History WebVideo / ThirdRateGamer

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: The first two title cards aren't misspelled.

The first episode, a review of ''Final Fantasy 3'', was released in 2007, and has garnered enough positive feedback from fans to spawn 17 more in total. The last episode (and last video on the channel)was released in 2011, with the show seemingly cancelled due to "lack of motivation" by the creator. Longtime fans eagerly await an eventual comeback episode, if such a thing ever happens.

** The footage sometimes shows him picking the lowest difficulty setting before starting.

---> '''Third Rate Gamer:''' What pisses me off more is the lack of power-ups. There are ''no'' power-ups in this game! No mushrooms, no fire flowers, no stars, no [[ArtisticLicenseBiology baboon]] tails. Just Yoshi walking around.
---> ''(later in the review)''
---> '''Third Rate Gamer:''' And yeah, I know I said there are no power-ups in this game, so to make myself look good, I'll just delete any comments that point out that mistake.
** He believes that ''Disney/TheLionKing'' is a Creator/{{Pixar}} film from the 1970's. In the same review, he claims that the game was never ported to any other system, complains about the use of "I Just Can't Wait to be King" as the background music for level 2 ("Do you remember this music anywhere from the movie?!"), and complains that you don't get any continues (said as he is ''showing footage'' of the continue screen).

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: As he's being viciously attacked by the [[Disney/TheLionKing Scar]] sprite at the end of his ''Lion King'' review, all he says in a slightly annoyed voice is, "Stop it! That's my spleen, buddy!"

--> ''"When you think of one of the most bestest Creator/{{Pixar}} films of the 1970s, chances are Disney/TheLionKing is probably on your top 5 list."''

** The entire series is one big Take That to the ''Irate Gamer''. Also occasional jabs at Leisuresuitgaming and Game Dude, two other infamous [=YouTube=] reviewers. With [[LetsPlay/TheKingOfHate DSP's new]] infamy thrown in recent years, it could be a ''retroactive'' one towards him.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/FFL2and3rocks#g/c/299FE4090811173D The Third Rate Gamer]] is a StylisticSuck satire of the infamous [[WebVideo/TheIrateGamer Irate Gamer]], by [=FFL2and3rocks=] (real name and birth date unknown).

* EvilTwin: The Evil Rate Gamer. [[GoodColorsEvilColors You can tell he's evil because he's wearing a hat]].

** At the end of the ''Home Improvement'' review, a dinosaur spits fire on TRG's computer. A stock explosion appears when it hits, and then some obvious fire GIFs are placed on the TV, which is still playing the computer just fine. You can even tell that the "game" playing on his TV is really just footage copied from the Irate Gamer's review of the game, as evident when the footage on the computer cuts to his room.

The first episode, a review of ''Final Fantasy 3'', was released in 2007, and has garnered enough positive feedback from fans to spawn 17 more in total. The last episode (and last video on the channel)was released in 2011, with the show seemingly cancelled due to "lack of motivation" by the creator. Longtime fans eagerly await an eventual comeback episode, if such a ever happens.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/FFL2and3rocks#g/c/299FE4090811173D The Third Rate Gamer]] is a StylisticSuck satire of the infamous [[WebVideo/TheIrateGamer Irate Gamer]], by [=FFL2and3rocks=]. Similarly to other ''Irate Gamer'' parodies such as the WebVideo/SaveStateGamer and WebVideo/TheIrritatedGamer, the Third Rate Gamer does intentionally badly-written and badly-acted reviews of various games, usually with deliberate references to some of Irate Gamer's well-known memes and mistakes.

* ExactWords: On a meta level. In the Irate Gamer's ''Cool Spot'' review, his evil twin drops by his apartment and says that he's giving pizzas away in exchange for "anyone with an Odyssey" [[note]]He obviously meant he was giving pizzas away in exchange for an Odyssey console, but the wording was...rather poor[[/note]]. TRG took a literal interpretation of this and made fun of it by making ''his'' evil twin say he was "giving them away in exchange for people" in his ''Chip n' Dale'' review.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Invoked. He didn't even try to make the special effects look real.
** In the ''Yoshi's Island'' review, the AVGN's shirt (taken from a shot which itself is badly lighted) is poorly superimposed onto him throughout the entire video.

** At the end of the ''Home Improvement'' review, a dinosaur spits fire on TRG's computer. A stock explosion appears when it hits, and then some obvious fire gifs are placed on the TV, which is still playing the computer just fine. You can even tell that the "game" playing on his TV is really just footage copied from the Irate Gamer's review of the game, as evident when the footage on the computer cuts to his room.

* TookALevelInDumbass: The already incompetent Third Rate Gamer forgets that the controller has to be, you know, plugged in for ''VideoGame/TheLionKing'' -- and it's not hinted that he merely didn't ''see'' that the controller wasn't plugged in.

* ViewersAreMorons: PlayedForLaughs, and almost always lampshades. It is meant to parody how commonly the ''Irate Gamer'' would circle every little detail on the screen in a green circle.

** His review of Super Mario Bros. 1 and 2, which features two different stories in parallel timelines, has the message "Pay attention now because my fans are morons" at the beginning. This parodies the warning at the beginning of the Irate Gamer's review of Mario is Missing/Mario's Time Machine, which also featured the same type of parallel timelines storytelling.

* UnfortunateImplications: Invoked with the side character "Offensive Stereotype", basically a walking collection of [[FarEast every]] [[InterchangeableAsianCultures Asian]] [[AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats stereotype]] [[AsianDrivers in]] [[AsianAndNerdy existence]]. A parody of ''Irate Gamer's'' [[AmbiguouslyJewish Ronnie]] [[JewishComplaining the Skeleton.]]
--> '''Offensive Stereotype:''' I have better things to do! Like eat rice, and do math, and drive on wrong side of road.

'''Youtube Warning''': This joke has been removed due to a Van Halen copyright claim by Van Halen.

* PoesLaw: There is a worrying amount of people who fail to realize he's a parody, if the YouTube comments are anything to go by.

** The entire series is one big Take That to the ''Irate Gamer''. Also occasional jabs at Leisuresuitgaming and Game Dude, two other infamous [=YouTube=] reviewers. With [[Creator/TheKingOfHate DSP's new]] infamy thrown in recent years, it could be a ''retroactive'' one towards him.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/FFL2and3rocks#g/c/299FE4090811173D The Third Rate Gamer]] is a StylisticSuck satire of the infamous ''[[WebVideo/TheIrateGamer Irate Gamer]]'', by [=FFL2and3rocks=]. Similarly to other ''Irate Gamer'' parodies such as the ''WebVideo/SaveStateGamer'' and ''WebVideo/TheIrritatedGamer'', the Third Rate Gamer does intentionally badly-written and badly-acted reviews of various games, usually with deliberate references to some of Irate Gamer's well-known memes and mistakes.

* EthnicScrappy: [[invoked]] Parodied with "Offensive Stereotype," who's little more than a laughably racist "Chinaman" caricature.

---> '''TRG''': An MP3 player! Awesome! I wonder if they have any Music/VanHalen songs by Van Halen.\\

** He believes that ''Film/TheLionKing'' is a Creator/{{Pixar}} film from the 1970's. In the same review, he claims that the game was never ported to any other system, complains about the use of "I Just Can't Wait to be King" as the background music for level 2 ("Do you remember this music anywhere from the movie?!"), and complains that you don't get any continues (said as he is ''showing footage'' of the continue screen).

* {{Plagiarism}}: He'll sometimes use footage from WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd and even leave sound from the original video playing in the background.

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: This was a parody of the Irate Gamer's use of the trope when expressing his thoughts about ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'':
-->"I know what you're thinking -- that I'm going to sit here and bash ''Super Mario 2''. But before you start sending your hate mail, just hear me out. Now, I don't hate ''Mario 2'', but when compared to the other ''Mario'' games, this one just has "ass" written all over it!"

** WebVideo/TheIrritatedGamer makes guest stars in the ''Rocket Knight Adventures'' review, voicing Flashter.
** [[WebVideo/GuruLarryAndWez Guru Larry]] appears during the aforementioned {{Incredibly Lame Pun}} part of his ''Chip n' Dale'' review.

* BiasSteamroller: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] with his overall reaction to ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'', which he will bring up randomly and hate on for no good reason.

[[http://www.youtube.com/user/FFL2and3rocks#g/c/299FE4090811173D The Third Rate Gamer]] is a Website/YouTube-based StylisticSuck satire of the infamous ''[[WebVideo/TheIrateGamer Irate Gamer]]'', by [=FFL2and3rocks=]. In it, TRG does intentionally badly-written and badly-acted reviews of various games, usually with deliberate references to some of Irate Gamer's well-known memes and mistakes.

[[http://www.youtube.com/user/FFL2and3rocks#g/c/299FE4090811173D The Third Rate Gamer]] is a Website/YouTube-based StylisticSuck satire of the infamous ''[[WebVideo/TheIrateGamer Irate Gamer]]'', by [=FFL2and3rocks=]. In it, TRG does intentionally badly-written and badly-acted reviews of various games, usually with deliberate references to some of Irate Gamer's more known memes and mistakes.

* TheCameo: On WebVideo/NoDateGamers episode "Cruise".

* SpecialGuest: TheIrritatedGamer makes a vocal cameo in the ''Rocket Knight Adventures'' review, voicing Flashter.

** At one point in his Nintendo DS review, he is conspicuously a lot farther away from the camera, parodying the Irate Gamer's misuse of the camera position to spoil certain jokes in his ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' review:

* SayingTheSoundEffectsOutLoud: He imitates radar circles with a "woo-woo-woo" in his ''Chip n' Dale'' review.