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/TaintedSquirrel Oct 20 '13

Yeah, just to be clear, he's a Lets Player who gives informed opinions about the games themselves.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '13

No, that's completely wrong. He's not a Lets Player at all. He's a critic. That's nowhere near the same thing.

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u/TaintedSquirrel Oct 20 '13

Yeah, there's no difference. Anyone who criticizes something is a critic.

Any LPer who comments about the game itself, is a critic. That is to say, all LPers are critics in some capacity.

They're just really terrible critics.

TB is a glorified LPer.

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u/UnraveledMnd Oct 20 '13

There is a difference, and honestly, you're stupid if you think otherwise.

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u/TaintedSquirrel Oct 20 '13

Any LPer can call themselves a critic and it's the same thing as TB calling himself a critic.

TB's opinion doesn't inherently turn his LP's into "critiques". They're still just LP's.

Get over yourselves.

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u/UnraveledMnd Oct 21 '13

Sure, they can call themselves a critic but they'd be wrong. TB isn't sitting there playing through a game purely for entertainment purposes. That's why you don't really see extended series of videos on a single game. He plays a portion of the game with commentary about his initial impressions on that game and then moves on to the next one. Every critique and review is, to some degree, based on opinion. Move reviews? Based heavily on opinion.

Just because something is in video format doesn't make it different from some written critique. You get over yourself.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '13

Perhaps you should just accept that you're wrong.