Why I hate Jim Sterling.

[Midnight Crossroads]

Eh, I'm just mad that he continues to taint the popular perception of the console Sonic games.

He gives Colors a bad review, so everyone on Destructoid automatically assumes that it's bad without reading any other reviews or playing the game itself.

People do that with any critic to whose opinion they give credit. Read some comments in Zero Punctuation. It's full of, "Thank God you told me not to buy this." Even though, unlike Sterling, Crowshaw says plainly that he just points out the flaws of the game. It's the same thing with Chipman on Escape to the Movies.

 

[Sentox6]

Don't tell me you are joking, because I know with 100% certainty that you really do think that you opinions are fact and that the 98% of online reviews praising the Wii version of Colors are wrong.

I see what you did there.


I just hope it was intentional.

 

[V8 Ninja]

I think you should realize that there's a difference between "Asshole" and "Asshole-ish Comedy". The way Jim presents himself on-camera is as an over-the-top and narcissistic douchebag with a god complex. We're supposed to laugh at that because he thinks he's so high and mighty when he's really just another person on the internet. The only real difference is that he gets paid to say whatever is on his mind. Also, Jim's actual base opinions are completely different from his on-screen character. They're actually rooted in some thought.

EDIT: Also, Jim Sterling really only acts that way in the Escapist Jimquisition. His previous "Season" of the show and his articles for Destructoid show that he's not some god-complexed douchebag.

 

[funkzillabot]

Dude,

Jim is funny. Don't take the situation so seriously. That's just his schtick, but it's all satire. He has a loud opinion about things and he's entitled to his, just as you are entitled to yours. Take it down a notch. You'll pop a blood vessel in your head if you don't.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

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It makes his episodes go round.

 

[Tiger Sora]

@itsmeyouidiot: Theres a very easy way to correct this travesty. Don't watch his show. No one talks about him outside the video comments... other than here apparently.
And you are not much better for opening fire upon his ship you know. A true gentleman only fires when fired upon. He's done nothing to you directly has he? No, well than I bid you good day and let you sink with this thread.

 

[Glamorgan]

Eh, I'm just mad that he continues to taint the popular perception of the console Sonic games

He gives Colors a bad review, so everyone on Destructoid automatically assumes that it's bad without reading any other reviews or playing the game itself.

Bahaha, what?

You ARE joking, right? Colours has been the first good Sonic game in years, but even so, the popular perception of Sonic games nowadays is most definitely not popular.

Jim is putting it all on. If you ignore the douchebag act that he plays, he has some clever and intelligent ideas. They never reach Extra Credits level, but in my opinion, the show is still worth watching.

 

[Something Amyss]

Isn't everything you say automatically YOUR opinion? You don't really have to specify.

Yes, but it's a great dodge when someone disagrees with you.

"Well, that's YOUR opinion!"

Well, yes, and....

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm not a sociopathic moron and I love his show. His show, by the way, is an opinion show which is made up of his opinions on certain topics so of course he would consider himself right and others wrong.

You know, I really dislike certain shows (current and past) on this site. Instead of taking to the forums to crusade against them however, I do the idiotic thing and don't watch the offending material. That's just me though: a sociopathic moron.

 

[The Random One]

Jim is amazing in which he spends his entire video making a stupid and obnoxious point, but when you pay attention, you realize he's being ironic, and the point he's really trying to make is in fact twice as stupid as obnoxious.

On Topic:
You
Dont
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Yup. I know I haven't.

 

[chinangel]

Jim Sterling.

Assholish, egotistical, unfunny douchebag who should have never gotten any sort of position in the gaming media.

The way he continually "jokingly" asserts his opinions as fact, such as in this article [http://www.destructoid.com/the-irrefutable-undeniable-official-top-ten-sonic-games-204593.phtml] ("Sonic Colors on the Wii was sub-par nonsense and that's scientific fact, proven by science.")

Bullshit, Jim.

Don't tell me you are joking, because I know with 100% certainty that you really do think that you opinions are fact and that the 98% of online reviews praising the Wii version of Colors are wrong. The DS version was a half-assed afterthought, and you know it.

He has a hostility towards people with opinions different from his, and as a result, he tends to attract sycophantic morons who do nothing but eat his shit up.

