Poll: Do You Still Like ZP?

[Psycomantis777]

To be honest, its the only reason I still come to this site. Im not that active on the forums, I dont watch any of the other videos that are put up and Ive usually already heard the news that is put up from other, faster sites.

Surely you've watched some of the other video's no? I came here because of ZP but I enjoy a lot of other shows regardless.
If you haven't go check out Jimquisition and MovieBob's stuff. They can both be justifiably hateful towards... everything.
As for news, yeah, that makes sense...

 

[Thistlehart]

IMO, it's like spicy food. After a while, you build up a tolerance to it. So, it's not the food that's changed, it's you.

So, do I still like ZP? Yes. I no longer have to pause the video to allow time to breath, but it's still good.

Best point in the first post. Well done, sir.

OT:
I'm with Madwarper on this one. ZP used to kill me, and while I may not nearly die laughing with it anymore, I still find it very amusing and look forward to each week's upload.

Granted, I don't agree with everything Yahtzee says (e.g. I rather enjoy Borderlands 1 and 2), but I still like to hear his thoughts on games.

 

[Vkmies]

Like AVGN before it, it's a formula that doesn't change much.Since it stays the same, you don't really laugh at the jokes that much after 5-6 years. But that doesn't make the show any less fun. Insightful commentary, wittiness, review-points still make it worth watching every week.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

I still love the show. It's the one thing that makes me look forward to Wednesdays. I'll admit that I don't laugh as much as I used to but it's more because I've desensitized to Yahtzee's style of humor than me getting bored of it.

 

[Fappy]

I still think his show's pretty fun, but I think he needs to shake things up and evolve his style a bit more. His show's become too consistent.

 

[Jeremy Meadows]

As long as he keeps pointing out horrible things in games (espically "realism" shooters) in a funny way, I'll still love him.

 

[Pink Gregory]

The possibility of getting stomped on by the companies that license the music in his personal collection, that's why.

He could not get something from the public domain?

How many pop music recordings are actually in the public domain though?

 

[ultrachicken]

I haven't enjoyed his videos as much lately. His last review was especially bad. Flip-flopping on his opinion of Doom 3, completely misinterpreting why people criticized him for naming MW3 and BF3 his 'Worst Games of 2011,' using the "I'm older than you so I know better" card, etc. It was just embarrassingly bad.

He really is just unpleasable. He complains about there being no good survival horror games and when he's given one (Siren: Blood Curse) he shits all over it. He complains about realistic grey/brown shooters and when he's handed some fun, colorful, and decidedly unrealistic shooters like Borderlands 2 and Bulletstorm he shits on them as well. He rages against sequels and reboots for merely having the audacity to exist yet the one game he can never shut the fuck up about is a sequel itself and some of his other favorites are sequels and reboots as well.

I pretty much agree with this. I still like some of Yahtzee's videos, but his negativity and hipster tendencies have been intensified to the point where his ZP persona (and maybe him, I don't know how much overlap there is) is completely unlikeable.

 

[Casual Shinji]

It's become formulaic, but that's what happens to every show that passes the 'one year running' mark. If you have produce a new episode each week for 5 years, it's not going to retain the same spark it started off with.

It hasn't become worse, it's become standard.

I still like the cut of his jib, and he always has something interesting to say regardless of whether it's extremely funny or not.

 

[Judgment90]

I admit they get a little stale at times, but I still enjoy the videos.

 

[Belated]

I still love ZP. I feel that there are fewer "memetic" moments in the series. Nothing will be quite as iconic as Yahtzee's ending breasts mantra. "Bosoms, melons, milk factories etc..." But that might be attributable to the fact that there are way more episodes and a whole lot more content to choose from that it's hard to latch onto major moments from a single episode.

However, I don't think Yahtzee's having "Sickboy Syndrome" or anything. The most recent episode, for example, was one of the most hilarious ones I'd seen in a while.

 

[Rariow]

I'm actually enjoying it more than ever, to be honest. ZP is what got me on the Escapist, and it's still my favourite thing on it (Though Jimquisition is slowly catching up to it). And, frankly, though a recent episode or two have been cringe-worthy (The Spec Ops: The Line episode in particular fell flat with the farting noises joke) I find that ZP is getting better, mostly because it finally seems to be regularly covering games I play, which seldom happened before.

 

[Darken12]

He really is just unpleasable. He complains about there being no good survival horror games and when he's given one (Siren: Blood Curse) he shits all over it. He complains about realistic grey/brown shooters and when he's handed some fun, colorful, and decidedly unrealistic shooters like Borderlands 2 and Bulletstorm he shits on them as well. He rages against sequels and reboots for merely having the audacity to exist yet the one game he can never shut the fuck up about is a sequel itself and some of his other favorites are sequels and reboots as well.

That's what he's paid for. He's not paid to give you an actual review on any game, he's paid to say funny things and curse a lot while talking about the latest releases. He's not a critic, he's an entertainer.

 

[ParanoidEngineer]

No, not really, I may stop watc- OW!

I'm sorry Yahtzee, I'll keep watching, just don't shock me agai- OW!

I. Love. Yahtzee. And. Will. Watch. His. Videos. Forever.

 

[kickassfrog]

I've bought games before based on his recommendations, (Well, looked them up online and read other reviews before buying, anyway) and I do agree with a few of the more valid complaints (e.g, the hanging out with people feature in GTA IV was like having my teeth pulled, dishonored was too short and banned you from the good ending if you murdered people, which all my stuff is good for).
But yeah, he is basically unpleasable. Not that stops him from being funny.

 

[vasiD]

So for a while now I just haven't been enjoying Zero Punctuation I don't know why it just doesn't make me laugh or even smile anymore, whats you opinion sorry if this had been done before and your tired of it but I haven't seen any.

I was just talking about this the other day with a friend. I do feel like the videos have hand laugh so I don't think it's that his sense of humor has worn on me... Don't know what it could be...

Maybe Yahtzee has lost his punch? Though seems more likely he hasn't had the same time to put into the videos with his Bar, and going to America, and the books... Who can say really. I'm willing to bet his fire will come back once things have settled down (or something really pisses him off).

What I find strange is while I didn't like Jim Sterling for the longest time, but after his Resident Evil 6 episode I suddenly love everything he does.

 

[PureChaos]

I enjoy it but not as much as I used to. Sure they aren't as funny as they used to be but they aren't bad

 

[Pero]

Yeah he really didn't make me laugh in last 8 or so episodes before XCOM enemy unknown but with warfighter/BFG review he really got back into game aka I laughed like I used to do.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I actually think he's gotten a bit better lately his humour seemed to dip for a while but now he seems to be back on form.

I'd recommend listening to his audio book version of Mogworld. Certainly any male elf rogue characters I have to name in a game from now on will be called 'Mr Wonderful'.

 

[Easton Dark]

I never liked it.

Not sure where the humor comes in. I'd much rather watch actual reviews. Yeah I find the escapist's game reviews more entertaining.