Does this guy actually like games or does he shit on every game

he liked plenty of them, but given he talks more about the flaws it makes it sound like he hates everything

the ones he truly hated typically get reviewed after he didn't even finish the game

>>379010961
If you've watched his vids then you would know the answer to that question. In any case, I dunno why you made a thread dedicated to a professional shitposter.

>>379010961
he stole his whole gimmick from Stuart Ashen(his "Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of" series), except ashens actually reviews genuinely bad games, this ripoff just pretends all games are shit. Literally the only format difference is the lack of gameplay.

>>379010961
He specifically said in like his third review no one likes it when he just flat out praises a game, so he's gonna stick to being mainly negative for that dosh. If you want his serious opinion read his other stuff

>>379010961
>shit on every game he reviews just to add inches to his virtual dick

It's this. Most of the time he never even plays them and makes up shit.

>actually enjoys some games
>/v/ gets angry because he shits on some they like
why do you even care what he says in the first place

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>sucks Dark Souls' dick endlessly and praises it for shit Demon's Souls did
>played Demon's Souls prior to this and rage quited on the second level never to touch it again

>>379010961
I wouldn't know I haven't watched that shit in years.

>>379010961

He's a liberal faggot. Of course he's retarded.

>>379010961
All he does is say something negative about a game then say something gross.

>>379011430
>If you want his serious opinion read his other stuff


I like zero punctuation but about half of his written opinions are completely retarded. He turned into a darks souls dickrider and started comparing every game he reviewed to DS as soon as he played it. Generally the only I agree with him about are how major publishers jew the players but everybody already knows that.

>>379011880
>I'm a snowflake
damn son, calm down

>>379010961
He's been doing it for 10 years.
He must get some enjoyment out of it. That or his virtual dick is gigantic now.

>>379011979
Projecting much?

>>379012094
>Le projection meme
try harder faggot chan

>>379011603
Yeah, and his latest video has him complaining about how a Dark Souls clone is "too hard".

Not to mention how much he's gone about shilling Spec Ops The Line and Bioshock Infinite.

Anyone read his books?

>>379012772
No, but if the writing style he uses in his articles is how he writes books then I can tell you they aren't worth reading.

>>379011963
>I like zero punctuation but about half of his written opinions are completely retarded
do you mean every opinion he has? Watch let's drown out, watch a stream, etc. and it doesn't matter. half of what he says his bullshit and another quarter is a comparison to DS no matter the games genre or topic

>>379010961
He likes plenty of games, he just so happened to shit on your favorite game and hurt your fee fees.
Maybe you shouldn't take a comedy skit so seriously. If it makes you feel better, Yahtzee is a megasperg with crippling social anxiety like you.

>>379013010

Man, he comes off as a total wanker on let's drown out.

He does like some games, but he has very, very bad taste and usually drops a game a couple of hours in if it is at all complex.

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>>379013087
I've watched a couple of them but I've never been able to stomach more than five or ten minutes because it's mostly just him and his annoying friend trying and failing to be funny for an hour.


That series would be much better if they just shut the fuck up and played naturally instead of having a "who can outquip who the fastest"competition

>>379012278
>Anyone liking something I don't is shilling
See, I can misinterpret shit too, faggot

He's a complete piece of shit

>Incapable of making a Nintendo Review without 5 minutes of anti-Nintendo bitching and moaning.
>Washed out on Monster Hunter before killing the first boss or leaving the game's tutorial segment
>Washed out on Demon's Souls until Souls games became trendy, then he read a guide and tried really hard to fit in and claims to love them now.

>>379013087
Which is why he needs someone like Gabriel to balance him out. Him by himself is insufferable.

>>379010961
He's not a reviewer. He's a comedian.

>>379014061
Maybe tutorials shouldn't drag on for most of the game

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>>379014061
>prominent reviewer complains games are dumbed down and hold the player's hand
>they're shit at even the most basic tasks
Egoraptor, Razorfist, and Yahtzee all fall into this trap.

>>379014061
>Washed out on Monster Hunter before killing the first boss or leaving the game's tutorial segment

In fairness to him, Monster Hunter is boring garbage.

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So what game did he bash to hurt your fee-fees, or is it that your petty little hive-mind can't stand someone having an opinion?

>>379011064
>check some review
>sounds like he absolutely hated the game
>later he does a top 5 list of best/worst games
>it was actually his fav game that year

>>379011064
I'm pretty sure ragequitting when the game fucks you over or bores you is a good sign the game is shit

>But hey, there are people who still think of Myst as a classic, generally people that haven't played it lately.
He's right, you know.

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>shits on Halo for having "bad gameplay"
>his favourite games if Half Life 2

>>379014895
>fee-fees
okay the internet is getting more retarded by the minute. First thot now this.

>>379015731
It's not that it's bad, it's that it's mediocre and static.

>>379015782
Not an answer

>>379015874
>it's that it's mediocre and static
He literally called the gunplay in Halo bad while praising Half Life 2. The guy is clueless.

>>379015993
Explain, frogposter

>>379010961
Does /v/ actually like games or do they shit on every game they review just to add inches to their virtual dick?

>>379016242
What do you need explained?

