Wow, I almost wish I had a PS3 to play this on! But good review Yahtzee. Good to hear you don't hate everything.
Zero Punctuation: Resistance 3
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Great review, but as alwas Yatzee was short on jokes and decided to ignore past Resistance games and other Insomniac games, or just didn't research them, to be able to make HL2 paralel. So, good review, with one glaring flaw. But that flaw is so large that the before mentioned sentence sounds like "I'm great except for this giant hole in my chest" Still, good for him to finaly gives a positive vibe to a game that deserves it.
Yay. Se7en reference. Haha.gamegod25 said:
I must say that this has convinced me maybe to give this game a try. Gameplay with hitpoints gets exciting and tense when you only have 10 points left and have to really try hard to get to a medkit. Regenerative health is sort of like "whatever it's just a foot it'll grow back soon". Although, hitpoints can suck when there's no health in sight, or if there's a DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG like in Pokemon.
Oh wait I don't have a PS3, oh well, I'll just have to wait for EP3. (or more likely HL3.)
I liked R3 campaign, but I thought the R1's was still better. R3 didn't really add any closure to the series, assuming this is the last game. It was nice to see them bring the weapon wheel back with some new creative weapons and not have regen health, but I was a little disappointed with lack of cool weapons and enemies that were in first two games.
R1's weapons included (but no limited to) the Hailstorm, Splitter, Sapper, Reapers, Arc Charger, Dragon, LAARK, Air Fuel grenade, and Backlash grenade and Howlers, Angels, Harfangs, Slipskulls, Grayjacks, Menials, and Titans for enemies.
R2 introduced the Bellock, Spider Grenade, Pulse Cannon, Wraith, and Splicer for weapons and Furies, Chameleons, and Maraudars for enemies.
Despite how awesome those weapons and enemies are, they're all mysteriously absent in R3.
R1's weapons included (but no limited to) the Hailstorm, Splitter, Sapper, Reapers, Arc Charger, Dragon, LAARK, Air Fuel grenade, and Backlash grenade and Howlers, Angels, Harfangs, Slipskulls, Grayjacks, Menials, and Titans for enemies.
R2 introduced the Bellock, Spider Grenade, Pulse Cannon, Wraith, and Splicer for weapons and Furies, Chameleons, and Maraudars for enemies.
Despite how awesome those weapons and enemies are, they're all mysteriously absent in R3.
You didn't play R2 did you? It had complete regen health and the 2 weapon limit.BrotherRool said:Wow a good review. I'm shocked. Just to let you know, none of the previous Resistances had 2 gun limits or completely regenerating health either. And the guns have always been creative. I think they steal it from the games they've always made
My friend picked up Resistance 3 as part of a bundle with the PS3's motion controller and proceeeded to dry-hump a wall for twenty minutes before I convinced him to pick up a regular controller and play it like someone who isn't six.
I've played the first two Resistance games and I found them bland at best and kind of insulting at worst. Besides the first game's twisted difficulty glitch the story of both games has been one long road-hauling mess of pessimism and when you combine that with drab brown FPS' it feels like the game is telling me I'm a douche for excepting fun from my vidoe games.
So it was with great reluctance tat my friend and I hopped into Resistance 3 and surprise, surprise it was actually quite good. The guns are all fun to use and have unique abilities that keeps them from feeling too much like a copy-pasted Doom inventory, the enemies require a bit of strategy and even though most of the levels are drab brown corridors the game tries to spice things up a little with giant monsters stomping around in the background and creeping around in a swamp while cloaked snipers try to take you out.
And, unlike the first two games, it doesn't end on a pessimistic note. That more than anything warmed me on this game. Like an episode of "The Outer Limits" I hate sitting through a story cheering for a character just to see him and me screwed over by some last minute "satan ex machina."
I've played the first two Resistance games and I found them bland at best and kind of insulting at worst. Besides the first game's twisted difficulty glitch the story of both games has been one long road-hauling mess of pessimism and when you combine that with drab brown FPS' it feels like the game is telling me I'm a douche for excepting fun from my vidoe games.
So it was with great reluctance tat my friend and I hopped into Resistance 3 and surprise, surprise it was actually quite good. The guns are all fun to use and have unique abilities that keeps them from feeling too much like a copy-pasted Doom inventory, the enemies require a bit of strategy and even though most of the levels are drab brown corridors the game tries to spice things up a little with giant monsters stomping around in the background and creeping around in a swamp while cloaked snipers try to take you out.
And, unlike the first two games, it doesn't end on a pessimistic note. That more than anything warmed me on this game. Like an episode of "The Outer Limits" I hate sitting through a story cheering for a character just to see him and me screwed over by some last minute "satan ex machina."
So, was the game good enough that you couldn't make up many good jokes about how bad it is, but not good enough to gush over and love it?Yahtzee Croshaw said:
I hoped that the weapons would be unique and fun. These are the same guys who made the Ratchet and Clank series.
this needs 999999999999 thumbs up for epicness, one of yahtzees finest moments for sure
perhaps if we can find him another game with shurikens and lightning he can recover quickly in early 2012 after the bland brown fps attack, i need my hit of madness to start the week
perhaps if we can find him another game with shurikens and lightning he can recover quickly in early 2012 after the bland brown fps attack, i need my hit of madness to start the week
Excellent video, it's always nice to see when you like a game
The delivery of some parts was kind of weird though, almost as if you were using too much expression or emphasizing your words differently. That kind of gave the video an off feeling, not the classic ZP delivery we've grown to love
The delivery of some parts was kind of weird though, almost as if you were using too much expression or emphasizing your words differently. That kind of gave the video an off feeling, not the classic ZP delivery we've grown to love
"Jimi Hendrix Experience" is now my favourite term for a weapon.
Too bad I won't have a lot of chances to use it. :C
Too bad I won't have a lot of chances to use it. :C