The Escapist : Zero Punctuation Game Reviews

Canis Lupus

pixelburp wrote: »

Wait wait wait ...

why do all the cartoon reviews air uncensored, gratuitous swearing, tasteless analogies and everything, yet within 30 seconds of the video his "f*ck you" gets bleeped?

I wouldn't know if this is all throughout the thing either because like you guys, I got stupendously bored & had what I always presumed, confirmed: Yahtzee needs a script. He can't do ad-lib & just comes across as a twonk (more so!)

He looks (and yes I appreciate the ironing) quite nerdy in RL :P

Jazzy

this episode reminded me of the one about web comics (specifically ctrl-alt-del) and just how right he was.

again, right about everything. including Joss Whedon sucking absolute ass

cherryghost

Jazzy wrote: »

this episode reminded me of the one about web comics (specifically ctrl-alt-del) and just how right he was.

again, right about everything. including Joss Whedon sucking absolute ass

yeah but... its terrible compared to what he was doing. there was a slight dip a few months ago but was recently back on form, but this is just a new low imo

James Howlett

"If you were expecting Zero Punctuation" this week... then F**k You."

Yeah we know he always try his hardest to be cool but saying that just makes him look like a knob.

Jazzy

he'll prob take the piss out of himself for it next week

noodler

Awful alright.

Very nerdy, and skinny, and dity and hairy.

He just looks like he smells.

pixelburp

He looks like a gamer allright, a board-gamer.

*ducks and covers*

Mr E

Not a peep about last weeks humourless abomination.

This week, Uncharted 2.

He is just nitpicking because people expect him to. The "flaws" he finds with this game are ridiculous (apart from the gluey walls one, that's annoying).

Jazzy

i liked it.

but thats because he is never wrong

kaimera

DA: O this week

Ravage1616

kaimera wrote: »

DA: O this week

lol Think he got it spot on!

humanji

I find it odd that he played the console version though.

pixelburp

humanji wrote: »

I find it odd that he played the console version though.

That's because for all his bluster about console fratboys, I think Yahtzee's a console gamer at heart.

humanji

pixelburp wrote: »

That's because for all his bluster about console fratboys, I think Yahtzee's a console gamer at heart.

TAKE THAT BACK!!!!

SeantheMan

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that all the vids seem to be rehashed and the quality has been lowered. I'm not talking of content quality...but audio/video quality ?

The sound is awful

SeantheMan

This week is COD:MW2

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1118-Call-of-Duty-Modern-Warfare-2

BlitzKrieg

he didnt hate it as much as I thought he would

Seifer

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

he didnt hate it as much as I thought he would

pixelburp wrote: »

That's because for all his bluster about console fratboys, I think Yahtzee's a console gamer at heart.

.

Burning Eclipse

Local Game Retailer:

Ask about our 'preowned games' scam

Nice one

Branoic

As someones who's interested in games for their single player elements, i wholeheartedly agree with everything he said.

Stercus Accidit

I'm bored with this guy.

Its the sort of thing you'll enjoy for 3 videos, then you just get the whole formula. The DC video and some of the other live stuff he did really cements the idea that he is just reading a funny script.

Bar the whole comedy element, I rarely find his reviews to be very good either, his like and dislikes are just massively polarised opinions, the sort you get on a teenagers game forum full of flaming. He loves psyconauts omg it am best he hates some popular game, oh arr blame the plebs.

Maybe thats just me.

leninbenjamin

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

I'm bored with this guy.

Its the sort of thing you'll enjoy for 3 videos, then you just get the whole formula. The DC video and some of the other live stuff he did really cements the idea that he is just reading a funny script.

Bar the whole comedy element, I rarely find his reviews to be very good either, his like and dislikes are just massively polarised opinions, the sort you get on a teenagers game forum full of flaming. He loves psyconauts omg it am best he hates some popular game, oh arr blame the plebs.

Maybe thats just me.

Nah, it's not just you. Now and then he has some good one liners but for the most part his routine gets old very quickly.

dreamers75

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

I'm bored with this guy.

Its the sort of thing you'll enjoy for 3 videos, then you just get the whole formula. The DC video and some of the other live stuff he did really cements the idea that he is just reading a funny script.

Bar the whole comedy element, I rarely find his reviews to be very good either, his like and dislikes are just massively polarised opinions, the sort you get on a teenagers game forum full of flaming. He loves psyconauts omg it am best he hates some popular game, oh arr blame the plebs.

Maybe thats just me.

i said that 65 pages ago

superfly

yeah but we're not listening to you

L31mr0d

Any game reviewer with a niche is going to get old eventually. I'm amazed he is still drawing in the audiences even now.

Problem with his reviews, in comparison to someone like the AVGN, is that there is no actual footage of the game in the review. It ends up being 5 minutes of watching the same regurgitated drawings on a yellow background each week. He should also stick to reviewing bad games, or cult hits that the majority disliked.

His reviews have gone from: "it's funny 'cause its true" to being "yes, that's what everyone is saying about the game"

His opinions usually mirror mine, it's just the humour in his videos is growing stale.

ProjectColossus

Assassin's Creed II this week. Chaps got one hell of a cold at the moment

mehfesto2

The Jurrassic Park reference was quite funny

Grimebox

ProjectColossus wrote: »

Assassin's Creed II this week. Chaps got one hell of a cold at the moment

I fully thought it was a different person

pixelburp

Indeed, as I did I! I listened to it again because people were saying it was actually Yahtzee & not some stand-in.

ProjectColossus

Oh, so it's not clear by what I said (stupid winky emoticon), I totally agree, it's a different guy.

And what amazes me, is that in the comments, everyone is going on about "aww he got a new mic.. don't like the new sound he has a cold.. bla bla" until the sixtieth post, when someone suggests it's not him.

Bloody hell. 60 posts. It's clearly not him.