Author Topic: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media' (Read 218828 times)

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #350 on:** April 30, 2009, 01:05:06 PM »

Gamedaily is terrible all around. They seem to be obsessed with their top "whatever" lists not to mention the horrible "one list item per page" thing. All around they seem to be extremely immature as well.

Peachylala · « **Reply #351 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:01:46 PM »

Is that any different from the major outlets?

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #352 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:44:09 PM »

Quote from: True Blue on April 30, 2009, 02:01:46 PM

Is that any different from the major outlets?

Well that is true as well. Though I think Gamedaily gets the edge for all its ridiculous top "stupid topic" of the day lists.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #353 on:** April 30, 2009, 03:53:01 PM »

The notable thing is GameDaily's prosperity thrives on these pageview-hit-lists.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #354 on:** April 30, 2009, 03:56:42 PM »

The only webpage worse then Gamedaily is that person who posts links to his page here that is stuffed with media files and Daisy pictures.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #355 on:** April 30, 2009, 03:59:59 PM »

You very well know there are very few Daisy pictures displayed on my site, tho I wish I could implement more.

I will not have any of this slander.

>=O

Peachylala · « **Reply #356 on:** May 01, 2009, 10:58:42 AM »

Top ten reasons why Pro will win over GP:
1-10: It's frickin' Pro Daisy.

Just like the Gamedaily pages.

Flames_of_chaos · « **Reply #357 on:** June 01, 2009, 08:44:02 AM »

Instead of Media, let's have a publisher's opinion:

This comes from Danny Bilson at THQ
'And then the nightmare of all for third parties, frankly, is the Wii. The Wii is a Monopoly box in a closet! I've got my Wii Sports and I'm good! I take it out, get the family around, we flail around for a couple hours, and we're happy until next month when we take it out, or maybe for junior's birthday, I'm going to buy him a Mario game.'

Bilson stressed that THQ is "supporting the Wii" and is planning to "greenlight more Wii games: family, casual, get everyone on the couch games. I'm a big believer in that." He continued, " Right now, we're not moving hardcore stuff to the Wii. We were; we stopped it, just because we're a little risk averse. I want to be with the culture of the Monopoly box in the closet – I've got to feed them. I've got to get them to want to buy another game, because they're not the gamers that are looking forward to the next thing next week in putting in the pre-orders and all that."

KDR_11k · « **Reply #358 on:** June 01, 2009, 10:21:44 AM »

There's already a Malstrom response.

mac<censored> · « **Reply #359 on:** June 01, 2009, 11:01:17 AM »

Quote from: KDR_11k on June 01, 2009, 10:21:44 AM

There's already a Malstrom response.

heh, he nails it, pretty much.

It always baffles me to see 3rd parties releasing craptastic and/or simply unappealing games for the wii, see them not sell well -- and then come to the conclusion that there's something wrong with the wii or the wii market, rather than their lame games.

I don't even know what games THQ is responsible for, but that certainly sounds like what the THQ guy is doing. It's pitiful and depressing at the same time...

ThomasO · « **Reply #360 on:** June 01, 2009, 11:10:25 AM »

Far as I know,THQ does a lot of TV show/movie based games, like Rugrats, Spongebob, or Are you Smarter than a 5th grader.

D_Average · « **Reply #361 on:** June 01, 2009, 11:41:56 AM »

At least they took a chance on de Blob. Looks like it paid off as almost a mil sold.

Dasmos · « **Reply #362 on:** June 01, 2009, 11:47:32 AM »

Yeah hopefully they'll still make de Blob 2.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #363 on:** June 01, 2009, 11:51:35 AM »

Wasn't de Blob still an example of "oh no, motion controls! How do we make them do the same thing as the buttons?"

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #364 on:** June 01, 2009, 12:02:25 PM »

Sean is now using the term "non-casual"!

YES! "C___" and "Hardc__e" are phasing out, even in vocabulary!

Peachylala · « **Reply #365 on:** June 01, 2009, 12:12:39 PM »

So THQ joins Ubi in publishing houses we have to ignore?

KDR_11k · « **Reply #366 on:** June 01, 2009, 12:18:10 PM »

I thought Ubi is trying again with RS2 and RGH?

Peachylala · « **Reply #367 on:** June 01, 2009, 01:49:02 PM »

Quote from: KDR_11k on June 01, 2009, 12:18:10 PM

I thought Ubi is trying again with RS2 and RGH?

That's really a mute point at this moment. Are they really trying to impress us or are they using those games to fund their black hole HD games?

So, anyway guys, boycot THQ. All in favor?

Deguello · « **Reply #368 on:** June 01, 2009, 05:53:38 PM »

I don't think a boycott would have much effect, because nobody buys their sloppy games on the Wii anyway, aside from deBlob.

Isn't it funny how third parties make bad games on the Wii, and then use the fact that they make bad games and Nintendo makes good games to make nothing. IT literally defies logic and I hope that reporter covering that followed up with such questions.

Flames_of_chaos · « **Reply #369 on:** June 01, 2009, 07:11:57 PM »

Ubisoft actually has a bunch of great Wii titles that they developed or published. The only 3 good THQ titles on Wii are De Blob, Deadly Creatures and presumably Drawn to Life.

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #370 on:** June 01, 2009, 08:50:57 PM »

See, in my honest opinion I wouldn't condemn the whole company over one comment a PR did. I am saying this because we assume that if someone said it the whole company must believe it. In this case it seems that the guy was given permission to speak and went too far.

Besides, THQ's influence hasn't been that strong on the Wii save for the occasional new IP and wrestling game. So while their support is good I wouldn't waste any energy trying to boycott them because in the end everyone looks stupid.

mac<censored> · « **Reply #371 on:** June 02, 2009, 10:00:46 AM »

Quote from: pap64 on June 01, 2009, 08:50:57 PM

See, in my honest opinion I wouldn't condemn the whole company over one comment a PR did. I am saying this because we assume that if someone said it the whole company must believe it.

Well, you're right, but a lot of companies also seem to act as if their management pretty much agreed with this guy's blather. So it's not much of a stretch to take what he said at face value...

Peachylala · « **Reply #372 on:** June 02, 2009, 03:13:03 PM »

I was only being sarcastic about "boycotting" THQ. They can spew **** about Wii for all I care, but it's basically the same thing over and over again. They bitch, they whine, they complain, nobody can be pleased.

Sorry Gamepsy, but if I was Nintendo, I wouldn't give you ****.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #373 on:** July 07, 2009, 09:44:44 AM »

Just remembered we had a thread for this.

Quote from: KDR_11k on July 07, 2009, 06:53:56 AM

HAHAHAHAHAHA, GamePro's review was obviously produced by copying IGN's. Note the factual errors: The mission count is 38, not 40 and assault is like the UT assault mode, not capture the flag (also there's no assault rifle, only a machinegun and a sniper rifle but most gamers don't know the difference between those so I'll let that slide). I guess that's why he's not elaborating on the "what not to do in an FPS". The whole thing seems to exist only to claim the Wii has no good FPSes, I don't think he ever played it.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #374 on:** July 09, 2009, 04:00:08 AM »

So the review got retracted because of plagiarism and the writer let go (a volunteer writer who didn't get paid beyond receiving some review copies).

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Author Topic: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media' (Read 218828 times)