If you have taken any gaming journalism seriously since at least the cuphead tutorial video, if not even further back, then you need to be taken out back and put down.
The Mass Effect 3 shill campaign is probably the big one that made even normies of the time aware of how the industry works, well before Gamergate was a thing.
This, I told you people for years they weren't legitimate since they get paid for their reviews since it's not illegal...if something isn't illegal and will get someone money they will do it.
But the game this time turned out great. I think only the unfortunate people with no internal monologues and bad taste don't enjoy it.
It has nice scenery visials .... And nothing else good. They tried to make game of feels when you walk among sci-fi grandiose visuals but these environment are not incorporated into game play. And everything else is just bad.
If you want example of the game that was successful with that it's pic related. Starfield failed.
gaming journalist stopped being respectable a few years before gamergate
and in the 20 odd years before gamergate it was still an utter shillfest, but it was at least halfway informative despite the shilling. Whereas today, if you read an article about x or y game from some prostitution goyslop review website, all they do is suck it off and swallow.
Thank god for user reviews. You can see all the dipshit marketers and execs mad as frick about it because they always b***h and whine about "review bombing" aka actual customers expressing actual feeling about how shit the company and its product are.
for me it was the "mass effect 1 enemies are damage sponges" courtesy of one guy who didn't even realize the game was an rpg and never changed the starting weapon or levelled up any stats
>means all 100k of them are
Literally their fricking job to control information. Just because they believe they are doing the right thing, doesn't mean they are or are even qualified to gather and then disseminate information. Why do you think they aren't just relating the evidence and facts but it's also imperative how they frame it?
They ask are
be honest Ganker most of us would throw away our diginity or pretend to like a shitty game for some cash. games are so shit nowadays that you might as well pretend to like a game for a quick buck.
It's hilarious because the entire concept of reviewing software for consumers is to have integrity so people trust your opinion, otherwise why the frick would I care what someone online thinks about s videogame? These companies like IGN are basically riding on good will built by edgy magazine article writers from the golden age who gave a shit and would trash garbage when it deserved it and buying games was a big spend
Game is amazing, spent countless hours just working on my ship
Nah, it's beautiful, here's a slightly older version.
[...]
Nope it turned out how I want. I did have to think about that though when building it.
This, I told you people for years they weren't legitimate since they get paid for their reviews since it's not illegal...if something isn't illegal and will get someone money they will do it.
But the game this time turned out great. I think only the unfortunate people with no internal monologues and bad taste don't enjoy it.
blatant shilling aside, who actually reads any of these sites? I assume even normalgays just stick to the main ones like IGN or Gamespot, but so many of these are literally whos you only ever hear about when they show up on shill review collages like your pic
>so many of these are literally whos you only ever hear about when they show up on shill review collages like your pic
That is their entire purpose, yes.
A massive company with 1000 employees can at best give you one 10/10
If you instead make 100 companies with each 10 employees, guess what that's 100 10/10 ratings.
It's all puppet/satellite companies to "spread" opinions.
>10 employees
That's being generous. Probably like 2 or 3 college english major interns with a supervisor shared across multiples sites. Makes sense why you see so many "videogames are sexists" articles everywhere that noone gives a shit about.
Everything bad in the gaming sphere can be traced back to starting around 2015, or much earlier like 2010 with some shit starting to fail even earlier than that like the Actiblizz merge. Generally, if something is shit, it started in 2010-2015.
I mark Skyrim as the last good AAA game, personally.
and then we got our asses handed to us because they siuccessfully changed the argument from some c**t getting good reviews for sex, to toxic males forcing women in the industry to resort to such measures
They ended up fricking themselves in the end though, since at the end of the day games journalism being more than reviews, announcements, and updates will never actually work.
When 7 of those "gamers are dead" articles were posted within an hour of each other on 7 different sites is what finally killed my delusion that there is any honesty in journalism. And then the mainstream journo coverage of the whole thing showed that it's not just vidya journalism that's fake.
Not only did I lose my faith in gaymin journalism but journalism as a whole.
I was sure that mainstream media can do some clicks to find out the truth but they not only didn't want to but also created and maintained a narrative.
This was my most radicalising moment.
Journalism never had any credibility to begin with be it gaming or otherwise. Good example would be nintendo power most of the articles in those magazines are bullshit and that goes all the way back to the late 80s.
I made 2 ship and in total spent probably 6 hours building them and traveling from staryard to staryard for different parts. And then there is literally nothing substantial to do with those ships, because space travel does not exist and space battles are as simplistic as it gets. So I spent hours autistically making ship just to look at it in loading screens.
>exclusivity is good when we do it
I'm not even a snoy, I think people who use consoles are little children unfit for the hobby, but all exclusivity is cancer
Yes, with no reason for it to not be on PS as well, since (from what people told me) that one even outperforms current gen Xbox. We call that exclusivity.
It has a reason not to be on the Switch because the Switch hardware is absolute garbage.
>We call that exclusivity.
I don't. I call Bloodborne being only on snoy station exclusivity.
Generally speaking, games are developed on PC architecture primarily and have to be ported to other consoles/devices/operating systems. If a game is only on PC it's because the developers didn't put resources into porting it. If it's only on playstation it's because they hate consumers.
