0:06 Crysis 3:21 The Witcher 6:52 "PAINKILLER" short video 8:46 No More Heroes 12:11 Burnout Paradise 15:41 Sonic Unleashed 20:06 Condemned 2: Bloodshot 24:08 Super Smash Bros Brawl 27:57 God of War: Chains of Olympus 31:15 Mailbag Showdown 35:23 Grand Theft Auto 4 39:21 Painkiller 42:51 The World Ends With You 46:35 Elder Scrolls: Oblivion 50:42 HAZE 53:56 Metal Gear Solid 4 57:50 Webcomics 1:01:39 LEGO Indiana Jones 1:05:35 Alone in the Dark: Illumination 1:09:47 Age of Conan: Hydorian Adventures 1:13:50 E3 Roundup 1:17:54 Ninja Gaiden 2 1:21:49 Prince of Persia Retrospective 1:26:15 Soul Caliber 4 1:30:22 Braid 1:34:11 EVE Online 1:38:14 Too Human 1:42:18 Spore 1:46:14 XBLA Double Bill (Bionic Commando Rearmed and Castle Crashers) 1:50:18 Mercenaries 2 1:54:28 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 1:58:43 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky 2:02:52 Silent Hill Homecoming 2:07:22 Silent Hill Short "Call for Mr. Mason" 2:09:32 Saints Row 2 2:13:39 Dead Space 2:17:41 Fable 2 2:22:21 Fallout 3 2:26:01 Guitar Hero World Tour 2:30:00 Deus Ex Song 2:31:00 Mirror's Edge 2:34:53 Left for Dead 2:38:31 Sonic Unleashed (Again for some reason) 2:42:56 2008 - Year in Review 2:46:32 Prince of Persia Remake
I started watching ZP when I was 12 and am happy to learn that: 1. Yahtzee's old reviews still hold up today and it isn't just the tint of nostalgia that makes me remember so fondly of this. 2. I had at least somewhat decent tastes back then, even if I didn't understand half of the jokes or references he was making. 3. That Yahtzee is still producing content of similar, if not better, quality to what I enjoyed over a decade ago.
A good chunk of that is probably because Croshaw hasn't succumbed to his persona the way a lot of the early 'angry funny man on the internet' video reviewers have. When you watch or read his more long form reviews it's very clear that even with games he doesn't like, a lot of the attitude is purely performative and he does put a lot of thought and has an interest in learning and articulating WHY he thinks some games are good and some are bad. Meanwhile a lot of similar reviewers have devolved into caricatures of themselves in order to chase views.
yeah a lot of these Internet guys tend to fall victim to flanderisation shows how sharp yahtzee's writing is, that he's still clever and entertaining after 15 years
I like to think that this is just a 2 hour review of a single game with a wide variety of gameplay styles and various levels of quality over the course of 80 hours of playtime.
@@mrdoctorcactus958 type of steyiya you sttttsttttcan get it to you sleep in the mail room or you text back your password for it and you don’t know how much it will ya
The game comic bit will never get old. I remember reading a nuzlocke comic on dA where the author arguably made an effort for having an original story, but the characterization was completely wrong for the "hero" who honestly was not open to discussion, complained about not being heard when everyone always pandered to her, blamed others for her short comings and lashed out violently when challenged. Funny enough when I pointed this out the author then accused me of not listening, blaming me for misinterpreting their character and lashed out violently for doing so.
35:28 The text on the sign is higher rez than the rest of the video. So i looked up the original video (zero punctuation: grand theft auto 4) and found that the sign originally said "Hitler was cute". Ironic that a image created to illustrate controversy has been censored because of controversy.
Also at about 18:53 in the actual review of sonic unleashed Yahtzee says he'd expect that from "a fucking rom hack *designed by Hitler*" but the "designed by Hitler" bit is cut out in this.
Considering how easy it is to find videos taking that topic seriously on YT even without looking (or being the exact opposite opinion of those videos) removing the references was probably a smart idea. :P
I liked Dead Space...and I still remember the scariest moment: I just beat a few necromorphs and was sure the room was clear - then I heard a mysterious banging. It persisted over the next few rooms and I got really frightened. Until I reached a room with a few bodybags, glitching out and making the noise by clipping through the floor...it's really sad that a supposed horrorgame induced the most horror in me through a bug.
