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...are you sure that an article whose title is 'Team Ninja: We Refused to Work on Hyrule Warriors Unless We Could Include Breasts Everywhere' is truly the best critique? Sounds a little clickbaiting to me.
 
A Random said:
...are you sure that an article whose title is 'Team Ninja: We Refused to Work on Hyrule Warriors Unless We Could Include Breasts Everywhere' is truly the best critique? Sounds a little clickbaiting to me.
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It's satire.
 
Jaimas said:
Smutley would be correct. I was referring to its international release name.

Although I have played the Sega CD game of the same name.

And acknowledge that the likes of Fox Hunt would've been glad to duck behind the "not a game" defense as well.
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I was too scarred by ET on the 2600 to be too upset with barely functional games. I just skip over them. That is until the dev tries to go a bit too far with the mental gymnastics trying to tell me I am wrong about it. At least ET got sent to a landfill. We were easily pleased back then, happily playing the Pac-Man travesty.

It doesn't take much for a game to redeem itself. Fun is that redemption. I have saved Pong machines from death by getting them in the right home. Pong is a testament to fun not requiring much. You can explain it in ten seconds and happily waste an hour twiddling a knob. Or two knobs.
 
kcbbq said:
I was too scarred by ET on the 2600 to be too upset with barely functional games. I just skip over them. That is until the dev tries to go a bit too far with the mental gymnastics trying to tell me I am wrong about it. At least ET got sent to a landfill. We were easily pleased back then, happily playing the Pac-Man travesty.

It doesn't take much for a game to redeem itself. Fun is that redemption. I have saved Pong machines from death by getting them in the right home. Pong is a testament to fun not requiring much. You can explain it in ten seconds and happily waste an hour twiddling a knob. Or two knobs.
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Rampart taught us so much. ;_;
 
EleSigma said:
https://mobile.twitter.com/dasteroad/status/517231161366839296

Boohoo, they can't use the race or privilege card with Gamergate anymore because there are minorities that "sadly" support it.
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The #notyourshield campaign was spawned as a result of minorities being angry at how they're constantly used as a human shield to deflect criticism. Being angry at how many minorities and women are on our side just implies they're consciously angry at how they can't use entire groups of people to suit their agenda.
 
Ok, I'm high on my meds and about to go to bed so I may be a bit coherent and duh-ish here and I don't want to dredge through this thread right now but who and how did the #notyourshield hashtag start and what about the claims that it's an astroturf thing?
 
After the 24 hours of Gamers Are Dead happened, Jason Miller, a black guy, didn't like the tone of the articles, or how gamers were supposedly oppressing him.

So he posted that he didn't care much for the gaming magazines using him as a shield.

The astroturf thing is because the antis don't like that minorities are actually OPPOSING their social justice stuff; they initially thought it came from 4chan too. As such, well, it's fake, isn't it? They're being used by those mean assholes!
 
Judge Holden said:
I think there is a niche for "vaguely interactive movie" type games, but game journos SERIOUSLY need to get over it. if they want to review artsy movie type things they should go and do that, and not presume that anything that claims to be "artsy" and have an "important message" is the ultimate video game and errybody else is stupid evil and wrong for not agreeing. Snobbery is the key of why gamergate has arisen as much as self righteousness and authoritarian censorship
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It's funny, I used to do videogame reviews for a local publication and I got in a few arguments with my editor at the time over my review of Dear Esther. I thought the game was an uninteresting and pretentious slog (although obviously my review put this more artfully) and my editor thought the game was great and it was strongly recommended that I write a positive review. He suggested that I compare it to Call of Duty.

My final draft of the review did compare it to Call of Duty, but in the sense that both games were essentially hallway shooters that weren't taking advantage of being first person shooters. I still gave the game a (thought out, professionally written) negative review despite my editor's urging me to talk about the game's "depth" when I was clear I believed there was none. Now, credit to my editor, he did advise on and publish the piece even though he disagreed with the content. But it was a no-name publication that few read.

It's been interesting to watch that a defense for this kind of game always seems to touch on the idea that the not-game genre is a higher class of games for people who are sophisticated adults and can step away from CoD for a few hours. When in reality it's just a small niche that's not really good or bad in and of itself; there are good and bad games within. The rash of "Gamers are Dead" articles from a while back feels like it was the logical end point to that particular (flawed) line of reasoning.
 
A Random said:
After the 24 hours of Gamers Are Dead happened, Jason Miller, a black guy, didn't like the tone of the articles, or how gamers were supposedly oppressing him.

So he posted that he didn't care much for the gaming magazines using him as a shield.

The astroturf thing is because the antis don't like that minorities are actually OPPOSING their social justice stuff; they initially thought it came from 4chan too. As such, well, it's fake, isn't it? They're being used by those mean assholes!
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The aftermath of this is that the minorities that claimed to not be the so-called SJWs' shield (ergo #NotYourShield) is marked by same so-called SJWs microtargetting the individuals who were doing it, doxxing them, threatening them, and then contacting their employers in an attempt to damage their careers. In several instances, this was successful in getting people fired, all because they desired to not be used by these same so-called SJW as internet-based human shields.
 
Gothicserpent said:
I love how SJW's and Feminists think Gamergate is somehow over, despite no drop in support for the cause.
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They like control. You see, it's not about any sort of real social justice with these people, it's about controlling what others say and do. They don't want to liberate, they want to be in charge whether the majority likes it or not.
 
Pine Tar said:
They like control. You see, it's not about any sort of real social justice with these people, it's about controlling what others say and do. They don't want to liberate, they want to be in charge whether the majority likes it or not.
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For a bunch of Gone Home obsessed rejects, they sure sound like they all pulled their heads out of their asses long enough to play Assassin's Creed.
 
Uh so I was just looking through Twitter and... Did a developer kill themselves over this whole mess? Figured I'd check 8chan to see if they knew what was up but it seems like all the boards are down? What the fuck?
 
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