Russ Pitts, the creator of the Escapist - host of many fine shows (though I'm sure mileages do vary) such as Zero Punctuation, Unskippable, and Rebecca Mayes Muses, decided at some point that he was going to create his own show too. Game Dogs is this show. Sadly, and it pains me to say this, it's really really bad.
The characters are stereotypical and have zero distinguishing features whatsoever. The only character who seems to have any personality at all is the one whose shortcomings are supposed to be funny, but aren't - because the character is nothing but a bunch of pre-planned catchphrases are not as funny as they are in Russ Pitts' head.
Secondly, in many episodes I'm not even sure the writer TRIED to incorporate jokes. In a recent episode there seem to be three sections that COULD be found funny:
-One of the characters has a Russian accent, and when they speak the screen starts to look like old russian film footage;
-Another dog keeps yelling 'Wolverines!' at random points in the video.
-There is a bomb that goes off at the end and mildly injures one character, before the above one yells Wolverines again.
One thing I'd hoped Pitts could get right is the transferral of geopolitics to animals, IE Orwell's Animal Farm. This did not happen. The only differences between our version of the Vietman war and the one referenced in Game Dogs is that Charlie is now inexplicably called Fido. Because vietnamese dogs are called Fido? Because there are no other dog-related nicknames? Did they even bother to make light at how the Vietnamese EAT dogs, and make some kind of reversal on that fact? No. It's just Vietnam with dogs.
In the same video featuring this alternate (read: exactly the same) version of the Vietnam war, a character makes reference to their M16 - though he is holding a very different gun. As the character says this, text pops up informing the viewer that no-one cares about this inconsistency but them. While this would be pretty funny if the rest of the show was passable, given the general laziness in every other department I'm beginning to think it's just a handwave for not redrawing the gun.
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Russ Pitts, the creator of the Escapist - host of many fine shows (though I'm sure mileages do vary) such as Zero Punctuation, Unskippable, and Rebecca Mayes Muses, decided at some point that he was going to create his own show too. Game Dogs is this show. Sadly, and it pains me to say this, it's really really bad.
The characters are stereotypical and have zero distinguishing features whatsoever. The only character who seems to have any personality at all is the one whose shortcomings are supposed to be funny, but aren't - because the character is nothing but a bunch of pre-planned catchphrases are not as funny as they are in Russ Pitts' head.
Secondly, in many episodes I'm not even sure the writer TRIED to incorporate jokes. In a recent episode there seem to be three sections that COULD be found funny: -One of the characters has a Russian accent, and when they speak the screen starts to look like old russian film footage; -Another dog keeps yelling 'Wolverines!' at random points in the video. -There is a bomb that goes off at the end and mildly injures one character, before the above one yells Wolverines again.
One thing I'd hoped Pitts could get right is the transferral of geopolitics to animals, IE Orwell's Animal Farm. This did not happen. The only differences between our version of the Vietman war and the one referenced in Game Dogs is that Charlie is now inexplicably called Fido. Because vietnamese dogs are called Fido? Because there are no other dog-related nicknames? Did they even bother to make light at how the Vietnamese EAT dogs, and make some kind of reversal on that fact? No. It's just Vietnam with dogs.
In the same video featuring this alternate (read: exactly the same) version of the Vietnam war, a character makes reference to their M16 - though he is holding a very different gun. As the character says this, text pops up informing the viewer that no-one cares about this inconsistency but them. While this would be pretty funny if the rest of the show was passable, given the general laziness in every other department I'm beginning to think it's just a handwave for not redrawing the gun.
Please do not watch Game Dogs.