Zero Punctuation: Psychonauts
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I really enjoyed this game: Original, challenging and funny "Remember that? Fun is what we had before games became a second job".
Probably is one of your Top-10 best lines (a real achievement). Videogames today are just that: play for 6 hours in a solo campaing and stay the rest of your life sticked to your computer. Or you wanted to be called "noob"?
Psychonauts is great and if you don't like, you must be STUPID
By the way, the game is available (paying of course) in the Xbox 360 marketplace
Probably is one of your Top-10 best lines (a real achievement). Videogames today are just that: play for 6 hours in a solo campaing and stay the rest of your life sticked to your computer. Or you wanted to be called "noob"?
Psychonauts is great and if you don't like, you must be STUPID
By the way, the game is available (paying of course) in the Xbox 360 marketplace
Although it's not the cynical drop kick in the lower extremities that we all expected out of Ol' Yahtzee, it's still as brilliant as a sack of pennies in a bathtub of vinegar and diamond dust. The pen thing hurts like a tack wedged between those little muscles in your pinky and 4th toes as well. Keep it up good man! And yes, you can be nice to a game and still be great. It's possible!
He's Right.
Psychonauts is one of the most interesting original games I've ever played. If you don't own it, go buy it. It never stops being entertaining.
He's right on some of the difficulty spikes. There are some times that I was like "Jeebus!"
Parts of the Lungfish bossbattle was some of the hardest platformer boss battle stuff I've ever had to play.
It's very intersting in how it catches you off guard. With this type of cartoony game you get used to expecting to hear certain things, and never hear others....so when someone mentions how someone committed suicicde, using that word, suicide, it slaps you in the face. Not in a bad way, but you make note of it. And at one point you're in someone's mind projection, and happen on to a secret room (if you look for it). Inside you find out that they once had children and that they were burned alive in a fire. IF that's not enough, you pop open a secret doorway and are warned not to enter it because it's a real "party killer", because the whole theme so far as been super light and happy and celebratory.
Inside the secret door you're dropped into a hellish burning room where demonic spectres wail about burning alive and why they weren't saved in creepy voices.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying that because I think it's bad. In fact I was highly impressed that the developers did it. As a writer it caught me as a very honest move. They didn't pull punches, they told the story.
So again, I deffinitely suggest it, the way I'd suggest Fitzgerald, King, or Faulkner to an english major.
Psychonauts is one of the most interesting original games I've ever played. If you don't own it, go buy it. It never stops being entertaining.
He's right on some of the difficulty spikes. There are some times that I was like "Jeebus!"
Parts of the Lungfish bossbattle was some of the hardest platformer boss battle stuff I've ever had to play.
It's very intersting in how it catches you off guard. With this type of cartoony game you get used to expecting to hear certain things, and never hear others....so when someone mentions how someone committed suicicde, using that word, suicide, it slaps you in the face. Not in a bad way, but you make note of it. And at one point you're in someone's mind projection, and happen on to a secret room (if you look for it). Inside you find out that they once had children and that they were burned alive in a fire. IF that's not enough, you pop open a secret doorway and are warned not to enter it because it's a real "party killer", because the whole theme so far as been super light and happy and celebratory.
Inside the secret door you're dropped into a hellish burning room where demonic spectres wail about burning alive and why they weren't saved in creepy voices.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying that because I think it's bad. In fact I was highly impressed that the developers did it. As a writer it caught me as a very honest move. They didn't pull punches, they told the story.
So again, I deffinitely suggest it, the way I'd suggest Fitzgerald, King, or Faulkner to an english major.
I stumbled upon you in the churning sea of messages in bottles that is youtube, and I must say that you are one of the greatest game reviewers in the english speaking world (which is pretty important considering that I am one man and that the only other places that make videogames is Japan and Korea but really who cares about Korea: only the southern half isn't busy starving to death b\c they have an economy).
Anyway I hadn't even given Psychonauts a chance until this review, but I'm so going to buy it because setting squirrels on fire is my life's greatest ambition and society tends to frown upon such actions being taken in real life.
Anyway I hadn't even given Psychonauts a chance until this review, but I'm so going to buy it because setting squirrels on fire is my life's greatest ambition and society tends to frown upon such actions being taken in real life.
I just got this... for one of the only games that had a favorable ZP review, my expectations were high... and it's really, really good so far!
I loved Pschonauts, especially Waterloo World and Lungfishopolis. It was clever and fun and I understand the Tim Burton reference perfectly. It's a warped and twisted experience, bu thats not a bad thing in this case.
Tried to give psychonauts a spin based on this expecting next best thing since sliced bread, only to discover everything it did, had already been done better, by American McGee's Alice.
The base concept is the same, romping through acid trip induced dream-world levels, except the combat is fun, no annoying jumping puzzles or scavenger hunts, no bratty kids (the goggled freak you're forced to play gives me shivers), huge variety of cool weapons vs like 3 boring ones in psychonauts, and very clunky controls (very clearly half-arsed effort of porting from consoles, the very least they could have let map more than 3 powers to keys) and yes you can set squirrels on fire in psychonauts but again alice's jack-in-a-box with flamethrower trumps it.
Finally, 'I'm a graphics whore and I can't play old ugly and blocky game from 2000 like Alice' based on quake 3 engine gets discarded because psychonauts manages to look just as ugly and blocky, and worse, very kiddy.
The base concept is the same, romping through acid trip induced dream-world levels, except the combat is fun, no annoying jumping puzzles or scavenger hunts, no bratty kids (the goggled freak you're forced to play gives me shivers), huge variety of cool weapons vs like 3 boring ones in psychonauts, and very clunky controls (very clearly half-arsed effort of porting from consoles, the very least they could have let map more than 3 powers to keys) and yes you can set squirrels on fire in psychonauts but again alice's jack-in-a-box with flamethrower trumps it.
Finally, 'I'm a graphics whore and I can't play old ugly and blocky game from 2000 like Alice' based on quake 3 engine gets discarded because psychonauts manages to look just as ugly and blocky, and worse, very kiddy.
ok, ive bought it from amazon, primarily for the squirrels, ps i love that the login register goes up to 2008... "yeah, i'm one month old and youre one crazy little mofo, i should know... youre my daddy!"
I dont want to be picky and I like people to enjoy themselves, that is why I say this: The best game of all time is either one of theseMaurog said:
Super Mario Bros.
Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time.
Depending on who you ask.
P.S.: Actually I was trying to comment on the guy mentioning Planescape: Torment.
Actually I wonder if it is actually possible to review WoW in a fair manner. There seem to be a lot of people "enjoying" themselves in it. Although this is pure theory to me - I've only watched others play. Never touched it myself. Looks so booooooring.
There is just a slightly negative tone whenever WoW is mentioned. Is there any way to justify this?
There is just a slightly negative tone whenever WoW is mentioned. Is there any way to justify this?
I've watched this several times now, and only now did I think to comment on how glad I am that Ben can do more than just toss about poo.
Thank You sir.
Thank You sir.
StolenName said:Oh, dear. That's ... wow.Geoffrey42 said:
Dedication! I'll give it a shot after lunch
i tried it,,, its true at first it wouldnt freakin work...but now im in serious pain,, won't be able to play CoD for a while.
thanks Yahtzee, u rock!
it seems to me that for some odd reason all you twats are talking about is whether or not you got hurt by a fucking pen....apparently all of you missed the point that this is an astoundingly good game and well worth your atention and money that isn't already being wasted on hurting yourself with pens