Games Journalism General

If Ziff Davis is as smart as he claims to be... he'll shut down IGN entirely and sell whatever equipment was left behind from the purge. I don't think he's ever made a profit from it and really don't understand why he continues to keep it.
 
My favorite part of the IGN letter is how they state that you should never balk at helping people in need, no matter the side they're on, yet helping both Israeli and Palestinian civilians is a 'harmful case of “both sides”-ism.'

When is it appropriate to call out both sides of a conflict, if it's not State-Guilty-of-Ongoing-War-Crimes vs Literal-Terrorist-Organization?
Marissa Moira said:
So how will the founding of Israel be tied to Gamergate?
Click to expand...
Easy, Gamergaters are literally Hitler, and Israel was formed, in part, by Hitler's actions.
AnOminous said:
Aren't these the fuckers who spent years telling us how they shit on our free speech, oh, I mean "freeze peach?" Fuck these assholes, they can burn and die.
Click to expand...
These same people are crying "where are the free speech warriors now!!!" even though they were the ones always saying "it's a private company, they can do what they want."
 
  • Like
Reactions: lemmiwinks and Judge Dredd
BrokenWokenBespoken said:
He is being portrayed by Michael B Jordan in the Amazon version for Without Remorse
Click to expand...
Ugh. I should post more but... ugh. Can't they hire the dude who played Frank Castle for Netflix? I read that book and John Clark's no different from Frank Castle. Although I do like how hilariously cunning he is about it, unlike Castle's suicidal yolo-ism.
 
Miller said:
What Ubishit did to the Tom Clancy brand is really disgusting. The next Rainbow Six game is about an alien/zombie outbreak (the game director is some purple-hair hamplanet), the recent Ghost Recon was written by a former CIA guy so the story was about some PMC who took over an island owned by an autistic tech giant and you have to side with the terror-peaceful civilians.
I'm glad that there's no Splinter Cell game in production so they can't Last Jedi Sam Fisher.
Click to expand...
The next Rainbow Six game is made by a D-team from another failed project, while said hambeast is responsible for the launch version of For Honor before someone else took the reins and made it work. Also, who the fuck names themselves Bio Jade?
 
Gamepad said:
The next Rainbow Six game is made by a D-team from another failed project, while said hambeast is responsible for the launch version of For Honor before someone else took the reins and made it work. Also, who the fuck names themselves Bio Jade?
Click to expand...
I doubt that quarantine will ever come out, considering how hard their games bombed in 2019 and vivendi trying to take them over, a cheap and easy microtransaction vehicle would've been perfect for some spare cash, yet here we are and absolute radio silence. same as skull & bones...
name goes with the choice of hair color. plus ubisoft has doubled down on idpol hard after some french exec got #metoo'd, I honestly wouldn't expect anything worthwhile from them anymore.

Miller said:
What Ubishit did to the Tom Clancy brand is really disgusting. The next Rainbow Six game is about an alien/zombie outbreak (the game director is some purple-hair hamplanet), the recent Ghost Recon was written by a former CIA guy so the story was about some PMC who took over an island owned by an autistic tech giant and you have to side with the terror-peaceful civilians.
I'm glad that there's no Splinter Cell game in production so they can't Last Jedi Sam Fisher.
Click to expand...
eh, it's not better or worse than extinction from cod ghost, and besides that the rainbow franchise has been thoroughly mangled already anyway, have you seen some of the operators? you're also forgetting that ghost recon had both predator and terminator crossovers, so any realism already went out of the window.
tbh as long as the game is fun I don't really care (anymore).

as for breakpoint, the story is not that bad, although I haven't played the DLC yet, and they were scrambling to revamp the story after even the few people that still played it told them bullet sponge bosses in a 4 man "raid" are fucking retarded for ghost recon (original was apparently some AI/transhumanist twist, now it's simply "bad dudes want to take over the world to save it" again)
it's basically as if elon musk would own google, then decides to buy a whole island to design "world 2.0", some of their scientists go full retard because "don't be evil" after they find out they were working on weaponized drones or something (to the point I though it was a perfect example for leftards), then elon gets scared, hires a PMC which promptly takes over. the people you side with are the original inhabitants (all white dudes btw), and while you could spin a "muh colonialist oppressors" it never really gets shoved in your face besides "bad guys doing bad things". it's not the worst story I ever heard, nor it's the best, it's just there while doing other things. honestly, the pacing (you literally waste the big bad from the marketing in the second mission, like wtf?) and looter shooter gameplay are much worse than some average videogame story.

all in all I still had fun mostly running around and collecting shit, because the assets and map design are as AAA as it gets (in a good way).
 
  • Informative
Reactions: Judge Dredd
Gematsu promoted a bootleg visual novel based on a licensed anime, Kaguya-sama Love Is War, releasing on Steam.
sal what are you doing.png

https://www.gematsu.com/2021/05/kaguya-sama-love-is-war-visual-novel-announced-for-pc (archive)
https://twitter.com/gematsucom/status/1394877652629065729 (archive)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1640660/Kaguyasama_Love_Is_War/ (archive)
Sprites are stolen artworks from twitter and pixiv (such as this one) and any attempt to discuss it on the steam forums is met with a ban apparently.

