Yahtzee-Do you take him seriously?
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I take him serious some times, but I feel as though he only will be taken seriously if he doesn't lowers his standards, just a little bit, he won't be taken seriously for that much longer. Although he is very funny and he is harder on some games that other reviewers aren't.
I take it into consideration, but it's kind of hard to follow his logic sometimes. Take, for instance, alpha protocol. He lists the good and bad points throughout the review and slowly builds the case that, while it is very unpolished and has plenty of problems, it is a fairly unique game and does at least as much wrong as it does right. He then goes on to make some horrible comparison at the very end and declare it a worthless pile of shit.
I feel he has to be harder on even good games than he really should because, as he once said, "there's nothing funny about liking a game"
I feel he has to be harder on even good games than he really should because, as he once said, "there's nothing funny about liking a game"
Hasnt Yahtzee stated several times both in his vodeos and during general rant...i mean conversations that his is a video game Critic?
If he spent the time talking about how brilliant the game is or how wonderful its graphics, game play, controls, pixslations and/or in game QTE 'without' bringing into light its flaws then...well he wouldnt be a critic would he?
If he spent the time talking about how brilliant the game is or how wonderful its graphics, game play, controls, pixslations and/or in game QTE 'without' bringing into light its flaws then...well he wouldnt be a critic would he?
This. In my mind, he is basicly just an angry man who has amazing vocabulary and wit to use it. Entertaining, but nothing morechild of lileth said:
yes and no. he tends to emphasize the bad points of a game because thats what a critic is supposed to do pick out the flaws in something with a brief mention of what the publisher or designer or whatever did right. I personally wouldnt take his oppinion on JRPG's or MMO's seriously because he has said he doesnt really enjoy thouse genres of gaming as much as others, but id take in to account his opinion on stealth games because they are one of his favourite genres, ok if he finds a really good one he might glorify it a bit, but hes only human and we all do that with something we generally enjoy, for example even thought its just the same thing over and over again i really enjoy the pokemon games and would reccomend them to anyone.
so to summarise that slightly: it depends on which game hes reviewing
so to summarise that slightly: it depends on which game hes reviewing
When it comes to talking about what he hated about games, I dont take it too seriously because theres been a few games that I've liked that he has hated, although when it comes to recommendations Ive listened and each time I've liked the game he's recommended.
No. Although he can definitely show you everything that's wrong with a game. He's also hilarious. I will never forget the Wolfenstein review,
I agree but I do think that the good parts of a game deserve a cursory mention at least. I think it'd make Yahtzee a much more credible reviewer (I presume he wants to be, his Extra Punctuation articles are actually very well written) to mention the good points of a game at least in the same way IGN or Gamespot mention flaws.Estocavio said:
Someone else definitely made this point earlier, but he essentially called himself a "Praiser by omission" once, on one of the ZP reviews. If he didn't mention it, it didn't escape his notice, but it didn't bother him one iota.Sapient Pearwood said:
And I'd really prefer he not have to bring up (in a low, mumbling tone of voice) "um...yeah...and the level design wasn't complete crap" the way IGN and Gamespot tend to claim that Halo 3 and such are ringing endorsements to human achievements and then hint at the flaws with vague textual hand gestures.
EDIT: And for anyone who seems to think he just tears games to pieces for the sake of tearing the games to pieces, I direct you humbly to today's (8/3/2010) Extra Punctuation, where he says he won't do Starcraft 2 for good reasons.
Well I rarely have money, so I'm rarely in the position where I'm unsure of what I want. And he usually recomends older games (well, doesn't crucify them) as he reviews newer ones.nofear220 said:
Whatever people might say about him he obviously has a good grasp of language and can be a good reviewer when he wants to be, he can easily bring up good points about the game without making them sheepish or boring. Him commenting on the writing in Borderlands comes to mind but I can't remember word for word what he said, I do remember him complimenting the writing of it without dropping the humour in his review.TetsuoKaneda said: