The Escapist : Zero Punctuation Game Reviews

Mr E

Really enjoyed that. Running away from your partner with a bigger herb, inventory juggling, and the infinity armour made me laugh out loud.

Stev_o

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

nope.

You do realise that it is our national flag? Seriously if you don't think they are Irish i would be slightly worried about your perception of who a Irishman is.

BlitzKrieg

Stev_o wrote: »

You do realise that it is our national flag? Seriously if you don't think they are Irish i would be slightly worried about your perception of who a Irishman is.

maybe he's from the *cork republic* and your not a true irishman unless you got a cork accent

Cunny-Funt

lol nothing about their videos that I've seen indicate them being irish or in Ireland. So theres an Irish flag on a profile page. Some sites display a UK or US flag for me, doesn't mean I'm from either. Anyway if they are irish, from what I've seen, they're trying very hard not to be seen as irish lol

noodler

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

lol nothing about their videos that I've seen indicate them being irish or in Ireland. So theres an Irish flag on a profile page. Some sites display a UK or US flag for me, doesn't mean I'm from either. Anyway if they are irish, from what I've seen, they're trying very hard not to be seen as irish lol

Bottomline you don't know? Did you not see the flag the first time or something?

It does seem like a reasonable assumption to make.

Anyway, wgas?

Branoic

Agreed with everything said in this week's review, so from that perspective it was a good review - but just didn't find it funny at all.

FruitLover

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Don't forget the Jill Sandwich

Here's the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRpKbfrMvNo

Cunny-Funt

noodler wrote: »

Bottomline you don't know? Did you not see the flag the first time or something?

It does seem like a reasonable assumption to make.

Anyway, wgas?

Guy links to a video saying these irish lads are gas and the video contains no irish lads. There was no flag. That is all.

FruitLover wrote: »

Here's the original:

****in gas, me and my mates have been doing impressions of all the **** barry says in that vid for years, just from memories of the game.

quarryman

FruitLover wrote: »

Here's the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRpKbfrMvNo

i don't get it.

also i was ready for a killer ending to the 50 cent review based on the comments above. All we got was a South Park rip. I fell off my seat when Garrison said it, the Escapist got barely a smile - fresh jokes please!

kaimera

halo wars

stupid no flash for x64 IE8.

/goes to wait for opera10 to load video

pixelburp

kaimera wrote: »

halo wars

stupid no flash for x64 IE8.

/goes to wait for opera10 to load video

Haha, nice april fools video. Both reviews are good (even the third one at the end )

johnny_ultimate

What arbitrary silliness - I want a t-shirt with that slogan.

Mr E

Loved the rant at the end of the HW review. Makes me not want to play it. Ever.

L31mr0d

pixelburp wrote: »

Haha, nice april fools video. Both reviews are good (even the third one at the end )

Pretty good one alright this week. lol'd at his rant at the end.

Yeah, although in fairness, comparing X-Blades to God of War is bound to make it look absolutely rubbish. It's basically a weaker DMC4. Worth a rent if you like brawlers as its pretty short, and for trophy and achievement whores it's pretty easy to get all of them.

Halo Wars, never had any inclination to play it. I'm exactly the same as him though when it comes to RTS's, which is probably why I'm so bad at them. I'll just build the largest, slowest tank over and over again and march them across the map. Works against the CPU most of the time, but I get absolutely trounced in online. I'd also group the genre with RPG as you need a lot of patience for both.

Stephen

kaimera wrote: »

halo wars

stupid no flash for x64 IE8.

/goes to wait for opera10 to load video

On Win7/Vista x64 you can run IE in 32-bit mode and then you get flash

*cough*firefox*cough*

kaimera

Stephen wrote: »

On Win7/Vista x64 you can run IE in 32-bit mode and then you get flash

*cough*firefox*cough*

but i dont want 32bit IE :P

Retr0gamer

He is wrong about one thing, Unskippable is ****.

BopNiblets

^ If they did any game's I've played it might be better, never heard of most of the ones they've done.
Also it's basically MST3K for cutscenes.

The Imp at the end of this one was good.

K.O.Kiki

BopNiblets wrote:

Also it's basically MST3K for cutscenes.

You're saying that like it's a bad thing.

Mr E

First handheld game review in a long time.... GTA Chinatown Wars

thelordofcheese

Retr0gamer wrote: »

He is wrong about one thing, Unskippable is ****.

You sir, are a heathen.

Retr0gamer

thelordofcheese wrote: »

You sir, are a heathen.

It's ****. These guys do what unskippable does but do it better without even trying.

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/23887
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21739

Seanbaby is a genius and he doesn't even realise it.

Ardscoil Ris

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's ****. These guys do what unskippable does but do it better without even trying.

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/23887
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21739

Seanbaby is a genius and he doesn't even realise it.

Have to disagree. I watched all their videos after the Ben went on the show with them and I thought they were quite funny.

johnny_ultimate

My problem with Unskippable is that the two or three I've watched have featured cutscenes that aren't 'funny' bad, merely extremely dull. Mystery Science Theatre at least ripped apart films that were indeed hilariously dreadful (and do link me if there is any great unskippable ones - I've only seen Eternal Sonata and Star Ocean), and hence the only way I could watch Manos: The Hands of Fate in its entirety was to listen to a couple of playful robots commenting on the nonsense.

Weak Zero Punctuation though - I do love Chinatown Wars, but while some of his criticisms were valid ones, he was trying a bit too hard. It still stands - he is at his best when dismantling bad games. He isn't quite so funny when he tries to criticise the good ones.

quarryman

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Weak Zero Punctuation though - I do love Chinatown Wars, but while some of his criticisms were valid ones, he was trying a bit too hard. It still stands - he is at his best when dismantling bad games. He isn't quite so funny when he tries to criticise the good ones.

exactly what I thought after watching it.

I even prefer it when he reviews games I've never played.

Mark Hamill

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

My problem with Unskippable is that the two or three I've watched have featured cutscenes that aren't 'funny' bad, merely extremely dull. Mystery Science Theatre at least ripped apart films that were indeed hilariously dreadful (and do link me if there is any great unskippable ones - I've only seen Eternal Sonata and Star Ocean)

I think that Dirge of Cerberus is probably their best.

Retr0gamer

Mark Hamill wrote: »

I think that Dirge of Cerberus is probably their best.

That was their best? That was as funny as abortion footage.

5uspect

That's really not very funny.

thelordofcheese

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's ****. These guys do what unskippable does but do it better without even trying.

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/23887
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21739

Seanbaby is a genius and he doesn't even realise it.

I think you have that post backwards.

Mr E

Madworld on the Wii. Pretty poor, I laughed once....