[0631] Activision’s Latest Offering
└ posted on Thursday, 6 November 2014, by Novil
- Ye Thuza: This game is nothing but an orgy of mindless violence.
- Assault rifle: RA-TA-TA-TA-TA
- Ye Thuza: And all the female characters are helpless damsels in distress… with boobs bigger than Tifa Lockhart’s.
- Girl: Thank you for saving me, my hero!
- Ye Thuza: And the dialog solely consists of cheesy one-liners.
- Sergeant: Do the right thing, Jack. For your squad, for your country!
- Ye Thuza: How dare you not tell your own mother about this new masterpiece?! …… That’s no dessert for two weeks, kiddo!
- Cloud: Hey!
- Narrator: M-M-M-M-MONSTERKILL
![[0631] Activision’s Latest Offering](/comics/2014-11-06-0631-activisions-latest-offering.png "[0631] Activision’s Latest Offering")
@ james:
So? It’s your journalists problem. They can fix it themsleves. I mean we gamers relay more on gaming forums since the beginning of the internet era anyway. Why we have to give a damn about journalists? It’s not like we relay on them to get our games. It’s all a matter of taste and culture in each country. Just because they have journalists badge on their chest don’t mean they can dictate what we want to get.
@ Matti-Koopa:
The website is international, but it doesn’t mean we have to follow/believe every words they say. They said that all gamers are shit but look at us gamers in Asia and Europe just playing game as usual. I dare them to come to Hong Kong or Indonesia or Ukraine and start complaining there.
@ AckAckAck:
http://www.pokemonconquest.com/en-us
Pokemon Conquest is the closest thing we’ve got. It’s a grid based tactics game set in feudal Japan.
Does any one notice sandra’s eyes it the first panel. She was like “we’re doomed”
McDouggal wrote:
#gamergate isn’t about gender in games, it’s about journalistic integrity. It started with an accusation that a Kotaku reviewer gave a very positive review to a very poor game because he was sleeping with the developer.
It was the game reviewing sites who tried to spin it as male gamers being sexist towards the female developer (by accusing her of sleeping with the reviewer).
It became a “gate” (a la Watergate) when it was discovered that the various game reviewing sites actually have a private channel (a Google group, to be precise) in which they communicate with each other, which is why Kotaku wasn’t the only one to stand up to their reviewer. It revealed a massive network of game review outlets were coordinating efforts to defame gamers, their own customers, by implying they are ALL sexist, essentially in defense of biased reviews.
But, at the basis of it, it’s not about sexism. That’s only the spin, used to throw off the flak from the real issue. The real issue is about bias in game review sites (such as Kotaku and others), and whether consumers can trust their reviews.
Personally, I don’t see the issue. I mean, I was surprised that Kotaku still exists, and that people actually go there for gaming news and reviews, when you can just as easily get far more detailed and professional reviews on YouTube from people like TotalBiscuit or AngryJoe.
@ Linkletter:
Oh yhea I remember that game. I guess Nintendo thinks us Pokemon fans like art and puzzle games more that hardcore combat games.
Fucking epic I wish she was my mom!
Do you mean ‘dialogue’?
Luke wrote:
So, Halo?
Cheesy one-liners?
Boobs bigger than Tifa’s?
Orgy of violence?
Cloud is playing Duke Nukem Forever!
This is my mom whenever I buy a new RTS game (she’s an rts geek)
@ Paeris Kiran:
Bioware?
@ Luke:
But Destiny is still a better love story then twilight
Does anyone have Cloud’s number i wish to call him to ask if his mom is for trade
Naw, that’s no dessert for no weeks!
The first and last panel makes me think someone is playing Borderlands 2 as Gaige. The blobs comment also lends some credit to this because of Moxxi.