Let's get a video game journalism thread going.

>>255076147

Jesus fucking god in heaven

>>255076147
this should Spurrier surprise me but I don't know man. I guess I just numb.

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Alright then, dumping folder

>Tim Rogers

Literally WHO?

>>255076792
A faggot who made a game for the shitty Vita

>>255076147
Amazing trackpad, shitty for gaming.

Does anyone have a screengrab of the recent Kotaku article about GaymerX? The writer talks about feeling guilty for being a straight white male and shit, it's ultra embarrassing.

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I choose to believe that is not real.

>>255076147
No, but thats wrong.
BUT THATS WRONG.
NO WHAT, STOP, THATS WRONG.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

>>255077030
thats not real is it?

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One of the worst fucking sites I've ever been on

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>>255077030

http://kotaku.com/5878449/why-the-apple-trackpad-might-be-the-best-video-game-controller-ever-made

Dear fucking god it's real

It's horrible

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http://zeboyd.com/2013/09/10/why-games-like-the-wonderful-101-are-a-poor-fit-for-the-gaming-press/
its relatively short

>>255077030
I'm mad, I don't give a shit if this is a well done fake, I am goddamn furious.

>>255077353
the fact people keep doing this specific kind of thing is just sad
>It wont work without x feature
>taken out immediately after all the complaints
>who woulda guessed, it works

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>>255077398
It's not kotaku, but it is real
Hideki Kamiya is higher on the list

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>>255077178
Not cool, Patricia had a hard life. Pic related.

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>>255076147
Breaking out my folder too OP.

>>255077430
>Feminists are never satisfied

Color me surprised.

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>>255077554
I lel'd

This article, though, made me fucking pissed.

>>255077551
>John Carmack low
That's good!
>Below feminism bitch
Not good.

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>>255077353
Reminds me of this fiasco.

>>255077724
Fuck, I remember that one and now I'm mad because I've been on the wrong end of a woman's flimsy justifications for cheating.

>>255077430
How about make a original female hero!?!?
Eh wait that would make sense.

>>255077785
That makes me fucking mad and I hate youtube celebs.

>>255077723
The worst thing is, that's probably not even a lie. they'll just gimp it like they did to watchdogs.

>>255077030
please.

please tell me this is bait and I am falling for it.
I can accept that, But I can't, no I won't believe this level of stupidity is actually capable in video game journalism.

so please. this is bait r-right???

>>255078093
Reminds me of that article complaining that you can't make Pokemon have gay sex.

>>255077554
>She also picks winning lottery numbers

That fucking killed me.

>>255076147
Technically there is no such thing, it is not real journalism since it cannot pass the minimum requirements.
It's like how some products are now made of cheese byproducts and not real cheese because it cannot pass the minimum requirements to be called that.

Gotta step it up anons, don't confuse cheese with artificial cheese flavored products.

>>255077785
Even though Mad Sancho is a fucking retard I can't help but empathize with him now because of this

>>255077785
those two are fucking horrible
>Joe says something that's correct
>Geoff blatantly lies or distracts from the point
>Joe caves in

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>>255076147

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>>255077030

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>>255077554
>she would pick winning lotto numbers

Hell, I'd let her give me a handy for a some winning numbers.

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>>255076147

These threads never fail to make me mad.

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>>255078142
Nope

It's on Venturebeat

>>255077030
Is this guy telling me that war hammer is an aesthetic rip-off of gears of war?

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>>255078552
yes

>>255077785
Funny thing is, MS canned that four days later.

>>255077030
No wonder Space Marine was such a boring fucking game

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When was the last time /v/ lost its shit over a kotaku article?

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>best

>>255078552
Pretty much. He did eventually do damage control by claiming he meant the gameplay, despite explicitly referencing the name and character design as reasons it's a ripodd.

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>Ben Kuchera
>not even once

>>255078641
I could deal with Neogaf being Sony central, but this, this is fucking retarded.

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>>255078287
Are you talking about something else? That ain't the pope in that animated hieroglyph.

>>255078710
In fairness /v/ enjoys creating new kotaku articles to get mad over

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>>255078537
What a fuckwad, trying to justify her whoreness.
I fucking hate kotaku why the fuck is this chimpanzee a fucking game journo?
Gaming websites should talk about the new releases, hype for games, and the new technologies being developed. Not some fucking obese spic talking about how she has several lesbian lovers.
Fuck this shit.

>>255078710
Every day, just go to Kotaku right now and you can find one article that would make /v/ loses it's shit on the front page.

