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[VulcanRaven]

Pro tip: if a game creator has so much time to spend on YT as David Jaffe....fair guess is he is not making games.

Which makes you wonder - why is he not getting any work? Could it potentially be that he is a damaged, entitled, whiny man child and every prospective employer is able to see that?

This post reminded me of Grummz.

 

[Clear]

Jaffe is not painting himself in a good light with this one.

He's burying himself with this. First of all he's ascribing power to her and other (his term) "grifters" that she/they simply do not wield and is doubling-down in a misguided attempt at saving face.

David, if by chance you happen to read this; I'd love to hear your rationale as to why critique by "grifters" is going to prove more effective than the failed enthusiast-press/legacy media's attempts at suppression/boycotting titles like Hogwart's legacy or Kingdom Come Deliverance?

Its all "culture war" nonsense, and as 70 years of research in media influence has proven, this sort of messaging only impacts on people already predisposed to the position being forwarded.

Its also why "deplatforming" and silencing is so pernicious and favoured by autocrats and totalitarians of all political stripes; Suppression is way easier than convincing people of things they don't already hold as truth.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Damn, Sony taking his creation from him and turning Kratos into a soyboy has hurt this guy hard.

 

[XXL]

Gigayikes.

Yeah, the dude is unhinged. Some people are soooo fucking far down this rabbit hole they've created. He's a prime example.

 

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Jaffe desperately trying to stay relevant. He got cooked by Asmongold.

 

[FoxMcChief]

First time ever seeing/hearing of her. Does she have a problem keeping her glasses up?

 

[Kamina]

Vara is pretty cute and all, but acting like she is dumb and only gets views by being a girl is just sexist rambling, because Jaffe has no real way of countering her points without getting personal.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Hey that chudette is kinda cute.

 

[Outlier]

I don't get it.
Did Jaffe just lose his ambitions on doing something more than whatever it is he does, now?
Why not just develop new game?
He could just start a small project and go from there, but I guess he sputtered out, crash, and is burning.

I watched some clips about his recent antics and he seems desperate for something.

 

[tommib]

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[Hollowpoint5557]

This is just giving the fat stupid little man the attention he wants. Ignore him and he'll crawl back to whatever shitty corner of the internet he crawled out from.

 

[tommib]

«On the Last Stand Media podcast after the election he painted is face red to symbolically represent blood from abortions.

The guy is a lunatic.

Oh please. It's just cartoon theatrics and you can't take it seriously. He used some vampire blood from Halloween to go on the post-election "civil war" podcast with Colin. Don't be a nun.

 

[Bartski]

On the Last Stand Media podcast after the election he painted is face red to symbolically represent blood from abortions.

The guy is a lunatic.

more like earing out a chick on a period?

 

[FoxMcChief]

more like earing out a chick on a period?

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Speaking as a hot person, ugly people are lazy.

The fat ones yea. But just a 6-7/10 looking guy/girl is not getting a drink from a bartender before a 9-10/10, for example.

 

[\m/etalStorm]

A youtuber reacting to a picture in picture of a youtuber reacting to a picture in picture of a youtuber

That is the true metaverse.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

As I said in one of these Jaffe threads just let him be.

He hasn’t done much of anything since his TM days and now his FT job is YT videos getting 2000 views per video.

It’s pretty obvious he doesn’t have the ambition or skills to make another game in his own or get hired by a company to make one.

So let grifters like him whose existence depends on YT clicks for two cents revenue per click do their thing.

One things for sure. It goes to show a lot of human beings will do anything when desperate for attention and click money.

Getting a normal job to resume a career will solve those issues. But that’s a nada for guys like Jaffe.

He’s been done for years.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Why is this in Gaming?

Agreed, this should be in off-topic.

Some have said it's "gaming adjacent" anytime it's a content creator, influencer, or streamer. Lately the amount of threads like these has been nauseating, lol.

Internet drama creates traffic, traffic creates revenue, rinse and repeat.

Yuuuuuuuup. People just want clicks and views. Half the time I don't even know if these are real opinions. Could be the person's persona and they're just grinding for revenue.

 

[Denton]

On the Last Stand Media podcast after the election he painted is face red to symbolically represent blood from abortions.

