You know even in feminist circles Bayo is super divisive. It's a huge deal to a lot of people so I can't really fault Polygon for taking it into account even if I don't agree with them. Can't say the same about a lot of other Polygon articles though.
The bar for what counts as games journalism is low sure, but it's not that low
Never understood the attention that review got. People have been complaining about how much fucking water there is in RSE for a decade and now that the games are up for review again it's off the table? No that's bullshit.
Polygon writes some really good articles amidst their clickbait horseshit. For example, The Fall of THQ.
It was Polygon that did "What Watch_Dogs can teach us about the situation in Ferguson", right?
Yup!
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=874721
Man, what the hell is going on with PolygonThis one is hardly related to gaming, but Polygon tried so hard to use it as a pitch for Watch_Dogs and body cameras that it deserves a spot:
Article here (But seriously, dont read this shit)
This disgusting article essentially uses the Ferguson protests and tries to equate this very complex racially-fueled situation to the flimsy world of Watch_Dogs and argues that the sole focus and solution of this situation could have been body cameras, and then proceed through the rest of the article to talk about them, it is the most shameless and embarrassing segue into a pitch that includes an interview with the CEO of the company, then the articles ends with your usual "CNN: The truth lies somewhere in between" bullshit by implying that both sides of this conflict are too emotional and the truth will never be known because there was no tape.....except for that other time a black man was killed by the cop on camera, or that other one time with the kid.
It is one of the vilest, clueless articles ive seen, and im never going to Polygon again.
Ryan McCaffrey's Alien Isolation review on IGN
He moaned about the game being too hard, after he selected hard difficulty. He also complained about having to hide in lockers when the game specifically tells you not to do this in the loading screens (as the Alien will just stay there and find you eventually). He flat-out played the game incorrectly and based his criticisms on this. Ryan McCaffrey is one of the idiots in this gif btw:
I'd take this opportunity to bitch about a Polygon article right now, but I don't think anybody takes them seriously anymore. Unfortunately this is not the case with IGN
its a waste of time having someone review a game if they hate it on a fundamental level, if you dont like titillation dont review a game that uses it as a basis. Its like having me review madden when I hate sports games and REALLY hate football
I didn't know that context to his terrible review, haha
Driveclub review (yes, I'm salty). DF coverage is clickbait (see: grass update for GTAV next-gen). Overall quality just doesn't seem as solid as it used to be. Was once basically the only news/review site I could rely on to be straight down the middle, but it's just gone down the path of most other sites in that some articles are good quality but others are spotty as hell.
FIRSTHAND
"Wolfenstein shows you the horror of concentration camps firsthand"
I love Wolfenstein but good lord that title was terrible. How many times do their article titles need to be changed to realise the root of their problems being completely insensitive and clickbait-y?
