Game Damage

Basticle

This might be a few weeks old but I dont remember seeing it here and I just now saw it (was an ad for it at the end of this week's Zero Punctuation)

http://www.gamedamage.net/


It appears to be a show starring Yahtzee from ZP and I guess his two friends. My take on it is it seems almost like a Top Gear for games. Some of it is pretty cheezy and not funny but hey its a first show and the first year of Top Gear sucked so I think it has promise. the recurring Duke Nukem segments were probably the funniest.

*edit* I guess it was posted to youtube 2 days ago so its pretty new.

Mr_Grinch

In all honesty I'm finding this pretty horrible.

Doc Holliday

Mr_Grinch wrote: »

In all honesty I'm finding this pretty horrible.

It is pretty horrible. I like when they laugh at each others' jokes. It makes me want to laugh along. And by laugh along I mean kick them in their faces.

Marikir

I was amused by it. I'm not too sure about the guys besides Yahtzee, but if it continues, I'll give it a shot. I was amused by the comedy segments. Heck, I even liked Yahtzee's "post mortem" on Adventure games.

All in all, a nice first effort. Still want to see the full video of Yahtzee wielding the chainsaw against the 360 they showed briefly in the opening segment.

The_Scarab

They seem to be sitting on top of a major continental fault because they keep wobbling all the damn time.

The rest was alright.

Kinda like a low budget on the spot.

Lucky Cynic

Eh, there's some good, some bad. Hopefully later episodes are going to be better as they refine their formula a bit better.

Gotta say though, I like the fact that there was just that 1 alienware commercial.

Can't say I liked the Warhammer segment though.

"Oh yeah it's a pretty game, but emulates WoW and feels like it has no soul..." That's not a way to talk about a game based on beating the crap out of other players.

Some of the skits were fun. Some were getting dull. Although "strippers!" was a fun little twist.

cwapfobrains

the skits were alright, duke nukem were the best, MGS were pretty bad. The adventure game post mortem was definitely the best part of the thing. I think it has potential, once they get more comfortable on camera and such. It's the same with everything like this, I mean go back and listen to the first GFW (CGW) radio podcasts, they are just so damn awkward the whole time and sound like they hate being there.

Crashmo

It was pretty terrible, but I see that it also has the potential to be much, much better. They have my support!

Mr_Grinch

Lose the really geeky kid, lose the "funny" skits...actually lose the entire show. It was shit.

Casually Hardcore

They need to hire writers.

Mr Ray

Marikir wrote: »

I was amused by it. I'm not too sure about the guys besides Yahtzee, but if it continues, I'll give it a shot. I was amused by the comedy segments. Heck, I even liked Yahtzee's "post mortem" on Adventure games.

All in all, a nice first effort. Still want to see the full video of Yahtzee wielding the chainsaw against the 360 they showed briefly in the opening segment.

I think the problem is they've taken yahtzee (who is funny), and put him with two other guys who are less funny. They have essentially diluted the funny. If they could find two other guys who are equally as good as yahtzee (and I don't mean "as funny", they could bring something else to the team, for instance someone a little more... charismatic shall we say), they could be onto a winner here.

As it stands though, this is a little painful to watch, but with nuggets of funny buried in bad jokes and talking over each other.

Now please eject your brain via your face.

Mr_Grinch

Yahtzee is funny partially due to the visual segment of his shows. Without this, and without a tight script and talking fast... he's just as terrible as the other two.

TheSuperWoot

I stopped watching when they focused on the guy in the middle who couldn't stop giggling at yahtzee's jokes.

SatanIsMyMotor

That was bad and now I'm in a bad mood because of it.

You can just see it on Yahtzee's face, "I'm SO fucking funny."

Then they add in the two douchenozzles laughing next to him and it makes me want to die.

edit: Also the third guy bragging about having a girlfriend that plays WoW and then realizing he just sounded pathetic so he tries to make a self-disparaging remark to show that he's not, in fact, a douche when in fact he just appears pathetic to the viewer the whole time.

GG guys.

