Zero Punctuation: Mailbag Showdown
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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In other words you have no argument whatsoever and instead felt it somehow made you appear smarter by taking a cocky attitude and generally acting like a twat.coredump said:
By the way, what the fuck does "then I realize that was going to make dumb" mean? You can start calling people idiots when you can actually type out a proper sentence that doesn't change tenses constantly.
I was saying that more people should listen to what Yahtzee says from both angles. If you're a fan of the game and he insults it then big deal. Just move on and forget about it. On the other side of the spectrum if you too hate the game, just because he shares your opinion doesn't somehow make your point of view any more valid. He's just another guy on the internet like you; it just so happen he gets money for it.
It's also amusing how so many people are going "HAHA LOL DUMB FANBOIZZZ GUD JOB YAHTZEE U UTTER LEGEND!!" with terrible spelling and grammar, both of which Yahtzee mocked in his video.
Great as always (Do you really need us to tell you that? It?s a pretty superfluous statement as almost everything you do can be put under ?fantastic.?)
I especially liked the 1984-references; don?t be shy of showing the intellectual side of yourself.
Keep up the good work.
I especially liked the 1984-references; don?t be shy of showing the intellectual side of yourself.
Keep up the good work.
I actually agree with yahtzee compltely in his review. For the most part I never jugde a game on based on other peoples review or movies at that because for the most part hmm let me think there taste and idea of a great game might be completly diffrent then yours! I actually enjoy his critics not just for his animations but because he does bring up valid points on many games both flaws and points of praise. He though it was a wonderful idea for a fight to be held where mario cold beat peach senseless for me that was link and zelda but for the most part yea the unlocking charcters part sucked. For the past games you unlocked mostly by doing events an then fighting with friends for so long an then you get someone. this one you kinda trailed along the longgg story mode until you find someone random and they joined you. don't get me wrong I like the story mode movies and concept but the same old enimies and repeating the same level two to three times kinda got to me after a while. All in yahtzee brings his own unique kind of criticing to the table even his animations he doesn't use a score board which I appericate halo was given a 9 out of ten on many score boards I probaly would have given a 4 that's my opion. but he choices to list say and show which is rare why he likes or dislikes it in his review which animaions it suppose to make you laugh but he also show's his valid points. But to all of you who probaly rant on and on about how he's dumb or whichever here's a wonderfu idea go to accounts hit delete and stop wacthing his reviews
Yahtzee, (being the game reviewer we all know he is and wants to be) undoubtedly played the game for more then one night. He just happened to be using it as an example. People tend to forget that everyone has the right to not like something, but just as many people forget that others have the right TO like something.Sentient said:
Yahtzee obviously didn't like SSBB (which I did) and just as obviously didn't like Halo 3 (which I also did). On both forums, people spent a few good days (or two weeks in the former's case) going back and forth calling the other fanboys. While they have the right to do this, it doesn't make it any less annoying for those who are actually here to "Discuss" ZP.
Though in all honesty, I can't for the life of me understand why we need to discuss this. It's not like Yahtzee have deep hidden messages, or is leading us on till "next weeks exciting adventure". It's just a review, something just as easily discusses over the phone, or on an Email/Chatroom, or a PM.
It seems the only thing this is here for is to praise Yahtzee (which I suppose can be construed as a legitimate reason) or to yell at passersby (which seems to happen most often).
Although I wish I could have seen a game get skewered on the twin blades of wit and cynicism, this video still was funny and enlightening as usual. Yahztee's points were valid. While he has his own opinions on them - such as in Mass Effect - he tries to appraise games fairly and will admit that someone else might enjoy a given game when he might not. I've wondered why Yahtzee often kowtows to the request like he does (he'd admitted several times in the past the collective bitching pisses him off), but the appeal professionalism over indulgence is a legitimate defense.
While seeing him review interesting and diverse game titles as his tastes would see fit would be neat, appealing to the Escapist's audience now and then might be a good way to boost the site's hits and keep the Zero Punctuation feature from stagnating. Yahtzee's attitudes towards numerical ratings is also appreciated. A numerical value might be worthwhile for evaluating averages or calculating standard deviations, but the appraisal of video games is an art rather than a science.
