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[Neurotic Void Melody]

Oh Jet Force Gemini, you have brought on the post-RARE sads now. They are but a husk, roaming these British moors somewhere, as Microsoft feeds off what brittle remains they can until there is nothing left but the spectral echoes of a dying cry. Staining the land forever more. Somebody euthanise them, please!

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I'm just waiting for Cory to rebel.

 

[Souplex]

Nintendo can't make a Jet Force Gemini remake. Jet Force Gemini is a Rareware property, and all Rareware properties that weren't from previous Nintendo Properties (Donkey Kong and Star Fox) went with Rareware to Microsoft. It would be Microsoft and Rare making a Jet Force Gemini remake, but considering how poorly Microsoft has handled Rareware's properties, and the company in general, it will never happen.

Also, panel 2's "How am I supposed to Games Journalism?" sounds really weird and is bad grammatically. I'm certain it's not a typo and that's exactly what she meant to say, but it's really bad.

No, but Playtonic could do to JFG what they did to Banjo with Yooka Laylee. Same gameplay, same aesthetics, all nouns replaced with something else.

 

[Darth_Payn]

OF all the tags to put underneath today's strip, why isn't one of them NINTENDO DIRECT so I can get the joke? Or is it actually on lousy games journalism?

 

[DefunctTheory]

Ignoring the joke or the quality of the comic... Wave Race really needs to come back. One of the few non-battle racing games I actually like was Wave Race 64.

Please, Nintendo? I really need this in my life.

 

[Ukomba]

You forgot to put red arrow pointing at nothing, or the red circle around nothing. If it's click bate, go all the way.

Is Hideo Kojima going to be joining Nintendo?
[Blurry picture of a Nintendo Press Conference with a red arrow pointing at something just out of frame.]

Article with two sentences about how Kojima hasn't denied possibly working at Nintendo and Snake having been in smash brothers. Followed my own views on what games he should make/work on while there. Bonus points for Deviant Art pictures of Nintendo characters drawn in Metal Gear style.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

OMG! Don't taunt me with the Jet Force Gemini that will never be! T_T

That does raise an interesting question though... DOES Nintendo have the rights to it? I always just assumed it was Rare's IP.

 

[FPLOON]

Nintendo can't make a Jet Force Gemini remake. Jet Force Gemini is a Rareware property, and all Rareware properties that weren't from previous Nintendo Properties (Donkey Kong and Star Fox) went with Rareware to Microsoft. It would be Microsoft and Rare making a Jet Force Gemini remake, but considering how poorly Microsoft has handled Rareware's properties, and the company in general, it will never happen.

BREAKING NEWS!
Microsoft cuts deal with Nintendo to allow Nintendo to remake Jet Force Gemini in return for a cross-play NX/Xbox PC release!
Rareware set to develop the remake with Nintendo as head publisher and Microsoft working on cross-play integration between tech!
OT: Hmmm... There's only one solution to all of this... Burn Youtube with flamethrowers and rebuild it from the ground up with Dailymotion and Vimeo's flamethrowers as the heat base...

Other than that, we can always do the House of Cads method of game journalism... *shrugs* Or will that be too much?

 

[Luminous_Umbra]

I pretty much feel bad for everyone wanting to do Game Journalism ... simply because of how companies are doing everything in their power to censor / shut any negative or positive feedback about their games (especially on Youtube) even if the main gaming company themselves aren't responsible. You can't do a single review or article without some company like Nintendo demanding something out of your hard work into their pockets.

The shutting down of positive feedback is what really gets me. Like, does Nintendo have such a low opinion of their games that they think they could be entirely enjoyed through a video to the point of not needing to be played?

I mean, sure, for things like Professor Layton where it's fairly linear, but that's not the majority by any stretch.

 

[The Wooster]

Wow...two staffers in the comments both shitting all over the comic...

Grey, you should start going to into news article comment sections and make fun of the way the articles are written. Lets draw some battle lines here! :3

One ex-staffer and an IT monkey. They're not actually people.

 

[Penitent]

Did I just read a funny Critical Miss strip that was actually about games journalism?

I think it's time to let Cory take over.

 

[chocolate pickles]

Wow...two staffers in the comments both shitting all over the comic...

Grey, you should start going to into news article comment sections and make fun of the way the articles are written. Lets draw some battle lines here! :3

One ex-staffer and an IT monkey. They're not actually people.

Hey, show some respect! They're crab people! Now yes, they may be vile, disgusting monstrosities, but they are still technically people. Unfortunately.

 

[Quellist]

Can someone explain what the deal is with Nintendo Direct? I have no idea what this strip is about.

 

[Sarge034]

I would say it reminds me of the escapist's news, but everything is spelled right and 100% factual in the comic... As for the idea that direct press releases will kill journalism, I say it won't. Only because you're only seeing the gold clad outside of polished turds. A journalist's job is to peel back that perfect veneer and expose the hidden shitty core.

 

[Austin Manning]

I would say it reminds me of the escapist's news, but everything is spelled right and 100% factual in the comic... As for the idea that direct press releases will kill journalism, I say it won't. Only because you're only seeing the gold clad outside of polished turds. A journalist's job is to peel back that perfect veneer and expose the hidden shitty core.

Honestly the fear of direct press releases killing games journalism should tell us what kind of state games journalism is in. If a site is so terrified they'll go out of business from not publishing press releases then they're not even journalists, they're just a third party marketing company.

 

[Sarge034]

I would say it reminds me of the escapist's news, but everything is spelled right and 100% factual in the comic... As for the idea that direct press releases will kill journalism, I say it won't. Only because you're only seeing the gold clad outside of polished turds. A journalist's job is to peel back that perfect veneer and expose the hidden shitty core.

Honestly the fear of direct press releases killing games journalism should tell us what kind of state games journalism is in. If a site is so terrified they'll go out of business from not publishing press releases then they're not even journalists, they're just a third party marketing company.

Shhhhhhh, we're not supposed to realize that.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Next week better be a screenshot of Grey's perfect Korean MMO waifu.

You can't just dangle that tantalizing detail in front of us and not deliver!

 

[Something Amyss]

Honestly the fear of direct press releases killing games journalism should tell us what kind of state games journalism is in. If a site is so terrified they'll go out of business from not publishing press releases then they're not even journalists, they're just a third party marketing company.

That's pretty much what games "journalism" has always been. Of course there's a fear, but it's not a new one, and it's not the state "games journalism" is in so much as the state it's always been in.