Videogaiden returns for a third series!

Xagarath

They're an exception to the rule that video games television is awful.
They procuded the finest review of anything, ever, as frequently linked to by this forum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqB5LUKh8A

Now it appears that Gaiden have just had a third series confirmed:
http://gaiden.consolevania.com/?p=421#comments

This time with 21 episodes. Given they had 6 the last couple of times, that's quite an improvement.
Like the last two, it should hopefully be online here: www.bbc.co.uk/videogaiden after being broadcast

UPDATE: First episode is now online! Click the bottom link in this post.

japan

Yes.

LewieP

fuck yes

bloody awesome.

Anyone who hasn't seen video gaiden/consolevania, it's like Top Gear but for games, not cars.

And it's funnier, even my non-gamer friends find it hilarious.

LewieP

this did not get enough attention.

RaginRoss

Excellent.

Mumblyfish

Thanks for bumping the thread; I stopped visiting Consolevania.com after the wretched fanbase shat themselves over C. What wonderful people replaced the entire BBC staff when this was commissioned, and why aren't they pulling stunts like that more often?

RichardTauber

Gay. I mean yay. For you australian pigs. Let's put another shrimp on the barbey, mate!

I kid, you guys aren't pigs.

Red or Alive

RichardTauber wrote: »

Gay. I mean yay. For you australian pigs. Let's put another shrimp on the barbey, mate!

I kid, you guys aren't pigs.

:?:

RichardTauber

Red or Alive wrote: »

RichardTauber wrote: »

Gay. I mean yay. For you australian pigs. Let's put another shrimp on the barbey, mate!

I kid, you guys aren't pigs.

:?:

Obviously my attempt at being funny failed miserably. But I'll get you next time.

AtomicBanana

I just hope it's better than the last few episodes of consolvania were.. I get the joke they were tying to make, but it went on about 10 times longer than it needed to to be funny.

HyperAquaBlast

Is this the show that LewieP uses on people who like Firefly?

Because fuck those guys...not really but the way the fat dude talks it's like he is trying to seduce me...and not the good kind either.

Red or Alive

HyperAquaBlast wrote: »

Is this the show that LewieP uses on people who like Firefly?

Because fuck those guys...not really but the way the fat dude talks it's like he is trying to seduce me...and not the good kind either.

The only logical assumption I can make from your post is that you have some innate attraction to overweight Glaswegians.

If so, what'cha doing tonight?;-)

LewieP

HyperAquaBlast wrote: »

Is this the show that LewieP uses on people who like Firefly?

Yes, but just so you know, I love Firefly.

HyperAquaBlast wrote: »

Because fuck those guys...not really but the way the fat dude talks it's like he is trying to seduce me...and not the good kind either.

haha

durandal4532

Excellent, their reviews are always nifty. Now I can get all of my reviewing from this and Zero Punctuation and never have to listen to a non-accented review ever again!

Æthelred

21 episodes? Huzzah! With this, Zero Punctuation and the cute erudite Zelda girl, we limeys have got this video-review business sewn up..

Jelloblimp

Æthelred wrote: »

21 episodes? Huzzah! With this, Zero Punctuation and the cute erudite Zelda girl, we limeys have got this video-review business sewn up..

I know of zeropunctuation but what/who is "cute erudite Zelda girl"?

Æthelred

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=39575

Ignore the OMG GIRL gushing in that thread if you can; her reviews are well scripted.

LewieP

First new episode up
http://www.bbc.co.uk/videogaiden/

bongi

LewieP wrote: »

fuck yes

bloody awesome.

Anyone who hasn't seen video gaiden/consolevania, it's like Top Gear but for games, not cars.

And it's funnier, even my non-gamer friends find it hilarious.

man it's good but it's no top gear

nothing is as good as top gear

Mumblyfish

Jade Raymond. Mocked on the BBC website.

I've mail ordered a poet for the occassion.

PikaPuff

Uninformative OP is uninformative.

slash000

These guys are awesome.

The best review of any game, ever, was their review of God Hand. Ever.

VeritasVR

slash000 wrote: »

These guys are awesome.

The best review of any game, ever, was their review of God Hand. Ever.

Oh man. The best line ever:

"The problem with God Hand is that it's just a game about punching people." in a Scottish accent.

Ginger Mijango

Awesome it's back!
That "Zack Eastwood" is of http://www.Limmy.com fame, some fantastic funny stuff up on there.
Specifically the Xylophone and the Fireworks.

