Zero Punctuation: Resistance 3

[F'Angus]

Brilliant Review... I personally loved the game.

 

[Potato21]

I like how some people are taking offense to the conspiracy theories. And even the stuff the game legitimately took inspiration from is nothing to be ashamed of. HL IS a really good game. Nice to see that the regenerating health cover based shooting ways may finally begin phasing out.

 

[Torrasque]

Whelp, that was... interesting. Certainly a unique review, and funny to boot.

Welcome to ZP

Kind of upset that Resistance lost the flair that I enjoyed so much in the first game and to a lesser extent, the second...
Oh well, I don't have a PS3, so I wouldn't be buying it anyways.

 

[Sonicron]

Fuckin' A. That ending had me in stitches!

I guess it really does show if you enjoyed working on a particular piece, and not even a flaming cynic like Yahtzee can disguise it.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

This is by far the funniest ZP review. Half-Life 2 parallels are hilarious. I don't own a PS3, but I'm glad our console brethren will finally get a glimpse of a real shooter. No health regeneration and all that new age bollocks. Sounds good.

 

[Valagetti]

BEST EPISODE EVER!!!

 

[Michael Hirst]

Now let me get this straight, there's a new shooter out that's copying a GOOD game instead of a bland mediocre one?

Okay so health packs and all the weapons aren't original ideas but seriously this almost sounds like something I could enjoy a fair bit.

Great review Yahtzee it had me laughing and somewhat nervous that there might still be some common sense in the videogames industry.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Hilarious review. I have only played the first Resistence not long after the ps3 was released and thought it was a decent game, and its a promising sign that a shooter game has health kits in it, I might have to check this game out at some point. I love Isomniac games Rachet & Clank is one of my favourite series.

 

[twm1709]

I felt it was my insufferable duty to point out these review has the Dead Island Tags, not the Resistance ones.

 

[Traun]

Fucking typical. A shooter with all of the mechanics i liked that were lost are back but only because Half Life got raped in the shower and woke up in a bathtub full of ice missing all of it's internal organs. I still might buy it though. Beggars can't be choosers when something passably different pops up and wiggles it's juicy buns in my face.

There is Serious Sam on the horizon, in this case - you do have a choice.

 

[Michael Hirst]

Fucking typical. A shooter with all of the mechanics i liked that were lost are back but only because Half Life got raped in the shower and woke up in a bathtub full of ice missing all of it's internal organs. I still might buy it though. Beggars can't be choosers when something passably different pops up and wiggles it's juicy buns in my face.

There is Serious Sam on the horizon, in this case - you do have a choice.

Hard Reset
Serious Sam
Resistance 3

Is something going on? I mean are people growing out of the bad habits set by the Halo/COD dominance of the FPS genre?

 

[Jonluw]

I wish he'd had a cold when making this episode.
It would add to the effect of Who the hell are you, and what have you done to Yahtzee?

 

[klaynexas3]

But they did released their #3

that is a good point, valve could never release a game that was the third in a franchise, only make episodes of the second one and add to the already too damn big zombie game market for the money and lols. insomniac at least finish their series. somewhat...

 

[Chevy235]

Didn't Zyklon B Frat Party come out for Wii a couple of years ago?

 

[Treblaine]

Fucking typical. A shooter with all of the mechanics i liked that were lost are back but only because Half Life got raped in the shower and woke up in a bathtub full of ice missing all of it's internal organs. I still might buy it though. Beggars can't be choosers when something passably different pops up and wiggles it's juicy buns in my face.

This sound like the "piracy is theft" fallacy.

Taking someone else's idea does not deprive them of their idea. It just means the idea has a chance to spread and evolve and achieve more than it could have just with the original creators. Like the first caveman who discovered fire, would humanity have benefited if he had retained a monopoly on the idea/discovery of fire creation.

Or what of the parable of Prometheus, punished for sharing the KNOWLEDGE of fire with man, the metaphor is clear that the authority are petty and jealous of knowledge that we have every right to use.

 

[Treblaine]

Fucking typical. A shooter with all of the mechanics i liked that were lost are back but only because Half Life got raped in the shower and woke up in a bathtub full of ice missing all of it's internal organs. I still might buy it though. Beggars can't be choosers when something passably different pops up and wiggles it's juicy buns in my face.

There is Serious Sam on the horizon, in this case - you do have a choice.

Hard Reset
Serious Sam
Resistance 3

Is something going on? I mean are people growing out of the bad habits set by the Halo/COD dominance of the FPS genre?

It's widespread for CoD fans to be openly apathetic towards MW3, most begrudgingly saying they are going to buy it only because it seems to be just another iteration/combination of the previous games they had played. See you can't trick all the people all of the time.

That combined with how CoD had proven utter dominance (quick death of competitors like MoH, Homefront, etc) CoD fans don't even have an alternative.

 

[cefm]

"A display of chain-vomitting rarely seen outside of Zyklon-B frat parties"

That is some hilariously messed up stuff right there, Croshaw.

 

[DarkRyter]

Best review in quite awhile.

 

[floppylobster]

I laughed at the four tear ducts on the skull.

 

[Furioso]

Well...shit, I guess I will have to give this one a rent, haven't played a decent shooter in a long, long time