Holy crap! Why even call yourself the "Irate Gamer"? Call yourself the "Skylander Gamer" or something because this obsession is going too far!
Chris recently attended a New York event that revealed the fourth Skylanders game, Trap Team. He then gave us coverage of it, 11 videos! 11! In one day! Think about his E3 coverage and how he only releases 1 or 2 per day, and they show less care and effort than these Skylanders videos. It goes to show where his real priorities lie.
The first was just a recording of a press conference, blah. The second was an interview. The rest were all individual videos showing off the new toys and characters. As you can probably guess, the videos are full of dislikes and angry comments. A few wondering what the point of "TheSkylanderC" was when he was just going to continue posting on the main channel. Chris may claim "YouTube is broken", but I know the real answer is "nobody was watching or subbing". And instead of trying harder to promote it, he just gave up in a week. God damn...
Unsurprisingly, this has lead to a massive subscriber exodus. According to Socialblade, 245 have unsubbed today (so far, as of this posting), and 182 unsubbed yesterday. A good number of comments are "I'm done, unsubscribed" or "Why the hell am I still subscribed?"
Of course, there's the defense force crying that he can do what he wants. I think the 3 or 4 people doing that are nothing compared to the hundreds of fans he's losing over this. Chris doesn't care, he refuses to take his fans best interests into heart. It's all about him, and no one else.
An informant that watched the videos even compared him to Chris-chan, citing the "Chopper" video. He mentioned wanting to bring his own Skylanders, but didn't in case they thought he stole them. I am just... wow.
If I may digress a bit, these new Skylanders have really unoriginal names. Chopper, Funny Bone, Food Fight, Wildfire. I know it's a kids game but try to show some effort people.
This might be the true beginning of the end. Chris becomes so ingrained with these stupid fucking toys that it ends up alienating everyone but a handful of people. No more Irate Gamer, no more modern game reviews, no more anything. Just Skylanders 24/7. I didn't think this is how it would end...
EDIT: Now that the day is through, IG lost at least 381 subs. The most he's ever lost in a day, and that doesn't include the YouTube glitch that reduced people's subs to zero, or when YouTube did the account purging. Must be a deeeeep bubble.
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I can see the resemblance to Chris-chan, he's recently become obsessed with Lego, especially the girl oriented Lego Friends.
ReplyDeleteI can tell the Skylanders ass-hattery is just utterly painful with no ointment to ease the pain.
DeleteI swear, I feel like the only reason at least 1/2 of his subscribers was due to the now off the air Irate Gamer show (which wasn't even good enough to begin with, anyway). It's just hilariously sad when a man has to resort to spam the shit out of YouTube with Skylander videos to gain popularity, attention, or views.
That's not all, one of Christian's former obsessions was that awful Sonichu, which used to have a fanbase but doesn't anymore.
DeleteI think he might have ended Sonichu after Karma kicked his ass with the fire.
Nah he ended sonichu a long long time ago. Really Chris weston chandler has a lot of problems, getting easily addicted to things that shouldn't be addictive is one of them. Chris Bores seems to be doing well in that he's addicted only to things that he likes (however odd they are) compared to Chris Weston Chandler who buys games he'll never play, spends money for no reason, always buys fast food even when he doesn't like the food and is addicted to too many things but fortunately not drugs.
DeleteLeaving the disorder spectrum of discussion; many of Irate Gamer's subscribers are of the inactive variety. Many of his videos rarely get 10k views in the first week yet his subscriber count is clearly in the 100k.
Wait, isn't Chris-Chan already obsessed with Lego?
DeleteWell at least it will end on a Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteIm seriously waiting for the day skylanders dies out bc it happens with activision franchise i nvr knew they would make this many games and rip people off like this
ReplyDeleteSure, Skylanders essentially hijacked Spyro the Dragon's franchise and gave rise to a glut of merchandise-driven imitators, but at least it ended Chris Bores' YouTube career.
ReplyDeletei had a feeling it would b over after his dumb story arc ended bc now he has nothing left but skylanders now and even that wont save him
DeleteAt least Bores and Activision have something in common: they find a successful franchise and milk the shit out of it until fans get fed up with it and abandon ship.
ReplyDeleteSomething tells me this isn't how Bores is gonna crash and burn. I think he's more likely gonna land into legal trouble with the last three IG videos. Corporations don't take kindly to people using their footage for whatever purpose. Further, this is Activision we're talking about; as soon as the cash cow runs dry, they're going to drop Skylanders and move onto something else. Then Bores will have to talk about something else as well.
