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** Yahtzee has recently started to replace the colon (:) in certain videogame titles with a dry heave sound, starting with his video on ''Lichdom HEURGH Battlemage''.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Discussed in one "Let's Drown Out", where he discussed the idea of a show that was exactly the same as ''{{Dexter}}'' only the main character was a rapist instead of a murderer.
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* StealthInsult: His ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' review features "Killing in the Name" (which contains the [[LoopedLyrics repeated line]] "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me") by Rage Against the Machine playing over the end credits, which becomes hilarious when you consider that he has spent most of the review telling people who suggest things to him to get fucked.
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* StealthInsult: His ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' review features "Killing in the Name" (which contains the [[LoopedLyrics repeated line]] "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me") by Rage Against the Machine playing over the end credits, which becomes hilarious when you consider that he has spent most of the review telling people who suggest things to him to get fucked. fucked.
* StealthPun: a corker in his ''HyruleWarriors'' review: "Greasy baps are Team Ninja's bread and butter..."
** But it only remains a StealthPun for about a second before he lampshades it: "...if you see what I did there."
* StealthPun: a corker in his ''HyruleWarriors'' review: "Greasy baps are Team Ninja's bread and butter..."
** But it only remains a StealthPun for about a second before he lampshades it: "...if you see what I did there."
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** Conversely, he praised ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' for being based on this, but criticized that it perhaps showed a bit too much and told too little; he felt as though the developers thought the target audience would already be familiar with Tolkien's more obscure stories.
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* RebusBubble: According to Yahtzee, the formula for the cutest thing ever is sum of teddy bear and [[ThePowerpuffGirls Powerpuff Girl]] divided by [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] equals [[LittleBigPlanet Sackboy]].
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* RebusBubble: According to Yahtzee, the formula for the cutest thing ever is sum of teddy bear and [[ThePowerpuffGirls Powerpuff Girl]] divided by [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] equals [[LittleBigPlanet [[VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet Sackboy]].
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--> ''If you're going to burn a bridge you might want to wait first to make sure the other two bridges don't spontaneously combust.''
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** Yahtzee also used ''Videogame/FTLFasterThanLight'' in a similar manner. Faster than Light: Whiter than White, Faster than Light: Piggies and Shits, Faster than Light: Shit's Getting Tight, and Faster than Light: Riddled with Spite.
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** Whenever the splicers from ''Franchise/Bioshock'' come up, he refers to them as sploicers, as a jab at Atlas's overly thick Irish accent.
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** Whenever the splicers from ''Franchise/Bioshock'' ''{{Franchise/Bioshock}}'' come up, he refers to them as sploicers, as a jab at Atlas's overly thick Irish accent.
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** Whenever the splicers from ''Franchise/Bioshock'' come up, he refers to them as sploicers, as a jab at Atlas's overly thick Cockney accent.
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** Whenever the splicers from ''Franchise/Bioshock'' come up, he refers to them as sploicers, as a jab at Atlas's overly thick Cockney accent.
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* RightWayWrongWayPair: Terry and Gonad from the ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'' review, with Terry presenting interesting gaming concepts while Gonad finds ways to make those concepts either inconvenient or downright unusable.
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* RPGElements: Interestingly, he actually defined what he considers to be the difference between this trope and a fully-fledged RPG game (or hybrid action-RPG). A game with RPG elements, in Yahtzee's view, merely allows the player to marginally improve skills or weapons that they essentially already know how to use (e.g. improving the reload time on a shotgun they can already aim and fire accurately) and will not force the player to specialize in a particular area (so they can be equally competent at an assortment of different skillsets). A fully-fledged RPG, by contrast, will render the player largely incompetent at any skill they haven't invested experience points in, and will force the player to specialize in particular skills.
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** Referring to many subgenres of games (namely of the WideOpenSandbox variety) as X-'em-ups. ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' is a mindfuck-tiger-'em-up, ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' is a petty-crim-footstool-vehicle-related-inner-thighs-'em-up, etc.
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Says this happened when playing the third ''VideoGame/Uncharated'' game, that Drake is now coming after him.
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** Yahtzee saying something risque only to stop himself and go "sorry, lost my train of thought".
** Two characters who get along skipping while holding hands.
** Two characters who get along skipping while holding hands.
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** Yahtzee getting distracted while saying something risque only to stop himself and go going "sorry, lost my train of thought".
** Two characters who get along skipping while holding hands.thought".
** Two characters who get along skipping while holding hands.
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** Yahtzee saying something risque only to stop himself and go "sorry, lost my train of thought", leaning his head on his desk.
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** Yahtzee saying something risque only to stop himself and go "sorry, lost my train of thought", leaning his head on his desk.thought".
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* SandInMyEyes: "I'm not too proud to admit that I was welling up a bit at ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'''s good ending. ..A lil' bit. .. Well, not much at all really. It was more like just [[BritishStuffiness stoically nodding my head]] while [[RealMenHateAffection doing some pelvic thrusts and grunting]]."
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** Yahtzee saying something risque only to stop himself and go "sorry, lost my train of thought", leaning his head on his desk.
** Two characters who get along skipping while holding hands.
* SandInMyEyes: "I'm not too proud to admit that I was welling up a bit at ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'''s good ending. ..A lil'bit. ..bit... Well, not much at all really. It was more like just [[BritishStuffiness stoically nodding my head]] while [[RealMenHateAffection doing some pelvic thrusts and grunting]]."
** Two characters who get along skipping while holding hands.
* SandInMyEyes: "I'm not too proud to admit that I was welling up a bit at ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'''s good ending. ..A lil'
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** Starting in his review of ''[[VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon Luigi's Mansion 2]]'', Yahtzee starts showing deep sexual feelings for Luigi (a RunningGag throughout the first review that briefly returns in the ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' when recounting the Cat Suit - ''not'' Luigi in a SpyCatsuit).
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** Starting in his review of ''[[VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon Luigi's Mansion 2]]'', Yahtzee starts showing deep sexual feelings for Luigi (a RunningGag throughout the first review that briefly returns in the ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' review when recounting the Cat Suit - ''not'' Luigi in a SpyCatsuit).
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Branston Pickle, Cadbury's Creme eggs, and cornettos.
** As of 2014, he seems to have supplanted all three with "PIES!"
** As of 2014, he seems to have supplanted all three with "PIES!"
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Branston Pickle, Cadbury's Creme eggs, cornettos and cornettos.
** As of 2014, he seems to have supplanted all three with "PIES!"pies. The imps like Pedigree dog food.
** As of 2014, he seems to have supplanted all three with "PIES!"
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* SpotlightStealingSquad: Complains about this in AliensVsPredator where despite the title, the [[SpaceMarine Colonial Marine]] campaign is by far the longest of the three, and it's just a generic FPS game.
