Poll: Does Yahtzee affect your game purchases?
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I normally just purchase what I want to get and I focus mainly on newer IP's that intrigue me. Normally, I've played and beaten a game before I listen to someones review to see if we saw eye to eye on certain things. So no, Ben has no affect on my purchases but I love to listen to his opinion.
Come to think of it, most of the games I play are free, or I bought them ages ago oO
In fact, other than Minecraft I don't think I've bought a game since, like, March or something. Wow.
In fact, other than Minecraft I don't think I've bought a game since, like, March or something. Wow.
I don't really care if he thinks a game is bad, like take the black ops review (wait I hated the single player part of that game too, never mind) but it is fun to watch his videos in the same way I love Douglass Adam's hitch hikers guide to the galaxy series, the amazingly odd metaphors and images both create, and so Wednesday nights have become my "funny 5-minute long rant nights" however if Yahtzee says a game's good, I always but that game somewhere in my "buy once I get some extra cash" list
Not at all. I tend to agree with his opinions, but that's just coincidental. He's brilliant entertainment, and that's it. He does critique games to a degree, but it's infused with so much hyperbole and intentional comedy that you'd be silly to take it completely to heart. That said, I don't base my buying decisions on one review from anybody.
He can affect what I buy sometimes.
I'm not going to not buy something if he doesn't like it, but if he says he has issues with the game for reasons that also irritate me, it'll make me question whether or not I should buy it.
I'm not going to not buy something if he doesn't like it, but if he says he has issues with the game for reasons that also irritate me, it'll make me question whether or not I should buy it.
of course people take him seriously. hes a critic and as eccentric as he is, he understands what makes a good game. actually i remember watching his condemned 2 review. a little while later i saw condemned 1 on the shelves for like $10 so i bought it and loved it
Absolutely not...I bought Halo 3, Halo Reach, CoD Black Ops and Red Dead Redemption weeks atleast before he largely tore them apart in his reviews and I didn't let his hate/excess nitpicking make me package them up and take them back...especially after I paid 150 dollars for Halo Reachs Legendary edition
I usually watch his reviews of games either after watching a gamespot review of them to see whether the gamespot review is trying to glorify the game or after I have bought the game so that I can see what his opinion of it is and whether I agree or not. His reviews slightly influence me when I buy games.
As much as I love his show, I tend to disagree with most of his opinions on games. If you were to take him seriously most of the time, it would almost seem as if he doesn't even like games to begin with. Not to say he doesn't have a point sometimes.
Not much. His job is to point out every game's flaw. If we followed his word (and not that little "I liked this game" afterthought), then we'd likely own... 10 games, tops.
I'd say yes. Although he tends to be harsh, i find myself agreeing with him much more than i disagree. IMHO, his reviews tend to be spot on and are much more useful than any other source. I distinctly remember the one time i bought a game that Yhatzee reviewed poorly, Red Faction Guerrilla, i found myself having the exact same problems with the game that he did. The only times i can remember really having a drastically different opinion than him were with SSBB, although i do find that game overrated, and Clive Barker's Jericho (although honestly i think the entire world disagrees with me on that one). So yeah i let his reviews influence me, not because I'm a sheep, but because i seem to have similar tastes when it comes to games. However, I don't actually wait for his review to come out before i buy a game. If the review is out when i consider buying it, I'll definitely consult it. Also PS, just because he tries to make his reviews funny doesn't make them any less valid.
Well I have no money so me buying games is off the table for the moment. Had I the money I would take Yatzee's reviews into account, however, I would do it with not only a grain of salt but a truckload. I also take it into account when trying out new games; back when I had money I decided to try out Psychonauts based on his review. As he said the platforming and difficulty curve were both impossible, but it's still buckets of fun because of the story.
As long as you keep in mind that anything he says is taken to the extreme then he is a valid source of info on what game to buy. Just not the only source. Then again I generally look at plot/characters first and gameplay second and he's been pretty on target with plot based comments however inflammatory. I love Metal Gear Solid and am perfectly capable of admitting that the cutscenes are ridiculous and so on and so forth.
As long as you keep in mind that anything he says is taken to the extreme then he is a valid source of info on what game to buy. Just not the only source. Then again I generally look at plot/characters first and gameplay second and he's been pretty on target with plot based comments however inflammatory. I love Metal Gear Solid and am perfectly capable of admitting that the cutscenes are ridiculous and so on and so forth.
I do liek yahtzee, his videos are hilarious, and I do actually agree with a lot of his criticisms. But he does greatly exaggerate them generally (which is ok, otherwise the reviews would be fairly boring). For example, with Halo Reach, I did agree that some of the missions seemed kinda pointless, and that the spartans were uncharacterised, but unlike Yahtzee, that didn't wreck the game for me, it was still lots of fun.
So in short, no he doesn't affect my purchases, or at least not individually. I'll often look at several reviews before i buy a game, but if I've made up my mind then i'll usually buy it anyway.
So in short, no he doesn't affect my purchases, or at least not individually. I'll often look at several reviews before i buy a game, but if I've made up my mind then i'll usually buy it anyway.
i bought saints row 2 simply because yahtzee said it was fun and what GTA4 should have been.
i love that game.
i love that game.
No, that's not really what he's doing with his videos. Even if he was, we don't like the same games at all. Sometimes I have looked at games he doesn't like the genres of that he really likes, though, or ones from genres he obviously hates that he doesn't rip to bits. For example, his TWEWY video was a really good response from him for a JRPG.