Aylaine said:
In response to anyone bashing Yahtzee here, something you should keep in mind:
I'm glad I'm not bashing Yahtzee, then. I don't bash people, I bash how people act.
He reviews how he wants. If it's not adequate for you, the viewer, then it can't be his fault.
He didn't play the game. At all. And he's a reviewer. That isn't reviewing the game, and it is his fault. Is it because my tastes aren't the same as his? No! If he had trashed the game, and I was complaining about how Cha Cha isn't that annoying, or the weapons aren't that slow, or he wasn't funny, you'd have a point. But when he doesn't actually play the game and still reviews it, how can you possibly say that is my fault? The very notion of that is insulting; I'm not the one getting paid to play a game for half an hour and then make a five minute "review" of it.
He does things his way, you choose to accept or not accept it, and move on.
I post how I want. If that's not adequate for you, another poster, then it can't be my fault.
In all seriousness, it's not about "acceptance" or "his way." It's about the fact he's not doing his job; I.E. reviewing games. He's not even criticizing it well, if you want to say he's just a critic, because he didn't criticize the game, he criticized what is basically the instruction manual, or the font.
Arguing about it won't accomplish anything in my opinion because this method works for him and most of the people who watch Zero Punctuation.
While not every creator reads the forums, plenty do, and, more importantly, people who watch ZP and could be swayed by him read the forums, so setting the record straight is a good thing just to prevent them from being misinformed.
Again, it's not about his methods, it's about the content. Is he funny? Sure, although the jokes sometimes get old (Yes, Yahtzee, we get it, you always kill/collect/target the enemies genitals/genital fluids!). But if he's not doing his job as a reviewer/critic/whatever you want to call him, he's still not doing his job no matter how funny it is.
He's also not here to do 100% professional reviews. They do contain validity, but it's at a 40% vs 60% humor ratio in my opinion, averagely
60%, giving him perfect marks for humor, is still failing, sweetie. Again, I wouldn't care if he was the funniest thing I've ever watched *and* was praising the game, I'd still be annoyed if he only played through a bit of the game and was acting as if that was the entire game.
so expecting him to play through the entire game in a week
I expect more than an *hour* of play time out of him.
[quotewhen he has other things to do, clearly doesn't like the game or simply lost interest (or perhaps all 3) is asking too much.[/quote]
First off: Nobody asked him to beat it. In fact, most of the posters, myself included, explicitly said the game was too long to beat in a week. We just asked that he would play past thirty minutes in, enough to actually get to the monster hunting, or, failing that, to at least say he got so bored with it he stopped before he eve did.
He knows how to do his job
If his job lets him get away with only doing thirty minutes of research then releasing five minutes of content, pretty much anybody could do it, actually. Maybe not so humorously, I'm sure, but he's as much reviewer as he is humorist, and people clearly take his opinions seriously, so he should take them seriously as well.
and if you guys don't really agree with it, I'm sorry. That's the way things go. Arguing about it won't solve anything though, and it will likely cause more problems.
Then why are you here? You came specifically to bash us for bashing Yahtzee (which we didn't do), saying that our posts don't matter (even though they've at least converted a few people, or came to reasonable agreement, about the fact the game isn't that bad), strawmanning us about how much we expect of Yahtzee, and then saying posting is irrelevant (when you're posting, doing all the things you said we shouldn't do to Yahtzee, to us?) The double standard here is palpable.
Just thought I would clear that up.
Well thank you for clearing everything up. Before your post, I wasn't sure if people paid attention to what I said at all, but now I'm clear that at least some people ignore me and only see me as "Mean guy bashing Yahtzee" despite the fact I'm pretty sure I've been very reasonable.
I hope this clears things up for you, but I'm doubtful. :/