Now a very strange phenom is that games are built on PCs, ported to a console, and then... ported back to PC? Not designed to be played on the PC primarily? It's bizarre. Like, how do you test it?
Sony paid for all sorts of sneaky exclusivity shit for years which is the only reason microsoft even started considering just outright buying these devs, the exclusivity marketing angle was something they cooked up and introduced at sony which made the industry what it is now
>Sony paid for all sorts of sneaky exclusivity shit for years
Oh I'm well aware, but you don't beat the problem of >exclusivity makes it so not everyone has everything
with >exclusivity makes it so not everyone has everything but now the other side has the thing
I will always condemn exclusivity unless there's hardware limitations as a reason for it. It's the ONE thing that can get me to be on a Snoy's side
>Sony paid for all sorts of sneaky exclusivity shit for years
Oh I'm well aware, but you don't beat the problem of >exclusivity makes it so not everyone has everything
with >exclusivity makes it so not everyone has everything but now the other side has the thing
I will always condemn exclusivity unless there's hardware limitations as a reason for it. It's the ONE thing that can get me to be on a Snoy's side
Yeah, that's the real reason exclusivity is dying. Before PS4/Xbox One you had different consoles with very different architectures, which ironically peaked with PS3 and its "cell processor" thing, but then PS4/Xbox One were suddenly already close to being just glorified PCs, with PS5/Xbox S/X even more so, and that kind of "MUH optimization" justification started going down the drain. And to be fair, both sides recognize that now as well. How many "true exlusives" that are neither timed nor "console-exclusives" are there even for PS5 and Xbox S/X? Are there even any? Pretty much everything is coming to PC now.
Now Nintendo consoles on the other hand...
>snoys: Those game journalists lost all credibility by giving SF too much 10 >also snoys: SPIDERMAN 2 GOT ALL 10/10 (from the same game journalists) CONFIRMED GAME OF THE DECADE
so tired
Spiderman 10/10 is absolutely moronic though. 10/10 game should be better than 9.6/10 baldur's gate, there is no fricking way any sony 3rd person movie game is, unless they get +10 for lgbt pandering
Gaming journalism is only good for other gaming journalists.
Every persons gaming experience playing a game will be different, this entire mentality of someone playing the game for you and telling you how good the game is for them, is pointless.
I liked AC 2, maybe as much as another person hated AC 2. There is no need for me to tell him how wrong he is or for him to tell me how wrong I am. Simply ignore these views and take them as their own experience.
Even Bethesda fans seem very mixed on this game. I think it's a combination of a dull setting and shitty technology that takes all the joy out of exploring, because who wants to explore hundreds of of boring, flat, uniform planets that only houses bandits? The Bethesda magic is gone and all you're left with is a game with all the typical Bethesda flaws - a mediocre main story, shallow RPG mechanics, acceptable combat and jank.
The setting is boring, everything was made to be too safe, the edges were sanded down, everything that could've been pointy was rounded. Systems are all locked too far behind perks which are locked behind shitty daily quest level mechanics. Fallout 4 had an incredibly fun gameloop of KILL LOOT RETURN picking up screws and shit and coming back to your base, building walls and turrets and houses for your settlers, working on your weapons and armor with all the loot and garbage you picked up on your bizarre adventure that zigzagged across the map. Starfield makes generic shit useless, you don't know what to pick up, you need to find some shitty sentimental wafers and quazitronic excrement to upgrade your weapon, you never go back to your settlement because it's just some abandoned mine on a desolate planet you fast traveled to once and the building options are NASA GREENHOUSE y/n
TOTK getting showered with 10/10 despite it being a lazy assetflip DLC was far more of a moronic game jorno moment.
Starfield at least rightfully didn't get past 85%
unironically- if you didnt think Starfield is far and away the greatest game made to date that revolutionizes the way we play rpgs then you are a shortsighted homosexual that shouldnt be allowed to propagate your opinion on the the internet. none of that its bland or good morning sir, none of that stupid troll bullshit you hear over and over and over. youre wrong. Starfield is above your comprehension and you need to accept you're a part of the masses that dont understand when something truly special takes place in history.
I do not get how anyone can think Starfield is a generally good game. It has good aspects, but everything good is overshadowed by the glaring issues at every corner.
>but everything good is overshadowed by the glaring issues at every corner.
Main problem of the Starfield game it doesn't have good basic gameplay loop. Its core problem.
They made massive engine to generate good looking and proper to sci-fi scenery. That sfood part. But what about connecting this scenery with gameplay loop? You can see they tried but it so ackward and forced. You ship lands 500 meters away from quest marker so you are forced to walk these 500 meters enjoying (the not) these sceneries.
But is so forced and had no sense in setting and no connection with gameplay.
What is the struggle and engagement during this walk? None.
And form setting point of view it doesn't makes any sensez breaking suspension of disbelief. Why can't ship land near the marker? Why are their no vehicles?
Again see example of similar game "you walk around scenery and enjoy the views". Death Stranding game. It has scenery connected with the gameloop and setting. Setting explains why walk. Walking itself is challenging and contains conflict, it CAN fail, player is engaged.
