Zero Punctuation: Overlord II
escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctua...Posted Jul 15, 2009, 4:00 PM UTC
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Dammit, until I saw this post I legitimately thought it was Thursday
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Oh, is it not Thursday already?
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It is in some places.
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Australia gets yahtzee on thursday morning :D
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Uuugh. Need sleep...
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It is Thursday. Zero Punctuation is always released on a Thursday.
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Yeah. I've enjoyed it to, but playing ti was a gamepad. Keyboard/Mouse controls for the game look impossibly stupid.
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I'm about halfway through the first one on PC and the controls are the only thing I dislike about it. Well, sometimes I can't figure out what I'm supposed to be doing either, but I don't know if that's the game's fault or mine.
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Well, part of that is the game's fault: the lack of a minimap is inexcusable.
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I gave up on the first one. I only have like 2 mission to go and I stopped playing for some reason and when I come back to it, I spend most of my time getting lost in maps due to lack of ingame map. sucks.
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I played half of it on PC with the 360 controller, my roommate beat it. It's just so half assed it's unbelievable.
There is so much content and mechanics that just have no real effect at all. Upgrading your room? Why?
All you need is the +life armor, any half decent weapon, and 2x energy helm.
The controls were horrific at anything precise -- if you want validation of that try the disgusting excuse for multiplayer...
I mean, it was amusing, but it suffered from the tried to do too much and didn't do anything that good disease that games get a lot.
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I gotta find time to continue playing the game. Its a pretty fun game if you don't mind the stupid Camera and controls.
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Speaking of which, could I interest you in a shuttle hotel style tube home, and a lifetime supply of flavorless nutrient paste?
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Could I interest you in a room above your house that will take you a noticeable amount of time to reach, and can be filled with expensive decoration, but serves absolutely no purpose at all?
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What? I think in the first one if you decorated your place enough you could bang your mistress. Is that not the case in 2?
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Other than some clipping issues in the 'cut scenes' and the fact that there's no 'what fucking quest am I on' button, I like it quite a bit so far.
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Controls aren't so bad on PC, if you play like a pornstar(SFW). NUMPAD always seems to side-step control issues.
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Damn, I held down both buttons like he said and Opera went to the previous page.
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I went to the next one.
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I lol'd when he used the pope as an example of lawful evil
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Well, I saw the other portrait that was to exemplify chaotic evil, and I took a screenshot and rotated and cropped it in the GIMP, just so I could submit it to tineye and figure out that that other guy was Charles Manson.
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Friends: Saving you from taking a screenshot,rotating it, cropping it in the GIMP, and submitting it to tineye since 1996.
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Couch potatoes: Watching that TV series instead of having a lark on the Internet.
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I picked up the first one for PS3 when it was cheap. It was fun for awhile but then I just lost all interest. I've heard the sequel is much the same.
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I had the exact same impression. Got about 2/3 through and just couldn't seem to care enough to finish.
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Same here.
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The game is freakin long and lacks high lights.
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I don't know the keyboard seemed perfectly fine to me, I honestly don't understand what he was so angry about cause I enjoyed it, the controls on the keyboard and aren't hard at all to grasp and I felt they were smooth and easy (note at the same time I never played the console version and don't own a console so I imagine to some one use to a console it may be tougher). As for the mechanics, the mistresses could do more... It was kinda of a let down, and they could have made the decision a tiny bit more obvious like in the first one cause I found doing tiny things wrong could mess you up. As for the linear game play that was a little disappointing cause I hoped they would make it a bit more open world in comparison to the first one which was not as linear, also they could have make the loading screens far fewer or at least faster, but that was only major flaw.
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I liked Overlord 2. That being said, I used a gamepad. Tried the keyboard, but no go. The controls are pretty shit, though.
Also, the Wii version is supposed to be better. Controls are better, and the story is better. So yeap.
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Holy hell, the ass on stilts with roller blades had me laughing uncontrollably.
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I really liked Overlord II. After I beat it I wanted something similar...so I went back and played Dungeon Keeper II
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Dungeon Keeper 1 is way better. The game is faster and you get boulder traps.
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How is Evil Genius? I think it was just released on gog.com.
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It's great! Imagine being the bad guy in James Bond flick
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Get it. It's awesome, witty, quirky and more importantly, it's just damned fun.
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If you enjoy Evil Genius, go back and try Startopia or Dungeon Keeper (1 & 2). They're games of the same RTS+Sim genre that's sparse but fun.
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Loved Dungeon Keeper, and Evil Genius is shaping up to be fun as well.
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I'm developing a new theory about games, similar to the "shiny rainbow packaging theory." (Ie: absolutely anything put in a box with that shimmery rainbow foil on it is inevitably utter crap because if it was a good game\book\movie they wouldn't need to attempt to literally make you go "Oooh, shiny!")
Anyway, my new rule of thumb is this: If it has a handheld tie-in game, which is a completely different game except for the branding, the game is crap. They're trying to hard to make it a CROSS PLATFORM FRANCHISE! and not hard enough actually making it good.
