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Crowbcat - Ghost Recon hurt itself today
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In that case, why do we even give them a platform? Just for some memes and laughs?
Any example except the joke in the AC Video where he took it down?
He put in a "we wuz kangz" sound clip in a segment about AC Origins.
You are not his biggest fan until he makes fun of a game you do not care for?
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I thought the story was one person was and they removed that person. But its been so long i might be misremembering
crowbat videos seem like the antithesis of what this site is about. if yall wanna shit on devs and their work, go ahead; just know it kills the vibe of this place.
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I do not believe it's been ever confirmed that Crowbcat is multiple people. People only began saying that after they got called out for being racist.
Not a massive fan of crowbcat videos in general, but if a game is bad I don't see that we need to be precious about it just because developers also frequent this forum. No doubt we have artists, writers, actors, film directors etc. here, too, and nobody should feel like they have to be shy about expressing their opinions on any of those artforms.
Calling these videos criticism is a bit of an insult to actual critics that try to being nuance and discussion to the table. I don't think it's unfair to say Era sometimes revels in schadenfreude
The developers are not stupid. They know full well when a game is half baked and not ready to be released. Stop trying to "protect" them. Blame corporate greed.
Also, you should probably stop trying to paint era as one thing or the other. This forum is not a hivemind.
" I really wanted to like Breakpoint. Ubisoft has a habit of making mediocre games – Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs – really shine with a sequel, but this is a significant step back. I would rather play Anthem – at least traversal doesn't make me want to put my head through a window in that game. "
A truly nuanced take
Idk a lot of the crowbcat don't offer much in the way of useful criticism outside of "HOLY SHIT A BUG THE OLD INSTALLMENT WAS SO MUCH BETTER IN THIS ONE SPECIFIC WAY LOOK!" It's a level of basic cynicism that is super tired
Crowbcat is a group and they removed the racist person who put this segment back in August of 2017. This is from what I can gather as we speak.
He simply replied to the previous post, using the same word :
If anything, the poster you quoted most likely agree with you!
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That is not how it works.
What you believe has no value. Crowbat it's not just one person
you know full well his videos have a huge slant to present the most unflattering version of a game possble. It's honestly bullshit to me. Critisizing games is one thing, creating content that actively seeks to create a skewed narrative is trash.
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It can be useful (or interesting at least) to see what's changed between entries in a series imo.
A less negative angle might be nice though. Someone make a bizarroCrowb.
I'm not sure what bolding one line out of one quote out of a full length review is supposed to tell me lol. You purposefully extracted nuance on purpose, then accused the writer of no nuance.
Fair, I just find the takes generally pretty pedestrian. Like in this video, the main thing was that the old games had better Metacritic scores, like that's the bastion of whether a game is worth playing? Seems kinda pedestrian to me I dunno.
What I meant is that you shouldn't glorify "video game reviewers" like it was some kind of journalistic discipline. They are opinions and not much else. They can range from think pieces to 20-minute video sketches with props like Angry Joe does. You can even say Crowbact videos are "wordless reviews" of bad videogames.
Didn't even watch it but sounds dumb. Some of the other videos like 'you can shoot glass in the old game and x happens instead of y" are kind of interesting but again it's maybe a bit tiring that it's always framed as things getting worse instead of showing similar minutiae that get improved.
We'll have to disagree, I think you're being dismissive of people who genuinely try to excel at their job, and condescending to an entuire discipline.
And no, I wouldn't call these videos wordless reviews. I'd call them comedic skits at best. And that's fine, as long as people see them through that lens.
What I mean is that there are "types" of reviews. I actually like Angry Joes take, for example, because he usually approaches it with a consumer perspective in mind. Is that not a review?
I also like Noah Caldwell 2 hour long-form analysis on whole series. Those are "reviews" too.
You can like one or the other, but you cant deny they are all reviews.
I think Angry Joe absolutely makes reviews, I never argued that. I just don't think Crowbcat does. I don't even think they position their videos as reviews. It's just a comedic video