The escapist!
 

For all your escapist discussions, from whether those guys doing unskippable are gay to the quality or lack thereof of Yahtzee's latest review. Because dammit, I know that bluespeople know it, and it totally deserves to be discussed.

Well, really, Yahtzee needs to be discussed, everything else on that site is more a sort of tag-along.

Also, fuck game dogs, it's just a ripoff of VGcats. Also it sucks.

I used to like Yahtzee until he dissed on the games I liked.

This sentence seems to imply that VGCats doesn't suck.

Well, lemme first get in that Loading Ready Run is coming to the Escapist now, which I have to say is surprising in that it took that long, given that it's the team behind ENN.


Edit: @ RT: Yahtzee is at least generally honest in his reviews, as scathing as he can be. The only one I was disappointed in was his AC2 review, in that by spending the full second half ragging on minor issues and not giving an explicit recommendation at the end it took me several watchings to realize that he'd actually said it was in any way good, which he basically did for the first half before tearing in, which is what was confusing, because he usually backtracks at the end to say if it was and he instead dropped it in in the middle somewhere.

Also I really like the ENN segment.
 

Actually VGC improved a whole lot recently.

Yeah, ENN is good. The opening credits are different each time.

And yeah, VGcats could be a lot worse. The comics are bad sometimes, but really amusing most of the time. If you disagree, talk to the broforce!

And I don't listen to Yahtzee with the ear of a gamer, that is, I don't care about the games. I just like to hear him say swear words into a microphone really fast.

I should start colour-coding my posts for levels of seriousness.

I still dislike the prick though.

One comic does not make a trend.

I find Yahtzee to be very funny, if focused on the negative aspects of games (he explains on his website or in extra punctuation a few different times how despite focusing on the negative aspects he likes more of the games he plays than you might think at first glance, etc), but he's a critic, not a reviewer, so you can't really fault him for that.

There's also the matter of taste and standards, but eh, ultimately I agree with Geminex in that's its a good deal more enjoyable if you don't watch it with the ear of a gamer.


On the escapist in general, I watch Yahtzee's reviews, and I watched unforgotten realms for a while but kind of lost interest for some reason, and now's there too many of the damn things for me to be wiling to invest the time to watch them all.

Yeah, but you're the guy what doesn't like Secret of Mana.

Your taste in games is pretty terrible.


Also, I pretty much agreed with every complaint he had, which is pretty rare, about Saboteur--even though I liked the game. I mostly just liked it because it was like playing mercenaries, except instead of a bunch of bullshit political intrigue and having to take people alive and like a million factions to worry about, it was just, "Here's a mission--go kill nazis," over and over.

That and, "Not so easy when it's not defenseless women and children, is it!?"

I actually like the articles in the magazine itself, I dig Yahtzee. They ran There will be Brawl, which I dig, so I can say I generally like the Escapist.

Some of the most worthwhile on the site are ENN and Unskippable, because the LRR guys are hilarious, and now they have LRR on Escapist, Yahtzee of course, and Movie Bob (though he's more "movie" and not enough "critic") still is pretty funny.

The articles are pretty good too, I did like seeing Monte Cook do some DND retrospectives and Shamus Young is pretty fun to read. Extra Punctuation is the nice bit of after-the-fact that Yahtzee needs to explain his perspective.

I don't like their reviews much, the written ones are okay but frequently their video suppliments are like they got their reviewer, put a mic in front of them, and said, "Read a paragraph from your review." The woman who did Splosion Man made my ears go to sleep, followed quickly by the rest of me.

Game Dogs sounded pretty awful in theory (as if it wasn't obvious enough that it's just Normal Gaming Situations With Anthropomorphs, Haha, Whee).
Wow, it's like a total reversal suddenly. I love it and RT hates it. This is bizarro universe.