Xbox VP under fire for criticizing journalists about Anthem complaints
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https://screenrant.com/anthem-complaints-xbox-vp/
https://twitter.com/XboxQwik/status/1098220698152034304
He responded to someone in the comments what he thought of the game.
https://twitter.com/XboxQwik/status/1098241534451802113
https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1098249177153392640
https://twitter.com/MckKirk/status/1098250861334224896
https://twitter.com/APZonerunner/status/1098252568474587136
https://twitter.com/alex_navarro/status/1098252927410585600
and my personal favorite:
https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/1098248849980678144
I found this followup even worse
https://twitter.com/XboxQwik/status/1098222876740579328
Either he doesn't know what he is talking about or worse, is trying to portray the exclusive early access version of the game as if it's not supposed to be indicative of a real release.
Jesus fuck, that picture in the OP might as well be this Simpsons bit.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/olveBOhevu0/hqdefault.jpg
Part of me feels like this is an overreaction by ResetEra types who are defending games journalism and also that Ybarra just said something dumb.
Either way it's really dumb and nothing will come of this.
Stop criticizing games guys, its hurting the shares
both sides are dumb in this
it's easy to see how big studios could benefit from steering away from traditional game reviews (especially since Xbox owns Mixer, a streaming service alternative to Twitch), but I also just love the cabal of white game journalists screaming at community-ran media such as streamers and Youtube channels (ESPECIALLY when they accuse them of taking sponsorship money and not disclosing it to their viewers)
Well, to be honest, he actually has a point. Dumbshit reviewers who have literally no idea how to do things in the games they review, or even just outright lie about how games work for quick clicks to get ad revenue. It's a not insignificant problem with reviewers and journalists in the industry. Whether the game is good or bad, there is a problem with the people criticizing them professionally actually being entirely incompetent. And I'd say he's also right you will typically be better off asking friends or watching streams and let's plays to inform yourself on a game than using some half-witted journalist.
Really, this seems to be the ever more irrelevant video game journalists trying to cling to relevance and pretend they're not so mediocre.
"but I also just love the cabal of white game journalists screaming at community-ran media such as streamers and Youtube channels"
What exactly does this mean?
I'm all for shoving my radical feminist SJW anti Gamergate menicide agenda wherever I can but how does race at all come into play here
I mean it's not a hard sentence to understand
a majority of game journalists are white dudes and they don't like forms of new media like streamers and youtube channels
I'm not saying these forms of new media are perfect, far from it. clickbaiters like yong yea, jim sterling, and dunkey only further incite rabid fans. But I'd rather say, watch TheSphereHunter do a review on RE2 than read someone from Motherboard tell me that RE2 is bad because you have to play a set character and that the Raccoon City Police Department being an evac/refugee zone made them uncomfortable/dislike the game for some mental gymnastics reason
Ok so I've played Anthem, the game doesn't fucking tell you combos exist until you pull one off. And that's coming from someone who obsessed over how combos worked in their previous games. It doesn't make it clear at all. Especially until you unlock a secondary piece of equipment that says "Primes/Detonates Combos"
I'm just wondering how you somehow managed to shoehorn skin colour into it is all, seems pretty racist tbh
I browse twitter too much and it leaked into my posting here
if I critique game journos on there without making a point to point out that they're white, I'll get idiots jumping down my throat
It really wasn't necessary here, yeah.
Video game journalists and reviews are universally garbage and should be ignored, if not tarred and feathered. He makes a great point here, if if he's ultimately in the wrong for different reasons.
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AmusingQualifiedJabiru-small.gif
And now the tide has turned.
Yeah the replies seem to indicate that mr. xbox was being intentionally misleading by representing these "aura combos" by using the typical term combo which implies a standard that is fairly easy to pick up naturally in most games
Then jump right back down their throat, and rightfully call them out for being as racist as they deem others. Be the change you wish to see.
Priming>Detonator combos has been a standard Bioware feature since ME2, and three of the journalists complaining about 'hidden features' wrote multipage reviews that and subsequent bioware games. All of their game since have had it.
This is literally the equivalent of reviewing Street Fighter without knowing how to Shoryuken or Hadoken.
Uh, why would I assume another game aimed at a completely different audience would know mechanics of another different series that only really mattered in their niche multiplayer modes?
I played probably 1000 hours of ME3 MP and it didn’t even cross my mind that they would put that mechanic in a game that doesn’t even begin to resemble anything else they have made
Because it isn't aimed at a completely different audience. The same people that previewed ME3 and MEA were invited back to play and stream, and lo and behold combos propped up on the very first preview videos and were actually pointed out; Teawrex, Brozime and Xcalibro all pointed it out via the powers page and in game since the first day in game live media was presented.
The information is right there, none of the journalists bothered to look.
generalized games journalism doesn't work
We need hardcore gamers reviewing games. Bring back bestgamers
Yeah seriously lol, only thing I can see similar to ME is Bioware, and I sure as shit don't recall any Prime Detonators in SWTOR and Dragon Age II
I thinks that is normal that you don't expect that the same game mechanics carry over different franchises, even if the developer is the same. Also, What happens if you never played a Mass Effect game before? Is perfectly reasonable that the reviewer criticize that a VERY VITAL game mechanic is hidden to a player that never touched a Bioware game on his life.
you can't seriously be expecting people to just know that a game mechanic from a completely different game is in this game, just because they're made by the same developers?
It's about as pompous as seeing someone ask for clarification on what precisely stats from KOTOR/DA do and being met with "lmao dumbass, you should know this from Dungeons and Dragons"
Again the marketing set up video venues to highlight the feature deliberately specifically for journos and anyone else with advance media presence, and they ignored it.
In other words the jouranlists in question did not bother to go through the material they were given to point things like this. As they've done before. You can't tell me this is an objective and thorough when you can't even cover basic game mechanics preseted directly to you in video form multiple times over the course of two weeks. No journalism was actually taking place here.
I gonna quote the Tweet from earlier:
What's specifically infuriating about this tweet is the chief criticism—not knowing how to do a combo in Anthem—isn't explained by Anthem itself, unless you dive into a hidden tutorial menu. I learned about combos after wondering WTF an "aura combo" was in an item description.
If the game has shitty design choises like don't explaining vital stuff to the players, even if the journalist ignored what EA give to him to "understand" the game, his point is still 100% valid. A common player don't have all these preparations to play the game, the player expects that the game explains itself how is played.
Except it's not hidden.
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