Yahtzee reviews

[Orogun01]

I'm sorry but hating on the Witcher for having "Kill X for Y" is ridiculous. That's what Witchers do; they kill things, that guy puts too much effort on hating something rather than being funny about it. The world doesn't need another angry nerd.

[Rosbjerg]

Well, I often find his critiques to be accurate, if just a tad exaggerated. But I find his reviews to be refreshing as the norm is often overly flabbergasted critics without a sense of proportion.

[Enoch]

I'm sorry but hating on the Witcher for having "Kill X for Y" is ridiculous. That's what Witchers do; they kill things, that guy puts too much effort on hating something rather than being funny about it. The world doesn't need another angry nerd.

Sure, monster-bounty quests make sense in the gameworld as constructed. But that doesn't necessarily make them a fun way to spend an afternoon. It's lazy quest design. The fact that they had a narrative excuse for their lazy quest design makes it a little more tolerable, but it certainly doesn't make it unfair for a reviewer to point out that the design was lazy and the execution was un-fun.

Edited June 8, 2011 by Enoch

[Malcador]

Think his criticism of it was just "it's like a mmorpugher" or something, nothing as high as lazy design. Didn't bother me that much playing it though, often you'd kill the stuff on the way to do other things so wasn't that grindy.

[Niten_Ryu]

I think he hit the nerve with some of the design choices of The Witcher 2. Modern gamers (in general), can't handle the simple things like reading the manual, inventory management, difficulty curve, length, non-standard pacing... CD Projekt know this but still they chose to release The Witcher 2 as it is. Hopefully the sales of The Witcher 2 are at least 1,5 million units so that it'll send a clear signal to the developers that there are still enough niche for this kind of game. It won't be the game for everyone but hopefully it'll be a good game for target segment.

[sorophx]

the Witcher has always been a project for the hardcore RPG crowd, and some things in the game seem out of place, QTEs and whatnot. it looks like CDPR was aiming at a broader audience, but didn't really know how to achieve the needed effect. I'm still not sure if I even want to play it

[Tigranes]

With the option toggle, QTEs are about 5 minutes of a 30 hour total game. Seriously, it's ludicrous how much talk we give to it.

 

I think Yahtzee has run his course by now, really. he was never about reviewing things seriously, just a refreshingly up front biased comical skit thing. But the longer it goes on, the more it takes the guise of a 'real' review, and once subject to the requirements of a review, Yahtzee talks a lot of ****.

[sorophx]

his reviews never were "real" (he states this in one of them), he just plays game and points out their weaknesses in a humorous fashion

[Tigranes]

That's exactly what I mean - and thats why it needed to be a skit thing that ended after a short while. The longer it goes on, the more it gets treated seriously, and as serious reviews his are just as rubbish as the bland ol' IGN reviews, just in different ways.

[Nightshape]

With the option toggle, QTEs are about 5 minutes of a 30 hour total game. Seriously, it's ludicrous how much talk we give to it.

 

I think Yahtzee has run his course by now, really. he was never about reviewing things seriously, just a refreshingly up front biased comical skit thing. But the longer it goes on, the more it takes the guise of a 'real' review, and once subject to the requirements of a review, Yahtzee talks a lot of ****.

 

He gives his opinion, like any other reviewer.

 

Its why the latest Devlop 100 is considered an absolute joke, in the same respect as metacritic is considered to be a joke by alot of people.

 

You cannot base "goodness" on review scores.

[WorstUsernameEver]

He gives his opinion, like any other reviewer.

 

But that's not what a reviewer is asked to do.. not only, at least.

[Malcador]

Finally watched that review. Other than the trolling of the phantom PC elitists, seemed like too much whining and exaggeration - the bit about the signs' names was a bit of a head scratcher.

[WDeranged]

I always enjoy Yahtzee, even when he's scrabbling around for negative points against my favourite games.

[Hell Kitty]

If you agree with him he's a breath of fresh that tells it like it is, if you don't he's a big poopy head who shouldn't be taken seriously.

[Purkake]

Yahtzee doesn't like that kind of games and he's in no capacity an official "reviewer" for anyone. What you get is his opinion heavily spiked with humor.

 

If you don't agree, tough.

Edited June 9, 2011 by Purkake

[Volourn]

"the Witcher has always been a project for the hardcore RPG crowd,"

 

The Witcher isn't hardcore. Nor is it a RPG. It's an ACTION RPG. Like ME, BL, or JE.

[sorophx]

nevertheless, part 2 was made with hardcore RPG scenesters in mind

[HoonDing]

Demon's Souls/Dark Souls is more hardcore than Witcher 2.

[Purkake]

I heard that "hardcore RPG scenesters" were severely allergic to QTEs.

[Sannom]

Hunted: The Demon's Forge.

 

Whatever gives him that sore throat, it made him nasty.

[sorophx]

ooh, this is going to be interesting

 

edit: he should've picked the archer lady

Edited June 15, 2011 by sorophx

[WDeranged]

Shadows of the Damned

 

The Big Boner.

[Purkake]

Since yahtzee actually reviewed something relevant for you old people, I hereby resurrect this thread from the dark oblivion of pages that no one bothers to click through:

 

Deus Ex(the first one, not the one with the guy who didn't ask for this and the people with the weird clothes)

[meomao]

the Witcher has always been a project for the hardcore RPG crowd, and some things in the game seem out of place, QTEs and whatnot. it looks like CDPR was aiming at a broader audience, but didn't really know how to achieve the needed effect. I'm still not sure if I even want to play it

 

Hardcore RPG? The game has 3 stats: damage, damage reduction and persuasion/intimidation.

[sorophx]

it's not. it was made with you in mind though