Zero Punctuation: Yakuza: Dead Souls

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arkwright

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Great, now I want a zombie game with Brian Blessed as the main character, I hope you're happy.
Shouting zombies to death while dressed in the zoltan outfit from flash gordon........ now there's a game idea.
 

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True many games do add on parts with zombies but how many games are all about zombies to begin with? Off of the top of my head, I can only think of, Left 4 Dead, Dead rising, Dead island resident evil and that fortnight game that Epic Games is working on. Zombie games aren't as rampant as Yahtzee makes them out to be in my opinion.
 

chiefohara

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Meh, zombies.

The last most creative thing i saw with them was plants vs zombies. Since then not so much
 

angel85

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hmm, I kinda would have preferred it if you had to face the zombie apocalypse with nothing but melee weapons, since there's no second amendment in Japan and only cops can legally have guns. That would have been a HILARIOUS aside for yakuza members to be unusually law abiding.
 

Xman490

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Wait, here's a ZP review of an expansion-y game? Actually, that makes sense since he reviewed Fallout: New Vegas a while back.

If Yatzee has run out of truly new games to review, then maybe there is a possibility that he will address the several new things added to Minecraft like the new sandbox-style "ending" that adds a little more to the sandbox adventuring.
 

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Another great episode Yahtzee.

It seems that zombie games are becoming way too stagnant as of late.
 

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DJShire said:
Game of Thrones? Don't you mean Game of Tits?
That's Dead or Alive.

A shame the crappy shooting mechanics. I got the impression that Yahtzee would have been happy with the game if he could just bikekill all the zombies.
 

Xan Krieger

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"Each kick one half a butthole"? If there's 4 characters then that means each is kicking one quarter of a whole butthole, if each is kicking half then It's 2 pairs of characters kicking 2 seperate buttholes.

That aside I enjoyed the review and suddenly have an interest in the yakuza series.
 

Nurb

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Yahtzee said:
"I love how zombies satirize the dumb, sheep-like consumerism of modern humanity... I love it so much I'm going to blindly buy everything with zombies in it with no perception of irony whatsovever!"
Hahaha, might catch a few zombie fans off guard with that one. Love it. I can't stand the glut of zombie everything in the past... 6-7 years.

 

floppylobster

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I think the only point Yahtzee missed was that it's only guys who are currently obsessed with zombies. (Girls are obsessed with vampires).
 

Zom-B

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Well, I'll still pick this game up at some point. Some times there's more to a game than it's component parts. Sometimes the sum is greater than the whole. So maybe zombies are played out and maybe guns aren't standard in the Yakuza games. I still want to play a yakuza shooting the fuck out of zombies in the streets of Kamurocho.

Probably for the same reason so many twats keep buying Mass Effect games (while complaining about them) or CoD games.
 

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floppylobster said:
I think the only point Yahtzee missed was that it's only guys who are currently obsessed with zombies. (Girls are obsessed with vampires).
But I don't think guys ever wanted two animated corpses to fight over them for their love and affection.

Dead chicks are nothing but brain-diggers, man
 

Marik Bentusi

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I think Yahtzee needs a game he can be passionately pissed at again. His last couple of reviews were so lukewarm. Not that I mind hearing his honest opinion, but half the fun is only possible when he's really urging to get a point across, and he does so best when he's upset.
 

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Cekil1 said:
Since it came out in Australia on March 29, I imagine he's gonna need time to actually play the game first. well.
Were you talking to me when you said that?
Yes, I was indeed speaking to you.
 

PrototypeC

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The "z" word used to fill me with glee. At the very least could you call them "infected" or something until I get completely sick of that too?

I was thinking up a competent and well-executed critique of the whole "zombie" thing but it turns out others have said what I would have said but better; so I'll sum up:
yo, fuck zombies
 

FallenMessiah88

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Cool review. The game sounds very quirky and fun and...Japanese...

I really need to get into this series.
 

Lunar Templar

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Yakuza 4: sounded cool from the combat perspective

this: sounds lame purely because they put zombies in it
 

zehydra

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"Why the scrambled eggs on fuck toast did ...."

Lol, gotta work that into conversation sometime.