remember when kotaku wrote a awful take on single player game but got slammed because they thought single player games are dying out even thought there a ton of successful single player games out there 😂🤣
They used one game flopping as the whole justification for that baloney article. Meanwhile, single player focused games like Hogwarts Legacy, BG3, and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom were top sellers in 2023. Freakin Hogwarts Legacy outsold CoD MW3 2023. CoD didn't even have any competition from other AAA FPS games lmao.
There are good Journalists who understand that their opinion and skill might not reflect well and will accept that. But most journalists these days are just like: "YOU DONT GET IT MAN!" No, they don't... cause as a writer you may write what you want, but people don't have to like it. And if that writing is important to the world like a review. You gotta be objective to your readers too.
The biggest issue with journalists and the easy difficulty is somewhat understandable Many game journalists are paid in productivity. So, they can't afford to spend 1+month learning a single game to be able to play and review it. This puts them in a tough situation. They can't flat-out say that their employer is evil and pays them little, so they try to shield themselves by hiding behind "accessibility". They want to breeze through the game so they can get their paycheck and they can deflect any criticism this way. I'm not excusing their vitriol but this is an explanation as to why they behave the way they do.
Gaming journalism lost a lot of the mystique ever since the internet started helping games get out to people faster. Nintendo Directs and the like are a much more effective mode to tell people what’s coming out as opposed to E3.
Your video on MovieBob's take on the Takahashi/Cuphead situation was the very first video I've ever watched from you. Man, this was nostalgic! Keep up the good work, Mangaman!
One thing that *really* annoys me is TheGamer's content mills. Whenever I try to search for specific guides on a game, the website almost always pops up, despite the only things in my search engine involving them up to that point are youtube channels outing them as frauds. Bonus points for often *not* having the info I was looking for. Case and point- the first time I bit the bullet and clicked on their website personally. I was looking for the enemy levels in the postgame stages of Makai Kingdom Reclaimed and Rebound. I was researching them because they're completely at odds with the level you have to be to unlock them. Naturally, what they told me was the levels my units needed to be to *unlock* the stages, something I already knew, and said nothing about the stages themselves. To add insult to injury, it was taken directly from another source. I could tell because the requirements given were wrong- base Makai Kingdom had an additional requirement of a minimum number of runs, Reclaimed and Rebound does not.
I mostly don't pay attention to game journalism. A lot of it is very baity (especially when it comes to Kotaku. Those guys specialize in controversial take clicks). With there being so many UA-camrs that cover games I'm interested in, why would I want to go to such inspired takes as "Sonic was never good" or "why does Samus have to be stoic, she should smile more" (paraphrasing on that second one but I think that was an actual Kotaku article.
Good video. Looking forward to seeing "Dumb Video Game Journalist Gaffes - Part #54" (number subject to change) in the future. But seriously, there's enough dumb game journalist moments (and more to come) to easily turn this into a whole series.
Ah yes, gaming journos. What a lovely kind of specimen. Also I approb the use of Korone. We need more appreciation for the gamer doggo. She clearly has way more skill in DOOM than a gmae journo.
The guy from the Cuphead gameplay was also a very good rts player. It was the place he worked for that put him to play Cuphead, a game of a genre he never played before, with a controller , which he als never used before. It was the journals problem, not the journalist, at least in that case
I think that the Kotaku/Nintendo situation is like this, you see a kid (Kotaku) kicking a dog (Nintendo) and you see a bunch of people telling the kid to stop or the dog will bite him, and it happens, but the kid tries to make it seems like it was the dog's fault when everyone sees that it was the kid's fault
What happen to them? They used to be well respected game journalist that we trust but now ever since they got into politics and having activists working there, they constantly spreading lies and causing division among gamers because they don't have the "right politics and ideology " or "criticize a bad game that has all the check boxes". It's why nobody trusts them anymore and are now relying on youtubers because they talk about the game and gave honest review both positive and negative (if their not boot licker).
Those you refer to where pushed out of the business around the time 1up went belly up back in 2011. Then, barely one or two years later, Feminist Frequency successfully launched its Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series that acts as ground zero for both the tourists’ injection of identity politics in gaming and their utter fabrication of gaming having always been a misogynistic “boys only club” ripe with every discrimination in the book. The next year, GamerGate and the “Gamers Are Dead” articles happened, closely followed by Trump’s election, and the flames from that combined trash fire haven’t stopped rising higher and higher ever since.
