Zero Punctuation: Darksiders

[Lunar Templar]

*shrugs* 1) beat it already
2) on my second play through on 'apcoliptic' or hard for the normal ppl
and 3) this is one of those times where i'm gonna have to say yahtzee is full of it.

i like Darksiders, and while i've a few of my own issues with the game (the diffaculty being one) i've enjoyed my time with it.

and btw, god of war is technicly ripping off devil may cry, ( go ahead, look up wich came out first, i dare you) only made it less interesting, and with an unlikable character

and Bayonetta had the guy FROM the DMC team on it, so it more of a DMC rip off XD

 

[Codeman90]

If anything War looks EXACTLY like Arthas, not the Space Marines (screw space marines anyway) I'm a fan of 40k because I like how ridiculously over the top everything is.

If you are going to make a game based 40,000 years in the future and try to make a coherent and serious story based on warfare. It's going to fall apart. With the scale 40k as everything is blown so ridiculously out of proportion its interesting seeing what they come up with next.

To each his own I guess. Yahtzee thought the Orange Box was the pinnacle of gaming and I thought Portal was good and I didn't like Half-Life 2 or Team Fortress 2. They say variety is good and people can like whatever they want. Besides who HASNT incurred the wrath of yahtzee yet?

 

[Azaraxzealot]

well, i knew for a fact that yahtzee would hate this game, but i'm still gonna buy it (after all, i don't have a PS3 anymore, so how am I gonna get my God of War fix?)

 

[Azaraxzealot]

If anything War looks EXACTLY like Arthas

dude, he DOES look exactly like arthas, come to think of it, i think i'd play a hack n' slash revolving around arthas... that'd be pretty fun! hell, dude, that may be one of the best ideas ever! SOMEONE SUBMIT THIS TO BLIZZARD!

 

[Crouton]

If anything War looks EXACTLY like Arthas

dude, he DOES look exactly like arthas, come to think of it, i think i'd play a hack n' slash revolving around arthas... that'd be pretty fun! hell, dude, that may be one of the best ideas ever! SOMEONE SUBMIT THIS TO BLIZZARD!

This does have some striking similarities.

I FIGURED IT OUT!

Arthas is actually the horseman Death, but he ditched War to hang with Blizzard and run Icecrown. Arthas and War are twin brothers, its so obvious now.

 

[Kingsman]

Burn, burn, bizzurn, bizzurn.

I only saw clips of it, but the "collect enemy souls to power up weapons" shtick combined with the "melee to death a plethora of mythological creatures" ploy made this so extraordinarily derivative in my eyes that I would not ever want to play it.

 

[Urgh76]

well done yahtzee, i think that this may have been your best review yet.

Also, if you can reflect light, use a "hookshot" and something else (i cant remember what it was) then they are obviously copying ZELDA!

 

[Azaraxzealot]

If anything War looks EXACTLY like Arthas

dude, he DOES look exactly like arthas, come to think of it, i think i'd play a hack n' slash revolving around arthas... that'd be pretty fun! hell, dude, that may be one of the best ideas ever! SOMEONE SUBMIT THIS TO BLIZZARD!

This does have some striking similarities.

I FIGURED IT OUT!

Arthas is actually the horseman Death, but he ditched War to hang with Blizzard and run Icecrown. Arthas and War are twin brothers, its so obvious now.

By jove... let's just hope that Blizzard's secret service people don't come to our houses late at night and torture us into not saying anything because they don't want Arthas to quit his job at icecrown because we just publicly revealed he has a retarded twin brother that he's neglected for so long that he lost all his personality and decided to be link and kratos at the same time XD

 

[dubious_wolf]

hey I take offence, I like 40k! oh wait that's right this the internet and nobody cares... *sigh* ok I will agree with this review on one point. yes war should be overly machismo not brooding anti-hero. there done.

 

[Crouton]

If anything War looks EXACTLY like Arthas

dude, he DOES look exactly like arthas, come to think of it, i think i'd play a hack n' slash revolving around arthas... that'd be pretty fun! hell, dude, that may be one of the best ideas ever! SOMEONE SUBMIT THIS TO BLIZZARD!

