Zero Punctuation: Ride to Hell: Retribution

[MB202]

I never understood the appeal of bad games. Unlike bad movies, where you can just watch and be amazed at the sheer stupidity of it all, you actually have to do something when playing video games, you know, being an interactive medium and all, and when you're having trouble playing the game because of it's crappy controls and features, how, exactly, do you get enjoyment out of that?

 

[Erttheking]

Looked at the feedback for this game, and it's getting universally paddled. One reviewer gave it a 0.5 and said that the best thing about the game was the pause screen. Ouch.

 

[Ferisar]

So it's so bad it's good....



AWESOME!! THAT'S THE SOLE REASON I WATCH MOVIES!

No trolling intended, and I don't mean this in the "your gay" because you like crap, but the only people I know who consistently go around looking for "so bad it's good" are gay people. I knew this kid named Roger Nystrom who did this crap. Watched both bardy bunch movies. IN THE THEATER!

later in life he turned out to be gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that sir,
but i'm just preparing you. ^^.

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OT:
This is a game?

Wait, really? Guess I'll have to watch someone else play it... I don't know if it's possible to do it without cringing a lot though

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I just watched Two Best Friends play this literally seconds after coming here and seeing you reviewing the same damn thing.

It's too much.

Ugh I tried watching that. Those guys are way too loud. Not Pewdiepie annoying but getting there.

It depends which video you get them on to be honest. Their look at Ride to Hell: Retribution was pretty poor because they only spent about 50% of the video talking about the game even though it was easily comedy gold material from the first frame.

Their most amusing videos for me have been the terrible Silent Hill entries and anything Metal Gear. Pat's knowledge of the franchises is quite impressive and his comments can be quite insightful, especially when he brings the games down because he actually knows what he's talking about.

But yeah, I can see how they might get on your nerves after a while!

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I know what you're trying to do Yahtzee. You feel like an idiot for purchasing this game, so in order to feel better about yourself you want to manipulate us into buying it

Not gonna happen.

 

[Thunderous Cacophony]

Never heard of this game, and THANK GOD I NEVER DID OR CARE FOR IT!!!!

Also, I thought Superman 64 was the plan 9 of video games.

No, Superman 64 is just so bad it's horrible. It's not even fun to watch someone else suffer through playing it.

Because every so often, Yahtzee throws away all pretense of being a respectable critic and takes a delightful shit on some truly worthy property (See: the first Duke Nukem Forever review).

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1968-Viewers-Choice-Duke-Nukem-Forever

I think he meant http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3581-Duke-Nukem-Forever-for-real-this-time

No, Fighting Furball was right, although both videos are good.

 

[scienceguy8]

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[zombiejoe]

Now here's the question, Yahtzee.

Is this game as terrible as AMY?

 

[GildaTheGriffin]

So it's so bad it's good....



AWESOME!! THAT'S THE SOLE REASON I WATCH MOVIES!

Like Sharknado?

 

[zombiejoe]

So it's so bad it's good....



AWESOME!! THAT'S THE SOLE REASON I WATCH MOVIES!

Like Sharknado?

Or Birdemic

Or The Room

Whatever your preference of poor film.

 

[Riobux]

On the bright side, unlike The Last Of Us, it doesn't promise a protagonist and story that is gripping, and then throws it away in the last minute to demonstrate the protagonist is the biggest cock in any game ever.

 

[The Great JT]

We could use a gaming equivalent of Plan 9.

 

[Darth_Payn]

I love it when Yahtzee reviews an obviously bad game, just to let off some steam (NOPUNINTENDED!) and to use such wonderful tricks of phrase, like stretching out the way to say "shoot fish in a barrel". It's like this game couldn't decide if it wanted to be Sons of Anarchy or that Tim Schaefer-mad LucasArts game. I haven't watched many Let's Plays of bad games; are they as hilarious as Yahtzee described?

As for the Last of Us backlash, I think it came down to personal taste, and Yahtzee's didn't go for a game trying to transparently be "art" by shooting for the "True Art is Depressing" and "True Art is Angstsy" tropes (whose pages I will not link here for the good of your productivity today). For that matter, I've seen one of my friends play it at his house, and it doesn't appeal to me at all, and from what I heard about the ending, it's a waste of my time spent playing more fulfilling and entertaining games. If Yahtzee didn't already cover Games as Art in one of his Extra Punctuation columns, I think this is fodder for a future one.

 

[Saika Renegade]

What's rather odd is that this has one of those stock sequel subtitles on the end but, as far as I can tell, isn't actually a sequel to anything. Apparently it was once a single game that was cancelled, then brought back to life as three separate games, none of which seem to be any good if the gameplay videos are any clue.

 

[Slash2x]

It's Plan 9 from outer space bad?

Jesus, who did they get to pretend they did the QA?

[sarcasm]What is a QA?[/sarcasm]

OT:

This is the Yahtzee I started coming here for. The guy who plays shit games and tells you how bad they were.

 

[masticina]

I watched an 11:30 LP of this game.
http://www.twitch.tv/gameinformer/b/423718358

Yeah...its that bad

I mean even going back 10 years I would expect better. This game is definitely something that was shelved long ago and once the cleaner was on vacation the hired replacement opened "the forbidden zone". And yet this game out of that dark dank zone somehow was brought out.

Is it bad? Yes its really bad! And I can judge that from watching a long boring painful lets play :!

 

[Nazulu]

So, I watched the Last of Us review, and maybe its because I knew better then to delve into the comments but just what did you people say? I mean, to make Yahtzee do a review because people bitched some game wasn't the greatest gift to mankind? Can I get a tl;dr on what kind of childish fallout that review created?

I read through it all and many believed he just skimmed through the game and gave a half assed review. The Resulted in people pointing out he was just lazy, he wasn't being serious or presumed he purposely just pointed out whats bad, and some said they couldn't watch his show anymore. It was a mighty over-reaction, of course because he's a celebrity it's to be expected though.

Those people have to remember that he has to squeeze all of these reviews in to a week, plus everyone can experience a game differently, and anyone can make a mistake and making assumptions that he's lazy or whatever is really insulting.

 

[Vie]

It's Plan 9 from outer space bad?

I can't really say since it was released in the mid 1900's but I did find out it was likely the very first bad movie filmed by independents other than an actual film studio. You can look it up, there's even a Trope for it somewhere "So bad it's good", I guess people just like to laugh at the extreme horribleness of it.

I've seen the film, and rather enjoyed the terribleness of it, I was saying "It's Plan Nine from out of Space bad" as in, "Its as bad as plan nine from out of space?"

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Sorry, I have no idea how good/bad this game is. As soon as Full Throttle got mentioned I immediately shunted off into nostalgia-mode and missed the rest of the vid. Does someone want to remind me why Lucasarts dropped all of their interesting IPs in favour of releasing the same Star Wars game again and again for fifteen fucking years?

 

[Imp_Emissary]

Sorry, I have no idea how good/bad this game is. As soon as Full Throttle got mentioned I immediately shunted off into nostalgia-mode and missed the rest of the vid. Does someone want to remind me why Lucasarts dropped all of their interesting IPs in favour of releasing the same Star Wars game again and again for fifteen fucking years?

No idea. Probably because it was an easier way to make money? But they're gone now, so I guess nothing works forever.

Anyway it would be neat if this game would sell well. Seeing as some companies want to put so much weight behind their game's Metacritic scores.

Also, don't feel bad about not being too found of The Last of Us, Yahtzee. Ya can't like everything everyone else likes.