Bioshock?... That was surprisingly populist and non hipsterish of him. After PP I thought he was gonna say Stanley Parable.
Zero Punctuation: Top 5 Games of 2013
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Can't have a problem with any game on the top 4. I don't know about 5 but Metal Gear games really don't agree with me and I'd sooner go for Tomb Raider or GTA V on that one. I enjoyed Papers, Please and Bioshock: Infinte immensly, even though many people seem to prefer Gone Home over the former and have been really critical of the latter's combat.
Haven't played much of the bottom 5; I wasn't going to waste my money on SimCity or Aliens after all the bad press those games got (for good reason) and David Cage just seemed to have lost it. Call of Duty doesn't even show up on my radar; I can't imagine anyone outside their frat boy target demographic actually enjoying that game.
Haven't played much of the bottom 5; I wasn't going to waste my money on SimCity or Aliens after all the bad press those games got (for good reason) and David Cage just seemed to have lost it. Call of Duty doesn't even show up on my radar; I can't imagine anyone outside their frat boy target demographic actually enjoying that game.
First the community and now Yatzhee?! Will someone please tell me which version of Papers Please everyone is playing that such a incredible game?! I must have gotten like a beta release with all the bugs, crashes, poor optimization and sticky mess instead of the epic mind-altering version everyone else got.
I'm genuinely surprised that Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon didn't crack the top five. He seemed much more enthusiastic about it than he did about Metal Gear Rising or The Last of Us at the time.
Also, someone really needs to get around to telling David Cage that he is completely devoid of worth. Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls are basically this generation's two worst games, and I'd honestly rather play Superman on the Nintendo 64 than either of them.
Also, someone really needs to get around to telling David Cage that he is completely devoid of worth. Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls are basically this generation's two worst games, and I'd honestly rather play Superman on the Nintendo 64 than either of them.
I completely agree with both sentences ? Gone Home was hands down my favorite game of 2013, and I'd love to hear Yahtzee's opinion on it. I can't tell if he, as a writer, would love it, or if he'd (for partly the same reason) hate it.ShinobiJedi42 said:
I would've given it to Papers, Please, if only for the unbelievable feat of making government paperwork tense, exciting and a constant moral dilemma.
As someone working retail for the holidays, that opening for the #5 Top made me smile, because I have earned it. Kind of pleasantly surprised at his choice, because MGRR wasn't even trying to be "art" like the other two (about dirty depressed people getting beat up) and it remembered, like Saints Row IV, that video games should be FUN. Also surprised that Bioshock:Infinite got the Top #! spot, since its gameplay does what CoD: Ghosts's does. Or did Ken Levine do that on purpose to be "satirical"? Like how the Beastie Boys made "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" to make fun of the people who like that kind of music?
Sometime around Halloween, so lets go with maybe October 29th? I've had so many god damn problems with it. First it took forever to install correctly, like 2-3 times. Then it kept crashing. Then it kept freezing. Then it kept bugging. Then it broke my Steam, rewriting some Cloud file than couldn't be fixed without deleting all of Steam and re installing the entire thing. And you know what, I'm not going to re-install Papers Please.Mydnyght said:
All of those problems, I could live with. Truly, that won't keep me away from a game. But it was boring too. On top of barely playable...it was barely play worthy. And now that I think of it, 'play' is a little too generous. It felt like one of those crappy minigames in larger MMOs, like Fallout: New Vegas gambling, or Skyrim wood cutting. Like it was meant to be in some larger game, but the entire larger game got axed.
I am woefully unimpressed with this game. I'd rank it alongside SimCity for utter failure.
I had no interest in Revengeance and I haven't played Papers Please yet but the other 3 are also my 3 favourites. I'm not actually sure which one I like more.
Saints Row 4 was pure, hilarious fun
Infinite told an amazing story and I loved the skyrails
Black Flag is great in pretty much every way. Doing pirate stuff never gets old.
Saints Row 4 was pure, hilarious fun
Infinite told an amazing story and I loved the skyrails
Black Flag is great in pretty much every way. Doing pirate stuff never gets old.
I love these videos.
I was surprised by the worst game of the year. There are worse games out there to be sure, but then I sat and thought about it. Ghosts is easily the worst CoD game so far, by far. The campaign was boring, the characters were flat, and it just seemed to never have that 'pop' moment like the others. And then that ending...I can accept a lot in a CoD game. I cannot accept that that ending was possible.
So yeah, I guess CoD Ghosts is probably the worst game of the year. It was so bland, so much of a letdown, so much of, "Is this all there is?" that it was a bigger letdown than actual bad games.
I was surprised by the worst game of the year. There are worse games out there to be sure, but then I sat and thought about it. Ghosts is easily the worst CoD game so far, by far. The campaign was boring, the characters were flat, and it just seemed to never have that 'pop' moment like the others. And then that ending...I can accept a lot in a CoD game. I cannot accept that that ending was possible.
Let me see if I've got this straight. Rorck--or whatever--gets tossed around the train cabin, beat up, shot clean through the bloody chest, falls off of a bridge, and finally drowned, and I'm supposed to believe that he survived all that, swam to shore while bleeding, managed to overpower Logan and Hesh, and drag Logan away with backup not five minutes away? No, sorry. That's just not possible, even in a CoD story.
Thanks for the list, it's actually pretty helpful for building up a belated PS3 collection.Rangerboy87 said:
My favourite quote in this top 5 list has to be the Assassin's Creed chat with Yahtzee because it made me want to rewatch the entire video just to hear that line again.
Cheers to a better gaming year and not one that makes you put a gun to your head!
Cheers to a better gaming year and not one that makes you put a gun to your head!
Really? You're going to try and tell people the opinion they "should" have about a game? Wow. That's... the only word I can think of is arrogant.Xangi said:
Personally, I adored most of the games on this list (haven't played Papers, Please or Metal Gear), and would wager my Top 5 would look pretty similar. Saints Row IV was an entertaining blast, Black Flag is fantastic, and Bioshock Infinite is certainly my favourite game of the year as well. The gameplay was great, certainly way more interesting than any other FPS I played this year, the story was interesting and made me think, the characters were brilliant, and I really enjoyed puzzling out the ending with my brother.