Zero Punctuation: Fear 2

[mad_mick]

"Remakes will carry the death penalty!" But but, what about the legion of uneducated nerds who never played FF7, can I has remake ? .

if they have played ff1 then they have all final fantasy games ever made. it like eating a mars bar, the packaging might change, but its still a fucking mars bar!!!

 

[SaineRaine]

I think that I hurt my self in some way when I saw the cover to Beyond Good and Evil when I laughed. That was a good game. Really good. But the ending screamed that there was going to be a sequal and... what happened? Nothing. Which is horrible. Worse than flipping off a box of kittens.

 

[timetuner]

1.All games must exist with a clear end of plot, no matter how long the game must become. (We already pay $60-$70 American and im sure they have a little wiggle room with the profit margines)
2.If a sequel must exist it must have its own original plot and add at least one significant inovation to the genre.
3.Games can not be remade if they switch developer or if the development staff has a significant change of management. If a remake fails to achieve the qualities of a sequel and the acceptance of the fans the sequel will be not be acknolaged in existance and the series may never be touched again.
4.NOs (ports,action-figures, clothing, conventions, ECT.)
(the game who has come closest to obeying this code in good standing is halflife, the most defiant abuser of the lack of enforcement currently defiles the borders of your screen.
HALO

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

We had a nice dialogue going on about this video, and a nifty poll. Rather than agonizingly retyping what I said, and leaving out what other people had to say, I'll just post the link.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.90523

 

[SaineRaine]

"Remakes will carry the death penalty!" But but, what about the legion of uneducated nerds who never played FF7, can I has remake ? .

if they have played ff1 then they have all final fantasy games ever made. it like eating a mars bar, the packaging might change, but its still a fucking mars bar!!!

Except in the Final Fantasy games all the charaters are different and the story lines are totally different. Yes, the battle systems are a lot alike- but, there are other games with the same set up so I hardly see that as a valid point that they are all alike.

Saying they are all the same is like saying all fps are the same. Different wrapper- same game.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

1.All games must exist with a clear end of plot, no matter how long the game must become. (We already pay $60-$70 American and im sure they have a little wiggle room with the profit margines)
2.If a sequel must exist it must have its own original plot and add at least one significant inovation to the genre.
3.Games can not be remade if they switch developer or if the development staff has a significant change of management. If a remake fails to achieve the qualities of a sequel and the acceptance of the fans the sequel will be not be acknolaged in existance and the series may never be touched again.
4.NOs (ports,action-figures, clothing, conventions, ECT.)
(the game who has come closest to obeying this code in good standing is halflife, the most defiant abuser of the lack of enforcement currently defiles the borders of your screen.
HALO

Halo? I think you're thinking of Street Fighter 2. That game IS a franchise.

 

[cainx10a]

"Remakes will carry the death penalty!" But but, what about the legion of uneducated nerds who never played FF7, can I has remake ? .

if they have played Wolfenstein 3D then they have all first person shooters games ever made. it like eating a mars bar, the packaging might change, but its still a fucking mars bar!!!

The idea of Remaking a game with the latest tech, both graphics or gameplay can be improved to attract people to a dying or old franchise. + for those who watched the Outro of FF7:Crisis Core; a lot of fan boys and people who never played FF7 would want to pick up the remake just to see what they missed in the past.

And I for one, got bored playing up to disc 4 on FF 7 with the old graphics when I tried it about a year ago.

 

[Wolfwind]

Great review, plus I laughed a little harder cause I agree with most of it. Compared to F.E.A.R. 1, F.E.A.R. 2 isn't all that great. It's not a bad game, just not what I expected I guess.

I especially like how he pointed out the scares happening when you're not looking, because that's seriously happened to me like five times already. I hear something, my HUD goes all crazy, but I don't actually SEE anything happen and realize I wasn't looking in the right direction.

I also find it ironic that having Alma get right in your face this time around is actually LESS scary. She was scarier when you could barely see her in the distance, and then maybe she'd come up to you in that whole "I'm ten meters away from you, now I'm RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, and now I'm gone" way, your vision so blurred that you couldn't really make out what her face looked like. Now she jumps on you and you punch her off.... and I dunno if it's just me, but it makes me feel a lot more like I'm playing Condemned.

 

[CrafterMan]

A world without sequels? Lucas Arts have to be creative again.

Madness I say, quiet this non believer!

George!!!!!

 

[Tony2077]

i like the beyond good and evil part i hope 2 is being made not just here look at what your not getting

 

[Lukirre]

Either people have been making a lot of attempted Horror games, or Yahtzee just enjoys pointing out their flaws. Either way, I enjoyed this review as much as all the others.

 

[antipunt]

lol funny

and about the sequels sacrifice, I'm not entirely sure. I mean, it's a good idea in one sense, but in another I dunno if I'd be strong enough to sacrifice games like Starcraft 2 for example

 

[Decimator 3000]

The other FEAR games were for consoles idiots, I know this becauase I own the other FEAR games for Xbox 360. Of course Yahtzee gives out the impression that us console gamers are all a bunch of mindless twats who don't know anything about video games.

Lets not forget that Yahtzee is not a real game critic just a comedian.

 

[crimped]

game sucked, review sucked. but i do agree with the banning of all sequels.

 

[ckam]

Would the Final Fantasy games be considered sequels of one another?

 

[defcon 1]

On the note of the mech, How am I suppose to be frightened of anything when I'm practically indestructible. This is suppose to be a frightening game but I'm just not seeing it.

A world without sequels. Not sure what to say about that. Yes it would be nice but some of my favorite games are sequels. Interesting idea though.