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Cent: Bot S. Come to think of it, a LOT of varying gun images are used throughout his reviews. Yahtzee is Eminem from an alternate timeline where he discovered video games instead of rap. They're both foul- mouthed white men who are famous for their unique style of art, and they both share a love- hate relationship with their fans. Yahtzee is the gaming equivalent GG Allin. They're both foul- mouthed, deviant white men who have a penchant for using politically incorrect humor and subject matter in their works. Yahtzee doesn't really care about Episode 3 as a game. Think about it: he's previously expressed his opinion that a series needs to die once the developers can't think of anything new to do with it, and in his Orange Box review, he chided Episode 2 for repeating some of the setpeices from vanilla Half- life 2 and Episode 1. He's also repeatedly shown that he gets a massive thrill from pissing off die- hard fans of any given property, as well as his disdain and confusion at the very concept of a fandom. With those two facts taken together, it would make sense to think that the only reason he's pushing for Episode 3's release before Valve is ready is because he's planning on bombing it and igniting the mother of all firestorms in the heart of one of the biggest fanbases on the internet. Not likely. First, he's a big fan of Valve. Portal is one of the only games he's called "perfect", and YTOTW showed that he was already a fan of Half- Life. Yes, he's criticized the other episodes, but Valve themselves have stated that their experiment with episodic releases isn't working, and that after Episode 3, they'll go back to normal cycles. Since he probably knows that, he's probably urging them to release Ep 3 early as a "Get it over with" scenario. TC (I can't think of any other term), you should probably lay off the conspiracy theory sites for a while. From his Half- Life Extra Punctuation: "You know, I almost don't even care about Half- Life 3 anymore, because it can only remove some of the ambiguity that makes the series interesting. But that's a very, very big "almost". With fireworks bursting out of every letter except the S, which is actually a big snake." Guess we can call this Jossed. Warhammer 4. 0k is actually a metaphor for Internet Culture and Yahtzee is the Tau Empire. Think about it: Not very great in terms of resources, but influential, will work against the trend even if others dislike it and believes he is a smart person in a swathe of trash and arse. This of course means that 4chan is the Eye of Terror. Even the Eye of Terror has some standards. Plus all the yellow. And they both employ smaller, odd species to help them (Tau with Kroots, Yahtzee with his Imps). Think about it. His review of Epic Mickey made it obvious that he must have played Kingdom Hearts 1 and Kingdom Hearts II at some point, yet he never reviewed the game and took it apart, like he did with Final Fantasy XIII and, to some extent, The World Ends with You. Now, why would he miss such a great oportunity to bash an insanely popular franchise to hell, heavens and back? The reason is obvious: Yahtzee played KH, enjoyed it and thus can't make a review about it that bashes it. Further evidence for this is that, while he mentioned the games twice during the Epic Mickey review, he didn't badmouth it in the slightest, only mention the fact that one can easily read uncomfortable subtext into Sora's interaction with the Disney Characters. Being so nice to a JRPG is really unusual for Yahtzee. I'd be careful with that assumption, that's the same mistake the guys who asked for the Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Pokémon White and Borderlands reviews made. I'm not saying he should review it or that he thinks it's a very good game (KH has many flaws, which's existence even hardcore fans like me have to admit) just that he probably enjoyed playing it. Indeed, if he were to review it, he'd probably not give it a very good "score", since its gameplay and the gameplay: story ratio is just way below the standard Yahtzee keeps preaching. Wishful thinking on your behalf. It's probably what the troper right below me said. Or maybe he's played it, didn't like it and was unable to come up with what he deemed a good enough show about it. He has mentioned this happening before, so who knows? The fact that this propped up in the visuals to the Pokemon White review suggests he's read this and jossed it. Technically, he never explicitly said that. Emphasis on suggests, there's the possibility to consider as the middle man. According to the Portal 2 Review, he actually can like games. Alternatively, Yahtzee is saving Kingdom Hearts.. For an hour long rant or otherwise extra special episode(s). I adore Kingdom Hearts, but I realize it does have its flaws and no doubt Yahtzee has found a couple of them. A stinger at the end of his Majora's Mask 3. D review lends further credence to the idea that this might be Jossed. Yahtzee likes most of the games he plays. He started his act as a parody of video game fans constantly complaining about everything and has been seeing who "gets it," as a form of My Species Doth Protest Too Much. He keeps his loyal groups of fans around just for his own amusement at how much they miss the point. This would explain why he has such hatred of anyone being a "fan" of something, as he's seen more than his share of vile, hateful words coming from the mouths of people who call themselves "fans." Based on what he says, the one thing he seems to genuinely dislike is the Wii, as it's gone completely against his expectations and sold like hotcakes. And possibly the United States, though that might just be another part of his parody, as it's been quite popular to hate the USA for many years now. Maybe. I get the sense he likes most games but he just feels that to often people (and reviews) overlook the negative when giving 'fair' reviews. Many of the things he mentions in the reviews aren't likely to be brought up but are nevertheless valid points. It seems as if he feels that a good review (critic, fan, whomever) doesn't just review the positive but the negative in equal measure and takes the entirety into consideration. So he rags on a game.. That's actually an interesting idea, if only we could get his word on this. Uh, he's frequently mentioned this in reviews. He's never made a secret on how he mostly brings up the negative because a lot of other people focus on the positive. Yahtzee does not do Game Reviews. He is a Game Critic. Citing the Heavy Rain transcript, "I feel like I've come to the wrong door. I'm a game critic, you see, and Heavy Rain