In both rounds of the Sonic Unleashed video, there's a line that's been edited. Original: "This is game-play I'd expect from a fucking rom-hack, designed by Hitler"
It’s interesting to see how Yahtzee started off relentlessly and uncompromisingly abrasive at every opportunity, mocking everything that moves and going as far as can be done, and yet if You look at His modern reviews, while very little has changed, there’s a definite difference in tone. He feels a lot more exhausted, and a lot less deliberately aimless in his abrasiveness. There’s more genuine seeking of quality and Art to Him, but tired and worn down by the endless sludge through what We refer to as Modern Gaming, but many others would refer to as A Vision of Hell. I think I prefer the modern stuff too, which seems counterintuitive to how Humans normally work.
a lot of people seem to point out how harsh a lot of the old reviews are, but honestly even back here the positives of certain games are still retained. I always remembered ZP as being brutally uncompromising and vicious, but coming back it all feels a lot more lenient than i remembered when i was younger.
@@Druid-T lol wut? all of the problems with the epic store, timed exclusives, poor user privacy practices, etc etc are a page straight out of the anticonsumer practices of the console industry... how is it a comeuppance scenario? what did gamers do to deserve epic?
@@lucentauri9774 I mean, you can shout and whine all you want at Epic but it's not going to change anything. The company that needs to lift their game is Steam.
The dialogue assignment of oblivion was fucked because they had lines recorded in alphabetical order to prevent spoilers for the voice actors. A bad reason in execution for tone but noble in idea. Kinda like the levelling system too
Ikr? In the Sonic Unleashed one the "This is gameplay I would expect from a fucking romhack, designed by hitler." joke had the "designed by hitler" part cut off. Was almost looking forward to it because the delivery is so great.
half expecting russ pitts to pen a fifteen page op ed about how the 50 cent review is problematic (despite yahtzee's critiques still being the most resonant and absolutely correct takes to this day) and firing him for good
Considering people complained about Wolfenstein The New Colossus for being "political", a joke at Hitler's expense doesn't tend to fly as much with gamers in 2019 like it did in 2008.
@@Bashfluff there's a few jokes that have been covered or removed because they can be considered controversial (Hitler jokes for example) so while it's nice we have a compilation of all the episodes they aren't the original version so I'm not exactly pleased about it
@@wearsjorge55 Thankfully, everything they cut out was for the better, since a lot of them were moderately tasteless, so it makes sense that Yahtzee wouldn't want them in here in retrospect. Few enough that it's no big deal.
After playing EVE for 5 years, I might know what those skills are. Signature Analysis and Signature Focusing are both very similar named and it's been some time since I played. One may involve how well you can scan signatures while exploring while the other may speed up your lock on time. Tactical Logistics Reconfiguration lets you use the Triage module formerly on Carriers but now it's on Auxiliary ships. Basically, it lets you become an immobile super healer. Also, I still love how Yahtzee apparently lost a Drone Carrier Battleship to what is essentially a commercial truck while both were flying backwards. Also, the markets in EVE Online are 98% player run. If you see it for sale, it's being sold by another player. The 2% comes from seeded items that players can't obtain or build such as skill books and blueprints but some savvy people buy piles of skillbooks and sell them for inflated prices at market hubs.
@@barrierfire1o1 Yes, I know. that was sarcasm. I was hoping the over-the-top reaction and stating the obvious nonsense words would be enough to convey that.
I'm glad escapist is getting the traffic for these but shame about the censorship. I am wondering if Yahtzee okayed it and I'm not sure which answer is worse.
Same here, some producers like Yahtzee, Oxhorn, Camelworks or FudgeMuppet can successfully keep me both engaged when I want but also drift me to sleep when I'm tired.
In Sonic Unleashed, he says "This is what I would expect from a fucking ROM hack. Designed by Hitler." In this version, they cut out the "designed by Hitler" line. There are more but that is the first one that I noticed
Yahtzee will never see this comment but I want you to know that censoring yourself or being censored by the Escapist is pathetic and undermines literally everything you've ever done
I couldn't help but think of Dick Figures when Yahtzee was describing the webcomic with a cool, stable main character, the wacky foil best friend, and the nanny girlfriend character
There's so many that fit in. VGCats, Least I Could Do, Ctrl+Alt+Del, and practically every webcomic from the mid 2000s. This could even apply to things like Homestar Runner to some extent (which bums me out now that I think about it).
I will say, coming back to this 18 years later really reveals how the industry has changed/stayed the same in almost 2 decades. As much as we now hate The Escapist, we need to archive this for the sake of history
They censored quite a bit, like another nazi reference in Burnout Paradise. Sticking with the full Zero Punctuation playlist is better, even if means the window reloading every 5 minutes.
@@Klontruppe Or you can rush over to the unofficial collection and download them all while we still have them. I appreciate the fact that we get official compilations now but the back catalog being censored is the reason I will hold onto those forever.
