What Yahtzee will hate in: Mass Effect 2
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Yahtzee's videos are purely for entertainment value (I absolutely laugh my ass off watching his videos). Yahtzee picks apart the bad aspects of games and goes to extreme extents to make fun of them. If a game is truly bad, Yahtzee will tell us. If it is truly good he will also tell us (just in a more subtle manner). Clearly though this is the subjective view of an RPG-hating man who dwells more on the bad parts of the game (because that's what makes his videos entertaining). Hopefully when you want to buy a game, you go to a video game review website (1UP, IGN, Gamespot, Metacritic (for combined reviews), etc.). We come to escapist to well...escape from those type of reviews in a get a laugh from Yahtzee's creative outlook on games.
ME2 is less RPG and more Shooter so maybe Yahtzee will hate this one less (as already stated)
ME2 is less RPG and more Shooter so maybe Yahtzee will hate this one less (as already stated)
why does everyone get the sense that he hates EVERYTHING
he has the stuff he likes more and stuff he likes less, just like every gamer has genres they like and dont like
and he makes it pretty clear that in his critics he usually tends to stress out the negetive because thats what he usually does best (and because its what people actaully LIKE)
but he very clearly DOESN'T hate everything
he hates formulaic crap that simply apes what's popular and doesn't even try to innovate anything
he hates the tendency of "realistic" games to forget that the real world has other colors then brown in it
he hates certain tropes in games that he feels developers keep getting wrong (like thinking that "strong action girls" = "psychotic bitches", for example)
and of course he hates QTE's which i generally agree with, since they are usually inputed very poorly and randomly and usually end up like a cutscene that the player doesn't get to enjoy watching because they keep having to wait for the fucking button to show up (by contrast, i LOVE the ME2 QTE conversation function)
he doesn't hate everything
if he really DID hate everything, he wouldn't be a gamer
he has the stuff he likes more and stuff he likes less, just like every gamer has genres they like and dont like
and he makes it pretty clear that in his critics he usually tends to stress out the negetive because thats what he usually does best (and because its what people actaully LIKE)
but he very clearly DOESN'T hate everything
he hates formulaic crap that simply apes what's popular and doesn't even try to innovate anything
he hates the tendency of "realistic" games to forget that the real world has other colors then brown in it
he hates certain tropes in games that he feels developers keep getting wrong (like thinking that "strong action girls" = "psychotic bitches", for example)
and of course he hates QTE's which i generally agree with, since they are usually inputed very poorly and randomly and usually end up like a cutscene that the player doesn't get to enjoy watching because they keep having to wait for the fucking button to show up (by contrast, i LOVE the ME2 QTE conversation function)
he doesn't hate everything
if he really DID hate everything, he wouldn't be a gamer
Your friends and experience lie.SirusTheMadDJ said:
If you don't get people loyal your going to face a ton of death.
Disapointed bout the lack of nudity. And the lack of girl on girl action, oh well back to the internet (Im only mentioning this because you have to go through hours of boring conversation to see if anything happens)
1: The fact that this is a sequel, which in and of itself is a bad thing
2: The fact that this is more similar to Gears of Chest-high Walls than Mass Effect 1
3: Scanning, if he even bothers with it, considering he pretty much ignored half of ME1, and scanning is not needed until the endgame, where your spaceship gets blown up because it sucked due to insufficient grind-a-licious micromanagement of ship upgrades.
4: That the game is so obviously now a PART of a bigger story, where you are required to have completed and KEPT your ME1 saves in order to get any semblance of coherence, and get a sense of continuation. In the default "New game" set-up, ME1 Shepard seemed to demonstrate an utter inability to make decisions, ignored 80% of the world, made no real friends (or enemies), and pretty much had a 0 rating in both Paragon and Renegade.
5: The lack of ME1's depth, and a real antagonist. Seriously, the lack of a proper personality in the villain (Harbinger is definitely no Sovereign) and the sheer number of times you wail on his directly controlled puppets made me feel more like I was playing the part of an intergalactic bug-exterminator rather than saving humanity.
6: Streamlining through the use of a steamroller. No longer able to customize characters beyond the 2-3 guns, and each party member except Shepard is limited to 3 active and one passive powers. Gone is the need to keep a diverse crew beyond padding your own powers (bring someone to take down shields if you are biotic, or someone to take down barriers if you are a techie). Just grab the guys with the best meat-shield potential and go.
7: Combat being more predictable than the sunrise.
He might give the whole moral choice thing a little bit of credit, since paragon and renegade aren't as utterly cartoon-like as they tend to be.
2: The fact that this is more similar to Gears of Chest-high Walls than Mass Effect 1
3: Scanning, if he even bothers with it, considering he pretty much ignored half of ME1, and scanning is not needed until the endgame, where your spaceship gets blown up because it sucked due to insufficient grind-a-licious micromanagement of ship upgrades.
