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richardhutnik said:

Anyhow, I am off to watch the latest ZP review, so I am out of time here. 

Oh hey, it's Wednesday.  I wonder what today's video is.



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Eh, Zero Punction is like any professional douchebag out there, like Malstrom, the whole institution of Sarcastic Gamer, or if you want to go outside that, people like Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh, they can be hilariously awesome, but only if you agree with them, otherwise they're the bane of your existence.

 

Yahtzee is not only a chronic Wii hater, but a straight-up Nintendo hater to boot (not the kind of person who bitches about what Nintendo has become, but bitches about what Nintendo inherently is. The kind of person who also hated the GameCube), and so i have no use for him, and do think the world would be a brighter place with him out of it, but that's just my opinion. His opinions happen to fit in neatly with the crop of elitists that have been emerging in gaming recently, so he gets his popularity from them, and i'm not going to fight it, i just ignore him, much like i ignore every Right-wing pundit out there.



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Also, if a game is not God of War, Devil May Cry, or God Hand, Yahtzee will bash it.



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KungKras said:
Also, if a game is not God of War, Devil May Cry, or God Hand, Yahtzee will bash it.

I might remember wrong here, but didn't he bash Devil May Cry? I seem to recall him bashing it.



Quite a lot of the time he is right... but he is incredibly funny, and that is what really matters



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Mr Khan said:

Eh, Zero Punction is like any professional douchebag out there, like Malstrom, the whole institution of Sarcastic Gamer, or if you want to go outside that, people like Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh, they can be hilariously awesome, but only if you agree with them, otherwise they're the bane of your existence.

I agree 100% with this post.



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Majin-Tenshinhan said:
KungKras said:
Also, if a game is not God of War, Devil May Cry, or God Hand, Yahtzee will bash it.

I might remember wrong here, but didn't he bash Devil May Cry? I seem to recall him bashing it.


He did?

Fail on me xD

I rephrase my statement to "Also, if a game is not God of War or God Hand, Yahtzee will bash it."



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anyone see his latest one about WSR where he reads a letter from a disgruntled wii fan...well..um.....that



Critical voices are not harmful. Are you the kind of person who only wants agreeable and non contrarian viewpoints to be expressed?

Part of the reason he's so popular is that he criticizes games in ways that others don't, and the audience likes.

But that doesn't mean that the audience will simply adopt his viewpoints as objective fact! Just because Yahtzee thinks something, and expresses it in a humorous fashion, doesn't mean we all stop enjoying what we enjoy, playing what we play or buying what we buy.



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KungKras said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
KungKras said:
Also, if a game is not God of War, Devil May Cry, or God Hand, Yahtzee will bash it.

I might remember wrong here, but didn't he bash Devil May Cry? I seem to recall him bashing it.


He did?

Fail on me xD

I rephrase my statement to "Also, if a game is not God of War or God Hand, Yahtzee will bash it."

Yup, he reviewed DMC4

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/28-Devil-May-Cry-4