Psychotext, I don’t feel the need to the explore the rest of that hellhole, I can be agorophobic in that little bubble and it’s nice to pretend everyone out there appreciates more than just Gears/Resistance/Killzone/Halo.

Or they can appreciate those on another level. Gears 2 artwork is amazing. I have seen some offscreen shots.

As for the “That’ll learn ya”, I was first subjected to it over 10 years ago in Walton on Thames. Good days them, down in Surrey.

/reminisces

Might give you some more time for sleep.

And could someone explain the “That’ll learn ya” meme. When did it start?

HA! That’ll learn ya.

I think I’m going mad. I actually do need to sleep.

/handytip

Morriss, are you saying that comments are going to be deliberately ignored (although your quoting of them clearly shows they’re not being ignored anyway) unless they’re sent via email instead of the, er, comments section?? How constructive!

All comments about editorial should be directed to editorial@videogaming247.com

*three hours’ sleep*

That got a gLOL from me. I have to admit that I like the vg247 tilt of their images. Simple yet effective.

Is it automated?

Heh, remarkable what little sense of humour people display when they think there’s a point to be scored over the internet isn’t it? Blinded by one-upmanship methinks.

(On a serious note though, as usual gamers are keen to joke or dismiss points they think don’t apply, but they completely and utterly fail to address them, thinking that pretending to laugh and being sarcastic is the same thing as counterpoint. Playground tactics from mort and Mr. O’Conner there!)

Also, read the last paragraph of this comment.

Thank you for proving me right. Again!

Wonderful burn, just wonderful.

So mature man, I bet Shatner is running away, little tail in between his legs.

You know tons of people frequent NeoGAF and the quanitity of Wackos there is about as standard as anywhere else on the internet.

There’s only one board I like on the internet, and even Psychotext occasionally violates that place. Luckily most of the time he’s useful for sales numbers and not his opinions, which are incidentally, frequently wrong, regardless of the subjectivity that defines opinion.

Ahahahaha

“Gamers are forever telling the internet how the industry should be run”

Please stop… my sides are killing me…

Irony at its finest.

You’re on my list!

But, hey, if you’re all so happy to take a healthy dose of misinformation and misrepresentation with your sprinkling of facts then more power to you. Just don’t strut around like you can tell the difference.

Now, is this going to be another “let’s talk about Shatner and act like it’s his fault that we’re choosing to talk endlessly about him” comment runs? I’ve seen those before. Morriss’ll come by and make a drive-by trolling, pat will say nothing and one of those playful little internet-hardmen will get all tough and bolshy. I’ll still be right, and everyone else will have just wasted their time trying to suggest otherwise.

Which is strange really, because you’re still here despite that fact.

Why are people so offended towards the notion that news should be more about information and accuracy than entertainment and exclusives?

They have to be different, as almost everyone is doing the letterbox-shot format on blogs these days. I can think of at least two others that I read regularly.

Personally, I’d love to see some radically new method of news delivery, innovation in the blog format, how we get our news, and in which way.

Still, people are too obsessed with breaking what works, despite how tediously and monotonously it might “work.”

Do forgive me my divigations, I like to stray.

Still, as I said, they have to be different. And in the news delivery service, things which are too new tend to scare the punters off, and yet things which are too staid tend to bore them. This is why journalism often leans towards making things “acceptably flashy” or sensationalist, VG247 does a little bit of both, as much as they can get away with. In this case, flashiness is rotating images a bit, and the sensationalism is sometimes quite noticeable.

And pat had to be encouraged to even be sensationalist, so I don’t want to take that away. It makes VG247 entertaining to read, even for me, and amidst the sea of game blogs… s’rare, you know?

If they could manage to be consistent from one day to the next or not have their own staff trolling their own articles and accusing people of working for console manufacturers then they could probably get some editorial consistency and fewer typos in.

I guess all that time rotating article header images 30 degrees clockwise is probably more important though.

How deliciously predictable.

Good point! I guess when you DON’T know what formats a game is coming out on, you just add some 360 tags to be safe. When you DO know it’s coming out on 360 + other platforms you only need to add 360 tags and nothing else.

I noticed the headline doesn’t distinguish any platform – it only talks about the game. So, going by that headline, the article is about the game, not the platform.

What a fascinatingly arbitrary way of categorising information eh?