Is he right?
he's not wrong but the problem is there's so many new games coming out that I don't have the time or patience to give them all a chance. So I find reviewers I've tended to agree with in the past and use their opinion to decide if something's worth my time or not
this pic is gonna be reposted gazillion times
>>738477070his problem is his inability to decipher the criticism under the "toxicity""stupid", "slow", and "made for casuals" are already valid criticisms if you aren't disingenuous
>>738477070But... he's gay
>you're bad for listening to influencers and parroting what they say. You should only parrot ME.Shut the fuck up you balding old faggot. Go jack off to goatse or whatever it is you do when nobody is watching.
>>738477070Maybe he was right a decade or two ago, but nowadays people watch review videos on youtube just to consume their daily "confirmation bias" content. People get their copy-paste opinions from twatter instead.
>>738477070>getting your opinions from influencers is bad you fucking CHUD!!!!>unless your opinion is 100% identical to mine, then it's OK hehe :)This is why you people keep losing.
>>738477070he's talking about synthetic incel isn't he?
>>738477070he's right
>>738477070Last panel is just reviewers in general since the drawn of time
>>738477070You get unbanned and the first thing you do is make this thread again you pathetic faggot?
>>738477070I hope you understand the irony of him making that statement and you reposting it to start a thread with somebody else's opinion, and asking that question.
He's only worked on one good game, the guys at interplay knew how to tard wrangle him
>>738477070>posting this on /v/>the place where anons who do not play videogames base their opinions on what twitter grifters tell them to think
>>738477070He has a point. Many people do not like to think for themselves and play something because their favorite eceleb plays it or tells them to play it.However, he ignores the problems with vidya related media outlets as they used to be and still are.It's funny because he also has a video on toxic positivity and how it can ruin game development when "games journalists" do something very similar in order to not lose their privileges.
>>738477070I feel like certain games like RE5 and Crash Bandicoot 1 have been psyopped into hating by retarded zoomers
>>738477070I only buy games /v/ tells me to buy
>>738477070Yeah, mostly.You have people who haven't played some games, and have strong parroted opinions on those games. In some instances I think he's wrong though.People play a game, have an opinion on it and end up finding someone else who is more eloquent with the same opinion and then phrase it like them.Or people just get convinced by a compelling argument.
>>738477070Literally who?
I don't think this is really true. People go for reviews or analysis to hear what they already think. People get angry if the game they decided was good before playing gets "just a 7" and likewise get angry if a game they decided was bad without playing gets a 9 or 10. If they were looking for someone to tell them what to think they would just agree with the review.The thing telling them what to think is social media, journalists and influencers don't hold that much power anymore, they also have to dance to the music to find an audience. Their job is to validate the pre-made opinions, not to create them.
>>738477070No.Hes a whiny little faggot complaining that people arent spending 100 dollars before forming an opinion. Instead they watch gameplay and people whose opinions generally line up with their own to get ideas for what they may want to play.
>>738477070Absolutely, and not just about games.
>>738477070He looks like a homosexual grandpa who is into scat
>>738477070>youtube influencer is so up his own ass he forgets that video game reviewers existed before YouTube to give opinions on which games are good or bad
>>738479928well anon..
>>738477070NPCs looking up to famous people to tell them what to think has been a thing since the dawn of mankind. How the fuck is he only realizing it now and only seeying it happen to video games?
>>738477070Gonna be worse after the ai generation grows up.
>>738477070Gaming "influencers" were always hacks hellbent on trying to sell you something, now it's just more profitable to make a check off selling anger than it is having Nintendo cut you a check to shill the latest super mario game or whatever. And the perception of influencers as arbiters of taste rather than clinical reviewers was always there, that's why companies pay these hack fucks for advertisements.
>>738477070Left is not an analysis, you loser. It is a literal description. Right is analysis.
>>738477070I don’t seek influencers at all. Thanks for reading the blog.
you made dumb people famousnow reap what you've sowed
>BACK IN MY D-stfu oldfag. your generation reduced analysis to even less than "it's stupid and slow and for casuals"... for you retards it literally just had to be a single thumb movement
My favourite brand of take is talking about how youtubers ruined games discourse, implying that games journalists haven't been delivering dogshit analysis for the last 20 years.
