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A mid Generation article
Topic Started: Dec 6 2008, 10:27 AM (393 Views)
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IGN decided to address the mid generation consoles that could, framing the discussion with the assertion that each of them were released for the sole purpose of destroying our beloved 16-bit consoles prematurely. I find a lot of oddities with that introduction, but I thought posting a link here for discussion might be profitable.

http://retro.ign.com/articles/936/936140p1.html
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It kills me how every article they publish is just so filled with hate for everything they fell wasn't "mainstream".

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After this Golden Axe fiasco I'm more livid than ever about the media. Somehow I feel like I've discovered new depths to their hypocrisy. How do they all think the same way though? We don't even think the same way and we all like Sega games.
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Honestly, I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they are *forced* to play the games. Now, I love MKvsDCU, but if you *force* me to play it, put pressure on me to have a 4 page review for it, I can tell you I am going to lash out and it's going to be aimed at the game.

I've run in to this a few times on WAG(and even back at ManicGames mag), where I've just played through a game and I feel like I should go ahead and review it while it's fresh on my mind. Well, thing is, I don't just play a game once(getting a little bit in to my gaming philosophy here), nor do I only play it for 10 minutes: I put in at least an hour or more(most times, much, much more) with virtually every title I review. If I feel I am forcing myself to play a game, it just isn't fun.

A great example of this would be KikkoBoy's time with the Genesis on RGVS. I don't know if you remember it, but basically he's a huge Saturn and SNES fan. He finally got a Genesis and a bunch of games and then *forced* himself to play them. He even said he didn't want to play them at the time, but he forced himself to do it. He ended up selling the Genesis in less than a week. Did he give it a fair shot? Fuck no, but that's his choice, he bought it, he can do whatever he wants. What lets him off the hook is that he doesn't go around screaming about how hard the Genesis sucks(as far as I know). These reviewers, on the other hand...

So, take a game you don't really have much interest in, then apply the situation that you're *forced* to play and review it as it's your job on the line. There's the pressure, now let's apply the method: Run through the game as fast as possible so you can write up some sort of half-assed review, just to get the game out of your face. Done.

I too hate the "professional" reviewer, but more so I hate the industry that forces a lot of them to act the way they do. Like I've mentioned previously, possibly in the 32X thread, *no one* wants to be that guy who gives a game an awesome score when every other site on the net is giving it piss-poor reviews. GameFan did this, remember, and they were constantly ridiculed for it. They gave games a shot, they didn't just conform to what the other mags were passing off as fact...and they were torn apart for it. How many times did you hear people talk about the lack of "professionalism" in regards to the GameFan mag/writers? Quite a bit.

In conclusion, we've got two problems that will probably never be fixed in professional media reviewing: 1) Forced play time and reviews. 2) Reviewers too scared to post what they really think. Though I agree with Gerstman being fired, it probably sent shockwaves through the industry as the few reviewers who slid in snippets of a real opinion into their work have been scared shitless. This is why I feel usenet is the *real* internet: Anything can be said, you can tell people *exactly* how you feel about a game with no real repercussion. Honestly, I feel WAG is just a skin for my random usenet musings...

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