Zero Punctuation: Alone in the Dark

[Broken Blade]

And Yahtzee does it again! And yes, I'm grown used to the opening/closing music now. And another little bonus video complete with sweet hat! I guess that these little mini movies are going to become a stable feature (and I'm fine with it, so long as he wears the hat).

 

[jthm]

Funny, but missing that wonderful choice of ironic music...

 

[Vault Citizen]

My laptop had the nerve to freeze during the review so I angriy unplugged it then proceeded to bash it in with my remote. Thankfuly my computer doesn't seem to freeze up whenever I ask it to actualy do anything so I'll use that instead *grumble*

Interesting review and my favourite in a while. I especially iike how he went into a game trying to like it for once, maybe we should badger Yahtzee more often. I was never going to get this game but agree when allowing you to skip the game is only an asset when your not very good at it and have a temper problem

 

[Aries_Split]

Awesome! I don't have an XBox, but I wouldn't buy that game if I did?
By the way, I think the new title sequence looks really awesome. Who designed it? Well done.

Russ Pits did the animation, I agree it's really nice. Good job russ. he also writes articles for the escapist.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Ouch, brutal. Now I know for sure to avoid this game. Love the "translation" of your Indy 4 review as well.

 

[Perticular Elk]

Yes,yes. It was a very funny review, but does anyone actually own or play AITD. I really, really tried to like the game. I feel people trying to crucify the game for being different and it could have been great save for a few errors. I enjoyed its innovations and its puzzles and it is definitely not the worst game ever!

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

Hey! World of Warcraft is NOT all grind quests.

Sometimes you have Alliance dipshits teabagging your corpse, too.

And if you're getting teabagged WHILE doing a grind quest, you are on a PvP server and deserve every salty nut-thrust into your gaping cakehole.

 

[Fratboy]

Lol very nice. love the terry/gonad metaphor

 

[flaming_squirrel]

PvP servers were the only reason to ever play WoW. Ganking or grinding...hmmm...

 

[Mirokunite]

The Brain Slug was pretty epic in the intro.

Futurama fan are you?

 

[bustns]

good review, i found it quite funny.

 

[Gahars]

Sweet review.

 

[Shrewsbury]

Good review, but the music is going to get on my fucking tits soon enough if you don't at least add two other tracks. And for god's sake please don't ever think of looping it through the video.

EDIT: Oh god. I've said it now.

 

[zombieslayer]

one of my favorites
gary and gonad,do i smell a running gag or what???

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

I loved the whole dead dog dinner thing, but you never know you may get a nice ice cream for desert. Now you will always wonder.

 

[Growing Demon]

I think the new title sequence and music lifts the presentation of the review above that of shitty movie maker. The content is, as always, great.

 

[The Tingler]

Funny, but missing that wonderful choice of ironic music...

THANK YOU, I'm glad someone worked out the perfect word for the music, because I couldn't! "Ironic" summed it up beautifully.

In short, no I still don't like it. To answer your, um, statement on FR, if you had original music from the start you're right, we wouldn't be complaining. But if Silent Hill 2 had never existed would you be still banging on about it's story? How can you miss something that never existed?

Review's great though, by the way!

 

[Anaphyis]

Yes,yes. It was a very funny review, but does anyone actually own or play AITD. I really, really tried to like the game. I feel people trying to crucify the game for being different and it could have been great save for a few errors. I enjoyed its innovations and its puzzles and it is definitely not the worst game ever!

Good ideas and crappy execution still equals crappy game. Yes, new ideas should be encouraged instead of just having the EA model (same game with another box) but the fact Atari threatened game magazines here for their not-so-pleasant reviews kind off kicks the last bit of good will out of the windows.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Terry and Gonad are genius! I'm going to have 2 use them to describe ever gaming cock-up from now on. Cheers Yahtzee

P.S. I know you probley won't read this and won't care either, but the title musics still shit.

 

[emytzu]

Yahtzee has recovererd his hilarious thoughts, but i don't get the video after the credits.
An why is he sayng his gay all the time is this a confession...... then the british rumors were true XD.