Zero Punctuation

[lionheart_reborn]

Have any of you heard of Ben "yahtzee" croshaw the game critic

i think its awesome the way he disses every game he comes accross cuz hes actually telling the truth, i find that the reviews in magazines and such tend to skip over the bad points

what is your opinion??

[Paulio]

I'm guessing that some moderator or similar person changed the title.

I haven't heard of the person.

But I'd like to know who messed with the topic title.
That'd be more interesting.

[Gohan]

Yahtzee's show is called Zero Punctuation. Nobody messed with the title, though I find it ironic that the OP used "zero punctuation."

[Yadomaru]

Might've been deliberate.
*rereads*
Then again, probably not.

Never heard of this guy or his show.

[Sympathy]

I have never heard of this show.
What channel is it on?

[frack]

Rofl it's not on any channel. Online only. Vids every Wednesday. Here's the link.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation?page=1

[Gohan]

I've been watching his reviews on Wednesdays for a long time now and I find him to be very funny. Though I never really look at his reviews for buying advice, just for comedic purposes. He's much too critical, if I purchased games based on his advice I would own no games.

I'm curios as to why he didn't post this one board down in the "Gaming Haven"
http://forums.bleachexile.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31

[frack]

You realize he's doing that partly for the purposes of a bit. He's supposed to be an asshole-ish critic. Another reason why it's hilarious.

[Rexel]

I`ve laughed my ass off at this show, i especially liked the Ghost Busters one cause i use to play it on my console, that game was SHIT, but at the time it was fun.
I`ve seen a lot of his videos, Fable 2, Fallout 3, Thief The Dark Project, Farcry 2, Fear 2, etc.
This guy is simply hilarious,yet being an asshole is part of his charm lol.

[Gohan]

You realize he's doing that partly for the purposes of a bit. He's supposed to be an asshole-ish critic. Another reason why it's hilarious.
I'm aware of that but I wanted to make sure others who just found out about him through this topic didn't bitch about how strict he is on games.

[frack]

Oh, why do that? It's more fun for Yahtzee if that happens. :P Remember his response to the SSBB review?

[Gohan]

Haha, that was awesome. I loved his replies to all the emails he got.

[frack]

"Now, I'm not a fanboy-"
"YES YOU ARE."

[lionheart_reborn]

I'm guessing that some moderator or similar person changed the title.

I haven't heard of the person.

But I'd like to know who messed with the topic title.
That'd be more interesting.

Sorry my bad, his little videos are called Zero Punctuation

I loved yahtzee's review of SSBB and the follow up fan mail episode, i'm hoping he'll do more episodes like that

[frack]

In his newest one, the main topic is that new House of the Dead game, but he squeezes Killzone 2 in there too.

[lionheart_reborn]

Think we should review his episode here every week?
and would you be interested?

[frack]

Sure. Discuss the newest review. Like I said, every Wednesday there's a new one.

[Skirr]

You guys know there's a ZP fanclub, right?

[frack]

Not to my knowledge. Already did a search for it. Twice. I saw a "Webcomic FC," but nothing else close to it.

[Skirr]

Never mind. Musta got deleted.

I like the Halo and Bioshock and SSBB fanhate review ones. There's too many to list all my faves.

[frack]

The Halo review REALLY set my friend off. It was awesome.

[Gohan]

I liked the Call of Duty 4 review, don't know why. It just made me laugh. The Guitar Hero review was good too.

[Skirr]

Oh the Sonic Unleashed review caused my friend to actually hate Yahtzee. He's slagged some of my favourite games so it's all cool with me.

[frack]

Er, Sonic Unleashed was an abysmal game. Everything Yahtzee said in that review was completely true. I feel bad for your friend, then, being an incurable Sonic fanboy, lol. Though I'll admit to being addicted to the old Sonic back when they were on the Saturn/Genesis.

[lionheart_reborn]

My fav review was fable/ssbb fan mail

[frack]

His Fallout 3 review was genius.

[lionheart_reborn]

His Fallout 3 review was genius.

complete and utter genius - i would rate games myself, but i only buy the games a couple of years after they get releases :bigsmile:

[frack]

And plus, he gets paid for it.

Did anyone else see the pilot for an actual TV show that he and his friends are trying to get started? Here's the link.
http://www.gamedamage.net/

[Gohan]

And plus, he gets paid for it.

Did anyone else see the pilot for an actual TV show that he and his friends are trying to get started? Here's the link.
http://www.gamedamage.net/
lol, that's interesting. I don't know how well it will due since it doesn't feature jokes as frequently as Zero Punctuation.

[frack]

I just thought it was interesting to see Yahtzee in real life. Hey, he is human!

[lionheart_reborn]

I just thought it was interesting to see Yahtzee in real life. Hey, he is human!

what yahtzee is human - no way, gonna go watch the piolot episode now :bigsmile:

[Skirr]

He irregularly appears on the Australian Gamer podcast and he's always hilarious. (and the podcast ain't half bad either.)