Willeth

I've been following this for a while. The first couch scene is fucking ancient and it's awkward as hell. People have raised this on the forums and it shows that they've learned in the later segments.

I really enjoyed this, actually. There were a couple of genuine laugh-out-loud moments and that Edge of Twilight game looks interesting, and I had never heard of it. I'm looking forward to seeing where they take it.

Lucky Cynic

I think it goes without saying that Yahtzee was the most entertaining?

Peewi

I rather liked it and hope they get to do more.

The Metal Gear thing was rather bad, though.

Mumblyfish

I can not think of a single nice thing to say about Game Damage.

Oh, wait - the effort put into post-production puts much of what pollutes the Internet to shame. I don't like the opening sequence, but at least it seems well-made. I suppose somebody deserves credit for that.

What a pity that everything else is irredeemably shit.

SatanIsMyMotor wrote: »

You can just see it on Yahtzee's face, "I'm SO fucking funny."

I read it more as "I do not want to be here; I do not want to do this".

P10

Lucky Cynic wrote: »

I think it goes without saying that Yahtzee was the most entertaining?

Yahtzee looked out of place, actually. The other two guys seemed more like 'just some gamers', while Yahtzee was trying to do his ZP thing and hate on everything. Like, he never smiled on camera, and was rarely positive (because that's what he does), which really came through as odd compared to the other two.

It was mediocre. Everything was 'eh'. Part of was because it felt like they were telling me things I already knew, instead of actual like, gaming reviews or exclusives or things like that.

APZonerunner

Another shitty internet gaming tv show.

Somebody just needs to work out a way of putting gaming content into a 'Top Gear' like show format shell. This, I think kind of shoots for that target in some ways, with three wildly different yet similar guys presenting, laughing at each others' jokes and whatnot, but it spectacularly misses the target.

God only knows how any gaming content would work in such a format. The people who work it out will become stinking rich, though.

Dr. Jeebus

Just because people have internet access doesn't suddenly make them entertaining. More people need to realize that.

Matsuhito

The only thing I enjoyed about this was Yahtzee's hat.

Gibb

If I could describe this with just a phrase...

"Cringe inducing"
or
"Painful"

Would both be good.

Inquisitor

Oh god, yahtzee wears a fedora. This explains everything.

Dirty Drawers

I have to agree with the general consensus.

All three aren't camera friendly. Yahtzee is much funnier in his original ZP slot. He reminds of Mr. Burns trying to contort emotions on his face.

The douchebag in the middle just needs to go. I couldn't find anything positive about him, other than he looks like the type of guy that would be the catcher in a gay porn.
The doofus at the end can read a card well, but offers just as much as douchebag in the middle, with a teaspoon of pathetic.

AJR

I tried to watch this last night, but for some reason the video always stopped loading half way through, regardless of how many times I refreshed the page.

Still, from what I saw it has potential. That’s probably the most praise I can give it.

Oh, and the other two guys are from Australian gamer. They do a podcast which has the occasional Yahtzee appearance, and they’ve all become good friends over time.

Metal Gear Solid 2 Demo

Yeah it wasn't great

I would say the two other guys were ok, they at least seemed comfortable and acted like they enjoyed hosting the show

I don't know if Yahtzee is just playing to what's expected, but the dude just seemed really awkward. He needs to laugh and smile and look at the others sometimes instead of straight into the camera.

Besides that though it was pretty good. The skits will come along in time

Broktune

I'm sort of confused about Yahtzee. Now, is he fucking with us ALL the time and just playing the part of a douchebag or is he really a douchebag? I think some of his reviews are funny but I can't take anything he says seriously when he shits all over great games, imo, like Bioshock, GTA4, Mass Effect among many others. I've asked this type of thing in other threads about him and was basically told..."You don't get it man, he's just over your head." To which I reply a hearty "Fuck you." and get banned. It's just wacky to see people say things like "Oh he was spot on with that review." Followed the next week by saying...."Well, that's just the way he is, he doesn't like anything, don't take it the review so seriously etc." So long post longer...what the fuck is his story?

