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WHY I WILL NEVER DOWNLOAD ANOTHER EPISODE OF WEEKEND CONFIRMED

Before I share the straw that broke the camels back I'd like to make a few points. I started listening to 1up Yours and followed Garnett here. Kinnata is great, his rational opinions and thoughts are a pleasure to listen to.

Andrea is the dullest, most terribly informed dimwit who apparently has has no history of game playing and therefore no frame of reference and I have just had enough of her. I don't play many games myself but I don't appear on podcast.

I'm sorry Garnett, I know you get touchy about "your baby" but the fact is your put that baby in a sack, chucked a brick in too then hurled it into a pond.

NOW TO THE POINT..
Your conversation regarding the Eurogamer article. I urge everyone who thinks Andrea has any credibility to read this link which proves Andrea has been taking kickbacks herself:
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=43764178

She's an absolute joke and terrible hypocrite to boot. It's too late for me, I won't be listening to your podcast again but I'd like to wish Jeff K luck with whatever he does and thank him for the hours of entertainment he gave me. Garnett, thank you too.. I sometimes thought you were a total douche but at least you have a good knowledge of your subject.


I discovered the Bombcast around E3 and it was so refreshing to listen to people discussing games without the constant, inane input from uninformed imbeciles.... I leave you all with this thought:

"but the Wii U doesn't even play CDs"

so long

Official thread for your comments to be considered during the games media discussion on the upcoming show.

Last week I started a conversation that I had not prepared adequately for. I saw an image of Geoff Keighley between a Doritos and Mountain Dew display and thought to myself "well, that's a thing we definitely ought to talk about."

This image, though, was just a provocative header for an editorial about a situation where members of the games media were tweeting in hopes of winning a free PS3. The article then led to a larger discussion on the relationship between videogame PR and the people who cover the industry.

Though I fully expect to get raked mercilessly as is the Internet's way, I'm going to give a segment of the show to the subject this week. And then we're going to lay it to rest for a while.

So, I appreciate that tensions have run high, mean things have been said and feelings bruised.. We're going to set that aside. This thread is the place to add your voice to the discussion. I expect you know but just in case, if you come in hostile and aggressive there's not much chance of being heard. But if you're thoughtful, regardless your point of view, you're going to be part of the discussion.

I'd like to start the official "how the F%$# did Ubisoft screw up Assassin's Creed 3 so badly?!" thread.

I'm still very early into the game (about 2 hours in), and I've already come close to smashing my game disc with the damn statue that came in the Collector's edition and throwing the entire thing out the window.

* Lack of technical polish.

At times, the game looks incredible. But just as often it looks down right ugly. The visual and audio presentation is constantly marred by strange hiccups and annoying performance issues. EVERY SINGLE TIME you talk to an NPC the screen does this annoying "fade to white" effect while it loads the in-engine cutscene. Lots of games do this, but never have I seen it happen so frequently. The early portion of the game involves a lot of "talk to this NPC, walk 15 steps, talk to another NPC, walk back 10 steps, talk to yet another NPC", etc. With the screen bursting to white at the beginning and end of every single exchange, no matter how short.

During these fade-outs, the audio will often do strange things. You'll hear the ambient sound change to a new environment, then change back, all while the visuals are still loading.

The graphics engine itself is also shockingly inconcistent. There is a moment right at the very beginning of the game that features Desmond walking through a tunnel with a little glow-stick hanging from his belt. I was quite surprised to see that the glow stick did not cast any dynamic shadows through the environment. The lighting just looked all wrong. But then the screen fades to white for an 8 second cutscene, fades back, and suddenly the glow stick IS casting dynamic shadows.

The animations have always been one of the most impressive elements of an Assassins Creed game, but in AC3 they have taken a step backwards. Your character seems to bounce his way up walls and ledges as if he ways 10 pounds, completely lacking the sense of weight or momentum that made the climbing animations so impressive in previous AC games.

* Bad design

I was worried that adding gunplay to AC3 was a bad idea, and so far I've been proven VERY right. The guns completely ruin the combat. Firing them is clunky and not remotely intuitive, and reloading takes FOREVER. Historically accurate? Sure. Fun? NOT AT ALL.

