I was going to make a joke about how "ZZZ" is the game's abbreviation, but a sleep joke undermines the obnoxiousness of this game's audiovisual assault.
"Zombies think popcorn are little brains and will eat them" 5 seconds later "Since every kids became zombies, they don't eat the merchant's popcorn anymore..." Okay.
+AwkwardRenegade That is an insult to all games found in cereal boxes. Chex Quest was one of my favorite games and it came out of a cereal box. Scared the shit out of me, those stupid aliens and their freaky ass sounds...
I wonder how many of these devs actually think what they make are good games. Seriously, did someone actually pour their heart and soul into this and think "This is great! People will love it!"... I mean, there have to be some that know that they are making shit, but I feel like some are just plain delusional.
+Sawed Off Laser Delusion is a big part of it. When you do put a lot of work into something, sometimes you're unwilling or incapable of seeing it for what it is; A pile of dung. A bad writer will never take criticism and shut down anyone who offers it, same goes for game "developers" and directors. They will scream at you, run away, and cry in a corner. That's how the world works.
+Sawed Off Laser I do feel genuinely sorry for some of these people. It can't be easy being told that something you just made is complete toss when you personally thought that it was awesome.
+TyrranicFish I write Kindle books and yeah, pretty much. Don't get me wrong i'm no Stephen King so i'm not putting myself on a pedestal here, but it never ceases to amaze me how many people can sit down at their word processor and type out a hundred thousand words of absolute drek and think that they've written the next Harry Potter.
Ah, I see. You would think that there would be enough English speakers in Brazil for the developer to find someone just to spell check the game real quick. Then again, that would take effort.
14spdes Well, what makes you think there wouldn't be enough English speakers in Russia? It always just happens somehow. Hell, even Hollywood studios, despite being in a "melting pot" country and having all the money in the world, still produce movies that ridiculously garble the occasional bits of foreign language. Especially Russian.
This doesn't even strike me as localisation. It's like someone took an English translation, ran it through a free translator, then ran it back into English.
Seems like kind of a fun idea, or maybe I'm reading too much into it. From what it looks like, though, the kid is playing pretend. He went through the house beating up his family, used the refrigerator as an item shop, had quests for his grandfather. Then he goes outside and kids and mothers are on the playground and the popcorn vendor, etc. He's basically pretending they're all zombies he has to beat up.
I know that the the part in which you have to jump down the tower to the straw bales is a reference to Assassin's Creed. But could the bell ringing all the time at the awakening of the zombies be a reference to Deadly Premonition? Also, I was ENRAGED when I saw you have to BUY the food from your OWN fridge. But then I remembered: this game breathes through its skin, so it's all ok now :)
You know what's sad? That this game has potential. It really does. The concept is solid. A campy romp thru pop culture via the perspective of a adorkable kid sounds fun. Too bad the controls, visuals, audio, mechanics, localization, and pop culture references are shit.
+Apéritif 420 Simply have the game render all graphics everywhere at all times including shadows and lighting and using the highest quality textures everywhere at all times.
No John, you are the demons! That's what the text reminds me of. As far as water hurting zombies, the classic SNES game "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" had you using a water pistol, soda cans, water baloons(I think), popsicles, and all other wacky stuff to defeat the zombies, monsters, and aliens. This is no Zombies Ate My Neighbors, though.
So an insane child who can't speak English at all runs around in search of some girl, all whilst clubbing zombies, seeking out balloons to pop for no good reason, eating way too much damn food, constantly taking "selfies" and also apparently possessing super powers AND the ability to manipulate time. Game of the year, right here.
+Nicholas Knudson Meh, a lot of these games are shit, but for the most part they are IDENTICAL shit. Featuring one unity-asset-rip-off game will actually cover about 95% of the games that Jim has covered.
Jesus christ this looks like what I would see from Data Design Interactive's shovelware on the Wii. How did this even get onto steam in the first place?
D'you hear that noise? It's Zombies Ate My Neighbours spinning in his grave! That's the game that started the "zombies weak to water" thing, I think. Except there, the idea was simply "wouldn't it be silly to have a watergun as a functional weapon?", while this... Game is just bashing ZAMN badly and hoping for the best.
+Blipblobit See here is the trick, Unity doesn't inherently look bad. It doesn't inherently look like anything. Same with UE4. It's all about what the developer slaps into that space that determines the looks, for the most part, with exception to some rendering and lightning stuff. The reason so many unity games look shit, is because people just buy shit from the unity store, and use it without thinking of context, or quality. But with UE4 being free to use, trust me, we will start to see plenty of shitty UE4 games as well.
