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What matters is the section form 1:19. Apparently the publisher sent out pre-baked save files complete with instructions on how to inject them into the game to game journos. This allowed the journalists to skip most of pathologic 3 and only played the final home stretch sequence of the game, skipping most of it.

I wonder if this is the first time someone had this idea or is this a thing that has been going on behind the scenes for a while.
 
Frosted Snowflakes said:
Will Borger of IGN wrote this bad review of a fun game like Mouse: P.I. For Hire, and this is his reaction.
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EDIT: Will Borger is going damage control on the Bluesky hivemind.
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And this is also the same Will Borger (not on IGN) that gave shitty woke games like Dustborn an 8/10, while giving Crimson Desert a 5/10.
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The person who wrote this is retarded; there is no other way to say it. Severely mentally challenged, a true moron.

If Borger had a functioning brain he'd know that you don't base a first person shooter themed around classic cartoons on an obscure noir novel. You base it on things like this:

 
Dead Lion said:
I wonder if this is the first time someone had this idea or is this a thing that has been going on behind the scenes for a while.
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I'd believe it. The article that @Honka Honka Burning Love posted has the audacious claim that most game journalists are actually good at games, but the article has so many blatant lies that it could just be another bullshit line.
 
Xarpho's Return said:
I'd believe it. The article that @Honka Honka Burning Love posted has the audacious claim that most game journalists are actually good at games, but the article has so many blatant lies that it could just be another bullshit line.
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I mean we kind of know that was happening with retards like G-man lives where they had specific saves in parts for him to play.
 
Mr Processor said:
The person who wrote this is retarded; there is no other way to say it. Severely mentally challenged, a true moron.

If Borger had a functioning brain he'd know that you don't base a first person shooter themed around classic cartoons on an obscure noir novel. You base it on things like this:
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The problem is that he's right about the game, but a terrible writer. The game does a lot of things poorly. It's far too bland to be properly cartoonish and while it has a novels worth of dialogue none of it is as interesting or as deep as a good noir novel. All that's left is, at best, a mediocre boomer shooter with an interesting style and decent music.

Honestly, I'm at the point that I'm starting to think IGN is taking money to write idiotic reviews so contrarians will spite buy the game in question.
 
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Frosted Snowflakes said:
Will Borger of IGN wrote this bad review of a fun game like Mouse: P.I. For Hire, and this is his reaction.
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EDIT: Will Borger is going damage control on the Bluesky hivemind.
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And this is also the same Will Borger (not on IGN) that gave shitty woke games like Dustborn an 8/10, while giving Crimson Desert a 5/10.
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TBF that mouse game does look pretty mediocre.
 
Dead Lion said:

What matters is the section form 1:19. Apparently the publisher sent out pre-baked save files complete with instructions on how to inject them into the game to game journos. This allowed the journalists to skip most of pathologic 3 and only played the final home stretch sequence of the game, skipping most of it.

I wonder if this is the first time someone had this idea or is this a thing that has been going on behind the scenes for a while.
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It's super common, Pathologic's mistake was going to be giving jouro's instructions instead of just having it baked into the install. It's actually just the tip of the iceberg and fairly lazy.

For larger releases (not even that much larger) - but it's very common to give a "guided demo" at an "event", where in targeted journalists (or more currently, influencers) are flown to a central location, given tons of swag, taken to dinners and parties, and given a guided demo through a very specific section of a game in a high end setup, usually as an extension of the party, on a high end PC and/or DEV kit.

It's very often a cut down version of the game meant to skew first impressions.
 
Frosted Snowflakes said:
SNOOPING AS USUAL, Jason Schreier?
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And some lulz with the side.
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Remember he was the one that suppressed news of the Blizzard sexual assault shit becuase he was writing a tell all book and waiting for his friends to get out of the blast radius

He was the one that suppressed rape allegations against Jewwario or the NeoGAF guy becuase they were first revealed by Kotaku In Action and he refused to let "GamerGate have a win"

He's a vile piece of shit, but then again, I imagine you already knew that with one look at that nose. His stance since 2014 has been "don't share information, give it to me so I can share it and profit off it, goy."
 
Leigh Alexander, Lead Writer of Aphelion is the same journalist who wrote the infamous 2014 Gamasutra article "Gamers don't have to be your audience. Gamers are over."

The game launched 2 days ago and is currently sitting at 42 concurrent players on Steam with Mixed reviews (58% positive).

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Herpes is Brat said:
The game launched 2 days ago and is currently sitting at 42 concurrent players on Steam with Mixed reviews (58% positive).

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i think being on gamepass is doing something to this, not that the player counts would be amazingly higher but outside a trailer at i wanna say the game awards or something i hadn't seen it marketed really
 
Herpes is Brat said:
Leigh Alexander, Lead Writer of Aphelion is the same journalist who wrote the infamous 2014 Gamasutra article "Gamers don't have to be your audience. Gamers are over."

The game launched 2 days ago and is currently sitting at 42 concurrent players on Steam with Mixed reviews (58% positive).
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Somewhere, a finger on a monkey's paw curled up, and the fat bloated, loudmouthed alcoholic finally got her wish.
 
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