Two things:

1. The Lusitania was downed by our German friends in the early part of the last century. I say this because it wouldn't take much treasure to sink it. Useless you were to use a giant golden pile-driver to push it farther into the sea bed.

2. The new intro is fine. As long as the video/article/episode remains my weekly dose of web based, nerdling belligerence I don't really mind you tarting it up. The t-shirt ads at the end were a nice touch! However, I can't help but wonder if this is you just spending your ill gotten gains from the spike in web traffic you no doubt received after kicking lumps out of Tim Buckley. I would have thought you more the hookers and blow type but there you go.

j

Nice talk in Melbourne tonight Yahtzee.

Loved the smackdown on the Spore dick monster crowd, and the JRPG kid who played "some crap game in the original Japanese".

Intro and outro was gay.

I love how most are bypassing the review thanks to the new intro. It doesn't bother me, personally, as long as I get to see the "review" part.

Heh, I really enjoyed this one. I love Lego Indy, and think the humour is adorable. Plus Indy himself is so cute. I guess Yahtzee doesn't go for cute. This review seemed more... energetic compared to the last couple, and though I've never disliked a review I do like this sudden burst of creative energy. Definitely agree with the ledge thing, I was co-oping with my sister and she wouldn't bloody move, I got very frustrated. Looking forward to the next, as usual.

Well it was a return to the sort of Zero Punctuation we want to see, but as for "Jumping the Shark," that had to have been last issue. ;)

I think that the new intro and outro are great! But it kind of gave up that made at home "doing it for the fun and not money" feel. But oh well.

Should have said in my first post but good call on the new Indy film... it sucks balls so badly words clearly cannot translate.

Hmmm....interesting intro change, but I prefered the old one, to be honest. And while I doubt I would ever play the game itself, letting you kill your own annoying teammates with no penalty is a definite bonus.

The new introduction would have worked... if it was what he started using in the beginning, but the music selections were always witty and completely appropriate to the subject matter.

And I'm still wondering why; of all of the games he's reviewed, he has NOT yet done a single RTS (I find this a bit odd seeing as he considers PC gamers the "master race," one would think he would review a game that makes full use of the PC's potential for awesomeness.)

I won't say much about the intro, except that I don't particularly like it, but I will add another complaint to the advertisement at the end of the new ZP's. I didn't realize that this one had another one of those "after the end" tidbits until I read it in this thread, since I now just stop watching at what I assume is the end due to the annoying ads.

TheAmericansHADE:
Fucking Shortround...

Frankly I'm surprised he didn't mention Willie, who was much more annoying. Then again, nobody talks in the Lego games so maybe she's more tolerable.

Wtf theme song?
Expected: wittingly cock slapped people who mentions it?

*gasps* Credits that includes other human beings?!

I liked the somg selection too.

I'm not a fan of the music genre (but then, I say that about anything lacking cellos), and the intro and outros seem to sacrifice some of the minimalism that you're so well known and loved for. To be honest, even the reviews themselves are getting a bit too crowded, though that might just be me. I still love the wit and your irresistible charm, but this episode as a whole seems to take things down a notch (MAB!). Except for the movie review. That's still golden.

Garfgarog:
What is all this other video shit the Escapist is advertising? If it weren't such terrible garbage, they wouldn't need to advertise it on their only fucking successful weekly video. Give it up, god damn. Drawn by Pain? Wow, an incredibly retarded emo sounding name gives way to a terribly emo, shit pseudo-cartoon with some of the stupidest acting I've seen.

I enjoy making the series, so will sadly to your displeasure continue doing my best to make something that hopefully some people enjoy. If some do not - that's all good - I respect that completly.

Nice Job on the review Yahtzee. As always - enjoyed the f**k out of it.

-Jes

Am I the only one finding these reviews less and less funny everyday?
The earlier reviews are still hilarious to this day, but I dunno about now. :/
*Waits for fanboys to toss beer bottles at me filled with pseudo-wit*

I'm not gonna win any awards for originality by saying this, but the intro is awful.... >_<

Alright! I won't repeat everything already said so I just [INSERT WHINE ABOUT CR*PPY INTRO/OUTRO]...ing, but I really [INSERT WHINE ABOUT MISSING RIPPING OFF COPYRIGHTED MUSIC]. But my biggest disappointment is [INSERT RANT ABOUT YAHTZEE SELLING OUT] STINKY KETCHUP!!! DUH!!! YOU STUPID, IGNORANT [INSERT RANDOM CURSING HERE] meh...

