Zero Punctuation: Alone in the Dark

[commanderRc]

I'm with yahtzee in the "not willing to revive a pain in the arse secondary character"

Funny as always but lacking the offensive joke this week
Some complained about the holocaust joke? Riiight

 

[Tumbler360]

Can you please load these videos onto a server that doesn't get overloaded so easy? Seems like each wednsday that comes around I try all day to get the full video to load and it keeps timing out 2 min or less. I hit reload to try again and the same thing happens. All Day. And the last weeks episode happened several times on a Thursday...

So load it somewhere else, I know you want to drive traffic to your site and all but you've got all you can handle, either upgrade or hand it off to another site.


Update: Hmm, so the video loaded on the 4th try on a Wednsday so perhaps I judged too hastilly.


Good review I guess. Hard to enjoy it when I have to watch it 4 times to get the whole experience though...

 

[MpSai]

Oh how I have been waiting for this. I hated this game with a burning passion and I didn't even get as far as the Satanic tree stumps (after reading about them in another review I figured I was wise to have traded this stupid game in after only about a week.) It didn't help that I got burned bad by it, I decided to reserve it at the local GAEMPLACE because you got ten bucks off the price if you did (which should have been a warning sign but I'm apparently retarded) and I figured it'd be a decent, mildly entertaining game that would tide me over til Fable 2. I also have only ever played the original 1992 Alone in the Dark and somehow thought that's what I was in store for only with more fire and next-gen graphics. Now it's left me swearing not to buy anything else until Fable 2 comes out. Thanks AitD!

But I do have to agree there was so much potential for awesome in the game and it just somehow ended up so inexplicably bad, even when what I was doing seemed like it should have been fun.

 

[SimpleReally]

Very good review, much better than last week's

i loved the " terrible execution" pic

i think yahtzee is at his best when reviewing an FPS

 

[Ecco128]

Wow, I read a preview for this game a while back and thought it looked mildly interesting, looks like they kinda dropped the ball in development though, what a shame.

 

[Doug]

Brillant review - saw a tech-demo for this once and thought it looked good, but fortunately I found out it was a gold-medal poo-poo olympics winner.

 

[Azhrarn-101]

Burny physics, cool. Everything else, pants.
Nicely summarised, good review as always Yahtzee.

 

[LilMissEvil]

Spot on again. I must say I like the intro/outtro too. Not as funny as the "obvious" song choices, but I do like the music.

Keep up the hilarity

Oh, and whoever complained about the Holocaust jokes obviously was lacking in the humour department.

 

[mcderek3000]

Perhaps for the sake of accuracy, Terry would be the programmer and Gonad would be the publisher/marketing bloke who thought that open-world driving sections were trendy and that the game should be released prematurely.

 

[Lupie]

Ooohoo, this made me titter. S'very good, the music's still crunchy, and I laughed so hard my face hurts.

There's a few sound glitches, though: the first one I noticed when the Bad Character Awards are being listed, and the second was... er, at a different point that I've forgotten.

Lovely. Thank you very much! I'm going to go and have some tea.

 

[Valtiel]

How does Yahtzee manage to come up with his absolutely side-splitting content every time?

I totally agree, advertising that game content can be skipped doesn't exactly fill me with gleeful anticipation.

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[lessergnome]

great, now I have to sit threw my meeting, trying not to laugh my arse off. Thank you Yahtzee

 

[afrophysics]

Well done Yahtzee, an excellent return to form. Although your voice seems to have.. broken. In your 20's?

 

[DerGermanGuy]

It's another review I am glad to have seen... ( hopefully this is the right grammar I'm using...)
Good work Yahtzee

 

[DarthTirith]

Very funny, I was cracking up.

 

[Seamus8]

Wow even less people will buy this game than already were going to now.

-Seamus
~~~~Free D3 from the rainbow, the evil must prevail

 

[Cpt. Eduardo del Mango]

Great stuff as always.

The intro's crap, though. Not nearly as funny as the intro/outro music choices.

 

[UncleWesker]

I won the game and I did enjoy a large portion of it. But I'd say anyone that hates it has the right to do so. A lot of things were overlooked that could have been improved upon. And the final chapter is essentially an excuse to drag the game out for 2 more hours. The puzzles were interesting however and the fire is fun to play around with.

 

[maximara]

I enjoyed the review and I think "Terry and Gonad" explain very well what has been going on in gaming.

I agree but I think gaming these days is more like "Terry" and the "Committee of Gonad" on a good day. The rest of the time it tends to look like it was designed by a collection of Rube Goldberg want-a-bes who think sharping a pencil should take 20 steps or more.