WebVideo One of the best Irate Gamer parodies.
I've seen quite a few Irate Gamer parodies from recent times. While some of them leave more impact than others, Third Rate Gamer was the first one I saw, and one of the best. (Funny enough, I found Third Rate Gamer before I even saw the real thing) Every episode starts with a Stylistic Suck Episode Title Card done in Microsoft Paint with his head photoshopped in, and misspelled writing. I also like the theme song that plays before it. The actual episodes are blatant Take Thats against Irate Gamer, with So Unfunny It's Funny humour to match. I like how in his review of Super Mario Bros 1 and 2, he has a bomb lying around his house for no good reason. There's also the end of his Home Improvement review, where a dinosaur sprite from the game comes to burn his TV, then it cuts to a black screen with TRG getting his viewers to give him money for a new TV, and then says they can continue to pay him even after he has gotten a new one. Plus the scene in his Little Nemo review where he escapes from the police, they show a background of a house and a picture of somebody riding a bike with his head photoshopped over it, with the white background still intact! Third Rate Gamer is a parody of So Bad, It's Good, and it works. I could name a few other Irate Gamer parodies I find good, but this is my favourite, and one of the few high-quality ones for that matter.
WebVideo Didn't they even test this series before they released it?
The Third Rate Gamer is a review series released exclusively for the Google YouTube in 2009.
The first thing I have to say is that the box art is shit. It just shows him playing a Game Boy DS with a picture of Weegee over his face. What game is he playing? Why is he holding it upside down? Why does he have Weegee for a face? I haven't even started this video and already I'm fucking pissed off!
So after starting the video, I noticed that the video was incredibly loud. What the fuck?! I thought this was Third Rate Gamer, not Ear Rape Gamer! After doing some research, I discovered that my volume was all the way up and I had my headphones on.
One of the biggest problems with the show is that it has no two-watcher mode. So I can't have any of my friends come over and watch it with me. What a bunch of penis pancakes. Even on there own, the reviews are incredilby fustrating. There's a Running Gag where he keeps dying and then is alive in the next episode. I thought I was watching Third Rate Gamer, not Beavis and Butt-head! The graphics are also pure shit. Maybe if he had gotten rid of some of the reviews, his channel could've had room for better graphics. Fuck it, I can't keep watching this! I'm using a cheat code to skip to the last review.
So I'm at the final video and I don't understand any of it! Who is this Shadow Overlord guy? And who is this Evil Rate Gamer? Or Billy and Cool Spot? Where did all these characters come from? I've never seen them in any of the one video I saw before skipping to the end! Ugh. So I get all the way through it and all that happens is that the video ends! You don't even get a chance to watch the review with a different reviewer, like JonTron or ProJared or Kid Icarus! Face it; video game reviews are ruined!