Upvote for the sentiment, not the song.

Some games I love to spend time on and work my way through hard (Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry), but usually I don't have the patience any more. And some games I find are simply frustrating on normal and hard, and actually quite fun on easy (Vanquish and Bayonetta for instance).

>> ^rottenseed:

d'awww you're kinda new here! You'll get used to it...lunch is at 11:00 am Sydney time.
I've known about Zero Punctuation for a few years, but thanks for the warm and condescending welcome.

d'awww you're kinda new here! You'll get used to it...lunch is at 11:00 am Sydney time.>> ^renatojj:

Most of his jokes are lost on me because he speaks too fast.

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Ninja Gaiden 3 was the biggest disappointment, the biggest failure, the biggest insult in gaming for years. Ninja Gaiden 2 had it's many issues, but at least it still felt like Ninja Gaiden and was still a challenge. NG3 just took everything that made the series good and cut it (well, the stuff that wasn't already cut in NG2)

>> ^NetRunner:

I'm starting to feel like Yahtzee is a bad reviewer of games. I haven't played Resistance 3 yet, but all I got from this was that he loves it because its mechanics are old-fashioned.
Maybe all of us gamers are starting to get a bit long in the tooth, but I've not become particularly nostalgic for "the good old days" of gaming. I mean, do most gamers spend a lot of time wishing old game mechanics would come back from the dead? I've played enough remakes of "classic" games I loved to realize that most of them don't hold up in comparison to modern games. Gaming has largely moved on.
I for one love the addition of cover and regenerating health to shooters, and don't really like the idea of going back to health pickups and strafing in and out of cover.
Oh, and maybe I just don't play a lot of shooters, but are any of the top-tier series really still all/mostly brown? The only ones I know of are Gears and Resistance...in their first iteration only. From hearing Yahtzee, you'd think this was some mistake developers are still making, but I can't recall the last game I played that didn't make use of a healthy portion of the color wheel.


I'd like to experience some of the good old days of shooters again not because games were better back then, much of the design has moved on, but now days there is just a flood of games all using the same mechanics as each other with no variety or substance.

Resistance 3 was a breath of fresh air, old school style gameplay mixed with modern mechanics. The health system, however was imbalanced. They could've done more to make it work better, but overall though, i really enjoyed Resistance dispite a few questionable design decisions. The fact that you can carry all the weapons at once nearly made me tear up.

DNF is a good example of totally cocking up the "old school" approach by implementing the WRONG modern features. Firstly the regenerating health. This right away causes a problem; you can regenerate your health, so for some challenge we need to make the enemies do a lot more damage to keep the player from abusing the system. What happens? You are almost always sitting back behind cover while waiting for your health to regen before firing again. That's not Duke Nukem! I heard other ideas were that you needed to kill an enemy to regain health, THAT is Duke.
Then there's the 2 weapon limit. George Broussard in all his game design incompetence said they couldn't find a way to implement a weapon wheel effectively on consoles... Resistance 3 seemed to do it fine. So did HL2 years back. Moron.

Regen health and 2 weapon limit can and do work for some games like Call of Duty, Halo and Gears of War, but FFS let's try something a little different once in a while. But some developers use them as a development crutch; less testing, balancing and design required. Less effort in other words. Or they use it to make the game less complex, which is a bad thing. Ninja Gaiden is a good example. It seems to be going down a path of less and less substance, there's only the combat. This is terrible. The original game's store, upgrades, potions, rewards for exploration, non-linear main world all helped to pace the game better rather than an exhausting trudge through constant unrelenting combat seen in Ninja Gaiden 2 and from the sounds, even more so for the third game.

His next video will probably be a "making of the Nightmare Before Xmas Review" clip and then after that he'll release another retrospective of his own filmmaking career. Hardly ever seen a guy get more mileage out of shit he'd probably be better off not showing to people. I do love when he actuall discusses games or does something great like the Ninja Gaiden review.

