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3	* IdiotHero: [[VideoGame/RedFactionArmageddon Darius Mason]] [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3942-Red-Faction-Armageddon pissed him off]] to no end:
4	-->"Not to dampen your sense of victory, Darius, mate, but why didn't you [fix the terraforming machine] three years ago ''right after it broke?'' You '''''DUMB''''' [{{dopeslap}}] '''''BALD''''' [dopeslap] '''''TWAT.'''''"
5	** Sergey Nechayev of ''VideoGame/AtomicHeart'' got Yahtzee's goat by not only having no clue as to what was going on, but actively ''refusing'' to listen to or accept any explanation for what was going on. As it tuns out, incuriosity is a dealbreaker for Yahtzee.
6	* IdiotPlot: Invoked by name when discussing ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', noting that the plot only works because more than half the fights are based on the characters being too stupid to realize they're not enemies.
7	* 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]][[invoked]]. Later on, after a few abortive attempts, he finally put in a serious effort to get into its CreatorDrivenSuccessor ''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 its quality is evident earlier), although he apparently never went back to give ''Demons' Souls'' another proper go (at least, not until the Playstation 5 remaster came out) and he counts the high barrier for entry as a negative for turning away new players and making those who get through smug.
8	* IKnewIt: [[invoked]] Subverted and Inverted in the case of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'': He states after playing two episodes that it will surely end with either the evil military coming, or a few characters going to live on an island. The main characters ''do'' start looking for a boat in Episode 4...[[spoiler:But it gets stolen in Episode 5]]. Yahtzee also laughed at the idea of anyone trying to invent a cure, or rebuild humanity. [[spoiler:Rebuilding is essentially exactly what the people in Wellington began attempting in Season 2.]]
9	* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon:
10	-->"All you really need to know is that there is a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. I wish I could make something like that up. It shoots shurikens and lightning; it could only be more awesome if it had tits and was ''[[IncendiaryExponent on fire]].''"
11	* ImTakingHimHomeWithMe: In his ''VideoGame/YakuzaDeadSouls'' review Yahtzee says "I just want to take [Akiyama] home and mount him to my kitchen wall so my kids will have an appropriate role model to look at over their Honey Nut Cheerios every morning".
12	* IndecisiveParody: One of his biggest problems with ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' was that its parody seemed to consist mostly of BetterThanABareBulb.
13	** He cites this trope when discussing ''[[VideoGame/TotallyAccurateBattleSimulator Totally Accurate Battlegrounds]]'', 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 pranking someone with a joke rubber steak, only for them to keep trying to eat it anyway and being confused as to why they can't, even after being repeatedly told that the steak is not real and it was just a prank, until you eventually just give up and resign yourself to cooking the idiot a real steak just to make them stop complaining.
14	* 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, two of whom die, and the people make more of a fuss over their dog dying in the game than the African American's death.
15	* InherentlyFunnyWords: Warfighter ([[RunningGag pa ha ha ha]]). In this case it's not so much that the word is funny in and of itself but rather that it's such a ludicrously silly example of DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment.
16	** Also from his review of ''VideoGame/{{Observer}}'': [[CountryMatters "Cuntblast".]]
17	** And from his review of ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'': "I very much enjoy saying the word 'plop'."
18	* InnocentBigot[=/=]HanlonsRazor: How he viewed the controversy surrounding ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'':
19	-->''...one really shouldn't worry about this sort of thing unless there's genuine hatred behind it, and I don't get that impression. Capcom aren't bad people, they're just idiots.''
20	* InopportuneVoiceCracking: His voice cracks in utter disbelief when he reads out how much ''Call of Duty Black Ops 4's'' Digital Deluxe premium edition costs (while still not containing a single player campaign):
21	-->''(voice gets noticibly higher) A hundred and thirty bucks the deluxe version costs!''
22	* InsignificantAnniversary: Yahtzee "celebrates" his 101st video... by reviewing the game he was planning on reviewing anyway.
23	* InsistentTerminology: "Jaaaaaaames" Sunderland of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' fame.
24	** Also, "Call of ''[[FunetikAksent Hwa-rez]]!''".
25	*** Also from that review, there's "Wee'um"[[labelnote:*]]William[[/labelnote]].
26	** And [[HeavyMetalUmlaut Brew]]-[[VideoGame/BrutalLegend tal Legend]].
27	** "Demon's-S-S-S-Souls", as a take on his difficulty in saying the name properly.
28	** "[[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} Ess-Tee-Ay-Ell-Kay-Ee-Ar: Clear Sky]]".
