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

[AngryTreeRat]

Another Jim Review, this time on Another Crab's Treasure [a]. He gave it a 7.5/10. Metacritic gives it a score of 79, no user reviews. 98% on Steam. This is another review of a review I will need to do later.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Another Jim Review, this time on Another Crab's Treasure [a]. He gave it a 7.5/10. Metacritic gives it a score of 79, no user reviews. 98% on Steam. This is another review of a review I will need to do later.

I heard about this in IronPineapple's soulslike series and it looks decent, I look forward to the review review but just want to complain about something before you get the chance to.

Accessibility options are great here overall and include a few life quality features that honestly just make the game better - chiefly, increased shell health and a bigger invincibility window while dodging to make evasion worth attempting. Alongside a suite of other options, Another Crab’s Treasure does a laudable job of proving a Soulslike can be accessible and enjoyable.

I have no issue with games adding difficulty options for filthy casuals like Jim but calling it an 'accessibility option' is plain dishonest and insulting. Calling what has always been considered difficulty as 'accessibility' is such a scummy way to deflect rightful criticism of someone wanting a game to cater to their skill level, and only hurts genuine efforts to promote real accessibility options in games.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Calling what has always been considered difficulty as 'accessibility' is such a scummy way to deflect rightful criticism of someone wanting a game to cater to their skill level, and only hurts genuine efforts to promote real accessibility options in games.

My question is always where does this line of thinking end? Should you be given access to the debug tools in order to max out every single stat and make yourself effectively invincible? If yes, then what's even the point of playing the game when there are zero loss conditions? You may as well watch a Let's Play at that point.

I've mentioned before that Souls fans are insufferable twats because they refuse to hear any criticism against their precious games, and I do think there's a middle-ground the reasonable among us could agree to --the Stakes of Marika in Elden Ring are a great example of an 'easy mode' without compromising the core game design-- but Jim is the opposite side of this obnoxious coin.

He's not willing to make any effort to learn a game's systems. If it doesn't hold his hand every step of the way then it's not being inclusive, as if every game has to appeal to every player. I cannot imagine being this childish and entitled.

 

[Catboy Ranch Dressing]

Don't feel bad, there was a time when he did make some legit points and entertaining content.

I was a regular viewer of the Jimquisition until he dedicated an entire video to bitching about PewDiePie saying nigger, then followed it with a 12 minute video bitching about Shelob not being ugly in Shadow of War.

 

[WASR96]

Maybe I missed it, but has Jim whined about Stellar Blade yet? I figured he won't play it and he'll write up a review whining about how they didn't cave and make their protagonist a hulking paste face to quell troon insecurities.

 

[Dr J]

Don't feel bad, there was a time when he did make some legit points and entertaining content.

When? He's always gone for the lowest hanging fruit, always pointed out the obvious and always been an edgy 'pay attention to mee' fucktard.

Only difference between then and now is that he's a considerably more intellectually dishonest fucktard, and his pathological need for attention and clout has only gotten worse

 

[Spud gun]

From what I remember, back when the Jimquisition kicked off, the "snarky ironic" critic in the gaming space was also more of the screaming angry rage critics. By contrast, Jim was relatively well spoken and concise for the standards of the time, and wasn't trying to blow your ears out or make himself out to be some kinda badass. Combine that with jumping into the scene just at the right time to be caught up with the late 2000's early 2010's internet creator and gaming explosions, and he was pretty much set up for success. Got it too, just rode it into the dirt now.

The only one besides Jim that wasn't a screaming retard was TB, but he was laser focused on his PC game autism.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Maybe I missed it, but has Jim whined about Stellar Blade yet? I figured he won't play it and he'll write up a review whining about how they didn't cave and make their protagonist a hulking paste face to quell troon insecurities.

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[Gloria The Glorious]

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This would be a funny and reasonable response if Jim wasn't known for making everything he touched in the past 2 years an extension of cultural issues. I'd wager Jim has said "Transphoic" more than "gameplay" in the past year.

 

[Arcade Gannon]

Jim volunteered for the culture wars when he shoved a pill bottle in his mouth three years ago.

 

[Oliver Onions]

When? He's always gone for the lowest hanging fruit, always pointed out the obvious and always been an edgy 'pay attention to mee' fucktard.

Jim used to be competent in delivering surface-level consumer psychology and business analysis packaged in an entertaining and digestible format. Yes, it wasn't particularly deep or insightful, but it served as a good springboard for people who had no understanding of these concepts. And yes, a lot of the humour was annoying any out of place, but it was also mercifully brief so you could ignore it and enjoy the rest of the content.

