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***In the same review he said that the villains plan is always taking over America. He could easily have been mocking how tom clancy essentially just repeats the same plot over and over.



*** He flat out stated that he loved Paper Mario, and also mentioned that he disliked unnessesary sequals. Given that Super Mario Galaxy didn't really need a sequal, and that bowser's plot was essentially a rehash of the last game, it seemed that his point was more "why the hell does super mario galaxy need a sequal?" Also, in his article he stated that mario games have a history of evolving and change; this one didn't.



**Well one of his main issues was that no matter how good the story is, it does not speak well of the writing when you still have no clue what's going on after five hours.



** As someone who does own the Wii version, he did make some accurate points (the wii mote was a bit unwieldy at times and the graphics weren't the greatest).



* Tropers/{{Ungulateman}}: I have problems with just about all of his Nintendo reviews. He spends most of his reviews of Nintendo games complaining about Nintendo being an BigBad corporation, when Sony and Microsoft are bigger; whines about SMG2 being the same as the first (all the unbiased sources I've read or watched see this as a ''good thing''); and constantly bashes the Wii for, God forbid, ''expanding Nintendo's userbase'', and giving them the resources to make more games which their "normal" userbase enjoys.

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* Tropers/{{Ungulateman}}: I have problems with just about all of his Nintendo reviews. He spends most of his reviews of Nintendo games complaining about Nintendo being an BigBad corporation, when Sony and Microsoft are bigger; whines about SMG2 being the same as the first (all the unbiased sources I've read or watched see this as a ''good thing''); and constantly bashes the Wii for, God forbid, ''expanding Nintendo's userbase'', and giving them the resources to make more games which their "normal" userbase enjoys.
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* Tropers/{{Ungulateman}}: I have problems with just about all of his Nintendo reviews. He spends most of his reviews of Nintendo games complaining about Nintendo being an BigBad corporation, when Sony and Microsoft are bigger; whines about SMG2 being the same as the first (all the unbiased sources I've read or watched see this as a ''good thing''); and constantly bashes the Wii for, God forbid, ''expanding Nintendo's userbase'', and giving them the resources to make more games which their "normal" userbase enjoys.
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** Tropers/{{Pumbelo}}: The reason that review is a DMOS for me isn't because he attacks Mario fans for wanting a new Mario Game, but because he declares every Mario fan in the world to be pathetic, socially awkward losers who never get laid ''because they like Mario games even if they don't evolve''.
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** JustThatGuy: I can handle the constant Wii bashing from Yahtzee; I don't take him seriously enough as a reviewer for that to really bother me. What bugs me about his ''MadWorld'' review is the SoylentGreen "The Wii is made of poo!" rant at the very beginning. Yahtzee is basically parading around his ''opinion'' as if it were genuine, verifiable ''fact'', and that developers are simply ignorant for not heeding it. I would even be able to put up with ''that'' if he actually presented some genuine arguments as to why he has come to this conclusion, but no. All of his comments on the Wii itself are done in the same style as his reviews, which, as anyone who has actually ''played'' any of the games he has reviewed, often involve taking barely noticeable, rarely occurring, trivial, or even ''entirely made-up'' flaws and blowing them absurdly out of proportion, making it impossible to take those points seriously. So basically, he's saying that developers need to stop making games for the ''highest selling video game console of the current generation '''because he says so'''''. [[SmallNameBigEgo Holy shit.]]

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** JustThatGuy: I can handle the constant Wii bashing from Yahtzee; I don't take him seriously enough as a reviewer for that to really bother me. What bugs me about his ''MadWorld'' review is the SoylentGreen "The Wii is made of poo!" rant at the very beginning. Yahtzee is basically parading around his ''opinion'' as if it were genuine, verifiable ''fact'', and that developers are simply ignorant for not heeding it. I would even be able to put up with ''that'' if he actually presented some genuine arguments as to why he has come to this conclusion, but no. All of his comments on the Wii itself are done in the same style as his reviews, which, as anyone who has actually ''played'' any of the games he has reviewed, reviewed will notice, often involve taking barely noticeable, rarely occurring, trivial, or even ''entirely made-up'' flaws and blowing them absurdly out of proportion, making it impossible to take those points seriously. So basically, he's saying that developers need to stop making games for the ''highest selling video game console of the current generation '''because he says so'''''. [[SmallNameBigEgo Holy shit.]]

