Review Matt Chat does Darklands

[Serious_Business]

The problem with him is he's too detached, and his consciousness of his target audience evinces clearly. He doesn't care about the games he 'reviews', or interviews developers about; he just wants some cheap fame.

Notice how he always says the games he's showcasing are awesome, classics, a testament of excellent design, hyperbole 1, 2, 3, etc., but he never states his personal experience about them, or accounts his own honest analysis (e.g.: including stuff such as obvious flaws). Compare to someone who is really passionate about videogames and is a douche as well

In other words he's a fake, the kind of fucker the Codex would hate, but this site has gone flaccid a long while ago.

I'm all for hating assholes with longhair bro, but you're overdoing it. Are you on your fucking period? Get a fucking rest man. You should use your energies to do something more productive. Anyway, why the fuck would he make videos about some long forgotten game to gain, huh, cheap fame? From who? Internet fame? Maybe he's a hack that's into making some side money off a small audience, that would be a more accurate way to put it, but who the fuck cares? This isn't worth the holy crusade

 

[1eyedking]

Fuck off, SB. Definitely not one of your quality posts of late.

 

[racofer]

Mount on my flying cock and lets laugh at these fools from afar, 1eyedking!

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Coincidentally, I have downloaded a Dosbox front-end some time ago so that I would be able to play Darklands again without having to swap config files.

There are a couple outrageously cheap boxed Darkland sales on Ebay, btw. Grab one while you can.

Be careful, though. Unless they have a picture of box contents/are specifically listed as a box, it's possible that it's just a CD. One time I bought Darklands pretty non-expensively (for a box - way too much for a CD alone) and it had a box scan in the auction picture. It turned out that the box picture is from the wikipedia.
Luckily, after some time I got an email about how the game got returned by customs and that the CD got broken, so I got a refund without having to argue with the seller.

The problem with him is he's too detached, and his consciousness of his target audience evinces clearly. He doesn't care about the games he 'reviews', or interviews developers about; he just wants some cheap fame.

Notice how he always says the games he's showcasing are awesome, classics, a testament of excellent design, hyperbole 1, 2, 3, etc., but he never states his personal experience about them, or accounts his own honest analysis (e.g.: including stuff such as obvious flaws). Compare to someone who is really passionate about videogames and is a douche as well

In other words he's a fake, the kind of fucker the Codex would hate, but this site has gone flaccid a long while ago.

To be honest, he seems to be the kind of a person that people usually talk about when they use the "you're just looking through nostalgia glasses" argument.
A kind of a person that used to be a part of target audience but wasn't critical towards these games and is just criticizing some later games because he isn't a part of the target audience any more.

 

[Zeus]

 

[Zomg]

This isn't worth the holy crusade

Are you saying he sucks but it's not worth saying so in a post in the thread on the RPG Codex?

I hate to discourage 1EK when he has a correct opinion, he needs positive reinforcement from a strong father figure like you SB

 

[Jaesun]

 

[1eyedking]

To be honest, he seems to be the kind of a person that people usually talk about when they use the "you're just looking through nostalgia glasses" argument.
A kind of a person that used to be a part of target audience but wasn't critical towards these games and is just criticizing some later games because he isn't a part of the target audience any more.

Uh...no.

He's a fake. He just strokes the egos of self-inflated assholes who think the only good games were the old games.

It doesn't surprise me that the Codex in its current state can't see how hard he tries to give off the appearance of being nothing but a tired, cool-hippie old-school gamer. The shirts he wears, he things he says, the games in the background...

For fuck's sake he doesn't even own them, a friend lends them to him. And he seriously fucked up a couple of release dates at least once.

Also, "anybody of a certain intellect should enjoy PS:T for the masterpiece it is". My high-IQ neurons are coming buckets

Mount on my flying cock and lets laugh at these fools from afar, 1eyedking!

Dear God.

What have we done.

 

[m_s0]

Hate to say that, but yeah, 1eyedking has a point. I can't stand the guy as well at times. The parts where he talks over a video are alright, if a bit lifeless, but when he starts plugging himself at the end of each fucking vid he comes off as nothing more than a douche. "Subscribe" is one thing, "click my links, buy my stuff and I'll send you an autograph" combined with his permanent is just unbearable

 

[Darth Roxor]

OH GOD GUYS, THERE'S SOMEONE WITH A POSITIVE ATTITUDE ON THE INTERNETS

THIS WILL NOT STAND

 

[1eyedking]

Today I battled your avatar.

I won.


PS: He's got Dungeon Siege II, Fable and Age of Empires III on that shelf. Is he even a gamer?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Big deal. Not long ago I challenged yours in dice.

I won

 

[1eyedking]

At least we were playing awesome games, right?

But I killed Darkstorn. You didn't kill me. In fact, you worked for me.

 

[Jack]

Look, he has Fable and ToEE in the same room.
Clearly this man either enjoy playing games or he merely have them for show.
What a freak.

 

[m_s0]

Look, he has Fable and ToEE in the same room.
Clearly this man either enjoy playing games or he merely have them for show.
What a freak.

You could be right. IF these were his games

 

[Jack]

They are not?
I assumed he was very proud of his collection of games and that was why he always stands in front of them during his talks.

 

[m_s0]

He borrowed them

Read the text from 13:42 onwards

 

[Tails]

You should use your energies to do something more productive.

He obviously can't, expect for being butthurt when someone else is creative.

 

[1eyedking]

He obviously can't, expect for being butthurt when someone else is creative.

Butthurt detected.

He borrowed them

Read the text from 13:42 onwards

Doesn't make it any less pathetic.

Talking about how awesome Darklands is while Half-Life 2, Oblivion, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Fable, and Dungeon Siege II are sitting on a shelf behind you screams nothing but "poser".

 

[fastjack]

re

is there much to this matt barton isnt a real rpg fan argument? i recall in the timcain interview video that he talked about his own eperiences with wasteland and his enjoyment of that game, am i just way off?

 

[Tails]

Butthurt detected.

See?

 

[1eyedking]

Re: re

is there much to this matt barton isnt a real rpg fan argument? i recall in the timcain interview video that he talked about his own eperiences with wasteland and his enjoyment of that game, am i just way off?

He probably said "It rocked, I really enjoyed exploring the Wasteland and meeting all of its post-apocalyptic denizens; the game had this unique feeling that you don't find in games nowadays. They were fun times, and was glad when Fallout came since it was very much a spiritual successor to one of my favorite games of all time."

See? I never played Wasteland but I even I can do it.

It's called lying.

See?

Whatever. Also explain to me how this Matt guy is 'creative'.

 

[Jora]

Re: re

is there much to this matt barton isnt a real rpg fan argument?

No? Unless, of course, you don't refer to the argument that's being made by 1eyedking in the most retarded way possible.

 

[zeitgeist]

While I won't get into lengthy analysis of his persona (basically a videogame version of "that lovable stoner who's still really into classic metal"), it is interesting how artificially constructed it seems from some of the details presented in this thread.

It's obviously neither serious journalism nor serious critique, and while he does make valid points (note: I've only really seen a few videos and podcasts that were posted on Codex) from time to time, they're mostly nostalgic feel-good fluff pieces. But to what end? Who is his current, and who is his intended fanbase? It seems to me that, any way you look at it (whichever level of calculated opportunism you assign to him), he's still mostly preaching to the choir - it's highly unlikely that he's planning on making millions from getting people to buy games through his GoG affiliate links.

If he manages to get a fanbase big (and blind) enough to establish himself as some kind of a "retro gaming" authority, then we'll have a problem.

 

[Archibald]

Faggot.