Zero Punctuation: Mailbag Showdown

[HamHamHam]

Great Video.

I must admit the other week i was a little miffed at Yahtzee's treatment of the game. Now before I continue i must also admit that i have yet to play it so i can't really claim Brawl to be good or bad either way so i wont even try.

It's just that me and my mates played the Gamecube version, winner stays on round robin, for about 5 hours straight back in the day so i find it hard to beleive that more of the same with added everything to be a bad thing. So with his review i even jokingly came to the conclusion that Yahtzee doesn't even know how to have fun with games (i mean lets face it, as fantastic as Silent Hill 2 is its hardly a jolly lark is it?).

But you know what? I disagreed with the guy. So fucking what? There's a first time for everything and what does one mans opinion really matter? It's amazing that people can spew out so much vitriol to defend what they love. As long as you love it does it really matter? It doesn't matter if your the only person in the world who enjoyed Barbie's Horse Adventure, if you love it then fucking play it! (you freak)

Anyways, this is a kind of long winded way of showing my appreciation for Yahtzee's work despite the fact that he irritated me with his unrelented battering of a game that probably doesn't deserve it (though as i said before i can't yet be sure). Keep up the good work my friend and lets hope your irritating people well into the next year.

And yes GTA IV is long...

See, now that made sense. Apart from the rather bizarre reference to a Barbie game.

I like Yahtzee's reviews, irrespective on whether he deems them good or bad, he raises fair points, often ones overlooked by other reviewers. With the Brawl review, however, I felt he left out a lot of its content, and a lot of the comments he did make were applicable to fighting games in general and not so much Brawl. (Also, having to unlock characters? Really?! Thats a flaw now?)

Generally, I think it was so half-assed it was meant as some kind of punishment for people who requested it, or perhaps just to bait fanboys into embarassing themselves (which there is certainly evidence of now!). With hindsight though, he probably just didn't want to play it/review it, now he has nailed his colours to the mast and is defending his right to his not-quite opinion.

 

[Rath709]

I continue to wish that Zero Punctuation had been in existence when Invisible War was released.

 

[Jhiaxus]

Ohhhhh damn poor stupid Nintendo-boys there are out there. I can smell their burnt brain cells from all the way over here.

I can picture you saying that while high fiving your friend and then commenting on how awesome the 360 is. You gotta understand, Yahtzee takes out the worst letters and makes fun of them. I'm sure there were actually some well thought out letters in there (futile, of course)

Exactly. It's like that Jaywalking segment on The Tonight Show. People don't want to see the passersby on the street get the questions right, so they just show the idiots who couldn't tell the difference between Jesus Christ and Charles Manson.

 

[JFork36]

Woo! Go Yahtzee!

 

[DeLukas]

Ok I had t o register to say this; Fuck yes!

Reviewing fan boys was your most briliant piece yet!
Couldn't stop laughing

I did the same, such things shouldn't be funny. . .but somehow "I fuck your mother" never goes out of style.

 

[Sentient]

To be honest, Yahtzee wouldn't have got half the complaints about his review of SSBB if he:

1) Didn't review it in the first place because he didn't want to.
2) Found some actual faults in the game instead of pathetically making some non-existant ones up.
3) Actually played the damn game for more than one drunken night.

I can name a few faults in SSBB, but unlike Yahtzee's complaints, mine are legitimate and actually exist, and I haven't even played the sodding game. So this latest Zero Punctuation was basically him trying to defend himself against dozens of people who were angry at him for giving SSBB not just a bad review, but a bad review highlighting non-existant faults, and personally, I don't blame those people one bit.

 

[DaveTech]

I felt i should say something. When i watched Yahtzee's review of Super Smash Bro's Brawl, despite my personal feelings towards the game (Excellent, but thats neither here nor there), if found this short review very amusing and slightly informative. I was greeted at school the next day by fellow members of The Nerd Crew, all of which were whining, and complaining about it.

It seems to me people have missed the point somehow. You will have to forgive me for this, Yahtzee but i do not see these video's as a serious critique, but as a part comedy. I do not watch these reviews to be enlightened on new games, and to be convinced to either buy, or deny games, but to be made laugh for a few minutes every week, which i sort of asumed was the point. Hence the reason he does not use scores, and uses the amusing cartoons in the background.

I saw everything in the 'SSBB' review as nothing short of professional, when bearing in mind the general point. The reason i did not say this at the time is since i see very little point in commenting. Come on, i loved Smash Bro's, but i do not go bitching to someone who has a different opinion, and is that not a critics job? To share an opinion? Finally, please people that do comment harshly, at least make them constructive critisisms, not mindless insulting dog fight, as soon as 'twat' or 'You suck' is used, the statement looses all credibility.

Keep up the good work, Yahtzee ^-^

 

[renard]

(Also, having to unlock characters? Really?! Thats a flaw now?)

well, having the so-much-hyped characters as unlockable characters instead of letting the rabbid players get their hands on them from the begining... I think that's like having a cockslap with a cricket bat...

 

[TheZaius]

Well, I liked Brawl but there's no way you're gonna have fun if you don't have friends who can play with you who are also interested in playing. Just like there's no point in playing a first-person shooter with friends if they're not interested in playing a first-person shooter and are only doing it for your sake.

