I miss GameTrailers

 Usually I like to give game news websites a lot of shit and rightly so.  Most game news sites and most of the people who write for them are inept, braindead twats who gladly bow down at the grand alter of AAA development and suck the many cocks that rest upon it.  There was one website though, back in the day that I actually used to quite enjoy and that was GameTrailers.com

It was a simple website.  You'd load it up and you'd be given a list of videos which ranged from, expectedly, game trailers, news bits, top lists and little bits from various content creators.  In fact, The Angry Video Game Nerd was hosted pretty much exclusively on here in the early days.  He was with some group called Screwattack which was made of of two twats who made nothing but lists and him.

This used to be the main way I followed latest releases.  I think I liked it because I didn't have to listen to some idiot give their opinion on anything if I didn't want to.  I'd just load it up, watch some gameplay footage of something I was interested in, and piss off again, it was bliss.  YouTube could probably give me the same kind of experience I'm sure but I never really tend to venture outside of my recommended list of pretentious video essayists and Vocaloid music.

Unfortunately though, the site has since gone and has been relegated to a YouTube channel that I refuse to sub to because it's now owned by IGN, possibly the largest hive of talentless cocksuckers that exists in the entire games writing sphere.  I have the Steam recommended queue I guess but it's just not the same.

Positive Press

Whenever I talk about gaming press or people in the industry, I think I've been saying nothing but negative things and swear words pretty much 100% of the time.

Now I've had a long day at work so I'm in no mood to be doing great big long rants, so I thought I'd write my own personal little thank you to people who in the industry who aren't huge idiots or money grubbing/attention seeking wankers.

I'd recommend going over to GameTrailers and checking out the Annoyed Gamer and The Final Bosman shows on there.  They are short shows where they stand in front of a camera and talk about games for a bit.  The best part about this whole thing is that they are actually talking about fucking games.  Annoyed Gamer had a bit of a slip up but he acknowledged that and his apology for jumping on a stupid bandwagon was respectable.

That's only naming shows off the top of my head and I know there are plenty of passionate, good people in this industry who want to focus on making good games and discussing said good games.  THESE people need to be at the front of things to help this medium grow and help games get better.

Like I have said many times before, less social justice, money grubbing bullshit and more passionate people with their heads screwed on right just enjoying games.  Then maybe I won't have to get so upset when I'm trying to enjoy this hobby.