Poll: If you were a game developer who had just watched Yahtzee tear apart your video game you would...

[SimuLord]

Tilted Mill (makers of SimCity Societies) actually thanked Yahtzee for his input and tried to incorporate some of his suggestions into the Destinations x-pack.

Mind you, the game still sucked like an Electrolux, but at least they tried.

 

[MisterShine]

One of the main reasons I'm afraid to become a video game programmer?

Huge college debt? Nope.
Can't pick up women? Nope.
Hours upon hours of programming? Nope.
Calculus? Nope.
Yahtzee saying my game is shit? Yeah..

 

[Regiment]

I'd be flattered that my game apparently is popular enough to be criticized by a famous comedian.

 

[starwarsgeek]

Yahtzee rips on the games because that was his fans expect him to do (which leads me to wonder if he's for some kind of meta humor when he rips games for following what the fanbase expected...) Unfortunately, this has led him to being less funny, in my opinion, because there's a certain point when ripping something apart for its own sake isn't funny. Maybe if he praised the game in question, but balanced that by exagerating its flaws for comedic effect?


Anyway, I wouldn't care. I'm not sure if the games from this generation that he's called "good" are even in the double digits yet...

 

[skitzo van]

Remember that everyone has their own opinions and forget about him... after the hitmen have been contacted

 

[Sheamus]

I choose the one with pie, because well none of the other choices have pie, and pie is good. did I mention I like pie. If fact I think I ha

 

[Altorin]

If you're the creator of the game, I'm sure you could point to 1000 different things that he could have made fun of. Creators know their games aren't perfect, and unless their really really weakwilled (and they won't make it to that point if they are), they'll see the humor for what it is - hilarious.

 

[stridernfs]

The last option although I wouldn't call him a nipple face, I'd just eat pie.

The last option although I wouldn't call him a nipple face, I'd just eat pie.

Yeah this. That option was the closest to how I'd respond too.

hmm yes pie is good

 

[Gyrefalcon]

Well, given that Yahtzee usually reviews the popular games that sell well, I'd probably say,
"Alright, free publicity! That's another ten thousand copies sold. Now where'd I leave my solid gold sandals? I think I'll go for a walk on my private beach."
Or something similar.

Let's not forget that there is the small chance he might love the game in which case you will sell TONS more copies. Mmmm, private beach.

But aside from that, Yahtzee points out the weaknesses and flaws which allows you to improve the game. People who just prattle on about how great the game is like sycophants don't really help much. Which is why I watch Yahtzee in the first place.

 

[Squilookle]

I'd send him a tongue-in-cheek letter pointing out something shit in my game that he forgot to mention, and then accuse him of slacking off!

Then again, if my game really was a

horribly brown colored game with sticky controls and little to no replayability, as well as the "artifical intelligence" that leads your unlikeable comic relief to get caught in featureless walls or "accidentally" shoots you

then no matter what happened behind the scenes or how much heartbreak there was to finish it, I'd watch the review and conclude- 'I deserved that'.

 

[Warforger]

Every wednesday Yahtzee tears apart another video game or praises it for its wonderful sexyness with a slight coloration of poo, and making games is a hard and very long process with a lot of work (unless your one of those types to use the horror game generilization machine) but after the months and even years of preperation you bring it out and it does great or so you think. Until you absorb the courage to watch Yahtzee's review of it, then Yahtzee makes fun of the horribly brown colored game with sticky controls and little to no replayability, as well as the "artifical intelligence" that leads your unlikeable comic relief to get caught in featureless walls or "accidentally" shoots you. How would you react to his true and hilarious way of calling you a retard for making a poo colored game with poo flavored controls.

I would cry to my mommy.

 

[ender214]

Try to remember that Yahtzee tears apart basically every game that's released and have a good laugh. I believe it would still sting a bit though.

 

[Kiju]

I'd probably just watch it again to note down the many flaws with my video-game, and try to find a way to fix them in a patch or something.

 

[MrJohnson]

Probably die a little on the inside, since I actually made the game and not one of the people high up on the ladder since my year long endeavor I got paid next to nothing compared to other career options I could have pursued just got torn to shreds by some douchey Australian with a stick up his ass.

Run-on sentences FUCK YEAH!

But really, Yahtzee is hilarious.

 

[ryanxm]

yahtzee is payed to rip apart games! there is no pleasing him! ever!

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

well id just move on from it, sure i'd listen to what people have to say, scrounge some ideas up from it, perhaps add in those features next time or remember what people didn't like about something, but its a done product and i wouldn't look back, just keep moving forward from it

 

[Kuroneko97]

I'd laugh as I eat my favorite foods. I loved Final Fantasy XIII, and I still loved his review. He'll probably fill the review of my game with jokes and references that will have me on the floor, holding my sides.


.......I still might send him a letter telling him to fuck himself.* It'll still annoy me if he criticizes my work, And at least my stories are unique..Okay, one I borrowed an idea, but it's still my own creation.

*[small]Knowing Yahtzee, he'll probably take my word to heart...[/small]*

 

[Sliverwings]

I'd go cry

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I would probably laugh and agree with him as I have almost no ego.

 

[coldasicedrummer]

I thought Yahtzee mentioned once that the developers enjoy his reviews, but the publishers are not so fond (because they're more to blame for the shitty quality of the games than the devs?)...something like that