Why agree with Yahtzee?

[Cid Silverwing]

He has an uncanny ability to make me agree with him.

Then again I disagreed on his Assassin's Creed and Metal Gear Solid 4 reviews (he said nothing about AC's perpetual breaking of flow, for one thing).

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

you agree with him because hes often right?

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

I don't agree with 99.9% of what he says. Its why I never read his "extra punctuation" articles because they arn't all that funny (to me) and contain nothing that I agree with.

What is the .1% of things we agree on you ask?

I think boobs are stonking great as well.

What, so you thought Alone in the Dark was a great revival of the classic series?

See, that's the problem with making sweeping generalizations, you can get tripped up VERY easily.

 

[Artina89]

Like many people I agree with some points Yahtzee makes and not others. I wouldn't buy a game on his recommendation that's for sure.

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

he gets paid to make fun of stuff, based off real stuff, Just like john Stewart and Steven Colbert

 

[Valksy]

The thing is - I don't necessarily agree with him and more than I would listen to most game critics. I have never bought a single game based on a review and find these days that if the publishers want to sell to me I need a demo or GTFO. I watch Yahtzee because I love the animations and like his turn of phrase, couldn't care less about the actual review content.

 

[RivFader86]

Of course i don't agree with him on every point, the people that do are just the regular fanboys they are also the ones bitching about every game that is remotely like the games they like. Yatz focuses on the bad aspects of a game that's the whole point of the show it's not supposed to be an objective review based on different aspects of the game it's just some dude bitching about games while talking very fast....and it's funny...that's all it's supposed to be.

 

[tofulove]

just going to say, despite the fact the daily show is a fake news show, its more accurate and informative than most news shows, so yap right back at ya.

 

[Guffe]

I play very little games and the ones I have played I differ in opinion about 30% of the time. I don't like to comment on stuff I don't know about but he is a critic and therefore should do a good job, especially since he is a famous person in the critic department and often when reading his extra punctuation you get a better idea of what he meant in the rewiev itself.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

I do not always agree but he does make some good points

 

[havass]

i just take his reviews with a pinch of salt. His videos to me are purely for entertainment. Though if I really want a game, I might consider his opinion. but not just his opinion alone.

 

[Prometheous]

Not very often do I find my self in agreement with him.

When I like a video game, I do not let a "dirty Englishman who's never worked an honest day's work in his life" (himself) make me change my mind. He is quite comical, though.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

I'm often surprised by my agreement with Yahtzee but there are also quite a few things we don't see eye to eye on.

This. There is A LOT of things I disagree with Yahtzee on, but there's also many things we agree on.

 

[pirateninj4]

Yahtzee can't help but be a force for polarization; his primary tools are sarcasm and hyperbole, which both serve to exaggerate. Wherever there is exaggeration, one can expect a schism to form within an audience.
In this way, Yahtzee's reviews serve as a filter of the Escapist's audience: many of the Escapist users are either militantly pro-Yahtzee or militantly anti-Yahtzee. That generates lots of posts on topics about Yahtzee, which generates traffic, which keeps the little money hamsters at a nice gallop on the exercise wheel that is the internet.
I may have just blown your mind. I am sorry.

I agree with this post, however it is definitely worth mentioning that there are those fans out there like myself who watch it for the larfs. He knows how to take the piss and that's what I watch it for.

 

[liveslowdiefast]

having grown up in a video game obbsesed socity. I find i enjoy hitting out against their COD obbesed culture, ZP just gives me reasons to hit out.

 

[Leviathan_]

There are actually people who take Yahtzee serious?


I like watching ZP but I don't actually take anything he says serious.

 

[Mikkaddo]

Do you always agree with Yahtzee?

I would hardly say I ALWAYS agree with him, but at the same time I'd be lying if I said I never agree with him either. The problem with his review style is that it polarizes games, but MAINLY because he seems to focus on one side of most games.

You see, I take Yahtzee as sort of the "Anti-Gamespot" if you will. If you look at their reviews of most of the same games that Yahtzee has reviewed you see words like "great" and "wonderful" and "awesome" and you hear the tidbits that make them so, with a sort of afterthought mentioning there is bad stuff too.

But Yahtzee, he does the exact opposite, he points out every flaw. He takes a golden idol, and shows you it's hollow. He dispels the gushing that most reviewers seem to give. Granted in an exaggerated fashion, but I think that's part of what makes it so refreshing. and you'll also notice he very, VERY rarely seems to actually say "NEVER PURCHASE THIS GAME OR IT WILL KILL YOU WITH BADNESS" nor does he ever seem to claim if you don't buy a copy of game X he will himself find you and murder you. Instead he tries (and mostly succeeds) at doing exactly what he claims, showing 99% of games for the bland same ol' same ol' garbage they've always been so the few, the proud the TRULY great games, can shine above them like the North Star.

So no, I don't always agree with him, but I find him very refreshing.