>>379015874
Okay here's your answer: None
I just was forced to watch it by my friends and noticed the pattern.
Are you satisfied Reddit-Fag, here's your (You)

>>379016380
We literally shit on everything Tumblrl cuck

>>379016409
You put out a loaded statement without backing it up properly. I want an explanation on what Halo gunplay has over Half-Life 2.

>>379016517
Not when it's a Japanese company that pays your daddy Hiro

>>379016613
This
I'm honestly sick to death of all the "BUY THIS GAME IT HAS WAIFU" threads. Porn hasn't gone anywhere, why buy a game for that?

Yahtzee is fairly entertaining and I enjoy his word play.

>>379016871
Because porn has gotten fucking dull?
>OH LOOK AT ME! I'M GETTING FUCKED BY 5 BLACK GUYS AT ONCE
>CHECK OUT MY IMPLANTS!!
>OH YEAH YEAH!!! MY ORGASMS ARE SO REAL! *texts on phone*

>>379017032
You say that like Japanese shit hasn't gotten dull

>>379017304
>Copy and paste
>Tweak it to by belief
wow, how edgy, I bet you had to be on your feet to think of that witty comment.
>*Tips Fedora*

>>379010961
Nobody over 25 actually likes games.

>>379017837
Not an argument

>>379012772
They are fun little reads. I wouldn't go into them expecting literary perfection but they are not bad. I got his most recent for free on audiobook and it was fun listening to him do the characters.

>>379017939
Not an argument

>>379017837
You will never be this butthurt

>>379019725
Not an argument

daily reminder thart this is the guy that openly admitted being unable to finish Chrono Trigger in one of hid videos

>>379014263
Dude. He couldn't kill Great Jaggi.

Literally the first threatening monster you encounter who's basically garbage tier almost immediately. In a game with 25+ monsters ranging from leviathans to enormous wyverns, he couldn't kill the baby sized velociraptor guy who does nothing but tackle and spin around.

>>379014684
You should still wait until you've killed even one "monster" before claiming it's shit.

Like, I'd pressure people to slay their first Rathalos or Rathian before quitting.

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>>379021475
>>379021387
>>379014684
>>379014263
He couldn't kill this little fella down here. Just a basic tutorial on dodging and punishing and he couldn't handle it.

>>379021864
Where was that mentioned?

>>379022103
Monster Hunter Tri I think.

>>379022179
Liar. There was no mention of shit boss fights anywhere

>>379022362
If I recall correctly, we can infer from what he says about his experience and time with the game that he never even got past Great Jaggi. Maybe it's not clear to you if you haven't played the game yourself.

I can go rewatch and prove the point if I want, but you'll find I'm not the only person making this claim about him.

>>379010961
You are willing to give him free advertising, so he's doing something right.

>>379022501
Yahtzee never uses footage from his plays, so you have no physical evidence to prove that.

>>379022849
No I have his own words on how much of the game he completed and what he accomplished within it.

Go watch the video. I'm not bothering just to spoonfeed you.

>>379015404
Yes, that's what he is saying.

>>379016418
>I just was forced to watch it by my friends and noticed the pattern.

Your friends forced you to watch so many videos that you could pick up on a pattern?

>>379015993
He made a 2nd video talking about Half-Life in current days. While he doesn't laud it as great, he appreciated it for some things, which is having good pace and good physics engine, and overall being a fun game. Halo is just the first game console games got to be that had the capability of being as big as a PC game. Only that it was generic and bland and spawned the downfall of video games.

>>379023039
I did, and I'm saying there's no way you could possibly know that for sure.

>>379011541
There's something wrong with this place when they actually believe reviewers should be taken seriously, let alone trusted. Yahtzee should just be watched for entertainment purposes only for instance.

>>379010961
>Praised Bioshock infinite till anyone with more than 2 working brain cells showed up all the flaws to him. Then he started hating it.
>Hated DeS but came back crawling when DaS became a hit and his justification was "perharps i was too hasty, silly me".
>Wears an fedora unironically.

Hes an idiot doing it only for the money.

>>379014502
That seems to be the majority of YT game reviewers these days. I think I lost my shit when I watched that Pre Rec video talking about the original Sonic the Hedgehog game, where they couldn't even do a simple thing like press down while running to activate the spin dash to kill a fucking robot in front of them. They argued they couldn't react in time to do anything.

>>379023258
Idiot, he was well aware of the flaws and still liked it.

He has nothing new to add when I perfectly understand what he's saying. Only kids/idiots find him a great reviewer because they can't keep up with what's he's saying in-between those jokes he makes.

>>379014061

Didn't yatzee review demon souls after Dark Souls, at least the first one?

>>379023181
When the only quests he describes are 1 star quests, I think it's safe to assume he never got any farther. Don't you think that if he actually got to what is the whole damn point of the game, he would have mentioned it?

>>379023718
Perhaps he would have gotten to it if those quests drag on for as long as the Kingdom Hearts 2 prologue.
Seriously, you fanboys are fucking insufferable.

>>379023474
>I ate shit but at least i KNEW it was shit, i just did it anyway.
Then it makes him worse. Instead of an idiot, he has shit taste.

>>379023167
>it took me an hr to make a witty comment!
Yeah, unlike you I have friends.

