Honestly, he could have picked one person, Jim Sterling, Moriarty, Geis or whoever and done a top 100 just on them with the amount of unfiltered bollocks they come out with. Gaming journalism is an utter joke.. for the most part I stick to a few UA-camrs to see if a game is any good, I'd much rather trust someone like TotalBiscuit's opinion over a complete smeg head like Colin Moriarty.
"Too much water." -IGN on the review of Pokemon gen 3 remakes, the entire plot of which revolves around the balance of land and sea resulting in about 50% of the world being ocean with small islands.
To paraphrase ShayMay: while the game is 50% sea routes, there is substantially less than 50% of the game's content on those routes. That's why the complaint is valid.
That plot's just a silly excuse for Nintendo to remodel Japan as the in-game setting. The first three gens all had settings modeled after regions of Japan.
@@jonahfalcon1970 Ugh how could you like MovieBob? He's kinda pathetic. Jim Sterling whilst I don't like him I could at least understand why some people like his reviews.
I wonder if anyone remembers an older gaming journalist who was called Scorpia. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, she was one of the toughest, most controversial game critics out there. She was well known for publishing extremely harsh reviews on games that she didn't like, mostly role-playing and adventure games. Her review for Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World was so ruthless that she received an angry letter from the game's designer, Jon Van Caneghem, who would later name an enemy monster after her in one of his next games. If you're reading this Larry, I highly recommend you do a video on her or include her in of your next Fact Hunt episodes. She's a long-forgotten controversial gaming journalist that definitely deserves to be highlighted.
@@RobMustDie482 But then again it was from Polygon who today isn't exactly known to make good takes ever. They did written an article praising and defending microtransactions.
1. People who are ever happy to "punch up" should consider that it's not always necessary to punch at all, and that punching hurts. 2. Disabled people, exclusively, get to decide what they're pissed off by. Being a bit unhappy at sad things in your life isn't a disability btw.
AesculapiusPiranha well what would we expect from far left leaning journalists who think they know all. Despite having hackers tell them the code can be adjusted. Honestly if someone can show me they know how to get into and just tweak small bits of game code, I'm willing to accept they know far more than I do. Which makes it hilarious to see a hacker crack it to make it offline as well as maxis making that "impossible" patch. Sigh sim city, once a golden game series turned shit by moronic game developers telling players without Internet or good internet to fuck off.....
Speaking as a former games magazine journalist, when it's three o'clock in the morning on the day of the print deadline, a freelancer has let you down, your editor's on the warpath and you've still got eight pages to fill, you'd be amazed what utter bollocks can find its way onto the page.
Ah, Dave "Games Animal" Perry, what a character! No, it wasn't his company, but he worked at Rapide for a year or so after the demise of his TV career. He launched "Station", an unofficial PlayStation magazine with a cover disk. Talking of stupid things in games magazines, there's a whole story about the launch of that mag, and the less-than-impressed reaction from Sony and Future (who had the official PS mag) when they saw it. After Rapide closed in 1999, Dave launched his own company Predator Publishing, and I worked for him for about a year editing DVD Monthly. He's now running a successful tattoo studio in Torquay, and has finally stopped wearing those awful bandannas.
Here are some stupid claims about gaming I was told in secondary school, all by the same idiot: - "Segagaga is an illegal Game Gear/GBA hybrid handheld banned in 7 states in America" I first heard about Segagaga from an Italian news report on Game Network. No images were shown other than the logo. I couldn't figure out what it was, even though I could've just Googled it (most of us did have the internet by 2001!). I just mentioned Segagaga to the person and he made up that stupid claim! If I had known of Google it, I could've proved that Segagaga is a Japan-only Dreamcast RPG! - "When the Dreamcast dies, Sega will be forced to port ALL their 1st party Dreamcast exclusives to the Nintendo 64" How stupid did he think I was? By the time he made this claim, the Gamecube had already come out in Japan and Sega were already working on new games for that! Also, you cannot make an exact port of a Dreamcast game to the Nintendo 64, Nintendo 64 game paks cannot hold ANYWHERE NEAR as much data as Dreamcast GD-Roms or even PlayStation CD-Roms! Also, making a game takes 12-18 months! - "PlayStation 3 is out January 1st 2003, it can play PSone/PS2 games but its own games are cheap little quickfire games no better than what can be played on the net for free" Now that's just silly! No game company would EVER consider doing something like this! - "I have Grand Theft Auto Vice City on the N-Gage" I actually like the N-Gage! I still have mine somewhere, even though it doesn't work anymore. Anyone can tell that there NEVER WAS an N-Gage version of GTA: Vice City, and that a game as big as it couldn't possibly fit into a phone memory card at the time! All these claims were made with absolutely no evidence provided! Like I said, since most of us did have the internet by 2001, we could easily prove claims like the above as being false! However, this idiot was in denial, he insisted his claims were true and dismissed any and all evidence (or lack of) proving him wrong!
@@kathrynradonich3982 thats what normal mode is for A bit of challenge but more story focus for most games Easy mode is baby's first and in some games can even take out certain elements
I can't imagine what the guy who wrote #1 must be thinking now. The most terrifying control scheme for shooters has become as standard as the ability to jump in a platformer.
Hard to believe that guy lambasted the twin-stick control method that hard, considering it's become so ubiquitous I can hardly imagine the game landscape of today without it. Left stick for movement and right stick for camera is so intuitive that even Animal Crossing uses it now.
My favorite stupid thing a game journalist said (in hindsight) was when PC Accelerator declared in February of 2000: "Halo and Team Fortress 2: Two games you will not see on a console any time soon, if ever!" In all fairness, it did take us 7 years to see Team Fortress 2...anywhere.
I think its a crying shame the PS Vita flopped. Compared to the 3DS I think the form factor was much more comfortable, not to mention they didn't have a gimmick feature that had been rehashed for far too long and no one used anyway. Mind you, Sony eventually came out with the touch pad on the PS4, which would have been great if it worked like a trackpad on a laptop (heck, the Ouya had a better touch pad) except the whole console form factor is designed around not having a mouse, so I guess Sony aren't free from blame over stupid gimmicks we all turn off when we can.
The PS Vita actually did have a gimmick. The back of the console would also double as a touch pad (like the PS4 controllers). You can turn it on and off in the settings menu. As far as I'm aware though, no games acknowledged its existence (except 'Tearaway')
The touchpad and dual screen while gimmicks were quite useful for games like advance wars and fire emblem. In fact extremely useful for them. But i agree the vita deserved better.
Yeah... Say that to my MGS HD Vita collection that can't be played on a Vita TV because there's no dumb gimmick like that stupid ass touchpad on the back... Without modding of course.
When they said "Diablo Immortal is fun, everyone whining about it being on mobile are just entitled crybabies" they just don't get it, and are sucking up to blizzard
"It's impossible for an online game to put in offline mode to be played". Um... no. The long history of game rips and cracks will teach you that, "It's impossible to make a game unable to be played in offline mode unless the entire game is run via server and you just connect to it and have no files available for the game on your PC". I'm not even a programmer and I know how this crap works. The only thing they'd have to disable is any software that checks to see if it's connected to the internet. Or, if you're a pirate, you just add a piece of code to the download file that "tricks" the software doing the check into finding an internet connection (with all the proper settings!). When the people who get your product illegally are better at patching in fixes and getting around your anti-piracy BS than your devs are... You probably should fire some morons.
"Business reporter Ben Gilbert was recently invited by Nintendo to try out Super Mario Maker in New York City. During his time with the upcoming Wii U title, Gilbert noticed that his hand wasn’t displayed on the TV screen during gameplay. Instead, a hand that seemingly belongs to a white woman mimicked his movements as he was editing a level on the Wii U GamePad’s touch screen. According to Gilbert, this is a “bizarre, glaring flaw” in Super Mario Maker. “Yes, I’m a white guy, but my fingers are far from long and slender (sadly),” Gilbert writes. “What if I were, say, a 10-year-old black girl? Or a 30-year-old Japanese man? Or literally anything other than an adult white woman (which the hand appears to belong to)? “Given the mainstream appeal of the mustachioed hero and his ongoing battle against Bowser, you’d think Nintendo - a company that’s repeatedly shown willingness to be inclusive - would have thought of this. “When I asked Nintendo reps about the hand and if it could be changed, they confirmed that it couldn’t be. They also reacted with surprise that there wasn’t an option to swap it out.” This is the story of how the journalist Ben Gilbert calls Super Mario Maker racist and sexist all because it displayed a caucasian woman's hand and not his. How is this not anywhere on the list, Larry?
I am triggered by white female hands. When I saw that my hand style was not included in the game, I smashed my Wii U and swore for an hour straight at a wall.