ReplyDelete"I know it's a kids game but try to show some effort people."
ReplyDeleteThis is Activision we're talking about here. As long as they can milk a franchise to death and still have fans that will buy their products, they don't care about originality or quality control.
Case in point is the Call of Duty games; same generic gameplay elements, just with different storylines and characters (although I did enjoy Call of Duty 2 & 3, World at War, and the first two Modern Warfare titles).
Also sounds a lot like Madden's situation of unoriginality too.
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ReplyDeleteYou ever watched I Can't Believe it's not AVGN? It's the least painful way of watching Bores' videos AND it offers a visual representation of his ineptitude. Granted, it hasn't been updated since Silver Surfer but it's the best way to watch Bores' crap.
DeleteWell whaddaya know, he's back! And he's ripping apart DSP! I hope he gets to the recent IG episodes.
DeleteEspecially the end of his "storyline"... man, was that painful to watch. And I can imagine DLA reacting to Archfiend yelling "FUCK YOU, AVGN!"
DeleteI'd imagine his reaction would be the same as his one for Bores saying AVGN's catchphrase "What a shitload of fuck"
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DeleteBatDan, I'm going to have to disagree with you here. As a fan of video games and reviews, I don't see anything to be upset about.
ReplyDeleteThere's several legit reasons to dislike Bores and his work thus far.
Like most of his pursuits, IG was just emulating those who came before him and did better than he ever could. As far as I know, his Skylanders reviews aren't stealing anyone else's thunder.
In the past he's shown complete disregard and ignorance to the gaming community that he pretends to be a part of. Giving great games bad reviews because they're too hard, or giving a game a good review solely because of updated graphics, really irks me. With Skylanders, he seems to be legitimately interested.
Then there's the responses the criticism. Try correcting some obvious mistakes in his knowledge of gaming. Try criticizing the quality of his work. Try giving the most vague compliment to anyone he deems hate-worthy. No matter how polite you are, you earn the outrageous wrath of his him, his 'family', friends, and fans. I haven't seen this behavior thus far with his Skylanders following.
So what if he's losing subscribers? It's not like he should have had those subscribers anyway. He got them by partnering with scamming websites and organizing rigged contests while filming shows on topics he doesn't care about. People are unsubbing because they don't care about Skylanders, and now maybe his new subscribers will be people who do care about Skylanders?
Giving fans what they want is kind of a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't kind of situation. The lesser of two evils is when the creator does what they want, and then the fans can decide if they like it. Many shitty sequels only exist because the fans thought they wanted it.
What about his laziness? There's often complaints about how he spends a lot of time not doing anything. Months without a video being posted? Well, eleven videos in one day is the exact opposite.
When it comes to Skylanders, it's impossible for the human mind to comprehend the sheer immensity of the fuck I do not give. Maybe Skylanders fans have reason to not like his new videos, I don't know, if you meet someone who actually likes Skylanders and can make that call, maybe they can do a guest post here.
In the meantime, all he's doing is Skylanders which doesn't give us much IG-realted stuff to talk about. Maybe now would be a good time for that Redux Recap?
TL;DR version
DeleteMore Skylanders means less of what's made Irate Gamer so unlikable, and we should just let that transition happen and forget about him all the sooner.
My problem is that there still isn't any creativity or any actual content in the videos. Sure it solves problems like "Where the hell is the next video? It took ten months to make THIS?" but its fairly clear that Chris just slaps his video's together at the last minute (as evidenced by sudden ten hour quiet periods on all his accounts). These videos don't really do much to be entertaining or otherwise be interesting.
DeleteThat said given that the videos are no longer an egotistical farce to troll and harass people, it is definitely an increase in overall quality.
I'm gonna have to agree with Shaolin Dave on this.
DeleteChris' Skylander output shows that he is willing to do some work... well at least more work than what he does otherwise.
Hey so I guess they found proof of Atari E.T. games in the New Mexico desert landfill. Would this mean James would have to add a little thing to the movie to coincide with this?
ReplyDeleteGoodbye DJCuell:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMgvKvc1VI
I'm sad that he's leaving too.
DeleteBtw, the amount of lost subscribers today since this post has jumped from 245 to 369! This is the biggest loss of subscribers he's had in a while.
ReplyDeleteYou know, i just realized something. Not only are the names of these new Skylanders characters are lazier, but so are the designs.
