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.
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.
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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).
"Multiversus" is guilty on many counts of this, especially with how it brutalized the very concept and personality and motivations of The Iron Giant.