[Multiplatform] Midway, Sony Sports and Ubi Soft Hate EGM...

Game "journalism" is a euphemism for PR. That said, you're not really going to muster support here. Especially given that you're trying to plead to a demographic of people who are looking to be entertained by material goods. Part of playing video games is KNOWING that you're dealing with materialism. You're not trying to get a message spread to you, developers want to entertain you with objectives and time sinks. A company is going to want to take advantage of that any way they can.

It's up to you as a consumer to see that this move by those three companies is, collectively, flagrantly fucking stupid.

Video Games can have a message, but ultimately they are a form of entertainment about creating a vacuum for one's personal time. If you want games to be taken more "seriously", just go about engaging in the activity like everyone else is going to and make your educated decisions without letting yourself get carried away in rampant fervor over things such as, oh my god, businesses being what they are: profit focused.

I don't usually see readers get thrown up in arms if someone doesn't get a review copy of a book. And most movie goers know that it's usually a bad sign if a movie isn't pre-screened to critics. There's no reason a video game has to be "special" and different in this regard.

You kind of strike a nerve with pleading to "gamers." "Gamer" is such a worthless fucking term. I don't know if you noticed, but the gamer lifestyle is plagued by shit like "Fata1ity" designed mouse peripherals or other shit like "player endorsed" sound cards and "The Frag Doll" girl team of "professional gamers." You want to get up in arms? It's time to start looking at the community before you start making accusations at something like "Businesses want money and do dumb shit sometimes thinking it will make them money."

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I know where a few professional reviewers post online, for casual discussion. I'm not quite so cynical of every publication out there, because truth of the matter is that magazines used to be the only major source of video game information that a person could find. The major issue is that each player is going to interpret a game a different way, so we will ALWAYS take issue with reviews. And with the internet, there's so much more information flow, that we constantly polarize toward areas that agree with our respective view points.

I have yet to meet a gay that would want to walk into a room full of homophobic people with a violent streak and sharp objects.

It's funny to assume that every publication is ran and operated by people who don't honestly love video games. That we just hire joe writer from off the street and tell him to pump shit out like Fox News does with it's reporters and major faces. That's where we seem to cross the line from being critical to being cynical. The reason you aren't going to see "Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012" in a gaming publication such as EGM is that most of those major publications are targeting the mainstream demographic.

I mean, I think it sucks that the radio doesn't play "Supersilent", but I don't go around questioning what radio's modus operandi and primary audience are. There are tons of games from the START that haven't received coverage. I don't see the point in nailing publications for this. We should call it as we see it, that's how I feel.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Am I to just go off your word that not a single magazine featured a review of this game? Call me crazy, Crash, but I don't have that kind of faith you. In fact, if it was on the PS1, I'm sure Official or Unofficial Playstation Magazine had coverage of it. We established and accept how major magazines work and they're suddenly evil because they do what mediums such as popular radio also happen to partake in?

At that, I also want to say that most outlets gave Puzzle Quest positive reviews. Including the abominable XPlay show. It was successful, yes... but players have just as much culpability in matters as magazines do. Gradius V got rave reviews... it sold like shit. Again, it goes both ways and that's what bothers me about topics like this.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Manny Biggz

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