Zero Punctuation: Mailbag Showdown

Colodomoko

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Before I say what I feel is nessasary to say I would like everyone to know that I find these reviews to be telling us half truths and not the full ones. Right, now that thats out of the way(Or is it?)I have my own opinion on the relationship between Yahtzee and his fanboy/hellish/normal, and I quote "NORMAL" viewers(I personally fall into the catagory of normal like some of the other viewers on the site.). Yahtzee makes games look like crap yet still shows a hint of greatness and I must agree that his reviews can be better by showing the good/bad qualities of the game in the way there is no reference to sextual humor, but this is where we forget to draw the line, the line showing if we want humorus half truths or the full truths of decentness and honesty.

Scrath that last part because this is a fan review that is ment to be hilarious in any way possible, I mean c'mon people, did you honestly think this review is suppose to show a descent truth. To show you what a real review is like please visit the following webpage: http://www.gamespot.com/video/928518/6187422/super-smash-bros-brawl-video-review.

That about sums up my opinion.

P.S.- If you are a fanboy you will be put down like a dog.
If you are hellish you will be made fun of and possibly be banned.
If you are normal you have nothing to fear because you write based on quality.

P.P.S.- Like HELL they ever decide to ban you unless you do something dumb whitch shows how lazy the people on this site may be unless they do read through every single written thread and I say good luck to all.

P.P.P.S.- Thank you if you are a normal viewer.

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Aptspire

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lol, shek ur speling evry1
XD
Kidding, they fully deserved it in my opinion
Wondering when the GTA IV review will go out
Aptspire
 

Donstheman

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I enjoyed this little rant alot actually, as I did with the SSBB review, even if I didnt agree completly with wha was being said, and yes, I have to say I assume that the letters picked by Yahtzee weren't the brightest glimmers of intelligence in his mail bag, but eh, I was entertained.

ALthough, I cant just leave my word there, oh no, I have to say more, namely, my own little opinion of the SSBB brawl. Most of the review I cant say nought about, its his opinions and hes welcome to them, no matter how much I disagree. However, I couldnt help but go "Hang on a minute" when he spoke of button mashing AND "That Guy"

One moment he complains of one then he shoots for the other peeve, each eliminating the other in what Im going to brand the "Clash effect" Before recording I think Yahtzee, as good as he is, should have looked back and realised that by saying such things he contradicts himself, so which is it Yahtzee? Yes, you can have your cake and eat it, but no second slice!
 

Nitrokitty

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My response to this movie was a big fat "meh." I personally love SSBB, and couldn't care less that Yahtzee doesn't like it. THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO DON'T LIKE THE GAMES I LIKE!!! OH NOES! WHATEVER SHALL I DO?! His Brawl review just wasn't all that funny. It sounded way too forced. He should go back to doing what he was doing before, i.e., reviewing just the games he wants to and not the ones he's expected to, and ignoring people who email him. This review just felt totally unnecessary. Yes, there are stupid people on the internet. We know. Yes, there are people who pathologically love video game X and will fly into a rage if you dare to criticize it. We know this too. You don't need to point this out to us. We know Yahtzee is a smug, superior bastard. He tells us this on his reviews regularly. However, its just more entertaining when he's being a superior bastard over games. Watching him knock down some straw men over the internet just is rather boring.
 

Abbadiel

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More than 300 posts AGAIN? This is getting a little bit like a clusterfuck to me. Not that it bothers me or something, but I'm starting to get the feeling that the ZP comments topic is getting a bit like say, a big bloody battle on the World War 1.

As much as this somehow pains me, Yahtzee is starting to fall.

Nitrokitty said:
His Brawl review just wasn't all that funny. It sounded way too forced. He should go back to doing what he was doing before, i.e., reviewing just the games he wants to and not the ones he's expected to, and ignoring people who email him. This review just felt totally unnecessary.
And that was the first trip in ZP.

It all started with Halo 3, no so nagged about reviewing it. But he still wanted to do it.
Then came Assasins Creed, barely nagged about it.
Then Super Mario Galaxy. I'm not so sure about this one, probably he just tried it and wanted to do a review
Now comes Crysis. Although he liked a bit crysis, there was a bit of nagging too.
Then came some kind of Pathology.
Call of Duty 4. Stated at the introduction of the review, told to review it by four thousand fleeting lambs.
And then...

Super Smash Brothers Brawl.
I'm starting to think that he just made a bad review out of it because he was tired of people telling him what to do.
Don't get me wrong, the only Super Smash Bros. I've ever played was the one on the Nintendo 64. It was an overall good game and I ussually used it to kill time.
 

yhjung012

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Hamster at Dawn said:
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 'customise'
you can spell favourite in other way, that's british way and Favorite is American(?) way
 

