Games Journalism General

[Frosted Snowflakes]

I smell bullshit coming from Jason Schreier.

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

im sure as hell not gonna laugh at people losing their income but legit the entire gaming press is worthless. PICK A REAL JOB YOU FAGGOTS

I have no idea if you're trolling or being a contrarian for fun but I'll answer seriously anyways.

Have you ever had a piece of media that you want to see, be it a tv show, movie or game, be cancelled or stuck in limbo for all eternity for bullshit reasons?

For me that piece of media is The Last Night

It's a game that promises the most interesting take on cyberpunk that I've heard in a while.

Basically, the utopian future that the anti-work socialist faggots of reddit dream of has become true, humanity no longer needs to work and everything is now done by machines, everyone wastes their days away eating the worms, drinking the corn syrup and spending their universal income in consoomerist horseshit that they don't need.

The reason why the game is in limbo forever is because the good people of the gaming press pulled a relentless harassment campaign against the producers of the game and just about everybody that had a hand in funding the project, the game went into hibernation as a result of lack of funding and people lost their jobs.

The game is supposedly still being made but it has been rewritten from the original vision if an interview from pc gamer in 2021 is to be believed, it no longer goes against the "correct" political zeitgeist and honestly if it ever gets released it will most likely be a redditor's wet dream instead of what it originally promised.

By the way you won't learn about the game's plot in wikipedia given they're in bed with the people that didn't want the game to be released but you will learn about how the devs are evil bigots associated with the harrassment campaign known as GamerGate™ .

People wonder why nobody makes games with different viewpoints, this is why, if you do so they will go after your funding sources, if you do it yourself they will go after your bank accounts, if you ask for help from other people they will go after the friends and family that want to support you. They want you isolated, they want you destitute and nothing would make them happier than knowing you have killed yourself.

These aren't people, they are scum of the earth and they deserve no sympathy.

 

[blackface enthusiast]

>Despite that, sites like IGN and Polygon are STILL frequently promoting cool indie games

As long as they subscribe to the leftist hipster clique's political tastes, sure. And of course they're out there fluffing games made by their friends.

 

[p1138]

For me that piece of media is The Last Night

God damn, I had forgotten about that game. Not a chance in hell it won't be some pozzed slop if it ever sees the light of day now. Game journos have indeed tried to chase many people out of the game creation industry, usually it's after they've made their money but the guys making The Last Night got fucked by game journos in advance.

 

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For me that piece of media is The Last Night

You're forgetting the best part about The Last Night.

So TLN was featured at E3. And when they announced it, Zoe fucking Quinn was there, INSTANTLY, with a cancelation attempt. And it worked, because back then she was ascendant and no one dared defy her.

See, the author was having discussions on Twitter about equality. And he meant equality, and not soy based imitation equality product, aka equity. The former is fine. If you're a good programmer, you having a cunt or black skin shouldn't matter. The latter is communism. "Nothing matters except equal outcomes for everyone." So if you're a good coder, oh well, you get paid as good as the paste eating female jeet that does nothing but post on twitter all day. That makes it "fair," if you're a fucking idiot or someone who knows they can't compete with people.

Zoe Quinn had this cabal of SJWs called "CON." I forget what it stood for. She wasn't very subtle; she didn't have to be, she was fucking half the games industry and she's actually related to a shitload of New York City politicians. VERY rich family, no matter what her simps say otherwise. (Remember, she was invited to speak at the UN about people being mean to her online. There is no other cow that comes close to that level of influence. Imagine Keffals the Fart Queen being asked to speak in front of congress about people making fun of him. Yeah, something was fucked with Quinn, and someday we'll find out about it.)

Ian Miles Chungus was part of CON, Brianna Wu wanted to be part of it but Quinn refused to let her, etc etc. They literally scoured twitter for wrongthink and created dossiers on indy devs, journalists, influencers, et cetera in case they ever crossed Quinn.

When TLN was announced that it was going to be on stage at E3, they had an entire dossier on the creator ready to go.

