What is your opinion on Joseph Anderson?

What is your opinion on Joseph Anderson?

Good channel. Worth watching if you're interested in the games he's talking about.

Who?

he has pretty shite taste and generally has no idea what he's talking about

never heard of him except here on Sup Forums people like you shilling him.

Too long and dry. He reminds me of MathewMatosis. His taste is also very eclectic: look at those puzzle games he reviews.

A Canadian obviously you retard.

R_ddit the reviewer

Verbose moron who goes out of his way to find flaws, but is too narrow minded and doesn't know shit about game design, so he can't even do that right. Absolute shit at writing too. One of the most psuedo intellectual gaming youtubers

>This random indie puzzle game IS THE GREATEST GAME THAT HAS EVER BEEN MADE
>This game with one of the highest critical and public acclaim in history IS A GIANT PIECE OF SHIT I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE LIKE THIS
He's a contrarian retard who is in it only for the money, and will clickbait anything to make that happen.

who?

I really don't see why everyone has such a problem with him. I'd say he backs up his arguments well for an amateur game critic. Also the criticism about length is retarded as hell. Nobody ever points out how the videos can be shortened or what should be excised, only "muh length". Then people bust his balls for doing shit like Uncharted.

Frankly I wish he'd do more stuff outside the "game critic" box. I'm real fucking tired of hearing about the overrated quartet of Kojima, Kamiya, Miyazaki, and whoever makes Zelda games.

Shit dude. I imagining him like some nerdy numale dude, not a fucking Brote. Fucking leafs man.

I hate his voice. he has a fag accent

his videos are also way too long for what little he has to say, he just runs on and on about a topic without saying what makes it good or bad. his videos are basically him talking for 40 minutes saying "the game is like this"

A total and overly-verbose (this coming from an English Major who scored 99th percentile in nationwide testing). His opinions are almost unilaterally shit and the things he is right about he describes and defends in such monotonous delivery that it’s hard not to fall asleep.

>he gave Odyssey a 6/10 because it’s too easy
Literally Sup Forumsermin

hbomberguy is unironically more entertaining

I don't know why people constantly shill their own fucking videos on Sup Forums, but it's shameful and obvious as fuck.

Goddamn he turned out to be a fucking chinlet. His wife is about average which I guess is better than expected.

I wonder how ugly Matthewmatosis and his girlfriend are? Noah Gervais is ugly, Errant Signal is fat and ugly, SuperRedditHop looks like a numale, Hyperbithero turned out to be an average looking dork, Clemps is average, GamingBrit is decent looking but has the fashion sense of a twat.

One day I'm gonna become a rising star in the youtube game critique scene, and then I'll show my face and by mere virtue of not being balding I'll look like a fucking model and that ValkyrieAurora chick will have sex with me.

Because he's an idiot. Here's a suggestion for how he could shorten his shit, stop making incredibly naive suggestions for improvements that would only hurt the game. For fuck's sake, the guy has written several novels, and yet he still suggested a huge change to the end of Soma that would tuin the tone, pacing, and themes, while also requiring a shit ton more dev work.

The guy is only loved by contrarians who are looking for reasons to dislike popular games. He's really good at prattling on about why he doesn't like them, though it mostly amounts to him not understanding the game and refusing to accept that what he expects from the game and the experience the game is trying to provide not being the same is not a problem of the design

>One day I'm gonna become a rising star in the youtube game critique scene
Then you'll disappear right when you start getting popular as well? All those people aside from a few like reddithop are gone.

His video on Hearthstone is one of the worst critiques I’ve ever seen, and Hearthstone fucking sucks

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Most of em are still around. Just takes a while to make videos.

What nationwide testing? What would they test and English major on?

Hes really bad at games, watching his streams made me lose a ton of respect for him

Standardized testing to get into uni i mean

Like SAT/ACT type shit? cause I actually got a perfect on my reading SAT score. would've gotten perfect on writing too, of I didn't get an awful prompt that was thrown out a month after I took the test

Exactly that. I had perfect writing and reading, my math was shit so I was a few hundred points shy of 2400

>he gave Odyssey a 6/10 because it’s too easy
Whats wrong with that? Wheres the fun in bing bing wahooing through a bunch of easy levels?

>SuperRedditHop looks like a numale
He's literately gay.

Nice user. Always was proud of my reading score. I saw it as indicative of a good ability to empathize and understand others' perspectives. I ended up with a 2270. Realized I miscounted on a math problem and had that shitty essay, but I was happy with it. It was funny seeing the reactions of people who didn't know me as well learning that I was smart

he can't be gay because he said he wants to fuck 2b in his nier video

I can never trust any of these youtubers. It always feels like their opinions are tainted by their platform.

If they like something that's generally disliked, it feels like they're trying to get on a pedestal and look down on everybody. Bonus points if they blab about how tired they are of the "negativity".

If they hate something that's generally liked/loved, they always gotta act so damn smug like they're the person to come along with the truth stick and break everyone's precious golden egg.

They aren't better than any of us, but they sure as hell act like they've got all the answers. It lends itself to contrarianism. I also get the feeling that a lot of these people just can't enjoy a fucking video game. Not everything is Dark Souls, thank fucking christ.

These people and a lot of you bitch about muh casuals and call of duty and shit and then scratch your heads when the shit sells well. Most people don't have hours and hours to devote to games, or they don't have the patience or skill or maybe they're just flat out fucking stupid. That's why this shit sells and your endless bitching will never make it go away. Your endless bitching will never even make CoD a franchise that shouldn't exist.

