The Escapist: Zero Punctuation

[JPickford]

Victor Lewis-Smith

[Meh]

So it's just biglime being emo again?

[JPickford]

Seems fairly accurate to me. Yahtzee is doing a VLS impression and his racist joke didn't come off quite as ironic as it was presumably meant to.

[macosx]

The games funnier than Yahtzee could ever aspire to.

[Meh]

It was a bit jarring, like. But I guess that was the point, really.

The games funnier than Yahtzee could ever aspire to.

Now that's just being silly. You're like one of those generic dickheads that crawls out of a hole whenever someone amusing gets it a bit wrong on occasion.

[Plums]

I thought it was hilarious.

[Meh]

It wasn't his best, really. It got a few giggles, but nothing outside of that. The end raised an eyebrow more than owt else.

I really want a crystal skull now.

[My Filmviews]

Really liked this review and at the end was so unexpected that i couldn't stop laughing, very funny

[moosegrinder]

It wasn't his best, really. It got a few giggles, but nothing outside of that. The end raised an eyebrow more than owt else.

I really want a crystal skull now.

Diamond Encrusted Human Skull. Big difference.

[Compass]

The games funnier than Yahtzee could ever aspire to.

That's not saying much.

[Big Gus]

I loved it. I'm amazed he's kept the quality this good every week to be honest.

[Smitty]

VLS act?

Right, ok then. God that glib line never fails to irritate me.

Anyway, more good stuff from Yahtzee,

[Big Gus]

I'd love to "act" like Victor Lewis Smith. The "ad infinitum" show he did on BBC2 was one of the funniest things I've ever watched. He probably spent a few months making it though rather than pumping out decent stuff week after week on a tight timescale.

[macosx]

Now that's just being silly. You're like one of those generic dickheads that crawls out of a hole whenever someone amusing gets it a bit wrong on occasion.

Where with you it's a full-time job.

[Meh]

How so? Did you just pull that ridiculous comment out of your arse?

Of course you did!

[macosx]

Meh, no I meant you being a dickhead fulltime Still think the Fiddy game is so ridiculous that it does itself in more than any gags by Yahtzee. I'm not having a pop at him at all, just saying that the game shoots itself down so much that him sticking the boot in is superfluous.

[Meh]

But he wasn't really sticking the boot in.

[son_of_helvetica]

Just seen it. Load of old guff.

Jumping the shark again, Mr. Yahtzee? Ohnos.

[son_of_helvetica]

It's "easy" to say it's shit. Try doing it yourself week after week.

It used to be good though.

[MK-1601]

He's been doing these every week for nearly two years now. Any format is going to get tired after a while, especially one that's as narrow as ZP.

He should take a break and have a rethink.

[futureshock]

What are people talking about? He's got progressively better over time.

[moosegrinder]

Entirely subjective, like any comedy really. I thought it was hilarious for a long time, but the formats getting stunningly tired for me. This is the first one I've watched in months because people said it was hilarious, but it really wasn't.

[elmo]

Wasn't that last joke pretty much ripped from South Park?

[RubberJohnny]

He's been doing these every week for nearly two years now. Any format is going to get tired after a while, especially one that's as narrow as ZP.

He should take a break and have a rethink.

Why? How many webcomics 'have a break and a rethink'? ZP is just a webcomic in video form, really. There are people who like and hate VGCats, CTrl-Alt-Del and Penny Arcade, and generally the people who don't like them don't visit them.

[Professor_k]

Wasn't that last joke pretty much ripped from South Park?

That's what I was thinking... Giant burning upper case Ts and all.

[futureshock]

Entirely subjective, like any comedy really. I thought it was hilarious for a long time, but the formats getting stunningly tired for me. This is the first one I've watched in months because people said it was hilarious, but it really wasn't.

OR! Your tastes have changed and he's stayed in a similar place.

It's subjective, you know

[snowbind]

I like it.

[moosegrinder]

OR! Your tastes have changed and he's stayed in a similar place.

It's subjective, you know

I know, that's what I said.

[MK-1601]

Why? How many webcomics 'have a break and a rethink'? ZP is just a webcomic in video form, really. There are people who like and hate VGCats, CTrl-Alt-Del and Penny Arcade, and generally the people who don't like them don't visit them.

Webcomics (that are any good, not dogshit like Ctrl-Alt-Del) develop and change direction over time.

I don't think ZP has 'jumped the shark' or whatever. When it's good it's still really good. Just having to do it every week (are that many games released that you can drum up strong feelings about?), and his seeming preoccupation with giving people what they've come to expect, means it does look a bit tired at times.

[Jarik]

I know, that's what I said.

No, you said its no longer funny. What you meant was that its no longer funny to you.

Nothing wrong with that though. I used to roll around on the floor laughing my head off at the Benny Hill Show, but nowadays I just don't see what I found so funny about it. The time may come Yahtzee's sense of humour no longer matches with my own, but that time is not now & can't see it coming anytime soon as I still find the humour in ZP meshes perfectly with my sense of humour, while at the same time making some valid points about the videogames it covers.