Will people STOP with the sex analogies, please? It's immature and misogynistic.
EVE does not take six months to get into. My first PvP fight (Which I was on the winning side of) was on day three. My first major battle (40 ships to a side) was within a month of joining the game. I became a junior fleet commander for my alliance in two months, a senior in four, and I've been experimenting with different play styles ever since. A trio of rookie characters with absolutely no training beyond what they start the game with can bring down even competently-piloted battlecruisers in the right circumstances. [http://go-dl3.eve-files.com/media/0701/deathforge.wmv]
Yahtzee got one thing cataclysmically wrong, IMO - contrary to the "EVE players are to nerds what nerds are to regular people" thing, the EVE community (or at least, that part of it that I've met) are, for the most part, a group of intelligent, mature, interesting people with a fine sense of social acumen, and a better-than-average intellect. They tend to be older, better-spoken and more sensible than the average gamer, more sociable and funny, and less serious about their game than you'd expect.
which brings me back to the one thing that has started to bug me about ZP recently - whenever Yahtzee reviews a multiplayer game nowadays, he forgets the fucking multiplayer. Look at the Soul Calibur IV review - "Push throw button repeatedly to win the story mode". Sure, okay, good. Story mode is for friendless recluses. The rest of us play the game at parties, with friends, where repeatedly mashing the "throw" button doesn't actually work so well.
The exact same mistake has been made with EVE and Age of Conan. Multiplayer games are designed around this crazy idea of playing with other people, and in MMOs that involves joining a guild/corp. And yet in both those reviews he steadfastly refused to do either and complained about how the game failed to reward him for trying to be the sullen "cloaked figure in the corner" lone wolf.
If a game's designed to be played with other people, play it with other people I say. Maybe MMOs aren't his bag, because he doesn't like joining player guilds, which is fair enough, but if that's the case I humbly recommend that Yahtzee should stop reviewing them and focus on single-player centric games instead, since that's clearly where his interest lies. When he plays to his strengths, his reviews are merely amusingly harsh. If forced outside his comfort zone, they become unfairly biased.
