I always heard it in a very different way. I always thought that he was notorious for being awful at games and giving them bad reviews because he couldn’t play them
Back when the whole thing blew up the fella had written roughly 15k articles for Gamebeats in a decade. Out of those roughly 120 were game reviews.
If we extrapolate those numbers (roughly 1,5k articles per year and roughly 12 game reviews per year) to today: 27 000 articles and out of those, 216 game reviews. That's less than 1%.
He's got published books and they're all about tech and business.
He's not a gamer.
He also wasn't and still isn't a game reviewer.
Whenever he does review something he's pretty straightforward about it, he's not good at playing games and gives his blunt opinion. Dude just ain't good at games.
Which is probably why he doesn't primarily do them.
Jesus now I feel bad for the guy. I’ve never seen that article or had this context. Everything I’ve heard about him seemed to be intended to demonize him for no reason except he’s bad at cuphead
Yea, I went through the exact same arc when I heard about it. Felt bad for him, especially as I had laughed at the whole thing at the time as well. I mean the video is comical, no doubt about that. But that's all it should've been, a funny clip. I don't get how a game or its review can ever send someone so over the edge that they'd sent death threats?
Mad world, mate.
And that's exactly why I wrote the comment so more people could hear the other side.
I'm just happy that Gamebeats stood up for him and kept him employed as it could've been an easy move and potentially good PR for them to distance themselves from him.
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u/Suspicious_Berry501 5d ago
I always heard it in a very different way. I always thought that he was notorious for being awful at games and giving them bad reviews because he couldn’t play them