Zero Punctuation: FIFA 13

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Darth_Payn

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DugMachine said:
If it's not Dishonored next week I'm going to be shocked. It seems right up his alley
Then again, I think he will do Dishonored because they advertise all over the Escapist, so he might see that as a chellenge. Remember EVE Online?
 

Azeal

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I was pretty disappoint @ no Torchlight 2 this week. I know Yahtzee's not huge on arpg's, but I played it alone, and it doesn't force the whole multiplayer thing down their throat.

Maybe after Dishonored..... which looks awesome....
 

Miral

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I was sad when I saw the link to FIFA 13. But then happy again after I clicked it anyway. Good show.
 

LazyAza

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I was hesitant to click this one, the power of my complete and utter disinterest in sports games competing with my love of yahtzee reviews. Thankfully he made it tolerable but still a little too much talk about generic ball poking simulator 13 imo.
 

BehattedWanderer

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Before clicking play: "Really, a FIFA game? Maybe he's on one of those "try something new" kicks again. Weird."

After: "HA!"

Best review in awhile, easily. You seemed to have had more fun with this one than with some of the other recent videos, Yahtzee. Glad to see you pepped up again.
 

razer17

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Yopaz said:
Since you are so wise here, can you explain me what changes there are in Fifa 13 compared to Fifa 12? Yes, all shooter games contain shooting. However from what I can assume about Fifa 13 is that there's some mild tweaks in graphics and maybe some in gameplay, maybe introduce new players (I know one game introduced long retired players as a tribute). However the rules are the same, there are no new maps since all football fields have to be 68x105 meters.

It's popular just like Call of Duty, but just like Call of Duty there's hardly any changes. At least Call of Duty offers a new story with the game.

I'm not trying to argue here, I'm just curious because as I see it Fifa 13 is little more than a game where you play football.
To start with, I was being a little facetious when comparing it to shooters or RTS' games, but I was just trying to make a point.

Anyway, although the rules of football, and therefore the basics of FIFA, never really change, it's about the underlying mechanics. I'm not going to say that FIFA changes drastically every year, some years very little changes (this was especially true in the mid 00's, around 2004-2007) but other years the changes are huge. For instance, as someone who played a lot of Fifa 11, the jump to 12 was incredible. The game essentially played entirely differently, the physics were completely different, the way you defended had changed. Now massive changes like that didn't come without some bugs and unforseen problems.

Fifa 13 fixes a lot of the problems that 12 had, then fine tuned a lot of aspects on the gameplay, and made some additions of its own, better attacking AI, a more realistic physics engine that makes a real difference to how the game plays. If you're someone who never plays football games you probably wouldn't realise how much of a differnece some iterations actually make.

All that said, I always play the demos before buying the full game, because sometimes there really isn't much difference apart from a player update. I won't buy a new Fifa if it doesn't make some actual improvements.
 

Cid Silverwing

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Do us a favor and skip Resident Evil 6 next week, Yahtzee? It's pretty much been pre-emptively written of as shittier than even RE5 (which is not something Capcom should be proud of), so please find a proper shitty game to review, or a kickass one to gush about.
 

I.Muir

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You poke around in cataclysm but not in mist of pandaria
Don't let the kung-fu panda part fool you, it's the better expansion
Not that Id blame you for never going back to an mmo again
Still since Ive played both, GW2 was probably better than the cataclysm expansion but objectively Wow is still the better game and for more reasons than just 'it's making the most money' and that doesn't happen for no reason
 

FallenMessiah88

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Well that was unexpected. Still, after the DayZ review I'm not all that surprised. Really good review though. It made me smile a lot.
 

TheOrb

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I feel like I've heard the "you can either choose to be A or B, and them prompty beat up the losers who chose the latter" line smewhere.
 

SycoMantis91

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I have to admit, I was looking forward to seeing how you, of all people, could talk about a sports game for 5 whole minutes, but I'm definitely far from disappointed with the end result. Pure fucking gold as usual.
 

SycoMantis91

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Cid SilverWing said:
Do us a favor and skip Resident Evil 6 next week, Yahtzee? It's pretty much been pre-emptively written of as shittier than even RE5 (which is not something Capcom should be proud of), so please find a proper shitty game to review, or a kickass one to gush about.
Agree with this. I played the demo and it was so broken that I literally couldn't play it all the way through.
 

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DugMachine said:
If it's not Dishonored next week I'm going to be shocked. It seems right up his alley
Give him two weeks, I believe that's how long it takes to play the game and write the review and dishonored only just came out. Literally, today is the release date of dishonored in Australia, where Yahtzee is based.
 

Padwolf

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I enjoyed that very much, made me laugh hard! Summed up my feelings on Fifa 13 quite perfectly. Would have been hilarious if he really reviewed Fifa 13 though. Was an interesting video though as I was very interested in the game Anna. I'm glad he mentioned it as now I know it's certainly not what I thought and I know not to buy it.
 

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RE:Anna
Yahtzee's school of adventure games?
1. Think of a problem that the player has to get around
2. Think of how a sensible person would solve the problem with the objects close at hand
3. Seal your head in a half full vat of boiling Chlorine for about 20 min
4. Write down another way you'd solve the problem that at that point makes perfect sense to your possiblly fatally poisoned mind
5. Repeat until you have found the most circuitous possible solution
 

Buizel91

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I came on the Internet after a night at work and though "hmmmm wonder what Yahtzee reviewed, well nothing special has come out lately, probably Transformers Fall Of Cybertron"

And when i saw Fifa 13, i giggled like a little kid and thought he is going to completely destroy this game. Funniest video for a while, nice one Yahtzee xD
 

Calvin

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Thanks God it wasn't what the titel predicted! I started with a chilly bad feeling and ended with 2 funny ideas what to do with the next 3 days of my emty life :D