While cruising around the vast space of the interwebs, I was lucky enough to stumble upon sarcastic brilliance in its purest form. Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes and ears on Zero Punctuation: Console Rundown.
Anyone who knows me personally can vouch that I find the rantings of madmen (OK, they don't even have to be mad) all too titillating. If you throw in super fast-talking and a foreign accent, I'm sure to take the bait. In the 80's it was John Moschitta and those blasted Micro Machine commercials that had me glued to the TV during those Saturday morning cartoon marathons. Now it's some crazy Australian guy on the Internet comparing the next "more like current" generation of consoles to one another. It's fast, it's somewhat true-- and it's funny.
If you can manage to disregard the glaring mistake where he talks about Zelda, Metroid, and Mario and then slaps up pictures of Master Chief and Sonic, you should at least find yourself somewhat amused as well by the words of the man who goes by the name of Yahtzee. He's a genius, and he made me laugh at his video.
[Update: Well upon further review, I'm not sure how I missed the irony of the Master Chief/Sonic mixup. It does seem to be done purposely, and I can now appreciate the subtleties of this man's wittiness more than before. Just goes to show that you can indeed "kid a kid." Thanks to everyone that pointed that out in your responses.]
[Via The Escapist]
Contest:
7:52 AM on 08.30.2007
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This is the direct address to his column.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation
Very good little movie though.
i love playing dodgeball with 2 amputee's
I totally lost it when he got to that part.
Me too! Your response sounds like I just got the gig though. I have been around for a while now (yes, I know that you know this already). I just don't get to post as much as the heavy-hitters :-(
When I hit the lottery, I'll devote all my time to Destructoid.
If you can't see the difference, something's either wrong with your eyes or your TV
*gasp*
Yeah, that was actually intentional.
Haha Dizzy was a crazy game
The elitists made me sad, though, and the fact that some of you are unable to see that some things are jokes.
"I wasn't sure about this guy until he said that Fantasy World Dizzy is the best game ever. I don't agree, but still a good, obscure choice."
See?
Also, I eat lions.
Unfortunately, the video was not from the originating site (who doesn't want us to embed, but link to it instead), and had to be removed. Since I loved it so much, I made the needed edits -- however small they may appear to be.
-Alan
I made it the very first link...