Poll: Does Yahtzee affect your game purchases?

[The Heik]

No yahtzee has nothing to do with the games a buy. If he does you're an idiot.

No, because he is not a reviewer in my mind. He just takes a game and rags on it for 5 minutes.

I would argue against these points vehemently. Yes Yahtzee is a comedian, but historically, comedians have been some of the greatest tellers of truth ever. It's actually an advantage that he cracks jokes about the games, because then we take the whole thing as what it is: an opinion, not a fact. Just like every other review on the planet.

And moreso, Yahtzee is always known to be harsh, so I can actually get a better idea of the overall games capabilities by how much it does wrong rather what it does right. Both sides of the nitpicking coin, eh?

And to be honest, overall his amount of jokes are really only about 50% higher than what you would normally see in most "serious" reviews. The only major difference IMO between Yahtzee's reviews and the things you see on IGN and Gamespot is that he does it in Flash format instead of type.

 

[Zipa]

I don't base if I buy a game or not on his reviews, though I find that he is right on the mark with his reviews.

 

[Jaded Scribe]

Where did I pretend to be an expert, I stated my opinion. That's all. I'm so sorry you're incapable of making the leap from a statement like "He's an arrogant ass" to understanding that is only my opinion. I never said I was an expert. I said I, personally, don't enjoy his work.

And I'm not riled up. Replying to gives me an excuse to not work on other things I'm not really wanting to work on.

How cute, you can barely read too. I never said your opinion wasn't your opinion. That was fairly obvious when it was an opinion and you said it. I'm just pointing out that you're (still) claiming to know everything about not only everything this guy's work will have to offer you and but his own personality as well... from one article. It's endearing.

I assumed that's what you were saying because I was having a hard time believing that anyone could be so obtuse as to expect people to embrace large portions of someone's work before forming an opinion of him.

His articles never piqued my interest. I finally read one just to see if he was really worth the time, and I discovered that he wasn't. It's really very sad that you seem to be unable to form any kind of opinion without wasting a great deal of your time. Did you have to watch an entire season of Jersey Shore to realize that it's crap? I didn't care for his writing style, or his tone. Added in with the bits of his work I've seen mentioned by other people, and I decided that his work wasn't for me.

I weep for a generation that thinks that spending more than five minutes doing something before writing it off forever is considered an insurmountable task. Your world must be very lonely and stagnant.

You would be incorrect. I hardly have enough time to keep up with the various sites I keep abreast of, books that I read, games that I play, movies I watch, etc etc etc. It's not that it's an insurmountable task, it's that my life is not lacking for not being overly familiar with Yahtzee. I have many other things to spend time on, and would rather spend my time doing those things than trying to see if one self-important (and yes, this is an educated opinion of him based not only on the one article, but in looking at his Twitter feed, and seeing how he engages with others) blogger.

Yes, I'll occasionally reply to small little trolls on the internet, but I don't waste much time with it, and doing so allows me to collect my thoughts on my primary task. It's cute how you think your opinion matters to me, and that you're not just filling a need for a little distraction.

 

[KalosCast]

Yes, I'll occasionally reply to small little trolls on the internet, but I don't waste much time with it, and doing so allows me to collect my thoughts on my primary task. It's cute how you think your opinion matters to me, and that you're not just filling a need for a little distraction.

My oh my, and now you even attempt to dissect my motivations as well. Because clearly since you post these things totally to amuse only yourself, it's completely impossible for anybody to do the same. Your powers of clairvoyance never cease to amaze.

 

[Xsistence13]

I find myself to agree with him on quite a few games, but he doesn't exactly turn me away from games, mostly because I go into a game expecting it sucks. I usually don't buy the games until I tried them beforehand. He has gotten me to buy games before, namely Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Painkiller. Overall, any reviewer doesn't affect my opinion because, well, I can find games most reviewers complain about fun, like N3II or Evil Dead, and I can find games with good reviews boring as hell, namely Dead Space and Halo...but especially Dead Space.

