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

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The Highs and Lows of Gaming in Virtual Reality

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a first person shooter. First-person games are games that simulate the point of view of the protagonist. VR ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 26, 2015

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Pondering Adventure Games and Gameplay in Modern Gaming

Have I mentioned enough times that I used to make adventure games? Might be worth another one. I consider myself a hobbyist indie ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 19, 2015

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How to Pass the Time While Waiting to Play A Game

I get the feeling that long wait times is something the games industry is really hoping we’ll learn to accept, and for once ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 12, 2015

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Narrative Continuity of Fighting Games is Convoluted, Especially Mortal Kombat X

The narrative continuity of an average one-on-one fighter is more convoluted than that of a FROM Software game. Street Fighter 4 for example ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 5, 2015

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Alternatives to the Glut of Metroidvania-Style Platformers

Is it me, or is there a bit of a Metroidvania glut in indie platformers at present? I know I shouldn’t complain, since ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 28, 2015

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Will Half-Life 3 Outlive Public Interest Because of Development Time?

How long is too long? In terms of development time, I mean. Admittedly, Valve have been very careful not to come out and ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 21, 2015

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Bloodborne May Seem Like A Dark Souls Game, But Be Warned

It’s easy to say that FROM Software has essentially been continually putting out new installments of the same game ever since Demon’s Souls ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 14, 2015

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The Annoying Tendency To Mix Styles of Play In A Single Game

The triple-A games market is nothing if not broad these days. Common denominators are hanging pretty lowly at present. But you can hardly ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 7, 2015

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Why You Should Be a Bit Disappointed With Ori and the Blind Forest

I’m disappointed in you, game-buying public. I’m disappointed by the ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ summary label that appears next to the user review section of ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 31, 2015

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The Exploitative Nature of Crafting in Video Games

Trends come and trends go, but the one thing all trends have in common is that they shouldn’t go unexamined. I wish there’d ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 24, 2015

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Why the N64 Majora’s Mask Could Not Be Made Today As a AAA Title

So just to clarify last week’s video, I quite liked Zelda: Majora’s Mask, which I’m sure the fanboys would be quick to start ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 17, 2015

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The Current Trend of The Anticlimax in Video Games

A couple of weeks back in my ZP review of Evolve, I decried it for being an anticlimactic experience, like all multiplayer-focused games: ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 10, 2015

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