Daemon Hatfield is Sauron, and IGN is under siege

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

Demotruk said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Even if he's open to their 'philosophy', his reviews are still highly opinionated and based more on how he 'feels' (his own words) than any sort of actual gameplay points.  And he seems to have little standing on the site outside of his reviews, so it doesn't really do much good if there's only one guy who's sort of standing up for Nintendo in the background playing a bunch of games that the main guys don't even care about.  Which is pretty sad to begin with.  Why does it take IGN a month to review a game like A Boy and his Blob or Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Picollo now?

Well I really mean he's the best of a bad bunch, or the least bad, because all the others do those too. They love their opinionated and politicized (in the case of Wii Music, for example) reviews, because they view themselves as influential.

Totally.  And the sad thing is, they are influential.  But only to those who listen to them.  Which is getting less and less.  Which is why their outbusrs are getting more and more frequent and more and more radical.  And especially with the team that does the reviews for Wii and DS games, they have the smallest readership on IGN now due to their own actions and the type of gamer playing Wii and DS games.  And no, not just because they're 'casual' gamers playing Wii/DS games, but also many of those people who play Wii/DS games don't feel the need to go online and find reviews for games like Mario Galaxy or The Conduit.  They'll either just buy it or not.  So people like Matt and Bozon feel they can't get any attention unless they pull stupid stunts like these opinionated articles and call Nintendo outdated.