Let me tell you a story.
A long time ago, "journalism" was seen for what it was, bullshit propaganda by various outlets purposely created in those outlets interests. It could be royal bullshit, bullshit from a particular business, or religious bullshit. But everyone knew who was in charge of what and knew to take it with a grain of salt.
Then Watergate happened and it was a massive glow up, suddenly journalists were "after the truth" and they "held power to account"... Thing is, they never did, that was never their function. But most of the people here grew up with that "crusaders for truth" as the understanding of journalism. Because of that, most of us are actually surprised when it turns out they're just shills our interested in increasing their own platform, or really just like the sound of their own voice.
But like I said, that was always their function. Need to start setting news media as that again. Propaganda, bullshit, a big giant focusing lens to get you to pay attention to what the people in control of that platform want. The only time you ever see the truth is when one of the 4 horsemen is on your doorstep. Because then you have no time to buy the bullshit.
Time we all started remembering what journalism always was. And it's all of it, there's no "always truthful" outlet. Even the ones that aren't straight out bullshit eventually devolve straight back into it, because that's its function.
>The moment gaming """journalism""" lost all credibility.
You say this EVERY SINGLE BIG GAME RELEASE. Every new game is shit and everything you played and loved convientiently came out when you were a child or teen. Obnoxious homosexuals. Make up you own goddamn mind instead of parroting what you wanna hear from movie or gaming journalists.
Oh and the reason games journalism is so egregious is because most of the time you can just go and see the truth for yourself by playing the game and most of you autists will actually look deep enough and bear enough of a grudge to say something about it. Plus most of them are too shit at actual journalism to hide the fact they're incestuous stoolies. You have to actually finish your journalism degree to learn that.
The moment gaming """journalism""" lost all credibility.
Journalists of any sort have never had credibility with anyone with more than two brain cells. They are failed writers who prostitute themselves out for a paycheck. Their job is literally to write lies for whoever pays them to. Editors ensure they don’t rock the boat and upset major sponsors. People joke about making politicians wear their sponsors like racecar drivers, but journalists are the exact same. Except they now have the gall to consider themselves unbiased arbiters of truth because they sniffed their own farts for too long.
Games journalists are one of the worst examples, because like this poster mentioned anyone can independently verify their claims easily. But journalists of all other walks of life are the same, it’s just most people can’t verify their claims. Wait until you’re involved in an event that makes it into the news, then compare what you saw/experienced vs what is printed. It’s like reading a fantasy novel with as much product placement as possible.
>since at least 2007
You're a baby. It was ALWAYS corrupt. There's stories going back to the fricking 80s about paid reviews and reviewers getting reprimanded or fired because a company got pissed he gave them a bad review. And that's not even getting into the likes of Nintendo and Sony creating their own review publication that existed solely to shill.
Gamergate was a massive psyop to undermine public opinion against journalism. Not only that it smoke screened a bunch of shit that has had a net negative effect on various societies. It was when steam switched to a subscription service from a store front. The GFC basically got memoryholed and everyone responsible just restarted the machine. Corporate hegemony like the TPP and TAP got signed in backrooms basically subverting democracy. Your literal laws have to take a back seat to corporate deals.
All while they played 5guys and HURR DURR TRUMP on repeat.
The media is design to control your focus.
I did. I was there. I watched the media tone after tone ignore hard evidence you autists dug up to show evidence of unethical behaviour in media. I watched as they bought the shit time after time by people that were proven to be lying and false flagging themselves to pretend victimhood. I saw the trolls playing both sides and i saw the minority of homosexuals that were actually mad about stupid shit that had their insane nattering constantly put on blast over the actual evidence.
And since, I've seen the results of things that happened during that time that should have been in the media but was conveniently forgotten or relegated to so far down the page with maybe a paragraph that affected massive sections of society.
So no, I'm not moronic, you are, because you can't see the obvious truth because you care more about provincial bullshit or dunking on randoms on the internet.
That's literally what it was. It might not have started like that as some planned conspiracy, but that was definitely what it became and what is only lasting effect is.
And what's your rebuttal "hurr durr, you're just a moron" frick off idiot. The evidence is clear and instead of actually following that people would rather be ashamed about Gamergate and continue making "hurr durr gamer" memes. Tell me that's a fricking lie. Go on.
Other than what others already mentioned a more recent example that should have clued you in was The Last Of Us Part 2. Look at the massive gulp between its metacritic critic score (93 out of 100) and its metacritic user score (5.8 out of 10). Not to mention they conspired to give TLOU2 the GOTY 2020 award just for existing when literally any other title nominated in any category that day would have deserved it more.
why does anyone give a frick who wins at the game awards though? it's the most pozzed soulless corporate show I've ever seen for 15 minutes. They are an authority on nothing.
Gamers are extremly insecure about their media not being called art and TGA in their eyes makes them look like they're not gobbling up the latest big studio slop. Similar to the Oscars. Fact is these things are just ads dressed in suits.
You don't have to foam out of your mouth about the truth. Gamers are the only people who cope and seethe in masses about what is considered to be a true enjoyer of the medium.