>>379023950
Show me on the doll where Capcom touched you.

>>379017936
This. Ill be, 25 this year. I feel like the only game I enjoy is a Pokemon crystal romhack running in 300% speed on my vita

>>379024002
And you're a fucking hipster.

>>379024002

He's a fucking reviewer, it's not like he won't play shit games.

>>379010961

He's a critic, in the classical, 1800's sense, not a reviewer, in the for profit press sense. If you can understand the difference in goal, action, and style of these two forms of writing, you will appreciate Yahtzee's method.

Critics critique, reviewers, review. They are not the same thing.

>>379024054
And we've reached the point where you're out of arguments. Congratulations. You lose.

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>>379017936

I like his jokes but the game market is too samey for him to make any interesting comments. I was disappointed in the OW review being a battle between it and Battleborne, but considering anything he could have complained about was covered in previous videos like Battlefront there's not a lot to work with.

At this point he's just doing this because he gets paid a lot because he's the only thing keeping Escapist alive.

He's definitely a bandwagoner though, if the whole Souls saga didn't indicate as such. (basically says in the DS1 review that someone needed to tell him it was like Castlevania for him to enjoy it). His P5 review was weird with how he stuck to his usual JRPG bashing for the majority of it to kinda admit he liked it in the end without going into what differentiates it from worse JRPGs.

If he stopped reviewing specific games like every AAA shooter that he clearly doesn't care about and just talked about whatever he felt like (he basically does this in his recent reviews anyway) I feel like he could get to the more Extra Punctuation style analyses, but then you wouldn't have the fanboy drama like with Brawl which you will never see again because no one cares about him anymore.

>>379010961
He liked Persona 5. He really lightened up. He just needs to redo his Demon's Souls review.

Really surprised when he like Persona 5

>>379024641
>Someone had to tell
No, he figured it out on his own.

>>379024815
>you have to get the cliff notes to truly appreciate it

That's a lot of his own work he put into that

>>379010961
dude no one of patrician taste actually likes games lmao

have you browsed this board for more than a week? People here hate games

>>379023171
>Only that it was generic and bland and spawned the downfall of video games.
>not CS which Halo was heavily influenced by
It heavily influenced the way games go on consoles now which you can take as you will but most of its mechanics weren't original.

>>379024898
If that wasn't the game's intention, why does the Orange Sign Soapstone exist?

>>379024705
>He just needs to redo his Demon's Souls review.

It wasn't a review, it was a critique and it would behoove you to learn the difference as it will make all his videos make more sense and easier to get along with. That's why he doesn't do scores; scores don't make sense for a critic, they make *some* sense for a reviewer, but 0 sense for a critic.

>>379024992
Reviews generally involve critiques

>>379010961
Back in 2007 when he was first starting out he gave Portal a flawless review and people didn't like it ever since his schtick has been nitpicking the shit out of every single game even if he likes it.

>>379010961
he says in his most recent review that he's been too nice recently so he picked a bad game to go ham on

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>>379010961
He should quit reviewing and just make games full-time desu.
Chzo Mythos is god tier.

>>379010961
He praised Portal once

You don't watch ZP to hear why a game is good, you watch it to hear all the ways it fucks up, which is why his Bioshock coverage is fucking garbage (trashes on 2 for being a pointless sequel when it's got better mechanics, then praises Infinite for doing the save the girl bit that 2 already did better)

Official list of Games Yahtzee jerks off every now and then
>Portal
>Silent Hill 2
>Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
>Dark Souls
>Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
>EarthBound/Final Fantasy 6
>Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
>Half-Life
>Killer7
Feel free to fill in any I missed while I contemplate finding work or suicide

>>379010961
He's a critic you twat, he gets paid to shit on stuff.

If you've watched more than 2 of his videos you'll see he has games he likes, the thing about basing your opinion of games off what critics say is that everyone's taste is different. Find someone who's tastes OFTEN align with yours, I follow a few different critics and there's lots of times where I completely disagree with them.

>>379025174
>Back in 2007
>10 fucking years ago
Holy shit I remember watching the first few videos on youtube and then when he moved to the Escapist. I'm surprised this hack and that website are both still around.

>>379026075
the Escapist pretty much only exists because of Yahtzee

He literally spells it out in the review that came out right after Bioshock 1 review.

People didn't like it when he praised games.

>>379025091

No they don't, and if you don't see the difference there is no point in continuing

A review is designed to influence a person's buying decision. And I don't mean in a compromised, shilling way. I mean that reviews are, in the modern current used sense, designed to inform consumers if their money they are spending on a particular medium is "worth" it. So it offers an in depth overview and description of that product. This way a potential customer can tell from the review if the qualities present override the potential pitfalls. This enables a customer to figure out it's worth. A score is the simplest expression of this. 10/10 means go spend your money, 2/10 means unless you of this very specific taste/audience, skip it.

A critique on the other hand is unconcerned with consumerism. It seeks to put a medium in the broader context, perhaps speak of the mechanics involved in it's creation, the machinations of it's development, and, most of the time, the core concept. A critic assumes at the outset you will buy the product being critique, but are interested in secondary attributes. A critic has more in common with say, peer review from a Journal than a reviewer. An editor who does peer review for Physical Chemistry assumes the reader will *read* and *buy* the Journal (and thus the article) but are interested in the broader concepts, and mechanics at play; the methodolgies, to put it mildly.

