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Paperboy Posts: 44 Joined: 26 Apr 2008 | |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 6 Feb 2008 | Finally good to see the sad little fan boys get what they deserved. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 9 Joined: 17 Nov 2007 | Hysterical. A highlight of my week. Thanks mate. (If we all harrass him enough, we could make him do a review of Wii Fit. Make that pasty white pommy arse bounce around!) |
Paperboy Posts: 13 Joined: 23 Apr 2008   |
correction NOT all the flaws he stated are there: oh, and the button mashing fact, i gues anyone has played fighter/beat em up games before, there is ALWAYS a char you can buttonmash on, sure smash wont be different, BUT, and yes the but counts, as long as people* know what they are doing, mashers will be beaten. *people with a brain |
Paperboy Posts: 13 Joined: 23 Apr 2008 |
BEST SUGGESTION EVER. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 73 Joined: 14 Feb 2008     | The 1000 mark coming up soon, aren't we sad!! Nintendo are like religious extremists irrational idiots. We on the other hand are buddhists of the game world impartial and laid back (I think). |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 7 Joined: 12 May 2008 |
I'd normally respond to something like this point by point but you've only really made one, over and over again. Why do you feel the need to demand irrefutable proof of every little statement? This is a video game review, not a court of law. Not that your rebuttle is even any more evidence based than his original statements. You talk very loftily about the need for proof, and things having to holding water, but then you just state that a bunch of things are fact - with no supporting evidence at all. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4885 Joined: 30 Jan 2008     |
Eh. Excercise video games are at worst a misplaced idea but a good intention. I would have liked Eyetoy Kinetic if the damn thing would have responded to me, as opposed to inaminatmate objects around me that happened to be in the cameras view. |
Paperboy Posts: 32 Joined: 31 Jan 2008 | Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that the smacks against SSBB have been taken as some deadly insult, but the "white enough to afford all three" comment is free of negative response? :< |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 1 Joined: 9 May 2008 | I enjoy Smash Bros, but i'm not enough of a cunt to take it personally, actually i find that every game in the series gets old fast and i soon find myself playing something better, like Guitar Hero or Bioshock. Very well done, those twats needed something like this |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 5 Joined: 14 Feb 2008 | "...as well as some of the more credible ones." The key word here being "more" because they were barely credible. I can't believe people actually require a score at the end. I thought we were trying to abolish scoring all together? We should be, especially since GTA IV got perfect scores from most reviewers. Brawl is still the only game that four of us can sit together and have a good time. Split screen isn't a good time and anyone who thinks thats entertainment should sit on a pike while having accupuncture needles pressed into their eyes by the woman from 'Audition.' Discovering the fastest way to unlock all the characters is playing for twelve hours was a huge kick in the balls, afterwhich I turned into "That Guy" and then I was fucked. I tried to counter it by letting other people play without me for a while but then my bastard Wii stopped reading the disc and my GPU overheated. Can you believe it? A Nintendo product that breaks? Anyway, another great video, blah blah and all that shite. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 447 Joined: 20 Sep 2007  |
I think he rather meant that he dislikes having to unlock major features in party games like this one. As for button mashing, you can't deny that if you compare what button mashing gets you in Brawl or Soul Calibur as compared to something like Guilty Gear the differences are quite striking. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 12 May 2008 | wow! no lack of hypocrites willing to lick your ass now is there. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 3 Joined: 11 May 2008 |
My answers in Italics. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 8 Joined: 8 May 2008 |
Sorry to be pedantic, but how can an opinion on a game be "wrong"? In fact how does one have a "correct opinion"? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of it being an opinion? EG: In my opinion SSBB is a good game because I enjoyed the multiplayer and the mindless chaos. In Yahtzees opinion the game is a steaming pile of shit because he hated the multiplayer and the mindless chaos. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 1 Joined: 12 May 2008 | I feel all warm and fuzzy inside now. Thank you for this Yahtzee. Thanks to you I now have a new saying when I see whiners now: GO TEAM RETARD! That is offical my new saying and sig! I swear, I had to replay that like 10 times because the way you said it was to funny. I also liked the spell check as you contiune to burn the whiners. Oh that was priceless! Yahtzee, you are not a mear reviewer, and I and greatful for that. Thank you! |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 12 May 2008 | I find Yahtzee's reviews refreshingly brutal and honest, saying what many other reviewers might be thinking, but would be too scared to actually say. There is one point, though, that seemed, to me, to be rather unnecessary. Judging from the comments, many other people agreed with Yahtzee, but since I only skimmed through the comments I don't know if anyone else pointed this fact out yet. I'm talking about "That Guy" syndrome. It's when one person happens to be better at the particular game than the friends he's