The guy is a lunatic.

You write that all seriously but having watched that it seems fairly obvious he was joking and aware he is doing stupid shit.

That said this beef he has with that redhead does make him look real stupid and hypocritical.

 

[mrqs]

On the Last Stand Media podcast after the election he painted is face red to symbolically represent blood from abortions.

The guy is a lunatic.

Hahahahaha, I love Jaffe so much.

 

[Aenima]

The man that created God of War...is now this.

I still have a tough time grasping this.

Some ppl age like milk. Jaffe is in the mold cheese fase.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Jaffe is way off the map recently. The blowback he got over his grifters killed Veilguard take has him lashing out like a cornered animal. He's really coming off as unhinged.

So Veilguard took him down too

 

[Kacho]

All this because Jaffe couldn’t admit Veilguard failed because it was a bad game with obnoxious woke shit

Congrats on the Xpac heat bro

 

[StreetsofBeige]

The man that created God of War...is now this.

I still have a tough time grasping this.

He was only about 35 years old when he did GoW on PS2. That’s when people should in the path to peaking before leveling off.

His career went from TM to GoW to more TM to terrible indie games to…..

Streamer where most of his video get hardly any views unless it involves wukong or gow.

One thing too. If any of you check his YT and sort to see highest view count videos. They are Wukong Reaction videos where he plugs that he was GoW director.

They guy is still plugging that job from almost 20 years ago.

 

[Nickolaidas]

He was only about 35 years old when he did GoW on PS2. That’s when people should in the path to peaking before leveling off.

His career went from TM to GoW to more TM to terrible indie games to…..

Streamer where most of his video get hardly any views unless it involves wukong or gow.

I never understood the reverence he received for making God of War. It's literally a Devil May Cry ripoff. Sure, it was a good game, but by no means was as revolutionary as people present it to be.

He also made one of the most unlikable assholes of a protagonist in the history of gaming. A constantly angry brute taking out his anger on everyone except himself for being trigger happy.

 

[Humdinger]

From tweet in OP:

He'd go as Trans as his kid if it'd get him the views he always mentions.

Jaffe has a son/daughter who is trans? I didn't know that.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I never understood the reverence he received for making God of War. It's literally a Devil May Cry ripoff. Sure, it was a good game, but by no means was as revolutionary as people present it to be.

He also made one of the most unlikable assholes of a protagonist in the history of gaming. A constantly angry brute taking out his anger on everyone except himself for being trigger happy.

I find it amazing he still plugs on his YT videos he was the director of gow.

The game was 20 years ago. At the time, 360, PS3 and Wii weren’t even out yet.

 

[ReBurn]

Jaffe has a son/daughter who is trans?

Yeah, he has a trans kid. He thinks seething about identity politics and trying to bully people who disagree is what he needs to do to be a good dad.

 

[Nickolaidas]

Yeah, he has a trans kid. He thinks seething about identity politics and trying to bully people who disagree is what he needs to do to be a good dad.

Imagine thinking that standing by and letting teachers and social media brainwash your kid into mutilating themselves is good parenting.

This world has gone to shit.

 

[Wandering Leopard]

I don't particularly care, I'd say both are using this as an opportunity to gain more attention/subs - if not, they would try and resolve it privately without an audience.

 

[MagiusNecros]

I never understood the reverence he received for making God of War. It's literally a Devil May Cry ripoff. Sure, it was a good game, but by no means was as revolutionary as people present it to be.

He also made one of the most unlikable assholes of a protagonist in the history of gaming. A constantly angry brute taking out his anger on everyone except himself for being trigger happy.

IMO since he's the creator he should of stepped in and made 2018 and Ragnarok not be the amount of suck it narratively is.

The bold bit of your post ironically is all this guy has been doing. Attacking everyone in shouting matches online indiscriminately if they don't share his views.

Exactly like Kratos.

 

[Humdinger]

The only Jaffe game I ever played was Twisted Metal, which kind of reminds me of him. I can see his personality in it. Driving around randomly crashing into other people.

 

[Chuck Berry]

I don't get it.
Did Jaffe just lose his ambitions on doing something more than whatever it is he does, now?
Why not just develop new game?