I've been binge watching Jim's videos over the last couple of days, and maybe it's just me, but I'm starting to wish there was a bit more nuance to his critiques. I know he's paid to be a crotchety grumblebum, but it'd be nice if he occasionally at least acknowledged that a game has the meager building blocks of an actual game, especially after playing the likes of Grass Simulator. Sure, this game is terrible, but at least it's been cobbled together with a certain degree of sincerity and earnest (if not very successful) toil. I think that merits a small reduction in cynicism levels from Jim, maybe enough to allow him to say one or two constructive things amongst the 23 minutes of humourous insults.
+Buffoon1980 He mentioned it had a nifty system. However it's made with cobbled together assets and tries to take from at least two other zombie games, that being Dead Rising 1 and PvZ, Dead Rising 1 being because of the weapon/food system and the camera, and PvZ because of the zombie appearance. It runs like shit, the camera is shit, the animations are shit. The "story" was literally nothing while trying to appear to be something. Why acknowledge the games "finer" points when it seems like the developers didn't care?
+Buffoon1980 Hi Buffoon1980, Might I point you toward www.thejimquisition.com? Here you'll find the nuanced critique you're after. Squirty Play is a first-impressions series and a lot more casual, hence why my criticism is a little more shallow. As for this game, I see no reason why it deserves the dignity of more formal critique.
+Buffoon1980 Why should Jim be nice to this game? If a developer, releases a game on Steam, then the kids gloves come off. If this were on Newgrounds, Funny Games, Miniclip, or Kongregate, then this would be different, because people aren't expecting high quality content from those sites. When you release a game on Steam, you are releasing a game, along side the likes of Assassin's Creed, Farcry, Portal, Valkyria Chronicles, Super Meat Boy & so many other critically acclaimed games, that have earned the right, to be sold for a price. When indies want to sell a game on steam, they better be prepared for the mauling they will endure, by critics in the industry. A bad game, is a bad game, regardless of them being AAA, or Indie.
come on, this thing has actual levels! I won't be surprised if the whole maps are stolen from somewhere, but they still exist! DH usually was limited to like 3 repetative levels tho.
Hey Jim, quick question. I'm not sure if you take requests for this, but would you consider doing a Jimquisition on the topic of "Day 1 Bugs", more specifically "Triple A games have crippling bugs on their first day being out and require patches that aren't released for a few days or even weeks making you beg an answer to the question of why you bought an unfinished product you might not even be able to play?" The reason I ask is because Activision is trying to calm down outcry over Tony Hawk 5 being borderline unplayable. Tony. Fucking. Hawk. That got me thinking about how lazy it seems like the publishers are for letting out unfinished/unready products. Assassin's Creed gets worse every years with it's bugs and problems that Ubisoft takes ages to fix. Batman Arkham Shite was littered with more problems than a mental patient's brain. Battlefield 4 was thrown into the trash bin as soon as Hardline was announced, despite the bugs still not being resolved. Hell, not even Madden is fixed from it's bug that messes with Franchise mode and My Player mode and it's been over a month. When will it end, oh glorious green squid-headed leader?!
that's not all triple AAA games though. people whine and moan about games being broken, when there are several triple A games that are polished and highly well made. The only solution to bug free games though; no ragdolls (but that's no fun now is it?)
+PixelReviver There's no such thing as a bug free game, ragdolls have nothing to do with it. And people whine because companies release a game full of game breaking bugs (MGS V and Quiet come to mind). Fixing the game later on doesn't excuse the shit show at launch. It shows the contempt that the company has for its customers and it's encouraged by people not even being aware or caring about proper QC.
+PixelReviver He didn't say it was all of them. Although, now that you mention it, it shouldn't really be any of them. These large publishers have the money and manpower to do better than they've been doing. Being polished and well made should be the baseline, not the increasing exception. They keep getting away with it though, because people like you label criticisms of their shitty standards as "whining and moaning", as if it's somehow asking too much for games not to have major faults on release. Making a game is hard, but so is making a movie, and you don't see those release with half-finished effects and scenes missing...and if you did, people would get their money back with no questions asked. Stop making excuses. If the complaints about Tony Hawk stopped at a few ragdolls going weird, you might have a point...but that's not even remotely close to the biggest problem with that game.