29	** "{{M\|MORPG}}umorpuguh" and "[[Platform/XboxLiveArcade Cus-blah]]" get a lot of use.
30	** "[[VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalur Kingdoms of Uhrrpadurr]]"
31	** "[[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Kid Icarus]]: Upskirting"
32	** "Split [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish Stroke]] Second Colon Velocity"
33	** "[[VideoGame/MaxPayne Max Complayne]]."
34	** "[[Film/ISpitOnYourGrave I Spit On]] Your [[VideoGame/TombRaider2013 Tomb]]"
35	** The game is called ''"A Shadow's Tale"'', not ''"VideoGame/LostInShadow"''.
36	** "[[VideoGame/{{Dishonored}} Dish On A Red]]"
37	** "[[Videogame/BeyondTwoSouls The Ellen Page David Cage Rage Gauge]]"
38	** "[[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Donkey Island]]" and "[[VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle Day of the Testicle]]"
39	** "[[{{VideoGame/Battlefield}} Twattlefield]]" and "[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Modern Borefare]]"
40	** And, of course, "[[TacticalShooter SpunkGargleWeeWee]]."
41	** "Cod Blops" for ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps".
42	** The "[[Platform/XboxOne XBone]]" and the "[[Platform/PlayStation4 PsPoor]]"
43	** "[[{{VideoGame/Flashback}} Flashback: Quest For Mediocrity]]": An LP of the maligned [[VideoGameRemake 3-D remake]].
44	** "[[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII Shite-ning and Hope-On-A-Rope.]]" ''(cue picture of Hope being lynched)''
45	** "[[VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight Faster Than Light]] Colon [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Faster Than Light]]"
46	** "[[VideoGame/WatchDogs Watch Underscore Dogs]]"
47	** "[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Irritable Bowser Syndrome]]"
48	** Middle Earth: Shadow of '''MORRRR-DORRR'''
49	** In his review of ''VideoGame/GhostReconBreakpoint'', he repeatedly referred to Creator/TomClancy as "a stinking corpse", just to remind people how tacky it is that Creator/{{Ubisoft}} continue to use his name to promote their games years after he died.
50	* InsultToRocks: In his review of {{VideoGame/Godzilla}}, he says the graphics look more at home on the [=PS2=].
51	-->And even THAT is being totally unfair on the [=PS2=]!
52	* InvincibleHero: He mentioned in his ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' review that Batman's status as this tends to undermine whatever threat the enemies have and whatever horror the game is trying to evoke.
53	-->''Batman is always the least interesting character in anything he's in.''
54	* IsometricProjection: He's not a fan of it, primarily because of the inevitable DepthPerplexion.
55	* JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant:
56	-->'''Yahtzee:''' I speak of one of the most notorious disappointments in the entire history of FirstPersonShooter[=s=].\
57	'''Random guy:''' Jesus Christ, Yahtzee. How many videos are you gonna do on ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''?\
58	'''Yahtzee:''' ''No'', you twat! [[VideoGame/{{Daikatana}} The]] ''[[VideoGame/{{Daikatana}} other]]'' [[VideoGame/{{Daikatana}} one!]]
59	* ItsEasySoItSucks: [[invoked]] Too many examples to count; one recurring gripe he has with games is finding a GameBreaker (or at least, something too BoringButPractical to the point of overshadowing everything else) then trivializing the game and/or its upgrade system with it, such as in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3''.
60	** Discussed more critically with ''VideoGame/{{Vampyr}}'', where he claims the game being [[GameplayAndStorySegregation easy undermined its dramatic thrust]] - the idea was that killing your close friends will make you more powerful, but he found that the game was never difficult enough that he felt like he needed to do so, which caused the main moral quandary of the game to fall flat (to the point that Reid's vampiric status almost felt like an InformedAbility).
61	* ItsHardSoItSucks: Also brings this up with games like ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', and ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}''. [[invoked]]
62	** He went into a bit more depth on the subject in his review of ''VideoGame/TheSurge'', where he defined "the Tropic of Fuckabout", which he described as "the point where high difficulty stops being a stimulating challenge and becomes merely fucking me about". In this case, the point that made him RageQuit the entire game was when he managed to push through the third boss' hideous CameraScrew issues and nearly had it beaten after countless failed attempts, only to glitch through the floor and fall to his death.
63	--->''No.'' That's ''too much.'' That's gone ''right'' over the Tropic of Fuckabout on a jet-ski full of dicks. I'm ''done.''