>>738477070He can make a point but because he's unironically part of the problem it means nothing.
why is this wrong though why would you trust some no name games journalist over someone you are familiar with and know clearly what they like and don't like
>>738477070>dinosaur who hasn't made a relevant game in 10 years has an opinion
>>738480996in 10 years nothing relevant has been made so.....
i dont know, ive never really been a mouthbreather that forms opinions cause of others. I just like what I like.
>>738480902>someone you are familiar with and know clearlythat's a pristine parasocial diagnosis there
>>738477070he's right but its not the fault of influencersit's just part of growing older and realizing the majority of people spending all day posting online are either stupid, children, or stupid children
>>738480207He's not really complaining about that. If you watch the video, Tim Cain himself says that he does it too. He looks for people with similar tastes to him, and if they say something about something he's unfamiliar with, he's more inclined to believe them because he knows they have the same tastes. The larger problem he talks about is that game developers tend to focus on a *specific* person, a Youtuber, their tastes, and what they might say in a video that might look bad.
>>738477070How else am I supposed to know how I feel about a game I didn't play?Games are also an art-form, so it's easy to misjudge themLook at how many people loved RE4 remake when RE is still the superior game
>>738477492no, they aren't.
>>738481036So?
>>738481630that dinosaurs opinion is more valid than the 10 years of shit that some youtuber was sputtering
He's 100% right. He's not implying you should copy his opinion he's stating that people are lazy and don't forge/improve their opinion of a game.
>>738477492This.
>>738477070don't think he's wrong in saying this
>>738479998Dumbass, this is a small out of context tidbit. He clearly knows this and discusses how it's distinctly different
>>738477070Boomer retard who takes the title "influencer" at face value. People find someone to watch who reinforces their own thoughts. They don't find someone to just think for them. It's always a dumb ass older person who says this. Whoever started the concept of calling these people influencers was a massive retard.
>>738477070I don't care about someone glazing a game. You can literally pay anyone to say your game is "fun"I look up critiques for games I'm already interested in, and if they aren't really that unforgivable, I'll buy the game
>>738477492correct, it's just harsher criticism. it isn't just a "lol it sucks because i said so", it even tells you the how and why shit's gay
I don't read reddit formatted opinions
>>738477070>is he right?100000% right
>zoomer zoomer zoomer zoomer zoomer zoomer
>>738477070Half right. What he is pointing out isn't new it's just more wide spread thanks to gaming becoming ever more popular.The 2000s and 2010s had this with gaming journalists trying to push opinions on games that were mostly influenced by paid reviews, nepotism, and political opinions of the developers and/or reviewers.In theory Streamers were once seen as the enemy of gaming ("We are losing game sales because people are just watching streamers!") So people initially thought a streamers opinions would be the closest to a fair and balanced take that was outside the influence of shilling. However game studios just dropped game journos and instead offered streamers paid sponsorships to speak favorably on their games. This doesn't include how a lot of streamers push culture war gayness in game discussion because it's easier clicks.
I think the real issue is people being unquestioning about reviews and analysis, and not taking 2nd options on things, this applies to everything not just video games, regardless of if it's made by a influencer, newspaper article critic, or the dreaded online journalists.Sometimes they are actually give good analysis and criticism, sometimes they're just blowing shit out their ass cause they got filtered, and most of the times their grains of truth and grains of shit contained within the same review, you cannot 100% entrust your decisions to a single source nor to things outside of yourself, reviews are helpful but you have to do some of your own research if you want to actually have any guarantee if you'll like the thing you're gonna pay for.
>>738477070partially right but for the wrong reason.
What he's saying only applies to the corporate environment where criticism can ruin marketing campaigns.This shit doesn't matter to the consumer. It's an exclusively corporate problem. His perspective isn't about art, or games, or anything that matters, it's purely about business.I make games, many of them have been unfairly criticized by plauyers who didn't understand basic things, but so what? I've been making a living off them for 10 years because they're niche products, and the right niche found them and embraced them. Critics, influencers, YouTubers, all of this is irrelevant when you're in an organic, natural environment rather than the highly competitive corporate world where you're psychologically manipulating audiences to consume the trash you've put on the market.>Summary:he's talking about business, not video games. Therefore, his ideas is of no use to video game enthusiasts.