And some of it was faked. Kotaku In Action covered it when it happened; some of the screenshots were your bog standard F12-edit-html screenshot faking. You could go to his timeline and the posts -- and replies -- were literally missing. You can't remove tweets and cause a conversation chain to adjust to go around the missing bits, so this was 100% faked and 100% confirmed.

Didn't matter. TLN's creator had to waste his shot at E3 apologizing for spreading the EVIL CULT BELIEF of Meritocracy and Equality, and not the GOOD RIGHTINK PARTY APPROVED belief in Diversity and Equity.

That was just the start. They hounded his ass every fucking day for years afterwards. Got his publisher to drop him. Got his audio guy to quit. Accused him of sexual impropriety because he discussed nudity in film or something on his website and "didn't get permission to use a photo of a woman sunbathing" or somesuch tripe. (He apparently should have not only paid the stock image provider but also hunted down the model and begged her permission too.)

The real sin according to the SJWs, and they said as such on twitter, is that he was doing a Cyberpunk game, only it wasn't "communism good corporations bad right wing evil left wing noblebrightgood." The game was about a LEFT WING dystopia. And according to the SJWs at the time, that simply didn't make sense, because "there's no such thing as a left wing dystopia" and "cyberpunk is a progressive genre." So he wasn't allowed to write in it without their permission.

I have no idea what happens to his game now. I doubt it ever comes out. I hope he doesn't change it, as he's basically outlasted Quinn and her cult.\

Edit: Also, I missed this drama when it happened; apparently some other devteam basically took the TLN trainer and imitated it as much as possible. Even had the same animation keyframes, apparently. TLN's dev called them out for it but they since changed the art style. Don't think it ever came out, however.

 

[NerdShamer]

I have a feeling the Giant Bomb shuttering is more than just “strategic brand and creation realignment”. There is something that has been going on with Giant Bomb that I can’t quite articulate, but I’m pretty sure there is concern over their content that goes beyond “PG-13”. They went and completely stopped the site, and I highly doubt it was just because of an off color joke about Emma Frosts tits in Marvel Rivals

Lately, Fandom (the company that's trying to monopolize the entertainment journalism field) have been screwing over their wiki farm under the guise of "brand safety" when it's just some teenagers shitposting about an baby's show or something. It was in the realm of black comedy, if you want an example. There's some more stuff, but it's irrelevant to the thread. But I believe that this might be the latest in their "kid friendly" policies, although I'm not entirely sure, yet

But anyways, I've recently saw some noise going on in the background and was wondering what it was about. Right now, I'm trying to trace exactly what caused this shitshow to see if it's their usual globohomo corpo bit or is it something more notable

 

[東海旅客鉄道株式会社]

Games journalism died a long time ago. When people on x could post a small blurb about a some big news and a few screenshots the need for a website and 1000 word article became pointless.

The important news could be put out there in a tweet and given the attention span of current zoomers that's all that was needed. That's why we started seeing more fluff pieces like "30 best queer characters in games". Outrage clicks were all they could farm but even now people aren't even outrage clicking anymore. That's why they have moved on to screwing with th Google algorithm and are pumping out "guides".

Pcgames N, a site I used to like has moved on to the next thing post "guides" and is basically just harvesting referral clicks to pay to win slop games.

Considering gaming is dying a painful death with how bad and shallow games are now nothing will be lost when there sites all die with them.

Also here is a picture of a new luxury Japanese train called the Echigo Tokimeki Resort Setsugekka.

 

[ZipDisk]

How did games journalism become these fucks?

Like I remember Gerstman getting shitcanned, but back then it was still about the games, and he said Kane & Lynch sucked. As a game, it did. Should have been a Michael Mann movie instead of a game aping the shit out of Michael Mann.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

If the Corpos and CEOs were so bad they're leaving money on the table like GameJournos say they are somebody would be able to get investors together to buy Polygon and run it as is for easy profit. Strange how that never happens.

