RPS loves potato cock and hates the Codex

[Drog Black Tooth]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07 ... witcher-2/

Jim: The Witcher 2: this year’s witchiest RPG has been played by we three men, and now those men aim to discuss it. Kieron, would you like to tell us what you think The Witcher 2 is?

Kieron: The Witcher 2 is a role-playing game, of course, you big ninny, sequel to the successful previous game, it’s a single-character game – so you only control Mr Witcher. But it’s main “things” are the moral tone (generally dubious) and the wide available choices (generally general).

Jim: What about that dude in the RPS comments who says that anything that isn’t a turn-based RPG from 1987 isn’t an RPG?

Kieron: That guy in the comments thread is basically a spam-bot from RPG codex. It’s not a real person.

Jim: That makes sense.

Richard: Anyone who says that clearly used Intelligence as their dump stat. Yeah. You just got +2 burned…

 

[Epsilon]

RPS is a mainstream site eventhough they like to say they're not.
Fact is they write reviews for eurogamer, so they need to be able to appeal to the masses and can't be as elite as the average codex user is, or would like to think he/she is, concerning crpg's.
So I suppose what I'm trying to say is; who cares what they think?

 

[Lumpy]

Hi Drog.

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

Horrid, it's like the "girls" of sex&the city decided to sit down and talk about videogames.

 

[Rivmusique]

Anyone who says that clearly used Intelligence as their dump stat. Yeah. You just got +2 burned…

Oh snap. Damn guys, yall just got PWND hommies!

Damn internet gaming culture, stop this shit now.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Jim: What about that dude in the RPS comments who says that anything that isn’t a turn-based RPG from 1987 isn’t an RPG?

Why do I have the feeling they added this part to make the guy's argument look bad?

 

[Jora]

Horrid, it's like the "girls" of sex&the city decided to sit down and talk about videogames.

 

[MMXI]

Why do I have the feeling they added this part to make the guy's argument look bad?

Because they probably did.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Jim: What about that dude in the RPS comments who says that anything that isn’t a turn-based RPG from 1987 isn’t an RPG?

Why do I have the feeling they added this part to make the guy's argument look bad?

Why argue when you can ad hominem?

 

[Jools]

Still, we're getting more and more famous. I wonder if we're becoming mainstream, slowly and subtly.

DA2 doesn't sell? Blame codex.
Twitcher 2 receives bad comments? blame codex.
Skyrim has bugs? blame codex.

What are we gonna get blamed for, next? Oslo attacks? HIV? Lybian situation? Split ends? Montezuma's revenge? Desertification? Chlamidia?

 

[sgc_meltdown]

when dead state is released codex will be blamed for forcing doublebear to make it in turn based mode to get positive reviews from our prestigious and influential magazine

as the internet knows codex community approval is like the pulitzer prize for rpgs and even good rpgs like dragon age 2 have suffered loss in positive gamer mindshare because they weren't turn based

 

[Rivmusique]

What are we gonna get blamed for, next? Oslo attacks?

Please, we all know that World of Warcraft is responsible for that.

 

[Melcar]

They need to get attacked. Quick, some Codex suicide posters.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Skyrim has bugs? blame codex.

If we are noisy enough...

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

The Witcher 2 is a role-playing game, of course

wide available choices

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

The overall tone is appropriately juvenile, though, so I'm sure their target audience will appreciate their manly chatter.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

RPS is basically the crème de la crème of the PC Gamer UK staff, some of them raised on a diet of obscure Amiga Power memes. I think 90% of their opnions are fucking retarded but it still puts them miles ahead of most other gaming blogs.

Kinda this. RPS overhypes stuff, especially indies, especially especially indies that can jerk off IS IT ART boners like 1eyedking, but they're still the best gaming news page I've found. I also like Giantbomb, but entirely for their videos. I don't think I've ever seen a good written article there. Just like to stop by and watch them do dumb things and herp derp. Generally the most entertaining when they're playing a spectacularly bad game like Call of Juarez the Cartel.

Just occurred to me they never reviewed Dragon Age 2. Wonder what's up with that. I remember them doing a quick look or two of the game, and even doing a preview with one of the Bioware shitheads. GNOMISH CONSPIRACY.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Oh, I was talking Giantbomb for the DA2 review. Pretty sure RPS did review DA2. I seem to recall disappointed noises from them about it compared to the first which was the pinnacle of modern old-school RPG gaming, yup.

Plus they recently did a blurb on the DLC and made it sound like people were being jerks for picking on DA2 so much and how Bioware listened to everything and fixed it for the DLC. Obviously.

 

[7hm]

RPS suffers from the same thing almost all games "journalism" suffers from. And the same thing all sports "journalism" suffers from.

They're fans of what they cover first, journalists second.

Plus the payola. Some are better than others for that. RPS seems to be about the norm.

Despite Kieron being pretty damn pretentious at times, he was the best of the bunch. They declined when he moved on from regular posting. They inclined when Quinn moved on (which is odd, because I liked most of Quinn's early posts, but his later stuff was... ugh).

 

[el Supremo]

To be fair, turn based combat is like black and white TV. It has it's charms, and there are films I cannot imagine in color. Yeah, now and again some arthouse movie can launch in black and withe. But it is clearly the thing of a past, has it's in-born limitations, and cannot be expected from contemporary franchise.

 

[kingcomrade]

Their opinions did not register but that was really homosexual

 

[Excidium]

To be fair, turn based combat is like black and white TV. It has it's charms, and there are films I cannot imagine in color. Yeah, now and again some arthouse movie can launch in black and withe. But it is clearly the thing of a past, has it's in-born limitations, and cannot be expected from contemporary franchise.

To be fair, whoever made that comparison is one fucking moron.

 

[Oriebam]

I didn't check the link with the alleged dexer, but if this Kieron guy took the statement seriously, he probably browses the codex and that was probably his way of saying that it's just a codexian fuckwad/persona trying to look funny or get a laugh

also

Kadayi, you are talking nonsense. RPS is not a site that espouses one particular style of gaming, thus to say that being a fan of hardcore RPGs is somehow against the ethos of the site is a very irrational comment to make, since the site has no such ethos. Not only that,but sites like the RPGcodex and The Escapist that are fascist with what opinions they let be posted are not fun sites to be on. You don’t agree with what Wizardry says, and that seems to make him objectively wrong (and a mental patient to boot!) Frankly, the site’s owners may say as they please, I very rarely agree with 100% of what they say and I daresay that not one reader here does. We are all human. It just seems strange that Wizardry’s opinions aren’t tolerated by some members of the RPS “community”. If I called someone who liked CoD a newfag and told him to GTFO, the fact that most people would agree with me would not save me from being banned. By the same token, I don’t think the fact that most people like Mass Effect &c entitles posters to call someone who doesn’t like it a mental patient, in whatever oblique terms. I’m nowhere near as hardcore as Wizardry here, and indeed I am rather ambivalent to this whole affair, but I often find it grating that some people on RPS take their opinion to be some kind of gaming canon, untouchable by others after one of the site’s contributors has endorsed it. For pity’s sake, Wizardry is a regular on the site who has an opinion you don’t agree with. Just let it go.

 

[Konjad]

turn based combat is like vertically flying bee. some will like it, most will hate it. but it's cool, because not everything needs to fly horizontally.

 

[MetalCraze]

RPG Codex and The Escapist ?
This is serious offense.

 

[el Supremo]

I don't intend to discuss the matter further with you, since you are not willing to do so decently or in order.

 

[commie]

Turn based combat in RPG's is like the faint whiff of urine on a man's boxer shorts: sure you can do without it, by why would you want to?