/v/ - Video Games

Because they became journalists due to a failed actual journalist career and they've no love for games or gaming. They're also more often than not social justice idealogues who would rather social signal and try to advance their chosen political affiliation rather than report on fun or interesting games, or warn customers and gamers off from shitty games or publishers.

What's the video, I wanna see for myself. At the very least what game were they playing?

It was always a problem. The back of Monkey Island 2's box says that easy mode is for magazine reviewers.

Can the cake jew word filter "game journalist" into "professional blogger" already?

>>14051671

>What makes journos in particular so fucking bad at games?

Their skills are terrible because they didn't grow up playing video games and only play them the bare minimum amount possible required by their job, which isn't much. Game journos couldn't care less about games and it's reflected by how awful they are at them. But they'll wear a Megaman shirt and pretend they played it because NERDS RULE LOL

>>14051709

Fair enough.

Would you settle with "Jew" -> "jew"?

The same reason movie critics are shit at making movies.

>>14051688

>>14051742

I was legitimately surprised when I found out he was gay as well as jewish, with a boyfriend. Always thought he was your typical american neet beta,

>>14051727

Why change any words at all?

>>14051751

:^)

>>14051756

(^:

>>14051742

But the game eventually became shit anyways. He's the same kind of guy that thinks hitman 2016 is a good game

>>14051742

>he died to Jin-Die

What the fuck? She's the easiest boss in the game second only to COEN.

If he was at the very least complaining about Red Napalm or White Steel I could understand, but Jin-Die can be mowed down in LITERALLY SECONDS with an assault rifle, no exaggeration.

>>14051742

>killed by Jin-Die as a level 50

>only had a shirt on

>was trying to kill her with a machete

ha, oh wow

how did he even make it past floor 15

>>14051785

>first pic

Kinda funny when you interpret that in the context of "why won't women fuck me" instead of a feminism thing.

>>14051769

>>14051798

A lot of the comments were pointing that out as well, what's worse is that's the second fight with her.

He should have figured out by then how to deal with her, but no, he uses the same scrub tactics with the same blind swinging then complains about "MUH SOFT LEVEL REQUIREMENT".

Journos are such fucking retards.

These people are more interested in talking about games than playing them. That is what they are paid for, that is where they gain their social credit, that is where they get their kicks. The games are a means to an end, not the end itself. Games are work to them, so they only play just enough of a game to get them some talking points, then they get onto their real passion of talking and promoting themselves.

On top of not really caring about playing the game, they then have to play a lot games, most of which are shit. They don't get to sit down with one comfy ass game and jam out a few hundred hours on it. They have 40 hours a week where they are working, and they need to produce multiple reviews a week.

Advertisement funded journalism does not lend itself to reviewing things that take multiple working weeks to complete. It is nearly impossible to get a return on that kind of investment. The difference in views you get between "i played this for 400 hours" vs "i played this for 4 hours" is minimal.

>>14051742

>glances over the Jackals

>glances over the Four Forcemen

>glances over raids

>glances over base defense

>glances over Hunters and expeditions

>glances over the entirety of the Tokyo Death Metro

>glances over the waiting room

>glances over decals

>glances over item upgrades

>glances over rage attacks

>glances over the weapons

>glances over mastery levels

>glances over classes

>glances over character grade, in fact he thinks the only thing that matters is character level

>glances over the Dons

>glances over mushrooms

>glances over the characters

>glances over goretastic kills

>BUT OH BOY BETTER TELL US HOW DIFFICULT THE ENEMIES ARE WHEN YOU'RE 20 LEVELS BELOW THEM AND HAVE NO FUCKING ARMOR ON

I knew SBH was an idiot, but this tells me he's a more articulate version of DSP.

>>14051950

My personal favorite part is when he enters his fighter freezer and you see all but one of his fighters are dead.

I've noticed a lot of them seem to just outright have attention deficiency of some sort. I could understand if maybe you were in a panic but you know like just missing the entire point of a basic dialogue and being aimless. It's a real head shaker. Maybe they just live in a constant state of panic or something.

>>14051671

There is a reason why fags like RazorFist love level-scaling.

To answer your question.

1) Game journalists are usually rejects from the modern journalism. Let that sit in.

2) They know that their opinions don't actually matter.

3) They play a lot of games quickly. Mostly the shitty ones.

4) The e-celeb types usually expected to give their opinions on things that they know nothing about or are uninterested in.

>>14052154

Most of these nu-males are hysterical.

One time I went outside and bought coconuts at the local small market and there was a gaybeard complaining the niggress at the counter used too many plastic bags to pack his groceries and was killing the earth.