 

[ssgt splatter]

No, it doesn't affect my game purchases at all. I watch his reviews for the funny bit not as an actual in-depth review...I have X-PLAY for that.

 

[Jaded Scribe]

Yes, I'll occasionally reply to small little trolls on the internet, but I don't waste much time with it, and doing so allows me to collect my thoughts on my primary task. It's cute how you think your opinion matters to me, and that you're not just filling a need for a little distraction.

My oh my, and now you even attempt to dissect my motivations as well. Because clearly since you post these things totally to amuse only yourself, it's completely impossible for anybody to do the same. Your powers of clairvoyance never cease to amaze.

From your posts, it's pretty clear to see that you're little more than a common troll. Your condescending comments, dissecting and offering your so-called pity about my "empty" life.

My guess is that you're one of Yahtzee's insufferable fanboys, and you are just tied in a knot because I don't share your hero worship of him. Why else would you care so much?

 

[KalosCast]

Yes, I'll occasionally reply to small little trolls on the internet, but I don't waste much time with it, and doing so allows me to collect my thoughts on my primary task. It's cute how you think your opinion matters to me, and that you're not just filling a need for a little distraction.

My oh my, and now you even attempt to dissect my motivations as well. Because clearly since you post these things totally to amuse only yourself, it's completely impossible for anybody to do the same. Your powers of clairvoyance never cease to amaze.

From your posts, it's pretty clear to see that you're little more than a common troll. Your condescending comments, dissecting and offering your so-called pity about my "empty" life.

My guess is that you're one of Yahtzee's insufferable fanboys, and you are just tied in a knot because I don't share your hero worship of him. Why else would you care so much?

If you're making this assertion, you clearly didn't read all the posts I've made in this thread. Good effort, though.

 

[MrTub]

No I'm getting so annoyed that people seem to think he is a god or something.

 

[Ipswich67]

Not really. He doesn't deter me from buying games. If I think that a game looks interesting I'll give it a try. I can't remember all the times I've pointed the back of my middle finger at the screen and uttered a silent "fuck you" during a ZP review. But in the rare instance there's a game where he makes special mention of how good it is, I still might consider giving it a try just for that reason.

 

[Woodsey]

No I'm getting so annoyed that people seem to think he is a god or something.

It's not that, they just don't understand what Zero Punctuation is for.

OT: No, UNLESS he actually recommends something.

 

[C2Ultima]

No, but sometimes his reviews make me buy a game.

 

[Miffmoff]

Not really no

If he likes it too then great but as long as I enjoy it why should I care that he doesn't?

 

[Mouse One]

Heh, yeah, if Yahtz says mostly nice things about a game, I'll take a peek at it. Arkham Asylum and Braid were both praised by him, and were pretty darned good.

You know, he's not your garden variety ranter. He's mostly spot on about his comments, but we're so used to the breathless reviews on IGN et al that we drop our jaw in shock when someone actually points out the flaws in a game. And guess what? EVERY game has flaws, and they're worth looking at. Sometimes the flaws ruin the game, sometimes they just irritate in an otherwise good game. Or as he put it in his ME2 review: "This is the sound of planet scanning......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" (I mean, seriously Bioware, why?)

 

[rockera]

Nope not really he's meant to "hate"(can't think of a better word) on games little problems or huge ones.

 

[Solo-Wing]

I bought Borderlands just last week even after his Borderlands review. I love his jokes and his rants but I don't let them effect my purchases and personal likes.

 

[Do4600]

I got Saints Row 2 for free by buying some game on steam early, and I actually downloaded it and started playing it because I saw Yahtzee's review and I bought Painkiller for $5(US) because he had good things to say about it and I agree with a lot of his base criticisms for games.

For the most part he reviews games:
1. I already own (BFBC2, Minecraft, Bioshock, Thief, Psychonauts)
2. I've already made up my mind never to buy( Halo games, Modern Warfare 2, Wolfenstein)
3. I hadn't heard of or just had no interest in.(Haze, Too Human, Infamous)

So about $5 worth my total gaming budget.