16 years of mostly excellent content, that's a hell of a record. And hopefully he continues to create in some form. I'm interested in trying out his new game Starstruck Vagabond when it comes out, it looks promising.
0:00 - The Darkness Demo 2:57 - Fable: The Lost Chapters 6:15 - He announces that he was hired by The Escapist 6:52 - Heavenly Sword / Resident Evil 5 Trailer 11:46 - Psychonauts 15:54 - Console Rundown 19:37 - Bioshock 23:06 - Tomb Raider: Anniversary 26:19 - Manhunt 29:29 - Peggle 32:41 - Halo 3 36:02 - Tabula Rasa 39:11 - The Orange Box 43:04 - Super Paper Mario 46:38 - Medal of Honor: Airborne 50:26 - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass 53:50 - Clive Barker's Jericho 58:13 - F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate 1:01:16 - Assassin's Creed 1:05:30 - Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 1:08:55 - Mass Effect
Hearing these reviews from 2007 in 2019, I'm reminded of one of my favorite quotes from Yatzhee. "Let's all laugh at an industy that never learns anything teeheehee"
"Overall, though, I like Assassin's Creed. At least it's trying something new and different to the legions of clones stinking up the market." -Yahtzee 2007
It's like a flashback to when the hero and the villain were friends in high school. "YOU WERE MY BROTHER, ASSASSIN'S CREED! I LOVED YOU!" *"I LOVE MONEY!"*
To be fair, 2007 was pretty much the season of hacky slashy type games, so AC was a breath of fresh air, now it's kinda the opposite. So many games have this mandatory open world do as you please AC stile, that an og God of War or anything really, would be like a glass of water to a bloke who is stuck in a desert.
I recently read a 2011 review of _AC: Revelations_ that began with "A satisfying conclusion to the stories of two main characters is marred by potential series fatigue..." Understatement of the gaming decade.
Ah 2007, back when Bioshock was revolutionary, Call of Duty showed impressive narrative quality and Nathan Drake was a budding Playstation icon and mass murderer. Simpler times...
I'll take it. It's not like RUclipss algorithm is anywhere near smart enough to recommend these to me and I don't fancy spending an hour digging through a search bar to find them. So this is a welcome gift.
An hour? It took 25 seconds to go to their playlists and click the open mod arrow once to find the over 700 zero punctuation videos playlist & while yea not only just the reviews but also streams but they can be skipped
I was 12 in 2007, watching this video makes me appreciate how much Yahtzee improved my ability to insult people, he is single handedly responsible for the dozens of hours I spent in the principles office as a child, and I will always love him for that.
I remember watching X-play on G4 and having some of these early episodes played in full on the show to give him exposure, I was in middle school at the time and since then I've yet to let a Wednesday pass without watching the show. Keep up the great work Yahtz.
"...we've reached or nearly reached the point where graphics aren't going to get much better" - 2007 Yahtzee Makes me wonder how wrong I am when I think that these days.
The amount of times I said "oh just you wait Yahtzee" in this video were astronomical. Like when he said Assassin's Creed was new and fresh, or when talking about how casual games were threatening the hardcore. Remember the days when Popcap seemed like the biggest threat to a strong narrative driven single player experiance? Those were the days...
That is plausible because according to my calculations, this entire series is around 2 days long (to be precise, 1 day, 23 hours, 50 minutes, and 24 seconds.) according to your comment, you have rewatched this series around 1000 times. That is ~2000 days. Assuming that your sleep schedule is as screwed up as mine and you watch this series every second you are awake, you watch this for 12 hours a day. 2000*2=4000 4000 days is 10 years and 1/6th of 10 years. 1/6th of 10 years is around a year and a half. 11 years and a half is under 12 years, which is how long this series has been alive. So it is plausible you have watched this series 1000 times.
And I miss the evil noticeboard from the Fable review. Probably because of the picture of Hitler on it. Too bad, I loved that joke. Are we really that sensitive in 2019?
