who cares what that clown has to 'discuss' anyway? it's all talking points from the PR handlers that control his monologue.Come on, man. I don't care much for him and his work either but we should be better than this. Ad hominem attacks like this only makes it easier for people like Gies to dismiss GAF as an "angry Internet mob" when they get uncomfortable with the discussion going on here.
Come on, man. I don't care much for him and his work either but we should be better than this. Ad hominem attacks like this only makes it easier for people like Gies to dismiss GAF as an "angry Internet mob" when they get uncomfortable with the discussion going on here.
Batman Arkham Origins: 3.5/10.
You sure about that?
because a negative jim sterling review means a lot less later after ign and polgyon have crowned it a masterpiece than it does coming at the same time when everyone is checking out the reception and looking at xbone metacritics.
i might be getting this completely wrong though. i'll admit. that's just what came to mind when i hear that they're messing with embargoes for a divisive reviewer. they want the launch to go as smoothly as possible.
Just sounds like he has an inflated sense of his own importance in the world of game reviews. He's been given the games to review and would have been given the date and time of the embargo as well. One does not come without the other. He has everything he needs to do his job, but is throwing a twitter tantrum because someone in PR isn't talking to him.
Just sounds like he has an inflated sense of his own importance in the world of game reviews. He's been given the games to review and would have been given the date and time of the embargo as well. One does not come without the other. He has everything he needs to do his job, but is throwing a twitter tantrum because someone in PR isn't talking to him.
Just sounds like he has an inflated sense of his own importance in the world of game reviews. He's been given the games to review and would have been given the date and time of the embargo as well. One does not come without the other. He has everything he needs to do his job, but is throwing a twitter tantrum because someone in PR isn't talking to him.
Except it's true. We have documented proof it is true. I am tired of posting these examples just to have to inform people. Go out and read about his many crimes. Gies is an awful person. I don't care what Gies thinks of it, because it's a fact.
Then again, Polygon spent half of their 12-hour PS4 livestream coverage trashing the Playstation 4, and the other half talking about how much better the Xbox One is. Didn't one viewer ask what PS4 title is worth looking forward to in 2014 and get told "Sorry, Titanfall is an Xbox exclusive lol" during that? Not sure what kind of backfiring could possibly be worse than the blatant sabotage Polygon/Gies ended up pulling.Come on man, doing something like that to a semi-known person can only backfire. I think they really regret blacklisting Kotaku back in the day.
Ad hominem? Yes it is. It also happens to be absolutely and completely true. Gies dismissed GAF long ago in any case.Come on, man. I don't care much for him and his work either but we should be better than this. Ad hominem attacks like this only makes it easier for people like Gies to dismiss GAF as an "angry Internet mob" when they get uncomfortable with the discussion going on here.
Jim has always done his own thing. He doesn't give a shit who he offends in his reviews, just gives his honest opinion on whether he likes a game and can be scathing if he doesn't, I quite like his reviews because of this, but it seems naive not to expect less than chummy relations from PR if this is the road you tread. As long as he's getting the games to review I don't see the issue.Again, this isnt simply about embargo's and reviews, PR isnt talking to him. He mentions it in the video w/o mentioning embargo's and twitter also confirms it isnt about the embargo's. If you are in charge of a game website and the industry is ran by PR, you probably want them talking to you, is my guess.
I'm not disagreeing with you, as I said I don't like him much either, but you can't just throw out accusations like that without showing the evidence of the matter. It makes your argument look weak, and makes people like Gies look better, because he can just deflect any criticism and valid argument against what he does by vague statements about mob mentality and Internet hivemind.
If all you people are so tired of posting these examples over again, just make a post where you compile a list of all the stuff he has done, bookmark it and keep linking to it/quoting it whenever you feel someone needs to be informed of why is he a hack, or whatever. It would make your case a lot stronger, and would be much more difficult to deflect than non-specific ad hominem attacks.
If MS are blacklisting journalists who call them out on their bullshit then I am more than relieved that I am not buying their products.