Nothing is more elitist than, after being proven wrong that a game can’t be played offline, rating it lower after offline if patched in because you’re butthurt it’s accessible to more people.
Unfortunately, that last one isn't exactly such a rarity. Too often I've seen people complaining about a new control style idea, just because they couldn't be bothered to spend half an hour to actually get used to it. Of course, same could be said for modern gamers whining about not being able to play old classics because they feel a bit differently. So many people are missing out on greatness and potential innovations just because they're so used to the familiar and don't want to take their time to learn something new.
That aliens resurrection segment was fantastic. That guy was a total idiot regarding what he was bitching about and i couldn't stop myself from chuckling repeatedly to myself. Splendid episode indeed Larry.
The sad fact of the matter is, the Vita _could_ have competed with the 3DS if Sony actually knew how to market the damn thing. They marketed the hell out of the PSP with their weird squirrel commercials, but the Vita barely had any marketing and eventually Sony just started bundling it with their consoles as some weird PSTV addon. At my old job, I used to take my Vita in all the time, and there wasn't a _single_ instance where somebody recognized it as a Vita. Any time a customer mentioned it, they'd think it was a PSP and I'd have to tell them what it was. Not one of them even knew Sony made a successor to the PSP, and most of them were people who loved the PSP. That's how bad Sony fucked up the marketing, even people who loved the PSP didn't know the Vita existed.
Surprised the infamous Edge Doom review of "If only you could talk to the monsters" wasn't #1! Was honestly expecting that as it's still cited to this day as one of the stupidest game reviews ever written.
Only thing stopping the success of the PSV was Sony and their proprietary memory card. If we could have just used a regular MicroSD card and given myself a ton of space for a few dollars, it would have been a smash, but zero internal storage space meant it was useless without a memory card, they did not come with a memory card, and the memory cards for it had INSANE and still do have INSANE prices per gigabyte. Great piece of kit killed off by the fear of piracy.
Number 6: Comparing the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy to *Dark Souls* of all games simply because they completely forgot that despite it's modern graphics, it's still a remaster of three games made at a time when games in general didn't hold your hand as much and as such, they thought it was "too hard". LOL!
BlueDragon992 Exactly. I'm currently playing through Crash 1 on the trilogy. My first time playing a Crash game, since I grew up with games from the PS2 / Xbox / GameCube era onward. It still holds up well, and although I find it hard as a newbie, I won't fault it for it's outdated design. It's still amazing and really holds up today, in my opinion. It just has some parts that don't hold up. But since it's a remaster, not a completely new game, that makes sense and can be tolerated.
I wouldn't mind, but when Halo: Combat Evolved, released jus over a year later at the back end of 2001 across the pond and six months later for the rest of us, used that EXACT SAME control scheme as Alien: Resurection, it was praised to the point of practically being hailed as the second coming! Alien invented that setup and Halo popularised it!
I find it hilarious that anyone thought Nintendo could be dethroned on handhelds. They created the market and are the kings of handhelds. The Nintendo DS is the second best selling console of all time, just behind the PS2.
Back in 1997, Entertainment Weekly gave Castlevania: Symphony of the Night a C- saying that the visuals were "dated and flat" when compared to 3D games like Nightmare Creatures... do I even need to say how laughable that statement is?
Lol Symphony of the Night looks gorgeous for when it was made what are they on about. I wonder if a re-release with modern spritework would make it look better or worse. Not that that will ever happen of course.
Something stupid that I Heard from IGN that was for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. They said "uninspired level design, 6/10" As someone who has 200% in the game, This is (literally) objectively incorrect
Tbf, uninspired level design is a terrible label for even games with bad level designs, it doesn't do anything justice good or bad. (Donkey Kong Country doesn't need to be discussed much, it was a stupid review of a well loved series)
"Earthbound is not a bad game if you like 'cuteness'. In fact, with a little violence and some more menacing weapons and creatures, this would have been an excellent RPG. Sadly, all Earthbound has to offer is a Barney-esque romp in a McDonald's Playland" - VG&CE Magazine's review of Earthbound
That review and IGN's review of Double Dragon Neon are the two dumbest things I've ever read. It's one thing to miss a point or two but, to miss the whole point of the game is mind boggling. "...and when you lose all you lives you have to start the level over AGAIN...'cause video games used to do that so, why not do it 20 years later" IGN on Double Dragon Neon
GrahfMetal Gamespot did a freelance review of Dead Rising 3's PC version, that's the worst review I've ever seen or read. Check it out. www.gamespot.com/reviews/dead-rising-3-apocalypse-edition-review/1900-6415861/
For the love of fuck, people. Jim Sterling has openly mocked the concept of being a game journalist. IT'S IN HIS FUCKING INTRO. THAT WASN'T A BURN. THAT WAS GURU LARRY STATING A FACT.
You could get endless episodes of "Top 5 Stupid Things Said by Games Journalists" simply by going to Kotaku and pulling out *random* things they say from *any* review they write.
Wow, that's the first time I've seen a big-name UA-camr actually make a crack at Jim Sterling. I thought everyone just sort of blindly obeyed him despite him just being kind of dumb.
+Ashuraman People disagree with his opinions, and call him "dumb". A silly reason, but eh. Jim is respected by many in games journalists though, especially in the way that he takes a Konami blacklist as a rite of passage and takes on shitty indie "developers" on as part of his dealings on Steam.
Lol, that Alien Resurrection review is like reading someones diary from the 1900's, and finding an entry about how hard it is to control cars with steering wheels.
As of 2017, we now have Star Fox 2. IGN's reviewer savagely tore into the nigh 2 decade old, unreleased SNES Game, for having poor graphics and clunky gameplay, despite it having the same graphics (if not better) as the original. What's worse is the quote stating that the graphics were so bad, that the game was cancelled, despite that being literally the *entirely wrong reason* for the game's cancellation.
Actually from what I read is one of the main reasons Star Fox 2 was cancelled is because Nintendo was worried it would be compared negatively to the recently released Saturn and PlayStation . So they were right on that point
I'll never understand single-player games with Always-Online DRM. It would just encourage piracy, and a lot of times, the DRM gets cracked without too many hurdles
If you watch the original review there, they aren't really wrong. All they were saying was that many Pokemon in ORAS's main campaign were water types, which made it easy to predict what type you should use to counter the opponents the game throws at you.
Wolvenreign the problem is that the original Ruby and Sapphire got 9.5/10, but the remakes got a lower score because of problems even the originals had.
All that HAD to happen was a slap on the wrist, an apology, and a promise to do better. But no, gotta defend the non-existant journalistic right to sleep with the people you're covering. And then piss on a signifigant part of the audience and expect them to take it.
magmos YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP. And if anything, it was that statement that opened the floodgates to just how tangled many of the modern game journalist are. Not to say that game journalist from the past were perfect angels but god damn. To make a statement like that and expecting GAMERS to just lay down and take it. Nope. Not gonna happen.
Super Cosmic Mutant Honey Candle Squid I'm honestly amazed at what all it dug up at this point. Abusers, corruption, prostitution, pedophiles (And the fact that one is MULTIPLE horrifies me), and roots that seem to just go on for miles.
magmos What amazes me is that this corruption is happening......within people who review *VIDEO. GAMES.* All this shit from people who say they're in it for *VIDEO GAMES*. REALLY NOW?
Super Cosmic Mutant Honey Candle Squid Really makes one wonder what it's like in ACTUAL journalism. Might be why most media sources have been gobbling up the Gamers Are Dead rhetoric.
Journalist: I have trouble beating this game, so it should have an automatic win mode. Think of... Disabled people. Yeah, that's right Disabled Person: I can beat this game just fine, you just suck. Journalist: Y'all hear sumn
One of the big things that sunk the Vita so hard was just that Sony did the Sony Thing™ again and didn't advertise it. I remember finding out it existed because I made a character named Vita in a then freshly-launched MMO and got ribbed for it by a friend.
They *did* advertise it... after all _"IT was Console Quality on the Go"_ (I'll never get that slogan out of my head!) for All intents and purposes the Vita was a portable PS3.
@@Oturan20 Where and in what country? Because as I said, totally unaware until the moment of lul at me, haha. And I'd remember that fucking slogan like Skittles' "The colors, duke, the colors! I'm colorblind, kid."
@@Oturan20 Yeah, see, at the time I was still watching Adult Swim and shit a lot when I went to a friend's house who still actually paid for cable a couple times a week, and never once saw a commercial for it. CN always had a lot of Xbox and PS commercials back then, but I never once saw a Vita one. I'd remember that tagline, and I totally wouldn't have used that name if I'd been aware of it, either.
Well, that depends on taste. There's a pretty long list of games i want to play on the vita. But yeah, it should have more catalog, and we have sony to blame for that.
