0:05 Awards for 2008 4:53 Tomb Raider: Underworld 8:57 Far Cry 2 13:16 Gears of War 2 17:32 Little Big Planet 21:54 Satan Butt 22:18 Thief: The Dark Project 26:21 Skate 2 30:38 FEAR 2 34:52 Spiderman: Web of Shadows 39:03 House of the Dead: Overkill 43:09 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand 47:27 Resident Evil 5 52:15 XBlades 53:57 Halo Wars 58:52 Pedigree Chum 59:12 GTA Chinatown Wars 1:03:38 MADWORLD 1:07:48 Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 1:11:56 Siren Blood Curse 1:16:07 Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena 1:19:57 Valkyria Chronicles 1:23:57 Velvet Assassin 1:27:48 Duke Nukem Forever 1:31:45 Bionic Commando 1:36:01 Letter of the Week 1:36:31 Infamous 1:40:15 E3 2009 Hype Massacre 1:44:00 Prototype 1:47:47 The Sims 3 1:51:39 Ghostbusters: The Video Game 1:55:30 Overlord 2 1:59:20 Red Faction Guerrilla 2:03:11 Wii Sports Resort 2:06:48 Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood 2:11:03 Theme Song Time! 2:12:10 The Conduit 2:16:12 Silent Hill 2 2:20:27 2.5D Hoedown 2:24:23 Tales of Monkey Island 2:28:12 Wolfenstein 2:31:59 Batman: Arkham Asylum 2:36:07 Beatles Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 2:40:13 Darkest of Days 2:44:29 Scribblenauts 2:48:33 Wet 2:52:33 Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story 2:56:47 Brutal Legend 3:00:49 Games Expo Video Journal 3:07:00 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves 3:10:50 Dragon Age: Origins 3:14:56 Winners of the Stonking Great Game Contest 3:16:08 COD: Modern Warfare 2 3:19:56 Assassin's Creed 2 3:24:11 Left 4 Dead 2 and New Super Mario Bros Wii 3:28:30 Demon's Souls 3:32:42 Holiday Announcement 3:32:56 Saboteur
I put this playlist on a lot while I work. Every time I hear his "origin story" with ps2 red faction I smile. I smile because I went through that exact same situation. Now, Yahtzee is a internet celeb with 5 novels, several games, and over a decade's worth of content under his belt. While I am living in an rv in the Mojave Wasteland trying to learn c# and unity to make a f2p game that doesn't make my soul leave me too.
That turd in a turd accolade for Sonic turned out to be timeless. He could've written that for any Sonic game that's come out since and for the most part it would be true.
Yeah funny how he mentions being against censorship in several reviews and the escapist insists on censoring lots of jokes throughout these year releases
@@KristoKorps I'll back him up. I complained about it in one of their community post and their PR guy - whose name I forget - mentioned it was for advertising revenue. In fact you can just look at RU-vid's content creator guidelines if you want a good laugh. The censorship is so blatant I'm amazed they're still getting away with it.
@@Arto257 They're getting away with it because they make the rules and can make them whatever they want. This isn't the house of representatives. You're not allowed to say fuck on NBC because NBC doesn't want people saying fuck on NBC.
@@pivoteer556 yeah, yeah, I know. Private company and all that nonsense. Doesn't change the fact that their creator guidelines are fucking ridiculous. It essentially gives RU-vid absolute free reign to demonetise or even outright remove any content they deem inappropriate. Not even just swearing or sexual content - talking about certain *topics* isn't allowed. War, for example. Can't mention it, or you make no money. That's _the example_ they give in their guidelines - "war." Conflict. Anything that anyone might possibly take offence to or have a contentious opinion about. It's absolute bullshit, and you can't just hand-wave something like that away with "well, they make the rules"
The E3 episode: [mentions Metal Gear Rising] Me: that didn’t cone out for several more years! [mentions The Last Guardian which came out like last year, after Kinect was already dead]
Fun fact: deleting the gay joke that concludes 1:51:33 makes that sequence seem sincere and thus way _more_ offensive. Honestly what is the point of all the censorship...
to avoid lawsuits. probably the same reason they changed the music on the bit with the googly-eyed butt dancing. it was originally the austin powers theme music.
