Zero Punctuation: Demon's Souls

Yahtzee takes on Demon's Souls. This looks hard.

(That's what she said.)
guymontagesays...

I've heard this game is hard, but i doubt its as hard as yahtzees says it is; I seem to remember him saying that The World Ends With You was hard and Demon's Soul is not made for people who like ADD games like Saints Row 2.

Lodurrsays...

>> ^guymontage:
i doubt its as hard as yahtzees says it is


It is that hard. I gave up on it, but came back to it later after reading about how other people play it, and did much better and beat it. I think the main difficulty is that there are invalid ways to try and play it. For example, you NEED to have either a bow or an offensive spell to beat some bosses or to survive certain levels. You also need to use a shield until you master the rolling around. Also, never dual wield. If I had known these things from the start, I wouldn't have quit the first time. So Yahtzee's review is valid. That's what happens when you don't show people how to play your difficult game.

EDDsays...

I'm genuinely starting to think he's rubbish at games compared to the average gamer, because this isn't the first time he's bashed a game that's not basically for n00bs on default. I haven't played Demon's Souls since it's a PS3 exclusive, but several of my friends have, and even though they don't consider themselves 'hardcore gamers', they all said it was just 'pretty hard', not ultra-impossible like, say, almost any old-school FPS on Nightmare or Extreme difficulty.

NinjaInHeatsays...

What sort of retard reviews a game after playing through the first section of the first level? For someone who's so good at bashing games (rightly so more often than not) it's a shame that when a truly unique one comes out he can't even be bothered to give it the effort. Honestly, Demon's Souls is easily the game of the year, there's no shortage of great games that came out lately, RPG-wise there's the amazing Dragon Age, but even Dragon Age in all its greatness doesn't achieve what Demon's Souls does and it's so rare that developers try at such unique innovation that when they succeed so beautifully they should be commended again and again.

dannym3141says...

>> ^brycewi19:
Ahem, you're welcome?
Ya know, when you finish watching a marathon of The Office, that line pretty much comes out of your mouth naturally.
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What irks me about this comment is that the phrase "that's what she said" was being bandied around over 7 years ago. I remember my teacher used to reply with this terrible phrase whilst i was at 6th-form to almost every vague inuendo he could see. Unfortunately at the time i also thought it was funny and reiterated it to the nth degree.

The problem with the phrase "that's what she said" is that it's a staple and empty reply designed for use by people who can't think quickly enough to come up with a decently funny innuendo. It CAN be funny, but only in an ironic way.

If you REALLY think about it, it means nothing - there's no content to it, no innuendo. Think about it. You could start popularising the phrase "insert joke here" and that would have the same thoughtful content as "that's what she said." Because the implication of the phrase is "a woman said that to me once", a boring and average innuendo, and none of us even consider this idea now that we've heard the phrase 3 million times by the same bearded twats who think they're the life and soul of the party - you're effectively saying "that's innuendo! LOL! ROFL!"

I went through this thought process SEVEN YEARS AGO, when i decided to stop using the phrase. I decided - if you aren't quick witted enough to come up with a decent innuendo, don't bother doing it at all, you've already failed, and by saying "that's what she said", you're just drawing attention to your failure.

It's bad enough that the american writers of the office stumbled across this relic of a joke and started smearing it all over the fucking place, repopularising the phrase amongst the great unwashed masses, but they did that in THE OFFICE of all fucking things! A show that, in its first form, was chock full of individuality, originality and blistering comedy.

Oh how low we've sunk.

dannym3141says...

^ Erm, i think the new quote system is broken. I'll leave it like that so whoever's in charge can see what's going on and replicate it.

I didn't touch the quote bit at all, i'm quite sure it was a bug. I just hit "quote" on bryce's comment.

When i edit that above comment, in the preview area, it shows it like it should look, you know, with a quote bit at the bottom. It has a load of trash in it though!

enemycombatantsays...

There are (from what I've read) 5 worlds in this game. He completed one of them. I know he's supposed to bash the games, but anyone can just spout uninformed opinion. He loses even more credibility for "reviewing" a game he played only 20% of.

Kruposays...

>> ^dannym3141:
^ Erm, i think the new quote system is broken. I'll leave it like that so whoever's in charge can see what's going on and replicate it.
I didn't touch the quote bit at all, i'm quite sure it was a bug. I just hit "quote" on bryce's comment.
When i edit that above comment, in the preview area, it shows it like it should look, you know, with a quote bit at the bottom. It has a load of trash in it though!


Fair enough. In response to your actual content: Futurama pulled it out first (ahahaha, see what we set up with that phrase?). Bender's ironic use of it was awesome.

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