>>255077973
This makes me mad

>my feels
>better go to kotaku

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>>255078728
What the fuck

>>255078768
>that passive-aggression
Fuck, could he BE any madder?

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Didn't Kotaku earnestly report on that "Christians are offended by our Dante's Inferno game" viral marketing stunt pulled by EA?

I still don't understand how even the most tight-assed Evangelical could object to demon slaying, also.

>>255077551
if it was 'influential' I might have agreed with sarkeesian being that high.

but important? geh...

>>255077430
What the fuck would a Black Widow movie be about? She's even less relevant than Namor, seriously nobody give a fuck about Namor at all.

>>255078756
>last of its kind

Really, because that saying usually goes with something that has existed for awhile and isn't fucking terrible

>>255078093
How the fuck is queer an okay thing to say now? I'm so tired of shit coming in and out of favor. What does queer even mean anymore?

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>>255076792

Your run of the mill colossal hipster faggot. He seems to be mostly shilling for tragic looking mobile games.

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>>255077430

>mfw the Mjolnir she uses isn't the real one, just a copy
>mfw Man Thor will get the hammer back then Avengers 2 rolls around

The SJW tears will be delicious.

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People that are also dumping, how big is your folder of clickbait?

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>>255078768

This shitstorm was one of my favorite moments on /v/.

>>255078641
What a bunch of limp dick faggots.
Why can't we have a real Senator Armstrong run for presidency?

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>>255077468
> am a fairly critical person (single at thirty-two, I have not had a girlfriend in literally 10 years, I eat the exact same meal six times a day, I often will listen to the same song on repeat for an entire day)

>>255078287

Joe already got what he wanted, a certain and obviously wrong reply.

No point in kicking up a fuss about it which will just get you booted out.

If I remember he wasn't even really supposed to be in that area in the first place or something, just happened to get lucky with a nice PR person who probably wanted him shot afterwards.

I'm not a fan but he has resulted in some interesting stuff now and then.

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>>255076147
Patricia Hernandez

>>255078768
but I agree with Kuchera on this one. Beyond Two Souls doesn't deserve 10 hours of anyone's time. You know the game is shit within 10 minutes. Why drive yourself through the rest of that slag just for the sake of a dessert that will be more of the same?

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One of my personal favorites.

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>>255079197
filename related

>libruls

>>255078210
Well I'm sure they CAN...

they just won't get you an egg.

>>255078093
>There's some fairly serious thought that goes into Pokemon gender.
No, there really isn't. There isn't much thought that goes into Pokemon at all, really.

>But does it really matter?
No. Find a new job.

>>255076147
>>255077030
>>255077178
>>255077413
>>255077613
>>255077724
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>>255078537

I ignore any article that has a title beginning with a question word. If the journalist can't come up with a decent headline there's no reason to believe they could write an article worth reading. This shit is so fucking rampant in internet "journalism."

I mean fuck, I worked at a newspaper for only like three months but the first thing I learned was how to write a decent headline.

>>255077785
You know one of your "features" is terrible when even 56 Peso Pedro knows better.

There has to be legitimate vidya journalism somewhere, they can't all be paid-off shills, casuals, and social justice warriors.

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>>255078641
I remember this story. He later threw a fit when kotaku ran a piece about it, but at least they called him out on his BS.

What's sad is that pretending to be a victim to 15 minutes got him more support and goodwill than any amount of rigorous journalistic contributions

>>255079223
Because it's his job you fucking retard.

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>See OP pic
>"haha. P4Rgaming is pretty funny."
>Check the site
>The article isn't there

>>255077030
I don't know anything about warhammer can someone explain for me.

>>255079236
This has gotta be fake. Why would you write a article about how you're being bribed with hookers? Wouldn't you want to hide your corrupt ass?

>>255079223
Common sense tells you that if you're reviewing a short game, you at least need to complete it

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I fucking hate living here in america

>>255079223
Because that's his fucking job?

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>>255079352
>No.

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>>255079236
>all these other bribes are fine and to be expected

>>255079395
Editor didn't take it, he publicly announced the bribe offer.
Even being offered a bribe like this and not telling anyone can still be held against you.

>>255079352
>No.
Goddammit, it must hurt to get shut down by fucking Kotaku.

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>>255077973
It's mad because it got banned for an inappropriate name on a kids' game?

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The main problem with game journalism is that there is no real backing to where we can check against for "game journalists" since this is still a new field compared to all other forms of journalism that has had time to grow and mature (even though now its mostly awful). A lot of people that are hired on are not held to some grand standard and critique or comment on the gaming industry to help better it, but instead are hired out of every other aspect besides gaming.

