Zero Punctuation: Top 5 of 2010

[JackandTom]

I must be the only one who actually likes Bioshock 2

Your Not! It was awesome! Sure the enviroment was the same, but the story was still good and combat had been improved.

 

[Nimcha]

i actually thought hed for sure put fable3 on as worst game. a lot of people hated it. also,


YAHTZEE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD, PLAY MASS EFFECT 2!!!!!!

hed love that game, and we havent had a positive review in a while. i have no doubt itd make it to the top of his game of the year list, if he had played it this year

I thought he did review it? And liked it, somewhat. I did not expect it to be in his top 5 though.

 

[puchead]

This vid was so funny, i actually cried, and choked on my Yorkie!!

Yahtzee, if I knew where you were right now, I'd be on my knees, sucking your bountiful, ahiry, god-like balls!!

x

 

[LooseNugget]

That was just epic....I loved the choices and had tears of laughter. Thanks Yahtzee

 

[LadyMint]

Hah. I knew Kane & Lynch 2 was going to get the coveted worst game of the year spot. Although I did go, "... Really?" when I saw Halo Reach. Good one.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Good list. A really good list. I love Just Cause 2. I played it for more than 120 hours and I still can't get enough of it. That's how you make a freeroaming game. Big, explosive and with as much freedom as you can give to someone.

Anyway, my Top 5 list would have to be:

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Just Cause 2
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. Amnesia
5. Mafia 2

 

[goddz001]

laughed so hard at kayne & lynch :')

 

[70R4N]

I tought Mass Effect 2 would be in the top 5. Oh well, nwm. Just Cause 2 sucks in my opinion.

 

[Random berk]

"...my previous criticism drowned out by the screams of a guard with one leg tied to a harrier jet."

Best Yahtzee quote ever!!!
Seriously though, the Just Cause franchise has always been great just for the mucking around potential in the game. My strongest memory of the first Just Cause was stealing a C-130, flying it up to the highest altitude I could get to, then nosediving it straight at whatever highly populated area stuck out at me and bailing out. I wonder if it ever landed on anyone...

 

[FriedRicer]

Wow....GOD you killed 2010!

 

[WolfmanNougat]

Dammit Yahtzee, I used to associate the Funeral of Queen Mary with terrifying psychological horror; now It's just gonna remind me of shitty videogames!

... actually, the psycho-horror's too powerful for that to ever happen.

 

[Sporky111]

Awesome work this week, a nice break from the rest of the parade of retrospectives.

Also, can we call this video a combo breaker? It's called Zero Punctuation, and he paused dramatically and inserted a comma.

 

[coldshadow]

been a while since you made me laugh so hard.

 

[coldfrog]

I'm not sure which surprises me more, that he put Red Dead ahead of Amnesia, or that he put Bioshock 2, which was mediocre but not really BAD like the other games, on his bottom 5. Admittedly I haven't played Kane & Lynch, but everything I've heard makes me think that's a good thing.

I still ought to give Just Cause a shot - and personally I really enjoyed the first dead rising, so fixing some of it's flaws should be a sure win for me... but I've been spreading myself thin gamewise and I think I just never got around to it.

 

[MasterChief892039]

I'm glad that there are male gamers that recognize and actually care that the only female game heroine that doesn't get her strength from her sexuality had her character brutally raped by Project M. Seriously, fuck those guys.

 

[HyperNinjaBagel]

i would have thought saint row 2 would have been in there as one of the good ones

 

[WaderiAAA]

Just Cause 2 was surprising. I did understand from your review of it that you thought it was good, but not that good.

The bottom 5 was no surprise at all though - especially not the last two.

 

[forsinain42]

I CALLED IT!

http://nerdcubed.co.uk/2010/12/11/nerd%C2%B3s-2010-game-awards/

I'm totally gonna be the next yahtzee... (I wear a trilby too! It's meant to be!)

 

[JediMB]

I know, it's pretty impossible to like Other M unless you're compatible with the unusual controls, but it still saddens me to see it listed as worse than BioShock 2.

I mean... it's not that BioShock 2 is terrible either, but I took a break from it to play something else and just haven't been arsed to pick it back up. It's not a very engaging game.

Anyway, yeah, I love Other M. The story is a mess, the voice direction for Samus is abysmal, the idea that a CO would hold back heat shielding from you when you're about to enter an area only slightly chillier than Hell is dumb, and the PTSD scene really would have worked better in Super Metroid... but I just loved the gameplay enough that those issues became irrelevant. It's a terrible shame that the story and its execution couldn't have been better, yes, but not game-killing.

The whole franchise might be in need of a reboot, though.

 

[thublihnk]

been a while since you made me laugh so hard.

You have a F@NBOY$ avatar.

Shit yeah