I like how clearly obvious it is that the kid is a completely different asset from the zombies. Despite being a child himself, the child zombies are less than half his height and the actual adult zombies are the same height as he is. That, and the boy has an extremely engorged head compared to everyone else. Also, Jim, it wasn't the kids dropping all that health during the Benedict/Benidito "boss" fight. The boss was actually throwing food the entire time, which immediately became health items after hitting the ground
11:07 - George also featured an infected child in the Original 'Night of the Living Dead' Jim (as did Tom Savini in the superb 1990 remake) (Infected, but 'stabby' in the original, but decisively tucked in for the remake) ;)
+Gimlisac I think it was okay for the time. You can't ask very much from television shows. What do I know? My only memory of the show is comprised of odd moments where the females were in their underwear.
11:40, I'm sure I it's not from me as I don't know anyone who speaks like that, but I've always said realistically water hurts zombies because the way a dead body decomposes quickly is coming in contact with water meaning zombies would not last long after a rainfall. EDIT: 12:50 To be fair, PSO2 from Sega. There's stages/maps where there's stores and doorways and sidewalks within the game. They're made for dwarves it seem because not a single normal character can fit in them. They make them look like Andre the Giant near them. There might be invisible walls to keep you from getting TOO close, but only the distance of like 1 or 2 feet. You can tell your character would never be able to fit in those houses.
I don't even know how Jim's patience is still in tact after all this time. 5 minutes into this game I would have been like, nope. Well done Jim. Well done.
ah yes who doesn't have their grandfather in a wheelchair,in the attic facing the corner and just leaves him with a little bit of water like he is your hamster
A lot of those trees are just assets from Unreal engine itself, without using speedtree which is built in. I wouldn't be surprised if loads more assets had been flipped for this.
+Jim Sterling : Hi Jim, fan of your show. I was wondering if you would share your opinion on games that you covered in BoSGT getting onto steam and do you believe its legitimate? Do you believe there are simply people out there that saw something in the games that made them vote for the project or do you believe something more nerfarious could be at play? For example in the the online advertising industry websites seeking to get advertisement money have been known to buy fake (non-human) traffic for their websites. Do you know of or think that its possible something similar can be happening on Steam Greenlight? A crap developer pays some guy or company some money to ensure that the game has enough votes to get through greenlight.
"Looks like I need explosives here" Walks around the corner, explosives just sitting out in the open. What was the point of that? It should have just been an open door. If your not going to provide a challenge to get the object of progression, there is no reason to have it!
Jim I think the water thing started with the game "grabbed by the ghoulies" at one point your given a water gun with holy water to kill zombies, at least that was the first time I saw it in a game.
"Someday I'm going to do a nitpick theater about taking fire damage from standing in fire with your shoes on." You realize that shoes don't make you invincible, right?
Fucking hell, that bell sound. Like, literally ever four seconds... "DAAAAANNNNNNGGGGG!" "DAAAAANNNNNNGGGGG!" "DAAAAANNNNNNGGGGG!" "DAAAAANNNNNNGGGGG!" "DAAAAANNNNNNGGGGG!"
Polio-boy, the worlds saddest superhero. He can't afford the leg braces since he lost his parents to the plague. He does however have an Indiegogo campaign, and a Patreon page. So help the poor boy out so he can learn to walk in lines instead of circles
This whole game is littered with movie references. I think the spiders in caves being afraid of light might be a reference to the scene in LOTR: Return Of The King, and the water pistol hurting zombies also mentions hurting aliens so I'm thinking its a Signs reference. The Rush Hour power is a Back to the future reference
I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned or somehow didn't notice, or maybe it was just me, but I found the mic volume to be very temperamental at points of this video with some slight clipping. Of course, I watch these mostly for the commentary, and there's hardly anything in this game worth listening to, but I found myself constantly adjusting the audio volume either when you shout or start talking normally. It just started getting in my way of another funny video.
Speaking of Nitpick Theater, platforming up vertical shafts would be a good topic. Miss one jump and you fall to the bottom forcing you to do the whole damn thing over again.
That "zombies being weak to water" part is a apparently a spoof on the M. Night Shyamalan movie "Signs". The "spiders are afraid of light" part, though, I have no idea, since that's patently bullshit.
I love the shitty little tribute to assassins creed - the plank leading off the tower, the hay at the bottom, it seems designed to make you want to jump off and die
You can obviously tell Author and the other characters don't belong in that world, due to the fact that his head alone is so huge in comparison to the car door, that he wouldn't be able to fit inside if he tried to get in.
