A review of Yatzee's ZP reviews of anything multiplayer

[The Bandit]

Forget all that shit I just wrote. Here's the way to think of it:

Some games are made for multiplayer. You are OK with this. Yahtzee's reviews are made for singleplayer. This bothers you. Why? He explicitly states: "if the game is better in multiplayer, I won't know, because I don't bother with that nonsense." Quit whining.

 

[mariofan1000]

I just think it's funny that people are criticizing someone because they criticized a critic.

Okay. This guy (or girl) is critizing (Kinda, roll with it) people for critizing a critic.

WHAT.-

 

[Sentient6]

I like Yatzee's reviews. Well, as much as I can like something that's pouring buckets of shit on my favorite games... BUT wth all the reviews I saw, I never said "that's just wrong". Because usually he isn't wrong. And, even though he blows every smallest flaw out of proportion, his reviews are pretty fair - if the game is any good or any fun to play - he says so. And most "real" reviews usually forget the part about whether the game is actually fun to play.

 

[Cosmic Humor]

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.

I think you're just approaching his reviews from the wrong perspective. Keep in mind that he's a comedian first and a reviewer second. As a result, he's going to rail on things just because he thinks it's funny and not because he feels it necessarily is a problem. The most obvious example is in his Batman: Arkham Asylum game review where he begins railing on the box art of all things.

Secondly, his bias is made. It isn't as though he ever pretends to be impartial. Rather than worrying about Yahtzee's dismissal of the online experience, you should find a reviewer that actually values it and mirrors your taste in that regard. Similarly, if you love JRPGs you really shouldn't be taking any of his reviews as anything other than a disagreement in taste. The internet's a big place. You can find someone who will be more agreeable.

As for my own opinion... look, video games for me are a generally solitary affair. Played a free WoW trial and hated it. When I play things like BlazBlue and Soul Calibur online, I don't plug in a microphone, so I can just pretend it's the machine.

See, if I want to play with pals, I'll either pull out something a bit more cheery, say, Rock Band, or we'll pull out the twenty-sided dice and start playing Dungeons & Dragons. An interactive experience between friends on an imaginative face-to-face level is almost always much more enthralling and satisfying than playing within the parameters of someone else's pre-made world.

 

[ItsAPaul]

Hey OP, not everyone likes multiplayer. Technically MW2 sales say otherwise, but to me that just proves that a majority of gamers are retarded.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Hey OP, not everyone likes multiplayer. Technically MW2 sales say otherwise, but to me that just proves that a majority of gamers are retarded.

Here is what you are trying to say: Hey OP, people are allowed to have different opinions and it is OK.

Here is what you actually say: Hey OP, not everyone likes Multiplayer and those who do are retarded.

 

[Croaker42]

I?m just saying what others have said already judging multiplayer as 'good' or 'bad' is based highly on who you are playing with, how the game supports your style of play and the quality of your connection. For example I enjoy CSS multiplayer. Why because I enjoy the pace, the people I choose to play with and I have a decent connection to the server that contains all of these things. These are all variables that can change at a moments notice. For example someone else can join the server have a shitty lag filled connection, find the over all difficulty too steep or the player interaction to be abrasive. However a single player game is a set of constants that allow for an accurate review.

I?m sure a good number of forums like to give little multiplayer reviews. Who knows they probably even give it some silly little ranking number to tickle your sensibilities. I would suggest you look to them for your review.

 

[The King WJ]

I'm sure Yahtzee has read this and by now shot his nipples off with the gun of your choice. But the reason i see refuses to play online is
A) The Campaign shows what a game can do, online it makes you wonder WHY THE FUCK CAN'T DO THAT NOW!!!!

B)i'm sure Yahtzee has more to say about this and i can be wrong about this but also a number of games don't have online and thus weighting them against a game that does is like say "Hey i'm pail and i burn and your dark you only get darker I'm the best" when one will die because because the "burn" they sustained in there dominant position. either way you say you win but deep down we know "YOU SUCK" So not doing online play is judging each game on highly equal grounds.

 

[RatRace123]

So, you like multiplayer and your pleading to Yahtzee to like it as well?

Sorry, but like he said, he doesn't care about multiplayer and neither do alot of people, and a single player game should stand on its own merits.

 

[SnarkyNinja]

What's funny about this, at least to me, is that if Yahtzee does decide to review multiplayer, he'll say it's shit because he doesn't like it (and he says that about most things anyway). Then everyone will complain about his poor review. Lose-lose scenario for Yahtzee if he cared about what any of us think. Which he doesn't.

If you really don't think that his review covers all of a game, then I recommend reading one from someone else as well. Problem solved.

 

[OmegaCheese]

Imagine what Yahtzee himself would say to this (OMG)