Zero Punctuation Review - Metal Gear Solid 4
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I like MGS, but you won't find me hiding behind Yahtzee's house (or at least not because of this review).
Also, it's good to see that they've worked out some way to monetize his videos (the ads at the end), but my god does drawn by pain look terrible, a bit like the martial arts film we tried to make in high school, only with bad drawings slapped on top.
"This sucked, we all knew it was shit and he just said it was shit."
Would you expect him to say it was good just to surprise you? As well to criticise a poet for writing prose that rhymes - SO predictable!
The story is what it is, and it gets wrapped up nicely, if not particularly inventively in this game. However, given how many people come to yell at me about how everything I post is meaningless because CFR is a shadow government ruling the world from behind the scenes, I'd imagine there'd be a lot of people here who would easily buy the plot of MGS as being an unauthorized history of the real world (just replace CFR with Patriots, and you're set).
I take from his review that he never liked any of them, which is fine, but it's a shame that he couldn't even come up with some original ways to eviscerate it.
I mean, I almost had a brain aneurysm when I heard that he hated Planescape: Torment. I think I've gotten over it though.
Possibly.
Maybe.
Ah dammit. *Goes to find a rock*
Incidentally, I myself found Yahtzee's own Chzo Mythos series to be much more engaging and better written than the entire MGS series. (Excluding Metal Gear 1 and 2, which were straightforward and simple.)
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But when he lampooned Mass Effect I laughed really hard, because he definitely nailed it where the game was actually weak, and did so in a creative way.
With MGS4, he hammered it on its most improved aspect (the controls for combat), said the tranq gun totally invalidates the need to sneak (which means he either didn't play the game, or needs to turn up the difficulty), and said the AI sucks (turn up the difficulty, man).
He's right about the writing lending itself to long bouts of exposition, but comparing it to the world's largest pie was just weird, and not particularly funny.
Not like the bit about Mass Effect characters throwing a book at you whenever you get near them. That was funny.
That said, AI is complete and utter shit in most recent games anyway. Last FPS I played that had challenging AI was the first Half-Life and Opposing Force. Nowadays too many developers strive to accomplish this weird (unwritten) achievement of having and boasting no scripts in AI, etc., etc., the result of which is, e.g. Crysis, which was a laughable experience played throughout by a mediocre player (me) on the hardest difficulty and actually dying in game for the first couple of times in the second-to-last level. Well, at least Valve in Half-Life 2 admitted to have a set of scripted outcomes for AI actions, thus not having it suck my (basket-) balls.
So I will use this opportunity to call out to all the game developers that are undoubtedly listening to every comment here on VS - stop doing this "modern progressive responsive" AI nonsense AND USE SCRIPTS WHENEVER THEY COME IN HANDY.
In conclusion, however,
WII AS IN PEE???
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Two ads, one for NinajGaiden2 and drawbypain.com show up after the actual review. Both forgettable.
Ahem.
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Yahtzee reviews work because they often make points that few reviewers make, unless they want to get fired and start a blog that no one will read with the exception of game journalists. The reviews are extremely blunt and as exaggerated as a 60 year old person carrying 160 pounds of armament. Frankly, I'm not terribly interested in whether Yahtzee says the game is good or not because I realize that what he says in the review may not represent what he thinks of the game but rather is a collection of jabs at how silly the game is which is usually enjoyable but certainly not a consideration when deciding whether to buy the game or not which is a decision better supported by reading Gamespot for ******** or by seeking the advice of friends or the clerk at the store for those who have none. Mostly however when I know what Yahtzee is going to say it's less entertaining than playing minesweeper where at least there's some element of surprise but I can't be disappointed. Oh and BTW being a game critic doesn't mean not saying that something is good and while Yahtzee does give a good review once in a while it's true that we don't expect a good review so I guess what I'm really saying here is that Yahtzee reviews aren't really game criticism as much as they're game bashing, and this time the bashing just wasn't funny.
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Or maybe its just the British accent. That always cracks me up, crazy brits.
Hell for him will be to play Colossal Cave for all eternity. "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
and Planescape: Torment = God
Agreed. Any game that goes from MGS1 to a story like that is just fucking retarded. I didn't know videogames could jump the shark.