EA Rickrolls Yahtzee

[Superhyperactiveman]

Oh Yahtzee, will you ever give me a reason to not like you...?

The answer is yes when I'm a famous writer and you review a videogame based off the movie adaptation of one of my books, calling my ideas unoriginal and making various suggestions about my mouth and other mens' testicles...

 

[Proteus214]

Oh god I hope somebody had the sense to pull out a camera for this!

 

[Deleted]

The first time I'm actually gonna type this out.

ROFLMAO!!!!!

 

[Captain Blackout]

I laughed my balls off. I was having a crappy day and this turned it around.

 

[Fritzvalt]

Sooo, booth babes are lust, this is wrath... I can only hope they send y'all a beanbag chair for sloth or rip on your mom for pride.

 

[Snotnarok]

I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that I'm impressed by EAs marketing with this game or the ironic twist that will be this game will be banned from Australia so he'd have to import it anyway?

Perhaps from GAME TRADERS ROBINA!!!

 

[CrafterMan]

Lmao that is amazing man, hahaha good on them!

 

[AvsJoe]

Okay, that made my day! I knew there was a reason I still support EA despite the hatred coming from all directions (most of which, I admit, is well deserved). Thank you, EA, for bringing me joy and thank you Escapist for chronicling the events that transpired in such a humorous fashion. And a special thanks goes to Rick Astley for that stupid song, Simon West for that stupid video, and 4chan for popularizing both.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

You have to hand it to EA. Their marketing campaign for this game is absolutely genius.

And Yahtzee demolished that bloody box.

You mean like the fake protests or more controversy than actual game info?

Would you say that the fake protest and other silly moves have increased your awareness about the game? I mean, I'm not sure I believe the maxim but there is a well known saying about this exact thing: there's no such thing as bad publicity.

 

[Orange_Clockwork]

I'm speechless in the irony and without a single snarky comment.

 

[sarah_b]

HA! Very heavy handed indeed, but points for cleverness.

But, minus points for an overplayed internet meme that needs to die. So they break even i guess.

(A video would have been awesome though. Sadness!)

 

[Knight Templar]

Now that is clever.
All this Dante's Inferno advertisment is working, I wasn't even going to try the game out before, but I am now.

I might pirate it just out of spite for EA (still pissed that to enjoy the sims, you need to buy like 12 expansion packs.)

Pirating a game out of spite is pointless.

 

[ffxfriek]

priceless. where are the cameras when you need it?

 

[nicholaxxx]

I wonder what they'll do for lust.....

 

[crimson sickle2]

Creative idea, now if only they could sort out that "sin of lust" crap and maybe put some of these creative designs into THE ACTUAL GAME!

 

[MercurySteam]

I smell a special ZP episode about this.

I don't.

 

[MercurySteam]

Now that is clever.
All this Dante's Inferno advertisment is working, I wasn't even going to try the game out before, but I am now.

I might pirate it just out of spite for EA (still pissed that to enjoy the sims, you need to buy like 12 expansion packs.)

Pirating a game out of spite is pointless.

Yes, cause then you end up looking like a jackass.

 

[nomad240]

I smell a special ZP episode about this.

oh there better be I think that was really good on EA and kinda funny all around so yeah

 

[Knight Templar]

Now that is clever.
All this Dante's Inferno advertisment is working, I wasn't even going to try the game out before, but I am now.

I might pirate it just out of spite for EA (still pissed that to enjoy the sims, you need to buy like 12 expansion packs.)

Pirating a game out of spite is pointless.

Yes, cause then you end up looking like a jackass.

It's like spitting into a river of piss, nobody cares and it's not the worst thing you could do.

 

[fozzy360]

You have to hand it to EA. Their marketing campaign for this game is absolutely genius.

And Yahtzee demolished that bloody box.

You mean like the fake protests or more controversy than actual game info?

Would you say that the fake protest and other silly moves have increased your awareness about the game? I mean, I'm not sure I believe the maxim but there is a well known saying about this exact thing: there's no such thing as bad publicity.

Very true, and I think the marketing for the game is brilliant. Even if the protesters were fake, it definitely got the game a lot more attention and more people eye-ing the progress.