It's better to close the window? You might just have a theory there, Arthur. Just let me hit that X button in the top right and we'll be all set. In all seriousness, it's nice to see a developer that (seems to be) trying. I think. It's like Rascal but not...just not Rascal.
- Non stop bell noise
- Enter bell tower
- Bell is in pieces on the floor
Huh
1spooky
+Enai Siaion its a ghost bell
needs more lumens.
@@TheABCD3912 Ghost in the Bell
"Zombies think popcorn are little brains and will eat them"
5 seconds later
"Since every kids became zombies, they don't eat the merchant's popcorn anymore..."
Okay.
Zombies Ate My Quality Control
+WolfCoder Zombies Ate My Google Translate.
+WolfCoder Zombies Ate My Game Design
zombies ate my frame rate.
+WolfCoder Zombies ate my dinner, fucking arseholes...
Oh, sorry, was I supposed to say something else?
Zombies Ate My Satire.
"Use popcorn to distract zombies, they want to eat it"
"Benedict the popcorn seller is angry because no one wants to eat popcorn"
WAT.
This looks like a game someone would find inside a cereal box.
Everything I have ever gotten from a cereal box has been better than this.
+Keenakeet Cereal, for example
What? Chex Quest came in a cereal box and it was awesome!
+AwkwardRenegade That is an insult to all games found in cereal boxes. Chex Quest was one of my favorite games and it came out of a cereal box. Scared the shit out of me, those stupid aliens and their freaky ass sounds...
+Chandler Frantz and a fine example it is, indeed.
all your engrish are belong to us.
That bell noise literally was making me sick to my stomach.
+APJ1986 IT NEVER STOPS
+白海塔 *CLONG* (Repeat infinitely)
APJ1986. With you on that. Even on low volume I do believe it has gone and given me a headache :(
I wonder how many of these devs actually think what they make are good games. Seriously, did someone actually pour their heart and soul into this and think "This is great! People will love it!"... I mean, there have to be some that know that they are making shit, but I feel like some are just plain delusional.
+Sawed Off Laser Delusion is a big part of it. When you do put a lot of work into something, sometimes you're unwilling or incapable of seeing it for what it is; A pile of dung. A bad writer will never take criticism and shut down anyone who offers it, same goes for game "developers" and directors. They will scream at you, run away, and cry in a corner. That's how the world works.
+Sawed Off Laser I do feel genuinely sorry for some of these people. It can't be easy being told that something you just made is complete toss when you personally thought that it was awesome.
+TyrranicFish I write Kindle books and yeah, pretty much. Don't get me wrong i'm no Stephen King so i'm not putting myself on a pedestal here, but it never ceases to amaze me how many people can sit down at their word processor and type out a hundred thousand words of absolute drek and think that they've written the next Harry Potter.
When you spend a lot of time on something, it can be easy to be blind to its flaws.
_Google Translate: The Game_.
Most likely Russian edition. : (
+14spdes Brazilian, actually...which is worse.
+14spdes No, that would be Botology. Very clearly Google-translated from Russian; there's a Squirty Play of it somewhere.
Ah, I see. You would think that there would be enough English speakers in Brazil for the developer to find someone just to spell check the game real quick. Then again, that would take effort.
14spdes Well, what makes you think there wouldn't be enough English speakers in Russia? It always just happens somehow. Hell, even Hollywood studios, despite being in a "melting pot" country and having all the money in the world, still produce movies that ridiculously garble the occasional bits of foreign language. Especially Russian.
good news everyone deus ex preorder has failed and been cancelled
+powervidsful im dissapointed with square now. hope they dont do anything like that with kh3 or ffxv.
+powervidsful Thought you were joking at first, pleasantly surprised and glad that the people have spoken.
+powervidsful I hope the game itself turns out good. This whole pre-order business has me thinking that the game itself isn't so good.
+powervidsful All praise be to Lord GabeN and Jim Fucking Sterling, Son.
+powervidsful LOOOOOOOOL I'm crying. I'm just so pleased that preorder crashed and burned! Delicious!!
I wonder when will we be purchasing food directly from our fridges via microtransactions?
You can kill zombies with water pistols in Zombies Ate My Neighbors for the SNES. This game wishes it was Zombies Ate My Neighbors.
TypeOLuigi420 fun fact, in the Chech Republic it’s called Monsters ate my Friends.
