Recent content by fugori

Why in the world is anyone complaining about the censorship? These shorts weren't designed for the standard web audience his videos usually are designed for.

There's a difference between Stoic and stoic, my friend. You're not the only person around here who attended a university of some kind, so kindly shelve the lecture on Stoicism and pick up an OED instead.

This continues to assume that he is obligated to run through the game, exhaustively chronicling every design flaw. He is not. His impression is a valid one, because it quite clearly describes some very simple problems that a certain segment of the gaming population might have with it at the...

Absolutely. From System Shock on (although SS1 is a pain to play now) it seems like the FPS genre has been taking the lead. Obviously Bioware and Troika were great big glowing exceptions, but, well, one of those companies is not quite what it used to be in my opinion, and the other is...

As far as the evidence that exists is concerned, I wouldn't say that he hates all RPGs at all. The vast majority of the individual games he reviews are ones that he hates. It's a part of his... shtick. I mean, how many FPSs has he reviewed negatively? Are we to assume that he just doesn't...

Thanks for considering my point. I suppose my rebuttal would be that the very idea of a review being objective is a flawed one. We shouldn't treat games like we do new species - to be picked apart and examined, then to describe in a dry, soulless, complete manner. A full-length commercial...

He never mentions Fallout. I was surprised by his dislike of Planescape. It really did seem like he was implying that he liked the game in that review, and while wordy, the writing in P:T is superb.

Why is it that whenever an individual disagrees with Yahtzee's assessment of a game - or his methods - they fall back into the same old rhetoric about these being entertainment pieces instead of actual reviews? In what way is an opinion piece, or something that is in some way humorous, not a...