Name one hard collectathon. Name one hard Mario game. You can't. That's not where the enjoyment of the genre comes from. And it has enough difficult content to be engaging for those who require that. Whining that the game is too easy is essentially whining about optional content that he's choosing to do, even though he's not enjoying it. It's stupid

>he doesn't understand what tight controls mean

>He's a contrarian retard

It's okay for people to dislike things that you like, and vice versa

Because he's an idiot. Odyssey is a game where you make your own challenge by using your full moveset to go fast and take cool route. Anderson spent the entire game distractedly replying to stupid twitch chat questions, which means he was so unfocused he couldn't do more than basic jumps.

JA sucks but twitch is the cancer killing vidya.

He's just another one of those "gaming analysis" channels which pretty much just translates to stretching what could be explained in a 10-15 minute video to over an hour to look smarter.

Anderson even directly referenced the harder challenge sections as “where the game is good”. Fuck that shit. It’s additional challenge thats nice as an option but not nearly the point.

If he were around then he’d have given 64 a 2/5 at best

He's British, he's long enough on Canada so he lost the accent.

Literally only one good video, his Witness review, whereas everything else has been long winded poorly paced, overtly biased/subjective, and sometimes to no point. His recent Hob review has very little to say regarding its thesis, and is mostly a waste of time, considering the only worthwhile part was the effect of bugs had on the game, which could've been 10 mins max

Currently looking at stuff like KingK, who covers basic shit like but doesn't come off pretentious and actually seems to understand how pacing and structure work for a video essay.

Video essays are often most entertainment for the sake of the conveying information, alot of Joseph's work has neither.

This has nothing to do with Twitch and everything to do with Anderson being a greedy motherfucker. He wants both the streamer bux and the contrarian reddit video bux.
Earlier this year he streamed RE7 in broad daylight with his headphones on one ear in case his wife needed something. That's no way to experience a game for the first time.

So you're not allowed to dislike Mario being easy because its supposed to be easy? You should just say its 10/10 gotyay even if you don't enjoy it?

>that shitty moonwalk animation

why

The nigger's got a young kid, he can't and shouldn't be getting wrapped up in games too deeply.
I agree that he wants his cake and to eat it too but he's fucking delusional if he thinks he's going to support a family on his streams when his streams are this weak and his videos take forever to make.

cause

Literally didn't even acknowledge that I said there was challenge in the game, you moron, but ignoring that, the idiot goes on to praise the galaxy games, which are not at all challenging for the most part either. He's simply an idiot

It's no different than giving a low score because it's too hard, difficulty should not determine a games quality. You can have well made easy or hard games, it would be up to critics to determine if the design still feels genuinely well made despite the challenge or lack of.

Galaxy is a fucking cakewalk but that's one of his favorites. Granted, Galaxy 2 is challenging and his all time favorite but there's no reason for Galaxy to also get a pass when it's pretty much just as easy as Odyssey.

literally fucking who

If there's no challenge in the game why play it? It's not like mario games are known for their engaging stories

mario bros lost levels

The only person who makes "video essays" worth a damn is LambHoot.

Nice try, LambHoot. You suck.

Prententious verbose faggot. I think it's funny how much of a goblin he looks like in real life because I assumed he looked like that from watching his videos.

my tastes are superficially the same but we like similar games for different reasons. i like his approach to reviewing and don't mind the long wait times nor his patreon.

i did buy a game based on his recommendation (furi, on sale) and found it lacking. what i didn't like i found surprising he glossed over or didn't mention, which made me wary of his other reviews.

still, i like his content.

Collectathons are exploration based

Don't bother, the guy is either an idiot or just trying to be difficult

Thought he'd be cuter irl based on his voice desu

people have to make money to survive on this bitch of an earth

>This random indie puzzle game IS THE GREATEST GAME THAT HAS EVER BEEN MADE
what game?

steven's epic sausage or whatever it's called, he called it the best puzzler ever made I think.

But where's the fun in running around collecting stuff if you don't have to try? Genuinely asking, I need more games for my switch since its never going to get MH now

>if u don't think easy games are perfect ur an idiot!!!!
Ok buddy

Mario challenge is in the optional levels
Nintendo makes universal games

I haven't bothered to watch many of his vids but he seems like a weaker MattMatosis/Raycevick.

Its pretty much been that way since SMW.

Why do so many try to give some in-depth analysis of games when they clearly have no idea what they're talking about and are just fluffing their script for video length aka money?

I'll stick with MandaloreGaming for proper reviews.

If you can't even fathom how a game could be enjoyable unless it is difficult, then yes, you are an idiot. How are you so myopic about a medium that you care for enough to come online to talk about it?

>But where's the fun in running around collecting stuff if you don't have to try?

Acquiring shit is its own reward for a lot of people. It's basically rooted in mild OCD and is a form of completionism.

He sure likes his fucking GTA SA sounds

>cant even read
>calls others idiots

>Check out his discord
>Full of fucking normies

t. jon blow

What's his discord, or is it one of those patreon only things?

It's public. Can probably find it in one of his video descriptions.

He's a terrible writer and not nearly as intelligent as he thinks he is. When you get down to it, all his observations are incredibly simple and obvious, but delivered using as many words as possible and with an autistic level of monotony.

The only upside is that he has a good work ethic, unlike matthewmatosis.

has anyone read his books? is his own creative work good enough to give any weight to his criticism of other's?

TGBS is hot af. He doesn't need fashion.

From the passages I read, it's incredibly monotonous and boring. Exactly like the scripts for his videos.

I think you already know the answer.

fag

>he gave Odyssey a 6/10 because it’s too easy
That's why there's so many challenges at the end. He really is retarded if that's why he gave it a low score. SMO challenges weren't easy at all, I died many times at the dark side stuff.

Pseudo intellectual faggot

What happened to the Witcher series critique he was going to make?

He seems to be doing every other game instead.

>not the superior Szeth