Zero Punctuation: Viewer's Choice: Duke Nukem Forever

[BrownGaijin]

So, speaking as one who didn't register to participate in this, where are IS the chart showing how many votes everything got and the elimination brackets? I want to see how well the one I would have voted for did.

Here ya go sonny!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/tournaments/standings/4

OT: I've said it before and I will say it again: I voted for DNF and Mail Bag Showdown. A review about a fake game, and a review mail bag episode about people ranting about a review of a game.

 

[Scarecrow]

I think we all made the right choise. A job well done lads!

 

[el_negro]

me cague de risa

 

[Pips]

Shame, I prefer Painkiller. Still, both are good, so I don't really mind.

 

[EchetusXe]

"NOW LET'S ALL FORGET ABOUT THIS FUCKING GAME FOREVER"

The irony is palpable. Not to mention what has already been pointed out numerous times: the "best review" Yahtzee ever did was for a game that didn't exist, and rather was a half-arsed idea that came about in frustration over the (still)ongoing Duke Nukkem saga.

I dunno what review should have won, not that it matters, they are all up there on the site to view whenever you like. Besides which the prizes would be useless to me as I already pre-ordered the book off amazon.co.uk like Yahtzee fucking told me to! Thats the last time I trust an Anglo-Australian game critic in a trilby.

 

[Vzzdak]

Yay, my vote won

Same here...Woo! I'm not surprised that a sarcastic review for a non-game won, since all its development hype served as good motivation for Yahtzee to go all out with elaborate descriptions, in addition to a solid Zero Punctuation presentation.

Kinda funny. When the contest first started I voted on the first four pairings, methodically working down the list from the top-left. However, time passed quickly because I needed to re-watch videos as refreshers, and I balked at my realization that the left-hand list was quite long. Then I noticed there was a right-hand list as well, at which point I went off to play Dragon's Age instead.

So essentially I only voted four times last week, and once more after an e-mail reminder yesterday. Just dumb luck to pick a winning horse
after merely scratching at the racing schedule.

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Honestly, did anybody not see this coming?

I thought it would be DNF vs Fifty Cent in "I'm Not Racist" Blood on the Sand in the finale. Except it couldn't be because THEY PUT THE TWO BEST ZERO PUNCTUATIONS EVER UP AGAINST ONE ANOTHER IN THE FIRST DAMN ROUND.

So while I'm happy with the result, I think voting each ZP separately, without the brackets, might have been a better way of deciding the winner.

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Also, to people who are saying this isn't technically a "review" - so aren't at least a quarter of the other stuff Yahtzee's done in ZP. Also I think this is more a review of the gaming industry's business practices than it is of a particular game (obviously).

 

[PrototypeC]

So I have to see this shit again? Did anything turn out different?

Edit: Nnnnnope.

 

[heamrh]

that was alot of work too get away with giving us a rerun

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Pity there's no new episode, but this is one of his funniest.
Gave me a good chuckle regardless.

 

[Random berk]

Whoa. At points in this review Yahtzee's voice seemed to descend into a steady drone in which no discernible words could be... discerned. Now, I am quite drunk at the time of typing this, but it seems to me that if he speaks that fast, the comedy in the rant is lost. Also, what was that part about Jimi Hendrix under the sea?

 

[hawkeye52]

this simply was the best "review" out of all them i think. they even had a person write in without seeing the review 2 on from that one asking where they can get the game from

 

[Lucifer dern]

i just love in the video after this, some one sent him a question, asking where he got the game from

 

[MattKirby]

Alright, let me rebuttal my post, I don't think it's a waste, I just didn't know it was ultimately a decider for the next episode. I was under the mislead assumption there would be a zp episode this weak, hence the disappointment. I still thought the contest was fun as hell and am content with what happened.

 

[z121231211]

So this was all a plot to take a week off making a review. Nice.

His Uncharted 2 review was my absolute favorite, but that didn't even make it to the first round.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Meh i still think Halo Wars is by far his best one.

 

[stewox]

1) 3DREALMS is a private studio without any kind of investors
2) ALL ON PAX 2010
3) STAY TUNED
4) ... 3 SKUS

 

[Optimystic]

This will be even funnier if Gearbox releases it and it turns out to be good. 3DRealms will look even more like Howler monkeys then.

1) 3DREALMS is a private studio without any kind of investors

Nonsense: every company gets funding from somewhere. If they don't have equity, it just means they have debt instead. Unless you think Broussard was paying every single employee out of pocket, and keeping the lights on besides.

 

[orangeapples]

It was a hard choice. But I had to vote DNF because that gun in Painkiller didn't have tits nor was it on fire.