Dakaan said:
Cant wait to play this game!
khewit said:
been waiting for u to do fable2!
Cloudizme said:
Been looking forward to this review.
Hilarious as always.
Banok said:
I wanted him to do far cry 2
I feel the absurd, and completely pointless need to inform each and every one of you that you replied to this video, according to the on-forum times of posts, in less time than it takes for the video itself to elapse. I dunno, call me out of my mind if you must, but don't you feel any shame in blatantly pandering to the lowest of base instincts, or metaphorically jumping up and down on this review's conference room table yelling "FIRSTS!"?
Honestly, it's tiresome to say the least, and irritating as hell to be more elaborate.
Grifmik said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
Ok...
Mr. Escapist.
You know that the forums lag out totally when this arrives? We can deal with that.
But did you read the amount of comments that said "Yay! No More Adverts!" from about three weeks ago?
And then we have some at the start and at the end for something that quite a lot of us wouldn't want to, or can't play?
I'll be very amused to see Yahtzee's take on Bongo-Kaflooie at a later date.
As for the review (and the poor intro) it does seem like Yahtzee and Molyneux have a sort of a Brokeback Mountain thing going on there.
Secret notes after the review...lots of pictures of him with an open mouth talking to Yahtzee?
Methinks someone needs to examine their feelings.
(That and I think you'll get a lot of Escapist hatemail for dissing the dog.)
Who cares if your forums are lagging for 10 minutes or so? Plus the advert at the start was like 2 seconds long and the one at the end you don't have to watch ATALL you know?. Somtimes i think people complain just for the hell of it..
Actually, he's probably complaining because a service that users have a reasonable expectation to function is failing. I don't think he's right in doing so, personally, but he's correct in saying it shouldn't go down, regardless of how, when, or why.
Jman1236 said:
Yahtzee you are the bomb! The part about how you can't kill your kid, had me laughing my ass off! I think Fable 2 is byfar better than Fable 1, and I planning on playing through a second time as a female evil character rather than a male good character. Plus we should get some sweet downloadable content updates in the future.
Also I think the combat system this time around kicks ass, I like how you can slow time, then summon undead minons then roll to the side and take out your enemies with ranged attacks.
Were you even paying attention?
Gerscan said:
Figured now was as good a time as any to make an account here and make posts that will most likely not even get read since they aren't on the first page. ANYWAY, taping the magic button down wouldn't really work since you need to release the button to cast the spell and if you fell asleep doing that you'd wake up to find you had quite a lot of scars, which no one cares about. Other than that, spot-on review, I'm now drowning in money that I have nothing to use on so I'm just waiting for downloadable content, which there had better be some of because that was a pretty abrupt ending, I thought.
Game mechanics' errors are allowed in favor of most jokes. Personally, the "mono-button gameplay" thing does make "tape button down" joke at least partially funny. If that's your kind of thing, at least.
Pepperlander said:
guys. if you like the game, don't listen to yahtzee and stop liking it. thank you for listening and goodbye
Since posts like "QFT" are disallowed, I must say, good freakin' show. Quoted for the truth of it all.
ShadowFlex said:
This isn't 4chan, please don't fill the boards with stuff like this. Makes things awfully untidy.
Indigo_Dingo said:
MagnetoHydroDynamics said:
I laughed so hard at that last sentence...
DD
Can it be Mirrors Edge time now?
Dream on. He's now obliged to do LittleBigPlanet.
Fall-out 3, Mirror's Edge, LittleBigPlanet... There are so many games to list, it's pointless to figure out which he'll do next. Just let it run its course...
Qayin said:
I understand the need to entertain, but it seems that with this, and the previous few reviews, Yahtzee is starting to sacrifice his integrity as a reviewer, for the sake of humour.
I'm naturally inclined to disagree here,
Qayin. Mostly becaues Yahtzee has always made a lot of reviewing concessions in order to force humor into his "reviews." While I'll agree that it has been more common recently, it's always been a factor.
Yahtzee's reviews lost integrity when they became primarily for entertainment and secondarily about reviewing the game. Humor is acceptable in a review, sure, but humor as a review has already compromised itself.
Also, I do agree that Yahtzee's gotten a bit too gung-ho humor, and not nearly enough "in-game review." Rewatching his Force Unleashed "review" is proof enough of that.
Qayin said:
Tietsu said:
You do realize that someone else in the game killed children, right? Why shouldn't you be able to do that as well? That's a double standard, and one standard will do us just fine, sir.
See above, issue is interactivity, not the content itself.
Hell, Pulp Fiction had a child being shot, but wanting to and actually shooting a child in the head yourself, is really pushing the limits.
You wouldn't want child-rape in your games, you shouldn't absolutely need to put a bullet in their head, or cut them up, either.
Also, note that games like Fallout and GTA have always allowed the user to kill children. Except, most notably, in Fallout 3... Are we seeing a trend?
Coolspeedzero said:
Hilarious as always
looking forward to the review for Left for Dead
This again? Let him pick whatever game he wants...
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Stand Alone Post
Here's the thing about Yahtzee's reviews as of late. They've been primarily lacking in the... oh, what's the word? Oh yes. Review. They've been primarily lacking in the review department as of late.
I'm not sure if its the obscene need to force just about any flavor of humor into a video regardless of whether or not it will fit, or if that making a strong, structured review is something that isn't terribly necessary for this, but it does seem like there was a point where Yahtzee had found a good middle-ground between humor and in-game commentary, but the quality of these "reviews" waivers more than a drunk at a sudden field sobriety test.
Ultimately, it boils down to the humor seems forced, the review content isn't very content-rich, and I'm somewhat tired of wondering whether or not it'll get better. I'm beginning to wonder whether or not watching the next review will be worth the effort.
Doubtedly, but I'll probably watch it anyway... I'm such a dunce.
