Zero Punctuation: Broken Age

[Collin Stewart]

Try to "protect" from addblock...
honestly i'll just watch vids somewhere else if in the end I have to watch adds here. Its not like there is anything aside from ZP and the JQ that makes this site worthwhile.

EDIT: seems to be working now go watch vid erryone!

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

The irony is that the ZP episode isn't even up on their youtube site yet. :s

 

[vasiD]

And fixed. Good job guys. Try not to do that again.

Edit: This post doesn't have the tone I was going for. I want to stress that I appreciate the quick turn around time. Genuinely good job fixing it that fast. Now I can watch before class.

 

[C.S.Strowbridge]

And fixed. Good job guys. Try not to do that again.

Still broken here. I'll check back in ten minutes or so.

 

[Starke]

EDIT: seems to be working now go watch vid erryone!

No, the ads are working. Not the video.

 

[SnapsSE]

I refreshed the page about 15 times and the video eventually showed. Might have been luck.

 

[CopperBoom]

I am quite enjoying the experience of Broken Age but am also quite hungry after watching this.

 

[major_chaos]

Anyone else find it funny that a site that has (admittedly legitimate) complaints about companies screwing over legitimate users with horrible DRM is now screwing over legitimate users with what is more or less really shitty DRM?

 

[BX3]

Goes to escapist
Sees new episode of ZP is up
Watches episode
goes to the comment section to see people's thoughts on him trashing Kickstarter.
Comments are instead filled with complaints of site errors.

Escapist what are you doing? This was an interesting episode and your screw ups ruined what could've been an insightful discussion (or at least delayed it)

 

[Dragonbums]

I'm going to go with the semi-popular opinion in that this was meant to be a game for really young kids. Something to get them into the videogames and the adventure genre in general. (granted they will be sorely disappointed that games like this are a rare gem to find past 2005)

 

[Furbyz]

So it sounds to me like this game is kinda broken. ...I'll go now.

Funny, but it does bring up something interesting about the game. It's surprisingly not broke. For awhile it was going to be an "Early Access" game, but they decided agianst it since the first part is pretty much done. Say what you will about the gameplay and stuff, but I didn't hit any bugs or see much (besides a couple eyes) that should be fixed. It's nice to play a game before it was even released that actually works.

Well I was just making a very bad pun, it does still sound broken in the sense that Yahtzee describes the girl's story as a mess and it doesn't seem to have any connection to the guy's story. I don't know I haven't played it.

It's really not. Vella's story so far is really more about establishing places, characters, and the culture. The reason Yahtzee calls it a mess is because it has no real direction. If Shay's story is tight and cohesive, Vella's could best be described as...meandering. There's only the goal of killing Mog Chothra and the obstacle of that being nearly impossible, especially with every person she meets being hell bent on feeding it their children every 14 years. The two stories are actually intertwined to a surprising degree. It's a very promising start. Also the game is freaking gorgeous.

OT: Why is everyone asserting that this game is guaranteed to be successful? Double Fine has sunk millions of their own money into it, and the very nature of kickstarter means that many (about 90,000 as I recall) of the people who would have bought the game already have. They're dipping into their profits again just to finish the game right, hence the splitting in the first place. Broken Age could very well be a financial failure.

 

[Lazule]

For me Kickstarter is the proof that some people are just dumb consumers that would buy anything.

 

[putowtin]

Coffee Cream chocolate lovers of the world unite!
(For we have all the answers :])

OT, give a dog a bone and he'll eat for a week
give funds on kickstart and .... where's this simile going?

 

[Oskuro]

I have barely played a few minutes of the game.... And yet I'm in love with the art style, presentation, music and general feeling.

I agree that it might not be groundbreaking as far as adventure games (or games in general) go, but it is still a damn good game (experience if you prefer).

Although I'd rather not have had it in two parts.

 

[tzimize]

Broken Age

This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Broken Age.

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I gotta say, and I dont say this lightly. You're sort of the gaming worlds Terry Pratchett. Your colorful language and comparisons never cease to entertain me, and thats one of the reasons I am so in love with Terry Pratchetts work as well.

 

[Don Reba]

Hey DoubleFine, why you no make platformers? I get that adventure games are the stuff all those stuffy gits demand you make but i'm a 90's man raised on platformers, original ideas of which are becoming all to sparse these days.

Psychonauts is a platformer, actually.

 

[Kross]

Anyone else find it funny that a site that has (admittedly legitimate) complaints about companies screwing over legitimate users with horrible DRM is now screwing over legitimate users with what is more or less really shitty DRM?

It's a redirect that happens rather then a 404 when it can't load the video.

There was a typo that set an expiry to a negative number rather then several hours (a typo I didn't notice while tracking down another issue), I am sorry if anything has been unduly stretched by unwanted screwing.

 

[Kross]

Escapist what are you doing? This was an interesting episode and your screw ups ruined what could've been an insightful discussion (or at least delayed it)

Ugh, insightful discussion [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbMLphi7HQU]. Like the kind without flashing colors?

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

So it sounds to me like this game is kinda broken. ...I'll go now.

It is certainly, broken in two.

 

[IrisNetwork]

Doesn't matter if its nostalgia related or not. Tim Schafer can always take my money!