![]() ![]() The comments under most of their articles are usually about as pleasant as the comment section of a YouTube video. Eversince then the Community has turned worse and have made a habit of searching for every small typo and complaining about every article in general. Yeah, Gamestar is okay but over the last few years most of the writers have moved on to other stuff and were replaced by much younger people. They also published a now infamous review of the original Doom that spawned the "If only you could talk to the monsters" meme. I'll offer a retrospective of the weirdest Action Half-Life map ever made by a one-time writer that I think showcases the best the site has to offer.ītw, EDGE is also a bit notorious for being hard to please and somewhat elitist, but I haven't been really following them for a while now. The humour is admittedly hit and miss at times, so it may not be all to your liking. As such, you'll find that a great deal of the content is firmly tongue in cheek. It's basically a fancy term for an effort to consciously personalise games writing and not shy away from subjectivity and humour. RPS has been a forerunner of the so-called "New Games Journalism", a term coined by British journalist Kieron Gillen who was a founder and regular contributor to the site but left a few years ago. Now, they don't always hit the mark and they've had their fair share of disagreeable or just sub-par content, but I'll take their articles any day of the week over what usually seems to pass as journalism nowadays. Skycyle made a good argument, but I'll add that I've been a longtime reader of RPS since not long after they started almost a decade ago, and I still find the actual quality of the writing there, as a whole, exceptional in gaming press circles. Update: First hands-on review by RockPaperShotgun I guess it's safe to say we'll get it first on GOG before the inevitable Steam release.(That came as a surprise!). The original version already scales well up to 2560 x 1440 with mods (would crash when I tried to run it at 4K), but I'm still looking forward to this version as it will offer better UI scaling at the very least and presumably include other updates.
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