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Dom Cruise said:
I was thinking back to the days of gaming magazines in the 2000s, it such a huge part of my teenage years.

And while it was undeniably better than modern journalism the truth is it wasn't perfect.

The main ones I read were EGM and OPM and there were so many games I loved that they gave mediocre to bad reviews to, namely Haunting Ground, which is one of my all time favorite games and it only got mediocre reviews, I never would have played it had I gone by just the reviews.

It definitely seems like they were way too harsh on games, had too narrow an idea of how a game "should" be.

I also remember an OPM critic giving Drakengard a bad review solely because they were offended by an element of the game's storyline, in an eerie anticipation of today's Kotaku style game journalism.
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Borax Bozo said:
For some extra fun, Matt Lees of the Sit Up and Shut Down show, Cool Ghosts, game journo and terminal TDS sufferer got into some hot water this week.
(For contex:
This is a guy who rants about the evils of Animal Crossing supporting capitalism
Believes "games culture was the ideal recruitment zone for modern fascism"
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Matt Lees - PAXU on Twitter

“Honestly kind of nuts that we now know in pretty black and white terms that games culture was the ideal recruitment zone for modern fascism, and in response to that the industry like, changed basically nothing”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY90symFHaY (slides for such https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lIINvk49YC_Kr8n2mJIHg07I-CP7xnQ-1c-85PjX7y4/edit#slide=id.p )
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A 2B cosplayer from Nier got the director Yoko Taro to sign her thigh. General reaction over the internet was "man is living the dream". Matt Lees, not so much. He considers it creepy behaviour from Yoko, even though the woman requested it herself
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MarkyX on Twitter

“Here's "male feminist" Matt Lees having a problem with a woman asking a game director to sign her leg. Nothing says "women's rights" like a white dude telling women what to do”
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This leads to mockery with thousands of RT and likes:
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Dimitri Vi Monroe on Twitter

“Based on recent events”
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And now he's trying to mix backpedaling and holding his ground at the same time.
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Oh shit I know this guy: He gave this awful panel at Gamescon a while back that Appabend did a response. I wondered what happened to him
 
AnOminous said:
Why the FUCK would they pick this goddamn clown, out of everyone on the planet, to get first crack at this?
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It's actually smart marketing. A sort of reverse psychology. The first time around was a fluke with Cuphead but Id also had the infamous Doom gameplay video and likely thought, "well why not have it happen again for our benefit this time?" and did it by giving it to Dean.
Now here's the psychology part: by showing everyone a person playing the game really fucking wrong, it catches people's attention and engages them to go and prove how to play it right by buying the game and showing off just to dunk on him. This kind of marketing is actually heavily prevalent in mobile gaming but never to such a degree like this.

Basically, they're using Dean's as a punching bag for everyone else to use and mock while reaping the benefits.
 
Borax Bozo said:
This might have something to do with people finding him describing someone else as a "rape magnet" :thinking:
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Dean Takashi is responsible for dumbing down the Mass Effect games, and he should never have been allowed to write about the actual gameplay of games after that. "Herp derp how does I do teh RPG skill systems" Fucking faggot, and what's worse is that Bioware actually LISTENED to that fucking retard.
 
FunPosting101 said:
Dean Takashi is responsible for dumbing down the Mass Effect games, and he should never have been allowed to write about the actual gameplay of games after that. "Herp derp how does I do teh RPG skill systems" Fucking faggot, and what's worse is that Bioware actually LISTENED to that fucking exceptional individual.
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Is this true? because if So Fuck that stupid loser, and Fuck Bioware for listening to him.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Is this true? because if So Fuck that stupid loser, and Fuck Bioware for listening to him.
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He did an absolutely horrid and dumb review of the first Mass Effect. My post is admittedly somewhat more speculative than just pointing that out, but it's not hard to see the connection between his review of Mass Effect 1, where the genius in question couldn't figure out that you're supposed to actually put points into your skills in an RPG and then use those skills, and the more "streamlined" approach of Mass Effect 2.
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
That one 'journalist' that couldn't get past the tutorial in cuphead tried playing the new DOOM:

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Dean Takahashi's Doom Eternal Gameplay (Archival Re-upload)

This is a re-upload made for archival and historical preservation purposes of Dean Takahashi's abysmal game-play of Doom Eternal. Original Credit for this vi...
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This fuckin' guy. He probably complained that Tetris was too hard because he never worked out that he could rotate the pieces.
 
ZMOT said:
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I hate this man now. Like before he was a pathetic bitch who had a job he didn't deserve.

Now I legit hate the little scum, The Dumbing Down of Mass Effects RPG mechanics and Gameplay from 1 to 2 was the single worst thing the series did. Yes worse than the Ending of 3 or Andromeda the stupid Ammo based, "use a skill everything goes on CD" turned the games into generic boring shooters with grenades replaced by Lightning/Fire blasts.
 
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