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so this Garnett guy is going to review The Conduit? he seems like a Wii hater too...



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Yeah, he's the same guy who twitters this to the GamePro guys about the outrage over their review... "all that customization only amounts to a cry for help trying to adapt the Wiimote to something it just doesn't do all that well"

Yes, MP3, RE4, COD:WAW, MOH:Heroes 2 all proved the Wiimote is bad for shooters, lol.

I can't believe these guys get paid for this.

A plus for him though, at least he held off his review til trying mutliplayer (after seeing the hell the GamePro reviewer was getting).



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So much love from Wii owners for this game... where were you after Castlevania Judgment 1up review?



Castlevania Judgment FC:     1161 - 3389 - 1512

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Wii Friend Code: 4268-9719-1932-3069

^ Sorry man, no one wanted a Castlevania fighter, no one.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

Another thing that's funny here is when he says he didn't try the multiplayer but to check the 'preview' of the game where many other editors did. Their preview is a full 180 degree shift from his view. I wonder if others in his office are busting his balls over this shitty writeup.



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Publicly on Twitter, the GamePro colleagues said whether he was right or wrong, they defended his opinion, and then they made fanboy jokes with other staffers and the reviewer at 1Up. Privately, well, who knows?

The author did use the forums to respond to all the hate on the reviews comments and forums. He said multiplayer was not available to him, and seemed defensive, in both an arrogant and a paranoid kind of way:

TKK wrote:First off, how is it unprofessional if I don't play a mode THAT WASN'T AVAILABLE TO ME? I reviewed the game I was sent. Also my build did not have mappable controls. IGN is an online only entity and gets builds later. I get builds earlier due to print lead times. If they changed something, great. But again, I can only review the game I am sent.You are also ignoring the basic fact: they could change the buttons all they want, the game is still mediocre. But here's the catch: it's mediocre ACCORDING TO MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION.Get off your high horse dude. I didn't like the game. This changes nothing. The universe will continue to exist. The Earth will continue to spin on its axis. When did I become so important that my opinion is enough to cause you to lose your mind? Geezus christ. If you disagree, awesome. But unless you were sitting next to me the entire time I was playing and you have actual proof that I only played for five minutes, turned it off and went back to eating Cheetos, you need to calm down. You act like I stole your Cloudsong or something.

TKK



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It's even worse than the X-Play review of CTYD. Not that they didn't like the game, but that they lied about the content (claiming the bonus missions were minigames), and bashed the game based on how much money they think the developers spent, which even if that was true (you can't redo all the graphics over from scratch for cheap, ask twesterm why not), is just graphics whoring by another name.

And then this, where someone deliberately avoids things that improve the experience, when those are standard on the very games he claims to prefer (how many FPS on the PC don't have online or control customization), is utter bullshit.

It's clear fanboys have taken over gaming journalism. When they were gamers, I respected them. But the 1990s is a long time ago.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

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radioioRobert said:

Publicly on Twitter, the GamePro colleagues said whether he was right or wrong, they defended his opinion, and then they made fanboy jokes with other staffers and the reviewer at 1Up. Privately, well, who knows?

The author did use the forums to respond to all the hate on the reviews comments and forums. He said multiplayer was not available to him, and seemed defensive, in both an arrogant and a paranoid kind of way:

TKK wrote:First off, how is it unprofessional if I don't play a mode THAT WASN'T AVAILABLE TO ME? I reviewed the game I was sent. Also my build did not have mappable controls. IGN is an online only entity and gets builds later. I get builds earlier due to print lead times. If they changed something, great. But again, I can only review the game I am sent.You are also ignoring the basic fact: they could change the buttons all they want, the game is still mediocre. But here's the catch: it's mediocre ACCORDING TO MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION.Get off your high horse dude. I didn't like the game. This changes nothing. The universe will continue to exist. The Earth will continue to spin on its axis. When did I become so important that my opinion is enough to cause you to lose your mind? Geezus christ. If you disagree, awesome. But unless you were sitting next to me the entire time I was playing and you have actual proof that I only played for five minutes, turned it off and went back to eating Cheetos, you need to calm down. You act like I stole your Cloudsong or something.