I love how you took a shot at Jim Sterling and Bob Chipman. I really am not a fan of them so it's nice to see someone who doesn't praise Jim up the butt
"Quite a few of you suggested tweetle dee and tweetle dumb themselves, MovieBob and Jim Sterling. (laughter), oh you guys, you're so funny, I said suggestions for *journalists* Unbelievably brutal
" No one's gonna take your DOA Extreme away." " I haven't played past first hours of this game (Homefront: The Revolution) that I'm making a review of right now." " Every male is a potential rapist." " Developers should not be free to express themselves with themes such as rape. I'd consider them disgusting creeps if they do." " Shove you journalistic ethics down your ass." " Pussies (The Escapist) for not censoring their forum of discussions about journalistic ethics." I can keep going. Do you want me to?
In fairness to Steven Garrett, Alien Resurrection was a brutally, stupidly hard game. It's one thing to learn a new control system. It's another thing to learn a new control system with a game that just beats the hell out of you and makes you feel like you can't control well enough to play it.
Honestly, Games Journalists are probably the lowest bar when it comes to journalism. I'm honestly convinced most of them are in this industry because they couldn't cut it as any other kind of journalist. And that number one, good gravy that dipshit basically just shat on PC FPS controls.
MovieBlob was on the thumbnail too. I was hoping to have some fun ripping a new one in him again but, yeah calling him a games journalist is too fucking generous. XD
I have to defend the Vita for a sec, every time someone talks crap about it they mention sales numbers and say that the only good games it has are the launch titles. The system is great, and the number of good games is always increasing even without Sony's continuous support, but it is always easier to just repeat what people said years ago instead of making of our minds. This is more of a general rant that specifically going against Larry who is just mentioning the mistakes that a reporter made on an article, but I just have a gripe when someone spreads the "vita is terrible and has no games" erroneous stereotype. Still love you Larry :)
I would ponder the lack of Sarkeesian on this list but I guess one, calling her a journalist would only feed her ego, and two, this is about hindsight and she's embarassing enough right away.
BJGvideos She's a blogger though, right? I've literally never looked her up since everything I've heard her say sounds like the most contrived stuff towards her critics and the entire games industry.
thenecromorpher She does presentations. Though oh my god she has the biggest victim complex of anyone I've ever seen. Which is hilarious because she's so willing to discard female victims in video games as being useless no matter what value to have otherwise. By her own standards she's offensive. To say nothing of how she actively works against feminism despite claiming to be a feminist herself, or how it's been proven that a great deal of threats against her have been faked. She's one of the few people I would punch in the face if I could
It's funny that buddy hated the control scheme in Aliens so much, even IF it was new. I still remember the first game I ever played that used that control setup, Gun for the PS2, and the reason I loved that game so much was the new control scheme (new for me at least) felt so intuitive, so comfortable, and so easy to use, that it quickly became my all-time favorite shooter lol
I know what you mean. I remember preferring Turok's controls over Goldeneye's because the C-buttons controlled all movement. Even though it wasn't quite like shooters today it just had much better control imo
@@HrHaakon Solitaire and Goodnight in the single controller schemes, all the original N64 control schemes were named for Bond girls don't know if the XBLA rerelease kept the same or renamed them. Steven Garrett being chronically wrong as a reviewer when it came to camera control specifically? Consistent.
Larry..... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ORIGINAL CONTENT!!!! All I see is the same shit everywhere. But your channel has something fresh every time. SO THANKS HEAPS! :)
To give defense to the PS Vita as a vita owner in hindsight. The biggest reason the Vita failed is because for some goddamn reason Sony decided to be greedy and made proprietary memory cards that were way too expensive for what they were worth instead of using normal SD cards. Sony didn't really support the system that much either which was unfortunate but to all those who have owned a Vita know how fucking cool the system is hands on.
Nintendo's utter greed never was to blame for failure. So i would say the main problem was the sheer lack of games and not the price of the Memory cards.
@@Davion89 I never actually owned a DS, but haven't Nintendo always used catridges with built-in save features for their handhelds? Even with the Switch. That's not the same type of greed as Sony at all.
@@TheWonderRabbit Not the same type of greed? How about: -Selling Launch titles years after the release for full price -Shipping the Console without a decent controller -The Price of the "pro" controller which still sucks -Shutting down older E-shops so all the games you purchased on your older consoles are lost and you get fuck all -The amount of Copyright Bullshit they did and still do on UA-cam and other platforms -Shitting out Console refreshes on a nearly yearly basis -Selling a Console with the power of a cheap tablet for 300€ -Super Mario Allstars (enough said) -"HD" versions of old games for Full price -Having to Pay to use Cloud saves And the list goes on and on and on and on They are the Apple of Gaming selling things for far then they are worth and fucking their customers all day every day
@@wchan39 there's over 1,000 games on the Vita, not even counting the PS Classics playable on it. Yes a heap are JP exclusive but it was never as dire as people claim. The single biggest issue, as someone that does own a decent selection of Vita games was the damn memory card situation, especially with PS Mobile being tied to the memory card you had in, you can't just switch cards or you will lose access to any PSM games you own. So even if I could have afforded one of the largest memory cards I'd have been screwed wanting to keep access to my Tokyo Jungle Mobile (very different to the PS3 version) and one or two other games.
Remember that one Gamespot reviewer who said that Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, one of the greatest 2D platformer ever made, had "unimaginative and bland level design"? That seriously made me laugh out loud when I read it. :P
Hey if you enjoy them good for you, but it (and pretty much all those 3D sonic games) were objectively worse then similar games (Controls, mechanics, logic, design) that were released at the time and often buggy broken messes which is why they're highly criticized, it's just the better games didn't have a recognizable name slapped on so less people had them (or it was a Nintendo game and you didn't want to or couldn't play it) and so many didn't know any better, and as a kid you had less options available, so on the more rare occasion you got a game, you were more likely to get one with a name you already knew, and then play it 100 times over cementing in your mind that it must have been good, but when you pull back and compare it you see where it's lacking.
Pretty much every single 3d Sonic game was released buggy, from Adventures to Boom, some were just much buggier than others (06 obviously, and Boom), didn't mean to imply they were all as buggy as 06.
Collin admitted how wrong he was about that the Vita and was just a fan boy for it. Gotta say I respect that at least since he is a huge PS fan and could admit being wrong. And Jim Sterling is something else, he’s either spot on or dead wrong. I remember his Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice review were he gave it a 1/10 because it did something stupid in the game and got a bug nobody else ever got and had to restart the game. He later updated it to a 7 but only after backlash. But most of his videos are good and gotta love his take on AAA games industry. Good video tho!
I don't get grown men having format battles, like "their" format is some sort of team they belong to. It's just a product you bought, to entertain you. It doesn't give you identity or community. It doesn't have meaning. I don't even get kids in playgrounds doing it, but at least they have the excuse of being kids. But where else than video games "journalism" do you get ignorant idiots spouting off on technical subjects, citing the degree they got from University Of Press Release, and not knowing ANYTHING that they're talking about? Cos they don't! It's like the blind leading the blind. PR dicks at big electronic companies combing through technical specs to find anything with a number, that's a bigger number than their rivals have at the other big electronics company. Or some sort of half-understood technical-sounding term, but out of context and irrelevant. Lies, nonsense, dissembling. And that's the gospel game journalists START from! That's the lake of shit they mine as if it were gold, and... I dunno... somehow get paid, for eating the shit, shitting it out their own arses, so that the fanboys can eat THEIR shit. And the few people who do know what they're talking about don't care at all. Because they realise that ego, identity, morality, meaning, respect, love, none of these things can be obtained or changed, by buying products and plugging them into a television. The whole gaming journalism "industry" might be the biggest waste of time and energy the human race has produced so far. The nose-picking pants-shitting manchild idiot leading the same-but-more-gullible. Imagine the good that Edge magazine could have done, rendered into soft toilet paper and flown out to communities suffering outbreaks of dysentery. Was there ever a more useless endeavour? Seriously, I'm asking.
@@Rad-Dude63andathird Solely responsible? What? The game has a metacritic of 50 based on 32 reviews. It might be time to consider the fact that people just didn't like it.
7:32 "I mean, Jesus, Collin, that's not even hindsight. Did you do any research, or are you just happy with the Niagara Falls of complete bollocks that comes out of your mouth?" The way Larry just burns this particular journalist. I mean, I laughed so hard at this one part. Nice work, Larry, my good man.
What are you talking about dude, he has an entire podcast completely dedicated to Playstation. Him and Greg are ENAMORED by playstation. God forgive a guy who plays games for a living be critical to a company sometimes.
Yes Colin criticizes Playstation. The point stands. their podcast is like literally a massive commercial for playstation news, releases, games and events. I don't think that's shitting on Sony.