You say gamers like they're some homogeneous entity and don't include everyone that's ever played a game and enjoyed it enough to be a fan. >cope and seethe
Is it impossible for you to not talk like a moron? >no true Scotsman bullshit
Every fricking denomination of any kind has that bullshit. Acting like it's inherent to gamers is moronic. Just as much as ignoring the basis for the ideal.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>You say gamers like they're some homogeneous entity
If I did I would have said this. Learn how to read. >Is it impossible for you to not talk like a moron?
Cry harder you little homosexual. Do you want to write a little list of what words aren't allowed to be used to not make you cry or do you want to only speak in meme talk from your little cartoon show? >Every fricking denomination of any kind has that bullshit
Not really though. You're extemely defensive about that topic as well. Did it hit a nerve or something?
8 months ago
Anonymous
>learn to read
And what did you use as a qualifier? Oh you didn't, just the general term. Huh.. >still talks like a moron
Oh, it's brain damaged, poor thing. >not really
Yeah fricking really. It's tribalism, a basic default imperative in humans.
moron.
you are dumb as frick, journalism has been shit since the 90's and of all the shit that has been praised through all this year you're only taking it on starfield because you're a salty homosexual.
homie you a frickin moron if it took you this long to come up with that opinion
people believed that shit before you were born because of the "Nintendo bias" and "review copy privileges" before the internet was even a hugely successful thing. Now these are the norm.
This was the moment i stopped caring.
In the aftermath, i used to search for the Dragon Age 2 review to see if i could trust the website. In the end, i stopped browsing gaming websites.
It's funny how you've all somehow collectively decided that Starfield is shit for a variety of reasons. I think it's an alright game, it isn't the best thing since cheese on toast but that's fine. Stop being so dramatic you c**ts.
Ganker tried to do the same with elden ring, it's the same 20-30 people that orbit Ganker who don't play games but just post tortanic about everything because their lives suck
Hating on things is a phenomenon that happens pretty much everywhere on Ganker. Some people make their whole life about hating a particular thing on this looney bin.
Some even cheer for it to happen, they call it "ritual posters". Which most of the time is just avatargayging or straight up spamming and should be a bannable offense but mods don't care.
This site is just a CIA honeypot and nothing else at this point.
If you have taken any gaming journalism seriously since at least the cuphead tutorial video, if not even further back, then you need to be taken out back and put down.
Fpbp
Gaming "journalism" has been a meme since maybe 2011.
all journalism*
The Mass Effect 3 shill campaign is probably the big one that made even normies of the time aware of how the industry works, well before Gamergate was a thing.
Forget Mass Effect 3, remember Dragon Age 2?
That game was dogshit compared to the first and they treated it like GOTY material.
This, I told you people for years they weren't legitimate since they get paid for their reviews since it's not illegal...if something isn't illegal and will get someone money they will do it.
But the game this time turned out great. I think only the unfortunate people with no internal monologues and bad taste don't enjoy it.
It has nice scenery visials .... And nothing else good. They tried to make game of feels when you walk among sci-fi grandiose visuals but these environment are not incorporated into game play. And everything else is just bad.
If you want example of the game that was successful with that it's pic related. Starfield failed.
gaming journalist stopped being respectable a few years before gamergate
and in the 20 odd years before gamergate it was still an utter shillfest, but it was at least halfway informative despite the shilling. Whereas today, if you read an article about x or y game from some prostitution goyslop review website, all they do is suck it off and swallow.
Thank god for user reviews. You can see all the dipshit marketers and execs mad as frick about it because they always b***h and whine about "review bombing" aka actual customers expressing actual feeling about how shit the company and its product are.
Okay but Dean literally shouldn't be working in the industry
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Kane & Lynch 2 was what opened my eyes. I've given extremely little merit to gaming journalism since then.
but K&L2 is awful anon, that game is horrible
Exactly, didn't a guy get fired because he gave it a bad review?
Your remembering stuff waaaaaay too old for the zoom zooms anon.
yeaa square put a lot of ads on the site and the guy gave it a 6 so shit happened
It's great, especially it's multiplayer.
for me it was the "mass effect 1 enemies are damage sponges" courtesy of one guy who didn't even realize the game was an rpg and never changed the starting weapon or levelled up any stats
You probably already know and were making a joke, but if you didn’t know, that’s the same guy.
Also the same guy who said 40k was a rip off of Gears of War
>be Ganker tard and spam 24/7 tortanic at everything
>oops it doesn't happen
>be surprised
>cope
>one moronic journo means all 100k of them are
>means all 100k of them are
Literally their fricking job to control information. Just because they believe they are doing the right thing, doesn't mean they are or are even qualified to gather and then disseminate information. Why do you think they aren't just relating the evidence and facts but it's also imperative how they frame it?
They ask are
anon you have no idea how many """people""" base their purchasing decision on metascore
be honest Ganker most of us would throw away our diginity or pretend to like a shitty game for some cash. games are so shit nowadays that you might as well pretend to like a game for a quick buck.
I have a job that doesn't require me to do that so no.
well you do it for free on Ganker if you really think about it
I'd have to actually post a review score first.