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* RuleOfThree:` [[spoiler: Subverted]] in the ''[[VideoGame/JustCause Just Cause 2]]'' review, with regards to the obvious puns.
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* RuleOfThree:` RuleOfThree: [[spoiler: Subverted]] in the ''[[VideoGame/JustCause Just Cause 2]]'' review, with regards to the obvious puns.
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* SpoofedWithTheirOwnWords: The review of ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Warfighter]] opens with Yahtzee stating that normally, he makes fun of a game by increasingly altering the title through the review until it gradually becomes ridiculous. In this case, he says that he can't do that, because there's nothing more silly than simply using its actual name.
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* SpoofedWithTheirOwnWords: The review of ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Warfighter]] Warfighter]]'' opens with Yahtzee stating that normally, he makes fun of a game by increasingly altering the title through the review until it gradually becomes ridiculous. In this case, he says that he can't do that, because there's nothing more silly than simply using its actual name. He maintained that the title was absolutely ridiculous even after learning that "warfighter" is in fact a term used by the American military.
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** As of 2014, he seems to have supplanted all three with "PIES!"
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** Suggested in his FinalFantasy 13 review:
-->"This 'Hope' guy has been established from the start as a [[OverlyLongGag whiney, weak, inept, cowardly, socially-retarded, mummy’s boy]], so presumably he’s the character most of the audience is meant to project onto."
-->"This 'Hope' guy has been established from the start as a [[OverlyLongGag whiney, weak, inept, cowardly, socially-retarded, mummy’s boy]], so presumably he’s the character most of the audience is meant to project onto."
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** Rattling off a list of numbered sequels and turning it into a football score, i.e., (''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} 2'', ''{{Spiderman}} 2'', ''Arsenal: 3'').
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** Rattling off a list of numbered sequels and turning it into a football score, i.e., (''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} 2'', ''[[VideoGame/ThiefIITheMetalAge Thief 2]]'', ''{{Spiderman}} 2'', ''Arsenal: 3'').
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* {{Sequelphobic}}: Yahtzee isn't ''inherently'' against the idea of sequels, but he's extremely critical of most due to their alleged lack of innovation. Franchises that go in new directions are preferred, and several of his liked games (''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} 2'', ''{{Spiderman}} 2'', [[RunningGag Arsenal: 3]]) are all sequels. In point of fact, every single game he has named his game of the year (''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', ''VideoGame/JustCause 2'' and ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') has been part of an existing franchise (if not necessarily a direct sequel).
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* {{Sequelphobic}}: Yahtzee isn't ''inherently'' against the idea of sequels, but he's extremely critical of most due to their alleged lack of innovation. Franchises that go in new directions are preferred, and several of his liked games (''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} 2'', ''[[VideoGame/ThiefIITheMetalAge Thief 2]]'', ''{{Spiderman}} 2'', [[RunningGag Arsenal: 3]]) are all sequels. In point of fact, every single game he has named his game of the year (''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', ''VideoGame/JustCause 2'' and ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') has been part of an existing franchise (if not necessarily a direct sequel).
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* ReadingsOffTheScale: States this the reason he didn't bring up ''RideToHellRetribution'' on his worst games of 2013, the game is so horrible it barely even qualifies as a video game.
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* ReadingsOffTheScale: ReadingsAreOffTheScale: States this the reason he didn't bring up ''RideToHellRetribution'' on his worst games of 2013, 2013. He considers the game is to be so horrible horrible, it barely even qualifies as a video game.
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* TitleConfusion: Comments that ''LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' should be called "Luigi's Mansions" since Luigi goes through multiple mansions in the game.
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* QueerPeopleAreFunny: Quite a lot. His ''ArmyOfTwo'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/32-Army-of-Two review]] even opened with him [[DiscussedTrope discussing]] his own over-reliance on gay jokes and how he'd been trying to cut down on them but the game he was reviewing that week was just [[HoYay such an obvious target]] for them.
* RagingStiffie: Mentions the trope by name when describing his [[CargoShip nostalgic feelings]] for ''VideoGame/SilentHill2''.
** Apparently, his strategy for survival in ''DayZ'' devolved into slowly crawling about using his "raging adrenaline stiffie."
* RapidFireComedy: One of its defining features, helped by Yahtzee's MotorMouth and the blink-and-you-miss-it speed at which many visual gags flash by.
* ARareSentence: Wanna hear something crazy? "Titty-fuck labrador swimming up The Nile." [-...Oh yeah, and he [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/4181-Driver-San-Francisco liked]] ''DriverSanFrancisco''.-]
** "But once I'd mentally adjusted for Batman's underpants..." is captioned with "I bet no one's ever said this before."
** Yahtzee says this about describing ''DayZ'' as "at best, unreasonably cruel".
* RaymanianLimbs: People in the webcomic have these. When he reviews ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'', [[HypocriticalHumor he insists this to be the reason Rayman has been out of the spotlight, giving his avatar limbs for just that part of the review]].
* RealIsBrown: A particular dislike of Yahtzee's. Mentioned quite a few times, like in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' review.
* RealMenWearPink: He mentions dressing up his ''VideoGame/TabulaRasa'' avatar and Shepard from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' in bright pink.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The {{Webcomics}} is very critical of CtrlAltDel's "Loss" arc.
** The start of his ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' review is one of these directed at the ignorant GearsOfWar-buying crowd.
** A quick one aimed at elitist hardcore gamers on "Quantum Conundrum."
** One towards people who've only played modern shooters in the MedalOfHonor Warfighter/Doom 3 BFG Edition when they say Yahtzee doesn't like shooters.
* RebusBubble: According to Yahtzee, the formula for the cutest thing ever is sum of teddy bear and [[ThePowerpuffGirls Powerpuff Girl]] divided by [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] equals [[LittleBigPlanet Sackboy]].
* RecordNeedleScratch: In the ''NoMoreHeroes'' review, as previously mentioned.
* RetGone: The final product of ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' was apparently such a transcendental work of awesomeness that it collapsed reality and ended up being cancelled before completion in the new timeline. Now the new version sadly fails to live up to the "original".
* RevenueEnhancingDevices: Yahtzee is very critical of publishers who put critical aspects of their games on DLC and has snarked at [=MMORPGs=] that [[FakeLongevity pad out their runtime]] in order to wring more money out of their userbase.
* RhymingList: In the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations'' review, he mentions that in ''MetroidPrime'', scans would result in "The name of the monster (Fish [=McTarse=]), a hint on how to kill it (blast his arse), and its favorite song from DavidBowie's ''Hunky Dory'' album ("Life on Mars")."
** Also appears in the review of ''Medal of Honor: Airborne'', where every subsequent use of "fucking bastard" is replaced with a visual rhyme, like so:
--> Fucking bastard
--> Flocking [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bustard bustard]]
--> Sock in mustard
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The Imp.
* RidiculousFutureSequelisation: Yahtzee invokes it in his ''Videogame/{{Peggle}}'' review:
-->'''Yahtzee:''' "Once your budget hits seven digits you're supposed to make Gun Battle Slap Fight Thirty-Seven for the Playstation Twelve...!
* RockBeatsLaser: Invoked in his ''MedalOfHonor: Warfighter'' review, in which he points out that the soldiers in the game have a massive technological advantage against the supposed villains. Upon describing the assault drone sequences, in which the player remotely controls a heavily-armed robot to mow down enemy guerrillas, whose only means of defeating it is to bash it with a rock.
-->"[[HeelRealization We've got killdroids, they've got rocks]]. [[ReturnOfTheJedi We are Imperial Stormtroopers massacring the Ewoks!]]"
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Mentioned in his ''Driver: San Francisco'' review by name.
* TheRoleplayer: Yahtzee states that he does roleplay when playing [=RPGs=] because it's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the entire point of the genre]]. This ranges from deciding that Hawke should be gay after primarily taking the sarcastic dialog options to not making his Skyrim character a KleptomaniacHero by saying that the character has a hatred of success.
* RuleOfThree:` [[spoiler: Subverted]] in the ''[[VideoGame/JustCause Just Cause 2]]'' review, with regards to the obvious puns.
** His main complaint of ''{{Darksiders}}'' 2 is the fact you always need to find 3 of something to get past every dungeon.
* RuleThirtyFour: "I checked and yep, there's already erotic fanart of the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII FF13]] characters."
** Also, his character from his ''Age of Conan'' review ("Thinderella, the Necromantic Naturist") got hit, which he even acknowledged in a later review.
* RunningGag: {{PRESS X TO NOT DIE}} is Guaranteed to show up in a review of a game with quick time events.
** Also the caption "Oh no everyone can see my bum."
** Nose-picking is mentioned frequently when talking about [[ArtificialAtmosphericActions mundane actions]] on the part of either the player or {{NPC}}s.
** Yahtzee references making a {{supervillain}} [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox game]] called "Mankind Has Yet To Recognize My Genius, The Game" at least twice.
** Also, the image of that red-haired guy. For those who don't know, he's one of Thomas Ruff's "Expressionless Faces" found in one of Yahtzee's Google Image searches.
** The phrase "Triple-Cunted Hooker".
** Every time Hitler makes an appearance he's accompanied by a caption saying ACH.
** "People always say to me: Yahtzee, you (description indicating manliness...)"
** Ending sentences (and reviews) with: "[[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday ...not gay!]]"
** Whenever a character is praised for having "personality", this is indicated by a [[NiceHat funny hat]] and one-liner of some sort. Bowser wears a top hat and [[HighClassGlass monocle]] while quoting Shakespearean verse; in ''Driver: San Francisco'', it was a musketeer who crashes into a loaf of bread and deadpans, "Looks like I'm ''bread'' for success"; In ''[=CoD: Ghosts=]'', the dog puts on a bowler, sunglasses, and chomps on cigars like a stand-up comic.
** In his review of ''Driver: San Francisco'', ''SERVE AND PROTECT'' is used sarcastically on the cop protagonist's ability to possess drivers to crash into one another.
** Rattling off a list of numbered sequels and turning it into a football score, i.e., (''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} 2'', ''{{Spiderman}} 2'', ''Arsenal: 3'').
*** The best example comes from his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/10-The-Orange-Box review]] of ''The Orange Box'':
---->"...Half Life 2, Episode 2, Manchester United nil. Now then, Team Fortress 2... Liverpool 3. Sorry, I'll stop this now."
** Within the ''DeadToRights: Retribution'' Dead to Rights: [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1717-Dead-to-Rights-Retribution review]], the Dead To Rights: recurring joke of Yahtzee [[OverlyLongGag Dead To Rights: replacing]] every RE- word with the game's title, but the RE- word in place of Retribution. Likewise a similar gag was done for ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'''s WordSaladTitle.
** In a similar fashion, Yahtzee took ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' and complained that the game is neither red nor dead. He then went to call the game throughout the review by several alternate names, namely [[RealIsBrown Brown Alive Redemption]], Blue Poo Atonement, Green Spleen Submarine, and then [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Purple Monkey Dishwasher]].
** Similar to the ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' example above, Yahtzee kept changing the title of ''AliceMadnessReturns'' for things like ''Return of the Madness'', ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', ''[[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Return of Jafar]]'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns''.
** A character bending over and asking to be, er, taken advantage of will always be saying "In mah butt".
** Various sound effects, such as "THRRRP" or "WURRGH".
** Pulling out his "Like ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' [[SerialNumbersFiledOff but]]" stamp.
** "Hungry Hungry Hippos" seems to becoming one of these as well.
** His evident dislike of Glasgow.
** He uses the term "Eating all the pies" to mean taking up space at least twice.
** Floating {{Hallucinations}} commanding people to '''"KILL THE WHORES"'''
** "CHAERG"
** Ferreo Rochers may be becoming one.
** Monsters go "abloogy woogy woo".
** Dancers go "hootah hoo".
** Calling cookie-cutter modern military cover-based regenerating-health FPS games that he refuses to classify as typical shooters (Such as VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}, VideoGame/CallOfDuty, VideoGame/MedalOfHonor, etc.) by the term, [=SpunkGargleWeeWee=]. As of E3 2013, he's replaced redefined the term slightly to replace "modern" with a NoSidepathsNoExplorationNoFreedom, specifically one in which the player is dragged along a linear procession of pre-determined, barely-interactive setpieces, through overcrowded war scenes that are so noisy and chaotic they become totally meaningless, so many [=NPC=]s that any contribution you're making is negligible at best, and no context for who you are or who you're slaughtering, except that you are obviously the aggressor and considerably better-equipped.
** Calling any example of generic zombie-based media (games or movies) "Dem Cunts Be Dead".
** Yahtzee makes a mentioning of Drake's hair behaving "like it's held in place with polymer cement." The subsequent reviews of the other Uncharted game shows bullets bouncing off Drake's hair, and when Yahtzee muses that with all the damage Drake takes, he will probably end up as "a big pile of giblets and teeth", said pile is shown with Drake's hair-do proudly sitting completely unharmed on top of it.
