Recent content by binturong

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    Zero Punctuation: Little Big Planet

    I love that a game designed specifically to be simple and different and happy incites so much rage among mainstream gamers. I'm just not seeing the ocean of crap that supposedly exists out of necessity from the level creation tools. Let's not forget that hardly anyone owns a PS3 and even...
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    Zero Punctuation: Tomb Raider: Underworld

    My guess is that's exactly why he hasn't done it. Although I think it could and should open the door to the "casuals vs hardcore" comedy closet, a raging debate that's as acrimonious as it is pointless, made all the more intense just for the fact that there aren't any good mainstream games to...
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    Zero Punctuation: Tomb Raider: Underworld

    I laughed more than I usually do at this episode of ZP but when it was over I found myself leaning back in my chair and sighing wistfully in admission that this is the way it's going to be for a long time. It's like we've been married for over a year now and like a good wife I still laugh at my...
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    Zero Punctuation: LEGO Indy

    One last eulogy for the old intros/outros: they were directly responsible for turning me into an Ian Dury fan. Thanks, Yahtzee.
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    Zero Punctuation: LEGO Indy

    I've only played the Lego Star Wars games so far and what I like most about them is that they've given me explicit permission not to take the whole franchise so seriously, the exact opposite experience of watching any of the movies or talking to any average Star Wars fan. They're fun and...
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    Zero Punctuation: Webcomics

    I only know about CAD anecdotally because God knows I would never read it willingly, but I would remind folks who think this is strictly about CAD that pretty much everything Yahtzee rambled off would apply to nearly every webcomic artist in the past decade or so. It's not Yahtzee's fault that...