News from 2002 xbox message board..Jeff Gerstmann hates the Xbox.

They said this in 2002 it must be true that was over 50 years ago.

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=143620

that is all.

Well....I hated the Xbox when it came out too....maybe I'm a parallel universe version of Jeff?!

I can't tell if they are serious or if they are joking.

Fuck that guy. XBOX RULEZ

That thread is AMAZING. Thanks for sharing.

Well, he's playing video games all day and traveling the globe to see more video games and making a 3-hour podcast every week where he talks about some of the stuff he and his friends have done, along with four other guys who have other friends who do some stuff and, oh yeah, they talk about video games. And get paid for it.

...yeah, I'll bash the Xbox and take some hate for that sort of life.

Just recently, either on this website or on NeoGAF, someone linked a funny thread where people were calling out Jeff Gerstmann as a Tekken and N64 fanboy circa 1998. The internet never changes.

Don't worry. That guy will never go anywhere.

Some of the people in that thread are poopy heads.

@CornBREDX said:

@believer258: So you know, i don't know if you noticed (don't feel weird about it) but that thread is from 2002. Although, I'm sure there's a corner somewhere where people still complain about his reviews- and most other reviewers. I kind of wish I could find something I wrote on the internet in the 90s just to see what I was reading and writing about on the internet at the time. All I remember is making a crappy geocities website with some of my stories.

I know, I was saying that Jeff seems to be in a pretty good position in life all these years later. I don't know about those guys, obviously, but I bet they're not getting paid to play video games.

The comments in that thread are HILARIOUS.

mutherfvcker

@CornBREDX said:

Although, I'm sure there's a corner somewhere where people still complain about his reviews- and most other reviewers.

Oh, definitely. There are people who, to this very day, are still pissed about the famous 8.8. Like, death threat pissed. Keep in mind that these people take up physical space, and ostensibly participate in society. Enough S0n1c_H3dg3h9gs to fill a large auditorium, if not more. And that just covers the people that are pissed about this one particular bit of inconsequentia.

This is the world we live in, folks. No wonder cynicism and nihilism seem to be on the rise.

That son of a bitch. Let's find this Gerstmann person and slam an Xbox on to his head. That'll teach him.

Man, the "hurr gay" comments in that thread are really fucking depressing, even more than the "hurr someone said something bad about a game on my system of choice, he must be biased!" bullshit.

haha, that was depressing

At least the *mercifully* short thread ends on a high note.

All the xbox games he listed were complete shit.

My favorite post:

Gerstmann is without a doubt hatchetman for Sony. Certainly these games aren't the top of the heap by any means, but he severely lowballed them. It's rather suspicious seeing as he gave the abyssmal State of Emergency an 8.5 (a 10 for graphics!), the mediocre Tekken Tag Tournament a 9.6, and the infamous perfect 10 for the PS2 version of the good but not astounding THPS3. I don't know if it's Viagra or what but he seems to get a suspiciously strong tilt whenever a big name PS2 title comes his way...

THPS3 is without a doubt a 10. It's almost an 11.

Fucking potato chip sandwiches. What kind of monster runs this place!?

Sorry my internet decided to go out. 
Anywhos, this has now made me start searching my username on google. I actually found a site I used to go to when I played Counter Strike regularly. That was pretty crazy, I totally had forgotten about that. So weird that site even still exists. 
 
@ShaggE: Ya I heard about that. People are crazy though. What ya gonna do haha.  
Oh and just cus I just saw it the other day, I now know where your avatar is from. That movie is weird haha 
 
@believer258: Ah. Yes, very salient point. I think the fact that its an xbox site may something to do with it as well- cliche' fan boyism it seems like. Even the posts that start off fairly casually cant help but devolve into inane insults. Its kind of comical in a way haha

I still think there needs to be a post requirement before users can post threads...

I remember I once found a small pamphlet for Xbox games coming soon, and it was just filled with stuff you never heard about (for good reasons) or stuff that just got canned. You know, amazing games like Malice... or Nightcaster... or Kakuto Chojin... or The Lost.

...yeah.

That Gerstmann guy is obviously on the take from Sony, he's also trailer trash, and I DID NOT waste my one birthday gift when I asked for an Xbox.

i totally forgot i started that thread back in the day. thanks for the trip down memory lane. oh boy, was i ever a douche.

Jeff is much wiser now, maybe. Definitely older.

Funny how things never change.

I love how this stuff will be there forever or at least till it gets shut down. Think about in like 10 years, if Giant Bomb is still around, looking at some of the shit we've done on these boards. Hell, looking back at some of my older posts I think I sound like an idiot and that was less than three years. I like to think I'm a much better poster now a days.

