Zero Punctuation: Mailbag Showdown

[Lupie]

ok, apart from Lupie and Indy_Gindy<<i know it's not your name!, this is almost as bad as the comments after SSBB. He critsised a game, people didn't like it and shouted at him. He, like any self-respecting brit would, shouted back. Everyone shut the hell up and get over yourselves!

Aw, thanks. Only, you know, Lupie is actually my name. TRUFAX.

 

[Archan 2099]

I wonder is anybody still hyped to play star craft 2 or is it another tiberium sun

 

[Sylocat]

You're entitled to your opinion. But, you have to accept that everyone else is as well. You don't think playing single player for half a day to unlock content is bad. Yatzee does. Ok. You don't think including Japanese characters is bad. Yatzee does. Ok. To defend anything by saying your opinion is correct simply because it is your opinion is not acceptable. To defend the game by saying that playing for half a day isn't bad, and Japanese characters are fine is not acceptable. To say "I personally don't have a problem with these things," is.

So... there's no such thing as invalid criticisms of a game, but there is such a thing as an invalid criticism of a review?

From the quote, he wasn't saying that. In context, was he?

I, too, am interested in knowing what this person thought I said.

Well, it sounded to me like you were saying that we shouldn't DEFEND a game by saying that including Japanese characters was okay, but it was okay for Yahtzee to BASH the game by saying that he didn't think it was okay. You said that "defending it by saying Japanese characters are fine is not acceptable, but saying that you personally don't have a problem with it is," yet you saw nothing wrong with Yahtzee claiming that the game was shit. So, when someone likes something it's subjective, but when they don't like it suddenly there are objective things to dislike?

(oh, and what kind of complaint is "they included Japanese characters I've never heard of" anyway? What possible effect does that have on the game experience?)

 

[die4769]

Great job on humiliating useless twats on their only place to run to when they get shunned in society, the internet. In your position I probably would have stopped doing reviews. I can't stand people like that.

 

[die4769]

Nice one. I wonder if I should call David and have him spam Yahtzee's e-mail with requests to review Contra next time. That'd be win as far as I see it.

PP: Contra 4evar

I wanna see Yahtzee review Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion
Wars, in fact, why not have Yahtzee review every scathingly hard game in existence, that would be entertaining.

 

[gasto]

Hamster of Dawn: FYI Spell-checker, 'favourite' is spelled with a 'u' and there is no 'z' in 'customise'.

what a ... go to school kid. Make sure you actually learn something. So immigrate to U.K.

 

[Akexi]

Completely true, Brawl is a rehash of a game that relied solely on star power (if you can consider that for a video game character) to sell a formula that is as complex as a block of wood. I also love the bashing of Brawl's damn near if not retarded fan base fan boys. The sad thing is that these people will take any hit of common sense that penetrates their thoughts and simply mash it into something that doesn't hurt their feelings, just how emos take cutting their wrists as a good thing.

 

[The Thief]

just how emos take cutting their wrists as a good thing.

How is emo's cutting themselves not a good thing?

 

[Kaos Incarnate]

Hamster of Dawn: FYI Spell-checker, 'favourite' is spelled with a 'u' and there is no 'z' in 'customise'.

what a ... go to school kid. Make sure you actually learn something. So immigrate to U.K.

America and the UK have different spellings so don't insult him for it.

 

[sanzar]

To be honest, I think the only reason Yahzee bothered to give posters any attention concering SSBB is to delay the process a bit while he played GTA4 or something.

Which is downright lazy, but then again its not like we wouldn't have done something similar.

Remember, the boy's human, too. ...Probably.

Opinion is divided. I still have yet to receive evidence he's not a Dalek, the way he spouts hate.

I think you're onto something there, you know. If you take off the hat, there's this sort of hollow where the top of his head should be, and in there's sitting this jelly-like organism, operating the rest of his body like an Eva unit!!

THE WORLD MUST BE INFORMED.

EXTERMINATE NINTENDO! Yeah, I could see that.

I'm frankly astounded that no-one has thought of it before.

...Hurr hurr, ass-tounded. S'got "ass" in it. (...Disregard, cocks, etc.)

Longest chain quote EVER!

It is now.

now I have the record!

So Tempting.. ahh well here goes..

One longer.. Woo

THere has been longer.... Alot longer

Then we can make it longer.

Fear the power of the BANHAMMER

Yea, though I walk through the valley of flames, I shall fear no Banning.

I promise to stop now.

Is there a guiness world record for this kind of thing?

