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and some dude from bioware says he is happy about it:
I blame EA for that. Bungie (with activision) and all these other companies need to realise that working for the empire turns people evil. Yes they may try to hide that they are evil by pretending they aren't, but we all know that they act this way (apologise after insulting people) only due to the fear of losing profits and not because they want to be decent human beings.

Anyway it is a sad loss for pc gamers who value his opinions. He didn't do real reviews, (he tells people that these are just impressions) but his honest opinions on game industry ethics is what got him respect. People in general have become more cynical and this scares these companies because they have to work harder to please the crowd. They'd rather people just shut up and hand money over without thinking hard about whether the quality is up to par with the expectations of the tough crowd. Since bioware sucks these days luckily nobody cares what they think. The last Mass Effect game can't live up to the standard of past ones. EA corrupted them with the dark side and they have become a shadow of what they were. Maybe they will change but under EA you are pretty much doomed since they generally side with SJW and feminist not the gamergate guys who want to see honesty in game reviews and for the standards of ethics be raised up.

If you are golfing buddies with the makers of the games and you review their shit, don't expect that to not be a factor in whether you give it favourable scores. It should be important that you disclose these things because ever since gerstmann-gate people now have their guard up and do not believe a word of reviewers any more due to lack of morals and ethics. You want money? Earn it the honest way and stop pulling strings. People will respect you more and you can gain the same respect totalbiscuit had and over time help consumer make informed purchases rather than be misled by marketing hype and dishonest critics who were bought out by the giants to say nice things about the game but commit the sin of omission by not mentioning all the bad things in them too.

Reviews are not opinions. If you are going to review a game you hate; let us say you do not like racing and flight simulators for instance, you have to still tell us whether the game does a good job being a good racing simulator or flight simulator and achieved the goal that its developers had intended on the box. Because fans of a racing/flight simulator want to know if its better than all the other ones out there. You have responsibility to inform the guy and by truthful and honest in your statements about the game you review. Not merely give an opinion about whether you liked it or disliked it. You have to be critical about it as if you paid money for it and put yourself in the shoes of a person that is looking for that thing you hate (ie sims) and then tell the guy that loves sims if the sim is actually a GOOD SIM. That's it.

Too many people take stuff personally and assume: It's just opinions dude, you can say whatever you want! People hear my opinions because they like ME and couldn't give a fuck about the review itself. Those are bad reviewers who don't understand what potential buyers of games expect from them. It's not about YOU. Focus on the game and whether the game is good, not on you and why you don't like something. Is that thing actually a good at what it's trying to BE, (IE did the developer actually achieve the goal that they said they were aiming for and match what the hype advertised to the buyer?) and how does that thing compare to all the other things that tried or trying to do the same thing? And would you recommend to others who are looking for that thing to buy that PARTICULAR thing over the other things? (if you WERE into that particular thing yourself personally)

That's what reviewers have to keep in mind. It's less about what you like or dislike, but more about whether the products are high quality or low quality. (and you can give example of why one game succeeds at achieving the intended goal while another fails at it. The developers can learn from that type of constructive criticism because they are trying to improve and that usually results in better games for us all the next time they try again. As the bar is raised people have confidence and spend more money and more jobs are created as company expands etc)

"But everyone has different taste" and that's where the consumer has to decide through history of reviews whether they match that taste. So they find the reviewer who has similar taste and then base buying decision on how close he thinks the score really matched the actual game quality the last time he trusted them. Over time as trust is built you become more influential because people learn you were not fucking with them the last time when they bought a game based on your recommendation. The problem is the bad reviewers need to learn to resist being tempted by the game company to take the easy path. Being too nice to the giants means you want to be friends, and they then take advantage of the "friendship" by treating you differently to all the other critics because they look at you as a vehicle to be a free ad for their products. You become a prostitute/whore for the big giant to advertise products because they bought your soul and own you. To solve that you have to be transparent and have ethics and morals, and fighting the consumers and insulting buyers is not going to get you the respect/trust of the game community. (no money for you and your advertisers)

What SJWs think they can get away with is trying to insult the fanbase that paid the money to buy the games. And it doesn't work. If your game is crap, it's because you were not up to standard of the past games. But they will take it personally anyway and let emotions control their behavior and act entitled. Avoid buying games from these guys just like the Soylo boycott and the industry will self correct. If the creators can't respect the buyer then the buyer has to decide how much abuse is too much and go elsewhere. Standards will continue going higher and not lower because expectations grow as the industry grows. If the industry shrinks, maybe people can lower expectations but technology and the profits go up. So with all that money and all the employees companies can hire we tend to lift expectations not lower them.

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Someone dies and you still find a way to fill an entire post with irrelevant ramblings.

