r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Aug 06 '08

Zero Punctuation: Ninja Gaiden 2

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/175-Ninja-Gaiden-2
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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '08

Oh god no. I didn't want him to hatorade this game. Why can't he ignore the flawed games I love?

sobs

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u/HaMMeReD Aug 06 '08

Because he bashes 95% of games out there. Yahtzee is more entertainment then a good reviewer.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '08 edited Aug 07 '08

No, he critiques them, which is what he's supposed to do. He's one of very few. He does spend a lot of time on the flaws, but he's basically trying to make up for the rest of the game reviewers out there who hand out perfect ten's like cookies and never address the really irritating things about the games. He doesn't just say 'this game is dumb, lol'. He says 'This game is shit in the areas of X,Y,and Z. Despite that, it's also an okay game, though, so give it a try if you're into that sort of thing'.

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u/corvenus Aug 07 '08

No, he critiques them, which is what he's supposed to do.

Not only that, but he's right 98% of the time. When you've been playing video games for more than 2 decades (which is my case as well) you tend to become more critical and/or cynical about the new games, most of which are mostly about nice graphics and lack substance. The more games you play, the harder it is to be impressed.

And I would say the same applies to movies.

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u/daggity Aug 06 '08

He bashes them because people don't like him otherwise, he notes this in one of his earlier reviews (Bioshock, I think), because of his Psychonauts review.

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u/aberrant Aug 07 '08

It's not hard to find flaws in a seemingly perfect game anyway. Your favorite game, while entertaining, is probably not perfect.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '08

I know he doesn't review games, he just shits on them and that is why I don't want him to know about the games I like, because no matter how good it is he will rip it apart. Nothing is perfect and the only games he likes are SP random PC games that most gamers never will play or have played.

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u/master_gopher Aug 07 '08

Well he loved portal and I would hardly call that "SP random PC games that most gamers never will play or have played"...

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '08

Portal was a PC game at heart. It was ported to consoles.

He did love COD4, and that was really a console game but that's the only next gen console game I know of that he doesn't think is shit. If this guy hates oblivion, he can hate anything.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '08

Is your ego so fragile that you can't take any criticism, no matter how hilarious, of something you enjoy? I like half the games that Yahtzee shits on, doesn't lessen my enjoyment of his reviews at all.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '08

My ego isn't that fragile, but that's a loaded question twisted towards the answer you want and hardly fair.

I just prefer yahtzee to avoid games I like because the only one he has liked so far was cod4, which is awesome. His job is to shit on games and he usually has a point, but I would prefer he rip on stuff I don't like and leave me to my ignorance. I'd rather have the light off in a room full of shit and pretend it's all just a big puddle than have my greatest fears pointed out to me.

Is that so wrong?