Games Journalism General

[regalterry]

If you're curious about what kind of Journalism is ranked as "the best" - I dare you to read any of these.

Joke's on them, I don't consider journalists human.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Serious question: why do people think Jeff Gerstmann was good at his job? Do people even watch his older GameStop reviews? He was always one of the worst reviewers at GameStop before he was fired. He was either the most boring guy or infamous for Retarded nippicks. People only suck his dick over the Kane and Lynch review. But these people never watched his older reviews. Dude bitch about Super Mario Sunshine having recognizable Mario music and complain that Racket and Clank shotguns were only good in close range.

 

[Super Hans v2]

Serious question: why do people think Jeff Gerstmann was good at his job? Do people even watch his older GameStop reviews? He was always one of the worst reviewers at GameStop before he was fired. He was either the most boring guy or infamous for Retarded nippicks. People only suck his dick over the Kane and Lynch review. But these people never watched his older reviews. Dude bitch about Super Mario Sunshine having recognizable Mario music and complain that Racket and Clank shotguns were only good in close range.

I like him for his long form stuff, I couldn't give less of a shit about his reviews. Gerstmann is still a journofag oven dodger, but as long as he sticks to news and history he's good. So maybe like a third of his podcast.

 

[Jade Goody]

I want to go back...

 

[Poop A Loop]

PCGamer: "The biggest PC gaming subreddit has blacklisted X for being 'hateful' and 'toxic', citing Elon Musk's 'distasteful' behavior" (link is archived)

The woke echo chambers continue to tighten the seal on their doors to ensure no dissenting opinions are let in.

Are there other news sites that do what r/games and r/pcgaming do that I can use instead?

r/games was always full of woke soyboy fags, but r/pcgaming has gone down the shitter for the last year and this was the last straw.

I used to follow sites like Niche Gamer but that I'm just so burnt out from all the outrage and outrage bait. I just want to know when good games are announced, reviewed, and released. I don't want to know if I should be offended that Stellar Blade has 1% less cleavage on its bikini costume DLC. I can identify wokeshit when I see it, I don't need to be told the West is burning any more...

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Are there other news sites that do what r/games and r/pcgaming do that I can use instead?

r/games was always full of woke soyboy fags, but r/pcgaming has gone down the shitter for the last year and this was the last straw.

I used to follow sites like Niche Gamer but that I'm just so burnt out from all the outrage and outrage bait. I just want to know when good games are announced, reviewed, and released. I don't want to know if I should be offended that Stellar Blade has 1% less cleavage on its bikini costume DLC. I can identify wokeshit when I see it, I don't need to be told the West is burning any more...

www.bluesnews.com
Simple format, the site loads as soon as you sit down on the toilet, no political spergery from the site owner, updates twice a day. Some good jokes from time to time. Plus it has an archive spanning 28 years at this point and still mirrors the old .plan files from id as well.

 

[TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!]

Are there other news sites that do what r/games and r/pcgaming do that I can use instead?

r/games was always full of woke soyboy fags, but r/pcgaming has gone down the shitter for the last year and this was the last straw.

I used to follow sites like Niche Gamer but that I'm just so burnt out from all the outrage and outrage bait. I just want to know when good games are announced, reviewed, and released. I don't want to know if I should be offended that Stellar Blade has 1% less cleavage on its bikini costume DLC. I can identify wokeshit when I see it, I don't need to be told the West is burning any more...

Unfortunately, a lot of sites that weren't depending on outrage seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur over a decade ago.

Checking out some of my old bookmarks, Hey Poor Player keeps on trucking along despite almost zero interactions.

YouTube's algorithm seems to have me figured out so I'm usually up to date when announcements for shit that'd interest me pop up, pretty much replacing any need for a news site to inform me.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Normies legit hated 2D games in the late 90s, it was 3D or bust.

I keep hearing this narrative, but I don't see it.

Same with the claim that games magazines were just ads, but when I ask what magazine it's always Nintendo Power. Maybe Game Informer. Both US magazines.

I remember Mischief Makers and Wonder Project J2 being hyped a lot by N64 magazines back in the day. Broken Sword seemed to be mildly popular, and the only issue people had with 2D Mortal Kombat games on PS1 was the load times. The Dreamcast had a lot of 2D games that were well liked.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I like him for his long form stuff, I couldn't give less of a shit about his reviews. Gerstmann is still a journofag oven dodger, but as long as he sticks to news and history he's good. So maybe like a third of his podcast.

You can say a lot about Jeff but one thing you can't say is that he doesn't play games. If nothing else he walks the walk.

 

[AnOminous]

That pair are aggressively ugly.

I thought the troon was uglier until I saw them together. Mercunte is even uglier. Amazing. Quite an accomplishment for a natal female.

Same with the claim that games magazines were just ads, but when I ask what magazine it's always Nintendo Power. Maybe Game Informer. Both US magazines.

PC Gamer used to be pretty good.

Also PC gamers have always been the master race.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I keep hearing this narrative, but I don't see it.

Same with the claim that games magazines were just ads, but when I ask what magazine it's always Nintendo Power. Maybe Game Informer. Both US magazines.

I remember Mischief Makers and Wonder Project J2 being hyped a lot by N64 magazines back in the day. Broken Sword seemed to be mildly popular, and the only issue people had with 2D Mortal Kombat games on PS1 was the load times. The Dreamcast had a lot of 2D games that were well liked.

Well liked, and especially well liked NOW, doesn't translate to sales.

 

[TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!]

I remember liking PSM (the "unofficial" Playstation magazine that iirc was technically still official?) Cool as fuck cover art and they respected the second dimension considering SotN was the cover to their second issue with a custom painting. If you ever wondered what the old school macho CV art would look like in SotN, they had you covered.

