How do you feel about what TotalBiscuit said about game journalism...

How do you feel about what TotalBiscuit said about game journalism? Do you honestly think Let's Plays and other YouTube videos will kill Game Journalism sites? I want it to happen, but it seems unlikely. Sure, most YouTube gaming videos get a lot of views, but Game Journalists still get early review copies, early access to titles as well as invitations to press events and conferences.

I wouldn't go as far as to say they'll 'kill' them but they'll probably do to them what the internet did to the newspaper. Honestly the only well positioned site to survive the coming eceleb gamepocalypse is Gamespot, they REALLY fucking scored when they managed to get their shitty clickbait featured on the front page of gamefaqs.

As for me personally the only reviews I read are from Totalbiscuit and the user review section on gamefaqs so yes, he's probably on to something.

the problem isnt early review copies and benefits for games "journalism", the problem is normalfags who don't know that they're being pandered to and lied to. most people are fucking dumb and wouldn't notice shilling unless it was spelled out to them, and even then they'd call conspiracy. most of these sites, kotaku especially, get their revenue from clickbaity bullshit which normalfags love. so they go to games "journalism" sites because it appeals to their short attention spans and it's much easier to find and in a way standardized, versus searching the hundreds of youtube reviewers and steam reviews to see honest people's opinions on games.

and tb is a horrible example because he DOES get early access to shit, he was just invited by bethesda to do a bunch of press coverage for nudoom.

Realistically speaking it's only a matter of time until prominent youtubers and such fill the shoes of game journalists in function if not in name, ie invitations to press events and review copies. Like says it likely won't kill game journalism but it'll definitely reduce it to near-nothing, a relic from ages gone by that somehow manages to still wheeze along either because of the niche but present demand for it or just because the people in it can't move on to anything else.


The added benefit to YTers or LPers playing it for camwhoring is that you can see them play it and both see if the game is any good or see how badly they fucking suck at video games in real time.

Isn't TotalFaggot dead yet? Why should I care what he says?

Why not? He's a million times better than any review site without actually doing reviews.

And people wonder why everything is going to shit

No, he's not.

Don't engage with faggots like that, ninety nine percent of the time they're just mindless shitposters.

A million times zero is still zero.

No, the rampant corruption and circlejerking is what is going to kill game journalism

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No. Game journalism sites are killing themselves because they have no standards and their employees are all incompetent right up to the editors. Even with YTers, written reviews would still have appeal if it weren't for the reputation critics have built for themselves through years of writing nothing but utter smut and bullshit.

Pretty sure this is already happening. A lot of youtubers, and it's not just those with pewdiepie-sized followings, get free, early copies of games to show to their audiences. Sometimes the jewtuber will even call out bad things about the game.

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Are you genuinely retarded?

The gaming media on both fronts - bloggers/"journalists" and Youtube e-celebs/"pundits" - will never, EVER be good. People complain about traditional media and press outlets being bought out and biased but at least they're large enough to control their own narratives to get companies and politicians at least a little scared. Game media is completely reliant on publishers and developer cliques to get their "news" - through exclusive deals (ads and shit), press events, conferences, etc. Game publishers know that the press is completely disposable, which is why we see more exclusivity deals with Twitch streamers and Youtubers for coverage.

The traditional game press will still be around (at least the ones that continue to suck the teats of the publishers and indie cliques) but they'll just be another asset for controlling information.

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Maybe once. There was a time when he used to shit on games and companies. Like WoW for when they started to sell things and taking away challenge, giving into casuals who wanted to put no time in and the retarded horse video.

These days he just seems to be running around the internet looking for things to get offended about. Whining a lot and shilling for microtransations and other bullshit he said he used to hate. Along with shitting on his audience. All while saying he is a consumer advocate. I'm not even sure he likes vidya anymore.

Every sentence coming out of totaljew is shit

I don't read the messageboards. I read the three most negative reviews a game has to see what the one thing is they all complain about the most, then read one of the good reviews and see where that problem is discussed and then I go from there.

You might notice that popular youtube channels are starting to receive early access to games also, and that game publishers are seeing less and less of a need for game conferences.

