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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:47:06
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I've started perusing other gaming sites as to get The VG Press spread around a little more, and it's a bit of a painful exercise.  The stop by GameSpot perhaps most of all.

When I was at GameSpot, I would spend my time in General Games Discussion and System Wars, which worked well enough.  I haven't been through the forums since we moved to 1up.  Now I understand there would be stupidity regardless, but this is just sad.  Let's start with the GGD:

Next Zelda *will* show whether or not the series is on a downhill trend

Naturally before reading the post, the question arises what he's calling a trend.  For it to be a trend, you'd assume the last two would have to have sloped downward to begin with.  The resulting topic is not even on the level of the typical superiority-complex pseudo-intellectual crap, but just trolling disguised as a question.

Man plays Grand Theft Auto IV for 40 hours...

...discuss?  Here's where GG Weekly has spoiled me.  That would be good for a throwaway comment on there, not a whole topic.  What are you supposed to say?

What is your game of the year?

Could this not have waited until December?


But let's stop there, because System Wars is much, much worse.  I'm not even going to link to the threads, I'm just going to start quoting these morons.  That's right, morons - MODERATE ME HERE, PEOPLE.  MOD-ER-ATE ME HERE.

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Way to make up an attachment.

Aku101 said:

Bethesda is the worst developer in the industry.

Releasing a bugged Fallout 3: GOTY edition for the PC, 360 and PS3. It's been 1 week since it released and no hints to a patch to fix all the freezes and bugs that plagues the game. I can't even play Operation: Anchorage without encoutner a freeze every 3 mins not to mention previous save files are incompatible.

So who do you think is the worst developer in the industry?

Nice touch on asking the question as if the rest of your post wasn't completely braindead.

robobie said:

2009 really is the best year for gamers.

I know a lot of people argue about all of the great games that have come out on certain platforms in 2009. But has anyone stopped and realised how great a year this was to be a gamer in general?

A couple of examples would be:
Killzone 2(9)
Street Fighter 4(9)
Fifa 10(9)
Grand theft auto(9.5)
Rock Band: Beatles(9)
Batman Arkham Asylum(9)
Prototype(8.5)
Infamous(9)
Bowsers inside story(9)
Halo ODST(9)
Uncharted 2(9.5)
Dirt 2(9)
Tiger Woods 10(9)

And there's plenty more to come.

We have New super mario brothers Wii, Modern warfare 2, Assassins creed 2, Forza 3, Left for Dead 2, Ratchet & Clank, Darkside chronicles and many more.

How could anyone deny that 2009 has been one of (if not) the best years for gaming ever? Can we stop arguing over scores and sales to actually appreciate the games?

Appreciate the games not the scores...for which you just posted all the scores for.  2009?  Really?  This is the year that does it for you?  Unless your memory only goes back a year, I think you've plum lost it.  WTF is Fifa 10 doing on there?


SquatsAreAwesom said:

Is the removal of dedicated servers in MW2 the worst developer move of all time?

Do you people have absolutely no sense of scale or relativity?


gamerlifegrace said:

The only thing that I see that PC gamers have an argument in the system wars over 90% of the time is about graphics.

That is a FACT!!!!! Not an opinion.

I mean there are only 2 or 3 exclusive games on the PC that are superior to console. This includes Crysis and one or two more titles. Thats it. So I am confused at how they are always touting about their graphics, when all it comes down to (in terms of their exclusives) is really one or two games.

2 or 3 games...or is it "one or two"...urge to kill rising...


This is just unbearable.  Who are these people?

If you'd like, turn this into a topic on the stupidest things you've ever seen on a message board.

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:01:59
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This Thread -- Yoda reads gamespot, so you don't have to.

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:26:11
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aspro said:
This Thread -- Yoda reads gamespot, so you don't have to.

 We should make this a segment on the podcast. 

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:50:16
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Sometimes I miss Gamespot. Then I go there, and within 30 seconds I remember why I left.

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:58:41
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Ravenprose said:
Sometimes I miss Gamespot. Then I go there, and within 30 seconds I remember why I left.

 Yep, once I visited the GGD and found that two thirds on the topics were locked!

LOL

What a mess! Should have used print screen and saved it.

darthhomer said:

aspro said:
This Thread -- Yoda reads gamespot, so you don't have to.

 We should make this a segment on the podcast. 

 No, GS does not deserve our attention.

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:11:15
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boba707 said:

300 for the xbox +
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100 blu-ray add-on +
50 for xbox live
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speak your mind

Way to make up an attachment.

Hmm, maybe he didn't make it up?

