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- Tugsy, on 09/03/2008, -17/+318"Whoever has the bigger boots wins." Brilliant analogy.
/Me tips hat in direction of Mr Yahtzee. - musicforus, on 09/03/2008, -10/+239That final line of the review really does sum up my all of my issues with MMORPGs. Brilliant.
- Allivian, on 09/03/2008, -11/+198Even though criticism is berated as one of the worst forms of journalism this guys proves other wise; he's entirely original and clever.
- ByteGuerilla, on 09/03/2008, -7/+168I've been waiting for a while for Yahtzee to get round to reviewing EVE. As a long-time EVE player, that was a pretty accurate representation of the 14-day trial: PVE sucks (it doesn't get much better by the time you're using the top agents); holy ***** I need to install MS Excel (don't play this game if numbers aren't your forte); and what's with all these windows (you'll love patchday when they all forget their sizes and locations and you need to spend an hour setting them all back up as well as refoldering your bookmarks and buddies). However, the shoe-on-head remark makes me thing Yahtzee's been playing EVE longer than he lets on. Anyone who watches the Alliance PVP Tournaments on EVE-TV should know what I'm referring to here. That or he's Anonymous.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -1/+158". . . nerds who are to nerds what nerds are to normal people.” XD
- UglyShirts, on 09/03/2008, -8/+140A more important question is: How does Yahtzee keep getting better when he started off balls-out awesome to begin with?
- jfdolier, on 09/03/2008, -4/+102Are you daft? The beauty of Yahtzee is that the reviews are entertaining regardless of the subject matter. He could review the cuisine of Southern Tibetan Yak farmers and you'd still tune in every week.
- AcousticBoom, on 09/03/2008, -0/+87Wow, that sounds like "NOT" loads of fun
- Yaricks, on 09/03/2008, -0/+77You gotta wonder if Eve online is going to do with their ads on the Escapist after this.
- Morghin, on 09/03/2008, -4/+73The analogies this time around was brilliant. The amount of bile he manages to spew whenever he's around the MMO acronym is endlessly entertaining. I mean, I played WoW for the longest of time, but in the end I sat with the same impression that he does.
One point that Yahtzee fails so massively at when it comes to MMO's though is that he persists in ignoring the most important aspect of them; other people. Not joining a guild, corporation, alliance or whatever only shows that his bias and bile is stronger than his ability to be even remotely objective around them.
Sure, he brings up valid points, but he appears to be too unsocial online to ever appreciate an MMO, and should stick to online shooters and single-players where it's not built around "other people", except for 5 minutes stints where you shoot them. - mdaize, on 09/03/2008, -5/+63Negative....
One of the unique qualities of EVE is that you _can_ play casually due to the fact skills increase even when you are NOT logged on.... so you could be at work, and while you are not playing, your character would be learning new skills to let you employ new technologies or improve the existing ones for when you get home and want to play some... - grylls, on 09/03/2008, -0/+52Get more hits?
- brett3k3, on 09/03/2008, -0/+52He's made reference to Anon before, and shoe on head has kind of become a general meme.
- vitas33, on 09/03/2008, -14/+64Playing eve is like playing Microsoft Excel.
- wiredmessiah, on 09/03/2008, -7/+52It is impossible to give an accurate review of the Eve Online experience with a 14 day trial. Yes I am the first to admit that most of the game is pretty boring. But there are many many many aspects of Eve that set it so far apart from other MMOs that it shouldn't even be in the same genre. Can we say sandbox?
- Ravatar, on 09/03/2008, -0/+45This is about the best form of advertising you can get. Yahtzee hates every game, so simply being on his radar means TONS of people will try the game out.
Yahtzee could call the game a ***** sandwich, and thousands of people will still rush to try it. - kayfouroh, on 09/03/2008, -7/+49Eve is the only MMO that has taken PvP to a higher level than UO did.
Having to flag yourself to allow people to attack you is a joke. - nerdherder, on 09/03/2008, -6/+47Games shouldn't be boring. Games are meant to entertain and be fun. If a game is mostly boring it sort of fails as fun entertainment doesn't it?
- lucidapathy, on 09/03/2008, -4/+45Ok "imacbook" Lemme know when I can play Team Fortress 2 on OSX and then you can comment on game threads.
- spekesel, on 09/03/2008, -0/+34Eve also has the flight sim easter egg.
- Solkre, on 09/03/2008, -2/+35No
- ParticleMan420, on 09/03/2008, -1/+34you make it sound so fun.
- jedisushi, on 09/03/2008, -19/+51I really like Eve because it doesn't require grinding and doesn't punish you when you need to/want to stop playing when real life gets too busy. Or during the two weeks a year when the average digger/Eve player has a girlfriend. :-P
There are endless possibilities to be explore in Eve, and New Eden is what you make it. No other MMO provides that, IMHO.
Also, Eve is a PVP game with brutal, enthralling consequences, end of story. None of this PVE crapola. - Volred, on 09/03/2008, -6/+36Solkre:
I was looking for a reason to not let my account expire tomorrow. This didn't help lol.
