Zero Punctuation: Top 5 of 2010

[Majora Major]

LIMBO should have been number 1 in your Top 5. That platform was sickeningly satisfying, even more so when introducing the game to a new player who has no idea the many ways they'll be dying next!

Seriously though, LIMBO will always be the right mixture of linear challenge and execution, and you feel good about yourself for solving the puzzle and not killing the bloke made from tissue paper (apparently).

 

[SpecklePattern]

Oh damn. I don't have any of those games. Well I think I could buy the red dead and just cause 2 if I see them on sale in somewhere.

 

[Isla]

No doubt you are my favourite reviewer on the net. Makes me laugh every week, keep up the good work for 2011.

I agree with the list as well. Being a huge fan of the FF series Final Fantasy was the worst game I've played this year.

 

[Ben Jackson]

I was pleasantly surprised by the number 1 best game.
I was amazed yet rather dissapointed when yahtzee said "just cause 2 is rather garry's mod like" because just cause 2 wasn't really customizable, unlike garrys mod, still, I'm buying just cause 2.


One thing I was confused about in a previous review was the red dead redemption one, yahtzee made a huge point of saying lots of the gameplay was minigames to try and make it so it wasn't repetitive, yet yahtzee rated it 3rd even though it was so repetitive (as said by yahtzee, I loved it)

 

[Virtual_Dom]

Now Im wondering what his extra punctuation topic will be. Will it be more hilariously named awards... an explanation of his top 5 choices...I can't wait until tuesday.

 

[Virtual_Dom]

Seems like this whole "Top 5" was just an attempt to be different from all the other reviewers, and whilst I do generally agree that he is...looking back on his review of JuseCause2, I never got the impression that he actually enjoyed the game let alone enough to be GOTY.

Also, I can't remember which video it was on, or possibly it was an Extra Punctuation, but Yahtzee mentioned a list of games he would play again from this year. And it was more than just DeadRising and JustCause.

I believe it was assassin's creed 2 and super mario galaxy that he said he wanted to replay

 

[Virtual_Dom]

Seems like this whole "Top 5" was just an attempt to be different from all the other reviewers, and whilst I do generally agree that he is...looking back on his review of JuseCause2, I never got the impression that he actually enjoyed the game let alone enough to be GOTY.

Also, I can't remember which video it was on, or possibly it was an Extra Punctuation, but Yahtzee mentioned a list of games he would play again from this year. And it was more than just DeadRising and JustCause.

I believe it was assassin's creed 2 and super mario galaxy that he said he wanted to replay

 

[Msalyani]

I agree with everything

 

[REDDJ2]

Red dead was wack

 

[Anchupom]

I'm quite disappointed that Super Meat Boy didn't make it to the top 5... Ah well, I guess Yahtzee doesn't really like platformers though.

Who'd have thought it, seeing his top 3 are sandboxes?

He didn't review it, so why would he include it?

Kicks?


Nah, it was just me wishful thinking.

 

[Madara XIII]

Well I didn't except Yahtzee to hate Other M that much

That game pissed me off so royally that when he mentioned it I went into a rant to everyone nearby about how fucking offensive that game was and how much I think Team Ninja should just fucking stay away from game franchises with female protagonists. Other M is one of the very few games that I call outright sexist I hate Team Ninja for Other M.
If I don't control myself I'll make a 3000 word essay right here about my hatred towards this game so I'm gonna stop there.

Team Ninja didn't have anything to do with the story. And Just what makes it sexist? that Samus takes order from a man? by that logic the army is full of racist people

Fair enough Team ninja had nothing to do with the story, but you wanna know what makes it sexist? How about Samus going from silent protagonist who is effectively just an asskicker to a whining emotional wreck who won't do a fucking thing until she's told it's okay. A submissive character who won't shut the fuck up and who cracks under pressure at the first sign of conflict they not only retconned Samus they retconned her into something she is the exact opposite of. Other M's story was melodramatic bullshit Metroid prime 3: Corruption had an emotional moment at the end that put every line of dialog in Other M to shame. God dammit I want to stop talking about that piece of shit!

I could go on and say tha tyou are wrong. But I will not

Actually he's correct on every aspect. At what point in any Metroid game did you see Samus unable to handle a mission? NONE! But here they decide to throw all that bravery out the window, despite the fact that this takes place after Metroid Prime 1 in which she took on Pirates, Chozo Ghosts, Giant Plants and Rocks, Genetically enhanced pirates, Metroids, Ridley (The Monster that killed her Family) and even the Ultimate Metroid. All without having to monolouge a single flippin' thing or becoming emotionally distraught and needing the comforting voice of her bastardized boyfriend to tell her it's ok.

Basically Other M, turned Samus from a Badass into a little girl. SCREW YOU TEAM NINJA!!

As Srd already said (in the post you yourself quoted), Team Ninja did the gameplay and had little to nothing to do with the story. The stuff you hated so much? Lay that squarely at the feet of Nintendo.

Indeed. Point taken. Nintendo is responsible for destroying the persona of Samus however Team Ninja's Control layout was actually compatible in that it felt more like Metroid Zero Mission (GREAT GAME) which kind of returned Metroid to its roots.....yet the combat at times could be improved.

 

[Antonio Torrente]

I'm quite disappointed that Super Meat Boy didn't make it to the top 5... Ah well, I guess Yahtzee doesn't really like platformers though.

Who'd have thought it, seeing his top 3 are sandboxes?

He didn't review it, so why would he include it?

Kicks?


Nah, it was just me wishful thinking.

Maybe he will review it this year.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

After the Kane & Lynch review it would be impossible to surprise me with your number one worst, I was however surprised with bioshock 2 over say Singularity, Alpha Protocol or Dante's Inferno.