@@dontemorgan1517Nah bro, 1up had legit reviewers from the old days, lifelong gamers who gave fair criticism. Everything that happened later could only sustain itself this long thanks to the venture capital that got pumped indiscriminately into increasingly unprofitable online outlets.
@@dontemorgan1517 dafuq? Many of those people were talented writers and did great work for our gaming community back in the day. And i would probably still respect many of them if they didnt drink the LA Koolaid (*looks at Jeremy Parish*). @Zeburaman2005 I miss those people too. I wish gaming didnt turn into a normie shitfest like it has, with all the tourists who dont know nor care about the shit we like. Even worse, many of them are the EXACT SAME PEOPLE who talked shit about us in school and outside of it about our hobby, and now theyve moved in and basically trashed the place to suit their disgusting trash misandrist ideology. Its insane.
Cheers, as of yesterday Kotaku writers were locked to only writing game guides, as a result all staff except 7 writers left, effectively killing the company.
I got invited to join an video game journalist group that was just getting started. I don't think the sight even up yet. I don't think I'll join them but I did write a single review for them for Cassette Beasts. I have a second review I've not yet sent to them that for a game called View Finder. Now this review is only of my first hour playing and is stated as such at the Start. I also call it a First Hour Review. This is not a full review but mainly about the first impression of the game. And since it just the first hour the reader don't need to worry about spoilers as much. It gives me time to figure out the main game play loop as well as the feel and vibe of the game. But it won't let of know if things go bad later in the game.
That Cuphead reviewer says it’s cause of a bug? I ain’t buying that. Especially since I now know this isn’t the first time he’s failed at playing a game. Like how the heck do you become part of the gaming industry all the way up to the Doom remake and not have a clue about leveling up? Did this guy just ignore the Pokémon games since they were first released? My bf isn’t that bright on video games yet he knows something as simple as that.
Even after all these years, I STILL won’t forgive IGN for their coverage of the Kingdom Hearts games. Kingdom Hearts 2.5: “Roxas is a terrible character… worst 6 hours of my life”
One of the few ign points against hoenn "too much water" is actually quite a fair complaint to have since hoenn has far more water types than the usual region and thats saying something
Video games are more challenging to review because they can't be passively consumed. You need to develop an understanding of the game to get through it, and if a journalist isn't already familiar with it, they won't have the time to learn. If this happens, the review should be passed on to someone that at least has a faint idea of what they're doing.
My worst one I’ve seen in the git gud category is when IGN gave rain world 6.3/10 because they couldn’t actually play the game 😂 They didn’t even start the story part of the game…
I continue to be baffled that sites like IGN and Kotaku are still in business. And no, I don't believe it's due to manufactured outrage. Under normal circumstances, this should be a case of The Boy Who Cried Wolf - post enough clickbait articles, and people will stop coming to your website. Or at very least, the content creators that clown on them should be lowering their viewcount a la SSSniperWolf.
Ign is so bad at making Sonic reviews. For example, the review of Sonic Superstar said that the level design is too slow and that they had to remember the level design to take the fastest route so that they can get an S rank. That's the whole point of 2d sonic. There are more examples such as that they gave unleashed a worse review than 06
@@Jinsoku440 Journalists are a redundant third party in a world where every politician announces everything on Twitter, every celebrity drama comes firsthand from said celebrity's Instagram account and every game developer releases trailers on UA-cam.
I want to defend the varey popular and often Critcised IGN revew of pokemon alphasaphire, the "to much wahter ", hoen's map is 50% ocean, and team aquas goal is to make this a 100% and the wahter type is eaven one of the most flooded types. I also think the problem is fundental that the readers only mainly care for the fast revews or artikels the good revews or artikels that take time to make died out and you can find better content from youtubers. Ect that specialize in the games they revew while jurnalist have to cover a far wider range and don't have the time to get better then beginers. That dosen't excuse the realy bad behavior but is an explanation wy we don't have a lott of positiv exampels
Problem is, saying there is too much water for reason is understandable, but writing as the only critic for a 7(or whatever it was) is a very silly thing to write. Besides saying too much water as a critic is very stupid really.
If the purpose of "too much water" was an overabundance of water types, they should've written something more specific like "too many water types". "Too much water" was very vague and didn't comunicate that thought at all, especially if you didn't read the review and just scrolled to the score and bullet points.
