i liked the opening music better than ZP. ^^

I'll take your word for it.

I can't stand Pure Pwnage, hate it with a bloody passion. Something to do with how often he says noob... Anyway also hated the vid.

I just watched the ZP parody part, don't much care for the rest of it. It was interesting, and a fairly well done parody, and though I disagree with some of the things said, I must say, he makes a few good points. Whatever happened to the days when game play and camera control were more important then story, cut scenes, voice acting, and graphics? The prettiest game with the most epic story, the greatest voice acting and the most crisp clean and high detailed graphics ever made, is still going to be a shitty game if it plays like Turok.

"Here is the unpleasant truth: Your teachers lied to you when they said that anyone, even you, can become an astronaut. Some people are just naturally better at certain things then others. There is something called talent. No matter how hard I try, I will never paint the Mona Lisa, or invent the Quantum Computer. No matter how hard you try, you'll never finish Contra without cheating."

I couldn't agree more. No matter how much I play Counter Strike, or DOA4, I will never have a future in the CGS. I am just not that talented.

the monopoly guy:
your the second person to post this link...tonight

You spelled "you're" wrong.

the monopoly guy:
you spelt parody wrong in the title

You spelled 'spelled' wrong.

'sup, I know you have 1.4k posts, but honestly no one cares. If most of your posts are criticizing spam that don't contribute anything, then it doesn't mean anything, especially when you can't practice what you preach.

TheKbob:

Really if you understand the series, this becomes FAR more hilarious ^___^

Things are usually better if you don't have to be part of a crowd JUST to 'get' them. That way C.A.D. lies...

I probably would have enjoyed but that accent was terrible, was he trying to speak in an English accent or something?

Monkeybone:

'sup, I know you have 1.4k posts, but honestly no one cares. If most of your posts are criticizing spam that don't contribute anything, then it doesn't mean anything, especially when you can't practice what you preach.

Works the same for only 51 posts as well...No count hatred please.

The_root_of_all_evil:

Monkeybone:

'sup, I know you have 1.4k posts, but honestly no one cares. If most of your posts are criticizing spam that don't contribute anything, then it doesn't mean anything, especially when you can't practice what you preach.

Works the same for only 51 posts as well...No count hatred please.

Heeey, it's cool. I just like well-formed criticism and not criticism for the sake of throwing around your clout, I personally don't care about post counts, it's just this guy is being a dick and maybe he just needs to have it known he is.

It's sort of like having a guy telling you that your windsor is too tight while he's wearing a clip-on tie, you just go 'what.' and get irritated. Maybe he's trying to be helpful, maybe he's just coming off across the wrong way. I've been seeing his arbitrary posts in quite a few topics and I'm pointing out my (and more than likely) other people's displeasure about it.

the monopoly guy:
you spelt parody wrong in the title

Arsed. lol

The_root_of_all_evil:

TheKbob:

Really if you understand the series, this becomes FAR more hilarious ^___^

Things are usually better if you don't have to be part of a crowd JUST to 'get' them. That way C.A.D. lies...

Being part of the "In" crowd involves watching some Internet TV ;) Nothing special. I didn't sign up for anything, nor do I have the T-Shirt.

Although I would like one :D

Monkeybone:

the monopoly guy:
your the second person to post this link...tonight

You spelled "you're" wrong.

the monopoly guy:
you spelt parody wrong in the title

You spelled 'spelled' wrong.

'sup, I know you have 1.4k posts, but honestly no one cares. If most of your posts are criticizing spam that don't contribute anything, then it doesn't mean anything, especially when you can't practice what you preach.

Mind you, I am on pain medication that makes me groggy; and spelt is a word, and if the OP is too lazy to scroll down a little before posting, well then that's not my problem.

the monopoly guy:
if the OP is too lazy to scroll down a little before posting, well then that's not my problem.

Obviously, it is if you take the time to point it out every single instance. Tact never hurt.

that was pretty funny! i've seen a few parodies of Yahtzee, but this one actually didn't suck. amazing.

scarbunny:
and they say the internet is just full of people ripping everyone off and churning out poor imitations of stuff that’s popular.

Please God of all that is holy I pray to you please smite down the genius who decided it was a good idea.

British people taking the piss is funny, americans doing it is just annoying, its not their fault but americans are just have genetically inferior funny bones, and no understand as to why and when swearing is funny!

