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Since this has become the de facto Polygon Videos Thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqX1wxaB7I4
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Jun 27, 2017 02:44
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The Moneyzone is some choice stuff this week
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Jun 27, 2017 02:58
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Waffleman_ posted:Since this has become the de facto Polygon Videos Thread: This made me hate Russ a little less. Also I love how many demons have been summoned in recent Polygon videos, someone must have found an ancient tome of forgotten magicks at E3 this year
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Jun 27, 2017 03:07
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Whats the chance people would care about a general Polygon thread? Maybe once The Polygon Show has more than 2 eps
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Jun 27, 2017 05:59
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Is there really too much overlap in this thread? I don't think we're stepping over eachother to post the once-a-day uploads between the McElroy's and polygon.
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Jun 27, 2017 06:08
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Nick's stream right now... is something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0prnTy1RU
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Jun 27, 2017 07:22
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:Whats the chance people would care about a general Polygon thread? Maybe once The Polygon Show has more than 2 eps We may as well just roll it in to this thread, McElroys are indivisible from Polygon right now. I personally love what they're doing over on Polygon. It's neat there's a gaming news site that's actually funny and kinda hip. There's a lot of good comedic taste on their crew - no 'random' humour, meanness or edginess, just generally good fun.
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CainsDescendant posted:This made me hate Russ a little less. Simone disappeared into a hell dimension in her E3 SEO Play video, so it's probably her fault.
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Jun 27, 2017 09:17
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Moatman posted:Nick's stream right now... is something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0prnTy1RU It's gone now, what was it?
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well why not posted:We may as well just roll it in to this thread, McElroys are indivisible from Polygon right now. I personally love what they're doing over on Polygon. It's neat there's a gaming news site that's actually funny and kinda hip. There's a lot of good comedic taste on their crew - no 'random' humour, meanness or edginess, just generally good fun. And Russ!
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ALFbrot posted:And Russ! And then there's Russ...Russ is trying his best... (I like Russ)
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Jun 27, 2017 15:47
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Watching Fold Yeller warmed me up to Russ a lot, but he's still frustrating because he waits until Simone is knee-deep in lava before slowly telling her "you're gonna want to go... to the... left"
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Jun 27, 2017 16:12
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So I've been trying to get back into Sawbones, and I guess I stopped listening to it before TAZ started because I never made the connection that Clint was the disclaimer.
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Jun 27, 2017 16:30
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Waffleman_ posted:So I've been trying to get back into Sawbones, and I guess I stopped listening to it before TAZ started because I never made the connection that Clint was the disclaimer. Uh... he's not. It's the same voice actor that does the MBMBaM intro. But Sawbones is still good and you should listen to it!
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Jun 27, 2017 17:38
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Prof. Spaceman posted:Uh... he's not. It's the same voice actor that does the MBMBaM intro. But Sawbones is still good and you should listen to it! i'm like 1000% sure that clint mcelroy's radio voice is the intro/disclaimer to sawbones
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Jun 27, 2017 17:42
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Prof. Spaceman posted:Uh... he's not. It's the same voice actor that does the MBMBaM intro. But Sawbones is still good and you should listen to it! I've been considering grabbing another McElroy joint and Sawbones seems like the best choice, got a good ep recommendation to start?
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Jun 27, 2017 17:42
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Poque posted:I've been considering grabbing another McElroy joint and Sawbones seems like the best choice, got a good ep recommendation to start? I've been listening through it from the beginning and that's been good for me. First episode is on trepanation which is probably the king of "wtf were they thinking" medical procedures. Alternately, just pick an episode about something you're interested in and go from there
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Jun 27, 2017 17:50
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Prof. Spaceman posted:Uh... he's not. It's the same voice actor that does the MBMBaM intro. But Sawbones is still good and you should listen to it! It's Clint, ya dingus.
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Jun 27, 2017 17:58
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Prof. Spaceman posted:Uh... he's not. It's the same voice actor that does the MBMBaM intro. But Sawbones is still good and you should listen to it! They sound nothing alike. Unless you meant the into to the MBMBaM TV show.
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Jun 27, 2017 18:04
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:Whats the chance people would care about a general Polygon thread? Maybe once The Polygon Show has more than 2 eps Have you ever read any of the giant bomb thread? It'd be like that but worse because a good quarter or more of nerds irrationally hate polygon
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Jun 27, 2017 18:11
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Poque posted:I've been considering grabbing another McElroy joint and Sawbones seems like the best choice, got a good ep recommendation to start? It's pretty different compared to the other eps, but if you're invested in the McElroys themselves, they did a special episode on the birth of their daughter.
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Jun 27, 2017 18:42
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Sankis posted:Have you ever read any of the giant bomb thread? It'd be like that but worse because a good quarter or more of nerds irrationally hate polygon Why do people hate Polygon, anyway?
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Jun 27, 2017 19:14
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Who What Now posted:Why do people hate Polygon, anyway? There are women on the staff, and they sometimes don't like when games are demeaning to women and say so.