is a game in the same way that Ian Thorpe is a salmon.". Yahtzee chooses certain titles as the subject of his episodes specifically to see how many nerves he can prod at. Every now and again, a review of his seems to go past "I don't like this game", even by the standards of the show, specifically ones with fanbases that are known to have skin thinner than the membrane of a bacterium. In short, while he's getting paid to critisize games in an entertaining and yet valid manner, he's also been making his unofficial title of professional troll quite literal when he gets a chance. Yahtzee is a troper. He has used trope names several times in his reviews or columns. More specifically, in the Driver: San Francisco review, he expresses his disdain for "Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies". One "Extra Punctuation" column talked about taking darkness in a story too far, specifically using the words "Dark and Edgy" (and eventually "dedgyark") to describe it. Combined with his expressed love for good storytelling, it's not a stretch to think that he found TV Tropes one day and has been trapped here ever since, even if he doesn't have an actual profile. Yahtzee has been using trope words quite a while before Driver: San Francisco, maybe even from the start. And there is no way to know if Yahtzee is Known or not or even if he knows about TV Tropes becuse trope words are used in gaming circles too. If he is hes a troper that named a trope. Pretty much confirmed that he knows TV Tropes after that Shout- Out in the Yooka- Laylee episode. Top 5/Bottom 5 of 2. Others can add their predictions as well. Feel free to delete it when the actual list comes out. PROTOTYPE 2] (He enjoyed getting around, it was more balanced than the original, and despite being relatively silly, he still said it was fun.). Either Dishonored (He did say it came close to Thief's level of excellent stealth gameplay, but was bogged down by the Moral Choice System of Doom), or Doom 3. BFG Edition (Actual context, no objective markers, and much better than the spunkgargleweewee that was Medal of Honor Warfighter - pahahahaha- ). Insert token independent game title here* (More than likely, he'll place it here to counter the arguements that his #4 worst game is a sign of him "selling out"). X- Com Enemy Unknown (He welcomed the changes that X- COM purists dismissed, and considered it a large step above Valkyria Chronicles, which was in relatively the same genre). Spec Ops: The Line (It affected him enough to seem genuinely depressed afterwards, and the emotional high is one of the big reasons why he recommended it in the first place. Said emotional high is not at the same "fucking a burning dolphin" level of Silent Hill 2, but it came pretty close). Assassin's Creed III (Too much faffing about, not enough stabbing. The only game in the series that he considered boring). AMY (One of the worst horror games he's reviewed, and the fact that it's an indy game didn't stop him from thrashing it. His #3 best game will be set in place to counter any "Yahtzee hates an indy game? HE SOLD OUT HURR DURR OVERPRETENTIOUS DURR" arguments.). Medal of Honor Warfighter (pahahaha) (Bad enough to earn it's own genre name of Spunk- Gargle- Wee- Wee). The Common Mistakes of Horror Games | Extra Punctuation. You'd think there'd be more horror game titles. Horror in videogames is easy. In a film or a book you have to spend time characterizing the hero so the viewers relate when a big hairy monster gives him a purple nurple, but in a game the audience automatically has a stake in the hero's safety. Half the work's been done for you. I'll be fairer to Alan Wake than I was in the actual video and say it's probably been the first horror game in a long time that I'd be prepared to actually call "horror." The atmosphere is truly chilling, especially when the forest itself seems to come alive with the churning dark mist. I found the game to be a challenge - shatteringly over- generous with ammo and batteries, but I was playing on "normal" difficulty, as is my usual policy, and by the time I realized I should have moved up to "hard" I didn't have time to start from the beginning. Games not letting you switch difficulty mid- way is a rant for a whole other time. But Alan Wake had problems, and most of its problems stem from a common game design philosophy that I've been grinding a particularly big and unwieldy axe for for a while now. It's the term "cinematic." It's usually used as praise that a game reviewer with obligations to publishers uses when they can't come up with anything more enthusiastic. But I submit that it shouldn't be considered praise. I've said this before: Why do games try to be like films? Whenever a film has been adapted from a game, it has, without exception, resulted in something so hideous that only rampant fun- haters from the planet Puritan could tolerate it to exist. This is because storytelling in linear entertainment and storytelling in non- linear entertainment are incompatible. This is something many people, including game developers, claim to be well aware of. So why do games keep doing the equivalent and taking cues from filmmakers? Here are some cinematic techniques that blight Alan Wake and many other games. Here is why they need to stop. Music that gets more exciting when enemies are around and calms down when they're all dead. Christ, I can't even begin to speculate when games started doing this. The first time I remember noticing it was in the original Serious Sam, which was a hectic kill- em- all arena shooter where the music thing admittedly served the useful purpose of indicating when you'd cleared up the last few stragglers. But in horror games like Alan Wake, when the experience is ostensibly based around tension, all it does is undermine that tension by signposting it. While you still can't see the wood for the gnarled mist- covered trees, you do know for sure there won't be any murderers in it because the music is telling you so. The tensest moments of Alan Wake come when the scary music is still playing but you can't see the remaining monsters. You know how you could have made the whole game that tense? Just keep playing the fucking scary music. The worst example of this for me is still Dead Space. Yeah, a movie soundtrack might have a violin shriek when a monster appears, but that's a properly paced and directed linear story. Automatically programming the game to make a violin shriek whenever a monster appears on screen just starts to get silly. You could cover and uncover your eyes in a carefully arranged sequence and conduct them like a string quartet.
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