ReplyDeleteFor example, Funny Bone (the undead dog) looks just like Hot Dog and Snap Shot (a water alligator with an ice crossbow) looks like a mix between Dino Rang and Gill Grunt.
He is probably making more money from Activision for promoting the franchise than whatever pennies his channel brings in through ad revenue. I cannot think of any other reason why he would ignore his fans' pleas to stop these mundane videos about Skylanders. This reminds me of the Game Dude and the numerous revisions to his old videos as he too ignored his fans until most of them unsubscribed and moved on.
ReplyDeleteActivision is just wasting their money though as the views the Irate Gamer gets are pitiful (~5500 at most).
I don't think Activision is giving him any money. It looks like Bores really does like the whole Skylander thing, and it wouldn't be the first time he devotes himself to a franchise that is about to become a sinking ship, wasn't he really into beanie babies at some point and also tried to make money off it?
DeleteOn a whim, I started watching Bores' first IG video today, and noticed the upload date was April 28, 2007. So I guess today is the 7th anniversary of the IG in a way.
ReplyDeleteUmm....yah?
What a shock after Asa said he was going to apologize to Mr. Kill ultra here and then pretty much was told by buggin to not do so both start trying to insult us on asa's channel. No, I will not be posting the crap they are saying here. Although, I find it very interesting the first one to bring up us being hypocrites is buggin.
ReplyDeleteAnyone see this comment on facebook?
ReplyDelete"The buried ET games have been found? Bah I found them back in 2008! haha. Guess this is gonna screw up a certain reviewers movie "
What a pompous ass.
Furthermore, if you scroll down his wall, every reply he's making to the recent discovery of ET games in NM is "I found them already in 2008". Yeah, we're seriously supposed to believe that green luscious landscape was really New Mexico and not some back lot in Ohio.
Delete'The buried ET games have been found? Bah I found them back in 2008!'
DeleteThen you would have made the headlines back then, dumbass.
Boy, his head's really far up a hole. And I'm not talking about the one the Atari games were dug out of...
Delete"The buried ET games have been found? Bah I found them back in 2008! haha. Guess this is gonna screw up a certain reviewers movie "
DeleteChris, if you found them, WHY didn't you go to the local news station or newspapers and told them straight up that you did?
God, what a god damn, motherfucking idiot.
He talks about the E.T. games he "found" in his review of the game back in 2008.
DeleteStill, I don't get his hate for AVGN.
He's attacking AVGN because he's just angry that James and Mike never accepted his apology for plagiarizing the Nerd, which they shouldn't because just a few weeks after he made that apology, he add fuel to the fire by ripping off AVGN's TMNT video with his own TMNT review. That is an act of dishonesty right there. That's why since then Bores decides to become an ass by attacking the Nerd, which is sad when you think about it.
Delete"HERP A DERP, THEY'VE FOUND THE CARTRIDGES! GUESS THAT RUINS HIS MOVIE, WHICH IS A WORK OF FICTION!
DeleteDERRRRRRRRRRRRP!"
@Sovereign64
DeleteAnd because Asalieri told him to start attacking him in exchange to becoming his friend and stop riffing on Bores, Asa loves to diddled people like that, he did it with HardcoreKid to take the blame for the death threaths and shut him up for his critiques, after Asa made HK and his friends look like attention whores in his Quote mine insult fueled responce, or like he did with that guy who ThatDoable is commenting here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jMNTtnm530
Fuck Chris in the neck. Fuck him.
DeleteSee what Chris had to say about James?
Delete" hate to burst your bubble there Billiam Walter Hoare but James has taken more than a few shots at me through the years so don't go calling him holier than thou so quickly. I stopped watching him because of it. But I never said I don't like the guy. The internet is what it is."
Hahaha yeah right, Chris. James has never taken a shot at you and you know it, you pompous asshole.
So this was just posted on Buggin's channel:
ReplyDelete"Wow thanks for all the emails from the fans of IG saying how much they love the Skylanders video's. So glad you all enjoyed all the new Skylander reveals that Christopher posted! The flood of fans writing me is pretty impressive to say the lest. I myself am also enjoying the Skylander news and updates. Helps me to know what I need to buy for my grandkids presents for 2014. Nice work Irate Gamer. Keep it up! :D"
If you ask me, this is a clear sign that Bores has no interest in listening to what's left of his fan base, or the only thing left of his fan base is Skylanders fans. My question is, when he actually does decide to make another non-Skylanders video, will they, the Skylanders fans, even care? IMO, I don't think they will.