It's rather surprising since I believe Sal (the man in charge of the website) would be experienced enough to tell apart the genuine articles from the bootlegs after reporting on japanese video games for so long. The lack of a japanese and console release for this title is enough to tell something fishy was going on
 
  • Informative
  • Agree
Reactions: Gay_Frog, Gutpuke, Judge Dredd and 2 others
Moral Decay said:
These same people are crying "where are the free speech warriors now!!!" even though they were the ones always saying "it's a private company, they can do what they want."
Click to expand...
Well I mean they got all the free speech warriors banned from social media. So it's strange to watch them act surprised that nobody is around.

ZMOT said:
give gaben 100 bucks, say you want to sell on his store, pass basic quality control (very basic, just don't blow up the pc), done.
Click to expand...
Nope they've had to upgrade the QC for games since actual porn was getting on to the store. So now you have extra hoops to pass through. They changed the TOS, you can even compare it to the old one.
 
  • Like
Reactions: EnemyStand and The Littlest Shitlord
HeyYou said:
How it even get on Steam is the real question.
Click to expand...

Steam is a hellish open source cesspit and makes EGS almost tempting to jump into. Unfortunately Gematsu is pretty trash, considering of a mixture of besieged weebs and a toxic positivity environment Sal tries to foster.

As for porn games, it's ironic that rape day got banned and yet Kagura Games gets away with porting rape/torture themed dlsite games
 
  • Disagree
  • Lunacy
  • Thunk-Provoking
Reactions: broners, Alessonincrippliningdepre, Super Hans and 2 others
HeyYou said:
I suppose, if you dislike basic features like game reviews, remote play and a cart.
Click to expand...

I don't like EGS at all and would never support any game that got EGS exclusivity but they will never have an open door market given their bestseller is Fortnite.

Edit:Also fuck Gematsu and their toxic positivity. No comments on anything related to TLOU2 allowed


www.gematsu.com

The Last of Us Part II PS5 enhancement update now available - Gematsu

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Naughty Dog have released a PlayStation 5 performance patch for The Last of Us Part II for PlayStation 4. Once the version 1.
www.gematsu.com www.gematsu.com
 
Last edited:
  • Lunacy
Reactions: Judge Dredd
Developers worldwide begged and pleaded with Valve to be allowed onto Steam, and bitched and moaned endlessly about Valve playing kingmaker, and fretted at all hours about "the kind of game that gets onto Steam", and deliberately tried to make things they thought Valve would look kindly on, so as to get a slice of that big-ass money pie. The journos wrote a lot of articles about this phenomenon back in the pre-GG days. (I suspect they really just wanted their friends' trash to be allowed onto the platform, but hey.)

Valve realized this was a very precarious position for it to be in, so it stopped playing kingmaker and gave every single one of those developers the exact thing they wanted: an easy spot on Steam. Now that all the developers can put their games on Steam, they all seem to want Valve to batten down the hatches and start playing kingmaker again, because now that they're on Steam, it's in their interest for fewer things to get added to Steam, so that their products will get more attention for longer. Curation for thee, but not for me. Fuck you, got mine. Kick the ladder down so nobody else can climb it.

Fuck every single developer who thinks top-down storefront curation is desirable. What they actually want is "curation, but I'm good enough to get in and you're not", and none of them ever actually agree with the curation standards when it's inevitably decided that their games aren't good enough to make the cut.

Never forget that EGS proclaimed it was going to curate for good games, then thumbed its nose at Assault Android Cactus while giving a moneyhat to Roller Coaster Tycoon Adventures.

1621470190577.png

(above is the developer of Assault Android Cactus, who unfortunately deleted the above tweets fairly quickly)

Top-down curation is shit. Give the power to the people and let them filter their own storefronts as they see fit.

1621469715177.png
 
Last edited:
  • Agree
  • Like
Reactions: Francis York Morgan, Stalphos Johnson, The Valeyard and 8 others
Herbert West Reanimator said:
Developers worldwide begged and pleaded with Valve to be allowed onto Steam, and bitched and moaned endlessly about Valve playing kingmaker, and fretted at all hours about "the kind of game that gets onto Steam", and deliberately tried to make things they thought Valve would look kindly on, so as to get a slice of that big-ass money pie. The journos wrote a lot of articles about this phenomenon back in the pre-GG days. (I suspect they really just wanted their friends' trash to be allowed onto the platform, but hey.)
Click to expand...
this. greenlight stopped being a thing in 2017, how much of a clueless zoomer casual do you have to be to completely miss indies kvetching about it for years.

Herbert West Reanimator said:
Top-down curation is shit. Give the power to the people and let them filter their own storefronts as they see fit.
Click to expand...
the problem is people are lazy and retarded, this includes most devs. "I just need to put my game on steam, guaranteed sales!", and then when no one bothers with it because it doesn't look that interesting and possible customers don't even know about it, they suddenly blame valve for their lack of marketing. imagine EA silently releasing battlefield 6 without any marketing, you honestly believe that won't have an effect on sales? there's a reason marketing budget is millions these days.

as for customers, you still get the average redditor too retarded to configure their discovery queue, follow the right curators or find reviewers for new stuff, and then complain about the shit they care about only shows up on page 6 of new releases (why you would go that way in the first place I have no idea). valve spent a lot of time and effort to make it easier to find stuff on steam (probably more than epic on their whole store), and you still get people that don't understand how it works and know how to look for stuff.
I swear those must be the same dipshits that only buy brand groceries because the store put it in eye height instead of looking down for the offbrand version that costs half as much, and then complain about the price.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Francis York Morgan, Gay_Frog, Water-T and 5 others
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back