I believe what you are looking for is a movie.cefm said:
OT: He probably didn't care much for the game before he even got it and many people shouldn't look for yahtzee to say if a game is good or bad but to just point out the flaws he found.
Zero Punctuation: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
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OT: He probably didn't care much for the game before he even got it and many people shouldn't look for yahtzee to say if a game is good or bad but to just point out the flaws he found.
the ironic thing is that the books are good well thought out and fun to read by a brilliant polish author just dosent translate well in to a game i guess
Even if it isn't always accurate, or fair, or even in good taste. Yahtzee's opinion of a game is worth more than almost any other on the web. because his opinion is his, and nobody else s. He wouldn't change it even if the entire world demanded it. That gives it value. The flawed, possibly wrong view of one person who thinks with his own brain is worth far more than the appealing consensus of many. No matter how many there are.
He didn't actually say it was too hard. He said it was boring, and in his personal jargon, 'unintuitive'. Making a game difficult doesn't automatically make it good, and making it easy doesn't automatically make it bad. Yahtzee draws a clear line between difficult and unfair. Or between easy and boring. He judges each game as an individual. Thinking nothing of them until he actually plays them. There are even some JRPGs he doesn't entirely hate.
Your criticism is very much valid. You could skip the scene before the big monsters though, it just didn't work for the first time or two.
Not long ago, when the disgrace that was FFXIV online was released, it did not take an expert to see this game had serious, serious flaws, and thusly it was trashed by every single review, corporate and independent (I guess SE dont keep western journalists in pocket like a certain other artistically electronic company do).KillahMate said:
And yet, despite the games serious shortcomings, there were hordes of devout sony/SE/FF fans who stolidly defended the game, and claimed it to be a 'true, non-hand holding mmorpg - the antithesis to baby WoW' rather than 'Clearly, the developers couldn't be ****ed'. Such people are platform independent and come from all walks of life from all genre of games. They are, for want of a better word, idiots.
**** them. There will always be nutters who defend a turd because they are brainwashed by marketing and ideals and it is not the job of sane reasonable people to 'force unwilling people to listen'. If they want to waste their money on inferior entertainment experiences, so be it.
And also, lets not forget the inevitable proverb:
The more popular a game is, the more dumbed down for the masses its $equel
You're sitting on a nest egg of a superb gaming experience? SHHHHHH don't tell anybody, because sooner or later, some monoply-tastic publisher will come and **** all over it.
Also good to note, as opposed to the 1% Yahtzee assumes he completed, at that point he's cleared about 2/3rds of the entire game.
I was actually rather offended when it ended so suddenly, I genuinly thought I'd maybe reached the second boss by the time the game cut off.
Despite getting a good deal on the special edition I still feel like I'd rather have my £20 back but, oh well.
I was actually rather offended when it ended so suddenly, I genuinly thought I'd maybe reached the second boss by the time the game cut off.
Despite getting a good deal on the special edition I still feel like I'd rather have my £20 back but, oh well.
How do you know how much he completed? You can do that quest almost anywhere in the CH1, as far as I know.ZombieGenesis said:
Plus 2/3? Seriously? Second chapter is longer, or at least the same length. And changes alot depending on who you side with. So 2/5 at best.
But yes, It could have been longer.
I loved both the game and the review 
True, some explanation would be nice, but it was nice to play a game that didn't hold my hand all the time. Every game seems afraid that it's audience will have a heart attack if they don't know what they have to do every picosecond of their existence.
A shame Yahtzee didn't have fun with this, he may have liked the plot, since it wasn't something you see often in games lately, with the regicides and political "games" and whatnot...
True, some explanation would be nice, but it was nice to play a game that didn't hold my hand all the time. Every game seems afraid that it's audience will have a heart attack if they don't know what they have to do every picosecond of their existence.
A shame Yahtzee didn't have fun with this, he may have liked the plot, since it wasn't something you see often in games lately, with the regicides and political "games" and whatnot...
Um, the Kayren was before the end of Chapter 1. The game has 3 chapters, with the second one depending on a decision you make in the first one, so that's 4 chapters, plus epilogue and prologue. How was that the 2/3rds of the game?ZombieGenesis said:
Funny fact about the STD joke: Geralt is STD Immune and infertile. It's a Witcher thing that serves to allow him to have as much unprotected sex as he wants. Certainly not as much as the first game but certainly more satisfying than collecting pootang like baseball cards.
It's a pretty tough game from what I've seen of Let's Plays mostly due to it's lack of a proper tutorial, kinda like the videogame equivalent of pushing a kid into a pool and hoping he learns to swim. I remember it's remarked in a Giant Bomb Quick Look that the game doesn't even tell you about the lock-on function.
Still, from what I've seen the story does get interesting if it's played out. Don't know if Yahtzee sided with either Roche (human with a bitchin' turban-thing) or Iorveth (elf with a bitchin' eyepatch-thing).
It's a pretty tough game from what I've seen of Let's Plays mostly due to it's lack of a proper tutorial, kinda like the videogame equivalent of pushing a kid into a pool and hoping he learns to swim. I remember it's remarked in a Giant Bomb Quick Look that the game doesn't even tell you about the lock-on function.
Still, from what I've seen the story does get interesting if it's played out. Don't know if Yahtzee sided with either Roche (human with a bitchin' turban-thing) or Iorveth (elf with a bitchin' eyepatch-thing).
It's not that I want Yahtzee to change his opinion. RPG is not his favourite genre and we knew what was coming. It's just that not long ago, I played Borderlands. It was instant gratification... that simply could not last; automated game-writin..err... weapons-generation? A bazillion weapons. Big deal. They even have a Game of The Year edition of that.
I tried to install Dead Rising 2 but considered myself lucky I was not able to.
So, Yes, with things like those previous two out there, when the Witcher 2 comes along I gladly welcome a blessing and owe it to the developers to say something. Golden Axe, PoP, and King's Quest evolving, that's The Witcher in my book.
::Almost Forgot:: Obviously, indeed, Geralt has 2 swords because "Does he tend to lose them?"
I tried to install Dead Rising 2 but considered myself lucky I was not able to.
So, Yes, with things like those previous two out there, when the Witcher 2 comes along I gladly welcome a blessing and owe it to the developers to say something. Golden Axe, PoP, and King's Quest evolving, that's The Witcher in my book.
::Almost Forgot:: Obviously, indeed, Geralt has 2 swords because "Does he tend to lose them?"
Except everyone shat on FFIIVCXMVII (whatever number the MMORPG one was) because it was a bad game. Pretty much everyone praised the Witcher 2 to high heaven, and pointed out the couple of flaws it has that kept it from being a completely polished experience. A large number of reviewers didn't care about the tutorial/UI/control issues, and gave it 100's. Yahtzee doesn't like it, but anyone who thinks "Yahtzee doesn't like it = bad game" need to work on their pattern recognition skills.BunnyKillBot said:
If you are suggesting the people who blindly defending FFXIV to the people who are defending TW2 then there are a few things worth pointing out.BunnyKillBot said:
FFXIV was critically shit upon, the developers were apologizing for it being as it is like crazy, and even the most hardcore fans were disowning the game and even Square Enix (go read about the fan who dumped all his stock, and he had a lot of stock, and caused Square Enix's stock to crash for a short time).
TW2 was critically praised with the sole exception of The Escapist it seems, and none of the other two things seem to be happening.