Andy T Ignore people like shawnie138. He obviously has clear mental issues as obvious in his review wanting people to die. Moron. You don't have to be a gamer to enjoy this. It's fun. Pure and simple. Fun. I used to be a hardcore online gamer (then had to cut down due to the sheer number of adults acting like kindergarten kids in-game and ruining it for everyone else) so this got my interest. And I enjoyed it. When people start to nerd rage over a programme purely because it's unrealistic-even though it's just a TV show that's made for fun-it's obvious this show ain't for them. Just chill, relax and give it a shot. If you don't like it, it's a shame yeah. But at least you're not like the other idiotic reviewers who went into total butthurt mode over a TV show. Just grow up guys. You're embarrassing yourselves. TV shows are made for escapism. Live a little for gods sake.

Matthew Kenealy Every season of The Guild gets better, meaning that I would probably give Season 1 of the show a 7/10 while Season 6 deserves a 10/10. Why is this you may ask? They went from no budget, to fan donations, to being sponsored by Microsoft and are now sponsored by Google. What does this have to with the review. Well, the seasons of this show really reflect what budget it had at the time, the sets are often overused in the earlier seasons with very little music, wide shots or locations. The camera quality is especially low for the first few seasons but you will want to push through the first few seasons for the payoffs of character development you will get in the later characters.I feel like some characters in the show are slightly are extremely unlikable to the point of cringe-worthy in the earlier seasons. Zaboo seems even creepier that I imagine Felicia wrote him to be, Bladezz comes off as as a painful representation of a foul mouthed and ignorant teenage gamer and don't get me started with Zaboo's mother. I feel like they should have either gone for a different casting for her role or changed the centre of the jokes, I mean a 20 year old still getting baths from his mom gets old fast.Before you say, why 9/10 then. Why not average it out to an 8? Well simply put it is an unfair score for the greatness of Seasons 4-6, I mean there are still plenty of laughs in the first few seasons but S1-3 rely too heavily on the dialog and I found myself often finding other things to do while listening to the show more like a podcast than a webseries. In the later seasons they really get it, they finally find a good mix for Vork, who is the regimented rule following leader of The Guild, Bladezz is tolerable, Tink is cute and evil at the same time, Codex is still shy but now is willing to go out of her comfort zone and Clara is still as irresponsible as ever with her parenting but now you don't feel like reporting her to the police for poor parenting but she instead reminds you of those friends who have really bad parenting. The jokes in the later seasons are also less game centred and revolve more heavily around the gamers themselves making it easier for people who are not gamers to get involved in the series. As in S1 characters often talk about increased their DP and many other references that were difficult to understand unless you had played an MMO before.In summary, great show. Funny characters, but at the end of the day it is a webseries so locations, actors and camera equipment is usually not as high as you would expect on a regular TV show. I still highly recommend it and would probably call it the best webseries currently in existence.

Andrew Moran As a Buffy fan, and after seeing the adorable Felicia Day in the hilarious Joss Whedon Internet show, "Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" (she also had a recurring role in the last series of BtVS and also appeared in Dollhouse), I then found out that she had created her own web show, so I knew I had to check it out - and when I finally did, I was not disappointed.Day has created a wonderful set of socially inept characters whose real world lives revolve around their their un-named (MMORPG) Internet game, which they play as a group, but separate from each other from their own homes.Prior to one group member ("Zaboo") tracking down Day's character ("Codex"), in order to express his undying love for her ( although he only knew her on-line character and her avatar), the group had not met each other in person, so as actual, social interaction increases, so does the scope for comedy.An admitted on-line gamer, Day's witty and well-observed set of otherwise eclectic characters and their gaming foibles, whilst also being joyfully stereotyped, are a great bundle of laughs - but that is also largely down to the superbly cast set of actors playing each of the main characters.Such is the skill and ease with which they have assumed their roles, I found myself checking to see what they had all been in before, feeling sure that I had seen them in something, but instead found - to my very great surprise - that it simply was not so. For me, that is unheard of, and I feel slightly chagrined, but it is also a testament to the cast.Jeff Lewis ("Vork") and Sandeep Parikh ("Zaboo") in particular, may well find that further fame awaits them, but as Day herself has stated, she had to turn to writing in order to find the sort of regular acting role that suited her, blaming and also thanking the very people who had constantly rejected her for parts. I don't think I've ever used the phrase before in my life, but, "You go, girl!"Day successfully and skilfully avoids making the script and stories too reliant on gaming or Internet jargon, and as part of the extended "Whedon family", there are distinct traces of the Whedon style and humour in there too, all of which helps also to give the show a broader appeal than you might imagine, if you were, say, a Hollywood TV Exec wanting to hear a pitch for a new TV show, and you were told about this before it had been made on the shoestring budget that it started with.As I said up top, I went from Buffy to Dr Horrible to this, and will undoubtedly now check out "The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour", so I have no doubt at all that Joss Whedon is looking on to all this very proudly - and rightly so.

jimmietee This hilarious series addresses the real "lives" people spending large amounts of time with each other but only online.Told in shorts, the series' blazing pace is maintained by Felicia Day's manic character trying to work out problems like her friend's characters dying as she is on the phone with her psychiatrist about her obsessive game playing or finding 'Zaboo', another character in her online guild who she has flirted with in game, suddenly appearing on her doorstep in real life.The episodic format develops the characters as much in sight gags as in dialog. Never having quite enough time to fully explore any of the many nuances of both the characters or situations The Guild still frequently makes you laugh at each.