Feit doesn't particularly strike me as anything other than a nice guy to be quite honest - i've met him maybe 5 times? He seems enthusiastic about some stuff but in general he's just ... nice? not much of what he posts catches my eye to be honest.
Nthings - i basically have this whole theory about it - it's a North American thing. See - Eurofilth like me ? all our retro heros are dead. For John and Sprks, Kohler, Nutt ? they were born and raised on Nintendo - it was their in route to gaming... and it's a route that is still alive so i , personally, feel it puts a different slant on , well, everything for them. I have to say that John's "Dark Souls is pretty much a next gen Zelda" was the point where this all solidified - this wasn't the first time he'd used a similar anecdote and nor was it just him making references to old Nintendo games for anything not Nintendo of any note - but it solidified that their whole basis of gaming was based on Nintendo and, in truth, there's a whole slew of games that DS has more in common with and the idea that it somehow "owes" Nintendo when modern Nintendo have -buckleys and no- chance of producing a game like DS seemed somewhat disengenous
But it did make me realise - American long term gamers do tend to still have that Nintendo thing at thier core - but for Euros ? Consoles started at 16-bit in any real sense - and Sega came out largely on top. Prior to that it was largely a computer and arcade upbringing : But eurothings retro heroes? they are all dead ! Sinclair, Amstrad, Commodore, Sega*, Atari, the arcade scene.... it's all largely gone - Nintendo came too late and ripped us off (64.99 Quid base price for an N64 game?!) and though they'll still have some sway especially in the handheld arena (an area they deserve it!) only pockets of Europe are truly "Nintendo land"
So - what tends to happen is Americans tend to either apologise or see the best side in Nintendo, or see credit that somehow Nintendo deserve where frankly they have NOTHING to do with what ahs been achieved. Euros? we just love moaning, we have no retro heroes - we'll flag wave the next thing that keeps us happy.