History Funny / ZeroPunctuation4

-->You creative auteur-type never think about the damage your [[GenreBusting genre-defying]] games are going to do! Think of all those innocent shitheads in the 2000s who bought ''VideoGame/Killer7'', because it was tentatively classified as a shooter, and ended up tragically suffering independent and generally becoming better human beings. And now, look! What convenient catch-all umbrella label am I supposed to put on ''Pyre'', Creator/SupergiantGames? I suppose there is always "action-adventure", but that is about as informative as a 19th century sex-manual! Oh, you want to "think outside the box" do you? Well, maybe sometimes I like being in a box, 'cause it's warm in a box, and safe, [[{{Metaphogotten}} and sometimes it contains packets of cheesy whatsits!

-->Well, it's a lovely fantasy, Millenials, but sadly we're an infuriatingly adaptable bunch. And if nuclear firestorm couldn't save us from the Bay City Rollers, it's not gonna save you from-- [-discreetly googles current Billboard Top 40-] -- Music/ImagineDragons!
* "I turn on, and it goes "Hello! Everything's gone to shit! I'm shit, you're shit, the world is shit! Why don't you come outside and see how shit it is, and we'll continue to beat whatever you do." And then, [[BaitAndSwitch I turn off the TV news]] and play the ''The End is Nigh'' instead, [[DoubleSubversion which gives a very similar vibe]].

-->Well, it's a lovely fantasy, Millenials, but sadly we're an infuriatingly adaptable bunch. And if nuclear firestorm couldn't save us from the Bay City Rollers, it's gonna save you from-- [-discreetly googles current Billboard Top 40-] -- Music/ImagineDragons!

* "''Dead Cells'', if anything, seems to be trying to discourage meticulous exploration. There are doors to extra bonus areas that lock if you don't get to them fast enough. "Fuck you, door! Of course I couldn't get here in under three minutes. I passed by six tunnels on the way here and had to be extra certain that they all contained flashing red-clawed death!"

* Yahtzee ruminating how on the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series entered what is widely considered its DorkAge during this generation when it bumped its head against PolygonCeiling:

-->So now I have to worry about my decisions mattering, until about two thirds of the way through when [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent we switch to a different character]] and they stop mattering. Christ on a camping weekend! I wish ''[=Get Even'=]''s game design would put on its own magic VR memory machine, relive its first planning meeting and try to remember what its core element was supposed to be. I feel like there must have been three teams, one working on [[VideoGame/SplinterCell a stealth shooter]], one on [[VideoGame/CondemnedCriminalOrigins an atmospheric horror game]], and one on an episode of ''Series/{{Taggart}}'', and they all had a big after-work sex party and accidentally put on each other's trousers!

* Yahtzee being particularity unimpressed with the naming of the PlayerCharacter:

-->The broad incredibly contrived reason running through the ''Injustice'' property is a falling-out between Batman and Superman over whether or not killing people is good. Batman takes the position that killing is the uncrossable line where all negotiation breaks down and vigilance gives way to tyranny, where Superman takes the position that "[[{{Wangst}} Wah, wah, I'm really sad and cross and I'm not gonna tidy my room, so there!]]"

-->The broad incredibly contrived reason running through the ''Injustice'' property is a falling-out between Batman and Superman over whether or not killing people is good. Batman takes the position that killing is the uncrossable line where all negotiation breaks down and vigilance gives way to tyranny, where Superman takes the position that "[[{{Wangst}}Wah, wah, I'm really sad and cross and I'm not gonna tidy my room, so there!]]"

-->'''Superman:''' [[{{Wangst}} Wah wah, I'm really sad and cross, and I'm not going to tidy my room, so there!]]

-->[The game] doesn't have many original ideas in its head, but it absolutely takes time to justify the tropes it falls back on; like how it subtly establishes that Aloy growing up as a shunned outcast is why she does the usual solo protagonist thing of [[ThinkingOutLoud constantly mumbling exposition to herself]], like the homeless nutter she technically ''is''!

* "[The first ''Outlast'' game] also had a plot that left a lot of unanswered questions, and now the sequel ''Outlast 2'', is adding another fairly significant one, namely "WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?!"."

-->Finally, after much frustration and about nine hundred attempts, I've gotten the core on the ropes and I'm moments from landing the final blow, whereupon I glitched through the floor and fall to my death. ''No!'' That's too much. That's gone right over the Tropic of Fuckabout on a [=JetSki=] full of dicks. I'm ''done!'' Fuck The Surge! Fuck Creator/Deck13! Fuck anyone who likes it! Blimey, that's filled my schedule out for the week.

-->'''Yahtzee:''' In the world of difficult games, there exists a hypothetical line, which I like to call the Tropic of Fuckabout. It is defined as the point where high difficulty stops being a stimulating challenge and becomes merely [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fucking me about.

-->Finally, after much frustration and about nine hundred attempts, I've gotten the core on the ropes and I'm moments from landing the final blow, whereupon I glitched through the floor and fall to my death. ''No!'' That's too much. That's gone right over the Tropic of Fuckabout on a JetSki full of dicks. I'm ''done!'' Fuck The Surge! Fuck Deck13! Fuck anyone who likes it! ...Blimey, that's filled my schedule out for the week.