Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread

Oh deary me, looks like somebody is finding out that the "hyperbolic and abrasive negative criticism" genre he built his grift on has long since been turned into an absolute taboo and also grounds to be lynched by the same professional social media crybabies and BPD industry hackdrones he sold out to, and all his near decade of simping for them has done is turn himself into a big, juicy, morbidly obese target for the swarm.
 
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He's right. Sonic Frontiers is a terrible game with appalling visuals. Sonic Team is a bunch of lazy niggers and have always been, they had plenty of time to make decent game but decided to spent all their budget in coke and whores and delivered a game at the last minute with stolen assets from the Unity Store.
 
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Just_a_Bored_Guy said:
This week's video is about Doom Eternal's OST creator who was treated like shit I guess
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Wow, this is impressively irrelevant for Jim. So instead of wasting my time recapping this, let's go over why Jim deserves being raked over the coals for his Sonic Frontiers review.

It's worth mentioning that devs being overworked are not an excuse to "go easy" on a game, especially if the game isn't that fun for you to play. Here's a list of fair criticisms that justify a negative review of Sonic Frontiers
  • The game was apparently stretched from 3 islands to 5. You can REALLY tell when elements are reused.
  • The Adventure Level Design does not compliment the lack of precision of the boost formula.
  • The combat doesn't naturally compliment the platforming, as the game basically has to pause one for the sake of the other. It's not much better than Sonic Unleashed in this regard, although it's not as jarring for what it's worth.
  • Losing a QTE to a boss will instantly kill you and make you redo the platforming up to it. QTEs like this combine two of the biggest crutches in gaming: instant kill attacks and jump scares.
But Jim just can't help himself. He HAD to make it about the devs. If he just sat back and said "It's ashamed that such overworked devs made such an underperforming game", then he'd have a leg to stand on. But (for once), Twitter is right: Jim is verbally abusing devs while making his living on going on and on about how gamers and developers don't care about the poor developers. But you know what's really sad? SEGA was one of the few devs who didn't Blacklist Jim during his heyday, going on to say that "You'll just shit on our game either way". However you look at it, Jim is a morally deprived hypocrite who will say any horrible thing to justify his emotions, a trait many Twitter progressives display.

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Computer Guardian said:
How fucking late is he on this?, like two or three years after everyone else covered it while it was the new hot controversy?
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The likely answer is that Jim has a backlog of topics since he refuses to do more than one episode per week despite not even having to edit his own videos anymore. But I'm cynical enough to entertain the idea that Jim is intentionally trying to remind everyone that he totally cares about the devs being abused. Much like hbomberguy, Jimbo would rather Memory Hole anything against him ASAP instead of address the issue.
 
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Computer Guardian said:
How fucking late is he on this?, like two or three years after everyone else covered it while it was the new hot controversy?
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To be perfectly fair to Jim, this story got reignited in the public consciousness when a producer for the game did an AMA and threw Mick Gordon under the bus over the OST available for purchase/listening sounds like dogshit compared to the game itself. Mick rightfully responded with credible statements defending himself and making the producer look like a stupid cunt.

That said, had Jim covered this when it initially happened, he could have pulled a funny by reposting that video, and then made an actual video of something worthwhile to cover this week.
 
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White-Kettle Shufflepunk said:
Never challenge a fandom with that concentration of autism.
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Chris is about to burst through the wall of his cell like the Kool-Aid man.
Gloria The Glorious said:
The likely answer is that Jim has a backlog of topics since he refuses to do more than one episode per week despite not even having to edit his own videos anymore. But I'm cynical enough to entertain the idea that Jim is intentionally trying to remind everyone that he totally cares about the devs being abused. Much like hbomberguy, Jimbo would rather Memory Hole anything against him ASAP instead of address the issue.
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Yeah it's gonna be the latter for me. I think Jim keeps forgetting --or is yet to actually realise-- he isn't as popular as he used to be, and even if he was the schtick of 'I irrationally hate everything that isn't up to my impossible and ever-changing standards' has been out of fashion for at least half a decade.

This DOOM Eternal video is so bewilderingly behind-the-times he must have been scrambling to find anything he could bring up to try and win back some good boy points after putting his foot in it with Sonic Frontiers (which by all accounts is the usual Sonic Team fare of some good ideas bungled by half-assed implementation; definitely not a 1.5/10).
 
