Zero Punctuation: Wet
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Wet seems to be trying to hard with it's style, it seems forced. House of the Dead Overkill worked better with its grindhouse style because zombies call for a more over the top affair than just what comes off as a revenge thriller.
And in terms of gun play, Max Payne already nailed bullet time YEARS before and Stranglehold when in a less serious tone without making fun of the concept as opposed this game.
And in terms of gun play, Max Payne already nailed bullet time YEARS before and Stranglehold when in a less serious tone without making fun of the concept as opposed this game.
Sounds like an unremarkable and fairly miserable Max Payne clone with bullet time swiped out for one-gun-has-a-mind-of-its-own as the gimmick. No wonder Yahtzee's Scribblenauts Extra Punctuation was so filled with vitriol for the idiocy in this world - he was suffering from having to play this at the time.
This episode was, however, comedy gold. Boss and Pillock could be recurring characters for all the laughs Yahtzee could bounce off them.
This episode was, however, comedy gold. Boss and Pillock could be recurring characters for all the laughs Yahtzee could bounce off them.
I must say I found this week's episode quite humorous. Reminded me of the really good old ones.
Damn, how long has it been since I've posted in one of these threads?
Damn, how long has it been since I've posted in one of these threads?
Not correct Ben. "Cinematic" means the way the game is presented to the player not being like a movie or having annoying controls. It's a wrong understanding of the term ( unfortunately also by game developers themselves ). Real cinematic gameplay can be rich and rewarding. The trick is how the overall appearance and feel of the game is. That's now the second time you misuse a term. Please, keep up the good quality and don't start messing up terms. I like what you do so please keep it to your older level of quality 
I personally enjoyed WET but this was still entertaining none the less. It seems to me like it had the Mirrors Edge problem. A lot of potential that just wasn't reached.
Oh, I've been kind of vocal about this game in the past so I think I owe it to myself to weigh in on this occaision.
I thought Wet was fun. I mean, I can't fault most of Yahtzee's points because it wasn't a good game. Let me explain. It felt like there was no expense spent in the fundamentally design of the game. The jumping around bits are a bit hit and miss, once you have to jump off a platform onto a ledge and sometimes it registers you as getting near enough to the ledge, sometimes it wants to giggle at Rubi going "ughhh" as she fells to her death. With the gloom of the art style, it can be very hard to see where an enemy is at a given time. Sometimes, I was only aware someone was there because he invited me to taste his special sauce. The section where you jump out of a plane is stupid and irrelevant and the cutscenes seem to just be cutscenes until the game goes "OMGZ PRESS Y" at which point you scramble for the controller you set down and accidentally hit A or something.
But let me ram my point home. The whole jumping around shooting at people concept is fundamentally very fun. When you clear out an entire room, stringing together your movements like a 12 year old Chinese gymnast, without even taking a bullet then there's a good sense of achievement there. I guess I'll sum it up by saying could be a great game, poorly executed.
One more thing, I didn't think the loading screens were that bad and the game didn't crash on me once. I've heard those problems around the internet before so I guess I'm either lucky or the PS3 is bugged while the 360 version isn't. Somehow.
One more one more thing, can people who don't own the game stop agreeing with Yahtzee when they haven't played the game? That goes for all games. I mean, come on, noone bought the sodding thing, I highly doubt that everyone on the Escapist did. It's pathetic. You can't just fill in the blanks in your own opinions with someone elses. Well you can, but don't pass them off as your own.
I thought Wet was fun. I mean, I can't fault most of Yahtzee's points because it wasn't a good game. Let me explain. It felt like there was no expense spent in the fundamentally design of the game. The jumping around bits are a bit hit and miss, once you have to jump off a platform onto a ledge and sometimes it registers you as getting near enough to the ledge, sometimes it wants to giggle at Rubi going "ughhh" as she fells to her death. With the gloom of the art style, it can be very hard to see where an enemy is at a given time. Sometimes, I was only aware someone was there because he invited me to taste his special sauce. The section where you jump out of a plane is stupid and irrelevant and the cutscenes seem to just be cutscenes until the game goes "OMGZ PRESS Y" at which point you scramble for the controller you set down and accidentally hit A or something.
But let me ram my point home. The whole jumping around shooting at people concept is fundamentally very fun. When you clear out an entire room, stringing together your movements like a 12 year old Chinese gymnast, without even taking a bullet then there's a good sense of achievement there. I guess I'll sum it up by saying could be a great game, poorly executed.
One more thing, I didn't think the loading screens were that bad and the game didn't crash on me once. I've heard those problems around the internet before so I guess I'm either lucky or the PS3 is bugged while the 360 version isn't. Somehow.
One more one more thing, can people who don't own the game stop agreeing with Yahtzee when they haven't played the game? That goes for all games. I mean, come on, noone bought the sodding thing, I highly doubt that everyone on the Escapist did. It's pathetic. You can't just fill in the blanks in your own opinions with someone elses. Well you can, but don't pass them off as your own.
Hahaha... another classic review from Yahtzee! All of his points were down to the letter for this game but I have to admit despite it being a cinematic game.. it most certainly wasn't the worst I've ever played. It's well deserving of the review it got.
Sad that ZP didn't choose a better game to criticize cause Wet is like kicking in a cardboard door hanging on rusty hinges made of crackers.
It's so overly obvious that it's bad and all the jokes seem to be focused around proofing that it's bad which we didn't need seeing as all cinematic games have been pretty much bad, unless they went at cinematic gaming as a form of parody.
So yeah Wet sucked I (and most gamers for that matter) kinda figured that out from the trailer where I would be mashing bullet time button after bullet time button. I think the only people who didn't know Wet was bad we're the people paid to review games, which kind of makes me wonder how and by whom they are getting paid cause I certainly would not hire them if I wanted to start a video game website.
To sum it up this episode is one of the weaker ones cause you practically know all the things that will be raved on. Hoping next time a better game will be chosen cause than it's all the more funny to see just how creatively you can address flaws.
It's so overly obvious that it's bad and all the jokes seem to be focused around proofing that it's bad which we didn't need seeing as all cinematic games have been pretty much bad, unless they went at cinematic gaming as a form of parody.
So yeah Wet sucked I (and most gamers for that matter) kinda figured that out from the trailer where I would be mashing bullet time button after bullet time button. I think the only people who didn't know Wet was bad we're the people paid to review games, which kind of makes me wonder how and by whom they are getting paid cause I certainly would not hire them if I wanted to start a video game website.
To sum it up this episode is one of the weaker ones cause you practically know all the things that will be raved on. Hoping next time a better game will be chosen cause than it's all the more funny to see just how creatively you can address flaws.
I chose to ignore the advice given at the end and was unpleasantly surprised by what appeared to be bestiality, on the plus side though I'd already guessed this game would be wank.
I have only played the demo. Unlike most peopel on here I am willing to admit this and not say the whole game is crap without playing the whole game. I enjoyed the demo very much and am waitng for the price to drop, which it has to, to buy the whole game. I agree with most of the critiques made but I liked the QTEs and flying around while shooting. This demo was fun to me. Not great in any sense of the word, but mindless fun, which is what I like to look for in a game.