Yet this is one of the heaviest modderated forums I have ever seen in my life. To this day.Chimpzy said:If you hadn't noticed yet, there's basically no regular content aside from Yathzee's stuff. Pretty much all other contributors and staff, including the tech team, have been laid off, or have moved to greener pastures. What remains is a skeleton crew barely managing to hold the place together.
Why is that, you ask?
Various reasons ranging from GamerGate to obsolescence to Defy not giving a crap, but I'm not going into that.
I'd be repeating myself.
Funnily enough, the Escapist chose to allow GamerGate discussion where many other outlets didn't. Which led to a gigantic clusterfuck of a shitshow that got many longtime regulars to up and leave, and is often cited as one of the reasons for its downfall.CritialGaming said:Yet this is one of the heaviest moderated forums I have ever seen in my life. To this day.
Defy pissed off the internet gods, in doing so the Escapiest is heading to internet purgatory.A few brave souls are manning the forum holding back the tide of darkness that approaches. They thought are but mere humans and are now slowly starting to go mad and insane reliving their own eternal darkness.ShadowRatchet92 said:So, I notice an incredible lack of game reviews from the Escapist. What's going on? Do they not have enough money to fund people to review games?Hell, if they're hiring, I'd work for them.
hanselthecaretaker said:What the hell site is everyone on then? Gamespot?s forums are a joke. IGN?s forums are a joke. Neogaf?s forums are only good for those massive (new game) tribute threads or whatever.
That basically leaves a handful of random outliers with less going on than this one, unless I?m missing something?
DrownedAmmet said:hanselthecaretaker said:What the hell site is everyone on then? Gamespot?s forums are a joke. IGN?s forums are a joke. Neogaf?s forums are only good for those massive (new game) tribute threads or whatever.
That basically leaves a handful of random outliers with less going on than this one, unless I?m missing something?
That's where I go if I want to talk about a specific game now. Usually reddits dedicated to one game or series are more pleasant and less meme-heavy than the general gaming reddit
it's definitely hit or miss but I've found the Dark Souls reddit to be a good place to go for anything from deep lore discussions, to tips and tricks, and for new interesting tid bits that people are still discovering about the game. Aside from the occasional meme-regurgitating wanker people are generally just normal people that want to talk about the gamehanselthecaretaker said:DrownedAmmet said:hanselthecaretaker said:What the hell site is everyone on then? Gamespot?s forums are a joke. IGN?s forums are a joke. Neogaf?s forums are only good for those massive (new game) tribute threads or whatever.
That basically leaves a handful of random outliers with less going on than this one, unless I?m missing something?
That's where I go if I want to talk about a specific game now. Usually reddits dedicated to one game or series are more pleasant and less meme-heavy than the general gaming reddit
Really...interesting. I always thought it was more of a blog center for everything and anything with no real structure or dedicated userbase. I?ll have to check it out, thanks.
Reddit is great if you want to talk about a specific game. However general gaming discussion or game industry issues are harder to discuss because of how faster everything moves on the site. Additionally try writing a negative review or criticism of a game on it's circle jerking subreddit and your post will be downvoted so fucking far you swear you'd gone back in time to before you even wrote the fucking thing.DrownedAmmet said:snip
I think a lot of people just stopped. They realized gaming critics are a joke, and there's no reason to read what they think.hanselthecaretaker said:What the hell site is everyone on then?
Gamespot?s forums are a joke. Banned twice for no good reason, several years and IP addresses apart too. Couldn?t even get a response as to why the second time.
IGN?s forums are a joke. Never banned but they are deceivingly devoid of content, having dozens of individual game boards with next to nothing new, and lots of juvenile banter.
Neogaf?s forums are only good for those massive (new game) tribute threads or whatever.
That basically leaves a handful of random outliers or niche sites with less relevant activity than this one, unless I?m missing something?
Silentpony said:I think a lot of people just stopped. They realized gaming critics are a joke, and there's no reason to read what they think.hanselthecaretaker said:What the hell site is everyone on then?
Gamespot?s forums are a joke. Banned twice for no good reason, several years and IP addresses apart too. Couldn?t even get a response as to why the second time.
IGN?s forums are a joke. Never banned but they are deceivingly devoid of content, having dozens of individual game boards with next to nothing new, and lots of juvenile banter.
