Zero Punctuation: Mailbag Showdown

[Littlenorwegians]

How is it possible for me to be a hardcore Smash Bros fan and like this?
Hmmm..... Maybe..... Because..... I don't feel the need to defend a game/console and that something I like can be made fun of without me going mad, but rather have fun.

Oh, sorry. I'm almost wasting time defending something on the internet. We all know that, that's pointless, eh?

Have a great day!

Post: 1111 in this thread.

 

[Littlenorwegians]

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.....

Stop watching his reviews and let Yathzee have his opinion. That simple.
There is no reason to defend a game.

 

[tycho_l]

Meh.
i Just hope Yahtzee Doesnt Become Maddox or sumthign.
Meh.
Me Losing Hope, me Losin Faith.
at Least hes back to normal now............
Still didnt really think he'd bother in the firrst place to do a HateMail run-thru tho...
Meh.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

OK, rant time, inspired by the PMS-suffering guy quoted above.

Look at the average number of comments he gets for his reviews: 200.
Look at the number of comments on his SSBB review: 1100+.

Enough said. It's not that the review was worse or less fair than the others - it wasn't. It's that the Internet is full of fan boys who can't stand their games being criticized. It's like the idiots I talked to when venting my anger on The Sims - no matter what argument I brought up, no matter how valid, they'd shrug it off as "too complicated", "that's not the kind of game this is", etc - and then rush off to buy the first of the many, many, many "milk-this-title-for-all-it's-worth x-packs that brought them the very features they claimed to hate.

For example:
Me: Er, how come they take showers after pissing themselves, but then get back in their pissy pants? Shouldn't they have to clean their clothing?
The Sims fanboy: OMG WTF LOL thatd be 2 complicated, u phail lol!

Er, right. You have no problem with doing the dishes after dinner, but having to do the exact same thing with pants is suddenly "too complicated". Sure.

Fanboy mindset: If it's in the game, it's good. If not, it's evidently because it's bad, because the developers are almighty and don't make mistakes.

Still didnt really think he'd bother in the firrst place to do a HateMail run-thru tho...
Meh.

I'm surprised it took him as long as it did.

 

[Deadwings]

Are you guys done yet?

 

[tycho_l]

All Right Lets get this straight.
I Like Yahtzee's reviews.
I view this video as a departure from his normally ' goes in the folder marked To be liquidated' approach to Hate-mail.I'm glad he's Back to reviewing games.
That's it and I dont see what in my earlier post tipped you off to my fanboyishness .
I am an Ardent Fan of the Witcher.
I do not care what yahtzee thinks about, yet i enjoyed his review on it, and did not label him as mentally ill for it. I think of it as just an Opinion.

I just thought A hate-mail runthru, however relevant, was beneath him.
He's never commented on his own videos, even when people Provoke him and such.

The Pattern reminded me of Maddox, An internet personality, i'd rather not be associated with.
You'll excuse me if i felt a bit paranoid and down on my spirits on Future prospects.

I'm Quite sorry Deadwings, Im Done now.
And i hope everyone else is too. This has been made out to be Much too Significant for its merits.

 

[WVI]

Here's the thing.

I didn't like the Brawl review. It was clearly(lawl) lazy, made few attempts to be funny and outright inaccurate from start to finish, missing every single one of the thousands of valid complaints he could've made. It reeked of the idea that he only did it out of a sense of obligation, and there was no substance at all.

I did like this, er, "review", because he actually looked like he put some mental work into it. This makes it funny and enjoyable. Yay!

...my god, could there be any more mindless ballsucking in this topic? Not to say it's entirely comprised, but holy.

 

[Snidenightshade]

Nice one Yahtzee! even though those fans got really pissed! but Greate rewiew lol

 

[kelvz]

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.....

damn if you dont like his reviews complain to your mum and stop watching his review you twat

 

[Sarge8806]

This one is my personal favorite. I watched it and just thought i was going to die laughing.

 

[Sarge8806]

Oh my freaking God! What is your problem! I like Turok and he slaughtered it but you don't see me whining like a little *****! He said all that one because the game SUCKED like all fighting games and two because he gets paid to that is how he makes a living i mean we don't attack you because you live in your parents basement and bum money off them so you can buy your crappy Nintendo games and your gay porn. So why should you attack him for having a life when you clearly don't.

 

[Veraa]

buh buh the small child in my basement loved this game :O i personally hated it >_> anyway STICK IT TO UM

 

[Colodomoko]

There is nothing directly wrong with the game, but people just aren't use to playing Dino themed games anymore.

 

[Saskwach]

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

oh beleive me theres much longer and more entertaining too.

For example, one got everyone involved so that scrolling through the thread made a pleasant wave-like effect.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

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.

....Why would we take advice from someone who's name is satanrules, and apparently doesn't understand the concept of "freedom of choice"?

 

[Khadaffy]

I create an account just to say that o luv you man. You are the best reviewer ever

 

[Sillyiggy]

Well, I laughed before I played the game. Now I am just crying after having played it. It really is a sad excuse for a game (should have known better having played the GC one) but what are you going to do? Demand that people hate it because you do? No, but you can always point them to a funny review. Thanks Yahtz!

 

[Radelaide]

How in shitting butts did half a dozen people get banned?

 

[KamikazeSailor]

How in shitting butts did half a dozen people get banned?

As the Good Book says... Ask and ye shall receive.

They knew it was coming

 

[bluemarsman]

oh, c'mon. Let them have their fun. its not like anyone take the comments section seriosly.

And why are people still posting here?