Zero Punctuation: Sunset Overdrive - Trying Too Hard?

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Xman490

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Interesting how Yahtzee mentioned sarcasm, some pop culture references, and fourth-wall-breaking as the starved "Third World" of comedy, when those are most of the vital organs of comedy news shows The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. And I still find them funny.

If you ask me, those three sources of comedy are the "Second World" or comedy, like Chinese manufacturers. They're easy to get a hold of, common, and work just fine for most people. Don't expect anything that sticks due to partially tragic context from them, though, like with "The Cake is a Lie" or "Ya Ya Ya, I am Lorde."
 

Under_your_bed

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Blimey, between this and Sacred 3, it seems there is no quicker or Easier way of earning Yahtzee's Ire than making an unfunny "comedy" game.
 

Sylocat

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If I want cheeky self-awareness, I'll just play the N64-era Rareware titles again, thanks.
 

Callate

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This is pretty much the impression I've gotten from their advertising campaign, including the ad they've been sticking before movie showings (thank yoooou, Regal.) "Yeah, let's have our supposedly edgy-snarky-youth mouthpiece say "awesomepocalypse" like it was something he came up with on the spot, rather than something that came out of a marketing meeting."

It's kind of a pity, because it sounds like there's the framework of a pretty fun game there if it wasn't trying so hard to sneer at, uh, itself.
 

orangeapples

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Kyber said:
But what about the MEMEEEEEES
Watch_Dogs also had internet memes. Throwing in memes isn't really helping anyone. Perhaps they should try having actual humor instead of going, lol, internetz the entire game.
 

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silverleaf81 said:
It seems a bit redundant for the video to have a Sunset Overdrive ad (both at the start and the end) but hey, what do I know?
I didn't get an ad at the end, but that would have been hilarious. I love it when content that rips into a game gets sponsorship from it.
 

mrdude2010

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I fucking hate when games declare themselves to be funny when they're not. It has the same dialogue problem as Duke Nukem Forever, where the game just screams LOOK AT THIS AND LAUGH and there's not actually anything to laugh at, aside from how pathetically the developers failed.
 

K12

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I think "trying too hard" just means forced and insecure.

The kind of people who do something really over the top with an excruciating grin on their face that tells you they just want the moment to end but people haven't started laughing yet and there's a chance that if they stop now their might be an awkward silence and they'll lose their chance in the limelight and go back to being that guy in the corner that everyone has to double check the name of and could easily just disappear and no one would notice...

...I think I need to lie down.
 

Jandau

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Damn, this review really makes me want to play...
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Saint's Row 3 & 4...

Seriously, though, is this a surprise? Wasn't this pretty much evident from the trailers and such? Were people actually expecting this to not be an embarrassing disaster?
 

Muspelheim

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Perhaps it could be said that there is little fault in trying too hard. Perhaps the flaw lies in trying in the wrong way? Or perhaps trying too hard at not having to try very hard. Taking a shovelful of internet and throwing it down the mixer without some context powder usually won't work as well as it might sound on paper.

If anything, this game seemed to have not tried enough where it mattered the most.
 

bluepotatosack

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For me, I think the writing is better than Saints Row 3/4 and I'm enjoying the gameplay a hell of a lot more. I'm really enjoying the hell out of the game.
 
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You know, I was actually hoping that Sunset Overdrive would succeed. Not because I was going to buy it (I couldn't be payed to touch an XBOne without a hazard suit) but because I was hoping for more than two quality AAA games this year.

The devs need to try harder.
 

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More "coolness designed by committee" theorizing from Yahtzee, just like that time the makers of WATCH_DOGS thought all hackers dressed like, well, the cast of HACKERS and almost had them snap their fingers at cops and call them "Daddy-o". Lots of eye-rolling in this video, too. Hope they didn't stop the speedy-wacky-off-the-walls action a lot to put their eye balls back in their sockets.
Catface Meowmers said:
I haven't played the game, but when I heard "4th wall breaking" it sounded like they were maybe trying to piggyback on the latest resurgent Deadpool hype.

So I guess my real question is, how do pouches figure into the gameplay in Sunset Overdrive?
And yellow inner-monologue boxes! Their has to yellow boxes floating around everywhere!
Imp Emissary said:
Yeah, this is about what I've been hearing from others about the game.
Fun gameplay with some hiccups here and there, failing most of the time to be funny, and "Sorry, it's only for X-box One. ;p".

I do wish I could get it, but I guess I'll just have to hope the next one is muti-platform (and funnier), or just go play Saints Row 4 again. ;D

Good show, Yahtzee! I like the "couldn't make me laugh faces".
Yeah, the faces got me! I can't tell if those or his "smug" faces are funnier.
 

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hAHAHA... oH wERE aLL gETTING oLD....



We were bound to be reminded of this eventually I suppose. From the press reminding us that OverWatch is Blizzard's first "new" IP in 17 years, to that one band (or three??) from the 90's putting out something new in just as many years. Maybe that's what they should've crafted the "humour" in this about instead, that sort of cushioning the blow interspective jaunt for us GenX/Y'ers and our rapid decent into ol'fogeyhood which is about to become a much longer and more drawn out Crucible thanks to science [http://www.helpmeoutdoc.com/news/health/aging-reversed-successfully-mice-human-tests-show-promise-3878.html] .... .