The sword combat is great, but the game puts you into situations that force you to use your guns. One early example is a mission that requires you to escort 2 NPCs while protecting them from enemy patrols. All the enemy NPCs are using muskets, which forces you to engage at least some of them from long range. This devolves into firing a shot, then standing still for a full TEN SECONDS while you reload your gun. Then fire again. Repeat. Dullest. Combat. Ever. I'd much rather just scale the building they are firing from and take them out from close range, except that leads to them firing on the useless NPC teammates I'm supposed to protect.

And the climbing mechanics still haven't been improved. Your character will still seem to get stuck on invisible walls, forcing you to stop your movement until the game randomly decides to allow you to keep going. It's been 5 games guys. Fix this.

* Poor choice of setting / time period

I really cannot figure out why Ubisoft thought it would be a good idea to set a game like Assassins Creed in revolutionary Boston. Florence, Vennice, and Rome were beautiful, charasmatic, and mysterious locations. Boston in AC3 is just.... ugly. It is a dirty, muddy, dull location. To their credit, Ubisoft has done an amazing job of making Boston feel like a living, breathing place... it just isn't a place I'd ever want to go. It fails to create any desire for exploration or discovery; something AC2 thrived on.



Ugh. That's enough ranting for now. Anyone else played this game yet? Am I freaking crazy here, and just missing all the good stuff? I really want to love this game, but so far it is just awful.

Looking forward to the WC crew discuss the clear front-runner for game of the year:

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/halo-4/critic-reviews

:D

Sooooooo stoked. I'm taking off work all next week!

So Disney bought Lucasfilm/Lucas arts.

Not only are they making 3 new movies without George directing (thank every deity possible) could this mean we get Battlefront 3?

Drinking game for Shacknews' Halo 4 review:

Take a shot every time you see the word "nasty" or a variation of it. ;)

http://www.shacknews.com/article/76462/halo-4-review-setting-the-stage-under-new-management

Am I the only one that feels like an asshole when I make my character swim through an icy lake instead o walking around?

Games like Skyrim and AC3 have a lot of snow and when I can see a way of crossing an icy lake/river a little further away that'll take me 30 seconds to reach, I think "ahh, screw it, you can swim".

Did it bother anyone else that the whole COD discussion was about single player only. Am I crazy or do most people buy that game for the multiplayer? The answer is yes. So shouldn't the conversation when you talk about those games be mostly about the multiplayer?

With regards to the whole mouse k/b thing:

I'm reminded of the 90s, back when the RTS genre was starting to come into it's own, and the old purists insisted that turn-based was the only "true" form of strategy game. Real-time strategy was "dumbing down" the strategy aspect of those games and making them into contests to see who could click the fastest.

Maybe it is a generational thing, but at 29, I'm certainly old enough to remember when lowly consoles games were deemed as twitchy cartoon playthings for small children with short attention spans, and the almighty PC was the home of the thinking man's games. Even at the time, the argument seemed disingenuous to me. It would be no different than if I were to claim that PC games are for chin stroking intellectual wannabes and console games are for people with actual gaming skills. To be clear, I don't believe that for even a moment, but you get the idea.

It's not about the input method itself or which one is better, it's about the attitude implicit in digging one's heels in the sand over one side or another. To play whatever feels most comfortable is always the best choice. Calling controllers on the PC an "abomination," however, betrays an unflattering perception of what console gaming is actually about.

Andrea is completely right that the Kinect voice commands are really helpful. I find they allow me to side-step many of the complaints Garnett voiced about the dashboard (you don't have to sort through a bunch of stuff; just say what you want and it pops up in front of you).

BUT....

The Kinect is a total pain in the ass once you find the content you were looking for.

For example:

I sat down with my wife to watch the latest episode of Forward Unto Dawn. I used voice commands to pull of Waypoint, and jumped in. Great.

But while we were watching the episode, the fucking Kinect kept thinking we were trying to wave at it every time we shifted positions slightly. The stupid cartoon "waving hand" kept poping up on screen. It was annoying as hell, so I walked over to my Xbox and unplugged the Kinect.

Big mistake. It booted us out of the video player. I had to plug the Kinect back in, restart Waypoint, watch the 30 second add before the show AGAIN, then find our previous spot in the video. We just had to put up with the "waving hand".