These journalists are bought off by being able to "review" said games by getting free copies way ahead of time and other merchandise. This insures that the people reviewing will usually play ball and give people what the companies want to hear just to be able to continue to recieve these bonuses. This in turn leads to false reporting and every other journalist will want to follow suite because a non backed journalist in the gaming industry is practically dead.

Unlike other forms of journalism where there are many companies that can and will publish your stories, the only venue that gaming journalists have in that area are their personal blogs which are almost impossible to get noticed. The ones who are noticed however and are given jobs, are ones that will never rock the PC boat. They will never have a personal opinion that will go against the grain and ask the hard questions. Asking those questions are usually considered the wrong questions and that leads to an early death in a career.

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>>255078801
Could you really?

>>255079392
first sentence.
first fucking sentence
"all the gaming peeps"
are you fucking retarded? get off the internet.

didn't bother reading the rest. The title is stupid as fuck too.

no surprise coming from a person named "Syed Muhammad Usman Pirzada"

>>255079487
You KNOW you are fucking up when the reddit hugbox calls you put for being a faggot.

>>255077468
Is this whole article this man's fucking autobiography? IT JUST KEEPS GOING

>>255078641

These trannies could go a long way if they just took care of themselves a little better. There's def some trans out there that are hard to tell, others are just so blatantly obvious.

>>255077785
holy shit man, I never saw that. He actually grabbed the mic away from Joe. Love seeing those PR guys squirm.

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>>255077030

>>255079236
Thanks for still reminding me I still have to continue my project.

Dunno if I should start asking /v/ about describing video games attributes and stuff to put in a referential just yet.
There's a bunch of stuff I need to do before....

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Can someone dump 'Stupid shit Neogaf posted'

>>255076912
>it has platforming
>dreadful

>>255079368
>It's his job to play shitty games
It's his job to tell me what games are worth playing. If the guy writing his paychecks says "If you've firmly established that Beyond Two Souls is shit, then you can move on" then it's his job to move on after he says that it doesn't deserve anyone's time.

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>>255079392
>A game renowned for its story line.

Is it?
is it, -really-?

>>255078641
he is a monster yeah sure. it is the real monster

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The real horror is that it's $20

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>>255076147

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>>255079236
>mfw my last name is hooker

>>255079389
The only thing you need to know is that Warhammer 40k has been around since the 80s and Gears of War has not.

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>>255078093

Can someone bluntly tell me what the difference between sex and gender is?

Is it just sexuality or something?

>>255079389
warhammer is nothing more than a shitty gears of war clone

its not that hard to grasp just read the fucking article

>>255080074
The straights are the real monsters really

I wish video games could just be video games. No appeasing a general audience, no censorship, no paid off reviews, no jewery, no social justice. Just a game people made because they thought it would be cool, just some people playing a game because they agreed. What a simple world it would be.

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Fucking why?

>>255079943
>having ass/tits is insane, regardless of size
I love raitoningu and even i think this statement is ridiculous

>>255077430

This is actually a good point, though.

Marvel trying to cop out of a female cape movie by turning Thor into a female for half a year.

>>255080132
Ah ok. Thats what I assumed.

>>255079392
Can anybody submit an article on p4r?

I might have more or less imagination for an article about "Is the artificialization of video games the right direction?"
Talking about making games at 60FPS

>>255079389

Basically the article is saying that Magic the gathering is a cheap imitation of Yu-gi-oh. You know because they both use cards and everyone knows what yugi-oh is because it has more games.

>>255079937
I'm more mad about the second winning over the third, that's some tumblr tier shit art.

>>255079283
>I want shorter games
>Diablo III wasn't long enough

Not only is she an idiot but she has legitimately terrible taste

Also

>I cheated

And she thinks she has the right to judge anyone else on a moral level

>>255079187

Just how does a person confuse 'autistic' with 'critical'?

>>255079187
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>>255077468
>>255076147
>>255076792
DON'T RAGE. HE FEEDS OFF IT.

He prides himself as being a shit-stirrer and thinks he's the games equivalent of Hunter S. Thompson.

>>255079943
>sanely proportioned
Translation: "Flat-chested."

>>255077724
is that shit real?

>>255080205
Sex & Gender means the same thing. Gender is not context sensitive.

>>255080205
sex is your chromosome XX or XY
gender is what you personally believe yourself to be. a man thinking he is a woman, a lizard or a scarecrow

>>255080257
If it turns you on you should be ashamed. Please look downward and scold your boner for being misogynstic

>>255080338
I wish. Then we'd have someone who partakes in regular drug cocktails, rides through the desert in a red convertible, and laments the post-consumerism culture of America and the illegitimate and ultimately futile nature of "video game journalism".

