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* Wait until after the credits of the ''Guitar Hero: World Tour'' review to hear Yahtzee ''sing'' his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j8jMn2Kcgs "Deus Ex Song."]
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131111193440/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/22-The-Witcher 20 minutes. Outside. Puffer fish.]"
** "Okay, now I just have to figure out if that was a man or a woman..."
*** Also from his Witcher review: "You might say it's sexist to treat women like a baseball card collecting mini-game, so you can ''ogle their luscious rounded boobies'' '''and melt away between their smooth milky thighs''' '''''as the sweat runs in rivulets from their writhing, sensuous body, but'''''...sorry, I forgot where I was going with that."
** THINK OF SOMETHING WHOLESOME INSTEAD
* (Waffle about game physics)... "and now, to counteract the seriousness of that last sentence, Boingo Boingo Whoopsy Knickers".
* After spending the whole ''[[Tomb Raider]]: Anniversary'' review trying to avoid referring to breasts, Yahtzee falls prey to the [[Freudian Slippery Slope]], which culminates in a [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]] for boobies (See the header for [[Keep Abreast of This Index]])
** Before that, his musings on playing the original ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' as a kid:
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** Also this bit from his ''[[Tomb Raider]]: Underworld'' review:
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** And the image of vampire Lara recoiling and hissing at the sight of the double cheeseburger.
** Not to mention his hilarious matchmaking of Lara:
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** Lara looking down at her hands in a "What kind of monster have I become?" way after shooting someone. Followed by her casually brushing off some dust and wearing the dead guy's brain on her head. [[Ax Crazy|"I'M MISTER BRAIN HAT!"]]
* I had to go back and look again in the ''[[Manhunt]]'' review when he claims the game "only stands out in the area of juvenile gore", illustrated with a graph that asserts that ''[[Barbie]] Horse Riding'' has over twice as much hardcore violence as ''[[Resistance Fall of Man]]''.
* "I don't get why some people find fat people attractive, but then again most people don't get why I like to wrap my cock in lettuce and hide it in other people's salads."
* "The Hero called "[[The Legend of Zelda
** "Also sometimes I like to name him 'I Say' so that everyone sounds like [[Looney Tunes|Foghorn Leghorn]]."
*** In his review of [[Ocarina of Time]] 3DS, he names Link "Fuck me", leading to a moment where Navi says "Fuck me it's cold in here."
**** From the same review, when he says that the N64 "showed you more affection as a child than your parents ever did", and the graphic is a dad whipping a spider at a little kid hugging his N64.
** From the ''[[
* Calling ''[[
* The ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' review being stuffed with [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]], before ending:
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** Even funnier when you realize that one of the two players is his own [[Author Avatar]].
* From ''[[Uncharted]]'', there's a drawing of Nathan Drake juggling a torch, a chainsaw, and a baby. The next frame shows the baby and chainsaw on the floor, along with some blood, covered up by a black censor box that says "THE BABY IS FINE THE BABY IS OKAY."
* "I didn't [find the voice acting] all that annoying, but my roommate said it was like having his ear canals raped by a man wearing a sandpaper condom. Not in those exact words, obviously."
* His review of ''[[Condemned|Condemned: Bloodshot]]'' has a few moments, particularly as he tries to pour in the [[Paranoia Fuel]] into your brain by telling you there is a serial killer living under you bed at this very moment, but "don't look or that'll really piss him off!" And his utter bemusement at the ending of the game:
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* From ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', after describing Snake and Otacon's relationship: "That oozing sound you just heard was all the world's [[Slash Fic|homoerotic fanfiction]] writers simultaneously emitting [[Jizz in My Pants|torrents of hot lady-spunk]]." At which point the screen reads "THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT."
* The entirety of the ''Mailbag Showdown'' was one giant [[Take That]] at all the hate mail he received from him torching ''[[Super Smash Brothers Brawl]]''.
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* From his ''[[Lego Indiana Jones]]'' review:
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* Alone in the Dark's "Terry vs Gonad" sequence.
