Recent Zero Punctuation

[starhaven]

i watch him because hes funny he doest really like his fans i am guessing except that we keep him employed some times i agree with him and some time we disagree when we disagee i keep playing my game chooseing ur games based on some one else's opinion is dumb

 

[Quaidis]

I am not bothered that Yahtzee gave a game a bad review. That is his job. When I see him review a game, I expect him to give himself a hemorrhage frothing at the mouth over how he hates it.

The downer with Monster Hunter 3's Zero Punctuation is that he had so much material to work with and never spent the time to get far enough to see it. He played a snip of the 1* fetch quests and did not even get to the first large monster (which you can theoretically get to in the first hour if you don't spend too much time enjoying the scenery).

He could have made jokes about how hard the Great Jaggi is. I saw his review and thought he would go to town on Cha-Cha. Does he? No, he disappoints tons of people by not even giving the game a solid chance and basically only making fun of the box art. Thereafter he goes on about non-sensical garbage.

I want to have fun watching him trash the guts of the game, not read the back of the case.

 

[Stone Wera]

He's gotten pretty full of himself now. Doesn't think he needs to spend hardly any time on a game to make a review. Next he'll be reviewing games based on the box art. But who cares about the reviews, eh?

 

[esperandote]

2 hours? that's like reviewng a movie that you watched for 10 minutes. Yeah that's embarrasing that he feels so comfortable about his place on the escapist that he doesn't feels that he has to work.

 

[Rakkana]

It didn't get to me. I'm going to buy it anyway.

 

[Woodsey]

Well I would say I don't give two shits because ZP is not an accurate critique - it's an exaggerated one. He picks on flaws and bums the life out of them.

If he actually fully believed everything he said then he wouldn't be a gamer if things are so awful. Don't take it so seriously.

 

[Flames66]

He obviously felt like he couldn't handle more than that. Honestly, I don't like the game either, and I played for about 6 hours before coming to that conclusion.

Agreed. I generally find that if I don't like a game I've stopped within about an hour. Games are for fun, if it's not fun I won't play it.

 

[Archemetis]

Ok this needs to be cleared up; hes not a reviewer...
[HEADING=1] HE'S A GAME CRITIC [/HEADING]
There is a difference.

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!"
-_-"

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.

*No he doesn't.
He refers to his videos as reviews, I'll certainly grant you.

But since day one he's called himself a Critic.


On the topic of his two hours of game-play.

Like many have said he's a busy guy now days, he's recently had his bar to maintain which he blankly told us was eating up his time and his reviews might be affected.

Also I've played at least one Monster Hunter game.

The simple fact that he didn't encounter any large monsters (even though he said in the video that he was attacked by a gigantic sea-beast, that never showed up again).
Doesn't mean he didn't play past the 2 hour mark.

Maybe his interpretation of a 'large monster' is different to everyone else's considering it's a game which, to my understanding is full of large monsters. In fact when I played which Monster Hunter game I was playing, large monsters were quite commonplace...

 

[ineedscissors]

Come on, cut the guy some slack. He has a week to play a game, write a review, perform the review perfectly (and with a super fast speech tempo), and make sure the animations both work and are funny. Now while that might not seem like too much for a work week, keep in mind that that whole time he is also running the Mana Bar, where he makes frequent appearances. So maybe its unfair to judge a game based on a paltry amount of game play time, but its not really his job to do an extensive review, its his job to be witty and make the viewers laugh, and I say job well done.

 

[SoranMBane]

Well, if he wasn't having fun by the time he hit the TWO HOUR mark (That's a pretty sizable portion of time, folks), then I'd say he had every right to declare it a bad game at that point without needing to go through any more.

 

[eggy32]

Are people still taking his reviews seriously?
Does nobody remember in his Mailbag Showdown that he said "Of course I point out every little thing that's bad about a game, I'm a critic" ?

 

[Beardly]

If it takes more than 5 hours for me to enjoy a game, then it's a crap game.

I will now point to Fallout 3 and say you are very very wrong.

I don't remember the first 5 hours of Fallout 3 being boring and pointless. In fact if you followed the main plot there was a big boss battle within the first 2 hours.

