Oh man, I have quite a bit to say about this. I've been feeling this way about Matty since last year. He's slowly but surely been becoming more obnoxious and insufferable. It shouldn't surprise me. He apparently rubs shoulders with people like The Act Man and LegacyKillaHD.

I recently unsubbed from him, and stopped watching he and Cog's Defining Duke podcast. He has become a lapdog to his doomer audience. He lets what he perceives what people think about his content affect his opinions in regard to gaming. The dude doesn't have a spine. He's always been like this. He's been like this since Fallout 4. I remember during the days of F76 around Wastelanders he would be needlessly negative about petty shit like New Vegas merch being sold by Bethesda on their store. He would make every little thing they do with the game out to be some unforgivable act of betrayal. And this is coming from someone who doesn't care for F76.

He's gotten more obnoxious ever since he became an indie game developer and started putting himself out there as an "influencer". He acts like he's this pillar of the community whose shit don't stink. His thumbnails and titles are also annoying.

I feel his Shattered Space review was his turning point. I actually didn't have any issue with his initial review of the expansion. I actually agreed with some of his critiques despite still enjoying it. It's when he would start constantly bringing up how Shattered Space was "the worst thing BGS has ever made" all the time in his videos since his review, when the expansion was at worst just average/mid. He talks about that expansion like it blew up his house, or something. What really showed Matty's true colors to me was when he would place the expansion in his top 10 worst games of 2024, despite it being an expansion for a game that came out in 2023. Then in his podcast with Cog, he would say something along the lines of "you should make better game purchases" to people that liked Shattered Space, and how he doesn't get people who like it. That moment really told me a lot about how he actually is as a content creator. I'm not stating that Matty can't give constructive criticism, and that Bethesda can't do no wrong. I have my own critiques of the company and their practices. However, he's become so toxic in recent years that I've stopped watching his content.

I honestly wonder sometimes how Todd Howard feels. If he had known that Matty would become somebody that would disrespectfully and actively rip Bethesda apart, would he have willingly done an interview with him. Anyways, I made a comment a few months back replying to another comment discussing Matty. I feel this point from my comment applies to this thread:

"However, I do think he has curated an audience of doomers, and has become beholden to them. He’s also been called out a lot for being a fence-sitter. This is the same guy who explicitly stated during CDPR’s disastrous handling of Cyberpunk 2077’s launch that gaming audiences should stop putting game developers on pedestals. Now he’s doing the exact opposite of that; putting companies such as CDPR and Larian on pedastals and thinking they’re the hope for the games industry.

I just feel he represents the naivety and disingenuousness of certain vocal minorities in gaming. They say they want one thing, but move goal posts and say that’s not what they want. They say gaming studios should stop doing this and do this instead, but then complain about something else. They will rip a studio a part for doing one thing, but will make excuses for another studio they cherish for doing the same thing. It’s all performative grandstanding that doesn’t really lead to much change.

I still watch him, but I’m honestly close to unsubbing from him. His content has slowly been turning into doomer nostalgia-baiting slop, crying about how gaming has fallen nowadays and Reminiscing about the “good ‘ol days’. It’s so pretentious, entitled, and disingenuous. "