That was coming from a guy whose hairspray is probably the reason the local water supply isn't drinkable

>>14052518

>he doesn't bring his own bags to the store

Pleb.

people playing games are retards

and yes we are too, just not as retarded as others

>>14051798

>how did he even make it past floor 15

Journos get access to a special version of the game with everything unlocked.

People found the SteamIDs of these before and it turns out they play barely half an hour before writing their "reviews", as seen with Rome 2.

The fact that they went to (((journalism))) school is proof enough that they are defective beings.

They can never do anything that demands effort and/or competence.

Much less play games that demand attention, reflexes or even a basic functioning brain to complete.

To understand journos and their lack of skill you have to understand leftism. Leftism is born out of a feeling of inadequacy, of feeling inferior and incapable. They’re bad and lack useful skills overall. That wouldn’t automatically make you a parasite but they also lack willpower and willingness to improve, which is the death knell of being valuable to a society and/or yourself. So if you’re useless and you know it, you demand others to drop to your level to avoid ostracism.

I don’t think these guys didn’t play vidya when growing up, no, but they definitely grew up playing easy vidya on easy difficulties. I see it all the time with a younger relative, he spends his time playing FIFA on lower difficulties and winning all matches by a minimum of 5 goals. Is that engaging? No, but that’s not what matter to them. They don’t play to have “fun” (that’s why it’s such a problematic term for them) but to relieve pain of feeling inferior and boost their ego. Vidya provides a unique balm that is not present on other forms of entertainment. And ultimately, when you think how far left the press has shifted to, it’s not surprising to see them display their horrid skills and demand to be respected (because there isn’t anything wrong with them) yet at the same time demand games to be changed into unchallenging safe spaces (because deep inside, they know there’s something wrong with them). Doublethink.

They won’t be happy until all games are devoid of challenge. That’s why they love walking simulators so much.

>>14051785

Fuck don't remind me of the steam forums. The sheer amount of people asking about what the best hireable truckers are. And then how Promods is bad and the pre-dlc maps + Going East is so much better. Save your anger and stay the fuck away from the discussion page.

>>14052711

Forgot to mention I'm talking about Euro Truck Simulator 2 here.

>>14051742

Why are these faggots always so pretentiously wordy in their reviews, but then play like complete retards to show the world how stupid they truly are?

>>14051671

Music journos can't play an instrument. Movie journos have never been on set. News journos don't read the news.

Sports journos have never been on a team.

Let's face it journalists have and always will be retarded LARPers.

>>14051671

coz they're communist agitators subverting the hobby, not actual hobbyists.

>>14052773

useful idiots

>>14051671

because they are beta kikes, and good games take skill to play, as well as developed, determined practice

>>14052801

That zooming and panning was really obnoxious

>>14052801

this didn't need a video at all. just post the capture faggot

>>14052814

>>14052869

I didn't make this you dumb fucking retards. Complain to the guy who made it, not me.

>>14052887

You obviously found it good enough to repost it, faggot

The Dark Souls comparison should provide some insight. Enemies in games often telegraph moves. Few bother to use animation sequences, audio cues, or even patterns to figure out what needs to be done. They wait until they are anout to be hit to react. They do not bother learning the controls to react in the correct way. As a result, an easy game becomes impossible.

>over 50 replies

>not the obligatory clip

I don't even like this game that much, i just love the salt dropped at the video description and the replies

>>14051742

is this the faggot that almost shot himself and finds vidya with guns scary

>>14052894

Because it is good enough, fuckturd

>>14052639

I don't understand how that works, they might as well play with cheat codes. I can only get satisfaction from beating a game if it beat me down a couple of times first. Without a difficult challenge there is no accomplishment. How they can delude themselves into seeing an empty win against a pitiful opponent as validating to them escapes me. The mentality behind that must be really fucked up.

>>14052940

>>14052639

the issue isnt being a tasteless hack, the problem is when you demand an entire industry to placate being a useless fucking hack

>>14052940

Most of them can be placated with casual difficulty levels and a god mode. Not all though. Some will find creative ways to get themselves stuck such that progress cannot be made. I imagine these people would quickly die in a hostile environment.

>>14052973

Some will even feel offended that they had to pick a lower difficulty.

>>14052989

wasn't there a kotaku article complaining about how demeaning the names of the difficulty settings in the new Wolfenstein were, or was it fake?

>>14051805

They are one and the same.

>>14052926

What is really astonishing is how these creatures consistently fail what humans have evolved to be able to do automatically. We are one of the few species on the planet that understand cause and effect and can make logical leaps using past experiences to predict likely outcomes of future actions, yet these subhumans are utterly incapable of even the most basic cause -> effect loops. I don't even know how you can be so born so goddamn stupid, it's almost like they have brain damage.

