Jim Sterling (The Jimquisition)

I feel like he's done this one.

He did, partly. He posted on his site that the first half is a repeat. The other half is him detailing what happened afterwards.

But does Captain Rainbow have a TV that looks like an apple?

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Welp, there wasn't a particularly insightful or entertaining video. And the comments section is full of fuckwads.

Fanfiction I hate.

I can't see the comment fuckwits. All I see are people telling Jim that Target and Kmart really shouldn't have pulled GTA V.

"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy."

Direct all enquiries to Jamie B Good

The top ten shittiest games of 2014. Also, the return of Skeletor.

Yup, that's a list of pretty shitty games. I'm quite a bit disappointed that he included so many indie greenlight disasters. I mean, yeah, sure, those games are objectively shitty, but that's just the thing.

These indie disasters are entirely worthless, and most gamers probably didn't even know any of these existed until youtubers started to Let's Play them. They were shitty, everybody knew they were shitty as soon as they saw the first few screenshots, absolutely no one was disappointed (except maybe in Greenlight and Steam's quality control), and the only people that actually played it were the Let's Players (and the people that watch those and play the game for a lark), idiots and the developers' moms.

So when I pick up a list like this, looking for interesting opinions and stuff on games, I kind of do so under the assumption that these entries would be glossed over in favour of games that people might actually care about.

If I were to make a list like this, I'd list the indie disaster under "dishonourable mentions". Or heck, maybe just have them share a single spot on the list, since the whole lot of them are so interchangeable. Even the reason why these shitty games exist is more or less identical; talentless newbie devs trying to make a quick buck of their first experiment.

So yeah, sorry for presenting my opinion so badly. I need some sleep fast. What I'm trying to say is that this video was boring because it gave too much screentime to shitty indie games, even though there were plenty of high-profile shitty games that actually hurt the industry as opposed to a digital storefront.

Somebody on NeoGAF raised that exact complaint to Jim's face. His response is that he doesn't treat indie games or big-budget-developer games any differently. If it's the shittiest, it's the shittiest, regardless of who made it. (Same for his best-of-year lists - if it's the greatest, it's the greatest, regardless of who made it or its public knowledge. Simple as.)

Not to mention, such lists focusing on games everyone knows about tend to boil down to "biggest disappointment" lists instead of "actually shittiest" lists.

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And to paraphrase someone in Jim's comment section: there is a big difference between two or three kids fucking up a project that maybe had a budget of a hundred bucks, and a 100-man team wasting millions.

A matter of scale, so to speak.

And I'd also totally watch a "biggest disappointments" list if that's what it takes to listen to some interesting opinions, as opposed to shitting on the same phenomenon five times within ten minutes.

And they should get a free pass for making shit just because they're not Ubisoft? They still made worse shit, they're still charging money for it, they deserve getting called out on it just as much as anyone else. It shouldn't be excused with "but they're indies".

Again: to limit a worst-of to AAA games is wholly arbitrary.

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I'd like to point out that I never said that I'd give them a "free pass" or anything like that. I said, "have them share a single spot on the list", which seems like a perfectly reasonable solution. Heck, make it the number one spot, if it matters that much to you. Just fill the rest of the list with stuff people actually might care about.

The problem isn't that I don't agree with the list, my problem is that the list was boring. And since Jim made it his job to make interesting videos, I think that I'm allowed to complain about it.

edited 29th Dec '14 9:21:52 PM by kayeka

And I'm not paying for this kind of boringness. Simple as that.

Not quite. Jim still releases his videos for free in the Internet. His audience is still anyone who watches the video. An anyone in his audience is entitled to give criticism, as long as they are not assholes about it.

Also, consider most patrons were once free viewers who just decided to give money after watching a few videos. Jim's content logically still need to be entertaining for non patrons if he wants to have more support.

Yeah, Jim isn't only making the videos for his Patrons; his Patrons are helping him make the videos for everyone, presumably because they like what he has to say. I must confess I don't back Jim, although I'm mighty tempted to.

People still say that. There was an absolutely TERRIBLE article out there about how Pokémon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire's success was "killing Nintendo", solely because they could be monetizing the shit out of it on mobiles (instead of, y'know, having it be a system seller their own hardware, without the nickel-and-diming). I'm not even going to link the article; it was so terrible that I'd rather not give such dreck the hits. It's really easy to find with a Google search if you're so inclined, however.

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Thing about mobile gaming is that it is a competing market but it's not going to kill gaming over night. There's always going to be a market for gaming so unless the Call of Duty's of the world start exclusively being made for Apple and Android, consoles won't go anywhere.

But the fact that Nintendo's market for the Wii just upped and vanished, it kinda shows that the mobile market is leaching from consoles.

^^Let's just hope they never realise Pokémon is a JRPG then

Yeah I kind of agree its pointless covering super low-budget indie games (even if the dev did try to sue you) They might be objectively worse but the expectation simply wasn't there to begin with.

Personally I prefer 'biggest disappointment' and 'biggest surprises' lists myself to flat out best and worse games. Hell games could games could rightfully be classed as colossal disappointments and still be rightfully get mentioned in the top 10 best games of the year all the same.

edited 1st Jan '15 6:01:52 AM by joeyjojo

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Meh. Generally not my type of games, though I might take a look at the Darkest Dungeon.

New episode is up! Jim apparently got some lessons on how to tie a necktie.

And plays with his toys

I cracked at xenomorph(?) :p

Watch as a grown man tries to make his little plastic toys have sex, hah.