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It is true but I still like <Beatles Rock Band and Guitar Hero V>
 
Yahtzee's been going downhill ever since I put my dick in my own ass.
 
.... along with everything else, I should imagine
 
Rock Band and GH seems to be going downhill now. Last good game was Metallica.
 
I liked the *insert the joke that everyone else also liked here*
 
The last bit was hilarious. "Pressing colored buttons from the extra long instruction sheet for retards."
 
It is true but I still like ace combat 4
 
For anyone else interested in that game, check out Giant Bomb's quick-look on it. There's some seriously janky stuff going on in that game sometimes.
 
Giant bomb was completely unfair to the game. They make fun of Darkest of Days for shit that 90% of first person shooters have.

The AI isnt revolutionary, but its not terrible either. I dont know where people are seeing this. And the level design is fine, it just has invisible walls to keep you in the action.
 
Krynn72 said:
The AI isnt revolutionary, but its not terrible either. I dont know where people are seeing this. And the level design is fine, it just has invisible walls to keep you in the action.
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Good level design does not need invisible walls. To be shown a wide path through some trees, then be stopped mid walk by a barrier consisting of thin air is really terrible level design. I mean, at least try to mask the fact the game is linear.

Also, I would say that AI that stands and looks at me without firing while I pepper his mate stood next to him with bullets is quite bad AI.
 
That never really happened to me ever, unless they were reloading a musket which takes a long time. And how else are you going to have semi-open areas in any civil war battlefield? I'd rather they spend their limited time on other things than putting up odd and out of place hedges and fences just to hide something so stupid. What difference does it make if you just stop moving versus a random fence you can't jump over like in other games? Or maybe they should just kill you for going out too far like in other games? How come nobody rags on those games for doing essentially the same damn thing?
 
Krynn72 said:
That never really happened to me ever, unless they were reloading a musket which takes a long time.
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Well, it happened to me a few times in the first Civil War battle alone, and they weren't reloading


Krynn72 said:
And how else are you going to have semi-open areas in any civil war battlefield?
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With a decent open map ala Crysis or Arma. Those games manage to keep linear objective paths in a convincing open world with no invisible borders.

Krynn72 said:
I'd rather they spend their limited time on other things than putting up odd and out of place hedges and fences just to hide something so stupid.
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Which would be all well and good if they had spend their time making any of the game features anything other than barely passable. AI, model work, optimisation, mission structure and Voice work are all amazingly bad or sub-par for a game with the same price tag as big budget AAA titles.

Krynn72 said:
What difference does it make if you just stop moving versus a random fence you can't jump over like in other games? Or maybe they should just kill you for going out too far like in other games? How come nobody rags on those games for doing essentially the same damn thing?
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Because in most games like this there is some reason why you can't leave the area tied into the story, and I'd even take a waist high fence that games such as COW:BiB offer over some inexplicable sudden invisible forcefield erected in my path.

The game is simply bad when compared to other games in the same price bracket. If this had been priced as a budget title as it should have been some things it does wrong could be forgiven. As a full price title however it's an insult.
 
Ok, fair enough. Once you bring in the price argument, I can see where you're coming from. I certainly agree that it was much too expensive. I've recommended to several people to buy it when it hits 20-25 bucks.

Also, just for the record, have you played the full game?
 
Krynn72 said:
Ok, fair enough. Once you bring in the price argument, I can see where you're coming from. I certainly agree that it was much too expensive. I've recommended to several people to buy it when it hits 20-25 bucks.

Also, just for the record, have you played the full game?
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Yeah, though I didn't play far enough to get the future weapons. Got a pit pissed off when PhysX slowed the game down so much. PhysX needs to either be far better optimised or die and let Havok take over.
 
I feel like he completely missed the point of Scribblenauts.
 
Well no shit, it's Yahtzee. The laws of the universe dictate he can't have fun with video games.
 
I think that was a much-needed review, it points out the fact that a lot of the hype for this game was gimmick-based when you look at it fairly.
 
I was disappointed once I found out there were absolutely NO COPYRIGHTED TERMS, which meant a lot of what could have been possible was shunned.

Such as a Master Chief v Gordon Freeman battal.
 
I wonder how Yahtzee feels about having that shitty Halo ODST commercial before his show.
 
TollBooth Willie said:
Well no shit, it's Yahtzee. The laws of the universe dictate he can't have fun with video games.
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He enjoyed Batman. Honestly I love how negative he is, it usually makes me laugh. But lately his arguments have seemed incredibly invalid and just devoid of any basis.

Vegeta897 said:
I think that was a much-needed review, it points out the fact that a lot of the hype for this game was gimmick-based when you look at it fairly.
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You must be new here. Look at the world, son, 90% of the shit available is gimmick-based.

Also I'd argue that original gameplay =/= gimmick.
 
Let's just agree to call it gimmick gameplay.
 
NO LET'S DO IT MY WAY.

We could, however, agree to call Yahtzee a tool.
 
Ok - does anyone else have the problem that whenever they try and view ZP that they disconnect from the internet?
Doesn't happen with any other Escapist videos, just ZP. It'll load maybe the first 30 seconds and then the connection to the 'net cuts out.

Happens on Chrome, IE and Firefox - all with pretty relaxed security measures.

Any ideas?
 
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