Zero Punctuation: Top 5 Games of 2013
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Just play whichever of the first two games you felt had better game play and then make up a story involving Dorothy and yourself travelling through time and parallel dimensions filled with progressively crazier versions of La Raza and the Tea Party. Include a few plot holes, close your eyes during any minigames or really any non shooty bits and only use two guns and one plasmid.Johnny Novgorod said:
In his defense, "truth is stranger than fiction" is a cliché because of the concept of logical consistency. Stories have to make more sense than real world events or you lose people.Aardvaarkman said:
FPS shamelessly pandering to the sensibilities and bloated savior complexes of conservative white racists: worst game of the year.
FPS shamelessly pandering to the sensibilities and bloated savior complexes of liberal white racists: best game of the year.
EA's not the only force in gaming studiously avoiding the fearful clutches of of self awareness, eh?
Otherwise, great yearly recap vid from Yahtzee, as usual.
FPS shamelessly pandering to the sensibilities and bloated savior complexes of liberal white racists: best game of the year.
EA's not the only force in gaming studiously avoiding the fearful clutches of of self awareness, eh?
Otherwise, great yearly recap vid from Yahtzee, as usual.That guy? The guy whose ME3 video I got one minute into because he was nitpicking every last little deatail about stuff I was really not important and was rather obnoxious about it? I guy I find to be rather annoying and tend to not agree with. Yeah I don't think I'd agree with him. Also, something you should know, even the best of games have plot holes, but I still love games with plot holes, because I find them to be little more than a speed bump on an exciting ride and plenty of people feel that way. They bug you and make you not like the game? Fair enough, but stop acting like your opinion is fact, it isn't. Also, explain your points yourself, don't tell people to go watch a 40 minute video of someone else's pointsdakkster said:
Man that first five hours of Bioshock were great... and then the rest of the game happened.
Song Bird was also incredibly underused.
This guy knows what's up. Though I'd say it wobbles more than a little at the half mark, and then completely implodes on itself in the finale.Do4600 said:
Song Bird was also incredibly underused.
Pfft, that implies that Infinite actually takes a stance on any of the presented issues.Malisteen said:FPS shamelessly pandering to the sensibilities and bloated savior complexes of conservative white racists: worst game of the year.
FPS shamelessly pandering to the sensibilities and bloated savior complexes of liberal white racists: best game of the year.
EA's not the only force in gaming studiously avoiding the fearful clutches of of self awareness, eh?
Anyone from Sudan or further North in Africa is white, anyone from the Mid East is white, and anyone to the West or South of Afghanistan is white.Malisteen said:FPS shamelessly pandering to the sensibilities and bloated savior complexes of conservative white racists: worst game of the year.
FPS shamelessly pandering to the sensibilities and bloated savior complexes of liberal white racists: best game of the year.
EA's not the only force in gaming studiously avoiding the fearful clutches of of self awareness, eh?
Either way, both games are, generally, about murdering shithead white fundamentalists. It's just that one's a shitty game about murdering shithead Muslim fundamentalists, and one's an excellent game about murdering shithead Protestant fundamentalists. No one should feel any guilt for either of those things.
ITT: People try to convince other people they didn't enjoy a thing they claim they enjoyed.
What is the purpose behind even attempting something like that? Do you even have an objective, or are you just spewing hate without even an eye towards entertaining an audience? The story made perfect sense to me, other than the presence of vigors, the gameplay was a bit repetitive but held my interest long enough to finish, and the repeated use of the word objective in reference to quality of the story is making me a bit nauseous. It's like when snobby lit critics imply or outright say that science fiction/fantasy is inherently a worse genre than other genres: claiming there are objective rules that must be followed is a snobbish, elitist, and ultimately damaging, lie. There's no benefit in shoving art into a box. If it works, it works, and clearly people think it works.
Also, I just had to mention: "the 122 flipped coins all coming up heads" is a reference to Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead (at least the movie version). A rather brilliant one, in fact. And it's not 122 coins coming up heads in a row. It's 122 coins, each flipped in a new iteration of the loop, and in each iteration of the loop, it comes up heads- the same thing is happening each time you pass through. If they were really clever, the number would have increased each time you play through that section.
What is the purpose behind even attempting something like that? Do you even have an objective, or are you just spewing hate without even an eye towards entertaining an audience? The story made perfect sense to me, other than the presence of vigors, the gameplay was a bit repetitive but held my interest long enough to finish, and the repeated use of the word objective in reference to quality of the story is making me a bit nauseous. It's like when snobby lit critics imply or outright say that science fiction/fantasy is inherently a worse genre than other genres: claiming there are objective rules that must be followed is a snobbish, elitist, and ultimately damaging, lie. There's no benefit in shoving art into a box. If it works, it works, and clearly people think it works.
Also, I just had to mention: "the 122 flipped coins all coming up heads" is a reference to Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead (at least the movie version). A rather brilliant one, in fact. And it's not 122 coins coming up heads in a row. It's 122 coins, each flipped in a new iteration of the loop, and in each iteration of the loop, it comes up heads- the same thing is happening each time you pass through. If they were really clever, the number would have increased each time you play through that section.
I rented Beyond Two Souls from Redbox, because I knew it was going to be a worse version of Heavy Rain, and a much worse version of Indigo Prophecy. It amazes me how completely out of touch a developer can be on what an actual game is. And you know what, it was worth exactly what I rented it for: $2. So if ratings went by dollars it would garner a score of 0.3 out of 10. I also rented Tomb Raider, also for $2, then immediately went out and bought it. Yes it wasn't perfect, but at least it was a reimagining of a classic franchise that wasn't afraid to dump what didn't work and replace it with something new and fresh. I don't know if it was so appealing because I was playing it immediately after Beyond Two souls, but somehow I think it helped. One of my favorite games of the year was Remember Me. It also wasn't perfect, but I loved the environments, and the atmosphere and world I was immersed in. Just having a world that interests me can carry a game all on it's own, as long as the game play is at least tolerable, and I am a sucker for cyberpunkish futuristic worlds. My other top games of 2013 were A Link Between Worlds (even though the bosses were a little easy) and Dragons Crown, an incredible beat em up with a lot of depth and complexity.
I sometimes agree with much that Yahtzee says, and sometimes I don't, but I do believe his critiques are always spot on and that is what I appreciate about his work.
I sometimes agree with much that Yahtzee says, and sometimes I don't, but I do believe his critiques are always spot on and that is what I appreciate about his work.