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Bitmob: Games Coverage is Terrible, I turn to NeoGAF
- Thread starter Devil Theory
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If they're getting criticized for it that much, but they're still doing it, it's a pretty good bet that they're making good money.bhlaab said:
Kotaku doesn't give a flying crap what Chris Winters says as long as their "anime pedophile" articles are generating clicks.
MiniBossBattle
Member
I have always wondered if the game blogs or NeoGAF posted up topics first. Some of the game blogs are pretty bad, especially Gamebloguu
I love Gaf because this site gets me excited about games that people are playing. The sense of shared experience and having someone confirm (or disagree) with moments in a game make the forum great. I know for a fact developers use NeoGAF to crowd source what people like/dislike in games. I can not say the same for many game blogs.
I love Gaf because this site gets me excited about games that people are playing. The sense of shared experience and having someone confirm (or disagree) with moments in a game make the forum great. I know for a fact developers use NeoGAF to crowd source what people like/dislike in games. I can not say the same for many game blogs.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The worst trend in gaming journalism is the "Click me to find out what the article is about" title. For example, if the article is about Suda51 making a new survival horror game, very frequently the article title will be "Japanese game designer announces new game" instead of the infinitely more descriptive "Japanese game designer Suda51 announces new survival horror game called ButtQuest".
The same thing happens on NeoGAF sometimes, unfortunately, but at least there are moderators to edit the titles to make them reflect the content of the article a little more.
The same thing happens on NeoGAF sometimes, unfortunately, but at least there are moderators to edit the titles to make them reflect the content of the article a little more.
RevenantKioku
PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS oh god i am drowning in them
This would have been funny about 5 years ago!Wes said:
SOURCE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?Stumpokapow said:
MickeyKnox
Member
GAF is to gaming sites what the Huffington Post was to newspapers.
The nice thing about GAF is I can read the OP to figure out the news, read the front page for some quick corrections, then check the last page of the thread to see discussion of what the facts actually are. We have hundreds of fact-checkers here who will make sure the story is correct.
Then of course we also have the people who read the first post, misunderstand, post to get their opinion in, then promptly get banned.
Oh, and after a couple of years here it's pretty easy to tell bullshit apart from "yeah this is a 'rumour' in that it's true but not confirmed yet".
Then of course we also have the people who read the first post, misunderstand, post to get their opinion in, then promptly get banned.
Oh, and after a couple of years here it's pretty easy to tell bullshit apart from "yeah this is a 'rumour' in that it's true but not confirmed yet".
The Take Out Bandit
Member
[Nintex] said:
- No fucking signature images!
Christ I hate forums where 99% of a post is some kiddies GAMERTAG / BIGASS ANIMU SIGNATURE IMAGE / ETC. A fine example of an abortion of a forum.
Thank you GAF for not blowing ass.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Yeah but 90% of the time "Japanese game designer announces new game" turns out to be:Stumpokapow said:
The Take Out Bandit said:- No fucking signature images!
Christ I hate forums where 99% of a post is some kiddies GAMERTAG / BIGASS ANIMU SIGNATURE IMAGE / ETC. A fine example of an abortion of a forum.
Thank you GAF for not blowing ass.
your such a hater
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beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
i've been here over 4 years. that's hard for me to believe. seems like yesterday i joined.
Visualante
Member
I think standards were higher around here a few years ago.
Still the best place I've found, though.
Still the best place I've found, though.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
yeah, at least since 2006, things have been pretty much the same to my recollection.
Palmer_v1 said:
Come to think of it.. I'm not totally sure? I think I was lurking the Gamespot forums and somehow came across the beautiful hive mind we have here.
For the life of me I can't remember what game I was looking for that led me down the rabbit hole, though. On second thought I mind have found it through PSO-World, guess I'll never know. :lol The wait for confirmation was total hell though, took so long that by the time I finally got confirmed I had skipped Junior Member status.
