crazy...

stupid.. but hey if he's getting some dough then it's all good.

HOVA

If it's an actual preview, I'm going to skip it anyway. I really enjoy waiting for the real one to come up on Wednesday.

Karlott

A couple of you pointed out how crappy G4 is with all the Cops/Cheaters/Ninja Warrior shenanigans it has going on. I agree. They show WAY too much of that stuff. G4 was meant to be a video game and tech channel. They've stooped to the level of Spike TV in my opinion. Not that Spike started out as a gaming channel, but they show arguably the same amount of original video game related content.

Anyway, back on topic. I think that this is somewhat ridiculous. However, I guess his videos can use all the promotion they can get.

Gamer-Named-Tim

censoring his working on x-play will destroy his work and integrity.

If his work is censored i will not watch it anymore.

Mr.DuckSauce

Good stuff, Mr. C could use the exposure, and G4 could use a show that doesn't suck.
Given Yahtzee just went and did what G4 has been failing at since they launched, I'm glad to see their willing to prostrate themselves any way they can to get a shot at his sweet, scary man-love.

cynopt

hmmm why do I get the feeling the days of the foul mouthed ZP reviews is over. Seeing as they are more than likely being PAID to be on xplay...the man might need to clean up his language a bit. (sadness I know)

Dreadfish

No thanks i will stick to watching them on kotaku with all it's un-bleaped goodness and besides Morgan "manjaw" Webb scares the living shit out of me!!!!!!

MURDERFACE

Wow

captronj

Yahtzee must have seen an increase with the big sacks of money he was receiving. Now maybe two sacks. All in all, I just hope they don't butcher the reviews and censor them, that or Yahtzee changed his tone geared for the show.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

Yahtzee must really be enjoying his ride on that big boat made of money.

Zamzoph

@Bookburner: No we don't, but hell if it gets him more publicity/monies then great. They guy deserves it. I won't watch because it'll spoil it.

TearsandScreams

@Likwit: Thats pretty undergruond

Rockwallaby

but they're still going to be on the internets too, right?

v00deux

And the world will implode in 3... 2... 1...

Mico Mico Nurse

Well there goes Zero Punctuation, right down the toilet.

GiantEnemyCrab

I am actually really scared that all this pressure is going to get to Yahtzee and the quality of his videos will start to go down, i love them so much i really hope he can keep it up...

K-Squad! (Badass Edition)

I love Yahtzee, but is this really the best thing for X-Play?

PsycheDiver

@Asper:

You just put into words what I've thought of the show since the change. It just isn't X-Play anymore. Adam and Morgan aren't themselves, rarely interact and there's almost no spontaneity. You can't have a review, interview or preview without the annoying "live chat" going on on the side, which essentially consists of 15 year olds making fart jokes. When Extended Play went to X-Play and they added Morgan it still felt like X-Play. This was a complete overhaul and it was for the worse. I wonder how the ratings have held up? At least ZP will bring a little life and humor back to the show, even if previewing a 2 or 3 minute review is absolutely ridiculous.

Sloopydrew

@STRANGELOVE

lol...yeah, ogle away. I enjoy the new format. They look like more professional game reporters than they did of old. And certainly more so than they ever have looked at Gamespot in their video reviews, etc. hehe

Highlar

@Highlar:

I admit I haven't seen the show in it's current, re-formatted form. I'll be happy to give it another shot, at least to ogle Morgan Webb for a while ...

Strangelove

@STRANGELOVE

That's kind of it, though, really. If you look at the way its set up now, I don't see it as exactly for the "Xtreme!" group. It appears to be going for the more legit, gaming/news angle than for an "XTREME DEW GAMER CHALLENGE!" angle, and I like that. It feels much more professional now than it did before, and it helps that Adam and Morgan both appear to dress more maturely now than they did before. lol I just with they didn't try to cram everything into tiny segments on the half hour show. With the time slots now for each part, they really CAN'T get much "intelligent discussion" in. If the time were extended on the show, I think it would make for a much better gaming experience than what it is now. But as for the new show in general, I think its a trend in the right direction.

As for the skits, yeah, I think they went WAY over board previously on the skit things, although...for me in particular...I rather got a kick out of the X-play Musical. I liked how their own game bombed. hehe... I thought it was pretty tongue-in-cheek of them as a comment on some of the games industry as a whole as well, how too many people try to rake in some fast cash on quick cash-in games, and don't take the time to really work on them and make them right. :)

Highlar

@PapaBear434: Hahah, random side note: My wife would pick Bam Margera of all people... :(

Adam In Texas

@Highlar:

My problem, personally, with X-Play is twofold:

1) The content, or lackthereof. There are way too many unfunny skits, the musical episode, etc. and too little actual game info.

