Is he the most reddit of game critics?

Is he the most reddit of game critics?
no eceleb thread, discuss the state of game criticism in general

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>Is he the most reddit of game critics?
If you truly think that, stop using "PC Master Race" and any variations of that term, as it's something he invented originally.
And stop being constantly contrarian and edgy.
Essentially, if you dislike the man, then stop BEING him constantly.
You don't even get paid for it, unlike him.

He, himself, is mediocre.
But he's one of, if not the biggest contributor to the "snarky, cynical, ironic" outlook that most people who play video games nowadays, all media really.
The popularity of that style of review helped shape the retarded "post-ironic" sphere of media we live in today, where people care more about hating games and being snarky about it than actually playing games they like.

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go to bed yahtz

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>But he's one of, if not the biggest contributor to the "snarky, cynical, ironic" outlook that most people who play video games nowadays, all media really.
Partially.
If we're talking Yea Forums, specifically, it all comes from a faction of Yea Forums migrants that worshipped (old) Maddox, that moved into Yea Forums and laid the foundations of why this place is the way that it is today.
This event is defined as the "maddox migration".
Before this happened, Yea Forums was a pretty neutral board that just talked about vidya and that's it.

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>the state of game criticism in general
It's shit. Reviews are literally just recommendations on where to spend your money instead of a critical interaction with the medium.
And most youtube "gaming essayists" are roughly on the level of angry Yea Forums or reddit comments

>most reddit of video game critics
>shits on Nintendo every chance he gets
Nah.

>instead of a critical interaction with the medium
I mean, there's tons of in-depth video game analysis out there both of single titles and IPs, but every time i link any of that you just call it "autistic shit".

A lot of them don't play the angry shtick gimmick either, it just so happens that a lot of the people linked by Yea Forums regulars here tend to fall into the "here let me shit on this game for 5 hours" field because they tend to be "Yea Forums approved" youtubers that bunch together due to unsurprisingly sharing specific political stances.

>Start a thread asking about opinion on an eceleb
>"It's not an eceleb thread guys."

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I'd like like to check out some of those autists if you don't mind. Because I only know like two gaming youtubers that aren't super annoying.

To name two, Noah Caldwell-Gervais for deep diving of new and old games, or ThorHighHeels for medium-sized not as deep analysis and "hey look at this weird shit i found".

he's based as fuck
crybabies on Yea Forums can't take genuine criticism so they call him reddit

literally every piece of content this eceleb has made is about videogames in some way fucking retard

>2013 GOTY was Bioshock Infinite
yyyyyeah, that's gonna be a yikes from me

not video games you nigger faggot tranny, go back to plebbit

>left-wing
>therefore reddit

Maddox is a literal cuck

His reviews are usually pretty good, though you have to take them with a grain of salt. If he names three things that suck and one thing that's okay, you're basically dealing with a 6/10

Always reminded me of Yea Forums since he seems to hate most video games

Look out guys we got a fan.

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Recent take on him.
At the time, he was seen as the aphex of edgy internet attitude.
His endlessly shitposting persona was very attractive to younger Yea Forums posters, much like the modern e-celebs you look up today.
The only difference is the political element, wich at the time wasn't as relevant or interesting to most people here.

Is he the most based of vidya youtubers?

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Saying that he "shaped" the post-ironic mindset that pervades a lot of modern criticism online is giving him too much credit. People got that way on their own due to the way gaming culture developed and intertwined with political and social discourse over the past couple decades.

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He's in that in between place where he wants to stay neutral but has to suck a certain amount of alt-right dick because he's getting head from left wingers.
Will eventually either start fully transitioning or having a complete breakdown, or otherwise will say or do 1 wrong thing too many and the alt-right part of his audience will turn on him and in turn he'll delete everything and come back as SJW, or something similiar.
It always happens, like clockwork.

>he's getting head
He's getting heat, not head.
Gotta take my head out of the gutter, goddamn.

>no eceleb thread, discuss the state of game criticism in general
still not vidya

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I don't know who this is but he literally looks like the reddit logo

He's one of the most inconsistent and hypocritical critics I've ever seen, on one hand he talks about how important narrative is for video games while also being an author, on the other he gave Bioshock Infinite GOTY. I feel he's the type of person who likes to think of himself as a free thinking intellectual but he follows trends that are just below surface level to the general populace, like calling Demon's Souls shit but playing and praising Dark Souls once it became popular on places like Reddit or Gamefaqs. It's the same thing with Bioshock:Infinite, he praised it just because every dumb fuck redditor was praising the narrative without actually thinking too much into it. In short, Yahtzee is a pseudo-intellectual of the highest degree.

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>game criticism in general

It's all honestly pretty irrelevant when you can see someone playing the game itself at a whim. Autistic takedowns can be entertaining but are still superfluous fluff, reviews aren't remotely as relevant to purchasing decisions as they were in the print age.

I agree that he’s inconsistent, but it’s not like he presents his opinions as THE ULTIMATE TRUE ARTFUL ANALYSIS like some literally who youtubers.
I’m pretty sure he’s said in the past that he just likes what he likes.

Maybe, but honestly its pretty hard to distinguish reddit from any other internet forum these days

my two... favourite homosexuals... on the internet...