I think a better question is thusly. WHY IN THE WORLD ARE BORES FANS SENDING EMAILS TO HIS MOTHER? Seriously, there is no reason she should be getting fan mail. Oh, and buggin you misspelled least.
Delete*Checks the dislike bar and criticism*
DeleteYup, they really love them.
BTW: What kind of mother has a poor grammar and would waste her time defending her son on the Internet instead of WORKING? It boggles my mind.
No guys you aren't reading this properly.
DeleteWorld of Warcraft is saying thanks for all the emails from Irate gamer fans saying how much they love to hate the skylander's video's. Ladybuggin is happy to pronounce she's living in her own world again where the dislike bar isn't heavily on the dislike side. Many of the fans are writing "me" and simply sending a message with a single word in it and Ladybuggin is once again admiting that he's Norman Bores because there's no reason why she would want to watch these videos because they're terrible in terms of content and she can just visit her son (also love the fact that she's not in the victory group shots in his final review, you'd think that would be the most important part?). Then she says she knows what to buy for her grandkids which she won't have because Chris isn't exactly in the position to have kids. Besides skylanders is for kids aged 10+ (http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=31231). Then apparently skylanders is nice work and then Irate Gamer is mentioned for no reason. Something is supposed to be kept up, probably the masquerade of Norman Bores. Then a colon and a capital D, is that supposed to be nipples and a large belly?
From the looks of her FB page, his sister Candace recently had a baby, and if I'm not mistaken "Linda" has referred to his girlfriend's kids as her grandkids before.
DeleteBTW just like mom "Billie" his sister appears in Haunted Investigators once, credited as "Candace Jo." She's the girl in the pic at http://www.totalactionadventure.com/content/are-they-worth-it-dvds-internet-7-haunted-investigators-season-1 not Jennifer. Her appearance is actually the best moment of the series. :)
Actually apparently bores sister had a baby. I only know that since buggin wouldn't shut up about it. Also buggin's excuse for what she is saying this time is that the view count is going up. Also, buggin tries to take a crack at me yet again but is so incredibly stupid she doesn't realize how idiotic it sounds. She says that I am too immature to realize when people have kind words for a fellow youtube celebrity [have no idea what she even means with that one] yet the emails in question clearly didn't go to the one they should have. Not to mention she says that the whole world doesn't revolve around spelling and grammar then immediately starts trying to call me out my my grammar mistakes, without citing any specific times by the way. Oh, and buggin [I really shouldn't say this but I am just plain tired of buggin assuming I am in middle school] I am 20 what is your excuse for how you act?
DeleteSo Marvel is planning to kill off Wolverine. What do you guys think?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/28/marvel-to-kill-off-wolverine
Cynical marketing hype.
DeleteThey did the same thing with Spider-Man, the Human Torch, and god knows how many other characters (Superman anyone?)
I'm surprised people still fall for this shit.
I bet Wolverine will be back in four months.
DeleteAt least when they "killed" Spider-Man we ended up having the Superior story arc, which was actually pretty entertaining.
Wolverine being killed sounds worse to me just based on his powers to start with. The Character is custom designed to come back from the dead killing almost any tension in the concept.
DeleteWolverine has died in even stupider events such as ultimates 3 (magneto apparently uses magnetism to fry every molecule of Wolverines body, even though we can plainly see there's still blood on wolverine's severed hand!
DeleteArchie Comics is also doing the same thing with Life With Archie. They bring up that Archie's going to die at Issue 37.
DeleteHonestly, I loved how they killed him in Days of Future Past. This was prior to them turning on god mode so he just got blased by a sentinel and reduced to bones.
DeleteIn Asa's comment box Ladybuggin is claiming that this blog is white knighting for the AVGN when there is no evidence of James harassing, bullying, generally wasting anyone's time or just using footage from movies, tv series, or video games without citing the proper sources.
ReplyDeleteBores? Lying about this site? Stop the presses.
DeleteI know it's nothing new, but just thought I'd mention it. By the way how would one go about reporting copyright infringement. If you really want give Norman Bores something to complain about is how much of his older series has been removed due to his laziness to actually give credit to the footage he uses.
DeleteOh please, I don't worship or jerk it to the AVGN. Even we, guys who KNOW James is an honest and kind man, don't enjoy EVERY little thing he makes.
DeleteYou know, "hating" on Chris Bores is apparently our fetish! Let's masturbate together!
