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

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He should've made fun of trannies in the Hogwarts Legacy review and when they sent a bunch of hate-mail and angry comments, he could've done another mailbag showdown video, shitting on them even more.
Instead of, "Go team retard," he could've said "Go team sexpest."
That WOULD have been a good idea, but unfortunately Yatzee has completed his corporate transformation and is now safe (or at least as safe as he CAN be) for all the normalfags and whatever overlords The Escapist has to bow down to.
 
That WOULD have been a good idea, but unfortunately Yatzee has completed his corporate transformation and is now safe (or at least as safe as he CAN be) for all the normalfags and whatever overlords The Escapist has to bow down to.
You're putting way too much hope chief, the whole thing with the mail bag is Yahtzee pissing off Nintendo fans a company and franchise he always had a big hate boner for. So, if you honestly expect him to pull same crap on trannies or whatever, than what reality you inhabit?
 
You're putting way too much hope chief, the whole thing with the mail bag is Yahtzee pissing off Nintendo fans a company and franchise he always had a big hate boner for. So, if you honestly expect him to pull same crap on trannies or whatever, than what reality you inhabit?
Does modern Yahtzee even laugh at Nintendo anymore? It's pretty much the sole remaining holy cow of the gaming industry and even in this forum I got hated for criticizing them.
 
Does modern Yahtzee even laugh at Nintendo anymore? It's pretty much the sole remaining holy cow of the gaming industry and even in this forum I got hated for criticizing them.
Hell if I know, maybe he makes some snide remarks at them. But it's probably just aimed at shit like Mario or Pokemon.
 
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That WOULD have been a good idea, but unfortunately Yatzee has completed his corporate transformation and is now safe (or at least as safe as he CAN be) for all the normalfags and whatever overlords The Escapist has to bow down to.
Soulless corporate bureaucrats. The Escapist isn't even featured on their home page.

I remember going though this page and laughing at a few of the pictures, while also being a little horrified looking into the abyss of some of the other pictures. The VP of Commercialisation gets the pleasure of putting the hooks in people's backs, à la  Hellraiser.

I just noticed that they have an office in Belgrade, lol. What a coincidence.
 
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Would be pretty ironic considering his "PC master race" shtick would lean him more towards the Steam Deck.

God, the PC master race lead to some of the most insufferable memes in existence.
god, i love video tdr failure
because you have no idea of knowing if it's fucking nvidia or your gpu frying
 
god, i love video tdr failure
because you have no idea of knowing if it's fucking nvidia or your gpu frying
From an outside perspective, being a PC player looked like playing a russian roulette every release, especially if you dare own a video card which isn't mainsteam, though I think I remember cases of having too good of a card fucking you over as well. Consoles you can know if shit works, and I care less about the graphical downgrade (though loading screens are a bitch). PC has some good indie titles, but you don't need some beast PC to run.
Ironically, nowadays when there is little difference between PC and consoles, the games are nearly all shit and mods are pozzed. The only thing I play on my beefed up PC are boomer shooters, puzzles, Visual Novels and Korean Gacha.
 
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From an outside perspective, being a PC player looked like playing a russian roulette every release, especially if you dare own a video card which isn't mainsteam, though I think I remember cases of having too good of a card fucking you over as well. Consoles you can know if shit works, and I care less about the graphical downgrade (though loading screens are a bitch). PC has some good indie titles, but you don't need some beast PC to run.
Ironically, nowadays when there is little difference between PC and consoles, the games are nearly all shit and mods are pozzed. The only thing I play on my beefed up PC are boomer shooters, puzzles, Visual Novels and Korean Gacha.
we're all getting fucked by the triple A developers with false promises regardless of system
 
Would be pretty ironic considering his "PC master race" shtick would lean him more towards the Steam Deck.

God, the PC master race lead to some of the most insufferable memes in existence.
To be fair to Yahtzee.....

Actually fuck it, why should I be fair to him when he never is?

According to Yahtzee the whole "PC Master Race" thing was something meant to be an insult to PC gamers and their unwarranted sense of superiority. He wound up getting disgusted that people didn't catch onto that and took the remark at face value.

