My right eyebrow lifted high past my hairline at the start of this video, raised by the hopes of a Athene (or at least Pure Pwnage) kind of parody on popular gaming groups in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, I was left very disappointed. My oh-so-curious eyebrow stayed in that position for the duration of the video, and had to be lured down by the smell of mince pies later*. I think I was initially disappointed by the clan guys in this video. They simply defined generic; which is awesome, except the audience of The Escapist is anything but generic. 'What about everyone who watches Zero Punctuation!', I hear you cry. Yes, well some of them may very well fit into the humour that is being forced upon us in this episode of De-Rez, but unfortunately, none of them actually appear to watch the series so such creative outbursts and characterisation is wasted on a crowd which cares little for such sentiments.
TBH, I thought it would take an original angle, like having a group of knights (as implied by the bloody clan name) stop across the land to play computer games with one another to disastrous results. Heck, you'd think you'd at least be able to afford such costumes when you're living in such grand houses and playing on such 'behemoth' machines, eh?
As always, a great concept, but pulled off with all the grace of a swan amputee.
*Look! I made a funny.