Zero Punctuation: Awards for 2008

[Alex the Southerner]

You guy's whining about his choice of what game's best and what game wasn't, should realise it's based on game's he's already reviewed.

So if you were expecting him to put GOW or whatever as the best game, that's a stupid thing to think. He hasn't reviewed it yet.

 

[Blanemcc]

umm..... WTF resistance 2 hello 9 out of 10 got more them tomb raider and farcry and wats this yatzee agein dose not review a playstation game i could deal with not reviewing LBP but if he dosent review god of war 3 or killzone 2 i am going to call him an 360 fanboy yes i will!!!but serisly gear and reistance both should of got a review instead of sonic and mirros egde plz uve got to add resistance to ur list of games to review plz i could go on and on so just do it plz (hold on what about COD5?)

CoD 5 in a nutshell:

Infinity ward let Treyarch mess with the CoD series again. Treyarch try hard, but ultimately fail. The American campaign is diabolical, the Russian campaign enjoyable.

Multiplayer is for 8 year olds with annoyingly high pitched voices.

Treyarch decide that the difficulty setting changes the amount of grenades thrown at you. This makes them LAWL and you cry.

The Call of Duty series is over-rated. Infinity Ward and Treyarch should focus on making other games, ones which you don't get bored with after 2 weeks.

CoD2 was the best in the series. End of.

 

[Alex the Southerner]

While I respect your opinion, and almost fully disagree with it, I can't understand how you gave saint's row 2 credit for anything. I also don't understand why you constantly bash games for attempting gritty realism. I hate colourful cheery games with rainbows and happy endings. It's bad enough that almost every movie is ruined with a happy ending, games shouldn't have to suffer such cheap fairytale endings either.

Maybe cause if we wanted realism, we'd go out and live real life.

If I'm playing a game, I want crazy over the top crap that I can't do in real life.

 

[Elexia]

This was pretty funny, like all the ZP videos... I'd have to agree that a review would be nice, but it's the start of the new year and a summary of 2008 would be warranted sooner or later.

 

[EOr]

Saints Row 2... Well, he clearly doesn't have the PC version. It has my vote for "worst keyboard controls" PC game of the year.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

That's retarded. Let's ban the 25th, 50th, & 100th poster as well, just for shits & giggles.

Well, if the 25th, 50th, and 100th posters are posting spam too then why not?

A comment thread like this is supposed to be for comments on the video, not for childish games of tag. If you're not posting on-topic for it, the moderators have every right to give you a time-out; and posting a "first" post is little different that posting pictures of your cat or requests for dating advice here in that regard.

The plain fact is that it's the Escapist's server, not ours; they're the ones footing the bill for all this, and you're not paying them one cent. They're entirely within their rights to cut off people running up the tab without contributing something worthwhile to the community. He who buys the drinks calls the shots.

If that's too restrictive for some people, there are plenty of blogging platforms available that are free to use and they should look into setting up their own site with their own rules.

-- Steve

 

[antipunt]

Saints Row 2... Well, he clearly doesn't have the PC version. It has my vote for "worst keyboard controls" PC game of the year.

don't you mean worst pc-optimized game of the year
dood, I have 8800gts on SLI and an E8400, and I STILL CAN'T make it look better than GTA San Andreas without plummeting from a stable FPS...

 

[Satoz]

It was alright, the award names were probably my favorite part.
I dunno about some of this recap, I thoroughly enjoyed dead space (even if it was a copied idea?) I mean its not like many games really super impress me, but i wont forget it. I liked mgs4, after beating it I went back played the old ones etc, but yeah the cut scenes were long, but it was a good story and i have to say it all felt pretty epic...also stealth is plausible in many situations...oh wait i mean all of them, people have done big boss hard without killing anyone, alerting anyone etc to achieve some unlock able so yeah...
otherwise good review looking forward to the next ones keep up the good work

 

[Gothicwitch]

I do enjoy a year-in-review show, even if you left out a few games that I think deserved a good twat-swat.

I think that Gears of War 2 will show to out Saints Row 2 for best game easily Yahtzee. Multi-player is excellent as is the live interactions. I played on the 360 with friends and found it to be a true joy. It was one of the few games I kept going back to over and over again to play. The story play is decent, only ever had one or two glitches with it, and you get a bit more of the story and what could be possibly going on with the whole war. Please let us all know what you think of Gears of War 2 very soon. Looking forward to your next review.

