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I don't have any pictures as nearly as smug as I feel right now.

>>299800

Polygon knows that feel too.

https://archive.is/RTDG9

>>299809

HAHAHAH

KOTAKU LEAVE

>>299809

Your concern troll is too obvious. 0/10.

Which thread will stay then?

>>299800

Oh gaymergays why are you picking on Kotaku they is good bois who diddu nuffin you so racist tbh fam smh.

>>299809

Schreier getting a dose of reality on Neogaf of all places.

https://archive.is/A5ZDF

>>299836

It's Burch next to Moot, MovieBob in the back.

There's no image that could accurately describe the sheer amount of schadenfreude I'm experiencing right now, so this'll do.

>>299800

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

>>299890

>Please explain why GG is suddenly in favor of blacklists.

Sure thing, salty-butt.

All the blacklists of honest journalists Gawker and their cadre of SJW cucks have been trying to shut us off for the duration of this Consumer Revolt. They're getting their medicine thrown back at them, and for legit reasons, and the Devs are being transparent with their reason.

SJWs are anything but transparent. They're protecting their little echo-chamber. Devs black-listing you… that's because YOU FUCKED UP.

Now make with the salt, Ghazi scum, I need to get ready for winter!

>>299800

Framing at the price of games journalism is so disgusting. This faggot knows damn well that this is a price incurred on GAMERS who used to able to rely on the press to stand up for them against moral crusaders.

Nowadays we have people like Anita saying that all gamers who don't agree with SJW bullshit are responsible for rape culture and thus are complicit in rape. Gaming journalists from the 90s or even the early 00s would have rightly told this scam artist to fuck off and never come back. Instead they prop up her image with huge editorial pieces championing her as the queen of social justice and savior of gamers everywhere.

This is the price of Social Justice Warriors.

If it was up to them you wouldn't be allowed to name your game 'Mother' unless it included at least one MtF tranny who was pregnant, and even if you include the character you will still be transphobic for every little thing that characters does, says, doesn't do, and doesn't say.

"Et tu, Bioware?" - Patrick Klepek

https://archive.is/IvowH

AN ABSOLUTE MADMAN

https://archive.is/qPkJf

AN ABSOLUTE MADMAN

https://archive.is/qPkJf

>>299944

Top kek

>>299890

>Please explain why GG is suddenly in favor of blacklists.

>Please explain why GG is suddenly in favor of blacklists.

>Please explain why GG is suddenly in favor of blacklists.

>Please explain why GG is suddenly in favor of blacklists.

>Please explain why GG is suddenly in favor of blacklists.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

This shit is comedy gold

>>300035

>not posting Benny G

>fixed that for you.

Who would have guessed

if you shitalk someone client they might get mad at you

>>299809

>>299890

huehuehuehuehue

This is what you get for shaking hands with the devil (so to speak). Worthy of a laugh though.

>>299809

>He believes that Anti-descrimination laws aren't unconsititutional for violating the first Amendement.

>>299940

Best post in the thread.

Why would devs like sites like Kotaku?

Burn in hell, Kotaku.

Need more Patricia Hernandez articles

>>300116

I've always been curious as to why there is so little information available on her/him/itand ppl like Maya Felix Kramer, considering how significant of a role she had early in this all

I never realized how great a video game magazine like Game Players was (and still is) until now.

>>300116

>>300130

I've never seen a woman so blindingly desperate for dick that she's never going to get.

This turned to be awesome news

Maybe someone honest can enter the stage

>>300163

Nice edit.

>>300163

>Kotaku

>Reporting actual news

>>300116

>>300157

Yeah, I believe there was a hashtag, #MakeakotakuArticle or something.

I should have saved them.

>>300238

really? It's no great surprise that we hate Kotaku, the plebbit branch of GG is called kotakuinaction for God's sake.

and it's not a blacklist, fucker, it's just no more early copies for the fuckheads. Boo-hoo.

>>300163

Here's the thing.

I can understand the complaints that aGG have when it comes to us not standing up for Kotaku. I can understand that the AAA gaming industry has a lot of pressure they can exert on gaming journalists. I can understand that there are times that a journalist will have to choose between being true to themselves and paying off their mortgage.

But one thing the people defending Kotaku can't ignore is the fact that they took part in the "Gamers Are Dead" articles. When they were confronted with the corruption and wrongdoing they were involved in, they chose to throw the very subject they were committed to write about under the bus.

Had those journalists chosen to stand up for the very thing they made their careers writing about, gaming journalism might be worth defending. But when I see sponsored content and political agendas handing out 9/10 ratings to games that don't deserve five minutes of a paying customer's time, that's when I become convinced that gaming journalism is dead. And the sad part about this is that Gaming Journalism nor the AAA gaming industry is the cause of this malignancy. The truth is, this is only a symptom of it.

