I bought The World Ends With You after Yahtzee didn't hate it and I enjoyed it immensely despite it not being my usual genre.
Poll: Does Yahtzee affect your game purchases?
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No, not really. He is a comedian, not a professional reviewer. Good for a laugh, but not for a serious review. It would be like taking movie buying advice from MovieBob instead of Roger Ebert.
Maybe once.
I didn't buy cod waw, but since he didn't do a review on it, that's why I said maybe.
I didn't buy cod waw, but since he didn't do a review on it, that's why I said maybe.
People will always influence each other. Not big surprise.
Personally I share his taste tho, thus so far almost everything he said was true for me. For example, I got Dead Space despite his review because I really wanted to play a horror game and the game was received well overall, but when I played it, it felt dull, empty and brown. You can argue that's the point of something called "Dead Space", but I expect Horror to actually convey emotion and tension.
After finishing it I came back to his review and I had to agree once again.
Personally I share his taste tho, thus so far almost everything he said was true for me. For example, I got Dead Space despite his review because I really wanted to play a horror game and the game was received well overall, but when I played it, it felt dull, empty and brown. You can argue that's the point of something called "Dead Space", but I expect Horror to actually convey emotion and tension.
After finishing it I came back to his review and I had to agree once again.
No, he doesn't. However, he does reinforce the stupid things I find in games I played into humor. Even if I didn't have the game, he doesn't make anything worth buying. Well, it is rare he likes a game.
Nope. He doesn't hate as many games as people make it seem though. He points out the flaws in most things and is aware that he's principally here for entertainment so he'll go out of his way to make fun of a game sometimes. But people expect him to like every game, or even most games. Do you like most games? I sure don't. Here's two whole genres you can pretty much cross out for me: First-Person Shooter and Survival Horror.
It seems like he hates more games than the average reviewer because we'll often just look at the publication as a whole as the reviewer (The Escapist, Destructoid, GiantBomb, IGN, Game Informer, etc) rather than the individual writer who works for that publication.
However, it breaks my heart to read the comments after a new Zero Punctuation (the Enslaved one comes to mind) and see people saying that they are sure not to try the game now that Yahtzee has given it his thumbs down. I'm not saying you need to play the game for yourself, because that logic applied to everything is expensive. But at least read a number of reviews first.
It seems like he hates more games than the average reviewer because we'll often just look at the publication as a whole as the reviewer (The Escapist, Destructoid, GiantBomb, IGN, Game Informer, etc) rather than the individual writer who works for that publication.
However, it breaks my heart to read the comments after a new Zero Punctuation (the Enslaved one comes to mind) and see people saying that they are sure not to try the game now that Yahtzee has given it his thumbs down. I'm not saying you need to play the game for yourself, because that logic applied to everything is expensive. But at least read a number of reviews first.
No.
Besides my videogame purchases are restricted to Steam sales where I can get 20 games for 5 dollars.
Besides my videogame purchases are restricted to Steam sales where I can get 20 games for 5 dollars.
Games I know I want or don't want he doesn't affect. However games like Condemned which I'd never heard of before the show lead to purchases because of him.
Well, I was considering buying Red Dead Redemption and after I watched his review I stopped considering it. Why? Because he was the only one who mentioned (quite off-hand) that you have to hold A to run in it, like in GTAIV. That is completely stupid and make my interest in the game vanish. We have analogs now, people.
Conversely, if he says a game is good, I'll feel like playing it. I mean, that's like on hell of a test to pass.
Conversely, if he says a game is good, I'll feel like playing it. I mean, that's like on hell of a test to pass.
Straight-Up reviewers rarely impact my decisions directly. The only way they tend to do so is by exposing crippling flaws and the like.
Yahtzee's even less likely to, because he usually has about 4 minutes of "your mum" jokes and a minute of strictly "review" material. Which is fine, I watch him to be entertained.
So I suppose he technically could, if he exposed something I couldn't tolerate in a game, but I doubt it.
Yahtzee's even less likely to, because he usually has about 4 minutes of "your mum" jokes and a minute of strictly "review" material. Which is fine, I watch him to be entertained.
So I suppose he technically could, if he exposed something I couldn't tolerate in a game, but I doubt it.
No yahtzee has a terrible taste in games. Spiderman 2, POP Sands of time, dizzy the egg and portal best games ever? Give Over.
I hated the fact he bashed Valkyria Chronicles and Mirror's edge. Those two where amazing games and he only bashed VC because of his distaste of Anime anyway.
I hated the fact he bashed Valkyria Chronicles and Mirror's edge. Those two where amazing games and he only bashed VC because of his distaste of Anime anyway.
I know that what Yahtzee does, is mostly being funny, but at the same time also give his opinion on the game... But for some reason I always end up agreeing with him... So, yes i guess...
Not really. I mean, most of the games he reviews are things I'm not interested in buying anyway, and, when he does review a game I want, I've usually already bought it before his review is out.
I've actually bought a couple of games he's given unfavourable reviews to after the fact purely out of curiosity, either because I'm interested in the concept enough just to give it a try despite its flaws (eg Assassin's Creed), or because I'm intrigued to see where the complaints (from more people than Yahtzee) are coming from, and see whether I agree with the defenders or the 'haters', for lack of a better word. That's right; I go out and buy games that I know people think are bad for the sake of analysing why they're bad, or to see what works and what doesn't.
I don't think Yahtzee has ever actually influenced my purchasing decisions. I'm pretty sketchy with what I'm willing to spend on games anyway. If I'm up in the air about something, chances are I'm not going to buy it until long after the price has gone down anyway.
I've actually bought a couple of games he's given unfavourable reviews to after the fact purely out of curiosity, either because I'm interested in the concept enough just to give it a try despite its flaws (eg Assassin's Creed), or because I'm intrigued to see where the complaints (from more people than Yahtzee) are coming from, and see whether I agree with the defenders or the 'haters', for lack of a better word. That's right; I go out and buy games that I know people think are bad for the sake of analysing why they're bad, or to see what works and what doesn't.
I don't think Yahtzee has ever actually influenced my purchasing decisions. I'm pretty sketchy with what I'm willing to spend on games anyway. If I'm up in the air about something, chances are I'm not going to buy it until long after the price has gone down anyway.