I don't think that not being a Silent Hill game would solve the real issues the game has, those being the abysmal performance problems and terrible combat mechanics. There's a lot to like about the game, but the reception is to be expected for anyone that's played through it.
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I don't think that not being a Silent Hill game would solve the real issues the game has, those being the abysmal performance problems and terrible combat mechanics. There's a lot to like about the game, but the reception is to be expected for anyone that's played through it.
Carnby
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R_thanatos
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i think it would be better accepted it was a game on his own .. it would have been a nice attempt from a Dev team , not a poor adaptation of a franchise ..
Freeza Under The Shower
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next week: prototype 2, same response. Oh wait, now I spoiled that one. Dammit.
Downpour seems okay from ZP's description though.
RedAssedApe
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How does it affect the campaign? I didn't touch the multi-player once and I still got the Star Gazer ending.
It's not a poor take on the franchise, though. The game does its own thing for the most part, but it definitely feels like a Silent Hill game at its core.
With survival horror's decline in recent years, I don't think it would have faired any better as Murphy Pendelton's Halloween Spooktacular.
If you pick the destruction option with more than so and so many EMS (I forget the exact number, look it up on wikia) you get a two second clip of Shep gasping for air among rubble. In other words it's meaningless, don't bother if you don't care about the MP.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Wow.
Ninja Gaiden 3 monologue was amazing.
Ninja Gaiden 3 monologue was amazing.
Eh, his reviews are hard to read sometimes. That Duke review made it seem decent but he still pocked it for 2nd worst game.
R_thanatos
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i'm not disagreeing with that part ..it's how it felt to the "fans" after so many turds
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Criminal Upper
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Wow, the ZP thread has remained bumped for more than 12 hours.
Gotta be some kinda record.
Gotta be some kinda record.
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Nah, gets bumped for a week when he reviews Mario games.
Oh my, can't wait to get back home and watch it.
To be fair, when did he ever like a Nintendo game recently?
Yeah, totally.
Criminal Upper
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Only way he would ever consider giving any Nintendo game a fair shake is if it was made by Valve, and had no Nintendo characters in it.
So a Valve game? =P
Exterminieren
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He likes Super Mario Galaxy, you know.
Odd opening.
Then again it may have just been me, never really thought the man had a problem with Nintendo so much as his own jokes about Nintendo got stale so the Nintendo based reviews tended to be more boring then the rest of his content.
IT was just the Wii controls/Overuse stick ran out of juice a few years ago.
All that said I enjoyed the review and while I actually like the banter between Pit and the goddess I couldn't bring myself to pass mission 6 because of the god awful controls.
Then again it may have just been me, never really thought the man had a problem with Nintendo so much as his own jokes about Nintendo got stale so the Nintendo based reviews tended to be more boring then the rest of his content.
IT was just the Wii controls/Overuse stick ran out of juice a few years ago.
All that said I enjoyed the review and while I actually like the banter between Pit and the goddess I couldn't bring myself to pass mission 6 because of the god awful controls.
He has actually liked a few Wii games. Had some postive things to say about No More Hereos, Silent Hill Shatterd Memories, and even Super Paper Mario.
So again, I just find the opening odd or the idea that someone would honestly say the man hates Nintendo simply because it's Nintendo games/consoles.
Gentleman Jack
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He likes almost all the Mario RPG games and I don't think he hated either Mario Galaxy. His vitriol is squarely aimed at the diminishing difficulty and copy/pasting going on between sequels. Most of this gets aimed at Zelda though, he hasn't really pooped on Mario.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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The Dutch Slayer
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FUCKING FUCK Escapist and your fucking player..... man It just does not work in 3 browsers I have tried to watch ZP but no luck .... :\
And with that Add on top its even more annoying.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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Press to play, have the ad pop up as a frame, then wait a long time, after about 30 seconds it will start playing.
Took me ages to get it on.
PhantomOfTheKnight
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Was expecting Xenoblade Chronicles (EDIT: or Asura's Wrath) this week, but I'm still happy. LOL @ Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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I decided to give the show in the ad a shot, it was fucking terrible.
Well, people usually refer to games actually developed specifically by Nintendo when making this assessment.
Didn't watch/notice the Super Paper Mario and SMG love, though, so it looks like I stand corrected. :X
The thing is, people who try to say their comment is comming from this type of stand point makes even less sense when talking about his feelings towards Wii products.
The amount of times he has railed on Wii and how third parties shouldn't have any games on is something you can at least raise an eyebrow over at least compared to the other side.
R_thanatos
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He didn't like valkyria chronicles ???
Lool i have to find this one to see the complains ( because they better be good )
Lool i have to find this one to see the complains ( because they better be good )
krameriffic
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Muddy menu-driven micromanagement motherfuckery.
R_thanatos
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Thank god i an micromanage in a srpg .. With a war going on ...i guess i dn't have to worry about finding that vid , now.
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Yes, he pooped on SM3DL and deservedly so.
FieryBalrog
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Wtf? SM3DL is amazing.
Yahtzee lives in Australia. If he had any intention of reviewing Xenoblade he would have done so last year.
I can break down the Zero Punctuation review handbook quite easily:
Step 1: Find a game that, for a variety of reasons, your average person would enjoy.
Step 2: Ignore those reasons (or twist them around), and carefully nitpick a handful of flaws, which nearly every game has.
Step 3: Oversimplify these problems, and then expound, making an otherwise good game sound awful in the process.
The two exceptions are when you are genuinely in love with a game, in which case you can give a rare positive review by largely ignoring the typical nitpicked flaws, or the even rarer case where a game has so few issues that there isn't enough to build a case against it.
I grew tired of his shtick a while ago.
Step 1: Find a game that, for a variety of reasons, your average person would enjoy.
Step 2: Ignore those reasons (or twist them around), and carefully nitpick a handful of flaws, which nearly every game has.
Step 3: Oversimplify these problems, and then expound, making an otherwise good game sound awful in the process.
The two exceptions are when you are genuinely in love with a game, in which case you can give a rare positive review by largely ignoring the typical nitpicked flaws, or the even rarer case where a game has so few issues that there isn't enough to build a case against it.
I grew tired of his shtick a while ago.
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Happens every time. When you can't rebut any of the reviewer's criticisms, you resort to making a personal attack on the reviewer himself through very general and incoherent statements.
I'm still wondering why people take him seriously.
I mean, it's a character, the only games he really likes are the game he can't found absolutely nothing to complain about.
At least that's how I get it.
And hey, he thinks the Gamecube controller is the best designed controller ever.
I mean, it's a character, the only games he really likes are the game he can't found absolutely nothing to complain about.
At least that's how I get it.
And hey, he thinks the Gamecube controller is the best designed controller ever.
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Because he doesn't show favoritism to "brands"?
jufonuk
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uprising ground controls aside (well until I messed around with them in the options) - they can take some getting used to. (if only they had an option for dual analog with CPP)
I really cannot fault uprising that much at all, the game has grown on me more and more after every play through..
I really cannot fault uprising that much at all, the game has grown on me more and more after every play through..