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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Feb 27, 2008 18:04:18 GMT
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Post by Pombar on Feb 27, 2008 18:14:40 GMT
Best one for ages.
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JJ
Script Hume
Bit of a hack, really.
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Post by JJ on Feb 27, 2008 20:58:55 GMT
It's funny because it's true! Nah, I kinda like Uncharted, especially the awesome twist towards the end that completely changes the tone of the game (which he failed to mention). Without spoilering, let's just say that it morphs from Indiana Jones to Resident Evil 4/Silent Hill in about two levels. That said, there's an awful lot to hate and criticise about the game, it even surpasses Assassin's Creed in that aspect, IMO. One gets the feeling that in a few years it'll only be remembered for pretty water effects and the famous 'half-tucked' shirt.
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Post by Pombar on Feb 27, 2008 21:13:50 GMT
I like this game. I played it only a tiny bit at a mate's, and it seemed entertaining in a way Tomb Raider always wasn't, for me. But I didn't really understand the hype that was being put out as it being a system seller, Sony's answer to Gears of War, and a total must-have flagship title. It just seemed like a better version of stuff we'd seen before. That said, I did only play a teeny bit.
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Post by Pete on Feb 27, 2008 23:02:50 GMT
I've seen all the cutscene's from the game, and thought that the overall plot was decent enough, but Yahtzee's right in that it's a blatent rip of Raider's of the Lost Arc. The only thing that was missing was the bad guy going, "Once again, there is nothing that you can possess, which I cannnot take away". Also, I was dissapointed in the lack of hat.
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Post by Mayday on Feb 28, 2008 10:53:56 GMT
Also, I was dissapointed in the lack of hat. True, but without the hat he looks like proper Englishman circa 1880.
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Post by Pombar on Mar 5, 2008 17:26:23 GMT
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Mar 5, 2008 18:10:43 GMT
He did do a Halo 3 one didn't he? I can't seem to find it. He did. Here it be.
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Mar 12, 2008 18:29:46 GMT
This week, Yahtzee has a case of auto-cannibalist frustration with Burnout: Paradise.
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Post by Exu on Mar 12, 2008 20:01:38 GMT
Burnout's one word.
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Mar 12, 2008 20:02:14 GMT
I know, but the link comes out like that anyway. Not my fault when the forum decides to be an idiot.
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Post by Exu on Mar 12, 2008 20:29:39 GMT
Fair enough. So yeah, the review didn't really change my idea on purchasing Paradise, still don't intend to after the demo put me right off.
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Post by Robert Frazer on Mar 19, 2008 2:01:59 GMT
On the topic of Yahtzee, has anyone played any of his Trilby games? The So Many Days a Something-or-Other point-and-click adventures are a regular fixture on PC Gamer demo-discs, although I must confess to my shame that I've never got round to playing them (truth be told, the DVDs usually become coasters! ); I've made an effort to start off with Trilby and the Art of Theft, though, and I'm finding it quite enjoyable - you can be wrongfooted by the controls (particularly how the wallhug command toggles on and off rather than being a press-and-hold function), but the content is surprisingly taut, and quite challenging in places.
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Post by Sin on Mar 19, 2008 2:15:57 GMT
I really like his game, although I think he has never quite topped the quality of 5 Days a Stranger. Although the 4th game does a really good at wrapping up the Chzo (sp?) mythlos, which I thought would have been impossible when I started playing it.
Art of Theft is good, but just seems to lack substance.
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Post by obsidian on Mar 19, 2008 11:00:01 GMT
I haven't played much of 6 Days, I keep getting caught by that [censored] in the Trilby costume and got pissed off. I love 5 Days, wasn't VERY keen on 7 Days (it was good, but I didn't like some of the puzzles), and Trilby's Notes is the bees knees.
I avoid playing 1213 because it's like Flashback. And while I LIKE Flashback, I was, and still am, absolutely godawful at Flashback and anything remotely similar. Took me aeons to beat the Oddworld games, for god's sake.
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Post by Sin on Mar 19, 2008 15:23:08 GMT
1213 is really really good, I would recommend it highly.
His comic space adventure game is fairly good too, Adventures in a Galaxy of Infinite Wonderment, or something like that. Although the whole menu flight system is kinda clunky.
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Mar 19, 2008 22:06:04 GMT
This week, Yahtzee doesn't so much as review Turok as he takes the opportunity to lay into just about every modern FPS going.
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Post by Pombar on Mar 20, 2008 11:10:52 GMT
He's damned right about health metres, but at the same time 3 shot kill games are rather less frustrating with a rechargeable health system.
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Post by Retro on Mar 20, 2008 18:22:11 GMT
It's true that health metres seem to have gone the way of the N-Gage, however there is still the odd shining example. Half Life 2.
Although I do prefer in many ways the regenerative health system, it just breaks the flow and pace of a game to suddenly be madly hunting for medpacks in an empty area when you really just want to be moving on.
Call of Duty 2 onwards hit is pretty right, especially in such intense combat, regenerative health is kinda nessesary.
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Post by Pete on Mar 20, 2008 18:59:55 GMT
A friend of mine recently bought Turok, to find the motion blur so bad that it makes the game nearly unplayable. I just told him not to buy it 'cos it was crap, but there you go.
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Post by segaz on Mar 20, 2008 22:53:07 GMT
Turok 2 is pretty good, even for todays standards. In fact, quite a lot of the N64 games are decent, all they'd need is a bit of graphic sprucing up. It's kinda weird how the N64 is perhaps the console with the most games dying to be remade on it.
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Mar 26, 2008 18:05:59 GMT
This week, the point-and-clickers come under scrutiny as Yahtzee reviews Zack and Wiki.
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Post by tucker on Mar 31, 2008 20:30:08 GMT
Did anyone read his WebComic Yahtzee takes on The World. Was pretty funny, there's like 2 years worth of daily comics.
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Apr 2, 2008 16:24:22 GMT
This week it's Army of Two, and Yahtzee struggles against his instinct to crank out the gay jokes.
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Post by Baron Canier on Apr 4, 2008 17:46:28 GMT
Well, there goes my curiousity about whether the team-based mechanics would be worth checking out. Think I'll stick to Republic Commando.
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