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

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Not All Sequels Suck

So last week on Puncher Extruation I ran my big fat mouth off saying that there has never been a sequel to a ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 17, 2011

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Building Sequels Badly

I’m almost certain I’m about to cover points I’ve gone over before, but if I’m still being bothered by it, it’s worth harping ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 10, 2011

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Getting Innovation Wrong

Don’t be fooled by 3D. Just … don’t. 3D is nothing more than an expensive experiment being carried out by the entertainment industry. ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 3, 2011

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An Invisible Protagonist

In my review of Crysis 2 I mentioned that I managed to skip past most of the final battles by using the cloak, ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 26, 2011

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How Yakuza 4 Grabs You

Yakuza 4‘s cutscenes might have seriously outstayed their welcome at times, but I will admit this. There’s a cutscene towards the end that ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 19, 2011

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Pokemon 100 Percenters Are Mad

It’s no new observation that Pokemon is a pretty fucked up concept when you think about it. Capturing wild animals with the ability ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 12, 2011

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Roleplaying Homosexual in Dragon Age 2

It was with some interest that I read that there were people complaining about there being too many gay people in Dragon Age ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 5, 2011

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Death in Videogames

The fact that there’s no way to die in Kirby’s Epic Yarn sparks the old debate in my mind as to whether or ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 29, 2011

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BAFTAs Are Bollocks

So at time of writing, the winners of the videogame BAFTAs have just been announced. If you’re unfamiliar with them, they’re the British ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 22, 2011

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Why Regenerating Health Sucks

Video games are never going to be free of health systems. It’s just an inevitable necessity of the medium. A game is a ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 15, 2011

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Let’s Talk About Let’s Play

There’s a rather vast and inherent flaw with my job, and the jobs of many professional game journalists, that results in all of ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 8, 2011

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Hybrid Multiplayer Mess

Isn’t hybridizing things fun? Not always for the entities being hybridized, I suppose, but more specifically hybridizing gameplay mechanics and genres is one ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 1, 2011

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