Zero Punctuation: Braid

[SeaCalMaster]

Well it's nice to hear he has a girlfriend...

Not for long he won't, by the sound of it...

Hmm. I thought he was speaking of a metaphorical girlfriend, since he usually avoids making much reference to the details of his personal life. Plus, he's not quite hot enough to pick up chicks with his cynicism.

 

[Pandatot]

Lol, Yahtzee; Too stupid to figure out one of the puzzles, and then complains about a key and door puzzle as if it's an arbitrary and random solution.

Protip Yahtzee - If you move to the left on the stage where time moves backwards, if you open a door, it won't change the future because you're going back in time.

Next time you attempt to criticize a game, at least be sure it's a failure of the game and not of your brain. Rethink your brain density statement.

 

[Kason8002]

This was awesome. You finally brought up the fact that it is people who buy games that determine what gets put on the market. I couldn't agree more.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I am just wary of gamers trying to emluate his style only to end up with a generation of gamers acting like complete dicks with a 1 dimensional attitude towards entertainment mediums.

I'm afraid this has been going on for years. Take out "gamers" and put in "moviegoers" and we're talking decades. Put in "art aficionadoes" instead? Centuries. 'Tis part of the human condition to be pinky-up-the-nostril retarded about what composes "art".

Also, sadly, I know no one named Adrian to show this video to. Perhaps I should consult the phone book and make a new friend!

 

[Inuprince]

Great Review! If my name was Adrian I would have been quite shocked, although I still laughed my head off

 

[Jwam3D]

Yeah man. Gears Of War. Is. Shit.

 

[zoozilla]

Not a bad review, though I was somewhat disappointed that he tried to garner so much negativity when he admitted that he actually liked the game. If he liked it so much, why focus on the nitpicking?

Ripping a bad game is hilarious, but bitching about nitpicks is just annoying. Just like the Portal review, it's okay to say, "Finally, a game that did something right."

But "Finally, a game that did something right" isn't funny. At least, I'm not laughing.

 

[3vol]

Once again Yahtzee exposes his retardation in regards to the level where the key will only open one door. I had to think about it for 30 seconds to realize that time flows backwards when you walk to the left which is why you can't open a door from the right then just walk through it.

Every episode has some equally glaring misobservation, and the guy should really play the games for more than 5 minutes before he writes his bits about them.

 

[Cheky]

sultanas in rabbit droppings, haha, my new term for needle in a haystack

 

[Bombader]

Some people doesn't understand that Braid is a puzzle platform collect o thon thing. Not everyone is into collecting a few specific things, say like me. I don't mind having to find a blue key card to open the blue door, but make me collect 8 pieces of something to open one door or continue/finish the game is just bleh. I site Banjo and Kazzoie thing, where it mostly had you do this to unlock levels at a time.

Though Braid is more puzzle than Banjo is, since the game focuses on the puzzles and not as much anything else like level unlocking.

Man I miss the old Doom.

Gaming is a broad Genre (gets bigger if we talk anime related stuff) and to expect Halo fans to instantly like Braid is like saying, "I know you like Naruto and/or Bleach, but Paranoia Agent everyone should love!"

Wait... Okaimi not art? No wait Zelda clone right? Braid could be a Mario clone minus all the instant gratification of coins and lives, then gets praise for this simply because all the instant gratification is considered "sparkle" rather than a way for a player to continue playing the game. Such as head shots these days as practically announced every time one happens.

But don't mind me, this post comes with resentment of the creator of the games pretty much summing up that ALL games are bad (or not as unique or whatever) except his.

And to the "2 doors argument" he did put the key in the right door as an example of what above people are saying, but I assume you are given no word about it and thus have to level reset every time you forget.

Also when he said "YOU ADRIAN" the pic he used was that guy Yahtzee considers as plain and boring. I still kinda wonder who that is a bit.

