• Jimquisition: The Unholy Trinity Of Blind Greedy Bastards
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[url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/9045-The-Unholy-Trinity-Of-Blind-Greedy-Bastards[/url] Welp.
the only real reason people watch the escapist is for zero punctuation, this guy just doesn't interest me at all. he tries so hard to be funny but fails at it, and it just feels like it's filler for the more popular show.
[QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;44544040]this guy just doesn't interest me at all.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;44544040]the only real reason people watch the escapist is for zero punctuation[/QUOTE]you literally just said its not worth watching because you don't like it
[QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;44544040]the only real reason people watch the escapist is for zero punctuation, this guy just doesn't interest me at all. he tries so hard to be funny but fails at it, and it just feels like it's filler for the more popular show.[/QUOTE] That's a funny observation because more people watch Jimquisition than Zero Punctuation.
[QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;44544040]the only real reason people watch the escapist is for zero punctuation, this guy just doesn't interest me at all. he tries so hard to be funny but fails at it, and it just feels like it's filler for the more popular show.[/QUOTE] Every single fucking thread, we get it, people don't like the character he plays before and after the meat of the video.
[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;44544084]That's a funny observation because more people watch Jimquisition than Zero Punctuation.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://puu.sh/88w5D.png[/IMG] They do? [editline]15th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=artDecor;44544068]you literally just said its not worth watching because you don't like it[/QUOTE] That's not what I meant, I meant that I hate the character he plays; it's boring and it's been done before but better. Did I say that it's not worth watching BECAUSE I don't like it? No, I said that it feels like something else to watch while waiting for the ZP videos to come out.
Personally I prefer Jimquisition over Zero Punctuation because he doesn't have his head quite as far up his own ass
[QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;44544129][IMG]http://puu.sh/88w5D.png[/IMG] They do? [editline]15th April 2014[/editline] That's not what I meant, I meant that I hate the character he plays; it's boring and it's been done before but better. Did I say that it's not worth watching BECAUSE I don't like it? No, I said that it feels like something else to watch while waiting for the ZP videos to come out.[/QUOTE] Since when is using their Youtube channel's numbers valid? Most people don't watch Escapist videos on Youtube.
If Sterling would drop the persona I'm pretty sure a lot more people would watch him. He makes great points, is very smart and also makes sure that he at least has a clue on what he's talking about, unlike most. I'm positive that a lot of people just skip past the first and last 15 seconds or so of Jimquisition (I know I do), others can't watch at all.
[QUOTE=artDecor;44544142]Personally I prefer Jimquisition over Zero Punctuation because he doesn't have his head quite as far up his own ass[/QUOTE] Uh, I don't have a problem with either, but were we watching the same video?
[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;44544150]Since when is using their Youtube channel's numbers valid? Most people don't watch Escapist videos on Youtube.[/QUOTE] "most" Are you seriously going to ignore the fact that there is a massive gap in terms of viewers for each show on YouTube? I don't think that just because it's on a different site means that there's gonna be much of a difference for either show. Plus, there's the difference that Yahtzee focuses far more on games, while Jim focuses on gaming related news, such as the video in the OP.
[QUOTE=gudman;44544165]If Sterling would drop the persona I'm pretty sure a lot more people would watch him. He makes great points, is very smart and also makes sure that he at least has a clue on what he's talking about, unlike most. I'm positive that a lot of people just skip past the first and last 15 seconds or so of Jimquisition (I know I do), others can't watch at all.[/QUOTE]At least it isn't nostalgia critic level kind of bad
[QUOTE=itisjuly;44544204]At least it isn't nostalgia critic level kind of bad[/QUOTE] If he just dropped the stupid amounts of screaming and dumb commercial breaks, I'd watch him more.
[QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;44544216]If he just dropped the stupid amounts of screaming and dumb commercial breaks, I'd watch him more.[/QUOTE]And cringy as fuck sketches. What commercial breaks? As in actual ads? Adblock takes care of that.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;44544204]At least it isn't nostalgia critic level kind of bad[/QUOTE] Yeah it's totally not the cringeworthiest thing I've seen. Still bad.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;44544229]And cringy as fuck sketches. What commercial breaks? As in actual ads? Adblock takes care of that.[/QUOTE] I call them commercial breaks, but they are in-fact the cringy as fuck sketches you said. I treat them more like commercial breaks, just skip them because they are usually always shit.