Journalism in itself is corrupt. I had high hopes that GamerGate would take journalism itself to task. That's why "the liberal media" went out of its way to smear us while "the conservative media" ignored us. They were afraid that our revolt against corrupt journalism would evolve into a grass roots movement that would demand ethical journalism. But notice today that nobody gives a shit about us. Notice that the latest media happening we have is Zoe Quinn making money off a book deal and not the fact that the media is trying to paint us as a terrorist organization worse than ISIS. Notice that the SJWs are powering ahead with their agenda with little concern for us.

We are in the midst of a Cultural Revolution. We sit with our thumbs up our collective asses while the very people that corrupted Occupy Wall Street, the Atheists, and Comics are spreading their ideas while we argue among ourselves over which is the better board. People have quit GamerGate because of this and we ignore them because we're convinced that we're winning. Make no mistake that if we don't step up our game, WE WILL LOSE. We will see AAA game developers like Ubisoft paint people like Karl Marx as heroes while we bitterly cling to games like Fallout New Vegas as if they were the high water mark of good gaming. I have family that survived shit like the Cultural Revolution. I have family who sacrificed safe living conditions so they wouldn't have conditions so they wouldn't have to raise children under those conditions and I will be FUCKING DAMNED if I have to raise children under those conditions.

We need to fight god damn it. We need the unity that made us a force to be reckoned with. We need to stand up and say that we will not stand for this shit. We need to create our own medium that stands for our own principles. We need to make it known that is our money that makes these game developers profitable and not political ideas that are "safe". We are gamers. We will carry this industry into the future. And most inporantly, we will make sure that gaming is enjoyed for future generations to come.

>>300129

>never realized how great a video game magazine like Game Players was

Even when they switched to Ultra Gameplayers it was still so damn good. Was one of the first mags to offer demo discs with each issue. The whole entire industry was so much more fun back then. Nobody in the community would dare to point a finger at another gamer and say they are a bigot for not being a hardline progressive feminist. Journalists would take people like that to the cleaners in the court of public opinion on a regular basis.

Nowadays this new rotten breed of game "journalist" will do nothing except lap up whatever Snarky-session has to bitch about this month because the cute image she had that made her so popular when she was younger and more beautiful is quickly fading. Her Armenian genetics are catching up fast, and just like every gypsy woman before her, that 30-something body is about to do nature's greatest bait-and-switch scheme on Josh McIntosh. Gypsy women mostly start out looking like natural-born fucking machines and then transform into Romanian men no later than their 38th birthday.

We used to be so excited to read the latest videogame news each month and check out the editorial section for extra laughs. Now I get my news from imageboards and go to youtube e-celebs for extra laughs. I don't feel the need to self-flagellate and wonder what part of my personal experience will be demonized or shamed by the SJW faggots.

Fuck, I miss Game Players, and Nintendo Power, and Gamepro, and the original PC Gamer…

Life sucks now. ;_;

>>300798

>I have copies of the top middle one and top right one,

>along with a few boxes full of other vidya magazines from the 90's

Save all of it in a protected box. You will likely never see video game journalism be that good and entertaining ever again. We likely will never see the entire video game industry like that again.

You have a piece of the Garden of Eden. Save it. Do it for those of us who wished we would have had the opportunity to do the same.

>>300890

what is this, a magazine for ants?

>>300931

>original boxes and shit for most of my 90's PC games

>pic 1 related

I miss those old PC boxes so badly, too. It feels similar to how music is now just being sold digitally. Back in the day kids used to roam the record store aisles and gawk at all the cover art and cool inserts. Two generations later and the record stores were quickly disappearing but the game stores had taken off in a huge way, and they had row upon row of huge game boxes to match.

Every one would have something unique inside to discover. Sometimes it would just be a poster, but other times you might get the holy grail: A CLOTH MAP! Icewind Dale came with one and it made the whole game world feel so much more real since you could physically feel the actual map of it. Even to this day, as I replay IWD: Enhanced Edition, I think back to that long-lost cloth map and just the memory of it STILL makes the game more fun even though the map itself is probably in a landfill.

Now the game stores are slowly disappearing, and many have stopped selling PC games but remained open. The few places where one can still catch a PC game in the wild will greet you with tiny, plastic boxes that come with nothing inside but the game disc and a two sheets of paper. One is the warranty and the other is usually an advertisement for another game or piece of hardware. They don't even print out an instruction booklet anymore! Icewind Dale came with a fucking instructional tome that was spiral-bound (pic 2 related).

Oh well! I guess we still get the occasional special edition. Even though Skyrim was dumbed down to shit, I treasure my faux-leather 200-page-long art book that came with it and the dragon statue, as well. It was $150 but I got it for $50 off somehow during Christmas time. If you want extras to come with your game these days then you gotta shell out big bucks for all of it, and best of luck to finding a store that carries it.

