2 Question

[quanghieuci]

hi

 

Reason I'm asking is because it's currently on sale (Steam).

From what I gather it gets mixed reviews but I'm curious as to what you guys think. 

 

and the second 

 

 

gaming news sites

 

Like the title says, I was wondering if anyone could recommend some gaming news sites. I read gamebanshee and rocks, paper, shotgun often, and kotaku has good writing once in a blue moon, but does anyone here use something else?

 

ps please dont say RPG codex, I checked it out because Infinitron does such a good job updating news here in the forums and he is very active there, but I just came from reading it for about an hour and found it to be a caustic cesspool of people who hate everything.

[Chilloutman]

ehh, what is the first question?

[Katphood]

There used to be a similar thread: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/91959-recommend-some-gaming-news-sites/page-1

[Hurlshort]

It's a trap!

[Katphood]

It's a vault!

[Obsidian sucks]

Did anyone ever figure out what the first question was?

 

I read Destructiod till they start preaching politics, same for RPS and Polygon at different times. Then I realized most people are fools and I want no contact with their diseased, degenerate world view. I imagine I would fit right in at the codex. 

[Tigranes]

Gaming news websites are almost all, almost always, crap. As time goes by I spend more of my spare time playing games and having fun - which gives me a good radar to know what game I would enjoy when I see it - and less time reading substandard trash written by hacks who don't know games or writing and work with terribly low pay and deadlines in a bribe-infested industry. 

 

If you insist that you still want the best of whatever's out there, Gamebanshee is decent, RPS used to be decent but now they're so concerned with writing in some pretentiously incoherent way that it seems to be a tossup as to whether they have anything rational to say about the game. Polygon seems to do big splash stories which can be a source to glean info. For RPGs German, Polish and Russian sites seem to be more levelheaded, but finding / translating can be a chore. 

 

The Codex can be great for news on indie and lesser known RPGs that most sites wouldn't know existed, e.g. it was one of the best places for info on Underrail. If you don't like their posting then just skim the news.

[Katphood]

I finally found the first question: 

 

Will you please help Karak who is pretty much one of the best reviewers in the gaming industry?

 

Thanks! 

[SadExchange]

I finally found the first question: 

 

Will you please help Karak who is pretty much one of the best reviewers in the gaming industry?

 

Thanks! 

I really enjoy his reviews.  And have for a long time, but I struggle with paying someone for information, including reviews about games.  I understand there's gotta be a way people make money, and that youtube is acting weird as of late, especially for Karak, but for some reason, I just can't think to cross the threshold to pay money for this kind of information.  

If you don't agree, that's totally understandable. I'm not quite sure how to express it in words other than it's just not something I would pay for.