Gaming in The Clinton Years/YMMV

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• 8.8: Go on YouTube and see how much bitching there's about the rating given to the game.
  • Even before that, back when the show was still on the air, viewers were incensed by his unfavorable review of Final Fantasy VII. There's even a video rebuttal where the host responds to the viewers' complaints!
• Hilarious in Hindsight: He once proposed that Eidos give the star of Tomb Raider cancer in the hopes of giving vulnerability, and by extension, meaning, to her character. Cue Metroid: Other M (weakness and vulnerability as character enhancement) and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (coping with disease as character enhancement), the most notorious Base Breakers of their respective franchises.
  • Made even more hilarious by the upcoming 2012 reboot of Tomb Raider which aims to move Lara in Wood's proposed direction (minus the breast cancer, of course).
• Memetic Mutation: The page quote and this bit from the Donkey Kong Country review:

"Donkey Kong Country is truly perfect. If you do not get this amazing new generation of Donkey Kong Country madness, you are stupid. Yes, I know it's insulting, but that's also the truth. If you're a true video game fan, you will not hesitate in the slightest bit to buy this piece of gaming history."

• • Usually, people take the two quotes and fill in their own blanks.
  • That, and a spiel he rattles off about how racing games should have both waterfalls to be driven through and police who stringently enforce traffic laws as you struggle to get your pregnant wife to the hospital.
  • "Front-loaded anvils". Really, there's at least one (and often more) from every review covered on Retsupurae. The extremely brief reviews of Contender and Buster Brothers, for instance, have "A nice fat K.O." and Wood's bizarre "pissing mannequin" aside, respectively. After the "nice fat K.O.", the most minor one is probably Wood expressing unfamiliarity with the Repeat Cut ("What is this, some funky new directing style?")
• So Bad It's Good: Despite its horrific quality, the absolute stupidity of George Wood's statements, along with his robotic acting and false enthusiasm, come across as hilarious.