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Ha ha ha, oh wow.
I've ranted a bit about it in the past, but this is probably the best (or perhaps "worst" would be a better word) of several similar recent examples* of why Destructoid (a site I used to love, by the way, but now visit maybe once a month or so, if that much) has become only slightly better than completely worthless to me lately. It's really disappointing because it used to be a great site. Still, I admittedly have a kind of vague "just how low will they stoop for page-views next time, I wonder" interest about it as well. It's the whole "train-wreck, can't look away" phenomenon at work.
* - Which I won't link here, because I don't want to give the site any more traffic than that, if I can help it. But if you just can't help yourself, look up the follow ups to the FFXIII review I linked above, their Assassin's Creed II review, or the several articles about Heavy Rain including their review of it, as well as the various rants against indie/art games and the "Counterpoint" articles that invariably show up a few days after the very few good reviews that they give (not counting the 10 out of 10 they gave to Deadly Premonition, because that was merely another "joke" at Heavy Rain's expense). A big impetus for a lot of it is just angry fanboys being angry fanboys, true enough, but even so, I feel there's a lot of legitimate beef to be had with some of the crap the site puts out these days. Not to mention the fact that there are usually a bunch of sycophantic, pro-Destructoid fanboys clogging the comments of these crappy articles lately, too, which is another reason I feel that the site has hit the skids.
In other words, Destructoid went from being a cool site to being just another typical, crappy gaming website, with a similarly typical, crappy gaming "community" to follow it.
I've ranted a bit about it in the past, but this is probably the best (or perhaps "worst" would be a better word) of several similar recent examples* of why Destructoid (a site I used to love, by the way, but now visit maybe once a month or so, if that much) has become only slightly better than completely worthless to me lately. It's really disappointing because it used to be a great site. Still, I admittedly have a kind of vague "just how low will they stoop for page-views next time, I wonder" interest about it as well. It's the whole "train-wreck, can't look away" phenomenon at work.
* - Which I won't link here, because I don't want to give the site any more traffic than that, if I can help it. But if you just can't help yourself, look up the follow ups to the FFXIII review I linked above, their Assassin's Creed II review, or the several articles about Heavy Rain including their review of it, as well as the various rants against indie/art games and the "Counterpoint" articles that invariably show up a few days after the very few good reviews that they give (not counting the 10 out of 10 they gave to Deadly Premonition, because that was merely another "joke" at Heavy Rain's expense). A big impetus for a lot of it is just angry fanboys being angry fanboys, true enough, but even so, I feel there's a lot of legitimate beef to be had with some of the crap the site puts out these days. Not to mention the fact that there are usually a bunch of sycophantic, pro-Destructoid fanboys clogging the comments of these crappy articles lately, too, which is another reason I feel that the site has hit the skids.
In other words, Destructoid went from being a cool site to being just another typical, crappy gaming website, with a similarly typical, crappy gaming "community" to follow it.
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Date: 2010-03-24 08:28 pm (UTC)From:In any event, even though I used to think the site was awesome, it still makes me kind of glad that I remained a pure lurker and never got around to making a user account there, though there were quite a few times when I was tempted to do so, both back in the day and more recently, either in agreement with or in opposition to various articles. I'm not a big fan of participating in flame wars at all, however, after getting embroiled in a nasty one over a decade ago (for you OW!ers that may be reading this, yeah, I'm talking about all (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/msg/38562d1a03f1bd9b?hl=en&dmode=source)[2] of (http://web.archive.org/web/20010508113014/http://www.otakuwars.org/~kane_magus/How_not_to_handle_author-to-author_relations.txt) that (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/4d774c1498c3863e/01513ed88181777c?#01513ed88181777c) retarded (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/7d7011837fe3039b/c0ec70b3ed5fa666?hl=en&q=group:alt.fan.sailor-moon+insubject:two+insubject:tuxedos+insubject:are+insubject:better+insubject:than+insubject:one#c0ec70b3ed5fa666) old (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/7939c14f3ada20e3/ac9ff30008fbe3f4?hl=en&#ac9ff30008fbe3f4) crap (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/5c25effbbd560e83/5c216abb5586ac6e?hl=en%05c216abb5586ac6e)[3], which still, to this day, has me rather gun shy about getting caught up in flamewars), so my likelihood of ever creating an account there is forever diminishing.
And.... I seem to be getting way too worked up over this. ^^; It's kind of worse, though, because I'm not so much angry about this as I am severely disappointed by it.
[1] - Though, to be honest, they kind of lost that way back when that Summa guy was around. They finally wised up and got rid of him (supposedly he left of his own accord, but I think there was pressure, both internally and externally, for him to be gone), even despite the fact that when they hired him, for whatever unknown reason, it was right after he had been previously fired from joystiq for more or less the exact same thing that eventually drove him away from Destructoid as well. But... even though they did get better for a little while after that, the site still never seemed to fully recover what it was before all of that needless drama (which is very similar to the needless drama we're seeing now). That was also around the time I started seeing more and more of the "lickspittles" (I do like that word, thanks TvTropes) showing up. And once they start showing up, that was all she wrote. They just now seem to have shifted their attentions from that guy to these other guys.
[2] - Holy crap! (http://web.archive.org/web/20010604043112/http://www.otakuwars.org/~kane_magus/Diablo-Pepin_and_Farnham.wav) O_O Archive.org is awesome.
[3] - At the risk of getting entirely off-topic... Seriously, has it really been that long? It's almost like another lifetime. >_> And how, not to mention why, was I able to find all of that stuff so quickly and easily, when I haven't thought about any of it in years, until now... ^^; It was definitely not a highlight, and was in fact probably the lowlight, of my time in the OW! >_>; In any case, it's all ancient history and I'm not even sure why I'm bothering to rehash any of it now, aside from pure morbid nostalgia (or whatever word there is that means "negative nostalgia," assuming such a word exists).
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Date: 2010-03-25 10:09 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-03-25 04:43 pm (UTC)From:My site (http://web.archive.org/web/20010502151550/http://www.otakuwars.org/~kane_magus/) is still mostly there, anyway, including that big, scary, blue header pic. Sadly, it seems that SD-KM's theme, the one thing I would have wanted to pull from there since I don't have access to it on my broken PC at home, is the one thing from my site that isn't actually being stored there.