NOT a smooth experience, Microsoft :-/

The main problem with World War II shooters wasn't that there were too many of them. It's that they all focused on the same parts of the war. An innumerable amount of books, movies, and other material covering huge parts of WWII combat that no shooter has even touched.

I don't know if I've posted about this here before, but I'd actually like to defend RE6. Just a little bit.

I'm not saying it's an excellent or even great game. I'm saying that there actually was a really good game buried in there somewhere. I think calling it "unplayable" reeks of massive hyperbole.

Let's get things straight - the story was as nonsensical as RE ever is, the franchise has dropped all pretense of survival horror, the vehicle sequences are utterly unnecessary, and the constant QTEs and scripted events are pretty terrible. There is a lot wrong with RE6, but there were times when I actually enjoyed the core gameplay loop a lot.

The problem is that RE6 does a horrible job of teaching people how to actually play it, because when played right it's nothing like Gears or really any other third person shooter. It controls like those games (with a frankly impressive amount of tweaking options) but the way you're supposed to do things is different.

The game does almost nothing to tell players about the dodging abilities, the weapons that affect each enemy the most, how to set up enemies for melee kill-shots, or really any of the special moves you can do that become important to surviving the game. I didn't even discover most of the coolest gameplay elements to RE6 until Jake's 3rd chapter - after I'd played all of Leon and Chris.

Jake's first two chapters were crap, but the game clicked for me the first time I tossed out a flash grenade to daze some enemies, equipped my remote mines, dashed and slid past said enemies, and planted the mine at their feet mid-slide.

In an interview one of the main designers from Capcom even noted how a full tutorial was the one major thing he didn't get the chance to put into the game.

Let me just say one thing about Medal of Honor Warfighter - the PC version on max settings looks absolutely insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhWGlb9p2y8

If this is what next gen looked like I'd be satisfied.

Can you please discuss the 3DS from time to time please ?

There was a great Nintendo Direct with plenty of games annoucement for the Eshop.

Why this is not covered ?

That was great to hear impression form Jeff C last week on Paper Mario by the way.

In your interface talk, I think you guys missed a big problem with the new Xbox Dashboard. It fundamentally doesn't work. Even navigating it with a controller is painful. It's so slow to load, populating lists of games or movies takes ages, and finding any piece of content not using their search engine is impossible. If the thing loaded quickly and didn't hitch up al the time, it'd be 100 million times more useful. I've stopped using my 360 for multiplatform games at this point. I know on my PS3 I can just pop in a disk or click a downloaded game and it will load up quickly and cleanly. The fact that Microsoft let performance be sacrificed this much is, quite frankly, idiotic.

Cliff Bleszinski ‏@therealcliffyb
Hey, Capcom. Call me. We can fix Resident Evil. Together. :-)


FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAPCOM, DO IT!!!

Anyone playing AC3 yet?

Any impressions?

Personally I'm loving it to bits. I've played a lot of excellent games this year, borderlands 2, Sleeping Dogs, but as soon as I started playing AC3 it's clear this game is in its own league, it's super confident and if it was any more polished it would be a trip hazard.

Full disclosure disclaimer: I was in fact paid a large sum of tommohawks by Ubisoft before posting this.

I'm a Microsoft fan boy. I own a Xbox 360, Windows 8 computer, and a Windows Phone. From my experience with the new windows interface (the name that Microsoft gives to the tiles interface) the reason that I feel it doesn't work on the Xbox 360 is because you cannot customize your tile placement like you can on Windows 8 and Windows Phone. In the latest Xbox 360 update there is now a new tile called My Pins where you can pin your go-to apps/games. It comes up as one of the tiles after you log in. It does cut down on the time navigating through the menus and I highly recommend everyone using this feature. What Microsoft should have done is have the Xbox boot up straight into the My Pins area and let us customize our tiles like they do on the PC and Windows Phone and let us venture out in to the rest of the interface if we wish to discover new content. But that is not the case. Anyway, if you use the My Pins tile the Xbox becomes much easier to use. But still the apps take long to launch and if you want to close one app and go to another prepare to wait a while. It is awfully slow. I am a fan of the Live Tiles on my Windows Phone and Windows 8 PC. It works for me. But on the Xbox 360 it just doesn't. The combo of the 360's aging hardware and Microsoft's decision to not let us customize Tile placement make the Xbox an exercise in patience. Now I only turn on my Xbox 360 if I know exactly what I want to do. I no longer "explore" for content on it.

