The escapist!

[Geminex]

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.

[Regulus Tera]

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

Originally Posted by Geminex

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

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

[01d55]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

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

Actually VGC improved a whole lot recently.

[TDK]

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.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

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

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!?"

[Regulus Tera]

Originally Posted by Krylo

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

Your taste in games is pretty terrible.

Being the only sane voice of reason in this world of darkest powers is a disheartening endeavour at time.

[bluestarultor]

You know, I think Yahtzee himself said that he's a critic on several occasions. That's what he does is criticize, and he does it in a humorous way. He also tosses in the merits of a game amongst the bile and frankly, I consider him much more reliable than any of the other reviewers on the site, who all seem too keen on polishing the apple unless there's no possible way they can justify it. Or at least that's how it is in their video "supplements." I've been going through them out of sheer boredom today, and it's really starting to irk me with all the "this game adds nothing to gaming or its own series, but that's vaguely okay somehow" or "well, the game sucks, but listen to that soundtrack. Mmmmmm, soundtrack..." bull that really makes it all sound very castrated and wimpy, like they're afraid of getting their houses burned down. Yahtzee doesn't pussyfoot around like that.


Edit: Jordan Deam is probably the best non-Yahtzee reviewer in terms of honesty. The editor seems way too keen on spinning games to make even the flaws sound good, while the only female of the bunch seems to like everything unless it's outright sexist, and while she's not terrible, I feel like I have to take what she says with a grain of salt.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

Being the only sane voice of reason in this world of darkest powers is a disheartening endeavour at time.

That sure sounds like something Yahtzee would say.

[Regulus Tera]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

That sure sounds like something Yahtzee would say.

dude wtf is wrong with you

okay yeah i worded it way obtusely

[bluestarultor]

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.