Poll: Does Yahtzee affect your game purchases?
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no. i more often then not, buy the game and even more often beat it before his reviue comes out.
Oh hell yeah. If it wasn't for Zero Punctuation, I wouldn't have ever tried and loved Prince of Persia, Silent Hill, Psychonauts, or most of my other favorite games. He definitely influences my decisions.
... oh, I see what you're saying. Then no, Yahtzee has never influenced me to not buy a game. That's just stupid.
... oh, I see what you're saying. Then no, Yahtzee has never influenced me to not buy a game. That's just stupid.
Not "usually" he doesn't. I value his opinions on games, because even though they're exaggerated to hell and he rips on stuff just to rip on it, he never lies. The flaws he points out are legit. I watch the vids for their entertainment value, but I respect the reasoning (or lack thereof) in most of them.
One game I HAD to buy though, was The Witcher. His amount of hatred for that game was so hilarious I had to see it for myself. I ended up quite liking it.
One game I HAD to buy though, was The Witcher. His amount of hatred for that game was so hilarious I had to see it for myself. I ended up quite liking it.
He doesn't really make objective and serious reviews so it's hard to take him seriously. But that's not the point. Sometimes I agree with him, most of the time i don't. I never let any reviewer affect my decisions except maybe user reviews because users don't do it for the money, they do it for fun and they are completely honest about their view of the game.
No he doesn't. Though it has nothing to do with being a critic, sarcastic, mean, biased, etc. He is a guy who has games he loves and games he doesn't, in the process points out the flaws in games people tend to try ignore because the game is viewed like a flawless jewel. Case in point, the hate mail he tends to get. I respect his view in the terms that he sees it a slight 3rd person perspective.
I LOVE RTS games and RPG's. Yahtzee really hates those types of games for good reasons. I won't stop loving the games that I do and Yahtzee isn't trying to conform me to love a specific type of game.
If you are a respectable individual and talk to Yahtzee man to man, chances are the two of you will have a long enjoyable and frustrating conversation about video game genres.
I LOVE RTS games and RPG's. Yahtzee really hates those types of games for good reasons. I won't stop loving the games that I do and Yahtzee isn't trying to conform me to love a specific type of game.
If you are a respectable individual and talk to Yahtzee man to man, chances are the two of you will have a long enjoyable and frustrating conversation about video game genres.
...*facepalm*ferv0r said:
How the hell are you supposed to OBJECTIVELY tell your experiences with something? I mean, how can you give people a recommendation if you remove opinion entirely from the equation? You end up with something like this [http://www.destructoid.com/100-objective-review-final-fantasy-xiii-179178.phtml], is what you get. It doesn't work.
That said, Yahtzee almost never affects my purchasing decisions. I might put it a little higher on my radar if he says that he actually liked a game, but that's the extent of it. Him hating a game does nothing for me.
Are you serious?MowDownJoe said:
There is an obvious difference between someone who is trying to be objective and someone who is just giving their opinions.
For example, Yahtzee trashes plenty of games...even games that have metaratings over 90. Is he objective? No way. He never tries to be.
On the other hand, an objective reviewer can recognize that a game is really good, even though he personally doesn't like it. Do you honestly believe that every single professional game reviewer loves every single game they review? Of course not. But that doesn't give them the freedom to trash a game just because they don't like it.
Obviously, we are all human and reviewers are only human. Usually you can tell that trusted reviewers try to be objective and not let their biases flavor the review.
Hell, no. His "Reviews" are strictly entertainment. He also strikes me as having a fairly poor taste in games. He didn't even play FFXIII before reviewing it, and just because it's popular, he ignores that Halo actually has a strong story and great setting.Not only that, but listening to reviewers is generally for the thick-skulled, brain-dead, sheeple gamers. That score is a representation of someone's opinion that is completely different from yours. Are you REALLY going to let that influence your purchase, or worse - are you going to believe that their opinion is better than yours? That you should mold yourself to their idea of perfect and shun things that are actually fun to you? I've let reviews influence my decisions about five times, and it's almost always been just awful. I got one good game from that tactic - Resident Evil 4. The rest were just godawful games like Mass Effect, Final Fantasy 12, and Gears of War. After those train wrecks, I haven't let critics influence my decisions ever again. Basically, reviews are only useful for weeding out games that get low scores (less than 5/10) from a wide variety of sources (at least 5).
