The only review to this game I was actually looking forward to.
He pans it!
Yahtzee mellowing out and becoming a grilldad who wants to play games about industrial welding instead of turning into a bog standard internet fascist is always both a surprise and a relief.
He typically gives high praise to stuff that has a lot of atmosphere, an interesting story, and a lot of encouragement for the player to keep moving forward. His favorite games are Silent Hill 2, Portal, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Shadow of the Colossus, Thief, Metroid Prime. He likes games that have a beginning, clear progression, and then an ending. Games that are often called immersive. So it doesn't surprise me he would like Disco Elysium. He got his start in making classic Sierra style adventure games, the kind of games that influenced DE too.
His own games are pretty good by the way. I really like The Consuming Shadow and Poacher.
Really? Like, he originally became very prominent for making an artsy fartsy game about talking to people. I don't follow him closely but I've always have had respect for yahtzee if only for making the chzo mythos series.
Yahtzee has always loudly criticised generic first person shooter number 3423 for being shit and bringing absolutely nothing new to the table worth playing.
He has always been the most critical in the sense that what he wants to see is genuinely new and innovative stuff, as soon as he's seen something before it's literally just a chore to re-review the same mechanics over and over and over again so I kinda get it.
A good example of this is his reviews of Smash Bros Brawl vs. Smash Ultimate. The Brawl review was bashing anyone who likes the game, whereas his Ultimate review is a much more well-thought-out critique about how the whole concept is kinda superficial and doesn't really catch the appeal of the characters in any meaningful way (a critique which can also be applied to stuff like Ready Player One or Space Jam 2).
doesn’t really catch the appeal of the characters in any meaningful way (a critique which can also be applied to stuff like Ready Player One or Space Jam 2).
"Multiversus" is guilty on many counts of this, especially with how it brutalized the very concept and personality and motivations of The Iron Giant.
I don't think this is something we can say gives it attention. I mean, his review sure didn't make me want to play the game. It sounds like pretty much every AAA game that has burned me out on AAA games (or Jiminy Cockthroat as Yahtzee calls that type of game).
Hogwarts Legacy is less “be a character from Harry Potter” and more “be the main character in a work of self-insert Harry Potter fan fiction.” You play a student who starts Hogwarts in the fifth year, which is unusual but they made an exception for you because you’re THAT bloody great. Everyone wants to be your friend inside thirty seconds of conversation, you master every subject on your first go, and you’re also the only person who can use a super special kind of magic for only the most super special people and in the end you save the entire school and everyone in it from apocalyptic disaster.
No wonder bazingas want this. Sounds like the Ready Player One of bad fantasy fiction. :disgost:
If this were the early 10s or so, the complaint online would be the character being a Mary Sue.
While the Mary Sue label has been not so popular, I've seen Harry Potter fanfiction characters given that label that weren't that ridiculously OP in the setting.
The videogamedunkey video on HWL was solid. No idea if the dude is OK overall tho, just sat down with his content for the first time like 2 days ago.
I think it's an "I'm gonna say something without saying anything at all" video. It's basically just him looking at the discourse and saying "there seems to be discourse about this thing for some reason that I fucking know what the reason is but pretend I don't because I don't want to alienate a part of my audience who have taken a side in the discourse."
this is literally any dunkey video that isn't a comedy video
the guy never wants to delve too deep for fear of turning away his casual viewership, resulting in boring af videos where he mostly just repeats things you already know
I took it more as "look how shitty this industry at large is"
It's hard to tell what Dunkey's politics are. The other political video was that one about Trump, and towards the end, it featured clips of Hillary basically advocating the same things Trump did, like the border wall. It's hard to tell if that's a critique of Hillary from the left, or both sidesing it.
However, I do not think Dunkey is a fascist, so that's good.
(I will admit, I laughed at the Hogwarts Legacu joke where, after saying he's not playing games because of how bad their devs were, he says he's going to just play Valorant, but then stops because "I don't actually like Valorant).
It was hard to get a read on him, but that punchline at the end with Gex was just :chefs-kiss:
