The Irate Gamer: A review

Have you heard of the Angry Video Game Nerd? Chances are you have if you've been on the internet frequently within the past year or so. I consider myself a fan and the man behind the videos and characters, James Rolfe, actually has talent. On his path to internet fame, the AVGN has inspired a generation of internet video game reviewers to make video reviews and post them on YouTube. Some are good, most are bad, and then there's the Irate Gamer.

The Irate Gamer you say? Surely the name alone is a rip off of 'Angry Video Game Nerd,' you must be thinking. That's just the tip of the fucking iceberg. Along with looking like an albino ape, the Irate Gamer has a thick Midwestern Ohio accent that makes me think of the mother from Bobby's World everytime he speaks. But who cares what he looks and sounds like as long as he's good at what he does, you ask? Well too bad, he's fucking not. His acting is on par with the people from those videos they show you in Health class, only worse. And that'd be fine if the reviews themselves were actually good, but they're not. Throw away the fact that his videos have plots and special effects, and his reviews are fucking awful. Two of his reviews, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Back to the Future were once done by the AVGN, and Irate Gamer made it a point to rip them off severely, TMNT moreso than BTTF. Same game flaws pointed out, same jokes, same fucking swears. And again, it wouldn't even be that bad if he made some unique points or insight into the game, but he doesn't.

His attempts at humor fall flatter than Stacy Keibler's chest, and he doesn't even sound like he's that much of a video game fan. In fact, he just seems like he's doing all this to cash in and make money off his shitty t-shirts and DVD on his website, as if he saw it was working for one guy and said "Hey, I'll do that." He even has a Ghost Hunters ripoff show too, the fat fuck. He grasps at straws for shit to bitch about and doesn't seem knows what he's talking about half the time (apparently he's an old man. Awful). His special effects are cool, I'll give him that, and it's not like I could ever do them, but even then they look like they're from some shitty horror movie from 1993.

But hey, some people must like his derivitive humor and stolen ideas, he has a lot of subscribers. As soon as someone links me to a video and I hear that old Midwestern accent kick in, I want to kill myself. He's probably a nice guy in real life, and I've no right to judge him on that front, but the personality he presents on the World Wide Web is a douche. For every good point he makes, he turns around and comes back with a dozen poorly acted 'jokes'. Watching his videos, I feel like I'm watching an informative porn about video games.

Hay, I'm the Ireat Geemer, and right now I'm going to look at theese geem. Oh, look, that doesn't make any sense. What a shitload ahv fack. What a crack ahv sheet. I'm ganna smeash this geem.