luke-o Posted April 3, 2008 Report Posted April 3, 2008 This week: Army of Two I haven't played the game but I've not heard great things about it. Last weeks: Zack and Wiki Now this is a good game. Completeing one of the puzzles reminds me of the smugness I get when I crack a case on Phoenix Wright.
AntiLeaf33 Posted April 3, 2008 Report Posted April 3, 2008 Haven't watched a full review yet (I'm at work and I have no speakers) but the clips I've seen on X-Play have me interested at least. I'll give them a shot when I get home
AntiLeaf33 Posted April 4, 2008 Report Posted April 4, 2008 Started watching them yesterday and I got a kick out of them. Highly recomended
Ravenbomb Posted April 4, 2008 Report Posted April 4, 2008 I've been watching them pretty much constantly since I was linked to them. My favorites are Jericho, Guitar Hero 3, and the GDC Awards.
luke-o Posted April 9, 2008 Author Report Posted April 9, 2008 No More Heroes It took me a while to find, but here it is. We've talked about this a bit in the Wii thread, but I'd like to say that I really like NMH. The action is fun, the controls work well and overall it's a really nice detraction from all the mundane and boring games we get elsewhere (will the 360 release anything other than a shooting game?!) and Yathzee pretty much says everything I've said about the game in the review. Which is probably why I like him so much, we agree on A LOT of things. Speaking of his reviews, does anyone else find that because of the fast pace, you have to watch it twice just to get every point?
AndrewTS Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 Maybe only on one or two jokes, but mainly because of his accent or Brit/Aussie terms I don't understand. I'm about to watch the No More Heroes one. Perfect candidate for one of his reviews; a game I throughly enjoyed while being perfectly conscious of its many flaws. EDIT: so did he, apparently.
Sly Posted April 11, 2008 Report Posted April 11, 2008 You all are about a solid two months behind my friends and I on riding the Zero Punctuation bandwagon. I'd forgot the name of the site and was glad to see it mentioned here this morning.
Mike wanna be Posted April 11, 2008 Report Posted April 11, 2008 The full list of Zero Punctuations, for anyone who don't want to bother searching for it: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...zeropunctuation
luke-o Posted April 12, 2008 Author Report Posted April 12, 2008 You all are about a solid two months behind my friends and I on riding the Zero Punctuation bandwagon. I'd forgot the name of the site and was glad to see it mentioned here this morning. I actually started watching them around a month and a half ago after being refered to them when I was talking to a friend about AVGN.
AndrewTS Posted April 12, 2008 Report Posted April 12, 2008 You all are about a solid two months behind my friends and I on riding the Zero Punctuation bandwagon. I'd forgot the name of the site and was glad to see it mentioned here this morning. Knew about it since his very first video on The Escapist, actually...
Ravenbomb Posted April 13, 2008 Report Posted April 13, 2008 He has reviews of The Darkness and another game on his Fully Rambolmatic website that are pretty good.
luke-o Posted April 13, 2008 Author Report Posted April 13, 2008 The best thing on fullyrambolic is the letters from the Mushroom Kingdom.
luke-o Posted April 16, 2008 Author Report Posted April 16, 2008 Condemened 2 I really liked the first game, it was genuinly scary and part of what made it so scary was that you rarely found guns. What annoyed me with this one was the guns seemed more frequent and you could then holster them a point later in the game. ZP pretty much nails on the head, yet again, what I didn't like. But the point where I disliked the game was the level where you run around with big guns being protected by an army dude with another big gun. It just made me think, "this went from being different to every FPS to being exactly like every other FPS
KingPK Posted April 17, 2008 Report Posted April 17, 2008 Ah, "Indigo Prophecy Syndrome". A malady that many game designers should be aware of. That story just vomited all over itself after that chase scene with the cops (people who have played it should know exactly what I'm talking about).
fazzle Posted April 17, 2008 Report Posted April 17, 2008 The worst part of Indigo Prophecy isn't when the story falls to shit. It's when you realise that after all the hype about choice and consequences, only TWO fucking decisions in the whole game end up meaning ANYTHING.
