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TheBigMansini
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Ok, so last night I was chillen with some friends of mine, and my buddy Mike shows me these fuckfestic videogame reviews called "Zero Punctuation" done by some guy named Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. At first I was like, Ohhhhh God, what new stoopid trend has the web-affiliated ADD Generation blessed us with? While, yes, the reviews come at you RAPIDFIRE (hence, Zero Punctuation), The content is often dead on, Croshaw GRILLS VG developers and the industry for it's lack of originality, and the current generation of gamers for being epically shallow enough to continue buying the slop they come up with.
I urge ANY and EVERYBODY out there on this site who is a diehard videogame nut to check this guy's site out:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation
In particular, please GOD watch the review about GTA4
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/48-Grand-Theft-Auto-IV
as I feel Croshaw totally captured EVERYTHING I felt was wrong with that game and the direction that Rockstar is headed. The guy's a pure genius, for one reason, he hits his subjects remorselessly, and he delivers rapid-fire so that the ADD generation can't whine about the review being too slow and drawn out. 
Run the check rude-boyz!
-Mansini
| Written by TheBigMansini on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 10:12 PM | Permalink — 9 Comments |
haha, oooo, THIS guy. This dude kills me. omg... hilarity ensues.
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I love that series!
My favorites are the No More Heroes and Tomb Raider reviews:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/33-No-More-Heroes
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/5-Tomb-Raider-Anniversary
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I agree. I enjoyed GTA 4, but it kind of keeps itself from being fun by adding all this distracting shit that the game basically FORCES you to do. In the end, what should have been a completely "free choice" kind of adventure, ends of feeling linear. It's like, "Oh, you can't do this yet, you need to kill this guy first," or "Oh you're in an awesome car chase? Your girlfriend wants to go on a date. You better go or she'll hate you." WTF? Where's the freedom in that? Of course you have a choice, but it's kind of like saying, "You can go to work today, or you can stay home... but if you stay home you're going to get kicked in the testicles for five minutes." Which decision are you going to make?
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Fuckfestic?
I must now find an excuse to use this word....
Anyway, Zero Punctuation is fucking beautiful.
You really wanna see the lulz?? Look up the Portal and Oblivion reviews =P
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