Killjoys

» Written on December 6, 2007 at 3:42 AM «

killjoyAre the worst type of killers. Such as the two protagonists, or rather, anti-heroes of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. I’ve scrounged up a little something to, shall we say, set the mood for the rest of this entry.

I suppose that everyone and his mom have probably heard about Jeff Gerstmann, or rather, his firing, which is why I shall not bother to elaborate much on the petty details here. Instead, after the initial shitstorm that usually follows such events on the web, I’ve come to some very profound conclusions about game journalism, which, for your convenience, I’ve outlined below.

  1. Eidos are no different from any other company; that is, being tards.
  2. Gamespot is no different from any other journalism site; that is, crappy reviews.
  3. The actual firing of a senior editor is more likely to be related to office drama than the internet would have you believe. This is, of course, subjective as long as the victim remains silent.
  4. Eidos removing those quotes from their site is kind of telling.

Anyway, I’m a little saddened by the current state of events. Part of my dream when I was younger and more naive was to be a games journalist, to be among the elite at IGN or Gamespot or Happy Puppy or whatever outfit that would accept my pretentious usage of the English language. That was, of course, before I actually grew up and kind of realized that reviews were basically opinionated rants (much like the ones I make here, only I’m not paid for it) that were written with a spellchecker applied.

To see journalism reduced to this is amusing, because I’m a consumer and thus drama is kind of like watching a soap opera for free; yet disheartening, because unlike a soap opera, the characters don’t get brought back for subsequent episodes.

I haven’t actually played Kane & Lynch, but from what I’ve heard and seen of the game, it looks like an utter disaster. It’s annoying, because I was really looking forward to it, hoping it would satisfy my urges for yet another mafia-inspired cop-killing murder simulator. And of course, there’s the charm of playing as a mentally unstable psychopath.

So it’s really disconcerting to see a company not just fuck up a potentially stellar title, but also apply the pressure on a review site, of all things, that eventually led to this series of events taking place, which only serves to fuck up the hype surrounding their title even more. I mean, you’d think that Eidos would be trying to improve their street cred after Tomb Raider: Legends and Anniversary, both of which were decent titles worthy of the TR franchise.

And then you see them get involved with this kind of shit.

Sometimes I wonder if the problem isn’t just marketing departments altogether. I mean, seriously, have you seen some of the Playstation 3 ads? It’s really amazing just how much retarded you can squeeze into a mere 40 seconds or so.

Also, the image in this post was an old doodle I came up with on my tablet a long time ago, I can’t believe I never even saw it until today. Seriously, I need to clean up this laptop soon; there’s a hell lot of random goodies mixed in amongst the trash.

   

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