He yelled and ridiculed shitty opinions more in the first one, but this was still enjoyable - though only because of Ryan. Also McShea didn't say anything as incredibly stupid as his theory of tablets eventually packing as much power as consoles of respective generations that are, and will most likely keep on being, about seven times their size.
@BBAlpert said:
I loved the first and enjoyed the second, but I feel like this could very easily turn into a bland, formulaic, routine. Look at Zero Punctuation, for instance. I really like a lot of the stuff that Yahtzee does, but even he prefaces one of his early review videos with "There are a bunch of inconsequential flaws that don't really detract from an otherwise fantastic experience, but nobody watches these videos to hear me say nice things, so here's everything I hated about (whatever game it was)."
The premise of Zero Punctuation since the first episode was to provide hardball reviews of video-games. It serves a purpose I think - if nothing else, at least a satirical one. I like to watch it because he goes into some flaws with excruciating detail and fleshes out shitty things that we just accept in games, sometimes as near-paradigms, that are indeed quite annoying. That's pretty interesting, occasionally eye-opening aspect of the series.
Furthermore he makes some flaws that most people don't care about seem like game-breaking things, but sometimes people can't stand a certain shitty thing in a game for some idiosyncratic reason - I've certainly taken vicarious pleasure from listening Yahtzee point out stuff that renders a game near-unplayable to me but that other people seem not to care about. Sometimes I get pissed at his opinions of games I loved, but in a weird way I take pleasure in listening his bashing, because he is one of the best at making funny metaphors. Those metaphors man, that's a talent.
That said, I don't watch it as much as I used to. I think he used to be more into it, like he was angrier at one point. Maybe he'd rather be a conventional game journalist now. He does have his column and has written at least one novel. I still enjoy Zero Punctuation.
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