KlykaDO you have anySPARE BATTERIES?Registered Userregular
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Just beat the game, now that was a lot of fun from start to finish. No idea why everyone kept dying at the Cherubs, I died once and then easily made it by just walking in a circle and slamming them to the ground with the Capture Beam.
So,anyone up for some online on 360? "Klyka" on live, add me!
Just beat the game, now that was a lot of fun from start to finish. No idea why everyone kept dying at the Cherubs, I died once and then easily made it by just walking in a circle and slamming them to the ground with the Capture Beam.
So,anyone up for some online on 360? "Klyka" on live, add me!
Slamming them to the ground? You have to slam them on the gate.
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Just beat the game, now that was a lot of fun from start to finish. No idea why everyone kept dying at the Cherubs, I died once and then easily made it by just walking in a circle and slamming them to the ground with the Capture Beam.
So,anyone up for some online on 360? "Klyka" on live, add me!
Slamming them to the ground? You have to slam them on the gate.
I would normally say "I'm absolutely going to pick that up," but upon rewatching the original Ghostbusters, I'm really wondering if it's not going to look horrible on Blu-Ray. Really, there are some effects (matting, the early proton stream effects) that don't seem like they'll hold up well.
I mean, I still love the movies, and still find them a pleasure to watch, but some things look worse when given the BR treatment. I guess it's up to how it holds up in 'remastering'--there may still be hope yet!
*crosses fingers*
Rest your mind, it looks better than it did in theaters. And it naturally destroys the DVD version in video and sound. The proton pack charging on sounds like it is happening in front of you.
(I was six when I saw it in theaters, and have rose colored memories of how it looked on the big screen, to clarify)
Yeah, it'll most likely be a pack you'll have to pay for, but if it comes with level parts and music and such like the MGS pack I'm totally getting it. If it's just costumes, I'll prolly pass.
On another note--while playing the game in front of some friends, we agreed that they should absolutely release DLC mission packs for specific moments from the movies. The most obvious example is the Evo Shandor Apartment Building, from the time you arrive to the actual fight with Gozar. You arrive with a police escort, playing one of the actual ghostbusters. Maybe even make you cross the streams manually (take a little bit of maneuvering) at the end.
Of course, you'd probably have to do things like fight ghosts along the unending stairway to make it, you know, fun...and you wouldn't have any of the upgrades except those for the proton pack (maybe the Boson dart?). But a dragged out fight with Gozar would be awesome, before Stay Puft appeared--maybe Stay Puft throwing minions at you to eliminate on the top?
Anything would most likely be more fun then mashing the buttons repeatedly like the NES version.
"Where are we?"
"I think we're somewhere in the teens."
"Ok, let me know when we reach 20. I'm gonna throw up."
That scene is one of those weird memory glitches for me. I absolutely remember the lines "Okay, we're at 20..." "Too late, I already threw up" being in the movie, but as far as I can tell, they never existed and it's all in my imagination.
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It's his job not to like things. I think he's admitted to liking a total of three games, one of which he still made a point to shit on and one other of which he's never actually reviewed.
To be honest, it does serve it's purpose with some games. Games like Halo and Super Mario Galaxy were getting so many mathematically dubious reviews all over the internet. They didn't need more good things said about them, but there was a lot not being said that Yahtzee covered.
I dunno about Ghostbusters though. The revews were pretty fair, and he didn't really say anything that other reviews ignored. He needs to review something to fill in weeks between flagship series releases, I guess.
"Where are we?"
"I think we're somewhere in the teens."
"Ok, let me know when we reach 20. I'm gonna throw up."
That scene is one of those weird memory glitches for me. I absolutely remember the lines "Okay, we're at 20..." "Too late, I already threw up" being in the movie, but as far as I can tell, they never existed and it's all in my imagination.
I vaguely remember lines like those in the movie. But, I think they appeared in the TV broadcast version of the movie, not the theatrical release.
"Where are we?"
"I think we're somewhere in the teens."
"Ok, let me know when we reach 20. I'm gonna throw up."
That scene is one of those weird memory glitches for me. I absolutely remember the lines "Okay, we're at 20..." "Too late, I already threw up" being in the movie, but as far as I can tell, they never existed and it's all in my imagination.
