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A miserable pile of secrets lmao! OwO
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something something deep state
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something something white-supremacist nazi racists
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Lock this libtard cucklord stupid poll dog
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It's about post-irony in videogame message boards
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I only check poll threads for the Mupepe option
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What is GamerGate?
« on: July 13, 2018, 10:17:39 AM »
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2018, 10:21:05 AM »
A part of a barrier or wall you put up to stop uncontrolled mass immigration of gamers.

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2018, 10:21:47 AM »
You mean Baldur's Gate? It's one of those ancient computer RPGs... just play Pillars of Eternity or something.

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2018, 10:24:42 AM »
Shitlords vs Soyboys

benjipwns

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2018, 10:27:09 AM »
There's some pretty decent content in the archived thread actually: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42334.0

Like this:
Quote from: Joe Molotov
If you say say Not Your Shield like an angry black woman, it sounds like Nacho Shield, which sounds like something that would be p. cool imo.

OR THIS:


i had totally forgot how part of their thing was that they were going to read and fact check like 7000 social studies papers or something

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2018, 10:27:26 AM »
:yeshrug

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2018, 10:33:49 AM »
#NOTYOURSHEILD

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2018, 10:35:36 AM »

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2018, 10:51:48 AM »
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DiGRA is the poisoned spring from whence all of this evil flows. It needs further investigation. Everyone should investigate them further.

Sargon of Akkad11 hours ago
 
We are the fucking GAMERS.

We. Play. To. WIN.

#GamerGate #NotYourShield 
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@FoxAndAHalf It's going to be more amazing if we got this running, they would fear us even in their sleep. No rest for the wicked.

Mathias Nordvall ‏@MathiasNordvall  2h2 hours ago
An academic's fear is to publish but not be read. Here comes #OperationDiggingDiGRA to read all their work. That's some Good Guy Greg!
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What else can we do better, with tactics?
If you see a Twitlonger post addressing a corporate entity / PR firm / advertising firm, BOOST IT. It costs us NOTHING. Do not respond to any troll posts / bait tagged on the twitlonger.

This makes us DOMINATE TWITTER for as long as we want. Our enemies will now have to fight MULTIPLE fronts, while we put exponential pressure both on emails and on twitter itself.

This EXHAUSTS the trolls, the shills, Literally Red, Literally Blue, and Literally Who.

Today we start invading Castle Vox
Vox has already set the precedent, thanks to Leigh Alexander. By taking over Castle Vox, we knock out Polygon and The Verge at the same time.

STAY TUNED FOR TARGETS, BE HERE 6PM EST USA, we lay SIEGE to Castle Vox.

Why should we take Castle Vox?
Right now, Vox Media has been implicated with numerous skirmishes with GamerGate, all of these should be brought to light to every PR Agency and every advertiser we can find that deals with Gamers.
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Mission
Calmly inform @CNN, heck even Wolf Blitzer if you want, of what’s really happening in #GamerGate. Be factual. Be polite. Be not crazy uncle RogueStar. Inform them of anything #GamerGate that you know, and send them FACTS AND CONDENSED INFO.

Your email MUST be a public facing write up. Do NOT include your personal info. If you are willing to come out publicly, be sure you are secure on emails, sites, paypals, etc.
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THIRD : You must treat DiGRA website as ENEMY TERRITORY. We have been doxxed before because of IPs getting leaked, and rogue admins helping SJWs. You can safely download the entire DiGRA archive here : https://mega.co.nz/#!oBtSXaiJ!B2HCzRjYcwlhRmk-Nl7yUZ7yW32_u4Skn4gi8MIdTEI
If you have an academic position, tenure, are part of a research group, AND have an interest in contributing NEW PAPERS that go against the current Feminist Inquisition, please contact @RogueStarGamez IMMEDIATELY.


We will read them, every fscking DiGRA paper. Fact checking, fact finding mission.

We will read all the things.

http://www.digra.org/digital-library/ <- There are over 700 articles
in DESPERATE NEED OF PEER REVIEW.

We will give it to them
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Load Out

This is a SUPER LONG operation. If you are a COLLEGE STUDENT, request your school/professors/TAs for a way to get COLLEGE CREDIT for reading DiGRA materials.


DIGRA PAPERS ONLINE, DO NOT DOWNLOAD UNLESS YOU HAVE GOOD SECURITY.
http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/11340.02077.pdf
http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/05087.10012.pdf

benjipwns

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2018, 10:52:40 AM »
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I really really really really really really love the GAMERGATE propaganda that gets retweeted onto my timeline.

https://twitter.com/Max_x_Milia/status/518866992640819201

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2018, 10:56:17 AM »
I'll tell you what it's not: a site with amazing gaming discounts, like Postal 3 at 80% off—now a mind-melting $2.40.