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* Tropers/DragonQuestZ: His "throwing out the baby with the bathwater" comments about the {{Wii}} in regards to ''{{Madworld}}''. All that proves is that the developers haven't gotten used to making good Wii games, not that the system is magically making them bad. And no, just because further games don't satisfy him doesn't prove motion controls are bad. That's just putting his OpinionMyopia about it. But the ''Madworld'' video dug a hole of unnecessary, and worse unfunny[[hottip:* :In the sense that it's getting old and tired]], dickishness about {{Nintendo}} that he hasn't gotten out of, and is now just using Wii hate as filler now instead of honest, yet snarky, criticism.

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* Tropers/DragonQuestZ: His "throwing out the baby with the bathwater" comments about the {{Wii}} in regards to ''{{Madworld}}''. All that proves is that the developers haven't gotten used to making good Wii games, not that the system is magically making them bad. And no, just because further games don't satisfy him doesn't prove motion controls are bad. That's just putting his OpinionMyopia about it. But the ''Madworld'' video dug a hole of unnecessary, and worse unfunny[[hottip:* :In the sense that it's getting old and tired]], dickishness about {{Nintendo}} that he hasn't gotten out of, and is now just using Wii hate as filler now instead of honest, yet snarky, criticism. criticism.
** JustThatGuy: I can handle the constant Wii bashing from Yahtzee; I don't take him seriously enough as a reviewer for that to really bother me. What bugs me about his ''MadWorld'' review is the SoylentGreen "The Wii is made of poo!" rant at the very beginning. Yahtzee is basically parading around his ''opinion'' as if it were genuine, verifiable ''fact'', and that developers are simply ignorant for not heeding it. I would even be able to put up with ''that'' if he actually presented some genuine arguments as to why he has come to this conclusion, but no. All of his comments on the Wii itself are done in the same style as his reviews, which, as anyone who has actually ''played'' any of the games he has reviewed, often involve taking barely noticeable, rarely occurring, trivial, or even ''entirely made-up'' flaws and blowing them absurdly out of proportion, making it impossible to take those points seriously. So basically, he's saying that developers need to stop making games for the ''highest selling video game console of the current generation '''because he says so'''''. [[SmallNameBigEgo Holy shit.]]
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* Tropers/{{HT_Black}}: The ''Split/second: Velocity'' review. Ugh. This troper has had no problems with Yahtzee in the past-- the ''FinalFantasy 13'' review was perfectly justified in his eyes, and the [[SuperMarioGalaxy2 SMG2]] review was, while perhaps unnecissarily caustic, a fairly understandable soapbox routine--and the ''Split/Second'' review itself wasn't paticularly bad...but that one line about eating a poor woman's fetus made this troper's stomach turn. It was, to put it simply, unbelievably frikkin' disgusting; hell, it would've made the Angry Video Game Nerd feel a bit ill.

