Zero Punctuation: Brutal Legend

[DTWolfwood]

Wait is he saying this game is bad? good? or meh?

Yahtzee u cur go back to making a stand! no fun when you sit on the fence

 

[malestrithe]

I thought that this game was a good waste of time. I did not like the RTS aspect of it. If it was more combat and less RTS, then I would like it more.

I do not know about your friend, but that is what all RTS were made around. Gather your mates and throw them at the enemies. Even in good RTS you tend to throw enemies until either they die or you do.

 

[Zeraki]

A bit sad to see that people worship Yahtzees words, which in turn makes them pass over great games which he didn't like. These "reviews" are fun and all, but hardly proper reviews.

Exactly! It gets annoying when I see people saying "Well Yahtzee didn't like the game, so I don't have to play it now". It's sad how people can't form opinions for themselves anymore and actually try the damn games. For some reason I feel like playing Lemmings now.

 

[Illusive DiZ]

Good review. Thanks for the heads up about this game.

 

[VMerken]

This game is something my gamer's intuition told me to stay the fork away from. Too much at once -> no focus -> no depth in virtually 95% of the games which attempt it. Judging from the review, this indeed appears to be the case here.

 

[Mattteus]

best review of late, good work on the umlauts

 

[thepj]

Brutal Legend

This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Brutal Legend.

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A: while i feel you make some vailid points i must say that you might have tried reading the manuel? (to learn what a motor forge looks like for example)

B: have you ever even played a total war game? much less reveiwed one? i doubt it cause if you had you'd find them decent if not exactly fadt paced and actiony

C: I thought you liked sandbox games? sure there's a lot more of them but surely the great yattze isn't getting sick of his sandboxes? what about some nice linier games?

D: i agree with you on the scavenger hunt thing though



my point though can be summed up as follows: REVEIW A FUCKING TOTAL WAR GAME, MAKE YOUR MIND UP ABOUT SANDBOXES DO YOU LIKE THEM OR NOT, AND READ THE MANUAL!

 

[Blt3200]

hmm i like this game but he does point out some things that i didnt like about it but i like the free romming car aspect but he has his opnion and i have mine =D

 

[Abedeus]

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.

You know that you failed if you have to explain how to play your game to GAMERS. Because people playing games 10+ years (or 15+, what the hell) are usually considered gamers.

Did you know that some of the best chess players in the world do extremely bad at fairy chess? It's because they're too familiar with concepts they already know and unable to adapt to something different. And that's exactly the problem that your sort of "gamers" has with Brütal Legend.

Awesome, don't care. Probably because those chess players don't find out half-way through that their chess became cards and they are playing poker.

Some of you might not "get" the game, the same way I can't "get" Starcraft or any sports game ever made, but you should at least try it out if you can borrow it from a friend before you pass your judgement.

...Sports game? Oh.

 

[KjellKanon]

Seems this game isn't all it was hyped up to be. I guess I'll wait for it to drop in price before shelling out for it.

 

[Techni]

Anyone else annoyed by the HA in the intro?

 

[Credge]

It saddens me greatly that nobody draws the comparison to the PC game Sacrifice. That is what the "RTS" portion of the game felt like down to the letter, but instead of being useless in combat (aside from spells), you can hit things with your guitar.

Any fan of Sacrifice will feel at home here and will probably realize that there is actually an >intense< level of micromanagement and strategy involved here, as was the case in Sacrifice.

The problem is that most people don't understand this. The idea that it's a watered down zerg fest is only true because that's how you play it. I don't play it like that and it isn't like that.

 

[Samoftherocks]

It was fun to play a sandbox game that wasn't about Being A Guy With A Gun In A World Of Many Guns. I'll take being a Roadie anytime over being a Tough Lone Soldier or yet another Gansta'.

That's one of the reasons I picked BL over Borderlands, though I do appreciate them kickin' out the jambs and allowing players to make whatever fucked up gun they want.

 

[awatkins]

The Absolute best part of this review was when yatzee threw a bucket full of 'Mouse Trap' parts at the dog, Soly Hucking Fhit I giggled blood out of my nose.

 

[xscoot]

Well, at least he made a lot of money from it, so he can use that money and reputation to make a good game that does sell, not one or the other.

 

[Zeraki]

You know that you failed if you have to explain how to play your game to GAMERS. Because people playing games 10+ years (or 15+, what the hell) are usually considered gamers.

I don't know about that, I found it quite refreshing actually. It was nice playing a game that doesn't hold your hand, and required the gamer to figure things out for themselves. It brought back memories of when all games were like that... good times.

 

[geldonyetich]

I shelled out for the game mainly because I wanted to support Double Fine and if this game doesn't sell at least a piddling amount there's a pretty good chance we won't see Psychonauts 2...

I played this game 1 (one) day and found the rock references all very cool and interesting, but I have to say that I haven't bothered booting it up again since I smelled a hint of RTS in the mix.

I'm not saying RTS suck, it's just they have a tendency to suck a lot of time out of me for what I would deem to be a not particularly satisfactory return. Order units to be built, order units to move where they will kill or be killed, repeat until that which needs killing is killed, repeat for several hours for each map - this is the RTS, minus the obvious focus on applying strategy, but perhaps I omitted that simply because most RTS don't have enough of it.

 

[Skeleon]

This review doesn't really deter me from wanting to at least try Brütal Legend.
Especially since the RTS aspects sound a wee bit like Sacrifice (being right smack in the middle of it and all).

 

[Virtual_Dom]

I hope he reviews uncharted 2

Anyway his reviews seem to be losing their spark since his voice seems to be a very tiring and "i don't want to be here voice"

at least thats what I think. Go back to the voice of the 2008 era; that very sharp iritated voice I liked.

 

[hortonamos7]

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.

What the hell does "play it like a hack and slash with RTS elements" mean? That's the biggest nonsense I have ever heard. And, if the game designer has to tell me how I am supposed to play, he clearly failed in some regard. Shouldnt the game just be designed to be played a certain way? Or, if it's going to be a true sandbox game, shouldn't it be fun to play in multiple ways?