"Zero Punctuation" and "Dev Diary" by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw - The only thing worth watching on The Escapist

[Coolio55]

From the silent hill thread :
Is he going to hate on his one of his favourite games now because of what the creator says?

I think he'll be preoccupied with how bloober team have stuck their cock in it.
Shame I'll never see that review but I'm sure that /v/ will be able to slip some memes past the jannies.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

I saw that, but I don't hang with American brainwashed Japanese, just LDP brainwashed and boy do they hate trannies and think Ito said nothing weird or wrong. I wonder if Jim will say anything about this.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Also, I'm hardly a prude but I'm still not comfortable with a man repeatedly calling a woman a cunt.

He's British, they use cunt much more liberally there.

 

[Beautiful Border]

He's British, they use cunt much more liberally there.

This is a claim I see repeated on the Internet a lot (including from a lot of British people themselves), but it's really not true. Maybe it's not considered as bad as it is in America, but it's still pretty much the worst word you can say in public that isn't a racial slur of some kind. It's also highly context-specific, joking around with your friends and calling each other cunts is obviously a million miles away from using it as a term of abuse.

And it's not like all this is harmless, either. Eventually some redditor from San Diego or somewhere is going to travel here, say it to the wrong person and get the shit kicked out of them because they were misled into thinking it would be okay.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

It really is something to see him spend 2 minutes ranting and raving about an imaginary opinion that's opposite to his before going on to spend 10 seconds total on actual verifiable war crimes within the same fuckin week. The review was even worse-off for the game itself; at least Hogwarts Legacy was given more elaboration than "it's knock-off bioshock but russian". All I gathered from the review was that the story was shit, Yahtzee hates the protagonist, and there's a crafting element for relatively shallow combat. Which I guess is enough, but it felt a lot shallower than HL's. Nothing about the world? No mention of characters save for the protagonist and the villain? Really?
And why were the jokes so half-hearted? It almost felt like he didn't want to be making jokes about the whole thing, he even threw in a low-effort WW2 joke for the closer.

Are you just now realizing that yahtzee plays games for 2 hours on easy before making the video?

 

[topsykrets]

This is a claim I see repeated on the Internet a lot (including from a lot of British people themselves), but it's really not true. Maybe it's not considered as bad as it is in America, but it's still pretty much the worst word you can say in public that isn't a racial slur of some kind. It's also highly context-specific, joking around with your friends and calling each other cunts is obviously a million miles away from using it as a term of abuse.

And it's not like all this is harmless, either. Eventually some redditor from San Diego or somewhere is going to travel here, say it to the wrong person and get the shit kicked out of them because they were misled into thinking it would be okay.

A redditor getting the shit kicked out of them is the very definition of harmless, in fact I might even go as far as to say it's ultimately a form of harm reduction.

 

[Scarface1]

If we're doing the kiwi thing of creating a profile for him, here's a tidbit; he's had "issues" with sex and sexuality for awhile - at least since 2007 when he released 6 Days a Sacrifice, which included a sex scene that seemed kind of forced for the sake of the plot (one of the characters had a broken neck); when a Let's Play of his series was made in 2010 on the Something Awful forums, he dropped by to give some commentary - and some insight into where his mind was at the time (select quotes posted here, full text on the page at the bottom).

I realy wish i could remember wich video it was, but during his old let's plays with his australian friend he said that at one point a woman he had a reletationship (not the one is married to now) watched a fucking hentai before having sex.
And i'm pretty sure that he hates anime so that's even more absurd.

 

[Coolio55]

I realy wish i could remember wich video it was, but during his old let's plays with his australian friend he said that at one point a woman he had a reletationship (not the one is married to now) watched a fucking hentai before having sex.
And i'm pretty sure that he hates anime so that's even more absurd.

Oh, so that's where that bizarre exchange in the Manhunter LP came from.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

And i'm pretty sure that he hates anime so that's even more absurd.

