Gamings biggest douche.

[Rednog]

CliffyB, I swear everytime he opens his mouth gaming gets that much more generic/worse and I want to punch a puppy. To me he is the Dane Cook of gaming.

Could you provide an example of something he's said? Just to satisfy my curiosity.

"I think the PC is just in disarray... What's driving the PC right now is Sims-type games and WOW and a lot of stuff that's in a web-based interface. You just click on it and play it. That's the direction PC is evolving into."
"For me, the PC is kind of the secondary part of what we're doing," confirmed Bleszinski. "It's important for us, but right now making AAA games on consoles is where we're at."
"I don't want to win over [someone's] little college sister, because that's not the kind of game I do," he said. "I'm not going to make f***ing Cooking Mama." Jolly good. It's sh**.

He's called PC gamers pirates over and over, especially when his crappy ports don't sell well.
He is quick to trash anyone who doesn't fall head over heels for his game. Like Eurogamer gave Gears 3 an 8/10, he blew them off as a haters.

 

[internetzealot1]

CliffyB, I swear everytime he opens his mouth gaming gets that much more generic/worse and I want to punch a puppy. To me he is the Dane Cook of gaming.

Could you provide an example of something he's said? Just to satisfy my curiosity.

"I think the PC is just in disarray... What's driving the PC right now is Sims-type games and WOW and a lot of stuff that's in a web-based interface. You just click on it and play it. That's the direction PC is evolving into."
"For me, the PC is kind of the secondary part of what we're doing," confirmed Bleszinski. "It's important for us, but right now making AAA games on consoles is where we're at."
"I don't want to win over [someone's] little college sister, because that's not the kind of game I do," he said. "I'm not going to make f***ing Cooking Mama." Jolly good. It's sh**.

He's called PC gamers pirates over and over, especially when his crappy ports don't sell well.

Meh, that only seems like a problem if your a hardcore PC gamer.

He is quick to trash anyone who doesn't fall head over heels for his game. Like Eurogamer gave Gears 3 an 8/10, he blew them off as a haters.

I'd be interested in seeing that, though.

 

[Rednog]

CliffyB, I swear everytime he opens his mouth gaming gets that much more generic/worse and I want to punch a puppy. To me he is the Dane Cook of gaming.

Could you provide an example of something he's said? Just to satisfy my curiosity.

"I think the PC is just in disarray... What's driving the PC right now is Sims-type games and WOW and a lot of stuff that's in a web-based interface. You just click on it and play it. That's the direction PC is evolving into."
"For me, the PC is kind of the secondary part of what we're doing," confirmed Bleszinski. "It's important for us, but right now making AAA games on consoles is where we're at."
"I don't want to win over [someone's] little college sister, because that's not the kind of game I do," he said. "I'm not going to make f***ing Cooking Mama." Jolly good. It's sh**.

He's called PC gamers pirates over and over, especially when his crappy ports don't sell well.

Meh, that only seems like a problem if your a hardcore PC gamer.

He is quick to trash anyone who doesn't fall head over heels for his game. Like Eurogamer gave Gears 3 an 8/10, he blew them off as a haters.

I'd be interested in seeing that, though.

Article Link: http://digitalgigolo.blogspot.com/2011/09/jim-sterling-vs-cliffy-b.html
And yes I am a hardcore PC gamer, and when someone shits on my choice of platform to play games I'm not a big fan. And he then screams bloody murder and calls me a pirate when he tries to squeeze a penny out of me and I don't buy/play his game because it is a god awful port.

 

[internetzealot1]

CliffyB, I swear everytime he opens his mouth gaming gets that much more generic/worse and I want to punch a puppy. To me he is the Dane Cook of gaming.

Could you provide an example of something he's said? Just to satisfy my curiosity.

"I think the PC is just in disarray... What's driving the PC right now is Sims-type games and WOW and a lot of stuff that's in a web-based interface. You just click on it and play it. That's the direction PC is evolving into."
"For me, the PC is kind of the secondary part of what we're doing," confirmed Bleszinski. "It's important for us, but right now making AAA games on consoles is where we're at."
"I don't want to win over [someone's] little college sister, because that's not the kind of game I do," he said. "I'm not going to make f***ing Cooking Mama." Jolly good. It's sh**.

He's called PC gamers pirates over and over, especially when his crappy ports don't sell well.

Meh, that only seems like a problem if your a hardcore PC gamer.

He is quick to trash anyone who doesn't fall head over heels for his game. Like Eurogamer gave Gears 3 an 8/10, he blew them off as a haters.

I'd be interested in seeing that, though.

Article Link: http://digitalgigolo.blogspot.com/2011/09/jim-sterling-vs-cliffy-b.html
And yes I am a hardcore PC gamer, and when someone shits on my choice of platform to play games I'm not a big fan. And he then screams bloody murder and calls me a pirate when he tries to squeeze a penny out of me and I don't buy/play his game because it is a god awful port.

Oh wow, that's funny as hell. Still, though, I can't see how he's making gaming more generic/worse. From a game design standpoint, anyway; I can't say anything about if he's affecting the industry side of things.

 

[Danceofmasks]

Oh cliffy ... why did I have to visit this thread and be reminded?!

