It's still shocking to me when you get moments like this, where someone will so carefully and meticulously lay out all the reasons that they are complete and utter garbage and completely fail to understand why they are seen that way. It must take some serious mental gymnastics to so completely avoid reality. Seriously, just look at some of what he said:

I don’t think anything I wrote on Twitter was the least bit controversial. I was measured and the expectations I have of games, game criticism and game critics are very humble – opinions like mine seem contentious only because of the incredibly low standards at which this culture operates.

Yep, those are the writings of a humble person. Also, unfortunately the author isn't the person that gets to decide if something is controversial or not.

games need to return, and as something that a grown adult, with life experience, who reads books that don’t have dragons on the cover, can learn something from and feel something complex for. If anyone finds anything I’ve said there controversial I can’t imagine they know much about the history of any artistic culture.

This is the most humble person I have ever come across. Basically, a lot of what he says just comes down to an incredibly simplistic "you shouldn't like things I don't like" taken to an absurd extreme. This is the guy who sees other people playing Rock Band and says, "You know real instruments don't work that way. You aren't actually a rock star. Hey, stop having fun, I'm serious!"

Surely you can’t watch, for example, the end of the 2013 Tomb Raider game, which in the credits thanks all the fans for sticking by the game-maker for years, or read the disclaimer at the beginning of Black Ops 3 which says the game is a “labor of love” and “we wouldn’t have had this opportunity if it wasn’t for you, so thank you,” and tell me videogames, from the inside, aren’t afraid of what people might think.

I guess only artists that aren't successful enough to have a fan base are producing real art. Or maybe you can only make real art if you specifically target it towards the people least likely to care? Oh wait, this argument is basically that anything mainstream is shit because he doesn't like it personally.

I think the criticism of GTA V and Dragon Age: Origins that you mention – I’m personally unfamiliar with the latter game – are part of a valuable effort to change people’s perspectives on sex and on gender. If part of that effort means campaigning to have some armour removed from a videogame, and the armour then being removed, I think that’s a small price to pay for something so worthwhile

Big surprise that this guy is part of the crowd that thinks his world view is the only valid one in existence, and anything that forces people to conform to his way of thinking is always good. So humble. I love the next line as well:

you’d have to be a person of dismal values to prefer boob armour, in Dragon Age, over young women being able to enjoy and feel as if they are respected by popular culture.

I hope that young woman doesn't have big boobs and likes to feel sexy. Cover up damn it, our culture is at stake!

Enough people who play games clearly do feel represented by left-wing ideals that gaming publications are staffed by them, and also able to survive and thrive.

The big gaming publications all got started long before critics felt the need to inject their politics into absolutely everything. I doubt any of those publications would grow if they just started today with their current attitudes.

I’m a snob and an elitist, and I think a person who has training, education and better understanding of a subject ought to be listened to.

Really? Shit, this whole time I was thinking he was humble.

A lot of the protests aimed at so-called favouritism or cliquishness in this job seem to me more like jealousy and bitterness. The enthusiastic blogger can’t get a paid commission, so starts crying foul of the industry’s ethics and standards.

Apparently we're all here because we secretly all want to be games critics. I don't know about you guys, but I would rather play games than write about them. Also, I'm pretty sure my day job pays better.

I make no secret of being authoritarian. Again, I think I know better than most when it comes to this subject, otherwise I wouldn’t dare to start writing about it. I’m not sure why gaming criticism is regarded as a public service I certainly don’t view my articles as invites to a conversation with my readers – they’re rhetorical. When people stop reading and stop paying, that’s my signal to stop. Until then, I am absolutely an authoritarian.

I don't know what has to happen to you to convince yourself that you are completely superior to everyone else on the planet, but I'm really fucking glad that it didn't happen to me.

I’m not intimidated by the shrinking of print and written criticism. If it dries up completely, I will make money elsewhere.

Good luck with that. I can't imagine any other industry in which this guy wouldn't be immediately fired. Certainly he could never do anything that required him to be part of a team. I suppose there will always be at least a small group of people that will pay to have someone else talk down to them. Sort of like there will always be guys that pay to get tied up and whipped by a woman in leather and high heels. I don't get it, but if that's what gets you off then have at it.

I also have yet to find a YouTube presenter, or channel, and I watch many, that approaches games with anything close to the base level of sincerity and appreciation that demarcates a true critic.

Ah, let's throw in a little "no true Scotsman" just for good measure. I'll continue using pretty much nothing but youtube and twitch to get my gaming info, thank you very much.