** Followed up by [[Wet|Wet's]] "Pillock vs Pillock's Boss" sequence.
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130317205924/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/157-The-E3-Trailer-Park And for those of you not paying attention...]" *claps* "OI!"
* From ''[[Ninja Gaiden]] 2'': "So the gore's been ramped up, and as always, hand-in-hand with Gore comes Titties, [[Interplay of Sex and Violence|his lovely wife and business partner.]]"
* The ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' review's "Don't stick your dick in a pudding" metaphor.
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* From his review of ''[[
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* "Will Wright created ''[[The Sims]]'', a franchise which by shrewdly combining user-created assets, the powers of a [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|malevolent trickster god]] and a massive amount of implied nudity, now annually makes about [[Cash Cow Franchise|twice as much money as Belgium]]. So can his new game, ''[[Spore]]'', [[Tough Act to Follow|possibly live up to that legacy]]? In short: No. In long: [[Big No|Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo]][[Overly Long Gag|ooooooooo...]]."
* From ''[[STALKER|S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky]]'': "You couldn't release a buggy game during the cartridge and cassette days, you'd get sentenced to trampling under the company Brontosaurus. But I'll tell you the worst part worst part worst part worst part worst part [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties|*System error*]] ''[[Orphaned Punchline|And whistled for a baboon]]''!"
** Also, "Lying prone only lowers your eye level another inch or so, so your character is either extremely fat or uncomfortably well-endowed."
** When he illustrates the difficulty settings with pictures of a kitten, a bigger kitten a tiger, and then for the hardest setting he shows a picture of [[Furry Fandom|fursuited guy]]. With all the former ones terrified!
* Yahtzee on giving gamers too much freedom, coinciding with his belief that [[Humans Are
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* "Pure, mindless fun, like wrestling an excitable dog in a paddling pool full of disembodied breasts. [beat] Don't think too much about that simile, I certainly didn't."
* The beginning of the ''[[Fallout 3]]'' review:
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* From his ''[[
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** From the same review:
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* During his ''[[Far Cry]] 2'' review whenever he turns on the South African accent.
** During the same review: "It brings to mind an animal rights activist freeing a captive bunny rabbit into the wild only for it to bewilderedly sit among daisies for several hours before a predator [the predator being [[Man vs. Wild|Bear Grylls]]] comes along and bites its entire body off."
* From his ''[[
** Topped during the middle of the video when he 'finishes' the review.
* The "masterfully executed Link" from his ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140122081610/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/544-Thief-The-Dark-Project Thief: The Dark Project review]'', with accompanying [[Visual Pun|visual gag]], was an almost painfully hilarious [[Lampshaded]] segue.
* The [[Curse Cut Short]] in his ''50 Cent: Blood On The Sand'' review.
* ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'':
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* The Stinger of the ''[[Halo Wars]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120512182849/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/645-Halo-Wars review.] {{spoiler|The imps discuss how tasty Pedigree Dog Food is. Yahtzee is not amused.}}
** And while we're talking about ''Halo Wars''...
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*** The entire rant at that point is undeniably hilarious.
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**** It becomes about a million times more funny when you realise that this is the
* During his ''H.A.W.X.'' review he illustrates the enemy PMC attacking Washington. Then the giant, bug-eyed Uncle Sam pops up behind them with a giant "OI!" beside him.
** Also "I know that drama demands that the enemy actually be a plausible threat, but I still think it'd have been more credible if the enemy had been an army of disgruntled insect people from the Earth's core ([[Overly Long Gag|five]] [[Beat|second]] [[Out-of-Character Moment|pause]])... WEARING SILLY HATS."
* His summarized feelings for JRPGs in the ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' review:
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* While conducting [https://web.archive.org/web/20140108131731/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/779-The-Second-Annual-E3-Hype-Massacre his second annual overview of games previewed at E3:] "''[[
** What's even better is that he continues doing that over the end credits music, even attempting to keep with the tune.
*** "[[Bayonetta]]! As in 'Hey, yo' betta not play this game-' OH, FUCK YOU!"
* From ''Prototype'': "I had to laugh at a moment when I was on a mission, plowing a tank through a crowded street, and over the agonized screams, Alex said: "Gawrsh, I sure hope this is the right thing to do!" It's like if [[Mr. Bean]] were a mass murderer."