It's not because they're game journalists, but because they're journalists. The most incompetent profession in existence. I think there's some unwritten rule that if you're too competent you can't be a journalist anymore. Especially if it's science related journalism. If they'd actually understand science they wouldn't confuse correlation with causation all the time making their clickbaits less popular.

>>14053034

There's actual studies done into this and what they found is less intelligent people are less likely to know they are stupid and are more likely to attribute their mistakes to external factors instead, effectively ignoring the cause and effect clause entirely.

In my country there's a saying "He who cannot do it teaches it".

I think it applies here too, if game journos could play video games they'd be playing some goddamn video games instead of writing their shitty articles.

I actually tried to make a game review blog once, but 5 minutes in I thought "it's really boring to play this shit repeatedly while I write everything down, i'd rather just play the fucking gae" and gave up.

>>14051671

Because they don't care about video games. They're controlling and subverting a stream of information that wasn't being filtered by Jews which has now been corrected. They threaten negative/reduced coverage to get gamedevs to poison their own product against whites.

>>14051671

Why are you asking a question that you already know the answer to?

>>14051785

>Totalbiscuit said in his (DmC review I think) that he never beat DMC4 because he couldn't get past 1st webm related.

How? It's standard platforming every single kid can do. Don't they know platforming-games is for kids and it's for kids for the exact reason that it's fucking easy and especially not very hard to figure out how to do shit and therefore as a kid easy to just pick up and play without having previous knowledge or knowing how to read?

>>14053438

>I actually kinda liked DmC tho

Just don't let people know about it. To me the core combat is decent, but everything else about the game is annoying. ever time I replayed, it felt worse due to all the scripted events.

>>14051671

Because they have good verbal intelligence but shit spatial intelligence and their hand eye coordination is all geared towards writing and not playing because they don't spend at least a few hours every day playing games.

>>14053438

One writes what they know, which is why all they write about is faggotry, uggos and being a cuck.

>>14051718

>Video games are the lowest quality entertainment form, with all the art and writing done by liberal arts majors who weren't good enough for literature, movies, tv, or any other job that you'd use those kinds of skills in.

Imagine being this smug and pretentious. Video games are great precisely because they don't get caught up in trying to convey deep, "literary" messages, or at least they didn't until very recently, and even then it's mostly just SJW types doing it. Your implication with that statement mirrors their beliefs, which is that video games are somehow lesser because their primary function isn't to deliver some kind of profound message or social commentary.

They aren't lesser because of this though; they're greater. Video games and anime are some of the only forms of entertainment left that are entertainment merely for entertainment's sake, and whatever ambitious story elements may be present in a game usually just serve to enhance how entertaining the scenario is, rather than to pull some bullshit post-modernist deconstruction of what it means to have values or whatever. There's a lot of pressure on western game devs to make games more "legitimate" as an "art form", but if they do that they will cease being fun or entertaining and will just become another vehicle to promote the same shitty anti-Western, anti-moral, anti-tradition agenda as all the other subverted art forms in the West.

tl;dr you couldn't be more wrong. Video games are the highest quality entertainment form in the modern era. That's why they're trying so hard to cuck it.

>>14052639

>9. The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call “feelings of inferiority” and “oversocialization.” Feelings of inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential.

>FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY

>10. By “feelings of inferiority” we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strict sense but a whole spectrum of related traits; low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self- hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have some such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism.

>15. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.

>16. Words like “self-confidence,” “self-reliance,” “initiative,” “enterprise,” “optimism,” etc., play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

>18. Modern leftish philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that everything is culturally relative. It is true that one can ask serious questions about the foundations of scientific knowledge and about how, if at all, the concept of objective reality can be defined. But it is obvious that modern leftish philosophers are not simply cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality. They attack these concepts because of their own psychological needs. For one thing, their attack is an outlet for hostility, and, to the extent that it is successful, it satisfies the drive for power. More importantly, the leftist hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior). The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is “inferior” it is not his fault, but society’s, because he has not been brought up properly.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm

I seriously believe they're paid to play badly so as to have viewers feel the need to prove they can do better and buy the game.

Does anyone have examples of good game reviewers/journos? Maybe from past eras. I'm not sure if it's just time gildening the memories, but when it was just words and pictures in a magazine, it was easier to trust them. I think Late 90s CVG was still pretty good in content all around, with the high five rating system.

>>14052737

Because writing is for fags, always has been and always will be. There is no good author, writer or playwrite in the history of man. They're all faggots, they're all cocksuckers, and they don't know what the fuck fun is.

>>14052737

inflating word count to seem smarter than you really are.

>>14053530

Embed is a buzzfeed journo, can you imagine how much lower a bideo gaems journalist must be?

>>14053534

Christ-centered gamer (^:

>>14052737

Because they are paid for amount of words in their articles.

