Help Out Yahtzee Recommends

[Annoyone]

I started this whole curator thing to help people keep track of the games that Yahtzee likes. With 15+k people currently following and almost 400 in this groups it seems like quite a few people respect Yahtzee's opinion on games.
Necessarily, I somewhat took up the role of an editor: choosing the games he talked about positively enough to validate recommending them and choosing appropriate quotes as well as editing them so that they fit into the character limit of 152.
As I'm not always comfortable with my role as an editor, this thread serves two purposes:

1. If you have any game that is not on the list but should be, please name it here. Similarly, if there is a game that currently is on the list but you think shouldn't be, you can discuss that here.
   
2. There are a few games that I know he enjoys but where sufficiently validating quotes are hard to find. Maybe some of you can help finding quotes for recommending these games:

• Beyond Good & Evil (mentioned here)
  
• Monkey Island 1 & 2 (obviously)
  
• Doom 1 & 2 (he played it with Jim & Gabe)
  
• Another World
  
• S.T.A.L.K.E .R. Shadow of Chernobyl (only mentioned as "more complex FPS that spoiled PC gamers for Bioshock")
  
• Loom

Thanks.

[FourMore]

Yahtzee recommends Crypt of the NecroDancer too!

"Very fun, deceptively simple, has only four controls - up left right down - , but deceptively deep for it. And I'm getting quite addicted, and it's got really good music as well."

https://youtu.be/e13B-Tilzlc?t=40m58s

There is a Judging by the cover for Another world. I'll ask around for Beyond good and evil.

[Annoyone]

@Fer82 Thanks for the heads-up, I put Crypt of the NecroDancer on the curator list.
As for Beyond Good and Evil, he might review it in the coming summer's slow release season.

[Nathan]

Latest Zero Punctuation was a rather positive review of DOOM (2016)

[Annoyone]

Originally posted by Nathan:

Latest Zero Punctuation was a rather positive review of DOOM (2016)

Added.

[Noobjuice]

Yahtzee made a (sort of) recommendation for Furi in this week's Zero Punctuation:

"Furi's combat gets a wee bit parry-centric in the second half, and it won't last you very long if you are a hard games connoisseur, but it's original enough to make it worth giving a chance you stingy f**k!"

Video Link (Recommendation at 2:38):
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/116910-Furi-and-Song-of-the-Deep-Review

http://store.steampowered.com/app/423230/

[Annoyone]

Originally posted by ((NS))Noobjuice:

Yahtzee made a (sort of) recommendation for Furi in this week's Zero Punctuation:

"Furi's combat gets a wee bit parry-centric in the second half, and it won't last you very long if you are a hard games connoisseur, but it's original enough to make it worth giving a chance you stingy f**k!"

I had it on the radar but waited for the Zero Punctuation Wiki transcription because I couldn't be asked to transcribe it myself.
Recommendation is up now though. Thanks!

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/YahtzeeRecommends#curation/app/423230/

[Noobjuice]

So Yahtzee sort of liked Quadrilateral Cowboy, but I'm not sure if it count's as a recommendation. Here's the relevant text, I'll let you decide whether or not to curate it:
3:51
"It's a game about careful preparation rather than twitch reflexes, which specifically appeals to me because I've been known to code it up myself now and again, and there's something very satisfying about finding the quickest, most elegant solution. Or it could be the mere act of typing my commands makes me feel like a hacker in a Hollywood film from the late 90s, as long as I crack my knuckles a lot and say tragically outdated things that a middle-aged screenwriter once heard on an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

4:38
"I like the core mechanic, but I get the impression the game is less interested in exploring it to the full as it is in pushing it through the - dare I say - ever-so-slightly pretentious storytelling elements."

http://store.steampowered.com/app/240440/

EDIT: He also gave Quake a back-handed recommendation in his review, again not sure if that counts so I'll just leave the text here:
1:14
"In truth, I never liked Quake as much as other retro shooters, because if you want to find the evolutionary ancestor of brown and miserable modern shooters then Quake makes for a pretty good starting point. But for all that it is still a retro shooter of its time - high-octane shooting where you move faster than a hairless Filipino boy through a crowded bathhouse and the story never gets in the way of the action."

http://store.steampowered.com/app/2310/

[Annoyone]

Originally posted by ((NS))Noobjuice:

So Yahtzee sort of liked Quadrilateral Cowboy, but I'm not sure if it count's as a recommendation.

