Zero Punctuation: Risen 2: Dark Waters

[Moonlight Butterfly]

You would think making a pirate themed rpg would be easy but no still managed to mess it up.

Sigh.

Sector 7G is where Homer Simpson works isn't it? Explains a lot about Black Mesa

 

[psilontech]

"Playing the hits while you play God!"

Yahtzee, you magnificent bastard. Planning on doing more like this/

 

[templar1138a]

It's too bad the mechanics sound so bad. There do need to be more RPGs that aren't in a medieval setting (elves and dwarves are just fine in the Industrial Revolution, for example). For me, a lack of character customization in an RPG is a deal-breaker.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

The Black Mesa radio show was hilarious.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

First time I've commented on a ZP video in a long time, but that ending bit was awesome.

 

[Andronicus]

Review was great and all, but don't care. Half-Life radio jockey overshadowed it. More please.

This, just all of this!

...mmn? Oh, yes, err, pirate RPG, right, umm, well, haven't played Risen 1, so I don't think I'll bother, but I'll definitely have some more of that Half Life stuff please!

 

[flying_whimsy]

Too bad about the pirates game; the rpg market seems to be getting bogged down by an overall lack of new ideas lately.

The half-life sequence was amazing.

 

[endtherapture]

The Black Mesa radio show was hilarious.

I was in stitches.

So so funny.

 

[stormshot]

arrr great episode as always me hearty

 

[Xenominim]

Sounds every bit as awkward as the first. I did play the first the whole way through, once and with a guide after leveling in such a way that I was screwed the first time I tried, a couple of mods helped it a tiny bit graphically but didn't really change the gameplay which sounds a lot like this. I know their budget isn't huge and that excuses the graphics, but their combat and leveling system does need an overhaul of some sort if they ever want to reach a wider audience. Right now combat is just broken and leveling puts too much focus on cash, and from the sounds of it certain skills are imbalanced to the point of being indispensable or utterly useless, and you don't necessarily know which is which without a guide or blowing a huge chunk of change and possible working yourself into a hole you can't climb out of when the enemies scale up.

 

[5-0]

No interest in the game whatsoever, but the post-credits gag was totally worth it. It helps that I'm playing Half-Life for the first time now.

 

[Terramax]

Great ending Yahtzee. Some game developer really does need to hire you as a writer/ voice actor for their games.

 

[Bloodstain]

A neat idea, but terrible execution, I see.
That's unfortunate, I hoped it may be good.

On a different note:
Ben's reviewing and game assessing skills are still as good as always, but it seems his humour is slowly being reduced to "It's X. Like [insert gross/funny comparison]".

 

[JoesshittyOs]

The end reminded me so much of the audio bits you get with Cave Johnson.

 

[repeating integers]

Ooh, I wonder if post-credits gags will become a regular feature?

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

we do indeed more pirate games; the Age of Discovery is a sorely underutilized setting. Also, RPGs do indeed need to step outside the traditional science-fiction and fantasy genres.

 

[Nash Knight]

Actually all flaws aside, this is a very good game. RPG system is good once you get a hold of it, and visuals are actually quite stunning, I didn't get how people disliked them, my only thought is that they are worse on the XBOX360 version, on the PC the game looks great.

One of the things that make me a little perhaps too partial to this game is that it's actually challenging, a trait that has obviously been forsaken in the RPG genre. Any retard can beat Skyrim on any difficulty, but to finish this game you actually have to have some skill. Yes, many times you will be battling game mechanics, but I'm so starved of a RPG challenge that I'll take anything.

 

[Something Amyss]

And this demonstrates why realism is for the birds.

Sector 7G is where Homer Simpson works isn't it? Explains a lot about Black Mesa

Yup.

 

[bafrali]

And I was just playing Half-Life Source...Weird...

Good review as always but a bit obscure i think.If you don't have any hot new release, you can always make a retro review Yahtzee

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Heard about the game and how bad it is, so I'll pass.

Loved that bit at the end, though, had me in stitches. You should do them more often...