This isn't the first we've seen of Tim and Eric's interpretation of Saint Row: The Third''s fictional mascot Professor Genki and his "Japanese" game show. There have been bits and pieces of this thing around for a while, but now, on the eve of the game's release, we have a full +12 minute episode of Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax.
Like most of Tim and Eric's full length stuff, some aspects of the show appear to be intended as comedy, some as tragedy, and others are just gross. The show caused me to laugh out loud a few times, but also fell a general sense nausea couples with sadness over the state of today's dishonest advertising techniques, sadistic reality shows, and society's obsession with soulless celebrity icons.
I hope the actual game comes equipped with the same brand of subversive parody. I guess we'll find out on the 15th!
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Meh these guys just pull shit out there ass effortlessly
Show woulda never gone anywhere if AS audience wasnt stoned
SR3 is starting to look even better with each gameplay trailer tho
I don't think there's been a game I've been more unenthusiastic(Wow, spelled that correctly on the first try!) about than Saint's Row: The Third. I just don't care. This video hasn't helped.
Is Professor Genki in the game at all if you don’t pre-order? Because he is all over anything to do with this game, it’s almost synonymous with Saints Row at this point.
I pretty much hate Tim & Eric's show, but whenever they do advertisements I love them. This is no different, I want this game just for the Professor Genki shit.
@Handy I'm pretty sure the actual game show and character are in the game regardless. The preorder gets you an octopus gun, manapult truck, and an outfit to make the player look like professor Genki.
The costumes worn by Genki's servants had best be in Saint's Row the Third.
It would make me a sad panda not to be able to dress my character up like Sad Panda (as well as any of the other Genki Girls), one of the 'Rabid Dogs' or General Cho(or, failing that, Cho's chicken).
The Tall Cat costume is already covered as is Genki himself,at least.
Obviously not the actual Japanese version xD
They have "Octopus" guns.
The whole thing was mostly disturbing weird and made no real sense, not even in the "hey thats a game show" sense.
I think its the comedy these guys do I just never liked their stuff much.
However, they get mad props for displaying an old Gravis gamepad and Gravis joystick combined into one.
I owned those two and they were awesome.... and had two buttons... and thats it...
But ya, you don't see those at all anymore. xD
I do not understand people that hate Tim and Eric. At all.
Theirs is brilliant, subversive, absurd humor. The only reason people don't like them, as far as I can tell, is because they're really weird and they don't signpost everything as a joke.
I don't hate Tim and Eric. I find that they are simply too "hit or miss" though. They are either brilliant or just stupid. And the problem is that the ratio of brilliant to stupid is too low for me to bother even putting in the effort to watch them.
Tom Goes To the Mayor was def the high point of their creativity and quality. The work they have done with Jon Benjamin has been pretty good but all in all Awesome Show is only funny or smart about 1 out of 10 sketches.
Man, Tim and Eric are just awful. Like a poor, unfunny Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I am all about some Saints Row, but dammit these guys are never funny.
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I am kinda addicted to making and uploading characters, though.
Show woulda never gone anywhere if AS audience wasnt stoned
SR3 is starting to look even better with each gameplay trailer tho
Because giant, purple, throbbing logos.
Also, Genki loots to me like a candidate for surprise final boss. Not betting or anything, but if it's true, reserving the right to say I called it
The fuck did I just watch??!!
@Winter Zero
The fuck did I just watch??!! O______O
My head...
...oh wait
It would make me a sad panda not to be able to dress my character up like Sad Panda (as well as any of the other Genki Girls), one of the 'Rabid Dogs' or General Cho(or, failing that, Cho's chicken).
The Tall Cat costume is already covered as is Genki himself,at least.
They have "Octopus" guns.
The whole thing was mostly disturbing weird and made no real sense, not even in the "hey thats a game show" sense.
I think its the comedy these guys do I just never liked their stuff much.
However, they get mad props for displaying an old Gravis gamepad and Gravis joystick combined into one.
I owned those two and they were awesome.... and had two buttons... and thats it...
But ya, you don't see those at all anymore. xD
Theirs is brilliant, subversive, absurd humor. The only reason people don't like them, as far as I can tell, is because they're really weird and they don't signpost everything as a joke.
Tom Goes To the Mayor was def the high point of their creativity and quality. The work they have done with Jon Benjamin has been pretty good but all in all Awesome Show is only funny or smart about 1 out of 10 sketches.
Why don't game companies do more publicity stunts like this? I'd love to see Tim and Eric make a Modern Warfare 3 commercial.
It is like saying "yeah this is bad, but it's a joke so it okay", to me it just seems unnecessary.