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I find their rating system to be highly suspect!
From the Conan O’Brien Show

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Posted by Shawn Handyside on July 25, 2012 · 3:28 AM 
FAILLAMENOT BADPRETTY GOODAWESOME (121 votes, average: 3.72 out of 5)
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Its a sssssssssssshame he didn't bump into a creeper. That would have been a monumental reaction.
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Y U NO USE PC VERSION
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3 replies · active 659 weeks ago
QUIT RUBBING IN THE FACT THAT MY COPMY IS CRAPPY!
I tried, dammit, but it's just too old to do anything with games! I'll stick to the old-fashioned way...for once.
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That's about right.

And now it becomes even funnier to say poor and Irish when you realize that the XBOX version doesn't have hats. Also, since Conan is Irish.
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God, you remember that bastion of youth and naivety where games were for a small bundle of people and it was like your badge of nerd-dom...

Well mine just broke.
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1 reply · active 659 weeks ago
should have broken when jimmy fallon started showcasing games on his show. technically conan should help your nerd-dom because he is making fun of you for liking a game which is what used to happen back in those good old days
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Conan seemed really excited to chop down some trees. I wonder why he wanted to get wood so bad.
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And then he reviews Sonic 06 and gives it a -0.
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6 replies · active 659 weeks ago
not low enough
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Come on guys, at least it has good soundtrack...

Right?
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It's probably the only thing in the game that doesn't make the universe implode, were it not in there.
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On the 88 Star System that might actually be too high
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well I think the lowest you can go on the 88 Star System is the absolute value of 17.π, so maybe we could give it that
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Hey don't insult Phoenix's favorite game!
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Wait, so Conan used to be poor and Irish?
Oh Conan
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2 replies · active 659 weeks ago
Can't you tell? The red hair should be a dead giveaway.

That wonderful, wonderful celtic red hair.
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And the skin so white that it'll blind you if you stare at it too long.
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Holy shit, this is what I've been looking for! A guy on the internet playing a video game and telling me what he thinks of it!

Thank you, Conan, for fulfilling a need that the internet has never before been able to provide!
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13 replies · active 659 weeks ago
At the risk of receiving -1s, I want to stress that this really does just annoy the hell out of me because he's not even trying at all. Not one bit of effort. He even stresses how little he knows about what he's doing. His reviews and critiques come off as whining, the only emotion we get from him is annoyance, and can't even be arsed to summarize how he felt about it. There's doing things for the sake of comedy, and then there's doing things half-assed. I wouldn't mind it so much if there weren't already literally thousands of videos like this on YouTube.

So why did he do it? Because he knows it's popular with us. Minecraft's popular on the internet. Video game reviews and LPs are popular on the internet. And sure enough, the review is here on Halolz.
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In Conan's defense, he was probably trolling. Though I must agree with him, those shorts really are awful. ;-;
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I personally thought it was a kilt. *shrug*
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Umm... don't know how you didn't pick up on this, but it wasn't a serious review. He stresses that he doesn't know what he's doing to get across the point that you shouldn't be taking his review seriously. Really you shouldn't take ANYTHING he says seriously because HE'S A COMEDIAN, not a game journalist. I'm pretty sure his review will affect the decisions of exactly 0 people because that wasn't the point. Lighten up.
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But even when you look at it as a comedic sketch, it wasn't really that funny. I mean, he did try making some jokes, but they're the jokes you'd expect from someone making them up while playing a game.

It's possible to not take a review seriously at all and still make it funny and original, but you still have to put some freaking effort into it.
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>They're the jokes you'd expect from someone making them up while playing a game.

......yea, that's exactly what was happening.
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How to put this delicately.... I know there is something out there that would pull together all these mixed emotions on how to react to this...

OH I KNOW

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His rating system should have given away that the entire joke was that he had no idea what was going on.
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To be fair a lot of the internet sucks at reviewing as well. Some places and writers are even infamous for they're reviews. *cough* ign *cough*
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What about that guy from Gametrailers? He sounds like he knows what he's talking about.
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That's very true, but it doesn't really defend Conan's review much by comparing it to videos like this (chose a recent game review at random).
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Punch, eat a Snickers. You get a little bitchy when you're hungry.
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BITCH I'M BETTY WHITE. YOU DON'T TELL ME WHEN TO E-oh hey, a Snickers bar.
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aw no creeper, well let me give some help to educate him in the way of the creeper

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And i'm guessing TF2 will get.............a hat.
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Dammit, where was the obligatory creeper!
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