** "A sandbox is only as good as the method by which you get around it, and [[
* From ''[[The Sims 3]]'': "This may sound a bit hysterical, but ''The Sims 3'' is probably the most evil game in the world." That line made this troper laugh harder than any other line.
* The bit during the ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'' review with the party blower coming out of Yahtzee's hat. And the look of shock coming from Yahtzee as a result.
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** [[Take That Us|Chances are good that you may find it funny even if you are Irish.]]
*** This Irish troper can vouch for that.
* "[[Wolfenstein (
* From his ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' review: "[[Press X to Not Die|Press X to]] <s>not die</s> [[Subverted Trope|KICK ASS]]."
** Also from the ''Arkham Asylum'' video, at 1:58 of the review, he shows Batman pouncing on and killing a mother cat - complete with mourning kittens.
** "Another tool in Batman's arse...enal is the Detective Vision, I guess you can't call it 'Bat-Vision', then it'd be a black screen."
* ''[[Scribblenauts]]'' "..But as I tapped the block to break it, it shifted slightly, and I clicked the background and ''fuck'', it was like my character had been waiting all day for me to do do that. He flung his pick into the air and started jumping up and down like he wanted to be a cloud when he grew up."
** "''[[Scribblenauts]]'' comes to us from 5th Cell Media, a bunch of work-shy cheaters whose most notable previous title is ''[[Drawn to Life]]'', a game so unfinished that the player had to do half the art design themselves [...] After ''[[Drawn to Life]]'' they wanted to prove they're not above drawing stuff themselves, so they drew every single object on Earth. Talk about overcomensating!"
* There is one particular hilarious line from his ''Wet'' review.
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** The utter lampooning of terrible gaming ideas scattered throughout ''[[Wet]]'''s design through use of the game programmer "Pillock," who does everything to please the octopus in his brain.
** "global wobal wobbity bits"
* In his ''[[Mario
* ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'': "I'd like to see a Tolkienesque fantasy where the humans ''aren't'' the biggest pricks in the room. I mean, a lot of my friends are humans, and some of them are all right."
** "HELLO, YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE."
** Amusingly, he is saying this about a fantasy franchise where the humans ''actually aren't'' the biggest pricks in the room. But this is from the part of his review before he got to Orzammar. *g*
* From his holiday 2009 review: {{spoiler|"This is my one week off! I'm going on holiday."}}
** {{spoiler|"... That's ''summer'' holiday, by the way. Hope that northern hemisphere's weather's working out for you."}}
* The Awards for 2009 video's "The Everything-Proof Shield Award for Most Obstinate Refusal to Die";
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* His ''[[Darksiders]]'' review, when complaining about [[Wangst
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** The whole beginning of the review as well:
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** And while we're at it, the part we're he reveals ''[[Darksiders]]'' shameless rip-off of ''[[The Legend of Zelda (
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** "...The main character looks like someone sat down, started drawing him, ''and then never fucking stopped.'' [...] What War looks like is fucking coral reef on legs."
** "Here are the combos you will need to know to master ''Darksiders'': the Chump Chop ('Square'), the Double Chump Chop ('Square'+'Square'), and the Whipped Cream Genocide Brouhaha ('Square'+'Square'+'Square')."
* His mental breakdowns over the utterly complex plots of ''[[Bayonetta]]'' and, get this, ''[[
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** Also for the genuinely batshit plot of the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series:
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** Speaking of [[Bayonetta]], his British 'immunity' to her.
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* The 'Inspiration-o-meter' from his ''[[Dark Void]]'' video.
** ''[[Dark Void]]'' is "a game that ran out of something. Maybe it was money, or time, or will,<ref>[[Will Smith]]'s face</ref>
** "''[[Dark Void]]'' started off pretty rocky, but between the rocks I caught a glimpse of something beautiful with cleavage that could hold up a fucking Christmas tree. But once I'd caught up with it and we'd started making out, all its teeth fell into my mouth and gave me scurvy."