2) It's Xtreme! It just seems like it's pandering the the Mountain Dew, 14 year-old, boobs are awesome and farts are funny crowd. Not that I don't like boobs. But, for me, I expect more intelligent discussion, insight, and news than X-Play provides.

Although the new(ish) anime-style intro is kind of cool.

Strangelove

Yahtzee- the only intelligent person in the room (and he's not even there).

blackadvent

i bet Yatzee would find this extremely ironic and humourous/

Yes you heard me. HUMOUROUS. With a U

haha...ha... :/

Onizuka-GTO

I'm sure they would love to show the whole thing, but they would have to severely censor it. But more exposure for Yahtzee is a good thing.

TheRemedy

I think the only, and I mean, ONLY time I ever watch G4 is during E3. It's like the NFL draft for geeks.

Though, I wish they'd just let us watch instead of cutting out in the middle of the press conferences for commercials every five minutes.

PapaBear434

I really don't see what people's problems with X-Play are. If you don't like it, don't watch it. *shrugs* I find it to be really the ONLY TV show that I can watch that is really even remotely about gaming now (AOTS isn't about gaming anymore so much as it is about other things), so yes, I watch X-Play. I've seen Adam not just on X-Play but also his appearances on AOTS, and some other places, and he doesn't seem to be like a bad guy to me. He seems to like and enjoy games and gaming, and to me, that makes him one of the good ones in my book. Morgan I've never been completely sure of, though, as far as "gaming knowledge and passion" goes. But Adam I enjoy watching when it comes to GAMES and GAMING. They have knowledge, and they share it. And when it comes to teh gaming industry, we don't get that on TV really anywhere else. At least not in my area of Maryland on cable. Also, I like the new format. I've always wanted to see a show that covered MORE of the industry. The only problem I have with the format now: its way too short. They try to cram as many segments as they can into a half hour, which really doesn't work. It should be expanded to at least an hour long show, so that they can really SHOW some things, and get more reviews in. As it is, with the half hour format and competing with the other sections of the show, we are lucky to get 1-2 reviews a show, and that's about it now. Open it up to a 1 hour show, Adam and Morgan, and I think you'd have more of a hit.

Highlar

"the most-watched video game show on television"

Where I am... it's the ONLY video game show on tv.

Tenth

Although I approve as far as ZP getting gobs of cash.

imaria

Of course, I clearly watch X-Play all the time and this will change my life!

...or, I could just go straight to The Escapist and watch Zero Punctuation without hearing anything getting "3!..... out of 5" a hundred times.

imaria

I don't watch a lot of X-Play because it's pretty terrible. But I did catch the episode with Jeff Gerstmann. They were bashing Fox News for sensationalized broadcast and then they come around with a topic of "Japan short on innovation". Way to go. Singling out an entire country when developers in very country dish out rehash after rehash.

I'm glad Jeff Gerstmann was above this and brought something logical to the table.

BigBlueCheese

@PapaBear434:

*is moderately ashamed to have had, likely, the same wallpaper for his phone not long ago*

I may not pay too much attention to X-Play anymore, but I still read her blog at least once a week.

Heliophage

@PapaBear434:

Should I got the chance? Man, I'm a goober with bad grammar today....

PapaBear434

Noooo! A bastardized version for X-Play? Maybe they'll bleep the naughty bits instead of generally censoring the content.

@PapaBear434:

Yeah, she's hot. So's Kristin Holt. But Olivia Munn, my friend, is unbelievable. Goddamn those half-Japanese girls, they do it to me every time ...

Strangelove

@Likwit:

"I'm so cool that I think fill in pop culture icon here sucks. Seriously, I'm totally counter culture and shit. Your favorite TV show? It sucks. Same with your games. And all your music can't compare to my garage-recorded indie rock. It's so totally edgy, you've never heard of it. And if you DID hear if it, it would then suck so much, I would shun it. THAT'S how cool I am."

PapaBear434

@DONNYchiban:

Was G4 ever ZDNetTV? I think G4 was G4 and TechTV was ZDTV, which eventually after becoming TechTV was sold to G4 and became G4TechTV, before being consumed entirely.

I understand your position, though I don't think I had been watching it all that long. The first episode of Gamespot TV I saw was the preview of Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore for the PS2, and it didn't feel like too long before the gears were already turning for Extended Play.

I'd have to be pretty fucking bored to watch it nowadays. I'm not sure how much that has to do with the new format and how much it has to do with not really getting much from it anymore, though.

Heliophage

I don't care what anyone says. Morgan Webb is my Goddess, and I would fall to my knees and worship should I got the chance. The wife has approved her as my "if you had a chance in hell" person and everything (her's is Brendon Fraiser, if anyone was wondering).