playing with, and ends up trashing and humiliating them and getting bitch-slapped in return. What's wrong about it? It's a perfectly valid situation, and ends up potentially ruining the game for everyone. The problem is that many games I've seen have a counter: handicap settings. Maybe there's a simple reason many gamers overlook it. Maybe there's a taboo on handicap, because if you insist on using the settings it's almost like admitting that you're mentally handicapped. It likens you or your friend to a drooling, retarded boy slouching in a wheelchair while his nurse quietly takes the controller out of his hands. Of course, handicap settings can actually make the game fun again. My family and I have been using them for over a decade. It's practically a requirement when you have three brothers and a dad sitting down at a four-player game, especially when you need both hands to count the collective age difference between the brothers. The Super Smash Bros. series goes one step further and has an automatic handicap setting. If you win round, your lose a handicap level. If you lose rounds, you gain handicap levels. That's exactly what we did manually with Goldeneye 64, and having the feature to do it automatically (and in Brawl's case, behind the scenes) was really nice. At handicap's most extreme settings, you can set up a mentally retarded hamster versus a Jedi, and the hamster will have a good chance of winning. The advantage of handicap options are simply thus: All players can play to the best of their ability, and everyone gets their turn kicking ass and getting their ass kicked. Unless, of course, that smells too much like socialism to you. If your "That Guy" is a real jerk-hole, too, he can feel smug and secure in the knowledge that you needed the odds stacked in your favour to win. You, on the other hand, still got the pleasure of properly dragging his ass all over the stage and delivering sweet vengeance. I'm a weirdo in that I'll usually explore all the menu options of a game before actually playing the game proper, so I usually discover if there are handicaps or not. At the least, I've discovered that console games without that setting don't tend to be played in multiplayer all that often. Next time you're playing with a group of friends, and you just want to sock "That Guy" in the eye, maybe you should see if there are handicap options in the game. Of course, if there aren't, go ahead and sock him one. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 12 May 2008 | haha |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 5 Joined: 11 Nov 2007 | LOL!!! Screw all of the people who bashed you!!! If you like certain games or you don't like certain games, people shouldn't judge you for it! I've played Super Smash Bros Brawl and liked it simply because I like to make the characters go flying and I like things that go BOOM! If you don't like it, that's fine with me. Portal still rocks. XD |
Paperboy Posts: 14 Joined: 23 Apr 2008 |
hm? Okay... 1. I'm pretty sure I haven't demanded proof of anything. 2. My post was not about War & Peace. 3. Nobody stated this is a court of law. 4. I myself was just trying to make sense of everything, because why not? I was bored and I'm pretty sure this board is for everyone. I'm not making you reply, so if you didn't want to, why did you? :P |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3403 Joined: 23 Dec 2007   | I'm still curious why these threads exist, all it is is people saying "Kudos, Yahtzee, you made your weekly quota" and other people who are agreeing or disagreeing with the aforementioned. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3430 Joined: 14 Jan 2008 |
I agree these threads should just be scraped altogether it attracts the undesirables |
Muckraker Posts: 307 Joined: 2 Jan 2008   |
Handicaps are awesome! They give real fun even with completely different play levels. I use custom handicaps in board games now too ^^ |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1110 Joined: 2 Jan 2008     | Wow, lots of comments. Yahtzee is truly a genius-- throwing a rock into the hornets' nest that is the collective of Nintendo fanboys is a great way to stimulate site traffic. Whatever The Escapist is paying you, Yahtzee-- it's not enough. Keep being awesome! |
Paperboy  Posts: 48 Joined: 29 Mar 2008 | I dont think they're ARE that many Nintendo fanboys here HSIA, its just the few that are refuse to give up and are valiantly striving on for the sheer belligerant nature they uphold, to stay true to what they believe, that whining and bitching will change the very fabric of reality. The whole fanboy "race" are insufferable morons. However I enjoy coming back to this, for lack of a better term, argument. I always find something to make me laugh. I think if it had been a super hyped Xbox game and he'd trashed it, we'd have 10s of thousands of posts, alot of which paid spammers by microsoft. They have indeed done it before. I however love my Ps3 :P I dont think Yahtzee will fall desprately in love with GTAIV. Its not his kind of game, however I guess he will enjoy it, but still rip on it and express its not a bad game and that he actually had some fun and that hes giving it a strenuous thumbs up, however A, B, C, D + some funnies :P Thats my total guess at how it'll roughly turn out. If he rips MGS4 to shreds it will indeed amuse me. I'm probably going to love that game, but I can only begin to imagine how amusing the review will be. :P cant wait :D |
Muckraker  Posts: 237 Joined: 14 Jan 2008 |
It would probably be good for the health of the site, but you've got to admit that there are at least a few people who have joined since/because of ZP and been quality posters. Perhaps if they were harsher with the banhammer for the new kids, it would have the same weed out effect. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 65 Joined: 20 Sep 2007 |