Yahtzee is a critic. Most of his critiques involve in depth analysis of particular mechanics, not a broad look at quality. Likewise he spends much of his reviews critiquing the reason for that game to exist in the first place ("Spunk Gargle Wee-Wee" as his catch all for COD/COD-Clones). Reviews, generally, will avoid such descriptions or contemplation, being more concerned with analysis with the product in hand, rather than it's place within the medium. Do some reviewers straddle the line? Yes, but most don't.

>>379012094
I could make a bot that could produce better comebacks than you.

>>379024472
You never made any arguments retard. I never played MonHun but it's pretty clear he didn't much of the game from the review and he only even admits to only playing a couple hours of it.


If you'd play any of the games Yahtzee has reviewed you would know he often doesn't finish them or get very far. Hell in his Persona 5 review he calls it a "60-hour" RPG when anybody who has played knows it's at least 100 hours

>>379015874
Retards like you aren't worth answering.

>>379011603
>"I suck at Demon's Souls. I don't like it"
>GIT GUD REEEEE
>GITS GUD
>"Wow, thanks for the tip! Now I understand why people like this!"
>YOU LIKE IT?! REEEEE!

>Liked Majora's Mask
I was actually not surprised in the slightest, too bad he played the inferior version first.

>>379015993
>He literally called the gunplay in Halo bad while praising Half Life 2.

For the same reason he like COD4, or the first Crysis, but has come to hate every new version of COD/BF, and disliked Crysis 2 and 3. A critic doesn't like it when the medium stagnates. They want it to evolve and change and (ideally) improve. He like Half Life 2 because it was an improvement over the *at time* FPS's, but Halo was largely a retreading of existing ones. It didn't do enough 'new.' For the same reason he like COD4, it did many new things that *at time* FPS didn't (for example he loved that the protagonist died) but he hated MW2 because it was basically the same game in principle just a new coat of paint.

>>379028568
M8, he liked Crysis 2, if only for Alcatraz.

>>379028676

He did like that part. He liked the 'Pile of flesh in a soup can" or however he described it, but overall he felt it was a downgrade compared to Crysis 1 mostly because it didn't improve on any mechanics compared to the first game.

Put another way, he liked COD4. Advanced Warfighter is, in essence, the same game insofar as mechanics are concerned. Gunplay is identical. Storytelling style is the same. Just an new coat of paint. Well he liked COD4 so shouldn't he like AW? No because he doesn't want, and a critique wouldn't want, to be served the same meal 3-4 times. He wants a *new* meal each time.

My familiarity with the huge difference between a critique and reviewer comes from being an Executive Chef. As a critic is tougher to 'please' than a reviewer. A reviewer expects consistency, and will rate you accordingly. A food critic complains about the menu having the same items on it as it did last year and will complain more about the state of restaurants than mine in particular.

>>379023565
Nah. He did DeS before DaS ever happened.

>>379010961
He seemed to like Titanfall 2 and shat on Infinite Warfare

>>379029084
Because Infinite Warfare was the same shit as Modern and Advanced Warfare from a different anus. Also, Tittyfall 2 had a decent singleplayer campaign about the friendship between a soldier and his totally-not-an-Eva

>Likes Silent Hill 2, Portal, and Majoras Mask
>But also likes Undertale and Bioshock Infinite
I feel like he only pretends to like "smart" games while not actually knowing why theyre smart, theyre just said to be smart.

Unless he likes undertale/Bioshock infinite for reasons outside of horrendous writing, shallow characters, and inconsistent plot

But even then he usually doesnt give games like that a chance

Maybe because its somewhat non-derivitive?

>>379029262
>I'm a retard

You know that Titans and EVAs have basically nothing in common right? You're trying to sound cool, but it's only making you look stupid.

If anything it's "totally-not-a-Gundam" or something more generic and mainstream like that. You can tell they take cues from Gundam too, like how enemy Titan pilots face appear while you fight them and you share banter over shared radios while dueling.

>>379029084

He liked that Titanfall did something new, and that, most importantly, it was an improvement over the previous title. He likes advancement, improvement, or even just change. COD wallows in the same safe space every release insofar as mechanics and themes. They may change the setting, but it's the same game. That's his problem there. TItanfall 2 fared well because it was a huge improvement over the previous title.

>>379029398
Sorry if my loose terminology triggered you, weeaboo

>>379029538
It's just a bad comparison. EVAs are rather unique as far as mechs go.

>>379013904
He's misusing the word shill but Bioshock Infinite and Spec Ops are overly praised by retards who are into pretentious 2deep bullshit because they want to look cultured or whatever. That one picture people always post that tries to downplay Apocalypse Now and gives an overdone description of Spec Ops to make it seem hardcore reeks of desperation.

>>379029618
>>379029538

I think you both are morons and are missing the broader point: it's not *what* it copied, but *that* it copied.

