But isn\'t it true that he puts himself on a pedestal as a completely unbiased source? That\'s just the tip of the iceberg.
One: write your own review instead of commenting on every positive one if it bothers you that much.
Two: \"unbiased\" is impossible. He gives his opinion, and backs it up with examples. That\'s the most we can ask for.
Considering he has poor taste by liking the recent DC movies, I\'ll have to call that into question. :P
Reviewers are obligated only to give their own opinions and explain them. Not to agree with you personally. That\'s why it\'s more important to find one guy who agrees with you than to go to the rotten tomatoes and so forth.
Wouldn\'t Rotten Tomatoes actually yield better results due to the sheer amount of reviews you can find, at least for some movies, Spectral? Also, you\'re dodging the issue I brought.
Why? Art is subjective, and relies on things like taste that vary from person to person. Critics trashed \'\'Terminator: Genisys,\" but I quite enjoyed it, and so did a number of people in my social circle.
Rather than try, fruitlessly, to take a bunch of people\'s opinions and boil them down into a single \"objective\" score, it best behooves each viewer to find a reviewer whose tastes and opinions largely match their own and listen to them.
And I\'m not dodging the issue. You said he \"puts himself on a pedestal as a completely unbiased source.\" Well, I\'ve never seen him do that. Just review a game, talk about what he liked and didn\'t like and why he liked or didn\'t like it. That\'s all that anyone can honestly ask for. And frankly, in a world where screaming for hours about how shitty something is instead of why it\'s shitty will get you more views and traffic, it\'s at least around par.
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The People's Reviewer
Angry Joe is the best consumer-oriented reviewer there is because despite this being his job for so long, he still is a consumer. He has absolute passion for his games and he is absolutely unafraid to let that shine through in everything he does. Someone showing you their passions and why they're passionate about it is one of the most privileged experiences we can have as human beings.
He is what we should want to be, inclusive of everybody, always ready to learn and have fun. He doesn't care about expectations coming into things and he feels ready to try everything. He'll admire a shooter for being a shooter, an MMO for being an MMO. But most of all, he's a decent person, he listens to the hot-button gaming topics and is ready to try and understand why some people might feel excluded from some things and why that's wrong. When some of his own fans starting hurling some pretty nasty abuse over the feminist thing Angry Joe asked them to stop and completely disowned what they did, but even that was with the attitude of trying to bring them back into the fold instead of drawing lines and taking sides.
And although he doesn't place himself amongst the more lofty game critics, he listens to them and values their contributions.
But overall it is the enthusiasm which sells everything. The cheesy costumes and effects are great because they're done with love and a willingness to put himself out there. He manages to bring his personality totally into the reviews, yet at the same time he brings the facts to the table and aims to give advice that other people can take.
Ironically, the thing I like the least about The Angry Joe Show is the anger. Some things don't feel important enough to be angry about. But his anger is actually really rare and when it does appear it stems from disappointed expectations and the feeling that people might lose out on a hefty chunk of their money for this game.