Zero Punctuation: Monster Hunter Tri

[NoNameMcgee]

Auw, I was hoping for Red Dead Redemption and instead he reviews a game I've never even heard of? Oh well, funny review nonetheless.

Agreed.
"OMg, yatzee doesn t like it! must be bhad!"

Form your own opinions.

Oh god. I really wish people would stop making this ignorant comment.

Should nobody look at any reviews at all for guidance because they are other peoples opinions? Do you not grasp that reviews can help deciding what may or may not be good about a game before people go and waste their money on it?

You may not agree with Yahtzee and his taste of games, but some people actually do. If you paid attention to his videos you'd find he LIKES a lot of what he critiques. He focuses on the bad points because 'professional' reviewers often do nothing but praise games that are frankly mediocre. And also because focusing on the bad points is obviously more entertaining. That doesn't mean he hates everything, and if you actually listened to his reviews you would be able to see that. This game, it was obvious he hated though (and from the sound of it, for good reason too)

Yahtzee's taste in games happen to coincide pretty damn close to my taste in games, with just a few exceptions worth noting, and no other critic or reviewer on the internet has a closer taste in games to mine than Yahtzee does. As a result I watch his videos not just for the humor but also to pay attention to what he says because a lot of his points are very valid to me and may help deciding if I will enjoy a game or not.

 

[Impluse_101]

And the sad thing is...my brother bought it for his Wii...

ITS....well thats all I can say. ITS...

 

[Jonci]

Actually i think he likes the games really, but we love him for his anger. If he tried to do a reveiw where he explains how brilliant it is, I think we would lose intrest and stop watching him.

The problem here is that, for anyone familiar with the game, it was obvious that Yahtzee did a poor job of reviewing the game. He has blasted games that he obviously liked, and was funny about it. But this one wasn't funny and wasn't even an accurate description. The phrase "phoned in it" would be understating how bad an effort he went into trying out MH3. I don't expect everyone to like the game, but this just felt disrespectful. I think some of Yahtzee's preconceptions about Japanese games and the Wii were more to do with this review than the actual game.

 

[veyn]

Yeah, if said person playing has ADHD. I mean, they take no less than 2 hours at most. The rest of the game eats up 100+ hours with fun.

 

[Enigma6667]

I honestly don't know why my friends are just soooo interested in this game. They're interested in it in the same way WoW-Addicts are addicted to WoW...and stuff.

I think it's because they only own a Wii, but just because you only own a Wii, doesn't mean you have to subject yourself to such shite.

 

[WarlockD]

This is why I play platforms anymore. I play WoW, mainly for the social aspect. But I will not grid hours in a god damn RPG for some trinket I will throw away in a few levels.

Play Mario Galaxy 2 for 22 hours sleight to get 189 stars till I pass out? That's different

As a side not, does Sony know who their advertisers are? There was this box around his video that you clicked on and it told all about the new "Evergrind 2" expansion. It seems odd they pay money for someone who rags on them all the time, but then that's Sony.

 

[Joemaster240]

i was talking about a refrence he MADE in the review...not the game itself

i loved watching this. FIRST TIME I'VE EVER SEEN A REFERENCE TO another of NINTENDO's MASSIVE franchises that wasn't mario. I think he needs to do so more often because i loved the refrence.

MH is Capcom. Using caps makes you more wrong.

i was talking about a refrence he MADE in the review...not the game itself

 

[Wingleader]

Wow, Yahtzee completely missed the point of the game. Me thinks he didn't play long enough to fight some of the bigger monsters.

I agree... He didn't even get to any of the serious monsters, and the whole friggin point of the game is to hunt with OTHER PEOPLE. Offline mode is just the training wheels for the better stuff.

Frankly, this isn't the type of game that you can take a run-of-the-mill review format with because it's NOT a run-of-the-mill game.

 

[veyn]

Yeah, if said person playing has ADHD. I mean, they take no less than 2 hours at most. The rest of the game eats up 100+ hours with fun.

