Zero Punctuation: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Loved the review!
He makes a lot of good points, and they're all true, though I really like this game (a heck of a lot more than the PSP games) despite its flaws.
He makes a lot of good points, and they're all true, though I really like this game (a heck of a lot more than the PSP games) despite its flaws.
I like how he bashes the wii/ds for the first half of reviews on the systems. It's a valid point that any game would instantly be better if it was made for a real gaming system rather than shovelled out like so much crap just to sell more.
HD, true surround sound, real multiplayer, real controls, and enough processing power to actually run the game for starters. All factors that DS/Wii don't have.
This game even left 2d would still have been better on PSP, and a ton better had it been a downloadable game for PS3 or 360.
It's a shame developers waste time on the Wii/DS that would be better spent on real systems
HD, true surround sound, real multiplayer, real controls, and enough processing power to actually run the game for starters. All factors that DS/Wii don't have.
This game even left 2d would still have been better on PSP, and a ton better had it been a downloadable game for PS3 or 360.
It's a shame developers waste time on the Wii/DS that would be better spent on real systems
I would like to see the video of Yahtzee actually trying to remove the filling of a creame egg with a syringe. :>
Yes, the controls sucked. They used the touch screen for far too much. Yes it was pretty precise for aiming which I enjoyed, but turning any more than like 90 degrees meant you had to lift the stylus off the screen (making you now vulnerable to attack) to start from the other side. It jumped a lot when you didn't want it to, and didn't jump a lot of the times you did want it to. Plus it had on screen buttons that would accidentally get hit during the aiming process.Snoopster said:
Touch screens do not control anything but menus well
GTA branded easy bake ovens 
sounds like something a very desperate company would do.
Anyway as always a good ZP the egg bit near the end was funny as well.
sounds like something a very desperate company would do.
Anyway as always a good ZP the egg bit near the end was funny as well.
It was a good review, and Yahtzee's right. Somehow, a game with many faults still ends up being good.
Fun game though.
I wonder...what would happen if Yahtzee tore apart Pokemon Platinum? Hmmm...
Fun game though.
I wonder...what would happen if Yahtzee tore apart Pokemon Platinum? Hmmm...
Your surprised he didn't like it? Have you ever watched zero punctuation? He doesn't like anything,Patrick_and_the_ricks said:
Or maybe you're just a moron.Zand88 said:
A review is an opinion. You don't have to explicitly state that statements within the view are an opinion for that reason alone. This is exactly the same reason why lots of English teachers tell you not to use first-person pronouns in essays - or, at least, not unless you know what you're doing and using them sparingly for valid reasons.
"You may think a game was bad, but that DOESN'T mean that popular opinion says it's bad."
Your point, exactly? Yahtzee has his own opinion and disparages popular opinion quite often. You've got this whole thing quite wrong, he's never claimed his opinion is the most popular nor did he claim it is the only one. It's simply his opinion. The subtext of his arrogance is that popular opinion and most other opinions are stupid, and even if they aren't, they're irrelevant for the sake of his reviews.
I'm really glad that games for the DS and other handhelds are starting to (or always have) suck, mostly because I despise the very existence of handheld game devices, and have since the gameboy came out. The only time I can possibly imagine it being an acceptable thing to use is if and only if you are either in a long line or are a passenger in a car driving a long way. Half my friends are into this and they actually sit in front of their televisions, with the TV off, and play the game. Seriously. WTF? I just don't get the point. When I am out and about doing things I actually have the condescending arrogance to expect other people who are doing those things to be paying attention, and tapping away at a DS is only more tolerable than shouting into your cell phone because I can ignore you while you ignore me while you're on your little game.
That said, GTA didn't sound like a good port onto a portable anyway, merely due to the restraints of the platform. And a great review by Yahtzee, he tears new ones I can't even reach half the time.
That said, GTA didn't sound like a good port onto a portable anyway, merely due to the restraints of the platform. And a great review by Yahtzee, he tears new ones I can't even reach half the time.
I gotta say I was half looking forward to this game, but apparently my worst fear of blatantly pointless DS touchscreen integration have been realized.
Woe is me.
Woe is me.