Just as I was about to say "Oh, another Yahtzee video, is this the one where he hates everything?" he goes and ruins my smartmouthing by liking something. Huh.

I used to enjoy Yahtzee's rants but he helped me put my finger on why I now unfailingly zone-out in the middle of them now: his reviews suffer from the same lack of juxtaposition that he said afflicts Black Ops. I am amused for awhile then it's Charlie Brown's teacher time. I know it's part of the whole zero punctuation schtick but I think I would be able to pay more attention if he varied his cadence.

Yahtzee is right on about the gameplay. And that really needs to be mentioned upfront, on account of it being a game.

But there were a couple things that Enslaved did so unusually well that I couldn't help but be endeared. First, the acting was truly compelling. Both in terms of the voice acting and the very carefully done, natural and expressive animation. Monkey was played by Andy Serkis, and you can tell he worked with the developers on how to create a digital performance that seems human.

The other part I was pleasantly surprised by is the teamwork puzzles. I have such fond memories of games like the Lost Vikings and Project Eden that it's great to get a taste of that again. Unfortunately they really missed an opportunity in not going further with it, but for a couple hours it was quite fun.

I'm not saying you should buy the game, lord no. You'd need more than an 8 hour single-player game with no replayability to justify $60. But definitely rent it.

Yahtzee, a *british guy living *downunder who reviews and write books (and owns a bar) based around *videogames

I am starting to thing Zifnab and Yahtzee are the same person, or Zif pays him in "favors"

@1:33 "B: She's the only thing in this plot with an X chromosome"

Yahtzee needs a biology lesson.

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^ Who had post 6 in the "First to say yahtzee isn't funny anymore!" pool?

It just occurred to me that Yahtzee is essentially the Armond White of videogame reviews. But then people watch Zero Punctuation because it's funny and entertaining, not for the opinions -- I'm not sure what Armond White's excuse is.

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>> ^xxovercastxx:

You left the H out of Yahtzee in tags and description


Thanks, fixed it

You left the H out of Yahtzee in tags and description

I gotta say. When Yahtzee gets a hold on this shit is going to fly.

>> ^entr0py:
>> ^mentality:
This sounds exactly like the kind of game that I hate playing: Shallow repetitive quests, bad story, time consuming. Red Dead is kind of like the anti-Portal.

Bad story? Did you get that from when he said the game was beautifully written? And I'd venture that almost no one who buys a $60 game wants it to last only 5 hours, as portal did. It's definitely not a casual or budget game. As for the MMOish quests, as he mentioned they're all optional.


You're probably right. I'm basing my thoughts more on Yahtzee saying this is just another Niko bellic with a change of setting, and DFT's opinion that the cutscenes are terrible. And by time consuming I mean I don't want to a significant % of my game time traveling and staring at a horse's ass. A game can be 60 hours long or 6 hours long, but if the quality is good then it doesn't matter. I'd rather pay $60 for 6 hours of an amazing game than spend $60 on a boring game with unlimited content. For example, you'd have to pay me money to play through GTA 3, as I consider free roaming shallow content games like that utter garbage.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I really like this game, but the story and cut scenes are terrible. It's the same kind of story telling Rockstar was doing in the 90's, which wasn't really even that good back then, but it feels really dated to me in the present. A couple hours into the game I just started skipping the lengthy cut scenes altogether with no regrets (except for not getting to seeing Icarus meet his doom off the edge of a cliff). I like digs at Bush and Blackwater as much as the next guy, but not so much in my western. If you are going to make a digital homage to the western, then crib from The Good, The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent 7, The Unforgiven, etc. Still a great game, but it would have been better with characters and a story that I cared about.


Wow. Did you even play the game?? The story is phenomenal (practically the entire internet agrees, even Yahtzee), the cutscenes are solid, and the list of films you cited is pretty much the exact list that they DID crib from.