2 hours of boring is way too long. A slow start is fine if it is minimized. But keep it to half an hour AT MOST. And that is a stretch. Fuck, 2 hours of fetch quests. Good fucking god.

Like I said. ADHD. 2 hours is worth 100+ hours of good times with friends in my opinion. Kids these days just want that good ol' instant-gratification don't they.
If you're not prepared to learn how to play a game, which the tutorial quests help you with, you're just missing out.

 

[SkodLife]

I saw a review from Gamespot (I think it was). They said the game was good, but worked best with the gamecube/classic controller, which I found quiet funny. The only game I've seen so far which does this was SSBB (which I still to this day regret buying).

I've also noticed a few "He did not review the multiplayer/online-part of the game." FYI, Yahtzee has countless times said that a game should be able to stand up by the singleplayer part alone. It is a luxury that he even bothers play the game with his friends (coughcough).

Furthermore, if people have seen his FFXIII-review, they remember he only used 5 hours because he believes that a game shouldn't be played for over XX hours just to get to the main part of the game (that and he really can't stand Japanese RPGs).

Last thing: It's his show. If he want to say Halo 3 is a piece of crap, let him. Heck, if you remember the Witcher-review, he didn't even bother play it that much, because it gave him nightmares of playing MMORPGs (while it only was an RPG). And why do you watch this again? To see a reviewer talk about different games' shittiness (which is why we keep watch his show). Didn't he say it was his job at the Orange Box-review (where he couldn't find any bad thing to say about Portal)?

Let the flame begin.

 

[Impluse_101]

A sh*t game on the wii - oh no, what a surprise....When the adverts don't show the actual game, you know there's something it's trying to hide.

And yet everybody seemed to love Bioshock, Halo 3 and the like. I don't recall those games showing any gameplay in their adverts.

Nope not everyone liked those adverts either...

Btw...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.
Hillarious

HOY MEETS BOY!

 

[Boaal]

So he managed to complete up to quest... 4? Nicely done, really you can get a lot of overview of this game from four quests...

I will admit that it is slow paced starting, and the Lagiacrus' first appearance had me diving into the sea in search of it too, and then I realised it wasn't coming back, not until much much later, so I just went killed all the other big monsters.

Point being that he missed the entire point of the game.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Auw, I was hoping for Red Dead Redemption and instead he reviews a game I've never even heard of? Oh well, funny review nonetheless.

Agreed.
"OMg, yatzee doesn t like it! must be bhad!"

Form your own opinions.

Oh god. I really wish people would stop making this ignorant comment.

Should nobody look at any reviews at all for guidance because they are other peoples opinions? Do you not grasp that reviews can help deciding what may or may not be good about a game before people go and waste their money on it?

You may not agree with Yahtzee and his taste of games, but some people actually do. If you paid attention to his videos you'd find he LIKES a lot of what he critiques. He focuses on the bad points because 'professional' reviewers often do nothing but praise games that are frankly mediocre. And also because focusing on the bad points is obviously more entertaining. That doesn't mean he hates everything, and if you actually listened to his reviews you would be able to see that. This game, it was obvious he hated though (and from the sound of it, for good reason too) Yahtzee's taste in games happen to coincide pretty damn close to my taste in games, with just a few exceptions worth noting, and no other critic or reviewer on the internet has a closer taste in games to mine than Yahtzee does. As a result I watch his videos not just for the humor but also to pay attention to what he says because a lot of his points are very valid to me and may help deciding if I will enjoy a game or not.

I really hate the sound of sucking arse. He didn't 'review' the game at all, that's the point. If he had critiqued the actual game then that's a fair cop to him, but he didn't, he basically reviewed the tutorial level. He put more time into FFXIII and we all know that Yahtzee hates JRPGs, I understand that his opinion should be taken with a grain of salt, and I usually agree with alot of points in his other videos of games I like more than MH, but this one reeks of laziness.

