History ZeroPunctuation / TropesQToT

* {{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/ThiefIITheMetalAge Thief 2]]'', ''Franchise/{{Spiderman}} 2'', [[RunningGag Arsenal: 3]]) are either sequels or otherwise part of an existing franchise (as in the ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' trilogy). In point of fact, most of the games he has named his game of the year (''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', ''VideoGame/JustCause2'', ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' and ''VideoGame/Doom2016'') were part of an existing franchise (if not necessarily a direct sequel)[[note]]although the pattern was finally broken in 2015 by ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', then again by ''VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn'' in 2018, ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' in 2019 and ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'' in 2020[[/note]].

* ToTheBatnoun: One of the stingers in the end credits for the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' review says, "To the Commentmobile."

* StrictlyFormula: Historically one of his biggest {{Pet Peeve Trope}}s; he's willing to praise sequels but rarely these games. It's one of his biggest issues with Creator/{{Nintendo}}, with him going so far as to sum up ''Mario'' games as "grasslands, desert, forest, jungle, ice world, fire world, boss." It's also one of the main reasons he lost faith in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'', and Creator/{{Ubisoft}} sandbox games as a whole, as so many of them seemed to be working from the same framework. He also tends to say "yearly franchise" in the same tone as one would say "bloated corpse", taking the view that any franchise with yearly installments is either just the same thing over and over with slightly better graphics and tweaked mechanics, or pretending very badly not to be.

** He listed ''VideoGame/WatchDogsLegion'' as having a technically ambitious and interesting gameplay gimmick in the ability to recruit ''any'' random NPC with their own distinct abilities and agendas into the revolution, but ultimately felt it was underutilized for both story and [[UnderusedGameplayMechanic gameplay]]. With regards to the plot, Yahtzee felt it absolutely should resonate with the "everyone has the power to resist oppression" theme, but the need for the game to accommodate for this free-form structure left things feeling detached as there's no central characters with arcs to get invested in.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Branston Pickle, Cadbury's Creme eggs, and pies. In later seasons, he develops a liking for kebabs (donairs) and jaffa (chocolate-covered orange jam) cakes. The imps like Pedigree dog food.

* RebusBubble: According to Yahtzee, the formula for the cutest thing ever is sum of teddy bear and [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Powerpuff Girl]] divided by Franchise/{{P|okemon}}ikachu equals [[VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet Sackboy]].

** When talking about how VR games are the way of the future in his review of ''VideoGame/{{Boneworks}}:

--> ''"''[[VideoGame/SeriousSam3BFE BFE]]'' stands for ''Before First Encounter'' - not, as I had first believed, ''Big Fucking Egun''..."''

** Yahtzee will sometimes pass over games for this reason (''VideoGame/Metro2033'' for example), feeling that they were alright but didn't have enough worth saying to make a whole video on them or they came out in a swamped release window.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: His first review of ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'', which came out when the game was still VaporWare and consequently was completely made up, as well as the ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}}'' review which was, except for the introduction, entirely in limerick form, including the tag-ending text. Also his review of ''[[VideoGame/FIFASoccer FIFA 13]]'' where, owing to him not actually giving a toss about soccer games, he decided to [[InsaneTrollLogic review it without actually playing (or even buying) it]], leading to him repeatedly getting sidetracked and doing short reviews of three other games instead (''VideoGame/MarkOfTheNinja, VideoGame/{{Anna}}'' and ''VideoGame/TokyoJungle'').
** His trip to Washington, D.C.
** His FauxToGuide on webcomics and the "Post-Brawl Mailbag Showdown" might count as well, particularly the former.

* RageBreakingPoint: Yahtzee is usually negative and cynical about the games he reviews and sometimes gets outright angry, but it wasn't until he described how much he ''[[EightDeadlyWords loathed]]'' the characters in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 5'' that he exceeded his limit and ''snapped.'' [[invoked]]

* RageBreakingPoint: Yahtzee is usually negative and cynical about the games he reviews and sometimes gets outright angry, but it wasn't until he described how much he ''[[EightDeadlyWords loathed]]'' the characters in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 5'' that he exceeded his limit and ''snapped.''

** Mentions the trope by name when describing his [[CargoShip nostalgic feelings]] for ''VideoGame/SilentHill2''.

* QueerPeopleAreFunny: Quite a lot. His ''VideoGame/ArmyOfTwo'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/32-Army-of-Two review]] even opened with him {{discuss|edTrope}}ing 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. Mostly it's just though [[ToiletHumour low humour]]: if bums are funny, then bum sex is funnier.

* ShoehornedFirstLetter:
--> ''"''[[VideoGame/SeriousSam3BFE BFE]]'' stands for ''Before First Encounter'' - not, as I had first believed, ''Big Fucking Egun''..."''
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/ZeroPunctuation Lots.]]

* TheWikiRule: [[https://zeropunctuation.fandom.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.

* 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.

** A big irk for Yahtzee is games where protagonists are just as (if not more) unlikable than the antagonist, citing ''VideoGame/{{WET}}'', ''VideoGame/KaneAndLynch: Dog Days'' and the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' sequels as major examples.

* RagingStiffie: Mentions the trope by name when describing his [[CargoShip nostalgic feelings]] for ''VideoGame/SilentHill2''.

** A subtle one is that in his ''Extra Punctuation'' on ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'', he says that it is very arrogant and behind the times for Nintendo to not allow gay marriage. There isn't anything wrong with that statement, except the country he lived in, Australia, [[SocietyMarchesOn didn't allow gay marriage at the time]], although his birth country, Britain, did. Could be him being a {{Hypocrite}}, but it can also be a jab to his own country.

* TickleTorture: The way he illustrates the aforementioned torture sesions in ''Black Ops''.

* TickleTorture: The way he illustrates the mentioned the initial torture sesions of ''Black Ops''.

** It's clear from his review of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' that he's got some deep sexual feelings for...Luigi. Something about the mustache apparently does it for him. a RunningGag throughout the first review that briefly returns in the ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' review when recounting the Cat Suit - ''not'' Luigi in a SpyCatsuit.

* ThisIsGoingToSuck: At the start of his ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' review, he mentions having this reaction after responses to his ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' began coming in.

* RiseAndFallGangsterArc: He discussed the ubiquity of this trope in his ''VideoGame/MafiaII'' review:
-->I was able to accurately predict the entire story of ''Mafia II'' using only the fact that it's this game about TheMafia. The main character, I foretold with the game's box to my forehead, will start the game licking the mildew off his landlady's crystallized vagina to make rent and will be lured into organized crime by the money, the clothes, the pretty cars, the fast whores, ''etc.'', but after a brief heyday will be ordered to kill a friend, or a friend will be ordered to kill them, and they'll realize that '''CRIME DOES NOT PAY''' (except for all the money, and the clothes, and the pretty cars, and the fast whores ''etc.''). I have never seen a Mafia story where a bloke joins the Mafia and then everything is lovely forever. Why does society insist on demonising organized crime?