This does have some striking similarities.

I FIGURED IT OUT!

Arthas is actually the horseman Death, but he ditched War to hang with Blizzard and run Icecrown. Arthas and War are twin brothers, its so obvious now.

By jove... let's just hope that Blizzard's secret service people don't come to our houses late at night and torture us into not saying anything because they don't want Arthas to quit his job at icecrown because we just publicly revealed he has a retarded twin brother that he's neglected for so long that he lost all his personality and decided to be link and kratos at the same time XD

War: *knocks on Icecrowns excessively large gate*
Ghoul: (To Arthas) Your brother is here.
Arthas: damnit.. um... im not home. I uhh... uhh.. Im... I lost my heart and need to find it *cuts out heart and throws it down a well*
Ghoul: (To War) I apologize sir, but Arthas is busy looking for his heart right now, he lost it.. again, so if you could come back at a later time.
War: But.. The Apocalypse is happening and he promised he would watch me start the destruction of the world!
Ghoul: It will just have to wait.
Ghoul: (To Arthas) He is gone sir.
Arthas: Can you ****ing believe it? I throw my heart down a well IN ICECROWN! In my bastion of evil and undeath, and some ****ing teenagers just waltzed in through the basement door and snatched it. Those mother ****ers. *Storms off to get his heart back*

 

[Delicious Anathema]

There's almost something novel about ripping off games so blatantly.

I wish someone made a game that combines Night Trap, Resident Evil 4, Dizzy and text adventure games to an impeccable, seamless blend of glaring perfection.

I do wonder what could be Yahtzee's top 10 games that should meet the guillotine...

 

[mrbones228]

I gess insted of reviewing god of war ripoffs you could review borderlands a fallout ripoff
just to mix things up.

 

[ShadowKatt]

So....has anyone here actually played the game or is this all we have to go on?

I love yahtzees reviews and for the most part he seems pretty on-the-ball when it comes to what makes a good game and a bad game, but I find it very hard to believe that a game could be THAT bad(except maybe Dark Angel for the PS2...).

So does anyone else have another opinion on this game? Is it worth blowing $60 on or even $40 in a few weeks?

 

[Crouton]

So....has anyone here actually played the game or is this all we have to go on?

I love yahtzees reviews and for the most part he seems pretty on-the-ball when it comes to what makes a good game and a bad game, but I find it very hard to believe that a game could be THAT bad(except maybe Dark Angel for the PS2...).

So does anyone else have another opinion on this game? Is it worth blowing $60 on or even $40 in a few weeks?

The game was fun, and I think that is the most important factor. Was it overly unique? the environment was pretty clever, I have played a lot of post-apoc games and this one has something others don't. The lack of humans makes it a little depressing, and thats nice. However I do advise they watch a couple "Life after people" episodes, so they know that Cities don't look quite that good in 100 years.

I thought it was fun.

 

[Vredesbyrd67]

Funniest ZP in a very long time. Also, this review has my new favorite metaphor ever:

"I am a monster truck that walks like a man!!!"

Yes.

 

[DragonWright]

Why would anyone call anything a GoW clone when GoW is a DMC clone? It's a hell of a lot more fun to tack 'May Cry' onto a game's important noun to imply something is a DMC clone.

Kratos May Cry! War May Cry! Witch May Cry! Dante Ma- oh goddamnit.

 

[gamegod25]

Well that went pretty much exactly as I expected. But then do we want/expect any different?

Anyway I still enjoyed it and looking forward to a sequel.

 

[nonl33t m4st3r]

"Gelatinous masses that like 40K?" I resemble that remark!

Anyway, kinda sad to see a game that rips off ideas from a bunch of other games. I wouldn't be surprised if the development team was made up of programmers fresh from Hong Kong, considering how much "homage" they put into their games...

 

[Mirroga]

...how exactly do you get Bayonetta = God of War, and NOT Devil May Cry?

I mean, the comparison still works, but still...it seems so much more obvious to go with DMC

After DMC 4, I think Yahtzee would rather forget the DMC series.