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** Inverted in several instances, such as when he prefaced his retrospective review of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' (one of his favorite games of all time) by acknowledging that the gameplay was decidedly lacklustre and it was only really worth playing for its story and atmosphere.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: ''SpecOpsTheLine'' depressed him so much that he actually took a huge ''pause'' near the end of the review and sighed wearily before wrapping up. The game went on to be his pick for Best Game of 2012.
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* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: He has taken this attitude with regards to several franchises, most notably the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series, for which he criticized every Western-developed entry in the series for missing the mark or failing to live up to the standard of the original four Japanese games (with ''Silent Hill 2'' in particular being one of his favourite games of all time). This became particularly ironic when he named ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' his game of the year for 2012, despite it being an entry in an established franchise which none of the original creators had any involvement in.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:''SpecOpsTheLine'' ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' depressed him so much that he actually took a huge ''pause'' near the end of the review and sighed wearily before wrapping up. The game went on to be his pick for Best Game of 2012.
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* ManOfAThousandVoices: The audio version of {{Mogworld}} shows him to be this.
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** To me it sounded like choking on tears and nose blowing. [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3872-Catherine Take your pick]], I suppose.
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** The "Turd in a Turd" Award for Unsurprising Poor Quality went to ''SonicUnleased'', his reasoning being that SonicTeam is deliberately trying to be awful and hitting the mark perfectly.
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** The "Turd in a Turd" Award for Unsurprising Poor Quality went to ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic 2006]]'', his reasoning being that SonicTeam is deliberately trying to be awful and hitting the mark perfectly.
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** The "Turd in a Turd" Award for Unsurprising Poor Quality went to ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic 2006]]'', ''SonicUnleased'', his reasoning being that SonicTeam is deliberately trying to be awful and hitting the mark perfectly.
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** Uses this in ''Painkiller'' when describing a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning.
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** Uses this in ''Painkiller'' when describing a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. This is a rare positive example, as he states that "the only way this weapon could be more awesome would be if it had tits and was on fire!"
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--> "How much time do I have left? 8 SECONDS? FUCK!! Uh, [[MotorMouth FIFA 13 is a game in which you and your burly friends help a small leather sphere realize its dream of being in a net, and I think we can all agree that that's basically a positive thing�nighty night.]]"
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--> "How much time do I have left? 8 SECONDS? FUCK!! Uh, [[MotorMouth FIFA 13 is a game in which you and your burly friends help a small leather sphere realize its dream of being in a net, and I think we can all agree that that's basically a positive thing�nighty thing. Nighty night.]]"
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--> "How much time do I have left? [[OhCrap 8 SECONDS? FUCK!!]] Uh, FIFA 13 is a game in which you and your burly friends help a small leather sphere realize its dream of being in a net, and I think we can all agree that that's basically a positive thing�nighty night."
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--> "How much time do I have left? [[OhCrap 8 SECONDS? FUCK!!]] Uh, FIFA 13 is a game in which you and your burly friends help a small leather sphere realize its dream of being in a net, and I think we can all agree that that's basically a positive thing�nighty thing. Nighty night."
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* MoreDakka: His review of ''{{Spore}}'' shows the civilization stage as imps strafing other imps cities from the air, with the caption "Dakka Dakka" under the war planes.
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* MoreDakka: His review of ''{{Spore}}'' shows the civilization stage as imps strafing other imps imps' cities from the air, with the caption "Dakka Dakka" under the war planes.
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*** This trope is why he quit playing ''TheWitcher2'' - and to be fair, he played it when enemies could knock Geralt down mid-swing (and [[CycleOfHurting KEEP knocking him down]]), and ''before'' a tutorial was added to acclimitize players to the controls.
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*** This trope is why he quit playing ''TheWitcher2'' ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2'' - and to be fair, he played it when enemies could knock Geralt down mid-swing (and [[CycleOfHurting KEEP knocking him down]]), and ''before'' a tutorial was added to acclimitize players to the controls.
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* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Despite being a MisanthropeSupreme in general, he seems to have some sympathy for non-whites, particularly those in the developing world. One of his common complaints with the "Spunkgargleweewee" genre is often being forced to kill dark-skinned foreigners for no apparent reason other than America being xenophobic. He also ridicules the idea that whites can really be victims of racism, like crying about racist jokes from a race they once enslaved.
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* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Despite being a MisanthropeSupreme in general, he seems to have some sympathy for non-whites, particularly those in the developing world. One of his common complaints with the "Spunkgargleweewee" genre is often being forced to kill dark-skinned foreigners for no apparent reason other than America being xenophobic. He also ridicules the idea that whites can really be victims of racism, like crying about mildly racist jokes from a race they once enslaved.
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* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Despite being a MisanthropeSupreme in general, he seems to have some sympathy for non-whites, particularly those in the developing world. One of his common complaints with the "Spunkgargleweewee" genre is often being forced to kill dark-skinned foreigners for no apparent reason other than America being xenophobic. He also ridicules the idea that whites can really be victims of racism, like crying about racist jokes from a race they once enslaved.
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* NerdsAreVirgins: Has made quite a few jokes about that. Especially notible on his review for ''{{VideoGame/Catherine}}'':
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** Admits to be have suffered from it himself in his review of ''HalfLife'' when he not only admits to have ignored flaws in the game, though he still enjoyed it, but also that it represents aspects of retro-shooters he hate like platforming sections, which he states whenever a game has it, that he feels that platforming from a first person perspective is a terrible concept.
** A number of reviews, even he bashes the game, he will sometimes give it credit for doing something well, like in his review of SuperPaperMario, he admits that [[BestLevelEver Chapter 3]] was hilarious.
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** Inverted in several instances, such as when he prefaced his retrospective review of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' (one of his favourite games of all time) by acknowledging that the gameplay was decidedly lacklustre and it was only really worth playing for its story and atmosphere.
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** Inverted in several instances, such as when he prefaced his retrospective review of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' (one of his favourite favorite games of all time) by acknowledging that the gameplay was decidedly lacklustre and it was only really worth playing for its story and atmosphere.
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* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: Does this quite a lot, praising a game's gameplay but criticizing its storyline. Examples of this include ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' and ''VideoGame/JustCause2'', both of which he named his game of the year for the year in question.
** Inverted in several instances, such as when he prefaced his retrospective review of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' (one of his favourite games of all time) by acknowledging that the gameplay was decidedly lacklustre and it was only really worth playing for its story and atmosphere.