As big a part the old Zero punctuation was to me as a teen, how outdated it looks would make it hard to justify for me. I'd probably do it if he actually remade the visuals in a current resolution. Probably quite a few months of work, to be sure, but I think probably doable since it's a slideshow and how used Yahtzee is to this format. Bonus points if they can license the original music intros. Could be wrong, but provided the Escapist can market it competently, I think they could turn a good profit on that. And I do think it'd just be nice as a means of preserving it for the future.
This is the year I graduated and was looking for quality games.. Yatzhee recommend Deus Ex, Grim Fandango, Thief series, Anachronox, System Shock 2, Silent Hill 2, The Dig, Pyschonauts, Planescape Torment ect.. no regrets and so much nostalgia from back then.
"there tends to be a knee jerk reaction to perceived racism these days" me in 2020: "ahahaha how quaint. he thought 2007 had problems with outrage culture."
17 of october of 2007: "Episode 2 does suffer a little from being the middle child, there's no real beginning and no real end so the story tends to meander around and it's difficult to shake the feeling that we're just killing time before the next episode wraps it all up. " We are in 2019 and no episode 3
Really appreciate you guys putting them out like this. When binge watching ZP youtube often runs in circles unless I watch a playlist. And a loud ad every 5 minutes that I skip anyway is the bane of my existence! But as a compilation it's perfect to watch while doing stuff.
The image at the end of the Tomb Raider _hurk_ Anniversary review of Yahtz kneeling in front of the TV and shaking his fists in a deranged frenzy while rattling off every word for breasts that he knows is fucking superb.
I like how 2007 Yahtzee sounds like a surly primary school student who's been forced to read an excerpt from a textbook. Much different to the openly aggressive, explosively cynical tone of his later work.
Would actually be nice to get the intros/outros just for this year. I loved the thematic song choices and it was one of the reasons I first started watching (literally been following his videos for 12 years now, I'm getting old).
Yeah. They made the guy who uploaded the complete collections of zp take his videos down so my guess is they are planning on doing them all at some point
Ive gone on binges of this before but youtube being youtube, sometimes it forgets how to do a list so this can be both useful and fun in the future, more so if you do every year!
In hindsight, the ZP trailer announcing Yahtzee's move from his original channel yahtzee19 to Escapist Magazine, in my opinion, would've benefited from a few seconds of The Police's "Message in a Bottle" for the messages in bottles reference as opposed to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition". Whether or not it was on the nose, it would've felt appropriate to use that track instead. Still, just my opinion.
He is a modern day video game Oracle. So many of his horrible game suggestions have become reality over the years. It’s fantastic on one hand, and terrible on the other. Between him and Jim Sterling they basically predicted every shit game design decision over the last 10+ years.
Yahtzee, the very definition of same shit different day & I love it. I was introduced to Zero Punctuation from a UT2004 pack back around 2011. It was a Yahtzee playermodel with a voice pack containing various lines from various episodes. Instantly fell in love with the guy lol.
"I like Assassin's Creed." 2007 was wild. Also wishing that games stop relying on graphics and focusing on more depth? *looks at Anthem reviews* We've learned nothing....
I know editing these compilation videos together must be the biggest chore in the world. To whoever's doing it, though, you're doing God's work. If i ever meet you when you're done, i'll buy you a drink.
Its just recoding the video and pausing then cutting out the intro outro and adjusting the volume rinse and repeat about 700 times. Nothing too hard at least.
@@TheReZisTLust I mean, i said i'd buy them a drink. I didn't promise to buy them a yacht. A few hours tedium for the benefit of many people is worth the gift of a beer, yes?
“You can now enjoy Zero Punctuation every Wednesday on the escapist magazine.”
Godspeed, Yahtzee, you charismatic stallion.
16 years of mostly excellent content, that's a hell of a record. And hopefully he continues to create in some form. I'm interested in trying out his new game Starstruck Vagabond when it comes out, it looks promising.
People questioning the need for this have never gone to sleep listening to Yahtzee's sweet voice
it's insane how relaxing it is hearing him rant for 4 hours, I can barely get through 30 minutes before I'm asleep, it's so blissful
Legit came to say this. Now I actually want to know how many other people do this
Yahtzee's voice is perfect for after work traffic also.
