History Headscratchers / ZeroPunctuation

** No, it's a face photographed by an artist which was - according to Yahtzee - the best fit for 'emotionless' he'd ever seen in his life. I'll try and dig up the video interview in which he mentioned it.

*** Well, only if freakishly-large hands counts as a super-power. Not everyone has the hand-capacity for that style of holding a controller (likely the same people that derided the XBox's original controller size).

* So in his [=AssCreed=] III review, he compares the game constantly shoving historical figures into your face to TheMagicSchoolBus. This comparison....makes no sense at all. Magic School Bus focused pretty much solely on science IIRC, not history. A better example would probably have been something like LibertysKids.
** Okay, here's an answer: How many of his viewers would get a Magic School Bus reference? Now, how many would get a LibertysKids reference? He deliberately chooses the reference that is incorrect in order to maintain the comedy-more people know what the Magic School Bus is and would chuckle at the reference. Or, to put it bluntly, it's RuleOfFunny.

* Why does Yahtzee sound so different in some of his reviews than in others? For instance, listen to him in the [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1148-Assassins-Creed-2 Assassin's Creed II review]] and the [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1118-Call-of-Duty-Modern-Warfare-2 Modern Warfare 2 review]] just a week earlier. In AC2 his voice is much smoother and a higher pitch compared to the normal kind of gruff voice. And then there's episodes where his voice swings the other way and is much deeper than normal. I can understand deeper from colds or being tired. But higher and smoother? What gives?

*** The "And?" is the part where there was no History in The Magic Schoolbus(AFAIK). I watched 3 seasons of it (back when Discovery Kids in Brazil had programming for kids older than 8) and I don't remember anything of history. There was Chemistry, Ecology, Anatomy, Zoology, Physics... but no History as far as I remember. Unless there's more than one Magic Schoolbus, that's quite the problem.

** TheOtherWiki says otherwise - "The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service lists the game as a prohibited item". OUCH.

***** I play like that since I had a PS1, and I was like 11. It can't be that hard, if a kid that used to have blisters from playing Mario 3 on the NES can do it!

* So in his AssCreed III review, he compares the game constantly shoving historical figures into your face to TheMagicSchoolBus. This comparison....makes no sense at all. Magic School Bus focused pretty much solely on science IIRC, not history. A better example would probably have been something like LibertysKids.

****** Pedantic? The magic schoolbus doesn't have any history in it. That's not being pedantic, that's pointing out that the comparison makes no sense. He might as well compare it to ''SpongeBobSquarePants,'' since that was a popular show and thus is a fair comparison.

* Why in his FarCry2 review can a siren be heard in the background around 2:10?

* In his ShadowOfTheColossus review, he said that he's never seen a perfect game. Wasn't he the one who said that there was nothing wrong with VideoGame/{{Portal}}?

* Does anyone know what's the deal with "dangling a penguin by a string on the end of a stick"? I noticed it in his Infamous 2 review, where it illustrated him disappointing his parents. Then I noticed it again when I rewatched the Super Mario Galaxy review, where he uses it to entertain himself while auto-running the minigame that earns money. Anyone know the story behind it?

* Did he say a single word in the ''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/8789-The-Legend-of-Zelda-A-Link-Between-Worlds The Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds]]'' "review" that can be applied to [=LBW=] itself, as opposed to the Zelda franchise in general?
** I thought that was kind of the point, [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent him taking the opportunity to temporarily piss off Nintendo fanboys away so that he can discuss Nintendo's more serious problems without disruption.]]
** Does that negate the fact that he outright ''lied'' in the video title? Because he did. And nobody was stopping him from calling the video "What's wrong with Nintendo's current business strategy" or something.

* Did he say a single word in [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/8789-The-Legend-of-Zelda-A-Link-Between-Worlds the Link Between Worlds]] "review" that can be applied to [=LBW=] itself, as opposed to the Zelda franchise in general?

** [[{{Discworld}} It is a pun, or play on words.]]

** There's a difference between a game being in a given genre, and a game being a copy of a previous game.

****** Pedantic? The magic schoolbus dpesn't have any history in it. That's not being pedantic, that's pointing out that the comparison makes no sense. He might as well compare it to ''SpongeBobSquarePants,'' since that was a popular show and thus is a fair comparison.

* After recently re-watching his ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' review, I noticed two things that don't make sense. One comes from Yahtzee, which I will voice normally, and the other is a mistake from Irish-Yahtzee, which I will voice in a stupid [[TalkLikeAPirate pirate accent]].
** He said that [[MonkeyIsland2 the second Monkey Island game]] deliberately set up its ending so as to eliminate any chance of sequels. That's not actually true. Now, I can understand him not having gone around the internet to find the truth of Gilbert's plans for the series, but that idea was proven to be not true by TheStinger in that very same game. Not to go into too much detail, suffice it to say that it's proven ''not'' to be AllJustADream, forming a clear SequelHook. Actually, that misconception comes up a lot, which ''really'' bugs me.

***** So you're just being incessantly pedantic then. Liberty Kids was not a huge hit in England, if at all. MSB ''was'', which is why he used it as a point of reference.

*** Plus, it makes it easier to read [[SelfDemonstratingArticle after all a run-on sentence can be notoriously tough to make sense of even for native speakers of the language so putting in punctuation is just a matter of making especially when jumping from topic to topic speaking of topic changes how about that weather?]]