Extra Punctuation: BAFTAs Are Bollocks
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I wonder what kind of results we'd get if the BAFTAs were run more like the Oscars, where the way to win is to make an artsy, pretentious load that has almost no entertainment value whatsoever. So, Heavy Rain would win everything I guess.
This is more like giving automatic wins to whoever gets the highest scores on Gamespot.
This is more like giving automatic wins to whoever gets the highest scores on Gamespot.
Well, everyone has a different opinion, but that doesn't make the BAFTA's bollocks. While I played Just Cause 2 with relative interest and had a bit of fun with DR2, I don't believe one can seriously nominate them for anything, and fun is a terribly subjective thing. I had more fun with Plants Vs Zombies than both of those games combined.
As for Bioshock 2, I would bet my left testicle that Yahtzee never actually finished the game. It is impossible for one who claims to appreciate a good story to have completely missed possibly the most moving and subtle story on fatherhood and loss to have ever appeared in the medium. Well, unless they quit 2 hours in because "HURR DURR it's the same game but you're a big daddy so fuck it I've got a bar to run".
As for Bioshock 2, I would bet my left testicle that Yahtzee never actually finished the game. It is impossible for one who claims to appreciate a good story to have completely missed possibly the most moving and subtle story on fatherhood and loss to have ever appeared in the medium. Well, unless they quit 2 hours in because "HURR DURR it's the same game but you're a big daddy so fuck it I've got a bar to run".
And LA Noire comes out next month, which in my dimension is 15 months after Heavy Rain. It's also developed by a bigger and more experienced studio with more money behind it.Super Toast said:
I'm excited for LA Noire but it's a bit unfair to compare Heavy Rain to it at this point.
I don't really remember the game well enough to debate this, but I thought the blackouts and such were explained in the scene where Ethan's talking to his therapist?Kermi said:
Just Cause 2 and Amnesia: The Dark Descent are true gaming gems. JC2 is the best free roaming action game ever created by mortal creatures, and Amnesia is the most frightening horror experience in gaming. I don't care for zombie games so I didn't play Dead Rising 2 and I can't comment on it.Nomanslander said:
Probably for the new tricks for level design (levels disappearing beneath your feet, walls of purply cliff-making stuff limiting how much of a scrolling platform you can actually interact with, a FOLDING swamp). Guess you have to really be into platformers to notice these kinds of things, but the level design mechanics are a big reason why I love the game. Hope it turns out to be as influential as 64Yahtzee Croshaw said:
By the way, for anyone wondering it actually did start development as an expansion pack, but it got to big to justify calling it one and was upgraded to a full sequel.
The fact that he's having blackouts is explained as being linked to the death of his first son. Why the dreams about water? Why the origami figure? Those are awfully specific and ultimately never really explained.BarbaricGoose said:
Think of it this way: in the movie version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, they add in a scene where Karkaroff sneaks into the room where the goblet is kept. They film him being sneaky. You can tell he's being sneaky because they do a closeup of his face while he shifts his gaze from left to right and carefully closes the door behind him.
At the end of the movie, it's shown that Karkaroff had absolutely nothing to do with the tampering of the Goblet. So why was he sneaking in there? It was something they put in there to make Karkaroff look suspicious because they didn't have the screen time to explain why would should suspect him like Rowling did in the book. But the scene makes no sense whatsoever.
I know it's a somewhat esoteric example, but Ethan waking up with an origami dog in his hand before his son goes missing?
You've been "playing Dragon Age 2 lately"? Awesome, I sense a review incoming. If you were ripping at Heavy Rain plotholes, I hope you bring up the ones in DA2 in that case. Well, provided you didn't take the Templar option on everything. Game was only meant to be played one way, and the plot holes wouldn't be as glaring in the Templar playthrough.
Sad to inform you I don't give two shits about these kind of awards, so this article wasn't exactly interesting either. Guess releasing steam never hurts tho. But really, what did you expect, Yahtzee, you cynical bastard with a toasty heart?
Personally, I always hate gaming game of the year awards, because my precious Nintendo DS always gets the shaft. Granted, the DS had kind of a lousy year in 2010, but Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors deserves best story, by far. Sadly, it wasn't released in Europe, so I guess I should complain about game localization more than the fact that it wasn't nominated.
Still, this year I've spent a ton of time on my DS, with Ghost Trick, Radiant Historia, and Pokemon Black, and I still have Okamiden to get to! Are any of those games going to make a dent in awards besides "Best DS game"?
Still, this year I've spent a ton of time on my DS, with Ghost Trick, Radiant Historia, and Pokemon Black, and I still have Okamiden to get to! Are any of those games going to make a dent in awards besides "Best DS game"?
Wich plotholes? I played my own way, it was fairly neutral, a bit tending pro mage, so i dont really know any plot holes from the top of my head. Maybe a bit foggy plot points, but full out plot holes i dont remember at all.Gennadios said:
Yeah I couldnt believe that myself, I put up with The modern warfares because thestory was sorta ok, but in blops there is no story, literally. Like, I have no idea whats going on other than, "ther be war, but you shouldn't be in this mode you should go on our multiplayer mode its the only thing we work on"KILGAZOR said:
I loved the level ideas, but the "limiting how much of the level you can touch" thing was done in SMG1, and the folding swamp was more aesthetic than anything that really affected gameplay. I liked the Beat Block Galaxy, though, and the Sweet Mystery Galaxy was a very interesting twist on the limit-how-much-of-the-level-etc. idea, but even with those, SMG1 was just more all-around imaginative.starwarsgeek said:
Interesting, I didn't know that.
Thank you for sharing this... this... godly flash.dunam said:
Best 3 minutes of my life.
OT: Silly people. Black ops doesn't deserve an award
I blame Critics
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Red Dead Redemption should have replaced Cod Black Ops in every category. Black Ops might be a fun game to play when drunk with some friends, but it does not deserve ANY awards (and I'm someone who freaking LOVES playing Black Ops when drunk with my friends).