Judging By the Cover is the only thing of any quality he's produced

>>379029739
>but Bioshock Infinite and Spec Ops are overly praised by retards who are into pretentious

At least as far as Yahtzee is concerned, I didn't get the impression he was overly impressed with Bioshock. He loved Spec Ops not because of the 2deep stuff or stuff like that. He liked it for two main reasons: as a deconstruction of the FPS/TPS modern shooter genre, specifically that you spent the vast majority of the game not shooting, and his words, "Brown people" but rather uniformed soldiers, mostly American (the reason he found this interesting, not because of 'anti-american' but rather that it made more sense to him that a first class Army represents a real challenge in a shooter compared to lowly insurgents), and two, that it put a greater emphasis on story than simply gameplay. It's not so much *what* the story was about, or specific instances, but that it was present in equal measure to gameplay.

You gotta learn how to read/watch a critique, otherwise you should never watch a Yahtzee video again as it will go right over your head what he's actually saying.

He likes plenty of them.

Honestly though you're retarded if you're watching his stuff for reviews, his videos are entertainment pieces, not opinions you should take seriously, he actively shits on any game with complex gameplay because he wasn't able to get a handle on it in the one rushed playthrough he gives it. But he's occasionally amusing and Americans also have a thing for accents for whatever reason so he gets the views.

>>379010961
His Kid Icarus Uprising review still triggers my autism. Same with Jim Sterling's review. I missed out on an exceptional game because I fell for their "DUDE BAD CONTROLS LMAO" shit from them. I got the game on the cheap years later and it's easily in my top 10 favorites.

>>379030101
>I didn't get the impression he was overly impressed with Bioshock
Watch the Bioshock and Bioshok Infinite videos.

>>379030101

cont'

If you're looking for a simple, "List of the things I liked, list of things I don't liked," Yahtzee won't work for you. You want a review and there are plenty of reviewers that will scratch that itch. He's a critique and he's more likely to put into perspective, not particulars of a particular game, but where it fits into the pantheon of gaming.

It's the difference between rating a particular menu item at McDonalds, or using a menu item at McDonalds to comment on fast food and where it fits around the full business model.

>>379028297
>tried Demon's Souls and could only beat phalanx
>this game is stupid, hard games are stupid, anyone who likes hard games is stupid
>tried Dark Souls, could not beat Taurus
>playing Souls games is like working in a cubicle
>reads a guide for dark souls and overlevels
>now champions dark souls

Surely this is the guy you should listen to for fucking reviews.

>>379030160
>trusting Kino critics for their opinions on Ludo
Wew lad

>>379030363
Better him than bitter cunts like you.

>>379030285

Bioshock, sorta, he seemed luck warm on it, saying, and being right, it felt more or less like a streamlined System Shock 2. Infinite he seemed to be even more lukewarm on as it did very little better than it's previous entries. He 'liked it' but then he's a critic, and that's not the important part. It's not what he 'likes' or 'doesn't like,' but whether it should exist or not.

>>379030363
So I guess you'll just be happier if he just shit on it and further souls games because if he didn't like one, he is beyond redemption as he has sinned in the eyes of the Souls series.

>>379015404

>I'm pretty sure ragequitting when the game fucks you over or bores you is a good sign the game is shit

>Vanquish

Yep.

Refunded it and then it was confirmed that high spec PC's take more damage than low spec ones. Damage taken increased by framerate. RIP

>>379030543


already


fixed


retard

>>379030535
No I just wish he would fix his review process.

The bare minimum a reviewer should be able to do is to review games and tell you if he likes them
So you can find a reviewer with similar taste and get games like that

That is the bare fucking minimum
And he can't even review games he would like because his process is flawed.

That is a huge flaw and I can't believe anyone would defend it.

I really don't care if he likes or doesn't like Souls. But he fails as a reviewer if he can't even get good game recommendations for himself.

>>379030919
>No I just wish he would fix his review process.

He's not a reviewer. His process is fine if you know the difference between a critic and a reviewer.

>>379030919
What the hell are you talking about?

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>>379031165
He actually takes this brit seriously.

>>379031250
No I am not the idiot who thinks he is a critic

He is clearly a reviewer.

>>379010961
>does he shit on every game he reviews

No. Do you even watch his videos?

>>379030919
Anon, are you just mad you can't be mad at Yahtzee anymore because he liked a game you liked so you get all bent out of shape acting like he only pretended to like it?

>>379031450
No I think his review process is flawed.

That is what I wrote.

I am not mad at him. I think he is funny.
I just think he fails as a reviewer.

>>379031564
>No I think his review process is flawed.

>The bare minimum a reviewer should be able to do is to review games and tell you if he likes them

>Hey guys, I played Dark Souls and it's great!


Where's the flaw here?

>>379010961
He is a doing a comedy bit, you autist.

>>379014061
It's always telling when he harps on something in a game that makes me realize "oh, he's just shit at games".

Like when he complained about constantly flying into things too hard and dying in PREY's zero-gravity segments
how the fuck do you get that bad

>>379024024
You call that witty? Your standards are low. Also
>hr
Wow two more letters, fuck no don't got time.

Why do people love e-celebs so much? Some people even call them by their first name to pretend they're best friends. Same thing with streamers. Shit's weird, man.

>>379031721
He needed three attempts and a guide.
He gave out two souls reviews before getting into what is now one of his favorite series'

He is completely useless as a reviewer.

