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Games journalism isn't broken

X360 responds to VGchartz’s How Broken Is Games Journalism? ‘analysis’.

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x360magazine.com
Ponurasky5703d ago

TEH DRAMA begins!

3...
2..
1.

FIGHT!

jriquelme_paraguay5703d ago

yeap... is broken.
Is an article to respond another article, from other sites and articles...

HolyOrangeCows5703d ago

x360magazine.com is one of the most broken, bias sites to post on N4G, ironically.

zoks3105703d ago

When everybody is do crying about who has a bigger d@#$%K ill be online waiting for you guys to come and join me in BFBC2.

SuperMassiveGav5703d ago

Mine's bigger. And I'm not crying.

There's just something in my eye.

Sez 5703d ago (Edited 5703d ago )

That was funny. I have heard that one in a long time and it's still gets me lmao

nnotdead5703d ago

nope. you'll be on N4G making stupid comments on even stupider storys.

xYLeinen5703d ago

Gaming journalism is much based on opinions with previews, reviews and other articles which makes it hard to satisfy the masses. Some agree and some don't.

vickers5005703d ago

Shhh! The O word is not allowed here.

kneelb4zod5703d ago

@ xyleinen What about the fight lights out most reviewers complained that the controls weren't right.

xYLeinen5703d ago

Because reviewers are stupid. Pretty simple.

SilverSlug5703d ago

I only think its broken when sites take those phat trips to Italy on Ubisoft tab, given a day to play AC2, then not be able to walk out with at least giving it a 9 out of 10.

That is broken.

Jim Sterling having his own opinion isn't. That is what its about. Giving people ideas.

What else I hate:
- Cosplay girl articles for hits
- Titles for hits. I mean, if its on topic, sure. I don't mind.
- Posting false stories, with the intend to grab hits. If someone did it, has a source and that source is wrong, I can forget and forgive.

Achemki5703d ago

All this article does is complain about the complainers. This is why game journalism is broken. The same people preaching about the right to have an opinion are also calling others "spoiled, lazy and broken" if they don't agree with their's...like this article lol. *facepalm*

SuperMassiveGav5703d ago

Aren't you complaining about the complaining about the complainers?

Oh, when will it end?

And that isn't all it does. It also makes a lot of positive points about the state of games journalism today.

Achemki5703d ago

Umm no, I'm saying 'pot meet kettle' There's a big difference. For one I'm not saying agree with me or you're 'spoiled and lazy' like this article does. But don't take my word for it. Industry professionals have been saying 'wtf' for years: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Baka-akaB5703d ago (Edited 5703d ago )

well difference is , he doesnt pretend to be a journalist , you do .

And most of your "article" is about calling other lazy and spoonfed .

Funny thing ,that's exactly how i'd describe the current form of "journalism" .

You see a massive amount of pro and blog sites just copying-pasting , news and rumors from forums like neogaf , themselves translating a bunch of news in japanese .... among many other things .
Do people even realize they even often copy the translation mistakes from amateurs ?

Where was journalism when people needed concrete infos about the ps3 at launch ? Like , you know stating that the ps3 couldnt accept import ps2 games , despite ps2 back compatibility ... instead of worthless opinion pieces about "the ps3 got no games" ?

Where was journalism when you needed to know that Tekken 5 was region restricted for the online servers ? Oh yeah that's right , it was too busy doing "top ten sexiest virtual women" .

No the actual useful infos where among gaming circles inside forums . Where again now "journalists" handpick most of their info . You gotta love the investigation and research work , to type in "neogaf" and vomit a whole page of "news" .

Sure like you said , now there are thousands more sites to chose from . But it isnt worth that much when 80 to 90% of them are clones from the same flawed templates .

Like reposting at least 10 times during the week , the same 7 days old interview about Marvel vs Capcom 3 having ten more characters .

SuperMassiveGav5703d ago

I wasn't saying 'pot meet kettle', just that if you don't agree you're lucky enough to be able to ignore me and go read thousands of other piece at the click of a mouse. Yet you apparently prefer to focus your attention on work you don't like, then wonder why people keep writing more of it.

Maybe that's why games journalism seems broken to you.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin3435d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905880d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5880d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905880d ago (Edited 5880d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5880d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5880d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5880d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495880d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5880d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5880d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn3470d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One