I remember when someone from IGN reviewed a game, beat it, and it happens to just ends with no conclusion, something they complained about in the review. Well it turns out the dev chimed in saying he didn't play it on normal, with the reviewer replying otherwise. Rather than updating the review to state that it was because he played on casual, the reviewer stealth edited out the part about it having no ending. The game is PixelJunk SideScroller.
I remember seeing an IGN review where i think it was Xenoblade 2, where they say "...i didnt even finish the game." Im sorry if its only me, but i cannot trust a review that didnt cover the whole thing.
The one I remember was a review for Xenoblade Definitive Edition where they did a last minute edit of Reyn and Dunbans name pronunciation, and completely spoiled Melia character arc while deeming her a poorly developed character and a weak one.
Depends on what they're reviewing. Some people might only care about gameplay, so they focus on games for that and that reason alone. So maybe someone might have more of an interest in that, and not care to finish a game if they don't like the gameplay. So I'd have to ask to know if they said more on their reasons. Other than "FANSERVICE IS BAD!"
For me the grand avalanche of sludge was gamergate, where a lot of games journalists ultimately outed themselves as political hacks that infiltrated the hobby for the worst. If it was suspected by that point, then it was certainly confirmed afterwards. While the movement (sadly) ultimately failed, the lot of these journalists from Adam Sessler to Brianna Wu have only tarnished their undeserved reputations further by refusing to let it go since they never got over the audacity of gamers no longer bending to their will, and it’s frankly hilarious in its own right to see how pathetic they ended up being.
The fk are you on about? Adam Sessler did a *lot* of good for the industry and the players when he did. I'm old enough to remember buying Nintendo Power, which had the occasional weird take, but don't we have that today too with YT? Make it make sense, like y'all both take stuff too seriously and not seriously enough...
If IGN and Kotaku were the most infamous at shit articles, then you wouldn't mention how GameSpot fired Jeff Gerstmann for giving Kane and Lynch a 6/10. He retaliated, and formed GiantBomb as a middle finger to their treatment of him. Other examples include IGN's review of God Hand where they gave it a 5/10, and Imagine Party Babies, literal shovelware an 8/10, or the time the title to their Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire was called 'Too Much Water', and it became a massive meme in the Pokémon community(Game Freak even got into the joke with an easter egg you can access with the RotomDex camera in front of just ocean). And no one mentions the time companies bashed RE5 for being "racist", though the cast members(including Karen Dulley, TJ Storm, and Reuben Langdon deconfirmed this claim), and hoo boy TheGamer brought that shit claim back hallelujah! 😤
I never cared about Game Journalist since IGN covered Fire Emblem Three Houses and call the game "Fire Emblem Three Heroes" and also said that last FE game was on 3DS with FE Fates (With Corrin). The Last game was Fire Emblem was Fire Emblem Warriors on Switch/3DS and even if that wouldn´t count as real Fire Emblem game, the last game would be the FE2 Remake - FE Echoes - Shadows of Valentia on 3DS.
Fun Fact: I wrote 4 summaries for Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (1 for the main game, 3 for the DLCs). Long story short, it's better than a Game Journo's review of any game
I know it's probably a hundred and one chances in someone reading this, but I'll share my thoughts. I'm not the smartest gamer by a long shot, heck, a third of my logic is "learn to break the wall down with my noggin without cracking my head open", but this makes the caveman part of my brain look like a genius comparative to these banana nut muffins. Anyway, thank you Kamen for another fun video, can't wait to see the next!
remember when kotaku wrote a awful take on single player game but got slammed because they thought single player games are dying out even thought there a ton of successful single player games out there 😂🤣
Give us a specific year, I’ve lost track of how many times they’ve written that exact same article under a different title.
@@Zeburaman2005it was like a week ago in feburary 2024
@@coffee_2234”War never changes” and apparently neither does Kotaku.🤣
They used one game flopping as the whole justification for that baloney article. Meanwhile, single player focused games like Hogwarts Legacy, BG3, and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom were top sellers in 2023.
Freakin Hogwarts Legacy outsold CoD MW3 2023. CoD didn't even have any competition from other AAA FPS games lmao.
Which time?
Trying to insult Stellar Blade by gassing up Forspoken of all games has to be one of the biggest "oof moments" in gaming journalism.
Especially from Digital Foundry.
