Zero Punctuation: Painkiller

[irishScott]

:laugh:
http://www.escapistmagazine.co...ctuation/57-Painkiller

 

[shortylickens]

I see he's still violently opposing a review of Mario Kart.

 

[Eeezee]

I disliked Painkiller. It wasn't as much fun as Serious Sam or Serious Sam 2, which I guess spoiled me as far as mindless fun shooters go. It was fun, but not as much fun, so it felt like I was wasting my time because I could be playing Serious Sam 2 instead..

 

[Baked]

Hilarious. Less than 10 bucks at amazon. Comes w/ original and exp.

 

[Gothgar]

Yatzhee is sooo funny... and I will probably buy this game cause of this review.

 

[Maleficus]

Painkiller sucked hard, save yourself your 10 bucks.

 

[Zenoth]

I liked the original, I really disliked Overdose, and Battle out of Hell was alright but not as good nor as funny as the original.

 

[TheVrolok]

As usual, I agree with Yahtzee 100%.

 

[40sTheme]

Originally posted by: Maleficus
Painkiller sucked hard, save yourself your 10 bucks.

And he strikes again! Hating every game that ever existed!

I might actually go pick up Painkiller now.
I want to shoot shurikens and lightning.

 

[Modeps]

I went to goozex right after this review and added Painkiller gold to my requests... and it looks like several other people did as well.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: Maleficus
Painkiller sucked hard, save yourself your 10 bucks.

I loved the game. It goes back to the mindless shooting that made the original Doom a hit while incorperating modern technical features that add to the fun.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: 40sTheme

Originally posted by: Maleficus
Painkiller sucked hard, save yourself your 10 bucks.

And he strikes again! Hating every game that ever existed!

I might actually go pick up Painkiller now.
I want to shoot shurikens and lightning.

Seriously... I was going to reply to that and say But it fucking shoots shurikens and lightning!"

 

[Modeps]

This morning, amazon has it available for $5... looks like that has changed to $10 though.

 

[skace]

Painkiller wouldn't have been anything without the stake gun, what an amazingly satisfying weapon to fire. I hope he mentions it in the review, I haven't watched it yet...

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: Modeps
This morning, amazon has it available for $5... looks like that has changed to $10 though.

Hah!

Let's hope that game companies don't resort to viral marketing campaigns where they send emails (disguised as fan mail) to Yahtzee requesting their old game be reviewed.

Then again, given Yahtzee's very high standard for games and his general distaste for reviewing games based on popular demand, I don't imagine it would work well. I guess People Can Fly just got lucky with this one. I wonder how many sales they'll get from this review alone?

 

[Maleficus]

Lol, yea, it's just little ol me, troll from the PC gaming forum. Ignore the fact that the game at it's peak had like 10 people playing it online. Ignore the CPL pumping MILLIONS of dollars into it to try to make the game competitive only to fail tremendously. Lets all run out and buy it because yahtzee said so. There is near unlimited evidence out there that this game full on failed in virtually every aspect, stuff that half of you won't concede simply because you don't like me being right.

Skace is right though, the stake gun was very very satisfying as a weapon

At the very least download the demos before you sink even a dollar into this game.

http://www.fileplanet.com/97224/0/0/0/1/section/Demos

 

[NicColt]

"There's no real mission objectives except to Kill everyone" LOL

Hey I've played PK this year and also did the BOH. Actually for it's time it wasn't that bad.

 

[Skunkwourk]

Originally posted by: Maleficus
Lol, yea, it's just little ol me, troll from the PC gaming forum. Ignore the fact that the game at it's peak had like 10 people playing it online. Ignore the CPL pumping MILLIONS of dollars into it to try to make the game competitive only to fail tremendously. Lets all run out and buy it because yahtzee said so. There is near unlimited evidence out there that this game full on failed in virtually every aspect, stuff that half of you won't concede simply because you don't like me being right.

Skace is right though, the stake gun was very very satisfying as a weapon

At the very least download the demos before you sink even a dollar into this game.

http://www.fileplanet.com/97224/0/0/0/1/section/Demos

Well, Pontifex made his list Text

What would yours look like?

