Zero Punctuation: Eve Online

[geldonyetich]

...The funny thing is, he actually defended it!! how do I get him off it for God's sake??

I wouldn't be too quick to get him off EVE Online. It may not be a great game in terms of actual gameplay quality, but it amuses from an external virtual community standpoint.

More importantly, you level-up in EVE Online at the same rate whether you're online or off. You might pry your significant other off EVE Online, but if he starts playing another MMORPG where all the leveling happens online, there'll be significantly less time for romance.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

Hah, that's exactly what I thought about EVE.

 

[DanRSL]

I feel this was a much better video than others you have produced recently. Definately because it focuses on the game, the whole reason for the game review anyway, and keeps it as the main subject rather than a stab at marketing/online social interactions/gaming theory. Which I am glad about and also disappointed with at the same time.

Because I have seen you tackle gaming theory, but unfortunately I don't think there is much room for comedy in that field. A comedic open mind, yes, but not comedy itself. Take for example the recent Soul Calibur review. I could certainly explain why people enjoy and continue to buy and play fighting games, its actually very easy to grasp and completely free of cynicism, but that's the boring stuff of University nerds, not the fun Python-bred nerds.

So what I am saying is - good job. Keep on about the games, not theory. Because theory just isn't funny since there IS an explanation to every punchline, and when you disarm the punchline, comedy falls apart.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Great review, rubbish intro.

 

[Aries_Split]

Why does he insist on reviewing old stuff instead of stuff like Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty?

That game was everything I wanted out of a short and sweet PSN game.

and more.

 

[keyton777]

Why does he insist on reviewing old stuff instead of stuff like Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty?

simple my friend, most of the new stuff is crap, and there is an ocean of old crap to sift thru

 

[wolfeman42]

After watching someone play this game and have them explain it to me, this review hits it spot on. Yes, MMORPGs are work, but this game makes it seem like slavery. I would be paying to turn my computer off and walk away so I could level up? I would have to be a nerd who has penis envy (in which case I make up for it with a high level) or a complete idiot to go for that.

 

[keyton777]

...The funny thing is, he actually defended it!! how do I get him off it for God's sake??

I wouldn't be too quick to get him off EVE Online. It may not be a great game in terms of actual gameplay quality, but it amuses from an external virtual community standpoint.

More importantly, you level-up in EVE Online at the same rate whether you're online or off. You might pry your significant other off EVE Online, but if he starts playing another MMORPG where all the leveling happens online, there'll be significantly less time for romance.

are you kidding me?! as far as i can tell EVE is a free time death trap, you go in and you spend more time in teh staions fiddling with stats, i question that BF of hers in picking video games over beign with ur GF or any significant other person

 

[keyton777]

Great review, rubbish intro.

befor you guys ask or do the same to me i just found the quote thing on the....things

and i agree with him the intros were better befor the rock thing came along

 

[Katana314]

I liked the concept of EVE when I played the trial, but everything he said in the review is pretty much true. If I had to whine like a "what nerds are to nerds" though, I would say that Yahtzee was a little out of it to think that simple combat was the main focus. Heck, I bet you could take it out of the game entirely and you'd still have a pretty neat package.

 

[Rockdrake]

I can't tell whether PvP is broken or really good in this game because I see interceptors take out battleships within an hours span.

 

[icefox77]

Wow, I have never seen anything like that before. I get that interceptors are tough to track, but a battleship? I have 3 interceptors, only one is armed with anything. Sounds like another UFO Jove sighting to me (eve nerd joke).

 

[Aconite333]

[NSFW]

Too lazy to read all of this, but for anyone who wanted the "delightful porn" mentioned in the video go here: "http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Yahtzee".

Scroll about halfway down the page and-BAM!-there it is on the right.

[/NSFW]

 

[snark]

I wasn't looking forward to another MMO review but this one made me laugh. Well done as always.

 

[carsenere]

i love eve but i have to agree with most of what is said in this vid especially the part about one decent alien rece would make it so much better

also you did not tell us your user name and race so we can find you and kill you

 

[Gahars]

Another great episode.

Top notch.

 

[Darkauthor81]

I play City of Heroes (and City of Villains) I wonder if he'll come rip them a new one some day. I know one thing he'll finally not be able to criticize. The character designer. CoH has no equipment that's visible and has the best character designer out there. You can make anything! lol I just made a pirate cyborg that can leap over a building in a single bound and shoots radiation out his eyes.

 

[TheSchaef]

Right idea, but late to the ball. Space was already made boring by Master of Orion III. Nothing like a game that quite literally plays itself.

You can customize the colonization and production of worlds you explore, but then the computer takes over for you anyway and makes the world more like the way IT wants it to be, negating the entire premise of customizable worlds.

Negotiation between alien races only involves clicking the correct response to the appropriate race every single time you talk (not unlike always insulting a Klingon, always being a tool to a Vulcan, and always buying a beer for a Terran).

Battle ships are customizable but it doesn't matter because long range weapons in space allow combat while they are still lo-res 2600-era dots on your screen, and by the time the "action" zooms in enough to see the ships, the battle's already over because, yes, the computer fights those for you too.

What's the point in buying a game to play when the computer does all the work and you feel so utterly disconnected from the experience that you literally do not know what your empire is doing from one turn to the next?

So Eve is really just what would happen if MoO3 and WoW had a love child together.

 

[The Anonymous Mr P]

I don't entirely agree with the points raised, as a trial-user myself, but I can see many of the arguments offered - EVE's revolutions and what makes it unique is in the metagame that surrounds it - the subterfuge, the corporations, etcetera. However, he's right that the game itself is, in many cases, absolutely fucking boring.

And with a week or two to review a game, it was obvious what flaws were going to be noticed.