Zero Punctuation: Prince of Persia Retrospective

[Sammich]

Hilarious as usual, though the memories of the original PoP character being punctured by spike-pits will haunt me forever.

 

[donbueck]

The other people in my office can always tell when it's Yahtzee-time, lots of LOL from my room...great job!

 

[Auroch]

Thank you Yahtzee, I'd say that was the best ever, but that may be because I WAS EATING PUDDING WHEN I WATCHED IT.

bastard.

 

[Someperson]

I dunno, the review itself was fine but it felt a little off to me in some way. Maybe the emotional tone in some places left me feeling the objectivity wasn't really as valid as it could be. In a way it felt like a fan video in that Yahtzee felt "I have a reputation as a jack-ass and a troll so I'm going to play the part" instead of just stating his mind like he does in his other videos (for better or worse). I dunno. it just felt a little forced to me in it's delivery. good points in the review though, but I feel catering to the label given to you by "the fans" as being beneath you Yahtzee 8(

 

[parttimeesthete]

Congratulations you fools. it blows my mind that so many of you would nibble at that little piece of completely irrelevant information trying to decipher his list-o-five. sure, one page of it was excessive, but its still going on after eight pages. You've made me loose allot of faith in the general public and you disgust me. some of you even registered just to post that gorram list. There is no hope for you now and i guess ill just have to continue living knowing that you people exist.

I concur!

 

[Monkeybone]

1. Postal
2. Samba Del Amigo
3. PSO: C.A.R.D Revolution
4. Silent Hill: Zero
5. Dokie Dokie Panic

 

[McMo0^]

Is anyone else having a problem with the video loading? It's taking an age for me...

EDIT: having problems with all vids on the escapist, but not on any other site... any advice?
EDIT2: nevermind, deleted temp internet files and its all good... noob

Also for those that think number 4 is spiderman 2... could he mean spiderman 2 for the PS1? I mean if its the spidey game i'm thinking of it was awesome, and vastly underrated.

EDIT3: yeah i'll stop editing after this... my god it really is spider-man 2 the movie game... then again its fun, something yahtzee yearns for in games

 

[Monkeybone]

I wonder how much longer we can keep slobbering all over his dick like this before he puts down a restraining order. Maybe he likes it, maybe we should hook him up on a blind date with the Angry Videogame Nerd, I'm sure it'd be a magical evening.

WHO WANTS TO PLAY MATCHMAKER?

 

[Aerach]

Even though I've never played a Prince of Persia game (don't shoot me) I still found the review to be immensely entertaining as usual. Great work Yahtzee!

 

[MrBilzor]

So...I still don't get it. He said he likes the PoP games, then goes on to bash them. Witty and fun words are still shit when what you are talking about isn't relevant.

If you said you really like bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches but then go on for a couple minutes explaining why they are horrible, but in a comedic way, I'd slap the shit out of you for wasting my time.

 

[agerdemon]

Good review, wonder what Yahtzee's views on games like Grim Fantango would be?

 

[beddo]

1) Halo
2) Halo 3
3) Halo 2
4) Haze
5) Turok

 

[beddo]

Yahtzee's top five list is so far removed from mine:

Put in 10 cos its so hard to choose

1) Bioshock
2) Shadow of the Colossus
3) Halo
4) Little Big Adventure 2
5) Legend of Zelda Wind Waker
6) COD 4
7) Chronicles of Riddick EFBB
8) Loco Roco
9) Me and my Katamari
10) Fable

 

[Monkeybone]

So...I still don't get it. He said he likes the PoP games, then goes on to bash them. Witty and fun words are still shit when what you are talking about isn't relevant.

If you said you really like bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches but then go on for a couple minutes explaining why they are horrible, but in a comedic way, I'd slap the shit out of you for wasting my time.

He's a critic, it's his job to hurt the things he loves. You also forget we his audience, are simps. If he's not bashing something with all the hate he can muster from the crevices of his pruney heart, we get scared, confused and start flinging shit at it. At the very least, he's fair. I lost interest in PoP 3 when my guy would die if I fell off a ledge, but if I jumped off if I was fine, or was it the other way around? Either way, he liked it, just that it fell short from what he would have liked it to be, so he -criticized- its flaws, 'cause, y'know... He's a -critic-.

 

[Sensei Le Roof]

BTW i thought Peggle was going to be on it for sure.

You're kidding, right? I seem to recall Yahtzee having "less than love" for Peggle, nowhere near top-five status.

You'd be wrong. His exact words were "I wouldn't claim to like it, in the same way an alcoholic doesn't usually claim to like alcohol".

Ouch. *l* Okay, so I have to go back and rewatch that video. Just a minute, I hear OB is playing again...

 

[NobleBear]

I wrote this over at Shamus' personal site but I wanted to mention it here as well:

I've been thinking about comments some have made about fanboys looking for Yahtzee's likes in the manner of a mob boss looking to see where a federal agent's wife and children live to exploit that "weakness" for leverage. While I consider that valid, that is not the intent of everyone who desires that knowledge.

I've been wondering what Yahtzee likes but not because I'm looking for a foothold to denigrate him. I'm actually less interested in what titles he prefers and more what principals or design philosophies stand out to him as constituting a good game.

I appreciate that at one level, what he is doing is almost exclusively for entertainment; people like to hear a good tongue reaming and that's what he provides. I guess its that there in an inherent intelligence and articulation to the opinions he renders that I'm wanting to take my nonexistent force powers and draw out the other side of that analysis. Sometimes I'll get it too, piecemealed here and there throughout other reviews, like not hearing until the Oblivion review that he thought Assassins Creed had good immersion.

Anyway, just sayin'.

 

[Al X and Ur]

first of all, trilby is awesome, i dont know how this relates, but i think its fun, so good job. as for your review, its all good and what not, but best game series?? i guess your opinion is exactly that, but i really think there were some better games out there, like, i dont know, maybe silent hill or gta "just for the amount of freedom you actually get in the game". but Kudos to you, you did another great job on this weeks zero punctuation

 

[Zeddicus Zhul Zorander]

it's spelled A-S-S

or in english its "arse", like he said.

No, that's just how it's pronounced in Great Britain. Trust me, it's ass.

 

[Stelman257]

it's spelled A-S-S

or in english its "arse", like he said.

No, that's just how it's pronounced in Great Britain. Trust me, it's ass.

Actually he's right.
They spell it and pronounce it like that. America spells it as A-S-S, Britain spells it
A-R-S-E, and Australia is somewhere in between. As Yahtzee is Anglo-Australian he leans more to the A-R-S-E spelling.