sephfire Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 This is a few months old, but I never saw a thread about it here and Yahtzee's reviews are just too great to miss. A british-born, Australia-based guy by the name of Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw has been releasing short, hilarious game reviews for the last few months. The Escapist picked him up a while back and he's been making a new video every week. I'd try describing the videos to you, but you really have to see them for yourself. Zero Punctuation Reviews by "Yahtzee" (in chronological order) Heavenly Sword (demo) and Resident Evil 5 (teaser) Psychonauts Next-Gen Console Rundown BioShock Tomb Raider Anniversary Manhunt Peggle Halo 3 Tabula Rasa (beta) The Orange Box Super Paper Mario Medal of Honor: Airborne Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Clive Barker's Jericho F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate Assassin's Creed Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Mass Effect Super Mario Galaxy Silent Hill: Origins Crysis The Witcher Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Sim City Societies Yahtzee Goes to GDC Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Devil May Cry 4 Burnout: Paradise Turok Zack & Wiki Army of Two No More Heroes Condemned 2: Bloodshot Super Smash Bros. Brawl God of War: Chains of Olympus Mailbag Showdown Grand Theft Auto IV Painkiller The World Ends With You I eagerly await every wednesday now. Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arek the Absolute Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Portal is great and if you disagree he is totally right about you being stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarvi Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Amazing guy, I found his stuff when someone linked his Bioshock review, I was laughing so hard I cried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skrypnyk Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD soc actually showed me his youtube videos first, then I found out about zero punctuation via his trailer. I believe I was there when there was manhunt. Either way, this guy is my fucking hero, and he needs to put more 'twing-twang' in his videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shining Mirage Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Wow. His Halo 3 review. My lungs... No more. I'm done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZman Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 This guy's also made some pretty decent adventure games. The 5 Days a Stranger series is particularly good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFusion Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 This guy's also made some pretty decent adventure games.The 5 Days a Stranger series is particularly good. O. M. G. THE ZERO PUNCTUATION REVIEWER DUDE IS THE GUY WHO MADE THE John DeFoe '5 Days A Stranger' SERIES!?!?#?!$?!@%$!#@^@#?&$#@*&?@!! http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days/ Yeah, pimping up the thread with this cool game (the first in the series), but, I think that link is a pretty good summary for a great game that the guy made. I can't believe that it's the same person... And it's also very much worth checking out, along with his ZERO PUNCT. reviews. WOW. This is like realising that two internet celebrities are actually the same person. Except that one internet celebrity isn't as popular as the other one. Which is still cool. And, agreed. His Adventure freeware games are amazing. Not to mention scary, as crazy as that sounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Samus Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 OMG I'm laughing so hard I fell off my chair! I'm actually having truoble typing this. I can't stop laughing....oh man....phew. How have I not heard about this guy before? Great stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Wolf Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 That Bioshock review is made of fucking win. Pure awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal Zero Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I've been watching this guy for a looong time and I must say he's quite funny. Stupid at times, but it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshi3gg Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I absolutely LOVE Zero Punctuation; Yahtzee's absolutely mind-blowingly hilarious, and he manages to do it while giving really fair reviews. And yes, as mentioned earlier, he makes some ridiculously great adventure games. I'm playing through the x Days series right now (currently on 7 Days a Skeptic, the second of four). Also, for fans of 5 Days, there's actually a Source mod adaptation of it currently under development (and Yahtzee's involved with it, so it probably won't be totally bastardized). According to their FAQ, they're hoping to have it out before the end of 2008 (and for the artistically inclined, they're currently looking for a concept artist, character modeller/animator, item modeller, and texture artist) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFusion Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Also, for fans of 5 Days, there's actually a Source mod adaptation of it currently under development (and Yahtzee's involved with it, so it probably won't be totally bastardized). According to their FAQ, they're hoping to have it out before the end of 2008 (and for the artistically inclined, they're currently looking for a concept artist, character modeller/animator, item modeller, and texture artist) Wow, that front page is more exciting that Fallout 3's ever was. And that game is a cult classic. What's so cool is that Yahtzee's so popular now that he could pimp his own projects -- and they'd be very well worth the pimpage. I mean, if they managed to convert the game's to 3D, then oh ho ho. That'd be mindblowing. Lol, the Bioshock review was brilliantly accurate in a twisted kind of way. I loved it, although I had to quit it when he started talking about the endings. Spoilers or not, I don't want to know anything about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziellink Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I can't watch the video's. Do you need to register first? Sounds like i'm missing out here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremespleen Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 This guy's also made some pretty decent adventure games.The 5 Days a Stranger series is particularly good. Holy crap. I didn't realize he made those.Damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephfire Posted October 29, 2007 Author Share Posted October 29, 2007 I can't watch the video's. Do you need to register first? Sounds like i'm missing out here.... Try a different browser maybe? At the very least, these videos should be all over youtube. Just try keywords like "zero punctuation" and "fully ramblomatic" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 I love the disclaimer at the end of the BioShock review: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueMage Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Shit! I had to stop the Heavenly Sword vid so I could get my breath back after a laughing fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dennis Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 I've watched about half of 'em. It's excellent writing and usually spot-on, but I haven't found it laugh-out-loud funny except for once or twice. He endorses Portal, too. So there you go. He's a man's man. EDIT: Okay, the side-by-side screenshots of the RE4 and RE5 gun-pointing got a hearty laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Taucer Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 You know, aside from being fucking hilarious, these are among the best and most accurate reviews I've ever heard. They're all dead-on. Bookmarked. How often does he post new ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 You know, aside from being fucking hilarious, these are among the best and most accurate reviews I've ever heard. They're all dead-on.Bookmarked. How often does he post new ones? Weekly, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremespleen Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Yeah, it's like, every Wednesday or Thursday I think. Cos the day Escapist updates, he's got a new one a day or two later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephfire Posted October 30, 2007 Author Share Posted October 30, 2007 Every wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SynthesizedStampede Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Haha, those reviews are hellaaa funny. But I'm not sure whether this guy is truly a pessimist or just being that way cuz it's in his character to do so. Almost all those reviews have barely any positive things in them, then again, I didn't watch the Psychonauts one which he refers to in another one, and says that because of his review of that game he's not allowed to post anything good about games (yes that was a run-on sentence). Hope there was more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citris Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 You know, aside from being fucking hilarious, these are among the best and most accurate reviews I've ever heard. They're all dead-on.Bookmarked. How often does he post new ones? Ditto. He had me at his review of Bioshock. That is one of my favorite games ever. Seeing as how System Shock 2 is also one of my favorite games ever, this isn't a surprise. That was one of my main problems with Bioshock though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephfire Posted October 30, 2007 Author Share Posted October 30, 2007 He usually slips in some positive side-notes if he really does like a game, but I think he knows the pessimism is where the funny is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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