Anthony Burch wasn't all that bad, to be honest. (Though he was the guy that gave Twilight Princess the 4 out of 10 I mentioned in the other comment. Summa, who was one of the three who co-wrote that review, actually gave it an 8/10, surprisingly enough, given his otherwise anti-Wii nature.) Burch was a bit of an indie-game snob, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but toward the end of the time that I regularly read the site prior to his departure, he seemed to be getting more and more full of himself, though still nowhere near as bad as Sterling.
And yeah, most of the other people on the site are pretty good. Well, at the very least, they're inoffensive. A couple of them have tried to be Sterling-lite on occasion, but they seem to take criticism better than Sterling himself does, and so it didn't tend to last very long. As for some of the others that have left, I miss Ron Workman (http://www.nerve.com/archived/blogs/ron-workman-calls-out-destructoid-for-sloppy-journalism), who was there pretty much from the beginning of the site. He was a bit rough around the edges as well, but at least he could laugh at himself in a way that Summa and Sterling couldn't. I miss Aaron Linde as well, who was an all around decent guy. Earnest "Nex" Cavalli was a good one as well.
Re: Completely agree with you 100%
Anthony Burch wasn't all that bad, to be honest. (Though he was the guy that gave Twilight Princess the 4 out of 10 I mentioned in the other comment. Summa, who was one of the three who co-wrote that review, actually gave it an 8/10, surprisingly enough, given his otherwise anti-Wii nature.) Burch was a bit of an indie-game snob, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but toward the end of the time that I regularly read the site prior to his departure, he seemed to be getting more and more full of himself, though still nowhere near as bad as Sterling.
And yeah, most of the other people on the site are pretty good. Well, at the very least, they're inoffensive. A couple of them have tried to be Sterling-lite on occasion, but they seem to take criticism better than Sterling himself does, and so it didn't tend to last very long. As for some of the others that have left, I miss Ron Workman (http://www.nerve.com/archived/blogs/ron-workman-calls-out-destructoid-for-sloppy-journalism), who was there pretty much from the beginning of the site. He was a bit rough around the edges as well, but at least he could laugh at himself in a way that Summa and Sterling couldn't. I miss Aaron Linde as well, who was an all around decent guy. Earnest "Nex" Cavalli was a good one as well.