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Mantis42 posted:Every game journalist is 40 years old and struggles to complete the first level of Mario. Watching a work colleague attempt to play Super Mario World while refusing to use the run button was a terrifying look into a completely alien mindset.
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Jul 11, 2018 22:09
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SeANMcBAY posted:I died more than once in a game = game hasn’t aged well. Ah, the 2017s... people may have fond memories for games of that period, but as soon as they play them again they'll remember it was all blind nostalgia that led to such positive reviews!
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Jul 11, 2018 22:57
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The only place I could see anyone dying in the first three zones is the rising water section so really I think it just comes down to the reviewer being bad
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The game hasn’t aged well is a weird complaint for Sonic too since it’s not like there’s a similar modern game that’s “replaced” it. Unless they’re comparing it to modern “classic” Sonic. Whatever though. Being a game reviewer is a poo poo job with no future and bad pay so I don’t want to be too hard on any of them.
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There's a big fuckin difference between an occasional death (I want to feel challenged) and being stuck/roadblocked
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I can't believe these ungrateful reviewers get to play Mania Plus before me, a true sonic fan
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I will kill him Not just for the bad review but for invoking MN9
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Some of the review is kinda bad but looking it over Encore Mode's life system does sound pretty dumb for the guff the initial game got.
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Screaming Idiot posted:I will kill him Huh, I had assumed it was a Mambo Number 5 joke.
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The only time I was truly stuck in 2D Sonic was Sonic 2, and that’s because it’s two bosses back-to-back and you never get any rings. And probably more because having to fight Silver Sonic every god time time was annoying. I don’t recall straight-up Game Overing that much, but just getting bored and figuring I had better things I could do with my time. Also, I think the Death Egg Robot took way the hell too many hits to beat.
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Jul 12, 2018 07:03
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Gamespot gave Plus a 9/10.
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The IGN review is fine and I know the Sonic account gimmick is to be as always online as possible but gotta believe they're subconciously promoting people to go and harass IGN or the reviewer just because it's (barely) an outlier score.
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Jul 12, 2018 13:49
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Yeah that feels a bit..egh. The review was good.
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Jul 12, 2018 14:26
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IGN actually seems to be the only site thats reviewing Plus as an addon rather than the whole game again, which seems way more useful than someone saying Mania Is Good a second time.
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I checked out the sonic subreddit the other day and holy shiiiit they have a long-standing grudge with IGN. It is intense!
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IGN is a pretty shady site but don’t harass reviewers god drat it.
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Lol IGN doesn't need help from sonic fans to be hated. But to pinpoint it exactly they waged war with sonic when that clip went around as year or two ago of a bunch momos from there saying sonic was never good in a super insincere/clickbaitey way. When in reality those lads are incorrect because sonic was: always good
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I still don't get the water meme since that was and is a genuine issue people have with Pokemon RSE.
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Motto posted:I still don't get the water meme since that was and is a genuine issue people have with Pokemon RSE. Because that's the exact line they wound up using in their ORAS review
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Jul 12, 2018 17:36
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Onmi posted:Because that's the exact line they wound up using in their ORAS review I think thats what they mean. The IGN ORAS review was turned into a meme for complaining there was too much water, because there literally was. Motto posted:I still don't get the water meme since that was and is a genuine issue people have with Pokemon RSE. Same. I remember the water routes being boring, awful and filled with the same 3 pokemon, and "just use repel" isn't a great defence. I suppose it can be seen as a silly criticism for a remake that aims to be faithful since it's not like they're going to remove stuff but it does still kinda suck?
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I think it became a meme because it's a silly sentence and that's that. Like that's all I took it as statement being true or not. Also lol sonic twitter isn't telling people to harass IGN or whatever they're just having fun like usual. No need to 
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The guy who runs the twitter, Aaron Webber/@RubyEclipse, made some rancid tweets the other day essentially saying that the Arenanet firings were a good thing, so gently caress'em.
