- Joined
- Oct 27, 2017
I just want to express an opinion I've developed lately and this seems like the thread to do it on. If I recall right, I've expressed before that I almost never read any game journalism stuff before and after "Gamergate". I always relied on my own tastes and opinions from people I knew who actually played games.
I started reading One Angry Gamer occasionally a few months back. I'd check every other day to see what articles were posted, read them, and would bookmark some related to something I was actually interested in. But recently I stopped even bothering to read the articles and comments to them thoroughly.
I like some of the stuff OAG does, but I feel like half the time with the articles and majority of the time with the comments it's just more outrage culture. The kind of audience OAG has that regularly comment really feel like "the other extreme" to me, openly considering any butch/dyke female a personification of feminism(such as the new Siren in Borderlands 3 or the player character Walker of Rage 2)and some will specifically shit all over a game JUST for that.
For OAG himself, I have a major gripe that makes it hard to actually use his site as anything more than some minor factual resources to bookmark for things I don't want to forget later: he always focuses on the sexual aspects.
Now, I don't mind that normally. I love ass and tiddies like any red blooded American(or human being, for that matter). But on OAG it's just taken to the extreme. Many of his articles focus on censorship, which for Sony I get, but also Steam. Every time a visual novel, an RPGMaker game, etc, is banned on Steam, there's an OAG article. He keeps a list of such things banned from Steam iirc, which IS a good resource admittedly so I know what's banned/to go hunt down in the rare event Steam bans a quality porn game. But many of his articles are focused on every individual instance of censorship.
And when they're not focused on that, they're often focused on pro-sexual stuff, some of which I like yeah, but ultimately it feels like the topic of sexuality, pro or negative, dominates his blog. The most particularly annoying thing I find is OAG himself even comments that he's rarely interested in games of the current time in responses he makes to his audience's comments. Now I get that too, if you run a blog and pump out articles all the time, you're not going to be 100% invested in every game, subject, or service you write up a short article about. But the complete disinterest he expresses is a bit jarring(best way I can think of atm to phrase how I feel about it).
I started reading One Angry Gamer occasionally a few months back. I'd check every other day to see what articles were posted, read them, and would bookmark some related to something I was actually interested in. But recently I stopped even bothering to read the articles and comments to them thoroughly.
I like some of the stuff OAG does, but I feel like half the time with the articles and majority of the time with the comments it's just more outrage culture. The kind of audience OAG has that regularly comment really feel like "the other extreme" to me, openly considering any butch/dyke female a personification of feminism(such as the new Siren in Borderlands 3 or the player character Walker of Rage 2)and some will specifically shit all over a game JUST for that.
For OAG himself, I have a major gripe that makes it hard to actually use his site as anything more than some minor factual resources to bookmark for things I don't want to forget later: he always focuses on the sexual aspects.
Now, I don't mind that normally. I love ass and tiddies like any red blooded American(or human being, for that matter). But on OAG it's just taken to the extreme. Many of his articles focus on censorship, which for Sony I get, but also Steam. Every time a visual novel, an RPGMaker game, etc, is banned on Steam, there's an OAG article. He keeps a list of such things banned from Steam iirc, which IS a good resource admittedly so I know what's banned/to go hunt down in the rare event Steam bans a quality porn game. But many of his articles are focused on every individual instance of censorship.
And when they're not focused on that, they're often focused on pro-sexual stuff, some of which I like yeah, but ultimately it feels like the topic of sexuality, pro or negative, dominates his blog. The most particularly annoying thing I find is OAG himself even comments that he's rarely interested in games of the current time in responses he makes to his audience's comments. Now I get that too, if you run a blog and pump out articles all the time, you're not going to be 100% invested in every game, subject, or service you write up a short article about. But the complete disinterest he expresses is a bit jarring(best way I can think of atm to phrase how I feel about it).