What parts of the game make it enjoyable, innovative, appealing, intelligent? Do you give a shit when Alyx Vance lies comatose? Do you get frustrated when both of Fable's endings are essentially the same bloody title card with different shading and a slightly tweaked voiceover? X out of Y stars, thumbs up or cackling imps of manic glee don't adequately express the attitudes a player would build while playing.
Numerical reviews work best for at-a-glance decision-making ("Should I take my girlfriend to see Iron Man after we head out for the night?") but hen faced with the commitment for buying the game (a fairly expensive endeavor) an intelligent consumer should do more then act like a computer program that sets the .buy|Game value to TRUE when reviewer-rating >= 8.
Overall, I salute Yahtzee for responding in kind to the grating moans of people who don't think their responses out and impulse-send their comments. Kick more ass, yahtzee! We may yet turn the tide on the stupid epidemic!
While seeing him review interesting and diverse game titles as his tastes would see fit would be neat, appealing to the Escapist's audience now and then might be a good way to boost the site's hits and keep the Zero Punctuation feature from stagnating. Yahtzee's attitudes towards numerical ratings is also appreciated. A numerical value might be worthwhile for evaluating averages or calculating standard deviations, but the appraisal of video games is an art rather than a science.
What parts of the game make it enjoyable, innovative, appealing, intelligent? Do you give a shit when Alyx Vance lies comatose? Do you get frustrated when both of Fable's endings are essentially the same bloody title card with different shading and a slightly tweaked voiceover? X out of Y stars, thumbs up or cackling imps of manic glee don't adequately express the attitudes a player would build while playing.
Numerical reviews work best for at-a-glance decision-making ("Should I take my girlfriend to see Iron Man after we head out for the night?") but hen faced with the commitment for buying the game (a fairly expensive endeavor) an intelligent consumer should do more then act like a computer program that sets the .buy|Game value to TRUE when reviewer-rating >= 8.
Overall, I salute Yahtzee for responding in kind to the grating moans of people who don't think their responses out and impulse-send their comments. Kick more ass, yahtzee! We may yet turn the tide on the stupid epidemic!
Ahh... this is horrible. I've probably been a nintendo fanboy all my life, but i do my best not to bring it out. I'm also an european so i really haven't gotten the chance to play SSBB myself. I was disappointed with the way Yahtzee reviewed the game at first not because I have to franticly defend my consumer choices to random people on the internet, but because I really enjoyed SSBM and hoped that the newest installation of the series would also bring more of the same gaming-goodness and convince the toughest gamereviewiever on the interwebs. Well this did'nt happen, but I have to say I even managed to get over my fanboyerism and have a good laugh from this review (Was it a review? I'm not sure.).
All I am trying to say is was this really nescesary? I mean the reason I didn't post my whining sooner on the comment thread of epic proportions was that I thought that the comments were just something for people to whine in and no-one (at least not Yahtzee) would not be reading. I suppose I presumed that Yahtzee was a totally independant force of nature that could not be controlled by mere mortals. It turns out Yahtzee is just as woulnerable to criticism as the games he reviews.
And if someone somewhere someday is feeling the urge to correct my english grammar I just have to mention that I am not a native english speaker so no goddamn wonder I don't write like Edgard FUCKING Alan Poe. Let's see how well you write complex sentences in Finnish.
Haistakaa paska.
All I am trying to say is was this really nescesary? I mean the reason I didn't post my whining sooner on the comment thread of epic proportions was that I thought that the comments were just something for people to whine in and no-one (at least not Yahtzee) would not be reading. I suppose I presumed that Yahtzee was a totally independant force of nature that could not be controlled by mere mortals. It turns out Yahtzee is just as woulnerable to criticism as the games he reviews.
And if someone somewhere someday is feeling the urge to correct my english grammar I just have to mention that I am not a native english speaker so no goddamn wonder I don't write like Edgard FUCKING Alan Poe. Let's see how well you write complex sentences in Finnish.
Haistakaa paska.
