I apologize, I assumed that you were one of his many followers that take his word as Gospel. We have a lot of those on this site.Journeythroughhell said:Oh' that's kind of unfair, I've told you that my opinion is that Yahtzee is right. And I didn't assume that he is always correct, I just said that he is, in fact, a professional at that which means that you could at least respect his opinion. To answer your question, I've never played Scribblenauts due to me not having a DS but I did watch gameplay videos and they looked pretty average. I know I can't form and educated opinion like that but it's not your opinion I dislike but your rather unfair accusations of Yahtzee because he dared to review something you've happened to like.
And I think the issue that you're having with this is that you seem to completely be misunderstanding everything I say. I don't have a problem with Yahtzee criticizing a game. That's his job, that's what he does, it's in the job title. I'm not an idiot, do not patronize me. The problem that I have with Yahtzee is in his style; it does not lend itself to an accurate representation of the game's merits versus its flaws.chalkin said:I think the issue you're having with Yahtzee is that you're having a hard time to grasp the fact that he criticises games. It's his job, he gets paid for it; it's not idiocy. Yes, it is entertaining to watch him pick apart various mainstream games; why else would you, along with presumably hundreds of thousands of other dedicated viewers, watch his videos? If you watch his videos to complain about how he doesn't mention some of the positive aspects of the game, that would be idiocy.
No, I haven't played the game. I don't doubt that the amount of freedom you have in the game isn't what the game is advertised to be; but neither does Yahtzee. He complained about the controls stating that it would have been better to just move the guy with the analog (left; right; up; down) buttons. I agree with that. I've never been a fan of point and click games (with the exception of Diablo 2) either.
Again, I just wanted to stress that it's probably true that Yahtzee criticises games for a living. If you wanted to read a reviewer talk about all the positive aspects of the game (although I can't really imagine why unless you have your own doubts about the game), then go read one of the reviews which praise the games; they're all over the internet.
I acknowledge Scribblenaut's flaws, I am not trying to defend it. I'm sick of people simply taking his word as the indefatigable truth, quoting him a verbatim, and assuming that because he is a paid reviewer, he is right. His methods are sloppy, his criticisms are quite often questionable, and he hardly makes a mention of the well done qualities of the games which leads to his rabid followers tearing apart anyone who happens to like the game. A good reviewer balances his discussion of the good and bad of a game to the best of his abilities; that is, unless the game is absolutely horrible. It's a literary technique; the more you talk about the bad, the worse the game will seem. That's why, in this thread, hundreds of people are saying how horrible Scribblenauts is...
Even though they haven't fucking played it.
So I suppose half of my "beef" is with Yahtzee, and the other half with his idiotic fanbase.