Xagarath

Gentlemen, that is how you review Galaxy and Assassin's Creed.
Properly.

DarkPrimus

VeritasVR wrote: »

slash000 wrote: »

These guys are awesome.

The best review of any game, ever, was their review of God Hand. Ever.

Oh man. The best line ever:

"The problem with God Hand is that it's just a game about punching people." in a Scottish accent.

"The genius of God Hand is that it's just a game about punching people."

Rust

"I played it once on the PS3, and it was such a debacle it grew fangs and called itself Count Debacula."

"I don't have time to tell ya how this game has the most beautiful graphics we may ever see, except, we pray, in the afterlife."

VideoGaiden and ZeroPunctuation within the same span of time. Joy.

countvaseline

Only these two men can save us from the Ziff Davis Group...

Ashcroft

Dammit, I was trying to avoid buying Galaxy until next year, when I won't have 20 other games to play.

Æthelred

Can anyone please post the time stamp for when they've finished talking about Galaxy? I've been avoiding media on it, but still want to watch VideoGaiden.

Cherrn

"A wee fat man floating in space having the time of his life" is the best possible description of Mario Galaxy

Mumblyfish

Unless you're being exceptionally silly, Aethelred, it's safe to watch. In typical Videogaiden style, there are no spoilers (not even in the brief gameplay videos in the background). The review is "Mario Galaxy is beautiful and the best game ever," repeated for a couple of minutes, except the phrase gets increasingly wordy and gushing with each repetition.

piL

Hey, they didn't call them webisodes. Sweet.

Æthelred

Ah okay, I'll give it a go. I've watched the adverts for it on TV, so I'm not in a total blackout or anything. Thanks.

Vangu Vegro

"As the great David Bowie once said, time falls wanking to the floor, and so will you when you play this game."

That was great. Why haven't I heard of this before?

Blunderbuss

Æthelred wrote: »

Can anyone please post the time stamp for when they've finished talking about Galaxy? I've been avoiding media on it, but still want to watch VideoGaiden.

LOL the idea of spoilers for a Mario game is akin to ruining the plot of tetris or pong having a twist at the end.

But i'm a total dick so I will spoil it for you
Mario killed peach and is lost in a mist shrouded world of his own personal hell; perused mercilessly by mysterious and rape-crazed "Turtle Head". After fighting a man full of killer bees and some androgynous freak who meows a lot you find Mario is indeed Big-Boss-Bowser and the president philates him before giving him a medal... Mario wakes up the next day realising it was all just a dream but also that a gang of crazed junkies have killed his wife and baby at which point he remembers he owns an automatic shotgun and the ability to slow down time. 2 levels later he stumbles into a mansion on Rhode island, discovering an evil and mysterious tomb bound in human flesh. A little investigating latter Mario realises it was not smack heads but agents of a corpse god that attacked his wife and child. This drives Mario utterly insane. He returns home to find his wife was only very badly wounded and unconscious but is now back at home after a short stint in hospital. The insane Mario believes her an undead agent of the corpse god and kills her with his plunger .. the game ends with Mario driving his car through a dark, forest road, at night as mists slowly start to descend.

It was a bit of a departure from the classic Mario formula and much more akin to Mario Sunshine in story and feel though after seeing the “Anal Fatality” scene you can see why it stole some headlines from Manhunt 2.

:P

Xagarath

Vangu Vegro wrote: »

"As the great David Bowie once said, time falls wanking to the floor, and so will you when you play this game."

That was great. Why haven't I heard of this before?

Because not enough people post in this thread?

Look at consolevania.com if you want to see some of their previous work.

Vangu Vegro

Second episode's up.

Blunderbuss

Yeah its pretty so-so this week.
People pretending to be drunk is about as funny as waking up in a puddle of your own, cold, puke.
Also the volume was messed up; some section where quiet on my PC where others where really loud

cooljammer00

Blunderbuss wrote: »

Yeah its pretty so-so this week.
People pretending to be drunk is about as funny as waking up in a puddle of your own, cold, puke.
Also the volume was messed up; some section where quiet on my PC where others where really loud

drunk people make me sad, especially in movies and tv.

but it can be done well, people just dont do it good for some reason.

Æthelred

Blunderbuss: I don't care about plot spoilers for Mario games, but I do care about gameplay spoilers. It's not as exciting playing through a visually imaginative level if you've already seen it gone through by someone else.