I don't think Yahtzee's review of SSBB was all that bad. I think he said RELATIVELY good things about the "story" mode and I think he also mentioned that he put in enough effort into the game to unlock characters and become... one of those guys. I think the fact that anything in his review came out sounding somewhat positive is a good thing considering it's a Yahtzee review.

 

[HamHamHam]

To be honest, Yahtzee wouldn't have got half the complaints about his review of SSBB if he:

1) Didn't review it in the first place because he didn't want to.
2) Found some actual faults in the game instead of pathetically making some non-existant ones up.
3) Actually played the damn game for more than one drunken night.

I can name a few faults in SSBB, but unlike Yahtzee's complaints, mine are legitimate and actually exist, and I haven't even played the sodding game. So this latest Zero Punctuation was basically him trying to defend himself against dozens of people who were angry at him for giving SSBB not just a bad review, but a bad review highlighting non-existant faults, and personally, I don't blame those people one bit.

Agreed. Shame he didn't respond to an e-mail like this.

 

[VMerken]

Wait a minute... Super Smash Bros Brawl just got featured *twice* in Zero Punctuation because rabid fanboys wrote angry, "Zero Punctuationed" e-mails?

Hmm. I think it's time to write an "angry e-mail" about the The Witcher review

Who's with me?

 

[Caliostro]

Was slightly disappointed at first, during the intro, when it hit me I wasn't going to see a game review, but it was worth it. Best one yet.


Just..epic.

 

[Suppahh]

FORUM TROLLSS!

''I am not a fanboy'' ''YES YOU ARE" xD Brilliant.

''I'll give you a number, the number 4 for 4k you'' Nothing needs to be added to this comment, because it's like stealing candy from a baby xD.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

People just need to realise that Yahtzee, like Hitler, can say and think whatever he wants. And its wrong for us to criticise his opinions, and Hitler's, just because they contradict ours.

That is the whole point.

Godwin!

 

[m_jim]

Why have I come to expect nothing but idiocy from you?

My opinion as an anonymous internet poster is meaningless, yes. I'm glad you have FINALLY grasped this concept.

But it is not MY opinion that your opinions are all worthless. It is fact. Say whatever you want on these forums, it will result in NOTHING HAPPENING in the real world. If your opinion actually MEANS anything, then your opinion will result in something DIFFERENT happening in the real world.

If the President of the United States wants something done, whatever he wants done happens.

If YOU or any other loser forum gnome want something done, NOTHING happens. See the difference?

*sniff* *sniff* Smells like... a troll.

 

[Kaos Incarnate]

I had no problem with Yahtzee's review, the only problem was the lack of a release date on Brawl in Europe, but now there is one.

 

[renard]

People just need to realise that Yahtzee, like Hitler, can say and think whatever he wants. And its wrong for us to criticise his opinions, and Hitler's, just because they contradict ours.

That is the whole point.

Godwin!

Bring the padlock!

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

To be honest, Yahtzee wouldn't have got half the complaints about his review of SSBB if he:

1) Didn't review it in the first place because he didn't want to.
2) Found some actual faults in the game instead of pathetically making some non-existant ones up.
3) Actually played the damn game for more than one drunken night.

I can name a few faults in SSBB, but unlike Yahtzee's complaints, mine are legitimate and actually exist, and I haven't even played the sodding game. So this latest Zero Punctuation was basically him trying to defend himself against dozens of people who were angry at him for giving SSBB not just a bad review, but a bad review highlighting non-existant faults, and personally, I don't blame those people one bit.

So, you've not played the game, yet know the faults Yahtzee came up with don't exist?

Yahtzee highlights what is essentially a massive FUCK YOU from brawl which is PLAY AS SONIC (after countless fucking HOURS playing, FFS I finished GTA4 before my friend unlocked brawl fully. (and by that I mean got all the characters)) when shit like that happens it's not fun (which brawl is supposed to be), as you're doing the same shit, fighting the same fucking people on the same fucking level over and fucking over until you get a message going "you've played long enough, have a character that 0.1% of westerners give half a fuck about, oh BTW sonics still a fuckload of hours away, enjoy".

Whats wrong with a proper unlock system? Beat the game with one character to unlock the next one, or combinations of characters?

 

[I Mav I]

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[Suppahh]

To be honest, Yahtzee wouldn't have got half the complaints about his review of SSBB if he:

1) Didn't review it in the first place because he didn't want to.
2) Found some actual faults in the game instead of pathetically making some non-existant ones up.
3) Actually played the damn game for more than one drunken night.

I can name a few faults in SSBB, but unlike Yahtzee's complaints, mine are legitimate and actually exist, and I haven't even played the sodding game. So this latest Zero Punctuation was basically him trying to defend himself against dozens of people who were angry at him for giving SSBB not just a bad review, but a bad review highlighting non-existant faults, and personally, I don't blame those people one bit.

Agreed. Shame he didn't respond to an e-mail like this.

w/e I really like SSBB, but only in multiplayer, but even if Yathzee didn't reiew it quite well(atleast what most ppl think) he can have criticism on every single f*cking thing in the game, it's not like you are not gonna buy the game or keep playing xD, but you will look for the things Yathzee said, and maybe find something interesting too. Instead of posting hate mail or something like that. That's just WTFLOLBBQ xD.

Yahtzee 4 Life, same as SSBB xD.

Lael