Honestly, he could have picked one person, Jim Sterling, Moriarty, Geis or whoever and done a top 100 just on them with the amount of unfiltered bollocks they come out with. Gaming journalism is an utter joke.. for the most part I stick to a few TH-camrs to see if a game is any good, I'd much rather trust someone like TotalBiscuit's opinion over a complete smeg head like Colin Moriarty.
"Too much water." -IGN on the review of Pokemon gen 3 remakes, the entire plot of which revolves around the balance of land and sea resulting in about 50% of the world being ocean with small islands.
To paraphrase ShayMay: while the game is 50% sea routes, there is substantially less than 50% of the game's content on those routes. That's why the complaint is valid.
That plot's just a silly excuse for Nintendo to remodel Japan as the in-game setting. The first three gens all had settings modeled after regions of Japan.
I wonder if anyone remembers an older gaming journalist who was called Scorpia. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, she was one of the toughest, most controversial game critics out there. She was well known for publishing extremely harsh reviews on games that she didn't like, mostly role-playing and adventure games. Her review for Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World was so ruthless that she received an angry letter from the game's designer, Jon Van Caneghem, who would later name an enemy monster after her in one of his next games. If you're reading this Larry, I highly recommend you do a video on her or include her in of your next Fact Hunt episodes. She's a long-forgotten controversial gaming journalist that definitely deserves to be highlighted.
Hard to believe that guy lambasted the twin-stick control method that hard, considering it's become so ubiquitous I can hardly imagine the game landscape of today without it. Left stick for movement and right stick for camera is so intuitive that even Animal Crossing uses it now.
Here are some stupid claims about gaming I was told in secondary school, all by the same idiot: - "Segagaga is an illegal Game Gear/GBA hybrid handheld banned in 7 states in America" I first heard about Segagaga from an Italian news report on Game Network. No images were shown other than the logo. I couldn't figure out what it was, even though I could've just Googled it (most of us did have the internet by 2001!). I just mentioned Segagaga to the person and he made up that stupid claim! If I had known of Google it, I could've proved that Segagaga is a Japan-only Dreamcast RPG! - "When the Dreamcast dies, Sega will be forced to port ALL their 1st party Dreamcast exclusives to the Nintendo 64" How stupid did he think I was? By the time he made this claim, the Gamecube had already come out in Japan and Sega were already working on new games for that! Also, you cannot make an exact port of a Dreamcast game to the Nintendo 64, Nintendo 64 game paks cannot hold ANYWHERE NEAR as much data as Dreamcast GD-Roms or even PlayStation CD-Roms! Also, making a game takes 12-18 months! - "PlayStation 3 is out January 1st 2003, it can play PSone/PS2 games but its own games are cheap little quickfire games no better than what can be played on the net for free" Now that's just silly! No game company would EVER consider doing something like this! - "I have Grand Theft Auto Vice City on the N-Gage" I actually like the N-Gage! I still have mine somewhere, even though it doesn't work anymore. Anyone can tell that there NEVER WAS an N-Gage version of GTA: Vice City, and that a game as big as it couldn't possibly fit into a phone memory card at the time! All these claims were made with absolutely no evidence provided! Like I said, since most of us did have the internet by 2001, we could easily prove claims like the above as being false! However, this idiot was in denial, he insisted his claims were true and dismissed any and all evidence (or lack of) proving him wrong!
I think its a crying shame the PS Vita flopped. Compared to the 3DS I think the form factor was much more comfortable, not to mention they didn't have a gimmick feature that had been rehashed for far too long and no one used anyway. Mind you, Sony eventually came out with the touch pad on the PS4, which would have been great if it worked like a trackpad on a laptop (heck, the Ouya had a better touch pad) except the whole console form factor is designed around not having a mouse, so I guess Sony aren't free from blame over stupid gimmicks we all turn off when we can.
The PS Vita actually did have a gimmick. The back of the console would also double as a touch pad (like the PS4 controllers). You can turn it on and off in the settings menu. As far as I'm aware though, no games acknowledged its existence (except 'Tearaway')
The touchpad and dual screen while gimmicks were quite useful for games like advance wars and fire emblem. In fact extremely useful for them. But i agree the vita deserved better.
Yeah... Say that to my MGS HD Vita collection that can't be played on a Vita TV because there's no dumb gimmick like that stupid ass touchpad on the back... Without modding of course.
1. People who are ever happy to "punch up" should consider that it's not always necessary to punch at all, and that punching hurts. 2. Disabled people, exclusively, get to decide what they're pissed off by. Being a bit unhappy at sad things in your life isn't a disability btw.
When they said "Diablo Immortal is fun, everyone whining about it being on mobile are just entitled crybabies" they just don't get it, and are sucking up to blizzard
@@jonahfalcon1970 Ugh how could you like MovieBob? He's kinda pathetic. Jim Sterling whilst I don't like him I could at least understand why some people like his reviews.
Speaking as a former games magazine journalist, when it's three o'clock in the morning on the day of the print deadline, a freelancer has let you down, your editor's on the warpath and you've still got eight pages to fill, you'd be amazed what utter bollocks can find its way onto the page.
Ah, Dave "Games Animal" Perry, what a character! No, it wasn't his company, but he worked at Rapide for a year or so after the demise of his TV career. He launched "Station", an unofficial PlayStation magazine with a cover disk. Talking of stupid things in games magazines, there's a whole story about the launch of that mag, and the less-than-impressed reaction from Sony and Future (who had the official PS mag) when they saw it. After Rapide closed in 1999, Dave launched his own company Predator Publishing, and I worked for him for about a year editing DVD Monthly. He's now running a successful tattoo studio in Torquay, and has finally stopped wearing those awful bandannas.
Only thing stopping the success of the PSV was Sony and their proprietary memory card. If we could have just used a regular MicroSD card and given myself a ton of space for a few dollars, it would have been a smash, but zero internal storage space meant it was useless without a memory card, they did not come with a memory card, and the memory cards for it had INSANE and still do have INSANE prices per gigabyte. Great piece of kit killed off by the fear of piracy.
@@kathrynradonich3982 thats what normal mode is for A bit of challenge but more story focus for most games Easy mode is baby's first and in some games can even take out certain elements
"It's impossible for an online game to put in offline mode to be played". Um... no. The long history of game rips and cracks will teach you that, "It's impossible to make a game unable to be played in offline mode unless the entire game is run via server and you just connect to it and have no files available for the game on your PC". I'm not even a programmer and I know how this crap works. The only thing they'd have to disable is any software that checks to see if it's connected to the internet. Or, if you're a pirate, you just add a piece of code to the download file that "tricks" the software doing the check into finding an internet connection (with all the proper settings!). When the people who get your product illegally are better at patching in fixes and getting around your anti-piracy BS than your devs are... You probably should fire some morons.
I wouldn't mind, but when Halo: Combat Evolved, released jus over a year later at the back end of 2001 across the pond and six months later for the rest of us, used that EXACT SAME control scheme as Alien: Resurection, it was praised to the point of practically being hailed as the second coming! Alien invented that setup and Halo popularised it!
AesculapiusPiranha well what would we expect from far left leaning journalists who think they know all. Despite having hackers tell them the code can be adjusted. Honestly if someone can show me they know how to get into and just tweak small bits of game code, I'm willing to accept they know far more than I do. Which makes it hilarious to see a hacker crack it to make it offline as well as maxis making that "impossible" patch. Sigh sim city, once a golden game series turned shit by moronic game developers telling players without Internet or good internet to fuck off.....
Surprised the infamous Edge Doom review of "If only you could talk to the monsters" wasn't #1! Was honestly expecting that as it's still cited to this day as one of the stupidest game reviews ever written.
Nothing is more elitist than, after being proven wrong that a game can’t be played offline, rating it lower after offline if patched in because you’re butthurt it’s accessible to more people.
I can't imagine what the guy who wrote #1 must be thinking now. The most terrifying control scheme for shooters has become as standard as the ability to jump in a platformer.
Unfortunately, that last one isn't exactly such a rarity. Too often I've seen people complaining about a new control style idea, just because they couldn't be bothered to spend half an hour to actually get used to it. Of course, same could be said for modern gamers whining about not being able to play old classics because they feel a bit differently. So many people are missing out on greatness and potential innovations just because they're so used to the familiar and don't want to take their time to learn something new.
I find it hilarious that anyone thought Nintendo could be dethroned on handhelds. They created the market and are the kings of handhelds. The Nintendo DS is the second best selling console of all time, just behind the PS2.