That's why they use complicated words and stretch articles into fucking novels.

>>14053530

Damn, Uncle Ted was on the ball the whole time.

>>14053774

>>14051742

>>14053222 (checked)

You could have been the saviour of game journalism. Can it be said that those who actually play and enjoy games lack the motivation to write about them?

>>14053804

So why don't they do that fucking job and instead wax poetics about the wonders of interracial sex, cuckolding and Marxism?

>>14053814

Because the publishers themselves are Marxist institutions.

>>14053534

Kurt Kalata of hardcoregaming101. He has even made two videogames himself, "Que Pasa, Perro?" and "Christopher Columbus is an idiot". Since I hate Columbus, Kalata gets my seal of approval.

>>14053831

Didn't hardcoregaming101 start editing their older articles to remove all the non-kosher images and comments and will ban anyone on their forums they find making "sexist" remarks or disagreeing with a "woman"?

>>14053842

Yes, and tons of their older stuff is just gone forever.

>>14051785

I never really found Nero's blade revving mechanic all that useful. You can't really combo into it, and there never really is much of a reason to have more than one charge up, especially in the later difficulties when you don't really have time to rev it up. the different animations for when you do have it charged look cool, at least.

>>14053860

You know you can get instant revs if you use it at the right time during a swing, right? That's how you really make use of it.

It's quite simple. They want to be journalists, actual journalists, not specifically game journalists. The problem is that they think of gaming journalism as an easy entry point for actual journalism, so the whole thing is filled with people who never cared and never will care for gaming put in charge of reporting on them.

This is why we now have leftism going rampant on OUR stuff, because outsiders came in and started pointing out what THEY didn't like.

>>14052639

What's up gang.

Neoliberal centrism isn't leftism and democrats are not Marxists. Gaming-themed content farms will hire any beast of burden they can find off the street which is why you'll see all kinds of braindead horseshit getting posted on Gawker-style blog sites all the time. It's not reflective of any specific ideology. These people are just social climbing faggots who'll parrot whatever gives them more myspace friends.

Stop consuming singularity content. Public Relations is PRopaganda. If it feels buzzfeedy just close the tab. Watch gameplay videos on mute and make your own calls. Bless up brotherdude one love -HH

>>14053943

>Neoliberal

Fox News is Neoliberal you fucking retard.

>>14053973

All US news outlets are. That doesn't invalidate what I'm trying to tell you.

>>14053984

>>14053984

>All US news outlets are

wrong, that statement is only vaguely true in context of the MSM and as so far as Neoliberalism is a Left wing ideology. Outlets like the Young Turks, Jezebel and Mother Jones are clearly Progressive. The "centrist" bias is far to the left of the political spectrum. To say that the democrats are cryto-Marxist is no more far-fetched then it is to say Irving Kristol was still sympathetic to Trotsky even after developing Neconservativism . "McCarthyismim" is a bullshit buzzword because the man was right about the political subversion. In fact the Venona Project proved that the soviet infiltration was far grater then he suspected. On top of this you have Herbert Marcuse as chief Analysis of the office of strategic services which later becomes the CIA. I just don't get how people try to play down left wing influence on politics?

>>14054077

'progressive' is code for petty bourgeois

these people are manipulative opportunists

>>14054128

no it's not you fucking retard. Progressive is code for Marxist theory of historical materialism. It just paints itself in (((petty bourgeois))) because Marxist agitators end goals have never been Communism. Communist idealism is historically used a a tool to promote class conflict only so far as it is to bring about regime change and prop up a new banana republic that would be sympathetic the Kikes that run the banks.

>>>/leftypol/

>>14051671

It's not just games, but life itself.

It's peak beta.

It's peak soy.

It's peak politics via virtue signaling narcissism.

If they didn't have a soapbox to stand on, they would be the person you avoid at all costs due to the mixture of vapidity and hipster pathetic presentation.

>>14054150

>>14054156

You basically just reiterated what I said with an anti-semitic spin.

>>14054201

>you right wingers need to stop being so paranoid the left wing is a boogie man creation of your imagination

facts are not anti-semitic you fucking disingenuous faggot

>>14054228

Bankers aren't exclusively zionist Jews.

>>14054370

Pizza kabbalists can't hold institutional power if you dismantle all the institutions.

You mean why are game reviewers so bad at video games? Reviewing =/= journalism.

>>14054156

>Progressive is code for Marxist theory of historical materialism.

You know Wikipedia has an actual article on Progressivism and it's pretty decent (considering most political articles are absolute trash there). Progressivism can be broadly distilled as enforcing anti-trust law, advocating for a social safety net, and enhancing democracy/weeding out corruption. Try reading before you run your mouth sometime, you might come off as having a valuable opinion.

