Andrespetmonkey said:
RolStoppable said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
I keep my original reasons. Sure, maybe he should of defended himself better, but my more important point was that this is a very rare occurance, infact, I'm not aware of anything else he's done like that. And people are so quick to talk shit about him and ignore his other stuff, and a pretty big reason as to why people do this is simly because he works for ign.
"we should hold Daemon Hatfield to a higher standard than an average forum poster "And I do, but I can see past one apparantly crappy editorial to see a lot of his much better work. He probably regrets that editorial and has learnt from it.
He actually does get a crapload of praise for a lot of his stuff, especially his podcasts and music. What bothers me is how people talk so much shit about him on well, forums. It's one editorial for fucks sake xD. And he explained in a blog post what happened with pixeljunk. http://www.ign.com/blogs/daemon-ign/2011/10/26/concerning-my-pixeljunk-sidescroller-review/
And I do, but I can see past one apparantly crappy editorial to see a lot of his much better work. He probably regrets that editorial and learnt from it.
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It really isn't just one crappy editorial he wrote, but pretty much everything Nintendo-related he did. Because of that there can be two completely different perceptions of Daemon Hatfield. If you know pretty much only what he did when it comes to Nintendo, he is one of the worst journalists in the business. If you only followed his work when it comes to the HD consoles, he might actually be quite decent at his job.
Apparently he was on that infamous Nintendo podcast that IGN put together for the sole sake of garnering traffic (which they admitted to). They pretty much devoted the entire thing to Nintendo trolling.
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Everything Nintendo-related he did? Such as? I've only seen 2 or 3 articles. Only one was badly recieved.
"that infamous Nintendo podcast that IGN put together for the sole sake of garnering traffic"xD Nintendo voice chat was put together before daemon was even at IGN, it's not "infamous" in the slightest, unless you are talking about a specific episode.
"If you only followed his work when it comes to the HD consoles, he might actually be quite decent at his job." I think he's a lot more than "quite decent" at it, I'm pretty confident in saying he's actually one of the best reviewers around, I've seen plenty of people who will agree with that. He also hosts and produces the most popular gaming podcast on the internet. Look, after listening to him on his show for the last year and a half, it's clear that he's very objective when it comes to things he posts on the site, and I think he's probably the only editor at ign that doesn't have a clear preference to one system or company. Also, he's a nice guy.
I won't go into detail as to why I defend this guy so much, but do you see my point here? You can't judge him as a whole based on a few articles. That's like judging Speilberg on Gremlins 2. (Not comparing Speilberg to Hatfield here lol)
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