So you put Jim Sterling's face as one of only three on the thumbnail, implying that he'd be on your list and then it turns out that you're not covering him for whatever reason... Is there any sane reason why you'd stoop to clickbaiting like this?
Heinrich Berndovsky That's what he claims, but that doesn't necessarily make it so. Also, it's not the point whether Sterling is a journalist or not, but why Larry resorts to clickbait. The thumbnail is implying that he's going to address him. He just used him for cheap clicks.
Heinrich Berndovsky Is there a reason why you'd weigh in with your useless opinion on a question directed at the video creator? Your opinion is of no value to me.
Xiaopang3333 Why do you continue to reply to me then? What's the point of posing this question if any answer to it will be, as you've put it, of no value to you?
the vita, as someone who owns one, is an extremely good system with a massive library of games. The problem with it, simply put, is the extremely proprietary nature of the memory for the unit, which is required for the physical games, and the fact that most of the games available are online downloads.
Grim Dark End I just picked up a 64gb Mini (or is it micro? Can never remember which is which) SD card and that's been working fine for me. Doesn't need to be a Sony one. I'm using the same kind of card I use for my camera.
Yeah. The library is pretty good.... if you're a weeb. So yeah I enjoy the fuck out of my Vita. Helps that the fucker finally got hacked recently so I can finally have a handheld with decent power to run emulators with.
despite that psp sold crazily well in japan only tho since almost 90% of psp library is japan only. And on top of that psp is still getting game released to it officially in japan its very well loved in japan and as a guy who speaks japanese somewhat well and reads it (tho i dont understand alot of kanji only around 1200) i love the handheld its has alot of amazing games and i hate that the most of the amazing games are japan only whit only a few getting unofficial eng patch. tho psp has another side to it aswell emulation. psp can run crazy amounts of emulators on it and has a crazy hacking scene to it that has basically made the handheld unbeliveably better than sony ever could. And on top of it its piss easy to hack just download a file and put it on the sd card and boom youve hacked it.
90% is a pretty major exaggeration. Even counting all the visual novels being released on PSP in Japan, the ratio of Japan-only games is closer to 60%-65%. A big number, but still not 90%.
Vita has a HUGE game library. I don't know why people keep saying it doesn't, and how it got that notoriety. That alone was what killed it, as most of those games are downloadable only.
that plus the fact that the PSP also was seen and in my opinion was so inferior in to its concurrent, that it was already in a harder uphill battle than the original PSP was. PS: It isn't relevant to the subject, but the fact that I already forgot that the PSP Go existed tells the story of Sonys handhelds.
The Vita is a masterpiece. It's become one of my favorite consoles, not just handheld. Colin was spot on. It was just screwed by marketing and lack of solid support from Sony. All of this was during the well known short falls of PS3 era Sony. It's easy to throw stones but you've robbed yourself of a lot of great games and experiences.
This probably could have been a top 100 and you'd still have left overs.
I'm getting tons of suggestions already!
Honestly, he could have picked one person, Jim Sterling, Moriarty, Geis or whoever and done a top 100 just on them with the amount of unfiltered bollocks they come out with.
Gaming journalism is an utter joke.. for the most part I stick to a few UA-camrs to see if a game is any good, I'd much rather trust someone like TotalBiscuit's opinion over a complete smeg head like Colin Moriarty.
"Too much water." -IGN on the review of Pokemon gen 3 remakes, the entire plot of which revolves around the balance of land and sea resulting in about 50% of the world being ocean with small islands.
To paraphrase ShayMay: while the game is 50% sea routes, there is substantially less than 50% of the game's content on those routes. That's why the complaint is valid.
i love that Nintendo take the piss out of this in Sun and Moon, theres a photo chance with the same wording :)
Steel that was the dumbest review I’ve ever seen
That plot's just a silly excuse for Nintendo to remodel Japan as the in-game setting. The first three gens all had settings modeled after regions of Japan.
I thought the "too much water" remark was made about the legend of zelda: the wind waker?! I guess I am mistaken
"MovieBob and Jim Sterling?
HAHAHA I said journalists."
Hello police? I want to report a murder.
Fortunately, it's just goodnatured ribbing from Larry. He's a fan of both.
@@jonahfalcon1970 Ugh how could you like MovieBob? He's kinda pathetic. Jim Sterling whilst I don't like him I could at least understand why some people like his reviews.
@@SirDankleberry Not anymore. His channel aswell as himself are a joke now.
I wonder if anyone remembers an older gaming journalist who was called Scorpia. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, she was one of the toughest, most controversial game critics out there. She was well known for publishing extremely harsh reviews on games that she didn't like, mostly role-playing and adventure games. Her review for Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World was so ruthless that she received an angry letter from the game's designer, Jon Van Caneghem, who would later name an enemy monster after her in one of his next games.
If you're reading this Larry, I highly recommend you do a video on her or include her in of your next Fact Hunt episodes. She's a long-forgotten controversial gaming journalist that definitely deserves to be highlighted.
She wrote for Computer Gaming World. She worked there from 1983 until 1999, when she was fired due to CGW being sold off to Ziff Davis at the time.
Yeah probably a better way of putting it. In any case, I really hope that Guru Larry covers Scorpia at some point.
Her pen name sounds like the name of a villain in a mid-2000s animesque cartoon about teen heroes with bug powers
Ironically Colin Moriarty is also the name of the scumbag that wants you to pay him 200 caps to get information about your father in Fallout 3.
lol, someone at bethesda doesn't like him!
Holy shit, I knew that name was familiar!
I remember Gamespot criticizing Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn for not having Mii support or Motion controls, which is asinine to complain about.
johntauren lol I remember that. Radiant Dawn is still my favorite of the Fire Emblem series too.
"Cuphead should have an option to skip the bosses."
Lol, who said that?
Leaving my comment here because I'm incrediblly curious as well.
Was it John Walker, Rock Paper Shotgun?
It was Ben Kuchera from Polygon
@@RobMustDie482
But then again it was from Polygon who today isn't exactly known to make good takes ever.
They did written an article praising and defending microtransactions.
"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Persona 5 dlc contains a disability slur."
That was made up by Kotaku, it's not true.
@@Larry Of course, but I still think it's worth mentioning due to how stupid this was.
nop it dosnt
1. People who are ever happy to "punch up" should consider that it's not always necessary to punch at all, and that punching hurts.
2. Disabled people, exclusively, get to decide what they're pissed off by. Being a bit unhappy at sad things in your life isn't a disability btw.
Imagine anxiously waiting 15 years for Aliens: Colonial Marines... only to find out it has the same dual stick movement system.
the irony!
"Pompus ignorant twat," describes literally every Polygon employee.
AesculapiusPiranha well what would we expect from far left leaning journalists who think they know all.
Despite having hackers tell them the code can be adjusted. Honestly if someone can show me they know how to get into and just tweak small bits of game code, I'm willing to accept they know far more than I do.
Which makes it hilarious to see a hacker crack it to make it offline as well as maxis making that "impossible" patch.
Sigh sim city, once a golden game series turned shit by moronic game developers telling players without Internet or good internet to fuck off.....
Speaking as a former games magazine journalist, when it's three o'clock in the morning on the day of the print deadline, a freelancer has let you down, your editor's on the warpath and you've still got eight pages to fill, you'd be amazed what utter bollocks can find its way onto the page.
I must admit I did that in a few scripts on TV, gave up and just stuck a load of jokes in there instead.
Can you say what you worked on at all? :)
I worked on two different mags, "Ultimate PC" and "Total Control", at Rapide Publishing from 1995 until the company went under in 1999.
Cliff Smith
Ooh, I definitely remember them! Rapide wasn't Dave Perry's company was it?
Ah, Dave "Games Animal" Perry, what a character! No, it wasn't his company, but he worked at Rapide for a year or so after the demise of his TV career. He launched "Station", an unofficial PlayStation magazine with a cover disk. Talking of stupid things in games magazines, there's a whole story about the launch of that mag, and the less-than-impressed reaction from Sony and Future (who had the official PS mag) when they saw it.
After Rapide closed in 1999, Dave launched his own company Predator Publishing, and I worked for him for about a year editing DVD Monthly. He's now running a successful tattoo studio in Torquay, and has finally stopped wearing those awful bandannas.
Here are some stupid claims about gaming I was told in secondary school, all by the same idiot:
- "Segagaga is an illegal Game Gear/GBA hybrid handheld banned in 7 states in America" I first heard about Segagaga from an Italian news report on Game Network. No images were shown other than the logo. I couldn't figure out what it was, even though I could've just Googled it (most of us did have the internet by 2001!). I just mentioned Segagaga to the person and he made up that stupid claim! If I had known of Google it, I could've proved that Segagaga is a Japan-only Dreamcast RPG!
