national rivalry, masked as humor; not so much.

I think you exaggerate a little bit. :-) Counterexamples: Bioshock collector's edition. Planescape: Torment. Grim Fandango. Quite a lot of Japanese original covers, Ico for instance. But yeah, they should be able to do better. I hope some company would hire some of the Something Awful...

No, you are right, that cover really is awful. First the utterly awful Dragon Age trailers, then the equally awful Dragon Age Journeys ones (which made it look like a 2D sidescroller action game rather than a Heroes of Might and Magic style turnbased strategy game). Then the pretty mediocre...

Haven't played it, as it is not available for the PC, and therefore I take some smug satisfaction from hearing I haven't missed anything (again). One thing in the review though - some players (like me) are explorers. Yathzee said "Wouldn't it make sense to give me items as a reward for...

He didn't exactly diss the game itself... he said using voxels is outdated, which is very true. I took the fact that he showed the cover as a sort of "shout out" actually. You are right, Outcast was a great game. Once you got over the voxel "blur" the scenery of the alien world was fantastic...

> 'Hardcore' doesn't mean 'Halo-playing twitchy fourteen-year-old douchebag.' 'Hardcore' gamers means the gamers who get into it. The gamers who have gamed since 256 colors were a distant wet dream. The gamers who follow all the hype and who want games with depth and innovation. Amen Yahtzee...

Eh... another bloody Wii review? Is it because their fans are easiest to troll, or? How about one of your bi-annual PC reviews for once? For instance, an "adventure gaming resurgence on the PC" episode? Like the re-release of Lucasarts classics on Steam, VS the Telltale episodic army of...

Very nice Yahtzee. With regards to the Guitar Hero/Rock Band stuff - there is a game in the works for PC/Mac - Guitar Rising - with similar gameplay but where you can actually plug in a real guitar and learn to play for real. I am hoping that on higher levels it streams by something like real...

Just out of curiosity, what about the review didn't you like? Since you were angry enough to create an account perhaps you could have clarified that. :) Didn't you find the jokes funny, or were you not interested in the game? Did you think he slammed it unfairly, or that he wasn't mean...

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...

>Not because I agree with everything said, just because he makes truly amazing reviews that express his >personal beliefs.Not the beliefs of the people paying him. :D Are you sure? He said in one of his first reviews - "I learned from my Psychonauts review that nobody likes me when I'm...

Hm, least funny ZP yet. How can you claim the controls are too complex, and then 30 seconds later slam the combat for being too simplistic? Did you play on easy mode? Journal, dictionary and bestiary screens hideously complex? Not any more complex than a web page or any GUI with multiple virtual...

Another good review.... I didn't mind the "slow talking" ZP episode, a change of pace is nice sometimes and it felt like you had really thought carefully about both your opinions and the jokes. Could we get some PC gaming love next time, pretty please? Witcher maybe? :)

I hope they fix the dialogue in the prologue for the demo! Appearently the localization isn't that good. They have cut out large parts of the conversations from the original Polish version (I presume someone was worried the introduction wasn't fast-paced and "actiony" enough) which makes some...

>I know this year, maybe the first of many, was the year I found myself coveting my neighbor's games. Not me. All the big hyped console games have either turned out not to be that good after all, or else they are coming to the PC. Perhaps a little later, but I'm in no hurry. Also my PC has...