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AttObl ... Since: Oct, 2010
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#301: Dec 29th 2010 at 2:29:26 PM

Holiday 2010 is up.

edited 29th Dec '10 2:29:33 PM by AttObl

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Scardoll Burn Since: Nov, 2010
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#302: Jan 1st 2011 at 10:39:58 PM

Eh, I just wasn't feeling it.

Don't know why, either. I find Yahtzee's videos hilarious (If not particularly similar to my tastes), but I just couldn't get into that one.

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MainManJ Since: Jan, 2001
#303: Jan 2nd 2011 at 2:07:40 AM

Well it is a clip show. Even if the material shown in a clip show is good, or even really good, it is still material you've already seen. And thus harder to get enthusiastic about.

edited 2nd Jan '11 2:09:14 AM by MainManJ

NateTheGreat Since: Jan, 2001
#304: Jan 2nd 2011 at 3:12:12 PM

Do Escapist videos work on Firefox for everyone else and it's just me? I hate having to switch to Opera just for that one site...

CBanana Tall, Dark and Bishoujo Since: Jan, 2001
#305: Jan 2nd 2011 at 4:01:04 PM

They work fine for me in Firefox. Perhaps you just need to reinstall the Adobe Flash Firefox plug-in. If that doesn't work, try disabling some of your add-ons.

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#306: Jan 3rd 2011 at 5:34:49 AM

Do you have an ad blocker? They do this thing once a month or so where it takes over the screen with an ad.

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#307: Jan 3rd 2011 at 7:24:25 AM

I'm on Firefox and I usually disable my Adblocker on Escapist specifically because of that. Sometimes it stops the videos from loading.

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Pannic Since: Jul, 2009
#308: Jan 3rd 2011 at 6:13:39 PM

That thing with him sitting with the grandfather clock and "reading" is probably one of the worst pieces of... thing... I've ever seen.

MainManJ Since: Jan, 2001
#309: Jan 4th 2011 at 1:32:41 AM

Well, it was an April Fool's gag. It probably wouldn't have the same effect watching it off the video archives than finding it on the site on April 1st.

The gag at the beginning of the Holiday 2010 video though - yeah, that I didn't particularly care for. I'm not really a fan of the "I pretend to not want to make these videos" shtick, as to me it doesn't really work when the interaction between the creator and the invisible audience is entirely one-sided, and the video obviously recorded beforehand.

Do Escapist videos work on Firefox for everyone else and it's just me? I hate having to switch to Opera just for that one site...

I use Firefox and I don't think I've ever had any problems viewing the videos.

edited 4th Jan '11 2:03:33 AM by MainManJ

NateTheGreat Since: Jan, 2001
#310: Jan 4th 2011 at 3:19:30 PM

Yeah, I disabled my adblocker for that site, and I'm fine. Stupid ads...

It's just that when the blocker was on, it would cycle for a bit, and then spit out a weird error code. This made it sound like I was missing a particular codec that Opera had, but Firefox didn't.

Indigo_Dingo Since: Dec, 1969
#312: Jan 5th 2011 at 9:11:25 PM

Really? Just Cause 2?

And I don't get why he keeps "trolling" by flogging Fable. To troll, you'd need an actual audience who likes it, and I've never come across anyone who even likes Fable. Everyone always says its shit.

PippingFool Eclipse the Moon from A Floridian Prison Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
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#313: Jan 5th 2011 at 9:58:01 PM

I was expecting Epic Mickey to appear in the Worst 5 games of the year, but to my surprise it didn't.

But I knew that Metriod Other M was going to be on the worst list and that Kane And Lynch 2: Dog Days was going to get the No.1 spot on the worst list.

(Also, reading through Yahtzee's Extra Punctuation about Epic Mickey sounds like watching that one episode of Extra Credits about Moral Choice. Nearly word for word.)

edited 5th Jan '11 10:04:32 PM by PippingFool

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Ana Since: Jan, 2001
#314: Jan 5th 2011 at 11:43:17 PM

3 Wide-Open Sandbox and 2 horror games. Huh. He is honest about his genre bias, I give him that much.

ShadowScythe from Australia Since: Dec, 2009
#315: Jan 6th 2011 at 2:34:28 AM

I can understand his bottom 5, but his top 5? Just Cause 2? Really? There wasn't anything in his review of the actual game to suggest that.

Acritdy Since: Dec, 1969
#316: Jan 6th 2011 at 2:36:48 AM

NEWS JUST IN: Critic focuses on the negative in his features, but doesn't outside of them. TV Tropes up in arms.

Anyway, Fable 3 does have a fairly decent fanbase on the Escapist forums and with a lot of the 'casual' crowd. You'd be surprised at the backlash he got over it (incidentally, get some people Indigo - this is the first time he's 'trolled' it outside of the initial review).

edited 6th Jan '11 2:37:23 AM by Acritdy

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#317: Jan 6th 2011 at 8:25:49 AM

There wasn't anything in his review of the actual game to suggest that.

*ahem*

You don't come to me to hear how a game was GOOD.

Yahtzee unashamedly and completely admittedly uses Accentuate the Negative for the purposes of comedy in his reviews.

edited 6th Jan '11 8:26:07 AM by TobiasDrake

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MainManJ Since: Jan, 2001
#318: Jan 9th 2011 at 6:03:44 AM

Yahtzee kinda sounded like he had a cold in this video.

MBI Since: May, 2009
#319: Jan 9th 2011 at 10:33:21 AM

"Come take your place at the first place podium, then put a rope around your neck so we can kick it out from under you" is possibly the best joke Yahtzee has ever written.

Scardoll Burn Since: Nov, 2010
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#320: Jan 9th 2011 at 10:47:17 AM

Meh, Bioshock 2 was kinda up there for issues unrelated to the gameplay itself (Like "Why the fuck does it even exist?"), but it's still definitely not one of the best games of 2010.

I'm actually kinda surprised Other M didn't get #1 worst game. At least Kane and Lynch 2 was the sequel to a crappy game, Other M was the latest in a series of good games.

Agreed on the podium joke.

edited 9th Jan '11 10:48:25 AM by Scardoll

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AnOtherT An Other Troper Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#321: Jan 10th 2011 at 2:30:43 AM

[up]&[up][up] I can't honestly say I liked that podium joke, I guess suicide isn't much of a source of humour for me.

edited 10th Jan '11 2:32:21 AM by AnOtherT

MainManJ Since: Jan, 2001
#322: Jan 10th 2011 at 3:23:28 AM

If I means anything, I hear Kane & Lynch 2 is really, really bad. I says this as someone who kinda liked the first one.

edited 10th Jan '11 3:23:48 AM by MainManJ

Ana Since: Jan, 2001
#323: Jan 10th 2011 at 3:43:50 AM

Also, the podium joke is much more about a straight execution and murder than suicide.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#324: Jan 10th 2011 at 12:07:06 PM

Yeah, it's not suicide if someone else gives you the noose, forces you to put it on, then kicks the stand out from under you. That's classic gallows execution (though they usually put it on you themselves).

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CBanana Tall, Dark and Bishoujo Since: Jan, 2001
#325: Jan 12th 2011 at 2:18:54 PM

Well, the video for World of Warcraft Cataclysm is up.

Very surprised that this was by Yahtzee's standards, a downright positive review. He's been far harsher towards MMORPGs in other reviews.

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