64	* ItsPersonal: During the ''Videogame/SteelBattalion: Heavy Armor'' review (which lasted a minute before moving onto something else) Yahtzee admits he picked it for no other reason than the box blurb saying "the Kinect had finally found its hardcore game" and "I interpreted that as a challenge":
65	-->'''Caption:''' "The Kinect finally has its hardcore game"[[note]]"So suck it, Croshaw!"[[/note]]
66	* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Joked about. [[invoked]]
67	--> One should always support the independents, at least until they start making money, the ''soulless sellout fucks.''
68	** Admittedly, averted by his ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2'' review, in which he admits that things are often mainstream because they're good. (Or because Creator/WillSmith is in it.)
69	* ItsShortSoItSucks: [[invoked]] Inverted with ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''
70	--> OK, it's only two to three hours long, but that's a good length for it, it means that it doesn't outstay its welcome
71	* ItsThePrincipleOfTheThing: Yahtzee often rates games that aren't necessarily ''that'' bad higher (or lower, depending on your point of view) on his worst games of the year list than games that are mechanically less-playable but also less offensive to him. He clarified this in 2014 when he declared ''VideoGame/Thief2014'' his worst game of the year, ahead of hot messes such as ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'' and ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' licensed game, because it upset him much more with how it defiled one of his favourite series, and on several occasions his pick for worst of the year is a big-name game that many other people liked, such as multiple ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' games and, perhaps most controversially, ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs2''.
72	-->'''Yahtzee:''' The worst game needn’t necessarily be the most objectively badly-made or frustrating one, but the game with the worst intentions.
73	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks:[[invoked]] He tends to be particularly critical of sequels that don't add much or differ from what the original was. Examples including ''VideoGame/BioShock2'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', and, to a smaller point, ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2''.
74	** Frequently brings this up with ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''. For the record, he actually thought that the original ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' was a good game, he only hates the games that came after it. As of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'', he's lumped that in with the ''VideoGame/FIFASoccer'' and ''VideoGame/MaddenNFL'' series as a yearly sequel that doesn't actually alter much.
75	** One of his overarching criticisms of Nintendo’s franchises falls under this. With ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' Yahtzee states that by finally playing on it, it only soured his opinion more on ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]''. He also raged against ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' for this, claiming it had no right to exist when the past games it ostensibly copied from were better.
76	** Yahtzee specifically refused to include ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' into his Top 5 games of 2016 for this reason, despite actually enjoying the game. Similarly, neither ''Battlefield'' nor ''Call Of Duty'' have been included in any of his top 5s because it was "getting too obvious".
77	** {{Subverted\|Trope}}, however, with certain sequels that he considers to basically be the first game again but better, and which consequently make the first game completely obsolete and redundant, such as ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2, VideoGame/HandOfFate 2'' and ''[[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy We Love Katamari]]''. In fact, in his review of the remaster of ''Katamari Damacy'', he pointed out that the original game [[NoExportForYou had never been released in the West the first time around]], but its superior sequel had, which meant that rereleasing the original at this point was asking people to play a worse version of a game they could have played years ago.
78	* ItsUpToYou: He notes that early missions in ''[[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky]]'' have a tendency to solve themselves, which is a good attempt to avert this, but a bit bizarre to play.
79	* ItWasHisSled: [[invoked]] {{Lampshaded}}; before pointing out the flaws of the plot of ''Creator/TomClancy's VideoGame/{{HAWX}}'', he says to stop paying attention until the "generic rock music" of the credits if you want to avoid spoilers. In the credits his avatar and a single imp hand out a series of this type of spoilers (they even start with [[Film/CitizenKane THAT sled]]).
80	** Generally speaking, he'll take care to avoid spoilers if he'll recommend the game, while games that earn his scorn he will ''gleefully'' invoke this trope with.
81	* JackassGenie: He has a good time pointing this out in his ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal2012'' review, pointing out that the characters [[GenreBlind seem abnormally quick to trust that Calypso will grant their wishes as intended.]] Demonstrated in the visuals by Sweet Tooth saying "I wish for my popularity to explode," followed by [[StrappedToARocket exactly what you'd expect.]] (Considering one of the characters in the game wished to be on the world's largest runway and was crushed by an airplane seconds later, it's barely an exaggeration.)
82	* JerkassHasAPoint: Pretty much the premise of his reviews; he accurately points out problems in games while tearing into the developers who produced them and the consumers who continue to buy and defend them.
83	* JerkassRealization: The release of ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' and his wanting to like it despite it obviously sucking led to one. Kind of.
84	-->Even as I played, that part of me that takes an almost sexual joy in ruining other people's fun turned upon myself and said, "Yahtzee, you and I both know that you have [[CausticCritic pushed games off subway train platforms]] [symbolized by ''VideoGame/BioShock2''] when they had less problems than this." Oh, God, you're right! There's just no excuse for loading times this long unless you're a fucking ''removals van!''
