Comments on: “Dude, this is gay, you can’t bite people” https://fort90.com/dude-this-is-gay-you-cant-bite-people/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dude-this-is-gay-you-cant-bite-people The homebase of Matthew Hawkins Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Matt https://fort90.com/dude-this-is-gay-you-cant-bite-people/#comment-79 Matt Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:03:18 +0000 http://www.fort90.com/journal/?p=118#comment-79 And yet here, points are being taken away because of it's perceived audience. BTW, I think it's worth pointing out that Ratchet and Clank 3 in that same issue got a perfect 10. Huh? But that's a "kiddie" game too. If a magazine is going to pander to an audience, and make themselves fools in the process, they should at least be consistent about it. The whole purpose of a review is to relay information to those who need it. If the game is good, then it's the reviewer's responsibility to let the whole know this... <strong>especially</strong> to those who might normally shun the game in the first place due to misguided notions. Instead, GI has chosen to help perpetuate stereotypes. And yet here, points are being taken away because of it’s perceived audience.

BTW, I think it’s worth pointing out that Ratchet and Clank 3 in that same issue got a perfect 10. Huh? But that’s a “kiddie” game too. If a magazine is going to pander to an audience, and make themselves fools in the process, they should at least be consistent about it.

The whole purpose of a review is to relay information to those who need it. If the game is good, then it’s the reviewer’s responsibility to let the whole know this… especially to those who might normally shun the game in the first place due to misguided notions. Instead, GI has chosen to help perpetuate stereotypes.

]]> By: David Goldstein https://fort90.com/dude-this-is-gay-you-cant-bite-people/#comment-78 David Goldstein Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:45:55 +0000 http://www.fort90.com/journal/?p=118#comment-78 Movie reviewers will often give an "offset" for films which would have much greater appeal to target audiences... "Add a star for kids under 12", for example. -David Movie reviewers will often give an “offset” for films which would have much greater appeal to target audiences… “Add a star for kids under 12″, for example.

-David

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