>>379031564
>I just think he fails as a reviewer.

Well he's not a reviewer so I guess he's fine. He fails as a Priest but then he's not a priest either.

>>379032009
>I picked it up a few times but with some general tips I read online, the game really clicked with me. I'm enjoying myself now and would recommend it. Some players might need some help in the beginning but it's worth it.

>REVIEW INVALID

>>379032286
>Too incompetent to find his way to enjoying a game without being spoonfed and carried

Why should I care what he thinks if he's an incompetent goober?

>>379032270
You honestly think he is a critic?
Do you know what a critic is?

Or are you saying he is just an entertainer?

>>379010961
"Wah, wah, this guy doesn't like games" - Person posting on /v/

>>379032286
>needs 3 attempts to get into one of his favorite series
>gave out two invalid reviews before

How can you defend that?
Am I posting on the escapist
This blatant fanboying is usually not a /v/ thing.

>>379027009
Great post anon.
Not who you're responding to, but I just wanted to say thank you, I'm enlighten.

>>379032381

No, he's a critic. Which is why his process does not conform to what you view as a reviewer's process. You want:

>>379030919
>No I just wish he would fix his review process.
>The bare minimum a reviewer should be able to do is to review games and tell you if he likes them

Well a critic doesn't *do* that. So expecting him to is kinda stupid. See this:

>>379027009

>>379023258
Proof on him turning his back on Infinite? I never held his opinions in high regard at any time, maybe he made some good points once in a blue moon, but after he hailed Infinite as he second coming "a high water mark in gaming" as he proclaimed it, I couldn't help but laugh and realize 100% of what he says is fucking garbage.

>>379010961
He doesn't even hate things anymore

He got over that around 2013 or so

>>379010961
>reviews
He's a COMEDIAN first and foremost, not a reviewer and as >>379011430 says; it's not as funny when he's being nice to a game.

He's a fucking casual who some people take seriously for whatever reason. He can be funny, though.

>>379032451
>I didn't like it before but I gave it a few more tries and it's fun!
>NU UH, FLAWED SYSTEM. YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT BEFORE SO ALL OPINIONS ON THE GAME ARE INVALID. YOU HAVE TO HAVE A BINARY YES OR NO IF YOU LIKE A SERIES AND YOU HAVE TO LIKE IT OR HATE IT FOREVER!

I think you have autism or something. People can change their mind on things you know.

>>379032624
As a critic he is a complete joke

So if you are saying he is a critic and not a reviewer my point is even stronger
He has no context. No skill. No know-how

I think he is a bad reviewer and terrible terrible critic.

>>379010961
He's just critical of games because he loves them, but he's also fucking garbo at them which explains why he is such a huge narrativefag

>>379016380

/v/ hates games
/tv/ hates movies
/a/ has terrible tastes
/b/ is nothing but dicks and feminine dicks
/x/ is literally retarded

It's just the nature of 4chan's culture, everyone plays the contrarian here.

The biggest downfall of the site has to be /b/ though, nothing good has come out of there in about 2 or 3 years.

>>379010961
Awh, whats wrong OP, did the bad man give your cherished game a negative review?

>>379010961

The only thing he shits on any more is white men

>>379032751
So you don't wait until you have made up your mind before you publish a video and explain your thoughts on something?

Him changing his mind is not the problem
The two initial failed attempts are the problem

You seem focused on the change of mind which I don't care about

Let me use a different Game as a an example

Monster Hunter Tri
He thought the quest were a side thing and the main game was the resource thing in the village

Now would he like Monster Hunter if he knew what the main meat of the game was?
probably not

But that is not my point.

How the hell do people still not get this?

He isn't a reviewer, he's not there to give his honest thoughts on a game. He finds little flaws he thinks the game has and over exaggerates the hell out of those flaws while paying less attention to the good things

These aren't meant to be reviews you fucking retards

I haven't watched in years and honestly can't believe it's still going but it's intended to be comedy rather than proper criticism. Getting mad at it is stupid.

He has mentioned it in several of his videos, his shtick is kind of taking the piss out of games. It gets a lot more views and in in general likes to avoid talking about games he doesn't have much negative to say about because "It was good and I liked it" isn't particularly interesting as a review.

In the past i'd use his reviews to gauge if a game was worth looking at. He fairly faithfully describes the first experience most players have in a souls game. It's the reason I played demon souls in the first place, because even though his description of what happened to him was something he was saying didn't enjoy, I trusted his description was accurate, and thats something I would have enjoyed. And boy, I fucking loved it.

Stop taking things so seriously you faggots.

>>379016586

> lmao I havent played either game but serve me a written essay comparing and contrasting the two on my desk in 5 minutes or i'll turn my nose up at you

kys yourself

>>379033164
Wrong. I've played both Halo and Half-Life 2 to completion, but that's besides the point. When you make a statement like that, the burden of proof is on you.

>>379010961
He praises a lot of games. I'll list all of the games he likes enough to mention outside of their video and Top 5 list.

