More things than I can count to be honest, but he still amuses me greatly and I won't stop watching him just because I disagree =p.
What do you disagree with Yahtzee on?
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If you are referring to his part in the new rhymedown segment...that is his point. He is showing his disdain for the hype surrounding the PS4 BECAUSE it has not even been revealed yet.Professor Lupin Madblood said:
He makes an analogy to a car salesman to show how ridiculous it is to get excited about something just 'cuz, without any tangible substance and only iffy rumors to go off of. Yes, even just seeing some modified Blu-Ray player would help because then we would have something to analyze, not just blindly eating up whatever Sony tells us. As it stands, these "features" are all we know about the PS4 and if Yahtzee doesn't like those "features" then Sony is going to have to make him eat those words with proof, not rumors.
JRPG's
The art style is great in my opinion, also there is more of an emphasis on story than most western games. Western Rpg's trip up big time when they isolate you and make you go on an adventure alone. Playing a Jrpg almost makes you feel like you've made a new set of friends, and you really feel the loss when they die.
However I understand Grind and cultural differences can put people off, but to be honest there are Jrpg's out there with next to no grind (Tales of series) and if you can look past the corny speeches, you can appreciate the character interactions and the always interesting vista's.
REGENERATING HEALTH
A grey area I'll admit. Personally I like it but it needs to take a lot longer to regenerate. In Gears of War you can be almost dead then get behind cover and be back out a few seconds later, it needs to take longer to heal you. We aren't playing as Wolverine (unless its an X men game) but it is a video game at the end of the day. So I prefer health regen to some of the crap that goes down in Fallout.
Seriously I don't like that game one time I saved outside this room and when I went in I got shot to peices and made it out on a slither of health. Then there was no food or health giving stuff for ages, I died at almost every fight I came across until I finished the four hour trek to the nearest town.
Some other stuff Yhatzee says annoys me sometimes but I cant remember all of it, a lot of what he says is right. But he is always funny and remains the reason I love this site so much. Although I have to mention Jim Sterling for being the great guy he is, and keeping me informed about what is going on in the industry.
The art style is great in my opinion, also there is more of an emphasis on story than most western games. Western Rpg's trip up big time when they isolate you and make you go on an adventure alone. Playing a Jrpg almost makes you feel like you've made a new set of friends, and you really feel the loss when they die.
However I understand Grind and cultural differences can put people off, but to be honest there are Jrpg's out there with next to no grind (Tales of series) and if you can look past the corny speeches, you can appreciate the character interactions and the always interesting vista's.
REGENERATING HEALTH
A grey area I'll admit. Personally I like it but it needs to take a lot longer to regenerate. In Gears of War you can be almost dead then get behind cover and be back out a few seconds later, it needs to take longer to heal you. We aren't playing as Wolverine (unless its an X men game) but it is a video game at the end of the day. So I prefer health regen to some of the crap that goes down in Fallout.
Seriously I don't like that game one time I saved outside this room and when I went in I got shot to peices and made it out on a slither of health. Then there was no food or health giving stuff for ages, I died at almost every fight I came across until I finished the four hour trek to the nearest town.
Some other stuff Yhatzee says annoys me sometimes but I cant remember all of it, a lot of what he says is right. But he is always funny and remains the reason I love this site so much. Although I have to mention Jim Sterling for being the great guy he is, and keeping me informed about what is going on in the industry.
Probably Portal 2.
I thought it exceeded the first one in every way, yet he didn't like it.
I thought it exceeded the first one in every way, yet he didn't like it.
I thought he liked both Bioshocks? (Second one doesn't count)flyer son of no one said:
I really love ZP, but, yeah, I almost never agree with Yahtzee. What people have to realise is that he's not a reviewer, he's a critic, there's a difference.
However, whilst critics are usually ignorant, hard to please and complete dicks. Yahtzee is actually very funny, and he does make good points a lot of the times.
One thing thats annoyed me recently is that he doesn't realise that you can charge the Wii U gamepad whilst you're using it, he does complan about the battery life, and he's right, but he said in his Lego City review that he had to stop playing to let it charge, which he didn't have to do.
And I do think that he's a massive Valve fanboy and a Nintendo hater.
