Zero Punctuation: Can you feel the Internet Rage?

Pharezon

Mass Effect has words

Playing Guitar Hero with the Guys in a totally not gay way.

Assassin's little pony

Labrynith of F.E.A.R.

GABE NEWELL MEETS YAHTZEE

GSM AND HIS UNFUNNY PARODY

Revenge of the Brown Sith Castle

FAGBALLS AND THE RESCUING OF ZELDA!

MEDAL OF RUGGEDLY HANDSOMENESS

PRINCESS PEACH AND PAPER MARIOS

LOLPORTALS

TABULA RASA and COCK SALAD



SUNSHINE AHOY!

BOOB JOKES AND JAGGED ROCKS AHOY

BIOSHOCK!
WHAT WILL YOU CHOOSE?

COMPELLING REASONS!

He reviewed the Heavenly Sword Demo/Resident Evil 5 Trailer.
Oh yeah he also reviewed The Darkness demo and Fable: The Lost Chapters.

He does this every wednesday for The Escapist.

Enjoy.

templewulf

These are great videos, but don't we already have a thread about this guy? Search didn't turn up anything for me, though.

Pharezon

templewulf wrote: »

These are great videos, but don't we already have a thread about this guy? Search didn't turn up anything for me, though.

I made that thread. I'd figure I'd just use this one to show off everything and update it weekly. ;-)

templewulf

Pharezon wrote: »

templewulf wrote: »

These are great videos, but don't we already have a thread about this guy? Search didn't turn up anything for me, though.

I made that thread. I'd figure I'd just use this one to show off everything and update it weekly. ;-)

I just realized you made that one when I found it a little too late.

He's seriously great, though. Much better use of GooTube than most other nerd-centric stuff I've seen. I don't know why, but his accent really makes it for me, especially with the way he rushes through the review.

Mojo_Jojo

He is indeed excellent. And his adventure games aren't half bad either.

subedii

So on to the game itself, and I've played it (you crippled me for NOTHING Zero!). It does have some good humour, but like he said, it's got a fair amount of flaws. Most irritating to me was the freaking Milkman level. Sure it was funny, but every other turn was a sudden pitfall and half the times I left a house I got arrested because I wasn't holding the same implement coming out that I had going in (that was a really dumb design decision. SOMEONE must have playtested and noticed that you go into a house, grab the item, and then it becomes automatically equipped).

The Fish / Godzilla level was genius though.

chasm

I picked up Psychonauts for PC for $4 yesterday at Big Lots.

slash000

I had no idea what the fuck this was...

Until I clicked on that Heavenly Sword / RE5 thing.


Good Lord I'm glad I did! That was awesome!


Thank you for making this thread.

Gorilla Salad

OW! that hurt!

peterdevore

I did that thing with a ruler and it wasn't thick enough to

hurt me

Thrym

seriously, best reviews ever

Mobile-D

I bought Psychonauts on release, but did it before he told me not to! I feel betrayed!

Death of Rats

I borrowed Psychonauts from a friend. Should I have still done the pen thing or should I have done it even harder?

DeMoN

Death of Rats wrote: »

I borrowed Psychonauts from a friend. Should I have still done the pen thing or should I have done it even harder?

Harder, because you didn't pay for your enjoyment.

SpongeCake

Man, this guy is like Charlie Brooker on speed.

Death of Rats

DeMoN wrote: »

Death of Rats wrote: »

I borrowed Psychonauts from a friend. Should I have still done the pen thing or should I have done it even harder?

Harder, because you didn't pay for your enjoyment.

Now I can't type right.

Picardathon

subedii wrote: »

So on to the game itself, and I've played it (you crippled me for NOTHING Zero!). It does have some good humour, but like he said, it's got a fair amount of flaws. Most irritating to me was the freaking Milkman level. Sure it was funny, but every other turn was a sudden pitfall and half the times I left a house I got arrested because I wasn't holding the same implement coming out that I had going in (that was a really dumb design decision. SOMEONE must have playtested and noticed that you go into a house, grab the item, and then it becomes automatically equipped).

