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

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Why Completing All Objectives And Finding All Secrets Are Meaningless

There have been many concepts and mechanics that have been thrown on the dustbin of gaming history over the years, and more than ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 3, 2015

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Taking On Remastered Games And The Effects of Nostalgia

I know that you come to me for bold, decisive, unambiguous thinking, unfettered by the internal censorship of political correctness and namby-pamby obligations ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorFebruary 24, 2015

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A Review Scoring System That Would Work

Last week, Eurogamer pledged to drop scores out of 10 from their reviews, which many correspondents brought to my attention for the obvious ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorFebruary 17, 2015

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Expanding the Game: The Semantics of Standalone

The term ‘standalone expansion’ (to describe such games as Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon and Saints Row: Gat ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorFebruary 10, 2015

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How You Can Make a AAA Game Like Today’s Developers

I’m given cause to think about highly specialised development tools. Like Adventure Game Studio or RPG Maker or that thing that makes visual ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorFebruary 3, 2015

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Five Nights at Freddy’s and the Nature of the Jumpscare

So, I noticed a fairly predictable response to my statements on Five Nights At Freddy’s; a lot of the people who support the ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJanuary 27, 2015

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On the PC Master Race and the Language Police

Gosh, isn’t it great to be a PC gamer. I love a challenging game, as you know, and they become so much more ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJanuary 20, 2015

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The Talos Principle Comes Out of The Myst and Through a Portal

So, Talos Principle, then. Or The Talos Principle, I’m not sure what it prefers. A first-person puzzle game, so of course it was ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJanuary 13, 2015

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The Honorable and Dishonorable Game Mentions For 2014

I have this terrible habit of feeling like I need to explain myself when I do a top and bottom 5. But I ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJanuary 6, 2015

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The Grand Unifying Theory of Games: Adding More Depth

It’s the last column of 2014, and in keeping with the rules of my old middle school, this is the day we get ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorDecember 30, 2014

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Making Faces – A Bioware Story

I know this is reaching for a low-hanging fruit I have eaten before and sicked back up onto an even lower-hanging branch, but ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorDecember 16, 2014

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A New Commandment for Developing Games With RPG Elements

Stop the presses, everyone, I’ve figured out a new thing about modern triple-A game design that annoys me. Yes, another one to add ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorDecember 9, 2014

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