...Are you seriously implying that the game industry would improve if they pander to one nit-picker?
Yeah, I really don't get this review. Because Yahtzee isn't a critic, and doesn't criticize the games he "reviews, he doesn't have legitimacy, no, his complaints are no more valid then any other bitching on teh internets. (By criticize I mean break something down into its good and bad parts and explain why they're good and why they're bad.) So, as funny as he may or may not be, he's not a good critic and his satire is not really helpful.
"Whoa" Keanu Reeves
Your joking, right? Yahtzee accentuates the negative to the point where he admits that if it wasn't in the review, it's something he actually liked. The point of his videos is not to be informative, it's to be funny.
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Zero Punctuation: helpful acid.
Sometimes people ask "Why can't we have constructive satire?"
Zero Punctuation is satire aimed at modern video games. The purpose of satire is to attack and destroy, but despite appearances it is not necessarily nihilistic: satire is the acid you pour over something you love in the hope of burning away the bad bits.
Zero Punctuation is most effective and amusing when Yahtzee locks onto something we've all known is horrible at some level, but no-one has yet crystallised this knowledge. His coarse graphics and caustic gags are great at cutting through the surface gloss of modern games and getting to grips with the laughably idiotic.
Hopefully game designers watch Zero Punctuation and take positive lessons from it. Yahtzee might squarely place himself as bitter and misanthropic, but no-one gets that worked up unless they love the genre.
As other reviewers have noted in different ways, being a satirist is a poor fit with being a critic. This is the essential weakness of Zero Punctuation and of satire itself. It wouldn't be Zero Punctuation if you had any chance of telling a good game from a bad one, as seen though Yahtzee's eyes.