1. Chrono Trigger (0:00)
2. Super Mario Allstars (0:07)
3. Legend Of the Mystical Ninja (0:13)
4. Hagane (0:19)
5. Axelay (0:25)
6. Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3 (0:31)
7. Pilotwings (0:37)
8. Super Punchout! (0:43)
9. Wild Guns (0:49)
10. Secret of Mana (0:55)
11. Super Double Dragon (1:01)
12. Earthbound (1:07)
13. Addams Family (1:13)
14. Actraiser (1:19)
15. Biker Mice from Mars (1:25)
16. Aliens vs Predator (1:31)
17. Breath of Fire (1:37)
18. F-Zero (1:43)
19. Gradius 3 (1:49)
20. Megaman 7 (1:55)
21. Super Star Wars (2:01)
22. Rock'n Roll Racing (2:07)
23. Pocky & Rocky (2:13)
24. Legend of Zelda - Link to the Past (2:19)
25. Prince of Persia (2:25)
26. Bust A Move (2:31)
27. Out of this World (2:37)
28. Super Metroid (2:43)
29. Blackthorne (2:49)
30. Animaniacs (2:55)
31. Street Fighter 2 (3:01)
32. Secret of Evermore (3:07)
33. Super Mario World (3:13)
34. Sparkster (3:19)
35. Demons Crest (3:25)
36. Aladdin (3:31)
37. Final Fantasy 3 (3:37)
38. Castlevania X (3:43)
39. Final Fight (3:49)
40. Donkey Kong Country (3:55)
41. EVO (4:01)
42. Starfox (4:07)
43. Super Adventure Island (4:13)
44. Flashback (4:19)
45. Sunset Rider (4:25)
46. Shadowrun (4:31)
47. Final Fantasy 2 (4:37)
48. Indiana Jones Greatest Adventures (4:43)
49. Lufia 1 (4:49)
50. Kirbys Dream Land 3 (4:55)
51. Joe & Mac (5:01)
52. Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse (5:07)
53. Killer Instinct (5:13)
54. Super Bonk (5:19)
55. Ninja Warrior (5:25)
56. The Lost Vikings (5:31)
57. Harvest Moon (5:37)
58. Spiderman VS Venom (5:43)
59. Lion King (5:49)
60. Super Castlevania (5:55)
61. Super Mario RPG (6:01)
62. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV - Turtles in Time (6:07)
63. Kirbys Avalanche (6:13)
64. Contra 3 (6:19)
65. Mortal Kombat 2 (6:25)
66. Super Turrican 2 (6:31)
67. Tiny Toon Adventures (6:37)
68. X-Men (6:43)
69. Megaman X 1 (6:49)
70. Super Mario World 2 (6:55)
71. Battle Toads & Double Dragon (7:01)
72. Tales of Phantasia (7:07)
73. NBA Jam Tournament Edition (7:13)
74. Tetris Attack (7:19)
75. Stunt Racer FX (7:25)
76. Super R-Type (7:31)
77. Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (7:37)
78. Earthworm Jim (7:43)
79. Dragon View (7:49)
80. Yoshis Safari (7:55)
81. Sim City (8:01)
82. King of Dragons (8:07)
83. Super Offroad (8:13)
84. Madden 95 (8:19)
85. Super Bomberman (8:25)
86. Tetris & Dr. Mario (8:31)
87. Mario Paint (8:37)
88. Arkanoid 2 (8:43)
89. Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (8:49)
90. Cybernator (8:55)
91. Cool Spot (9:01)
92. Super Mario Kart (9:07)
93. Death and Return of Superman (9:13)
94. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Tournament Fighters (9:19)
95. Soul Blazer (9:25)
96. Super Ghouls & Goblins (9:31)
97. Zombies Ate My Neighbors (9:37)
98. Darius Twin (9:43)
99. Captain Commando (9:49)
100. Lemmings (9:55)

>> ^Hybrid:

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*isdupe=http://videosift.com/video/Super-Mario-Bros-crossover-Ryu-Hayabusa

>> ^budzos:

The new cinemassacre site is such an epic fail in web design. I


I what?

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-men-play-Ninja-Gaiden -> http://www.videosift.com/video/How-to-advertise-a-video-game-bouncing-jubblies

Sorry for being all over you like this

haha sometimes its just not my day

http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-men-play-Ninja-Gaiden -> http://www.videosift.com/video/How-to-advertise-a-video-game-bouncing-jubblies

Sorry for being all over you like this

Back in 1999 or maybe 2000 when I first got my NES emulator, I played through Ninja Gaiden 1-3 in about a week or two. At the end of that time I wanted to start carrying a katana. The urge passed rather quickly.

>> ^Wingoguy:
You CAN get away with it!!!
Oh, and title is misleading as the story really has nothing to do with the kid being a gamer. It's not like he was playing Ninja Gaiden and was suddenly caught up in irresistible bloodlust and needed to chop someone.

But the burglar was stealing his X-Box. So we could make the assumption that he, at one time, had played a video game on it.

And I don't agree with the burglar's sister, she should feel honored her brother was killed with a samurai sword. Do you know how rare it is to be put the death the way they would've done it in Feudal Japan?

You CAN get away with it!!!

Oh, and title is misleading as the story really has nothing to do with the kid being a gamer. It's not like he was playing Ninja Gaiden and was suddenly caught up in irresistible bloodlust and needed to chop someone.