The QL was just fine, they clearly displayed their feelings about the crappy game and that's their right. Also I'm pretty sure they have stated quite a few times that they aren't really competing with any big and oh so respectable game sites so I'm not sure why that was brought up... I'd understand the whining if this was about a review written like "oh whatever its a totally crappy game blah blah...." but this isn't that different from some other QLs they've done so far so much ado 'bout nothing.

First time I saw this game, I thought it looked awful.  I was flipping through channles and actually saw G4 had games instead of Cops for once so I paused for a second to see what was up.  It was this game, and the G4 guy was interested and found the game to be good, although he may have been humouring the makers who were right there discussing the game.  I like the idea but I think the execution was poor, but I have nothing against defending a game others think is crap, I have all the Dot Hack games and ocassionally still play samurai/ dynasty warriors.

If it would have been a Wii game, would I have been pissed? Hell no, that shit is funny.
 
 

This game looked like silly, mediocre crap and their laughs were perfectly acceptable. They do these Quick Looks to poke fun at certain games that they would never review. Their QL had the right attitude.

" This game looked like silly, mediocre crap and their laughs were perfectly acceptable. They do these Quick Looks to poke fun at certain games that they would never review. Their QL had the right attitude. "

" @MasturbatingBear said:

" @jakob187 said:

" Ahmad, I understand the need to play Devil's advocate from time to time...but it's not helping you here.  Just from what I saw in that Quick Look, it seemed that the developers meant well by trying to do something different.  Unfortunately, it shoots itself in the face and has no chance of a closed casket funeral. "

I have diagreed with Jakob before but if theres one thing ive learned. hes generally always right so back off ahmad. "

O_O  WHOA! "

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" the whole concept of time travelling to fix history seems really original. "

yes... original...... "

Considering I was excoted for this game, saw that and agreed with them...nope games crap if they pulled that on a good game mabey

"If it would have been a Wii game, would I have been pissed? Hell no, that shit is funny.
 
 

"

I liked the way the handled it, i usually fuck around if i am playing a bad game with friends :P it adds a level of lol to the game

haha o wow  this was pretty fun to read lol 
but really this game seems TERRIBLE, i mean the demo had "bad product" written all over it. and watching the quick look was entertaining not just from jeff and ryans commentary, but the laughable AI, and embarrassing animations also made it quite funny.

There is nothing wrong with the quick look. The game looks awful. Awful as in I will never play this game. Thank you Jeff for those moments of laughter.

I have beaten this game and my opinion is that its not that bad, there's not really any replay value but its still a fun single-player game your first go around.

Why post a thread like this? I kinda understand it if it were about your all time favorite game, the one you love and wanna protect from all the evil, but clearly Ahmad knows this isn't exactly a masterpiece. And I can somehow understand why some would say this isn't as bad as it may seem. But you also have consider the competition, especially in fps-games. What was 3 or 4 years ago a solid 4 star game, is now merely a 2 star game. With the competition even a good fps mostly isn't enough.
 
But if you can enjoy a crappy games like Legendary and Turning Point, then great. I'm jealous. Because I sure can't.

game is horrible they had to entertain themselves... goodjob!

I played not even five minutes of the demo and I had to shut my 360 off.  The game is awful

Is this really a game to get uppity about?

" You've got to be kidding me. This is a shockingly terrible game. Get a sense of humour. "

I don't think the problem is Jeff and Ryan played the game like a couple of kids. The problem is that a couple of kids could have developed a better game, and they realize it. If you bought the piece of crap and actually like it, More power to ya. But, seriously, the games a piece of crap.

Jeff blew it out of proportion on the Bombcast, and all the sheep are falling in line with the shepherd. 
 
It's by no means a good game, but it's not nearly as bad as you guys are making it out to be.  How many people in this thread have actually played the demo?  No, actually played.  Just saying you've played it doesn't count.

"Jeff blew it out of proportion on the Bombcast, and all the sheep are falling in line with the shepherd. 
 
It's by no means a good game, but it's not nearly as bad as you guys are making it out to be.  How many people in this thread have actually played the demo?  No, actually played.  Just saying you've played it doesn't count. "

" @Kombat said:

"Jeff blew it out of proportion on the Bombcast, and all the sheep are falling in line with the shepherd. 
 
It's by no means a good game, but it's not nearly as bad as you guys are making it out to be.  How many people in this thread have actually played the demo?  No, actually played.  Just saying you've played it doesn't count. "

I think the Quick Look illuminated some production issues any "serious playthrough" wouldn't have rectified.  
 
