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Topic	[Serious] Why is there a general dislike for Kotaku and its writers?
Miroku_of_Nite1 11/16/19 4:46:21 AM #60:	Sir_Specter posted... Miroku_of_Nite1 posted... But you could argue that the rot was already starting 20 years ago when magazines under the Ziff-Davis media company started to hire college grad journalism majors to write their magazines, and not actual gamers. In the early days of EGM (and many other gaming magazines) you had to pass a gaming aptitude test. Writing was second to that. You had to show that you were a gamer, and knew what you were talking about. Do you have a source handy about the gaming aptitude thing? Not that I'm calling bullshit, just curious about it and what it entailed. It seems like the ideal solution to keep people like modern game reviewers far away from a business they have no right being in. When Andrew Baran of EGM died ten years ago his fellow editors did a memorial to him. One of them mentioned it. https://tinyurl.com/um68sss Starting at 26:20 The games were Super Turrican, and R-Type III: The Third Lightning --- https://imgtc.ws/i/UMJAz4P.jpg <cite>Miroku_of_Nite1 posted [p:930210775] in [Serious] ... [t:78158311]...</cite> <quote>Sir_Specter posted...</cite> <quote>Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...</cite> <quote> But you could argue that the rot was already starting 20 years ago when magazines under the Ziff-Davis media company started to hire college grad journalism majors to write their magazines, and not actual gamers. In the early days of EGM (and many other gaming magazines) you had to pass a gaming aptitude test. Writing was second to that. You had to show that you were a gamer, and knew what you were talking about.</quote> Do you have a source handy about the gaming aptitude thing? Not that I'm calling bullshit, just curious about it and what it entailed. It seems like the ideal solution to keep people like modern game reviewers far away from a business they have no right being in.</quote> When Andrew Baran of EGM died ten years ago his fellow editors did a memorial to him. One of them mentioned it. https://tinyurl.com/um68sss Starting at 26:20 The games were Super Turrican, and R-Type III: The Third Lightning --- https://imgtc.ws/i/UMJAz4P.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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