 

[sanzar]

To be honest, I think the only reason Yahzee bothered to give posters any attention concering SSBB is to delay the process a bit while he played GTA4 or something.

Which is downright lazy, but then again its not like we wouldn't have done something similar.

Remember, the boy's human, too. ...Probably.

Opinion is divided. I still have yet to receive evidence he's not a Dalek, the way he spouts hate.

I think you're onto something there, you know. If you take off the hat, there's this sort of hollow where the top of his head should be, and in there's sitting this jelly-like organism, operating the rest of his body like an Eva unit!!

THE WORLD MUST BE INFORMED.

EXTERMINATE NINTENDO! Yeah, I could see that.

I'm frankly astounded that no-one has thought of it before.

...Hurr hurr, ass-tounded. S'got "ass" in it. (...Disregard, cocks, etc.)

Longest chain quote EVER!

It is now.

now I have the record!

So Tempting.. ahh well here goes..

One longer.. Woo

THere has been longer.... Alot longer

Then we can make it longer.

Fear the power of the BANHAMMER

Yea, though I walk through the valley of flames, I shall fear no Banning.

I promise to stop now.

Is there a guiness world record for this kind of thing?

Because if there is I think it should be broken.

 

[Blast5000]

I wonder is anybody still hyped to play star craft 2 or is it another tiberium sun

I am

 

[kibiyama]

Huge block of text.

If you're all quite done, there might be some people who actually want to discuss the review rather than be amazed by next-generation forum technology.

Strange how the mods are so ban-happy on the first couple pages when people contribute little to nothing, but overt obnoxiousness later in the thread gets a free pass.

 

[satanrules]

First of all, ripping that game to shreds was probably the coolest thing anyone has done in a while because the game blows ass. Finally someone spoke the truth! The only title it retains is Ultimate Button Mashing Retard Festival and Yahtzee hit the nail on the head all the way. The pukes were made to kneel before Zod with that review. The follow-up with the emails made me cough up a lung and piss myself I was laughing so hard. When will you 10 year old fanboy rejects learn that someone like Yahtzee is a god because he's brilliant at what he does and the rest of you are SHIT? Yahtzee rules, fools kneel.

 

[josh797]

Posts
Because if there is I think it should be broken.

oh beleive me theres much longer and more entertaining too.

 

[ar4yyyy]

Wow...I just realised i can have a laugh not only from Yahtzee's reviews but from reading some hillarious fanboy rage posts XD

 

[sanzar]

I wonder is anybody still hyped to play star craft 2 or is it another tiberium sun

Star Craft 2 looks like it'll be great, but to be honest I'm almost more excited about Red Alert 3. I loved C&C 3 and RA 3 looks like it'll follow in the usual pattern of improving on the C&C structure while making it wackier. Add to the mix that they've added the Japanese as the third faction and it sounds awesome.

 

[Jebril]

Holy shit Yahtzee I had to actually make an account on this god forsaken website just to show you the flaws of your argument. In your review/critique of SSBB you make assumptions, lots of them. You make the assumption that studying a game and getting good at it isn't fun to people.

Well guess what they're are people who enjoy studying Chemistry and I absolutely hate it, what's fun to some might not be fun to others fun is subjective. You talk about the cluster animations, the too many particles on the screen how the camera zooms out all these excuses to why this game isn't fun.

Well fact of the matter is you can take off items if you really need to, take off the much bigger stages that don't you let you see your character, and theres still plenty of variation in this game.

And last but not least you take an absolute pure shit on yourself when you call yourself a critic but than blame the game for making you unlock characters. If you had the IQ of a monkey you can figure that fighting games all have unlockable characters! And just because you played the game for one evening doesn't mean you should be able to get everything in the game, in fact if you played this game for one evening you shouldn't even be able to review it! And becoming 'that guy' is what makes it fun, the Smash community was built on competitiveness, of course you don't understand that because you live in Australia where I guess there are just no where near as many tournies in your place as in the US.

And here's so mindless insults while I'm at it, your a fucking twat, you forgot who got you where you were, it was viewers like me and many others who liked your charismatic style of reviewing but than somewhere along the line you became a cocky sucking asshole, who would just bash games on endlessly just even simply forgetting to mentioning anything good about them all in the name of being a critic. And you simply insult me when you label me as a Nintendo fanboy for liking the Smash Bros. series when I actually never played games like Super Mario Galaxy or Twilight Princess or Mario Kart Wii or Metroid Prime 3. I actually only play the Wii when I'm playing this game.

God I had to make an account just to vent this...it was so bad.....