Zero Punctuation: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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I haven't read this whole thing, but has anyone commented on the fanboyism going the other way? I mean, look at the first page of comments. Yahtzee reviews game, and theres 500 people who agree with him completely! YOU'RE the fanboys! That being said, I liked the review. I also like SSBB.
these dam fighting games piss me off becos u always get that **** who thinks he's brilliant at the dam game because he can randomly smash all the buttons at the same dam time... and there just shit anyway.
Oh and also i'm a crazy fan girl and i want my yahtzee hat!!!
Oh and also i'm a crazy fan girl and i want my yahtzee hat!!!
Post 706 is rather ironic if read immediately after 705, i.e., in order. And such poor grammar...
I wonder how much of this Yahtzee has read, laughing at us from behind his computer. I would be.
I wonder how much of this Yahtzee has read, laughing at us from behind his computer. I would be.
I don't know. I don't find the reaction funny... rather COMPELLING. He must be saying "Ok, now this is amusing."144 said:
I'm nooooooooot in the mood to go back all those 666+ posts, but Godwin has been called a loooong time ago in this oneThe_root_of_all_evil said:
EDIT: someone was in the mood >.>
And no lock plz :'( almost 1k
OT: SSBB rules 8)
Wow. I can't believe this. Something actually forced me to speak in an internet forum. I hope I can stand the jibbering chimps long enough to get out alive.
Yahtzee should be ashamed of himself for this review. The only possible point that I sympathize with him on is that he was basically forced to review a game that he had no interest in, so of course the end result isn't going to be much fun, but that gives him no excuse for throwing his "cherished reviewer integrity" out the window.
Personally, I believe that Yahtzee's review of Brawl was incredibly unfair, and I believe that I have the right to assert that opinion more the he or more than 95% of the people that have posted in this thread because I have actually, you know, actually played the game at all. But more importantly and seriously, he did two things that should be sacrelige to any professional game reviewer that don't have any bearing on my personal opinons of the game:
As a reviewer, he started losing credability when he 1.) did not even make an effort to experience -near- the game's full content before making a judgment on it, and (most importantly) he 2.) made statements about the game in his review that I know to be 100% inaccurate. I don't mean than his opinions on the game's quality differ from mine, I mean that he made statements of fact about the game's features that are plain and simply wrong.
Snake and Sonic taking over 10 hours of gameplay to unlock? I had Snake unlocked within half an hour of the game's power being on for the first time and I wasn't even consciously trying. If you really were you could probably have him in five minutes. And you unlock Sonic just for playing a certain number of multiplayer matches (along with most of the unlockable characters in the game, by the way.) You know, multiplayer? The thing he was complaining about not getting to play because you "had to unlock everything in single-player?" My friends and I had Sonic out within maybe two hours tops.
And button mashing does not get you anywhere in Smash Bros. As a matter of fact it's what sets it apart from most fighting games, whose very nature force you to study command lists for 15 years before playing easy mode. Smash Bros was designed to be "minute to learn, lifetime to master." So when you play it for, by your own admission, "one vodka fueled evening" and assume that you've experienced even half the game's content, you seem to be wanting to have your cake and eat it too.
I guess, by now everything I've said is being written off as the flailings of a "fanboy." Well, I am a male and a fan of the game, so I guess that description is apt, but I love how Yahtzee and every other sore loser who wants to sound like one of the cool kids by saying that a game released by Nintendo is shit is able to validate disregarding every opinion people on the dissending side of the argument have by saying the magical three words: "You're a fanboy," and patting themselves on the backs at their clever retort.
Well, guess what guys? In this particular case, you are the minority. Gamers who play and genuinely enjoy the Smash Bros franchise far outnumber those who don't. There's a reason for that: the games are innovative, the gameplay is easy to pick up while still being gratifying to improve at, and best of all, the games are just raw fun.
Remember FUN, Yahtzee? -Back before gaming started feeling like a second job?-
Yahtzee should be ashamed of himself for this review. The only possible point that I sympathize with him on is that he was basically forced to review a game that he had no interest in, so of course the end result isn't going to be much fun, but that gives him no excuse for throwing his "cherished reviewer integrity" out the window.