It's hilarious because the entire concept of reviewing software for consumers is to have integrity so people trust your opinion, otherwise why the frick would I care what someone online thinks about s videogame? These companies like IGN are basically riding on good will built by edgy magazine article writers from the golden age who gave a shit and would trash garbage when it deserved it and buying games was a big spend
A prostitute will do anything for money, that does not mean everyone wants to be one.
> There is no possibility people like things I don't.
You would be surprised.
I mean there are shit eaters irl, we should never stop shaming them tho
Just brush your teeth when you are done as a courtesy to the rest of us
gem
blatant shilling aside, who actually reads any of these sites? I assume even normalgays just stick to the main ones like IGN or Gamespot, but so many of these are literally whos you only ever hear about when they show up on shill review collages like your pic
I generally just browse pcgamer and rockpapershotgun. Not sure why. I don't take either sites review as gospel
>I generally just browse politically correct gamer and rockpapercuckgun
Meant cuckpapershartgun
>so many of these are literally whos you only ever hear about when they show up on shill review collages like your pic
That is their entire purpose, yes.
A massive company with 1000 employees can at best give you one 10/10
If you instead make 100 companies with each 10 employees, guess what that's 100 10/10 ratings.
It's all puppet/satellite companies to "spread" opinions.
>10 employees
That's being generous. Probably like 2 or 3 college english major interns with a supervisor shared across multiples sites. Makes sense why you see so many "videogames are sexists" articles everywhere that noone gives a shit about.
Cannot lose what you never had to begin with
lmao, games journalism lost all credibility when they defended 5 guys burgers and fries for having sex to get good reviews for a shit game
Huh? It took you THIS long to realize that gaming journos are a meme? Come on, at least the cuphead video should have told you something.
I know newbies will never understand, but gaming journalism declared war on their audience long ago.
Everything bad in the gaming sphere can be traced back to starting around 2015, or much earlier like 2010 with some shit starting to fail even earlier than that like the Actiblizz merge. Generally, if something is shit, it started in 2010-2015.
I mark Skyrim as the last good AAA game, personally.
>when gamers all rallied together against the woke media
holy sovl... chills..
and then we got our asses handed to us because they siuccessfully changed the argument from some c**t getting good reviews for sex, to toxic males forcing women in the industry to resort to such measures
They ended up fricking themselves in the end though, since at the end of the day games journalism being more than reviews, announcements, and updates will never actually work.
>all the journos in the bottom are dying or have died
BASED
When 7 of those "gamers are dead" articles were posted within an hour of each other on 7 different sites is what finally killed my delusion that there is any honesty in journalism. And then the mainstream journo coverage of the whole thing showed that it's not just vidya journalism that's fake.
Not only did I lose my faith in gaymin journalism but journalism as a whole.
I was sure that mainstream media can do some clicks to find out the truth but they not only didn't want to but also created and maintained a narrative.
This was my most radicalising moment.
>it's been 9 years
like tears in the rain scoob
To eat never had any but those scores are about right
there is someone at every game company who has to find every news outlet in every language that gave their game a 90+ rating
You didn't need starfield to realize that
It's been at least 10 years since they lost credibility bro
>Current year + 9
>Still trusting game journalists
Shiggy diggy
I mean the scores on this are literally fake, like Metro's 5/5 (3/5 in reality)
Journalism never had any credibility to begin with be it gaming or otherwise. Good example would be nintendo power most of the articles in those magazines are bullshit and that goes all the way back to the late 80s.
It's a good game
>babby zoomer’s first time
Game is amazing, spent countless hours just working on my ship
wow that looks like garbage
congrats
Nah, it's beautiful, here's a slightly older version.
Nope it turned out how I want. I did have to think about that though when building it.
and then the interior RNG rolls completely wrong and made a labyrinth for no reason
you have shit taste goy NPC
>t.liked fallout 4 just because the base building satisfied his autsim
wrong reason to like a game, just play fricking minecraft you sperg.
I made 2 ship and in total spent probably 6 hours building them and traveling from staryard to staryard for different parts. And then there is literally nothing substantial to do with those ships, because space travel does not exist and space battles are as simplistic as it gets. So I spent hours autistically making ship just to look at it in loading screens.
For what purpose? Ships are useless.
Once gamergate happened, it was already beyond dead. You're fricking a dead corpse, in hopes it will be reborn.
Gaming journalism died in 1973
Snoys still seething lmao
>exclusivity is good when we do it
I'm not even a snoy, I think people who use consoles are little children unfit for the hobby, but all exclusivity is cancer
I don't understand this meme. It's on PC and xbox.
Yes, with no reason for it to not be on PS as well, since (from what people told me) that one even outperforms current gen Xbox. We call that exclusivity.
It has a reason not to be on the Switch because the Switch hardware is absolute garbage.
>We call that exclusivity.
I don't. I call Bloodborne being only on snoy station exclusivity.
Generally speaking, games are developed on PC architecture primarily and have to be ported to other consoles/devices/operating systems. If a game is only on PC it's because the developers didn't put resources into porting it. If it's only on playstation it's because they hate consumers.
Now a very strange phenom is that games are built on PCs, ported to a console, and then... ported back to PC? Not designed to be played on the PC primarily? It's bizarre. Like, how do you test it?