** Inverted in several instances, such as when he prefaced his retrospective review of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' (one of his favourite games of all time) by acknowledging that the gameplay was decidedly lacklustre and it was only really worth playing for its story and atmosphere.
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** The "Turd in a Turd" Award for Unsurprising Poor Quality went to ''Sonic2006'', his reasoning being that SonicTeam is deliberately trying to be awful and hitting the mark perfectly.
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** The "Turd in a Turd" Award for Unsurprising Poor Quality went to ''Sonic2006'', ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic 2006]]'', his reasoning being that SonicTeam is deliberately trying to be awful and hitting the mark perfectly.
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* MedalOfDishonor: The ''Zero Punctuation Lifetime Achievement Award For Total Abhorrence'' went to ''Ride to Hell: Retribution''. Notably it did not win for 2013, but for ''infinity'' until an even wore game happens to come along.
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* MedalOfDishonor: The ''Zero Punctuation Lifetime Achievement Award For Total Abhorrence'' went to ''Ride to Hell: Retribution''. Notably it did not win for 2013, but for ''infinity'' until infinity -- unless an even wore worse game happens to come along.
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* MedalOfDishonor: The ''Zero Punctuation Lifetime Achievement Award For Total Abhorrence'' goes to.... (pause for effect) [--Ride to Hell: Retribution--].
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* MedalOfDishonor: The ''Zero Punctuation Lifetime Achievement Award For Total Abhorrence'' goes to.... (pause for effect) [--Ride went to ''Ride to Hell: Retribution--].
-->"...whichRetribution''. Notably it will hold indefinitely did not win for 2013, but for ''infinity'' until a worse an even wore game comes along. That happens to come along.
-->"That should roughly be around the time apes have retaken the Earth.""
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: [[RedFaction Darius Mason]] triumphs by using his magic flashlight the fix Mars' weather inside of five minutes. ..Erm.
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* MoodWhiplash: Feels that the cutscenes in ''TwistedMetal'' causes this, with the incredible silliness of VehicularCombat contrasting with a VERY dark story that he admits is a bit frightening.
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** In his review of ''The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds,'' he reveals that despite all the vitriol he's given nintendo over the years, he's actually on their side in the next generation if only because they're the only ones they "released a game console, not an inferior gaming PC that people who dream of being the sub in an unhealthy techno-masochistic fantasy."
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*** Surprisingly averted with its [[VideoGame/DarkSouls spiritual successor]], which he actually turned out to quite like.
*** Surprisingly averted with its [[VideoGame/DarkSouls spiritual successor]], which he actually turned out to quite like.
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* MonsterClown: Having recently plowed through ''Arkham Origins'' and finding himself parroting the same lukewarm opinion on ''Black Flag'' as the two previous sequels, Yahtzee scrawls [[TheJoker Joker]] makeup on his face and hangs himself upside down, telling ''Assassin's Creed'', "I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
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** To me it sounded like choking on tears and nose blowing. [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3872-Catherine Take your pick]], I suppose.
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* ManOfAThousandVoices: The audio version of {{Mogworld}} shows him to be this.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Brought up in the ''VideoGame/SimCity'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7053-SimCity review]], with reference to the trope's poster girl:
--> Listen to me, EA! Not every introvert is longing for the day that [[Creator/ZooeyDeschanel Zooey fucking Deschanel]] kicks their door down and forcibly drags them to a roller rink!
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Has teamed up with {{Moviebob}} and [[WebVideo/ExtraCredits James Portnow]] to form [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extraconsideration Extra Consideration]], a panel in which all three discuss the state of the gaming scene.
** Jim Sterling of the Jimquisition has now joined the panel.
* TheMeanBrit: Though currently living in Australia.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Debatable. Some who claim to have met Yahtzee IRL report that he is capable of being quite unpleasant towards others. The same persons, however, also noted that this is mitigated by the fact that he is also fairly shy and quiet. He claims he's only a jackass when provoked... [[MisanthropeSupreme which is often]].
** Tycho of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' speculates that Yahtzee is quiet in person in order to save up all his hate and rage to bellow it out really quickly in his weekly reviews.
* MeatMoss: He calls it "jam" in his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2092-Amnesia-The-Dark-Descent review]] of ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent''.
-->"Oh pissing BLIMEY there's JAM coming out of the walls!"
** And this was years before Yahtzee's [[ThereAreNoCoincidences novel about a jam-based apocalypse]] came out.
* MedalOfDishonor: The ''Zero Punctuation Lifetime Achievement Award For Total Abhorrence'' goes to.... (pause for effect) [--Ride to Hell: Retribution--].
-->"...which it will hold indefinitely until a worse game comes along. That should roughly be around the time apes have retaken the Earth."
** He spent some time of his review of ''Alone in the Dark'' slagging off on its heroine. This particular tangent opens with an awards ceremony wherein the heroine cleans up at the "Horrible Game Character" category, taking home '[[RomanticPlotTumor Most Obviously Crowbarred-in Love Interest]]', '[[TheScrappy Most Irritating]]', '[[ArtificialStupidity Least Useful to Gameplay]]', '[[SatelliteLoveInterest Least Necessary to Plot]]' and '[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lifetime Achievement]]'.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Yahtzee lampshades this in the new "Tomb Raider" game where he questions why when a woman is being beaten up we are supposed to admire her strength and character where as a man is beaten up we are supposed to laugh.
-->"Why do you hate men so much, Games Industry?"
* MenDontCry: Parodied in his ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3611-Infamous-2 review]].
-->"I'm not to proud to admit that I was welling up at ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'''s good ending, a little bit. Well, not much at all really. It was more like stoically nodding my head while doing squat-thrusts and grunting."
* MercyKill: What he says must be done with ''SonicTheHedgehog''.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Frequently.
-->"It's like wrestling an excitable dog in a paddling pool full of disembodied breasts. *{{beat}}* Don't think too much about that simile, I certainly didn't."
** Especially when it's a hot summer day and his AC isn't working. "Really good like... something... [[BuffySpeak good]] that's... made out of chocolate..."
** [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8892-Extra-Punctuation-Action-Is-Not-Finisher-Porn This]] ''Extra Punctuation'' takes the metaphor of "TooManyCooks spoil the broth" and keeps stretching it until he reckons "I think this is already the best metaphor I've ever written."
** To illustrate the importance of keeping D-list villains ''out'' of a Batman game, he explains how his greatest villains all reflect an aspect of the caped crusader.
