Oner Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 Nope. Yahtzee calls a game that's built around style unstylish. That's jarring stupidity. Doesn't know what 'opinion' means, tsk tsk. Skipping language classes again? Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
Purkake Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 (edited) Just because they "built it around style" doesn't mean they succeeded. You think DMC is stylish, he doesn't. Get over it. Edited March 2, 2010 by Purkake
RPGmasterBoo Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 Oner is right. Of all the things Yahtzee could have praised GoW over DMC he chose the one that makes no sense at all, since DMC emphasizes style far more than GoW. Imperium Thought for the Day: Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life
Purkake Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 So? His opinion doesn't make sense to you. Write him a letter?
Oner Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 Just because they "built it around style" doesn't mean they succeeded. You think DMC is stylish, he doesn't. Get over it. Except they did. Hell, he himself acknowledged it in the DMC 4 review. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
WILL THE ALMIGHTY Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 Ok guys he made a mistake. Get over it. "Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
Purkake Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 (edited) I must have missed that part. Maybe he has selective amnesia? Who cares? It's just a videogame about dudes with too many belts, geez. Feel free to boycott him and send him angry letters. Edited March 2, 2010 by Purkake
Calax Posted March 3, 2010 Posted March 3, 2010 Okay, I have to write this down somewhere, you are the lucky ones.http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...-Dantes-Inferno "I'm a little tired of the term God of War Clone. God of War took its style of hack and slash gameplay directly from Devil May Cry, which evolved it from previous games."-The Youth Counselor I've heard this argument before, and it doesn't hold weight for me. Being the first doesn't necessarily mean you get to be the benchmark: Doom was the game that put FPSes on the map, after all, despite Wolfenstein 3D being the first (and there were others that were even earlier, like Catacomb 3-D). Devil May Cry might have created a model for frantic hack-and-slash gameplay, but God of War gave it style. Yahtzee. YOU ****ING MOROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: And then there was the second paragraph Besides, despite similarities in the core gameplay, God of War and Devil May Cry aren't cut from the same cloth. It seems more like they're heading vaguely towards the same place from vastly different directions. DMC has more of the Japanese-style hack and slash about it - extremely over-the-top, with more emphasis on combat variety and less on level design, and with end-of-mission scoring screens that give a more arcade-y feel. Whereas God of War's model has greater emphasis on environments and storytelling but with gameplay that's more function-over-style, treating monsters more as obstacles to get past than opportunities to show off your skills. And that's what Dante's Inferno rips off. So there. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Oner Posted March 3, 2010 Posted March 3, 2010 Notice the first word is "besides". Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
Calax Posted March 3, 2010 Posted March 3, 2010 Then I guess it comes down to style. Devil May Cry is more about the style of action than characters, environment, or story. God of War is more of a brutal version of DMC with a stylish set of characters environments and a good story, which appears to be what he's getting at. DMC is ONLY style, God of War is significantly more. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Oner Posted March 3, 2010 Posted March 3, 2010 DMC isn't exactly the most significant intellectual work of the millenium, but saying the environment, characters and story aren't stylish is just untrue. I could just as well say GoW is ONLY gore while DMC is significantly more. At least, more than you think it is. Unless I'm misunderstanding you somewhere. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
Calax Posted March 3, 2010 Posted March 3, 2010 DMC isn't exactly the most significant intellectual work of the millenium, but saying the environment, characters and story aren't stylish is just untrue. I could just as well say GoW is ONLY gore while DMC is significantly more. At least, more than you think it is. Unless I'm misunderstanding you somewhere. Not saying they don't have SOME style, but that GoW's is better done and (in my eyes) has more style to it. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Orogun01 Posted March 3, 2010 Posted March 3, 2010 Not saying they don't have SOME style, but that GoW's is better done and (in my eyes) has more style to it. I would argue that GoW has more substance over style. The focus of the game is brutality not style, fights in it are meant to be an ordeal, an obstacle and not the center. Plus when it comes to side arms DM>GoW. I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
Purkake Posted March 3, 2010 Posted March 3, 2010 (edited) Bioshock 2 is up. Wow, this was actually really good for once. Edited March 3, 2010 by Purkake
Oner Posted March 3, 2010 Posted March 3, 2010 The way he said "HA-HA, I'm just messing with you!" was so charming. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
Oner Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Alien: versus Predator Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
Purkake Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 (edited) Alien: versus Predator That's what you get for trying to be faster than me As for the review, it was pretty good, but I have the distinct feeling that there are still a few big-name games that he hasn't reviewed yet. Edited March 10, 2010 by Pidesco
Pidesco Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Nothing wrong with Oner's post from where I'm standing. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist I am Dan Quayle of the Romans. I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands. Heja Sverige!! Everyone should cuffawkle more. The wrench is your friend.
Oner Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 I'm pretty sure I wrote servus there. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
GreasyDogMeat Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Wow, Yahtzee was a LOT less harsh to AvP than I thought he would be.
Meshugger Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Alien: versus Predator ....and another that i will not bother with, thanks to mr. Yahtzee. "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
Zachariah Tam Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 He does bring up some good points, such as they are both alien species.
I want teh kotor 3 Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Alien: versus Predator ....and another that i will not bother with, thanks to mr. Yahtzee. If you use ZP as your main source of reviews, it doesn't seem like you'll buy very many games... I think he's only liked 3 games that he's reviewed (Bioshock, Portal, and... something else)... In 7th grade, I teach the students how Chuck Norris took down the Roman Empire, so it is good that you are starting early on this curriculum. R.I.P. KOTOR 2003-2008 KILLED BY THOSE GREEDY MONEY-HOARDING ************* AND THEIR *****-*** MMOS
Oner Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 If you use ZP as your main source of reviews, it doesn't seem like you'll buy very many games... I think he's only liked 3 games that he's reviewed (Bioshock, Portal, and... something else)...Psychonauts, you heretic. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
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