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Zero Punctuation likes Orange Box, but loves Portal

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 17th 2007 4:24PM

We've gotten used to the saucy Brit named Yahtzee hating whatever he reviews in his Zero Punctuation pieces for the Escapist; so imagine our surprise when a little ray of sunshine crept into the latest video (found after the break). This week Yahtzee tackles The Orange Box and generally seems dismissive of the whole thing -- except for Portal, which he loves. Yes, even ornery Yahtzee has sold out and is having a love-fest with the game, just like many on the Joystiq staff.

Regarding Portal, the typically acid tongued Yahtzee says, "[Portal is] the most fun you'll have with your PC until they invent a force feedback codpiece." The Orange Box seems to have a little something for everyone, even for people like Yahtzee. Now how long will it be before the Portal theme song becomes a spontaneous geek sing-along anthem at every gaming convention?

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Tags: halflife2, orangebox, PC, portal, teamfortress2, theorangebox, Xbox-360, yahtzee, zeropunctuation

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I damn well knew the portal song would be a possible anthem at geek gatherings. I exprect to see many a plushie Weighted Companion Cube.

expect*

Yes, please.

nice pic

wow

best reviews ever mate, i hope to see more !

Meh, wasn't as funny as his other ones.

But kudos for using Tenacious D's Tribute at the end.

that song is amazing

Did you miss the "fuck you" part?

My computer cannot run this game.

Does well on the Flash-based portal though.

flash portal is fun, i'm stuck on 38 tho. i know how to do it, it just takes a while and it glitches randomly for me.

It glitched for me too, but if you turn the graphics all the way down it gets smoother and less glitchy.

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

Aperture Science:
We do what we must because we can.

for the good of all of us
except the ones who are dead

But there's no use crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying til you run out of cake.

And the science gets done,

And you make a neat gun,

For the people who are still alive.

I loves me some Zero Punctuation

Once again he is DEAD on the money.

force feed-back codpiece

and that's all i have to say about that.

We interviewed both the voice of GLaDOS, Ellen McLain, and Jonathan Coulton on this week's episode of Evil Avatar Radio.

http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37849

I give you the link hours ago ¬¬

this makes me want portal even more

but i still cannot be bothered with buying the entire orange box for the one game :(

Then log on to Steam and just buy Portal for $19.95. Nobody is forcing you to buy the entire package.

I bought it for portal. Currently not liking anything else on it, to be honest.

Can't say I don't recommend giving in, though.

my PC wont run it, i meet the minimum specs but its shitty at running games so my experience would be crappy unless i went out and bought a new one. To play id need the 360 version

He apparently doesn't remember the Magnusson character from Half-Life 1? Granted I had to be reminded by the commentary, but he was the guy arguing with Dr. Kleiner about whether it was safe to do the test at the beginning of Half-Life 1... much like he argues with Dr. Kleiner in Episode Two.

Whaaaaa...Yatzee....likes...a game? A new game? WHAT!?!?!?

Apparently he's not a fan of the series.

Or maybe I'm just an idiot for playing it for the story and whatnot. An interactive story is far better than a movie, so when the story, acting, and writing surpass most of the film industry, what else is there to do?

But that's my opinion. Yes the games are linear, so what. Half-Life 2: the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion wouldn't work out so well methinks.

And portal just rocks. Plain and simple. I want more Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube!

I don't always entirely agree with this man, or rather, I don't always find myself quite as bugged about the irksome parts of Bioshock as he was, but...

He cracks me up far more than any reviewer/video blogger ever has.

He should really remove his tounge from HalfLife 2s balls. I got extremely bored with episode two about 1hr in and have no plans on finishing it. But TF2 and Portal are actually really good games and makes the orange box worth it, even if HL2 is starting to show its age.

Oh yea

For the good of all of us...except the ones who are DEAD.

but there's no use crying over every mistake

kinda agree. Half-Life 2, while it is a great game, it is nowhere near the greatest fps status pc fanboys have been giving it.

It may not be the greatest, but it has done more for the genre than most. The original Half-Life was a truly innovative product and Half-Life 2 was a brilliant continuance.

That doesn't mean it's the greatest (because that term is always subjective) but it's damn bloody brilliant.

You know what's funny is that you're all wrong and it actually IS the greatest. Who knew, right?

I think people are getting the wrong impression. The guy seems to enjoy the HL series. You can hear in the video that he refers to it as "...a beacon of good design practice in a vast wasteland of cookie-cutter something-or-other". So there you go.

Or to be exact, he likes it for what it is, but doesn't like it for where it's heading.

i agreed with every single thing he said. He brought up some good points about valve's lack of quick release episodes :(

Dammit, You guys have that song stuck in my head now. Does anyone have an mp3 their willing to share?

http://hypem.com/search/tenacious%20d%20tribute/1/

That site rules.

The cake.... is a lie.

The companion cube would NEVER lie to me.

NEVER

But it might threaten to stab you.

I love his Manhunt review: it starts out boring for a couple hours, starts to get really fun, and then goes to shittytown.

Just posting to point out that he also loved Psychonauts! ;) So it's not all be a hate-fest.

I think everyone means that this is the first new game he's given a glowing review to.

I suppose. The impression I got from the Psychonauts review is that it's an average platformer with a wacky difficulty curve, but I should buy it anyway because the story is really far out. And in the future, I should always opt for the far out stories rather than enjoyable gameplay experiences.

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