However, whilst critics are usually ignorant, hard to please and complete dicks. Yahtzee is actually very funny, and he does make good points a lot of the times.
One thing thats annoyed me recently is that he doesn't realise that you can charge the Wii U gamepad whilst you're using it, he does complan about the battery life, and he's right, but he said in his Lego City review that he had to stop playing to let it charge, which he didn't have to do.
And I do think that he's a massive Valve fanboy and a Nintendo hater.
I'm referring to everything he's said so far about the PS4.FrostyFinn said:
Did you actually read my post? At all? Just wondering.
As I mentioned (in that large block of text you're addressing, in fact), a console's appearance isn't what defines it - games define consoles. I don't think it's a valid point, period, to complain about not seeing something that only functions as a platform for a type of media. We know that the PS4 will play video games, and the video games are the important thing here. I maintain that physically seeing the console will serve little to no purpose other than to confirm the specs.
Also, the car analogy is imperfect. You buy a car and then use that car, period. You don't buy a car, then buy toy cars and put them in the car in order to be able to do something other than admire the paint job.
Why is features in quotation marks? The share button, ease of accessibility for indie developers, and controller design are all - presuming the Nextbox doesn't have them as well - distinct features of the PS4.
As well, there is a difference between a rumour and press release. Please make note of that difference before referring to press releases as rumours.
I really like Halo. I also like driving games.
That being said, he does seem to like hitting peds and wrecking cars in driving games, so we definitely have something in common there.
That being said, he does seem to like hitting peds and wrecking cars in driving games, so we definitely have something in common there.
Wait, people care about his opinion? For like, the actual content of his opinion?
Dont get me wrong, I love watching ZP, but I watch it to get a laugh out of his over the top negativity and the way it blends into his interesting humour. I could not give a shit what he thinks about the actual game once the punchlines are over...
Dont get me wrong, I love watching ZP, but I watch it to get a laugh out of his over the top negativity and the way it blends into his interesting humour. I could not give a shit what he thinks about the actual game once the punchlines are over...
Subjectively, I could probably go through the episodes and find a lot of games I disagree with like/hate on. The two that quickest spring to mind are Brutal Legend (For me, while it certainly wasn't the best game gameplay wise, I found it wasn't sufficient to detract from the fun of speeding around inside a heavy metal album cover) and WET (Even I don't know how to explain why I found this one fun, but, I did).
Mechanically, however, I find myself agreeing with him nearly always. Even in the above games I had a lot of fun with, the mechanical flaws Yahtzee pointed out are still 100% correct. For example, I also despise multiplayer in games, and completely agree with him that if a game wants my attention it has to stand on its singleplayer. Even if its the best-designed multiplayer system in the world it'll never stop other players from ruining my fun, and it's neither fair to judge the dev-team's efforts by that community, nor is it fair for me to accept it as an excuse when I have 0 faith in other people to be responsible for my fun, on top of the anxiety that if I do bad I'm ruining someone else from having fun.
I especially also agree with his stance that 'It gets good [X] hours in' is not an acceptable rationalization. The point of the first moments of gameplay is to draw the player in, and if a game fails to do that, why should I give them the benefit of the doubt when there are plenty of other games competing for my attention that don't make me wait for my fun?
How cynical Yahtzee actually is I wouldn't have the foggiest clue, but as he's said multiple times before he's a critic, not a reviewer; he's there to point out what's holding games back from greatness by ruthlessly deconstructing every flaw, not provide a 'fair and balanced' buy/don't buy recommendation.
Mechanically, however, I find myself agreeing with him nearly always. Even in the above games I had a lot of fun with, the mechanical flaws Yahtzee pointed out are still 100% correct. For example, I also despise multiplayer in games, and completely agree with him that if a game wants my attention it has to stand on its singleplayer. Even if its the best-designed multiplayer system in the world it'll never stop other players from ruining my fun, and it's neither fair to judge the dev-team's efforts by that community, nor is it fair for me to accept it as an excuse when I have 0 faith in other people to be responsible for my fun, on top of the anxiety that if I do bad I'm ruining someone else from having fun.