On the subject of the PR-media editorial on Eurogamer, we used the image from that story as a starting off point for our discussion.

The editorial subsequently caused even greater fallout as events unfolded over its core content about the participation by media members in a twitter contest to give away a PS3.

That wasn't what we talked about, and I'm reluctant to get back into the subject this week though we can.

But to those interested, if you have not already, read Robert Florence's follow up http://botherer.org/2012/10/26/guest-post-robert-florence-on-the-last-few-days/ on how things spiraled.

I don't think Garnett and Jeff are giving the audience enough credit when they say "The audience doesn't want journalism". Completely disagree.

It's like saying people only want to read fluff entertainment pieces instead of hard news. It just simply isn't true. There are people who want to know how the industry works, especially those who want to work in it.

Saying that no one wanted an investigation into the 38 Studios debacle, for example, just isn't correct.

I'm disappointed that you guys (and pretty much every journalist in the industry this week) all immediately brush off any notion that people that write about games are too cozy with PR people as "bullcocky" or "conspiracy theory". As soon as it's mentioned, you circle the wagons and form a defense line. A lot of people see a problem with *that*, and rightly so I think.

As for "I wish people cared this much about shit that really mattered".
I think people's perception of how you do your job *does* matter. If you *appear* to be bought off, whether you are or not, how is that going to affect your career and reputation?

To be fair, Jeff C has a point about being more concerned about things like the election.

Garnett has a point that Jeff K is more of a presenter now, which is true, but the site *currently* issues reviews. If Gametrailers was simply trailers and Jeff's video pieces, I don't think people would make *as* big a deal, although I think people would still question how the game is covered on their site.

Andrea - Personal relationships with PR is the norm in a lot of industries. Getting free swag and free games is not.

I cannot seriously believe Garnett is trying to compare advance press coverage with getting free PS3s. If you're not I'm sorry, but that's the way it came across.

Garnett - I guarantee that no one thinks it's suspicious if someone goes to E3, tries a demo and gives it a favourable impression. However, if you go on a trip paid for by the company and then write a favourable impression, that's going to make people sit back and think "Hmmmm".....

It's all about how it's presented. Come on, I would think that's obvious to everyone.

As for what people want, they want coverage that comes across as objective, and I think that applies to people who read all kinds of journalism - except Fox News watchers maybe.

I will say that I actually think WC/Shack has solved part of the problem by having sponsors that are only peripherally related, which helps a lot.

Most people were mostly making fun of Jeff K for what happened. What happened right after that (and what you didn't talk about) is what people are upset about.

Robert Florence wrote a piece on Eurogamer including the name of one person, Lauren Wainwright. . That person's parent company *allegedly* threatened to sue Eurogamer, because of the libel laws in the UK. Eurogamer then turned around and edited the article and removed the "offending" part of the article. Now Florence is out of a job, but it's not been specified whether he left or was fired.

Wainwright tweeted a promo thingie for a chance at a free PS3, the tweet was something enthusing Tomb Raider. Turns out she's a freelancer for Square Enix, so there's a definite conflict of interest. Now it looks like she used her parent company to force Florence to retract his pointing out her conflict of interest and got him fired.

THIS is why people are so furious, because this is a prime example of what you guys are talking about. There's no opinion here and no trust based on her actions, because whether she is or not, now she looks like a shill for Squeenix.

This was the important part of the story and you guys didn't even touch on it. Totillo is on Neogaf right now saying "it's a non-story".

Once again, the wagons are circled, the defenses are raised. "Nope, there's no problem in games writing" (since you don't want to call it journalism).

This is important because people in all walks of life should be accountable for how they do their job and games writers seem to think they are above it. I can't say I'm particularly surprised that you guys didn't cover the important part of this story, but I am damn disappointed in you for not doing it. This is the kind of games journalism I think that people would like to see.

So all of Andrea Rene's comments about how great the Connect is, was basically her saying that its a an overpriced microphone with some sub-par voice recognition software. Just saying...and yes that is sarcasm.

Dear Jeff C.

You say you stand by your opinions, but let's clarify something.