- "When the Dreamcast dies, Sega will be forced to port ALL their 1st party Dreamcast exclusives to the Nintendo 64" How stupid did he think I was? By the time he made this claim, the Gamecube had already come out in Japan and Sega were already working on new games for that! Also, you cannot make an exact port of a Dreamcast game to the Nintendo 64, Nintendo 64 game paks cannot hold ANYWHERE NEAR as much data as Dreamcast GD-Roms or even PlayStation CD-Roms! Also, making a game takes 12-18 months!
- "PlayStation 3 is out January 1st 2003, it can play PSone/PS2 games but its own games are cheap little quickfire games no better than what can be played on the net for free" Now that's just silly! No game company would EVER consider doing something like this!
- "I have Grand Theft Auto Vice City on the N-Gage" I actually like the N-Gage! I still have mine somewhere, even though it doesn't work anymore. Anyone can tell that there NEVER WAS an N-Gage version of GTA: Vice City, and that a game as big as it couldn't possibly fit into a phone memory card at the time!
All these claims were made with absolutely no evidence provided! Like I said, since most of us did have the internet by 2001, we could easily prove claims like the above as being false! However, this idiot was in denial, he insisted his claims were true and dismissed any and all evidence (or lack of) proving him wrong!
"Final Fantasy VII Remake's Easy Mode is Too Easy".
“And people die when they are killed.”
Funny thing is that the Easy modes are made exclusively for games journalists lamo
@@Generik97 not entirely. Sometimes it’s nice to just play a game for the story and not have to worry too much about dying.
@@kathrynradonich3982 thats what normal mode is for
A bit of challenge but more story focus for most games
Easy mode is baby's first and in some games can even take out certain elements
Don't Forget IGN one one of The Erley Kingdom Hearts III trailers
Oh and the Xenoblade chronicles definitive edition review they Deleted.
I can't imagine what the guy who wrote #1 must be thinking now. The most terrifying control scheme for shooters has become as standard as the ability to jump in a platformer.
Ratchetpower2 he is currently in a mental institute I presume
Hard to believe that guy lambasted the twin-stick control method that hard, considering it's become so ubiquitous I can hardly imagine the game landscape of today without it. Left stick for movement and right stick for camera is so intuitive that even Animal Crossing uses it now.
My favorite stupid thing a game journalist said (in hindsight) was when PC Accelerator declared in February of 2000: "Halo and Team Fortress 2: Two games you will not see on a console any time soon, if ever!"
In all fairness, it did take us 7 years to see Team Fortress 2...anywhere.
Ah I wish I knew that one earlier!
No mention of "Gamers Are Dead"?
Too many mentions for similar things probably XD
'Adventure games are dead!'
'Survival horror is dead!'
+bloodrunsclear I love those types of games and people do make them which I honestly find awesome
Blues 000 I agree!
I think it's always too early to call something gone for good :)
+bloodrunsclear agreed
I think its a crying shame the PS Vita flopped. Compared to the 3DS I think the form factor was much more comfortable, not to mention they didn't have a gimmick feature that had been rehashed for far too long and no one used anyway.
Mind you, Sony eventually came out with the touch pad on the PS4, which would have been great if it worked like a trackpad on a laptop (heck, the Ouya had a better touch pad) except the whole console form factor is designed around not having a mouse, so I guess Sony aren't free from blame over stupid gimmicks we all turn off when we can.
The PS Vita actually did have a gimmick. The back of the console would also double as a touch pad (like the PS4 controllers).
You can turn it on and off in the settings menu. As far as I'm aware though, no games acknowledged its existence (except 'Tearaway')
The touchpad and dual screen while gimmicks were quite useful for games like advance wars and fire emblem. In fact extremely useful for them. But i agree the vita deserved better.
Yeah... Say that to my MGS HD Vita collection that can't be played on a Vita TV because there's no dumb gimmick like that stupid ass touchpad on the back... Without modding of course.
"Untitled Goose Game is fun. The problem is, all games are also work." - The Atlantic
When they said
"Diablo Immortal is fun, everyone whining about it being on mobile are just entitled crybabies"
they just don't get it, and are sucking up to blizzard
"This is what I fucking hate about video games...is that it appeals to like sort of the male fantasy"
"I wrote a blog post about this"
It's not moriarty's fault; he was simply under the impression that sony would actually support the vita in any way
Nah, it totally was Moriarty's fault. Dude was/is just an incredibly dishonest edgelord.
"It's impossible for an online game to put in offline mode to be played". Um... no. The long history of game rips and cracks will teach you that, "It's impossible to make a game unable to be played in offline mode unless the entire game is run via server and you just connect to it and have no files available for the game on your PC".
I'm not even a programmer and I know how this crap works. The only thing they'd have to disable is any software that checks to see if it's connected to the internet. Or, if you're a pirate, you just add a piece of code to the download file that "tricks" the software doing the check into finding an internet connection (with all the proper settings!).
When the people who get your product illegally are better at patching in fixes and getting around your anti-piracy BS than your devs are... You probably should fire some morons.
cherry on top: colonial marines uses the same control setup as resurrection.
>Stupid Things Said by Games Journalists
>Jim Sterling on the Cover
You don't have to be a psychic to predict the incoming shitstorm.
Moviebob...
"Business reporter Ben Gilbert was recently invited by Nintendo to try out Super Mario Maker in New York City. During his time with the upcoming Wii U title, Gilbert noticed that his hand wasn’t displayed on the TV screen during gameplay. Instead, a hand that seemingly belongs to a white woman mimicked his movements as he was editing a level on the Wii U GamePad’s touch screen. According to Gilbert, this is a “bizarre, glaring flaw” in Super Mario Maker.
“Yes, I’m a white guy, but my fingers are far from long and slender (sadly),” Gilbert writes.
“What if I were, say, a 10-year-old black girl? Or a 30-year-old Japanese man? Or literally anything other than an adult white woman (which the hand appears to belong to)?
“Given the mainstream appeal of the mustachioed hero and his ongoing battle against Bowser, you’d think Nintendo - a company that’s repeatedly shown willingness to be inclusive - would have thought of this.
“When I asked Nintendo reps about the hand and if it could be changed, they confirmed that it couldn’t be. They also reacted with surprise that there wasn’t an option to swap it out.”
This is the story of how the journalist Ben Gilbert calls Super Mario Maker racist and sexist all because it displayed a caucasian woman's hand and not his. How is this not anywhere on the list, Larry?
Lol, what an idiot. Isn't it a glove in the game too? It's Mario's hand.
I am triggered by white female hands. When I saw that my hand style was not included in the game, I smashed my Wii U and swore for an hour straight at a wall.
***** Might be a hand. Or a glove. Maybe both. :3
Nothing is more elitist than, after being proven wrong that a game can’t be played offline, rating it lower after offline if patched in because you’re butthurt it’s accessible to more people.
The bile that spills out of moviebob's twitter makes me physically sick. He's such a vile excuse for a human being.
Cyberweasel89 well he calls Republicans subhuman on a weekly basis
Mexican "magazine" named "book" said Nintendo was going to stop making video games. That made my day
"...a guy who Straw-manned so many arguments he should be called 'The Wicker Man'."
That is fucking hilarious; I'm writing that one down.
Unfortunately, that last one isn't exactly such a rarity. Too often I've seen people complaining about a new control style idea, just because they couldn't be bothered to spend half an hour to actually get used to it. Of course, same could be said for modern gamers whining about not being able to play old classics because they feel a bit differently. So many people are missing out on greatness and potential innovations just because they're so used to the familiar and don't want to take their time to learn something new.
That aliens resurrection segment was fantastic. That guy was a total idiot regarding what he was bitching about and i couldn't stop myself from chuckling repeatedly to myself.
Splendid episode indeed Larry.
Thanks dude :)
The sad fact of the matter is, the Vita _could_ have competed with the 3DS if Sony actually knew how to market the damn thing. They marketed the hell out of the PSP with their weird squirrel commercials, but the Vita barely had any marketing and eventually Sony just started bundling it with their consoles as some weird PSTV addon.
At my old job, I used to take my Vita in all the time, and there wasn't a _single_ instance where somebody recognized it as a Vita. Any time a customer mentioned it, they'd think it was a PSP and I'd have to tell them what it was. Not one of them even knew Sony made a successor to the PSP, and most of them were people who loved the PSP. That's how bad Sony fucked up the marketing, even people who loved the PSP didn't know the Vita existed.
and sadly, it happened with Nintendo and the Wii U
remember, they're not gamers, and they're not journalists
Surprised the infamous Edge Doom review of "If only you could talk to the monsters" wasn't #1! Was honestly expecting that as it's still cited to this day as one of the stupidest game reviews ever written.
I looked it up and I thought "What the fuck am I reading?"
