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

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Watch_Dogs: Too Much Sandbox, Too Little Game

The trouble with Watch_Dogs and a lot of sandbox games these days is that there’s just too much sandbox and too little game. ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJune 17, 2014

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What the Hell Is Going On With E3?

So, it’s E3 week at the Escapist (as well as generally, in the world). And as always, my schedule means Zero Punctuation cannot ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJune 10, 2014

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On FMV in Games, Gore and Giving a Middle Finger to Censors

Oh, the glory days of FMV in video games. When adventure games were suddenly coming on six CDs packed with video so tightly ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJune 3, 2014

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Immersion in Games: Are You Into It?

So last week, we discussed the subjectivity of beauty in art. That’s right – we fucking roll high-brow around these parts. But we ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 27, 2014

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Collective Guilt and Beauty in Games

As I’ve made clear on many occasions in the past, I deliberately avoid reading other people’s reviews before I have a chance to ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 20, 2014

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Why Nobody Has the Time to Make Greenlight Work

I think it’s fair to say that it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. One could almost argue that it ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 13, 2014

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Taking Lessons From South Park – How To Not Ruin an Adaptation

So I was all settling down to write something about adaptations, but then I started to wonder if you could really classify South ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 6, 2014

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MMO Adaptation Will Ruin What You Love About Your Favorite Franchise

I’m going to employ my mystical powers of clairvoyance, now. With no pre-existing knowledge, I am prepared to swear that someone, somewhere has ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 29, 2014

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Ground Zeroes is Only Worth What You’ll Pay For It

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but there’s something very odd about the Metal Gear series. Unique might be a better word. Not ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 22, 2014

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The Totally Hipster Elements in inFamous: Second Son

On the outset, the concept of the inFamous games is that there is such a thing as a ‘conduit’, a superhuman with the ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 15, 2014

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Triple-A Ain’t What it Used to Be

What concerns me about the games industry at present – one of the things, I should say, or we’ll be here all night ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 8, 2014

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Dark Souls 2: Of Missing Monsters and Bustling Bases

As I said in my Dark Souls 2 review, at the point when I wrote it I’d played about 30 hours, with three ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 1, 2014

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