My favorite stupid thing a game journalist said (in hindsight) was when PC Accelerator declared in February of 2000: "Halo and Team Fortress 2: Two games you will not see on a console any time soon, if ever!" In all fairness, it did take us 7 years to see Team Fortress 2...anywhere.
Back in 1997, Entertainment Weekly gave Castlevania: Symphony of the Night a C- saying that the visuals were "dated and flat" when compared to 3D games like Nightmare Creatures... do I even need to say how laughable that statement is?
Lol Symphony of the Night looks gorgeous for when it was made what are they on about. I wonder if a re-release with modern spritework would make it look better or worse. Not that that will ever happen of course.
I'll never understand single-player games with Always-Online DRM. It would just encourage piracy, and a lot of times, the DRM gets cracked without too many hurdles
Something stupid that I Heard from IGN that was for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. They said "uninspired level design, 6/10" As someone who has 200% in the game, This is (literally) objectively incorrect
Tbf, uninspired level design is a terrible label for even games with bad level designs, it doesn't do anything justice good or bad. (Donkey Kong Country doesn't need to be discussed much, it was a stupid review of a well loved series)
That aliens resurrection segment was fantastic. That guy was a total idiot regarding what he was bitching about and i couldn't stop myself from chuckling repeatedly to myself. Splendid episode indeed Larry.
"Earthbound is not a bad game if you like 'cuteness'. In fact, with a little violence and some more menacing weapons and creatures, this would have been an excellent RPG. Sadly, all Earthbound has to offer is a Barney-esque romp in a McDonald's Playland" - VG&CE Magazine's review of Earthbound
That review and IGN's review of Double Dragon Neon are the two dumbest things I've ever read. It's one thing to miss a point or two but, to miss the whole point of the game is mind boggling. "...and when you lose all you lives you have to start the level over AGAIN...'cause video games used to do that so, why not do it 20 years later" IGN on Double Dragon Neon
GrahfMetal Gamespot did a freelance review of Dead Rising 3's PC version, that's the worst review I've ever seen or read. Check it out. www.gamespot.com/reviews/dead-rising-3-apocalypse-edition-review/1900-6415861/
The sad fact of the matter is, the Vita _could_ have competed with the 3DS if Sony actually knew how to market the damn thing. They marketed the hell out of the PSP with their weird squirrel commercials, but the Vita barely had any marketing and eventually Sony just started bundling it with their consoles as some weird PSTV addon. At my old job, I used to take my Vita in all the time, and there wasn't a _single_ instance where somebody recognized it as a Vita. Any time a customer mentioned it, they'd think it was a PSP and I'd have to tell them what it was. Not one of them even knew Sony made a successor to the PSP, and most of them were people who loved the PSP. That's how bad Sony fucked up the marketing, even people who loved the PSP didn't know the Vita existed.
As of 2017, we now have Star Fox 2. IGN's reviewer savagely tore into the nigh 2 decade old, unreleased SNES Game, for having poor graphics and clunky gameplay, despite it having the same graphics (if not better) as the original. What's worse is the quote stating that the graphics were so bad, that the game was cancelled, despite that being literally the *entirely wrong reason* for the game's cancellation.
Actually from what I read is one of the main reasons Star Fox 2 was cancelled is because Nintendo was worried it would be compared negatively to the recently released Saturn and PlayStation . So they were right on that point
Wow, that's the first time I've seen a big-name TH-camr actually make a crack at Jim Sterling. I thought everyone just sort of blindly obeyed him despite him just being kind of dumb.
+Ashuraman People disagree with his opinions, and call him "dumb". A silly reason, but eh. Jim is respected by many in games journalists though, especially in the way that he takes a Konami blacklist as a rite of passage and takes on shitty indie "developers" on as part of his dealings on Steam.
Lol, that Alien Resurrection review is like reading someones diary from the 1900's, and finding an entry about how hard it is to control cars with steering wheels.
One of the big things that sunk the Vita so hard was just that Sony did the Sony Thing™ again and didn't advertise it. I remember finding out it existed because I made a character named Vita in a then freshly-launched MMO and got ribbed for it by a friend.
They *did* advertise it... after all _"IT was Console Quality on the Go"_ (I'll never get that slogan out of my head!) for All intents and purposes the Vita was a portable PS3.
@@Oturan20 Where and in what country? Because as I said, totally unaware until the moment of lul at me, haha. And I'd remember that fucking slogan like Skittles' "The colors, duke, the colors! I'm colorblind, kid."
@@Oturan20 Yeah, see, at the time I was still watching Adult Swim and shit a lot when I went to a friend's house who still actually paid for cable a couple times a week, and never once saw a commercial for it. CN always had a lot of Xbox and PS commercials back then, but I never once saw a Vita one. I'd remember that tagline, and I totally wouldn't have used that name if I'd been aware of it, either.
It's funny that buddy hated the control scheme in Aliens so much, even IF it was new. I still remember the first game I ever played that used that control setup, Gun for the PS2, and the reason I loved that game so much was the new control scheme (new for me at least) felt so intuitive, so comfortable, and so easy to use, that it quickly became my all-time favorite shooter lol
I know what you mean. I remember preferring Turok's controls over Goldeneye's because the C-buttons controlled all movement. Even though it wasn't quite like shooters today it just had much better control imo
@@HrHaakon Solitaire and Goodnight in the single controller schemes, all the original N64 control schemes were named for Bond girls don't know if the XBLA rerelease kept the same or renamed them. Steven Garrett being chronically wrong as a reviewer when it came to camera control specifically? Consistent.
To give defense to the PS Vita as a vita owner in hindsight. The biggest reason the Vita failed is because for some goddamn reason Sony decided to be greedy and made proprietary memory cards that were way too expensive for what they were worth instead of using normal SD cards. Sony didn't really support the system that much either which was unfortunate but to all those who have owned a Vita know how fucking cool the system is hands on.
Nintendo's utter greed never was to blame for failure. So i would say the main problem was the sheer lack of games and not the price of the Memory cards.
@@Davion89 I never actually owned a DS, but haven't Nintendo always used catridges with built-in save features for their handhelds? Even with the Switch. That's not the same type of greed as Sony at all.
@@TheWonderRabbit Not the same type of greed? How about: -Selling Launch titles years after the release for full price -Shipping the Console without a decent controller -The Price of the "pro" controller which still sucks -Shutting down older E-shops so all the games you purchased on your older consoles are lost and you get fuck all -The amount of Copyright Bullshit they did and still do on TH-cam and other platforms -Shitting out Console refreshes on a nearly yearly basis -Selling a Console with the power of a cheap tablet for 300€ -Super Mario Allstars (enough said) -"HD" versions of old games for Full price -Having to Pay to use Cloud saves And the list goes on and on and on and on They are the Apple of Gaming selling things for far then they are worth and fucking their customers all day every day
@@wchan39 there's over 1,000 games on the Vita, not even counting the PS Classics playable on it. Yes a heap are JP exclusive but it was never as dire as people claim. The single biggest issue, as someone that does own a decent selection of Vita games was the damn memory card situation, especially with PS Mobile being tied to the memory card you had in, you can't just switch cards or you will lose access to any PSM games you own. So even if I could have afforded one of the largest memory cards I'd have been screwed wanting to keep access to my Tokyo Jungle Mobile (very different to the PS3 version) and one or two other games.
In fairness to Steven Garrett, Alien Resurrection was a brutally, stupidly hard game. It's one thing to learn a new control system. It's another thing to learn a new control system with a game that just beats the hell out of you and makes you feel like you can't control well enough to play it.
Collin admitted how wrong he was about that the Vita and was just a fan boy for it. Gotta say I respect that at least since he is a huge PS fan and could admit being wrong. And Jim Sterling is something else, he’s either spot on or dead wrong. I remember his Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice review were he gave it a 1/10 because it did something stupid in the game and got a bug nobody else ever got and had to restart the game. He later updated it to a 7 but only after backlash. But most of his videos are good and gotta love his take on AAA games industry. Good video tho!
