Victor is it? Since halo is the standard model these days he used halo, if HL does become the standard he'll use that I'm sure.

True, FPS controls have gone to shit for the past gen. As far as I know the CoD series has always had the most responsive and comfortable controls in any FPS.

I thought he used Halo as an example of how NOT to do an FPS, since everybody was copying it in a at least one way. Maybe I misunderstood :P

Kujel, you might want to actually watch the video. He uses Halo as an example of how NOT to do an FPS.

Yes it was =D

JEFF Buckley FTW!!! Seriously guys, he's fucking amazing.

Tim Buckley is a talentless hack.

B^U

There. I just drew every facial expression that has ever graced the unfunny crap that is Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

Many videogames have copy Aliens and Alien for years,I mean take a look at Metroid and Contra.

Metroid? Metroid came out the same year as Aliens, and they have even less in common after that.

Metroid was heavily inspired by Alien. The boss Ridley is a homage to Ridley Scott.

We are talking about "AlienS", the whole Space Marine vs Alien monsters that has been done to death in FPS'.

Heck Halo owns more to that film then even Bungie cares to admit.

We are talking about "AlienS", the whole Space Marine vs Alien monsters that has been done to death in FPS'.

Heck Halo owns more to that film then even Bungie cares to admit.

I don't see how recovering from multiple bullet wounds to your stomach and face is somehow possible in a matter of seconds.

Realism doesn't need to take that much of a sidestep, does it? :P

Well, according to the makers of Rainbow 6 Vegas Part 2, the hardcore "1 shot and you're dead" games are just not profitable. All that to say, realism is going the way of the dodo.

It obviously works in Halo, as they have the whole shield system to work into the suspension of disbelief, but they had the same system in Red Steel, and others, and unless the protagonist is Wolverine, I fail to see how they're doing this

Health Bars aren't exactly realistic either, as a friend put it, you could survive an axe-blow to the head, but then be killed by bumping into a rat or something

I agree with GoldenS. I just played through HL2, EP1, and EP2, and the only thing that makes the game monotonous is trying to micromanage your health / shields between firefights.

It takes you out of the games strong points, which is its (otherwise) excellent pacing, and immersive story.

After a while, I just looked up the health code, and used it between fights. Much more fun than scrounging for medkits.

They just need to take a page from anime and have bandages heal everything. In fact, the longer you're in bandages, the more powerful you'll be afterwards!

Health regen just removes from FPS another facet of depth. Instead of having to intelligently manage your health, you can just sit in a corner like an idiot. I suppose this is just a natural evolution of gameplay as games these days are being made more and more for idiots.

I guess for single-player games, regening health isn't horrible, but for god's sake, get it out of multiplayer.

Oh of course copa, being forced to find a plentiful resource really breaks the flow of just holding down the fire button and walking forward doesn't it? I mean, you would have to avoid being shot! What a pain in the arse that would be huh?

I like the health regen thing too. With GoW, you're in a giant suit of armor, so you can take a few hits. But too many hits in a row will kill you. Same thing for CoD/R6 cuz you're in a flak jacket. Other games where your guy has no armor or anything like that makes it kind of stupid.

The point is, as long as you can suspend your disbelief to say that the bullets aren't actually entering your video game body but rather pounding on your bullet-proof vest / armor, then it makes the game more fun.

In the beginning of Half Life 2, you didn't have a health bar until you got the HEV suit, you could still die.

Thing is, it's still there, you just can't see it.

Portal is more of a first person puzzler than an FPS.

Portal isn't an fps. It's a puzzle game.

Someone needs to definitively define FPS, i've fought this argument with Metroid Prime series since 2002, and now it surfaces again with Portal

Its in first person perspective and you shoot stuff, first person shooter can entail a number of sub-genres (just like the Strategy genre with its turn-based and its RTSes, but they're all strategy), you can have a Puzzle FPS (Portal) or an Adventure FPS (Metroid Prime) or an Action FPS (Call of Duty)

Mr. Kahn, they are definitively defined, just spell out the acroynm ;) First Person Shooter. It's pretty specific really. I think where the confusion comes in is when people automatically assume that a first person perspective = FPS (my guess has always been that these people simply didn't know what FPS stood for).