This doesn't even strike me as localisation. It's like someone took an English translation, ran it through a free translator, then ran it back into English.
I believe zombies ate my neighbors came up with the kids fighting zombies with waterguns thing. This is like a horrible spiritual successor to that!
Seems like kind of a fun idea, or maybe I'm reading too much into it. From what it looks like, though, the kid is playing pretend. He went through the house beating up his family, used the refrigerator as an item shop, had quests for his grandfather. Then he goes outside and kids and mothers are on the playground and the popcorn vendor, etc. He's basically pretending they're all zombies he has to beat up.
I know that the the part in which you have to jump down the tower to the straw bales is a reference to Assassin's Creed. But could the bell ringing all the time at the awakening of the zombies be a reference to Deadly Premonition?
Also, I was ENRAGED when I saw you have to BUY the food from your OWN fridge. But then I remembered: this game breathes through its skin, so it's all ok now :)
+MrSpecter91 The cost of the food was $0, though, so... I mean, they have that to their credit. Right?
+Josh Clarke In that case there shouldn't be any menus at all xd
So references so little time.
Trying to buy things from a fridge put Jim out of his comfort zone.
白海塔 It would for me, and I'm not even fat anymore! Maybe I still have to works on my insecurities...
You know what's sad? That this game has potential. It really does. The concept is solid. A campy romp thru pop culture via the perspective of a adorkable kid sounds fun. Too bad the controls, visuals, audio, mechanics, localization, and pop culture references are shit.
How can such a shitty looking game run at such a low FPS?
Poor optimization can make any game run like molasses in slow-motion.
+Apéritif 420 Energies from the future.
+Apéritif 420 That fps is your graphics card trying to commit suicide.
+Apéritif 420 They probably have a bunch of crappy logic (if you can even call it logic) running when it doesn't need to
+Apéritif 420 Simply have the game render all graphics everywhere at all times including shadows and lighting and using the highest quality textures everywhere at all times.
No John, you are the demons!
That's what the text reminds me of.
As far as water hurting zombies, the classic SNES game "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" had you using a water pistol, soda cans, water baloons(I think), popsicles, and all other wacky stuff to defeat the zombies, monsters, and aliens.
This is no Zombies Ate My Neighbors, though.
So an insane child who can't speak English at all runs around in search of some girl, all whilst clubbing zombies, seeking out balloons to pop for no good reason, eating way too much damn food, constantly taking "selfies" and also apparently possessing super powers AND the ability to manipulate time.
Game of the year, right here.
"I'm having a bad time" - I see you've been progressing on your genocide run, Jim.
Jim doing a Bo selecta impression...Life is complete
Methinks we are going to need a top 30 instead of a top 10 worst games list this year.
+Nicholas Knudson Meh, a lot of these games are shit, but for the most part they are IDENTICAL shit. Featuring one unity-asset-rip-off game will actually cover about 95% of the games that Jim has covered.
+clearspira So maybe we should have different catagories for worst games of the year.
Nicholas Knudson I like that
Jesus christ this looks like what I would see from Data Design Interactive's shovelware on the Wii. How did this even get onto steam in the first place?
D'you hear that noise? It's Zombies Ate My Neighbours spinning in his grave!
That's the game that started the "zombies weak to water" thing, I think. Except there, the idea was simply "wouldn't it be silly to have a watergun as a functional weapon?", while this... Game is just bashing ZAMN badly and hoping for the best.
How bad of a game developer do you have to be to make a UE4 game look like it was made in the free version of Unity?
+Blipblobit See here is the trick, Unity doesn't inherently look bad. It doesn't inherently look like anything. Same with UE4. It's all about what the developer slaps into that space that determines the looks, for the most part, with exception to some rendering and lightning stuff.
The reason so many unity games look shit, is because people just buy shit from the unity store, and use it without thinking of context, or quality. But with UE4 being free to use, trust me, we will start to see plenty of shitty UE4 games as well.
+Blipblobit Its Not UE4, This is Unreal Engine 3 (It Doesn't have physically based rendering or SSR)
+Ilseroth I know this, but the free version of Unity does not give you much to work with in the way of visuals compared to UE3 or 4.
+Blipblobit It looks like it was made in the fucking Cube engine.
+P3dotme It's the best looking rpgmaker game I've ever seen!
