Are Game Reviews CRINGE? 

I absolutely adore the juxtaposition of Coney approaching the anti-feminist criticism of GTA with a lot of nuance, exploring places like “Okay sure, but maybe that was the point?” “Well for a game of its era maybe it was still a valid criticism.” etc. and having healthy discussion with chat, Then you have Angry British Gamer who immediately goes “THE REVIEWER SLORPED THE FEMINIST FREQUENCY JUICE”

Battle for Bikini Bottom getting a 2 score, holy. That reviewer HATED the game. Exaggerated swagger of a black teen was very cringe, but damn was there some heat with the responses that came from it.

Is this where we write our review for the video? Well I give this one a 10/10. Why does it require me to click on a Visa logo, though?

No but CONEY is

angry british gamer gets upset when asked to think about female characters critically, many such cases

"i can be a reactioner: watch this" then coney making faces for some reason got me so good

That is one of the most conspicuous things you could do. Firing someone over a low rating. That's probably worse for the games rep then just leaving the review up.

I still don't think the DKCTF reviewer played the game. That review was impressively bad

All games are art. Just gotta stop thinking of "art" as "high art" bro

I actually appreciate the way Coney discusses his opinions. Even if I disagree, he'll always have a reasonable justification as to why he feels a certain way, he's good at articulating his perspective which I value. He'll also engage with chatters, and he never seems too dug in to shift his opinion if presented with a better argument. Might just be the editors doing him justice bc I never watch his actual streams lol

The thing that gets me about the exaggerated swagger of a black teen ad is that HES RIGHT miles' animations are over the top and dope as hell. And as someone who was once a black teen i felt similarly

I was NOT prepared for Bam ham

angry british guy is honestly insufferable lmao

Even if a game is fun to traverse in, having a fast travel feature is nice. I love driving pirate ships in black flag, but when I’ve got a mission across the entire map I like that I have the option to just go right to it. Driving in GTA is fun, and they’ve even got planes, but I still like that I have the option to take a taxi when I want. Even in Spider-Man there’s moments where the subway is helpful. I don’t see how having fast travel can be a negative for a game, just don’t use it

I can't get over Coney referring to Arkham combat as "BamHam" just due to a fucking shitpost edit that makes him laugh. That's Coney classic. Also I genuinely do not trust anyone who goes to bat for Days Gone. No, buddy. Not the one.

Game criticism is such a volatile tightrope. Once many gamers decide their own personal rating of a game and go to a review of it, their preconceived expectations are premeditated resentments. If the review differs any from how they rated the game or the game is critiqued in a way, the review is automatically terrible. There is of course some nuance. Sometimes criticism just aren't valid (Battle for Bikini Bottom getting a 2 is crazy) or if a reviewer isn't a fan of a series, some callbacks don't register to them, but sometimes it genuinely is the gamers. Like saying no one wants to think about the morality of their actions in a zombie game is kind of stupid in a story heavy game.

Gotta love going into the video thinking this was gonna be just some fun dunking on bad game reviews, and getting sucker punched by a feminism rant in the middle.

Shoutouts to the chatter at 15:15 with the 'my name is skyler white yo' bit Fantastic joke

Kids today not understanding the want to be a game reviewer is crazy to me. At the time, that was the only way to play games for a living and we all wanted that

Bro is onto nothing tbh. Saying no one wants to think about the morality of their actions in a zombie game is like saying Starship Troopers is about how cool war is. Like sure, there's room for mindless zombie killing in Left 4 Dead and the like but questions like 'who are the real monsters, the zombies or us' are the core of the genre to an almost cliched extent. And at the end of it all dude is caping for mfing Days Gone, so he clearly has zero investment in the games themselves and is just out here looking for fights to pick.

no joke, to me Coney is someone who I think is truly talented at expressing his thoughts and opinions. I almost wish he would do reviews Dunkview style

I literally remember being a kid, playing Sponge Bob and having that issue with the pressure plate 1 time and thinking "oh lemme just stand further back" and I was 4...

Personally, I think that the "exaggerated swagger" line is actually just straight good, but not when you say it out loud, especially if the person saying it is white

I think the gta problem is fact the gta is a game where basically everyone is a shit person, but the women are only shit people in the most stereotypical ways possible. The probably mostly comes from the fact that there really aren't too many actually important female characters in it in the first place, which can be seen as a problem itself.

