Poll: Do you take Yahtzee's reviews seriously?

[Zeema]

yeah i agree with him alot and i sometimes buy the game's he recommends.

 

[kyogen]

No. I enjoy the vids for the humor, but I rarely agree with his views on what gaming is and should be.

Lemme guess, you're under 22, and really like multiplayer FPS's...

What's with the rudeness? The OP was asking for opinions. I gave mine without being disrespectful to or about Yahtzee or other forum users.

Perhaps you would like a little of the clarification I avoided in the interest of brevity? Yahtzee is a talented and perceptive critic whose comedic persona frequently indulges in antagonistic hyperbole. This can be very entertaining, but it also occasionally leads to lapses in the presentation of the basic facts of a game. I do not find this helpful when I have to make a decision about a purchase, so I do more serious research elsewhere when I happen to be interested in a title that he reviews. Furthermore, I appreciate his willingness to discuss abstract features of gaming such as immersion and the nature of interactivity, but he generally does so within the strict confines of his own preferences. There is nothing at all wrong with that, but it limits how seriously I take any particular thing he says. I certainly respect his willingness to be outspoken and blunt in his criticism, and I hope he continues, just as I will continue to ignore him without rancor when I disagree with him. Finally, if you simply must know, I am neither under 22 nor a fan of multi-player first-person shooters, though I think people who are deserve basic civility regardless of the negative stereotypes often used to characterize their age and interest groups.

 

[Gluzzbung]

For the most part it's entertainment but mostly the thing he rants about most is what I listen to because that's usually a game breaker

 

[General Vagueness]

I take them seriously in that I know he means what he says, by which I mean the serious parts are sincere and the sarcasm reflects how he actually feels. Other than that, he's picky-- that's not inherently good or bad, just something to take into account-- and like most everyone he's a little bit biased, mostly towards Valve and stealth games and against realism done for no good reason and conversely regenerating health done for no good reason.

Actually, you'll notice that he normally overcomes his biases. I mean, he ragged like crazy on portal 2. He says he has a fondness for metal gear solid games (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8432-Extra-Punctuation-The-Little-Touches-in-Assassins-Creed) and he obliterated MGS4. And I doubt he's alone on the regenerating health issue (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.299593-Remove-a-Game-Mechanic-from-Existence).

And he burned and nostalgia he had alive during the DNF review. And that's more than any nintendo reviewer from IGN has ever even thought about doing.

Are they one of the precious few "serious reviewers" that almost everyone is going on about.

(Yeah, I know General Vagueness, I know. You didn't say he wasn't serious. I wasn't referring to you there)

That was mostly to go with (or against?) the previous part to say that yes, there are flaws, I'm not saying he's the best video game critic.

 

[remnant_phoenix]

Although its almost all criticisms in his reviews, after watching enough episodes you do tend to get an idea of what he is seriously criticizing and what hes exploiting for comic effect.

This. As a regular viewer, I've gotten to the point where I can tell when he hates a game and when he's just nit-picking/roasting for comedic effect.