Thoughts on Screwattack.com

[Gooseberrysoda]

They've helped me with a lot of game decisions, and I'm a G1 there, although I rarely venture out of the retro/alternative gaming section. I've agreed with lots of their top 10's, but I really like Sonic R and think it's one of the better sonic games out there.

[randombullseye]

I think once they admitted that they wait until the end of the day for their news segment, just so they can read an RSS and find all the news stories everyone (the news blogs) else posted.

Also the typical website drama that goes on. There's a reason people are on the internet after all.

And then there's the Angry Video Game Nerd. He's not quite on their site, merely using their name or affiliated or something. I don't know what his deal is, I assume Screw Attack has a piece of his MTV money (gametrailers owned by noneother than them, who are owned by Viacom one of the handful of companies who own everything) and for some reason, he can be an entertaining fellow. When he's not angry, I find him to be informative and funny. And widely imitated across you tube. Originality on the internet? Bullshit. What I don't like about his videos are when he tries to just use profanity to show how angry he is, his first few videos seemed to express real anger at old school games. I know I'm still confused on what the fuck to do in Casltevania 2. I'm sure someone reading this is too. For some reason, Castlevania 2 is important to me and a part of my little world that I have where video games are the thing to do. This guy seems to get riled up over them. I could nitpick all his videos all day, but I've watched them all, maybe? And found it mostly entertaining.

It's hard to find an internet produced show that's actually entertaining and not just nonsense. His videos have some minimal production value, another thing most content doesn't have. But he's not really a part of Screw Attack. They could embed his videos on their site the same as any other site.

Also has no one else made the comparison of naming their fans to Insane Clown Posse naming theirs? Making a brotherhood and community spirit, instead of just letting one come out on its own. It's not like Racketboy calls us the racketeers.

[ZeroAX]

It's not like Racketboy calls us the racketeers.

that reminds me of the planeteers from captain planet....

dibs on the power of Dreamcast

EDIT

lol actually I remember that joke has kind of been made

[Breetai]

To be honest, the main shows annoy the hell out of me. When I listen to their top 10, I want to throw up. Craig sounds like an annoying fanboy who doesn't know what he's talking about, and that chick they've got is just... annoying. No thanks.

[blackmagepwns]

I live about 70 or so miles away from where their office is, and supposedly they bought an old store around there where they are planning to sell random game shit I think, good luck is all I can say.

But however the "g1" does get a discount, SUPPOSEDLY.

I may just keep that handle so I can bargain when I may find something I want.

Other than that, fuck it.

[KholdStare]

Meh, ScrewAttack is alright. I don't like them that much, as most of their stuff is annoying and I agree that it seems like Craig doesn't know what he's talking about half of the time. I watch Hard News occasionally. And I dunno but to me it seems like they hype the AVGN too much. He's good,funny and all of that shit but they seem way too happy to have him on their site. The ONLY reason to watch it now is because of Mr. Keith Apicary,ahahahahaha. I swear he's the best thing on ScrewAttack and is the reason why I go on there now. Keep it up, Nathan!

[Mozgus]

Meh, ScrewAttack is alright. I don't like them that much, as most of their stuff is annoying and I agree that it seems like Craig doesn't know what he's talking about half of the time.

Craig comes across as pretty knowledgeable when it comes to retro games. When he doesn't know what he's talking about, he admits it. The other clowns, I can't fucking stand. As far as I'm concerned, they're pretty damn ordinary in this field. They always claim Corey is handling all sorts of behind the scenes work especially for SGC, so good on her I suppose, but she's still as annoying as the rest.

Destin is one of the lamest fucking trolls I've ever witnessed in all of the internet. This fuckwit has nothing more in his arsenal besides virgin jokes, and fanboy stereotypes. He never analyzes any of the issues he flames off about. He's basically Jim Sterling, with 200% less funny.

[KholdStare]

Ahahaha, yeah, I agree with that. I'm not too fond of Destin, and it seems like Corey doesn't know jack shit, but I don't know. The others don't stand out to me or present anything special.

[sneth]

i watch some of their vids, but what went down over there was shitty.