Soulja Boy: The next Yahtzee?

I saw the following video yesterday on Joystiq, in which rapper Soulja Boy does his damnedest to explain the brilliant game Braid to his YouTube audience. But then today I was talking to Josh, and he said something even more brilliant: “He is the next Yahtzee.”

Let’s compare (and btw, neither of these videos are particularly safe for work):

Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation:

So, is Soulja Boy the new liaison for gamers to the mainstream world*? Discuss.

*Wouldn’t that be hilarious?

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#1 written by mnitro 3 years ago

as Yahtzee would say “short answer: NO, long answer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”

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#2 written by David 3 years ago

Umm, Yahtzee FTW. Soulja Boy WTFrak. Maybe I’m too white but I can’t understand half of what he is saying.

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#3 written by Veronica 3 years ago

@mnitro – HAHA! I was cracking up at that yesterday. I agreed with all of his points on Spore, but then I usually agree with Yahtzee on most things.

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#4 written by Starman 3 years ago

I gotta agree that I wouldn’t want to watch SB do a review. I can swear with the best of them, but that was too rough, even for me. I don’t agree with everything Yahtzee does (coughHalo3cough) but most of the time he’s spot-on.

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#5 written by Varian 3 years ago

OH I COULD HEAR MY BRAIN CELLS YELL IN AGONY AS THEY DIE SLOOOOWLY LISTENING TO SOULJA BOY!!

At least Yahtzee has a point in what he says and what he’s trying to get across.

By the way David, I’m not white and I didn’t understand half of what he was saying either..HAHA

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#6 written by Steve 3 years ago

Apparently Braid isn’t the only thing you have to get stoned to enjoy.

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#7 written by Paul 3 years ago

You should get both of them on Qore (but you might need subtitles for Soulja boy).

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#8 written by NeuroMan42 3 years ago

If Soulja Boy is the new voice of gamers, then gamers are a dead species. Geeze, this stuff sickens me… Yahtzee rocks in his reviews this guy is a joke.

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#9 written by eric f. 3 years ago

It’s amusing for a little while to watch Soulja Boy be so stupid and high, but contrary to his thoughts about Braid, it was actually his video that had no point.

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#10 written by eric f. 3 years ago

On an unrelated note, that trailer for Warhammer online was pretty awesome. I might actually try that if it isn’t cartoony like WoW.

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#11 written by ryanknapper 3 years ago

My doG, that was awful.

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#12 written by MacDude 3 years ago

Hmmm,… let’s see Soulja Boy No.1 song, pop, rap and dance; 3 million ringtones; inaugurated a new dance step; while most people (including me) still think of Yahtzee as a game from Parker Bro’s. Let’s face it the game fans are full of haters.

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#13 written by eric f. 3 years ago

Hmmm… MacDude, I don’t listen to pop, rap or dance, so those stats are irrelevant. I have no idea who soulja boy is. Therefore, it seems absurd that his video has any reason to be compared to Zero Punctuation reviews. So I guess that Josh’s suggestion wasn’t that brilliant. It was more like the video game industries version of the tech world’s next “iPhone killer” comment.

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#14 written by Veronica 3 years ago

Guys! People! Step back from this a second…

It’s meant as a joke. There can never be another Yahtzee. And if there were, I’d sooner run headlong off a cliff while asphyxiating myself with my USB controller than allow it to be Soulja Boy.

The only sad thing is that there are enough people out there that may actually listen to this guy’s “gaming” advice.

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#15 written by Russell 3 years ago

The soulja boy vid is hilarious! He should do more “reviews.” I would love to hear what he would say about MGS4 or something completely different like Katamari!

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#16 written by NeuroMan42 3 years ago

The only folks that would listen to SOLDIER boy, are the same ones that like his music. Hmmmmmm, we need a predator for human… like a HUGE mantis-thing to thin the herd a bit.

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#17 written by GRiZZ 3 years ago

Okay folks, let me break it down for everyone:

Angry Nintendo Nerd reviews trump all.

And… while Braid does make a hilarious review, I want to see A.N. Nerd, Yahtzee, AND Soulja Boy all review Fat Princess. That game is just too amazing.

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#18 written by Santee 3 years ago

What can you expect from a guy who can’t even string a sentence together in any of his songs. Then again what can you say about the people who listen to them?

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#19 written by wakachamo (Joaquim Lobo Silva) 3 years ago

I’ll be honest.

Soulja Boy made me want to get up and play Braid.

Microsoft should consider him as an essential marketing tool.

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#20 written by Surge 3 years ago

He amuses himself for 5 minutes with a feature thats been in the hit Prince of Persia series forever…must live under a rock.

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