It is kind of odd to review only the tacked-on singleplayer portion what is ostensibly a multiplayer game, but I guess that's pretty much Yahtzee's thing at this point.

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 3:19pm PST - promote requested by MycroftHomlz.

Talk about multiplayer or shut up.

Yup, can't upvote this one; reviewer fail.

Judging 99% of a game without actually playing it isn't very helpful. Though I guess Yahtzee isn't exactly trying to be helpful.

Still, he comes of as an ignoramus for it. Has anyone explained to him that the multiplayer experience for one game does not equal the multiplayer experience of another?

Perhaps he just hates the idea of interacting with other people.

/me shrugs

He has explained manymanymanymanymanymanymanymanymany times that he doesn't review the multiplayer portions of these games and why.

Wow... you guys really don't get it do you?

He doesn't REVIEW games in any fair or just sense of the word, he's never claimed to.

And you know what, he 'reviews' the bits I care about anyway, because I hate multiplayer. Ok, I quite like it when you're playing your friends on a LAN in the same room, that's ok. But playing against a bunch of fast twitch high school kids is not my idea of fun.

Give me a great single player campaign (I'm looking at you Bioshock, and with longing eyes Bioshock Infinite), and I'm a happy camper.

So, really, getting your panties in a twist because his joke review doesn't cover the portion of the game that you love with a burning passion is retarded.

You do know there are 'proper' review sites out there don't you?

Why bother reviewing the multiplayer when it's just a carbon copy of the last game anyway?

>> ^direpickle:

He has explained manymanymanymanymanymanymanymanymany times that he doesn't review the multiplayer portions of these games and why.


Yeah, and I explain to my boss why I don't wanna show up to work everyday and he loves that too.

P.S. These. Are. Multiplayer. Games.

This review is irrelevant. I hate to say that because I've historically loved this guy, but covering your ears and shouting "Nah nah nah nah" isn't a good strategy to accommodate your target demographic.

Maybe if I don't punctuate this post he'll listen. Upon further review, doh; too late.

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^direpickle:
He has explained manymanymanymanymanymanymanymanymany times that he doesn't review the multiplayer portions of these games and why.

Yeah, and I explain to my boss why I don't wanna show up to work everyday and he loves that too.
P.S. These. Are. Multiplayer. Games.
This review is irrelevant. I hate to say that because I've historically loved this guy, but covering your ears and shouting "Nah nah nah nah" isn't a good strategy to accommodate your target demographic.
Maybe if I don't punctuate this post he'll listen. Upon further review, doh; too late.


That situation is entirely analogous. You have shown me the error of my ways.

>> ^direpickle:

He has explained manymanymanymanymanymanymanymanymany times that he doesn't review the multiplayer portions of these games and why.


Maybe. I only watch Zero Punctuation here on the sift, nothing else he may have recorded or written. Previously he said he stays away from multiplayer because he'd rather stab himself in the ear than listen to a bunch of 12 year old Americans calling him a fag; which of course was a gross generalization in the first place.

Sure, he isn't really a reviewer, but over time his lack of experience in the field he's trying to cover becomes more and more apparent; and is making his shtick formulaic. Part of that formula is saying every single game is crap; which is ok in and of itself (and apart from those 2 times he said something was crap then admitted at the end it's actually good); but over time I'm getting the feeling he genuinely doesn't like games at all and only plays them for this gig. That may or may not be true.

When someone knows their subject matter really well they can do great parody or just play with the tropes of the medium. Over time you get the sense that Yahtzee doesn't really do either and ZP was only ever good because he can string a bunch of funny words together.