-->"Two-Face reflects his duality, Scarecrow his use of fear and psychological tactics, Poison Ivy his-- er, shapely buttocks.(?)"
* MetaTwist: Discussed - he feels that the "shocking" moment in the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' games has become so token that by the end of the third game, it'd be more shocking if there wasn't one.
* MilestoneCelebration: Spoofed with his 100th episode, where he decides to review... exactly the same game he would've reviewed otherwise (''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood'').
** Further spoofed in his ''Silent Hill 2'' review, a retro review that actually would be special:
-->"But what could be more special than my one-hundred and second video?"
* {{Mordor}}: Nintendo's Corporate HQ in ''Bowser's Inside Story''.
* MonsterClown: Having recently plowed through ''Arkham Origins'' and finding himself parroting the same lukewarm opinion on ''Black Flag'' as the two previous sequels, Yahtzee scrawls [[TheJoker Joker]] makeup on his face and hangs himself upside down, telling ''Assassin's Creed'', "I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
* MoralGuardian: In his [=3DS=] review he states how he's trying his best to not sound like one of these while criticizing the potentially malicious acts people can do with the "Street Pass" feature.
* MoreDakka: His review of ''{{Spore}}'' shows the civilization stage as imps strafing other imps cities from the air, with the caption "Dakka Dakka" under the war planes.
* MotorMouth: "Zero Punctuation" comes from how he has a tendency to ramble on and on so quickly that his speech has almost no pauses, and thus there is ''zero punctuation''. More or less.
** He has said he edits out the pauses, but definitely does not speed up his voice.
** He was strangely slow in his delivery of the review of ''Lego City Undercover''; this may be ascribed to the post-''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' melancholy he claims to be suffering from.
** This is taken a bit further than usual in the end of his ''FIFA 13'' review, after getting distracted from reviewing it by several other downloadable games:
--> "How much time do I have left? [[OhCrap 8 SECONDS? FUCK!!]] Uh, FIFA 13 is a game in which you and your burly friends help a small leather sphere realize its dream of being in a net, and I think we can all agree that that's basically a positive thing�nighty night."
* MuggingTheMonster: In his ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' review, he mentions that it occurred to him that it might be a good idea to stop stealing things. After getting attacked by bandits and taking their stuff, he mentions it is not stealing because they attacked him, which makes it his by the international law of "Go Fuck Yourselves."
* MundaneMadeAwesome: When talking about the wet clothing feature in ''Uncharted'', he talks a bit too much about it, considering it means absolutely nothing in terms of plot or gameplay. He realizes this, of course, stating at the end of his praise "Well, ''I'' think it's interesting!".
* MythologyGag: During his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' review, Yahtzee separates each hour he played the game with a brief break showing a black screen with the unit of time and then which unit he's on (Hour 1, Hour 2, Hour 3, etc.). He used a similar mechanism with three of the games in the ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos''.
* {{Nerdgasm}}: Has made a few references to getting erections at really good games.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Has made quite a few jokes about that. Especially notible on his review for ''{{VideoGame/Catherine}}'':
-->(Increasingly amused) "... there's a moral choice aspect where you answer questions based on your own substantial experience with relationships *stifled laughter* " (accompanying visual is of a fat glasses-wearing guy sitting next to a blow-up doll.)
* NewlyPopularUpdating: Expect any game he reviews to have a new quote entry at the top of its page by the end of the day, appropriate or otherwise.
* NiceHat: "Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder." The hat originally appeared in [[MythologyGag his own games]], ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'', worn by the character of Trilby. The hat itself is known as a Trilby hat, and it tends to get him [[CreatorWorship more attention]] [[http://twitter.com/YahtzeeCroshaw/status/11013246821 than he really wants]].
** NeverBareheaded: In his Top 10 of 2010, he wears a snooty "indie game" French beret ''on top'' of his trilby hat.
** In his CreditsGag for Call of Duty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2, he claims that despite what one might say about the Russians, they have sweet hats.
* NightmareFuel:[[invoked]] The ''Kinectimals''' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kinectimals.jpg box art]] is "the most terrifying thing I've seen all year. It looks like what would happen if [[MonsterClown John Wayne Gacy]] went to Disneyland."
* NightmareRetardant:[[invoked]] He states that ''AliceMadnessReturns'' made {{Creepy Doll}}s not creepy just by the fact that the game uses it constantly to the point where players just get used to it.
* NintendoHard: Yahtzee prides himself on as having been playing video games since early childhood and frequently recalls how hard they were back then. He routinely mocks prospective critics who complain about the difficulty level in games these days ([[{{Hypocrite}} even though he does it himself]]), as well as people who accuse him of [[ItsHardSoItSucks not liking a game because he finds it too hard]]. That said, games with [[SonicUnleashed ridiculously impossible sequences]], he blasts with both barrels.
** He complained that Demons Souls was too hard and gave up.
** However he did enjoy ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'', though he states that no person, unless it's for charity should ever try [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Impossible difficulty]].
*** This trope is why he quit playing ''TheWitcher2'' - and to be fair, he played it when enemies could knock Geralt down mid-swing (and [[CycleOfHurting KEEP knocking him down]]), and ''before'' a tutorial was added to acclimitize players to the controls.
* NoFourthWall: Technically doesn't qualify as there's no suspension of disbelief, but a review still pushed back the boundaries when Yahtzee addressed the viewer as "Adrian", and noted that while that's not particularly likely to be any given viewer's name, "it was worth it to freak out all the Adrians in the world."
-->"If you've been paying attention, you'll notice that all these games are sequels. And if you haven't... *claps twice* OI!"
-->"Stop watching my reviews, Dad!"
** The ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' review has the distinction of genuinely breaking the fourth wall, as Yahtzee suggest pausing the video, while his avatar points to the pause button on the video player.
-->"I shouldn't have to talk about the core gameplay, I consider that an insult to you and me. My review of ''Mario Galaxy 1'' hasn't gone anywhere, why not pause this video, pour yourself a glass of wine and go and enjoy that. I'll just wait here slapping myself in the face until you return. *cut to black, slapping sounds and Yahtzee groaning, then cut back, Yahtzee now with a bruised face* Finished? Right, well, ''Mario Galaxy 2'' is more of that."
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: At the end of most reviews, there's a couple of still shots during the credits and theme-music with a little joke about the game. In the case of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', there was no punchline, just Yahtzee beating and shooting Vanille to pieces in increasingly elaborate ways.