I especially also agree with his stance that 'It gets good [X] hours in' is not an acceptable rationalization. The point of the first moments of gameplay is to draw the player in, and if a game fails to do that, why should I give them the benefit of the doubt when there are plenty of other games competing for my attention that don't make me wait for my fun?
How cynical Yahtzee actually is I wouldn't have the foggiest clue, but as he's said multiple times before he's a critic, not a reviewer; he's there to point out what's holding games back from greatness by ruthlessly deconstructing every flaw, not provide a 'fair and balanced' buy/don't buy recommendation.
Actually he's a critic that knows how to entertain his audience.sanquin said:
Not much really, I enjoyed a lot of the games he recommended immensely, and whatever he does hate that I like, I use as a way to reflect on my own opinion of the game.
I call it the "Yahtzee test".
Or it could be that he's grown on me, since I've been watching his videos for nearly 4 years, and that they are the highlight of my Wednesdays.
I watch Yahtzee for entertainment and don't take his opinions into account when I am deciding what games to play or buy. I view him as a source of entertainment and that's it. There is a lot of stuff I disagree with him on. However, I do want to point out that that doesn't make him "wrong" as these are mostly all subjective things that will vary depending on individual taste:
-Disagree that the Half-Life 2 games have great pacing, and his assertion of unparalleled quality for anything Valve related: I think Half-Life 2 and the episodes had sections that moved along well followed by long sections of boredom or tedium, or a section that started out being good but was dragged out for way too long. The only Valve stuff I have liked are Portal 1 & 2, so that's something he and I have in common.
-Story has a great deal more importance to how enjoyable a game is to Yahtzee than it does for me: As stated above, that's just a matter of personal preference. But to him it seems a good story will compensate for mediocre or bad gameplay if he thinks the story is good enough.
-Disagree with his hatred of regenerating health: I think games with regenerating health can be fun in more action oriented games. It doesn't work for everything though, but he seems to think it should not exist at all.
-Disagree with him on his hatred of shooter games where you can take cover: I don't think it's a bad thing by itself, but EVERYONE is making them now and they aren't making them fun, so I do get sick when I see a developer making another one because the odds of it being good are slim.
-His love for Painkiller and Doom 3 BFG: As far as Painkiller goes I don't like shooters unless my enemies also shoot. For Doom 3 BFG, I found it boring and tedious, yet he loved it because you had to go through levels finding keys to locked doors for yourself. Just having that in a game doesn't automatically make it fun in my opinion, but he made it sound like it does for him. Again, personal preference.
-I liked Nier alot more than he did, and the soundtrack for it is in a three-way tie for best game soundtrack along with Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross in my opinion.
-He has a love for slow stealthy games (Thief) that I don't share.
-He loved Far Cry 3, I found it tedious and boring: I think this kinda goes along with the Thief point above. But that doesn't mean I don't like a shooter unless it's action packed. I liked Bioshock alot and it was a shooter that was slower paced and had exploratioin.
-The story of Spec Ops The Line and it's in-game execution was a lot more impressive and deeper to him than it was to me.
-He thinks that Bioshock Infinite is an improvement over Bioshock in every aspect while I think it's a step back in every way except graphics: The gunplay is MUCH worse than it was in Bioshock, the exploration is gone, looting and searching isn't rewarding anymore now that it feels like a tedious requirement, the way I have to get health from fallen enemies by searching them doesn't fit with the kind of fast run-and-gun shooter mechanics they used and the story doesn't feel like it was thought all the way through. The game as a whole feels like they spent 6 years messing around and then threw something together at the last minute when they realized they were out of time.
Like I said before, these are a matter of personal preference. However, Yatzhee does sometimes get things blatantly wrong and will list it as a negative in a game, and that bugs the crap out of me. Namely, him saying that the cutscenes in the Witcher 2 were unskippable when, in fact, they are. If he had bothered to click the mouse buttons during the cutscnee or even pressed ESC he would have realized this.
-Disagree that the Half-Life 2 games have great pacing, and his assertion of unparalleled quality for anything Valve related: I think Half-Life 2 and the episodes had sections that moved along well followed by long sections of boredom or tedium, or a section that started out being good but was dragged out for way too long. The only Valve stuff I have liked are Portal 1 & 2, so that's something he and I have in common.