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* Tropers/{{HT_Black}}: The ''Split/second: Velocity'' review. Ugh. This troper has had no problems with Yahtzee in the past-- the ''FinalFantasy 13'' review was perfectly justified in his eyes, and the [[SuperMarioGalaxy2 SMG2]] review was, while perhaps unnecissarily unnecessarily caustic, a fairly understandable soapbox routine--and the ''Split/Second'' review itself wasn't paticularly particularly bad...but that one line about eating a poor woman's fetus made this troper's stomach turn. It was, to put it simply, unbelievably frikkin' disgusting; hell, it would've made the Angry Video Game Nerd feel a bit ill.
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* Tropers/{{HT_Black}}: The ''Split/second: Velocity'' review. Ugh. This troper has had no problems with Yahtzee in the past-- the ''FinalFantasy 13'' review was perfectly justified in his eyes, and the [[SuperMarioGalaxy SMG2]] review was, while perhaps unnecissarily caustic, a fairly understandable soapbox routine--and the ''Split/Second'' review itself wasn't paticularly bad...but that one line about eating a poor woman's fetus made this troper's stomach turn. It was, to put it simply, unbelievably frikkin' disgusting; hell, it would've made the Angry Video Game Nerd feel a bit ill.

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* Tropers/{{HT_Black}}: The ''Split/second: Velocity'' review. Ugh. This troper has had no problems with Yahtzee in the past-- the ''FinalFantasy 13'' review was perfectly justified in his eyes, and the [[SuperMarioGalaxy [[SuperMarioGalaxy2 SMG2]] review was, while perhaps unnecissarily caustic, a fairly understandable soapbox routine--and the ''Split/Second'' review itself wasn't paticularly bad...but that one line about eating a poor woman's fetus made this troper's stomach turn. It was, to put it simply, unbelievably frikkin' disgusting; hell, it would've made the Angry Video Game Nerd feel a bit ill.
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*Tropers/{{HT_Black}}: The ''Split/second: Velocity'' review. Ugh. This troper has had no problems with Yahtzee in the past-- the ''FinalFantasy 13'' review was perfectly justified in his eyes, and the [[SuperMarioGalaxy SMG2]] review was, while perhaps unnecissarily caustic, a fairly understandable soapbox routine--and the ''Split/Second'' review itself wasn't paticularly bad...but that one line about eating a poor woman's fetus made this troper's stomach turn. It was, to put it simply, unbelievably frikkin' disgusting; hell, it would've made the Angry Video Game Nerd feel a bit ill.
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* Tropers/{{Robbie}}: His review of (the Wii version of) TheForceUnleashed, which is less a review of the actual game, and more a rant about GeorgeLucas and his FallenCreator status, followed by yet another rant about the Wii and it's graphical inferiority to the PS3 and 360. I was expecting Yahtzee to tear into the game itself, which is to say the PS3/360 version, which is to say the version the developers must've actually put any work in. When he announced he bought the Wii version, and went on to do his usual anti-Nintendo screed, I felt cheated and disappointed, more so than being offended as a life long Nintendo fan.

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* Tropers/{{Robbie}}: His review of (the Wii version of) TheForceUnleashed, which is less a review of the actual game, and more a rant about GeorgeLucas and his FallenCreator status, followed by yet another rant about the Wii and it's its graphical inferiority to the PS3 [=PS3=] and 360. I was expecting Yahtzee to tear into the game itself, which is to say the PS3/360 version, which is to say the version the developers must've actually put any work in. When he announced he bought the Wii version, and went on to do his usual anti-Nintendo screed, I felt cheated and disappointed, more so than being offended as a life long Nintendo fan.
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* Tropers/{{Robbie}}: His review of (the Wii version of) TheForceUnleashed, which is less a review of the actual game, and more a rant about GeorgeLucas and his FallenCreator status, followed by yet another rant about the Wii and it's graphical inferiority to the PS3 and 360. I was expecting Yahtzee to tear into the game itself, which is to say the PS3/360 version, which is to say the version the developers must've actually put any work in. When he announced he bought the Wii version, and went on to do his usual anti-Nintendo screed, I felt cheated and disappointed, more so than being offended as a life long Nintendo fan.
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Also, American-centric "we".
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Please No Natter. What, so, Australia and various European countries aren't in laughable amounts of debt either?