85	* JetPack: A rarely-occuring, but noteworthy trope that Yahtzee [[CreatorThumbprint enjoys quite a lot]] -- ''VideoGame/DarkVoid'' managed to get into his good graces for having gameplay centered around the use of it, and ''VideoGame/{{Firefall}}'' was one of his better-reviewed [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMOs]] as it enabled a level of exploration that he felt was lacking in other [=MMOs=].
86	* {{Jingle}}: First done as an improvised tune during a ''Let's Drown Out..." video, it became the theme for his Gaming History videos.
87	-->♪ Let's all laugh at an industry ♫\
88	♫ That never learns anything, tee hee hee! ♪
89	* JokeExhaustion: At the end of the review of ''Franchise/TombRaider'', Yahtzee had vowed not to make any boob jokes, ends with him rambling on about them at very high speed, getting all the jokes that had been building up out of his system.
90	* JustAddWater: He generally hates the trope since it's unrealistic to glue rocks to a stick with bear shit and get an assault rifle, but gives ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'' a pass for it because the game uses "a Franchise/StarTrek replicator" to [[JustifiedTrope justify]] the magical crafting.
91	* JumpingTheShark: [[invoked]] {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in the end credits of his ''LEGO Indy'' review, the first time the new, original opening and closing song was used, rather than two licensed songs:
92	--> "Now this is all looking a lot more professional, isn't it, although I'm certain some of you pricks are already putting this down as my shark jumping moment."
93	* JustOneMoreLevel:
94	** ''Videogame/{{Peggle}}'' (and other Creator/PopCapGames) is [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7-Peggle described]] as "the gaming equivalent of premium crack cocaine."
95	---> "I started playing ''Videogame/{{Peggle}}'' in the afternoon, and emerged some time later to find the authorities had declared me legally dead."
96	** After flooding prevented him from leaving his apartment and thus getting a new game to review:
97	---> First thought: "Oh, cock! All the nearest game retailers are in the CBD[[note]]Central Business District[[/note]] because some retarded pile of cartilage on the town planning department thought it'd be a great idea to put thirty EB Games shops within the same ten square yards." Second thought: "Oh, balls! With humanitarian aid selfishly obstructing the delivery services, I won't be seeing any of my imports any time soon, either!" Third thought: "Oh, goody! That means I can go back inside and keep playing ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''!"
98	** "A good [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox]] is one where you can mess about for hours after making the hollow promise to yourself that you'll stop any minute now, and ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'' certainly has that."
99	*** He also states that ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}'' is the prince of jumping around time wasting. Claiming that even the mere act of getting around the city is surprisingly addicting.
100	** ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' certainly [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6468-XCOM-Enemy-Unknown qualifies]]:
101	--->'''Yahtzee:''' "I was just going to play a bit of the next mission but I ended up playing the whole thing and then the next two"
102	** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' despite all the flaws he points out he says the game is very addicting and requires a lot of committed time and he will probably resume playing the game after his review is done.
103	*** However, Yahtzee seems to have abandoned this opinion since playing VideoGame/SaintsRow2.
104	---->'''Yahtzee:''' [I] was spending most of my time in a blurry haze in which I mistook the slightest mental stimulation for actual fun. It wasn't until recently when Saints Row 2 came along that I remembered what a fun sandbox game is and isn't.
105	* KavorkaMan: When playing ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'', he was baffled to discover that Senor Koquonfaes (a Mii he created that had manipulated the Mii face tools to have a cock for a face) ended up being the most popular Mii around, eventually shacking it up with X from ''Literature/{{Jam}}''.
106	* KickTheDog: In his ''VideoGame/{{Fable\|I}}'' review:
107	--> [[NoAnimalsWereHarmed No puppies were harmed in the making of this video]], [[ByNoIMeanYes except for one who genuinely deserved it.]]
108	* KillAndReplace: Accused [[VideoGame/{{Resistance}} Insomniac Games]] of murdering Creator/{{Valve\|Software}} and making a skin suit out of it.
109	* KilledMidSentence: In the review for ''VideoGame/NeverDead'', Yahtzee and his day laborer imps go back in time and stuff the game developers into a hessian sack one by one:
110	-->'''Yahtzee:''' "And," says another developer sticking whiteboard markers up his nose, "let's constantly put some monsters around that can instantly game over you if they suck in your disembodied head, but you can avoid it by completing a quick-time even--" ''[one quick-time event even says onscreen, "{{Press X to Not D\|ie}}--" before it gets interrupted by Yahtzee]'' Get in the fuckin' sack!