Only thing stopping the success of the PSV was Sony and their proprietary memory card.
If we could have just used a regular MicroSD card and given myself a ton of space for a few dollars,
it would have been a smash, but zero internal storage space meant it was useless without a memory card, they did not come with a memory card, and the memory cards for it had INSANE and still do have INSANE prices per gigabyte.
Great piece of kit killed off by the fear of piracy.
Number 6: Comparing the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy to *Dark Souls* of all games simply because they completely forgot that despite it's modern graphics, it's still a remaster of three games made at a time when games in general didn't hold your hand as much and as such, they thought it was "too hard". LOL!
BlueDragon992 Exactly. I'm currently playing through Crash 1 on the trilogy. My first time playing a Crash game, since I grew up with games from the PS2 / Xbox / GameCube era onward. It still holds up well, and although I find it hard as a newbie, I won't fault it for it's outdated design. It's still amazing and really holds up today, in my opinion. It just has some parts that don't hold up. But since it's a remaster, not a completely new game, that makes sense and can be tolerated.
BlueDragon992 That really happened!? Who said that stupidity?
BlueDragon992 number 0.5*. The first one
I wouldn't mind, but when Halo: Combat Evolved, released jus over a year later at the back end of 2001 across the pond and six months later for the rest of us, used that EXACT SAME control scheme as Alien: Resurection, it was praised to the point of practically being hailed as the second coming! Alien invented that setup and Halo popularised it!
You can't spell *IGNORANCE* without *IGN*.
I can. IKNORANTS!
I find it hilarious that anyone thought Nintendo could be dethroned on handhelds. They created the market and are the kings of handhelds. The Nintendo DS is the second best selling console of all time, just behind the PS2.
Back in 1997, Entertainment Weekly gave Castlevania: Symphony of the Night a C- saying that the visuals were "dated and flat" when compared to 3D games like Nightmare Creatures... do I even need to say how laughable that statement is?
And it became one of the greatest games on the SNES (and indeed, of all time).
Lol Symphony of the Night looks gorgeous for when it was made what are they on about. I wonder if a re-release with modern spritework would make it look better or worse. Not that that will ever happen of course.
"The Playstation Vita is Set to Succeed."
And suck seed it did.
Something stupid that I Heard from IGN that was for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
They said "uninspired level design, 6/10"
As someone who has 200% in the game, This is (literally) objectively incorrect
Tbf, uninspired level design is a terrible label for even games with bad level designs, it doesn't do anything justice good or bad. (Donkey Kong Country doesn't need to be discussed much, it was a stupid review of a well loved series)
SimCity 2013 was such a pile of shit. Thank God for Cities Skylines.
"Too lazy to milk a second video out of this"
Mate I know you can't see 5 years into the future but it's ironic this is the vid that includs that line
"Earthbound is not a bad game if you like 'cuteness'. In fact, with a little violence and some more menacing weapons and creatures, this would have been an excellent RPG. Sadly, all Earthbound has to offer is a Barney-esque romp in a McDonald's Playland"
- VG&CE Magazine's review of Earthbound
I remember that, lmao!
That review and IGN's review of Double Dragon Neon are the two dumbest things I've ever read. It's one thing to miss a point or two but, to miss the whole point of the game is mind boggling.
"...and when you lose all you lives you have to start the level over AGAIN...'cause video games used to do that so, why not do it 20 years later"
IGN on Double Dragon Neon
GrahfMetal Gamespot did a freelance review of Dead Rising 3's PC version, that's the worst review I've ever seen or read.
Check it out.
www.gamespot.com/reviews/dead-rising-3-apocalypse-edition-review/1900-6415861/
oh my, lol
Oh my lord, this Dead Rising 3 review reminds me of some of pitchfork's more ludicrous reviews.
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6656-kid-a/
For the love of fuck, people. Jim Sterling has openly mocked the concept of being a game journalist. IT'S IN HIS FUCKING INTRO.
THAT WASN'T A BURN. THAT WAS GURU LARRY STATING A FACT.
it used to be. he no longer features the garme jurnilizm bit in his intro.
"PSVita has many games"
*Laughs in Japanese.*
You could get endless episodes of "Top 5 Stupid Things Said by Games Journalists" simply by going to Kotaku and pulling out *random* things they say from *any* review they write.
Assuming Gawker doesnt collapse like it's looking like they're going to :P
They're already dead dude. Ziff Davis has bought Kotaku Etc, but Gawkwer as a company are no more.
I can't honestly say I am going to miss them.
***** Do they have a grave somewhere I can spit on?
Wow, that's the first time I've seen a big-name UA-camr actually make a crack at Jim Sterling. I thought everyone just sort of blindly obeyed him despite him just being kind of dumb.
Dumb how exactly?
***** he likes to blow a lot of shit out of proportion and has a bias towards things
RobuttCop (Smedis2) I don't think he has a bias really. As for blowing things out of proportion...well maybe sometimes
+Ashuraman People disagree with his opinions, and call him "dumb". A silly reason, but eh. Jim is respected by many in games journalists though, especially in the way that he takes a Konami blacklist as a rite of passage and takes on shitty indie "developers" on as part of his dealings on Steam.
vaska00762 Though we haven't heard anything from Digital homicide in a while, i wonder why
Any game journalist who takes Anita Sarkeesian seriously.
Nobody?
"bloodborne is boring and too hard" i almost killed someone that day
Can you remember who said that?
@@Larry ign search for: how and why bloodborne lost me article by Dan Stapleton
I can't believe you managed to whittle it down to 5.
Lol, that Alien Resurrection review is like reading someones diary from the 1900's, and finding an entry about how hard it is to control cars with steering wheels.
Dreamcast: finished.
Sega: unstoppable.
Dick: out.
2ollux Craptor Good post
I AM FORCEFULLY REMOVED FROM THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY
As of 2017, we now have Star Fox 2. IGN's reviewer savagely tore into the nigh 2 decade old, unreleased SNES Game, for having poor graphics and clunky gameplay, despite it having the same graphics (if not better) as the original. What's worse is the quote stating that the graphics were so bad, that the game was cancelled, despite that being literally the *entirely wrong reason* for the game's cancellation.
There are three letters you cannot spell "ignorant" without.
@@LeaveTheMark_YT An oldie, but a goodie.
@@ConnorTheUndying :)
Actually from what I read is one of the main reasons Star Fox 2 was cancelled is because Nintendo was worried it would be compared negatively to the recently released Saturn and PlayStation . So they were right on that point
I'll never understand single-player games with Always-Online DRM. It would just encourage piracy, and a lot of times, the DRM gets cracked without too many hurdles
Extra Credits’ video justifying loot boxes should be mentioned in a potential part 2
I love how this is literally months before gamespot gave yokai watch 2 5/10 for being "confusing"
''Too much water'' -IGN
At least it made a great meme.
If you watch the original review there, they aren't really wrong. All they were saying was that many Pokemon in ORAS's main campaign were water types, which made it easy to predict what type you should use to counter the opponents the game throws at you.
Wolvenreign the problem is that the original Ruby and Sapphire got 9.5/10, but the remakes got a lower score because of problems even the originals had.
Tbf ORAS deserves more crap for stuff other than just water, lol
Isn't Arthur Gies the same dude who played DOOM '16 like a three year old? XD
The Side Quest Gamer lol polygon can't actually play games, just complain about political bs
I'm pretty sure that was someone else. I think.
+Some Random Ass Canadian nope that was him lol
'Gamers are dead.'
There you go.
All that HAD to happen was a slap on the wrist, an apology, and a promise to do better. But no, gotta defend the non-existant journalistic right to sleep with the people you're covering. And then piss on a signifigant part of the audience and expect them to take it.
magmos
YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP.
And if anything, it was that statement that opened the floodgates to just how tangled many of the modern game journalist are. Not to say that game journalist from the past were perfect angels but god damn. To make a statement like that and expecting GAMERS to just lay down and take it. Nope. Not gonna happen.
Super Cosmic Mutant Honey Candle Squid
I'm honestly amazed at what all it dug up at this point. Abusers, corruption, prostitution, pedophiles (And the fact that one is MULTIPLE horrifies me), and roots that seem to just go on for miles.
magmos
What amazes me is that this corruption is happening......within people who review *VIDEO. GAMES.*
All this shit from people who say they're in it for *VIDEO GAMES*.
REALLY NOW?
Super Cosmic Mutant Honey Candle Squid
Really makes one wonder what it's like in ACTUAL journalism. Might be why most media sources have been gobbling up the Gamers Are Dead rhetoric.
Journalist: I have trouble beating this game, so it should have an automatic win mode. Think of... Disabled people. Yeah, that's right
Disabled Person: I can beat this game just fine, you just suck.