A joke that is looked back upon and recognized as offensive and cut out is entirely appropriate. A joke comes from a place of insincerity but taking a situation and making humor out of it. In hindsight going back and deleting it seems like a gesture of accepting that it wasn't okay.
@@HellionSeeker That doesn't make any sense, especially in this context. They deleted an incidental, nonjudgmental allusion to homosexuality, that was supposed to juxtapose the preceding genuinely hateful mysoginistic screed. The joke was _supposed_ to be at the expense of the kind of people who would genuinely be that hateful. By cutting out the end, they made him seem genuinely hateful. Or, to make this simple: I'm a gay man. The gay joke was not even remotely offensive. There was no reason to cut it out... Unless the mere mention of homosexuality is to be interpreted as offensive. I think you can see why that alone would be problematic. But really, the now apparently-sincere mysogyny is worse.
It's sad. The Escapist actually replied to someone complaining about the censoring on one of the videos, something to the effect of "we have to pay our staff so we can't afford to have values like you can" or some bullshit.
3:01:30 it's really interesting to see Nick outside of his position of authority as Editor in Chief of all of Escapist. Almost makes me want to follow his career as it led up to today
Some don't even make any sense. In the Velvet Assassin review he makes a joke about Valkeria Chronicles "defending the 100 acre woods from mean old farmer Hitler". The part about "mean old farmer Hitler" is cut out and I can't figure out why.
@@BobExcalibur It's RU-vid censoring so the Escapist can keep putting ads on these videos. Lately he's been having to literally replace all swears with RU-vid
escapist has mentioned if it was up to them, they wouldnt have censored any of it (and indeed you can still go back and watch the original video uncensored) but to keep the compilations monetizable, youtube required certain jokes had to be cut. and i believe it - there are way more offensive jokes that were left in. leave it to a massive, corporate-run, algorithm-obsessed mass like youtube to abritrarily deem a handful of jokes "too offensive" while completely ignoring nuance and context.
You know what's fascinating? Its pretty easy to see how much Yahtzee has changed in the past 11 years. I'd argue he's managed to kick the really low hanging fruit jokes and stay funny and for that I respect him. Not that he's above knob gags but they're more of a stocking stuffer than his actual best jokes
@Panel Deepak Not completely. They definitely clipped out the ironic racist joke at the end of the anti-racist ending on 50 Cent: Blood On the Sand, and I noticed.
20:17 Wow, that joke truly fell flat when played with new age royalty free techno music... Makes me want to dig up the original videos just to see the jokes intact.
"A society where everyone can make jokes about everyone else and everyone laughs is a truly tolerant society. Political correctness charged censorship only serves to engender resentment and distance between social groups." Yahtzee 2009
"....... In a perfect world. But we don't live in a perfect world. We live in a shitty world, where all the [atrocities of the last 400 years, "the effects of which still linger to this day"] and as such ......." -Moviebob 20xx
"No franchise has been euthanized quite as well as metal gear solid." Honestly it would've been better if that happened after five, considering where we are now.
I love watching back his review of Dragon Age because you know he hadn't reached the Broodmother because otherwise he would've spent half the review talking about it
You want to hear a sad thing? Yatzhees voice has been the voice i listen to for most of my day,like more than my parents. Seriously i listen to his videos that much that his is the most consistent voice i hear.
