Zero Punctuation: Top 5 Games of 2013
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I am a bit surprised that Y-Man picked Bioshock Infinite as G.O.T.Y. There were some glaring flaws in it that just couldn't be ignored.
#1 What did Elizabeth think was going to happen when she supported the Rebels - Comstock would admit he was wrong and give minorities the right to vote?? Of course there was going to be a war.
"Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God"
- Mal (TV Show Firefly)
#2 How does the game go from making a tangible, passionate case regarding social inequality/slavery (arguably THE issue of our day) to a soft-science yarn-ball on the subject of alternate reality? What waste of great material.
#3 It was hard enough to believe that Andrew Ryan was able to scare up the resource to make Rapture from the bottom of the sea, but where exactly are the steel/wood/bronze mines in the clouds? OR, if anyone was importing that much material from the surface, how would nobody notice and start hiking commodity prices, thus making people on the surface go looking for someone to blame/sue/kill over it????
#4 Many props in the game are from much later in time (the radios are late 1930's/1940's design).
#5 W.T.F. is it with every building having a ticket booth (even in some of the homes). It is possible to reuse the same textures too much.
#6 The "Song Bird" plot line is lame. Not nearly well enough explained and its connection with Elizabeth is very arbitrary.
#7 Feels like a game that simply lost its way, or lacked firm direction to keep the pieces in sync. I would vote it "Biggest Disappointment of the Year".
#1 What did Elizabeth think was going to happen when she supported the Rebels - Comstock would admit he was wrong and give minorities the right to vote?? Of course there was going to be a war.
"Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God"
- Mal (TV Show Firefly)
#2 How does the game go from making a tangible, passionate case regarding social inequality/slavery (arguably THE issue of our day) to a soft-science yarn-ball on the subject of alternate reality? What waste of great material.
#3 It was hard enough to believe that Andrew Ryan was able to scare up the resource to make Rapture from the bottom of the sea, but where exactly are the steel/wood/bronze mines in the clouds? OR, if anyone was importing that much material from the surface, how would nobody notice and start hiking commodity prices, thus making people on the surface go looking for someone to blame/sue/kill over it????
#4 Many props in the game are from much later in time (the radios are late 1930's/1940's design).
#5 W.T.F. is it with every building having a ticket booth (even in some of the homes). It is possible to reuse the same textures too much.
#6 The "Song Bird" plot line is lame. Not nearly well enough explained and its connection with Elizabeth is very arbitrary.
#7 Feels like a game that simply lost its way, or lacked firm direction to keep the pieces in sync. I would vote it "Biggest Disappointment of the Year".
Really glad to see Revengeance made it onto the list... the good side of the list, I mean. Also those description for each rank were by far the most entertaining of any top five list yet.
still glad to experience it!
I'm surprised how hard he came down on Beyond: Two Souls. He basically said that David Cage's stories keep getting more "laughably bad" despite the fact that he gave Heavy Rain a pretty solid review and it has almost nothing besides story. I also bought Indigo Prophecy purely on recommendation from Yahtzee and that was a Cage game too.
"once it get's going Heavy Rain actually has some really good bits..that whole scene gripped me by the bellend...for what it's worth, Heavy Rain does get better later"
"once it get's going Heavy Rain actually has some really good bits..that whole scene gripped me by the bellend...for what it's worth, Heavy Rain does get better later"