Zero Punctuation: Psychonauts
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Clever and imaginative games don't sell well these days (Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, Fahrenheit, etc), this isn't the fault of the general gaming public but more of the passionless distributors that give no advirtising on these games and only seems to produce a limited number of copies so they can make sure no one buys them.
This crap happened with Zone of the Enders: the 2nd Runner in Europe and Australia, Atari practically cancelled it the week it was released, and this game I thought was one of the best action games on the PS2.
It seems that companies only want the FPS and Nintendo titles to succeed and that's about it, like Sir Croshaw said about Mass Effect; Bioware needed to say the game had some polygonal sex in it for it to sell. This begs the question why Omikron: The Nomad Soul didn't sell.
This crap happened with Zone of the Enders: the 2nd Runner in Europe and Australia, Atari practically cancelled it the week it was released, and this game I thought was one of the best action games on the PS2.
It seems that companies only want the FPS and Nintendo titles to succeed and that's about it, like Sir Croshaw said about Mass Effect; Bioware needed to say the game had some polygonal sex in it for it to sell. This begs the question why Omikron: The Nomad Soul didn't sell.
lolz and owwwwwwwwww
that pen thing hurt, not as much as he described it, but still...maybe i wasnt using the right pen
ah well, still really funny
that pen thing hurt, not as much as he described it, but still...maybe i wasnt using the right pen
ah well, still really funny
Set squiirls on fire. I actually bought phiconouts the day it came out but no one else i kneow bought it because the where to busey sucking maasterchiefs tiney unimagintive dick great game only ive never finished it because i finnelly beat the game and the last cutsine was happining when the power went out
it took me a while but i got it.
its a fucking awesome game and i love how the characters are all different and the story isnt bland and boring.It made me want to watch the cutscenes instead of just skipping them like i do with other game. its what turned me into a games are art hippie
its a fucking awesome game and i love how the characters are all different and the story isnt bland and boring.It made me want to watch the cutscenes instead of just skipping them like i do with other game. its what turned me into a games are art hippie
I got this game recently and I have to say it is awesome. The levels are so bizzare it actually feels like you could be in someone's mind. It's a shame that this game will probably never see a sequel.
I have yet to play a game that matches the sheer brilliance of Psychonauts, regardless of it's flaws it was an amazing game!
Maybe he just fudged the list to dick around with people.BlueInkAlchemist post=6.47939.624353 said:
I got to thank Yahtzee for thís review. I had never heard of Psychonauts before this, and I got my righteous punishment for not buying it before. That is corrected now, and I'm a proud owner of the game. This is also a great review in itself. This is the video I show my friends if I want them to watch zero punctuation.
Thanks for the game tip
Thanks for the game tip
He basically said it's a great game. I feel the same way about this game. One that I would love to buy a sequel to but am pissed that so little people bought this (graphics whores. You suck) that publishing a sequel would only make critics think higher of them but would cost the publishers money. back on topic, great does not equal top 5. I personally think he might of liked cod4 more than psychonauts. Oh damn that would make psychonauts his 4th favorite game he reviewed.Monkeybone post=6.47939.631838 said:
I'm a games-for-art person, but I was still dissapointed in Psychonauts. Probably because it was the only non RTSRPG I've played this year except Serious Sam, which was 6 times funnier & had a more massive travel area. One monsterously difficult mind game that made me play it over & over until I had an anxiety attack & had to stop playing anything for a week, that was a little unforgivable, & could have been avoided if the game had cheats for people who don't really like to think & mash buttons at the same time.
Just an interesting note since I didn't see it anywhere else in this thread, but Psychonauts is actually available for free on gametap. So now nobody has any excuse to not have played it through at least once.