Zero Punctuation: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

[entropy3ko]

You guys have the fourth wall wrong. Breaking the fourth wall is when a character directly addresses or acknowledges the presence of an audience, as opposed to not being aware of the audience at all. Like when Malcolm turns to the camera in Malcolm in the Middle. Yahtzee has always addressed us, the audience, so the fourth wall was broken from the very beginning.

This is not the first time Yahtzee has shown his face, there are pics of him on his visit to Valve.

As for the review, saying that Uncharted is racist is like saying Mass Effect has explicit sex scenes.

I was the first timne he was fully in the movie, but he has made other cameos.
Like in the review of 'SIlent Hill: Origins' at 00:34 his pictures is on the chart (the first on the right), making fun of himself.

 

[chenry]

what a handsome devil you are

 

[Sparkly-elf]

Far be it from me for having a fangirl moment, but yes, Yahtzee is quite the sex.

As for the review, brialliant as always, with his very own random quick time event YAY! Ah, Soul Calibur and all the Resident Evil games come to mind.

Honestly, I thought Uncharted was an excellet game. Funny, wonderfully saracstic dialogue and a fondu-cheezy plot that made me squeal in happieness along with intuitive gameplay, great characters and wonderful graphics.

But as I said, I'm very easily pleased by any attempts at game/storyline.

And I still loved the review, and how true the racism bit was, the sudden realisation bruning away at me. Now I feel guilty

 

[Sparkly-elf]

It's gaming.

Seriously, doesn't matter if it's on PC or console, regardless it's still just gaming, so chill out and lets have some tea, m'kay?

 

[m_jim]

like i said there is nothing actualy wrong with consoles other than the price, for $600 i expect not only the console but atleast a free year full of visits by hookers. knock that baby down too the $200ish price range and id prolly own one. any more than that and its better over all just to get a PC and get other things out of your hardware besides games.

The nice thing about a console is that developers make games that run on my machine instead of forcing me to make my machine run the game.
And to answer your question about Uncharted, I don't think anyone really cares about that game except for early adopters of the PS3 trying desperately to prove that their console has something worth playing.

 

[Demonbear]

Great review, i loved that game so i was really happy when i saw the title of this week's review! Yahtzee really caught me off guard with the real life piece and i think it worked great. Got his point across.

I never realized while playing Uncharted that i was a white guy shooting everything but white people. I thought i was a suntanned guy shooting other suntanned guys. But maybe that's just me.

 

[sonicliam]

I thought i was seeing things when yahtzee spoke direcly

 

[Surggical_Scar]

Yes, I agree, ZP is very entertaining, but for **** sake, calm down already!

"Oh Jesus H Motherloving Christ, I haven't laughed that hard in a long while"?

I lead a very hollow and uninteresting life. Thus any laughter that may occur in my otherwise futile existence should be considered side-splitting in comparison.

Or, you could just lighten the fuck up, realise that some people are easily entertained, whilst others are harder to please, and let people have their opinions.

 

[Sniper_Zegai]

I thought i was seeing things when yahtzee spoke direcly

I have that badge Zelda badge.

And yeah, Yahtzee actually spoken seems to have ripped the space time continium. In fact I have half a mind to suggest it was responsible for the earthqauke in England.

 

[DreamerM]

It was to actually demonstrate the jarring effect of being yanked out of the familiar game world to watch a bit of cinema and hit a button at the correct time. And how nonsensical it can be in certain situations.

If there was a way to make us ACTUALLY have to hit the X key to save Yahtzee from getting hit in the head with the bottle, I think he would have done it.

It was a creative way of making his point about Quick Time events, and he's quite clever for having thought it up, not that that's suprising. Yahtzee is one hell of a smart guy.

Meeting him was intimidating and not just because the man is almost a full foot taller then I am.

 

[Jinky Williams]

"Get your hand off my tail, you'll make it dirty."

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I had imagined yahtzee as older and more... hatted.