** Any time Yahtzee calls a game "absorbing", it's seen literally absorbing him with a "SHLORP" sound effect.
* SandInMyEyes: "I'm not too proud to admit that I was welling up a bit at ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'''s good ending. ..A lil' bit. .. Well, not much at all really. It was more like just [[BritishStuffiness stoically nodding my head]] while [[RealMenHateAffection doing some pelvic thrusts and grunting]]."
* SarcasmMode: The entire ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever review]]. Let's start from the fact that he's reviewing a game that (at the time) was canceled and work from there. The part that qualifies this as this trope is the bit at the end where he points out there is no actual game, as the lawyers told him to do.
* [[SchrodingersCat Schrödinger's Cat]]: In his "Console Rundown", he compares his Xbox360 to a Schrodinger's Console, constantly swinging between a broken and unbroken state.
* ScreamerTrailer: The ending of the ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' review, as an obvious homage to J-horror movies such as ''Film/TheRing'' and ''Film/TheGrudge''.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: What he believed the plan to DC Universe to be, claiming if there were enough crazies in the world the Aliens would just go away rather than get involved.
* SelfDeprecation: While his ''Zero Punctuation'' persona is obviously an arrogant CausticCritic, Yahtzee is known for making blunt, humourous digs at himself from time to time.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' review notes that if people didn't try to kill [=DeWitt=] for being the guy who would kill everyone and fuck everything up, [=DeWitt=] wouldn't be killing everyone and fucking everything up.
* {{Sequelphobic}}: Yahtzee isn't ''inherently'' against the idea of sequels, but he's extremely critical of most due to their alleged lack of innovation. Franchises that go in new directions are preferred, and several of his liked games (''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} 2'', ''{{Spiderman}} 2'', [[RunningGag Arsenal: 3]]) are all sequels. In point of fact, every single game he has named his game of the year (''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', ''VideoGame/JustCause 2'' and ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') has been part of an existing franchise (if not necessarily a direct sequel).
* SerialNumbersFiledOff:[[invoked]] Has accused many games of being this, most notably ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' to ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'', and ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' to ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''.
* ShootTheTV: Halfway into playing ''Medal of Honor: Warfighter'', he put the controller down. Not content with shutting off the console, Yahtzee puts it in terms the game can understand: Blasting the set to smithereens with a revolver.
* ShowDontTell: An advocate of this. One of the few negative criticisms he made of ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'' was that it relies too heavily on telling over showing, given that most of the narrative is conveyed via disconnected text screens after each chapter.
* SincerestFormOfFlattery: In his ''[[VideoGame/{{Resistance}} Resistance 3]]'' review, Yahtzee grows more and more suspicious of the game's marked (if well-executed) similarities to ''Half-Life 2''.
* SirSwearsALot: To the point that he [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] in his review of ''{{WET}}'', where he claims Rubi considers swearing to be wit, yelling out, "[[HypocriticalHumor That's my thing!]]"
* SitchSexuality: Yahtzee's utter adoration of Creator/StephenFry's [[ArousedByTheirVoice voice]] in the ''LittleBigPlanet'' review.
** He starts his review of ''BrutalLegend'' by professing his adoration for TimSchafer, including stating that if he had a doomsday machine he'd reduce the entire population of the world to himself, Schafer, and one woman if she promised to wear a Schafer mask.
** It's clear from his review of ''Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon'' that he's got some deep sexual feelings for...Luigi. Something about the mustache apparently does it for him.
** Starting in his review of ''[[VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon Luigi's Mansion 2]]'', Yahtzee starts showing deep sexual feelings for Luigi (a RunningGag throughout the first review that briefly returns in the ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' when recounting the Cat Suit - ''not'' Luigi in a SpyCatsuit).
* ShoehornedFirstLetter: "''[[SeriousSam BFE]]'' stands for ''Before First Encounter'' - not, as I had first believed, ''Big Fucking Egun''..."
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/ZeroPunctuation Lots.]]
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The review of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' has a random protagonist quoting {{Theatre/Hamlet}}.
* SoBadItsGood: In-universe. His opinion on ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'', in which he called it the video game equivalent of ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.
--> ''It's bad. It's explosively apocalyptically bad and you should totally buy it. I'm serious, you have to see this shit!''
* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: In-universe, this is his opinion of ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed''. He even uses the same line graph as Webcomic/{{xkcd}}.
* SoLongSuckers: Warned EA against this in his ''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7417-Next-Gen-Buyers-Guide Next Gen Buyer's Guide]]'' episode. With Sony and Microsoft's futures uncertain, now is not the time to burn your bridges with Nintendo.
* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: At the end of his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' review.
--> [[LampshadeHanging Some of his best friends are Italian]]\\
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw.
** Later, he remarks that the protagonists of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'' are only mildly annoyed by [[BlackDudeDiesFirst their sole black member dying]], mostly because they can't use this argument on the internet anymore.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' review, which of course was all made up, as well as the ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' review which was, except for the introduction, entirely in limerick form, including the tag-ending text.
** His trip to Washington, D.C.
** His FauxToGuide on webcomics and the "Post-Brawl Mailbag Showdown" might count as well, particularly the former.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Many examples over the years.
* SpiritualLicensee: A lot of comparisons are drawn between ''LAConfidential'' and ''LANoire''. [[invoked]]
** He referred to VideoGame/{{Painkiller}} as "The unofficial [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doom 3]]".
* SpoofAesop: The lesson of ''Catherine'' seems to be "men are all directionless tidal waves, and [[AccidentalInnuendo women are all dikes]] built in the path of their raging floods."
-->"...Blimey, [[ThatCameOutWrong what a badly-worded metaphor.]]"''
* SpoofedWithTheirOwnWords: The review of ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Warfighter]] opens with Yahtzee stating that normally, he makes fun of a game by increasingly altering the title through the review until it gradually becomes ridiculous. In this case, he says that he can't do that, because there's nothing more silly than simply using its actual name.
* StarbucksSkinScale: A ButNotTooBlack character is dismissed as "dipped in tea".
* StealthInsult: His ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' review features "Killing in the Name" (which contains the [[LoopedLyrics repeated line]] "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me") by Rage Against the Machine playing over the end credits, which becomes hilarious when you consider that he has spent most of the review telling people who suggest things to him to get fucked.
* StorybookOpening: ''RedFaction Guerrilla''.
* StoryToGameplayRatio: Yahtzee's a bit hard to pin down on this one, but the important things are that the amount of story must fit the game and that StoryAndGameplaySegregation must not intrude. ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' is his definitive example of getting the balance right.
