Jim & Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular: To Game Or Not To Game

[ciancon]

Great job by both of them but I was seriously impressed by Jim's Dark Souls poem. Considering all the references he used you can tell that he knows more than a thing or two about it!

 

[Darth_Payn]

Well done, gents! Jolly good show! if I had to pick a winner, this week it would be Jim. Sorry Yahtzee, your rhythm on your otherwise solid poem sounded a bit off this week, while Jim knocked it out of the park!

 

[SoopaSte123]

Loved the Dark Souls poem. Very nice.

 

[90sgamer]

Very good, both of you; but, please, no more video and music.

 

[Arvind]

Yahtzee's poem was immensely entertaining. Really liking this series!

 

[sageoftruth]

What timing. I just took a break from Dark Souls to see this. You've made my day, Jim.

 

[rayen020]

hmmm... This one's a bit tough but I'm gonna say yahtzee's ode to chesthigh walls wins the day. Although Jim does get a half point for creative use of video footage.

Yahtzee - 2
Jim - 1.5

 

[inidu]

Insightful and entertaining, the prose commentary from two of the escapsists most thought provoking content providers is a welcome addition to the weekly line up.

Poetry is the opposite of prose. Prose is "written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure."

 

[Steve Waltz]

Ah... Sterling's studio has always had bad sound quality, but it's always been easy to overlook until now. Maybe it was because of the addition of the dramatic background music but the poor sound quality was pretty distracting. Granted, it didn't change how amazing and moving the poem was (and if a poem is moving it's certainly successful), but I just wish the quality was better. He really should take a look at this informative video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r90Xy9eIU8E] and learn how to improve the sound quality of his studio. It's certainly not an issue for Jimquisition, but the bad sound quality was just distracting in this video. I do hope that he tries to fix the sound quality of his studio.

 

[Dark Purple Mage]

Bravo to both bards. Keep the fun and insightful poetry coming.

 

[Yopaz]

This might just be my new favourite series. I love how Yahtzee manages to look like a complete lunatic when he talks. I am impressed with their work, I couldn't write poetry if you held me at gunpoint.

 

[Yuuki]

It's true, how can one not love chest high walls? Except the ones in Kane & Lynch of course, which don't' stop bullets for shit.

 

[Tim Chuma]

Had to watch this one before Zero Punctuation this week, good work!

If this was Youtube there would already be "10 hours of Yahtzee staring" videos.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

This is my new favorite show on The Escapist.

 

[1337mokro]

So Yahtzee's equating the rocky chest-high walls to women, right? So what the hell were those metal slabs that sprung out of the ground with a switch in Gears of War 2 supposed to be then?

Those were of course Call Girls.

 

[Clovus]

Best poem by Jim.

When I got to the top of Undead Parish the second time I managed to chop off the Gargoyles tail and thought I was on my way to victory when that second one appeared. I just about gave up on the game at that point. I can't take this!

 

[keosegg]

While I like the idea behind this show, I'm really hoping for some different poetic verse. So far it's been the usual rhyming verse. Spice it up a bit guys! Get some sonnet action going! How about a little iambic pentameter here and there? What about some free verse?

Incidentally, my favourite poem so far would have to be Yahtzee's first since he screwed around with the rhyming verse a bit.

 

[attackshark]

i love what you guys are doing. i would like to see you guys play off each other a little more every now and again as opposed to writing separate poems with similar themes.

 

[AkaDad]

Nothing screams fun more than a game where you constantly die.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Well done both of you.

Dark Souls was really one a kind game (Souls series in general).