here's this review too
of Insanity X.
If you want to call it a review.
some funny drama happened with this video on GameMarx's actual site. The video is featured there, but I found on it YouTube also !
http://www.gamemarx.com/video/trials/112/insanity-x.aspx Here's the site version.
A friend found the video after the CCAG at my house and watched it and we all laughed at how stupid the guy talking was for numerous reasons.
He apparently posted a comment from my computer (probably while I was playing Aldynes, and saying THERES NO f*ckING HELMET IN BERZERK). Apparently he let auto-fill do its thang (as a guest poster).
The reviewer talking accused him of being me which is a funny accusation since it auto-filled my casual email, not Aetherbyte's. Bold accusations from Mr. Know It All.
So I responded as well and he goes I SEE THE IP OF POSTS, DROP THE ACT. That's when the light clicked on and I went "k, time to find which friend commented from my house yesterday!"
My friend got on and responded again from his Facebook, some other random dude posted, also slamming the review for being shit, and the recovering drug addict looking reviewer didn't reply again, probably because the combined efforts of 3 people on his piddly, barren site, made him look like a clueless twit. He never did defend any of the things we said that implied he had no idea what he was talking about, probably because the cat was already out of the bag, and he went off to go make another video.
The reviewer says he played a lot of Berzerk, its one of his favorites, and he fancies remaking it. I hope he never does attempt given his comment on the "debug line left by the developers on the Atari 2600".
Note how they constantly reference Atari 2600. I think they have no idea it was an arcade game. One you put quarters into and stand there and play!
Its fine that hes an avid Berzerk fan, I got excited and thought hey, maybe a Berzerk fanatic will dig this game here in this review or give some kind of reasons why it didn't hold up to the legend..
Boy was I wrong, because EVERYTHING HE SAYS ABOUT BERZERK AFTER THAT IS f*ckING WRONG.
The review started off like it would be decent, but snowballed into typical "n00bs trying to be retro" ignorance. He didn't even know about the Turbob version. Anyone whos got a clue about retro knows about the Turbob.
There is no helmet in Berzerk. He even posts an Atari 2600 box shot saying SEE THE HELMET? No, I don't see the helmet. I see a partridge family lookin' doof in a jump suit with a toy gun, basically.
He was unaware of Otto in Berzerk and he wasn't sure if you could just exit rooms in Berzerk. FFS. I think HE should drop the act. He was alive when Berzerk came out and has no clue wtfs going on. That's not right. Stop pretending you know retro games.
Go watch the video and read the comments, if you are that interested in seeing the details of what went down, lol. I like how the girl was accused of being drunk.
I browsed the site some more and found other reviews where you can SEE the people from Insanity X's video.
http://www.gamemarx.com/video/reviews/14/ancient-trader.aspx The Guy that barely talks
http://www.gamemarx.com/video/reviews/84/colon-jump.aspx The Girl
http://www.gamemarx.com/video/reviews/8/along-came-a-spider.aspx The main talker.
Colon jump was my favorite.
"Hi I'm going to try being cool and cultured by mispronouncing kawaii"
Its a shame this is some mass Indie games review site, probably auto content filled for the most part, and has 3 reviewers that don't seem to know f*ckall about anything. Thankfully by the looks of it, there's not a lot of popularity on the site.
I'm thrilled they reviewed my game for the most part. What I am not thrilled about however, is that the review itself is trash. Its hardly even a review. I would've preferred it be a negative review that was accurate or actually COVERED THE GAME.
Instead of reviewing or commenting on anything about the game they spend most of the 8 minutes providing their misinformed recollection of the 80s. The comments they do finally make are petty ones.
"Oh the flashing background is too much" <<< fair enough.
"Oh, I have to walk and shoot" <<< Wrong. You stop moving when you shoot, goon.
There weren't any comments on the controls (except that its just like the Atari 2600 one! A button and a joystick!), nothing on the sound/music (other than mimicking them), no graphical comments other than the helmet one....
no comments on the playability or the difficulty. Nothing.
Just 3 ignorant wannabes f*cking off the whole time, complete with made up facts about the 80s.
and really, somehow Zelda was referenced. All they had to do now was reference Pac Man and Mario, and they'd complete the pretend-retro-gamer checklist.
They somehow managed to be just like Gamespot.
I hate modern gamers.
EDIT: Look what I found on their barren Youtube comments
"I like this channel, but you guys don't seem like real gamers? It seems that it takes you a long time to learn very simple generic mechanics used by most games. I'm guessing you don't normally play games? "
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hah
