Yahtzee, I'm going to be speaking to you in this review though I doubt that you'll climb down from your Olympian perch atop Mt. Escapist to read this lowly user comment in the user section, but dammit this needs to be said.
Your reviews are entertaining and uplifting for my masochistic brain. It has provided a necessary 5 minute escape from the drudgery of real life in the middle of every exasperatingly benign week. However, your reviews fail to capture something rather important: the multi-player aspect. You've said many times how you "don't do multi-player" because you hate interacting with other people or whatever, but it's time for you to stop copping out.
Smash Brothers single player is boring as hell, especially since they removed the individual target tests for each character, we all knew that coming into it and while we appreciated your attempt to find people to stand your company for a few hours, what you should have done is compared it to previous smash brothers if you really wanted to "review" it for our benefit.
Your Halo 3 supplement was equally flawed. The single player experience is only a fraction of the game (one personally that I feel should have implants added to add substance and size). The online multiplayer is what keeps people playing this game. It has tons of game variants, ranked and casual arenas, and best of all, you can mute everyone. Yes, that group of people you charitably described as lively can be muted. All of em. You can make a party for yourself, you can individually mute annoying pricks, or you can just turn down the volume on the headset (my favorite, because they can hear me but I can't hear them). Yet this, as shown by bungie.net is where everyone spends their time playing this game.
This now brings me to the whole reason I write this. Your Call of Duty review. Yes the single player campaign was everything you said, over-shocking, under-long, and more jaw dropping than an acid trip with Giana Michaels at the destination. I also want to give you a gold-star for finding someone again to stand your company for a short time while you did the co-op missions together (one thing you neglected to mention was that all of these missions were taken straight from the campaign, which gave it a "last ditch effort" feel to the whole experience). However, you completely omitted the biggest reason to get this game. The part of the game that will consume the most time, that the developers put the most time and money into conceiving and balancing, and the reason to get this game over the countless other shooters on the market.
ONLINE MULTIPLAYER. 70 levels of upgrades and unlocks, plus prestiege mode after that. customizable classes, pick your weapon, pick your perks, get the gun that suits you right. I myself made a stable of 5 classes that mimic TF2 classes, though the only one that comes close is the scout (marathon, lightweight, commando pro perks with an SMG and shotgun, amazing in CTF). Like it or not, this is a huge part of the game that you outright refuse to touch.
Come on Yahtzee, like it or not you're a celebrity now and as such you are held to a higher standard of scrutiny. I don't always agree with your reviews, but I find them to be amusing and a good indicator of whether or not a game is worth buying. You hold so much power in your hand and you're misusing it. Suck it up, renew your XBL account, and participate in the online multi-player experience long enough to tell us why to get one online shooter over another. This is a recession and people want to know the best bang for their buck. So many people play WoW because it provides so much "entertainment" for so little monetary investment. Also, we crave interaction with other humans, though not in person, because then we get self-conscious.
I'm not going to do something silly like call a rally to boycott your videos because A.) who am I? Nobody will listen to me if I said that and B.) I enjoy them too much to stop. But dammit, you only become a better player by facing a stronger opponent, and you only master your craft by hearing criticism, and if you want to make good and thorough "reviews" then tell us about the multi-player (where applicable).
Ok, thank you everyone who reads this but isn't Yahtzee...god knows he won't.
Your reviews are entertaining and uplifting for my masochistic brain. It has provided a necessary 5 minute escape from the drudgery of real life in the middle of every exasperatingly benign week. However, your reviews fail to capture something rather important: the multi-player aspect. You've said many times how you "don't do multi-player" because you hate interacting with other people or whatever, but it's time for you to stop copping out.
Smash Brothers single player is boring as hell, especially since they removed the individual target tests for each character, we all knew that coming into it and while we appreciated your attempt to find people to stand your company for a few hours, what you should have done is compared it to previous smash brothers if you really wanted to "review" it for our benefit.
Your Halo 3 supplement was equally flawed. The single player experience is only a fraction of the game (one personally that I feel should have implants added to add substance and size). The online multiplayer is what keeps people playing this game. It has tons of game variants, ranked and casual arenas, and best of all, you can mute everyone. Yes, that group of people you charitably described as lively can be muted. All of em. You can make a party for yourself, you can individually mute annoying pricks, or you can just turn down the volume on the headset (my favorite, because they can hear me but I can't hear them). Yet this, as shown by bungie.net is where everyone spends their time playing this game.
This now brings me to the whole reason I write this. Your Call of Duty review. Yes the single player campaign was everything you said, over-shocking, under-long, and more jaw dropping than an acid trip with Giana Michaels at the destination. I also want to give you a gold-star for finding someone again to stand your company for a short time while you did the co-op missions together (one thing you neglected to mention was that all of these missions were taken straight from the campaign, which gave it a "last ditch effort" feel to the whole experience). However, you completely omitted the biggest reason to get this game. The part of the game that will consume the most time, that the developers put the most time and money into conceiving and balancing, and the reason to get this game over the countless other shooters on the market.
ONLINE MULTIPLAYER. 70 levels of upgrades and unlocks, plus prestiege mode after that. customizable classes, pick your weapon, pick your perks, get the gun that suits you right. I myself made a stable of 5 classes that mimic TF2 classes, though the only one that comes close is the scout (marathon, lightweight, commando pro perks with an SMG and shotgun, amazing in CTF). Like it or not, this is a huge part of the game that you outright refuse to touch.
Come on Yahtzee, like it or not you're a celebrity now and as such you are held to a higher standard of scrutiny. I don't always agree with your reviews, but I find them to be amusing and a good indicator of whether or not a game is worth buying. You hold so much power in your hand and you're misusing it. Suck it up, renew your XBL account, and participate in the online multi-player experience long enough to tell us why to get one online shooter over another. This is a recession and people want to know the best bang for their buck. So many people play WoW because it provides so much "entertainment" for so little monetary investment. Also, we crave interaction with other humans, though not in person, because then we get self-conscious.
I'm not going to do something silly like call a rally to boycott your videos because A.) who am I? Nobody will listen to me if I said that and B.) I enjoy them too much to stop. But dammit, you only become a better player by facing a stronger opponent, and you only master your craft by hearing criticism, and if you want to make good and thorough "reviews" then tell us about the multi-player (where applicable).
Ok, thank you everyone who reads this but isn't Yahtzee...god knows he won't.