I've been binge watching Jim's videos over the last couple of days, and maybe it's just me, but I'm starting to wish there was a bit more nuance to his critiques. I know he's paid to be a crotchety grumblebum, but it'd be nice if he occasionally at least acknowledged that a game has the meager building blocks of an actual game, especially after playing the likes of Grass Simulator. Sure, this game is terrible, but at least it's been cobbled together with a certain degree of sincerity and earnest (if not very successful) toil. I think that merits a small reduction in cynicism levels from Jim, maybe enough to allow him to say one or two constructive things amongst the 23 minutes of humourous insults.
+Buffoon1980 He's given plenty of games that much credit. He's not always entirely negative.
+Buffoon1980 He mentioned it had a nifty system.
However it's made with cobbled together assets and tries to take from at least two other zombie games, that being Dead Rising 1 and PvZ, Dead Rising 1 being because of the weapon/food system and the camera, and PvZ because of the zombie appearance. It runs like shit, the camera is shit, the animations are shit. The "story" was literally nothing while trying to appear to be something.
Why acknowledge the games "finer" points when it seems like the developers didn't care?
+Buffoon1980 Hi Buffoon1980,
Might I point you toward www.thejimquisition.com? Here you'll find the nuanced critique you're after. Squirty Play is a first-impressions series and a lot more casual, hence why my criticism is a little more shallow.
As for this game, I see no reason why it deserves the dignity of more formal critique.
+Buffoon1980 Why should Jim be nice to this game? If a developer, releases a game on Steam, then the kids gloves come off. If this were on Newgrounds, Funny Games, Miniclip, or Kongregate, then this would be different, because people aren't expecting high quality content from those sites. When you release a game on Steam, you are releasing a game, along side the likes of Assassin's Creed, Farcry, Portal, Valkyria Chronicles, Super Meat Boy & so many other critically acclaimed games, that have earned the right, to be sold for a price. When indies want to sell a game on steam, they better be prepared for the mauling they will endure, by critics in the industry. A bad game, is a bad game, regardless of them being AAA, or Indie.
He always tends to give credit where it's due. Hell he was more positive to that dragon game than I would ever be.
Has Digital Homicide moved from Unity to Unreal?
come on, this thing has actual levels! I won't be surprised if the whole maps are stolen from somewhere, but they still exist! DH usually was limited to like 3 repetative levels tho.
Hey Jim, quick question. I'm not sure if you take requests for this, but would you consider doing a Jimquisition on the topic of "Day 1 Bugs", more specifically "Triple A games have crippling bugs on their first day being out and require patches that aren't released for a few days or even weeks making you beg an answer to the question of why you bought an unfinished product you might not even be able to play?" The reason I ask is because Activision is trying to calm down outcry over Tony Hawk 5 being borderline unplayable. Tony. Fucking. Hawk. That got me thinking about how lazy it seems like the publishers are for letting out unfinished/unready products. Assassin's Creed gets worse every years with it's bugs and problems that Ubisoft takes ages to fix. Batman Arkham Shite was littered with more problems than a mental patient's brain. Battlefield 4 was thrown into the trash bin as soon as Hardline was announced, despite the bugs still not being resolved. Hell, not even Madden is fixed from it's bug that messes with Franchise mode and My Player mode and it's been over a month.
When will it end, oh glorious green squid-headed leader?!
that's not all triple AAA games though. people whine and moan about games being broken, when there are several triple A games that are polished and highly well made. The only solution to bug free games though; no ragdolls (but that's no fun now is it?)
+PixelReviver There's no such thing as a bug free game, ragdolls have nothing to do with it. And people whine because companies release a game full of game breaking bugs (MGS V and Quiet come to mind). Fixing the game later on doesn't excuse the shit show at launch. It shows the contempt that the company has for its customers and it's encouraged by people not even being aware or caring about proper QC.
+PixelReviver He didn't say it was all of them. Although, now that you mention it, it shouldn't really be any of them. These large publishers have the money and manpower to do better than they've been doing.
Being polished and well made should be the baseline, not the increasing exception. They keep getting away with it though, because people like you label criticisms of their shitty standards as "whining and moaning", as if it's somehow asking too much for games not to have major faults on release.
Making a game is hard, but so is making a movie, and you don't see those release with half-finished effects and scenes missing...and if you did, people would get their money back with no questions asked.
Stop making excuses. If the complaints about Tony Hawk stopped at a few ragdolls going weird, you might have a point...but that's not even remotely close to the biggest problem with that game.
