You can make whatever game you want to make. A game that I've been touting as a very good indie title is Neverending Nightmares, which I have been recording my play through for my channel. The game is based on the creator's real life struggles with depression, and it has a good bit of psychological horror and scenes in there, and some endings that are effed up.
The issue is that if you make a game, then become friends with the person that is going to cover your game i...
Look into the facts, though. The time in which the infidelity happened was erred by Gjoni. However, Grayson and Quinn had a friendship at the time Grayson wrote about her Rebel Jam for Kotaku. He definitely did write something on her game while he was at least close friends with her. And he kind of WAS the target. Quinn was more of a subject when she used a DMCA takedown method to remove a MundaneMatt video talking about it, which made people look at some of her morals, which uncovered the is...
One look at how Brianna Wu reacted to David Pakman's questions in that interview will answer that question.
Because she's one of the people that they seem to be protecting in this whole thing. Part of why GamerGate exists is because the print media seems to want to turn the vitriolic messages into some sort of advertising slogan.
The two entities (the Feminist Clique, as you might want to call them) and those at the center of the controversy that made GamerGate a thing, seem to be working together. After all, wasn't it the ultra treatment of anything by them that caused us ...
Okay, I see. Didn't know there was a term for it. These days, I could see anything and think that it could be someone's channel name or handle on Twitter or some shit.
Yeah, I don't like doing that. If I say I like a game or system, it means I do like it. I don't want to be a trend follower per se, unless the trend is something I'm genuinely interested in.
Well, some are trying to get their claws into that scene, as well.
The thing is that some of the better known personalities (TB, Angry Joe) have made a reputation on being honest. TB, especially, since he's called out both publishers and media alike for doing BS to consumers. More people are going to new media now and let's players, which makes the "old guard" angry bears!
Of course, some of the ones that are trying to get in there for the ...
Thing about it is that we know why they've tried this tactic. They know it's doing SOMETHING right, and they don't want to admit that there's a there there (too many instances of the word "there", huh?).
It's a non-sequitur and a form of projection. Any whack job can go on Twitter, put a hashtag somewhere to promote their post, then say that they speak for a movement. It's true that both sides have issues that they need to sort out in their c...
Just remember, those that try to vilify GG have a vested interest in killing this thing.
And this is why one of the biggest gaming series on YouTube is Total Biscuit's WTF is series. He doesn't claim them to be reviews, but rather "first impressions" of what he thought of the first few hours into playing the game. He's blunt and honest, but he's a stand up character. It's why he's been someone who some in the game industry tend to not like.
For me, I think there needs to be some independence between publishers and reviewers to be...
So you're saying I cannot be both a progressive AND a supporter of Gamergate? This is an exclusive club for conservatives only?
Keep in mind that we had FOX News some time ago condemn video games over the Newtown, CN school shootings, and Glenn Beck had no good things to say about GTA4 back when he was with HLN. It's not like the conservatives are going to be our friends, either.
In fact, the only one in the mainstream, if you could call it that, that...
Can we stop pretending, though, that this is a conservative vs. liberal issue. There are people on both sides of the political spectrum that are on the side of #Gamergate. For instance, I am on that side, and I've been a subscriber to The Young Turks for a long time.
This is a gamer vs. the media and the crazies that want to label anyone who dares to disagree with them as misogynistic issue. And remember, these gaming media sites have a vested interest in killing this co...
Umm...I thought Gamergate was already making us DO that.
And showing us just how shitty the real world is and why we USE games as an escape from it!
Some people just don't learn.
Mega Man games aren't actually that tough once you get used to the traps that keep recurring in them. Vets know to "look before you leap" and to incorporate things like knockback into strats.
Simon's Quest was just badly translated. The Japanese text did a lot more in explaining things due to the hardware limitations at the time (Zelda 2 was the same way).
Not to mention that there are other streaming services now. Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, WWE Network, Redbox, HBO Go, Crunchyroll, etc. There's a lot of competition that Netflix has to contend with (I do a good bit on Hulu), and thus, you have to figure in the competition taking some of that pie.
Also remember that these are things that they can fix. I worry of how many people forgot of what a major part of MMOs are. The initial launches are never going to be perfect. WoW changed a LOT since it debuted in 2004, and look how expansive the world is in that game now. Look how much it fixed over time post launch with xpacs.
Thing is, we've seemed to take this single player game mentality about Destiny, where we're thinking that Bungie put out a game, then after th...
So this is basically the video game version of a younger Expendables group! Gotcha!
And, I'm sorry to say, your comment is part of the problem.
You're making an opinion out to be absolute fact, and slamming anyone who doesn't share your opinion AS fact. Just because you didn't like something doesn't necessarily mean someone else will see it the same way. You're treating anyone who likes it as having been "brainwashed" by the people making it. How have they been brainwashed? They just liked a game you didn't. No one is sa...
So, outside of Gamergate (a manufactured ploy to distract people from Zoe Quinn's infidelity to get ahead on her game) and Destiny launching, do you see any other big headlines happening in the gaming world right now?
Way to just assume based on...what?
The one thing that actually happened was KingofPol lying about the info to a Ben Denton post, which was too convenient of a find for me to not be somewhat suspicious, and then he went ape shit over things.
However, the Tube personalities include one very prominent one: TotalBiscuit, who has been very active in weeding out the fabrications in the media's attempt to distract by vilifying. The Tube people are part of what has made the traditional media so finicky. Most are s...