Zero Punctuation's BioShock Opening

34 Comments by Michael Zenke Feb 20th 2008 3:15PM
Filed under: Culture, Features, PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, First Person Shooters, GDC, Machinima

Ken Levine gave an amazing talk this morning on the process of crafting BioShock's story. There were two video presentations during the course of the talk and one of them was a hilarious mile-a-minute clip from Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw - the twisted mind behind the Escapist's Zero Punctuation. We have a video of the clip, which was introduced by Levine as "their original idea for how to start BioShock", below the cut.

Tags: bioshock, featured, gdc08, ken-levine, yahtzee-croshaw, zero-punctuation

(Page 1) Reader Comments

CB: Feb 20th 2008; 3:17PM

That was hilarious. But it is true, some games just throw you in there expecting you to know everything.

theCardinal: Feb 20th 2008; 3:27PM

Uhhh... I don't think that was the point.

Nailio: Feb 20th 2008; 3:31PM

Gotta miss the days of the SNES where the story was in the instruction booklet, eh?

CB: Feb 20th 2008; 3:43PM

"Uhhh... I don't think that was the point."

*adds* ...in a short amount of time.

Manvir (El Homer): Feb 20th 2008; 3:50PM

*cough*mass effect*cough*

CubeGuy: Feb 20th 2008; 7:17PM

No! No! My avatar! Mine!

CB: Feb 20th 2008; 7:32PM

lulz

Count Noobula: Feb 20th 2008; 3:25PM

Lols

ogvor: Feb 20th 2008; 3:26PM

Can't understand it, hopefully it will be up with the other stuff he's doing for GDC at the Escapist.

Mr Khan: Feb 20th 2008; 4:35PM

Yeah, the echo combined with a rapid British-turned-Aussie dialect really doesn't make for good listening

Alex M: Feb 20th 2008; 5:23PM

The videos will be posted on The Escapist site at midnight.

Bucket: Feb 20th 2008; 3:37PM

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Ranus Studios: Feb 20th 2008; 3:39PM

His GDC videos will be going up in intelligible quality on The Escapist at midnight EST.

therpham: Feb 20th 2008; 3:42PM

I can't understand a word from all the echo.

LiK: Feb 20th 2008; 3:44PM

that is pure PWNAGE! LOLzz...

FoxHoundADAM: Feb 20th 2008; 3:55PM

Yeah it's hard enough to follow Yahtzee without the echo.

panzerjedi: Feb 20th 2008; 3:55PM

They used a Mac. Good for them!

dan stabbingworth: Feb 20th 2008; 4:03PM

OMG! PCs lack video playback capabilities! I need a laptop in a manila envelope to do such hardcore processing!!!

Anticrawl: Feb 20th 2008; 4:17PM

Hahaha, Apple fanboys are simply the worst.

Ignatius: Feb 20th 2008; 5:27PM

Yeah, screw PCs man, let's whip out some MacBook Air and play Crysis, no point in having a PC if Macs are apparently the standard.

rofl.

Zachary Hinchliffe: Feb 20th 2008; 6:00PM

it's people like you that make me ashamed to use Apple products.

fawazr: Feb 20th 2008; 11:36PM

Mac's are only used for music production, graphics and development. But PCs are capable of so much more. An AirBook would simply NEVER be able to crush Crysis. And with the amount of time you can spend playing games on a PC, you'll never have to get a Mac.

Saria the Cat: Feb 21st 2008; 6:50PM

Oh no! Someone with a preference that deviates from the norm! Quick, vote 'em down! God forbid we allow diversity.

jack shaftoe: Feb 20th 2008; 4:02PM

May I be the first to suggest that perhaps Yahtzee has "jumped the shark"?

DemonGSides: Feb 20th 2008; 4:23PM

May you also be retarded.

He's done nothing different than what he normally does.

jack shaftoe: Feb 20th 2008; 4:49PM

What I meant is that it wasn't very funny compared to his other stuff, and he is getting kind of oversaturated, like an indie band that starts getting heavy airplay on top 40 stations. And no, sadly I am not a special person.

Mr.ESC: Feb 20th 2008; 4:04PM

I'm not sure what he said because of the echo, the noise and the poor quality of the video but what I manage to hear wasn't too funny.

Neebs: Feb 20th 2008; 4:14PM

Can't wait for the hearable version to be up tonight.

Zootittles: Feb 20th 2008; 4:16PM

hurfnueferfryanfurfnurfnurfdurfplasmidsharfdurfflarffontainefloopfrarhfnarf

DemonGSides: Feb 20th 2008; 4:24PM

what he said was basically the beginning of Bioshock, before you get there, just with his normal speed talking way.

Nothing exciting, just a funny little video that they did with his help.

NATO_Duke: Feb 20th 2008; 5:24PM

I think people know that - they are all just joking about how poor the sound quality is.

antV: Feb 20th 2008; 5:43PM

hmmm, i didnt find anything very comedic about the beginning of bioshock, this wasn't anything close to the expletive laiden jibberish that i expected.

greenie: Feb 20th 2008; 9:34PM

probably cause its a more public appearance, so he likely had to be a bit more "PG-13"

ThornedVenom (Ludwig Defense Force): Feb 21st 2008; 2:11AM

Win move.

Yahtzee is becoming cult status.

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