* ''[[
* On [[Mass Effect 2|Mass Effect 2's]] resource harvesting: "Which is as interesting as it sounds, and it sounds like this: '''BWUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH...'''"
** The description of "the [[
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* From his latest review of ''[[
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* "Grr, your selfless compassion fills me with murder frenzy!" and his comments about how playing as a Big Daddy in ''[[
** Could be more [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], seeing as one of the characters in ''[[
*** "Instead of playing [[Pipe Dream]] for half-an-hour at every turn, you do a psuedo-quicktime event for a few seconds instead, and apparently the universe is about to explode, because the quicktime events have actually ''improved'' the game."
*** In his first ''Bioshock'' review, a line about boiling water apparently being able to form allegences in the game is acommpanied by a jar of water on a bunsen burner screaming [[Precision F-Strike|"FUCK THE POPE!"]]
* The opening of his review of ''[[Aliens vs. Predator]]'':
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** Also, his description of the ''[[Alien]]'' formula:
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** Concerning combat against Aliens while controlling a Predator:
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* ''[[Battlefield
** His description of the game also warrents a mention "[[Modern Warfare]] Modern Warfare click click jabber jabber hello bang dead"
* Courtesy of ''[[
** "As a highly respected and successful game critic—SHUT UP, I AM!"
** QUACK
** "So, presumably, he's the character most of the audience are meant to project onto."
* "Some might say that's enough. Some might say I'm too hard to please. But some can shut their fucking mouths." Accompanied by the heckling Imps being ''chased by a tiger.''
** In the same (surprisingly positive) review, he portrays main character [[Just Cause (
* The critique of [[Splinter Cell]]'s [[Idiot Plot]] and how the villains are [[Too Dumb to Live]].
* ''[[Silent Hill]]: <s> Shuttered Mammaries</s> [[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories|Shattered Memories]]'' gives you a psychological analysis based on your playing choices [caption: YOU'RE A PRICK] and told Yatzee he was "fastidiously clean and tidy" (besides the rubbish piling up in the kitchen), "family-oriented" (living on the other side of the world from them and never writing) and "possibly crap in bed". "[[[Beat]]] ...moving on..."
** "And some of the characters wear different clothes. I don't find that red dress particularly intimidating, but - oh fuck, a pink dress, ''shit's gettin' real!''"
** His description of the blue-tinted Dark World resembling "the night God drank his Slurpee too fast" accompanied by an image of God clutching his head in agony and screaming "FUCK" had this troper in stitches.
* From his review of ''[[Dead to Rights]]: Retribution:''
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** Also from the Dead To Rights: Review.
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** About the takedowns:
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** And the conclusion:
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* The proper title for ''[[
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* ''[[Alan Wake]]'' has a side-quest where you collect pages of manuscript about the story you're currently playing. Alan picks up one which reads "Then Alan was savaged by the biggest and most sexually frustrated bear that has ever lived." The bear then appears behind him with a big censor bar on its crotch.
* From the ''Red Dead Redemption'' review: " Sometimes NPCs will get caught in weird quantum singularities, and flicker in and out of a parallel universe where men have merged with horses. Sometimes John's walk animation fails, and he glides merrily around like he's on rocket skates. At one point his love of country got the better of him, and I had to reboot, to stop him humping a mountain."
* The visuals depicting ''[[Alpha Protocol]]'''s "incomprehensible miasma" of a plot.
* During the ''[[
** Related to his review of ''[[
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** While it felt like a jab at Nintendo and Mario as a whole, most of the review was still very funny but this part sticks out where a hypothetical Toad says, "Didn't this exact same happen not however long ago? Say did anyone remember to press charges on Bowser, put him in prison or something, what exactly was stopping him turning around and pulling the same **** the moment Mario and the princess were distracted with each others 'cakes'. See people this is why we need to introduce a CONSTITUTIONAL monarchy! Wark-wark!" The visuals help.
** The text adventure bit.
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What now?
