Zero Punctuations review

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SomeBritishDude

First time out of the vault
One of the few game reviewers on the interenet who's worth a damn (even if the majority of the time it's only for shit's and giggles) has finally brought out his review of New Vegas. Well, less of a review more of a diary of the first few days in the Majave Wasteland in Hardcore mode.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2435-Fallout-New-Vegas

The guy's starting to suffer from the same fate as the Simpsons but it's still worth 5 minutes of your time.
 
He prints stuff on time, he has a creative style, and his reviews are normally incisive - or at least, you feel his views are sincere.

That's high praise for a games reviewer.
 
Sometimes he makes me smile, and sometimes he doesn't.

I got more the feeling he didn't really take notice of the skill system and the conversations.
 
I love the guy. I find him both humorous and insightful -- though I'm sure our play styles are very different when it comes to RPGs.

I had to cue up his Fallout 3 review to measure how familiar he seemed with the originals (read: not at all, I'm afraid). His perspective is definitely more in line with a younger generation on this specific line of games. Still, it's nice to see a reviewer I trust not frothing at the mouth at Bethesda's tropes or their inability to live up to our perceived elements of greatness in other developers (though it will be interesting to see his Thief 4 review -- he's quite the Looking Glass fanboy).
 
For me Yahtzee is one of the few game reviewers I can trust to give me their own honest opinion of a game, if nothing else. And at least 90% of the time I agree with many of his points even if I have a very different view of the game as a whole.

He's easily my favourite game reviewer, and not just from a comedy stand point. Maybe that's more a comment on the state of video game journalism rather than his own skills as a critic.
 
It was okay for one of his reviews, might have helped if it was longer than his usual 5 minutes so he could discuss some of the changes and do the diary thing.
 
I liked it from the comedy standpoint. And the 'flies' comment was spot on! All I could think of are the Bloat Flies from Fallout 3 and how much easier they went down.
 
SomeBritishDude said:
And at least 90% of the time I agree with many of his points even if I have a very different view of the game as a whole.
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He makes often good points but I can't completely take his reviews as actual reviews. I take them as "huomorous lists of flaws that most sites and magazines strangely forget to mention". :lol:
 
Brother None said:
SomeBritishDude said:
One of the few game reviewers on the interenet who's worth a damn
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Yahtzee is not a game reviewer.
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Fine, he's a "game anecdoter."

And pretty much every other columnist is a "games company shill."

Better?
 
Nalano said:
And pretty much every other columnist is a "games company shill."
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As you wish. I spend dozens of hours on games and then write multi-paged reviews, trying as well as I can to carefully consider both the good and the bad. Yahtzee takes the bad and exploits it for comedic value, because that's his job, and he does it well. Apparently his intentionally one-sided takes are more reliable and should be taken more seriously that reviews that actually try to give a full overview?

*shrugs*

As you wish.
 
Sad thing is that his intentionally one-sided takes are often more reliable than "professional" reviews from mainstream gaming media.
 
Brother None said:
Nalano said:
And pretty much every other columnist is a "games company shill."
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As you wish. I spend dozens of hours on games and then write multi-paged reviews, trying as well as I can to carefully consider both the good and the bad. Yahtzee takes the bad and exploits it for comedic value, because that's his job, and he does it well. Apparently his intentionally one-sided takes are more reliable and should be taken more seriously that reviews that actually try to give a full overview?

*shrugs*

As you wish.
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Toot your own horn much?
 
Not really. I'm pointing to intent, not tooting my horn about results.

I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

Also stop trolling.

Ausir said:
Sad thing is that his intentionally one-sided takes are often more reliable than "professional" reviews from mainstream gaming media.
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This is ludicrous. How can an intentionally one-sided take ever be "more reliable" than an attempt to look at both sides, no matter how inept?
 
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