Since then GAF has sort of become just about the only website I used the internet for. Terrible I know, but I get all my humor and just about all the important news/discussion I could possibly want. It just sort of renders everything before it obsolete. :lol
yeah news is almost always here first, and if someone does try to do some retarded kotaku style spin on it they get mocked hard, so generally the OP is just the facts and PR.
also i dont think the guy is saying he uses neogaf as a source all of the bitmob site's news, but just that when he wants to read up to the minute gaming news, neogaf is the least retarded place to do it.
also i dont think the guy is saying he uses neogaf as a source all of the bitmob site's news, but just that when he wants to read up to the minute gaming news, neogaf is the least retarded place to do it.
Bitmob is a user-run site. People post articles (news, editorials, reviews, whatever) and then the site staff edit and highlight good content on the front page. It was started by ex-EGM staff.panda21 said:
http://www.bitmob.com/about
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Probably not. As the old meme goes: GAF->Internet->GAFLiK said:
It's not even probably. It's a well-known fact that any news editor who isn't an idiot uses GAF as one of their sources. The ones who aren't too high on themselves readily admit it. They obviously don't source GAF unless GAF is the original source. Or often they'll source GAF as where they got it and also link to the original source.
Visualante
Member
Shurs said:
MattyGrovesOrMe
Member
The first thread I ever made here was picked up by a lot of gaming news blogs, accompanied by "as seen on NeoGAF" qualifier...Firestorm said:
Par exemple: http://kotaku.com/5419373/nintendos-1955-cameo-in-the-new-york-times
The Take Out Bandit said:- No fucking signature images!
Christ I hate forums where 99% of a post is some kiddies GAMERTAG / BIGASS ANIMU SIGNATURE IMAGE / ETC. A fine example of an abortion of a forum.
Thank you GAF for not blowing ass.
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan say what you will about gomorning's content (never posted), but whenever I get linked to it, and whenever the users have their image shit together, it's always pretty damn cool looking.
I'd never want to browse GAF like that, of course.
The Take Out Bandit
Member
Tain said:
I came from rec.games.video.sega / alt.games.sf2, let's get some ASCII art up in this bitch! :lol
You damned kids and your pictures on the Internet, that aren't UUENCODED! >:|
Net_Wrecker
Member
I love how Gaf is simultaneously the face, and heel of the internet.
New-new-new-new-new Gaf Order.
New-new-new-new-new Gaf Order.
lastplayed
Member
Shurs said:
and er.. NZ-GAF!
The Take Out Bandit
Member
lastplayed said:
Australia?
lastplayed
Member
Almost. But we declined.
I agree.
There was time, on which when I went online, I quickly started checking..The Magic Box, IGN64, Daily Radar and Gaming-Age..it was through Gaming-Age that I joined the forums though couldn't log-in for osmetime since my username had/has a typo.. that I didn't noticed till I checked the email.
There was time, on which when I went online, I quickly started checking..The Magic Box, IGN64, Daily Radar and Gaming-Age..it was through Gaming-Age that I joined the forums though couldn't log-in for osmetime since my username had/has a typo.. that I didn't noticed till I checked the email.
zerokoolpsx
Member
I came across this place from a former coworker talking about NeoGaf. Was lurking here for a few months before joining. I noticed a lot of the gaming blogs or sites posted the same information after it gets posted here on Gaf. I don't think it's a coincidence. :lol
i use gaf for nearly all of my gaming news.
i used to go to ign but that site went downhill fast right around the time the gamecube came out.... i think thats when fox bought them and set a bunch of rules. but hey ign gets most of it's news from here so i might as well browse the source of the news.
i used to go to ign but that site went downhill fast right around the time the gamecube came out.... i think thats when fox bought them and set a bunch of rules. but hey ign gets most of it's news from here so i might as well browse the source of the news.
Random google search looking for opinions on whether the Hamedo skill in Final Fantasy Tactics was totally awesome or totally useless. I always loved it, but I had found out that many people didn't, so I was finding out what people used instead.Palmer_v1 said:
I don't know how I remember this in such detail.