@TheJollyRajah said:
Gamespot; which, before he was fired, was the most trusted video gaming website.
I have to disagree entirely with this statement :)
On the rest, I do see how Oldschool has formulated this opinion over the months, it's been perfecty clear for me to see, and I do understand it fully, His responses to what he's read and seen around this forum are natural given the circumstances. But at the same time, I do feel he has formed such opinions a touch too quickly, and may have made assumptions about Jeff's overall take on all things Nintendo right now. - To get to the crux of the issue ;).
I also know for a fact they both have vastly tastes in games, and I'm sure that plays a slight role also. Oldchool adores JRPGs, while Jeff on the other hand likes FPS's and fighting games, like I myself do. Anyway, the fact of the matter is, Oldschool hasn't seen anything on this site that puts Jeff in a good light as far as his professional role, in his eyes. Oldschool comes here primarily for Nintendo related topics, and when he comes here he sees consistent negative articles is respect to Nintendo. I see it that way myself, sometime such articles are perfectly justified, and I myself welcome them whole heatedly.
However, despite so many negative that are already well documented, their lies a load of positives elsewhere, yet there is very little focus on that here on this site from the staff. it's almost seems as though it's more
cool to be negative in respect to anything Nintendo related here.
So many cool looking games on Wii are going totally unnoticed here, and the Nintendo readership will naturally ask why. The answer is simple, none of the team are being paid to focus on any specific platform, they can freely follow all that interests them. I can fully understand them wanting to work this wa, freedom is fucking awesome. The thing is, at the same time they need to realise a void must be filled one way or the other, otherwise a fraction of members they have helped to cultivate, will get rilled up, rightly or wrongly.
This site is different, many still need to realize that, Oldschool too, as I've said to him before. Just because the team wish to follow stories that intersts them as indvidual gamers doesn't concern Nintendo Wii and DS, doesn't mean there's some nonsense conspiracy or terrible journalism at work here. It''s honest frank opinion on all that interest
them as gamers. Certain members on this site that get riled up continually are starting to piss me off, they seem totally oblivious to this. If they dont like how the staff focus on certain on platorms, fuck off and go elsewhere. Alternatively, if you understand how great a resource this site can be through the contribution of it's
readership, something this site is siad to focus on, stick around and provide your input,
respectfully!.
Ultimately, what's needed here is more balance, there's very little of it currently. Very rarely is anything of interest to Nintendo fans covered officially on this site. As a prime example, a couple of months back, 360 and PS3 releases were in a baron spell, there were fuck all stories to post concerning 360 and PS3, yet during this time a flood of genuinely cool Nintendo related news was coming out
daily. It was never covered here at all by staff. I posted all these stories but I did with slight degree of anger, thinking to myself, this is fucked up.
When members see little to no Nintendo related news and articles, It only adds to solidify a negative opinion, rightly or wrongly. If they don't have any interest in the genuinely exciting cool looking games on Wii and DSi, why not let the readership do their bit?, this is after all a site which thrives on the input from it's members is it not?.
I would like to see a similar system to something we see one Gamepot currently, whereby members can submit articles to be posted on the front page, until then this site wont be catering to all tastes as it should do. And I will continue to get wound up when I see weak articles written by staff, and then seeing the kids treating them like gaming gods and kissing arse. It's fucking sickening mate
. I look upon comments and think to myself, good fucking grief!, at the severity of the arse licking.
I'm sure he, like me, can see what's going on here, the team for the most part seem totally oblivious to what positives we see happening on the Nintendo side of things, they seem
totally out of touch, Oldschool is bound to be angered when he sees Brad, a one time "Preview Editor", bitching like a whiny little kid about the lack of DSIware games, when he could be striking up some previews on the great games on DSiWare we
know are due. he could have found out about those games from spending two minutes on the internet looking. The DSi was out for two months, yet there's Brad expecting some top quality games to be dished out pronto. Top quality games are ready and waiting for the service, I post about them and they get very little interest in contrast to Brad's negative take. The staff have cultivated a certain from of response, members here would rather lick severe arse and agree and join in with Nintendo bashing, than actually educate themselves to what great games are on the way.
The team would rather focus on negative subject matter when are genuinely a load of positives. It's bound to wind anyone up given the circumstances.
Jeff can be taken either way so easily I think, looking at video reviews as a prime example, on one hand he may come across as assured and confident in his opinion, but on the other, dull and lifeless in those videos. It's largely due to a monotonous tone and weak hand gesturing, which is to be expected from someone with no Italianate style. Without wishing to sound critical of Jeff's style in respect to this, sometimes such reviews can feel really dull, and you come out of them not remembering much, why?, because there's very little emotion coming across through expression and personality when he conveys his thoughts. But that's Jeff impression on screen. On the flip side, If you look at the words of written reviews, you can understand better where he's coming from and the foundation for his opinions.
Sorry about any typos and stuff, but I am eager to get the fuck out and enjoy the weather.