Damnit

 

[mp123]

Kaidan Alenko from Mass Effect. He was such a whiny douche, and he was always bitching about something. I hated him.

 

[Stall]

Gamers. We are pretty much all self entitled pricks who expect our every whim to be catered to all of the time.

Wow. The thread could have been effectively over after the first post. That's record time I think. Gamers can be pretty fucking insufferable.

 

[screwvalve]

gabe newell. He thinks he's the saviour of PC gaming with his glorified rental service called Steam, which in reality all it does is turn PC gaming into an xboxlive-like service.

 

[nokori3byo]

Shoa Kahn in MK9: "It's offical, you suck!"

Seriously, who says that?

 

[RemuValtrez]

I would say duke nukem.

I definitely agree to this one.

 

[Harbinger_]

Can't believe Bobby Kotick hasn't been mentioned yet so... Bobby Kotick.

Beat me to it sir, I agree completely with your choice except for the fact that you also forgot Bobby Kotick and Bobby Kotick. I suppose that Bobby Kotick could also be put on the list.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Lawyers. Lawyers are always biggest douches. Just look what they are doing - trying to prevent Mojang/Notch from releasing next mega hit. :|

 

[SpaceBat]

For me it has to be Snow from FF 13. Of all the thigs I hated about that game (and there were ALOT of things I hated about that game) I hated him the most. Biggest douche in the universe. A close second for me is Carver from Dragon age 2.

So being optimistic, mostly selfless and kind to everyone else, while not being a one-dimensional idiot is a bad thi--oh nevermind. This is Final Fantasy of course. I forgot that unless the character is badly written, shallow and incredibly emo/pesimmistic, it must be a bad character. You do realize that there's a good reason for his constant "We're going to save everyone! Serah!" talks instead of him being an idiot, dense or even being a goddamn optimist, right? It's, surprisingly, not that simple. And yes, his dialogue is bad, just like everyone else's dialogue, so it would be weird to call him out on that. It's a shitty game.

Gamers. We are pretty much all self entitled pricks who expect our every whim to be catered to all of the time.

This.

 

[Lt_Bromhead]

I vote the OP as the biggest douche.

Seriously, beyond the slightly similar hairstyle, those two look nothing alike. Plsu he got a makeover and doesn't even look like that anymore. And saying a character is a douche before you've even played the game? Judging that just on his apperance. That is especially douchey.

In OP's defence, Dante has always been a bit of a douche.
But a cool douche who makes you laugh and would buy you a drink if it was his round sort of douche.
He's always been a bit cocky, but lets that cockiness out by kicking ass without breaking a sweat.

This new guy, from what we've seen in the trailers, seems much more like a poser. His facial expressions and poses seem to make it seem like he's looking at the camera saying "I be awesome."


So in essence, Dante is, and always will be, a douche.

OT: For me, any game company/director who refuses to accept criticism. I don't care if a company makes mistakes, as long as they LEARN from them...

 

[subjectseven]

Bacchus in Star Ocean: The Last Hope. Nobody wants to play a JPRG where you have Buzz Lightyear in your team.

 

[Lt_Bromhead]

CliffyB, I swear everytime he opens his mouth gaming gets that much more generic/worse and I want to punch a puppy. To me he is the Dane Cook of gaming.

Could you provide an example of something he's said? Just to satisfy my curiosity.

"I think the PC is just in disarray... What's driving the PC right now is Sims-type games and WOW and a lot of stuff that's in a web-based interface. You just click on it and play it. That's the direction PC is evolving into."
"For me, the PC is kind of the secondary part of what we're doing," confirmed Bleszinski. "It's important for us, but right now making AAA games on consoles is where we're at."
"I don't want to win over [someone's] little college sister, because that's not the kind of game I do," he said. "I'm not going to make f***ing Cooking Mama." Jolly good. It's sh**.

He's called PC gamers pirates over and over, especially when his crappy ports don't sell well.

Meh, that only seems like a problem if your a hardcore PC gamer.

He is quick to trash anyone who doesn't fall head over heels for his game. Like Eurogamer gave Gears 3 an 8/10, he blew them off as a haters.

I'd be interested in seeing that, though.

Article Link: http://digitalgigolo.blogspot.com/2011/09/jim-sterling-vs-cliffy-b.html
And yes I am a hardcore PC gamer, and when someone shits on my choice of platform to play games I'm not a big fan. And he then screams bloody murder and calls me a pirate when he tries to squeeze a penny out of me and I don't buy/play his game because it is a god awful port.

Oh wow, that's funny as hell. Still, though, I can't see how he's making gaming more generic/worse. From a game design standpoint, anyway; I can't say anything about if he's affecting the industry side of things.

Oh dear god...

Uwe Boll, anyone?

But seriously, yeah - I barely know anything about Cliffy B, but this certainly does make him look like a massive douche.

I just don't get why people can't accept criticism, absorb the sensible comments then go on to make a better overall product, instead of burying their head in the sand, hang a sign round their neck saying "I ams the graytest" and keep making the same mistakes.
It's like they WANT their carreer to go down in flames... :/

 

[DigitalSushi]

Besides these guys

Spoiler

They look nothing alike.

Nice flamebait there, just calling them douches without backing up your argument.