As you've likely noticed, Bores has not posted anything of substance in a while. Last two videos were Skylanders related and they were the same vlog crap he's been doing for a while now.
So what has he been doing? Well, my Facebook informant has noticed he's been talking about ghosts a lot. Constantly pushing his new "Pursuit of the Paranormal" fan page (and yet he didn't bother to make one for the Irate Gamer... shows where his priorities truly lie). He's been mentioning "something huge" for Halloween. Considering how his past "successes" were nothing more than blinking lights, I can't imagine this will be much different.
Well, Bores posted a newspaper with an article about what he does for a living. Yeah, we finally figured out his job outside of YouTube. He provides lectures on how to hunt ghosts at a Toledo-based art center. .......................................... Oh wow. (http://issuu.com/toledofreepress/docs/tfp_090714/1?e=1807196/9203184 Article on Page 17 and 18)
Look Chris, if you worked in an office, or in retail, or a restaurant, or even a factory, I would have just said "alright" and moved on, understanding why you don't make videos often. But the fact that your job, the way you make a living, is to teach people how to find something that isn't even fucking real. You are soooo not off the hook. If anything, this just gives people more fuel.
I know there are quite a few people that complain that producing online reviews "isn't a real job". It's far more real than this, online reviews are something tangible, something with substance. They're a far better use of time and money than lecturing people on how to hunt something that's not real!
And what gets me is another comment he made the other day, saying how other panelists at this convention he was at were never giving straight answers and he was giving nothing but facts. What facts? The ones from your ass? You were at a convention with psychics and similar new-age bullshit people. Nothing said there was "factual", don't try to make yourself sound superior.
It's just like the time he called into the Coast to Coast radio show while they had another paranormal person on and tried to give his own opinion on ghosts, with the guest answering his question, but then he went to Facebook and tried to claim how "my evidence disproves his evidence" and that they muted and hung up on him. It sounded like he wanted to use the show as a platform for what he thinks but they "didn't allow him". Hear what really happened here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEmyawwLN60
Is this really what you truly want Chris? Trying to teach people something that won't help them? Your video game reviews sucked, but they were something. Had you not burned every possible bridge out there, maybe you wouldn't be trying to teach people bullcrap, or only making stupid vlogs about Skylanders.
You think we'll get anything of substance for the rest of the year?
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Wow so that is his job outside of youtube i bet people who know him make fun of him and tell get a real job you noob
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This is just unbelievable. This only confirms what I've thought for a long time: that his game reviews were only being used as a revenue source for his TRUE passion. He doesn't give a fuck about retro games, or current games, or gaming history, or 80s nostalgia. This ghost stuff IS his life's work. Ummm... yeah, I think this might be a contender for worst moment of the year.
To answer your question at the end... if we're VERY lucky, we might get 1 or 2 more 80s videos. I don't believe for one yoctosecond that he'll actually get back to HOVG, contrary to what he keeps claiming.
I still think his crappy insult towards JewWario following the latter's suicide may be worse... but yeah, this is definitely up there for sure!
DeleteIt will make the list, but yes, that statement regarding Justin Carmical as well as his increasing misanthropy towards his fans and the community will be tops. "There's not that many of us left". No, Chris, there's not that many of YOU left.
DeleteI'm still waiting for that McKids review.
ReplyDeleteWow... I don't know what's worse. Him teaching people how to hunt things that are not real, or being in a class where Chris is a teacher. It hurts my mind to even wrap my head around the concept.
ReplyDeleteI know from experience that I'm a good teacher, but if Chris teaches the same as his ghost hunting films and other videos I have to agree with you. He does not know how to present information without it sounding like a list.
DeleteThat picture of him... He looks like he's trying reeeeeally hard to hold in a wet fart.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what a shit-eating grin looks like, but if I had to guess, this would be it!
DeleteIt's just going to get to the point where Chris will have to abandon his crime spree as a wannbe gamer.