'''>DIE OF ASPHYXIATION'''
You can't do that (somehow).
What now?
'''>JUMP'''
You jump, emitting a hearty vocalization like a flamboyant homosexual being goosed while breathing helium.
'''>AGAIN''' }}
* In the review for ''[[Crackdown]] 2'', when talking about the online multiplayer, he says, "Joining random online games is like walking into an aviary full of nitrous oxide and trying to play scrabble with the kookaburras while they stand around having sex with your mum."
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** Driving in real life: "I doubt things would be easier to get around if I was six feet wide and constantly farting carbon monoxide. I don't know how [[Your Mom|your mum]] does it."
** The early proto-man, working on the wheel and threatened by woolly mammoths; "Yes, life was tough in [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]]'s Britain."
* From his ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'' review: "...''[[Dead or Alive]]: Extreme Beach Volleyball'', or, as it's sometimes known, ''BOING!''"
** Also from that review, his hilariously accurate impersonation of Samus' [[Dull Surprise|monotone voice]] and [[Purple Prose|overly flowerly way of speaking]].
*** ''And'' his suggestion that they get '''[[Brian Blessed]]''' to voice Samus.
*** On a more meta note: "On a educated guess, though, the evil guy was probably the one with the evil mustache" becomes much funnier when said character is the most likely one to be [[The Mole]].
* His [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509195135/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2092-Amnesia-The-Dark-Descent description of his thought process during his first scary moment] in ''[[Amnesia:
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** Also, "Abloogy-woogy-woo."
** He closes it out by calling it a good constipation aid.
** CATCH THE FUCKING EGG!
* "This might sound a bit weird, but 'hoerdy goerdy bobbley boo.'"
* From ''[[Halo: Reach]]'':
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** Yahtzee's opening rant about Halo's lack of seat belts.
* From his review of ''[[Castlevania: Lords of Shadow]]'':
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** The joke comes back again in the credits, reading:
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* From the ''Enslaved: Odyssey To The West'' review:
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* The entirety of the New Vegas RP.
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* His impression of ''[[
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** "Why is my character putting broken glass into the mouth of that helpless prisoner? I don't think he'd find that very tasty--OH BUGGER MY BREECHES that was uncalled for!"
** "Another opportunity for the ''[[Call of Duty]]'' franchise to wave military hardware in our faces and go '''PHWOAR!'''"
** The [[Book Ends|beginning and end]] of the review feature several countries personified as people, including America, Russia, China, the UK and Switzerland. [[Axis Powers Hetalia]] references in the comments section were unavoidable.
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** Early in his iPhone games review, he laments that "so much of triple-A gaming these days is endless sequels, ripoffs and wank". The accompanying visuals give an example of a sequel (''[[Kane and Lynch|Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days]]''), a ripoff (''[[Kane and Lynch|Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days]]'') and some wank (''[[Rule of Three|Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days]]'').
* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]: Brotherhood'': "I don't want play the same game over and over, I get enough dull repetition in my sex life." Caption: "It's always the bloody nipple clamps with you, isn't it".
** "''[[Assassin's Creed]]: [[Divine Secrets of the Ya
* His entire rant on adulthood in the ''Splatterhouse'' review.
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* The ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' review. At the beginning he goes into this [[Heroic BSOD]] about park mascots trying to sexually abuse him.
** "And why do you think every other console controller has two analog sticks, Mr. Wii? Do you think it's just for symmetry? Or because they look a little bit like nipples? No! It's because in third-person games, the camera is like the working class: If you can't control it, ''it will plot to destroy you''!" All combined with a picture of a camera stabbing Yahtzee in the eye shouting, "Death to the Aristos!"
*** Interestingly, yes, originally the Dual Shock did have two sticks just for symmetry, thought he's referring to the current generation's controllers so the joke still stands.
* After awarding his Worst Game of the Year award to ''[[Kane and Lynch]] 2: Dog Days'':
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* The [[Flat What]] of the '''Fable III''' review. Funniest [[Flat What]] EVER!