@@09csr it's weird because some gay jokes have been cut out, and some have been left in. All the Hitler jokes are gone, but the stuff about drugged prostitutes is still here. And the Sonic Unleashed video is in here twice. Idk who edited this but it almost feels like they weren't really trying very hard, or they have some VERY specific hangups in VERY specific circumstances lol
The Painkiller review got censored too, after mentioning the 'big fat architectural stiffy' he mentions the variety of dudes, and the bit 'they don't give me any kind of stiffy though, that would be gay' got removed.
Yeah, very strange. I mean, they are literally just dragging and dropping one video after the other into a sequence timeline. You'd think they would notice if they dragged the same video down twice.
@@skepticallypwnd they're not. They're pretty heavily editing it in order so mistakes will happen. They cut out some jokes so they had to have done more than just play them in order
@@Sebastian_Athea They proofwatched it enough to catch every reference to Hitler and censor them out, if they care enough about thoroughness to bother making the videos worse and less funny they ought to care enough not to pull repeats.
In the original Fallout 3 review, the name at 2:23:03 is "fagballs." If I was a had no self respect, self worth, lacked any and all redeeming qualities and found the only reasons for being kept around contained in the little mutations of common law that make it illegal to fucking off people, I might be blindly rageful - or even a tiny bit angry - about that PC retcon. But I'm not. And anyone would be is a fagball.
I used to think the line about shouting his favourite dessert and gaining superpowers was funny, until I was taught the Lemon Meringue Paioken technique
You cut out one of the best jokes of the Painkiller review. You know, how the monsters don't give you a stiffy because that would be gay. It's OK to be politically correct but that's a joke from a decade ago with a different context.
I wish they at least had the balls to leave them in and show the differences of the jokes then and now. I would love to know if Yahtzee even knows they edited some of them out.
@@Drragnorr Remember the good old days? Eh? The good old days? When you could still lynch black neighborhood teens? Member those? Can't do that now anymore, can we. Nooo, then it's jail. Member when you could be horribly racist and actively terrorize other people and ruin their lives? Can't do that now anymore. Live in constant fear of calling someone the n-word. It's only a word that's been used to dehumanize enslaved and terrorized groups for hundreds of years! What's wrong with that! It's political correctness gone mad I say.
@@Shotblur Right, but it's zero punctuation because it's really fast speaking long statements. Punctuations like commas and periods make you pause. It's a pun on his selling point is how fast he speaks.
This is so great i got into zero ounctuation anojt a uear ago and binged that giant playlist with all of the ZP episodes and woth these i have a rrasom to reeatch them again
The 2010 one didn't have any ads in it, and I'm surprised this did because Yahtzee here seems to make it a goal to get every single wordvomit video demonetized into a highly localized recession.
@@ni.ko3869 To be fair, it would have been less effort to cut nothing. considering they were left in the original reviews, why put in the extra effort to remove content?
There are weird chunks cut out of it... Why? 2:41:40 Is supposed to say "This is gameplay design I would expect from a fucking rom hack, designed by Hitler." ...but the HItler part is removed. Weird.
I love how they cut out the references to hitler... causing the comments section to explode with “where’s the references to hitler?” Whatever problem they were trying to solve by editing the videos.. I’m not sure they made things better.
Fighting games are like skateboard games, the fun is to learn the system of unintiuitive shit so you can do cool shit by making your fingers into pretzels.
Are some of the videos missing? CoD4 was in 2008 and gets mentioned a lot but it didn't turn up. I think there's like nine videos missing that should've gone between The Witcher and No More Heroes.
0:06 Crysis
3:21 The Witcher
6:52 "PAINKILLER" short video
8:46 No More Heroes
12:11 Burnout Paradise
15:41 Sonic Unleashed
20:06 Condemned 2: Bloodshot
24:08 Super Smash Bros Brawl
27:57 God of War: Chains of Olympus
31:15 Mailbag Showdown
35:23 Grand Theft Auto 4
39:21 Painkiller
42:51 The World Ends With You
46:35 Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
50:42 HAZE
53:56 Metal Gear Solid 4
57:50 Webcomics
1:01:39 LEGO Indiana Jones
1:05:35 Alone in the Dark: Illumination
1:09:47 Age of Conan: Hydorian Adventures
1:13:50 E3 Roundup
1:17:54 Ninja Gaiden 2
1:21:49 Prince of Persia Retrospective
1:26:15 Soul Caliber 4
1:30:22 Braid
1:34:11 EVE Online
1:38:14 Too Human
1:42:18 Spore
1:46:14 XBLA Double Bill (Bionic Commando Rearmed and Castle Crashers)
1:50:18 Mercenaries 2
1:54:28 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
1:58:43 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
2:02:52 Silent Hill Homecoming
2:07:22 Silent Hill Short "Call for Mr. Mason"
2:09:32 Saints Row 2
2:13:39 Dead Space
2:17:41 Fable 2
2:22:21 Fallout 3
2:26:01 Guitar Hero World Tour
2:30:00 Deus Ex Song
2:31:00 Mirror's Edge
2:34:53 Left for Dead
2:38:31 Sonic Unleashed (Again for some reason)
2:42:56 2008 - Year in Review
2:46:32 Prince of Persia Remake
Thank you so much
Two lots of Sonic Unleashed, and missing Zach & Wiki. Very strange.
