Silentpony said:
Maybe its just me, entirely possible seeings how I'm relatively new to this site, but Jim seems to spend a lot of these poem session defending himself. I've read some of his reviews and compared them side-by-side with Yatzhee's review of the same game and the later is much more scathing and unforgiving. And yet if these poems are anything to go by, Jim gets ten times the backlash, hate and snotty remarks. Am I missing something? I don't frequent the other sites Jim submits review to as often; are they just filling with frothing gamers who can't stand someone saying Heavy Rain was more boring than the Sheltering Sky?
Destructoid community members have been trying to coin a "Never forget
Vanquish!" t-shirt in memoriam of Jim's score for it, and constantly whine about how he'll give a pass to something like
CoD while complaining about
Mario Kart. And they're pretty much brought up on every one of his reviews.
Personally I liked Jim's more this week, just because it was only a few days ago I saw yet another Destructoid review comments section raging about how terrible Jim's taste must be. XD
I find myself agreeing with his impressions fairly often, except where
Sonic is concerned.
Vanquish is a game I haven't been able to finish, with my emotions ranging between "This is all right... I'm having a bit of fun" to "ASLT:AJFSKL: EFF YOU GAME!" while playing it, while I can find a lot to love in
The Witcher 2 there's really nothing about it that grabs me and makes me want to keep going, and the less said about
Final Fantasy XIII the better.
It's why he's one of the few reviewers whose opinion I value beyond just a cursory examination of a game's mechanics or production values.