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Jharp

Member
Curufinwe said:
Was is fair for you to claim on Rebel FM that Vanquish only got good review scores because a cabal of God Hand/Clover fanboys in the gaming press demanded that they be allowed to review it? No, it was a disgraceful attack on the professionalism of reviewers who scored the game highly like Kevin VanOrd at Gamespot and Simon Parkin at Eurogamer. Instead of being man enough to just admit your opinion of the game was in the minority, you invented a conspiracy to justify why you were right and everyone else was wrong.
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The_Darkest_Red said:
Arthur,

First of all let me start by saying that I'm willing to give you another chance with the new site. I realize that it doesn't really matter to you or anyone involved one way or the other if lil' ol' me decides to visit it once or a million times but I'm simply stating this to let you know that I'm not bitter towards you beyond the point of no return.

Now, on to the point.

My only problem with the way you do business is the level of pride, arrogance, and cockiness that you display in your attitude in almost everything you do. Whether it's an article, an episode of RebelFM, or a post here on NeoGAF, there is rarely a time when you don't come off as someone who thinks very highly of himself and his opinion. You're always talking about how much people on the internet hate you but I must ask, why do you think that is? Look at a guy like Vinny from Giant Bomb. He has his own strong opinions on all sorts of games, and of course there are times when those opinions differ from various members of GAF and other communities. Even still, he has an incredible reputation and most people who know of him and his work are huge fans. Why do you think that is? Personally I think it's because he's kind, humble, and willing to let others voice their opinions without incessant ridicule.

It's not about your opinions on games. It really isn't. It's about your attitude. No one likes a guy who is full of himself, and I think it's helpful for every person on this planet to think about that every once in awhile and tone down our pride a notch or two. It's not like it's unforgivable or something, we've all been there and I certainly know that I have.

Consider this my attempt at constructive criticism. If you want to dismiss this as an over-the-top attack on your personality then that's fine, but my intention is only to help you realize that there is still an opportunity for you to get along just fine with many members of your audience around here and various other internet communities.
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These two sum it up perfectly.

It has nothing to do with differing opinions, because listening to as many podcasts as I do (I drive for a living, so I literally listen to Podcasts for anywhere from 4 to 6 hours a day), I find myself disagreeing with a lot more people than agreeing, and Arthur is the sole person I've come to genuinely dislike. It's not that he disagrees with me on certain games, it's that he's so dismissive of the games he dislikes, as if there's nothing to them. Just listen to him talk about Demon's Souls and Dark Souls for example, to see how "impartial" he can be.

It's fine that he dislikes them, but to act as if they don't both hold 89's on metacritic, and were both sincere game of the year contenders in 2009 and 2011 is simply disingenuous, and so long as we're talking about website traffc, one of the sites that named Demon's Souls its overall game of the year was Gamespot, the most visited video game site next to IGN. Once again, this has nothing to do with the quality of the games, and everything to do with Arthur's cavalier attitude towards a product that is by most accounts excellent, and his pitiful coverage of it. He passed off the good reviews of the game, like Massa said quoting the same Curufinwe post above, as some sort of conspiracy of reviewers jumping at the chance to review a successor to a game they already love, and even if this insane sort of postulation had any relevance to the discussion at hand, or the quality of the games, how would it be any different than Arthur himself reviewing Battlefield 3 after his much stated love of the last entry in that series?

I remember back in the early days of RebelFM, when that was all I had to listen to after the Brodeo died, and I genuinely loved Arthur. He's incredibly intelligent, knows what he's talking about better than just about any other strictly-video game podcaster that I can think of, and he can be a very likable guy at times. It's his extreme arrogance and obviously high opinion of himself that he loves to make known to both those he's in discussion with and those listening to that discussion that turns me off. I actually still listen to and look forward to every episode of RebelFM, but that's primarily thanks to Chuf and Tyler.
 
Coloress_Kafka

Coloress_Kafka

Member
firehawk12 said:
One thing games journalists have going for them? At least they aren't tech or "gadget" journalists.
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jooey

The Motorcycle That Wouldn't Slow Down
It's more obvious than ever before that the people dropping "hipster" really want to say "faggot." Just say it. Take the bullet if you mouth-breathers believe it so much.
 
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Odrion

Banned
I don't see what hipster and "that other word" have in relation with each other.

Maybe you're just reflecting your own thoughts on to a bunch of strangers on the internet.
 
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Nyoro SF

Member
jooey said:
It's more obvious than ever before that the people dropping "hipster" really want to say "faggot." Just say it. Take the bullet if you mouth-breathers believe it so much.
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You seem to have trouble with words. I recommend you study the verb "reaching".
 
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neojubei

Will drop pants for Sony.
Zefah said:
Oh, jesus christ. "We're so hip that we're going to wear neckties and go for that vintage look! We're all in our 20s and 30s, but we can pretend like we're reporters from the 70s, but with a new-age feel!"
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Dont see anything bad or hipster about the photo. It's pretty cool actually.
 
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malfcn

Member
Hey Crecente, can you guys *seriously* investigate the Xbox Live account hacking? There is a lot of good information starting to come out.
 
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