NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus

[Burned Man]

Journalism mode should remove all game play and become a Telltale style game with choices like *Kill the enemy or *Die and *Make Progress or *Get Stuck on a Wall for 30 minutes.

I think having one difficulty is fine because it makes it easier to design the challenge around that difficulty. Maybe you can have some sort of hidden scaling difficulty like in RE 2 where the game might give you more or less ammo based on how much you have or boost the damage of your next shot if you missed the last 12 but you can't expect that in every game. At best you might just get difficulties that change life and damage numbers and I don't think that will really help the disabled gamers that are clearly the only concern of these games journalists.

 

[Charlie Delicious]

Maybe if PewDiePie hadn't shot up a mosque Dark Souls would have patched in a "Journalist Mode"?

 

[Rei is shit]

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"We don't create things for the exceptions"..... unless its troons then we need to have a tranny character in every single game for representation. Also chat ban the word "trap" and permaban anyone who misgenders.

 

[Oh Shit I'm Sorry]

Very strange how all these people suddenly really really really care about accessibility only once this somewhat difficult game comes out. Where was all this campaigning for the hundreds of thousands of games released before Sekiro?

Why it's almost as if they don't actually care and are just using disabled people as a weapon to attack a game for being too hard ?.

 

[DriveByTrolling]

Very strange how all these people suddenly really really really care about accessibility only once this somewhat difficult game comes out. Where was all this campaigning for the hundreds of thousands of games released before Sekiro?

Why it's almost as if they don't actually care and are just using disabled people as a weapon to attack a game for being too hard ?.

They're just upset genuinely disabled people are beating a boss in Sekiro whilst they struggle to get past the first 10 minutes.

Instead of just thinking "Hey, I'm shit at this game, I could try and get better or just stop playing" they get really mad on the internet.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

I can't wait for them to campaign for a Happy Ending Mode next time a major release has an ambiguous finale. Though I can see them leaning in the opposite direction if "the wrong people" make the same complaint. "You guys aren't smart enough to understand."

 

[KittyGremlin]

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I have a feeling this is a troll account posting something they know will be taken as honest because this is Resetera



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Shoutout to our blind gamedevs and their diverse and original visions

 

[School of Fish]

In a way the journalists are the handicapped. Handicapped by their own political ideology, hatred of their supposed hobby and more concern about ranting on Twitter about how toxic every single male gamer is. Playing games? Nah, I need to be doing "activism" on Twitter and making sure anyone who plays something with a white male lead is called a Nazi.

But then actual handicapped gamers come out in numbers showing themselves on YouTube beat Sekiro and other hard games while Polygon can't even aim in Doom.

It's almost as if, if Polygon, IGN, Giantbomb and more don't hire actual gamers into their ranks and just hire social justice activists, gaming journalism becomes a shitshow ?

Video game journalists have always been a joke anyway. Many of these video game news outlets are simply filled with entitled fucks that get paid to start bullshit drama while they make asses of themselves. Besides, it's not like the video game community takes them that seriously anyway. Most people within the video game community simply wait for the horse's mouth (be it video game developers, video game console manufacturers, manufacturers that make PC parts, etc) to make an announcement for any upcoming things that are related to video games and much of the video game community watch videos and read articles regarding any happenings from independent journalists that are in no way aligned with these video game news media outlets.

Much of the video game community just wants to have fun and meanwhile we see these video game journalists using politics and virtue signaling to get people to pay attention to them as they want to shove their dime store philosophy down everyone's throats while these video game journalists make themselves look dumber in the long run.

These video game journalists can virtue signal and even use the 'muh #GamerGate' card all they want but it won't change anything that these idiots aren't even qualified to even be journalists anyway considering that they simply are unable to report the facts as they are for the most part and use their position of power to push their bullshit political agenda and whatnot.

 

[KittyGremlin]

Video game journalists have always been a joke anyway. Many of these video game news outlets are simply filled with entitled fucks that get paid to start bullshit drama while they make asses of themselves. Besides, it's not like the video game community takes them that seriously anyway. Most people within the video game community simply wait for the horse's mouth (be it video game developers, video game console manufacturers, manufacturers that make PC parts, etc) to make an announcement for any upcoming things that are related to video games and much of the video game community watch videos and read articles regarding any happenings from independent journalists that are in no way aligned with these video game news media outlets.