Good to know im not alone on this
with the benefit of not having a way louder than it should be intro going off every 5 mins
0:00 - The Darkness Demo
2:57 - Fable: The Lost Chapters
6:15 - He announces that he was hired by The Escapist
6:52 - Heavenly Sword / Resident Evil 5 Trailer
11:46 - Psychonauts
15:54 - Console Rundown
19:37 - Bioshock
23:06 - Tomb Raider: Anniversary
26:19 - Manhunt
29:29 - Peggle
32:41 - Halo 3
36:02 - Tabula Rasa
39:11 - The Orange Box
43:04 - Super Paper Mario
46:38 - Medal of Honor: Airborne
50:26 - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
53:50 - Clive Barker's Jericho
58:13 - F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate
1:01:16 - Assassin's Creed
1:05:30 - Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
1:08:55 - Mass Effect
Respect
Damn my dude, very nice 👍🏻
I'm pretty sure you're only allowed to watch this vid in one sitting, in keeping with the zero pauses theme.
You’re not the hero that we deserve, but you’re the hero we need.
Not all heroes wear capes
Hearing these reviews from 2007 in 2019, I'm reminded of one of my favorite quotes from Yatzhee.
"Let's all laugh at an industy that never learns anything teeheehee"
"Overall, though, I like Assassin's Creed. At least it's trying something new and different to the legions of clones stinking up the market." -Yahtzee 2007
It's like a flashback to when the hero and the villain were friends in high school.
"YOU WERE MY BROTHER, ASSASSIN'S CREED! I LOVED YOU!"
*"I LOVE MONEY!"*
“Phrases That Aged Like Milk”
Oof that didn’t age well
To be fair, 2007 was pretty much the season of hacky slashy type games, so AC was a breath of fresh air, now it's kinda the opposite. So many games have this mandatory open world do as you please AC stile, that an og God of War or anything really, would be like a glass of water to a bloke who is stuck in a desert.
I recently read a 2011 review of _AC: Revelations_ that began with "A satisfying conclusion to the stories of two main characters is marred by potential series fatigue..." Understatement of the gaming decade.
It's funny to hear the dramatic increase in sound quality after he was hired by the Escapist.
Ah 2007, back when Bioshock was revolutionary, Call of Duty showed impressive narrative quality and Nathan Drake was a budding Playstation icon and mass murderer. Simpler times...
This is true and it's also sad... You made me sad gaming became this weird toxic thing
And casual games were still good and mostly consigned to the PC.
And when Half-life 3 was 100% going to happen.
And Assassin's Creed was new and unique
@ben dover Back when mgs was good...
At 39:58 "While [Valve] have aspects one and two down they continue to struggle with 3." Is damn funny to me in hindsight.
wow, the change in Yathzees voice through the ages is amazing.
And an improvement in the microphone he uses
Remember when his intros had random classic songs in it? Those were the days
The potentially screwed, demonetized unlicensed use of intellectual property days... I'm with you! But I also get why that changed lol
Pajamapants Jack aren’t you the same person who wrote the devil Spider-Man song in those comments
They weren't random they had some relevance to the reviews entirety
This is the darkest time line. We actually are in the future where every game is Captain Bland’s monotonous adventure
no, it's not that bad. just almost every AAA game and a good portion of indie games.
Spoiler: We were already there - 'cause Yahtzee was already bitching about it xD
Looks like Christmas came late that year. Twelve years late.
I'll take it. It's not like RUclipss algorithm is anywhere near smart enough to recommend these to me and I don't fancy spending an hour digging through a search bar to find them. So this is a welcome gift.
An hour? It took 25 seconds to go to their playlists and click the open mod arrow once to find the over 700 zero punctuation videos playlist & while yea not only just the reviews but also streams but they can be skipped
You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop and think of if you should.
They should and now they did
I hope this comment gets pinned.
