Zero Punctuation: Darksiders

[paralost]

man i have this game and love it. first i don't know what Yahtzee is talking about if you buy your weapon moves then attacking becomes a lot more fun as you integrate more button combos, although its true in the beginning it's like "hmm do i want to push x one time or three?" and to all the people who are now like "after this review i am not going to get it" you are dumb. sure it may take some elements from other games but it uses them really well if you don't want to buy it it's at least worth a rent because this is bullshit now any game that has a mythological setting is automatically ripping off GoW and if there's a light puzzle it's ripping of LoZ, fuck you haters resident evil had light puzzles, prince of persia had light puzzles. the only thing that was a little ridiculous was the portal gun aka voidwalker. everytime i used it i couldn't help but think "now we are having fun with portals" =)

 

[CriticalGriffin]

That was simply hilarious. Enjoyed it alot more than the previous one.

 

[Venatio]

... I like Warhammer 40k

 

[Notere]

So, what I gathered here is that Yahtzee hates stupid one-liners from overly masculine characters unless they're -not- making them, and he's going to absolutely hate Bayonetta if his comments on art direction are any indication. Well, that just kills the suspense.

 

[Cyrax023]

one of his best reviews

 

[aPod]

This is one of my favorite reviews...

Now im just going to grab my microphone and telegraph my pat on the back attack.

 

[hippo24]

Please elaborate on your opinion of people who like Warhammer 40K.

My thoughts exactly.

Im a gelatinous creature too?

Does that mean I'm like a nurgling or something?
I can deal with that.

 

[lozfoe444]

What constitutes a God of War rip-off?

 

[WaffleGod]

Awesome review! I've played Darksiders and it's not a bad game, but as always. You can't deny anything Yahtzee says in his reviews >.

 

[Snotnarok]

Fantastic game and review, neato.

 

[Shankity Stick]

To all of the people who keep saying "Gowersh! Yahtzee shur sownds angry." all I can say is no shit. He's angry for good reason. Rip offs are horible in more ways then one. They tend not to be as good as the original and they sap the market of more creative titles because it's mor profitable to steal other peoples ideas. So there!

 

[zeratul123]

hes right there all god of war rip offfs

 

[dudeman0001]

Outstanding.
This review was incredibly fun, since he had so much to work with, much like with WET.

 

[iamthehorde]

although the vid was one of the more funnier ones recently, i can´t help the feeling that darksiders is neglected by some with a strange kind of bias. the kotaku review was also heavily based on the authors dislike for darksiders derivative style and gameplay.

what should be mentioned is that darksiders´gameplay is actually really good. and while some see it as a rip off, one could also see it as a homage to all the games it steals from. fact is, darksiders is the exact game that comes out when you put all it´s influences in a blender and it doesn´t even hide the fact.

i don´t know what difficulty yahtzee took for his playthrough, but kudos to him if he really only needed to button mash x to get through the whole game on anything other than easy difficulty. that´s the only thing that i remember from the review that was about the actual gameplay. the reviewer from kotaku seemed like he had to downplay the game. it seemed like he somehow had to admit the qualities of the game while he simultaneously hated the art design and thought of it as a shameless clone that tries to cash in on old formulas.

although the game is getting high praise by others, it strucks me that yahtzee and the kotaku guy both sounded so bitter over this game as if it was some illegitimate bastard child or as if it was something personal. the game is by no means as good as the highest reviews try to tell you, but judging a game almost entirely by the fact that a certain comic artist(who sucks) designed the characters and that it is basically zelda64 with god of war-combat(what other game does that mix?) is not that fair.

however, when i have finished the game i´m gonna sell it so i still get at least 20 bucks out of it...

 

[MagnumJoe]

LOL!

It's been quite a while since i laughed that much on ZP episode.

Nicely done! I just love that dry sarcasm.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

I honestly couldn't tell if he was serious about the blue and orange portals.

 

[Wilbot666]

Well I'm thoroughly enjoying Darksiders and I have several points of contention with Yahtzee's review, funny though it was.

1. Not all of us have EVER owned a Nintendo, and hence a Zelda rip-off can be quite welcome.

2. The combat is simple yes, but it's not trying to be Devil May Cry and the God of War games had a combat system no more complex than this in my opinion. 2 basic attack buttons with the shoulder buttons used as modifiers...sound familiar?

3. The art direction was done by a comic book artist called Joe Madueira of X-Men and Battlechasers fame, how was it not going to be over the top? I do agree with the assertion that the style of armour "borrows heavily" from WoW (in some people's opinion anyhow) but since Joe's art actually predates the MMORPG king then *shock* could WoW have perhaps purloined some of it's graphical style from him?

Anyway still a great review as always, keep up the (searingly caustic) good work!

 

[Resonantscythe]

Actually Bayonetta is much more like Devil may cry. But i suppose the combat in those is close enough.

 

[hippo24]

To all of the people who keep saying "Gowersh! Yahtzee shur sownds angry." all I can say is no shit. He's angry for good reason. Rip offs are horible in more ways then one. They tend not to be as good as the original and they sap the market of more creative titles because it's mor profitable to steal other peoples ideas. So there!

But....but....He insulted my 40k addiction
(makes sad whimpering sound)

Seriously though, Isnt God of war a rip-off of other hack-and slash titles, I mean devil may cry was out 4 years before GOW ever saw the light of day. And if I recall, even that wasen't "new".
Now Im not saying GOW doesn't deserve its mantle,
just pointing out that most "popular" and "good" games, are often less innovative then their mid-teer brothers.
While "innovation" is always welcome, change in a title is much more about how its done, rather than what.

A good idea, executed poorly is much less desirable than a bland idea executed flawlessly.

 

[Ryank1908]

Darksiders and Dante's Inferno; shameless rip-off's, yes.
I'm hoping he'll be kinder to Bayonetta though. Shameless rip-off, perhaps, but at least the guy who directed Bayonetta is also the creator of DMC. I also really really like it.