Well, it's been said before, but Dan's problem is he can't dislike something while also acknowledging that it's good. I don't like Sekiro or Black Myth Wukong, or Nioh. But I know that they're good games. There are a ton of good games I don't like because they aren't what I'm interested in or looking for. Danny doesn't have to like a game like Elden Ring, but to say it's a bad game is as close to objectively wrong as you can get on something as subjective as videogames. By pretty much any metric, it's a good game. It's really just an issue of maturity and having to feel like he's right all the time. It's not like he knows what he's talking about. He never researches or plays the games. He just decides he doesn't like it, so that means it's bad. He's got the mentality of a child who sees broccoli on their plate and just decides, "Nu-uh! I won't eat that! Broccoli is gross!" Maybe that's why Diddler Danny likes them so young.
I'm not a big fan of the Souls-like games, God knows I barely played them, but I can understand why people think it's a great series. The threat level of the bosses. The bragging rights you get after defeating them. In a way, they capture something from the older era of video gaming before strategy guides and the internet turned most boss battles into beatdowns. Such games awaken a sense of accomplishment in the player. And for Razorfist to ignore that goes to show that he wasn't that much of a gamer to begin with.
A shocker, I know, the dude who gets BTFO'd in his "favorite" TES game, and who gets lost on Halo Reach, a game with literal nav points and instructions telling you where to go and who to kill, isn't much of a gamer. But him hating on a game series without looking at its positives goes to show you that he's more politician than gamer.
"It's one of those damn dirty FromSoftware games! They all suck!" says the guy who wants to turn ALL RPGs into DnD simulators, not accepting the fact that some RPGs work better as DnD and some don't. Like any political activist, he thinks his position is superior and everyone else can suck it, even though the obvious truth is that greater game diversity is good for the gaming landscape in general. So it's better for some RPGs to be DnD simulators and some to branch out to action, FPS, or adventure.
Dannytranny is stuck in the "Channel Awesome" mindset and thinks criticizing everyone and everything makes him seem smart and cool and is the sams kind of sped as Doug Walker or Linkara and has no actual creative drive or ability himself, such as his former music projects being the worst fucking Bedroom Black metal you can imagine
The thing is, even Doug Walker calmed down from his initial phase of hating the shit out of things and began to appreciate things that he might not have liked in the past. For example, Doug Walker created a list of the things that he liked about the SW Prequels, despite admitting to hating them and agreeing with RLM on the matter. His persona of the Nostalgia Critic was always meant as a gag, he knows the Critic is a horrible person who deserves the mockery and the scorn. Razorfist, on the other hand, thinks his persona is cool and hip, and it's hard to differentiate between Razorfist and Daniel Harris. Whereas you can easily differentiate between Doug Walker and the Nostalgia Critic, or AVGN and James Rolfe. And by now, those internet personalities have calmed down and accepted the fact that their era of dominance is over, they're just adapting to the new world order that came about after their stints as internet superstars ended.
Razorfist, for his part, adapted to the new world order by whoring out to the Trump fans and the Religious Right in hopes of getting hired. Which is going to be bad news for him when they find out about all the pedo priest jokes he used to casually make in his reviews, especially since you have a very vociferous, very vocal, right-wing Catholic bloc that has become a strong presence in the modern Religious Right. It'd be funny if Danny-boy finally makes it to having a gig at Fox News, only to get cancelled when some traditionalist Catholic shows up with a clip show of every time Razorfist mocked the priesthood and called them pedophiles. It's like what happened with Carl Benjamin and UKIP when someone dug up his rape jokes at Jess Philips' expense and his "White Nigger" comments.
It would also be funny if Danny-boy's penchant for Dungeons and Dragons comes out in the open. Like it or not, huge swathes of Evangelical America still thinks it's the game of the Evil One. There's people in places like the South who try to open up DnD campaigns in their schools, only to find the school board clamping down on their activities for daring to play the "Devil's Game". I can imagine Danny-boy getting BTFO'd by Trumpian conservatives who were religious right people from the 80s, bashing him for Satanic mischief. The fact that he's friends with Styxenhammer, an actual Satanist, would make the charge more potent.
Given his hatred of weebs and his love for DnD RPGs, it's more accurate to compare Razorfist with Spoony, especially since a big problem with the two is that you don't know where the author ends and the character begins. Granted, that leads to some reactions that fans call "genuine", but it also means that the character IS the person, which means that Noah Antwiler is as neurotic and depressed as Spoony is, and Razorfist is as rude and confrontational as Daniel Harris is.
Danny also adores Yahtzee and is basically a copycat, older Zero Punctuation was funny, even if I disgree with Yahtzee on stuff like Gears of War, when Yahtzee was more racist and made actual witty and edgy jokes but the show has really been running its wheels for far too long and should just come to a close because Yahtzee now just comes off as a soyed out pretentious fuckwit into hipster shit like Obra Dinn
Yahtzee always came off as an opinionated asshole. Sometimes his jokes land, other times, his bias is clearly showing. And his act got old real fast.
Danny Boy is just someone I notice who more has been exhibiting undertones of racist thought even if he isn't saying it outloud. From his views on the Civil War, the previously cited "Civilize em with a krag", and this latest video bearing the Anti-Indian vibe that you'd find no different from a blue checkmark now. I think the pattern recognition is more than coincidence.
Razorfist casually makes racist jokes that fly under the radar, but someone who pays attention would know. I figured that when he made that "civilize 'em with a krag" tweet, his constant attacks on Japanese media, him blaming the Chinese for something that white, western capitalists are doing, and I even remember some jokes on the Latinos' expense made by him in the past, like that joke about "more C's than a Latina" thing; I'm trying to remember from what review he made it in.
That's another thing I notice with Razorfist. There are goddamn mountains of indie games he could explore and expose to his audience but like Jim Sterling only hyperfixiates on AAA games. It's a pretty good litmus test on how committed someone is to the cause is whether or not they talk about the indies that are the exact opposite of their AAA counterparts. Afforadable, better looking in terms of art style and graphics, often more innovative, and if you care about that stuff cucks the living shit out of AAA studios in terms of the la representation/diversity shit.
Like I said, he's far less a gamer than he poses himself as; he only focuses on AAA and barely anything else, even though he himself made a quip once about how starving artists in the indie scene aren't getting enough money while EA or Activision publishes another soulless sequel. You'd think he'd be happy now that AA games are taking off while the AAA scene is burning down.