The Fish / Godzilla level was genius though.

Thats why you don't actually have to go inside a protected house to beat the level, only 100% completers need to go in, and if you really are trying to get 100% you don't get the point of the game, they have cheats for that.

Picardathon

Death of Rats wrote: »

I borrowed Psychonauts from a friend. Should I have still done the pen thing or should I have done it even harder?

I like people, so I don't think.
BUT PLAY IT!!
NOW!!
NO, GO AND PLAY IT AND FINISH IT, ITS AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Renzo

For being so visually funky, Psychonauts sure has standard gameplay mechanics. I didn't find it all that funny, either.

But he was right that each character, important or otherwise, had good character. Everyone was recognizable.

Rook

There is nothing fun about collecting 5 bajillion PSI arrow heads with that shitty detector.

DeMoN

Rook wrote: »

There is nothing fun about collecting 5 bajillion PSI arrow heads with that shitty detector.

As I remember you only needed, I think, 800. And only took like 15 minutes.

Zarcath

i love his reviews, wish he'd do more

reVerse

Those reviews are absolutely bloody brilliant.

Abels

Yeah, go ahead and blame the potential customer for not buying it.

(Or maybe make a demo that isn't a steaming pile of horse shit. Seriously, the Psychonauts demo makes the Bioshock limited edition soundtrack CD look good.)

Hotlead Junkie

Man, this guy could talk me into anything

anything

DeMoN

Abels wrote: »

Yeah, go ahead and blame the potential customer for not buying it.

(Or maybe make a demo that isn't a steaming pile of horse shit. Seriously, the Psychonauts demo makes the Bioshock limited edition soundtrack CD look good.)

O_o Really? The demo is the one and only reason why I bought the game. I knew nothing of it until the demo, then it became an instant purchase for me.

subedii

Picardathon wrote: »

subedii wrote: »

So on to the game itself, and I've played it (you crippled me for NOTHING Zero!). It does have some good humour, but like he said, it's got a fair amount of flaws. Most irritating to me was the freaking Milkman level. Sure it was funny, but every other turn was a sudden pitfall and half the times I left a house I got arrested because I wasn't holding the same implement coming out that I had going in (that was a really dumb design decision. SOMEONE must have playtested and noticed that you go into a house, grab the item, and then it becomes automatically equipped).

The Fish / Godzilla level was genius though.

Thats why you don't actually have to go inside a protected house to beat the level, only 100% completers need to go in

1. I didn't know that beforehand and

2. That still doesn't change the nature of the design decision. It was still irritating.

korodullin

Zarcath wrote: »

i love his reviews, wish he'd do more

He will. His first couple landed him his job, and now he gets to do them every week.

scootch

I love him. *SWOOON*

Hotlead Junkie

I really love Psyconauts and all, but I don't think it's fair to mock people who simply don't like that sort of game. I think it is one of the funniest, most well designed and overall awesome games ever but I know a lot of people in my circle of freinds who just didn't 'get' this game, it simply wasn't to their taste.

eric.

This guy is great. thanks for the heads up on the videos, I've never actually looked through the Escapist website, but now that I've watched that video, I'm even more intrigued.

falling_stone

this man is fucking hysterical. I want more of this immediately. I want him to review current gen games though, like the one he did about Heavenly Sword.

urahonky

So here I am enjoying these videos when my desktop makes a loud scratching sound and shuts off... Iboot it up and it says: "Hey Windows/System32 is corrupt, put in the windows xp disc and try to repair!" so I did. When I put in the FUCKING disk... It goes straight into a blue screen of death saying "Page fault error... Your fucking hard drive is fucking busted dude... lawls buy windows again!"

..................

Excuse me...

Excuse me while I go fucking kill some babies.

OT:

Funny movies.

Lewisham

Hotlead Junkie wrote: »

I really love Psyconauts and all, but I don't think it's fair to mock people who simply don't like that sort of game. I think it is one of the funniest, most well designed and overall awesome games ever but I know a lot of people in my circle of freinds who just didn't 'get' this game, it simply wasn't to their taste.