In an interview with Gizmodo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked if we'll ever see a Xbox 360 with a built in Blu-ray disc drive. "Well I don't know if we need to put Blu-ray in there—you'll be able to get Blu-ray drives as accessories," said Ballmer.

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:35:37
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Their reviews have been trash for years.   A lot of them seem like they're written by people who don't even enjoy playing games anymore.  IGN usually scores to generous for my tastes, but if you take the time to read the reviews you can tell that most of their reviewers love what they do.  I don't get that from the GS reviews.

And as far as the forums go. . . man. . . There's a lot of recycled topics in there.  I remember a week where I once counted how many times a thread for "do you want a FFVII remake" subject came along and it actually showed up 7 times in a week, and yet none of them ever got locked.  

Despite all the low IQ posters and blatent trolls I still think the recycled topic thing gets me more than anything else.  I mean, with the hundreds of active forum members that are there you'd think there'd be more interesting and imaginative threads. Nope. Not even close.  

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:25:06
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Ravenprose said:
Sometimes I miss Gamespot. Then I go there, and within 30 seconds I remember why I left.

This.

Once every 4 months or so I'm so bored I go to GGD's front page. Whoaaaaaaaaaaaa Nelly.

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:34:26
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The quality in the GGD is next to none, but there are still some oldschoolers keeping it real.  Its just they are few and far between.

Dont even get me started on recycled topics Yoda!!!

If I have to see another "DUURRR WUTS TEH SCARIEST GAME U PLAYD" thread im gonna vomit inside a donkeys mouth and then french kiss him.

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:59:08

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If I have to see another "DUURRR WUTS TEH SCARIEST GAME U PLAYD" thread im gonna vomit inside a donkeys mouth and then french kiss him.

Oh, that raises a great question.  What is the scariest game you've ever played GME?


Nyaa



Much respect to the guys over there who are still trying.

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:07:51

Godmode is here...........

...it's a mirage. It cannot BE!

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:23:33

Why would anyone go into system wars, just ignore it. The GGD is mostly a wasteland now. I only enter topics made by the RoFers and the few other good members of the community. But Rag is now a mod and he is going to try to clean up the place, I predict that he will be insane in about two weeks. You will find him in a corner rocking back and forth talking to himself saying stuff like "whats your favorite game EVER", "whats the most overrated game EVER", "FFVII remake when", "Stuck on stage 6 of Fighting Force, PLEASE HELP", "Which game should I buy?"


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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:32:13
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Why would anyone go into system wars GameSpot, just ignore it.

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:40:05

Dvader said:

Why would anyone go into system wars, just ignore it. The GGD is mostly a wasteland now. I only enter topics made by the RoFers and the few other good members of the community. But Rag is now a mod and he is going to try to clean up the place, I predict that he will be insane in about two weeks. You will find him in a corner rocking back and forth talking to himself saying stuff like "whats your favorite game EVER", "whats the most overrated game EVER", "FFVII remake when", "Stuck on stage 6 of Fighting Force, PLEASE HELP", "Which game should I buy?"


That's what happened to me. I was a mod for about a month, it endedup being way too much like a job -- at least the way I was doing it.  I've still got a callous from closing all the duplicate NXE threads in the 360 forum and piracy threads in the PSP forum.

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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:56:14
It really began to go downhill after the Gerstman debacle.  I still have fath in it or I wouldn't go there anymore.  There's still a lot of users that I've known for years who make it a good place.  Plus Rag is the new sheriff of GGD. Happy
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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:33:05

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Dvader said:

Why would anyone go into system wars, just ignore it. The GGD is mostly a wasteland now. I only enter topics made by the RoFers and the few other good members of the community. But Rag is now a mod and he is going to try to clean up the place, I predict that he will be insane in about two weeks. You will find him in a corner rocking back and forth talking to himself saying stuff like "whats your favorite game EVER", "whats the most overrated game EVER", "FFVII remake when", "Stuck on stage 6 of Fighting Force, PLEASE HELP", "Which game should I buy?"


That's what happened to me. I was a mod for about a month, it endedup being way too much like a job -- at least the way I was doing it.  I've still got a callous from closing all the duplicate NXE threads in the 360 forum and piracy threads in the PSP forum.

If you lasted a month I'm impressed. I was a mod for just over 24 hours before I said, "screw that." It felt like work, and I'll be damned if I do something like that for free.

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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:14:04

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It really began to go downhill after the Gerstman debacle.  I still have fath in it or I wouldn't go there anymore.  There's still a lot of users that I've known for years who make it a good place.  Plus Rag is the new sheriff of GGD. Happy

If Skybabie couldn't fix it, no one can.

I miss him.

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