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MasterOfHyrule interviews The IrateGamer!

I just emailed the irategamer yesterday and received a response within 8 hours. I came up with 10 questions (some random) that I could think of at the moment(oh, I wish I asked him more but oh well). The irate gamer is also a game reviewer just like the Angry Video Game Nerd and some would say that he's a complete ripoff but he tells a bit of his side of the story.

I'm not bashing him at all because he's also a good reviewer in my opinion.

1. Have you ever seen a ghost? I just found out recently that you do haunted investigations and go to haunted houses.
I haven't seen an actual tangible ghost, but I have seen the phenomena known as Shadow People and it's very unnerving when it happens.

2. Are you scared when going in them?
I'm not scared going in, but sometimes the unexplained things that happen during the investigations can be a bit jarring.

3. Do you think you'll be on TV someday or making real movies that goes in theaters?
Well I've already been on TV a few times, but as for a series, who knows. Maybe one day! I've heard rumblings...

4. How long do you plan to stay as the irategamer?
Well i've got the next year of reviews pretty much planned out already with story arc's in place, but finding time to do these is a constant battle. But I'll do them as long as people keep watching, which I have many doing!

5. Do your parents know you're this famous?
Yes

6. What was the first video game you ever played?
That's a hard one to answer. I grew up on the games at the arcades before the NES hit, but I probably liked Dig Dug and Carnival the most in the Arcade.

7. What game(s) do you hate the most?
There are a lot of bad ones, hard to pick just one.

8. What Game(s) do you love the most?
Zelda 3, Super Mario World, kirby, Sonic.

9. Will you ever review a horror game (silent hill, clock tower). Since you are into horror yourself going into haunted houses, it would fit you perfect.
I was never into that genre of gaming. Believe it or not, i'm not a big horror game or movie type guy. Although I did see the Halloween prequel when it came out and was majorly disappointed by the lack of story they could've done with it.

10. Why did you want to become the irategamer?
I knew I could be good at it, and I was right. Took me a few episodes to find the character though.

Extra Question:
We know you were very inspired by the Angry Video Game Nerd but why did you copy some of the words/style the AVGN used? (don't needs to really answer this).

I really haven't watched his stuff in over a year now but I've never copied anything on purpose and if I have in the past, it was purely by accident. I've heard he's done a few things very similar to what I've done too and with certain games, it can sometimes be unavoidable. But we have 2 very different and distinct ways of reviewing games and any of my fans will tell you that.

Average: 3.8 (9 votes)

cool interview

bit short but some good questions.

Chris seems to quite a nice

Chris seems to quite a nice guy. I wish the fanboys would stop bickering.

Agreed. This whole AVGN v.s. Irate Gamer crap needs to end.

He seems pretty honest the whole AVGN rip-off scandal, I don't blame him.

This blog definitely deserves a spot in the Top g1 Posts.

I agree, i do believe it is

I agree, i do believe it is lame for people just to go on all of his vids and say "YOU SUCKZZ AVGN FTW!!"...

However, some of the blatant plagiarism that he has produced cannot be ignored. I do not find him entertaining, but more power to him if he can make a living doing something he enjoys.

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a link to the past. when

a link to the past. when everyone was waiting for the next zelda game, we all called it zelda 3 before it came out. as you know, a Sohbet link to the past was the first zelda game not giving a numerical name, following zelda 2

TMNT reviews

I many not be a IG fan, but some of his reviews are ok. But there is one review that has too many flaws which I think is his worst review, and that the TMNT review (including TMNT 2,3, and 4). He tries to compare an arcade graphics with 3 nes titles. WTF of course the arcade graphics will be better, there on the nes its 8 bit damn it. Other flaws included saying that the 2 levels in the 2nd game arn't in show in which they are, saying that TMNT 3 is last turtles game for the nes (wrong Tournament fighters is), and saying that TMNT IV WAS ONLY RELEASED FOR THE SNES, Completely leaving out the arcade version and Sega Genesis version (Hyper Stone). Like I said his worst review in my mind.

He needs to stop doing IG

plain and simple.

Note, I didn't say stop reviewing games.

Most of his stuff feels forced, except for when he's not angry, and he's doing things like ROB dancing. If he got rid of the anger, and focused on more things like that, he could be EXTREMELY entertaining. He seems like a nice guy, and has a ton of talent, but being the IG is going to CONSTANTLY get him flamed. Is he a ripoff? I think the IG is. Does that mean I think he sucks? No, he's doing good for himself, but I think he's more creative than he's being right now, and he has shown that in the past.

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i never really thought he

i never really thought he ripped off avgn i just dnt find his videos very funny

Very different styles? Never

Very different styles? Never heard his stuff? Then why are there times where he copies word for word!i rule

Indeed

When I had just barely heard of the "Irate Gamer" I decided to look up some of his videos..

To get an idea of the differences between hsi style and AVGN's style, I decided to watch his video for Back to the Future.

...I may as well have been watching the AVGN video, the pacing and most of the nitpicking were EXACTLY the same as Rolfe's video, with only very minor exceptions. That was the last video of his I ever saw, I felt going farther would just be wasting my time.

not a bad guy

let it pass

He's not funny.

the IG has never been funny in his reviews, he tries too hard and just fails miserably.

Liar

He's a liar watch the Final Fantasy part of AVGN's Chronologicly confused and then watch Irate's new Final Fantasy 3 review.it's amazing!

He's not too bad to watch in

He's not too bad to watch in small dosage, although his filler videos are really not that great. His best video had to be the ET 2 part episode, it was creative and original.

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i did have a thing against

i did have a thing against him, but after watching a few of his vids i really like his style. the nostalgia critic is fantastic as well

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Zelda 3?

lol wtf is zelda 3?

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a link to the past. when everyone was waiting for the next zelda game, we all called it zelda 3 before it came out. as you know, a link to the past was the first zelda game not giving a numerical name, following zelda 2

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