Holy god this guy is brilliant (VG humor)

[Metaltastic]

Usually I take a dim view of video game humor (given its often overly nerdy predilection), but this guy is absolutely brilliant - his name is Ben Croshaw, better known as "Yahtzee" for some unknown (at least to me) reason, and every week he does a "review" of a different game, usually current. While the wit of his dialogue is amazing, to me the real humor is in the images/animations, from the hysterically silly cartoony actions to the awesomely bad visual puns. It's hard to know where to start, cuz they're all so good, but this one comes to mind as an especially funny one (I love his descriptions of the two endings). Oh, and he's the one in the awesome hat, and that little black gremlin dude with the Canadians-as-depicted-by-South-Park head is awesomely adorable and makes regular appearances. Enjoy!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/4-BioShock

 

[spioraid]

roight!

very clever, very british. all cool.

 

[Kadmium]

I love that guy. He's kind of a celebrity over here. He actually applied for a job at the place I work... needless to say, he's not a very good game designer, but probably the best reviewer I've ever heard .

 

[Ermz]

Nice to see yahtzee is catching on abroad. He recently packed out an auditorium with 4 times as many people coming as there was capacity.

 

[mikko/boogie]

Brilliant stuff!! Especially liked the Guitart Hero 3 review.

 

[Glenn Fricker]

That was very well done. Bio Shock was waaay overhyped. That & I thought the combat kinda sucked.

 

[Metaltastic]

I dunno, Bioshock's ending was exceptionally lame, and the enemies took WAY too many hits to bring down later in the game - but otherwise I thought the combat was your average FPS affair (meaning, not bad, but nothing special), and holy fucking god, the level design! I mean the architecture, the level of detail in all the surfaces, all of the designs, it was just incredible...what an amazingly immersive experience, the art design is some of the best I've ever seen, and really demonstrates how far video games have come IMO. Check out Yahtzee's other reviews, they're all amazing (and it's interesting to hear that he's a sensation in Australia; Moony, what exactly was he doing in an auditorium bringing in that many people? That's not quite something I'd imagine an internet phenomenon could pull off...)

 

[Zuranthus]

he's not a very good game designer

huh?? have you played 1213?? that's film material right there if you ask me
the thief game he made isn't bad either

 

[Ermz]

He was invited to be on some panel about 'what makes a good game', or something or other. That's what the auditorium was for. They're planning another one in a month or two at a much larger venue down here in Melbourne.

 

[kaomao]

bah I liked the game but I enjoyed Gears of war a lot more because of the kind of attitude "I kill everything in sight" lol