Netflix recommended me to watch this show, and being a lifetime gamer and it had 4 stars, I figured I would give it a shot.
Holy hell Netflix, way to let me down.
This show is TERRIBLE. I'm not just posting this to be argumentative, but every other review is at 8-10 stars and I felt I had to provide a balancing opinion.
Seriously, this type of show is insulting. This just highlights how wrong the public's interpretation of "video game addicts" really is. The behaviours in this show are representative of maybe the 12-year old trolls you'd find on Xbox live, and only the lead girl has personality that is actually plausible. I have been playing games all my life and been on MMOs for the past 6 years and never met people so absolutely incompetent at real life as these caricatures. Real gamers have lives inside and outside the game. They don't talk in 1337speak at the diner table, or bring their own cheese to a restaurant and quote savings as a mathematical advantage, or take off and make absolutely detestable creepy moves on girls they know a screen name for based on an emoticon.
If you have any respect for yourself or for the game industry or for people in general, don't watch this terrible mockery of a TV show. This does nothing but poke fun of blatant stereotypes in the most unfunny ways possible, that only a high schooler would find funny.
Holy hell Netflix, way to let me down.
This show is TERRIBLE. I'm not just posting this to be argumentative, but every other review is at 8-10 stars and I felt I had to provide a balancing opinion.
Seriously, this type of show is insulting. This just highlights how wrong the public's interpretation of "video game addicts" really is. The behaviours in this show are representative of maybe the 12-year old trolls you'd find on Xbox live, and only the lead girl has personality that is actually plausible. I have been playing games all my life and been on MMOs for the past 6 years and never met people so absolutely incompetent at real life as these caricatures. Real gamers have lives inside and outside the game. They don't talk in 1337speak at the diner table, or bring their own cheese to a restaurant and quote savings as a mathematical advantage, or take off and make absolutely detestable creepy moves on girls they know a screen name for based on an emoticon.
If you have any respect for yourself or for the game industry or for people in general, don't watch this terrible mockery of a TV show. This does nothing but poke fun of blatant stereotypes in the most unfunny ways possible, that only a high schooler would find funny.