DeleteYou might want to drop by Asa's discussion page and tell Chris that he doesn't understand sarcasm since he (as his mother) has taken your comment as an admission that no one here has a life outside of this blog.
DeleteOh, you guys know how our Boring Man is; lying to bring down anything that is negative about him. He can keep trying, but the fool will never succeed.
DeleteI didn't know that Bores was retarded enough to the point to not understand how sarcasm worked.
'Our' boring man?
DeleteOh, come now, Kill Ultra. I merely jest.
DeleteBut the question is, is he still putting up Skylanders in this sad attempt to gain views? And seriously, how could he not know sarcasm?
Just wanna prevent people from getting the wrong idea because all its takes is a few careless use of words to cause a heap of trouble.
DeleteBut as for the question I really don't see how his skylander videos count as popular. They still don't get the required amounts of views to make monetization profitable though there's no doubt that Irate Gamer has always been in it for the money.
And as for not knowing sarcasm, well that's kinda obvious; he's an idiot who can't write a plot at a preschool level and a jackass at that. It is perfectly within the Irate Gamer spirit to not give a shit and not put any effort into understanding a message. He does it with games and his career what makes you think he doesn't do it in general conversation?
Bores is obsessed with James. There's really no other way to put it. Any criticism he gets? Because of his fans. Any corrections? Because of his fans. Calling out his lies? TOTALLY his fans, not just people that don't live under the same rock he does and has any semblance of human decency and morals. The theory of him being "holier-than-thou" a couple threads down is right on the money, as now he's stooping to religiously-fueled comments between his Norman Bates accounts to make himself look like the better man.
DeleteHe STILL thinks there's this feud between the two of them, but there never has been. Ever. A feud, by definition, constitutes aggression from BOTH sides, not just one.
Chris Bores and Barack Obama are very much alike in so many ways.
DeleteNo, I do not see how Bores and Obama are anything alike. Not to mention it is now very hard to separate baseless claims by people who claim to not be racists but are very clearly in denial about being racist and actual fact.
DeleteSo, I guess Chris Bores is the Rupert Pupkin to James Rolfe's Jerry Langford, right? ;-)
DeleteThis probably sounds a bit naive, but am I the only one wondering why the hell this is a bad thing?
ReplyDeleteOkay, he loses subscribers. But come on, he was never very good at making video game reviews/videos, he obviously didn't give a toss about the medium in general and somewhat likes Skylanders... so why not just encourage him to make more videos of such?
He might then actually put some effort into making videos about a series he enjoys rather than a generic video game review show he obviously only started as an AVGN ripoff...
I don't speak for everyone, but I think the hating of Bores' work has an auxiliary "ironic enjoyment" of that work, the way you would enjoy The Room or Ed Wood's films. I know I was awaiting the end of the story arc more than anyone I can recall on this blog, largely from curiosity about exactly how he would botch it.
DeleteIf Bores wises up and moves on to something that better suits him, well, that's for the best in most ways, but it would also close an era of enjoyment for us. There are plenty of bad vlogs and YouTube channels, but no one's work has the unique cocktail of hubris and ineptitude that distinguishes the Irate Gamer. We will wait long before finding so rich a source of ironic fascination.
I note, however, that none of his Skylanders videos have been particularly masterful. He still can't conduct an interview, and the new Trap Team videos are lazily made and lack meaningful insight of any kind. I think he may always be himself- sometimes hitting the technical points well, but making more mistakes than the technical end can make up for.
I also seem to remember that he only went gung-ho on Skylanders after a few of his Skylanders videos got huge view counts; to be blunt, I am not convinced he really loves Skylanders like he demands the world believe. It may simply be the only area of specialty that hasn't yet blown up in his face, though I think that process has begun.
Bores strikes me as the type who will try anything in desperation to be liked, rather than be himself and allow the audience to assemble itself. We can only guess whether he'll still be relentlessly flogging Skylanders in a year or two- though that does depend on the continued success of the brand itself.
So, I'm looking around the web today, and I find this:
ReplyDeletehttp://lurkerfaqs.com/boards/400-current-events/65080328/
Apparently, Chris got into an argument about how AVGN turned his back on his fans because he didn't reply to an email. I wonder if Chris realizes that not listening to the fan base that made you what you are and instead shoving something down their throats they don't like is turning your back on your fan base?
From what I gather, Bores is trying to be a Mr. Holier-Than-Thou simply because he answered a fan's e-mail and James Rolfe couldn't.
