Zero Punctuation: Alan Wake

[Undead Dragon King]

Not a good review this week, IMHO. I didn't even chuckle.

Come on Yahtzee! Find a game that you can really take the piss out of for our viewing pleasure!

 

[Kapol]

Very funny review. I personally liked Alan Wake, but I agree with a lot of the problems that Yahtzee pointed out. For me, the FBI guy yelling various author's names was one of most annoying things. But I do wonder what difficulty he was playing on. Oh well, entertaining at least.

 

[RMcD94]

I laughed sooooooooooooooooooo hard.

 

[Artemus_Cain]

I really liked this game and It was nice to see a second opinion, but you didn't ***** about the worst part: the fucking vehicle sections and jumping controls!

I could take the samey and dragging combat, the annoying narration, and the awful lip synching (sp, because I can't sp for sh...it), but those AWFUL driving controls made me dent the wall with my controller in the last chapter, and the jumping was just retarded looking and lurched akwardly.

I really did like the story and the combat, even when it got repetitive and cluster-fucky, and the lighting engine was well done. So... I respectfully disagree. Still a bitchin' review.

 

[J40kfan15]

Loved the part about Stepen King.

Some of the product placement in the game though I found annoying.

 

[Monshroud]

I was wondering how Yahtzee was going to view this game. Sounds like the difficulty is dialed down for the mass-audience. Maybe I'll wait for it to drop to the 30 dollar range before buying it.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

I am surprised Yahtzee didn't mention Silent Hill once during this review. Same kind of foggy atmosphere, same kind of, "stuck in town by self" plot, same bad combat, isn't Alan Wake even made by some of the same people as Silent Hill?

 

[Neikun]

Well I'll be sure to get my friend to watch this before he opens his special edition version.

Slightly OT: Has anyone noticed that the site lags phenomenally when a new ZP goes up? Are there really that many people who stalk the site to watch the video precisely when it's posted? I'd like to see the numbers on the video's traffic for the first hour someday.

 

[solidstatemind]

Wow, this makes me interested to see the game in that weird "ooohh-gory-car-crash-but-I-can't-help-but-look" sorta way. I mean, atmosphere goes a long way for me, and maybe the fact that Yahtzee came as close to 'glowing praise' about that facet of the game than I've seen him do with any game in quite a while will mean that it'll save the game for me.

 

[Woodsey]

One of the funniest in ages - I agree on quite a few points too (although not as strongly), and I did like the game a lot.

The forest was used far too much though. It's virtually the only place you visit solidly for the first 3 chapters.

 

[TheGamerist]

I played a demo of the game, and from that I didn't want to buy it. Good to see that I didn't waste my money

 

[ProtoChimp]

OMG OMG OMG! YOU DIDN'T AGREE WITH MY OPINION SO YOU MUST BE WRONG SO I'M GOING TO SPAM YOUR INBOX UNTIL YOU ADMIT THE GAME IS AMAZING AND PERFECT AND GREAT AND *slapped very hard in the face* sorry about that. I liked the game but I undersatnd Yahtzee's complaints.

 

[Tommy T.]

Not really that good IMO.

Possibly because I really really want to play this game but M$ says no to us PC pricks.

 

[zombie711]

why does yahtzee put his video up late at the same time my internet is slow, ON THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL?

 

[Stilt-Man]

This is the first ZP I've watched that really made me laugh. Very entertaining -- well done!

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

This was a silly show this week especially the part about the end with the fat man in a clown costume running around the house. If it was my house he'd be dead on the ground when he touched the curtains.

 

[Orange Monkey]

Wow, first time I managed to finish a game before he reviewed it.
I guess i agree with him on some points, but It's still a lot more fun than he says, good music, the combat is only really simple on easy mode, and this is the first non-rpg game i've seen in awhile that had such a good plot and developed characters.

Not to mention Thanks to the almighty game gods for giving us a main character who isn't a testosterone feuled, absurdly proportioned, muscle-headed neanderthal.

 

[ssgt splatter]

It did sound like he liked it a little bit. Never been a fan of these types of games myself though but nice review anyway.