Here's the thing though. Yahtzee IS productive in games as a creative field ...or at least he WAS.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think he ever had or has right now a "fake" or "unserious" career... or that video games are only kids things and you should pile all yours up and light them on fire as some kind ritual when you turn 35, or forever be known as a manchild.
I won't deny that idea entirely, but I think the objective decline in quality in regard to CoD as a franchise certainly does also play a role as is the case with a lot of AAA games these days. If modern CoD would resemble something like the OG Modern Warfare I would very much like to play that despite my age.
i moreso meant games like the cod ie shooters in general or other action games that arent much slower like jrpgs or something
Video games today are joining movies in that they seek to become forever-services where each installment exists only to make callbacks and "remember that?" shoulder nudges at the last installment while setting up a half dozen dead-end plotlines, any one of which, or all of which, are just there to extend the franchise to the next installment.... eventually, it all becomes just a whirling directionless blob of recognizable bits that are not put together in any meaningful way.
Sure fair enough. I tend to play a lot of slower stuff like RPGS or Strategy games in general, but that was even the case as a teenager. But I also try to play more taxing and faster games like Shoot Em Ups, Fighting or Rhythm games to keep my mind sharp.
That's just the state of most media when the top priority is maximizing shareholder margins and thus, would rather die than take a risk so they regurgitate the same IP for the 20th time since that one already has an established viewer base and guaranteed profit.
His usual "golden age of PS2" is him wanking off to SH2 and thats it. He never liked the MGS series, DMC or even stuff like Sly Cooper or Ratchet&Clank.
No you don't. A one size fits all reviewer doesn't exist. Reviewers should be bias towards genres and have knowledge in them to review them other wise their opinion is worth nothing. A generic review can say "RE9 is a decent game, it's pretty, has horror elements and gun play", but that's it. An experienced horror fan can comment on how it's a sloppy copy of better games, an experience action fan can say it's a sloppy shooter with no enemy variety. An experience RE fan can tell you the story is a pile of wank and not worth your time. But an unbias reviewer with no genre experience or interest in the genre will see a generic, high production value 3rd person shooter with modern design elements and say "yes, this is good enough". Which then means every game gets 7-9 out of 10 because it's good enough.
I don't think it would work. I don't think it's just video games, putting out two and a half minutes with animated stick figures is something he's clearly lost interest in. Plus, historically, he's struggled to get people onboard spin-offs. Adventure is Nigh or whatever spin-off he gets involved with only has a fraction of the views FR does these days, and FR doesn't pull in the same sort of numbers ZP did in its prime.
Legacy media worked because there would usually have a bunch of reviewers that all specialties and could tell you what was good and what wasn't. It's much worse now because someone like Yahtzee could use his paper dolls for 3 or 4 minutes and I'd still not know if it was actually good or not, and I'm not going to sit through a 20-minute deep dive that's also meaningless. There are huge video essays that say the thing about Mario 64's camera issues and other quirks that a 4chan post could do the same thing with.
>Ad for Blu-Ray "bundle" of a YouTube series
Im surprised there were no Epstein jokes but he had enough time to put in another Musk joke.
It's very likely not self diagnosed and very possibly much more than that considering he's mentioned taking antidepressants and even antipsychotics in the past
I mentioned this before, but the post-Escapist Fully Ramblomatic is among Yahtzee's worst video content. The old stuff is way better.
Yahtzee's always been like this. Use to take potshots at the Dubya and the pre-Trump era of the Republican party plenty of times in 2007-2012., His 2011 review of Fable 3 where he represents Dubya as evil and Obama as good.
This unironically very true. At least for me in my mid 30s. I feel like a kid giddy going into a Ace Hardware/Lowes/Home Depot ready for Spring/summer yard/indoor projects.
Just had a vile image in my head of him trying to do his own stand up routine like stephen colbert but about video games.
He did turn into that, though. He had full-on TDS and he and Jesse Cucks threw a hissy fit because a fan at convention asked 'Are traps gay?'
The reason most people put up with his shitty political takes is because they were the zeitgeist. Most people, particularly younger people, hated Bush and the War on Terror and the Religious Right at the time. Difference between then and now is, the culture has moved on, and people like Yahtzee (despite flirting with being an anti-SJW, just look at some of his old LDOs) are unironically stuck in the past
oh hey another one noticed, once he went off escapist it seems he lost that ability, with less jokes even.
i hate how accurate this is once you reach a certain age bracket, same as getting why some people with kids are more lenient and accidentally create a spoiled little shit, i guess it's a age thing, if you are a young person you just can't get it.