Very possible. I have a similar issue with Jurassic Park. I absolutely remember a scene when they first reach the island and get in the cars, they're driving along the path when the blond scientist lady reaches out of the car and grabs a leaf from the path. But in the VHS version I got when it came out, that scene didn't exist. But I know for a fact that it was there, because when they pull up to the Brachiasaurus, she's still totally engrossed in the leaf talking about how it's extinct. To this day, I have no idea why that scene existed in the theatrical release, but was excised from the home release, and makes me wonder just how many other movies I have aren't actually complete.
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"Where are we?"
"I think we're somewhere in the teens."
"Ok, let me know when we reach 20. I'm gonna throw up."
That scene is one of those weird memory glitches for me. I absolutely remember the lines "Okay, we're at 20..." "Too late, I already threw up" being in the movie, but as far as I can tell, they never existed and it's all in my imagination.
Very possible. I have a similar issue with Jurassic Park. I absolutely remember a scene when they first reach the island and get in the cars, they're driving along the path when the blond scientist lady reaches out of the car and grabs a leaf from the path. But in the VHS version I got when it came out, that scene didn't exist. But I know for a fact that it was there, because when they pull up to the Brachiasaurus, she's still totally engrossed in the leaf talking about how it's extinct. To this day, I have no idea why that scene existed in the theatrical release, but was excised from the home release, and makes me wonder just how many other movies I have aren't actually complete.
I know this exact feeling. From a release i have of jurassic park, Dr. Grant proclaims "she was always my favorite when i was a child" but it from what i remember has been clipped from the version's i've seen.
I grew up with Ghostbusters. My dad was one of the first people my family knew to ever get a VHS player, and a camcorder (the thing was MASSIVE), and because of that, he was also one of the first people I knew as I kid who figured out how to dub movies to VHS for me and my brothers. He was an early pirate!
But most of the time he'd just tape the movies off TV, and because he was an editor he'd edit the commercials out and it looked flawless (except for the station logo). He'd also sometimes edit sware words or something out if he dubbed a real VHS - but pretty rarely.
So for YEARS the only version I saw of Ghostbusters was the one we had on VHS with my dad's drawing of the logo on the tape. I have no idea (and neither does he, when I asked) if he ever edited it, but it doesn't seem like he did. But either way, one day I was watching the movie on like TBS or something, on cable, and I saw the scene where the Ghostbusters order Chineese food, and then Ray gets the Ghost blowjob.
I saw that scene for the first time at like age 17 - so for 10 years my favorite movie of all time had been MISSING SOMETHING. I had no idea what to think. And that scene still is just randomly there or not there when you catch the movie on TV. My dad swears that he didn't edit that out and it just simply didn't exist in the theatrical cut he dubbed, but I never saw the movie in theatres so I have no idea.
But I still remember scouring the dial-up 14.4 modem internet looking for some sort of confirmation that scene even EXISTED, because I could not believe that there was a part of the movie that I hadn't seen before.
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That's something I've seen a LOT in old movies. Ghostbusters isn't really old, but the older the movie, the more scenes there are that seem to be there or not depending on the station, venue, time of day and phase of the moon. The very old VHS I have of McClintock ran almost a half hour shorter than the DVD version I got more recently, and there's a couple scenes I've seen on TV edits that aren't in the DVD either, and the TV edits always run shorter than the VHS. A lot of movies from that era seem to have that one scene you see once and swear to God was there but can never find again.
Well, you guys are basically describing the opening blurb that always shows on TV movies.
"This film has been altered from its original presentation. It has been edited to fit the screen and run in the time alloted".
Which may as well say "We chopped this movie in half, suckers". For the longest time, the only version of Ghostbusters I've ever seen was this one. For example, "Yes your honor, the man is some kind of rodent.". That's why I get a little giddy when they show the movie uncut on some stations, and you get the real line of "Yes your honor, the man has no dick.".
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One thing I would have liked would be an option to see the progression you've made in multiplayer. I love that I'm getting outfit upgrades, but having a viewer would be nice.
One thing I would have liked would be an option to see the progression you've made in multiplayer. I love that I'm getting outfit upgrades, but having a viewer would be nice.
Yeah, this. And also Im pretty shocked that I cant see my flightsuit collection anywhere. I think I'm only a level 2 or 3, but with no real indicator that I have a new suit on, other than me just noticing it, I wish I could view them somewhere.