*** [[Tropers/HG131 HG131]]: Think for a moment. We owe trillions to the Chinese. Do you know what happens if they say they want it all back now? The repo the country. We would be taken over by China, or the destroy the world fighting it. Taking over America is like stealing a truck belonging to the Italian Mob.
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*** [[Tropers/HG131 HG131]]: Think for a moment. We owe trillions to the Chinese. Do you know what happens if they say they want it all back now? The repo the country. We would be taken over by China, or the destroy the world fighting it. Taking over America is like stealing a truck belonging to the Italian Mob.
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** Tropers/{{SickBritKid}}: Seriously, Yahtzee. Just because America doesn't embrace the latest form of Universal Healthcare doesn't mean that the country's power as a whole is suddenly invalidated...
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* Tropers/{{Larfleeze}}: While his vocal hatred of all things American has always been pathetic and unnecessary his SplinterCell Conviction review just took it to a whole new stupid level. Not only does he insult the country and the people who live there, but asks why anyone would want to take over America. Why? It's only one of the most powerful countries in the world, and is the basis of global economy! No one would ever want to control that!
* Tropers/{{Clockwork Ninja}}: Yahtzee's review of "{{Valkyria Chronicles}}" had shown several points that were just plain false such as him complaining that the weapons path don't branch out and that no major characters die.

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* Tropers/{{Larfleeze}}: While his vocal hatred of all things American has always been pathetic and unnecessary his SplinterCell Conviction ''SplinterCell Conviction'' review just took it to a whole new stupid level. Not only does he insult the country and the people who live there, but asks why anyone would want to take over America. Why? It's only one of the most powerful countries in the world, and is the basis of global economy! No one would ever want to control that!
* Tropers/{{Clockwork Ninja}}: Yahtzee's review of "{{Valkyria Chronicles}}" ''{{Valkyria Chronicles}}'' had shown several points that were just plain false such as him complaining that the weapons path don't branch out and that no major characters die.



* Swmystery: His "Final Fantasy XIII" review consists of him openly admitting that he only played the first five hours of the game, defending this on the grounds that "I didn't want to go any further." This is akin to a professional movie critic reviewing a film based on having seen the first half an hour of it and calling it "efficiency." About halfway through he abandons talking about the game completely in order to filibuster about what the Final Fantasy series has become and devotes no time at all to any of the game's more redeeming features, thus making him sorely guility of bias (which is ironic considering he jokes about this during the review itself...)

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* Swmystery: Tropers/{{Swmystery}}: His "Final ''Final Fantasy XIII" XIII'' review consists of him openly admitting that he only played the first five hours of the game, defending this on the grounds that "I didn't want to go any further." This is akin to a professional movie critic reviewing a film based on having seen the first half an hour of it and calling it "efficiency." About halfway through he abandons talking about the game completely in order to filibuster about what the Final Fantasy series has become and devotes no time at all to any of the game's more redeeming features, thus making him sorely guility of bias (which is ironic considering he jokes about this during the review itself...)
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* Tropers/Swmystery: His "Final Fantasy XIII" review consists of him openly admitting that he only played the first five hours of the game, defending this on the grounds that "I didn't want to go any further." This is akin to a professional movie critic reviewing a film based on having seen the first half an hour of it and calling it "efficiency." About halfway through he abandons talking about the game completely in order to filibuster about what the Final Fantasy series has become and devotes no time at all to any of the game's more redeeming features, thus making him sorely guility of bias (which is ironic considering he jokes about this during the review itself...)

