History Heartwarming / ZeroPunctuation

* Yahtzee admits he actually ''cried'' during ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'', specifically during Annie's sendoff, and wasn't even self-conscious about it.

* Yahtzee admits he actually ''cried'' during ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'', and wasn't even self-conscious about it.

* His idea of improving ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'': cut the unnecessary parts of the game, and use that money to make a game about a butt-sniffing cartoon dog whose CharacterDevelopment is not needing to sniff butts anymore.

** He then named ''Spec Ops'' as his Game of the Year for 2012, even calling it one for the history books.

** From the same review (and [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/9768-What-Not-to-Hate-About-E3.2 an earlier installment]] of ''Extra Punctuation''): Many a ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' fan was pleasantly surprised to learn that, despite ''Minecraft'' not making his Top 5 of 2011 list[[note]]on the basis that he was hesitant to consider it a game as opposed to a very fun creativity toy[[/note]] and Yahtzee's well-known aversion to replaying games[[note]]see the Top 5 of 2010 episode, in which even among his top recommendations, only his #1 and #2 picks were good enough for him to want to keep playing them after having reviewed them[[/note]], he has been playing ''Minecraft'''s hardcore mode in his spare time for awhile now.

*** Even better, he remarks that ''Spec Ops'' singlehandedly stopped him from abandoning the military shooter genre, which he had a long and storied history panning in the years prior (this was, after all, the same year he began referring to the genre as "Spunkgargleweewee"). Considering that this came after giving ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 3'' and ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 3}}'' "Worst Game(s) of the Year" in 2011 and ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Warfighter'' "2nd Worst Game of the Year", this is incredibly high praise.

** He later named it Game of the Year.

** His follow-up article on ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'' a mod that gives the game HD graphics, counts as well.

* Yahtzee using his "review" of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare'' as a Trojan Horse to review ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', an indie game he feels is more deserving of greater awareness. Though he finds the game far from flawless, Yahtzee is certainty a FanOfTheUnderdog.

** Yahtzee's love of ''A Hat in Time'' is particularly noteworthy because games like ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' and the remastered VideoGame/CrashBandicoot trilogy caused him to dismiss the entire 3D Platformer genre as a pointless failed experiment (because most platformers gave gone back to 2D). That one of his most positive reviews came from a genre he had written off is very heartening.

* In ''VideoGame/DayZ'', him talking about how so far all the players that he met tried to kill him when he runs into a player right after barely surviving a battle with an entire horde of zombies. Said player proceeds to give him some blood packs.

* In his review of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', despite his well known dislike for the series, he ultimately admits he didn't dislike playing through the story mode and even had some moments of enjoyment playing Donkey Kong; he just wishes there wasn't so much buzz and hype around the game distracting from other great games that deserve it.

** Guess what? Now they're married. [[VitriolicBestBuds Gabe]] even came to America to attend Yahtzee's wedding.

** Later, in his ''VideoGame/HuntDownTheFreeman'' review, he goes on a rant about the current, rather sorry state of the video game industry (during which he calls Valve out for allowing to Steam be flooded with lazy asset-flips and the AAA publishers for being more interested in making lootbox-laden Skinner boxes), but he makes an aside were he acknowledges that there are still some games out there that are made with "love and artist integrity", using ''A Hat in Time'' as an example.

** Later, in his ''VideoGame/HuntDownTheFreeman'' review, he goes on a rant about the current, rather sorry state of the video game industry (during with he calls Valve out for allowing to Steam be flooded with lazy asset-flips and the AAA publishers for being more interested in making lootbox-laden Skinner boxes), but he makes an aside were he acknowledges that there are still some games out there that are made with "love and artist integrity", using ''A Hat in Time'' as an example.

* Considering how he lambasted the original ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'' for its HypeBacklash and made fun of its rapidly dwindling userbase after the first six months, it's heartening to see him regard ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall 2}}'' as 'basically all right,' noting that while the writing is a ClicheStorm of the highest caliber, the game itself is put together competently enough to hold his interest and he even appreciated how its characters developed, which is more than he can say about ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare''. Considering how he previously noted that "anything I don't complain about is probably okay" and his noted tendency to despise sequels, this actually comes across as high praise.

* There's something adorable about the fact the the "Yahtzee annoys his girlfriend with" and "Yahtzee's girlfriend annoys him with" series of videos are just Yahtzee and his girlfriend Kess playing games that they like while trying to get the other one to like it too -- especially when playing ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'', which Yahtzee mentioned in the second video was the viewer's favorite to watch them both play.

--> Absolutely sublime from start to finish and I will jam forks into my eyes if I ever use those words to describe anything ever again!

* His surprisingly gentle pan of ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', where he states that despite its [[ToughActToFollow inability to live up to the original]] ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', it's still a great game in its own right.

* In the Capcom 5 video, he noted Resident Evil 4 had been ported to 11 different gaming stations and apparently a toaster[[note]]The Zeebo was a South American streaming console[[/note]]; but because it was in his words "fucking sweet!"; going as far as to cite the game as one of the most influential games of the sixth generation and going on well to this day. He rates it as one of the most important games in the medium; a honor he usually reserves for games like ''VideoGame/SilentHill2''; and that's no mean feat to appease someone like him.

* His ''"E3 2017"'' video has him at his nicest towards [[PetTheDog Nintendo]], expressing genuine surprise at Nintendo for their new angle for Super Mario Odyssey (even if it did draw the Sonic 06 parallel, but then again this is something the fans caught onto as well) and even joy at a new Metroid game (once again, even if he does say to exercise extreme optimism as we only got a logo for the game and nothing else, you can hear how excited he is for this game).

* Yahtzee has a habit of turning a game's title into a RunningGag, by swapping it out for increasingly silly variations (eg ''VideoGame/HomefrontTheRevolution'' becomes ''Homefront: The Refrigerator'', then ''Backyard: The Renovation'', then ''Human: The Resources'', then ''Hurdy: The Gurdy''). But in his review of ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' he changes it to ''Hatty Time''...then ''continues'' to call it ''Hatty Time'' in order to communicate his affection for the game ("Oh boy, I get to play more ''Hatty Time'' today!").