I am high ahain but I have a burrito

how come they label a 7/10 good? if the score is from 1 to 10 wouldn't the middle be good and sequentially 1 be awful and 10 a masterpiece?

People not knowing who Gerstmann is makes me feel old. I was a Giant Bomb freak

Loving the Shaggy fit my guy

Gamers have real issues with reviews. They see them as publicity instead of a guys opinion. Very telling that the reviewers are never seen as a person, they're anonymous blobs like websites.

Coney has the exaggerated swagger of a middle aged stream. But on a serious note, I feel like the line was just one that might have needed another draft (and also maybe someone who's actually black talking about it). If the writer wanted to voice how he felt about Miles representation in the game, I would want him to but it's in the same vein as "too much water" being a fair critique that didn't have the right words to back it up.

If you want games to be considered an art form, then you have to be willing to accept criticism of that art I think people's problem with the way women are presented isn't that they're all bad, it's that they're all bad in woman-specific ways. A woman that acts like Trevor would break away from traditional roles, and could be fun and refreshing

Literally just remembered that the noclip guy did used to work at Gamespot 5:46

My brain can't stop seeing Coney as Shaggy this whole video

16:52 Fucking Gaming in the Clinton Years ass review.

I love watching Coney's reactions. His reactions are always so full of the exaggerated swagger of a black teen :3

Sometimes, yeah. I always prefer to make the decision for myself and don’t usually let reviews deter me from something that I want to try.

Hilariously enough, Deacon in Days Gone does take his hat off.... To put a different hat on for like 1/3rd of the game.

This video has the exaggerated swagger of a Coney teen

Coney should watch that one Baten Kaitos g4 review from the early 2000s

6:45 There have been a small handful of games with fast travel that I've never used. Spider man is the obvious one but Sunset Overdrive is even better IMO because its more dynamic and interactive. Prototype was another one because the movement is so smooth in thise games and the fact that both games specifically have challenges geared toward movement says a lot imo

song name at the beginning?

11:51 what a horrendous time to make that joke

Coney 7/10 tierlist when?

coney humor slowly turn into aris if he play smash

7:00 I for sure didn't fast travel in Burnout Paradise

Really rocking the hair Coney glad you didn't take the comments to heart

Coney talking about The Last of Us's noise stuff is very funny.

I’m gonna like this video with the exaggerated swagger of a Coney Sub 🗣️💯🔥

Coney thinking Alien Isolation is bad might be the shittiest take hes ever given over a video game

Hold on, maybe we should've let gamestop cook for some of these

I gotta agree with the Ghost/Sekiro comparison I loved Ghost so much then I played Sekiro and Ghost felt stale in comparison. Still a good game w/ a good story, but still. Also thank u Coney for recommending Sekiro on stream

Im still kinda mad that Fromsoft created the best "combat engine" or whatever you wanna call and not doing anything with it after Sekiro Im a huge Dark Souls fan but Sekiro is the best game they ever created

Typically yes....

As a rule I see some capital G Gamer getting mouth-frothingly mad about games journalism as a red flag. That has been a cover for the most unhinged bigoted takes for, not joking, 10 years by now.

That spongebob puzzle was too cruel and Sisyphean for the reviewer

I dont think whether video games are art or not is entirely relevant to the discussion of themes and purpose behind a game Video games will always have an influence on society and culture even if the discussion around that influence doesnt happen. Its important to still discuss and analyze it so we can understand the 'why' of the influence. Even if the games purpose is to "turn off your brain".

This is a review of a review of reviews

Exaggerated swagger of a black teen is one of my favorite game review moments ever It’s insane and racist yeah, but got its spawned so many funny memes

Dude days gone got shafted so hard. I finally played it last year and I still think about that game all the time. I wrote it off because of what people were saying about it but it turned out no one actually played the game I guess.

I know a RU-vidr named Under the Mayo really dislikes alien isolation.

Yes, next question

Ghost of tsushima was just so fucking solid. 8/10 would be fair. My playstation is still full of screenshots from this game. Sekiro has better combat and enemy's yes. But got has a better stealth system with more options, good and flashy combat on top. The online mode was fun too.

When people say that ghost of Tsushima is trying to be sekiro it doesn't make sense because ghost of Tsushima was in development before sekiro even started development its just that it came out after sekiro that the comparisons started. Furthermore ghost of Tsushima isnt trying to be sekiro its a completely different feeling game

Arkham looks insanely fun

Ghost of Tsushima is definitely not a 7/10

16:06 I think it IS art, but it's a social commentary. Everyone dislikes each kind of person in the game, because no matter how you feel, it's a gross misrepresentation. Except Franklin, love that guy

Dragon's Dogma made travel by foot fun

At the end of the day, if you like a game, that’s all it matters. No one else’s opinion does.