* StoutStrength: An odd example, he refers to any large muscular character as fat even if they have an impossibly fit and overmuscled build.
* StupidSexyFlanders: He naturally identifies more with Luigi than his brother, Mario. Yahtzee being Yahtzee, this later became a repressed crush on the character.
-->"So, the new feature is [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld Cat Suits]]. Meaning suits made to look like cats, not Luigi running around in [[SpyCatsuit skintight]] -- sorry, lost my train of thought."
* SturgeonsLaw: Applied frequently, with an even more negative twist: "Everything is shit until proven otherwise", a.k.a. "the Guantanamo Bay approach".
* StylisticSuck: An [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/108-Webcomics example]] of a [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel nameless, professional webcomic]] reacting to one of his critiques: a crude stick figure wearing a hat.
-->''Blah blah blah look at me i'm a [[BigStupidDooDooHead big foreign dipshit]] who isn't funny anymore\\
Also my hat is stupid and there are too many ads at the ends of my videos\\
Balls go in my mouth now''
* SubliminalSeduction: In his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/616-50-Cent-Blood-on-the-Sand 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand review]], [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yzblackfriend.jpg this]] ImageMacro quickly pops up several times during the video.
* SuicideAsComedy: A RunningGag where he will try to kill himself.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: See HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday.
** In the review for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', Bruce Wayne is represented with a man wearing a t-shirt saying "[[PaperThinDisguise Not Batman]]".
* SweepingAshes: Following hours of arduous work in ''{{VideoGame/Starbound}}'', building a "distress beacon" as instructed, his house gets obliterated by UFO -- which immediately turns its sights on Yahtzee himself, reducing him to a skid mark wearing a hat.
-->'''Game:''' Guess you'd better build ''another'' Distress Beacon, then.\\
'''Yahtzee:''' I've got a better idea, ''Starbound''. Why don't you see if you can find one [[StuffedIntoATrashcan at the bottom of this bin?]]
* [[TakeAThirdOption Take a Fourth Option]]: Invoked at the end of the "Next Gen Buyer's Guide" to answer the overarching question "Should I go with the Wii U, [=PS4=], or Xbox One?"
-->So to summarize this buyer's guide to next gen consoles, ''DON'T''.
* TakeThat: Many targets, many times.
** "I do point out every little thing there's bad about a game. But then again, I'm a critic! It would be weird if I didn't. If I put people's balls in my mouth for a living, I'd be a prostitute, or possibly a [=GameSpot=] employee."
* TalksLikeASimile: For humorous effect, given the nature of the similes. As an example, one of them involved the voice acting in a game being comparable to being raped in the ear by a man wearing a sandpaper condom. Though technically it wasn't ''him'' who said it, it was his roommate. And "Not in those exact words, of course."
** Matt maintains he actually described it as like driving a corkscrew into his ears.
--> "I wonder if the Geneva Convention covers torturing metaphors?"
* TankGoodness: In ''Franchise/{{Halo}} Wars''.
-->"There's no reason to build any troops, really. Tanks don't move any slower, they just take longer to build and, well, ''they're fucking tanks!''"
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The female imps have red bows on their heads.
* TestosteronePoisoning: A common topic of jokes, but he doesn't like seeing it played straight.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: After ''[=RE6=]'' netted the 5th Worst of 2012 spot, Yahtzee realized that the franchise's title is apropos.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://zeropunctuation.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Right here.]] It contains transcripts of all his reviews, which can be helpful on those occasions when he talks too fast for you to understand every word.
* ThisIsGoingToSuck: At the start of his ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' review, he mentions having this reaction after responses to his ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' began coming in.
-->"When the game started to lose me, I wasn't sitting there, rubbing my fingerless-gloved hands in glee. No, I was sitting there thinking, 'Ugh, I am ''definitely'' getting some fucking stimulating e-mails after this one."
* ThisLoserIsYou: Yahtzee's hatred for this trope is made plain in his ''TransformersWarForCybertron'' review, where he derides Shia [=LeBeouf=]'s various characters in ways like, "Indiana Jones is over thirty? No one can relate to that!"
* TickleTorture: The way he illustrates the mentioned the initial torture sesions of ''Black Ops''.
* ToMakeALongStoryShort: Joked about on the ''Spore'' review
* TooAwesomeToUse: Brought up in his ''Mercenaries 2'' video, with him calling it the "But I might need it later" thought.
* TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup: He brings this up frequently about the large-name corporations running the big-budget titles, and even brings up how such lack of discipline ruined ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2''.
** He takes this metaphor to [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8892-Extra-Punctuation-Action-Is-Not-Finisher-Porn extraordinary lengths]] in ''Extra Punctuation''.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Branston Pickle, Cadbury's Creme eggs, and cornettos.
* TranquilFury: Yahtzee uses it in his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on his VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Warfighter and Doom 3 BFG Edition review, where he calls out people who claim he doesn't like shooters.
* {{Troll}}: Yahtzee once reflects that he's seen as a "professional troll," which he imagines as a hulking creature lurking under a bridge, handing out business cards.
* {{Troperiffic}}: Many of the entrance quotes of the Trope pages are from him.
* TwentyBearAsses: One of his reasons for hating {{MMORPG}}s is because most quests are variants of this. A sight gag from his ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' video is him running from a cougar holding a pile of [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian otter noses]] while the caption "7/8 OTTER NOSES" floats over him.
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* RagingStiffie: Mentions the trope by name when describing his [[CargoShip nostalgic feelings]] for ''VideoGame/SilentHill2''.
** Apparently, his strategy for survival in ''DayZ'' devolved into slowly crawling about using his "raging adrenaline stiffie."
* RapidFireComedy: One of its defining features, helped by Yahtzee's MotorMouth and the blink-and-you-miss-it speed at which many visual gags flash by.
* ARareSentence: Wanna hear something crazy? "Titty-fuck labrador swimming up The Nile." [-...Oh yeah, and he [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/4181-Driver-San-Francisco liked]] ''DriverSanFrancisco''.-]
** "But once I'd mentally adjusted for Batman's underpants..." is captioned with "I bet no one's ever said this before."
** Yahtzee says this about describing ''DayZ'' as "at best, unreasonably cruel".
* RaymanianLimbs: People in the webcomic have these. When he reviews ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'', [[HypocriticalHumor he insists this to be the reason Rayman has been out of the spotlight, giving his avatar limbs for just that part of the review]].
* RealIsBrown: A particular dislike of Yahtzee's. Mentioned quite a few times, like in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' review.
* RealMenWearPink: He mentions dressing up his ''VideoGame/TabulaRasa'' avatar and Shepard from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' in bright pink.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The {{Webcomics}} is very critical of CtrlAltDel's "Loss" arc.
