How NMA ruined Fallout 3 for everyone

[Morbus]

Maybe next time he would drool less and pay more attention. Who knows?

Don't count on it...

 

[Zomg]

"We are paid to fluff industry hogs via saucy writeups of boring presentations, and you are cutting into our business."

 

[thesheeep]

I think it's a rather strange incident that right now, all authors of comments are being shown as "Anonymous" or other wrong names

 

[Morbus]

So, to be perfectly honest, I'm a little disappointed to see that these guys thought it'd be just dandy to apply "for the demo showing in name of another media company," video the whole shebang, then transcribe it with unsanctioned screen grabs.

What video?!?! : The guy recorded everything with his brain. Or are brains banned for Bethesda previews?

Ahah This is gold, my friend. Pure gold.

 

[Briosafreak]

So that dumb diatribe will draw more attention to the NMA article and more people will read it as a result? Good!

Yep, this situation is hilarious because of that.

 

[Anaglyph]

Come on guys; a little more respect, please.

Otherwise the light of truth that Matt Peckham and his brave comrades shine in the dark halls of the PR Fortress might be forever extinguished.

By the way, Matt Peckham fucks pigs.

Wait, perhaps that was someone else. Nevermind.

 

[tiefling]

What video?!?! : The guy recorded everything with his brain. Or are brains banned for Bethesda previews?

Judging from most previews...

Yes

 

[The_Pope]

Wait, he's yelling at NMA for reporting what happened?

What?

 

[Brother None]

I hope this doesn't affect NMA's ad revenue. They should talk to a lawyer.

NMA doesn't even have any ad revenue. We're hosted by Atomic Gamer, all ad revenue goes to them. That's why I encouraged people to donate to NMA after the preview, because at that point about half the costs of this trip had been covered personally out of the pocket of me and SuAside. If I had a dayjob, that'd be ok, but both me and SuA are just students, so those costs weighed pretty heavily on both of us.

But y'know, we're evil. I bet SATAN will pay us for all the IRREPARABLE HARM we've caused to the VALHALLA OF JOURNALISM.

 

[thesheeep]

Do it again next year and see if it works just as well xD

 

[Kingston]

I fucking hate these self-professed journalists who act as if they know shit about ethics and professionalism because they get to wear the "journalist" tag at a gaming conference.

The NMA people are more qualified.

 

[SuAside]

Do it again next year and see if it works just as well xD

i'm sure to apply for Madshrimps again.

though i fear "the conference room will be too small" and too many journalists have already applied... or somesuch excuse.

 

[Helton]

Im n ur bank accunt
critiquing ur gods

 

[Claw]

This could ruin Bethesda -> gaming world public relations for decades to come.

That'd be a good thing, wouldn't it? Right now "independent" previews are largely worthless. Bethesda could as well release their own preview and there'd be no difference.

I say let's ruin the sweet, sweet releationship between developers and publishers on one side and gaming reporters on the other. Let's ruin it good. Maybe then proper journalism shall have a chance.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

This is just utterly pathetic. The guy should think about why the NMA preview has been better, more informative and more extensive than any other review available. Maybe instead of laughin at all the right moments about Hines' jokes and applauding, the NMA guys just concentrated on the topic at hand, showed genuine interest and just wrote their ass off scribling those notes. Like a motivated and honestly interested gaming journalist should do.

But no. THEY DIDNT JUST TAKE BETH PRESS RELEASE NOTES PREPARED BY BETHESDA AFTERWARDS; THEY MUST HAVE USED A SECRET SPYCAM!!!111

 

[Vandal]

So as cool as all this is... is the Codex a Fallout 3 fansite now? Haven't seen any posts about anything else in awhile

 

[Brother None]

So as cool as all this is... is the Codex a Fallout 3 fansite now? Haven't seen any posts about anything else in awhile

Eh, it's a kicking pony. RPGCodex always needs a kicking pony. With Oblivion too long ago, Mass Effect and Fallout 3 are kind of slugging it out for the place of Codex' most-hated-game-currently-in-production.

Mass Effect should make a big run for it coming up to release, then it's Fo3 all the way, baby!

 

[Vault Dweller]

So as cool as all this is... is the Codex a Fallout 3 fansite now? Haven't seen any posts about anything else in awhile

What else is there at the moment? The RPG in development list is growing smaller with every year, much like a PC games section in a video games store.

 

[Texas Red]

So as cool as all this is... is the Codex a Fallout 3 fansite now? Haven't seen any posts about anything else in awhile

What else is there at the moment? The RPG in development list is growing smaller with every year, much like a PC games section in a video games store.

I havent seen much The Witcher news here.

 

[Brother None]

I havent seen much The Witcher news here.

Same goes for Drakensang.

I think you could do with a *bit* more coverage on European RPGs, VD. Even if the Witcher and Drakensang aren't exactly highlights of the genre, they're worth more serious coverage than Mass Effect or Fallout 3.

 

[thesheeep]

Totally true.. the hope of RPGs lies in the hands of some European nerds

 

[Sovard]

Hmmm... unsanctioned screen grabs...

Oh, do they mean the one of Todd staring at the G4 lady's tits?

 

[NiM82]

Well that article summarises everything that is wrong with 'professional' game journalism quite well imo.

You have the blatant ignorance of facts, poor research and a hack who quite clearly has shit for brains.

What's his gripe anyway - didn't he get an invite? Or is he just pissed more people read NMA than his shitty little blog (I notice there's fuck all in the way of comments for other articles there)?

 

[SuAside]

What's his gripe anyway - didn't he get an invite? Or is he just pissed more people read NMA than his shitty little blog (I notice there's fuck all in the way of comments for other articles there)?

he says he has notes, so he has seen the preview.

sadly for him, his notes suck and he feels there is no way he can best our NMA preview.

Q_Q

 

[Shannow]

No time to fully read it but those ethics sound like:"Dammit, those people actually gave bread to the poor! What will happen to all the bakers selling moldy, half-baked bread, calling it the best bread out there? The poor are supposed to BUY the bread. What next? Give them jobs and good pay? This is an outrage!"

Maybe I'll change my view when I had time to read everything...
So long.