The CORRECT way to go about buying games you aren't sure of:
You are a gamer. You SHOULD have some gamer friends.
-Some of them have terrible tastes: I've been trying to get this one kid to download Castlevania SOTN for three years, but he always counters with "Nou need to get so-and-so generic piece-of-shit game." He's obviously a dumbass, and I avoid games he recommends like the plague.
-Others have much more appreciable taste: Try to think of the guys who recommended your first Final Fantasy/ Legend of Zelda/etc game or goaded you into borrowing a game you truly loved. The people you always talk with about playing your favorite games. If they're telling you to buy a game, you should probably listen. If they played/are playing a game you're thinking about, you should go to them to hear what they have to say instead of some reviewer you've never met.
Also, don't be afraid to let your intuition make a choice every now and then. I almost didn't buy FFXIII because FFXII was such a steaming pile. A couple days after release, I saw the commercial and thought "Wtf am I doing? This is a completely different game. That commercial looks fucking awesome." So without any influence outside of commercials and Square's previous games, I went out and got a game with an amazing character-driven story and the best Final Fantasy Battle system to date.
edit: I do try to keep from watching any of his reviews if I have the game and haven't beat it yet - if only to keep from observing an annoying flaw that he points out.
The CORRECT way to go about buying games you aren't sure of:
You are a gamer. You SHOULD have some gamer friends.
-Some of them have terrible tastes: I've been trying to get this one kid to download Castlevania SOTN for three years, but he always counters with "Nou need to get so-and-so generic piece-of-shit game." He's obviously a dumbass, and I avoid games he recommends like the plague.
-Others have much more appreciable taste: Try to think of the guys who recommended your first Final Fantasy/ Legend of Zelda/etc game or goaded you into borrowing a game you truly loved. The people you always talk with about playing your favorite games. If they're telling you to buy a game, you should probably listen. If they played/are playing a game you're thinking about, you should go to them to hear what they have to say instead of some reviewer you've never met.
Also, don't be afraid to let your intuition make a choice every now and then. I almost didn't buy FFXIII because FFXII was such a steaming pile. A couple days after release, I saw the commercial and thought "Wtf am I doing? This is a completely different game. That commercial looks fucking awesome." So without any influence outside of commercials and Square's previous games, I went out and got a game with an amazing character-driven story and the best Final Fantasy Battle system to date.
edit: I do try to keep from watching any of his reviews if I have the game and haven't beat it yet - if only to keep from observing an annoying flaw that he points out.
I buy a few titles a year, mostly stuff that I've heard of and kept track of for some time. However there are a few times when I'll make an impulse buy when I've got more cash in my pocket than common sense, and those are the times when I actually do listen to him.
After a horrible run of a few games I now take the time to let a ZP of a new title come around, and at least see if there are some unavoidable annoyances in the game that actually bug me. If I'm still interested in a game after the litmus test that is ZP with a grain of salt then I'll make the plunge.
After a horrible run of a few games I now take the time to let a ZP of a new title come around, and at least see if there are some unavoidable annoyances in the game that actually bug me. If I'm still interested in a game after the litmus test that is ZP with a grain of salt then I'll make the plunge.
ZP is definitely entertainment first, review second. Extra Punctuation has caused me to rent a game out of curiosity when I might not have otherwise, but generally speaking, I already have my mind made up as to whether I'm going to get a game or not by the time most reviewers even get to it.
Half of the time he review a game that I have already bought which is pretty much whether I agree with him or not. The other half is a bit yes and no. I tend to look other review places and when I watch his review he mostly says what the other reviews had already said in his style or he mentions other new stuff.
To simply put my answer is no.
To simply put my answer is no.
God I HOPE no one takes game buying advice from him. He doesn't do honest reviews, I think you should expect it. He's trying for more of the comedic aspect.
No, because I outright refuse to watch/read anything of his. The one article of his (about the monniker "Gamer") was so off-putting for me that I refuse to be bothered with him.
Honestly, I don't see why he's liked so much. He's not funny. He's not entertaining. He's just a jack___.
Honestly, I don't see why he's liked so much. He's not funny. He's not entertaining. He's just a jack___.