Poll: Does Yahtzee affect your game purchases?
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Sometimes. If he gives a positive review, I'll probably remember the game and if I see it somewhere I'll remember that. I bought Dark Void off of his vague recommendation. But he gives a bad review, I won't care because his job is to point out the flaws, not talk about whether he liked the game or not. That's actually the way that reviews should work. I don't want to know what you personally found enjoyable because everyone else has different tastes. I want to know if the gameplay is bad or the story is dumb or if the graphics make things hard to tell apart. He just goes a little overboard with the criticisms sometimes...
It's Yatzee. He gets paid for bashing things. But when he recommends something I might take a look.
(btw, I see no poll here)
(btw, I see no poll here)
Not really.
He does provide an excellent summary of possible pitfalls of a game, but if I want to try a game, he won't stop me. Usually I enjoy watching his critique again after I play a game, because he's generally 99% right about all the little things that annoy you in even a very good game, *and* he's funny while saying it.
He does provide an excellent summary of possible pitfalls of a game, but if I want to try a game, he won't stop me. Usually I enjoy watching his critique again after I play a game, because he's generally 99% right about all the little things that annoy you in even a very good game, *and* he's funny while saying it.
Purchases? not really, especially considering that my taste in games and Yahtzee's happen to be separated by a rather large gulf. However, if he recommends a game, and later i get a chance to try it, i probably will, even if its not really to my taste. A good example would be saints row 2; i've never really been into the whole gta thing, but when i tried saints row 2 on a friends console, i had lots of fun.
Nope, sincerely. Most of his reviews are about, sigh, console games anyway. The rest are on games I'm either never going to purchase or am getting anyways. Naturally he does affect my view on some games, but that's just on titles I know nothing about beforehand, and after the 'review' I might now if it's a third-person shooter or a cooking simulation. And if there's a significant defect in a game I didn't know about, of the sort that I can't stand at all, in a game, then it sheds a bit of light on that.
No matter how satirical his show is, it still made me think less of him, when he dissed Tolkien in one of his videos...
No matter how satirical his show is, it still made me think less of him, when he dissed Tolkien in one of his videos...
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If he genuinely seems to think a game is bad, I'll take note. It'll probably be in the form of an agreement since by the time I watch the review I've probably already decided whether I want to "buy it now", "wait till the price drops", "wait for game of the year" (looking at YOU, fallout 3&4), or "do not buy"(MMORPGs)
If he seems to think a game is extremely good, I'll likewise take note- chances are I missed out on a great game before through not hearing about it or simply it not appealing to me at the time.
I'm fairly sure I played Knights of the Old Republic because he praised it somewhere. Actually, I'd been thinking about playing that for a long time, because I missed out when it was new and wanted to see why all my friends that'd played it were singing quite so many praises. Turned out that for it's time it really WAS as good as they'd said. But I digress. I'll obviously take more notice if he likes the game and can't find too many (or major) flaws. Because that goes against his job. Example: Dragon Age: Origins. He liked it, but had to rip into it, so he did. Still managed to tell us how much he liked it, and that did make me think "maybe it's worth getting".
Hell it's a bioware game I was going to buy it anyway but the point I'm flailing uselessly in my attempts to explain is that his review made me buy it sooner. It got upgraded from "wait for goty edition" (my default reaction to games that are heavy on downloadable stuff since it will usually include them all) to "buy it now".
There's also games I will never play no matter how great anyone says they are. I've hated gears of war ever since first playing it(mostly because it was based on cover-based-shooting), and since then have avoided cover-based shooters anyway. The sheer amounts of narm redeems it somewhat but the CBS just hacks me off too much.
If yahtzee says "it's a cover based shooter" and that puts me off- I hate the whole idea of basing games on this mechanic. I mean, seriously, cover based games now have less depth than Space Invaders- at least in that game the cover you could hide behind got destroyed. And the story's about as complex. I'm sure someone's said that, possibly yahtzee.
The other thing that annoys me in games are quick-time events- if Y says "this game has lots of quick-time events throughout" I probably won't buy it. Because I hate QTE as much as CBS...
Therefore, on these two points yeah I guess he does influence me, but in terms of opinions, no.
As I play SP-RPG and RTS games rather than other genres, his reviews really have little bearing on me anyway.
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If yahtzee mentions "it's based on cover-based shooting and/or it has many quicktime events throughout", I will, in all likelihood, not buy it. If he genuinely really likes a game (portal), I'll certainly look into it. Other than that, he doesn't really influence me...
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r at the bottom.If he genuinely seems to think a game is bad, I'll take note. It'll probably be in the form of an agreement since by the time I watch the review I've probably already decided whether I want to "buy it now", "wait till the price drops", "wait for game of the year" (looking at YOU, fallout 3&4), or "do not buy"(MMORPGs)
If he seems to think a game is extremely good, I'll likewise take note- chances are I missed out on a great game before through not hearing about it or simply it not appealing to me at the time.