This discussion did not arise because we are "jealous" of Geoff Keighley.

To infer that suggests you have a gross misunderstanding of the listening audience of this podcast.

Considering some of your past opinions on certain topics in gaming, such as on-disc DLC and Bethesda releasing faulty games for the PS3, your track record would suggest that misunderstanding is deliberate. Also, it indicates you don't hold a very high opinion of gamers.

You owe the listeners an apology.

2008 Games Journalism - Gaiden Guide http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xQeQ39m_38A

Jeff Canatta is right deleting shit off the hdd is a complete clusterfuck on ps3.

The only reason they would make deletion obtuse is to get people to upgrade the HDD. Which is a weird motivation considering PS3 doesnt use a proprietary HDD so they're not even doing it right.

So what's is so bad about that pic of Geoff Keighly sitting beside the Doritos and Mountain Dew?

Let me just say that I agree with a lot of people that there's a lot of worrysome behaviour in games journalism and I agree with what the Eurogamer article says about the worries of games journalism and the need for more separation between PR and journalsim.

But why is that pic so horribly offensive? What is he doing in that photo? Am I missing some context? He looks kinda uncomfortable sitting there. He looks like he might have been causally snapped while sitting for a second. Or was he promoting the products? I don't know. Until I know the context of that photo I can't think anything good or bad about Geoff Keighly, he's just ... sitting there, unaware, being a conduit of huge controversy.

Great show as always crew.

To the Mouse and Keyboard point, I think it is a generational thing. At 35 y/o, I still love my Mouse and keyboard over a controller any day. BF3? Fantastic with a mouse and keyboard, couldn't stand playing that with a controller. Put any fast paced shooter on there for that matter, CoD, TF2, L4D, even those of us who play Quake Live (Yes G, Quake is still alive!).

I think there are still a ton of mouse and keyboard players out there, but have gotten older and quit the internet arguments that have gone on for the last decade and a half. Not to mention, I believe most PC Gamers play on consoles too, not looking at it as a this vs. that kinda thing like it was in years past.

Oh sweet mercy. I couldn't not contain my audible laughter at your bit on breaching. I was laughing like an idiot in public.

Cheers!

Hey guys,

I mentioned this in the thread last week, but I've released it now so here is a link:

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Multiplayer Guide

http://cruellegaceyproductions.com/transformers-fall-of-cybertron-multiplayer-guide/

I'd love to know what you all think!

I've been listening to the show for quite a while now, but it took the discussion about video game "journalism" to actually get me to create an account and weigh in. I spent about 12 years working as a broadcast journalist before moving on to teach media and communication at the university level. While I am now in academia, I still have strong ties to the journalism profession.

That's the key word-- profession. Journalists are professionals, not merely in the sense that they do journalism for a living, but also that they have formed a broad community or culture that shares a set of ethical standards for conduct within the profession. Of course, there are exceptions and people on the fringe in any profession-- doctors, lawyers, plumbers, and yes, journalists-- but in general a profession has an agreed on set of standards and it polices itself.

Mainstream journalists-- those who work in newspapers, television, radio, and increasing online-- are not only concerned about conflicts of interest. They are also concerned about the *appearance* of a conflict of interest.

I could write on at great length about how mainstream journalists avoid such conflicts (or sometimes fail to do so), but let me simply emphasize the most important point: video games journalism, or whatever you want to call it, is a young profession. So young, in fact, that one may not be able to truly call it that, at least not yet. As a practice, it has not been institutionalized-- games journalists have not come together to create any sort of organization that can codify ethical behavior, at least not successfully. That would be a good first step.

Don't know if this has already been posted, cause I missed out on the thread last week.

But anybody who has ever used games as an outlet for ANYTHING should watch this short film about a girl who uses Zelda to cope with some difficult stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4B9ytjJKJPE

The very scenario Andrea brought up is the exact scenario I use everyday when she talked about using Kinect's voice search. I totally disagree that the dashboard has gotten worse. With Bing search I think it is the best dashboard to date in order to find items. I don't want to play menu hero when I can just say want I want and get to in seconds.

With the addition of IE the only thing Bing search is missing is access to my dvr.