Also - I just beat it on normal, and still must have missed some artifacts and ghost scans. Where can I see that? And can I start a professional run and build off my normal run? The most frusterating thing ever was playing through X-Men Origins: Wolverine, getting all the dog tags but 10, then starting a 'hard mode' run and seeing that all my progress on normal had been erased and i was back at 0 for dog tags. I'd rather just go replay missions on normal in GB if that's gonna be the case.
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Well, a collection of all GB3 related articles dating back to like '95 is FASCINATING. Coolest of all is seeing shit Aykroyd describes in like 1998 actually appearing in the game that just came out. He's quickly becoming a pretty inspiring guy to me - he LOVES this franchise, has a clear vision for it, and has stuck to his ideas for 10 years while the project hung in limbo. It's a great read.
It also makes it pretty clear to me that the game is 100% in canon, which in the case of Ilyssa is unfortunate, but on every other level I absolutely love. I thought the story - and how it tied together the 1st and 2nd movie - was very, very well done and interesting. And I noticed little things.
In an article from around 1998 on the site I linked, someone reviews the GB3 script Aykroyd had written, and comments how Winston is called "Dr. Zeddemore" in the movie for some reason. Well, in the game, Winston makes the comment in the museum that he studied for his doctorate there. And later in the game, when fighting some ghosts he made the comment "It's DOCTOR Zeddemore now!" So I like that in the time off Winston started taking his Ghostbusting more seriously and got his doctorate. It's just little things like that I love - how great he is at continuity.
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There's a Ghostbusters demo now if anyone knows someone who's on the fence about this game. Looks like XBL Gold Exclusive for now. I'm not sure about PSN.
It's been said, but an open city game with some of the C64 elements would be fantastic. If they could tie online co-op into that (say, invite a friend to come work at your "franchise") it would be great.
And what the fuck, let's throw in some Xcom elements where you need to gather slime/ghost detritus to help drive your research tree for new Speng-adgets.
The story missions, naturally, would have you interacting with the main team, but for free roaming stuff you'd get to customize your own team.
Last but not least, I would murder someone in cold blood in front of their children to be able to get a FigurePrint of me in 'bustin coveralls with a proton pack.
Edit: there's a co-optimus event on for this tonight according to Major Nelson's blog.
So, just finished this. Imported the US version. Allover a cool game, still some flaws. I had a lot of framedrops whenever a lot of flashy shit was goin' on.
Also, I LOVE the actual Proton pack ghost wrangling / capturing. The little critters like the walking candelabra's and shit? Not so much. In fact, they annoy the shit out of me. Also, my dude kept getting stuck behind shit on the ground 'cos I was always looking up at the flying ghosts.
Still.
It's Ghostbusters! They have the old look and feel spot on. I love it for just that. Library and Museum levels rocked.
Yeah, he doesn't like much. He didn't like Bionic Commando either and I'm having a fucking blast with that game.
If it's not Portal, he doesn't like it. Seriously, this is accurate in approximately 90% of circumstances, if not more. That being said, the idea is to be comical in the reviews, and watching him constantly give Valve blowjobs is funny. Sort of. Okay, maybe it's just the segways that he uses to turn the subject to Portal are.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if he hated the movies as well. Not sure why, just strikes me that way, even if he calls it "a film that was good". Or it could just be that he dislikes anything remotely like Gears of War?
Yeah, he doesn't like much. He didn't like Bionic Commando either and I'm having a fucking blast with that game.
If it's not Portal, he doesn't like it. Seriously, this is accurate in approximately 90% of circumstances, if not more. That being said, the idea is to be comical in the reviews, and watching him constantly give Valve blowjobs is funny. Sort of.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if he hated the movies as well. Not sure why, just strikes me that way, even if he calls it "a film that was good". Or it could just be that he dislikes anything remotely like Gears of War?
For me, the trick to his reviews is to pay more attention to all the small aspects that he calls out on. For instance, he says the AI is crap, it's a crapshoot when busting ghosts that you don't get hit in the back, forcing you to start over, and that you're constantly bouncing back and forth rezzing the team back up because they can't live for more than 10 seconds. He's dead on the money with these complaints. He's always been right with the complaints in any of the games I've played. He exaggerates these faults somewhat for comical effect, but he's still almost always right about them.
