Poll: Would you back Yahtzee on Patreon?

[KazeAizen]

But it's working for the majority of the people, and that's the point of the guy: he gets across to way more people than Extra Credits, Jim or Bob by simply being himself and not pretending he's a one-man Woodward & Bernstein spearheading a social revolt. Ironically that gets him the most followers, simply by being earnest and uncontroversial. He's the most low-key of the subjects at hand, yet gets more followers than Jim and Bob combined: 105,000 followers on social media compared to Jim's 85,000, Extra Credits' 30,000 or Bob's relatively measly 16,000.

I predict your answer: he's popular because he's appealing to the "lowest common denominator" or something like that. Of course he is. If you're popular that means most people like you, right? It's right there in the word: populus, Latin for people. The people like him, therefore he's popular. I'm not saying all things popular are naturally good, but not all things popular are naturally bad either.

EDIT: Also I get the feeling a lot of people are naturally against the guy because he doesn't share their unconditional love for Nintendo or Final Fantasy or something like that. He didn't like Hyrule Warriors, and he didn't like that one last Nintendo game you remember he reviewed, therefore he hates Nintendo. No, he doesn't hate Nintendo. He loved Wind Waker and Luigi's Mansion and Dark Moon and Paper Mario and Mario Galaxy and Bayonetta 2. He just hates bad games.

And me giving an ounce of for anything you have to say goes out the window when you shove a meme in my face. Those other three aren't trying to spear head anything but they are pointing out that maybe the community of gaming as a whole is screwed up. Maybe even more screwed up than the AAA developers that we rail against on a constant basis.

Also yeah that's my answer and you know what? ITS BORING AS ALL HELL! Heck you don't have to be controversial to be insightful and he doesn't even do that. I'm not naturally against him because of petty reasons like that. I don't like him because he's so one note and boring at this point he's the freaking Jay Leno of the web scene. Appeals to a lowest common denominator but hasn't got crap to say and once his time is up no one will really remember or care for him.

 

[KazeAizen]

On the contrary, I feel like Jim has an unfortunate tendency to pick the easy targets when it comes to most discussions. I still enjoy his content quite a bit, and he's a funny fellow, but I'm never there to learn much more than I already know going in. Bob is...Bob. I can enjoy his stuff, though I haven't in a while, but to call him an unabashedly critical thinker isn't exactly accurate.

I feel like most of Yahtzee's more critical opinions rather obviously come from the Extra Punctuation column. They tend to be interesting elaborations of his opinions, but aren't always especially critical either. And Zero Punctuation generally isn't critical in any sense of the word. But he does separate both of those parts of his output, and I think it works fine as is.

And I wouldn't say an aversion to involving yourself in internet slap fights is being a "mindless cog." In many cases I'd say it's being smart when it comes to this stuff.

Yes he doesn't want to engage in what's recently been going on and that's acceptable. However he doesn't seem to want to engage in ANYTHING. Jim may supposedly pick the easy targets now and again but a lot of his videos qualify it with "I've said this before and I'll say it again because here is another bloody good example." Its because of him that I've stopped pre ordering stuff and waited for games from certain companies to be a year old before I get them because I know how buggy they end up getting.

Bob is a critical thinker though I think he would prefer the term overthinker as that is what his original main platform was founded on. Critically analyzing facets of gaming culture in entertaining yet very long video think pieces.

I could never stomach EP honestly. Nothing ever really came across as interesting. Maybe that one time he wrote about Remember Me's mechanic but that was it.

 

[the_dramatica]

No, but not because I particularly dislike him. I have limited money and other objectives. Hopefully he's alright on the escapist.

 

[DanielBrown]

No way. I've gotten more and more bored and annoyed with Yahtzee the past year. Mostly because he refuses to give up the "joke" where he keeps changing the title of the game. It wasn't even funny the first time, so give it a fucking rest already!

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

But it's working for the majority of the people, and that's the point of the guy: he gets across to way more people than Extra Credits, Jim or Bob by simply being himself and not pretending he's a one-man Woodward & Bernstein spearheading a social revolt. Ironically that gets him the most followers, simply by being earnest and uncontroversial. He's the most low-key of the subjects at hand, yet gets more followers than Jim and Bob combined: 105,000 followers on social media compared to Jim's 85,000, Extra Credits' 30,000 or Bob's relatively measly 16,000.

I predict your answer: he's popular because he's appealing to the "lowest common denominator" or something like that. Of course he is. If you're popular that means most people like you, right? It's right there in the word: populus, Latin for people. The people like him, therefore he's popular. I'm not saying all things popular are naturally good, but not all things popular are naturally bad either.

EDIT: Also I get the feeling a lot of people are naturally against the guy because he doesn't share their unconditional love for Nintendo or Final Fantasy or something like that. He didn't like Hyrule Warriors, and he didn't like that one last Nintendo game you remember he reviewed, therefore he hates Nintendo. No, he doesn't hate Nintendo. He loved Wind Waker and Luigi's Mansion and Dark Moon and Paper Mario and Mario Galaxy and Bayonetta 2. He just hates bad games.

And me giving an ounce of for anything you have to say goes out the window when you shove a meme in my face.

It's not in your face, it's in your screen, and it involved more clicking and less shoving - about as much clicking as anything anybody writes, and no more forced unto your eyes than any other reply. You try to turn a completely innocuous (and pretty funny) gag into something aggressive that is violently shoved and invades the personal space of your face. It's not, and it doesn't.

Of course maybe I just read that wrong. There's a word missing in "me giving an ounce of for anything you have to say", which I took to be "care" or "interest", but if that's so, why did you continue to reply past that?

Also yeah that's my answer and you know what? ITS BORING AS ALL HELL!

"Boring as hell" is subjective as hell.

Appeals to a lowest common denominator but hasn't got crap to say and once his time is up no one will really remember or care for him.

I did predict earlier you would bring up a "lowest common denominator" argument.
The man is probably the most recognizable name, face and voice in gaming journalism, with an extensive career and hundreds of thousands of followers, as well as the author of two novels with positive acclaim. But you find him boring as hell, and have seen the future, and in it nobody remembers or cares for him. That I think sounds a bit too much like wishful thinking.