KingPK Posted April 23, 2008 Report Posted April 23, 2008 This week: Super Smash Bros. Brawl You can almost see the bile dripping from the bottom of your monitor during this one.
Conspiracy_Victim Posted April 24, 2008 Report Posted April 24, 2008 This week: Super Smash Bros. Brawl You can almost see the bile dripping from the bottom of your monitor during this one. Wow. That MIGHT be his most venomous review yet. Most of the other ones he plays off for laughs but man, he really didn't like SSBB.
MarvinisaLunatic Posted April 24, 2008 Report Posted April 24, 2008 hes wrong on the part at the end about defending the console name = you'll like Brawl
luke-o Posted April 24, 2008 Author Report Posted April 24, 2008 Wow, we finally disagree on something.
Hawkius Maximus Posted April 24, 2008 Report Posted April 24, 2008 I get his complaints for Smash Brothers. I have a friend who hates the series, so it didn't really surprise me. He's 100% right about having to unlock Snake and Sonic though. Given how hard Nintendo's pushed them, they should have been defaults. Snake's easy to unlock but Sonic's a BITCH.
luke-o Posted April 25, 2008 Author Report Posted April 25, 2008 I disagree, the hype for them has been worthwhile, but something as huge as those two charcters should warrent unlocking.
haws bah gawd Posted April 25, 2008 Report Posted April 25, 2008 I agree with the SSBB review 100%. I've tried a few times to play this in Gamestop only to find that the camera in some levels is pulled so far back that I can barely see anything my character is doing. Another random complaint of mine occurs during whichever of the levels has the long b ridge in it, and not a lot else. I was playing in that level and one of the characters I was fighting decided to throw a bomb or something that destroyed most of the bridge, causing me to fall through. No big deal, except for the fact that it was such a wide gap, that everytime my character respawned, I respawned directly over the gap, and fell to my death each time. Just a glitch I know, but it was still no less annoying.
The Man in Blak Posted April 25, 2008 Report Posted April 25, 2008 I'm very curious to see how his reviews progress into the future, now that he's a contributing editor for a major gaming magazine (PC Gamer). He's been able to proceed with scathing (and startlingly accurate) commentary in Zero Punctuation because he hasn't had to worry about maintaining any professional relationships with game studios...he hasn't had to worry about any repercussions from pissing anybody off before now.
Sly Posted April 26, 2008 Report Posted April 26, 2008 Hmm... all though they did remove the blurb from the video page saying that he worked for PC Gamer as well. ... or maybe I've gone completely off tit.
luke-o Posted May 1, 2008 Author Report Posted May 1, 2008 Sorry it's late, I've been filming a horror film in the woods of Banbury. God of War: Olympus Something on PSP I'll be honest, I've never played a God of War game, but I have a big distain for 3rd person action adventure games so I'd probably hate it.
KingPK Posted May 7, 2008 Report Posted May 7, 2008 This week, Yahtzee reads his e-mail regarding the SSBB video.
luke-o Posted May 7, 2008 Author Report Posted May 7, 2008 I was just about to post this! It's pretty good, I like it when he insults fanboys. And I knew the backlash would be pretty bad from his review on SSBB. To be honest, the complaints he got were by and large retarded.
Conspiracy_Victim Posted May 14, 2008 Report Posted May 14, 2008 Back to regular reviews this week, and it is much less venomous. GTA IV
KingPK Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 He hits on a lot of the issues I have with the game: the whole "relationship" system does get kind of tedious once you unlock all the islands and have to drive all the way from Alderney to the first island if, say, Brucie wants to go out. Now I either phone up Roman for the free cab or just hail one myself.
luke-o Posted May 15, 2008 Author Report Posted May 15, 2008 Decent review, but I've never been a fan of the GTA series so I can't really comment on it.
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