Good or Insane? The choice is yours.

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2018, 11:00:12 AM »
A gaggle of mouthbreathers.
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2018, 11:00:14 AM »
I feel like I have a pretty good idea now:

After killing Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Serbia hired Jeff Gerstmann to be a double agent and destroy gaming journalism from within  Jeff then got fired on purpose to drum up support against the media and especially
female developers. The Black Hand (Jeff's Serbian code name btw.)  fanned the flames to decide the US Election against Hillary Clinton to weaken US foreign policy. With that weakened foreign policy and a loss of power projection the US don't have the means to stop Serbia from creating Greater Serbia.



Thank you benji and kara for opening my eyes.

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2018, 11:03:03 AM »
A boogeyman for out-of-touch nerds who desperately need an enemy to explain their own failure as human beings.

Kara

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2018, 11:05:24 AM »
Thank you benji and kara for opening my eyes.

ICYMI: Tupac is alive in (the internationally defined borders of) Serbia.


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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2018, 11:09:47 AM »
What resetera thinks GamerGate is: The platform that elected Donald Trump.

What GamerGate thinks GamerGate is: Ethics in games journalism.

What GamerGate actually is: A bunch of trolls got angry that some beta dude got cucked by a thot who worked on some text game so they started harassing random female developers for a few weeks. People whose entire world view is based on videogame forums see this as the modern day holocaust and use it as an excuse to be dogmatic online and buy Aloy funko pops to show solidarity.

What normal think GamerGate is: What? Fuck off nerds, I don't care.

Please educate yourself, gamergate made it into the news more often than not - [insert link to lowkey online article about Anita which even its author didn't care about]

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #16 on: July 13, 2018, 12:09:41 PM »
OR THIS:
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This is an old IWW poster. :lol
The gamergate struggle has been ongoing since WWI. :esports
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #17 on: July 13, 2018, 12:20:56 PM »
I don't know and don't care.
:rejoice

non-arpg gaming :piss2
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #18 on: July 13, 2018, 12:49:21 PM »
Did they ever manage to topple Castle Vox? Where they able to DOMINATE TWITTER for as long as they wanted? We need a followup.
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #19 on: July 13, 2018, 12:52:58 PM »
It was when Rare was making Conker Live and Reloaded and they wanted to put in a gate named Bill. He would complain about the broken windows on the barn.

Microsoft made them take it out.

VomKriege

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #20 on: July 13, 2018, 01:16:14 PM »
It's about gaming ethics.
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #21 on: July 13, 2018, 01:59:19 PM »
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #22 on: July 13, 2018, 02:19:57 PM »
I never understood why there was so much backlash over this movie. 



But then, I never saw it so what do I know?  Never really cared about it and-



BRB watching this
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Re: What is GamerGate?
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #24 on: July 13, 2018, 02:27:07 PM »
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #25 on: July 13, 2018, 02:28:50 PM »
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #26 on: July 13, 2018, 02:30:46 PM »
You could say they are like, videogaming aligators


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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #27 on: July 13, 2018, 02:32:53 PM »
How did I miss this SVU stuff?  :lol :rofl

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2018, 03:09:07 PM »
Gamer is a great movie. The end in particular.

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2018, 03:19:06 PM »
What resetera thinks GamerGate is: The platform that elected Donald Drumpf.

What GamerGate thinks GamerGate is: Ethics in games journalism.

What GamerGate actually is: A bunch of trolls got angry that some beta dude got cucked by a thot who worked on some text game so they started harassing random female developers for a few weeks. People whose entire world view is based on videogame forums see this as the modern day holocaust and use it as an excuse to be dogmatic online and buy Aloy funko pops to show solidarity.

What normal think GamerGate is: What? Fuck off nerds, I don't care.

Please educate yourself, gamergate made it into the news more often than not - [insert link to lowkey online article about Anita which even its author didn't care about]
Anita was like, on the Colbert Report one time. Oh and she testified at Congress or some shit. Also text game thot didn't just make some doofy free indie thing, she worked on Jazzpunk too, which without having even played it I think makes her infinitely cooler than any of the angry doofs swatting random gamer ladies. :doge
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #30 on: July 13, 2018, 03:53:53 PM »
You could say they are like, videogaming aligators

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My favorite gamer gator:

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #31 on: July 13, 2018, 06:19:36 PM »
conscious life is a false flag

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #32 on: July 13, 2018, 06:39:35 PM »
Just asking questions OP? You're not fooling anyone.

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #33 on: July 13, 2018, 07:04:18 PM »
Just asking questions OP? You're not fooling anyone.

The correct verbiage is "you ain't slick."
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #34 on: July 13, 2018, 07:23:33 PM »
GamerGate as an organized entity doesn't even exist anymore.

