JetHawk95 Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I laughed soooo hard xD http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/472-Sonic-Unleashed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ila Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Yeah. We all saw this when the game came out. Could a mod lock this thread before Sereph comes in and starts convincing us to like the game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Honestly, and no not just because he tore apart a Sonic game because I am not that dumb, I think Yahtzee's schtick is old and unfunny. I got bored of it after the third review or so I ever saw him do ages ago. I think he tries way too hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowgoten Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 jesus this is old. Either way I've always had a bit of a problem with yhatzee and his reviews. He judges games wayyyy too harshly and acts like every game should be built perfectly, I respect his opinions but I definitely don't agree with them most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ristar Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I prefer Classic Game Room's reviews. Yahtzee does make me laugh, though I'm starting to see a pattern in his work. I think everyone gets queered off ZP once Yahtzee smashes a game that they like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Raven X Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 No one watches Zero Punctuation to see a fair review of a game! You go to see it critiqued to hell. That said, his tastes are very similar to mine, so on the rare occasions Yahtzee praises a game, I know it's definitely worth my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 man FUCK THIS GUY this game was not even that bad he's just a dumb fag loser sonic fanboy bitch who didnt even beat the game and wants to ride kratos' dick no wait i mean- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrChidna Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Yeah, the thing is Yahtzee isn't even good at games. In his MGS4 review, he whined on and on about how the tranquiliser apparently didn't work and he couldn't sneak past anybody with it. ...You only get the tranquiliser on Very Easy mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tentril Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I'm pretty sure you can get some tranq guns on any difficulty. I can't think of a time I've heard him make a complaint that wasn't at least somewhat accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ila Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Um guys, he's a critic, he critiques stuff. He's even said that any part of a game that he doesn't critique to hell and back can be considered good. It's his schtick and that's how he works. Sitting in here and questioning his ability to play a game does absolutely nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 He's just a critic. Honestly, who really gives a shit, it's not like he really does anything special. It's 2012 -- it isnt very hard to own a blog or upload your shitty rants on youtube. And I dont really have much respect for critics who make a name for themselves by bashing the fuck out of everything that comes their way. Even if it's the most successful way to get anywhere with it. I especially dislike critics who'll half-ass a playthrough, or who are already predisposed to dislike whatever they're about to play anyway, causing them to weigh down heavily more on flaws than others which might have the same problem simply because they themselves were biased during their critique. Everyone does this, especially fans of an ongoing series, or a specific genre. For example, I'd never attemt to pass any real critique on a FPS title these days, because i hate all of them. What are you going to really get from listening to my shitty opinion? I dont even click on IGN/Gamespot's reviews anymore. Some of them are good, some of them are fair, and then a good majority of them are just...well, bullshit. Especially since everyone feels so inclined to give an actual number score to everything like you're grading a fucking math exam. Specifically on the topic of Unleashed, i peaked in on IGN's review of the game shortly after beating it. Skipping most of the text, i went straight to the scorecharts. They gave Presentation like a 5.0, Graphics a 6.5, and SOUND a 6.0. The gameplay could have been worse than Sonic 06, but it was anything but ugly looking or mediocre sounding. The only way i can make logic those specific scores is the fact that if they were any higher, they couldn't effectively display their hatred for the title. And that really bugs me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TailsSena Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Personally, I liked the game... but that said I played the Wii version. Was the REAL version really all that horrible? I mean, I liked Chip/Navi, and both Day and Night where very fun... For me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I played the PS3 version, the biggest issues i had with the game were the framerate issues on some of the stages and the werehog fight music overtaking the stage BGMs, which were generally much better to constantly listen to. On the framerate issues, the game gets them pretty bad, but over time you eventually adjust i think. Some stages, on PS3 anyway (Holoska, Apotos, Shamar) can actually run at a pretty consistant 60FPS, and they look absolutely beautiful. (almost all of Holoska was like this.) Others (like Spagonia Night and Adabat Day, which come to mind instantly) had some pretty terrible framerate issues. There's one part of Adabat which almost always will freeze up your framerate for about a second. Also, Adabat took like 17 minutes for me to complete my first playthrough due to being killed by framerate-induced input lag. (which i didn't even notice was happening for a good minute.) But none of them really bothered me; despite all of that, Adabat is probably the most exhilarating 3D sonic stage ive ever played before. It was the Crazy Gadget of Unleashed, except way more awesome. Eggmanland, though...Werehog's lack of a shadow has never actually gotten me killed before that stage, as most of the platforming are pretty easymode jumps, and even so holding down the grab button saves you in most situations anyway. But Eggmanland probably took 3 full gameovers (lol5lives) before i actually could complete the stage. And my first FINISHED playthrough was like...63 minutes IIRC. But even so, i still very much enjoyed the stage. It wasn't BORING, it was just bastardly, cheaply difficult in areas. It had alot of paths to take though. It seems the designers were quite aware of how cheap they could get, because in almost all of the dickface areas of the game, there's an extra life hidden somewhere before the deathtrap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thefinalboss123 Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 I played the 360 version it ran smoothly the gameplay wasn't good but it wasn't bad either (the night levels FUCKING PISSED ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ristar Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 I never finished unleashed, the last boss (as supersonic) was just ridiculous. I can't even remember how I kept dying but it was no fault of my own. ended up giving the game away to a relative because I couldn't be arsed with it... still miss Rooftop Run a bit... oh and an average rating for sound? fuck me the soundtrack is phenomenal. knocks Jun Senoue's stuff right out the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 oh and an average rating for sound? fuck me the soundtrack is phenomenal. knocks Jun Senoue's stuff right out the park. 100% agreed. I hope we never return to the buttrock in full force, ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 it isnt very hard to own a blog or upload your shitty rants on youtube. No, it's not, but making a living off of it requires a lot of being in the right place at the right time with the right stuff. For those of us who are cynical about most things, Yahtzee is pretty awesome. That said, this topic is about a very old video about a very old game. Locking now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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