Exactly as other people have said. He's just as bad as everyone else. Even worse by the fact that he deludes people like you with his pseudo-intellectual bullshit

Most YTfags aren't all that better, especially since they like to make "sponsored" videos for various publishers, just like the journos do. Not to mention that a lot of them are complete plebs and tools, so they often praise and promote complete garbage FOR FREE.

Anyone with more than 10k subs is a lost cause anyway.

My favorite youtuber slash twitch streamer is alright because I say so and I am definitely not biased.

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He's still a massive casual whose only worthwhile opinions pertain to PC ports.

I don't really care what this self-important faggot has to say about anything between webm related and his spergout banning spree over people bullying his tranny "friend". It's going to be so obnoxious when he's finally gone and everyone here treats him like a fucking martyr.

So will Youtubers, provided they become just as corrupt. Many of them already are.

Perhaps Youtubers can replace games journalism, but they will become just as corrupt regardless.

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You trust someone based off a minute of hearing what you want to hear from them?

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What in the holy fuck is wrong with these parasites.

This caunuck said "jews aren't a race". Like what? Why the fuck do you need a DNA test to live in Israel then if they're not a race? He even defends Justin Trudeu, the idiot PM who signals about feminism while Canada literally burns to the ground, the guy who denies Russia's support with fighting the fire & instead of getting massive helicopters capable of carrying thousands of gallons of flame retardant material this cuck brings in "firefighters" from South Africa whose only experience is literally just beating out fires with sticks; they don't even know how to operate modern firefighting tech. The PM who made a cabinet as "diverse" as possible instead of as effective as possible because IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR. The PM who sold all of Canada's gold for peanuts & Sean Weaver tries to say that it was somehow a good thing. I guess he would need money to support all the handouts & immigrants he want to import who don't speak the language & don't work, but eventually the money runs out & the country collapses.

On top of being a dumbfuck liberal, he's not very good at games. Constantly walks past important things & can't solve puzzles to save his fat ass.

He can be funny, but goddamn is he stupid.

Its the same principal.

Hitler = good stuff
Hilary = stupid shit
TotalAssfaggot = good goy

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I like going to small channels on Twitch so I can ask the streamer questions about the game being played without being drowned out by a bunch of retarded meme spammers in the big channels, plus I don't trust the bigger channels anyway since a lot of them are shills.

I don't use youtube.

Besides the fact that the only reason I like him is that he just talks stupid shit at videogames and makes me laugh I would like a source for what you said.

And just to be sure you know, most normalfags don't think jews are a race because its not allowed to be said in schools and so on. I can't go around expecting everyone in the world to know these things if they don't care/talk about it at any point.

I don't doubt that some of it might be true, but I don't need my youtuber/twitch streamer to be a nazi to like them.

Aye, most "reviewers" are shit at games. I seen some really retarded fuck ups that are near DSP levels of stupid, sometimes.

Broteam doesn't do reviews, though he does indeed suck at games. Unlike DSP I can't really remember that he's ever complained about sucking though. Usually he just says he's a fucking idiot and moves on.

I don't consider these people pro gamers I consider them entertainers.

You've clearly never watched DSP or TIHYDP. He blames his fuck ups on everything apart from himself.

You've clearly never had an English class in your life. Try reading my post again until you notice your massive mistake.

These are DSP levels of reading comprehension

The source is his streams, which are hours long so I'm not going to be able to point it all out for you.

I'll paraphrase some things I've seen.
Donator text comes up & asks a rhetorical question which is clearly a joke ".. is it racist to say that I burned them if they're jewish?"
Sean: "No cuz jews aren't a race" I already explain why that's stupid.

Once he said something about the PM selling all Canada's gold like "it turned out to be a good thing because we didn't need it" or some such bullshit which sounds like a narrative being pushed in Canadian press. Of course you need assets like that to fall back on & you wouldn't part with them unless everyone was starving which is a very possible outcome given the PM's commie policies.

Once he was playing SWAT 4, enters a room, sees a Confederate flag & screams "IT'S A RACIST" parroting the bullshit narrative that the civil war & that flag was all about "muh racism" then proceeds to abuse the perp & calls him a "Trump Supporter". It's often difficult to tell if this guy is being facetious because the way he says things, so I hope that he was just mocking anti-Trump disruptors who have literally no argument & just scream "racist" rather than him actually being one of those idiots.