Anyway the answer is access. Game reviewers need to play nice with the distributors in order to get access to the games (early or free) in order to drive the clicks they need to pay for groceries. This promotes an entire industry of laziness, thoughtless or dishonest reviews, and cliques. As long as review outlets are beholden to this sort of business model we will continue drowning is a sea of garbage.

>>14051671

>why are jewish-paid propagandists bad at something they couldn’t care less about

It is a mystery.

>>14053222

We've got that too: those that cannot do, teach. It rang true in public education, and it rings true with these people as well.

>>14053814

Because they literally hate being glorified PR hacks instead of being cultural critics who bend the medium to their will.

Back in university I knew a fag who interned at a medium-sized game/tech review site and they he bragged about getting insane (sports tickets, exclusive merch, vacations etc) but he wasn't content with that and last time I looked him up on Faceberg he was working for some pro-rapefugee NGO.

>>14055177

>>4chan

>>14054840

That was a very enjoyable read, thanks anon.

>>14051671

Because they are blabber mouths and bullshitting is their job, same as the game store owners, they don't game, they rather be peddling.

Anon, their jobs first and foremost are journalism. They write about games, events, news, and things. They are paid to write, not play.

That said, I am not mad that they are bad at games. I am mad that they are not objective, observant, or self-aware. It's not that they're bad at games. They are incapable of understanding that people outside their small circle of friends and like-minded coworkers which they believe makes up a majority opinion could like these games, their complexity, or difficulty. They blame everyone but themselves for any problems they experience or any perceived sleight or 'trauma'.

They are perpetual victims and eternal children. They could be amazing at video games and I would still hate them.

Sage because this shit thread again. If we're going to have twelve threads a week bitching about soyboy journos, we should just have a cyclical. Oh, wait. That would be the GG shitpost thread, but not cyclical.

>>14055894

>i just provided multiple examples of how soros has supported marxism

rofl imagine being this high on ideology.

>>14053438

>I actually kinda liked DmC tho

Then leave >>>/reddit/

>>14052639

>Pro-violence radical leftist

>Always insist on playing games on their hardest difficulty

Where do I fit in your worldview?

>>14055519

> They are paid to write, not play.

Yeah, but illiterate book reviewer is hardly credible, so would be deaf music critic.

I really don't see why people care so much about games journalists. I mean, do you actually read their sites?

If you want game reviews, come to /v/ and get better content for free like >>14056299 mentions.

>But they say they're game reviewers, when they (a) suck at games and (b) just write social-issue clickbait!

yes, and the furry fandom claims to be for people who like anthropomorphic characters while actually being a pornography factory, newspapers still pretend they know anything about the topic they're reporting on when making inexcusable errors (ah yes, the famous British election of 1982…), and runescape still pretends to have a worthwhile F2P game inside it. Just because they pretend they might be of interest doesn't mean you need to actually consume what they produce when you could just ignore it.

>>14056351

>the furry fandom claims to be for people who like anthropomorphic characters while actually being a pornography factory

Silly anon, the only way to like something is to masturbate furiously to it at all hours of the day and develop your entire personal identity around it. Are furries the goodest goys? Developing personal identity around a brand or interest or sexual orientation is something the jews have trained us to do

>>14056351

"reviews" have been completely obsolete ever since you can just find gameplay videos on youtube.

The whole point of a review is to see if something is worth buying or not. These days journalism is just meta lore and critique that is about the equivalent of what you can find on an imageboard, reddit, or any other source of pleb-tier opinions. Except it's done by a "professional" which means literally nothing in this case.

>>14055519

>Anon, their jobs first and foremost are journalism.

>journalism

You mean propaganda and marketing.

>>14052639

>>>/leftypol/2328795

>>14055427

Note the date on the side of the page, if you haven't already.

>>14052931

I have never seen somebody this bad at games before, what the fuck?

I have nephews who are 8 who are better at games than this.

How did it take him over a minute to realize he was meant to jump on the box to get over the cylinder? He keeps running into enemies.

Cuphead proved to normalfags that journos are shit, their sway over gaming is slowly weakening.

>>14057404

I still have trouble believing so many people have issues with the second run and gun stage.

>>14052931

Now post the webm with the Pidgeon. You know the one.

surprised this wasn't posted yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNDjJ_suBg4

>>14054425

I swore I've seen this argument from a "one true Palestine" Tumblrite that used it as another justification as to why "true" communism didn't work.

>>14051686

This, most game journalists are failed journalists or writers.

>>14054425

"Capitalists".

Yeah, no.

Go back to your leftist shithole.

>Making this thread for the umpteenth time

You're preaching to the fucking choir you niggerfaggot.

>>14060106

You can be good at one game and terrible at another.