Jfc you are clueless
Sony paid for all sorts of sneaky exclusivity shit for years which is the only reason microsoft even started considering just outright buying these devs, the exclusivity marketing angle was something they cooked up and introduced at sony which made the industry what it is now
>Sony paid for all sorts of sneaky exclusivity shit for years
Oh I'm well aware, but you don't beat the problem of
>exclusivity makes it so not everyone has everything
with
>exclusivity makes it so not everyone has everything but now the other side has the thing
I will always condemn exclusivity unless there's hardware limitations as a reason for it. It's the ONE thing that can get me to be on a Snoy's side
Yeah, that's the real reason exclusivity is dying. Before PS4/Xbox One you had different consoles with very different architectures, which ironically peaked with PS3 and its "cell processor" thing, but then PS4/Xbox One were suddenly already close to being just glorified PCs, with PS5/Xbox S/X even more so, and that kind of "MUH optimization" justification started going down the drain. And to be fair, both sides recognize that now as well. How many "true exlusives" that are neither timed nor "console-exclusives" are there even for PS5 and Xbox S/X? Are there even any? Pretty much everything is coming to PC now.
Now Nintendo consoles on the other hand...
Nintendo exclusives are the least justified in being exclusive given that we just this year played LoZ:BotW2 weeks before the switch release on the PC
>snoys: Those game journalists lost all credibility by giving SF too much 10
>also snoys: SPIDERMAN 2 GOT ALL 10/10 (from the same game journalists) CONFIRMED GAME OF THE DECADE
so tired
Spiderman 10/10 is absolutely moronic though. 10/10 game should be better than 9.6/10 baldur's gate, there is no fricking way any sony 3rd person movie game is, unless they get +10 for lgbt pandering
The entire system is dumb and you’re ultimately malding over nothing
Spiderman 2 is total garbage. Just niglet alone is enough for 0/10
Not that they had it before, but the image is fake
>he missed the Gamer Gate (unironically).
Starfield is GotY. Deal with it.
Gaming journalism is only good for other gaming journalists.
Every persons gaming experience playing a game will be different, this entire mentality of someone playing the game for you and telling you how good the game is for them, is pointless.
I liked AC 2, maybe as much as another person hated AC 2. There is no need for me to tell him how wrong he is or for him to tell me how wrong I am. Simply ignore these views and take them as their own experience.
>now
Even Bethesda fans seem very mixed on this game. I think it's a combination of a dull setting and shitty technology that takes all the joy out of exploring, because who wants to explore hundreds of of boring, flat, uniform planets that only houses bandits? The Bethesda magic is gone and all you're left with is a game with all the typical Bethesda flaws - a mediocre main story, shallow RPG mechanics, acceptable combat and jank.
The setting is boring, everything was made to be too safe, the edges were sanded down, everything that could've been pointy was rounded. Systems are all locked too far behind perks which are locked behind shitty daily quest level mechanics. Fallout 4 had an incredibly fun gameloop of KILL LOOT RETURN picking up screws and shit and coming back to your base, building walls and turrets and houses for your settlers, working on your weapons and armor with all the loot and garbage you picked up on your bizarre adventure that zigzagged across the map. Starfield makes generic shit useless, you don't know what to pick up, you need to find some shitty sentimental wafers and quazitronic excrement to upgrade your weapon, you never go back to your settlement because it's just some abandoned mine on a desolate planet you fast traveled to once and the building options are NASA GREENHOUSE y/n
TOTK getting showered with 10/10 despite it being a lazy assetflip DLC was far more of a moronic game jorno moment.
Starfield at least rightfully didn't get past 85%
No that was with Gamer Gate, or at least after when journos went full moron since they didn’t have anyone to stop them.
unironically- if you didnt think Starfield is far and away the greatest game made to date that revolutionizes the way we play rpgs then you are a shortsighted homosexual that shouldnt be allowed to propagate your opinion on the the internet. none of that its bland or good morning sir, none of that stupid troll bullshit you hear over and over and over. youre wrong. Starfield is above your comprehension and you need to accept you're a part of the masses that dont understand when something truly special takes place in history.
"unironically" is not a real word, dimwit
youre unironically fricking moronic
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/unironically_adv?tl=true
Even if it "wasn't", people use it which makes it a word
Language is descriptive, the people who use it make it
I didn't hate it but it wasn't great. When you really boil it down I wanted first person Rimworld with looter shooter procgen dungeons.
I do not get how anyone can think Starfield is a generally good game. It has good aspects, but everything good is overshadowed by the glaring issues at every corner.
Starfield is so good the people in lead positions were let go at Bethesda so they can beg for a job online. Such an incredible game indeed.
>but everything good is overshadowed by the glaring issues at every corner.
Main problem of the Starfield game it doesn't have good basic gameplay loop. Its core problem.
They made massive engine to generate good looking and proper to sci-fi scenery. That sfood part. But what about connecting this scenery with gameplay loop? You can see they tried but it so ackward and forced. You ship lands 500 meters away from quest marker so you are forced to walk these 500 meters enjoying (the not) these sceneries.
But is so forced and had no sense in setting and no connection with gameplay.
What is the struggle and engagement during this walk? None.