Delete...How does this make him a better person, again? He answered one fan-mail, well, whoop-dee-fucking-do.
If I was typing this from a surreal alternate universe where the above DID make Bores a better person, mirror me would still be talking about how James was the better videographer, writer, actor and filmmaker. And I'd make the point that it was never a close competition.
DeleteThere's also way too many factors involved here. Was the fan mail polite, did it ask kiss Irate Gamer? What was Irate Gamer's reply? It doesn't make a person better if they reply to fan-mail if its anything like what Chris Bores does to people who even dare mention James Rolfe in it.
DeleteI got fan mail for some of my projects. Eventually they die out, but as long as you're making content (as James constantly does), they come in quicker than you can read them, let alone respond to them.
DeleteMaybe the reason Bores can't comprehend someone not responding to each and every fan mail is because he gets so little fan mail that it's no problem for him? With his ego he has brainwashed himself into believing no one could possibly be more popular.
On the other hand, I've gotten responses from Bores a few times. He contradicts himself a lot (one email says he used to love DooM, the next he says he never played it. He sends an email saying he's never played Left 4 Dead, even though he mentions playing it in a prior video and I've seen him playing it). So obviously if Bores actually does have time to respond to every email it's because he has several people answering for him, pretending to be him. How is that any better?
So, I posted this on Asa's channel discussion, and he ended up deleting the whole conversation that I replied to.
DeleteIsn't it funny, he comes here making claims that his comments get deleted, and then he turns around and starts deleting comments himself.
He deleted my discussion as well, yet he provoked us to discuss with him.
DeleteAnd I left a comment on his April Fools video 2 weeks ago, basically saying I find the clip of the cat being killed that was put there to be disgusting. Now it's gone.
The evidence against him just keeps piling up!
Also, it's interesting. Why didn't he delete any of LadyBuggin's posts, because they sure add to the "idiotic forced feud"?
DeleteFor a guy who likes to mock us, he sure does become too chicken when he himself gets owned. What a wimp.
DeleteI find it funny how he acts as if he's the victim when he can clearly delete every comment and every act of trolling that says "went too far" was made possible by him posting his personal information and practically saying "Go troll me bitches". During last article's conversation he just ignored the other half of the evidence piled against him and just pretended it didn't exist even though the point I'm trying to make is "How can I say nice things about you when all you have to do is google search or basic fact checking and I can see you are a lying asshole?". The best part was when he said a 6 comment thread which consisted of "how is this guy doing" followed by a news update of how he's doing counts as unprompted harassment. I even asked for a list of good things that he did so I can tell someone that the next time a question is asked about how he is doing. Of course the answer was nothing because Asalieri ignores questions he can't answer.
DeleteStill waiting for that Apology video Eric because you sure haven't stopped insulting this blog, its author or the people in it while continuing you add to your hypocrisy.
You know, I have a funny feeling, that in an alternate dimension... Chris is the one getting all the admiration and actually knows about the game he is playing, and actually gives a shit enough to entertain.
DeleteWhat's my point, you ask? Well, maybe if Bores actually put any effort to research, get to know the game he's playing, cut back on some of the "jokes" and NOT explain them like we're morons... and man up to his mistakes, then maybe he would earn respect, if it's not too late.
But knowing how Boring Man is, I wouldn't hope for any change.
So, nintendo isn't doing another E3 conference this year. Any thoughts?
ReplyDeleteThey're not doing a live conference, but a conference of sorts is still happening.
DeleteAnd they're holding a Smash Bros tournament, that's going to be fun to watch.
How long until Bores puts a clickbait "OMG Nintendo is teh doomed!!!!" article on his site?
DeleteLots of people will scream "stage fright" at this. But honestly, why risk being asked by pretty much every reporter about the poor sales of the Wii U or how the 3DS isn't selling more than its predecessor?
DeleteA special Nintendo Direct will give them a more controlled way to show the things they want to show.
And the Smash tournament they're holding sounds like fun.
I just truly wished they tried a new marketing approach.
He's given up that whole line of thinking. He's barely said two words about exclusives for Sony or Microsoft's new consoles the whole time they've been out. He's talked about Arkham Knight and that's it. But every bit of news about Smash and Mario Kart, he's on that like coyotes on a wounded rabbit.
Delete@DavCube:
DeleteExcept for the fact that Bores never even MENTIONED the April 8th Nintendo Direct, the video that was EXCLUSIVELY and SOLELY reserved for information about the upcoming Super Smash Bros. game for the 3DS and Wii U.
