Yahtzee reviews Witcher 2?!

[Serious_Business]

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Why The Witcher Is An Intelligent Game

blues, signing, heart and soul, etc

 

[Renegen]

I seriously don't get what's wrong with Yahtzee. Since when can he pretend to be all hardcore and use big words and talk about the video game industry like he knows anything? He's a fucking kid.

"Oh the game was slightly inconvenient for me and required some out of the box creativity, thinking, trial & error, or other complicated stuff I never do, so I gave up and rate this game 2 out of 5."

I mean really, it's chilling to think about it. It's like going in the math club in college and finding out all of the senior people of the club are jocks who can't divide without a calculator.

There's nothing proud about Yahtzee's incompetence and he's not a model for anyone, he's an embarassment to the whole community. Do you think in any real life situation a hack like him would escape unharmed? If the video game "hardcore" community had any self-respect they would kick him and be done with it. Of course, they don't.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

We’re creating the game, the skills, the movement speed, kill rates, skill runes, and all other combat related mechanics and features to fit as tightly together as possible.

that's very nice of you guys you have my support

Throwing in weapon swapping forces that tightening/balancing to take it into account. Only thing is that it’s not a clear cut feature. You either know how to game it - or you don’t.

Figuring out and using runes is more clear cut than swapping weapons with one key?

Just disable that feature for players in active PVP if you're concerned about th-

It becomes a necessity to remain effective or as a strong opponent

oh

so is knowing how to play the game I think

knowing how to play the game is a necessity to remain effective or as a strong opponent

you have to make some hard decisions as a game designer these days

 

[abija]

You need to read between the lines in Blizzard blue posts. They just want to avoid all the cheesiness brought by weapon swapping and in worst case scenarios fixing exploits or having to balance skills around it.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

You need to read between the lines in Blizzard blue posts. They just want to avoid all the cheesiness brought by weapon swapping and in worst case scenarios fixing exploits or having to balance skills around it.

can you explain what this quote is referring to here

What it did do was allow BO sticks and MF tweaks. It was silly, non-intuitive, and basically “exploitative.”

BO sticks - ?
And by MF tweaks is it referring to bringing along 1 set of MF optimised gear for grinding and another set to swap to for PVP? Seriously, isn't PVP supposed to be kind of a serious thing where people are trying to kill your character? Learn how to swap into your human killing gear! PVP isn't some kind of honorable first blood only samurai tournament where your opponent tells you if you're holding the sword in the opposite direction.

in other news Witcher 3 will only have special 'silversteel' weapons so Geralt can be an effective swordsman at all times against all enemies.

 

[abija]

BO (Battle Orders) sticks and MF tweaks refer to using weapon sets just to add skills for buffs or switching to magic find just before loot is generated.
Argument wasn't about PvP at all, PvE in Diablo games is sort of a serious issue.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

PvE in Diablo games is sort of a serious issue.

Then the crux of the issue here is not allowing being able to kill stuff and get better items faster than other otherwise equally capable characters by weapon swapping.

I guess in the past resentment against the weapon swapping players built up after the first thousand boss runs.

 

[Kraszu]

BO (Battle Orders) sticks and MF tweaks refer to using weapon sets just to add skills for buffs or switching to magic find just before loot is generated.
Argument wasn't about PvP at all, PvE in Diablo games is sort of a serious issue.

People will still change they items before they kill the boss for one that have mf. The solution for this problem is to use mf stat based on dmg if you took 99% of boss life with mf 0, and then switch all items to mf +100% then it is (99x0+1x100%)/100=mf 1% it is such an obvious solution, that could be easily explained in stat screen.

As for switching weapons for buffs what is wrong about that?

 

[abija]

As for switching weapons for buffs what is wrong about that?

Same thing that is wrong with MF gear, you break stat values and mixed items are less valuable than specialized pairs.

 

[CreamyBlood]

I think Suchy summed it up quite well.

 

[Wyrmlord]

Going beyond the needless discussion of whether Yahtzee or fans of the game are more shrill or whiny, let's look at something more important.

This man talks about videogames...as a job. But he ends the review with a general comment that the Witcher 2 is an overlong game, which is only suitable for unemployed people with too much free time. So he is among the people who is too busy to play too much of videogames. He is busy because he has a job - talking about videogames.

A man whose work involves videogames is too busy for videogames. That makes sense. Well no, it does not.

Strangely enough, it's a comment directed specifically towards PC gamers. They are people who make very bad use of their free time...as opposed to console gamers? Who are often employed?

Yahtzee here plays the role of a straight man in a gay bar, reminding everybody that they are gay and are probably depressed losers. Wonderful, he is probably right. So why is he there in the gay bar of the world of PC gamers? The rest of us who get tired of the gay bar stop patronizing it, and leave. And we often do get tired of it.

But Yahtzee stays on this gay bar forever, reminding the PC gamer that he "just lost his job at the dicksucking factory."