I remember hearing "old people" reminisce poetically about how the death of the record store was a treasure lost for the youth of tomorrow, and I used to just think that videogame stores were the new alternative that kids gather. Now those stores are going the way of the Dodo and I cannot foresee anything at all that is taking their place. Shit, this is making me feel really, really old.

>sad_pepe.jpg

>>300967

While I do find digital distribution to be very convenient and appreciate that it makes things better for small and middle market studios/companies, I miss old PC game boxes too. Just opening them and looking at them was an experience.

I remember buying Forsaken, and then fapping to the calendar it came with later that night.

>>300967

> The beautiful Icewind Dale manual

I envy you so much.

I was looking at some sales in GOG, offering BG1 & IWD with an 80% discount…

… it's not the same if it's not in physical form. Not for this nostalgia-filled games.

At least I have BG2+exp in their boxes. I wish I had the collector's edition. I'd still be playing it if my friends didn't told me "You've beaten Shadows of Amn + Throne of Bhaal six times now, you should give it a break and play Dragon's Age 1 or Pillars of Eternity, ffs!".

I don't believe I'm stuck in the past, I just found a good game that fit with my tastes and that stands the test of time.

>>301126

>I envy you so much.

I wish that I still had all of my old game boxes and manuals. Unfortunately I "lost" all of that stuff while moving one time due to a "family" member, who was well-known for "losing" things, helping me move out of my apartment.

If you get a chance, go for the IWD: EE version on GoG. They just released a patch for it that fixes over 500 bugs, many of which were in the original game but never fixed due to Black Isle Studios running out of money. The story is really lacking but the combat is amazingly fun. even if you don't have the cloth map Certainly the 30-40 hours you will get out of it will be money well spent, even at full price.

Also, the company that is doing the EE versions, Beamdog, is developing a completely new BG game (pic related) that takes place in-between the first and second one. It will run on the Infinity Engine and Chris Avellone is a "narrative consultant" on the project, so it should have some of that old Black Isle feel to it, but obviously nothing can come close to BG2. Speaking of which, I really need to get the EE version of that game, too.

>>301240

I don't think I'll be getting BG1:EE just because they changed the intro. It should have come with both options. Seems like they left everything in BG2:EE intact, even if The Black Pits addition isn't up to the same level of quality as the original material.

As for IWD:EE it is worth it since they released the patch. The bugs in that game are much worse on new hardware than they were back when it came out, and many of them tranfered over to EE, but all of those issues have since been fixed (380MB patch).

It controls better than ever with mouse and keyboard since you can give each character a different colored highlight circle so they are easy to tell apart when it is dark (pic related). The menus for the game have been completely redone to fit modern resolutions and color depth. But best of all is that they finally fixed the fucking pathfinding bugs. Now, if you tell your characters to walk across a narrow bridge they will all go up to it and wait as each one takes their turn walking across in single file; before, half of them would get stuck and then scatter across the map in the exact opposite direction.

I'm glad that I waited for the EE versions to get patched because IWD is now absolutely finished as the original designers intended it to be. It has flaws, like a razor-thin plot and shorter play time than average Black Isle games, but there are simply no more glaring fuck-ups that are due to programming errors caused by Interplay falling apart and not being able to properly fund their development studios. All of that particular bullshit has finally been corrected 15 years later.

What makes this a bit more of a tough call is the rose-colored glasses we all wear when looking back on these games. Over time we have forgiven these titles for their atrocious aspects because we so much adored everything else about them. So when you go back and the pathfinding is perfect it doesn't really make as big of a difference as it could have it you just tried both versions for the first time. Still, it is a nice to have closure knowing that the game Black Isle truly wished to make was released into the world.

I don't have very high hopes for Seige of Dragonspear, but Beamdog has had a ton of practice using the Infinity Engine in designing new content for the BG:EE. They have a chance to make it good if they listen to Avellone and their fans' feedback enough. The real upside of this is if they manage to create a compelling new BG title then a BG3 will not only be inevitable, but it will also have a chance at being a good game. This is certainly a long shot, but if BG3 grew into a big enough project then Beamdog would likely be able to attract a few more of the original developers to join them as designers or at least consultants. It would be quite amazing if that actually happened. Of course there is maybe a one-in-a-billion chance that BG3 is a huge hit and they form Black Isle Studios 2.

>>301266

>no bad tactics

Clue: A blacklist is a list of parties that is used by a group that have mutually agreed to treat parties on that list as -persona non grata- without respect to or consideration for why they are on that list. This is a type of collusion, which the gaming media has demonstrably been practicing. See also: GGAutoblocker.

This is not a blacklist. The devs have decided not to talk to Kotaku as a direct consequence of their documented and well-known behavior. Kotaku/Gawker has earned itself a bad reputation known far and wide by just about everyone. Complaining about this is like complaining that Jeffrey Dahmer can't find a date.

>>301329

>If they met some basic standards

Not much of a chance that Kotaku could ever dream of achieving such a thing. They had a chance to rise up to basic journalistic standards last year.