Neogaf?s forums are only good for those massive (new game) tribute threads or whatever.
That basically leaves a handful of random outliers or niche sites with less relevant activity than this one, unless I?m missing something?
Funny you said that because I am finding it harder and harder to find "reviewers" that I can trust. If you look around to just about every major game site (Gamespot, Ign, Kotaku, etc) you can see all the reviews for Shadow of War. Yet in none of these reviews do they ever, at all mention the impact of lootboxes. It's like they all fucking avoid the elephant in the room and gave the game a score based on everything else.Silentpony said:I think a lot of people just stopped. They realized gaming critics are a joke, and there's no reason to read what they think.hanselthecaretaker said:What the hell site is everyone on then?
Gamespot?s forums are a joke. Banned twice for no good reason, several years and IP addresses apart too. Couldn?t even get a response as to why the second time.
IGN?s forums are a joke. Never banned but they are deceivingly devoid of content, having dozens of individual game boards with next to nothing new, and lots of juvenile banter.
Neogaf?s forums are only good for those massive (new game) tribute threads or whatever.
That basically leaves a handful of random outliers or niche sites with less relevant activity than this one, unless I?m missing something?
Plenty of them talk about it. I thought the same thing as you until I was corrected.CritialGaming said:Funny you said that because I am finding it harder and harder to find "reviewers" that I can trust. If you look around to just about every major game site (Gamespot, Ign, Kotaku, etc) you can see all the reviews for Shadow of War. Yet in none of these reviews do they ever, at all mention the impact of lootboxes. It's like they all fucking avoid the elephant in the room and gave the game a score based on everything else.
Right but notice that if you read those, they are all basically brushed off quotes. They don't talk about how severe the progression path slows by not using loot crates in Act 4. They don't talk about the effects of the creates or how it is IMPOSSIBLE to get the best orcs in the game without spending money.erttheking said:Plenty of them talk about it. I thought the same thing as you until I was corrected.CritialGaming said:Funny you said that because I am finding it harder and harder to find "reviewers" that I can trust. If you look around to just about every major game site (Gamespot, Ign, Kotaku, etc) you can see all the reviews for Shadow of War. Yet in none of these reviews do they ever, at all mention the impact of lootboxes. It's like they all fucking avoid the elephant in the room and gave the game a score based on everything else.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/middle-earth-shadow-of-war-in-which-tolkens-grave-provides-more-power-output-then-the-sun.498791/page-51#post-40137704
I 100% agree! From what I've seen Lootboxes are a major part of the game, and reaching the 'real' ending. And not mentioning them in a review(I don't want to be cynical, but probably because part of the early copy deal was don't mention them) is like not mentioning the freemium economy in Candy Crush, or not mentioning lvl grind in WOW.CritialGaming said:Funny you said that because I am finding it harder and harder to find "reviewers" that I can trust. If you look around to just about every major game site (Gamespot, Ign, Kotaku, etc) you can see all the reviews for Shadow of War. Yet in none of these reviews do they ever, at all mention the impact of lootboxes. It's like they all fucking avoid the elephant in the room and gave the game a score based on everything else.Silentpony said:I think a lot of people just stopped. They realized gaming critics are a joke, and there's no reason to read what they think.hanselthecaretaker said:What the hell site is everyone on then?
Gamespot?s forums are a joke. Banned twice for no good reason, several years and IP addresses apart too. Couldn?t even get a response as to why the second time.
IGN?s forums are a joke. Never banned but they are deceivingly devoid of content, having dozens of individual game boards with next to nothing new, and lots of juvenile banter.
Neogaf?s forums are only good for those massive (new game) tribute threads or whatever.
That basically leaves a handful of random outliers or niche sites with less relevant activity than this one, unless I?m missing something?
Look I understand that these sites live and die on support from the publishers providing early review copies, but all it does is negate any effect the review could and SHOULD have.
Which is why I wish the Escapist would fucking open up to community content. Let us users provide content for the main site and simply moderate it, it's isn't that hard really. They already sell add space to pay for all these pages and site size, let people donate content. It's a way to keep the community active, alive, and cheap as everything would be volunteer.
Take applicants, take submissions, do fucking something, otherwise just close the site down.