Get your "Deep" twitter quote ass out of here
Do bots upvote this dude
@@Tylericous yes
I was 12 in 2007, watching this video makes me appreciate how much Yahtzee improved my ability to insult people, he is single handedly responsible for the dozens of hours I spent in the principles office as a child, and I will always love him for that.
R.i.p. zero punctuation. You will be missed 2007 - 2023
I remember watching X-play on G4 and having some of these early episodes played in full on the show to give him exposure, I was in middle school at the time and since then I've yet to let a Wednesday pass without watching the show. Keep up the great work Yahtz.
never knew they put him on TV, that's pretty hilarious given how unrestrained he is
@@danielg3857Admittedly, all of G4/TechTV was unrestrained at the time.
"...we've reached or nearly reached the point where graphics aren't going to get much better" - 2007 Yahtzee
Makes me wonder how wrong I am when I think that these days.
He wasn't wrong then.
@@thatdapperfellow Agreed. I don't graphics have gotten *meaningfully* better since Crisis.
The amount of times I said "oh just you wait Yahtzee" in this video were astronomical.
Like when he said Assassin's Creed was new and fresh, or when talking about how casual games were threatening the hardcore.
Remember the days when Popcap seemed like the biggest threat to a strong narrative driven single player experiance? Those were the days...
OH and when he said Half Life 2 Ep2 would be good to play while waiting for episode 3, I laughed out loud.
I got an hour to waste
Why not
I've already rewatched every episode like 1000 times
A Dreamer same
Well what are you waiting for? Train your cat to fly a kite.
That is plausible because according to my calculations, this entire series is around 2 days long (to be precise, 1 day, 23 hours, 50 minutes, and 24 seconds.) according to your comment, you have rewatched this series around 1000 times. That is ~2000 days. Assuming that your sleep schedule is as screwed up as mine and you watch this series every second you are awake, you watch this for 12 hours a day. 2000*2=4000 4000 days is 10 years and 1/6th of 10 years. 1/6th of 10 years is around a year and a half. 11 years and a half is under 12 years, which is how long this series has been alive. So it is plausible you have watched this series 1000 times.
@@progect3548 way to take a joke seriously. well done, I'm impressed.
44:39 they removed the line "for my crippling fear of catching the gay".
1:08:54 they removed the line "I'm not gay"
So clearly he caught the gay. cheers
Yeah they removed some other lines too.
30:50 They also tightened up the slide transition timing here.
CENSORSHIP
And I miss the evil noticeboard from the Fable review. Probably because of the picture of Hitler on it. Too bad, I loved that joke. Are we really that sensitive in 2019?
Zero Punctuation on blu ray please
Yes!
fuck I'd buy all of ZP on blue ray without commercials
And uncensored, unlike this
Would buy in a heartbeat!
As big a part the old Zero punctuation was to me as a teen, how outdated it looks would make it hard to justify for me. I'd probably do it if he actually remade the visuals in a current resolution. Probably quite a few months of work, to be sure, but I think probably doable since it's a slideshow and how used Yahtzee is to this format. Bonus points if they can license the original music intros. Could be wrong, but provided the Escapist can market it competently, I think they could turn a good profit on that. And I do think it'd just be nice as a means of preserving it for the future.
Strap in boys, it’s going to be a long one.
Back when we thought an hour, twelve minutes was “long.”
Ah yes, here we go. This is very handy.
Yeah, I could use one. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This is better than pornhub
Hey, watch your mouth!
This should be on pornhub
Oh, shit, you guys ARE doing them retroactively.
Very much appreciate it.
But the real question is did Yatzhee ever find out what Twing-Twang was?
It’s a lesbian act performed with a bowstring >.>
Remember when a new Half-Life game came out? Now _that's_ nostalgia.
I am sad now.... BoJack is appropriate
Guess what...
18:02 little did he realize the increase in disc space with a blue laser, which was responsible for the upscaling, would be astronomical
This is the year I graduated and was looking for quality games.. Yatzhee recommend Deus Ex, Grim Fandango, Thief series, Anachronox, System Shock 2, Silent Hill 2, The Dig, Pyschonauts, Planescape Torment ect.. no regrets and so much nostalgia from back then.
