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I like hearing his reviews on games I've played since he points out the bad bits about them that you can laugh and agree with. He could do with playing games longer but to be honest if he gets enough bad points to talk about in a small amount of time, then he can make a video out of it.
It's not like I follow much of what he says in the games that I haven't played. I've bought games that have pretty bad reviews by him and I've bought games that have had only slightly bad reviews by him. I've come to learn that the spectrum of reviews is slightly bad - very bad. To follow his reviews seems a bit silly, and to defend games when he's mentioned them even more so.
It's not like I follow much of what he says in the games that I haven't played. I've bought games that have pretty bad reviews by him and I've bought games that have had only slightly bad reviews by him. I've come to learn that the spectrum of reviews is slightly bad - very bad. To follow his reviews seems a bit silly, and to defend games when he's mentioned them even more so.
I've come to accept the few hour system from Yahtzee from time to time. Sometimes he gets a good solid couple of dozen hours in, like with Dragon Age, sometimes he pretty much plays until the game feels unplayable. Hell, he's beaten a few story modes for some games for the reviews.
The thing to keep in mind is Yahtzee's style of play. He seems to hate, and who can blame him, playing something he finds boring. He didn't find the first few hours of FFXIII and I don't blame him, as if you can't get hooked with some of the game's elements and all you care about is the initial combat you'll be bored to tears. FFXIII does have one of the worst initial segments I've ever seen in terms of playability and I probably would of stopped sooner than him if I didn't find the premise really interesting. Really since they were doing flashbacks anyhow I'd of opened with them getting magic after a cut-scene.
Still, I think what applies to many businesses should apply to games as well: open big, or at least with something fun, otherwise you're screwed. Granted the interesting thing doesn't need to be right the hell away, but ideally within the first hour you should, say in the case of a sandbox game like Red Dead Redemption, be able to shoot people and ride horses all around, which you can.
The thing to keep in mind is Yahtzee's style of play. He seems to hate, and who can blame him, playing something he finds boring. He didn't find the first few hours of FFXIII and I don't blame him, as if you can't get hooked with some of the game's elements and all you care about is the initial combat you'll be bored to tears. FFXIII does have one of the worst initial segments I've ever seen in terms of playability and I probably would of stopped sooner than him if I didn't find the premise really interesting. Really since they were doing flashbacks anyhow I'd of opened with them getting magic after a cut-scene.
Still, I think what applies to many businesses should apply to games as well: open big, or at least with something fun, otherwise you're screwed. Granted the interesting thing doesn't need to be right the hell away, but ideally within the first hour you should, say in the case of a sandbox game like Red Dead Redemption, be able to shoot people and ride horses all around, which you can.
2 hours is enough to form an opinion i havent played monster hunter since the first one and i say its bad.
Really if your getting worked up about yahtzees reviews then don't watch them its not like the whole escapist community is hijacking you and tying to a chair to make you watch it. They don't do that...not since lobester boy anyway.
Really if your getting worked up about yahtzees reviews then don't watch them its not like the whole escapist community is hijacking you and tying to a chair to make you watch it. They don't do that...not since lobester boy anyway.
Actually, there's no way he played more than two hours. I played it for an hour and a half and got to my first BIG monster. He said he never fought a big monster... :|Hubilub said:
How can you never fight a big monster in a game called monster hunter? I don't mind if he played the whole game and beat it and still hated it. I DO mind that he played only 2 hours, put it down and made a "review" and hardly talked about the game itself.
I loved Gears 2 and laughed at all the comments he made about the game. Same with MGS4 and whatnot, but this review seemed extremely lazy.
Also, he's paid to play games, so he actually HAS to play more than a few hours so he can make a good video over the material.
Because he's paid to play... :|Kapol said:
It's his JOB to play a game, even if it is bad.
Yah know, it's not that he hated the game, because trust me, he's hated MANY games I like. I dislike the fact that he only played two hours of the game, made a video about it and called it a review. It is sort of a slap in the face.Casual Shinji said:
True, but even still, he's paid to play. Considering he only played 2 hours into it, it is an insult to viewers and to people who played the game.child of lileth said:
And I agree, however, he calls himself a reviewer and people believe that he is a review. There are many people who follow his every word like he's Jesus. It's like the FFXIII review, he said it was shit and people said "I'm not getting this game now! Great review!"Marik2 said:
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I for one, fully understand he's more of a comedian than anything else, but he's still supposed to actually PLAY a game before trying to form some sort of opinion on it. And by play, I mean more than two measely hours.
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I think that about covered everybody.
