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Could Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw and some
LeoLeonard3
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First off: Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw is hilarious. His videos highlight my wednesdays!
But I wonder: Could he be a bad influence?
Not on kids, on gamers in general. I've noticed that since Yahtzee's videos have been airing more and more gamers have become ego pricks. I'm not calling yahtzee a prick. But after seeing alot of forums and reading alot of Kotaku comments I realize something: Alot of people think every thing sucks. Specifically GTA4, Halo 3, and Castle Crashers.
Ive seen Gamespot profiles were people will give Game A a score of something like 9. Then, wendesday night it becomes a 5.
This could be a classic case of "He's popular and cool! If I immitate him I'll be cool and popular!"
This is BAD.
Okay, there's another problem here. What if, and I mean it's a big "if", Yahtzee just reviews games with huge hype and calls them shit.
Obviously we don't believe he will or CAN do this. But remember Yahtzee is human. When a human finds he enjoys something it usually means they want to KEEP enjoying it.
Maybe it's just coincincidence. Or maybe I'm angry that Yahtzee said Sonic Adventures 2 sucked...or that he said Sonic Unleashed sucked.
But whaddya think?
But I wonder: Could he be a bad influence?
Not on kids, on gamers in general. I've noticed that since Yahtzee's videos have been airing more and more gamers have become ego pricks. I'm not calling yahtzee a prick. But after seeing alot of forums and reading alot of Kotaku comments I realize something: Alot of people think every thing sucks. Specifically GTA4, Halo 3, and Castle Crashers.
Ive seen Gamespot profiles were people will give Game A a score of something like 9. Then, wendesday night it becomes a 5.
This could be a classic case of "He's popular and cool! If I immitate him I'll be cool and popular!"
This is BAD.
Okay, there's another problem here. What if, and I mean it's a big "if", Yahtzee just reviews games with huge hype and calls them shit.
Obviously we don't believe he will or CAN do this. But remember Yahtzee is human. When a human finds he enjoys something it usually means they want to KEEP enjoying it.
Maybe it's just coincincidence. Or maybe I'm angry that Yahtzee said Sonic Adventures 2 sucked...or that he said Sonic Unleashed sucked.
But whaddya think?
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He is not the first, nor the last person to have a loud opinion. And I can tell you from personal experience the majority of gamers have been pricks for the last 15 years. This is nothing new.
Welcome to 20-30 years ago. This is not new.
And again, nothing new. It's just that it gets progressively worse as time goes on.
And please note that some people do think "highly regarded games" like GTA4 and Halo 3 suck with legitimate reasons behind their opinions. Criticism doesn't always equate trolling.
I never said that.
I mean, the big three reviewers on the internet are James Rolfe, Yahtzee, and that IrateGamer guy. IrateGamer and James Rolfe review older games. Games that suck indefinetley. Like ET for the Atari 2600. That shit is bad no matter how you look at it. But Yahtzee reviews new games. Games that have more debate over their level of awesomeness or shittiness. This is what makes yahtzee such a big target for those leet speak filled hate mails.
This thread is redundant...
See, you're on the wrong forum. We don't give a shit what any of them think.
Also, it's not new for people to base their opinions on just reviews.
Wait what? I'm pretty sure that websites such as Gamespot and 1up get much more coverage than any of those guys.
Learn something new every day.
I'm speaking from personal experience, and I have a pretty high expectation for games these days. The budgets are massive, the teams are big, the industry is huge. Development time is usually several years.
This wasn't the case when I was young and back then you had a lot simpler games.
Now things get too convoluted. Many games try to be all things to all people within their genre and it's just a fools game. I am very disappointed with the direction that the writing is going in many games.
There's not a lot of depth or personality to it. It's become a race and competition to see who can put out the best graphics, or have the best ragdoll and physics engines.
That's all well and good if you like that, but it only contributes so much to a game as a whole. When they spend too much time on one thing, others suffer.
