Zero Punctuation: Brutal Legend

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

I am Jack's Fight Club refrence

 

[dunnace]

I... really love this game. So, er, kinda disagree here. A lot. I know that commenting on the plot would have ruined it a bit, but I thought the game took a really surprising twist about 2/3 in and the whole Jack Black comedy element was ditched in favour of some really great character development.
And it's not really an RTS, more a rush and slash than anything.

 

[killerbread]

nice review but his movies do suck more than a drunk asain hooker she might give you a STD but my god its worth it

 

[Kholdgrave]

Honestly this game is fantastic.

I melted an emo kid's face off with a guitar solo flat out called "Face Melter".

If melting the face off one of those annoying bastards doesn't make a great game then you are truly something monstrous.

 

[Kermi]

Price of admission alone is the cut scene featuring "Mr. Crowley".

EPIC to the MAX.

That was probably my favourite scene in the game. Man, I'm going to go find that shit on youtube right now.

 

[A1]

Not to try and destroy Yahtzee's point with the RTS thing, but after the game came out Tim Schafer came out and said not to play it like an RTS and to play it more like a hack and slash with RTS elements. Like you should be down there a fair bit with your guys, you just need to replenish them every once in a while.

Sorry Mr. Schafer, but that doesn't change the fact that RTS never should have been put in the game in the first place.

I was actually surprised that Yahtzee didn't like it. He seems to be into manly things (in a totally heterosexual way of course) and Brutal Legend at first glance would seem to fit the bill. Then of course comes along RTS and while I have nothing against RTS it doesn't really seem to fit into the "manly" category very well. On top of that it doesn't really seem to fit all that well with Heavy Metal either. And if that weren't bad enough the fact that the RTS aspect of the game wasn't particularly well advertised seems like a bit of a dick move. Overall I get the impression that Brutal Legend doesn't constitute one of Tim Schafer's masterpieces, but rather one of his experiments. Probably one of his failing experiments in terms of quality and content.

 

[icnfde]

I must be one of the only sane people posting here. "Great review", "HAHA AWESOME IM SURE NOT TO BUY IT NOW LOL".... uh, what? Where was the review? All this came down to was 4 minutes of RTS bashing and Yahtzee's ever growing hate of newer Sandbox games.

 

[Aesthetical Quietus]

Well Im kinda dissapointed at Brutal Legends negatives. I wasnt planning on buying the game new, I never do unless its Bioware, but if i was going to I would now just rent it or wait its price out.

Hell maybe I'll just watch someone play it on youtube for me. Worked with Wet.

Coincedently does anyone know a good website for that sort of thing? Watching someone play a game for you adequetly so you can enjoy the story?

YOUTUBE!
Duh.

Maybe I should rephrase that question for the slower folk in the building:

A good place to watch high quality videos of people playing games for me OTHER than youtube. Because when I was watching WET the guy kept commenting on it as though it was Unskippable or something.

I guessed as such, but I couldn't really think of anything, and there ARE some good videos of exactly that on YouTube, it all depends what game it is.
[ie I felt like being an utter dick].

 

[Venatio]

*snip*

Fine, whatever.

 

[l33tabix]

This one made Yahtzee seem like a bit of a noob, see the flowers the game shows you to do a relic raiser at, do it, motorforge appears, I don't even have the game and I know that.
In other news: atill waiting for my DJ Hero to show up.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

He gained some respect in my book.

I also want to say that I called it

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What? You called that Yahtzee wouldn't like a game? Good call man, you're a genius!

 

[Pimppeter2]

He gained some respect in my book.

I also want to say that I called it

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What? You called that Yahtzee wouldn't like a game? Good call man, you're a genius!

No need to be a dick, I'm just saying that I called that yhatzee wouldn't fall head over heals for something just because its made by Tim Shaffer.

Like a lot of the rest of the gaming community was.

So fuck off

 

[varoksa]

when is he going to review some of the really good games that just came out ? eg uncharted 2 or demons souls also funny review

 

[woo james Woo]

Nice vid but wots wrong with rts'

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

It sounds like someone dose not like RTS's....

The games only problem is a lack of defining what the things are that you must get, and once you find them it becomes pretty easy. Tho it coudl have a automated RTS mode where you just go out in the field and beat crap up while it doe all the small work then when you need back up call for it and such. All in all its abit halfased in game mechanics but less so than most generic games made these days.