Once again, it's not the fact that he disliked the game, it was the blatantly laziness he took in 'reviewing' the game.
I don't think he should have. And for people that criticize his every action so much you sure aren't that perceptive. He mentions killing monsters. He talks about how you rarely fight them and what happens after you ill them. He also talked about the one that he really wanted to fight but couldn't. Here is a tip: don't take Yahtzee seriously. Watch them because they are funny. If I followed his reviews then I wouldn't have played the awesomeness that is Uncharted 2, or Modern Warfare 2, or Brawl, or any game that I have ever loved.
The man did say he wanted to be a real reviewer. The roger ebert of reviewing games I believe. If he handles reviews like this he will never reach those goals. As far as we are concerned I believe if you are going to play a game and talk about it one should have given it it's fair shake. This is not the case. Personally it was a waste of time to even hit that game up if you ask me. it's like dynasty warriors. He should have reviewed deadly premonition. He would have played that game till the end and had lots of fair whacks to take at it as well. Might even say some nice things too.
Thank you for not reading my entire post.666Chaos said:
To keep this civil, Yatzee has hated many games I've loved and I've never cared, but I feel like he's getting lazy. I also brought up FFXIII, because he even stated he only played 5 hours of the game. He seems to be making a trend of this as of late.
Also, I'm not butthole, but disappointed, because I was hoping he'd talk about how annoying some of the monsters are.
Furthermore, if you've played monster hunter, you can clearly tell he didn't play past two hours, because after two hours you fight LARGE monsters, none of which he even mentioned. In a game called monster hunter, to not talk about monsters seems... odd don't you think?
Also, please read my whole post next time, I've basically just said what I said in my OP.
True, but there really isn't anything anyone can do about it. He buys the game on his own, from what he's said before, and he's busy with a life. That's not an excuse to only play that short of an amount of time, but at least he's not Gamespot, where in a lot of cases, it's obvious they played on Easy mode for an hour, and then either give it a 9.0 (if they are sponsored by the developer), or they say the game makes no sense, and give it a 4.0. They've doen the same thing you made this thread about with games I played.VanityGirl said:
But the difference is that with them, it's an actual objective reviw. As in, they sit down, and are supposed to play the entire game, on default, and then write about it. Instead of the usual last minute thing they do with non-sponsored games. Yahtzee is just a critic, who tries to play as much as his time allows in that week. He can be bias, but what reviewer or critic isn't?
If a game has trouble grasping you in 2 hours?? Then yes i'd say its well within your rights to walk away. In 2 hours you could have watched a good movie or written an essay or done any number of entertaining things.
If you are still not entertained in 2 hours then its probaly not for you.
If you are still not entertained in 2 hours then its probaly not for you.
Well he has said time and time again that if he doesn't mention something in his 'review' he probably liked it. So the whole taking down big monsters stuff was probably what he liked, but his 'reviews' aren't about what he likes, its about providing a medium for him to rant about the stuff he doesn't like, and he does that.
This topic reminds me of a row I saw in Eurogamer over an MMO review. One person reviewed an MMO, and gave it a 2/10. Developer complained and claimed that the reviewer had only played 2 hours, which was disputed by the reviewer (I think he claimed 9 hours). In the end Eurogamer gave the game to another person, who spent 4 pages reviewing the game and wondering about what was the point of reviewing MMOs and in the end handed out a 4/10.
In the end, I don't think anyone in the video game industry takes Yathzee seriously enough to complain about him handing out a negitive review. Mainly because he's known for handing out negitive reviews.
In the end, I don't think anyone in the video game industry takes Yathzee seriously enough to complain about him handing out a negitive review. Mainly because he's known for handing out negitive reviews.
Well he does say he's a game critic on the first sentence of this article.VanityGirl said:And I agree, however, he calls himself a reviewer and people believe that he is a review. There are many people who follow his every word like he's Jesus. It's like the FFXIII review, he said it was shit and people said "I'm not getting this game now! Great review!"
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I for one, fully understand he's more of a comedian than anything else, but he's still supposed to actually PLAY a game before trying to form some sort of opinion on it. And by play, I mean more than two measely hours.
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I think that about covered everybody.
Once again, it's not the fact that he disliked the game, it was the blatantly laziness he took in 'reviewing' the game.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/7473-Extra-Punctuation-Videogames-as-Art
...I don't care about the negative review.Delusibeta said:
Why are people having trouble grasping this? -_-"
No offense, but everyone's been saying I'm "butthurt" because he gave it a bad review. I don't care about that, but I just wish he would have played further, becuase there was plenty of other things he could have made fun of instead.