There are things he did in that review with are unarguably him blaming the game for his own poor choices, like wearing bad armor and using bad weapons.

>>14051756

>>14051767

:^]

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>>14060115

Let it die is garbage anyway

>>14060139

But you're completely ignoring the point.

>>14060106

>he's good at this one game therefor any criticisms he has of other games is valid

>>14060139

>he's bad at the game

>>14060176

What the fuck? The rest of my post disappeared after "he's bad at the game"

I don't feel like typing it all out again, basically there were a lot of real issues with the game he could have brought up but most of his complaints stem from him being bad.

They're casual normalfag retards. The fact that one of them couldn't even pass the fucking tutorial level of Cuphead is pretty telling. At this point you're better off getting impressions of games by watching faggoty camwhore lets-players who are competent at games. It's pretty sad shit.

>>14061121

That's gay as fuck but it reminded me that I want to fuck the cat

>>14051785

>Projared gave MGR a 4/10 he didn't know the dodge move existed.

Don't forget it made him cry because it "ruined metal gear"

gggmanlives is this. Watch his videos and notice how many games he complains about them being too difficult when he's playing the game wrong. DESYNC is the worst of these. He literally doesn't right click once throughout the entire game, in a game with weapon combos like the shock combo from Unreal Tournament, including a weapon that functions literally the same as the shock rifle.

He even complained about difficulty in his Serious Sam review. He reviews classic FPS games, yet complains about them being too hard like, at least half the time.

>>14061993

>DESYNC

But that game blows ass.

>>14061993

If I recall I joined his discord once to see who else was into retro FPS.

He had a rule saying "no transphobia". I just left on the spot.

>>14062004

Weird, he never struck me as that type.

>>14061521

sauce?

>>14061996

It has a variety of unique weapons with different combos between them and enemies + level design that force you to fight and hold your ground instead of circle strafe and run away.

Literally what is bad about the game other than that it doesn't have a story, it can be slightly confusing to understand the upgrade system, and the levels are hallways between arenas?

>>14062016

Exactly. That's why I was surprised by it.

>>14051789

>i wonder why i'm not getting any replies

maybe its because you're filtered!

haha! filtered!

my filter wilter!

>>14062023

Just know it is from some spanish porn site called Fakings and had milf in the title.

>>14061985

>This is also why "Dude bro" is one of their most popular insults for people who play games like Halo

Mostly agree with you but Dudebro is also a reasonably useful way of describing the kind of people who've a more peripheral interest in vidya - the kind of bros who play halo, but are also fine going out and playing football or something. i.e. as a contrast to a hermit who plays JRPGs and emulated DOS games all day.

I'd say it's still intended as an insult, to question their taste and so on (at least by original definition of dudebro) but my general experience is that dudebros are usually friendly enough once you're no longer a high-schooler, even if I'm more partial to nocturnal SMT.

>>14062405

That's not how the term is used by them though. It's used as an insult to any one who enjoys masculine forms of entertainment to say they're just dumb meat heads. They call people who like competitive Quake dude bros not just jocks.

>>14062587

I'm just saying that other people use the term than women, since the main mental association for me is with /v/ talking about jocks rather than Tumblr talking about anyone playing something that's not a walking simulator.

There's a weird trend of SJWs ruining words. I used to say "problematic" a lot before it was a big sign of a Tumblr user, since it seemed like a good way of saying "This has problems, but it's not totally wrong/broken/etc."

>>14062642

They like words with no real meaning like problematic. Instead of saying "this has a problem here here and here" they can say it's problematic and just avoid ever actually discussing what's wrong with it.

>>14051737

Making movies and playing games are not comparable at all.

>>14051785

>Projared gave MGR a 4/10 he didn't know the dodge move existed.

Game bloggers rating a 10/10 game badly because they're retarded? I'm not even surprised anymore.

>>14053764

Imagine being so set against the left that you can't see you're also cancer.

>>14054156

See this? Don't be this guy. /pol/-tier buzzword usage, (((them))), etc. This guy doesn't even know what he's talking about.

When you're hiding behind text and you know all anyone really cares about is the numerical score you could be mentally retarded and armless and no one will really question your legitimacy in reviews. In my opinion they were always godawful at games, whether or not it's because they don't have time or they don't care.

>>14060106

>>14060139

>>14060170

>>14060201

Did OP insult your favorite e-celeb or something? Why are you all defending him acting like a retard?

>>14062792

> whether or not it's because they don't have time or they don't care

I think it's neither, they're just inherently bad at games. Take that infamous Cuphead preview for example, it took the guy playing it a solid minute to figure out something most people do instinctively.

>>14060201

>superbunnyhop

>liked nitw

any words that come out of that fag's mouth are instantly invalidated with this knowlege.

