Unskippable: Left 4 Dead

[WJeff]

FINALLY

Someone agrees that the Hunter looks exactly like Alex Mercer

Whenever I said that Prototype was a game about a particularly angry hunter from L4D with a grudge against helicopters, I just got flamed by fanboys =(

Now I have backup. Thanks, Unskippable

 

[Aptspire]

*cries*
yeaaaah, after 1 year of L4D, we pretty much know what that means

 

[BelmontClan]

I loved the Kool-aid man joke AND the comparison to Alex Mercer.

My question is, when will you riff a Castlevania game? I've noted two references to the franchise thus far in your other videos. I will keep hoping!

 

[Ardna Xela]

I always love references to previous episodes, so the "Run Like Hell" part had me laughing pretty hard.

 

[Versipellis]

What a fast-paced opening to a game, in which we learn not much. Simple enough premise. Also, never heard of Desert Bus, or Child's Play! I am intrigued and think this is an awesome cause.

 

[AvsJoe]

And off to Desertbus.org I go!

...iiiin about 5 minutes. I have to make a detour at Restaurant City.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

I gotta say, these are seriously less funny when the movie being mocked was actually done well. First Borderlands, now Left 4 Dead... it'd be like if MST3K decided to do a show on Citizen Kane. Sure the rabid fans of the show will insist it was the "best yet", but anyone with taste will wonder if they're running out of ideas and/or movies.

 

[Eric the Orange]

I gotta say, these are seriously less funny when the movie being mocked was actually done well. First Borderlands, now Left 4 Dead... it'd be like if MST3K decided to do a show on Citizen Kane. Sure the rabid fans of the show will insist it was the "best yet", but anyone with taste will wonder if they're running out of ideas and/or movies.

Well good and bad is subjective, but I'd say this is not a new thing. I personally thought the opining cinematic of Onimusha 3 was awesome. and that was a long time ago. I don't think the actual quality of the scene in question makes it's mockery less funny.

And you may or may not know that the MS3TK crew always wanted to do other movies but couldn't get the rights to them. Now a days they do the rifftracks thing, which goes around the copyright laws by not actually featuring the movie (it's audio you have to play over the movie).

 

[J-Alfred]

Okay, so this was great and all, but...

aren't you supposed to bash BAD cutscenes? I've always thought that this one was pretty epic.

 

[samsonguy920]

They might very well have done L4D today since 2 comes out tomorrow

Funny story, that was totally, and completely, unplanned.
I didn't even realize until you said it. Heck, I thought L4D2 was coming out Q1 next year.

Wow, go us for being timely!

It may still, as of this posting, PC version of L4D2 is 1 hour and 10 minutes overdue for release. But no surprise since Valve pulled the same last minute fixing with the early release demo. Go figure. At least now we have something to feed our L4D cravings in the meantime. Thank you Graham! And Paul, I hope you were able to forgive Graham for not hitting the skip button.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

They should've planted some plants around, that'd would've stopped those zombies. ...esp if they had some of those Cob Launchers, those things can devastate a shit load of zombies, slow reload time though.

...anyway, I don't think this was one of the better episodes, but still good for a chuckle or two.
BTW, what is this DesertBus thing?

 

[Graham_LRR]

I gotta say, these are seriously less funny when the movie being mocked was actually done well. First Borderlands, now Left 4 Dead... it'd be like if MST3K decided to do a show on Citizen Kane.

Obviously I disagree. It's not the goodness or badness of the scene that makes it funny.
I understand that if you like the scene (as I do, with Borderlands, and this one) then you might think that we're "making fun of it" and get upset or irritated, but we're not.
Making some good-natured ribs, maybe, but are we saying its bad? No.

And the MST3K guys recently did Casablanca on Rifftrax. Casablanca is a fantastic film, but it still made a hilarious Rifftrax.

As an aside, there's no way we could be running out of games, any time soon.

 

[Woem]

This is actually one of the best intro's I've ever seen. Isn't it the job of Unskippable to "[make] fun of bad game cinematics so you don't have to"? These really aren't all that fun when the intro being voiced is actually good.

 

[akmarksman]

I'm just going to go ahead and come to terms with the fact that I'm probably one of few that laughed at the "West Side Story" reference.

Although Im not old enough,I can appreciate the joke because I've heard about WSS from my parents.

 

[Jiveturkey124]

I gotta say, these are seriously less funny when the movie being mocked was actually done well. First Borderlands, now Left 4 Dead... it'd be like if MST3K decided to do a show on Citizen Kane.

Obviously I disagree. It's not the goodness or badness of the scene that makes it funny.
I understand that if you like the scene (as I do, with Borderlands, and this one) then you might think that we're "making fun of it" and get upset or irritated, but we're not.
Making some good-natured ribs, maybe, but are we saying its bad? No.

And the MST3K guys recently did Casablanca on Rifftrax. Casablanca is a fantastic film, but it still made a hilarious Rifftrax.

As an aside, there's no way we could be running out of games, any time soon.

I have been known to tussle with the boys from Unskippable a lot, but I have to agree with Graham 100% here.

When someone riffs an older bad movie, it can take its toll on the viewer. I mean I remember watching Hamlet from MST3K, and dont get me wrong it had some hilarious lines; but just having to sit through two hours of it sucked, no matter who was riffing it.

When you Riff a good movie, video game, or whatever It can be alot easier to get into simply because your not watching some horrible piece of cinema. Like for example when Unskippable did "Dead Rising". The Cut scene itself is interesting, I remember playing the game when it first came out and loving the story and the cut scenes to it, so when the riffed it It was just taking a great cut scene and making it better.

Also, apparently alot of people on here think that riffing is an easy gig. I ask all of you to go ahead and try a riff on your own, and then come back here with the results. Me and my friend recently riffed "Hard Boiled" by John Woo (BTW Can you Unskippable guys do "Stranglehold" please?), and it was tough to riff! The perfect analogy for it, is people who say Hockey is a talentless sport, but have never ice skated in their entire life.

You never know how hard it is to riff, until you've been out on the ice.

-Jive

 

[Angel Emfrbl]

If they ever do Sonic the Hedgehog '06... Lol. They can take the serious intros and turn them upside down as it is.

 

[G-Mang]

Every time I try to watch unskippable I just get disappointed. I usually hear funnier commentary from my friends while watching movies than this. Unskippable always gets me so bored that I can't watch them through their entireties, if even their first halves, and this was no exception. Probably the only part I liked was the "business-casual" comment, and even then it was only average.

Maybe I just have a different brand of humor? At first I thought it was cause I hadn't played the games they did, but L4D I have played a number of times, and this still wasn't very funny to me.

 

[TitsMcGee1804]

hahaha, this was funny

 

[Roguey]

Great Ep.

Looking Forward to Desert Bus

 

[Neesa]

"But we brought party hats..." Hahaha. It was a good episode. Good job guys.