Jim & Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular: About The Drought
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Look I know Jim is being ironic. He's pretending to be a hyper fan, like a fan of that God awful Last of Us or something. And in so doing, show the absurdity of being so fanatic. My problem is that its hard to tell the difference between arrogantly ironic Jim and regular Jim. If you want to take his poem and use it as a critic of his entire series...it kinda' fits...
Hah, with a term like "Rhymedown" in the title it wasn't an immediate decision. But man, I've been loving these lately, yours and Ben's. I don't know how you guys got together and decided to do this but I'm glad it happened.Jimothy Sterling said:
Dear Management: I think there's something a bit off with the audio in the last few Rhymedown episodes, and I find it a bit distracting. I'm hearing artifacts in the higher frequencies that bear a resemblance to over-compression. I hear it mostly when sibilants are uttered, and it seems worse with Yahtzee's videos (though Jim's has them, too). However, the audio track on the published video is roughly 128Kbit AAC which normally sounds great, so the distortion, if any, must be happening upstream. (It could also be due to transcoding through multiple compressed formats.)
I don't have anything close to "golden ears," so if I can hear it, it must be glaringly obvious to nearly everyone else. You might want to check your media sources and processing pipeline to see if anything's squishing things down beyond reason.
I don't have anything close to "golden ears," so if I can hear it, it must be glaringly obvious to nearly everyone else. You might want to check your media sources and processing pipeline to see if anything's squishing things down beyond reason.
Haha, best Jim poem in weeks! I was expecting that to go in a different direction, but man those polygons were flowing at the end we had to start defending the beginning of his poem. Err, I meant emotions.
At this rate I feel bad for anyone who wants to polish up their character models, as they might just get stereotyped and locked in the Cage cages. Poor Jim, I know he could care less about what a game looks like, but pretty soon the retro-8-Bit-or-else fanatics will start using him as their banner man.
At this rate I feel bad for anyone who wants to polish up their character models, as they might just get stereotyped and locked in the Cage cages. Poor Jim, I know he could care less about what a game looks like, but pretty soon the retro-8-Bit-or-else fanatics will start using him as their banner man.
I was a little confused by Yahtzee's poem today. I thought he'd be overjoyed to play Saints' Row 4, until I watched his review for the 3rd game, so he must think it's abandoned its sandbox crime-game roots. Still bitter he can't get "The World Has Yet To Recognize My Genius" off the ground, I think.
This was great. The summer games drought was something of concern to me, until I realised that this is the ideal time to catch up on some older games I never played a lot, like AssCreed II, The Witcher 2, Venetica, Kingdoms of Amalur and some others, as well as some newer ones like Dust 514.
Jim's parody of David Cage's style of talking was even better than Yahtzee's descriptive poem, it made fun of the guy while not insulting the games he makes.
Jim's parody of David Cage's style of talking was even better than Yahtzee's descriptive poem, it made fun of the guy while not insulting the games he makes.
Seriously, I just don't understand the people that say they don't like these videos. Maybe it's because I've got an English degree and I'm a creative writer myself, but I've found pretty much every one of these poems to be enjoyable on numerous different levels. Sure, there's been a few "meh"s on both sides of the coin, but all in all I think that this is just further evidence to the argument that Jim and Yahtzee are the two best writers on The Escapist.
It doesn't quite fit here because we know it's a reference to The God of Emotions, Mr. David "Polygons" Cage. Jim isn't referring to himself - he can *actually* inspire emotion when he wants to. Mostly amusement, sometimes anger. And he doesn't even have to tell us he's doing it!PrimePowerOn said:
Loved both of them.
This has happened for a while for me and yes this is true. There is a certain gap during summer where barely any games come out and there is nothing to play. That is when I usually resume watching my anime/TV series or movies that I have in my backlog.
This is coming from an exclusive PC gamer though so keep that in mind.
This has happened for a while for me and yes this is true. There is a certain gap during summer where barely any games come out and there is nothing to play. That is when I usually resume watching my anime/TV series or movies that I have in my backlog.
This is coming from an exclusive PC gamer though so keep that in mind.