The goddamn AI was inactive half the time. Not simply bad or unhelpful. Inactive. The story's plot has more holes than a golf course, and it seems like it plays like garbage.   Our opinions aren't skewed because Jeff claimed it was a bad game on a damn podcast, our opinions are skewed because it is a demonstratably awful gaming experience. It's the same reason why we laugh at Big Rigs. "

What in the hell is this thread?
 
So, what I'm getting from the OP is that the website that I consider to be the Onion/Daily Show of videogames isn't allowed to have a sense of humor anymore?
 
No one has ever said a QL is intended to be serious, or color your view of a game.  It is the guys, that most of us love, having fun with a game one way or another.
 
Wash the sand out of your vagina and get a grip on reality, or please take your inability to take a joke elsewhere.
 
P.S.  Played the game for about 3 hours and it is garbage, although the time bubble has pretty cool audio/visual effects.  If only they spent that type of love on the rest of the game.

Look, Darkest of Days is an atrociously bad game for 2009 standards (honestly, it would still have fared as horrible back in 1999). I'm the first to agree that more period piece games would be cool, i'm a sucker for historical flintlock rifles and pistols, and trench battles, but because of the very nature of these things (quite stale and cranky), these do not make good elements for a videogame, or arent easy to translate into one anyways, in any case, 8Monkey Labs (the developer) did not succeed at making anything even near to a decent game here (just think of the cheap time traveling plot device, already the concept screams of beaten horse, hence they give an achievement for it, pun intended). 
 
But this is not what you are taking issue with, sense of humour is mostly a subjective thing. Didnt like the one in this review? There's plenty more to go around on the site, i take its one of the qualities of GB in the first place, the staff is more down to earth with us gamers (admittedly this aint always good^^) and doesnt have a broom stuck up their asses, like for example GT where in their videos they go on and on with rubber boat vocabulary (all air no substance) like "will this highly anticipated franchise's last installment stand up to its expectations or fall short?" keeping up with this babble until the ultimate score, which then is surprisingly disconnected from what they just said, no fun involved.
 
Humour is hit and miss, you simply didnt dig it, thats acceptable, heck, if you like Darkest of Days so much you think its worth defending of ridicule, go buy it.

This thread is way longer than it should be but I guess I'll put in my two cents. 
 
The thing is Jeff and Ryan had fun with the game. I can't really see anybody playing this game and not laugh at the terrible execution the developers had in making this. This was both an entertaining and informative quick look and I really don't see why people are defending the game. Does jumping up and down in a puddle make this game or any game for that matter, look bad? Yes and Ryan called Jeff out on that. Did Jeff play sloppy? Yes, Jeff admitted it because the game ALLOWS it. What do you expect him to do role play the game and stick with his squad? Why should he? This isn't an advertisement for the game, it's to show the qualities or faults of it without being a full review. Obviously this game has very few qualities. I mean seriously...  
 
The Game has: 
Graphics that aren't that great 
Terrible shooting 
Terrible AI
Terrible design choices by the developers 
Significant bugs in the game  
 
Nothing really good about it except maybe the time bubble looked alright. Atmosphere? I didn't really see anything all that great. If you ignore the bugs it seems to have the same amount of atmosphere as a generic shooter and with the bugs even less so. But of course this is based on the quick look alone so my opinion on the atmosphere is not based on the entire game but just that one mission. But of course if the atmospheric feeling of the game fluctuates greatly, then wouldn't that kill it. 

I think the QL is really entertaining. They already said the game sucked on the bombcast, so I wasn't expecting a very "okay let's be open minded about this and give it another try" playthrough.

I guess they forgot you aren't supposed to have fun playing games.  You're supposed to take them completely serious, and just do the mission exactly like it tells you.  You can't do something in the game for fun, it isn't the way the game designers wanted you to play.  If they wanted you to beat on a dead guy for 30 seconds, then the objective would say, "beat on the fucking dead guy for 30 seconds!"
 
I hope Jeff and Ryan read your thread and learn their lesson.

Quick Looks are usually reserved for the first impressions of the guys as well, but Jeff had apparently spent considerable time with the game and deemed it to be utter crap and had shared that view earlier.
Hence they didn't approach this game with an open mind, they were obvious ready to shit all over the game.
I personally thought they shouldn't have called it a Quick Look, since it's so far away from teh tone of the otehr ones.

Fuck off, This was hilarious. Bad things are funny, get a grip

" Fuck off, This was hilarious. Bad things are funny, get a grip "

They could have been much harsher. In fact I could tell at times they where trying to be professional and not criticize the game too much. 
Anyway the games looks terrible, and it makes good entertainment.

" @Cramsy said:

" Fuck off, This was hilarious. Bad things are funny, get a grip "

how about you fuck off for being late to the party and bumping this thread after everyone got their laugh and moved on ? "