@@ChiefMedicPururu Digital Foundry has been kind of garbage and shilly for awhile now.
@@lordxmugen Yet their fans still act like they know EVERYTHING about game optimization.
There's a reason that the saying "Wanna hear a joke? Game Journalism" has become a thing.
Spread a lie enough times, and it becomes journalism.
Anybody remember when David Jaffe tried to prove that Metroid Dread was badly designed, but inadvertently showed how good the level design is
Definitely gonna want to look that one up.
You can't spell Ignorant without IGN
The only way game journalist can become worse is by not even bothering to TOUCH the game their “reviewing”.
Wouldn’t that be a godsend for us, though?😂
How about that one game journalist who got stuck in Spongebob Battle For Bikini Bottom Rehydrated. A remake of a kids game from the 2000s. Fail.
Journalist truly are the modern day villains of the gaming industry, since they will try their absolute best to divide us GAMERS.🐱
There are good Journalists who understand that their opinion and skill might not reflect well and will accept that.
But most journalists these days are just like: "YOU DONT GET IT MAN!"
No, they don't... cause as a writer you may write what you want, but people don't have to like it. And if that writing is important to the world like a review. You gotta be objective to your readers too.
And as much as they say otherwise, Jim Sterling is no exception.
@@BurningAzure really? what had Jim Sterling said?
@@gab_v250I'm interested in what context but he does have some strange takes from time to time especially towards the dark souls genre..
Executives of AAA publishers already hold that role. Without exception.
The biggest issue with journalists and the easy difficulty is somewhat understandable Many game journalists are paid in productivity. So, they can't afford to spend 1+month learning a single game to be able to play and review it. This puts them in a tough situation. They can't flat-out say that their employer is evil and pays them little, so they try to shield themselves by hiding behind "accessibility". They want to breeze through the game so they can get their paycheck and they can deflect any criticism this way.
I'm not excusing their vitriol but this is an explanation as to why they behave the way they do.
Gaming journalism lost a lot of the mystique ever since the internet started helping games get out to people faster. Nintendo Directs and the like are a much more effective mode to tell people what’s coming out as opposed to E3.
Your video on MovieBob's take on the Takahashi/Cuphead situation was the very first video I've ever watched from you. Man, this was nostalgic! Keep up the good work, Mangaman!
Almost makes you happy the venture capital is drying up.
One thing that *really* annoys me is TheGamer's content mills.
Whenever I try to search for specific guides on a game, the website almost always pops up, despite the only things in my search engine involving them up to that point are youtube channels outing them as frauds. Bonus points for often *not* having the info I was looking for.
Case and point- the first time I bit the bullet and clicked on their website personally. I was looking for the enemy levels in the postgame stages of Makai Kingdom Reclaimed and Rebound. I was researching them because they're completely at odds with the level you have to be to unlock them.
Naturally, what they told me was the levels my units needed to be to *unlock* the stages, something I already knew, and said nothing about the stages themselves. To add insult to injury, it was taken directly from another source. I could tell because the requirements given were wrong- base Makai Kingdom had an additional requirement of a minimum number of runs, Reclaimed and Rebound does not.
The site is trash, and I'm glad I blocked them.
seeing alpha is an experience in a mangakamen vid
We call them Game Urinalists
I mostly don't pay attention to game journalism. A lot of it is very baity (especially when it comes to Kotaku. Those guys specialize in controversial take clicks). With there being so many UA-camrs that cover games I'm interested in, why would I want to go to such inspired takes as "Sonic was never good" or "why does Samus have to be stoic, she should smile more" (paraphrasing on that second one but I think that was an actual Kotaku article.
Good video. Looking forward to seeing "Dumb Video Game Journalist Gaffes - Part #54" (number subject to change) in the future.
But seriously, there's enough dumb game journalist moments (and more to come) to easily turn this into a whole series.
Ah yes my favorite gaming activity. Laughing at game journalists 😂
Great vid ma dood. The legendary fail of the cuphead tutorial will forever continue on in everyone's memories
10:00 Coercive? What are they coercing you into? Actually buying the games?!
XD
If games journalists are this bad image how bad political journalist are when it comes to there reporting
Ah yes, gaming journos.
What a lovely kind of specimen.
Also I approb the use of Korone. We need more appreciation for the gamer doggo. She clearly has way more skill in DOOM than a gmae journo.
She's a treasure.
