Okay, let's get one thing straight.
Yahtzee holds up the Escapist. There is NOTHING else on here that I've found remotely funny. I watched a review of the Watchmen game by someone else and it was informative... nothing else. I may as well have gone to Gamespot. Unskippable is absolutely dire, the only Unskippable I found entertaining was the one where Yahtzee was in it. However, I thought the X-Blades review by the random guy from Unskippable was very good... so I'm not sure what the Unskippable guys are doing to make their work so shit.
However, too many people seem to take his word for gospel. All over the Escapist you've got people parroting his phrases or thinly disguising things that are blatantly his style. Another thing - I've seen a soar in the use of the word "arbitrary" since Yahtzee started using it, in contexts that suggest that the majority of users don't actually know what it means. Together with people hating on things "because he told them to."
I also disagree with his treatment of Gamespot - along with everyone else's. Gamespot do seem to overpraise the games that are massively over-hyped, but only those select few. In my experience the rest of Gamespot's reviews are ridiculously over-critical, and I've enjoyed a great many games (and continue to play them) that they've barely given a seven to.
Also I'm a Sonic fan, even now (not played Unleashed though), so I disagree with that. I also feel I was out of the gaming loop for a while because suddenly quick-time events are everywhere, but before I got my PS3 I don't recall seeing any.
Oh yeah, and I like JRPGs. A lot. Provided you can rename your character, preferably your whole team. That's of vital importance to me, it breaks a JRPG for me if you can't do it. It's a role-play game, not a "pilot some douche" game.
But, as others have said, I don't let his opinion get to me if it differs from mine. I mean, he actually said it in the Mailbag Showdown - if you enjoyed a game then there's no reason a poor review should get to you.
There's also people in this thread saying that they think he thought the cutscenes in DMC4 (a game I hated thoroughly for many reasons, but I'm not a professional reviewer and people will just disagree) should have had quicktime events. He never said that, he said "there's no reason these fights couldn't have been playable". That's not the same thing at all as saying "quicktime events would have improved them."
I'm not going to wade through his reviews and point out every game he didn't like that I did, because I think I've still not even played the majority. But as has been said here, he's a person. I'm a person, you reading this (Yes, you, Adrian! [irony]) are a person, and we all think differently.
Make your own opinions and get your own verbal (or written, in the case of forums) ticks. Like MaxTheReaper.
