Life is an obstacle… get over it.

Which is why they don’t ever actually break the surface on the overwhelming majority of stuff they’re talking about and have less credence then a blog post on Gamasutra; they’re brushing over a subject to images without even crediting the material they’re using.

That’s why Extra Credits isn’t taken seriously anywhere outside of it’s own incestious community and general games media. They’re just games media as well, and in a way worse than people making videos on YouTube talking about similar subjects or blog writers who actually link their sources and spend more time delving into the material than depending on funny pictures to telegraph what they’re saying.

Now they’re good at providing a basic and often obvious window to a subject, but that’s it. Unfortunately plenty of people who don’t know any better preach it their words as gospel without fully understanding what the fuck they’re talking about. If Extra Credits actually suggested the material they were taking from then maybe these folks would actually have another point of reference to look into.

The religion episode, and it’s second part, struck me as particularly awful.
Oh, and the video games addiction episode, which I’m unable to finish to this day.
They also defended Mass Effect’s day one DLC, as “they would be unable to sell DLC later in the games life”, which was a hilariously naive assumption considering all the DLC sold like hotcakes no matter when it was released. They then went on to defend DISC LOCKED CONTENT, not just Downloadable Content, as fair, and that paying an extra fee for content shipped with the game was “reasonable” and healthy for the industry.

Oh, and the community moderation section, that’s another awful one.
“why do people keep cursing at me in FPS games filled with ~12 year olds on a violent testosterone binge”

This is really awesome stuff and I would love to see WG do something like this too.