And form setting point of view it doesn't makes any sensez breaking suspension of disbelief. Why can't ship land near the marker? Why are their no vehicles?
Again see example of similar game "you walk around scenery and enjoy the views". Death Stranding game. It has scenery connected with the gameloop and setting. Setting explains why walk. Walking itself is challenging and contains conflict, it CAN fail, player is engaged.
Starfield has nothing of that.
Let me tell you a story.
A long time ago, "journalism" was seen for what it was, bullshit propaganda by various outlets purposely created in those outlets interests. It could be royal bullshit, bullshit from a particular business, or religious bullshit. But everyone knew who was in charge of what and knew to take it with a grain of salt.
Then Watergate happened and it was a massive glow up, suddenly journalists were "after the truth" and they "held power to account"... Thing is, they never did, that was never their function. But most of the people here grew up with that "crusaders for truth" as the understanding of journalism. Because of that, most of us are actually surprised when it turns out they're just shills our interested in increasing their own platform, or really just like the sound of their own voice.
But like I said, that was always their function. Need to start setting news media as that again. Propaganda, bullshit, a big giant focusing lens to get you to pay attention to what the people in control of that platform want. The only time you ever see the truth is when one of the 4 horsemen is on your doorstep. Because then you have no time to buy the bullshit.
Time we all started remembering what journalism always was. And it's all of it, there's no "always truthful" outlet. Even the ones that aren't straight out bullshit eventually devolve straight back into it, because that's its function.
Glow up?
You are connected to the repository of human knowledge.
Stop using veganal lingo from foreign sites.
or?
>glow up
An event to make something seem more palatable/relatable/fashionable
>The moment gaming """journalism""" lost all credibility.
You say this EVERY SINGLE BIG GAME RELEASE. Every new game is shit and everything you played and loved convientiently came out when you were a child or teen. Obnoxious homosexuals. Make up you own goddamn mind instead of parroting what you wanna hear from movie or gaming journalists.
It lost credibility many years ago.
How fricking young are you?
Oh and the reason games journalism is so egregious is because most of the time you can just go and see the truth for yourself by playing the game and most of you autists will actually look deep enough and bear enough of a grudge to say something about it. Plus most of them are too shit at actual journalism to hide the fact they're incestuous stoolies. You have to actually finish your journalism degree to learn that.
Journalists of any sort have never had credibility with anyone with more than two brain cells. They are failed writers who prostitute themselves out for a paycheck. Their job is literally to write lies for whoever pays them to. Editors ensure they don’t rock the boat and upset major sponsors. People joke about making politicians wear their sponsors like racecar drivers, but journalists are the exact same. Except they now have the gall to consider themselves unbiased arbiters of truth because they sniffed their own farts for too long.
Games journalists are one of the worst examples, because like this poster mentioned anyone can independently verify their claims easily. But journalists of all other walks of life are the same, it’s just most people can’t verify their claims. Wait until you’re involved in an event that makes it into the news, then compare what you saw/experienced vs what is printed. It’s like reading a fantasy novel with as much product placement as possible.
babies. All of you
Gaming journos have been corrupt since at least 2007.
You were simply too much of a baby to remember
All journalists have always been corrupt or indoctrinated to accept the corrupt POVs as their own.
Probably, I've never really paid attention to them
>since at least 2007
You're a baby. It was ALWAYS corrupt. There's stories going back to the fricking 80s about paid reviews and reviewers getting reprimanded or fired because a company got pissed he gave them a bad review. And that's not even getting into the likes of Nintendo and Sony creating their own review publication that existed solely to shill.
gamergate was right
Gamergate was a massive psyop to undermine public opinion against journalism. Not only that it smoke screened a bunch of shit that has had a net negative effect on various societies. It was when steam switched to a subscription service from a store front. The GFC basically got memoryholed and everyone responsible just restarted the machine. Corporate hegemony like the TPP and TAP got signed in backrooms basically subverting democracy. Your literal laws have to take a back seat to corporate deals.
All while they played 5guys and HURR DURR TRUMP on repeat.
The media is design to control your focus.
This is absolutely fricking moronic and you would never think this if you watched it happen with your own eyes.
I did. I was there. I watched the media tone after tone ignore hard evidence you autists dug up to show evidence of unethical behaviour in media. I watched as they bought the shit time after time by people that were proven to be lying and false flagging themselves to pretend victimhood. I saw the trolls playing both sides and i saw the minority of homosexuals that were actually mad about stupid shit that had their insane nattering constantly put on blast over the actual evidence.
And since, I've seen the results of things that happened during that time that should have been in the media but was conveniently forgotten or relegated to so far down the page with maybe a paragraph that affected massive sections of society.
So no, I'm not moronic, you are, because you can't see the obvious truth because you care more about provincial bullshit or dunking on randoms on the internet.
>Gamergate was a massive psyop to undermine public opinion against journalism.
This is what you said. This is why you're fricking moronic.
That's literally what it was. It might not have started like that as some planned conspiracy, but that was definitely what it became and what is only lasting effect is.
And what's your rebuttal "hurr durr, you're just a moron" frick off idiot. The evidence is clear and instead of actually following that people would rather be ashamed about Gamergate and continue making "hurr durr gamer" memes. Tell me that's a fricking lie. Go on.
