Zero Punctuation: Awards for 2009

[Matu Flp Krwfe]

All reasonable, except for natal.

Something should be condemned so long as it has done something offensive to begin with and so, as seeing that we are not living in the future world of Minority Report, complaints and critiques should be reserved until such time that they actually can be proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, to be valid by the piles of dismembered and otherwise bloody corpses rendered so by the then truly guilty party.

 

[bryanfuel]

Ahh this makes Wednesdays worth living.
Now I need something for Thursday and Monday.

i got scamschool for thursday and unskippable/loadingreadyrun.com for monday
but my tuesday is dull

 

[SniperWolf427]

Huh, how disappointing. You had nothing important to say about anything this week. This one was even more pointless than the 08' Awards Ceremony.

Ah yes, I knew I had something else to ***** about:

Review Borderlands already.

 

[ItsAPaul]

Good stuff. Loved the Duke Nukem bit.

 

[ckam]

I just knew, alright?

 

[Haderos]

I hear you get your internet censored too :x.

 

[glorysbain]

So when is the ZP app going to come out? The droid has one, time to kiss some Apple ass

 

[Hexenwolf]

That was a depressingly morbid parting joke.

I was laughing (or perhaps grinning) for pretty much the entire thing up until that.

 

[Iskenator67]

I find it odd that he has been bashing WET a lot harder in his past few videos then he did during the actual review. A bit of pent up anger he forgot to get out perhaps?

 

[Endocrom]

I thought I was the only one that remembers Duke Nukem: Forever (or DukeFor as we started calling it)

The best plot point IMO was the fact that the irony of returning to the macho chauvinistic life that drove away his daughter, is not lost on Duke.

 

[sueyed]

The "happy new year" was delicious.

 

[Carnagath]

Yahtzee, you are absolutely brilliant and I hereby declare all other lists-of-the-year on other sites as obsolete. Especially that one from gamespot which puts Demon'ssssss souls at the best game spot.

They did the right thing in my opinion. DS is indeed 2009's Goty, there is no question about it, it was the most atmospheric, immersive and memorable game this year and it belongs to that very rare species of games that, while playing them (for more than 20 minutes), you keep thinking "wow, amazing, I'm going to have some long lasting memories from this". But yes, only if you are patient enough to experience it. It's just sad that he gave up on it so easily, he really missed out. Batman was fine, but no less a popcorn game than Uncharted 2. The real soul was in DS (npi).

 

[Randvek]

That was a depressingly morbid parting joke.

I was laughing (or perhaps grinning) for pretty much the entire thing up until that.

I'm not sure "depressingly morbid" really describes it. It was a comment so dark, it bends light that goes near it.

 

[Wilbot666]

I like the idea of Michael Atkinson getting a video game award. Next year it will have to be Jack Thompson.

Or perhaps Fred Nile?

 

[ward0630]

I didn't get the very end reference with MW2 assinating Yathzee. sum1 plz explain.

 

[Razorback0z]

Nice work as usual.

Agree on BAA was a good effort.

 

[Rific]

Oh jesus, I got a hernia from laughing when he talked about RE5

 

[Jory]

Pretty awesome.

Liked the Racism for legs comment, and the award titles.

And yeah the music in the middle was ridiculously loud.

 

[Mr.Lucifer]

I'm guessing someone was on the receiving end of the delightful British road system this Christmas...

Also (and I bet he gets this all the goddamn time) it's strange how Yahtzee dislikes the PS1-era Resident Evil games when he enjoys Silent Hill 2 so much. The games are very similar - top notch atmosphere, balls controls. I bet he'd enjoy them a little bit.

Maybe it because Silent Hill was much more story-driven, much scarier since you weren't required to kill enemies, and the script is less cliche and laughable than Resident Evil.

As for the video, well done. I loved the awards' names. As for the best game of the year, Arkham Asylum deserves it since its the only non-sequel to ever be good and new last year. I just hope its sequel does not tarnish the reputation too much.

Dragon age orgins was quite excellent.