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Was re-reading Nintendo Power in order and I noticed something how it went from the golden days to something closer to modern games journalism (it ended in 2012 but that's still close enough, they didn't get to the culture wars part). For most of the 1990s they had scores on gameplay, graphics, challenge, and so on and so forth. Then that changed in 2001 with just the staff giving reviews on a 0-5 "star" scale, then changed again with long-form reviews and one person giving a score on a 0-10 scale, which is more common but actually even worse in retrospect because it means one person can give a single arbitrary score with almost no accountability or reason. One of the staffers gave Shadow the Hedgehog an 8/10, for instance. He owned up to the mistake seven years later, but it's an example of how they can just give some ridiculously inflated number out of their asses, and I bet no one has walked back their scores for Gone Home or The Last of Us Part Two on a "this game wasn't good as I thought" basis (as opposed to "this person is guilty of wrongthink" basis).
 
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Senegalese visa overstayer and tiktok influencer who self-deported after being detaind by ICE appears in the new Bond game doing his tiktok schtick. I'm expecting an article about gamer racism in Trump's fascist America to be coming forthwith. If it wasn't obvious before what the devs think, it is now.
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And guess how that turned out.
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Wow. I watched the 13 minutes and it looked genuinely less than mid for a Bond intro. Apparently they should us stick to Hitman, but I'm sure the inclusion of a tiktok negro and diverse cast will save it.

Even Kotaku's comments are split on this.
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Journo getting wrecked.
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Don't forget that these are the same game journos(yes this is a different outlet, but it's all the same group of faggots) that complained about James Bond videogames existing.
Admittedly, a lot of them are simply not very good videogames, but also: I think the very nature of Bond is that he is a creature of cinema. He just doesn't quite fit into games.

Part of this is, well, he's annoying. This might scan differently to non-Brits or, indeed, to anyone who doesn't share my particular brand of class psychosis, but James Bond is an insufferable public school dickhead. He's a rowing club Tory boy through and through, and he comports himself like a man who has a right to the Earth and everybody on it.

Which is quite fun for 90-to-120 minutes of a movie, where he is surrounded by numerous other people who can roll their eyes at him whenever he opens his mouth. In a videogame for 10, 20, 30, 40 hours? Less so, and especially less so in something like a First Light, where a lot of his cocky one-liners and general swagger are delivered to empty rooms and enemy corpses, where no one save the player can tell him to give it a damn rest.

But also, part of his charismatic arrogance is that he is suave and unflappable. Well, great. Good for him. I am not suave, and I flap at the slightest inconvenience. I simply don't… fit into him? Should probably reword that. Whenever I, as Bond, fumble a counter, miss a shot, or try to duck into cover only to fling myself headfirst into a desk lamp, I break the entire spell of the character.
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So he hates that James Bond exists as a character because he's one of the many retards that can't fathom enjoying a narrative unless the protagonist as as close to being a clone of themselves as possible, and hates that he actually had to play a fucking videogame while being a writer for PC Gamer.

Kotaku didn't give mixtape a score(because they chose ages ago to not bother), but did praise it and likely would have given it a stupidly high score. PC Gamer gave it a somewhat more sane score of 74/100 but it doesn't change the fact that these people like an obvious non-game, and hate actually having to play games. At some point, even their regular audience is going to start realizing how fucking stupid these game journos actually are.
 
It's interesting seeing SkillUp (last featured in this thread for a mildly positive review of Mixtape) commenting that the game basically shelves everything about its story and characters after the first few hours to pivot into a completely different, supposedly much better, plot.
 
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It's interesting seeing SkillUp (last featured in this thread for a mildly positive review of Mixtape) commenting that the game basically shelves everything about its story and characters after the first few hours to pivot into a completely different, supposedly much better, plot.
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IIRC, one of the big hits recently did that. The first few hours (e.g., what the Game Journos will see) had your bog standard token black lesbians and the like, bu t after about 2-3 hours they all die and are replaced with an entire cast of white people. Claire Obscura 33 or whatever?