Though to be double-fair, its hard to tell if yahtzee is being genuine or is just retconning for whatever reason.
 
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To be fair to Yahtzee.....

Actually fuck it, why should I be fair to him when he never is?

According to Yahtzee the whole "PC Master Race" thing was something meant to be an insult to PC gamers and their unwarranted sense of superiority. He wound up getting disgusted that people didn't catch onto that and took the remark at face value.

Though to be double-fair, its hard to tell if yahtzee is being genuine or is just retconning for whatever reason.
I think he is retconning it because this guy cannot hold to an opinion and will always backpedal to make himself seem smarter. Like, in the past he'd shit on JRPG's none stop, before doing a hard left turn and going "Oh ye, Persona 5 is a great JRGP guyz!"
 
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I think he is retconning it because this guy cannot hold to an opinion and will always backpedal to make himself seem smarter. Like, in the past he'd shit on JRPG's none stop, before doing a hard left turn and going "Oh ye, Persona 5 is a great JRGP guyz!"
I do recall him saying in the distant past that he always liked Earthbound, but this does bring to mind something else that bugs me.

Put simply.... even in his glory days, Yahtzee's tastes always feel normie tier. I mean when he finally does a video about what anime he actually doesn't hate.... he says Miyazaki movies, Cowboy Bebop, and the only curveball in his video is a Count of Monte Cristo anime. Other than that last one, it couldn't be anymore "just picking stuff I know you've heard of so you'll leave me alone" in tone.

Same deal with that time he admitted what JRPGs he doesn't hate--while I think he's genuine about Earthbound since that was back before he was famous, the others he named were Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger (and I recall both having caveats for him). Which, no disrespect to any of those games, but they're all pretty much go-tos.

To rub salt in the wound, I wanna compare this to another cow--Linkara mentioned early on in his career he didn't want to review manga (though he didn't say he hated it, just that at the time he didn't think it would work for his format). And what does he mention as personal favorites? Steam Detectives and Pet Shop of Horrors--both fairly obscure. The same video where Linkara brings this up ("Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review") also has a few cases where he genuinely disagrees with the consensus (Maximum Carnage in particular).

So, Linkara, a guy who is known to change his values to meld with the crowd, is actually more nuanced, well-read, and more "non-conformist" in his tastes than fucking Yahtzee, a guy who made his whole career out of being "the guy who hates what you like."
 
we're all getting fucked by the triple A developers with false promises regardless of system
More that we're primarily fucked by stupid consumers who keep throwing money at bad practices and remakes.
I do recall him saying in the distant past that he always liked Earthbound, but this does bring to mind something else that bugs me.

Put simply.... even in his glory days, Yahtzee's tastes always feel normie tier. I mean when he finally does a video about what anime he actually doesn't hate.... he says Miyazaki movies, Cowboy Bebop, and the only curveball in his video is a Count of Monte Cristo anime. Other than that last one, it couldn't be anymore "just picking stuff I know you've heard of so you'll leave me alone" in tone.

Same deal with that time he admitted what JRPGs he doesn't hate--while I think he's genuine about Earthbound since that was back before he was famous, the others he named were Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger (and I recall both having caveats for him). Which, no disrespect to any of those games, but they're all pretty much go-tos.

To rub salt in the wound, I wanna compare this to another cow--Linkara mentioned early on in his career he didn't want to review manga (though he didn't say he hated it, just that at the time he didn't think it would work for his format). And what does he mention as personal favorites? Steam Detectives and Pet Shop of Horrors--both fairly obscure. The same video where Linkara brings this up ("Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review") also has a few cases where he genuinely disagrees with the consensus (Maximum Carnage in particular).

So, Linkara, a guy who is known to change his values to meld with the crowd, is actually more nuanced, well-read, and more "non-conformist" in his tastes than fucking Yahtzee, a guy who made his whole career out of being "the guy who hates what you like."
Yahtzee had some good observations of a long time neckbeard, but I can't really remember any good game that he pushed that would have been forgotten otherwise. I thought maybe Dark Souls, but I looked at his Demon Souls review and he whined at it hard, so I doubt his positive reaction to Dark Souls was organic. He sucked a lot of indie dick, which resulted in a lot of misplaced hype.
 