Much of the video game community just wants to have fun and meanwhile we see these video game journalists using politics and virtue signaling to get people to pay attention to them as they want to shove their dime store philosophy down everyone's throats while these video game journalists make themselves look dumber in the long run.

These video game journalists can virtue signal and even use the 'muh #GamerGate' card all they want but it won't change anything that these idiots aren't even qualified to even be journalists anyway considering that they simply are unable to report the facts as they are for the most part and use their position of power to push their bullshit political agenda and whatnot.

[(5-20) reasons why] (Video game)'s (fact or feature of the game) is [problematic/stunning and brave/racist/sexist/nationalist/alt right/nazi] and [that's okay/we need to talk about it/that's problematic/that proves alt right ties]

I think I hacked their source code, guys

 

[Autismo]

It really bothers me that people there are using disabled people as a way to paint the other side of the argument as monsters. Like just admit the game is too hard for you and you feel left out, don't pretend you care about accessibility all of a sudden you spineless windbags.

 

[Sun Shihong]

Videogame journalists are nothing more but people blinded by the nostalgic feels of a time when they were relevant.

Back when there was no internet, a magazine was the only way of seeing if the weekend rent was worth the money spent or not. Or to get some help when you were stuck in a hard stage - my ten year old me didn't have the internet to look for a guide to get through Carnival Night act 2 or get a Pokémon Blue ROM.

They have no reason to be seen as useful or even remotely trustworthy, as developers and manufacturers can easily talk to clients via social networking, without the needs for the middle men, the only thing they can do is resort to politically correct verbose; There's plenty of video walkthroughs and commentated let's plays, not to mention constant feedback at Steam, GOG...

Meanwhile, social justice is the only thing that gives them scraps of attention. Videogame players don't give a fuck to them because their time has just passed. Why wait for them to give a verdict on what you should be playing when the developers just go to Twitter and say "c'mon folks, we've released fresh cookies and everyone's invited to get a taste of it"?

Some people may argue that "Journalists have credentials to speak about", but the only credentials a player need are his skills. If a Journalist's diploma mattered more than players looking at people speaking about videogames from their fellows' perspectives, then the guy who spent 30 minutes stuck in the Cuphead tutorial or the guy who says Sekiro needs an easy mode would be taken seriously by the masses, instead of being ridiculed.

 

[cistendered]

It really bothers me that people there are using disabled people as a way to paint the other side of the argument as monsters. Like just admit the game is too hard for you and you feel left out, don't pretend you care about accessibility all of a sudden you spineless windbags.

When a designer is dealing with UI/UX accessibility is a huge consideration. If you're trying to address a large audience you're going to have people with issues like color blindness or deafness and should try to design accordingly.

Not sure about the gaming industry, but I'm sure the game designers are aware of this and do their best to accommodate. There's only so much you can do until you start breaking the product to handle edge cases.

I think truly disabled people know that they're living life on hard mode and recognize that there's just some things they won't be able to do. I can't imagine an actual debilitated individual becoming despondent over a video game they can't play.

 

[School of Fish]

Videogame journalists are nothing more but people blinded by the nostalgic feels of a time when they were relevant.

Back when there was no internet, a magazine was the only way of seeing if the weekend rent was worth the money spent or not. Or to get some help when you were stuck in a hard stage - my ten year old me didn't have the internet to look for a guide to get through Carnival Night act 2 or get a Pokémon Blue ROM.

They have no reason to be seen as useful or even remotely trustworthy, as developers and manufacturers can easily talk to clients via social networking, without the needs for the middle men, the only thing they can do is resort to politically correct verbose; There's plenty of video walkthroughs and commentated let's plays, not to mention constant feedback at Steam, GOG...

Meanwhile, social justice is the only thing that gives them scraps of attention. Videogame players don't give a fuck to them because their time has just passed. Why wait for them to give a verdict on what you should be playing when the developers just go to Twitter and say "c'mon folks, we've released fresh cookies and everyone's invited to get a taste of it"?