Would be hilarious if this is the new meta for gamedevs. "Toss the diversity in the front then kill them."
 
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IIRC, one of the big hits recently did that. The first few hours (e.g., what the Game Journos will see) had your bog standard token black lesbians and the like, bu t after about 2-3 hours they all die and are replaced with an entire cast of white people. Claire Obscura 33 or whatever?

Would be hilarious if this is the new meta for gamedevs. "Toss the diversity in the front then kill them."
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I wish that was the case. Exp33 kills off a bunch of NPCs but then also kills off the white male character they set you up to think is the protag so the real white girlboss with family issues takes center stage. And you have two female characters that are some sort of frenchie mutt but a lot of people let them pass. Honestly the diversity is the least of Exp33's problems and we already expected it because France.

I don't really trust SkillUp's word but I think it would go a long way toward earning back some grace if Bond goes that route. Though I'd rather just not have the forced DEI up front.
 
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I'll take things we already knew for 200, Alex. Maybe if you have a problem with Bond being a womanizer, don't make or play new Bond media. But they can't leave well enough alone.
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If I was in charge, I would make Bond an out and out rapist. Not talking mixed messaging, or getting women drunk. I mean stalking them down dark alleys, dragging them down with a knife, then full of super rape. The film would carry on like normal, and no one would mentioned that Bond sometimes rapes women. All colours as well. He goes to Nigeria, he rapes a black woman in a hut. Goes to China, gagged shagged and bodybagged on the great wall of rape. Anytime someone asks me why I included a 20 minute QTE minigame of a nasty train based rape in India, I just pretend its a homage to some obscure Italian book.
 
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If I was in charge, I would make Bond an out and out rapist. Not talking mixed messaging, or getting women drunk. I mean stalking them down dark alleys, dragging them down with a knife, then full of super rape. The film would carry on like normal, and no one would mentioned that Bond sometimes rapes women. All colours as well. He goes to Nigeria, he rapes a black woman in a hut. Goes to China, gagged shagged and bodybagged on the great wall of rape. Anytime someone asks me why I included a 20 minute QTE minigame of a nasty train based rape in India, I just pretend its a homage to some obscure Italian book.
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@BrunoMattei is that you?
 
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If I was in charge, I would make Bond an out and out rapist. Not talking mixed messaging, or getting women drunk. I mean stalking them down dark alleys, dragging them down with a knife, then full of super rape. The film would carry on like normal, and no one would mentioned that Bond sometimes rapes women. All colours as well. He goes to Nigeria, he rapes a black woman in a hut. Goes to China, gagged shagged and bodybagged on the great wall of rape. Anytime someone asks me why I included a 20 minute QTE minigame of a nasty train based rape in India, I just pretend its a homage to some obscure Italian book.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the gamer that games urinalists are so concerned about.
 
Kojima is getting othered by several outlets after his Prada AI commercial. 1779998780522.png
So working with trannies and black race griftting directors isn't enough for him to stay in your good graces? What a shock!

How quick they turn
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Lol
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If this soy filled bitch was any more of a stereotype Hitler would rise from the grave to finish the job.
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What is your favorite Schreier moment

Him admitting he knew about the cancel culture accusations against the NeoGAF admin but sat on them because he didn't want to let the Chuds at Kotaku In Action (the GamerGate forum) get credit for breaking the story
Him suppressing the Blizzard sexual assault story so his friends could destroy evidence and he could finish his tell all book after his friends got jobs elsewhere
Him telling people not to leak information but instead slide into his DMs so he could leak it for them (and profit off it, and censor stories that harm his friends)

He is truly a Jew's Jew.
 
Journo-turned StarFox simp is upset the actor for Saros's lead said he didn't read his lines through the lens of a repressed gay to validate his ship and it's open to interpretation like every inch of Housemarque's games are.
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