 

[40sTheme]

Originally posted by: m0mentary

Originally posted by: Maleficus
Lol, yea, it's just little ol me, troll from the PC gaming forum. Ignore the fact that the game at it's peak had like 10 people playing it online. Ignore the CPL pumping MILLIONS of dollars into it to try to make the game competitive only to fail tremendously. Lets all run out and buy it because yahtzee said so. There is near unlimited evidence out there that this game full on failed in virtually every aspect, stuff that half of you won't concede simply because you don't like me being right.

Skace is right though, the stake gun was very very satisfying as a weapon

At the very least download the demos before you sink even a dollar into this game.

http://www.fileplanet.com/97224/0/0/0/1/section/Demos

Well, Pontifex made his list Text

What would yours look like?

Yeah; I'd like to see your list of games you have liked, Maleficus. The last three threads I have seen you post in have been nothing but hate for the game in question, so I imagine the list would be, what, 2, maybe 3 games?

 

[Scouzer]

I say this every time, they need a new damn host. That site is always so so slow...

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
I say this every time, they need a new damn host. That site is always so so slow...

Loaded near-instantaneously here.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: 40sTheme

Originally posted by: m0mentary

Originally posted by: Maleficus
Lol, yea, it's just little ol me, troll from the PC gaming forum. Ignore the fact that the game at it's peak had like 10 people playing it online. Ignore the CPL pumping MILLIONS of dollars into it to try to make the game competitive only to fail tremendously. Lets all run out and buy it because yahtzee said so. There is near unlimited evidence out there that this game full on failed in virtually every aspect, stuff that half of you won't concede simply because you don't like me being right.

Skace is right though, the stake gun was very very satisfying as a weapon

At the very least download the demos before you sink even a dollar into this game.

http://www.fileplanet.com/97224/0/0/0/1/section/Demos

Well, Pontifex made his list Text

What would yours look like?

Yeah; I'd like to see your list of games you have liked, Maleficus. The last three threads I have seen you post in have been nothing but hate for the game in question, so I imagine the list would be, what, 2, maybe 3 games?

The problem is that Mal apparently thinks all games need to be MP masterpieces to have even a glimmer of hope at being good. I never played PK for the MP, it was just the mindless old school feeling SP ... and the huge bosses. It felt like playing an arcade game, which was fun.

 

[Skunkwourk]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
The problem is that Mal apparently thinks all games need to be MP masterpieces to have even a glimmer of hope at being good. I never played PK for the MP, it was just the mindless old school feeling SP ... and the huge bosses. It felt like playing an arcade game, which was fun.

Yeah, same reason I played Serious Sam. Its not an intelligent game, the story is retarded, cheesy character/enemy models, and it's just mindless killing, but I enjoyed playing it when I had 30 minutes to kill.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: 40sTheme

Originally posted by: Maleficus
Painkiller sucked hard, save yourself your 10 bucks.

And he strikes again! Hating every game that ever existed!

I might actually go pick up Painkiller now.
I want to shoot shurikens and lightning.

wait! someone else took over my unwarranted title?
oh, and for what its worth, i liked Painkiller.

 

[Maleficus]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok

Originally posted by: 40sTheme

Originally posted by: m0mentary

Originally posted by: Maleficus
Lol, yea, it's just little ol me, troll from the PC gaming forum. Ignore the fact that the game at it's peak had like 10 people playing it online. Ignore the CPL pumping MILLIONS of dollars into it to try to make the game competitive only to fail tremendously. Lets all run out and buy it because yahtzee said so. There is near unlimited evidence out there that this game full on failed in virtually every aspect, stuff that half of you won't concede simply because you don't like me being right.

Skace is right though, the stake gun was very very satisfying as a weapon

At the very least download the demos before you sink even a dollar into this game.

http://www.fileplanet.com/97224/0/0/0/1/section/Demos

Well, Pontifex made his list Text

What would yours look like?

Yeah; I'd like to see your list of games you have liked, Maleficus. The last three threads I have seen you post in have been nothing but hate for the game in question, so I imagine the list would be, what, 2, maybe 3 games?

The problem is that Mal apparently thinks all games need to be MP masterpieces to have even a glimmer of hope at being good. I never played PK for the MP, it was just the mindless old school feeling SP ... and the huge bosses. It felt like playing an arcade game, which was fun.

Not even remotely true, but citing the insanely poor MP numbers was a solid way to prove my point. Not even the hobos of gaming would touch this, definitely a gutter title, as evidenced by how quickly it was relegated to the bargain bin. They literally couldn't pay people to play this game.