Wow, 12 years back and Assassin's Creed was trying something new and fresh and interesting.
"there tends to be a knee jerk reaction to perceived racism these days"
me in 2020: "ahahaha how quaint. he thought 2007 had problems with outrage culture."
How old are you? Maybe you should have traveled throughout the American south after the Obama election.
17 of october of 2007:
"Episode 2 does suffer a little from being the middle child, there's no real beginning and no real end so the story tends to meander around and it's difficult to shake the feeling that we're just killing time before the next episode wraps it all up. "
We are in 2019 and no episode 3
December 2024 says hello 😅
Its quite staggering how yahtzee has kept his writing so fresh and funny all this time.
Really appreciate you guys putting them out like this. When binge watching ZP youtube often runs in circles unless I watch a playlist. And a loud ad every 5 minutes that I skip anyway is the bane of my existence! But as a compilation it's perfect to watch while doing stuff.
"I'll jab forks into my eyes if I ever say that about any game ever again"
I guess he has no eyes... since he said the same thing about Undertale :)
but there's a comma Yahtzee 0:21
whoosh
I remember seeing some of these on X-Play on G4. Hell of a time
Those were his first few episodes. I remember those days as well.
The image at the end of the Tomb Raider _hurk_ Anniversary review of Yahtz kneeling in front of the TV and shaking his fists in a deranged frenzy while rattling off every word for breasts that he knows is fucking superb.
I was JUST making a Playlist that other people have compiled with no punctuation. Thanks Escapist! Now my views can go where they need to.
The end of an era
I like how 2007 Yahtzee sounds like a surly primary school student who's been forced to read an excerpt from a textbook. Much different to the openly aggressive, explosively cynical tone of his later work.
it's so weird hearing his younger voice!
and cadence.
RIP Zero Punctuation 2007-2023
2007 was 25 years ago. Really makes you think.
Really makes you think.
Off by 100%. Oh well, better luck next time.
Really makes you think.
Look at these two peasants still living in 2019
we truly do live in a society
Swear to god these 2000s Internet videos have such a vintage feeling to then
Feels great to relax to
It's as if Escapist knew I'd been binge watching all the episodes lately... *suspicious eyes*
YES! Thank you, these are awesome ❤️
Would actually be nice to get the intros/outros just for this year. I loved the thematic song choices and it was one of the reasons I first started watching (literally been following his videos for 12 years now, I'm getting old).
Super late to the party, but I would assume they couldn’t do this for the same reason he stopped doing those: Copyright
Ah, 2007. An 8-10 hour campaign being called too short for a AAA shooter. Within ten years it was notable for the campaign to still exist
The doom fortress thing always gets to me. Most people don’t know about them. But they were called Flakturm and definitely existed.
yes! I hope they do one of these for every year of zero punctuation! I love putting them on in the background while I work.
This was the golden year together with 2008
His older videos have become a sweary museum of video game history.
I actually never saw anything earlier than The Escapist channel... So I'm excited for this
2007 is one of the greatest years for gaming of all time.
Zero Punctuation: most gamer's favorite bedtime story
to think that Yahtzee was asking everyone to stop focusing on graphics and just make great games all the way back in 2007 :(
Are they going to upload every year of Zero Punctuation?
Hopefully
Yes, Yahtz said they will on one of the post zp streams.
Yeah. They made the guy who uploaded the complete collections of zp take his videos down so my guess is they are planning on doing them all at some point
They've done it for 2 years; I don't see why they would stop now, it can't be that hard to make them.
@@evo555666 I was under the impression they'd actually got his files as well
i love that instead of just removing the compilation videos of zero punctuation the escaist figured out what people want and also gave it to them
The first 2 videos (Darkness/Fable) weren't really part of Zero Punctuation. They were called Fullyramblomatic Review.
16:00 "Like the residents of a backwards Louisiana swamp."
10 years before the release of RE7 this was.
God I was hoping this would happen!! I often binge this show in the background while doing stuff! Yes please do all the years.