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He's been shitting in this entire section of the forum for a few weeks now. The place is unreadable.
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He's still on ignore but I thought I'd see what he had to say (plus the name totalbiscuit rang a bell). Regretted it immediately.
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There are two ways to ignore. Simply do not respond which is how you do it the original way and it saves time.
And there is what I like to call a fake ignore where you pretend you are ignoring but the truth is you can't because nobody is speaking to you anymore (you don't talk about games but focus on the sales which attracts guys like jasper to place ads everywhere) and so you see posts by others as irresistable posts that you must respond to. (you are bored because people don't have time to react to whatever it is you want them to react to) It is the equivalent of having a tv on, not being interested in it and then complaining about it when you have the ability to shut it off with the remote.

If you like ignoring then nobody is twisting your arms. lol You keep saying you are but I don't believe you. That's why it works and ticks him off so much. He wants me to believe he is ignoring but then we all know if I shit on his fave game he must hear about it at some point. He values the opinions of his enemy and this gives him purpose. It's like Thanos getting bored if nobody is alive for him to kill off in the marvel universe. He becomes his own worse enemy because he really needs attention from things he is using the infinty gauntlet against for ego reasons. I'm here to feed the guy the garbage for him to complain about which allows him as a mod to gain respect from the haters of the long post which expose all the bullshit going on. The respect he gains makes him feel important (like a centrelink worker) and the forum community feels safe.

You guys pimp PC as superior versions of games but you don't respect the console versions as being the official versions and telling us console gamers we are cooler than the pc gamers for having the tournament quality street fighter games. This would show you guys were unbiased but you are not. You form gangs that circle jerk each other and the community is too scared to stand up to you accept me because I believe you are just victims of your parents who forced you to like PC games because you were too poor to buy nintendo products and its not your fault that you are messed in the head and obsess so much about sales data as if you work at EB and give a shit about the boxes sales biz. Or maybe you DO work at EBGames and just like to accuse everyone ELSE as being an EB Games employee to deflect attention from yourself? It's like when you fart in an elevator and accuse everyone else of it when you were the one that did it.

PC version of Monster Hunter World isn't out yet candy. Pissed off? At least Switch gamers can play MH still. You are an angry and bitter man. It comes out in your posts. When you see a happy console gamer, you must attack it. That's why I like consoles. I must show the biased pc crowd that console is still the king. And PC gamers are still slaves to mind control and religious thinking from when they were brought up by uncool parents who thought consoles were going to die by the time Half Life came out. Still hasn't happened just like nintendo still hasn't died off even with pirated roms. Because console gamers are the unbiased ones not you retards who have to wait for Monster Hunter World to come out still and haven't even got a port of Red Dead Redemption yet. Yakuza 6 = console exclusive retard. God of War? Sony exclusive. Pillars of Eternity 2? Not exclusive to pc only. Coming to Switch. Times are changing. People are sick of your biased view of the industry and kids are still playing games on cartridges not on bulky pc in mom's basement or downloading off the cloud. EBgames is still here selling second hand copies of shit EA titles and steam is full of shovelware like apple store. (causing them to come to nintendo eshop which filters out the bad titles to make it easier to see the quality ones. You see all the positive but omit the negative things of the things you are a fan of)

You are the worst unbiased reviewer of sales of all time. And kids are playing free to play games on consoles now. Fortnight is one example. That used to be PC gamers domain. Your vision is doomed man! You thought Witcher 3 was amazing but even that was made for console platforms so it could be viewed by the peasants. The pc once had exclusives that console gamers envied but now game devs are producing pc-like games for the console platforms. The posts about sales isn't going to change the level of customer satisfaction people have and that's your weakness. People will pay premium price for premium quality. But you focus on numbers so it is hard for you to accept this. (how many of the sale is people buying merely because it was half cost and/or they bought it because it was cheap due to the fear of piracy? You got to take that into account as many poor guys from russia or china are desperate to just take shit but not commit to buying full cost: the closed platform like switch have their place despite high cost. Developers have stability. Usually bugs are rare in nintendo products unlike most pc titles where nobody supervises the coders, and majority of gamers will still play games with crap visuals if the game is amazing. If Zelda was in 4K instead of Wii U level visuals nintendo would be too far ahead of the other companies and it would anger them so they hold back for your benefit to give the others a chance. (it's too easy beating pc as it is with downgraded specs imagine if nintendo competed with it with current gen specs?)
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Join the pc gaming is doomed thread here if you are against spamming the boards with truth due to the fear of candy arse deleting your posts or banning your account: (jasper was an ad but candy was equally guilty of the same thing he did)
https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/genera ... ne-380742/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

the OP was 8 years ago so you can feel the fear coming from these guys who want nintendo to die off. (biggest competitor to pc because it lets you play pc games like Skyrim on the bus along with Street Fighter 30th anniversary edition which will probably harm sales of pc versions)
The beginning of the end was when indie devs decided to start coming to switch after the sales of it were doing well. This offends candy because he knows cheaper console can run the indie titles so it undercuts the pc platform due to switch being more affordable than master race machine which is tied to mom's basement set up where you can't meet hot chics at the airport when you travel the globe like james bond. Kids don't like bulky consoles and so nintendo is securing the future by planting the seeds now for the future hardcore gamers who are paying customers. While candy thinks short term. (How do you expect capcom servers of street fighter 30th anniversary edition to stay up forever when it cost money? Best to buy a handheld copy of SF and play local multiplayer with buddies at maccas or at cafe by playing on the Switch version than online on pc with lag hidden away from public and where opponents will likely cheat)