>It was when steam switched to a subscription service from a store front.
Uhh???
You really didn't read your steam subscriber agreement before you agreed, did you. Or watched EULA turn from licenses you purchased to leases.
At least gamers completely mindfricked Adam Sessler into constantly sperging out and disavowing his old profession and fanbase.
drivergate was 20 years ago
>Starfieldgays still coping hard as frick
Other than what others already mentioned a more recent example that should have clued you in was The Last Of Us Part 2. Look at the massive gulp between its metacritic critic score (93 out of 100) and its metacritic user score (5.8 out of 10). Not to mention they conspired to give TLOU2 the GOTY 2020 award just for existing when literally any other title nominated in any category that day would have deserved it more.
why does anyone give a frick who wins at the game awards though? it's the most pozzed soulless corporate show I've ever seen for 15 minutes. They are an authority on nothing.
Gamers are extremly insecure about their media not being called art and TGA in their eyes makes them look like they're not gobbling up the latest big studio slop. Similar to the Oscars. Fact is these things are just ads dressed in suits.
>bullshit strawman
Wow, daring today.
>ads dressed in suits
Closest thing to a reasonable response.
You don't have to foam out of your mouth about the truth. Gamers are the only people who cope and seethe in masses about what is considered to be a true enjoyer of the medium.
You say gamers like they're some homogeneous entity and don't include everyone that's ever played a game and enjoyed it enough to be a fan.
>cope and seethe
Is it impossible for you to not talk like a moron?
>no true Scotsman bullshit
Every fricking denomination of any kind has that bullshit. Acting like it's inherent to gamers is moronic. Just as much as ignoring the basis for the ideal.
>You say gamers like they're some homogeneous entity
If I did I would have said this. Learn how to read.
>Is it impossible for you to not talk like a moron?
Cry harder you little homosexual. Do you want to write a little list of what words aren't allowed to be used to not make you cry or do you want to only speak in meme talk from your little cartoon show?
>Every fricking denomination of any kind has that bullshit
Not really though. You're extemely defensive about that topic as well. Did it hit a nerve or something?
>learn to read
And what did you use as a qualifier? Oh you didn't, just the general term. Huh..
>still talks like a moron
Oh, it's brain damaged, poor thing.
>not really
Yeah fricking really. It's tribalism, a basic default imperative in humans.
moron.
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you are dumb as frick, journalism has been shit since the 90's and of all the shit that has been praised through all this year you're only taking it on starfield because you're a salty homosexual.
homie you a frickin moron if it took you this long to come up with that opinion
people believed that shit before you were born because of the "Nintendo bias" and "review copy privileges" before the internet was even a hugely successful thing. Now these are the norm.
The well has always been poisoned.
This was the moment i stopped caring.
In the aftermath, i used to search for the Dragon Age 2 review to see if i could trust the website. In the end, i stopped browsing gaming websites.
same, DA2 was fricking dogshit, i immediately lost all respect for the industry when it released
Is there a "Community note" yet under it?
I stopped taking journos seriously after this
fricking hell 13 was awful
Those + and - points are kind of correct if you play with jap voices but the score is completely wrong
7 in IGN, 7 in Gamespot, 6 in Edge, 3/5 in Eurogamer
it lost all credibility before you were born, zoomie
That was a long time ago and "journalism" at it's best was just salesmanship selling you on stuff, tk keep them employed.
The worst example of parasitism was Driv3r and Kane and Lynch getting shit reviews, no surprise: same person.
Right here.
>A cinematic masterwork
What the frick?
Gaming journalism has had zero credibility for roughly 15 years now.
Journos have been exposed way longer anon
Starfield was pretty good though.
>anon discovers paid reviews
are you 12 or moronic?
That point was over 10 years ago for us with a brain.
It's funny how you've all somehow collectively decided that Starfield is shit for a variety of reasons. I think it's an alright game, it isn't the best thing since cheese on toast but that's fine. Stop being so dramatic you c**ts.
Hi, Todd.
Ganker tried to do the same with elden ring, it's the same 20-30 people that orbit Ganker who don't play games but just post tortanic about everything because their lives suck
Hating on things is a phenomenon that happens pretty much everywhere on Ganker. Some people make their whole life about hating a particular thing on this looney bin.
Some even cheer for it to happen, they call it "ritual posters". Which most of the time is just avatargayging or straight up spamming and should be a bannable offense but mods don't care.
This site is just a CIA honeypot and nothing else at this point.
Stop liking dogshit you dick sucking shill.
If he likes the game, then it isn't dogshit to him and you're blowing steam to the air for no reason.
dogshit game for dogshit taste
Employed games journos haven't really been relevant for years. Do you know anyone who actually trusts reviews at face value anymore.
People play what their friends or the youtube people they watch tell them to play.
The amount of "It's buggy, but in a charming bethesda way" I heard from reviewers was insane.
Starfield released and went on to become irrelevant in the same month lol. At least it's on gamepass m'right?
At Starfield is a new gaming experience.
>The moment gaming """journalism""" lost all credibility.
>2k20+3
pick one
Boycott ps plus and game pass