>>14062803

I'm still convinced that video was a marketing stint because no one is that fucking bad at games. Same with DOODMOOM

>>14061121

Faggotry and feminism are reason enough to kill "people".

This mentally ill, deformed and completely retarded failure went from a beta numale to a full faggot by only staying beside a feminist for too much time. A complete failure at life.

Not even Screwattack's weasels could take this deformed homunculus in their "club" anymore.

>>14061985

Only truths there.

Women are objects with only some semblance of thought. anyone that associates with women thinking of caring or respecting them is bound to sink along them in their despair as they realize how unimportant and replaceable they are.

Women are nothing more than temporary pleasures for true human beings, and those that put them on pedestals are even less than that. Truly worthless beings.

>>14062757

Leftist born from shit spotted. All leftists are wastes and failures and it is ok to be against you, harm you and kill you all.

>>14053814

It's a side effect of the gig/service economy and online publishing, which are steered by kike organizations. Do you seriously not know about this or are you just asking rhetorically?

>>14053814

Yeah, that anon is just describing one of the 3 types of reviewers, namely attention whores, marketing guys for the big publishers and ideologues.

Which game reviewers/critics are actually good?

>matthewmatosis

My main gripe is he uploads maybe 3 videos a year

>Joseph Anderson

A nu-male, but at least he can articulate well his ideas and criticism and can actually play video games, but has really shit taste, Skyrim is his favorite game, and Dark souls 2 is his favorite souls games.

>Yatzee/Zero punctiation

Used to like him as a teenager, but the humor died off really quickly, his criticism is way too short and he sucks at actually playing the games, not to soy boy levels, but can otherwise barely reach the game it would seem.

>Any major game site

Why even bother?

>>14070675

Anyone who is shit at everything they touch should be disregarded immediately. Fuck the mongs defending Dean Takahashi and that Polygon twat who couldn't kill anything in Doom. If you spend a significant amount of time at anything, you should be at least decently competent at it.

I just look up zero commentary, hardest difficulty walkthroughs of games and skip around any spoilers to see what the gameplay is like. I know my own tastes well enough to get a feel for it after a minute or so of watching.

On a semi related note, why are 95% of the people on YouTube and Twitch absolute shit at games?

>>14070698

For some reasonI like well articulated reviews even on games I already played.

On the twitch thing, they're just trying to get on the gravy train, do nothing and earn money from donations.

>>14070698

Actually fuck it, these guys don't get spread around enough. I'll post the channels I like.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Thethingthing1990 (Doom videos, no commentary, high player skill, furfaggot intro so skip that)

https://www.youtube.com/user/GameKiller346 (variety games, no commentary, super high skill, HD quality)

https://www.youtube.com/user/H2vKillsAlone (Doom videos, no commentary, high skill)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2njm8CxSR_UtdIonfr1ODw (Doom videos, no commentary, high skill)

https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdCommandoGames (rpgs and strategy games, high skill, commentary, uploads in both russian and english, insanely knowledgable about most games, loads of Fallout 1 and 2 videos)

https://www.youtube.com/user/minecraftlegoman777 (Space Station 13 meme videos and tutorials, commentary)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5f-ChLiA0WiFnyx78miTOw (variety with an emphasis on Far Cry games, super high skill, no commentary, HD quality, Doom 2017 videos are insane)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2PTdRGKwLjOJQtSW2YF_A (variety with an emphasis on Dishonored, insane skill,no commentary, HD quality)

https://www.youtube.com/user/volound (variety videos, highest difficulty, insane skill, no commentary)

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicContrarian (variety videos, highest difficulty, insane skill, no commentary)

https://www.youtube.com/user/RabbitsRespawn (variety videos, insane skill, some videos have commentary)

Sorry if this post is long as shit but I rarely see any of these guys discussed.

>>14070753

>Dishonored, insane skill

lol

>>14070768

Not to play the game, but to do the shit he does? Yes.

>>14070753

>Far Cry games

>All vids are 3 and later

>super high skill

LOL

>>14051785

>projared gave it a 4/10 and didn't know dodge existed

Id like to add into this he was playing on easy and complained about how the stealth in the game worked.

This happened after he gave Legend of Korra a 4/10 as well that he also only played on easy.

He should never ever review action games like this since he has no idea how to fucking play them.

>>14061197

The fact that he manages to get so far into MH and cant grasp the basics of MGR baffles me.

I always wanted to be a journalist until I saw the group of stupid fucks who actually go to journalism school. Now I just write freelance as a hobby on my day's off from my real job.

>>14070789

I don't know how that could've happened after the Korra game unless he was late to the party by over 18 months.

>>14070675

>Skyrim is his favorite game, and Dark souls 2 is his favorite souls games.

Are these true? Which video did he say these in?

