"Even without playing the game, Tarsier lists the game characters on their site including Six and The Lady."
That's not even a good excuse as to why that wasn't a spoiler. You listed in the title and description a fan theory that proposes something people may not be familiar with (yet) and would rather discover on their own.
Well, Sunset Overdrive's still has TPS mechanics set in an open-world WITH Jet Set Radio inspirations. Hover is more about roller-skating akin to Tony Hawk.
There's a few genuine gems which may be light on gameplay mechanics, but find impressive subtleties in their level design. Another one I'd recommend you try out is Firewatch.
-Reviews may not be hugely influential compared to yesteryear, but that doesn't mean setting an anti-consumer precedent against them means it's totes okay to do this.
-"Also it still isn't anti consumer because that would imply that there is no other venue for people to inform themselves on games."
Incorrect. As I already highlighted, the LIMITING of pre-release information (in this case: reviews) for a consumer is...anti-consumer. ...
Sure, word of mouth & demos are still a thing; however, that doesn't somehow negative that reviews--another key method of consumer awareness--from traditional/non-traditional media have a role to play.
"Also it's not really anti consumer since you know people can choose to not buy the game right away and just wait for other people to play it and hear what they got to say or just buy games from publishers you trust..."
No, it is rea...
There's potential for that to happen if VV Remastered performs well.
You're supporting one of the most anti-consumer practices game publishers can enact b/c you dislike traditional games media? I don't think you've carefully considered this.
Fake news. Deformers is squishy amazement the ungrateful masses can't understand.
1.) You know that 500 number isn't ALL indie games on XOne, right? The 500 number is about all the self-published indie games on XJuan (which is an important difference).
2.) Sony is not even relevant to this opinion piece.
Not really able to pre-order Deformers when it just released! :P
The State of Arizona should use this to advertise more tourists to come over.
Can't wait to play it.
I still need to get around to playing this. :(
-"1. Cherry picked YouTube critiques have never been done before?"
No, CinemaSins existed before them. Seriously, you know what I mean. It's most likely the first in its kind of video essays to exclusively focus on tropes against women in video games.
_"I never saw the first part of your blog honestly. My mistake if I took it out of context."
Well that's not very helpful to this discussion, is it? :P
"These agreements are a lot more than just signatures on paper napkins."
I figure you saying this would clue you in on this game's development. The original agreement changed. Sony & TWorks parted ways, they wrote up a new contract for TWorks to get IP back, TWorks found another publisher.
"Once a contract has been signed each party must respect their side of the deal."
Contracts can be re-negotiated if th...
Life-changing trailer for a life-changing game. Beauty beyond words.
1.) Not so much the thesis, but the format. Utilizing a video essay series specifically examining sexist tropes in games hadn't really been done like that before. Most sites jumped on the bandwagon of talking about it AFTER it received such vitriolic responses.
I see. Well, for context as to why I went with that Bioshock thumbnail comes back to something I alluded towards in Part 1. Here's the portion:
"...and yet, a reviewer that may ...
-"1. The fact that she is a prominent figure is confusing to me...."
You can thank the worst of her detractors for that. A plethora of anti-Semitic, sexist, etc. comments were hurled her way just for the very announcement of such a Tropes vs. Women game series. That got picked up by a lot of game sites and certain YouTubers just kept droning on and on about her before, during, and after her episodes released to the point where everyone in gaming just HAD to have...
I wonder how IGN staff feels knowing Mitch Dyer (former IGN reviewer) is part of the writing team for this one.
But that's the same story with Voodoo Vince. The creative director approached MS about it afterwards and a small team went ahead with the remastering process.
I hope everyone enjoyed the blog. Please feel free to leave your comments and/or questions down below. I don't mean to be very pushy against those who may have pre-ordered Prey (2017) already, but I'd really like those who ARE in that group who may have read this to reconsider. In the end, it's your decision. But regardless of where are opinions may lie on this issue and how to handle it, I'd still appreciate seeing what you have to say on this issue.