GoblinOnFire said:
Hamster at Dawn said:
If Gamespot has taught me anything it's that Yahtzee will be fired by the escapist for not licking Age of Conan's balls.
hehehe. The now famous "Jeffgate" episode cost GS alot of readers/forumdwellers/troll/flamers..
The Jeffgate incident was deplorable, but most of the time I found myself disagreeing on Gertsmann for the very reasons he roasted a game.
When he reviewed Quake 4 on X360, I felt like he was whining "It's not as pretty as on a PC, ergo it sucks". How much of an argument is that ? aren't you supposed to review a game for a console by the console's standards, and not say that a PC port sucks because it's not playing on a high-end PC ? I felt confused by this.
Same goes for Kane & Lynch. My roommate talked me into buying it because he had a lot of fun with his copy last year before selling with his whole 360 console and collection due to harsh problems with his bank, and after an initial 10 minutes of whining about unintuitive radar, limited on-screen infos, Wolverine syndrome regarding health management and confusing as shit split-screen co-op, I found out I was having fun.
The cover system is maybe a bit too context-sensitive, but once you get it, the game is surprisingly easy to control, except some parts missing clarity (like when you enter the bank, took me some attempts before seeing exactly what I was supposed to do).
Same goes for their abuse of f*ck... when a game is rated M, I can't see any reason not to abuse on swearing, especially when you play insane convicts bent on bloody revenge. But I suppose people will remind me of the children, and I will remind again that when parents let kids play GTA, it's not my fault, since I'm not a shop clerk nor taking part, but just telling them to READ ratings before blindly buying and letting the game babysit the kids...
TL;DR, back to the subject :
I liked the review a lot, it did not made me laugh as hard as Yahtzee did sometimes, but I liked his way of poking the game. The idea of playing naked seems funny too.
I don't play mumorpegers, some friends insisted I joined them on Guild Wars, Anarchy Online or Cabal Online, and while Cabal's beta was cool and now the game offers tailored susbcriptions in addition of a core game now free, I feel that I am already wasting my time enough like that with all my unfinished games and things I like for playing a undending grind-fest and socializing at the same time on top of that...
Maybe I'm pessimistic, but I wonder if you can truly make friends in an MMO... especially if you can't be arsed to play daily, or weekly... I know my roommate met some really great people, and some promiscuous girls who after 5 minutes of questing in your party were a little too eager to show off everything and act explicitly on MSN, but still...