 

[Shampine]

Very pleased to find out that not everyone likes this game, I know too many people whose mentality is "LOL JAK BLAK LOLOL XDDD"

 

[Snowalker]

Not to try and destroy Yahtzee's point with the RTS thing, but after the game came out Tim Schafer came out and said not to play it like an RTS and to play it more like a hack and slash with RTS elements. Like you should be down there a fair bit with your guys, you just need to replenish them every once in a while.

Sorry Mr. Schafer, but that doesn't change the fact that RTS never should have been put in the game in the first place.

I was actually surprised that Yahtzee didn't like it. He seems to be into manly things (in a totally heterosexual way of course) and Brutal Legend at first glance would seem to fit the bill. Then of course comes along RTS and while I have nothing against RTS it doesn't really seem to fit into the "manly" category very well. On top of that it doesn't really seem to fit all that well with Heavy Metal either. And if that weren't bad enough the fact that the RTS aspect of the game wasn't particularly well advertised seems like a bit of a dick move. Overall I get the impression that Brutal Legend doesn't constitute one of Tim Schafer's masterpieces, but rather one of his experiments. Probably one of his failing experiments in terms of quality and content.

RTS not manly?

Your telling other men what to do, because your superior. They know you to be some sort of Man-God yelling at them, telling them they are dirt, while they have to fight your battle, why? Because your having to much sex to kill them yourself. And these men don't want to work for you, but they also know if they don't they'll be next on your hit-list, which happens to be very short, why? Because your a badass. Now, tell me a RTS isn't manly.

 

[Hyperactiveman]

Yahtzee and me had the exact same feelings on this game... So promising, yet all that RTS bullshit...

I really do not see the problem with the RTS elements in the game... No, really I don't!

 

[asunder 82]

Thankyou, Yahtzee. You've summed up my exact feelings on the game. Loved Psychonauts, thought this game was an awkward, unfocused mess.

 

[A1]

Not to try and destroy Yahtzee's point with the RTS thing, but after the game came out Tim Schafer came out and said not to play it like an RTS and to play it more like a hack and slash with RTS elements. Like you should be down there a fair bit with your guys, you just need to replenish them every once in a while.

Sorry Mr. Schafer, but that doesn't change the fact that RTS never should have been put in the game in the first place.

I was actually surprised that Yahtzee didn't like it. He seems to be into manly things (in a totally heterosexual way of course) and Brutal Legend at first glance would seem to fit the bill. Then of course comes along RTS and while I have nothing against RTS it doesn't really seem to fit into the "manly" category very well. On top of that it doesn't really seem to fit all that well with Heavy Metal either. And if that weren't bad enough the fact that the RTS aspect of the game wasn't particularly well advertised seems like a bit of a dick move. Overall I get the impression that Brutal Legend doesn't constitute one of Tim Schafer's masterpieces, but rather one of his experiments. Probably one of his failing experiments in terms of quality and content.

RTS not manly?

Your telling other men what to do, because your superior. They know you to be some sort of Man-God yelling at them, telling them they are dirt, while they have to fight your battle, why? Because your having to much sex to kill them yourself. And these men don't want to work for you, but they also know if they don't they'll be next on your hit-list, which happens to be very short, why? Because your a badass. Now, tell me a RTS isn't manly.

I never said that RTS wasn't manly. I merely said that it doesn't SEEM TO fit in to the "manly" category VERY WELL. Stereotypically speaking "manly" is defined by the physical as opposed to the mental, or in other words action as opposed to thought. Therefore it would seem that anything that requires more thought than action isn't particularly compatible with the conventional view of "manliness".

RTS generally puts more emphasis on thought while hack-and-slash action obviously puts more emphasis on action. Maybe there are ways to blend action and thought effectively but it would seem that trying to blend hack-and-slash with RTS isn't a very good way to do it. To make matters worse the RTS aspect of Brutal Legend is lacking as pointed out in Yahtzee's review. On top of that that fact that Brutal Legend allows you to personally jump into the action makes the whole RTS aspect seem at least somewhat pointless. I think the whole RTS element would have been better left out altogether.