-Gaming commentator and critic John Bain, known to many as TotalBiscuit, joins David to discuss #GamerGate, journalistic ethics, harassment, and more, and tells the story of being offered a free Alienware laptop in exchange for reviewing a game.
It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.
The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.
Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."
1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.
If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).
Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.
Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.
@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.
I approve of this god damn message.
Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.
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Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.
There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.
Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.
Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.
This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.
Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One
TB nailed that interview
I can has laptop?
very good interview there the one of David Pakman to Total Biscuit. I agree with him on almost every point except for the removal of scores. But we are starting to see a new side here about why game journalists behave the way they do and that's because of game publishers.
I liked how he connected the dots between the review that might have social criticism in it with metacritic and the bonus from publishers. Everything so concise and straight to the point even an outsider would be able to understand why #gamergate is a thing.
But anyway, this entire industry is so broken no wonder we are getting so many shit games as of late. It's like game devs are being shackled by game journalists. But at the same time is not entirely their fault but the publisher's for putting so much authority in game review scores forcing devs to develop games in a certain way. Although some of the blame would fall on us too for caring so much about the damn scores too!
Man, this is going too deep for me. And the sad thing is that this is the side of #gamergate that everyone ignores to focus on click-bait articles about harassment.
Great discussion never knew it will exist in game journalism.
Good watch. Also, reviews are dead. They are impossible to trust.