Boyninja616:

Fair enough. I haven't actually played God of War 3, so I wasn't aware of that. Still, it took until the third game to realise that feature and it only seems to happen once.

I can only see Kratos as a kind of Carry-On style camp, talking about his "Flailing weapon" at times. In England we don't have quite so much of a gay scene, and we certainly don't have men with biceps wider than their heads, so it would be hard for me to make the same comparison. I am aware of the Greek's tendencies towards homosexuality, but still maintain the point that being a divine entity does mean being detached from normal human activities (Which Yahtzee incidentally commented on in his review of GoW3)

Tolerance of homosexuality is much better than it used to be in countries like England and America, which is where the majority of the immature haters come from. It comes down to values. I was brought up under the mantra of "All human beings are equal" and have developed enough of an open mind to not give 2 sh**s if someone likes members of their own gender. Quite a lot of other people (Mostly Americans, I'm afraid) aren't quite so open minded due to their upbringing, religious or not.

Female characters being badly realised just gives Yahtzee an excuse to hate on them (Which is the entire point of ZP, to hate on games, no matter how good), which gives the impression that he is a misogynist. He might be misogynist, I don't know. He might even admit that. I doubt he's going to take offense though.

As with men being the primary heads of gaming companies: Well, thats life. Men are more obsessed with gaming and will therefore be much more obsessed with game design and production. For example, of the 22 guys and 27 girls I keep in regular contact with, 8 of the guys and only 1 of the girls have expressed an interest in game design at some point. Women just like to pursue other interests.

Heh, I live in England as well and there's large, visible gay communities in Brighton (where I'm from), Manchester and London, as well as smaller scenes in other major cities. There's plenty of bald, muscular body building types down here, although thankfully they're very unlikely to get 'roid rage and scythe you in half with a sword on a chain whilst screaming "ZEEEEUUUS!"

I know that the point of ZP is to take the piss out of games, and that a girl character being badly written is a reason for them to be targeted- that was my original point. He doesn't pick on the character just because they're female and he hates women (which is what misogyny is)- he's picking on them because they're awful characters.

A good example I can think of would be the Final Fantasy XIII review- you've got a mixed cast of male and female characters there, and he spreads the hate equally.

As for 'that's life'- people have said that about a lot of things which have subsequently changed. It used to be 'that's life' that a woman couldn't vote, choose her own husband, or have any kind of career beyond being a housewife. I hope that the games industry will also see a shift, with more women being encouraged to pursue careers there. Unfortunately, there's a bit of a chicken and an egg situation going on- if there's no visible role models in the form of powerful and influential female developers, and very few good female characters, then surely that discourages women for taking an interest in the industry and wanting to be involved. One of the reason that games and gaming are seen as a masculine activity is because it is made by men and marketed at men. It works the other way round, too, with female dominated professions finding it hard to recruit men.

I guess I should probably read through all 400 comments, as some one has probably answered this, but I honestly can't bring myself especially when I have a 2 year old to get ready for bed.
What was the point of that song?
I could understand a witty criticism of Yahtzee. Or even praise (although lets face it in standard internet culture no one would be interested in that).

But that song made no sense at all. I mean at one point the lyric was something like "he shouldn't have put her down" or some such, but without any reference as to who or how the putting down occurred I was left wondering what she was talking about.

A witty criticism of Yahtzee would have been great, however (and I'm probably missing a big point some how) this song seemed to be crazy ramblings. Have I missed something? Was there some event that occurred which could fill in the blanks? Or some I just file it under crazy?

I'm so fucking confused! Is she angry or trying to impress?? Did Yahtzee do something?

Arghrghrghrhghr I'm out of the loop!!!

I'm sure the answers are somewhere in these 15 pages...THE SEARCH IS ON!

I'm speechless.

But again, I'm typing right now, not speaking.

