>Way back in 1999, the online Japanese message board was founded

>>383682482

Hopefully never. Although IGN and friends are far from perfect, we need actual journalists and professional critics to review and discuss games instead of relying on shitty youtubers and anonymous posters

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>>383682552
Good troll post, 10/10

>>383682482
>it's the Reddit of Japan
Finally, vindication against all those weebs who said they weren't comparable.

>>383682482

Why aren't (((they))) allowed to mention 4chan again?

Who cares?

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all mainstream vidya sites are just commercial catalogs, including /v/

>proper journalists

>>383682482
>tfw I used this guy's book for my final essay in Uni
Feels weird seeing him on what I assume is kotaku or whatever.

>>383682552
In order to make the statement that we need them you need to explain why we need them

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>>383682482
>proper journalists (like IGN and Kotaku in the West)

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>tfw get all my vidya news from /v/
Just as god intended.

>proper journalists
I always imagined people who ended up in video game journalism are bottom of the barrel losers who dont even want that shit

>>383682482
>with proper journalists
>like IGN and Kotaku in the West
I know the guy that wrote it works for Kotaku, but this still made me laugh.

>>383682482
>comparing it to reddit
>not to the actual western equivalent, 4chan
wat

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>>383682482
>wanting more normfaggots here
Leave.

>>383682894
The western equivalent of 4chan is the lower-traffic but still popular Futaba. You know, the site moot stole 4chan's code from.

>>383682482
You want the casuals to come here? With all the shitty trolling and shitposting already? No thanks. It's already bad, I cant imagine a bigger population of idiots.

They and most of /v/ go to reddit now and get their news anyways. Post a story about something on /r/gaming, watch neogaf, ign etc all post it without checking sources.

>>383682894
We have the same posting format, but our communities are wildly different. 2ch really does have more in common with reddit or neogaf in that sense.

>>383682894
4chan is dead. it's over. Get used to it. This place isn't the meme machine it once was.

>>383683009

I'll gladly take more casuals to even things out from all the redditors that flooded here thanks to /pol/

>>383683009
>>383682897

casuals invaded looong ago you fucking newfags.

>>383682482
>caring about what mobile users read

>>383683218
>lets add in another big portion

fuck off back to kotaku OP

>>383682482
>folks
Sounds like a fucking retard.

>2007
>4chan is the feared final boss of the internet and a meme machine
>2017
>4chan is a zoo where bloggers take screencaps for laughs and the only OC is edits to years old memes

What the fuck happened?

>>383683379
/v/ and 4chan in general is entirely casuals now. You can't increase a portion that already equals 100%

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>>383682552

>>383683432
The formation of infinity chan and moot leaving. infinity chan split a community which never really reunited in it's old form, and once moot left this was like a tacit admission this place was no longer relevant.

>>383682552
While you're right about youtubers and your average /v/'s poster being worthless, journalists aren't any better.
At this point I just follow my own gut.

>>383683586

>cripple chan being significant

Pfffft ahahahaha. Cripple chan was never big. Its most popular board, /v/, at its height only had 700 posts per hour

>>383683657
Considering how they are professionals that actually work in the gaming industry, I'll trust them more than any poster on /v/.

>>383683759
>Professionals

>"IT HAS TITS! IT'S SHIT!"
>"IT'S TOO VIDEOGAMEY! IT'S SHIT"

Those professionals can go and fuck themselves. They're the same as /v/ shitposters.

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>>383682552
8/10
bretty good

>>383683692
I never said they were, I said they split the community, which they did. Many of the users who left never came back, and I'd argue they were some of the most active content creators. This place has been a fucking wasteland post 2014.

>>383683586
>moot
Literally fucking who?

>>383683759
>this game is bad because it has questionable morals
>this game is bad because it doesn't let me win by default and forces me to use my brain
>this game is surely, most definitely going to be bad because its developer has a different political outlook than mine
>this game is bad because it objectifies womyn and it doesn't allow my character's gender to be on a spectrum I identify with

these are your ''professionals'' in current year

>>383682482
>Although Japan has several sites with proper journalists (like IGN and Kotaku in the West) few Japanese gamers use them
>proper journalists
>ign and kotaku
>kotaku
Thank fucking god Japan ignores those shitty websites.

Honestly, in the day and age we live in, I feel we don't need "game journalists" anymore. Companies can easily pump out their own ads and trailers and people who actually give a shit can start discussions on /v/ or equivalent.

>>383683432
GamerGate ruined this place, and then /pol/ crept in and took over.

>>383683910
But they get paid for what they write. Nobody here does.

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>>383682552

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>>383684689
>2007
>4chan is the feared final boss of the internet and a meme machine
>gamergate, just another instance of 4chan being 4chan happens
>reddit newfags sperg out over it and report everything to the thought police, which ultimately leads to a full blown fallout
I see the redditors are still mad

>>383684759
Jokes on you, i'm a paid shill here to shit on Sony products.

Look forward to my threads every night.

>>383683470
Fuck off leddit newfag retard

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>>383682552
Wew

>>383683218
No you

>>383685045
No, he's right.
The only games that get unanimous praise and genuine discussion here are talking head simulators like The Witcher or Telltale's The Walking Dead.

Meanwhile a common thread opener for any other game is something like this:
>"So, the enemies can damage you, and if you take too much damage you die? Fucking horseshit artificial difficulty!"

>>383684909
This garbage hasn't helped, you know. Crying about Reddit every time someone says something you disagree with just makes this place look like it's full of angry children, which it is, but at least it didn't used to be quite so obvious.

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>>383682482
I used to do that.
Back when you COULD do that. I always found blogs way better than the big sites which have to provide(shitty) content to make a click.

>find blog called Kotowari from some guy with the same tastes as you
>reports on Jap games and even gets review copies at some point
>most posts get only a couple of comments if anything but its comfy as hell
And then it slowly died. Naturally since nobody really cared for blogs but it was the perfect thing for me. I liked that it was small, but thats what killed it.
And if the irony couldn't hit harder, he's now working for 8-4 fucking up games for a living, when he used to post on /v/. Dammit Roy...

>>383682552
t.kotaku

>>383682648
>>383682894
2channel/2ch is the Reddit of Japan.
Futaba/2chan is the 4chan of Japan.
At least that's how I thought this shit goes.

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>>383684559
>in, I feel we don't need "game journalists" anymore.
True but what you get instead is twitter and youtube shit, from self declared "experts". Which still has to prove that it can be marginally better in quality.

>>383685238
>just makes this place look like it's full of angry children
You say that as if its a bad thing. But /v/'s disdain for everything outside, both, outside of /v/ and literally outside has always defined it.
Newfags who just wanna chime in(you) wont get that.
>w-wait guys, you m-make us look like angry children!
Yeah exactly. Let all the faggots in the world proclaim that this place is nothing but a cesspit of angry manchildren. All the better for us.

>>383682552
Here's your (You)

>>383682648
Why, because fucking kotaku said it? Seriously?

4chan is irrelevant outside of being a counterculture political platform

>>383682482
>When will Western vidya ditch IGN, Kotaku, PC Gamer and all the other shitty mainstream vidya sites?
It's already started. Some of these shitty sites are already blacklisted by some publishers and game devs.
If i want to buy a video game i first go to twitch anyway, maybe watch youtube/come here.

>>383685238
not that anon, but maybe you need to realize that gamergate wasn't always filled with redditors, when news sites and people like anita whined faggots treated it like srs brs. it happened with chanology, it happened here.

>not meditating for hours and finding the news within yourself

>>383682552
>we need actual journalists

this much is true. instead we mostly have university dropout bloggers.

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>>383682552
>we need actual journalists

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>>383682482
>proper journalists (like IGN and Kotaku in the West)

>>383685232
>Telltale
>Praised on /v/

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>>383683759

>people with a moral and political axe to grind that seeps into everything they write about

I don't follow the cuck church so I don't need a fucking sermon every time I want to research a game.

>>383682765
people who have 20+ years of SERIOUS gaming under their belt should be the ONLY people you should fucking listen to

anyone else is just a fucking normal person who has a "i liked it" review like angry joe

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>proper journalists (like IGN and Kotaku in the West)

Wew laddy.

>>383682482
>with proper journalists (like IGN and Kotaku

>It's the reddit of japan

What did this fucking idiot mean by this?