* "Oh, [[The Goodies
** The Brisbane floods, where "the sandbag fairy had visited all the good little shops", and the [[Visual Pun|visual puns]] that follow.
** "With Fisher-Price Shoggoths scratching at the walls, I decided the sensible, level-headed thing to do was to tunnel down into the centre of the Earth".
** "Ohh, ''shit''. When did I become my dad?"
** "Why did it get so dark all of a sudden? What's that rustling sound? Why are my intestines over there now?"
** "Christ, it's like ''Zelda'' meets ''[[There Will Be Blood]]''!" (with picture of Link being chased by Daniel Plainview wielding a bowling pin)
** "One: Do not rely on fire to clear away your forests unless you want your gameworld to look like the Vietnam War."
** "But as I was trying to think of something to do with all these rocks, I noticed a nearby mountain, and thought 'You know what that's crying out for? A ''Skull Fortress!'' With flaming towers and eyes that weep lava (because he's depressed by all the kamikaze shrubs).'"
** Creepers: "It's like their only reason to live is to ruin other people's artwork. There but for the grace of God go I, suicide hedge!" Illustration: Yahtzee running at ''[[Fable]] III'' with explosives strapped to his body.
** His entire rant about the appeal of building anything with his example being a golden [[Biggus Dickus|giant cock and balls]].
* From ''[[A Shadows Tale]]'': "...this is the permanent mental state of most adult male nerds in any situation more sociable than jerking off with a hand-puppet. The [[Ur Example]] of this subgenre, as in '[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Er]], what are you doing with that hand-puppet?' would be [[Ico]], also known as I. C. O. if you're WRONG!"
* ''[[
** "It's set in space, the best setting besides the land of chocolate lesbians."
** "...that's the game [[Wet]] and the game [[X Men Origins: Wolverine|Wolverine]], not a game about a wet wolverine, NO SUCH THING EXISTS!"
* ''[[DC Universe Online]]'': His overly long analogy about how reading comics are like bowel movements. Just go look at it.
* From the ''[[Mind Jack]]'' review, after commenting on how some viewers didn't know whether Yahtzee was [[Accentuate the Negative|recommending a game or not]].
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* ''[[Killzone]] 3'': "So, ''fuck'' modern technology right in its cutting edge! Oww!"
* Localisation delays for ''[[
** "One of the [[Blatant Lies|many things I have in common]] with [[Star Trek:
* Summing up ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' as "not so much 'a hero's journey' as 'a hero piddles around for a while [[Gay Option|gobbing off his handsome friend]].'"
* From his review of the [[Nintendo 3DS]]:
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** Discussing the console's version of ''[[Splinter Cell]]: Chaos Theory'' and its "slapdash 3Difying":
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** The 3DSes of Yahtzee and his friend's don't recognize each other, making him assume that the other 3DS "just didn't want to associate with riffraff" because it had more Streetpass hits than his. Complete with the friend's 3DS turning its nose at Yahtzee's while wearing a top hat and holding a cane.
** Yahtzee's "What the hell is wrong with me?" moment when he reacts with joy at seeing a gathering of children in a park so that he could [[It Makes Sense in Context|leave little deposits in their pockets and butt bags]].
** COME ON IN! HANG UP YOUR COATS! TAKE A SEAT! No, not that seat, that's my seat. I'm going to sit in it and gloat over you. (So what about Nintendogs eh?)
* The [[Credits Gag]] at the end of his ''Portal 2'' review, set up at the start with "Early on in the series of increasing lucky breaks I'd hesitate to call a career..."
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** Yahtzee's history with the original ''Portal'' makes him a little hesitant to release a definitive statement on the sequel's quality. The result is almost two minutes of increasingly convoluted metaphors, until:
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** The icing on the- ...[[Last-Second Word Swap|French Fancy!]]
* His description of the enemy variety in [[Symphony of the Night]]: "Utterly nutterly butterly."
* Commenting that the X-ray attacks in ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' indicate your character had a skeleton for a stepfather and they have some issues to work out. Said skeleton wears a hat, smokes a pipe, and asks "when is your useless son going to get a job".