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Let's Drown Out was kino

I like how he hasn't deleted any of his early content, you can literally go to his website and view everything he ever made or posted about, included his now very very dead fan forum

That's a trap

he has some really shit opinions but he's not a trainwreck
plus hes vocal about how shit AAA gaming is so he gets an auto-pass

Let's Drown Out just made me realize how much of a miserable, unlikeable cunt with zero friends and only a mentally damaged alcoholic could stand talking to him for more than 5 minutes.
How the fuck he got a chick that was desperate enough to touch him, i'll never known.
Let's Drown Out was disturbing because it made me realize he wasn't acting out a persona, he really is that much of a sperg IRL, every day.
It must be mentally exhausting for everyone around him.

>Never ever again

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He's the most honest e-celeb but an e-celeb is an e-celeb. His fanbase is insufferable and thinks they're smarter than they really are (most e-celebs) but he himself is alright. For an e-celeb.

it's still funny to see Escapist trying to cling to any relevance outside of him.

>Is he the most reddit
What the fuck does this even mean?

>plus hes vocal about how shit AAA gaming
Except he had Bioshock Infinite as one of his GOTY.
And by that demented reasoning that means you're giving a pass to people like Jim Sterling, too.

Now that the dust has settled, can we agree this was his masterpiece?

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Careful user, he might file a class action lawsuit against you for saying that

>shilling political stances for views
>based
It's faggotry when people do it for the left and it's faggotry when people do it for the right, why do you support faggots

The secret to being friends with someone like that is to not take their shit too seriously and just dab on them every now and then.

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Look at the cheeks on that lad. Holy fuck. Absolute UNIT!

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Someone, quick, tell me what to think of this post. I can't form an opinion on it because no one else has told me what to think yet.

Name a worse gaming critic than pic related

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Gabe deserved better, fortunately he actually seems to have real fun with that other guy in keepetclassy

If you're social enough to have a friend, you could pick literally anyone else and not have to stand to such spergy bullshit.
You can't even play the "well he's not a normie and he knows about video games" angle because Yahtz is terrible at video games and his knowledge regarding them is starting to fade more and more as he ages.
He's just not that interesting of a person, why even bother.

I've never been able to find sauce on this...

>How the fuck he got a chick that was desperate enough to touch him
She was a crazy fan with millionaire parents or some shit that cyber stalked him. fwiw i don't know which of these memes are true

>Gabe deserved better
Of course he does.
He's a goddamn orphan living in buttfuck australia that used to drink himself to death and his only friend was fedoralord spergy: the autismo.
Anyone deserves better than that.

he is actually really nice looking, i regret not giving him a blowjob in his bar now

He's definitely the worst looking. The way his skin jiggles is unlike any substance I've ever seen. I get physically ill just thinking about it.

>She was a crazy fan with millionaire parents
...huh, where have i seen this happen before...

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Because he's a mate and its fun to sit around playing vidya and getting into autistic discussions/arguments with your mates.

I /am/ giving a pass to jim sterling. Fuck AAA gaming.
giving bioshock the GOTY was fuckin stupid though

Nah you can trust him to have an actual opinion at least.

If you feel ill thinking about that, remember that he's a gay bottom.

You are now mentally picturing his fat, slobby, sweaty body creating rippling waves of flesh every time some roided up tyrone is slamming his shitter doggy style.

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Hes making me buy Firefighter FD 18

You should if you find it for cheap, it's flawed but great.
God knows Konami ain't gonna do shit with that IP, for sure.

I have unironically never disagreed with Yahtzee. He's always correct. Same with Conan O'Brien.

Why hasn't he gone independent already, it's pathetic he is still with The Escapist at this point

So basically you're a deadly mix of a smug, contrarian hipster cunt and a clueless normie with the core aspect of your approach to video games being the fact that you suck at most of them.
Ok.

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His stance seems to be somewhere between "don't fix what isn't broken" and "I can't be bothered"
He's making money and doesn't really need to make changes.

GUILTY AS CHARGED

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He's effectively independent. The Escapist was just Yahtzee and an editor for ages. Then Russ Pitts hired moviebob and Pitts got cancelled after bantering Zoe Quinn so i have no idea how many are at the escapist now. He's the only relevant one anyhow.

Isn't the fact that The Escapist is censoring his jokes in the yearly ZP compilations they've been uploading enough to leave?

I don't think he cares.

I could probably fucking buy it from them. Make a backdraft ripoff on unreal 4

He's the CinemaSins of game reviews. Hes supposed to be a parody but moroms who havent actually played the games (or watched the films in cinemasins case) take his word as absolute law and spout his jokey 'criticism' at anyone who dares say a game is good without a shred of irony.

"It's just a joke" is never a good excuse.
Fuckers make a career out of this and are making the world a little worse, one video at a time.
If you're surrounded by retards, you don't give them shotguns because it'll be a funny epic prank.

Jam isnt about vidya

CinemaSins is way more of a shit show than Zero Punctuation. CinemaSins is garbage clickbait.

Moviebob is back to the escapist.

Cinemasins absolutely consider their criticism legitimate, they just mix "jokes" in to dodge people pointing out how retarded their videos are.

>just cater to idiots that are too stupid to get jokes and take everything way too seriously
cinemasins is shit but nah

Cinemasins is nitpicky bullshit.
Yahtzee is an, on point, bias disclosing, saint

I wouldn't even call cinemasins "nitpicky", they miss most genuine nitpicks and instead, either accidentally or knowingly, misrepresent scenes and themes for "comedic" effect.

>contrarian and cynic
>lots of crude humor
>not afraid to say nigger or be otherwise politically incorrect
Na, he is definitely the Yea Forums game critic

At least he has more sex than you.