Plus things get cut due to difficulty and time constraints which ties back into trying to do too much at one time.
I don't think people like Yahtzee are bad. Anyone who has an opinion worth anything will have arrived at that opinion through personal experience and their own thought process.
There are a lot of people who look at yahtzee's review, believe him completely, and start bashing the game. Those people are idiots, and they're everywhere.
"Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got em and they all stink"
I'm 28...so yeah. I know what you mean. I dont think Yahtzee is bad either.
Like that quote on Assholes though. Who said that?
Much older than that.
It is originally a much older phrase. It didn't originate from Fallout.
The golden age of gaming never happened.
There has always been an emphasis on technology. There have always been games with bad writing and games with good writing. There have always been technology-focused games and plot-focused games and character-focused games. To think that anyone who grew up with video games is now seeing the industry being worse than when they were growing up is deluded, plain and simple. Games are now far, far, far better than the were before. And while there are games that can stand the test of time due to something outstanding about them(Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate II, SMB3, Sonic 3+K, etc), to think that gaming in general is declining is flat out wrong.
Saying that games were better before is like looking back at the Classical era of music and saying that music today is all worse because when compared to Mozart, Hannah Montana is bad.
You sound like you would censor him, now that's bad.
And no, I don't think he's a bad influence.
Also, does his opinion make you enjoy games less? And by the way, I think he's not the only one bashing sonic unleashed, so what makes his opinion so special? Is it just because it's so... graphic?
Funny that you post this after the sonic review. He does have such a fanatical fanbase...
That was driving me insane!
At least Screw Attack/Game Trailers' Angry Video Game Nerd covers games that are years old and absolutely 100% agreed certified shit.
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Second: Sometimes. I remember playing FABLE II, loving it, watched his review, he picked out all the problems, and I enjoyed the game a (small) bit less.
Fable 2 is still sweet though.
I'm not gonna dodge the Sonic comment: I was a sega fanboy. Not the annoying ones though, one like that seen in the early years of PA in Gabe: A sega fan that can play other systems, but simply prefers one more than others. My first console was a genesis, first game: Sonic, yadda, yadda. You can see me in the fetal position, sucking my thumb saying: "Dreamcast not dead, best console ever, dreamcast not dead BEST CONSOLE EVER DREAMCAST NOT DEAD WWAAAAHHHH!!!" I DID like Unleashed, I disagreed with some of yahtzee's opinions. I wont lie. But when I was thinking about the review it just dawned on me.
Speaking for myself, as you can see from many of my previous posts (both here and elsewhere), I've never been a fan of Grand Theft Auto IV or many of the other overhyped games for varying reasons that differ from one another, it's very comforting to see that more and more gamers are being conscientious about the games they play instead of simply buying into the massive "everyone plays it, so it must be awesome" hype that mediocre shooters like Halo 3 often tend to receive. They aren't 'bad' games by any stretch of imagination, but they certainly aren't the groundbreaking, enjoyable experiences that have you talking about them for months, like Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead.
Maybe you're just angry that he said the Sonic games sucked, and as a fan of the game, you're probably justified in your anger. But his opinions are just that: opinions. It just so happens that many of us old school gamers (a force that's seem to be coming out in force these days) are often reminded by Ben about the days of yesteryear, when Sonic was 2d and it was a lot more fun than what the current Sonic games have to offer. The new games simply pale in comparison to the innovation, and most importantly the fun that the old ones had to offer.
It's really a matter of whether or not that kind of stuff bothers you, and honestly I love that he's not afraid to point out problems in the best of games. I'd much rather hear reviews like this than a review that is all: "It's the new GTA, man! It's 10/10 no matter what!!"
I have probably lost a great amount of respect for the man after he implies that Sonic Chronicles sucks.
It doesnt suck and sonic needs more games. He's not quite done.
Then again neither are most of his games.
goddammit. I did it again!
That is all randomness for now.
Maybe you should think real hard about the next time you press "New topic" before you find the button mysteriously vanished.