>    I find most of the "flaws" he points out to be technically speaking
> accurate, but in most cases not annoying at all (especially when playing
> the game for the first time, when you usually don't even notice such things).

The vast majority of games he reviews are games I've never heard of and 
will almost certainly never play. For the few games that he's reviewed 
and I have actually played, I more or less agree with everything he says.

The difference is, I played Portal 2 and thought "hmm, that wasn't... 
quite as fun as I was expecting". He, on the other hand, managed to 
elegantly explain /why/ it's not as fun. Much better than I could have 
done it, anyway.

>    He has an amazing talent of pointing out flaws in a very entertaining
> way, though, which is why his videos are so enjoyable to watch. Not many
> people have such talent.

Indeed. Where I would have said "nobody was expecting Portal to be this 
popular", he said

   "What you have to understand is that nobody really expected Portal to 
explode the way it did. It is now approximately as popular as a YouTube 
video of a laughing baby riding a startled cat."

I recently discovered Extra Punctuation, which contains gems like

http://tinyurl.com/3ldrhn6

   "The Tiger

   The fierce and beautiful predator of the Indian subcontinent, the 
Tiger has the obvious benefits of wild unstoppable strength and 
razor-sharp teeth, but also has the ability to capture control points by 
widdling all over them, which has the added mixed benefit of making 
every other character disinclined to stand on that control point for a 
while. What the Tiger loses in long-distance attack ability it gains in 
the fact that it's a fucking tiger."

That last sentence seriously made me LOL.

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