I think my problem is they literally have no proof of money switching hands other than to buy adspace. Which EVERY enthusiast publication does.
I used to work in the industry. The buying of adspace in implicitly a bribe/shakedown because you don't get it if you don't score games high enough... and if you score something low enough, you lose your access completely. As said adspace is the entire way your site can finance itself, the threat of losing that income over a review and having to shut down is terrifying. Your boss (who is also an enthusiast) will always choose to throw you under the bus than to risk losing his chance to get into the industry.
The guy in the video is the very guy who got fired for giving the bad Kane and Lynch review.
Very first thing he says in the video is "Hello everyone, I'm Jeff Gerstmann."That isn't Jeff Gerstmann.
He looks like this:
I listen to Giant Bomb every week, it isn't Jeff Gerstmann. They sound nothing alike. Gerstmann was also way more professional about the whole thing.
I'm pretty sure it was just an actor making a video about Gamespot, pretending to be Gerstmann.
Ahhh Ok, I see now. Carry on.
I'm sure they'll use his Amiibo in that new game as well, but I'm excited about seeing Fire Emblem characters in Codename Steam.
This is my reasoning for getting Mega Man. Anything it might do is a bonus to having a nicely done Mega Man statue.
Odds are it'll only work for Smash Bros, but I'm hoping we'll be lucky enough for there to be games in the future for him, even if they're not Mega Man games.
Fixed that for you.
It's both, really.
I found City of Heroes (Villains, really - I didn't start playing until I was allowed to be a bad guy) fun until around level 40 or so... then I noticed that the more I leveled up the weaker I felt vs common grunts of my own level - and even moreso vs Lieutenants and Bosses. But Oh MY GOD the character design was CRACK. I made dozens upon dozens of characters I never ended up playing but damned if I didn't spend hours on each one's costume!
It seriously was the best character customization in any game I've ever played. The only thing that comes close are some modern WWE games or maybe Saints Row. But I don't think there's any MMO has ever matched it.
Once you started getting recipe sets, you really ended up becoming WAY more powerful than most of the enemies. For instance, my Robotics/Force Field Mastermind could essentially farm missions set to their hardest, with mob spawns for a full group, by himself thanks to all of my sets. It took BILLIONS of Infamy to do this, but it was possible and getting more sets basically just made farming infamy faster anyways.
