Zero Punctuation: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Psychee

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Well, I'm glad he mentioned that the characters are likeable because that's one of the actually great things about the game. Despite the kickass review it's really not a crap game. Not something you play through more than once though.
Its strong points are Design, Voice acting and the characters. There are really only three though which is kinda lame.
 

qdr

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Oh, and by the way, nobody gives a flying duck about this game anyways, since FALLOUT came out like TWO weeks ago.
 

GroundBreakah572

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AlissaX70 said:
I'm glad he mention how this game was NOTHING RELATED TO JOURNEY TO THE WEST!!

Anyone wanna tell me why Western culture has this fascination with that story?

Leave that story to Damon Albarn, Ninja Theory...
Since when do you decide who can use a story as an inspiration? Don't be such a dick
just because you don't like it. Sheesh, talking about butthurt people.


Lordofthesuplex said:
I think I have a good reason why that can be summed up in three simple letters: D-B-Z.
You don't say, Captain Obvious B-[


Kserijaro said:
And come to think of it Fail Ninja Theory is making new DMC :(
Dude, you don't have to buy it if you don't like. It is a DLC... which means free to buy, but not necessary. It is just an add-on to the game, nothing else. Why is this so hard to understand for some people?

qdr said:
Oh, and by the way, nobody gives a flying duck about this game anyways, since FALLOUT came out like TWO weeks ago.
Maybe, but not everyone likes Fallout.

GrinningManiac said:
Theolos88 had a good point: Yhatzee sometimes mentions good things, but his goal is not to critique but to lampoon for comedic effect, so sometimes you get the feeling he's trying to tell you the game's good without actually outright saying it.

How about you stop with the cynicism and the "I'm So Witty" attitude? I'm really sick of that around here. It's spoiling the enjoyability of the forums
Both of you, Theolos and you, are wrong. He is not a real reviewer therefore his reviews have no weight. A real reviewer take a look at both sides of the object and does not rant only about the negative point with curse words. This trent of Angry reviewers totally blinded people and stop them to think about the subject, because they think that they are right, which is wrong, because, like I mentioned before, their reviews have no weight. If you want a REAL reaview, read it in the magazines or on trustfully websides, which take it seriously to inform people about games. But to say that Yahtzee as like the Nostalgic Critic or Spoony is a real critic is more than silly and shows that you have no idear about the definition of a reviewer.


As for me, I like the game and disagree with Yahtzee.
 

samaugsch

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GroundBreakah572 said:
qdr said:
Oh, and by the way, nobody gives a flying duck about this game anyways, since FALLOUT came out like TWO weeks ago.
Maybe, but not everyone likes Fallout.
He's just mad because Yahtzee decided not to review Fallout: New Vegas this week :p (not that I wasn't hoping he would, too, but I'm not going to get mad about it. Instead, I'll just hope he'll do it the week after ^.^).
 

DeimosMasque

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tyriless said:
I starting to have an issue with Yahtzee and his criticism. He recommends nothing. I am all for him verbally dressing down the excesses of this industry but a critic tends to recommend something now and then. Now, I am not asking for him to go easy, but for Christ sake, he needs to find something he likes. The last game I remember him recommending was Bioshock and that came out years ago. Even in that case, he said something along the lines that, it didn't suck too bad so it must be GAME OF THE YEAR. Without any positives recommendation, his reviews tend to be less criticism and more observational humor. There is no purpose beyond his humor if he can't, once in a while, stake his rep on a game that he thinks is actually good. No flames please, or personal attacks. I am just looking for other thoughts on this issue.
There was also No More Heroes 1, Saint's Row 2, and a few others. But mostly he just does critiques on games, not reviews.
 