I've been waiting for this one for... Quite a long time now. Ever since I first caught scent of it, as a matter of fact. (Captain Obvious right there)

The second I noticed that it had been finished, I of course proceded with listening to the song, and I have to say - I'm amazed.

And somewhat confused. I have this bothersome little doubt that... Well, is this really a love song, or is it just some silly way to process spiteful anger toward Yahtzee?
I really can't tell half of the time, but I'm going to presume it is, in fact, a love song.

Things might turn out better that way. And Yahtzee may no longer be able to boast about having "Alienized everyone that have ever loved you".

So, with any amount of luck, Yahtzee will reply to this song sometime, one way or another.
Perhaps with an actual comment.
Perhaps with a special episode of Zero Punctuation.
Or, hopefully, perhaps both of the above.

Or maybe he will run outside scream, flailing his arms around and drown himself in Branston Pickle.

All in all, it's a beautiful song written by a [insert generic compliment] woman for a silly man.

Yahtze....Retaliate!

haha good song....but yahtzee will prolly own ya... besides the point major propage =D this is the first stab anyone has to yahtzee

i ain't a fan of your songs but this one was very nice.
well done miss mayes(thumbs up)

I thought it was kind of lame.

Sort of, sycophancy, thinly-veiled with a layer of manufactured disdain. It's hard to put my finger on it, but I think the problem is that Mayes doesn't really commit enough to the humour (like, say, Yahtzee does). Like she doesn't really mean what she's saying: you can see her trying too hard to be funny. And at the same time, trying to be innocent. Sort of a, "having your cake and eating" it deal.

(Edit: 499th comment. Damn.)

GameGoddess101:
Weird, for some reason I thought this one was older... huh.

Some of the animation could have been better, but the rest of it was really great. I love Rebecca's voice. As someone who deals with generic emo-rocker boys on a daily basis during the school year, listening to their bored generic droning, it's nice to hear a unique voice. Very lilting, relaxing, unique and yet accessible. I'm excited for her album.

wait... her voice isn't a generic female singing voice?

Honestly... I thought the song was pretty poor... the ryhmes seemed like you were looking for the longest words you could rhyme and the whole "is it ok?" had no right being in that song... and it definatly had no right being repeated twice, it just feels like filler.

Yahtzee doing a Dan Bull style reply to this would cause so much awesome that the world would explode.

Wow, that was really good! I wasn't a mad fan of Mayes, but this song is definitely your best.

Sometimes I wonder if I am in the same world as everyone else.

Chances of Yahtzee commenting on this at all in any form during a video, especially with song, is pretty much zero. Your best hope is in his post-video columns, and even then you're likely to see just one sentence about it.

Some seem to be expecting some sort of 'retaliation' in which case it shows they don't really understand Mayes or Yahtzee at all, or at least not this video. There was nothing to retaliate against, it is meant to be interpreted and many singer song writers give their songs the possiblity of multiple meanings. Even if there was something to retaliate against Yahtzee is not that way; he'd ignore it and continue doing whatever the hell he wants.

My interpretation:

A mix of impressing with insults and probably a reaction to a comment/sequence of comments made in his Sims 3 review exagerated for the sake of comedy.

My own reaction/comments:

Song was good, not sure why you choose to do Yahtzee's drawing board effects badly unless there is a reason they needed to be slightly different with a little bit of pixelated white around the edges of objects. Would love to see what the actual video portion would look like cleaned up slightly. Also when Mayes was wearing the/a hat did you just crop yahtzee's hat and use paint's inversion thing? That's what it looks like.

Unforunately this style of music isn't for me. Nevertheless she is clever.
If you have a moderate voice and a moderate look, which in turn leaves you with next-to-no chance of making it big, then where better a place to plug yourself?

Yup. A community filled with nerdy, female deprived guys! You can't go wrong! Go a bit punk with a hint of goth; claim you like computer games and you'll have every guy thinking your attainable! WIN!

he's saying that game industry is shit, and that is true. In addition there was no game that was sacred.

