History Awesome / Jimquisition

-->''♪But [[NotScreenedForCritics nobody knew]] about the [[UsefulNotes/XboxOne Xbox One]] and [[UsefulNotes/Playstation4 PS4]]♪''

-->'''Jim:''' Just how? ''How?'' How do you fuck up ''Star Wars this badly?'' It's a perfect example of how screwy and inane the so-called AAA industry is. We're talking about ''Star Wars'', arguably the most versatile license there is. With so much potential, [=EA=] should have been ''swimming'' in game ideas and releases [[JustThinkOfThePotential that offered all manner of experiences!]] The sheer ''incompetence'' on display here is matched only by that time Creator/{{Ubisoft}} managed to take something as simple as ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'', and make a mess of that! '''''[[GoodCannotComprehendEvil How do you fuck up Star Wars?! How do you manage it this consistently?!]]''''' You should at least have had ''one good game'' out by now, ''at least one!'' ''How have you managed this, [=EA=]--how have you'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis actually! Managed! This?!!]]''''' This is an accomplishment in '''FUCKING''' '''''STUPID!''''' I mean, [=EA=] has ''Creator/{{BioWare}}'' under its employ for God's shitting sake! The ''[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic KOTOR]]'' people! But is [=BioWare=] making a new ''Knights of the Old Republic''?! Let me check! ''(random keyboard mashing)'' ''Oh, no, no, they're not, right now they're making VideoGame/{{Anthem}}!'' A ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}''-looking "live service", [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny that so far has failed to spark much customer interest]], and may be the first step on the path to [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Unicron]]ic Arts' eventual trademark studio closure if it fails! Because that's what [=EA=] does, it ''will'' chew you up and spit you out if you go anywhere near its gaping decayed mouth! In fact, with it fumbling ''Star Wars'' as badly as this, shutting down studios and laying off employees ''[[BlessedWithSuck may be all the company's actually fucking good at!]]'' Now I hope ''Anthem'' doesn't fail and lead to [=BioWare=]'s closure, but at the same time I can hardly say I give a shit about ''Anthem'' as a game, thanks in no small part to [=EA=]'s behavior over the past few years giving me no confidence that it won't be a con job. Electronic Arts' run with ''Star Wars'' has been a ''disaster''. [[HumiliationConga A conga line of humiliating farces and a sour dribble of mediocre releases surrounded by cancellations and closures.]] Creator/{{Disney}} would be correct to seize its property back from this [[AlmightyIdiot gibbering cretin of a company.]] It bloody well should! For dragging the ''Star Wars'' name through the mud, for wasting so much time and money, for having so little to show for any of this rancid ''garbage'', [=EA=] should [[PunctuatedForEmphasis just. Fucking. Stop.]] Preferably forever!\\

* "[[https://youtu.be/jaerhOZOHyA?feature=shared You Didn't Finish The Game]]" is Steph taking fanboys of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' to task yet again. They gave ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'' a 7/10, just as they had done for the previous game, ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]''. Rabid ''Zelda'' fanboys promptly accused Jim of not finishing the game, and claiming that their opinion was therefore invalid. Jim tears into this line of thinking, saying that one does not need to finish a game to know if they like it or not; instead, a person should only play as much of a game as they feel they need to in order to form a solid opinion on it. Jim also points out the FridgeLogic on display with that accusation: if every reviewer was indeed forced to play every game they reviewed to completion, it would be more likely to make review scores go down, not up. Jim compares this to the time that their stepfather forced them to eat liver and onions, refusing to let Jim leave the table until they'd eaten everything. As a result, Jim never ate liver and onions ever again. By this same token, making people play something they obviously aren't enjoying is just going to make things worse. Finally, Jim points out that, deep down, the only thing these hardcore ''Zelda'' fanboys -- and by extension, any fanboy who attacks a reviewer for a supposedly low score -- really care about is reading a review that matches their opinion. Jim notes that, even if they revealed how much ''Tears of the Kingdom'' they played, the fanboys would just attack them for something else.

** But [[https://youtu.be/WWpdRWX_m_A?t=4m34s the worst of their vitriol]] comes for the people who said "[[UnfortunateImplications If we want to include everyone,]] [[AllGaysArePedophiles we should have an option for pedophiles!]]" After a FlatWhat, then a BigWhat, Jim ''tears'' into [[SlipperySlopeFallacy that line of thinking]], saying that equating two grown men/women making a conscious decision to have sex to "a guy on the park bench with his dick out [[CrossesTheLineTwice who wants to fuck a baby in its face]]" makes you "[[SincerityMode a fucking bad person]]".

