I'm suspicious after Yahtzee's statement that he hates to give his protagonists happy endings, and after how that was applied in the Chzo Mythos.
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
Not Quite Batman
Well, I'm still on the second chapter, so I dunno about that yet.
So far, though, there's been at least one really great laugh per page.
"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse." —Mycroft NextI bought it a couple days back. It's dedicated to the three months of his life he lost to World Of Warcraft, and I can see why. The book, at least in the fifty or so pages I've read so far, does some serious Lampshade Hanging on the tropes and settings used in MMORP Gs (or "mem-or-pig-ez" as Yahtzee would pronounce it). Death Is a Slap on the Wrist is a constant in the setting, for example.
It's fun, but I wouldn't say "brilliant" yet. It's a steep hill to get to Douglas Adams level of fantastic-awesomeness.
"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." - E. Gary GygaxI'm intrigued by this, I'll probably get it at some point. I've always really liked Yahtzee's style of humour, even if he's horribly insulting a game that I love.
I have a podcast! I think that you should listen to it.I grabbed this a couple days ago. It's been awhile since a book's made me laugh out loud like this.
Do we have an article for this? Mogworld. Hey, we do.
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Not Quite Batman
Yeah, I actually made that (or started it, really). I feel proud.
I'm at the fifth chapter now. Is Slippery John supposed to look like Westley?
"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse." —Mycroft NextThread Necro!
Just got my copy and am devouring it as fast as I can with all the other scholarship I am trying to digest right now. (God I am exhausted of college.)
But anyway, I got it from Abebooks.com, where I get almost all my books in anticipation for his new book coming out this year called Jam.
So far I am loving it because if nothing else, it's something fresh and different. How many video game books out there are genuinely good? Let alone original? This is the first I have seen and I am appreciating it!
"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - Aszur

It's true: the popular foaming-at-the-mouth Internet personality and simile enthusiast Yahtzee Croshaw has written a novel, and wouldn't you know it, it is just brilliant. It's witty, it's well-written, and it has the most subversive "schoolboy" sense of humor I've ever read outside of Douglas Adams. I read the first chapter last night, and I couldn't make it past the third page without putting the book down because I was laughing too hard and didn't want to spit on it.
The only downside it that it's only available in paperback as yet.
Has anyone else picked it up? If not, it's well worth it.
"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse." —Mycroft Next