Zero Punctuation: God of War: Chains of Olympus

[Kermi]

"who cares? apart from you?"

This is the internet, it's so full of trolls, grammar nazis and other people with nothing better to do, that surely someone else cares?

That's why I posted to see if I had been saying "respite" wrong all these years.

Another question might be "If you don't care, then why did you take the time to reply to me?"

There are two correct ways to pronounce respite, I personally use both depending on the way it's being used.

 

[p0nda]

I've just realised I haven't even mentioned what kind of game it is yet, because I assume most viewers already know, but if you're one of those girlfriends of viewers, who don't actually play games, but likes watching these videos anyway, because they secretly want to fuck me,

A little of column A, a little of column B.

And just in case your ego needed a little more masturbation - an rollicking good time was had by all in the watching this review. You, sir, are swell. Very weird use of the word anomalous though. I was expecting monotonous. However, I trust your judgement.

 

[Gummy]

GoW is awesome, the Ps2 editions of the series at least. great way to vent some angst with some bloody spartan violence. much like the 300 film.

and by the way yahtzee, Spartan warriors didnt fight in their underpants. they fought nude.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Maybe next week he should do this to get people to shut up about requests.

*on wednesday we see "GTAIV" as the new video*

*everyone wets their pants in excitement and clicks*

*Once you press play...

Spoiler

it's mother****ing Rick Astley with a caption at the bottom saying "STOP E-MAILING ME GAME REQUESTS!

*

 

[hpv]

GTA4 next! And where's the t-shirts at?

 

[talon92]

as a few other people have mentioned, yahtzee seems to have forgotten about the dreaded QTEs that GoW is famous for
funny review, ssbb thread is well past 1000 posts now, maybe this thread could get that high?
(create a random account and spam this thread, we must show those Brawl fanboys what true spamming looks like)
yeah i know the qtes arent so bad in this game but it still could have been funny... :[=]

 

[JCIcefox]

More games need a 'Fuck You' button. Seriously.

Also, use of the word 'bonce' = LOL from me.

 

[Telferoo]

ah, the fuck you button, only marginally better than the win button (the finesse button that made every shot hit the back of the net, it was in one of the fifa games, i forget which one cos they're all shit)

 

[Lzdarkangel]

i go to bed and this mournin this entire page has the odd good comment and then is shared by girls who wanna fuck yahtzee therefor worship the ground he walks on or fan boys of yahtzee who wanna be bummed by yahtzee and then the annoyin nit picker has roped you all in NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! get a life people at least play games in stead if not go outside if you can manage it

 

[Lzdarkangel]

yes i know i'm hypercritical but who isn't

 

[The Thief]

yes i know i'm hypercritical but who isn't

Yep, we're all a fanboy of something... or fangirl. If it weren't for stubbornness we could all get along, but then what would the trolls eat?

 

[Biek]

So in the end. This game is good, but nothing new.

^
Yahtzee in 2 seconds.

I only played god of war 1, untill the disk broke. And i've been playing my PSP alot more so I think i'll get this game.

 

[Suppahh]

Brawl still is shit, true that .

GoW is just the hack n slash game you want to play, chopping of heads ftw .

The analog button on the PSP FTW! HAHA

 

[runtheplacered]

Should I be worried now if my girlfriend likes these reviews?

hahaha, mine too. that part made me laugh out loud pretty hard.

 

[Malangyar]

The thing I like about Yahtzee's reviews is the fact that he doesn't feel obligated to give a game a great rating just because it's a major title from a major series from a major company. This is the pit that most video game reviewers have fallen into and it's completely absurd. It has come to the point where I, at least, feel like I'm not reading reviews but just more hype and glorification of already over-hyped productions.

If a game is average Yahtzee is going to bloody call it average no matter the hype or popularity of the series. (E.g. Halo 3)

That said, fanboyism is fanboyism and I guess the general lesson is to value a title based on its actual merits, not how much you like the series or the developers. The same goes for Yahtzee fanboyism.

So, at the risk of being called a Yahtzee fanboy I'm going to say that overall Yahtzee's reviews are a much needed shake up of the developing standards and that I have no problems with his slightly negative reviews in this sea of gaming worship.

 

[Meliz]

1 loved it
2 too bad the brawl review was such a weak point, not for the obvious reason but it showed he didn't want to do it and I think if he didn't want to do it he shouldn't have had to have done it. this one was his old mean, vicious and awesome self again, thank the maker for that.
3 anybody notice www.fullyramblomatic.com is down? or is it just me?

 

[PipChaos]

Funny. I've only just this week finally found time to crack open start playing the copy of God of War 2 I've had collecting dust on a shelf for over a year. I'm all hopped up and foamy on Kratos Killing Sprees. Every night this week I've come home from work, stolen the TV, and fired up the slaughter for a few hours cursing loudly when the Medusas kill me for the tenth time in a row because they turned me to stone while I was 1 centimeter in the fucking air. All the while my finance shakes her head at me, my swearing, and my bloody rampage, and says I don't know how you can play that crap; then she returns to reading Japanese fan fiction on her laptop while I shake my head at her and say I don't know how you can read that crap.

The first thing I really noticed while playing GoW2 was how much more of a "Fuck You" the "Fuck You" button had become. I don't remember God of War 1 being like that. I remember having to do a lot more combo's to kill the hoards of Aries that wanted to get intimate with my entrails. Now I just run around ripping arms off ghouls and shoving them up their posterior. Great fun... but it gets rather odd quick. The masses of undead and monstrous baddies just stand around sipping tea until I've finished ripping the limbs of their coworker, sodomizing his skull, and urinating on what's left. Then it's like they say "oh, you're finished" then they all run at me... until I grab another one 2 seconds later. I can almost hear them sigh in disgust as they grab their tea and sit back down.

Anyway, great review, made me laugh out loud yet again... and my fan fiction loving finance that won't play anything but Bejeweled but likes your reviews as well. Dammit.

 

[Emperor_Z]

"Brawl still shit"

*Groan* Please stop brining up that mess of a review.

Anyway, just wanted to say great review this time around.