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* Tropers/Swmystery: *Swmystery: His "Final Fantasy XIII" review consists of him openly admitting that he only played the first five hours of the game, defending this on the grounds that "I didn't want to go any further." This is akin to a professional movie critic reviewing a film based on having seen the first half an hour of it and calling it "efficiency." About halfway through he abandons talking about the game completely in order to filibuster about what the Final Fantasy series has become and devotes no time at all to any of the game's more redeeming features, thus making him sorely guility of bias (which is ironic considering he jokes about this during the review itself...)
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*Tropers/Swmystery: His "Final Fantasy XIII" review consists of him openly admitting that he only played the first five hours of the game, defending this on the grounds that "I didn't want to go any further." This is akin to a professional movie critic reviewing a film based on having seen the first half an hour of it and calling it "efficiency." About halfway through he abandons talking about the game completely in order to filibuster about what the Final Fantasy series has become and devotes no time at all to any of the game's more redeeming features, thus making him sorely guility of bias (which is ironic considering he jokes about this during the review itself...)
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* Tropers/{{AverageJohn}}: The ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' review was probably one of his worst. He basically attacked Mario fans for wanting a new Mario game, but he has been actively campaigning to see Half-Life 2: Episode 3, making him a bit of hyprocrite, as it makes it seem like it's okay for stuff like he likes to get sequels, but not what other people like. The worse part is that he basically avoids talking about the game, basically refusing to go over any aspects of it whatsoever.

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* Tropers/{{AverageJohn}}: The ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' review was probably one of his worst. He basically attacked Mario fans for wanting a new Mario game, but he has been actively campaigning to see Half-Life 2: Episode 3, making him a bit of hyprocrite, hypocrite, as it makes it seem like it's okay for stuff like he likes to get sequels, but not what other people like. The worse part is that he basically avoids talking about the game, basically refusing to go over any aspects of it whatsoever.
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* Tropers/{{AverageJohn}}: The ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' review was probably one of his worst. He basically attacked Mario fans for wanting a new Mario game, but he has been actively campaigning to see Half-Life 2: Episode 3, making him a bit of hyprocrite, as it makes it seem like it's okay for stuff like he likes to get sequels, but not what other people like [and
his favorite games are Sillent Hill 2, Half-Life 2 & Spider-Man 2, all sequels]. The worse part is that he basically avoids talking about the game, basically refusing to go over any aspects of it whatsoever.

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* Tropers/{{AverageJohn}}: The ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' review was probably one of his worst. He basically attacked Mario fans for wanting a new Mario game, but he has been actively campaigning to see Half-Life 2: Episode 3, making him a bit of hyprocrite, as it makes it seem like it's okay for stuff like he likes to get sequels, but not what other people like [and
his favorite games are Sillent Hill 2, Half-Life 2 & Spider-Man 2, all sequels].
like. The worse part is that he basically avoids talking about the game, basically refusing to go over any aspects of it whatsoever.
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his favorite games are Sillent Hill 2, Half-Life 2 & Spider-Man 2, all sequels]. The worse part is that he basically avoids
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his favorite games are Sillent Hill 2, Half-Life 2 & Spider-Man 2, all sequels]. The worse part is that he basically avoids
avoids talking about the game, basically refusing to go over any aspects of it whatsoever.whatsoever.
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My idea. I know it's going to be removed, but I said my piece.

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*Tropers/{{AverageJohn}}: The ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' review was probably one of his worst. He basically attacked Mario fans for wanting a new Mario game, but he has been actively campaigning to see Half-Life 2: Episode 3, making him a bit of hyprocrite, as it makes it seem like it's okay for stuff like he likes to get sequels, but not what other people like [and
his favorite games are Sillent Hill 2, Half-Life 2 & Spider-Man 2, all sequels]. The worse part is that he basically avoids
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*Tropers/{{Clockwork Ninja}}: Yahtzee's review of "{{Valkyria Chronicles}}" had shown several points that were just plain false such as him complaining that the weapons path don't branch out and that no major characters die.