I don't get grown men having format battles, like "their" format is some sort of team they belong to. It's just a product you bought, to entertain you. It doesn't give you identity or community. It doesn't have meaning. I don't even get kids in playgrounds doing it, but at least they have the excuse of being kids. But where else than video games "journalism" do you get ignorant idiots spouting off on technical subjects, citing the degree they got from University Of Press Release, and not knowing ANYTHING that they're talking about? Cos they don't! It's like the blind leading the blind. PR dicks at big electronic companies combing through technical specs to find anything with a number, that's a bigger number than their rivals have at the other big electronics company. Or some sort of half-understood technical-sounding term, but out of context and irrelevant. Lies, nonsense, dissembling. And that's the gospel game journalists START from! That's the lake of shit they mine as if it were gold, and... I dunno... somehow get paid, for eating the shit, shitting it out their own arses, so that the fanboys can eat THEIR shit. And the few people who do know what they're talking about don't care at all. Because they realise that ego, identity, morality, meaning, respect, love, none of these things can be obtained or changed, by buying products and plugging them into a television. The whole gaming journalism "industry" might be the biggest waste of time and energy the human race has produced so far. The nose-picking pants-shitting manchild idiot leading the same-but-more-gullible. Imagine the good that Edge magazine could have done, rendered into soft toilet paper and flown out to communities suffering outbreaks of dysentery. Was there ever a more useless endeavour? Seriously, I'm asking.
@@Rad-Dude63andathird Solely responsible? What? The game has a metacritic of 50 based on 32 reviews. It might be time to consider the fact that people just didn't like it.
The first one, they weren't wrong about the Game Gear. They never said it could play Master System cartridges, they said it could play Master System games. And it could. The Game Gear was literally a Master System inside, mostly. Many Game Gear games were Master system games repackaged, and they did come out with the adapter later.
Number 6: Comparing the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy to *Dark Souls* of all games simply because they completely forgot that despite it's modern graphics, it's still a remaster of three games made at a time when games in general didn't hold your hand as much and as such, they thought it was "too hard". LOL!
BlueDragon992 Exactly. I'm currently playing through Crash 1 on the trilogy. My first time playing a Crash game, since I grew up with games from the PS2 / Xbox / GameCube era onward. It still holds up well, and although I find it hard as a newbie, I won't fault it for it's outdated design. It's still amazing and really holds up today, in my opinion. It just has some parts that don't hold up. But since it's a remaster, not a completely new game, that makes sense and can be tolerated.
As dumb as that last entry was (and it is *hilariously* dumb)... Nobody could have known at the time that the Xenomorphs' otherwise-solid AI in _Colonial Marines_ would end up gimped by somebody misspelling the word "tether". Do you have a list yet of "Games Utterly Ruined by Simple Coding Hiccups"?
Making the final nail in the coffin for the Alien Ressurection part, if you play the original Medal Of Honor, you CAN play with dual thumbstics just like a modern shooter for the most part! Its one of the optional control schemes!
Surprised that X-Play's review of beatmania (PS2) - and them calling it a "Guitar Hero ripoff" despite the beatmania series coming out many many years before GH, didn't make this list. (original 5-key beatmania:1997; 7-key beatmaniaIIDX: 1999) Seriously, it would have taken 2 fucking seconds of research to avoid making a statement as ill-informed, and downright stupid as the one they made.
Same ... if I were to watch it again, I'd still cringe and facepalm just as hard as the first time I heard/saw this bout of idiocy. Not sure if I would call myself a long time a Bemani gamer - only been playing them since 2004-5, but I guess 14 years would count ... ?
Another idiotic aspect of it is that Beatmania was released years before Guitar Hero, like you said. Isn't it kinda pointless to review a game that old unless it was a retro lookback? Except it wasn't a retro lookback, because they called the older game a ripoff? What was X thinking?! If they said Guitar Hero seemed to take after Beatmania, then I could respect that.
For Edge I'd suggest...issue 3 or 4's cover line "The videogame is dead, long live the gamevideo!" about those crap FMV games for early CD consoles that nobody liked.
I remember when Prologue for SC2 Heart of the Swarm dropped and Kotaku dropped a review where they said that Zeratul was a new character that had only featured before in the crossover moba heart of the swarm, despite the fact that the character is as old as the series itself and probably one of the 3 main protagonists up to that point. that was pretty dumb thing to hear, he tried so hard to sound like he knew the series but as soon as he opened his mouth pure stupidity spewed out
Yep, Games Master really was crap. When Sega Power (or Saturn Power by then) died, the publisher sent me a bunch of GM issues to round out my subscription and even as a 11 year old I knew it was awful.
I hated Gamesmaster, they never responded to any letters I sent in, then discovered they were stealing images of me I uploaded to Twitter for the mag in the final years (not a joke)
@@Larry That's even scummier than I expected. I just remembered its lack of personality and low quality reporting (padding out articles by essentially paraphrasing the manual etc.) but I guess I none of this should surprise me anymore. Actually, one of the main realisations I've had from watching your channel is that it's easy to think games journalism has degenerated in recent years, when in fact it's always been pretty terrible. By the way, I really liked the cheeky jab at Movie Bob and Jim Sterling. You've always handled the TH-cam scene with class. Keep it up the good work Larry!
I will always remember IGN's coverage of Mass Effect 3 completely positive nothing critical about it most likely because Jessica Chobot was in the game and she worked for IGN at the time.
I was thinking about a Mass Effect 2 review done by Dean Takahashi. If I'm not mistaken, he said that they should call it "Mass Defect 2". He said this because he didn't know about upgrading/research, so his time with the game was difficult, to say the least. Dean Takahashi is notorious when it comes to sucking at games. The bad thing is, these "Journalists & Reviewers" can impact developer bonuses through their Metacritic reviews..
To be fair in the Alien resurrection part, the game is better played with a Ps1 mouse as it aims better, but the game offers so many options to control the game even sensitivity and turn options that his rant about controls doesn't even make sense. It's still a very hard game, especially in the later levels where you have to save ammo in the Ripley levels, they barely give you enough ammo to take the aliens. But it does look bloody good for a Ps1 game. Ironically the Aliens are smarter and more vicious than Comedical Mari... I mean Colonial Marines.
I saw a game journalist say that just because he skipped the story didn’t mean he doesn’t have the right to rate the story. It was in response to the backlash on a review on FFXIV Endwalker if you’re curious.
I mean, to defend the Vita article, it was announced at the absolute right time when the 3DS was floundering, so it absolutely seemed to be the system to finally topple Nintendo's handheld dominance. But with the memory cards being overpriced (which completely offset the fact that the system itself was decently priced) and the game support post-launch being lackluster (still a good handful of games came out to be fair, just not enough to be competitive) Sony completely wasted the potential of the system.
6:25 "The 3ds is nothing but shitty n64 ports. The Vita is better." Fast forward to 2019 and quote literally the only good reason to buy a Vita now is P4G
@@jamesg6660 Thinking people's choice of what they do with their beeping gadget toy isn't _cool_ like what *you* do with *your* beeping gadget toy. That makes you cooler than them. "lmao"ing over such. Mate, nerds trying to bully each other... it doesn't work. It just makes YOU look like the more socially inept one.
@@greenaum Calm down, it's just a joke. Sure Persona is overrated trash if you ask me, but people can play whatever they want. Just know I'll be silently judging you for it lmao
If you watch the original review there, they aren't really wrong. All they were saying was that many Pokemon in ORAS's main campaign were water types, which made it easy to predict what type you should use to counter the opponents the game throws at you.
Wolvenreign the problem is that the original Ruby and Sapphire got 9.5/10, but the remakes got a lower score because of problems even the originals had.
Italian version of CVG had "reviews" of no more 10 lines, giants photo and basically no info at all on the game. Imho one of the worst magazine at times here.
@@Larry It was the italian version of C+VG published by Gruppo Editoriale Jackson. There is this project which collects a huge amount of old magazine scans: www.retroedicola.com/ (only thing, you have to ask permission to access, but I'm pretty sure if you ask, they will let you in in 0 second :) ), and they have all 44 issues of C+VG scanned :) (There is also a good amount of English Magazines). If you want, I could take some of the most egregious "reviews" for you :)
"Quite a few of you suggested tweetle dee and tweetle dumb themselves, MovieBob and Jim Sterling. (laughter), oh you guys, you're so funny, I said suggestions for *journalists* Unbelievably brutal
" No one's gonna take your DOA Extreme away." " I haven't played past first hours of this game (Homefront: The Revolution) that I'm making a review of right now." " Every male is a potential rapist." " Developers should not be free to express themselves with themes such as rape. I'd consider them disgusting creeps if they do." " Shove you journalistic ethics down your ass." " Pussies (The Escapist) for not censoring their forum of discussions about journalistic ethics." I can keep going. Do you want me to?