I just wonder whom this video made look ridiculous.

 

[sea]

Apparently Yahtzee actually has a day job selling fruit smoothies or some shit. He doesn't do Zero Punctuation and his own indie projects for a living.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

Apparently Yahtzee actually has a day job selling fruit smoothies or some shit. He doesn't do Zero Punctuation and his own indie projects for a living.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Croshaw

Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw (born 24 May 1983, Rugby, Warwickshire, England) is an English comedic writer, video game journalist and author of adventure games created using Adventure Game Studio software. He writes articles for Australia's Hyper magazine, a major games publication. He uses his website "Fully Ramblomatic" as an outlet for his own work, including weekly dark humour articles, essays, fiction, and webcomics. He is currently making a series of video-reviews named Zero Punctuation for The Escapist,[3] as well as the weekly column Extra Punctuation. In the February 2008 issue of PC Gamer (US), Croshaw took over Gary Whitta's "Backspace" column as a contributing editor. He recently completed work on a novel entitled Mogworld, which was published in August 2010. He is also one of the four founders of The Mana Bar; an Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge in Brisbane, Australia, soon to spread around Australia and overseas.

novel entitled Mogworld

In a world full to bursting with would-be heroes, Jim couldn't be less interested in saving the day. His fireballs fizzle. He's awfully grumpy. Plus, he's been dead for about sixty years. When a renegade necromancer wrenches him from eternal slumber and into a world gone terribly, bizarrely wrong, all Jim wants is to find a way to die properly, once and for all.
On his side, he's got a few shambling corpses, an inept thief, and a powerful death wish. But he's up against tough odds: angry mobs of adventurers, a body falling apart at the seams and a team of programmers racing a deadline to hammer out the last few bugs in their AI.
Mogworld is the debut novel from video-game icon Yahtzee Croshaw (Zero Punctuation). Mogworld is a comic fantasy novel in the tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, with a video-game twist: the main character is a minor character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

http://www.amazon.com/Mogworld-Yahtzee- ... 1595825290

50 five star reviews out of 57 total.

And Zero Punctuation is kinda like if Douglas Adams was talking about videogames. Yes.

Mana Bar is the first Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge located in Brisbane, Australia within its biggest night-life and entertainment district, Fortitude Valley. The bar held its opening event on 20 March 2010. The bar allows visitors to play current generation gaming consoles free of charge while enjoying video game themed drinks. The bar is open seven nights a week and often runs special events such as prizes, giveaways, live entertainment and special guests.

there's probably an aussie social drinker around this thread so go check it out mate
no worries

 

[Damned Registrations]

BO (Battle Orders) sticks and MF tweaks refer to using weapon sets just to add skills for buffs or switching to magic find just before loot is generated.
Argument wasn't about PvP at all, PvE in Diablo games is sort of a serious issue.

People will still change they items before they kill the boss for one that have mf. The solution for this problem is to use mf stat based on dmg if you took 99% of boss life with mf 0, and then switch all items to mf +100% then it is (99x0+1x100%)/100=mf 1% it is such an obvious solution, that could be easily explained in stat screen.

As for switching weapons for buffs what is wrong about that?

Even going to such lengths, you still haven't covered shit like summons or poison. There's also the issue of chests.

And buff sticks are retarded because then all the other stats on that item are meaningless, since you'll never use it as an actual weapon. Which makes the actual item trait meaningless too: it might as well have been a wand or something anyone can use. Instead, it should be an actual tradeoff: is the loss of potentially having your hammer be flaming and covered with giant cock shaped spikes worth having it shit viagra pills? Choices! They makes gameplay what it is.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Mogworld is a comic fantasy novel in the tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett

Did they really just liken Yahtzee to those two? Is there really no fucking decency left in this world?

 

[Wyrmlord]

Ah, so he is a serial entrepreneur and has a variety of hobby-part-time-job projects. Impressive. I stand corrected.

 

[aron searle]

I'm not sure which is more boring.

Yatzees review or the game itself, discuss.

 

[Quilty]

I'm not sure which is more boring.

Yatzees review or the game itself, discuss.

The game wins this battle, at least.

 

[Destroid]

The new one (Duke Nukem Forever) is the funniest in a long time.

 

[Jick Magger]

This is why I just watch his reviews for the humor now, and not for actual input.
The man is too simply put off and/or upset by the most insignificant of things, and he gives up far too easily.
I mean, watch his Demon's Souls review, where all he does is moan about the character customization, then give up immediately after the first boss. He's so prone to just giving up it's horrifying.
Bottom line, don't listen to him about what games you should and shouldn't get.

 

[RK47]

His review is comedy first, real value is second. I can't see anyone taking his review seriously unless one really hates the game so much and wants to pile on the butthurt.

ZP was amusing, but i'd never use his review as base of info. We have Piratebay for that.