For example: Overlord II has "Overlord II Minions" on the DS, which plays more like a cross between Gobliiins and Gauntlet. The only thing it has in common with the other game is the name, and they could have just as easily plopped in different sprites and made it a totally new property.
And Spore, of course, is probably the worst offender for this. There's Spore itself, and there's Spore "Creature Adventures" on the DS, and there's some bullshit on the iPhone, and yet another unrelated DS game coming out later this year... AND THEY ARE ALL UTTER CRAP.
Now, of course, this is different if it's a legitimate port. Then they've clearly got one gameplay goal and they are attempting to put it on as many platforms as possible. (For example, I may be a heretic for this, but I honestly think the Anno games may be BEST on the DS.) This may or may not turn out well, but you can't draw a hard-and-fast rule.
Now, if anyone can think of any exceptions to the above rule, I'd be happy to entertain them.
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CoD4 had a DS port. Very different play experience, IIRC.
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Well, yeah, but that was a port - they were making the closest thing to the gameplay experience they could on limited hardware. Another good example of this would be the new Ghostbusters - the gameplay on the DS version is totally different, but it's still working off the same script and telling the same story. They just couldn't do the FPS thing on the DS.
I mean when something is clearly a totally different game, but with tie-in branding to try to build some kind of market synergy or some shit.
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So how do you feel about Assassin's Creed?
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Never played it, actually... the reviews I heard were mixed enough I didn't have an interest. (Which is to say, everyone who wasn't a professional review seemed to hate it.) Oh yeah, that did have a DS Tactics game tie-in, didn't it?
Although I have heard pretty good things about the sequel...
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It does have shortcomings, but overall I thought it was pretty good. Here in the UK you can now get it on sale for £10, and I think it's definitely worth picking up at that price.
I get the impression the DS version is some kinda side-scroller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed:_Altaïr%27s_Chronicles
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Oops, it was the new Prince of Persia that had the DS tactics game.
(And gee, most people thought the new PoP kinda sucked. See the pattern?)
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I have a trackball so guiding them around is much easier than moving the mouse itself.
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I think he was spot on, I could barely get through the demo playing on a ps3. For about all the reasons he could barely get through the game.
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More that a hundred downvotes. That many people hate Zero Punctuation?
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Or maybe think a weekly column doesn't need to be on reddit every week (I didn't downvote btw).
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Was that a masturbating gorilla? :\
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I really liked Overlord 2 on PC. It had its funny features, like how the way to manually save the game was to select a different autosave slot, and having loading screens in the castle was more than a bit irritating.
The UI wasn't anywhere near as dysfunctional than in Assassin's Creed, though.
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I think he was spot on, I could barely get through the demo playing on a ps3. For about all the reasons he could barely get through the game.
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I love me some good semicolon.
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Oh, is it Wednesday already?
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It's zero punctuation, but there's punctuation in the title. hahaha, im so original.
Oh, is it Wednesday already?
Every Wednesday someone astutely assumes the role of that guy. Today is your day to shine fox_wesley.
Every Wednesday, someone points out to "that guy" that he is filling a role. Today is your day snarkyturtle.
And this continues, increasing in metaness, until next Wednesday.
Yeah, I was "that guy" last week. Now my reign has ended. I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain freeloadr.
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ccccc-combo breaker!
Edit: Haha, apparently some memes are more appreciated than others.
sigh
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August 19, 2009: the jdfong Rapture will occur.
I call I get to be a Big Daddy!
No.
You get to be a splicer.
A thuggish splicer.
But Suchong, you never let me be what I want to be :(
Is that the new meme?
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Does everyone else just not post zero punctuation so jdfong can have his fun, or is he some kind of internet ninja and gets there first?
Ninja.
I'm pretty sure jdfong sits in front of his computer with bloodshot eyes refreshing the Zero Punctuation page every Wednesday around noon so he can copy and paste the link over to submit to Reddit.
You mean around 7 PM.
Batninja.
He cries and bitches when someone else posts it first.
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4 more weeks, buddy. Then you get creative.
And what are we gonna do? :(
He's going to post a lolcat somehow, I know it.
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You'd better have some spectacular surprise ready for when you run out of letters...I wonder what will happen...
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I think he'll start with the 'o' on "Oh, is it Wednesday already?"
only five more, and then your life will have no meaning.
Four. To give the joke an added layer, he doesn't link the punctuation.
I'm going to go out and buy a calendar just so I can mark it.
I don't even watch ZP reviews anymore. I just click the comments link to make sure this comment is here, and go about the rest of my day.
What's wrong with me?
I use jdfong to tell the passage of time. When he reaches the final letter, I assume the world will end, like when the Mayan calendar reaches 2012.
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You are going to have a lot of angry, disappointed people on your hands if you get to the last character and nothing epic happens. Just warning you.
One day you will die. I will be happy when you die.
Well, that seems a bit harsh.
Ha ha, is it Wednesday alread.. wha?
edit: ah, empty hyperlink.
"Oh, is it Wednesday already?"...