Oh, and X-Play has it's moments, when it's not completely awful, and I find Adam and Morgan to be the only two people on G4 that seems to know anything about games and are remotely watchable.

/goes to look at the Morgan-Bikini-Wallpaper on my phone...

PapaBear434

If the channel had more things about games and less about ultimate ninja and cop shows id think about watching it.
But anyway, why watch zero punctuation on tv at a distinct time when you can see em on the interwebs?

Maiken

@Asper: EXACTLY! I'd been a fan from X-Play since G4 was called ZDNetTV, and X-Play was called Gamespot TV. Yeah, back in them days when it was Adam and Kate Botello. I really loved everything about the program, especially the hilarious skits.

However, fast forward to January 14th(?) when they adopted the new format. I swear I saw about 3 episodes before I'd seen a single review. I can't even tune into the show anymore - it's too much of a disappointment. It's not Adam and Morgan's fault, but man. I can't watch them anymore on their own show. :(

DONNYchiban

You know you've made it big when you're a blip on G4.

...hee hee...

No, really, congratulations to him and his. I'm glad he's getting more attention and new fans from the few people who aren't aware of him already. It's not entirely surprising, but it's nice all the same.

Heliophage

Too bad ZeroPunctuation isn't funny.

Likwit

is G4/x-play that desperate to get viewers?

willyolio

"Within a few weeks, he became one of the most famous and successful people on the internet."

Ah, to be young and naive. And stupid.

Kind of a strange move, honestly, but I don't really see anything bad coming from this. I doubt the the reviews will be tamer in the future, just brutally edited for cable television. Of course, even if it wasn't, who watches G4?

HJungle

Why not just play the whole thing.

You know, a preview of a 4 minute web trailer sounds really silly to me.

Still will be better then anything else on g4

huginn

$_$

Wyld

Asper-
It's "cool" to bash X-Play because it's fucking awful.
The jokes aren't funny. The "facts" are untrue (according to X-Play,no Ghostbusters games are coming out,and no lightgun is available for next gen systems other than Wii). The reviews are excuses to try to unfunnily MST3K the games. Morgan Webb's voice makes my ears bleed,and Sessler's attitude makes me want to punch him in the mouth. They're the two smarmiest people ever to live. Sessler doesn't understand the difference between Miss and Ms.
Even though I did think of other things to say,I'll still point out Webb has an adam's apple. Also,she wants all women in the gaming media to be treated as equals to the men,yet uses her body to become popular,with swimsuit pictures and such.

kidnicky

ZP + XPlay = money. Good for you ZP, and no this isn't sarcasm.

ghnvt

Lowtax from SomethingAwful must be crying in his Mangosteen over this startling revelation.

quentinr

how would the formula work for a preview?

"This week Ive been playing Devil may cry 4, which is a button mashing slash..."

COMING SOON TO AN INTERNET NEAR YOU

the_dudefather

Is it just me, or does this really scream out like G4's just begging for the interwebers to start watching their channel?

NoFunShogun

@Gadgetron:

"meh i'll stick with going to the direct source. Yahtzee and [www.escapistmagazine.com] deserves the traffic not G4 or other sites for that matter that feel as if they were the ones to discovered him.

I know what ya mean.. but it's not all bad, this will introduce him to more people that might not know about him and that's a good thing.

PlasmaMachine

A hard day's work, that's a good one!

Anthropomancer

I want cursing... :(

Oh well, it'll just get out to even more gamers and people that only play on Live or watch TV.

ph15h

G4 TV: riding coattails since 2001!

Buttah

I know they'll have the bleep everything out, but I've always found the "bleeping" to add to the humor of it. Just the hint of a "uck" or "hit" or "enis sucking whore" is great.

PlasmaMachine

meh i'll stick with going to the direct source. Yahtzee and [www.escapistmagazine.com] deserves the traffic not G4 or other sites for that matter that feel as if they were the ones to discovered him.

Gadgetron

@Kj719: Yea, its re-runs of Cops episodes with "chat" features on the bottom of the screen and trivia and crap in between commercial breaks. Sorta like what they did with Star Trek TNG when they were showing that.

I had to watch it for like an hour once while I waited for my friend to get his oil changed and I wanted to gnaw my own neck from my shoulders at about the 10 minute mark.

DashTheHand

@ihatepeterh: That's its on 21 hours a day is a bit of a problem.

Len Bias Cocaine Surplus

"Runaway success" doesn't even begin to describe ZeroPunctuation. I hope Yahtzee sleeps soundly on his huge pile of money.

Gunhaver

Personally, I think Yahtzee should be given his own show on G4TV and X - Play should be scaled down to a three minute weekly video on Escapist Magazine. I think the viewership would increase.