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Infernal said:
Jim is currently being cancelled over his negative review of Sonic Frontiers. He called the developers "lazy hack fucks" because the environments look like an asset flip. and that didn't sit well with Sonic fans. They're claiming Jim is harassing the overworked dev team who had been working on this game for a long time and giving the game a 1.5/10 and calling them lazy hacks is "rude" and "exposes that Jim tries to call out industry abuse of devs and workers.... unti it comes time to play their games at which point he stops being kind if he thinks the game sucks, then he becomes a bitter harasser like he's being to Sonic Team, and he was pre-transition to so many indie devs on Greenlight."

It's been hillarious to watch unfold. Even his usual orbiters have called him out. I forsee a tranny exodus from his sub count and patreon.



Also included some examples of even other lgbt people calling him out for his review. returning to actual games criticism rather than just talking about problems of the industry has been a DISASTER for Jimbo, because he's so bitter he can only ever find things to hate anymore. I don't think he's written a single positive review since he's started doing game reviews again. It's like Breath of the Wild all over again. and I REALLY HOPE he doubles down on it like what happened with BOTW and he loses even more of his lgbtq supporters for speaking ill of sonic team.
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Jim vs the Sonic fandom? Lol, the only true winners are us.
 
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Everything else aside, how the fuck does something "look like" an asset flip? It either is one or it is not. I'm not really seeing it in the specific argument being made, and most asset flips are completely visually coherent, it's just that there's nothing built onto them beyond the original assets. Because it is an ASSET FLIP.

edit: Hell, one of the most recent popular fad games was full of random assets from different people and even though they didn't go together, not a single soul even noticed. By Jim's logic though, it's an asset flip. Because buying assets to make a game with just never happens. The only purpose for store assets is to sit there and look pretty and nobody should ever buy them.
 
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The Fatriarchy said:
Everything else aside, how the fuck does something "look like" an asset flip? It either is one or it is not. I'm not really seeing it in the specific argument being made, and most asset flips are completely visually coherent, it's just that there's nothing built onto them beyond the original assets. Because it is an ASSET FLIP.

edit: Hell, one of the most recent popular fad games was full of random assets from different people and even though they didn't go together, not a single soul even noticed. By Jim's logic though, it's an asset flip. Because buying assets to make a game with just never happens. The only purpose for store assets is to sit there and look pretty and nobody should ever buy them.
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Back in Jimbo's golden years of 2014-2016, there were a lot of visually incoherent asset flips because they would mix and match packs together just to fart a game out for card grinding. I think he's trying to say it's guilty of asset recycling, likely because the game was padded out for content, but his drug-ruined mind just went to "Asset Flip" instead. It'll be interesting if Jimbo goes the way of King Cobra, only instead of beer and weed, Jim is done in with hormones and dopamine.
 
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LiquidKid said:
I think a lot about that Grounded game that everyone ignored as soon as it game out with its arachnophobia settings that can turn the spiders into giant floating happy faces.
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It's interesting that it's not something equivalent, it's got to be something super inoffensive. I sort of get it, but if I was behind that choice I'd just make it something as fearsome.

It might sound like making a mountain of a molehill, but this dumbing down of media irks me. It's funny that the people that rant about videogames being art most, also believe in stripping the challenging elements of it.
 
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SaltyFanta said:
It's interesting that it's not something equivalent, it's got to be something super inoffensive. I sort of get it, but if I was behind that choice I'd just make it something as fearsome.

It might sound like making a mountain of a molehill, but this dumbing down of media irks me. It's funny that the people that rant about videogames being art most, also believe in stripping the challenging elements of it.
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I was wrong about it being a happy face, but it might as well be.

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And my thing is that this is a game that prides itself on attention you detail. Why go to the trouble of making a hyper realistic Honey I Shrunk the Kids backyard just to let people fuck it up with an out of place floating thing? You don’t see mirror’s edge coming with a vertigo mode
 
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LiquidKid said:
I was wrong about it being a happy face, but it might as well be.

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And my thing is that this is a game that prides itself on attention you detail. Why go to the trouble of making a hyper realistic Honey I Shrunk the Kids backyard just to let people fuck it up with an out of place floating thing? You don’t see mirror’s edge coming with a vertigo mode
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Because even I, the consoomer that is terrified of spiders, must be able to play the game about being attacked by spiders.
 
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Dumpster dived waifu said:
Because even I, the consoomer that is terrified of spiders, must be able to play the game about being attacked by spiders.
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But there’s a big ass spider on the promo set for the icon of both Xbox, windows, and steam. Like, I feel it’s impossible to go into that game not knowing there’s spooky spiders.

To bring the topic back to Jim though, remember how he praised Last of Us 2’s colorblind mode because it made it easier for him to cheat to beat the game faster? I feel like his push for all games being inclusive is just a way to enable game journalist mode for the 3 games a year he actually chooses to play.
 
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