A review of Yatzee's ZP reviews of anything multiplayer

[Joos]

Come on Yahtzee, like it or not you're a celebrity now and as such you are held to a higher standard of scrutiny.

That made me laugh. Why on earth should he change his style of "reviewing" games just because there are more people watching them now? The ZP style is to review with a chainsaw and a healthy dose of sarcasm. Also, you can take your "higher standards" and show em, I prefer these 'low standards', as they are brutally honest and don't go into "well they are kinda good if you don't mind this and this and this..." etc like they do on some sites [http://www.gamespot.com], when they should just plain out say that something is bad.

If you like MP, just close your ears when that part of the review comes up. No shut yer piehole and keep polishing that monotonous lvl 70 grind to a mirror shine.

 

[Poyer]

The problem here is that you take Yahtzee seriously.

 

[WayOutThere]

Ok, thank you everyone who reads this but isn't Yahtzee...god knows he won't.

dude, just email him

all signs say that he DOES read his email

ONLINE MULTIPLAYER

Even if we are to take his reviews seriously he is quite open about the fact that he doesn't take multiplayer into consideration meaning that his reviews are meant ONLY as reviews of the single player campaign. As he is not reviewing the entire game it would be a mistake to consider them to be that. I see no harm in not reviewing the entirety of a game so long as you are open about that fact.

 

[jmd102993]

honestly i agree with you, as funny as his reviews are i realy dont see them as reviews, he generaly is very bias with his reviews, be it about multiplayer or just general dislike of a genre, but at the same time he is entitled to those biases, but i mean if your going to review a game that was pretty much made JUST for its online aspect(obviously im talking about games like COD: MW2 and halo 3 here) then you should at least make an attempt to skim over that aspect, i mean at the bare minimum

 

[squirrelman42]

I hear what you guys are saying about Yahtzee not making videos as a serious reviewer, but then why call it a review? Maybe I'm just splitting hairs, but I don't think he should rest on his laurels, I want him to get better at his craft. If I didn't like him or didn't care I wouldn't take the time to talk about this.

 

[squirrelman42]

dude, just email him

all signs say that he DOES read his email

Good call, I'll send him a link to this thread and see if he has an opinion of it.

 

[Nhilus]

he is a critic, they criticise things and that means pointing out the things that are bad, one of those things, for me anyway, tends to be other players, I know I am one of those people who likes to get stuck into a good, story driven, game. Multiplayer makes a game as much as a slice of bread makes a toasted cheese sandwhich, yeah it's there but it shouldn't be the main ingrediant otherwise you would just have three slices of toast, *glares at shadowrun* anyway, what do you care what someone else thinks can't you form your own opinions?

 

[squirrelman42]

anyway, what do you care what someone else thinks can't you form your own opinions?

I can form my own opinions, but I am not so attached to them as to prevent others from influencing my view on the world around me. People seem so set in their own ways as to not empathize or even understand other points of view. Yes I have my own opinions but if I hear another opinion that I like better than my own, I'll take it for myself.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

dude, just email him

all signs say that he DOES read his email

Good call, I'll send him a link to this thread and see if he has an opinion of it.

Maybe you should put your OP in the message you send him. Why should he take the time to follow a link from somebody he doesn't know to read something he probably doesn't care about in order to formulate a reply on the thread he (as mentioned) probably doesn't care about? Why not e-mail YOUR ENTIRE COMPLETED THOUGHT to him instead? He might not care either way, but it's way more convenient for him.

 

[IntangibleMango]

Apart from the fact that it's his own opinion, he also can't pull more time out of his ass. He doesn't have enough time to play through 70 levels of multiplayer before writing a review and animating the video.

 

[squirrelman42]

And stop trying to take Yahtzee as a serious reviewer. His primary purpose is to be funny with (usually) true comments, not to provide comprehensive reviews.

Now we're starting to open up a different can of worms. You're telling me that what I get out of a piece of art is wrong. I am being a little generous with my definition of art here, but writing, animation, and performance (all of which are used in his videos) certainly be described as art, and one purpose of art is to entertain. Once an artist has created his art and presented it to the public, regardless of the initial intention of the artist, he now has no control of how it is interpreted. While there are informed and ill-informed or even misinformed opinions, opinions and interpretations are by nature incapable of being wrong.

What you may get out of Yahtzee is a chuckle, I actually use it as a gauge of whether or not a game is worth it to get. I can't afford to buy games as often as I'd like so I stick to stuff that I know is good. I don't routinely read every review because frankly I don't trust most of them to not be getting a cash incentive to give it high scores or else they slam it just because they can. I've found that (except when it comes to playing games with other people) Yahtzee has a similar taste in games to me, so I trust his judgment and often weigh his review in my decision making process.

Which brings me to another thought, there are SO many shooters out there, and at times it seems like if you've played one you've played them all. And while it is true the experience changes from 10 to 100 to 1000 hours invested, I want to know if it's going to be something deep and engaging enough for me to WANT to put that much time in. I can only replay a campaign mode so many times, no matter how great the game is, but truly great multiplayer has near infinite replayability and it doesn't take long to find out if it's something you would want to immerse yourself into.

Kind of went on another tangent there...point is you cannot tell someone that what I get out of a piece of art/media/entertainment is wrong. I know James Cameron wanted us to feel shock, awe, and sadness at the end of Titanic, but I just laughed. Am I wrong because my reaction was different than what was intended? I don't think so. I think the fact that someone can get good gaming advice from a funny game review is not an unbelievable stretch.

 

[historybuff]

Somehow, I doubt he cares. At all. About anything you say.


Just saying.

 

[squirrelman42]

That's the wonderful thing about the internet, you get to yell and shout and scream and say anything you want no matter how ridiculous and you can pretend that someone cares, but we all know nobody ever does. Looks like you have almost 1400 more experiences of telling people things they don't care about than I do, so grats

 

[Sewblon]

How Yahtzee plays the games he reviews is his business, not yours, don't tell him how to do his job. He said he doesn't like online-multiplayer so if he did review it he would just say something to the effect of "this is the worst thing mankind has ever conceived."

 

[magnuslion]

For god's sake this is what pisses me off about this entire community.

Just get over it, it's not a big deal

So what he doesn't play multiplayer? It doesn't bloody matter to him.

In short, you are whining because he gave it a largly negative review and you think otherwise.

[HEADING=1]It's his opinion, NOT yours.[/HEADING]

this. I only like multiplayer with people I know. I give a fuck about playing with three random other people. and you cant enforce your opinion anymore than Yahtzee can.