The Irate Gamer / Chris Bores criticism videos

[Paul]

There is a series of videos on YouTube that rip into The Irate Gamer / Chris Bores and they are pretty funny (and often spot-on in their critique of him).

People basically add annotations to Chris' own videos explaining why he's (so very often) wrong or when he manipulates game footage to make a joke.

(Language Warning for all of these videos).

Duck Hunt:



Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (this is my favorite because of how awful it is):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzdj-sRYvqQ

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qk2Ju3yTVc

Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWqFpSeXERc

Kid Icarus:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSadKUMqwbY

Super Mario Bros. 2 / Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MbupEqY4O8

(I didn't know if embedding more than one video per post was against the rules so just to be safe I'm only embedding the first video and linking to the others).

He sure does love to do that "angry grunting while waving the controller around" thing, doesn't he?

My big problem with Chris is that he can be kind of funny and clever from time to time (and there will usually be one joke per video that actually makes me laugh) but 99% of the time he chooses not to and just goes for either the Angry Video Game Nerd ripoff yelling and swearing, or the cheap, obvious jokes. Or sometimes he just makes things up out of thin air to criticize. And it's obvious that he does the bare minimum of research (if that).

To be fair, Chris' newer review videos are much better than these old ones, and he doesn't use the crutch of ripping-off James Rolfe anymore so good for him. I think he's actually matured quite a bit as a reviewer in the last couple of years. I think he's actually stopped doing all or most of the things that I disliked about these earlier videos.

[BorneAgain]

Bores is a weird case in terms of internet reviewers because while he's done childish and petty responses to criticism in the past, the vibe I've gotten from him then and now is that at his core he has no shame about what he does or any real stake in the content of his videos. Its about the clicks and revenue to him, whether its Irate Gamer, Puppet Steve, or Chris Neo. The same lack of emotional investment prevents him from every trying to improve is probably what's kept him from having any kind of meltdown or significant blowup; the man simply doesn't care enough to lash out in any real way. He's neither a James Rolfe that's evolved or a DSP that's dug his own grave; he's just Chris Bores hopping on another trend for the cash.

[Paul]

I watched a few episodes of his "Irate The 80's" series and they're a lot more watchable than the video game reviews from that era.... except for all the pointless and unfunny character cameos that he shoe-horns into each episode.

He did one on Looney Tunes comic baseball cards and I had no idea that was a thing.

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Nov 4, 2018 11:21:39 GMT -5 BorneAgain said:

Bores is a weird case in terms of internet reviewers because while he's done childish and petty responses to criticism in the past, the vibe I've gotten from him then and now is that at his core he has no shame about what he does or any real stake in the content of his videos. Its about the clicks and revenue to him, whether its Irate Gamer, Puppet Steve, or Chris Neo. The same lack of emotional investment prevents him from every trying to improve is probably what's kept him from having any kind of meltdown or significant blowup; the man simply doesn't care enough to lash out in any real way. He's neither a James Rolfe that's evolved or a DSP that's dug his own grave; he's just Chris Bores hopping on another trend for the cash.

Pretty much. Chris Bores is a person that want to be famous without putting the effort into it.

[H-Virus]

Is he the guy that the Game Grumps tear into during the entirety of their Mickey Mousecapades video?

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Nov 5, 2018 7:42:18 GMT -5 H-Virus said:

Is he the guy that the Game Grumps tear into during the entirety of their Mickey Mousecapades video?

I believe it's Game Dude.

(language)

[willywonka666]

I haven't watched him in forever, but preferred him to AVGN-I appreciate someone knowing their shit, but AVGN is just too over the top for me. It's ridiculous. but it's been years since I've watched either of them.

[Paul]

Nov 5, 2018 8:46:56 GMT -5 Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast said:

Nov 5, 2018 7:42:18 GMT -5 H-Virus said:

Is he the guy that the Game Grumps tear into during the entirety of their Mickey Mousecapades video?

I believe it's Game Dude.

(language)

Oops, now that I've seen that video you are very much correct and I was wrong about it being an impersonation of Chris Bores. I totally forgot about Game Dude. Man, at least Chris has something of a personality...

[dirtyoldman]

Chris has released a video answering the crirics. Haven't watched it all the way through though.

[Nickybojelais]

At times he was guilty of being a bit of a hack and, like many others on youtube, thinks that he is far funnier than he actually is. But I always felt that the levels of personal hate that he received was over the top.

Sure, he was a poor man's AVGN, but nothing he created was deserving of the constant scathing attacks that he received.

[Deleted]

Eh I thought the video was really boring. It was mostly just watching an Irate Gamer episode with a little bit of commentary, but it was sparse commentary/lame image reactions. So overall...about as awful as watching Irate Gamer has always been, haha.

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

Wait people actually still care about this twat in 2018.

[Mozenrath]

Nov 6, 2018 2:45:14 GMT -5 Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster said:

Wait people actually still care about this twat in 2018.

Let's face it, Irate Gamer is ruined.

[Paul]

Nov 6, 2018 2:45:14 GMT -5 Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster said:

Wait people actually still care about this twat in 2018.

Well, more that I think the videos that point out how bad his old videos were are funny. I don't pay much attention to what he's currently doing but it looks like he's a little better at it now compared to 6 or 7 years ago.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Nov 6, 2018 5:15:07 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Nov 6, 2018 2:45:14 GMT -5 Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster said:

Wait people actually still care about this twat in 2018.

Let's face it, Irate Gamer is ruined.