This show paints itself as a comedy about gamers. It isn't. It is a mean-spirited caricature of the worst types the gaming community has to offer: the addict, the neglectful parent, the shameless douche, the stalker, all of them unfunny and unappealing to me.
"You're just mad because it's making fun of you." Wrong; I'm mad because the characters aren't characters, they're just unfunny archetypes that exist within the gaming community. They could've been clever or somewhat original with the comedy, but instead they serve up every half-baked joke that you'd expect from a show that makes fun of gamers: the annoying doucheface who makes inappropriate comments and who in real life no one would want to play with; the neglectful parent who LETS THEIR INFANT PUT THEIR MOUTH ON A CIRCUIT STRIP. Am I supposed to laugh at how this person is endangering their infant child? Because the possibility of a horrifying death by electricity is not humorous at all.
Now, a caricature of gamers can work. Dead Gentlemen Productions has made no less than THREE movies poking fun of gaming and how in to it gamers can get. Granted, the third was only half-good, but the point stands that their characters have more to them than just gaming. They have weird quirks and styles of playing that are hilarious to everyone except their Dungeon Master,
Overall, The Guild is crap, the jokes are not funny, and there's no real conflict to speak of that I would care about, since I would gladly load all of these people (plus the film crew) on to a rocket and send them to Ceti Alpha 5 in a heartbeat.
"You're just mad because it's making fun of you." Wrong; I'm mad because the characters aren't characters, they're just unfunny archetypes that exist within the gaming community. They could've been clever or somewhat original with the comedy, but instead they serve up every half-baked joke that you'd expect from a show that makes fun of gamers: the annoying doucheface who makes inappropriate comments and who in real life no one would want to play with; the neglectful parent who LETS THEIR INFANT PUT THEIR MOUTH ON A CIRCUIT STRIP. Am I supposed to laugh at how this person is endangering their infant child? Because the possibility of a horrifying death by electricity is not humorous at all.
Now, a caricature of gamers can work. Dead Gentlemen Productions has made no less than THREE movies poking fun of gaming and how in to it gamers can get. Granted, the third was only half-good, but the point stands that their characters have more to them than just gaming. They have weird quirks and styles of playing that are hilarious to everyone except their Dungeon Master,
Overall, The Guild is crap, the jokes are not funny, and there's no real conflict to speak of that I would care about, since I would gladly load all of these people (plus the film crew) on to a rocket and send them to Ceti Alpha 5 in a heartbeat.