ToenailCar

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Nitrokitty said:
My response to this movie was a big fat "meh." I personally love SSBB, and couldn't care less that Yahtzee doesn't like it. THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO DON'T LIKE THE GAMES I LIKE!!! OH NOES! WHATEVER SHALL I DO?! His Brawl review just wasn't all that funny. It sounded way too forced. He should go back to doing what he was doing before, i.e., reviewing just the games he wants to and not the ones he's expected to, and ignoring people who email him. This review just felt totally unnecessary. Yes, there are stupid people on the internet. We know. Yes, there are people who pathologically love video game X and will fly into a rage if you dare to criticize it. We know this too. You don't need to point this out to us. We know Yahtzee is a smug, superior bastard. He tells us this on his reviews regularly. However, its just more entertaining when he's being a superior bastard over games. Watching him knock down some straw men over the internet just is rather boring.
Holy Damn I think this contains too much correctness for this topic to handle.
In the sense that these are my thoughts exactly except I didn't even have to write them (Hooray)
 

yhjung012

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It's clear that you never liked games like Brawls. I understand, because I am not a big fan of whole concept of Wii, too. Also, it is abvious that you like to go around kill people, but not RPG more like FPS. My guess is that you are going to review GTA4 next, because of either pressure or you like that game. If you like it I can't say anything, but if you don't like it don't do it. I never liked GTA, whole gang stuff, and I think there is lot better games. I don't know you will like them, but try to review some non-recent games.
 

GTwander

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I was very much hoping for a GTA:4 review, but as it seems he is too busy playing it - and only it (I'm sure of it) - to make an actual game review. This was a little off the beaten track but proved to be probably THE best episode here at The Escapist and a much needed ***** slap back to reality for a hefty chunk of the game world... the ones that know about him... spread the word!
 

MightyMouse

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ToenailCar said:
Nitrokitty said:
My response to this movie was a big fat "meh." I personally love SSBB, and couldn't care less that Yahtzee doesn't like it. THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO DON'T LIKE THE GAMES I LIKE!!! OH NOES! WHATEVER SHALL I DO?! His Brawl review just wasn't all that funny. It sounded way too forced. He should go back to doing what he was doing before, i.e., reviewing just the games he wants to and not the ones he's expected to, and ignoring people who email him. This review just felt totally unnecessary. Yes, there are stupid people on the internet. We know. Yes, there are people who pathologically love video game X and will fly into a rage if you dare to criticize it. We know this too. You don't need to point this out to us. We know Yahtzee is a smug, superior bastard. He tells us this on his reviews regularly. However, its just more entertaining when he's being a superior bastard over games. Watching him knock down some straw men over the internet just is rather boring.
Holy Damn I think this contains too much correctness for this topic to handle.
In the sense that these are my thoughts exactly except I didn't even have to write them (Hooray)
If you feel that you are a straw man, you may want to add some validity to your arguments.

P.S. If you come back to the glorious motherland, Yahtzee, you can get the first two series of Skins on dvd (ignore the crap weather).
 

Poida12

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Great fun this week Yahtzee.

It ought to be very interesting to see how GTAIV gets reviewed. I just finished it yesterday and in all honesty i don't think it is a game at all. I think it is an interactive peice of art. Kind of like being able to walk around in a painting and interact with it. Generally this is why a lot of people are giving it 10/10 even though the gameplay elements in some areas leave a lot to be desired (though i still loved every minute except some of the long range driving and a few nade/rocket issues which left me dead and my enemies laughing - and it is still the most fun i have had in a while). The artistic merit of it supercedes any niggling flaws like in any good peiece of art. So if GTAIV is more art than game how can Yahtzee review it in his usual style and still do it justice? From a purely gameing perspective it is only worth about a 9 but the rest is so so good that it makes up for all the stuff especially the cover woes. I'm sure he will find a way or will proclaim me stupid and do whatever the hell he wants. Dealer's choice.
 

Killerabbit

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Wow, so you really poked an angry bear this time Yahtzee! I agree with what you say totally, but I have to point out the lack of PC games you review, yeah, true, a lot of the big company's, who we (The superior race) the PC gamers have remained loyal too from the start, have been ignoring us! Rockstar with GTA, and now EA with battlefield Bad company! So common! Show us more support, consoles are for Christmas, PCs are forever!
 

Sylocat

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*sigh* the people who hate Brawl and loved this video (about half of which are first-time posters with even worse typing skills than the idiots who wrote the letters Yahtzee decided to hold up as straw men) outnumber the Brawl fanboys by about 4 to 1 at this point, and yet they're still complaining about being persecuted by "those horrid Nintendo fanboys."

Oh, and I recognized two of those "letters" as being comments in the Brawl thread. Did they also send the exact same comments to him word-for-word via e-mail or was he trying not to let us know he actually reads these comments?
 

Deeko

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Amazing Work Yahtzee! The videos you make just keep getting better and better. Keep up the good work!
 

Kwb62000

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My only experience with 'Brawl' was a one time viewing at a friends house while rather stoned. I took one look at the A bashing and crazy light based tom-foolery on screen and instantly dismissed it as childish crap. Although to be fair I would not have played even when I started gaming back in 87 as a wee 5 year old. I think games like Smash Brothers are an indicative sign of a regressing to the superficial aspect of human nature. Shite in other words. Absolute shite. And people I have met who like these games have often been very, very thick. (They also liked the Transformers film....ooooooh bitter)
 

Plays2

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Now this is the review I wanted to see.

I have to admit, this review is the best of ZP's so far; It was fucking hilarious and I loved how did he corrected the spelling errors for the letters. But I still see that Nintendo Fanboys will still defending their favorite king (who doesn't need any defending really...) no matter the situation.

Now, I recommend Nintendo fan boys to calm down a bit, if Yahtzee gave a bad review about this game then it's not going to be the end of the world or something.

But then again, if there are fan boys then we will still see this endless fight...