![]() ![]() Its most exciting feature is the Share button. #NO LONGER HOME NINTENDO PS4#Is the PS4 revolutionary? Not in any way (soz Sony). Sony has dominated the generation so far by doing the least interesting thing it could have done: looking at how gamers were using their consoles, and then building a machine that enables them. Do we really want to lug around a second $500 device in addition to the ones we all carry already? Do you really need to play Skyrim on the subway when Candy Crush will do? There's no longer any room in people's lives for a new device: all slots are fully occupied. They Don't Come, Nintendo that's another of those lies hammered into our brains by 1980's and 1990's media, along with "true love is your birthright" and "everything will be generally all right, no worries". It's going at everything arse-backwards it's tapping right into Field of Dreams and working on If You Build It, They Will Come. Nintendo is still trying to shape the way you play instead of looking at how you play now and evolving from there. It actually got to the point that all the gaming sites that gave it high scores had to do followup articles to convince people this is actually a game and subtly beg their army of SJW feminists to give this thing good reviews which is the only reason it didn’t get a score of -5,000/10.Nintendo has announced new hardware, and to nobody's surprise the Switch is gimmicky, likely under-powered and can't seem to front a decent release slate. Consisting mostly of “constructive criticism” like: “This is not a game”, “this is a walking simulator”, “I want my $20 back” and “I want five minutes of my life back”. So, while reviews from game sites were overwhelmingly good, reviews from actual customers who had just been duped into spending $20 on twenty minutes of pro-gay propaganda with no gameplay, were overwhelmingly bad. But what do you expect from Polygon? A site whose editor used his position to hire his own brother.īut what did the actual players think of the “game”?Įveryone thought it was shit and were pissed off at all game review sites who told them to buy it either because it championed their gay, left wing ideology, or because the reviewers and the developers were secretly butt-buddies. Later this would be used as a perfect example of gaming journalism’s corruption during GamerGate. Other people who were friends with the developers and gave it good reviews include Leigh Alexander and Kirk Hamilton of Kotaku. Which explains why Polygon picked this point-and-drag adventure game with all the pointing and dragging taken out as their Game of the Year and gave it one of the only eight 10/10 scores in their site’s history. Others, like the writers at Polygon, had a personal friendship with the creator for at least two years before that and were invited to that podcast a week before posting the review. You know what else those people had in common? They took part in a podcast group called Idle Thumbs together with the people who made the game. Half the people that reviewed it at first did so before anyone else even knew what the fuck it was and they all gave it a perfect 10/10. “Gone Home didn’t have to actually be good to get good reviews, it only needed to know the right people. Encyclopedia Dramatica can be quite gross, but they’re also useful for situations like this. ![]()
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