Zero Punctuation: Top 5 of 2010

[Nimcha]

Heh, I haven't played any of the games listed in both top 5's.

Still, great video.

 

[Darkong]

Was honestly expecting Final Fantasy XIII to take the top sport for worst game, it certainly did for me, but then again I haven't played Kane & Lynch 2 so that might explain it.

 

[Vrach]

Bailey's ftw! Incidentally, interesting choices, but I still think Rockstar are right twats for both GTA4 and the fact RDR isn't on the PC.

Oh and while I agree Just Cause 2 was absolutely awesome for fucking around, it falls into the same category as Prototype. The awesomeness of the fucking around is directly proportional to the quality of the story and any related elements. Still, for screwing around, it indeed lasted more than anything else this year.

 

[repeating integers]

i actually thought hed for sure put fable3 on as worst game. a lot of people hated it. also,


YAHTZEE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD, PLAY MASS EFFECT 2!!!!!!

hed love that game, and we havent had a positive review in a while. i have no doubt itd make it to the top of his game of the year list, if he had played it this year

He reviewed it at the beginning of the year. His stance seemed largely neutral.

OT: That was funny. I'm afraid you didn't have me with that Halo: Reach joke (you'd already admitted you only found it inoffensive, the others on the "bottom five" were outright bad, I suspected you throw in some joke to piss off the fans). But I am surprised you gave the top spot to Just Cause 2... I actually thought it'd go to Mass Effect 2. Silly me.

(Can't help but wonder if he saw my comment on his twitter about the escapist editors doing top 5 lists...)

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

I'd just assume every game was in his "Bottom 5." Nothing against Yahtzee, it's just his reviews make every game sound like they're not worth it and praise is very hard to find in his reviews. I know in his Batman: Arkham Asylum review he said everything he doesn't mention is fine and all, but even so it's kind of hard sometimes to distinguish between, "not mentioning it because it's fine," and, "not mentioning it because it's so wretched I can't bring myself to talk about it."

Well I remember in one of his first reviews he said that "What I learned from my last review, is that no body likes it when I don't insult the game." Also he acts so mean to games because I think that is just in his nature. I actually like him doing that because there are so many game critics that focus only on the good traits of a game and lend 30 seconds to the bad traits. He really counters all the other game reviewers who treat every game with pride, joy and optimism.

 

[teh_Canape]

Plenty of people liked the game but public discourse eventually distilled itself into a handful of talking points.

1. The game need not have existed.
2. The game was undoubtedly weaker as a result of tacking on multiplayer that nobody cared about
3. The end of the game was markedly better than the start.

Where the first game was launched to unexpected success, the the fact that the second did as well as it did was mainly the result of hanging off the coattails of the first.

well, it WAS unnecessary, but it didn't really hampered the original one

1-System Shock 2 was also unnecessary (as far as I remember)
2-of course it was weaker, remember we're talking about BioShock here, and Bioshock 2 wasn't developed by the same people, so it wasn't expected to really improve on the first one when it comes to the story, that's something I liked, it didn't changed any of what was already established, but rather added on a couple of things, you know, details, like how did the big daddy's thing started, or how Andrew Ryan built Rapture
3-the multiplayer was of course tacked on, but I liked the way it was done, I mean, it does makes you play on skills more than, say, Call of Duty (you know, equipment hacking and shit). Half Life's Multiplayer was also tacked on, yet people liked it and it's still being played

now, keep in mind, I'm not arguing whether you're right or not, just giving my views on this (so I can feel better at night T-T)

 

[JackandTom]

I must be the only one who actually likes Bioshock 2

Your Not! It was awesome! Sure the enviroment was the same, but the story was still good and combat had been improved.

 

[Nimcha]

i actually thought hed for sure put fable3 on as worst game. a lot of people hated it. also,


YAHTZEE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD, PLAY MASS EFFECT 2!!!!!!

hed love that game, and we havent had a positive review in a while. i have no doubt itd make it to the top of his game of the year list, if he had played it this year

I thought he did review it? And liked it, somewhat. I did not expect it to be in his top 5 though.

 

[puchead]

This vid was so funny, i actually cried, and choked on my Yorkie!!

Yahtzee, if I knew where you were right now, I'd be on my knees, sucking your bountiful, ahiry, god-like balls!!

x

 

[LooseNugget]

That was just epic....I loved the choices and had tears of laughter. Thanks Yahtzee

 

[LadyMint]

Hah. I knew Kane & Lynch 2 was going to get the coveted worst game of the year spot. Although I did go, "... Really?" when I saw Halo Reach. Good one.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Good list. A really good list. I love Just Cause 2. I played it for more than 120 hours and I still can't get enough of it. That's how you make a freeroaming game. Big, explosive and with as much freedom as you can give to someone.

Anyway, my Top 5 list would have to be:

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Just Cause 2
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. Amnesia
5. Mafia 2

 

[goddz001]

laughed so hard at kayne & lynch :')

 

[70R4N]

I tought Mass Effect 2 would be in the top 5. Oh well, nwm. Just Cause 2 sucks in my opinion.

 

[Random berk]

"...my previous criticism drowned out by the screams of a guard with one leg tied to a harrier jet."

Best Yahtzee quote ever!!!
Seriously though, the Just Cause franchise has always been great just for the mucking around potential in the game. My strongest memory of the first Just Cause was stealing a C-130, flying it up to the highest altitude I could get to, then nosediving it straight at whatever highly populated area stuck out at me and bailing out. I wonder if it ever landed on anyone...

 

[FriedRicer]

Wow....GOD you killed 2010!

 

[WolfmanNougat]

Dammit Yahtzee, I used to associate the Funeral of Queen Mary with terrifying psychological horror; now It's just gonna remind me of shitty videogames!

... actually, the psycho-horror's too powerful for that to ever happen.

 

[Sporky111]

Awesome work this week, a nice break from the rest of the parade of retrospectives.

Also, can we call this video a combo breaker? It's called Zero Punctuation, and he paused dramatically and inserted a comma.

 

[coldshadow]

been a while since you made me laugh so hard.

 

[coldfrog]

I'm not sure which surprises me more, that he put Red Dead ahead of Amnesia, or that he put Bioshock 2, which was mediocre but not really BAD like the other games, on his bottom 5. Admittedly I haven't played Kane & Lynch, but everything I've heard makes me think that's a good thing.

I still ought to give Just Cause a shot - and personally I really enjoyed the first dead rising, so fixing some of it's flaws should be a sure win for me... but I've been spreading myself thin gamewise and I think I just never got around to it.