According to Yahtzee the whole "PC Master Race" thing was something meant to be an insult to PC gamers and their unwarranted sense of superiority. He wound up getting disgusted that people didn't catch onto that and took the remark at face value.

Though to be double-fair, its hard to tell if yahtzee is being genuine or is just retconning for whatever reason.
It was. The remark came from his review of The Witcher, a PC exclusive RPG, which he criticized for being overly complex.
What quickly becomes obvious is that Witcher is very much a PC-exclusive game, which are typically designed to be as complex and unintuitive as possible so that those dirty console-playing peasants don't ruin it for the glorious PC-gaming master race. The first warning sign is that the manual is thick enough to beat goats to death with, and then once you get into the game the interface is just a few steps shy of Microsoft Access in terms of friendliness. There's your inventory screen, your character screen, your alchemy screen, your glossary, your quests, your map, you have to switch between Combat mode and Stand-Around-Picking-Your-Nose-While-Enemies-Carve-You-Like-Turducken mode. And once you're in Combat mode, do you fight in Strong, Fast, or Group style? And if you'll be wanting to mix potions, then I hope you've gone through the necessary 8-week correspondence course. If disliking this sort of shit makes me stupid, then call me Retard McSpackyPants, but I'd rather be stupid and having fun than bored out of my huge genius mind.

That was from a review released in January 2008, when PC gaming was just barely starting to pull out of its funk of being a platform for MMOs, flash games, and piracy. At the time, console wars still meant PS3 vs. 360 vs. Wii, not Consoles vs. PCs.

He since went on to complain about how that's the one thing he coined to actually stick, as opposed to anything he intended, like calling Devil May Cry's style of game "spectacle fighters" in some other review.
 
He screams mid 2000s edge lord comedy. Same routine many used, and you see it pop up from time to time and its always shit.

"Here is a game that asks you to complete the mission. Much like I completed wishing a swarm of ants would attack my anus whilst I sit in my putrid underpants, wishing for sweat death"

It is that same subject, followed with a stupid "oh so random" tangent, with a little self deprecation.
 
I haven't watched Yahtzee in ages, gave one of the hours-long yearly compilations a go a couple of days ago and have to say i'm still pretty entertained by his stuff, ended up watching the whole thing. His book is pretty shit, though, bought it years ago for literal pennies second hand on Amazon and dropped it around 10 pages in.
I know the subtitle of this thread is "The only thing worth watching on The Escapist", but a couple months ago they started a new short series called "The Stuff of Legends", which has a vaguely Morgan Freeman-ish guy tell stories about crazy video game events in the past. It's actually really good for short-form content, even if you heard these stories beforehand:







Also, 3rd video and a recent Escapist upload is focusing on EVE online -- it's like YouTubers heard of Fredrik Knudsen's DTRH descent into gay v-tubing and are capitalizing on this subject? Or maybe The Escapist was the content creator Fredrick "accidentally" plagiarized? But more importantly, why do YouTubers care so much about EVE online in 2023?
Nice, i'll check that out later tonight.
Yahtzee unironically looks like an insane homeless serial killer. Does he think that hair looks good? Or, at least better than being bald? Jesus fuck. Terrifying.
Man, nigga looks fucking ancient. Didn't know he's on some Critical Role knock-off, i find that whole concept exceptionally terrible. Worse than Let's Play's with commentary.
the escapist is getting really, really, really desperate
I'm surprised they still exist at all. Yahtzee has to be the only one pulling that ship for at least 10 years by now. I think Movieblob made some numbers at a certain point in time, too, but Cinema Robert has been banished to the eternal basement ages ago, rightfully so.
He since went on to complain about how that's the one thing he coined to actually stick, as opposed to anything he intended, like calling Devil May Cry's style of game "spectacle fighters" in some other review.
He was always too full of himself. Probably the anglo genes.
 
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Every fighting game, be it one on one or one on many, will incorporate spectacle so it will feel fun for the player.
Don't agree with this. Spectacle fighter is one of the good things to come out of him.

Claiming both DMC and Tekken fall into the same category is beyond retarded.

Stuff like bayoneta and DMC are obviously different from tekken and street fighter.
 
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