Some people may argue that "Journalists have credentials to speak about", but the only credentials a player need are his skills. If a Journalist's diploma mattered more than players looking at people speaking about videogames from their fellows' perspectives, then the guy who spent 30 minutes stuck in the Cuphead tutorial or the guy who says Sekiro needs an easy mode would be taken seriously by the masses, instead of being ridiculed.

Pretty much this.

In this day and age, companies that are involved in the video game industry can just simply directly talk with fans with the power of the Internet. When a new type of media emerges, the old guard of the media will find themselves going the way of the Dodo and they will do what the can to stay around but inevitably they will lose.

 

[NiggerFaggot1488]

Something not well known is that many vg journos don't even like games. VG journalism is considered a low tier and poorly paid sector compared to almost any other kind of journalism. Most of them just didn't have the talent to do anything else with their degrees.

 

[AnOminous]

Something not well known is that many vg journos don't even like games. VG journalism is considered a low tier and poorly paid sector compared to almost any other kind of journalism. Most of them just didn't have the talent to do anything else with their degrees.

It's been pretty apparent for some time that most of these "journalists" are bitter losers angry that they're too incompetent to get a real job.

 

[juwo]

I guess this narrative always comes back in one way or another. Game journos are so inept that every time they get the slightest amount of resistance, they jump straight to crying about it and whimpering to the devs to accommodate them.
You had Polygon playing Doom that seemed like the guy at the controls had only one finger on each hand, you had that one journo that couldn't jump and dash in Cuphead's tutorial for a straight minute, and it always ended up with "those fuckin' gamer manbabies are harassing our dear hardworking journalists!". Now it's "every game should be accessible for everyone, because I personally suck at it! think of the disabled!", and when the disabled come in to laugh at the journos, it's "internalised ableism" now?
How, HOW, fucking HOW can you sit there and smugly pretend you're somehow in the right when people that you claim to protect the interests of come out of the woodworks to dab at you personally?

Sorry for this autism, it's just that game journos are the lowest parasites of the industry that never fail to surprise me with their bullshit.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

There are a few good game journalists. Frank Cifaldi and Kurt Kalata come to mind.

The problem is the shitty navel-gazing and social justicey puff articles getting thrown under the ‘journalism’ umbrella instead of into the dumpster.

 

[BillionBisonBucks]

There are a few good game journalists. Frank Cifaldi and Kurt Kalala come to mind.

They're more archivists/historians then journalists, though.

 

[Emperor Julian]

If and when they do some investigative journalism they can flirt with relavence, Kotaku managed to do a pretty interesting article on Anthems problems

How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong

Last week, BioWare announced it would be "reinventing" the troubled multiplayer shooter Anthem in a bid to claw back some of its dwindling player base. "We’ll be doing something we’d like to have done more of the first time around – giving a focused team the time to test and iterate, focusing on...

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the problem is that for every sincere detached attempt to get to the root their's 10 other things written by patricia hermandez or nathan Grayson where do sophomore attempts attempts at intersectional analysis and that's before you start considering how they have a tendancy to pal around with hipster indie developers.

 

[DriveByTrolling]

MS investigating claims of sexual harassment - "at Xbox, every woman,…

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So this should be good. THQ and anything associated with THQ has to be boycotted for doing an AMA on 8chan, but is Microsoft and anything to do with Microsoft now going to be banned/boycotted on Resetera?

Someone is already pointing to Stinkles, aka Frank O'Connor. Have all Halo games to be boycotted now? Can Resetera please tell me how I should think?

I'm sure you will. Then you'll phone your wife from jail and tell her you're sorry but what was most important was your virtue signalling on Resetera?

Hey now, don't bring logic to the Resetera boycott campaigns. Where you only say you'll be boycotting something you weren't going to buy anyway

Stay safe, and by the way, are you going to return that Microsoft Surface??

I look forward to finding out what happens on Resetera when no one gets fired and/or if anyone is let go, it's quiet and not with the public hanging Resetera expects.