Luffytubby
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I did not play TNO or TNC because I thought Wolfenstein (2009) was garbage. That game was not satisfying at all. Had sponge enemies, and a half-baked linear level design that threw enemies at you. Dumb AI, poor feedback on guns and shooting into enemies/environment. Unbelievable boring.
Wolfenstein is one of those games like Bulletstorm, that tries to generate interest by being loud and obnoxious over a boring gameplay loop. IMO, Shadow Warrior 1/2 and Doom (2016) are way, way, way better experiences in this regard. The shooting is way better. So when I have seen gameplay footage of TNO, TNC and now Youngblood it still just looks like garbage to me.
Are reviews affected by SJW? Well, they are affected by lots of things. A review is a subjective opinion, and that opinion is informed by the taste of the reviewer as well as his/hers current mental state. It's not like we have not seen lots of very hyped up games get undeserving scores we look back on with a big ???? in hindsight. GTA4 and Bioshock Infinite being obvious examples to me of games that sought of swept across on a undeserving cloud. And not long after they came out, a lot of people came to their senses and realized that they weren't that good.
But that is why reviews don't matter. They don't give an accurate picture of anything because they are made in a vacuum, on a deadline. That's the worst way to rate and judge the worthiness of anything. The idea of doing a short term review is stupid and inaccurate. You can make a state of game based on a short experience with it, but reviews try to paint the legacy and quality of a game over the course of forever.
Political tendencies, hype, confirmation bias and a host of other logical fallacies betray the quality of a review. And at the same time, you have pundits who need to make 10,000 character reviews for their outlets. And either they cannot think of stuff to say, or what they have to say is not interesting, so they start talking about different shit in their reviews. We see this with music and movie reviews too. Reviewers go rogue and start overanalyzing or seeing shit there ain't there to get their paycheck. Or they try to bait gulleable readers who need reviewers reaffirm what they want to believe because what metacritic says somehow makes it more true.
I know professional critics from respected outlets who don't even go watch the movie they are reviewing. They watch a trailer, watch a synopsis and conjure up an opinion based easily digestible and known information. And I bet you that happens in a lot of video game reviews too, where they are rushing through the game to get that ad revenue. Whoever gave a fuck about integrity at any point? There never was and there never will be when the main incentive to make reviews is fuck you, give me money.
I don't care. I never gave a shit about reviews, and I think its a waste of time to try and fix the hangups of people who need to give their hottakes for money. Major waste of time. I'd rather talk to people about what they think of video games, who play them because they enjoy them. I don't remember the last time I read a video game review that was well thought out or well written.
Video games are a lot more popular these days, so a lot of non-gaming people are moving in. More outlets and portals need gaming reviews because their audience cares about games. So that increases the chance of people who are not so into-games coming in. And then they start making it about everything other than the gameplay, because games doesn't really interest them or because they simply don't know. You can talk forever about the political similarities or whatever to whatever you want. It sounds very smart, and I am sure that with the deadlines most newsrooms have an editor is not going to look over your shoulder as you compare Tetris to LGBTQ rights in Russia.
And fuck it. Good for them. You get to make money on being bad at your job. How can I be salty at that? I wish I could just do something, phone it in and get paid. And you get to give your hottakes that rustle some jimmies to millions of people? Must be satisfying for some of these people.
At the end of the day, I still think a lot of people are misguided in their anger. Stop being upset over "journalists" with an agenda. It doesn't matter. It doesn't break the world. Journalism has always been hypocritical and eating of itself. Its completely fine. You don't wanna be stuck as that person who is there getting triggered about what other people say and do. If you have ever met someone on the left or the right who is like that, you can clearly see how much their life sucks and how stressed they are, because they get triggered that easily. Getting triggered by things outside your control is a fast way to depression, stress and not enjoying your life. Just say fuck it, and move towards positive forces.
There are lots of outlets and communities out there with people who really like video games, and the way they talk about it, actually increases your own joy of games. There are people here on NeoGaf who say that they are tired of politics in games, but they are the first people to get triggered and spread that shit around. Don't click on garbage, don't share garbage. Share the good shit. Share that video or article that details something interesting or profound. Something that will make us appreciate video games more.
A lot of the journalism in gaming runs on triggering people on controversies and making mountains of molehills. They don't have any power. This shit cannibalizes itself once people stop clicking on it. Find the creators, designers and journalists who have something good to say. And thats all you should do.
You can use tools on google and youtube and other places to hide search results around certain outlets. I was getting so annoyed by Forbes clickbait articles popping up on phone every day. And I always wanted to click on them because the headlines were very relevant to my interests in tech and gaming. Almost everyday they were curating these almost auto-generated low effort articles about Cyberpunk, MMOs, Apple, MMA and other shit that interest me. I had to remove forbes from google search results to avoid that shit.
