Zero Punctuation: Awards for 2009

[steampunk42]

oh Atkinson, when will you realize that your dead to all of us and we all hate you.....incidentally. YAHTZEE, you strange awesome-accented Australian hat wearer! where the fuck was borderlands, you should have reviewed the pants off of that one. or were you to busy being nostalgic about the silent hill series????

 

[ChaosGenesis]

"Razor blade filled vagina"? ..... Worst. Anything. Ever.

 

[JSW]

To be fair, the future shown in Back to the Future Part 2 was based on an altered timeline skewed by the events of the first movie. If 2015 comes around and we don't yet have flying cars and hoverboards it merely indicates that those innovations were inspired by the science fiction writings of George McFly, which in our timeline were never published.

Alternatively, we may be living in the "Eastwood Ravine" timeline, whose future past 1985 was never shown.

 

[Ckeesy]

Bit surprised Dragon Age: Origins wasn't on here for the "Most Likely to Make your Girlfriend Break Up With You" award.

But yeah, 2009 has been a pretty suck year for Video Games, at least most of 2009 at least. I think the only 2009 release I actually bought was Prototype, and aside from that I've just been playing the games I didn't get around to playing in 2008.

 

[joebule]

Anouther great Vid, Keep em coming..

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

Odd part of it is, I was kind of expecting Batman: Arkham Asylum for the winner for this year, for him. So Congratulations on surviving this year, and I hope the next year runs smoothly for us all. Hoping ze horseman of Apocalypse game is good >.>

 

[theApoc]

Borderlands while not perfect is a really great game that has brought something new to the console generation, fun/fast paced coop gameplay.

 

[tishy19]

Anyone else having problems with the audio? The music comes on strong then when Yahtzee starts talking I can't hear a damn thing.

 

[solidstatemind]

heh. Loved the clever award names. Batman was probably a solid choice, but I get the feeling that Yahtzee got jobbed by release schedules...

And Wet being the worst? Oh, come on, it was fun for about 30 minutes. I can think of games where they were so bad I almost was in physical pain from the moment I started playing them.

 

[CopperBoom]

Hey Yahtzee, perhaps now that you have an iPhone you will make a way to watch ZP on it.
I know since I first got mine I have been lording it over the masses and smiling bloated self worth smiles, but when I try to prove a point... non-verbally, using ZP I can not. For shame!

Good reviews though, I agree all around except I never played the Bat game and especially including how awesome Saints Row 2 is.

 

[magoo1mill]

I hate the music - I hate the music - I hate the music

 

[joe_six]

Yahtzee, you're a fricking deadpan genius mate and your delivery is excellent. "Racism for legs" reminds me of Chris Morris, and I love the way you say it. Keep it up you'll be properly famous soon, (i.e. outside the internet).
I also have had the impending arrival of the year Marty goes to in Back to the Future 2 in my mind recently, I think I'll feel quite proud when it arrives like I've achieved something impressive.

 

[Eldarion]

Borderlands while not perfect is a really great game that has brought something new to the console generation, fun/fast paced coop gameplay.

Except that consoles have been doing that since last gen. More so even.

 

[DeAvatar]

Sadly, the quantum state flux capacitor needed Duke Nukem forever to keep...fluxing. Yes fluxing, so we cannot retrieve the game from its state of quantum...ism.

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

More disturbing analogies, a few surprises and further indication that Yahtzee is doing well in his job where he does nothing at all but input games and produce snark, what with his new iPhone and all.

[sub]The bastard.[/sub]

Who cares?

You do. You cared enough to comment.

 

[MGlBlaze]

The gigantic, repeated and merciless swings at Michael Atkinson were made up one part 'pure awesome' and one part 'crowning moment of funny'. Nicely done!

I have to agree with motion controls lacking force-feedback causing problems, though. It was a nice experiment, and it's a good way to reach out to new audiences, but I'd like to just get back to normal controllers in the next console generation.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Ha. Atkinson get the genuinely needs to die award. Nice

 

[persona J]

trudat, yatzee knows his stuff.

 

[Zephirius]

Is it only me that find the music playing while the award-pictures are shown strangely loud?

It was not just you the voice to music ratio was absurd

Hasn't it always been like that? You might not've noticed because it used to only be at the beginning and end. I always skip past the music because it is so obnoxiously loud (and not even good to begin with).

 

[GamingAwesome1]

I thought non-starter award would've gone to DJ Hero because it tried to soar high and the wax wings fell off and he came plummeting down harder than any other game this year. I mean Brutal Legends sales figures were better.

I'm not talking shit about Brutal Legend, I'm just saying original games tend to sell shit *coughPyschonautscough* and yet DJ Hero found a way to do worse.