Ok, so, I stumbled across this the other day:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh.....p;pagenumber=1

It's a SomethingAwful thread where the resident goons mock Let's Play videos on Youtube. It's giving me delightful MST3K vibes, so I've been watching them with glee for the most part.

But ... oh god. Some of the videos they're mocking are SO BAD, they're actually making me a little angry. And y'know, it's not just the poor production values or lack of gaming skill, it's the player's ATTITUDES. Like, there's this series of videos of this guy playing Doom. And he's bragging about what a pro he is, he's got the difficulty cranked to Ultra-Violence, he talks shit to every enemy he kills, but ... he SUCKS. He wanders aimlessly, he doesn't seem to know how to strafe, and he FREAKS OUT if he encounters more than three imps at a time. And this is just in the first couple of levels.

Now it's like, if he was HONEST about it, I'd cut him some slack. Maybe this is his first time, or he hasn't played it since it was released ... whatever. But he makes such a big deal about how awesome he is, and ... it makes me a little angry, actually.

Same thing with the Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes movie. The guy playing sets it to Extreme difficulty and turns off the radar, because, you know, he hasn't played it in ages, but he's pretty hardcore! And then of course he's completely surprised when the guards notice him fumbling around, and blames it all on Snake, and the guards themselves for having the audacity to shoot him. He never even tries to be stealthy, and during the entire ten minutes never makes it past the first room.

And then there are the save staters! These are especially prevalent on Donkey Kong Country movies, but there's a Super Mario World run in there somewhere that does the same thing ... ah, yeah, the ones by XRayX4417. It's like, if you'd just PLAY THE GAME NORMALLY, you'd probably get pretty good at it eventually! But they don't PLAY THE GAME, they SAVE STATE every 10 seconds, and then load when even the slightest thing goes wrong! Or, better yet, they save in the middle of this chaotic swarm of enemies, and then load FIFTY TIMES IN A ROW because they can't remember that they need to avoid an enemy right in front of them, or they run off a platform, or they do SOMETHING, because they get CARELESS! And it takes then ten minutes to finish one fucking level because they have to save and load 100 times! JESUS! What's the POINT? It's like an exercise in abject frustration! LOAD die LOAD die LOAD die LOAD die LOAD die. If you'd just CONCENTRATE for five fucking seconds you wouldn't NEED to load!!!

Anyway. Sorry. Little pet peeve of mine, I guess.