Mr YuYu said:wow, and all this time i thought n'gai was white. (no idea why)
The way he speaks. Says a lot about a lot of things I think.
Mr YuYu said:wow, and all this time i thought n'gai was white. (no idea why)
SatelliteOfLove said:I'm still trying to get over the fact until recently, games journalism was knocked as being juvenile and easily corrupted by industry influence on here, yet we get a guy with REAL journalism reputation and he's slammed for a large vocabulary and an intellectual view on gaming topics? Damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.
They say first impressions aren't everything, but this guy's smug and arrogant blog picture illustrates why he gets under my skin better than anything I could post.
With that said, I am going to try to explain why I cannot stand N'Gai Croal. I will probably be flamed because my mastery of the English language is not as supreme as his is and I do not possess the extensive vocabulary that he does. However, if that is the only defense his loyal followers (the three people who comment on his blog) can muster, then I feel I have conveyed my message.
voltron said:The way he speaks. Says a lot about a lot of things I think.
stephentotilo said:I hate N'Gai when he stiffs me on drinks.
Actually, he never does that. But if he did, I would hate him.
shifty100 said:N'Gai is ok, he is very enthusiastic about games etc.
But he can cook up some long winded drawn out shit over the simple things.
TheGreatDave said:Go on. Tell me all these things.
Shnookums said:He's wearing those smartass designer frames. The nerve!
.Madman said:Why is he respected/liked? Because he doesn't sound and act like a buffoon, unlike pretty much every other games "journalist".
Before coming to Newsweek, Croal was a producer at Digital Ink, The Washington Post's first online service, from June 1994 to February 1995. During the mid-to-late '90s, Croal also directed and produced Off-Off-Broadway theater, and hopes to begin work on a short film later this year.
~Devil Trigger~ said:
Calvin & Hobbes often used vocabulary far beyond the average funny page reader's level, yet it's one of the most popular and revered comics of all time.FirstInHell said:Reading this guy's blog is an exercise in pretension. I do not consider myself stupid, but his use of obscure vocabulary that completely disregards his reader demographic is insulting. I do not doubt that N'Gai knows this. Does the average person reading about videogames know what the words "epistolary" and "curmudgeon" mean? You can find obscure words like this littered in his blog posts and sprinkled in his incredibly boring guest appearances on 1up yours. A short while ago I was sent to a practical writing class. They went into the theory that there is a sweet spot to the grade level of your writing, once you go above this you come across as arrogant and condescending.
FirstInHell said:
They say first impressions aren't everything, but this guy's smug and arrogant blog picture illustrates why he gets under my skin better than anything I could post.
harSon said:I love his insights when he is discussing Sony related news but it honestly stops there. He is absolutely clueless when talking about Nintendo or Microsoft (Positive news at least).
lawblob said:yadda yadda
lawblob said:I 100% agree with the original post.
If law school taught me anything, it is that if you truly understand something and have something to say about it, you should be able to explain it in plain english without hiding behind an arrogrant and overly wordy vocabulary.
N'Gai's appearances on 1UP Yours are an exercise in nonsensical gibberish. His discussion about Resistance 2 exemplifies this. He spoke for 10 minutes straight about the game, yet failed to touch upon a single coherent point as to what the game was like, features it had, how it differed from other games, etc.
I get the feeling he sticks with 'high-minded' themes in his blog & 1UP Yours as a way to hide the fact he really isn't much of a 'gamer' when compared to his peers. His analogies are always to trendy, of-the-minute topics, and he always fuzzes over gritty details of gameplay by changing the topic of discussion to philosophical musings about the industry; like he is some kind of futurist. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying only people who play games 50 hours + a week should talk about them, but it constantly irritates me on 1UP Yours when N'Gai railroads a legitimate discussion about games by veering into an ambiguous psycho-babble rant where he aimlessly floats from one game company Exec's statement to another, trying to piece together industry-speak soundbytes and cram them into the context of whatever the 1UP Yours crew is discussing at the moment.
To me, it feels like N'Gai is trying to use his Ivy League-caliber education as a way to disguise his lack of substantive knowledge about games and gaming.
lawblob said:I 100% agree with the original post.
If law school taught me anything, it is that if you truly understand something and have something to say about it, you should be able to explain it in plain english without hiding behind an arrogrant and overly wordy vocabulary.
N'Gai's appearances on 1UP Yours are an exercise in nonsensical gibberish. His discussion about Resistance 2 exemplifies this. He spoke for 10 minutes straight about the game, yet failed to touch upon a single coherent point as to what the game was like, features it had, how it differed from other games, etc.
I get the feeling he sticks with 'high-minded' themes in his blog & 1UP Yours as a way to hide the fact he really isn't much of a 'gamer' when compared to his peers. His analogies are always to trendy, of-the-minute topics, and he always fuzzes over gritty details of gameplay by changing the topic of discussion to philosophical musings about the industry; like he is some kind of futurist. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying only people who play games 50 hours + a week should talk about them, but it constantly irritates me on 1UP Yours when N'Gai railroads a legitimate discussion about games by veering into an ambiguous psycho-babble rant where he aimlessly floats from one game company Exec's statement to another, trying to piece together industry-speak soundbytes and cram them into the context of whatever the 1UP Yours crew is discussing at the moment.
To me, it feels like N'Gai is trying to use his Ivy League-caliber education as a way to disguise his lack of substantive knowledge about games and gaming.
disguise his lack of substantive knowledge about games and gaming
Mamesj said:I don't agree with the OP, but this is a good criticism of a lot of people who take on "video game theory"
~Devil Trigger~ said:funny, cuz i got a clear picture of what he got out of R2
-its still on the raw side(and Graphically now its R1 like)
-he play the 8 player co-op
-Insomniac let play only as Medic, cuz he suspect, now, thats the only class thats balanced or "fun" to show people.
-The sense of scale
-Team work
-how the medic gun works as of now
...
BrokenSymmetry said:No hate for N'Gai's use of "we" in his blog?
He has reached the final step, that being having a group of haters that despise his every word and move.Anerythristic said:So I see N'Gai has reached the pinnacle of GAF fame. Good for him! :lol