Ignore the majority of reviewers, find a select few that stand out above the rest. Jim Sterling would be a good place for you to start.
Not all of them are massive, manchild cunts. Though Jim Sterling prides himself on being a massive cunt.
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Ignore the majority of reviewers, find a select few that stand out above the rest. Jim Sterling would be a good place for you to start.
Not all of them are massive, manchild cunts. Though Jim Sterling prides himself on being a massive cunt.
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| Xen said: Because gaming is work for them. |
do you complain when your boss tells you "you should get a week off, its okay if you want to work today but we are not needed today we will have to be working extra hard next week though" ?
Double Fine is just telling him to not publish his review till next week and they're not forcing him to either, but just out of respect for the people who get it late so they wont spoil it for them.
I just find it as if he's jealous that they got tons of money from people and he didn't get anything instead he had to ... omg actually BUY the game like everyone else -shock-
| PullusPardus said: Serious question here, they always seem to be the lowest of low, I've seen movie journalists geeking out and being teenage angsts sounding like broken records about star wars and how bad the last airbender is .... etc , yet even though they sink to the bottom of the shithole they do not do it like gaming journalists do it. so whats up with gaming journalists ? reason I made this thread is because I ran across this article here, by the way Broken Age is a good game go play it :) http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/broken-age-review-embargoes/ So the guy is pissed off because of that little embargo that double fine put on the review codes, and because "I BOUGHT THIS GAME WITH MY OWN MONEY NOT AS A REVIEW COPY!" he/she feels the need to bitch and moan about having spent 15 dollars of hard earned money (like every normal human who doesn't get things for free to bitch about them) and not be able to review it until ... oh so long i'm going to die! (about a week) , he then vents off about how he is entitled to do whatever he wants and felt offended that the developers asked him kindly that to not publish a review until the game is released and if they do to just avoid spoiling it for people who want to play their "Backer" copy. this is one of the examples why journalists are such cunts others being the "THIS GAME IS SO FRUSTRATINGGGG" "WHY IS THIS GAME NOT PLAY ITSELF ?! ARGGG SO HARD #thestruggle" and some other laughable journalism moments, like that Gamespot DK review , I'm sure Nintendo fans know which one i am talking about, can't sites hire more mature reviewers ? or are those reviews not gather much (negative) attention? |
Legitimately do not see a problem here, except in the way you mischaracterize what was actually said.
I believe in honesty, civility, generosity, practicality, and impartiality.
| Carl2291 said: Ignore the majority of reviewers, find a select few that stand out above the rest. Jim Sterling would be a good place for you to start. Not all of them are massive, manchild cunts. Though Jim Sterling prides himself on being a massive cunt. |
to be honest I never listen to any reviewer since I'm a massive cunt myself when it comes to taste, but i'm just so damn picky rather than a complainer.
Video game "journalists" see themselves as celebrities despite making less than many of their fans. All of them think they are Katy Perry and won't follow people on Social Media. Either that or there must be something in the water in California that makes them act as such.
Maybe they need to hire people who have degrees in journalism instead of fame-hungry bloggers and hipsters. Electronic Games did the former and their back issues remain a great read and very professional. In 2014, it's an utter joke.
They are not journalists, they're enthusiast writers. They don't have a degree in journalism. They all moan about the most trivial things, like Adam Sessler who bitched and made a controversy about the name of a trophy.


They are trying to relate to their audiance

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| brighat said: Video game "journalists" see themselves as celebrities despite making less than many of their fans. All of them think they are Katy Perry and won't follow people on Social Media. Either that or there must be something in the water in California that makes them act as such. Maybe they need to hire people who have degrees in journalism instead of fame-hungry bloggers and hipsters. Electronic Games did the former and their back issues remain a great read and very professional. In 2014, it's an utter joke. |
right? I remember magazines and some articles from different languages that are fun to read almost as fun as playing the games themselves, they were critics yes, but they did it so professionally that you are eager to read their next publication and learn more into the ins and outs of the games and the proccess of game developement.
I find Siliconera, Rock Paper Shotgun and Kotaku right now to be closest to this, though kotaku sometimes have their annoying obviously biased opinions (like seeing everything anti female like that one time with Dragon's Crown)
Because game journalism as a field is a complete joke, note I'm not talking about reviews since there is a distinct difference between a journalist and a reviewer, while in gaming people often do both I still believe that the reviewer part is mostly done adequately.
The journalism part on the other hand is a complete shitfest, it is all about clicks, all about finding controversies or creating some if there aren't any at hand, pulling words from developers out of context, making up sensationalist headlines etc.
It has one of the biggest parts in this industry still not being taken seriously by the majority of people.
| Turkish said: They are not journalists, they're enthusiast writers. They don't have a degree in journalism. They all moan about the most trivial things, like Adam Sessler who bitched and made a controversy about the name of a trophy. |
If I had a dime every time Adam Sessler and Keighly doing something stupid, I'd actually have enough money to buy the Doritos company