EDIT: Missing a few episodes by the look of it.
Thank you.
You would never realize it until 57:50 exactly how much Yahtzee hates Ctrl+Alt+del-comic.
@@count23all hates female comedy
I started watching ZP when I was 12 and am happy to learn that: 1. Yahtzee's old reviews still hold up today and it isn't just the tint of nostalgia that makes me remember so fondly of this. 2. I had at least somewhat decent tastes back then, even if I didn't understand half of the jokes or references he was making. 3. That Yahtzee is still producing content of similar, if not better, quality to what I enjoyed over a decade ago.
A good chunk of that is probably because Croshaw hasn't succumbed to his persona the way a lot of the early 'angry funny man on the internet' video reviewers have.
When you watch or read his more long form reviews it's very clear that even with games he doesn't like, a lot of the attitude is purely performative and he does put a lot of thought and has an interest in learning and articulating WHY he thinks some games are good and some are bad.
Meanwhile a lot of similar reviewers have devolved into caricatures of themselves in order to chase views.
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@@Bustermachine well put
yeah a lot of these Internet guys tend to fall victim to flanderisation
shows how sharp yahtzee's writing is, that he's still clever and entertaining after 15 years
I like to think that this is just a 2 hour review of a single game with a wide variety of gameplay styles and various levels of quality over the course of 80 hours of playtime.
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Heard of Mauler?
Duke Nukem Forever
@@Fernando-ek8jp beat me to it
@@mrdoctorcactus958 type of steyiya you sttttsttttcan get it to you sleep in the mail room or you text back your password for it and you don’t know how much it will ya
The game comic bit will never get old. I remember reading a nuzlocke comic on dA where the author arguably made an effort for having an original story, but the characterization was completely wrong for the "hero" who honestly was not open to discussion, complained about not being heard when everyone always pandered to her, blamed others for her short comings and lashed out violently when challenged. Funny enough when I pointed this out the author then accused me of not listening, blaming me for misinterpreting their character and lashed out violently for doing so.
Seems they were writing what they knew xD
Probably just a coincidence >.>
35:28 The text on the sign is higher rez than the rest of the video. So i looked up the original video (zero punctuation: grand theft auto 4) and found that the sign originally said "Hitler was cute". Ironic that a image created to illustrate controversy has been censored because of controversy.
Jim Nicholas insane pick up and true!! Bizarre choice to change it.
Also at about 18:53 in the actual review of sonic unleashed Yahtzee says he'd expect that from "a fucking rom hack *designed by Hitler*" but the "designed by Hitler" bit is cut out in this.
@@K3tamin3 Yeah I remember that now. How many other jokes do you think they've censored?
They removed a reference to Hitler in the Sonic Unleashed video as well at 2.41.45
Considering how easy it is to find videos taking that topic seriously on YT even without looking (or being the exact opposite opinion of those videos) removing the references was probably a smart idea. :P
My video started buffering when it heard crisis, I think my pc has PTSD
"Please.. no... not again"
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1:16:33 gets me every time
*Clap Clap*
OI!
So happy I found this comment
I liked Dead Space...and I still remember the scariest moment: I just beat a few necromorphs and was sure the room was clear - then I heard a mysterious banging. It persisted over the next few rooms and I got really frightened. Until I reached a room with a few bodybags, glitching out and making the noise by clipping through the floor...it's really sad that a supposed horrorgame induced the most horror in me through a bug.
24:30 GameTraders Robina
24:50 My Friend Guy's House
Never forget these lines in Super Smash Bros Brawl review!
Press F for GameTraders
In both rounds of the Sonic Unleashed video, there's a line that's been edited.
Original: "This is game-play I'd expect from a fucking rom-hack, designed by Hitler"
I sometimes fall asleep listening to these and the *clap clap* "OI!" at 1:16:34 made me almost scream.
Just wait until the Every Video Of 2019 compilation comes out, with each of these compilations included!
It’s interesting to see how Yahtzee started off relentlessly and uncompromisingly abrasive at every opportunity, mocking everything that moves and going as far as can be done, and yet if You look at His modern reviews, while very little has changed, there’s a definite difference in tone. He feels a lot more exhausted, and a lot less deliberately aimless in his abrasiveness. There’s more genuine seeking of quality and Art to Him, but tired and worn down by the endless sludge through what We refer to as Modern Gaming, but many others would refer to as A Vision of Hell. I think I prefer the modern stuff too, which seems counterintuitive to how Humans normally work.