I humbly disagree with the Vita statement that there are few games. Every game console goes through the "no games" phase with the media, but a simple Google search will prove there are tons of games (mostly digital that was pretty cutting-edge for the time and loads of people just didn't want to go into the PSN store.) What really hurt the Vita was the high priced memory cards and high developer costs, as well as a very poor publicity exposure. Today, there are still third party developers making games for the device. Maybe this addition to the video isn't quite as accurate as you think?
I think the problem with Sony's handhelds is that the games are mostly ports of home console games. Games meant for long periods sat in front of a TV playing intently. Nintendo games can have fun on any timescale. Like the Zelda portable games have a main quest and usually a parallel one, but apart from that there's always little fun things to discover and do and mess with even if you've only got 15 minutes. And you can always stop what you're doing when your train arrives, to resume later. Nintendo understand that handheld games aren't the same as TV-console games. Other companies haven't mastered that. The Switch is a quirky exercise in weirdness and trying to create some original hybrid. A TV console with a mini-TV and mini controllers that snap on and off. 1P joypad splits into 2 for 2P at any time with everything carried around with you, all the time! The only bit you leave behind is the dock, and there's basically nothing in that, so they can afford to sell them cheaply, so you can have one dock per TV if you want to. Leave one at your grandma's house for when you stay over, play Switch on the car journey there, then in the evening snap the controllers off, put it in the dock, and teach Granny to play Smash. It's novel, and so was a real 3D display. They keep coming up with weird ideas, and succeeding! Mostly cos the games are that good, and the new hardware features keep adding novelty to existing game series that people like. Compared to all that, Sony were just putting Playstations in handheld cases. Or (whisper) just sticking a mobile phone chipset in to make basically-a-phone except it doesn't make calls and has a proper joypad. But why not? Mobile phone chipset dev went a bit weird when chip manufacturers were faced with more transistors than they could possibly use, so started piling ridiculous things on like 3D graphics, that 99% of phones never use, simply because it was _something._
I have to defend the Vita for a sec, every time someone talks crap about it they mention sales numbers and say that the only good games it has are the launch titles. The system is great, and the number of good games is always increasing even without Sony's continuous support, but it is always easier to just repeat what people said years ago instead of making of our minds. This is more of a general rant that specifically going against Larry who is just mentioning the mistakes that a reporter made on an article, but I just have a gripe when someone spreads the "vita is terrible and has no games" erroneous stereotype. Still love you Larry :)
Between Kotaku Editors and Polygon Editors, you could make an entire a Top 100 video of the dumbest shit ever said by a game journalist. Hell, Jason Schreier is a video by himself- the clapback he got from George Kamitami was absolutely cruel.
I don’t know how people decide to who subscribe but, in my case, putting this channel as an example: I watched one video at first, then more and more, and if I find myself literally watching 5 or more videos in a row, I gotta subscribe! Your videos are really interesting, like that kind of videos that you have to watch at the moment instead of putting in the watch later list. You have an amazing charm for this! I’m from the 2002 so it’s actually really interesting to learn about the 80s and 90s video games stuff, instead of seeming like some kind of boring history lesson you make it look and sound as if it was a newly found treasure! (Making the interest in other people spark for these kind of topics) Keep up the awesome format you’re doing bro!
What about the article that was written as a April Fool's joke, saying the Wii would succeed? It ended up being more accurate than the serious reviews.
This probably could have been a top 100 and you'd still have left overs.
I'm getting tons of suggestions already!
Honestly, he could have picked one person, Jim Sterling, Moriarty, Geis or whoever and done a top 100 just on them with the amount of unfiltered bollocks they come out with.
Gaming journalism is an utter joke.. for the most part I stick to a few TH-camrs to see if a game is any good, I'd much rather trust someone like TotalBiscuit's opinion over a complete smeg head like Colin Moriarty.
"Too much water." -IGN on the review of Pokemon gen 3 remakes, the entire plot of which revolves around the balance of land and sea resulting in about 50% of the world being ocean with small islands.
To paraphrase ShayMay: while the game is 50% sea routes, there is substantially less than 50% of the game's content on those routes. That's why the complaint is valid.
i love that Nintendo take the piss out of this in Sun and Moon, theres a photo chance with the same wording :)
Steel that was the dumbest review I’ve ever seen
That plot's just a silly excuse for Nintendo to remodel Japan as the in-game setting. The first three gens all had settings modeled after regions of Japan.
I thought the "too much water" remark was made about the legend of zelda: the wind waker?! I guess I am mistaken
I wonder if anyone remembers an older gaming journalist who was called Scorpia. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, she was one of the toughest, most controversial game critics out there. She was well known for publishing extremely harsh reviews on games that she didn't like, mostly role-playing and adventure games. Her review for Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World was so ruthless that she received an angry letter from the game's designer, Jon Van Caneghem, who would later name an enemy monster after her in one of his next games.
If you're reading this Larry, I highly recommend you do a video on her or include her in of your next Fact Hunt episodes. She's a long-forgotten controversial gaming journalist that definitely deserves to be highlighted.
She wrote for Computer Gaming World. She worked there from 1983 until 1999, when she was fired due to CGW being sold off to Ziff Davis at the time.
Yeah probably a better way of putting it. In any case, I really hope that Guru Larry covers Scorpia at some point.
Her pen name sounds like the name of a villain in a mid-2000s animesque cartoon about teen heroes with bug powers
I remember Gamespot criticizing Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn for not having Mii support or Motion controls, which is asinine to complain about.
johntauren lol I remember that. Radiant Dawn is still my favorite of the Fire Emblem series too.
Ironically Colin Moriarty is also the name of the scumbag that wants you to pay him 200 caps to get information about your father in Fallout 3.
lol, someone at bethesda doesn't like him!
Holy shit, I knew that name was familiar!
Hard to believe that guy lambasted the twin-stick control method that hard, considering it's become so ubiquitous I can hardly imagine the game landscape of today without it. Left stick for movement and right stick for camera is so intuitive that even Animal Crossing uses it now.
Here are some stupid claims about gaming I was told in secondary school, all by the same idiot:
- "Segagaga is an illegal Game Gear/GBA hybrid handheld banned in 7 states in America" I first heard about Segagaga from an Italian news report on Game Network. No images were shown other than the logo. I couldn't figure out what it was, even though I could've just Googled it (most of us did have the internet by 2001!). I just mentioned Segagaga to the person and he made up that stupid claim! If I had known of Google it, I could've proved that Segagaga is a Japan-only Dreamcast RPG!
- "When the Dreamcast dies, Sega will be forced to port ALL their 1st party Dreamcast exclusives to the Nintendo 64" How stupid did he think I was? By the time he made this claim, the Gamecube had already come out in Japan and Sega were already working on new games for that! Also, you cannot make an exact port of a Dreamcast game to the Nintendo 64, Nintendo 64 game paks cannot hold ANYWHERE NEAR as much data as Dreamcast GD-Roms or even PlayStation CD-Roms! Also, making a game takes 12-18 months!
- "PlayStation 3 is out January 1st 2003, it can play PSone/PS2 games but its own games are cheap little quickfire games no better than what can be played on the net for free" Now that's just silly! No game company would EVER consider doing something like this!
- "I have Grand Theft Auto Vice City on the N-Gage" I actually like the N-Gage! I still have mine somewhere, even though it doesn't work anymore. Anyone can tell that there NEVER WAS an N-Gage version of GTA: Vice City, and that a game as big as it couldn't possibly fit into a phone memory card at the time!
All these claims were made with absolutely no evidence provided! Like I said, since most of us did have the internet by 2001, we could easily prove claims like the above as being false! However, this idiot was in denial, he insisted his claims were true and dismissed any and all evidence (or lack of) proving him wrong!
Imagine anxiously waiting 15 years for Aliens: Colonial Marines... only to find out it has the same dual stick movement system.
the irony!
I think its a crying shame the PS Vita flopped. Compared to the 3DS I think the form factor was much more comfortable, not to mention they didn't have a gimmick feature that had been rehashed for far too long and no one used anyway.
Mind you, Sony eventually came out with the touch pad on the PS4, which would have been great if it worked like a trackpad on a laptop (heck, the Ouya had a better touch pad) except the whole console form factor is designed around not having a mouse, so I guess Sony aren't free from blame over stupid gimmicks we all turn off when we can.