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Yeah, he doesn't like much. He didn't like Bionic Commando either and I'm having a fucking blast with that game.
If it's not Portal, he doesn't like it. Seriously, this is accurate in approximately 90% of circumstances, if not more. That being said, the idea is to be comical in the reviews, and watching him constantly give Valve blowjobs is funny. Sort of.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if he hated the movies as well. Not sure why, just strikes me that way, even if he calls it "a film that was good". Or it could just be that he dislikes anything remotely like Gears of War?
For me, the trick to his reviews is to pay more attention to all the small aspects that he calls out on. For instance, he says the AI is crap, it's a crapshoot when busting ghosts that you don't get hit in the back, forcing you to start over, and that you're constantly bouncing back and forth rezzing the team back up because they can't live for more than 10 seconds. He's dead on the money with these complaints. He's always been right with the complaints in any of the games I've played. He exaggerates these faults somewhat for comical effect, but he's still almost always right about them.
Frankly, I think the guy is basically not very good at anything that requires fast reflexes. The majority (let's say three-fourths) of his complaints on things outside of writing or actual technical glitches seem to be about that. Basically, if the game poses any sort of challenge, which is the point of a game, he will profess to hating it deeply. Now, this could mean he just doesn't like challenges and has zero patience, or it could mean he's playing it up and has the reflexes to catch a bullet in mid-air, or it could mean he genuinely sucks at moving his fingers fast. I'm guessing the first.
So, really, the reviews are totally useless for me. Mostly because I've actually played most of the games available there, before the reviews themselves. The same was true about Ghost Busters--there were moments of difficulty, yes, but the only way to have pleased him would have involved making the game a total cakewalk that would have, well, sucked. Forget about trying to reach a medium, he would have still bitched (and to the same amount). Of course, this is taking him at his word. It's his job to be dramatic. He beat him to RE5, so I (incorrectly) went into RE5 with a certain expectations regarding his complaints. Turned out to be a cakewalk. But I can see how it might be a better forecaster for others.
I pretty much just think the pictures are funny When they had someone else's voice ranting about X-Blades (was it?) for about 30 seconds, I thought it was just as humorous as Yahtzee, if not funnier. I think Yahtzee actually does the artwork, however.
Plus, it doesn't help that his complaints were, by his own admission, "THIS GAME IS TOO MUCH LIKE GHOSTBUSTERS". And, of course, in true Zero Punctuation style, it was pretty obvious that he was extremely close to also complaining "THIS GAME IS NOTHING LIKE GHOSTBUSTERS". If he could, he'd probably have said both. I'd say there's no pleasing him, but hearing him gush about Portal is less entertaining them hearing him complain, so it makes good sense.
Whether or not Yatzhee likes a game has nothing to do with his skills or his preferences. It has everything to do with the fact that he maintains his viewership by trashing on games. He gets paid to do it, and every time he's nice to a game, people whine that he's "no longer funny".
Seriously, this debate has to run a course every time the guy opens his mouth. Just take a step back and realize it's his job to sound like a twat.
Jesus Fucking Christ. Every time Yatzhee hates on a game, people freak out about it like he usually praises 99% of the games he reviews, and then the thread derails for 3 pages while people talk about how Yatzhee reviews his games and whether he really hates them, or just pretends to in order to play up the humor.
people like yatzhee for the same reasons they like simon cowell: they both have vaguely intelligent sounding accents and they hate almost everything in a comedic way
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Pretty much. Cool for people who already have it (and are willing to pay the fee). Never really liked it myself, but I know people who do.
Clever, but don't have a PS3...don't care.
So,anyone up for some online on 360? "Klyka" on live, add me!
Slamming them to the ground? You have to slam them on the gate.
Well,the ones that fly directly above it,yes.
Still,the others you can just slam on the ground.
Rest your mind, it looks better than it did in theaters. And it naturally destroys the DVD version in video and sound. The proton pack charging on sounds like it is happening in front of you.
(I was six when I saw it in theaters, and have rose colored memories of how it looked on the big screen, to clarify)
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Anything would most likely be more fun then mashing the buttons repeatedly like the NES version.
"I think we're somewhere in the teens."
"Ok, let me know when we reach 20. I'm gonna throw up."