Please don't do this again...
Thanks.

Salad Is Murder:
Nice work Yahtzee, but I'm not crazy about the new intro style...I miss the music selections.

Seconded... I liked that, kinda random :P

'bratz hey kids lets all dress like french tarts'

cracked me up, so true... brilliant, as always.

Yahtzee has jumped the shark.

Now let's see how long he'll keep resembling funny with videos that are sandwiched inbetween pointless ads.

Really? Crappy warmed-over metal music? That's what you want as your intro songs?

I prefer the old style intro and outro of somehow-related-to-the-game songs.

Nice one, keep on like this. I'm sad about this new opening but I think i get used to it...
Well I had to.

Nice review. Not so hot on the music intro/outro. Was fond of the previous style. The music was clever and tailored to the game (etc), which was a nice touch. Copyright or no, the new bit just feels .. impersonal.

Guyonator:
Jumping the shark? No.
Draining some of the homespun wit? Yes.

Samples of music up to 30 seconds are fair game under the fair use agreement, don't know if that helps any...

Fair use is a defense used when being sued by a company for copywrite infringement. The change will avoid any such suits from being filed and to me the change is justified even though I will miss the old format.

For anyone who couldn't quite understand some of the jestures in his review of the movie that was not made, my interpretation is as follows.

Yatzee, while contemplating the best way to take over the world, gets pleasently surprised by a trailer for the new Indy 4 film. Seeing this gives him a massive erection which drives him to spend an exhorbitant amount of money to see it in the theater. His general enthusiasm is quashed by extreme puzzlement at what he watched. Thus he thinks Lucas is tosser and gives a big fuck you to Mr. Franchisicide.

I imagine the format was changed perhaps because of the amount of advertising revenue Zero Punctuation makes The Escapist. And while I always liked the (occasionally) more subtle humour in the music choices, I'm here for the reviews.

Are we still complaining about the new intro?

Good. Because I'd like to rebut something Yahtzee said on his website:

I'd like to point out that if the reviews had had original music and an intro like that from the very beginning no-one would have cared.

While true, that's like saying that if your wife had been a man all along, you wouldn't be taking her sex change so hard.

terrrific job yahtzee this was a return to form for u in my opinion. i havent laughed this hard at one of your reviews in a while. but please please get some music. i understadn you dont want to rip off licensed stuff, so why not get some licensed music. this other shit is just that, shit.

The chosen intros and outros were smart, and the new one is just... mediocre.

I know i haven't been posting much up until recently but i watch all your reviews. Though i think the new opening is good, can't you add in a music selection with the new opening? To me the music selections u had set a tone for your review.

Escapist Mag: "Hey Yahtzee, listen, you rock too hard. our servers can't handle the kind of crazy traffic you get"

Yahtzee: "Thanks, you too"

Escapist Mag: "Right, so we need you to dumb down your reviews a bit. Stop using brilliantly selected musical choices that open and close the reviews appropriately and to put some stupid rock intro that has nothing to do with anything instead. you know, something that viewers have to suffer through to get to the review. and then a bit more suffering at the end. just to make them think twice, you know, if to view it or not."

Yahtzee: "Err."

*Yahtzee then proceeds to do the Indy Lego review*

Infinite enemies is too a cardinal sin...

Jack Spencer Jr:
Are we still complaining about the new intro?

Good. Because I'd like to rebut something Yahtzee said on his website:

I'd like to point out that if the reviews had had original music and an intro like that from the very beginning no-one would have cared.

While true, that's like saying that if your wife had been a man all along, you wouldn't be taking her sex change so hard.

Jack Spencer Jr stfu

Jack Spencer Jr:

While true, that's like saying that if your wife had been a man all along, you wouldn't be taking her sex change so hard.

It's only the same if you're a big enough twat to feel sexually attracted to Yahtzee's music selections.

shut up

Sweet jesus christ on a pogo stick.

Escapist, please sort out your video hosting. two days after the new ZP and it's 5 minutes for the damn thing to load.

People bitching about the intro, make your own damn music selections then. It was just another way for Yahtzee to show his exemplary universal knowledge of all things cool anyway. Life goes on, though a little sadder and shorter.

Yahtzee, way to bend over for the man, copyright's a bitch. I've got some soothing cream if you need it.