The PS Vita actually did have a gimmick. The back of the console would also double as a touch pad (like the PS4 controllers).
You can turn it on and off in the settings menu. As far as I'm aware though, no games acknowledged its existence (except 'Tearaway')
The touchpad and dual screen while gimmicks were quite useful for games like advance wars and fire emblem. In fact extremely useful for them. But i agree the vita deserved better.
Yeah... Say that to my MGS HD Vita collection that can't be played on a Vita TV because there's no dumb gimmick like that stupid ass touchpad on the back... Without modding of course.
cherry on top: colonial marines uses the same control setup as resurrection.
"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Persona 5 dlc contains a disability slur."
That was made up by Kotaku, it's not true.
@@Larry Of course, but I still think it's worth mentioning due to how stupid this was.
nop it dosnt
1. People who are ever happy to "punch up" should consider that it's not always necessary to punch at all, and that punching hurts.
2. Disabled people, exclusively, get to decide what they're pissed off by. Being a bit unhappy at sad things in your life isn't a disability btw.
When they said
"Diablo Immortal is fun, everyone whining about it being on mobile are just entitled crybabies"
they just don't get it, and are sucking up to blizzard
"MovieBob and Jim Sterling?
HAHAHA I said journalists."
Hello police? I want to report a murder.
Fortunately, it's just goodnatured ribbing from Larry. He's a fan of both.
@@jonahfalcon1970 Ugh how could you like MovieBob? He's kinda pathetic. Jim Sterling whilst I don't like him I could at least understand why some people like his reviews.
@@SirDankleberry Not anymore. His channel aswell as himself are a joke now.
Speaking as a former games magazine journalist, when it's three o'clock in the morning on the day of the print deadline, a freelancer has let you down, your editor's on the warpath and you've still got eight pages to fill, you'd be amazed what utter bollocks can find its way onto the page.
I must admit I did that in a few scripts on TV, gave up and just stuck a load of jokes in there instead.
Can you say what you worked on at all? :)
I worked on two different mags, "Ultimate PC" and "Total Control", at Rapide Publishing from 1995 until the company went under in 1999.
Cliff Smith
Ooh, I definitely remember them! Rapide wasn't Dave Perry's company was it?
Ah, Dave "Games Animal" Perry, what a character! No, it wasn't his company, but he worked at Rapide for a year or so after the demise of his TV career. He launched "Station", an unofficial PlayStation magazine with a cover disk. Talking of stupid things in games magazines, there's a whole story about the launch of that mag, and the less-than-impressed reaction from Sony and Future (who had the official PS mag) when they saw it.
After Rapide closed in 1999, Dave launched his own company Predator Publishing, and I worked for him for about a year editing DVD Monthly. He's now running a successful tattoo studio in Torquay, and has finally stopped wearing those awful bandannas.
Only thing stopping the success of the PSV was Sony and their proprietary memory card.
If we could have just used a regular MicroSD card and given myself a ton of space for a few dollars,
it would have been a smash, but zero internal storage space meant it was useless without a memory card, they did not come with a memory card, and the memory cards for it had INSANE and still do have INSANE prices per gigabyte.
Great piece of kit killed off by the fear of piracy.
"Final Fantasy VII Remake's Easy Mode is Too Easy".
“And people die when they are killed.”
Funny thing is that the Easy modes are made exclusively for games journalists lamo
@@Generik97 not entirely. Sometimes it’s nice to just play a game for the story and not have to worry too much about dying.
@@kathrynradonich3982 thats what normal mode is for
A bit of challenge but more story focus for most games
Easy mode is baby's first and in some games can even take out certain elements
Don't Forget IGN one one of The Erley Kingdom Hearts III trailers
Oh and the Xenoblade chronicles definitive edition review they Deleted.
"It's impossible for an online game to put in offline mode to be played". Um... no. The long history of game rips and cracks will teach you that, "It's impossible to make a game unable to be played in offline mode unless the entire game is run via server and you just connect to it and have no files available for the game on your PC".
I'm not even a programmer and I know how this crap works. The only thing they'd have to disable is any software that checks to see if it's connected to the internet. Or, if you're a pirate, you just add a piece of code to the download file that "tricks" the software doing the check into finding an internet connection (with all the proper settings!).
When the people who get your product illegally are better at patching in fixes and getting around your anti-piracy BS than your devs are... You probably should fire some morons.
I wouldn't mind, but when Halo: Combat Evolved, released jus over a year later at the back end of 2001 across the pond and six months later for the rest of us, used that EXACT SAME control scheme as Alien: Resurection, it was praised to the point of practically being hailed as the second coming! Alien invented that setup and Halo popularised it!
"Pompus ignorant twat," describes literally every Polygon employee.
AesculapiusPiranha well what would we expect from far left leaning journalists who think they know all.
Despite having hackers tell them the code can be adjusted. Honestly if someone can show me they know how to get into and just tweak small bits of game code, I'm willing to accept they know far more than I do.
Which makes it hilarious to see a hacker crack it to make it offline as well as maxis making that "impossible" patch.
Sigh sim city, once a golden game series turned shit by moronic game developers telling players without Internet or good internet to fuck off.....
Surprised the infamous Edge Doom review of "If only you could talk to the monsters" wasn't #1! Was honestly expecting that as it's still cited to this day as one of the stupidest game reviews ever written.
I looked it up and I thought "What the fuck am I reading?"
Nothing is more elitist than, after being proven wrong that a game can’t be played offline, rating it lower after offline if patched in because you’re butthurt it’s accessible to more people.
I can't imagine what the guy who wrote #1 must be thinking now. The most terrifying control scheme for shooters has become as standard as the ability to jump in a platformer.
Ratchetpower2 he is currently in a mental institute I presume
No mention of "Gamers Are Dead"?
Too many mentions for similar things probably XD
'Adventure games are dead!'
'Survival horror is dead!'
+bloodrunsclear I love those types of games and people do make them which I honestly find awesome
Blues 000 I agree!
I think it's always too early to call something gone for good :)
+bloodrunsclear agreed
It's not moriarty's fault; he was simply under the impression that sony would actually support the vita in any way
Nah, it totally was Moriarty's fault. Dude was/is just an incredibly dishonest edgelord.
Unfortunately, that last one isn't exactly such a rarity. Too often I've seen people complaining about a new control style idea, just because they couldn't be bothered to spend half an hour to actually get used to it. Of course, same could be said for modern gamers whining about not being able to play old classics because they feel a bit differently. So many people are missing out on greatness and potential innovations just because they're so used to the familiar and don't want to take their time to learn something new.
I find it hilarious that anyone thought Nintendo could be dethroned on handhelds. They created the market and are the kings of handhelds. The Nintendo DS is the second best selling console of all time, just behind the PS2.
My favorite stupid thing a game journalist said (in hindsight) was when PC Accelerator declared in February of 2000: "Halo and Team Fortress 2: Two games you will not see on a console any time soon, if ever!"
In all fairness, it did take us 7 years to see Team Fortress 2...anywhere.
Ah I wish I knew that one earlier!
Back in 1997, Entertainment Weekly gave Castlevania: Symphony of the Night a C- saying that the visuals were "dated and flat" when compared to 3D games like Nightmare Creatures... do I even need to say how laughable that statement is?
And it became one of the greatest games on the SNES (and indeed, of all time).
Lol Symphony of the Night looks gorgeous for when it was made what are they on about. I wonder if a re-release with modern spritework would make it look better or worse. Not that that will ever happen of course.
"Untitled Goose Game is fun. The problem is, all games are also work." - The Atlantic
"This is what I fucking hate about video games...is that it appeals to like sort of the male fantasy"
"I wrote a blog post about this"
I'll never understand single-player games with Always-Online DRM. It would just encourage piracy, and a lot of times, the DRM gets cracked without too many hurdles
Something stupid that I Heard from IGN that was for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
They said "uninspired level design, 6/10"
As someone who has 200% in the game, This is (literally) objectively incorrect
Tbf, uninspired level design is a terrible label for even games with bad level designs, it doesn't do anything justice good or bad. (Donkey Kong Country doesn't need to be discussed much, it was a stupid review of a well loved series)
The bile that spills out of moviebob's twitter makes me physically sick. He's such a vile excuse for a human being.
Cyberweasel89 well he calls Republicans subhuman on a weekly basis
Extra Credits’ video justifying loot boxes should be mentioned in a potential part 2
Any game journalist who takes Anita Sarkeesian seriously.
