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Imagine being paid to write articles about what video game pornography you watch and how you make your Sims characters engage in semen cafe orgies and whatnot. Truly and honestly an example of true and honest journalism :lit:

By the way, she's one of the exceptional individuals who gave careercow Ana Valens/Phil Wythe's troon smut visual novel Blood Pact a flamingly positive review.

Kinda jealous that they're getting paid to Dox people.

 
Kotaku: "How dare you have women with big tits and tight outfits in this game!

Also Kotaku: "Go play this game where you have sex with a car, and then read our article riddled with images of minors getting fucked"
 
Someone who is more familiar with Code Vein will have to confirm this for me. The IGN review of Code Vein has more than 50% dislikes.

They seem to have reviewed the demo.

According to the comments, all of the footage in the review is from the demo, they use stock characters, don't mention the character creator, and lied by saying there's no matchmaking and no option to "sync up with friends".

Edit: @SiccDicc says there is footage outside of the demo.
 
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Someone who is more familiar with Code Vein will have to confirm this for me. The IGN review of Code Vein has more than 50% dislikes.

They seem to have reviewed the demo. According to the comments, all of the footage in the review is from the demo, they use stock characters, don't mention the character creator, and lying by saying there's no matchmaking or option to "sync up with friends".
How do you fuck up a job that is cut and clean as reviewing games I know the standard of journalism and reviewing is so low especially these days where someone Twitter rant can be considered news but just how incompetent can you be at this.
 
Someone who is more familiar with Code Vein will have to confirm this for me. The IGN review of Code Vein has more than 50% dislikes.

They seem to have reviewed the demo. According to the comments, all of the footage in the review is from the demo, they use stock characters, don't mention the character creator, and lying by saying there's no matchmaking or option to "sync up with friends".
I think they based most of the script off of the demo, but some parts of the video are from outside of the demo. If we're talking the latest version, I didn't get a chance to play the closed beta. You can sync up with friends, though, so I dunno if that's just their own incompetence or their network set up. I haven't seen much in the way of people complaining about it... not as much as with Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, at least.

It doesn't seem like they played any clips from beyond the first two maps. So I don't think they got very far.
 
I think they based most of the script off of the demo, but some parts of the video are from outside of the demo.
That sounds reasonable. A commenter accused IGN of doing this sloppy review because they didn't get a review code. If that's true, they likely made the review based on the demo, rushed the first hour or 2 of the full game to see if it's substantially different, and ran the review when everything looked mostly the same as the demo/beta.
 
Another couple of Code Vein reviews. I don't know if it's the game itself, or simply because I'm looking for information on the game, but the hacks are out in force for this one.

First PCGamer's not at all biased review that opens with:
Code Vein is a sexist action RPG about post-apocalyptic vampires that borrows liberally from Dark Souls, while speeding up and complicating its combat in ways that I really like. The plot’s a bit rubbish.
And the review doesn't really improve.
Code Vein wears its anime influences on its sleeves, when it bothers to wear clothes at all.
One of my first review notes was “this is going to be consistently embarrassingly booby, isn’t it?”. I can’t remember if I wrote that after realising how 80% of the female player character presets are missing 80% of their clothes, or whether it was when the opening cutscene introduced me to this person(‘s breasts).
The first 5 paragraphs of the review are just him complaining about how sexy the women are. No prizes for guessing what he looks like.
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Then we have Vice/Waypoint's review that once again shows itself to be not worth reading with the first line.
Code Vein is the Dark Souls of 2003 anime music videos with nu-metal soundtracks.
A line they were evidently proud of because they repeat it in the summery.
The Dark Souls of Anime.
The review continues by answering the question everybody was asking. How anime is it?
the story is very, very anime
But they wouldn't be a current year games journalist if they could actually play games.
In 2019, I don’t need any more revisionist celebrations of high difficulty and tight dodge timings.
 
Playing it right now and it's pretty great. Also I assume the character they're bitching about is Io and the reason she's basically naked is because she's a thrall/blood slave.

Original edition VTMB lore was way darker and would trigger these idiots so hard they'd shatter into pieces.
 
Another couple of Code Vein reviews. I don't know if it's the game itself, or simply because I'm looking for information on the game, but the hacks are out in force for this one.

First PCGamer's not at all biased review that opens with:

And the review doesn't really improve.


The first 5 paragraphs of the review are just him complaining about how sexy the women are. No prizes for guessing what he looks like.
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Then we have Vice/Waypoint's review that once again shows itself to be not worth reading with the first line.

A line they were evidently proud of because they repeat it in the summery.

The review continues by answering the question everybody was asking. How anime is it?

But they wouldn't be a current year games journalist if they could actually play games.


These motherfuckers should just start wearing pilgrim hats and buckle shoes cuz they're basically puritans at this point.
 
The first 5 paragraphs of the review are just him complaining about how sexy the women are. No prizes for guessing what he looks like.

He looks like a future member of the sex offender registry, like all these guys.
 
He looks like a future member of the sex offender registry, like all these guys.
He looks like a hapa to me, so he's pretty much a guaranteed incel. You don't even have to be one, you just gotta look like one.
 
Code Vein currently has a 9/10 on Steam. So uh, yeah.

Also You can get the Deluxe Edition for 50 bucks if you shop around. I just bought it for a reward for myself. I'll write up a full review when I get around to it.
 
Code Vein currently has a 9/10 on Steam. So uh, yeah.

Also You can get the Deluxe Edition for 50 bucks if you shop around. I just bought it for a reward for myself. I'll write up a full review when I get around to it.

Please do. I watched Pat from TBFP play a little and it seemed like some quick action anime fun and if you can co-op it even better. There's a severe lack of new just dumb fun co-op games out atm. (Discounting Borderlands 3 cuz fuck Gearbox.)
 
I think they based most of the script off of the demo, but some parts of the video are from outside of the demo. If we're talking the latest version, I didn't get a chance to play the closed beta. You can sync up with friends, though, so I dunno if that's just their own incompetence or their network set up. I haven't seen much in the way of people complaining about it... not as much as with Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, at least.

It doesn't seem like they played any clips from beyond the first two maps. So I don't think they got very far.

This guy played 15 minutes. He's pretty much wrong on every point, which is why he's getting ratioed the fuck out of.

Please do. I watched Pat from TBFP play a little and it seemed like some quick action anime fun and if you can co-op it even better. There's a severe lack of new just dumb fun co-op games out atm. (Discounting Borderlands 3 cuz fuck Gearbox.)

I did a review here: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/code-vein.61904/

I didn't feel it was appropriate to wall of text the journo thread and I'm superior to all these faggots so I'm not dragging myself down to their level.

If you want to check out another co-op game, look up Remnants: From Ashes. Its similar, but not anime and with more guns.
 
severe lack of new just dumb fun co-op games out atm. (Discounting Borderlands 3 cuz fuck Gearbox.)

can recommend deep rock galactic and strange brigade (get the latter on sale). starlink is kinda fun too but ubisoft went full retard with the DRM and microtransactions.
 
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