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

[Peep Plops]

What a worthless hate-filled review from a spiteful ogre of a man. 3/10 seriously Jim? What a joke of a failure of a man this retard has become.

 

[Lou's Sentient Backfat]

What a worthless hate-filled review from a spiteful ogre of a man. 3/10 seriously Jim? What a joke of a failure of a man this retard has become.

What are the odds he didn't even play the game and just watched some streams of it in the background while thinking up new gross shit to pepper in to his next JQ to get his sub numbers to fall?

 

[FedPostalService]

How long do we think Jim has left for the world? He looks like he could just keel over at any time.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

Is it dead sub purge kicked in or he did something very bad on Saturday?

 

[Corn Flakes]

What are the odds he didn't even play the game and just watched some streams of it in the background while thinking up new gross shit to pepper in to his next JQ to get his sub numbers to fall?

That's guaranteed. DD2 is not the kind of game Jimbo likes to begin with (it actually requires mechanical skill) and the simple fact he did his usual song and dance about microtransactions - which are extremely half-assed in DD2, given they're all things you can get in game, usually pretty easily - and barely mentioned the game's atrocious performance even on high-end rigs is evidence enough he's just riding the hate-wave off twitter.

 

[Oliver Onions]

How long do we think Jim has left for the world? He looks like he could just keel over at any time.

I see one of two possibilities: Either he dies young from accidentally OD'ing on pain meds or he lives well into his 80s out of pure spite.

Is it dead sub purge kicked in or he did something very bad on Saturday?
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His last JQ about Dragon's Dogma is doing slightly better numbers --that is to say he limped over 100k within a week-- than usual because he has once again managed to rile up a fanbase by being retarded, so that extra engagement could mean more subs are seeing his video than usual and leaving.

Either that or it could be a knock-on effect from his Twitter ratio. His Twitter losses were almost double their usual, last month.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

New JQ, the name predictions were wrong but seething about DD2 was right.

EDIT: I watched it and you could just read his tweet about DD2 backtracking to get the same experience. He is mad over people calling him out for saying something so dumb and it really just comes down to "I don't like X mechanic therefore the game is irredeemable" as if everyone doesn't have perfectly good games they dislike because certain mechanics turn them off.

 

[Soy Fed]

How long do we think Jim has left for the world? He looks like he could just keel over at any time.

My boy is the quintessential British bvll. He's going to bring the war to Hitler's Germany. He's never, never, never going to give in to heart disease and metabolic syndrome because he has too much blood, sweat, tears, and toil to give gamers. He must fight to his dying breath the enslavement of the Trannish Empire by people who would rather be left out of his fetish play.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I hope Jim's fans are able to rub their collective two remaining brain cells together and see exactly what he is doing here. Even though I predicted it I am still surprised he actually had the gall to pull another Breath of the Wild.

While I'm on a roll, may as well predict that next week's video is going to be 'I can't believe Dragon's Dogma 2 fans tried to get my channel deleted'.

ETA: Dunno if this has been mentioned already, but out of 65 critic reviews, Jim is the only negative Dragon's Dogma 2 review on MetaCritic.

 

[Shotgun Badger]

What a worthless hate-filled review from a spiteful ogre of a man. 3/10 seriously Jim? What a joke of a failure of a man this retard has become.

Something that annoys me about Jim is that when he does things like this (especially giving the numerical score at the end) he helps poison the whole discourse around a game like this. Looking at it from the outside, DD2 does seem like a game with a lot of issues that are worthy of critique, and generally it annoys me when people are overly positive about things in a review and not seeing the areas they fall down on, but Jim can't give a reasoned and mature critique and instead its late 2000s era angry nerd style review, which thrive on controversy and pissing people off as opposed to considered discussion about a game's pros and cons, which just pisses off fans when its so overtly hostile and encourages people not to listen to each other at all, I mean already Jim's pulling out a persecution complex out of this as we speak.

This is actually a lot worse than his BOTW review, which was closer to what I mean in terms of trying to give a measured criticism to something that everyone else was going bananas about at the time, in that case he gave it a 7/10. With Dragon's Dogma he's essentially just trolling.

 

[Marche]

DD2 is not a good sequel to DD, it does everything the first did good just a bit worse.
Back tracking is one of the least problems in it.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

Something that annoys me about Jim is that when he does things like this (especially giving the numerical score at the end) he helps poison the whole discourse around a game like this. Looking at it from the outside, DD2 does seem like a game with a lot of issues that are worthy of critique, and generally it annoys me when people are overly positive about things in a review and not seeing the areas they fall down on, but Jim can't give a reasoned and mature critique and instead its late 2000s era angry nerd style review, which thrive on controversy and pissing people off as opposed to considered discussion about a game's pros and cons, which just pisses off fans when its so overtly hostile and encourages people not to listen to each other at all, I mean already Jim's pulling out a persecution complex out of this as we speak.

This is actually a lot worse than his BOTW review, which was closer to what I mean in terms of trying to give a measured criticism to something that everyone else was going bananas about at the time, in that case he gave it a 7/10. With Dragon's Dogma he's essentially just trolling.