Oh my God he's just an Aussie who swears at the vidya there's nothing deeper going on here
English, actually.
What's the difference? All white people look the same
I take it you’re American, then.
@@belltowersubductions5104 as an american: that's a very stupid statement. Besides: he's an american now, has been for years.
a lot of people seem to point out how harsh a lot of the old reviews are, but honestly even back here the positives of certain games are still retained. I always remembered ZP as being brutally uncompromising and vicious, but coming back it all feels a lot more lenient than i remembered when i was younger.
i feel similar, he’s obviously very vulgar, and definitely critical, but hey a lot of games deserve critique
and i think his critiques are usually valid even if they’re framed in an over the top comedic kind of way
1:16:32 i was kinda falling asleep and this scared the shit out of me and woke me up lmfao
*CLAP* *CLAP* OI
Gets me everytime I swear.
What video is that!! I love that bit but I always forget it
@@jackedwards2203 1:16:32, the E3 video.
@@johnjoyce1671 legend mate
4:03
And lo a meme was born, with staying-power the likes of which has nary been seen in all the annals of internet history.
Except in recent years, when those part of this "Master Race" have now been exposed to the pandemic that is the "Epic Store"
@@TheDuckClock so what your saying is: "they got what was coming to them"?
@@Druid-T lol wut? all of the problems with the epic store, timed exclusives, poor user privacy practices, etc etc are a page straight out of the anticonsumer practices of the console industry... how is it a comeuppance scenario? what did gamers do to deserve epic?
@@lucentauri9774 Watch his Kingdom Come review, the ending should explan. Though I do admit I was a bit too harsh in the joke
@@lucentauri9774 I mean, you can shout and whine all you want at Epic but it's not going to change anything.
The company that needs to lift their game is Steam.
4:10 There it is, words that started madness...
He also gave us PC dick-slurp all-stars
Ah yes, the origins of the PC Master Race.
Aazing that it came from the Witcher.
And people still to this day don't understand that it was ironic
We get that is ironic, but it doesn't change the fact that sounds fucking awesome you pleb.
@@ViktorKruger99 Sure it does. Totally doesn't make you sound like a Nazi sympathizer or anything.
@@DarknessInferno15 Casual comparisons to Nazis are quite irreverent.
Jesus Christ, 2008. Back when I was in 2nd grade, Yahtzee was making fun of games like a pro
Well here goes another 2 hours and 50 minutes of my life
** 2 hours 51 minutes and 16 seconds
The dialogue assignment of oblivion was fucked because they had lines recorded in alphabetical order to prevent spoilers for the voice actors.
A bad reason in execution for tone but noble in idea. Kinda like the levelling system too
I had never seen the Painkiller short video, I was laughing so hard I was crying.
18:54 “Rom-Hack .... “
Did they actually cut out the “ ...Designed by Hitler” -Part?
Shame. That was a funny joke.
i noticed that as well
Why did they cut it out??
Yes they did, probably for ad revenue reasons. Just like 2007 videos had edits
So they cut the Hitler joke but left the Hess joke in
It contains jokes about drugged prostitutes getting diced. Easy baby Hitler, this isn't censorship, it's editing.
I must go to bed when this one finishes.
Oh, its the next one already.
I must go to bed when this one finishes.
Me literally all the time
Why the hell are these censored? How the hell are you going to deal with the 50 Cent review?
Ikr? In the Sonic Unleashed one the "This is gameplay I would expect from a fucking romhack, designed by hitler." joke had the "designed by hitler" part cut off. Was almost looking forward to it because the delivery is so great.
I was coming to say this too. That weird censoring is fucking bullshit and need to stop it
half expecting russ pitts to pen a fifteen page op ed about how the 50 cent review is problematic (despite yahtzee's critiques still being the most resonant and absolutely correct takes to this day) and firing him for good
They’re trying to make it a bit more advertiser friendly so they can shove a bunch of ads in there
Considering people complained about Wolfenstein The New Colossus for being "political", a joke at Hitler's expense doesn't tend to fly as much with gamers in 2019 like it did in 2008.
I already watched the 2007 version 3 times so I'm gonna abuse this one too
I knew that they were gonna do every year! Thank you, Escapist!
You knew that because they announced it? Or because you have common sense?
I wouldn't thank them they cut out a few jokes
@@wearsjorge55 ?