>>738477532When the fuck did he bring that up thats something you made up entirely in your head, how do you look at this image and come with the conclusion that he wants to indoctrinate you to parrot his opinions?
>>738477070>hasn't made a good game in over a decade>likes the tranny-coded western characters or "diverse" sheboon characters in new games, genuinely regurgitates the idea that we need ugly characters>flippantly ignores the actual problems in games for over 15 years and only calls out scope creep, budgeting, or corporate red tapeHim beating around the bush like a faggot is enough of a reason for me to not take anything he says with more than a grain of salt.He would be 100% right if he wasn't doing the "pretending to not understand the problem" meme and talked about all the problems plaguing video games. He's too much of a bitch to go near it, or he thinks that he's above it. "Too slow" is absolutely a legitimate criticism when a game doesn't flow naturally or the combat is dogshit like Mortal Shell 1, it being as slow as it was didn't help. The casualization of certain series as well is a legit criticism, see the newest Monster Hunter games. And if you need a faggot on the internet to form an opinion for you, just kys.P.S. Jannies are trannies who get their feelings hurt over "troll posts". go fuck yourselves, fags
zoomers are brainless and cannot think most are barely literate and they all have terrible reading comprehension.most arguments on 4chan are between zoomers that actually agree with each other they are just too retarded to comprehend this
>>738477492Yes. This guy claims people are "being told what to think" and that's what they seek out when what they are seeking is the truth and they find the harsh, unfiltered criticism more meaningful
>>738477070Parroting this is maybe slightly ironic
>>738477070Played plenty of games that wasn't recommended by youtubers/reviewers I followDid not play plenty of games that was recommended by youtubers/reviewers I followSorry fag, wrong again, maybe next time you get it right
>>738477070wish I could openly ignore and hate women and not be gay
>>738477070Who the fuck even cares. Video games aren't that serious.
He's not wrong even though it's a sweeping statement. It's not really that they are listening to influencers that tell them what to think, it's that they are actually dumber and have a harder time to think critically. I don't want to get banned but every brain is not the same.
>>738477070Unfortunately he is
>>738477070Yes, he's right, but it's no revelation.Dumb people have been seeking others to tell them what to think since forever. Do you think idiots went into an arcade, tried every game and settled on the one they enjoyed? Fuck no, they gravitated toward the one with a crowd around it.>people have stopped forming opinions about games from analysisOh please. 90% of retards bought games based on the cover-art.Personal "analysis" was only the case on the old world-wide-web with 130+ IQ PC gamers on specific forums.
>>738477070He's got this backwards. People seek out videos that reinforce the opinion that they already believe. Any video that disagrees with their initial gut reaction they had upon experiencing the media is just dismissed as "shilling" or "grifting"
>>738477070It’s not just video games. It’s everything. The death of social media is the only thing that will heal people’s ability to think for themselves. Social media must be destroyed.
>>738477070He's not right. There are some sources like IGN which have shit opinions on everything and are worth ignoring. Then there are a bunch of people that only review games from genres I don't play. Then there are people that (1) Aren't IGN and (2) Review/play games from the same genre I play that I do watch, and I still haven't found a single channel, platform or reviewer that I agree with 100%. IDK who this guy is but he's coping that his favorite game is getting shit on.
I don't care, stop watching youtube for opinions on games and just pirate them day 1 if you don't want to buy them. Any other answer is just from juxtaposition tier piece human excrement who doesn't actually like videogames as a hobby./thread.
>>738486596>Whoever started the concept of calling these people influencers was a massive retard.True, especially considering this term started with Instagram "models" and the most influence they've had was taking picture of their butt next to some product they're getting paid to shill. They never have influenced shit.
>>738477492>StupidOnly if there is an expansion on what part of it is "Stupid". "Stupid" means nothing in a vacuum.>SlowDependent on the game. Valid criticism for a racing or action game, kind of a stupid criticism for a CRPG>Made for casualsActually valid criticism, but is also dependent on game. Playing a comfy farming simulator and getting mad it is for casuals is stupid because that's what the genre is.
>>738477374Doubt
>>738477070>Is he right?His employees got into a stupid slapfight with Elon Musk, and told people not to buy the game, and he's trying to avoid the consequeneses.
>>738477070Nah, he's retarded. People listen to "influencers" to hear what they already think repeated.
