Comments on: The Sunday Papers

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:12:49 +0000

Genuine question: can you recommend any better music review sites (of the indie/non-mainstream type)?
eg (for the sake of argument)
http://www.drownedinsound.com
http://www.crawdaddy.com
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/musicmonthly
http://www.metacritic.com/music/

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:34 +0000

Despite what people actually think about it think MW2 has a metacritic of 87, so it isn’t a great example to use.

By: Wulf

Wulf — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:08:14 +0000

You got me there Ozzie, I have to admit. You got me.

Maybe a public awareness campaign would help, detailing the amount of money and resources that goes into such an advertising campaign, and how if a game was worth buying why they’d lose such of a cut out of their final profit in order to … well, sell a game that will sell.

Except it won’t, overdone advertising is there because the game is shit, and that’s what an advertising campaign says to me, and the bigger the campaign, the bigger the flop.

If that was a bit of wisdom that everyone knew and understood, I would be a very, very happy person indeed.

By: Malibu Stacey

Malibu Stacey — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:12:52 +0000

I felt the exact same thing about Darwinia. I’ve got Multiwinia but it’s the equivalent of playing Half-Life 1 or 2 and then playing the multiplayer (against players or ‘bots’ regardless). It’s the same setting but a completely different game (not saying it’s not good, it is, it’s just different).

Would pay money for a proper Darwinia sequel or even just expansion pack with more levels to progress the story of the darwinians & Dr Sepulveda. Perhaps they could fill in the time between the end of Darwinia and the world of Multiwinia?

By: Baboonanza

Baboonanza — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:01:03 +0000

IMO anyone can listen to any music they like, AS LONG AS THE’RE FUCKING TROUSERS FIT PROPERLY!

By: pepper

pepper — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:13:03 +0000

Someone should explain to these poiticians that George Orwell wrote 1984 as a WARNING, not as a MANUAL. The difference between those two is significant enough.

By: bill

bill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:06:58 +0000

In addition to the petition:
I recommend: http://www.writetothem.com/
stick in your postcode and you can (almost automagically) send then a nice email telling them why they should oppose it. (and stick in a link to the boingboing article or something if you want).

By: bill

bill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:10 +0000

Modern Warfare 2?

;-)

By: bill

bill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:57:06 +0000

This.

Though, of course, if no-one plays the first one then no one will know it’s great to pick up the later ones.
But something like Bioshock and Fallout3 seem to show that the reputation of the previous ones (that relatively few people played) helps. How did Brutal Legend do?

I wonder how MW3 will do? On the PC, I suspect not well.

By: bill

bill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:54:36 +0000

IS it too late to kick up a fuss about the PirateFinderGeneral?
If not, I recommend: http://www.writetothem.com/
stick in your postcode and you can (almost automagically) send then a nice email telling them why they should oppose it. (and stick in a link to the boingboing article or something if you want).

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:51:57 +0000

I’m also surprised that anyone takes them seriously.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8104-lateralus/

3/4ths of this review is characterizing fans of that album as obnoxious, drooling teenage fanboys. There’s nothing wrong with not liking something, but to spend most of your “review” insulting fans is, well, being 90% of the internet. First and last Pitchfork review I ever read.

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:49:52 +0000

Yeah, I had no reason to believe that sungoggled openshirtman would have anything genuine to say about anything, ever. He looked like the Hollywood version of a troll.

Makes me wonder, what would Valentine Acker’s Modern Warfare 2 have looked like?