ReplyDeleteghost hunting lel. Man, this guy.
ReplyDeleteAs you said, at least the reviews are REAL. Like, yeah his reviews are garbage (Especially the early ones) but well, he's reviewing games that exist! At least he's not reviewing magic spells! This paranormal shit though.....
Also, smash esrb leak is looking MIGHTY legitimate at this point. Anyway STILL in denial? (You know who you are)
The ESRB leak was actually completely confirmed. But that doesn't excuse the assholeish behavior a lot of people who believed the leak first did. It's not denial if people are not totally on board with believing something especially if that something is on the internet. I am not happy with this entire scenario about the leak since two people lost their jobs because of some tool on the internet (might be a bit too early to blame the guy at 4chan.) Now I am not saying what the others did in this debacle were right considering they shouldn't have spread this information and are partly responsible for what happened. What really annoys me is that people were far to quick to trust unknown sources ( and fucking 4chan, seriously who trusts fucking 4chan?) Yes, I sound bitter it's because I found out that twice in the history of Smash did people put words into Sakurai's mouth. He has never said, and probably never will say, that there will be no clones and so what if he is biased more towards characters he has involvement in EVERY fighting game has characters that the creator of it are biased towards and some may consider cheap ( looking at you Kratos.)
DeleteI attempted to watch his ghost hunting show, but it was too freaking painful. He's so desperate for everything now that he's "retired" the Irate Gamer. Give it up, Chris. If you really have retired the Irate Gamer, you are FUCKED. Your Irate Gamer videos are the only thing you get views from, even if they are not the ones you want.
ReplyDeleteRemember folks he didn't retire the irate gamer. He's just not producing anymore irate gamer related content.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm most amazed that there are enough people who want to attend a ghost hunting lecture course that he can make a living off of it.
ReplyDeleteWell I guess this shows that Chris' working like is as sad as his online life. On a side note, has anyone seen the new AVGN movie? Maybe BatDanNight or someone wlse could look and compare it to IG's "movie", looking at plot points, story sense and such. I know its like comparing hard work to not giving a damn, but it could be something to show how Bores continues to think everything he does is automatically gold.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Chris Bores is a significant shareholder of GameStop.
ReplyDeleteGreat, it just turns out that Anita Sarkesian just faked "being scared out of her home" by misogynist gamers because she did not file a police report as she had stated she had.
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Statements in image supported by a major and reputable journalist. Is this the year of "fake my own harassment?".
This year can't end fast enough. I can only hope that when I actually get around to even starting up my little Zelda thing that I will be able to help change this climate surrounding gaming. I will not say anything about anyone being right or wrong about this debacle just that the fact that it was impossible to tell that it was faked at first shows how ridiculous people can be.
DeleteHey guys, there's been a rash of bullshit from the media including rampant censorship and sadly, mass articles that essentially tag gamers as misogynists. So here's a petition against it.
Deletehttp://www.change.org/p/the-gaming-industry-please-stop-the-hate?recruiter=28104700&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition
Not sure what a petition is going to do to people who clearly need a police crack down for their multiple gold medal winning mental gymnastics work but its better to voice your opinion and do something then sit by while these people are literally calling for gamers to stop existing just to dodge ethical issues.
Oh and Zoe quinn just admitted that she uses false flags and runs fake accounts.
Deletehttps://twitter.com/TheQuinnspiracy/status/508217348864483328
I guess it really is fake my own harassment year.
Adding fuel to the fire. 4chan is being used as a scapegoat and pro-gamergate women are not being treated as women. A basic survey on website visits based on gender shows that game website are in fact not appealing to women.
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Uh oh. I sure hope no one contributed to mighty no. 9, because apparently they're also okay with calling all gamers misogynists and empowering women for the sake of empowering them (oh and censoring and screwing over anyone who doesn't agree).