** The start of his ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' review is one of these directed at the ignorant GearsOfWar-buying crowd.
** A quick one aimed at elitist hardcore gamers on "Quantum Conundrum."
** One towards people who've only played modern shooters in the MedalOfHonor Warfighter/Doom 3 BFG Edition when they say Yahtzee doesn't like shooters.
* RebusBubble: According to Yahtzee, the formula for the cutest thing ever is sum of teddy bear and [[ThePowerpuffGirls Powerpuff Girl]] divided by [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] equals [[LittleBigPlanet Sackboy]].
* RecordNeedleScratch: In the ''NoMoreHeroes'' review, as previously mentioned.
* RetGone: The final product of ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' was apparently such a transcendental work of awesomeness that it collapsed reality and ended up being cancelled before completion in the new timeline. Now the new version sadly fails to live up to the "original".
* RevenueEnhancingDevices: Yahtzee is very critical of publishers who put critical aspects of their games on DLC and has snarked at [=MMORPGs=] that [[FakeLongevity pad out their runtime]] in order to wring more money out of their userbase.
* RhymingList: In the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations'' review, he mentions that in ''MetroidPrime'', scans would result in "The name of the monster (Fish [=McTarse=]), a hint on how to kill it (blast his arse), and its favorite song from DavidBowie's ''Hunky Dory'' album ("Life on Mars")."
** Also appears in the review of ''Medal of Honor: Airborne'', where every subsequent use of "fucking bastard" is replaced with a visual rhyme, like so:
--> Fucking bastard
--> Flocking [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bustard bustard]]
--> Sock in mustard
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The Imp.
* RidiculousFutureSequelisation: Yahtzee invokes it in his ''Videogame/{{Peggle}}'' review:
-->'''Yahtzee:''' "Once your budget hits seven digits you're supposed to make Gun Battle Slap Fight Thirty-Seven for the Playstation Twelve...!
* RockBeatsLaser: Invoked in his ''MedalOfHonor: Warfighter'' review, in which he points out that the soldiers in the game have a massive technological advantage against the supposed villains. Upon describing the assault drone sequences, in which the player remotely controls a heavily-armed robot to mow down enemy guerrillas, whose only means of defeating it is to bash it with a rock.
-->"[[HeelRealization We've got killdroids, they've got rocks]]. [[ReturnOfTheJedi We are Imperial Stormtroopers massacring the Ewoks!]]"
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Mentioned in his ''Driver: San Francisco'' review by name.
* TheRoleplayer: Yahtzee states that he does roleplay when playing [=RPGs=] because it's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the entire point of the genre]]. This ranges from deciding that Hawke should be gay after primarily taking the sarcastic dialog options to not making his Skyrim character a KleptomaniacHero by saying that the character has a hatred of success.
* RuleOfThree:` [[spoiler: Subverted]] in the ''[[VideoGame/JustCause Just Cause 2]]'' review, with regards to the obvious puns.
** His main complaint of ''{{Darksiders}}'' 2 is the fact you always need to find 3 of something to get past every dungeon.
* RuleThirtyFour: "I checked and yep, there's already erotic fanart of the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII FF13]] characters."
** Also, his character from his ''Age of Conan'' review ("Thinderella, the Necromantic Naturist") got hit, which he even acknowledged in a later review.
* RunningGag: {{PRESS X TO NOT DIE}} is Guaranteed to show up in a review of a game with quick time events.
** Also the caption "Oh no everyone can see my bum."
** Nose-picking is mentioned frequently when talking about [[ArtificialAtmosphericActions mundane actions]] on the part of either the player or {{NPC}}s.
** Yahtzee references making a {{supervillain}} [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox game]] called "Mankind Has Yet To Recognize My Genius, The Game" at least twice.
** Also, the image of that red-haired guy. For those who don't know, he's one of Thomas Ruff's "Expressionless Faces" found in one of Yahtzee's Google Image searches.
** The phrase "Triple-Cunted Hooker".
** Every time Hitler makes an appearance he's accompanied by a caption saying ACH.
** "People always say to me: Yahtzee, you (description indicating manliness...)"
** Ending sentences (and reviews) with: "[[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday ...not gay!]]"
** Whenever a character is praised for having "personality", this is indicated by a [[NiceHat funny hat]] and one-liner of some sort. Bowser wears a top hat and [[HighClassGlass monocle]] while quoting Shakespearean verse; in ''Driver: San Francisco'', it was a musketeer who crashes into a loaf of bread and deadpans, "Looks like I'm ''bread'' for success"; In ''[=CoD: Ghosts=]'', the dog puts on a bowler, sunglasses, and chomps on cigars like a stand-up comic.
** In his review of ''Driver: San Francisco'', ''SERVE AND PROTECT'' is used sarcastically on the cop protagonist's ability to possess drivers to crash into one another.
** Rattling off a list of numbered sequels and turning it into a football score, i.e., (''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} 2'', ''{{Spiderman}} 2'', ''Arsenal: 3'').
*** The best example comes from his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/10-The-Orange-Box review]] of ''The Orange Box'':
---->"...Half Life 2, Episode 2, Manchester United nil. Now then, Team Fortress 2... Liverpool 3. Sorry, I'll stop this now."
** Within the ''DeadToRights: Retribution'' Dead to Rights: [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1717-Dead-to-Rights-Retribution review]], the Dead To Rights: recurring joke of Yahtzee [[OverlyLongGag Dead To Rights: replacing]] every RE- word with the game's title, but the RE- word in place of Retribution. Likewise a similar gag was done for ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'''s WordSaladTitle.
** In a similar fashion, Yahtzee took ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' and complained that the game is neither red nor dead. He then went to call the game throughout the review by several alternate names, namely [[RealIsBrown Brown Alive Redemption]], Blue Poo Atonement, Green Spleen Submarine, and then [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Purple Monkey Dishwasher]].
** Similar to the ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' example above, Yahtzee kept changing the title of ''AliceMadnessReturns'' for things like ''Return of the Madness'', ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', ''[[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Return of Jafar]]'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns''.
