Escapist News Network: Year in Review 2009

[Lady Kathleen]

And ladies and gentlemen, your official "The Escapist Douche of the Year" award goes to Multi-Kill! :O Sorry, had to say it, just from the posts..

So, anyway, ignoring all that trivial stuff.. Go Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force~! (I have never heard of that "game" o.o)

Also, just to clarify, it's not just Graham and Kathleen that make ENN. Paul Saunders and Jeremy Petter actually write it, with a lot of input from Graham and Kathleen, who host it. Much was explained during Desert Bus.

Actually, to clarify your clarification, all four of us write it - here's how it goes:

feature stories are written far in advance by one or two people, (ie, Jer wrote a few, and Graham and I collaborated on the first couple of features).

During the week, all four of us read the news and come up with the news jokes. They are always based in fact, and then brought a step further. Then we all get together and pick which five or six to do, and brainstorm titles and photoshop. Then Jer and Paul photoshop the heck out the graphics, and we shoot everything and Graham edits it.

 

[jboking]

Note:I said douche bag's in their late teens through mid 30's. I did'nt say perfectle reasonable people in their late teens through mid 30's.

I've got a question Multi-Kill. I've been reading your line of posts and was wondering, Am I a douche bag for thinking that Uncharted 2 might have actually deserved game of the year? Not saying that DA:O was rubbish, cause it was a great game that I had much fun with, but rather that I found Uncharted 2 more entertaining.

Also...just wondering cause I didn't see your PSN name up on your profile. Have you played Uncharted 2? Not going to hound you if you haven't, just a question.

OT: "Then we all have sex for money."

That and the Hello Kitty S&M thing was great.

 

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

O god, you guys just trashed the Bonus Round. and here I thought no one watched that show.

Games media be warned: we watch EVERYTHING.

[sub]Oh crap, they know about the porn.[/sub] Okay, how much would I have to pay to make you forget what you saw? It was totally not my idea, I was forced to do it. I don´t even like sheeps, really.

...Loved this episode.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

...then we all have sex for money.

Nice dropline

And reow at Graham for the VGA's...(Isn't that a screen type?)

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Absolutely, no children should be playing Hello Kitty S&M Online Fetish Party. It only gets even more involved after you hit level 15 and get to create your own personalized Cat 'O Nine Tails. I think the blue one really sets off the color of....

...my lawyer says I should shut up now. Sorry for taking up your time.

[small]"And then we all have sex for money." "...ah." Ha ha ha.[/small]

 

[sln333]

The whole episode was great, but the wordplay on the names was the best. "I'll be doing cocaine with prostitutes." "Ronald Prostitutes?" lol

 

[latenightapplepie]

The closing gag was fantastic. As was that games blogger from sirfragsalot.com. Good job on the year's videos, I loved them all!

 

[tkioz]

Graham get a hair cut dude, you look like a shaggy dog.

 

[TheSchaef]

Great episode, I didn't realize Club Penguin was actually a game, must check that out. Also http://sirfragsalot.com/ actually exists 0.0 I don't know what to say about that lol

I have a strong suspicion they bought this domain and set it up a). because they knew some douchebag would register it once the name got into the wild, and b). they knew someone else would go looking just to see if it was real. Even in its rather hastily-assembled state, mad props to the team for doing the extra legwork on this and even working in a lot of the same "awesome" commentary between the site and the show

 

[Kstreitenfeld]

"and then we all had sex for money."

man that line got me good.

 

[Revolutionary]

I like stickers! seriously Arkham asylmn takes game of the year.

 

[skull_blader]

am I the only one who didn't find this funny? Given I've put alot my free time in the past two (three?) days into watching any and all Zero Punctuation videos... So perhaps his high level of wit and cynicism has dulled my sense of humor.(?)

 

[WaderiAAA]

I almost wanted to get club penguine now. Anyways, good ending, but otherwise mediocre.

 

[theshadowcult]

Getting better every episode! the cthulhu call is the best line so far too!

 

[Socken]

Didn't like the year in review part so much but everything else was again just the quality we've come to expect from you.
And by that I mean awesome.

 

[mjc0961]

Nice digs against Uncharted 2. Sure, it's a decent game, but for all it is they might as well have released it as an add-on pack for Uncharted 1.

Also, must buy Elite Penguin Force!

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

I know for sure the Guitar Hero 3 guitar came with stickers, and I'm fairly certain the GH4 and GH5 ones did, as well.

I highly recommend the newest Guitar Hero guitars; they're really solid and much more comfortable to play.

Damn, you're right. I just assumed they didn't have stickers because I'd never seen them in use. don't know why you wouldn't use the stickers.

 

[razuk]

I Agree with everything expect The Assassins creed 2 thing and Club penguine being the game of the year...
We ALL know "Super Mario 5000 and 1" Is the game of the year.

 

[MrMisfit]

1. I always suspected that Cu'thu'lu (or however that is spelled) was responsible for the high jackass quotient in online games

2. More games should include stickers

3. This was the best episode yet !

 

[NekoDaimyo]

Is it 11 yet? I wanna learn how to not be that one guy.