Ah! Much better then some of them lately. You didn't seem like being obnoxiously nit-picky was the only thing keeping you alive, so it was just you being entertaining while reviewing a game.
Zero Punctuation: Left 4 Dead
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Yahtzee seems to sit a little on the fence about this one. He likes the game, yes, but it's really just a souped up mod by the Valve boys.
That being said, I love the game.
That being said, I love the game.
Yahtzee has hit the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned. This is more or less what I thought of the game. Unfortunately I usually have to play with only 1 other human player (due to the lack of internet/alternate 360), and at times in Expert, the human AI seems hellbent on getting the rest of the party killed. They wander off at odd times, decide not to shoot at others, and generally make terrible decisions on how to stay alive (IE: Not run away from the Tank. Just stand there shooting at it... Or deciding to startle the witch)
But if you are able to play with a full team of actual people, the game is quite hilarious. The general complaint from many people I play with is the lack of a melee weapon (machete, ax, crowbar, hammer, other things mentioned in the official zombie survival guide), however, you don't really need one, especially when playing on the harder difficulties, normal zombies die in about 4 hits, and the bigger ones you don't want to get near anyways.
I do wonder how long Yahtzee played the game, as there were very little references to many things in the game I would've considered irresistible, like any mention of the witch, burning tanks, shooting the cars with alarms in them.. Or having bitter teammates you accidentally shot.. many times.. til they died.
But if you are able to play with a full team of actual people, the game is quite hilarious. The general complaint from many people I play with is the lack of a melee weapon (machete, ax, crowbar, hammer, other things mentioned in the official zombie survival guide), however, you don't really need one, especially when playing on the harder difficulties, normal zombies die in about 4 hits, and the bigger ones you don't want to get near anyways.
I do wonder how long Yahtzee played the game, as there were very little references to many things in the game I would've considered irresistible, like any mention of the witch, burning tanks, shooting the cars with alarms in them.. Or having bitter teammates you accidentally shot.. many times.. til they died.
hahaha nice
prince of persia blows.
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prince of persia blows.
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I am guessing that the game was played on a PC, just because of the comments about controller based FSP games feel clunky (and the animation always put Yahtzee in front of a PC and not at TV, oh ho powers of observation). I wonder if this almost enhances the experience due to the fact that there are semi intelligent people playing along side you, and not the masses of Halo addicted .... things that populate X box live.
Spinwhiz said:Thank Youflaming_squirrel said:
"If you don't ban 'um, they won't learn nothin'"
Maybe it's just me but after reading their comments, I don't see why there were banned. There is nothing inappropriate about them. Can some one explain to me as to why they got banned for posting?
Sure, they watched a 4 minute video in 1 minute. Anyone that does that will receive the same fate.Godofgame67 said:Spinwhiz said:Thank Youflaming_squirrel said:
"If you don't ban 'um, they won't learn nothin'"
Maybe it's just me but after reading their comments, I don't see why there were banned. There is nothing inappropriate about them. Can some one explain to me as to why they got banned for posting?
All those guys were banned for at least one of these reasons:Godofgame67 said:Spinwhiz said:Thank Youflaming_squirrel said:
"If you don't ban 'um, they won't learn nothin'"
Maybe it's just me but after reading their comments, I don't see why there were banned. There is nothing inappropriate about them. Can some one explain to me as to why they got banned for posting?
1) Posting a comment right after the video itself was posted, meaning that they couldn't have possibly watched the video before posting.
2) Posting a message with little or no substance.
3) Saying something outright offensive.
(The following is to be read in the voice of Dylan Moran)Spinwhiz said:
See, this is my favorite interpretation of why early posters are banned. It's not that they are arrogant twits whose well deserved separation from the rest of the intellectual gene pool is hastened by their singling themselves out. No, they are actually people who can watch a four minute video in a scant 60 second. Truly frightening time traveling monstrosities that would unravel our poor pedestrian minds if their trans-dimensional verbiage was allowed to take root.
It is for the grace of God that our moderators, their heroic deeds never to be known, prevent us from mingling with these mind bending creatures from another planet.
(end Dylan Moran)
Aah, nice video once again! I couldn't stop laughing at the last sentence, hilarious! Anyway, it was a good review and I can't wait for the next one. I'm kinda hoping a review on the LBP cos it'd be fun to see what kind of stuff Yahtzee would come up with that one.
excellent review, as always, mr Croshaw!
Had a feeling that this would be the review-choice this week ( and the week before that, and before that, and before that )
L4D is a co-op game and therefore somewhat odd to play alone. Not too much variaty and content. What safes this game is probably the feeling of the zombies and of course the Director Ö
Had a feeling that this would be the review-choice this week ( and the week before that, and before that, and before that )
L4D is a co-op game and therefore somewhat odd to play alone. Not too much variaty and content. What safes this game is probably the feeling of the zombies and of course the Director Ö