* From [https://web.archive.org/web/20110711221509/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8910-Extra-Punctuation-New-Team-Fortress-2-Classes this] ''Extra Punctuation'': "''[[Brink]]'', besides being what a racist caricature of an Oriental person [[Japanese Ranguage|would say]] is their favorite ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Doctor Who
* From ''Alice: Madness Returns'':
** "And then Alice promised never to tell her parents."
** The second mid-credit stinger.
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** "What I'm saying is that I don't see Alice: Madness Returns making [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Mad Returns]], neh heh nyehh..."
* While talking about the development team for ''[[Shadows of the Damned]]'', Yahtzee has a brief dialogue with the audience, whose words are accompanied by a slide whistle:
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"The guy who did the music for Silent Hill."
'''WHAT'S THAT?'''
''(frustrated)'' "A series with ''really good music.''"
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** Also, "[[Suda 51|Suda]], bless his heart, has always had what you might call a long-distance relationship with normalcy." Accompanied by a representation of Suda running around in the background, holding a giant rubber duck over his head and screaming.
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*** "Blimey, what a badly worded metaphor."
** "Wait, what was I supposed to be fixing again? [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|OOH LOOK A PUPPY]]!"
* From EP "Why No Couples In Games":
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* His description of the final boss in ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution
* The beginning of his ''Driver: San Fransisco'' review:
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** "SERVE AND PROTECT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN."
** "He's in pursuit of a crimelord who's out to steal Christmas from the orphans, or something. It's not important."
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** "So, to conclude my arguments..."
* His surprise that ''[[Resistance]] 3'' isn't a cover-based FPS, lets you carry more than two weapons and doesn't have regenerating health. He sounds genuinely taken aback.
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** The part leading up to it was no slouch either:
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** His over-the-top analysis which causes him to believe they ripped off Half Life 2, in a parodic tone, obviously.
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** Another one from that review:
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* Yahtzee explains why he bought a Kinect:
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* In the review of [[Batman: Arkham City]], Bruce Wayne is depicted with the words "[[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Not Batman]]" written on his chest.
* In ''Uncharted 3'', Yahtzee begging for Drake to kill an American or an Australian in a possible Uncharted 4.
** Drake is shown walking along a cobble street into an English pub (entitled "The Cock and Balls"), and, as Yahtzee describes it, "with ''a fucking red phone box out front!''" ''(cue red phone box and an arrow with the words {{smallcaps|The Fuck Is This}} pointing to it)''
** Yahtzee thinks that Drake would be more admirable if he just admitted he was in it for the gold.
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** The assumption that Drake and Elena keep splitting up in games because they have little in common. Drake apparently enjoys watching ''[[wikipedia:Time Team|Time Team]]'' and going to blackface minstrel shows.
** Noting how the enemies in the game all choose to fight Drake in extremely dangerous situations:
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* His reaction to the plot of ''[[Modern Warfare 3]]'' when Russia somehow invades ''[[Hollywood Tactics|all of Europe at once]]'':
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* ''[[The Elder Scrolls V
** "Like this one undead lad who hit like a runaway ice cream van but who seemed to forget all about me whenever I left the room, so I ended up taking potshots from the door like the world's worst Jehovah's Witness."
** "Oh yes, and take my advice: get a horse. The horses in Skyrim just do not ''give a fuck.'' If there's anything in a half-mile radius that means you harm your horse will not rest until it has been powdered."
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* On ''[[Saints Row|Saints Row the Third]]'':
** Yahtzee laments the lack of a socks option for customizable clothing. "So I can no longer wear fishnets under a sensible business suit and role-play as a [[British Political System|Conservative MP]]."
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
** "But if the surface world is supposed to be so completely covered in clouds that you and your Ivory-Tower friends aren't even sure it exists, then why, when you're exploring the surface world, is it always a bright sunny day? ''I FOUND A PLOT HOLE!'' '''''NUUURSE!'''''
