Customer Reviews

The Irate Gamer - Vol. 1 (Video Game Review Show)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(26)

 

 

Do yourself a favor and forget this guy, the real deal is the Angry Video Game Nerd, the man this Irate Gamer wishes he was...

I was disappointed with this series. The whole angry gamer theme feels forced, and I swear he seems more constipated than irate. It might have been funny with proper execution, but his performance just isn't believable.

His entire presentation is a knock-off of another entertainer called "The Angry Video Game Nerd," who is a lot more creative and fun to watch.

I'm awarding one star for decent, low-budget effects.

This guy has little acting skill, poor jokes, he lacks video game knowledge and his reviews are poorly written ("Jump from the wrong place, and you go falling to your death" well duh!) and full of inconsistencies. and from what I heard you can just go onto Youtube and watch this rubbish for free, don't bother.

If you've surfed the net anywhere near Youtube, then odds are you have heard of the Irate Gamer. Chris Bores is an Ohio resident, who reviews generally bad games for a living.

However, the problem is this: He just isn't fun to watch. His jokes are stale, and he is usually putting me to sleep if anything. The only reason why I deemed this product worthy of a 2 Star rating, is that he utilizes some pretty interesting Green Screen technology to help give his reviews an edge. While It does make them look better, it doesen't help his Stale and otherwise Bland performance.

From the minute I screened this at a friend's house, to the minute he ejected the DVD, I knew this was going to be trouble.
And At the end of the day, This DVD is the equivalent of a date with an idiotic supermodel, Beautiful to look at, but there's just no substance. Sorry Chris, you aren't getting my vote on Volume 2.

Search "Irate Hack" on [...]. Watch a few videos. It is abundantly clear upon even a cursory inspection that the Irate Gamer plagiarizes James Rolfe's (AVGN) ideas, scripts, one-liners, and effects. The sad thing is that this guy profits off of Rolfe, yet gives Rolfe ZERO credit for the ideas he stole. I don't have a problem with people providing similar types of entertainment, after all that type of competition is what makes our capitalist system so great. But when you BLATANTLY steal ideas from another person you should be called out. Sorry sir, but your life is a failure.

What can be said about this dvd that hasn't already been said about the "star" already.

Stolen concept.
Bad writing.
Bad acting.
Boring.

If you are looking for a good coaster for a drink check this dvd out. If you are looking for entertainment, look elsewhere.

Cheap DVDr discs, no extras on ANY disc, and not funny at all.
Chris Bores is a hack that has blatantly ripped off many jokes and ideas from the much funnier (and popular) Angry Video Game Nerd.

This guy has zero personality and zero originality.

Why would any one pay for this garbage when the EXACT same content is free on youtube? If you pay for this, get your head checked.

The moment you see the cover, you should know the man is somewhat of a phony and rip off artist. His name is written in a style which is clearly a rip off of GameStops logo. The material contained within the disk is a rip off of another video game reviewer known at first as the Angry Nintendo Nerd, and more recently as the Angry Video Game Nerd. Both have their reviews available for free on youtube and other sites such as screwattack and gametrailers. In general, they play video games from the past and let their frustrations and anger overwhelm them. Same kinda formula, only one is an ice cold can of Coke, the other is a warm, flat can of diet Shasta. Irate Gamer has disabled his youtube comments and ratings, because they are overwhelmingly bad. His personality leaves a lot to be desired, as well as his acting and jokes. At first I felt bad for the guy, he clearly liked the Angry Nerds format and wanted to do something similar. Hell even I thought at first "I can do a funny video like this too", im sure plenty of us had that idea, because the Angry Nerd brings that out of you, its inspiring. But why be a rip off, and try to do what someone else already does so perfectly. Irate Gamer has tried to do this, and has turned it into something completely different, accusing them of ripping him off, and getting other reviewers banned for speaking out about him. He is generally unlikeable, and this general feeling is reflected in his videos. He is kinda like Tommy Gunn to the Angry Nerds Rocky, a spoiled brat who wouldn't respect the same people he learned from. He has become a guy who cant even let people leave comments on his page because its not what he wants to hear. He has to leave the only positive reviews on his products. You want to feel sorry for him, but he even makes that impossible.

Irate gamer is simply a rip-off of the angry video-game nerd, and i'm sure without looking at other reviews yet, probably every review here has already said that. It's pathetic that on this DVD, the review of TMNT that lifted direct quotes from the AVGN's review that was released a few months prior to the Irate Gamers have mysteriously been removed. Just like the "No comments allowed" option has been switched on to every Irate Gamer video upload on youtube.

Irate Gamer has the knowledge and creativity to make a decent video, well, when it comes to video effects that is, but when it comes to originality and humor, copying someone else and claiming you have never heard of them when confronted about it is what kills any potential you had at being a success story.

The other thing about this DVD, is it should have already been banned from the market and Irate Gamer should have been sued for copyright infringement. At least the AVGN explained that in his review of Back To The Future (NES) he applied to get copyright permission to use the short clips from the actual movie, but was not granted the OK, so they where removed from his DVD release. However, Irate Gamer, in ...what a coincidence... his back to the future video that contains clips from the movies, amongst other reviews that included clips from movies, have not been removed. And there is no copyright OK from any of the clips he used from any of the companies that own the rights to those movies.

So, buy it if you really must, but beware you are receiving a bad imitation of somebody else, useless bonus features, and copyright infringing material.

In 2004, the Angry Nintendo Nerd was created. A few years later, he was now known as the Angry Video Game Nerd. Even though there are countless ripoffs of him being spawned, the AVGN is still the best of the bunch.

One of those ripoffs is the Irate Gamer. He's so terrible that I even blocked him from my channel on YouTube. His videos are THAT bad.

How bad is he compared to AVGN? Very. He never even plays the games he "reviews". He only acts like he's playing, despite that he has several hundred cartridges sitting on the shelf! Speaking of acting, that's another disappointment. He is bad at acting. No one ever seems to get to play a part in the show for some reason (Do you know why? Because I sure do), so he dresses up as another character, so it looks like he's talking to somebody.

This is all you even need to know to figure out whether to buy this DVD or not. If this review doesn't help, then go watch his sadistic videos for more info.

Chris Bores....yep, he sure does. Chris Bores a lot. Even his name gives away the fact that this series would be terrible.