Nobody?
"Too lazy to milk a second video out of this"
Mate I know you can't see 5 years into the future but it's ironic this is the vid that includs that line
That aliens resurrection segment was fantastic. That guy was a total idiot regarding what he was bitching about and i couldn't stop myself from chuckling repeatedly to myself.
Splendid episode indeed Larry.
Thanks dude :)
"Earthbound is not a bad game if you like 'cuteness'. In fact, with a little violence and some more menacing weapons and creatures, this would have been an excellent RPG. Sadly, all Earthbound has to offer is a Barney-esque romp in a McDonald's Playland"
- VG&CE Magazine's review of Earthbound
I remember that, lmao!
That review and IGN's review of Double Dragon Neon are the two dumbest things I've ever read. It's one thing to miss a point or two but, to miss the whole point of the game is mind boggling.
"...and when you lose all you lives you have to start the level over AGAIN...'cause video games used to do that so, why not do it 20 years later"
IGN on Double Dragon Neon
GrahfMetal Gamespot did a freelance review of Dead Rising 3's PC version, that's the worst review I've ever seen or read.
Check it out.
www.gamespot.com/reviews/dead-rising-3-apocalypse-edition-review/1900-6415861/
oh my, lol
Oh my lord, this Dead Rising 3 review reminds me of some of pitchfork's more ludicrous reviews.
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6656-kid-a/
The sad fact of the matter is, the Vita _could_ have competed with the 3DS if Sony actually knew how to market the damn thing. They marketed the hell out of the PSP with their weird squirrel commercials, but the Vita barely had any marketing and eventually Sony just started bundling it with their consoles as some weird PSTV addon.
At my old job, I used to take my Vita in all the time, and there wasn't a _single_ instance where somebody recognized it as a Vita. Any time a customer mentioned it, they'd think it was a PSP and I'd have to tell them what it was. Not one of them even knew Sony made a successor to the PSP, and most of them were people who loved the PSP. That's how bad Sony fucked up the marketing, even people who loved the PSP didn't know the Vita existed.
and sadly, it happened with Nintendo and the Wii U
As of 2017, we now have Star Fox 2. IGN's reviewer savagely tore into the nigh 2 decade old, unreleased SNES Game, for having poor graphics and clunky gameplay, despite it having the same graphics (if not better) as the original. What's worse is the quote stating that the graphics were so bad, that the game was cancelled, despite that being literally the *entirely wrong reason* for the game's cancellation.
There are three letters you cannot spell "ignorant" without.
@@LeaveTheMark_YT An oldie, but a goodie.
@@ConnorTheUndying :)
Actually from what I read is one of the main reasons Star Fox 2 was cancelled is because Nintendo was worried it would be compared negatively to the recently released Saturn and PlayStation . So they were right on that point
Wow, that's the first time I've seen a big-name TH-camr actually make a crack at Jim Sterling. I thought everyone just sort of blindly obeyed him despite him just being kind of dumb.
Dumb how exactly?
***** he likes to blow a lot of shit out of proportion and has a bias towards things
RobuttCop (Smedis2) I don't think he has a bias really. As for blowing things out of proportion...well maybe sometimes
+Ashuraman People disagree with his opinions, and call him "dumb". A silly reason, but eh. Jim is respected by many in games journalists though, especially in the way that he takes a Konami blacklist as a rite of passage and takes on shitty indie "developers" on as part of his dealings on Steam.
vaska00762 Though we haven't heard anything from Digital homicide in a while, i wonder why
"The Playstation Vita is Set to Succeed."
And suck seed it did.
Dreamcast: finished.
Sega: unstoppable.
Dick: out.
2ollux Craptor Good post
I AM FORCEFULLY REMOVED FROM THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY
One thing we can add is VG24/7's preview of Uncharted 4, where a "hardcore" Uncharted fan didn't know he was instead playing Uncharted 2.
I can't believe you managed to whittle it down to 5.
Lol, that Alien Resurrection review is like reading someones diary from the 1900's, and finding an entry about how hard it is to control cars with steering wheels.
Polygon and Kotaku are the absolute worst in gaming
One of the big things that sunk the Vita so hard was just that Sony did the Sony Thing™ again and didn't advertise it. I remember finding out it existed because I made a character named Vita in a then freshly-launched MMO and got ribbed for it by a friend.
They *did* advertise it... after all _"IT was Console Quality on the Go"_ (I'll never get that slogan out of my head!) for All intents and purposes the Vita was a portable PS3.
@@Oturan20 Where and in what country?
Because as I said, totally unaware until the moment of lul at me, haha. And I'd remember that fucking slogan like Skittles' "The colors, duke, the colors! I'm colorblind, kid."
@@Cemi_Mhikku In the USA... it was always a FPS related commercial... granted it's been a long time and I had stopped watching live TV years ago...
@@Oturan20 Yeah, see, at the time I was still watching Adult Swim and shit a lot when I went to a friend's house who still actually paid for cable a couple times a week, and never once saw a commercial for it.
CN always had a lot of Xbox and PS commercials back then, but I never once saw a Vita one. I'd remember that tagline, and I totally wouldn't have used that name if I'd been aware of it, either.
Yo, that's a chiptune "American Idiot" by Green Day at 6:09
Nice!
SimCity 2013 was such a pile of shit. Thank God for Cities Skylines.
Mexican "magazine" named "book" said Nintendo was going to stop making video games. That made my day
It's funny that buddy hated the control scheme in Aliens so much, even IF it was new. I still remember the first game I ever played that used that control setup, Gun for the PS2, and the reason I loved that game so much was the new control scheme (new for me at least) felt so intuitive, so comfortable, and so easy to use, that it quickly became my all-time favorite shooter lol
I know what you mean. I remember preferring Turok's controls over Goldeneye's because the C-buttons controlled all movement. Even though it wasn't quite like shooters today it just had much better control imo
@@cambrodia3189
Wasn't there a layout on Goldeneye that did that? Soldier or soemthing? It's been decades since I played it, but still...
@@HrHaakon Solitaire and Goodnight in the single controller schemes, all the original N64 control schemes were named for Bond girls don't know if the XBLA rerelease kept the same or renamed them.
Steven Garrett being chronically wrong as a reviewer when it came to camera control specifically? Consistent.
To give defense to the PS Vita as a vita owner in hindsight. The biggest reason the Vita failed is because for some goddamn reason Sony decided to be greedy and made proprietary memory cards that were way too expensive for what they were worth instead of using normal SD cards. Sony didn't really support the system that much either which was unfortunate but to all those who have owned a Vita know how fucking cool the system is hands on.
Nintendo's utter greed never was to blame for failure. So i would say the main problem was the sheer lack of games and not the price of the Memory cards.
@@Davion89 I never actually owned a DS, but haven't Nintendo always used catridges with built-in save features for their handhelds? Even with the Switch. That's not the same type of greed as Sony at all.
Also, it's funny that the Vita DID have a huge library of games...but only in Japan.
@@TheWonderRabbit Not the same type of greed?
How about:
-Selling Launch titles years after the release for full price
-Shipping the Console without a decent controller
-The Price of the "pro" controller which still sucks
-Shutting down older E-shops so all the games you purchased on your older consoles are lost and you get fuck all
-The amount of Copyright Bullshit they did and still do on TH-cam and other platforms
-Shitting out Console refreshes on a nearly yearly basis
-Selling a Console with the power of a cheap tablet for 300€
-Super Mario Allstars (enough said)
-"HD" versions of old games for Full price
-Having to Pay to use Cloud saves
And the list goes on and on and on and on
They are the Apple of Gaming selling things for far then they are worth and fucking their customers all day every day
@@wchan39 there's over 1,000 games on the Vita, not even counting the PS Classics playable on it. Yes a heap are JP exclusive but it was never as dire as people claim. The single biggest issue, as someone that does own a decent selection of Vita games was the damn memory card situation, especially with PS Mobile being tied to the memory card you had in, you can't just switch cards or you will lose access to any PSM games you own. So even if I could have afforded one of the largest memory cards I'd have been screwed wanting to keep access to my Tokyo Jungle Mobile (very different to the PS3 version) and one or two other games.
In fairness to Steven Garrett, Alien Resurrection was a brutally, stupidly hard game. It's one thing to learn a new control system. It's another thing to learn a new control system with a game that just beats the hell out of you and makes you feel like you can't control well enough to play it.
