Awesome as usual. This never gets old, but I feel bad for those emailers, they got Pwned.

I just went and watched this because I had noticed you hadn't posted it yet.

And then you did.

I personally enjoy Brawl on a daily basis; I can see why he doesn't. Different games for different people. It does a lot of things right, design-wise, but it could use some things to make it better.

The problem here, and I think he'd agree with me, is that the fanboys jump on the slightest criticism. And they need to realize that nothing's perfect.

i saw this when it dropped today.

Too true.

I guess GTA IV was so massive, that he had to devote another week to it.

Some people are just stupid, no game is perfect. DEAL WITH IT

yahtzee takes on YOUUUUUUUU.
as amazing as brawl is, fanboys aren't. or rather, uninformed fanboys.

I agreed with him on his Smash Bros review and thought it was hilarious. This was was pretty damn funny as well.

Yipping puppies...so...cute...

I've always had a soft spot for Zero Punctuation vids (well, except for when there's machinima involved...) and this has got to be one of the best. I especially loved how he ripped on any and all fanboys. It should be a lesson that everyone takes to heart, yet nobody will. (sigh)

Kudos Yathzee! I was a little turned off by the God of War review. But this! To coin the phase, "Totally Fucking Sweet"

360 reference in the end, lol (really!)

hehehehe, Yahtzee rules and i agree with him, SSBB is crap, but also the one for N64 and GC; It isn´t a fighting game or an adventure game, it´s just a compilation of all the fanservice Nintendo could fit in a DVD so fanboys could worship it like the new messiah. Just imagine it without the Nintendo stuff and i bet you´ll end with a game you don´t want to play, but that it´s also a copy of Power Stone.
The Wii was made for Mario Sunshine, period.

Am I the only one that finds the horrible grammar of all but one of the letters he got really, really sad? Jeez, is it really that hard to double-check your emails?

Fahey hit the point on the head(or nail,whatever) You can scream till your balls are blue that a game is great,but someone may think it's akin to your septic tank exploding.

Well,anyways
I always enjoy his work.

I prophesied this, by the way.

Though I'm pleased that the 'on the whole' part wasn't true.

Ah, Yahtzee. Good stuff as always.

Yahtzee wins again. I'm really looking forward to his GTA IV review.

Wait, didn't he actually talk about the "Crazy Particle Effect" attacks in his review?

Hahaahahahaha, that was hilarious. It's very true though, I'm not saying its a bad game, but I do feel like I have to justify the $50 I dropped on Super Smash Brothers Melee v1.5...so what, I lied, Snake justifies the purchase.

@DigiMish: Yeah, GTA4 is probably gunna require him to sharpen up a whole bunch of big rusty nails for him to do horrible, unspeakable things to it with.

Either that, or he just wanted to get those emails out of the way before their relevancy was somewhere around 0%. Plus, it probably gives Yahtzee more time to also set fire to Australia and New Zealand because he can't get an import copy of GTA 4 from GAMETRADERS ROBINA!

I can't wait to tell my friend about this.
Just today he was saying "I liked all of Yahtzee's reviews except for his Brawl review. That was brutal."
He doesn't quite fit into the category of a "letter-mailing super-fanboy" but he's close enough. I kind of want to see his reaction...(I thought Brawl was fun, but overall Yahtzee's review seemed accurate to me, so, yeah.)

Let it be engraved that he nailed it. I'm also starting to think he's a little soft on the Playstation 3.;)

@DigiMish: Well, he did put "Gonna need a bit more time to play GTAIV" in the review.

Anyway, stellar job once again by Yahtzee. This is one of his best. Hopefully it will enable many Kommenters to reflect on their chosen lifestyle.

The four comment is the funniest thing he's ever said hands down....lol

SSBB is a bit too simple for my tastes (the randomly hitting buttons = win comment)...

Absolutely great. I hope rabbit internet hatemail only continues to fuel comic gold like this instead of detract him from his winning formula.

"if i put balls in my mouth for a living, i'd be a prostitute; that, or a gamespot employee"

...christ, that's hilarious.

This is one of the best reviews he's done in a while.

I say he does one of these ever six months or so.

I honestly feel like nothing makes me feel better than watching people making fun of inter-tards especially when they're going all nerd-rage on [object].

pure awesome

@DigiMish: Considering how it was pointed out during the video multiple times, I would imagine at least Yahtzee agrees with you. >.>

Once again, pure Internet gold.

Made my red editing pen hand allll twitchy.

oh and I can already imagine his GTA4 review:

-its the SAME DAMN GAME
-i can't do a bloody thing with my money except buy stupid clothes and weapons I already have, wheres the properties from the past games ?
-why are graphics so outrageously murky. Its like everything more than 5 steps away from me sinks into a 2 dimensional swamp of color smearing

I nearly died laughing at the Gamespot reference

Arttemis: it's rabid...as in rabid dogs...with rabies...biting you...making you crazy

although i've never experienced rabbit hate mail before, i can't imagine it carries the same intensity as the rabid kind.

perhaps rabid rabbit hate mail is something we should all be afraid of...

That was great and loved how he pointed out the poor grammar people have online.

Lol

As most people say (and said in this video) I don't think you can fully judge Smash Bros unless you've taken the time to get good at it (the same is true for most all video games). But this is Zero Punctuation. I took his review as humor, and found it to be very funny. It's amazing how people fail to understand there can be varying perspectives on different things (aside from their own). I'd never go so far as to send him hate mail because he didn't agree with my opinion. It's zero punctuation too, I could see you getting angry if this was a big deal site like IGN, but it's zero punctuation. The man makes hilarious reviews that are fun to watch because they're funny, not because they're a good, accurate review.