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Oh, I sincerely hope that the development team has just completely lost control of the community manager and they just get rid of her. Basically she has caused some problems before. A year ago she revealed plans to try and change the gender of Beck even though the stretch goal allowing people to play as Call was reached. Again I hope it is just a case of the head not knowing what the hands are doing. Now, if they don't do anything after it is clear that she is going to be a problem child then we are going to have some problems.
DeleteAlso, I missed this bit. She may have only gotten the job because of her boyfriend. Sound familiar?
DeleteOH my god, there's over 160 people involved in this shit!
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Of all the useless classes you can waste money on, why the hell would anyone go to a lecture on fucking ghosts? Bores just loves scamming idiots out of their hard earned cash.
ReplyDeleteAnyone remember that game reviewer Thee3nd? I wonder whatever happened to him. He was one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteAlso, just a thought - what if Chris segwayed into the Pickup Artist community and tried to push his own tips on how to pick up random hot women at bars and clubs? I'm pretty sure it would be his version of the Mystery Method...
ReplyDeleteI highly doubt we'll get anything of substance out of Bores until maybe, MAYBE early next year. He seems to be taking a break from Irate Gamer so he's not going to be doing anything special.
ReplyDeleteStrange, with all the dates of no IG stuff you would assume he had enough of a good "break" between videos.
DeleteAt least back then he said he was "working." He had a lousy release schedule, but working all the same. Since he said he "retired" the Irate Gamer, I'd say he's taking his Bizarro-world version of a break.
DeleteI have to say, personally, that the people who did Ghost Hunters, would be 100 times better at giving lectures on how to hunt ghosts, and they were caught multiple times faking evidence.
ReplyDeleteI also have to say, that I disagree with your opinion that ghosts aren't real. I myself have had many experiences that have made me believe that they're real. I however do feel that Bores isn't someone who should be giving lectures on how to ghost hunt, when it's obvious he has no clue what he's doing.
Best example I can think of when it comes to ghost hunting, is Ghost Adventures. They actually seem to know what they're talking about, and seem to have an actual passion for it, where as Bores seems to be doing it solely for the money.
Yeah I also agree with you about the whole "Ghost aren't real" thing because frankly we don't know, there are so many things that don't make sense we just can't say one or the other. But no that doesn't excuse Chris because his obsession over it is only for his ego and greed. And if he truly has "facts" why isn't he sharing them with the world hell with his greed it doesn't make sense because if he did have facts about the afterlife he could make millions off of god knows how many people.
DeleteI really thought 2014 couldn't be any lazier for Bores than it was last year... my god, was I wrong.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if we're going to have a top 10 (or greater) list of worst moments this year? I know last year, you (BatDan) only got to a top 8 due to Bores' laziness.
Here's my (revived) worst moments of 2014 list:
5.) Too. Much. Skylanders
4.) Bores at E3... for the 6th year in a row
3.) The "epic" finale of his story arc, complete with pointless cameos and Archfiend clearly yelling "FUCK YOU, AVGN!"
2.) Bores being more interested in ghost hunting crap than video games (or anything else of substance)
1.) Insulting JewWario after his suicide and shoving religious bullcrap down people's throats
God, only five. Next year, Bores could do so shit, there could only be a top three or something.
