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Rooster Teeth berate Jeff Gerstmann/Giant Bomb's Fallout 4 review while...
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AcademicSaucer
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because they dye it ?
They ripped off Giant Bomb's design almost 1:1 at the time, so the joke of the evil Russian version of Giant Bomb came up. Plus they had stuff like a Portal 2 review a year before it came out. Just a bizarre thing all around.
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http://gamebomb.ru/games/1628
The style of the portraits and stars is almost a copy, too. Also, 2 out of 5 for Portal 2 from november 2010.
-MD-
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Sounds like a hardware/settings issue.
Turn god rays to low, shadow distance to medium and enable borderless window if you haven't already.
So that's why Konami let Kojima go.
Should have been lower.
Ninja Scooter
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The extent of fallout's technical issues is largely irrelevant, and in fact, in terms of how much it affects someone's enjoyment, largely subjective. It doesn't matter one bit that you think Fallout 4 is better or worse than a 3/5. The issue isn't that RT disagrees with Jeff, it's that they use that disagreement as a platform to act like immature jackasses and question his motives and credibility with absolutely zero evidence, which is a really shitty thing to do to anyone, but even moreso someone that makes his living as a critic. Fuck these guys.
WrenchNinja
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Ow the edge
schwabdizzle
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I think people should be allowed to criticize reviews. Freedom of Speech and Press is a two way street.
OverBlood 3
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IT'S THE ORIGINAL VISION OF KOJIMA
Kojimaaaaaaa!
Complex Shadow
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Man fuck these guys and their high ass horse. Look I didnt buy a 980ti so I could lag at 15fps in the fucking Commonwealth or die in a elevator cuz the floor disappeared.
Berserking Guts
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I remember Rooster Teeth from like 10 years ago. I used to get a laugh out of their Red vs Blue vids for a while.
I had no idea they were a thing now. But if the bases of their argument against Jeff's 3/5 is that "he just wants the hits, and to be different" then I'm probably not missing much from them.
I had no idea they were a thing now. But if the bases of their argument against Jeff's 3/5 is that "he just wants the hits, and to be different" then I'm probably not missing much from them.
zerokoolpsx
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Jeff Gerstmann gave Fallout 4, a 4/5. That's low? Didn't know Rooster Teeth reviewed games.
Did they even read his review? He gave the PC version a separate score from the console for a reason and I completely agree with his reasoning for doing so. Plus it's his personal opinion versus theirs. If anything rooster teeth is just doing this for click bait. Giant Bomb is a trusted site because of their personalities. It's why they usually don't do reviews in the first place.
Nope. If anything this should become a trend for when there are significant differences between console and PC. Having already played 50 hours and beaten the main story on PS4, the game dropped into slideshow single digit fps frame rate territory more than a few times during intense scenes.
Messofanego
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Examples of berating?
TheAdmiester
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Already have, but they don't really make a difference (nor should I have to lower them if the game sets them to max), but thanks for the suggestion.
I've even messed with uGridsToLoad, a setting that supposedly kills performance, and increasing it makes almost no difference. It's incredibly strange, like the game picks a shitty performance to run at and won't budge up or down from it.
Sure, but at what point does it become slander?
They sound like Glenn Beck. "I mean, what if they reviewed it low just to get more traffic? Not saying they did we're just asking questions!"
Zomba13
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4 is a lot lower than the 9 that Fallout 4 deserves. It says so right on my pip-boy right here, included with the collectors edition of Fallout 4, Pre-order now!
He gave the pc version a 4/5. He gave the console version a 3/5
AcademicSaucer
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Sounds like you had a very productive day.
Exactly. Has nothing to do with a mere difference of opinion.
Ninja Scooter
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They arent criticizing his review. The are calling into question his credibility as a way to try and distract from the fact that he gave a score that didn't fit their narrative.
-MD-
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Ah, bummer. Guess the port is more hit and miss than I thought.
Trigonometrize.
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They should be allowed in the sense that they shouldn't be going to jail for being harsh, but nothing should stop us from flipping the script and calling THEIR criticisms utter nonsense and immature, which they are. A 7/10 makes it clear you're only scoring low for attention? Gimme a break. It could be 0/10 and that's still a nothing argument.