A portion of the original GamerGaters probably 'grew up' the others OD'd or killed themselves.
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2018, 01:24:09 AM »
I always enjoyed our own Mandark's definition of "gamergate: a movement that exists to defend the reputation of gamergate."
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #36 on: July 14, 2018, 07:12:31 AM »
I seriously have no fucking clue what gamersgate is, how one becomes a gamergater or what one needs to do to be one of the aforementioned gamergators.
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Re: What is GamerGate?
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« Reply #39 on: July 14, 2018, 10:24:23 AM »
^_^

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #40 on: July 14, 2018, 11:10:53 AM »
How did I miss this SVU stuff?  :lol :rofl



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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #41 on: July 14, 2018, 11:52:07 AM »
Did you bring up GG cause of this, Rumbler?

https://theoutline.com/post/5383/gamergate-ringleader-experiences-moral-crisis-four-years-late?utm_source=TW&zr=ivh2v3u2&zd=1&zi=6o255bxt

Better late than never, I guess.
Oh jesus, the Outline.

That is such a trashpile. I tried to explain to the founder how shitty his new site was but he didn't understand any of my points.
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #42 on: July 14, 2018, 11:57:33 AM »
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #43 on: July 14, 2018, 12:13:17 PM »
I'm going to choose to believe that Ice-T rewrote all his own dialogue on the set to be more gamer-canon accurate. "No, no, no, you guys are making this sound fuckin stupid."

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« Reply #44 on: July 14, 2018, 12:18:43 PM »
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the subreddit is commonly graced by posts defending Jordan Peterson — a man known for recruiting vulnerable young men into the alt-right using tactics that target people with depression

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« Reply #45 on: July 14, 2018, 05:39:34 PM »
What resetera thinks GamerGate is: The platform that elected Donald Trump.

I have no actual data on this, but it seems that ever since GG became a thing, I've been seeing a lot more youtube gaming channels with right-wing bents. Certainly moreso than I ever personally noticed prior to 2013.

Maybe I'm giving too much credit to the gaming community, but it appeared that before GG, it was overwhelmingly progressive (and again, I'm fully willing to admit that I might be totally offbase here), and GG helped either create or transition a new generation of young people to conservatism.

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #46 on: July 14, 2018, 05:47:55 PM »
I only watch a few gaming YouTubers so I have no idea about "the community" or whatever but I'd suggest that just the gradual democratization of YouTube and the internet may play an unseen role in demographic changes.

Think of it like Facebook, I remember they published stats once when it was limited still to school users and like 80% of the users listed their politics as liberal/left. Then they invited the whole world in and based on my reading Facebook comments under news articles now 40% of the user base are traditional conservatives and another 40% are hardcore racist conservatives. (The remainder are false flag bots.)

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #47 on: July 14, 2018, 06:07:19 PM »
there's an animegate now because crunchyroll hosted a panel about gays in anime at a con :doge

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« Reply #48 on: July 14, 2018, 06:15:06 PM »
They also tried to do a Comicsgate thing a while back, but never took off (thankfully).

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« Reply #49 on: July 14, 2018, 06:23:06 PM »
Did you bring up GG cause of this, Rumbler?

https://theoutline.com/post/5383/gamergate-ringleader-experiences-moral-crisis-four-years-late?utm_source=TW&zr=ivh2v3u2&zd=1&zi=6o255bxt

Better late than never, I guess.
Oh jesus, the Outline.

That is such a trashpile. I tried to explain to the founder how shitty his new site was but he didn't understand any of my points.

:dunno

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #50 on: July 14, 2018, 06:30:32 PM »
Not that any of it is scientific but my impression is that GamerGate was largely build upon some longstanding vague & diffuse sentiments found in gaming communities (and most nerd fandoms) :
- The specialized press being held for a total joke, incompetent and bought for.
- Nostalgy for the way things used to be better (doubly so for videogames where thirty something lived through what is still the early age of the medium and its mutations, including some hefty corporate consolidation from a sea of pioneering studios to a dozen of massive publishers).
- A defensive kneejerk at the audience growing wider and wider and a sense of displacement, hijacking and betrayal (against "fake" gamers, "casual" and "non" games).
- Distrust towards perceived established elites who treated the medium with contempt and scorn but now are coopting it.

Which all mostly stem from the medium undergoing rapid growth.

"GamerGate" gave those reactionary feelings a political spine by folding it into a more defined narrative : in short, that the hobby has been commodified by neoliberals and soulless international capitalists. Yes they're dumbing it down to make it more marketable and profitable. They're compromising it. They want to open it to wider markets and thus court new audiences including normies and women. They're the elites and they're cynically coopting it for profit. And the press is of course bought for and on the ride.