>>255080102
The fuck? The average of the scores for Metro is 7.4, not 6.9.

And the averages for minecraft are 8.1

>>255079943

I love the outrage this game causes, moreso when you reveal that the artists for Skullgirls is a woman.

>>255080385
>After dinging it a point for grammar

PLEASE don't tell me they think "a FAQ" is correct

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>>255079197

It always amazes me how ugly women pull off this photo magic.

>>255080205
sex is whether you are biologically a man or woman

gender is where you believe you are a man or a woman

thus people with mismatching sex/gender are fucked up in the head, it's completely illogical

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>>255080485
I heard somewhere that she draws porn sometimes

>>255079389
Basically warhammer was the start of everything "space marine" in popular culture.

>>255080591
It's all a matter of lighting and perspective.

>>255080485
All dat internalized misogyny. She needs some white knight beta dude to free her with feminism

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>>255080429
>>255080464

Now I understand.

That's fucking stupid.

>>255080591
Wait, there's someone hidden in the background of that picture.

>>255080487
>visible breasts are the same as a visible dong
>this is what second wave feminists actually believe

jesus

>>255079320
There a rule in journalism, where if the headline takes the form of a question, you can be assured that no matter what the topic the answer is probably "No".

Because if the answer was "Yes", then the writer would make the headline a declarative line instead of an inquiry. It would be a proclamation of fact instead of baseless speculation.

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>>255080748

Third Wave Feminists

>>255079139
what happened?

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>>255080205
simple guide

The more and more I read these, the more and more I think "Do these people just get paid extravagant amounts of money just to write blog posts?"

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>>255080713
It is but some would say otherwise because "biology is oppressive" or something like that.

>>255078768
That's pretty funny, though.

>>255078815
>thanks mountain dew

I smile every time.

>>255080863
Third wave radical feminism, to be exact.
That is, radical feminists riding upon the third wave/modern wave of feminism.

Radfems are the ones who demand castration. This is an important facet to remember.

>>255080102
There;s a russian voice track?
And I was playing through it with the english voices, fuck.

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>>255077030
>decide to take a break from raging at vidya and browse /v/ to calm down
>see this fucking image
life is cruel

>>255080205
It means, avoid those who differentiate between the two. Hard enough trying to talk to these LGBT folks without stumbling awkwardly through a conversation trying not to offend them. Fuck, I hate talking to unidentifiable people.

>>255080903
>links to Devianart at bottom
Someone scout it for the rest of us.

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>>255079653
Damn, apply cold water to that fucking burn.

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>>255080591

The girl with the glasses is kinda cute I guess, in an extremely average dull, no crust bread way.

>>255078757

Even then hes way off. GoW is a cover shooter. Space Marine has no cover system at all and actively encourages you to get into melee combat.

>>255080879
Ben eventually lost his job cause his bullshit news site vie penny arcade was shit.

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Well I was planning on going to bed but now I am so goddamn angry I am wide awake. Thanks assholes, and nothing good is on tv either.

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>>255079693
So now we have a field of journalism that is completely monopolized by the companies that are supposed to be interviewed and reviewed. Its hard to get your foot in the door if not impossible unless you are any part of the progressive cog that would make their company look better by hiring you. These companies be it devs,publishers of game journalism know that gaming has developed in such a way that they can use it to target specific groups and use their influence to help swing public opinion on things they want to push or they can use public opinion to help increase sales. A lot of companies like bioware are trying to push it too hard and what they dont know is that this progressive movement isnt big enough to support them solely by targeting that demographic. But the imagery of their company being so progressive and "with it" makes their stocks go up. People dont realize that this progressive movement including gays,transexuals and whatever other things they have made up are a minority. They are so vocal that their group seems much much bigger than it actually is.
There will be a great crash on many companies who are trying to bank on this and you will see much panic. The game journalists are actually accelerating this due to their majority of content being targeted mostly to grab those hits from progressives. So companies see journalism continuously posting about gays and trans and get the false image that its the new "in thing"

This will end badly for them.

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>>255080989
HE HAS BEEN QUENCHED!

>>255077613
>MFW $5 is the amount of money I usually spend on any game

>>255079223
This

The guy was right in calling him out for not having played longer, but the game in question was the wrong example.

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Antirage

>>255080639
>Basically warhammer was the start of everything "space marine" in popular culture.

