Zero Punctuation: Tales of Monkey Island

[Hamster at Dawn]

That was just a little bit racist towards Irish people but nonetheless funny.

 

[peterwolfe]

/snaps fingers\ I was hoping he'd review the Batman game...but oh well. A Monkey Island is fine too, I guess, I just didn't hear about it at all. For a second, I thought he just pulled an old game out, like with silent hill 2. I gotta say, I didn't much care for this review though, it's like half the commentary of the others wrapped in Irish jokes.

 

[haruvister]

Is it ok to make gratuitous racist remarks about the Irish just because we are white?

No, it's OK because people like you write rabid four-paragraph responses to amuse us even further.

 

[UnSub]

If Yahzee has steam, he could just download Batman: Arkham Asylum on his PC.

For all those not paying attention:

1) Batman: AA only released in Australia today.

2) According to Steam, the PC version doesn't launch here until October.

Wheee.

I remember the Monkey Island games on the Amiga. Never found them funny enough myself (although the sword fighting banter was clever) but had friends who loved them. I also remember playing Kings Quest V that had about 15 disks. Want to know the greater agony than swapping all those disks? Having disk #5 corrupt, making the game unplayable past certain areas.

 

[Jamash]

I want to say firstly I hate that Hollywood style Irish accent. I have never heard anyone in Ireland speak like that at all. The only thing that was redeemable was unlike most people outside of Ireland you actually know its history so I guess I can respect you for that much, but then you throw in the guinness and the potatoes and the wife beating. 1)Not everyone in Ireland loves guinness (I am Irish and I hate the stuff) 2)So Irish people only had mostly potatoes to eat for a while, why do people keep trying to make jokes about that? 3) The wife beating all I can say is what?

Yahtzee I respect you but this is a low point for you.

Dude, I think you're taking this a little too seriously. He's taking the mick (har har) out of the stereotypical Irishman depicted in the media, so it's not like he's gravely insulting us.

That's what I think it is too, he's taking the piss out of the Hollywood stereotype of the Irish, not actually the Irish themselves.

He's probably just watched some Monkey Dust...

Spoiler: Jerry Bruckheimer's The Diary of Anne Frank

 

[WhackySacky]

Im Irish and we talk nothing like that.
but i dont see why it would be offensive

 

[VanityGirl]

This review was.. OK.
I found the humor lack.
I do love ZP, but I was honestly just hoping for some bigger release.

 

[m0j0]

Beneath a Steel Sky.. on floppy


i rest my case.


-edit

for you.. embryo's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scFkCiwivHo

 

[ninja steve]

"IT could have saved me time that I could have used to beat my wife" So true!

I can't believe that Yahtzee doesn't like whiskey! Whiskey is one of my favorite alcoholic drinks. Maybe that's just because I'm American.

personely i like rum but im from queensland

 

[TheScarecrow]

As an Irish person I was completely unoffended by the Irish accent and thought it was fucking funny.

 

[anti-hero_will]

man that game was too... the word smart for me man needed to think for that shit thats not my thing man. like you said way bad,
like a drummer thats required to think, its totaly true i dont just just say what comes out man dont think about that stuff go with it
but that game needed you to think man was totaly confuseing

 

[ohgodalex]

Good review, but am I the only one who thinks that Irish accent was just terrible? xD

Seeing as Yahtzee himself admitted how terrible it was, it's safe to say that you aren't.

OT: This review convinced me to purchase Monkey Island sometime soon. Is this wrong?

 

[avelmen1889]

why does the first twelve comenters for zp get put on probation

 

[darksider216]

brilliant i love it i still have the old amigas and monkey island

 

[oldmeme]

Irish laddie here. You sound like my "Trying too hard to be Irish"- Americans-of-irish-decent who live in town.

Lovely review.

 

[frankenpimp]

why does the first twelve comenters for zp get put on probation

I'm always afraid to be one of the first posters...

 

[Alzabane]

oh shiver me shamerocks, I gaurente none of us irish say that, it was fuuny though, and the protestant jokes were hilarious, can you do a spin-off show, irish punctuation were you speak entirely in an irish accent, cheers mate, now I'm off to beat me wife and think about potatoes

 

[Cheefstick]

Extra XP was gained by the mention of Deluxe Paint.

Nice work.

 

[Yubadias]

Nice accent. Reminds me of your hilarious South African Accent.

 

[RathWolf]

Sorry if this has already been mentioned but, did Yahtzee not realize there were two Monkey Island games released after MI2 before these new ones starting coming out?