The guy from the Cuphead gameplay was also a very good rts player. It was the place he worked for that put him to play Cuphead, a game of a genre he never played before, with a controller , which he als never used before. It was the journals problem, not the journalist, at least in that case
I think that the Kotaku/Nintendo situation is like this, you see a kid (Kotaku) kicking a dog (Nintendo) and you see a bunch of people telling the kid to stop or the dog will bite him, and it happens, but the kid tries to make it seems like it was the dog's fault when everyone sees that it was the kid's fault
My first time I ever even heard of Cuphead was the Game Journalist can't Play Cuphead story and video lmao
What happen to them? They used to be well respected game journalist that we trust but now ever since they got into politics and having activists working there, they constantly spreading lies and causing division among gamers because they don't have the "right politics and ideology " or "criticize a bad game that has all the check boxes". It's why nobody trusts them anymore and are now relying on youtubers because they talk about the game and gave honest review both positive and negative (if their not boot licker).
Those you refer to where pushed out of the business around the time 1up went belly up back in 2011. Then, barely one or two years later, Feminist Frequency successfully launched its Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series that acts as ground zero for both the tourists’ injection of identity politics in gaming and their utter fabrication of gaming having always been a misogynistic “boys only club” ripe with every discrimination in the book. The next year, GamerGate and the “Gamers Are Dead” articles happened, closely followed by Trump’s election, and the flames from that combined trash fire haven’t stopped rising higher and higher ever since.
@@Zeburaman2005Well, they deserved to go out of business.
@@dontemorgan1517Nah bro, 1up had legit reviewers from the old days, lifelong gamers who gave fair criticism. Everything that happened later could only sustain itself this long thanks to the venture capital that got pumped indiscriminately into increasingly unprofitable online outlets.
@@dontemorgan1517 dafuq? Many of those people were talented writers and did great work for our gaming community back in the day. And i would probably still respect many of them if they didnt drink the LA Koolaid (*looks at Jeremy Parish*).
@Zeburaman2005 I miss those people too. I wish gaming didnt turn into a normie shitfest like it has, with all the tourists who dont know nor care about the shit we like. Even worse, many of them are the EXACT SAME PEOPLE who talked shit about us in school and outside of it about our hobby, and now theyve moved in and basically trashed the place to suit their disgusting trash misandrist ideology. Its insane.
Never trusted ever since the "Too much water" incident. And they also gave Godhand a low score to the point of bankruptcy for the studio
Cheers, as of yesterday Kotaku writers were locked to only writing game guides, as a result all staff except 7 writers left, effectively killing the company.
Kotaku is blacklisted by me!
You know what they about IGN, you can’t spell ignorant without it.
Can you make the Right and Wrong ways to make a Rival: Kamen Rider Edition
I will still never not be pissed about igns and gamespots review of days gone.
As well as igns code vein review.
I got invited to join an video game journalist group that was just getting started. I don't think the sight even up yet. I don't think I'll join them but I did write a single review for them for Cassette Beasts.
I have a second review I've not yet sent to them that for a game called View Finder. Now this review is only of my first hour playing and is stated as such at the Start. I also call it a First Hour Review. This is not a full review but mainly about the first impression of the game. And since it just the first hour the reader don't need to worry about spoilers as much. It gives me time to figure out the main game play loop as well as the feel and vibe of the game. But it won't let of know if things go bad later in the game.
That Cuphead reviewer says it’s cause of a bug? I ain’t buying that. Especially since I now know this isn’t the first time he’s failed at playing a game. Like how the heck do you become part of the gaming industry all the way up to the Doom remake and not have a clue about leveling up? Did this guy just ignore the Pokémon games since they were first released? My bf isn’t that bright on video games yet he knows something as simple as that.
Even after all these years, I STILL won’t forgive IGN for their coverage of the Kingdom Hearts games.
Kingdom Hearts 2.5: “Roxas is a terrible character… worst 6 hours of my life”
One of the few ign points against hoenn "too much water" is actually quite a fair complaint to have since hoenn has far more water types than the usual region and thats saying something
Dude even I’m bad at some games and this Shit sounds stupid also a game generalist getting stuck on a tutorial of a level that’s just gold 😂🤣
Do you plan on making a video about Yakuza infinite wealth or Persona 3 reload?😅
Maybe
eyo first time i make it early to one of your videos, glad to be here!
Oh you poor soul.