When the PM initially denied any help fighting the fire Sean says something like "It's because he wants Canada to be independent" Again, it just sounds like another bullshit narrative the press it promoting over there & doesn't gel with the PM's behavior which is later proven when the PM brings in south african "firefighters" once again putting progressive signaling over the well-being of canadians. PM wants to destroy native canucks through mass immigration much like Germany so watching him put virtue-signaling over the canadian people is no surprise at all.

I've heard him mention that "gamergate doesn't like when I talk about my liberal politics" I can't imagine that being exclusive to GG since his liberal views are fucking retarded.

Once he was playing some shitty dating sim as a blonde teen & he almost exclusively goes for a Rastafarian dindu on the coast selling stolen watches & I don't mean just for humor, he role-plays as the blonde woman wanting black dick.

Once he had music donations turned on & a donator text comes up "I hope this doesn't offend anyone" then some southern song mocking niggers starts playing. Clearly, this guy was making a joke, but Sean must have been offended because he banned the guy. The guy had donated thousands & been subbed for a long time, but one song mocking niggers as a joke & Sean bans him. From what I have seen, I'm certain some "kill whitey" rap music would be not illicit the same reaction.

I can't think of any more stupid liberal shit he's said or done at the moment, but there's more.

Guy doesn't have to "be a nazi" just has to not be such a retarded liberal. When I see/hear dumb liberal shit & doublethink it's annoying & most of the time is just signaling for positive attention from fellow libs which he doesn't need to fucking do cuz he already has fans throwing money & praise at him.

remember when talking about e celebs was ban worthy? you're all fucking shills and you're doing it for free

I don't understand how anyone could watch him since his subscription notifier is one of the most obnoxious things I have ever heard. Also his fans are fucking blind sheep and he will shit on gamergate with them but then agree with pretty much everything gamergate stands for.

The only reviews I read are Holla Forums.

I go on Holla Forums, and see what everyone feels about the game. If everyone hates the game, I know it will be shit. If one person hates the game, I know it will be shit. If everyone loves it, I figure it's a 50/50 chance of being shit.

Some people like Undertale, most hate it, so it must be shit. Dragon's Dogma, nobody seemed to hate it, so I bought it, and it was good. In fact, I have not bought a game I did not enjoy for the last two years, simply on account of this tactic.

If there ever comes a day where I follow this procedure and get a game I don't like, that is the day I know 8/v/ has been compromised like cuckchan, and to flee.


You're okay.

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But seriously, don't expect everyone to be redpilled, or else you will get frustrated 95% of the time. Most normalfags have incredibly shit taste in videogames, but you can't just change their way of thinking about videogames in one day, you'll just have to live with the fact that most people on the internet and IRL (outside Holla Forums and Eastern Europe) are most likely liberals, or either seek out an environment safe from bullshit ideas.

I think that has more to do with being able to get banned from streaming on Twitch if your stream has 'offensive content', regardless of whether the streamer itself is responsible for it. Of course nobody's going to get offended about anti-white raps, either. I remember a video of a group stream where one girl had her tits visible on the Skype chat, and the dude streaming it completely freaked the fuck out. Streamers really seem to value their accounts highly, probably since it's what they do most of the time.

Wow all this seems like I'm defending him, but really my point is that I think you're nitpicking and crying because he isn't a nazi.


That's called a joke user.
I know for certain this is blatantly false.
This must have been very recent and since I watch the VODs as background noise and have never heard of this, with the addition of the previous lie I am not really going to just believe you on this.
Everything you say seem to point towards that, as well as your blatant lying. Everything you say just makes you sound bitter about the fact that he isn't more political or that he isn't more nazi.


Are you implying that we aren't doing that as well? Everyone shits on Gamergate and for good reason.


Yup! Mark wants Holla Forums to disintegrate into shitposting and off topic shit so all you can do is ride the tiger.

He's playing that fake "neutral" position where you just mock everyone & contribute very little if not nothing at all. Reddit loves taking that position because it has the lowest requirement to become involved or informed so they can stay stupid.

However, he did shit like the dev interviews so I'll at least give him credit for not being entirely useless. He hasn't gone full "neutral" but he does do the "everyone is stupid except me" shit that "neutrals" love.