** Here's one not for the game itself, but more for its developer: [[https://youtu.be/rsOLvDzaFYY A Lesson in Five Nights]]. In the video, Jim explains that the developer of ''Five Nights At Freddys'', Scott Cawthon, not only took the criticism about his game ''Chipper and Sons Lumber Co.''--more specifically, ''Jim's criticism'' that the creatures looked like nightmarish animatronics--and instead of lashing out in defense at the critique like other indie developers have done, Scott ''rolled with the criticism'', making his next game entirely about nightmarish animatronics. Jim goes on to say that they admire Scott's work ethic and humility, what with him pulling ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld FNAF World]]'' from Steam for being "not good enough", offered an apology ''and'' full refunds for anyone who wanted it regardless of playtime, improving the game, and re-releasing it ''for free''. Keep in mind that before he pulled it from Steam, ''[=FNAF=] World'' was doing well for itself and had a high Steam user review rating (ironically enough, it had a rating of [[ArcNumber 87%]]). He didn't need to go as far as he did, but he did solely out of his own professional integrity. Jim says that while they do not like the ''Five Nights'' games personally, they have nothing but respect for Scott, stating that all the success that he gets from the franchise is well earned.

--> "You can delete the comments as much as you want, but it's too fucking late. Maybe you thought (because my Youtube channel is relatively new and still rather small) you'd get away with it where those who tackled the titan of [[WebVideo/TotalBiscuit TB]] failed. Unfortunately, [[YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith it would appear you may not have realized who you fucked with]], and you may have underestimated the gaming community's distaste for censorship. [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Oh dear Kobra, you done]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucked up]]. ''[{{Beat}}]'' '''[[VoiceOfTheLegion And I am going]] [[BadassBoast to crush you]].''' ''[...]'' Censoring criticism, running to mummy and yelling 'No fair' not only makes you a corrupting individual, perhaps '''worse''' than any EA or Activision, it exposes you as a fool with an aptitude for career suicide and serves to only benefit the critic, who you bet will milk for all it's worth (see this episode) and will ensure you'll be known only for your bratty behaviour and awful, '''awful''' lack of game making talent! Ultimately we who value free criticism will win. You, who would hide as cowards behind Youtube's exploitable and poorly managed litigation system will lose. You will lose every fucking time, one way or another".

--> '''Jim Sterling''': I can't...I ''can't'' quite express the depths of my disgust with what Ryan did here. It's not that mental health issues are to be ashamed of–-hi, I'm Jim Sterling and I need pills to make my brain function normally sometimes–-but it's only ever the right and the choice of the person with the mental health issue to publicize it. Not only is it unethical, unfair, un-fucking-conscionable, in the UK where Brash is based, it's also not bloody ''legal.'' '''[[TranquilFury You don't get to disclose anybody's health]] ''[[TranquilFury anything,]]'' [[ClusterFBomb you fucking. Rat. Fuck.]]'''

* The somewhat controversial video "Why It's Morally OK to Pirate Nintendo's Games" where Jim ruthlessly attacks Nintendo for being massive hypocrites when it comes to their attitudes towards copyright law(I.E. only enforcing the parts that are beneficial to them and ignoring the parts that are not) and says that because of Nintendo's blatant disrespect for the law(as well as Nintendo's lackluster lineup of it's older games on the Virtual console)that consumers in no way should feel obligated to respect Nintendo and as such are very much justified in not rewarding Nintendo with any money by paying for their games.

* The entirety of the video ''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/9884-The-Slaughtering-Grounds-Developer-Meltdown The Slaughtering Grounds: A Steam Meltdown Story.]]'' It is essentially a lesson in "How to NOT beat the StreisandEffect" and "The Importance of Hiring [[DoingItForTheArt Competent Creative Staff.]]" Jim even posted a follow-up video two weeks later about how the development team at first threatened legal action, and when Jim was prepared to go to court over it, they responded that "[[BlatantLies it wasn't worth their time]]." It shows just how childish their reactions were, and why trying to censor criticism [[StreisandEffect doesn't work]].

* "[[https://youtu.be/OAKjhFcscnI I Made Steam's Most Unlikable Developer Really Really Mad]]" is a follow-up video to "[[https://youtu.be/q-F2dzjJewk The Misadventures Of Steam's Most Unlikeable Developer]]", in which Jim details how the developer of ''Domina'', one Nicholas John Leonhard Gorissen, used his patch notes to insert {{Author Filibuster}}s about alt-right topics, most of which were sexist, homophobic, and transphobic. In the follow-up video, Jim details how Gorissen spent all of the following day after the video went live yelling at people on Twitter, constantly trying to undermine Jim's character, and making increasingly desperate attempts for them to talk to him. Gorrisen was inevitably suspended from Twitter as a result, and over the next few days, Gorrisen would release even more increasingly unhinged and incoherent rants in patch notes, get banned from his own game's Steam Community, and ultimately get the game yanked from the Steam Store with his behavior, the latter of which is quite the accomplishment given that this is Steam we're talking about. What makes it so amazing is that, the entire time this was happening, Jim never responded to anything Gorrisen said or did, not with so much as a retweet. In short, Jim made Gorrisen into an UnknownRival very quickly, and let his own ranting and raving against anyone who wronged him seal his own fate, all while they just sat back and watched.

* For [[https://youtu.be/fiV2hrpufLM their 2015 Halloween episode]], Jim manages to get Cliff Bleszinski to make a surprise appearance on the show. And it. is. GLORIOUS!