Plus neat stickers to deck out your console and memory cards.

Tips n Tricks was pretty cool too. Liked their bizarre editorial about a Ted K. type trying to sabotage NEC's PC Engine over here or some weird shit.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

Bryant Francis, senior editor at Game Developer and your average soy-glasses soy-bearded soyboy beta cuck, is attacking YellowFlashGuy, calling Twitter/X users "right-wing", and defending Activision Blizzard bending over backwards to DEI.


SmashJT made a video and article about it.
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[Judge Dredd]

Well liked, and especially well liked NOW, doesn't translate to sales.

True, but at the same time, back then games were something you only got on Christmas or birthdays. The rest was whatever you could find cheap second hand, or save up pocket money for.

Plus, when you consider the popular games of the time, it's no contest. A quirky Japanese import when such things weren't easily available vs games like Metal Gear Solid, Mario 64, and Resident Evil. The original GTA and Command and Conquer games were basically 2D, and those were everywhere.

I remember liking PSM (the "unofficial" Playstation magazine that iirc was technically still official?) Cool as fuck cover art and they respected the second dimension considering SotN was the cover to their second issue with a custom painting. If you ever wondered what the old school macho CV art would look like in SotN, they had you covered.
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Plus neat stickers to deck out your console and memory cards.

Tips n Tricks was pretty cool too. Liked their bizarre editorial about a Ted K. type trying to sabotage NEC's PC Engine over here or some weird shit.

64 Extreme for me. Not seen those really archived anywhere. I still have the issue with Goldeneye.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Unfortunately, a lot of sites that weren't depending on outrage seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur over a decade ago.

Checking out some of my old bookmarks, Hey Poor Player keeps on trucking along despite almost zero interactions.

YouTube's algorithm seems to have me figured out so I'm usually up to date when announcements for shit that'd interest me pop up, pretty much replacing any need for a news site to inform me.

www.bluesnews.com
Simple format, the site loads as soon as you sit down on the toilet, no political spergery from the site owner, updates twice a day. Some good jokes from time to time. Plus it has an archive spanning 28 years at this point and still mirrors the old .plan files from id as well.

These two sites are exactly what i’m looking for. Bluesnews feels old school and doesn’t try to be a mOdErN website. These two sites seem to be more informative than Reddit. And that’s a site i’m trying to get away.

 

[Angelic 2 the Core]

Unfortunately it wasn't just game journos that felt that way, people tend to hate mainstream audiences today because they eat the AAA slop and whatever buzz words get thrown around but the reality is it's always been that way at nearly every point in gaming history. Bringing up Symphony of the Night in that magazine is maybe the best example actually.

The modern public perception of SoTN is mostly revisionist history. People talk about the game as if it was a trailblazer and one of the biggest games of the PS1, but, the reality is the game was a flop originally. Castlevania 64 legit sold better, and in North America in particular it sold about double what SoTN did. Europe SoTN numbers were so bad it seemingly never got a reprint (that version of the game is stupid expensive, like double the price of a NTSC or Japanese copy these days.) Japan was the only region SoTN did better, but, JP numbers are so small in comparison to the rest of the world it doesn't matter.

Normies legit hated 2D games in the late 90s, it was 3D or bust. 2D could really only thrive on handheld where no one was actually expecting 3D games anyway. That's why all the future metroidvania CV games were on GBA/DS.

It sounds like what you're posting is actually revisionist history.

Someone on here posted some very stupid review scans from mostly unknown or unpopular gaming magazines that barely anyone read or took seriously. In the mainstream gaming magazines back then SoTN had a great reception (such as being on the front cover of PSM Magazine). It even went Greatest Hits on the PSX so it couldn't have been considered a "flop" if it sold well enough to qualify as a Greatest Hits game, something the majority of games released on the PSX didn't. In the 90's gamers considered it one of the best games on the PSX. The 3D N64 Castlevania games had far worse reception in comparison.

You can go on GameFAQs and look at the reviews from the 90's. User reviews were giving it 10's:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gamecom/293545-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night/reviews

The PSX version also has a 93% average on MetaCritic:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111218200432/http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation/castlevania-symphony-of-the-night

Huge, mainstream game magazines like GamePro and Official U.S. Playstation Magazine were giving it perfect 10's. SoTN was universally acclaimed in the 90's and I have no idea why you are saying otherwise. Castlevania Chronicles was even released a few years later on the PSX due to the popularity of SoTN.

 

[Alcoholism]

The complete and utter fallout of the new Dragon Age game makes Jeff's rousing support of it really really weird. Also accompanied his doomerism over the election.

 

[TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!]

Castlevania Chronicles was even released a few years later on the PSX due to the popularity of SoTN.

Reminds me the only reason we even lucked out and got SotN despite Sony's US branches stupid no 2D policy was I believe Konami threatened to withhold releasing Metal Gear at the time. And considering it went on to become a greatest hits game shows there was still love for 2D games, especially Castlevania which continued to do pretty well on the gameboy and DS considering their re-releases as double titles later on. Same applies to the Suikoden series.

I think Capcom did the same shit when Sony initially told them no to MegaMan 8 and X4 only for Capcom to touch the Resident Evil sign and remind them who brings in the money.

You can thank Bernie Stolar's retarded leadership for a the things wrong with both Sony and Sega.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

I was wondering why Kotaku was pretty based. According to Grummz, Kotaku was hacked by the same cryptobros who hacked VIZ.
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Ethan Gach can confirm that it's hacked.
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[Mooger Meng]

I was wondering why Kotaku was pretty based. According to Grummz, Kotaku was hacked.
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> play Dark Cloud 2
Bless this lovely anon autist.