I kinda liked it, good work, miss, thumbs up for your good looks and cuteness too.
Hope Yahtzee will strike back, that has awesome potential:).

NickIsCool:

whats with the screwdriver at the end though?

I'm guessing it's for the "it's a trap!" effect, like get him too drunk and then stab him while sleeping, but not before having one wild night with. Would need a bigger screwdriver, tho, since Yazthee's The Man. :P

But she IS into him, that much I'm sure of :D.
WTG Yahtzee for making women everywhere wet :D

Might i add that Doraleous and associates did a much better job at taking jabs at Yahtzee while still being funny entertaining and not sounding nearly as whiny. And it actually made sense and poked at real criticism of Yahtzee.

That AND it made sense.

What a horrible an uninteresting song.

The topic of the song is irrelevent when the song itself is just this damn bad.

"is it ok, is it ok"

No, That is not OK. That is outright shit.

The song is okay, nothing special. I never did think her music was all that great. However whats more fun than watching Rebecca Mayes try to be funny in a music video love/hating Yahtzee...watching all this fanboy drama unfold on the forums. LOL you people are taking this much to seriously.

Karathos:
if you've already established from past videos that you don't like her material - why do you tune in and comment?

Not trying to start a flamewar or nothing (just happen to be up at five in the morning and struck by boredom, silly Finnish summer :p) but it just strikes me as a bit odd 's all.

Ah its okay, I know your not trying to start an arguement, its just a bunch of opinions on a forum for video games anyway in the long run :P

Anyway, the only reason I clicked on it for was because of the Yahtzee mention, and I thought "Perhaps I might have been wrong, i'll give this a listen to" which i'm sure a lot of other people clicked for, the yahtzee mention.

NickIsCool:
awesome song as always

i loved all the references to ZP

whats with the screwdriver at the end though?

i guess love is a crazy thing, isnt it :D

I would rather stab myself in the eye than go out with your mosigynist mind.

Sometimes the lyrics were a little contrived, but for the most part, I quite enjoyed this song. Bravo!

That was good be interesting to see what Yahtzee now say's?

You and Yahtzee should totally go out

Riven Armor:

poiumty:
So i finally got around to listening to this, mostly because it had "yahtzee" in it and hey, maybe it'd be the shining jewel in the ocean of mediocrity like that one Doraleous episode.

NOPE. Also, the best reply to this song is no mention of it whatsoever (from Yahtzee's part, i mean).

How dare you insult Doralean! It's the best thing on the Escapist >:O

(although I do agree with you about the song...)

Yeah, leave Dorlingus out of this! lol

Look, if any of you think you can predict the actions of Yahtzee... you can't. Let's keep in mind that this is all endorsed by the Escapist. For all we know, they've been dating for two months and have two kids on the way and a puppy named Vladimir. This little exchange is probably just for appearances.

Thought the lyrics were awkward, title was puzzling, but what disturbs me most are the clueless or mystified comments from the audience... maybe I'm just too old... but no.

According to my rough calculations 90% of users posting in this thread didn't bother to read it, I'm having a feeling that there are three botnets around here posting three generic replies over and over again.

Botnet no.1 says "aw fuck, teh song sucks balls" while thinking "omg, i'm almost like Yahtzee"

Botnet no.2 says some incomprehensible poetic blabber about wonderful thoughts and feelings it felt during the song. In reality it thinks "maybe she'll notice me, think we're soulmates and I might shag her".

Botnet no.3 says "haha, good one, FTW" and thinks nothing.

Interesting sociological case I say.

posting in a pathetic attempt to get ratings.

PeppersResort:
Thought the lyrics were awkward, title was puzzling, but what disturbs me most are the clueless or mystified comments from the audience... maybe I'm just too old... but no.

LOL. I agree completely...

"I thought it was a clever combination of love and hate" please...

To be clever it would have to make sense.

It's alright... It seemed to stray slightly out of a love song and into a... a... I dunno what XD
Good though :3