The hat was a distinct loss to those brought up to believe that Yahtzee always has a sweet hat.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I am sad I didn't get to kill the Brit though, mostly because I enjoyed the game and I enjoyed that character and I will forever maintain that Brits make the best villains. I don't know what it is, but their attitude of superiority makes them well-cut-out for a life of villainy I guess.

If there are any Brits out there reading this, know I mean that in the best possible way. Really.

The thing is, dear boy, we are actually blatantly malevolent.

And PotBS sucks the big one. Most of the decisions you make affect your average payoff by 0.00001%, so there's no reason for a market. Same grind. Same 24hour a day Playerkillers. And same 2 button combo to beat most ships. Oh, and Deus Ex Machinae on every game decision.

 

[CrazySlyHawk]

Ooh, it seems you've jumped the shark on this one, Yahtzee!

Watch your older videos again to remember the good times.

At least you did not completely abuse the 'dropping' animation this time. Your appearance on this video was either filler or just to confirm you are a real person! One can just look at the Valve Travelogue.

 

[OrenA]

Yatzhee! Where did your hat go?

 

[Chis]

Not the best Stevie Wonder piece, but Yahtzee still gets points for using it. And Gold. EARLY Spandau Ballet were pretty good...

 

[TheSinisterLordofShadows]

Yahtzee,

I've been watching your reviews since your first Zero Punctuation with escapistmagazine.com and am a big fan of yours. I've never been inspired to actually comment or e-mail you till now. I find it interesting how in your first Zero Punctuation you spoke of the controversy surrounding Resident Evil 5 as a hair trigger response in perceiving racism yet felt the need to spend almost a minute of your review on Uncharted Drake's Fortune referring to it as a game for white supremacists. Now the comedic value of overstatement is not beyond me but I don't believe that it was even warranted to claim racism for this game. Back in high school I did a half hour presentation of the evolution of nautical pirates. Now I may not be a complete encyclopedia of the subject, but I know enough about modern pirates to know that there are many pirates in the Pacific ocean, which are made up of Asians/Pacific Islanders and Hispanics (including South American black Hispanics). I don't see how fighting a bunch of pirates, which actually exist, is racist. If they randomly put an African guy with a bone through his nose, throwing spears and talking in clicks among the ranks of the pirates, then I'd give you racism. I am Hispanic myself and have dealt with enough profiling, prejudice and judgment based upon the way I look to despise ignorant hatred of any kind but I'd be hard pressed to say it's wrong to play a character killing a video game representation of an actual group of raiding, murdering, rapist assholes just because it happens to be made up of nonwhites. Sure you've got the specially equipped Hispanic commando guys that come in later, but now we're just talking setting. Then of course you have the section where it becomes a survival horror shooter and you're dealing with what are essentially your run of the mill zombie Nazis. So you are not just killing a bunch of ethnic groups the entire time.

I just felt that it ruined the humor a little bit for me to needlessly throw around such a word that swims in controversy for a game that honestly doesn't warrant it in my eyes. I'm sure there are people who'd disagree with me. There always are. I don't really think you'll read, care about or even bother responding to anything I've said but I just felt the inclination to express my response to it. Still a fan and enjoyed most of the rest of the video, though I disagreed with you. Looking forward to next week's video.

 

[DreamerM]

WHY YAHTZEE IS NOT WEARING HIS HAT:

(in his own words)

"Many people seem to have bemoaned that I wasn't wearing my hat. Well, it was like this: I could either wear my hat or my headset, and my hat lacks the ability to record sound."

There you have it.

 

[DreamerM]

Your appearance on this video was either filler or just to confirm you are a real person! One can just look at the Valve Travelogue.

He appeared not for the sake of appearing, he appeared to demonstrate the randomness of sticking a Quick Time Event in the middle of a cut-scene in the middle of somewhere where it's really out of context and doesn't belong.

He interrupted the regular psudo-animated video format we're all used to...with a Quick Time Event. Because they are everywhere, even it doesn't make sense and they really don't belong.

You been schooled.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

Mm, the room Yahtzee was sitting in looked so normal. I always thought that everyone in Australia lived in huts or something.

Thanks for teaching me something new today, and thanks for another great review.