Absolutely. I too watch Zero Punctuation often and think it's hilarious, but as a Halo fan, some things frustrate me. For instance, he criticized Halo 3 on story factors after he admitted he had not played the first two. In his Thief review he comments that the innovations Combat Evolved introduced (limited weapons, regenerating health) were basically the downfall of FPS. And his avoidance of the multiplayer would be a bit easier to take if he hadn't put that rule aside for other games where multiplayer wasn't as important an aspect.
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In some ways he does let on that it's just his opinion (and sometimes not even that) with the Uncharted franchise he's given them negative reviews every time and then let on that he actually enjoyed the games a lot, so he probably does very deliberately play up the play up the bad bits. I'm actually surprised how inciteful insightful he can be some times although that can get obscured by the bias and humour.
But I think giving the bad side is overall a good thing so as you pointed out, your review is a good thing too :D and like almost all Accentuate The Negative he's definitely a in-small-doses thing
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Yahtzee is...difficult to describe. On one hand he is creative, funny, and fast pasted, but on the other hand he's narrow minded, arrogant, foul mouthed, and pretty much hates every single game that doesn't fall into the VERY limited category of genre and quality that he likes. Take my advice and approach his show with caution, even though it is without a doubt as funny as they come and as a Halo fan I have found myself laughing my ass off at his jabs at Halo...at first. The thing is (for me at least) you can only listen to your favorite games getting bashed so many times before it gets annoying, funny as it is. Now I still laugh at his reviews but not as hard as I used to and there is a putrid taste in my mouth as I do so, maybe because he called the Halo fanbase a bunch of meta-cunts, joke or not. While I agree that there are jerks in the fanbase (There are some in every fanbase) he was generalizing rather horribly. While everyone is entitled to their opinion, Yahtzee seems to hate everything and not just in his reviews for the sake of comedy, he genuinely hates everything, I'm pretty sure I can count all of the games that he has admitted to liking on my fingers.
After awhile I can't help but feel that his arguments can be really lousy, such as saying a game is bad because it revolves around cover based shooting. The thing about games is that they appeal to a certain crowd, and Yahtzee isn't in the crowd for anything mainstream. This wouldn't bug me so much if it he didn't state it like it was a fact instead of just his opinion, because in reality that's what critics do, they give you their opinion on the game. But like I said the reviews in themselves are downright hilarious but God knows I'm never actually going to take this guy's opinion on if I should buy a game or not. If you want to test the waters I would recommend watching a review on a game you've never played before as your first one and then imagine a review just like that on all games. If you don't mind watching games you like being torn to shreds, then you will probably love this show, if you don't, I recommend you steer clear. Some of you may say that I'm being harsh on Yahtzee but he himself has said that the worst thing you can do to an artist is say that their art is perfect when it isn't and God knows he isn't holding back, so neither am I.