Oh and he "thought" calling himself Nazi was funny!

I thought it was good. Anyways, have you ever seen pure pwnage?
Doing it any other way wouldn't have seemed like Jeremy's style.

If it was some random video I saw without ever seeing pure pwnage before, I wouldn't have liked it as much though.

Oi, cutscenes are only being replaced with quicktime events and being able to move your head during the cutscene, and Moral Choice games seem to make it a joke, it was kinda irritating in Mass Effect when you realized all 3 choices on the right lead to the same thing.

Err, back on topic...WOW, haven't seen "PP" in a while but that was a good parody, hell give him yahtzee's voice and it's uncanny.

Good Parody, still waiting on Robot Chicken's. However I just watch ZP for hopes of crossing another Psychonauts and Painkiller to go find at the local thrift shop at this point. After a while it feels...rehearsed is the best term I can think of.

As to the humor, I should be able to watch a sketch and get most of the humor from it, I shouldn't have to spend 5 minutes (Doing the smart thing and just looking it up on the googles/wikis) to 45 (watching all the perquisite videos) to get a joke.

I just think that it's weird how people only seem to be annoyed with this because they didn't find it funny. It seems that if this parody had made them laugh then they would have congratulated the guy on his fine choice of source material. For example, you say that it's not funny how he called himself 'Nahtzee'. Well, excuse him for adding something that didn't instantly create raucous laughter. It's not as if he expected everyone to be rolling on the floor uncontrollably because of what he said.

And both 'spelled' and 'spelt' are accepted as real worlds.

I think a lot of ZP fans didn't like it as if you actually take it at face value it is attacking both yourselves and Yahtzee. However, it isn't supposed to be taken at face value, it's comedy. Personally I would just love to see what Yahtzee thinks of it!

Was this done to bash yahtzee or was it to praise him?

Parody (like a cheerleader) goes both ways (just kidding... maybe).

It can be used to highlight the good or bad points in everything, such as... Jerry Lewis.
A GOOD parody highlights his comedic prowess; Where as BAD parody merely highlights how annoying he can be.

But that's just MY opinion... I could be wrong.

(Not bloody likely!)

Its a pretty good parody, but I don't agree with his points.

i think that was pretty amusing.

14 August 2008 10:16 pm

it is now

16 December 2009 0:02 am

Please let a thread stay dead after a year has gone past.

Dude... Ultra-Necro... And that was a just entertaining enough to not be considered insipid.
EDIT: This thread was going on the day I joined, over a year ago...

I REALLY want to see Yahtzee's reaction to this.

Monkeybone:

scarbunny:

Yes I understand Phonetics; however trying to get a cheap laugh from Nazi's is just lazy.

I never really liked FPS Doug either. Maybe their humor is beyond my comprehension

Ah Canadian, guess that explains it then.

Or, he did it for legal reasons and it actually does fit... Croshaw can be quite, Draconian in his reviews. As for FPS Doug, that's fine, but he's become a phenomenon in his own rights, BOOM! HEADSHOT, people know it, but he cinched it... But yeah, Canada, same people responsible for some of the greatest comedians and shows around, pretty obvious. You'd argue that point with me, but if you watched shows like Just For Laughs or Kids in the Hall, you'd see Canada has a pretty funny populace, they have no guns or indoor plumbing so they make funny to have the time pass by before the sweet, sweet release of death.

Oh, and my coffee was delicious, thank you.

It is because our lack of guns and indoor plumbing we are funny. We can make jokes at another's expense because we don't need to worry about them ventilating us afterwards. And poop jokes are always funny.

This on the otherhand I didn't find this all that amusing. I guess because I read the same thing here day after day on either side.

That was unfunny, very unfunny. I've seen funerals that produced more amiable humor. Please don't ever link that again.

I thought it was very funny, and a very well-done parody. But actually what struck me as the funniest thing of all was that him and Yahtzee have some pretty fundamentally different viewpoints on why games are fun, yet are both ardently screaming for good games to be made.

Oh, and a quick side-note, I didn't even realize "Nahtzee" was supposed to be a joke off of Nazi... and maybe it wasn't? My first reaction was that it was a play on the word "naught," but obviously spelled to resemble "yahtzee." Naught being nothing, sort of a clever way of saying "not yahtzee." Which you could also suggest simply from the sound. Overall, nazi didn't even occur to me until after I saw someone's comment on the matter.