Sergei Andropov

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I actually liked both the highly original way the adapted the story (or rather the premise) of Journey to the West and the ending, but I can definitely see how it might come out of left field for a lot of people.
 

tyriless

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I cannot disagree more with anyone that states does not review games (@ Deimos: critiquing a game is the same as reviewing them). In fact, you do him a disservice when you state he is doing something else. Yahtzee gives a clearly defined opinion on the failures and the success of the game, while also giving his overall impression of the material. He even goes for a summary of what he said in the end, to ensure you know how he felt about the content. The fact he does all this and keeps his curmudgeon humor going is a small miracle. Besides you getting into the semantics of whether he is or not a game reviewer does not aide in his defense that he has been on a rather strong negative streak over the last year. As an audience member, I would like for him to bring something forward that he has enjoyed because I refuse to believe that considering all the console, PC, and downloaded titles, he has not found a gem every couple months or so.

I actually do appreciate the contributions of repliers about Saint's Row 2 and Infamous. I forgot about some them. However, these games came more than a year ago. Even if he did manage to eek out a mostly positive assessment of a game over the last year it has been drowned in a deluge of disdain and bile. He puts out an average 3 videos a month (estimate including time off and other nongame material) and let's say that he likes one game a year (his average it seems) that is a 36:1 ratio. Let's say my average is conservative and bump that up to 18:1. It's still pretty lopsided.
 

DeimosMasque

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Yahtzee himself states himself as a critic not a reviewer.

And his "highly negative streak" is what he always does, it's not anything new.
 

T8B95

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Theolos88 said:
It's hard to tell a good game from a bad one with Yahtzee... I understand, that its not the goal in these ranting reviews, but maybe some kind of shitometer would be appropriate to tell is the game worth buying or not? For instance other reviews of C:LoS made me quite confident i wanna play it. And watching Yahtzee's episode about it i can really tell no difference in the attitude in comparison to this one.
Let me refer you to the "Mailbag Showdown" video as to why Yahtzee doesn't do a scoring system.

Off topic, when is he going to do Fallout New Vegas? I want him to rip the shit out of that game. It is holding up TES V.

Or Medal of Honour. Played at a friend's house, was shit, should get some good laughs out of review.
 

Interrobangin

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Quite funny. Who is the person whose mug is frequently used in these Zero Punctuation videos? He appears at 0:33 in this one.
 

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bladeleaper said:
That Noah's Ark game sounds awesome! lol
Fronzel said:
Actually a game really loosely based on Noah's Ark might be interesting.
Unfortunately, a very, very similar game to Yahtzee's idea has been made, albeit horrible. It's even a shooter, but instead of Yahtzee's idea, you sling-shot food into the mouth of various animals. Terrible execution.

<img src="http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/8/563038_45416_front.jpg" /img>

It's a lot worse than it sounds, and I know it doesn't sound that good.

Skip to 13:20 in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw] video for a quick review on it that sums up how much balls it sucks about as well as I could.

It could be pretty cool if Fronzel's idea became a game, even if only as backstory as to "why this game takes place so far away from earth" or something.

Anyway, great video by Yahtzee, laughed out loud in so many sections especially the "Well let's just forget about Journey to the West, because the developers did!"
 

Xman490

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I ordered this game on Amazon.com for $5 ($20 off for some promotion I had, $15 off for a promotion that's ending tonight).
 

bladeleaper

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Valiance said:
bladeleaper said:
That Noah's Ark game sounds awesome! lol
Fronzel said:
Actually a game really loosely based on Noah's Ark might be interesting.
Unfortunately, a very, very similar game to Yahtzee's idea has been made, albeit horrible. It's even a shooter, but instead of Yahtzee's idea, you sling-shot food into the mouth of various animals. Terrible execution.

<img src="http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/8/563038_45416_front.jpg" /img>

It's a lot worse than it sounds, and I know it doesn't sound that good.

Skip to 13:20 in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw] video for a quick review on it that sums up how much balls it sucks about as well as I could.

It could be pretty cool if Fronzel's idea became a game, even if only as backstory as to "why this game takes place so far away from earth" or something.

Anyway, great video by Yahtzee, laughed out loud in so many sections especially the "Well let's just forget about Journey to the West, because the developers did!"
Ahhh i remember playing that one. lol
 

Serafis

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I guess loosely based is taking the names of characters and take like 1 trait and it would be "loosely based"...