Millionaire hobo thinks Gamespot is completely irrelevant, and will be shut down in no more than 5 years.

Watched first few minutes and he hammered gaming "journalists" hard 😅

Just judge the game for yourself and ignore all this shit.

Problem solved.

This site has been falling apart steadily over the years. Then again, so has journalism in general. Printed media is dead. Everybody is absorbed in social media. Even once reputable news outlets rely on clickbait headlines to get traffic to pander to everyone's over-active lizard brains. And all to sell ads through third party services, most of them scammy bullshit ads. GameSpot isn't necessarily vulnerable for anything they've done, but the future is dystopic consolidation in just about every industry.

Ironically we can look back on the Kane and Lynch and people whining how advertisers influence review behavior, are we better off now with ad tracking services? Oh hell no.

The evolution of social media centers around people's ability to find bias confirmation. A decade ago people would erupt into shitfits if GameSpot gave their precious exclusives a score they felt was unfair, and I mean like giving a game 8 or 9 out of 10 instead of a perfect score, people be like "OMG I'm leaving this site and never going back" and off they go to their safe space circle jerks.

System Wars is a gamer mosh pit, I love it. Honestly, this should be the future of GameSpot. There's countless game news outlets that pretend to be the neutral and objective but come off like they're all staffed with sleeper SonyGAF agents. If they wanna survive, rhey need a unique identity. Nobody else caters to the gaming fanboy battle royale thing, that should be how they differentiate themselves. Revel in it. Nothing is truly more pathetic than people who pretend not to be fanboys but act like it through labored inconsistent abstract rationales. GameSpot should make reveling in your fanboyism a virtue, and throw its dung at those who pretend they're above it. I love fanboys. Of course not everyone will be of the same camp but that's okay I appreciate the universal unrestrained passion for the hobby overall, even if that's messy.

This is very true. People like to act like these videos are informative, but a lot of the time it's just people in a bubble being told what they want to hear.

Remember that large breasted girl done that there, Cyberpunk review, and everyone lost their shit and tried to torch her before even playing the fucking thing. Dumb ass diarrhea producing sources like The Quartering manipulating his dribble mouth fanbase for easy rage clicks without the ability to critically think.

It all went Pete Tong and they just suddenly forgot, with no admission they were stupid, to go right back into the endless loop of stupidity.

Also while some game journos can come across as inept, useless, your opinionated smug bastard Kotaku self-fart-whiffing overly politized glorified self-wankery blogger, not all of them are like that. That's just dumb.

It didn't merely go downhill when Jeff Gerstmann got fired, it entered into free-fall mode. I don't trust Gamespot's reviews anymore. I look to Easy Allies to be my source for reviews and previews.

This man lives like a filthy rat and has too many screws loose. I can't take any of his shit seriously.

Listening to YouTubers like the one in the OP is embarrassing 😂

Just like go woke go broke.

Go all cow get Pow'd!!

Poo CowSpot. lolol :P

The positive flip side here is that if things get too crazy, maybe people will start thinking critically and make up their own damn minds instead of listening to the hype machine.

This includes bought-and-paid-for Youtubers.

Also the irony here is that a video game Youtuber is essentially a video game journalist whether they want to admit it or not. "Oh but we're influencers, we're different!" they'll say. No...no you're not.

Bingo.

It really is.

Asmondgold is vile. Just because he called out Bobby Kotick, doesn't make him a good person.

Haven't really watched this guy, but he sometimes pops up on my feed. Not really sure I get the wide appeal.

Doesn't even seem to make content, just, reactions to shit with basic bitch takes. Felt like just getting my time wasted.

@BassMan: Have you watched the video i posted? There is no way you'd disagree with what he said.

Was sad about his teeth. Drinks Dr. Pepper or Coca Cola in every video. Said he brushes every day. Implying just once. Can't remember if he flosses. Instead of reducing soda consumption, accepted it with the same laid-back "It is what it is" attitude that carries through every other aspect of his life.

@hardwenzen: To me, a lot of gaming journalists jumped the shark with the Hogwarts Legacy review. Gamespot refused to review the game for a while, then quietly review bombed it. Disgraceful.

So, if they shut down all the sites that have succumbed to politics, so be it. They have no "journalistic integrity" anymore, anyway.

I'll go back to IGN's chat rooms.

I agree, but aren't IGN forums dead? I saw mesome in there, he was shilling Nintendo like a 🤡

@dabear: Hogwarts Legacy is shit though. Tried to get into it, got bored everytime and quit.

Its a great game for casuals, and it must be amazing for casuals that love the HP world. For someone who plays video games, that game is too simplistic to offer anything remotely close for your brain to be entertained. But when you compare it to any other HP titles ever made, this has significantly more effort put into it than any other games with HP in the title.

What is vile about him exactly?

He is soft as hell. Of course someone calling shit as is is too toxic and vile.

Maybe not completely shut down, but I'm actually surprised the forums are still up.

If we need a new forum, what should we call the site?

@hardwenzen: wow now your posting charts of websites too...keep on clowning.

Be glad i am not posting NFT charts.

when you see a clickbait face like that, click the three buttons and select do not reccomend channel.

System Wars.

Asmond is a good guy

Trust him more than IGN, Gamespot, Kotaku

Jesus Christ you sound exactly like those twitter normies. Editors are in charge of this, not him.

It's already in use :(

What's better?

Forum template from like Xenforo

Discord

Reddit

I usually don't click his videos, but GOT DAMN he's nasty. I have no doubt he stinks

Yeah buddy I'm the normie because I won't give attention to your favourite social media personality.

I couldn't care less who you give attention to. If you visit youtube, no matter what, you get spammed by his vids. Favorite lul, i couldn't give a shit about some random millionaire.

All gaming sites are giving way to YouTube and streaming options. Text-based content is a fossil from another era.

Can be anywhere as long as everyone knows about it if/when the lights go out.

Should prioritize a forum. Reddit and especially Discord don't really make for good forum replacements. The structure, the flow of conversation, forums are really their own thing. Long form posts and ongoing topics vs. more casual chatting (in Discords case). If you want to keep the feel of SW going, forums are it.

That being said, it would make sense to go ahead and start a Discord server. Sticky it, let everyone here know. At least if the forum ever does rando get shut down without warning, you'll already have a landing pad. And even once you get a forum going, having an accompanying Discord to shoot the shit, run game nights, etc. isn't a bad idea. Have a general channel, a gaming channel. Then setup whatever other channels to cover other interests.

Pictures please. Asking for a friend.

@pc_rocks: Can't remember her name, black death or something.

Her comment about the police was abit assholly though.

Can't remember but she had an "ew" response to helping the police, this was when the BLM was a thing. Think it was actually in the review.

It came across as viewing them as nazis in 1984 or some shit and I'm pro police, this instantly made me not like her.

le polidicks

It’s sad that games journalism is not as popular as those easily bought and influenced influencers. People want confirmation bias and relatability over truth and good content.

While true, there's a reason this bald ass is popular, you're not buying this hobo.

@hardwenzen: I assure you, he didn’t get his wealth by not having any sponsorships.

He was literally streaming with no subs/ads for years lol. Owns millions, multiple companies, and lives in the absolute shithole of a crack house. He got his wealth originally by just streaming WoW and having a bunch of people subbing to his stream and from all the donations, not sponsorships. So no, nothing to do with sponsors.