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Jun 27, 2017 19:18
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Also they didn't have optimal gameplay on a Doom preview video or something.
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gies, kuchera, who are thankfully absent from most of their video content
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Jun 27, 2017 19:23
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A while back there was someone there who did a glowing review of the latest SimCity game, in contrast to public opinion which was quite harsh due to the game requiring an internet connection as a form of DRM. The person who did the review (I don't remember who it was) defended this practice by repeating the developer's claim that the always online thing is integral to the game's infrastructure and cannot be removed. This was almost immediately (I think within the next couple of days) proven wrong when someone hacked the game to not be online and it worked perfectly fine. That was pretty bad, and it soured a lot of people on Polygon, including myself. I'm back on the train now though.
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Jun 27, 2017 19:25
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They had a fairly embarrassing Doom preview around the same time as a really quite embarrassing VR gun range review, and have had a few pretty bad clickbait videos. They've been getting a lot better, though, especially since they've leaned their shoulder into being the Weird Twitter of videogame sites.
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Jun 27, 2017 19:25
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Ben Kuchera also wrote a prediction article about Mario Kart 8 sales that was impressively terrible. I think people hated Justin at one point too because he played Nier wrong
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Jun 27, 2017 19:28
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Who What Now posted:Why do people hate Polygon, anyway? on the more lovely side: they're filthy SJWs who while saying a game like Witcher is objectively a great game they also say 'but it'd be nice if everyone I met wasn't the same generic white european type like every other fantasy game'. On the still really petty but at least more based in games journalism side: they sometimes have dumb moments like doing a Doom gameplay where they suck poo poo for the entire runtime and go 'haha well Doom is complicated huh' or that time they spent a review talking about how impossible some Souls clone was when they refused to lower difficulty because it felt 'insulting' or something like that. Those are kinda valid dings but also really dumb to cling to past a quick joke. Also there was the Microsoft money drama at the very start of them when because they didn't stomp an Xbone on camera while shouting "gently caress THIS poo poo, gently caress THIS poo poo, gently caress THIS poo poo" that clearly meant they were in Big Microsoft's pocket despite constantly having similar reviews as everyone else did. Oh and there was some weirdness when they were just starting where Arthur was kinda a wad and did stuff like change the Sim City score to represent a more 'fluid situation' and talked a bunch of poo poo about how everyone was just making up the online only concerns right before the game launched and all those concerns were validated. Basically like everyone they've done some dumb stuff and nerds have clung to those examples as proof that they're all terrible forever while being much more charitable to other outlets which totally isn't because of the whole 'ug more like poly-SJWs am I right guys' thing
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Things I remember people think were bad about polygon: When they started up they were given like a ton of money (it was like a half million or something) by Microsoft to make a documentary about how independent and revolutionary they were. So people thought they were pompous dicks They were at the heart of the most recent SimCity review debacle Arthur Gies in general ImPureAwesome fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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Jun 27, 2017 19:31
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Polygon's adapted nicely to letting weird video game dorks be weird on the internet.
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The SimCity review was a shitshow, and the score went 9.5 -> 8.0 -> 4.0 -> finally 6.5, which is probably a good score for the game. But "a while back" in this case is over four years ago, which would be a very long time to hold a grudge for a website, and also the guy who wrote said review left the site in 2014.
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ImPureAwesome posted:Things I remember bad about polygon: Related: their extensive XBox One launch day livestream where they did not acknowledge the myriad of issues they were obviously running into with buggy software, unresponsive Kinect commands, having to play LocoCycle, etc.
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Zeeman posted:Ben Kuchera also wrote a prediction article about Mario Kart 8 sales that was impressively terrible. That Nier review was hilarious and convinced me to buy the game. It wasn't until many episodes into MBMBAM that I realized Justin was that guy.
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kidcoelacanth posted:Polygon's adapted nicely to letting weird video game dorks be weird on the internet. yea note all the issues aside from I think the Souls-clone thing were from early days. Now they've clearly found their groove in 'ok maybe we let Gamespot and poo poo do Serious Game Journalism, let's send some funny people to E3 to do some day end review videos and also talk about Game Milk'
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Considering how tight lipped games companies are with information taking the piss out of the whole thing is easily as instructive as taking it seriously and a lot more watchable. The boys got me back into even caring about games news rather than picking them up only at the prompting of friends.
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They did some kinda dumb stuff at the start, but honestly nothing too terrible. Doom video was some bad gameplay, but it's probably how I'd look playing with a non-familiar controller at an event. Sim City having it's score lowered over time seems pretty reasonable. They're at least fairly upfront about how they run the company (publish ethics standards, have a rubric for scores etc). The internet backlash was a hundred times greater than what was reasonable. I'm pretty sure there's a site out there with each staffer listed with potential "ethics violations" listed against them. It's creepy as poo poo. well why not fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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Zeeman posted:Ben Kuchera also wrote a prediction article about Mario Kart 8 sales that was impressively terrible. Wait, is he the one that couldn't do the fishing side quest?
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