Zero Punctuation: The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

[Andy of Comix Inc]

How the hell does this walk away with a recommendation? I guess costing $20 in Australia forgave its lack of polish.

It's a full-priced game in all other territories, as far as I know, so not being able to "play with the big boys" is actually a complaint that SHOULD be leveled at it. My guess is the budget price let him forgive its intrinsic flaws. Like the graphics. And the bugs. ...I mean, Yahtzee did say he liked how dated Aliens: Colonial Marines looked. Hmmm.

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

I think it wasn't so much that Yahtzee enjoyed the game as much as it was that he liked how it was trying to be different from the other zombie shoot-'em-ups out there. I personally think it was poorly executed, but I have to agree with him, it's nice to see games that are at least trying.

 

[Cpt. Lozan]

Did he...did he like this game? I heard it was a huge load

 

[Dead Seerius]

Strange. Yahtzee seemed more miffed at God of War than he did at the actual game of the week. Going by Survival Instinct's poor reviews I expected Yahtzee to likewise tear this game a new one. I guess this was one of those '2 for 1' episodes then.

Bonus!

 

[Darth_Payn]

Well, Yahtzee was unexpectedly kind to this game. I'm also surprised he didn't spend most of the video comparing it to the other Walking Dead game in a side-by-side comparison, like he did with CoD:MW3 vs. Battlefield 3, and Infamous vs. Prototype.

captcha: points don't matter
especially true since yahtzee don't give 'em out

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Really liked the Poe reference. "I'm going to brick it!"

Zombie: For the love of God, Yahtzee!
Yahtzee: Yes, for the love of God!
Zombie: RAHR! *swipeswipeswipe*

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Now this was unexpected. What I'd heard about this game was that it was absolutely fucking awful, a disgraceful half-baked embarassment of a game that really had no right to exist; as soon as I saw Yahtzee was going to review it I said to myself "ooh this is gonna be ugly" and prepared myself for him to rip its tits off. I wasn't expecting him to actually appear to sort of LIKE it.

 

[fieryshadowcard]

I don't think Yahtzee LIKED Survival Instinct so much as he appreciated what he felt they were trying to go for and might have done if they'd developed the game [much] more. Angry Joe pretty much had similar thoughts, but in a much more rage-filled package. Both acknowledged the many faults of the game, it's just that Yahtzee did so with a lot more calm than we're used to seeing from him. Remember, the only thing Yahtzee likes less than shit is 100% derivative shit. He does like to take a moment to point out potential even in a bad game.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

This is odd, this is the first game I seen that the reviewers at large crucified a game while Yahtzee tolerated it.

Strange times we live in people.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Joe did? Wow.

Nope. Yahtzee. Look at the first page of this thread.

 

[Hutzpah Chicken]

Any zombie game after Left 4 Dead 2 seems kind of a futile effort. I don't mean this for the story or the random zombie spawn points, but because you can kill zombies by hitting them repeatedly with goddamn Gnome Chompski. Something that silly really sells me in such a moldy, threadbare old hat of "zombie" games.

 

[Edl01]

I think people are misunderstanding here. Yahtzee didn't "like" the game. He felt that is was a unique experience compared to most triple A games coming out; like the new God of War.

 

[FallenMessiah88]

From what I've seen, it seems like Yahtzee is right. Despite the less than stellar production values, this game really does seem quite interesting and tense.

 

[00slash00]

well that was...unexpected. this is about as close to a shining review as yahtzee gets, and from what ive heard from some of the sources i trust most (angry joe and tb), its really bad combat, mixed with a bunch of interesting ideas that fail completely

 

[daxterx2005]

I didn't realize there were so many GoW games until this video.

 

[mrhateful]

While last week was a master piece this week around we got the worst zero punctuation ever. Not one joke and most of it was explaining the game.

 

[duchaked]

well that certainly came as a surprise. but considering how he appreciates survival horror games with tense gameplay only made more difficult by frustrating controls, then this game might have a chance of rubbing him the right way

if anything because it's so short that he can get through it quickly with deadlines coming up

 

[Magmarock]

What was the joke of CAlling god of war "ass burger" I just don't get it lol.

 

[BX3]

I think people are misunderstanding here. Yahtzee didn't "like" the game. He felt that is was a unique experience compared to most triple A games coming out; like the new God of War.

Yeah, this is pretty much how I viewed the video too. I mean, just because he didn't spent 6 minutes screaming "fuck this game" into the mic doesn't mean he liked it.

He had plenty of bad stuff to say about it, the graphics suck, the story sucks, the incentivizing sucks, the main character sucks, the ending sucks and the game is too short. He was just saying that he respected some of the games ideas and its ability to pull off a tense atmosphere compared to, say, RE or Dead Space, despite its budget (I'll ignore the fact that he still hasn't caught on that those games are no longer horror).

I actually wish he'd do more reviews like this, but then there goes a 1/3 of his fanbase I suppose.