>Paper Mario Trilogy
>Prince of Persia Trilogy
>Painkiller
>Silent Hill 2
>Undertale
>From Software games or "game"
as he likes to joke that they always make the same game over and over
>Frictional Games games makes same joke as he does about From Software
>RE:4 and RE:7
>Hitman: Blood Money
>Skyrim
>Assassin's Creed 4
>TF2
>Half Life 1 and 2
>Portal 1 and 2
>Wolfenstein: New Order
>Doom 1, 2 and 4

Boom 30 games Yahtzee likes

>>379011423
Didn't AVGN do that shtick earlier?
Either way both of them only ever shoot easy targets.
Yahtzee is the only one with enough balls to take shots at popular games.

>>379033014
Again, you keep acting like a person can't just be off on the wrong foot about a game, bitch about it, then find out how to get better with another attempt.

>The two initial failed attempts are the problem

So I guess if you didn't get into one game in a series, you're forbidden to talk about it?

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>>379033712
>So I guess if you didn't get into one game in a series, you're forbidden to talk about it?
Did I say that?
I am just saying he fails as a reviewer and he keeps failing.

Souls is just such a perfect example.
Usually you always hear "the only reason this reviewer doesn't like this game is because he is bad."

Because of how it in this example happened we have proof that the only reason he didn't like Demon's and Dark Souls 1 first is because he is bad at videogames
Its like that polygon video of someone playing doom

that meme is so dead
>HURR MY fAV GAEM IS NOT BRAISED HE SHITS EVERYWHEER EEEEKKKKKK!!!1!1!
dumb britbong making lol benis jokes every ten seconds

>Have a friend who forms his own opinions like a normal person
>Discovers Zero Punctuation
>Echoes Yahtzee from here on out
>Can't have a discussion with him anymore with "pants on head retarded" being said at least three times.

>>379032764
>He has no context. No skill. No know-how

I think you don't realize what a critic, in the context of video games, is supposed to do. I would say he's pretty good about it. He has enough of a background it literature and movies to get the media context. His knowledge of history is extensive enough to place games with appreciable settings and/or themes in the proper context. Really his biggest flaw as a critic is that he seems to have little internal knowledge of the games industry. Oh he knows the things we all know, but he seems to have little insider information.

Jim Sterling, another 'darling' that /v/ loves to hate, seems to be Yahtzee's polar opposite: he has a very deep understanding of the industry and a decent amount of insider info, but rarely puts things in a historical/thematic context.

Both are critics, neither are perfect, but are far from reviewers (although Jim does do reviews as well, he's more known for the Jimiquistion which is a critique of the Games Industry).

>>379033906
>Because of how it in this example happened we have proof that the only reason he didn't like Demon's and Dark Souls 1 first is because he is bad at videogames

But he got better and now defends it and encourages people to play it. I don't see how you're mad about that especially coming from someone that used to hate it and most reviewers will never try a game again after they deem it too hard.

Would you throw a tantrum if did a revised video of DeS where he says he played it like a dumbass and understands where people were coming from when they said it's a good game?

>>379034348
But the only reason he changed his mind is because his fans kept pestering him and told him he would like because of all the things he said about Games

I don't really care about his change of mind anon
I care about his process that lead to the first two faulty reviews.

I really don't care if he likes or doesn't like a videogame.

>>379034295

cont'

Further thought. A critic uses the criticized work as a jumping off point to talk about something else. A reviewer just talks about the specific thing being reviewed, usually ending in a 'buy it or don't buy it.' Basically to enjoy a critic, you have to largely like their philosophy on a subject. I may not agree with a reviewer or like their philosophy of games, but if our tastes align, and he's reasons for liking/disliking a game make sense, I will use his review to make an informed purchase. A critic is more about learning about a broader issue.

Critics are tough to like. And are often polarizing, since the core concept is that particular critic's philosophy and if you don't agree with it, you won't enjoy it.

Think Bill O'Riley and John Oliver, in comparison to say, Wolf Blitzer. Wolf is a newsman. No editorial. No philosophy. "Just the facts." Oh there's a spin, no question, but the spin is about *the particular* news story, not the broader implications. O'Reily, and Oliver, would look at a specific story, and use it to get lost on a 20 minute tangent about the bigger issue at play and see how far that tangent goes. Taste, determines which one you will like, and which one you will hate, but they were both critics, just different sides of the same coin. If I want the news, I'm not going to watch Oliver or O'Reily. If I want to hear, whichever one I philosophically agree with, deeper thought process on an issue, I'll watch one of them.

>>379010961
>it's another "how can you like things AND have standards, I don't get it" thread

>>379034760
>A critic uses the criticized work as a jumping off point to talk about something else. A reviewer just talks about the specific thing being reviewed
Does Yahtzee do this often? Because I think that alone puts him more in the reviewer column

At least most of his videos.

>>379034493
>I really don't care if he likes or doesn't like a videogame.


You seem to be irked enough that Yahtzee moved to the Souls series under some false pretense because he pushed out two reviews where he wasn't into it.

>>379014228
>He's a comedian
a shitty one

>>379035185
No you keep ascribing these emotions to me.
I just think it was a good example of a reviewer showing his process doesn't work

Its like a car that doesn't drive. I don't have to care about the car to say "this doesn't drive"

People dickride him way too much

>>379035417
>reviewer showing his process doesn't work

>Play game
>Give thoughts
>"whoa man, you actually played the game and talked about what you thought about it? Such a flawed process"

>>379035542
He failed to like one of his favorite series now

Two out of 3 reviews for it were faulty because his process is flawed.

