Zero Punctuation: FIFA 13

[Xman490]

Also known as Indie Roundup of 2012 #4, because it's easy to get into WATCHING a sport, but hard to get into PLAYING a sport without it being in reality.

Yatzee DID say something about reviewing only indie games because only they can be interesting and consistently breaking the mold (which is a paradox, I guess).

 

[Atmos Duality]

Wow, Yahtzee didn't have a single negative thing to say abotu FIFA. That's rare!

Clearly he was paid off.

 

[Basement Cat]

I haven't enjoyed a ZP episode this much in...well, a surprisingly long time. I suspected he'd get back to FIFA 13 but not knowing what the punch line would be kept me hooked.

Interesting to follow the differences between Yahtzee's review of Tokyo Jungle and Susan Arendt's.

 

[franksands]

I am really enjoying Mark of the Ninja. In some ways it makes me remember of Commando for the PC. Although that bonus for not killing people is really strange

 

[Kargathia]

Might check out the Mark of the Ninja.

BTW where is the RE6 review yathzee? I know Indie games provide more than enough variety for the reviews but without the usual jab at the mainstream AAA market, It somehow feels incomplete.

gotta give the man another week at least to torture himself with RE6. I mean we all know its basically everything he hates about games (crap story, cover base shooting, QTE's up the bum) so I can't blame him for procrastinating that turd.

Look on the bright side: him truly hating a game often makes for the best reviews, as his talents clearly lie with the caustic and merciless destruction of any sense of positive self-image a game might've had.

Which is a good thing.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

It might have been a 8sec review,but at least that's something right?

Laughed my ass off on this one.Wonder which of the top games he will tackle next week(hopefully?): Dishonored,XCOM etc.

 

[AlwaysPractical]

The last 8 seconds summarise all FIFA games nicely: the mechanics do their job, it's pretty unoffensive and fun to play with some friends.

 

[Patrick Scott]

who else was hoping that he'd review RE6? anyone? helloooooo....bugger.

 

[Mahoshonen]

So next week is RE6, folllowed by Pokemon White 2.






JUST KIDDING! It's gonna be XCOM

 

[PunkRex]

Next week is RE6 then... the fact im looking oh so forward to it says terrible things about me.

OT, that Tokyo Jungle sounds freaking fun.

 

[6unn3r]

Whatever happend to Ricicles anyway? Nowadys all you can find around the shop is Rice Krispies, AND NO THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. Althought i do not know why this is...

Anyone?

 

[5-0]

Best Yahtzee review in a while. The concept of reviewing a game having not played it definitely harks back to previous classics such as the first Duke Nukem review (contract: review games that actually exist). And that's great.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Hah, that was a nice change of pace. And really, how else could he have reviewed it? Sports games are pretty much the same thing over and over and over again. I don;t get why they're so popular when, I dunno, you could just go outside and actually play them?

 

[Callate]

Word on the street is that Resident Evil 6 is nothing to get sober over.

I'll admit it- for half a second I thought I was actually going to have to endure a review of FIFA 13, perhaps even discover Yahtzee's previously unheralded love of soccer. This was a very pleasant (and funny) surprise.

 

[Uberpig]

That was one of his best for a while.

 

[DugMachine]

If it's not Dishonored next week I'm going to be shocked. It seems right up his alley

 

[robinkom]

I saw the title "FIFA 13" and thought, "No... this can't be all it is." Glad I was right. LOL! Great review, start to finish.

"A tassle on a stripper's tit" will always echo in my head from now on whenever I channel surf and find a soccer match on TV.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Hehe, good one as always!
Sorry, after moving house I'm too tired to make a joke here...

 

[T-Prime]

*Phew* I knew there was something to it. Also, good on Yahtzee for "trying" to come back to FIFA 13 throughout the video. Now I just have to remember what this video's actually about whenever I'm bored at my desk and I wanna marathon all the XBLA/PSN/Steam videos.

 

[Raggedstar]

Yahtzee reviewing Tokyo Jungle? I don't care if he said it was meh, I'm just happy he actually looked at it. Though I guess I should've taken the clue since the thumbnail was of a tiger being nommed on by a raptor.