My general criticism comes from how they tend to fuel their own dissatisfaction with a game that will start out as valid but then skyrocket to unreasonable degrees all because they're being willfully ignorant and not using or paying attention to the things that the game gives them or tells them.
They have all done this with different games and some best friends are far more prone at doing this than others and it's the one thing to me I find unacceptable and makes them not only seem unfunny but they just end up looking bad in general when there is no reason for that to be so.
It's not even really as simple as "get good at games" it's their general refusal to acknowledge they might be forgetting things and then STILL being like "Wow I'm clearly doing everything that can be done and it's not working, this is fucking garbage"
MGSV is the most obvious example I can give here.
There are plenty of valid complaints to be had with that game we know that.
However Pat and Liam bitching and moaning about a Side-Op taking so long and being boring because somehow even with all his Ground Zeroes experience (Did you guys know Liam played alot of GZ?) and all the time he has put into MGSV doing side content.
He somehow still does not seem to understand how most basic things work, they insist on using Quiet when she doesn't benefit the way he plays because they want to make the being ashamed of actions joke for the 500th time, rather than using DD who they know finds enemies and prisoners immediately (Like that kid they couldn't find and then got upset at the game about the fact they couldn't find him). Hopefully their logic for not using DD wouldn't be something like him making things too easy, given that Liam plays with and abuses the shit out of Reflex mode to get through every situation, which I don't even take issue with, again it helps them get through the game and see more content easier, they're not here to be pro players, but still, common sense.
It's like come on guys, and this would be the point someone like Matt would be like "Oh well people play games differently, shocker."
They do, but that's an excuse. The way a person prefers to play a game is generally the way that allows them to get through it the most effectively and enjoyably, that's why they prefer it, this is not that situation.
And that's pretty much my only complaint with them, they can look up shit and Pat can play ahead on blind LPs, I really don't care, none of that ever remotely phases me or hurts the LP in my opinion as that will generally help them get through stuff easier/faster, go for whatever ending in a game you want or express whatever criticisms, just you know, be sure when you're expressing them, you're not complaining about a thing the game literally has a solution for that you ignored.
