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Zero Punctuation nowadays

edited 2011-07-29 02:55:32 in Webspace
no longer cuddly, but still Edmond
I gotta admit, lately I haven't liked Yahtzee. There was a time when he was a complainy complainypants but also a really funny one, like the Angry Video Game Nerd but with a different style. I mean I still crack up at the review he did entirely in Limerick or his fake DNF review. But his more recent reviews seem to be lacking something. They're not funny anymore and its harder and harder to get a handle on what he's even bitching about now. Like his Ocarina of Time review--I watched it, but not a single complaint made sense to me. I think that the combined weight of his videos and his editorial column has caused him to become a guy who just looks for shit to bitch about and that's caused him to become very dull, and his metaphors are starting to come off as kind of recycled. Ugh. Yahtzee really needs a break. Seriously. Take a month off and get some of your groove back.
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  • ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    He's taken a break for 2 months now.
  • How Stella Yahtzee got her his groove back.

    Co-starring Myrmidon and Moe Dantes.
  • The bro gets way too many samey shooters on his platter, there's only so much you can do before you've exhausted your humour faculties. He needs to be dictated less by hyped games if it cramps his material.
  • yea i make potions if ya know what i mean
    I do not understand what "Zero Punctuation" even is, other than (apparently) a collective of online....stuff....reviewers.
  • a little muffled
    It's just a series of comedy game reviews that are popular because the reviewer has an accent that makes anything funny.
  • yea i make potions if ya know what i mean
    Well that is massively underwhelming.

    I tend to not like review vlogs, they annoy me for reasons I can't entirely place.
  • They're also presented with rapid still images, if that means anything.
  • yea i make potions if ya know what i mean
    Well, it means they're presented with rapid still images.
  • He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    It's more of a slideshow with lots of visual metaphors and puns that are being narrated by a sarcastic brit.
  • no longer cuddly, but still Edmond
    I love how we're all on the internet and offering a description of a web video series when we could easily just link to it.

    Anyway, Zero Punctuation is a web video series that used to be entertaining but isn't anymore.
  • Likes cheesecake unironically.
    Yes, Yathzee should take a break from ZP. Forever. Instead, he should go back to making games. That's the only thing he ever did right.
  • Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    Did anyone read his book? I'm curious about it.
  • It's kind of annoying that 90% of his opinions are dictated by nostalgia, too.
  • When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Especially when he claims that nostalgia is a futile emotion.
  • And the ZP thread has been stupid lately.
  • I still find it funny, and that's all I really ever got from it. Though more variety in the games he reviews would be nice.
  • And I really wish he'd stop making the same boring rants about America and the Wii. And I don't get why he reviews Halo games, RTSes and JRPGs,  given his blind hatred for all of them.
  • I swear to fucking god, the next person that doesn't realize that Yahtzee is joking and doesn't really mean the complaints...
  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    But he does mean a lot of the complaints. He's joking and he deliberately blows them out of proportion, sure, but that doesn't mean he doesn't mean them at all.
  •  And I don't get why he reviews Halo games, RTSes and JRPGs,  given his blind hatred for all of them.

    Because he has to review popular games, and those are popular.
  • MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    ^^^^You do realize he's paid to, right?
  • edited 2011-07-29 12:02:32
    You can change. You can.
    Why do people forget that reviewing is not just "Lol I get paid to watch movies"?

    It's suffering endless shit in order to find an average movie that feels so good that you kinda think that God, the Buddha and Allah exist at the same time and actually care for the world. 

    EDIT: Replace watch movies with plaing games because lazy.
  • ^I'm...unsure what that has to do with this, since as far as I can tell, Yahtzee instead only plays good games and then says they suck.
  • edited 2011-07-29 12:06:41
    Yeah, but it's not like being a movie critic for a newspaper where you have to watch and review every major movie that comes out. Yahtzee can pick and choose the things he wants to review, and the fact that he still picks games that he hates and has nothing to say about bugs me.
  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    I'm pretty sure he's sometimes required to review certain games.
  • You can change. You can.
    Maybe he doesn't expect to not be able to say anything? Maybe he is a closet idealist?
  • Well he shouldn't be.
  • Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    Remember that time, years ago, he actually appeared on camera for some reason? Anyone remember why?
  • edited 2011-07-29 12:14:36
    Also, if he hates something, it gives him more material to bitch, which is what people want.

    Remember that time, years ago, he actually appeared on camera for some reason? Anyone remember why?

    Complaining about quicktime events.
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