So those of us who click on his weekly uploads just to cringe at the horrible intros then peace out are still being counted as views? That would certainly explain why his numbers remain relatively high despite his dogshit content.
Also relevant: a review they did on Superstars: https://www.thejimquisition.com/post/sonic-superstars-keep-it-simple-sonic-review
We think so, but it'd also be cratering his youtube algo if you cringe and fuck off. They don't really care about views, they care about engaged and monetizable viewing sessions. Opening a vid and immediately fucking off tells youtube its a shit vid and to not show it to other people like you. And its not entirely clear if an abandoned session always counts as a view, and youtube is pretty opaque and not at all above massaging the numbers in the background. For all we know, they're decimalizing it, and a bunch of abandoned sessions get aggregated into a whole view, because the youtube data folks have no common sense.
Now hold on - We know youtube won't do shit about it, but with any luck we can ruin some glorified janny's day by forcing them to manually review jims boglin tits.
I've heard superstars is good/ok in the same way as NSMB which makes sense as it's SEGA's attempt at that style of gameplay, and Frontiers is fun from what I've played so far, aside from weird western coast dev-ified voice direction.
Sonic's issue is less so many "bad" games and more so many odd/niche spinoff games on top of the mainline ones with some mid tier shit with notoriously edgy marketing and menus like shadow the fucking hedgehog. The reason Sonic and Mario are seen as equals in the gaming sphere aside from the old console war marketing is because they both usually end up being fun times even if they come out kinda ass save for some exceptions where it's an abomination like the final result of sonic 06's development cycle. Internet reviewer narrative the last few years has been "Shadow the hedgehog is worse than sonic 06" but I strongly disagree because if you played heroes you'll know what you're getting into with shadow's slippery controls since it's more or less what nowadays would have been a DLC "true ending" pack or some shit. Don't get me wrong it's not a good game but like if you played the chaotix missions it's just that but with guns.
I've noticed a trend where The last few years pre-lockdown just stopped existing for some political purity spiral poisoned types. It's not an ADHD thing though Jim will probably later claim it is.
Well if he had became a national of the USA as well as the UK he would still be liable to pay both as you are taxed in the US as a citizens while you get taxed in the UK as a resident.
I don't see how Jim is going to do anything else but the most vapid surface level work, he knows he's on the career death spiral and it's not due to a lack of intrest in the subject from the people but change in tastes in how they consume the subject matter.
Its not even that, he was still doing barely enough to increase sub count prior to trooning out, even if his video's quality had went way down hill, its just now he's a literal monstrosity in addition to being a figurative one.
i'd also argue that a lot of the "bad" sonic games arent even that bad... just, not great or amazing. Also it's funny him saying that Sonic is creatively bankrupt, when every (mainline) mario game was pretty much the same for like 10 years lol. I played superstars, and if you like sonic you'll like it... if you don't like sonic, you'll probably not like it.
Gonna bet that this is just some backburner script from the late 2000s that Jim dug up to do a video on because its so utterly lazy and has nothing to offer on this extremely well worn topic. All of the talking points are so fucking ancient.
Seeing as the only mainline Mario games in the past decade have been SM3DW* and Odyssey I can only assume you haven't played them or even seen them being played.
9 years ago he made the same exact video but at least I didn't have to see his disgusting troon look in it. The new video is nearly a verbatim remake.
Ewww, how he manages to look worse everytime his lard appears in front of a camera?
was there not like 3 new super mario bros games released in the past decade? the 3ds one, and some wii u ones?
I wonder if Jim realized that chances are the people who made these "threats, slanders, and slurs" were by all means harmless little dorky kids who'd be reading Destructoid when Mommy let permitted computer time. To be fair Jim is acting so I have to take his narration with a grain of salt but he comes off mad that he was called a "fat fuck" by children for being mean to a franchise they love.
Not only are they not mainline Mario games, which you specifically added as a qualifier, they also are over a decade old.
Actually without watching the video, I'm actually guessing his point was that Mania wasn't Sonic Team. And so Sonic Superstars would be the first 2D Sonic game since Sonic 4 if you want to be wrong. Sonic Generations if you want to be close. And the first Sonic if you want to be completely accurate...