I'm fairly sure I played Knights of the Old Republic because he praised it somewhere. Actually, I'd been thinking about playing that for a long time, because I missed out when it was new and wanted to see why all my friends that'd played it were singing quite so many praises. Turned out that for it's time it really WAS as good as they'd said. But I digress. I'll obviously take more notice if he likes the game and can't find too many (or major) flaws. Because that goes against his job. Example: Dragon Age: Origins. He liked it, but had to rip into it, so he did. Still managed to tell us how much he liked it, and that did make me think "maybe it's worth getting".
Hell it's a bioware game I was going to buy it anyway but the point I'm flailing uselessly in my attempts to explain is that his review made me buy it sooner. It got upgraded from "wait for goty edition" (my default reaction to games that are heavy on downloadable stuff since it will usually include them all) to "buy it now".
There's also games I will never play no matter how great anyone says they are. I've hated gears of war ever since first playing it(mostly because it was based on cover-based-shooting), and since then have avoided cover-based shooters anyway. The sheer amounts of narm redeems it somewhat but the CBS just hacks me off too much.
If yahtzee says "it's a cover based shooter" and that puts me off- I hate the whole idea of basing games on this mechanic. I mean, seriously, cover based games now have less depth than Space Invaders- at least in that game the cover you could hide behind got destroyed. And the story's about as complex. I'm sure someone's said that, possibly yahtzee.
The other thing that annoys me in games are quick-time events- if Y says "this game has lots of quick-time events throughout" I probably won't buy it. Because I hate QTE as much as CBS...
Therefore, on these two points yeah I guess he does influence me, but in terms of opinions, no.
As I play SP-RPG and RTS games rather than other genres, his reviews really have little bearing on me anyway.
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r If yahtzee mentions "it's based on cover-based shooting and/or it has many quicktime events throughout", I will, in all likelihood, not buy it. If he genuinely really likes a game (portal), I'll certainly look into it. Other than that, he doesn't really influence me...
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Do you remember which video this was? Don't remember it...benzooka said:
That's like not eating mac and cheese because a snotty professional food critic gave it a bad review.
Only sometimes. He's not 100% accurate, of course, but I took his recommendation towards Saints Row 2 as a good game to screw around in like I do GTA: San Andreas. So, there we are.
Yes, but for the better.
Reviews don't affect weather or not I buy a game per-se, but when Yhatzee has a few positive things to say about a game it does help generate interest in that game.
At the same time, the various ways he insults different games do not make me not play a game I am already interested in, they just change my expectations slightly.
Reviews don't affect weather or not I buy a game per-se, but when Yhatzee has a few positive things to say about a game it does help generate interest in that game.
At the same time, the various ways he insults different games do not make me not play a game I am already interested in, they just change my expectations slightly.
Yes. -IF- He's actually being positive about a game (I'm thinking of Psychonauts here) then I tend to at least check it out/delve deeper into it, perhaps check out a demo etc.
-BUT- If he's being negative (true to form), then definitely not.
I tend to be quite frugal with my game purchases nowadays. I was stung so often as a kid/teen due to being impressed by the damned box art/media backup on some of the shittiest games ever, that I find myself turning into a bit of a snob or the likes.
Most of my game purchases are the result of multiple sources. Any game that receives alot of marketing budget will take me longer to sift through, as I'm sceptical of them from the outset (unfairly, in some cases. ie CoD 4, Dragon Age). Gaming-specific sites attached to a large corporation (you know which) and console-specific magazines/sites, are almost worthless to me (all reviews being better than "truthful", few flaws highlighted, etc.) The worst being console-specific games (I've played halo 1+2, found them generic).
I try to fund indies if I think they have an original idea (Minecraft, The Path etc.), and generally have lower standards if I'm able to hear about them at all.
On the other hand, I've been in a games drought for a few months now (PC gamer, rare PS3 player). I've been hankering for something new to get my teeth into, which may alter my "selection process".
-BUT- If he's being negative (true to form), then definitely not.
I tend to be quite frugal with my game purchases nowadays. I was stung so often as a kid/teen due to being impressed by the damned box art/media backup on some of the shittiest games ever, that I find myself turning into a bit of a snob or the likes.
Most of my game purchases are the result of multiple sources. Any game that receives alot of marketing budget will take me longer to sift through, as I'm sceptical of them from the outset (unfairly, in some cases. ie CoD 4, Dragon Age). Gaming-specific sites attached to a large corporation (you know which) and console-specific magazines/sites, are almost worthless to me (all reviews being better than "truthful", few flaws highlighted, etc.) The worst being console-specific games (I've played halo 1+2, found them generic).
I try to fund indies if I think they have an original idea (Minecraft, The Path etc.), and generally have lower standards if I'm able to hear about them at all.
On the other hand, I've been in a games drought for a few months now (PC gamer, rare PS3 player). I've been hankering for something new to get my teeth into, which may alter my "selection process".