Poll: Does Yahtzee affect your game purchases?

[viking97]

well yes, but only if i haven't played the game and am only going off reviews. if i play a game and like it and yahtzee hates it i'm not going to automatically change my mind about it, but that doesn't really happen much because i usually agree with him.

 

[Condiments]

I like RPGs therefore to answer your topic question....

NO.

 

[brunothepig]

...I see this topic so much, we get it.....what, every week?

At least.
Yeah, he influences me a bit. I find I agree with most of the things he says. I don't let his, or anybodys, opinion be the only one that decides my purchases though.
And I'll be saying the same thing next week I bet. Maybe next week I'll post some cool ascii art. For variety.

 

[Grigori361]

Yes, that doesn't mean I agree with that he has to say, but I listen to it, he may be a comedian, but he still has a fair few points in each review.

 

[tweedpol]

...I see this topic so much, we get it.....what, every week?

No yahtzee has nothing to do with the games a buy. If he does you're an idiot.

Untrue. If you're the type of guy who picks up games occasionally if you can find them cheap and second hand during fleeting gaps between having to actually do a shit-ton of work, then you may find it useful to get a game he hasn't hated, since you have in the past realised that your enjoyment of a game correlates significantly with how much he didn't hate it.

The last games I bought: Arkham asylum, Prototype, Bioshock, Prince of Persia. I cheerfully admit that's because he said they were good, and I wholeheartedly enjoyed them. If I'd bought, say, Too Human, Sonic Unleashed and Mirror's Edge, I would fully expect my experience to be reversed.

There's no shame with taking/being influenced by a guy's advice if your taste has correlated with theirs in the past, I find say, moviebob a useful critic because I've never enjoyed a movie he's panned and have frequently liked those he's raved about. Additionally, I'm not an idiot, but I don't really want to provide conclusive proof of that, it would sound very conceited.

 

[MrGalactus]

No review sways me. If I think it looks like I'd like it, I'll get it.

 

[SageRuffin]

I watch Yahtzee purely for the entertainment value. He says it himself in interviews and the reviews themselves that he plays a game, writes about all the stuff he doesn't like about it, and talks about for the sick and twisted people like you and me who have nothing else better to do on a Wednesday afternoon (or otherwise).

So no. [sub]And shut up[/sub]

 

[Bonus Punctuation]

He never used to, but now... I can't even look at Wolfenstein without launching into a mental limmerick.

 

[Cobbs]

Ive never not bought a game because of him, but many a time i have brought under his guidance (See Painkiller, Dark Void, Saints Row 2)

 

[Vaccine]

I generally know which games are shit before Yahtzee even reviews them, so no.

 

[cairocat]

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)

Yeah, I accidentally hit 'enter' instead of tab when I went to check the box for a poll. Sorry.

 

[HotKakes]

I normally just purchase what I want to get and I focus mainly on newer IP's that intrigue me. Normally, I've played and beaten a game before I listen to someones review to see if we saw eye to eye on certain things. So no, Ben has no affect on my purchases but I love to listen to his opinion.

 

[blankedboy]

Come to think of it, most of the games I play are free, or I bought them ages ago oO
In fact, other than Minecraft I don't think I've bought a game since, like, March or something. Wow.

 

[wizard_joe88]

I don't really care if he thinks a game is bad, like take the black ops review (wait I hated the single player part of that game too, never mind) but it is fun to watch his videos in the same way I love Douglass Adam's hitch hikers guide to the galaxy series, the amazingly odd metaphors and images both create, and so Wednesday nights have become my "funny 5-minute long rant nights" however if Yahtzee says a game's good, I always but that game somewhere in my "buy once I get some extra cash" list

 

[beema]

Not at all. I tend to agree with his opinions, but that's just coincidental. He's brilliant entertainment, and that's it. He does critique games to a degree, but it's infused with so much hyperbole and intentional comedy that you'd be silly to take it completely to heart. That said, I don't base my buying decisions on one review from anybody.

 

[Nihilism_Is_Bliss]

He can affect what I buy sometimes.

I'm not going to not buy something if he doesn't like it, but if he says he has issues with the game for reasons that also irritate me, it'll make me question whether or not I should buy it.

 

[biGBum333]

of course people take him seriously. hes a critic and as eccentric as he is, he understands what makes a good game. actually i remember watching his condemned 2 review. a little while later i saw condemned 1 on the shelves for like $10 so i bought it and loved it

 

[Vykrel]

not in the slightest bit. he hates a lot of games that i love. i just watch his reviews because they are hilarious

 

[AgDr_ODST]

Absolutely not...I bought Halo 3, Halo Reach, CoD Black Ops and Red Dead Redemption weeks atleast before he largely tore them apart in his reviews and I didn't let his hate/excess nitpicking make me package them up and take them back...especially after I paid 150 dollars for Halo Reachs Legendary edition

 

[TilMorrow]

I usually watch his reviews of games either after watching a gamespot review of them to see whether the gamespot review is trying to glorify the game or after I have bought the game so that I can see what his opinion of it is and whether I agree or not. His reviews slightly influence me when I buy games.