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^possible reason totalbiscuit was so popular. There are so many titles to review his opinions hold so much value because there simply aren't enough reviewers out there to cover it all and his ability to show everything and be cynical enough to criticise the flaws was what made him popular. All he could do was introduce you to what they were about. It's too much content and not enough gamers to give attention to them all. With nintendo you have limited choice but those game developers get noticed based on merit. Closed platforms have advantage over pc when it comes to quality. Socialist types hate that because it means they can't fill the shelves with crappy titles to hide all the good ones. That is why indie are flocking to them and guys like Candy have to get with the times. If develpers don;t make any profit they fold. Witcher 3 is as good as it is BECAUSE it was aimed at console peasants. Otherwise you would get a lesser experience if it was pc exclusive. So what master race guys do is bash nintendo all the time. (steam can't police the quality of it all because they are too nice to everyone and maybe too lazy, and this means good games are hidden from view lol) Oneof the things I respect about Valve is the pro free speech side to it all despite the buying of good games under a sea of crappy stuff.
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Personally, I find it pretty disrespectful for you to post this as "news" when he'd been dead for like, a week.

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Not really. I had no knowledge of the guys death since that time. It's not like I personally knew him. He was my fave indie game information source.
I think you are the disrespectful one for not keeping on the topic of the reptilian aliens that have hijacked this planet and gangstalking all the ones that can see.
There will come a time mark my words when you do see and people will start to lose their shit and wonder if they've gone insane. The cracks are starting to appear everywhere and demonic entities are appearing more now.
Guys like TotalBiscuit have a lot in common with me. We just want to cut through all the crap to get to the truth. Him dying means a lot of shitty games will get a pass. You've seen how corrupt reviewers are. Bashing a game simply for not being pro-feminist enough or politically correct and movies that have reptilian shapeshifting stuff inside them hidden in certain frames. (see above Vice video)
The world will one day see. But for now the population is still emerging from blindness so I can understand why you react how you do. Concerned about the illness not the why all the good guys are being picked off and censored. Bioware are the ones you should be paying attention to here.
These are people who once made great stuff. What happened to them? Hopefully someone similar to TotalBiscuit fills in to replace him. Youtube will miss the guy. Can't say the same for the haters who tried to pay him off to give their game praise but he probably told them to go approach a feminist site like polygon instead. The reptilians are ruining many game series. We must stop them attacking innocent people to ensure there is always a person shining the light to expose bad stuff. You are a part of the game whether you like it or not. The time is coming where you got to choose the side. Bad guys who are evil and fear light or the good guys who are helping you survive.
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Disgusting behavior by illuminati controlled media:
no wonder the mainstream media is doomed.. These youtubers are the new mainstream media for intelligent guys. This is why the elite think "competition is sin" because they hate that. It means they lose powers they once have over the population. lol TotalBiscuit was a free thinking guy who told the truth. He also admits: "I don't want to be your personal friend on social media and hang out with you, I'm just a businessman trying to make money doing this videogame criticism stuff" and that honesty is why people trust his views on things. (this is polar opposite of the corrupt games journalist you see today) He is cynical enough to even tell us something that would go against his own best interest. :up: That is refreshing and entertaining to people that hate the NWO and want them to fuck off. He was a rebel and didn't change or sell out to the lizards. Contrast that to Polygon and these other SJW infested game sites, and you can see why people are sad to see him pass away. If Ben Kuchara died we'd all be partying. We should ban SJW from talking about games. They are not real gamers. They are just there to try to promote feminist crap which is why they can't make their own games (at least without them being shitty and or have annoying two dimensional characters that came out of a kids cartoon series) and have to get jobs working under non-feminist companies to survive. :D

There needs to be another british guy who is willing to offend the corrupt journalist and poke fun at them to act as the replacement to TB. Also someone with actual morals and shit to understand the importance of maintaining clean reputation so that you gain long term respect and don't just become an ad like the mainstream media is. (I'm assuming the reason people turn to youtube is because they see real people with diferent opinions on stuff who think for themselves not just puppets who present something to look at and have no charisma. The free market offers almost unlimited choice in who you can get news, reviews and impressions from and dino media can't compete)
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