TKK


TKK's review is getting SLAMMED on GamePro forums.....

Read this response to his above statement:

GremlinStew said: You shouldn't review a game unless you have a review copy. You knew the game had multiplayer because in your review you stated that other GamePro staff had played earlier builds of the multiplayer, and it was a well publicized that the controls were fully customizable, so you almost certainly knew that also.

Instead you knowingly reviewed an incomplete build because you were hoping that you'd sell a few more copies of your magazine by publishing a timely Conduit review no matter how inaccurate or halfassed the review was. Then when readers criticize you for writing an inaccurate and halfassed review, you go on Twitter and daydream aloud about killing them. That shows you have no respect for your readers or your own journalistic integrity.

Some people on NeoGaf want you fired, but others have said that's too extreme given the economic climate. Yet High Voltage, who took a big gamble by self-funding The Conduit and pouring thousands of hours of manpower into it, will be financially impacted to a degree by your inaccurate and half-assed review. You didn't care enough about their well-being to simply give the game a fair shake, so why the hell should any of us care about yours--a person who should never be in the position you're in to begin with?

Very true.

And I figured out how this review got past the editor. TKK is not only a reviewer, he is THE review editor. Sad.



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radioioRobert said:
radioioRobert said:

Publicly on Twitter, the GamePro colleagues said whether he was right or wrong, they defended his opinion, and then they made fanboy jokes with other staffers and the reviewer at 1Up. Privately, well, who knows?

The author did use the forums to respond to all the hate on the reviews comments and forums. He said multiplayer was not available to him, and seemed defensive, in both an arrogant and a paranoid kind of way:

TKK wrote:First off, how is it unprofessional if I don't play a mode THAT WASN'T AVAILABLE TO ME? I reviewed the game I was sent. Also my build did not have mappable controls. IGN is an online only entity and gets builds later. I get builds earlier due to print lead times. If they changed something, great. But again, I can only review the game I am sent.You are also ignoring the basic fact: they could change the buttons all they want, the game is still mediocre. But here's the catch: it's mediocre ACCORDING TO MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION.Get off your high horse dude. I didn't like the game. This changes nothing. The universe will continue to exist. The Earth will continue to spin on its axis. When did I become so important that my opinion is enough to cause you to lose your mind? Geezus christ. If you disagree, awesome. But unless you were sitting next to me the entire time I was playing and you have actual proof that I only played for five minutes, turned it off and went back to eating Cheetos, you need to calm down. You act like I stole your Cloudsong or something.

TKK


The reviewer is getting SLAMMED on GamePro forums.....

Read this response to his above statement:

GremlinStew said: You shouldn't review a game unless you have a review copy. You knew the game had multiplayer because in your review you stated that other GamePro staff had played earlier builds of the multiplayer, and it was a well publicized that the controls were fully customizable, so you almost certainly knew that also.

Instead you knowingly reviewed an incomplete build because you were hoping that you'd sell a few more copies of your magazine by publishing a timely Conduit review no matter how inaccurate or halfassed the review was. Then when readers criticize you for writing an inaccurate and halfassed review, you go on Twitter and daydream aloud about killing them. That shows you have no respect for your readers or your own journalistic integrity.

Some people on NeoGaf want you fired, but others have said that's too extreme given the economic climate. Yet High Voltage, who took a big gamble by self-funding The Conduit and pouring thousands of hours of manpower into it, will be financially impacted to a degree by your inaccurate and half-assed review. You didn't care enough about their well-being to simply give the game a fair shake, so why the hell should any of us care about yours--a person who should never be in the position you're in to begin with?

Very true......

Do you have a link to the topic since I want to see how much the people are hating him..



Former something....

I don't see why anyone is surprised by this though. Gamepro is a pretty unprofessional gaming magazine regardless. I remember reading an issue a while back (several years back), and half of it was just an advertisement for the show Family Guy. They had a couple pages talking about the Family Guy game, and then dozens of other pages talking about why the show is great, along with quotes ripped from fan forums.