Yahtzee hating anime was always bullshit, he had joke reviews of hentai games on hist old website, you needed to be a degenerate just to know those things existed.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Yahtzee sorta, kinda avoided going full political with Atomic Heart. it seems harry potter is the only game franchise you not allowed to play apparently. is the main character really that bad? Yahtzee is not the only person i have seen complaining about him. he just seems as your average meat head solider you would play in a COD game.

 

[The tired cat]

Yahtzee sorta, kinda avoided going full political with Atomic Heart. it seems harry potter is the only game franchise you not allowed to play apparently. is the main character really that bad? Yahtzee is not the only person i have seen complaining about him. he just seems as your average meat head solider you would play in a COD game.

Kinda, but not really. The issue is the English dub of the game is terrible, in the Russian dub it makes mo sense (in terms of humor and dialogue).

 

[SiccDicc]

Kinda, but not really. The issue is the English dub of the game is terrible, in the Russian dub it makes mo sense (in terms of humor and dialogue).

Is the subtitle more honest with the Russian dub or is it the same as English dub?

 

[The tired cat]

Is the subtitle more honest with the Russian dub or is it the same as English dub?

Id say, even with the subs have a few issues translaiting some Russian phrases, but its not as terrible as it is with the dub.

 

[SiccDicc]

Id say, even with the subs have a few issues translaiting some Russian phrases, but its not as terrible as it is with the dub.

So play Russian with subs, thanks.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Yahtzee's always wasted time in his already short videos not talking about the game. I remember something like a third of his Oblivion review was talking about the opening cutscene. Oooh, they got a real actor to be in it.... oooooh. Then he did the same thing for FO3.

 

[Strangolapreti]

Even thought it's not gonna happen, I would love to see Yahtzee roast Sterling on his opinion about souls games being hard aCcEsSiBiLiTy...
Just seeing the differences between their picks for best/worst games of the past year and their extra videos about Elden Ring do put in contrast how low one has fallen and how the other one is stil holding up after all these years...

 

[Prince Vegeta]

Yahtzee sorta, kinda avoided going full political with Atomic Heart.

Depends on if you consider not giving a shit about the dumb controversy about one game but loudly pledging your care about another a political move. But I get your point.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

I find Gabe and Yahtzee's Let's plays on the Yahtzee19 channel so comfy. I used to fall asleep to them when I had trouble sleeping. Wish they still did them.

 

[Gondolindrim]

Hogwarts Legacy - Zero Punctuation

This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Hogwarts Legacy, the open-world Harry Potter game mired in controversy over JK Rowling.

www.escapistmagazine.com

Hogwarts Legacy review is up.

I gave up watching it. The first minute was just him seething about JK Rowling instead of reviewing the game, and even when he started reviewing the game proper he was still seething about how other authors came up with the concept of a wizard school first.

If he hates JK Rowling that much then just boycott the game like the unhinged trannies.

Absolutely love how much time he dedicated to making sure to vocally conveys how much he supports Current Thing. Imagine calling someone a cunt because they think sex offenders and men in dresses shouldn't use the girl's bathroom.

 

[keyring-]

This is a claim I see repeated on the Internet a lot (including from a lot of British people themselves), but it's really not true. Maybe it's not considered as bad as it is in America, but it's still pretty much the worst word you can say in public that isn't a racial slur of some kind. It's also highly context-specific, joking around with your friends and calling each other cunts is obviously a million miles away from using it as a term of abuse.

And it's not like all this is harmless, either. Eventually some redditor from San Diego or somewhere is going to travel here, say it to the wrong person and get the shit kicked out of them because they were misled into thinking it would be okay.

Cunt really isn't a tabboo anymore unless you're talking to your mum, and even then she's probably cackling to a facebook video of that fat tosser ricky gervais calling people cunts in his current show. It definitely isn't considered a gendered slur and it never has been as far as I remember. Women seem to get much more annoyed by being called a bitch even, or 'shrill'. I can't imagine some retard tourist getting in a fight for calling some chav a cunt that they wouldn't of had if they'd called them a bastard, dickhead or some imported jamaican insult either. It literally means nothing these days when all of our 'funny' media consists of rakes calling each other cunts. He's a right cunt. Let's get cunted. I just twisted my cunting ankle.