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(More customer reviews)This game is great! Well worth the money. I always loved the YDKJ games (had every one on the PC).
The rest of this review is only for people who played it on the PC as only you will understand.
They did mess up a few things about the game from the PC version. I couldn't wait for this to come out on the PS3 for 2 reasons (1) Up to date content and (2) Individual controllers means 4 (instead of only 3) people can play and they don't have to huddle around a keyboard. They nailed #(1), but they changed the game in ways that I think take away from the fun of the PC version.
Here are the issues I see:
A. No buzzing in factor. Yes, you buzz in your answer, but EVERYONE gets to answer (or not, you still lose points for a wrong answer, so you may not want to answer at all). So there is no need to make a quick decision if you want to buzz in or not. In the original game, only the 1st person who buzzed in would get to answer and then if they were wrong, someone else could try and so on. Like Jeopardy. (gee, I wonder if the Jeopardy formula is time tested and solid???). In this new YDKJ, all 4 people buzz in their answer (with no indication on the screen so you can't copy off of others (that's a good feature)). You get 30 seconds to answer, so once again, it completely removes that "I'm not sure if I know the answer to this but I better buzz in before someone else does" factor. You can now carefully read the question and decide if you want to answer or not. I never saw YDKJ as a triva game as much as it is a Game Show simulation. Basically, what I am saying here is that they replaced the need for quick reflexes and decision making with the ability to think more clearly about the question before answering.
B. No REAL screw factor. The difference from (A) above makes Screwing another contestant MUCH less useful or fun. In the old game, you would see (from no one buzzing in) that no one was probably going to answer. Then you pick the screw and pick a "victim". Forcing the other player to answer when they don't want to is the thing. In the new version, you don't really know if the other players are planning on answering or not, since they have 30 seconds to decide what their answer is. In other words, what is the point of forcing someone to answer a question that they were going to answer anyway?
C. 7 or 21. The old version gave you a choice of a 7 question or 21 question game. We always did 21, so the new 11 question version is not working as well for us.
D. No Gibberish question. This is the only one that I understand. It would have been hard to quickly type in the answer without a real keyboard. I still miss the feature.
E. Multi-player DIS or DAT is not REALLY multi-player. DIS or DAT was always the least fair thing about the original YDKJ because it would basically let the person who selected the category for that question, do the DIS or DAT. So now they advertise mutliplayer DIS or DAT and have a chance to fix that inconsistancy, but instead, it is only that if the person selected for DIS or DAT gets one wrong, others can steal it. Why not just let everyone play equally and get the points they earn? What did the player do to earn the right to do DIS or DAT anyway?
F. Pre-determined questions. What I mean by this is that the "episodes" as they call them are all exactly the same. When you play episode 1, it is always the same questions. You get to pick the episode so that you can make sure you are playing a fresh one, but the old way which just randomly arranged questions was much better. Sure, there would be times where there was a question or two that you had seen before, but it felt more realistic that way instead of these totally identical games. I think there are only 73 episodes. I can burn thru those (especially with 11 question games) with 2 nights of playing with friends. Maybe the download feature will help with that.
OK, so you may think I hate this game. I do not. YDKJ is such an awesome game that I still think it is well worth buying. That's why I gave it 5 stars.
Here are some good things about this version:
A. Individual controllers - AWESOME. But that's really the PS3's doing.
B. Wrong Answer of the day - this is very cool. It is funny and gives someone a pretty decent reward for getting a wrong answer. Very in line with the YDKJ francise.
C. Graphics are great.
D. Still the same sarcastic, funny bantor that really gives you the feel of some kind of production going on.
E. Up to date content.
Hopefully, they will put out new content at a regular pace and provide more specialized versions like they had on the PC (Sports, Movies, TV, etc.)
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