Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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There’s Not Much Role-Playing in Role-Playing Games These Days

If you’re wondering why Extra Punctuation doesn’t seem to show up as often as it used to, it’s because it had gone on ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 11, 2017

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Will Resident Evil 7’s DLC Manage to Mess Up What the Game Fixed?

So, with Resident Evil 7 having completely reworked the formula from the ground up, it is now officially OK to like the series ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorFebruary 14, 2017

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The Problem with Freemium Games

There’s always something a little incongruous, I feel, about my reaction to freemium games trying to stay funded, generally by slowly and subtly ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJanuary 17, 2017

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Dishonored 2 Shouldn’t Be Encouraging Comparisons to Thief

The problem I’ve always had with the Dishonored series is that it falls deep into the Uncanny Valley and couldn’t get out with ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorDecember 6, 2016

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Suggesting Some Fixed Dialogue for Gears of War 4

I may have given the impression, in my review of Gears of War 4, that I picked up on a degree of repetition ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorNovember 8, 2016

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This is How You Fix RPG Sidequests

For no particular reason I’d like to bring up the concept of sidequests. The essential component of an open world RPG, for without ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorOctober 18, 2016

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Predicting What’s New on the Nostalgia Horizon – The PS1 Era

Whoops, been a while since the last column, hasn’t it; I’ve been rather occupied with moving from one sovereign nation to a different ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorSeptember 20, 2016

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id Software’s History Parallels the Seven Ages of Man and the History of PC Gaming

So in the end credits of ZP last week I made a throwaway comment to the effect that Id Software’s game release history ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorAugust 23, 2016

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There’s More to Comedy Games than Just Comic Relief Characters

So let’s talk about comedy games. In my last ZP I talked about Headlander, and how it felt more like a game with ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorAugust 16, 2016

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Let’s Get Indie Games Away From the Idea of a Small Child in a Scary World

It’s the middle of the year, and you know what that means: triple A release drought. And you know what triple A release ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorAugust 2, 2016

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It’s Hard to Get Nostalgic About Games You Didn’t Grow Up On

Doing Shadow of the Beast last week – in the biblical sense – brought on a bit of nostalgia for your humble correspondent, ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJuly 19, 2016

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Why Do We Keep E3 Around, Anyway?

I wonder if E3 is long for this world. As I said in my last video, it doesn’t seem to matter whether publishers ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJuly 5, 2016

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