@@Bashfluff there's a few jokes that have been covered or removed because they can be considered controversial (Hitler jokes for example) so while it's nice we have a compilation of all the episodes they aren't the original version so I'm not exactly pleased about it
@@wearsjorge55 Thankfully, everything they cut out was for the better, since a lot of them were moderately tasteless, so it makes sense that Yahtzee wouldn't want them in here in retrospect. Few enough that it's no big deal.
It's a simple thing, but I really appreciate you doing these!
After playing EVE for 5 years, I might know what those skills are.
Signature Analysis and Signature Focusing are both very similar named and it's been some time since I played. One may involve how well you can scan signatures while exploring while the other may speed up your lock on time.
Tactical Logistics Reconfiguration lets you use the Triage module formerly on Carriers but now it's on Auxiliary ships. Basically, it lets you become an immobile super healer.
Also, I still love how Yahtzee apparently lost a Drone Carrier Battleship to what is essentially a commercial truck while both were flying backwards.
Also, the markets in EVE Online are 98% player run. If you see it for sale, it's being sold by another player. The 2% comes from seeded items that players can't obtain or build such as skill books and blueprints but some savvy people buy piles of skillbooks and sell them for inflated prices at market hubs.
'I'd rather be stupid and having fun, than bored out of my super genius mind"
That's how I rationalize my alcoholism!
It is so weird to me that they censored mentions of hitler but somehow "mongoloid" made it through fine.
I'm betting the 'H" word is a quick ticket to being demonetized.
What's wrong with mongoloid?
Thats the algorithm for you xD
@@First-Last_nameit's a term for indigenous Asians and their descendants being used as a stand in for idiot
Mongoloid is funnier.
In case anyone was wondering, the 1 hour mark he is referring to Ctrl+Alt+Del
What are you talking about? that comic's title clearly says "Bontrol Bolt Belete"
@@The_Presitator it's an obvious name parody of ctrl+alt+del. he also vaguley references it as well.
@@barrierfire1o1 Yes, I know. that was sarcasm. I was hoping the over-the-top reaction and stating the obvious nonsense words would be enough to convey that.
Ah yes. Good ol Loss
I'm glad escapist is getting the traffic for these but shame about the censorship. I am wondering if Yahtzee okayed it and I'm not sure which answer is worse.
he cant do anything about it, they have the rights as per contract he signed with them
Actually this was probably done to quell youtube
It contains jokes about drugged prostitutes getting diced. Easy baby Hitler, this isn't censorship, it's editing.
@@09csr how many copy pastes of this did you post...
It's so they can still have TH-cam adsense and has little to do with The Escapist and even less to do with Yahtzee
1:30:55 freaked me out a little. I have never been called out like that lol
I had always wondered what it would be like to be named Adrian and watch that moment.
Man, 2008 was a rough year
It was a good one tho.
more great games came out in 2008 than we've had this whole console generation
@@user-pc9jq5qe9i like not even
@@user-pc9jq5qe9i Every game looks good in nostalgia vision.
@@maxhydekyle2425 Google games from 2008 and then games from 2018 and tell me I'm wrong
These give me a warm sense of nostalgia
Yes! Thank you. These are my sleep aid💜
Same here, some producers like Yahtzee, Oxhorn, Camelworks or FudgeMuppet can successfully keep me both engaged when I want but also drift me to sleep when I'm tired.
*clap, clap* _OI_
Yahtzee is the best ASMR, lol
I honestly thought I was the only weirdo who put these on at bedtime... ^_^
That theatre bit is going to be one of favorites until I die.
Love the shoutout to Columbo. One of my favorite shows.
I just realized that they’ve cutting parts of the videos.
Yea it is weird. One line here, one there
Are they censoring him?
Which ones?
In Sonic Unleashed, he says "This is what I would expect from a fucking ROM hack. Designed by Hitler."
In this version, they cut out the "designed by Hitler" line.
There are more but that is the first one that I noticed
Yahtzee will never see this comment but I want you to know that censoring yourself or being censored by the Escapist is pathetic and undermines literally everything you've ever done
I couldn't help but think of Dick Figures when Yahtzee was describing the webcomic with a cool, stable main character, the wacky foil best friend, and the nanny girlfriend character
There's so many that fit in. VGCats, Least I Could Do, Ctrl+Alt+Del, and practically every webcomic from the mid 2000s. This could even apply to things like Homestar Runner to some extent (which bums me out now that I think about it).
I think the only video game web comic that wasn’t terrible was Whomp
I will say, coming back to this 18 years later really reveals how the industry has changed/stayed the same in almost 2 decades.
As much as we now hate The Escapist, we need to archive this for the sake of history
i got distracted, not even listening halfway though the video when suddenly *clap* *clap* OI! 1:16:32
You're not the only one, jeez.