Well we could say that about any game. My best friend played the Bioshock demo at my bequest. "It's just like Halo but worse. I'll wait for Halo 3 thanks." Which resulted in this from me: O_o

But the fact that it is good enough to polarise makes me happy, on hindsight, just like Psychonauts can do. It means that, for a group of people, it is a very special game, because it pushes the boundaries or targets them specifically. If we want a video game landscape of grey/brown Generic Shooter 7s, then that's what we will get if we don't champion games that do elicit that response from us, whether other people like it or not. Shadow of the Colossus is the same way, all of my friends hate it. I think it's the best game ever made.

It's the same with other media, I love Lost In Translation. I think it has a perfectly written subtext in every scene, and it's a movie that doesn't batter you over the head with a narrative. Again, all my friends think it is a movie where "nothing happened", whereas I think it's a movie where everything important to life happened.

So we need to keep telling people that Psychonauts is excellent, whether they like it or not, lest we make the gaming landscape homogenous junk.

Target Practice

I think I finally figured out where I know this guy from. I think he was in the ZZT/MegaZeux scene way back in the day. The name Ben Croshaw is familiar, and I know for a fact there was a guy that hung around channel #megazeux or maybe #darkdigital who used the handle, "yahtzee".

slash000

Hotlead Junkie wrote: »

I really love Psyconauts and all, but I don't think it's fair to mock people who simply don't like that sort of game. I think it is one of the funniest, most well designed and overall awesome games ever but I know a lot of people in my circle of freinds who just didn't 'get' this game, it simply wasn't to their taste.

Oh c'mon, it's all in good humor.

The guy is making fun of both the "games are art hippies" as well as the "halo fans that can't go 45 seconds without shooting something"

Thrym

Hotlead Junkie wrote:

I really love Psyconauts and all, but I don't think it's fair to mock people who simply don't like that sort of game. I think it is one of the funniest, most well designed and overall awesome games ever but I know a lot of people in my circle of freinds who just didn't 'get' this game, it simply wasn't to their taste.

Ok, mr. voice of reason

Zetetic Elench

Target Practice wrote: »

I think I finally figured out where I know this guy from. I think he was in the ZZT/MegaZeux scene way back in the day. The name Ben Croshaw is familiar, and I know for a fact there was a guy that hung around channel #megazeux or maybe #darkdigital who used the handle, "yahtzee".

Oh my god

I think you're right

holy shit, I spent way too much time on mzx in my teens

Abels

DeMoN wrote: »

Abels wrote: »

Yeah, go ahead and blame the potential customer for not buying it.

(Or maybe make a demo that isn't a steaming pile of horse shit. Seriously, the Psychonauts demo makes the Bioshock limited edition soundtrack CD look good.)

O_o Really? The demo is the one and only reason why I bought the game. I knew nothing of it until the demo, then it became an instant purchase for me.

O_o Really? Half of the demo was boring cutscenes, and the other half was boring training.

Xenogears of Bore

Abels wrote: »

DeMoN wrote: »

Abels wrote: »

Yeah, go ahead and blame the potential customer for not buying it.

(Or maybe make a demo that isn't a steaming pile of horse shit. Seriously, the Psychonauts demo makes the Bioshock limited edition soundtrack CD look good.)

O_o Really? The demo is the one and only reason why I bought the game. I knew nothing of it until the demo, then it became an instant purchase for me.

O_o Really? Half of the demo was boring cutscenes, and the other half was boring training.

That does describe a good half of the game though...Psychonauts is a good game, but a terribly overrated and overidolized one. It has tapped into a certain feeling that I like to call the James Dean effect. Something destined to be idolized because it was cut down in its prime, much like the Dreamcast. The fact that this game didn't get "a fair shake" makes people fanatic about it.

Fiatil

Psychonauts is awesome. I never got around to buying it, but after it came to Gametap I was all over it. Definitely worth a playthrough.

Also an awesome review.