Zero Punctuation: Alan Wake
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I played the demo, but I decided to pass on this one. I guess I was right about that, this doesn't seem like my kind of game.
Normal wasn't he? my friend said 2 shots and he always plays games on normal mode.Kapol said:
i still want this game
like my friend, i can't be bothered to read a Stephen King book (or the stephen king book apparently), so playing a video game will be much easier I was a bit dissapointed with this review, i don't know what it was, but i didn't laugh quite as much as usual... i'll watch it again and see if i laugh any harder this time
why, because careful time and crafting had been put into the game? no, thats fine, you can stick with your brown-beep-boop-robot-company FPS games that take only a short while to make.Kanjidude said:
lol, i'm joking, i don't even know how much of those 9 years was a waste of time. but still, you shouldn't begrudge a game because the basic idea was thought up 9 years ago
Played it a bit last weekend--seemed kind of repetitive.
Although I agree about the character designs. I'm sick of the photorealism developers are going for these days--you get way too much uncanny valley effect and it creeps me right out. I also played some Soul Calibur IV again and was reminded how creepy looking the avatars are compared to SC II on the PS2.
Although I agree about the character designs. I'm sick of the photorealism developers are going for these days--you get way too much uncanny valley effect and it creeps me right out. I also played some Soul Calibur IV again and was reminded how creepy looking the avatars are compared to SC II on the PS2.
I might still find a way to play this game in spite of Yahtzee's negative review.
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Why are there people with torches and pitchforks outside my office screaming about "blasphemy"?
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Why are there people with torches and pitchforks outside my office screaming about "blasphemy"?
The fancy house analogy was absolutely hilarious.
I still don't know if the game is worth getting. Right now Yume Nikki is satiating my scary game hunger.
I still don't know if the game is worth getting. Right now Yume Nikki is satiating my scary game hunger.
I think they died in two shots on the 'medium' difficulty. Normal was the 'easy' of the game. But when you had 4 attacking at once and aren't able to hurt them until the darkness is gone (which is what is the main difference between difficulties I believe, the time the darkness takes to dissappear), it can get hectic.riottrio said:Normal wasn't he? my friend said 2 shots and he always plays games on normal mode.Kapol said:
i still want this game
I was a bit dissapointed with this review, i don't know what it was, but i didn't laugh quite as much as usual... i'll watch it again and see if i laugh any harder this time
I enjoyed it myself, though I'm surprised Yahtzee didn't complain about the product placement. I guess that ones a bit too easy though.
Alan Wake was dead to me as soon as I realised it was an XBOX exclusive, so maybe (probably) this is sour grapes, but I'm glad to hear it's a bit meh since I won't be playing it. It's not console snobbery, exactly, it's "why would I buy a game system just to play a single game when I don't care about any of its other exclusives" snobbery. Maybe I would love it. I'll never know!
The repetitive Stephen King bootlicking would annoy me, anyway, even if it's being exaggerated here. Silent Hill contained a lot of nods to popular horror icons, but they were all done in subtle ways, like the "Study, Dammit!" poster and street names. It's basic show vs tell. Anything that obvious just pierces the atmosphere for me. "Inanimate objects, such as Stephen King would create, like in From a Buick 8, which still owes me three hours of my life back YOU BASTARD!"
The repetitive Stephen King bootlicking would annoy me, anyway, even if it's being exaggerated here. Silent Hill contained a lot of nods to popular horror icons, but they were all done in subtle ways, like the "Study, Dammit!" poster and street names. It's basic show vs tell. Anything that obvious just pierces the atmosphere for me. "Inanimate objects, such as Stephen King would create, like in From a Buick 8, which still owes me three hours of my life back YOU BASTARD!"
I guess I'll have to give it a rent then. It should at least be funny. Also on the ads for the book at the end why does it provide so little information? All I know is that it's made from trees and has letters inside that were arranged by Yahtzee.
Edit: Looked it up, know what it's about, and have a new curiosity for why it's only available in paperback.
Double edit: He doesn't like King ,eh? Then I'll avoid his advice on books as we are in disagreement. Of course that's just presumption but it seems to have been implied.
Edit: Looked it up, know what it's about, and have a new curiosity for why it's only available in paperback.
Double edit: He doesn't like King ,eh? Then I'll avoid his advice on books as we are in disagreement. Of course that's just presumption but it seems to have been implied.
I don't understand everyone's complaints about the combat. Does it have to do with the difficulty? I would think that by now everyone has figured out that every game made after 2001 should be played on Hard difficulty, or harder. Alan Wake's biggest mistake is not making the Nightmare difficulty available from the start. And the difficulties should be renamed from "Normal, Hard, Nightmare" to "Easy, Normal, and (kind of) Hard".