PAX East 2010: Why Journalists and Developers Hate Each Other

[Ricardo77]

I'd agree with you that Zero Punctuation isn't a review show, except that it's presented as such. If you ever read the comments on his videos, a large part of his viewers think of it as a review show. It's also not a "point out the flaws show", as he occasionally praises games that are worse in most aspects than the games he trashes. He praised Assassin's Creed and Gears of War 2, both of which were ok but not great, and Silent Hill 2, which is a great experience wrapped in a pretty terrible game, and No More Heroes and Killer 7, which are clever and fun but significantly flawed. And he praises these games while criticizing games like Smash Bros Brawl, apparently on the grounds that he has no friends, The World Ends With You, which he hated because it was Japanese, Bioshock, because it's similar to a game most people have never played, and Torchlight, because you have to click too much.

But you notice how he _always_ points out the flaws in games, that is the predominant theme in every video he makes, even if he has poor taste in games to some extent he will usually still point out it's flaws that he can find and attempt to milk it for laughs.

That is predominantly what the show is about the flaws he finds to comment on, and then try to make the audience laugh.

 

[omegawyrm]

I'd agree with you that Zero Punctuation isn't a review show, except that it's presented as such. If you ever read the comments on his videos, a large part of his viewers think of it as a review show. It's also not a "point out the flaws show", as he occasionally praises games that are worse in most aspects than the games he trashes. He praised Assassin's Creed and Gears of War 2, both of which were ok but not great, and Silent Hill 2, which is a great experience wrapped in a pretty terrible game, and No More Heroes and Killer 7, which are clever and fun but significantly flawed. And he praises these games while criticizing games like Smash Bros Brawl, apparently on the grounds that he has no friends, The World Ends With You, which he hated because it was Japanese, Bioshock, because it's similar to a game most people have never played, and Torchlight, because you have to click too much.

But you notice how he _always_ points out the flaws in games, that is the predominant theme in every video he makes, even if he has poor taste in games to some extent he will usually still point out it's flaws that he can find and attempt to milk it for laughs.

That is predominantly what the show is about the flaws he finds to comment on, and then try to make the audience laugh.

Yeah, you're right. I'm primarily just frustrated by all the people I know who take everything he says as word of God. I really love video games, in all their forms, and I just feel like Yahtzee is part of a movement in gamer opinion that makes me very uncomfortable.