* NoJustNoReaction: How the [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/869-The-Conduit review]] of ''TheConduit'' began.
* NoodleImplements: The ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' review: ''...and whistled for a baboon.''
* NoodleIncident: The end of the ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' video says "I hope the war in Las Vegas destroyed that ice machine I threw up in".
** "Now I've never invaded Europe, except for that one time..."
** "I know I can't speak for everyone, at least not until ''the device'' is completed, but..."
* NostalgiaFilter: Yahtzee often derides fans who wear nostalgia goggles, although he caught himself falling into the same trap when he was reviewing ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''.
* NotHimself: Wait, what's this? ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}} 3'' has no regenerating health? A sum of weapons greater than 2? No chest-high walls? "...erm... {{Sony}}?... Are you feeling all right?"
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
** Describing the ending of ''VideoGame/{{Condemned}} 2'', and says "I ''wish'' I was fucking kidding!"
** And revealing the final boss of ''[=Kayne and Lynch 2: Dog Days=]''
** In his review of ''EpicMickey'', he brings up a Mickey Mouse comic where he ''[[http://ridz.sg/blog/2008/04/mickey-mouse-loses-minnie-attempts-suicide/ tries to kill himself]]'' after Minnie breaks up with him.
** Uses this in ''Painkiller'' when describing a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning.
** After mentioning a particularly [[invoked]] {{narm}}ful line spoken by ''VideoGame/RememberMe'''s protagonist, he then states that, yes, it really is in the game as displayed verbatim.
** In his review of MetalGearSolid: Revengence, as he's talking about Raiden's robotic dog companion, on the screen are, in big letters, "NO REALLY" and "A THING THAT HAPPENS"
* NotSoDifferent: ''TheWitcher 2'' review makes this observation of [[PCVSConsole console & PC gamers]]. [[HatesEveryoneEqually You both suck equally]]!
* ObservationOnOriginality: Numerous reviews allude to this concept. His running metaphor about Branston Pickle (to describe something so original and distinctive that it must be appreciated in spite of its flaws) more or less amounts to this trope.
* OhCrap: In his ''FIFA 13'' review, after he's been distracted from reviewing the game throughout the video:
--> "How much time do I have left? 8 SECONDS? FUCK!! Uh, [[MotorMouth FIFA 13 is a game in which you and your burly friends help a small leather sphere realize its dream of being in a net, and I think we can all agree that that's basically a positive thing�nighty night.]]"
* OldShame: Yahtzee has admitted at least twice he used to watch Pokemon when he was a kid. While some people might not consider this shameful, he certainly does.
* OnceAnEpisode: Tends to draw characters skipping hand-in-hand, WizardOfOz-style frequently
* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Averted, he couldn't care less
--> "Striving for 100% completion is for unemployed psychotics and Koreans."
* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In his ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' review: "I could go on about how the combat flows, or how the atmosphere is solid, [[OverlyLongGag and how the highlights for me were the Scarecrow sections where Batman's perceptions of reality are skewed in favour of a nightmarish and delusional glimpse into the darkest recesses of Batman's soul]], and how jumping on people is cool..."
* OnlyOneFemaleMold: Criticizes both ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' and ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' for this.
-->"...universally identical bodies that leave Hawke's elderly mother with the same massive, curvaceous bosoms as a table dancer, [[FreudWasRight Freud Freud]]."
-->"...the male orcs, trolls, and undead are all hunched, twisted monstrosities while the females are basically just discolored human hotties with bad dentistry."
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: ''SpecOpsTheLine'' depressed him so much that he actually took a huge ''pause'' near the end of the review and sighed wearily before wrapping up. The game went on to be his pick for Best Game of 2012.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Happens a fair deal with his ridiculous Irish accent in the ''Tales of VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' episode.
** Also the ''{{Farcry}} 2'' episode, where he switches back and forth from his normal English accent and a horrible South African accent.
* OrphanedPunchline: "...and whistled for a baboon!"
* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: Parodied.
-->The problem is that this isn't a ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' game. It looks like one, it wears the skin of one, but that doesn't make it one! I am not a fat woman, even though I've- I've just been advised not to finish this sentence. (with the accompanied image of him [[BlackComedy wearing the bloody skin of a fat woman]].)
* OutOfTheFryingPan: In his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/739-Velvet-Assassin review]] of ''Videogame/VelvetAssassin'', he notes that the CaffeineBulletTime mechanic in the stealth sections is--unless used under precise circumstances--liable to backfire and leave the player worse off than before.
-->...then the "f**kup remedy" has instead resulted in what we experts call "boomerang f**kup".
* OverlyLongGag: See BigNo.
* ParrotExposition: A parody of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'''s famous tendency for this:
--> '''Otacon:''' Metal Gear\\
'''Snake:''' Metal Gear?\\
'''Otacon:''' Metal Gear!\\
'''Snake:''' Bugger me!
* PCVsConsole: AKA "Dirty Console Peasant vs Glorious PC-Gaming Master Race". He blames multiplatform console development�along with the mentality of console gamers�for "dumbing down" ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' in comparison to its [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual predecessor]] ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2''. He returns the favor the following year criticizing PC gamers in his ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher Witcher]]'' review for their love of overly complicated gameplay design that inevitably results in an unintuitive game that is a cumbersome chore to play.
* PetPeeveTrope: [[invoked]]
** {{Anticlimax Boss}}es
** ArtificialStupidity: See FishEyes; the fact that they're used whenever the topic of a game's AI is discussed should tell you something.
** {{Doorstopper}}: He tends to rag on games that are heavy on dialogue and cutscenes, like ''Franchise/MassEffect'', the ''FinalFantasy'' series and especially ''MetalGearSolid4'', which he describes as suffering from "verbal diarrhea."
** ItsEasySoItSucks: [[invoked]] Initially {{averted|trope}} when he calls out fans of the NintendoHard ''BionicCommandoRearmed'' for taking this stance, then plays it straight the rest of his career...
** FakeDifficulty: ...except when [[SomeDexterityRequired the controls suck]], [[ArtificialStupidity the AI sucks]] and TheComputerIsACheatingBastard.
** KarmaMeter: He argues that usually "you need to be all the way good or all the way evil to unlock the best toys" which eliminates choice and forces an evil player to do some really ridiculous things to maintain their evilness. He also argues that such meters are "just forcing us to play the game twice to see all the content."
