yeah it's a giant picture, Oscar cares not
The short summary is: DmC is announced. DMC fanbase (rightly) gets pissed with the character. Journalists go "Y U MAD THO?" Ninja Theory goes "well, fuck you guys, Capcom is paying us to do this (which is totally within the reasonable logic but not very "PR"/spin. Tamamin was terrible about this)." Anyway, flash forward through the year, the demo comes out. People play it. People dissect it and think the combat system is shit--despite Capcom's help, may I add?--and pick it apart.
Journalists continue to "circle the wagons" on the DMC fanbase and goes "BUT YOU JUST HATE IT FOR THE WHITE HAIR" while completely ignoring that some people have
found new things to critic/think is "shit" about DmC.
It's the same with Gamersgate (follow me here): There's some valid/"legit" points in regards to how the "games journalism industry" works and them circling the wagons and "lalalalalalalala can't hear you" about certain issues. I don't think "#gamersgate/#notyourshield" is a totally valid critic. But, I think like "Operation Wallstreet," there is some valid "idea" behind it. I mean:
Additionally, it's also being used to go against all the progressive social issues that have entered gaming media coverage. A certain segment of gamers say they tired of seeing aspects of feminism, check your privilege, and the like infect gaming coverage.
Which is true. Don't get me wrong, there's a feminism problem in regards to gaming and the industry. But harping on "check your privilege..." doesn't make me want to support your cause, you know? I mean it's the same thing as Rock Paper Shotgun asking for money from "supporters" and the supporters going "we don't really want as many 'SJW'-like posts, that's not really in our interests" and some people going "well, fuck you. You're not their audience." How aren't they? They're throwing money at you and reading your site. But they don't want an influx of a certain type of article, how is that a bad thing?
...Well, that's a ramble and a TL;DR would be:
- Games journalists generally "circle the wagons" and completely miss the point of some of the hoopla on certain games/issues. That "internal e-mail ring" thing kinda proves this.
- I don't think a lot of people are
against feminism/"SJW"-like elements of gaming coming in. I
do think the beating over the head about it is tiring and not really helping "the cause" because it just irritates readers that want to read about a certain titles development.
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- Which brings up: A major factor on why I stopped reading "gaming news" sites is that a lot of them regurgitate PR. I mean harping on the lack of female devs and "misogyny" in the gaming community/industry is fine and a totally valid point. But if that's the only thing you have in addition to regurgitating PR... maybe it's time for the "game journalism industry" to die, you know?
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Which probably doesn't make sense because I'm rambling and my points are pretty soft. :/ Basically, I'm not really seeing a point of doing "games journalism" because there's really no "journalism" involved in it. And shoving "you want more females in game industry jobs, kay?" down peoples throats isn't exactly helping the "cause" for getting that done.
I think a more "silent" approach to just doing that within the industry and changing the "man-children" in the industry that treat women like shit would be the first step instead of beating a drum about it.