Journalist: Y'all hear sumn
ah yes that was cuphead wasnt it LOLthe guy couldnt even jump dash with the instructions on how to do it right on the screen in front of him LOL
Disappointed there was no IGN "7.8/10: Too much water" from Pokemon ORAS, even though the game is supposed to be based on an island-y area
Polygon and Kotaku are the absolute worst in gaming
Gaming journalism was a mistake.
+Calvin Parmeter (SMB3) WHAT
One of the big things that sunk the Vita so hard was just that Sony did the Sony Thing™ again and didn't advertise it. I remember finding out it existed because I made a character named Vita in a then freshly-launched MMO and got ribbed for it by a friend.
They *did* advertise it... after all _"IT was Console Quality on the Go"_ (I'll never get that slogan out of my head!) for All intents and purposes the Vita was a portable PS3.
@@Oturan20 Where and in what country?
Because as I said, totally unaware until the moment of lul at me, haha. And I'd remember that fucking slogan like Skittles' "The colors, duke, the colors! I'm colorblind, kid."
@@Cemi_Mhikku In the USA... it was always a FPS related commercial... granted it's been a long time and I had stopped watching live TV years ago...
@@Oturan20 Yeah, see, at the time I was still watching Adult Swim and shit a lot when I went to a friend's house who still actually paid for cable a couple times a week, and never once saw a commercial for it.
CN always had a lot of Xbox and PS commercials back then, but I never once saw a Vita one. I'd remember that tagline, and I totally wouldn't have used that name if I'd been aware of it, either.
The vita should have been a success, but Sony ruined it. As a piece of hardware, it still is a great machine
I have bought that system thinking in would be great. It was fun from he games I had, but later there were basically no more fun games released on it.
Well, that depends on taste. There's a pretty long list of games i want to play on the vita. But yeah, it should have more catalog, and we have sony to blame for that.
I love how you took a shot at Jim Sterling and Bob Chipman. I really am not a fan of them so it's nice to see someone who doesn't praise Jim up the butt
So you just like it when other people bash stuff you don't like, simply because you don't like that stuff? ok.
He just commented on here that he and Jim are actually good friends.
Adrian Fahrenheit I mean when people don't like Cod they love seeing people bash it, That's how most people work.
seems like a typical modern internet user to me.
CluelessDetective Yeah, and those are edgy 12 years old.
Stupidest thing ever said by a game company CEO....."whenever I'm hanging with my pal miyamoto-san" - thieving Tommy Tallarico
Can I get a whoa bundy
"Quite a few of you suggested tweetle dee and tweetle dumb themselves, MovieBob and Jim Sterling. (laughter), oh you guys, you're so funny, I said suggestions for *journalists*
Unbelievably brutal
Agreed. Thank god for Jim.
" No one's gonna take your DOA Extreme away."
" I haven't played past first hours of this game (Homefront: The Revolution) that I'm making a review of right now."
" Every male is a potential rapist."
" Developers should not be free to express themselves with themes such as rape. I'd consider them disgusting creeps if they do."
" Shove you journalistic ethics down your ass."
" Pussies (The Escapist) for not censoring their forum of discussions about journalistic ethics."
I can keep going. Do you want me to?
He can be entertaining, it's just that he prefers to be a hypocritical git most of the time.
+Retro Anime Master Race Hey, that was "every male in an elevator is a potential rapist", which is even more absurd...
To hell with Jim Sterling and thank God for you.
One thing we can add is VG24/7's preview of Uncharted 4, where a "hardcore" Uncharted fan didn't know he was instead playing Uncharted 2.
Alien Resurrection one blew my mind! How crazy that he couldn’t adopt to the new scheme is beyond me.
It's a shockingly hard game. Even Civvie played it with a mouse (which it actually was designed for as well).
In fairness to Steven Garrett, Alien Resurrection was a brutally, stupidly hard game. It's one thing to learn a new control system. It's another thing to learn a new control system with a game that just beats the hell out of you and makes you feel like you can't control well enough to play it.
"I'm too lazy to milk a second video out of this", oh this quote is different in the far off future of 2022.
Honestly, Games Journalists are probably the lowest bar when it comes to journalism. I'm honestly convinced most of them are in this industry because they couldn't cut it as any other kind of journalist.
And that number one, good gravy that dipshit basically just shat on PC FPS controls.
And yet Jim-Fucking-Sterling-Son is on the thumbnail. Naughty naughty, Larry.
Maybe he's a runner up.
MovieBlob was on the thumbnail too. I was hoping to have some fun ripping a new one in him again but, yeah calling him a games journalist is too fucking generous. XD
Larry should work for buzz feed.
I have to defend the Vita for a sec, every time someone talks crap about it they mention sales numbers and say that the only good games it has are the launch titles. The system is great, and the number of good games is always increasing even without Sony's continuous support, but it is always easier to just repeat what people said years ago instead of making of our minds.
This is more of a general rant that specifically going against Larry who is just mentioning the mistakes that a reporter made on an article, but I just have a gripe when someone spreads the "vita is terrible and has no games" erroneous stereotype. Still love you Larry :)
I play my Vita just as much as my 3DS,it has fantastic exclusives especially if you're a jrpg fan or action rpg fan.
I would ponder the lack of Sarkeesian on this list but I guess one, calling her a journalist would only feed her ego, and two, this is about hindsight and she's embarassing enough right away.
I've always thought she was a critic of games and not a reviewer of 'em...
thenecromorpher "Journalist" is a vague enough term though.
BJGvideos She's a blogger though, right?
I've literally never looked her up since everything I've heard her say sounds like the most contrived stuff towards her critics and the entire games industry.
Although "heard her say" is via other comments entirely critical of anything she says...
thenecromorpher She does presentations. Though oh my god she has the biggest victim complex of anyone I've ever seen. Which is hilarious because she's so willing to discard female victims in video games as being useless no matter what value to have otherwise. By her own standards she's offensive. To say nothing of how she actively works against feminism despite claiming to be a feminist herself, or how it's been proven that a great deal of threats against her have been faked. She's one of the few people I would punch in the face if I could
"The way he turns to face the camera as he goes into a head first dive is just full of the exaggerated swagger of a black teen."
Most stupid thing ever said by a games journalist:
"I have a respectable occupation"
How about "gamers are dead"?
Nah the worse would have to be "I side with GG."
***** It's worse because of the abuse they get from people who are fine with nepotism and corruption.
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It's funny that buddy hated the control scheme in Aliens so much, even IF it was new. I still remember the first game I ever played that used that control setup, Gun for the PS2, and the reason I loved that game so much was the new control scheme (new for me at least) felt so intuitive, so comfortable, and so easy to use, that it quickly became my all-time favorite shooter lol
I know what you mean. I remember preferring Turok's controls over Goldeneye's because the C-buttons controlled all movement. Even though it wasn't quite like shooters today it just had much better control imo
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Wasn't there a layout on Goldeneye that did that? Soldier or soemthing? It's been decades since I played it, but still...
@@HrHaakon Solitaire and Goodnight in the single controller schemes, all the original N64 control schemes were named for Bond girls don't know if the XBLA rerelease kept the same or renamed them.
Steven Garrett being chronically wrong as a reviewer when it came to camera control specifically? Consistent.
Larry..... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ORIGINAL CONTENT!!!!
All I see is the same shit everywhere. But your channel has something fresh every time. SO THANKS HEAPS! :)
Thanks dude, I'd probably have more videos up too if it wasn't for me procrastinating on other UA-cam videos. But muchly appreciated Sir :D
To give defense to the PS Vita as a vita owner in hindsight. The biggest reason the Vita failed is because for some goddamn reason Sony decided to be greedy and made proprietary memory cards that were way too expensive for what they were worth instead of using normal SD cards. Sony didn't really support the system that much either which was unfortunate but to all those who have owned a Vita know how fucking cool the system is hands on.
Nintendo's utter greed never was to blame for failure. So i would say the main problem was the sheer lack of games and not the price of the Memory cards.
@@Davion89 I never actually owned a DS, but haven't Nintendo always used catridges with built-in save features for their handhelds? Even with the Switch. That's not the same type of greed as Sony at all.
Also, it's funny that the Vita DID have a huge library of games...but only in Japan.
@@TheWonderRabbit Not the same type of greed?