111	* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Shown in the end credits for the ''VideoGame/HardReset'' review:
112	-->I gave your mum a hard reset last night and it certainly rebooted her operating system if you know what I mean.
113	* LampshadedTheObscureReference: Yahtzee describes the disembodied voices of ''VideoGame/EverybodysGoneToTheRapture'' as like "''Radio/TheArchers'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''[[{{Franchise/Quatermass}} Quatermass and the Pit]]''. Blimey, no one's going to fucking get that one."
114	** He claims to have painted his submarine in ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'' [[Music/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.]]"
115	* LampshadeHanging: The end tag on the ''VideoGame/GuitarHero III'' review, regarding the art style.
116	-->"Did no-one else think it was weird for the character in image 110 to be wearing a sling when he only has free-floating circular hands?"
117	** He made a similar joke in his review of ''VideoGame/WolfensteinYoungblood'':
118	--->''I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of narrative-based franchises that have been "improved" by making the latest installment co-op focused; I don't have any fingers on my hand 'cos it's a featureless white circle. Kind of surprised it took you this long to notice.''
119	** The entire opening of ''[[VideoGame/JustCause Just Cause 2]]'' was one giant, lovingly crafted {{lampshade\|Hanging}} about the PunBasedTitle that the name ''VideoGame/JustCause'' offers -- in the format "Why X?" "VideoGame/JustCause!". He then subverts it -- see RuleOfThree.
120	* LandDownUnder: Yahtzee was born in Britain but moved to Australia, and often makes jokes about it. Later, he moved again, to America.
121	* LastSecondWordSwap
122	** When trying to get through his review of ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary'' without mentioning Lara's boobs, he almost flubbed it when he was reminiscing about how he'd be playing [[VideoGame/TombRaiderI the original]] as a teenager and would "back her up into a corner to get the best view of her juicy... thighs."[[note]]"Phew, that was a close one!"[[/note]]
123	** Having expressed contempt for how fans of the original ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' had completely ruined the concept of "cake" by overuse of the "The cake is a lie" meme, he had to catch himself during his review of [[VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} the sequel]] when describing how in the original "the humor was the icing on the, uh, the French Fancy."
124	** He observed that the "hilarious dialogue" in ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive'' "wouldn't understand timing if you shoved an alarm clock up its... flagpole."
125	* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: Later reviews have Yahtzee speak a little slower than earlier ones, in addition to actual pauses for punctuation.
126	* LateExportForYou: [[InvokedTrope He complained about this rather frequently while living in Australia]], as the country is notorious for having this happen.
127	* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: The cross-dressing contest between [[VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}} Cole]] and [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} Alex]].
128	** Same could be said regarding RTS games. After his experience with ''VideoGame/HaloWars'', Yahtzee has apparently decided to never touch the genre again.
129	** Explained further in "On RTS", in which he explains he's not good at RTS ''and'' he doesn't like the impersonal disconnect one gets between story characters and units and the player.
130	* LimitedSocialCircle: "I asked everyone I know and neither of them had heard of it either." (''VideoGame/NieR'')
131	* LiteralMinded: At the end of his VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII2017 review:
132	-->'''Yahtzee:''' "Seriously, fuck Creator/{{E\|lectronicArts}}A."
133	-->'''Bystander:''' (literally doing the EA logo from behind) "Way ahead of ya, Yahtz."
134	-->'''Yahtzee:''' "Well, fuck them a notch less sensitively, then!"
135	* LonersAreFreaks: {{Discussed\|Trope}} in his column on "[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/9967-Hating-Multiplayer-Creep Hating Multiplayer Creep]]". It is unsurprisingly a PetPeeveTrope of his.
136	* LongRunners: The series first began in 2007 and continued up until 2023 with no sign of stopping, only unexpectedly ending when ExecutiveMeddling resulted in Yahtzee quitting Website/TheEscapist (which retained the rights to the name and assets). 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 easily enough. Sure enough, after ending it was immediately replaced by its CreatorDrivenSuccessor ''WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic''.
137	* LoopholeAbuse:
138	** 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.
139	---> (Intro plays) "[[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' [[ToMakeALongStoryShort is a good game.]]]]" (Outro)
140	** Yahtzee points out a loophole in his "[[ItsTheSameNowItSucks no lazy sequels to games he already likes]]" rule regarding the Top 5 list: it doesn't apply to blatant ripoffs of games he already likes, especially if it's better than what he already likes.[[invoked]]

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