Zero Punctuation: Holiday 2009
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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you know it's amazing how many comments a zp of 30 seconds can make..
gaah ninja'd...awes0mepenguin said:
Well, hope your holiday is better than mine, although I don't that it'll be too hard. (seeing as my father sent me & my younger brother a card that told us to go fuck ourselves, my older brother made his wife cry because he started to yell at her about having people over, and my mother isn't letting anyone over because she wants to be depressed & alone at home.)
Oh, I like my games with their junk in-tact as well. Thankfully gaming is a hobby that lets me spend minimal time outdoors in this cold weather.Pipotchi said:I've had both and I will take having the non-neutered versions of games over having summer at Christmasmjc0961 said:Ha, that was certainly unexpected. Very funny though.
And no, this Northern Hemisphere weather isn't working for me.
Enjoy the vacation though!
I think game developers are smart enough to realize that one person pointing out certain parts of a game they personally don't like doesn't reflect the views of the entire gaming demographic - you can't point out flaws in a game and claim those flaws are the definitive flaws within that game - the gameplay mechanic you point out may be someone elses favourite part of the game...so the point you're trying to make is wrong. In fact if I remember correctly Yahtzee claimed developers that contacted him about his reviews often claimed they would have done as he suggested if they had the time, or the publisher had allowed them...something like that anyway.scifidownbeat said:
Then there are the over-the-top, sarcastic criticisms, such as claiming everywhere in Oblivion looks identical. Obviously it didn't look identical, but he's trying to make a point that some areas were similar. Is it useful criticism? No, how could you make a world as large as that of Oblivion without re-using assets and keeping a consistent theme throughout the world? Is it funny in the context of the video? Yes.
So to put it bluntly I disagree that, the majority of the time, Yahtzees reviews would actually help a developer to drastically improve a game - only those criticisms such as that found in Army of Two where the player may become stuck as another played cannot help their partner to a ledge they are on...and that's something they should, and probably had, already figured out but couldn't change (Although the sequel has the same issue, at least in the demo, so who knows?)
Lucky man, Yahtzee. It's practically raining ice chips where I live... Enjoy it as much as possible, my awesome-hatted idol.