Honestly that clip of AVGN at that Real Game Awards antiwoke stream is sad to watch more than anything. James clearly reading from a script to insult Dustborn, a game he clearly knows nothing about, at an event he’s clearly only in because Screenwave and Screw Attack people are involved with it
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This is all Craig by himself.
Doesn't really excuse him being there, though. He should have done literally any research at all on what he was getting into. Even as a favour.
I had to stop watching his last video ; which is an ad for his last game. Even there he's phoning it and doing it badly.
Still baffled by how Joueur du Grenier improved his formula and went far beyond the AVGN in every way.
And the influence of 80's and 90's from french TV did a great education for that team.
But I flippin' hope this is a "joke" because whoever put Rebekah Valentine as "Worst gaming journalist" can get fucked.
I guess they forgot that article saying "Metaphor Re:Fantazio is woke as fuck" (and yes it is and it's great).
Now he's the nerd to pay for his kids to go to school and eat
He'll say whatever they put in front of him
Shits sad honestly
Like, it was like watching folding ideas video on James just.... it's just sad
He ran through that whole thing like he was doing an ad read. Barely any energy, no actual talking about the nominees or the winner. Just a GB reference and the first pun on the game's name he could think of.
Just... sad.
Rofles portion of the video was discribing the faults of content mills and what they do to their writers and employees it was discribing what had allready happened to James.
That's how you know this is anti-woke BS. I don't care how much you hate Dragon Age, at least it works! I heard some people like it. Concord's a freaking brick right now!
I feel like James should have a shirt that says "I am not anti-woke but $20 is $20." But yeah, I feel like this is mostly because he still associates with actual PoS like Craig.
the anti woke what
Being uninformed is not an excuse or get out of jail free card.
At best it shows ignorance, which by all accounts is still bad.
As it does enable harmful behaviour.
He should know better than to associate with bigots.
I have zero idea what this has to do with bigotry but also I have zero interest in those games and whatever show this is apart from "Huh, the fuckin' nerd. Anyway!"
this is so lame, at least Doug puts the effort to be on somewhat on the pulse of current events
Also what a transparently stupid list of worst games, even my super conservative friend wouldn't have put Veilguard on a worst of the year list. They should have just dropped the pretense and called it wokest instead.
And putting Dragon Age on here is absolutely hysterical 🤣
There’s no world where James’ contracts with Screenwave were so airtight he couldn’t say no to this.
But no literally when was this lmao
James has seemed like he's just kinda phoning it in as the AVGN for like a decade now. He clearly has no passion for it anymore, Its just a job to him now, and hey; if the antiwoke dipshits wanna pay him big bucks to read a largely inoffensive script, why not.
but still mostly Justin Silverman
its why people like Justin Silverman are the worst. bros a parasite. he always latches on to someone famous till theyre used up.
But yeah, it dared to have a Bi(?) black woman protag, a woman with vitiligo, and other forms of representation so RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!!!!
But yeah, the problem is people don't realize that two things can be true at once. A game featuring representation can also miss the mark in terms of gameplay and the two things aren't connected.
It's why every game dev has a Montreal support studio now
Incredibly noticable in the older stuff vs the newer stuff. Probably just a character he plays at this point. He most likely just got a script and read from the script to be honest.
You could always tell in the past that it was his favorite thing to talk about, and then, yeah.
This is a tragedy.
He's long past his prime and is only still doing this to feed his family.
It's like that scene in Space Jam where Jordan is stuck on Moron Mountain, reduced to a sideshow and cursed to lose to kids forever...
But (at least if I remember it right) In the video he didn't want to review the ghostbuster reboot because it was "woke" he didn't want to review for other, but still dumb reasons.
He has no integrity whatsoever.