Your Favorite Reviewer
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A current example of Adam's work:
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/57743/journey-video-review/
He is really someone who knows what he is talking about. I just hate when he has to do the voice overs for reviews he didn't write. He gets so much uneeded flak for that. I also like watching "Sessler's Soapbox" at times. He makes some very good points, and I can relate to his undecisiveness and continual struggle with "I agree and don't agree at the same time"
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/57743/journey-video-review/
He is really someone who knows what he is talking about. I just hate when he has to do the voice overs for reviews he didn't write. He gets so much uneeded flak for that. I also like watching "Sessler's Soapbox" at times. He makes some very good points, and I can relate to his undecisiveness and continual struggle with "I agree and don't agree at the same time"
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I agree. Sessler seems to be one of the few on-screen reviewers who are on air because they can do their job (and not because he has big breasts). The only thing I don't like about him is when they try to play him up as this wacky hilarious dude who's so hip he can barely contain it.
I remember that he used to have an online profile stating that he was raised by ferrets and trained in martial arts or something (like the profile was written by an intern who's just trying to be funny by stringing together a bunch of internet humor buzzwords like "pirates" and "ninjas" instead of having actual punchlines.)
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Oh, I have a couple more:
Kate Russel.I don't know where she is now, but she used to appear in Tech TV (not as part of the staff, just for interviews and stuff), but she's a regular on another tech channel whose name I can no longer remember (the one with the Quake 3 Tournaments that also had Stevie Case as a commentator.)
I like Kate due to the eye candy factor. She looks good, but not supermodel good so she doesn't come off as an airhead. Also, she's got a cute accent. I think I went through puberty twice for her.
Also, Leo Laporte. For nostalgia purposes, mostly. He looks like a genuinely nice guy, and when I first started watching Call for Help, the Internet and computers in general were not that prevalent in my country, so even though most of the things you can learn from the show are rudimentary stuff, it's still refreshing to have a show that deals mostly in stuff that you care about (and then that whole boom happened and now everyone and their grandmother is on the internet, to the point where we now have commercials showing a grandmother playing DOTA).
I remember that he used to have an online profile stating that he was raised by ferrets and trained in martial arts or something (like the profile was written by an intern who's just trying to be funny by stringing together a bunch of internet humor buzzwords like "pirates" and "ninjas" instead of having actual punchlines.)
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Oh, I have a couple more:
Kate Russel.I don't know where she is now, but she used to appear in Tech TV (not as part of the staff, just for interviews and stuff), but she's a regular on another tech channel whose name I can no longer remember (the one with the Quake 3 Tournaments that also had Stevie Case as a commentator.)
I like Kate due to the eye candy factor. She looks good, but not supermodel good so she doesn't come off as an airhead. Also, she's got a cute accent. I think I went through puberty twice for her.
Also, Leo Laporte. For nostalgia purposes, mostly. He looks like a genuinely nice guy, and when I first started watching Call for Help, the Internet and computers in general were not that prevalent in my country, so even though most of the things you can learn from the show are rudimentary stuff, it's still refreshing to have a show that deals mostly in stuff that you care about (and then that whole boom happened and now everyone and their grandmother is on the internet, to the point where we now have commercials showing a grandmother playing DOTA).
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Re: Your Favorite Reviewer
Mark from Classic Game Room HD.
David Crosson gets second place.
David Crosson gets second place.
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Zero Punctuation/Yahtzee and Classic Game Room's Mark (I think) are my most watched English review shows.
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Menegrothx wrote:Zero Punctuation/Yahtzee and Classic Game Room's Mark (I think) are my most watched English review shows.
I can agree. Yahtzee makes many good points, but is also bad about going around and bashing a game, then praising it, leaving you with a feeling of unknowing whether it's good or not. He also is problematic when it comes to actual reviewing at times.
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BoringSupreez wrote:Jeff Gerstmann and Alex Navarro were pretty good back when they used to work for Gamespot years ago. I have no idea how good they are nowadays.
http://www.giantbomb.com/
This is where they reside
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OldSchool_Boy wrote:BoringSupreez wrote:Jeff Gerstmann and Alex Navarro were pretty good back when they used to work for Gamespot years ago. I have no idea how good they are nowadays.
http://www.giantbomb.com/
This is where they reside
Interestingly enough, they quit Gamespot in 2007 because of the whole Kane & Lynch controversy. CBS just bought Giantbomb this month, and is adding it to the Cnet network. In other words, Gerstmann is working for basically the same company again.
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Re: Your Favorite Reviewer
BoringSupreez wrote:OldSchool_Boy wrote:BoringSupreez wrote:Jeff Gerstmann and Alex Navarro were pretty good back when they used to work for Gamespot years ago. I have no idea how good they are nowadays.
http://www.giantbomb.com/
This is where they reside
Interestingly enough, they quit Gamespot in 2007 because of the whole Kane & Lynch controversy. CBS just bought Giantbomb this month, and is adding it to the Cnet network. In other words, Gerstmann is working for basically the same company again.
There is videos on youtube with them moving into the 'new' office space and talking for a second about stuff gamespot left behind.
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DEFINITELY Mark from Classic Game Room HD!
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Mark from Classic Game Room HD. Been following him since 2005, love his channel.
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