Meh, doesn't bother me. I have a firm rule about letting anything on the internet get me too wound up. For the record, I love both of those games almost equally, and are probably my #1 and 2 favorite games this gen (ME2 and UC2 that is). Reviewers are still people and commenters at least on IGN are INSANELY obnoxious. It's their site, they can write what they want. The article was actually well written and had some good points, they just used a flamebait title. I think it's fun to watch fanboys get their panties in a bunch, go IGN!

I think sites are losing their market to blog oriented sites like Kotaku, Destructoid and Joystiq. So what the're doing now is trying to mimic those sites by being "edgy" or "highly opinionated." But by doing so they're insulting their customers and that's never the path to success. It will only hasten their demise. What big sites like IGN need to understand is that they ARE NOT BLOG SITES and should act accordingly. What they are, or at least what they tend to be, are journalists. They aren't commentators, talking heads or polemics.

You really promote flamebait?

Quote for truth....

If game sites only focused on one console each, just like the game magazines of the old days like Sega Force and Nintendo Power, we wouldn't have this problenm because fanboyism would be non-existant. Just a thought.

Umm. . . maybe I shouldn't promote it, but I have a lot less problem with it that a lot of people do. I don't expect NYT level journalism on the internet (except I guess on NYT.com ) Everything on the internet has an amaturish feel to it, so who cares? I mean, if I were expecting really thoughtful, well done commentary and I got flamebait, then I might be pissed. But looking at the IGN community a huge portion of it is pretty juvenile and eats this crap up. If it didn't get hits, they wouldn't do it. I think it's a worse reflection on gamers than anything, so I'm not going to jump down a websites throat for getting hits.

I actually like that these big named sites give a more realistic/personal response to people's comments, or whatever the case may be. I feel closer to the editors on a whole rather than just the company (IGN, etc.) I love IGN for keeping a human touch to the response, and editorials. It's always set them apart, and i think that's why they are so big now, they've always been like this, from way back when i first used the site in 2001/2.

Sooo no one understood that IGN was mocking the fanboys?

Everyone understands that.....thats whats wrong with it.

In my opinion, the problem lies with the fanboy criticism that led to the response; not the responses themselves. That is, the inmates should not run the asylum, and I don't personally have a problem with the sites handling the malcontents however they see fit.