Hello, this is Bahamut, the writer of the series of rants known as Gaming Bullshit Rants (formerly Gaming Industry Bullshit Rants from 13th April - 24th September 2009). A few months before I started writing up these rants, I had thoughts on how many things are wrong with the video games industry and video games in general. I intended to make a list entitled "Top 10 things that are wrong with the video games industry today", but after reading and watching rants, I thought I should make a series of rants myself and here I am.

My main inspirations for these rants are TheArchfiend's video rants, Omega-2's text rants (a real life friend of mine) and The Angry Video Game Nerd and You Know What's Bullshit videos by James Rolfe. Although I mentioned two video makers, I have no intentions to make any video-based rants myself as I feel I don't have the right ranting voice as these guys do as well as a few others on top of my head. You can easily agree or disagree with that thought if you've seen any of my flashes on Newgrounds but at the end of the day, it's my decisions on what I should do with these rants.

Right now, these rants are exclusive to Newgrounds and Blogspot, so you're talking to the real deal right here.

Don't get me wrong, I love video games and of course, 99.9% of us do but unfortunately, there is far too much bullshit in the video games industry and with video games which resulted in myself having thoughts on the aforementioned lists as well as creating these rants later on. Usually there's a new rant posted weekly but some take longer due to either not being as motivated, needing more time to do some research or there's other things planned for the time being. Of course, having a writer's block is another thing to fear.

There's a possible chance of running out of ideas in the near future and when it happens, new rants will only be posted whenever something new comes up. All suggestions for new rant ideas are welcome but please keep in mind that I do have a lot of things to rant on and may already have your suggestion on the list. However, you're still free to suggest any ideas for me incase I actually overlooked something which is only natural considering the gaming world is humongous but please bear in mind that:

A) I'm trying to keep web-related rants to a minimum so I'd appreciate it if suggestions aren't flooded with shitty game reviewers on YouTube;
B) These rants are more focused on the recent years of gaming rather than the past and the earliest I'd like to talk about is the start of the seventh generation. However, I'll make a few exceptions from time to time.

Another thing, there are some topics which will simply be not ranted on at all. The one topic I will not go over on is Jack Thompson simply because not only will you find thousands of rants on him already but he's been disbarred and is no longer a problem to the gaming industry. The only other one that's not to be ranted on is the Irate Gamer, although that might end up changing if he manages to do something so horrific that it makes my blood boil (not too literally, of course since this is only the internet). However, it's a no for now.

THE RANTS

01 - 14/04/09 - Nintendo DSi
02 - 20/04/09 - Nintendo Wii
03 - 27/04/09 - Virtual Console
04 - 11/05/09 - Wii games
05 - 18/05/09 - Wii _____ games
06 - 25/05/09 - Nintendo DS
07 - 08/06/09 - Nintendo: Overview
08 - 15/06/09 - Guitar Hero/Rock Band (Part 1)
09 - 22/06/09 - Guitar Hero/Rock Band (Part 2)
10 - 20/07/09 - Guitar Hero/Rock Band (Part 3)
11 - 28/08/09 - The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
12 - 08/09/09 - Electronic Arts
13 - 18/09/09 - EA Sports
14 - 24/09/09 - The Sims
15 - 01/10/09 - Guitar Hero/Rock Band (Part 4)
16 - 05/10/09 - Activision/Robert A. Kotick
17 - 12/10/09 - Brutal Legend's publishing issues
18 - 09/11/09 - Pokémon (Part 1)
19 - 12/11/09 - Pokémon (Part 2)
20 - 23/11/09 - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
21 - 07/12/09 - Credits
22 - 14/12/09 - Nintendo DSi XL
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The introduction page will be updated whenever necessary.

- Bahamut