Someone from Riot Games needs to be invited onto the show, their office is in Santa Monica! There hasn't been a single video game company within the past few years that has been as innovative as Riot. I want to know more about their decision making process. Where do they see online gaming going within the next few years? What issues are problematic for the industry and how do they plan on addressing them?

So GTA: V

PS3, 360 no WiiU advertised on the PR

Big Deal or Not?

I glad to here someone else in public that still needs to be sold on the WiiU. For me it all stems from something further back, I have not been able to get the DS or 3DS to be enjoyable experiences at all and the influence of those two devices is clear as day on the WiiU hence my trepidation. It all feels like an exercise in how much stuff can we cram into this which is something I am always wary of. I like my hardware the same way I like my interfaces and my software. Razor sharp and to the point.

The WiiU feels like a something for everyone device and that mindset which should prove useful for their pocketbooks doesn't inspire hope from me as a consumer.

My biggest fear is how this approach will affect the other 2 console designers in the next gen and that worries me, it is already creeping in with SmartGlass which looks to just be an Artbook only digitized and displayed while you play, which I don't want to view while I play.


Also how much do you guys wanna bet they aren't selling the controller in NA at launch is partly because they are going to do a WiiPad XL with Multi-Touch at sometime in the future.

(I do really want to play Monster Hunter though, fucking Capcom and their being a traitor to the PS2 then the PSP)

Regarding the relationship between the press and game company's PR departments, I want to bring up a comparison I face daily at work:

I work for a car manufacturer and of course newly released cars are sent to the biggest magazines and websites so as to get coverage of it out there. Similar to video game sites, over the long run no magazine could possibly afford to buy all the cars they want to test. And of course there is already much contact at trade shows etc so that people know what to expect in the coming months/years.

And when buying a car the risk, effort and involvement is even much higher than with video games so you really want to be able to rely on an outlet's verdict. That's why in both industries their integrity is so holy to them. If word gets out that product reviews are colored/tainted that particular outlet will go down very quickly.

That leads me to the question: Did GameSpot take any actions after the episode with the soon-to-be GiantBomb guys? Was the manager that asked for a better review fired? How did they handle that in order not to harm their reputation in the long run?

Can't wait for Ariel to be on the show and some all star talk. 8 questions I'd like answered.

Her favorite character? And why?

Favorite stage? And why?

Favorite item? And why?

And her most epic defeat? Those ones always stick more, but of course epic win?

Just wanted ot say my thoughts on the whole selling out or PR relationships with "game journo's"

my thoughts are this, look at the world as everyone is a human, some of us are rich, some poor, some fat some thin, some smart some not. some people in "game journo" get to play games, and GET PUT ON A PEDESTAL just because he or she gets to talk about games that other people listen to. this fact alone makes it possible for anyone trying to sell or get a game recognized use that persons pedestal to try and get the game "out there".

so yes while i respect people in "games journalism" i also know that if i suddenly put them on a pedestal about how "oh they know games the best and i must listen to what they say almost as verdict" then i have become the problem, not that they may have used a hashtag for a game or anything because of a PR person who got to them. i will go look at the game MYSELF and use the thoughts and words of the person i respect as a guidline to MY OWN THOUGHTS.

the problem with the world today is things are SO EASY for people to not think for themselves or form opinion that may be different then those they see as a hero or on a pedestal of respect like muscisians, politicians, tv/movie stars, radio DJ's, that what happens is they dont even try. how many times do you ask someone a question because thats easier then googling it for yourself and owuld take the same amount of time to finsd out. it's just where most of society has gotten, this is why it only takes one person to tweet or say something that is a blantant lie, to go viral and become the "truth" because of societal concerns.

so the message is, think for yourself, study things, it wont waste your life to take the time to form your own opinions based on knowledge, not what you have "heard/read". look at how much meta critic is used for bonuses and probably purchases by people, because most people just use review scores to tell them what they like, because its easier and has worked for them in the past.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!

/end rant

sorry if this made no sense or is gramaticaly bad or has bad spelling, it was more of a stream of conscious type of rant. thanks for having a website and podcast that allows this kind of rant/thought, and thankyou for talking about it.

I was kind of surprised that no one mentioned the PS Store's metro-esque redesign in that segment about UX, and the future of consoles. Sometimes I think these people exist in a vacuum designed to trap embargoed games and deflect current gaming news.