Jeff i love you

Looked those games up, they all look terrible.

I loved it when they assumed he was trailer trash because of some dumb segment on Gamespot. Arguing over scores is so stupid, it's a gut feeling about someone's own personal opinion, which is then run through a stupid math formula to determine an arbitrary number. God 5 stars is so much better.

@ThePickle said:

My favorite post:

Gerstmann is without a doubt hatchetman for Sony. Certainly these games aren't the top of the heap by any means, but he severely lowballed them. It's rather suspicious seeing as he gave the abyssmal State of Emergency an 8.5 (a 10 for graphics!), the mediocre Tekken Tag Tournament a 9.6, and the infamous perfect 10 for the PS2 version of the good but not astounding THPS3. I don't know if it's Viagra or what but he seems to get a suspiciously strong tilt whenever a big name PS2 title comes his way...

THPS3 is without a doubt a 10. It's almost an 11.

Hah, I was just gonna point this one out. CLEARLY a hatchetman for Sony. I heard he fired like 10 people over there.

Also, I thought Jeff hated Tekken Tag?

@InfiniteGeass said:

That son of a bitch. Let's find this Gerstmann person and slam an Xbox on to his head. That'll teach him.

Wow there, I agree with slamming this Gierztmahn with something, but the Xbox have a warning in the manual that it is dangerous to drop it on someone/something (as the only console to have that in the manual if I remember correctly!), the Death Star would be safer to drop on him for all involved.

That guy's avatar is two safes fucking.

Who doesn't remember Gunvalkyrie. Now there's a high profile title if there ever was one. If they had bothered to actually read the first sentance of the review -> "Gunvalkyrie is almost a good game, and it won't be surprising to see some people looking past the game's problems and having some fun with it."... Instead of becoming butthurt over a game score (that, actually, looking at what "fair" meant in game review terms on gamespot, kind of fits fairly well with the review.) I love people who look at scores as some kind of final determinator on things, especially when they think a score of 8.0 is the worst thing that ever happened. I mean, how *dare* a professional video game reviewer who's played games almost since the dawn of video games have a different oppinion than me? Needless to say this is an outrage so I must go onto the internet and tell them how absolutely disgusted I am with this and it's quite clear that this reviewer is a fanboy of [insert company you don't like here]. Just look at my proof, the user score! ... and at the same time fail to understand how user score was handled and how easy it was to hand out 1's and 10's to games that had a) not even been released yet and b) that you never even played. I would personally like to move away from score/star systems in general and figure out a better way of doing it.

When the OG Xbox came out, I was like, Fuck the Xbox I'm sticking with my PS2. Stuck it out until the end with my PS2. Barley bought an Xbox 360 like 3 years ago. In other words PS2 > Xbox.

Wreckless was a good rent. Never played the others.

@Getz said:

@ThePickle said:

My favorite post:

Gerstmann is without a doubt hatchetman for Sony. Certainly these games aren't the top of the heap by any means, but he severely lowballed them. It's rather suspicious seeing as he gave the abyssmal State of Emergency an 8.5 (a 10 for graphics!), the mediocre Tekken Tag Tournament a 9.6, and the infamous perfect 10 for the PS2 version of the good but not astounding THPS3. I don't know if it's Viagra or what but he seems to get a suspiciously strong tilt whenever a big name PS2 title comes his way...

THPS3 is without a doubt a 10. It's almost an 11.

Hah, I was just gonna point this one out. CLEARLY a hatchetman for Sony. I heard he fired like 10 people over there.

Also, I thought Jeff hated Tekken Tag?

I think Ryan hates Tekken Tag.

He also hates anime fans
  

"Gerstmann is without a doubt hatchetman for Sony."

My new favourite sentence.

@Jayzilla said:

i totally forgot i started that thread back in the day. thanks for the trip down memory lane. oh boy, was i ever a douche.

If you were Jayzilla909, I might believe you.

@Tylea002 said:

"Gerstmann is without a doubt hatchetman for Sony."

My new favourite sentence.

Woop Woop, reppin' the sony hatchets

My favorite part is where he complains about the 6.8 score by saying "Oh yeah, its much better I would have given it a 7.3" Like, what? No. Seriously. WHAT? *facepalm*

Wreckless was never anywhere near that good. I really hated that game.

SUCKBOX! CRAPBOX!

Shit the internet hasn't really changed at all in the last 10 years has it?

God 2002 was dull

Ha ha, damn, they were bashing him. This was from 2002? Goodness, I was in seventh grade then.