** A character bending over and asking to be, er, taken advantage of will always be saying "In mah butt".
** Various sound effects, such as "THRRRP" or "WURRGH".
** Pulling out his "Like ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' [[SerialNumbersFiledOff but]]" stamp.
** "Hungry Hungry Hippos" seems to becoming one of these as well.
** His evident dislike of Glasgow.
** He uses the term "Eating all the pies" to mean taking up space at least twice.
** Floating {{Hallucinations}} commanding people to '''"KILL THE WHORES"'''
** "CHAERG"
** Ferreo Rochers may be becoming one.
** Monsters go "abloogy woogy woo".
** Dancers go "hootah hoo".
** Calling cookie-cutter modern military cover-based regenerating-health FPS games that he refuses to classify as typical shooters (Such as VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}, VideoGame/CallOfDuty, VideoGame/MedalOfHonor, etc.) by the term, [=SpunkGargleWeeWee=]. As of E3 2013, he's replaced redefined the term slightly to replace "modern" with a NoSidepathsNoExplorationNoFreedom, specifically one in which the player is dragged along a linear procession of pre-determined, barely-interactive setpieces, through overcrowded war scenes that are so noisy and chaotic they become totally meaningless, so many [=NPC=]s that any contribution you're making is negligible at best, and no context for who you are or who you're slaughtering, except that you are obviously the aggressor and considerably better-equipped.
** Calling any example of generic zombie-based media (games or movies) "Dem Cunts Be Dead".
** Yahtzee makes a mentioning of Drake's hair behaving "like it's held in place with polymer cement." The subsequent reviews of the other Uncharted game shows bullets bouncing off Drake's hair, and when Yahtzee muses that with all the damage Drake takes, he will probably end up as "a big pile of giblets and teeth", said pile is shown with Drake's hair-do proudly sitting completely unharmed on top of it.
** Any time Yahtzee calls a game "absorbing", it's seen literally absorbing him with a "SHLORP" sound effect.
* SandInMyEyes: "I'm not too proud to admit that I was welling up a bit at ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'''s good ending. ..A lil' bit. .. Well, not much at all really. It was more like just [[BritishStuffiness stoically nodding my head]] while [[RealMenHateAffection doing some pelvic thrusts and grunting]]."
* SarcasmMode: The entire ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever review]]. Let's start from the fact that he's reviewing a game that (at the time) was canceled and work from there. The part that qualifies this as this trope is the bit at the end where he points out there is no actual game, as the lawyers told him to do.
* [[SchrodingersCat Schrödinger's Cat]]: In his "Console Rundown", he compares his Xbox360 to a Schrodinger's Console, constantly swinging between a broken and unbroken state.
* ScreamerTrailer: The ending of the ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' review, as an obvious homage to J-horror movies such as ''Film/TheRing'' and ''Film/TheGrudge''.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: What he believed the plan to DC Universe to be, claiming if there were enough crazies in the world the Aliens would just go away rather than get involved.
* SelfDeprecation: While his ''Zero Punctuation'' persona is obviously an arrogant CausticCritic, Yahtzee is known for making blunt, humourous digs at himself from time to time.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' review notes that if people didn't try to kill [=DeWitt=] for being the guy who would kill everyone and fuck everything up, [=DeWitt=] wouldn't be killing everyone and fucking everything up.
* {{Sequelphobic}}: Yahtzee isn't ''inherently'' against the idea of sequels, but he's extremely critical of most due to their alleged lack of innovation. Franchises that go in new directions are preferred, and several of his liked games (''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} 2'', ''{{Spiderman}} 2'', [[RunningGag Arsenal: 3]]) are all sequels. In point of fact, every single game he has named his game of the year (''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', ''VideoGame/JustCause 2'' and ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') has been part of an existing franchise (if not necessarily a direct sequel).
* SerialNumbersFiledOff:[[invoked]] Has accused many games of being this, most notably ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' to ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'', and ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' to ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''.
* ShootTheTV: Halfway into playing ''Medal of Honor: Warfighter'', he put the controller down. Not content with shutting off the console, Yahtzee puts it in terms the game can understand: Blasting the set to smithereens with a revolver.
* ShowDontTell: An advocate of this. One of the few negative criticisms he made of ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'' was that it relies too heavily on telling over showing, given that most of the narrative is conveyed via disconnected text screens after each chapter.
* SincerestFormOfFlattery: In his ''[[VideoGame/{{Resistance}} Resistance 3]]'' review, Yahtzee grows more and more suspicious of the game's marked (if well-executed) similarities to ''Half-Life 2''.
* SirSwearsALot: To the point that he [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] in his review of ''{{WET}}'', where he claims Rubi considers swearing to be wit, yelling out, "[[HypocriticalHumor That's my thing!]]"
* SitchSexuality: Yahtzee's utter adoration of Creator/StephenFry's [[ArousedByTheirVoice voice]] in the ''LittleBigPlanet'' review.
** He starts his review of ''BrutalLegend'' by professing his adoration for TimSchafer, including stating that if he had a doomsday machine he'd reduce the entire population of the world to himself, Schafer, and one woman if she promised to wear a Schafer mask.
** It's clear from his review of ''Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon'' that he's got some deep sexual feelings for...Luigi. Something about the mustache apparently does it for him.
** Starting in his review of ''[[VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon Luigi's Mansion 2]]'', Yahtzee starts showing deep sexual feelings for Luigi (a RunningGag throughout the first review that briefly returns in the ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' when recounting the Cat Suit - ''not'' Luigi in a SpyCatsuit).
* ShoehornedFirstLetter: "''[[SeriousSam BFE]]'' stands for ''Before First Encounter'' - not, as I had first believed, ''Big Fucking Egun''..."
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/ZeroPunctuation Lots.]]
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The review of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' has a random protagonist quoting {{Theatre/Hamlet}}.
* SoBadItsGood: In-universe. His opinion on ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'', in which he called it the video game equivalent of ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.
--> ''It's bad. It's explosively apocalyptically bad and you should totally buy it. I'm serious, you have to see this shit!''
* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: In-universe, this is his opinion of ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed''. He even uses the same line graph as Webcomic/{{xkcd}}.
* SoLongSuckers: Warned EA against this in his ''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7417-Next-Gen-Buyers-Guide Next Gen Buyer's Guide]]'' episode. With Sony and Microsoft's futures uncertain, now is not the time to burn your bridges with Nintendo.
* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: At the end of his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' review.
--> [[LampshadeHanging Some of his best friends are Italian]]\\
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw.
** Later, he remarks that the protagonists of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'' are only mildly annoyed by [[BlackDudeDiesFirst their sole black member dying]], mostly because they can't use this argument on the internet anymore.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' review, which of course was all made up, as well as the ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' review which was, except for the introduction, entirely in limerick form, including the tag-ending text.
** His trip to Washington, D.C.
** His FauxToGuide on webcomics and the "Post-Brawl Mailbag Showdown" might count as well, particularly the former.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Many examples over the years.
* SpiritualLicensee: A lot of comparisons are drawn between ''LAConfidential'' and ''LANoire''. [[invoked]]
** He referred to VideoGame/{{Painkiller}} as "The unofficial [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doom 3]]".