Personally, I believe that Yahtzee's review of Brawl was incredibly unfair, and I believe that I have the right to assert that opinion more the he or more than 95% of the people that have posted in this thread because I have actually, you know, actually played the game at all. But more importantly and seriously, he did two things that should be sacrelige to any professional game reviewer that don't have any bearing on my personal opinons of the game:
As a reviewer, he started losing credability when he 1.) did not even make an effort to experience -near- the game's full content before making a judgment on it, and (most importantly) he 2.) made statements about the game in his review that I know to be 100% inaccurate. I don't mean than his opinions on the game's quality differ from mine, I mean that he made statements of fact about the game's features that are plain and simply wrong.
Snake and Sonic taking over 10 hours of gameplay to unlock? I had Snake unlocked within half an hour of the game's power being on for the first time and I wasn't even consciously trying. If you really were you could probably have him in five minutes. And you unlock Sonic just for playing a certain number of multiplayer matches (along with most of the unlockable characters in the game, by the way.) You know, multiplayer? The thing he was complaining about not getting to play because you "had to unlock everything in single-player?" My friends and I had Sonic out within maybe two hours tops.
And button mashing does not get you anywhere in Smash Bros. As a matter of fact it's what sets it apart from most fighting games, whose very nature force you to study command lists for 15 years before playing easy mode. Smash Bros was designed to be "minute to learn, lifetime to master." So when you play it for, by your own admission, "one vodka fueled evening" and assume that you've experienced even half the game's content, you seem to be wanting to have your cake and eat it too.
I guess, by now everything I've said is being written off as the flailings of a "fanboy." Well, I am a male and a fan of the game, so I guess that description is apt, but I love how Yahtzee and every other sore loser who wants to sound like one of the cool kids by saying that a game released by Nintendo is shit is able to validate disregarding every opinion people on the dissending side of the argument have by saying the magical three words: "You're a fanboy," and patting themselves on the backs at their clever retort.
Well, guess what guys? In this particular case, you are the minority. Gamers who play and genuinely enjoy the Smash Bros franchise far outnumber those who don't. There's a reason for that: the games are innovative, the gameplay is easy to pick up while still being gratifying to improve at, and best of all, the games are just raw fun.
Remember FUN, Yahtzee? -Back before gaming started feeling like a second job?-
Ooo, wow. You think Yahtzee's right? YOU, sir are a Yahtzee fanboy!
Think he's wrong? Then YOU, my dear chap, are a Nintendo fanboy!
Hang on a minute...
*chin scratching*
I think I'm going to sit on the fence and shout abuse at both sides for this one.
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Think he's wrong? Then YOU, my dear chap, are a Nintendo fanboy!
Hang on a minute...
*chin scratching*
I think I'm going to sit on the fence and shout abuse at both sides for this one.
[/sarcasm]
Oh good, holy lord in heaven.
It's called COMEDY for the love of God!!!!!
Humour, you know, like ha ha ha, that was rather funny and so on? Is that not what Yahtzee is about, making us laugh with his witty, cutting reviews, you know, HIS JOB?! THE REASON HE'S GOTTEN SUCH FAME IS BEACUSE IT'S FUNNY.
I LOVED SSBB, and I LOVED this review, because it made me laugh, and anyone, ANYONE who got "offended" is a fucking idiot.
IT'S A GAME. Jesus CHRIST.
It's called COMEDY for the love of God!!!!!
Humour, you know, like ha ha ha, that was rather funny and so on? Is that not what Yahtzee is about, making us laugh with his witty, cutting reviews, you know, HIS JOB?! THE REASON HE'S GOTTEN SUCH FAME IS BEACUSE IT'S FUNNY.
I LOVED SSBB, and I LOVED this review, because it made me laugh, and anyone, ANYONE who got "offended" is a fucking idiot.
IT'S A GAME. Jesus CHRIST.