History HilariousInHindsight / ZeroPunctuation

** The same suggestion also became HarsherInHindsight after ''VideoGame/SilentHills,'' a game which had accumulated a great deal of hype and anticipation after the ''P.T'' teaser game, was unceremoniously cancelled by Creator/Konami, apparently because [[StoppedCaring they simply ceased to give a shit about making good games at all any more]].

* In his review of ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' he decried the use of procedurally-generated dungeons, comparing it to a book with randomly ordered chapters: "If a book randomly rearranged its chapters with every read, then every chapter would have its characters doing fuck all, because the plot wouldn't make sense otherwise. So the end result will always be a fucking boring book." [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unfortunates Someone actually did write such a book]], in which the chapters are unbound and can be read in any order, and true enough, nothing much happens in any given chapter. It's open to debate whether the end result is a boring book however.

* In his 2007 review of The Orange Box, he says that while Creator/{{Valve}} seems to have aspects one and two of the EpisodicGame model "by having shorter games at lower prices released more frequently, and while they have aspects one and two down, '''they continue to struggle with three'''." This is well before ''Half-Life 2: Episode Three'' would fall into {{vaporware}} territory, which helped lead to the meme "Valve can't count to three" due to none of their games having a "3" in the title.

* In his ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' review, he remarks how one could recreate a dungeon-crawler RPG using a humorously slapdash method involving Microsoft Excel. [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122906-Accountant-Creates-RPG-Entirely-in-Excel-Spreadsheet Turns out that it's possible in actual game form, though..]]

* An Extra Punctuation feature on sanity mechanics that talks about ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'', has him complain about the idea of the player character being DrivenToSuicide if his sanity gets too low. This was of course ''long'' before Yahtzee himself used a very similar, albeit more randomized variant on the same idea when he made ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow''.

* While not as complex as he envisioned, Yahtzee's Extra Punctuation column about a ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'' successor set in a bureaucracy-laden portrayal of the afterlife seems pretty close to ''Peace, Death!''.

* In his review of ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' he sarcastically pointed out that it was pretty obvious which horseman you'd play as because, among other reasons, [[OneHitKill "Death would be overpowered"]]. Come ''VideoGame/DarksidersII'' and no, this time you play as [[TheGrimReaper Death]], and he's not nearly as overpowered as Yahtzee had expected (something he [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when it came time to review that game).

* In his review of ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' he sarcastically pointed out that it was pretty obvious which horseman you'd play as because, among other reasons, [[OneHitKill "Death would be overpowered"]]. Come ''VideoGame/DarksidersII'' and no, this time you play as [[TheGrimReaper Death]], and he's not nearly as overpowered as Yahtzee had expected.

* In his initial review of ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' he dismissed the game with the comment "A challenge is one thing, but trying to break down a fucking cement wall with your forehead isn't a challenge, it's grounds for getting fucking ''sectioned!"'' Years later, after ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' had gotten him thoroughly onboard with the series' trademark brand of [[NintendoHard "If at first you don't succeed, die, die again"]] difficulty, "breaking down a wall by bashing your head against it" was still the same metaphor he used to describe the gameplay, only now he was a big fan of it.

* Yahtzee opens his review of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' with a remark about the core series doing away with the idea of subheadings. And then ''[[{{VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard}} Resident Evil 7]]'' came along with a "Biohazard" subheading attached.

* In his ''VideoGame/DarkVoid'' review, he says, "You know, it'd be nice to see a game set, say, in an alternative Napoleonic war for once, where Waterloo was fought on the backs of pterodactyls." Replace pterodactyls with dragons, and you've got the ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' series.

* Similarly, he praised how Kratos stood out from most video game protagonists, complaining about how the medium is saturated by "generic, dark-haired, clear-skinned, hypocritically violent, self-righteous white boys, assigned the role of 'hero' by virtue of being the handsomest guy in the plot, usually voiced by NolanNorth". Then in 2012 ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' came out and [[GenreDeconstruction turned that entire sentiment]] [[PlayingWithCharacterType on its head]], and ''boy'' was Yahtzee surprised.

* Yahtzee opens his review of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' with a remark about the core series doing away with the idea of subheadings. And then ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7'' came along with a "Biohazard" subheading attached.

* The ''Videogame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' review has a joke about Adam "being required to carry a heavy vehicle license to walk down the street". Come ''Vidoegame/DeusExMankindDivided'' Adam DOES require permits and licenses to [[FantasticRacism walk around as an aug]]

* The review of ''Videogame/TheForceUnleashed'' describes Starkiller as "the most hideously overpowered thing in the Star Wars universe until they glue three Death Stars together". In comes ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' with ''Starkiller'' Base, which is essentially a suped-up Death Star several times the size of the original, capable of destroying multiple planets at once.

* Yahtzee makes a remark in his ''VideoGame/AgeOfConan'' review about how he looks back on the time spent with [=MMORPGs=] and says he could've spent it, amongst other things, writing a best-selling novel. This became so much funnier when he said that he got the idea for [[{{Literature/Mogworld}} his first print novel]], "after I stopped playing ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''".

* An Extra Punctuation feature on sanity mechanics that talks about ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'', has him complain about the idea of the player character being DrivenToSuicide if his sanity gets too low. This was of course ''long'' before Yahtzee himself used a very similar, albeit more randomized variant on the same idea when he made ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow''.

* This exchange from his review of VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2008 referring to two hypothetical developers as a metaphor for good ideas with poor execution, upon realizing that absolutely everything within this exchange is a core game mechanic of VideoGame/{{Lit}}:

* One of the credit comments in his video on ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' has him complain about how the Mad Hatter has had more appearances in the Arkham series than the Scarecrow. [[{{VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight}} Guess who shows up in the next game?]]

* In his ''VideoGame/DarkVoid'' review, he says, "You know, it'd be nice to see a game set, say, in an alternative Napoleonic war for once, where Waterloo was fought on the backs of pterodactyls." Replace pterodactyls with dragons, and you've got the ''{{Temeraire}}'' series.

* When he names ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'' the worst game of 2013 on account of its blatant racism, he sarcastically wonders if the next game of the franchise is going to feature a deadly bio-weapon that only targets anyone who is not American. Sure enough, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'' creates such a weapon. [[spoiler:However, he actually plans on using it ''against'' Americans.]]

* An Extra Punctuation feature on sanity mechanics that talks about ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'', has him complain about the idea of the player character being DrivenToSuicide if his sanity gets too low. This was of course ''long'' before Yahtzee himself used a very similar, albeit more randomized variant on the same idea when he made ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow''.
* His review of ''Super Smash Bros: Brawl'' has a remark about ''Mother 3'' being a case of NoExportForYou. Seven years later, Nintendo eventually ''did'' release ''Mother 3'' internationally.

* His ''Bayonetta 2'' review (from late 2014) has a brief part hypothetically wondering whether the character would appear in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''. In December of 2015, this was announced to be the case.

* An Extra Punctuation feature on sanity mechanics that talks about ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'', has him complain about the idea of the player character being DrivenToSuicide if his sanity gets too low. This was of course ''long'' before Yahtzee himself used a very similar, albeit more randomized variant on the same idea when he made ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow''.

* His comments in his 3DS video about a head-based mount for the system seems rather amusing after the explosion of the Oculus Rift and similar devices.

* His ''Bayonetta 2'' review (from late 2014) has a brief part hypothetically wondering whether the character would appear in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''. In December of 2015, this was announced to be the case.