And to feed my fan boy side of me, I'd like to see him retro review Zombies Ate My Neighbers for a laugh, or maybe Duke3D.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

Wow, Yahtzee reviewing an Indie title, whats next reviewing a mod? Yikes! Good review though, as always. Although I really really want Entropy to come out soon, its just not going to happen.

 

[yourkie1921]

Well it's nice to hear he has a girlfriend...

Not for long he won't, by the sound of it...

Hmm. I thought he was speaking of a metaphorical girlfriend, since he usually avoids making much reference to the details of his personal life. Plus, he's not quite hot enough to pick up chicks with his cynicism.

I could see how some girls would go to him for his cynicism. If a chick were as funny as yahtzee getting laughs basically the same way yahtzee does (minus all the talk about his cock. but she can talk about her jiblies and happy bowl all she wants ) I'd plow her till next july. Do you think there are no females with that mentality

Once again Yahtzee exposes his retardation in regards to the level where the key will only open one door. I had to think about it for 30 seconds to realize that time flows backwards when you walk to the left which is why you can't open a door from the right then just walk through it.

Every episode has some equally glaring misobservation, and the guy should really play the games for more than 5 minutes before he writes his bits about them.

You might as well complain about his super paper mario review and how he could've skipped the long 2nd level thingy easily without going in the hamster wheel. But not realizing something like that doesn't make you retarded. And it's not a glaring misobservation. I've played.....5 of the games he's reviewed and braid isn't one of them and it never will be unless I get it for free and I still felt he was probably wrong about this. I've never felt that way before.

 

[daedrick]

I particularly ( sp?! ) loved this one, made me laugh more than the others. I also want to say that I love the fact that you can laugh of yourself. I always do the same in total sarcasm and people actualy believe Im serious wich is dumb. But anyway, you got a GREAT ( IMO ) game to review soon enough... Well 2 great games actually, Warhammer, and STALKER. I love stalker... hmmmm yes I do. Very much. ( if you dont like stalker, then I really dont understand your taste, but w/e. )

Disclaimer: Sentence cohesion and structure may suck because Im a french canadian... oh and my spelling as well. That being said! Yay.

 

[Inriri]

Yea, I blame the masses for bad games too, but mostly furries. They ruin everything, even drinks now.

 

[Soda241]

I guess im happy that your review are funny and make me laugh even know most of the game you review i don't even want to play or think about playing your review are truthful about the game and down to the point, Don't ever change that! Even if it worth 1mill and being sold to some big place, because your review wont be from you it will be from them.

For everyone who didn't read that.

Zero Punctuation rocks

And i still wont buy this game

 

[Monkeybone]

What the fuck, man. You talked even faster than usual and I had to watch it twice just to understand what you were going on about. Thankfully there's the visual cues, otherwise it'd be all NATTER NATTER NATTER. Pace yourself a bit more next time, this is your shtick, but it seemed a rushed in your delivery.

 

[Dramus]

Maybe someone's posted this, I don't know. I didn't feel like reading through 5 pages of comments and crap.
Anyway, funny review, but that's not why I'm posting. He brought up something that ticks me off, and that's the notion that indie games are somehow better just because they are indie. In fact there are probably just as many shit indie games out there as there are shit mainstream. There are a huge amount of copycat indie games that blatantly rip off other game's ideas (I know because I played all the shift knock offs on onemorelevel (and since shift is a portal knock off, it's like doubly unimaginative). The only difference is that indie games are not hyped (at least not usually), and so if one sucks no one cares because no one plays it. The only indie games most people play are the really good ones, so people get the erroneous idea that all indie games are super creative and good. It's the same reason why people always say games/tv/music/other were better back in the day; you don't remember all the shit, just what was good (nostalgia has something to do with it too, but that doesn't fit the parallel).

 

[hem dazon 90]

good vid i gess irelands tax here is the ha ha we get fog more often tax

 

[Moravich]

Was very funny as usual, but i think he got a little further away from the game this time, because i have no idea what braid is at the moment.

 

[shaun832]

Ha! Nicer beaches tax! I live in Australia and I really do think this is more important than the price of games... to a point.