Breath of the Wild made people fucking retarded. So did Tears of the Kingdom. Everyone was praising the game and talking about how great it was within hours of release giving it insanely high scores and nothing but praise. I reserved my opinion for a week so I could play the game then sleep on my opinions. I believe I also gave it a 7 out of 10 after ripping on it for the shrines, puzzle design, terrible fucking bosses, and a complete failure of having any feeling of progression that wasn't just artificial number go up in my UI. Before praising almost everything else and calling it a new high water mark for everything. It didn't do poorly. I did praise some of the experiments related to climbing, the durability system, and the idea of having to choose between HP and stamina. Yet anytime I pointed out the numerous flaws I had with the game to people who asked, they would argue that they weren't enough to drag the game down from a perfect or near perfect score, or they would argue that my standards were too high, that I was trying to nitpick, or I just didn't get it. I actually had people who I had known and talked to for years decide to block me over the fact that I merely liked the game and didn't love it as the second coming of Christ. I went through similar with TotK. A lot of people thought my "low" score was because I found it too hard because of the durability system, despite the main thing I was praising was how dynamic the durability system made combat and it's only major failing was that it needed to have slightly more durability added to specific weapons so it felt less stop and pause along with a UI I didn't like for having to pull out my next weapon. Mind you a lot of these are the same people who seem to think that Ubisoft Game the Game are 7 out of 10 games, because they are mediocre, when I put mediocre at 5 out of 10.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

New JQ, the name predictions were wrong but seething about DD2 was right.

EDIT: I watched it and you could just read his tweet about DD2 backtracking to get the same experience. He is mad over people calling him out for saying something so dumb and it really just comes down to "I don't like X mechanic therefore the game is irredeemable" as if everyone doesn't have perfectly good games they dislike because certain mechanics turn them off.

10 seconds in and already you can chuck it with Jim just having a "skill issue" with the game.

Jim dosent care if the game itself is good or bad. he hates it since he already made up in his mind that he hates it and the game already made him look like an fool so its personal to him.

"edit" i decided to give the video i ten minute watch and i both agree and disagree with with Jimbo here. yes, backtracking can be a pain sometimes which is why you need to plan where it is you need to go and check if you have the time, rescores and strength to do it. you cant just track to the other side of the world with the lack of recourses and no back up plan. there were plenty of times i wanted to head off the beating path but had to hold back since i knew, i could eat dirt and had to go back to town and resupply if i did. i do agree with him that there just too many trash enemies on the main road blocking your way. it gets sick killing goblin pack after goblin pack every minute.

yes the DLC is scummy and no, you dont have to buy it to make fast travel possible. again, you can get the items in the game, you just have to actually play the game to get them. you also cant be wasteful with the items either. fast travel is EXPENSIVE and you cant just spam it everytime you want to go somewhere without going broke. again, you have to plan ahead where to travel and knowing when its worth pushing forward, have to track back again or when its ok to use a ferrystone to get out of a fucked situation.

the game feels alive and dangerous. it can and will kill you and you have to prep the best you can just to live another a day. not even the cities are safe.

 

[The Scorpion]

Breath of the Wild made people fucking retarded. So did Tears of the Kingdom. Everyone was praising the game and talking about how great it was within hours of release giving it insanely high scores and nothing but praise. I reserved my opinion for a week so I could play the game then sleep on my opinions. I believe I also gave it a 7 out of 10 after ripping on it for the shrines, puzzle design, terrible fucking bosses, and a complete failure of having any feeling of progression that wasn't just artificial number go up in my UI. Before praising almost everything else and calling it a new high water mark for everything. It didn't do poorly. I did praise some of the experiments related to climbing, the durability system, and the idea of having to choose between HP and stamina. Yet anytime I pointed out the numerous flaws I had with the game to people who asked, they would argue that they weren't enough to drag the game down from a perfect or near perfect score, or they would argue that my standards were too high, that I was trying to nitpick, or I just didn't get it. I actually had people who I had known and talked to for years decide to block me over the fact that I merely liked the game and didn't love it as the second coming of Christ. I went through similar with TotK. A lot of people thought my "low" score was because I found it too hard because of the durability system, despite the main thing I was praising was how dynamic the durability system made combat and it's only major failing was that it needed to have slightly more durability added to specific weapons so it felt less stop and pause along with a UI I didn't like for having to pull out my next weapon. Mind you a lot of these are the same people who seem to think that Ubisoft Game the Game are 7 out of 10 games, because they are mediocre, when I put mediocre at 5 out of 10.

Seeing a lot of this with FF7: Rebirth at the moment. I'm genuinely enjoying it despite it having some very stark gameplay flaws that hold it back, however people to continue to handwave these flaws in order to allow the circlejerk to proceed uncontested

 

[Oliver Onions]

This is actually a lot worse than his BOTW review, which was closer to what I mean in terms of trying to give a measured criticism to something that everyone else was going bananas about at the time, in that case he gave it a 7/10. With Dragon's Dogma he's essentially just trolling.

It's basically professional review-bombing; the sort of thing he would rant about when Gamers™ do it to alphabet-approved titles but, as usual, when Jim does it it's okay.