I particularly enjoyed how you mocked fanboys in the first paragraph and then espoused the sony fanboy that you are in the 2nd, complete with premade excuses as to why Yahtzee doesn't like games you will no doubt love on your PS3. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 113 Joined: 7 May 2008 |
That's the problem really, how strict do they need to be, it will change depending on how many sign up everyday. |
Paperboy Posts: 48 Joined: 29 Mar 2008 |
Wha? :P I'm not sure if I was just insulted or not. XD I really should sleep. I do love my PS3. Why shouldnt I? Its a really great console and I always enjoy my time on it. Doesnt mean other consoles are bad, I just like my PS3. I didnt get anything after that though, also I think you meant announced? Not espoused. Or exposed... Yeah probably exposed. Anyway which console do you like best then? |
Copy Clerk Posts: 113 Joined: 7 May 2008 | I think he was laughing at you because you were mocking fanboys and then showing how much of a Sony fanboy you are. |
Paperboy Posts: 48 Joined: 29 Mar 2008 |
Oh. You shouldnt judge people indefinatly on your first impression of them, its one of the most ignorant traits we as humans have, and should strive to rid ourselves of to make the internet and life in general a lot less hostile and accesible for people of all ideals and so an open exchange of ideas can be presented without the uneducated bile that precedes it. <Deleted explaination> Actually fuck you. I like PS3? Yes indeed that I do. Therin that makes me a fanboy? Oh well I was obviously under the impression people were still allowed to have opinions, how foolish of me, I'll just go spread propaganda and interconsole hate mongering lies shall I? No, I wont, because I'm not that pathetic. I like PS3. Guess what, I also enjoyed the 360, and I've had alot of fun playing the Wii. So therfore am I now either a liar or a paradox? No, I'm a gamer. I do love my PS3, its great. If that alone makes me fanboy then I guess the days of the real zealot have died and now anyone who likes there console is a hate mongering fanboy twat. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 86 Joined: 25 Apr 2008 |
LQTM. And first impressions works pretty well as far as judging people is concerned, in my opinion. But as far as the second part, nice explanation. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 7 Joined: 12 May 2008 |
Yippee it's point by point time. 1. You stated that things needed to be "proven" and talked about things holding or not holding water. Either you're asking for proof to validate his nitpicking or there'sa hole in your bucket dear Henry. 2. No but it was as long as War & Peace. I intially was going to go with TL;DR but I actually had read it and TL;DR gets you banned pretty much everywhere these days. 3. See my reply to point 1. 4. Point 4 is actually several points, but what the heck. Firstly what I'm getting at is the whole "I reject your reality, and substitute it with my own" thing you've got going on. He says "It's hard to see stuff" and you respond with "No, you can't see, also your TV is bad". |
Anonymous Source Posts: 5 Joined: 14 Feb 2008 | The only thing this review proves(besides the fact that all your fans-and haters-are complete nitwits)is that you are still hilarious.I was starting to get a little worried on that note,but you pulled it out,and brought on the laughs.9.5(:P) |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 4 Joined: 13 May 2008 | Holy shit, have you people really spent 28 pages arguing about whether or not Yatzee's opinions are correct? I'll admit, before now I have refrained from registering on this website because the only real benefit there seems to be is that I can now post here, not like never registering ever stopped me from watching the videos or anything. Jeez, I must be having a slow day. So basically, congratulations on finally getting me to actually go through the effort of registering and posting here and joining the rest of these bleating lambs. Now then, the first thing that bothers me about this is that the loudest sheep here also seem to be the ones who agree with me in saying that these threads have no point. Anarchemitis and Conquerer Kenny make great examples. No offense to you two, but if you see no point in posting here, then why do you have some of the highest post counts on this page? Honestly Anarchemitis, when you reach 1000 posts the only medal you should be getting is one that has some reference to hypocrisy and having no life. Same goes to anyone else who has > 1000 posts here and yet still thinks these threads are pointless. Back to the main subject, what the bloody hell is so god-damned important about arguing over some critic's OPINION on a video game? If you disagree with him, wipe the bile off your precious video game and continue to play it with all the love you had for it before you saw the Zero Punctuation review. It's not like Yatzee's opinion will suddenly make it a terrible game or something. That makes about as much sense as if you were walking your prized Chihuahua down the street and then someone came up and said, "That thing looks like an ugly little rat," then quite suddenly your Chihuahua actually transforms into a rat and the person who made the comment walks off without a care in the world. Seriously, just because someone says something bad about what you like, it won't suddenly turn |
The first "punch" was very well targeted. If you're a fan boy then you'll like this game no matter it's faults. So, expecting hate for not liking the game from those people, he does a preemptive strike. Not against those who like it but who accept it's faults, he was very clear. Those who'll like this game no matter it's faults.
But even if he had said that he's sleeping with your mother... to you he's just a tiny little flash "animated" man on a yellow background. What does it matter? If he'd insulted a race of people, maybe I'd understand. But a group of fans? And not even all the fans...