The Escapist : Zero Punctuation Game Reviews

EGriff · 09-06-2010 9:02pm

Red Dead Redemption

He kind of liked it.

Dyr · 09-06-2010 9:55pm

ads? wtf!! I want my 6 seconds back :mad:

Grimebox · 09-06-2010 10:04pm

greem spleen submarine. I laughed.

Benzino · 11-06-2010 12:47pm

Yeah, the novelty has worn off at this stage. It's rare now that I laugh during his reviews.

I much prefer to watch unskippable now, they have some great vids like the Deadly Premonition one.

Grimebox · 11-06-2010 2:23pm

Benzino wrote: »

Yeah, the novelty has worn off at this stage. It's rare now that I laugh during his reviews.

I much prefer to watch unskippable now, they have some great vids like the Deadly Premonition one.

I dunno... Each to their own i guess. Sounds like me and friend just playing any game. Except I usually laugh when i do it.

James Howlett · 12-06-2010 11:25pm

Grimebox wrote: »

greem spleen submarine. I laughed.

And he got Purple Monkey Dishwasher in there as well. You gotta give him credit for that one.

D4RK ONION · 13-06-2010 9:20pm

I still enjoy them. Sure the "LOL HE HATES EVERYTHING" factor has worn off them, but he's still good at what he does, and you can tell a good game if he doesn't spend the entire review murdering it :P

Jilm · 16-06-2010 8:20pm

Alpha Protocol

humanji · 18-06-2010 11:49am

I laughed a good few times at that one, which I haven't done with many of his recently.

Mr E · 23-06-2010 6:16pm

Prince of Persia - The Forgotten Sands - very funny actually!

James Howlett · 16-07-2010 1:33pm

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1871-Super-Mario-Galaxy-2

Pretty good.
I thought it was funny when he was talking about "Cake."
However in order to do so I believe yathzee had to punctuate his sentence.

WolfForager · 16-07-2010 1:43pm

It's like he saw into my mind and decided to spread my thoughts to the masses...

cherryghost · 16-07-2010 3:23pm

Meh. Not buying SMG2 as I got bored of SMG1. Just as he said, it's not really evolved much. I completed SMB64 and loved it. I completed SMS and thoroughly enjoyed it. I got to SMG and it just felt old to me.

That's the thing that confuses me though. Every incarnation of Mario of the 2D kind never gets old no matter how many times they'll reboot it. The continuation of the 3D Mario has just slid downhill for me tbh. I don't see how SMG1 and 2 got such rave reviews

Maybe it's just me getting older and relishing on nostalgia

Kiith · 16-07-2010 4:51pm

cherryghost wrote: »

Every incarnation of Mario of the 2D kind never gets old no matter how many times they'll reboot it.

You can't improve perfection.

James Howlett · 11-08-2010 9:24pm

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1924-Shadow-of-the-Colossus

It's a fantastic game... but not a very funny review...

Overheal · 12-08-2010 9:41pm

I thought the review was great. Your argument is invalid.

thewheel2.0 · 12-08-2010 11:48pm

Overheal wrote: »

I thought the review was great. Your argument is invalid.

As did I... I was worried he was going to take a giant dump on it because of how Japanese it is but it was an excellent review!

K.O.Kiki · 16-08-2010 3:39pm

SotC doesn't strike me as very Japanese, since it's quite original and the story isn't over-blown

16-08-2010 6:20pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

SotC doesn't strike me as very Japanese, since it's quite original and the story isn't over-blown

It has an angsty protagonist to Jap it up.

Sarky · 16-08-2010 6:55pm

There's a distinct lack of "...", whiny "why does stuff happen?" bullsh*t and swords as big as your horse. And it's not totally batsh*t insane.

Retr0gamer · 16-08-2010 7:47pm

Deleted User wrote: »

It has an angsty protagonist to Jap it up.

Angsty is fine. It's when it's moany emo twat it turns into annoying Japanese bad writing territory. The Squall factor.

RocketFalls · 21-08-2010 7:49pm

Any Escapist members here, incidentally? It was/is my forum of choice, but the quality of the discussions seems to have taken a nosedive circa. the MW2 release...

cherryghost · 30-01-2011 9:18pm

Ancient update, but ZP done Minecraft this week, and gave it two thumbs up

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2680-Minecraft

Angron · 30-01-2011 9:20pm

cherryghost wrote: »

Ancient update, but ZP done Minecraft this week, and gave it two thumbs up

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2680-Minecraft

Just after I mention it to you. Coincidence - probably. :pac:

Retr0gamer · 31-01-2011 2:57am

Whoever recommended unskippable 6 months back can go die in a fire. It's just about the worst gaming 'comedy' on the internet and as funny as amputation.

Potential-Monke · 31-01-2011 3:16pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Whoever recommended unskippable 6 months back can go die in a fire. It's just about the worst gaming 'comedy' on the internet and as funny as amputation.

Amputation can be funny, in the right context...