* SpoofAesop: The lesson of ''Catherine'' seems to be "men are all directionless tidal waves, and [[AccidentalInnuendo women are all dikes]] built in the path of their raging floods."
-->"...Blimey, [[ThatCameOutWrong what a badly-worded metaphor.]]"''
* SpoofedWithTheirOwnWords: The review of ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Warfighter]] opens with Yahtzee stating that normally, he makes fun of a game by increasingly altering the title through the review until it gradually becomes ridiculous. In this case, he says that he can't do that, because there's nothing more silly than simply using its actual name.
* StarbucksSkinScale: A ButNotTooBlack character is dismissed as "dipped in tea".
* StealthInsult: His ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' review features "Killing in the Name" (which contains the [[LoopedLyrics repeated line]] "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me") by Rage Against the Machine playing over the end credits, which becomes hilarious when you consider that he has spent most of the review telling people who suggest things to him to get fucked.
* StorybookOpening: ''RedFaction Guerrilla''.
* StoryToGameplayRatio: Yahtzee's a bit hard to pin down on this one, but the important things are that the amount of story must fit the game and that StoryAndGameplaySegregation must not intrude. ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' is his definitive example of getting the balance right.
* StoutStrength: An odd example, he refers to any large muscular character as fat even if they have an impossibly fit and overmuscled build.
* StupidSexyFlanders: He naturally identifies more with Luigi than his brother, Mario. Yahtzee being Yahtzee, this later became a repressed crush on the character.
-->"So, the new feature is [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld Cat Suits]]. Meaning suits made to look like cats, not Luigi running around in [[SpyCatsuit skintight]] -- sorry, lost my train of thought."
* SturgeonsLaw: Applied frequently, with an even more negative twist: "Everything is shit until proven otherwise", a.k.a. "the Guantanamo Bay approach".
* StylisticSuck: An [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/108-Webcomics example]] of a [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel nameless, professional webcomic]] reacting to one of his critiques: a crude stick figure wearing a hat.
-->''Blah blah blah look at me i'm a [[BigStupidDooDooHead big foreign dipshit]] who isn't funny anymore\\
Also my hat is stupid and there are too many ads at the ends of my videos\\
Balls go in my mouth now''
* SubliminalSeduction: In his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/616-50-Cent-Blood-on-the-Sand 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand review]], [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yzblackfriend.jpg this]] ImageMacro quickly pops up several times during the video.
* SuicideAsComedy: A RunningGag where he will try to kill himself.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: See HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday.
** In the review for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', Bruce Wayne is represented with a man wearing a t-shirt saying "[[PaperThinDisguise Not Batman]]".
* SweepingAshes: Following hours of arduous work in ''{{VideoGame/Starbound}}'', building a "distress beacon" as instructed, his house gets obliterated by UFO -- which immediately turns its sights on Yahtzee himself, reducing him to a skid mark wearing a hat.
-->'''Game:''' Guess you'd better build ''another'' Distress Beacon, then.\\
'''Yahtzee:''' I've got a better idea, ''Starbound''. Why don't you see if you can find one [[StuffedIntoATrashcan at the bottom of this bin?]]
* [[TakeAThirdOption Take a Fourth Option]]: Invoked at the end of the "Next Gen Buyer's Guide" to answer the overarching question "Should I go with the Wii U, [=PS4=], or Xbox One?"
-->So to summarize this buyer's guide to next gen consoles, ''DON'T''.
* TakeThat: Many targets, many times.
** "I do point out every little thing there's bad about a game. But then again, I'm a critic! It would be weird if I didn't. If I put people's balls in my mouth for a living, I'd be a prostitute, or possibly a [=GameSpot=] employee."
* TalksLikeASimile: For humorous effect, given the nature of the similes. As an example, one of them involved the voice acting in a game being comparable to being raped in the ear by a man wearing a sandpaper condom. Though technically it wasn't ''him'' who said it, it was his roommate. And "Not in those exact words, of course."
** Matt maintains he actually described it as like driving a corkscrew into his ears.
--> "I wonder if the Geneva Convention covers torturing metaphors?"
* TankGoodness: In ''Franchise/{{Halo}} Wars''.
-->"There's no reason to build any troops, really. Tanks don't move any slower, they just take longer to build and, well, ''they're fucking tanks!''"
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The female imps have red bows on their heads.
* TestosteronePoisoning: A common topic of jokes, but he doesn't like seeing it played straight.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: After ''[=RE6=]'' netted the 5th Worst of 2012 spot, Yahtzee realized that the franchise's title is apropos.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://zeropunctuation.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Right here.]] It contains transcripts of all his reviews, which can be helpful on those occasions when he talks too fast for you to understand every word.
* ThisIsGoingToSuck: At the start of his ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' review, he mentions having this reaction after responses to his ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' began coming in.
-->"When the game started to lose me, I wasn't sitting there, rubbing my fingerless-gloved hands in glee. No, I was sitting there thinking, 'Ugh, I am ''definitely'' getting some fucking stimulating e-mails after this one."
* ThisLoserIsYou: Yahtzee's hatred for this trope is made plain in his ''TransformersWarForCybertron'' review, where he derides Shia [=LeBeouf=]'s various characters in ways like, "Indiana Jones is over thirty? No one can relate to that!"
* TickleTorture: The way he illustrates the mentioned the initial torture sesions of ''Black Ops''.
* ToMakeALongStoryShort: Joked about on the ''Spore'' review
* TooAwesomeToUse: Brought up in his ''Mercenaries 2'' video, with him calling it the "But I might need it later" thought.
* TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup: He brings this up frequently about the large-name corporations running the big-budget titles, and even brings up how such lack of discipline ruined ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2''.
** He takes this metaphor to [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8892-Extra-Punctuation-Action-Is-Not-Finisher-Porn extraordinary lengths]] in ''Extra Punctuation''.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Branston Pickle, Cadbury's Creme eggs, and cornettos.
* TranquilFury: Yahtzee uses it in his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on his VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Warfighter and Doom 3 BFG Edition review, where he calls out people who claim he doesn't like shooters.
* {{Troll}}: Yahtzee once reflects that he's seen as a "professional troll," which he imagines as a hulking creature lurking under a bridge, handing out business cards.
* {{Troperiffic}}: Many of the entrance quotes of the Trope pages are from him.
* TwentyBearAsses: One of his reasons for hating {{MMORPG}}s is because most quests are variants of this. A sight gag from his ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' video is him running from a cougar holding a pile of [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian otter noses]] while the caption "7/8 OTTER NOSES" floats over him.
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