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This week's review is Velvet Assassin. Not exactly his funniest review but the game sounds so boring.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/vie...Velvet-Assassin

He is not a huge fan of stealth is he. :(

Velvet Assassin is treading the same ground that Splinter Cell did when it first arrived. Lots of shadows, enemies who always face away from you and if they spot you, you're dead gameplay.

Velvet Assassin's main downfall is being yet another WWII shooter/stabber. At least Sabotage looks pretty cool but I wonder if it will fall into the same repetitive trap.

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I don't really care whether he's positive or negative about any particular game, and though Glass Museum made an interesting point, I'm not concerned by Yahtzee's cyncism representing a more general problem with people's negative attitude on the internet. I just watch Zero Punctuation for lines like "so gritty you could lay it down in your front yard and call it a driveway," and the accompanying illustrations and go-back-and-pause-it text. For me it's a reliably funny few minutes each week, nothing more.

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I look forward to Zero Punctuation each week because I know that sexpanda and that other one will be steaming into this thread with some classic zings.

Where are they this week? The Champions League final starts in a minute and I've got to go and watch that.

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All he does is use outlandish metaphors and analogies to make obvious or sometimes inaccurate points about games while copying Brooker's delivery.

Sometimes he's quite funny (this one about that valkyire game is pretty good), but there's nothing brilliant about it.

I don't understand why he has a huge fanbase.

Because the bar for humor on the Internet -- especially videogame humor -- is so low that Penny Arcade has a fanbase?

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Because the bar for humor on the Internet -- especially videogame humor -- is so low that Penny Arcade has a fanbase?

One day, someone on the Internet will realise that what they find funny/sexy/interesting is not what everyone else does - and that their opinion isn't worth a gnats fart more than anyone else's either.

Meanwhile we'll have comments like that.

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therealjohnpeat, for someone who likes touting how little he cares about my opinion, you sure seem to make a point of directly responding to a lot of my posts.

Also, aren't you the guy who thinks modern videogames need more tutorials? ...

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Yahtzee not grasping how the world actually works breaks the joke quite badly this week.

Yay, let's celebrate creative work going to waste!

That's not really his point now, is it?

His point is let's poke fun at massive egotism run rampage while plenty of others who do have ideas but lack connections can't get a funding break. Astoundingly and devastatingly well made too.

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therealjohnpeat, for someone who likes touting how little he cares about my opinion, you sure seem to make a point of directly responding to a lot of my posts.

I'm not telling that I don't care much for you opinion - I'm telling you NO-ONE cares much for it :(

What you said was amazingly fatuous - Penny Arcade is a Marmite thing for sure, but for 2 guys who started off drawing a cartoon to end up running the 2nd largest (at one point the largest and arguably the most 'fan based') gaming convention in the world - and a hugely influential game-related charity as well - they HAVE to be doing something right... To write-off what they do as 'not funny' suggests you're so far from the point as to be without hope of ever finding it - frankly...

Also, aren't you the guy who thinks modern videogames need more tutorials? ...

No - you leapt to that conclusion - I just suggested that you could go too far in not explaining things to the player - there's a MASSIVE difference - the world is not just black and white - things are just not 'funny' and 'not funny' - tutorials are not 'good' and 'bad'...

You're either still in middle school or a Daily Mail reader unculcated with the idea that the whole world can be categorised into good/bad or "causes cancer"/"cures cancer" :)

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That's not really his point now, is it?

His point is let's poke fun at massive egotism run rampage while plenty of others who do have ideas but lack connections can't get a funding break. Astoundingly and devastatingly well made too.

Massive egotism? This was the game that the developers have been so quiet about for the last few years that most people were shocked at how much material there was when it all leaked the other week, having assumed it was just a running joke at this point.

A game that was funded independently by 3DRealms, on a warchest that they made from developing (Duke series), funding (Max Payne, Prey) and publishing (Wolf3D) successful games for well over a decade.

It's a bit of spite which might have worked aimed at a target such as, say, Ion Storm in the 90s - genuinely wildly overpromising and spending publishers' money foolishly.

But it's abundantly clear that Yahtzee doesn't care about the accuracy of his targets at this point. Once he reserved hilarious outpourings of bile for the likes of Sonic Team, now any game he can overstate a few cheap shots about gets described as being written by idiots, for idiots and (where applicable) on a platform that he 'hates'.

It's the sort of drivel children write on GameFAQs. And because there's 200 banner-clicking idiots for every person quietly annoyed that he's wasting his talent, it will just get worse. Like Ctrl-Alt-Del, ironically.

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