Comments | beccatoria: Mass Effect: Forbes' Reports Are Weird and a Linkspam In Place of a Review

beccatoria

Mass Effect: Forbes' Reports Are Weird and a Linkspam In Place of a Review

Mar 31, 2012 23:34

So, fair warning, this LJ may be a bit Mass Infected (GEDDIT?!) for a while. I'm sure I'll get over it. What this post really is the fact that now that I've written out my more meta thoughts on branching narratives and interactive storytelling and...stuff, I wanted to write an actual, detailed review of the game and its universe and characters. ( Read more... )

forbes went mad i tell you!, links in lieu of a review, mass effect, mass effect 3

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beccatoria April 2 2012, 19:59:01 UTC

I KNOW. It's just so weird.

I'm ridiculously glad that even from an external perspective the...weirdness of it comes through.

It's like...reflexive populism trying to position itself as the edgy alternative by finding an authority figure to rebel against. Which makes sense for a games website, but for FORBES?! What even.

I think really, it's just that a bunch of disgruntled fanboys run that section and no one has really realised that they're grinding that axe so hard they're losing credibility...

ext_804153 April 3 2012, 14:41:22 UTC

I follow the writer on G+ and I did find it amusing that he had so many articles about it.