MiyamotosChin

I wasn't aware anyone even watched g4... ever since tech tv was merged (murdered) I've made it a point to avoid the channel like the plague. So yeah, I'm still bitter about that.

I guess it's good to see things comming Yahtzee's way though, I like his sense of humor and his reviews are usually spot on.

Chillblain

I actually just traded in my hooker with three sets of genitalia for a copy of Devil May Cry 4. Go figure.

Nightshift Nurse: Nursier and Shiftier

Even I had to stop watching X-Play after it got past a certain degree of pandering and vapid. They were good for a while - a long while even.

Maybe I'll have to record some and check them out soon. The recent ep with Gerstmann sounded almost like a Fox interview with their stragegy of taking an assertion, making it an assumption, then basing everything around it BEFORE discussing. I have to give Jeff credit for that - I hadn't watched him before, but he didn't fall for it that time and argued that games in general are getting derivative, not just those from Japan. The hosts seemed to think that because of Portal, Bioshock, and CoD4(?) that all Western games were cutting-edge innovative now and everyone else is slipping... lol

fuchikoma

2008 - The year of Yahtzee.

Ride it well - you're already on a crash course with the surface of the earth. Soon teh hardcore will be calling your reviews 'old' and saying things like 'there's no originality'

Bitten by the hand that feeds, you just can't confirm it yet.

Love the reviews for the most part. :)

sadkermit

@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: You say that like there's something wrong with Ninja Warrior.

ihatepeterh

@JustJake: There's a 2.0 version of Cops?!?!?

Kj719

@JustJake: Maybe they will transmit it in slow mode cause yahtzee speaks very fast...

TOCATL

Ten bucks says his reviews only caught popularity because of Kotaku.

balls187

Yahtzee is awesome, can't say the same about X-Play though :o/

Kj719

@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: Dont forget Cheaters. I swear one day I was off of work and the only thing they showed all day was Cops 2.0.

JustJake

This seems to indicate G4 shows something other than Ninja Warrior and Cops.

Len Bias Cocaine Surplus

Wait a 3 minute review is going to have previews? Stupid Xplay trying to cash in on something that is popular.

JustJake

This is a publicity stunt that is bound to fail. I mean the reviews are funny, although entirely inappropriate and vulgar. Last time I checked, X-Play was on G4, not HBO.

Hiero Glyph

I'd prefer they play the whole thing, but then of course they'd have to censor the language and who the hell wants that.

DashTheHand

I appreciate Zero Punctuation as much as the next guy. . . But do we really need previews of the reviews? O.o The reviews aren't exactly long to begin with. What are we gonna get a random yellow screen with the sound of the censors beeping out the profanity?

This just seems sort of odd and more like X-play trying to co opt the "cool" of Zero Punctuation.

Bookburner

Every bit of success/money/recognition he receives is alright by me. He's one of those guys that you want to root for.

robotplague

I didn't mind the old X-Play, regardless of how popular it is to bad mouth them ("OMG MORGAN WEBB LOOKS LIKE A MAN AND I CANT THINK OF ANYTHING CLEVER TO SAY"). Their new format doesn't set well with me. I miss their horrible jokes and horrible skits. It reeked of jaded cynicism. Now it appears like they're trying to do this "legitimate news" thing and it just doesn't work for me. They come off like a 24 hour news network, trying to cram information in wherever they can in a desperate attempt to fill time.

Asper

Congrats to Yahtzee, but thumbs down to X-Play and their manufactured non-sequitur. I can't stand to watch that show any longer than 60 seconds.

Klaymen

Previews? For a 5 minute review? That's ridiculous. Why don't they just show the whole bloody thing. Would be better than watching Sessler doing his hyperactive ADHD act.

Queasy

Everything about ZP is gold. From the concept, to the writing, to the delivery, to the visual presentation.
I would expect nothing less from someone named Yahtzee.

ncsbert

@Nglan: XPlay Zeropunctuation = ThreeKids One Piece?

Setzer IIDX

Wow he has come a long way from being just some guy on youtube. Congrats to Yahtzee keep the funny coming.

Deadeyereborn

The funny part is, he was a starving, wretched, miserable writer on a humor site up until he made his first video review. (True fact from his site. He mentioned it enough.)

Within a few weeks, he became one of the most famous and successful people on the internet.

Kirbytheslayer: is dancing

Wow he's going to have to tone down all the bad language then :-) otherwise the X-Play things going to sound like Morse code with all the bleeps.

Nglan

I hope they keep it nice and foul! Last thing I wanna see is a sanitized version of ZP.

-EDGE-

How silly.

Heyyou27