Have you played Drawn to Death?

Dude made his mark, but between that and this sorta shit it's no wonder the industry prefers to keep away from him.

 

[iQuasarLV]

A youtuber reacting to a picture in picture of a youtuber reacting to a picture in picture of a youtuber

I hate the modern day internet.

YouTube-ception (queue the giant BRAAAM noise)

 

[Monado X]

All three are pieces of shit.

 

[GHG]

On the Last Stand Media podcast after the election he painted is face red to symbolically represent blood from abortions.

The guy is a lunatic.

It's just a Kratos cosplay gone wrong, give the guy a break.

 

[JimmyRustler]

Poor Jeff, age and too much online is getting to him. Really sad...

 

[rofif]

We all know Jaffe is a good guy but he is nuveou wokeist that hates sony nowadays.
And asmongold is a grifter that says everything people want to hear

 

[Aenima]

First time ever seeing/hearing of her. Does she have a problem keeping her glasses up?

Probably she only needs glasses to read. And can see well at far. Its my case, i only need glasses to read up close, so when im reading i pull the glasses down a bit to be able to see well things that are far.

 

[Kacho]

Someone tell Jaffe he's going the wrong way!

Meanwhile...

 

[Topher]

Isn't Jaffe one of those who rails against DEI complaints? Bit ironic that he says that the only reason Vera is "in that chair" is because of her looks and gender.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

As I said in one of these Jaffe threads just let him be.

He hasn’t done much of anything since his TM days and now his FT job is YT videos getting 2000 views per video.

It’s pretty obvious he doesn’t have the ambition or skills to make another game in his own or get hired by a company to make one.

So let grifters like him whose existence depends on YT clicks for two cents revenue per click do their thing.

One things for sure. It goes to show a lot of human beings will do anything when desperate for attention and click money.

Getting a normal job to resume a career will solve those issues. But that’s a nada for guys like Jaffe.

He’s been done for years.

No

 

[hinch7]

Another victim of brain rot. Lashing out at people online that you don't even know is a bit fucking wierd.

 

[FeralEcho]

Look....I respect Jaffe for creating God of War and leaving Cory in charge for directing the best GOW game with GOW2 and I thoroughly enjoyed Twisted Metal 2011,he will forever have my respect for all that but at this point his image goes further and further down the crapper from what he represented as a developer 20 years ago.

It just seems like he has to be so nose deep into his own bottled farts that he's high as a kite by now with the amount of weird takes he has on a monthly basis.

Props to him for finding an audience with that stuff but the internet is full of people with weird takes whereas there was only 1 guy that directed God of War in 2005.

He should be careful which of these 2 personas people end up remembering him by cuz it's starting to become a blur...

 

[MayauMiao]

 

[Outlier]

Have you played Drawn to Death?

Dude made his mark, but between that and this sorta shit it's no wonder the industry prefers to keep away from him.

Yeah I remember it, but one or two failures isn't the end of the world.
If he just gives up, then it's only downhill from there.

Just sucks to see people fall apart.

 

[MikeM]

Seems like a lot of these streamers are assholes in general.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Yeah I remember it, but one or two failures isn't the end of the world.
If he just gives up, then it's only downhill from there.

Just sucks to see people fall apart.

What he probably realized over the past 15 years is GoW will be the highlight of his career.

And by the vibe I get from him he’s a pretty egotistical guy. He tried to make indie games in his own and failed miserably.

So for him, his own ventures failed and nobody wants him for another giant AAA game. He claims he turned down a $100M Tencent deal because he hates China too. At least that’s what he claims.

So it looks like he’ll only take a job if it’s a AAA game under his terms, no Chinese companies, no more indie games, no more self studios.

What he does is compare offer A, B, C (assuming he even gets that many work offers to begin with) to GoW 20 years ago. If it’s not as good it’s beneath him to do it.

When it comes to jobs, a lot of people are like that. It can only be worth doing if it’s bigger, better and pays more. If not. They aren’t touching it.

 

[saintjules]

Does she have a problem keeping her glasses up?

I guess it's some sort of sex appeal look. But maybe.

 

[Drake]

I don't really have much to add other than it gives me so much joy to see these progressives constantly on the defensive now.