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Adam Sessler leaves Rev3 Games, starts consultancy firm

He will surely be missed. I remember some of his more recent reviews were particularly entertaining to watch, GTA5 being one of them where he said 200 years from now people will look back at GTA5 they way we look at Dicken's work today.
 
No more Sessler's Something? :(

Well, there goes my subscription to Rev3 on youtube then.

The_Afroman said:
Ah.. remember when he used to have fun? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaZ_HhH8jz0


It was time for him to move on. He wasn't enjoying it. You could tell by his cynicism in his comments. He really didn't enjoy game fans as a whole. I don't blame him. Seriously gaming fans are dicks. I have been enjoying him less and less. Which sucks because I realllllly like him.
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Yeah, he seemed kind of angry and impatient towards the end of his tenure. I guess you could see it coming. Ah well.
 
Adam's work always just seemed smarter than his peers. Really going to miss his interviews especially reviews. Good luck to him!

It's interesting to see what happens to Rev3Games from here. Max leaving seemed to leave a big void, aren't Scott and Nick the other ones there who don't also have side projects of some kind?
 
Serenity said:
It's funny that his tweet is interpreted as intentionally hyperbolic, but we are suppose to believe the death threats are serious threats to his life. When he gets phone calls to his house or letters in the mail I will believe he truly feared for his life.
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This is a pretty ridiculous comment. If you received multiple PMs threatening your life on GAF you wouldn't be freaked out? If it was a friend of yours receiving them and they were threatening murder/rape you wouldn't be furious?
 
You know what? It's kind of sad that he's leaving. I always liked Sessler, since the TechTV days. He's always been passionate about gaming, and even if I didn't agree with his opinions all the time (especially recently), I still respected him.
 
I wish him the best in his future endeavors. I've been following Adam since his Extended Play days. The industry will not be the same without him.
 
Good luck to Mr. Sessler. Watching him wear himself out at E3 2013 made me worry about him. Glad he's changing gears. Hopefully those of us who like him can keep up with whatever he does.
 
I've always admired Adam's charisma on camera. He's always been the face of Rev3 games - don't get me wrong, I like Tara and Nick, but they do not carry the same weight in the channel together as Adam.

Wishing him more luck for his future endeavors.
 
Every time I see Sessler I think, "Man, that guy carries an incredible amount of stress in his shoulders."

Given his documented frustrations with the industry, hopefully he can find his passion again and ease some of that stress.
 
Serenity said:
It's funny that his tweet is interpreted as intentionally hyperbolic, but we are suppose to believe the death threats are serious threats to his life. When he gets phone calls to his house or letters in the mail I will believe he truly feared for his life.
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All death threats should be treated as serious at all times.
 
-MD- said:
I haven't agreed with his opinions on games in a long time so I'm fine with this.

Reznor said:
Pssh... wow.
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Gotta ramble on this a bit, because I think it's important. It seems like disagreement should be a pretty bad reason to be happy to see any critic go. After all, disagreement is great. Unanimity is rarely unanimous and more often just means minority opinions are being ignored or silenced. Ok, but now enter the gaming world. Most game publishers are unabashedly ignorant of games. Their entire business is obviously about publishing games that gamers want, yet they have no idea what gamers want as the people running these companies tend to have little to no interest in games themselves. So they rely on outside sources and hindsight. One of those outside sources are critics. Especially in the early 2000s game publishers started to latch onto the correlation between high metacritic numbers and high sales. So enter mock reviews, which may very well be what Sessler's new venture is about. A mock review is where a publisher hires a reviewer to privately review their game. If the score is low the reviewer tells them how they could help improve it. The reason is that in the past there was a strong correlation between high metacritic and high sales. The logic is pretty simple. Go to the source of the high reviews, make your game for them, wham bam thank you 20 million sales. Ok, but now we have a problem. Suddenly games aren't being made for gamers, but for game critics. So having critics around who you tend to routinely disagree with presents a bit of a problem.

Movies weren't made to get two thumbs up from Siskel and Ebert so what they had to say had no real bearing on what was being made. But games are being made to get high ratings from reviewers. If you don't tend to agree with a certain reviewer then his reviews are detrimental to the sort of games you enjoy getting published. I still don't personally think that's enough of a reason to be happy for a reviewer to get out of the industry, but on the other hand there's a lot more reasonable motivation behind being happy when those you disagree with leave this industry than just burn the dissenters.
 
He's been doing this a LONG time. Good for him getting into something new.

I'll miss him for sure though. Probably the first time I will really feel the void is E3 :(
 
angrygnat said:
I loved him on Xplay. He was in his element there. Some of those bits were downright brilliant. As an independent reviewer I was less impressed. I wish him luck but I'm not going to miss his Rev3 reviews in the slightest.
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That's how I feel as well.
X-Play must have had the best writers in the industry, because with the fall of G4.. he got to really be himself. And, I can't say I was that big of a fan anymore.

I subbed to Rev3 initially because of him and un-subbed a while ago for the same reason.

Good luck, anyways.
He was a likeable personality for the most part. And, I've always enjoyed his E3 coverage. I actually might miss his presence on the show floor.
 
Good luck Sessler, stopped following rev3 when Scoville left he was the only interesting personality. You always seemed okay in a milquetoast kind of way.
 
I hope most people knew he did not write some of his lines on x-play they had a excellent team there which like Adam (With this consulting gig which is much more his speed) are in a better place hopefully.

Now I think he had some suspect ideas (But I can't say I am surprised games media live in a interesting place) but he spoke his mind and what I seen from rev3 he was sliding into the consulting area anyway.
 
Dragonzord said:
Wasn't this the guy who cried and made his wife post for him because he wasn't getting a free ps4?
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Yes, this is that guy. He's always been a MS apologist and a Sony skeptic. He's the guy that liked to tell people they were wrong for feeling and acting the way they do from atop his vanilla covered neutral fence of pseudo-intellect. He was a self-serving, bloviating, out f context, miserable, fraud by the end.

I really do wish him the best, just far away from the games I play.
 
MuseManMike said:
Which is a logistical and psychological impossibility on the internet.
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The thing is death threats don't just pile up via twitter/facebook/forums/youtube comments (which is something no one should have to deal with regardless). People find addresses, phone numbers, and all sorts of more personal ways to to send these threats, often to family members as well. And it isn't to just Sessler and people he knows that get them. The gaming industry is unfortunately filled with these horrible occurrences which is what the tweet was in reference to, albeit with a hyperbolic slant to it.
 
I really liked Adam and Morgan during theirs time together on XPlay.
I remember being really disappointed when they moved the time slot to 4PM, and I couldn't get home on time to watch them. Then I was so glad they moved it to 6PM a few months later after that tech attack show.

Anyway, anyone knows what Morgan has been up to?
I really liked her reviews since it was really balanced and weighted carefully with the pros/cons.
 
If he's doing consultancy work, maybe Pachter can disappear and we can just hear Sessler's opinion on things from time to time.
 
Sucks. I've always liked Sessler and his reviews. I really didnt agree with a lot of them but he is always someone who seemed genuine and seemed to try and give really unbaised reviews.
 
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