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Giant Bomb #16 | DO... DONK...
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Sleeping Lesson
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Ah yes, how could I forget Bio...gamer...girl?
batmanbatmanbatman.info
Follow the money.
oh, they moved it to .info, i thought it expired
this turns my entire top 10 on its head
NCR Redslayer
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Here are some of my favorites.
I know two here if Play is an actual website.
You know you're in for some shit when you hear the Velvet room music.
Glitchesarecool
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I love you QL Crew.
I still can't find the photo of the old man that looks like Jeff so if anyone around here still has that I'd love to see it again.
NCR Redslayer
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shadyspace
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I'll keep looking for it! I'll be following the thread regardless tho. Just reading about people playing through it sounds like a good time.
Piston Hyundai
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gamespot
ign
giant bomb
gamesradar
destructoid
eurogamer
oh christ I don't think I can name 10 either
Chance Hale
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Destructoid has been a rotting corpse of abysmal writers for years. Pick any one of the reviews and it's sure to be on the level of Greg Miller's magnum opus "Dead Space 2 ign review"
Piston Hyundai
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destructoid was always bad
Glitchesarecool
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I mean, without Destructoid we wouldn't have Sterling.
futther proof that user created content is mostly idiotic bullshit.
Chance Hale
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Fair enough(although it was my gaming website before neogaf) but the latest crop of writers are on another level. Gaming journalism's biggest problem is that no one in the field can write.
tryagainlater
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Brad giggling to himself looking at DD on UPF was so cute.
funkystudent
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Giant bomb
GameSpot
IGN
Destructoid
Eurogamer
USgamer
Videogamer
Kotaku
Polygon
I can name 9 sites that still exist and are paying staff.
Boy. Must suck to be a games reviewer looking for work these days huh?
GameSpot
IGN
Destructoid
Eurogamer
USgamer
Videogamer
Kotaku
Polygon
I can name 9 sites that still exist and are paying staff.
Boy. Must suck to be a games reviewer looking for work these days huh?
I think the problem is that how do you attract good writers to the industry when barely anyone can make any money at it? Very few people read good games writing, so it doesn't pay. You write a poor review and a good review, and the good review won't necessarily get you any more hits. People will likely just be arguing about the score regardless.
NCR Redslayer
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I like how nobody mentions Game Informer.
LurkerPrime
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun is good when it's not sliding into Kotaku-tier blogging posts. (This trend is unfortunately going to destroy RPS at its current rate.)
nckillthegrimace
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I only visit other gaming websites when Neogaf is down.
LurkerPrime
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Patrick (Giant Bomb) or Patrick (Kotaku)?
Or do you mean Austin? (He's pretty similar, aside from being completely different.)
Piston Hyundai
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Same here, but only because the website I used to go to (Joystiq) was shut down.
Pretty much. Honestly for me it's just GAF and GB. These days front page of Gaming covers the news for me and the podcasts usually tell me anything I missed.
Edit: just thought of another, Kill Screen. I think Pitchfork owns it? They're pretty good I guess idk
Piston Hyundai
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God, I can just hear the shit-eating grin on Dan's face when he says "yeah, what"
Last I heard about that site was when they laid off a lot of staff. I just assumed it closed down.
Nah, it's still there. They were bought by Defy Media. They're taking the personality-driven approach now. I'm a fan of the site, but I think it might shut down within a year. The writing is kind of on the wall, Defy isn't exactly giving them much resources.
Wouldn't surprise me - I've been going on the site since it was literally just for trailers for games, it's definitely not great right now...
stump sock
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Unfortunately, it will probably just come down to the GOTY bullies Brad and Jeff tuning everyone out and arguing amongst themselves. What Drew, Jason, and Dan think sadly does not matter.
NumberThree
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Why are you guys leaving three people out of the GOTY discussion
Mr. Plays No Games because of family,
Mr. Plays Bad Games because they give him those to review,
and Mr. Plays Weird Games because he's an academic.
Look at Austin's GOTY list for last year and you'll see that he goes for more off-beat stuff, so he's a real wildcard.
Part of me think's he'll appreciate MGSV's open-style gameplay, but another part of me thinks he'll prefer Mario Maker's potential for creativity.
I think Alex will be sulking in the corner advocating for Splatoon.
Keyser Soze
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No one will care about Splatoon up against Rocket League
stump sock
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fine by me
Hence why I say he'll be sulking.
I get the sense that Alex likes Splatoon more than Rocket League, but he's the only one.
Glitchesarecool
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It's also a Nintendo game and one that they didn't play a lot of. Which is a shame because I think Splatoon is a vastly better game.
RepairmanJack
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Sounds perfect.
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