>Stupid Things Said by Games Journalists
>Jim Sterling on the Cover
You don't have to be a psychic to predict the incoming shitstorm.
Moviebob...
Isn't Arthur Gies the same dude who played DOOM '16 like a three year old? XD
The Side Quest Gamer lol polygon can't actually play games, just complain about political bs
I'm pretty sure that was someone else. I think.
+Some Random Ass Canadian nope that was him lol
remember, they're not gamers, and they're not journalists
Collin admitted how wrong he was about that the Vita and was just a fan boy for it. Gotta say I respect that at least since he is a huge PS fan and could admit being wrong. And Jim Sterling is something else, he’s either spot on or dead wrong. I remember his Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice review were he gave it a 1/10 because it did something stupid in the game and got a bug nobody else ever got and had to restart the game. He later updated it to a 7 but only after backlash. But most of his videos are good and gotta love his take on AAA games industry. Good video tho!
I don't get grown men having format battles, like "their" format is some sort of team they belong to. It's just a product you bought, to entertain you. It doesn't give you identity or community. It doesn't have meaning.
I don't even get kids in playgrounds doing it, but at least they have the excuse of being kids. But where else than video games "journalism" do you get ignorant idiots spouting off on technical subjects, citing the degree they got from University Of Press Release, and not knowing ANYTHING that they're talking about?
Cos they don't! It's like the blind leading the blind. PR dicks at big electronic companies combing through technical specs to find anything with a number, that's a bigger number than their rivals have at the other big electronics company. Or some sort of half-understood technical-sounding term, but out of context and irrelevant. Lies, nonsense, dissembling. And that's the gospel game journalists START from! That's the lake of shit they mine as if it were gold, and... I dunno... somehow get paid, for eating the shit, shitting it out their own arses, so that the fanboys can eat THEIR shit.
And the few people who do know what they're talking about don't care at all. Because they realise that ego, identity, morality, meaning, respect, love, none of these things can be obtained or changed, by buying products and plugging them into a television.
The whole gaming journalism "industry" might be the biggest waste of time and energy the human race has produced so far. The nose-picking pants-shitting manchild idiot leading the same-but-more-gullible. Imagine the good that Edge magazine could have done, rendered into soft toilet paper and flown out to communities suffering outbreaks of dysentery. Was there ever a more useless endeavour? Seriously, I'm asking.
@@Rad-Dude63andathird Solely responsible? What? The game has a metacritic of 50 based on 32 reviews. It might be time to consider the fact that people just didn't like it.
The first one, they weren't wrong about the Game Gear. They never said it could play Master System cartridges, they said it could play Master System games. And it could. The Game Gear was literally a Master System inside, mostly. Many Game Gear games were Master system games repackaged, and they did come out with the adapter later.
Alien Resurrection one blew my mind! How crazy that he couldn’t adopt to the new scheme is beyond me.
It's a shockingly hard game. Even Civvie played it with a mouse (which it actually was designed for as well).
Number 6: Comparing the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy to *Dark Souls* of all games simply because they completely forgot that despite it's modern graphics, it's still a remaster of three games made at a time when games in general didn't hold your hand as much and as such, they thought it was "too hard". LOL!
BlueDragon992 Exactly. I'm currently playing through Crash 1 on the trilogy. My first time playing a Crash game, since I grew up with games from the PS2 / Xbox / GameCube era onward. It still holds up well, and although I find it hard as a newbie, I won't fault it for it's outdated design. It's still amazing and really holds up today, in my opinion. It just has some parts that don't hold up. But since it's a remaster, not a completely new game, that makes sense and can be tolerated.
BlueDragon992 That really happened!? Who said that stupidity?
BlueDragon992 number 0.5*. The first one
As dumb as that last entry was (and it is *hilariously* dumb)... Nobody could have known at the time that the Xenomorphs' otherwise-solid AI in _Colonial Marines_ would end up gimped by somebody misspelling the word "tether".
Do you have a list yet of "Games Utterly Ruined by Simple Coding Hiccups"?
A QA tester could have.
Polygon journalists being arrogant, insufferable and just plain wrong? I am shocked I tell you! SHOCKED!
Can you really take today's game journalism seriously?
Not even surprised to see Polygon, Jim Sterling or Movie Bob
Making the final nail in the coffin for the Alien Ressurection part, if you play the original Medal Of Honor, you CAN play with dual thumbstics just like a modern shooter for the most part! Its one of the optional control schemes!
Surprised that X-Play's review of beatmania (PS2) - and them calling it a "Guitar Hero ripoff" despite the beatmania series coming out many many years before GH, didn't make this list. (original 5-key beatmania:1997; 7-key beatmaniaIIDX: 1999) Seriously, it would have taken 2 fucking seconds of research to avoid making a statement as ill-informed, and downright stupid as the one they made.
As a long-time music game (and specifically Bemani) follower, I remember this so very well.
Same ... if I were to watch it again, I'd still cringe and facepalm just as hard as the first time I heard/saw this bout of idiocy.
Not sure if I would call myself a long time a Bemani gamer - only been playing them since 2004-5, but I guess 14 years would count ... ?
Another idiotic aspect of it is that Beatmania was released years before Guitar Hero, like you said. Isn't it kinda pointless to review a game that old unless it was a retro lookback? Except it wasn't a retro lookback, because they called the older game a ripoff? What was X thinking?! If they said Guitar Hero seemed to take after Beatmania, then I could respect that.
It'd be hard to not respect that, because that would be a hell of a lot more accurate, hahaha.
"I'm too lazy to milk a second video out of this", oh this quote is different in the far off future of 2022.
What, no "like Skyrim with guns"?
For Edge I'd suggest...issue 3 or 4's cover line "The videogame is dead, long live the gamevideo!" about those crap FMV games for early CD consoles that nobody liked.
I remember when Prologue for SC2 Heart of the Swarm dropped and Kotaku dropped a review where they said that Zeratul was a new character that had only featured before in the crossover moba heart of the swarm, despite the fact that the character is as old as the series itself and probably one of the 3 main protagonists up to that point. that was pretty dumb thing to hear, he tried so hard to sound like he knew the series but as soon as he opened his mouth pure stupidity spewed out
Poor Vita, it deserved so much better
"...a guy who Straw-manned so many arguments he should be called 'The Wicker Man'."
That is fucking hilarious; I'm writing that one down.
"PSVita has many games"
*Laughs in Japanese.*
0:07
Is that the Phillips CDi version of Tetris.
Damn that takes me back, that waterfall was beautiful
It's a whole slew of CD-i games.
Yep, Games Master really was crap. When Sega Power (or Saturn Power by then) died, the publisher sent me a bunch of GM issues to round out my subscription and even as a 11 year old I knew it was awful.
I hated Gamesmaster, they never responded to any letters I sent in, then discovered they were stealing images of me I uploaded to Twitter for the mag in the final years (not a joke)
@@Larry That's even scummier than I expected. I just remembered its lack of personality and low quality reporting (padding out articles by essentially paraphrasing the manual etc.) but I guess I none of this should surprise me anymore. Actually, one of the main realisations I've had from watching your channel is that it's easy to think games journalism has degenerated in recent years, when in fact it's always been pretty terrible.
By the way, I really liked the cheeky jab at Movie Bob and Jim Sterling. You've always handled the TH-cam scene with class. Keep it up the good work Larry!
I will always remember IGN's coverage of Mass Effect 3 completely positive nothing critical about it most likely because Jessica Chobot was in the game and she worked for IGN at the time.
I was thinking about a Mass Effect 2 review done by Dean Takahashi. If I'm not mistaken, he said that they should call it "Mass Defect 2". He said this because he didn't know about upgrading/research, so his time with the game was difficult, to say the least. Dean Takahashi is notorious when it comes to sucking at games.
The bad thing is, these "Journalists & Reviewers" can impact developer bonuses through their Metacritic reviews..
Number 1 made me laugh, it's like someone dissing the aeroplane in the early 1900's. Great vid.
"bloodborne is boring and too hard" i almost killed someone that day
Can you remember who said that?
@@Larry ign search for: how and why bloodborne lost me article by Dan Stapleton
You can't spell *IGNORANCE* without *IGN*.
I can. IKNORANTS!
I think the Gamespot April fool article where it mocks the Wii by predicting it will outsell the PS3 and Xbox 360 was pretty hilarious...
oh the irony.
