Zero Punctuation: Dead Space 2
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Grrrr....I want my yatzhee fix NOW!
Grrrr....I want my yatzhee fix NOW!
I fully expected him to dislike it as he did the first one, but:
-The level he claims was copy-pasted, wasn't at all. They completely redressed it.
-You cant ask them to be realistic AND have zombies. They aren't physically possible at all! To use our eyes/any of our senses, you need our brain, which needs our circulatory system, which needs our heart and lungs, which needs energy, which needs our digestive system, which needs pretty much every other system. Thus, it needs us to be alive. Any such virus would take years.
-As the guy above me mentioned, there is something far worse than cutting off your pinky. I cringed, a lot.
-I LOVED that the devs let you kill babies. I hate when games lock you out from it
I loved DS2, moreso than the first one. It's the perfect proof that a silent protagonist is not better than the alternative. I emphasized with him far more and even cried at 2 points. The game is brilliant.
And in closing, fuck innovation. Change for changes sake is not a good thing. DS2 however, is a good thing. I'll take an awesome game over an innovative crappy one any day.
-The level he claims was copy-pasted, wasn't at all. They completely redressed it.
-You cant ask them to be realistic AND have zombies. They aren't physically possible at all! To use our eyes/any of our senses, you need our brain, which needs our circulatory system, which needs our heart and lungs, which needs energy, which needs our digestive system, which needs pretty much every other system. Thus, it needs us to be alive. Any such virus would take years.
-As the guy above me mentioned, there is something far worse than cutting off your pinky. I cringed, a lot.
-I LOVED that the devs let you kill babies. I hate when games lock you out from it
See final chapter, there is one.
I loved DS2, moreso than the first one. It's the perfect proof that a silent protagonist is not better than the alternative. I emphasized with him far more and even cried at 2 points. The game is brilliant.
And in closing, fuck innovation. Change for changes sake is not a good thing. DS2 however, is a good thing. I'll take an awesome game over an innovative crappy one any day.
No. It actually helped you NOT get in the game. It made him feel like a puppet instead of a person. Silent protagonist is just another term for lazy writers.enriquetnt said:
I LOVE that he has a personality now. I emphasized a LOT more with him because of it.
I thought the game was awesome, he put too much emphasize on the horror aspect though. It's suppose to be scary but the game was never meant to be 'shit-your-pants' scary. DS was always meant as a survival horror where it's as though your playing an action hero. And games usually have some sort of physical flaw. In Amnesia you can swing chairs around all day as though your character was a contender in the Mr. Galaxcy contest or something.
Gotta say, I dont always agree with Yahtzee but with this I'm on his side 100%. Dead Space posing as a seriously suspensful horror game is like having Charles Manson as a male nurse.
It's blatantly obvious that it doesent belong and does more harm than good.
It's blatantly obvious that it doesent belong and does more harm than good.
Yahtzee couldn't be more accurate on this one. The first game was shit, and this one (i was stupid for even giving a chance) is a slightly less shit version of the same game, ITS NOT SCARY AND ITS NOT GOOD!!!!
Are EA even going to try and release a half decent game over 2011, it's looking bleak so far.
I am hopeful for Mass Effect 3, bulletstorm or crysis 2, but I wont hold my breath.
I am glad THQ is really stepping up to fill the void. Homefront, Saints Row 3, Red Faction Armageddon and WWE All Stars all look sick for 2011.
Are EA even going to try and release a half decent game over 2011, it's looking bleak so far.
I am hopeful for Mass Effect 3, bulletstorm or crysis 2, but I wont hold my breath.
I am glad THQ is really stepping up to fill the void. Homefront, Saints Row 3, Red Faction Armageddon and WWE All Stars all look sick for 2011.
i love these reviews, even if i don't entirely agree with them in some cases. i thought this was a pretty great game
Finally someone else that feels the same way about games especially horror games. When I first played Dead Space there were bits of it and I mean bits that I thought "oooh this could get creepy. This could get good." and I just kept waiting. But it never did. It tried to beat me over the head and say LOOK AT ME I'M SCARY! AREN"T YOU SCARED YET? LALALALALALALALA LOOK I'bve got SKINNY LEGS AND SHARP TEETH RAAAAAAAAAAR! Someone was SO SCARED OF ME they scrawled a mesasge in BLOOD on the wall. You've never seen THAT before!" and by never I mean you've seen it so much that it's transcended horror and was then used in comedies to make fun of what is distinctly UNfunny and UN scary about horror that isn't horror. Meanwhile the gameplay really just blew. It contained the one thing of FPS's that will always turn me off....level design that gets me lost. I don't like having to retrace my steps 50 times to find the ONE corridor I didn't see before and even with the help of the glowy line pointing the way it still messed up and occasionally pointed to an inanimate object signifying I should twiddle it but would occasionally get it wrong and point to the WRONG object so that I ended up juggling some pencil sharpener instead of actually pushing the elevator button. OH that's an elevator button? It looked like shit!