1581

Haze. Watching now.

1582

“There are no true heroes when death is on the menu.”

Which, in and of itself, isn’t exactly a great pun, but the visuals (wish I wasn’t too lazy to screen cap) are perfect.

1583

“At the moment, the possibilities for Duke Nukem Forever are endless for us, because we haven’t started yet.”

The after-vid is amusing.

1584

It looks like the after-vid is randomly chosen, which explains my confusion at the above quotes.

1585

I saw ‘drawnbypain.com’ … Apparently someone’s movie that includes animation on top of live action.

1586

I got that too. And sat through the whole thing thinking that surely, at any moment, this will turn into an extra bonus bit like the Painkiller cutscene thing. Sadly, no.

It does look like something that would be good to have that treatment applied to it, though.

1587

Yeah, I saw some unfunny Jack Thompson spoof thing.

1588

Is Escapist just flat out down for anyone else?

Edit: There it is. Wow. The promo for Drawn by Pain was longer than Yahtzee was this week.

1589

I saw puppets. I also kept waiting for it to get funny or something. I was disappointed.

1590

That drawnbypain stuff was embarassing.

1591

I was waiting for boobs.

1592

This was predictably weak. He needs memorable games that I have played(or am, at least, slightly interested in playing). Failing that, he needs infamously terrible games.

This middle ground of reviewing 7.5/10 forgettable shooters? This was like a “should I buy it” review, which is perfectly legitimate, but, um, the internet is full of those. Tom told me not to buy Haze like 3 weeks ago, also I told myself not to buy it like a week before that when I saw it’s terrible ad campaign.

1593

Wow, yeah, the Escapist really needs to adopt some standards about what advertisements they will staple onto the end of a zeropunctuation.

1594

Maybe you should forward your email address on to him so he stops making that mistake.

1595

Did you really like this one? Or any of the random other throwaway titles like FEAR or Uncharted?

If there isn’t a AAA title or MASSIVE DISASTER FLOP LULZ to review, whatever happened to yee old retrospective classic review? He kicked this thing off by reviewing Fable something like 6 years after it was released, and his Escapist debut was Psychonauts.

I greatly preferred the console rundown thing to this.

1596

Yes. But don’t let that stop you from stating what would make his reviews much much better. The Internet has a dearth of unsupported opinions.

1597

I get that the fast talking is part of the Zero Punctuation schtick, but remember when Yahtzee used to stop talking for a second or two every once in a while? I can’t even watch the show anymore because I find the combination of fast talking with virtually NO break in the stream is just far too annoying and also the premise has just worn too thin for me anyway, I think.

1598

Seriously? You’re complaining about him talking too fast? What’s next, a criticism that he recycles his graphics?

1599

I just wish he’d talk less about video games and focus more on reviewing books.

1600

Especially books about complex ice trading economies.