With all of the hype that was building among fans of Super Smash Bros., you'd think Bores would have at least said SOMETHING about the Nintendo Direct (e.g. how the 3DS and Wii U versions are being released half a year apart from each other, the appearance of Greninja), but instead he completely ignores it, if he even KNEW about it to begin with (which wouldn't surprise me at all).
So this was posted on his FB page:
ReplyDeleteChris Bores: hate to burst your bubble there Billiam Walter Hoare but James has taken more than a few shots at me through the years so don't go calling him holier than thou so quickly. I stopped watching him because of it. But I never said I don't like the guy. The internet is what it is.
I'm curious to know what were these shots? The only time I can recall him mentioning him is that one clip of him saying he doesn't acknowledge his existence since Bores apparently doesn't acknowledge his.
For reference, here was the post he was responding to:
Billiam Walter Hoare: the only reason chris does not like james is because of AVGN fans, personally i think thats a really cheap reason to take a shot at him, james is probably the only reviewer that has not made a cheap joke about chris, Nostalgia Critic has, Phelous, Pat the NES Punk, The Cinema Snob, Roo from COTGW to name a few
So more flat-out lies that he doesn't bother to back up. Nicely done.
DeleteBores would take one look at that list and think "Who are any of those guys that isn't Doug?" That's how far under his rock he is, I bet the only reason he'd even know who Doug is would be because of that whole in-video saga almost five years ago.
my post :)
DeleteIn other sad news, Bob Hoskins has died :(
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27224995
I'll never forget his stellar performance in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. one of my favorite movies of all time.
Eddie Valiant was one of the great American accents-by-a-British-guy (up there with Red Leader, Star Wars IV.)
DeleteOf course, Hoskins' career can also be tied to the world of video games, but let's not do that out of respect.
So I watched DSP courtesy of I Can't Believe It's Not AVGN. I can't say he's worse than Bores, but he's pretty terrible in general. The video looked at his Let's Play of Mega Man. Personally, I always thought the original Mega Man was somewhat easy; it never gave me a hard time, so it was pain to watch a guy completely suck at it and blame delayed controls (WHAT delayed controls? I beat the game twice with those "delayed controls.") I can't even pinpoint the worst part, his skills were terrible. I doubt he really played the original Mega Man before. I don't typically watch Let's Players, mostly because I dislike watching other people play games when I could be playing them, but at least the ones I do watch (namely The Super Gaming Bros. and Chuggaaconroy) at least ADMIT to making a mistake or make fun of their own incompetence.
ReplyDeleteSo, Bores' last regular post to theirategamer.com was on April 18, then there was nothing for a week, then there was only 1 post promoting a Skylanders video, then two days later he's apologizing for the extremely vague term "technical difficulties" (which is a TV cliche, not web jargon).
ReplyDeleteWho thinks this is a warm-up to abandoning the site altogether?
He finally updated.
DeleteLooks like the layout changed, now the pictures are above the article.
So what's his first update in two weeks? The set photo from the Warcraft movie that barely shows anything. .... And this is why I stopped doing "Attempts the News"
Also the comments left on the "technical difficulties" and Skylanders Trap Team post have been edited.
DeleteOnce again comments that were mocking him have been changed to praise. Irate Forever anyone?
I don't know what's worse the fact that he is editing comments that don't praise him or that he is resorting to outdated memes as censorship.
DeleteAm I the only one who thinks his original website was far better?
DeleteEver since he went to a blog format, he posts more content (albeit unoriginal content) but it loses the whole focus of the Irate Gamer and its "brand".
And the design is completely generic, he doesn't even bother putting up his "flame" logo that was present in the old site.
Off-topic:
ReplyDeleteToday is April 31st!
Happy Chris Bores Day!
IG WAS IN MY VIDEO SUCK IT NERDS
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAKhOTgvkMM&feature=youtube_gdata
Did you even fucking TRY? I mean seriously, put some fucking effort in before you think about boasting. I mean, I know the IG in a video is hardly worth boasting about, but seriously, did you at least TRY with your video...?
Delete*Slowly claps hands* Congrats kid. That video manage to put me to sleep.
DeleteAnd IG isn't even in the video that much. Just at the intro.
I am remaining silent, rather than harass or even appear to harass a minor who is still forming an identity, a difficult and years-long process that necessarily includes making mistakes and a certain kind of flimsily propped-up hubris that the adult is embarrassed to remember.