Your stuff. Can I have it? - NeoCortex, on 09/03/2008, -4/+34He makes it sound like ProgressQuest would be more exciting to play.
- iticu, on 09/03/2008, -1/+28Set a skill > go out with some mates > come back and blow something up > go to sleep > set skill..
? - PseudoThink, on 09/03/2008, -2/+29"A glorified space-themed chatroom for the nerds who are to nerds what nerds are to normal people".
Awesome!
PS - If you don't catch the clever reference to "Brazil" at the end, it may be time for you to watch/rewatch it! - Trozz, on 09/03/2008, -1/+27I'd rather just have SC2 and it's inevitably awesome follow-up expansion game.
- graahBrains, on 09/03/2008, -0/+26As soon as I saw this; I knew I was going to feel like a dork because Eve finally got it's hooks into me. He couldn't be anymore spot on about it being slow. My ship was mining while i was playing another game. What a sad, sad creature I am.
- timothydonohue, on 09/03/2008, -5/+30naturally, i watched this with the eve online ad right next to it, lol
linky:
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/8482/eveonliner ... - MrM4nager, on 09/03/2008, -0/+25pwnd
- ByteGuerilla, on 09/03/2008, -4/+29Yeah, digging you up to be honest, because the description I gave, and Yahtzee's review, do portray that to be the case, but PVE mission running and the interface problems are a small part of the game.
What *is* fun is the sandbox aspect of the game. The entire game is basically PVP. Some say EVE actually stands for Everyone Versus Everyone. You are an insignificant blip in a sea of 6,000 solar systems and 250,000 other pod pilots. Rising to the top is the fun part, and it's fun because it's challenging. Sure the interface could use some work and mission running is about as boring a thing as you will find, but the PVP is the best you'll find and the fact that practically everything in the game is produced by players for profit means that the market is a living breathing system. About a year ago I played WoW for a few months and having played EVE I trampled all over my server's AH market for practically every item I chose to trade in because I was treating it like EVE.
It's a difficult game to get into, but once you give it the patience to learn how to play it you see just how deep and enjoyable it really is. Yahtzee's review is what you should expect if you go in there expecting WoW in space and attempt to play it alone. Find friends, buddy up, conquer your corner of the universe in whatever manner you please, be it market trading to become a billionaire tycoon, industry to become the ironsmith of a huge alliance building capital ships and space stations, or combat to become a feared pirate or reputed fleet commander.
I should see about getting some commission from CCP =/ - PhoenixAvatar2, on 09/03/2008, -0/+23Copyright issues. ZP was getting too popular and he didn't want to get sued for no reason.
- musicforus, on 09/03/2008, -4/+25That's the standard Zero Punctuation intro music. And there are credits at the end of the video that go into more detail. So I don't know why I'm enabling such behavior.
- thrikulam, on 09/03/2008, -1/+22Yes, you are the only one.
Which is why someone always gripes about it every time a new Zero Punctuation comes out. - oldsurly, on 09/03/2008, -8/+29Goonswarm buzz buzz
- chevymanusa, on 09/03/2008, -0/+20***** games?
- Nidy1, on 09/03/2008, -0/+20I did the same thing!
At work today. - wiredmessiah, on 09/03/2008, -2/+22Well I usually describe Eve as long periods of intense boredom separated by short bursts of incredibly intense excitement.
To most Eve players the short moments of excitement make it all worth it. - inactive, on 09/03/2008, -6/+26lol, this is a good one!
- R0ot, on 09/03/2008, -10/+29Great review, its all true
/me slogs off back to get bigger boots - ezcheezbandit, on 09/03/2008, -2/+20I agree. Now only if I had a first job.
- Solkre, on 09/03/2008, -3/+21I was looking for a reason to not let my account expire tomorrow. This didn't help lol.
- Solkre, on 09/03/2008, -0/+17I miss the old UO.
Where you could
1) Kill someone
2) Take everything he had, and cut up his body taking various bodyparts
3) Steal his house/boat key in the loot and go steal the ***** therein
4) Go to the Brit Cemetary and dick around an hour before downtime because none of it was saved :D - lucidapathy, on 09/03/2008, -0/+18ProgressQuest rules, but after getting into the 50s the grind was just too much and I had to quit.
- AbsurdParadox, on 09/03/2008, -2/+18As an Eve player, I will tell you this review is spot on. However he didn't get into large scale combat, but even thats not that fun.
But something keeps me playing.
I wish someone would make a blend of UO and Eve... a one-server HUGE world with open pvp and full body looting. I have tons of ideas for it... anyone got like $5m in funding for me please? - PhoenixAvatar2, on 09/03/2008, -16/+32Losing hours worth of work and then spending hours just flying home and buying a new ship because you got in over your head is not my idea of fun
- acroyear2, on 09/03/2008, -2/+17Sounds fair. I for one love excel.
- strangewill, on 09/03/2008, -5/+20lol, this is a good one!
- heynoop, on 09/03/2008, -0/+15yeah, he mentioned that in the video...
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