Zero Punctuation: Mailbag Showdown
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Goodness, if these were the better of the e-mails you received about SSBB, I'd hate to see what didn't make the cut. I shudder to think what you're going to do to GTA IV, given your tendency to carve apart universally acclaimed games, you rugged iconoclast you.
Zero Puntuation is the only place ware i can get reviews that are not complete bullshit.
I still remember when FF XII came out when I WAS a FF fanboy, And then 24 hours later I put it in the trash bin. My point being that even fanboys need to under stand that there are limits to what you can let "The Man" get away whith.
I still remember when FF XII came out when I WAS a FF fanboy, And then 24 hours later I put it in the trash bin. My point being that even fanboys need to under stand that there are limits to what you can let "The Man" get away whith.
Well, that was quite enjoyable indeed. I wrote games reviews for 20 years for a living and never got comfortable with boiling it all down to a score. I tried to convince my editors that we didn't need scores; that people are intelligent enough to parse the text and come to a conclusion on their own. But oh no, they insist on scores.
During the past 10 years or so, scores have (at least in my country) suffered a massive inflation. While magazines use a scale of 0 to 100, it's only the range of 70 to 100 that's actually being used anymore. Give a score of 70 to a game and its distributor will cross your name off the list. Even a score of 80-something is sometimes seen as killing sales. Ridiculous.
One more thing that really irked me back in the day: why can't people realize that games reviews, even professional ones in glossy magazines, are only opinions? Opinions just like yours, nothing more, nothing less. They're not some sort of a Universal Truth that everyone must agree with. Sheesh.
During the past 10 years or so, scores have (at least in my country) suffered a massive inflation. While magazines use a scale of 0 to 100, it's only the range of 70 to 100 that's actually being used anymore. Give a score of 70 to a game and its distributor will cross your name off the list. Even a score of 80-something is sometimes seen as killing sales. Ridiculous.
One more thing that really irked me back in the day: why can't people realize that games reviews, even professional ones in glossy magazines, are only opinions? Opinions just like yours, nothing more, nothing less. They're not some sort of a Universal Truth that everyone must agree with. Sheesh.
I enjoyed it; although I can see behind your smoke and mirrors Yahtzee buying time for GTA4 (Probably wasn't as subtle as I thought it was actually). Although if your not careful your going to get caught in a circle with hate emails from this review and the next one e.t.c. Liked the Gamespot comment; I swear they can't give a game less than 7/10. Also any chance your white enough to buy me a few consoles?
Wow you must be desperate to see everything on the Wii fail, just to let you know I have Mario Kart, I think it is alright, but I would rather play The World Ends With Youconor123 said:
As I said on my first post: he is acting like one of those childish fanboys he is criticising.MRMIdASshole2k said:
If he hates so much recieving so much hatemail why keep calling for more like a masochist? The review it's done! nice job! You have your opinion and I have mine, it's fine. But If you can't stand those fanboys just delete their mails and don't reply them like a little child on a quarrel on the school's playground.
American spelling is different from Canadian. Canada spells many words with a "u", such as neighbour, colour, favourite, etc. I think the "z" is Canadian too - I have my Microsoft Word set to Canadian English, and it's showing that "customize" is acceptable. Maybe some British spellings are the same as Canadian?Hamster at Dawn said:
If there isn't actually a review of a game in here I will be very disappointed with Mr. Croshaw for a very long time.
Because this is either a sign of him running out of ideas or him just being a childish jackass. Seriously. You don't respond to hate mail. EVER. You know what's going to happen now. MORE HATE MAIL.
I suggest that Mr. Croshaw should just change his email and stop POSTING THE FUCKING THING. He never should have put the damn thing up.
Because this is either a sign of him running out of ideas or him just being a childish jackass. Seriously. You don't respond to hate mail. EVER. You know what's going to happen now. MORE HATE MAIL.
I suggest that Mr. Croshaw should just change his email and stop POSTING THE FUCKING THING. He never should have put the damn thing up.
wait a minute, loveyboy, you reviewed a review of reviews of your previous-but-one review? Shirley, this cannot be right. Erm, you're still angrier than a petrol-soaked sack full of British Bulldogs chewing wasps, and I like it. Is it true you didn't change any of those Fanboys' names?
Ironically, amid your lava, there was not one single revelation about who's really developing UFC 2009 (another fight game), according to a recent video interview with UFC fighter Marcus Davis, fresh out of mocappy laserscan [http://mikephilbin.blogspot.com/2007/07/ufc-2009-amazing-ingame-footage.html].
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Ironically, amid your lava, there was not one single revelation about who's really developing UFC 2009 (another fight game), according to a recent video interview with UFC fighter Marcus Davis, fresh out of mocappy laserscan [http://mikephilbin.blogspot.com/2007/07/ufc-2009-amazing-ingame-footage.html].
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Dalamard said:
I happen to love FFXII.
If you didn't like it, then that's your loss. Not everyone liked it. I thought it was great. But yes, killer reviews. I tune in each week, and my boyfriend (who knows a bit more about games than I do) often agrees with most of what Yahtzee says.
Nononononono, you're completely missing the entire point of these reviews, those comments and of a sharp sword.reTard said:
The mail wouldn't have pissed me off, it'd have made me laugh, as I'm assuming it did with Yahtzee, now, replying to these ridiculous letters make for comedy, pointing out how daft most of the points they make are.
and you made a funny about my name, well done.
Really.
Must've taken all day to come up with something as witty and well thought out as that.