Zero Punctuation: Wreckateer and Deadlight

[Cobaltmotari]

Yahtzee knows about Jonathan Creek? My life is one step closer to being complete!

 

[xPixelatedx]

Yeah, I was hoping Deadlight would be at least a little entertaining... but it only took one element from many good games, not realizing what made those games good. Limbo was interesting because of the unspoken story unfolding and the moody alien atmosphere, while Deadlight was pretty much as cookie cutter as you can be for a game this gen. It displayed it's layout like Shadow Complex, but didn't realize what made shadow complex good was that it had a world to explore, while Deadlight was just a straight line from point A to B. Also, the zombies.... I don't mind things being used over and over again when they are entertaining from the start, like how Dinosaurs were a huge reoccurring enemy in video games after Jurassic park aired. But I never found Zombies particularly interesting or fun, so as you can imagine I am pretty fu***** sick of these things by this point. I can tell a lot of work went into Deadlight, but I still can't find any redeeming value to it.

Thank god Dust came out today, otherwise this XBLA summer would have been the biggest dud since they started this tradition.

 

[Pearwood]

Awww, and here was me thinking Yahtzee watched QI

He's from the UK, of course he watches QI.

 

[Ickorus]

Deadlight looked like it might have been good but so far I've heard universally negative feedback about it, gonna have to give it a miss.

Spoiler: Also Escapist, I'm OK with adverts and I feel its only fair that you get advertising revenue from my visits but this is just taking the piss.

As you can see, it also makes the website look like utter shite.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

So who's been counting all the times Yahtzee has mentioned his sex life? I'm actually not that surprised he likes Angry Birds though. It's a good time waster.

Yet to do a Kinect game though. Not a fan of motion controls

 

[Graff]

Apologies if this has already been said, but...
Angry Bird isn't the first throw something at a castle.
And they were hardly original about it. Basically, it was a reskinned crush the castle.
And I believe there were games of the same concept even before that one.

 

[gyroc1]

Yahtzee! You seem to be neglecting the PSN (and maybe Nintendo's eShop)! I don't keep track of what's on there, but there are some good and bad games on there that you could check out.

 

[praus]

Loved the video as usual. I really wish Yahtzee would publish his books in an e-book format. I've gotten really used to reading books that way and going back to traditional books is annoying now.

 

[Mumorpuger]

I like Wreckateer. It's got the same addictive "Oh, lemme try that again but get my shot to land there quality Angry Birds has.

 

[MagmaMan]

It's unfortunate the only Summer of Arcade game available right now with any sort of innovation and creativity is multiplayer only.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Would you people stop buying zombie games? I don't think I've ever played one that's actually good, and maybe if developers didn't find them so lucrative ($) then they would concentrate on game topics and ideas that are actually, you know... good.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

I could give less of a shit about Deadlight, but Yahtzee kind of just spoiled Silent Hill for me...

 

[Magmarock]

Spoiling the game, fine. But did you have to spoil Momneto?

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I'm not sure what to say if you haven't seen a movie that's been out for 10 years.

Anyhow,regarding the vid I had a couple of laughs in the second part of it,can't say I cared about Kinect games or ever will.

 

[daxterx2005]

That orgasm picture made me chuckle.

 

[Tharwen]

Review of this critique by a drunk person (me):

The first half made a surprising amount of sense. For the second half, I spaced out and read Twitter instead.

Bottom line: Would watch again. Probably should watch again on account of having missed most of it.

 

[Darth_Payn]

I'm just super disappointed Yahtzee didn't try to do an actual J. Jonah Jameson impersonation. That would have been a good laugh.

I'm still laughing that he brought it up in the first place! When he rattled off which indie games Deadlight ripped off, I was disheartened it didn't come with a "DING!" sound, like he did with his Dark Void review. But I still love his annual XBLA twofer shows. These sound like the first of these types of game he thought sucked.
Also, who the deuce is Jonathan Creek?

capcha: who, me?

 

[Britisheagle]

Great review and I have to agree about mobile style titles coming to XBLA or other home systems.

Wasn't interested in these games before, still not interested now!

 

[FallenMessiah88]

You know, that Kinect game actually sounds pretty fun. Too bad I don't own a Kinect.

As for the zombie game. Yeah, that sounds pretty generic and boring. I know this has probably been said before, but zombies really are becoming the new nazis. We need something new, like pirates. Pirates are awesome.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

I really wish he'd do a PSN one once in a while, there's some interesting stuff on here too. Rochard,Journey, Flower, Payday: The Heist, Sideway: New York, and the upcoming Papo and Yo are all interesting concepts, and the ones I've played are very good games to boot. Show the PSN some love, Yahtzee! He could even review Dead Nation if he wants another run of the mill zombie game to be annoyed about!