/babbling

Finally! A Zero Punctuation I can actually respect. It's tough to rate a series of opinions, but in the majority of cases I don't rate Yahtzee's very highly (and this was pre-brawl review!). But yes, they are just opinions, and everyone's are different. Shock horror, his are different to yours, find a different reviewer to take recommendation's from who likes the same stuff as you.

I "loved this one" everything from the opening song to Grammar Nazi~ing to the credits. You'd think people would just let him do his thing... but yeah this is the internet that will nwver happen.

I loved that last line-
"The 360 is a good old dependable rounder, that only occasionally pisses itself...
and dies!"

Yahtzee's reviews have always made me laugh, but that last bit was just, wow. I was almost in tears.

no sound at work.... DAMN

Someone has to do it:

+ Watch video

Oh yeah, gotta say this:

For every single person who made a typo and grammar mistake, while praising the video, congratulations, kings and queens of hypocrisy!

Lol, that was pretty hilarious, a professional troll. xD I do love his reviews, I like it because he points what is bad about the game which is really what I want to know.

So...much...Win....*

*(Great, now I'm starting to sound like a fanboy.)

@Mit: I prefer to think of his reviews as funny, good, and accurate.

loved it, especially the bit about gamespot. YOU JUDGED THE GAME HARASHLY!!

Fantastic! I enjoyed both this and the Brawl review, and I'm a huge fan of the game. It's fun to hear him pull out every little bad thing about a game, and I don't think any game should be an exception. In my mind it just goes to show how good the positives are in comparison. It's stuff like this that keeps me watching his videos every week.

THE BEST of all his reviews.
personally i liked brawl, but quite honestly, i didn't have quite as much fun as i had with melle. However its all personal preference.

@Daisuash:
Your Nintendo hatred is showing...
1) Smash Bros has little in common with Power Stone (though, the addition of Final Smashes makes them a bit more similar). Power Stone is a 3D fighter, whereas Smash Bros. is 2D (gameplay, not graphics).
But for any game to be compared to Power Stone automatically makes it awesome by association.

2) Wii was made for Mario Sunshine? WRONG GAME, GENIUS. Sunshine was a GameCube game. Plus, I didn't realize that a system was MADE for just one game, and that nothing else could be played on it! I guess if that's true, then 360 was made for Halo 3 and PS3 was made for MGS4.

--

Look, I know not every game is going to appeal to everyone (I, personally, never found the GTA series fun), and I respect others for having different opinions, as long as they're respectful of mine. But if you're going to be a ranting fanboy, then I humbly request you to go fornicate yourself with a rusty spork.

Wow... I've done some video reviews myself, and this is exactly how I feel about the criticism they've received. Except my videos usually aren't this good, and my critics usually aren't this cogent.

well if you can't change an opinion then theres no reason to share an opinion. you pretty much just invalidated the entire civil rights movement fahey.

Well I think Yahtzee can do a decent review for GTAIV, because it isn't the perfect game. Some things were left out, it's got the glitch problem, it sure did improve on some fields, but I still don't think GTAIV deserves a 10 all around. All these number reviewers just kiss big hairy ass every morning.

Respect +100

excellent excellent video
just have one question, does he really say he is "white" enough to own all three games at 4:01?

@meltyman: Yes, and it was hilarious.

Also: He's taking on GTA IV and just keeping the hordes happy - wheeeee@!

Well done.
Best part: "How can you even call them reviews without a score?"
*slap*

Yahtzee: White enough to afford all three consoles.

wat?

this is his best one yet! unnecessary, but clever, shot at Gamespot as well. bravo!

Pissed myself at the Gamespot reference. And then another little dribble at the "White enough" comment.

@meltyman: White as in pale, I assume. As in, he never really goes outside, always busy playing or working.

While I think that Super Smash Bros Brawl isn't that great of a game. Grand at first impressions, quickly becomes hollow and pointlessly repetative.

I do have to say that I never actually considered him an actual reviewer. I always thought of him more as a comedian. A person not to be taken seriously. I actually thought that since he is negative about almost everything in a game *even things that aren't really problems* that he was just doing it just to make a joke about the game.

I never can look at him as an actual reviewer. I don't believe I ever will. I am actually kind of shocked he considers himself one. I thought he did these things fully aware he was doing them for just laughs.

@BPMε:

Heh, I loved the last line.

@buttpwner:

I was thinking the same thing.

I keep seeing these comments about fanboys and such, but I haven't even seen that mnay on Kotaku...Can somepoint them out?

I don't get it.

Trawling letters for the most trivial or grammatical errors and respoding by telling someone that you're having sex with their mum?
Surely he's indulging in the very behaviour that he's supposedly attacking?
Yahtzee can be funny but I think that he's starting to believe his own publicity.

@RTW:
True that. They all kissed Nintendo's big hairy ass for SSBB, and MS' ass for Halo 3, because they're all too scared to point out flaws in games they know will be insanely popular for fear of alienating the hardcore, who make up 90% of their traffic.

That makes me respect Yatzee even more for saying 'fuck that shit' and telling it like it is, even if it pisses off those pathetic people who think the entire world (read: internet) needs to agree with them, like the same shit they like, and hate the same shit they hate.

@Yuki:
You honestly think that?

RE5 isn't overtly racist and gets slammed for being so.

Yahtzee says he's "white enough to afford all three consoles" and everyone cheers?

Is this the same Kotaku?

@elevenoverzero: Yes, I honestly think that.

Hah! I was foolish enough to criticize his SSBB review for being disappointingly unfunny (and was then jumped on for "not understanding it was supposed to be funny," which struck me as both sad and funny itself), but I wasn't foolish enough to write him about it. What was that going to accomplish?

Yahtzee is awesome; I love his fast-paced video