 

[retlawmay]

To all those that complain about the clip or awards shows not being a proper review episode... let the guy have a holiday occasionally. Even I don't expect the excellent TV review show "Good Game" to play all year, for instance. You're bloody lucky to have Zero Punctuation in the first place. (Yes, I can say "bloody" because I am an Aussie who grew up saying it).

You whinging spoilt brats.

Happy New Year everyone (especially Ben C).

So we shouldn't say things we are thinking just because we're "lucky to have Zero Punctuation in the first place"? That is a retarded argument, for one thing at a certain point it turns to not being "lucky to have it" if it turns in ways we don't like. I could argue "it could be worse than George W. Bush is doing, but does that mean we should take that shit?

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

Why precisely is it that Yahtzee believes that the only good horror games are ones that are subtle? However pacing I can understand.

 

[GameForALiving]

For all of you who keep saying that Yahtzee's a 360 fanboy, need I remind you that many of his videos feature him sitting at a computer... Unless you've cracked your 360 and turned it into a mini-computer, I hardly see how you all can whine about his lack of PS3 reviews. Here's a fairly decent reason as to why he may not have done a lot of PS3 game reviews:

There aren't that many fricking PS3 games worth reviewing, and the ones that are worth reviewing can also be played (usually) on PC or 360 with different/better controls.

I love PS3 and I love 360. Hell, I even love the Wii every now and then, but seriously, people, you have to keep in perspective 1) where he lives, 2) what's available in the first place, and 3) every gamer is biased to their own favorite genre. Factor in those three reasons, and you might just have another answer to quichurbitchin'.

(Although, I will say I'm disappointed in the lack of review for LBP, but hey, maybe he'll get to it this year...)

 

[grunt-4-life]

left 4 dead mixes 3 things i love:
1. guns
2. zombies/blowing zombies up/to pieces
3. you and 3 mates killing said zombies
to be honest best game to play when drinking and/or stoned in my opinion

 

[TheTrooper]

For those that were disapointed because there was really no review.. look at it from this POV.
Yahtzee reviewed the entire year, and gave out awards; what more do you want?

 

[Jaythulhu]

Anyone else get a bar across the top of the new player that has part of the intro still displayed on it for the entire episode? I've tried on 3 systems with 3 browsers now and they all have it.

 

[jemborg]

To all those that complain about the clip or awards shows not being a proper review episode... let the guy have a holiday occasionally. Even I don't expect the excellent TV review show "Good Game" to play all year, for instance. You're bloody lucky to have Zero Punctuation in the first place. (Yes, I can say "bloody" because I am an Aussie who grew up saying it).

You whinging spoilt brats.

Happy New Year everyone (especially Ben C).

So we shouldn't say things we are thinking just because we're "lucky to have Zero Punctuation in the first place"? That is a retarded argument, for one thing at a certain point it turns to not being "lucky to have it" if it turns in ways we don't like. I could argue "it could be worse than George W. Bush is doing, but does that mean we should take that shit?

Oh ROFLMAO, retlawmay. That is exactly the kind of spoilt whinging brat with an overblown sense of entitlement remark that I was getting at. Get over yourself, and look at the bigger picture- instead of projecting your shit onto me. "...retarded argument" pah! In no way did I say you "...shouldn't say things we(you) are thinking...". Your whole pov here is an immature exaggeration- I too have a right to say I'm sick of these whining remarks that fill these posts, contributing nothing, without perhaps having to suffer a direct overblown personal attack from the likes of you. You have, what I like to call, a "twat" argument.

Disagree with him all you like (I know I do). But yeah, you/we really ARE lucky to have Zero Punctuation in the gaming milieu. Do I REALLY have to spell out why? Oh, come on! So you didn't get the review ep you wanted this week- is it really all that "shitty"? Oh, WAH WAH! Diddums!

Peace... off.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

i love Saints Row and this makes me love it more, YAA!

 

[spudpuffin]

Ahh the year in review... the time when Yahtzee can do AOE to many games at once. Almost fell out of my chair with the cartoon rat joke. Keep up the good work this year too Yahtzee.

why bother he's already killed them maimed them and had brutal *fun* with them just get on to the next victum (CoD:World at War)

 

[spudpuffin]

Why precisely is it that Yahtzee believes that the only good horror games are ones that are subtle? However pacing I can understand.

Its just part of what HE may like about the game and not what u want like he adjusts every vid. to exactly what u want =D no offence just makin a comment

 

[Charli]

I didn't like 2008, it's nice to be reminded with a bang of cynical hilarity of some of the reasons, WHY I didn't like 2008.