Jim (((Bankoff))) of Vox Media was the one that had the idea for long-form journalism that would have historical value. I wouldn't be THAT surprised if he was secretly disappointed with what Polygon turned out to be and after a long battle the divorce was finalized, it was only a matter of time before he found a right target to offload it to.

I smell bullshit coming from Jason Schreier.

"Overworked and underpaid" is almost certainly bullshit but it's been discussed in another thread—the mainstream gaming press doesn't cover indie games because there's nothing in it for them (exceptions are of course hipster bullshit made by friends and the rare indie game that eventually gets too big to ignore). There are 50+ games released on Steam every day. Most of them are asset flips or visual novels or Indian/Chinese-produced garbage not worth touching, but to talk about new games, that is the job of games journalism. If they just picked the top 10%, screwed around with them for 15 minutes each, then spent time writing about them, you'd have 25 games to talk about every new week and what's worth checking out or has promise. Yeah, it would take work but they have dozens on people on staff, that's their job.

His whining about games journalism is similar to complaining about newspapers and the articles therein; turns out when you gut the content people like and put out content that people don't care about, they're not going to read your shit.

Soybeard there also is forgetting why streaming has sapped game journos' revenue in the first place. I don't watch streamers, nor am I a games journalist, but the lessons to take from there is:
1) produce content that people want to see and would throw money at you for
2) like or at least pretend to like your audience

That's it. I don't think highly of streamers at all but the fact that vidya journoslime are neither talented or decent people really drives the point home.

 

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How did games journalism become these fucks?

Like I remember Gerstman getting shitcanned, but back then it was still about the games, and he said Kane & Lynch sucked. As a game, it did. Should have been a Michael Mann movie instead of a game aping the shit out of Michael Mann.

Woke activists don't believe in money (they think they'll see a communist revolution in their lifetime, making them party leaders who will live for free forever) and they work for less pay for the chance to push activism. In addition, woke will actively purge nonwoke and hire woke. (This is actually a tactic called Entryism.) The end result is companies naturally swing towards the left and then die.

Similar shit happens with Indian outsourcers.

 

[30+GameOvers]

How did games journalism become these fucks?

Like I remember Gerstman getting shitcanned, but back then it was still about the games, and he said Kane & Lynch sucked. As a game, it did. Should have been a Michael Mann movie instead of a game aping the shit out of Michael Mann.

Like you just read, they were all bullied out or they bend the knee. Same as with game devs, this dates back way longer than just Gamergate too if you recall the Gamespot Kane and Lynch fiasco(which if I remember directly lead to the founding of Giant Bomb). If you wanna go back even further back in time, there is the Driver 3 fiasco which is one of the first documented instances of game shills on the internet on top of the usual shilling from the journos.

 

[ChefKiss]

no, where will we go for thoughtful articles like:
-What playing Fall guys with a sex toy means for sex, tech and consent in games
>Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con sync issue is even worse if you put it in your butt
-amiibo as butt plugs, ranked

What a tragic loss game journalism will be

 

[Oliver Onions]

People say that GamerGate lost, but they never realised it was a war of attrition. Much like Null waiting for Liz Dong Gone's eyes to rot out of his cuboid skull, all we ever had to do was sit back and wait for all these sites to collapse in on themselves because they provide absolutely nothing of value.

I smell bullshit coming from Jason Schreier.

Genuine question for the thread: when was the last time you learned about any game via a gaming website? All my news comes from YouTube now, from independent creators, and I drop them the second I get a whiff of any shilling going on.

How did games journalism become these fucks?

Nepotism. Some people think Zoe Quinn was patient zero for the rot in games journalism, but all she really did was expose how incestuous the industry is.

Once a couple of them made their way in in the early 00s they prioritised giving jobs either to their friends or people who aligned with their beliefs, and if you paid attention over time you'd notice it was always the same names popping up at different publications, because they all knew each other and gave preferential treatment to friends while slamming the door in the face of anyone who might actually want to speak positively about games that weren't pozzed goyslop.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the currently successful gaming news YouTubers once upon a time applied to write for these websites and were rejected because they weren't part of the cool kids club.

