Do video game bloggers carry no remorse? Frankly, I can't understand how people can willingly expose themselves to spoilers for a game that has yet to be released here in a month just to post on their site and attract more traffic to their gaming blog. News has been flooding everywhere of Smash Bros Brawl spoilers that I've officially given up grabbing random screenshots online, for fear that one leak may find its way to me. I've even stopped going to certain sites, simply because they can't help but post what the public wants, which is everything Brawl at the moment.Sure, you can say that we'll eventually play the game and find them out ourselves in time...but there's still a majority of us who love unlocking extras on our own without the extra guides and spoilers.
This is almost annoying as seeing a person purchase a game AND its strategy guide at the same time. It's like buying a lunch and then immediately taking a dump, just because you can't stand the hour-long enjoyment of eating a satisfying meal and the 2-3 hours of digestion that follows.
No need to rush it. This shit's gonna come out eventually.
Making a note not to mention anything that I might have absorbed about the game in my digital travels while you're around...
ReplyDeleteI'm clearly not as allergic to spoilers as you are, as in general, knowing what characters are playable in a game beforehand doesn't seem to rub me the wrong way. The PLAYER'S GUIDES though, I get so worked up over those!
I've even declared intentions to design games with staggered randomized mechanics that are very hard to plot and map just to put the shaft to bradygames and all the others that I suspect are influencing some designers to put unfindable content into their games- Seriously, if there's virtually NO WAY to stumble across a hidden character, feature, or easter egg in your game other then looking it up on gamefaqs, I'm going to accuse you of being in cahoots!
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ReplyDeleteWell, unless you inform testing and tell the guide writers, random stuff can and WILL get hidden. I doubt there was anything in the GTA3: San Andreas Player's Guide to unlocking the hot coffee mod...
ReplyDeletepoo! hehe...
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