I didn’t think so, and I’m a huge spoilerphobe.
Foxstab
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I don’t think I’ve actually seen Yahtzee intentionally spoils a game.
He mostly rants about the plot being same as any other, the controls/mechanics being clunky and “this boss fight sucked, was utterly counter-intuitive and generally lame and boring”.
Otagan
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If he actually throws out major spoilers, he usually indicates they are coming and gives plenty of time to stop the video if you don’t want to hear it. He also tends to do that only when the plot is particularly atrocious and highlighting it can help to add to the humor.
Too bad I missed out on the singleplayer/multiplayer discussion. I logged 150 hours in Bad Company 2, and only 1 of them was in the campaign (which I found horrendous). I’d imagine BF3 is probably worse.
Foxstab
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From what I heard in some review or another, BF3’s campaign is basically poorly stitched together rail tutorials that help you understand the basics of the game so you can walk onto multiplayer without asking which key to use to shoot and which switches weapons. Not much more beyond.
Quitch
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Yeah, I think that’s classic MP goggles. I think it’s far more likely that it’s a poorly stitched together rail campaign designed to compete with the MW campaign and draw in the crowd that loves that stuff.
Foxstab
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From what people in the MW3 thread say, the CoD campaign doesn’t hold much flame to the FPS singleplayer candle either.
Seems that in the so-proclaimed “shooter season 2011” there are very few shooters…that don’t require you to tolerate the shite that is Internet People in order to be able to enjoy yourself playing a shooter.
Wade42
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Speaking of which, Shooter Season 2011 continues with Modern Warfare 3. This one’s not very interesting to me, since I only care about Multiplayer, and he only talks Single Player.
Some more plot spoilers than usual, for those that actually care about that kind of thing in a shooter.
I had trouble keeping track of which game he was narking on at any given point. Liked “Children die all the time. Especially if you drag them behind a car,” though.
Yahtzee’s alright and stuff but sometimes I feel like he’s just clueless on some things. He’s doing this Shooter 2011 and has gone on record complaining about the abundance of shooters out there - etc. But there are like a ton of good games coming out that are distinctly not shooters. Dark Souls and Skyrim, for instance. I’d wager he’d probably hate Dark Souls if his Demon’s Souls review is anything to go by (and which I’d call hands down the worst, most facepalm-worthy review of Demon’s Souls, gimmick or otherwise). It would be some good Yahtzee ripping and he’d probably have some nice gags lined up. Not that I’m complaining about free entertainment, but… I guess I’m just tired of shooters being everywhere. I went to MLB.com for some baseball news the other day and the background skin was MW3. There was literally more MW3 than baseball on that page.
Also I really, really don’t understand his stance on games needing to be able to stand on single player. The reason some games exist is for more than one player to compete with each other. I don’t play MP shooters, like, at all. The stance itself just galls me.
It helps to watch the episode before complaining about it. He mentions Skyrim right at the beginning, and the ending credits say it will be next week’s game.
Also, he puts up a new episode every week. I’m sure there’s enough time for the “ton of good games” that are not shooters once he’s done the couple of multi-million selling shooters which he can’t very well ignore.
That he doesn’t consider multiplayer is quite well known by now. There’s nothing bizarre about reviewing the single player part of a game that features an expensively made and heavily advertised single player part. He doesn’t claim to give some comprehensive overview about every feature in a game.
Why would you even want him to review Dark Souls if you’re still buttsore that he was the one reviewer on the planet who dared to dislike Demons’ Souls? Although I guess the real question is, why are you reading this thread if you hate Yahtzee anyway?
I wasn’t complaining about his MW3 video and I’m not “buttsore” about the Demon’s Souls review. I want to see him do Dark Souls because it’s a huge departure from what he’s been doing lately (ie: it doesn’t have crosshairs) and, like I said, he’d probably have some great lines for it. It helps to read my post before complaining about it.
And not that I want to get into this discussion, but ignoring the MP aspect of a game that is made primarily for MP is just doing a disservice to the game. It’s like playing through the respective Arcade or Story Modes in Street Fighter 4 or MvC3 and then judging the game based on those alone.
As surprising as it might sound, the large majority of copies sold see online rarely if at all. That’s the case with quite a few “MP” games, hell even Demigod (which had no single player). Quite a large budget has been spent on the MW3 SP, I’d wager more then was spent on the MP since it is a complete rehash in a lot of ways, and there is nothing wrong nor is a “disservice” to review that portion of the game. Nevermind the fact that he exclaims upfront that he will only be talking about the Single player portions.
Now please just stop talking tripe, ok? :)
Zylon
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Oh lord where did this guy come from.
My big problem with Yahtzee is that he only reviews/snarks on AAA Western games. Many of the best games in the world are Indie/Amateur/Non-Western games.
He constantly seems upset at “having” to play crappy popular games. Newsflash: you’re not required to play them.
Games like Desktop Dungeons, Gemcraft: Labyrinth, Fancy Pants Adventures, Eschalon Book I, Elephant Quest, OOTP Baseball 12, Orcs Must Die!, Spelunky, and Stranded 2 are much better than the typical game that Yahtzee gives a sales boost to by reviewing.
Of course Yahtzee reviews only $60 games because he wants maximum market impact, thus creating the maximum possible revenue for The Escapist and himself.
Yahtzee is a profit-shill.
Zylon
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Hey, how about you agree to pay Yahtzee’s salary–that he needs for food and shelter and stuff–and he’ll review the games you want him to review.
No? Oh, well, go fuck yourself then.
I don’t think you quite ‘get’ Yahtzee, Brian… He likes snarking on the bad parts of games, he’s not wistfully wishing his corporate masters would only let him review good games, he started out doing this for free, and even back then he focused on popular games because (almost) nobody cares about the ways in which some obscure niche game sucks.
