Do you have a source for the book sales? Not doubting you, just curious. Yahtzee has also done occasional freelance writing for big developers like Ubisoft so whatever happens I doubt he'll be short of work if he wants it.
Not really no, when I type up yahtzee croshaw in amazon I usually get mogworld as the first result which is why I said that. Also considering it came out in 20 fucking 11 and its the book with the least amount of shilling hes done I doubt his other books sold as well, outside of audio books. Jacques McKeown stuff mightve done a number or two here and there on audible.
I got confused between Nick Calandra and Jack Packard cause Nick seems like a good name which would fit that bald soyboy. Turns out baldie is still fucking there and abandoning RLM was one of the stupidest things he did.
I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him about it; but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.
The funniest thing about Blober is he got rehired as an apology for gamergate. But he fucked it up with...... defending cuties of all things and harassing people who called him out. Mainly memology101 who got his channel taken down at the time I think cause of Blober and I think that was enough to fire him. Fucking retard didnt have to defend cuties, he didnt have to harass people calling him a retard but he did both anyways.
I can't really be bothered too much, his content has gotten stale years ago and the recent Hogwarts review really drove home how much of a wokester and a sellout he is. Escapist is dead without Yahtzee and they know it, won't stop them from getting someone else to do his show for a few episodes or even using his AI voice, either way it will be a disaster and I am here for it.
Fitting that his last review was for a Sonic game and it is full of talk of toddler shit: Start with potty humor, end on potty humor, pottery. Next one was supposed to be Spiderman 2 and it would have been anti-climactic, at least he gets to shoot one last fish in a barrel.
Wonder what all the drama was about, that's the more interesting tidbit than some has-been finally quitting his gig. The only thing I will really miss is his end of the year roundups, since they were a good way to summarize the year in less then 10 minutes for the most part.
My favorite thing about Yahtzee has always been what he can do with language: wordplay, metaphor, simile, double-entendre, sense and reference, trailing off, trailing in, bathtub gin, etc. When he allowed his wife and Nick to tranny-poz-corpo-whip him, he fell off in his abilities to do this(funny how that works). He's been a shell of his former self for years and now here we are, everything's fucked. Probably some tranny discord groomer shit, but who knows. Let us remember and laugh at the good ol' days while we speculate and laugh at this current shit-show.
Pay extra-close attention from the 3:45 mark onwards. Cheers.
Review released in 2011 and even then he was whining about muh xenophobia. Makes sense him and Nick the soyboy ended up being such good partners later on in the future. There is only so much "Hitler Bad!" jokes you can make before you just boo the man and tell him to get some new material. How about a transexual joke for once? Oh wait, that one had to be changed because a good portion of his fanbase unironically likes sucking cocks, never mind. Maybe another Republican Stupid or Racism Bad joke will do!
I do agree, he hasn't been funny or even creative for a long time, and I think Youtube finally censoring him at the end was the last straw. No reason to do this kind of show if he has to watch what he says and substitute words, it's funny when done organically but if he has a gun held to his head over it then it's not the same.
Edit: Went on the Escapist page to see what it looks like out of curiosity. This is the first thing that greeted me
With such riveting and enriching content, is it any wonder the only show people watch is ZP?
IIRC the "Zero Punctuation" name was something The Escapist came up with, as is the music and titles. Anything Croshaw created while employed by The Escapist, they own, which is standard.
He can still make videos with the same art style (and so can they), but he can't call it ZP and he can't use the music or intro/outro cards. IIRC he got dinged pretty hard back when he was just a goon making these videos for fun, as he used copyrighted music for the intros, including A FUCKING BEATLES SONG (Octopus's Garden) in his review of BioShock.
I think it's understandable to just want to make your dumb videos and have money, taxes, benefits, promotion, etc. handled by someone else. That shit is a pain in the ass to wrangle on your own.
Then the questions becomes how petty does the Escapist want to be in fucking Yahtzee with threats of legal action. The Grand Tour is a good example of how petty this kind of thing can become.
Two Beatles songs actually, he used 'Hello, Goodbye' in Halo 3 as well. It'd be suicide in 2023 but I actually loved those old intros because it was fun seeing what he'd go with for any given game. The full ZP theme absolutely slaps though, I dunno why he never uses the guitar solo part.
They will forever be that band that I have heard in some form dozens of times if not triple digit amounts and I still cannot name or recall a song of theirs.
"[...] See, the rats tend to be dour and brutal and not the best people to call on if your restaurant's got a health inspection due, but there's also a nobility to them and they seem to be the only ones getting shit organized. Meanwhile, the mice are superficially good-spirited, but in keeping with our stealth activities, lean more towards being sneaky, thieving little cowards. And I hate their big noses and their monopolization of global finance... wait, what were we talking about?"
"[...] a 2D platformer on the Wii (Jeez, don't all crowd in at once, guys!)
known as "A Shadow's Tale" in the blimey, guv'nor, chips and gravy, bangers and chimney sweep, "Gor bless you, ma'm" UK, "Lost in Shadow" in the yee-haw, Big Mac and fries, pumpkin pie, Bay of Pigs invasion US,
and in crikey, stone the crows, kangaroo, ANZAC biscuits Australia it's known as "When the Hell Are They Going to Release This Fucking Game, Cobber?"
I know we're a bit out of the way, but we are the world's biggest island nation; it's not like we're hard to spot on a map. I had to import it from the UK and it showed up all smelling of chip fat and xenophobia. Not that I'm bitter or anything, but when the nuclear holocaust brings down Western civilization and Australia survives by virtue of being largely self-sufficient and in a position of little strategic value, I am so not sending you any of my meat pie floater. But I digress."
How is this 'whining' ?