In modern games there's of course a lot of "you got your chocolate in my peanut butter" between genres... but then the standard seems to be to categorize a game as belonging to the genre it has the most elements from and/or does the best job of. So while the Metroid prime series does have a healthy does of adventuring and puzzling, it's still very clearly a first person shooter. Portal on the other hand, while yes you're using a "gun" to dispense portals, is very clearly a puzzle game, in the first person perspective. Oblivion likewise is not an FPS, though it does use a first person perspective.

Now as far as Action FPS, etc. go? Those are just subgenres. Kind of like you can have a simulation racing game, or an arcade style racing game. At the end of the day yes, they're both racing games, but the distinction is made for the benefit of enthusiasts of the genre...

I think he only mention it when he was talking about games copying Alien.

He said ALIENS not Alien....seriously.

You know what I meant.Freaking grammar nazi I will remember this.

Grammar nazi? Alien and Aliens are two very different movies. That's like confusing The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded, except neither of the two Alien movies sucked ;)

Well it seems someone here have never played a PC FPS.

First you can change the sensibility of the controller all you want still it won't be as good as a mouse mostly because most of the time you are controlling a crosshair in quadrants using a round analog stick .I have to move with the crosshair when I’m using a sniper rifle if I want to hit something.

Pointing and clicking is better than playing with the analog stick for 1.5 seconds until you have it in place. Also that the configuration of the sensibility can make you miss some targets, if is too high you can miss targets that are slightly moving, if its too hard it misses fast targets and if you left it in a middle ground it won’t hit anything.

Now he is talking about bad FPS, he meant that the Analog stick was way to sensitive and instead of just moving slightly to the left it moved all the way to the left and that a problem that is constant in Console FPS.

Console FPS normally have an advantage like Auto-Aim or something but that is incredibly unfair online I mean the first Socom in the PSP was criticized for letting people use the Auto aim online, it does less damage but is better than not shooting at all.

you used the word sensibility twice when referring to controller settings. i don't think that word means what you think it means.

The truth is I wonder why they left the idea of the med kit behind, most of us get used to that and it makes more sense than having a magical armor that regenerates you. Yes I'm aware that the med kit was pretty damn unrealistic especially because any human would be out of action with 2 shoots, so wandering around looking for med kits with 1 point of health after receiving 3 sniper shoots to the forehead was ridiculous but at least was something.

Also that online the medkit system was better at least in CTF if you didn't kill them they would have to retreat because they would be too hurt to continue.

I like the regeneration suit but I don't think is for every game also that it makes the game slightly more easy except in Hard difficulties like COD4.Yeah have your stinky regeneration suit 3 shoots in veteran and you are toast.

No, you're not the only one.

But you're still outnumbered.

I'm with you 100%... His "Haha, he just made a weird reference to jacking off and pancakes!" type of humor is just getting annoying. I've played many of these games he's reviewed, and the crap he says is exaggerated and nothing but his own biased opinions. Halo 3 is much better than a "C-", and without Halo, console shooters would still be stuck with the strangest button configurations and crappy production values. Games don't necessarily follow Halo. They look to it as more of a "How can I do this right?" sort of game... Halo 3 perfected solid gameplay and multiplayer, and no one wants to give Halo 3 credit for what it's done. Everyone wants to say "It's not as good as [Game X]", yet without Halo or the knowledge that Halo 3 was just around the corner, none of the console shooters (Including CoD4) would be what they are today.

No one should be watching Zero Punctuation to get real advice. Agree with Yahtzee or not, he's like Simon Cowell, he never has anything positive to say, but says it while being funny. That's what he provides, and that's what we watch him for. I say keep it up; it's still good.

My general maxim is thus: you can't bitch too much about something that's free. If you don't like it you can simply stop watching; it's easy, just don't click the link when you see the clearly labeled "Zero Punctuation" posts.

Try it next time. We'll all be thankful, I assure you.