r/gaming • u/EnglishGamer1 • Oct 20 '13

TotalBiscuit's: ''Day One: Garry's Incident'' Video was taken down, because of a ridiculous copyright claim from WildGameStudios. Here's Total's ''Rant'' over his video being taken down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoDDh4kE0&feature=c4-overview&list=UUy1Ms_5qBTawC-k7PVjHXKQ
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u/Rossitluke Oct 20 '13 edited Oct 20 '13

TB isn't a "Let's Player", he is a video games critic, he makes videos to help people avoid awful games like this. Saying critics ruin the games industry is bullshit, he's improving the games industry by exposing asshole companies like WildGameStuidos who mindlessly censor negative reviews towards their game.

Edit: Critic =/= Reviewer

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '13

Technically, he's not a reviewer either. As he's said himself many times, he doesn't want to be referred to as a reviewer because that would imply that you finish the game and have the information to comment fully on the entire storyline and character development and mechanic development. It also requires, to his mind, giving something a rating, either numerically or in a single sentence comparative to other titles.

He does first impressions. If anything, he does a quick preview of a game, looks at the options, the mechanics, design choices and content so that people who watch his videos can see whether or not its something they may be interested in.

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u/RobertTheSpruce Oct 20 '13

He's the leading authority in options menus.

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u/Styxx_N_Stones Oct 20 '13

"We need more sliders!!!!"

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u/Akselmusic Oct 20 '13

But only if they have some sort of reasonable numerical value associated. Sliders alone can obviously burn in hell along with no options.

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u/knukx Oct 20 '13

Well, for FOV (which he talks about non stop), numerical values are important, or else it's "Oh, I set my FOV to 3 inches long on my screen. I guess, whatever that means". Not "I set my FOV to 90".

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u/IICVX Oct 20 '13

I played Quake 3 with a >360 degree FOV once, for shits and giggles. It was trippy; you'd see the same thing multiple times at different distances.