DeleteBut you're on notice, hunter: if I remember who you are when you're 18, it'll be open season.
Don't be so proud of yourself, kid. The worst kinds of cameos are cameos that only exist for the sake of cameos. Outside of bragging rights, there's really no point in having Chris Bores in your video.
DeleteIt's like Lady Gaga guest-starring on "The Simpsons". There's no reason for it outside of "poor excuse for a ratings trap".
Are you still flaunting around your cameo like it's all that, Hunter? Just knock it off, son. It's embarrassing.
DeleteNo, wait, forget that. Continue making an ass out of yourself about this sad state of affairs. I'll just sit here and watch...
So, what do you think about the Mario Kart 8 nintendo direct? I don't like the roster, and hope there are more better characters to unlock, or get them via DLC.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't need a Baby Rosalina or a Pink Gold Peach.
DeleteWe didn't even need Metal Mario. At least Honey Queen was something different. They should've just made the metal box an item, instead.
DeleteMy thoughts?
Delete- I also feel that the new characters (Baby Rosalina and Pink Gold Peach) are unnecessary. I wish that Birdo would return (she's one of my favorite Mario characters and I enjoyed racing as her in Mario Kart Wii).
- That "New Items" section with the Miis (Steve and Suzie) was SOOOO corny. I also am surprised they made such a big deal over the "Crazy 8" item when it is pretty much the same as the "Lucky 7" item from Mario Kart 7.
- The new online features seem cool.
- I'm surprised that, during the "Mario Kart Through the Ages" sections, they skipped over Mario Kart: Super Circuit for the Game Boy Advance. It was the first handheld Mario Kart title and also the first game in the series to have retro tracks.
- Honestly, I am not surprised Nintendo is selling a Wii U Mario Kart 8 bundle. Just about every AAA title for this current generation is getting an exclusive bundle deal (that and Nintendo is really pushing for consumers to purchase the Wii U concerning its low sales rates, especially since it's been out for a year and a half).
Overall, I thought the Mario Kart 8 Nintendo Direct video was entertaining to say the least.
Wow, really pointless Alternate versions of existing characters?
DeleteEh, Sakurai, Reggie, Iwata, do you motherfuckers ever heard of Alternate Skins/Costumes!?
Seriously, Smash Bros 4 has the same issue, Wasted roster with shitty characters nobody wanted, (Greninja), FUCKING JIGGLYPUFF and the Ice Climbers, and making Zero Suit samus and Shiek as separate characters!?
Wow, this is just as bad as the Decapre Fiasco in USFIV
Okay first of all the people you are blaming have absolutely nothing to do with the choice of roster in Mario Kart 8. Sakurai is the only one you can possibly [big possibly considering what I am going to say next] blame but only for Smash. Jigglypuff has been in since the first game so is pretty much here to stay, what is your beef with ice climbers, blame Project M for the Shiek and Samus splits, and you can't really say nobody wanted Greninja since generally a pokemon will be a representative of the most recent generation [with Greninja being one of the more popular ones]. I seriously doubt anything Capcom has pulled is just as bad most things Nintendo has done with their games [still bitter about that idiotic decision with Breath of Fire]. Also nobody seemed to complain when dry bowser was in wii yet they are massively complaining now [ even though Nintendo should be allowed to pick whoever they want to add to their roster in a game they make].
DeleteWhoa whoa whoa. You bad-mouthing Greninja? Come on son!
DeleteAlso, Zero Suit Samus and Shiek play completely different from Samus and Zelda, so it makes sense now.
well to be fair, i stop playin Pokemon after Gold/Silver.
DeleteI still think the roster is piss poor
Well, I will have to politely decline that it is. Of course, while I may not be able to get a Wii U until long after Smash is out I think the characters chosen would be very refreshing to play as. I don't know about Mario Kart since I have only played one and I can't really form an opinion on a roster for a game series I have hardly played.
DeleteBores' new DVD is for sale. With all the boasts he's making about it, this may warrant a new thread, Dan:
ReplyDeletehttp://theirategamer.com/the-irate-gamer-show-volume-4-now-on-dvd/
Not sure if this is of interest to anybody but I noticed Chris's Pursuit of the Paranormal page appears to have been taken down. It just loads as a plain white page (unless I am having technical difficulties.)
ReplyDeletehttp://pursuitoftheparanormal.com/
I looked at the source code, which basically amounts to an incomplete page. Part of the head is missing and it stops there. Weird. I guess there were issues uploading a new file.
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