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*Tropers/{{Clockwork * Tropers/{{Clockwork Ninja}}: Yahtzee's review of "{{Valkyria Chronicles}}" had shown several points that were just plain false such as him complaining that the weapons path don't branch out and that no major characters die. die.
* Tropers/{{Plasma}}: His ''Super Smash Bros Brawl'' review. There's a lot more off points in it, but most particularly is the point where he called the game a button-masher. Even aside from that most of the moves in the game have a unique mechanic and - compared to other fighting games - normally have a slow animation time, the fact that the game only uses two buttons for fighting with and no combos should tell you that he's completely off the ball on this review. Especially bad when he says anyone who complained about his review is a Nintendo fanboy afterwards!
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*Tropers/{{Clockwork Ninja}}: Yahtzee's review of "{{Valkyria Chronicles}}" had several points that we're false such as him complaining that the weapons path don't branch out and that no major characters die.

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*Tropers/{{Clockwork Ninja}}: Yahtzee's review of "{{Valkyria Chronicles}}" had shown several points that we're were just plain false such as him complaining that the weapons path don't branch out and that no major characters die.
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*Tropers/{{Clockwork Ninja}}: Yahtzee's review of "{{Valkyria Chronicles}}" had several points that we're false such as him complaining that the weapons path don't branch out and that no major characters die.
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I don't like his show (so much so there's a minor disclaimer in my Tropers/ page), so I'm not defending his image, but the moment has to come from Zero Punctuation itself (in an earlier example of the rules, I think the articles of Extra Punctuation were permitted too, not sure if that's still the case). Also, you weren't logged in.


* Tropers/ ((Ben)) : Meeting him in real life, turns out he's an arrogant self serving douchebag who only ever wants to talk about himself and how fucking awesome he is.
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Even better grammar.


*Tropers/{{Devour}}: [[MonsterHunter Monster Hunter Tri]], Yahtzee declared in his ''Extra Punctuation'' article for this game that he only plays a game to review until [A] the story campaign ends (like how the latter half of Super Mario Galaxy 1 is something he declares as meant for unemployed psychotics and Koreans) or [B] he cannot stomach any more. Nowhere was this more blatant than in this game, but that's not the DMOS - the DMOS is the sheer overdose of CriticalResearchFailure and Nintendo hate involved.

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*Tropers/{{Devour}}: [[MonsterHunter Monster Hunter Tri]], Yahtzee declared in his ''Extra Punctuation'' article for this game ''MonsterHunter Tri'' that he only plays a game to review until [A] the story campaign ends (like how the latter half of Super Mario Galaxy 1 is something he declares as meant for unemployed psychotics and Koreans) or [B] he cannot stomach any more. Nowhere was this more blatant than in this game, but that's not the DMOS - the DMOS is the sheer overdose of CriticalResearchFailure and Nintendo hate involved.
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*Tropers/{{Devour}}: Speaking of [[MonsterHunter Monster Hunter Tri]], Yahtzee declared in his ''Extra Punctuation'' article for this game that he only plays a game to review until [A] the story campaign ends (like how the latter half of Super Mario Galaxy 1 is something he declares as meant for unemployed psychotics and Koreans) or [B] he cannot stomach any more. Nowhere was this more blatant than in this game, but that's not the DMOS - the DMOS is the sheer overdose of CriticalResearchFailure and Nintendo hate involved.

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*Tropers/{{Devour}}: Speaking of [[MonsterHunter Monster Hunter Tri]], Yahtzee declared in his ''Extra Punctuation'' article for this game that he only plays a game to review until [A] the story campaign ends (like how the latter half of Super Mario Galaxy 1 is something he declares as meant for unemployed psychotics and Koreans) or [B] he cannot stomach any more. Nowhere was this more blatant than in this game, but that's not the DMOS - the DMOS is the sheer overdose of CriticalResearchFailure and Nintendo hate involved.
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* Tropers/{{Larfleeze}}: While his vocal hatred of all things American has always been pathetic and unnecessary his SplinterCell Conviction review just took it to a whole new stupid level. Not only does he insult the country and the people who live there, but asks why anyone would want to take over America. Why? It's only one of the most powerful countries in the world, and is the basis of global economy! No one would ever want to control that!

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