It
all started with one James Rolfe.
Prior
to April 8th, 2006, James Rolfe was a relative nobody,
much like yours truly, but a nobody with a Film
Major. While working as a full-time industrial
training video editor, Rolfe spent his free time running
his own "one-man production company" through
a hole-in-the-wall website called CineMassacre and using the Internet to put out his University of
the Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts-level horror and experimental
film shorts for all to see, free of charge. By the age
of twenty-six, James Rolfe had released over one hundred
and thirty short pictures while winning only a few minor
achievements for his efforts. It wasn't until early
in April of 2006 that James truly caught his first break with
a video that was meant only as a joke.
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Enter
"The Angry Video Game Nerd". |
Starting
with an online video review of what many consider a
video game classic, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, James
Rolfe (then known as "The Angry Nintendo Nerd")
launched into a hatefilled rant riddled with unnecessary
swear words and boyish insults, basically a live version
of the common Internet troll. Needless to say users
at the Internet's dead end, YouTube.com,
ate it up and he soon became an overnight success. Fast
forward three videos later and the Nerd enters an agreement
with glorified-Nintendo-fansite ScrewAttack.com to feature his videos which would soon partner up with
MTV-owned GameTrailers.com to host his material exclusively. The reason I am telling
you all of this is because right around this time a
string similar videos starting popping up on YouTube.
While James Rolfe and The Angry Video Game Nerd had
jumped ship and headed to greener pastures, YouTube
had since become a melting pot for inspired knock-offs
to upload their ten-minute mundane rants over SNES gameplay
footage. The timing was perfect, somebody had to take
charge, and that somebody was Chris Bores aka "The
IRATE Gamer". A nobody.
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♫ I
don't want to wait for our lives to be over... ♫ |
Before
Chris Bores was the The IRATE Gamer he was just a mild-mannered
tubbo living in Sandusky, Ohio which, "coincidentally",
happens to be the same place Booger from Revenge
of the Nerds concieved his illegitimate child.
After dropping out of Ohio's own Ashland University
in 2001 with only a mild knowledge in Broadcast & Video, Chris
Bores used whatever talent he had into forming his production
company Y2B Productions producing such classics as "The
Scottie and Chris RoadTrip" and a knock-off
"Ghost Hunters" series titled "The
Haunted Investigators". Like James Rolfe,
it wasn't until he came to YouTube that he finally got
noticed for his "work".
Now,
anyone with a dictionary, thesaurus, or simply just a fourth
grade education could tell you that "irate"
means "angry", so off the bat you are already
a bit suspicious about this series' originality. Not
unlike The Angry Video Game Nerd, The IRATE Gamer makes
online videos bashing games that he deems are bad in
what is described as comedy. As the co-writer and webmaster
of a site that specializes in negative gaming reviews
I feel that this is a novel concept I know all too well
and think of myself as somewhat of an expert on the bashing
of video games, which is why in this induction I will
explain episode by episode exactly why The IRATE
Gamer deserves to be considered not only part of
the worst of gaming, but also the recipient of BHMode.com!'s 2007 YOU'RE WINNER! Award for Worst Show.
With
the DVD in hand I began to inspect it like an officer
of the law would for such fradulent documents. I immediately
notice that the front and back covers have been printed
on a very low-class printer as it is riddled with amatuerish
inkjet markings and spots. This did little to help with
Chris Bores' already slug-like features, now he had
to worry about having an acne-ridden face. On the cover
we have him standing with his arms crossed attempting
to look intimidating or, perhaps, "IRATE",
but all it really does is make me think he is covering
his bitch-tits, which he is, infact, doing.
On
another embarrassing note: Chris Bores forgot to change
his copyright info from that of his other DVD series The Haunted Investigators. So does that mean everything
within this disc is now fair gain? Well, if you really want to know, why don't you just send the guy a letter? I mean, he's printed his home address safely on the postage envelope so that any inquiring critic, social outcast, or like-minded individual could pay him a visit, so you might as well take him up on his offer.
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Rivaling
the original Punisher and Stand
By Me DVDs as one of the worst interactive
menus of all-time. |
The DVD's select menu further proves the notion that this
thing was being self-produced or at the very least cheaply produced. It's not just the menu's appearance that's bad, I also ran into a ton of technical problems while navigating through the disc, but I'll get to that a bit later, first let me review these first couple of...uhh, reviews. |
