- Joined
- Jan 25, 2018
It's been heavily implied, if not outright stated that he stopped gaming sometime around the release of GameCube, possibly as far back as the N64. When he came back it was around the launch of the Wii, and despite owning a Xbox 360 he never got into Call of Duty, Gears of War, Halo, or any other "dudebro" games. To Bob, anything that isn't a pastel coloured kid friendly mascot platformer is "dudebro". This would be acceptable but he still wanted to have opinions on contemporary games and be the smartest person in the room.
This resulted in some of his worst takes, like when he felt qualified to opine on Mass Effect 3s ending despite having never played any of the games, saying Call of Duty was about getting revenge for 9-11, and defended Metroid Other M despite being universally despised.
The weird thing is is that there was a time where Bob liked "dudebro" type games. As we saw with the old website he created back in the 90's, he admitted to liking Quake and had to have played some other FPS games from that time period.
I don't really understand where this hatred of FPS and similar type games emerged from. I have a theory that it maybe was specifically when these games started leaving the PC and emerging as big hits on console that Bob started to hate them.
I don't really know how else to explain why he hates these games with such vitriol when he at one point liked them.
Bob, seriously, Super Mario 64 was not a decade old yet. What kind of brainless kid would look at Mario and think he was invented for Smash in 2005 or whatever?
The even dumber thing about this is that the big Nintendo characters had plenty of stand alone titles on the Gamecube. Mario had Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid had the new Prime franchise. Zelda had The Wind Waker as well as a good rerelease of Ocarina of Time.
Bob is making it sound like Super Smash Bros. Melee was the only game released on the Gamecube to feature Nintendo owned properties in it.