Remember when EuroGamer "confirmed" that every PS4 will come bundled with the PS eye because the DS4 won't work without it.
To be fair in the Alien resurrection part, the game is better played with a Ps1 mouse as it aims better, but the game offers so many options to control the game even sensitivity and turn options that his rant about controls doesn't even make sense.
It's still a very hard game, especially in the later levels where you have to save ammo in the Ripley levels, they barely give you enough ammo to take the aliens. But it does look bloody good for a Ps1 game. Ironically the Aliens are smarter and more vicious than Comedical Mari... I mean Colonial Marines.
I saw a game journalist say that just because he skipped the story didn’t mean he doesn’t have the right to rate the story. It was in response to the backlash on a review on FFXIV Endwalker if you’re curious.
I mean, to defend the Vita article, it was announced at the absolute right time when the 3DS was floundering, so it absolutely seemed to be the system to finally topple Nintendo's handheld dominance.
But with the memory cards being overpriced (which completely offset the fact that the system itself was decently priced) and the game support post-launch being lackluster (still a good handful of games came out to be fair, just not enough to be competitive) Sony completely wasted the potential of the system.
6:25 "The 3ds is nothing but shitty n64 ports. The Vita is better."
Fast forward to 2019 and quote literally the only good reason to buy a Vita now is P4G
And Homebrew
@@Trattorin
And Digimon. And several Disgaea games. And lots of PlayStation games on the go. And God eater.
> good reason to buy a console
> weeb waifu rpg
lmao
@@jamesg6660 Thinking people's choice of what they do with their beeping gadget toy isn't _cool_ like what *you* do with *your* beeping gadget toy. That makes you cooler than them. "lmao"ing over such.
Mate, nerds trying to bully each other... it doesn't work. It just makes YOU look like the more socially inept one.
@@greenaum Calm down, it's just a joke. Sure Persona is overrated trash if you ask me, but people can play whatever they want. Just know I'll be silently judging you for it lmao
"The way he turns to face the camera as he goes into a head first dive is just full of the exaggerated swagger of a black teen."
''Too much water'' -IGN
At least it made a great meme.
If you watch the original review there, they aren't really wrong. All they were saying was that many Pokemon in ORAS's main campaign were water types, which made it easy to predict what type you should use to counter the opponents the game throws at you.
Wolvenreign the problem is that the original Ruby and Sapphire got 9.5/10, but the remakes got a lower score because of problems even the originals had.
Tbf ORAS deserves more crap for stuff other than just water, lol
Italian version of CVG had "reviews" of no more 10 lines, giants photo and basically no info at all on the game. Imho one of the worst magazine at times here.
Haha, can you remember the name of the mag? I'll look up if there's any scans of them online! :)
@@Larry It was the italian version of C+VG published by Gruppo Editoriale Jackson. There is this project which collects a huge amount of old magazine scans: www.retroedicola.com/ (only thing, you have to ask permission to access, but I'm pretty sure if you ask, they will let you in in 0 second :) ), and they have all 44 issues of C+VG scanned :) (There is also a good amount of English Magazines). If you want, I could take some of the most egregious "reviews" for you :)
@@Larry here, I took some sample :) imgur.com/a/Za77B85
"Quite a few of you suggested tweetle dee and tweetle dumb themselves, MovieBob and Jim Sterling. (laughter), oh you guys, you're so funny, I said suggestions for *journalists*
Unbelievably brutal
Agreed. Thank god for Jim.
" No one's gonna take your DOA Extreme away."
" I haven't played past first hours of this game (Homefront: The Revolution) that I'm making a review of right now."
" Every male is a potential rapist."
" Developers should not be free to express themselves with themes such as rape. I'd consider them disgusting creeps if they do."
" Shove you journalistic ethics down your ass."
" Pussies (The Escapist) for not censoring their forum of discussions about journalistic ethics."
I can keep going. Do you want me to?
He can be entertaining, it's just that he prefers to be a hypocritical git most of the time.
+Retro Anime Master Race Hey, that was "every male in an elevator is a potential rapist", which is even more absurd...
To hell with Jim Sterling and thank God for you.
I humbly disagree with the Vita statement that there are few games. Every game console goes through the "no games" phase with the media, but a simple Google search will prove there are tons of games (mostly digital that was pretty cutting-edge for the time and loads of people just didn't want to go into the PSN store.) What really hurt the Vita was the high priced memory cards and high developer costs, as well as a very poor publicity exposure. Today, there are still third party developers making games for the device. Maybe this addition to the video isn't quite as accurate as you think?
Anguawolf007 don't forget reliability issues with some screens and proprietary memory cards that many had issues with (corruption and such).
There were few first party games however
I think the problem with Sony's handhelds is that the games are mostly ports of home console games. Games meant for long periods sat in front of a TV playing intently.
Nintendo games can have fun on any timescale. Like the Zelda portable games have a main quest and usually a parallel one, but apart from that there's always little fun things to discover and do and mess with even if you've only got 15 minutes. And you can always stop what you're doing when your train arrives, to resume later.
Nintendo understand that handheld games aren't the same as TV-console games. Other companies haven't mastered that. The Switch is a quirky exercise in weirdness and trying to create some original hybrid. A TV console with a mini-TV and mini controllers that snap on and off. 1P joypad splits into 2 for 2P at any time with everything carried around with you, all the time!
The only bit you leave behind is the dock, and there's basically nothing in that, so they can afford to sell them cheaply, so you can have one dock per TV if you want to. Leave one at your grandma's house for when you stay over, play Switch on the car journey there, then in the evening snap the controllers off, put it in the dock, and teach Granny to play Smash.
It's novel, and so was a real 3D display. They keep coming up with weird ideas, and succeeding! Mostly cos the games are that good, and the new hardware features keep adding novelty to existing game series that people like.
Compared to all that, Sony were just putting Playstations in handheld cases. Or (whisper) just sticking a mobile phone chipset in to make basically-a-phone except it doesn't make calls and has a proper joypad.
But why not? Mobile phone chipset dev went a bit weird when chip manufacturers were faced with more transistors than they could possibly use, so started piling ridiculous things on like 3D graphics, that 99% of phones never use, simply because it was _something._
Disappointed there was no IGN "7.8/10: Too much water" from Pokemon ORAS, even though the game is supposed to be based on an island-y area
I love how this is literally months before gamespot gave yokai watch 2 5/10 for being "confusing"
The Vita had a ton of potential... Sadly that's all it had.
Stupidest thing ever said by a game company CEO....."whenever I'm hanging with my pal miyamoto-san" - thieving Tommy Tallarico
Can I get a whoa bundy
I have to defend the Vita for a sec, every time someone talks crap about it they mention sales numbers and say that the only good games it has are the launch titles. The system is great, and the number of good games is always increasing even without Sony's continuous support, but it is always easier to just repeat what people said years ago instead of making of our minds.
This is more of a general rant that specifically going against Larry who is just mentioning the mistakes that a reporter made on an article, but I just have a gripe when someone spreads the "vita is terrible and has no games" erroneous stereotype. Still love you Larry :)
I play my Vita just as much as my 3DS,it has fantastic exclusives especially if you're a jrpg fan or action rpg fan.
Between Kotaku Editors and Polygon Editors, you could make an entire a Top 100 video of the dumbest shit ever said by a game journalist.
Hell, Jason Schreier is a video by himself- the clapback he got from George Kamitami was absolutely cruel.
"GameStop's Stephen Garatt's-"
You mean... Gamespot..?
Good to know even the Guru's make mistakes!
I don’t know how people decide to who subscribe but, in my case, putting this channel as an example:
I watched one video at first, then more and more, and if I find myself literally watching 5 or more videos in a row, I gotta subscribe! Your videos are really interesting, like that kind of videos that you have to watch at the moment instead of putting in the watch later list. You have an amazing charm for this! I’m from the 2002 so it’s actually really interesting to learn about the 80s and 90s video games stuff, instead of seeming like some kind of boring history lesson you make it look and sound as if it was a newly found treasure! (Making the interest in other people spark for these kind of topics)
Keep up the awesome format you’re doing bro!
What about the article that was written as a April Fool's joke, saying the Wii would succeed? It ended up being more accurate than the serious reviews.
You need to say what magazine it is. I don't know where to find it then. Or if it is digital you could just say what website it is.
It's on Gamespot
www.gamespot.com/articles/april-fools-analyst-revolution-will-take-lead-in-2010/1100-6146958/
I'd say that's more irony than anything.