Zero Punctuation: Wet

[GonzoGamer]

Yea this game is pretty bad.
It's a good reminder to any publisher that while having a couple of potheads on your development team can bring in some cool ideas but once the whole team is on drugs, you get something like this.

I actually thought Yhatzee was going to like Wet. Hell, he liked No More Heroes and that game was even worse. At least Wet didn't have a boring and blank sandbox you had to traverse every time you needed to kill a new group of idiots.

It does make you think though; what's worse - a tedious sandbox or a series of arbitrary quick time events.
Yea, I guess the latter is a bit worse but it does at least let you get on with your life quicker.

 

[SYSTEM-J]

The angler fish in the SS uniform just became my favourite ever ZP moment.

 

[Drakeblood4]

I think that Yahtzee is right that the flying through air in slow-motion thing is abused in that game. It's like V.A.T.S. in Fallout 3 or that stupid slo-mo thing they do when you knock somebody out in fighting games. Hell, at its core it's even like the annoying ass rolling and making your character hop across the board thing they do in the infinite mario party copies they've made. I think what Yahtzee is trying to say is that any event which slows down the action of a game had better be fucking beautiful and used sparingly. If I were to use this mechanic in a game I would definitely try and put it in a FPStealth rather than a shooter, and the pistols she gets would each have to be manually reloaded. Heres roughly how it'd work if I magic fairies granted me the ability to make video games rather than just complain:

*Generic stealthy hero is sneaking*
*Some sort of guard is alerted, possibly along with other guards*
*The hero must choose to either shoot or hide*
*Hero enters dramatic slow motion gun firing event, some number of bullets are used up*
*Other guards are alerted by the gunfire and come to the area*
*Hero must run, hide or shoot if bullets remain*

I think if your reload time was limited like that than the stealth aspect of a game could be emphasized while still keeping the ability to kill enemies. The thing is that if your gunfire alerts more enemies than you are discouraged from shooting. Killing just one room of baddies could lead to you hiding under a desk three feet from a badly shaven guard praying to whatever god you hold sacred that your shaky hands can load that stupid pistol before he smells you out.

Also, I would like to see a movie that had quicktime events. If the entire audience didn't press a button when commanded it would restart from the previous scene, and every time after your first fail you'd be given an electric shock.

 

[jackelbeaver]

Yahtzee should do more "Game Developer Fan-Fiction" it's the best.

 

[RTR]

I like the Kaiser Chiefs reference

 

[Tyrannowalefish_Rex]

I don't know the game, but why is he bashing the girl? She looks fine enough, I think. Not showing enough skin?

 

[EricKINGS]

"I do not advertise googling 'Wet Box' with the safe search off."

Note taken, I cant imagine the results.

Did u actually look it up?

 

[Liquid Paradox]

hmm... anybody else notice there are a strange number of probation-for-no-valid-reason's on the first page?

 

[SamuelT]

hmm... anybody else notice there are a strange number of probation-for-no-valid-reason's on the first page?

They commented before watching the full video, and have been probation-ed for commenting for the sake of commenting.

I think.

 

[Hookman]

Does this amount of suspensions happen on every ZP thread? I dont go on these threads very often. OT,I really didnt expect much from Wet,seemed to be really generic and boring.

 

[jackelbeaver]

She really has such a "man face."

 

[Aytasammich(theoriginal)]

"I like the way that most people haven't watched the video, yet are already commenting.

User was put on probation for this post."

You can be put on probation for noting that people are not doing the right thing?

Anyhow, just as I was getting bored of watching yahtzee reviews...he releases this weeks episode and I can stop re re watching his old ones. Can't they be daily? Couldn't be *that* hard...

Does this amount of suspensions happen on every ZP thread? I dont go on these threads very often. OT,I really didnt expect much from Wet,seemed to be really generic and boring.

Ha ha, yes. Yes it does.

 

[beema]

Yes! So glad you tore WET a new one. I played the demo and I thought it was the stupidest pile of garbage I've ever had the misfortune of playing. God, what an asinine over stylized piece of crap. Dead on with all your criticisms. Who the hell wants to play an entire game flying through the air in bullet time?
Probably the worst game ever associated with Bethesda. They need to check themselves.

Also, seriously developers, stop with the motherfucking quick-time events. They are the worst convention to hit video games ever. I hate them. HATE!

 

[vandimar77]

Yahtzee was pretty much spot on regarding his complaint that all the slow motion jumping through the air firing two guns gets old quickly. It really does; just like it did in Stranglehold. A game like Wet is the kind that you can play and really enjoy and get into for the first couple of hours, because it's mindless and fun, but then get bored of way before you reach the end simply due to it becoming mindless and repetitive.

You are encouraged by the game to go for the score mulitiplier icons and rack up the best kill combo over areas that are essentially stunt courses (this game did vaguely remind me of a kind of Tony Hawkes with shooting replacing the scateboarding element). There are also pretty badly designed platforming bits; and indeed it is often very difficult to see where is safe to jump to, particularly when Rubi goes into red,black and white psychovision mode.

Bit of a disappointment really.

 

[Darzen]

if i go through 1 more quicktime event thats just made to shorten gameplay i will shoot myself.

 

[hondo666]

ahahahahahahaha yahtzee you sick man wet box now your going to have nerds wacking it off evryday at real porn instead of hentai good video o and add me on xboxlive hers my gamertag widehondo

 

[Sethzard]

Yahtzee you should really think about reviewing ODST all the things you complained about are gone:
No Bloom (the graphics are usually dark)
No Schizophrenia (no horror from the flood this time around)
No "Pants on head retarded AI's" (you rarely encounter NPCs)

Read his extra punctuation on Scribblenauts. and most people think it is great and too popular, the reason that most people on here think that it isn't is because most people on here have an IQ higher that of the average neanderthal who plays it. Also, there is no bloom as the game is usually too dark and when you do meet an AI then they are just as dumb as those on Halo 3.

 

[In7ernal]

I really like your reviews but if you can do more reviews for PC Gamers like me it would be awsome ... Because I don't have the money to invest in any kind of console gaming

 

[Chunko]

Yahtzee you should really think about reviewing ODST all the things you complained about are gone:
No Bloom (the graphics are usually dark)
No Schizophrenia (no horror from the flood this time around)
No "Pants on head retarded AI's" (you rarely encounter NPCs)

Read his extra punctuation on Scribblenauts. and most people think it is great and too popular, the reason that most people on here think that it isn't is because most people on here have an IQ higher that of the average neanderthal who plays it. Also, there is no bloom as the game is usually too dark and when you do meet an AI then they are just as dumb as those on Halo 3.

My IQ is 142 (official testing not online)

 

[Sethzard]

Yahtzee you should really think about reviewing ODST all the things you complained about are gone:
No Bloom (the graphics are usually dark)
No Schizophrenia (no horror from the flood this time around)
No "Pants on head retarded AI's" (you rarely encounter NPCs)

Read his extra punctuation on Scribblenauts. and most people think it is great and too popular, the reason that most people on here think that it isn't is because most people on here have an IQ higher that of the average neanderthal who plays it. Also, there is no bloom as the game is usually too dark and when you do meet an AI then they are just as dumb as those on Halo 3.

My IQ is 142 (official testing not online)

I never said that you didn't, just i said the AVERAGE neanderthal, but as you didn't read that then it might me a good idea to get it redone or at least think before you reply.