Zero Punctuation: Darksiders

[MonkeyPunch]

"...you look like you put on a magnetic leotard and fell into a saucepan cupboard..."
Hilarious!

Though, it's strange that even Yahtzee compares this game to WoW, when clearly WoW used an already well established art style itself.

 

[McShizzle]

Ooohwee! That was caustic. Loved it.

 

[sgtshock]

Best Yahtzee review in a while, he's funniest when he's got a good rage going.

Hopefully the bit at the beginning doesn't mean he's going to skip reviewing Mass Effect 2, though.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Ah, Yahtzee has gotten back into the swing of things

I dunno whether it was the "voice-alteration software" (read: COLD) from a few weeks back, but he seemed to be a bit out of it for the last few reviews

This one was back on top form. Well done, Mr. Croshaw

Also, when you complained War had no personality, I initially objected, as the only War I know is the one from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Then I realised you were talkin about the war IN-GAME

Ah, my foolish mistakes, eh?

 

[ssgt splatter]

Oh I'm going to enjoy watching all these games and see if they really are all rip-offs of eachother. Dante's Inferno however seems like it'll get an interesting review though.(going off the demo I've played like 20 times now)

 

[Skoldpadda]

I think that was one of the best ZPs Yahtzee's done in months, if not longer.
I guess I prefer the more traditional review formula of, "Synopsis, notable features, overall impression," but he does it quite well.
There were fewer tangents than usual, but it made the few, particularly the "I am a monster truck who walks like a man" thing all the more memorable.
Still, this seems like he was particularly inspired, or feeling quite on the ball at the time of making this review; sometimes one does just do something better than they usually do.

This.

His heart didn't really seem to be in a couple of recent episodes. But this had an honest are-you-fucking-kidding-me?!-vibe to it.

It was a delicious heartfelt rant. Good show, that man.

 

[DayDark]

That was hilarious! I don't know I thought yahtzee was getting a little below his standards, but this was really great!

love the part with the monster truck and the coral reef! xD

 

[VMerken]

Bought it on Xbox this saturday, played it a few hours on sunday, nearly finished it. Tearing is there, absolutely. Patch, maybe?

My personal downside to the game are the graphics, where the combination of World of Warcraft styled characters (not a fan of that style at all, good to hear Yahtzee agree on that one) and realistic backdrops feels like a bit of a "meh" mixed bag as a whole. God of War/Devil May Cry did much better there, maintaining the same style in geometry and cast consistently.

With that said, though, I enjoyed the few hours I had and plan to finish the remaining hour or so once my sudden passion for hardcore machine language coding has worn off.

 

[snowman6251]

Yeah he makes some good points. To be honest due to the oversimplified combat I thought the game was more like Zelda than God of War but yeah, its pretty derivative.

Should there be a sequel (and the ending really suggests there will be) I'd like more emphasis on Zelda style dungeons and less emphasis on combat since I found the dungeons to be the MUCH stronger sections of the game.

I also liked the worm boss.

 

[littlerudi08107]

Thank you for finally pointing out how overcomplicated character design has become. Character costumes have become so detailed it borders on the absurd!

 

[blackjaw1]

Watch out, Gabe from Penny Arcade might rage and yell at you for insulting his favorite artist who did the terrible art design for this game and question your credentials as a reviewer.

Also, I enjoyed the review very much. I wasn't really sure why there was so much hype over this game, to me it just looked like a WoW/Anime God of Legend of Zelda game. The portal thing is hilarious.

 

[anthony87]

venting out alot of frustrations over this game eh? understandable since it rips off so many games. heh heh, wait till you play bayonetta which i still don't understand why reviewers praised it so much for "originality" while calling darksiders derivative

What does Bayonetta rip off?

 

[Hat of Controversy]

Yeah, I heard that Joe Madureira did a lot of the art and designs for this.

He's a great illustrator, but he suffers from the same problem that a lot of great illustrators suffer from.

When he's drawing something else, applying his crazy style to someone elses idea (like Spider-man or the Incredible Hulk), then he's great!

BUT, when it comes time for him to do some design work of his own, it tends to suck. Yeah, he's good at making it look cool for a few single pictures, but just because something LOOKS cool doesn't necessarily make it a good design.

Mario doesn't necessarily look cool, and yet he's lasted ages. Heck, you could say that about almost every character that's actually been able to stand the test of time.

Eh, I had no interest in this game to begin with, and it sure was fun listening to Yahtzee tear it apart.

 

[Darzen]

i highly disagree with the most of what yahtzee said i still find this 1 hilarious...

 

[zahr]

People who think Space Marine art is good = told hard.

 

[GunStunt567]

I fear i may be textually mutilated on extra punctuation for this but i genuinely want to know:

Why are we reffering to these games as God of War clones? Bayonetta is being developed by the same guys who made Devil May Cry( a game about brutally killing angels and demons and harvesting their souls in an OTT manner and spending said souls on buying even more OTT combos and weapons) which came out BEFORE the first God of War. As far as I know the only thing God of War added to the mix was more focus on QTE's and thats hardly revolutionizing the formula....more like shitting in it

 

[ChaosGenesis]

Legend of Portal: God of Warcraft
Sounds like a pass on this game

 

[Captain Pancake]

Well, who is a manly game character?

Besides Captain Price, that is.

[sub]Don't mess with him, he's been on eastenders...[/sub]