Make a list of the garbage publications you don't like- left and right wing. Make a list. And remove that shit from your life. Find that good shit instead.
Wolfenstein is one of those games like Bulletstorm, that tries to generate interest by being loud and obnoxious over a boring gameplay loop. IMO, Shadow Warrior 1/2 and Doom (2016) are way, way, way better experiences in this regard. The shooting is way better. So when I have seen gameplay footage of TNO, TNC and now Youngblood it still just looks like garbage to me.
Are reviews affected by SJW? Well, they are affected by lots of things. A review is a subjective opinion, and that opinion is informed by the taste of the reviewer as well as his/hers current mental state. It's not like we have not seen lots of very hyped up games get undeserving scores we look back on with a big ???? in hindsight. GTA4 and Bioshock Infinite being obvious examples to me of games that sought of swept across on a undeserving cloud. And not long after they came out, a lot of people came to their senses and realized that they weren't that good.
But that is why reviews don't matter. They don't give an accurate picture of anything because they are made in a vacuum, on a deadline. That's the worst way to rate and judge the worthiness of anything. The idea of doing a short term review is stupid and inaccurate. You can make a state of game based on a short experience with it, but reviews try to paint the legacy and quality of a game over the course of forever.
Political tendencies, hype, confirmation bias and a host of other logical fallacies betray the quality of a review. And at the same time, you have pundits who need to make 10,000 character reviews for their outlets. And either they cannot think of stuff to say, or what they have to say is not interesting, so they start talking about different shit in their reviews. We see this with music and movie reviews too. Reviewers go rogue and start overanalyzing or seeing shit there ain't there to get their paycheck. Or they try to bait gulleable readers who need reviewers reaffirm what they want to believe because what metacritic says somehow makes it more true.
I know professional critics from respected outlets who don't even go watch the movie they are reviewing. They watch a trailer, watch a synopsis and conjure up an opinion based easily digestible and known information. And I bet you that happens in a lot of video game reviews too, where they are rushing through the game to get that ad revenue. Whoever gave a fuck about integrity at any point? There never was and there never will be when the main incentive to make reviews is fuck you, give me money.
I don't care. I never gave a shit about reviews, and I think its a waste of time to try and fix the hangups of people who need to give their hottakes for money. Major waste of time. I'd rather talk to people about what they think of video games, who play them because they enjoy them. I don't remember the last time I read a video game review that was well thought out or well written.
Video games are a lot more popular these days, so a lot of non-gaming people are moving in. More outlets and portals need gaming reviews because their audience cares about games. So that increases the chance of people who are not so into-games coming in. And then they start making it about everything other than the gameplay, because games doesn't really interest them or because they simply don't know. You can talk forever about the political similarities or whatever to whatever you want. It sounds very smart, and I am sure that with the deadlines most newsrooms have an editor is not going to look over your shoulder as you compare Tetris to LGBTQ rights in Russia.
And fuck it. Good for them. You get to make money on being bad at your job. How can I be salty at that? I wish I could just do something, phone it in and get paid. And you get to give your hottakes that rustle some jimmies to millions of people? Must be satisfying for some of these people.
At the end of the day, I still think a lot of people are misguided in their anger. Stop being upset over "journalists" with an agenda. It doesn't matter. It doesn't break the world. Journalism has always been hypocritical and eating of itself. Its completely fine. You don't wanna be stuck as that person who is there getting triggered about what other people say and do. If you have ever met someone on the left or the right who is like that, you can clearly see how much their life sucks and how stressed they are, because they get triggered that easily. Getting triggered by things outside your control is a fast way to depression, stress and not enjoying your life. Just say fuck it, and move towards positive forces.
There are lots of outlets and communities out there with people who really like video games, and the way they talk about it, actually increases your own joy of games. There are people here on NeoGaf who say that they are tired of politics in games, but they are the first people to get triggered and spread that shit around. Don't click on garbage, don't share garbage. Share the good shit. Share that video or article that details something interesting or profound. Something that will make us appreciate video games more.
A lot of the journalism in gaming runs on triggering people on controversies and making mountains of molehills. They don't have any power. This shit cannibalizes itself once people stop clicking on it. Find the creators, designers and journalists who have something good to say. And thats all you should do.
You can use tools on google and youtube and other places to hide search results around certain outlets. I was getting so annoyed by Forbes clickbait articles popping up on phone every day. And I always wanted to click on them because the headlines were very relevant to my interests in tech and gaming. Almost everyday they were curating these almost auto-generated low effort articles about Cyberpunk, MMOs, Apple, MMA and other shit that interest me. I had to remove forbes from google search results to avoid that shit.
Make a list of the garbage publications you don't like- left and right wing. Make a list. And remove that shit from your life. Find that good shit instead.
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