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

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skykiii said:

So this video ends with Yahtzee making a joke about watching a young girl "become old enough to fill out a training bra" (and get beaten up by said girl's dad).

Its like... years ago I would've just accepted this as a tasteless joke, but these days its hard to hear this without immediately thinking its a red flag.

What do you think?
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Is it talking about the game being 15 years old, or the usual "yikes you watch 17 year olds in revealing cloths"?
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Is it talking about the game being 15 years old, or the usual "yikes you watch 17 year olds in revealing cloths"?
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Different context entirely.

A major theme of this video is getting to see how a series developed. He says that until now he had never played Persona 3, because his impression of Persona 4 had been "it's Persona 5 if it was pulled out of the oven too early," and apparently now that he actually has played Persona 3 in some form, it gave him the feeling he went in expecting: that it feels like Persona 5 "if they had just finished spraying non-stick spray on the frying pan." IE basically he sees the series as an iterative concept that gets more fleshed out with each go.

(I'm not sure how accurate that is, not being a huge Persona fan myself, I'm just reporting what he said).

He does however complain that this is dulled somewhat because the remake tries to "update" the game to be more like Persona 5, which ends up introducing what he considered tonal inconsistencies because clearly Persona 3 was not designed with 5's aesthetics in mind.

He ends the video saying he doesn't like the trend of companies remaking old games to make them more like the current installments. He makes the argument (that of course, people like me have been making for years) that there is some value in seeing how a series progressed and such remakes distort that.

He makes several comparisons to support his point, like seeing musicians before they improved enough to go professional..... or the afformentioned one, the whole "watching a girl get older" one.
 
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skykiii said:
Different context entirely.

A major theme of this video is getting to see how a series developed. He says that until now he had never played Persona 3, because his impression of Persona 4 had been "it's Persona 5 if it was pulled out of the oven too early," and apparently now that he actually has played Persona 3 in some form, it gave him the feeling he went in expecting: that it feels like Persona 5 "if they had just finished spraying non-stick spray on the frying pan." IE basically he sees the series as an iterative concept that gets more fleshed out with each go.

(I'm not sure how accurate that is, not being a huge Persona fan myself, I'm just reporting what he said).

He does however complain that this is dulled somewhat because the remake tries to "update" the game to be more like Persona 5, which ends up introducing what he considered tonal inconsistencies because clearly Persona 3 was not designed with 5's aesthetics in mind.

He ends the video saying he doesn't like the trend of companies remaking old games to make them more like the current installments. He makes the argument (that of course, people like me have been making for years) that there is some value in seeing how a series progressed and such remakes distort that.

He makes several comparisons to support his point, like seeing musicians before they improved enough to go professional..... or the afformentioned one, the whole "watching a girl get older" one.
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First of all it's a shit take, the series got (maybe) better mechanically but in terms of writing and tone it devolved further every entry (starting either from 2 or 3 depending on the player). It's like him re-reviewing Demon's Souls and suddenly going 180 in his views while justifying it as "oh it hasn't matured yet", which is just another way to say it was too anti normie for him.

The comparison itself is a bit of a red flag. Like even if his daughter falls into his category, that's just about the last way you'd phrase it.
 
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But all that aside, fwoh krikey have I gained an appreciation for the cliche of the game's journalists suck at live demos.
Every time I played one and the developers said I'd gotten further than most people did,
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Good thing they have that container of Lysol wipes, I'd want to sanitize myself after touching that shitty looking game too.
 
James Rofl said:
amazing. he's smug, nervous, awkward, pathetic, and boring, all in one. also his game looks like crap.
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He's the very definition of a redditor. As if flipping off the camera is edgy in TYOOL 2024. Next he's gonna slam the door to his room and listen to NOFX songs with naughty words because Mom and Dad made him go to church and he's too smart to believe in God.

You're not Johnny Cash, Yahtzee.
 
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Nikes_JustDoIt said:
It was off-putting to me as well considering he has a kid (I think its a girl) which makes really weird.
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It could be the San Francisco culture but he really gives off the whole "my wife's son/daughter" vibes. I don't want to pry, but I'm doubtful that he has biological children of his own.
 
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I havent watch Yahtzee since the break up, nor have I watched any second wind content, except seeing how they reacted to Jim Sterling. How are his videos? They still more of the same, with him sounding bored and miserable?
 
Looking at the metric it looks like what was expected with some videos scratching 5k, some 100k and Yhatzee getting 300-400k. Doesn't sound like it should support a group, but maybe they have a good sponsor deal (though those people usually loathe that out of being uppity).

Latest video is criticizing Ubisoft, the most gay gaming company in the market, of being predatory capitalist.
 
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