I think it was the fact that it was not as good as the original and clearly a money spin that ticked him off

I can understand that, It's a cash in, and the original was enourmously superior, but as a game, nothing more, it wasnt too insulting.

Sequels have to be bigger then their predecessor. He knew all 3 of those games were gonna be bad or 'meh' before he played them. Bioshock 2 just couldn't deliver on what its big brother had already.

 

[Hyperactiveman]

Because sandbox games are the shit... Except GTAIV... That is shit.

And yes the "single player" in Kane & Lynch 2 is vomit digested thrice and handed to a prostitute/hobo to suffice as a mattress for the rest of it's unspeakable lifespan.

The multiplayer however was a definite improvement on the first K&L game... Sadly it took one approach the previous game had and offered extremely limited re-playability as it had only a few maps to choose from.

Screw you Square Enix... You fail much for killing a franchise that had some chance or revival!


Also why must you play console games all the time... I believe you would have found Super Meat Boy to be much more diverse and fun than at least Limbo if not Amnesia.

 

[LackingSaint]

Well, there is a great Technical improvement from SH2 to SH1...
Anyway, the SH 2 story is independent of SH1. SH2 isn't a direct sequel to the events of the first game. And thats is god because "Silent Hill 1 left no 'build-up' or really 'opening' for a sequel".

Now BS2 (sigh). No technical advances. Direct continuation without much logic. Rapture not imploded in BS1? Oh! They imploded but some part stay intact so they could roll a sequel!

And the game is all rushed. I mean, everything in BS1 even the most mundane items are carefully placed. In BS2 everything is careless spread all over the place. At some point, I was all up to the maximum, inclusive money. This not even make sense! Money is never enough!

So, explore to find the recordings don't make sense because the story is not good. Explore to find items makes no sense because you're always full of everything (including money!). The plasmids are no longer needed (except to proceed in some areas) and the dynamics of Rescue/r@pe little sisters was fuck up. You see, even if sequences like Silent hill 2 or No one lives Forever 2 had been made in a week and Bioshock 2 had taken 10 years to be done it still feels rushed in comparison.

And you know why the game was rushed? Probably because they already working on BioShock Infinite during the production of BS2. So they let the development in the hands of team B.

Bioshock 2 it's a evil hastily sequel that exist only to buy more time to develope the real sequel.

Bioshock 2 was made to make money, yes. And the original team didn't want to make it because, as they often do, they didn't want to make a habit of sequelising their games. But I don't really care about that because the "B Team" made a game with way more heart (and a WAY better ending because jesus christ Bioshock 1) and ALOT of technical improvements. You really don't see the improvements? Try COMPLETELY changing the combat by adding upgradeable abilities and dual-wielding plasmids, the artistic improvements that made every character seem like something that really would exist in that world rather than some Unreal engine mess. And I don't see how the Little Sister sequences were "fuck up" because they were expanded upon and made WAY more sense for the character in context. Why did Subject Delta kill a little sister? Because he's a faceless drone with little value for human life. Why did Bioshock 1's Protagonist kill a little sister? LOLDUNNOTHEYLOOKGROSS.

I'm not sure where this misconception that Bioshock 2 had a bad story is coming from, but then I suppose if you came into it fingers-in-ears screaming MONEYGRAB MONEYGRAB of course you wouldn't think much. But i'll say I personally cared WAY MORE one way or the other about the main characters of B2 than I did for B1.

A good story is something that makes you feel good at the end, not something that utilizes a bunch of themes and morals in an attempt to be a good story.

Also that's complete bull. If you're going to say stories need you to feel good in the end, you're limiting stories so much. Ironic you'd use Macbeth as an example when that story does nothing but make you feel awful in the finale. PS, themes and morals are the base for good story, otherwise you're just tossing things at a wall and seeing what sticks.

 

[D_987]

and the game play actually was meant to be reminescant of the older games. So saying the gameplay sucked is a copout criticism that only comes from Metroid Prime lovers...

I didn't realize really bad gameplay can be excused because it plays similarly to previous titles, guess every Lara Croft game has good gameplay then, you know, since it's reminiscent of the older games...

Gameplay comes from the scenarios produced, the games flow, and the way the character controls. Simply utilizing a similar system to an old game does not make the gameplay "good" in any way. That's an absurd argument, the rest of your post is so badly written I can't even bothered to produce counter-arguments as I'm only partially certain as to what kind of point you're attempting to make...

Also why must you play console games all the time... I believe you would have found Super Meat Boy to be much more diverse and fun than at least Limbo if not Amnesia.

SMB is fun, but that's all it is - it provides an entertaining way to kill a small amount of free time. Amnesia and Limbo both provide a more fulfilling experience in my opinion, simply because they're experiences to remember, SMB is all about trying until you succeed and doing so quickly. The aforementioned games are far more mysterious and diverse in their puzzles and style of play. Besides which SMB IS a console game - it's Amnesia that's PC exclusive...

 

[Anchupom]

I'm quite disappointed that Super Meat Boy didn't make it to the top 5... Ah well, I guess Yahtzee doesn't really like platformers though.

Who'd have thought it, seeing his top 3 are sandboxes?

He didn't review it, so why would he include it?

Kicks?


Nah, it was just me wishful thinking.

Maybe he will review it this year.

I hope so.

 

[Frangster]

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[Alucard832]

lol, he's still criticizing FFXIII when he didn't even play it. What a douche.

 

[Trucken]

lol, he's still criticizing FFXIII when he didn't even play it. What a douche.

He did play it. The review was released on march 31.