Zero Punctuation: Dark Void

[CD-R]

Dark Void didn't appeal to me anyway. Loved the Crimson Skies reference though.

Funny how people keep bringing up Crimson Skies. This game was actually made by former members of FASA Studios the guys who made Crimson Skies the High Road to Revenge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtight_Games

Crimson Skies was a great game and a great X-Box live game. But according to Wikipedia it wasn't a best seller.Which is weird because I thought it was the number one game on X Box live for awhile. It even had freed down loadable content. And this was good free DLC too. One of the things they gave you was a plane that shot lighting. FASA could have easily made a sequel and turned it into a franchise on par with Call of Duty or Halo. But instead they made Shadowrun. And not like the amazing Super NES RPG. They made it into an online only multiplayer shooter. And it was also the first game to use Games for Windows Live so I think you can imagine how that turned out.

I'm surprised Yahtzee was as nice to this game as he was. It's a real shame when a new developer tries something new and it ends up not working out. I may pick this game up when it hits the bargain bins. I think they should hand Airtight Gsmes the Crimson Skies License and let them redeem themselves.

 

[CD-R]

Why, oh why, oh why, has no-one been able to do a PROPER Jet-pack game since

No they have.

I used to play this all the time when I was a kid. It even had one of the first Giant Robot-Mech Fight thing sections in a game.

 

[supermike6]

That was a relatively positive review coming from Yahtzee. That means this game has to be something special

 

[Aperama]

Well, to be fair, the original PC/SNES game for 'The Rocketeer' did do the whole jetpack flight combat thing (after Rocket Ranger by Cinemaware, best as I know anyhow).. Oh, sure, it was portrayed as a sidescroller shooter with minigames aplenty that was, in a word, crap.. but hey, don't you think that counts?

(I.. yeah, I got it as a young, impressionable youth. I totally got by the first level! With.. cheat codes.)

 

[ethaninja]

Yeah...I wasn't too hot on Dark Void, and now I know I won't play it at all. Jetpacks sound fun though.

Aye I reckon. But still, I could always play Soldat or Tribes or hey I know, Jetpack

 

[TxMxRonin]

The only thing I can think of that's worse than the game is that Brad Pitt wants to make a movie based on it.

 

[bowen13]

Hey, home come I keep getting this Zero Punctuation advertisement video rather than the review?

 

[Kanazuchi]

"Too Human" was the worst game he reviewed? What happened to "Sonic Unleashed"?

 

[Kanazuchi]

didn't Yahtzee say he would review dante's inferno...

The game's not out until next week, unless the Bizarro World release dates came back for Australia and they're getting it before we are.

 

[Squilookle]

Funny how people keep bringing up Crimson Skies. This game was actually made by former members of FASA Studios the guys who made Crimson Skies the High Road to Revenge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtight_Games

Crimson Skies was a great game and a great X-Box live game. But according to Wikipedia it wasn't a best seller. FASA could have easily made a sequel and turned it into a franchise on par with Call of Duty or Halo. I think they should hand Airtight Gsmes the Crimson Skies License and let them redeem themselves.

While the Xbox Crimson skies: HRTR had great music, graphics, exploration etc, If you've ever played the first Crimson skies on the PC then you'd be GLAD these guys didn't make any more CS games. There was so much more to the PC game that fell by the wayside, such as airships gradually burning up and falling apart as they hit the ground or sea (and actually staying there), plane customisation, better all round plane handling, no stupid mechanical worms and the like, trinkets you collect from missions and newspaper cuttings of your deeds, instant action, bots in multiplayer, varied weapons (70 cal guns mmm) etc etc and on and on and on.

My point is that.... well, essentially I'm saying that Crimson skies on the PC is the greatest arcade flight game EVER made, and the xbox one is merely passably good by comparison.

And Yahtzee, Crimson Skies has NOTHING to do with alternate WW2, being set in 1937. You're probably thinking of turning point: fall of liberty or whatever it was called.

 

[Lancer873]

Too Human < Sonic Unleashed? Seriously??? Wow. Anyways, interesting review. Sounds pretty cool actually, but I'm probably not gonna buy it.

 

[daz_O_O]

That was actually the funniest ZP I've seen in a while, I rarely laugh at them anymore but this tickled me in all the right places.

I never had any interest in this game but the review was... interesting if a little inconclusive. Looks worth a rent when I have fuck all else to do through the summer anyway, if just to try out this crazy jetpack combat.

 

[Endocrom]

Is the player character also cross-eyed?

Because that's the only way I can think of for why his helmet would be like that.

 

[mawk]

somehow I thought this week would be Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, but on retrospect I had absolutely zero logical basis for that. even if it's in the works, we probably still have a few weeks to go, what with the sudden bombardment of big names. I hope he does plan to do it, though; it seems like Climax got the point that they shouldn't be messily emulating an established style, and now that they're sort of doing their own thing, the result is surprisingly solid, even if the whole psychological-tailoring aspect was far less than it was made out to be (and even if the running segments were sort of horrendous.)

I don't have a lot to say about this episode, having never played Dark Void myself, but yeah it was cool too.

 

[General Vagueness]

I've started tuning in to ZP just to find out how many people will try to pretend they've watched it and get put on probation!

This was a confusing one, some of the things he criticised actually sounded pretty cool and he seemed to go back and forth between liking it and disliking it!

That was the point, he was saying it has very good parts, very bad parts, and in-between parts, and that makes it hard to judge.

"Too Human" was the worst game he reviewed? What happened to "Sonic Unleashed"?

He said the 2D parts were good, mostly, but the awful stuff outweighed the good stuff.

I should have said this three weeks ago when I was thinking it, but, bravo! a return to form! the late November/December/early January/whenever stuff didn't seem that good but Yahtzee is back on the proverbial horse and looking it in the mouth... or something.

Also wow, he wasn't kidding, he made it wider. I'm all for more resolution but, if I may so say so, I'd rather in not all be in the x axis, but that's me, I like 4:3 more than 16:9 (and would someone tell monitor companies to quit it with 16:10 already please?!).

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

I'm wondering if that "alternate Napoleonic age with war fought on the backs of pterodactyls" was just a test by Yahtzee to see how many book nerds he could rope in with that comment.

Counter starts at 1.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Meh bioshock is worse than too human.... at least too human was trying something different and failed instead of being ultra safe and boring because it was so easy.........