That scene is one of those weird memory glitches for me. I absolutely remember the lines "Okay, we're at 20..." "Too late, I already threw up" being in the movie, but as far as I can tell, they never existed and it's all in my imagination.
Yeah, he doesn't like much. He didn't like Bionic Commando either and I'm having a fucking blast with that game.
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To be honest, it does serve it's purpose with some games. Games like Halo and Super Mario Galaxy were getting so many mathematically dubious reviews all over the internet. They didn't need more good things said about them, but there was a lot not being said that Yahtzee covered.
I dunno about Ghostbusters though. The revews were pretty fair, and he didn't really say anything that other reviews ignored. He needs to review something to fill in weeks between flagship series releases, I guess.
I vaguely remember lines like those in the movie. But, I think they appeared in the TV broadcast version of the movie, not the theatrical release.
http://geekytalk.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/ghostbusters-tv-version/
I sort of remember that when it first aired on TV, they were advertising it with 'added scenes'. I could be wrong. It was many many years ago.
Very possible. I have a similar issue with Jurassic Park. I absolutely remember a scene when they first reach the island and get in the cars, they're driving along the path when the blond scientist lady reaches out of the car and grabs a leaf from the path. But in the VHS version I got when it came out, that scene didn't exist. But I know for a fact that it was there, because when they pull up to the Brachiasaurus, she's still totally engrossed in the leaf talking about how it's extinct. To this day, I have no idea why that scene existed in the theatrical release, but was excised from the home release, and makes me wonder just how many other movies I have aren't actually complete.
I know this exact feeling. From a release i have of jurassic park, Dr. Grant proclaims "she was always my favorite when i was a child" but it from what i remember has been clipped from the version's i've seen.
But most of the time he'd just tape the movies off TV, and because he was an editor he'd edit the commercials out and it looked flawless (except for the station logo). He'd also sometimes edit sware words or something out if he dubbed a real VHS - but pretty rarely.
So for YEARS the only version I saw of Ghostbusters was the one we had on VHS with my dad's drawing of the logo on the tape. I have no idea (and neither does he, when I asked) if he ever edited it, but it doesn't seem like he did. But either way, one day I was watching the movie on like TBS or something, on cable, and I saw the scene where the Ghostbusters order Chineese food, and then Ray gets the Ghost blowjob.
I saw that scene for the first time at like age 17 - so for 10 years my favorite movie of all time had been MISSING SOMETHING. I had no idea what to think. And that scene still is just randomly there or not there when you catch the movie on TV. My dad swears that he didn't edit that out and it just simply didn't exist in the theatrical cut he dubbed, but I never saw the movie in theatres so I have no idea.
But I still remember scouring the dial-up 14.4 modem internet looking for some sort of confirmation that scene even EXISTED, because I could not believe that there was a part of the movie that I hadn't seen before.
"This film has been altered from its original presentation. It has been edited to fit the screen and run in the time alloted".
Which may as well say "We chopped this movie in half, suckers". For the longest time, the only version of Ghostbusters I've ever seen was this one. For example, "Yes your honor, the man is some kind of rodent.". That's why I get a little giddy when they show the movie uncut on some stations, and you get the real line of "Yes your honor, the man has no dick.".
I swear there's like 35 different versions of T2.
Yeah, this. And also Im pretty shocked that I cant see my flightsuit collection anywhere. I think I'm only a level 2 or 3, but with no real indicator that I have a new suit on, other than me just noticing it, I wish I could view them somewhere.
Also - I just beat it on normal, and still must have missed some artifacts and ghost scans. Where can I see that? And can I start a professional run and build off my normal run? The most frusterating thing ever was playing through X-Men Origins: Wolverine, getting all the dog tags but 10, then starting a 'hard mode' run and seeing that all my progress on normal had been erased and i was back at 0 for dog tags. I'd rather just go replay missions on normal in GB if that's gonna be the case.
http://www.ecto-web.org/~spookcentral/gb3_news.htm
Well, a collection of all GB3 related articles dating back to like '95 is FASCINATING. Coolest of all is seeing shit Aykroyd describes in like 1998 actually appearing in the game that just came out. He's quickly becoming a pretty inspiring guy to me - he LOVES this franchise, has a clear vision for it, and has stuck to his ideas for 10 years while the project hung in limbo. It's a great read.