McAllen

This would've worked better with a podcast and them doing the skits as separate thing. So at least they can still talk about games and then skits would tank and we could have another podcast where we hear their opinions.

But I feel like 1up.com already does these things a bit better than they do. Yahtzee should just move across the Earth and get a job with them there, lawls.

Gibb

Broktune wrote: »

I'm sort of confused about Yahtzee. Now, is he fucking with us ALL the time and just playing the part of a douchebag or is he really a douchebag? I think some of his reviews are funny but I can't take anything he says seriously when he shits all over great games, imo, like Bioshock, GTA4, Mass Effect among many others. I've asked this type of thing in other threads about him and was basically told..."You don't get it man, he's just over your head." To which I reply a hearty "Fuck you." and get banned. It's just wacky to see people say things like "Oh he was spot on with that review." Followed the next week by saying...."Well, that's just the way he is, he doesn't like anything, don't take it the review so seriously etc." So long post longer...what the fuck is his story?

Hes a 1 trick pony, plain and simple. But I totally agree with him on GTAIV, which was so boring, but I wont get into that.

Mumblyfish

Broktune wrote: »

So long post longer...what the fuck is his story?

He said himself that his viewers prefer it when he rips into games, so he rips into games. Many thought that his reviews of Psychonauts and The Orange Box were boring. That said, his opinions are truly his own, and they're honest, if often exaggerated for comic effect. Some people have very high standards, or are critical by nature.

P.S. This discussion gets threads locked.

emnmnme

Does the Angry Video Game Nerd still do skits during rants?

Gibb

emnmnme wrote: »

Does the Angry Video Game Nerd still do skits during rants?

Not too much anymore.

I think his 3 Part CDI are some of his best videos, but they don't have skits. (They are recent.)

AJR

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a funny videogame skit. In fact, I can think of several times where I’ve been enjoying a videogame related show, only to have that enjoyment destroyed by a stupid skit. I don’t know why people keep trying to make them work.

Broktune wrote: »

So long post longer...what the fuck is his story?

He’s a guy who makes videos on the internet. He rips into games, some agree, some don’t, and we all go home happy. Getting angry about the guy is silly.

APZonerunner

emnmnme wrote: »

Does the Angry Video Game Nerd still do skits during rants?

Usually only for special occasions, like there were a few dress-up skit things for Halloween, and I'm sure there will be too for Christmas - but generally, just him and the game.

GSM

I'm just over halfway through this. This is remarkably reminiscent of the uninteresting low-profile shows on the Escapist. Are they going to recycle the Master Chief, Snake, and Duke Team skits a third time before this thing ends?

edit: Oh for the love of...

APZonerunner

GSM wrote: »

I'm just over halfway through this. This is remarkably reminiscent of the uninteresting low-profile shows on the Escapist. Are they going to recycle the Master Chief, Snake, and Duke Team skits a third time before this thing ends?

no

yes

Haikira

Their heart is in the right place, but its cringe-worthy stuff. i like the idea of weekly anecdotes from different MMO's, and showing off lesser known games is neat also. I'll keep my eye on it anyway. Wouldn't be fair to write it off, based on a pilot.

Impersonator

I... I actually liked it.

AJR wrote: »

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a funny videogame skit. In fact, I can think of several times where I’ve been enjoying a videogame related show, only to have that enjoyment destroyed by a stupid skit. I don’t know why people keep trying to make them work.

One word, two numbers: Mega64

Gibb

Impersonator wrote: »

I... I actually liked it.

AJR wrote: »

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a funny videogame skit. In fact, I can think of several times where I’ve been enjoying a videogame related show, only to have that enjoyment destroyed by a stupid skit. I don’t know why people keep trying to make them work.

One word, two numbers: Mega64

oh so true.

Psycohed

Inquisitor wrote: »

Oh god, yahtzee wears a fedora. This explains everything.

Nay. 'Tis a trillby.

Edit: Not... not that that saves this show, which was about as much fun to watch as it is to watch nerds talk about things.