Zero Punctuation: Wolfenstein

[NeoSilver]

Actually, it occurs to me to bring this up right about now:

Yahtzee, in case you didn't notice: Yes. There was a franchise apocalypse where both Friday the 13th and Star Trek were concerned. (Final Destination never actually had one, it was just that lousy to begin with.) So the studios decided to reboot those franchises.

 

[Hayday]

That
was
Amazing

 

[Nalarion]

another amazing video, *sigh* i love watching these in my freetime

 

[nomad240]

*claps* A true poet enocore! although I did like. I lovethe level design was cool with the little town you can just ramm nazis all you want with the death beam the actign was okay but I agree with the rest. plus multi player was weak. anywho I was expecting batman too. maybe next week a clown will leap out and cover us all in poo.


.... downside to listening to poetry. XP sorry

 

[Russian Redneck]

Fucking brilliant! Smart choice to review the game strictly in poetic form while keeping his trademark lightning-fast razor-sharp wit as the focal point of his review.

*two thumbs of approval*

 

[Seekster]

That was the best review yet. Yahtzee just won the internet.

 

[Acehole]

that was just dumb because wolfenstein is quite fun so suck on bum because i dont care what you say.

 

[RDS4LIFE]

Awesome, one of the best so far!

 

[SimuLord]

My gods, what a wonderful vid
A brilliant gimmick he did
'Twas something quite sublime in
Yahtzee's comic timing
I giggled like a little kid.

 

[Mosstromo]

It was not even the the creator of the genre (FPS, that is). The originator of it all was not even a PC game. It was "Marathon", a game that was only for the... Mac.

Dissent. I'm quite sure Bungie's Marathon came at least a year after Doom, which itself post-dates Wolfenstein-3D by about 18 months. Marathon used the same "2.5D" techniques that Doom did, but added a few goodies Doom didn't have, such as the ability to (sorta-kinda) look up and down. So, Wolfenstein, AFAIK, was one of the earliest FPS games.

...Unless you're going to drag Battle Zone and Elite into the discussion.

Yep, you appear to be completely correct. I checked up a few places and the release dates show Wolfenstein was released two years previously (in 1992).
Around 5 or 6 years ago I read (from similar web sites as the ones I used to check those release dates today), that "Marathon" had been the pioneer and etcetera, etcetera. PC Gaming web sites mind you. So the info was so interesting that it stuck with me. And I used it incorrectly, as it was back then.
"Marathon" was released in 1994.

 

[Woem]

I made a bet to myself that this week it would be Batman ... I lost beer.

I thought so too... Man!

At the credit screen it says that Batman's up for next week.

Ben, you are a poet and a genius.

 

[XPelargos]

I logged in to write my own rhyme
It just felt appropriate this time
But alas, I'm no poet
(You must surely know it)
For I've run out of words I can rhyme!

 

[blankedboy]

Oh my GOD. That would've taken all week.

And a SCORE! Yahtzee, you've ruined yourself!

Although I don't expect him to read page 14.

 

[The Cheezy One]

Yahtzee you are truely a poet.

And he didn't even know it.

at least he didnt blow it

 

[crudus]

Wow, good job. An entire review in a poetic format. I loved it. I was gauging the meters waiting for you to screw up, but you didn't. Very good. Way to spice up the review industry. Of course, this means that next week you are going to have to review it in iambic pentameter.

holy hell...he gave it a score....2 stars...

But he did it in Limerick form, which makes it ok.

 

[Zivlok]

Amazing.

 

[Dooly95]

Yahtzee was amazing, but so are some of the posters responding with limericks.

I, for my part, would love to try, but I dropped English way yonder back and limericks is just a faint memory.

 

[minotaur199]

This one was awesome! Last week was the Irish accent, this week it was poetry! Where do your talents end Yahtzee?

 

[badoli]

Nice one! Yahtzee gives the non-natural-english-speakers a hard time recently, but well, i'll just watch it 3 times, then i'll get it.

 

[Schizzy]

That was some awesome limericking that was. Bravo Yahtzee!