Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee Goes to GDC
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Please, put up the unedited version. I just couldn't get into to the review when there was a bleep very few seconds. How would "...cock slapping the Mona Lisa" have sounded if that was bleeped? So once again, please put up another version.
Surely the amount of censorship depends on the time that the review actually went out to the gdc? And since it was split into 3 parts, the first part would have had to go out pretty early, explaining the censorship.
I'm sure Yahtzee will release an uncensored version in time... but since most people seem to be complaining about the rehashing of old jokes (par for the course at award shows), then I'm not sure why people are so outraged by the censorship...
I'm sure Yahtzee will release an uncensored version in time... but since most people seem to be complaining about the rehashing of old jokes (par for the course at award shows), then I'm not sure why people are so outraged by the censorship...
Very nice Yahtzee.
With regards to the Guitar Hero/Rock Band stuff - there is a game in the works for PC/Mac - Guitar Rising - with similar gameplay but where you can actually plug in a real guitar and learn to play for real. I am hoping that on higher levels it streams by something like real notes rather than just brightly colored buttons.
In the current videos there is a very simple background, so you miss one of the main attractions of GH/RB that Yahtzee points out - the cheering crowds that make you feel like a star. But perhaps this will be added in the final release.
http://www.guitarrising.com/
With regards to the Guitar Hero/Rock Band stuff - there is a game in the works for PC/Mac - Guitar Rising - with similar gameplay but where you can actually plug in a real guitar and learn to play for real. I am hoping that on higher levels it streams by something like real notes rather than just brightly colored buttons.
In the current videos there is a very simple background, so you miss one of the main attractions of GH/RB that Yahtzee points out - the cheering crowds that make you feel like a star. But perhaps this will be added in the final release.
http://www.guitarrising.com/
people are outraged because its unholy to censor yahtzee. his 'reviews' are a combination of speach and visual entertainment working together to creat a statment (usualy a funny one) if you censor any part of it you screw the whole thing up.
what makes his work great is his timeing what hes SAYING coupled with what your looking at, take either of those aspects away and you are left with shit. here is a challange for you, go load up one of his game reviews and close your eyes and just listen to it, its not all that funny, next plug your ears or turn off your speakers and just WATCH the review, again not that funny, combined they are a riot and provoke even the most stone faced people i know (and being a US Marine retired i know alot of them) to actualy laugh right out loud at some of his works.
take any part of it away, or change anything and you just 'cock it all up', it only really works and has magic as a whole presentation. with censorship it ends up being like showing a pie chart without the pie
what makes his work great is his timeing what hes SAYING coupled with what your looking at, take either of those aspects away and you are left with shit. here is a challange for you, go load up one of his game reviews and close your eyes and just listen to it, its not all that funny, next plug your ears or turn off your speakers and just WATCH the review, again not that funny, combined they are a riot and provoke even the most stone faced people i know (and being a US Marine retired i know alot of them) to actualy laugh right out loud at some of his works.
take any part of it away, or change anything and you just 'cock it all up', it only really works and has magic as a whole presentation. with censorship it ends up being like showing a pie chart without the pie
I find this post wildly ironic and funny.Pie said:
Anyways, I will say it's like the censoring detracted from the humor. I could tell that Yahtzee tried to tone down the vulgarity, but still included some. He talks so fast that I had a very hard time listening past the beeps. It's has a nice smooth flow but then when the beep came in it felt like an airplane just crashed into the train of words. I just think he should have just kept the ball rolling and gone for no beeps whatsoever, but that's just my opinion! I'm not the one riding on the boat of money.
Well, after tucking my prolasped spleen back into the gaping wounds in my sides, I think I should comment on this.
I loved it, quite simply, my only quibble was with the editing. The short delays were the only time I had a chance to recover, and quite frankly, I would have preferred it to have just been bam-bam-bam in a continuous stream without the 'beep's or quick fade-outs.
Of course, I would probably have dies from laughing so hard without respite, but hey, it's how I'd like to go, provided there aren't any greased, nubile 16-year-old gymnasts to hand.
I loved it, quite simply, my only quibble was with the editing. The short delays were the only time I had a chance to recover, and quite frankly, I would have preferred it to have just been bam-bam-bam in a continuous stream without the 'beep's or quick fade-outs.
Of course, I would probably have dies from laughing so hard without respite, but hey, it's how I'd like to go, provided there aren't any greased, nubile 16-year-old gymnasts to hand.