To be fair most people in our lives wouldn't be willing or even able to sit down and deliver 3+ straight hours of continuous speech. This is probably something people said about DJs back at the dawn of radio, since it was the first time people had access to so much audio content! So don't feel bad that you don't have your parents' voices memorized like a youtuber's :)
@@fntthesmth423 Yeah, I suspect that the communication revolution changed much more about "Human nature" than we understand...the shear amount of information is unprecedented...but also that information can be "Siloed" and manipulated in multiple ways makes me worry about the future...as our biological brains can't keep up with the massive processing power of purely analytical computers...not saying it'll be something like Skynet, but it will be someone manipulating technology to control or destroy the world...
Perhaps my favorite sentence by Yahtzee, "Silent Hill 4 mis-stepped so hard it's femurs burst out of it's legs and rocketed into the sky." Damn, I loved SH4...but yeah, so much jank...no sidestepping in the apartment, those annoying flying bug-bat things, super limited inventory, having to knock down all those penis plants over and over again in the water prison, and the water prison...
It's wonderful to watch these and see not only how games have evolved, but how Yahtzee has evolved as well. In the Bowser's inside story review, he talks about how much he hates children. And he's a dad now. It's cute. :)
"Eventually I started avoiding optional combat missions. When you come across 15 muggings while headed home through the New York warzone its hard to feel you're making an impact on crime." Yahtzee predicted 2022 New York!
@@TomatoBreadOrgasm Actual ESS-JAY-DABLUS are vastly outnumbered by, and less annoying than, twats who scream ESS-JAY-DABLU at every shadow. This video for instance; The escapist didn't remove the edgy jokes because they're secretly run by a shadowy cabal of blue-haired gender-studies majors. If they were ideologically motivated, they'd take down the original 50 cent review, wouldn't they. They selectively edited this it because RU-vid's algorithm for demonetisation is sensitive to certain words. The motivation is financial, not ideological. Not that that stops the twats from yelling ESS-JAY-DABLU, because that's their all-purpose explanation for everything they don't like.
""A society where anyone can make jokes about anyone else and everyone laughs is a truly tolerant society. Political-correctness-charged censorship only serves to engender resentment and distance between social groups." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, "Zero Punctuation" (2009) Put that on a motivational poster
@Horus SC besides, it’s not as if the original reviews were edited or taken down. They can still see them to get their fix on hearing inappropriate slurs sprinkled into their video game critiques.
@ 2:47:46 Hmmm... wasn't there a 3rd part to that joke? Out of all the other things said during Zero Punctuation I wonder why they decided to retcon that joke specifically.
Wow the fucking nostalgia I used to run from highschool to see it as soon as it was out :D thank you Yahtzee, still my go to game reviewer after all this time ^^
This exact combination is my main source of both nostalgic comfort and existential dread Listen to Yahtzee at the same time as ac II Monteriggionni ambient music and try not to reminder how you will die
After seeing yahtzees roadtrip footage, K now need a whole series following this man across the world XD that, or let him narrate a nature documentory just once.
I'm impressed he managed to get Matthew Mattosis to guest on the Monkey Island episode. Also anyone else hear the police coming to get yahtzee at 10:53? And 26:25
3:03:30 The Statue of Freedom is a 19 ft 6 in bronze statue that sits on top of the United States Capitol dome. The statue faces east and overlooks the central entrance. It depicts a female figure in classical dress, a toga-like robe, and a helmet with an eagle's head and feathers. She holds a laurel wreath and the shield of the United States, which has 13 stripes. The statue's pedestal is 18.5 ft tall and has a globe on top. The pedestal's lower part is decorated with wreaths and fasces, and it has the motto "E pluribus unum" ("Out of many, one").
...But the original videos (Which are completely un-edited) are still monetized. And they leave in quite a few jokes which are still pretty damn raunchy (i.e. Damn near every analogy Yahtzee makes).
the velvet assassin review had me tabbing back and forth between the original video and this every time the scene changed because I'd assumed there was another censored joke
So, I know it's been a year for you friend buuuut....that's Graham Stark of Loadingreadyrun. Back then LRR was on The Escapist with a show called Unskippable and it basically came down to Yatzhee and Graham saying they could do the other's job easy (in jest), so we got an episode of ZP with Graham in charge and a episode of Unskippable with Yatzhee at the wheel. Graham and LRR are a Canadian sketch comedy group that's been around for the last 15+ years and have done their own thing and others. For example, if you've ever watched FF7 Machinabridged from TFS, Graham was President Shinra.