Jim is still capable of writing good reviews, so this is 100% a work and he knows exactly what he's doing. Whatever flaws DD2 may have, his 3/10 score is being done deliberately to antagonise and draw attention.

Also, a bit off-topic, but I agree that BotW was a 7/10. It was one of the best sandboxes I've ever played in terms of getting distracted and going to do stuff for the sake of it, but there were glaring UI and QoL issues that obviously came about as a result of features being ripped from the original WiiU version because they wouldn't be compatible with the Switch, and Nintendo couldn't have their last-gen version being more feature-rich than the flagship title for their new console.

 

[Brother Wind]

What an actually awful review. Like setting aside my feelings on the game. Or even my knowledge of it. That was a terrible bit of prose. He could barely string together multiple thoughts. It was constantly choppy and jumping all over the place. Like that line about them playing Rise of the Ronin I thought was a broken caption. Because it just comes out of fucking nowhere and its all on its own. This is how far they have fallen, professional games writer for what 15 years? Putting out something Kotaku would be ashamed of.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

I think something to remember, is he's putting out written content again not only means we get things like this, but we actually get to compare pretty quickly how one shit review holds up to another. Like say, one on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (a), the game that basically kicked off what looks to be GamerGate2.0: Journo's Sobbing Boogaloo? I think that is a good star to compare to Dragon's Dogma 2 (a). Well, Dragon's Dogma 2 is much better written than his videos, but not by much. It is a far cry worse than the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review, which actually seems to have some focus on what it wants to complain about. He gives DD2 a 3/10, while SS:KJL got a 6.5/10. I've played SS:KJL. Ignoring certain technical issues, I'd give it a 5/10, but I am just less tolerant of looter shooter bullshit than Jim (please ignore my several thousand hours in the looter shooter that is Warframe). I can't give an opinion on DD2 yet, but my DD1 score is around 7.5/10 to 8/10. If it is a bit worse than that, like according to some people up thread, then I will adjust it for a 6.5/10 prediction. I feel like Jim might have been inflating his score though due to politics and lowering his other score due to his vendetta, especially since his complaints in both are mostly targeting microtransactions and dated design.

 

[Oliver Onions]

The fact Jim gave Suicide Squad 6.5/10 but Dragon's Dogma 2 3/10 proves without a shadow of a doubt that he's deliberately trying to stir up controversy.

Suicide Squad is everything Jim should hate. It clearly wasn't finished on release, they were charging $100+ to play it a few days early, but nobody could because the servers were broken, there was a bug on launch that automatically completed the game for you (a mercy, some would say) the game's story has no actual ending because it's being teased in future seasons which are almost certainly never going to happen, and it's now been revealed that Rock Steady lied when they said Joker would be available to all players. While technically true, the grind to unlock him through gameplay is both excruciatingly inflated due to only certain missions giving the progress necessary to unlock him but also because, either by bug or design, those specific missions are not permanently available to farm.

That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there's much more I've forgotten, but what's the main difference between Suicide Squad and Dragon's Dogma 2? Gamers™ hate one and enjoy the other, which is exactly what happened with Breath of the Wild and Sonic Frontiers. He's such a transparently dishonest sack of shit.

 

[Corn Flakes]

The fact Jim gave Suicide Squad 6.5/10 but Dragon's Dogma 2 3/10 proves without a shadow of a doubt that he's deliberately trying to stir up controversy.

Suicide Squad is everything Jim should hate. It clearly wasn't finished on release, they were charging $100+ to play it a few days early, but nobody could because the servers were broken, there was a bug on launch that automatically completed the game for you (a mercy, some would say) the game's story has no actual ending because it's being teased in future seasons which are almost certainly never going to happen, and it's now been revealed that Rock Steady lied when they said Joker would be available to all players. While technically true, the grind to unlock him through gameplay is both excruciatingly inflated due to only certain missions giving the progress necessary to unlock him but also because, either by bug or design, those specific missions are not permanently available to farm.

That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there's much more I've forgotten, but what's the main difference between Suicide Squad and Dragon's Dogma 2? Gamers™ hate one and enjoy the other, which is exactly what happened with Breath of the Wild and Sonic Frontiers. He's such a transparently dishonest sack of shit.

So... long story short, he doubled down on the shit that got him ratioed to hell and back on twitter?

Good ol' Jimbo. Never change.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I'll Jim some credit, I don't think he's doing this to get attention because I think he's just that petty that when a game does something he dislikes all objectivity goes out the window and he'll shit on it because it dared to offend his sensibilities. How he rates games makes a lot of sense when you look at it what way, because he's reviewed plenty of trash thats been inoffensive and so gets a middling score while good games that have certain aspects he dislikes will get absolutely lambasted.

but nobody could because the servers were broken, there was a bug on launch that automatically completed the game for you (a mercy, some would say)

I never read the review but its funny because server issues was a common talking point in his Helldivers 2 review (he also gave it a low score) and in that case its way more understandable why a AA game had server issues when it blew up in popularity compared to a AAA game that had no players.