i see zero merit in what you said. and i say this as an experienced psychonaut. are there extra dimensional beings? i don't know. does altering your brain chemistry prove their existence? no.

and Psychonauts.
He liked that one a lot.

No problem, the spirit molecule and the psychonaut voyages in general are interesting topics eternal. Also just noticed that we share the same birthday, so Happy Birthday two Mondays ago!

What you're doing when you take these drugs is that you're turning over control of your mind to demons. It may feel good and seem profound but in reality you are being programmed. I know that many psychonauts believe they are experiencing true freedom, but it is actually mental and spiritual bondage they are experiencing, being imprisoned inside an unreal construct with chains they cannot see.

>> ^Trancecoach:

psychonauts is a great game... this wasn't it.


Psychonauts was great... except for the last level that was impossible without cheats, even if you had all the secret doohickeys.

psychonauts is a great game... this wasn't it.

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Is there anything I can do for this video with my four Power Points?

This is so awesome. Psychonauts is so awesome.

@Sylvester_Ink:
Riffing on a good game that is relatively unknown, like Torchlight, leaves a sour taste. Neither Painkiller or Psychonauts is a perfect game in their own right. Both, in fact, have many of their own flaws. Yet they get glowing reviews. Torchlight distills the Diablo-esque RPG to its best elements, and all it gets is an "it's good because it's cheap.



"Good" game? "Best" elements of the action RPG genre? I wouldn't use either of those words to describe the game. Mind you it only cost $20, but with no story, endless repetitive gameplay, and no multiplayer, the game felt like a bare-bones Diablo clone with all the best parts stripped out.

And seriously, get over it. Yahtzee makes fun of games. That's what he does. Don't get hypocritical and defensive all of a sudden just because he made fun a game that you happen to like.

>> ^Sylvester_Ink:
I think I'm over Yahtzee's ZP reviews. I was already disappointed of his off-hand dismissal of the RTS genre, but this takes things a bit too far. Riffing on a bad game is funny. Riffing on a good game that sells well (like a certain Call of Duty game) is funny. Riffing on a good game that is relatively unknown, like Torchlight, leaves a sour taste. Neither Painkiller or Psychonauts is a perfect game in their own right. Both, in fact, have many of their own flaws. Yet they get glowing reviews. Torchlight distills the Diablo-esque RPG to its best elements, and all it gets is an "it's good because it's cheap."


Are you saying the comedic value of this review is dependant on whether you agree with his review? Reviews are opinion, there are no objectively good games. Also, he didn't say it was good because it was cheap, he said it wasn't worth the $3 he paid for it.

For the most part I do not agree with Yahtzee's opinions (I like JRPG's and singing in Rock Band), so I don't view them as reviews and they don't factor into by buying choices. Its just comedy.

Agreed, Torchlight is one of the few games that has kept me entertained recently and it deserves a bit more than it got. I wouldn't mind him taking aim at it so much if it was a shoddy piece of work, but he dismissed it basically because of its genre - disregarding the fact that it is the best of its genre, IMO. >> ^Sylvester_Ink:
I think I'm over Yahtzee's ZP reviews. I was already disappointed of his off-hand dismissal of the RTS genre, but this takes things a bit too far. Riffing on a bad game is funny. Riffing on a good game that sells well (like a certain Call of Duty game) is funny. Riffing on a good game that is relatively unknown, like Torchlight, leaves a sour taste. Neither Painkiller or Psychonauts is a perfect game in their own right. Both, in fact, have many of their own flaws. Yet they get glowing reviews. Torchlight distills the Diablo-esque RPG to its best elements, and all it gets is an "it's good because it's cheap."

I think I'm over Yahtzee's ZP reviews. I was already disappointed of his off-hand dismissal of the RTS genre, but this takes things a bit too far. Riffing on a bad game is funny. Riffing on a good game that sells well (like a certain Call of Duty game) is funny. Riffing on a good game that is relatively unknown, like Torchlight, leaves a sour taste. Neither Painkiller or Psychonauts is a perfect game in their own right. Both, in fact, have many of their own flaws. Yet they get glowing reviews. Torchlight distills the Diablo-esque RPG to its best elements, and all it gets is an "it's good because it's cheap."

Actually, I thought it was rather like psychonauts in that the gameplay wasn't all that great, but you're distracted from that by the excellent setting, humor and art. Come to think of it, that was always true of his adventure games too. No one actually enjoys the gameplay of adventure games, but the old Lucas Arts games were funny and entertaining enough to make up for it.

If only this game were longer, more varied, more creative, and had a few more likable and interesting characters it would rank up there with his previous work. One problem was that they were so interested in paying homage to the Metal that half of the noteworthy characters were voiced by old drug addled musicians who speak in s sort of mumbling monotone. Yes, Ozzy isn't the only one.

Psychonauts is his best game. The best game nobody played.

For anyone interested, the voice of the "smash the guitar" twat is Razputin himself, Richard Horvitz, who has voiced for a lot of cartoons and games.

I can include Psychonauts.