Nah, science fiction literature has had a hard on for space marines and power armour ever since Starship Troopers came out in the 1960's.

>Reposting:
Idea for a gaming website:
>Weekdays
One article regarding a certain aspect of a new video game. Mondays are related to the game's Development History, Tuesdays are about the game's Art Direction, Wednesday is the Gameplay, Thursday is the game's Story and Characters, and Fridays could be a guest article about something else related to the game, whether it be Social Issues brought up in game or a deeper explanation of a game's Inside Jokes or References to Films, for example. It can essentially be about anything, as long as it doesn't mimic the previous four articles.
Each article, if necessary, may also be appended with a Second Opinion from one of the other writers if they wish to make their own short comment. The fifth article is exempt from this, unless that Second Opinion is as well-crafted as the original article.

>Weekends
On Saturday, there is a Final Review of the game that takes from the first four articles (and the fifth, if applicable), essentially summarizing the week's content. Each of the four article writers then gives their own score of the game, maybe with a short explanation, and the final score is added from those scores. Sorta like Famitsu, but out of 25 so that Metacritic can get an X/100 score.
On Sunday, one of the writers puts up their own review article about any other video game, whether it's a game from a few months ago that the site missed reviewing or a game that only hipsters from TIGSource would know about.

>>255080794
the main premise of journalism is to inform
by directly presenting a question instead of directly addressing the answer, you are automatically pinning the responsibility on the audience to answer it.
the points you present in the text become reinforcements of your bias in a way that induces the audience to believe you are finding the answer for them
it then becomes a proclamation of fact, with the added bonus of the audience being led to believe it easier since you've done the favor of thinking and answering for them

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That Guy With The Glasses, not even once

>>255081080
No you dont get it. OKish girls stand next to ugly shit like Patricia to look better by comparison. Did you ever wonder why a gaggle of girls will always be a bunch of normalish girls and one hambeast or superdog. ITs the comparison effect.

Shoop out the ugly one and then look again.

>>255080493
The guy is too braindead to go through two different paths and is probably autistic seeing that he didn't read the fucking tutorial popup, of course he thinks that's the correct structuring.

>>255081225
It's still poorly written gaming "journalism" but I do miss when they would see right through developers bullshit instead of trying to justify them

>>255081124
this is not real

there is no way

>>255081124
That is someone who is very fucked up in the head. Or just a troll.
Hard to decide.

>>255077130
but this is sorta true, I play everything from FPS's to MMO PvP. Played as a hunter back in wrath. Its not the best option but its really fucking good for strafing while doing a full rotation, while doing whatever I want with the camera.

Seriously though, its not "the best" option.

>>255081124
Fucking Bongers

>>255078756
I wonder if the people that go to that convention even care about games.

>>255081097
isn't he on Polygon? he is actually on a better place (financially speaking) then writing on Penny Arcade Report

why are so many people in the vile cesspool we call gaming "journalism" such immature little shits?

>>255077030
I am fucking livid

What a idiotic fucking cunt

>>255079963
To be honest just remembering that part of Half Life stops me from replaying it.

>>255081124
Guro/mutilation is one of the few fetishes that legitimately scare me.

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>Little sister is a tumblrite
>She's constantly doing a holier than thou thing
>I decide to play it cool and wait for it to blow up
>Eventually, it happens, they finally turn on her
>In a fit she deletes her tumblr account and makes a new one
>She's stopped being radfem
>mfw

Why is it always middle class white girls who get into tumblr?

>>255081494
>(financially speaking)

He drew a salary at PE, vs page views for poly

>>255077613
Jesus, I thought they were going to say "like 2-3 hours" which I could kind of get behind. It's nice to beat a game in an afternoon and be able to pick it up and play through it again whenever the mood strikes, rather than having to block out days or weeks worth of play time.

But, jesus, 15 minutes? Ugh.

>>255081497
Because the bigger fucking cunt guzzling faggot you are the more likely people will pay attention to you.

>>255078126
WTF is "Press Relations" as a revenue source?
Is that out and out bribery?

>>255079943
>RPS
>ever

>>255081547
I'm as libby-lib as they come and these fucking PBS Game Hour videos make me rage

>>255081468
To be honest, what's so offensive about the prefix trans- that you need to ban it?

>>255080126
>Filename
God damn
gg

>>255079487
EVEN TUMBLR THINKS THEY'RE FAGGOTS HOLY SHIT

>>255081628
you should fuck her

>>255081628
Because they want to bitch and have no real issues.

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>>255081547
No one believes this, not even the guy who made the video.