 

[Deleted]

Wow I can't believe people are not going to buy it because Yahtzee hated it. He barely saw what the game had to offer for crying out loud! Its like playing mario kart for one lap on luigi raceway and judging the whole game.

I agree with a lot of the negative aspects but don't treat this as a real review guys... Only you can decide if a game is good or not.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Hunting Monsters sounds like alot of fun, but these games have never sucked me in.

 

[milskidasith]

Yeah, if said person playing has ADHD. I mean, they take no less than 2 hours at most. The rest of the game eats up 100+ hours with fun.

2 hours of boring is way too long. A slow start is fine if it is minimized. But keep it to half an hour AT MOST. And that is a stretch. Fuck, 2 hours of fetch quests. Good fucking god.

It's not two hours of fetch quests. There is *one* fetch quest that is mandatory on the first rank of hunting, and one quest where you have to kill mostly defenseless monsters. The other quests are either hunting stuff, or not mandatory, and playing through the two mandatory quests, they took all of ten minutes total.

It takes two hours to get to the first big monster, possibly, but only because you either A: do quests that aren't required and B: fight small monsters for the other half (and the intro cutscene). Even then, I can get to the Great Jaggi fight from scratch in an hour, so I dunno what the people who say five hours are smoking, though two hours is reasonable if you are new to the game... which is two hours of mostly hunting actual beasties.

 

[Impluse_101]

Auw, I was hoping for Red Dead Redemption and instead he reviews a game I've never even heard of? Oh well, funny review nonetheless.

Agreed.
"OMg, yatzee doesn t like it! must be bhad!"

Form your own opinions.

Oh god. I really wish people would stop making this ignorant comment.

Should nobody look at any reviews at all for guidance because they are other peoples opinions? Do you not grasp that reviews can help deciding what may or may not be good about a game before people go and waste their money on it?

You may not agree with Yahtzee and his taste of games, but some people actually do. If you paid attention to his videos you'd find he LIKES a lot of what he critiques. He focuses on the bad points because 'professional' reviewers often do nothing but praise games that are frankly mediocre. And also because focusing on the bad points is obviously more entertaining. That doesn't mean he hates everything, and if you actually listened to his reviews you would be able to see that. This game, it was obvious he hated though (and from the sound of it, for good reason too) Yahtzee's taste in games happen to coincide pretty damn close to my taste in games, with just a few exceptions worth noting, and no other critic or reviewer on the internet has a closer taste in games to mine than Yahtzee does. As a result I watch his videos not just for the humor but also to pay attention to what he says because a lot of his points are very valid to me and may help deciding if I will enjoy a game or not.

I really hate the sound of sucking arse. He didn't 'review' the game at all, that's the point. If he had critiqued the actual game then that's a fair cop to him, but he didn't he basically reviewed the tutorial level. He put more time into FFXIII and we all know that Yahtzee hate JRPGs, I understand that his opinion should be taken with a grain of salt, and I usually agree with alot of points in his other videos of games I like more than MH, but this one reeks of laziness.

Hmmm....You know I'm reminded of a game for the wii that trasfered from the Playstation and has you playing as a dog (1, and go around in Feudal Japan (2 and you go around acquiring magic spells that you activate by painting shapes (3.

Just a question... I wonder if he'll ever post a video reviewing that?Hmmmm.....

 

[Deleted]

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I've also noticed a few "He did not review the multiplayer/online-part of the game." FYI, Yahtzee has countless times said that a game should be able to stand up by the singleplayer part alone. It is a luxury that he even bothers play the game with his friends (coughcough).
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What does he think of Team Fortress 2 then? I understand that he doesn't like a game for many reasons but no good single player experience is a pretty dumb reason. Especially for games like Street Fighter which is all about multiplayer. But then again that's a game for people who are enthusiast and is unfriendly towards casual players so it may not be a good example.