Ghost of Tsushima is a 9/10 game in art, 8/10 in story and a 7/10 in core gameplay. I fucking love this gorgeous game about a samurai having to go against his sincerely believed teachings to save his island against an enemy that trampled all those who adhered to the old ways.....and then the gameplay is a lot of picking the fighting style that you're told to pick for an enemy type, you do a lot of clearing enemy camps with a combination of stealth and brute force and the general gameplay is somewhat mashy offence and parry almost everything with some moves you have to dodge. Truly a Sucker Punch production, it deserves a 7/10 and I hope to god they're working a sequel where the core gameplay is so much more.

I think digimon world data squad has a very fair review

They ARE!!

Gamespot be spitting this whole video

Thank You Gaming Grandpa

Lil bit

Yea I’m pretty sure they are.

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and that's facts

Hey I suggested this video!! Hello yea

I like gamespot, they have some good stuff, but also a lot of bad stuff i hear

I was just asking, man wonder when the new coney video is? It’s right here, thank you god

Idk my fav game of all time is super Mario galaxy and there’s 2 galaxy’s I hate.

20:14 yesh but it doesn't feel like it unlike their fucking 50 episode series about "Fact YOU STILL DIDN'T KNOW about Botw/Totk" now that's content farming it's probably more than 50 actually the first video i saw of that was after I bought Botw in 2022

Coney speaking facts this video

Who’s up blathering rn?

Reviews are great but scores are cringe. Gamers consistently showcase how unable they are at accurately interpreting a basic numeric scale even when the reviewers explain the scale in plain english. Its a useless metric for the most part and suffocates so much discussion around the review itself.

The gta criticism is completely valid because the game often serves as a power trip/power fantasy for the player, but the whole story is seen through the eyes of a male and that power fantasy is very male driven. It’s not a women’s power fantasy, if that makes sense. I know you touched more upon that in the stream tho

RU-vid, Alien: Isolation is FIRE

On the cyberpunk review he makes an overly charitable interpretation based on not having all the information. While yes, its fine to review a game while not engaging with some parts of it. It comes with caveats like informing the consumer of the fact. And if youre actively not engaging in mechanics then you cant review those mechanics. A review of "the games good but i dont care about crafting so i didnt touch it" is fine. But a review of "the games good but the crafting is bad tho how would i know since i didnt touch it." Is not fine. Also the whole police thing wasnt cause its an unimportant emergent side quest, but because it was 2020 so ACAB was a big thing so she thought shed get brownie points by advertising having actively avoided engaging with any content where you would help police

all game reviews are CRINGE and FAKE except for OnlyOneHere

Wow this guy was already coming off pretty stupid but that last one just proves how this guy is rotten at the core. Thank you Coney for not taking that stance.

Valid GTA criticism

The only credible game reviewer is George Wood I have to say that or else I’m stupid, he said so himself

The exaggerates swagger meme wouldn't have been a meme if it wasn't a white guy narrating it, it's a meme because of people's kneejerk reaction. But Miles is over the top as hell, did you not see the movie?

Based Coney

I feel like the exaggerated swagger line is still terrible, but knowing that it was a line written by a black reviewer does affect my perception of it.

YOOOOO THIS GUY AGAIN Edit: ooooooh idk about his gta5 commentary 😬😬😬

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As a person who was once a black teen with exaggerated swagger, the writer could have put it better. I get what he meant though. I assume he was trying to explain the playfulness of Miles' Spiderman compared to Peter's Spiderman which is more mature and experienced, that would be my guess. The line was cringy but I can't lie the meme's were classic.

wrote this in response to a comment saying the swagger line was racist, but I reckon it should be a primary comment as well: yeah no not really, it's an accurate observation and a good example of cultural representation in gaming; black american culture is very expressive and it's exaggerated amongst black youth because all teens exaggerate whatever behaviours they most strongly identify with (e.g. performative wealth for a rich kid, excess gloominess for an emo kid, voilence for an abused kid, etc). losing or reducing your exaggerated mannerisms is a key indicator of maturation in all of humanity as far as I'm aware. it was only cringe because they made the awful decision to have a white guy read a script drawing on the author's personal experience as a black guy.