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The Zero Punctuation Thread
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
That was awesomeAndrex said:
Para bailar La Bomba
Banned
Edit: Pft.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Hope he gets to SR3 next week.
ThatObviousUser
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One of his funniest in a while. Yahtzee vs. Uncharted is always good for comedy.
Uno Venova
Banned
That was hilarious, especially when he covered why Drake is a treasure hunter.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Zero-Crescent said:
One of the funniest ones in a while. I really liked how he talked about the aspects they bring up in the game and never answer.
Lostconfused
Member
Next week Skyrim? Boo, who cares, give us the third street saints.
ThatObviousUser
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Sort of refreshing to have a new Vs. video after all this time.
"But I'm still giving this one to Modern Warfare, because whatever the strong points of Battlefield's plot it was mostly ripped off from Call of Duty games so Modern Warfare basically gets the prize either way."
Lol.
"But I'm still giving this one to Modern Warfare, because whatever the strong points of Battlefield's plot it was mostly ripped off from Call of Duty games so Modern Warfare basically gets the prize either way."
Lol.
He is right though. The "biggest" part of the industry is that kind of game. Which is a shame because they're mostly the same. And the bad kind of same.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Enosh
Member
well whatever makes you happy, reality is overrated anyway
lulz, This was good even better than last week,like it when Yahtzee is good, and yeah both SP for both games are crap.
I hope he do Saints Row after Skyrim.
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
"Multiplayer! ...
AS IF"
I laughed out loud at that one.
AS IF"
I laughed out loud at that one.
The Hermit
Member
Para bailar La Bomba
Banned
Can't wait for Call of Duty: Anglo-Zanzibar War
R_thanatos
Member
i laughed too , but whatever he said about that part , people would disagree with him ..so it was more of a safe path , than anything else , IMO
ThatObviousUser
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Not terribly funny or interesting unfortunately.
ThatObviousUser
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Agreed. He spent half the review on balance issues.
Lostconfused
Member
Boring as you would expect from a review of a game that isn't Saints Row.
Oh this'll be fun hahah.
Just when I thought I'd finally be on the same page as Yahtzee he disappoints me again.
It's just weird that he hated it, The Third was kinda made completely based on his SR2 reviews, everything he wanted and said in that review The Third did (like play as famous super villain that the justice try to hunt, no filler or forced activity..ect)yet he disliked.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The key point of his review is that wackiness loses impact when its not juxtaposed with a more realistic grounding.
Hellsing321
Member
Which I have to disagree with because Saints Row continually finds ways to top itself in the wackiness department.
I don't want to make it sound like an accusation by any means, but Yahtzee notoriously doesn't finish a number of games he reviews. This review kind of had me wondering how far he actually got in the game because it doesn't really seem like he has much of any substance to say beyond the early sections of the game.
Like...obsessing over the character creator.
honestly I never thought SR2 has any "realistic ground" to begin with.
I only agree with Yahtzee here on the dumped down customizations ( like different character animations too) and the city is boring compared to Neo Stillwater, and I also think the game missed few thing like more activities like Fuzz, Racing..ect ( then again he focus on these more than the game missions or how good the gunplay and driving over SR2 and what you can actually do)
But Should The Third have more "filler" in and during the missions like what he wanted? I don't think so, should it lock the weapons and vehicles from you till late in the game? No , should have more realistic weight and less craziness for us to "appreciate" a tiny wacky moment ? Fuck no.
And also The Third's missions launcher should be a standard in these GTA style open world,you click that an you are in the mission,the open everything from the get go ( weapons ,area and vehicles) should also be a standard in these open world.
ThatObviousUser
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Sort of a weak review, he must have a rule where he can't praise a game as well as its sequel. Most of the review was picking at one very small nit.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Ha ha, just seeing the link I thought to myself, "He loved SR2 so he'll find some reason to hate SR3."
And he's spot on.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Did he do the same thing to Portal 2?
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
I agree with him in some parts and disagree in others. But I do agree that while this game is good, it completely fails to live up to its predecessor.
Some of the pacing concerns are a bit odd, since for as much as you get big stuff early on, you get even BIGGER stuff later. Also, the activities do have an introductory mission -- it's part of the main story, though, and if you go directly to the activities rather than letting the game lead you into them, you miss that introduction.
ThatObviousUser
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Sort of, but to a lesser degree. Arkham City, too.
R_thanatos
Member
how can i disagree more ...
I'm sorry but i really won't play any open world game that give me everything from the start
-huge map where you can get lost because you don't know your surrondings ?
-No way to try each power/weapon properly ( because you have all of them from the start ) ..so you don't learn how to use a weapon properly....some weapon might have uses in spécific situations taht you wouldn't know since you never tried them before.
-no sense of accomplishement ( because you don't unlock anything )
Doing that will render the open world games NULL and VOID
This.
While I think he exaggerated a little bit, he is right about it. Having everything available from the get go is a bad thing
You don't have everything from the get-go, in fact, just a lot of stuff. As crazy as predator drones are, they're kind of tame compared to the airstrike ability you get later on in the game. The only reason you'd complain that SR3 gives you everything from the get-go is because you don't know what everything is.
There are things to complain about in SR3, but I really don't think pacing is one of them.
(Also, you do have the entire city unlocked from the beginning, but with the GPS systems these games have it's not like you can get lost at all, so that's a non-issue.)
Completely agree man, seriously.
BUT:
I think it's a matter of style, really.
Saint's Row it's all about superficial and "easy" fun, so it make sense to have everything(or almost everything) unlocked from the get go.
Maybe a more paced and "deep" game, like a RDR, that is more based on the experience and the role play, maybe there is more sense in unlocking stuff with certain pace, as you go along, in that one.
So i think that having everything from the start, is a good thing for Saint's Row, for its nature, but it's not necessarily a good thing for every open world game.
Also, i don't really take Yahtzee reviews too seriously, i just watch them for the laughs (although this one was rather weak in general).
IndieJones
Member
I had a blast with Saints Row 3 - it's tied for my GOTY - but he is correct on all points.
Rubbish. He is spot on. Sure, your weapons grow stronger with VTOLs and Jetbikes in the end, but it's not like a Saints Crusader doesn't do the job properly. You don't even need other guns apart from the dual wield magnums. Disguising acitivities as missions was another folly attempt, as is the entire beginning where everything is so wacky that the other 70% of the game fails to make any sort of impact.
Sensory overload is at the heart of this game, and the pacing of the entire thing is hurting because of it.
Sensory overload is at the heart of this game, and the pacing of the entire thing is hurting because of it.