Blog:Top 10 Worst Things Game Journalists Have Ever Done

As many of you know.... I fucking hate game journalists right now. We have an entire article on how corrupt they are and even an entire category on the subject. They have become so untrustworthy that I myself only rely on user ratings and most gaming YouTubers now. So with that in mind, here are my top 10 worst things game journalists ever did.

10. Praised Depression Quest:  WENth100:  What the! This is your most hated game of all time. Why is it only 10?

Grust: Yes, this is my most hated game, but I've already talked to death about my hate for this "game" so I put it at 10, but it played a big role in Gamergate so I still am going to talk about it. Depression Quest was to put it as politely as I can, ABSOLUTE GARBAGE! Want to hear me put it as nasty as I can?

Wiki users: Something tells me it'll only enrage you and take it out on Vicious187.

Grust: Okay then. So when Zoe Quinn traded sexual favors for this game being covered, it singlehandedly destroyed every shred of integrity games journalism had left. Oh another reason this is at 10, it only gets worse from here.

Wiki users: Oh what fresh hell are we in for?

9. Lowered reviews of games based off SJW ideology, What's the only thing a game journalist is good for? Game reviews (well okay news on updates and releases as well). So when a journalist lowers a review of a game just because of fan service (nice big boobs and girls showing skin is a big no no), lack of "diversity" and even calling for boycotts just because a developer has a different political view, I figure what's the point in relying on these jerks if I'm not going to get a good review on a game without some B.S. bias getting in the way.

8. Trying to make games more political Why do I like games and entertainment? Have you seen today's political climate? I want to get away from that. So when I hear the journos are trying to force Ubisoft to make their latest game political when they announce they have plans to make it apolitical (sorry I stopped paying attention to this one), I got super fucking pissed off. I don't mind politics in a game if their is no agenda, like Metal Gear and some JRPGs (FF8). But when you're putting in current events, social justice ideology, right wing crap, or anything that makes the game fail to make me escape, guess what? I have to torture an administrator here just to feel better, right, Vicious187.

Vicious187 is forced to nod under threat of a Barney and Friends song.

7. Accepted Bribed and Ad Revenue for Positive Reviews:  One of the better things about retro gaming is that most YouTubers that review them don't have to get paid by developers since the product is longer profitable. But for modern games, it's much easier to bribe a journalist nowadays. Just pop in some ad revenue, a nice vacation, and suddenly a piece of crap game will get some glowing reviews. Thankfully, thinking about the retro gaming thing has given me some relaxation so Imight just let Vicious 187 leave.

Vicious187: Thank you!

Giant squid shows up. Grust walks up to its beak. With lightning speed, Grust grabs Vicious by the throat.

Grust: You made a giant squid statue from pure ruby.

Vicious187: It cost me 80 grand to make. I wanted to do one of the Dark Masters proud.

Grust: It should have been Aquamarine. You now only have yourself to blame for this.

Giant squid grabs Vicious and drags him away.

Grust: Well if one of my dark masters is torturing him, looks like I won't be able to play with him now. Oh well.

6. Praised Conartists, like Briana Wu, and She-Who-Must Not-Be-Named: People like Brianna Wu and SWMNBN have done a ton of damage to the game industry and unlike the days of rightwing style SJWs (or moral guardian), like Jack Thompson,where game journalists defended our games when people like him called them "murder simulators", all Briana Wu and SWMNBN had to do was claim video games caused sexism and misogyny and bam, instantly, sites like Polygon and Kotaku take their side and start demonizing us for wanting to enjoy our hobby.

Grust: Starting to get pissed, where's my plaything.

Giantsquid throws Vicious187 to the ground. He's already huddling in a corner clearly traumatized.

Grust: Have I ever told you guys it takes five minutes for my Dark Masters to do what it take me two months to do to my toys?

Wiki users: And you're the one we're supposed to fear?

Grust: I serve them well and would gladly torture any who would annoy me.

Wiki users: We'll behave!

5. Sided with Glumberland over gamers:  I'm going to be honest, I wanted to make this blog for a long time, but this set me over the edge and finally got me to do this. As we all know, Glumberland made their game Ooblets an Epic Store Exclusive. While Epic is a horrible store (I'm not even a PC gamer and I am fully aware of how bad it is. LET THAT SINK IN), Glumberland acted very snarky, condescending, and insulting to even their own Patreon Supporters that I actually ended my article making retirement to put them on this wiki (They got me that pissed). Naturally after the backlash they rightfully received, they played the victim card and even claimed to have gotten death threats and that some of their posted were faked (Considering the crap they've done, I won't take their word seriously at all). Naturally, this allowed sites like Kotaku to side with Glumberland and demonize gamers and even blame Steam for the problem for not "controlling" their customers. They even downplayed why Glumberalnd got so much hate, saying it was simply because they became an Epic Store exclusive, but really... well just look at the link I left.