This is pretty true. Look at companies like Paradox Interactive. They are publishing tons of games(some bad and some good) recently they have improved alot in Q&A and have picked up Pillars of Eternity. Making tons of money in the proces because nobody else dares to pick those little games up. They have also grown alot as a company both in size and standards whilst producing their own games. And this holy trinity might get another one 'MOBA' because we've been seeing alot of these games being published because of the amount of customers LoL and DotA2 have.
It's true on consumer side too, I know a lot of people who believe CoD, Fifa and a few crappy mobile games are gaming. Pretty fucking sad really, actually no let me correct myself, it is really fucking sad.
the one thing preventing me from really paying attention to jim's videos is that awful small room echo. Needs some eggcarton foam around the room in the very least (or carpet, that makes a world of difference), or a proper uni-directional mic setup with all the fixin's
As usual, love the points he makes, hate the presentation. This "unholy trinity" thing isn't just limited to the AAA games industry, it's in the consumer base as well. Publishers have no reason to stop aping a limited selection of popular games until the players stop rejecting new IP because it isn't familiar enough.
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;44544291]And this holy trinity might get another one 'MOBA' because we've been seeing alot of these games being published because of the amount of customers LoL and DotA2 have.[/QUOTE] aRTS'/MOBA's will never reach this "unholy trinity" status because they take too long to make money and require too much care. LoL didn't make a billion dollars on it's first day out of the game, it took years to reach the status it has today. Dota 2 had the original DotA base to bring in so it already had a player base waiting for it to go public. When companies realize no one cares about an aRTS outside of LoL or Dota because nothing else is as well established or well crafted, they'll disappear.
[QUOTE=Rossy167;44544672]It's true on consumer side too, I know a lot of people who believe CoD, Fifa and a few crappy mobile games are gaming. Pretty fucking sad really, actually no let me correct myself, it is really fucking sad.[/QUOTE] It's even worse when people assume graphics == game. Met someone who said they could never play Minecraft because "it's all blocky and shit", and years back some tool said he wouldn't play TF2 because of how it looked.
[QUOTE=artDecor;44544142]Personally I prefer Jimquisition over Zero Punctuation because he doesn't have his head quite as far up his own ass[/QUOTE]I should have worded this better, but what I meant was, with Jimquisition you can skip the intro and outro and listen to someone who's not terribly an asshole. Zero Punctuation's dicketry permeates every word in the script.
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;44547409]Met someone who said they could never play Minecraft because "it's all blocky and shit"[/QUOTE] That's perfectly valid though. One can disagree with the art-direction. I too can't even think of playing minecraft because to me it looks like someone intentionally made no effort at all to make their game look any good.
[QUOTE=artDecor;44547415]I should have worded this better, but what I meant was, with Jimquisition you can skip the intro and outro and listen to someone who's not terribly an asshole. Zero Punctuation's dicketry permeates every word in the script.[/QUOTE] he's a dick because that's what his character is an angry dickhead critic who has a hatred for everything that's not silent hill 2, saints row 2 or fantasy world dizzy
[QUOTE=artDecor;44547415]I should have worded this better, but what I meant was, with Jimquisition you can skip the intro and outro and listen to someone who's not terribly an asshole. Zero Punctuation's dicketry permeates every word in the script.[/QUOTE] On Yahtzee's personal YouTube channel, he isn't a dick. It's his character on ZP, just like Jim on Jimquisition.
[QUOTE=gudman;44549530]That's perfectly valid though. One can disagree with the art-direction. I too can't even think of playing minecraft because to me it looks like someone intentionally made no effort at all to make their game look any good.[/QUOTE] True, but the graphics has next to no impact on how the game actually plays.
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;44549623]True, but the graphics has next to no impact on how the game actually plays.[/QUOTE] True. I'd rather play a game that plays good, but looks ugly as sin. Mount and Blade is a perfect example of this kind of game. Dwarf Fortress is another good example.
Sorry to address the subject but I can't understand how people miss that he's playing a character, it's ridiculously overblown and you'd have thought that if you miss that the getup would be something that people would catch onto.
[QUOTE=Reds;44549745]Sorry to address the subject but I can't understand how people miss that he's playing a character, it's ridiculously overblown and you'd have thought that if you miss that the getup would be something that people would catch onto.[/QUOTE] That's no excuse. Character can be shit and make bad first impression for the viewer. I must admit, I wouldn't ever watch Jimquisition, let alone his small lets-plays on youtube if I had no prior knowledge of him.
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