If 1/3 is good enough for you then keep watching him. I don't mind.

>>379034984
>Does Yahtzee do this often? Because I think that alone puts him more in the reviewer column

He tends to talk about the historical, both broadly speaking (how fucked up was 'x' time period) and within the context of gaming history. He seems to basically play everything (other than RTS's, his biggest omission) so he can very often suss out, "X is just a clone of Y with Z change." And will often criticize certain, to use an overused phrase, trope in gaming. So his criticism of COD and BF is well known now (Spunk Gargle Wee-Wee), despite having liked COD4 (arguably what started that trend in FPS's), and focuses more on how fucked up it is that consistently you utilize this big, overblown military utilities against enemies that can only shoot or grenade you and that there's an interesting power dynamic at play there. Again, I'm not arguing you should *agree* with his criticism, but recognize it is a criticism, not a review. His sonic review is another example, where he focused more on aging mechanics and the desire of games' developers to thrust modes of play into incomparable mechanics.

>>379030363
He's a comedian first, reviewer second. Anyone going to Yahtzee for serious, critical reviews is an idiot. If you think anyone can properly give a fair and balanced, in-depth review in 5-6 minutes, is just plain wrong.
Yahtzee is well aware of this and writes his videos with the intent of being comedy first and foremost. And just to make it extra clear to everyone, he's constantly mentioning how he doesn't like certain genres and tropes for entirely personal reasons, like how he hates JRPGs.
If he hates JRPGs but was going for an in-depth serious review, then he simply wouldn't review JRPGs in the first place.

>>379035643
>Again, I'm not arguing you should *agree* with his criticism, but recognize it is a criticism, not a review.
But that is my point
Many of his videos by your description are clearly reviews and not critiques.

>be me a few years ago when i was a neet
>job agency made me do a course about making good resumes and doing well in interviews etc
>some enormous greasy man with big greasy goatee and long greasy ponytail there too
>one day starts telling the instructor about yahtzee
>calls him the escapist
>instructor politely pretending to care while he rambles on about it
>also tried to tell her once about his fanfiction work and gave her his penname

And thats my story about seeing a ZP fan in real life.

>>379035541
he is the sole reason fedoras and the like got popular again for a few years.

>>379035728
I'll take things that didn't happen for $1000, Alex

>>379035619
>>379035619
>He failed to like one of his favorite series now

So what? It's all "He's lying! He said it wasn't good two times before but now it's good?! Nope! He's just trying to trick you!"

>>379035879

Swear on my life it happened.

>>379036020
Well I suppose you should kill yourself, cause you're wrong

>>379036087

You can't be wrong about things that are real though.

>>379035937
I never said he was lying
I believe both is Demon's Souls and his first Dark Souls 1 review were genuine

>>379012278
>his latest video has him complaining about how a Dark Souls clone is "too hard".
Because of shit game design while dark souls does not have shit game design

>>379036150
You can if you're suffering some form of cognitive dissonance. Or, more realistically, you're lying.

>>379036203
But somehow you can't believe that his other Dark Souls review is not genuine because?

>>379036325
Someone also commented the fact that how the game boasts how you could steal limb weapons from enemies, but refuses to let you steal ranged weapons, which is all the enemies carry from a certain part of the game onward

>>379036453
All of them are genuine.

>>379010961

He talks shit in a funny way about all games. That's the point. His comedy style is angry rant. Think maddox or fucking Doctor cox\house. If your ego wasn't so fragile you could enjoy it without having a tantrum he talks shit about your favorite game. I thought Chef from southpark died. The fuck you doing on 4chan?

>>379036395

Why are you so mad about it, was it you? Is that you Carlin? I remember you called yourself that because you didn't like your real name. I looked for your fanfiction at the time but I guess I misremembered your handle because I couldn't find anything. Still volunteering at the library?

>>379030285
You're an idiot. Watch the review, even he says that it's pretentious bullshit but tolerable pretentious bullshit that is okay because the gameplay is FUN. That thing autist like you seem to not understand.

>>379010961
He like them, he's just bad at them

>>379010961
Pretty much every game he doesn't outright claim to hate is one he likes in some kind of capacity. So really, he likes plenty of games.

Out of him and Jim Sterling, Yahtzee is the lesser of two evils. Yahtzee does his shit for comedy. Sterling has legit shit opinions and does nothing but post clickbait.

>>379037180
I figure it's hard to for most to understand what he enjoys/hates something because he doesn't stick a score on the end of a video or a yes/no so people think him ripping on a game means hatred.

I feel like it's gone forever the days when somebody would actually want to read a review and understand why something is good and there can be flaws that are just simply overshadowed and some bad games could have some neat ideas but everyone just wants that sweet metacritic number and just assume if a game pull out a certain number, then it's either perfection or the worst game ever to exist.

>>379036513
>chef from south park
Nigger, what the fuck are you even talking about?
Put down the fucking crack pipe and read what you shit out

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>>379015874
>it's that it's mediocre and static.
Um, what? Have you even played Halo?