History YMMV / ZeroPunctuation

** He also is a firm advocate of misanthropy, often going on tangents about how "The world could use some pruning" and he "doesn't like people in the plural" and generally treating HumansAreBastards and HumansAreMorons as objective fact.

* BrokenBase:
** Generally divided into people that think he's hilarious, entertaining [[MST3KMantra but not to be taken seriously]], or unfunny, irritating, and bigoted.
** And on a different note, the theme song. Awesome or generic? For some, the issue is not that the song is bad, but that his older reviews began and ended with songs either fitting or ironic toward the game reviewed.
** Also there's people that say that he's too narrow-minded with his BiasSteamroller frequently showing in reviews of genres of games that he doesn't normally enjoy (i.e. [=JRPGs=], Real-Time Strategy, Fighting Games, Modern Military FPS) while others find that it makes him interesting.

** [[UsefulNotes/PCVsConsole "The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race"]]. It originally appeared in his review for the first ''Witcher'' game as part of a gag about its interface being unnecessarily clunky and thus presumably-impossible to port. It was meant as satire (Yahtzee believes PC and console gaming are equally shitty), but it quickly became an AppropriatedAppellation. There's even a subreddit named after it (which, to be fair, is somewhat tongue-in-cheek). Around the time a concern piece from PC Gamer started making the rounds in 2015, Yahtzee wrote an Extra Punctuation article addressing concerns over its use, deciding that it's one of the most effective ways to say TakeThat to the Third Reich - using a term they coined in such a spurious and (generally) joking manner completely deflates what the Nazis were hoping to achieve. Fast-forward to his review of ''VideoGame/KingdomComeDeliverance'' though, and [[DiscreditedMeme he ended up taking back the appellation]], giving them a less appealing sobriquet in "PC Gaming Dick-Slurp Allstars".

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: At the end of his ''VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsGollum'' review, Yahtzee states that, as bad as the game is, the sheer hatred directed at it is still a bit much; Creator/DaedalicEntertainment have only made point-and-click adventure games before this one, their attempts to make something bigger fell flat, and that they should be pitied instead of hated. While Yahtzee has something of a point in that there are some mitigating circumstances to the criticisms of the game, his assertion that they shouldn't be criticized at all fell flat to some viewers. This is because the game retailed at full triple-A price for its ObviousBeta state, the DLC monetization features that should have been in the game from the start were inexplicably paywalled for an extra 10 dollars (including ''emotes'', which suggested to many viewers that it was a desperate cash-grab), and the developers couldn't even get the name of the game right [[NotHelpingYourCase in a statement apologizing for the game's poor quality]]. Nevertheless, he still listed it as his worst-reviewed game of 2023 on FullyRamblomatic.

* OvershadowedByControversy: ''ZP'' videos usually take in viewer numbers at 300k after a month, oftentimes more if the title reviewed is highly-anticipated. The view counts only ever dip below 300k on less-recognized games or non-review content. The final three ''ZP'' videos on the Escapist [=YouTube=] channel -- the 2023 compilation of all ''ZP'' episodes and [[CashCowFranchise the widely-recognized franchise entries]] of ''VideoGame/SonicSuperstars'' and ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2'' -- have 100k, 130k, and 210k views respectively after a month of release. This drop in popularity likely stems from the controversy surrounding Gamurs Group firing The Escapist editor-in-chief Nick Calandra, who Yahtzee quit with in solidarity, in addition to those videos being posted causing legal trouble for Yahtzee (Second Wind planned to release a ''Fully Ramblomatic'' on ''Spider Man 2'', but the ''ZP'' episode on it being released prevents them from doing that).

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: At the end of his ''VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsGollum'' review, Yahtzee states that, as bad as the game is, the sheer hatred directed at it is still a bit much; Creator/DaedalicEntertainment have only made point-and-click adventure games before this one, their attempts to make something bigger fell flat, and that they should be pitied instead of hated. While Yahtzee has something of a point in that there are some mitigating circumstances to the criticisms of the game, his assertion that they shouldn't be criticized at all fell flat to some viewers. This is because the game retailed at full triple-A price for its ObviousBeta state, the DLC monetization features that should have been in the game from the start were inexplicably paywalled for an extra 10 dollars (including ''emotes'', which suggested to many viewers that it was a desperate cash-grab), and the developers couldn't even get the name of the game right [[NotHelpingYourCase in a statement apologizing for the game's poor quality]].

** While he did later acknowledge that "warfighter" is an actual term used by the military which rather justifies its usage as a subtitle, he still notes that this didn't make the title of ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorWarfighter'' any less ridiculous.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: At the end of his ''VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsGollum'' review, Yahtzee states that, as bad as the game is, the sheer hatred directed at it is still a bit much; Creator/DaedalicEntertainment have only made point-and-click adventure games before this one, their attempts to make something bigger fell flat, and that they should be pitied instead of hated. However, any pity that people could've/would've/should've had for Daedalic goes out the window when they remember that A) the game retailed at full price, B) features that should have been in the game from the start were inexplicably paywalled for an extra 10 dollars (including ''emotes''), and C) the developers couldn't even get the name of the game right [[NotHelpingYourCase in a statement apologising for the game's poor quality]].

** Apparently, he thought that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower Flak Towers]] were completely fictional in his ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne'' review.