Well, I'm bored. Time for some ala-carte commentary.
Chaos Marine said:
It's the same steering mechanic used in Halo and a lot of people didn't complain about that. I'm assuming that you played it on the PC? The majority of console users I've seen playing love that kind of mechanic where people with a mouse and keyboard hate it. As do I, but it's tolerable.
I'm playing on the PC (only), don't own a 360 or PS3, and I have no problems with the driving controls. They were greatly improved from BL1, where driving felt way too..."floaty". Not just in vehicle gravity, but in how they "glided" over terrain. It felt sort of like turning an air-hockey table on and off.
Burnouts and hand-braking lets me do crazy things with the default Light Runner, and power-slide T-stops with the Bandit Utility Truck.
MrGalactus said:
Why do people take it personally when Yahtzee says he doesn't like a game? He doesn't like it, you do. What's the problem. You yourself have done nothing wrong.
It isn't a matter of Yahtzee liking a game or not.
It's when he justifies his position with exaggerations, misinformation, and sometimes flat-out lies that some of us have problems with.
Re-read the complaints.
Some of his points aren't open to subjective interpretation, and are in fact, mistakes (like his comment on the Wilhelm fight).
SoMuchSpace said:
It's so amusing to see all the fanboys bring out all the shields and go "NOOOO.YAHTEE U R WRONG!!!U DIDN'T PLAY THE GAEM RITE!!!!ONLI SURTAIN KIND OF PPL CAN APPRECIATE DIS MASTERPIECE!!"
Frankly, how borderlands became so popular in the first place is a surprise to me. B1 was crap, go here, shoot a few skags, come back.Also, don't forget your other assignment - go there, shoot some skags and come back!!!!You don't have to be (and i quote the person above me)"a certain kind of person to appreciate this kind of game and play it for dozens of hours."Sorry, a game that takes 10 hours to suck you in doesn't say well about itself.A game should be gripping from the start, but then again Gearbox knew that the fanboys will use the whole "Hey...play for 7 more hours!You'll find it fun!!!PROMISE" to their death.
This is why games like B2 exist, because they rack up so many brainwashed fanboys that the people who made the game are only catering to the horde, and not to other sensible people.I feel that i have wasted money on B2, and sadly B2 will just rot away in my backlog.
Your entire post is an "Ad-Hominem" fallacy, possibly a "Poisoning the Well".
Going by your own logic, I can call you a brainwashed Yahtzee fanboy sheep.
Duffeknol said:
That's a pretty dumb thing to say. It's very easy to distinguish between little nitpicks Yahtzee points out for entertainment value and valid criticism he comes up with. *snip* Dismissing that as 'just being entertainment' is completely missing the point.
This is a common defense I see for Yahtzee's videos, and it's pretty weak.
"Oh, it's humorous and informative, ergo, still credible"
Humorous, definitely. His wit and wordplay are very very good.
Informative? Always questionable, especially when Yahtzee gets facts wrong or ignores them for the sake of a joke. And for this reason alone you should not use his reviews for any shopping guidance.
Then there's the problem of Bias.
Take one of his videos, separate his "serious" critical points from his humor, and weigh the results against each other just point by point. Subtracting hyperbole and jokes, you will find that they are overwhelmingly negatively bias.
Hell, you can make adjustments to weight nitpicks even less than other complaints and it will STILL come out as being highly negative.
Worse, it's a problem he manufactures. He commented early in his videos that "nobody likes it when he's being positive" (paraphrased), and that's unfortunately a product of the internet hate machine.
Hell, there's an entire internet business built on this premise.
Finally, his excuse of "Assume everything I don't mention is perfectly fine" doesn't fly if we're to take him seriously.
I suspect it's just an excuse way to keep the video short and manageable for a weekly show, which again, plays entirely to the strengths of the HUMOR, but is an anathema for critical review because we can never see how he draws comparisons.
The mark of a reliable review is how the good compares with the bad.
If you only ever talk about the shit, and emphasize the shit, then everything looks like shit regardless of it's positive qualities. Granted, some games *are* nothing but shit (Too Human), but not *everything* can be shit.