4. Incompetence at Playing Games:  There's this one story I heard about this one journalist playing Cuphead and he had difficulty getting past the tutorial. The man, Dean Takahashi, spent almost 3 minutes on the tutorial alone due to his incompetence and dies on the first level of the game. Now I hear Cuphead is a hard game (I never played it) but I've seen the tutorial and it probably would have taken me maybe 20-40 seconds to get through that and I only play games for fun, it's not a job for me, but it is for him. This is what we rely on for game reviews? Seriously? On the plus side we did get a good joke out of how incompetent game journos are with the Game Journalist Difficulty Setting. I really hope an indie developer makes that into a game.

3. Encouraging SJWs to throw Milkshakes at People They Disagree With: Throwing milkshakes has become a new act with SJWs to silence those "evil fascists" that dare to disagree with them. It became even worse when Antifa laced theirs with quick drying cement which put Andy Ngo into the hospital for covering a riot of theirs. And guess how I first learned of this new act of wasting food and what amounts to a childish tantrum? Why from VG247's newest deputy editor Kirk McKeand who encouraged the act because "fascists" will have to be quiet as they go clean their clothes. Disgusting!

2. Gamers Are Dead:  If praising the godawful Depression Quest wasn't enough, how about denouncing your core audience. The Gamers are Dead articles did just that, claiming that the gamer culture is dead because of "sexism and toxicity" and that most developers need not listen to them anymore. The most infamous of these articles was "Gamers Don't Have to Be Your Audience! Gamers are Over!" The only thing these articles truly accomplished was becoming the ultimate proof that a lot of games journalists were not our ally and were instead one of the greatest threats to our hobby. If there had been any chance that the integrity of games journalism could be revived, this stopped it dead in its tracks.

Before number 1 some dishonorable mentions:


 * Firing Jeff Gerstmann: This at least tells me there are some journalists with some ethics left but it also sadly shows this corruption had been going on a lot longer than before Zoe Quinn ever showed up.


 * Plagiarized Dead Cells Review on IGN: The guy got fired at least so it's off the list.


 * Insulting even Centrists: I kind of only see it on One Angry Gamer, but as one who identifies as Centrist, this is pretty damn annoying.  Hey OAG, centrists can be anti-SJW too, you morons.  In fact I openly admit I'm very anti-SJW, but it doesn't mean I can't also hate far right extremism.


 * I Wish 'Resident Evil 2 Let Me Be a More Compassionate Hero: The article was dumb, moronic, idiotic, painful to read, probably the reason for my last psychotic episode, but not one of the worst things they ever did, just really really stupid.


 * Pretty much anytime they make a pro-SJW article when it comes to games: Too damn many to waste my time with.


 * Any other time they insult, degrade, demonize or treat their core audience like dirt: Again too many to waste any research on, but I will say this, without gamers, they're out of a job.

And since you all know what number 1 is let's get on with it:

1. Inventing the term, Entitled Gamer: What do I want in a game, let's run the list:


 * Fully playable
 * Delivers what was promised
 * Made by people that are likable and deserving of respect
 * Not rushed
 * And most of all fun

So when a game fails to meet these criteria I'm allowed to voice my criticisms right? Well not according to this term which serves no other purpose than to silence any criticism a gamer might have. The term got its start when the ending to Mass Effect 3 was underwhelming and disappointing. Gamers petitioned and even raised money so EA could change the ending. However, IGN who were running ads for ME3 nonstop ripped into their concerns, calling gamers entitled and when the change was made, ripped further into gamers over it. Since then it has been a common tactic to use this to silence other gamers even telling them to shut up when the servers for Diablo 3 were down. These jerks can make this excuse anytime they want but there's only one counterattack we will ever need to beat this.

Gamers are the one buying the product and therefore, we have the right to give feedback. Gaming is an expensive hobby so we deserve to not be ripped off and share our thoughts and rip into horrible practices. This is why this is without a shred of any doubt the worst thing corrupt scumbags like these urinalists have ever done.

Too be fair, some game journalists exist that do care about ethics and are even supported by Gamergate. One site I would recommend is Exclusively Games run by Jeremy of the Quartering. It's run entirely on donations, does not rely on ads, is apolitical, and even has opinion pages that stay focused on games.

So is there anything that these urinalist have done that was truly scummy and disgusting I might have missed? Let me know in the comments. Though chances are it'll be in the last two of the dishonorable mentions pages.

