Zero Punctuation: E.T. - "The Worst Game Ever"
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"Boring" makes for a boring video. If a game is awesome, he can make jokes about how he punched a nun in the face because she asked for money, thereby distracting him from playing it. If the game is awful, we get a hilarious video about how stupid the plot gets and the wackiness that comes out of glitchy graphics. If a game is just dull... it's dull. There's not much to say about it.Kingjackl said:
A quick Google indicates that Fate's a lesbian (oh yeah, spoiler alert), but on the other hand...she's an emotionally-scarred girl who's unquestioningly obedient to a fault, with a tragic backstory involving serious Mommy issues...yeah, she's basically one corrective schtupping (consensual or otherwise, this being anime after all) away from Waifu-hood. Probably even a fanfic, or twenty, where that happens already.Iceklimber said:
[sup](Disclaimer: Despite the joking mention of "corrective schtupping" in the previous paragraph, I vehemently reject and repudiate even the faintest rationalizations of so-called "corrective rape". It is an inhuman and inhumane practice that is deserving of nothing but unalloyed scorn and ridicule.)[/sup]
I don't know, you can only say "It's a game about grimy white dudes shooting in the desert, being dicks" so many times before it becomes boring and repetitive.Racecarlock said:
Thank Yahtzee, I found myself singing your jingle while dealing with the laundry this morning.
As for E.T. itself, I played and finished it years ago and found it to be bad, but not the soul-scarring experience everyone makes it out to be. Sort of like Mario is Missing, which I can understand people being mad at it they picked it up thinking they were getting a legitimate Mario adventure and got a game where you piddle around towns as Luigi answering trivia questions about landmarks. But by now everybody should know what it is and if you go in understanding it's just a dumb edutainment game it's totally harmless.
"Maybe, but did Mario is Missing crash the game market?" Well, look back at Yahtzee's video.
As for E.T. itself, I played and finished it years ago and found it to be bad, but not the soul-scarring experience everyone makes it out to be. Sort of like Mario is Missing, which I can understand people being mad at it they picked it up thinking they were getting a legitimate Mario adventure and got a game where you piddle around towns as Luigi answering trivia questions about landmarks. But by now everybody should know what it is and if you go in understanding it's just a dumb edutainment game it's totally harmless.
"Maybe, but did Mario is Missing crash the game market?" Well, look back at Yahtzee's video.
If the drought is this bad, could you maybe consider reviewing Crusader Kings 2? It has been described as a gateway-game into its genre, so a lack of experience wouldn't be a problem for people looking for actual consumer advice. Besides which, variety is the spice of life.
If nothing else, if it turns out to be a game not to your liking there is a lot to make fun of in Crusader Kings 2, so it could be a fun review.
If nothing else, if it turns out to be a game not to your liking there is a lot to make fun of in Crusader Kings 2, so it could be a fun review.
Everyone's talking about the implications of a possible new sub-Zero Punctuation series or whether ET was truly the cause of the Video Game crash long ago or simply the straw that broke the camel's back, and I'm here just wondering whether ET will claim the rightful crown of "Worst Game Ever" from Ride to Hell: Retribution.
As broken as Big Rigs and Action 52 are, Ride to Hell sounds like it's deeply offensive what with the misogyny and all. The other two are more like "terrible children's fingerpaintings" bad.
Ah, goddamn it! I always get those mixed up. But you know, I speak Dutch, so... No, no it's still inexcusable. I fixed my post, though! =DLenticularHomicide said:
Is Action 52 even considered a video game or merely a social experiment in seeing how many people are gullible enough to waste that much money.maximara said:
Barely a month after Yahtzee's review, there's an article on CBS about this game literally being dug out of a landfill and put back on the market. Proving that publishers consider nothing is too crappy to fob off on consumers. Especially if they can attach the moniker "retro" or "old-school" to it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/worst-video-game-ever-back-on-the-market/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/worst-video-game-ever-back-on-the-market/
I going to say the unthinkable. ET isn't that bad a game, it's actually quite good for the 2600. There I said it. It's two major problems are:
1) it needed a bit more development time, to sort out some of the more annoying aspects like the pit's etc.
2) The game doesn't really feature any action and it's quite complex. A lot more than other games at the time.
I think kids were weren't ready for it. They wanted some kind of action game with ET and when they didn't get it they lost their s**t.
I would liken it to space war, it was pretty much asteroid and very popular among the University computing students and somebody ended up releasing an arcade version that failed because people found it too hard to play. They didn't stuff like Pong to work up to the complexity.
1) it needed a bit more development time, to sort out some of the more annoying aspects like the pit's etc.
2) The game doesn't really feature any action and it's quite complex. A lot more than other games at the time.
I think kids were weren't ready for it. They wanted some kind of action game with ET and when they didn't get it they lost their s**t.
I would liken it to space war, it was pretty much asteroid and very popular among the University computing students and somebody ended up releasing an arcade version that failed because people found it too hard to play. They didn't stuff like Pong to work up to the complexity.