I think being made to look at HBomberguy should be considered a violation of human rights
why?
Video games are more challenging to review because they can't be passively consumed. You need to develop an understanding of the game to get through it, and if a journalist isn't already familiar with it, they won't have the time to learn. If this happens, the review should be passed on to someone that at least has a faint idea of what they're doing.
Re heated slop, the Karen specialty
My worst one I’ve seen in the git gud category is when IGN gave rain world 6.3/10 because they couldn’t actually play the game 😂 They didn’t even start the story part of the game…
[[Insert Gamergate joke here]]
This feels like your own take on MagicMush's video, lol.
I continue to be baffled that sites like IGN and Kotaku are still in business. And no, I don't believe it's due to manufactured outrage. Under normal circumstances, this should be a case of The Boy Who Cried Wolf - post enough clickbait articles, and people will stop coming to your website. Or at very least, the content creators that clown on them should be lowering their viewcount a la SSSniperWolf.
Ign is so bad at making Sonic reviews. For example, the review of Sonic Superstar said that the level design is too slow and that they had to remember the level design to take the fastest route so that they can get an S rank. That's the whole point of 2d sonic. There are more examples such as that they gave unleashed a worse review than 06
The word "journalist" was, is, and always will be derogatory.
Mainly if "gaming" is added in front.
. . .how do you get news then?
@@Jinsoku440 The people who make the news are always more than happy to announce it out loud.
@@sharzinlalebazri5673 Wait...how do you get the news then? I don't understand how this answers my question...
@@Jinsoku440 Journalists are a redundant third party in a world where every politician announces everything on Twitter, every celebrity drama comes firsthand from said celebrity's Instagram account and every game developer releases trailers on UA-cam.
Are we sure these are gaffs
Euro gamer stole from me as well.
10:13 Buwahahahaha XD
I want to defend the varey popular and often Critcised IGN revew of pokemon alphasaphire, the "to much wahter ", hoen's map is 50% ocean, and team aquas goal is to make this a 100% and the wahter type is eaven one of the most flooded types.
I also think the problem is fundental that the readers only mainly care for the fast revews or artikels the good revews or artikels that take time to make died out and you can find better content from youtubers. Ect that specialize in the games they revew while jurnalist have to cover a far wider range and don't have the time to get better then beginers. That dosen't excuse the realy bad behavior but is an explanation wy we don't have a lott of positiv exampels
Problem is, saying there is too much water for reason is understandable, but writing as the only critic for a 7(or whatever it was) is a very silly thing to write.
Besides saying too much water as a critic is very stupid really.
@@Jrpg_guy i mean water levels are famosly hated among different games and the constant surfing kan be quiet anoying
Can you please turn on your spell checker
@@techmark3665 dosn't work for other languiges
If the purpose of "too much water" was an overabundance of water types, they should've written something more specific like "too many water types". "Too much water" was very vague and didn't comunicate that thought at all, especially if you didn't read the review and just scrolled to the score and bullet points.
Speaking of, not a big fan of Digital Foundry, eh?
Wouldn't blame you.
Why does HBomberguy annoy you?
I disagree with some of his takes, but more to the point, he is just insufferable personality wise.
@@Mangakamen Ah that’s understandable 😂
This has always been a problem in gaming it’s just gotten worse sense gamergate
☹️ Promo-SM
why does Hbomberguy annoy you? or is that a joke.
Aside from a few key moments where I disagree with his interpretation on things, I find him utterly insufferable as a person.
@@Mangakamen (aka mangakamen) oof. i feel you dont want to go to detail.
Same I wonder why
Game journals? Dumb? Who could’ve guessed?
"Babe wake up manga kamen uploaded."
Remember when ign said sonic was never good and now they walked it back
Can you make the Right and Wrong ways to make a Rival: Kamen Rider Edition
It is really hard to take journalists seriously these days. It is why I would rather go to indie UA-camrs for feedback
Exactly what I do
I remember when someone from IGN reviewed a game, beat it, and it happens to just ends with no conclusion, something they complained about in the review. Well it turns out the dev chimed in saying he didn't play it on normal, with the reviewer replying otherwise. Rather than updating the review to state that it was because he played on casual, the reviewer stealth edited out the part about it having no ending. The game is PixelJunk SideScroller.
Aren't Gaming Journalist basically always gaffing?
yup
I remember seeing an IGN review where i think it was Xenoblade 2, where they say "...i didnt even finish the game."