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DoctorWhat posted:The guy who runs the twitter, Aaron Webber/@RubyEclipse, made some rancid tweets the other day essentially saying that the Arenanet firings were a good thing, so gently caress'em. I admit I've only heard stuff through the grape vine but last I heard about people getting fired at ANet it was some community person basically shittalking a longstanding community contributor and saying some other stupid rear end in a top hat stuff which doesn't sound unreasonable to me. There was more firings and stuff done beyond that?
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Jul 12, 2018 18:06
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Some random dude who doesn't do game development tried to mansplain to the dev in question how to do her job. She expressed her frustration on Twitter and a mob emailed Areanet to have her fired, and also have fired a male coworker who stood up for her. It's garbage. Hideki Kamiya calls his followers idiots and assholes all the time and no one cares but when a woman does it she loses her job. Anyway Sonic Mania Plus looks great but the toxic, sociopathic loathing ~gamers~ have for both developers and journalists fuckin suuucks.
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Jul 12, 2018 18:10
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DoctorWhat posted:The guy who runs the twitter, Aaron Webber/@RubyEclipse, made some rancid tweets the other day essentially saying that the Arenanet firings were a good thing, so gently caress'em. Aaron Webber's job is literally PR, and he's effective at it, of course he thought the ArenaNet firings were a good thing (people like her make his life and time company's a living hell) how ignorant are you
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Oh oops why am I replying to DoctorWhat,I know better than this lol
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Sonic fans's hatred for IGN exists as far back as 2007, maybe earlier. This isn't new. Back then I'm pretty sure the beef was "WHY DOES MARIO GET PERFECT SCORES AND SONIC GETS SLAMMED EVEN THOUGH MARIO GAMES AREN'T LITERALLY PERFECT. IT'S BIAS I SAY!" lol
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An effective, responsible PR person shouldn't encourage harassment of games journalists. In fact, they should - whith how gamers act - spend a significant amount of effort trying to improve community behavior, because man would the Sonic community benefit from that! The IGN "too much water" tweet fuckin sucks and I wouldn't trust Aaron Webber to punch a nazi.
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IGN gave Sonic 2006 a higher score than Sonic Unleashed, they can go gently caress themselves. So somebody explain to me what exactly Plus has besides the two new characters. What is Encore mode, exactly? Am I going to get meaningfully new levels if I buy this or is it just play as Ray and Mighty in the old levels?
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You get to play as Ray and Mighty in tweaked versions of the old levels with the occasional new segment, with character hotswapping and alternative palettes and a new bonus minigame. It's $5.
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you do realize "ign" is not a monolithic entity and has multiple reviewers on staff, yeah? read a goddamn byline
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DoctorWhat posted:you do realize "ign" is not a monolithic entity and has multiple reviewers on staff, yeah? read a goddamn byline Sorry, you're right. One sec while I look this up. Okay. Hilary Goldstein rated Sonic Unleashed lower than Sonic 2006 so all of IGN and everybody that's ever worked for them past, present or future can go gently caress themselves.
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beep by grandpa posted:Aaron Webber's job is literally PR, and he's effective at it, of course he thought the ArenaNet firings were a good thing (people like her make his life and time company's a living hell) how ignorant are you The job of PR isn't tossing employees to the wolves lmao
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Motto posted:The job of PR isn't tossing employees to the wolves lmao I mean I'm not saying I agree with it but in this day and age, it basically is.
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I hope the Sonic meme twitter guy is fired.
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I've been amused by the Sonic twitter and it sucks that he apparently feels that way. Certainly he's made at least one tweet that didn't go over well / seemed in bad taste - can't imagine he'd feel the same had Sega thrown him under the bus for it for fans blowing up on it. VJeff posted:I mean I'm not saying I agree with it but in this day and age, it basically is. Pretty much. PR focuses on protecting the companies imagine over anything these days. Though capitulating this hard and fast seems like a real bad look. Anet must be desperate to keep its' playerbase.
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