-Story has a great deal more importance to how enjoyable a game is to Yahtzee than it does for me: As stated above, that's just a matter of personal preference. But to him it seems a good story will compensate for mediocre or bad gameplay if he thinks the story is good enough.
-Disagree with his hatred of regenerating health: I think games with regenerating health can be fun in more action oriented games. It doesn't work for everything though, but he seems to think it should not exist at all.
-Disagree with him on his hatred of shooter games where you can take cover: I don't think it's a bad thing by itself, but EVERYONE is making them now and they aren't making them fun, so I do get sick when I see a developer making another one because the odds of it being good are slim.
-His love for Painkiller and Doom 3 BFG: As far as Painkiller goes I don't like shooters unless my enemies also shoot. For Doom 3 BFG, I found it boring and tedious, yet he loved it because you had to go through levels finding keys to locked doors for yourself. Just having that in a game doesn't automatically make it fun in my opinion, but he made it sound like it does for him. Again, personal preference.
-I liked Nier alot more than he did, and the soundtrack for it is in a three-way tie for best game soundtrack along with Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross in my opinion.
-He has a love for slow stealthy games (Thief) that I don't share.
-He loved Far Cry 3, I found it tedious and boring: I think this kinda goes along with the Thief point above. But that doesn't mean I don't like a shooter unless it's action packed. I liked Bioshock alot and it was a shooter that was slower paced and had exploratioin.
-The story of Spec Ops The Line and it's in-game execution was a lot more impressive and deeper to him than it was to me.
-He thinks that Bioshock Infinite is an improvement over Bioshock in every aspect while I think it's a step back in every way except graphics: The gunplay is MUCH worse than it was in Bioshock, the exploration is gone, looting and searching isn't rewarding anymore now that it feels like a tedious requirement, the way I have to get health from fallen enemies by searching them doesn't fit with the kind of fast run-and-gun shooter mechanics they used and the story doesn't feel like it was thought all the way through. The game as a whole feels like they spent 6 years messing around and then threw something together at the last minute when they realized they were out of time.
Like I said before, these are a matter of personal preference. However, Yatzhee does sometimes get things blatantly wrong and will list it as a negative in a game, and that bugs the crap out of me. Namely, him saying that the cutscenes in the Witcher 2 were unskippable when, in fact, they are. If he had bothered to click the mouse buttons during the cutscnee or even pressed ESC he would have realized this.
Comedy. I've not found his videos funny for a long time. I would be tempted to say I disagree with the character on the show over most things because he just seems to dislike the popular, most of the time. Like a gaming hipster.
I agree with a lot of his points but he obviously exaggerates. That's why I watch his reviews. He emphasises the bad things so if I'm thinking about buying the game I know these are the things I need to keep in mind (that's how reviews work). But it's kind of disturbing how much I agree with him on. I liked Dead Space, though. And yeah, I wasn't that big on Portal so I guess that's about it. He trashes my favourite games but, like I said, I go to his reviews to see the negatives so I know what to keep in mind when buying.
He doesn't hate RTS games he just doesn't enjoy them, but I do agree that Warior Within was better than The Sands of Time and I do think he gave up too quickly on the RTS genre. I have no idea how he thought that Halo Wars would be the game that brings him over to the RTS crowd when it was an obvious cash-in with shitty controls and an unbellievably bad storyline, if I want to get into a genre I've never played before I'd seek out a game that's popularly considered to be the best in its genre, not a watered down version of it for babies, and if I ever deicide to try out a survival horror game I'd play Silent Hill 2 or Amnesia: The Dark Descent, not Dead Space.Subscriptism said:
Everything he complained about in the Mirror's Edge review is the BSiest of BS. EVERYTHING. From the complaints of the bloom (what bloom?) to the "inability to know where your feet are" (??????) it's all fail.
Still a funny review, though.
Still a funny review, though.
I don't really agree with his reviews most of the time. He normally just picks one or two things bad about the game and runs with it and only it. Nothing else, they don't even have to be really bad things either. Whereas other games he says he likes, he only goes on and on about how perfect it is. Nothing bad about it, or very, very little. I'm sorry, but I just generally disagree with his reviews, that said, I still watch Zero Punctuation, because it is funny as hell.