It died when Yahtzee left as he was literally the only thing still driving any traffic to the page(mostly just the youtube channel)
No, they earned it. People lost complete faith in game journalism as any people who legitimately liked gaming was replaced by failed journos who couldn't suck cock well enough to get into actual journalism. Add to it articles written to appear in google (lots of words and links for the sake of it), reviewing based on whether the game is made by Nintendo/trannies, and political opinions no one asked for (regardless of political orientation).
It's crazy how many years The Escapist got carried on Yahtzee's shoulders, i never watched anything on there apart from ZP back in the days. IIRC i tried watching some non-Yahtzee content over there exactly once and it was utter tripe.
Only Non-Yatzee thing I viewed on The Escapist was an article that talked about how Anita Sarkesian maybe isn't a bad guy but more of a good guy.
What the fuck? Balatro is a card game where you make different poker hands based on a huge variety of assorted enhancements, and Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense game where you defend your house from zombies with plants in your front lawn.
Game journalism really demonstrated just how many people are employed in the industry who do not actually enjoy video games, but are just there to push a message.
When your only experience with mobile games is pvz, anything is gonna feel like a more complex version of it without a frame of reference
I meant in reference to the casual repetitive nature of both. They're both casual games with only one or two simple mechanics mechanics but having gameplay variety through many situations. Balatro feels like a popcap game, is what I meant, it feels like something designed for mobile, a time killer game which does not require investment like say a jrpg or a strategy or something similar.
And nothing of value was lost (probably going to be rated late but fu k it, it's still true)
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It's a wonder he's lasted as long as he has tbh. I used to refresh his page on The Escapist every Wednesday til his new video appeared, now I only look up Fully Ramblomatic if I want to hear what he thought about a specific game I just finished.
The site was already sold off years ago, long before the mass exodus of Yahtzee and co but after Jim Sterling had left and Moviebob had been fired. Once they started putting ZP on YouTube there was no reason for me to go to the site so I have no idea what they've been putting out to keep the lights on this long.
I know it's basically rubbing salt on a rotting wound of a week old horse, but if you take a closer look at those three thumbnails, you will notice they are like mutated, retarded triplets.
I wonder if it's AI or whatever jeet is running the account has a little folder of assets he re-arranges at random.
The problem is he doesn't have an idea of what a good game is anymore. Not even in terms of taste (which has gone down the drains, Yahtzee 10-15 years ago never would've entertained the idea of Animal Crossing with a straight face), if it's too easy he'll complain about it ("it just throws upgrades at you") and if it's too hard he'll bitch about poor design and pretended he played through it (actually watched it on YouTube).
What game should Kiwi Punctuation review?
Unteralterbach. In the ending, several Kiwis find the devs and lynch them for being pedo fucks.
I am just waiting until all the legacy gaming videos get pushed off the first page and it's nothing but gambling soyjak thumbnail slop. That's when the company will be truly dead and so will it's legacy. Since the last gaming video is that of Black Ops 6, we can blame that horrid game for killing off The Escapist for the lulz.
Oh god, why did you have to remind me of @MarkM 's favorite game? Day ruined.
He got his suspicious beginning with a couple of reviews of bad game, right? KF could do a five minute shot on one of the recent failures like highguard for episode 1 and then something halfway decent from the more indie developers with things to both praise and also say crap for episode 2.