I do you've lost the point of why you do this job, Yahtzee. You're allowed to recommend things! You only have a bile-spewing everything sucks facade under which you are a smart critic trying to find joy through the muck. Your current long-running trend of "I like this game but I can't be bothered saying outright that I do" or just saying "this game was alright but hold on while I list everything negative without bothering to build any sort of counter-argument whatsoever" just loses grasp of everything that made you great in the first place.
You always seem to skirt around the issue of whether you personally liked it. You never used to; you always used to understand how subjective opinions worked and so exercised your right to one as brashly as possible. But everything you say now is so safe, semi-recommendations at most, and it's slightly irksome because it means some truly great games get somewhat shafted when you come to the conclusion predictable of "it's alright".
I agree with you, perhaps it is time to swallow your pride and stick solely to reviewing indie games. Perhaps through a different series altogether, something more somber, a chance for you to really use those critical thinking chops you have without having to drag in through the muck of the cheap laugh and the "I am a angry review man grrr" facade. It's just a thought, but I think it'd really fulfill the initial goal of this Zero Punctuation series more than it has been doing now. Worth considering, I hope.
