Considering it’s the ‘victim’ in question then I think they’re within their rights to ask for the article to not be published. It seems they’re getting shit for it and they don’t want it to spread even further by a large website.

“Sony’s been having a pretty stellar year thus far. Yeah, there were a couple of flops – Forspoken, most notably—but strong multi-platform releases such as Resident Evil 4 and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor have helped make it a lively period for PlayStation.”

Tweet from Syrup:

I don’t have a problem with one outlet giving a critially-acclaimed game a low score.

So, just to correct the headline, he beat the guy to death with a piece of wood, not Pokemon cards.

I’ve also played it, and to me it’s average, so you can be “sorry to say” you find it bad all you like, but that doesn’t make it objective fact.

I’ve never seen such an overreaction to what is simply an average game which, let’s face it, was never going to be make-or-break for Xbox’s success, and certainly wasn’t hyped to the level Starfield is.

“Nintendo’s own Famitsu”?

“I’m going to air [sic] on the side of caution and not list the ingredients. Anyway, here’s the tweet with the full, unedited instructions on it. Well, my conscience is clean”

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out I wasn’t saying they were as bad as each other. I was clearly pointing out that just because something takes “effort, skill and work” it shouldn’t be blindly respected.

It takes effort, skill and work to set up a cock-fighting league too. Just because the guy put a lot of work into it, that doesn’t mean Nintendo should go “oh well, he tried really hard so let’s leave him alone”.

There’s more to life than money. Holding it back culturally, I mean. Too many gamers want to see others (especially those in film/TV) accepting the medium as an equal, instead of just enjoying it for the alternative artform it is.

To be fair, we’re talking one movie and one TV show – even if they’re the most successful of the year that’s still hardly ‘dominating’.

Having now seen the movie, the plot isn’t as thin as that, though. It’s your typical kids’ movie plot, where there are good guys and bad guys and a mission – there aren’t too many moving parts, because young movie-goers need to be able to keep track of what’s going on. In that sense, it served its purpose and will…

“So far the nays seem to be strongly outweighing the yays”

I’d rather have “it could be great” than “I don’t understand what this is, therefore it’s probably bad”

It should also be pointed out that VGC has a more positive preview that explains things pretty well.

Tell me more about this Packed Man of which you speak

Please don’t imply that G4 was in any way indicative of the games media as a whole back in 2006. There were plenty of publications across North America and Europe that treated Japanese games with respect, and just because Sessler, Webb and the other grinning goons were cracking racist jokes in an ‘entertainment’ show…

Blows my mind how this site seems to find a negative angle in nearly every story, no matter how benign, but when confronted with a guy convicted of assaulting his girlfriend it’s limited to a single note tucked away in parentheses between enthusiastic accounts of how great he was.