Hmmm, I've only seen two things from him, and he doesn't come off that way to me. But then again, I've only seen two things.

Honestly, he might not talk about it that often. I listened to a few of his podcasts a while ago and he would say stuff like, "but yeah, that's a console game so it's automatically shit" pretty often. I guess that's an okay opinion to have if he wants, but I think it's a pretty stupid way to look at things, and if that's how he judges things, then I don't care what he thinks.

He probably has insightful opinions on some stuff, and I don't want to discourage anyone from watching his videos or listening to him. I just personally won't.

I hate those darn Brits!

But seriously, he just bugs me. The perfect example of elitist douche. If it's not on PC, he doesn't care, which is fine, but he just assumes that console games can't be good. I don't care what anyone that close-minded has to say about anything.

Many things bother me about him, but he is an interesting figure nevertheless. First of all, he's simply not a very good critic, and he focuses on the most absolutely banal aspects of games and always talks about 'consumers' and stuff. He frequently spends over 10 minutes going through the options menus of PC games to evaluate them, which is the biggest waste of time ever. For instance his Street Fighter 5 video is 15 minutes long, and 12 is covering the options menu. You can sum it up in a single sentence: "The servers are down and you need them to play, and you can't rebind keys". Both are bad. It took you maybe 10 seconds to read that? So why does he go on for 15 minutes?

HIs analysis is generally either performance related, business related, about technical matters, or it is incredibly shallow. Yet he still goes on and on in an incredibly verbose way. His videos could easily be significantly shorter.

He is also incredibly thin skinned and petty. He cries and pitches a hissy fit instead of defending himself. He supported gamergate and doesn't think that racism is a problem in England.

If you want actual insight in your reviews or to actually hear someone who understands and appreciates games as art, he is not your guy.

Did I do a bad thing by posting this?

I'm sorry, I take everything back. I actually DO want presents from Santa this year!

HIs analysis is generally either performance related, business related, about technical matters,

All of those topics are very worthwhile.

or it is incredibly shallow.

I don't find it that. YMMV. Or are you saying that because he really, really liked SuperHot and you decided two years ago you didn't?

Yet he still goes on and on in an incredibly verbose way. His videos could easily be significantly shorter.

Yes, by cutting out all the stuff he cares about-- performance, settings menus, consumer advocacy.

He is also incredibly thin skinned and petty. He cries and pitches a hissy fit instead of defending himself. He supported gamergate and doesn't think that racism is a problem in England.

Yeah, and there's that. You'll hear strains of that if you listen to much of Yahtzee's non-zero punctuation content as well.

That said... the REST of the content on his channel is top-notch stuff, if you can get by the rest.

I enjoyed the podcast he puts out, for the most part. They have interesting discussions. I don't even care that he doesn't like console games, but his attitude about it turns me off. He seems to truly believe that just because it's on a console it can't be a good game. I even understand caring about performance, but if you're not even willing to look at a game's other merits and completely write off a game because it's not 1080p 60fps without deviation, then that tells me everything I need to know and I'm not all that interested in hearing more.

Maybe that makes me just as in-the-wrong and closed minded as he is. I try not to be like that, but in this case, I just haven't been able to get beyond it.