So I've watched basically every ZP review (I'll admit, I was surprised to find I hadn't seen the GTA: Chinatown Wars reviews until this compilation), and earlier on, I thought I noticed some odd editing quirks - like where it sounded as though Yahtzee was mid-rant but was suddenly cut-off into another sentence. Like you could just tell the tone/cadence of his voice had changed. But it wasn't until 01:47:29 that I was absolutely sure something fishy was going on, because it's one of my favorite reviews (Prototype) and one of favorite jokes ends with the "...eat them, too!" - so of course I'm well acquainted with the following line, "...if only Jeffrey Dahmer..." but that's when the video cut immediately to the "Conclusion", rather than the next line and I was instantly put-off. I don't understand it, is it a timeliness issue? I've heard some things about the whole RU-vid "watch time" algorithm or something like that. I went looking in the comments for everyone else's take and saw some people saying that it's censorship but if that's the case, why bother when the videos still exist - easily accessible - in their original forms? Either way, this is a poor way to do business. There are still ads - essentially just as many as I tend to see when I watch the videos individually one after the other - and while it's nice not to have to skip through the (preposterously loud) opening theme and not have to pick the next episode from the random options offered up by RU-vid's (frankly dogshit) algorithm, I don't like knowing that I'm being robbed of the creator's original intent. I come here to watch (read: mostly listen to in the background while doing other things) Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation, not some boiled-down Escapist-filtered malarkey. I know this is technically boiled-down because the opening theme and ending credits have been lifted out in order to streamline the experience and that's appreciated - cause if you're binge-watching, it helps a lot if they just roll into each other, one after another. But the compilation video says it's "Zero Punctuation with no punctuation" - it DOES NOT mention anything about "also we've cut out some of the actual content, too". I'm sincerely disappointed. This will be fine for when I'm falling into a drunken coma, it will no longer suffice for actually experiencing Zero Punctuation and honestly, I'm surprised Yahtzee is okay with it (although, at this point, as he's said he gets paid surprisingly well for this gig, I really can't blame him for having a "fuck bitches, get money" attitude).
I think it's to do with monetization. If this compilation with all of the jokes included were released it would be demonetised fairly quickly and they wouldn't know what caused it, because while you can get away with one risky joke in each individual video, you can't do the same with a big compilation such as this, as one risky joke turns into forty, and instead of trying to play whack a mole with the algorithm the escapist decided to remove the jokes altogether
I have been on a journey thanks to this video So I had just got to the “John Sterling” email after fake Duke Nukem review I googled the name as it rang a bell and ended up clicking on a link to the escapist forums, I was reading reactions to that very ZP video from 11 years ago and saw that a fair number of these posters had been banned in the past decade. Fun thing about the Escapist forums is in many cases they link the thread that got the user banned I read this rage argument between two people 11 years ago who both seemed to be Sony fans but were each accusing the other of irrationally hating Sony I felt moved to post, 11 years later, but of course the thread had long since been locked, to prevent necroing of course. So I posted here, I wonder if in 11 years somebody will reply to this odd little comment on a RU-vid video watched by a nerd during the chaotic year of 2020 If you do... Hello 2031, did it all turn out ok in the end?
@@a177rhythm2 Yeah, and I love the new format with FR. Just a shame that he had to ditch the imp for copyright reasons even though he's the one who designed it. I'll miss that little guy.
Guys, seriously. If you're going to be this obvious about censoring certain words (cutting him off mid-sentence), you may as well not bother including the review at all.
