David Jaffe responds to G4TV’s Twisted Metal review

[Panama]

d21lewis said:

Panama said:
He's right.

I still remember an issue of Gameinformer that replied to a reader message that was genuinely asking why CoD gets good scores each year despite barely changing, yet Sonic Generations got slammed by them, and all he replied with was that IT WAS A BAD GAME AND THROW YOUR MONEY AT SEGA THEYLL LIKE IT, something extremely childish like that. How people like this are in the industry is beyond me.

I think that reader said something like, "You gave Sonic Generations a bad score but I'm going to buy it, anyway.  Your plan to make me not buy the game didn't work."  There response was, "If you want to give Sega money for a bad game, go ahead.  I'm sure they'll like it." or something like that.  Yeah, GI is pretty sarcastic in a lot of their replies but even then, they tend to do it in a way that explains their point of view.  Don't have the issue in front of me but I remember exactly what you're talking about.

You're right, you just reminded me of the exact issue. There were two reader messages in regards to SG. GI replied to the poorly written one which was quite obviously written by a child or a fanboy and GI replied sarcastically and hopped up on their pedastal while ignoring the more elaborate of the two questions. That in itself shows poor journalistic integrity.