I was doing homework and I heard that
I was falling asleep
29:15 Yahtzee accurately predicting reboot Kratos
I conveniently got 3 hours left to live. No better way to spend it than to watch this.
R.I.P.
This is going to be a fantastic documentary!
18:55 they removed the line "designed by Hitler"
They censored quite a bit, like another nazi reference in Burnout Paradise. Sticking with the full Zero Punctuation playlist is better, even if means the window reloading every 5 minutes.
@@Klontruppe Or you can rush over to the unofficial collection and download them all while we still have them.
I appreciate the fact that we get official compilations now but the back catalog being censored is the reason I will hold onto those forever.
Oh no! Anyway...
Omg I'm drunk and I just looked behind myself when you said!!!!!!!!! I love you so much.
Did they re-edit some of these? It feels like the painkiller one takes out the "bad guys don't give me any kind of stiffy" joke.
Yeah some stuff have been edited away, though since they kept jokes about, say, drugged prostitutrs getting diced, I'd say it ain't down to PC:ness.
@@09csr it's weird because some gay jokes have been cut out, and some have been left in. All the Hitler jokes are gone, but the stuff about drugged prostitutes is still here. And the Sonic Unleashed video is in here twice.
Idk who edited this but it almost feels like they weren't really trying very hard, or they have some VERY specific hangups in VERY specific circumstances lol
"Why can't I marry my dog?!"
-Benjamin "Yahtzee" "Godzilla" Crowshaw.
Those 'shorts' are top notch, I almost forgot about them lol
From 2008 to 2023, ZP you will be missed
What do you mean? We still have Second Wind!
@ 45:34
Thumbs up for reminding me of Psycho Billy Freakout.
The Painkiller review got censored too, after mentioning the 'big fat architectural stiffy' he mentions the variety of dudes, and the bit 'they don't give me any kind of stiffy though, that would be gay' got removed.
Yup theres a TON of censorship in these new compilations. Like, holy shit soooo many redacted lines. A damn shame.
Um... You put the Sonic Unleashed review in there twice.
FutureBoyEXE I thought I was going nuts! I'm not the only one!
and parts of Mercenaries 2 were repeated too, but still, good video.
Yeah, very strange. I mean, they are literally just dragging and dropping one video after the other into a sequence timeline. You'd think they would notice if they dragged the same video down twice.
Sonic raced towards the end to get another one in
@@skepticallypwnd they're not. They're pretty heavily editing it in order so mistakes will happen. They cut out some jokes so they had to have done more than just play them in order
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they did a "Review of the Year" to cover Christmas that year that was the Sonic Unleashed review again.
I completely forgot about the Loss episode, and until now, I never noticed the Evangelion reference at 52:09
How is that an Evangelion reference? Yes, I don't get it.
"Every 2008 Zero Punctuation episode with no punctuation (except for the 10 ads we inserted throughout)"
Install uBlock Origin, no more ads anywhere.
@@swedneck which i use for pc, but sadly phones dont have adblocks ^^
@@EmberTheShark if you're on Android, there are hacked TH-cam clients with no ads
15:45 and 2:40:00 why is the same review for sonic in twice?
@@Sebastian_Athea They proofwatched it enough to catch every reference to Hitler and censor them out, if they care enough about thoroughness to bother making the videos worse and less funny they ought to care enough not to pull repeats.
It’s weird how I’ve only heard about Braid‘s interesting way to tell a story and Yahtzee more or less ignored it
The censorship in these compilations is pretty sad...
There are other channels that had those without any ounce of censorship, but good luck finding those before getting took down.
To be fair this video has still got away with using words like "Fagotry".
What do you mean?
@@TheBoshman95 a bunch of hitler jokes were cut out as well as others. Likely making up about 20 minutes.
It contains jokes about drugged prostitutes getting diced. Easy baby Hitler, this isn't censorship, it's editing.
Zero Punctuation: Greatest Hits of 2008
Nathaniel Foga trick question, they're all hits
Um excuse me, but there was a period at 1:43:00 so there is CLEARLY punctuation.
Top ten anime lies of all time.
RIP Zero Punctuation, 2007-2023
1:16:42 Yahtzee: “Twenty years ago, in the 8-bit era…” Me in 2024: 😅😅😅😅
awww man i finally watched it all, took like 4 says of random viewings but i did it
Kinda funny you mention a toy box full of stealth gear considering the most useful stealth tool you have is...
The toy box
In the original Fallout 3 review, the name at 2:23:03 is "fagballs."
If I was a had no self respect, self worth, lacked any and all redeeming qualities and found the only reasons for being kept around contained in the little mutations of common law that make it illegal to fucking off people, I might be blindly rageful - or even a tiny bit angry - about that PC retcon.
