Zero Punctuation: Duke Nukem Forever (for real this time)

[esliang]

Surprisingly tame, considering the subject matter. I'm personally just bummed that this game wasn't at least decent: realistic shooters are only fun for so long.

 

[Extragorey]

...Well to be honest, the only Duke Nukem game I've played is Manhattan Project (an action/platformer) so I really don't know what the game is supposed to be like. Trailers look a bit... Eh.
Good video though; one of the funniest in recent times.

 

[cameron196789]

Wow, at the moment this game doesn't even seem like its worth it, even if you got it for free.

 

[Helscreama]

Cool, but now that the obligatory DNF review is out of the way can you do Alice?

I'm voting yes for this!!!

 

[ragestreet]

First! It's funny because I'm not.

 

[daxterx2005]

Its a shame no one likes this game, but hey with nearly 15 years of development time its hard to live up to that kind of hype

 

[Kenji_03]

I think this was pretty well done. Yahtzee did a pretty good self critique here.

 

[Owlslayer]

Hell, i still want to have a go at the game just to see it myself.
But i wasn't expecting this review to be like this, i was expecting him tearing DNF apart so furiously like Yahtzee's never done before. But instead, it felt... weird. But it was ok, and pretty funny. So, i guess it was well done.

 

[excessum ado]

That ending analogy is quite possibly the funniest line of ZP dialogue ever.

 

[Toriver]

Whoa, Yahtzee actually didn't tear this game apart, and as others pointed out, was actually NICER to it than other reviewers. He even admitted that he wanted to like this game. Maybe he was trying a bit too hard to like it...

 

[Slogger]

Oh Yahtzee, Your so dadlike.

[snip]Also, I think it would've been cool if they used Yahtzee's storyline from the joke review (a broken and jaded Duke hiding under the alias "Vladimir Lestrade" etc). All in all, still a fun game, worth renting or playing the demo if nothing else.

Interesting that you brought this up, I went back and watched the old DNF review after watching the new one (As I bet most of you all did) and in the context I found that the Phoney one was much more funnier now that the game actually exists.

YMMV.

 

[Danzavare]

Wow, this seems to be the first game to cause such widespread depression for both Yahtzee and the followers of ZP. The review was good, but it looks like some part of him died while doing it.

 

[puffenstuff]

I've must have been watching WAY too many episodes of ZP, because I could notice something odd in Yahtzee's voice. People! He was SAD! As in really emotionally depressed. This time I really think he was not just doing his job of bashing at games (in the name of improvment, of course), no. He was mourning.

I mean, it's not like he has no reason to. This was supposed to be the "Lighting shuriken/ tits on fire" combo he(we) was(were) hoping for.

Let's all make a minute of silence, in name of what DNF could have been... before we conform and slap some walltits

This explains so much. I was thinking that Yahtzee was kind of pulling his punches on this one. Compared to some reviewers (Escapist [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/8949-Duke-Nukem-Forever-Review] and Ars Technica [http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/06/duke-nukem-forever-review-barely-playable-unfunny-and-rampantly-offensive.ars] in particular) he was downright kind. When Russ Pits refuses to make a serious video supplement and Yahtzee can't bring himself to teardown a game, something has gone horribly wrong.

Now I'm sad, and I always expected the game to be shit.

 

[CrawlingPastaHellion]

Cool, but now that the obligatory DNF review is out of the way can you do Alice?

I'm voting yes for this!!!

Nice, Alice's finally out. Gotta play this a.s.a.p.

Yeah, now it is apparent that Sam the Serious is the real heir to the king's throne.

 

[Siege_TF]

I just finished playing about 3/4ths of it and found it to be quite enjoyable. "Oh no, tits! Swear words! Alien orificies!" How ironic that the people focusing on these things are the ones who need to grow up. The real shortcomings are more that it's completely linear and has next to no replay value. The variety of weapons isn't great either, but then again it's not bad. That bit in the middle with the human centipede spliced in changes the pace nicely in a game that would have gotten stale like so very many brown shooters.

It reminds me of Moviebob's review of Green lantern; Green Lantern spends most of the movie looking lost, like he's in over his head. That's kind of like Batman spending the movie looking grim and brooding, isn't it?

 

[matt87_50]

I don't think this review was worth the wait.

 

[Giest4life]

For the first time--I think--our boy Yahtzee showed some emotion there. I felt a tinge of bitter sadness and acute disappointment from the review rather than frothing rage at the Game. But this settles it for me, I wasn't swayed either way by other reviewers (even on this site), I'll save my $49.99 for charity...just kidding, I'll just wait till MW3.

 

[Mister Linton]

He wasn't that hard on it... he must be afraid that The Render Group won't send him anymore pre-release copies-- oh, wait...

 

[Gigano]

Having played and enjoyed Duke Nukem 3D in its time, I had some interest in this; but seeing the whole "slap tits on wall" thing mentioned somewhere kind of sunk it, and the review only confirms that it's much too disjointed and messy to be saved even by nostalgia.

...Guess I'll simply buy Duke Nukem 3D again, see if it can hold up these days.