 

[psycho motor retard]

If Giant Bomb's content side finally gets the coup de grâce, that's a good thing.
When you think about how and why it worked, it was impossible to replicate or maintain. They did really good long-form coverage of new titles and some awesome video series, but the main driving force was personalities: Mostly funny, charismatic guys who knew their shit. By the time people from the original core crew started leaving, content creation and video games media had changed in such a way that anyone who could carry the website (like Ryan, Jeff, Vinny or Drew) would simply get more by going out on their own.

Journo-activist shitter types have contributed nothing but the decay of their own professions. They're bitter husks who can't stay on topic for five minutes without sneering at chuds or dropping Nier sissification fanfic.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Genuine question for the thread: when was the last time you learned about any game via a gaming website? All my news comes from YouTube now, from independent creators, and I drop them the second I get a whiff of any shilling going on.

Youtube, imageboards, this place, sometimes other games get brought up indirectly when I am researching other ones and I give it a quick look to see if I will like it.
Yup, I don't think I've used a gaming site for anything since Gamespot was relevant. Even then it was to confirm if the game was coming out on a console or PC, since we still had exclusives back then, mobile ports too.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the currently successful gaming news YouTubers once upon a time applied to write for these websites and were rejected because they weren't part of the cool kids club.

You would be surprised how true this is, just like how many devs are now in the AA or indie space because they similarly couldn't get thru the door within the AAA space for one reason or another.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

"Men are baby-brained adults in underoos except for me!" Says the baby-brained adult Brandon Streussnig in Polygon underoos.
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[Retarded Weeb]

I always found online games journalism to be really bad even back when I was young in the mid-late 2000s. I used to look through a few sites' more clickbait type articles (top 10 blah blah blah) back then to find out about the existence random games I'd never heard of, but anything involving a writer's opinion was clearly biased dogshit. IGN reviews were a joke as long as I remember. I clearly remember Kotaku licking Bioware's balls and talking about how WRPGs have surpassed JRPGs because Japanese games are cringe. At least as early as 2010, sites were starting to write articles about how sexy women in video games is a heckin sexism. I had already stopped paying attention to them by the time Gooblergrape rolled around and people started acting like it was a big revelation that Kotaku is shit. And the only attention I paid to them afterwords was sometimes seeing retarded artcles others showed me.

The main thing I remember from Polygon was that article where they sent a guy to a Rock Band 4 press event and he spent the whole time miserable and wrote an article about how he doesn't give a shit about Rock Band or like video games that much and would rather be doing anything else.

 

[ZipDisk]

Wow, they should have pointed out to him that they were on a roof.
get it?

 

[NerdShamer]

So, guys. I've managed to find the deleted Bombcast off of YouTube. Can't really archive it, unfortunately. But so far, it's just them taking the piss out of Fandom's guidelines for the first 7 minutes. It's the usual PG-13 stuff, but with the added restrictions of no smoking or drinking on camera. Along with no forms of hate speech because Fandom is an DEI company.

Reaction vid to the above

However, Dan's deleted rant might actually be lost media, at this point. Unless it's floating around in one of the imageboards

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

The main thing I remember from Polygon was that article where they sent a guy to a Rock Band 4 press event and he spent the whole time miserable and wrote an article about how he doesn't give a shit about Rock Band or like video games that much and would rather be doing anything else.

That was Polygon? I could've sworn it was Kotaku, the late TotalBiscuit did a dramatic reading of that piece. Apparently they issued a copyright strike against the video, that's nice of them I suppose you can find the audio and archive below.

https://soundcloud.com/gennabain%2Fmasterpiece-theatre-presents-games-journalism

Maybe we can talk about our favorite Polygon moments? One of mine is how their senior editor spent his happy new year trying to get someone fired.

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