The Escapist: Zero Punctuation

[Mr.Crowley]

Bah, I can't watch this anymore. That stupid fucking hat...

[Naysonymous]

Since when was Claudia Black British?

Her character (Chloe) has some kind of half Home Counties/half Australian accent going on.

[Beitel]

Thought that was one of his poorer reviews really.

Really? I haven't played Uncharted 2, but his review makes it look exactly as I imagine it.

[Mr. Gerbik]

Really? I haven't played Uncharted 2, but his review makes it look exactly as I imagine it.

I completely agree with his criticisms, having played Uncharted 2, but I also think that this isn't one of his funnier reviews.

[Rudderless]

Her character (Chloe) has some kind of half Home Counties/half Australian accent going on.

Yeah. She's definitely meant to be British in the game.

[Hoodedclaw]

Don't get me started on australians. Ever since Lord of The Rings, they think they can do no wrong!

erm wasn't LOTR filmed in NZ tho ?

[Mr. Gerbik]

erm wasn't LOTR filmed in NZ tho ?

I think that's the joke

[Rushy]

Really? I haven't played Uncharted 2, but his review makes it look exactly as I imagine it.

Poor as in not funny. I watch his stuff for the LOL's of which there was very few.

[Smitty]

I thought it was great.

[Count Buffalos]

I'm really surprised.

[Smitty]

I'm sorry for liking it.

Perhaps some of you should start saying ''Yahtzee's lost it'' which seems to happen about every two weeks.

[The Bag]

what the sweet jesusing fuck was that?

[Uzi]

what the sweet jesusing fuck was that?

Search youtube for the pilot.

[Joyrex-J9]

Search youtube for the pilot.

For the love of god don't.

Tear your own eyeballs out, it's more entertaining.

[Beitel]

Poor as in not funny. I watch his stuff for the LOL's of which there was very few.

Yup, it wasn't that funny. But watching him being completely right made it enjoyable enough for me.

[JLM]

Wow, didn't expect to see so much hate for the Washington video. The awfulness was very knowing and intentional. the fact that he was ridiculously far away from the landmarks he was describing and his utterly terrible descriptions amused me quite a bit.

The point of the "oval, like an egg" and other comments was the simple gag that everything looks vaguely like a rude body part but he totally sidesteps that issue in a terribly unsubtle manner, then we get to the Washington monument and he just goes "it looks like a.... cock-and-balls".

If the whole shctick left you completely unamused then fair enough, but I didn't get the impression that he was geuinely awkward and hated doing it. The stilted and half-asleep nature of the whole thing seemed to be the entire point of the bit for me.

It wasn't nearly as good as one of his reviews but I didn't think people would get this outraged over it.

[AK Bell]

I wouldn't call it outrage. I'm not going to Oz with a pitchfork and a few dozen guys backing me up. It was just painful to watch, so much so that I couldn't.

Back to normal now. Now people should be outraged that he's slated a perfectly good game because that's all he's good at.

[Smitty]

Now people should be outraged that he's slated a perfectly good game because that's all he's good at.

Or because he doesn't like those significant elements of the game, alternatively.

[Meh]

He made perfectly valid points. It's hardly amazing as a game.

[Shoes]

I don't understand how Game Damage is so bad. The pilot is depressing me.

[Ersatz Nihilist]

People always get upset when he negatively reviews something they like, even though that almost all he ever does. I'm currently watching the Game Damage pilot, and it's awful. Did it get any better?

edit - Apparently not, as it didn't get past the Pilot.

[Lorfarius]

Has anybody been able to watch this weeks? Website has been playing up for me since Wednesday night

[Captain Toss]

Just watched it. I wouldn't worry yourself, man.

[therealjohnpeat]

Has anybody been able to watch this weeks? Website has been playing up for me since Wednesday night

I believe that if you use AdBlockers you'll find it hard to watch ZP, so if you have one try disabling it.

[stefcha]

I believe that if you use AdBlockers you'll find it hard to watch ZP, so if you have one try disabling it.

What a load of shit, it's no different now than it's been for years re: ad blockers.

[therealjohnpeat]

What a load of shit, it's no different now than it's been for years re: ad blockers.

*** Tests something...

Goes to ZP with AdblockPlus enabled in FF - video will not load at all.

Disables ABP and restarts FF - video plays but buffers rather more than I'd expect

To check this...

Goes to BBC iPlayer in FF - video takes ages to buffer and pauses

Goes to BBC iPlayer in Chrome - plays first time, smoothly

Goes to ZP - plays first time, no buffering

**concludes - I think FF and Flash aren't getting on again...

Also - at one point The Escapist sandwiched an advert (for themselves) between their usual intro and the ZP video and if you had ABP enabled, you were stopped dead at that point...

[Lorfarius]

I believe that if you use AdBlockers you'll find it hard to watch ZP, so if you have one try disabling it.

I also have Opera and IE installed but the page either refuses to load or gets to the episode selection bit then wont load individual ones

[Cyhwuhx]

I'm not sure what they are using at The Escapist, but it's the only site that managed to completely lock up my notebook when running ZP in fullscreen.

There's definitely something going on with their player.

[Lorfarius]

Is there another way to get to the vids? Hosted elsewhere etc?

[therealjohnpeat]

Is there another way to get to the vids? Hosted elsewhere etc?

Not that I'm aware of.

I've resorted to using Chrome which seems to work flawlessly with the site - FF is like an old woman, it just moans and groans and allsorts (even with all plugins disabled).