** A rare one from his Extra Punctuation continuation(usually devoid of jokes, due to the points not having enough comedic potential), where he notes one point where he is trying to escape a pirate ship, when the resident [[Exposition Fairy]] [[Captain Obvious|interrupts the game to tell you that a monster is attacking a ship.]] Yahtzee [[Laughing Mad|laughs]] [[Sarcasm Failure|hysterically]], [[Despair Event Horizon|throughly convinced that the game isn't happening in real life anymore.]]
** Anytime he mentions the [[Exposition Fairy]] during the actual review.
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** "As always, the game starts with Link oversleeping. I have a theory that Link is like [[Sherlock Holmes]] and can only function as a human being if he's either on an adventure or enough cocaine to floor a sumo wrestler."
* For his Top/Bottom 5 of 2011, the intro descriptions of the rankings accompanied by [[Most Wonderful Sound|appropriate]] [[Toilet Humour|sound effects]] are funny enough, but the crowners are 3rd worst: "[[Potty Failure|Shitting the bed while your girlfriend is over]]" followed immediately by 2nd best: "Shitting the bed while your girlfriend is over [[Fetish Fuel|and discovering she's into that]]".
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* The top/bottom of 2010, however, had such counters as "Jumping off a rainbow onto someone you hate" (second best) "Weedkiller Martini" (third worst) and "Mistaking a deep fat fryer for an eyewash station" (second worst).
* In "Super Mario 3D Land/Rayman Origins", He liked [[Rayman Origins]], but didn't like [[Super Mario 3D Land]], causing Yahtzee's criticism to eventually devolve into "Aaah..." and "Grrr!", respectively (ending in a series of them: "[[Mood Whiplash|Aaah... Grrr! Aaah... Grrr!]]").
* From ''[[
** "And it would probably get you thrown out of a restaurant"
** "But lest you accuse the game of putting them in for fan service - although I'd hate to think what kind of fan was baying for a return appearance of fucking [[The Scrappy|Charmy the Bee.]]"
* From ''[[Star
** "[[A Date
* Addendum to the [[AMY (
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** ''Amy'' in general is one of his better recent reviews. Like ''[[Halo Wars]]'' which was mentioned before, he ''really'' dislikes this one, and truly shitty games seems to bring out the best in him.
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** "I mean, Alex from Silent Hill: Homecoming rolling around the city streets like Sonic the fucking Hedgehog was just dumb!"
* "[[Mass Effect]] brought us a race of all-female bisexuals who are culturally obliged to bang anything that moves, [[Covert Pervert|and you wonder why I prefer Sci-Fi these days.]]"
* The [[Dead Baby Comedy|sack analogies]] in ''NeverDead''. And then the third developer pops out of a pillow fort.
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* The episode descriptions can be this at times.
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* Arguably, Yahtzee's at his best when he can come up with a hypothetical scenario that literalizes a sarcastic remark, as in the above "right hand on a Sunday night" and "last male panda." Another one: "As the disbelieving friend said to the inventor of the feces-powered helicopter, "THIS SHIT WON'T FLY!". Most recently, "As the operator of a coin operated artillery cannon might sarcastically yell to a retreating army, you should never be afraid of change". }}
* The prediction about what Microsoft's Kinect might turn out like:
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* From ''[[
** About the tranquilizer gun:
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* His ''Prototype 2'' video. Five words: '''FUCK AROUNDY MAKEY SUPER MURDER'''
** "Possibly Liverpool?"
* The entire epilogue video for ''Risen 2: Dark Waters'', as a DJ to [[Half Life|Black Mesa]].
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** "To Security Officer Calhoun outside [[The Simpsons (animation)|Sector 7-G]]: Stop banging on the door, we know you're out there, we just don't like you."
** From the review proper: "If you have Dark Waters, you should probably go see a doctor about that."
* ''Sniper Elite V2'':
** "It would be nice if you could tag enemies while looking at through the sniper scope, instead of hurriedly switching between scope and binoculars like a badger-watcher with anger-management issues..."
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** He realizes that he has nobody's word on the chain of events but the protagonists... and proceeds to go wild.
* Mercenaries 2 has "Forgiveness, however, isn't one of my strong points..."
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