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** Yahtzee specifically refused to include ''Dark Souls III'' into his top 5 games of 2017 for this reason, despite actually enjoying the game.

* LoopholeAbuse: Traditionally, Yahtzee's annual Top/Bottom 5 lists only consist of games he's personally reviewed. For 2015, because he hadn't formally reviewed it yet, he shoves in a 10-second review of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' at the beginning of the "Top 5 of 2015" video in order to qualify it for the list.
** (Intro plays) [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' [[ToMakeALongStoryShort is a good game.]]]] (Outro)

* ILikedItBetterWhenItSucked: [[invoked]]He claimed to find ''VideoGame/{{Sacred}} 3'' a lot less fun than the infamous ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'', since while the latter was incompetent drama with completely broken gameplay and therefore hilarious, the other was incompetent comedy with incredibly bland gameplay and therefore painful. He said something similar about ''VideoGame/DaysGone'', which he went so far as to call "''Ride To Hell'', but actually functional."

* LateExportForYou: Being an Australian resident, he complains about this rather frequently, as the country is notorious for having this happen.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: ''Deus Ex: Human Revolution'' has breathtaking visuals, the impish appeal of stealth, rewarding exploration, but most importantly, you can pick up every vending machine in the building and pack them in the office of your least favorite co-worker.

* {{Longrunners}}: The series first began in 2007 and still continues now. In one of his streams, Yahtzee said that he thought he would make reviews for a few years until he was successful enough in his other pursuits (such as writing and making games), but producing videos weekly has become easy enough for him that he sees no reason to stop, as he can balance it with his other work easy enough.

* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: When Yahtzee first played ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls,'' he couldn't handle its [[NintendoHard monstrous difficulty]], only getting 2/3 of the way through his second post-tutorial level before throwing in the towel and declaring it to be [[ItsHardSoItSucks hard enough to prevent it being any fun]]. Later on, after a few abortive attempts, he finally put in a serious effort to get into its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' and found himself loving it and the rest of the series wholeheartedly (in his defence, some think you really do have to work ''very'' hard to get into games in the Soulslike genre; many others think it’s quality is evident earlier), although he apparently never went back to give ''Demons' Souls'' another proper go.

* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: When Yahtzee first played ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls,'' he couldn't handle its [[NintendoHard monstrous difficulty]], only getting 2/3 of the way through his second post-tutorial level before throwing in the towel and declaring it to be [[ItsHardSoItSucks hard enough to prevent it being any fun]]. Later on, after a few abortive attempts, he finally put in a serious effort to get into its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' and found himself loving it and the rest of the series wholeheartedly (in his defence, you really do have to work ''very'' hard to get into games in the Soulslike genre), although he apparently never went back to give ''Demons' Souls'' another proper go.

* IndecisiveDeconstruction: He considers ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'''s label of "dark fantasy" to be laughable, naming the difference between it and any other piece of Tolkienesque fantasy to be one of degrees. Sure, [[BloodierAndGorier it's bloody]] and [[HotterAndSexier there's sex in it]] and [[RealIsBrown the palette's all brown]], but you're still living in a MedievalStasis world, you still choose between [[OurElvesAreBetter an agile pointy-eared elf]], [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame a stout bearded dwarf]], and [[HumansAreBastards an asshole human]], your classes are still the warrior/rogue/mage combo that's been around since ''OD&D'', and you still run around with an adventuring party, doing odd jobs and fighting AlwaysChaoticEvil monsters.

* IndecisiveParody: One of his biggest problems with ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' was that its parody seemed to consist mostly of BetterThanABareBulb.
** He cites this trope when discussing ''VideoGame/TotallyAccurateBattlegrounds'', noting that jokes aside, the game was a pretty complete recreation of a battle-royale shooter experience and surprisingly not that high on comedy, and the developer's continued support of the game suggested that they were at the very least taking the project a lot more seriously than a parody would suggest. He compares it to someone tricking a person into eating a joke rubber steak, and then when they confusedly keep asking why they can't eat the steak, resigning themselves to making a proper steak for the person.

* ILikedItBetterWhenItSucked: [[invoked]]He claimed to find ''VideoGame/{{Sacred}} 3'' a lot less fun than the infamous ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'', since while the latter was incompetent drama with completely broken gameplay and therefore hilarious, the other was incompetent comedy with incredibly bland gameplay and therefore painful.

* ILikedItBetterWhenItSucked: [[invoked]]He claimed to find ''VideoGame/Sacred3'' a lot less fun than the infamous ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'', since while the latter was incompetent drama with completely broken gameplay and therefore hilarious, the other was incompetent comedy with incredibly bland gameplay and therefore painful.

** Inevitably scattered everywhere in his review of ''VideoGame/Risen3TitanLords'', but the crowning came in his closing joke:

* InopportuneVoiceCracking: His voice cracks in utter disbelief when he reads out how much the games's Digital Deluxe premium edition costs:

** He claims to have painted his submarine in ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'' [[Creator/TheBeatles yellow]] and named it "The YokoOhNo." He then adds "I was going to paint it pink and call it the Creator/BlakeEdwards, but [[Film/OperationPetticoat I didn't think anyone would get that.]]"

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* InferredHolocaust: [[invoked]] States that one of these most happened during ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'' where America launched a genocide against everyone that isn't a "burly white dude'' noting that the campaign only has three who you don't have to kill, all of the whom die, and that people make more of a fuss over their dog dying in the game than the African American's death.

** ItsHardSoItSucks: Also brings this up with games like ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', and ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}''.

--> No puppies were harmed in the making of this video, [[ByNoIMeanYes except for one who genuinely deserved it]].

* IncrediblyLamePun: On occasion, not just of the [[VisualPun visual variety:]]

** The game is called ''"VideoGame/AShadowsTale"'', not ''"Lost In Shadow"''.

** "[[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Donkey Island]]" and "[[VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle Day of the Testicle"]]