>>255077613

She even fucking praised thirty flights of loving. Gravity bone was kinda neat because it had actual gameplay, thirty flights of loving was literally a fucking walking simulator. No puzzles, not even any platforming. You just walk in a straight line and see cutscenes happen.

>>255081702
its a mental illness, it should not be glorified.

>>255080205
There is no difference. Marxist loons in that do social science degrees and browse tumblr tried to hijack the meaning of gender to mean "whatever the fuck I want it to mean". These faggots hate objectivity, even when the line between male and female is one of the most objective things in nature.

>>255080205
Sex is what genitals you were born with

Gender is what you "identify" as, as in which side of Gender Roles you feel the most comfortable in. Some people born as one sex feel more comfortable living as a different sex, which is fine, but shit like Tumblr goes full retard becuase its a giant echochamber of "no hurt feelings allowed"bullshit, so you get shit like people claiming to be "Fluid" who are nothing but indecisive fucks, or some subset of some other of a million special snowflake gender identities with retarded as fuck pronouns like "Xi" and "Xir", despite the fact that the gender-neutral pronouns "They" and "Them" already fucking exist.

Really Tumblrs problem is the fact that they need to man the fuck up and accept the fact that if you look like you are a man or a woman, you will get referred to as such. Im a fucking "cis" male and I was occasionally refered to as a woman by the odd unknowing stranger in high school because I had long hair. Its not THEIR fault.

All in all, theres so much "My opinion is fact" on both sides from /pol/ to SRS, despite the fact there is so little known about the human mind if it was an anymore of a grey area, Activision would publish it.

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>>255081621
Oh and also it gets more cringeworthy

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>>255079125
T-they couldn't honestly be this retarded, right?
Watching Watamote and complaining that it's cringe humor is like watching Tom & Jerry and complaining that the slapstick is violent and cruel to animals. For one thing, it's not real, and for another, that's the fucking point

>>255081072
this is a very old photo, from what is essentially an internet celebrity. He's a bit like Chris-Chan; internet famous for his autism

>>255081468
>Blizzard just straight up shuts them down and ignores them.

It must be great to be so rich and powerful that you can do whatever you want.

>>255081628
Because they live in mediocrity with no legitimate hardships.

>>255081468
The article is unnecessary but he does have a point. The prefix trans- doesn't always refer to transgender (Which, still, is kind pointless to ban).

It's kinda like Pokemon X and Y's ridiculous word filter

>>255081628
Because they want something to make them feel like their making a difference and therefore make themselves feel better, or they want more attention. This is why things like cutting and is much more prominent in girls under the age 20 then men the same age.

Is there even a point anymore?

Games are officially 100% dead as fucking fuck.

RIP vidya.

>>255078641
Is that littlekuriboh in one of the pictures with him?

>>255081468

ARE YOU SHITTING ME

>>255081318
Not anon, but you just blew my mind.

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>>255077030

>>255080614
Wait... Peter got back?

>>255079223
it's your job to review it. to make an informed review, you need to see it in its entirety, or else it shouldn't be called a review, just an impression.
publishing it as one implies you're making a thorough analysis on it, not just a partial one. it's not a preview or a commentary.
you are being dishonest with your audience because you are presenting this analysis as a complete view over the thing you're analyzing.
tastes shouldn't fucking matter in a professional work, you can't give the fnger to your boss, leave your occupation anytime you want because "i don't like what I'm doing", then expect to go back the next day, work normally and get paid.

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I just found this one on Polygon

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VIDEO GAMES

>>255081990
people post this so fucking much

>>255082021
>let me tilt-shift this oreo

God damn it.

>>255081979
If you told me 10 years ago fun in video games wouldn't be important to people anymore I would call you a liar.

>>255081547
can never be as bad as the pbs games channel

>>255079019
moviefags think the characters in the movies are as important as they are in the comic. to be fair Hawkeye got a pretty sweet ongoing, but Widow has got shit cause no one knows what to do with her. and people expect them to pull a Black Widow movie out of their ass

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>>255082021
VIDEO GAMES

>>255081979
i saw this entire article and it read like
>I don't care about how it works, JUST DO IT. NOW!
in fact, most websites that commented about this said the same thing

>>255081840
a furry too? my sides

>>255081285
>I don't remember the screen ever being this clear
>photo in the same article has a clear screen

fucking hell

>>255076586
>Factual downgrade
>flamebait
Its almost like they are not journalists.

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>>255079727

>>255081967
Of course Peter got back. This is comic books, status quo is the king.

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Haha, oh. Bioware. Poor guys.

