So apparently Jeff Gerstmann is a "crap reviewer"...

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#151  Edited By toowalrus

What the fuck is Xentax? Anyway, I played Duke Nukem Forever for about six hours and Jeff was right. That game is fucking boring. Everything that happens when Duke's mouth is closed sucks major donkey balls.

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#152  Edited By redbliss

The obvious thing to do now is demand that all those crap reviewers be fired, including Jeff. It is unfortunate, but because they generated a score they felt accurately reflected their opinion of the game, and because that score was lower than what xentax believed the game should have scored, those reviewers do not deserve to work in the gaming media business. A huge thanks to xentax for conducting this study and weeding all of the horrible reviewers out. Otherwise we would have to go on for the rest of our lives reading reviews that are only used to attract attention to each reviewers respective site.

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#153  Edited By l3roken

1. That site is super sketch.

2. That guy thinks reviewers should be objective when that is not what we want here.

3. The fact that they closed comments tells me he knew the shit storm he was going to start and it was all just for hits, the exact thing he was attacking the reviewers he highlighted for.

Congratulations on being an ignorant hypocritical writer. Also, he wrote in the third person and introduced himself unless he is credited for writing a part of that article that he did not so..he might be clinically insane. It was a good laugh though.

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#154  Edited By EpicSteve

A good journalists always critics other journalist's work in a public arena.

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Soooo now there are reviews of reviewers!?! Well then, allow me to submit my review of a reviewer who reviews reviewers: Xentax has too much time on his hands, I mean come on all those charts, graphs, and grading system to say he dosn't like some reviews? Xentax is a real waste. 
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#156  Edited By yukoasho
@Video_Game_King said:

@BoG said:

Ha ha ha, his whole blog is based on the assertion that there is an objective way to critique a video game. Oh, that was a good little giggle.

But isn't there at least something approaching an objective way to critique games?

"Objectivity" doesn't exist in any form of reviewing, or indeed any realm of opinion, since objectivity itself is the lack of expressed opinion.  A reviewer is simply giving an opinion, and said reviewer gains trust by proving that his/her opinion is not determined by anything other than his/her views on the product being reviewed.  Jeff, in this regard, is a trusted reviewer.  He proved both in his Twilight Princess and Kane and Lynch reviews at GameSpot that he's not going to be swayed by fanboys, corporate pressure or anything else, and for that, he should be lauded.
 
  
    
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#157  Edited By DAFTPUNK

It's an ign fanboy probably because  he didn't list ign

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#158  Edited By Lind_L_Taylor
@EuanDewar said:

You will never find someone who cares about what this guy has to say.

@hedfone said:

i definitely care about what Xentax says

Found.
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#159  Edited By SpaceInsomniac
@Superman64 said:
...at least that's what Xentax.com says:
 
 And as you can see Jeff isn't the only one he thinks is "crap".   All of this over Duke Nukem Forever reviews.  This guy must really like Duke.
 
There are two ways a way to post about attention whore sites like this one. 
 
1) Copy/paste the ENTIRE article, and do not post a link to the actual site. 
2) Don't post about attention whore sites in the first place. 
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#160  Edited By Marz

Mr. Mouse or whoever wrote that article was obviously a Duke fanboy, didn't seem to read any of the reviews, just did some statistics and cut off those that were below his desired threshold.  

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#161  Edited By lead_farmer

@EuanDewar said:

You will never find someone who cares about what this guy has to say.

Seriously. Part of that guys argument is that the reviewers are crap because they DIDN'T AGREE WITH HIM.

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#162  Edited By habster3

Never heard of the site. Guy sounds like a loser. I like pie. The End.

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#163  Edited By l4wd0g

@Venatio said:

Xentax.com?

you know, that big website that really matters... oh wait

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#164  Edited By fox01313

Don't really care what other blogs that nobody has really heard of has to type. Plus metacritic is a joke after all the spammed fake review scores.

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#165  Edited By ShaunassNZ

Fuck.

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#167  Edited By Hourai

Who gives a shit. 

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#169  Edited By SeriouslyNow
@iAmJohn said:
  1. Who?
Lord Pentax.
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#170  Edited By TheHumanDove

So...do you wanna...you know...do you wanna find this guy?...'n get 'em?

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#171  Edited By JasonR86

'Mr. Mouse' is an idiot. Scores are such a small part of the review. Read the rationale for the review, not just the final score. This guy not only is an idiot he's an idiot with too much time on his hands.

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#172  Edited By tebbit

I'm not sure if this guy knows how Metacritic works.

For there to be an average, there must be some reviews below and some over the median. Calling out people based on a scale that they have themselves generated seems...

foolish.

Edit: Wait this is 4 months old. I've probably said this already!

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#173  Edited By Twisted_Scot

I just love the way he felt the need to add a watermark (that's not even faded) to his home-made list like everyone was going to steal it.

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#174  Edited By Floope
Thus, we have now exposed the following reviewers who should be branded INCOMPETENT LIARS for the rest of their lives whenever we hear them say anything about games in general.

I laughed so hard

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#175  Edited By IBurningStar
@GrandpaMario said:

I'm confused.

Is this thread about Jeff Gerstmann or Dr. Mike W. Zuurman A.K.A. Mr. Mouse

http://www.xentax.com/html/zuurmancv.html

Also as far as Xentax goes, it's about reverse engineering game file formats as can be seen here:

http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6860

PS,

Check out Mr. Mouse's "interesting" review of Rage (which, for the record, I don't entirely agree with)

Thanks for necroing this for us. I think I speak for everyone here in saying that we appreciate your efforts and gladly welcome you to Giant Bomb community.
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#176  Edited By Brendan

I have a dark secret to share:

Xentax has been my favourite destination for games for months.

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#177  Edited By zeforgotten
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#178  Edited By NegativeCero

Xentax sounds like what I would see on a flashing ad selling fake pills.