You know for all the credibility the Escapist has had for a good stretch this just goes on to establish my feeling that this whole gaming media endeavor is based on a bunch of monkey's looking for odd twats on Youtube they think will drive some traffic and making offers to said odd twats that allow said odd twats to expose their corpulent personalities on the rest of the world without much care, in the senior editors office for experience, qualification or even talent in regards to said odd twats.
And yes I'm pointing the finger at you guys, the Escapist yahoo's that are running out of ideas.
I really don't care that this twit's a game reviewer for a website I've never bothered reading. And if being a life long gamer is some kind of qualification for being a game critic then I think there are a few hundred million people that might have more talent at it than this neurotic gimp.
I personally was playing Space Invaders on stand up consoles in arcades for a quarter per 3 lives back in the day, I moved on in my life to become an independent game developer with absolutely no classical education in the field who has been running a small but personally successful online RPG for the last seven years and I can't even get these people at the Escapist to accept a guest editorial unless I write about what THEY want me to write about, yet some neurotic British guy who happens to piss off the gaming internet on occasion is certainly more qualified than me to opine on the nature of gaming on a world wide medium while drawing bad pictures of penises in MSPaint and gabbling into a microphone as if he knows what hes talking about.
Forget the subject matter entirely, I certainly did no more than a few seconds after the video was over, the issue is, this is complete crap, and some neurotic British guy with an eating disorder and a comics collection that probably takes up the entirety of his mothers basement is no more qualified to be spewing video opinions on the nature of gaming than pretty much anyone that bothers to read this site for gaming news cause its the only site that is not 98.7% full of crap dependent on who's paying it at the time.
Simple Pr0tip for you folks at the Escapist, if you want to try to engage the gaming public with gaming opinions that matter, how about at least sticking with people who have enough industry experience to be able to draw a quasi-acceptable rendition of a cock to illustrate their "witticisms" in a software suite they actually had to license at their own personal or business expense and not waste your time on critics who have no actual industry experience.
There is a reason Yahtzee is good at what he does its because he has experience, independent, self motivated experience and at least he's capable of mashing up amusing animations in Flash on top of that.
This twit's qualifications seem to be he writes reviews on another site, has played games his whole life (and collected comics, just to complete the "geek equation", I wonder if he LARPS at conventions? Probably.), his British accent and the fact that hes visually repelling might evoke a reaction. And this very same site won't even accept a guest editorial from me, and I've got seven years of completely bootstrap indy gaming credibility.
In closing, you're a gaming media outlet, and yes you need content to drive the success of that endeavor, my suggestion is you might want to spend your time focusing on content that might have some redeeming factors, to be frank, even excluding myself as far more qualified than this guy to be in the business of analyzing gaming at a critical level, I can think of about 200,000 people on Youtube via their webcams that might be a bit more qualified than this person in regards to spouting their opinions on games and the conventions they're built around or under.
Bad game TE, bad game. Pardon me while I go hammer together some fresh PHP into the Wordpress engine, plaster a witty domain name on it and call myself a "game reviewer" and whore my domain all over Google's search index to ensure everyone knows I'm qualified...oh wait, I have five hundred thousand people that have played a game I designed in my underpants....sorry I guess I have better things to do.
