alright, mebbe i shud vent my frustration at these times on walls instead. But it is a crap article isn't it? Rlly. Look at it. And Walls ice cream is going down hill too

@ littlewilly91
As much as I felt entertained by your bilious words, just want to remind you that Mr Poole loves videogames - at least he loved them when he wrote one fo the most entertaining books on the topic - and this "love-hate" relationship brought some great columns to the table back in the day. (And yes I loved Mr Biffo's "pretentious ramblings" too.)

Angry reader William Miles hates this article. But none of the others.

I'd never read a bad article in my edge magazine, until i read his. I gave it a chance despite my first impressions. It started with the the unoriginal and stupid tagline of ignorant murdering arseholes who think they are great everywhere- "shoot first, ask questions later". he doesn't offset it with anyhthing. That's just it. That's just dumb- Reading the distinctly average introduction where he tells us about his boring "relationship" with videogames didn't put the bad omens to rest. After wordcount assisting description of this thrilling relationship he tells us that he couldn't get a wii for a long time because he couldn't fit it in his small flat. apparently he would have broken everything by waving the wiimote around. but most Wii games can be played fine from the sofa. so that's a lie of a reason not to own a wii. And you still haven't written anything interesting...

so it continues. The sort of pre-emptive, basic feelings and concepts described at the start of other articles go on right to the end. It's just vague smug nothingness! He says nothing of any interest at great and tedious length. And he seems to think it's all a glorious revelation! - "Do many people like all genres of film, or all genres of music? It’s very rare." mmmm yes and so is anything of any importance to a gamer on this page!

He spends most of his time telling us that video games have different genres just like other mediums, and that people aren't going to like every genre. Come on now. That's a bollocks piece of subject matter. I'd be happy to hear why any one thinks otherwise. Really i would. But no matter how i look at it i can't see anything attall helpful in this article. His "hating video games" theme also boils down to absolutely nothing. it seems like he knows next to nothing about video games and is simply trying to voice his complaints toward the guardian. I mean has anyone at EDGE read this? What happened to quality control? Hurry up and fire this vomit inducing -insert derogatory swearword here- and hire Charlie Brooker! Now there's a man who's inspiring! Or anyone else! I don't care. Plz get rid of him! He's crap

There is a line i like though- "I hate a lot of videogames: they can be soul-destroying, artistically null, atrociously written exercises in mechanized futility". PHWOAR! That's nice writing. Indeed, It feels good to know these criticisms even exist after playing hideously dull and derivative FPSes. It can feel like the world is descending into soulless capitalistic brainless mechanized futility after playing those games.
So congratulations on that Steve, but the rest of the paragraph is so disjointed and dumb that on the whole it reinforces this feeling.