It also makes it pretty clear to me that the game is 100% in canon, which in the case of Ilyssa is unfortunate, but on every other level I absolutely love. I thought the story - and how it tied together the 1st and 2nd movie - was very, very well done and interesting. And I noticed little things.
In an article from around 1998 on the site I linked, someone reviews the GB3 script Aykroyd had written, and comments how Winston is called "Dr. Zeddemore" in the movie for some reason. Well, in the game, Winston makes the comment in the museum that he studied for his doctorate there. And later in the game, when fighting some ghosts he made the comment "It's DOCTOR Zeddemore now!" So I like that in the time off Winston started taking his Ghostbusting more seriously and got his doctorate. It's just little things like that I love - how great he is at continuity.
and then they never saw him again...
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And what the fuck, let's throw in some Xcom elements where you need to gather slime/ghost detritus to help drive your research tree for new Speng-adgets.
The story missions, naturally, would have you interacting with the main team, but for free roaming stuff you'd get to customize your own team.
Last but not least, I would murder someone in cold blood in front of their children to be able to get a FigurePrint of me in 'bustin coveralls with a proton pack.
Edit: there's a co-optimus event on for this tonight according to Major Nelson's blog.
Also, I LOVE the actual Proton pack ghost wrangling / capturing. The little critters like the walking candelabra's and shit? Not so much. In fact, they annoy the shit out of me. Also, my dude kept getting stuck behind shit on the ground 'cos I was always looking up at the flying ghosts.
Still.
It's Ghostbusters! They have the old look and feel spot on. I love it for just that. Library and Museum levels rocked.
If it's not Portal, he doesn't like it. Seriously, this is accurate in approximately 90% of circumstances, if not more. That being said, the idea is to be comical in the reviews, and watching him constantly give Valve blowjobs is funny. Sort of. Okay, maybe it's just the segways that he uses to turn the subject to Portal are.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if he hated the movies as well. Not sure why, just strikes me that way, even if he calls it "a film that was good". Or it could just be that he dislikes anything remotely like Gears of War?
For me, the trick to his reviews is to pay more attention to all the small aspects that he calls out on. For instance, he says the AI is crap, it's a crapshoot when busting ghosts that you don't get hit in the back, forcing you to start over, and that you're constantly bouncing back and forth rezzing the team back up because they can't live for more than 10 seconds. He's dead on the money with these complaints. He's always been right with the complaints in any of the games I've played. He exaggerates these faults somewhat for comical effect, but he's still almost always right about them.
Frankly, I think the guy is basically not very good at anything that requires fast reflexes. The majority (let's say three-fourths) of his complaints on things outside of writing or actual technical glitches seem to be about that. Basically, if the game poses any sort of challenge, which is the point of a game, he will profess to hating it deeply. Now, this could mean he just doesn't like challenges and has zero patience, or it could mean he's playing it up and has the reflexes to catch a bullet in mid-air, or it could mean he genuinely sucks at moving his fingers fast. I'm guessing the first.
So, really, the reviews are totally useless for me. Mostly because I've actually played most of the games available there, before the reviews themselves. The same was true about Ghost Busters--there were moments of difficulty, yes, but the only way to have pleased him would have involved making the game a total cakewalk that would have, well, sucked. Forget about trying to reach a medium, he would have still bitched (and to the same amount). Of course, this is taking him at his word. It's his job to be dramatic. He beat him to RE5, so I (incorrectly) went into RE5 with a certain expectations regarding his complaints. Turned out to be a cakewalk. But I can see how it might be a better forecaster for others.
I pretty much just think the pictures are funny When they had someone else's voice ranting about X-Blades (was it?) for about 30 seconds, I thought it was just as humorous as Yahtzee, if not funnier. I think Yahtzee actually does the artwork, however.
Plus, it doesn't help that his complaints were, by his own admission, "THIS GAME IS TOO MUCH LIKE GHOSTBUSTERS". And, of course, in true Zero Punctuation style, it was pretty obvious that he was extremely close to also complaining "THIS GAME IS NOTHING LIKE GHOSTBUSTERS". If he could, he'd probably have said both. I'd say there's no pleasing him, but hearing him gush about Portal is less entertaining them hearing him complain, so it makes good sense.
Seriously, this debate has to run a course every time the guy opens his mouth. Just take a step back and realize it's his job to sound like a twat.
For fuck's sake people.