Yea I've been watching his stuff for a little while now, its good fun.

I didn't know he made those games though, thats pretty neat.

Yahtzee is hilarious, and I loved his adventure games. Did you guys know he's going to be a reviewer for PCGamer Magazine now because of his videos? (The US edition that is, not the UK).

He's Australian.  Or at least he is now.

hmmmmm


not to PULL A PANDA here but i think zero punctuation is actually a pretty shitty gimmick.  i really really did not want to have to come into this topic and say the exact opposite of what everyone else had said so far because that is a little too obvious but no one else seems even close to saying it!

i think the problem is i do not really see him as being hilaaaaarious in the slightest.  how is what he says funny or witty again?  it's just a lot of random irate ranting and similes most of the time.  watching and listening to his reviews for actual content, it's difficult to differentiate between him and shit like x-play and every other reviewer out there who prides himself on "telling it like it is heh."  you cannot really take what basically amounts to uninspired angry critiquing and make it funny by saying shit really really fast and with a british accent so that by the time people realize the shit you said wasn't funny you're already onto the next animated quasi-witticism.  honestly, the entire thing strikes me as being very similar to GILMORE GIRLS but about videogames instead of BOY'S or whatever the fuck gilmore girls was about.

also the reviews themselves are fairly often sort of off base.  it seems like a pretty decent amount of the shit he criticizes in some games is just based around them not being xhardxcorex enough (for example, this one steel linked me to a while back on peggle).  the entire REVIEWS FOR THE HARDCORE GAMER thing comes off, to me, as being a pretty worthless gimmick since the basis for a lot of the critique tends to be unreasonable.  but there's also the fact that a lot of the shit he goes over is really kind of obvious and could easily be stated in, i don't know, less than five minutes of non-stop witty monologue (somewhere in this statement irony abounds, i am aware).  so why make entire video reviews going over either nit-picky or really fundamental, obvious shit that could either be omitted or said much more concisely and without all the annoying oh that yahtzee he's such a bitch remarks?  pandering self-indulgence which, to me, is a really repugnant phenomena.  people love him apparently but all i see are 1) kind of bad points, 2) valid but painfully obvious points (both spread over several minutes of chatter), and 3) masturbation.

bazookatooth, I think you might be holding zero punctuation to different standards than everyone else.  I don't think there is supposed to be any kind of gimmick.  It's just a guy who rants about his thoughts and feelings about games, like we all probably do every day.  Either it's amusing enough for you to watch or it isn't.  

except i don't really think they're supposed to be ultra-biased reviews, considering all of you guys are like YEAH SPOT ON MAN SPOT ON, so gonna have to disagree on that front!  also, i would call it uninspired and a little sad before i'd say funny and original.  if it's made to be funny and not detailed, then why does he go into so much detail?

the majority of the time not only do i not agree, but i don't laugh at all.  I DON'T LIKE THE HUMOR AND YOU DO okay that is acceptable but i'm not calling it a cheap, masturbatory gimmick because i don't think it's funny; i'm saying it because it's what it is.  i'd say it even if i DID think he was even slightly funny.

yeah you're right, the accent is authentic i think, and i never really doubted that.  what i meant is that i think people tend to think things said by someone with a british accent sound more intelligent.  as silly as it is, sophisticated-sounding british accents probably do quite a bit to make someone seem more intelligent to a lot of people!