I like how clearly obvious it is that the kid is a completely different asset from the zombies. Despite being a child himself, the child zombies are less than half his height and the actual adult zombies are the same height as he is. That, and the boy has an extremely engorged head compared to everyone else.
Also, Jim, it wasn't the kids dropping all that health during the Benedict/Benidito "boss" fight. The boss was actually throwing food the entire time, which immediately became health items after hitting the ground
you never heard of water hurting zombies? mate, have you never played 'Zombies ate my Neighbours'?
+Nek klik I always thought ZAMN's squirt gun fired holy water.
I'd be upset too if I had to pay money to my own fridge to eat my own food.
11:07 - George also featured an infected child in the Original 'Night of the Living Dead' Jim (as did Tom Savini in the superb 1990 remake)
(Infected, but 'stabby' in the original, but decisively tucked in for the remake) ;)
Steam needs a fucking steam cleaning, doesn't it?
10:27 Is that a reference to M. Night Shyamalan's movie, Signs?
The bell sound would be perfect if used sparingly in a good horror game. I need to find it.
Benedict is essentially throwing healing items at you...
the main character looks like he came from Code Lyoko. I'm the only one who knows what that is among these comments.
we proud few
The theme is always in my head.
+Cooltrainer Ian As shitty as the CG was, that show was awesome to watch as a kid on that Cartoon Network block, Miguzi.
+Cooltrainer Ian Do I WANT to know?
+Gimlisac I think it was okay for the time. You can't ask very much from television shows.
What do I know? My only memory of the show is comprised of odd moments where the females were in their underwear.
I lasted 2 minutes. If this video was my girlfriend she would be disappointed.
11:40, I'm sure I it's not from me as I don't know anyone who speaks like that, but I've always said realistically water hurts zombies because the way a dead body decomposes quickly is coming in contact with water meaning zombies would not last long after a rainfall.
EDIT: 12:50 To be fair, PSO2 from Sega. There's stages/maps where there's stores and doorways and sidewalks within the game. They're made for dwarves it seem because not a single normal character can fit in them. They make them look like Andre the Giant near them.
There might be invisible walls to keep you from getting TOO close, but only the distance of like 1 or 2 feet. You can tell your character would never be able to fit in those houses.
I think that intro line was my most favourite so far, what a reference
I don't know about that Jim.
the plot seems as well written as any metal gear solid game. the dialogue actually might be an improvement
+Steve Tyler "The plot seems as well written as any metal gear solid game"
This ladies and gentleman is what we call trying too hard
When the grandfather was saying "Hit on head to get them dizzy and use water to hurt them" I thought of the Signs aliens.
that water hurting aliens concept I think is reference to " Signs " by M. Night Shamalan
I don't even know how Jim's patience is still in tact after all this time. 5 minutes into this game I would have been like, nope. Well done Jim. Well done.
ah yes who doesn't have their grandfather in a wheelchair,in the attic facing the corner and just leaves him with a little bit of water like he is your hamster
A lot of those trees are just assets from Unreal engine itself, without using speedtree which is built in. I wouldn't be surprised if loads more assets had been flipped for this.
These assets have been bought I bet. WTF is that hand.
Not sure why taking a picture that has you in it is now considered a selfie.
10:42 wait, that was a Signs reference.
Dafuq are they referencing that for?
That intro sequence was easily the best thing in the game imo ;p
+Jim Sterling : Hi Jim, fan of your show. I was wondering if you would share your opinion on games that you covered in BoSGT getting onto steam and do you believe its legitimate? Do you believe there are simply people out there that saw something in the games that made them vote for the project or do you believe something more nerfarious could be at play? For example in the the online advertising industry websites seeking to get advertisement money have been known to buy fake (non-human) traffic for their websites. Do you know of or think that its possible something similar can be happening on Steam Greenlight? A crap developer pays some guy or company some money to ensure that the game has enough votes to get through greenlight.
The game knows it's so bad that it tells you the moment the zombies pop up to close the window.
"Popcorn confuses the zombies and they think that it are small brains." Awh, now that was cute.
"Looks like I need explosives here"
Walks around the corner, explosives just sitting out in the open. What was the point of that? It should have just been an open door. If your not going to provide a challenge to get the object of progression, there is no reason to have it!
Maybe this game was made for kids? That seemed way too easy for anyone above the age of 9
Jim I think the water thing started with the game "grabbed by the ghoulies" at one point your given a water gun with holy water to kill zombies, at least that was the first time I saw it in a game.
when it comes to the platforming section I reckon jumping from the side onto the first platform would help.