[lionheart_reborn]

i loved the halo cut scene's, thought they were really good, and the micky take of metal gear solid :L

[frack]

He was talking about how the negative feedback was actually helping them get noticed more so "to all the haters, HA HA WE WIN. More on this later."

[lionheart_reborn]

so shall i make a new thread on wednesday in the gaming area, or shall me just have our opinions on here?

[Gohan]

Ask one of the mods to move this thread.

[lionheart_reborn]

Ask one of the mods to move this thread.

I have asked a mod to move the thread into the gaming area, so thats where it will be soon, i'm gonna make a new thread on wednesday i think for whatever yahtzee reviews, it will literally be called

"yahtzee reviews ....."

[frack]

Assuming most everyone here has followed him since the beginning, have you all seen his YouTube vids? There are reviews of The Darkness and Fable: The Lost Chapters, which were his first two reviews ever.

[Skirr]

Yeah I'm seen 'em. They're pretty hilarious too. I like his site too with all his written reviews.
www.fullyramblomatic.com

[lionheart_reborn]

I haven't seen the darkness review, i'll check it out at some point

[Viron]

I deeply respect his sense of humor and wit. He's funny and I do agree with him on some of his points, but he plays a lot of games I don't own so most of the time I can't agree without being biased but whatever, I was watching it when I saw this forum, wierd.

[frack]

I should probably add this as a disclaimer: If you base your game-buying off of him, you're an idiot and you'll never own any good games, lol.

[Skirr]

Yeah. A lot of the time, he's right about the games, but even good games have flaws.

[Wras]

I watch him for the humor, almost never because I want to know about a game. Even the ones he likes he prefaces with 'I love this game' then the review is spent making fun of it anyway. Also, I try to play a game before watching the review. It makes it much funnier (like GTA4 and Creed)

[lionheart_reborn]

I watch him for the humor, almost never because I want to know about a game. Even the ones he likes he prefaces with 'I love this game' then the review is spent making fun of it anyway. Also, I try to play a game before watching the review. It makes it much funnier (like GTA4 and Creed)

i think that people who buy games purley on what reviewers have said are idiots, playing a game based on someone elses opinion means you might not actually like it and your purchasing games for the wrong reasons

[frack]

i think that people who buy games purley on what reviewers have said are idiots, playing a game based on someone elses opinion means you might not actually like it and your purchasing games for the wrong reasons
:oh:
I should probably add this as a disclaimer: If you base your game-buying off of him, you're an idiot and you'll never own any good games, lol.
:odd:

[Viron]

Also, I try to play a game before watching the review. It makes it much funnier (like GTA4 and Creed)

It's not that hard actually to play the game before he reviews it, I mean he does one a week way after they come out and he is waaaaay to picky about his choices ( read what he has to say about that on his website which has already been linked).

[frack]

He's picky until The Escapist tells him what to review.

[Skirr]

He's been saying recently that when in doubt he'll pick something from last year or whatever fans support his wordy ninja skills being used on most.

[frack]

And sometimes whatever he wants to pick. Remember Braid?

[lionheart_reborn]

I hope we get a decent game today

[Viron]

we did not. we got 50 cent blood in the sand, I don't know if 50 cent is being serious or if this is all jus meant to be a joke, I really hope its the latter because then it would just be sad

[Gohan]

Actually though the first 50 Cent game sucked the second one is said to be average. I've played neither of them, just going by what I hear people saying. Either way I liked how tiptoed around the whole racism subject. Not to mention the subliminal "Not Racist" messages that popped up 3 or 4 times in the video.

[Skirr]

Um...
Yahtzee doesn't tiptoe around subjects. He did one better. He clearly stated at the beginning of the review that judging anything by outward appearance is fucking stupid and that's all he was going to say about it. The "Not a Racist" thing was good though.

[lionheart_reborn]

I love how he thinks Lara roft and 50 cent would be a good match up
- both killing others to take something that didn't belong to them in the first place

[frack]

"THE LAZY NI-"

That one caught me off guard, lol. Poor Yahtzee. There's a severe shortage of good games out. I'm waiting on an RE5 review.

[Wras]

^ a kid in my Psych class was watching it on his laptop and that made him laugh hard enough to get the professor's attention. We're not allowed to use our computers in that class anymore :P

[lionheart_reborn]

Thats quite bad, but funny.

and a resi 5 review would be awesome

[frack]

^ a kid in my Psych class was watching it on his laptop and that made him laugh hard enough to get the professor's attention. We're not allowed to use our computers in that class anymore :P

My friend did that too, except the professor was actually a fan. He asked which review it was, lol. Not the response that was expected.

[lionheart_reborn]

i don't have that problem, i don't go to school/uni

[frack]

Too bad. It's a good problem to have. Predictions on the next review?

[lionheart_reborn]

i finished my 13th year, but i think he'll do a resi 5 review, if not this week, next week

[Skirr]

He might boycott RE5 because everyone wants him to review it... It would not be against his nature.

