Poll: Do You Still Like ZP?

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

I like zero punctuation in a totally different way now. Not a "haha" way but a "hmmmm, good point" way.

Games lately have become quite....shitty to me. Very few games (if any at all) now actually do anything for me. It's like I have started to see the world through yahtzee's eyes somehow as the points that he makes for said games are exactly how I feel about them.

Take his review of Assassin's Creed 3 as an example, it's not even Assassin's creed anymore. Since Revelations it has stopped being about assassins altogether, they should just rename it to "Adventurer's creed" or something because the main goal here is definitely not assassinating anyone.

A possible reason for why I have become so cynical of games lately is because I have become older and matured allot since I first started watching ZP.

 

[Roman Monaghan]

"Still like"? It's basically the only reason I even come to this site. And sometimes navigating this horribly designed Apple wank web design isn't even worth it (thank you RSS feeds)

 

[Edl01]

I still like him, he still has soome videos that are major hits and make me laugh as much as his old ones.
But honestly the main reason I watch Yahzee is for the opinions since he seems to be such a harsh critic that if he says a game si good it is usually really really good.

 

[Ashadowpie]

i've been watching Zero Punctuation since day 1 and i still find him funny. i dont take him seriously even if he bashes my favorite games, he does have good points about "brown shooters" though. its his opinion anyways and its his comedy style to just diss everything, if you dont like it just turn around and walk away

also, yah he always goes back to praising Silent Hill but hey, if you love a game very much well, of course you're going to use it as an example for your opinion.

 

[scorptatious]

Well like most people on this site, I came here because of Yahtzee. I used to watch his videos regularly.

Now, not so much. It's not that I hate the guy now, I'm just losing interest in his show.

 

[Rule Britannia]

I like it more when he hates on games that I hate too. Warfighter and Assassin's Creed 3 DD

But yes it does get a litle stale after time.

 

[MrToy]

I believe that he is just as good as he was before. Problem is that I got used to him and his humor.

However, now the fact thatI don't constantly laugh during ZP helps me realize what a smart reviewer he is. One of the best if you ask me, actually.

 

[Jumpingbean3]

Flip-flopping on his opinion of Doom 3

What's wrong with changing your opinion on something? People change their minds all the time.

He really is just unpleasable. He complains about there being no good survival horror games and when he's given one (Siren: Blood Curse) he shits all over it.

The key word there is "good" and whether or not something is good is highly subjective. Just because it's a genre Yahtzee likes doesn't mean every survival horror game is good in his eyes.

He complains about realistic grey/brown shooters and when he's handed some fun, colorful, and decidedly unrealistic shooters like Borderlands 2 and Bulletstorm he shits on them as well.

See my previous reply. It really sounds like you're complaining because he doesn't like what you like, which is incredibly childish.

He rages against sequels and reboots for merely having the audacity to exist yet the one game he can never shut the fuck up about is a sequel itself and some of his other favorites are sequels and reboots as well.

There are exceptions to every rule.

OP: He's not as good as he used to be but he still uploads a good video most weeks.

 

[Ethan Bewley]

I do feel that Yahtzee has used up most, if not all, ZP material. But i still sit down every Wednesday after school to watch it, as it still entertains me.

HOWEVER: Yahtzee's new book (Jam) is great, I am almost finished and things are getting intense.

 

[afroebob]

this is odd the poll mostly loves him but the comments dislike him, weird.

Not really. Its the internet, people like to talk about being angry more than about being happy.

 

[370999]

this is odd the poll mostly loves him but the comments dislike him, weird.

Not really. Its the internet, people like to talk about being angry more than about being happy.

Also there is more to talk about if you have a negative reaction (it was bad for A,B,C reasons) over a positive reaction (I liked it). People seem to not question why they like something as much as why they dislike something, or it might not be as immediately obvious why you like a game compared to why you don't.