I understand that ZP has run its course (to me the 'spark' was lost in 2019, yet his 2020 Last Of Ass II was on point*),
and that it doesn't have to be everyone's cup of tea (the Hogwarts Legacy review was an embarrassment I prefer to blame his editor for).
The least you could do is to provide context to ground your criticism,
because the opinions you disagree with do not invalidate the work the man has done.
Let's see how many books, games and weekly videos those shitting on past Yahtzee works manage to create.
Of course I'm biased. I admire his craft, body of work and willingness to create just because he was passionate about stuff.
Wish you could say the same about AVGN, Jimquisition and many others that seem stuck in a downward spiral, eh.
Yet at the same time, after listening to the Hogwarts Legacy review,
I hoped he gave closure to ZP, because it was clear for a while
his heart wasn't there anymore and it showed.
All in all, an impressive creative streak for a school dropout
that not a single one of his detractors (let alone anyone commenting here)
would have ever reached in the same circumstances.-
"[...] And corporate game dev being what it is, when I think of the developers almost certainly being exploited and overworked to make this miserable game so UNNECESSARILY LONG, I wince, viewer; I wince at the pointless suffering. 'Cos you could strip four or five hours of gameplay out of Last of Us II and lose nothing, then use the money you saved to make a low-budget platformer on the side about a funny cartoon dog on a quest to sniff all the butts, whose character grows when he realizes he doesn't have to define himself by sniffing butts. Bam! Compelling plot, and we didn't even have to retroactively make him a lesbian."
@Sawamura Simp
Come on bro, if you watched these back to back(like I sometimes do) you would know that every other video he makes a le hitler bad joke, even when it barely makes any sense. He's asshurt about him, just like he's asshurt about JK Rowling, which he made very clear in that Hogwarts video and he's the low hanging fruit of boogeymen/strawmen. No need to cherry pick a few different reviews where he makes safe-edgy jokes that go against the flow, but I will clip that (((rat))) video, thank you very much.
I watched ZP since its inception back in 2007, fell of in recent years unless he was reviewing a game I actually had an interest in. Yahtzee always struck me as the old school kind of liberal that used to be prevalent in the 2000s up until Obama's election made everything black and white (pun intended) and suddenly we weren't allowed to have fun anymore. He's used all the gamer words at different points in his videos, mocked the left and the right, and basically done what a comedian should do: make funny observations based on the scenario rather than based on what gets clout from the side you're desperately trying to court.
I'm sure he's become softer in recent years as a result of editorial pressure, YouTube's shitty policies, becoming a father/husband and just generally growing out of being an internet edgelord, but this idea he's been constantly making Hitler bad jokes instead of having mocked everyone is an autistic fantasy that could only be believed by someone just looking for a reason to hate him.
Wasn't he fired ages ago for doubling down on one retardation or another? I remember i used to watch The Big Picture (i think it was that show) up until that fucking retarded nu-Simpsons episode, which in hindsight was a very early example of "Don't trust your lying eyes, goy!".
I knew it was over something absolutely retarded but i couldn't remember it being THIS retarded. Cinema Robert forever banished to the Shadow Realm basement.
LOL, good fucking luck with that new venture. Escapist is dead now but no way in hell their new venture will amount to anything when nobody gives a shit about any of these nobodies. And even if Yatzhee does "fast talky man critic" he will lose a good chunk of followers purely from the mpre passive viewers that never find out he had to rebrand. They'll have the exact same problem, money is not coming in to pay everyone.
It is staggering to me that he basically created a product that kept another company afloat for years which effectively does not exist outside of his product and at the end of this he has nothing to show for it. His life's work, completely owned by another man after 15 years.
Double funny that Jim and Blob kept their namesakes. When Escapist was just Yatzhee he could have probably bought the whole thing for 5 bucks. That he can't even bank on his past catalogue while setting up something new is beyond pathetic.
People always wondered about why he stuck around with the Escapist despite the fact that he was basically carrying the entire channel by himself. I guess we have the answer now.
He really likes Nick? I still don't get it, on that period of time where Escapist produced NOTHING he still stuck around. I don't understand why he did.
Next game has a little bit of hype around it, and I have a feeling it might actually take off so even if he didn’t quit the escapist right now, I think he will quit if his game does gangbusters.
I know I'll regret asking, but what is it? Also, all of his non Zero Punctuation seems niche as fuck. The few times I've seen his streams, it's the most joyless slop out there. I just don't see him replacing Zero Punctuation with anything except more of the same.
No, you can't, as it infringes upon Fair Use. It's why you can make all sorts of fun "George Floyd fucks Anne Frank in the style of Pixar" images on Stable Diffusion.
That's not what Fair Use is (it's a way of using copyrighted material and creating something new without getting shut down), and that's a bad example anyway because there is no trademarked "Pixar style of animation", the AI just copied what it thinks it knows about Pixar animation.
There is something called "trade dress", which is why Yahtzee can't just "change the fedora to a baseball cap". The Supreme Court had a case in the early 1990s where a taco restaurant chain was a clone of its competitor (Taco Cabana Inc. v Two Pesos Inc.), because in real life making a palette-swapped copy of something with just a few minor changes is enough to get you shut down by the law.
"Where's YOUR webshow where you start off by complaining that MGS4 is too easy while playing on easy then keep doing the exact same thing over and over with the only change being a massively increased soylent intake once Anno Currentus rolls in? Huh? Huh?"
His games are at best okay, his books range from "meh" (Mogworld) to "please enter me spirits of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams" . There's also his failed game bar concepts that crashed and burned hard and also his failed pilot for a video game review show. Which was SO fucking bad that Ben is embarrassed to mention it. Hey, would you look at that I actually found that pilot. Enjoy watching Ben having all the charisma of a dried up fruit.
