… and it’s not pretty. I still don’t understand why he is doing this. I had a lot respect for him in the past but his D&D 4th Edition “review” is one of the worst rants I have listened to in a long time. And part 2 isn’t any better than part 1.
I hope he will get back to his regular policy and review only games he likes. His rants are not really worth watching.
He sounds like a drooling moron.
*>youtube*
Ah yes. How could I have forgotten.
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Ugh. That was horrible. Just plain ridiculous. Is he ranting just because people want to see how well he can rant? The fact that his 'negative/bad' review is so utterly bias and filled with so much generalizations, makes me wonder how objective his positive reviews are.
I don't think I want to listen to anymore of his reviews again. This really left a bad taste in my mouth.
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He was only doing this because he had so many people constantly asking him to flame something, he's not going to carry on like this in his later reviews. I quite enjoyed this review, and he didn't exactly rip it apart like other reviewers may have done.
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I beg to differ. He was ripping D&D 4th edition a new one and it was not what I would consider a review, BUT I think it was this bad partly because he wanted it to be exactly that way, so that people stop asking him for bad reviews. That's at least what I hope.
I enjoyed his other reviews very much and I will continue to watch them when he returns to his usual format.
*facepalm*
Not that I expected much after the first part of his rant (for a review, even a negative one, you'd need a lot more substance than what he delivers), but this…? This is even worse than his 'I don't get Burning Empires' episode.
Well…. that wasn't so bad 😀
Folks wanted a negative review, and they got it. He is echoing criticisms that have been voiced about 4e before (and I don't doubt will again), and they're no less valid for being emotively conveyed. Wizards have done a pretty good job of splitting the fanbase down the middle with this edition of D&D.
Pretty much what happened with the release of Third Edition too, thinking about it.
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I don't actually play 4e so I have no real opinions on it. The only thing I can say is that he needs to go to rant school. A rant should be either over the top vitriolic or funny (I refer you to the doctor himself Hunter S. Thompson the king of gonzo and rants; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson)a… he was neither, and that's disappointing. There was nothing said here that was in any way different from the other negative reviews of 4e.
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Sounds like a verbalization of the rants I've read in the WoTC general forums; I always assumed they were kids.
While I admit that I have come to like 4e, I can definitely say I don't completely disagree with Kurt or anyone else in regards to the things they don't like about it. I still consider going back to 3.5 and am looking forward to Pathfinder. 4e is a good system, but it definitely isn't for everyone and it definitely isn't the best version of D&D that will ever exist. Then again neither was 3e/3.5. Every system has fans and haters, it just becomes a little more noticeable when it is a big name like D&D.
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I appreciate you you showing this review with your own comments. I really like hearing both sides of a debate. I am very new to D&D. I am actually writing on my blog about my journey to not only learn the game for the firs time, but to also DM it for my friends.
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I realize that I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but I have to say it:
Did he come up with these opinions himself, or did he just take the opinions ("cull" might be a good word) straight from the internet?
My 2 cents: Why give this idiot more exposure than he deserves?
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Keep it civil, please. You may disagree with him but that doesn't make him an idiot. It was not a good review (his other reviews are much bettrer) but that doesn't justify name-calling.
Took me a while until seeing this, but actually – and far away from ranting – it just mirrored exactly my feelings and experiences with 4th edition. Thanks for sharing this one – though you obviously didn't agree with him on this.
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