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

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Tommy John Surgery said:
The last game he plays for this video is genuinely a We Wuz Kangz game
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I couldn't last three minutes. He's so boring. He looks like the aggressive boomer shopping at the costco who is about to get violent with you because some rando basketball american dropped some precooked bacon in another freezer and he thinks you should honor the price tag of the cheaper price even though that entire freezer is loaded with breakfast hash. Seriously, how far away is he from ending up at like 5 in the morning at the Golden Corral or one of those early boomer breakfast dives thinking he can chat up the 19 year old waitress and not have his old wife find out about it when she comes back from using the restaurant bathroom? *I place a Kiwi imp in a dressing coming out of the bathroom with toilet paper stuck to her foot*
 
Tommy John Surgery said:
The last game he plays for this video is genuinely a We Wuz Kangz game
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Looked at the We Wuz game part and holy shit that's beyond low energy. The retardation of the plot is answered by "don't tell Fox News about it" (a joke that is 40 years old by now). Rather than new footage it's him semi conscious with another boomer playing the game while giving the most low effort low risk commentary. He ends it with "I might want to play it more in the future" which is equivalent to saying "that fat woman has good personality". Funny enough they still point out that Africa is not a single country that the devs seemingly don't know.
 
Yahtz talks about the newest Suda51 game:
Having recently gotten into the rabbithole of that era of Japanese horror games, it really makes it glaring to me that Yahtzee is a hack that never tries to delve deep into older catalogs or even just do research because all he ever references when it comes to Suda 51 is Killer 7 and No More Heroes. I've never heard him mention how Suda injected so much of his crazy juice into the sequel of the horror mystery series Twilight Syndrome that they actually disavowed it from the franchise's canon, lmao.
 
Tommy John Surgery said:
Having recently gotten into the rabbithole of that era of Japanese horror games, it really makes it glaring to me that Yahtzee is a hack that never tries to delve deep into older catalogs or even just do research because all he ever references when it comes to Suda 51 is Killer 7 and No More Heroes.
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to be fair its what he's known for most next to lollipop chainsaw
 
DeadwastePrime said:
to be fair its what he's known for most next to lollipop chainsaw
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Yeah, so that just makes Yahtzee that much more of a hack. Just like how he larped about liking Dark Souls because that was the hip thing to do at the time, when it's clear he hates games that are actually difficult because he's got the spine of your typical game journo.
 
30+GameOvers said:
Yeah, so that just makes Yahtzee that much more of a hack. Just like how he larped about liking Dark Souls because that was the hip thing to do at the time, when it's clear he hates games that are actually difficult because he's got the spine of your typical game journo.
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Yahtzee didn't get into the Souls thing until 2014

His 2009 review of Demon's Souls was infamously harsh

If anything, Yahtzee managed to articulate why Dark Souls is a good game much better than 99% of Souls fans
 
Tommy John Surgery said:
I've never heard him mention how Suda injected so much of his crazy juice into the sequel of the horror mystery series Twilight Syndrome that they actually disavowed it from the franchise's canon, lmao.
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It's one of the things that make you really hate a person, complete disregard for others work so he can do his own thing. It's not even the case of a big series being taken over to be shat on, it's a small fun series about girls exploring spooky things that got burned to the ground to promote Suda's OC donutsteel.

Suda himself is increasingly less likable over the years with lots of quirk, no substance that attracts game journos like flies to shit.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
It's one of the things that make you really hate a person, complete disregard for others work so he can do his own thing. It's not even the case of a big series being taken over to be shat on, it's a small fun series about girls exploring spooky things that got burned to the ground to promote Suda's OC donutsteel.

Suda himself is increasingly less likable over the years with lots of quirk, no substance that attracts game journos like flies to shit.
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I could understand Suda taking Syndrome to darker, more serious circumstances (hell, the studio's other game, Yuuyami Doori Tankentai, is exactly this and is a masterclass itself since all Suda did was fill in with the latter half of direction as the director left) but I still can't wrap my head around the Freudian incest-but-not-really shit in the plot related to his oseedonutstele.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
It's one of the things that make you really hate a person, complete disregard for others work so he can do his own thing. It's not even the case of a big series being taken over to be shat on, it's a small fun series about girls exploring spooky things that got burned to the ground to promote Suda's OC donutsteel.

Suda himself is increasingly less likable over the years with lots of quirk, no substance that attracts game journos like flies to shit.
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Suda included a "fuck racism" shirt into No More Heroes 3, so with him veering into political sperging territory, it's safe to say he's already there. I never liked any of these auteur types, always up their own ass and everything they make is massively overrated. Even if they make a gem, it always rubs me the wrong way to actually praise it.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Suda himself is increasingly less likable over the years with lots of quirk, no substance that attracts game journos like flies to shit.
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It stopped working long ago

His games have been getting shit reviews for over a decade

The only game he's made since 2010 to get good reviews was No More Heroes III
 
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Reposted from the Highguard thread, Yahtzee's independent YouTuber guild seems to have an odd definition of "independent".
 
The Secret Sauce said:
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Reposted from the Highguard thread, Yahtzee's independent YouTuber guild seems to have an odd definition of "independent".
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Lmfao that literally ruins the point of Indie.

Indie can have a disillusioned creator with money leftover make something on their own with blackjack and hookers (American McGee's Alice Asylum RIP), but not receive funding from shady black rock orgs and massive conglomerates like this YouTuber guild clearly and this dog shit game. It's all astroturfed garbage. I'm convinced most shit journos bat their dicks for are all part of a circlejerk conspiracy like when the Baldur's Gate III brain plague struck. That game resembles nothing interesting about the original BGIII by Black Isle promptly named The Black Hound and takes place nowhere interesting in DND unlike the cancelled Black Isle game.
 
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The Secret Sauce said:
Listen, chud. Just because you are dependent on money from a foreign mega corporation to continue your business operations, that doesn't mean you're not independent.
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Speaking of, Tencent had like a 30% stake on Baldur's Gate III dev Larian.

A stake is a stake, majority control or not. You're their bitch now. BG3 is not indie. I'm years late but idgaf about it because the defense force won't be here.
 
Nameless One said:
Lmfao that literally ruins the point of Indie.

Indie can have a disillusioned creator with money leftover make something on their own with blackjack and hookers (American McGee's Alice Asylum RIP), but not receive funding from shady black rock orgs and massive conglomerates like this YouTuber guild clearly and this dog shit game. It's all astroturfed garbage. I'm convinced most shit journos bat their dicks for are all part of a circlejerk conspiracy like when the Baldur's Gate III brain plague struck. That game resembles nothing interesting about the original BGIII by Black Isle promptly named The Black Hound and takes place nowhere interesting in DND unlike the cancelled Black Isle game.
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Indie today just means "belongs to a small company that are in bed with journos". They can have dozens of people and over millions of dollars in funding and still somehow be comparable to games done by singular devs.
 
Cryogonal2 said:
I think all the reviews for that praised the game just for being a new No More Heroes game when it was the most dire of the three games.
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It also got the customary bonus points from games sites for being a Nintendo exclusive. That’s always good for 1 point for third-parties and 2.5-3 points for first-party games.
 
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