But I'm not.
And anyone would be is a fagball.
11 years... time flies
Doctor: You have 2:51:16 left to live
Me: Say no more
I used to think the line about shouting his favourite dessert and gaining superpowers was funny, until I was taught the Lemon Meringue Paioken technique
1:33:21 Ahh back when "thick" meant dumb, those were the times
You cut out one of the best jokes of the Painkiller review. You know, how the monsters don't give you a stiffy because that would be gay.
It's OK to be politically correct but that's a joke from a decade ago with a different context.
"Its ok to be politically correct"
No its not.
I wish they at least had the balls to leave them in and show the differences of the jokes then and now.
I would love to know if Yahtzee even knows they edited some of them out.
ohh good old times, when you did not have to tremble in fear, that you may offend someone.
@@Drragnorr Remember the good old days? Eh? The good old days? When you could still lynch black neighborhood teens? Member those? Can't do that now anymore, can we. Nooo, then it's jail. Member when you could be horribly racist and actively terrorize other people and ruin their lives? Can't do that now anymore. Live in constant fear of calling someone the n-word. It's only a word that's been used to dehumanize enslaved and terrorized groups for hundreds of years! What's wrong with that! It's political correctness gone mad I say.
MCHellshit Judging by your subscriptions, you sound like the exact kind of person your opinions imply you are.
Shame that the creator of the expected rom hack wasn’t credited in the Sonic Unleashed review this time around.
No its not you dunce
Time for some tedious work, made slightly more bearable by the ranting of our favorite mad cap game reviewer in the background
1:26:43 "blunt as roofing tiles". They're sharp as fuck actually, had plenty dig into my fingers and if you break one god help you.
I've watched him for years and I JUST NOW realized why he calls himself "zero punctuation"
He calls himself Yahtzee, Zero Punctuation is the name of the show
@@Shotblur Right, but it's zero punctuation because it's really fast speaking long statements. Punctuations like commas and periods make you pause. It's a pun on his selling point is how fast he speaks.
This is so great i got into zero ounctuation anojt a uear ago and binged that giant playlist with all of the ZP episodes and woth these i have a rrasom to reeatch them again
The 2010 one didn't have any ads in it, and I'm surprised this did because Yahtzee here seems to make it a goal to get every single wordvomit video demonetized into a highly localized recession.
Is it me, or are some reviews outright missing from this? I don't remember seeing the review for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune in this.
What's with all the censorship? Grow a pair, Escapist!
They rehired moviebob. What where you expecting?
there's hardly any censorship and i sure didn't mind so it might be the ones whining who are the sensitive sissies
ni.ko386
Many jokes have been cut out entirely.
@@ni.ko3869 To be fair, it would have been less effort to cut nothing. considering they were left in the original reviews, why put in the extra effort to remove content?
There are weird chunks cut out of it... Why? 2:41:40 Is supposed to say "This is gameplay design I would expect from a fucking rom hack, designed by Hitler." ...but the HItler part is removed. Weird.
Reason why Burnout Revenge is the best Burnout game.
"and for those of you that aren't paying attention CLAP CLAP OI"
1:16:32
You've got sonic unleashed in there twice...
I love how they cut out the references to hitler... causing the comments section to explode with “where’s the references to hitler?”
Whatever problem they were trying to solve by editing the videos.. I’m not sure they made things better.
The majority of viewers don't read comments.
@@cian2168 as well they shouldn't, as the comments are rife with natzis
"it's reallly not the same without the hitler reference!"
- someone who totally cares that much
58:34 ive actually just discovered MS paint,having no idea where its been before
Well this is awesome, thanks Escapist! :D
Anyone else watched these so many times they remember what song plays before the video?
2:08:30
Honestly thought TH-cam was glitching out and it was playing an Indeimaus video lol
Only time an ad break was actually welcome.
During the Spore review:
"Short answer: no. Long answer: Noooooooooooo- *ad break* -ooooooooooooooo.
His microphone isn't great but somehow it's more consistent than the one he uses today
i love the sound of the slightly shitty mic, it's comforting
Fighting games are like skateboard games, the fun is to learn the system of unintiuitive shit so you can do cool shit by making your fingers into pretzels.
Ah I still love the old ones
4:17 and thus a meme was born
Dunking on Lemmings for being wrung dry and not bringing up Lemmings Paintball is a real missed opportunity.
Are some of the videos missing? CoD4 was in 2008 and gets mentioned a lot but it didn't turn up. I think there's like nine videos missing that should've gone between The Witcher and No More Heroes.
29:16 Yahtzee predicted Dad of War
Does anyone know where that Painkiller re-dub skit bit came from? This is my first time seeing it.
That painkiller video.........