Medium.com. Shitty blog opinions. Name a more iconic duo!
Crowbcat (not Crowbar) specializes in highlighting these problems in games in a detailed way that no other review can. Yeah, it mostly just a montage of clips, but each set proves the main point more than just say “Well, this game is bad, blah, blah, blah” and talking for five minutes. Show, don’t tell.
For example, his Back 4 Blood video proved his main point directly and pretty definitively with 30 minutes of evidence. Everybody else talked about how it was a bad game and sure that’s fine. If you want a more traditional review, then go watch those. But, it’s also useful to catalogue these instances as directly as possible in a comparative way. It was a single point, and it wasn’t supposed to be some grand review of the game, but the point was backed up with evidence, which is more than I can say about some of these shitty bloggers that call themselves game journalists.
Is it insincere? No. The insincere thing to do is sit back and allow game companies to shit all over the consumer when they put out a half-baked product. There is nothing wrong with calling out their shit. Let me repeat that more directly:
There is nothing wrong with being outraged at a company trying to fuck over the consumer!
Frankly, I try to stay away from AAA gaming, because of shit like this. But, just because I don’t play a lot of AAA games doesn’t mean I’m going to write some shitty blog article that calls fighting the good fight “outrage journalism”.
the fact that you sound incredibly angry about a post I put down a month ago and then put “outrage journalism” in quotes is hilariously ironic, but not in a way I think would lead to any sort of interesting conversation so I won’t get into it with you beyond that
Not my fault Lemmy puts old posts on the front page.
I’m also not “incredibly angry”. Misinformation like this blog article is just frustrating at best.
lol, tax collector man. that guy is weird, i guess medium just lets anybody post anything now huh. crowbcat does suck but do does every YouTuber. YouTube systematically does this with all of its content.
Oh wow. That was a really interesting read. I hadn’t heard of that YouTube channel before.
I like to post the occasional video game review on YouTube, but that’s just because I enjoy talking about video games. I work really hard to form an opinion with reasons to back up each point I make. If I’m undecided on something or am purely speculating, I’ll clearly state that. My goal is for the viewer to calmly think, huh, even though I may or may not agree, I understand his point.
I didn’t realize these kinds of things were happening in YouTube videos. It makes sense. Outrage sells so well on news channels and news websites for adults interested in current events, so it would also be aimed at other demographics.
I used to watch Zero Punctuation until I realized, even though the videos are entertaining, they’re kind of empty of any deep thought. Maybe it’s a similar situation?
I’ll keep it in mind as my kids grow up and watch more and more stuff like this.
