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Archive for November, 2008
Torrence Davis: He’s Right, AND Wrong, about Square Interview
The website of broken record, The Bitbag, has responded to an interview that Kikzo conducted with Square Enix’s Corporate Director Shinji Hashimoto and Final Fantasy series Producer Yoshinori Kitase in which some questions came up that, to Bitbag Editor In Chief Torrence Davis, proved some points that he was trying to make to several people. He decided to talk about them in an article of his own, and right now he’s getting some heat for them. However, is he correct in what he is saying, or is this another reason why Bitbag continues to be accused of bashing of PS3 fanboys while completely ignoring the 360 fanboys’ own extremist viewpoints?
Valve Admitting L4D Single Player Mediocrity Through Multiplayer Piracy Moderation?
As many of the people who have Left 4 Dead will know, Valve did not include Digital Rights Management (DRM) onto the disc(s). While this is rather good given the way the DRM controversy has exploded in the wake of the Spore debacle, it doesn’t mean Valve is just letting piracy happen. In fact, there is something they are doing about it that is kind of making it seem like they are conceding something to the public. That is, if you know it’s going on. It’s a way that really doesn’t make much sense to us, though it could make sense when you think about it, because it’s only happening to those that want to play multiplayer through the cracked L4D copies floating around the torrent sites. This could mean one of two things: Either they think the multiplayer is the key seller of the game (it’s what’s getting the game these high scores on the reviews so far), or….
….maybe even they think that the single player campaign in L4D sucks total ass.
GT is not biased…Just Their Video Editor Is.
Usually, and I’ll forgo the use of “we” and just talk to you directly this time, I make the Media Watch articles with a sense of sarcasm. Levels of comedy in order to poke fun of things most people would think would be somewhat idiotic to say. Mostly, a grain of salt is to be had on alot of the articles in Media Watch (even the one on Ars Technica had some humorous instances in it). This is not to trash a site, per se, but to show that an article isn’t as unbiased and as in-depth or as truthful (or as fair) as it may seem or how it should be. Usually, if you can laugh at it, it’s usually stupid enough to see that more work should’ve been done in each of those aforementioned areas.
But this is one of those rare instances that there is no room for humor. The one percent that the other ninety-nine excludes. That article that you try and try to find something that you can laugh at, but it’s too damaging, too bias, and too dangerous (and too revealing) to have anything funny about it at all. Ladies and gentlemen, Dblock of GameTrailers, a video editor, decided to write a blog that basically does this and then some.
To Ars Technica: Tell The Entire NPD Story
There is a sense of seriousness in this one, and a sense of us being the smart-asses that we usually are, because the story that Ars Technica ran yesterday about the NPD sales and saying that the 360 is a developer’s “best bet” might have enough comedy to laugh at them and make smarmy comments about them so people can laugh at them and we get accused of bias (yes, we know we’ll HEAR it again when people read this). However, at the same time, there is a level of seriousness once you think about how dangerous this type of claim can really be. Regardless of if you agree with it or not, and regardless of what horse you have put your money on in this race, you just don’t MAKE that type of headline in a NEWS story, regardless of which platform you’re talking about.
Book Level Cred vs. Street Level Cred
I’ve always thought about saying something about this since I’ve seen on N4G a heap of blogs about games being posted in the front page section, some thought out, while some just being made to get hits on their site. Although everyone should know how to weed out the crap from the thought out blogs, the simple thing about the controversy is that “blogs are not news” and that certain people are not allowed to form a public opinion because they are not in the know or haven’t spent years in the industry or in journalism.
How wrong they are! In fact, those very blogs people frown upon, the “street-level” opinions, as I’ll call them, are just as valid, if not moreso, than those high-end “professional” (book-level) opinions.
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