>>255080482
its not an average
its stupid but the way it is

>>255077430
One of my favorite things to do is mention that Black Widow doesn't do anything in the movies whenever I visit my mom. She gets major buttthurt about it.

>>255082116
Elaborate.

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>>255081497
The reason why they are immature is due to a superiority complex and power trip. Many people go to their websites to seek their opinions on video games. That makes them the go to guy for info on their hobby of choice, video games.
Then on their site they have tons of people commenting on how grand their opinions are and have the power to basically squelch any dissenters or opinions that do not coincide with the journalist. This causes a vacuum of contrast and creates a "hugbox" where there is no real option to critique the post and help the journalist refine their thought process or practice. So void any sort of debate we have autistic journalists who think they are the one stop shop for all matters relating to gaming and anyone who says otherwise will be raged at and blocked,deleted,banned ect.

>>255077985
Dragon Age 2 was actually a good game. It's tempting to write off this opinion as bait, but DA2 had a more focused story and more strategic combat. Though the plot didn't have the world hanging in the balance, that meant it didn't stretch itself too thin either. I got to know characters a lot better than in Dragon Age: Origins.

Who's a more developed character: Alastair, who, while lovable, is Carth-and-Kaidan-tier, or Varric?

As for the combat, Bioware went for a more party-focused approach, where debuffs from different classes combine. There was shattering from ice and stone in DA, sure, but DA2 takes cross-class combinations much more seriously.

I had much more fun fighting and progressing through the story in DA2 for these reasons, despite the backtracking.

>>255076147
jesus christ I'm a mac fag and even I want to throw up

>>255081225

I mean...on the one hand, that's extremely poorly written.

But on the other hand, holy hell, I'll take this poorly written truth over whinging any day.

>>255078093

Actually doesn't being male or female have a slight impact on attack or defense? At the very least it helps determine the egg being born, so yes gender does matter in pokemon, but only for the pokemon.

>>255081859
you don't need to be rich and powerful to ignore degenerates

>>255082242
She gets to be a damsel for the big bad Hulk

>>255081008
yeah the russian voice track is much better

>>255081979
>your audience
Tomodatchi Life isn't for fucking grown ass people who bitch and moan about political bullshit day in and day out, it's for the little children who want to play house with virtual dollies made in the likenesses of themselves, their family members, and their favorite celebrities. Can you believe there are people who are still mad about this and didn't even know the game already came out?

>>255082113
man I loved this page
I think there was an entire thread full of yearbook pictures

>>255078728
just be glad they didnt start talking about male privilege in it, or rape.

>>255077551
I can't even be mad at this, it's so fucking stupid. Like holy fuck... Someone who did all sorts of crazy shit with graphical programming, who popularized a genre, and whose netcode still has influence on modern games listed lower than someone who is in the industry as a fucking scam. I can't understand what level of pandering a person would have to stoop to to even think this was right.

>>255081124
I remember when I was an edgy teenager like that. Thank god I kept that shit to myself and on different usernames.

>>255081225
>>255081373
>>255082306
I don't have it on me, but you should see the follow-up for the next expansion. Corporate tore into the author and made him write a favorable review.

>>255081621
Fuck you too

>>255081628
Probably what >>255081862 said. I still don't fully get it, there's so many things to worry about already, like Ebola which may end up killing us all.

>>255078210

Bullshit, Ditto.

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Oh man, just capped this today.

>>255080385
That one always gets me pissed
>how was I supposed to know I had to pay attention

>>255082309
Some pokemon do have slightly different stat focus, example, female pikachu have higher speed and special attack but less defense attack and special defense. Conversely male pikachu tend to have higher attack and defense, this generally is overridden by natures.

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>>255080304
duel masters is a cheap imitation of magic

that happens to be better then magic

>>255077030
Oh. The article is fuckin real. Also there were multiple gaming sites parroting same thing.

>>255082427
Lol blaming 4chan for the shitty state of gaming.

A small group of people make a porn game with better story that an entire company with millions of dollars.

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>>255082492
Not exactly!

>>255079694
They really love the word 'parity', don't they?

>>255080485
Kinuko is mai 3D waifu.

>>255082427
>this is what happens when we let everyone vote! Democracy, people!

i'm getting dehydrated by all this salt

>>255082584
haha

>>255082113
holy shit why do they all write such an amount of garbage

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>>255082560
Here's the whole article

>>255082584

That's actually cool.

>>255082276
>DA2
>A good game
It was fucking shit. Dungeons are cut and paste. Mobs recycled over and over again. Combat was dull and repetitive. How the fuck was it good again?