** NinetiesAntiHero: A core gripe of his when reviewing games like ''{{Darksiders}}'' and ''{{WET}}''.
** PressXToNotDie: Trope namer, as noted above. He has clarified that he doesn't mind QuicktimeEvents when they're part of the core gameplay (as in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''), but objects when they are unexpectedly thrown into the middle of a cutscene, as in this trope.
** RealIsBrown
** RegeneratingHealth: He prefers health meters and medkits (this goes hand in hand with his hating cover-based combat; see below).
** RummageSaleReject: He often criticizes [[EasternRPG JRPGs]] for their eccentric costume designs.
** {{Sequelitis}}: [[invoked]] His biggest issue with the current games industry.
** StealthBasedMission: He likes the stealth genre, but a "forced stealth section" in the middle of a non-stealth game is one of his pet peeves.
** TakeCover: One of his main beefs with current-generation shooters. In his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1976-Kane-Lynch-2-Dog-Days review]] of ''VideoGame/KaneAndLynch 2: Dog Days'', he observed that he doesn't mind this trope as long as it's not the ''only'' thing the player is expected to care about. In his words, "you can still have it, in all its pop-up shooting gallery tedium, but you've got to have something else!" Such as stealth gameplay for ''Deus Ex: Human Revolution'', BulletTime for ''Max Payne 3'', or an amazing story for ''Spec Ops: the Line''.
** UpdatedRerelease: Especially when Creator/{{Nintendo}} do it.
** VideoGameLives: Believes the trope to be long obsolete.
** {{Waggle}}: [[invoked]] One of his key issues with Nintendo consoles, because how shoehorned-in it seems.
* PetTheDog: In an ''Extra Punctuation'', although he couldn't sympathize with gamers who cried at Aerith's death in ''FFVII'', he said that the emotions they felt were real and no one could call them fake or wrong.
* {{Portmanteau}}
-->"Essflawcondodgeckindesimudstorliketersockity."
* PowerTrio: With Bob Chipman and James Portnow. Yahtzee is the Id, Bob is the Superego and James is the Ego.
** In his ''SuperMarioGalaxy2'' review he considers Mario, Peach, and Bowser a FreudianTrio. Bowser is the Id, Peach the Superego, and Mario the Ego.
* PrepareToDie: Used as a CreditsGag.
* PressXToNotDie: [[TropeNamer Named it]], see RunningGag.
** Since ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' had none of these, Yahtzee instead used "Press X to '''KICK ASS'''."
** ''Creator/TomClancy VideoGame/HAWX'': "Press X To Make The World Safe For Democracy."
** "Press X to Put Off Going to the Gym" (''Luigi's Mansion 2'')
** Ah, [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld Mario can turn into a cat]] now. Press X to Curl Up And Lick Your Own Balls. (''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7595-E3-2013 E3 2013]]'')
** ''SilentHill Origins'': "Press X to Nurby Durby Durr" (This particular "Press X" gag is repeated in other videos)
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': "Press X to exaggerate financial standings" (In [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/48-Grand-Theft-Auto-IV reference]] to the game's over-reliance on realism -- "What next, the Write-a-letter-to-your-mum mini game?")
*** The hilarious thing is, at one point you do have the option of having Niko write an email to his mother.
** ''50 Cent: Blood On The Sand'': "The prerequisite quick-time experiences..." [caption: "Press X To Brutalise This Poor Fellow"] "... are thankfully not mandatory." ["Or Don't, Whatever's Cool."]
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': "[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1461-Mass-Effect-2 Press X To Not Care]]" ("You can't just spend the whole game knocking back Singapore Slings on a beach all day")
** ''[[VideoGame/TombRaider2013 Tomb Raider]]'': "Press X to I'm Not Even Going to Fucking Touch This One" (describing the use of a quick-time event in an "attempted rape" scene)
** He actually explains a couple of the reasons why licensed games tend to do poorly [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1815-Prince-of-Persia-The-Forgotten-Sands while reviewing]] ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheForgottenSands'', released to promote the ''[[Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Sands of Time]]'' movie, citing that most of them put too much focus on the story or license (as opposed to gameplay) or get rushed enough to where notable issues don't get fixed (both of which, he says, are evidently the case with the 2010 Prince of Persia games). He still finds the game enjoyable despite having the look and feel of a licensed game.
* PretentiousLatinMotto: The CreditsGag for ''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome'' suggests that Yahtzee's should be "Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret"; this is a Francis Bacon quote meaning "[[CausticCritic Slander boldly, something always sticks]]".
* ProductPlacement: Branston Pickle or '''GAME TRADERS ROBINA'''.
--> "Your one stop shop for games and the trading thereof...''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment in Robina]]''."
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: [[RedFaction Darius Mason]] triumphs by using his magic flashlight the fix Mars' weather inside of five minutes. ..Erm.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Brought up in the ''VideoGame/SimCity'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7053-SimCity review]], with reference to the trope's poster girl:
--> Listen to me, EA! Not every introvert is longing for the day that [[Creator/ZooeyDeschanel Zooey fucking Deschanel]] kicks their door down and forcibly drags them to a roller rink!
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Has teamed up with {{Moviebob}} and [[WebVideo/ExtraCredits James Portnow]] to form [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extraconsideration Extra Consideration]], a panel in which all three discuss the state of the gaming scene.
** Jim Sterling of the Jimquisition has now joined the panel.
* TheMeanBrit: Though currently living in Australia.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Debatable. Some who claim to have met Yahtzee IRL report that he is capable of being quite unpleasant towards others. The same persons, however, also noted that this is mitigated by the fact that he is also fairly shy and quiet. He claims he's only a jackass when provoked... [[MisanthropeSupreme which is often]].
** Tycho of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' speculates that Yahtzee is quiet in person in order to save up all his hate and rage to bellow it out really quickly in his weekly reviews.
* MeatMoss: He calls it "jam" in his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2092-Amnesia-The-Dark-Descent review]] of ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent''.
-->"Oh pissing BLIMEY there's JAM coming out of the walls!"
** And this was years before Yahtzee's [[ThereAreNoCoincidences novel about a jam-based apocalypse]] came out.
* MedalOfDishonor: The ''Zero Punctuation Lifetime Achievement Award For Total Abhorrence'' goes to.... (pause for effect) [--Ride to Hell: Retribution--].
-->"...which it will hold indefinitely until a worse game comes along. That should roughly be around the time apes have retaken the Earth."