DeleteYeah Chris' thoughts on suicide will defiantly be number 1, unless he does something truly horrible in the next few months. Also speaking of Archie the Archfiend(yes that's what I call him) I've hated him since summer of 2012 not for something he said(sorta) but for a video title he did. Note I'm saying this because I'm bored and haven't said anything in a while on this blog. Ok so in 2012 I had something wrong with my teeth and went to a dentist to see what was wrong. I later had to take pills turns out I was allergic to them and according to the doctor my throat would've swollen so much I've suffocated. So I lost a week of work, than the day before I went back to work a strike happen and I lost another week of work. With the pills, two weeks of lost work, and my teeth I was out over 2000$, and for me that's a lot. Than during this time Archie uploaded a video and judging by the title( I didn't actually watch it) he was bitching about a broken PS3 controller. Now my first though "But Archie I though YouTube partners make six figures a year, surly 50$ shouldn't be that big a problem" which of course was in response to him bitching about James Rolfe asking for donations for his movie. Than what I mention above happen and I was just outraged because so many people have worst problems than a broken controller, hell when I was kid a broken controller was the end of world for me simply because the only place I could get one was about three hours away. It doesn't even make sense either because according to him YouTube partners make six figures a year and he was a partner at the time of the video(don't know if he still is don't care), I think the video was about something else too but come on how childish can you get. Than again I once left a comment in one of his videos saying James wasn't the only person in that Cheatmen 2 kickstater video and I think the comment was deleted so make of that as you well. Wow who ever though you could hate someone over a broken controller. So sorry for this long ass (personal?) comment aside from being bored I also had that on my chest for awhile and never let it out, feels good actually, so yeah sorry for that pointlessness.
ReplyDeleteAlso when was the last time Chris did a Neo review, I want to say Injustice but I'm not sure.
The last IG Neo review was South Park: The Stick of Truth back in early March, six months ago.
DeleteOh so it was too don't know why I though he didn't do one this year. Also my comment was meant to be a response to the one above mine don't how it became it's own must made a mistake I guess.
DeleteAnd he's only done a whopping TWO Neo reviews this year! Out of both of them, I think Stick of Truth's review from him was worse...
DeleteGosh, only TWO neo reviews?! Geez, there are so many good games this year like Destiny, Transistor, Infamous: Second Son, Wolfenstein: New Order, Sniper Elite 3, and Tales of Xillia 2 and upcoming ones like Assassin's Creed: Unity and he only reviewed TWO?! And yet his name is still highlighted on Gotgame's site?!
DeleteHey guys, anyone miss me?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I recently got a PS4. Hope I made the right choice in buying one.
Well let me know if you like it. I've have not made any decisions in the new age of console war.
DeleteI think all three mainstream systems (Wii U, PS4, and Xbox One) have their pros and cons, IMHO.
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ReplyDeleteIn response to someone asking when the next review will be, Chris replied:
"No reviews for awhile. I am very busy this holiday season. If you've noticed most of my reviews come out in the wintertime as I have more free time then."
Really? He certainly has time to post Skylanders reviews.
No reviews for a while? This implies that he will review again.
DeleteHey guys topware interactive just did a mass email. Some german website is giving out free steam keys for a limited time on three games:
ReplyDelete"action game Enclave, the strategy game East India Company, and the RTS game Knights and Merchants."
To claim them all you have to do is register at the site, login and then click the profile/keys button and then click the redeem keys button. This will send you to steam, login to steam and the games yours.
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It's sad only 28 Articles this year so far. There is not even enough room for a worst five at the end of 2014. I'll say everything is retired, HOVG, IG, IGNEO, etc. The only thing that is still going is 80's Crap, which contributes absolutely nothing. Even AVGN, on his promotion tour for his movie, knew he got no time for avgn episodes in a while, so he got james & mike mondays. Whether if you like mike or not, its still something im looking forward to on my mondays. While Bores, does nothing, except talk and unpack skylanders, but i wonder that his last upload (Skylanders something) got more views than his big movie finale so far. It's sad to see, IG is dead since. The views sink constantly from episode to episode, ok half year for each episode, no wonder why. I hope Skylanders collaps someday, they destroyed my Spyro Series :( . So I'm going to do some statistic on Bores. See You.
ReplyDeleteSo i did a bodycount (kills and injuries) on the IG-Episodes. I just list them, enjoy the hero of the show/movie. Whatever.