On Topic: I don't think he is as good as he used to be. It just seems less insightful and inspired and more bilespewing, like his heart isn't in it. Mind you I'm like that with a lot of thing, they grow less and less funny over time so it might be just me.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

I think Yahtzee's reviews are directly related to his relationship with a game, either its subculture ore the game itself.

See: Duke Nukem Forever, Kane & Lynch 2, XCOM, all the Fables for his best work.

See: FIFA for where you can obviously tell he couldn't be arsed about the game.

Yahtzee's been through so many games now, I believe, that it's hard for him to get excited about certain releases enough to make good reviews about them.

 

[corneth]

I've liked them more recently, actually

 

[xshadowscreamx]

come for the ZP stay for the ZP. i really enjoy the videos, is it as exciting as before, maybe not, not sure. but he has done a few hundred videos and its always top quality comedy.

 

[beastro]

The main reason why I watch his videos and read EP is that he's the rare critic that focuses on the glass half empty side of everything. That hasn't been compromised lately, just the quality of games he's played.

He has his bias' like any critic. Like all critics, their best when you're fully aware of their strengths and weaknesses so you know when to turn off your brain when they stray into their bug bears.

His main one is multiplayer that stems from his social anxiety. Someone with severe problems with it is not the best be taken on their word and there are several other things that are like this due to his personality.

I've never found him gut bustingly funny, just always amusing. with that in mind I do not find his videos declining in quality because they seem to be the same across the board, the only difference is the quality game he's reviewing. Either extreme on the scale is fun to trash, but the middle road is hard to make fun of, only be disappointing at.

 

[maconlon439]

I watch him and still like him, not for opinions but for the inherent charm in listening to an angry British person rant.

Things I really disagree with him on.

1: The idea that web-swinging around an open world is the only reason to really play a Spider-Man game. He claims he likes how they treat web-swinging like an extreme sports game. The problem with that? If I wanted to play an extreme sports game, I'd play an extreme sports game. I play a superhero game to beat people up. He suggests for Spider-man 2 it would be wise to get through the story missions and just play in the huge open world. I did this, and I got real bored real fast.

2. He spreads the idea the idea that the early Monkey Island games are inherently better then the later Monkey Island games. The early games aren't worse, but they aren't that much better.

3. His complaints about Nintendo's general business strategy. He complains that new Mario, new Zelda, new Metroid, and others come out too often. I say it is not Nintendo itself that has the fans but Nintendo's franchises that has the fans. To reword what Yahtzee has complained about, Nintendo has created several gaming franchises that sell like crazy each time new installments come out, and hes upset about them every once in awhile coming out with new installments. Of course Ninetendo is going to do this! Congratulations man, you're complaining about Nintendo not being business morons. The way things are now, some gamers are somewhat upset at Nintendo, claiming Nintendo is holding gaming back as a medium, but if Nintendo stopped doing this, the fans who actually regularly make them money would be majorly pissed off. There could be more then on average two games per console, and It's not like Nintendo doesn't try new stuff occasionally, (Creating Pikmin, Publishing Eternal Darkness) but when they do it is always a gamble on whether or not they will sell. (Eternal Darkness sold way less then it should have.)

 

[Caffeine_Bombed]

Yep. Definitely. Good review / bad review... I still find it funny. It's an old example, but I absoloutely love the game Wet and even though Yahtzee slated it, it's one of my favorite ZP videos.
Movie Bob on the other hand...

 

[David Huff]

I still enjoy it. I still prefer those extremist reviews, I mean those which games he really loved or he really hated. When it's a so-so game, well, I don't expect much of a review, so I'm not disappointed.

You have to consider that the industry hasn't really advanced much, so the releases for 2012 weren't so far jaw dropping, and that shows.

I think he should take a week to review something he really wants for a change, instead of sticking to release schedule.

 

[GoaThief]

I always chuckle at how seriously people take ZP.

Personally I view it nothing more than a comedy piece, sometimes with fair points but usually taken to such extremes it renders the whole absolutely useless as legitimate criticism, firmly placing it in the absurdist category.

I found it quite funny years ago and still do, keeping in mind I have never been a weekly consumer.

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