Even if you've always hated Jim, it should be clear as day to see the difference between an old video like this* and anything he's doing in Current Year. His modern content has no substance, it's just a vehicle for him to shill his wrestling and indulge his exhibitionist AGP desires.

*Ironically, the version of this video on YouTube is a 'remaster' which features an annoying, overlong skit shoehorned in the beginning, added 5 years after the fact

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- Man who dedicated an entire 25 minute video to malding about J.K. Rowling having sensible opinions

New JQ is up:

As ever, rather than watch it I will use my powers of deduction to guess Jim is moaning about people moaning about the race-mixing and female protagonist in the Fallout TV show. I am further guessing he is going to show that shoop someone made giving the female lead skintight leather pants, and that he will blow this completely out of proportion.

 

[Dr J]

you could ignore it and enjoy the rest of the content.

Or I could watch someone who does what he does but better and without his shitty tryhard humour.

Jim was only ever average at best. Other posters put it best - he owes his career to being in the right place at the right time. The Escapist caught lightning in a bottle when they discovered Yahtzee and Zero Punctuation and, in an effort to get lightning to strike twice, their idiot editor signed MovieBob, Jim and Extra Credits. The latter two have better careers than the former only by virtue of being, like you said, more competent but also smarter and more able to play the game. But they're all equivalent

This would be a funny and reasonable response if Jim wasn't known for making everything he touched in the past 2 years an extension of cultural issues. I'd wager Jim has said "Transphoic" more than "gameplay" in the past year.

Much like Jim being a 'consumer advocate' and tackling 'corruption in gaming', Jim only wants to discuss cultural issues and 'culture wars' when it's on his terms. He's all gung-ho to discuss corruption in gaming so long as it doesn't involve his friends or people he wants to be friends with, and he's all gung-ho to discuss whatever ists and phobia so long as it's a game he hates and not one he enjoys

 

[Moja Zemlja]

New JQ is up:

As ever, rather than watch it I will use my powers of deduction to guess Jim is moaning about people moaning about the race-mixing and female protagonist in the Fallout TV show. I am further guessing he is going to show that shoop someone made giving the female lead skintight leather pants, and that he will blow this completely out of proportion.

You are so far off, he's being Tod's strongest soldier and doubling down on Shady Sands being nuked in the TV show as being good. The main issue people have with the show nuking Shady Sands is that Shady Sands 'falls' (whatever that means) before Fallout New Vegas and it creates such glaring plotholes that is what people have an issue with. How does the NCR maintain an imperialist military adventure while it just lost it's capital city? Why does no one seem to mention it in FNV? Why is any government body still in Shady Sands after it "fell" to get nuked?

I don't care that much about FNV but the show digs up so many plotholes you might as well just've retconned the game.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I stand before you a felted man, but now I'm even more confused what the point of the episode is. You've jogged my memory about the Shady Sands thing but I never gave enough of a shit about FNV or Fallout in general to get invested in the controversy (or the show itself for that matter) but I'm confused why this needed to be a Jimquisition episode. From what I recall the Halo TV show took way bigger liberties with the lore and got absolutely shit on as a result, but he never said a peep about that.

Even by the ever-fraying tangential standards Jim operates on these days, this seems like something that should have been a tweet, not a Jimquisition episode.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Even by the ever-fraying tangential standards Jim operates on these days, this seems like something that should have been a tweet, not a Jimquisition episode.

Isn't that most of this videos? With how much padding, verbal diarrhea, unfunny skits and shilling for his "wrestling" career, most of Jimbo's arguments would fit within a short twitter thread.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Isn't that most of this videos? With how much padding, verbal diarrhea, unfunny skits and shilling for his "wrestling" career, most of Jimbo's arguments would fit within a short twitter thread.

True, but there's usually at least some underpinning to tie it to an industry issue or gaming news. This feels like nothing but an argument about canon in relation to a TV show based on a video game.

It seems extra flimsy, even for Jim. I reckon he just couldn't think of anything else to talk about this week.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I think we've advanced past JQ filler episodes being him bringing out one of his usual topics to harp on and now its actual filler, why else would he just talk about a TV show he watched?

 

[Adam Basile Woodrow]

>"it´s true to the source material"
>But they retconned it
>"so?"
10/10 Video my Dude

I can't imagine why he's losing subscribers tbh

 

[Big Meaty Claws]

What a charming video Jim, really selling the Buffalo Bill Image, fits well!

 

[Ravana]

A grown man in a room full of toys. Are we sure that's not just Chris chan?