ReplyDeleteYo Noid: 1 Injury (IG hurts The Noid with a frypan)
Aladdin: 2 Injuries (IG throws Abu 2 times across the Room)
He-Man/X-Men/MMPR Part 2: 3 Injuries (IG throws the game and hits Wilkons)
MMPR Part 3: 1 Injury (Out of anger he rips a part of the control desk out, and throws it at Ronnie)
Makes 7 Injuries (every attack from IG was not comprehensible)
Back To The Future: 1 Kill (Program Director or something of LJN, Headshot / not comprehensible)
SMB II: 1 Kill (his evil brother or something / comprehensible)
Predator: 1 Kill (The Predator, Headshot / comprehensible)
ET: 1+Kill (He blows up the whole ship / not comprehensible)
X-Men: 3 Kills (He kills of 3 X-Men / not comprehensible)
GI Joe: 1 Kill (The man who is responsible for the game, headshot / not comprehensible) and 1 rape of a dead body (I think the man is already dead, so the thing with the ass is kind of unnecessary)
Conclusion:
Injuries: 7 (All were not comprehensible)
Kills: 8+ (Just 2 were comprehensible / 3 Headshots)
Rape of a dead body: 1 (Absolutely not comprehensible)
Have Fun.
I noticed, it were less episodes than i thought.
He kills all of the X-Men other then Storm who he treats terrible until she leaves. I'd imagine the real Storm would have lightninged him to death on the way out though.
DeleteIn The X-Men Episode he kills Wolverine, Cyclops and Iceman. Nightcrawler, Storm and Colossus survived.
DeleteIn the MMPR Episode Part 1 or 2, there are all killed by Big-Hal, but not by Bores Hand.
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ReplyDeleteSo, anyone got the Smash Bros. 3DS Demo yet?
ReplyDeleteI have. It's pretty fun, but a little bare bones. I get that it can't have too many characters, but I wish it had a functioning options menu. It took me a while to get used to the controls let me tell you.
DeleteI downloaded it earlier today (which is surprising given how I have never downloaded a demo version, instead choosing to wait until the retail version becomes available).
DeleteI'm saddened that there are only 5 characters available to use and how Battlefield is the only stage to choose.
The controls are very smooth and fluent (though I don't like how R is shield + roll and L is grab; it seems backwards to me). I had my doubts about playing with the Circle Pad, but those doubts and worries have been assuaged through my first impressions.
The frame rate is constant and never falters, but who knows how this could work in the final retail version.
The music is also very good and the speakers work really well, which surprised me a little. The sound effects are very dynamic and seem very appropriate for the type of brawling game Smash Bros. is.
Overall, while it is fun, it's pretty bare bones to say the least. However, I would say it's definitely worth a download for anyone who is interested and/or wants some practice or experience with the game before the full version is released in two weeks.
I just downloaded the demo, I think what they could've done is have at least 8 characters, 3 stages, and let you set how long the fight lasted (up to 5 minutes max)
DeleteBig news from irategamer.com: The upcoming Popeye movie will not be live-action:
ReplyDelete"instead Popeye is going animated!"
Write your own punchline.
Did the moron (Bores) forget the Popeye movie with Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall was based on the old cartoons to begin with?
DeleteI heard they're making a new game based off "Super Mario Bros."
DeleteI wonder who'll do the voice now that Captain Lou and Bob Hopkins are dead?
BTW, speaking of Robin Williams, I still wonder... what would Chris Bores say in regards to his suicide?
ReplyDeleteSomething insulting when a normal person would say "My prayers are with his family."
DeleteLike I wonder how insulting it would be? Similar to what he said about JewWario?
DeleteOn his blog, he did post about World of Warcraft putting a tribute to Williams in the game (an NPC). He didn't comment on how Williams died, but called Blizzard's actions a "very touching gesture"
DeleteHe probably noticed all the shit he got for blindly insulting Justin and realized he can't do that anymore.
Hate rewriting comments. I'll condense this one. Don't claim ghost aren't real without solid evidence of such. Other than that good article.
ReplyDeleteWhat would be an example of solid evidence that ghosts don't exist?
DeleteAnother Skylanders video, another child murdered.,
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