Totally Not Corrupt Professional Objective Gaming Journalism DRAMA

[Infinitron]

Isn't Jim Sterling the faggot who hated Deus Ex? Fuck that loser.

No thats Tom Chick, he gave Deus Ex 3/10, defended his opinion years later http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/06/29/tom-chick-the-man-who-hated-deus-ex/ and at the same time called Far Cry 2 one of the best shooters of all time.

That was before console systems came along and saved us all from poorly optimized engines.

Kill it with fire.

Also, he likes Alpha Protocol.

 

[Jaedar]

The exception was Tom Chick, now one of the most respected American games journalists currently writing about the medium, who gave it a sub-50% mark

"Most respected"

See also: Damning with Faint Praise

 

[AngryEddy]

It's amazing how there's not one single likeable video game journalist. They're all cunts!

 

[DragoFireheart]

It's amazing how there's not one single likeable video game journalist. They're all cunts!

You know, Communists have this same problem: they're all cunts!

Maybe gaming journalists are commies?

 

[dnf]

It's amazing how there's not one single likeable video game journalist. They're all cunts!

You know, Communists have this same problem: they're all cunts!

Maybe gaming journalists are commies?

Most gaming journlollists lean left, so you are right on track.

 

[Toffeli]

One Tsar Bomba to Ubisoft offices please.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Whatever happened to the guy who was kind of semi-oldschool and wrote a column about RPGs? He had a nick that started with D I think, desslock, desmond? His name was thrown around quite often here a few years ago, back when Oblivion was the hot topic on the 'dex.

EDIT: Ah yes, Desslock was his name. Seems he quit PCGamer in 2012 or so.

 

[Ninjerk]

Isn't Desslock a bot name from UT99?

 

[Diablo169]

I put Sterling in the same category as Totalbiscuit. They're better then then most games "Journalists" but still talk bollocks a lot of the time. Kind of a marmite situation.

 

[PlanHex]

I put Sterling in the same category as Totalbiscuit. They're better then then most games "Journalists" but still talk bollocks a lot of the time. Kind of a marmite situation.

Ahh, come on. TotalBiscuit isn't *that* bad.

Also, Sterling is not better than most. Worse in some cases, slightly better in others.

 

[SwiftCrack]

I put Sterling in the same category as Totalbiscuit. They're better then then most games "Journalists" but still talk bollocks a lot of the time. Kind of a marmite situation.

Ahh, come on. TotalBiscuit isn't *that* bad.

Also, Sterling is not better than most. Worse in some cases, slightly better in others.

Did he piss on your favourite archaic cRPG?

 

[J1M]

I put Sterling in the same category as Totalbiscuit. They're better then then most games "Journalists" but still talk bollocks a lot of the time. Kind of a marmite situation.

Ahh, come on. TotalBiscuit isn't *that* bad.

Also, Sterling is not better than most. Worse in some cases, slightly better in others.

I don't follow him, but the majority of total biscuit that I have seen involves him picking at the same flaw for 5+ minutes while he fails badly at the game he is playing. Perhaps he is failing badly because he is trying to think of something witty to say, but I suspect his accent has as much to do with his fame as anything else.

 

[PlanHex]

I put Sterling in the same category as Totalbiscuit. They're better then then most games "Journalists" but still talk bollocks a lot of the time. Kind of a marmite situation.

Ahh, come on. TotalBiscuit isn't *that* bad.

Also, Sterling is not better than most. Worse in some cases, slightly better in others.

Did he piss on your favourite archaic cRPG?

He thrives on randomly shitting on circle-jerk-of-week-games for page hits and then praising another the next week, while considering himself above all the other shitty games journalists. He pissed on a strawman of NMA and the Codex in that link earlier on this page too. He's a hypocrite and a dumb cunt.

I put Sterling in the same category as Totalbiscuit. They're better then then most games "Journalists" but still talk bollocks a lot of the time. Kind of a marmite situation.

Ahh, come on. TotalBiscuit isn't *that* bad.

Also, Sterling is not better than most. Worse in some cases, slightly better in others.

I don't follow him, but the majority of total biscuit that I have seen involves him picking at the same flaw for 5+ minutes while he fails badly at the game he is playing. Perhaps he is failing badly because he is trying to think of something witty to say, but I suspect his accent has as much to do with his fame as anything else.

Meh, I haven't watched that many of his videos either. He seems to defend consumers first on principle, which puts him miles ahead of pretty much everyone else in my book.

 

[Zewp]

TotalBiscuits videos are unwatchable because nobody wants to spend 20+ minutes listening to ramblings that could be summed up in 5 minutes.

 

[retardation]

The fact that you discuss these two idiots like they are the best western gaming journalists is the reason why we have Thiaf 'n' shit. Sterling sank Duke Nukem Forever for having women abducted by aliens, and TB is just a boring guy who dicks around the game menu while talking stuff.

 

[skuphundaku]

Hopefully the mass market gets milked out of their money and stops buying games. Mass market is the worst thing that ever happened to the industry.

You might as well wait for the ocean to fully evaporate. You would need a fucking extinction level event to make the "mass market" stop buying games. And saying that "Mass market is the worst thing that ever happened to the industry" is woefully misguided. The mass appeal of games brought the post 2004(-ish) trend in AAA, but the mass market (as it was back then) also brought the great games of the end of the '90s. Unless you have a hankering for rudimentary games from the late '70 and early '80, the mass market is what you need to be thankful to.

 

[Delterius]

Speaking of that Sterling article and how heretical fans can't endure unquestionable Progress. Anyone seen such articles since the Kickstarter wave? I mean, does the old narrative of vocal minorities riling against AAA awesomeness still perpetuate itself?

 

[J1M]

Hopefully the mass market gets milked out of their money and stops buying games. Mass market is the worst thing that ever happened to the industry.

You might as well wait for the ocean to fully evaporate. You would need a fucking extinction level event to make the "mass market" stop buying games. And saying that "Mass market is the worst thing that ever happened to the industry" is woefully misguided. The mass appeal of games brought the post 2004(-ish) trend in AAA, but the mass market (as it was back then) also brought the great games of the end of the '90s. Unless you have a hankering for rudimentary games from the late '70 and early '80, the mass market is what you need to be thankful to.

"More nerds owning computers" and "technology improving" is not the same thing as "people who like Everybody Loves Raymond all start buying videogames".

 

[Volrath]

Isn't Jim Sterling the faggot who hated Deus Ex? Fuck that loser.

No thats Tom Chick, he gave Deus Ex 3/10, defended his opinion years later http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/06/29/tom-chick-the-man-who-hated-deus-ex/ and at the same time called Far Cry 2 one of the best shooters of all time.

Hmm, I guess you're right.

 

[Dr Tomo]

So would someone care to explain how Jim Sterling was a good journalist/important in the game industry in comparison to TB?

 

[SwiftCrack]

They are both not Jason Schreier or Dorito Pope?

 

[dnf]

So would someone care to explain how Jim Sterling was a good journalist/important in the game industry in comparison to TB?

giving bad scores to some games regardless of reason is reason enough to be considered good these days. It doesn't really matter if he gives Kane And Lynch 2 1.0 if he likes the core mechanics of the genre.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Adam Sessler defends Microsoft for offering a more expensive product with very substandard graphics

 

[Gurkog]

Adam Sessler defends Microsoft for offering very substandard graphics for a larger profit margin.

 

[Dr Tomo]

Adam Sessler defends Microsoft for offering a more expensive product with very substandard graphics

Yea and both consoles suck anyway so Sessler defending either one is irrelevant.