4: That the game is so obviously now a PART of a bigger story, where you are required to have completed and KEPT your ME1 saves in order to get any semblance of coherence, and get a sense of continuation. In the default "New game" set-up, ME1 Shepard seemed to demonstrate an utter inability to make decisions, ignored 80% of the world, made no real friends (or enemies), and pretty much had a 0 rating in both Paragon and Renegade.
5: The lack of ME1's depth, and a real antagonist. Seriously, the lack of a proper personality in the villain (Harbinger is definitely no Sovereign) and the sheer number of times you wail on his directly controlled puppets made me feel more like I was playing the part of an intergalactic bug-exterminator rather than saving humanity.
6: Streamlining through the use of a steamroller. No longer able to customize characters beyond the 2-3 guns, and each party member except Shepard is limited to 3 active and one passive powers. Gone is the need to keep a diverse crew beyond padding your own powers (bring someone to take down shields if you are biotic, or someone to take down barriers if you are a techie). Just grab the guys with the best meat-shield potential and go.
7: Combat being more predictable than the sunrise.
He might give the whole moral choice thing a little bit of credit, since paragon and renegade aren't as utterly cartoon-like as they tend to be.
He hates everything and everyone--just to varying degrees. That being said, I think he'll be kinder to it than, say, Darksiders.
One of two things will happen.
He'll make fun of the game and people will misconstrue it as 'Yahtzee hates everything' or he'll point out some good stuff and people will rag on him for not being his hateful self.
No wonder he hates his fantards.
He'll make fun of the game and people will misconstrue it as 'Yahtzee hates everything' or he'll point out some good stuff and people will rag on him for not being his hateful self.
No wonder he hates his fantards.
Joke how so? How many people ***** and whine whenever he dares to say that he might, possibly, if the sun, moon, and planets where all lined up in the month of June like a game?Adrimor said:
And Mass Effect 2 is an RPG/TPS (Third-PS, not FPS) hybrid. Like Mass Effect 1, minus most of the crap bits.
I would wadger he will hate:
The fact though you can have supposedly "shades of grey" it is ultimately paragon or renegade and if talk nicely to someone and then just shoot them in the face you come across as a complete maniac, yet still will get some paragon points. *spoiler* for the interrogation scene, I accidentally told Thane to do his best Jack Bauer impression, then tried to correct it by playing the paragon option, then when it was clear this wouldnt work I triggered the renegade QTE and shoved a gun at his head. Confusing!
Which brings me to my second point - QTEs, you really have to be on the ball for these ones, particularly the paragon, too slow and boom he gets blown away (you know what I mean)
You also stand ramrod stiff, even though some other characters have become more lucy-goosy
That in saving the galaxy, no matter how diabolocially ugly you make shepard you can still sucessfully "bone silly" (Yahtzee, Zero Punctuation, "Bayonetta") one of the female characters.
Finally the mechanical nature of the "being prepared" concept. Basically you have to deal with each characters' sob story, or they will be too loaded down with baggage to shoot straight in the final sequence.
I have more but I can see you are glazing over
Despite this, I love Mass Effect, it is one of my favourite franchises and I will be preordering Mass Effect 3 as soon as I can, is there a greater compliment?
The fact though you can have supposedly "shades of grey" it is ultimately paragon or renegade and if talk nicely to someone and then just shoot them in the face you come across as a complete maniac, yet still will get some paragon points. *spoiler* for the interrogation scene, I accidentally told Thane to do his best Jack Bauer impression, then tried to correct it by playing the paragon option, then when it was clear this wouldnt work I triggered the renegade QTE and shoved a gun at his head. Confusing!
Which brings me to my second point - QTEs, you really have to be on the ball for these ones, particularly the paragon, too slow and boom he gets blown away (you know what I mean)
You also stand ramrod stiff, even though some other characters have become more lucy-goosy
That in saving the galaxy, no matter how diabolocially ugly you make shepard you can still sucessfully "bone silly" (Yahtzee, Zero Punctuation, "Bayonetta") one of the female characters.
Finally the mechanical nature of the "being prepared" concept. Basically you have to deal with each characters' sob story, or they will be too loaded down with baggage to shoot straight in the final sequence.
I have more but I can see you are glazing over
Despite this, I love Mass Effect, it is one of my favourite franchises and I will be preordering Mass Effect 3 as soon as I can, is there a greater compliment?
He's going to rip it to shreds for being a consolized shadow of it's former self.
-There are no more open environments. The game now feels like a series of half-life maps.
-The story is short (build a team. get a piece to go through a portal. go through portal and beat end boss. the end.) I need more twists and turns.
-There aren't nearly as many sidequests
-You spend all the combat sequences behind or frantically looking for, waist high walls. Gears of war syndrome.
-There are no more open environments. The game now feels like a series of half-life maps.
-The story is short (build a team. get a piece to go through a portal. go through portal and beat end boss. the end.) I need more twists and turns.
-There aren't nearly as many sidequests
-You spend all the combat sequences behind or frantically looking for, waist high walls. Gears of war syndrome.