I did. Y2Kev told me to stop cross posting it. That's why I am not posting it once again
This implies that Gies is somehow looking to have a reasonable discussion, either with GAF or other parties. That's not what he is about. Polygon has some terrific pieces, but it's propped up by all that is wrong with the industry, and that starts with Gies. Who the fuck openly whines about not wanting to review a game (Killzone) on twitter, then goes on to give it an expected bad score? Gies, that's who. There's no attempt at professionalism, so he should be given no quarter in reasonable circles.
Jim has always done his own thing. He doesn't give a shit who he offends in his reviews, just gives his honest opinion on whether he likes a game and can be scathing if he doesn't, I quite like his reviews because of this, but it seems naive not to expect less than chummy relations from PR if this is the road you tread. As long as he's getting the games to review I don't see the issue.
Review sites that need to make money absolutely have to have day one reviews with a numerical score. Having a huge player like MS blackball a reviews editor would mean fewer pre-release review copies which means less money for the owner(s) of the website, and probably the loss of a job for the editor. So 'greylisting' JS when he is just starting as a reviews editor is a pretty big message.
He's not a reviews editor now for Escapist, I'm pretty sure he's the Editor in Chief over there
Grimløck;90122744 said:When do some of these Xbox One reviews go live?
Oh, yeah. I don't even know what to say about that? I really loved New Super Mario Bros Wii, but that was nothing really special, right? Just a prettier Super Nintendo game.He punished origins just for beeing more of the same.
But the 7th consecutive cod gets 9,5 from him.
I dont know what to say.
Guess it's safe to assume XB1 exclusives are going to get amazing reviews despite them looking as mediocre as the rest of the launch line up.
I'm not seeing why anyone thinks this has anything to do with review scores, that's a huge leap. There are a million other ways to piss off a PR agency or a client.
Moreover, he got copies of the games. Press copies always, always, ALWAYS come with a nice letter extolling the game's qualities and reiterating the embargo dates.
Finally, yes you have to play nice with companies to get early access to games and access to developers. Jim is welcome to go buy copies on street date and review them.
I really don't get why Jim is such a folk hero in this thread. He needs to be more mature, in my opinion.
The only fun in that game was present in Arkham City apparently, but retreads like Modern Warfare 3 are cool
Jim is very well known and worth their time. & any decisions like that are made with one aim and that is managing the message, they aren't 'bitter'.
So the natural conclusion is that Jim wont play ball and so he isn't worth their time. They would rather talk to journos like Gies, Sessler, Orland, etc. who are more receptive to helping them manage the message.
As for "mature", the fuck man, the Game industry is the most immature industry there is, in terms of personalities. .
So any positives are money hatted?
Tuesday
Sony should have done this for that moron Gies.
Just calling it as I see it. Nothing shown of the exclusives so far looks particularly interesting or ground breaking. They're launch titles and it shows.
would be totally justifiable
I thought it was staggered, one game per day ending with Ryse last.
What makes you say this? Some gamers are certainly immature, but I've never thought of developers, professionals are publishers or even the journalists themselves as immature writ-large.
I've always found the personalities of the, for instance: Cliffy B, Sessler(when people disagree with him), TB(acts like a child when people call him out or disagree), Annoyed Gamer's "use a real name" spiel, Arthur Gies, Garnett Lee(with his absurdness back during I think it was GDC?), Brian Crecente(his BS with copying Johns article without sourcing him and then playing dumb), Ben Parfitt(taking pot shots at anyone who doesnt play by the PR rules), Rob Crossley(people criticizing his PR articles as "beneath him".).
Then you have media people on this site who continually have drive by comments at gamers.
Then for developers you have people like Denis Dyack, David Jaffe, Cliffy B(mentioned him before), Phil Fish, and others showing their maturity levels. This isnt to say that the immaturity is always bad... Just seems like immaturity is a terrible excuse in this industry to not talk to someone.
I mean I could find more examples, but I think ive mentioned enough of them.