Hmm. I was watching Epileptic Gaming (Episode 126, Friday, Part 3) today and then this popped out of Robert Summa's mouth:
"I don't know if I can take reading blogs anymore... The more you get involved with the industry and understand how things work, and you understand actually the truth of what's going on, and then you read blogs like Joystiq, Kotaku, Destructoid, all of them, I mean, it doesn't matter; they come at it from this outside perspective and just state things as if they were fact, and they're absolutely not true. They will just say things that are just outlandish and totally unfair, and for me, I just get completely frustrated with the whole thing, to the point where I can't read them anymore, to the point where I'm just reading headlines; most of the time I just can't read the details because they aren't really right."
"It's uneducated opinion most of the time. Not all the time; Crecente's a very good journalist."
I just find it interesting that he kind of disses blogs in general, and when he starts naming names, points out Dtoid and Joystiq, both of which he has written for before. Cold shoulder? I wonder if he still talks w/ Niero if he thinks that Dtoid has a lot of false fluff in it?
Just wondering. No Summa hate here or anything.
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How the fuck do you rate if someone is educated well enough to play fucking games? For fuck's sake. Do we have to have grown up with Atari's, Spectrums and Commodore's? NES and upwards? God, take for example our lovely Jim Sterling. He's openly admitted that it's only really PS2 gen games that got him to realize that games are an artistic medium - is he not qualified enough because he never beat x persons Megaman2 high score?
No. Everyone's opinion is more than valid here at Destructoid, for we, the hardcore, write for everyone from a GAMERS' point of view. Only the excessively hardcore wish to know the life behind the curtain - the vast majority of Dtoiders are gamers themselves, some developers etc. We're more than qualified because we have played games and we still play games. That's all you need here.
He's pretty much being a cunting bastard by dissing those who helped get him where he is today. I sincerely hope a public fall from grace will sweep him off his feet sooner, rather than later.
what a douchebag. seriosuly.
done.
You know what? Summa, have fun sitting on a podcast for the rest of your "career".
I wonder if he applies for a job, they look at his resume, and he tells people, "I have no experience until EG, because all I had prior to that was an uneducated opinion on things, hence, my credibility and journalistic integrity is zero + EG games, which is a podcast, you know, just shy of a blog save for video? Yeah, that much more street cred."
"Plus, I can Fold@Home. Hire me."
And to think I followed that douche bag from Joystiq to here. Well, he's done at least one thing right.
@-d-
He left so he could make the big bucks by being a talking head on AOTS. You know G4 pays in mad stacks of free EDGE card memberships. Plus all the ho-hos you can eat. Summa needs all he can get.
Is anyone paying attention yet?"
This *must* be the reason Nintendo showed the rather long Dtoid banner across their E3 screens. Honestly... Now I know why games like Manhunt and Killzone were invented. To hunt down Summascum.
Anyway, I'm sure there's a teeny tiny ounce of truth to what Summa says, about gaming blogs in general, but the man is just being a sensationalist jackass. I know just from reading Joystiq that it often can be a load of crap, but Kotaku and (naturally) Destructoid are respectable and about as trustworthy as gaming blogs can be. Et tu, Summa?
What does he call what he does on Epileptic Gaming? I'd call it video blogging.
Cuntface.
What a retard.
when I first came to this site, I thought everyone held Summa up like a god. Not saying I was right (obviously I was missing something) but I couldn't figure out why anyone liked him. He seemed so inflammatory.
Funny how "uneducated opinion"s give you more credibility than bashing everything and everyone that isn't Sony.
Take him off the Destructoid list on the side...I'm not even sure why he's there.