I love how much growth you can see from the beginning to the end the video
and yet in the very 1st video there was a punctuation. 3/10
Fullyramblomatic. Wasn't ZP until the 3rd game
This makes me so happy. Now I have the best thing to fall asleep to. Thanks!
2007..... the golden era...
It's that time of the year again folks: The yearly binge of all the available ZP compilations, let's heckin go
Thank you so much for posting this
Oh boy, time to binge the entire ZP archive again!
I was 8 years old when this came out. I'm now 24 😢
I like being validated from the comment section in so far as I’m not the only who listens to these to go to sleep.
Ask, and we shall receive! Awesome to see 2007 done too! More, please!
Ive gone on binges of this before but youtube being youtube, sometimes it forgets how to do a list so this can be both useful and fun in the future, more so if you do every year!
In hindsight, the ZP trailer announcing Yahtzee's move from his original channel yahtzee19 to Escapist Magazine, in my opinion, would've benefited from a few seconds of The Police's "Message in a Bottle" for the messages in bottles reference as opposed to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition". Whether or not it was on the nose, it would've felt appropriate to use that track instead. Still, just my opinion.
Listening to this review in 2021. He said in 2007 Graphics are going to get much better. Holy crap they did. He also said Blu-ray wasn't much better
46:31 It's amazing how prophetic Yahtzee was on the future of Paper Mario
check on 35:40 and think about "live-services" and the uselessness of criticism nowadays....fucking eye-opening.
He is a modern day video game Oracle. So many of his horrible game suggestions have become reality over the years. It’s fantastic on one hand, and terrible on the other. Between him and Jim Sterling they basically predicted every shit game design decision over the last 10+ years.
I needed this when I couldn't sleep. Thanks
I watch the Wii Vs PS3 Vs 360 episode every time there's a new console generation. I am an old, old man, man.
Wow the half life 2 episode 2 review broke my heart a bit, ah how naive we were
Man, what a nostalgia filled video.
Strangely I died around one third of the video, after holding my breath for 25 minutes.
That audio quality is god tier.
We are Just kiling time before HL epsode 3 comes out... Tô 2007 Yahtzee i have a bad new to tell
Man, remember when everyone sounded awful on the internet?
They still do, it used to be audio quality, now its the anti-opinion hate rants that make people sound awful.
Yahtzee, the very definition of same shit different day & I love it.
I was introduced to Zero Punctuation from a UT2004 pack back around 2011. It was a Yahtzee playermodel with a voice pack containing various lines from various episodes. Instantly fell in love with the guy lol.
Does this DVD comes with the director's commentary?
"I like Assassin's Creed." 2007 was wild. Also wishing that games stop relying on graphics and focusing on more depth? *looks at Anthem reviews* We've learned nothing....
It's been like that for a decade and a half. People NEED as much realism as they can get.
OMG thank you for brining those back
I have been watching Zero Punctuation weekly for 12 years.... What has my life come to...
What has your life BEEN? answer? Ehh probably mediocre
This is one of those videos you sit and watch, and then suddenly realize you've sat there for an hour without realizing it until it ends.
'University of Smart Arse'... he said marching in with his chest🤣
Haha, 2007, when you couldn't tell the difference between DVD and BluRay
A puppy obidience school with an unusually large security detail. Fucking brilliant.
Oh thank god hopefully they make more of these compilations.
This takes me back, thank you!
I know editing these compilation videos together must be the biggest chore in the world.
To whoever's doing it, though, you're doing God's work. If i ever meet you when you're done, i'll buy you a drink.
Its just recoding the video and pausing then cutting out the intro outro and adjusting the volume rinse and repeat about 700 times. Nothing too hard at least.
@@TheReZisTLust I mean, i said i'd buy them a drink. I didn't promise to buy them a yacht.
A few hours tedium for the benefit of many people is worth the gift of a beer, yes?
12 years on and Valve really don't get the "released more frequently" part xD
I listened to all of these when i worked at Walmart before the hell virus made working as a grocery stocker a first responder tier job
i dont know why this is here but i like it