Which to be fair is appealing to popular sentiments, including on the left : it's not too far removed from anxieties about job shipped overseas, the death of mom and pop stores or gentrification. From there it is not to hard to draw parallels with wider societal trends or inject talking points about identity politics, political correctness and al.

That's my 2 cents anyway.
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #51 on: July 14, 2018, 06:43:48 PM »
I remember that in the years preceding GamerGate there was a spate of criticism of the gaming press for being essentially PR outlets for gaming companies. There was the Doritos Pope thing, the controversy over reviewers accepting perks from developers, even the anger about Mass Effect 3 getting universally positive reviews. Some outlets changed the way they did reviews because of it.

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #52 on: July 14, 2018, 06:52:31 PM »
Someone in the archived thread likened it to Occupy, and there's some similarities in that it was a bunch of disparate upset groups with different but somewhat linked interests unifying around something mostly non-specific, that then had short-term momentum simply from the formation of the movement, then gradually fell apart or sects were co-opted by whoever had whatever interest or people remembered they could harass women without needing a "valid reason" or whatever until it became as recursively himself and himself alone described it, "a movement that exists to defend the reputation of itself." Occupy couldn't get to that status because they prioritized the establishment of bureaucratic process over concentrated action for the most part.

Occupy still exists I believe, even formally, and last I knew was doing actual charity work and such because it had shed all the hop-ons and infiltrators and hijackers. Since GamerGate "existed" purely on the internet there weren't even real world relationships to hold it together. Except in the one-drop rule useful way for people like on ERA.

If there's a connection to the alt-right, I think it's that just as GamerGate was running out of steam, the various alt-right trends started and targeted a lot of the same enemies. So it probably had the appeal of shifting from defending "gaming" to saving "Western society" as a whole from social studies worriers. Unlike GamerGate, it's held together better because of "the leaders" shared interests in maintaining and squeezing it for profit and other personal gains.

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #53 on: July 14, 2018, 06:58:06 PM »
I remember that in the years preceding GamerGate there was a spate of criticism of the gaming press for being essentially PR outlets for gaming companies. There was the Doritos Pope thing, the controversy over reviewers accepting perks from developers, even the anger about Mass Effect 3 getting universally positive reviews. Some outlets changed the way they did reviews because of it.

Yeah and honestly as far back as I can remember it's always been the sentiment even in the mid to late nineties. Not unfounded either, it was honestly a bit painful to revisit the gaming mags of your youth : basically a bunch of very young adults lucking out at making a job out of playing games, with the quality of writing and lack of self awareness you would expect, obviously dependent on access, and largely there to relay and hype upcoming and current releases. It doesn't help that a PR outlet like Nintendo Power was largely indistinguishable from "normal" ones. The PlayStation Era was also rife with platform exclusive titles who continued said ambiguity.

All (specialized) press tend to be like this but as I said the VG one had especially poor standards (even just graphically, it was all super tacky, edgy and pandering to nineties youth sensibilities).
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #54 on: July 14, 2018, 07:01:20 PM »
For a PR outlet, Nintendo Power until the N64 era or so was surprisingly harsh and overly clinical in their reviews. Once you acquired a PhD in mathematics and could decipher their scoring system.

The rest of the magazine was arguably less hype-driven than the newsstand magazines too. The benefits of not having to really sell your magazine I suppose.

Game Informer acquired some of this as their competitors all shriveled up, and they were being given away at every GameStop. Like it had passed through the hype-focused singularity and having a subscriber base larger than any magazine not owned by the AARP allowed it to trash the same games it gave 12 pages of exclusive reveal to eight months prior.
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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #55 on: July 14, 2018, 07:07:37 PM »
Though before that, their Enter The Matrix shilling was one of my favorite gaming magazine events. Especially when they were trying to secretly tell you in the review that it was garbage and then still give it the probably promised 8.5 minimum score.

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« Reply #56 on: July 14, 2018, 07:34:38 PM »
For a PR outlet, Nintendo Power until the N64 era or so was surprisingly harsh and overly clinical in their reviews. Once you acquired a PhD in mathematics and could decipher their scoring system.


Heh. I always thought it was interesting how they were one of the few major outlets that didn't give a perfect score to Ocarina of Time.

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #57 on: July 14, 2018, 08:03:07 PM »
This was their scoring chart in the SNES era:

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #58 on: July 14, 2018, 08:46:09 PM »
does anybody even know 80% of the games listed on there

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Re: What is GamerGate?
« Reply #59 on: July 14, 2018, 08:57:40 PM »
well obv yea... wait, is this like when my roommates ended trivial pursuit weekends unless i was gone or "willingly" not playing?

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the history, sports and geography sections being essentially uncontested combined with the fact that the entertainment and science sections were no worse than even plays meant it was always games for second place... especially if my teammates could handle arts and help run either entertainment or science too

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