Anyways I'd suggest LordMandalore, he doesn't go nearly as in-depth as matthewmatosis or anderson but I've found his reviews to be useful anyways. He usually reviews /v/ favorites that don't get a lot of attention elsewhere.

>>14071297

The dark souls bit is in one of his dark souls critiques, don't remember which, and in the opening of his critique of fallout 4 he mentions he had lost track of the hours he spend on skyrim, he explicitly says so in another video.

>>14071297

LordMandalore was great but he's friends with Shammy, who's a furry who likes kike in the hoods, which makes me worried.

>>14071368

>>14071297

>>14070675

Went back looking for where explicitly he says Skyrim is Joseph Anderson's favorite game, and slimed though his Dragon's Dogma review, and man did I forgot how much of an idiot he is, at least regarding plot/story/lore, he didn't get the that the Dragon's bargain, and postgame are all a long test to see if you could be the next seneschal, when you don't really die at the end, and that all your doing is perpetuating a cycle and nothing really changes or evolves, hence the quote in the intro, he had similar opinions regarding the back story of dark souls.

>>14070742

>tracing JoJo

But why?

>>14070675

Anderson is a wannabe Matthew. He's fucking terrible and copies almost everything but does it worse in every way.

>>14070698

Because 99% of people are shit at games?

>>14071373

Gaming Brit is an 8ch, he used to use the logo for the 8ch game review site before it went full SJW and split apart.

I like most of his stuff but he's a bit shit in places. My biggest issue is he circle jerks the same games and when it's time to talk about them he doesn't know shit.

>I finished DMC on Normal so I'm ready for hard

No faggot, you should be playing through DMC on Normal, Hard and then DMD. Unless you have played at least half of DMD then you haven't hit the real meat of the game and your review is severely lacking in content.

It's the same shit as DMC speedrunners using heaven or hell mode to speedrun. When every monster dies in 1 button press it's not DMC any more you faggots.

>so lazy you try to make your living off giving opinions of video games

>people are surprised when these unproductive creatures are bad at that too

>>14053438

>(((white)))

>>14051671

game journalism is a walking contradiction that can rarely ever be rectified.

think about it: what is the point of a game review? one would assume that it is about educating the viewer about a video game. this means pointing out it's flaws, its strengths and its overall effect.

Therein lies the problem that no review/reviewer can fix.

What EVERYONE forgets in these threads is that most of the problems with game jounos aren't exclusive to games.

Everyone (or most people) have diffrent perspectives or feel diffrent emotions when they see certain scenes or do certain things.

Think about chick-flicks for example. your gf or brother could be crying their ass off when the main character dies while you are laughing. all reviews are inherently biased towards the reviewers' point of view. if you like sci-fi then you are more likely to like a sci-fi movie compared to someone who hates it.

Ever wonder why objectivity was always seen as the golden standard for reporters and journalists?

ever wonder where that standard went?

vid related because guy tries to create a new system of reviewing that I think many people here would like

>>14076858

Every "review" should just be the first hour of gameplay with a framecounter on to tell me everything I need to know:

>what does it look like?

>what does it play like?

>what does it sound like?

>how well does it run?

>how well is the pacing?

Anything past that point I can gleam from either high end gameplay, there's speedruns within an hour of release seriously, or just browsing any fucking forum or wiki for any game. You could make the argument that companies intentionally make the early bits of the game better to lure idiots in, and you'd be right, but the thing is that even the relatively good parts are complete ass 9 times out of 10 to anyone with any semblance of taste so you might as well just go ahead and let people see it for what it is. Maybe if they weren't so sure they already had your money by that point they'd put more effort in. Probably not though.

>>14076858

Or maybe you're a stupid kid who bought the lie they told about their industry rather than the truth about reality.

There is no objectivity in reviews. Never was and never will be. You weren't supposed to find the ONE TRUTH in a review. You were supposed to find an asshole who you mostly agree with and then see what he liked and disliked to get an idea of what you would like.

Hey this guy looks DMC, Doom and Quake. He didn't like Last of Us, Uncharted and Metal Gear Solid. Well that fits me, I'll keep an eye on what he likes.

And hey look I just found a reviewer who will guide me in the general direction I need to go to find new games I will want to play.

>>14061197

That's because there are a trillion million monster hunter guides made specifically for brain damaged retards such as him, but none for the devil may cry franchise.

He definitely just memorized a bunch of guides that turn the games into cakewalks whereas you're otherwise supposed to learn boss attack patterns and so on yourself in monster hunter.

>>14076958

For dungeon crawlers that are designed to be played over a span of years, players should start off overwhelmed and confused. The game should also be difficult to watch to deter people from making let's plays and even reviewing the game. There are some games normalfags aren't meant to play.