Zero Punctuation: Broken Age

[tehweave]

Publisher's club member... Why am I seeing ads?

I'm about ready to cancel my pub club membership if this keeps happening.

 

[deth2munkies]

I believe that was their adblock protection measure, but it seems to be hitting everyone

 

[SnakeoilSage]

So can the Escapist stop jerking off long enough for me to watch the videos I came here to watch? Just asking because this isn't even like an Ad, it just shows me this commercial of the site I'm already visiting and then that's it. No Zero Punctuation. I get it, I'll watch the website I've been faithfully watching for almost four years now. Now lemme hear what's pissing off Yahtzee this week.

 

[Sesambrot]

To be fair, ALL videos on The Escapist have been replaced with that ad!

Did someone fool them into thinking it was April 1st already?

 

[WMDogma]

Hey all, we are looking into this issue with our video player right now. Apologies for the inconvenience.

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

Well i was gonna ask if anyone else had a borked video player. Seems kind of a redundant question now.

 

[erbkaiser]

Pub Club members: change to HTML5 for the actual video, not the ad.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

So it's not just me having a problem with the video? That's good, I guess? Unless this is some witty joke, in which case I can't say I'm finding it very amusing.

 

[Remus]

Just sayan, I'm getting the same issue. Every video I try to play on the Escapist is an infinite ad loop. No ad blocker, tried Firefox and Chrome. BTW, that banner ad for ESO HAS to go. The video reloads on every click of my scroll wheel, making the site impossible to navigate.

 

[Lotet]

Lets blame Hackers and cause some Hysteriaaaaaaaaa!!!

 

[FFP2]

The video played for me...

"Donkey Island and Day Of The Testicle"

 

[vidihawk]

And the Youtube page is always a week behind to drive traffic here... That's a lovely turn of events.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

Seems a common problem them. 'cause i got the 8:10min long video with snippets from all the show on a infinite loop.

No ZP for me today then.

I also got that, but I watched it thinking Yahtzee was doing some elaborate joke about the game with the snippets of Escapist shows. XD

I don't think so, because the same thing happened on Jim and Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular. must now test to see if this is also happening on non-Yahtzee videos.

 

[juyunseen]

Ad-loop... No new ZP.... Badges are gone... The end is nigh! Repent! Repent!

 

[Mahoshonen]

Well nothing to do until someone fixes the problem.

So...how bout them Seahawks?

 

[erbkaiser]

The video played for me...

"Donkey Island and Day Of The Testicle"

Oh hi, you must be the other person using the HTML5 version of videos here. I thought I was alone

 

[UPISTRVIMYD]

Working perfectly for me(current Firefox and Flash version), no ads to speak of. Browser IS set to force HTML5 though...

 

[FFP2]

Oh hi, you must be the other person using the HTML5 version of videos here. I thought I was alone

Nope. Normal video player.

 

[altacan]

Same here only shows a 45 sec ad for all the videos on this site, some people seem to have seen it so maybe its a regional thing?

 

[Schadrach]

Well I was just making a very bad pun, it does still sound broken in the sense that Yahtzee describes the girl's story as a mess and it doesn't seem to have any connection to the guy's story. I don't know I haven't played it.

I can't seem to watch the video (I only see ads, for some reason -- teh video for Broken Age is, well, Broken), but if he said that, then he didn't finish it, which as short as it is, is a bit of a shock.

The guy's story and the girl's story are very, very much connected, but that connection is non-obvious until literally the very end (and since the whole thing is a cliffhanger for part 2...).

Don't play the girl's story first, if you really want to see the connection coming. Play the guy's first, or for optimal foreshadowing, play it in this order:

Spoiler: This might be slightly spoilery

1. Play the guy's story until you are about to use the control panel for the second rescue mission.
2. Switch to the girl until after the Maiden's Festival.
3. Switch to the guy until you are ready to do the third rescue mission.
4. Switch to the girl until she's finished preparations for the Maiden's Festival in the beach town.
5. Switch to the guy and finish his story.
6. Switch to the girl and finish her story.

That order should make it as obvious as possible what's going on.

I did the guy's story first all the way through, then the girl's, and I had caught on before I made it to the beach town.

How the two stories are connected, and the whole "new Mog every 14 years or so" have...unfortunate implications.