Many streamers make their living off of it, losing a stream just the URL of it often means they lose their fucking jobs. So its no wonder.

It's true though. He keeps saying shit about how he wants the nog's dick while running around as a blonde woman. It's disgusting.

This is why talking about e-celebs gets banned because of "NO! YOU'RE LYING!" fanboyism like this.

I watched his shit & I'm not lying. Live in your fucking bubble, see if I care.
He knows people don't like when he says liberal shit, he has mentioned it.

My point is that he's a fucking hypocrite and agrees with gamergate but will shit on it to look cool on stream. His Twitter timeline is full of interacting with gamergate supporters and talking with them but when his stream comes up it's time to look cool.


Yeah he realized that is what gets him subscribers. His chat is the same "fuck gamergate" but turns around and "fuck game journalists and these SJW's"

It's hilarious to watch doublethink in action sometimes.

1. Who is this fag
2. Why should I care about him
3. Does he have cancer
4. Did I get doppels?

Gamefaqs seems to have zero quality control with their user reviews. I've seen ones posted with tons of inaccurate info passed off as if they were facts. It is slightly above professional reviews, but not by much.


What is wrong with breaking up your shit into small segments instead of having it all in big text walls? And is this really some reddit specific thing? I've seen a few anons bitch about this shit before. I'm also curious about how so many people here know what goes on at a site they hate. Do people just browse reddit out of spite to get pissed off intentionally? Or is it just faggots memeing things?

You did not get Doppel. Just hope.

Since he shits so much on himself I really don't get that impression. If he talked about himself or how his positions were hot shit in any way I'd agree. That's one of the things I do like about him, he doesn't put himself or his opinion above people. The video I linked is a good example of how he points out he is "lording over" the game but he is the kind of shitty who is going to fap to it. Meaning he is shitting on himself just as much as everyone else.


No dude. That's one of the few things I can say for certain never happened. If you think its fanboyism to point out this is a lie then I really do believe you're just lost in a cloud of stupid.


I agreed with Gamergate and even participated, but I shit on it too because that's what it and its supporters deserve at this point. I guess I'm a hypocrite too then, even though I don't see how it makes me one.
I also don't see why being part of a group you're making fun of means you can't talk normally to them. My dad is a faggot socialist and I can talk to him easy enough. Not everyone you talk to have to be exactly like you.

Again I think you guys are just mad at nothing. And one guy is clearly making shit up. Oh well time to eat.

How do you get a blue name?

are you joking?

Put "Faggot" in the name field.

Buy an Holla Forums Blue account.

If he hates gamergate so much then why does he interact and agree with them on twitter all the time?

He's a hypocrite.

What did he mean by this?

That doesn't work, you can't put obscene words in the name or email fields anymore.

It was about time public morality was enforced on 8chin.

Well naturally, this is a Christian™ Imageboard, after all.

I agree.

Christian? Like Christian Bale? The actor that played Patrick Bateman in the movie American Psycho?

Amen btw

No, like Chris-Chan, the creator of such original works as Sonichu and Autism™.

Trinity Trips do not lie.
Praise be to Chris-Chan, Creator of such original works as Sonichu and Autism™.

Yeah.

Usually a redditor will automatically break his lines.

Because it's become an automatism to them.

After browsing reddit for so long.

You don't really see anyone else on Holla Forums doing this, since walls of texts are legible here just fine and constantly breaking lines takes up too much space.

Taking up space in reddit is essential to get noticed and upvoted, whereas here you can easily dismissed for being autistic if you do so.

How do I get a bold name with no underline?

Think about it.

Chris-Chan the Father; Sonichu the Son; Autism the Spirit.

Does he? I only seen him make fun of it. Besides there's nothing wrong with hating Gamergate especially in the state it was in during/after spring 2015
Because they're people and not representative of the group as a whole?

I don't fucking know, all I see is you claiming a bunch of stuff and forcing me to either try to "defend" him or shut up and accept all you say as truth. I don't go to twitter and if I went checking it right now I have no idea if there are any Gamergaters he's talking to or not because I don't know who they are.

In essence to substantiate your claims you need to show me what he is doing that's so heinous and if he even knows why its heinous.

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