Im sorry if its only me, but i cannot trust a review that didnt cover the whole thing.
The one I remember was a review for Xenoblade Definitive Edition where they did a last minute edit of Reyn and Dunbans name pronunciation, and completely spoiled Melia character arc while deeming her a poorly developed character and a weak one.
Depends on what they're reviewing. Some people might only care about gameplay, so they focus on games for that and that reason alone. So maybe someone might have more of an interest in that, and not care to finish a game if they don't like the gameplay. So I'd have to ask to know if they said more on their reasons. Other than "FANSERVICE IS BAD!"
@@finecastleieI will never forget good ol Duncan and the Napons
don't you mean fiora since they also spoil that and her robot body @@finecastleie
"The stoic and inscrutable Duncan."
Enough said.
That's Dunban over there!
Schrodinger's Take.
If it's successful, they'll stick with it.
If there is backlash, they'll claim its a joke
Ah, IGN and Kotaku's MO.
Can you make the Right and Wrong ways to make a Rival: Kamen Rider Edition
For me the grand avalanche of sludge was gamergate, where a lot of games journalists ultimately outed themselves as political hacks that infiltrated the hobby for the worst. If it was suspected by that point, then it was certainly confirmed afterwards. While the movement (sadly) ultimately failed, the lot of these journalists from Adam Sessler to Brianna Wu have only tarnished their undeserved reputations further by refusing to let it go since they never got over the audacity of gamers no longer bending to their will, and it’s frankly hilarious in its own right to see how pathetic they ended up being.
Id argue gamergate worked
To distribute the truth at least
@@isauldron4337 true, and that it bruised their egos in such a way they never got over it and only dug their graves deeper.
@@alexkogan9755 it pierced their thin skins
The fk are you on about? Adam Sessler did a *lot* of good for the industry and the players when he did.
I'm old enough to remember buying Nintendo Power, which had the occasional weird take, but don't we have that today too with YT? Make it make sense, like y'all both take stuff too seriously and not seriously enough...
Ah Kotaku, gaming's biggest punching bag
Stuck on the tutorial
If IGN and Kotaku were the most infamous at shit articles, then you wouldn't mention how GameSpot fired Jeff Gerstmann for giving Kane and Lynch a 6/10. He retaliated, and formed GiantBomb as a middle finger to their treatment of him. Other examples include IGN's review of God Hand where they gave it a 5/10, and Imagine Party Babies, literal shovelware an 8/10, or the time the title to their Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire was called 'Too Much Water', and it became a massive meme in the Pokémon community(Game Freak even got into the joke with an easter egg you can access with the RotomDex camera in front of just ocean).
And no one mentions the time companies bashed RE5 for being "racist", though the cast members(including Karen Dulley, TJ Storm, and Reuben Langdon deconfirmed this claim), and hoo boy TheGamer brought that shit claim back hallelujah! 😤
Ngl Project Eve model is distracting, but for a nice reason, and it being based on an actual person woof wonder what she looks like lmao
I never cared about Game Journalist since IGN covered Fire Emblem Three Houses and call the game "Fire Emblem Three Heroes" and also said that last FE game was on 3DS with FE Fates (With Corrin). The Last game was Fire Emblem was Fire Emblem Warriors on Switch/3DS and even if that wouldn´t count as real Fire Emblem game, the last game would be the FE2 Remake - FE Echoes - Shadows of Valentia on 3DS.
1:19 did....did he just use the Five Nights at Fuckboy's death screen?
Kotaku isn't just full of clowns. They're the whole circus on Casey Junior!
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Re heated slop, the Kamen specialty
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Fun Fact: I wrote 4 summaries for Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (1 for the main game, 3 for the DLCs). Long story short, it's better than a Game Journo's review of any game
I know it's probably a hundred and one chances in someone reading this, but I'll share my thoughts.
I'm not the smartest gamer by a long shot, heck, a third of my logic is "learn to break the wall down with my noggin without cracking my head open", but this makes the caveman part of my brain look like a genius comparative to these banana nut muffins.
Anyway, thank you Kamen for another fun video, can't wait to see the next!
Let’s all laugh at an industry that never learns anything TEE HEE HEE
This is why I ask my friends for games
Gamergate moment
joe biden gaffes
Good video, but atleast recommend a good journalist group like Second Wind.
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