Zero Punctuation: Mailbag Showdown

[Jerakal]

Take all the time you need on GTA 4 Yahtzee, I mean I got it on the launch day and I'm not even half done with the bastard yet.

I found this video to be hilarious because the same thickheads that you're calling out will of course learn nothing from the experience but it's always nice to give the people that actually use their brains something to laugh about from time to time.

I've never understood how numbers make a rating better myself either, and what's even more baffling is how some people will argue how the number of numbers used in a rating system will make it superior to one or another.

Look here, what matters it how accurate and well thought out the review is, a real critic will do exactly what Yahtzee does, tear a game a new asshole if it deserves that or give it praise on the (Very) rare occasion that a game rises above the tedium most games suffer from these days.

 

[babyblues]

rofl. I was looking for a game review today, but I got something better. Good one.

 

[maxturbo211]

OK, that was seriously the best ZP you have done yet. I was pissing myself laughing the whole way through. Most notably, I liked the Gamespot reference but I would have to say my favourite bit was the number 4. The 360 joke hit particularly close to home seeing as mine bricked just last week.

FYI Spell-checker, 'favourite' is spelled with a 'u' and there is no 'z' in 'customize'

sorry, but I gotta call you out on that one, and it's probably all ready been done before but there's two things here... first off, the spell checker in this little box calls out "customise" because it's actually "customize" and well, there is no u in favorite... well, in non-english spellings anyways, seeing as this spellchecker doesn't register favour, colour, or flavour...

 

[RaiDK]

A painfully, painfully true video. I especially liked the point about giving games a score: This score is never representational of how 'good' a game is or how enjoyable it is.

 

[NekoMimiMode]

What I don't get with all this is why people don't agree with Yatzee. What is it in his review that there is to have an opinion about?

People see the world differently and have different natures, both affecting the way they "discuss" how something is far better than the other. Sometime the discussions can be fun and maybe you will learn to accept their view of things, other times people just argue and that in no way leads to a fun conversation and leaves with each other disrespecting the other side of the converstaion more.

Very, very true. *in the middle of smashing Halo 3-tards* It's all fun and games until someone gets all emo and goes and shoots up some populated place. Or something like that. At least Yahtzee is literate. God, literacy turns me on.

 

[Kaos Incarnate]

What I don't get with all this is why people don't agree with Yatzee. What is it in his review that there is to have an opinion about?

People see the world differently and have different natures, both affecting the way they "discuss" how something is far better than the other. Sometime the discussions can be fun and maybe you will learn to accept their view of things, other times people just argue and that in no way leads to a fun conversation and leaves with each other disrespecting the other side of the converstaion more.

Very, very true. *in the middle of smashing Halo 3-tards* It's all fun and games until someone gets all emo and goes and shoots up some populated place. Or something like that. At least Yahtzee is literate. God, literacy turns me on.

That's why I avoid youtube discussions

 

[Joined to vote Valve]

That video (it was NOT a review people) was funny, but misleading. I thought about sending in an e-mail, though I didn't, but those letters he read did not represent anything I would complain about. His SSBB review was flawed because he called it a button-masher and complained about unlocking, not for any of the things we saw in this video. He is like a politician: pretending to address the issues while actually avoiding them.

 

[Rygar]

Believe me or not, but I know our good friend "Jeremy Gigaballs" in real life. He's a Grade-A Nintendo fanboy (refuses to accept the Wii's mostly got party games and the fact the Zelda, Mario, etc are the same game over and over, that kind of thing)

He seems to think being mentioned in this review as something to brag about (we're working on changing that, I think he's beginning to crack)

Another thing, we're from Britain and therefore he has never actually played Brawl. Quite interesting how he has so much to say about something he's never experienced, isn't it?.

If you want I can post the original, unabridged version of the e-mail.

 

[Kaos Incarnate]

I cannot button mash to save my life, I always do it the "proper" way in fighting games. Plus with the controls in Smash Bros. games you don't really need to button mash.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Eh...

I understand the purpose of this review. It takes awhile to play GTA4 and as such you need to put up something else to keep the masses placated. That said, reading over terrible fanmail and making fun of your "fans" is a theme that's somewhat overused and as far as "Yahtzee" humor goes I'd say it falls a bit short.

But what can you do?

- J

We are all thinking of the same Yahtzee, right? The one who struggled to lay off gay jokes in the Army of Two review and makes a 'sex with your mom' joke in this very review? Yahtzee's humour style is as follows, I like to think: Bring out the big guns, and if you get bored of that, revert to good ol' simple and offensive.

 

[Andalusa]

The fanboys just got told, lol.
GO TEAM RETARD!!!
Great work and about time to answer back.

 

[Vanor]

Am I the only one who is only one who is a little disappointed that there wasn't a game review this time around?

 

[Wave-360]

Best Review!
I didnt care for Brawl either...
I liked the proffesional Troll part
well actually the whole review was Superb, Amazing, Excelent, Awsome, Sick and many more compliments!

 

[L4Y Duke]

Believe me or not, but I know our good friend "Jeremy Gigaballs" in real life.

Ah, yes. The guy who 'tried' to change Yahtzee's opinion by pointing out even more crap that Yahtzee didn't even mention in his review.

Tell me, how much was the surgery to extract his foot from his mouth?

If you want I can post the original, unabridged version of the e-mail.

Oh, please.

 

[DaftWarhol]

hahaha once again, Yahtzee punches the world in the kidneys with brass knuckles.
amazing.

 

[RTR]

It was a good move from yahtzee to do this. He was literally inundated with post after post claiming he has lost his credibility and talent.

I think he's right. You shouldn't let other reviews get to you if you like the game.

 

[DaftWarhol]

Am I the only one who is only one who is a little disappointed that there wasn't a game review this time around?

yeah, I'm pretty sure you are.

 

[NekoMimiMode]

Okay, as someone who owns SSBB, I can tell you this: it's okay. It is not the best game ever, only Mario 64 and Okami get to hold that ranking in my opinion. And it is annoying to unlock the unlockables (took me roughly 2 weeks, and that's with help and an awesome cheat). I liked the single player until the stage before the final boss. That place tooks us DAYS to get through. But you know what? Snake's taunt is hiding in a box, and doing that right before I decimated a friend is just awesome. And do not call your friend a Nintendo Fan. I am a Nintendo Fan, I practically worship Miyamoto-sama. However, I also draw the line. Your friend is a Ninten-tard, basically if you have ever heard of a Naru-tard, he's like that, only with Nintendo. And all people like that, need to be smited.

FYI, fanboys don't wear the cat ears, they wear stupid shirts instead. *puts on Nintendo Fangirl red cat ears* I support Nintendo, but it is rather unoriginal, but hey, at least it's fun.

 

[Kaos Incarnate]

I have a few of those shirts somewhere...

 

[NickCaligo42]

Okay, Yahtzee pissed me off with his Devil May Cry 4 review and all but completely lost my viewership with his Brawl review, then made me lose faith in the entire human race when he actually gave God of War a GOOD review when I was deeply hoping he'd rip it a new one, but after THIS he has proven once more worthy of my esteem. Not only was this review a real breath of fresh air, but the only phrase as funny as "farming under duress" that I've yet encountered is "you're projecting so hard you could point yourself at a wall and show off powerpoint presentations."

Well done, Yahtzee. You've succeeded in totally alienating me as a viewer and then doing a complete 180 and bringing me right back in.

Now if only you and I BOTH had that kind of luck with women.