At least Yahtzee has the decency to admit that his opinions are just that, opinions.

I love jim sterling. o.o he's absolutely hilarious, and I want more Jimquisition. He's being ironic and a lot of people don't realize that. He's playing a persona, this is an act. his isn't how he is in real life.

 

[Brinnmilo]

The OP's post is so ironic I almost shed a tear.

OT: Jim made me cringe at first but after the first few minutes I started really enjoying his style. I think taking his personality as anything other than an attempt to entertain is a mistake.

 

[Firia]

Jim Sterling.

Assholish, egotistical, unfunny douchebag who should have never gotten any sort of position in the gaming media.

The way he continually "jokingly" asserts his opinions as fact, such as in this article [http://www.destructoid.com/the-irrefutable-undeniable-official-top-ten-sonic-games-204593.phtml] ("Sonic Colors on the Wii was sub-par nonsense and that's scientific fact, proven by science.")

Bullshit, Jim.

Don't tell me you are joking, because I know with 100% certainty that you really do think that you opinions are fact and that the 98% of online reviews praising the Wii version of Colors are wrong. The DS version was a half-assed afterthought, and you know it.

He has a hostility towards people with opinions different from his, and as a result, he tends to attract sycophantic morons who do nothing but eat his shit up.

At least Yahtzee has the decency to admit that his opinions are just that, opinions.

I find if you ignore the troll, the troll has no food to feed on. Jim is a huge troll, and he exists because there's a market for it. Or rather, an audience. If there's no audience, or attention, there's no market. So I ignore EVERYTHING that has Jim in it. Those e-mail newsletter things had Jim once, and I stopped reading, for example.

 

[Stall]

Sterling is nothing beyond a slightly glorified troll who does 90% of what he does purely for attention. Once in a while he can be insightful, but his attention whoring almost immediately destroys any credit you started to give him.

 

[Keslen]

Either enough people watch his series to sustain it or it doesn't attract enough viewers. If the former, I'll continue to ignore it. If the latter it'll be removed sooner or later.

 

[BanicRhys]

Jim Sterling, Yahtzee, they're all big fakers who don't believe most of what they say.

That's why Moviebob is my favourite. He'll never betray me.

 

[martin's a madman]

Don't tell me you are joking, because I know with 100% certainty that you really do think that you opinions are fact

*ERROR* --Irony File not found--

OT:He's pretty good.

 

[fulano]

Don't tell me you are joking, because I know with 100% certainty that you really do think that you opinions are fact

*ERROR* --Irony File not found--

OT:He's pretty good.

Exactly. It is quite sad how someone who gets prissy about someone "passing his oppinions as fact" goes on to make the claim that he knows anything with 100% certainty--unless it is Jim Sterling himself trying to troll us, and whom I'm ambivalent about, I doubt that anyone can know anything about him as much as the OP claims to do.

Someone needs to grow the fuck up.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

honestly i think he's halarious. He's a self parody. He pretends to act like he's the ideal man and a gift from god when we can all see he's a fat nerd. He does post some intresting OPINIONS and acts as if he can't be wrong but again its so over the top that it must be sarcasim.

Even if i'm wrong and he really does think he's gods gift then i think that just makes it all the more funny.

 

[AmstradHero]

His persona is not the reason why I dislike the Jimquisition. The problem I have is that his arguments are almost always filled with logic holes you can drive a road train through and still have room to spare. If you're a "game critic" or doing "game journalism" or whatever it is he claims to be doing, you have be to able to construct a logical argument which follows towards a logical conclusion. Jim doesn't. Worse, his "satire" (though I use that term generously) frequently ends up undermining his opinion because he uses it as a shield instead of backing up his arguments with... well, anything at all.

I most of the time don't even get the absolute subtlety of some of his points until I read the comments. There is generally a comment explaining his exact point somewhere halfway down the first page,

Right, so he's a genius because he needs other people to explain his poorly argued points? Nope, I'm not buying it for a second. He simply doesn't make a coherent argument in his videos here.

His persona isn't the issue, his inability to make interesting or valid arguments is his real problem.

Any money that is going towards Jimquisition should be redirected to Extra Credits. Then we'd actually get more reasoned and intelligent discussion about games and gaming.