** He spent some time of his review of ''Alone in the Dark'' slagging off on its heroine. This particular tangent opens with an awards ceremony wherein the heroine cleans up at the "Horrible Game Character" category, taking home '[[RomanticPlotTumor Most Obviously Crowbarred-in Love Interest]]', '[[TheScrappy Most Irritating]]', '[[ArtificialStupidity Least Useful to Gameplay]]', '[[SatelliteLoveInterest Least Necessary to Plot]]' and '[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lifetime Achievement]]'.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Yahtzee lampshades this in the new "Tomb Raider" game where he questions why when a woman is being beaten up we are supposed to admire her strength and character where as a man is beaten up we are supposed to laugh.
-->"Why do you hate men so much, Games Industry?"
* MenDontCry: Parodied in his ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3611-Infamous-2 review]].
-->"I'm not to proud to admit that I was welling up at ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'''s good ending, a little bit. Well, not much at all really. It was more like stoically nodding my head while doing squat-thrusts and grunting."
* MercyKill: What he says must be done with ''SonicTheHedgehog''.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Frequently.
-->"It's like wrestling an excitable dog in a paddling pool full of disembodied breasts. *{{beat}}* Don't think too much about that simile, I certainly didn't."
** Especially when it's a hot summer day and his AC isn't working. "Really good like... something... [[BuffySpeak good]] that's... made out of chocolate..."
** [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8892-Extra-Punctuation-Action-Is-Not-Finisher-Porn This]] ''Extra Punctuation'' takes the metaphor of "TooManyCooks spoil the broth" and keeps stretching it until he reckons "I think this is already the best metaphor I've ever written."
** To illustrate the importance of keeping D-list villains ''out'' of a Batman game, he explains how his greatest villains all reflect an aspect of the caped crusader.
-->"Two-Face reflects his duality, Scarecrow his use of fear and psychological tactics, Poison Ivy his-- er, shapely buttocks.(?)"
* MetaTwist: Discussed - he feels that the "shocking" moment in the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' games has become so token that by the end of the third game, it'd be more shocking if there wasn't one.
* MilestoneCelebration: Spoofed with his 100th episode, where he decides to review... exactly the same game he would've reviewed otherwise (''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood'').
** Further spoofed in his ''Silent Hill 2'' review, a retro review that actually would be special:
-->"But what could be more special than my one-hundred and second video?"
* {{Mordor}}: Nintendo's Corporate HQ in ''Bowser's Inside Story''.
* MonsterClown: Having recently plowed through ''Arkham Origins'' and finding himself parroting the same lukewarm opinion on ''Black Flag'' as the two previous sequels, Yahtzee scrawls [[TheJoker Joker]] makeup on his face and hangs himself upside down, telling ''Assassin's Creed'', "I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
* MoralGuardian: In his [=3DS=] review he states how he's trying his best to not sound like one of these while criticizing the potentially malicious acts people can do with the "Street Pass" feature.
* MoreDakka: His review of ''{{Spore}}'' shows the civilization stage as imps strafing other imps cities from the air, with the caption "Dakka Dakka" under the war planes.
* MotorMouth: "Zero Punctuation" comes from how he has a tendency to ramble on and on so quickly that his speech has almost no pauses, and thus there is ''zero punctuation''. More or less.
** He has said he edits out the pauses, but definitely does not speed up his voice.
** He was strangely slow in his delivery of the review of ''Lego City Undercover''; this may be ascribed to the post-''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' melancholy he claims to be suffering from.
** This is taken a bit further than usual in the end of his ''FIFA 13'' review, after getting distracted from reviewing it by several other downloadable games:
--> "How much time do I have left? [[OhCrap 8 SECONDS? FUCK!!]] Uh, FIFA 13 is a game in which you and your burly friends help a small leather sphere realize its dream of being in a net, and I think we can all agree that that's basically a positive thing�nighty night."
* MuggingTheMonster: In his ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' review, he mentions that it occurred to him that it might be a good idea to stop stealing things. After getting attacked by bandits and taking their stuff, he mentions it is not stealing because they attacked him, which makes it his by the international law of "Go Fuck Yourselves."
* MundaneMadeAwesome: When talking about the wet clothing feature in ''Uncharted'', he talks a bit too much about it, considering it means absolutely nothing in terms of plot or gameplay. He realizes this, of course, stating at the end of his praise "Well, ''I'' think it's interesting!".
* MythologyGag: During his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' review, Yahtzee separates each hour he played the game with a brief break showing a black screen with the unit of time and then which unit he's on (Hour 1, Hour 2, Hour 3, etc.). He used a similar mechanism with three of the games in the ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos''.
* {{Nerdgasm}}: Has made a few references to getting erections at really good games.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Has made quite a few jokes about that. Especially notible on his review for ''{{VideoGame/Catherine}}'':
-->(Increasingly amused) "... there's a moral choice aspect where you answer questions based on your own substantial experience with relationships *stifled laughter* " (accompanying visual is of a fat glasses-wearing guy sitting next to a blow-up doll.)
* NewlyPopularUpdating: Expect any game he reviews to have a new quote entry at the top of its page by the end of the day, appropriate or otherwise.
* NiceHat: "Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder." The hat originally appeared in [[MythologyGag his own games]], ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'', worn by the character of Trilby. The hat itself is known as a Trilby hat, and it tends to get him [[CreatorWorship more attention]] [[http://twitter.com/YahtzeeCroshaw/status/11013246821 than he really wants]].
** NeverBareheaded: In his Top 10 of 2010, he wears a snooty "indie game" French beret ''on top'' of his trilby hat.
** In his CreditsGag for Call of Duty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2, he claims that despite what one might say about the Russians, they have sweet hats.
* NightmareFuel:[[invoked]] The ''Kinectimals''' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kinectimals.jpg box art]] is "the most terrifying thing I've seen all year. It looks like what would happen if [[MonsterClown John Wayne Gacy]] went to Disneyland."
* NightmareRetardant:[[invoked]] He states that ''AliceMadnessReturns'' made {{Creepy Doll}}s not creepy just by the fact that the game uses it constantly to the point where players just get used to it.
* NintendoHard: Yahtzee prides himself on as having been playing video games since early childhood and frequently recalls how hard they were back then. He routinely mocks prospective critics who complain about the difficulty level in games these days ([[{{Hypocrite}} even though he does it himself]]), as well as people who accuse him of [[ItsHardSoItSucks not liking a game because he finds it too hard]]. That said, games with [[SonicUnleashed ridiculously impossible sequences]], he blasts with both barrels.
** He complained that Demons Souls was too hard and gave up.
** However he did enjoy ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'', though he states that no person, unless it's for charity should ever try [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Impossible difficulty]].
*** This trope is why he quit playing ''TheWitcher2'' - and to be fair, he played it when enemies could knock Geralt down mid-swing (and [[CycleOfHurting KEEP knocking him down]]), and ''before'' a tutorial was added to acclimitize players to the controls.
* NoFourthWall: Technically doesn't qualify as there's no suspension of disbelief, but a review still pushed back the boundaries when Yahtzee addressed the viewer as "Adrian", and noted that while that's not particularly likely to be any given viewer's name, "it was worth it to freak out all the Adrians in the world."
-->"If you've been paying attention, you'll notice that all these games are sequels. And if you haven't... *claps twice* OI!"
-->"Stop watching my reviews, Dad!"
** The ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' review has the distinction of genuinely breaking the fourth wall, as Yahtzee suggest pausing the video, while his avatar points to the pause button on the video player.
-->"I shouldn't have to talk about the core gameplay, I consider that an insult to you and me. My review of ''Mario Galaxy 1'' hasn't gone anywhere, why not pause this video, pour yourself a glass of wine and go and enjoy that. I'll just wait here slapping myself in the face until you return. *cut to black, slapping sounds and Yahtzee groaning, then cut back, Yahtzee now with a bruised face* Finished? Right, well, ''Mario Galaxy 2'' is more of that."
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: At the end of most reviews, there's a couple of still shots during the credits and theme-music with a little joke about the game. In the case of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', there was no punchline, just Yahtzee beating and shooting Vanille to pieces in increasingly elaborate ways.
* NoJustNoReaction: How the [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/869-The-Conduit review]] of ''TheConduit'' began.
* NoodleImplements: The ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' review: ''...and whistled for a baboon.''
* NoodleIncident: The end of the ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' video says "I hope the war in Las Vegas destroyed that ice machine I threw up in".
** "Now I've never invaded Europe, except for that one time..."
** "I know I can't speak for everyone, at least not until ''the device'' is completed, but..."
* NostalgiaFilter: Yahtzee often derides fans who wear nostalgia goggles, although he caught himself falling into the same trap when he was reviewing ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''.
* NotHimself: Wait, what's this? ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}} 3'' has no regenerating health? A sum of weapons greater than 2? No chest-high walls? "...erm... {{Sony}}?... Are you feeling all right?"
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
** Describing the ending of ''VideoGame/{{Condemned}} 2'', and says "I ''wish'' I was fucking kidding!"
** And revealing the final boss of ''[=Kayne and Lynch 2: Dog Days=]''
** In his review of ''EpicMickey'', he brings up a Mickey Mouse comic where he ''[[http://ridz.sg/blog/2008/04/mickey-mouse-loses-minnie-attempts-suicide/ tries to kill himself]]'' after Minnie breaks up with him.
** Uses this in ''Painkiller'' when describing a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning.
** After mentioning a particularly [[invoked]] {{narm}}ful line spoken by ''VideoGame/RememberMe'''s protagonist, he then states that, yes, it really is in the game as displayed verbatim.
** In his review of MetalGearSolid: Revengence, as he's talking about Raiden's robotic dog companion, on the screen are, in big letters, "NO REALLY" and "A THING THAT HAPPENS"
* NotSoDifferent: ''TheWitcher 2'' review makes this observation of [[PCVSConsole console & PC gamers]]. [[HatesEveryoneEqually You both suck equally]]!
* ObservationOnOriginality: Numerous reviews allude to this concept. His running metaphor about Branston Pickle (to describe something so original and distinctive that it must be appreciated in spite of its flaws) more or less amounts to this trope.
* OhCrap: In his ''FIFA 13'' review, after he's been distracted from reviewing the game throughout the video:
--> "How much time do I have left? 8 SECONDS? FUCK!! Uh, [[MotorMouth FIFA 13 is a game in which you and your burly friends help a small leather sphere realize its dream of being in a net, and I think we can all agree that that's basically a positive thing�nighty night.]]"
* OldShame: Yahtzee has admitted at least twice he used to watch Pokemon when he was a kid. While some people might not consider this shameful, he certainly does.
* OnceAnEpisode: Tends to draw characters skipping hand-in-hand, WizardOfOz-style frequently
* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Averted, he couldn't care less
--> "Striving for 100% completion is for unemployed psychotics and Koreans."
* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In his ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' review: "I could go on about how the combat flows, or how the atmosphere is solid, [[OverlyLongGag and how the highlights for me were the Scarecrow sections where Batman's perceptions of reality are skewed in favour of a nightmarish and delusional glimpse into the darkest recesses of Batman's soul]], and how jumping on people is cool..."
* OnlyOneFemaleMold: Criticizes both ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' and ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' for this.
-->"...universally identical bodies that leave Hawke's elderly mother with the same massive, curvaceous bosoms as a table dancer, [[FreudWasRight Freud Freud]]."
-->"...the male orcs, trolls, and undead are all hunched, twisted monstrosities while the females are basically just discolored human hotties with bad dentistry."
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: ''SpecOpsTheLine'' depressed him so much that he actually took a huge ''pause'' near the end of the review and sighed wearily before wrapping up. The game went on to be his pick for Best Game of 2012.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Happens a fair deal with his ridiculous Irish accent in the ''Tales of VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' episode.
** Also the ''{{Farcry}} 2'' episode, where he switches back and forth from his normal English accent and a horrible South African accent.
* OrphanedPunchline: "...and whistled for a baboon!"
* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: Parodied.
-->The problem is that this isn't a ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' game. It looks like one, it wears the skin of one, but that doesn't make it one! I am not a fat woman, even though I've- I've just been advised not to finish this sentence. (with the accompanied image of him [[BlackComedy wearing the bloody skin of a fat woman]].)
* OutOfTheFryingPan: In his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/739-Velvet-Assassin review]] of ''Videogame/VelvetAssassin'', he notes that the CaffeineBulletTime mechanic in the stealth sections is--unless used under precise circumstances--liable to backfire and leave the player worse off than before.
-->...then the "f**kup remedy" has instead resulted in what we experts call "boomerang f**kup".
* OverlyLongGag: See BigNo.
* ParrotExposition: A parody of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'''s famous tendency for this:
--> '''Otacon:''' Metal Gear\\
'''Snake:''' Metal Gear?\\
'''Otacon:''' Metal Gear!\\
'''Snake:''' Bugger me!
* PCVsConsole: AKA "Dirty Console Peasant vs Glorious PC-Gaming Master Race". He blames multiplatform console development�along with the mentality of console gamers�for "dumbing down" ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' in comparison to its [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual predecessor]] ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2''. He returns the favor the following year criticizing PC gamers in his ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher Witcher]]'' review for their love of overly complicated gameplay design that inevitably results in an unintuitive game that is a cumbersome chore to play.
* PetPeeveTrope: [[invoked]]
** {{Anticlimax Boss}}es
** ArtificialStupidity: See FishEyes; the fact that they're used whenever the topic of a game's AI is discussed should tell you something.
** {{Doorstopper}}: He tends to rag on games that are heavy on dialogue and cutscenes, like ''Franchise/MassEffect'', the ''FinalFantasy'' series and especially ''MetalGearSolid4'', which he describes as suffering from "verbal diarrhea."
** ItsEasySoItSucks: [[invoked]] Initially {{averted|trope}} when he calls out fans of the NintendoHard ''BionicCommandoRearmed'' for taking this stance, then plays it straight the rest of his career...
** FakeDifficulty: ...except when [[SomeDexterityRequired the controls suck]], [[ArtificialStupidity the AI sucks]] and TheComputerIsACheatingBastard.
** KarmaMeter: He argues that usually "you need to be all the way good or all the way evil to unlock the best toys" which eliminates choice and forces an evil player to do some really ridiculous things to maintain their evilness. He also argues that such meters are "just forcing us to play the game twice to see all the content."
** NinetiesAntiHero: A core gripe of his when reviewing games like ''{{Darksiders}}'' and ''{{WET}}''.
** PressXToNotDie: Trope namer, as noted above. He has clarified that he doesn't mind QuicktimeEvents when they're part of the core gameplay (as in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''), but objects when they are unexpectedly thrown into the middle of a cutscene, as in this trope.
** RealIsBrown
** RegeneratingHealth: He prefers health meters and medkits (this goes hand in hand with his hating cover-based combat; see below).
** RummageSaleReject: He often criticizes [[EasternRPG JRPGs]] for their eccentric costume designs.
** {{Sequelitis}}: [[invoked]] His biggest issue with the current games industry.
** StealthBasedMission: He likes the stealth genre, but a "forced stealth section" in the middle of a non-stealth game is one of his pet peeves.
** TakeCover: One of his main beefs with current-generation shooters. In his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1976-Kane-Lynch-2-Dog-Days review]] of ''VideoGame/KaneAndLynch 2: Dog Days'', he observed that he doesn't mind this trope as long as it's not the ''only'' thing the player is expected to care about. In his words, "you can still have it, in all its pop-up shooting gallery tedium, but you've got to have something else!" Such as stealth gameplay for ''Deus Ex: Human Revolution'', BulletTime for ''Max Payne 3'', or an amazing story for ''Spec Ops: the Line''.
** UpdatedRerelease: Especially when Creator/{{Nintendo}} do it.
** VideoGameLives: Believes the trope to be long obsolete.
** {{Waggle}}: [[invoked]] One of his key issues with Nintendo consoles, because how shoehorned-in it seems.
* PetTheDog: In an ''Extra Punctuation'', although he couldn't sympathize with gamers who cried at Aerith's death in ''FFVII'', he said that the emotions they felt were real and no one could call them fake or wrong.
* {{Portmanteau}}
-->"Essflawcondodgeckindesimudstorliketersockity."
* PowerTrio: With Bob Chipman and James Portnow. Yahtzee is the Id, Bob is the Superego and James is the Ego.
** In his ''SuperMarioGalaxy2'' review he considers Mario, Peach, and Bowser a FreudianTrio. Bowser is the Id, Peach the Superego, and Mario the Ego.
* PrepareToDie: Used as a CreditsGag.
* PressXToNotDie: [[TropeNamer Named it]], see RunningGag.
** Since ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' had none of these, Yahtzee instead used "Press X to '''KICK ASS'''."
** ''Creator/TomClancy VideoGame/HAWX'': "Press X To Make The World Safe For Democracy."
** "Press X to Put Off Going to the Gym" (''Luigi's Mansion 2'')
** Ah, [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld Mario can turn into a cat]] now. Press X to Curl Up And Lick Your Own Balls. (''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7595-E3-2013 E3 2013]]'')
** ''SilentHill Origins'': "Press X to Nurby Durby Durr" (This particular "Press X" gag is repeated in other videos)
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': "Press X to exaggerate financial standings" (In [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/48-Grand-Theft-Auto-IV reference]] to the game's over-reliance on realism -- "What next, the Write-a-letter-to-your-mum mini game?")
*** The hilarious thing is, at one point you do have the option of having Niko write an email to his mother.
** ''50 Cent: Blood On The Sand'': "The prerequisite quick-time experiences..." [caption: "Press X To Brutalise This Poor Fellow"] "... are thankfully not mandatory." ["Or Don't, Whatever's Cool."]
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': "[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1461-Mass-Effect-2 Press X To Not Care]]" ("You can't just spend the whole game knocking back Singapore Slings on a beach all day")
** ''[[VideoGame/TombRaider2013 Tomb Raider]]'': "Press X to I'm Not Even Going to Fucking Touch This One" (describing the use of a quick-time event in an "attempted rape" scene)
** He actually explains a couple of the reasons why licensed games tend to do poorly [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1815-Prince-of-Persia-The-Forgotten-Sands while reviewing]] ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheForgottenSands'', released to promote the ''[[Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Sands of Time]]'' movie, citing that most of them put too much focus on the story or license (as opposed to gameplay) or get rushed enough to where notable issues don't get fixed (both of which, he says, are evidently the case with the 2010 Prince of Persia games). He still finds the game enjoyable despite having the look and feel of a licensed game.
* PretentiousLatinMotto: The CreditsGag for ''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome'' suggests that Yahtzee's should be "Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret"; this is a Francis Bacon quote meaning "[[CausticCritic Slander boldly, something always sticks]]".
* ProductPlacement: Branston Pickle or '''GAME TRADERS ROBINA'''.
--> "Your one stop shop for games and the trading thereof...''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment in Robina]]''."
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: [[RedFaction Darius Mason]] triumphs by using his magic flashlight the fix Mars' weather inside of five minutes. ..Erm.
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