 

[milskidasith]

Why is it people are acting like all the Monster Hunter fans are acting like horrible people bitching about Yahtzee? I'm one of the main posters there, and I did none of that. I even pointed out things he *could* have criticized that he would have gotten past 15 minutes into the game (seriously, I'm doubtful he got past that, let alone an hour, because it only takes forty minutes to get to an actual big monster fight).

My problem isn't even that he didn't finish playing it, it's just that he wasn't honest about not finishing it. I'm fine with him criticizing the games, but if he's going to quit the game, he shouldn't present a video that is one minute bashing Japanese games in general (WTF?), thirty seconds bashing the intro cutscene and making the claim monsters don't fight each other (they do, if you get to the second big monster in the game), a minute bashing the Wii, and the remaining two minutes making the game out to be all fetch quests and fighting small fries; you literally have one fetch quest that is required by the game, and it's a tutorial mission, and then a couple required "fight small fry" missions, and then you fight monsters as the only required missions for the rest of the game.

If Yahtzee had just said "I hated the game and quit after an hour" (at most) then I would have been fine with it.

As for people not taking him seriously, or the reviewer/critic distinction: Neither have mattered, at all, to what I've said. People do take him seriously, so he should at least present an accurate view of the game (I'm not saying he has to praise anything, just not sham viewers like with this video), and even if he's a comedian who thinks he's a critic (which is how I see him), he should actually put some effort into his reviews, because this one had a noticeable lapse in quality even if you don't take into account that he didn't play more than a few minutes of the game (Bashing Japan in general for no reason, bashing the Wii, bashing the opening cutscene... we get it, Yahtzee, you hate Japanese games, hate the Wii, and didn't have enough material about the game for a full video. We get it, Yahtzee).

 

[Loonerinoes]

I'd say he is ideally suited for this website and for its forum community - especially considering its typical reactions to any new additions that pop up on the Escapist.

I'll let you think about what I really mean by saying that and conclude that yes - you'd be foolish to take him 100% seriously. But within his pitch black humor there hides an element of truth that fanboys of the game in question will almost always decry as "That's complete bullshit!" As for myself, I like listening to one favourite reviewer and one favourite critic before deciding upon a game. And so long as Yahtzee keeps up putting his effort into Windows Movie Maker and talking really fast, he'll stay as my favourite critic.

And to all the morons thinking that he's sold out, really...why do you bother listening to critics as opposed to reviewers? If you do not like his style, read what a reviewer has to say about a game and stay at that. As for me, I'll listen to both the cynical and the positive voices.

 

[milskidasith]

I'd say he is ideally suited for this website and for its forum community - especially considering its typical reactions to any new additions that pop up on the Escapist.

I'll let you think about what I really mean by saying that and conclude that yes - you'd be foolish to take him 100% seriously. But within his pitch black humor there hides an element of truth that fanboys of the game in question will almost always decry as "That's complete bullshit!" As for myself, I like listening to one favourite reviewer and one favourite critic before deciding upon a game. And so long as Yahtzee keeps up putting his effort into Windows Movie Maker and talking really fast, he'll stay as my favourite critic.

And to all the morons thinking that he's sold out, really...why do you bother listening to critics as opposed to reviewers? If you do not like his style, read what a reviewer has to say about a game and stay at that. As for me, I'll listen to both the cynical and the positive voices.

I don't think anybody is wrong about calling out this review as bullshit, seeing as, excluding the tutorial missions, none of the complaints Yahtzee pointed out hold true, except *maybe* having to grind materials, and that's grinding materials from bosses, not grinding fetch quests. Even then, you can get all the materials you need for weapons in one boss fight (which is the mission anyway) and armor is more about the skills it gives than defense, so you can get by in starting gear if you had to.

 

[sticktrick]

I just watch his videos for the laughs,i think your a bit too sensitive if his oppinions on a game you like really get to you. And as far as not playing long enough, a game should be fun and immersive right of the bat. not everyone is willng to put up with a boring start of a game in hopes that it will improve later on. In fact, i think he has addresed the whole "it gets better later" thing in one of his videos.

 

[Sparrow]

Leave the bloody guy alone. If i were him, i would do a review once a month.

I somewhat doubt that. When money is involved, I'm sure you'd be making as many as him.