EDIT: He also gave Quake a back-handed recommendation in his review, again not sure if that counts so I'll just leave the text here:
1:14

Sorry for taking forever to get back to you.

Well, I hesitate to add those two. While he seemed to like Quadrilateral Cowboy, he had quite a few "buts" attached to that declaration of admiration. And same with Quake. The only reason why he enjoys it seems to be that it nicely juxtaposes nowadays shooters.
But I'm probably just being overly picky.
Maybe there are others' opinions that can help?
Actually nevermind. He mentions his enjoyment of Quake again in Totalbiscuit's Co-Optional Podacast around the 50 minute mark. That should be enough to validate a recommendation.

Grow Home and Mother Russia Bleeds will also be added soon.
Still not sure about Quadrilateral Cowboy though.

[Noobjuice]

Yahtzee snuck in a recommendation for Night in the Woods at the end of his Ghost Recon Wildlands review:

'Night in the Woods is a solid "worth checking out", if strong writing is enough to make you forgive the very slow pacing and gameplay taking a backseat.'

http://store.steampowered.com/app/481510/

[Annoyone]

Originally posted by ((NS))Noobjuice:

Yahtzee snuck in a recommendation for Night in the Woods at the end of his Ghost Recon Wildlands review:

'Night in the Woods is a solid "worth checking out", if strong writing is enough to make you forgive the very slow pacing and gameplay taking a backseat.'

I'm late and you're right. Added.

[Meister Kleister]

While he wasn't crazy about it, I'd say Yahtzee came out with a slight recommendation for Nier: Automata.

"It is a very weird game, on every level of story and gameplay design, and that might be enough; weirdness is refreshing. In the general blandness of life, weirdness alone is worth preserving"
http://zeropunctuation.wikia.com/wiki/Nier_Automata

In the ZP-post-stream he confirms that he "kinda liked it."
https://youtu.be/CdUp_oHWC24?t=15m1s

[Annoyone]

Originally posted by Meister Kleister heisst er™:

While he wasn't crazy about it, I'd say Yahtzee came out with a slight recommendation for Nier: Automata.

"It is a very weird game, on every level of story and gameplay design, and that might be enough; weirdness is refreshing. In the general blandness of life, weirdness alone is worth preserving"
http://zeropunctuation.wikia.com/wiki/Nier_Automata

In the ZP-post-stream he confirms that he "kinda liked it."
https://youtu.be/CdUp_oHWC24?t=15m1s

I didn't manage to keep up with his post-ZP-streams lately, so thanks for pointing it out.
In the review itself, he talks about how he considered recommending it but then wondered why he thought he liked it. The impression I get from the stream is that he ended up warming up to it and even put aside his distate for the "It get better later" excuse. So I'll put it on the list though I expect some backlash from people who only watch the review.
Thanks again to you.

[Smash45]

I believe Yahtzee reccomends Hollow Knight
The appropriate quote might be
"Hollow Knight's got the atmospheric world, the exploration and perhaps most importantly the sense that we're not pissing in the wind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVn9sxVQE0w

[Annoyone]

Originally posted by Smash45:

I believe Yahtzee reccomends Hollow Knight
The appropriate quote might be
"Hollow Knight's got the atmospheric world, the exploration and perhaps most importantly the sense that we're not pissing in the wind"

Was about to add it, but didn't have the time until just now. Used the quote you suggested and the previous sentence so that his slight appreciation of Dead Cells gets peripherally mentioned.

[Annoyone]

Originally posted by Doomgriever:

"This Strange Realm Of Mine" - Old-School Indie FPS

http://store.steampowered.com/app/655730/

Did he recommend it anywhere or is this just advertisment-to-be-deleted?