Did anyone else notice Yahtzee actually come very close to breaking character and laughing at the "chihuahua/spiral staircase" joke?
Zero Punctuation: Top Five Games of 2016
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Indeed, that was one of the first things I noticed, so much so that I went out and checked to make sure that I was remembering correctly and that Overwatch actually did come out this year, and not on December 29th 2015 or some damn thing. But no, solidly in mid-2016. I thought for sure Yahtzee would find a spot on some list or another for a game whose primary appeal is based on marketing hype rather than any actual substance, but then again, I'm also just a contrarian who enjoys the affirmation I get when other people see what I regard to be fairly obvious glaring flaws in inexplicably popular things, so I'm probably a biased source.KissingSunlight said:
Uh, I said that the game was considered to be one of the best of the franchise. So no. The fanbase was very much pleased. Fuck, it isn't hard to please Metroid fans, people adored AM2R and it was just an old school Metroid side scroller put together by fans. That's cool, but did The Guardian Legend innovate and improve on its mechanics like Metroid did?LordTerminal said:
Well good for you, your opinion isn't universal. I've talked to plenty of people who didn't play it when they young and thought that it had aged very well.
Eh, the only thing Zero did that was really that bad was have a rather polarizing control scheme and the very boring Gyrowing. Besides that, the game was alright. Its average 7/10 score is what it deserves for the most part. It probably fell off Yahtzee's radar, or the games that were on the list were simply worsedarkrage6 said:
Homefront actually managed to patch itself out of shitville, its actually enjoyable now even if it doesnt break any new ground.
And I quite liked Quantum Break. Its very much like Alan Wake in that the characters and setup are interesting enough to make you play through the game, plus it has great production values in a more artistic mindset, so not exactly how cool the setpiece is but how gorgeus it looks.
And I quite liked Quantum Break. Its very much like Alan Wake in that the characters and setup are interesting enough to make you play through the game, plus it has great production values in a more artistic mindset, so not exactly how cool the setpiece is but how gorgeus it looks.
I noticed you switched tactics the second it was made clear that the fans liked it, just insulting it and the creators because you had nothing else to fall back on (and yet for some reason people were still supposed to like FF) They made AM2R because they wanted to, that's all the motivation someone needs to do anything. They were fans of Metroid and wanted to remake 2, and as someone who played AM2R, they did a damn good job.LordTerminal said:
Doom? Is this 1993? Also, 2016 was awesome year and Yahtzee clearly didn't play the right games. Especially if Doom is #1 on his list.
Well, the main question on the 2017 body count is who do we have left?
Morgan Freeman, Ian McKellen, Michael Gambon, Sean Connery, Martin Sheen, Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland?
So in order of character that are well known from them.
God, Gandalf, Dumbledore, King Arthur, The President of the USA, Charlie Croker and Oddball.
Yeah, we're starting to run thin on famous old actors that are still alive.
Morgan Freeman, Ian McKellen, Michael Gambon, Sean Connery, Martin Sheen, Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland?
So in order of character that are well known from them.
God, Gandalf, Dumbledore, King Arthur, The President of the USA, Charlie Croker and Oddball.
Yeah, we're starting to run thin on famous old actors that are still alive.
2016 killed: David Bowie, Pierre Boulez (Don't think anyone here has heard of him but he was an extremely important conductor and influenced a lot of people like Frank Zappa), Leonard Cohen, Prince, Lemmy Kilmister, etcJenSeven said:
So up next we have: Bob Dylan (Gonna be the next one, I'm calling it), Iggy Pop, the remaining Beatles, the remaining Beach Boys, the guys from Black Sabbath, the guys from The Rolling Stones etc
Both games began development in 2011, and like FFXV or Watch_Dogs, they ended up suffering from the inevitable lack of clear design direction that long development tends to bring.josemlopes said:
Quantum Break is the love child of Max Payne and Alan Wake. It's a decent time-based shooter. To me, though, the use of 110 minutes of live action footage throughout the story felt more like a spiritual successor to Enter the Matrix than anything particularly good, bad, or innovative. The game's story is outstanding, though. And it's mechanically solid.
Homefront: The Revolution STARTED as a sequel to Homefront but two years into development they decided that they didn't like Homefront very much and instead rebooted the project using an "open world Half-Life" pitch. The end result is a game that was released unfinished, but is a genuinely good game after 8 months of patching. While it has almost peerless atmosphere -- walking around in the rain is the best experience since Perfect Dark's Chicago --, it suffers from a lack of innovation because over the course of 5 years, it lost any clear direction. It doesn't even have clear narrative direction. There are scattered bits and pieces of the original "back when this was actually related to the old Homefront game" narrative in the game. Newspaper clippings that are clearly from the original storyline, for example. A narrative designer was bought onto the project 6 months before release to try and improve things. Results were mixed. The DLC is much more clearheaded, though.
And speaking of 5 year development, Mankind Divided was also in development for five years, and it is genuinely bizarre to look at Homefront and Mankind Divided side by side. They have the same realtime Crysis-derived weapon modding system. They have the same vaulting system. They have the same style of running animation with deliberately heavy footsteps. They even share the same iconography of police oppression right down to 4-rotored scanner drones and passive-aggressive police manhandling people. Games that have long development periods tend to absorb undue outside influence because developers lose faith that their game will be "current" and "relevant" when it releases.
"I don't agree with this critic, he shouldn't be allowed to criticize"?LordTerminal said:
He streamed Color Splash some weeks ago on Twitch, he'd already beaten the game.
You don't?
First, Yahtzee didn't like Last of Us. It wasn't even on the list in 2013. Second, Dark Souls 3 has less of an impact than 1/2. It doesn't innovate, the design is pretty lazy and leans dangerously close to fanfiction (and they would have gone there if they included Solaire). Why should From Software be awarded for doing thing they always do but slightly worse this time instead of S&S who copied the mechanics yet had to create the stuff from scratch? S&S is more noteworthy, even if DS3 is technically a better game in vacuum.Caramel Frappe said:
They applied the "New Super ____" formula that cuts out any story, characters, locational continuity, and discovery/backtracking to a series that is fundamentally reliant on those elements to work.erttheking said:
Because I guess they didn't have a local 5-year-old on hand to tell them that sucking out everything people liked from a series was a terrible fucking idea.
Humor is subjective, not objective. Someone could tell me a really stupid joke I'd find hilarious, or an equally stupid joke I don't find funny. He simply didn't find it funny. You did, he didn't. People experience things in life differently than youLordTerminal said: