Review of The Nextlander Podcast - When did Vinny get such a

When did Vinny get such a negative outlook...😔

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“I know it slowly happened since he left GB but he's become worst than Jeff Gerstmann, that's Jeff’s schtick anyway not to mention countless other podcasts. Just wondering how much longer till Vinny becomes the guy in Jersey yelling get off my lawn at the neighborhood kids. This is hard for me as I have been a fan of Mr. Caravella since he started showing up on Gamespot E3 coverage videos, pre-whisky media days and my respect just grew immensely from there. Vinny & Drew are still my all-time favorite duders, past and present, I never disliked anybody so not about that. Drew & especially Vinny were always the most positive people in the entire crew and would always find a silver lining in even the most negative of games, news, etc., outside of the obvious downer news that can't be helped where lives or jobs are lost. You could always hear Vinny’s smile when he talked even on an audio podcast. Still to this day his laugh will light up the room and brings a smile to my face. Over the last 12 months, the overall negativity from Vinny has gotten noticeably worse, it has made me end my Patreon contribution as I mostly just skim the podcast as of late and rarely catch the Youtube vods anymore unless it's an FMVinny type video which will probably always make Vinny happy. I've noticed the change much more as I've recently been watching a lot of GB archives, just finished the Mass Alex trilogy again. I understand people change but Vinny has shown the same positivity for the last 16+ years and his positive view has pulled me through many rough situations in my own life and pushed me to be more positive for the benefit of others, no matter how hard. Just using this as an example but it's the most recent episode I listened too, got out of order with the last couple of episodes. They were discussing the Avatar videogame from the Keigh3 & Summer Games Fest announcements and Vinny was the most negative person regarding the game. I actually have no interest in the game at all but once Vinny started talking about how it could just become a classic Ubisoft open-world game in a negative context regarding the side quests, the problem lies in that he will go and do the exact same thing in a Sony first party games (God of War & Horizon games etc) where the sidequests are just as generic and boring for 99% of them. Vinny used to find a positive way to spin them or just talk about the positive things and what he liked while barely mention the negative parts and not be overly harsh on them, would leave to others if they mentioned it. This example isn't even that bad in regard to him talking more about the negatives than the positives. Between this and him talking about the Starfield game and discussing Bethesda’s baggage with bugs even though it's been widely reported and Phil Spencer told Jeff Grubb on the Giant bomb interview couch that this is why it's been delayed and its got basically the smallest amount of bugs they will ever ship and the stability of the game is their priority and understand the importance of getting it right. This news would of normally made Vinnie super excited for the game since it directly addressed his concerns and the man loves his space games. I also have issues with how Nextlander handles the news in most episodes, there are so many times they've gotten things wrong, and sometimes not just little things or they severely underestimate how important some news is. Most recently the Jim Ryan email that came out of the Microsoft vs the FTC federal court case, was massive and even brought up on day 1 with the judge stating the importance of the email as to why it won't be dismissed as evidence no matter how hard Sony pushed to dismiss it. The fact this wasn't mentioned is crazy especially compared to other items they mentioned from day 1. I would like to give Alex props as he is always the most accurate/prepared in regards to news and if he's not sure regarding something he just won't comment on it and I always love how Brad will take the time to fact check or get info on some news items that are quick and easy to verify with a search. The problems that they get wrong are usually items that can't be corrected in a quick search. I get why some podcasts have fact-checkers or others like FireEscape just don't do news at all, both are always better than stating wrong things. First and foremost I hope Vinny’s life is great and he's not going through anything behind the scenes! I used only examples from the last few episodes I listened to for simplicity, no need to create lists. I know others in forums etc. have mentioned politics being talked about too much and while I agree I can get over that and I usually just fast forward when they over do it. My “favorite” is when these guys tell others to “unionize” even though they have never been in a union themselves and are actually quite clueless in its realities after listening to them talk about them. I've been in investment banking for 20 years and had a lot of successful negotiations with Unions, only ever told one client to sue their union, while most of them are awesome to deal with and do so much good there's quite a few who's union leaders are Bobby Kotick level incompetent and corrupt. FYI these bad examples mostly occur in unions entering new industries. I would have thought these 3 guys learned long ago to never talk in absolutes! The 2 issues I mentioned while not a big deal on their own are kind of the final straw that broke the camels back type of situation. I still love all 3 guys, Brad and Alex bring so much to the shows that I love but the biggest draw for me of what I have been watching the last 17 years isn't there so it's time for a break at least, at least I have the archive. Thank you for a wonderful 17 years to all 3 of you duders, it's more than any of us deserve! FYI I tried to catch them all but my son's name is also Vincent and he spells if Vinnie, if I used either of these in place of Vinny my apologies but that's why.”Read full review »

JediMaster Daddy via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 08/22/23

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