Zero Punctuation: Painkiller
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Painkiller is one for the phew FPS i enjoy and still play every now and then. I just miss the old days were it was just get from a to b through Massive group of monsters Z using what ever weapons you want. If they left the story line at that and the cut sences out i would love this game so much.
Thanks Yahtzee for taking the time to route around for a game in the dry period of gaming caladers for a lovely if not small gem.
Thanks Yahtzee for taking the time to route around for a game in the dry period of gaming caladers for a lovely if not small gem.
Touche. By the way he forgot to add 'Stop trying to use the smartest sounding vocab you can in an attempt to be like Yahtzee'AJwins said:
Although Serious Sam is a similar concept, it's far worse for being monotonous, slow (especially when you have to walk 2 miles to get to anywhere), and uninspiring. 95% of battles in that were just shooting large swarms of the same enemy with enevitably a shotgun.
Oh yes, definitely. I think it was one of the best and most original interpretations of hell I've seen in any media. :>Xen Monkey said:
Surprising review, but accurate. Painkiller boils the genre down its core parts and pulls those off fantastically well. Just...you know, don't expect anything else.
To alleviate confusion
Our video player is a Flash player. It runs on the internet. You do not need to download it. If you download it, it will not help you. Unless you want to install a flash video player on your own website, to serve your own flash videos, there is no reason at all for any normal person to download the files.
Please excuse the server problems - they're unrelated to the videos, but have decided to pop up at pretty much the worst time they could. We're still working out the kinks in the rest of the video system, so expect tweaks over the next week or so.
Our video player is a Flash player. It runs on the internet. You do not need to download it. If you download it, it will not help you. Unless you want to install a flash video player on your own website, to serve your own flash videos, there is no reason at all for any normal person to download the files.
Please excuse the server problems - they're unrelated to the videos, but have decided to pop up at pretty much the worst time they could. We're still working out the kinks in the rest of the video system, so expect tweaks over the next week or so.
OK.....to all of those that are flaming this great game
YOU SUCK!! I love this game as it was one of the more difficult yet cruelly funny games Ive played in a long while
Now it's sequel Overdose has much to be desired but it still shares elements of the original like it's UNFUCKINGFAIR difficulty......
I think this game was great due to its random level/shoot anything that moves game style
and when I can ever load this damn vid Ill see what my bro Yahtzee has to say about it
and to the escapist.....please restore the video feeds back to the way they were....cause now I cant look at them at work
Thank You
*waits to be ignored or flamed*
YOU SUCK!! I love this game as it was one of the more difficult yet cruelly funny games Ive played in a long while
Now it's sequel Overdose has much to be desired but it still shares elements of the original like it's UNFUCKINGFAIR difficulty......
I think this game was great due to its random level/shoot anything that moves game style
and when I can ever load this damn vid Ill see what my bro Yahtzee has to say about it
and to the escapist.....please restore the video feeds back to the way they were....cause now I cant look at them at work
Thank You
*waits to be ignored or flamed*
Unfortunatly, the Mod gods decided to delete the steps I posted on ensuring that your player will work...their runnable with the FLA Runtime didn't include a full Installer for the extensions required, or at least it failed 95% of the time. If you download the sample, it includes a sample that always installs correctly.
It's an issue with their FLA Release Extensions that they need to check on.
[Edit: What I mean is, know that there IS an install that runs, however, it is SUPPOSED to install automagically when you run the player, but it is faulty (bad code) in the one that ZP seems to be using. This initiative came by a few years back when you had to install stuff just so you could watch Youtube, so Adobe was gracious enough to provide a way to do what all the other assembly languages to: have an include which installs the required files to display the plug-in. It's not anyone at TE's fault, possibly just a bad sync from the player's source or something. My steps include ways to ensure it works because once you get past that install step, your player has no issues.]
It's an issue with their FLA Release Extensions that they need to check on.
[Edit: What I mean is, know that there IS an install that runs, however, it is SUPPOSED to install automagically when you run the player, but it is faulty (bad code) in the one that ZP seems to be using. This initiative came by a few years back when you had to install stuff just so you could watch Youtube, so Adobe was gracious enough to provide a way to do what all the other assembly languages to: have an include which installs the required files to display the plug-in. It's not anyone at TE's fault, possibly just a bad sync from the player's source or something. My steps include ways to ensure it works because once you get past that install step, your player has no issues.]
I guessed there was some glitches going on Virgil, but it's a little frustrating. Is there any way we can get a clue that it's not our router's going down?Virgil said:
Well, that was a good review for a game I had no clue about. I had wondered about it since the Painkiller theater, but I never got around to looking it up. Also, am I the only one who doesn't like the new video screen and such? Just curious (Only read a few comments, so I don't know if anyone else brought this up).