They did zombie children in the original Dawn of the Dead as well. When they land the helicopter at the fueling station.
"Someday I'm going to do a nitpick theater about taking fire damage from standing in fire with your shoes on."
You realize that shoes don't make you invincible, right?
The zombies thinking popcorn is small brains... y'know, that's actually pretty clever!
Liked the music at the shop, anyone know where it is found? Other than that I got nothin'.
I love the completely untextured bell in the tower
Awww, I miss these days. Good ol' fun times.
Fucking hell, that bell sound. Like, literally ever four seconds... "DAAAAANNNNNNGGGGG!" "DAAAAANNNNNNGGGGG!" "DAAAAANNNNNNGGGGG!" "DAAAAANNNNNNGGGGG!" "DAAAAANNNNNNGGGGG!"
zombies ate my neighbors starts you off killing zombies with water guns.
thats craig david drop made me laugh harder than i probably should of lol
4:53 "Sorry, what the fuck?" is a pretty accurate way to describe this game as a whole.
I mean seriously, what is this thing?!
Is anybody up for another round of "Spot the Pre-made Asset"? Surely there are lots of exciting bought-and-used assets in this """"game""""...
Polio-boy, the worlds saddest superhero. He can't afford the leg braces since he lost his parents to the plague. He does however have an Indiegogo campaign, and a Patreon page. So help the poor boy out so he can learn to walk in lines instead of circles
This whole game is littered with movie references. I think the spiders in caves being afraid of light might be a reference to the scene in LOTR: Return Of The King, and the water pistol hurting zombies also mentions hurting aliens so I'm thinking its a Signs reference. The Rush Hour power is a Back to the future reference
idk why but the picture of arthur up in the corner reminds me of walt jr.
"Why his head so biig? Why his head so biiiig?!" - Gir
The game's dialogue tried to make a joke about "since water can kill aliens, it can kill zombies too", which is a Signs reference, I think.
I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned or somehow didn't notice, or maybe it was just me, but I found the mic volume to be very temperamental at points of this video with some slight clipping. Of course, I watch these mostly for the commentary, and there's hardly anything in this game worth listening to, but I found myself constantly adjusting the audio volume either when you shout or start talking normally. It just started getting in my way of another funny video.
It's well known that when a zombie dies it goes to the World of Dreams.
Why does the bell noise keep sounding after the bell is destroyed?
Benedito's description literally made me cry of laughter.
What's that constant "DONG DONG DONG" noise in the background?
Speaking of Nitpick Theater, platforming up vertical shafts would be a good topic. Miss one jump and you fall to the bottom forcing you to do the whole damn thing over again.
Wow, that translation and assets... amazing!
Does anyone else notice the bloody annoying repetitive bell noise around 13:55 onward?
In Grabbed by the Ghoulies, the zombies were weak to water.
I'd like to send this game to the world of dreams, please.
this game exists in some weird universe where it's trying to be super kid friendly in a not kid friendly set up
Is this related to Zombie Zoeds (previously called Zombie Zoid?)
its intereseting how after the US style house in the beginning it opens into a straightup southern european city...
That "zombies being weak to water" part is a apparently a spoof on the M. Night Shyamalan movie "Signs".
The "spiders are afraid of light" part, though, I have no idea, since that's patently bullshit.
I love the shitty little tribute to assassins creed - the plank leading off the tower, the hay at the bottom, it seems designed to make you want to jump off and die
You can obviously tell Author and the other characters don't belong in that world, due to the fact that his head alone is so huge in comparison to the car door, that he wouldn't be able to fit inside if he tried to get in.
If the bat can break then its not all that faithful is it?
when the zombie apocalypse comes, the first casualty will be good english it seems.
>recently played undertale
>"having a bad time"
You monster
Did you make a Bo' Selecta reference in the opening?
I like more torturers masquerading as game developers
It's better to close the window? You might just have a theory there, Arthur. Just let me hit that X button in the top right and we'll be all set.
In all seriousness, it's nice to see a developer that (seems to be) trying. I think. It's like Rascal but not...just not Rascal.
Looks like a leaked pre-pre alpha version of Psychonauts
"CRAAAAIG DAVIIID, CAN I GET A REEE-WIIIIND?"
At least the stairs had rails this time.
Notice how the main character is supposedly called Arthur, but has the letter N on the front of his shirt