I love some of RT's stuff but their gaming side is generally trash (achievement hunter was okay), last when I saw (a year or 2 ago) still were a bunch of xbox fanboys. Making lame arguments/justifications during the whole xbox one drm debacle (sony will do it too, just watch). But I guess that's what happens when your main series that got you popular is based off an ip that MS owns.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't they the ones that started the whole MS is going to purchase Silent Hill for "billions of dollars." LOL.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't they the ones that started the whole MS is going to purchase Silent Hill for "billions of dollars." LOL.
outunderthestars
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To be fair, this is probably the most attention they have gotten in years.
MrCunningham
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That's just how the Gmann rolls.
SuperStiltzkin
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Will it be improved? Isn't the PS3 version of Skyrim still fucked?
schwabdizzle
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Oh ok, Its hard to figure out what is going on in a 30 second video.
OverBlood 3
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the ps3 version of new vegas runs at 1 frame per minute so I'd guess so
Beast Legacy
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As pointed out by many it isn't even an insult to call out Rooster Teeth for their lack of integrity as they are more of a production house that creates marketing materials for publishers. Though this showed such a lack of professional tact, why even call out Jeff specifically?
What really annoys me are the people that have sided with RT simply for "calling out" Jeff for being a stick-in-the-mud, jaded, cynical old fart that's desperate for clicks of some kind. Because maybe it's just me, but I believe Jeff has more integrity AND credibility in the shit he took yesterday than a good majority of critics working today.
On top of that, wouldn't you WANT someone who has seen it all and done it all to have a critical eye towards his game reviews? You're presumably reading reviews because you're looking to PAY for a product for heaven's sake. With YOUR money. Are people really that concerned for their own feelings if a prospective game purchase in a franchise they enjoy gets a low score? So what? Marketing departments (and partnered companies like RT) exist to tell me what's good about a game to get me excited and that's fine. But I damn sure want a game critic to then tell me anything NOT good or what to be wary about in the product I'm looking to purchase. I'm an adult, I can handle it if Jeff Gerstmann doesn't like a game I like, and I appreciate his honesty more for it.
What really annoys me are the people that have sided with RT simply for "calling out" Jeff for being a stick-in-the-mud, jaded, cynical old fart that's desperate for clicks of some kind. Because maybe it's just me, but I believe Jeff has more integrity AND credibility in the shit he took yesterday than a good majority of critics working today.
On top of that, wouldn't you WANT someone who has seen it all and done it all to have a critical eye towards his game reviews? You're presumably reading reviews because you're looking to PAY for a product for heaven's sake. With YOUR money. Are people really that concerned for their own feelings if a prospective game purchase in a franchise they enjoy gets a low score? So what? Marketing departments (and partnered companies like RT) exist to tell me what's good about a game to get me excited and that's fine. But I damn sure want a game critic to then tell me anything NOT good or what to be wary about in the product I'm looking to purchase. I'm an adult, I can handle it if Jeff Gerstmann doesn't like a game I like, and I appreciate his honesty more for it.
Oh Rooster Teeth. What happened? You use to be good. You use to be funny. Not all I see is shit.
Stereogatari
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No one fucking messes with Jeff Gerstmann without going through me! MOTHERFUCKERS!
InsertNameHere
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I only know about Rooster Teeth, because of RvB and the fact that my friend will not shut the fuck up about them.
matrixman92
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everything just seems so fake
patjburns89
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Goodness. This is an impressively bad post. I mean, Gerstmann has been in the industry for 20+ years.
But you did buy a Bethesda Game Studios game for that.
Krappadizzle
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I double checked this to insure accuracy. I was not disappointed.
Demoskinos
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Jeff Gerstmann probably knows more about video games than you or I know about any subject.
Some people obviously still aren't over that disastrous E3 stream they did where GB looked like they couldn't care less if Adam Boyes dropped his pants and literally shat out HL3 on stage.
Berserker976
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It's not great, but if you compare it to how it launched it's night and day.
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