How about:
-Selling Launch titles years after the release for full price
-Shipping the Console without a decent controller
-The Price of the "pro" controller which still sucks
-Shutting down older E-shops so all the games you purchased on your older consoles are lost and you get fuck all
-The amount of Copyright Bullshit they did and still do on UA-cam and other platforms
-Shitting out Console refreshes on a nearly yearly basis
-Selling a Console with the power of a cheap tablet for 300€
-Super Mario Allstars (enough said)
-"HD" versions of old games for Full price
-Having to Pay to use Cloud saves
And the list goes on and on and on and on
They are the Apple of Gaming selling things for far then they are worth and fucking their customers all day every day
@@wchan39 there's over 1,000 games on the Vita, not even counting the PS Classics playable on it. Yes a heap are JP exclusive but it was never as dire as people claim. The single biggest issue, as someone that does own a decent selection of Vita games was the damn memory card situation, especially with PS Mobile being tied to the memory card you had in, you can't just switch cards or you will lose access to any PSM games you own. So even if I could have afforded one of the largest memory cards I'd have been screwed wanting to keep access to my Tokyo Jungle Mobile (very different to the PS3 version) and one or two other games.
Remember that one Gamespot reviewer who said that Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, one of the greatest 2D platformer ever made, had "unimaginative and bland level design"?
That seriously made me laugh out loud when I read it. :P
There was another who had a laundry list of major flaws in Gears of War, yet still gave it an A+. *shakes head*
The levels was one, if not THE definitive best part!
Pozhar Tokamak I hate when reviewers do that. lol
Inconsistency is the worst.
Yeah that was a huge shit on the face of anyone who loves platforming games, as its one of the best
I know it really pissed me off
"There's one thing you need to know about Sonic Unleashed before you spend your hard earned money. It's a piece of garbage" IGN, 2008
That game was great (not joking I literally love it)
Hey if you enjoy them good for you, but it (and pretty much all those 3D sonic games) were objectively worse then similar games (Controls, mechanics, logic, design) that were released at the time and often buggy broken messes which is why they're highly criticized, it's just the better games didn't have a recognizable name slapped on so less people had them (or it was a Nintendo game and you didn't want to or couldn't play it) and so many didn't know any better, and as a kid you had less options available, so on the more rare occasion you got a game, you were more likely to get one with a name you already knew, and then play it 100 times over cementing in your mind that it must have been good, but when you pull back and compare it you see where it's lacking.
Pretty much every single 3d Sonic game was released buggy, from Adventures to Boom, some were just much buggier than others (06 obviously, and Boom), didn't mean to imply they were all as buggy as 06.
Loponstorm Sonic games are sometimes buggy, but most of the time you have to actively look for the glitches
that last entry was just.. wow.. i bet that guy feels immensely stupid right about now
Poor Vita, it deserved so much better
Collin admitted how wrong he was about that the Vita and was just a fan boy for it. Gotta say I respect that at least since he is a huge PS fan and could admit being wrong. And Jim Sterling is something else, he’s either spot on or dead wrong. I remember his Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice review were he gave it a 1/10 because it did something stupid in the game and got a bug nobody else ever got and had to restart the game. He later updated it to a 7 but only after backlash. But most of his videos are good and gotta love his take on AAA games industry. Good video tho!
I don't get grown men having format battles, like "their" format is some sort of team they belong to. It's just a product you bought, to entertain you. It doesn't give you identity or community. It doesn't have meaning.
I don't even get kids in playgrounds doing it, but at least they have the excuse of being kids. But where else than video games "journalism" do you get ignorant idiots spouting off on technical subjects, citing the degree they got from University Of Press Release, and not knowing ANYTHING that they're talking about?
Cos they don't! It's like the blind leading the blind. PR dicks at big electronic companies combing through technical specs to find anything with a number, that's a bigger number than their rivals have at the other big electronics company. Or some sort of half-understood technical-sounding term, but out of context and irrelevant. Lies, nonsense, dissembling. And that's the gospel game journalists START from! That's the lake of shit they mine as if it were gold, and... I dunno... somehow get paid, for eating the shit, shitting it out their own arses, so that the fanboys can eat THEIR shit.
And the few people who do know what they're talking about don't care at all. Because they realise that ego, identity, morality, meaning, respect, love, none of these things can be obtained or changed, by buying products and plugging them into a television.
The whole gaming journalism "industry" might be the biggest waste of time and energy the human race has produced so far. The nose-picking pants-shitting manchild idiot leading the same-but-more-gullible. Imagine the good that Edge magazine could have done, rendered into soft toilet paper and flown out to communities suffering outbreaks of dysentery. Was there ever a more useless endeavour? Seriously, I'm asking.
@@Rad-Dude63andathird Solely responsible? What? The game has a metacritic of 50 based on 32 reviews. It might be time to consider the fact that people just didn't like it.
What, no "like Skyrim with guns"?
7:32 "I mean, Jesus, Collin, that's not even hindsight. Did you do any research, or are you just happy with the Niagara Falls of complete bollocks that comes out of your mouth?" The way Larry just burns this particular journalist. I mean, I laughed so hard at this one part. Nice work, Larry, my good man.
Moriarty shits on Sony all the time. God forgive a guy who plays games for a living like a games company.
What are you talking about dude, he has an entire podcast completely dedicated to Playstation. Him and Greg are ENAMORED by playstation. God forgive a guy who plays games for a living be critical to a company sometimes.
Spada - and in that podcast they criticize things about PlayStation all the time.
Yes Colin criticizes Playstation. The point stands. their podcast is like literally a massive commercial for playstation news, releases, games and events. I don't think that's shitting on Sony.
So you put Jim Sterling's face as one of only three on the thumbnail, implying that he'd be on your list and then it turns out that you're not covering him for whatever reason... Is there any sane reason why you'd stoop to clickbaiting like this?
He didn't cover him for the reason that Jimbo is not a journalist.
Heinrich Berndovsky That's what he claims, but that doesn't necessarily make it so. Also, it's not the point whether Sterling is a journalist or not, but why Larry resorts to clickbait. The thumbnail is implying that he's going to address him. He just used him for cheap clicks.
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Poor Jim.
Heinrich Berndovsky Is there a reason why you'd weigh in with your useless opinion on a question directed at the video creator? Your opinion is of no value to me.
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Why do you continue to reply to me then? What's the point of posing this question if any answer to it will be, as you've put it, of no value to you?
the vita, as someone who owns one, is an extremely good system with a massive library of games. The problem with it, simply put, is the extremely proprietary nature of the memory for the unit, which is required for the physical games, and the fact that most of the games available are online downloads.
Grim Dark End I just picked up a 64gb Mini (or is it micro? Can never remember which is which) SD card and that's been working fine for me. Doesn't need to be a Sony one. I'm using the same kind of card I use for my camera.
Yeah. The library is pretty good.... if you're a weeb. So yeah I enjoy the fuck out of my Vita. Helps that the fucker finally got hacked recently so I can finally have a handheld with decent power to run emulators with.
The PSP had a very similar problem, with the added disadvantage of only having one analog stick. What idiot thought that was a good idea?
despite that psp sold crazily well in japan only tho since almost 90% of psp library is japan only. And on top of that psp is still getting game released to it officially in japan its very well loved in japan and as a guy who speaks japanese somewhat well and reads it (tho i dont understand alot of kanji only around 1200) i love the handheld its has alot of amazing games and i hate that the most of the amazing games are japan only whit only a few getting unofficial eng patch. tho psp has another side to it aswell emulation. psp can run crazy amounts of emulators on it and has a crazy hacking scene to it that has basically made the handheld unbeliveably better than sony ever could. And on top of it its piss easy to hack just download a file and put it on the sd card and boom youve hacked it.
90% is a pretty major exaggeration. Even counting all the visual novels being released on PSP in Japan, the ratio of Japan-only games is closer to 60%-65%. A big number, but still not 90%.
this list should really be. "Anything polygon says ever"
Don't forget about Kotaku/Gawker...
UndertakerU2ber oh right. especially kotaku's recent "lets rate each overwatch hero"
Polygon is absolutely garbage.
Fraudulent Frequency preaching to the choir
or IGN
Vita has a HUGE game library. I don't know why people keep saying it doesn't, and how it got that notoriety. That alone was what killed it, as most of those games are downloadable only.
that plus the fact that the PSP also was seen and in my opinion was so inferior in to its concurrent, that it was already in a harder uphill battle than the original PSP was.
PS: It isn't relevant to the subject, but the fact that I already forgot that the PSP Go existed tells the story of Sonys handhelds.
Can you really take today's game journalism seriously?
Polygon journalists being arrogant, insufferable and just plain wrong? I am shocked I tell you! SHOCKED!
Hey, remember when MovieBob prophecised the death of PC gaming? The North remembers.
The Vita is a masterpiece. It's become one of my favorite consoles, not just handheld. Colin was spot on. It was just screwed by marketing and lack of solid support from Sony. All of this was during the well known short falls of PS3 era Sony. It's easy to throw stones but you've robbed yourself of a lot of great games and experiences.
the vita is awsome im using one to write this comment
I remember everyone having a PSP in my school back in the days, but I barely heard about PS Vita, because of the marketing, probably.