I find it interesting how people that have stated they do not like the show, keep watching the videos then come back and insult Jim once again.
Please Jim, don't ever change.
Please Jim, don't ever change.
If you love his arrogant style then surely you can understand those at the other end of the spectrum who hate it? Why must those who don't love it be taking it too seriously?Juuel said:I love Jimquisition's arrogant style, people seem to be taking him too seriously. I don't get all the hate he's getting.
I don't expect everyone to like him, and yes, you're right, some people might not take him seriously and still not like him. I'm just saying that a lot of people seem to be expecting some kind of an artistic approach to video games. After his first episodes he got a lot of crap thrown at him apparently because people didn't quite know what kind of a show we were talking about. After a couple of episodes he wasn't as despised anymore.Crono1973 said:If you love his arrogant style then surely you can understand those at the other end of the spectrum who hate it? Why must those who don't love it be taking it too seriously?
OK, I understand where you're coming from. I've found that too often, some people have it the other way around.Zom-B said:First of all, I'd like to point out that there's a difference between a "whiny minority" and a "minority group". Perhaps it wasn't your intention to equate the people who I was referring to- the whiny people who think Metacritic is bad or ruining something- to a minority group along ethnic or religious lines, for example.
Zom-B said:It's about a vocal minority who think a tool that can be abused by it's user base is necessarily a bad thing.
I'm inclined to agree with you and I think the internet has more disinformation than useful information when it comes to quasi-reviews. Boot up Metacritic, Amazon, or something similar and you'll find a battle-of-the-scores milieu between fanboys and detractors. Metacritic itself has become infamous for review bombing by people who need to get a life, and it has simply made it harder to tell a quality product from an inferior.The public user base certainly abuses Metacritic.
Sure, that's why i suggest that if you find him unbearable you should just stop watching his videos instead of watching every single one and then ***** about the fact that, surprise, you didn't like it. Pattern recognition is a skill that most people have, let's use it, shall we?Treblaine said:Ever consider that he may have a point but still be an unbearable bore?
Except this isn't a joke, it's a character. Characters have traits, Jim's character's are those of an insufferable magalomaniacal douchebag. If you have fun watching him act like a dick for the sake of it, like i do, that's no problem. If you don't like a character, guess what, don't watch his show. If you didn't like Yahtzee's character of a passive aggressive sarcstic jaded cynic would you sit there and complain every episode that his show sucks? I assume so because that's exactly what you're doing with Jim's.Treblaine said:That's why people tune in, for his insight but they have to suffer him recycling the same overwrought "jokes" over and over again.
He's like that drunk uncle at christmas who every half an hour tells the same inappropriate joke to the same group of people. It was somewhat amusing the first time but definitely not after that. We wonder if he is thick and forgot the joke h already told, or he is just arrogant enough to think we are all too thick to remember he told the same joke 30 minutes
Good for you. Now what? You do realize that your opinion has no bearing on Jim's presence on this site and that saying "he should be behind the camera" doesn't mean he's not goign to have the same exact persona in, say, an audio podcast or a written article, right?Treblaine said:My opinion: Jim Sterling should stay behind camera, behind the scenes as an editor. His attitude is sure to make life hell for the staff but he's likely to inject some liveliness into things. He's like J Jonah Jameson, he's a harsh motivator but not someone the audience would actually like to hear directly from except to see ridiculed.
If you don't like my opinion, get off this forum. I won't be watching his vids any more, I only watched a few giving him the benefit of the doubt that he had a bad start.Thammuz said:i suggest that if you find him unbearable you should just stop watching his videos instead of watching every single one and then ***** about
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Except this isn't a joke, it's a character. Characters have traits, Jim's character's are those of an insufferable magalomaniacal douchebag. If you have fun watching him act like a dick for the sake of it, like i do, that's no problem. If you don't like a character, guess what, don't watch his show. If you didn't like Yahtzee's character of a passive aggressive sarcstic jaded cynic would you sit there and complain every episode that his show sucks? I assume so because that's exactly what you're doing with Jim's.
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Good for you. Now what? You do realize that your opinion has no bearing on Jim's presence on this site and that saying "he should be behind the camera" doesn't mean he's not goign to have the same exact persona in, say, an audio podcast or a written article, right?
To sum it up: I get it, you don't like his delivery. If you can ignore it and enjoy the content (which is the important part anyway) good, if not, stop watching his videos and for fuck's sake stop complaining about it. You're fighting windmills.
That sees pretty fair considering that Black Ops' single player was (with a few shining moments) absolute bilge. Really after the Russian Gulag you can quit right there.Ace IV said:Metacritic removed The Escapist's negative review of Black Ops because the 2/5 score was only for the single player, and Metacritic only believes in black & white good or bad.