[lionheart_reborn]

i know its his nature, but it would be awesome, what othergame would he review that dance game on the wii (actually i wanna see that game ripped apart)

[Skirr]

I don't think he'll review a party game... He's only ever reviewed one party game and that was more of a fighting game anyway, SSBB.

[lionheart_reborn]

it would be funny tho, that game is terrible to be fair to it

[frack]

There's no way. He hates casual gaming. Hates it. Completely. Not even professional obligations will get him to do it.

[Skirr]

It's a shame he hates fighting games. He's stated he won't be doing a SFIV review.

[frack]

He mentioned it in the Spiderman review. Called it "An excuse to needlessly mash buttons on my controller."

[Skirr]

Oh. I missed that one. I love the bit where he says "fuck you Space Cowboy" or whatever it was.

[frack]

Haha he loves Bebop, though.

[Skirr]

Whut. Where did you find out that? D=

[frack]

He has things that are scattered around the Escapist's and his sites. I'm pretty sure I saw a comment of his somewhere that he liked Bebop.

[Skirr]

Aw sweet. Must be like the God of anime if he likes it, being that he's expressed that anime is in general "meh."

[lionheart_reborn]

i love mashing button games

[frack]

Aw sweet. Must be like the God of anime if he likes it, being that he's expressed that anime is in general "meh."

If you watched that "Game Damage" thing, then you'll know about his (and I quote) EXTREMELY SLIGHT interest in City of Heroes. One of my friends plays that a lot and idolizes Yahtzee. He nearly died when he heard that.

[lionheart_reborn]

i liked the idea of city of heroes, and thought it was a mistake for city of villans (or was it evil) cant remember never mind

[frack]

It was City of Villains.

He needs to do some more viewer mail response stuff.

[Skirr]

Oh! About a month or two months before he did the PoP retrospective I e-mailed him, being a big fan I had noticed his adoration of the PoP series from the first time he mentioned it, and I suggested a PoP1 review. AND THEN HE DID THAT. I was pleased.

[frack]

Hahaha that has to be some kind of satisfaction. Nice dude.

[Gohan]

I was pretty surprised when I found out that he actually reviewed Resident Evil 5.
Pretty funny, The stupidity of the AI is pretty much true and the racism bit was funny.

Link to the video:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/624-Resident-Evil-5

[Wras]

Amazing as always.

Man you can't stop listening to these for a SECOND or you will get completely derailed.

[frack]

<--- Called the blazing fuck out of that.

Awesome review.

[Korbenik]

IMO i dont care what this guy says even though he does have good points to point out

[lionheart_reborn]

i loved the racism point and the AI points :>

awesome review and i told ya so

[frack]

IMO i dont care what this guy says even though he does have good points to point out
His main objective is entertainment.

[Skirr]

Yeah but he does believe these things. It doesn't necessarily mean he hates every single game he finds a flaw in, he just notices the flaws.

[lionheart_reborn]

if i hated every game i played, i doubt i would bother with reviewing them

[frack]

Yeah but he does believe these things. It doesn't necessarily mean he hates every single game he finds a flaw in, he just notices the flaws.

I saw a post in the ZP forums challenging some of Yahtzee's beliefs. His intelligent fanbase is fucking VICIOUS. I don't think that guy has posted again, lol.

[Skirr]

lmao. It's like a dogmatic religion with some people.

[frack]

Makes sense. Yahtzee could be a dictator. He just doesn't consider the rest of the world worthy enough.

EDIT: New review. Unskippable and ZP crossover. Awesome.

[Gohan]

Yup as frackSeed pointed out, Zero Punctuation reviewed Halo Wars this week.
Link: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/645-Halo-Wars

[Wras]

The crossover was pretty cool. I went back and checked out some of the other Unskippable stuff. It's pretty funny but bland for the most part. Feels like the kind of thing I'd like to do, bullshitting with a friend or two but I don't see how/why those 2 would do it reliably or consistently. I hope if they actually do get paid they contribute a bit more to the site, lol.

[frack]

Yup as frackSeed pointed out, Zero Punctuation reviewed Halo Wars this week.
Link: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/645-Halo-Wars

Lol I completely forgot the link. Thanks, Gohan.

[Gohan]

Alot of the stuff he said was true for a great number of RTS. Especially the part about trying to maneuver a large number of large units through a narrow space.

[frack]

The end was hysterical. His rant put me on the floor.

[Skirr]

The end was hysterical. His rant put me on the floor.

Everything puts you on the floor, man. :P

His Madworld review was pretty fun. I don't have a Wii, can't really say I believe or disbelieve any of his problems though.

[frack]

The guy hates the Wii, and I'm inclined to agree. The only redeeming factor it has is SSBB.

[Skirr]

Yeah SSBB is pretty fun. But again, it's a party game. 'S the reason I don't want a Wii, just filled with party games.

[frack]

Again, that's all the Wii has. That and casual gaming. -__-

[Gohan]

His review of GTA: Chinatown Wars was pretty fun. Especially his bit about the terrible aiming system being counteracted by the terrible AI.

[frack]

The game itself is a contradiction which, like he said, makes it somewhat decent.