>>255076782
this is actually true though

>>255082427
"Phew! Good thing a pornographic video game didn't win our 'Best of 2013' contest! We might have lost our credibility and legitimacy in the eyes of our peers!"

>>255082627

This is now my favorite review. Probably ever.

>>255080102
>metro 2033 gets lower graphics score than minecraft
holy fuck
im fucking done

>>255077030
space marine was a shit game anyway

>>255082659
But an awful artist. Skullgirls makes me wish the feminists would win.

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>a minority
>complete betamax
>a "feminist"
>appealing to "nerd" culture

>>255077973
What do you mean I can't name a neopet "fuckdragon the kid fucker"

>>255082709
>Persona is now a genre
This cancer I cannot take

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>>255082254
i mean, i'm liberal myself, i think you should avoid being racist and sexist and all of that, but this dude is so fucking moist about it.

And so many of the videos are just WRONG

>>255080265
>>255080614
It's what happens when you work in an entertainment industry and have several thousand potential customers breathing down your neck because they think that by having so many male characters you hate women. It's funny because when Zelda U was revealed and Aonuma was trying to ruse people like the Jap he is there was a lot of people crying and cheering that Link was a girl, only to get angry when he isn't and will never be. There just isn't any way to please a group that have so many clashing ideals about what they want.

>>255082394
>it's for the little children who want to play house with virtual dollies made in the likenesses of themselves, their family members, and their favorite celebrities.
but that's exactly the problem in the article.
the author is concerned that translesbo lizard children will feel offended and the game should allow them to make a t-rex dad and cthulhu mom, so everybody gets used to the idea that humans have 47 different genders
after all, games are supposed to educate and raise awareness to people on real life problems

>>255082627
>Deep abyss instead of a soul
I'm surprised he managed to sneak that by the editor, again.

>>255081547
As a huge Homestuck fan I'm gonna have to say "fuck no" on this.

>>255080205
sex = gender

people that believe who honestly believe their 'gender' is different are literally mentally ill.

>>255082821
Dark souls is a tier of difficulty

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>>255082709
>cracked-style list
>"the dark souls of their genre"
>dark souls has been reduced to a phrase meaning "difficult" ignoring all other aspects of the game

>>255080636
When will westerners understand that Japanese society is different from them?

>>255082797
you forgot
>compulsory goofy face in a youtube thumbnail, literally this year's duckface

>>255082627
Additional context: The first review proved so brazen that one of the heads at EA tried to have the author blacklisted entirely.

>>255082827
>almost entirely questions
Jeebus Crow.

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>>255080591
I'm going to be entirely honest, in the >>255079197 photo of Patricia, she looks like a mildly cute 5 or 6 out of 10 that I would still totally fuck, fatness and all. But Jesus Christ, then you see your image... how in the fuck did she make herself look look even barely presentable?

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>>255077430
WAIT HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE

THERE'S A FUCKING FEMALE THOR

WHAT THE FUCK
WHY
FOR WHAT PURPOSE WOULD THEY RET-CON THE
ENTIRE
FUCKING
THOR CANNON
TO PLEASE THE FEMINISTS

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THEM
JESUS
FUCKING
TAPDANCING
H.
CHRIST

>>255082113
fucking Thomas

>>255081621
>Being this much of a pleb

It's a good fetish.

>>255076586
>E3 starts tomorrow
>posted 30 minutes ago

What?
Wasn't E3 in June?

>>255082225
And now game artists get called 13 year old boys for what they draw

>>255082797
he gets darker as videos go down?

>>255082834
>LGBT crowd
>Customers

Those that actually are don't give a flying fuck about the sexuality of the characters only the fact that they are good characters.

>>255082137
After spending an afternoon on /frz/ I find it very plausible that they made it themselves

>>255077030
I have never played nor interacted with any Warhammer games, board or video, books, etc but I know enough about the history to make me fucking livid that this 'journalist' had the gall to spew this trash.

tl;dr: I got baited hard.

>>255082918
please dont include us when youre talking about those shitheads

>>255080385
Ugh, that bit actually pissed me off a bit, too. The second ruby was off in one of those "well, do I take the left or right path...sure hope I don't choose the right one and miss something" type paths so it was super easy to miss and get kind of locked into the boss and not be sure if you were only doing a tiny amount of damage because that's just how the game is (because that really is just how the game is a lot of the time) or because you aren't quiiiiiite a high enough level or because you just happened to miss something. If he got the 10 death achievement while stuck on that boss...well, I could see him being a bit salty, although a 56 is pretty far off course.